Everything was silent, the only sound was the waves splashing against both boats as the chefs of the Baratie, along with Luffy and Lambo, stood in front of the restaurant, ready to defend it with their lives. While several feet across the water, standing on the floating wreckage of their flag ship stood Don Creed and his crew, ready to attack at any moment.
Lambo could feel his adrenaline begin to fill his body, his Dying Will Flames begged to be released. But he pushed them down, they'd be great as a surprise attack later on if needed. But for now, Lambo wanted to try a different strategy.
"Alright! So they want to fight too huh?", Luffy exclaims as he hung upside down on the railing, a hand on his hat to keep it from falling into the sea.
Lambo just smiled at his captain's antics.
"Looks like it.", he agreed.
Luffy sat upright, clutching on to the railing so he could stay firmly in place, smile unwavering as he faced Zeff.
"Okay pops, you promise me, remember?", Luffy said casually, his grin never leaving, "If I run those pirates off, my debt to you is clear. No more chores."
"That's the deal.", Zeff agreed, "There's no telling how much of my restaurant you'd screw up if you sticked around."
Well... he wasn't wrong. Luffy did wrecked a little of Going Merry when he fought Johnny just days after getting her.
"Shishishi, yeah.", Luffy smiled agreeing.
At least Luffy seems to know it too. Lambo sweat dropped at Luffy's bluntness, but still shook his head with a small amused smile.
It wouldn't be Luffy otherwise.
"So kid, you said you were going to be King of the Pirates, were you serious?", Zeff asks curiously.
"Well yeah, of course.", Luffy replied, as if how could he not be, "I'm definitely going to be King of the Pirates someday."
Zeff smirked, "I've seen a whole lot of pirates in my day, but you're the first to state your desire so clearly and without a doubt."
"I heard, that back in the day, you were a pretty awesome pirate yourself.", Luffy said casually, "So did you want to be King of the Pirates to?"
Zeff hummed gruffly, "I do my best to forget about the past, I'm the owner of Baratie and that is quite enough for me."
Lambo stared at Zeff before his eyes trailed over to Sanji who had his back turned to them. Something told Lambo that Sanji knew how Zeff lost his leg.
"Men!"
Forgetting about Sanji, Lambo turned to see Don Creed pointing straight at them.
"If we can capture that ship, then the Grand Line would be ours for the taking.", Creed declared, "No more pretending to be Marines, or raising the white flag of surrender. None of our enemies would suspect that we're a threat with a ship like that. In that boat it will always be a sneak attack."
Lambo glared at them all, his hand resting inside the bag at his back, he wants to see them come and try. He, Luffy, Sanji, and every other cook aboard would never let Creed and his crew get their hands on the Baratie. Not if any of them have a say about it.
It looks like one of Don's pirates said something Creed didn't like, because, all of the sudden, he shot his crewmember, and he fell into the sea. Much to the horrified looks and gasps from the rest of the crew.
Don Creed is a horrible Captain not to mention a God-awful person.
"I really appreciate the input sailor, anything else?", Creed says dryly, holding his gun at his men threatenly,"Huh!?"
"N-no!", one said fearfully.
"Do you think an ordinary man could cut up a sailors ship like that!?", Creed demanded, "That man probably has the power of the Devil Fruit. All those with Devil Fruit powers are rare and legendary to use. I assure you, their common place on the Grand Line. Mihawk must have used some sort of strange power when he sliced up our ship to ribbons. When we're on the Grand Line, those powers won't be special. Even the straw hat freak would be considered normal."
Nothing about Luffy is normal.
Lambo sighs, shaking his head, and he is absolutely positive that Mihawk had no Devil Fruit. It was all purely skill, despite how terrifying that is, it did amuse Lambo how Creed was jumping to these conclusions just to make himself feel better about his defeat.
"That old geezer Red-Foot Zeff sailed those seas for a year.", Creed told his crew, "It stands to reason he had strategies for dealing with those monsters. The techniques for surviving that parade of weirdos must be written in the old man's log book. Along with clues to the One Piece."
What assumptions. Lambo face-palmed at Creed's words. And he thought Luffy was stupid, there was nothing smart or backed up with enough evidence for anything Creed to be saying that could be considered truth.
It's honestly frustrating to Lambo, plus, he's antsy to start the fight already. He can feel the thick tension between the two sides.
But Creed's pirates turned out to be just as desperate and stupid, all calling out their agreement and understanding.
"You Hear That Boys? Now Let's Get That Restaurant!"
The Creed pirates cheered, raising their weapons high in the air.
