Never again!
We're slowly reaching Alabasta, yay! I've re-read the last chapter, and noticed that Zoro is extremely cold to Vivi, should I change it? (No ZoVi of course!). Some of you said you don't like the POV-style, so I won't continue it. Do you agree with my ideas or decisions? Reply so I can see it.
Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece
Chapter 11: The Greatest Warriors in the World
The Straw Hats arrived in Little Garden after a long journey. The prehistoric island was a green jungle with multiple volcanoes and two mountain-like structures, which were really skulls of Sea Kings. Dinosaurs and other big and intimidating carnivores inhabited this island, as well as deadly viruses. There was a river in one end of the island, where they would dock.
"SCREEEECH!"
An overgrown bird came flying at the Straw Hats, scaring the weaklings. Nami and Usopp flinched and covered their ears. Sanji found one of them cute. "Ohhh, how sweet!"
Usopp turned around with big, cute eyes. "Do you mean me?", he naively asked.
"OF COURSE NOT, IDIOT!", the ero-cook shouted with sharp teeth, annoyed.
The bird of earlier turned around in a small curve, trying to elsewhere. The glutton Luffy was hungry and wouldn't have allowed "meat" to escape anyway, so he caught the bird and killed it. "Gomu gomu no propeller!", he exclaimed, slamming the dead bird on the deck of Merry. "Sanji! I want meat!"
Sanji frowned at this. "Luffy, you just ate like minutes ago, I can't cook 24/7.", he berated his captain, who looked at him with sad eyes.
"PLEEEEEEAAAASE!"
The cook sighed. "No Luffy, no more food for you until we leave. Our supplies are about to deplete, we need to restock."
Luffy looked at Sanji as if the latter was mentally challenged. "We can still eat Emergency Supply, you know?", he said, pointing at Carue.
Vivi's pet realized he was meant, and hid behind his owner. Vivi herself wasn't pleased at all with the duck's nickname. "You will not eat Carue!", she yelled with sharp teeth, hitting the 17-year-old and subsequently giving him a bump.
"Sorry Vivi…"
He then recovered and started giving orders. "Alright, if we don't have anything to eat, then we have to get some food! Zoro, Sanji, hunt some food for us, we need to restock. Everyone else, do whatever you want, I'm going on an adventure."
A loud rumble erupted somewhere in the tropical island, presumably an active volcano. The others wondered how their captain could go on an adventure on such a deadly hellhole.
"Luffy,", Nami spoke up with a slightly scared voice, "how can you go on an adventure right now, don't you see that this place is deadly beyond imagination? What if a dinosaur attacks you, what if you get bitten by a deadly insect?". Her being scared could be reasoned with the hungry tiger standing meters away from her on the edge of the river and the ground. Not only that, the beast also glared at the ginger with his yellow/golden eyes and licked the area around his mouth, further expressing his desire of eating the human.
"You know what", Luffy began, knocking dust off his golden shoulder pads, "that's not going to happen!"
The young pirate's eyes looked like he was using King's haki, strong and willing. Like the predator hunting his prey. Coincidentally, he punched the wild cat with his arm, using 'Gomu gomu no pistol', knocking it out.
Suddenly, the Alabastan felt safety around the black-haired. Somehow, she thought it would be safe around the black-haired. 'I don't know why, but I WANT to go with him, I think he could protect me.', she thought, her mind made up.
"Luffy-san, can Carue and I join your adventure?", the princess asked, shocking the others.
"WHAAAAAAT!?", most Straw Hats exclaimed, their jaws down, wondering how she could have such a weird idea.
"Vivi, you asked us to protect you, yet you want to go with our captain who attracts all kinds of danger?", her female friend asked, not believing what she just said.
"Yeah, stay with me Vivi-chan!", Sanji said, further making the people around him believe he's immature.
"No.", the blue-haired shyly yet determinedly declared, sweating a little combined with a stern look. "I feel safety around Luffy, I don't think he'd endanger me. I somehow get the impression he knows what he's doing, besides, it has been a long time since the last time I had fun."
The black-haired smiled brightly. "Thank you for deciding to come with me, I will appreciate your company.", he spoke, reaching out his arm for Vivi to come with him.
She blushed a little, holding his hand to go. The blond cook on the other hand, was fuming out of jealousy. Despite this he refused to kick in his captain's face. "Damn Strawhat!", he cursed, almost unhearable.
