Chapter 5: I'm Luffy! The man who's gonna become king of the pirates!
Luffy, Robin, and Hancock had disembarked on their advantage, after saying goodbye and Luffy punching a sea king that was in the way. They lucked out and was able to get a pretty decent sized boat. It was bigger than a rowboat but smaller than a normal sloop. Robin helped navigate, while Hancock stirred the boat. The two girls made sure to keep Luffy from touching the boat, so he doesn't crash it.
"Luffy, we have a ship up ahead" Robin reported, pointing at a white galleon covered in red hearts, just ahead of them.
"Great maybe they have meat." Luffy smiled, with a little drool off the side of his mouth.
"Uh, Luffy I don't think it's a good idea to associate with other pirates, they may have ill intentions." Said Hancock.
"Well, they are pirates after all," Robin added.
"And so are we now, if they try anything funny I'll know, " Luffy laughed. "and besides we need meat,"
"Already?!" Both of the women thought in their heads.
They sail up next to the ship, "Umm hello, excuse me, do you have any meat perhaps?" Soon after Luffy calls out. A tall, skinny woman with long wavy black hair and a white cowgirl hat on top, walked to the edge of the ship to face the young pirate.
"Well hello, young one, who might you be?" The woman asked.
"Monkey D. Luffy, a new pirate, and future king of the pirates. Did you have any meat?" Luffy asked while grinning.
The woman smirked back, "My, what ambitious one you are. I'm Alvida, the captain of this ship, how about you and your crewmates get up here and we'll talk about the meat problem you're having." Alvida a rope down to the little boat.
Before Luffy could quickly climb up, Boa pulled back him, "Are you sure we should be going up there? What if it's a trap."
Luffy looked at Boa with a serious looked and said, "Trap or not, they have meat, trust me"
Boa sighed and followed her captain upon the ship. A few moments had passed and Luffy was eating a plate full of meat. He was laughing and talking with Alvida, who was oddly enjoying his company. The three young pirates started to feel tired. Before Luffy finally closes his eyes, he heard a sinister laugh from Alvida and her crew. After an enjoyable nap, Luffy woke up to see he was put in seastone handcuffs. He looked around to see Robin and Hancock, in handcuffs as well.
"Well look whos up?" Luffy panned over to see Alvida standing in front of him. "You were too easy. You must be too trusting or just a fool. Never the lease, I have a job for you and your crew. We're going to rob a passenger ship that should appear around here soon and you're going to help us. And if you don't we'll send you and those two girls to the button sea" Alvida booped Luffy's nose and laughed.
"Shishishishi well I guess I have no choice, huh?" Luffy grinned. Alvida looked at him confused.
"You must be a fool" Alvida mumbled, but before she walked away, she called out a name, "Coby!"
Soon a boy with pink hair and oval glasses ran into the room, "Yes madame Alvida" the boy saluted.
"Watch these prisoners and making sure they won't do any funny business", Alivda looked directly at Luffy, "Especially straw hat."
"Yes, madame Alvida," Coby said back as she walked out of the room. Coby then looked at Luffy with fear.
Luffy made a scary face, "I can sense your fear!" The boy jumped back. Luffy laughed at this, "Calm down, I was just messing with."
"I'm Coby. Is it true your a pirate?"
Luffy nodded, "Yep! And I'm going to become the king of pirates!"
Cody's mouth dropped, "King of the pirates is the title given to the person who obtains everything in the world! That means seeking the great treasure of wealth, fame, and power. The One Piece!"
Luffy grinned, "Yep. I'm gonna do it because I want to. I've decided to become the king of pirates, so if I die fighting for that, that's fine with me!"
"Do you think I can do it? Do you think I can join the Navy?" Cody asked looking down.
"The navy?"
"Yes! Catching bad guys is my dream! It's been my dream ever since I was a little kid. Do you think I can do it?"
"How should I know?"
"No! I'll do it! I'm going to be in the Navy!"
Luffy smiled, "That's the spirit, and I'll take you to the nearest navy base once me and crew bust out of here"
Cody smiled back, "Okay, I'll just go get the keys and"
Luffy cut him off, "No! We'll make a run for it during the passenger raid."
"But why?"
