Disclaimer: I don't own One Piece.
"One Piece." – Speaking
'One Piece.' – Thinking
One Piece. – Flashbacks
One Piece. – Devil Fruits and Techniques
Deadly Drinking Pirate
The Transforming Reindeer, Tony Tony Chopper
Previously on Deadly Drunken Pirate,
"Chopper, don't hold back anymore! I know that you can better!" Luffy shouted out to the reindeer.
Then Chopper halted, just standing there like a sitting duck. "Ha!" Chessmarimo barfed through its pain. "You have finally realized that you stand not a chance against us! Prepare to die, monster! Dobikkuri Marimo, Quatro Axe (Super Surprise Marimo, Four Axes)!" Chessmarimo pulled out four twin-sided axes and charged for Chopper, weapons aimed for the kill.
But what happened next, will not be forgotten by any of the witnesses. Not when two of the axes were blocked, not doing any damage. "You call me a monster because I am not human." A voice soon was heard and it was somewhat like Chopper's, only more mature and deeper like a man's. "But compared to the other monsters of the Grand Line, I am actually normal. It is you who will be feared and hated, like the beasts you allowed yourselves to become." Everyone present were ranged from fully shocked to mild interest to see Chopper morph once again, but this form is nothing like the others; it was more like a combination, a nigh prefect being with all the power from Chopper's other forms.
"Meet another one of my strongest forms, the Master Point!"
Chopper was now as tall as his Jump Point, his legs & arms were shaggy with thick fur from the Guard Point and they were ripping with muscles from the Arm Point; his limbs had a bare spot at each knee and elbow. But the most distinguishing feature of this new form were his horns. They were much larger and thicker, and in the strangest shape ever; they rose from up top his head and then drooped down past his back, reaching his waist. They almost look like the blades of a sleigh or a sled.
Wapol and Chessmarimo only looked at Chopper's newest form for a second before starting to laugh. "Master Form!? Now you look more of a freak then ever! That is what happens when pathetic animals try their best to even be as grand as human beings are!"
"Then why don't any of you even look like humans? You two are as freaks as I am." Chopper retorted in a tone that was like of a teacher, a mentor and an experienced combat master; mature, deep and stoic. "And don't even try to break my spirit, it is already broken."
"Then why are fighting us!? Why are siding with humans!? We hate you so you should hate us! Go ahead, it will just get you killed!" Chessmarimo shouted in pure pride and internally was outraged when Chopper's expression didn't budge an inch.
"It will get you killed too. You are hated here, tyrants. Don't think that you can last any longer in the Grand Line with just each other. What happens when one of you falls, leaving the other to fend for themselves?" Chopper simply said. "I know all this because Luffy and the Doctrine saved my life. They saved many lives and they taught me how to do the same. They even taught me how to make friends, perhaps you could use some lessons yourself."
"Friends are just luggage that the strong have to carry! Why should we fight for an ungrateful kingdom! We run to survive so we can return and rule them but they try to kill us!?" Chessmarimo looked like it snapped, turned mad.
"Of course they want to kill you. You call yourself 'rightful rulers' until five pirates came. Five pirates forced you and all your power to flee instead of fight. You chose to act like rats on a sinking ship." Chopper argued back. "And do you see this island in more ruin then when you left it to its fate? The people were doing just fine without a ruler, they recovered without a leader, and they fought even without a general. You are neither, you are nothing to this island and its people. You are monsters, hated and unwanted. You are just like me."
"NO! SHUT UP!" Chessmarimo started to rant and rant as its subconscious fought with its pride and irrationality over the topic. "Take comfort that once you die, everyone on this island will die next!" Chessmarimo charged its four axes flailing around, as if rubber trees in a strong wind.
Chopper then raised one of his transformed, enhanced arm in a manner of readying a sword. When every single one of Chessmarimo's axes were inches above him, that arm suddenly turned charcoal black with a shine. And, just as swift, Chopper slashed at the axes and fused warrior itself. All four of the weapons were destroyed and Chessmarimo was sent back with a gash on its torso.
"Kill everyone? What about the tin tyrant right behind you? Are you going to kill him too?" Chopper smirked to see that the tables have turned. He was taunting his enemy this time and Chessmarimo was actually intimidated for once; and he should be since that fused creature is finally paying the prince for its empty threats and severe underestimating of the enemies it made today. "Too bad. And I was actually impressed to see you take in my Arm Point: Kokutei Roseo (Carving Hoof Cherry Blossom). Boulders and forests were never enough to do the same."
