Author's Note: Welcome back to another chapter of Leader of the Family of D. Now, I'm glad you all liked the last chapter, as I went back and corrected some things while deciding to get this out. I had real fun introducing the other generals last chapter as a whole, it took me awhile to introduce them but it all came full circle in the end. So now, here we will begin Drum Island and moving further in with the story as a whole. Now without anything else to say, let's get into this chapter.
I don't own One Piece or any crossover elements from other anime's which all belong to the respective owners.
"..." Character P.O.V.
'...' Character thoughts
"..." Attacks
'...' Narrator
Chapter 16: Nami's Sick, A Raid!, And Drum Kingdom
Currently in the Captain's Quarters of the Going Merry, Luffy and everyone else present had heard what their captain had said about Ace, and both Sabo being in Paradise. Marco on the other side was quiet, as Luffy was thinking of why they would be in Paradise. He knew it wasn't because of what happened with the whole God Fall Incident, as it became clear it was another reason. So now, Luffy decided to ask Marco a question.
"Why are they in Paradise exactly?" asks Luffy wanting an answer to this.
On the other side of the Transponder Snail, Luffy could hear Marco taking in a breath before giving him an answer.
"Thatch is dead." says Marco grimly while shocking everyone in the room with Luffy most of all.
Luffy had known Thatch due to being the Red-Hair Pirates one-man, 1st Division Commander. And because of this, Luffy could travel easily across the water and get things done faster. Especially if it meant business with the Whitebeard Pirates. So in his time with the Red-Hair Pirates, Luffy had always met with either Marco or Thatch on business and found the two to be very friendly and not hostile as he expected. So now, Luffy decided to ask what had caused it.
"How?" asks Luffy getting his composure back as Marco spoke to answer him.
"He was murdered...by Teach. Though lately from what I heard, he goes by Blackbeard now." says Marco with venom in his voice as Luffy and the others were greatly shocked with their blood lust and anger skyrocketing through the roof.
The reason why their anger had exploded in the way it did was because they knew who Blackbeard really was. The man's full name was Marshall D. Teach, someone Luffy had encountered a couple of times when on the main ship of the Whitebeard Pirates and also someone he was weary of. He never showed ill will towards the guy even with knowing the history of his ancestors past. Though that changed some more when Luffy found out about the scar Shanks received, as it put him more on guard of his surroundings. Though now, Luffy wanted to confirm this.
"Marco are you serious?" asks Luffy making sure he's hearing this right, as Marco spoke again.
"Yes, he was stabbed in the back." says Marco sadly while remembering seeing the wound and blood everywhere.
The hits kept coming to everyone including Luffy. During the time in the office Akeno, Agni, Giyu, and Inosuke were made aware of the current memories that Luffy received from obtaining energy from other Devil Fruits. Though, it was hitting them and their captain even more for the reason it was like the messages of the past were giving them a sense of foreboding, as Luffy remembered the one memory from when he received the powers of the Suke Suke no Mi.
'It's better to let your enemy have a calm and relaxed attitude as you prepare years later to stab them in the back and take your prize.' thought Luffy remembering the words from that memory a few days ago echoed in his mind as he had a thought of his own with gritted teeth. 'Damn it all. This isn't good.' thought Luffy gritting his teeth.
As his free hand clenched, Luffy decided to speak in a heated tone now towards Marco over the Transponder Snail.
"This doesn't make any sense to me! The fat bastard didn't seem to have any sense of ambition! So tell me what was the reason?! The whole reason." says Luffy heatedly wanting an answer to why this happened.
"It was over a Devil Fruit." says Marco giving him the straightforward answer that he wanted to hear but was met with silence.
Everyone present had to pause at what they had just heard. It was weird for it to be over a Devil Fruit unless it was strong. Then again, they were becoming increasingly worried about something and Luffy asked another question for details.
"What did the fruit look like, Marco? Color, shape, size, the details?" asks Luffy a bit worried.
"It was large, round, light purple fruit made up of many small teardrop-shaped components with swirl patterns, and green leaves sprouting from the top. Its overall shape and appearance closely resembles a pineapple or a bunch of over-sized and teardrop shaped grapes. Why?" asks Marco concerned now but was only met with more silence.
In this moment, Luffy face said it all as he had a look of shock. Agni had dropped his bottle of Sake, Giyu was even shocked as this news broke his serious expression he always had, Akeno was the same with wide eyes as Inosuke's mouth was a gap from hearing this. The reason was due to hearing that the bastard had his hands on the prize of their personal mission and the one fruit they dread for good reason...the Yami Yami no Mi.
So now, Luffy decided to speak very calmly over the snail now.
"Marco, I'll find them myself. If their in Paradise, then it means I should be able to find them quickly, but try to get in contact with the two of them and tell them to find me, immediately." says Luffy getting the calm look back on his face, as he said this in urgency towards Marco over the snail.
"Yea sure, Luffy. I'll get right on it." says Marco making sure to do as asked of him.
"Gacha" says the Transponder Snail being hung up now.
As the snail was hung up, it was quiet as Luffy sat back down with his teammates. The mood had gone from a serious talk to all of them now having thoughts running through their head on what they just heard from Marco. It was quite clear that if they have a run in with this bastard that he would either run or have help from a crew of his own in fighting, considering Marco said it had been a while. So now, Luffy spoke as he brought his red gourd bottle up that was attached to his side in preparation to drink.
"We expected someone to have it but for it to be him of all people, and the suspicion we had, this is not good." says Luffy now deciding to drink from the gourd bottle as Agni spoke.
"Not to mention that he wouldn't kill Thatch and take it, unless he knew how to exactly use and have full mastery over it. Though, I'm wondering what the bastard aims to do with the powers." says Agni not liking this.
"Hmm." says Inosuke acknowledging this with a nod.
Akeno and Giyu were silent for their part still thinking like the others were from everything they just heard. As they sat in silence, the door to the room was flung open by Usopp who had been successful in startling them.
"Luffy! Come quick, it's Nami!" says Usopp causing Luffy and the others to become concerned and worried, as they all got up to leave the room quickly.
