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Chapter 7: Insane Swordsmen & A New Crew Member?
As the end of the day approached, Sanji and the cooks were preparing to close up the restaurant. After Sanji closed up the restaurant, Luffy decided to take all 3 of them to a isolated island where there wasn't any people around. As the crew reached the isolated island, Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji jumped off the Merry.
"You guys might want to sail away at least half a mile away from the island. It's about to get pretty dangerous being around here." Luffy told Usopp and Nami.
"Whatever you idiots do, don't go too overboard." Nami grumbled
"Can't guarantee that." Luffy said grinning. Luffy, Zoro, Sanji started to walk into the middle of the island while Nami was sailing away from the island.
"I just noticed that the Merry looks bigger." Sanji commented as they were almost done walking towards the middle.
"Yeah. Usopp helped build it this time. He wanted to make sure that we can sail with the Merry for longer this time." Luffy replied.
Finally, they reached the middle of the island. There was nothing but an open field with a few trees spreading around the island. They all walked towards separate directions to distance their selves from each other.
"Before we start, Zoro how is it that you look the exact same you did when we left Zou? Who trained you?" Luffy asked. He was curious on who trained him.
"You're not going to believe me if I told you." Zoro replied.
"Come on! Tell us!" Luffy said pouting.
"Now you mention it, I am also curious." Sanji said in an amused tone.
"Fine! It was...Rayleigh." Zoro said in a low voice.
"WHAT?!" Luffy and Sanji said simultaneously.
"It was Rayleigh you DUMB ASSES!" Zoro yelled annoyingly.
"How did this happen? How come I couldn't sense him?" Luffy said.
"That's because he was hiding his aura, completely." Zoro replied.
"Well how did you find him then?" Sanji cutted in.
" He was in Lougetown visiting the execution platform for one more time and I bumped into him. I actually told him everything about what happened and he believed me." Zoro said in an irritated tone. They were suppose to be training already.
"When did this happened?' Luffy asked frowning. He couldn't believe Rayleigh was here and didn't sense him.
"10 years ago. I'm pretty sure you know the reason why he was hiding his presence heavily." Zoro said raising a eyebrow.
"Heh. Forgot about that." Luffy said laughing nervously.
"What he talking about Luffy?" Sanji asked.
"Luffy forgot to tell you that his grandpa trained him." Zoro said smirking.
"WHAT?!"
"Anyway, who trained you Sanji?" Luffy said smirking already knowing who trained him.
"It was...Zeff." Sanji said while inhaling cigarette smoke.
"Should've figured. Now are we going to see if they training us wasn't for nothing. Zoro said while unsheathing his Naoe Shizu and Magoroku.
"Fine. Since we're seeing if Zoro hasn't got rusty, I wanna see how good did Zeff trained you also." Luffy said cracking his knuckles.
"Don't cry to me if you get hurt too badly." Sanji said while kicking the ground.
" I won't go easy guys." Luffy said crouching down.
"Gear Second."
Red steam appeared around Luffy's body and he stood up while looking at Sanji and Zoro. No one seemed to move for the past minute. Wind was blowing past them. When the sound of the waves brushed up against the cliff of the island, everyone disappeared! Luffy came rushing into Zoro with a powerful fist that struck his Naoe Shizu. Sanji also struck his Magoroku. Each of their attacks were powerful enough shockwaves towards each end of the island. Zoro felt like he was being pushed back and decided used enough force to repel both of them back. Before Zoro could repel them back, Luffy whipped his right leg around towards Sanji. Sanji leaned out the way and grabbed onto Luffy's leg to use the momentum to propel his self backwards. Zoro decided to swing his Magoroku towards Luffy's arm but was his attack was blocked when Luffy's arm turned obsidian black. Zoro smirked. He was actually starting to have fun since Rayleigh left him 3 years ago. Luffy jumped off the end of Zoro's swords and sped towards Sanji with a Haki infused punch.
"Gum Gum Hawk Bullet!"