Chessmarimo was struggling to even keep standing with the gash stinging with the snowflakes touching the fresh wound and the cold wind licked past; only his anger that a 'puny reindeer freak' was pushing him around so easily. "But if you like that move, then you will love this one. Master Point…" Chopper suddenly blurred from simply walking over to the wounded Chessmarimo. A punch to the fist was soon to be felt, followed by a kick to the opposite side and then a jab to the chin. "Kokutei Haruichiban (Carving Hoof Spring's Storm)!"
Chopper moved around with the speed, dexterity and reflexes of a professional boxer and each of his punches were as strong as cannons & his kicks were like those of a martial artist. Once he was done, Chessmarimo was a mess. Covered in bruises and cuts, from Chopper's horns without a doubt, the only thing messier than Chessmarimo was the snowbank he was still standing on.
But when Chopper finished his combo, he halted and just stood still in front of his messed-up opponent. He said nothing, his friends behind him didn't say a word. But Wapol didn't even have an ounce of that patience shown. "Chessmarimo! What the hell are doing!? Waiting for more, kill them or I will!" But his fused warrior was still irresponsive as ever. "Move and kill them!" Wapol just tapped on Chessmarimo and caused it to land hard ahead on the snow! "Chessmarimo!"
"Good work Chopper. Did it like a real man and a real pirate." Wapol got out of his shock to see that Chopper was still in his Master Form but Luffy was by his side. "Now it is time that we finished this idiotic king. After all, what's stopping him from running again and eating his own men to transform into even more of a freak?"
XXXXX
Meanwhile,
"Will you hurry it up?!" Usopp shouted to a villager who was about to poop out, trying to drive a railcar filled to the brim with passengers up the highest of the Drum Rockies. "They should have placed more than one engine for these things!"
"Then you take over, anything better than complaining." Kuro grumbled until his sharp mind perked when he saw Usopp's excited smirk. "Wait. Never mind!" Kuro may have been out of action for a while but both he and the other Straw Hats knew that Usopp was a real prodigy and a natural in terms of speed and endurance during Luffy's rigorous training exercises. If Usopp was pedaling, the railcar will turn into a racecar for sure.
"Whatever." One strained voice ended that scene in an instant. And everyone turned to the only person onboard that can have such a broken tongue. "Thanks for all this, everyone." Dalton whispered out. Sure, that his wounds were properly sealed up and he was brought back from the edge of freezing to death, Dalton wasn't in prime shape; not even close. Who knows how much he can take before collapsing again.
Dalton's recovery in a hurry was possible by a positive development; he was treated by Wapol's former league of doctors that he tried to abandon in the wake of the avalanche before it 'mysteriously' disappeared, the Isshi-20. The Isshi-20 were the twenty most skilled doctors on Drum Island, whom Wapol took for himself in order to make his subjects dependent on him for their services.
They were met with hostility like the other soldiers from Wapol's ship but the Isshi-20 confessed that they only went along to help others behind Wapol's back. Now that the spoiled so-called king had discarded them, the Isshi-20 is now free to use their skills without fear anymore.
"Listen." Dalton got everyone off Memory Lane for the time being. "Once we get to the castle, do as you wish but leave Wapol to me. I failed to stop him in Bighorn but he has nowhere to run from the ruins of his castle. This time, I will not lose him. I will finish him and all this once and for all."
"And just how are going to do that?" Zoro grumbled. He sure wasn't the most patient passenger. But he soon regretted saying that when Dalton just pulled out a long roll of dynamite from under his coat! "Wait! You don't mean!?"
"I have learned this years ago and only realized back below, my friends. It is either that we both live or die. If Wapol is not going to get his stupidity cured than there is no reason for him or me to live." Dalton said all that with a straight face, with words of a madman!
The Straw Hats had no idea if they should try to talk him out of it or just let an honorable man take his fate like he is preparing for. Dalton is no coward and is willing to face his eventual death in order to spare his home of its greatest tyrant and traitor. At least everyone will no longer be abandoned to ruin and destruction.
XXXXX
Back in the castle,
"What the hell!?" Wapol was in disbelief once again. While he was able to use the snowfall and snow banks to hide from his enemies and later get past into the castle, he wasn't happy with its current state. "What happened to my beloved castle!? Why is there snow and ice everywhere!? Who is letting in the wind?!"
But Wapol soon forgotten about complaining when he saw one of the few doors that wasn't frozen over open slightly. And out of it was a certain orange haired girl that was supposed to be in bed; maybe it was that she didn't have a fever anymore and felt like moving around.
