Chapter 5
It's been a week since Luffy, Natsu, Usopp and Kaya exited that cave near Syrup Village coast and went to reunite with the others, who were loading the Going Merry.
A lot has happened since then and the talk that followed, in which the four who went to that cave, explained what happened there, and how Natsu made the hole. Luffy also mentioned his plan for Kaya and Katrina to build a hospital where the hole is, so they can use it to enter into the cave system from the land, without anyone noticing.
The others liked Luffy's idea, and after that was settled, Luffy, Natsu, Naruto and Usopp went to transport all the gold from the former ships of Ganzack and Trump Pirates, to the chamber in the cave.
All the others were free to do what they want, but Luffy did tell Zoro and Nami that they should train themselves, especially Nami, since she is not really particular good at fighting, and she will have to battle eventually.
It took over a day for Luffy, Natsu, Naruto and Usopp to transport all the gold into the chamber even with the help from Usopp's powers and Naruto's clones. Of course, they did leave some of it on the Going Merry so they can cash it in in Loguetown, along with potentially any other gold they manage to get their hands on before they reach Loguetown.
When they were done, everyone again reunited in Kaya's and Katrina's mansion where Luffy gave the mother and daughter enough gold to buy the land where Natsu dug a hole to the underground cave, as well as build a relatively big private hospital, which will be run by Katrina and Kaya. The two of them will also contract several other medics and doctors who will help them, while Kaya learns to be a doctor and not just a healer who can re-grow arms and heal cuts and injuries.
Luffy then went and explained to Kaya and Katrina where he, Natsu and Naruto found the gold, and asked the two if they would be willing to transport what remained on the Isle of Gold to the chamber, and the two agreed, but said they will need the help of someone who Luffy can trust, so Luffy told the two to wait with the transportation for now until he finds someone he can trust to help them.
Luffy also decided that, since the crew now has their own ship, and since they no longer need Ganzack Pirates Ship nor Trump Pirates ship, he will leave the two ships in Kaya's and Katrina's hands, so they can remodel them with the help of their butler Merry, who is the one who built the Going Merry in the first place, and is capable of remodeling the two ships.
Of course, Merry will have a lot of job to remodel the two ships, especially Ganzack's, which was built in a way that it can't move on its own, and has to be pulled by Plesiosaur, but since Plesiosaur would not listen to Merry, Kaya nor Katrina, Natsu just dismissed the beast, and left the ship without the way to move.
Naturally, since the two ships are still going to be in the ownership of Luffy's crew, Luffy allowed Kaya and Katrina to take some of the gold from the cave for the remodeling.
Once the time comes, those two new ships will be used to transport the gold from the Isle of Gold to the cave near Syrup Village, as well as for any business which Kaya and Katrina need them for, some of which, could potentially be for Luffy and his crew, if they would want or need to do some business's without anyone knowing the Pirate crew is behind it.
With that over as well, the crew could have left the Island immediately, since they had nothing else to do, and Usopp has agreed to become a member of the crew, but then Luffy decided it might be better to stay there few more days to see as much of Usopp's powers, as well as for Luffy, Natsu and Naruto to train Zoro, Nami and Usopp in hand-to-hand combat, which was done by Luffy, Natsu and Naruto, or weapons fighting, which is something only Luffy could do since Naruto and Natsu never fought with weapons.
The training was nothing special, but they did stay there for added five days, after which, Luffy decided it's enough training for now, so the crew left the Syrup Village after they said good bye to Kaya and Katrina.
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During that week, Luffy found out that Usopp is really good at drawing, so he had him design the Jolly Roger for the crew, and Usopp delivered it perfectly. The Crew decided to go by the name of Straw Hat Pirates, since the captain wears the Straw Hat, and cherishes it so much out of respect toward Shanks, so the Jolly Roger which Usopp has drawn, is a skull with the same horns which Luffy has, and with a cross bones, as well as a Straw Hat behind the horns. It was basically like Usopp has drawn Luffy's skull with the cross bones behind it.
Once the Jolly Roger was tied to a mast and pulled up, Usopp draw the Jolly Roger on the sails as well, and everyone loved it.
Luffy thought about building something on the ship which would, sort of, be a representation of every member of the crew, separately. He thought about either statues of crew members or something else, but in the end he couldn't decide, so he left it for now, since even if he decided to have statues of the crew members, built on the ship, he didn't know how to do it, and the same goes for the others in the crew, as none of them are sculptures.
Right now, the crew is on the Going Merry, which is sailing toward Conomi Islands, where Nami's home village is.
It was debated while in Syrup Village where to go next, and it was decided in the end to go and deal with Arlong, thus, freeing Nami's home village from his tyranny.
Nami was happy to hear this, and even gave a thankful smile in Luffy's direction, even though she has been avoiding him ever since the threesome between the two of them and Katrina, days before.
"Hey Usopp," Luffy called Usopp who was in the crow's next at that moment! "Come down here, I need something from you, Natsu or Naruto can go there and keep an eye out for any enemy!"
Usopp nodded, and came down from the crow's nest, while Natsu was the one who switched places with him.
Once Usopp was on the deck, he stood in front of Luffy, wondering what he wants, and the others were interested to see what Luffy was planning.
"I want to see how good you are with firing cannons," Luffy said, and Usopp was all for it. "But without using your powers." Luffy added with a smirk, and Usopp stopped for a moment, looked at Luffy, and then nodded.
"Ok, but what am I shutting at?" Usopp asked.
"That over there," Luffy pointed to the right toward a small rock formation, which can also be considered a small bare island with noting on it.
Usopp grinned and nodded, before he went below deck, to one of the cannons on the right side of the ship. After he loaded it, he aimed, lit the fuse, and then waited for the cannon to shoot. But then, just before the cannon was about to shoot the cannon ball, Naruto yelled.
"Wait, Usopp, stop!" Was heard all over the ship, but it was too late, since the cannon already fired, and few moments later, the cannon ball hit the small island, blowing it almost completely to smithereens.
But no one cared about that, as everyone was now looking at Naruto who was on the right side of the ship looking toward where the rock formation used to be, while his eyes were wide.
Usopp ran out from below the deck, and along with everyone, was now looking at Naruto, wondering what's going on, and why did Naruto yell at him to stop with the fire.
"What's going on, Naruto?" Luffy asked, as he was very confused by Naruto's behavior.
Naruto was quiet for a few moments, and his eyes were closed, like when he is focusing to feel something.
Suddenly, his eyes snapped wide open, before he jumped from the ship, and started running on the sea, much to the shock of Zoro, Usopp and Nami, who didn't know he can do this.
"What the hell," Nami yelled, as she was watching wide eyed! "How can he do that?"
"It doesn't matter right now," Luffy said with narrowed eyes as he was watching Naruto run toward where the rock formation used to be, and had a bad feeling. "What's important is to figure out what's going on."
Naruto run on the sea for about fifteen seconds, until he suddenly sank under the surface, making the eyes of Nami, Zoro and Usopp widen, while Natsu and Luffy narrowed theirs.
"We need to help him," Zoro said, ready to jump into the ocean, but Luffy stopped him.
"No, don't worry about him, he is fine," Luffy said, getting curious looks from everyone but Natsu.
At that moment, Naruto broke through the surface, with two man, who seemed unconscious. Naruto created a Shadow Clone above the water, without any hand seals. Shadow Clone then pulled out of the ocean the original, as well as both man, after which, the original took one of two man, while the Shadow Clone took the other, and the two run back to the ship.
It took another fifteen seconds for Naruto and his clone to reach the Going Merry, and jump on board, right in front of everyone, who were looking at him interested to see what's going on, and where the two man came from.
"Who are they," Usopp asked, as he and Nami along with Naruto and his clone surrounded the two seemingly dead man, while Natsu, Luffy and Zoro were behind them.
"I don't know," Naruto said, while he had both of his palms placed on the chest of the two man, and was focusing on something.
Seeing that Naruto is focusing on something, and not wanting to interrupt him, Nami asked Luffy. "What is he doing?"
"Just watch and see." Luffy replied, as he watched what Naruto was doing, but at the same time, was able to see Zoro's eyes widened slightly once he got a look at the two man. "Something wrong, Zoro? Do you know these two?"
"Yes," Zoro said, as he moved closer to see if they are alive, but was stopped by Luffy, who said Naruto will take care of them. "They are, sort of my friends. We met a while ago, and worked together as bounty hunters for a while, before we split up. Their names are Johnny and Yosaku."
Just then, water started to come out from the mouth of both Johnny and Yosaku, while forming itself into two balls above their opened mouths.
Few seconds later, the water stopped coming from their mouths, and the two came back to consciousness, and then started coughing.
Naruto moved his palms from their chest, and then let the two balls of water fall on deck, where they dispersed themselves.
"Johnny, Yosaku, are you two all right?" Zoro asked after the two stopped coughing, and after he saw Yosaku head fall back on the deck, as he seemed to have lost consciousness again.
Johnny looked at where the voice came from, noticing several people around him in the process, and among them, Zoro. "Big brother Zoro, is that you?" Johnny asked.
"Yes, it's me," Zoro replied, while giving Johnny hand to help him get up. "What happened to you and Yosaku?"
"I don't know big brother," Johnny replied, while looking like he is about to cry as he was looking at Yosaku, who was being checked by Naruto and Nami. "Everything was fine until few days ago, and then Yosaku started to feel ill, then his skin tuned pale, his teeth started falling out, and several of his old wounds opened up and started to bleed.
"We stopped on a rock formation to rest for a little while, when suddenly a cannon ball flew at us, blew the rock formation, and threw us in the ocean. That's the last thing I remember before waking up here."
Luffy and Usopp had their eyes wide open in disbelief, after they heard what Johnny said, while the others looked at the two with incredulous looks.
Usopp quickly fell on his knees, and started to apologize for what he has done, while Luffy also apologized, though he didn't go down on his knees.
"Yeah, sorry about that," Luffy said. "We didn't know there was anyone there, and I had Usopp fire a cannon ball to check out the cannons on the ship, as well as his aim. If I knew you were there, we wouldn't have fired."
Johnny looked at Luffy and Usopp, and saw they are sincere, so he said its fine, though he asked if they can do something about Yosaku.
"Usopp, go and bring some limes from the storage," Nami suddenly said, making everyone look at her. She sighed. "He's got scurvy. It's a common illness among the pirates and sailors which is caused by the lack of Vitamin C. Limes are going to help fix that."
Nami could see from the looks on everyone's faces, that they knew nothing about this. "Are you all morons," Nami screamed with shark like teeth! "How can you go travel on the sea, without knowing about scurvy?"
No one said anything, as they knew she was right, and then Usopp run to the storage below deck, and brought a handful of limes. "Squeeze the juice in his mouth." Nami said, and Usopp did just that.
A minute after Usopp finished squeezing the limes in Yosaku's mouth, Yosaku opened his eyes and jumped on his feet, before he started to dance, while yelling how he is alive. Johnny and Usopp joined him in dancing, while everyone else backed away from Nami as they knew an explosion was coming judging by the look on her face.
"YOU CAN NOT GET BETTER THAT FAST! Again, Nami yelled with shark like teeth, and then Yosaku fell on the deck, passed out again, making Nami let out loud roar in anger because of the stupidity she is surrounded by.
"Thank you all for saving Yosaku," Johnny thanked everyone while kneeling and bowing his head from next to passed out Yosaku. "If it wasn't for you all, Yosaku would have died, and we are both in your debt."
"It's fine," Luffy said, making Johnny look at him. "It was my fault you almost got drowned, so we had to help you. And you are also Zoro's friends, so you guys are ok."
Zoro looked at Naruto, who was standing on the side of the deck, while in the middle of hanging his blouse and cloak on the side of the ship to get dried from the water. "How did you know they are there?"
Naruto, now half naked, looked at Zoro, and replied. "Just before Usopp fired that cannon ball, I sensed two people on the rock formation, but I was too late to stop him, since just as I shouted, he fired the cannon ball."
"And how did you save them," Zoro asked again? "What did you do to pull the water from their lungs?"
Naruto shrugged, I can manipulate Water and few other elements."
Zoro was confused by Naruto's response, just like everyone else who heard him except Luffy and Natsu, but then nodded, satisfied with the answers, and then went to help Johnny with placing Yosaku in bad to rest.