Running off with Vivi and Carue, Luffy shouted some last things to his meat provider and swordsman. "Zoro, Sanji, I want some meat when we set sail, so better get going!"
Zoro nodded, while Sanji cursed another thing after him. Sometimes, the captain really pissed off the smoker.
The green-haired walked off the ship. "I'm going to hunt the biggest moving thing for Luffy.", he stated as he stepped on the grass of Little Garden. "You cook for him, Curlybrows."
A tick mark formed on Sanji's forehead after hearing this. He saw this as a degradation and felt obligated to challenge his friendly rival. "What did you just say, Marimo? I will be the one who hunts the bigger animal, not you."
Zoro turned around, not taking the cook's challenge seriously. "You wish! You're only the cook, not a real fighter like me!", he snickered, not realizing he's seriously mocking the blond.
"A real fighter, don't make me laugh! You're nothing without your swords, you can't fight with your own body.", the fighting cook erupted, raising the sound of his voice.
"Alright, I'll show you I can hunt the bigger animal without my swords, you'll see, Shitty Cook!", the swordsman furiously declared, tensing his muscles.
"Challenge accepted!"
The two ran into different directions, going for the biggest eatable thing they could possibly find, leaving Usopp and Nami behind. Those two didn't know what they should do.
"How about we hide inside?", the navigator asked, not wanting to experience the possible dangers of Little Garden.
"Well, I want to go back inside too, but this place seems interesting, so I might go out for a walk not far from here.", the sniper said, a little braver than his nakama.
"Are you crazy?", the ginger exclaimed, staring at him in disbelief.
The black-haired frowned. "You can stay here if you want, I'll return soon.", he spoke, heading for the exit.
Nami waited a bit. She thought the darker-skinned boy was crazy, for leaving the safety of Merry regarding his power level. He was not strong enough to face the dangers of this crazy jungle. As the sharpshooter went away further and further into the evergreen forest, the orange-haired decided to run after him. "Wait, don't leave me alone!"
…
Luffy and Vivi ran through the jungle along with Carue. The princess loved this island, since she'd never seen such beautiful flowers and trees. Everything was wonderful for her – until she saw dinosaurs. Although these dinosaurs were plant-eaters, they scared the heck out of her, due to their massive size. She couldn't understand how Luffy was swinging around their long necks and sliding down them all the way down from their heads, considering a fall from up there would be deadly for a normal human.
"Vivi, come up here, this is fun!", the 17-year-old joyfully yelled, sliding down the neck of the largest sauropod.
"Like hell I will!", the girl yelled back with shark teeth. "Stop this nonsense, let's go somewhere else!"
Luffy sighed. "Fine, if you want."
The duo and the duck entered deeper into the rainforest, seeing some more big animals and plants, but two of the tree didn't expect meeting one of the biggest creatures in the world, a giant.
The giant was more than 39 foot tall and had an extremely long beard, which was colored brown, just like his hair. On top of his hair, he wore a golden helmet. His clothing consisted of a blue cape, green trousers, dark brown boots and a brown belt-like piece of protection with metal plates around his belly. His overall build was muscular.
Vivi wanted to scream, she wanted to run away. But she froze, her knees were shaking and she couldn't run. The royal thought running away from him, the giant, would be an insult to him, and she didn't want to insult him, since the Alabastan was scared of the warrior.
At the same time, the giant walked over to their spot and kindly greeted them. "Gegyagyagyagya! Hello there humans, I am Dorry, the mightiest warrior of Elbaf."
Luffy beamed at the 39-foot man. "Cool, the mightiest warrior of Elbaf! And I am Monkey D. Luffy, a pirate.", he exclaimed, greatly admiring giants.
"Gegyagyagyagya! I've been a pirate too, but now I'm living on this island, for 100 years, can you imagine that? There's another giant named Brogy on this island, we've been battling on this island for 100 years.", the ex-pirate said, sitting down.
The bluenette didn't know what to say about this. 'Battling for 100 years? For what purpose?!', she thought, trying to find a reasonable explanation for this.
Dorry stood up again. "Are you hungry? We can continue talking after eating some good stuff.", the giant asked, inviting the three.
"Yes, I am so hungry I could eat this island!", the human boy exclaimed, drooling a little.
"Gegyagyagyagya! Then come with me, I take you to my place."
