The four straw hats continued to run as the rain continued to pour down. It was showing no signs of letting up.
"What the hell is up with all of this rain!?" Zoro shouted.
"Nami was right about the storm. If we don't get back to the ship and set sail soon, we're going to be stuck here for good!" Sanji shouted.
"Run! Just keep running!" Luffy shouted, laughing.
"This is heavy!" Usopp panted. Nami and him were running in the streets, trying to get to the docks before the Marines.
"They're going to be after the Going Merry! The Marines might already be there. We've got to get back to ship as soon as possible, Usopp!" Nami shouted.
"Nami, can we just drop the fish?!" The sniper cried out.
"No, just try to keep up!" Nami shouted.
Sitting in front of the Going Merry, by the docks, Mohji was trying to strike a match to light the ship on fire. But the rain was making harder to do so. Nami and Usopp saw him and his lion, by the ship.
"What are you doing?!" Usopp demanded.
"Mohji!" Nami cried out, surprise to see him.
"Well, if it isn't the little thief. Go Ritchi!" Mohji ordered the lion to attack, and it charged right at Nami and Usopp.
"Special attack: Fresh egg star!" Usopp fired a pellet, but it slipped from his fingers as he tried to launch it. The egg broke on the ground. Nami twitched in disbelief. Usopp cringed. "The damn rain made my hand slip!" Suddenly, the lion stopped and started to lick up the egg on the ground.
"Ritchi, I'll feed you later!" Mohji shouted.
"We're good, now let's go!" Usopp shouted. Nami and him ran towards the ship. Mohji jumped in front of them, blocking their way.
"Not so fast! You'll have to get past me! My name is Mohji I am a proud Buggy pirate, and I won't let you get anywhere near this ship!-" A gunshot fired, interrupting him. Usopp and Nami turned around to see several Marine soldiers nearby, aiming their rifles at them.
"Get ready to fire!" A soldier shouted.
"N-No way, it's-!" Nami cried out.
"This is bad!" Usopp shouted.
"Fire!" The guns went off. Nami and Usopp tried to dodge the bullets as they ran towards the ship.
"We have to capture this pirate vessel." The Marine told a soldier. "Sir!"
"Nami!" Usopp shouted.
"I know!" Nami shouted back.
Smoker was riding on his bike in the streets, trying to find Luffy and Aya, to catch them. The four straw hats were still trying to get to the docks, but the rain was starting to become misty, making it harder to see.
"Which way is the sea?!" Zoro shouted.
"I don't know, the rain makes it hard to tell where I am going!" Luffy shouted.
"There they are!" Luffy, Aya, Sanji and Zoro saw several soldiers behind them, charging towards the group.
"Damn, they're like roaches! You want to stop and fight them?" Sanji asked.
"There's no time for that!" The swordsman shouted. Sanji looked up ahead and his eyes bulged out, turning into hearts as he saw a woman in front of them. "Oh, wow! Who is that?!" the cook exclaimed. Zoro frowned, seeing Tashigi.
"I didn't know you were Zoro and a pirate as well. You lied...You're just another liar!" Tashigi shouted, furiously at the swordsman.
"Oh great! What the hell did you do to this girl!?" Sanji shouted.
"You never asked me what my name was did you. So, I never lied, did I?" Zoro said to her.
"You know there's no way I'm going to allow someone like you leave town with such a legendary sword! Give it to me, the Wado Ichimonji, right now!" Tashigi exclaimed.
"Come and get it." Zoro smirked. Tashigi pulled out her sword and lashed out at Zoro, who deflected it back. She glared at him and tried to attack again. Zoro dodged and clashed against Tashigi's sword again. He smirked, looking down at her. Tashigi gritted her teeth, looking back at him, angrily.
"What a jerk! You can't fight a girl!" Sanji shouted.
"I can handle myself!" Tashigi snapped at him. "This is a fight between the two of us. I don't need any help so back off!"
"You heard her, get out of here." Zoro said to the three.
"Let's go!" Aya shouted. She and Luffy went on ahead, while Sanji followed behind them, glancing over at the swordsman.
"Hey, Zoro, if you hurt her, I'm going to kick your ass!" Sanji shouted.
"Tashigi's got one!" A soldier shouted, seeing Zoro clashing against her. Zoro pulled out his other sword and tried to strike Tashigi with it. Tashigi quickly dodged out of the way, trying to attack Zoro with her sword. She struggled to hold Zoro back as he lashed out at her with his two swords until her back was slammed against the wall behind her. Zoro quickly knocked Tashigi's sword away from her, pinning her down. Tashigi gasped as the swordsman almost stabbed his sword dangerously close beside the woman's head.
"I hate to disappoint you but you're never getting this sword from me." Zoro stated, smirking at her. Tashigi stared at him with wide eyes, shaking a little. Zoro pulled his sword away from the Marine's head, sheathing his swords back. "Now, I think it's time for me to go." Tashigi watched him as he started to walk away, she began to shake more, getting angrier.
