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Deadly Drinking Pirate

A Tyrant's Return

Previously on Deadly Drunken Pirate,

"Hello Chopper." The reindeer then turned to Luffy with the look of a child who is seeing his father for the first time.

"…Big Brother…you're back. You're really back!" Nami had absolutely no idea what is going on but the cute scene of a talking, walking reindeer embracing Luffy, calling 'big brother', was enough to make her giggle. Luffy has yet another secret to share and explain.

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Meanwhile,

"Hey! Look at the sky!" Usopp shouted, pointing upward. Everyone who happened to hear him also looked up and saw the sky still filled with thick clouds. But it wasn't what Usopp wanted to point out.

"So what? It is a winder island and…" Alvida answered, not seeing the problem; she was getting a little tired of the snow fall falling down her slippery skin faster than rainfall. But then came the realization that slowly, one by one, came to everyone's head.

"It's not snowing!" One of the local shouted, "That never happens here! This is a Winter Grand Line island! It always snows!"

Dalton tried to keep the crowd under control but something about that group of scared and confused locals had caught the attention of the Straw Hats. There was one member of the crowd that wasn't panicking or yelling; he didn't even look concerned or confused. That's is as suspicious as a clear sky with thunder strikes.

The man in a cloak noticed that the Straw Hats were staring at him and walked out of the crowd, unnoticed by the locals. "Greeting all." He spoke in a rather polite tone that deter the Straw Hats one bit.

"You are definitely not a local." Usopp spoke up. "Just who are you?"

"The name is Ace and I heard that Luffy is sailing this sea. Where is he?" The cloaked man said and the Straw Hats just didn't know what to think of respond. Is this Ace fellow a friend or a foe; what is he under that cloak?

"What is it to you?" Usopp asked with an edge. He had been that way since he first heard of an avalanche coming only for it to vanish in an instant; something was definitely at work, but it could have happened from any single point on the entire island. It was a foolish idea to even consider looking for the one that caused the avalanche of snow and rubble to halt before it could reach even the nearest village. "Are you some bounty hunter after our captain's head?" When he reached for his rifle and the other Strawhats for their weapons, they saw the stranger laugh instead.

"Please. As if I could turn Luffy even if I was interested in his bounty." 'Ace' nervous chuckled, adding to the Strawhat's suspicions. "I did see his bounty poster and I have heard that Luffy is here in the Grand Line. I didn't want him to look for me so here I am, looking out of my life."

"Devil Fruit…" Zoro said out of the blue. "You have a devil fruit; it is the best thing to explain how you were able to halt the snowfall on this cupcake of an island with frost icing. So how is a devil fruit user afraid of our captain? None of us know you."

"Me neither." 'Ace' replied. "But I know Luffy. And yes, I do have a devil fruit. But that is not going to help me catch up to Luffy getting a head start on me, that damn younger brother of mine." He growled and this got the Strawhats both on edge and puzzled by that expression.

"LITTLE BROTHER!?" 'Ace' cringed at the sheer volume of the pirates yelling at once.

"Hey! I hadn't been his big brother ever since we had that cup of sake ten years ago. I actually been out for months!" 'Ace' shouted in defiance, like he was offended by their respond or their expression. "And whenever I tried to ask what happened, Luffy will just not say a word and pound me to the ground. After a dozen or two times, I just gave up; Luffy is the younger but stronger brother of the bunch. He even scares me sometimes when he goes off."

The Straw Hats didn't know what to make of this, Luffy had a brother? And yet their captain is stronger than his older brother? Then Usopp remembered something that Luffy said;

Flashback Begins.

"W-what just happened Luffy!?" Nami asked of her boyfriend who didn't even looked disgusted or shocked, but concerned.

"I am sure that he was just waiting Nami. He was holding in all that pain until he saw me." Luffy then put his hat on his chest, the traditional act of saying prayers to the newly deceased. "He was getting close to that age of his long life."