- Going Merry Women's Room -
After leaving the Captain's Quarters, Luffy and the others followed Usopp to the girls sleeping quarters. As they entered the room, they saw everyone else was already inside the room standing over Nami, who was laying on the bed. So as Luffy walked into the room, everyone moved aside and allowed him to make his way towards the bed. When he got to the bed, he saw Nami laying down on the bed, breathing slightly heavier than usual with her face bit red with sweat pouring out.
"What happened?" asks Luffy concerned seeing Nami like this.
Nojiko decided to speak with a worried expression on her face as she spoke to answer.
"Were not sure, one minute she was fine and giving out orders for navigation of our course. And then the next, she told me she was feeling tired, and handed Vivi the Eternal Pose before she collapsed while getting up to leave for her room." says Nojiko with tears building in her eyes.
This caused Giyu to come over and put a hand on her shoulder to comfort her. Luffy nodded himself before speaking to comfort her.
"I won't let anything happen to her Nojiko, I promise." says Luffy looking her in the eyes with a serious look while causing her to smile a bit at the declaration.
Luffy then turned back to Nami to place a hand on her forehead to check her temperature while scanning her exposed body for marks. After about thirty seconds, Luffy took his hand off while finding what he needed to and spoke.
"She's burning up. Not to mention she's been bitten by the Kestia." says Luffy informing them of this as Sanji decided to ask a question.
"The Kestia?" asks Sanji confused on what kind of bug that was.
"It is a type of tick that inhabits tropical environments and carries deadly bacteria in its bite. Being an ectoparasite, it preys on the blood of mammals and birds, and through this hematophagy may transfer a number of blood-borne diseases; among the deadliest of these is the Five-Day Disease, which can inflict fevers of up to 40 °C, causing myocarditis, arteritis and encephalitis that painfully kills victims in five days if left untreated." says Inosuke informing them of this, as he read it somewhere in a book some time ago.
"So which means she was bitten back on Little Garden." says Akeno now knowing now where it came from.
With this said by Akeno, Luffy now decided to speak this time to Usopp for orders along with giving more orders to three others.
"Usopp, go grab a bucket of water and bring some cold seawater. Giyu, Zoro, and Agni, make sure we stay on course." says Luffy giving out orders for them to move quickly as told with Sanji speaking now
"I'll go make some soup for Nami." says Sanji causing Luffy to nod his head.
With this said by the cook of the crew and the other members of the crew moving quickly to do as told of them from their captain, Luffy started to activate his devil fruit for an ability that would help Nami a bit.
"Hito-Hito: Asura's Phoenix Mode" says Luffy as his hands were engulfed in crimson flames.
Luffy then removed the covers to work the flames across Nami's body and help her condition a bit, as best as he could. Everyone could see that the flames weren't hurting her as Luffy decided to use his demon slayer mark to utilize the See-Through World to see how bad the fever was for Nami. When he did this, he noticed the fever Nami was affected by hadn't reached anything vital but it seemed her body was fighting it off as best as it could.
As he used the mark to see her condition, Usopp had arrived back in the room with a bucket of water in his hand. He sat it down in front of Luffy before he took a few steps back allowing Luffy to stop the flames he was creating, and soak the cloth that was on the side of the bucket inside the water, ring it out a bit to place it on her forehead. As Luffy did this, he went to put a hand on her cheek, and feel that it was burning so hot to the point that he needed to remove his hand. So now, Luffy then turned to Nojiko and Vivi to speak.
"Get the thermometer for me." says Luffy being serious right now.
As he said this, Nojiko and Vivi went to go grab it and give it to Luffy. So when he did get the object, Luffy went to put it inside her mouth and wait for it to give a result on her temperature along with the others. After waiting for some time, Luffy went to look at Vivi and nod toward her to look at the temperature now. When she did so, Vivi became shocked in panicked as she spoke.
"104! No this isn't good!" says Vivi in a panic and just in time for everyone else to arrive back in the room.
"Not good, as I saw and already suspected her body is fighting this infection from the bite she got bad. Which means it's still life-threatening as Inosuke said." says Luffy already knowing the danger of this as everyone's eyes widen in fear of one of their crew mates dying.
With this said, Usopp spoke up to say something now.
"There are doctors and nurses in Alabasta right?" asks Usopp in a hopeful voice as he continued. "They can help right?" asks Usopp while looking at Vivi.
"They could help yes, but we are still a week away from reaching the country." says Vivi in a sad voice causing everyone to panic further.
Luffy continued to use his demon slayer mark while having a serious look on his face. Soon enough his head perked up very much so that everyone saw this. Luffy went to look at her stomach, and notice through his See-Through World ability that it was mainly affecting that area of the body. So seeing this, he decided to pull up her shirt to expose her stomach as he spoke upon seeing it.
"This is where the infection is generally affecting her body for the most part at the moment." says Luffy causing everyone to come over and look at what the cause of all this was from the bite she received.
When they all looked over, they saw a purple rash or something close to that of a rash on Nami's stomach. Luffy decided to reactive his phoenix abilities and work on this greatly affected area as Sanji spoke.
"Will your abilities be able to help Nami get better?" asks Sanji being hopeful.
"No they won't. I haven't been able to work with my phoenix abilities very far, as I can only keep it a bay for a while as best as I can. I'm not a medical specialist considering my other teammate, Alina was the medical specialist on my team, and she's not here. I only know a bit of medical knowledge so far, so I'll do what I can for now." says Luffy never taking his eyes away from helping his navigator.
Though it became clear that even Luffy's abilities wouldn't be able to help for long, and they were in shock and fear by it. Nojiko couldn't take it anymore and broke down crying while hugging her sick sister.
"Nami, just please be okay and fight this." says Nojiko as she continued to cry.
Everyone in the room looked onto Nojiko with a sad look on their faces. For the first time in a while, Luffy felt completely helpless in helping those around him. It was clear to the pillar generals present that Luffy was deeply sad, and worried for Nami while also probably remembering something from his past at the time of losing someone close to him. Here was a member of Luffy's crew, extremely sick and there was nothing he could do except try to ease her suffering for the moment. Though now, he decided to speak with a determined look on his face as he looked to his crew.
"We need to find her a doctor immediately." says Luffy in finality causing everyone to nod their heads in agreement.