"Hey big brother Zoro," Johnny suddenly called, while he and Zoro were in the room where all the males on the ship are sleeping. Currently, Yosaku was in an unoccupied bad, while Johnny and Zoro are seating on the two beds on each side of Yosaku's bed. "How come you are on a pirate ship?"
Zoro then went and explained to Johnny how he was captured in Shells Town, and how after three weeks without food or water, Luffy, Natsu and Naruto saved him, and he joined Luffy's crew after that.
"Wow, you really went through a lot after we split up," Johnny commented, and Zoro shrugged.
After that, the two decided to leave Yosaku to rest, while they went back on the deck, where they found everyone else, either chilling out, in case of Naruto, watching for any enemy ship, which is what Natsu was doing from the craws nest, cleaning his guns, Usopp, and surprisingly, Nami and Luffy are talking to each other about something.
It's surprising, at least to Zoro, since he knows that Nami has been strange for the last few days, and a little cold toward Luffy.
Seeing that there is nothing to do until they reach Nami's home island, Zoro went to take a nap on the deck. Johnny did the same thing, seeing as there is nothing for him to do while Yosaku is resting, and he is also a little tired, so a little nap would help him a lot.
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"How far are we from your home Island?" Luffy asked as he approached Nami few minutes before Zoro and Johnny came out from the man's sleeping room.
Nami flinched when she heard Luffy's voice as she wasn't expecting it, and was in deep thought about what happened a week ago with Luffy and Katrina, as well as thinking about her home and would Luffy and the others be able to defeat Arlong and his crew, thus, freeing her home.
She immediately went red in the face once she saw Luffy, and then turned her head from him to look back at the sea, so she can hide her blush.
"Few hours," Nami managed to say, without looking at Luffy, which made him sigh, as he knew why she is like this.
"Should we talk about what happened back in Syrup Village," Luffy asked, and Nami's eyes widened, but then she shook her head, saying she didn't want to talk about that, or even think about it. Easier said than done, right?
"Ok than, changing subject," Luffy said. "How do you want to do this?"
Nami looked at him confused by the question. "Do what?"
"Deal with Arlong and his crew." Luffy replied.
"Why do you ask me," Nami asked with wide eyes? "Don't you have a plan?"
"I do," Luffy confirmed. "But my plan is to simply go there and kill Arlong and his crew for what they did to you. But I was thinking if you have some other plan which will make this 'cleaner', then you should say it."
Nami heard what Luffy said, and then started thinking about it.
She would lie if she said that she doesn't want to do what Luffy said, and just have him and the others go and kill Arlong and his crew, but even though she knew that Luffy and the other's didn't have a problem with killing, she didn't want to be the one to ask them to just mercilessly kill someone, even if that someone has killed her mother and made her life and the lives of the other people on Conomi Island, miserable for the last eight years.
Then there is a fact that Nami has spent eight years going all over East Blue stealing from pirates, putting her life in danger every time so she can gather 100 mil belly to buy of the village from Arlong as was their agreement. If Luffy and the others go and kill Arlong, all those years spent running around and stealing would have been for nothing.
After those thoughts, Nami sighed and said. "I want to first try something, and if it doesn't work, then you and the other can do what you want."
"And if it does work," Luffy asked interested in what Nami is thinking.
"Then Arlong will get 100 mil belly I have gathered and leave the Conomi Island with his crew, finally leaving us to be free." Nami said.
Luffy looked at her for a few moments after she said her plan, and then he sighed. "Ok, if that's what you want, then we will go with that first," Luffy said. "But I'll tell you right now that I don't think Arlong will honor the agreement you made with him."
Nami looked at Luffy wide eyed. "Why," she asked? "Arlong may be a pirate scum, who enjoys in torturing humans, but he is not someone to go back on his word. If I give him 100 mill belly as per agreement, he will leave the village."
"Maybe he will," Luffy nodded. "But I have my doubts. Besides, as you said, he will honor the agreement since he, let's say, has honor, but what if he pulls something out and doesn't free the village even if you have gathered the money? Where is that money anyway? Do you have it hidden somewhere? Does he know where it is? What prevents him from sending someone to take all the money from its hiding location, and then say you don't have the money, so the agreement is off? You need to ask yourself those questions, and if you are positive there is no way for him to screw you over, then we will follow your plan."
Luffy then turned around and walked away from Nami, leaving her to her thoughts, so she can try and answer the question Luffy brought up, and see if he might be right.
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About two hours later, and maybe as much until the crew reaches the Conomi Islands, Yosaku woke up, and was explained what happened, and where he is, along with where the crew is currently going.
Neither Yosaku nor Johnny were happy to hear they are going to Conomi Islands since they know that those islands are Arlong's turf, and they are scared of him and his fishman crew.
Eventually, they were assured by Luffy that nothing will happen to them, and that they don't even have to fight, if it comes to fighting, and are free to do what they want once they reach the island.
The two bounty hunters were fine with that, so the last two hours of the journey went in relative peace and quiet, though they did warn Luffy and the others to be careful with Arlong and Fishman because they are very strong, and Yosaku even mentioned that one of the Seven Warlords of the sea is a fishman named Jinbe.
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As Straw Hat crew was approaching the Conomi Islands and are about two hours away, a Marine war ship has just docked in the close vicinity to Arlong Park.
From the ship came a Marine captain with a rat like face and whisker, and was followed by an army of marines, who were all armed to the teeth.
"Welcome, Captain Nezumi," A large, muscular, light blue saw-shark fish-man with a saw-shaped nose said to the approaching Marine Captain. He was wearing a large smile on his face, which was returned by the Marine Captain.
"Hello Arlong," Nezumi said. "I see you are looking well. I'm assuming the business is going just as well."
Arlong laughed. "It's mostly going well," Arlong said. "There have been few problems here and there, and some villages had to be destroyed, but beyond that, I'm satisfied."
"Good to hear that," Nezumi smiled. "So, why have you called me here again? You already gave me this month's payment, so what could you want now?"
"Ah, you see, I might have a proposition for you and a chance to earn more money for yourself," Arlong said with a wicked smile, which was matched by Nezumi, who loved everything about money, and was so happy every time Arlong mentions it, especially if it means he can get his hands on some.
"I'm all ears, Arlong." Nezumi said.
"You see, there is this girl from Cocoyashi Village which is an amazing cartographer as well as Navigator, and I took her in as a member of the crew not long after I took over Conomi Islands, and built Arlong Park," Arlong started his explanation, and Nezumi listened carefully wanting to know what Arlong wants, and what this girl has to do with it. "Now, I made a deal with her so that if she can gather 100 mil belly, I will sell the Conomi Islands back to her, and leave peacefully."
Now Nezumi knew where this was going, and smirked. "And of course, you don't want to go with the deal, don't you," Nezumi asked, and Arlong smirked? "I mean why would you? With the amount of money you are charging from people from 20 villagers and towns on Conomi Islands, you earn more than those 100 mil each month."
"Yes, you are right, but I did make a promise to Nami, so if she brings me that money, I will have to leave, as I do have the honor," Arlong said with a wicked smirk, and Nezumi scoffed. "But, if you were to go and take that money from her, they she wouldn't be able to give it to me and would have to start all over again."
"I see," Nezumi liked what he heard. "So I take that money from her, but what do I get from it, since I assume you want it anyway?"
"You get a third from it," Arlong said. "That should be a good deal."
"It sure is," Nezumi grinned widely. "I assume you know where the money is, and I also assume this girl is not here."
"Yes, I know where the money is," Arlong said. "Though it wasn't Nami who told me. She has marked the location on the map in the room she has here in the Arlong Park, and I figured out what must be hidden there. As for Nami, she left some time ago to steal some more money, but I know she was getting close to 100 mil the last time I saw her, and if I know her as well as I do, then she will most likely have all 100 mil once she gets back."
"Ok, then we have a deal, Arlong," Nezumi smiled, and Arlong returned the smile. "It is always a pleasure doing business with you."
"The same goes for you, Nezumi," Arlong said. "I may not like the humans, but I do like when I can agree on something with someone, even if that someone is a human."
After that, Arlong gave the location of where Nami has buried the gold and money she stole, and Nezumi and his marines left Arlong Park to go and take it.
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Once the Straw Hat crew was nearing the Conomi Islands, Nami said to everyone that they will make a stop on other side of the island instead on the side where Arlong Park is, as she wants to try something first before they have to battle.
Only Luffy understood what Nami meant, while the others were confused, but Luffy agreed with this, and so, the Straw Hats arrived on the side of Conomi Island near Gosa Village.
When the Going Merry was docked on the shore, and everyone came down from the ship, Luffy asked Nami. "Are you sure you want to go and face Arlong alone?"
Nami looked at Luffy and smiled faintly for his concern, before she said. "Don't worry, I can take care of myself."
Luffy looked at Nami for a few moments without saying anything, until he sighed, and nodded, after which, Nami went alone in one directions, toward her home village where she said she buried the money she has been gathering. She also brought a bag filled with enough cash to reach 100 mill once it is added to the rest she has.
While she went in the direction of the Cocoyasi Village, Luffy and the others went into a totally different direction toward Gosa Village, as this is where Nami told them to go and wait for her.
"Are you sure about letting her go all alone?" Usopp asked Luffy, while walking next to him on their way toward Gosa Village. The others, including Johnny and Yosaku were walking behind them.
"It was her choice," Luffy said. "Besides, I don't think Arlong will do anything to her, unless she gives him the reason. Arlong thinks she still works for him, and is just there to give him his money."
"Do you think he will honor their agreement?" Usopp asked.
"I warned Nami to not relay on Arlong's word," Luffy said seriously. "But she is convinced he will honor it. I on the other hand, am not so sure. I guess we will just have to wait and see in the end."
Ten minutes later, they all found themselves in front of what used to be Gosa Village, and was now nothing else then destroyed village.
Luffy and the others looked around, and couldn't see a single living being in the whole place, but that shouldn't be surprising, considering that all the houses have been flipped over, and there were trenches dug all over the village.
"If this is Gosa Village, Nami mentioned, then I have a very bad feeling," Usopp said, while looking wide eyed along with Johnny and Yosaku, while Luffy, Natsu, Naruto and Zoro were all looking with narrowed eyes at the destruction, and were seething in rage.
"Did the fishman did this," Johnny asked? "I mean, I knew they are strong, but this is ridiculous. It's like the entire village has been flipped over."
No one answered to that, instead they all continued to look over the town, and see if there is someone there, though they doubted that, since the village looks like it has been destroyed a while ago.
"I don't think there is anyone here, Luffy," Zoro was the one who said that, as he was looking around, with his right hand on one of his swords, ready to react right away if necessary.
"No, there is someone here," Naruto said. "Few someone's. I can sense them, though they don't feel like they are normal humans."
"So they are fishman," Luffy said, with a scowl on his face. "Well then, let's go and ask them a few questions."
Naruto led the way toward where he sensed what they all thought to be fishman, and were not disappointed when two minutes later, the Straw Hat crew without Nami, and plus Johnny and Yosaku found themselves in font of three fishman.
"Who the hell are you," one of the fishman yelled as soon as he spotted a group of human?
Luffy looked at the three fishman for a moment, and thought if he should keep them alive for now, but then he remembered what Nami had to go through because of them, so he simply looked back and Zoro and Usopp. "Deal with them, but leave at least one alive. I've got some questions."
Usopp and Zoro nodded, and while Zoro took all three of his swords, placed Wado Ichimonji's hilt in his mouth, while the other two he held in his hands crossed in front of himself, Usopp pulled two single-barreled, obsidian black pistols with red plating, and held them both in his hands.
The three fishman saw what's coming and prepared for battle, but it was pointless, because Zoro took stance, and quickly ran at one of the fishman, while shouting.
"Santoryu: Oni Giri!" Zoro quickly slashed with all three of his swords, and one of the three fishman found himself chopped in pieces, before those pieces fell on the ground.
Before the other two fishman even realized what's going on, Usopp fired once from both of his pistols, and shot another of the fishman in both eyes, killing him instantly. (Usopp's pistols look like Doflamingo's, though they will be slightly different with something special about them which will be revealed in the future)
"W-What happened?" The third fishman, who stood in between the other two, and was the biggest of the tree, yelled as he saw his two comrade's fall on the ground, dead. He was a very tall and muscular, blue skinned fishman with thick and long lips.
