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Still at the Sea Forest, the four still continued to observe the mysterious creature that chose to rest it body right in front of them. Saying it was in front of them, but honestly, the distance between them and the creature was quite HUGE. Even at this distance, it looked big enough to accommodate the whole island, just imagine if the creature was closer to them?
That's how big the creature was.
Luffy stared at his sister, Jinbei, and that Mist guy. Seeing the serious look on them, Luffy unexpectedly stayed quiet and docile like a lamb beside Naru. It can be said that no matter how oblivious or simple minded he was called by his crew, he too, was able to read the situation. If the three of them looked so serious as they watched the mysterious creature, then it really meant that it was really not good?
Other than his observation, he also trusted his sister's judgement. Hence, he just stayed by her side and watched.
"What about those intruders?" Naru asked, looking at Hide.
Hide answered. "Already locked up. Other than being crazy strong, they also shared the same trait. Red eyes and aggressiveness. I had to use my power to weaken them before knocking them out."
"Red eyes?"
"You know, like those who hasn't had enough sleep? Yeah like that."
Naru pondered his words. But she couldn't quite understand the problem, since she nor her clone was the one who faced those intruders. Hide only relayed a message to her through her clone, saying about some intruders and suspicious creature with the possibility of being a threat to the island. Hence, she was here.
She didn't actually took Hide's words seriously about the creature before, but after seeing that darn thing dared to hypnotise her, she thought that it wasn't really just a mindless sea beast living underneath the sea after all.
Luffy who was getting bored just standing still and looking at that thing, took a look around the Sea Forest and whistled at the sight. "This place looks great!"
Jinbei, feeling proud, laughed at his words. "It sure is!"
"By the way Jinbei, I heard that you're not a Sichibukai anymore. Is that true?" Luffy asked bluntly.
Instead of feeling offended, Jinbei laughed. "It's true. Because of my actions two years ago, they abolished my position and now I'm a wanted criminal. Thanks to Naru-San, I was able to stay here."
"Ehhhhh, then Jinbei... " Luffy then jumped in front of the fish-man with a wide smile on his face. "Why don't you join my crew?"
Jinbei was stunned, as well as Naru and Hide.
"Man.. asking a former Sichibukai to join his crew.. Your brother sure is brave." Hide whispered to Naru who was amused.
Luffy wanting Jinbei to join his crew was because he truly thought the fish-man as a friend, and because Jinbei was a good person that helped him to save Ace. Plus, with him on his crew, didn't it mean that his crew will get even stronger?
Jinbei looked a little bit troubled. He made eye contact with Naru who then nodded her head at him. "I'm afraid one of your crew member won't accept me, Luffy-Kun."
"Ehhh?" Confused, the slow Luffy was trying to guess who in his crew won't accept Jinbei.
But suddenly, they tensed as they heard a sharp whistling out of nowhere. The creature then made a movement. It opened its eyes and swam away from the darkness, showing itself to them. But it wasn't the only thing that showed itself.
Slowly, one, two, three... until more than a 100 Sea Beasts smaller than the creature in front of them, showed up surrounding the whole island.
Naru, Jinbei and Hide narrowed their eyes when they saw many people, humans and fish-men, riding on the back of those seakings. Luffy blinked in confusion "Wait, what's going on?"
The three stared with a grim expression.
"We're under attack."
"I wonder what Luffy are doing now." Usopp asked with some food still in his mouth.
Nami scowled at his behaviour. "Finish your food first before speaking. Honestly, your table manners have gotten as bad as Luffy."
"Since when did you eat so much anyway?" Sanji spoke. With all of the food gone in an instant, it was Usopp who finished most of them, surprising the others. It was like, the sniper now had become Luffy.
Usopp gulped down the food in his mouth, and released a nervous laugh. He can't actually say that he once ate so much he grew fatter in just a short time, right? That would be so humiliating! He promised himself the he would control how much he eat, but seeing these delicious food he just can't help it!