Just as Luffy was about to speak again, Nami spoke in a sickly whisper but loud enough for everyone to hear it.
"Relax, I'm fine." says Nami whispering out and causing everyone to look at her as she tried to sit up.
Luffy looked at Nami with a concerned look in his eyes as she continued.
"Go to my desk, open the second drawer on my desk." says Nami causing Luffy to do as said and open it.
Inside the drawer was a newspaper that was a few days old by the date Luffy read on it. Opening the newspaper and browsing through to see what Nami wanted to show them, only to have his eyes widen a bit as he reached the major story of the paper. According to the article, 300 Thousand royal soldiers have defected to the resistance and the situation in Alabasta is now dire as this tipped the scale of balance to shift. Luffy closed the paper and tossed it on the desk, only to sigh a bit before he looked over at Nami with a serious look on his face as he spoke.
"This change anything, especially of the fact that your sick Nami." says Luffy being serious with her while confusing everyone else with Nami looking at him with her eyes slightly widened.
"I'm telling you I'm fine." says Nami protesting and trying to act tough in this situation in order to get Luffy to have the ship stay on course towards Alabasta
"What're you two talking about?" asks Vivi as she went to pick up the paper in order to see what was going on.
When she turned to the main articles her eyes widened causing her to gasp in shock of what she was reading.
"This can't be!" says Vivi yelling out as she read the newspaper.
"What is it?" asks Lily concerned.
"Is it about Alabasta? Tell us." says Usopp wondering about it.
"It says here in the article that 300 Thousand royal soldiers have defected to the resistance." says Vivi reading the article from the paper as she spoke again. "Until now, we have been embroiled in a cold war with 600 Thousand royal soldiers against 400 Thousand rebels. With this, the balance has shifted." says Vivi in a sad voice causing everyone to look at her sympathetically.
"The uprising in Alabasta will seriously escalate further now and things will continue to get ugle. That paper your looking at is three days old." says Nami causing Vivi's eyes to widen as she continued. "I'm sorry I didn't say something earlier, we can't change our speed so I didn't want to worry you. There is nothing anyone can do right now, you understand Luffy?" asks Nami while looking at Luffy, who had his back against the wall as he spoke.
"Yes," says Luffy causing her to smile as he continued. "I have to get you a doctor. So quit the tough act." says Luffy still keeping his serious attitude causing her and everyone's eyes to widen and look conflicted except for Giyu, Agni, and Akeno.
"What do you mean get me to a doctor, Luffy?!" asks Nami screaming at him in her feverish state, only to continue speaking. "We need to get Vivi to Alabasta to stop this war!" says Nami yelling angrily with an angry look on her face as well.
Luffy looked at her with an angry look that replaced his calm one, as he spoke.
"If I remember correctly, wars don't just escalate to the point of all out fighting. Like Vivi just said, they were embroiled in a cold war which means no fighting has started yet and the balance has only shifted for the moment." says Luffy speaking truth as he continued further. "Secondly, If I remember correctly along with everyone else present, I'm the captain of this ship and crew. Which means I say where our course goes and right now it will be taking you to a doctor, no arguments or protest about it Nami." says Luffy being final on the matter as he turned and spoke to Vivi now. "I'm sorry Vivi but the state of my crew comes first, which means Nami's condition needs to be handled before anything else." says Luffy while looking at Vivi as his face calmed down.
Vivi looked up at him, and gave a small smile. Knowing what he was doing was the right choice but at the same time knew they were in quite a bind with Nami coming down with this prehistoric fever from Little Garden. So now, she spoke while giving this smile.
"It's okay Luffy." says Vivi surprising them as she continued. "I wouldn't have let you put Nami's health in danger just to get me home." says Vivi causing Luffy and the others to smile.
So with this said now by Vivi, Luffy decided to speak.
"Alright, then let's get to the closest island on our path and find a doctor." says Luffy.
"Right!" says everyone present as they now turned to leave the room.
As everyone leaves the room to get back to navigating the ship as Luffy ordered, Nami lays down again for Luffy to continue using his phoenix flames again on the most affected area of her body. Luffy kept his focus on what he was doing only as Nami looked at him, trying to get a read on her captain but only saw the determined look in his eyes. As she kept looking at Luffy, she decided to ask a question while it was just the two of them.
"Why are you going so far for me, Luffy?" asks Nami generally curious.
Luffy turned his head to meet her gaze while thinking for a moment before speaking.
"I say it again in a way you understand, It's not only my job as captain of this crew, or as a friend to you, or along with keeping a promise to Bellemere and the old man from your village but because I have to and want to." says Luffy in a soft voice as he continued. "Seeing Nojiko cry like that reminded me of a time where I was helpless and weak. Not being able to protect what I loved, and cared about along with not having the skills I have today. I care about you, so I refuse to let something bad befall you or anyone on this crew." says Luffy finishing what he said to Nami, with her eyes widen a bit.
She could tell straight from the start that not only did she have to endure so much at a young age, but so did Luffy as well. He seemed to have moved past much of it but it was clear that he didn't move past all of it, not entirely. It also spoke about his personality as a whole when it came to things like this, and not wanting to run the risk of anything bad happening. For Nami, it made her feel warm on the inside, protected. So now, Nami put her left hand on his cheek while bringing Luffy out of his thoughts only for him to look at her to see the small smile on her face as she spoke.
"Thanks Luffy, it means a lot knowing you care so much about me." says Nami with her smile while making Luffy smile as well.
"Anytime." says Luffy with a smile as he went back to working on keeping Nami's condition as low as possible for the time being.
- Two Hours Later -
It's been an hour since Luffy had stopped his work on Nami. He let Sanji, Nojiko, and Vivi take care of Nami while they moved across the water to find a nearby Island. Though after a while it started to get cold and begin to snow heavily, so they pull out warm clothes and blankets while sailing. Luffy looked at the snow as it fell with a thought of his own.
'We must be close to a winter island.' thought Luffy as he continued to watch the snow fall with a small smile.
As this happened, the rest of the crew was making sure everything was in order on the main deck of the ship. So now, Zoro spoke out from the crow's nest now deciding to get the others attention..
"Hey guys!" says Zoro yelling to Luffy and the others on the main deck.