Patty and the chef with dark glasses left the group, Lambo assumed to get or do something for the upcoming battle.
"This restaurant, will be a battlefield."
Lambo turned to Sanji, unsure what to do about his down and unreadable expression, he looked lost in thought. So, Lambo settled for a light, albeit awkward, pat on the back. Sanji turns to him with a raised brow.
"No need to push yourself there kid.", Sanji said with a small smirk.
Lambo got an irk mark on his head, "I'm not a kid! Also, I was just trying to help, sue me for not knowing what else to do!"
Sanji just chuckled, taking another drag from his cigarette as he gratefully ruffled the teen's hair, much to Lambo's chagrin, with a playful smirk.
Sanji then turned to one of the chef's closest to him.
"Go to the control room and open up the fins.", Sanji ordered.
"What?", the chef said in surprise, "No! That's a bad idea. If we do that, we'd be giving the enemy a foothold!"
"And that's just fine.", Sanji retorted as he patted the side of the Baratie, "We got to do whatever it takes to keep those guys out of this place. If they destroy the inside, then the old man will complain forever."
"Did you just say something brat?", Zeff asks, standing not even a foot from Sanji.
"Yeah, I said that your whiny.", Sanji says back irritably, but with no malice intent, before turning back to the chef he was talking to earlier, "Now go."
"Yes sir!"
And the chef ran to go do as he was told.
"What're the fins?", Lambo asked curiously.
"You'll see...", Sanji said with a knowing smile and a glint in his eye, causing Lambo's brow to twitch at being kept in the dark.
War cries could be heard from the Creed pirates as they rushed towards them.
Suddenly, Lambo hears the unmistakable sound of a certain idiotic pirate captain.
"I'm coming for yah!", shouts Luffy," Gum Gum ROCKET!"
Lambo turned just in time to see his captain flying overhead towards the Creed pirates at high speeds, causing them too rightfully panic.
"And Gum Gum...", Luffy stretch out both of his arms to the side, "Giant Sutch!"
Those poor poor men.
Lambo shook his head, "Luffy's going to kick their asses."
He watched, unbothered at the sight of raining men. All falling into the sea with loud splashes, while Luffy stretched his arms out to a broken mast and sat on top of it as he laughed.
"Did you see that!?", shouts a chef excitedly, "Go Kid!"
"What's the heck up with that guy?", asked one of the pirates.
"Yeah, he's crazy."
"It's hard to believe.", Sanji said in shock, staring right at Luffy, "The Grand Line is crawling with guys like these?"
"Sanji.", Zeff called, "Pay special attention to how this one fights. Don't take your eyes off him for a moment, until this fight is over, is that clear?"
Sanji just stared up at his boss in total confusion.
"So let me get this straight.", Luffy says loudly, causing Lambo to look over to see him (pfff...) scolding Don Creed, "You're attacking the restaurant that gave you food? I have no choice but to beat some manners into you."
Lambo had to cough in order to try and hide his laughter, but judging but the knowing and amused looks he was receiving from both Zeff and Sanji, he knew he didn't fool them.
Creed laughed at Luffy, "So you want to fight on the water where there is no place to stand, huh?"
Yeah, not really your best idea Luffy.
"A bold move for someone like you.", Creed said condescendingly, "The Devil Fruit has taken your ability to swim, hasn't it? Chore boy?"
"Yep, but now, I'm stretchy.", Luffy answered back undeterred.
Lambo low-key wanted to give Don Creed a good shock for the way he was talking down to Luffy, but Luffy was just rolling with it. It is admirable honestly, causing Lambo to smile up at his Captain.
Yeah, he chose well.
Suddenly the entire boat shook, Lambo was barely able to keep himself from stumbling.
"Sanji! Here Comes The Fins!", he faintly heard from below deck.
There was a loud cranking sound, and slowly a large wooden semi-circle deck rose, fitting perfectly in place.
"Now we have somewhere to fight on.", commented a chef lightly.
There was a moment of silence as everyone just took in the sight of the extra ground the chefs made.
"Woah! That's so cool!", shouts Luffy excitedly.
"You can say that again.", Lambo said with wide eyes, an excited grin on his face.
Sanji stepped forward on to the fin.
"My cooks and I will never give up defending this place.", Sanji announced, Lambo forgot he was the Sou Chef for a second, "Prepare to die."
"I see.", Don Creed said, a wide confident smirk on his face, "Good plan, bringing up all that extra decking genius. Now we don't have to take the fight inside. I'd hate to damage my future ship. And make no mistake, it will be mine."
"Tt, asino.", Lambo muttered distastefully with narrowed eyes (ass).
