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Chapter XI
After a day on the sea they reached the floating restaurant Baratie. On their way there Ussop designed the Legendary Strawhat Jolly Roger, even though it took some convincing not to draw his own, but in the end he painted it on the flag and on the main sail.
The Baratie was already in view when a smaller Marine ship approached them. On the deck of the ship was a man with pink hair and a striped suit and he had iron plates over his knuckles. "Which of you is the captain of this vessel?" He demanded to know and before Ussop could reply with his usual lie, Luffy strode forward to the railing and said "I'm the captain, Monkey D. Luffy, future Pirate King."
"I'm Lieutenant Fullbody with the iron fist! I've never seen your flag before" Fullbody said in a bored manner. "We just painted it yesterday" Luffy replied. Fullbody turned to his men and said "that ship is an eyesore, sink it." As soon as he gave that order he turned to a woman and walked with her to a little boat on the other side of the ship. As soon as they were in the little boat, they sailed to the Baratie. All the while the marines began to load their cannons and aimed for the Going Merry and as soon as the cannons were loaded and aimed they fired.
Zoro made quick work of it, he sliced the incoming cannonballs and redirected some of them which landed harmless in the water. Luffy bounced one of the cannonballs back to the Marine ship where it detonated the ammunition storage and sunk the ship.
After they sunk the enemy ship, they docked at the Baratie and entered the restaurant where they were greeted by non other than Sanji. "It's about damn time that you show up, Captain" Sanji said while grinning widely. "Sanji, it's good to see you again" Luffy replied with an even wider grin. "How have you been dart brow?" Zoro asked with a smirk "not bad, moss head and you?" Sanji answered with his own smirk. "Well, I managed to achieve something that you couldn't, I got myself a girlfriend!" Zoro declared while reaching with his arm around Kuina's waist which left Sanji speechless and with his mouth and eyes wide open. "Oh, me too" Luffy said grinning and also reaching with his arm around Nami's waist. Both girls were blushing and chuckling at their boyfriends actions.
Sanji couldn't comprehend what just happened, both Zoro and Luffy were having girlfriends, and Luffy's girlfriend was non other than Nami? What was happening, did he hallucinate? No it was reality, as hard as it was to accept. Sanji snapped out of it when Luffy yelled "Sanji I'm hungry, I want meat!" He sighed a lead them to a table, and on the way to the table he was 'introduced' to the rest of the crew. He took the orders from everyone and left for the kitchen.
After a couple of minutes he came back with several large plates with different kinds of food and placed them on the table of the strawhats. Suddenly a drenched Marine stormed into the restaurant and yelled "Lieutenant Fullbody, the prisoner, he …" but before he could finish his report he was shot in the back. The dead Marine slumped to the floor and behind him stood a drenched man with dark shadows beneath his eyes and a pistol in his right hand.
The man sank down onto a chair and said to one of the chefs "I'm hungry, I need something to eat!" They chef in question was Patty and said chef asked with a fake smile "and with what do you intend to pay for your meal?" They man looked at Patty and aimed his pistol at him and said "don't you take lead?" They fake smile on Patty's face vanished and he yelled "no money, no food!" and punched the man square in the face and knocked him of the chair. Patty gripped the man at the back of his neck and threw him out through the backdoor.
Luffy went through the backdoor after Sanji vanished into the kitchen, after a few minutes he came outside with a plate full of food and a glass of water. Sanji placed the food and water in front of the man with the words "eat, I know how it's like to have nothing to eat for what feels like an eternity?" They man reluctantly began to eat, but as soon as took one bite from the food, he began to cry and wolfed it all down. "That was the best food I ever had, thank you for saving my life, my name is Gin and I'm the vice captain of the Krieg Pirates."
"I'm Sanji, and this is my captain, Monkey D. Luffy, the future Pirate King" Sanji introduced with a big smile while pointing at said strawhat wearing boy. Gin was grateful for the food and saving his life and was therefore worried about what Sanji said. "That means you're going to enter the Grand Line, I won't stop you, but I have to warn you, the Grand Line is extremely dangerous, we went in with 50 ship and over 5000 men, but we were beaten by a single man in only a moment and we were only one week in the Grand Line!" Gin said with a dark expression on his face. Luffy only grinned at that and said "don't worry about us, that was only Paradise, we know what we're doing, the hard part begins on the second half, the New World!"
Gin was shocked by what Luffy just said, 'Paradise'? He called that hell Paradise and said it was nothing to worry about, but how could that be, the only explanation would be "you've been to the Grand Line before, haven't you?" Luffy and Sanji only smiled at that and Gin was even more shocked.
Gin bowed his head to the two and said "I'm thankful for what you did for me, please I need a boat to get back to my crew." Sanji pointed at a small boat and said he could have it. "Thank you for all the kindness, I will never forget what you did for me" Gin said from on board the small boat while bowing his head." When you're finished you can swing your ass back into the kitchen" droned a voice from above Luffy and Sanji.
The days went past without any incident until one day a certain man carrying another much larger man came in through the front door saying "please, we need food!"
AN: As always, thanks for reading, keep enjoying the story and please leave a review!