"Just because. I have a feeling something is going to happen on that ship, another than the raid." Luffy looked over to see one of the pirates spying from around the corner and then leaving. Hours later, the passenger ship finally showed and Alvida commended her ship fire on it and to get up close so they can hop the ship. Luffy, Robin, and Hancock helped Alvida and her crew to gather up the loot, as Coby helped load up their getaway boat with meat. When Luffy was putting the treasure down in the bottom of Alvida's ship, he sensed someone else there with him. "Hey! You're planning on getting out of here with this treasure, aren't you? I'll help." Luffy waited for a second, then a pretty cute girl with short orange hair, slowly come out of the shadows.
"Are you going to rat on me?" The girl questioned
"Nope"
"Aren't you part of the crew of this ship?"
"Nope"
The girl sighed, "Can't you say anything other than 'Nope'".
Luffy grinned, "I said I'll help you"
"I guess you're right, I'm Nami. And if you double-cross me, or I'll kill you." Nami said, taking out a knife.
Luffy put his hands up with a smile, "Shishishi, wouldn't think of it."
Nami put away the knife, feeling she can trust this boy, "Alright, let's get this treasure out of here."
Just then Luffy felt something was about to happen, "I can't, got to go!"He yelled running out the room.
"Hey!"Nami yelled.
Luffy quickly stopped and turned back to Nami, "Listen there's a boat off the side of the ship, that's where we're escaping. Wait for me there." Luffy then started to run again. Back on the passenger ship, Alvida was laughing at all the loot her crew was getting from the ship.
"This is a lot of loot boys. Let's load it up and head out. Also, I guess we could kill the others, so we cut our losses." Alvida said walking back to her ship. However, she was stopped by a chain being wrapped around her. She fell to the deck with a thud. This is the first time something touched or hurt her since she ate her devil fruit. "What's the meaning of this?" Alvida yelled, looking at her crewmates, who was smiling and holding the chain.
"We've figured out your weakness. It's sea stone, the same that's made out of these handcuffs you have." One of the pirates smirked.
"We're tired of being your bitches." Another one yelled.
"Yeah, now we're the captain and you're going to be our pet" They started to get closer to her until Robin and Hancock stopped them.
"Ocho Fleur: Clutch" Robin shouted as several of the pirate's backs snapped in half. Hancock was spinning around on her hand, kicking the rest in the face. Coby rushed over to Alvida and started to help her out of her chains
"Coby!" Alvida was surprised to see him trying to help her.
"Don't thank me just yet Madmam Avli… I mean just Alvida. It was his idea." Cody said, looking up at Luffy, who running towards them.
"Hey! Guys!" He shouted, waving his hand with a big grinned. He stopped to see all the pirates knocked out on the deck. "Aww! I want to take some of them out!" Luffy pouted.
"It's okay Luffy," Robin said, petting Luffy's head.
"Hey! Stop doing that! We had an agreement, Robin." Hancock yelled. Robin just smiled as she kept petting Luffy's head. Hancock rushed over and removed Robin's hand.
"We have no time for this, Ladies. We must get out of here before the navy shows up." Luffy ordered. "Come on Coby, Alvida! We have a new friend waiting for at the ship." Luffy smiled. Suddenly the ship started to catch on fire.
"It's the marines!" Coby yelled, pointing towards a fleet of navy ships. Everyone rushed back to their boat, but Alvida who stayed on her knees, looking down. "Come on, Alvida, we need to leave." Coby tried to get Alvida up, but she pushed him away.
"Leave me here. I can't trust anyone, anymore." Alvida shouted through her tears. Just then a hand appeared in front of her face. She panned up to see a smiling Luffy.
"You can trust me. Just like how I trusted you". Luffy said. Alvida hesitated at first, but then carefully place her hand into his. He quickly pulled her to her feet and wrapped his arm around her waist. He shot his arm up at the ship's mast and swang to the boat. Once they landed, Luffy demanded Coby to started rowing. As Coby rowed, their new friend Nami navigated them out, while the others kept the boat from sinking by throwing or kicking the cannonballs back. After finally getting away they stopped to take a breather. "Man, that was insane". Luffy laughed.
"You're insane!"Nami yelled, smacking Luffy in the back the head. "Who laughs when they're getting shot at by cannon fire!?"
