Author's Note: Welcome to another chapter of Leader of the Family of D. Glad you all like last chapter with all the surprises in it including introducing all of the other generals. So now here we'll get to Whisky Peak and get moving on to Alabasta. So without anything else to say, let's get into this chapter.
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"..." Character P.O.V.
'...' Character thoughts
"..." Attacks
'...' Narrator
Chapter 13: Whisky Peak
It's been a few days since the crew has left the Twin Capes and have been traveling to their next destination. So the entire crew currently minus Zoro who was sleeping currently were manning the ship to get to its destination. So now they were sailing through an area of snow. So far, Luffy was sitting on the figurehead not bothered by it like Lily was in the crow's nest, Giyu used his devil fruit to heat himself considering he has control over water, Zoro was sleeping through it, Nami and Nojiko put on some winter clothes while Usopp and Sanji weren't all that bothered by it, as they knew it would pass soon. For the past couple of days, Luffy had ordered Giyu to heighten their Haki training and so far it had gotten results in Observation, Giyu decided to train them in Armament.
So now, Luffy was sitting quietly as he checked the ship was going in the right direction and it was. So currently he was resting a bit with his eyes closed as Zoro and Giyu came up to speak with him. Luffy opened his eyes and turned his head to speak.
"Something wrong?" asks Luffy curious.
"Yea, there is." says Zoro as he continued. "It something me and Giyu have been trying to figure out as much as you have." says Zoro as Luffy understood with a nod while turning himself towards them while sitting.
"About our two prisoners?" asks Luffy as they both nodded.
"It's about their names. I'm sure I heard names like that before while doing bounty hunter work, but I can't remember when or what place." says Zoro.
"The point is me and Zoro came to the conclusion that they may be mercenaries or some kind of bounty hunter organization because if I remember correctly we heard names like that before in the past while still in Anbu." says Giyu as Luffy nodded.
"Yes, your right. We have but the question is what organization? considering it's been some time." says Luffy as he came to his own conclusion on the matter. "Keep an eye on them and watch them at all times, we don't need anymore problems while sailing." says Luffy as they both nod and go back to do whatever they were doing.
- One Hour Later -
So for the next hour, it was peaceful as Luffy was working to focus his rage to let him have more access for the devil fruit. This peace was interrupted when, Lily spotted something up ahead and shouted out to alert the crew.
"Island ahead!" says Lily from the crow's nest while getting everyone's attention.
Lily got down as everyone looked ahead towards the island they saw through the mist in front of them.
"So, that's Whisky Peak? It's...intriguing?" says Sanji in a questionable tone.
"Not all island's have an interesting exterior but can are worth exploring, if they do look plain, though if I remember correctly, Whisky Peak is more so apart of this island we see now called Cactus Island." says Giyu to Sanji.
"Honestly, it's landscape isn't like many islands back in East Blue but the same could probably be said for the rest of the four seas." says Nojiko.
"Well, let's see what kind of adventure this island holds for us. Maybe we can restock and then leave in the morning." says Luffy as he got he was sitting on the figurehead.
Whisky Peak is the only town on Cactus Island, and the home of all of its inhabitants. There is a river flowing through the island allowing ships to dock inland.
"Luffy, there's a river heading inside that we can go right up into the shoreline and lay the anchor." says Nami as Luffy nodded.
"Okay, who's weighing the possibilities of a fight?" asks Usopp.
The minute he said this, Luffy, Zoro, Giyu, and Sanji raised their hands but noticed Usopp did as well. So they all looked at each other for bursting out laughing. For the next minute it was like this as Luffy calmed down.
"Oh man...well if there is, it'll at least be fun." says Luffy.
"Yeah, that's for sure." says Zoro calming down.
So as Luffy and the others calmed down he got up and went to give out orders.
"Alright Zoro and Nojiko, I want you to bring me those two we have. We don't know these people, meaning we don't know if their hostile yet. So we'll use them to our advantage." says Luffy as they both nodded and went off to get them.
As they sailed in, the fog only seemed to get thicker and obscure where they were going. So Luffy used his Haki to extend his range to see further in. Zoro and Nojiko had came back with the two, and placed them on their knees near Luffy and the rest of the crew. Luffy didn't even bother looking their way as his attention was towards what was currently in front of them. He could see the people and sense them out with Haki as they came in.
As a precaution, Luffy put a hand on his sword and prepared for battle. As they were still going through the fog, Giyu decided to speak as he saw something.
"Luffy, to our left." says Giyu as everyone looked to see the silhouettes of people who were moving.
"Should we attack?" asks Usopp preparing one of his pistols.
"No, for now just be on guard. Let things unfold a bit before striking so that we can get a better read of things." says Luffy as everyone prepared their weapons.
Luffy didn't say anything more as he simply looked ahead with narrowed eyes and body posture that was ready to strike out at a moment's notice. As they sailed further, silhouettes started to appear in droves. This time they were on both sides, Luffy thought he would have to use his shadows to help him but then he heard cheering. As they exited the fog, everyone saw on both sides of the waterway there were people lined up cheering and waving as they sailed passed them and down the river.
"Welcome to the Grand Line!" says a male citizen of the island
"Pirates! New warriors of the high seas!" says another excited male citizen of the island.
"Thank you for coming!" says another male citizen, greeting them.
"They have some pretty handsome crew members." says a female citizen eyeing all the male crew with hunger.
"Those aren't monsters then? Their people." says another male citizen.
"I call dibs on the one with black hair!" says a woman of a trio referring to Giyu
"The one with blonde is mine!" says the second of the trio referring to Sanji.
"No he's mine!" says the third woman of the trio.
Everyone including Luffy were beyond confused, though he was on guard. Giyu decided to speak his mind about all of this and what he heard.
"Alright Luffy, I already don't like this Island can we please leave?" asks Giyu with a blank face as he didn't want to be swarmed by the woman of this island.
"Come on Giyu, we just got here! Look at all the cute ladies!" says Sanji with heart eyes looking at them.
"I prefer not to be swarmed, and this is what we're in for just by entering and docking at this island." says Giyu as everyone chuckled a bit.
"Come on, Giyu. Sanji's right we just got here so just give it a try." says Luffy as he nodded. 'Though what bothers me is, what kind of island welcomes pirates? This just adds to the suspicion of this place even more…' thought Luffy.
"The Grand Line is strange." says Zoro.
"Strange my ass, everything about this place seems off." says Usopp standing next to Zoro.
Luffy, Zoro, Giyu, Nami, Lily, and Nojiko were very suspicious of the place and its inhabitants behavior. While everyone did smile the message was clear to the whole crew to be on guard while staying here. So now, Sanji was ogling the girls as he does when seeing pretty woman, Giyu ignored them as they all found it even more cute, Usopp was putting on his warrior face to the people of the place. Luffy got off the figurehead, he went over to Nami and said something while passing.
"Make sure you tell everyone that they all need to hold their alcohol and drink light if they can. I can smell something funny here just by the scent, so we're gonna need them awake for what's to come tonight." says Luffy walking passed her as she nodded.