"We will never let you have the restaurant!", shouts a familiar voice.
"That's right! We mean business! We're battle cooks now!"
The ship shook again, and this time Lambo did stumble.
"What now?", Lambo wondered curiously.
The giant fish, the Head of the ship, slipped forward to reveal itself to be a mini battleship.
'How many surprises does this place have?', wondered Lambo as he stared at the familiar figures of Patty and the chef with the dark glasses.
"Set sail the Mackerel Mark One the Baratie's secret weapon!", shouts Patty.
"So, if you want to live, I suggest running away, now!", his partner chimed in.
Lambo watched in both awe and confusion at the new weapon/player that has entered the field.
"Pedal faster!", shouts Patty.
"You pedal faster!", the other one shot back.
The ship halted, the canons at the front aiming right at the destroyed galleon and her pirates.
"FIRE!", shouts Patty.
All three canons fired at once and the galleon was somehow wrecked even more. Lambo is starting to feel a little bad for the ship now, not its occupants though. They deserve every hit, the ungrateful bastards.
Chefs cheered as the mini-battleship swam up to Creed's ship, never ceasing its fire. Lambo was a little worried they'd end up sinking his Captain too.
The ship turned towards Creed and fired all three guns at Creed. Only to reveal him to remain perfectly fine.
"Okay armor or no, he should not still be alive.", groaned Lambo at the sight of the still intact Don Creed.
That's when the ship got stuck on the piece of wreckage Creed stood on.
"Merda.", cursed Lambo at the sound of their confused yelling (shit).
"I AM DON CREED!", he shouts angrily, "THE MAN WHO WILL RULE THE OCEAN!
"Oh no you're not, I am!", exclaims Luffy.
"I don't have time for these stupid games!", shouts Creed, "Get Out Of Here!"
Somehow, Creed lifted the entire ship up, and out of the water, and threw it away. It was heading right for them!
"It's heading right for us!", shouted a cook in a panic.
Lambo was about to shoot an electric blast, but remembered the two chefs that were still in the ship. There's a high chance he could hurt, even kill them, if he hit them with his Dying Will Flames.
"The restaurant!"
Shit.
Okay no Dying Will Flames, what the hell should he do?
Luckily, Lambo didn't need to do anything.
Sanji leaped high in the air and kicked away the ship! Keeping the Baratie safe. Good job, but Holy Crap, that was so cool. He looked totally unbothered, standing casually after sticking his landing gracefully, smoking his cigarette as if nothing happened.
The ship landed several feet away in the deck.
Sanji is in for it now, Lambo knows after Luffy saw that, he isn't taking no for an answer now. Sanji is going to become Luffy's cook. Somehow.
"He has legs of steel.", said one pirate.
"He kicked back that crazy boat ship like it was nothing.", said another.
"Nicely done.", Lambo said breathlessly.
"Sanji, good job!", praised one of the chefs.
The smoke cleared away and the two chefs burst angrily from beneath the deck.
How?
"What's the deal!?", shouts Patty.
"Are you trying to crush your friends!?", shouts the one with dark glasses.
"Yeah yeah.", said Sanji uncaringly.
"Don't 'yeah yeah' us you crazy fool!", shouts Patty, mouth open as he yelled with sharp teeth.
"Stop acting so cool! You wouldn't be standing like that if we've been killed you bucket of backwash!"
"But he is cool.", Lambo said quietly, not meaning for anyone to hear his comment.
Sanji heard him though, smirking over at the teen and ruffling his hair. Again.
Great, now he has another one.
"Alright ladies, think you can wrap this up another time? We have business to attend to."
Lambo turned to see the Creed Pirates have crawled out of the water and were now standing on the fins.
"Then leave.", Lambo says bluntly.
"Not without this ship!", he shouted, angry at how unaffected Lambo was acting.
Both sides glared and growled at each other, both brandishing their weapons threatenly.
"Bite me.", Lambo snarked.
The pirate lunged forward, Lambo ducked, dodging the slash aimed for his neck as he hopped back a couple of steps.
"Get them!" shouts a cook.
And the two sides fell into battle, but the chefs were heavily outnumbered, many were already knocked out of the fight, unconscious.
Lambo found himself surrounded immediately by multiple pirates, each snickering and smiling sinisterly at what seemed to be his doom.
"Not so snarky now, are yah, you little twerp."
Lambo smirked, reaching into the bag at his back.
"Finally...", Lambo smirked, removing from the bag a long bull-whip, "...I've been wanting to use this thing forever."
As if to prove his point, Lambo gave the whip a test crack, causing several pirates to stumble back warily.
