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Deadly Drinking Pirate
Those Who Dare Interrupt A Sacred Duel
Previously on Deadly Drunken Pirate,
Frank grasped it gently, lifting the paper from the wax table and both he and Carol saw that this was a wanted poster. It was over a hundred years old. And the pair of acting, former assassins saw the faces of the ones wanted in this poster, each with the same bounty. It read,
Dorry 'the Blue Ogre' and Brogy 'the Red Ogre'
The Giant Warrior Pirates
Both Wanted Dead or Alive
Bounty: 100,000,000 Berries for either. 200,000,000 for Both.
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"When we realized that it was becoming a routine, we made that volcano our marker." Dorry said as he suited up his sword and shield. "When it erupts, we will begin." Vivi, of course, didn't want anything of this 'useless violence'.
"What about this makes sense!?" Vivi shouted. "All you are going to do is keep fighting, for the rest of your lives! Surely there is another solution to just fighting for another hundred years!" But Dorry just laughed and when Vivi was about to keep ranting, she felt it. The cold steel at her throat.
"Sorry Vivi." Luffy growled at her, with his rapier in hand. "But you got it all wrong. This isn't about hatred or grudges. Warriors that don't fight or live for honor are beings that don't deserve pity or sympathy. But this guys do because they are fighting for something that is worth it." Luffy then sheathed his blade and turned away from Vivi's scowl while not saying another word.
"You're right human." Dorry, of course, had heard everything from Luffy, unlike Vivi. "This is about honor." As Brogy charged with his battle axe and shield ready for the killing blow. "BECAUSE WE HAVE FORGOTTEN…" Dorry shouted, with his own charge for the kill. "THE REASON WHY WE'RE FIGHTING!"
And just like that, Dorry and Brogy clashed. And their stances created a stand hill and a shockwave that shook the trees and the island itself. It's tragic, both giants have to fight to the death over something they forgot and they are equally matched; in both strength and skill, but more importantly, in their sense of honor.
"RAAH!" Both giants yelled at their stalemate, each weapon against a shield and each shield against a weapon. Once they finally got the strength to break out, it was still just one blow canceled out after another. This was a true fight to the death, between two equaled combatants. And this was supposed to have been going on for an entire century!
"This…this is so cool!" Usopp, for one, was getting off of all the fighting. It was like she was seeing an example of a warrior that he wanted to become. "Oh, I wish to be like them!"
"You want to be a giant?" Nami asked bluntly and everyone started to laugh at that while Usopp stiffened and stuttered. "I don't know about you Usopp but the 'brave warrior' that I know and love makes this guys look weak." Nami then had a dreamily look on her face and in the tone of her voice that made everyone sweat-drop. First Nami insults Usopp and now acted out her own fantasy?
On the other side of the island, Vivi and Carue were completely out of their minds seeing this duel go out. "Just what is to be gained or solved from fighting each other for a century!? This is madness! It is sickening! It's…!" Vivi then halted her anting when a clean dinosaur bone narrowing missed her neck, instead becoming embedded in the ground like an arrow off its course.
"Going to be your head if you don't stop." Luffy said in a deadpan tone. "Now shut up and eat. You'll need it to get back to sailing off this island. We are in a hurry, are we?" Luffy then went back to his food, eating with a grumble. Vivi and Carue just walked back to the fireplace and ate their own meat-on-bone as if it was their last.
"Nice to see you enjoy my food, friends." Vivi didn't realize that she was eating so slow that time had evaded her by a mile. And now Dorry was done with his latest duel with Brogy. She just watched him walk towards his own, giant-sized chair and chomped on the larger meat-on-bone.
"Excuse me, Mr. Dorry…?" Vivi tried to work up her nerve to ask something sensitive to a giant. "Are you sure that you still want to fight? One hundred years must be too long for even a giant to consider whatever disagreement you had to be invalid. Times have changed since Giant pirates disappeared over a hundred years ago."