'I can't stand just sleeping around any longer. And with all the racket out there, I need to see what is going on.' Nami though to herself, not seeing Wapol a floor down from her. Until,
"Hey! Who are you!? And what are you doing in my castle!?" Nami heard that plenty and almost though to be Kureha. When she saw a short fat man with metal all over him, Nami tried to fool him.
"Nothing. I am just someone who was just checking out this castle and stay warm. I will now leave you and your castle so good day." The girl tried her best to look convincing and with a straight face while she was at it. Nami had hoped this will do the trick until she saw Wapol climb up to her level when she made only a couple of steps up the stairs.
"LIAR!" Wapol shouted and chased after Nami who cried that she hadn't gotten away with her intrusion like always. But the chase was short-lived, and fortunate for Nami since she used a stair right in the floor downwards. And when Wapol tried it, his grift had prevented him from even fitting!
"Arrgh…Maybe I had been missing exercise for a little bit…" That sure was an understatement and rather ignorant. "I guess that I have no choice…to eat myself!" Nami was horrified to see Wapol actually engulfed his whole body in his over-sized metal jaw. And turned into a hopping metal can, that still chased after Nami!
"Just what the hell are you, freak!?" Nami screamed. She didn't know what was scarier, a man eating himself or a tall tin can to be hopping after her. But then the can turned itself inside out.
"Behold my true self, without any excessive weight or bone!" That voice was Wapol's for sure but he sure looked different. "Surimuappu Waporu (Slim-Up Wapol)!" He was slim alright; he was even taller than Nami. His grit was gone and his entire body was not fat the least. "And now, come here!"
"No!" Nami was sure scared and tried to get back to fleeing but Wapol actually caught up, many times faster than before. But before Wapol could do anything to her, he was sent away with a mean kick of a sandal.
"Hands off Nami!" The navigator was relieved and happy to see her captain, her boyfriend, her hero saving her again. "I knew that you will want to get into the castle when you gave us the slip. But whatever, why are you out of bed? The cold air will make your fever return."
"I'm fine and I didn't want to be left out of the action." Nami said softly. "Just who is he?" Luffy sneered when Nami had to bring Wapol up.
"A nobody, a slippery one that is good at running away." Luffy answered and Nami hugged him in order to calm him down. But when his frown begun to flatline, the good mood was ruined when,
"Enough of the soap opera!" Wapol had recovered from that sucker punch (or kick) and pointed at a door that was at the base of the support pillar that held the staircase. "See that? That is the storeroom for every weapon in my kingdom's arsenal! Once I get in and eat every single one, I will become so strong that you won't beat me commoners!"
But Luffy knew that those were empty threats, and was right when Wapol realized that he couldn't open the door; it was locked and he no longer had the key to it. "…Want me to open it by caving in the door with your head?" Luffy did his own threatening and Wapol fled up the stairs. That was when Gin and Chopper finally appeared.
Nami recognized the former but not the latter, who was still in his Master Form. "Chopper, he is running to his 'ultimate weapon' which is instead a dead end. So, you are with me." Chopper nodded with Luffy turning to his crew. "Nami, this is an order, go back to bed. Gin, lock the doors and make sure she stays at least in that room."
"Right captain!" Gin was eager to follow Luffy's orders but had to wait for Nami's response. Then she gave it in a voice that only Luffy heard,
"…Yes dear…" Nami then walked back over to the patient room with Gin behind her, but she teased her boyfriend a bit by sticking around her chest and jingled something for him to see, with a grin on her face.
'What a naughty girl…I will have to punish her later…' Luffy smirked. "Let's go Chopper!" They both disappeared up the stairs in a blur.
XXXXX
Later,
"Ha!" Usopp shouted when he came out of the opening from the railcar, head first and with his rifle out. He then he scouted around, seeing nothing but snow and the castle. "Weird." He stated to himself. "Okay, all clear out here!"
"Then give us a hand! He is heavy!" Usopp sighed, Zoro just wasn't the type to give at least a 'thank you'. Usopp said nothing and helped both Zoro and Kuro move Dalton up to the base level of the castle. "Now where is this tin jerk?"
"On another island…!" The Straw Hats tensed and drew their weapon when the snow in front of them burst apart. "I think." Thankfully, it was just Luffy.
"Where did you fall from Luffy? Did we miss all the action?" Usopp asked and Luffy smirked.
"We made sure that Wapol won't be able to find his way back to this island again. You can take care of him." Luffy pointed to the beaten Chessmarimo, which hadn't budged an inch in all the while. "And don't ask, really guys." Thankfully no one did, no matter how tempting it was.
