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Deadly Drinking Pirate
The Town of The Start And End
Previously on Deadly Drunken Pirate,
"Chuu Bai Kiwoyurusukire!" As if Luffy was taking this an opportunity, Arlong's felt like his body was sliced up with all the pain. But then,
"Enough!" Arlong shouted, not feeling the drunk-like effects anymore. And then realized that Luffy was still there like before and with nothing that proved Luffy had been cutting him. "You dared to meddle with my thief and navigator! You dared set foot on my island! You dared to make a fool of me in Cocoyasi Village and here, in my headquarters and in the face of the humans that I rightfully rule over! I had it all and you dared take it away!"
"Because none of it was ever yours Arlong. You didn't buy this island. You stole it. Nami was never one of you, you forced her to become such. And the townspeople that you treated like dirt were never yours, you bullied and abused them into serving over you." Luffy said. "I am not a thief as good as Nami but I stole nothing from you. You had nothing that is even worth stealing to begin with, not even your pride."
"Dammit!" Arlong just couldn't take any of this for one more minute. "I will kill you with this!" Arlong positioned himself with his teeth bearing. "Shāku Tūsu!" Arlong charged with his body spinning like a drill, with teeth ready to bite down and tear up what gets in their clutches.
But Luffy still wasn't worried, in fact there were a few of the unlimited dangers of the world that do worry this boy. He just braced for an attack of his own, "Gomu-Gomu no Springshot!" Luffy then coiled his right fist and shot it right into the head of the spinning drill made of shark teeth. When that happened, Arlong couldn't bit down on Luffy's fist and was sent right into the tower in Arlong Park!
Seeing that he had caused some internal damage as well as sending Arlong to a place that the only person that knew was Nami. And she started to realize what Luffy was going to do and braced herself since the young captain was still unpredictable. Meanwhile, inside the tower, Luffy followed his own trail of destruction until he found Arlong trying to recover from that mean and unseen punch to the face that would leave a mark to remember for a lifetime. "So this is the room from where Nami felt the most distress." Luffy muttered as she waited for Arlong to get up along with his Kiribachi that somehow stayed in his hand even when Arlong tried to use Shāku Tūsu on him.
"I see that you have found the room. The room where Nami spent eight long years making all the maps needed to conquer this ocean and the others as well!" Arlong laughed as if to boast on how he had Nami as his navigator for years compared to how Luffy had Nami for days. Luffy ignored him and followed the trail of something faint but painfully familiar to Luffy's nose. It was at a desk with an unfinished map on it with all the tools needed but Luffy wasn't interested in all but one; the pen that had a feather at the end and a tip on the other.
"This pen…it has blood on it." Luffy said with his anger clearly building. And Luffy had a good idea whose blood was it; Nami's! It must be the blood that Nami had to bear with on her hands as she was forced to make maps day and night, endlessly as part of her life of abuse, being the reluctant navigator to the Arlong Pirates.
"That's right!" Luffy really didn't want to hear Arlong's voice right now but said nothing as Arlong placed the Kiribachi at Luffy's neck. "That is Nami's pen, the very one that she had used to make me maps for eight years! She is nothing like the rest of the fifthly humans that bow to our holy power! She is a bright girl with promise to be the best navigator in the world and she is will be mine as well! Can you use here as well as I can!?"
That was it, now Luffy has snapped himself. He didn't say anything still but instead, placed the pen with dry blood on the floor and grasped one of the shark teeth-like blades on the weapon with a fierce grip. Arlong then noticed that he couldn't, not even with his fishman strength, budge his weapon at all. That was when Luffy finally spoke while shattering any nearby blade.
"USE!?" Luffy shouted which actually got Arlong to back off as Luffy effortlessly shattered the Kiribachi into pieces while standing up. "You claim to treat Nami like a part of your crew like you treat your own kind! You lied. You just want her for what she does best by claiming to give her what she wants! That's a lie!" Arlong wondered why he was allowing Luffy to talk him down or couldn't move to strike while Luffy wasn't.
"You were the one that imprisoned here in this cell of a room! And when you took her village, her homeland and enslaved the townspeople! What is worse is that you killed her mother!" Arlong flinched. "You ruined her life and forced her to do what she loves, what she dreamed of, what she wants to do with her life! You forced her to do all that under her mother's killer! You made her hate her dreams, what her mother gave for her! And you dare say that you are using her like a tool! I will never forgive you Arlong!" Luffy then kicked one of the walls open from the inside out, knocking down one of the piles of maps. "NEVER!"
