Things were really getting out of hand it on the Baratie and a pretty muscular chef then entered the restaurant to find Ragnar holding Fullbody up in the air.

"Not again, Ragnar!" he moaned. "What do you think you're doing to our customer? Can't you see that he is a Marine Lieutenant?"

"Stay out of this, Gabriel," Ragnar warned. "I'm just teaching the customer a lesson."

"Have you forgotten that restaurants can't exist without their customers?" said Gabriel as he approached Ragnar. "They are our lifeblood so we don't want to hurt them in the way that you seem to keep doing."

"But he deserved it," said Ragnar looking at Fullbody furiously. "He didn't treat the food or me with respect and he insulted all the cooks." Ragnar then immediately released Fullbody and he fell to the ground. "So I just taught him a lesson."

Fullbody glared up at him. "You're going to regret this… all of you. No restaurant should treat its customers like this, I'll shut you down. Do you understand me? I will shut you down! This entire place! This whole restaurant is finished, do you hear me?"

Ragnar narrowed his eyes. "Maybe I should just finish you off now."

Fullbody immediately looked at him with fear as Ragnar approached him. Immediately the other chefs grabbed him and pulled him back.

"Ragnar, stop it!"

"Let go of me! We can't just let some big shot go around insulting us can we?" Ragnar yelled.

"You can't keep on doing this in the restaurant every day!"

Ragnar wasn't listening as he was still looking at Fullbody with a hateful expression. "You're not such a big shot now are you?"

Then suddenly crashing through the roof was the head chef and Hiccup, much to everyone's shock.

"What happened?"

"Are they okay?"

"That was unexpected?" Hiccup groaned.

"Boss Zeff, what's happening here? You haven't hurt yourself right?" a chef asked.

"My ceiling," Zeff groaned and looked at Hiccup. "Another thing which has to get fixed because of you."

Hiccup looked at him. "You are the one who broke it this time."

The chefs meanwhile were still trying to restrain Ragnar and refining it quite difficult.

"Boss, can you please help us? Ragnar has gone crazy!"

Zeff and Hiccup turned and looked towards Ragnar, who looked like he was going to murder Fullbody.

"Ragnar?" Hiccup blinked.

Zeff quickly approached Ragnar. "Ragnar, don't tell me you went on another rampage in here you idiot!"

"Will you calm down, old man," said Ragnar.

"Now you're ordering me around," Zeff yelled. "Just who do you think you're talking to? Do you want to sync my restaurant to the bottom of the sea?"

Zeff then struck Ragnar across the head with his wooden leg. Fullbody just smirked, but that changed when Zeff faced him. "You too! Get out of my restaurant!"

A moment later Fullbody was struck by Zeff, knocking the wind out of him.

Fullbody picked himself up and was completely stunned about what happened. 'What kind of restaurant is this? Their bosses like a gangster, it's almost as if this were a pirate ship.'

Gabriel looked at Ragnar furiously. "How can you deny our motto that the customer is always king?"

"Believe me that I was no king," said Ragnar.

"That's enough," Zeff scolded. "If you too want to fight you can do it in the kitchen, you understand me?"

'All these idiots really cooks?' Fullbody groaned.

Suddenly entering the restaurant was a Marine soldier, who looked as if he had taken quite a beating. "Lieutenant! Lieutenant Fullbody! We've got trouble!"

"When Ragnar said that this place was crazy, he wasn't kidding," said Hiccup in disbelief

"Sir, he's escaped," the marine panicked. "Pirate Krieg's henchmen has vanished!"

"What?" Fullbody roared.

"Well, sir, we've already lost seven of our men and the only thing we managed to got out of him was a lead on Krieg."

"Impossible! When we picked up three days ago, he was right on the verge of starving to death and we haven't fed him anything! Where did he get the strength?"

The customers immediately began to panic upon hearing this.

"Krieg Pirates?"

"They are the ones that are said to be the fiercest pirates in the East Blue."

"I'm sorry lieutenant, I—"

He was then struck in the back is the sound of a gunshot was heard. Immediately all the customers backed away from the door as entering the restaurant now was a pirate, who had seen better days.

"It would seem we have a new customer, sir," said Gabriel.

"He would do well to mind his manners and not start any trouble on my ship," said Zeff.

"Looks chose the wrong day to come here," said Hiccup.

The Pirate just walked past Fullbody and he didn't even do a single thing to stop him. He then pulled up a chair and sat down at a table and placed one of his feet upon it.

