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Deadly Drinking Pirate

Another Pirate, Another Ship, Another Nakama

Previously on Deadly Drunken Pirate,

Luffy didn't have time to think when he saw the marines aiming their guns on Zoro and his friends so he took all of them, tied the swords to his waist and block the bullets by leaping out of a window.

"You!?"

"Luffy!"

"NOO!"

"STRAWHAT!"

They all reacted to Luffy taking in the marine bullets and yet Luffy didn't get riddled with holes like a piece of Swiss cheese. "It will take more than that to kill me!" Luffy laughed at everyone's expressions.

"Just who the hell are you!?"

Everyone shouted while ignoring the armless marines and the pile of rifles at Luffy's feet. And so did Luffy who said proud and clear. "I am Monkey D. Luffy and my dream is to be the best pirate of them all! I am going to be the Drunken Pirate King!"

Several days later, there was peace among the waters. And that was just prefect for the man, leaning on the railings of his ship. He called it the King's Gourd based off himself and after using so of the funds he literally pulled out of nowhere at a couple of ports for some more material to refashion the ship that originally belonged to the Alvida Pirates before they were all turned in (With the exception of the captain) for some extra cash; It helped that both, Luffy hadn't made a pirate flag yet and that Zoro was there too keeping quite about becoming a pirate, everyone thought that the Pirate Hunter had finally allowed some help in his business.

"Out here again captain? I thought this is where I will find you." An angelic voice had flowed with the wind and into Luffy's ears. The raven haired pirate captain turned to see a sight that he will never get enough of.

It was the second woman on his crew after Alvida, who had become the chef enforcer and female counterpart to Zoro as Luffy's first mate. She is a slim young woman of average height, with orange hair and light brown eyes. Many people consider her to be very attractive or even beautiful. She wore an orange mini-skirt with two white rings on each side filled in with orange or brown in their centers and shirts with short sleeves and usually pairs her tops with skirts that have two rings on the sides. Her trademark shoes are orange high-heeled gladiator sandals. She also had short hair with a particularly curled strand over the left side of her face.

"Right again Nami-chan. I swear that the wind is a better friend to you than me." Luffy said with a grin and Nami giggled.

"I am sure, my captain man, the wind is my friend but I can't speed with the wind. I will just catch a cold." Nami giggled along. Nami was a thief and the best navigator Luffy had ever seen since meeting the one from Shank's crew years ago. She was also a woman who shown Luffy plenty of things about navigating which included a good sense of direction, how to read maps and use a compass, and what to do in case of storms since that is also essential to a sailing ship as its navigator. She even gave Luffy a few things before the pirate captain last saw her; he just hadn't told his crew about them yet, Luffy said it was because the timing isn't right yet.

But back on topic, Nami was a great navigator since she impressed Luffy by luring three pirates from another crew into a storm that sank their boat while she stole their treasure. Nami said, after close encounters and impressions made by Luffy, that all the money was to buy a village for a reason that she never said; Luffy saw fear in Nami's eyes and her reluctant tone was enough to tell him, he was about to push too far in his curiosity for Nami.

But the real kicker was when Nami said that she was also interested in the captain and after another adventure that involved an island of curious animals and its protector in a chest, she and Luffy really got intimately close; it was almost like they became a couple only after a few days, not that Zoro wanted to hear them talk so softly that it made his ears itch.

"If you do, then I will know and keep you warm until you are cured. And if I catch that cold then I am counting on the world's best girl to keep me warm and company as well." Luffy said and Nami giggled. It seemed to be love stuck flittering but to Nami, it was still sweet enough to bear it.

"You have all the time in the world captain but I want to know why we are going to some random island. And what is this about a second ship? Don't we have one already and we can just expand for more crew members." Alvida came from who knows where these days and judging from the maps in her hand, both the map room and the captain's captain.