"…Is he really gone?" Dalton asked, desperately. He was feeling like his conscious was slipping when his body was relaxing; he could have sworn to hear that Wapol was off the island again.
"If you are going to hit me for stealing your thunder then go ahead." Luffy answered but Dalton just sighed in relief before finally falling to the ground, with a smile this time. "And sorry if you wanted more action, thanks for brining Dalton up here. We need someone like him to decide the next king."
"And everyone else up here?" Kuro asked and Luffy shrugged.
"Let's go and find out." Luffy led the way for the Straw Hats into the castle while the rest of the villagers dealt with both Dalton and the fused freaky warrior. Once inside, Kureha marched around like a mother with two misbehaving children hiding from their bath time. "Nami is out of her bed?"
"Oh kid." Kureha turned over with a scowl that intimidated the Straw Hats a little before noticing that her expression lifted a little to see their captain. "No, your girlfriend is where she belongs but she has the nerve to try and bargain her way out of her minimum rest time." Kureha grumbled and Luffy nodded,
"It is her style but the important thing is that she is in bed. But what about Gin and Sanji? Are they in treatment?" Luffy said and Kureha looked furious as before, thankfully not at the Straw Hats.
"I wish! Those boys are pussies compared to how you were! I just can't find them anywhere in the castle! And another thing-!" Kureha stopped her rant when she felt Luffy press on her shoulder.
"I will find Sanji, just tell me that he goes to the Machine Room. He deserves that much." Luffy remarked and when Kureha smirked like a sadist, he did the same and blurred down one of the halls.
"I should feel like I trained him too good but I am too proud to be that soft." Kureha muttered to herself and then turned to the Straw Hats; they were terrified as to what to do with the 'witch' without their captain to calm her down. "If you have time to stare than help me find that zombie boy so I can fucking treat him. Move it!"
"Yes Madam!"
XXXXX
That same evening, the castle was busy. And filled with moans and groans of pain.
That will be Sanji and Gin in the 'Machine Room' that was filled with torture machines that Kureha had improved to be used for patients that try to run out on their treatment, to make sure they can't run away anymore.
And while everyone was working on restocking their supplies for ailing, Nami was in a more pleasant and less painful treatment; sleeping in her bed. But she wasn't alone, she had Chopper keep her company. "Luffy came to this island years ago? That is how you two know each other? I thought that Luffy had spent all his life in the East Blue."
"He said, before he had to go, that Big Brother had to keep it a secret. Something about big trouble if it was found out too soon." Chopper replied, relaxing on his chair. "And that is all I know until I sensed Big Brother on his ship with a soul in pain. I knew that he was coming but it was sure great to see Big Brother again."
"So how exactly did it happen?" Nami asked and before Chopper could point out, "I am sorry for bring up bad memories but I wish to understand my captain and boyfriend a little more. Don't worry, I won't tell anyone else." Chopper was still silent and when Nami was about to change her mind, "Okay. Just this once." Nami listened in,
Flashback Begins!
It was around nine years ago,
{Why!?} A little reindeer cried and was screaming internally to see itself standing on two feet, with a child shaped head and its hind hoofs more like hands. {I thought that fruit was strange! Now I look more like a freak!} It was in a clearing and with a herd of reindeer nearby, that had looks of disgust and horror on their faces. There was a female reindeer slightly closer but backed off with a harsh look as well. {Mother…}
{No! Stay back monster! You are no child of mine!} That mother reindeer barked back with hostility. But the small creature still tried to approach its mother. {Keep away from me, freak! You killed my son and now you are a monster! You are not my son!}
{No mother! Don't leave me! Please!} The creature still cried out but was then launched back cruelly by the antlers of one of the male reindeer of the herd. {Oww!}
{We have tolerated your presence for far too long! We even allowed you to even follow us and eat with us! But all this so you can become a monster and kill us!?} This one was definitely the alpha male as the rest of the herd ganged up on the creature. {Kill it!}
The creature screamed and braced for more pain when instead, it felt the arms of a being without fur; or at least not natural fur. Looking up, the creature saw what it didn't recognize. He stood up too but didn't have any fur or hooves. The only 'fur' was on his head and it was black like the ravens that stare at the creature on some nights. Its fur was of other strange colors with something one its two feet. But the creature can see that this being was glaring at the herd while protecting him for some reason.
"I hear the sounds of a young animal in trouble and I guess that I was right. And with enough time to stop you from killing one of your own!" The being shouted at the herd in a strange language but somehow, the creature and the reindeer herd understand him anyways.