"Oh yeah, this is going to be fun. I've been practicing every night with this thing.", Lambo informs the group with a grin, "You'll find I'm a fast learner and have gotten pretty good with this thing."
Lambo can feel his adrenaline spiking, his eyes scanned the group circling around him. They all shifted, antsy to fight.
With a flick of his wrist, Lambo had the end of the whip attach itself to one of the pirate's ankles with a snap. With a harsh tug, Lambo pulled his first victim off his feet. Before the pirate could even comprehend he was no longer on his feet, Lambo began to spin around, pulling the pirate along with him, causing him to knock over multiple pirates from his crew, and then released the man, throwing him into a small group of three.
There was a pause, then a shout.
"C'mon! It's just a kid!", one pirate roared.
And they all surged towards him.
Lambo struck before any could get near him, snapping his whip forward with a crack, hitting a pirate in the chest, causing him to stumble back, Lambo whipped his arm in the opposite direction, wrapping his whip around one pirate's arm, pulling him, stumbling forward, past Lambo, and into one of his allies. The two crashing to the ground.
He brought his arm around his head and snapped the whip forward with a loud crack, a pirate fell back feet in the air, tripping two others, buying Lambo more time with the two at his back. He quickly cracked his whip at them, snatching one pirate's sword from his hand, using it to disarm the other, and then using it to knock him out by slamming the hilt at the back of his head, with one down Lambo used the sword to swipe the other unarmed pirate's feet from under him and then used his whip to toss him on top of the two he tripped earlier, stopping them from getting back up.
Whenever Dino, the head of the Cavallone Famiglia would visit, Lambo always took extra care to watch his training sessions and fights whenever he could.
Especially whenever he would use his weapon, a whip.
Now Lambo isn't aware of this, but a certain carnivore from Vongola has noticed a peculiar thing about Lambo.
He's a natural fighter.
Sometimes, late at night, Lambo would sneak out of the mansion and practice some of the many moves he has seen his famiglia perform. Hibari was out one night and spotted him doing exactly that.
He was impressed.
Lambo was good, especially for only seeing some of these moves once or twice, and no teacher, he is performing each move well. Better than most would than when they're taught. Of course, it's nothing without another person to practice them on. Not to mention the fact that Lambo was used to dodging long ranged attacks, not ones from hand-to-hand combat.
Hibari smirked, seeming to have an idea as he watched Lambo practice.
The next day, Hibari smashed the spot on the floor just in front of Lambo, just in case, who managed to scramble back and dodge his secret attack just in time.
"Herbivore. Dodge. Or I'll bite you to death.", Hibari said, voice deadly.
Fearing for his life, who else wouldn't when facing the skylark, Lambo did just that.
For the rest of the day.
Having breaks during meal times at least, thank God.
And all over the mansion.
Tsuna couldn't stop the skylark from his war path, nor could Dino and Reborn. For some reason that all of Vongola couldn't fathom, Hibari had it out for Lambo, and continued to do the same thing for two weeks straight, much to the Lighting Guardian's exhaustion and pain (did you honestly think Lambo would be able to dodge all of Hibari's attacks for an entire day for two weeks straight, with no sign of the carnivore holding back, besides that first sneak attack, even a little?).
When the two weeks were done, Lambo was given a break.
Until he wasn't, Hibari would attack once every week, chasing him throughout the mansion through the entire day
Safe to say Lambo's stamina has greatly increase, he is able to take almost any hit now, and now he can dodge better than ever.
Hibari noticed with satisfaction that Lambo's movements during his late-night practices were cleaner and swifter now after his 'training'.
Of course, Lambo never did realize that's what had happened.
Lambo stared at the crumbled pirate bodies around him, whip resting on his shoulders, holding it a little like suspenders. Lambo had fun fighting the pirates, he's starting to see why Luffy practically wants to fight every baddie he meets right away. The way his body and weapon weaves between others, it feels so natural, and he has never felt as satisfied as he did right then and there when he knocked every single one of them out.
He nodded in satisfaction, turning to see that all the Chef's, but Sanji, Patty, the chef with the dark glasses, his name is Carne Lambo finally remembers, and Zeff standing in the back perfectly fine.
"You guys still don't get it, even well-armed your still just cooks and we're expert fighters that are way out of your league.", the lead pirate from before says condescendingly, looks like no one has noticed him and his... uh... enemies.
"So why don't you just be good little cooks and run along to a safer restaurant. Maybe one on land, eh?"
"Come one guys!", shouts Carne, "Why are you letting them beat you up so easily, huh!?"
