Dagger woke up with a start. She looked around to see the three pirates looming over her, but no Zoro. The little ship was dock on the beach next to a larger ship with a clown cross and bones symbol on the flag.
"Not again…" Dagger wined as she looked at herself. She was bound with ropes. "What did you guys do to Zoro?"
"That pirate hunter's not very bright." The one with the beanie replied, "He left you here with us. He made us watch over you until you wake up. We can't put you near water too. He told us you can't swim."
The one with the black vest laughed, "What an imbecile. Stupidest pirate hunter I ever met."
"What are you planning to do with me?" Dagger asked sitting up.
"While you were sleeping, we decided we should take you to our captain. Now, up you go." The beanie pirate pulled her up. "You guys watch over that ship until I come back. We'll get that lass, aye we will."
Cooperating, Dagger didn't struggle or fight back. Besides, she was unarmed because the pirate had her belt. They walked into town as the pirate pushed her toward a large building with a tent on the roof.
The Buggy crew looked at the beanie pirate and his catch and parted a path for him to go to the captain.
"Captain Buggy," the beanie pirate shoved Dagger down and presented the belt to Buggy. Buggy sat in his chair in the shadow of the tent, "I have brought you a prisoner and her weapons."
Buggy looked up at him with a glare on his face. "Where are the other two?"
"Ummm, they're setting up our ship to go sail off to see again. We're close to… finding a large treasure." He lied.
"Alright, off with you," Buggy waved him away. He took this chance and ran incase Buggy changed his mind. Buggy stood up and walked up to Dagger's belt. "Hmmm, why would I want an ugly belt with two deformed daggers?"
Dagger glared at him but kept her mouth shut. He turned to her with his arms crossed, "Who are you?"
Her eye twitched, but she kept her cool. This was a pirate captain, and he had the upper hand, "Please return my belt."
"I asked you as question, now answer me." Buggy stepped on her back and shifted his weight on it.
She wheezed out, "Dagger."
"You're testing my patience. What's you name?" He left his foot to stop on her. Taking this chance to escape, Dagger rolled over to her belt and grabbed a dagger from its sheath. In one swift motion, she was up and free from her binds. She whipped the belt around her waist, secured it, and crouched down, ready to strike.
Buggy threw his head back and laughed. A crew member shouted, "The second one is ready Captain!" With a smirk, he replied, "Fire away."
Dagger turned her head to see a large cannon aimed directly at the town. Before she could stop the fuse, another shout was heard. Everyone turned to look over the ledge and saw an old man in wooden armor with a spear.
"Buggy the Clown! Come out!" He huffed, "I am Mayor Budor. In order to protect my precious town, I challenge you to a duel!"
Buggy laughed, "Are you an idiot? Only gold and jewels are precious. Your town is not. I'll kill you." Dagger's eyes widen when she saw Buggy's hand detached itself from his forearm and flew at the mayor and started choking him. "Ha ha ha! I'm going to the Grand Line and talking all the treasure, the real precious treasure not like your tacky old town!"
"Cut the bullshit!" The old man shouted, even under the force of Buggy's hand, "I won't let you destroy this town, even if it cost me my life!"
Buggy laughed, but gasped. The veins in his arm were pulsing. Down below, Luffy held his hand in his palm and was squeezing it. "The guy with the straw hat!" Dagger looked down with a wide grin. Luffy, Zoro and a girl was down there.
Luffy smiled, "As I promised, I came to kick you ass."
"Hey guys!" Dagger waved.
Luffy and Zoro looked up with surprised. "How did you get up there?" Luffy asked tilting his head.
"Because…" She glared and pointed at Zoro, "HE LEFT ME ALONE WITH PIRATES!" Zoro cursed to himself, inaudible to her ears.
The old man began talking to the three below as Dagger watched. Beside her, Buggy told his men to ready the cannon.
"Hey!" Dagger turned to look down. The old man was knocked out and sprawled on the ground. Luffy shouted, "Get away Dagger! I have a plan." Listening to him, Dagger jumped.