"We do and we can always use another ship that is small enough to get to those inhabited island where there are no docks and rocks that can sink this ship instead. The Grand Line may have docks, piers and towns like here in the East Blue and any other sea but one can never be too careful, not even in the World's Greatest Sea." Luffy said and his crew just signed in content that they haven't won a conversation with their captain yet. Then again, they all agreed that Luffy is thinking about the crew, even more than the ship had had worked hard on to renovate into something he finds more interesting and necessary.

XXXXX

"This has got to be it." Luffy said while overviewing the next destination, the one he was awaiting. "He told me that the island will be on these coordinates." Luffy said looking at a map he had fished out and ordered the ship to head to where the island is pointing. Nami had to point out that someone sure had made the map to focus on just one island and was not a treasure map until Luffy reminded her that Treasure has more than one meaning.

It was an island alright when the band of pirates got there and there were signs of a village but there was no port in sight. It seemed that the native inhabitants were more inbound in terms of access to the sea. Unfortunately, it cuts off the town from any ocean shipping and makes it the perfect place for pirates to attack with surprise. That was no surprise that when Luffy and his crew had set anchor at the ramp which led up to island ground level,

"H-halt!" That was a meek voice and yet it got the pirates' attention, and they saw a very curious sight. It was a young man, around Luffy's own age, that had a very particular nose that was like of a Tengu. Overall, he was a slim teenager with medium-length black woolly hair and a long nose. He wore an olive green plaid bandanna, a blue and white striped armband on his left arm. He seemed to carry with him a yellow satchel. "You aren't p-pirates, a-are you? I-if y-you a-a-are…then you will h-have to g-get through m-me!"

It was obliviously that this boy was trying to act tough but his stutter and shaking legs were a major give away. Then he took out a slingshot and aimed it at Luffy's head while the raven haired pirate smirked; it made this young boy with a slingshot only more angry and yet more scared. "I-I am the b-best sniper i-in Syrup Village! Y-you don't s-stand a chance!"

"Maybe it is because you are the only sniper on this island." Zoro said until Luffy silenced him afterwards.

"Put that useless thing down boy, you don't use slingshots or guns for threats. You use them for action." Luffy said to the young man, using a piercing glance that nearly caused the latter to faint. "A man that I admired as a boy once told me this and so did your dad Usopp. I learned everything there is to sniping from Yasopp." Luffy spoke two names that his crew didn't recognize but they kept quit, seeing that this young man with a weird nose and a slingshot sure did.

Of course, Luffy did 'absentmindedly' picked up a pebble with his foot and kicked it hard enough to dislodge the cliff that 'Usopp' was leaning on and caused the latter to fall down to Luffy's level. But Usopp ignored the pain and raced towards Luffy, nearing shoving his nose into the latter's face. "That is right, my name is Usopp and Yasopp is my dad. You met my dad!?"

"How about you get out of my face, literally, and show us where we can seat down and talk for real." Luffy said and Usopp backed away, seeing that same glance again.

"O-okay." Usopp said and later, Luffy and his crew found themselves being treated to a meal at a restaurant in Syrup Village. "Wow! So my old man actually knew Red-Haired Shanks, the famous pirate!?"

"I told you already Usopp, your dad is Shank's sniper. In fact, ever since I first saw him use a ranged weapon, I never saw him miss his target. Ever." Luffy said finishing some of his raw meat on stick and was chugging down his sake.

"I knew that my old man was special but to be the sniper of the Red-Haired Pirates, I am feeling more proud than ever!" Usopp said with his chest puffed up. "But anyways, why are you here for? Pirates don't really come to this island since there is barely anything worth stealing or taking over. We just live off our land here in the Syrup Village."

"I understand that Usopp and we are not asking much in terms of supplies since we have plenty but what we need is a secondary ship in order to get to where our original can't because of its large size." Luffy explained it to Usopp who stroked his chin.

"Another ship? One that is smaller? Well there is something I can tell you." Usopp said and Luffy gave all his attention. "You did see a large mansion that stands over the village?" Luffy and his crew nodded, it was pretty hard to miss. "I know of the owner, a young woman around my age. She is extremely wealthy and yet is sick to bed. She may be able to lend you something that sails in the size you came here for."

