-Straw Hat's And The Vampire Myth-
The Trail Thickens: Part 4
"Sanji, you can let us go now" Usopp complains as Sanji dragged him and Luffy over a kilometer on the stone, bumpy trail.
" Oh, yah. Sorry bout that." Sanji says as he drops them both. Luffy, leaning back and dropped on his head.
" SANJI! WHAT WAS THAT FOR!" Luffy yells, his arm still completely numb. But Sanji just continues walking. Usopp, right next to him.
"Yah Sanji, what's up with you. You haven't been this ticked in awhile" Usopp persist.
"There it is" Sanji point's as they reached into a green clearing, where a giant mansion sat at the end of the field. It looked like a mansion but was like the rest of the houses in the village, made of stone and old. But this building was giant and actually had glass windows. It looked renovated on the outside as there were obvious cement fill ins everywhere on the 2 story mansion.
" Thats a mansion!" Usopp and Luffy yell looking at the place. All 3 walk threw the grassy and weedy field to the front gate, oddly made of steel, and knocked.
Sanji, being impatient, just opens the gate up and walks in. Luffy and Usopp didn't say anything, knowing Sanji's in a bad mood suddenly. The inside was no surprise to the 3, just like in the docter office. It was beautiful. It was even more evenly lined with red, velvet wallpaper and carpets. The pillar's were even painted to match the lobby, where the curved stairs on the sides looked like it was made of fine wood's. The tables and statues looked in perfect condition to. There were even lamps!
" Rude aren't you" a devianair voice said from one of the rooms upstairs. More precisely, a balcony that pointed into the lobby opposite from the gate on the 2nd story. The orientated door on the balcony open's and a man walks out.
" I presume your this Pent character I've heard about" Sanji says, looking up at a man dressed in a fancy dark blue suit with a cape attached to the bottom of the suit. The suit was buttoned only in the middle by gold button's and the suit having gold linen's too. His shirt sleeve was folded and buttoned at the wrist, showing his white gloves with some sort of signia engraved into them. The attached cape was behind his completely black pants and black clever shoes with a gold notch in them.
The weirdest part of his suit was there was a purple snake tail design on his chest that continued to go behind him by his right shoulder. A snake head design was showing on the left side of his outfit, it was drawn with its head turning sharply, it's two yellow eyes staring right at Sanji.
The man's face had a giant scar stretching down from the top of his right eye to the bottom of his nose. He had a purple hook like design below his right eye, overlapping part of the scar. His hair was a mix of white and grey.
" Why yes" Pent says, raising his arm's in the air. " And may I ask why for the visit? DONT TOUCH ANYTHING!" He barks.
Usopp and Luffy are looking and touching all the fancy stuff in the lobby, Luffy almost tipped a statue over he turned around and his numb arm swung the opposite direction.
Pent's eye go wide open when he sees Luffy's wound. " Oh my goodness!" he says concerned. " I see your injured. There's guest rooms upstairs next to the kitchen!" He's pointing to a door that's next to the corner on the second floor.
" FOOD!" Luffy jumps in joy!
"A BED" Usopp say's in joy right after. The two waste no time and knock over a couple potted plants on there way up the stairs, slamming the door Pent pointed to as they entered. Each side of the hallway had doors, Usopp and Luffy opening everyone, seeing bedroom's, bathrooms,library, girl in shower, study room, and Luffy finally found the kitchen. It doesn't take a genius to know what happened next.
Sanji and Pent, both alone in the lobby now(Pent on the 2nd story balcony still), stare at each other." Why don't you do anything about this vampire" Sanji asks, lighting a smoke on purpose to piss him off.
" Do you have any idea's?" Pent asks cooly.
"Don't play shit with me, just return the artifacts and it might leave the villager's alone!" Sanji barks with rage in the back of his voice.
Pent starts to chuckle and cover's his mouth with his left hand but begins to really laugh loud.
" What's so funny!"
Pent settles down a little, gasping for air a little after that good laugh. " Do you know the whole situation of this story!" he yell's below to Sanji, who's giving him a pissed off look from below. Pent chuckles as he straightens his body. " You want me to return the only way of these people surviving! Without those treasure's we grabbed from the temple, we wouldn't have half the medicines, supplies, or money thats needed for survival on this jungle and marsh hellhole!"