- A Couple of Second Later -
Luffy and the crew docked the ship by the nearby shore. So now the crew walked over to the main deck getting ready to disembark and greet the person in charge with Luffy in front. Zoro and Nojiko still had their guests who wanted a ride still tied. Every member of the crew exited the ship and down to the shore. Luffy and the crew were walking towards a tall man with some curled hair, who carried an instrument with him to go along with the suit he wore as he spoke.
"Welcome…" starts the man as he coughs a bit and then clears his throat. "Ma~! Ma~! Ma~!" says the man which makes the crew sweat drop a bit from that clearing of the throat. "My name is Igarappoi and it is my honor as mayor to welcome you to Whisky Peak." says the man who is now identified as Igarappoi in a welcoming tone to the crew that Luffy didn't trust at all.
"Oh, my name is Luffy. Nice to meet you and for welcoming us, also nice hair." says Luffy giving a small smile.
"You'll find that this is a place that thrives on making liquor and music, hospitality is a matter of pride in our town. The smiles run long and the liquor flows as bountiful as sea water. Would you permit us to throw a party in your honor arrival so that we may hear your tales of adventure?" asks Igarappoi
"Sure why not, that's good to hear but," says Luffy as he got serious and continued as Zoro and Nojiko came up to throw their two tied up guests before Igarappoi's feet. "These two begged us for a ride back here and said they're from here. They also promised us money, alcohol, and provisions for when we leave on the rest of our journey. We hoped that the agreement is honored and they stay away from the whale at the Twin Capes." says Luffy being serious.
The man took this as tone of daring as he knew if he said otherwise, it would be bad for the people of this island. So he just responded casually and serious.
"Oh yes, these two are from here and don't worry, you have my word these two won't go near the whale along with the other compensation and provisions you wanted." says Igarappoi as he continued. "Now can we get the celebration started?" asks Igarappoi.
"You may." says Luffy putting on his smile again, well one that was fake.
He then walked up and shook Igarappoi's hand before the man lead them into the town. As they walked through the town Luffy signaled Nami to test something for good measure. So now she took the time to do this by speaking.
"By the way, how long until the log pose records this island's magnetic field?" asks Nami while holding up her wrist showing the log pose.
Igarappoi saw this while and spoke.
"Your what? Oh, that. Such boring details will have to keep for now. Surely you'd like to rest after your journey." says Igarappoi which got the attention of Luffy and the ones on edge about this island, so now the man spoke again. "Now! Let's prepare to party! Sing and be merry! Entertain our guests!" says Igarappoi shouting out as the townspeople cheered.
- Later That Night -
Earlier Igarappoi led the crew in a small bar where everyone sat down in places and began to eat and drink. Luffy sat next to Lily with an arm wrapped around her waist while he drank some with her, though no one saw that he and her were drinking something from the gourd bottle he got from earlier in their mugs. The people of this island didn't see him switch out the stuff, so they just continued to party. Giyu was using his devil fruit to funnel out something that he was tasting and found strange. On the other hand, It was a great party inside the large bar with the band playing music, the food was coming, and people were just enjoying themselves but Luffy could tell along with Giyu and Lily that a few of the aura's that were given off told otherwise.
So while he sat and enjoyed his time with her, Giyu was barely talking to a group of women near him as found them not interesting and would rather drink. Sanji for his part was flirting with twenty girls at once. Usopp was drinking a bit and telling some of the stories of him with the crew so far. Nami was in a drinking contest against some of the people of the island and was in other words beating all of them. While that happened, Zoro and Nojiko were quietly sitting at a table while drinking and talking with each other about things and how she could get better with her sword.
So as the night went on, Luffy's crew along with most of the people who lived on the island began to get drunk. It wasn't until an hour from midnight that he noticed most of the crew started passing out one after another. At first, Luffy with Lily looked to Giyu who nodded as he made a signal to look to Zoro and Nojiko, who were passed out. As he saw this he realized his worries were true, the drinks were spiked because there was no way those two could be passed out due to barely even drinking a lot to get to that point. Luffy signaled Giyu to go along with it as he did so with Lily, deciding to act like they were wiped out from the drinks as well to know the true motives behind all this.
After being like this up to midnight, Luffy got up with Lily as he then went over to Giyu who got up as well. Luffy ordered the other two to gather the others and try to do something while he went to go investigate. So now Luffy went to use his new powers now.
"Alright let's do this." says Luffy as he continued. "Hito-Hito: Asura's Invisiskating" says Luffy turning his entire body invisible.
After Luffy was invisible, he went out the backdoor and closed it silently. He then went over to the stairs leading to the rooftops as he went to jump across a roof and slide down onto an area just below the balcony area in front of the bar silently to stand with folded arms and watch.
'Let's see what kind of information you can give me.' thought Luffy as he stood here with two people sitting at the edge of the roof in front of him and also, he saw Igarappoi looking at the night sky, well more so the moon as he spoke.
"My how the cactus rocks gleam under the pale moonlight. Beautiful as ever." says Igarappoi as he turned.
"If I must say your poetic skills are beyond compare, Igarappoi. I mean Mr. 8." says Mr. 9.
"Oh it's you." says Igarappoi not bothering to turn to face them as they jumped down.
"So where are they?" asks Ms. Wednesday.
"Their falling...straight to hell." says Igarappoi turning his head a bit to face their gaze.
As he said this it was quiet for a few moments as a door opened up from the building with a nun who was drinking with Nami coming out.
"Damn, my head is killing me. I had to doctor some of their drinks a little for them to pass out, otherwise we'd be still drinking." says the nun as she takes off the nun clothing.
"Ah, Miss Monday." says Igarappoi as she begins to speak now.
"So tell me, was it necessary to do all of this? I know no one wants to hear me complain but it's my duty to point out we could have ambushed them at the harbor instead of wasting so much food." says the now identified Miss Monday in her actual clothing. "Besides it's not like we had any high hopes of you two killing that whale for its meat." say Miss Monday.
"Well you go and try and kill that damn whale. We tried our best you know and failed due to the captain of the crew inside the bar." says Mr. 9 a bit angry.
"The both of you calm yourselves! Before you question the validity of my plan you should see this." says Igarappoi raising two wanted posters, one with Luffy's bounty and one with Giyu's of him using his sword while surrounded by enemies. This shocked the three as they saw the number on both of the bounties.
'So that's what their after. Our bounties, huh?' thought Luffy as he was still invisible and continued to listen
"What?! 295 million Berries?!" asks Ms. Wednesday shocked.
"Not to mention the other one, 180 million Berries! Is this forreal?" asks Mr. 9.
"Don't be foolish, appearances can be deceiving but those two's appearance hold power that goes for..." says Igarappoi as he goes coughing again to clear his voice. "Ma~ Ma! Ma~! That goes for all of you." says Igarappoi finishing his statement.
"I'm sorry." says Miss Monday.
"It's no matter as our prey has been trapped, and that's news the boss will enjoy. For now confiscated everything of value from their ship." says Igarappoi.
