Chapter 17: The Captives

Luffy was breathing heavily… he had managed to fight Dorry and knock him out… and knock some sense to him who was that he wasn't the one that did it.

"Who could have done this?" asked Vivi.

"I just realized something." Said Mari.

"What?" asked Luffy.

"What about that group you guys fought last night, Baroque Works… the ones after us. What if they're behind this." Said Mari.

"That would make sense." Said Vivi.

"I'm worried about the others… right now I'm under the raider. But…" said Mari, "This is going to be really bad.

Meanwhile with the group that was 50 percent fearful, the one that were really afraid ran as fast as the from the noises of dinosaurs, the other two ran at a quick pace, fast enough not to lose them. That's when Nami need to take a breather.

"I'll take the coward, you stick with Nami." Said Pantene.

"Okay." Said Tahiti with a sweat drop.

Tashegi walked towards Nami while Pantene continued to chase after Usopp.

"You okay?" asked Tashegi.

"But the dinosaur…" said Nami.

"There's none cashing you." Said Tashegi.

Nami sweat dropped…

That's when they noticed Luffy both of them walked toward him.

"Hey Luffy, aren't you supposed to be with Vivi?" asked Nami.

That's when the trap was sprung and the two of them were caught.

Elsewhere in the Jungle, Zoro continued to drag around the "rhino"… even after Kuina kept insisting was a Triceratops. That's when he noticed Nami.

"Oh hey Nami…" said Zoro.

"Wait! Zoro! It's a…" said Kuina, but before she could her sentence the trap sprung.

Elsewhere in the forest, Tomo was pouting, she hadn't found anything big… mostly just packs of some sort of raptor creature.

"Man… when am I going to find something big?" she thought picking feathers out of her hair.

That's when she saw Zoro… before she was going to approach him… she realized something odd, "He's not breathing or moving what so ever…"

That's when a small dinosaur walked by her, she picked up the dinosaur by the tail and threw towards "Zoro". Which released the trap.

"This has Mr. 3 all over this… I heard about that art freak a while ago while working for Mr. 6… This is bad." Thought Tomo.

That's when there was a large explosion as a certain Volcano exploded. Tomo shrugged and said "I better look for the others and quick."

Back at the white mountains Dorry had gotten up and tried to fight, Luffy tried to stop him… key word try… Dorry had put the mountain onto Luffy.

"Why you!" yelled Luffy.

"Mari what about you arrows?" asked Vivi.

"I don't know how many sleep arrows it would take to stop him… and unfortunately I didn't bring that many." Said Mari.

"Oh man!" yelled Luffy.

After a few minutes they saw a geyser of blood which meant one… all of them shook… they knew that Dorry had lost.

That's when Usopp followed closely by Patnene showed up… with Usopp shouting. "Nami and Tashegi were eaten by Dinosaurs!"

"Calm down!" shouted Patnene, "We don't know what happened! Don't jump to conclusions!"

That's when they noticed the state Luffy was in.

"What just happened!" yelled Patnene.

Luffy began to explain what happened.

"That's definitely sounds like that bomb fruit guy." Said Pantene.

"Has any one seen Carue?" asked Vivi.

That's when Mr. 5 and Ms. Valentines showed up, they violently slammed the charred duck onto the ground.

"Carue!" cried Vivi.

"He would quack so you would know about us." Said Mr. 5.

""That's horrible!" yelled Pantene, "You have no honor what so ever!"

"I'll give you honor!" said Ms. Valentines, "After you ran away form our fight!"

"I didn't say I was going to fight, you… just merely distract you… oh and by the way… if we fight it's your funeral." Said Patnene.

"What do you mean?" asked Ms. Valentines.

Patnene smirked and tossed a book at Ms. Valentines. Ms. Valentines began to read and began to sweat drop.

"Here's your book back." She yelled out tossing it back to the Amazon, "Okay Mr. 5! Fight her!"

"What… why do I?" asked Mr. 5.

"Because… I'll die…" sighed Ms. Valentines day, she really didn't want to be chased to the ends of the earth by a crazed Amazon.

Mr. 5 rolled his eyes under his sunglasses and tossed a booger bomb at the Amazon who wasn't expecting it.

"Why you!" yelled Usopp.

That's her Ms. Valentines crashed into Usopp.

"Oh no! Usopp!" yelled Mari, she took out something, she pressed a buttoned revealing it to her bow and grabbed an arrow just at Ms. Valentines hovered above her, "Perfect." She thought.

She fired it at Ms. Valentines day, who managed to grab it before it hit.

"What's this! You really think you can hurt me like this?" she asked.

That's when the arrow split apart and a rope tied her arm…

"Fooled you! That's was my Rope Arrow!" Mari who held the other end of the rope.

"You think that will work?" asked Ms. Valentines.

She crashed into the ground while pulling the rope hard sending the poor scientists into the ground.

Vivi was shocked… as she watched her two rivals fall right in front of her… that's when Mr. 5 unleashed a small bomb and for them to grabbed her… she watched helplessly as Usopp was crushed into the ground and Luffy and beaten and bombed… even mentioning they had Nami and Zoro hostage.

"No!" cried Vivi as she was carried away.

After a few minutes Tomo showed up, she gasped at the sight of everyone.

"Oh no!" she yelled out.