"I don't expect a human to understand that we give our long lives to our word and we warriors consider breaking that word to be worse than death. Most of you puny, fragile humans just think that death is the ultimate pain or ultimate punishment." Dorry grumbled from his food. "And does it look like we love to fight every time that our marker goes off? We can't even sleep well some nights since a volcano doesn't care if it is the dead of night to erupt. That means that we lose some hours of sleep for several knights until the volcano calms down."
Vivi was having quite the interesting conversation with a giant. It does look like Dorry isn't happy about fighting for seeming an eternity that a century can be for someone that can live three times longer than the average man. "Surely there is…?" Vivi was about to start again but then Dorry got back up again.
"I am sorry my friend but it seems that this day is one of those other days. When the volcano has a lot to rid itself of. And it erupts more than usual." Dorry said with a deep sigh, degrading his food and going for his weapons. "Hold that thought until we are done." And now, these giants consider a death match to be nothing more than a causal conversation or something; a century of draws can surely do that to anyone that has enough time to spare to live the life that this Giants have to.
And while this was going on, Luffy was still eating. It looked like he was still hungry but also heavy in focus. He had to try and lock on the signatures of every person on the island and he always turned to his two latest crew members, inside a house made by a couple more signatures that had malicious coloring to their souls. 'I just hope that Frank and Carol are still holding on.' Luffy thought to himself.
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"You want us to do what?" Frank said with a straight face from still within the wax house. The plan that was guaranteed to tear the Straw Hats apart for the killing and fool the Giants for the capture then the bounty. Frank and Carol were just able to keep their thoughts of fear and shock to themselves; but they still couldn't feel doubt about Luffy's plan.
"Is there a problem with your ears? I can say it again if you have the guts to do what needs to be done to satisfy our unknown boss." Mr. Three said with an arrogant and self-centered smirk that was just sickening to witness.
After a while, Frank just took out something from his pocket. "Will you prefer for me to use something like this?" It seemed to be a pale white bag that sank in Frank's grasp, as if it had pieces of coal inside.
"And what is that?" Mr. Three was in no mood for games or any other forms of nonsense. He wanted to know just what does Frank has, which made 'Mr. Five' confident in challenging his plans.
"A bag filled with poison. Odorless, tasteless, transparent when dissolved. It works within seconds when applied to either food or drink." Frank explained. "I got these during a sole trip outside of duty. In the black market of some town I can't remember, there was a shady old man selling these bags."
"…And?" Mr. Three was in the mood for a good excuse and a good story while Frank was at it.
"I was skeptical but bought one of these for a little experiment. And after seeing some pieces of scum push that old man around, I decided to track them." Frank continued. "When they stopped in an open bar for a quick drinks and snacks, I spiked their food after grinding the poison to as small as table salt grains. They fell dead, bloodied eyes crying of blood and foaming at the mouth that stank worse than month old garbage."
Mr. Three briefly adjusted his eyes and thought hard on this. After a while, he released a sigh. "Fine Mr. Five. But remember, you are to stake your life on this claim. Your life, don't forget." Frank and Carol had been around threats like this before and nodded in sick comfort.
Meanwhile,
Brogy was returning from yet another battle and another draw with Dorry. And this battle had ended on a higher note as his battle axe was slightly damaged. He needed to repair his axe until the volcano gives the signal again. "You want to be what?" But Brogy had been told something interesting by Usopp, who finally built up the nerve after seeing that second battle today.
"I mean it Brogy." Usopp was surely speaking with a stutter. "I want be a lot like you guys so day."
But Brogy didn't see it like Usopp did. "Huh? You want to be a giant?" That was meant with laughter from everyone but Usopp who was a little pissed that nobody got what he talking about.
"I want to be a warrior that isn't afraid of anything. Just like you guys!" Usopp then spoke with confidence and bravery that was a flame, not going out even in the cold wind.
