Chapter 11: Wanted
In a random Marine HQ…
A Marine is working at the front table when the Phone Snail rings, so he picks it up. "Hello? Oh, it's you, Captain Smoker. You mean there's a new pirate on the loose and he deserves a bounty? Okay, what has he done? What! You're serious! Do you have a picture of him? Great! Now send it over via fax and we'll take care of everything. And lastly, how much do you want his head to be?"
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A few days later…
"Seriously… We're not making any progress!" complains Horohoro. "We've been sailing around for days and haven't seen anything that can bring us home at all! There's nothing here that can keep us entertained! It was more fun on Luffy's ship than being all alone here!"
"Do you want to stay with those lowly pirates forever until you're old?" Ren asks him.
"I mean we could've just stayed with them until we met a whirly pool or whatever instead of sailing by ourselves in an unknown world! We have no idea what time it is either!"
"Do you mean that you dislike my wonderful plan?"
"Your plans never work any way!"
"Because you always mess up everything!"
"You're attacking the person! Argument fallacy!"
"The banana is flying!" shouts Chocolove for no reason.
"WOULD YOU SHUT UP?" the two shouts at Chocolove.
Anna smacks them two on the head and knocks them out, "You're the ones who should shut up."
Jun is buying a newspaper from a newspaper-selling albatross. She sits down on a chair to read it, and when she opens it, a piece of paper slips out. "What's this?" she asks as she picks the paper up from the floor.
Yoh is on the other side of the ship, staring into the sea while listening to his MP3 when suddenly Jun screams out loud, "YOH! EVERYBODY! YOU MUST SEE THIS!"
Everyone quickly runs to Jun and asks her what happened. She shows them the paper, and after seeing its contents, a shocked face appears on everyone. "WHAT!"
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On Buggy's ship…
Buggy is sitting on his personal seat, bored out and nothing to do. "What a rotten day… Not only did I didn't get my chance to kill that rubber boy, but I even loss to some unknown kids…"
"Oh, Luffy… Where are you? I want to see you again," says Alvida, who is sitting on a sofa next to Buggy's.
Suddenly, the door opens and Mohji comes running in with a paper in his hand. "Captain, you have to see this!"
"What's the rush?" asks Buggy, and he takes the paper from Mohji and reads it, along with Alvida. "WHAT!" screams Buggy. "Higher than mines!"
"Incredible for a kid like this!" says Alvida. "And I have to admit it, he looks quite handsome."
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A paper has been posted onto the bulletin board of Mayor Doodad's village, and everyone is discussing it. "That boy…" Doodad says to no one in particular. "What kind of power do you have to deserve this?"
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Aokiji is riding his bike across a frozen sea, and in his hand is a paper. "This boy… I never thought he would be dangerous…"
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On the Going Merry…
Luffy is lying on the side of the ship. "I'm bored… I miss Yoh and his friends…"
"Me too…" says Chopper, who is lying next to Luffy.
"I miss Jun…" says Sanji, with tears in his eyes. "And Anna was pretty good-looking too."
Nami just bought a newspaper, and she finds a paper inside that immediately caught her attention. "Everyone! Come see this!" So they all come over to Nami and see the paper in her hand.
"Whoa! It's Yoh!" exclaims Luffy. "He's got a bounty!"
"Is this serious! Higher than mines!" gasps Zoro.
"If he can have it, then I should have one too!" says Usopp.
"Really!" gasps Chopper upon hearing Usopp.
"Wow! This kid is more than what we think!" remarks Sanji.
"I wonder what he has done to deserve an amount like this?" wonders Robin.
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Back on the shaman's ship…
"Yoh… You're in trouble…" says Manta.
"Yoh became famous? I should be the one to become famous!" protests Horo.
"I should be the one! I'm a funny person and I deserve more than him!" says Chocolove.
"This isn't something to be proud of!" Ren tells them. "Having a bounty means your life is in danger!"
"You're the best, Master Yoh!" Ryu says to Yoh, kneeling in front of him. "I have always admired your strength, and now the whole world has acknowledged it!"
"Did you not hear me saying it's not something to be proud of!"
"Well, I'm famous!" says Yoh with a smile.
"Argh! Just die if you want to!"
"So from now on, we have to be aware of sailing around. Marines can appear anytime," says Anna.
This is what is shown on the wanted poster: It has a picture of Yoh with his trademark smile, and below it are the words written:
YOH ASAKURA
WANTED
70 MILLION BELLIES
DEAD OR ALIVE
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Back on the Going Merry, everyone is having lunch. Nami is still looking at the wanted poster. "It's incredible that he got a higher bounty than Zoro's!"