{Human, the ones that search and kill us for our fur as clothing and our antlers as trophies.} The Alpha barked and the creature now understood what this being was. But why did this, human, save him despite what the Alpha said? {If you are here for us then scram. You can't take us all out at once!}
"I didn't come to kill any of you. But I am especially angry at you, the Alpha and her!" The human then shouted and shocked the herd and the creature in his arms; it was like the human understood them! "So asleep to the rest of you!" The human then shouted and stared hard at the majority of the herd, that soon fell to the snow; they were knocked out and the human didn't even touch them!
{You humans are devils like I thought so!} The Alpha was angry that his herd was done in so easily and charged for the human. The creature screamed and tried to hide in the human's 'clothing' but still let one eye open to see what was going to happen. But instead of being attacked, the creature saw the Alpha sent to the ground by the human with only a stroke of his free arm.
"I haven't got much in terms of grudges against you, Alpha. So, I can't waste much time on you." The human sneered at the Alpha that could only lay down in pain with blood on his face; the creature was no stranger to the red liquid that come out of its cuts and sometimes, its busies. Speaking of whom, the creature was wondering where the human was walking to, taking him along. "It is you that I want."
The creature realized that this human not only saved him, knocked out the herd, defeated the Alpha so easily but also was going to stick up for it in the face of the mother reindeer that tried to run away from it. {I don't know how you can understand us human but you demons always side with each other! Just leave me be and take that monster with you!}
"I didn't ask you what you think of Chopper…" The creature and the mother reindeer wondered where that name came from but didn't have the chance to think on it, "But I am not leaving without giving you your punishment."
{Now you are acting like my judge!? You humans just love having all that power and arrogance to yourself! You don't know anything about me!} The mother reindeer shouted off, scaring the little creature; not that she noticed or cared.
"I know enough that you committed the worse sin a mother could do! You gave birth to your son but regret him for what? A blue nose?" The creature realized that in the short moments it had after eating that strange fruit, it forgot that it was its blue nose that caused a life time of neglect and loneliness. "So what? He is still your child and you wanted to kill him! I don't need to know more to punish you and if I don't then no one else will!" The creature gasped at that proclamation; the one that warmed its heart somehow.
{And what are you going to do? Kill me? Strip my fur off for your rug!? On your floor! You wall! Do your worst!} The mother reindeer was now mad with anger. And the creature was wondering why the human looked like he was going to enjoy the punishment, given the size of his smirk.
"Sure. Watch closely." The human then placed half of the small things on his hand, on the place above his eyes. Then came a voice that the creature or the mother reindeer will never forget. {Everyone that dwells and lives on the island and makes their home within its woods and snow, listen to what I have to share with you! A mother has tried to get a reindeer herd to kill her own reindeer son! I ask that you will understand how unforgivable the sin is and never accept her into your herds or homes. She will never be a mother again and will never find another mate for the rest of her life. Promise me this on behalf of this young one that had to suffer so!}
{…So be it, the one that can speak with the winds.} That was clear and loud like the blizzard's roars. The deed has been done and the creature will be spared; and its former mother will be alone until the day she falls dead.
The animal herself, the one that her home won't accept anymore, just sat there in the snow. All she ever saw was the human and her former son walk off down the base of the mountains. She will never see them again; her wish granted with a twist.
Meanwhile, the creature will be given the name Chopper for how his antlers looked like they can chop wood. And as for the human, he will be later called Monkey D. 'Straw Hat' 'Liber Glade' Luffy. Before they will depart, Luffy and Chopper will become sworn brothers with dreams and the determination to go for them. Chopper wants to be the best he could be, maybe even be a doctor.
Flashback Ends!
Once Chopper was done, Nami opened her arms; she didn't care if Chopper refused or not, he needed a hug. And he did see what Nami had in mind. Because he ran into her embrace, trying to avoid her bust and cried once he felt her smooth arms on her fur. It was a sad scene but it somehow made Nami fell like a mother or at least a big sister; with a little brother that is down on his luck and need support, something to cry on where hopefully no one will see.
Chopper never stopped crying but he when he heard Nami gasp, smell a certain lingering alcohol scent and felt rough but strong arms around his body, he really let the waterfalls out. Even with all the tears clouding his sight, Chopper saw the familiar hat and raven hair; there was no mistake to it. Chopper not only had his big brother holding him but a big sister as well. It was the second-best present that was given to the little reindeer who had to suffer much.
End of Chapter 19.
*What do you think? *