"Joue!"
Luffy's haki infused fist collided with Sanji's leg, resulting in another shockwave. Several trees started to come up from the ground and flew away. Luffy vanished and appeared behind Sanji, attempting to catch him off but he wasn't expecting Sanji to flip into a handstand and shoot both of his feet into Luffy's stomach "Bouquetière Shot!" Luffy having no choice but to coat his stomach with armament. Sanji's attack collided with Luffy, causing a powerful shockwave that sent Luffy flying in the air. While Sanji was busy with Luffy, he almost forgot about Zoro and turned around to see Zoro launching a powerful flying slash towards him.
"Two Sword Style: 720 Pound Phoenix!"
Zoro knew this wasn't able to stop Sanji so he ran toward Sanji with Inhuman speed. But once the flying slash reached Sanji, he disappeared. Zoro decided to keep the momentum going and rushed Sanji with a barrage of attacks and sent another flying slash towards Luffy who was kicking the air to stay afloat. Luffy saw this and shot out both of arms towards the slash.
"Gum Gum Jet Bazooka!"
Luffy's arms touched the slash and went sent flying backwards again. Sanji was lifting his legs to defend against Zoro's relentless attacks and flipped backwards to distant his self away from Zoro and appeared behind Zoro with blinding speed.
"Anti-Manners Kick Course!"
Sanji's foot shot toward to Zoro's back. Zoro knew the attack was coming and coated his back with haki. Sanji's foot connected with Zoro's back, sending him flying but what Sanji didn't know was Zoro was flying towards Luffy twisting in a circular manner.
"Purgatory: Oni Giri!"
Zoro flew towards Luffy and spinned his body and swung his swords with so much force, it cut the air itself. Luffy, who was still holding the flying slash back. Luffy decided to stop playing with the flying slash and sent it flying towards the ground. The ground was completely split into half. Luffy smirked. " That slash was very powerful. Almost lost my hands if I didn't coat them in haki at the last minute." Luffy said to his self. Luffy saw Zoro flying towards him with blinding speed. He threw his right arm back and coated it in haki.
"Gum Gum Red Hawk!"
Luffy's arm was on fire and he slammed it towards Zoro's swords, resulting in a huge shockwave that caused the waves almost split apart by the sheer force. While Zoro and Luffy were pushing each other back with their attacks, Sanji flew toward them using Sky Walk. He twisted his body while he was in the air, resulting in both of his legs on fire.
"Premier Hachis!"
Sanji shot both of his legs towards Luffy's and Zoro's stomach. Both of them coated their stomachs again in haki to absorb some of the impact. Both of them gritted their teeth in pain.
"Gum Gum Red Hawk Rifle!"
"One Sword Style: 1,080 Pound Phoenix!"
Both Luffy and Zoro sent both of their attacks towards Sanji as they were getting sent crashing to opposite sides of the island. Sanji wasn't expecting them both to send a simultaneous attack like that was left with no option but to coat his body in haki. He grunted in pain and was sent flying back to the ground. As all 3 of them got up from the ground and decided that they wanted to end this quickly before they started to attract some company. Luffy flew up to the sky and Sanji also flew up too. Zoro took out his Wado Ichimonji from it's sheath and coated his arms in haki and his swords.
"Three Sword Style."
"Gear Third."
Luffy blew up both of his arms and shot them towards the sky and coated them haki while being in Gear Second. Both of his arms turned into a fiery red and looked like 2 mini Suns.
"Diable Jambe."
Sanji was spinning again in the air and caused only one leg to catch on fire. The end of his leg looked like a bright star.
"Time to see if you guys are still worthy to be on a Pirate King Ship!" Luffy yelled.
"Let's see if you can still be our shitty/ idiot Captain!" Zoro and Sanji yelled simultaneously.
"Gum Gum Twin Meteor Fist!"
"Chaos: 3,000 World Void!"
"Crosse Erebus Hachis!"