Zoro hollered, "What do you think you're doing!" He ran to catch her, but was too late. Dagger landed on the ground, safe and sound. She looked at Zoro, "Now you care."
"I always care. You're just stupid jumping down from, what, a four story building?"
She shrugged, "Anyway, let's get out of the way from what ever Luffy is planning." She took his arm and led him away from the building.
Luffy smirked. Dagger knew his plan, well almost. "Here I go." He stepped closer to Buggy, "BIG NOSE!"
Every one went into shock, but Dagger who didn't know what the big deal was.
Buggy's face became shadowed and grinded his teeth, "You're pissing me off, asshole! You dare call me that? FIRE THE BUGGY BOMB NOW!"
"Why did you go off and say that now! We're all done for!" The orange hair girl shouted as she ran away.
"Huh?" Dagger stood where she was, "What's the big deal? It's just a cannon ball."
"Not your regular one, Dagger," Zoro pulled her away to take cover, "It can destroy twenty houses at once. Believe me, I was there. The damn thing woke me from my sleep." She raised an eye brow, but decided the best thing was not to ask.
The cannon fired. "Gum gum BALLOON!" Luffy inhaled a deep breath of air and his body expanded into a sphere. The Buggy Bomb hit him straight in the stomach, but bounced off him and back at the pirate crew. The building was destroyed as it fell down into fragments.
"That's not twenty houses, Zoro." Dagger crossed her arms, not phased by the fact Luffy just became a large balloon, ricocheted the bomb back, and destroyed a whole building.
"Alright! Ha ha ha!" Luffy laughed, "It hit the enemy."
"What the hell were you thinking! You should've warned us first! No, what the hell are you?" The orange hair girl walked up to Luffy, "I knew when you fought that lion, you weren't normal! Now I'm sure you aren't."
"How dare you attack us with my own bomb?" Everyone turned to the ruins. Buggy stood there holding two of his crew in front of him as a shield.
From behind him, the beast tamer burst out of the ruins, "It's the guy with the straw hat! He has powers like you, captain! He's rubber man!"
"Huh?" The girl looked at Luffy who pulled on his checks wider than a normal human. "Ahh!" The girl flinched back.
"This is our greatest humiliation ever, captain." a man spoke as he lifted a lion up and dropped it like trash.
"Yes, I can't suppress my anger anymore, Cabaji."
The beast tamer ran beside the lion, "Cabaji, you bastard! What did you do to Ritchie!"
The man with long green hair shot the lion a glance and it cowered behind the crumbled building's wall. "I didn't want to get my clothes dirty so I used him as shield. Do you have any problems?"
"You bastard!" The beast tamer ran to hit Cabaji but he moved and kicked the poor tamer. He was sent flying at Luffy. "Move out of the way!"
"You… Move!" Luffy lifted his leg and round housed the tamer into the wall.
"Captain Buggy," Cabaji started.
"What is it?" Buggy looked back out of the corner of his eye.
"Please let me handle this."
Buggy grinned evilly, "Alright, go and show them your acrobatics." Cabaji smirked and jumped over Buggy to land on a unicycle. He announced himself to Luffy and the group, "I am the first mate, Cabaji the acrobat! Buggy's anger is transferred to me. Now, feel my wrath!" He rode straight for Luffy.
Dagger pushed him out of the way, but her right shoulder was grazed by the sword. The band of her top was cut. To her surprise, there was no blood but something else. Before anyone could see, she covered it with her left hand.
"Damn," Zoro ran between Dagger and Cabaji, "You're opponent is me since you use the sword."
"That seems fair, Roronoa Zoro… to fight you as a swordsman. I'll be your opponent." Cabaji eyed the sash around his waist.
"Hey Zoro, how about you let Dagger handle him," Luffy commented, "You should keep resting."
"Don't get in my way." Zoro snapped.