"Friend, we are not fearless. Then we will be nothing but fools with swords and axes, calling ourselves warriors." Brogy said and Usopp was confused. "Without chaos, there will be no order. Without death, there won't be any life. And thus, without fear, there will be no bravery to fight back." Brogy said in an encrypted tone. "Like I told you, we are not happy to fight every single day. We are afraid of one thing; that our judgement will never come and we will never leave to see our friends ever again."
Usopp said nothing. That was more about courage and bravery that he ever learned in his life. And he always thought that his crew mates, his captain included, were all fearless. Maybe he should reconsider his dream a little. 'Then again, I can always ask Luffy. He always have a solution to anything.'
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"Wow. Dorry, you had that on your shoulders all these years?" Luffy asked. After that last match that could have ended with a victor, it was instead a brutal draw. And Dorry still felt dizzy after a last resort; using his own helmet to block an axe attack. So meat-on-bone was not on the menu, just drinks. Come to think of it, Dorry and Brogy even shared a couple of barrels of sake that Luffy had offered to both of them.
But then, Dorry felt like a giant snake had come and bite him. And in the process, the barrel fell from his hand and bounced around as if it was ball just running out of air. "What? Human! If you want more sake…" Dorry noticed that Luffy was sheathing one of his swords, just giving him a pain in the wrist; but he couldn't help notice the pirate captain stare at the barrel before,
"That barrel was poisoned!" Luffy said, pointing to the patch of grass where the spilled wine was secreting out of the barrel. The grass was burning and the ground itself was boiling so it was disturbing to imagine what will happen if Dorry still drank it.
"Just what the meaning of this human!?" Dorry was outraged that his drink was rigged and since it came from Luffy and his gang, they were the prime suspects.
"Dorry! Tell me this, did you and Brogy used to have a bounty?" Luffy ignored the angered expression on the giant's face. But this had softened Dorry's mood a bit. He then scratched the long beard of his,
"I seem to recall that…yes." Dorry then looked like he had found it in his memory banks. "Before Brogy and I came here for our judgement duel, we were big time pirates. You humans and your government had given us a bounty. Both of us had one hundred million of what you call, berries, on our heads…"
"And I know that no crewmate of mine poisoned your drink Dorry. I had been sensing two intruders on this island." Luffy then went off topic for the time being. "They must had this in mind, to force you to be unfit for battle. So you and Brogy will be captured, killed even for your bounty."
"WHAT!?" Dorry roared worse than a territorial beast seeing his food eaten and mate taken, right in front of his face. "These intruders dare to sabotage a sacred duel!? I can't let this stand!" Luffy smiled, despite Dorry's outburst.
"Good that you things in the way I do. But I need you to go anyways and tell Brogy about this outrage. I will rely up my crew to search for these intruders." Luffy explained the plan to Dorry who somehow listened to him. "Once we flesh out the intruders, we will let you have a turn at them."
"YOU BETTER HUMAN!" Dorry shouted, anger still fresh in his system, and marched over to where Brogy was headed.
"They must be from Baroque Works!" Vivi started to panic. These agents will know that she was a princess, a spy in their ranks that knows of their boss's name. No doubt, they will kill her right on the spot. "We're doomed!"
"We will be just fine Vivi." Luffy then spoke up, a hand on her shoulder while she sat on the ground in a feral and defensive curl. "We just need to find everyone else and then we will take care of this agents."
"…" Vivi only knew Luffy for a shot while but the confidence in his voice was hard to deny. "Fine Luffy. I know that you will be right."
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Later,
"Brogy!" Dorry shouted as he finally saw his brother giant in what felt like forever. "We have invaders! They are after our old bounties and they even tried to weaken me before our battle!"
"WHATT!?" Brogy didn't take the news better than Dorry. "Who will dare!?"
"I don't know but, for once in a hundred years, can we skip this duel? There is more honor at stake than ever before. I couldn't even smell the poison that was in that barrel I was about to drink." Dorry asked, speaking in a tone that showed just how disgraced he felt. His expression was also clear on that.
