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Deadly Drinking Pirate

I'm Going to Be the Drunken Pirate King

Previously on Deadly Drunken Pirate,

And so ten years had passed and Luffy's brothers had already left for the sea so now it was his turn. It was a very beautiful day on the pier of Foosha Village. The entire village was there, including the village elder. He had a cleft chin, wears oval glasses, and has a mustache and a beard, turning grayish-white. He wears simple clothes and a hat that changes with his appearance, but they are similar to each other. He currently wields a walking cane from old age. He was also the mayor, Woop Slap.

"I can't believe that you are leaving us to be a pirate Luffy! Don't you know what it will do to our village!?" He never appreciated Luffy's dream but the boy never had a good reason to listen to him, his word was never good advice.

"I told you Mayor. You can't stop people's dreams. You will be known as the heartbreaker Mayor if you keep this up." Luffy irritates the mayor every time by being smart enough to retort much sharper and always win an argument. "Besides the Marines don't care where Pirates come from. It is a waste of their time to capture us and besides, if our village does get know as a pirate breeding ground then the World Government will try to hide it. I have seen their ways to save face in the eyes of the entire world."

"Fine! GO! Follow your dream to the very ends of the world for all I care!" Woop shouted with his infamous outbursts. Makino just giggled and calmed him down. As she did, the sun begun to shine from beyond the clouds and cast a better light on this new and improved Luffy.

Despite having a scrawny figure, his body was ripping with muscle. He was wearing short, blue trousers with cuffs, sandals, and a sleeveless red vest. Luffy still has that scar with two stitches underneath his left eye and short, messy black hair. On his waist, with a yellow sash tied around his waist, were a pair of swords; a katana and a rapier, both were sturdy looking and still exquisite. He has grown taller and nearly above the average person's height for his age at seventeen due to his training. All this can be seen in his clothes as well as his slightly thicker neck, more pronounced deltoids, and better-defined chest. Finally, on top his head and hiding most of his black hair that had grown half way past his back, was a straw hat with a red cloth rimming; it looked worn, like it was used multiple times for years.

'Can't believe that Shanks had given up his greatest treasure to me before he left days ago. He told me that my training is over. With him but I am not powerful enough for the New World and the only way to be prepared is to overcome Paradise. I need to be strong enough to make Paradise look that way compared to the New World.' Luffy was heavy in thought as he drifted the straw hat over his eyes, covering them with shadow from everyone's sight. No one spoke a word the entire time.

They then watched on Luffy rowing away from the pier but not before the sea giving away like dirt to a surfacing mole. Out came the Lord of the Coast, a local sea monster that had made the island unreached to normal pirates. His appearance is similar to a large oversized brown eel with red eyes and blue fins.

"Hello Lord of the Coast, I hope you are not hungry because I am not going to be your next meal unlike ten years ago with Higuma." Luffy said with a calm tone but the sea eel tried anyway but was wondering why he suddenly see the same boat and same human multiple times. No matter which one he tries to attack, all he meets is the water that splashes rather hard at that speed. "I told you and because you are a sea monster, you don't belong in the East Blue. You deserve to live with the real monsters in the World's Greatest Ocean. Come with me and you will no longer be hated and forgotten by all. They will fear you instead and that is what you live for, isn't it?" Luffy started to say and the sea eel was wondering why his vison was cleared up and he could think straight again.

Looking into the eyes of Luffy made the Sea Beast give in, those eyes were like that of a king or a conqueror. He just sat there in the waves while Luffy attached some ropes in the shape of a horse's leash. "From now one, you will be my stead and you need a name. A name that will show of everything you can give to everyone who sees you from the depths of the ocean." Luffy started to think hard on what will be good until he smirked, "Umi Tentei!"

The sea creature didn't know what to think based on human language but still liked the sound it and nodded. "Well then my stead, my Umi Tentei, we will show the world what we can do! We are going to be the strongest there ever is! We are going to rock the earth so hard it will shake the heavens!" Luffy raised his fist into the air and Umi Tentei, or Umi for short, roared into the air following his new master's voice. That was to be the start of something that the world had never seen indeed.