The girl commented after a few seconds into the fight when Cabaji kicked Zoro in his wound twice already, "It's a wonder why he's still alive. What are you doing?" She turned to Luffy, "He's going get killed!" She turned to Dagger, "What about you! I hope you have more sense than him."
"Annoying bastard… hitting my wound…" Zoro stood up as Cabaji charge at him. Zoro stood his ground when Cabaji slashed his wound.
Dagger watched as a smile appeared on her face; she still with her hand on her right shoulder. "Why didn't he dodge it?" The orange hair girl asked.
"Are you stratified now? I will show the difference between you and me." Luffy cheered as Zoro grabbed his white katana and placed it in his mouth. "My goal is to become the greatest swords man. I cannot let anything stop me. I will not be defeated in a fight, not even once. If I lose to a person like you with wound like this, I can't image what future I would have. "
"Do what you guys want. I can't watch this anymore. You pirate can just kill each other. See if I care. I'm going to get my treasure now. See ya."
"Wait," Dagger called after her. "Luffy, you can handle this right?"
"Yeah, go on. I'll keep things under control here." With a smiled, Dagger ran after the girl.
"Hey!" The girl stopped and turned back, "My name is Dagger, what's yours?"
"Nami." She replied with a smile, "Did you leave them too. I can't understand why you would want to be around them."
"Luffy promised me he would help me find my memory back. I follow him around so he can help me. But, he can't navigate. Are you our new navigator?"
"No, I'm a thief that steals from pirates. Want to help? I heard Buggy has a lot of treasure that can amount to 10 million beli."
Dagger's eyes widen, "Of course, but I need to find a new shirt first."
"No problem, let's go find one." Nami led Dagger into nearest house. "Hmm," She looked around and found a closet and pulled out a sleeveless top.
"Is there anything with long sleeves or anything like your shirt."
Nami turned around to see Dagger still clutching her shoulder, "What's wrong with your shoulder?" Dagger removed her hand to show a tan bandage loosing its stickiness. She ripped it off to show a tattoo. "It's pretty, why do you want to cover it? I think it's a 'Bird of Paridise' flower, am I correct?"
Dagger nodded, "I don't want anyone to know about it. If I coved it up a bandage, it must be something bad."
"Okay," Nami didn't ask anymore. She pulled out a dress. "This is the only thing in the closet with sleeves long enough to cover the tattoo."
"It's pink too…" Dagger looked at it distastefully, "But I'll wear it."
"We can go in another house if you want."
"What? You mean this isn't your home?"
"Of course not. I'm a thief." Nami smiled.
"I'll wear the dress than; this house looks like it belongs to a wealthy person. She won't miss the dress." Nami handed the cotton dress to Dagger and left the room. She laughed when she over heard Dagger complain, "I hate pink! Oh my god, this dress… never mind. Just live with it, Dagger. Just live with it."
Dagger came out with the dress on. It long sleeved to the wrist and the hem of the dress was just below her knees. It tampered at her waist and fanned out to the dress part. The neck line was a scoop shape that showed the collar bone.
"It doesn't look bad on you." Nami commented. "You look fine."
"As long I can move, I'm happy. The size it just right too."
Nami laughed, "Come on, we got to steal some treasures from Buggy."
"Yeah, lead the way," Dagger followed Nami while putting the belt through its loops. Nami led Dagger into a cellar, passed the sleeping pirate and stopped in front of a locked door. "Easy," Dagger took a dagger from her belt and sliced the lock. It fell apart in a like cutting butter.
"Nice daggers." Nami smiled, "Let's go in."
"It's pitch black in here," Dagger commented. Nami found a flint and a lantern and used the flint to light the lantern. It brightened the whole room.
Dagger and Nami stare in awe, "We hit the jackpot!"
"Yeah! Ha ha ha!" Nami grabbed a golden crown and put it on her head.