"I don't care what it is, just bring me something to eat," said the pirate. He turned to the chefs. "Come on, this is a restaurant."

Gabriel approached him. "Welcome to our restaurant, how might I help you?"

"I'm only gonna say this once, bring me something to eat and make it quick."

"That cook is going to get us killed," Fullbody groaned.

"Right away, sir," said Gabriel. "But might I be so bold and enquire how you're going to pay for your meal?"

The pirate then immediately put raised his pistol and pointed it at his head. "We'll a bullet be enough?"

"So you don't have any money then," Gabriel assumed.

Before the pirate could do anything Gabriel immediately put his fists together and slammed them right on top of him breaking the chair in the process. Fullbody just stared in bewilderment as the patrons just looked in awe, though Zeff wasn't too pleased.

"There goes another chair," he grunted.

"Wow, that's power," said Hiccup.

Gabriel looked down at the pirate. "Sorry pirate, but our policies only to serve paying customers."

The patrons and chefs immediately cheered at Gabriel.

"Kick his ass, Gabriel! Show that pirate we cooks don't screw around!" a chef cheered.

The pirate's stomach grumbled.

Gabriel merely smirked at him. "Ah, I can hear your stomach grumbling from here pirate."

"That was a fart, jerk," said the pirate stubbornly. "Now listen, get me something to eat now."

"We're not getting you anything! So beat it!" Gabriel yelled furiously.

Ragnar then walked off which in get unnoticed by Zeff. He made his way into the kitchen and began cooking a meal and Zeff merely watched him from the corner.


Gabriel meanwhile was kicking the pirate constantly and everyone was cheering. Fullbody, on the other hand, was utterly terrified.

'I can't take it anymore,' he said. 'All of these cooks are insane, I've got to get out of here. I don't want anything to do with this place ever again.'

He then immediately crawled out of the restaurant without anyone noticing while everyone was cheering Gabriel of beating up the pirate. The pirate was now lying flat on the floor and wasn't moving an inch.

Gabriel then immediately place the pirate on his shoulder and began making his way outside through the side door and dropped him onto the deck.

"And please never come back," he said brushing his hands together before he made his way back into the restaurant.

"Dammit," said the pirate as he rolled over clutching his stomach. "If I wasn't so weak from hunger, I would be inside eating and he would be lying here."

Hiccup was merely watching from the deck above. "You feeling all right?" he asked.

"No, I'm fine. Just leave me alone," the pirate assured and then his stomach growled.

Then Ragnar made his way outside with a plate of food and place it in front of the pirate. He then sat down on the pirate nearly stared at him.

"Eat up," said Ragnar.

The pirate looked at the food and back at Ragnar. "Take it and leave me alone. I won't accept charity, it doesn't matter how down and out I may be. Just take this stuff away now."

"Stop your whining and eat it already," said Ragnar. "I don't care what they say in there, to me if they're hungry they're a customer."

"Sorry, but I'm not your customer," said the pirate.

However, his stomach then growled once again and Ragnar immediately looked up at the sky. "It's amazing how beautiful and crawl this ocean can be. It's almost a death sentence to lose your food and water out here, how difficult it is to survive. I know what it means to go hungry because of the sea more than anyone, you can die for your pride if you want, but listen if you eat and survive when that give you the opportunity to fight for pride truly worth having in the future?"

The pirate looked at the food and then immediately began to scoff it down. "I'm sorry," he cried. "I'm sorry. Thank you so much, I thought it was over. I truly thought that I was going to die."

Ragnar just sat there as the pirate kept on eating the food.

"This food is delicious, I've never eaten food this good before," he cried.

Ragnar merely smiled. "Of course it is."

"As skilled a cook as ever, aren't you Ragnar?" said Hiccup.

Ragnar looked up and for the first time saw Hiccup. "Hiccup, what are you doing here?"

"Looking for a skilled cook," said Hiccup and looked at the pirate. "You're lucky that he gave you some food, you weren't looking so good there." He then turned his attention back to Ragnar. "So, Ragnar, would you say about joining my crew? I know that you are skilled cook and a good shot, I could use someone like you on my pirate ship."

Ragnar and the pirate just looked at him blankly.


Once the finished eating Hiccup made his way down and joined Ragnar.

"So you've started your journey," said Ragnar.

"That's right," said Hiccup.

"I must say I'm surprise that you shot a cannonball into the restaurant."