"Thanks but how do you know that, do you live with that girl?" Luffy asked and instead of a given answer, Usopp just grew a red face.

"O-oh! Look at the time! I need to get going!" Usopp paid for his meal and ran out the restaurant like he realized he let the oven on with a cake burning inside or something.

Much Later,

"Okay here is the plan." Usopp said as he and Luffy and the pirate crew looked down on the slope located on the south side of the island. It has been recently covered in slippery oil, so much that it beats ice. When the pirates come and try to attack us, they will instead slip on this oil while we knock back any ones that do manage to get some attitude. That will keep them from Syrup Village."

"It is a good plan Usopp." Luffy started to say, making the sniper puff his chest like a pufferfish until, "If we are certain the Pirates will come this way. There is another ramp to the north of her that they can use instead." Luffy's gang nodded while Usopp tried to pick up a little hesitation.

"Yeah I am sure that this is the place. We heard it all from that fake butler and that backwards man." Usopp said in an attempt to fix his wounded pride. But it was true that Luffy and Usopp spied on a supposed butler of Kaya's who recently made a mockery of the young boy when Luffy and his gang decided to see just where did Usopp go in such a hurry; they did play a little with a trio of village boys who thought that their 'captain' was eaten, by Nami! After getting a little beating for being so rude at her, they said Usopp goes to Kaya's to tell lies and cheer her up from her illness. But back to the spying on the butler and a 'backwards man' who claimed to be a wandering hypnotist and he proved that he is capable of doing the effect on himself as well as his victims. They were both planning to force Kaya to make a will to her butler and kill her so the butler in question, a pirate named Kuro of the Thousand Plans, can inherit the vast wealth and set out to seas again.

Luffy couldn't stop Usopp from panicking and charging into the village to warn them. To his dismay, Usopp found out the hard way that years of lying to them for every single day had nearly got him killed and when he tried to take Kaya from her home and accuse her butler of being a pirate, she rejected him and ordered him away.

When he went down the road with a bleeding arm and an even more bleeding heart, he found Luffy and his gang on the fence, waiting for him. Luffy sent him to the ground, scolding him for acting so rashly and not realizing just what will happen if he panicked. Usopp said that if he was going to be hated for being a liar then he will protect the village while no one will know. Luffy and his crew just couldn't leave the island like that so they volunteered to help Usopp.

That brings us back and then Luffy twitched and looked the opposite way. "Thought so! There is a large group of people coming from a ship on the other side of the island! You had us place the trap in the wrong place!" Luffy shouted making his crew and Usopp widen their eyes.

"Then come this way!" Usopp shouted and pointed to another path. Luffy and his crew had no choice but to follow since Usopp knew this island out of them the best. When they reached the slope opposite to the one dosed in oil and sure enough, a black colored ship with a pirate's flag was docked. Pirates were even flooring out of the ship and up the slope. "You were right Luffy but how did…"

"That doesn't matter Usopp, they can still get to the village and their captain is already at the mansion! We need to make sure that we will dish these pirates out before they can harm any of the other villagers!" Luffy shouted and Usopp nodded before reluctantly joining the action.

Zoro and Alvida used their weapons to pile through the numbers with Luffy dealing with the ones that they missed while Usopp and Nami were hitting some of their own while using tricks to lower their guards; tricks like smokescreen, rotten eggs and flash bombs. And soon, the entire crew didn't get as much as a meter pass the top of the slope. But that wasn't the end,

"What the hell happen!?" That voice had caused the invading pirates to cringe but Luffy and his gang recognizing it. It belonged to a very peculiar man who wore strange clothes; this included a long coat covered in the disks he uses to fight and hypnotize, and red-lensed heart-shaped glasses. He also sported a blue trench coat, and a big hat of matching color as a pirate. He wore a white shirt under his coat, and green-brown gloves. He also has light brown pants with a black belt and black shoes with big white socks.

"Captain Jango! We're sorry, these kids came from nowhere and totally beat us!" One of them addressed the strange man as their captain.