Luffy appeared before him, and grabbed him by the face with his right hand, before he let blue electricity shook the fishman, making him yell out in pain. "I have few questions for you," Luffy said after the first shook, which brought the fishman to his knees in front of Luffy. Then Luffy shook him again. "And you are going to tell me everything I want to know. Is that clear?" Another shook followed this question, and by that point, the fishman was on lying on the ground, twitching and smoking from being burned by the electricity, while Luffy was standing above him, waiting for the fishman to regain some of his senses.
The rest of the crew and Johnny and Yosaku were just watching what Luffy was doing, and no one but the two bounty hunters were surprised by the mercilessness Luffy was showing toward the fishman.
About two minutes later, the only of the three fishman which the group encountered and left alive, stopped twitching, and looked at Luffy from the ground, with fear in his eyes, but there was also some defiance and rage. "Y-You will p-pay for t-this human scum," the fishman croaked! "I'm one of A-Arlong's officers, and he will m-make you pay, and will kill you for d-doing this to us!"
Luffy didn't even try to get angry or scoff at the threat, and simply said. "I don't know about that. But that's not important. What is important is that I want to know what happened in this village, where the people are, and where Arlong is right now?"
"I-I'll never t-tell you!" the fishman still stuttered as he was still in pain from being electrocuted, even though he was no longer twitching.
"Are you sure about that," Luffy asked, as he pulled out Yamaoroshi and held it above the fishman's heart, ready to stab him, as he found it easier than to either bend over or crunch down so he can get his hands on the fishman.
"Do it," the fishman yelled! "Kill me! But I will never tell you anything! I will never betray Arlong nor my brethren!"
"Who said I will kill you," Luffy said, before he moved the sword from above the fishman's heart, and stabbed him in the right shoulder, before he let some electricity flow through the sword causing the fishman to yell not only from the pain caused by the stab, but also from being electrocuted from the inside.
Also, this time, the electricity Luffy used was stronger and caused more pain and damage, as well as literally evaporated the blood which should be flowing out from the wound on fishman's shoulder.
"I'm not really in a hurry, so I can do this whole day," Luffy lied a little, as he is in a hurry to find Nami, as he has a feeling that Arlong is really going to screw her over, but the fishman didn't know that. "But can you handle so much pain? That is the question you need to ask yourself."
The rest of the Straw Hat's looked at the torture with mixed feeling. Natsu and Naruto of course, didn't really care, as they knew how Luffy is, and how he gets when he wants to protect someone he cares about, and they both have realized he cares a lot for Nami.
Usopp and Zoro were surprised by Luffy's brutality, as they weren't expecting it, but didn't really mind it either, especially Zoro, who can be very brutal himself if he wants to, and seeing that his captain is like this, lets him know that if he kills someone brutally or tortures someone while on the journey, then Luffy will not complain, and tell him to keep it down with the brutality. That is, of course, if he doesn't go overboard.
Johnny and Yosaku on the other hand, were terrified by Luffy, as they have never seen something like this. Not even from Zoro, and they have seen him to some terrible things while traveling together.
It took Luffy another five minutes of electrocuting the long lipped fishman, until the fishman finally couldn't take it anymore, and let his lips loose.
"O-Ok, I'll t-tell you everything y-you want to k-know." The fishman barely stuttered, and Luffy nodded, and he pulled his sword from the fishman's shoulder, before he sheeted it back to his left hip. It's unnecessary to say that there was no blood either on the sword nor coming out from the fishman's wound, as everything was evaporated by the electricity, and the wound was all but cauterized.
"Ok, you can start by telling me what happened in this village, and where are the people who live here?" Luffy said.
"T-the village was d-destroyed by Arlong a-and a Sea Beast we b-brought from the G-Grand Line," the fishman said with a stutter, while twitching a little here and there. "Some people f-from the village w-were unable to pay the t-tribute to Arlong, so he had then all killed, and d-destroyed the village."
Luffy listened to this while looking calm, though on the inside he was seething in rage because of the death of so many innocent people. The others were not better and are having the same feelings like Luffy did.
"Where is Arlong?" Luffy asked.
"A-Arlong, he is back in the Arlong P-Park, preparing for the celebration with the Marine Captain." The fishman answered, and the answer made everyone there narrow their eyes.
"Why would a Marine Captain be celebrating with a pirate," Luffy asked, while he had a bad feeling? "And what would they celebrate?"
"The Marine Captain is working with Arlong," the fishman said, now managing to speak without a stutter. "Arlong was paying him every month, and the marine captain was keeping quiet from the Marine Headquarters about what's going on here."
"I see," Luffy said to himself, realizing why Arlong was able to literally hold Conomi Islands and all the people who live on them, hostage for over eight years without the marines coming to free the people.
"You didn't answer what they will celebrate." Luffy said, and the fishman replied.
"Eight years ago Arlong made a deal with a girl from Cocoyasi village," Fishman said, and Luffy and the others realized something is wrong, because they knew he was referring to Nami. "He said he will free the Conomi Islands and go away if she gathers and gives him 100 mil belly. But he never intended to honor that agreement. Though, Arlong also doesn't like to lie, so if the girl actually came with a money to give him, he would have to leave, well, he wouldn't have to, but he does have his pride. So, to get around that, he called the Marine Captain, and sent him to take the money from where Nami hid it, and then take it to Arlong, in exchange for a third of it. This way, Nami wouldn't be able to bring the money to Arlong, and we wouldn't have to leave this place. Right now, I'm assuming the Marines are at the place where Nami hid the money, and Arlong is waiting for them to come back to Arlong Park with the money, and then the celebration will start."
Once he heard about this, Luffy got so angry, that the blue lighting appeared all over his body, and his eyes glowed blue, before the sky darkened, and the thunder clouds appeared over the entire sky for as far as the eye could see. There was blue lightning flashing all over the sky with several lighting strikes hitting several places on Conomi Islands. There was also a booming thunder, which was heard by everyone on Conomi Island, and probably over a great deal of East Blue.
Seeing Luffy like this, Natsu and Naruto told the others to run away toward the shore if they want to live, and just as Zoro, Usopp, Johnny and Yosaku managed to run several dozen meters, there was a dark blue, lightning pillar which descended from the cloud covered sky, and hit the place where Luffy was standing and the fishman lying.
The attack was so powerful that it literally destroyed everything on its path, and the blast blew the four runners far from the village, until they stopped themselves close to the shore, which was almost a mile from the village.
Once the lighting pillar disappeared, where once stood Gosa Village, now there were only three people standing in the middle of a giant crater.
One of them was Luffy, who looked uninjured. He was simply standing where he was before, and the blue electricity was still swirling all over his body.
The other two were Natsu and Naruto, who were covered in fire and lighting, which is Natsu, and Kyuubi's chakra cloak, in Naruto's case.
There is no need to say that there was nothing left of the three fishman.
"Naruto," Luffy called in a law voice. "Can you sense Nami, or any other human from here?"
Naruto focused on trying to sense something, while still in his chakra cloak, and after a minute, he said. "I found another village not that far from here. But I couldn't sense Nami." Naruto knew this is both good news, as there are people who can lead them to Arlong Park, but it's also a bad news, since Nami is not in that village, and is out of Naruto's sensory range.
By then, Zoro, Usopp, Johnny and Yosaku have returned, as they were running toward the crater, and once they got to the edge of it, all their jaws dropped on the floor, and eyes widened to epic proportions.
"What the fuck!" Johnny and Yosaku yelled, while Zoro and Usopp just stared at the crater.
"Come on, let's go!" Luffy yelled so that the four people at the edge of the crater could hear him, and then he started walking toward the place where Naruto pointed he could sense humans, with Naruto and Natsu next to him, now out of their power up forms. The other four followed the three from behind.
XXX
It didn't take long for Luffy and the others to arrive in the village where Naruto sensed humans, and once they got there, they saw a huge mob of people armed to the teeth with anything they could get their hands on, from kitchen knives, to wood staffs to hand made wood daggers. The mob seemed to be riled up and led by a man in police uniform and with a pinwheel on his hat. He also had scars all over his face, and on his arms.
Luffy and the others looked at each other, and decided to go and see what happened, though if what that fishman said was the truth, then Luffy was sure he knows what is going on.
As the group approached the angry mob, they were spotted, and stopped by the man in a police uniform, as well as a blue haired girl with tattoos on her right arm which is stretching above her breasts.
"Who are you people," the man asked, while the girl eyed them, and Luffy and the others could have sworn she licked her lips when her eyes went over Luffy, Natsu and Naruto. "And what are you doing here?"
"Is this Cocoyasi Village?" Luffy asked back without answering the man's question, making older man narrow his eyes at him.
"Yes, it is." He answered.
"I'm looking for someone who should have come here a not long ago," Luffy said, and the older man and the girl looked at each other confused by who Luffy was talking about. "It's a girl named Nami. I know she is from this village, so I'm looking for her."
As soon as the two heard Nami's name leave the strangers mouth, both of them narrowed their eyes even more, and then the woman asked. "And how do you know Nami?"
Luffy gave the blue haired girl a narrowed look, which made her blush and back away, though she only took a step back.
Luffy sighed after few moments, and explained that Nami is his friend, and that they came to Conomi Islands to deal with Arlong, but Nami decided to try and give Arlong the money she has gathered and if Arlong takes it, and then leaves, there would be no need to battle.
Hearing that the group of unknown people are all friends of Nami's who came to help them all, the man and the girl relaxed and the girl explained what happened, and what the mob is about to go and do.
"Nami was here," the girl started to say. "But when she came to take the money she hid, Marine Captain was already here to take it and there was nothing any of us could do to stop him because there was an army of marines with him. Somehow they knew where it is, and took everything without leaving a single belly behind. Of course, when Nami saw this, she was enraged, and knew that Arlong is behind this, so she went to confront him before the marines even left."
The older man took over from the girl and continued. "The rest of us here can't take it anymore. We've been living under Arlong tyranny for over eight years, and the only thing which kept us from going after him, even if it would mean death, is the deal which Nami made with him. We were all suspicions, but thought he might take the money Nami gathered and leave us alone. But after what happened today, we now know that he never intended to keep his end of the deal, and was screwing with us the whole time.
"Which is why we are now going to go and fight Arlong even if it means we will die. Anything is better than the life we currently live."
Luffy was getting angrier as the story progressed, and this was seen the best by the booming thunder which was heard everywhere, and the lighting which was flashing across the clouded sky.
The villagers were confused by the thunder storm which has first appeared about an hour ago, and then stopped, before now it appeared again. The man and the girl who were in front of Luffy, on the other hand, saw the electricity around Luffy, and had the feeling he is the one causing the thunder storm, which is surprising, as well as scary.
"How are you doing this," the girl asked?"
Luffy looked at her, and said. "Doesn't matter. Now tell me, who are the two of you?"
"My name is Nojiko, and I'm Nami's older sister." This surprised everyone as Nami never mentioned having a sister. "And he is Genzo, he is something like a village sheriff."
"Hm, so you are Nami's sister," Luffy said. "She never mentioned you before, and honestly, besides the fact you are both very beautiful, I really see no resemblance."
Nojiko blushed at the praise, while Genzo growled.
"That's most likely because Nami planned to use you for her own gain," Genzo said, making everyone look at him strangely. "She is known to be like that ever since she started stealing money from the pirates. Nothing was more important to her then to gather the money necessary to free the village."
"Oh I don't know about that," Luffy said with a smile, while the lightning stopped raining down on the entire Conomi Archipelago, though the thunder clouds were still there. "I think we are more important to her then she will ever admit."
"If you say so," Nojiko shrugged, but was interested in why was Luffy so sure Nami cares about him and his gang. "What are you people anyway? You don't look like marines. Are you some mercenaries?"
"Actually, we are pirates," As soon as Luffy said that, Nojiko and Genzo tensed. Luffy saw this, and tried to calm them down. "But don't worry, we are not going to hurt anyone, and are only here to help a member of the crew."
"Nami joined your crew?" Nojiko was really surprised.
"She did," Luffy said. "But we'll talk about that later. Right now, we need to go to Arlong Park, and help Nami."
"Ok, we will lead you there," Genzo said and turned to walk toward Arlong Park, but Luffy stopped him.
"You should stay here, because it won't be safe there," Luffy said, making Genzo look back at him with narrowed eyes.
"We can't just stay here and wait," Genzo yelled! "We don't even know if you can win. What if you can't defeat Arlong and his crew? They are fishman, and are stronger than average human."
"Which is why you should stay here," Naruto was heard, and Genzo and Nojiko looked at him. "You are all normal humans and will die no matter which weapons you bring with you. We on the other hand, are not even close to being normal, and are more than capable enough to dealing with some fishman."