Luffy slammed both of his fists towards Zoro and Sanji. Zoro sent one of his most powerful flying slashes towards Luffy's fist. He used this attack before to obliterate 3 mountains. Sanji sent multiple powerful haki infused kicks towards Zoro and Luffy. He remembered that he used a similar attack like this to stop a powerful attack from Big Mom. When everyone's attack connected, An immersed shockwave was produced and the island was completely obliterated. The ocean was completely split in half and the sound of thunder was heard all the way from Lougetown. Multiple people looked out the windows to see if it was raining but saw it was a clear sky. Since the shockwave was so powerful, each of the Monster Trio wasn't able to catch their footings and were sent flying furiously through the sky. Usopp and Nami was watching from far took action after they saw Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji fly different directions.
"I knew those idiots were going to go overboard! Usopp! You catch Sanji and Luffy, I got Zoro!" Nami yelled irritated.
"Right! Green Star: Boaty Bananas!" Usopp shouted as he launched two miniatures boats to Sanji and Luffy's locations.
"Milky Road!" Nami shouted as she launched a path of sea clouds to Zoro's way from her Clima Tact.
After 10 minutes of catching their breaths, Luffy, Zoro, Sanji made their way to the Merry. All 3 of them looked like they were tired and ready to collapse but, all they felt was adrenaline and felt like going round 2. They jumped onto the Merry and sat down on the deck.
"Wow guys! That was fun! Shishishishishi!" Luffy said laughing.
"Hey Moss Head! You think you're ready for Hawkeye tomorrow?" Sanji said as he took a cigarette out of his tattered pocket.
"Who knows? But I do know it won't go the same as before." Zoro said smirking.
"You guys could've got yourselves killed for going overboard like that!" Nami said yelling.
"We all coated ourselves in haki. We're good Nami." Luffy said smiling. Nami rolled her eyes and walked towards the wheel to take them all back to Bariate.
"You guys ready for tomorrow?" Luffy asked the crew.
"Yup."
...
As Dawn approached the Bariate, Nami woke Usopp, Yosaku, and Johnny and told them to get the ship. At first Johnny and Yosaku were skeptical about leaving Zoro there but Usopp told them that they'll see them later. Sanji was up early preparing the plates for Krieg's crew and Luffy was up watching Nami and Usopp sailing off. As Usopp and Nami were preparing to sail off, they spotted Zoro sitting on left side fin, practicing his swings.
"You better at get a hit off him this time Zoro!" Usopp shouted.
"Of course I will! Idiot!" Zoro said scowling.
"Hey Nami. Are you ok?" Luffy asked with concern.
"Yeah." Nami said in a low tone.
"Don't worry Nami. We're stronger this time. We will save everyone this time. You have your God with you this time." Usopp said smiling proudly. Nami chuckled when she heard Usopp call his self a God.
"We won't be that long. Remember to always to keep smiling Nami. That's what makes you beautiful." Luffy said smiling. Nami instantly blushed when Luffy called her beautiful. Zoro who was practicing his swing overheard him and smirked. Sanji who was making breakfast overheard Luffy giving Nami a compliment, dropped his spatula and ran towards Luffy. All of a sudden, Luffy was getting shaked by Sanji.
"Are you trying go out with my sweet angel Nami-swan?" Sanji said with fire in his eyes.
"Relax Sanji. I was giving her a compliment." Luffy said nervously.
"I AM THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN COMPLIMENT MY SWEET ANGEL!" Sanji yelled furiously.
"You do know that she's not yours right?" Usopp said eyeing Sanji.
As Sanji turned Luffy loose, Sanji walked back into the restaurant fuming.
"See you guys later." Luffy said while waving at Nami and Usopp.
"See you Luffy." Usopp and Nami yelled waving back.
As the Going Merry went out of view, Luffy turned towards Zoro and motioned him to come back into the restaurant. Their guests of honor should be arriving soon.
…...
(Later on that morning...)
A large ship appeared on the horizon.