…
At Dorry's place, Luffy and said giant consumed multiple dinosaurs of different type. Vivi and Carue only ate smaller pieces. The latter two also introduced themselves to Dorry.
"I have a question, how can you two battle for 100 years, and why did you battle in the first place?", the female questioned, not believing she'd get a reasonable answer.
"We giants can battle for 100 years since we live three times longer than humans.", he answered. "100 years ago, Brogy and I had an argument, so we decided to finish it with a duel. There's a rule in Elbaf, where we came from. If a giant duels another giant, they have to leave Elbaf and fight a battle to the death. Only one can return, the other one dies. That was the reason we're fighting a battle to the death until now, but after all these years, I forgot what the original reason was."
Suddenly, another volcano of Little Garden erupted, for Dorry to stand up. "This is our signal to fight, I must leave now.", he informed, grabbing his sword and shield.
"Good luck!", the teen shouted supportively after him.
"Gegyagyagyagya, thanks!"
After the giant had left the humans behind, the princess noticed that her pet was missing. "Carue?"
She ran into the forest to find her super spot-billed duck. "CARUE!"
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30 minutes ago:
The Baroque agent Mr.3, also known as Galdino, invited his fellow agents Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine into his wax house created by his Doru Doru powers. They had to carry out a mission and didn't want to fail.
"Thank you for coming by, I have orders from Mr. 0. Capture Princess Vivi and eliminate the Straw Hats.", Mr. 3 said, drinking his tea.
Miss Valentine raised her left brow. "Do you think that's easy?", she spoke. "We struggled greatly against them in Whiskey Peak, how are we supposed to eliminate them?"
"You better have a good plan on how we accomplish our mission, 3!", Mr. 5 said, calmly as always.
"Please, I always have a good plan.", Galdino stated, boasting about his good plans. "You two seperate Princess Vivi from the Straw Hats by kidnapping her duck. She will choose to come with you in exchange of that thing, trust me. Meanwhile, I'll try to seperate the Straw Hats one by one, catching them off guard, understand?"
The Mr. 5 pair nodded. "Understand."
…
15 minutes ago:
Zoro was walking through the woods to find a bigger target. He had slain a big tiger, but that wasn't enough. After some more walking, the swordsman encountered a rhinoceros. 'I promised that Shitty Cook not to use my swords, what should I do?', he thought.
The grey mammal started to run at the green-haired, who figured out what to use. "Tekkai!"
Tekkai depended on physical strength, and since the green-haired already had immense muscle power, the rhino collapsed upon impact, breaking his horn.
"Well, that was easy.", he muttered, pulling the animal behind him
…
At the same time, Sanji was hunting too. He left his previously defeated boar behind him. A Tyrannosaur got in his way while running. The reptile subsequently opened his mouth, making his fangs visible.
Sanji knew the dinosaur would try to eat him, so he had to take action. "Tekkai! Poitrine!"
Normally, a person can't move while using Tekkai, but if the user is a martial arts master or a special fighter, he can move, despite the hardened body. For this reason, the fighting cook was able to kill the carnivore with only one kick.
"Seems like I've already won, I'd like to see what Marimo has to offer.", the blond said, lighting up a cigarette.
…
Usopp and Nami weren't as lucky as the others. Due to their missing strength, the two were forced to run away from a tiger, and later forced to run away WITH the tiger from a raptor.
"AAAAAAAH! SOMEBODY SAVE US!", both of them screamed, running for their lives.
They heard a roar and the sound of a cut. The two turned around to see what happened, and they were really shocked with what they saw. A giant with a viking-look saved them by dropping his gigantic axe on the dinosaur, cutting it in half. None of them could explain the sight of a giant warrior, and because of their cowardly nature, the navigator and the sniper fainted.
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10 minutes ago:
Usopp's head pounded. A deep, blurry voice got into his ears. "Wake up, wake up!". He opened his eyes, groaning. What he saw was the same giant from before. "Is this a dream?", the long-nosed muttered, closing his eyes again. "No, it's not a dream."
The sharpshooter opened his eyes again, realizing the giant is real and he's not dreaming. "Don't worry human, I will not harm you.", he reassured him. "My name is Brogy, I am Elbaf's greatest warrior."
Hearing the friendly viking's words, Usopp began losing his fear of giants. "I-I'm happy to hear that, Brogy-san.", he said. "I'm Captain Usopp."