"Of course, that swordsman isn't all that good anyway," says Sanji.
"What did you say!" Zoro shouts at him.
Luffy takes the poster from Nami and looks at it while eating his food, "I hope to meet him again soon!"
"Can I see it?"
"Sure!" Luffy hands it to a person sitting next to him.
"Pretty interesting… I never knew he would do evil stuff. He's like me after all!"
"Hey! Who are you?" Nami says to the person sitting next to Luffy. Zoro gets ready to take out his sword in case that person is an enemy and Usopp has his slingshot ready.
The person got up and says, "Did I come in here without knocking? Sorry about that."
"Answer my question! And why did you come in here without permission? And how?"
"A lot of question to answer… Which should I answer first? Well, to begin, I just came here not long ago, because I wanted to rest a bit. And regarding the question who I am… Just call me… Hao."
"And how did you get here?"
"Well, I just came here without an explanation."
"And what do you want here?"
"Nah, just walking around."
"Then get out of here!"
"You got a pretty loud mouth, lady."
"How dare you!"
"Don't you dare hurt Nami's feeling!" Sanji says to him. "You are a random boy who came here and we don't know who you are!"
"I told you my name is Hao."
"And we don't know any Hao!"
"Hey! It just came to me, you look like Yoh!" points out Luffy.
"He sure does look like him, but with longer hair," says Usopp. "Are you two related?"
"You can say that," replies Hao.
"So you're a nice guy too, right?" Luffy asks him.
"It depends on what kind of person. I have no interest in people without shamanic abilities."
"I'm not a shaman, but I can see ghosts and spirits!"
"That reminds me of a short kid that made friends with Yoh. Gee, what's the point of making friends with someone who's not a shaman?"
"I'm Yoh's friend too!"
"You are? Man, why does he have to make friends with these kinds of people? Normal humans are weak!"
"Are you calling me weak?" Zoro asks him.
"Of course you are! You're no shaman."
"You better not fool around with us, kid," Sanji tells him. "Things are not what you always think."
"Right! I can send you flying with a punch!" says Luffy.
"Go on and try!" says Hao.
"Really? Can I? Gum Gum Pistol!" Luffy stretches his hand forward to punch Hao, but a large red hand appears out of thin air and blocks the blow! "What!"
"See? I told you!" says Hao. "You're weak!"
"Darn it! Gum Gum Bullet!" Luffy throws another punch at him, but a red hand appears and blocks the fist again. "Again!"
"Luffy! What are you doing? Why don't you just hit him?" Nami asks him.
"A hand appeared out of nowhere and blocked my fist!" Luffy tells her.
"What hand? I don't see any hand when you strike."
"I see it," says Robin. "A ghostly hand appeared and grabbed Luffy's fist."
"Really!"
"So some of you can see the Spirit of Fire and some cannot," says Hao. "But you all are still weaklings because you're no shamans."
"Don't underestimate us!" says Zoro, who is now angrily. He takes out his sword and tries to slash Hao, but an unknown force stops his sword from reaching Hao and then pushes him back. Sanji jumps forward to kick him, but he, too, got pushed back by an unknown force.
"What was that!" gasps Usopp. "Does he have telekinesis?"
"No! I saw a red hand pushing Zoro and Sanji away!" says Luffy.
Hao begins to walk out the room. "Okay, I have to go now. There's nothing special worth doing here."
"You, stop!" Luffy shouts at him.
"What do you want?"
"I'll prove to you that I'm not weak!"
"Again…"
Luffy runs towards him with his arms stretched all the way back, and Hao sees it. "Ooo… You got some special tricks with you, eh? But you're still not a shaman." He stretches out one hand and fire shoots out at Luffy.
"AHHH! FIRE!"
Luffy runs around like mad and then jumps into the sea without thinking. "He's gonna drown himself!" shouts Usopp. "Somebody save him!" So Sanji quickly jumps into the sea to rescue Luffy.
"All right, enough madness. I want to leave now, can I?"
"Nobody said you can't leave!" Nami shouts at him angrily.
And then Hao disappears in a burst of flame. "How does… he do that…?" asks Chopper.
Sanji drags Luffy back onto the ship. "Next time think before doing things," Sanji says to him.
Luffy looks up and says in an angry tone, "Hao… I won't forget you!"
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"I see an island up ahead!" shouts Pai-Long, standing on the crow's nest.
"Yay! Another island! Just when we're running out of food stock!" says Horo.
