Chapter twenty-six: we'll save you!

Before I get into the story, the notice on chapter 25 has been replaced by a written out chapter story. So go back a page and if you haven't read it. Otherwise this will make no sense to you. To those that have you may read this chapter without going back. Have a nice day/night…whatever time zone you're in at the moment. Afternoon, morning…yeah you get it.

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"Taken were, by whom?" Yasopp asked as Benn and Lucky dealt with every other still standing bad guy, Sabo took a deep breath.

"We ran away from Garp and made our way here were we talked and played around, then these guys show up and watch us, we were about to go when one of them grabs Luffy and…" Shanks didn't stay around to listen to what Sabo was rambling about, he walked around the area looking at all the foot prints before following a trail of them into the forest. When Shanks looked down to his left he Sabo and Ace next to him, he looked behind him as the crew looked around, but only Benn was watching the three of them.

"We're coming too." They both said with a dare in their eyes, just telling him to say that they couldn't come.

"Good, I'll need someone to identify the guys." Shanks said looking back down at the path, not saying that they could come along, and they didn't say that they wanted to come because they felt responsible for letting Luffy get taken from their care. As they walked they made it to the city walls, looking around Shanks shrugged his shoulders and using Haki sliced a neat rectangle from the wall. "Push on it."

Ace walked up, placed his hand on the wall, when he pushed it fell inwards, but it was only a part of the wall, the outer layer, the sword never reached the inside of the city walls. They walked into the gloomy wooden rotting area inside the wall itself.

"How did you know this was here?" Sabo asked Shanks, the red haired captain looked down at the boy with a smirk that clearly screamed he has a huge ego; Sabo dropped it and followed after Ace, he knew what it was like to make someones ego bigger, he did it a lot a few years ago when he first met Ace.

Talking could be heard the further they went down the badly lit halls, they followed the sound and listened in.

"Damn those kids have a hard swing." Someone said, chuckling could be heard.

"But I'm kind of surprised that the brat shut up once we gave her food." Shanks rolled his eyes at this; the only thing in the world that would shut that kid up is food. Shanks bent down slightly so that he was right next to the two boy's ears.

"When Luffy starts to make noise we go in and started whacking." Shanks said in a breath of air, the two barely head him; but they nodded. The two kids stayed on the side that they were already on, while Shanks walked to the other and the three of them waited for the signal.

"She sure eats a lot." Came a dry comment, Shanks peered into the room and saw Luffy with a chain on her ankle munching away at the food on the table. "She's going to eat us out if this keeps up."

"Let the lass eat, when we sell her we'll get good money, then it'll be their problem to feed her." Some guy said waving it off, they went back to playing card games, then something happened, someone reached for the food on Luffy's plate, her eyes zoomed into it right away and when it was about to grab drumstick she bent forward and bit down on his fingers drawing blood. He howled as he pulled his hand from her mouth, Luffy went back to eating like nothing happened. The guy blew on his fingers glaring at the girl; he stood up looking like he'll hurt her, his friends held him back.

"Don't hurt her; the price will go down…"

"Hey, do you have any more food?" Luffy asked holding up the empty plate that had been full just seconds ago. And that's the signal, the three people waiting for her to say something barged into the room. Shanks went straight to Luffy while he let the two boys deal very painful blows to the kidnappers. Luffy looked up at Shanks when the cuff and chain was taken from her ankle.

"You okay? They didn't hurt you did they?" Shanks asked turning Luffy's head this way and that, lifting her arms up and looking her over. He even went so far as to lift her up by her feet and hung her upside down before flipping her back over. He sat her down back on her feet while he stood over her; Luffy looked up at Shanks with a bemused expression.

"What the heck are you doing Shanks?" She asked, by then the two boys had finished with the last of the kidnappers.

"We just saved you from being sold." Sabo said, Luffy turned to look at them she didn't notice them before; she stared at them before huffing in anger.

"What are you talking about? They are nice people." A few eyebrows were raised at this statement and they looked at Luffy in astonishment, even the guys that had kidnaped her…if they were awake to hear what she said.

"What are you basing this from?"

"They gave me free food." She said with a huge grin on her face, the three males in the room, that could, slapped themselves in their heads, of cause Luffy would say something like that.

Luffy is officially six right now, it's confusing the heck out of me when I'm writing the story of what age I had made Luffy.