Luffy and the others looked up to see Zoro using a pair of binoculars as he spoke out again.
"Do you think people...um, can stand on top of the ocean?" asks Zoro highly confused by what he was seeing.
"What do I think it's possible?" asks Luffy from his spot about to speak again, only for Usopp to speak now.
"What kind of dumb question is that? It's impossible, of course." says Usopp causing Giyu to speak up from his spot at the railing.
"Not so, considering I can do it." says Giyu with his serious look present on his face, as everyone had to stop and look at him for a moment with a blank expression only for Inosuke to speak up.
"Yea genius! We got that part considering you ate a water based Logia Devil Fruit!" says Inosuke being irritated as Giyu had the balls to look embarrassed.
Lily sighed a bit with a smile as she went to speak now to Zoro for why he asked.
"Anyway, why do you ask Zoro?" asks Lily wanting to know.
"Because of that." says Zoro while pointing in front of the ship.
Everyone turned around to and squinted their eyes a bit in order to see a bit further, only to see a man dressed like some sort of jester but in winter-like clothing as he stood on the water with a bow and arrow strapped on his back. All of them stood there for a few moments before blinking owlishly only to then wipe their eyes as they were too surprised to say anything.
"Ara ara~ What seems to have you all spooked." says Akeno walking up to see how they were all frozen.
They didn't respond at all to her, the only response to her question was Giyu, Inosuke, and Luffy to point forward at the man standing on the water. Akeno turned to look where they were pointing and see the man standing on the water. She did the same as them when she saw it by wiping her eyes to make sure she wasn't seeing things as her eyes grew wide as the rest of the crew present to see it.
"Hello, sure is chilly today." says the man from his position causing them all to look at each other for a few seconds before turning their attention back to this strange man.
"Yeah, it is chilly today." says Agni causing Luffy to look over to him as he sensed it too along with everyone else.
"Definitely it's very chilling. In fact, I would even say it's freezing." says Usopp adding while causing everyone to nod their heads.
"Get ready!" says Luffy yelling out for the crew to be on guard now.
The moment he said this, everyone's Observation Haki alerted the of the danger rising up from underwater where the man was standing. As the water began to rise from under the man, an extremely large ship came from underwater by hitting the surface.
"Damn it! What the hell is going on?" asks Usopp yelling as he pulled out his rifle with the Going Merry rocking as the ship continued to rise.
As Luffy and everyone else was already on guard with their hands on their weapons with the ship continuing to rise from the water, he noticed that metal plates were along the structure and began to lower themselves by some sort of mechanics from the inside. The plates completely lowered themselves themselves with a pirate flag being raised on the main mast of the ship.
The Jolly Roger depicts a skull with a round, metallic jaw licking its own lips and wearing a large crown, as well as the standard crossbones located behind it. All those traits likely refer to the crew's captain's physical features, gluttonous nature and royal background. So when seeing this, the crew thought it was a bit goofy for a pirate flag.
"So it's pirates." says Lily seeing the skull and crossbones with its own unique design.
"The ship is huge while also seeming to look very useless in a battle." says Giyu seeing it himself.
Sanji ran out to the main deck, leaving Nojiko and Vivi with Nami while wanting to see what was going on. He was left speechless at the size of the ship in front of them, as they were all impressed by it by just a bit. Though for Luffy and the other pillar generals, they had seen ships larger than this in the New World, but to see one in Paradise of this size had to have come with a large cost. So now as the crew looked on, someone began to laugh and speak out.
"Mahahahahaha! What's the matter? Don't tell me our underwater raid ship the Tin Tyrant surprised you? Hahahahahah!" says the voice asking sarcastically causing Luffy and his fellow generals to recognize the familiar voice with growls.
Zoro jumped down from the crow's nest to be next to Luffy on his right as Sanji came up to stand with them all. The nine of them stood staring at the ship with on guard expressions. So now, Luffy went to give out orders now.
"Inosuke, guard the door to the inside of the ship to protect Nami. Usopp, get your rifle ready to go and go to the crow's nest. Everyone else, be ready to go." says Luffy causing everyone to get their weapons ready with Inosuke and Usop nodding their heads at the order.
"You all consider yourself a band of pirates?" asks the man getting everyone's attention as he continued. "That amusing." says the man.
When he said this, they all also noticed they were each surrounded by soldiers with rifles at them.
"They move quick." says Giyu with a calm and serious look.
"Yea." says Agni yawning a bit as he looked to the enemy ship, and saw it was filled with soldiers on board with what looked like two officers at the front as well.
"I only count nine of you, sorta strange that your group would have only a few members." says the man causing Luffy to look over in order to see the holder of this familiar voice and captain of there soldiers that boarded his own ship.
"Wapol." says Luffy under his breath with a growl.
Wapol is an overweight man with a cylinder-shaped jaw made up of tin, he wears tin-plated armor and a hooded cape as he eats a sword. It was truly a weird sight to see someone eating a sword like it was food. Everyone was staring at the man as though he were some sort of freak when he tossed the handle of the sword in his mouth, and chewed it up, only to swallow it after a few bits.
"Okay that's just weird, what kind of guy likes to eat knives, or swords for that matter?" asks Luffy to himself seeing it.
"This is starting to make my teeth feel uneasy." says Giyu seeing it with a bit of a disgusted expression on his face.
"Uggh, my gums are bleeding just watching!" says Usopp yelling while he stuck out his tongue.
With this said by the three, the man known as Wapol decided to speak now.
"Alright, I'll keep this simple. See, my men here and I wish to travel to Drum Kingdom, you wouldn't happen to have an Eternal Pose or a Log Pose would ya?" asks Wapol to the crew.
"Nope can't help. I've never even heard of this Drum Kingdom." says Sanji taking the cigarette from his mouth for a moment, only for Luffy to speak now.
"Well, now that we have that all settled, can you get off my ship already? Were kind of in a hurry right now." says Luffy wanting to get this idiot and his men off his ship and hoping he would listen to reason.
"You will never enjoy life, if your always in a rush." says Wapol as he continued. "But seeing as you have neither Pose, I suppose I'll have to settle for your treasure on this ship instead." says Wapol causing some of the crew to chuckle lowly under their breaths as Luffy laughed a bit.