Then Luffy took out both his katana and rapier and proceed to tear the room apart, right in front of Arlong's eyes. Desks, bookshelves, and the maps were all getting destroyed and the fishman tyrant was getting angry by the second. "Damm you boy!"
Outside, everyone was almost panicking to see that from inside the tower were various debris to all but Nami who recognized every single piece that fell to the ground. She then cried again but of joy to see what had bonded her, had caused her unbearable pain and worse of all, forced her to do what she thought she will throw away her life for. It was all getting destroyed, by the boy she asked to do it with all she had left; her tears of pain and sadness.
Back in the room,
Luffy was interrupted from his seemingly mindless destruction by Arlong who couldn't be any angrier. "Damm you human, you are destroying all the work that Nami had spent eight years making! You are ruining my resources to rule all the seas! I will never let you walk out alive!" Arlong yelled like a madman until Luffy head-butted him in a face in order to get free and continue wrecking at anything in the room, all the way to the foundation itself.
"You can save your breath Arlong! Nami will never come back to this room! She hates it! She wants it destroyed and I will make that happen, with or without your help!" Luffy shouted as Arlong was losing his sanity and trying to hack at the room he was trying to 'save' in order to get at Luffy. "And Nami doesn't just want this gone, she wants the entire Arlong Park gone! It is nothing but pain! Pain and bad memories and growing hate! It deserves to vanish!"
And then, Luffy sent his left leg up through the ceiling and even higher with several extra meters. "Gomu-Gomu no…" But as Luffy was preparing his attack, Arlong got back up while degrading his Kiribachi weapon.
"Arlong Park will never fall to a puny naked ape like you! I will take back Nami and rebuild and no one will stop me! Don't you ever look down on all fishmen!" Arlong then braced to use his Shāku Tūsu again as a last resort. But couldn't even feel the pain as his teeth broke once he clamped onto Luffy's body. Only to hear,
"ONO!" Arlong felt like some kind of heavy mast or something had landed on his back and forced him down floor after floor until he hit the base floor with enough force left over to cause something of an earthquake. And once that was to be felt by all, the flag from atop finally fell and shattered on the ground. Back in the room, Luffy smiled. "And don't you ever look down on the power of a rubber band, like me." Then Luffy kept smiling and looking up to see that the duel had finally taken its toll on the tower, the only thing left standing of Arlong Park and the empire built around it. 'Nami…' Luffy could only think to himself as rocks and other debris continued to fall around himself, 'It's all over. You are free now. And forever.' And just like that, in one go, the entire tower collapsed on its own, leaving nothing left to be considered intact.
"There it is! Loguetown, our last stop before Reverse Mountain!" Luffy shouted while gazing directly ahead with a telescope in his right hand. And he was doing this from the recovered King's Gourd. And it seems that he was the only one to know that Nami only took the treasure from the ship but hid it from the Arlong Pirates; everyone else was sure that Nami had destroyed it and let it sink.
"You sure sound excited Captain, but is that town more exciting than me?" Now then, any man will try to sort this out with a panicked voice, with the fear of breaking up with the wrong answer in thought, but Luffy was nothing like that.
"Never, nothing will ever top being with you Nami-chan." Luffy said and boldly kissed his girl, now in a real relationship, with enough power to steal away any strength in her legs. Not that Nami didn't like the feeling of being so light hat she was suddenly floating with the clouds. And that is what they call 'being on cloud nine'. "Besides, you are excited to go there too yourself."
Nami giggled, "You got me. As always. But seriously, they have the best clothes anyone can buy in the East Blue." Luffy could only chuckle because Nami's love of clothes is only bested by her love of treasure and money; typical of a girl of Nami's age and only Luffy himself could afford to have such a woman as a girlfriend. "And with all that money you gave me, I will definitely fill out my wardrobe again!"
"For the record, it was no problem. They didn't want all that money anyways and now you are no longer in debit, you can use it for yourself." Luffy said and Nami nodded very violently. Her love of money was still present and going strong. "Just remember not to steal my head okay?"