"So what do we do now?" asks Miss Monday.
"Kill them?" asks Mr. 9
"No." says Igarappoi surprising Luffy as he sat on the edge himself now while surprising the other three. "If they die, the bounty drops 30%. The government prefers to hold public executions." says Igarappoi in a grim tone as he continued. "Especially for these two considering they were the ones responsible for burning Mariejois to the ground years ago with their fellow companions." says Igarappoi shocking them more but know to their core. "If you haven't read the newspaper, the Straw Hat boy, and the other were apart of those pillar generals who worked solely for the government and marines. The Straw Hat boy was their captain, though I wonder why his bounty isn't higher than this, though this is why I took extra care to knock him out and the other so this would be easier." says Igarappoi.
"I see." says Ms. Wednesday surprised as it was quiet for a few moments.
"Now go, I want them alive!" says Igarappoi ordering them and making them nod their heads.
So as they were about to move forward with their plans, a voice stopped them in their stances and caused them to widen their eyes.
"Hey, sorry to interrupt." says the voice as Luffy still invisible with the four down below as well turned to see it was Zoro at the roof of the bar. "Do you mind letting my friend's sleep? They've had a long day and the journey was exhausting so I've been told." says Zoro as he had one of his swords out in hand while sitting with it gleaming in the moonlight as he glared at them.
"Yes, my green-haired friend is right, it was very much so exhausting." says Giyu jumping down near the aura of Luffy and calmly glared at Mr. 9.
"Though,we might be a bit more exhausted after we get done handling you bastards." says Lily.
"You know if your gonna spike the drinks to knock out the target, you might want to do better in mixing them because even we could taste it." says Nojiko with her sword out as well.
'Well done.' thought Luffy as he thought Zoro and Nojiko would be wiped out from the spiked drinks.
As he was about to speak and decloak, two people came out of the door Miss Monday came out from earlier and spoke.
"Mr. 8! Miss Monday! Six of them escape from the room while we weren't looking!" says the man with the other causing their eyes to widen.
"Six?!" says the four asking the two.
"But there's only four of them out here! Where's the other two?" asks Miss Monday.
As this was said, Zoro was up now and took this time to speak out.
"Don't you think it's time to show yourself, Luffy?" asks Zoro while puzzling them as more came to support Mr. 8 and his group.
Once this was said, Luffy decloaked from where he was sitting next to where Giyu stood to show he had a calm face but with an ice gold gaze at his eyes.
"Good job, Zoro. If I had to guess you and Nojiko's training is paying off." says Luffy calmly as he began to stand up now while continuing. "So now how should we handle you all?" asks Luffy as he stood up.
"Sneaky retches, you all should have stayed asleep with the rest of your friends." says Mr. 8 as more people began to gather near him.
"A good swordsman never makes the mistake of letting his guard down, plus I took a nap earlier." says Zoro with grin as he got up.
"Not to mention for most of us, our guard is always up." says Giyu taking our his sword now.
"Judging from scowls and cheap disguises, I'm guessing your all bounty hunters." says Zoro with a grin as he continued. "Your specialty is robbing drunk pirates, who fall for your hospitality. It's original I'll give you that at least." says Zoro making his assessment.
"I count a hundred of these scumbags, give or take." says Lily ready with her new spear.
"And we'll fight all of you." says Giyu being serious now.
"Like I said, it should be an interesting fight." says Luffy. "Your hear us? Baroque Works!" says Luffy shocking them while his crew knew exactly who they were dealing with.
It was also apparent that Zoro and Giyu along with Luffy now remembered this group's name.
"Ahh! How do you know our name?!" asks Mr. 8 yelling out in shock while a bit scared.
The three simply chuckled at this.
"I was in a similar kind of work once upon a time. You company tried to entice me with a job offer. Naturally, I said no." says Zoro.
"Me and this guy were former Marines as you noticed, one of our jobs was hunting down scum." says Luffy with a small grin while referring to Giyu.
"Not to mention, some of our missions aligned with some of the targets Baroque Works went after. Though it took us time to remember the name like Zoro." says Giyu with a serious look.
Zoro then took this time to speak as well.
"Do the same rules still apply? Employee identity's kept secret, cheesy codes names, the boss's identity and whereabouts also a mystery. Baroque Works, the criminal group that fateful carries out their orders like herded sheep. Heh, that's some secret." says Zoro amused by this causing the crew to chuckle a bit as the wind blows.
"This is a surprise." says Mr. 8 in a calm tone. "If you know all of our secrets, then we are left with no other choice but to kill you all." says Mr. 8 in a cold and grim tone as he then looked at them. "And another few grave stones shall be added to the cactus rocks tonight." says Mr. 8 finishing.
"Then come and try it." says Luffy as he activated something. 'Hito-Hito: Adrenaline Rush' thought Luffy as glowing red energy started flowing through his veins and red energy started to surround him a bit. As the more he became angry in this state, the stronger and faster he would become. "Let's try to have fun with this, shall we?" asks Luffy with a grin.
Mr. 8 gritted his teeth a bit and spoke out yelling.
"Kill them!" says Mr. 8 causing all of his men to move and fight the crew.
So Luffy and the others responded in kind.
Zoro and Nojiko went down to start fighting. So now Nojiko decided to use a move she was working on now.
"One Sword Style: Blue Fang" says Nojiko taking a fang like stroke of her sword to cut down five of those in front of her.
This in turn got a grin from Zoro as he thought it was impressive. So now Giyu decided to use his sword for his own attack in conjunction to his devil fruit to take out a group surrounding him.
"Mizu-Mizu: Water Sword Whip" says Giyu turning his sword into a water whip to hit at least 8 Baroque Works agents and send them back into those behind them.
So now Lily came jumping in front to attack now as she took down 12 Baroque Works agents herself. So now, Luffy took off in speed as he let his rage grow and started going after the others and left Mr. 8 and his group for later.
"1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12!...20!..30!" says Luffy counting as he was punching down enemies all around him.
Luffy stopped for a moment to see who he'd go after next, so as he did this a Baroque Works agent who he took down got up and went and tried to attack Luffy from behind. Of course, Luffy knew they were there so as they came into strike, Luffy grew out one of his metallic arms on the left side and sends it to hit the guy across the face and jaw. This sent him skidding across the ground into some of his fellow agent as Luffy looks on.
"What an idiot." says Luffy as he went to sit on a pile of his agents he took out and watch the rest of his crew.
Zoro was cutting through his share with ease just as Luffy expected. What surprised him a bit was how well Nojiko was wielding her sword, as she cut down more Baroque Works agents with ease, it seemed as though their Observation Haki training was improving very much so. Luffy was proud that they were coming along nicely at the progress they were going at with Giyu thinking they were progress faster than he expected from how he was working them. Giyu was starting to train them a bit in Armament Haki now, but he thought maybe he should teach her Breath of Water Style for added attacks. So as the fight progressed without Luffy intervening anymore, he saw that with his eyes and haki that Nami was cleaning out the people for anything of value that would be useful.