"And you still call yourselves fighting cooks!", shouts Patty.
"Well, these pirates are really good.", one chef panted irritably, "They're totally different from the ones we've fought before."
The Creed pirates looked down at the chefs with superiority.
"It's insulting to lump us in with those average riff-raff.", the same pirate, deemed spokesperson, said, "We're Creed pirates, and we're the absolute rulers of the East Blue!"
"Eh, I felt no difference.", Lambo said casually, bringing all the attention to him and his circle of bodies.
He was trying to stall for more time so the cooks could have as much time as they need to recover.
"Eh?", the pirate replied dumbly, confused, before his eyes went wide at the sight of the multiple bodies around Lambo, "EEHHH!?"
"HUUHHH!?", the chef's all exclaimed in shock as well.
Sanji stared wide eyed at the kid, because despite what Lambo says, that's what he is, a kid. A kid that just took down multiple Creed pirates all by himself.
"Hey.", Lambo gave a short nonchalant wave, eyes half-lidded, but alight with amusement, "I had fun taking them out actually. Been wanting to use my new weapon against some live opponents for a while now. You guys were great test dummies."
He gave a thumbs up as if to say 'good job'.
"Don't you dare mock us!", the pirate shouted with sharp teeth.
"Eh?", Lambo made a show of tilting his head to the side, "Why not? It's what you did."
They froze at the dangerous look in Lambo's eyes.
"You mock those you think weaker than you but don't like it when someone does it in return?", Lambo asks rhetorically with a raised brow, "Ever heard the saying 'treat others how you want to be treated'?"
"That doesn't matter, even with you, these cooks don't stand a chance.", the pirate snarled, "We are Creed's Pirates, strongest crew of all of East Blue."
"Let it be known to all,", Creed spoke from where he stood, ", that this Garris boat already belongs to the great and powerful Creed Pirates!"
"I'm afraid your mistaken!", Sanji shouts back with a mocking grin, "You and your cronies will never step foot in our restaurant."
Lambo grinned; this will be interesting for sure.
"You know what?", says Patty as he stepped forward, "I've been a cook all my life. I've worked at a lot of restaurants and got fired from them all for scuffling and living hard."
"And after years of wondering, we've finally found a home here!", Carne added.
The two seemed to be lost in thought for a moment before twin grins appeared on their faces.
"We like cooking and fighting.", Patty says proudly, "So this place is perfect for us!"
The two brandished their weapons, both getting into fighting positions as they faced down the Creed pirates.
"That's right! There's no other place like this!", Carne agrees.
"You here that!?", shouts Sanji, "Now that's true fighting spirit!"
"Committing ourselves into cooking fine cuisine day in and day out is a fierce battle. Compared to that, THESE PIRATES ARE NOTHING!", shouts Patty determinedly.
"He's right."
"Yeah"
"Let's fight!"
"Yeah!", shouts all the chefs surging forward.
"ATTACK!"
Lambo smiled; these chefs are awesome. No wonder so many guys from the Vongola were apprehensive at coming to this restaurant.
He cracked his whip racing forward with the rest of the cooks. Helping the fighting cooks as much as he could. Whenever he would see one struggling, he'd crack his whip their opponent, giving the chef an advantage and taking over the fight with the upper-hand.
One pirate caught Lambo by surprise, sneaking from behind and wrapping their arms around his middle and pinning his arms to his side. But as they did so, they jumped on the small boy causing him to tilt forward, but instead of fighting the fall, Lambo went with it tucking himself into a ball as much as he could, ending with him laying on top of the pirate. Lambo threw his head back and he heard the unmistakable crack of the pirate's nose breaking.
The pirate shouts in pain releasing Lambo, grabbing on to his face. Lambo doesn't let the man recover, much less reset his nose.
He grabbed the back of the guy's head with one hand and a fistful of his shirt with another as he slammed the pirates face into the floor, splintering the deck beneath it.
The pirates body went limp, his butt in the air, on his knees, hands laying limply at his side.
Lambo panted, wiping the sweat from the prolonged fight with the pirates and his struggle just then.
Suddenly Lambo's head snapped up when he heard Patty scream, just able to see Patty fall flat on the ground unconscious. He heard splashing from the water and turned to see the culprit climbing on to the deck from the water. He was a big man decked in multiple thick metal shields and pearls.
He looked absolutely ridiculous. At least Kabaji, Cosmo, and Moji, sort of, had reason for their ridiculous and flashy outfits. They were even more fashionable than what this guy was doing. Does he seriously have a giant Pearl on the top of his head?