"That was an accident and it was self-defence that turned into a stray shot," Hiccup explained.

"A stray shot?" said Ragnar shaking his head. "While I suggest that you don't do anything to damage this place even more. The owner used to be a cook in a famous pirate fleet."

"So he used to be a pirate," said Hiccup.

"This restaurant is everything to that crazy old man, it is only treasure he'll need for the rest of his life," Ragnar explained. "He would do anything to protect it and on top of that all the cooks joined him out of respect and admiration are just as hotheaded as any pirate. Which helps considering the pirates are always coming and going out of this place."

"I noticed. I have to say this is one wild restaurant."

"You're not kidding and this is what it's like every day. It's gotten so bad that the customers are coming here just to watch fights between the cooks and the pirates. Every day it's been a new pirate ship and the new rampage, it wasn't long before all the waiters got scared and bailed."

"That explains why the old man wanted me to work for a year," said Hiccup. He then looked down at Ragnar. "So will you join me and my crew?"

"Sorry, Hiccup, but I can't," said Ragnar regretfully. "There is a reason why you have to work here that I work in the restaurant so I can't just walk away from it."

Hiccup looked at him. "Rag, you can't spend your entire life on this boat. Besides what I saw earlier, you're not exactly on the best terms with all the cooks and you do have an unusual way to handle customers."

Ragnar looked at him. "I admit life on the sea is exciting and I can tell that your good guy from all the letters we wrote to one another, but I have a very good reason for staying here and that's why I can't join you."

"I'm sorry to interrupt," said the pirate looking at the two of them.

"What is it?" the two of them asked.

"My name is Squall, I'm a crew member of Krieg's pirate fleet," he explained looking at Hiccup. "And you say that you're a pirate yourself and what is it that you seek?"

"The One Piece," said Hiccup simply. "And soon I'm going to sail the Grand Line and find it."

Squall looked at him curiously. "Well, you can't have been searching for it for long if you don't even have a cook yet. Your crew can't be that the."

"You're right, I've got a total of five people and that including myself," Hiccup nodded.

"You seem like a nice kid so let me give you some friendly advice," said Squall. "The Grand Line is a place that you want to avoid. You're still young and there's no need to rush into anything, remember the Grand Line is one small part of this entire ocean. If you want to be a real pirate there are plenty of other places out on the seas to explore."

"Then why don't you just tell me what to avoid in the Grand Line?" Hiccup asked raising an eyebrow.

"I can't, I don't know anything. I don't understand it and that is why I fear it."

Ragnar looked at him dubiously. "For being a crewmember of Krieg's you're a pretty wimpy pirate."


Meanwhile the chefs were busy serving up the meal for the paying customers.

"The appetiser the table three is ready."

"Well, you're going to have to take it out yourself, the last waiter is gone."

One of the cooks looked at Gabriel. "Do you think any more pirates will be coming, Gabriel?"

"Who knows," he said as he began slicing a fish.

"I heard the guy you beat up early in the restaurant is one of Krieg's men. I don't think that will make the rest of them very happy."

"I don't care who that guy was."

"All I'm saying is the stories I heard say that Krieg is the strongest and fiercest and most evil pirate on this part of the ocean."

A cook with a thick stubble nodded. "He is. On these waters his group of fear reaches far and wide, he commands over 50 pirate captains and one of the largest pirate fleets ever seen. He is truly a monster."

Gabriel huffed as he poured some oil into a frying pan. "He doesn't scare me."

The cook began cutting up a turnip. "I've heard that he has an extraordinary number of ships with 5000 pirates. This could be bad for Zeff, if that guide you beat up goes to Krieg and tells him what you did and he just sent one ship there won't be enough of us to fight them off. We'll be crushed like a great under an elephant left to sink beneath the bottom of the ocean."

"Are you saying I should have just served him so that he could experience our great customer service and meals for free, Vale?" Gabriel sneered. "Don't you think they'll be rude to the other dam cooks that pay us money? I would never stoop that low, this is the Baratie! The Fighting Cooks have a reputation to uphold, don't worry? I would never ruin that and I don't care who that pirate cries to! Let them send their ships I'll fight them all off! If you're scared then quit and let the real cooks work."

Vale glared at him. "Don't you dare say that to me? I'm tired of all the big talk you spit out which is why all the waiters jumped ship! Everything that is happening is all your fault, Gabriel!"

"Please, those waiters will worthless wimps the moment a customer showed up!"

The other cooks merely smiled as the two geared up for a fight.