"You are Black Cat Pirates, kids can never bet you." He then took out his bladed pendulum and allowed it to shift like a pendulum in a grandfather. "When I said 'Jango', you will heal up and become super strong." That sounded silly and stupid but Jango did it anyways. "One, two, three! Jango!" He said before covering his eyes with his hat, just in time for the Black Cat Pirates to get up as if they were never scratched; one of them even managed to destroy a cliff side with just his fist! "Now kill them!"

Jango had hoped this will turn the tide but then he felt something that made him have chills down his spine and all of a sudden, the Black Cat Pirate fell into unconsciousness! "What!?"

"You shouldn't have relayed on such weak minded men when you are going against us Jango. And don't even think about sending those two cowardly animals on that ship of yours." That got even his own gang off guard until the Black Cat Pirate ship suddenly fell apart! "I never liked the looks of it anyways. The color was just fine but the rest just made it gloomy and impossible to find in the dark."

"Just what is wrong with you Jango!? Did three years make my crew weak!? That won't foil my plan." Everyone looked up at the top of the slope. There was a slim man with glasses and slicked black hair. He wore a black suit with two golden markings on it over a white shirt with a curious collar, with spiral-like protrusions on the edges, and a standard black tie. He also sports striped shoes.

"Kuro. It sure took you long enough to get here. You better not have harmed Kaya." Luffy said coolly, much to the anger of the fake butler.

"So you are the boy who is making my plan, my plan that took three long years to happen, really hard to undergo." Kuro said with frustration in his tone.

"Are you sure that you will just surrender since you don't have a crew to rely on to attack Syrup Village?"

"Shut it! I can just deal with this pathetic village once I kill you all! And that means you too Jango for failing me!" Kuro shouted which got Jango to cringe but the killer fake butler never moved an inch when,

"You are after me then are you, Kuro?" From behind Kuro was the object of the latter's bloodthirst and greed. She was a fairly tall, slim, and pale girl with blonde hair. She has wide brown eyes that are of a sort of lighter shade. Despite her fortune as the heir of her wealthy family, she is rarely seen in anything but simple neat clothing, be it a plain long dress or "common" clothing such as a skirt and jacket.

"Why Miss Kaya. What has gotten to you I am going to kill these ruffians who are just after your money. You should go home and rest."

"Merry told me everything Kuro and I am not going anywhere." Kaya talked back and yet Kuro didn't even try to change his smirk.

"In that case, then you will have no choice than give up your fortune to me. Then maybe I will let you all go." Kuro taunted and took out the most menacing gloves any of the witnesses have personally seen before. They were furry black gloves that had katana blades, sticking out on each finger.

"No! I refuse to believe someone who is really a pirate and a killer one that that! I refuse to do what you want me to!" Kaya tried to pull a strong front which was a very hard effort with her illnesses making her unstable.

"In that case, forgive me Mistress." Kuro said in a sadist tone and charged at Kaya for the kill!
"KAYA!" Usopp cried out from the top of his lungs but instead the sound of flesh being cut, it was the sound of a blade matching something that was tougher than it was as sharp.

"I may call myself a pirate too Kuro but I am nothing like you." Luffy must have broken the sound barrier or something to beat Kuro and match blades with the former's own. What is more, Luffy was had the strength to easily push Kuro away from Kaya to give them both some space. "Usopp, Nami, this is an order. Keep this manic from touching Kaya." Luffy said to his two crewmembers who both nodded and charged with Kaya in toll.

"NO! Get out of my way boy! I will kill you all!" Kuro shouted and getting sloppy as a result with his random but messy hacking that Luffy still was able to defect without a hitch.

"And while you are trying to do that, Zoro!" Luffy said and got one of his first mates' attention. "You and Alvida amuse yourself with the cannon fodder. They are starting to wake up. And while you are it, keep them alive. I need them alive for something much later."

Zoro turned to see the Black Cat Pirates indeed getting form their unconsciousness, complaining about uncontrollable shivering. And they nearly forgot about Jango who was someone relived that all this happened.