"Shishishishi! What a fool." says Luffy laughing while confusing all of the soldiers along with Wapol.
"You think this is some sort of game brat?" asks Wapol as Luffy ignored him, as the man continued. "Though, I am feeling a bit hungry." says Wapol before his mouth opened really wide.
He then went to take a bite right out of the Going Merry. Luffy and everyone else's eyes widened in utter shock as they watch the man chew up a large piece of their ship, only to swallow it. This got Luffy to get a cold look as he spoke.
"Yep he's a dead man." says Luffy as his mood went to deadly.
"Orders?" asks Zoro curious while ready to fight.
"Well for one, they came and boarded the ship unannounced, and without permission. Then chew a piece of our beloved ship, so..." says Luffy as he quickly went for the firearms on his hips.
Bang!
Luffy went to shoot the two men on each of his sides, through their heads. This sent both men to the ground as the others except for the crew became shocked as he put the pistols away to speak again.
"It warrants death, proceed accordingly as you like." says Luffy causing them all to move into action.
This got Agni, for his part to get a deadly smirk on his face as he spoke ready to fight.
"With pleasure." says Agni as his body lit up in fire to go for an attack. "Kagutsuchi's Wing Attack" says Agni producing a large stream of powerful and hot fire from each of his arms which come in contact with the soldiers.
The flames then burn them and at the same time sends them flying away due to the blunt force of the produced fire along with severe burns. Sending them off the ship while freeing himself, Agni went to look over towards Akeno. Only to see that she was charging lightning around herself to send it out in a blast to take down her share surrounding her.
"Raijin's Lightning Wave" says Akeno sending out a high voltage wave of lightning that shocks here opponents and sends them flying everywhere with some going into the water and across the ship.
This gets some to shake and convulse violently from the power of the lightning with some screaming in pain. This gets Akeno to get a blush as she spoke out on it.
"Oh! How I enjoy your screams of utter pain. It's making me hot." says Akeno in a voice of lust with a blush as she starts getting sadistic.
Agni sees this with a blank look and has one thought on her sadistic nature.
'Crazy sadist of a woman…' thought Agni turning but felt a dark aura behind him as thunder was heard with a strike of lightning behind him.
"Why do I get the feeling you were bad mouthing me in your thoughts, Agni?" asks Akeno with a sickly sweet smile as her eyes were closed with Agni scared out of his mind.
"I uh…" says Agni trying to find the words.
As those two were having their little scuffle, Sanji jumped into action to attack one of the soldiers at close range while speaking.
"You shouldn't take on anything you can't handle." says Sanji as he went for a kick to the neck at one of his opponents. "Reception" says Sanji as he lifts his left leg up high and hooks it around the soldier's neck, as he then uses that leg to smash the soldier's face into the ground hard.
This got the rest of the soldiers to aim at Sanji while some rushed in hand weapons, with the cook turning his attention to them next. Sanji went in to stand on his hands, and spin around only to send the five of them towards the main mast by his kicks. Usopp for his part had shot five of his own in the crow's nest and went to aim at more. Zoro for his part, came rushing in to take down some on main deck as he went passed them in speed, only for the soldiers to fall down in pain. Zoro looked back and spoke on this.
"All bark and no bite." says Zoro unimpressed as he had a thought. 'Didn't need to use my demon slayer mark, though at the same time it wasn't necessary to use it in a battle like this.' thought Zoro.
As he had this thought, multiple soldiers had surrounded Inosuke. Though for Inosuke, he was grinning wildly as he coated his hands in wind and sent out his attack.
"Kaze-Kaze: Cutting Gale" says Inosuke sending out a cutting gale of wind that hits the 12 soldiers surrounding him, as blood flies all over and they fall to the ground or in the water from the force behind the gale.
This got Inosuke to get a smug grin on his face as he thought this would be the outcome of such arrogance. So now, Lily saw five soldiers running to fight Giyu from behind as he was facing off against his bunch. So now, she went out to use her Devil Fruit for an attack.
"Mini-mini: Shrink Wave" says Lily as she held out her hand, only for the effect to shrink the soldiers down to size for her to grab and look at them with a grin of her own. She then went to throw them out into the water far as she had her hand opened to speak. "Now, Full Rebound" says Lily turning them back to full size.
This made the soldiers she threw out into the water in a shrunken state to turn back to full size, and skip across the water like skipping stones. Effectively ending the threat for Giyu, who was facing off against his own soldiers and went to end it with an attack of his own.
"Breath of Water: Fourth Form: Striking Tide" says Giyu as he went to move forward while making multiple consecutive slashes while twisting his body in a flowing fashion similar to a harsh tide.
This made Giyu's opponents get cut into multiple pieces at very fast speed as he passed them, only to land graceful on his feet.
As this battle was in full swing with the straw hats attacking opponent after opponent, Luffy turned his attention to the crew after taking care of more soldiers in his way and was satisfied with what he saw, as it seemed none of them were using that much energy in the fight.
"Not bad. Not bad at all." says Luffy with a proud grin of his own.
As he said this, he heard something else snap as though wood was being broken. This caused Luffy to look over and find Wapol taking another bite out his ship, all the while making Luffy infuriated more as he brought out his six armed state.
"Mmm, ship doesn't...taste...half bad…" says Wapol in between bites of the ship in his mouth.
Luffy growled while running over to the man, only to appear near him as he spoke.
"Stop eating my damn ship!" says Luffy yelling out at the man, as Wapol turned for Luffy to send his fists into Wapol. One to the face, one to the chest, and one to the stomach while sending him flying across the water.
"Wapol!" says the soldiers back on the man's ship yelling out to their captain as he was flying away.
"This is bad, Wapol can't swim due to his Devil Fruit." says the man from before on the water, as he went to speak again to the remaining troops on the Going Merry. "All troops recall! We have to rescue him before he sinke to the bottom!" says the man yelling out to the soldiers as a walkway was stretched out for them to run on.
The soldiers left remaining along with their wounded made it onto the giant ship, while leaving the dead ones. The man dressed as a jester, who spoke out earlier noticed no one left getting back to the ship and made a motion for them to go. So as they were sailing away the jester wearing man spoke out with anger while yelling.