"DON KRIEG!" somebody shouted. Everybody looked out to see a huge galleon bearing Don Krieg's Jolly Roger. Everyone was terrified despite the fact that the galleon looked like it went through a hurricane. The galleon pulled up next to the restaurant as everything seemed to grow quiet. Footsteps could be heard as a huge man was approaching the door. The doors opened to reveal Don Krieg being held up by Gin.
"Please...I need food." Krieg said before he collapsed. Gin was asking them to bring Krieg food and that he had money this time. However, most of the chef's laughed, stating that they knew about his reputation. Krieg was bowing his head, begging for food as Gin cried for him to stop.
"Move Patty." Sanji said as he kicked Patty out of his way before placing some food and drink in front of Krieg, shocking the chefs. As Krieg ate, another chef named Carne told everyone what he knew about Krieg before Krieg finished his food and slammed his drink onto the floor. Suddenly, Krieg rose up and tried to slam his arm into Sanji's neck but failed back down and looked up and noticed Sanji wasn't in the same spot anymore.
"How did he-?" Krieg said to his self. After he stood up and brushed his self off.
"Don Krieg! Why would you do something like that! He showed us nothing but kindness!" Gin said yelling while in pain as Krieg gripped his shoulder.
"This is a nice ship. I'll take it! "My old ship is on the verge of sinking, so I'll be needing a new one. As for you cooks, get my men some food. I've got 100 men starving over there, so hop to it." Sanji started walking towards the kitchen, only for all the other chefs to block his path. Patty tried to knock Sanji to the ground but Sanji stepped to the side, causing Patty to fall onto the ground. "What the?" Patty thought. Patty got back up and decided to pull out a shellfish looking cannon and shot at Krieg, asking if he wanted dessert. The smoke cleared, showing a pissed off Krieg before he stated that the dessert was terrible. He then pulled out a bunch of weapons from under his steel armor and fired on the cooks. the cooks were expecting to feel bullets pierce them but felt nothing and opened their eyes to see Luffy holding his arms out holding the bullets. Everyone was shocked that Luffy was able to catch them all. Gin was shocked that his Captain's bullets were easily stop a mere man holding his fists.
"Who are you?" Krieg said questioning Luffy.
Just call me Straw Hat since you won't be able to remember nothing after I kick yo ass." Luffy said in a bored yet irritated tone. Krieg was outraged that some guy was able to speak to him in that way he began to rant about how his weapons and manpower made him the strongest.
"The strongest huh?" Luffy said in a bored tone.
Gin was ashamed that his captain was boasting his weapons and calling himself the strongest when they were just on the brink of death a week from THAT GUY! Luffy noticed how Gin looked and smirked. He knew Gin was beginning to lose faith in his Captain. He just needed another push.
"If you're the strongest, why does your ship look like that?" Luffy questioned.
That question angered Krieg and made him shiver in fear. "It's because that man that was following us! He appeared out of nowhere and started to slice all of my battleships in half. His eyes were sharp as a hawk."
"Heh. Looks like you guys ran into one of the Seven Warlords." Luffy said chuckling.
"How do you know about them?" Krieg yelled.
"You would have to be an idiot to not know about them. I learned that the hard way." Luffy mumbled the last part while holding his hand down. Zeff noticed and smirked. While everyone was sitting shaking fear, Sanji came back with the 100 plates and threw it at Krieg. Krieg caught it and started to walk towards the exit.
"Once my crew is replenished, we'll coming back to kill everyone in here. Gin. Let's go." Krieg ordered as he walked out.
"I'm so sorry for all of this." Gin bowed his head. He didn't want anything like this to happen.
"Raise your head Gin." Luffy came walking towards Gin and crouched down. "It's not your fault. You're just following an arrogant Captain who didn't learn his lesson. You still have a choice to be free and experience this sea with me and my crew."
Gin looked at Luffy's eyes and knew he was serious. Could he sail with this man who has such an intimidating aura?