"…Very well." Brogy said before both Giants roared, they felt like their skin was burning. Looking down in horror, they saw melted wax come out of nowhere and cover them in no time at all!
"It seems that while Mr. Five's poison was genuine, you still saw through it. I hate to be on the front lines, I prefer to be in the backside doing the thinking." Dorry and Brogy turned to see a strange man appear out of the wax, with his hair in the shape of a 'three'.
"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU!?" Both of them bellowed but growled at how the wax was solidifying and hardening around them, just as fast it covered their bodies from head to toe.
"Call me Mr. Three, or rather the future Mr. Two." Mr. Three said arrogantly. "Because once I show the boss this monster of a catch, he will finally let me become the next Mr. Two, instead of that useless idiot."
"We don't care! You were the ones that tried to sabotage our sacred duel! You should die to repent!" Brogy shouted and Mr. Three could only laugh.
"I think not. For you are under the might of my Doru-Doru no Mi (Wax-Wax Fruit)!" Mr. Three laughed further, like he though himself to be the kind of the world. "And as you idiot giants can see, you have been caught and as helpless as a larva in a butterfly cocoon. It is all thanks to one of my favorites, Kyandoru Jaketto (Candle Jacket)!"
The giants could only grow and then saw something that made them widen their eyes in horror. "I see that you see yet another of my favorite creations, the Tokudai Kyandoru Sābisu Setto (Giant Candle Service Set)!"
It was a large, birthday cake-shaped arrangement made of wax, into three layers. There was a large pillar up top that had a spinning dome with the face of a jack-o-lantern and candles on top. "As soon as the dome finishes moving, those who were foolish enough to try and challenge me will be encased in wax and suffocate slowly!"
"But where is…?" Dorry tried to speak and Mr. Three laughed again,
"Where is that foolish friend of yours? He is having a picnic while his friends die!" Mr. Three cruelly mocked the giants and pointed to the cold truth. Luffy was indeed sitting on a picnic basket, eating cookies and drinking tea with Miss Goldenweek. "My partner is an expert painter, so good that her colors can make anyone do what we want them to do. Now, Straw Hat, kill them!"
Dorry and Brogy gasped as well as the other Straw Hats that were stuck into
"…NOT!" Miss Goldenweek felt like she was having a heart attack when Luffy turned both himself and his sword into her direction instead of her prey. And all that were harmed was her hat and a couple of trees nearby; all sliced up at once. Then Luffy just sheathed his sword before saying, "Hantoumei Suihihei Kirite (Semi-Transparent Acid Ruin Cutter)!"
Much to the horror of Mr. Three and Miss Goldenweek, and relief to everyone else, the wax suddenly melted and cleaned off the trapped victims harmlessly. It was it all happened in an instant but Zoro and the two giants were somehow able to see that Luffy did move around the wax; spreading some kind of heated dissolvent on the Kyandoru Jaketto and the Tokudai Kyandoru Sābisu Setto. Even the large stand that Mr. Three was using to taunt Dorry and Brogy as well as giving him a bird's eye view of the entire scene had melted; ultimately, the wax user was sent to the ground hard and burning at the hot touch.
The two giants and the Straw Hats moved to get out of the mess of the wax, as if it was going to trap them again otherwise. And when Miss Goldenweek looked into Luffy's eyes, she was scared out of her wits. Then she collapsed on the picnic blanket, eyes white and foaming at the mouth.
"Miss Goldenweek!" Mr. Three couldn't believe it; half of his plan was ruined right in a single moment. "Damm you Straw Hat! Die!" Mr. Three sent his wax at record speeds at Luffy but the pirate captain had shocked the Baroque Works agent by simply making a vacuum slash to send them off course.