"What do you think you're doing!" She dropped it and turned around. There was the sleeping pirate, awake and aware, but drunk. Dagger moved her hand to get her dagger, but Nami held her hand out to stop her. Dagger moved into the shadow and watch Nami and her plan. "Uggh… Captain Buggy's orders, No one come near the treasure… Huh…?" He shook his wine bottle, "No more sake…"
"Oh it hurts!" Nami crouched down, "My chest, it's starting to hurt."
The pirate looked down at her and a blush came to his face and drool came out of his mouth. Nami too this chance to grabbed her assemble her staff and whack him on the head. He fell backwards as Dagger walked out.
"Nice."
"Too easy," Nami winked at her, "Now, I'll teach you which are worth more beli than others. We can separate them into a few bags." Nami started bringing out the treasure from the piles and showed Dagger which was which.
Dagger moved over the fallen pirate and noticed a golden key on his necklace. She took it and showed it to Nami, "Where do you suppose this key goes?"
"Ah, the key. It goes to this chest." Nami took the key and opened the lock. Inside the chest was a map, "The map to the Grand Line!" Nami opened it with a smile.
"Okay, did we pack everything?" Dagger asked.
"Everything else is worthless, just take these three bags."
"It's so heavy! How much beli do you think?"
"These two are about 5 million beli and this one is about 2 thousand. Let's go!" Nami laughed as she carried the 5 mil and the 2k. Dagger watched her run out with a wide smile on her face and lifted the other 5 mil bag.
Nami was already out when Dagger reached the cellar. Once Dagger was also out, she saw Nami running away from the floating top half of Buggy. Dagger dropped the bag and dashed over to Nami. She stopped Buggy in his tracks… umm… in mid air. A smile crept onto her face.
Buggy howled in pain and fell onto the ground. Nami turned to see Luffy and the bottom half of Buggy. "My… my… balls…" Tears ran down his face.
"Hey," Luffy pointed to Nami, "Leave the treasure and run or he'll come after you again."
"NEVER. Are you crazy! This is my treasure!"
"What?" Buggy raised his head and floated up, "Your treasure? I think not. Body parts Festival!" Everyone flinched back when they saw Buggy break down into smaller pieces. "Ha ha ha! You can't hurt me now!" He started after Nami. Dagger chased after him.
Luffy tilted his head and watched Buggy's feet walk pass him. A smile crept on his face when he grabbed a foot and pulled it out of the show to start its torture. Buggy's face changed every time Luffy abused his foot. "STOP THAT!" He managed to get out. Dagger ran into him because he stopped. She fell backwards on her buttock.
"The one that should stop it is YOU!" Nami swung the bag at him but he caught it.
"You've returned my treasure back to me," Buggy smirked.
"Let go!" Nami struggled with his hands.
"Let go? You should ask my body then! You're the one that should let go." Nami was still struggling when Buggy let go and charged his floating hands at Nami. "DIE!"
Luffy ran up to him, "Didn't I tell you, I'm your opponent!" He kicked Buggy from behind and into Nami's treasure bag sending him flying to the wall. All the body parts fell to the ground limp as Buggy still fazed from the blow.
Dagger got up and dusted herself off before walking beside Luffy. He smiled, "You can that kick as a gift from the mayor."
"Thank you for saving me." Nami said when she recovered from the shock.
"Ah, no problem." He turned back to Buggy, "Oh, yeah. The map!"
"I have it…" Nami started but stopped when Buggy's head floated up. "Ahh!"
"It's not over yet, rubber man!"
Luffy and Dagger said in unison, "Eh? He's still alive."
"SHUT UP! How dare you inflict so much pain on me! I won't forget about this!" Buggy was riled up, "Reassemble! Body Parts!" Dagger burst out laughing at the sight of Buggy.
"Are you looking for these?" Nami shouted as she stood over lassoed body parts. Buggy only had his hands, feet, and head.
"My BODY PARTS!" he shouted.