"I just can't. I'm sorry Straw hat." Gin said declining his offer again. Luffy's face expression still remained the same but he started to grin.
"What's your dream Gin?" Luffy asked him. Gin was caught off guard with question.
"I want to sail the seas freely and..well, I can't tell you the last part." Gin said with a red tint after saying the last part. Luffy rose an eyebrow and smirked. Now he definitely wanted Gin to join his crew and he was curious about Gin's other dream.
"How about this, If I defeat your crew, will you join us? Deal?" Luffy suggested as he held his hand out.
Gin was once again thrown off with this question. He wanted to say no again but his heart wouldn't let him.
"Deal." Gin said shaking his hand. He got up and started to walk outside towards Krieg's ship.
"What the? Sanji How could you just sit there and feed all of them like that!" Patty yelled.
"Shut up and sit back and watch the show. Hey geezer. If I kick their asses, I can leave right?" Sanji said he stood beside Luffy. Zoro walked over to them also.
"Whatever brat." Zeff said smirking. "Those three could take over the whole East Blue in one week."
"Zoro. He's here. Good Luck." Luffy said as they walked outside.
"Thanks Captain." Zoro said smiling.
As they walked outside onto the front, they heard shouting and cries of agony. Krieg's ship was split in half.
"CAPTAIN! HE'S BACK!" One of Krieg's men yelled.
"WHAT? Did he follow us?" Krieg yelled frantically.
Everyone turned towards the sea to see a tiny raft with two candles, each burning with an eerily green flame, sailing towards them. Even Zeff looked surprised at the sight of him as everyone saw his eyes. Yellow, cold, and murderous. Everyone was speechless, petrified at the sight of Mihawk's tiny vessel. As it came closer, one of the Krieg pirates asked what they did to him to deserve this.
"Just killing time." Mihawk answered.
"BASTARD!" yelled a pirate as he aimed his pistols and shot at Mihawk. Mihawk simply pulled out his black sword and, with almost no effort, deflected the bullets with the tip of his blade before resheathing it. "What? I missed? How?"
"He changed their course with the tip of his blade." Zoro said in a bored tone.
"How do you know... wait... you're the Pirate Hunter!" One of Krieg's men yelled.
"Wow that's a pretty good trick. Haven't seen someone do that in ages." Zoro said smirking. Hawkeye looked up and noticed a man with green hair smirking at him. Hawkeye began to analyze the man and noticed the man had an immense aura. He was surprised that someone from the weakest sea of all had a strong aura. But that wasn't the most shocking part. He noticed the 2 men beside swordsman he strong auras too! The man with the straw hat had the strongest aura of all 3, but he was suppressing it heavily.
"These 3 men aren't normal. They looked like they belong in the second part of the Grand Line." Hawkeye thought.
"Hey old man. Can you lower the left fin?" Luffy asked Zeff. Zeff knew he was about to see a show that wasn't worth missing.
"Carne! Lower the left fin." Zeff yelled.
"Ok boss!" Carne replied. Shortly after, the fin was lowered. Zoro jumped onto the left side while taking out his bandanna and tying it around his head. He then took all 3 of his swords out from their sheaths.
"You still got some time to spare right?" Zoro asked Hawkeye. Hawkeye thought about it for a second. This man looked like he was going to provide him with some entertainment."Sure." Hawkeye said jumping onto the left fin while pulling out his Yoru. Zoro smirked because it looked like Hawkeye wanted to enjoy his self. As the two men looked at each other, the waves were calm and Krieg and Gin were watching intensely. Luffy and Sanji were looking at Zoro and knew this wasn't going to be the same as last time. When the air came blowing between them, Both Zoro and Hawkeye disappeared!
"What the? Where they go?" Everyone said except Luffy, Sanji, And Zeff.
"They've already started fighting. You idiots just can't see them." Sanji replied.