"Now let's try this again and if you have any honor even as a pirate, you will forget about everyone for the sake of this duel over the fate of Syrup Village. You won't want to break that honor, will you?" Luffy said, repelling Kuro with his blade to get some more private space.

"Bah! All of them can die if it means that my plan will succeed! That is all that matters to me!" Kuro didn't even care about what Luffy said and charged again and with some real attacks this time that actually made Luffy go on the defense and even the offense.

"You are getting it Kuro." Luffy said with a smile even among the clanging of the blades which filled the air between the two pirate captains. "This is actually quite fun."

"Shut up and lose! Lose and die!" Kuro was not listening to Luffy at all from the looks of it.

"Okay Kuro. I will fight not to lose or die. I will fight to win this time." Luffy said while using his free hand to reach for his rapier and added some of stabbing attacks to force Kuro on his own guard. But also, unfortunately for Kuro, Luffy got even more aggressive in his strikes that nicked the blades very badly.

Meanwhile, Zoro and Alvida were having a ball with the Black Cat Pirates, knocking the out one by one in quick session. It was like a whack-a-mole game even though they don't knock what those are. They didn't care, just about having their own fun until the ground shock a little and the sound of birds flying urgently from a portion of the forest was heard.

All of them turned to see a large plume of smoke emitting from that same place which made Luffy laugh. "Looks like you last ditch effort to complete your plan has failed. Surrender now Kuro." Luffy proclaimed and pointed his rapier at Kuro for good measure but instead of a surrender, he got a menacing laugh from Kuro instead.

"My plans never fail! They always work and I don't care who gets to die if I need too! You all are dead!" Kuro said before getting limp and started to shake like a weed in the wind. The Black Cat Pirates started to panic which confused Zoro and Alvida but worrying Luffy until Kuro disappeared. "Shakushi (Death Scope)!"

What happened was an unseen massacre as members of the Black Cat Pirates dropped randomly with sudden slashes on their bodies. It was like someone was hacking at them in an unpredictable manner that got Luffy's attention when a piece of the cliff side was cut next to him; that meant that Kuro was now moving so fast, even he couldn't tell where he will end up slashing and he won't care. But what got Luffy off was Zoro getting slashed in the leg and Alvida was nicked on her side, causing them to grunt and scream in pain. Luffy then saw all rea and then struck something heading towards him; it was Kuro and that hit in the stomach had halted the Shakushi.

"You attack your own crew, my own crew and tried to kill a young boy who has proven to be a better pirate than you ever did Kuro. I will never allow you to hurt anyone ever again!" Luffy then forced Kuro into the same cliff side as before, leaving behind a big crater in Kuro's wake. "Say good night Kuro!" Luffy reeled in his fist which attacked like a spring covered by rubber skin, Kuro saw it and knew that it was definitely kill him and ruin his plan.

"NO! MY PLAN CAN NEVER FAIL! DON'T!" Kuro tried to cover his face in order or protect it from Luffy's punch but instead, he heard a piece of the cliff side to his left get destroyed instead.

"Then you are a man who is not even worth killing. If you can't handle being a wanted man than you shouldn't have been a pirate and never a man to tangle with my crew." Luffy said and watched as Kuro finally fell into blissful unconsciousness of his own at last. "But don't worry Kuro, I have my own plans for you."

XXXXX

And when Kuro was taken in the ship, bound for good measure and will be out for a while, the Black Cat Pirates were banished from the island for good. Usopp asked of the children trio, Kaya and Luffy's crew to keep this a secret. He said that even though he had saved the village, no one will ever believe him and think all this is just another lie.

His 'Usopp Pirates' agreed and went home and acted like they were just out playing in the dirt a lot early because they felt like it. But Kaya had other plans; she felt like even though she knew that Usopp wasn't lying, she still needed to look after the one boy she liked the most in the world and vice versa. She wanted not just to listen to stories but to be there when Usopp actually lived them out.

Merry, one of Kaya's actual butlers that was supposedly killed off when Kuro crushed Kaya's new glasses and unleashed his contained bloodlust, even gave them what they were looking for; a new but smaller ship. It was about half the size of the King's Gourd with a simple design but what really stood out was a forehead that was a goat's head. Merry said that he had constructed the ship and named it the 'Going Merry' after himself.