"You have been here? In the Grand Line before?" Usopp finally walked up to his captain about that encrypted talk.

"Usopp." Luffy said sternly. "When you get drunk, your mind is as gullible as a child and as forgettable as your great-grandfather. What better way to keep a secret?"

Flashback Ends.

"Luffy…" Usopp whispered and then turned to the one of the Rockies. The tingling feeling on the back of his head told him to do so. "Just what can your power do?"

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Meanwhile,

"Come one Chopper, she won't bite." Luffy teased Chopper, struggling to get him into letting Nami hold him. "You are like a little boy trying to get out of a bath!"

"No! Big Brother!" Chopper wasn't acting out of fear for getting sick from Nami's ailment or getting her 'cooties'. It was something else and Nami saw it in his eyes; it was his cutest that prevented her from frowning. Then Chopper stopped struggling when Luffy rubbed him under the chin.

"Awww~!" Nami couldn't help herself to see Chopper acting like a house cat to Luffy's magic touch. She then reached and rubbed the little reindeer the same, seeing that Chopper didn't notice the difference in finger complexion. But he sure did when he found himself in Nami's arms,

"Big Brother!" Chopper couldn't believe that Luffy tricked him into submitting by extorting his personal favorite spot to be rubbed. He didn't care that Nami felt rather soft even with the fever trickling at his fur.

"Why are you afraid, little guy? You are too cute to be eaten up~!" Nami decided to teased Chopper a little but then noticed that the reindeer had actually gave up trying to get free from her grasp. Chopper looked like he had just gone down the alleyway off Memory Lane. "Chopper?" Nami was about to panic, thinking that she had just ruined Chopper's day when she felt Luffy hold his hand over hers.

"Don't blame yourself Nami. Chopper hasn't found a good reason to even like his nose." Luffy said and then rubbed it in a way that Chopper looked a little relaxed but still forlorn. "Reindeer all have black noses, to have one of a different color is to be a disgrace in their eyes. Even his own mother."

'That's terrible! Why would she do such a thing!?" Nami shouted, she almost felt that way with Belle-mere since they were poor. But this was much bigger and worse than anything Nami could think of.

"No one knows but that doesn't matter anymore. She could be somewhere else, never to mate again for all we care." Luffy said coldly. "Even if she left the herd to find another mate, the entire mountain had seen what she did to Chopper. No one will ever want her ever again. That is her punishment." Nami could have sworn that Luffy spoke from experience.

"You were there too." She said but no one answered. "And through your powers, you confronted that reindeer and told every other herd on the island of what she done." Luffy then finally nodded.

"You are getting closer to the truth, one that I knew will be revealed once I entered the Grand Line again. I just, never will forget when I saw Chopper being treated the worse by his own kind." Luffy spoke with a tone that was colder than the snowy air but it wasn't at anyone in the room. It was probably at a soul that has long passed away. "I felt like tearing her head off but the worse I could do was punish her. She was doomed to never mate again, to possibly bear a child she was just reject." Luffy continued, "And then he came. Chopper's friend, his companion and his real father. He was…"

Then, Luffy and Chopper stiffen; as if they suddenly turned to statues. Statues that faced one certain direction. Luffy's nerves were on the edge and Chopper's nose was on high alert. Whatever presence they sensed, it was revolting to say the least. "ITS WAPOL!"

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Back at the base of the Drum Rocky,

"Are you telling us…" Usopp said with both him and the other Straw Hats having a shadow covering their eyes. "THAT THIS WAS HERE ALL ALONG!?" Usopp was referring to slope car that was attached to a large rope that was tied to a large tree and lead all the way to the castle on top of the Drum Rocky mountain. "Luffy climbed the mountain for no good reason!?"

"I'm sorry!" A poor sap who had to be the one to bring the late news was cringing at the expressions of the pirates. "I thought that this was torn down when the pirates from before sent Wapol off!"