Brogy pulled out a piece of dinosaur meat from the fire he had set, offering the human some of his meat. "I LOVE this kind of meat, you should try it."
Water filled Usopp's mouth. "Thanks a lot, Brogy-san."
At the same time, Nami started waking up. The delightful scent of dinosaur meat as well the warming heat of fire made her feel comfortable enough to wake up. Then she remembered the giant and wanted to scream, but her nakama put his hand on her mouth and reassured her. "No need to freak out, Nami, he's a good guy."
Nami, in contrary to Usopp, ceased to see Brogy as a threat, but she still wanted to go away. "Excuse me, how long does a Log Pose need to recharge here?"
"Hmmmmmmmm…", Brogy said, placing his hand on his chin as a thinking pose. "A Log Pose needs one year to recharge on this island. Unluckily for you, no human has ever endured so long on this island."
The navigator looked around. She saw half a dozen human skeletons. "What did I get myself into?", she weeped, laying down again.
While she was complaining about how she would die, Usopp and Brogy had pretty much the same conversation as Luffy and Dorry.
A few minutes later, the same volcano erupted, telling the warrior to battle his friend. The black-haired, who befriended the giant and admired Elbaf and its people, decided to wait for his new friend to come back. The orange-haired on the other hand, decided to go back to Merry where she would be safe.
…
After some time of walking, the ginger and the mosshead met on their way back to Merry. The girl noticed the rhino and complemented her nakama on it. "Hey, you did a good catch there!"
Zoro shrugged. "I've had more difficult things to deal with in the past.", he stated, thinking of Mihawk. "What have you and Long-nose been doing while we were gone?"
The green-haired wondered why he didn't get an answer after five seconds. He looked behind him because the ginger was walking there, and to his shock, she disappeared.
"Nami?", the swordsman called, suddenly concerned about her well-being. "Nami? Nami, answer me!"
He saw what he thought was Nami a couple of trees away and was confused. "Nami, if you think this is funny, I can tell you it's not. And how did you get there in the first place?"
She then disappeared, making him run to her former spot. They continued like that, until Zoro was completely exhausted. "*wheeze* Why are you doing this, Nami?"
In a split second he realized he couldn't move anymore. The obstacle hindering him from moving felt like wax to him. 'Dammit, why can't I move?', he thought, desperately trying to free himself.
"Hahahaha!", a male voice laughed from behind. "What you saw was a wax figure created by my powers. You probably guessed it already, but let me confirm it for you: the reason why you can't move is frozen wax. I ate the Doru Doru no mi, I'm a candle human, and you are coming with me."
"You bastard.", the green-haired spat. "You won't get away with this!"
…
Meanwhile, the Alabastan princess Vivi ran through the jungle to find her super spot-billed duck Carue. He has been her best friend since her childhood friend has been seperated from her years ago. "Carue, where are you?", she shouted, constantly turning her head left and right.
To her surprise, two familiar figures confronted her, holding her beloved pet hostage. "Why hello there, princess, we've been looking for you.", Mr. 5 spoke.
"Leave Carue alone, Baroque works!", she yelled, her face turning into a shade of red.
"Kyaahahahaha! If you come with us, we'll let your stupid bird free, if you don't, we'll have dinner with him. Your choice.", Miss Valentine declared, hitting the blue-haired's weak spot.
Vivi growled in defeat. "Fine, I'll go with you, but free Carue first!"
Mr. 5 chuckled. "There you have it!", he said, untying Carue. "Now get the hell outta here!"
The duck ran. He ran as fast as he could. He needed Luffy to help him, he needed Luffy to help Vivi.
…
After another tie with Brogy, Dorry returned to his place where Luffy was waiting for him. "Did you win?", the boy asked, sitting on a white mountain-like structure.
"Unfortunately, no. The 73.470th tie.", he groaned, stepping over to the human.
He, the giant, then noticed a barrel of sake on the ground. "Oi, human, did you put that barrel of sake on there for me? How nice of you!"
Luffy's eyes opened wide up. 'Oh no, that's the foul sake Mr. 3 put there, if Dorry drinks that, it'll explode inside of him.', he thought, wanting to make sure this incident doesn't happen again.
"No, I didn't put that barrel of sake in there, and I wouldn't drink that.", the pirate captain warned him.
"Why not, it looks fine to me.", the giant said, picking up the barrel.