So now he put that aside as things were going well to look at Zoro who was prepared to fight with Baroque Works agents moving into surround him.
'Demon Slayer Mark: Activate' thought Zoro as the green eastern dragon marks on his forearms spread and glowed a bit as he now spoke. "Up first, Yubashiri." says Zoro as he disappeared in speed to go pass five that were in front of him as he looked at the blade and spoke. "Light, and well balanced." says Zoro jumping off to fight more agents, as the ones behind him looked at themselves but then were hit by the cuts Zoro made and fell to the ground.
Zoro went into get more as one took a shot at him with a large cannon gun, only to miss thanks to Observation Haki and Zoro's quick speed. As he got himself together, Miss Monday decided to pick up a barrel and throw it in his direction while he was surrounded by agents. Zoro turned and cut it into four pieces that hit agents behind him, as they were trying to get themselves together from being hit. So as Zoro was looking in her direction, an agent got back up with some sort of boulder stuck to a stick to attack Zoro, only for the sword in his left hand to take control and destroy the boulder and sends the agent to the ground, as Zoro was wondering what was going on with the sword.
"What the hell is it doing?" asks Zoro looking at the sword. "Well Kitetsu the third, your quite sharp but your also a bit of a troublemaker, aren't you? A good sword only cuts when it's master directs it to. Cursed or not your going to listen to me now." says Zoro looking at the sword near his face
He never noticed that three Baroque Works agents were coming behind him. The next thing Zoro knew was that a very cold chill of air passed behind him to freeze the three agents up to their head, but stopped at the neck. Zoro blinked a few times as he noticed this cold chill and turned to see them frozen. He then looked over to Luffy, and saw that his hand was coated in Ice Haki as it went away for him to grab his red gourd bottle, and drink from it a bit and then he speak out to him.
"Pay attention Zoro and take out the big lady." says Luffy reminding him and ordering him while he was sitting patiently.
Zoro then turned to who he was referring to which was Miss Monday. Luffy noticed that Giyu, and Lily were handling Ms. Wednesday and Mr. 9 while Nojiko was handling the last bit of the agents. He then noticed that Mr. 8 was away from the fighting, so he turned to look at Mr. 8 standing in the spot that he never moved from and was staring at him. Luffy noticed that the man was staring at him with an angry expression on his face.
"Problem Mr. 8? It would seem your Baroque Works agents are at best useless. Beaten by my crew that's mainly from the East Blue including myself, though you did underestimate us." says Luffy in a serious but mocking tone as he continued. "Though, I wonder what your boss will do and think of this? I've never had the pleasure of meeting the bastard but this will probably put us in his radar." says Luffy making Mr. 8 a bit pale but angry as he regained his senses to attack Luffy.
"You die for this! "Igarappa" says Mr. 8 as he blew into his saxophone, which fires a blast of bullets when played, like a giant shotgun.
With this done, it sends bullets out and towards Luffy. Luffy saw this and used Observation Haki in conjunction with the disassembly ability of his devil fruit to disassemble the places they'd hit and let them go through. This caused Mr. 8's eyes to widen in shock at this.
"Your not gonna hit me like that but nice try." says Luffy as a high pitched scream got his and Mr. 8's attention.
They turned to see it was coming from where Zoro was fighting Miss Monday. So now Luffy and everyone else were looking at Zoro holding Miss Monday by the head and squeezing it with his strength, he let go when she passed out and fell back to the ground.
"Is that all you can offer Baroque Works? Cause your gonna need to do a lot better than that." says Zoro with some blood dripping from his forehead and he licked his lips to get some of the blood off.
Mr. 8 saw this and then looked over to see Mr. 9 and Ms. Wednesday subdued by Giyu and Lily while Nojiko handled the ones in her area that were all on the ground. So at this point the last bit of Baroque Works agents still standing were beyond shocked at the point with it becoming clear they were no match, straight from the beginning.
"They took down took down a single digit agent…" says one agent still standing but overall his hands were shaking.
"Not to mention, subduing Mr. 9 and Ms. Wednesday…" says another agent still standing as his whole body was shaking.
"Then there's the blue haired woman, she took down another large group of our forces…" says another agent as he was shocked to his core.
"This isn't good, and their captain is a monster as well…" says a fourth agent on his knees scared.
Luffy got up off the pile of people he beat to walk over to his group and speak.
"Good job your four." says Luffy causing them all to smile. "Zoro and Nojiko, it seems you've improved in terms of Haki. And you Zoro, you've learned to use the Demon Slayer Mark well." says Luffy causing the two to nod while smiling.
Zoro for his part deactivated the mark and spoke to Luffy about something.
"What are we going to do about the rest of them?" asks Zoro as this caused Luffy's attention to be on the last of the agents.
Luffy has a calm and neutral face as he looked at the bounty hunters before him and spoke.
"You have two choice. Give up, and run or be defeated. Your choice." says Luffy causing some of them to shake in fear.
"Run damn it! We don't stand a chan-" begins the agent but something happens which surprises them.
BOOM!
An explosion hits what remains of the agents and hits them hard. This confused the crew and the other agents left watching as they wondered where it came from. Luffy was confused for a moment but he then spoke as he sensed something.
"It would seem we have company, and the type that likes to interrupt things." says Luffy loud enough for others to hear as he looked to a nearby alleyway entrance near the area of fighting to see two people as the others on the crew turned to see them.
"Oh my, it would seem that we eliminated some of the traitors." says the woman with the man to her left.
All the bounty hunter agent were frozen in place by fear of these two. Luffy and the others could tell they were high up members of the organization sent here to either assist or finish off their weak members. By now Ms. Wednesday and Mr. 9 were really scared along with Mr. 8 as they crawled toward him.
"The three of you lost against a couple pirates? Now that's just sad." says the male of the two in a condescending tone as he stared at the three Baroque Works agents.
"Mr. 5, Ms. Valentine!" says Mr. 8 shocked.
"Really? Can't do your jobs? Huh." says Mr. 5.
"Hahahaha! Well that's clearly the difference between our rank and yours." says Ms. Valentine laughing at this.
"You came here just to laugh at us?!" asks Mr. 8 angry.
"Naw that's a bonus." says Luffy cooly as Mr. 5 looked shocked and a bit angry himself now.
"You stole my line." says Mr. 5 cooly and angry.
"Not if I'm cool enough to use it, and I'm ice cold as they come." says Luffy tiredly while getting some hair out of his face.
'Why do I get the feeling he used Observation Haki to look into the future but then again maybe he didn't…' thought the whole crew seeing this with an eyebrow twitch.
"Hahahahah! Well anyway, were here under the boss's orders." says Ms. Valentine earning a curious look from the straw hat crew.
"Hahaha! With you guys here to fight we can finally defeat them. They don't stand against you." says Mr. 9 shaking a bit as he stood near Mr. 8.
"That's right, let's beat them and get this over with and show them what Baroque Works can really do" says Ms. Wednesday.