"Okay Luffy, you are too good of a kisser to do that." Nami said in a sweet tone that still scared Luffy but he smiled anyways. It was true that it was tempting for Nami to really go for Luffy's head as well as the other heavy weights of the crew.
Flashback Begins!
"You raised the price again." Nami said in a stern tone as she places a fifty berry coin in the deposit box that the News Coos or seagull that deliver mail or newspapers and they are distinguishable by the newsman hats they were as protocol along with the box of papers they carry on their necks, was presenting while mimicking a soldier's salute. "If you do it again then I will go somewhere else to buy a good newspaper." She said in an unpleased tone that the News Coo ignored and flew off to get back to work.
"I don't see what the big deal is Nami. It isn't like you are still in debit and you have all that money you got back at Arlong Park so why are being stingy?" Usopp said from his positon on the King's Gourd while surrounded by some kind of chemistry kit.
"I know and because of that, I now can keep all the money I lay my hands on and I am going to buy what I want." Nami said like it was no big deal. "And if you want money than get your own because I am never going to have enough for myself."
"Whatever and now be quiet." Usopp said with a huff and his free hand facing its palm into Nami's direction while his other hand had some kind of vial along with a strange liquid inside. "I am working on a new formula for a new kind of Tabasco sauce that is so hot that once my enemies get a whiff, they won't stand a…" Usopp's boasting was interrupted when someone landed on his sit, spilling the contents of the vial into Usopp's eyes. "…CHANCE!? OWW!"
As Usopp withered with his eyes feeling like they were burning up, it was revealed that Sanji was the one who landed on the sniper and was actually ignoring Kaya fussing and trying to help her boyfriend. "What the hell was that captain!?"
"Sanji, it is one thing to waste time guarding the grove of tangerines we planted on the ship instead of being in the kitchen." Luffy said with a stern and irritated tone to match Sanji's. "But it is another to threaten and keep anyone from entering, even Nojiko. After all, she is coming to look after the grove and Nami so let her both parts of her job Sanji. Captain's orders."
Sanji tried to protest, saying that it is his 'duty as a gentleman' to protect the girl's tangerine grove from the boys. But when everyone, even Usopp somehow, scowled at him and pointed towards the kitchen, Sanji got up and walked towards that part of the ship in deep depression. "Why did you get a cook like him Captain? Zeff will never had caused this type of trouble." Zoro said with a couple of them agreeing
"Because Zeff said himself that there is no longer a good reason for him to be a pirate and Sanji is the one with a dream that will get fulfilled if he stayed at the Baratie. So are you saying that I made a bad choice?" Luffy answered and with an edge on his tone to show his point as getting a little irritated with slight disloyalty from his crew. They all just shook their heads violently, "If you don't like what Sanji does then you go and make us dinner yourself because any crew needs a cook and Sanji is the one."
"Okay Captain." They all said while going back to what they were doing. Zoro and Gin went back to their naps, Kaya continued to try and help Usopp, Alvida went back to relaxing with Nami and Nojiko went to the groves now that there isn't a perverted, sexist guardsmen to keep anyone out, anyone. Luffy made sure of it and everything else on the ship while at the helm, following both the wind and the compass to their final destination of the East Blue. That is until a certain pair of girls screamed at the top of their lungs, so much that even the ship jumped in shock like the rest of the crew; they all did the same when they saw four sheets of paper fall out of Nami's newspaper.
Flashback Ends!
It was bounty posters, with a criminal or pirate's profile and the amount of berries that the government is willing to pay for their head as proof. And just like what Luffy said, his victories over the top pirates in the East Blue, it was time for his own bounty. And now just Luffy but three more fighters in the crew also got their first bounties; they all went as followed,
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Monkey D. 'Strawhat' Luffy, 'Liber Glade' (1)
Bounty: 80,000,000 Berries
The profile photo showed Luffy in all his glory and his swords drawn out, mostly likely when he was in that somewhat fierce sword duel with Arlong. Luffy liked it anyways and so did Nami, saying that it made her man look even more 'macho.'
Wanted: Dead or Alive
'Black Leg' Sanji
Bounty: 39,000,000
Sanji's profile was something to tolerate since it showed him covered in smoke and with a vicious smirk on his face. Sanji just hoped that the girls will be at least interested in him, which didn't work on any of the women is Luffy's crew.