"The ouija board said we will meet someone in need on that island," says Tamao.
"Helping is good. So why don't we go?" says Lyserg.
So they sail their ship to that island and drops anchor. Yoh tells Amidamaru to fly into the sky and see how the island is like, and the ghost samurai follows as told. After a while, he flies back down and reports, "Master Yoh, this island is perfectly round, and isn't a very large island either. This island is only plain land, as I see very few trees and not a single hill whatsoever. I see some sort of a farmyard in the middle of the island."
"Good, let's go and check it out!"
Yoh, Anna, Manta, Horohoro, Pirika, and Chocolove left the ship and explore the island while the others remain on the ship to guard it.
As they walk through the island, they see lots of weird stuffs. "Is that a bear…?" asks Pirika, pointing to a really fat and round bear.
"It looks like… But are bears that fat?" asks Horo.
"Maybe it ate a balloon!" says Chocolove jokingly.
"Hey! Look at this apple! It's really big!" says Yoh, holding up an apple as big as a soccer ball.
"The trees here as fat too," say Anna, looking at the trees around them.
"Oh look! A big fat bird is flying gracefully in the sky!" says Pirika, pointing to the air.
"That giraffe has a really round neck instead of a long one!" says Chocolove.
"What is this island…? It could use a biologist," says Manta.
They continue on their way, meeting lots of round and fat creatures, and they eventually came to the farm. Yoh walks up to the door and knocks, "Is anyone home?" But there is no reply. "Nobody's home?"
"Look at those fat and cute chickens! It's so funny to see them roll around like bowling balls!" says Pirika, looking at the sight of round chickens playing around in their pen.
"Those fat pigs look really juicy!" says Horo.
"Do you know what I'm thinking?" asks Chocolove. "If everything here is round and fat, can the people living here be like this too?"
Manta imagines a really round and fat person. "Uh… I can't imagine it."
"Hey look what's down here!" shouts the voice of Anna. They run to her and see her looking down a pit. "There's horse down there!"
Sure enough, there is a fat and round horse down in the pit, which is about 7 meters deep. The horse seems to be stuck inside and is neighing sadly. "The horse is stuck! Poor horse," says Pirika with a pity voice.
"Should we help him?" asks Manta.
"How? Who can lift up a fat horse stuck in a hole?" asks Horo.
"Still, we cannot just leave this poor horse down there," says Yoh. "We must think of something."
"Then how?"
"Hmmm… Suppose we make the hole larger?"
"Yeah, how?"
"Let's find a shovel!"
"It's gonna take forever to dig!"
"Then let's flood the pit and the horse can swim up! Horses can swim, right?"
"And where do we get the water?"
While they are saying this, Pirika places a dial shell onto a tree stump, and then she picks up a hammer that is lying next to it and, with all her might, pounds the hammer against the shell.
"What are you doing, Pirika?" Horo asks her.
"I'm trying to power up the impact dial," she replies. "Usopp said the more times you hit it, the more powerful impact it'll deliver. I'm thinking of using it to blast a tunnel for the horse to climb up."
"Is that gonna work?"
"Sure it will! Now hurry up and hammer it as hard as you can!"
So Horo takes the hammer from her and starts hammering the shell. After about 20 hits, Pirika stops him and takes the shell. Horo is panting heavily because it was so tiring doing that. "That was… so heavy… How did she lift the hammer with ease earlier…?"
Pirika puts the shell on the side of the pit. "Are you sure it's going to work?" Anna asks her.
"We'll have to see. I hope brother gave it enough fire power." Pirika then presses the button on top of the shell. All of sudden, the ground below the shell blasts into pieces, sending them all flying backwards. "Wow! So much power!"
The blast cleared off a large chunk of ground next to the pit, and the horse is able to lift its legs out of the pit and then climb up onto the land, where it neighs happily and gallops around. At this moment, an old man about 60 appears and is surprised to see the horse. "Wha…? How did you get out of there, Peggy?"
"The horse is yours, mister?" Yoh asks him.
"Yes, she's my horse. She fell into that pit and was stuck there for 5 years."
"FIVE YEARS!" exclaims Horo. "How did she survive!"
"I came to feed her everyday. But now… she's out…"
"We rescued her!" Pirika tells him.
The old man begins to cry tears of happiness, so does Peggy. They both run towards each other and the old man embraces her and weeps with joy. "Peggy! I'm so glad you're out of the pit! How I miss you very much!" Peggy, too, cries with joy and neighs happily.
"Such a great thing… Can you imagine being able to be with each other for so long after being stuck in a pit for 5 years?" says Pirika, who is also crying with joy.