After a couple of days of just drifting, in case they stumble onto something on the sea, Luffy was actually starting to feel a little bored. It was nothing but the white clouds too far to reach and the blue sea that stretched like a never ending blanket.

"I just wish something will blow up because it will startle me. That is proof that things are too peaceful." Luffy muttered in annoyance and then got his wish even though he didn't see the wishing start in the day sky. Something did blow up and it was so strong that it rocked the ocean surface, with Luffy's boat shaking violently, and it was so loud that it nearly killed off the fish nearby; the ones not so lucky had littered the ocean around the area.

"Let's check it out Umi." Luffy said while getting the attention of his startled sea stead. Nodding, Umi took off with Luffy and his boat towards the source of the noise. Meanwhile, at the very sight, there was a battle. Two ships, one with a flag of the skull and crossbones, were shooting cannons and launching sailors at each other. It was between a pirate ship and their next target for plunder.

The strangest thing was that the ships were still floating and not even lowering an inch in all the cannon fire. It was like the cannons were only doing as much as getting the wooden hull dusty and dirty. But that makes some sense since if one ship goes down and the other is too damaged to be used again, it won't matter any difference to who will win. It looks like they are trying to avoid getting sunk and getting the other ship to sink.

"Looks like a battle alright but if we are going to the Grand Line, we will need a much bigger ship than this rowboat." Luffy said while trying to figure out which ship to spare and which one to savage for himself. "Oh what the heck, stand back Umi." Luffy said getting his sword out of its scabbard which confused the eel-like Sea King but it moved back anyways.

And it was glad that it did because when Luffy swung his sword, the sea exploded in a violent wave that shook both of the ships and in a closer look, the crew were shocked as well. Or that, they all had weak hearts since they fell hard to the decks and were all knocked out. "All done, come on Umi. I need to re-fashion this eye sore into something that really screams 'pirate ship'."

Umi nodded and helped Luffy get aboard the pirate ship while agreeing that staring at it too long can ruin one's eyes indeed.

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(If you wanted a battle between Luffy and Alvida then you will have to look it up because it will be no different)

"Here we are!" A young boy that was named Coby heard Luffy shouting, "Seashell Island and the closest marine base from miles around." Luffy said before turning to Coby as the former cabin boy emerged from within the boat like a bear from winter hibernation. "This is where you will start your life as a marine."

Coby smiled at that, here is a pirate that didn't kill him and now was going to make him a marine even if it killed him. "T-thanks Luffy-san. I-I just hope t-they will l-let me i-in." Coby was still the wuss from living in fear for two solid years as a reluctant cabin boy on a cruel pirate ship.

"Coby, you can do chores and you actually sail a ship. That is all they ask for someone who wants to be a marine." Luffy said to try and comfort him. "I tell you, being raised by mountain bandits and trained to be a jungle animal was not going to make me a marine. That is why I am going to be a pirate instead. I just like my freedom too much." Luffy said in a nostalgic tone. Coby had heard it before but still found it hard to believe.

As for the ship they were sailing to Seashell Town, it was actually the pirate ship Luffy had stolen from another group of pirates that were called the Alvida Pirates after their former captain. Since it was hideously pink, Luffy had to repaint it with some black and blue paint that he happen to have on the rowboat he took from his hometown. No one was going to use them in Foosha Village anyways and as luck will have it for Luffy, the paint were in his favorite colors. After the new paint job, even Coby agreed that it looked more like a pirate ship. Except for one thing to also notice,

"I still can't believe that not only did you ruin my ship but you also rebuilt it while still on the sea." Both Luffy and Coby turned to see someone that they knew but was still a different woman altogether. She was Alvida herself,

Originally, Alvida was a tall and very obese woman with long wavy black hair, and freckles on her cheeks. But now she was as slim as most woman of her age.

