Chapter 149: Falling into Amazon Lilly
The azure sky and the turquoise sea were so beautiful as they hurtled through the air, and as Luffy clung onto Robin, desperately trying to reassure himself that he wasn't alone, anger, guilt and fear were bubbling up through his chest.
"This isn't happening... it's not real", he whimpered tears leaking from his eyes. "I'm pathetic! I couldn't protect my crew". The paw shaped bubble that that were both trapped in was still flying, at what seemed like the speed of light, all they could see was blue above them and blue below. Feeling arms wrap around his neck, and a soft kiss to his lips, the captain opened his eyes and was met by soft brown eyes. "It's okay luffy", Robin spoke, nuzzling him, "it's not your fault. You are not pathetic, so don't ever say you are again! You are brave, courageous and strong, and I will always love your for that".
The archeologist comforted her distressed captain, up until the moment they both realised that the view of blue had changed to include a rapidly increasing small dot of green growing in size as they approached it.
Their landing was sudden and abrupt. The paw shaped bubble struck the ground creating a perfectly sized crater with radiating fracture lines outwards from the epicentre. The impact was enough to jolt both captain and archaeologist out of their comforting, and scattering them across the bottom of the crater. Pushing himself upright, Luffy immediately felt a sharp pain run over his ribs making him wheeze, which had the effect of drawing Robin over to him and stating that he had sustained a couple of broken ribs against either Kuma or Doflamingo.
"Why gramps...?" Luffy whimpered, trying to not let his disappoint show. Robin kept her face stoic, she knew that Luffy idolised one person and looked up to three others. Shanks, Ace, Garp and his great uncle, so she knew just from the deep sadness shining in her boyfriends eyes that Garp's actions back on Sabaody had confused and upset Luffy greatly.
Helping him upright, and then helping to steady his walking, Robin pointed out a path of well trodden grass and cut back forest plants. "We should get you to a doctor", she mused pressing another kiss to his forehead.
A twig snapped. Robin's eyes darted around seeking out the cause of the noise, they had to be close to whatever civilisation was on this island. A light was beginning to glisten through the trees, either fire or dusk. A quiet whimper reached her ears, which she realised had come from Luffy, "...not again... fire and smoke— Goa..." he wasn't delirious but those words started to worry her. She knew from newspapers that a cataclysm had befallen the Goa Kingdom, but until now she had no idea that Luffy might have been involved.
A survivor of something akin to her surviving the destruction of Ohara, yes, but the cause was even more terrifying.
It was then that more twigs cracked and barrelling out of a hollowed our tree came a giant boar, upon which Luffy's saddened melancholic gaze turned into a grin displaying his hunger for meat. "Seis Fleur", Robin stated raising one arm and creating six arms reaching out of the ground and effortlessly snapping the boats back and neck, "Luffy we have food". Leaning against his older girlfriend, the captain subconsciously licked his lips at the mention of food, which the sight of made Robin blush at his goofy cuteness.
Warmth spread through her being, stirring desire and lust within her lower region but she repressed those urges for now; food was more important. Gently, leaning him against a tree she started to prepare the cut up the boar and separate the different cuts of meat before placing them on a makeshift spit above the fire. Cooking wasn't very hard, though if Sanji had been there he would have been insulted. By the time cooked meat reached Luffy's eating radius the teenage captain was drooling.
"Robin you're a good cook. You could give Sanji a run for his money". The archeologist smiled before leaning towards him and pressing her lips onto his, "but then we wouldn't get to do this..." Relenting the feeling of being separated from Nami, Luffy allowed himself to fall into Robins arms. Wherein the day only got a lot more vibrant.
"Wh-What are they doing?" A voice whispered. From up above on a cliff three women, clad in animal skins and wielding snake bows and a quiver of arrows, observed the two people below through a telescope. The first women was blonde, tall and thin. The other two were both brunette but whilst one was stocky and a warrior by trade; her defined muscles very much on show and spear across her back, the other female was the tallest and wearing what looked like a fireman's hat.
The blonde looked to be an older teenager, where as the other women looked mid to be in their mid twenties, and were obviously confused about what they were witnessing. "Ahh, there you are Margaret. And Aphelandra, and Sweat Pea are with you..." What happened next was an almost sheer scream, as the newly arrived forth woman, elderly, with her excellent eye sight saw the two people in the distance.
"It's a man and a woman engaged in intercourse!"
Being sixteen, Margaret went bright red as she took in Granny Nyon's words before she suddenly found herself being jumbled away by the equally red faced Sweat Pea. "Sweat Pea, inform the Snake Princess that we will be bringing in a captured man and woman", Aphelandra uttered drawing an arrow into her snake bow.
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The first thing that Robin heard was the sound of a whirring in the air, and then came the thwack of arrows rainy down on the little camp that they had made. Climbing off of Luffy, and rearranging her clothes, she quickly scanned the area for any sign of intruders but nothing was out of place, indicating that the sniper was further away and out of sight and reach of her devil fruit powers. Also getting dressed and to his feet was Luffy, who would have been relaxed if an attack had not just happened.
Raising both hands the straw hat captain created spheres of darkness around him, and then shot them towards all the high points around their camp devastating those areas, trying reveal the whereabouts of the snipers. However, just then several large women came charging towards them kicking up dust and shaking the ground, and then walking towards them using a snake as a walking stick, an elderly woman emerged, "you're in a heap of trouble you know. Trespassing, public fornication and destruction of several sacred mounts! The Snake Princess will see to you".
And as Luffy and Robin hurriedly got dressed, shocked at how this woman had startled them, the charging women grabbed ahold of both of them and knocked them out cold.
There was only a single time in her life that Granny Nyon actively feared for her life. And that was back when she was the islands former ruler and having to face off against the former warlord of the sea Rex Hiola and his Metal-Metal powers; which just happened to be the fight that brought the Kuja pirates world wide infamy and government acknowledgement of possessing potential warlord status.
Yet, right now, discovering two people, a man and woman 'being intimate' with each other now brought about its own problems. The current warlord, and ruler of Amazon Lily, was surely going to erupt with fury when this news reached her, not just that a man was found on the island but said male was accompanied by a woman. There were many things the Snake Princess was known for: her beauty, battle prowess, devil fruit abilities, stubbornness and unwavering resolve to her people, but mercy was not a word she knew.
Moreover, Granny Nyon was about to witness a transformation and a revelation. A jealous love struck warlord.