"Whatever…" Zoro happened to be present and pulled that messenger by the scarf. He was going to do some foolish and extreme swimming in the Drum Island water with only his pants on. But the avalanche had caused to drift towards the Bighorn village. "Does it still work?" The messenger villager nodded furiously,

"I wish that you won't threaten the messenger Pirate Hunter. How are we going to explain to the captain?" Zoro groaned to hear yet another person that was supposed to be on the King's Gourd. Kuro had actually tried to chase after Zoro, to keep the latter from that stupid attempt to swim in the freezing waters. That was how they both landed in the same village.

"Luffy will increase my training, I know." Zoro moaned out when everyone won't stop staring at him, expecting an answer. "I should've been used to it but that captain just finds new ways to get me pale and whimpering."

"I will also tell Luffy that too, Zoro." Usopp was proud of himself for actually talking down Zoro and even pat him on the head, like the swordsman was reduced to a mere boy.

"Whatever guys, we did get Dalton stabilized but he still wants to get up to the castle." Alvida brought up and everyone turned to what is left of the massive man with a morality just as big and unwavering.

"…y-yes…" Dalton had to get arrows in his chest when Chess and Kuromarimo dated to attack the people of Bighorn, in an attempt to kill him. "…W-Wapol…is…t-there…" Even when his wounds were stitched up, the sheer cold was finally eating away the big, good man. He will live but he will have to feel the cold of the icy winds and that he failed to stop Wapol from reaching his prize. "…t-take me…t-to t-the castle…"

The Strawhats looked at each other until Usopp stepped up to Dalton. "If we refused then we will have to answer to our fierce but loyal captain. This is the most we can do for a man who loves his town and his people, there are too little in this world." Dalton nodded and let Kuro and Zoro to left him off the ground once again and help him walk over to the trolley car with the rest of Bighorn following behind, slowly.

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Meanwhile,

"Ma-ha-ha-ha!" Wapol laughed in all of his disgusting arrogance. "At last, I have arrived at my castle! And it looks just the same as it was when I ruled it!" Wapol was egged on this with Chess and Kuromarino bowing to him on both ends. "It won't be long before I will become the king of this miserable island once again!"

Kuromarimo sports a long, orange cloak, with white lining, and black afros at each end, and white afros hanging from the front. He wears gloves that cover all fingers but his thumb, and resemble an afro. He has a large black afro on his head, and three small ones on his beard. He is of medium height and normal weight. He wears a shirt that's orange in the middle and white on the sides with light yellow buttons, along with orange shorts. He has hairy legs, and black boots with white laces. Overall, Kuromarimo resembles a boxer.

And Chess was that same, strange man who was under the illusion of standing on water, right before the Straw Hats had their first encounter with Wapol and his so-called 'pirate crew'; they were actually his personal army and his ship was merely disguised as a pirate ship since sailing the seas as thieves was not on Wapol's agenda. It was so he can flee from the five pirates who ran ashore before the Straw Hats did, and hopefully return to Drum Island.

"Wait Sire! At the top of the castle!" Chess then pointed and when Wapol looked to see what was up, he growled in anger. There wasn't a state flag or a nation flag, but one with the Jolly Roger. It was a pirate's flag that had Sakura petals surrounding the skull and crossbones.

"What has happened to the flags of my kingdom!? Who dares try to place a filthy pirate flag in its place!?" Wapol ranted until he heard a certain elderly woman chuckle.

"That garbage, I burned all of it ages ago when I moved in. That man was a fool but he had a good heart and I happened to like his personal flag." Kureha had exited out of the front door like a lady who has trespassers on her lawn. "I don't know how you found this island but you are not welcome here, especially here. This is the resting place of a great doctor that you laughed at."

"He was an idiot, a quack doctor who couldn't cure anyone! He was also a con man and a thief! I refuse to have my beautiful castle be a graveyard for the weak and stupid!" Wapol retorted almost immediately. "And as your king, I order you to leave my castle!"