"I said NO.", the 17-year-old spoke up, making the bearded man stop moving the barrel towards his mouth.
The giant got annoyed with this. "Care to explain why?", he demanded, seriously annoyed.
"There are people from an evil organization called Baroque works here on this island. They wanted to weaken you with this barrel of foul sake, intending to make you die in your next duel, then killing your friend yourself. I'm sure they are behind your bounties.", the black-haired explained, straight up angering the warrior.
"WHAAAAAT, THEY WANTED TO KILL ME?!", he roared, greatly infuriated. "HOW DARE THEY TRY TO RUIN A SACRED DUEL!"
He calmed down afterwards, turning to the strawhat again. "Hate to ask you my friend, but could you-"
"Yes,", Luffy anticipated, "I can make sure nobody interrupts your sacred duel."
With that, a volcano erupted again.
…
Dorry carried Luffy on his shoulders to Brogy, who was waiting for him somewhere in the middle of the island.
"Gababababa. Dorry, why did you bring a human with you, to watch us?", he asked, laughing.
The other giant's face was serious. "Yes Brogy, he is here to watch us. There are some evil people on this island who are after our bounties, going as far as trying to ruin our sacred duel."
"HOW DARE THEY?", Brogy erupted, his attitude changing in a flash. "I would like to go and squash them, but we must fight, my friend. Gababababa!"
After finishing his sentence, Brogy attacked with his giant battle axe. Dorry stopped the axe with his shield, then slashing his sword at Brogy, only for him to block it too.
Luffy activated his Observation haki and sensed allied and enemy auras in close proximity. He left the battlefield of the giants to see what is happening on the island.
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The first aura Luffy reached was Carue. "KWAAA, KWAAA!", the running bird screamed, trying to tell something to the pirate.
"Let me guess, Vivi was kidnapped."
Carue nodded with a sad face.
"Okay.", the black-haired spoke, climbing on the duck to ride him. "Let's find Vivi!"
…
Some minutes later, Luffy and Carue found Usopp, who was sitting on a log next to a campfire. "Usopp!", the 17-year-old called, getting his sniper's attention. "What is it, Luffy?"
"Vivi has been kidnapped, we got to help her!", he informed, grabbing some of the leftover meat to eat it. "Get on."
Willing to help his temporary nakama, Usopp climbed atop the super spot-billed duck, who gasped for air due to the heavy load he's carrying.
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On the other half of the island, there was a birthday cake made out of wax. The main part of the cake was at the bottom, a huge thick pillar in the middle, and at the top a spinning part with candles on it. Three people were standing on the main cake, a green-haired swordsman making a cool pose and two girls with blue and orange hair screaming at him for his unnecessary stupidity. The longer the part on top of the pillar with candles was spinning, the more wax would encoat them. And if the three would be encoated entirely with wax, they would die.
Beside the cake, four Baroque agents watched their victims slowly being encoated by wax. The main perpetrator was Mr. 3, or Galdino, an asian-looking man with a blue and white outfit and 3-shaped hair with fire burning atop. His partner was a little girl called Miss Goldenweek, who wore a short blue cloud-patterned shirt and a pink hat. Her hair was braided into two pigtails and red. The Mr. 3 pair was accompanied by the already known Mr. 5 pair.
"How do you like it up there?", Mr. 3 teased, making the pirates upset.
"You continue mocking us, we will find a way out of here and then you'll pay.", Zoro said, looking at the tea lover.
This man chuckled, a bit annoyed. "If you can't move now, then why should you be able to move later, when the wax is getting even harder? Your death kicks in in 60 minutes, you have no chance to escape.". He then started laughing, trying to sound like an evil villain.
"I doubt that.", a young but serious male voice spoke from behind.
Everybody's attention turned to a boy in a red captain's coat stepping down from an exhausted running-duck. "Tch, what do you want here, captain boy?", 3 asked in a rude manner.
The strawhat crackled his fingers. "I am here to kick your ass, Mr. 3!", he declared, showing everybody his trademark smile.
Mr. 3 clenched his teeth. "Mr. 5, Miss Valentine, I want you to take care of Strawhat, I don't want him interfering in my business, understand?", he ordered, not wanting the 17-year-old to interfere in his business.