Genzo looked at Naruto and the others like he was judging them, then after a full minute, he sighed. "Fine, I'll tell the villagers to stay here and wait. But I'm going with you, and nothing will stop me."
"I'm coming as well." Nojiko added.
Luffy sighed, and said. "Fine, then come on, let's go. I don't want to leave Nami to long with that monster."
Nojiko smiled since it seems that Luffy really cares for Nami, while Genzo didn't smile, but was thinking the same thing.
XXX
Genzo and Nojiko talked to the Cocoyasi Village people, and convinced them to wait because some of Nami's friends are there and are going to take care of Arlong.
It took a few minutes, but the two were able to calm down the angry mob, and then they led the crew toward Arlong Park, while the villagers stayed to wait for the news.
Almost an hour after the Straw Hats, along with Johnny and Yosaku started following Nojiko and Genzo on the way to Arlong Park, Naruto felt a familiar presence coming toward them. "Nami is coming toward us."
He said, surprising only Nojiko and Genzo as they didn't know about his sensory skills.
"How do you know that?" Genzo asked with narrowed eyes.
"I have my ways," Naruto replied cryptically, causing Genzo to scowl.
Few minutes later, everyone was able to see Nami coming toward them from down the road. She was surprised to see the crew along with her sister and Genzo.
"Wha-What's going on," Nami asked, as she was enveloped in a hug by Nojiko, while everyone else was just standing and looking. "Why are you all here? Didn't you go to Gosa after we split up?" She asked Luffy and the others. "And what about the two of you?" She asked Nojiko and Genzo.
"We were in Gosa Village, but it was destroyed," Luffy said, and Nami's eyes widened.
"What, why?" Nami asked, as she didn't know this.
"There were some residents of Gosa who couldn't pay the tribute, so Arlong went and killed them, and then had that Sea Beast of his destroy the entire village, and kill most of the people. Few were able to escape though, so I'm assuming they are hiding somewhere around the islands." Nojiko explained, causing Nami's eyes to widen.
"The situations has been very bad for a while, Nami," Genzo said. "People are barely able to gather money to pay monthly tribute, and still have enough left to live, and this is not the first time Arlong has destroyed the village, because two more have fallen before, as I'm sure you have heard," Nami nodded, as she did know about the two other villagers which Arlong destroyed. "The only thing that stopped us from attacking Arlong Park is you, and the deal you made with Arlong. But now that he has screwed you over, there was no need to wait any longer, and we were ready to go and die battling."
Nami's eyes widened. "What are you talking about, Genzo?"
"I'm saying that after you left to confront Arlong earlier, and then the marines left, I gathered the villagers and we were to go and confront Arlong," Genzo said and stopped, but after he saw Nami was about to explode at him for doing something so stupid, he continued. "But then your friends here came and said they are going to take care of Arlong. The Straw Hat and Blondie were able to convince me to wait."
Naruto scowled at the nickname, but didn't say anything.
"I told you Arlong shouldn't be trusted, didn't I?" Luffy asked Nami, and she nodded with a sigh.
"Yes you did," Nami admitted. "I just hoped we can go through this without fighting."
"We are pirates, Nami," Luffy said. "We are on the quest to fulfill all our goals, and we will not be able to do that if we avoid battle. Sometime it will just have to happen, and it would be better to start small then progress to stronger opponents, then to avoid weak, and then run into strong unprepared."
Nami nodded again, and then Nojiko asked her. "What happened in Arlong Park? Did you confront Arlong?"
"Yes, I did," Nami said with a big scowl on her face. "While the other fishman were preparing what I think is to be some party, I accused him of sending that Marine Captain, but he just denied the accusations, and said he has nothing to do with it, and that since I don't have the agreed money, he will keep the hold on Conomi Island for as long as I don't gather all the money.
"After that, I almost wanted to yell at him, but I knew it would be pointless, as I can't take him down, so I just left, and spent some time just lying on the grass not far from Arlong Park, and thinking about everything, until I just decided to return to Cocoyashi Village after I saw Marines who I met in Cocoyashi, walk into Arlong Park, while carrying MY money in the bags."
She then looked at Luffy and the others, and asked. "So, will you help me?" She asked a little shyly.
Luffy took Nami by the back of her head, and drew her face first into his chest, hugging her, much to the disbelief of Nojiko and Genzo who were wide eyed. "Of course, Nami," Luffy said. "We already promised you that we will help. Thought it would have been a lot faster if we just went with my plan."
"I know," Nami mumbled from Luffy's chest.
After few moments, Luffy let go of Nami, and walked toward the Arlong Park. "Let's go and finish this." Everyone followed him.
XXX
About an hour later, the Straw Hat crew, along with two bounty hunters and two residents of Cocoyasi Village were finally close to the Arlong Park as they can see it from the distance.
In the front, Luffy was walking with Nami. After them are Zoro, Usopp, and the bounty duo. And finally, at the rear, were Natsu and Naruto.
"Zoro, Usopp," Luffy called, and the two looked at him. "I want the two of you and Nami to take out as much of the Fishman pirates, as well as marines," The three nodded. "Kill them all except the Marine captain, and one other marine, it doesn't matter which one."
Everyone was confused about the reason to leave the two Marines alive, but let it go. Luffy then looked at Johnny and Yosaku, and said. "Since the two of you don't want to fight fishman, then I would like you to keep watch over Nojiko and Genzo and protect them if some fishman or marine slips pass all of us to attack them." Nojiko and Genzo protested and said they don't need protection, but Luffy wouldn't hear about it.
"I will take on and kill Arlong," Luffy added in the end, and everyone nodded.
"What about the two of us?" Natsu asked, referring to himself and Naruto.
"Hm, I highly doubt that these Marines and Fishman pirates are powerful enough to take on all three of us, plus the others," Luffy said. "It is unnecessary for the two of you to fight. Even I wouldn't fight and would leave the others to deal with it, but I want the personal pleasure of killing Arlong."
"Do you really think the three of us are powerful enough to take on all of them?" Zoro asked, with excitement in his voice.
"Yeah, I think the three of you can take on anyone there, maybe even Arlong," Luffy said. "But as I said, Arlong is mine to kill."
"Well, I'm fine with that," Zoro said, while holding one of his swords which were strapped on his hip. "It should be a nice training."
By the end of that conversation, all of them were in front of the entrance of the Arlong Park, so Luffy decided to 'knock'.
Luffy clenched his right fist, and then he punched the steel door, which ripped them of the hinges, after which the broken door flew into the distance. The flying and broken door caught several unaware fishman and Marines off guard, which caused them to be knocked on the ground, where they stayed without moving, as they are most likely dead from being hit by several tons of weight.
"Oh, come on captain, leave something for us," Zoro whined after he saw Luffy take out about dozen marine and fishman, and he still hasn't set a foot in the Arlong Park.
The flying door and the voice from the entrance drew the attention of Arlong and his crew, along with Nezumi and his marines, who were all in the middle of celebration."
"Are we interrupting something?" Luffy asked sarcastically after he walked onto the grounds of Arlong Park, with Zoro, Nami and Usopp following after him. Everyone else stayed at the entrance to simply watch what will happen next.
"Who the hell are you, you filthy human?" One of the Arlong's crew members yelled, with few more shouting after that, and were preparing to fight, along with the marines, who were now on guard.
Arlong and Nezumi didn't say anything, but were surprised by the people who broke the door, and were also slightly scared, though why, they didn't know. What they did know, is that they, as soon as they laid their eyes on Luffy, got a very bad feeling.
"My name... is Luffy," Luffy introduced himself, while looking directly at Arlong and Nezumi. "I'm looking for Arlong, and the Marine captain who isn't doing his job how he's supposed to."
Arlong stood up from his chair, and walked forward until his full body was seen by Luffy and his group. He stood about dozen meters from Luffy's group, and said. "I'm Arlong," he said it with a scowl, while glaring at Luffy. "Now what do you want, human? And how do you even dare break my gate like that?"
"Oh, breaking that gate is nothing compared to what I'll be breaking next," Luffy said with narrowed eyes. "As for why I'm here. Well, if you kept your end of the deal, I wouldn't be here at all, and you would have been able to walk away. Now though, you are going to die."
Arlong looked at Luffy, his face full of rage, while thinking about what deal was the kid talking about. That's when Arlong saw Nami behind Luffy, and started laughing.
"Shahahahaha," Arlong laughed. "I see, it seems you have betrayed me, Nami."
Nami growled. "No, you are the one who betrayed me by sending that marine over there to take the money I stole. You broke the deal, so whatever happens here today, know that it was all your fault."
Arlong glared at Nami, wanting to laugh at her obvious threat, and say there is no need for him and his crew to be defeated, but he just couldn't, so he simply glared.
"Zoro, Usopp, Nami, its time," Luffy said, and as he did, the three drew their weapons, Zoro two of his swords, he left the third, Wado Ichimonji, in its sheet. Usopp drew both of his guns, and Nami drew her staff. "Go get them!"
As soon as Luffy said that, Zoro and Nami ran toward the group of fishman and marines, much to their surprise, which, unfortunately for them, didn't last long, since Usopp stayed where he was, and started taking them down, one by one with his pistols.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?" Arlong roared, and went to try and stop Usopp, but was interrupted by Luffy, who appeared in front of him, and punched him in the gut, folding Arlong in half, before Arlong flew several dozen meters until he crushed all the way to the wall on the other side of the Arlong Park, which broke upon the impact, and buried him under the rubble.
"Sorry Arlong," Luffy said. "But I can't let you interfere with this, since I want to see how my crewmates will handle themselves in battle, and also, I can't risk one of them killing you, since I want that pleasure for myself."
Luffy then stood there, and was watching as Usopp was sniping down marines and fishman left and right, Nami was running and jumping all over the place and was hitting her opponents in a way which killed them, as for Zoro, he was using his two no named katana to slash and cut his opponents, thus, killing them easily.
Arlong managed to get himself out from under the rubble, and was looking at the carnage with wide eyes, and then he yelled. "HACHI, KUROOBI, do something, stop them!"
As the two of his executives joined the fight and attacked Zoro and Usopp, since they saw them as a bigger threat then Nami, this left Nami to take down low lives with no problem, making Arlong scowl.
"Where the hell is Chew?" Arlong yelled.
No one from his crew was able to answer him that, since they were all either dead, in a battle, or simply didn't know.
"Oh, and who is this, 'Chew'?" Luffy asked, as he cast a glance at Arlong, before he returned it to watch the sword fight between Zoro, and a fishman named Hachi, who is using Rokutoryu, as he has six arms, so he can wield six swords.
Luffy watched and noticed that Zoro, even though has pulled his third sword, and is using Santoryu, is having a trouble with Hachi, who is not bad at all, and has more swords then Zoro.
"Chew is my right hand man," Arlong replied, drawing Luffy's eyes on him.
"Is that so," Luffy asked? "Well, he might be one of the three fishman we encountered in the ruins of Gosa Village few hours ago. But if he was among them, then you should know, that he's dead." Luffy's voice was stone cold and held no emotion. It was like he was talking about the weather, which, by the way, is still very bad, considering that the thunder storm has started again after Luffy and the others entered Arlong Park.
Arlong's eyes widened as he heard what Luffy said, and then he remembered that he did send Chew at Gosa Village to check it out, and see if there are some survivors. "NO NO NO NO," Arlong yelled, as he jumped from the rubble, and run at Luffy while his eyes got blood shot from the rage! "You couldn't have killed Chew!" Arlong started to swing his fists at Luffy, hoping to hit him, but Luffy was having no trouble in dodging the punches, and wasn't even returning them, instead was simply allowing Arlong to try and hit him.
"Enough," Luffy said after he got bored of dodging Arlong useless attempts at punching him, so he just extended his right arm, while clenching it in a fist, and punched Arlong in the gut, making Arlong fall on the floor right at Luffy's feet. "As I said, you can't defeat me, and I will kill you, but I want you first to watch your comrades die, and only after that, will you die and join them in hell."
Luffy then continued to look at the three different battle's which were currently going on, though he did cast a glance at where Nezumi was hiding, and sweating in fear from seeing all those fishman and his marines just fall left and right without being able to do much against three people.