"The hell was that?", asked Carne, only to thrown back several feet with Patty by the same 'invisible' attack.
Falling unconscious immediately upon impact.
The Pearl man sighed.
"Just what do you guys think you're doing?", he asked, voice sounding posh and proper, "Ha ha ha ha~. So. Let's do this."
Lambo is pretty sure this guy is high on something. Nothing is normal about him.
"But. Before we begin. It's only fair that I give you a warning.", the Pearl man said confidently, "I am Pearl! The invincible shield!"
For a moment Lambo just stared at him weirded out, raising a brow. His name is seriously Pearl? He is definitely high on something.
"Hey! It's Pearl!", exclaims one of the pirates excitedly.
No one is seriously going to comment on the number of pearls and metal this guy is wearing?"
"Patty, Carne, are you boys okay?", Zeff calls out to the downed chefs.
"I'd say they are far from okay!", Pearl exclaims, "Those two just experienced my Pearl Surprise! One of my signature punches you bumbling pathetic idiot!"
This guy is begging for attention. Lambo turned to Sanji and Zeff, and began to sweat fearfully. Those looks on their faces are utterly terrifying. He is honestly happy to not be at the other end of those glares, and plans to keep it that way in the future.
One of the Creed pirates chuckled as he walked up to Patty's prone body.
"Hey, nice knife.", the pirate said with a smirk, taking Patty's knife from his apron, "I'll take that."
Patty's hand grabbed the knife tightly, refusing to let it go and let the scumbag have it.
"Wha-?"
The pirate began to try and pry the knife from Patty's hand, but was struggling. Shouting at Patty to let go of the knife as he frantically shook the cook's arm.
Sanji walked up to the two, his face set in an angry scowl, causing the pirate to look up in confusion.
He kicked the pirate hard in the face, sending him flying backwards while the knife spun high in the air. The pirate crashed into a group of pirates, sending them all back a couple of feet, sending the knife flying in the air. Sanji casually caught the knife by the handle in his awaiting palm just as the pirate in crashed into a small group of his allies, but they were all sent backwards too. Crashing into the giant shield that covered Pearl's body with a loud 'bong', kinda like a weird sounding gong, before they all fell down into a pile, none making a move to get back up.
"Go Sanji...", Lambo muttered in awe.
"A kitchen knife is a cook's soul! How dare you filthy pirates try to desecrate one with your grubby little hands!", Sanji shouts angrily.
"Sanji...", Patty groans.
"Just stay down and hold on to this.", Sanji states, voice softer, as he gave Patty back his knife, "I'm gonna teach these bozos a lesson."
The last five standing pirates rushed forward, battle cries loud as they rushed towards Sanji weapons raised high in the air.
"You must be crazy if you think we're gonna be beaten by a mere cook!", one shouts.
Sanji suddenly disappeared and then reappeared in the middle of the group, spinning on his hands, legs stretched out, kicking every one of those pirates in the face.
"I'll show you mere cook after I filet every one of you bastards.", Sanji states with a deadly look on his face.
"Huh. How very impudent of you to defeat them all using only your kicks. Am I supposed to be impressed by that?", Pearl said, unworried.
Screw you, that was cool. Lambo did not like the way how Pearl kept talking down to everyone like they couldn't cause a single scratch on him. It seemed to be a running theme among the Creed pirates. Much like how Buggy and his crew were all hung up on being flashy and some shit.
"I'm a cook, remember?", Sanji shouts, stating the obvious, "I couldn't do my job very well if I ruined my hands at battle."
Sanji held his leg out, similarly much like how one would raise their hands.
"So, I'll be taking you down with my feet."
"Is that so? I think not.", Pearl said condescendingly, "I'm invincible you see, I've won all sixty-one of my battles completely totally unscathed."
Lambo is honestly having a hard time trying to figure out who is more full of themselves, Don Creed or this guy?
"It's quite remarkable really. No one has ever shed a single drop of my blood in battle. No one.", Pearl states, confident he would win this battle with his high defense, "Now do you realize my power?"
Pearl banged together the shields on his hands, like cymbals, pointedly.
"I may be a gentleman, but I'm not gentle. Got it?", Pearl said darkly.
Worst. Catch phrase. Ever.
"Even battle ship cannons don't work on me."
Is he ever going to attack? Or is he too busy monologuing and bragging about how he's never gotten hurt? Lambo wondered as his eyebrow twitched irritably. This guy is getting on his nerves.
"I come out of any attack unharmed!", Pearl declared.
Lambo stopped paying attention, trying to figure out what the whistling through the air sound was coming from and what it was.