She is wearing a white cowgirl hat with a large red plume, a red neckerchief, a pink plaid shirt, and a blue captain's coat over it with the arms in the sleeves unlike many other pirates. She wore rings on her fingers and her long sharp fingernails had red polish. She had a purple sash with a flintlock pistol tucked in it and some jewels. She also wore graying pants and red shoes with gold buckles. She still has her cowboy hat, but she now dresses in a pearl necklace, a bikini top, and tight Capri-length pants. She sometimes has a purple coat draped over her shoulders. She still wears lipstick, polish on her now shorter fingernails, and her toenails are shown painted as well

"Well since your former ship had a regular style helm and bottom, it was easily to work my way up. I happen to have a lot of talents when I trained to be a sailor Alvida." Luffy said casually, like it was no big deal at all. But Coby and Alvida have to say otherwise. "And don't forget that I am the only one that is keeping you from wasting that pretty face and body in jail Alvida. I am not a pirate yet so marines have no reason to throw me in jail with you." Luffy then said in rebut while not noticing the blush on Alvida's face.

"You're right captain. I am sorry." Alvida said back, in a timid tone like that of a shy schoolgirl. "I am still glad that you actually helped me even though I tried to kill you." Alvida then brought up. "That Sube-Sube no Mi of yours is still the best thing that ever happened to me."

It was true, Luffy did agree that if Alvida dreamed of being the world's most beautiful woman than she will need a complete and total make over and a new look. Taking out an over-sized Pomegranate that was blue instead of the usual dark red complete with curls and swigs on the surface (1), he forced Alvida to eat it while she was bound in her own rope.

The next thing she knew, she felt a lot lighter and the ropes fell as if she suddenly shrank. Instead, her excessive body fat had disappeared in an instant! She was shocked and wondered what happened until she tried to balance herself by leaning on one of the ship's wooden walls and instead slipped and fell; it was like she was trying to stable herself on solid ice.

Luffy explained that he had uncovered this fruit while hunting in the jungles around his village and kept it because he had already ate one at the time and there was no one to buy the fruit for a good amount of money. So he kept the fruit from being stolen until he could find someone to at least tell him what fruit it was.

And just like that, he had somehow uncovered a book on the current recorded fruits and it called the one Luffy found as the Sube-Sube no Mi or the Slip-Slip Fruit which allows the user to be untouchable by removing any friction on the skin to the point that anything unnecessary like body fat will not hold on at all. Alvida thanked Luffy for giving her a large step towards her dream, of being the world's most beautiful and powerful woman.

"It is no trouble." Luffy can be aware or not about just how much respect Alvida has in for him. "Now remember Alvida, speak nothing and don't bring your weapon. It will be the first thing to give you away and I don't want Coby to blow his chance at being a marine before he even got started. You don't want me to actually ruin your new face, right?" Like an actual captain, Luffy was brief and straight to the point with a bit of edge to his tone that got Alvida to nod so fast, her head could have fallen off. "Then let's go."

XXXXX

Seashell Town was your ordinary town, nothing very significant, just the regular things. Stores open to customers, children running in the streets, parents talking with their friend while keeping an eye on their kids, all the usual stuff. "I'm not sure about this Coby? Are you sure this is where the Marine base holding the Pirate Hunter, Roronoa Zoro, is?"

But before anyone could speak, everyone jumped away from Luffy and his company and tried to paste themselves on the walls they were leaning on. "Perhaps you should reframe from speaking the Pirate Hunter around here." Coby whispered into Luffy's ear and the raven haired boy nodded. But then, "I am pretty sure since the captain of the base is 'Axe-Hand' Morgan."

And just like that, everyone jumped from the gang in the same manner as when Luffy mentioned Zoro. Coby was confused, "What?"

"Doesn't sound like this captain is very well loved by the people. I have a hard time deciding which one is the real danger to this town." Luffy responded which got Coby off the wrong block,

"That is impossible! Marines are never to be feared, there are not bad guys! OFmph!" Coby shouted until Luffy suddenly stopped in front of the boy, causing Coby to crash into him.

"Coby, I want to be a pirate." Luffy said while not facing Coby. "Does that automatically make me a bad guy?" Coby didn't know what to say, at least without stuttering.

"W-well….uh…uh…"

"The world isn't black or white. There is gray areas of corruption or misunderstanding." Luffy said in sage like tone. "There are bad marines who are more concerned about their egos, money, or their power while there are good pirates who sail for freedom and the joy of adventure without any higher ups telling what to do from their high chairs. I want to have all the freedom that the sea can give me and if I wasn't a pirate, it will be ten times harder to achieve my dream."