"As I refused to allow you to eat my ship…" Wapol then heard the voice of someone else that he wished he didn't. "I won't let you take back this castle. Go and steal a little girl's miniature castle and be its king for all I care."

"You! A Pirate in my kingdom!? You don't belong here!" Wapol shouted to see Luffy come out right behind Kureha. And beside him were Gin and Sanji. The former had actually healed enough to be walking again and was caught up to speed. Meanwhile, Sanji ran himself lost in the castle until Luffy found him. But there was the problem of Chopper hiding behind Luffy's legs.

"Sanji, for the last time, don't cook this reindeer!" Luffy, of course, ignored Wapol and scolded his cook for not controlling himself with Chopper. Gin and Kureha could only do as much as try to not pay attention to the little soap opera.

"Fine, fine! I have had it trying to catch that morsel!" Sanji grumbled. "And why are the ones who tried to eat our ship here?!" He shouted, still filled with irritation from his bad day.

"The same jerks that called themselves pirates Sanji." Luffy said. "Why not you and Gin get some exercise with the two on both sides of the tin-head?" As soon as Luffy said those words, Sanji ran off like a rocket while Gin sighed for only a couple of seconds then followed after.

Sanji went after Kuromarimo who was actually kept skilled, to dodge Sanji's swift and strong strikes. But Luffy could see that Sanji was suffering; he didn't get out of that avalanche a couple of days ago unscathed. "Bikkuri Marimo (Surprise Ball Seaweed)!" Cruelly, Kuromarimo saw it too and allowed Sanji to aim his kicks for the afro shaped boxing gloves, just in time for spikes to appear and pierce Sanji's good leg. To add insult to injury, literally, Kuromarimo used the other glove with spikes all the same to strike Sanji in the belly, causing the cook to cough up more blood and get sent back to where Kureha was standing.

"Why you…" Sanji growled and tried to get up, ignoring the pain throughout his body. Kureha sighed and shook her head, this blonde just doesn't know when to call it quits while he still has a body that works.

"Dokutā Sutoppu (Doctor Stop)!" Kureha 'stopped' Sanji by using her weight on his back and twisted it to an angle that forced Sanji's lower half to not work for a while. Now Sanji can't run off and get himself killed.

Meanwhile, Gin was having more luck against Chess. His tonfas with large iron spheres attached to their ends worked just fine against Chess's arrows. Pretty soon, the jester-looking man will run out of ammo and Gin will be able to get in close enough to finish off Chess; he just wished he had bought a personal firearm from Logue Town and soon enough, he really wished it so.

"Don't think that I am done since that idiot blonde is out? Take this!" Kuromarimo shouted and shot out many min-afros at Gin and they quickly stuck to his arms and legs. Seeing that Gin had backed off and tried to get the fuzzes off, Kuromarimo laughed. "Forget it, my Eleki-Marimo (Electric Ball Seaweed) are sticking with static electricity and there is something else you should know…"

Gin growled but smelled something burning. So when he turned towards Chess, he saw the jester's arrows were aflame! "My Eleki-Marimo are also flammable!" Gin widened his eyes and couldn't do anything to stop Chess from firing them,

"Chekkumēto (Checkmate)!" Chess cried out, shooting those flame arrows at Gin, causing the Eleki-Marimo explode all around Gin. And the Man-Demon wished that he wasn't already injured, then he wouldn't have fallen so easily and disgracefully. "And now there is only one left…" Chess turned with Kuromarimo towards Luffy but then,

"Hold it you guys!" Both fighters turned to Wapol who actually halted them. "I have been keeping my eye on that pirate, he didn't even as much as twitch to see his own stupid lackeys fall. And he gives off this thing telling me that he is much strong than any of us!" Chess and Kuromarimo gasped to hear such a thing.

"So what do we do, Sire?" Kuromarimo inquired as well as Chess but Wapol asked something rather unusual.