Suddenly Luffy crashed into the back of Pearl's head, causing him to smash his face into one of his hand-shields.
Luffy got to his feet, standing next to Sanji as he patted himself down.
"Boy, that could've been really bad.", Luffy says casually, "Good thing I didn't fall into the ocean."
"No kidding.", Lambo deadpanned.
He turned to see Pearl raise a shaky hand to his bloody nose, in shock.
"Blood! No!", shouts one of the Creed Pirates.
"It's only a nose bleed Pearl!", shouts another pirate desperately.
"We know it's not a battle wound! So just keep calm, okay!?"
Something told Lambo that wasn't going to happen.
"These people are just mean.", cries Pearl softly, "They're dangerous."
Luffy literally just crashed in to him. Lambo just starred at Pearl like he was crazy. He probably was, you never really sometimes.
"Yare yare, this guy is a piece of work.", Lambo muttered to himself.
"So, uh, want to tell me why everyone is freaking out?", Sanji asked, already looking done.
"They're worried about a nose-bleed?", Luffy said in disbelief as he picked his nose.
Pearl began to shout as he loudly banged his shields together.
"Calm down! It's just a nose bleed, relax!", Don Creed ordered, but it was no use.
Pearl's shouts became more higher pitched as his banging increased.
"Geez, what is this guy doing!?", shouts Sanji irritably above the noise.
"Danger! Danger!DANGEEERRR!", screams Pearl before being engulfed by fire!
"Oh no it started!", one of pirate's shout in panic.
"When he gets upset, he catches fire!"
"Uh, wait what?", Luffy says in confusion.
You can say that again. What, he has Dying Will Flames now too? Lambo highly doubted that.
Even if he didn't, he could tell these flames are nothing liked that, although the way they are summoned aren't all that different to be perfectly frank.
"AAHHH! FIRE PEARLS!", shouts Pearl, "SPECIAL TREATS!"
Pearl spread out his palms, and a wave of fire burst from him. Lambo barely managed to jump back in time in order to dodge the torrent of flames.
"Huh, who knew having Hibari chase you for two weeks would level up your reflex's.", Lambo commented to himself (Hibari did XD).
Luffy and Sanji managed to dodge too, the rest of Creed's crew, and the deck, weren't so lucky.
Perish in my flames!", shouts Pearl darkly, "With my shields and this inferno, I am INVINCIBLE~!"
"Oh no!", cries a pirate, "We're either going to burn or drown."
"The restaurant is going to catch fire!"
Lambo looked behind him to the sea, and looked back to the fire in front of him. There's got be some way to put this fire out.
"You son of a bitch!", Lambo hears Sanji shout.
Lambo turns to see Sanji leap through the flames right at Pearl.
"Sanji you'll get burned!", screams Patty.
"What the hell are you doing!?", Lambo shouts, just barely able to stay in English.
"There's no way I'm going to let you torch our dreams!", Sanji shouts as he flips above Pearl and the flames.
Aiming a hard kick at Pearl, who just barely managed to block the hit with one of his flaming shields.
"That guy is either brave or dumb.", comments a pirate in awe.
Lambo, personally, is leaning more on dumb.
"He'll get burned!", shouts another pirate in shock.
"Bu-But these flames scare everyone away!", Pearl said in disbelief.
"Well, if I was scared of fire, I wouldn't be much of a cook.", Sanji replies confidently.
"I hate him.", gasps Pearl, "I hate that defile gentlemen."
Sanji just smirked, taking a good drag from his cigarette. He suddenly flipped forward, kicking Pearl in the face. Causing him to fall on to his back.
"You stupid cook!", shouts Pearl, clutching his even bloodier face, "You're totally insane! I'll...kill. You!"
Lambo gritted his teeth, backing up from the spreading fire, slightly wishing he had Rain Dying Will Flames, he could cancel out Pearl's technique and get rid of the fire. But he has to make due what with what he has, try and get creative.
Lambo looked to the tall circle of flames that surrounded him. Can't really do anything when your alone and trapped by a wall of flames.
"Fire! Need more fire!", Pearl shouts.
Lambo's eyes widened in horror; they do not need more fire!
"Fire Pearls!"
Fire engulfed pearls shot from the Pearl, heading straight for Zeff and the restaurant.
"No! The Restaurant!"
"If those fire pearls reach the kitchen, the whole place will explode!"
Lambo gaped at the speedy pearls, unable to do anything.
"Run Zeff!", shouts a cook, "Get out of there! RUN!"
Zeff just stood calmly in place, swiping his peg leg through the air, putting out the pearls and letting them fall harmlessly behind him.