Luffy focused again. "Alright, this is our chance to defeat them. Usopp, you run and distract Booger man and Lemon. Carue, you go and distract that girl there, understand? Meanwhile, I'm going to kick Candle guy's ass.", the black-haired spoke, explaining his plan. Usopp and Carue nodded.
"Here I am! Catch me if you can, Baroque works!", the darker-skinned boy yelled, addressing Mr. 5 and his partner.
Said Baroque agents looked at each other, nodding. "Come here kid, we're going to teach you a lesson!", the male Baroque agent said, running after the sniper.
"AAAAAAAH! DON'T KILL ME!", the cowardly liar screamed, running for his life.
At the same time, Carue was running at Miss Goldenweek, who apparently was scared of big running ducks. "KWAAA, KWAAA!"
"GYAAAAAAH, GET AWAY FROM ME!", she almost shrieked, secretly wishing to go home to her mommy.
Seeing how the strawhat tried to ruin his great plan, Galdino started to lose his temper. "I've had enough of you, brat, you will not get in my way any further.", he declared, forming a wax harpoon in his hands. "Doru Doru Arts: Mori!"
The wax harpoon was almost hit Luffy, until he did something against it. "Tekkai!"
Three looked at the pirate in disbelief. His harpoon shattered upon impact. "H-how did you do that? My wax is as hard as steel, this shouldn't be possible.", the tea-drinker asked, pointing at his current foe.
Hearing this, Luffy smirked, taking it as a compliment. "There's only one problem: My body is harder than steel."
"Wha- wha- whaaaaaa-?! Impossible!", Mr. 3 yelled, pressing his hands against his head.
"Nothing is impossible buddy. Gomu Gomu no Gatling!", the teenager exclaimed, destroying the wax cake with his rapid fists, thus freeing his nakama.
Immediately after being freed, Nami and Vivi ran towards Luffy to hug him. "Thank you for saving us, we thought we'd die!", they cried, expecting their captain to console them. Zoro only stood by his captain's side, his arms crossed. "Thanks Luffy, you saved my life.". Luffy only laughed. "Shishishi! I wouldn't let any of you die."
Unlike Luffy, Galdino had no reason to laugh. Instead of laughing, he was fuming. "You!", he shouted at the 17-year-old. "I'm going to kill you for ruining my plan! I am so angry I could burn from it, but that would make me melt, I wouldn't want that, so I'll cool down, but I'm still going to kill you!"
Mr. 3 was talking a lot of nonsense, formally said. Luffy mentally facepalmed listening to Buggy's future crewmate talking bullshit. Right now, the candle human was forming a massive battle suit for him out of wax. "Candle Champion!"
'Heh, this looks so much less cool than Franky Shogun.', the strawhat thought, remembering the cool battle robot of his future shipwright.
"What's with this nonsense, you already saw me breaking your wax, why are you trying with a battle suit made out of wax?", the black-haired asked, not effecting 3's determination.
"Champ Fight: Oraga Hatake!"
Galdino swung his wax-enhanced arm at the young captain, who retaliated with 'Gomu Gomu no Pistol'. The candle human was then sent flying.
His nakama wanted to congratulate him, but the fight wasn't over. Usopp came running from the woods, trying to shake off his pursuers. The bomb human loaded his pistol – with his breath, aiming at the sniper.
"AAAAAAAAH! DON'T SHOOT!", the sharpshooter screamed, running faster than before.
"This isn't a normal pistol, it's a special model from the South Blue. It shoots the air I exhaled into the chambers. Since I'm a bomb human, I can literally explode every part of my body, including my breath. Now hold still so that I can shoot you.", the dark-skinned man explained, shooting 3 rounds, but missing Usopp completely.
"Usopp, shoot back, you can do this!", Luffy called, encouraging his marksman to beat his foe.
'He tells me to shoot back? I don't know if I could hit him- of course I can hit him, I'm the great Captain Usopp after all, I can hit small targets with my eyes closed, this shouldn't be a challenge for me.'
The curly-long-black-haired boy pulled out a pellet of his pocket. He placed it on his slingshot, Ginga Pachinko, and aimed it backwards at the person chasing him, without looking. "Kayaku Boshi!"
Coincidentally, the explosive gunpowder pellet hit Mr. 5's head as if the Straw Hat pirate aimed for it. Due to his devil fruit, he exploded, knocking out Miss Valentine, who was close to him, with him. Everybody except Luffy glared at the proud sniper in disbelief, dropping their jaws. This also included Carue, who returned after defeating Miss Goldenweek.