As everyone tried to see where Zoro and Hawkeye were at, they came back into view, clashing their swords together. Zoro was swing his blades from left to right as Hawkeye was deflecting them with his own clashing of metal together caused immersed amounts of sparks to come into play. Each time one of their swords crashed together, explosive shockwaves were heard. The sea was blowing ferociously. Zoro jumped from the side of the fin to the side of Bariate's window and launched his self towards Hawkeye.
"Three Sword Style: Bull Needles!"
Zoro raised his Magoroku and Naoe Shizu and launched a relentless assault at Hawkeye. Hawkeye easily deflected each attack but was surprised that he had such immense strength. The attack was powerful enough to push Hawkeye back. Each attack Hawkeye deflected excited Zoro. He felt like this was completely different from last time. Hawkeye suddenly grown tired of defecting attacks and decided to go on the offensive. He launched a powerful slash towards Zoro.
"One Sword Style: 1,080 Pound Phoenix!"
Zoro yelled as he also launched a powerful flying slash to counter Hawkeye's. The two flying slashes connected with each other and caused a powerful explosion that sent half of the Krieg Pirates flying away. Luffy, Sanji, and Zeff gripped the railing of the Bariate.
"If these fools don't end this match quickly, there won't be a restaurant standing." Sanji commented.
"looks like they're both still warming up." Luffy replied.
"I haven't seen a match like this since I was on the Grand Line." Zeff said in amused tone.
As Hawkeye continued to attack Zoro, they disappeared again. This time, leaving sword mark carvings within the wood. The floor was howling as chunks of wood came up. The windows of the Bariate began to crack as the furious winds from the swordsmen battled. Zoro came back into view jumping on top of a piece of wood chunk from Krieg. Zoro swung all three of his swords at Hawkeye as he approached Zoro. Hawkeye swung his sword down toward Zoro with blinding speed. All 4 metals connected. Causing shockwaves to be created from the attack. Zoro and Hawkeye were disappearing and reappearing in different spots. Zoro jumped onto the side of the broken mast belonging to Krieg and launched himself towards Hawkeye. Each blade of Zoro was humming with a high pitched sound. They both disappeared and appeared on several broken chunks of wood and struck each other again causing powerful shockwaves to form. Both of them had to keep moving to keep up with each other speed and their footing. Zoro jumped onto Krieg's ship with Hawkeye following him.
"Looks like it's time to get serious." Zoro commented while coating all of his swords in haki. Hawkeye noticed Zoro's swords turning Obsidian black and his smirk grew. "This man also knows haki." Hawkeye thought.
"What's your name?" Hawkeye asked Zoro.
"Roronoa Zoro."
"What is your ambition Roronoa Zoro?"
"To become the World Greatest Swordsman." Zoro replied.
"You have the ambition of a fool." Hawkeye commented.
"Well I have to have some kind of big dream so I can sail with the Future Pirate King."Zoro smirked.
"You mean that man with the straw hat?" Hawkeye said raising a eyebrow.
"Yup."
"Well said Roronoa Zoro. Let's continue this match." Hawkeye said while coating his sword in haki.
"Three Sword Style: Black Leopard Harp Orb!"
Zoro launched into the air while spinning, causing a ball shape of swords flying towards Hawkeye. Hawkeye read Zoro's movements and jumped into the air while launching powerful slashes to stop Zoro' s rotation. Zoro sensed the attacks were coming but couldn't do nothing to stop it so he coated his back in haki to protect himself. As soon as the slashes connected, Zoro coughed up blood as he fell into the bottom deck of Krieg's ship.
"Shit! I should've known something like this was going to happen." Zoro cursed as he got up. Hawkeye decided to descend down into the ship. Hawkeye was about to rush Zoro with a barrage of attacks but wasn't expecting him to take a unusual sword stance.
"Three Sword Style: Black Rope Dragon Twister!"
Zoro spun his swords to create a dragon-like tornado that spun and sent both flying slashes and a powerful tornado towards Hawkeye. Hawkeye had no choice but to clad his sword in haki to absorb some of the impact. He was sent flying back up into the air. Hawkeye gritted his teeth as he saw he shoulder was cut. Zoro jumped back up onto the deck on the ship and saw Hawkeye's shoulder was cut and grinned.