"To be the pirate king?" Coby said but Luffy shook his head,

"No, my true dream. One that you will figure for yourself." Luffy answered in an encrypted tone before continuing on his way through town, following the sight of a high tower to the marine base. It didn't take very look to make it there and Luffy had one thing to say, "This place is the ugliest base I ever seen. It just screams of inflated ego."

But while Alvida stayed near Luffy for personal fear of being recognized and captured by marines, Coby ignored the raven boy and was shaking as if he was exposed on a winter day. "T-this is i-i-it…w-what I-I have a-always-s d-dreamed-d o-o-of…" His voice was pieces and all over the place.

"Well anyway, we need to find out where Zoro is and see if he will join us Coby." Luffy said and that got Coby's attention.

"Good luck because if I know marine bases, any criminal will be placed inside the base so that he can't escape and hurt others…" Coby said but wasn't to one to be taken seriously since had this dreamily look on his face, like talking about all the things he loved about his idols. But,

"Oh yeah? There is someone in the courtyard for sure. Come on and let's get a better look." Luffy said and pulled Coby up the wall with his extending arm, something that Coby and Alvida has yet to get used to.

Inside the courtyard, on a wooden cross, was indeed a man. He was like he was rugged to the ground and hadn't had a good meal and good night's sleep. His breath was ragged and sharp despite barely even moving from those rope binding that kept his arms and torso to the cross.

His attire was something to consider. He wore a dirty white and open shirt with black trousers tucked inside black boots, and a green haramaki. His eyes were covered by a black bandana which was as dirty and sweaty as himself and still made him look menacing like a tiger waiting to pounce or a demon ready for the kill.

Luffy was not too startled but Coby sure was scared, enough to fall all the way down the wall and ignore the pain in his panic. "T-that's him! That black bandana and green haramaki, it is Roronoa Zoro the Pirate Hunter!"

"Okay then Coby, you watch over Alvida while I talk to him." Luffy said but before he could even lift himself up over the wall, a ladder was placed next to him, from the opposite side as Coby. Who climbed the ladder was a little girl who seemed to be local in the town, she reached the top of the laddered and signaled for Luffy to be quiet.

Luffy wanted to see what this brave little girl was going to do if she was going to sneak into a marine base. She walked over to Zoro who finally moved his head to the sound of footsteps in his direction. "…you? Why the hell are you here? They will kill you." That wasn't what a demon usually says, especially when they are bound and on the verge of death.

"I bet you are starving so I made something for you." The girl said in a cheerful tone, as if she was ignoring Zoro. "I worked hard on these Onigiri (Rice Balls) and I thought that you should eat them."

"I said beat it." Zoro said instead only to hear a set of three footsteps coming towards him in another direction entirely.

"Now, now Zoro. That is no way to treat little girls." A voice that could only be related to parrot with a throat pain, complaining about no food. It hurt their ears from the very first word. And what they all saw didn't help, it was a skinny and lanky-looking young man with light blond hair shaped like a sideways oval on top of his head. He also has a cleft chin. He wore violet colored uniforms with white shoes and a rubber band ring on his left hand.

"Just what is that captain?" Alvida, apparently, didn't want to be left out of the action and managed to climb up the wall with her much lighter body. She whispered her confusion and disgust to Luffy who only nodded,

"Since there are marines near him like bodyguards, no doubt that he is related to the man in charge enough to be like a prince on this island." Luffy said with an edgily tone, "I seen this before. Truly I hate most royalty figures and family members; and pretty much those who even as much as act like it." Now that was new and yet no one took notice.

"And why are you here, you little disobedient brat?" That sure was ironic, coming from the same boy who scolded Zoro on not treating children right. "Are those Onigiri?" He pointed to the treat in the girl's hands and snatched it without even asking for one. Only to choke on it and expel it from his mouth in disgust, he then snatched the remaining rice ball and stomped it into the dirt and mud under his foot. "This are too sweet, you need to use salt! Don't you even make good rice balls!?"

"I-I thought that sugar will make it taste better and I worked hard on those…" The girl started to cry but the boy just won't budge and instead pointed to a sign right next to him.

"Too bad and you shouldn't be here because the according to daddy's rules, anyone that is spotted with a criminal or helping them out in any way possible will be locked away as an accomplice so you better scram before tell daddy on you." He whined and acted once again like it wasn't his problem with a head up high.