Usopp was proud of his victory, but he was more interested in this 'haki thing', he called. "Erm Luffy, did I awaken this haki thing?", he asked, curious about his abilities.
Luffy checked. "Unfortunately, no. This was only your natural born gift for sharpshooting. But if you train more, you will awaken your Observation haki, believe me.", the pirate captain answered, disappointing the sniper and giving him new hopes at the same time.
"Understand Captain Luffy, I will train much more. I will train as much as I can until I become the world's best sharpshooter.", the other 17-year-old promised, holding his thumb up high.
Out of nowhere, Sanji joined the group. "Nami-swaan, Vivi-chwaan I'm baaack!", he raved, his body moving like a geenie's lower part after being summoned from his lamp. "What the hell did I miss, shitheads?", he rudely asked after turning to the males.
Zoro had gotten angry. Once again, the ero-cook missed everything and wasn't there when he was needed. The swordsman needed to let out his anger. "Where the fuck were you this time, Shitty Cook? Nami, Vivi and I almost died and you were doing god know's what somewhere in the woods. Honestly, if I was the captain I'd fire you from being absent during battles and not coming to help your nakama, you useless shit!"
Despite the insults, the leg fighter decided to stay calm. He pushed up one eyebrow. "What if I told you I'm our real savior?"
"Bullshit, w-", the green-haired tried to say, but the blond interrupted him by holding up an Eternal Pose to Alabasta. "This is an Eternal Pose I obtained not long ago, it leads us directly to Alabasta."
Everyone's eyes widened and jaws dropped, except Luffy's. "H-how were you able to get an Eternal Pose?", the ginger and the bluenette exclaimed in a unison.
Sanji puffed out a heart-shaped cloud of smoke. "I'll explain it to you, my beloved ones!", he raved uncontrollably.
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30 minutes ago:
The fighting cook walked through the evergreen forest, trying to get back to Merry. But instead of a ship, he found a house entirely made out of wax. "Hmm, hello, anybody inside?"
After getting no answer, he decided to step in. He found a table, a box and a Den-Den-Mushi. Suddenly, the Den-Den-Mushi started to ring. "Biribiribiri. Biribiribiri *clank*"
"Restaurant Baratie, how can I help you?", the Vinsmoke joked after answering the call.
"Quit it with the jokes.", a deep voice spoke up in an annoyed tone. "Mr. 3, is that you?"
"Yes, I'm Mister Three.", Sanji lied. "Who are you?"
"I said quit it with the jokes!", the male barked, now a little furious. "You know that I'm Mr. 0, I'm calling from Alabasta."
"Oh really? So why did you call me?"
The male speaking with the cook sighed. "I've gotten some information about a pirate crew protecting Princess Vivi. We've identified three members by now. The swordsman Roronoa Zoro, the captain Monkey D. Luffy and an orange-haired girl. The crew should currently be on Little Garden, where you are. I want you to eliminate them.", he said, sounding serious.
"Ah, those guys, well, I've, uhh…", the blond tried to speak, but he didn't find a logical thing to say.
"You've what?"
"I, uhhh, already killed them!", he lied.
"Very good. You can now open the box I've sent you.", Mr. 0 said.
Sanji opened the box. He found a Log-Pose-like thing with 'Alabasta' engraved in it.
"It's an Eternal Pose to Alabasta.", the man informed the guy he thought was Mr. 3. "Come back with Princess Vivi right now, I have further orders for you."
Suddenly, two animals landed on the windowsill, a brown otter wearing a white purple-dotted jumpsuit and a black vulture with an aviator cap and black goggles. They had an hostile appearance.
"Sir, Mr. 0, two animals appeared, an otter and a vulture.", the cook told his 'boss'.
"They are the 'Unluckies', my spies informing me about everything related to my business. You have nothing to be afraid of, Mr. 3."
But he was wrong. Sanji wasn't Galdino. The otter attacked the leg fighter with his claws, but the fighting cook kicked him at the wall with so much force, the mammal died instantly. Because of her partner's death and an outsider infiltrating Baroque works, the bird pulled out two machine guns strapped to her back and started shooting at the impostor. The blond dodged every single bullet and snapped her neck, killing her effectively.
Mr. 0's voice came from the Den-Den-Mushi again. "What was that?", he angrily demanded, slamming his fist against his table.