Sigh, now he gotta exercise more in order to keep his current body shape.
"Eating more is good too, Usopp-San~" Brook sang in the background, accompanied by a cheerful sound of a violin. "Or else you will end up all boney like me! Yohohohohoho!"
With Brook and other musicians playing a cheerful song, Franky and Chopper were busy dancing together. Zoro was busy drinking with Ryuboshi. Robin was asking around if there's any historical place that she can visit.
Nami continued to nag at Usopp for his poor table manners, while Sanji backing her up as he swayed his body side to side saying "Nami-Chwannn is absolutely beautiful~"
"Yohohohoho! Poor Usopp-San!"
"Oi, do you have any more drink?"
"Super!"
"Ahahahaha let's continue dancing!"
Shirahoshi laughed delightfully at the way the Straw Hats behaved. Even King Neptune and the three princes were amused with their antics.
But then,
"Bad! This is bad!" a royal guard suddenly broke into the dining hall with an anxious look on his face. He ran as fast as he could before dropping to his knees and panted as he tried to catch his breath.
Seeing the overly anxious royal guard, King Neptune frowned. Fukaboshi asked immediately. "Is something wrong?"
"My Majesty! The Fish-Man Island is under attack!"
An hour ago.
Away from Fish-Man Island, standing before his army that was apart of the New Fish-Man Pirates and the many human pirates that he caught before, Hody put on a bloodthirsty grin on his face.
Looking at his troop, he was sure it was more than 100000 people, ready for a bloody battle. Not only that, more than 100 Sea Beasts had been gathered to assist them in battle. With his troop and these many ferocious seakings, not to mention that one monster that he placed nearby Fish-Man Island to guard it, Hody was sure of their victory.
With many eyes on him, Hody spoke. "The time has come for us to take over the Fish-Man Island!!"
The crowd roared.
"It was a common knowledge that humans are our greatest enemies." He stared at those humans that he despised. He smirked when they showed a look of fear. "Humans are the reason for the death of many of our people. Just like the death of Fisher Tiger! And now that Fish-Man Island itself has allied with those despicable humans from the surface... isn't that more like a slap to our faces...?!!"
"Yeahhhhh!!!"
Hody's grin widened. "Those humans... Uzukage Naru and Straw Hats Luffy had deceived our King Neptune as he willingly presented our beloved Fish-Man to our enemies... This is betrayal! A complete betrayal from the Royal Family!"
It can be said that Hody's words really lit the fire of hatred in their hearts. Especially those in the New Fish-Man Pirates. These fish-men had stayed with him for so long, so it wasn't that hard for Hody to play with their emotions. Especially their natural hatred to humans. Feeling that he had said enough, Hody casted a signal to one of his subordinates.
Hammond nodded, before distributing a single pill to everyone there. These people knew what it was, for they had been eating this pill since it had been mass produced by Hody himself. They were told it could give them strength. Wary at first, but now they were more than happy to have one. What they all desired now was only that pill.
They didn't know it yet, but what they were showing now was what can be called an early stage of addiction.
Hody obviously knew what he was doing.
"It's done, Boss." informed Hammond.
Light flashed across his eyes. Hody looked coldly at his army before turning his body away from them. He jumped on the back of one of the Sea Beast, the others quickly followed suit. Raising his trident, he shouted "To our new era!"
"To our new era!!!" they cried out.
"Wait for me, Shirahoshi" Decken who stayed behind Hody, said to himself.
Then with Hody as the leader, they marched forward, heading to the Fish-Man Island. Seeing the peaceful island bathed under the sunlight, Hody let out a cold laugh as he scowled in disgust. He looked at one dark corner where his beloved monster at, and whistled.
A large and long seaking, bigger than the Fish-Man Island itself, came out from the shadow and swam lazily around the island, before stopping at the bottom part of the island. It seemed to be staring at something. But because of the distance, Hody failed to see what it was that gained the interest of his beloved pet.
