I do not own One Piece.
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Sanji prepared himself. Hiruko smiled. He ran towards Sanji, ready to punch him. Suddenly, he stopped.
"The fuck was that?" asked Sanji, hearing a rumble.
Hiruko walked away saying, "You got lucky."
Sanji followed him. "Tch! It was you who got lucky!"
An explosion followed the last syllable of Sanji's sentence. Hiruko jumped off the ship to see what was happening. Sanji did the same, following Hiruko. They entered the forest. It was too dark to see anything. Hiruko crouched down.
"The hell?" asked Sanji.
"A footprint," murmured Hiruko. "A big one, deep one." Hiruko paused, looking at the foot print.
"Tch, we're up against a big thing, big deal." Sanji walked away. He suddenly disappeared, yelling.
Hiruko walked up to where Sanji originally was to see a massive hole. Sanji was grabbing on to the edge.
"Help me you bastard!"
"How about no?" Hiruko crushed Sanji's hand.
"F-fu-" And there was no more.
Suddenly, the ground began to quiver. A huge monster jumped out of the hole. Sanji flew away. Hiruko stepped back.
Is this something Ora-sama is controlling? wondered Hiruko. Nevertheless, I'll destroy it. Hiruko clenched his right hand. He unclenched it, revealing a dark, almost invisible mist. This was due to the darkness. Hiruko could not jump on to the monster's head. He would have to run up the tail.
The monster was basically a humongous mole-like creature. Although it was not as big as the tiger, it held its own. Hiruko ran behind it and immediately ran up the tail. He managed to get to its head with getting hurt. Hiruko forced the mist into the mole creature's head and then jumped off.
"Finished," he said rather calmly.
The mole, however, was far from finished. It jumped up and was ready to land on Hiruko. He managed to get away though.
"What the hell?" Hiruko blurted out. This isn't good, he thought. I don't have enough physical power to finish this thing off. I'll need them…
Sanji was coincidently flung all the way back to the ship. About to wake everyone up, Sanji hesitated. He was skeptical about helping Hiruko. After all, he did wish for a bastard like Hiruko to just go to hell. Sanji began to ponder deeper. The mole may easily kill Hiruko and immediately keep on wandering until it finds the ship. Sanji decided the best way was to wait until the mole defeated Hiruko, then wait until it was near, then kill it. Sanji did not consider Hiruko defeating the mole or being able to barely live.
Hiruko managed to run up the mole's body. He peacefully sat there, hoping it would not find out. The mole stupidly lost sight of Hiruko, and walked away, towards the ship. That was not what Hiruko had planned, but it was much better than what he would have done. The mole, crawling for a while, found the ship. The ship was about its size, and therefore considered the ship as an enemy. As the mole leaped up, Hiruko slid down the mole. He managed to grab its tail and scamper back on though. Sanji saw the humongous mole flying down at the ship. Jumping up, he launched a powerful kick that sent the mole and almost Hiruko flying away. Hiruko landed by Sanji, incredibly dizzy.
Catching his breath, Hiruko stood up and said, "The first time you were actually useful huh?" Hiruko walked away.
Preparing to direct another kick, except this time at Hiruko, Sanji was yet again interrupted by a noise, except it was much louder and it sounded like a volcano erupting. Sanji turned around to see several of those moles, all around the same size as the previous one. This time, Sanji was not dubious about waking the others up. If he didn't, they would never wake up again. He lightly punched the guys of the crew in the face to wake them up, and whispered softly in the girls' ears to wake them up. With everyone awake, he pointed at the abundant amount of moles.
"Tch," scoffed Zoro. "You can't take care of these yourself?"
"No, Cook-san is right," muttered Robin. "These are called Anger Moles. They are large mole creatures that are not afraid of anything, but are not as strong as they look. That is, unless you anger them. Normally, they are angered by a mole of their pack being hurt. When they're angered," paused Robin to point at one of the moles' eyes, "their eyes become slightly red. Their original name was Red-eyed Moles, but over time, their name changed. This is somewhat like a transformation for them. When their eyes become red, they become ferocious and wild. This isn't good."
Zoro was already wielding his three back-up swords. "Nami, approximately how many of them are there?" he questioned, putting one sword into his mouth.
"Fifty-four," Nami answered. "Why?"
"Perfect!" Zoro mumbled all ready to go. "These may not be the best swords, but fifty-four of these bitches shouldn't wear these out completely." Charging at the moles, Zoro leaped up and slashed two moles down in no time. His sword and his clothes were blossomed with blood. Licking the blood off his swords, Zoro dashed at another mole.
The mole attacked Zoro with its sharp claws. The attack managed to slightly connect, but Zoro was already in "Full Battle Mode." Attacks like those were futile against him. Zoro sprung up towards the mole, and did a three hundred sixty degree spin the moment both swords touched the mole, completely killing it. He continued to attack the rest of the moles.
Sanji noticed Nami and Robin watching Zoro in awe. That pulled the trigger. He leaped off the ship, dodged several claws, and started to spring off each mole's face, injuring them. Stopping, Sanji raised his right leg and began crushed the skulls of numerous moles. "Heh, fourteen!"
"Tch, twenty-one."
"Hey, you started be-"
Sanji was too careless. A mole knocked him towards the ship. Blood could be seen flying out of Sanji's mouth as he flew towards the ship. BAM! He crashed into the ship, dazed and barely conscious. Beginning to lose his conscience, Sanji slowly began to mutter, "Damn," but only managed to get to "Da-" before he fainted.
"How careless," murmured Zoro, continuously killing the moles.
There were ten left, and soon, there was only going to be nine moles left to kill. The moles teamed up on Zoro, raised their claws, and they all slashed Zoro. His shirt was ripped apart, and his body was about to be. Zoro fell unconscious. Blood dripped all over his body. Fortunately, Luffy came to the rescue. Stretching his arms back as far as he could, Luffy hurled his arms forward, knocking two of the moles away. He continuously did this until there were no moles left, and then grabbed Zoro and flung him back to the ship, much to almost everyone's dismay. He did the same with Sanji.
"Don't treat them so carelessly!" screamed Chopper angrily, preparing to treat their wounds.
"Right, right!" muttered Luffy, apparently picking his nose.
Luckily, the week passed by easily after that day. Chopper would occasionally hear animals talking about the crew being able to defeat the Anger Moles or the Alucuzum Tiger while on hunting expeditions. They were feared everywhere, and although there were no more physical injuries, it became difficult to catch food.
"The Log Pose is set," said Nami cheerfully. "Let's go!"
"Oi, what's the next island called?" asked Zoro randomly.
"It's called the Market Island," said Robin. "On that island, there were and still are tons of shops and markets everywhere." Robin looked up the island in one of her books. "It takes approximately half a day to get there from here and the Log Pose is set after three days."
"The Market Island eh?" Zoro grinned joyfully. "That's where SSS shop is. The greatest swords shop in the world! Finally, I'll be able to handle some of the finest created swords in history!"
"…If you're going to lend money from me," said Nami, "you'll have to pay me back three times later on. It's called interest."