Nami's fight against lover level fishman and marines was the first Luffy looked at, and was happy to see that Nami, even though she is not really trained for high level battles, is good enough to battle against average fishman and low level marines. Luffy saw that she is close to be finished with them, as there are only few left alive, while all the others were killed with hits straight to the throat, as that was the only way Nami could have killed them with her staff.
The next battle Luffy watched for a few moments, was Usopp's battle against a very big and bulky looking fishman, who Luffy thought has heard Arlong call him Kuroobi. From what Luffy could notice, is that Kuroobi's uses some strange fighting style, which he has never seen before, but it looks interesting, as he was giving Usopp some trouble, since Usopp is only trying to shoot him normally, instead of using his DF powers, but since Kuroobi is very fast, he is able to dodge bullets Usopp is firing at him.
Of course, Usopp is relatively skilled, and is not slow either, so even though he has taken some hits, he is not out of the battle yet.
The final and most interesting battle to see is the one between Zoro, and Arlong's swordsman, Hatchan.
Hatchan's, Rokutoryu looked very interesting to Luffy, but regardless of that, it's not something anyone other than Hatchan would be able to use since he has six arms. Even Zoro with three swords, one of which is in his mouth, is pushing it.
Luffy watched as Hatchan tried several attacks, whose names he didn't quite catch, and was landing some hits and slashes on Zoro. Hatchan also doesn't seem to be only using his swords, as he has caught Zoro of guard few times by spewing out ink form his mouth, and there was one situation in which Hatchan head-butted Zoro in the chest after he blocked one of Zoro's Santoryu attacks, and then parted his swords so he can get in.
Of course, Zoro wasn't just taking hits, but was also returning them as well. He has slashed Hatchan across the chest with his Toro Nagashi, attack, and has also landed few more slashes on Hatchan.
Luffy looked at Arlong, and then at Nezumi, who is still hiding, and has no intention of entering the battle to help his underlings, unlike Arlong, who is trying, but those two punches from Luffy barely left him able to move. "How does it feel, Arlong," Luffy asked, drawing angry look from Arlong? "How does it feel to be lying there on the ground, without being able to move and save your comrades from death?"
Arlong didn't say anything, and was just glaring at Luffy. "I bet you want to save them, don't you," Luffy asked, and Arlong reluctantly nodded. "Well, unfortunately for you, you won't get that chance, because I'm here. I'm going to make sure you all die here today, and that will be your punishment for everything you did in the last eight years to all the people on Conomi Islands including the ones you killed. This is the day all those deaths will be avenged, and they will be able to rest in peace, while you and your brethren will be burning in hell."
Luffy's and Arlong's attention was drawn by Nami, who has approached them.
"I'm finished." She said with a smile, and Luffy looked all over the Arlong Park, and saw hundreds dead bodies of Marines and fishman lying on the floor, or floating in the pool.
"Good work, Nami," Luffy said with a smile, and Nami beamed at his praise, after which she stood next to him, cast a hate filled look at Arlong, who returned it, and then she and Luffy continued to watch the battles between Usopp and Kuroobi, as well as Zoro and Hatchan. Hatchan and Kuroobi are currently the only fishman left alive besides Arlong, while among marines, there is Nezumi still alive, as well as one other marine, who is beaten up badly by Nami, but was still alive.
"Rokutoryu Ogi: Rokuto no Waltz!" Hatchan yelled his own technique, as he spins all six swords over his head like a fan blade, and then charged at Zoro, who stood in his own stance, and yelled.
"Santoryu Ogi: Sanzen Sekai!" Zoro holds two of his swords at an angle against each other and rotates them rapidly while running towards his opponent, with the third sword still in between his teeth.
Zoro and Hatchan run at one another, and then slashed at the same time, before they found themselves behind one another. The two stood like that for a few moments, while everyone else looked to see what will happen, well everyone but Luffy, Natsu and Naruto, who had good enough eye sight to see.
A moment later, all six of Hatchan's swords fell on the ground in pieces, much to his shock, and Zoro's smirk.
"It's a shame I didn't get you and only your swords," Zoro commented, after he turned and looked at Hatchan, who was now also looking at him. "But now you have no weapons, and are easy pick."
"We'll see about that," Hatchan yelled, and then started punching at Zoro with all six of his arms! "Takoyaki Punch!"
Zoro dodged by jumping backwards, and then while Hatchan run at him, he stood in another stance, with Wado Ichimonji in between his teeth, while the other two swords were extended on the sides.
"Tatsu Maki!" Zoro yelled as he spines along with his swords, and created a dragon-like tornado that both slashed and blew away Hatchan in the air.
"What that hell," Hatchan yelled, while flying through the air! "How could I have lost to a Santoryu?"
Hatchan fell into the pool, and after few moments passed, he didn't come out.
Zoro sheeted his swords, and looked at Johnny and Yosaku who were cheering for him from the entrance. He walked toward where Luffy and Nami were standing, and Luffy said.
"That octopus won't die from those wounds."
"I know," Zoro said. "But something tells me I should let him live."
Luffy looked at Zoro for a few moments, before he nodded. "Fine. If that's your decision."
Nami didn't say anything about Zoro's decision, and the three watched Usopp's battle, which seems to be drawing to a close, since Usopp was able to shot Kuroobi above his heart, and Kuroobi is currently lying on the ground, with bloodied Usopp standing above him.
"I got to admit, you did give me more trouble than I thought," Usopp said, as he was looking at Kuroobi. "But then again, you are fishman, so it's to be expected. It also means that there is a lot of space for me to grow and get stronger, so I thank you for showing me that. As a thank you, I will give you a gift of death."
As he said that, Usopp shot Kuroobi straight in the head, twice, killing him instantly.
Usopp then joined Luffy, Nami and Zoro, and all four glared at Arlong, who was barely holding back his tears while at the same time was seething in rage.
"Yes, that is the feeling of losing someone you care about," Luffy said to Arlong. "All those innocent people you killed had someone who cared about them, and the same feelings you have now, are the ones they had after you mercilessly killed their family members or friends."
"You sure talk like you are some saint, don't you," Arlong sneered at Luffy. "But your people have killed so many of my brethren and marines, who also had people who care about them. What about those people, ha?"
"If they feel like it, they are free to come after me, I won't run from anyone," Luffy said. "But, the difference between the people you and your people killed, and the people that me and my crew killed, is that those we killed were not innocent civilians who couldn't fight back while we were slaughtering them. No one I have ever killed was innocent and powerless civilian, they were all people who deserved to die. Those you and your man killed, didn't deserve to die, and you only killed them because they couldn't pay you the money you didn't deserve to have.
"You, Arlong, and those like you, and I mean both pirates and marines, are a plague of this world, and I will do everything I can to clean this world of people like you."
After Luffy was finished, he kicked Arlong in the head, sending him flying toward the Arlong Tower, where he flew into the first floor, straight through the wall.
"Get that Marine Captain and the surviving Marine, and take them out of the Arlong Park," Luffy said to Zoro, Usopp and Nami. "I'll deal with Arlong alone, and then I'll join you."
The three nodded, and while they went to do what Luffy told them, Luffy went to Arlong Tower to face against Arlong.
As he entered inside Arlong Tower, Harry saw that this first floor, is just a big open space, with a staircases on the front, which lead to the upper level, and below them, there is another set of stairs, which go below the ground.
He saw Arlong kneeling on the floor, next to a rubble, which was probably created when Luffy kicked him and Arlong collided with the Arlong Tower wall on the opposite side of the wall through which he flew in.
Luffy walked to Arlong, and stood several meters in front of him. "Come on, Arlong, is that the best you've got," Luffy teased Arlong, trying to rile him up? "I was expecting more from you."
"You filthy human," Arlong sneered! "I will have your head on a spike for everything you did to me and my crew!"
"You are free to hope, I guess," Luffy shrugged. "Though I wouldn't get my hopes too high if I were you."
"You bastard!" Arlong growled, and launched himself at Luffy to punch him, but again, Luffy dodged the attack, and Arlong fell on the floor behind Luffy, as he has put too much power in the punch, and wasn't able to stop himself when Luffy dodged.
"Shoryo no Mizu!" Arlong yelled from behind Luffy, as he created a handful of water and threw it at Luffy with incredible speed and power.
The attack hit Luffy in the chest, as he either didn't have the time, or he simply didn't feel like dodging Arlong's attack this time, and the hit sent Luffy sliding on his feet few inches from the spot he was on.
"Hm, that's better," Luffy said. "But you still have to do better than that if you want to win."
Luffy then kicked Arlong again, and Arlong's body flew out of the Tower, until he crushed into the pool which was connected to the sea.
After that, Luffy walked out from the tower while looking at the pool, expecting Arlong to come out any moment now, as he knew a simply kick won't do that much damage to Arlong.
Suddenly, Arlong flew out from the pool with his mouth open, and spinning, while going straight at Luffy, who was standing several meters from the edge of the pool. "Shark on Tooth!" Arlong yelled his attack, as he was nearing Luffy.
Luffy stretched his right arm, and much to Arlong's shock, as well as shock of all those who were watching the fight from the gates of Arlong Park, caught Arlong by the nose, and held him horizontally in the air.
"It's useless, Arlong," Luffy sighed. "You can't win. You never stood a chance." As he said that, electricity formed around Luffy's right hand with which he was holding Arlong by the nose and then the electricity ran through Arlong, lighting him up like a Christmas tree, making him yell in pain.
"You may think that you fishman are stronger than human, but even you have your weakness, and electricity works much better on water creatures or those inside of the water, then on anything else." Luffy said after he stopped shocking Arlong, and then once he said it, he lit him up again, making Arlong scream again.
After about ten seconds, Luffy stopped running electricity through Arlong, but was still holding, now roasted Arlong, by the nose. Luffy then started to swing Arlong, and while holding him by the nose, and was slamming him into the ground from one side to the other. And after few slams, lit him up again.
By now, Arlong was almost completely roasted, and barely alive, but was still alive. Luffy got bored of this, and decided to simply end it.
"This is the end of the line for you, Arlong," Luffy said. "I hope you burn in hell, and if we meet there one day, I'll give you another slapping just to remind you of this day."
As he finished with his last speech to Arlong, Luffy swinged Arlong above his head, and then when he was satisfied with the speed, he sent him flying into the sky, where the lightning was raining down.
Arlong's body flew so high in the sky, that it started attracting the lightning, and he was hit by several lightning strikes, which didn't even give him time to scream, as Arlong was completely destroyed by the lightning.
Seeing that Arlong was dead, Nami, Nojiko and Genzo, who were watching the fight, all fell on their knees, and Nami and Nojiko started to cry in relief, because the nightmare in which they were trapped for over eight years was over, and they are free again. Genzo didn't cry, but was as happy as the girls.
Luffy approached the group, and before he could react, Nami run and threw herself at him, dropping him on the ground, and lying on him, with her head on her chest. She was still crying as she did so, so Luffy's shirt was getting slightly wet from her tears. "Thank you, Luffy," Nami mumbled into his chest. "Thank you for everything."
"It's ok, Nami," Luffy said, while hugging Nami with his right arm. "It is finally over, so you and the people of Conomi Islands are free."
Nami nodded, but didn't move from Luffy, and stayed like that for a while, while the others have gathered around them, and were mostly smiling, even Naruto and Natsu had smirks on their faces, which doesn't happen often.
The only one who was not smiling, and was in fact, frowning, was Genzo, but that was because he sees Nami as his daughter and no father wants to see his 18 year old daughter hugging another boy, while lying on top of him.
XXX
With Arlong and almost his entire crew, except Hatchan, dead, and with all the marines except Nezumi and one other marine dead as well, Luffy told his crew, as well as Nojiko and Genzo to raid the Arlong Park, and take everything from it, and do with it as they like.
Nami, Nojiko and Genzo were more than happy to do it, and so while they went to work, Luffy called Natsu to come with him, and the two took Nezumi and the no named marine with them, and took them both to the Marine War ship which Nezumi used.
"What are you planning, you pirate?" Nezumi screamed from where he was dropped on the deck, all tied up. His only surviving underling was also tied up next to him.
Luffy looked at Nezumi and said. "All the money which Arlong took over the years from people on Conomi Island will go back to them, along with the money Nami gathered to buy of the Island."
"What's that got to do with me," Nezumi asked? "The money I took from that witch is in Arlong Park, all of it. So why are we hear and where are we going?"