"Seriously Ms. Wednesday, stop with the jokes. We didn't come here to clean up your mess." says Mr. 5.
"You really think that we'd come all the way to the Grand Line to hold your hands?" asks Ms. Valentine rhetorically and a bit amused. "Oh, your even more pitiful than you look." says Ms. Valentine as she chuckled a bit.
"But what mission are you here for?" asks Mr. 9 confused.
As the rest of the crew were wondering the same about that at this point.
"You mean you haven't figured it out?" asks Mr. 5 as he stepped forward a bit with the crew on guard as he continued. "There are people here who's crimes against the company are grave enough that the boss has sent us to deal with them." says Mr. 5.
"Huh?" asks Mr. 9 confused.
"He said someone had learned the secrets. I don't know what secrets exactly and I don't want to know. Obviously, someone else did but knowing them is against company rules. Our motto is mystery, everyone's identity is to be kept strictly secret, no matter who they are. And if someone is dumb enough to nose around the boss's business...well then...that's a crime punishable by death." says Mr. 5.
"Well isn't this getting interesting." says Luffy to his crew.
"It would seem so." says Zoro listening as Giyu nodded.
"So while we were conducting our search to find out who had uncovered the boss's secrets, we learned something. Hahahahaha!" says Ms. Valentine laughing at the end as she continued. "It turns out a rather high ranking individual from a certain kingdom has somehow managed to infiltrate Baroque Works." says Ms. Valentine as Luffy thought about that for a second as he memorized the people of royal families across the world while in SWORD.
So while this was said Giyu wonder about that and as did the crew wondering who it could be. Nami herself was standing behind the wall of a building behind the two agents wondering that herself.
"A kingdom?! Wait! Hold on a second! I maybe wearing a crown but I'm not a king or anything like that, I swear it's just an innocent little hobby." says Mr. 9 pleading about that.
"Shut up you idiot!" says Ms. Valentine yelling.
"You still don't get it, we need the people from Alabasta. Their the ones who angered the boss." says Mr. 5 surprising Luffy and Giyu at this.
'Wait, Alabasta? if I remember correctly the princess has blue hair like her mother.' thought Luffy as he thought about Ms. Wednesday's hair.
"Luffy." says Giyu whispering.
"I know." says Luffy whispering.
While this occurred, Mr. 8 was shaking in fear as he stared at the ground with a thought of his own.
'They know. It's all over now.' thought Mr. 8 with gritted teeth, scared as he had this thought he decided on something.
Before anyone could react he pulls his bow and tie and from the curls gun barrels poked as he yells out while firing.
"DIE! "Igarappappa" says Mr. 8 as he fired five times with a large explosion in their general area. "You will not lay a hand upon our princess, not while the captain of Alabasta security still stands!" says Mr. 8.
"The princess of Alabasta, Vivi Nefertari." says Luffy looking at Ms. Wednesday and as he did so, he did find her cute but continued to speak. "If I remember correctly Giyu, when we were twelve years old weren't we assigned to guard the Alabasta Kingdom during the time of Levely?" asks Luffy to his friend.
"Yes, indeed." says Giyu nodding.
"I had heard that she went missing for some time but I never thought about her being in Baroque Works under a cover like this until now." says Luffy.
"Shouldn't she be guarded by her own guards or something?" asks Nojiko wondering about that.
"Yes that would be the case, if the country wasn't in civil war." says Luffy informing them of that.
"What do you want to do?" asks Giyu.
"We sit and watch for now. No need to rush." says Luffy as he continued. "I sensed Nami listening but she seemed to go back and continue searching those still out cold from drinking that stuff. So if it should come to it, we fight to make sure that we give her time but we should help this princess when it comes to it." says Luffy causing Giyu and the crew to nod as they went back to watching.
As the smoke cleared everyone saw the two agents unharmed and unfazed by just being hit by the attack head on.
"Igaram, Captain of Alabasta Security and Princess Vivi Nefertari of Alabasta Kingdom. We have come here in the name of the boss of Baroque Works to see that you are both eliminated." says Mr. 5 as he held up a picture of Princess Vivi.
The princess was scared with wide eyes and her mouth opened while moving but the words never came. It was a shock to Mr. 9 who couldn't believe it himself as he worked with her for so much time. Igaram then pulled his bow tie once more and started firing on the agents once more.
"Go on! Princess Vivi, you have to escape!" says Igaram yelling to the princess.
"Igaram!" says the princess crying out all of a sudden, as Mr. 5 did something in the smoke that fired out something at Igaram that exploded on contact with the man as he fell forward to the ground. "Igaram!" says Vivi crying out once more as she saw it.
"Don't bother." says Ms. Valentine laughing from above Vivi with her umbrella.
Luffy looked up and saw her floating in the air looking down at Vivi.
"So they're both devil fruit users." says Luffy calmly not really surprised as he spoke out to his crew. "Be prepared to move and attack." says Luffy causing them all to nod.
"Princess, you must get away from here for the sake of our kingdom. If something were to happen to you, Alabasta Kingdom would suffer." says Igaram causing the princess to widen her eyes at this.
"If you think you can escape from us your mistaken." says Mr. 5 as he picked his nose.
"Let's see if you can take me!" says Vivi yelling out as she took a stance and started spinning her weapon on both of one of her fingers on each hand.
Mr. 9 decided to stand in front of Vivi as with his metal bat in a fighting stance while facing the pair of agents.
"We have been partners for some time now and fought together. So get going, I'll buy you as much time for a head start as much as I can, so go." says Mr. 9.
"Thank you, Mr. 9." says Vivi causing the man to chuckle.
"Pretty manly don't you think." says Mr. 9 before he started doing flips towards the pair of agents.
Mr. 5 then pulled a booger from his nose and flicked it towards Mr. 9. The booger sailed to to hit Mr. 9 in the face and explode upon hitting him which surprised those watching.
"Wait, did that just come from his nose?" asks Zoro shocked.
"Well that's strange." says Luffy as he looked on with a bit of interest though he couldn't look for long as he saw Igaram crawl over to them as much as he could while looking at them.
"Pirates, I have the most unreasonable request but I require the help of people with strength as yours." says Igaram as Luffy knelt down and spoke with a curious expression.
"What would that request be?" asks Luffy curious.
"Both of those agents have devil fruit powers and I can't stand against them or even stop them. So that's why I beg of you to please save Princess Vivi of Alabasta in my stead." says Igaram begging.
Zoro, Giyu, Lily, and Nojiko were shocked at this due to them trying to kill them earlier before. So they all wondered how Luffy would go about this. Luffy sighed a bit before he spoke to the man.
"I'm all for helping people but why would I do that? If I remember correctly, you tried to capture me and my crew not long ago and now you want our help to save her. So I ask you again, why should I help?" asks Luffy being calm about this.
"You would be greatly rewarded for this, if you return her to Alabasta. I am only a humble and loyal servant but I beg of you to please protect her." says Igaram begging.
"Fine, I'm a generous man but I will do this under four conditions." says Luffy informing the man of that.