Wanted: Dead or Alive
'Pirate Hunter' Roronoa Zoro
Bounty: 50,000,000
Zoro's picture of his own glory when fighting the Arlong Pirates with his own sword drawn out to make him look either like a scary swordsman or a harden warrior. Zoro didn't care about it, only that his bounty was slightly greater than Sanji's.
Wanted: Dead or Alive
'Man-Demon' Gin
Bounty: 35,000,000
And this one is different since Gin proclaimed that the profile pic was reused, to show the same glare and composition that got him called the 'man-demon' long before he got his first bounty.
And that was the four bounties for Luffy's pirate crew but considering that they really mean business, they need to come up with a name for themselves. Luffy suggested the name to be 'Strawhat Pirates'. Despite how silly it looked on paper, it seemed to stick to their tongue somehow. What is more, Luffy said that he got from his friend in the Grand Line that every pirate at his league had their crew named after their nickname so Strawhat Pirates is just used for a good name and for good measure if they find themselves at that level as well.
Regardless of Luffy's personal reason for the name, everyone agreed to call themselves the Strawhat Pirates and for anyone that asks who they are, the crew will proclaim their name with pride. They are pirates after all, only they can stop themselves from doing what they want; and as if that will happen one day.
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Meanwhile, in a certain town and in a certain building that has the symbol and colors of the marines, someone was in a room filled with smoke but didn't seem to mind. He just kept piling rocks in a tower that looked like it was going to fall at the wrong move. That was why he was trying to stack the latest rock gently and slowly. But,
"Captain!" A foolish marine barged in and slammed the door opened, causing the rocks to fall much to belief of whoever was stacking them. "Oh! Sorry Captain!" That same marine tried to apologize but that man still didn't say a word. "Anyways! We got reports from headquarters that there are three new pirates with their first bounties! Monkey D. 'Strawhat' Luffy, aka the Liber Glade, Roronoa Zoro 'the Pirate Hunter', 'Black Foot' Sanji and 'Man-Demon' Gin! And they all seemed to heading here Captain!"
"You need to calm down." That same man seemed to be tired of hearing one of his subordinates, as being addressed as Captain. He just walked over to open one of the shut windows and let the smoke float out and into the clouds. "And if they are coming here then they are going to try for the Grand Line for sure."
"But Captain!" That same marine protested. "The Grand Line is also called the Pirate's Graveyard! And since no one has returned when the Pirate King died, no pirate had ever tried the Grand Line!"
"And what better reason than to risk themselves coming here soldier?" The man said before taking a jacket with what appears to be a large jitte attached with a strap.
"Sorry, Captain Smoker." The marine finally revealed who he was talking to and when the room cleared, a good view of this Marine Captain came.
Smoker is a muscular white-haired man, with a two cigars alight at once; quite fitting of his name as 'Smoker'. He wears a large thick white and blue specialist marine jacket which he keeps open, with greenish fur lining the neck, wrists and hem. Many cigars are strapped to the jacket, which bears the kanji for "justice" written on the back of it. Finally, his hair has a white tone and the fur on his coat was blue.
"And you better remember that for any reason that pirates should come here, I will capture them and I will be ready for them when they first arrive here. Loguetown, the Town of The Beginning And End! Where Gold Roger died!" Smoker then passed that marine who had just one last thing to say,
"But wait Captain. The bounty posters just came and you didn't even look at them!" He tried to get Smoker's attention. But the captain ignored him and continued to leave the building, to start hunting. "Oh man, how am I going to break this to Captain to look for a kid with a straw hat and a couple of swords on hand?"
And that marine never got his answer for the rest of that evening and could only wait until the pirates do arrive and see to that Smoker realizes that it is difficult to find something if you have no idea on what to look for. Maybe Smoker will encounter this 'Strawhat' pirate but arresting on the spot does have a very low chance of happening. Only Fate or whatever sees to the events happening can tell.
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And finally, the Straw Hat Pirates had arrived in Loguetown at the brink of dawn. It was a settlement like most in the Eat Blue, complete with a pier filled with boats already, a gate that gave away the name of the town and people walking the streets doing their business. And speaking of which, there is a lot of business for the pirates here before they can approach Reverse Mountain and then try for the Grand Line.
