"What village is this!" Usopp gaped.
"Th-this must be…" Johnny stuttered, "Gosa, where Arlong went on rampage a few weeks ago."
As they stood there, there was silence not a sound but a light wind that moaned and whimpered in the flipped homes. Yes each home was taken from its foundation and had been flipped so they now rested on their crushed roofs. The homes creaked with sorrow as Usopp and Johnny stared at them and the debris in the streets and the devastation of the once welcoming town of Gosa who now lies in pain and fear. A 'rebellious town' ha what Arlong will say and do it's a horrifying thought really. Gosa the ghost town of the Arlong Empire.
"What a disaster…" Usopp stated finally breaking the silence. "The houses have all been flipped upside down!" he told more to himself them Johnny trying to believe it.
"Fish-men are strong…" Johnny began to explain, "they have 10 times the strength of humans! And this…" Johnny said spreading his arms for emphasis. "Is the kind of power you find on the Grand Line! And this is the fate of a village that defied Arlong!" Suddenly Johnny took off running for no apparent reason.
"Huh? Johnny!" Usopp breathed noticing the cloud of dust that had appeared where Johnny had once been. But what Usopp hadn't realized was…
"I almost missed you. You must be a refugee. I didn't know there were any left!" spoke a thing with a bad over bite.
Usopp, covered in sweat and skin that was pale, slowly turned around to face this unexpected guest…one of the fish-men from the dock had fond him! And without a second thought or just without thinking at all Usopp sprang off in to a run for life screaming his head off, typical.
"Wait!" the hefty fish-boy yelled stomping after him, leaving the unseen Johnny hiding behind a flipped building whipping the beads of sweat from his brow with the sleeve of his jacket.
"Phew. Missed me by a frog hair…" Johnny whispered as the sounds of Usopp's girly shriek grow distant. "Please be safe, brother Usopp! I'll wait right here for Yosaku and brother Luffy!" he said trying to justify his fleeing leaving Usopp unwarned in danger's wake.
"Ha ha ha ha ha ha!" Usopp laughed chocking down his fear, "Just try and catch me! This is my thing! Just try and catch me!" Usopp taunted daring the merman over his shoulder not looking where he was running…
"Found you fish-man! This is for my father!" declared a small beat up little boy in an orange short sleeve hoody who was now standing in Usopp's path.
"What!" Usopp questioned just as he ran into the young boy's extended leg and throwing his arms in the air fell to the ground with a Fwump! And sitting up just in time to see the boy sprinting towards him sword hurled into the air ready to come slicing down in bloody pain.
"I'll kill you, fish-man!" yelled the boy confirming Usopp's fear.
"Don't touch the fish-man!" roared a female's voice and was fallowed by a knife hand Whack to the already bruised boy's head which make him yelp in the sudden pain. "Look carefully. He looks like Arlong, but…" the purple haired woman explained coming to lean by the little boy who was Chabo, a now father-less boy from the deserted town of Gosa. "He's human." She told Chabo, "Kind of."
"Kind of!" Usopp barked.
"Wait, you!" interrupted the fish-man finally catching up Usopp.
"He's gaining!" Usopp whirled around on his heels to see the panting fish running ever closer.
"A fish-man!" shouted Chabo.
"That's a real one…" confirmed the purple-headed woman.
Usopp looked at the little boy and kneeling woman then to the on coming merman. "Stay back! I won't let you hurt this woman and child!" he stepped back taking his sling shot in his left hand from his shoulder bag. "I think I can take him." Usopp told the two.
"So, stranger! You finally giving up!" the merman asked Usopp still running.
"Not likely! Now you've made me mad!" Usopp replied taking aim. "Open wide! For death!"
"Don't touch the fish-man!" the purple haired woman said jumping to her feet pulling out a hammer and bonking Usopp on the head with it causing him to fall to the earth, again before he could get off 1 shot. But the merman continued his charge and Usopp was out like a light…