"I take that back, he must be the son of the captain who is in charge of this pathetic marine base." Luffy whispered to his two friends who were watching the whole thing and they all nodded.

"Now will you two idiots stop standing there, looking stupid, and get rid of this brat?" The boy said pointing to his two 'bodyguards'. Yet they both hesitated,

"b-but Mr. Helmeppo, she is a little girl and…" One of them stuttered until the boy, now named Helmeppo, grabbed him by the scuff of the collar.

"Are you really saying no to me, the son of Captain 'Axe-Hand' Morgan!? I will tell daddy on you!" Helmeppo shouted and one of the marines hurried to grab the girl and throw her over the wall.

Thankfully, Luffy and his friends were able to get out of sight and Luffy was swift enough with his stretching abilities to catch the girl and save her from a nasty fall and an even worse landing.

"Take her into the town, I will catch up with you after this jerk leaves." Luffy told them and both Coby and Alvida nodded. Luffy did as he said and waited for Helmeppo to leave with his bodyguards, laughing at how Zoro promised to last a mouth with food or water if the town will be spared and he will be allowed to leave safely.

Zoro then took in a huge sign, probably from hearing that voice every single day until he noticed a shadow in front of him. "Who are you? You better leave before that idiot captain son comes back."

"I am not worried about spoiled brats who need others to even go to the restroom, I am more interested in you Roronoa Zoro." Luffy said and Zoro smirked,

"It will seem that my reputation perceives me. Now that you know my name, how about yours?"

"It's Monkey D. Luffy, I am going to sail to the Grand Line and achieve my dream." Luffy said with hesitating.

"Dream huh? The Grand Line? You must have a death wish, wasting your time on a pointless dream." Zoro said with a smirk that seemed to be glued on his face until,

"And the same can be said about your dream Zoro, you will never be the best in the world by staying here in the weakest of the seas. Seriously, Greatest Swordsman in the World? You will have a better chance at being the greatest decoration swordsman in this courtyard." Luffy said bluntly and grinned when Zoro actually got a little shaken up,

"Shut up!" That sure scared some birds in the distance, showing just how loud that yell was. "I don't know how you found out about my dream but this ropes won't keep me from killing forever!"

"Cool it Zoro, I am here because we both have dreams and I want to invite you on my pirate crew."

"Pirate crew? Sorry but no, I will never stoop to be something as despicable as that." Zoro smirked again but Luffy wasn't impressed,

"Fine then, I will you time to think of a real answer but know this, I am not leaving without you and as a pirate I will play dirty if I have too. And remember, you are in no position whatsoever to complain. See you later." Luffy turned after stating the circumstances until,

"Wait!" Luffy turned to Zoro who was looking at the ground near his feet for some reason. "Can you get those rice balls put them in my mouth?"

Luffy turned his focus to where Zoro is looking, with disgust. "What rice balls, their more like dirt balls. Are you sure about this?" Luffy said picking them up but Zoro was stubborn,

"Never mind that and give them to me." Zoro said with his mouth wide open and inviting. Luffy shrugged and placed both dirty rice balls in Zoro's mouth, watching the bound man struggle to bite them down.

"I told you it was nothing but dirt, are you trying to be a dirt mite?" Zoro ignored him and instead said this,

"Great, tell that girl that it was the most delicious rice balls I ever ate." Luffy said nothing and just nodded.

Later, inside the town,

"Really? He liked them!?" The girl from before, named Rika, shouted in her childlike joy.

"Ate them to very crumb." Luffy said wile Coby and Alvida were in awe at how Zoro ate the dirty rice balls, just to cheer this girl up.

"So this Zoro guy isn't a criminal?" Coby still wasn't sure what to think of finally seeing how marines handle the general population. It was nothing like what he had been dreaming off for two years as a cabin boy and a slave.

"No! He is not!" Rika shouted, "He is only in trouble with the marines because of me!" Rika then explained that Helmeppo once set loose a rabid dog he owned into the town that terrorized the townspeople and even tried to attack Rika but Zoro had stopped the dog by killing it. Helmeppo took it as a sign of defilation so he threatened to lock up Zoro until he promised to leave everyone alone and let him go after a month with no food or water.