"Come on everyone! I have a few things to share with you since it was still be a while before we arrive in the Grand Line." Luffy shouted from the deck and everyone heard it from their rooms, getting adjusted to a new crew member and a second, smaller ship in tow. When everyone came around, Luffy started to walk in back and forth in a line before setting his sights on Alvida, technically his first crew member.

"Alvida, can you escape smoke? Can you shatter boulders? Can you use your powers to slide across water?" Luffy started to talk really weird and Alvida just silently shook her head and watched her captain turn to Zoro.

"Zoro, can you cut iron? Cut steel? Slice from a distance? Cut an entire ship in half?"

"Hell no!"

"Nami, can predict weather up to extent of hours rather than minutes? Can you dodge thunderbolts and bullets? Can you use lightning like a hammer?"

"Um…no?"

"Kaya, can you fix cuts and bruises in seconds? Heal broken bones and illnesses in minutes? Attach severed limbs on the fly and in the midst of battle?"

"Of course not Luffy-san."

"And you Usopp, can you hit a moving target miles away? Can you use your arms to send a projectile through barriers and shields? Can you tell what to use for what target while in battle?"

"Why are you asking all this!? It is impossible!" Usopp finally blew up but Luffy didn't lose his stance.

"No Usopp, we are going to be sailing in the World's Greatest Sea. Things like those are never impossible, they are essential instead." Luffy said with a glare that dared anyone to keep talking back.

"Then how are we going to learn how to do it all?" Kaya showed to be the more mature and calm about new developments.

"I am glad you were the one to ask Kaya because I need to offer something to you first." Luffy said before leaving the deck for something and it didn't take long for him to return with a chest. Opening it, everyone was in awe that it was another fruit.

"Is that an Akuma no Mi?" Alvida said, the one other than Luffy as the Devil Fruit users on the King's Gourd.

"Yes and among all of them, this fruit is one of the few that are the most sought out because of its power. But I need you to eat it Kaya." Luffy said and Kaya tenderly took it out and into her hands.

She raised her eyebrow about all this and followed Luffy's silent request to eat it. "Arrgh!" She immediately spat out, as if she was eating something poisonous and knew from the moment it touched all the taste buds on her tongue. "Now what Captain?" Kaya asked as she just about removed the awful fruit out of her mouth. What she didn't expect was Luffy taking out her Katana and slicing her arm off!

"LUFFY! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!?" Usopp nearly charged at Luffy, with the aim of striking back on mind but not before Luffy grabbed Kaya's severed arm and placing it back on. Kaya stumbled back only to discover that she could move her arm again and after a few more seconds, that cut all but disappeared.

"Sorry about that sudden surprise but it was necessary for you to eat the fruit and I need to show you why." Luffy said sheepishly at Kaya while helping her back on her feet. A glare from her and Nami had beat Usopp's outburst by a few miles and Luffy laughed nervously at it.

"You better start explaining Luffy-kun."

"Right." Luffy said almost like a kicked puppy as he took out a book from his robe. "Here, read page 23." When Nami opened the page, she read.

"The Zen'yu- Zen'yu no Mi or the Heal-Heal Fruit. At default, will allow the user to gain an accelerated healing factor in which all minors take seconds while severed limbs need some more time. It will need training to reach its full potential however. Once the user does, he or she can heal from near death injuries and even fatal illnesses." That explained a lot and the crew looked to their captain who had been smiling the whole time.

"Touché Luffy." Usopp said looking a little down for worrying about nothing and doubting the actions of his captain.

"So…" Zoro said to break the silence. "When do we start out real training to gain the other skills Luffy?" That somehow got everyone ready to learn as well and instead, they just got Luffy to change his smile into a smirk which nearly intimated them.

End of Chapter 3.

*Another big chapter done and printed for all of you to see! Thanks for the support! If you wanted Luffy going against Buggy then I will make a flashback in the next chapter about that so please be patient!*