"First, Chess!" Wapol turned to the jester man with a notepad & writer feather in hand, "What did I eat today in total?" Chess looked in closely and answered,

"Sire, you ate one butter sautéed cannon, one cannon extra rare, a cannonball and gunpowder salad, and one grilled house." Those sounded disgusting but Wapol looked like he remembered a very delicious banquet.

"Thank you, and now…" Wapol then begun to change and morph. "Waporu Hausu (Wapol House)!" Everyone was wondering if this poor excuse for a king was being serious or a clown when he turned into something of a living house that hand cannons for arms and hands. "To start off, that flag is going to go!" Wapol actually fired from the cannons that were his arms and aimed at the flag flying at the top of the castle.

This almost sent Chopper over the edge while the others were shocked to see that Wapol will waste his power on a flag. But the cannonballs never even reached the roof of the tower that had the flag. "If you want to destroy Chopper's prized position then you will have to go through me."

Luffy then had the same aura from before, only visible to everyone. Kureha scowled. Chopper was worried as well as Sanji and Gin, both somehow still conscious. And the 'Wapol Pirates' were scared out of their wits. It was like they were turned into twigs and were trying to stare down a mountain about to collapse.

"I told you guys that he was dangerous, now brace!" Wapol shouted to his two close warriors before chomping on them! This shocked everyone, Wapol practically committed cabalism right in pure daylight! But when Wapol swallowed them, he acted like some kind of machine or a factory. "Baku-Baku Fakutorī (Baku-Baku Factory)!" Called it.

"With my strength as Kuromarimo…" A voice came from within the house shaped Wapol but didn't quite sound like Kuromarimo.

"And my skill as Chess…" That same voice appeared and it did resemble Chess a little. The suspense was nerve killing to see what will come out of Wapol's house door that was on in the middle of his stomach.

"And with King Wapol's power and authority…" Now it sounds like the two characters were speaking in unison; almost like a bad duo joke. "We are…Chessmarimo!" No one was impressed.

Chessmarimo appears to be a large man and a combination of Chess and Kuromarimo. He has four thin arms, short legs and a wide-set body. He wears similar clothing to his original parts, sharing the color patterns of Chess and Kuromarimo's clothes. "Not a very good act…" Luffy said, matching what everyone was thinking.

"We are not acting! We are one being, more powerful than Chess and Kuromarimo apart!" The creature shouted, "We…"

"Going against a reindeer." Luffy cut them off and that got everyone staring at him, especially Chopper. "Little Brother, I know that you hadn't spent the few years since I last saw you just sitting in your room reading medical books. You have been training and I want to see all of it in action. Treat this loser as a punching bag."

Chopper sighed and then walked away from Luffy's legs, right up to face Chessmarimo. "It is your funeral, freak." Instead of flinching, Chopper just reached in god-knows where and took out a strange yellow ball. "and what is that, your favorite snack? Candy? You are just a little kid who is about to be killed!"

Chopper said nothing still and actually consumed the ball like it was a snack. "Rumble Ball!" Chopper shouted and then changed into something else. "Heavy Point!" This was Chopper's "human" form, which gives him a human-like appearance and height. In this form, nearly all of Chopper's reindeer physical characteristics are gone. Only Chopper's blue nose and parts of his fur remain. This form also imbues Chopper with peak human (primate) strength and agility which comes in handy in battle or otherwise, on rare occasions this form has also been used to dodge in the air by turning into this form to fall at a faster rate. Chopper remembered on how usually uses this form to try to blend in with other humans, but instead he was often mistaken for the Abominable Snowman.

"Heavy Gong!" Chopper charged with his massive arm towards Wapol but was met by Chessmarimo.

"Don't think that we will allow a monster like you to lay your hands on King Wapol!" It said and then pulled out a pair of bows, each with burning arrows. "Yukidoke no Ya Marimo (Snow-Thawing Arrow Marimo)!"

"Walk Point!" But Chopper was able to dodge them by transforming from a large man and into an actual reindeer. After dodging every arrow that Chessmarimo can throw at him, Chopper transformed back into his Heavy Point to land a hit on the fused warrior creature.