"Alright everyone, we have priories to discuss. We can't be here for longer than a day so we can't waste time getting our business here done before we will have to leave for the Grand Line." Luffy announced as soon as the King's Gourd had landed in a remote location since it was too dangerous to do the pier.
"Why are we in such a rush Captain?" Gin asked. "I mean, this is supposed to be the best place for any sailor, marine or pirate, in all the East Blue. Why can't we just enjoy it while we can?"
"You don't understand who is the Marine Captain here Gin. He is Captain Smoker and ever since he first became captain here, there wasn't a single pirate he hadn't captured in his career." Luffy explained and that impressive record was amazing to non-pirate sailors but not for the Straw Hats. "And that is because he has the power of the Moku-Moku no Mi. It is a Logia type and you guys are not ready to fight one yet."
"A Logia?" Usopp parroted and Luffy nodded.
"Logia is one of the three types of Akuma no Mi categories. Take my Akuma no Mi powers for example." Luffy begun his lecture. "Mine both fall under the Paramecia category. They are the most common of all Akuma no Mi and they are labeled as they can either enhance one's physical strength, affect one's environment or even produce a certain substance. In fact, Kaya's and Alvida's Akuma no Mi powers also fall under this category."
"But didn't you say that there were three types including Paramecia and Logia?" Sanji brought up and Luffy nodded.
"The one I haven't explained yet is the Zoan type. They are entirely of allowing the eater access their original form, that of a certain animal or a hybrid with attributes and strengths of both." Luffy said and his crew were in awe and imagined themselves of their favorite animal and transforming into it at will, what is more to turn into a hybrid as well. "But I seriously doubt we will encounter a user of a Zoan Akuma no Mi here in the East Blue but there is still I have to explain about the rarest and supposedly, the most powerful of all Akuma no Mi types."
"You mean the Logia type that you brought up a few minutes ago?" Nami asked and Luffy nodded once again.
"One thing is for sure is that Logia are definitely the most rare of most Akuma no Mi and the most dangerous to pirates like you guys. A Logia allows the eater to transform into a certain element or form of nature to become intangible to allow attacks." Now the Straw Hats were really getting the point Luffy is trying to make. "What is more, they can even use their Logia powers to disastrous effects so they can considered invincible in all the Blues but in the Grand Line, there are plenty of people that can take on a Logia and win."
"Who?" Gin asked, his curiosity peaked.
"People who have mastered their Haki. And more specially, Busoshoku Haki, as that can allow the user to reach the solid self of a Logia to deal damage." Luffy answered and saw that everyone after Usopp and Kaya were all clueless about Haki. "And don't you ask because I never find myself repeating the same lecture so when people ask, you will have to answer. Understand?" This time, Luffy addressed everyone in his crew and they all nodded.
"Good. Now to more important business now you know better to avoid a marine named Smoker." Luffy begun. "We need to get the right about supplies because there isn't much settlements to restock in the Grand Line. And that means Sanji, you are going to take this to the market for food and bring only the best you can find." Sanji caught a small sack that had enough money for the entire crew. "And to make sure you don't get 'distracted', Gin will be going with you." When Sanji tried to protest, he was met with the same dread and displeasing frown on Luffy's face that dared him to say 'no' to him.
"Usopp, you will need to get ammo for both your rifle and your slingshots as well anything else that a sniper like yourself needs. There should be a store or two that sells such merchandise. You may search and ask for directions but never reveal who you are sailing with." Luffy spoke to Usopp who nodded in eager obedience. "I personally will take Zoro to my first stop here and when my business is done, I will have to break up to another place in Loguetown."
"Hey!" Zoro tried to say but he never got any further when Luffy showed his displeasure of being interrupted during assigning his crew to errands.
"And finally, you four!" Luffy pointed to all the women on his crew and including his own girlfriend. They flinched at being pointed at as well as Luffy raising his voice but they all saw his smile. "You girls are going to do only one thing here: have fun!" Now everyone was baffled at this turn of events, from serious to carefree. "I mean it girls, we are not sailing so we don't need to treat Loguetown like a ship in the middle of the ocean and Gin did say we should enjoy the last stop for heavens knows when and where. So I am giving you a girl's outing. And before I forget," Luffy reached into the ship with the help of his powers to bring out a couple of sacks and gave them to Alvida and Nami. "That should cover everything."