"You are a corrupted Marine who has been getting money from Arlong to not report him to the Marine HQ, so you must have got a lot of money during this 8 years, haven't you," Nezumi said nothing. "I also have a feeling that you might have collected some more money from other pirate crews, or from someone else who was paying you for something, like Arlong. Also, you might have taken money from some other innocent civilians like Morgan did in Shells Town. Taking all that into consideration, I think you have amassed a lot of money and gold which you are keeping in the Marine Branch 16, which is your branch, and so, we are going there to take it all."
When he heard what Luffy said, Nezumi's eyes widened to comical level, and he had a coughing fit, not believing that Luffy has somehow figured out that he has been taking money from multiple sources from all over East Blue.
Nezumi couldn't say anything to that, as he knew that even if he denied, Luffy won't believe him, so he just let it go, and hopped that Luffy and the pinkie will leave him alive. Though, he did wonder why they killed all of his underlings except one.
XXX
The trip from Arlong Park to Marine Branch 16 lasted for about hour and a half, and once they were there and docked on the shore, Luffy and Natsu grabbed Nezumi and the other marine, and marched toward the base.
Of course, they first had to go through several dozen marines which were left in the Branch and weren't taken to Arlong Park.
It took Luffy and Natsu few minutes to kill everyone, while Nezumi and his only remaining underling had to watch the slaughter, and were praying to every god they could think of, to make Luffy leave them alive.
"Come on, lead us to the vault," Luffy said, as he dragged Nezumi by his whickers.
Nezumi struggled to free himself from Luffy's hold, but was unsuccessful, so he just pointed toward where they are to go in the base, and then down the hall, until they came in front of the door.
On the wall next to the door, there was an eye scanner. "It needs to scan my right eye in order for the door to open." Nezumi said, so Luffy nodded, and brought Nezumi's head in front of the scanner, or better said, his right eye, and after few moments, the door opened, showing stairs which were leading below the base.
Luffy, Natsu and Nezumi went down the stairs, while the remaining Marine was hit on the back of his neck by Natsu, and he passed out.
After almost two minutes of walking down the stairs, which Luffy found annoying, they entered into another corridor, which had prison cells on the side, with several prisoners yelling and cheering after they saw Nezumi being dragged by two man.
Luffy and Natsu found this annoying and Luffy was about to hit Nezumi for bringing them to prison even though he told him to take them to a vault, but Nezumi realized what Luffy was thinking, so he quickly said. "I didn't lie, the vault is over there!" He pointed to a large steel door on the end of the corridor, and Luffy and Natsu stared at him with raised eyebrows.
Nezumi shrugged. "No one will think it will be here, and even if someone does know, they can't enter without my eye scan. And the cells can only be opened with my finger print on the scanner, as you can probably see. The vault needs my finger print, eye scan and I need to say my name for a voice recognition."
"Is this how all the prison cells are guarded, or is this something unique?" Luffy asked.
"No, this is something I came up with, and had some scientists create only for here," Nezumi said. "I wanted to protect my money, and the prison cells were just a bonus since I didn't want to leave any chances to these scumbags to not only escape, but also get their hands on my money."
Surprisingly, Natsu scoffed at Nezumi. "Your money, my ass," Natsu said. "You took all that from who knows how many people."
"It doesn't matter who I took it from," Nezumi scowled at Natsu. "It's mine now. Besides, the higher ups know about this and they don't care as long as they get the cut of everything we take."
"Can't say I'm surprised by that," Luffy said. "Just another thing that shows that the Marines and the World Government are not as nice as they like to present themselves."
Luffy then led Nezumi to the vault door, and had him open them, while all three of them ignored the prisoners who are calling for Natsu and Luffy to free them.
Once the door was opened, Luffy and Natsu saw several big chests as well as a bunch of suitcases. "Ok, this is not what I was expecting." Luffy commented, while Natsu was quiet and was only looking around the vault, which was very big, though relatively empty.
Luffy looked at Nezumi, who knew what Luffy meant with that look even if he didn't voice it. "In the suitcases is the money," Nezumi said. "Each suitcase has 100mil. As for the chests, they have either gold, or valuable stones, even some diamonds."
"I see," Luffy said, and counted 6 suitcases, which made him raise his eyebrows. "You gathered 600 mil belly in East Blue." Luffy was very surprised.
"Yeah," Nezumi confirmed. "Well, we collected more, but 40% went to the government. I was collecting all that money and the stones for over a decade, which is why there is so much."
"You greedy bastard," Luffy scowled at the men. "I bet most of the money came from civilians."
"Yeah," Nezumi admitted, while looking at the ground, as he didn't dare to look at Luffy and Natsu. "We have been taking from civilians under the promise we are protecting them, so they need to pay."
Luffy scowled at Nezumi again, and then he stepped into the vault, and went to one of the chests. He opened one, and saw some precious stones and gems inside. He didn't know how much value this all has, but considering that the chest is very big, and has around 200 pounds of precious stones and gems, Luffy guessed it's at least several dozen million belly for this one chest. And that's only one among dozens which are full with those stones, gems and gold.
Luffy checked the other chests, and found that two of them are filled to the top with pure diamonds. "Where the hell did you get all these diamonds? What about the other stones? This is ridiculous."
"Unlike with the money, I didn't tell the government nor the higher ups about the stones or the diamonds, so I kept all of it. There are only two diamond mines in the entire world, one is in East Blue, which is private, and I have offered help of the marines in protecting them from the pirates or other thief's, for small percentage of all diamonds they find. The owner agreed, and so I ended up with more diamonds then I knew what to do with. The same goes for the other stone, though in their cases they come from multiple mines from all over East Blue."
Luffy and Natsu looked at Nezumi with disbelief. "How can the higher ups and the government not know about this," Luffy asked? "There is no way that no one wouldn't have told them."
Nezumi shrugged. "It was strange to me as well at first, but in the end I realized it must be luck that no one has notified the Marine HQ or the World Government."
"That's some luck," Natsu said. "But there is an end to everything, and this is the day you will remember for the rest of your life as the day all that good luck, has run out, and bad luck has come to balance things out."
Nezumi was really hoping that Natsu was only talking about the death of his subordinates, and the loss of all the money he has collected, and wasn't referring to anything more sinister, like his death for example.
Luffy and Natsu then went and took the suitcases, as well as one chest, each, and went out of the vault all the way outside and to the war ship, where they left everything, before they returned to collect the rest.
In the meantime, while the two were moving the chests to the ship, Nezumi and the marine that was left alive, were at the entrance to the base, waiting for the two to finish, and then find out what will happen to them.
It didn't take more than ten minutes for Natsu and Luffy to finish, and after they did, they both stood in front of Nezumi and his subordinate, while staring at them with the look that scared the crap out of the two.
"Well, I guess it's time for us to part ways," Luffy said to the two marines. "But first I need to tell you why I left the two of you alive."
"You needed me to enter into the base," Nezumi croaked. "I know that."
"Yes, but then why did I leave him alive," Luffy asked while pointing to the other marine?
"W-why did you?" Nezumi asked, suddenly getting a bad feeling, which intensified when Luffy grinned from ear to ear.
"I needed someone to tell the tale," Luffy said, and then grabbed Nezumi by the throat, and lifted him off the ground, and then held him there, slowly choking Nezumi.
"W-What are y-you doing?" Nezumi barely managed to gasp out.
"I was never going to leave you alive, Nezumi," Luffy said, making Nezumi's eyes widen even more than they already were. "I needed you to enter into the base, but that's about it. I have no more use for you, and truthfully, you don't deserve to live after everything you did. I left that marine over there alive so he can tell the tale to the HQ. I want the world to know that the time of the Straw Hat Pirates has arrived, and we are going to turn this world upside down. We will even burn it to the ground if we have to, but by the time we are finished, everything in this decrepit world will be different then it is right now.
"Good bye, Nezumi. I hope you burn in hell!" And with those final words, Luffy let electricity flow through the hand with which he was holding Nezumi by the neck, and then squeezed, cutting Nezumi's head from the rest of the body.
Nezumi's body and head fell on the ground, separately, and then head rolled few more feet before it stopped, while the body stayed at Luffy's feet right where it fell."
Luffy then looked at the marine, who looked like he is about to piss his pants out of fear. "You are the only one we are leaving alive. I want you to tell the Marine HQ what happened on Conomi Islands, everything that Nezumi did over the years with Arlong, and of course, the downfall of the Arlong Park and the Marine Branch 16 as well as everything I just mentioned to Nezumi. Do you understand that?"
The marine nodded quickly, making Luffy smile. "Good," Luffy said, and then he and Natsu turned around and left the Marine base, and the only surviving marine.
As soon as the two pirates left on the warship, the marine hurried to call the HQ, and tell them what happened.
XXX
By the time Luffy and Natsu returned to the Arlong Park, the place was already raided and striped of everything valuable, along with every last belly Arlong has taken from people over the years.
The money hasn't been counted yet, but by Nami's estimations, there was over a billion belly, in which were included the 100 mil she has collected over the span of eight years. All that money will be split equally between the residents of the 17 remaining villages and towns on Conomi Islands, as the three of the original 20 have been destroyed by Arlong.
Along with the money and gold, a large amount of weapons was found in Arlong Park, and most of those weapons also belong to the villagers, and were taken by Arlong as he didn't want them to start rebellion. That will also be returned to the villagers and town's people.
Once the Arlong Park was striped to the bone, so to say, the word of Arlong's demise was spread around Conomi Islands, and the party started on several places around the Archipelago, with the main party being in Cocoyasi Village, since the Straw Hats were there.
The party has lasted for three days, during which everyone has eaten, drank, and did whatever the hell they wanted, since this was the first time after eight years the people of Conomi Islands were free to do what they want. And in all that celebration, the Straw Hats were dragged as well, and treated as all but kings.
XXX
Right now, it was a morning of the day after the party was over, and Nami is in the shower in her house.
Just like everyone, she has celebrated the freedom, by drinking many others and then herself under the table, and has spent the majority of the last day of celebration passed out and left to sleep in her house she shared with Nojiko.
She has awoken earlier that morning, and decided to freshen herself with some hot shower, and while she was at it, she thought about everything she has been through since the day Arlong Pirates first arrived and took over the Conomi Islands.
She remembered the fear she felt when she first saw the fishman, the pain she felt when her adopted mother was killed by Arlong right in front of her eyes, she then remembered the years of suffering while drawing sea charts for Arlong, and then stealing from pirates all over East Blue.
All of those bad memories made her want to cry and curse Arlong, since none of the memories of those eight years, have come even close to be happy.
In fact, the first happy memory she had since before Arlong killed her mother, was the memory of Luffy promising to help her free her village from Arlong.
For the next two weeks more or less, she has gathered several other happy memories of her time with the Straw Hat crew, and among them, the happiest one, is the time she spent with Luffy and Katrina on the day Katrina showed them the Going Merry. Of course, Nami will never admit to anyone that she liked what happened then, and in order to make Luffy think she didn't like it, she has distanced herself from him ever since, and was quiet, but deep down, she wanted to do it again, and this time, she would go all the way, and would let Luffy make her his.
Her thoughts were interrupted by the same person she was thinking about, who has somehow entered into her shower, and approached her from behind without her even noticing until Luffy has practically pressed himself to Nami from behind.
It took all of a second for Nami to realize that, just like her, Luffy was completely naked, as she could feel his semi hard penis pressed on her lower back. It made her shudder when she thought where exactly would it be pressed if Luffy was shorter then he was.
"L-Luffy," Nami gasped when Luffy hugged her from behind, and locked his arms around her stomach. "What a-are you d-doing?"
Luffy didn't respond right away, but instead, he lifted Nami's arms and pushed them on the shower wall, above her head, and then pinned her to the wall with his body, making Nami gasp again.
Luffy held both of Nami's hands above her head with his left hand, while with his right, he took Nami's jaw, and pulled her head a little on the side and backwards, so that her lips were in front of his, and her wide eyes were looking at his serious ones.
"I want you, Nami," Luffy said. "And I want you right now." He then kissed her on the lips, taking her breath away in an instant.
The two kissed for about a minute, before Nami managed to pull back as she needed to take a breath. Her face was crimson red and she was taking slow and shallow breaths, though she was not taking her eyes of off Luffy, who still had her pinned to the wall.
"L-Luffy, I…" Nami started to say, but Luffy interrupted her.
"Don't you want me, Nami," Luffy asked. "I know you liked what we did back in Syrup Village, I knew all this time," Nami gasped. "I let you get your mind straight, which is why I didn't' bother you since them, even though you have been avoiding me and didn't want to talk about it I was fine with that, but I think now is the time to deal with that, and tell me if you want to be mine or not."