Everyone gaped in awe.
"Well.", Lambo says breathlessly, sighing in relief, "That was anticlimactic."
"What? No way? He put out my fire pearls?", Pearl cried in disbelief.
"Fire pearls, eh? That's kid's stuff.", Zeff says casually.
This man is officially awesome and Lambo will do his absolute best to never be at the end of his wrath.
"Wow, the gusts from his kick put out all of those flames!", exclaims a chef excitedly.
"Impossible!", shouts one of the pirates, "I don't believe it, but Zeff is just as strong as ever!"
Could've told you that.
"Way to go pops, I'm impressed!", Luffy shouts with a wide smile.
That's one thing less to worry about then, Lambo thinks as he looks to Creed, only to see him throw a giant mace at the fins! It was heading straight for Sanji and Pearl!
"Sanji look out!"
"He can't get out! He's surrounded by fire!"
Shit! Lambo looked for a tall ledge to grab on to, holding out his whip at the ready, only to pause when he sees Luffy jump through the fire.
Well, if he wasn't sure before, he knows now that Sanji would fit in the crew just fine. He is as reckless as Luffy if both are willing to jump through FIRE LIKE IDIOTS!
"It's the chore boy!"
"Gum Gum Bazooka!", shouts Luffy, catching the giant mace and thrusting it back to Creed.
"He tossed that thing right back!", Sanji said in shock while Luffy was shouting next him, trying to pat out the flames on his butt.
The mace smashed into one of the masts from Creed's ship, causing it to tip over and fall towards the where Sanji, Luffy, and Pearl were standing.
"Sanji! Luffy! Get out of there!", Lambo shouts at them when they seemed to have freezed in place.
The two jumped and ran towards were Lambo stood while the mast landed on top of Pearl, bounced off of him, and landed right next to the big man. Pearl's face turned purple as he collapsed to the ground with a thud.
"Pearl is down! And he's not gonna get up this time!", shouts a pirate.
"No! Pearl!", a couple shout in sync.
"So weird.", Sanji states, staring at Pearl's unconscious form.
"You can say that again.", Lambo agreed, standing next to him and Luffy.
"Yeah, that guy sure is goofy.", Luffy chimed in.
Suddenly they hear a shout from Zeff, followed by a grunt and a thud. The trio gasped as they all quickly spun to see Zeff on the ground.
"The battle ends right here."
A foot stomped on Zeff's back, pinning him to the ground.
"Sei un figlio di puttana.", Lambo hissed (You son of a bitch.)
Standing on top of Zeff with a gun to his head, was none other than Gin.
"Shoot him!", shouts Creed, "Do it now! All we have to do is kill the geezer, then the restaurant will be ours."
Lambo gritted his teeth as he glares at Gin.
Son of a Bitch.
Author's Note: In this one, we saw a different side to Lambo. Really, he's honestly a straw-hat pirate, and his short battle against a small group of Creed pirates showed that. Not just with how fast and efficiently he took them all out. But how he began to enjoy it, and was excited to try out his new weapon. Speaking of... How'd you guys like it? Think I made a good pick? Honestly, when I first started writing this in the beginning, I knew I wanted to give Lambo a weapon. Pretty much in the show, he mostly just tackled people when he fought, not saying he did that all the time (I'm looking at you you hard-core fans). I'm just saying that's practically the most he did. And I know there's not really much that effects Lambo and his powers, but I didn't want him to rely too much on his Dying Will Flames. It was a struggle for me to figure out what I wanted to give him. I knew he was no hard-hitter when it comes to a fight, so no big thing like a battle axe or a sledge hammer or anything else like that. I toyed with the idea of giving him brass knuckles or a cutlass. But a cutlass is a sword and I wanted him to be unique. Both Zoro and Brook wield swords with two different styles, not meaning the number of swords mind you, and I don't know enough about swordplay to try to write one for Lambo. And I felt the brass knuckles just didn't fit him. I feel like all the straw hat pirates weapons and abilities fit them and their character/personalities one way or another, could be just me watching the show too much lol. And I didn't just want Lambo to punch people, that felt little more like Luffy's thing if I'm being completely honest here. So, I then began to think about the cow theme he liked, and I thought I would try to stick with that. And the first thing that came to mind was a whip. A little westernish style there. I thought that would be really cool, if your good enough, the whip is mainly long ranged, like Lambo's attacks, but it could be used for short ranged too if your creative enough. And that is pretty much how I decided on Lambo's weapon. Sorry if that bored you guys, but sometimes it just nice to explain how I think these things through whenever I write. Be Your Best You! Bye!