"You monsters! This is far from over! We will get you for this!" says the man yelling out before the ship sailed off out of range in the direction that Luffy sent Wapol flying off towards.
The crew looked on for a moment only to sigh as they started to clean and put away their weapons. Giyu used his Devil Fruit to bring forth water to take the bodies and dump them into the ocean while cleaning up the blood everywhere. So with this happening, Luffy spoke out on what those pirates said.
"Well that was interesting." says Luffy looking on as he turned to his crew. "Good job on handling those guys effectively everyone." says Luffy as everyone nodded with a small tuck of their lips from the praise received from their captain.
"So what now?" asks Akeno curious.
"Let's clean up everything else and keep sailing straight for now, when night time approaches will drop anchor, got it?" asks Luffy giving out the orders and wanting confirmation.
"Understood!" says everyone heading off to do just that.
Luffy then went to go back inside the ship, and walk towards Nami's room to see if there was any sort of change in her condition.
- Going Merry Women's Room -
As soon as he entered the room, he found both Nami and Nojiko at Nami's side and decided to speak.
"Any changes?" asks Luffy wanting to know.
"No, her temperature is still the same and she's been like this." says Nojiko giving him the rundown as Vivi spoke next.
"What happened outside by the way?" asks Vivi while looking at Luffy.
"Just a crew of some kind looking for Drum Kingdom while wanting our Log Pose and treasure, which lead to the whole scuffle outside." says Luffy informing her.
"Drum Kingdom?" asks Vivi curious.
"Yea, I've heard of it before. If I remember correctly, it's a winter island somewhere around this part of the Grand Line." says Luffy thinking about now.
"Yes! It's famous for having the best doctors in the Grand Line!" says Vivi causing Luffy's to know remember that information.
"Yea it is! Well then, that's where we're going now." says Luffy with a smile, causing the two girls to smile.
- Nightfall -
As night fell over, the anchor was dropped with everyone taking shifts throughout the night to keep watch. They didn't want to sail during the night because of running the risk of navigating in the wrong direction and would rather sail during the day. So now, It was currently Luffy and Giyu's turn on watch as they went to relieve Sanji of the duty in the crow's nest. They made it to the top only to see Sanji had his eyes closed a bit, seeming to be resting. So Giyu decided to shake Sanji a bit in waking him up, as the cook jumped awake to see both Luffy and Giyu.
"Is it time already?" asks Sanji with wide awake eyes.
"Yea, so go get some rest." says Giyu with a chuckle.
"Right." says Sanji standing now as he spoke again. "Sure is a cold one." says Sanji as he looked up to see the moon and notice its shape. "Almost a full moon." says Sanji noticing it as did Luffy and Giyu.
"Yea…" says Luffy as Sanji climbed down from the crow's nest with Giyu speaking now.
"It's almost that time, huh?" asks Giyu looking up.
"Yes but it's not the time to use it. Not at all yet." says Luffy as he went to sit down and get comfortable while on watch as Giyu did the same in his spot.
The night would be a quiet one with no disturbances as they stayed awake for the night watch duty. Though, they would fall asleep the same as Sanji did before them.
- The Next Morning -
It was currently the morning after the whole ordeal yesterday along with the crew finishing breakfast at least three hours ago. So currently, Usopp was finishing up the repairs to the ship damaged by Wapol with the rest of the crew finishing the preparations so that they may raise the anchor and set sail again, while Inosuke was in the crow's nest. Nojiko and Vivi were staying with Nami at the moment. Nami's condition hadn't changed since yesterday but was slowly getting worse with Luffy starting to get more worried. So now, Zoro came to walk up to Luffy and speak.
"Were ready to set sail again, Luffy." says Zoro as Luffy looked over to him and nodded.
"Alright, guess I should let everyone know of our current course then." says Luffy.
He then went to turn to the rest of the crew present and speak out.
"Alright listen up! Going forward from here, we'll be heading to Drum Kingdom. As you know, this was the island Wapol was looking for but it's also come to my attention that it's the island where some of the best doctors in the Grand Line are. So we'll be heading there at full speed today." says Luffy speaking out to the crew.
"Wait, Isn't Drum Kingdom a winter island?" asks Agni now thinking about it.
"Winter island?" asks Sanji wondering what he meant by this.
"Yes, scattered within the Grand Line there are four basic types of islands made distinct by their varying climates." says Giyu as he continued. "You've got summer islands, spring islands, autumn island, and winter islands." says Giyu explaining it further for those who didn't know while causing them to be surprised in awe by such islands existing in the Grand Line.
"That's amazing." says Usopp understanding it as a voice got their attention.
"Each one of these islands have their own four independent seasons." says Vivi now coming out onto the main deck as she continued. "When travelling the Grand Line there are at least 16 types of weather patterns you must be prepared to endure, ranging from summer island's summer to winter islands's winter, and everything in between." says Vivi while slightly surprising them who didn't know.
"There can always be exceptions to this and you can encounter unknown climates at any given moment." says Inosuke from up in the crow's nest.
"I think I get it now." says Usopp as he continued with a serious look. "The Grand Line has three different Islands one after the other, and that's the reason why the seas between them have such crazy unstable weather patterns." says Usopp.
"Correct, the closer you get to an island, the calmer the seas are around you." says Akeno adding. "Though, it doesn't explain a ton of things that people face in this sea." says Akeno thinking about it now.
As she said this, Luffy decided to speak now.
"Alright, raise the anchor. We can take on the way while sailing." says Luffy as everyone nodded and moved. "Inosuke! Keep an eye out for any islands!" says Luffy yelling up to him.
"Got it!" says Inosuke acknowledging what was said as he looked out to the horizon.
Everyone on the Going Merry felt the ship jerked forward a bit as the anchor was raised, allowing them to move now.
- Three Hours Later -
It had been sometime since raising the anchor for them to continue sailing. Luffy had stayed with Nojiko and Vivi along with Karoo for the purpose to watch Nami for a bit as he wrote in his logbook, Zoro and Giyu were speaking with Agni and Sanji over a game of cards on the ship. Lily and Akeno were talking about topics on the Grand Line. So now, Inosuke was looking across the horizon to see something dead ahead and yell out to get everyone's attention.