But once again he was interrupted from his target by another intruder, it was Wapol getting in the way this time, to try and swallow Chopper! "Jump Point!" Chopper shouted and almost vanished in a blur. Everyone just looked up to see that Chopper was about as tall as his Heavy Point but much more lean.

"Jumping? Chopper looked like he was flying." Luffy remarked and his two crewmates nodded somehow. Then they all focused back on the battle. Apparently, Chopper's Jump Point was only efficient in dodging attack so Chopper had to switch to something else.

"Dobikkuri Marimo, Quatro Hammer (Super Surprise Marimo, Four Hammers)!" Chessmarimo had its own change in tactics and tried to land a hit on Chopper by an ambush of hammers. But while they did hit Chopper, instead of bones being broken, the reindeer more like bounced around like a ball. "Just what is wrong with that body of yours!?"

"The Rumble Ball." Chopper said, wrenching himself from the crater he made in the side of the castle. He looked like his fur had grown a pound a second so that he was a giant fuzz ball; with fur that is highly packed that attacks rarely reach the main, solid body to cause damage. "Through science and medicine that I learned from the Doctrine, I have found a spate power. One that can affect only certain Devil Fruit powers, such as mine. I usually did have only three form but with only a single rumble ball, I can use a total of seven. But seven is not necessary to defeat you."

"Arrogant freak! Just because you turned yourself into an even greater monster, doesn't mean that you can defeat the power of this country!" Chessmarimo shouted but Chopper was as stoic as a Buddha. Then he shifted to his miniature form, "Now what are you going to do?"

"Skōpu (Scope)!" Chopper shouted, placing his reindeer hooves into the shape of a firearm crosshair. To his eyes, he was 'scanning' his opponent in an effort to find where the weak spot is. And he found it. "Arm Point: Kokutei Roseo (Carving Hoof Cherry Blossom)!" Chopper then grew taller and larger, especially in his arms; those muscles were greater than a professional weight-lifter and looked like they were to burst open if they get any larger. No doubt, this is easily one of Chopper's strongest forms in his arsenal.

With that in mind, it was no surprise to see that the muscular Chopper had gotten through Chessmarimo's axes and punch so hard that the imprint was deep and large, shaped almost like a Sakura rose petal. It was really surprising to see that while Chessmarimo did receive a lot of damage and coughed out blood, it still didn't fall. The most that happened was that the attack only pushed Wapol and his steed behind them; no one noticed the cries of the White Walkie, falling hard down the mountain side, the roar of the blizzard made sure of it.

But like most battles, they can feel old when they go on too long; Luffy knew that and also something else. "Chopper, don't hold back anymore! I know that you can better!" Luffy shouted out to the reindeer.

Then Chopper halted, just standing there like a sitting duck. "Ha!" Chessmarimo barfed through its pain. "You have finally realized that you stand not a chance against us! Prepare to die, monster! Dobikkuri Marimo, Quatro Axe (Super Surprise Marimo, Four Axes)!" Chessmarimo pulled out four twin-sided axes and charged for Chopper, weapons aimed for the kill.

But what happened next, will not be forgotten by any of the witnesses. Not when two of the axes were blocked, not doing any damage. "You call me a monster because I am not human." A voice soon was heard and it was somewhat like Chopper's, only more mature and deeper like a man's. "But compared to the other monsters of the Grand Line, I am actually normal. It is you who will be feared and hated, like the beasts you allowed yourselves to become." Everyone present were ranged from fully shocked to mild interest to see Chopper morph once again, but this form is nothing like the others; it was more like a combination, a nigh prefect being with all the power from Chopper's other forms.

"Meet another one of my strongest forms, the Master Point!"

End of Chapter 18.

*How are you guys? Things have been slow with a test and a quiz in one day on my mind last week. And then there was the exam this week too. I love to write but my parents get on my case to see me doing anything but studying. I bet that some of you guys have those days too. Wish me luck! *