"What would that be?" asks Igaram. "Whatever it is, I'm sure the king would do what's in his power to give you it for returning his daughter safe and unharmed." says Igaram.
"The first is that there's a stone tablet that's kept hidden in your country that was left there by my clan and the royal family knows where it is, so I expect to be taken to it. The second is that I expect to be rewarded along with my crew for their efforts for this. The third is I want your king to arrange a sit down with members of my clan still living in the country. And four, Alabasta Kingdom becomes apart of my territory." says Luffy shocking Igaram with widened eyes in shock along with his crew listening while Nami had come up to Nojiko and heard that.
Giyu for his part knew exactly what he was doing. Luffy wanted to take the territories that were formerly under their clan back but under his protection. Considering their clan's country was never truly wiped out and the territories of countries like Alabasta were under such an empire but got to keep their ruling customs like a state. It was his goal to make the D.'s comeback in a large way that their existence couldn't be denied or question. So now Igaram decided to speak on what was said.
"I can't promise that much." says Igaram sadly. "That is something only the king and Princess Vivi could do." says Igaram as Luffy nods.
"Very well then, I'll ask her myself." says Luffy as he went to put a quake bubble around his left hand as he walked forward. "Zoro and Giyu, go get the princess for me and protect her. I'll join you once I'm done here." says Luffy as they nod and went to do that.
Luffy then looked towards the remaining agents as he grew his two other arms with two other quake bubble's as well and attacked.
"Hito-Hito: Asura's Three-Armed Kaishin" says Luffy punching the air with his three left arms as blue cracks appear in the air but then shatter and then send a shock wave that send them away with much more force than the one-armed version has.
This effectively took care of the rest of the agents as he turned around and decided to speak to his navigator.
"Hey Nami." says Luffy with a smile.
"Hey Luffy." says Nami with a smile as Luffy walked up and spoke again.
"So Nami, did you find anything?" asks Luffy.
"Nothing at all." says Nami. "Not gonna like I did expect to find something." says Nami as Luffy chuckled a bit.
"Don't worry about it. It was really expected but can you help this man right there." says Luffy pointing to Igaram. "I'm gonna go see how Zoro and Giyu are doing." says Luffy as he went off to run.
- With Luffy -
Luffy ran for about a minute around the town as he got nearby a building close to Zoro and Giyu who were fighting the two agents and jumped down. As he arrived, Luffy saw that Zoro had a few singes from the explosion while Giyu didn't. Vivi was with her large duck as he spoke.
"Alright you guys I got it from here." says Luffy getting the attention of everyone.
Upon seeing Luffy, the two jumped out of the way and stood to protect Vivi. Luffy just stopped a bit away from the two agents with a cold gaze in his eyes. So now Mr. 5 decided to speak.
"Well aren't you cocky. Thinking you can take on both of us by yourself." says Mr. 5.
"Let's teach this brat a lesson." says Ms. Valentine with an arrogant look on her face.
"Let's see how cocky you are when you feel the power of the Bomb-Bomb Fruit!" says Mr. 5 yelling as he went in to punch Luffy with a left hook.
"Conqueror's Shadow" says Luffy as the same shadow version of himself made of Haki comes forth to punch Mr. 5 in the face hard and sent him skidding across the ground to crash into a building as barrels then fell on the man.
This surprised Vivi and the other agent with Mr. 5 watching as they both had widened eyes.
"He didn't even have to move to beat him. What was that?" asks Vivi shocked.
"You monster!" says Ms. Valentine angry but also in fear as Luffy turned his gaze to her.
"This coming from the person who said they would teach me a lesson. Get real." says Luffy.
He then used the shadow again to come forth in speed and punch her in the abdomen and send her flying into the building with her partner, unconscious as well with more barrels falling on her.
"I'm not so soft when it comes to an enemy and I don't hold back for anyone, plus I'm more of a ghost." says Luffy as he powered down fully.
So now Luffy turned to Vivi, who backed away in fear. He saw this and spoke in a calm and gentle tone.
"You have no need to fear anything from me, Princess Vivi. I'm not going to harm you." says Luffy surprising her.
"Then why?" asks Vivi a bit fearful.
"A request from Igaram really considering our motives align in a way of speaking. He asked me and my crew to get you home safely as part of the deal we made and that I have to take up with you." says Luffy informing her of this.
"What?" asks Vivi more calmed down.
Luffy went onto explain the pieces of the deal and what he wanted from all of this as he would do it.
"Okay I get most of these things you want but what do you want with Alabasta as territory under your protection?" asks Vivi as he spoke.
"Nothing, all I want is to have it as territory under my protection as the country has a connection to my clan. Not to mention having Alabasta as part of my territory would be a plus towards speaking of my power and strength in a way." says Luffy as she nods understanding him.
"Is there anything else you want?" asks Vivi curious.
"No, not at the moment. Plus I like to be a reasonable person." says Luffy with a smile making her smile a bit as he spoke. "So if were in agreement, do you mind telling me why your in Baroque Works?" asks Luffy while looking at her to notice that she had a sad expression as she spoke.
Vivi went into detail about the civil war, to Baroque Works. To how her country and people were manipulated by Baroque Works and how this was the only information she had. So her only option was to infiltrate Baroque Works, so she could find out who was behind all of it. Luffy decided after she explained everything to pat her on the head as he spoke.
"That was very brave of you to do that." says Luffy being sincere while making her blush a bit.
"I'll say, I don't think any other princess would do that." says Nami coming up with Lily.
"How's Igaram?" asks Luffy.
"He's fine, he should be along in a few. Said something about doing one final thing." says Lily as Luffy nodded and turned back to her.
"So where you able to find out what their goal was?" asks Luffy.
"The cover story is to create an ideal nation for which the boss uses to cover the tracks of the actual plan, which is to takeover Alabasta Kingdom entirely." says Vivi making Luffy and those listening understand. "I have to get back there, so I can warn them and stop the bloodshed because if I don't it could be bad…" says Vivi crying a bit.
"Don't worry Vivi, everything will be fine as we've come to an arrangement." says Luffy getting her attention as he continued. "Now did you ever find out the identity of the boss? I'd rather know who I'm driving my fist through when we meet." says Luffy causing her to panic a bit.
"What? His identity?! You shouldn't be asking me that?" says Vivi in a panic
"So you do know? Though, I may have my guess on who it is." says Luffy as he looked at her with his head tilted to the right a bit.
"Ask me anything but that please?" asks Vivi turning her head as she found the head tilt a bit cute. "Telling you could put people's lives in danger, including you and your crew." says Vivi trying to make Luffy understand as he spoke.
"Vivi, you know what group I'm still apart of even though were essentially fugitives to the Marines, right?" asks Luffy with an amused expression.
"Yes." says Vivi answering.
"And you know the reputation and strength of power we held as a group of nine, right?" asks Luffy again.
"Yes." says Vivi nodding now.
"Then you should know I'm strong enough to beat this threat as I've fought people stronger than this person." says Luffy as she was quiet and he spoke once more. "So, who is the boss?" asks Luffy.