His beloved pet, the Sea Serpent. Its size was way bigger than the island. Hody was the only one who can command this beast. Then, the rest of the Sea Beasts that looked small compared to the big boss, followed suit and circling around the island.
The island was now completely surrounded by Hody's group.
Without any words, Hody went to the entrance. The guard, the one that allowed the Straw Hats to entered the island earlier, panicked once he saw them, but before he could even rang the emergency bell, he was shot to death right in front of the entrance.
The poor guard's body falling right onto the ocean floor.
Hody led his people inside the island, letting only the horde of ferocious Sea Beasts outside to continued entrapping the island. Those who saw the intruders yelled out in fear, only to be shot down by Hody one by one.
"You sure are ruthless." Decken commented as he smiled as wide as he can, but was ignored by the captain.
"Attack!!" Hody ordered mercilessly.
And with his order, the New Fish-Man Pirates went on a rampage. They blindly attacked the people, especially human visitors. They even destroyed many buildings with explosion here and there. Those from Hody's side will toss a bomb and cause an explosion, shooting and slicing, and even poisoning those around them. The unfortunate people that couldn't escape from Hody's people could only be surrounded and caught before being chained together. They later were dragged to what they recognised as the plaza.
In just a short time, the once beautiful and peaceful Fish-Man Island had been turned upside down. Some had died and many were injured, and those who survived could only be dragged and gathered together before Hody, who sat in the middle of the plaza like a king who wanted to behead his subjects.
The people of the Fish-Man Island shivered in fear. Most of them were still in a state of bewilderment of what just happened. How could just a few minutes ago, things were completely fine but now most of them were being captured and now their island was in chaos?
Most of the building were destroyed, the water was now polluted with blood and filled with the crumbles of their destroyed reef. Because of their situation, children were crying and some of the brave ones shouted at the New Fish-Man Pirates.
"What do you think you're doing?!" Olipius, who just happened to be one of the captured people, shouted angrily at Hody while protecting the injured Kinana behind him.
Hody looked at the fish-man that dared to shout at him, and sneered. He recognised the two people immediately. "You're apart of the Uzu trashes right?"
Olipius and Kinana glared at him. They were citizens of Uzu. And to let this guy insult Uzu was unacceptable! To insult Uzu meant insulting their Kage!
Seeing their glares, Hody laughed loudly. His laugh sounded like a mock to the ears of not just the Uzu citizens, but also the Fish-Man Island's residents. They watched as Hody used a visual Den Den Mushi that was connected to a monitar.
With this, he will be broadcast to every part of Fish-Man Island.
"To those who are watching... " Hody started and looked around, before he suddenly shot Olipius and Kinana without any warning, shocking those around him.
"Olipius!"
"Kinana-San!"
Those who knew the two immediately went to their side to stop the bleeding.
Hody laughed again before looking at the Visual Den Den Mushi, as if he was looking straight at his targets.
"The Royal Family... Uzukage Naru... and Straw Hats Luffy...!! Hear me... if all of you fail to show yourself here, I shall kill everyone!! And don't even bother to do something stupid or else..." At this he turned the Den Den Mushi around to show those massive Sea Beasts surrounding the island, waiting to burst the bubble that had protected the island for so many years into nothingness with their sharp teeth.
"This island will cease to exist!!"
Either show up or the seakings will attack the island and kill everyone.
Hody was really determined to destroy the Fish-Man Island, they thought.
Here is the new chapter. Shorter than usual, but I tried my best.
And yeah, I changed some parts and added more details especially at the earliest chapters. Thank you for you guys who noticed that, I appreciate it! As for the question if the other 8 will show up hmmm gotta wait for that xD
But don't worry, even if they do appear, it won't bring that much changes to the story :) Thank you for those who follow, fav and leave a review for the previous chapter. I appreciate it very much! Please leave a review on what you thought of the story so far. Have a nice day~