Zeff then appeared and began breaking up the fight. "All right, what's all this? Get back to work already!"

Immediately everyone stopped gawking and fighting and began cooking.


Outside Squall will setting off in a small boat and Hiccup and Ragnar was seen him off.

"So long then," he said.

"Thanks for the warning, but I'm still going to go to the Grand Line," said Hiccup.

"I know. Do whatever you want, I'm just a stranger and I can't stop you from going anywhere you want to go. I just wanted to give you a fair warning." He then looked at Ragnar. "And you chef, thank you for everything. You saved my life and I owe you for that, you're cooking skills of the best I've ever seen and I hope to come back again sometime."

"I'll have a seat for you," Ragnar promised.

Zeff then exited the restaurant and looked down at them. "Chore Boy, get up here right now!"

Hiccup looked up. "Boss Zeff."

"You're hard to find," he grunted and noticed the empty plate on the deck.

Ragnar looked at Squall. "Hey, Squall, go."

"Sorry," said Squall apologetically. "He'll probably get yelled at or fired because he gave me that food for free."

"Whatever," said Ragnar as he began to pick up the plate.

He then reached the edge of the ship and dropped the plate into the sea and Squall stared at him.

"Now there's no proof and there's no way for me to get yelled at," Ragnar smiled.

Squall then furled the sail and prepared to say away.

"Make sure you don't get caught again, you hear," said Ragnar.

"Thank you, again Chef Ragnar," said Squall as he sailed away. "I will never forget your kindness!"

"Ragnar! Chore Boy! Get back to work already!" Zeff yelled.


Hiccup was given the jobs of taking the orders from all the customers, fortunately was something that he was used to after helping tend the tavern in his village. He was also given the job of cleaning the dishes and as he did so he listened to the conversation from the other chefs.

"Anyone see Ragnar?" Gabriel asked.

"I think I saw him hit another customer," said a cook.

"Again?" Gabriel groaned. "I wish Zeff would get rid of the guy, it's bad enough that he hits the customers but he's never in the kitchen doing his job."

"I think we're stuck with him, he's worked here longer than any of us. He was working in the kitchen long before I started."

"Yeah, but even so I just don't get it. Why does he stay here when he and Zeff are always fighting?"

"I think he wants to be the head chef."


After cleaning the dishes Hiccup returned to the restaurant to take orders.

"I never thought I'd be doing this again," Hiccup sighed as he walked down the stairs.

"Hey, Chore Boy!" Astrid's voice cried.

Hiccup looked down and saw Astrid and the others sitting at the table and they were clearly enjoying his misery.

"What are you guys doing here?" Hiccup asked.

"We heard that you had to work here for an entire year," Snotlout smirked.

"Is it okay if we redraw the flag for our ship?" Toothless asked.

Hiccup then noticed the spread on their table. "And you're eating as well?"

"Well, were taking the advantage of staying in a first-class restaurant," Toothless smiled.

"It's times like this you're really glad to know who your friends are," Hiccup grumbled.

It was at that point that Ragnar approached them. "So, your Hiccup's crew it's nice to meet you."

Fishlegs' eyes widened. "Isn't that the guy who took down that Marine Lieutenant?"

"My name is Ragnar and I'm Hiccup's penpal," Ragnar explained that when he saw Astrid and looked at Hiccup. "Didn't realise you had a girlfriend as well."

Both Hiccup and Astrid immediately blushed bright pink.

"We're not a couple!" they yelled in unison only to make their faces even pinker.

Ragnar laughed. "I would like to join you, but I've got quite the obstacle in front of me."

"And that obstacle would be me, right?" said Zeff's voice behind him. Ragnar turned and saw Zeff leaning against a table looking at him. "Ragnar this is an opportunity that you don't want to pass up. Why not join them and become a pirate? I don't have any need to keep you here in my restaurant."

Ragnar just stood there in utter silence and no one could figure out what was going through his head at the moment.


Meanwhile on a small island near nearby, Squall was standing on the deck of a large pirate ship looking at someone in the shadows. The ship he was on had seen better days as it was as if looked as if it had seen battle.

"I see, this cooks save your life and you were able to return here to us," said the man in the shadows. "Is that what you're saying, Squall?"

"Yes, but you see I had no idea that the main ship was in this condition, Kerig," Squall admitted. "No idea."

"So what now?" Krieg asked.

"Now I believe that I'll take you to the Sea Restaurant Baratie," he said with a small smile.