" Don't give me that bull! Even with those supplies right now, some of those people are having a fate worst than death and suffering!" Sanji reply's with feeling.
" Well, death was inevitable then it seems" Pent reply's smirking. " Even if I gave the stuff back, which I've already sold, the vampire's still up and about. What proves the vampire would go back and crawl back into it's hole if I gave the crap back!"
Sanji clutches his fist and easily able to tell it's reached his patience. " Just as I thought, your just a greedy, weak businessman who cares more for profit than lives! "
Pent seems unaffected by the insult, in fact, he smiles. " Greedy huh?" He pauses. " These people were starving and living in ruins and shambles when I came. I modernized this place as best as I could do, expecting no payback. So shut your mouth up, eyelash boy!"
Sanji jerked back in surprise. " Stop justifying yourself before I go up there and kick your ass. You know what, IM JUST GONNA KICK YOUR ASS!"
Pent started to laugh again. " I DARE YOU!" he said, grabbing on the side of the balcony, looking down at Sanji.
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Zolo, Nami, and Chopper walk into the stony city with the 3 men of Unia's. " You guys can shop around her and relax" one of the men said before all 3 disburse into the city.
The first thing to attract the 3 was a fruit vender, right next to them. All 3 of them turn there eyes towards the vender, drooling, having a creepy smile on all there faces.
The vender, a short old man, stutters " What... What are you looking at?" But in no time, Nami threw a small bag off Berri at the man and all 3 practically dive into the cart, munching on it's fruity contents.
" Oh god, I haven't felt this good in weeks" Zolo plea's as he grab's any random fruit, he even grabbed a mushroom that was on the ground and not in the cart, unpoisonous luckily.
" This food is yummy!" Chopper says, picking his food carefully before eating them.
" These are some top quality mandarins" Nami says, wiping her mouth off with a napkin she had.
They stop when a traveling meat vender strolls his cart right by them. Nami and Zolo stare at the cart with that same scary look as they did the fruit cart.
"Huh, what are you guy's looking at" Chopper says, obviously out of the loop.
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Unia and Robin arrive on shore, thou on the opposite side to the east of where Zolo, Nami, and Chopper landed. Unia jump's out of the lifeboat, offering his hand to Robin, who blows him off completely, walks out of the ship herself, and stares at the jungle border on the sandy shore.
Unia stand's with his hand out, even after Robin ignores him but lets go of the pose soon after." Independent aren't we" he said a little touchy.
"No, it's just we heard this island was owned by a historian named Lana? I've read some of his books on ancient culture" she says, also thinking how she doesn't like freak types like him. Reminds her too much of Mr.2.
Unia stands, sorta like he's mourning. " Master Lana was one of the first men to die because of the vampire" he says dreadfully.
"Vampire?" Robin says curiously.
"The Poneglyphs will explain everything" he reply's. "Hopefully." He starts to walk in front of what looks like a small wall, about human size tall. He knocks on it in 3 different locations and the wall suddenly shifts. It tilts backwards, two wires popping out of the ground, soon followed by a fleet of stairs rising up from under the sand. " This way" he points. But he walks in without waiting for her.
Robin smiles a little, what an odd secret entrance she thought. She soon follows him, going down the stairs into what looks like a hallway made completely of stone. Thou somehow, the underground tunnel was lit by sunlight. Probably threw the minor cracks from above the hallway roof.
Unia turns around and throws a small package at Robin in the middle of the hallway. " Oh, I forgot, you must be starved!" he says worried.
Robin was hungry, like the rest of the crew, but tried to shown no sign she was, successfully to. She opened the contents of what was wrapped in the old looking green rag to find a bottle of water and what looked like a few rice-cakes. " Thank you" she says politely, showing no weakness, and starts to eat one of the rice cakes slowly and politely.
Unia just turned his head and smiled, thou threw his scarf and freaky shades, she couldn't see he way. But she could tell he was.
" Hope you enjoyed my lunch" he murmured under his breath, as a small, wooden door appeared at the end of the hallway.
Author's Notes- Sleezebags like Pent do piss Sanji off, like Ironfist FullBody did when they Sanji first aired Pent's my 2nd custom character.
And is Unia being just a gentlemen, hoping to get a relationship started, or plotting something ;)
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