She noticed Carue had woke up and looked at her. She nodded at him, she began to dig up Usopp while Carue did Luffy… the other two injuries… well they can wait.

Back with the other three hostages, Nami was pouting and trying to think of something about the wax bon that held her arms and legs while Tashegi and Zoro were talking to Kuina.

"What do you mean you cant' break it?" whispered Zoro.

"I can't… I'm not strong enough yet… I'm still at first level… I bet I can't be even put a dent in it with my sword." Said Kuina.

"It's just wax… right?" asked Tashegi.

"I'm a Melee Type Angel… not an elemental…" said Kuina.

"What?" asked Zoro and Tashegi.

"It's just when our fighting prowess was… I'll tell you later. But the point is I'm just a first level angel, I can't stand up against Devil Fruit powers." Said Kuina.

"So…" said Zoro.

"Not until I'm at level 3, at least… and that's not happening for a long time." Said Kuina, "Let's just wait and see what happens."

That's when Mr. 3, a weirdo with his hair style shaped like a three grabbed the three of them and tossed them.

"Vivi, I thought you were with Butterfly and Luffy." Said Nami.

"Um…" said Vivi.

"Now time for my greatest Masterpiece!" yelled Mr. 3.

This made all of them sweat drop.

The 4 hostages were placed on a strange cake… Mr. 3 began his insane crazy monologue about art and a death trap… which was wax raining down on them slowly turning them into statures.

"Oh man…" sighed Kuina, "What am I going to do?"

"Do something!" yelled Tashegi.

Nami and Vivi stared at Tashegi.

"What do you expect? I'm crazy?" asked Tashegi… with her eye twitching.

"Okay I will try…" said Kuina once again summoning her katakana from her halo (which had reverted when Zoro was captured). She flew towards the cake and tried to cut it… no deal…

Meanwhile At Dorry's home… Everyone had recovered enough.

"Damn it…they even have Nami and Zoro." Said Luffy.

"What!" yelled Mari, Tomo and Patnene.

All three of them began to glow with anger, Mari was navy blue, Patnene was Lavender and Tomo was dark green.

"They will pay for this!" they yelled out.

All three of them ran in the same direction as Usopp hid behind Luffy.

"They're scaring me…" he whispering.

"Don't worry… they're not angry with you." Said Luffy wit his trademark grin.

"I know…" said Usopp.

"Let's go!" yelled Luffy following them.

Usopp sighed, he had the strangest feeling it was going to be pointless.

Back at the wax cake, Kuina continued to try to save them… Mr. 3 noticed the strange sparks.

"I wonder what those are caused." Said Mr. 3.

"It's as if some sort of invisible force is trying to save them." Said Ms. Valentines.

""Like any invisible force can stop it…" said r. 3 who began to laugh in a crazy way.

Those that could see Kuina saw she was struggling.

"I have to save him… I can't let him down!" she thought.

As she struggled she couldn't help but to think about something… she didn't know why… she just thought about it.

"In the Academy everyone always looked at me and whispered… they did the same to a few other people as well… why… once I asked another person they did that to and his response was "You know, I don't know myself… but I once asked someone who was doing it and they answered "It was something that I would future out eventually"" I asked him why he became one… and he was becoming one to help a girl he since childhood…"

That's when Kuina's stopped, "No it can't be… but why am I thinking about this now!" she said.

That's when she remember a lesson… the lesson was one way to level up was to true to your self and think about the true reason why one became a Guardian Angel… Kuina blinked… was this why she was thinking about it… to level up one… That's when she realized it…

"It can't be…" she said she once again She used the reminder of her strength to hit the cake… when she did he wings grew and a rather large dent appeared, "I'm in love with Zoro…" she thought.

That's when several captions appeared in front of her "Level: 2, EXP: 10,000, Combat: 500, Healing: 10, People who can: 4, Quests: Destroy Cake, Fix Zoro's Love Life." Both Zoro and Tashegi saw this and sweat dropped.

"So that's what they mean by God's a Gamer." Sighed Kuina with a really big sweat drop.

"What just happened?" asked Zoro in a way to ask about Kuina and about the dent in the cake.

"I just leveled up… unfortunately I need to rest." Said Kuina as her sword once again became her halo.

That's when Zoro smirked, and turned to 5th Hostage, Broggy, "Hey Giant do you think you can move."

"You are not cutting off your legs!" yelled Kuina.

Zoro sweat dropped.

"This should be easy to fix… no matter!" said Mr. 3.

That's when the 3 girls showed up... they had clamed down somewhat.

"So you three have showed up." Said Mr. 3.

"Hey…" said Ms. Valentines, "Didn't you sued to work for Mr. 6?"

Tomo nodded and said, "Yeah, working at an amusement park gets boring after a while though."

Patnene pointed at them "Are you going to kill the Hostages?" she asked.

"Why yes we are…" said MR., 3, but before he could finish his explanation, the three girls began to glow with anger once again.

"Uh-oh…" said Mr. 5.

"Well on the plus side, you will be rescued…" said Kuina with a sweat drop, after all it was universal fact that when a boy is in danger and two girls fought over him came to save him they were an unstoppable force… and just adding one more girl would make it well… even more unstoppable.

Next Time: The Baroque Works Members... are doomed! With Pantene's skill, Tomo's strength and Mari's strategy with there three anger combined the poor members of Baroque Works don't stand a chance! And what's this about Mr. 3s secret shame?