"Oh, err, the Strawhat came for me again. Apparently, he survived and wanted revenge, so he came here to kill me, but now he's dead for sure.", Sanji lied again.
Crocodile was not pleased to hear this. "So you failed your mission and lied to me? You've just sealed your death sentence, Mr. 3. You already know failure is not an option, but lying to me? I'm going to send Mr. 2 for your head, I think it'll fit nicely in my collection."
With that, the Shichibukai ended the conversation. Sanji picked up the Eternal Pose and left the house in order to find his nakama and tell them about it.
…
Present timeline:
"… and that's how I got here.", the cook finished his sentence.
"You talked with CROCODILE?!", the Alabastan exclaimed in disbelief.
"Yep, he didn't sound like a nice guy.", he simply said.
"We have to go to Alabasta!"
The blue-haired was acting like she was stung by a scorpion – hectic and rushed. Her nakama and friend, Nami, tried to calm her down. "Easy, we can't reach Alabasta in one moment to the next."
"We have the Eternal Pose, so let's leave already!", she continued.
The navigator sighed. "Fine, we're leaving now."
…
On the ship, there were lots of animals stuffed into one big pile. It turned out Dorry and Brogy gave them to their new human friends as a parting gift. "Gegyagyagyagya! We've seen your battle together after ours finished. You did pretty good for humans, especially you, Strawhat.", Dorry complimented.
"Thanks Dorry, but I don't think I'll ever be as strong as you.", Luffy commented back.
"Gababababa! You don't need to be as stong as us, you're not giants.", Brogy laughed. "But still, you are our friends and always welcome in Elbaf."
"I want to go to Elbaf once I'm stronger.", Usopp beamed, stars in his eyes.
"Gegyagyagyagya! That's the spirit my boy!"
The Straw Hats lifted their anchor.
"I think this is our goodbye.", the captain spoke with a hint of sadness in his voice.
"Gababababa! We wish you a happy journey on the Grand Line, I have the feeling you'll be famous one day."
"Goodbye!", everyone exclaimed, bidding farewell to the giants.
Suddenly, after moving away from the prehistoric island a bit, a titan-sized red and white goldfish emerged from the water, scaring the pirates greatly. He looked like he was about to eat them for lunch.
"That's the Island Eater!", the long-bearded giant angrily exclaimed.
"He's the main reason ships leaving this island never reach their destination.", the viking added.
"UAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!", everyone on board except Luffy screamed, fearing for their lives.
"We need to save them, ready Brogy?", Dorry said, lifting his sword.
"I'm always ready.", Brogy answered, lifting his battle axe.
"HAKOKU!"
The two giants shouted the attack name at the same time, just like they threw their weapons at the savage fish at the same time. After the hit, the monster ceased to live, due to the fact he was cut in half.
"Sanji, I want a big piece of that fish!", the occasionally childish captain exclaimed, getting a fork and a knife.
"You can't eat that, idiot! How is only a small piece of that humongous monster fit on this small ship? Besides, we already have meat thanks to the giants enough for 6 months, but knowing you, you'd eat that in 6 days.", the blond yelled at the black-haired with sharp teeth, giving him a bump.
"Erm, guys?", Nami began, holding her head. "Sorry for interrupting you, but I'm feeling a little sick."
"What's wrong Nami-san?", Sanji asked, speeding towards her like a flash.
"Everything feels so hot, and I-", she answered, before passing out. Her head was as red as a matador's flag.
"Nami!", Vivi exclaimed, kneeling down next to her.
"We're changing our direction.", Luffy ordered. "We need to find medical help for Navi as fast as possible."
Usopp looked at the Log Pose. "The next island is Drum Island.", he informed his crew.
Zoro ran to the steering wheel. "I'm taking over, where do we have to go?". For the first time, he was really concerned for his nakama. He might have hated her money-loving attitude, but she was his crewmate and like family for him.
"Oh Nami-san, please become healthy soon!", Sanji begged, crying. In situations like this he'd NEVER act like he normally does around ladies. He had a functioning brain after all.
'Chopper, please save Nami, I know you can do this!'
Sorry for not uploading for so many days. I hope I can make up for it with one long chapter. There might be some quality errors starting in the middle, but don't judge me please, I'm not a native english speaker. Constructive criticism allowed. Rate and review please.