"Shishishishi, a pirate like me would." Luffy grinned.
"You're a pirate?" Nami asked
Luffy nodded, "Yep, and I'm going to become the king of the pirates."
Nami sighed, rubbing her temple, "I shouldn't have trusted you in the first place."
"But you do, so you can please navigate us to the nearest Navy base." Luffy asked, bowing his head and folding his hands together, "And I might think about letting you join my crew."
"I don't wanna join your crew!" Nami shouted, "But I'll get you to the base. There's something I need there anyways." After reaching their destination at the navy base city, the group split up. Luffy and Coby went to the marine base itself with Alvida following behind secretly, Hancock and Robin went to go find a nice restaurant, and Nami sneaked off somewhere else.
"Well we're here," Luffy said, with his hands on his hips.
"Thank you Luffy-san, I couldn't have done this without you," Cody said with joy.
"Now it's time to find my new crewmate." Just then they panned over to see a little girl climbing over the wall. They looked at each other and then followed suit. They saw the little walk to a man tied up to a wooden post. The man was very well built with green short hair and a green bandana on top. The girl quickly and quietly rash to the man with a plate full of food. "Who is that?"
"Th-that's Roronoa Zoro, the famous pirate hunter. The man who'd chopped up bounties like a bloodthirsty beast. People say he's a demon in human form!" Cody explains.
Luffy smiled, "I think he will be perfect for my crew." Luffy jumped and dash over to Zoro. The little girl was trying to feed Zoro rice balls, but then a blonde kid with three marines behind him walked up.
"Oh? Those some tasty-looking rice balls." The blonde kid said, stealing a rice ball and started to eat it, until a punch came flying in his face, sending him to sail across the field.
"That wasn't yours!" Luffy shouted with steam coming off his fist. The marines were shocked that someone would punch the son of Captain Morgan. Luffy walked up to Zoro.
"Nice punch" Zoro smirked.
"Are you really as strong as they say they are?" Luffy asked.
"Yeah, what's it to you?"
Luffy grinned, "I want you to join my pirate crew."
"Like hell! I hunt pirates, not join them" Zoro shouted.
Luffy had a pout face, "That's too bad, cause I really want you to join."
"Well, I said no, so get lost," Zoro said, as marine was checking on Helmeppo.
"Kill them… all" Helmeppo uttered before passing out. The marines rose their guns at them and started firing. Luffy picked up the little girl and Coby, shooting all three back over the wall. They quickly ran back to the little girl's family's restaurants. Luckily the rest of Luffy's crew was there waiting for him. The little girl explained why Zoro was tied up in the first place and how if he stayed tied up to that post for mouth they'd let him go free.
"What a surprisingly good guy," Robin said after hearing the story.
"Yeah, that only makes me want him to join my crew even more." Luffy grinned. A couple of marines walked and they were talking about how Helmeppo wasn't going to keep his side of the deal, as he was going to kill Zoro the next day. This enraged Luffy as quickly popped out of the seat. "That guy is a scam. Hancock, Robin I'm going to have Zoro join my crew!" Luffy headed towards as they followed him. "Let's go save him!" A few minutes they were back at the base. Luffy shot him and the others over the wall and walked up to Zoro. Zoro looked up at Luffy.
"Didn't I tell you to piss off?" Zoro said rudely.
"You watch your tongue! You should feel lucky Luffy asked you to join his crew" Hancock yelled.
Luffy put his arm in front of her, making sure she didn't try to punch Zoro, "Listen, they're not going to hold up the end of the deal. They're going to kill you tomorrow."
"What?" Zoro replied with pure rage on his face.
"We heard a couple of marines talking about it in the restaurant. So you have one of two choices, join us or stay here and die." Robin cut in.
Zoro smirked, "Guess I have no choice, captain." Luffy grinned back. "However I have a problem, I need my swords."
"I'll get them for you, in the meantime." Luffy looked at Robin and Hancock, "Can you two please fend off the marines heading this way as Coby unties Zoro from the post."