Vivi took a moment to think and then responded.
"He's one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, his name is Crocodile." says Vivi making Luffy understand.
"I see. Then he shouldn't be a problem against me. You have my word that I'll save your kingdom." says Luffy with a smile that made her smile and blush a bit.
As this happened, Luffy all of a sudden sensed something behind them as did Giyu and Lily. Luffy spun around in quick speed while taking out the pistol on his left hip to fire while startling them. When he did this, a vulture that was staring down at them all, flew off when the shot almost hit it. It was confusing for all of them as Nami immediately started panicking from this, as an Otter showed up with well drawn pictures of all of them including Vivi. This caused Nami to panic even further as Zoro decided to speak.
"Looks like Baroque Works will make us their top priority now, considering we know who their boss is." says Zoro.
"Let them come really, they won't be a problem to us." says Luffy confident in his crew as he turned back to Vivi to kneel down to her level. "So Princess Vivi, do you agree with everything I said?" asks Luffy holding out a hand.
"Yes, I'll take the offer." says Vivi accepting the hand while he was pulling her up off the ground.
"Were all going to die." says Nami crying out as she hugged her knees.
"Stop being so dramatic." says Giyu with a blank face to Nami.
"You have nothing to fear!" says Igaram from behind causing all of them to turn back to him.
As they all turned, Luffy and his crew were wondering what they were looking at. Standing in front of their eyes was Igaram dressed as Vivi with dummies he was holding in his hands.
"What the hell…" says Lily as she stared on.
"It's okay Princess, I've come up with a plan." says Igaram.
"Igaram, what are you doing?" asks Vivi as she was stunned by the man's appearance.
"Yea, that's how we all are now. Stunned." says Luffy with a blank face.
"Listen to me very carefully on this, Princess Vivi. Once Baroque Works finds out what has happened here, they'll send more agents immediately. So since they'll be aware that you know of the boss's identity you must be in two places at one to throw them off." says Igaram.
"That makes sense knowing they will send hundreds if not a thousand agents after her." says Giyu making Nami scared even more now.
"This is why I'm going with this plan, to disguise myself as you. I'll take the dummies on with me and sail straight for Alabasta." says Igaram as they understood now.
"So the dummies are us. Pretty clever." says Luffy nodding his head.
"Pretty good decoy really." says Giyu.
"So while they chase after me, the rest of you will head to Alabasta Kingdom on a less direct route by log pose." says Igaram as Luffy nodded understanding it.
"Hold it for just a minute!" says Nami yelling out as she was back up now. "Who said, we were going to take her with us? And we didn't discuss the matter of payment for all of this!" says Nami yelling and causing everyone to look at her with a blank face like she was crazy.
"I decided that as captain actually, plus all of the arrangements are done. And knowing you, you'll ask for like a billion Berries as a reward so no, the bargaining will not be left up to you on this." says Luffy.
"But what about Crocodile?!" asks Nami yelling once again.
"What about him? He's literally weak in terms of the power any of the Nine Demonic Pillar Generals hold, not to mention I was the captain of the other eight. That also goes for the rest of the Seven Warlords of the Sea as well." says Luffy dismissing the problem now as he continued. "Crocodile's only advantage is the terrain of sand due to him having a sand-based devil fruit." says Luffy.
Now everyone looked to Luffy on that due to everything they heard from him and saw along with the newspaper on his feats. As they knew his strength along with Giyu's as well, so he spoke this time.
"Besides, this'll be fun and interesting to say the least." says Giyu with a smirk.
"Damn right." says Luffy with a large grin
"Yes it will and we will also be forever grateful for this, thank you." says Igaram as he turned to walk over to where his ship was docked.
- Near The Shore -
As they all were at the shore, Igaram hopped in as he turned to speak to Vivi a final time.
"Now, I Princess Vivi will be on my way." says Igaram getting into character while causing them to chuckle as he set sail with the ship away from the island.
"He was an alright guy." says Giyu as he looked on.
"Yes, he was pretty interesting to say the least." says Zoro looking on as well.
Everyone looked on as the ship sailed further and further away. When the ship looked to almost be far away from the island, it suddenly got hit by a large explosion that consumed it. This made everyone's eyes widen in shock as they couldn't believe it.
"Damn it! Everyone get to the ship now!" says Luffy yelling to them. "Nami and Nojiko get the others now! And hurry!" says Luffy causing them all to run off and do as told.
"I didn't think they come so fast." says Giyu shocked.
"Me neither." says Luffy as he turned to see Vivi in shock.
Luffy had no choice but to carry her bridal style as he and Giyu ran back to the bar where the others were. As they reached the place, Vivi jumped a bit in Luffy's arms and started looking around quickly.
"Where is he?!" asks Vivi yelling as she looked around.
"Where is who? The duck?" asks Luffy as he did see it.
"Yes! Karoo. Where is he?" asks Vivi a bit frantic.
"I put him on the ship earlier." says Giyu next to them as Nami and Nojiko were able to wake the others up.
"Alright with everything done here, we are leaving! Everyone else to the ship! Now!" says Luffy yelling out.
"Right!" says everyone as they ran for the ship.
- With Zoro -
Zoro saw the others approaching quickly as he spoke to them while raising the anchor.
"We are all set, let's go!" says Zoro yelling to them as he pulled up the anchor.
Everyone else jumped up onto the ship as they already had everything on board. Vivi immediately looked around to spot Karoo, so Zoro helped her.
"Right over there." says Zoro.
"Alright let's set sail for the next island. Now." says Luffy in a tone with no room of arguing as he took over his haori and shirt and threw it on a barrel.
As he said this, they immediately set sail and began sailing back up the river in order to reach the ocean faster. Nami took the time to explain why they were leaving so soon. As they were sailing up the river and out of the place, they entered the thick fog like before when they came in to anchor at the island. Nami noticed that light could be seen and immediately knew what it was as she spoke.
"Finally, the sun is coming up. Which means it's morning." says Nami in a tone of relief.
"Tell me about it." says Nojiko.
"I'm just glad that we got away from the people chasing us." says a soft female voice that Luffy, Giyu, Lily, Nojiko and Zoro knew didn't come from any of the other crew members.
Luffy found the voice gentle, and beautiful as it calmed his soul a bit. But was now at the same time, cursing himself for letting this happen while his guard was down in the panic so easily. So now, he wanted to see how long it took for the others who didn't realize this to notice.
"That's for sure." says Nami replying while not noticing that someone was on the ship.
"With all this fog, we need to be careful to avoid the rocks." says the woman.
Luffy was being patient and found it amusing as he was not reacting at all but it was taking every fiber to not turn around to look at the person, for which he knew who this was right off the bat from many previous encounters in battle.
"I'll take care of it." says Nami relaxed before she blinked a few times as she turned to Luffy and who was next to her and spoke. "Wait, did you say something?" asks Nami as he looked over to her with a blank face.
"No, but the person behind us sitting on the railing did." says Luffy as he spun around and looked at the woman sitting on the rail of the upper deck with her legs crossed.
