"kuro?…" Usopp whispers as he lays on his back,

Looming over him is a bloodied and smiling Kuro, "Trying to save the little girl and be a hero are we?" He asks with a smirk,

Immediately, Usopp scrambles to his feet and tries to flee,

In a blur, Kuro instantly appears right beside him, sunlight reflecting off his fingers,

Then the back of Kuro's hand crashes against Usopp's face, sending him smashing against the metal fence that surrounds the mansion,

"I asked you a question, and you will answer pirate filth." Kuro says,

Without even thinking, "HELP ME!" Usopp screams as loud as he can, "HE'S GOING TO KILL ME!"

Clutching the metal bars of the fence, he pulls himself up, "Please Help Me!" He screams, not daring to look back,

A curved sharp blade then wraps itself against his throat, making him stop screaming and moving completely,

"Don't scream, I hate screams."

"Please, don't kil-" But before he can finish his sentence, Kuro slams his head against the metal fence,

Suddenly the windows swing open, "Usopp?" A voice calls out his name, "Is everything alright? I heard you screaming!"

"screams, always attract unwanted attention." Kuro mutters,

"Khaladore! Is everything alright? Is Usopp hurt? Are you hurt?" Kaya asks,

"No miss Kaya, everything is fine, just stay where you are."

"What about Usopp? Where is he?"

Looking down at where Usopp is supposed to be, he is nowhere to be seen,

Looking back up, he sees that Usopp has somehow slipped through the metal fence, without him noticing, and is currently running away, "must be a hole somewhere in the fence." Kuro mumbles, he then turns to face Kaya,

"It seems he has left, I apologies for letting him get inside."

Then out of nowhere, an egg flies through the bars of the fence and shatters upon Kuro's head, covering his hair in egg yolk,

"Hey egghead! Come and get me!" Usopp yells on the other side of the fence, "Bet you can't catch me!"

And with that, Usopp runs away, with an enraged Kuro giving chase,

Sitting cross-legged on the ground, Luffy watches the clouds slowly pass by, "This is so boring!" He yawns,

Leaning against one of the cliffs, Zoro doesn't say anything and just keeps staring at the rowboat that is approaching the beach,

"Do you think that's the Black Cat pirates?" Luffy asks spotting the rowboat,

"Well, it's the only one I see."

Landing on the beach, a man steps off the rowboat, he has a weird stem goatee, and wears a wide round brim dark blue hat and a dark blue coat decorated with yellow circles and two columns of 4 sharp metal rings dangling off his shoulders,

Following him is a pair of men with glinting fingers, dragging themselves out of the rowboat, one is a small scrawny man and the other is a pudgy giant of a man, both wearing cat ears headwears, black pants, and some sort of pelt on their backs,

Upon a closer look at their glinting fingers, Zoro sees small curved claw-like blades, hidden by their fingers,

The trio then begins walking towards the mansion, chatting as they walk, not paying attention to anything,

"Why are we even here capt? Why can't we just go back to the ship and sleep?" The skinny man yawns, rubbing the sleepiness out of his eyes with the back of his hand,

"Yeah Jango, why are we even here?" The giant man asks, barely staying awake as he asks his question, "Let's just go back and sleep."

"Shut it Buchi!" Jango yells at the large man, then turns to the skinny man and yells at him too, "Same goes for you too Sham!"

"I know you're afraid of Kuro and all, but after three years? I think even you can beat him now." Sham says,

But before they can take any more steps forward, a swing from a katana forces them to jump back,

"Hey! What's the big idea?!" Sham shouts,

"We know why you're here, so shut it and fight." Zoro grins as he lowers himself into a stance and readies himself for a fight,

"You know? How did you know? Of the two witnesses, Kuro assured me the long nose one isn't a threat, and the other I killed." Jango says, he then begins shaking in his boots, finally spotting a boy wearing a straw hat,

"Y-YOU?!" Jango shouts, pointing at Luffy,

"Me?" Luffy points at himself, confused as to why a man is screaming at him,

"I SAW YOU FELL OFF A CLIFF! HOW ARE YOU STILL ALIVE?"

"Well, that's because I ate the Gum Gum fruit." Pinching his cheeks and fully extends his arms, stretching his cheeks to a ludicrous degree,

Upon hearing this, Jango relaxes and breathes a sigh of relief, "It is good to see that you're not dead, but since we're attacking, sorry about this."

"Sham, attack."

"But I don't want-"

"Sham, attack, Now!"

Following order reluctantly, Sham runs at Luffy and Zoro,

"What is he doing?" Zoro asks Luffy, dumbfounded by what he is looking at,

"I don't know." Luffy replies, scratching his head at the display before him,

Sham's legs wobble as he runs, his arms flailing in random directions, and he pathetically screeches his warcry in a sad attempt at intimidation,

This sad display leaves both Luffy and Zoro dumbfounded, which allows Sham to be able to get close enough,

Once he is close enough, Sham crouches down low and pounces at inhuman speed,

Taken by surprise, Zoro doesn't have enough time to react and defend himself,

But Sham isn't aiming for Zoro, he was aiming for Zoro's two katanas,

Appearing behind Zoro, holding two katanas, Sham looks back at Zoro with a smirk,

Tossing the two katanas aside, "We'll see how well the infamous Pirate Hunter will fare with only one sword." Sham taunts Zoro,

"You bastard-" Zoro utters before he feels a sharp pain in his leg,

"Forgot about me?" Buchi mocks Zoro before the two start their attack on Zoro,

Zoro barely defending himself against a flurry of metal claws bearing down on him,

"Zoro!" Luffy yells and rushes in to try and help his friend,

Suddenly a metal ring slices through the air going straight for his head,

Narrowly dodging the metal ring by tilting his head to the side to an unnatural degree, "Hey what was that for? You almost took off my head!" Luffy yells at Jango,

"Alright listen up boy and look closely," Jango says as he swings a metal ring tied to a string, "You will feel sleepy and will sleep on the count of one, two, Jango!"

For some reason, Luffy feels compelled to keep looking at the swinging metal ring,

"One,"

He wants to lie down,

"Two,"

He then feels sleepy for some reason,

"Jan-"

Suddenly, a boy with a long nose and tears streaming from his eyes bursts out of the bushes, high above on the cliffs,

"HELP ME!" He screams, "SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME!"

Then as abrupt as he arrives, he then abruptly trips on a rock,

But in a blur, a man in black stained with red appears behind Usopp and hooks the back of his shirt with his fingers, preventing his plummet down the cliffs,

"Didn't your parents teach you to look where you're running?"

Then with a downward slash, Usopp let out a howl of pain as his back spews out blood,

"USOPP!"