"Aye Captain," The two said, before rushing towards the incoming marines. Luffy shooted himself up into the base. Once there, he looked through every room for Zoro's swords. He couldn't find them, but instead, he found Helmeppo, who had a swollen face. Luffy quickly grabbed him by the back of the shirt and demanded him to tell where Zoro's swords were. Helmeppo didn't hesitate to tell him since he was afraid for his life. Helmeppo leaded Luffy to his room, where the swords were being held and gave them up. Luffy gave him one last punch to the face, before sling shooting himself out the window with the swords tied to his back. He landed in front of a few bullets coming towards Zoro and Coby, bouncing them off his body and laughing. He handed Zoro his sword and he cut himself out of the ropes.
"Thanks for getting my swords for me" Zoro with a smirked.
"Oh? You use all three swords?" Luffy asked.
"Yep, I use three sword style" Zoro put one of his swords, which is called Wado Ichimonji, in his mouth and had the other two in each hand. "Let me show you." He proceeded to cut down marines in his way. The group was about to leave, but Captain Morgan had finally made an appearance.
"What exactly is going on around here?" Morgan asked one of the marines, through his big metal jaw.
"Sir, that straw hat boy and his friends had let Roronoa Zoro off the post." One of the marines reported.
"And you just them!" Morgan yelled in rage. He cut down a wave of marines, "Out of my way! I guess I have to deal with this myself." Morgan walked to Luffy and crew, holding his ax of a hand. "I don't know who you think you are straw hat, but I'm going to make you pay for what you and your friends had done here."
"You must be Captain Morgan. It's going to be a pleasure kicking your ass." Luffy said as steam started to radiate off his skin. "Second gear" Luffy dashed in towards the huge captain.
"Ha! Don't make me laugh kid! Kick my ass" Morgan swing at Luffy, who trying to get a hit from behind. "You don't think I'll go down that easy" Luffy dodged his swing, then landing a flip. Zoro saw what was going on and rushed in as well. Catching the captain off guard as Zoro landed a hit on him. "Y-you guys don't fight fair!"
"Sorry, but pirates aren't supposed to fight fair," Zoro said before him and Luffy both landed the final blow on Morgan, with it shattering his metal jaw. All the marines stopped as their captain hit the ground out cold. Then they started to cheer. At this moment, Luffy and others take this as a chance to headed back to the restaurant, to fill up on supplies and food.
"I'm glad you've decided to join us Zoro," Luffy said, patting his new mate on the shoulder.
"Beats being dead," Zoro smirked.
"Sure does" Luffy laughed.
"But one question, is this all of your crew?" Zoro asked looking at Robin, Hancock, and Coby.
"Well no, Cody is going to become a marine and I did ask two others, but they turned it down I guess," Luffy responded, remembering when they first got to the island, both Alvida and Nami quickly ran off. As they're talking a group of marines walked into the restaurant
"Are you the pirates that defeated Captain Morgan?" Asked one of the marines.
"Yep," Luffy nodded.
"No hesitation," Everyone in the place thought.
"Well, we all thank for taking care of that tyrant" The marine coughed, "However, we must apologize, but you and you're crew need to leave immediately".
"Okay," Luffy replied.
"No resistance," Everyone thought aloud. As Luffy and his crew start to leave, the marine looked over at Coby, who wasn't moving.
"Is he not part of you're crew?" The marine asked.
Luffy shook his head, "Nope, he wants to a marine. I'll never let a marine join my crew!" Luffy then punched Coby in the face, knocking back onto the floor. "See, he's also weak so train him well." Luffy then walked out of the restaurant with Robin, Boa, and Zoro following behind.
The crew headed down to the docks, to see Alvida sitting on the boat, waiting for them. Alvida quickly stood up as they got closer.
"Hi, I would like to ask if I can um…" Alvida tried to ask to join them, but she can't get the words out. 'Come on he's just a fool who you would love to join in the high sea, just a cute fool'. She thought to herself. "If I can…"
Luffy walked up to her and placed his hand on her shoulder with a smile, "Welcome board, Alvida." With these words, Alvida had joined the crew as well. She wanted to cry but she just hugged Luffy.
"Hey! Get off him!" Hancock yelled, rushing over to break up the hug.
"Yeah, he's ours," Robin said, helping Hancock. Luffy laughed, as was happy he's crew was growing and soon he'd on the grand line, one step closer to bring pirate king.