Luffy looked up and smirked as he chuckled a bit.
"This ship is nice." says the woman with a hand on her face as it caused the rest of the crew not on guard to panic and be on guard now.
"It's-it's you." says Vivi shocked staring at the woman in fear causing her to let out a soft chuckle.
"I just happened to run into your dear Mr. 8 a little ways back, he didn't look so good." says the woman tilting her head to her right a bit while looking at Vivi.
"So you killed Igaram." says Vivi grimly and angry.
"No she didn't." says Luffy, Giyu, and Lily in unison while surprising the crew and the woman.
"Oh? And why are you so sure of that?" asks the woman curious.
"Observation Haki. We can still feel his presence out there." says Luffy as the other two nodded with him continuing. "Now, do you want to inform us of why your own my ship?" asks Luffy being calm in this current situation.
"Answer him! What are you doing here, Ms. All Sunday?" asks Vivi angrily.
"You know who she is?" asks Nami while looking over to Vivi as she continued. "Which of the number agents is she partnered with?" asks Nami once more.
"Her partner is Mr. 0, the boss." says Vivi surprising them all.
"Crocodile's her partner?!" asks Nami yelling in fear now.
"Hmm..." says Luffy hearing this now as he found it possible, though Ms. All Sunday looked on amused.
"She was the only one who knew the boss's identity, that's how we found out who he actually is, by following her back to him." says Vivi as she looked at the woman.
"To be accurate, I allowed it." says Ms. All Sunday calmly.
"You still haven't answered the question I asked you." says Luffy calm about this as his crew went into action.
Sanji pointed a gun at her head with Usopp doing the same as everyone got to their weapons as well.
"I would really appreciate it if you would...stop pointing those at me." says Ms. All Sunday as Sanji and Usopp were thrown off of the upper deck by some invisible force and down to the main deck.
"You mean…" says Zoro surprised.
"She eaten…" says Vivi shocked as well.
As this was said, Zoro's sword was almost slapped out of his hand by an invisible force, but he kept his iron grip on it to stop that.
"A devil fruit." says Zoro now seeing the threat.
"Precisely." says Giyu looking at her with a glare, and ready to move.
"But which one? What's here power?" asks Nami on this.
"Now there's no need to get so excited, you can all calm down. I haven't been given any orders to follow here, I have no reason to fight you." says Ms. All Sunday.
"You say that after you come on my ship unannounced, and disarmed two of my crew members? You have guts, I'll give you that much." says Luffy as he calmly continued to look at Ms. All Sunday.
The next thing he knew was Ms. All Sunday held out her hand and took his hat as his tessellated headband was still on his head. The hat floated to her for her to grab it and speak.
"So your the captain? I've heard so much about you, and your overwhelming strength. Considering you were the only one who was closest to hunting me down, and actually capturing me many times when you were in the Marines, wearing that Monkey Mask. But even after you left, we did encounter each other." says Ms. All Sunday as she continued to speak. "Though now that I can get a good look at your face, you are very handsome. Pillar General of Wrath, Monkey D. Luffy." says Ms. All Sunday with a calm tone but with a very amused expression.
Everyone looked towards Luffy knowing how he could be about the straw hat. Though when they looked to him, they saw his attitude was calm. So now he sighed and spoke.
"You know pretty eyes, I don't like many people touching my hat so…" says Luffy referring to her by her eyes as he disappeared in speed.
He was now next to her, and grabbed his hat from her while putting his right hand on her shoulder and leaned his body in to look at her on the left side of her body. While he did this Ms. All Sunday was having a thought of her own in a bit of shock.
'I didn't even see him move. He's gotten faster.' thought Ms. All Sunday as she had this thought he decided to speak now
"Please don't touch what isn't yours, or there will be consequences considering your famous as me in terms of being a criminal, Nico Robin." says Luffy with a smirk making her flinch from that for which he picked up on, as he now got a better look at her himself while continuing to speak. "Not gonna lie over the years, you have gotten more beautiful, though it seems those eyes always get more alluring every time I see them. Almost like a fine wine really." says Luffy calm about seeing them as Robin got amused.
"How forward, do you say that to most women?" asks Robin keeping her amused attitude under pressure.
"Only to the ones that catch my eye, which is rare for me." says Luffy with a now serious face as she looked at him with the same serious expression as this got the crew to be a bit confused and on edge but on guard as Giyu sighed.
Luffy and Nico Robin have in other words, a strange relationship of finding each other amusing or outright being at each others throat's due to line of work their in, even now. When he was in SWORD, he was tasked with hunting her down, and many times almost brought her in as he volunteered, so that Rob Lucci never could take the mission. In the beginning, there were times where they would try to outright kill each other but over time with each encounter, they would fight or Robin would evade, and escape from Luffy's grasp entirely. Though, he always was the one to hunt her himself when she appeared again, as it became a game of cat and mouse. So now, Luffy decided to speak once more.
"So tell me now, what are you doing on my ship?" asks Luffy getting back to the subject.
"Just wanted to warn you that the name of the next island is Little Garden, so using this Eternal Pose, you can skip right past it and head for Alabasta." says Robin as she smiled as she handed it to Luffy and continued. "Or else you won't survive Little Garden." says Robin adding grimly as she scared some of them.
However, she was surprised when Luffy crushed the Eternal Pose in his hand and smiled at her.
"I am the captain of this ship and I decide where we go." says Luffy with a smile as his face was going back to being serious now as he looked at her in the eye.
For the next moment the two had a serious gaze on their faces as they looked at each other with the tension growing as if they'd fight. So ultimately, Robin sighed and then got up and started walking towards the edge of the ship.
"Well, that's too bad. So if you survive, I hope that we meet again." says Robin turning a bit to meet his gaze.
"Oh, I'm sure he will Nico Robin." says Luffy causing her to flinch again. "Oh by the way, tell Crocodile I'll be seeing him shortly to beat him into the ground." says Luffy looking at her in the eye.
This time it was different as both of them felt a spark of electricity that made them flinch unnoticeable at each other's gaze. She didn't reply as she instead walked towards the edge and jumped off onto a giant turtle and left. Luffy looked towards Nami and spoke.
"Plot our course for Little Garden." says Luffy as he walked towards the Captain's Quarters.
"Aye!" says Nami as she went to get started on that.
As Nami went to do as told from her captain with the crew helping her in making their course for their next Island, Luffy walked towards his personal office with a smirk as he had a thought.
'Still as amusing as our last encounter, Nico Robin.' thought Luffy with a smirk as he walked into the room and shut the door.
Done!, good, bad, don't like it that's on you. So yea not much I have to say as we move onto the next chapter. The only part I can comment on is Luffy and Robin's relationship currently as these two have tried to kill each other due to Luffy's previous line of work, so now that his identity is out there exposed everyone knows about him with Robin intrigued by him for her own reasons of the past and present. So I hope you liked this one as we move onto Little Garden. Please review and I'll see you all for the next chapter.