Nami thought about Luffy's words and question, without trying to move from where he has her pressed to the wall. She wasn't even trying to wiggle out when Luffy started to grind his, now fully erect penis between her ass checks, and across her pussy lips, which were getting wetter more and more as he continued to grind on her and rub it.
"I…" Nami started to say again, but stopped as she moaned when Luffy, who has let go if her jaw, and now had his right hand on her pussy, pinched her clit, making Nami's eyes roll slightly into the back of her head. "
"Take me L-Luffy," Nami gasped out. "Make me yours forever!"
That was all Luffy needed to hear, and then he took his dick with his right hand, and lined it up with Nami's pussy, before he slowly pushed his head inside, as this was Nami's first time, and he was going to give her a minute or two of slow thrusting after he takes her virginity, but after that, well he will ruin her.
"Here it comes, Nami," Luffy said, and then he pushed more and more into her, until he broke the barrier, after which, he sheeted all of his 9 inch dick in Nami's pussy, making her eyes widen to epic proportions, as they also rolled back in her head.
Luffy didn't move after he pushed his full length inside Nami, and waited for about a minute for her to regain her mind from an orgasm she experienced just from him entering her and taking her virginity.
When Nami's eyes returned to normal, and her mind was clear enough to know what's going on, Luffy slowly pulled his dick back, until only the head stayed inside Nami, and then slowly, pushed it back inside, making Nami gasp.
From them on, Luffy continued to go in and out of Nami's pussy for a few minutes, after which he started to up the speed, which came with the sounds of his pelvis slapping on Nami's ass.
"slap slap slap slap," was heard through the bathroom in Nami's room, as Luffy was going faster and faster at Nami's pussy, while holding her pinned to the wall, with both of his hands holding both of hers above her head. Nami's face and breasts were pressed on the cold tiled wall, while Luffy's hot and wet body was pressed on her wet back making her shudder from the combination of hot and cold, as well as from the continuous orgasms she was experience.
"AH AH OHH, AH," Nami moaned and yelled, as Luffy went even faster than before! "OH GOD, this is so good," Nami said. "Keep going Luffy, don't stop for the LOVE OF GOD, DON'T STOP!" Nami screamed as she felt another orgasm hit her, and her pussy started shooting her love liquid, hitting the wall, before it slid down on the floor.
Of course, Luffy didn't have any intention of stopping this any time soon, and he said that. "Don't worry, Nami, I will not stop for as long you are conscious."
Nami's eyes widened slightly at that, as she realized that Luffy is going to ruin her for the rest of her life, and he will make himself be the only man who will have any chance to satisfy her.
Luffy came for the first time that day about a minute later, painting Nami's insides with his hot seed, as he didn't fell like pulling out. He didn't even think she could potentially end up pregnant if he does that.
Luffy then looked at Nami's face, and saw she had an ahegao expression, which made him smile. He then pulled out of Nami, making her moan at the loss, and looked back at him, but before she could protest, she felt Luffy line the tip of his dick with her asshole, making Nami's eyes widen.
"As I said," Luffy said to Nami. "I'm making you completely mine today, and that includes taking all of your holes."
And with that said, Luffy pushed all the way inside Nami's asshole, without even bothering to go slowly like he did with her pussy few minutes earlier, and immediately started to destroy her tight hole with his huge meat pole.
For the next few hours, Luffy has continuously destroyed Nami's asshole and pussy. He has also made her suck his cock, and she didn't put any resistance, and has let herself in his hands to do with her as he pleases.
XXX
Unknown the Luffy and Nami, while they were having fun in the shower room, Natsu was also having fun, but in another part of the house, and with another girl. That girl, is Nojiko.
Somehow, the two got to know each other very well during the last two days, and last night, they ended up in Nojiko's room to have sex, and surprisingly, they are still there.
Right now, Natsu and Nojiko are in Nojiko's room, and on her bed.
They are both butt ass naked, with Nojiko on her knees, and Natsu behind her. Natsu had his left arm wrapped across Nojiko's chest, and was holding her with it by her neck, while his right arm was fingering her pussy. Natsu's 10 inch dick was inside Nojiko's asshole, and he was fucking her as fast as he could, and for some time now, which is probably why Nojiko's eyes were completely rolled into the back of her head, and there were marks of dried tears across her cheeks. Her mouth was also wide open, and her tongue has practically fallen out.
To say that Nojiko is out of her mind after the whole night of sex, is unnecessary. Though somehow even though she is unconscious, her eyes were open, but she doesn't know anything that's going on.
Of course, Natsu didn't seem to mind that his fuck buddy was not conscious, and just kept going in and out of her asshole, or her pussy after some time, switching between the two from time to time.
Who knows for how long Natsu would continue if the door of the room weren't open by Naruto, who then entered and saw what's going on. "Oy, don't you see she's out of it," Naruto yelled at Natsu! "Just let her rest for a while. And if you're into her so much, just convince her to come with us and join the crew!"
"Already did that," Natsu said, without stopping his hips from thrusting into Nojiko's asshole. "Actually, I didn't even have to ask her, she begged me to convince Luffy to let her join the crew so she can watch over her sister, and be with me."
"Then stop and let her rest," Naruto sighed. "She's not like your former fuck buddy's you mentioned. Nojiko is just civilian."
Herring this, returned Natsu back to reality. It's not the fact that Naruto said that Nojiko is civilian, and can't take him on, that can be fixed with time, no, it's the fact that he mentioned his old fuck buddy's. This immediately reminded Natsu of a tall, busty clad in armor, red haired drop dead gorgeous girl he has known since he has first joined Fairy Tail Guild when he was just over 10 years old.
The other was a brown haired girl, almost equally as beautiful as red hair girl, with equal bust size, though this one only clad in simple brass instead of armor.
Natsu was reminded of his growing up with the other kids in the guild, and how somehow he and Erza ended up being sex partners when he was 13 and she was 14 years old. Sometime later, Cana ended up in the mix as well, and they had some sort of a three-way relationship, which made them sex partners, but nothing more than that. No one else but the tree of them knew this, and they stayed partners until that day on Tenrou Island.
As soon as Tenrou Island crossed his mind, Natsu got surrounded in red and black aura, and something started to come out from the side of his head.
Naruto saw this, got wide eyed for a moment, and then quickly raced and punched Natsu away from Nojiko and into the wall of her room, effectively stopping whatever was happening to Natsu, as he looked to be back to normal, and just looking at Naruto.
Nojiko on the other hand, just fell on the bed, face first. Her eyes and mouth were now closed, and she simply looked to be unconscious and not out of her mind. Her pussy and asshole were clearly visible from behind, as they were gapping and leaking Natsu's cum.
"What the hell," Naruto yelled? "You could have instantly killed her and destroy the entire Island if I didn't stop you!"
Natsu looked at Naruto, wide eyed, and apologized. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to," Natsu said. "I-I got so angry when I remembered Erza and Cana and then how it all ended on Tenrou Island, I just lost it."
"You cannot lose it like that, you moron," Naruto yelled again! "If you lose it like that you are a threat to everyone, including me and Luffy!"
Natsu just looked at the floor, but didn't say anything, and after few moments, Naruto calmed down, and said. "Get yourself together, and come out. Live the girl to rest. She has had enough, and I'm pretty sure so have you."
And so, Naruto left the room, leaving Natsu alone with a passed out Nojiko. It took Natsu few minutes to gather himself, before he went to clean himself in Nojiko's bathroom, before he went out, and left the ravaged girl to rest.
XXX
Luffy walked toward the cliff outside of the Cocoyasi Village, which was overlooking the sea. It was a very beautiful place, and Luffy decided to sit there for a while and relax after he finished fucking Nami, and after she stayed in her bedroom to rest.
As he was approaching the cliff, Luffy noticed a man seating on it, in front of what looks like a simple wooden grave. When he got closer, Luffy recognized the man as Genzo.
Hearing someone approach, Genzo turned around, and saw Luffy. "What are you doing here?"
"I went for a walk, and though this place looks nice to sit down and relax a little," Luffy replied, as he sat down next to Genzo. "What are you doing here? And whose grave is that?"
Genzo took a swing from the bottle of sake he had in his hand, after which he offered it to Luffy, but he refused. Genzo then said. "This is Bell-mère's grave. She was Nami's and Nojiko's mother."
Luffy's eyes widened at this. "Nami never mentioned her." Luffy said.
"I can't say I'm surprised," Genzo said. "Bell-mère's death has hit all of us in Cocoyasi pretty hard, and Nami and Nojiko were hit the hardest as she was the only family they had. In the end, she ended up killed right in front of their eyes."
Luffy narrowed his eyes. "What happened?"
Genzo sighed, and explained. "When Arlong first came on Conomi Island, his first stop was Cocoyasi Village. He announced to everyone that he is taking over and that all adult people are to pay monthly tribute to him of 100 thousand belly, while the kids are to pay 50 thousand. He said it is him being paid for the protection. Of course, that protection was from him, since anyone who couldn't pay was killed right away."
Luffy nodded, as he knew the story so far. "Bell-mère was a marine when she was younger," this surprised Luffy. "But she gave it all up when she found baby Nami and slightly older Nojiko one day in a war torn country. The two were the only survivors, so Bell-mère adopted them, and brought them here to take care of the two, while sacrificing her carrier, as she couldn't work and take care of a little girl and a baby.
"Since she quit being a marine, she didn't have a lot of money and taking care of two little girls is not cheap. Bell-mère started growing tangerines, and was doing ok, there was enough money for her, Nami and Nojiko. But when Arlong came and asked for money, Bell-mère only had 100 thousand belly savings, so she paid for Nami and Nojiko, but couldn't pay for herself, so she was killed right in front of her house. Nami and Nojiko were there, and saw it all along with me and some villagers."
Luffy felt angry as all hell hearing this story, and if Arlong was not already dead, he would have killed him again for making his Nami go through watching her mother be killed.
"I decided to burry Bell-mère here, as this is a beautiful place, and she would have a great view," Genzo said. "Nami and Nojiko agreed.
"Anyway, it was not long after that, that Arlong found out how good Nami is at drawing sea charts, and took her to Arlong Park to draw them for him. He made her all but a slave, but she held up, and eventually made that deal about buying the village. I'm sure you know the rest."
Luffy nodded, as he knew most of what Genzo said besides the story about Bell-mère.
The two set there for a while, Genzo drinking the sake, while Luffy was just content with seating. Eventually, Genzo set up, moved slightly toward the grave, and poured what was left of sake across of it, for Bell-mère.
"I'm assuming Nami will come with you and be a member of you crew," Genzo said, while looking at Luffy from the corner of his eye.
"She already is a member of my crew," Luffy said. "In fact, she is my family just like all the others in my crew.
"I'm glad to hear that," Genzo said, as he looked back at Bell-mère grave. "It means I don't have to threaten to kill you if you hurt her in any way."
Luffy smiled at this, since this is something that a father would say to his daughter's boyfriend.
Genzo then took of the pinwheel from his hat, and placed it next to Bell-mère grave, confusing Luffy, but didn't say anything about it, and Luffy didn't try to ask. Genzo probably has a reason for doing it anyway.
The two set there for a little while, and then left together back to the Cocoyasi Village.
XXX
After Natsu left Nojiko's room, he met with Naruto, Zoro, Usopp, Johnny and Yosaku, and they went to transport the money, gems and diamonds, which Luffy and Natsu took from Marine Branch 16, from the Marine War ship to the Going Merry. They also took all ammunition, cannon balls and gunpowder from the ship, along with the cannons, though they could just store them to the Going Merry, as they are not suited for the ship of her size. They will figure out eventually what to do with them.
They all did wonder where Luffy and Nami were, well, besides Naruto who knew where Luffy and Nami were this morning and where they are now. But in the end, none of them wanted to search for them, so they just went and transported everything by themselves.
Once it was over, they decided to go back to Cocoyasi and see how long they will stay in the village, and where will they go from there. They also needed to decide what to do with the Marine War ship.
When the group of six arrived back to the Cocoyasi Village, they saw Luffy, Nami and Genzo were in front of Nami's house, seating and talking. None of them saw Nojiko, which made Naruto cast a glare at Natsu, who turned his head to the other side, and actually blushed in embarrassment. He though he was lucky none of the others noticed the blush.