"Island dead ahead!" says Inosuke yelling out to everyone from the crow's nest.
This got everyone except for Nojiko, who stayed with Nami to come out to the main deck and walk to the front of the ship to see the island. Inosuke made his way down as well to go over to the front of the ship as Usopp spoke now.
"Luffy, are you sure this is a good idea?" asks Usopp as he walked up next to Luffy to continue speaking. "I don't know, it's just I'm getting this weird feeling from the island." says Usopp not liking the feeling he was getting from the island.
"Don't worry Usopp, we should be fine. After all, we can handle ourselves." says Luffy reassuring Usopp.
As the ship sailed closer and closer into the island, they all noticed a waterway from the ocean leading into the island. So they decided to sail up through there in order to get further inland. As they sailed in, Vivi spoke on seeing the beautiful landscape.
"Wow, it's completely covered in snow." says Vivi continuing to admire it.
"Look at those mountains, I've never seen anything like them before." says Sanji seeing the drum shaped mountains on this island.
"Well, we now know why it's called Drum Island." says Agni as he stretched a bit as the ship continued in further.
- Drum Island -
After sailing up the stream for a couple of moments, the ship finally stopped at the mouth as they took notice of what the stream was as Luffy spoke.
"It's a stream of melted snow, this should be a good place to disembark." says Luffy as he now turned to the crew. "Okay guys, doctor search who wants in?" asks Luffy out to the crew.
"I'll stay and guard the ship." says Zoro as he continued. "Considering we have to find people here first." says Zoro causing Luffy to nod and turn to everybody else.
"I take it everyone else is coming ashore on the island?" asks Luffy causing everyone's head to nod.
"Alright good, now-" begins Luffy about to speak again but just as he was about to continue speaking, he heard shouting from somewhere on the side of the stream that interrupted him.
"That's far enough, pirates!" says the man yelling out from the right side of the stream.
When they all looked up, they saw that they were surrounded by people that were assumed to be the inhabitants of the island, on both sides of the stream armed with rifles all aimed at them. Luffy and everyone else looked around to see that they were indeed surrounded.
"Well that narrows down finding people." says Sanji with a serious look.
"Right." says Giyu with narrowed eyes while not liking this along with not expecting this as well.
As this was said by the two, a man dressed in green coat with winter attire decided to step forward and speak.
"I'll only say this once, your kind is not welcomed here. Leave immediately." says the man in a commanding tone causing all of the crew to keep their calm looks.
"Our kind?" asks Agni to Inosuke with a raised eyebrow.
"Pirates." says Inosuke having his own guess while standing near Luffy.
At this moment, Luffy looked at the man while keeping his calm face to speak out now.
"Alright listen, we only came here to find a doctor." says Luffy being calm in this situation.
"We have someone who is sick." says Vivi shouting out trying to help in convincing them.
"You'll have to do better than that. We won't fall for that old trick!" says a man shouting while holding a rifle in hand.
"This is our Island! We won't let any filthy pirates land here!" says another man yelling out.
"Raise anchor and leave now! Or we'll blow you and your ship out of the water!" says a third man yelling out while causing some of the crew to narrow at this.
"That's great. We barely said hello and they already hate us." says Sanji seeing this.
"Get out of here!" says a man yelling before he fired his pistol at Sanji while missing his foot.
"Look out!" says Usopp in shock.
"That was a big mistake!" says Sanji getting ready to attack now with an angry look that scares the man that fired at him.
"Sanji stop!" says Vivi yelling as she ran to stop Sanji and held on.
Just as she held onto Sanji to stop him, the same man who fired before went to shoot again. This got everyone else on the ship to get ready for a fight and be on guard. As he disassembled in red cubes in a burst of speed, he was just a hair late as the bullet hit it's target which was Vivi, who fell to the ground. He reassembled himself in front of them both, while shocked that she got hit along with the others being shocked as well. This got Luffy to turn to them now with a cold look in his eyes, as his killing intent had been released in a wave that shattered a bottle of sake sitting on a barrel on the main deck.
As Luffy walked forward calmly, some more people aimed their guns at him as he spoke.
"It's one thing to tell people to leave with your warning, that's fine. But it's another to fire upon people who had no intention of doing anything wrong here." says Luffy with an ice cold tone in his voice that spoke of death as ice chill began to come off him.
This got them all to widen their eyes as they saw the ice chill and one of Luffy's hand freeze with ice a bit. All of the people then aimed their guns at Luffy, who was about to strike out with everyone else ready to fight as well. As Luffy went to move now, something grabbed him and spoke.
"No stop it, Luffy! Fighting is not going to help anything!" says Vivi yelling out as she held onto him while stopping everyone on the ship as she continued. "I'm fine, it only grazed my arm." says Vivi as she let go and got on her knees now.
"Tch!" says Inosuke pissed by this as she spoke.
"It's alright! We won't land but can you please call us a doctor?! Our friend is dying from a serious illness! I'm begging you!" says Vivi begging while bowing her head to the floor of the ship.
Luffy didn't bother turning as he looked at the man, who was the leader of the group while speaking to Vivi.
"Vivi." says Luffy calmly.
"Your are not fit to be the captain of this ship Luffy." says Vivi causing the crew's eyes to widen in shock along with Luffy, who was a bit surprised too.
The ice on him had started turning a bit purple now, as his rage was already rising along with the wind blowing as everyone knew that she was speaking nonsense as she continued.
"Not everything can be fixed by rushing to start a fight." says Vivi as she continued never noticing Luffy was doing something as she continued speaking. "We can't get into a fight here, think about Nami. What would happen to her?" asks Vivi while causing Luffy to still be in his position while never moving as he spoke.
"Vivi, you speak as if you've commanded thousands of forces, lead people in battles that would have surely got everyone killed with the slime chance of winning along with having extensive insight of how this position were in right now is going to turn out." says Luffy keeping his calm tone but everyone knew it was too calm as he spoke again. "Afterall, I've made my decision." says Luffy surprising them all including Vivi.
"You have?!" ask Vivi hopeful he'll listen to reason.