"Hey! Your heads are too high, bow lower! Lower or I will tell daddy on you!" There was that same voice from the courtyard, and speak do the devil, it was Helmeppo himself. He seemed to want to walk to somewhere with everyone bowing to him like a prince. "Oh I can't wait to kill off that Zoro in three days! It will be fun!"

Luffy had initially wanted to ignore Helmeppo but that last sentence just caused something to snap inside. "Hey! You said that you will let him go when the month is over!? You promised!"

"What?" Helmeppo turned to Luffy with indifference like an ignorant parrot. "That? That promise was just a joke! I only said it so he will cooperate, he is such a stupid beast to believe someone like me to begin with! It will be good riddance!" Helmeppo taunted Luffy about with a puffed up face until Luffy finally couldn't take it anymore and fiercely punched Helmeppo in the face.

"OWW! You hit me!" Helmeppo whined while Coby held Luffy back. "No one! Not even daddy ever hit me! I am Captain Morgan's beloved son! I will tell daddy on you!" Helmeppo was wondering why his usual attitude wasn't working on Luffy and tried to threaten the raven haired boy.

"Then you better call him and kill me in front of his eyes for all I care. You are way too old to go to your stupid father for something as stupid as this!" Luffy wasn't deterred at all, he had seen scarier things than the threats from a spoiled boy. After seeing the two marines take Helmeppo away, he shook Coby off easily and adjusted his hat that fell off his head when he struck at the captain's son. "He is not even worth hitting. That is why he has never been hit in his life."

While everyone was in deep shock at what was going on, Rika walked up to Luffy and had the eyes of a child who had seen her idol in action.

"Thanks big brother, I feel a lot better now." It sure did when Rika saw the one who wasted her hard work and had the nerve to insult it right in front of her eyes. Luffy just chuckled while ruffling up Rika's hair like a little sister of his.

"Rika! You know you shouldn't be involved in things like this! We will get killed!" A woman who looked like an adult version of Rika came and took the little girl from Luffy while Rika was protesting until Luffy assured her that things will be fine with a thumbs up.

Once Rika was in her house with her mom, Luffy lost his smile and faced Coby with a glare to prevent anything the latter was going to say. "Try and stop me Coby but I have made up my mind. I am going to leave this town, with Zoro on my crew."

Not waiting for a respond, Luffy charged towards the Marine Base again after telling Alvida to look after Rika and only intervene when things get out of hand. Once he had reached the wall and climbed over it, Zoro looked up to see Luffy again.

"If this is about joining your crew, then you will be disappointed. I have thought about it three times before you got back, I don't want to go." Zoro tried to make it clear even though his appearance was not to be taken seriously. Since Luffy isn't going to leave without Zoro, he had a plan for Zoro unfortunately, for the latter.

"If you want to become the world's best swordsman, given that you are the pirate hunter and yet you don't kill pirates; you are trying to improve your skills even though you are feared throughout the East Blue. You are aiming for the top but you can't do that without a sword." Luffy started and Zoro was growling at the former. "Zoro, if I give you a sword, will you slice steel? Slice iron? Create blades of wind? Cut an entire ship into half?"

"No way in hell, those are impossible!" Zoro shouted in defilation but Luffy wasn't impressed.

"Zoro, I am a swordsman myself, trained by a pirate from the Grand Line. He happened to be Dracule's old rival. I even know both of them greatly. If you want to be the top then those things will be nothing to you. You can't achieve your dream staying here in the East Blue." Luffy said and Zoro just didn't know what Luffy was talking about until. "And tell you what, since you don't have your swords, they were stolen. I will get them back for you."

"What?"

"But if you want them back, you will have to join my pirate crew!" Luffy smirked and Zoro exploded,

"You little, stupid, blackmailing piece shit are really pissing me off!" Zoro yelled like a trapped and cornered rat until Luffy gave a silent farewell before running towards the base directly. "He is just going to die…" Oh, how wrong Zoro will learn he is.