Luffy joined in with Dagger's laughter and smirked at Buggy. He stretched his arms back behind him, "Gum Gum BAZOOKA!" He pushed Buggy away, far far away. "I win!" He threw up his arms in victory.
"Good job." Dagger congratulated him still laughing, but stopped when he walked up to his straw hat. The hat was torn, "Oh, Luffy…"
Nami said from behind them, with the two treasure bags, "Your straw hat is torn up."
"It's alright. I can still wear it." He replied, hiding his despair, "I'm not angry anymore since Buggy is defeated."
"Don't worry… I'll help you patch it up later." Nami said in a low whisper.
"Eh? What?"
"Nothing at all" Nami replied so he could hear. Dagger smiled. She heard what Nami said the first time. "Dagger, help me carry one!"
"Coming!" She replied. Dagger took a bag from Nami who pulled out a map and handed it to Luffy.
"Here, you take it. It's the map to the Grand Line. You wanted it right?"
"You're giving it to me?"
"You did save my life, consider it payment."
"Alright! Thank you Nami! He he he. I finally got a map to the Grand Line! Eh, does that mean you're joining us?"
"Didn't I tell you I don't want to be a pirate and its payment for saving my life? Oh, but it's okay, being with you guys will earn me lots of money! Ha ha ha! However, I'm only working with you, remember that."
Luffy smiled before walking over to Zoro. Dagger jumped in fright and dashed over to him. "Hey, Zoro!" Luffy knelt down and patted him on the head, "Zoro! Zoro, let's go."
"It's the fight over already?" He asked.
"Yup! The map and a navigator, I got them all."
"Yeah, how can you sleep like that?" Zoro looked up at Dagger. He rubbed his eyes and stared at her.
He burst into laugher, "HA HA HA! LOOK AT YOU! Where did you get that dress! It looks hideous!"
Dagger growled and smacked him beside the head, "Shut up! I'm not helping you with that wound. Get Nami to do it."
"Huh?" He turned his head to Nami, "Oh."
"Oh crap, I think I'm going to faint." Zoro moaned, "I can't move either."
"I didn't HIT you that HARD!" Dagger bellowed.
Nami shouted, "Of course you can't move! If you could move, you guys wouldn't be human! Dagger doesn't count."
Luffy turned his head to her. "Than, why am I included?"
"YOU are the strangest of them all! Any way we should check on the Mayor."
"Oh yeah, we should wake the old man as well."
But before they could see to him, a voice shouted, "Hey there! You're not from around here, are you?"
"Yeah," Luffy replied, "…and you?"
"We're the townspeople. What happened to the pirates? If you know anything, please tell us."
Nami let out a sigh of relief, "Oh, you're the town residents. I thought you were more enemies."
One of the townspeople shouted "AHHH! The MAYOR! WHAT HAPPEDNED?"
"He fainted!"
"The pirates must have done this!"
"Oh," Luffy looked at them, "Sorry. I had to knock him out."
"WHAT!" Nami shouted, "You didn't have to tell them."
Dagger and Zoro looked at each other with a sigh, "Here we go again…"
"Well, you saw it." Luffy turned his head toward her.
"You still didn't have to tell them…" She backed away from the bloodlust residents.
"Why did you harm our mayor? No excuses! Who are you people? Are you connected to those pirates?"
Dagger helped Zoro up, "I bet you 10 beli, he's going to say it."
"No bet." He replied with a laugh, "Knowing him, he will."
As if on cue, Luffy replied, "We're pirates." Nami slowly fell over.
"WE THOUGH SO!" The townspeople shouted in unison.
"BAKA!" Nami shouted at Luffy.
He defended himself, "But, it's the truth." Dagger walked up to him with Zoro. She let him talk to Luffy.
Zoro said to him, "What now? They won't listen to anything anymore."
Luffy just grin and dash away, "RUNNN!"
The chase was on. Nami and Dagger followed Luffy. "Don't let them escape! How dare they harm our mayor!"