But before the mad wax agent could create any more from his Devil Fruit ability, Mr. Three found himself being strangled by a woman's arms. He screamed when both of his hands were crushed as well. "Don't you dare touch me, you piece of slime." Looking up, Mr. Three saw Carol growling at him like a wild animal over her prey. "Do it Frank. Now!"
Mr. Three's screams of pain were then muffled out by miniature explosions on the front side of his body. There was no blood but the burns and bruises were not pretty anyhow. "Mr. Five! Miss Wednesday! You dare to betray Baroque Works!? Betray me!?"
"Betray you? We were never working for you or with you, Mr. Three." Frank said with a cold tone, pointing his custom-made revolver at the poor sight in his partner's grasp. "We were just following orders. Captain's orders."
The atmosphere then became something silent and awkward, everyone just turned to Luffy. Even though he was dropped like a sack of potatoes, Mr. Three never lost his focus on the pirate captain either. "…Luffy? You did this…?" Nami spoke up, ironically being the last person to speak against Luffy in recent developments in their relationship. And everyone else had one thing to say about this too (exempting Frank and Carol).
"When you chase a rat, you have no luck since it is fast and cunning. Then it makes into its rat hole." Luffy said in an encrypted tone that kept everyone silent and kept every word they wanted to say, stuck in their throats. "You can wait at the hole for hours since the rat was the only thing that can fit into it. But the rat will know that you are there and refuse to come out. What do you do?" No one spoke. "You disappear and fool the rat into thinking that you gave up on it, only to pounce once it left the hole!"
That made perfect sense and all of a sudden, no one can be angry at Luffy anymore. On the bright side, Mr. Three has been captured and left at the mercy of two angry giants and no one got close to critical condition from the wax structure. Then there was one last thing to this case,
"Nami-swan! Vivi-SWAN! I am so glad that you are safe and looking so beautiful…!" Sanji, of course finally showed his face and stopped his perverted rant to see that every single living being suddenly grew to the size of titans as they stared down with demonic glowing eyes.
"Shut. Up." Even Mr. Three joined, so he could at least not listen to a blonde idiot while getting his punishment. Somehow, Sanji's voice made for a worse set of circumstances than anything a Giant can do when they're pissed off.
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"And now that the giants are having their go at Mr. Three and Miss Goldenweek…" Luffy turned over to a certain blonde cook. "Can you please let us know where the hell you been? I thought that I got everyone together against the agents from Baroque Works." Luffy shun the guilty light on Sanji and pretty soon, everyone in the crew turned with the same red glowing eyes from before.
"Yes Sanji. Where the hell had you been when we needed you?" Sanji could only laugh nervously at the sight and brace for any future pain to come. Later,
Luffy dropped the heavily bruised Sanji onto the ground in an unceremonious way. "Thank you for showing me the way to this house Sanji." Luffy spoke in a cold tone. "Now see to it that you will be able to drag yourself back to the King's Gourd. And don't count on anyone giving a hand. Not after your disgraceful behavior and…" Luffy then turned around slowly and made Sanji see the Devil staring him down, "After what you said to Nami. You are no gentleman, but a well-dressed pervert. Be thankful that we still need a cook Sanji."
The blonde cook could only whimper and drag his broken body back to the ship. And on the way, reflect on how he dared to compliment Nami when she had to lose her shirt. Saying such words to a girl who has been through hellfire, literally, and having her underwear showing was what only perverts will do. Now Nami will never even consider him to be a gentleman anymore; just a pervert and a ladies' man-slave.
Meanwhile, inside the wax house, Luffy saw that the house was still standing and there was another picnic basket. Looking inside, Luffy had found a Den-Den Mushi, a Transponder Snail used for purposes relatable to a phone or camera, with the number '0' painted on its shell. Then the Den-Den Mushi sprang to life with a ring. But Luffy knew just who was on the other side. "Hello, Mr. Zero." Luffy begun and had braced himself for a phone call that has his crew's life on the line.
End of Chapter 14.
*Here it is! The last update of August! I know that it is not my best work but I hope you still like it!*