"Well, so we indeed met a man in need! Or rather, a horse in need!" says Chocolove.
"Thank you so much for rescuing Peggy!" says the old man. "My name is Genji. Please come to my house and I'll treat you!" So the shamans went to his house to be treated.
"Why is everything in this island round and fat?" Manta asks Genji.
"It's because of the plain lands," replies Genji. "As you can see, this island consists of only flat area, and because it is flat, animals like to roll around for fun. As a result, they rolled until their bodies became round and flat."
"That's not a really accurate reason, isn't it…?" says Chocolove.
"And do you live here alone?" asks Pirika.
"Not always," answers Genji. "Sometimes my relatives, who live on other islands not far from here, would come visit me, or I go visit them."
"This pork tastes great!" says Horo with a mouthful of food. "The best I've ever tasted!"
"Of course it has to be good! They are special fat pigs who roll around everyday in the mud to build up their muscles!"
So they sat and chatted with each other for a while, until Manta took notice of the time. "I think we forgot about the others. Should we go back now?"
"Oh yes! We forgot about our friends!" says Yoh. "We better go back."
"Why don't you all live at my house for a day?" insists Genji. "You can refresh yourselves and leave tomorrow!"
"That's a good idea!" says Horo. "Let's go tell the others first!"
They exit the house and Genji immediately goes to his horse Peggy. "Peggy, remember the time I rode on you and we ran around the plains and had fun?" Genji says to Peggy. "That was 5 years ago, now do you want me to ride you again?" The horse nods happily, so Genji got on top of her and she gallops around the field, with Genji shouting happily on top.
"So great… Reuniting after a long time of separation," says Pirika. "What can be happier?"
"Just see how happy he is!" says Yoh.
"And see how fast that horse can run with a body that fat," says Anna.
As Peggy is running around happily, a bullet whizzes out of a bush and hits her in the leg. Peggy neighs in pain and collapse onto the ground. "PEGGY!" screams Genji. "What happened to you!"
The shamans quickly run up to her. "She's been shot in the leg!" says Chocolove, looking at the wound on her leg. "But I guess there's no fatal wound, seeing that it only cut through the skin a bit."
Yoh angrily turns toward the bush where the bullet came out from and shouts, "I know you're hiding there! Come out at once!"
A man with a hairstyle that looks like two horns sticking up, a girl with bluish hair, and a large gorilla step out from behind the bush. "Don't be too angry, kid," says the man. "I was just hunting!"
"Hunting? How can you attack somebody's horse!" says Yoh angrily.
"I have my right to hunt whatever I want! Don't you know who I am?"
"How would I know who you are?"
"And what ugly hairstyle." adds Anna.
Upon hearing this, the man is struck with grief and he kneels down onto the ground and begins to cry. "That boy doesn't know me… And that girl said my hairstyle is ugly… Boo hoo…"
The girl quickly comforts her, "Don't cry, captain! You are the best!" Then she turns to the shamans angrily. "How dare you lowly brats make fun of our captain!" The gorilla begins to laugh, and the girl tells him not to laugh.
"Anyway, I'll tell you who I am," says the man, who is back to his normal expression. "I am Foxy the Silver Fox, a great pirate of 24 million bellies!"
"I want you to pay for what you have done!" Yoh shouts at him.
"I'm not done talking yet! And I know who you are, Yoh Asakura!" Foxy takes out a wanted poster and shows them. "You see? This is you! Your head is worth 70 million bellies! That's a lot for a young kid like you!"
"So what?"
"I have decided to challenge you to the game of... Davy Back Fight!"
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Meanwhile at the shore, a gigantic pirate ship with the head of a fox has trapped the shaman's ship in between two large chains. "What is this!" gasps Jun.
"What do you guys want?" Ryu shouts at the people on the large ship.
"If you want to fight, then come down!" Ren shouts at them.
"Calm down! We're not here to fight; but rather, play Davy Back Fight with you!" says a pirate on the ship.
"Davy Back Fight?" say the shamans in unison curiously.
"Our captain is now on the island, talking with your captain, Yoh, about it! It's up to your captain to decide if he wants to participate in it!"
TO BE CONTINUED…
Genji and Peggy are my own OC, but they are loosely based off Tonjit and Shelly from OP. And you guessed it; the shamans are going to participate in Davy Back Fight! Happy waiting and give me good, detailed reviews! And I'll eventually explain how Hao (it rhymes!) got into this world. He won't be appearing again until the DBF stuff is over, which may take quite a few chapters.