"Why do you always speak without using your brain?" Nami shouted, "Dagger, did you know this?" She nodded.
"This is a good town," Luffy started, "For the sake of their mayor; everyone's doing their best to fight. No matter what excuse we come up with, they'll still be just as angry. Hey, turn here."
"Eh?" Nami ran passed the alley. She back tracked and ran after Luffy. When she did, she noticed a dog sitting in the middle.
"THANKS DOGGIE!" Luffy laughed when he heard the dog bark and refused to let the townspeople in.
Without the townspeople chasing them, they reached the shore safely. Dagger placed the bag down next to Nami and went beside Luffy to look at the boat.
Luffy commented, "Hey, is this your ship? NICE!"
"Not really, I don't think so. I stole it from a bunch of stupid pirates."
"How dare you say that!" Three pirates jump out of the ship. "We've been waiting for you, thief."
"We knew we would meet again on this beach."
"You know them?" Luffy asked with a grin.
"Yeah, a little." Nami cautiously replied.
"Actually," Dagger walked up from behind Luffy to meet the pirates. "We go back a long way. Right Zoro?"
Zoro lifted his head and growled, "It's them."
"AHHH! RORONOA ZORO! We're sorry!" They fell to their knees. "We didn't mean to tied up your friend and give her to Buggy."
"You WHAT?" He stood up.
"I'll handle them," Dagger held out her arm in front of him. Zoro shrugged. Dagger approached the three pirates but didn't have a chance to do anything because they ran helter-skelter away. She laughed at them before helping Zoro into their ship and avoided touching his wound. Luffy helped Nami with the treasure.
"Let's go!" Luffy shouted happily. As they sailed off, Zoro looked at Nami's ship, "Your ship still flies Buggy's flag."
"Because it was their ship, I'll take it down later."
"HEY WAIT!" The four of them turned to the shore. The Mayor was there. "You brats!" There was a pause before he shouted again, "Thank you! I'll repay you someday!"
"Don't worry about it," Luffy shouted.
Dagger waved, "Take it easy, old man!" She sat back down and looked around, "Hey, Nami, where's the other treasure bag?"
"What?" Nami looked around, "Didn't you have it?"
"I was helping Zoro in the ship."
"Oh, I left it on the beach." Luffy proudly said. Dagger and Nami turned to him.
"What did you say?"
"You left the treasure bag behind! Just one is worth 5 million beli!"
"But, if they were to rebuild the town, they will need money." Luffy defended himself.
"But it was MY treasure! Do you know how hard it was for me to steal it?" Nami grabbed onto Luffy's hat and pushed him down in the water. "Why did you have to do that!"
He pleaded, "Stop it… I can't swim!"
"That's why I'm doing this!"
Dagger and Zoro sat back and watched the show. "Well, for better or for worse. Just like that, we added a Navigator." Zoro looked at Nami.
Dagger elbowed him with a smiled and said, "A pretty one too."
"WHAT!" Zoro grabbed the end Dagger's ponytail, "DO YOU WANT TO DROWN TOO?"
"AHHH!" Dagger grabbed her ponytail preventing him from pulling it, "I'm going to cut this soon, if people continue to pull on it!"
Zoro released it, "Nah, don't. It looks nice." She looked at him as she backed away to sit across from him. "But that dress is HIDEOUS! Why are you wearing it?" He burst into laugher.
"Shut up! My top was torn! I had to get new clothes. You perverted swordsman!" Nami and Luffy stopped and looked over to Zoro. They shook their heads. Dagger laughed at him.
I had a writer's block on how to execute this chapter and what perspective.
Thanks for reviewing: AnimeFanGirl: It's not going to be a very big love triangle that would span on for many chapters. I'll just throw in comments. Any way, just don't worry. Monkeycatcher-Spike1, Son of Monkey D. Luffy, gothywolfie, i-dun-did-it, and Omegadramon: Maybe I'll add Chopper and Nico Robin in, but I don't think so. I don't want to make this story too long.