"Yes." says Luffy with a smile as it turned into a serious expression for what he said next. "It's not your call to make." says Luffy as he clenched his left hand
Boom
Black lightning with red energy of rage came down from the sky to hit all of those surrounding the ship except for the man, who was the leader of the group. It didn't kill them but roasted them enough to make them fall unconscious. As Vivi was shocked by this happening except for the pillar generals and the crew, Luffy spoke out again.
"And as the captain of this ship with the necessary power to lead everyone on it. I'm fit to lead it and not you." says Luffy as he looked at her coldly and turned back to the leader of the group.
Luffy then appeared in front of the man in a flash of black lightning, only to headbutt him hard and send him back while skipping across the ground to hit a tree. Luffy had appeared in front of the man again to speak.
"I'll say this as clearly as human possible considering the hit I gave you should have gotten all the cotton out of your ears." says Luffy being calm now as he continued. "We are here for a doctor, a friend of ours is sick and needs medical attention. Once we have it, we'll leave this place. Did you hear that much?" asks Luffy as the man nodded with some blood coming down his face from his forehead.
"Yes, I understand." says the man nodding.
"Good because that's all we came here for and would have left immediately after doing so. Now, if there are any more people on the island then see to it that they get this group with you back to their homes and out of the cold." says Luffy as the man nodded.
"Alright, once that's done I'll show you the way to our village." says the man as Luffy nodded and disassembled in red cubes to appear back on the Going Merry.
"Sanji, Get Nami prepared. I'll carry her once the leader of this foolish group gets back." says Luffy as Sanji nodded at the orders while lighting another cigarette.
"Why would you do that?! You didn't need to-!" begins Vivi only for Luffy to appear in her face and speak now while obviously angry.
"Shut up!" says Luffy yelling in her face as a thunderclap could be heard from above them as he continued. "Your pacifistic nature is starting to annoy me to no end. You need to realize two things, and that is the world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. Violence is everywhere, fights are started, wars rage on, blood is drawn, and the world isn't all pacifistic and soft-bellied as you. I sure as hell ain't and never will be." says Luffy making Vivi flinch while he continued further. "The second, is you need to get it through your thick skull that Igaram, and you yourself asked for my help in getting you home to stop this war, which means you shut up and enjoy the ride. I'm in no mood to negotiate with someone who has no will to fight. May they be a man, woman, or anyone in this world, if you don't have the will necessary to make the hard decisions then shut up." says Luffy very harshly towards Vivi as he then turned to walk away fully now.
Everyone didn't say a word or otherwise incur the wrath of their angry captain, who was slowly beginning to calm down from the anger. Sanji knew Luffy was right but didn't expect that to be said to Vivi, though at the same time he found it necessary. The pillar generals really didn't seem at all fazed by Luffy's anger as they seen it before and weren't bothered by it including Lily. So now, the crew was still standing in their places as Vivi spoke while confused and not liking the outcome.
"I don't get it, why it was so hard to…" says Vivi.
"Your lucky he hasn't thrown you off this ship and left you here after getting Nami all fixed up along with the fact that your lucky to be still alive." says Agni as he was laying down on the railing at the front now.
"Definitely." says Usopp nodding.
"Yep, considering if Luffy went about things the way he did in the past. You'd be dead without question." says Inosuke with a sigh as everyone agreed.
"What do you mean?" ask Vivi still confused as Akeno decided to speak.
"You not only insulted the captain of his own ship in front of his own crew but also insulted his capability in leading this ship and crew as well." says Akeno looking a bit pissed herself as she spoke again. "Which I take heavy offense to considering Luffy knows what he's doing, as he handled this effectively with the necessary power need to be used. Those people of this island are lucky to have only gotten zapped and not killed." says Akeno with crossed arms.
"He didn't handle it effectively! This will only cause problems as we land on the island!" says Vivi yelling angrily.
"So was it effective for him to let us be shot at by these people?" asks Giyu with a glare as he continued. "You need to realize that in a world like this, the weak have no rights! They don't get to make choices! All they can do is be relentlessly crushed by the strong! Now maybe there was a different way of going about it! Maybe! But don't think for even a moment that anyone of those people on this island or anyone else in the world is going to respect your wishes or any of ours, just like I have no respect for you at the moment! That's reality!" says Giyu while pointing to her with a glare.
With this said by Giyu, Inosuke spoke up next.
"The reason were not weak is because we chose not to stay in a weak position, and instead chose to fight with a purpose and dream in mind. As some of us on this crew are indebted to the captain, you just insulted with our lives." says Inosuke rubbing his eyes to continue. "So if I were you, follow the advice given and try not to get in the way because you got off lightly." says Inosuke.
As this was said by the boar wearing young man, they could all feel everything shake around them as if the island and the ocean was being moved a bit. They turned to see it was the island being tilted as well the surrounding area, as it seemed to be calming down. Though, It became clear who was behind this, as Zoro saw this and spoke.
"Yeah, she got off very lightly if he can do this with just the anger he's giving off silently." says Zoro seeing it with wide eyes.
"I'd apologize later when he's more calm down and willing to speak later." says Lily shaking her head with a sigh knowing Luffy was pissed.
It was very clear to everyone that Vivi shouldn't have said those things to Luffy, as she was a passenger aboard the Going Merry at the request of both herself and Igaram.
- With Luffy -
Luffy was currently sitting in his Captain's Quarters as his anger was subsiding from the whole ordeal. He was more so angry with not only the people on this island but with Vivi's words about not being fit as a captain. So as he sat down with the anger almost fully subsided, Giyu came in with Luffy seeing him and decided to speak.
"What is it?" asks Luffy curious.
"Did you smell it the minute we got here?" asks Giyu being serious.
Luffy picked up on what he meant now and spoke.
"Yea, the scent of darkness." says Luffy as he continued. "Which means he was here." says Luffy with narrowed eyes.
Giyu nodded at what was said by his captain. Not far from Alabasta and not far from the trail of someone, who could become a danger in the near future as more things unraveled. The Straw Hats had made it to Drum Island, and now they would need to find a doctor.
Done!, good, bad, don't like it that's on you. So here's the chapter, as this arc will end in two chapters as we move onto Alabasta. Not much to say right now, so please review and I'll see you all for the next chapter.