"Why didn't you kill me!?" Tashigi exclaimed, furious. Zoro stopped. "I know, it's because I'm a girl! It's pathetic that you can't fight me because I'm a woman. It's embarrassing! You may be physically stronger, but you don't have the guts. This sword isn't just for decoration. I don't even think you know what it means to carry a sword-" Zoro twitched.
"Would you shut up for one second!" He turned to look at her. "Look, you have the same face as some girl I knew who died a long time ago before I knew it you started to talk just like her. What I want you to do is stop acting like some dead person you don't even know and try to be yourself!"
"Excuse the hell out of me! It's not like it's my fault I sound like your dead girlfriend! I had no idea it was so rude and thoughtless of me to be myself; you jerk! You ever think before you talk!" Tashigi shouted back at him.
"W-What'd you say!?" The swordsman sputtered in disbelief.
"I see the ship! The harbor's up ahead!" Luffy shouted. Aya, Sanji, and him continued running until they spotted someone up head, waiting for them.
"Great, now what!" Aya groaned.
"Straw hat Luffy and Aya, you're finally here." Smoker smirked. Aya's eyes widened as she saw him. "I already told you couldn't make it to the Grand Line without beating me first, didn't I?"
"Oh yeah, I forgot!" Luffy grinned before recalling what Smoker had said. He turned to Aya, confused. "Wait a minute, Aya, do you know him?"
"He's just a sore loser. I beat him in a fight before I left the Marines." Aya replied.
"You knocked me over a balcony and sent me plummeting to my death into sea water!" Smoker shouted.
"Yet here you are. You survived." Aya told him, winking and smirking a little. "Had to use a distraction somehow to get away."
"You're really stupid." Smoker growled.
"And you're really naive." Aya replied. "I'm not giving you a rematch. I won fair and square. I can't help it that you're slow. Now, we're in a bit of a hurry, so move."
"Not a chance." Smoker told her.
"Sanji, you and Aya go on ahead. I'll be right there. Go on." Luffy replied, stepping in front of the two. Aya nodded and looked at Sanji.
"Let's go." She ran and Sanji followed behind her. "Yeah."
"You're not going anywhere!" Smoker shouted, about to attack. Luffy threw his fist back, stopping the captain in his tracks.
"Hold it! You're fighting me!" The straw hat captain shouted. Smoker narrowed his eyes at Luffy.
"I don't know about that. This is going to be the end for you."
As Aya and Sanji were running, they passed the strange, cloaked man as they did. Aya frowned in suspicion as she caught a glimpse of his face for a split second and man stared at her for a slight moment. He smirked at Aya before he turned his head, continuing walking.
"Something wrong?" Sanji asked her, noticing her slowing down a little.
"It's nothing. Keep going!" Aya shouted and the two continued running towards the docks.
"Fire!" More soldiers fired. Nami and Usopp tried to avoid getting shot at as they tried to head towards the ship. "Cannon, fire!" The two quickly jumped aboard. More cannons fired from bunkers, nearly crashing into the ship.
"If we stay here even a minute longer the Going Merry will be done for!" Nami shouted.
"You can't set sail, yet. Luffy and the others aren't back!" Usopp shouted.
"There's no other choice. If we stay here, she'll be sunk!" Nami shouted. She pulled down the sail, releasing it. The ship started to slowly cast off.
"We about the rest of them!?" Usopp cried out.
"We'll pick them up later!" Nami shouted.
"Don't let them escape, after them!" A soldier shouted.
"Nami!" Sanji called out. Nami and Usopp saw the cook and Aya running along the the shoreline.
"Sanji! Aya!" Nami shouted.
"Nami, wait up! I'm back!" Sanji shouted, smiling.
"Where are the others!?" Usopp shouted.
"We'll get them later!" Sanji shouted.
"Behind you!" Nami shouted.
"Look out!" Usopp shouted. A few Marines charged at Sanji and Aya from behind. The two tried to take them down, knocking them out. But more kept coming.
"Damn it, this is endless!" Sanji hissed.
"We have to get closer!" Usopp cried out.
"But there's no way that we can take the ship back against this current!" Nami shouted.
"Damn it!" Usopp jumped overboard, landing into the sea.
"Usopp!" Nami cried out. Usopp fired at some of the soldiers, in the water, trying to help take a few out.
"Sanji! Usopp! Aya!" Nami cried out as the ship, sailed away, worried.
Smoker and Luffy stared at each other, waiting.
"I am going to enter the Grand Line! Then I'll become king of the pirates!" Luffy declared.
"Enough talk, I'm bored." Smoker said. Luffy watched in shock as he saw the Marine's arms turn into smoke. He shot at Luffy, surrounding the straw hat with it, trapping Luffy inside of it. Luffy tried to punch through it, but every one of his punches went through the smoke. Luffy cried out as Smoker lifted him up along with the smoke. "My devil fruit allows me to use my body as smoke whenever I want." He threw Luffy to the side, to the ground. "What's wrong? Have enough already?"