"Looks like I finally got a hit in." Zoro thought. As Hawkeye regained his composure, he twisted his body to gain some more force in midair. Zoro saw Hawkeye spinning and jumped into the air to intercept Hawkeye's momentum. Hawkeye swung his Yoru with so much force, air waves were circling around his blade. Hawkeye's blade connected with Zoro blades and the two men were locked in a battle in who can push back the other. Unfortunately, Hawkeye won and swung his blade in a complete motion, causing a powerful slash sending Zoro crashing back into the left side of the Bariate's fin. Zoro coughed up a considerable amount of blood.
"He's still alive after a move like that!"
"Looks like they're about finish this up." Luffy said with an unreadable expression.
As Zoro staggered to get back up, Hawkeye landed on the fin. Zoro crossed both of swords across his chest and placed his Wado Ichimonji into his mouth.
"Purgatory: Oni Giri!"
"World Strongest Strike!"
Both of the men yelled as they lunged past each other with blinding speed. Both of their movements came to a halt. The air sounding everyone seemed to stop. Everyone watched in anticipation to see who've won. Blood splurged out of both men. Zoro was the first one to fall. Both Magoroku and Naoe Shizu was broken once again by Hawkeye. Hawkeye had a fresh X carved scar on his torso. Hawkeye started to laugh.
"My god! I haven't had an excited fight like that since I fought against Red Haired Shanks. Hahahahahaha!" Hawkeye said while laughing amusedly.
"Hey Captain. Looks like I was able to injure him this time." Zoro said smirking.
"I know. Maybe next time you'll be to win for sure." Luffy said grinning. He then grabbed onto Zoro and made one of the cooks patch him up temporarily. After Luffy came back down and looked back at Hawkeye.
"Does everyone in your crew have such foolish ambitions as him? Hawkeye questioned Luffy.
"It's not foolish when it comes into fruition." Luffy replied. Hawkeye smirked.
"By the way while I was chasing these fools, I noticed 2 people who was sailing towards a village with extraordinary auras such as yours. I presume they belong to your crew?" Hawkeye commented.
"Yup" Luffy said with a grin.
"I have a feeling this crew will become quite fearsome in the near future." Hawkeye said to himself. "Well I must say I've had my fair share of fun for today. RORONOA ZORO! I KNOW YOU WERE HOLDING BACK QUITE HEAVILY BUT NEXT TIME, WE WILL HAVE A FAIR MATCH!" Hawkeye yelled. Zoro was grinning madly. To think Hawkeye acknowledged his strength was an honor fit for him.
As Hawkeye was preparing to leave. Krieg launched several cannon balls towards him. Unfortunately, none of them connected because Luffy threw all of them back at Krieg. Shortly afterwards Hawkeye left
"I can't believe you just interrupted an honorable moment between men." Luffy said annoyed.
"What do I care about some crappy conversation by a manic swordsman and a fool who couldn't beat him?" Krieg said while seeming unfazed by the cannon fire.
" *Sigh* Gin. This is why your Captain is a complete fool. He doesn't understand anything. He lead a bunch of men like you into the Grand Line without any knowledge about at all. All he cared about was his self and nothing else. He couldn't even see the fight between my swordsman and Hawkeye." Luffy told him. " Here's what real strength looks like Gin." Luffy said he released a pure unconcentrated blast of Conqueror's Haki towards everyone. One by one all of Krieg's men had passed out. Even the chiefs in the restaurant were knocked out. Krieg and Gin felled to their knees. Gin felt like he was being crushed by a house. Krieg was trying his best to stop himself from passing out.
"What is this feeling? It feels like the weight of a thousand ships sitting on my ribcage. Gin said while panting heavily.
"Looks like Luffy held back a little." Sanji said while smoking.