Nami was curious about it since she could have sworn to hear something rustling around in one of the sacks so she took a peek. And screamed at the sight, of money bills and golden treasure in a respected sack! "What is all this~! There should be at least…one hundred million berries in both sacks!" Now everyone screaming, their funds had gotten a major backup and the captain never told them that.
"It is all from Arlong's bounty and from his ruined base. I was going to give it to the people of Cocoyasi Village but they refused it and instead asked of me to give it to you Nami. We all agreed that will cover eight long years of working with the former tyrant." Luffy explained which made Nami scream again, dropped the heavy sacks on Sanji's and Usopp's feet and embraced her boyfriend, kissing him square on the lips.
"I love you! I love you Luffy!" Nami just couldn't hold back in her excitement. And because of that, she also lost all shame in her make out session; one that was twice the pleasure as Luffy didn't even try to fight back and kissed her back. What is more, Nami felt like she was losing her legs when Luffy got them into some tongue action as well. "I can't wait until we leave Luffy." Nami suddenly turned whispering and into Luffy's ear. "I will gladly repay you in private if you are up for it."
"And who am I to deny of you on what you want Nami? You are my navigator and my girl." Luffy whisper back that got Nami to shiver again, in both pleasure and excitement. "I will be waiting." Luffy then gently released Nami so she could join Kaya, Alvida and Nojiko with a little embarrassment in her system; no doubt from letting herself go in public and forgetting about any shame with her boyfriend. The men just tried to look away for the fear of getting on Luffy's bad side for looking at his girl in a weird and wrong way; Sanji was on the verge of collapse seeing one of his 'potential girlfriends' make out with the captain, the sigh of being taken first.
"Now let's go, we are burning daylight and if you don't move, there is going to be more things burning." Luffy causally said, grabbing onto Zoro's shoulder and heading into a certain direction into Loguetown. The crew chuckled at the sight and left according to what Luffy 'ordered' them to do.
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And while everyone left for their 'assigned' errands, Luffy took Zoro like he said and by the word 'took', the captain had to drag Zoro to be more precise. Not that Luffy wasn't surprised that Zoro still retained his infamous example of a bad sense of direction. Seriously, just is Zoro still alive if he gets lost easily?
"Well here we are, the best sword store in all of Loguetown and possibly the entire East Blue." Luffy said after Zoro was clutching his hair with a painful grumble. Luffy was wright, Zoro was about to get lost and Luffy had to drag him on the right trail for every hour walked on the roads. Thankfully for Zoro it only took two hours to get to the store.
"The 'Shop of Arms'?" Zoro said in disbelief. How original for sure.
"Yeah, but why did you take that wrong turn when you could see the shop right in front of you?" Luffy jabbed at Zoro who growled. And the two pirates walked in to see the shop owner who seemed to be delighted to see them.
"Luffy! You have finally returned!" Zoro was surprised but Luffy waved at the owner who walked up and shook his hand.
"Hello Ippon-Matsu, I knew that I will find you still in business." Luffy said like meeting an old friend. Ippon-Matsu is a short man, with black hair that goes to the sides of his head. He has tan skin and wears a blue shirt. His nose is red, also. "Now I will ask of your skills with my blades. Blood and flesh is bad for their edge."
"Yeah. Considering that you keep getting them covered in such messy stuff." Ippon-Matsu chuckled. "You should learn some day to kill fast enough to not even leave a speck of dirt on your blade afterwards, their scabbards could only keep them in shape so much." He then took Luffy's Katana and Rapier. "Hello again Reimei Itami (2) and Yuudoku Toge (3). I will have you both ready for more action, wherever your master will go." And then Ippon-Matsu left for out back of the store to sharpen and clean both weapons.
"That guy is creepy Luffy. And he has your swords!" Zoro shouted but Luffy just shrugged it off.
"Say whatever you like about the shop owner. I trust him with any weapon or mine because it was him that granted me those two blades through some string pulling and that I protected his wife from debit collectors." Luffy said. "I will never settle for anyone to sharpen and clean my blades and that is why they will tolerate him. If you try to even touch my blades then I will not be able to stop the girls from killing you off in retaliation. They are like lovers, lovers that don't want anyone to touch them." Luffy had this spookiness and serious tone in his voice, one that gave Zoro the shivers. "It took me half the time training on my island to tame them Zoro. Can you do it in five seconds?"