Luffy growled, getting back up. "Gum Gum Gatling!" He tried to punch rapidly into Smoker's body, but his fists barely even grazed the Marine, going right through. One of his fists went right through Smoker's eye. Luffy cringed in disgust. "That's really gross!"
Smoker launched his smoke at Luffy, pinning him against the building behind him. "Aw crap!" Luffy cried out. "Gum Gum Pistol!" Luffy shot his fist at Smoker, but it went right through the Marine's stomach. Luffy's eyes widened. Smoker appeared behind him and grabbed Luffy by his head, taking the two of them up in the air, then slamming Luffy down on the ground, face first.
"I told you, you're not worth $30 million belis. You're luck's run out." Smoker said. He grabbed his weapon from behind his back, getting ready to pull it out when a hand grabbed Smoker's wrist, stopping him.
"I wouldn't be so sure about that." A low deep voice answered. Smoker looked up, narrowing his eyes at the man.
"It's you..."
"What's going on? Who's that?" Luffy muffled, his face still buried in the ground.
"How nice, now the government can have your head." Smoker replied, smirking.
"The world is still waiting for our answer." The mysterious man replied with a wicked grin back at the Marine Suddenly, the skies turned green, and a large gust of wind blew straight through the town. The strong cyclones blew away everything in it's path, knocking the soldiers, Luffy and Smoker with it, scattering them away from each other.
Eventually, it stopped, and the rain slowly came back, pouring down. Zoro groaned as he pushed away a piece from a building off of him. Luffy sat up, holding his hat. Usopp was collapsed beside him, upside down. Aya groaned as she sat up, only to squawk in shock to find Sanji underneath of her as she was sitting on top of him, straddling his waist. She quickly hopped off, just as Sanji started to wake up. He blinked his eyes, seeing Aya standing beside him.
"Can someone tell me what happened?" Luffy pondered.
"Hey! LUFFY!" Luffy heard Nami calling out to him. The crew saw Nami, waving to them, the ship was almost away from the island.
"Nami!" Luffy grinned.
"We've got to go! The ship will be gone soon!" Sanji shouted. Luffy laughed, grinning ear to ear.
"We'll catch it!" Luffy began to stretch out his arms as he ran in the opposite direction grabbing onto the roof a house. "Gum Gum-" Everyone cringed as their eyes widen, in realization what he was about to do.
"What?" Usopp gasped.
"No, he can't-!" Sanji cringed.
"Oh, I'm not going to like this." Zoro gritted his teeth.
"Don't you dare!" Aya shouted.
"Bazooka!" Luffy launched himself, crashing into Sanji, Zoro, Aya and Usopp, taking them with him as they headed towards the Going Merry, landing on the deck.
"You're all here!" Nami said in relief. The ship sailed away from the island as the soldiers were getting up as well, seeing it sail off. Then they saw the mysterious cloaked man, standing above them watching as well as the ship left.
"Go, if that's what you want then by all means let that dream happen!" The man shouted as he smiled, laughing.
"Why did you help them? Dragon!" Smoker glared up at him.
"It is not our place to get into their chosen paths anyway." Dragon replied.
"Set sail, we're going after them. We'll enter the Grand Line." Smoker told his men.
"B-But, captain, you can't abandon your post on this island! What will command say?!" A soldier sputtered in shock and disbelief.
"Tell them I don't care about orders." Smoker answered.
"I'm coming with you!" Tashigi shouted.
"Sargent major Tashigi!" The soldier stared at her in shock as well.
"I have to hunt down Roronoa Zoro! He's mine. I will get revenge!" Tashigi snarled.
About halfway as the Going Merry sailed away from the island, Nami spotted a lighthouse within the distance. "Hey look! A light!" Nami shouted.
"A lighthouse?" Aya questioned.
"It's one of the guidepost. The entrance to the Grand Line is somewhere ahead!" Nami explained.
"The Grand Line, just out ahead." Luffy murmured.
"What now?" Nami asked him.
"Do we have to go there in the middle of a freaking hurricane, like this?" Usopp asked.
"I think that we should say something to mark the occasion!" Sanji answered.
"Alright!" Luffy grinned.
"Let's do it!" Aya smiled. Sanji rolled out a barrel filled with rum, setting it down in front of everyone.
"I'm going to the Grand Line to find the All Blue!" Sanji toasted, placing his leg on top of the barrel.
"I'm going to be the king of the pirates!" Luffy toasted, doing the same.
"I'm going to be the queen of the pirates!" Aya toasted.
"The world's best swordsman!" Zoro toasted.
"I'm going so I can draw a map of the entire world!" Nami toasted.
"I-I guess I'm going to be a brave warrior of the sea!" Usopp toasted. Everyone raised their legs up as they finished their wishes.
"Now to the Grand Line!" Luffy shouted.