Meanwhile, at the top of the tower at the Marine Base,

"Hurry it up! I want my statue to be where everyone can see my greatness! Do it right or I will kill you!" Shouted a very tall and muscular, intimidating man with blonde hair and a steel jaw. His right hand is replaced by a huge steel axe, the handle of which seems to go right through his forearm. He is wearing a large, billowing coat like a cape. He is also smoking a cigar.

"Y-yes Captain Morgan!" The poor marines who are struggling to lift up a statute of their captain, proving of his abuse and huge ego. But someone was there and was talking to Morgan about something else.

"But daddy, someone hit me and you said that you will kill anyone who does! Why aren't you doing it!?" Helmeppo was shouting at his father even though they barely had anything in common despite being father and son. Morgan had this to say though.

"You want to know why I haven't hit you in all your life?" Morgan said with a sadist tone that scared Helmeppo,

"Because I am your beloved son?" That was the wrong answer for sure as he too was hit in a similar but weaker way than Luffy.

"Because you are a son that is not even worth hitting!" Morgan shouted before getting on his feet and towering over the quivering Helmeppo, "Why am I the one to fight your battles. You are old enough to do it yourself and not get my greatness involved. You are just a flea compared to the prize winning canine I am. Got it?" Morgan said but before anyone could respond, someone beat them to it.

"Except for that last one, I had to agree with you. Axe-Hand." A voice that Morgan didn't know but Helmeppo recognized had settled in the atmosphere out of nowhere. When everyone set their eyes on where the voice seemed to originate, on Morgan's statue! "Hey."

"What the hell do you think you are doing!? You are a commoner who is going to rot my wonderful statue! Get off so I can kill you!" Morgan shouted but Luffy didn't budge.

"This thing? Thanks for reminding me, to do this!" Luffy looked down on the waste of rock and stone and smashed it with his bare fist! Morgan was as pale as a ghost, seeing the rock image of himself crumble and fall to the ground.

"Kill him, now!"

"Aye-aye Captain Morgan!" The marines saluted until,

"Daddy that is the one who hit me! If you would have killed him, none of this would have happened!" Helmeppo shouted until he felt a little light headed and found himself being carried by Luffy while upside down.

"Sorry but I need you for a moment." Luffy said before taking Helmeppo down the corridor via an open entrance to the main stairway. Meanwhile, a marine pointed out someone trying to untie Zoro in the courtyard which successfully derived Morgan's attention from Luffy kidnapping his son.

And indeed, in the courtyard, Coby with the help of Alvida was trying to untangle the ropes off of Zoro and free him. They told Zoro just what was going on and that the marines were never going to spare Zoro at all, just needed a reason to show off their 'achievement' and then their 'great' power by killing an otherwise exhausted and starved Pirate Hunter.

Back in the marine base, marines were dropping like flies to fly poison as Luffy tried to find where Helmeppo had placed the stolen swords of Zoro's. There were in a room that screamed more of a girl's tastes with all that egotistical and pink décor. But what Luffy found were a sword in a white scabbard while two more in regular black ones.

Luffy didn't have time to think when he saw the marines aiming their guns on Zoro and his friends so he took all of them, tied the swords to his waist and block the bullets by leaping out of a window.

"You!?"

"Luffy!"

"NOO!"

"STRAWHAT!"

They all reacted to Luffy taking in the marine bullets and yet Luffy didn't get riddled with holes like a piece of Swiss cheese. "It will take more than that to kill me!" Luffy laughed at everyone's expressions.

"Just who the hell are you!?"

Everyone shouted while ignoring the armless marines and the pile of rifles at Luffy's feet. And neither did Luffy who said proud and clear. "I am Monkey D. Luffy and my dream is to be the best pirate of them all! I am going to be the Drunken Pirate King!"

End of Chapter 2.

*This one was a monster to even get something out of my clouded head. I swear that lately I can't just show myself as a college student anymore. Maybe it is because I mostly do video games than anything else. I wish I can just focus for once and got something right in a college class for once.

Seriously, it seems that I can't learn something while knowing it was stick to my head like pancakes made in the wrong pan. I bet that a lot of you feel like this and don't worry, it only happens to me all the time. Wish me luck please because I am doing the same!*

1. I had to think of an original and real life fruit to model the Sube-Sube no Mi. I hope you don't mind it if you had a different image of the Sube-Sube no Mi for yourselves.