Zoro knew that his captain was now daring him and any dare from Monkey D. Luffy will always be crazy and dangerous. And Zoro is not an idiot to take it. "Sorry Luffy. I didn't mean it!" But while Zoro tried to back out and get away before Luffy starts to get the swordsmen too involved,
"Did you say Luffy?" They all turned to see that there was another customer to the Shop of Arms, one that charged towards the captain. Zoro got on his guard for an enemy trying to get at his captain's head but instead, Luffy welcomed it in warm arms since
"Luffy!" The woman ran and landed right into Luffy with arms around his chest, "Big Brother!"
"Tashigi, you have grown so much again since the last time I seen you with a sword book in hand." Luffy said as if this woman was his slightly childish, older sister. Zoro just got a good glimpse of this 'Tashigi' woman.
Tashigi has dark brown eyes and wears her black hair between chin- and shoulder-length. She wears rectangular glasses with red frames. Tashigi is wearing short-sleeved shirts of varying different colors and designs but usually covered them with her white-trimmed, waist-length blue leather coat. She tended to wear blue jeans with black shoes but has also paired white capris with tan shoes.
But there was just something off about this woman with a katana and when Tashigi finally showed her face in plain view, Zoro had realized it. "Hey!" He just had to barge in on the sweet reunion in the Arms Shop. "Why do you look like her!? Are you a copycat!?"
"What!?" Tashigi snapped in retort. "I'm not a copycat! And I always looked like this!"
"That is enough!" Luffy shouted while getting between both his first mate and this female swordsman. And by the blades in their scabbards and on his belt, Zoro saw that Luffy had gotten them from the 'creepy' shop owner in such short time. "I understand that this is this uncanny resemblance but Tashigi is her own woman, not a copy in any way. Understand!?"
Zoro growled that he still couldn't retort against his captain with that expression on his face. "Now I have a personal errand to do before we will leave Loguetown so do what you want here and don't get lost when you are done."
"Yes Luffy." Zoro agreed with a mumble that somehow made Tashigi giggle like a young girl. "Hey! You are smart about swords right?" Zoro then faced Tashigi to get her attention.
"Y-yeah…" Tashigi was still a little nervous around strangers and especially those who demand of her.
"Then help me please." Tashigi wondered why Zoro had suddenly turned gentle. "I idolized swordsman, pirate or marine, as a boy and I had been training with swords since I first entered the dojo back on my homeland. But I practice Santoryu so just having one sword is uncomfortable and makes me feel insecure. I need to find two more swords, ones that won't be destroyed by any other. I really need the help." Tashigi nodded, glad to meet someone that is interested in swords; and personally, more interested in her extensive knowledge on swords in general.
"Then let's see what this cheapskate had to offer." Tashigi offered and Zoro smile to hear something like that from such a clumsy and shy girl. The shop owner just wept at the disrespect and that he couldn't be angry about it instead of afraid. And as for Luffy, he had reached his destination right when they started looking in the shop,
"There it is." Luffy said once he got to the very center of Loguetown, where he wanted to go before he will leave the town and the entire East Blue for the Grand Line. The long closed execution stand, the very place where Gold Roger himself died twenty years ago. 'Gold Roger? More like Gol D. Roger.' Luffy thought to himself, 'That's right, to anyone up there that just heard that. It is like me, I possess the 'D'. And this is unavoidable, no matter who has to say. I will show the world why all the liars in their high seats fear the 'D'.' That was what Luffy swore at that moment.
End of Chapter 7.
*I understand that this chapter maybe short compare to the others but I don't think that shoving arcs into one chapter is the way to go. I need to build something on my chapters, not race to see how far I can complete a whole sagas in only a few chapters. So I split the Loguetown arc into two chapters instead of one like I originally planned.*
I debated on which name for the same deity that is mostly associated with winery, either Bacchus that is already used in Fairy Tail or Dionysus which seemed a little ridiculous somehow so I found the third name, Liber so I went with that.
I named it 'Dawn Pain' from how drunken people always feel some dizziness and headache in the morning after the night of drinking. That is also the closet description of the pain that Luffy's Katana can give any of the pirate's targets
I named it 'Toxic Thorn' because it fits that Luffy can either kill by poison or intoxicating his opponent before stabbing with his Rapier.