"Hey guys, where have you been?" Nami asked after she was them approaching.
"We went to transport everything from the Marine War ship to the Going Merry," Naruto said, and then looked at Luffy. "So, have you decided how long we'll stay here?"
"Well, Arlong and the Marines are dealt with, so we can go right away, or stay few more day. We are not in a hurry." Luffy said, and everyone nodded. In the end, everyone agreed to just pack their things and go right away, as there is no reason to stay, and Luffy was ok with the battle against the pirates and the marines as a substitution for the training, Nami, Zoro and Usopp needed.
"Nojiko wants to come with us and join the crew." Natsu suddenly said, and everyone but Naruto looked at him with raised eyebrows, while Nami's eyes were widened.
"Why," Nami was the one who asked? "She never showed interest in leaving the village. And where is she anyway? I haven't seen her since last night."
Everyone looked at Natsu, since they assumed he has the answers. They were right. "The two of us… we ended up together last night," Nami's jaw dropped on the floor, while the others were amused. "She asked me to join the crew as she wants to keep an eye on you," Nami glared at Natsu at this, "and she also wants to be with me. I was fine with that, and she asked me to convince Luffy to let her join. As for where she is… she is in her bedroom, still asleep."
Now everyone looked at Luffy. He shrugged. "I've got nothing against it," Luffy said. "But she needs to realize she will be in danger all the time. In Nami's case she has been out of the islands, and at least knows how to fight, Nojiko doesn't."
"She can always learn some fighting style or use some weapon," Usopp suggested, and the others agreed. So in the end, everyone has agreed to accept Nojiko in the crew. Nami didn't show it on her face, but she was happy.
"Wait, what about the tangerine orchard Nojiko has been taking care of," Genzo asked? "She can't just abandon it."
Everyone went quiet at this, especially Nami and Luffy, who knew that the orchard was planted by Bell-Mere so she can earn money to take care of Nami and Nojiko when they were little girls.
It was Natsu who had the idea. "Well, what about the people of Cocoyasi," he asked, and everyone looked at him, waiting for him to explain. "I think Nami has tried to do enough for them, and it was she who brought us here to deal with Arlong. We even returned them over a billion belly, which is why I think they can at least take some time of their days to take care of the orchid."
No one said anything against that, though everyone thought that they wouldn't say it like that.
"I've personally got nothing against taking care of the orchid, and I'm sure I can find few others willing to do it," Genzo said, and Nami smiled at him, as thanks for the offer.
"I think I've got better idea, and everyone will be happy with it," Luffy said, and everyone looked at him, so he continued after seeing that he has their attention. "How about I give the money to buy and plant more tangerine trees, and make it the biggest orchid in the world," Nami's and Genzo's eyes widened as they hears Luffy's offer. "Then, we can make a company to export all the products all over the world, and Genzo can be manager of it. He can take care of it, and will have to find employees, who will work, and of course, they will be paid for it."
"A-Are you serious?" Genzo asked, and Luffy nodded with a smile, after which Nami jumped at him and hugged the life out of him. She was happy for what is Luffy offering to do for her mother's orchid, and had to thank him in some way. The hug seems like a good start.
Seeing that Luffy is serious, Genzo smiled, and agreed to the proposal.
"Usopp, Zoro, go and bring those six suitcases and one of the chests with gems, Natsu and I took from Marine Base," Luffy said to Usopp and Zoro who nodded, and left, while Luffy continued. "That's 600mil belly in those six suitcases plus unknown amount of gems, though there is about 200 pounds of them in one chest, so I think they will be worth a lot. That should be enough to start the company, buy the land if necessary, buy the tangerine seedlings, and pay to the workers until the company starts to produce the money."
Genzo nodded, but had a question. "Who will be the owner of the company? With Nami and Nojiko both pirates, they can't be."
Luffy thought about it for a minute, before he said. "Well, just call the company Bell-Mere Inc. or something like that if you want to," Nami's eyes widened as she didn't know that Luffy knew about her mother. "As for the owner, I know someone who can do it. We can make a company where she is the face of it, her name will be on the contracts, but the real owners will be Nami and Nojiko. That way, no one will know that the two pirates are the owners of the company, and the person I'm talking about is trustworthy to not screw us up. That person also has two ships which can be used to transport the products all over the world, so that's a cost less, as you wouldn't need to buy knew ships, at least until the business get well advanced. Then you might need more ships, but there is still time until there, so you shouldn't worry now."
"Who are you talking about?" Nami asked.
"Kaya," Luffy said, and everyone's eyes widened as they didn't think of her. "She knows us, she is Usopp's girlfriend, and I gave her money to build a hospital for herself. She is trustworthy and I doubt she will try to pull something to screw us over, or refuse to do it. On top of that, he parents had dealings in the underworld with the criminals, and because of that, her mother will be of big help."
"Ok, I agree," Nami said, and seeing that she is fine with this, Genzo also agreed.
"Great, now all we need to do is call Kaya on Den Den Mushi, and explain everything to her," Luffy said, and then looked at Johnny and Yosaku for a few moments, making them uncomfortable, while the others were interested in why Luffy was looking at the two like that.
"I can trust the two of you, can't I," Luffy asked with narrowed eyes, which made both bounty hunters gulp in fear, and then they nodded.
"Of course, big brother Luffy," Johnny said, and Yosaku continued. "You saved our lives, are friends and crewmates of big brother Zoro, so we will do anything to help you if we can."
"Good," Luffy nodded. "Because I have a job offer for you that is less dangerous and will bring you more money than the bounty hunting you are currently doing."
The two looked at each other, and then back at Luffy, while all the others were quiet to hear what Luffy plans. "We are listening, big brother Luffy!" Both Johnny and Yosaku said at the same time.
"Do you know where Syrup Village is," Luffy asked, and the two nodded. "Well, Usopp is from that village, and he has a girlfriend there. Her name is Kaya, yes the same Kaya I mention before. I gave her some money to build a hospital on the piece of land where she also has to guard something from being found. Are you with me so far?" The two nodded again, so Luffy continued.
"Now, what she is guarding is some gold which belongs to my crew, as well as some gold and weaponry which belong to Usopp. But, there is also more gold on another location which needs to be transported to the secret base near Syrup Village, and Kaya and her mother need help with that. I told them that I will send someone when I find trustworthy people, and the two of you are trustworthy. So, I want you to go there, find Kaya. She lives in a big mansion, you can't miss it, and she will explain how the things will work from there. She has a map to the island where the rest of the gold is, and the two of you are to help them transport it all using the two ships I left in her care.
"That is, of course, once the ships are remodeled, because we only left Syrup Village few days ago, and I doubt they were already able to remodel them.
"Those two ships are also the ones I said can be used to transport the tangerines when it's time for it.
"Did you understand all of that?" Luffy asked after he explained.
"Yes big brother," both Johnny and Yosaku said. Then Yosaku asked. "Is Kaya expecting us?"
"No, she doesn't," Luffy said. "But don't worry, I will call her and explain everything about the two of you, and about the company we talked about. Once you get there, she will explain you everything in greater details.
"Now, after everything is transported, and after Kaya continues with the construction of the hospital, I want the two of you to go and find someone to teach you swordsmanship, because as you are right now, is no good, since you are weak."
The two would have felt insulted if it was almost anyone else but Luffy who said that, simply because they saw what he and his crew can do, and compared to that, it's no wander he thinks they are weak.
"You are to stay and learn until after the hospital is finished and opens for patients. After that, you are to return and work in the hospital as guards, who will not only guard the hospital itself, but also the gold we have there. Because of that, I need the two of you to be good enough to make pirates and marines who are Arlong's level or slightly above, look like children."
Johnny and Yosaku's eyes widened, and they wondered if they can do that. "But where do we even find someone in East Blue who can train us to become so strong?"
Just as Luffy was about to answer, Usopp and Zoro returned carrying six suitcases with money and one chest full of gems. The two left everything in front of Genzo and Nami. "You brought everything," Luffy asked, and the two nodded? "Zoro, where did you learn swordsmanship?" Luffy asked, surprising Zoro.
"In the Dojo in Shimotsuki Village," Zoro replied. "I grew up there, and was trained since I was a kid."
"Is your teacher good?" Luffy asked another question.
"Yeah, he is," Zoro replied. "Though I wasn't trained much by him."
"Why?" Luffy asked.
"When I was a kid, and started training to become swordsman, Master Koushirou had a daughter. Her name is Kuina, and she was really good in swordsmanship. We were about the same age, but she was so much better than me, that she won every time we spared. Over 2000 times, and I lost every single match," this surprised everyone, and Zoro got few raised eyebrows.
"My dream was to defeat her, and one day become the greatest swordsman in the world, but it was her dream as well," Zoro continued. "Kuina always thought that she was underestimated as a swordsman since she is a girl, but she still trained and wanted to be the best.
"When I started to train, I started with one sword, just like almost everyone. But as the time went, and my losses against her piled up, I started using another sword, and when I still couldn't defeat her, I started using another, which is how I ended up with three swords style. Probably the only one in the world who uses it.
"Anyway, we became good friends, and one night we promised each other that we will do everything to become the best swordsman in the world," Zoro stopped and looked at the ground here. He was quiet for a few moments, and the others saw something is not right, so they decided to let him start talking on his own, and not push him.
A minute later, Zoro continued after he let out a sigh. "The very next day, Kuina fell from the stairs, and died." Everyone either gasped, or had their eyes widen as they heard this.
"I felt like I lost everything then," Zoro continued. "My only friend, my greatest rival, someone I thought I will one day duel for the title of the greatest swordsman in the world. It all went down the drain.
"It took me a while, but I was able to pull myself back together, and decided to continue to train, and keep my promise to Kuina. To become the greatest swordsman in the world. To do so, I asked her father, and our sensei to give me the sword she used. I thought I will honor the memory of her that way.
"Eventually, I was able to convince him, which wasn't easy since the sword was a family heirloom, and was important to them. But Koushirou gave it to me, and to this day, I still use that sword." Zoro pulled out Wado Ichimonji and held it pointing toward the sky, for everyone to see.
"I said that Koushirou didn't train me a lot, and that was because I was using three sword style, and that was something he couldn't teach me," Zoro said. "He couldn't even teach me two sword style. Only one sword style, which he is a master of."
Zoro then looked at Luffy. "That's my story, now tell me, why did you ask where I learned swordsmanship?"
"Johnny and Yosaku here are going to work for Kaya and us as a guards, which is why I need them to become stronger," Luffy said. "I need someone to teach them, and you came to mind. I though the one who trained you, would be able to train them."
"Both of them use a single sword in battle, which means that Koushirou will be able to teach them," Zoro said, and was actually smiling at Luffy's idea, as he thinks it is a good one.
Luffy then looked at the two, and saw they were weeping from how said Zoro's back story was. Luffy shock his head, and asked. "Do you know where Shimotsuki Village is?"
Johnny and Yosaku nodded, and whipped their eyes and snot. "We've been all over East Blue. We can find almost anything." Yosaku said.
"Good," Luffy said. "Well, then, do you agree to my proposal?"
"Yes, we do, big brother Luffy," both yelled at the same time, making Luffy groan.
"Well, if you are accepting my offer, then you are free to go and meet with Kaya whenever you want," Luffy said. "I'll call her before we leave to continue the journey, and I'll explain to her everything. You will talk with her about the payment, and all that."
Both, now former bounty hunters nodded, and said that they will leave immediately after they acquire the necessities for the trip and boat which will get them to Syrup Village.
Luffy suggested they take Arlong Pirates ship, which should be somewhere near former Arlong Park, and Nami and Genzo said they knew where it is, and will take them there, and Genzo will help them with filling it with food and other stuff they will need, as well as take down Arlong's Jolly Roger so that the two won't have any trouble with marines.
With that over, the crew was to go and start packing themselves to continue toward the next island, while Nami went toward the house to wake up Nojiko, but then they were interrupted by a News Coo which flew over their heads, and Nami was suddenly in the mood to see the news, so she whistled to the bird, who came down so Nami could take the newspaper, and then she paid to the bird half a belly.
"Are you really going to read the newspaper right now," Zoro asked Nami, who scowled at him, and then she opened the paper, but instead of reading it, she was stopped by several pieces of paper falling from inside of it, which then flew and fell on the ground in front of everyone.
Once the papers were spread on the ground, the crew, Genzo, Johnny and Yosaku looked at them, and all of their eyes widened when they saw what it was.