After Luffy stopped his Conqueror's Haki, barely nobody was woke except Sanji, Zoro, Zeff, Gin, and Krieg.
"See? I was only using a forth of my power. There are more people in the Grand Line with this type of power. Do you really want to sail with a guy who's going to do the same mistakes all over again? Do you think he'll be able to help you accept for who you really are?" Luffy said, raising a eyebrow.
Did Gin really want to sail with Krieg again? "The only reason why I was able to receive the Vice-Captain position was because the last guy died while we were being attacked by Hawkeye and Krieg offered it to me because I was the only one wasn't injured. He never really accepts me as for who I really am. All he really does care about his self. Can these pirates really accept me?" Gin thought to himself.
"If I say yes to becoming one of your crew members, do you think I can really be free?" Gin asked Luffy.
Luffy grinned. "Of course! All of my crew are free to do anything they want on my ship."
"I...I ACCEPT!" Gin yelled.
"WHAT?" Krieg yelled furiously. He couldn't believe his Vice-Captain just accepted Straw Hat's offer.
"I'm sorry Don Krieg. I can't be on a ship who Captain doesn't value his own men's lives. I want to make real friends and experience the sea with people who can accept me. As of this moment, I, Gin of the Don Krieg Pirates will be leaving the Krieg Pirates to join Straw hat Luffy's crew." Gin said bowing as he walked toward to the Bariate to join Luffy's side.
"YOU WOULD TURN YOUR BACK ON ME?! I SHOULD KILL YOU WHERE YOU STAND RIGHT NOW!" Krieg yelled. To think that one of his own crew members would leave him.
Krieg was about to deploy his MH5 poison but was stopped when it felt like a bullet had pierced him through his chest. Krieg was trying to figure who did it before he the darkness consumed him. He looked around and saw Straw Hat holding his finger in the air.
"How-w can this be? Me beaten by just one finger? I am invinc-" was all he could manage to say before darkness consumed him.
As Krieg's body laid unconscious on his ship, Gin was shocked his ex-Captain was taken down so easily. As he turned back around, he noticed that Luffy just got stuffing all of his ex-crew members into a small boat.
"Looks like that's all of them. Hey Sanji. You about ready to leave now?" Luffy asked Sanji while grabbing onto Zoro who was sleeping.
"Yeah. Let me go get my bags." Sanji said while walking back into the restaurant.
" What will we do about Don Krieg?" Gin asked.
"Oh, I'll let Chief Zeff collect the reward for capturing him. You ready to go rescue your 2 new crew members?" Luffy asked Gin.
"Sure. Thanks for letting me join your crew. I promise I won't disappoint you." Gin said bowing.
"Ugh get up. you don't have to bow to me. We're treated as equals on my ship." Luffy said smiling. "Oh by the way, your secret is kept safe between me and you until you feel ready to tell the others and...whatever you do, do NOT piss off the navigator." Luffy said sternly. Gin shivered for some reason and he didn't want know the reason.
"Uh...Ok?" Gin smiled nervously.
After 10 minutes. Sanji came out of the Bariate with his bags. As they were about to hop into the boat, Zeff shouted,
"Be safe this time Sanji."
Sanji was on the verge of tears. "I WILL FIND THE ALL BLUE THIS TIME!" Sanji yelled as he was bowing to Zeff again.
"LET'S GO! SET SAIL!" Luffy shouted as they unfurled the sails and sailed off. Sanji was still crying as he waved back to them all.
"I'LL SEE YOU AGAIN!" he shouted before smiling. "IT'S A PROMISE, YA CRAZY BASTARD!" he didn't stop until they couldn't see the Bariate anymore.
"Here we come Nami." Luffy said himself.
Wow! I was not expecting to write a great fight scene. In case you guys want to know, I will translate some of the attack moves.
Joue= Cheek
Bouquetiere= Mixed Vegetables
Hachis= Extra
Erebus= Darkness
Please tell me how I did. I want you guys honest opinions :D
