Oyabun Luffy's Detective Story - Axe-Head Family, friends or foes?
Chapter 7 -Full speed ahead

Luffy entered the Tomahawk bar to find Chopper, Kirsty and Usopp helping untie everybody and clean up.

"So what happened in here then?" Luffy asked.

"I can't remember, it all happened so fast," Oniri replied as she hid her face in her hands.

"They were monsters, I say, MONESTERS!" Herman called out, clapping his claws and waving them about.

"And what's more, they took Austin as well," Dusty told him as she looked down with her fox ears were flat down on her head and DJ put his arm around her.

"It's okay, Dusty-chan," DJ comforted her as Luffy looked on.

"Yosh, well get him back in no time," Luffy replied as he smiled at them.

"Oi Oyabun, how do you plan on doing that?" Usopp asked walking up to him. "I mean we're talking about the same two guys from easily defeated us," he reminded him but Luffy just grinned.

"Then I'll just have to beat him this time," Luffy simply replied before turning to leave but then stopped. "Nice act by the way," he said, as the Tomahawk workers all suddenly looked up and Luffy turned fully back around grinning even more. "With the magic in the streets, that was so awesome!"

"Oh…why thank you," Dusty replied as she smiled back at him, while DJ leant sideways towards Oniri a bit.

"You don't think…" he whispered as she just waved him off.

"Na," Oniri replied as she just stood back up. "Please, do you that you can to bring him back," she seriously told Luffy as he nodded at her before walking out, followed by Usopp. Once Chopper had finished putting bandage over Herman, he stood up and turned to his assistant.

"Right, seems to be no major injures, so you will all be fine," Chopper told them.

"Thank you, blue-nose doctor," Oniri replied as she smiled at him.

"I don't need any gratitude!" Chopper replied as he had a big smile on his face and danced around happily as the Tomahawk workers sweat dropped as they watched him.

"Hehe, that's he's way of saying no problem," Kirsty point out as she let out a little laugh.

"Shall we go then?" Chopper asked, snapping out of it and heading towards the door.

"You go on, I've just got to finish up here and then join you," Kirsty replied as Chopper nodded at her, before leaving the Tomahawk bar. Once he had left, Kirsty turned around turned to the Tomahawk workers and smiled as they all stood back up.

"So Oyabun, how do you plan on finding them then?" Usopp asked Luffy as they sat in the Kazaguruma once again.

"Right after another bowl," Luffy replied with his mouth full of food.

"Shouldn't you guys be out there looking already?" Sanji asked them.

"Ah…Oyabun insisted that he eat first," Usopp replied to Sanji.

"But that's all you ever do," Onami mumbled.

"Oi, Oyabun," a familiar voice called out as everyone turned around to see Buddhist monk, Zoro, standing out the door. "We got trouble…"

After explaining what he over heard from the Clown family, Luffy stood up as he others looked on shockingly.

"Then that would mean…Vivi's in danger!" Onami replied.

"VIV-CHAN! I'LL SAVE YOU!!!" Sanji yelled out as he was about to run out, but suddenly fell flat on his face. He then turned around to see Zoro's leg outreached from where he had tripped. "Oi, bastard! What did you do that for?!"

"Don't go rush in too quickly," Zoro calmly told him.

"But, why are you telling us this, couldn't you do something?" Usopp asked him, as Zoro just nodded without looking at him.

"I am," he replied as he closed his eyes and thought back.

'The best thing you can do now is get a detective,' a woman's voice said though Zoro's mind.

--flashback--

"Detective?" Zoro asked as he was still hang upside down and stared at the two black haired and red haired women in front of him. "You mean Oyabun?"

"You know any others?" the red head replied to him before they both turned away to leave.

"But why?" Zoro asked before they both turned their heads back and smiled at him.

"You'll find out in due time," the black haired woman said before carrying on walking away with the other one, leaving Zoro a little puzzled, but then he realised something.

"Oi, oi, oi, oi! Don't leave me like this!" he yelled after her. "Get me down from here!"

--end flashback--

Zoro opened eyes again and glanced at Luffy, smirking at him.

"You ready?" he asked him.

"Yosh! Let's go!" Luffy responded as he gulped down his last bowl and stood up.

All six of them raced out of the Kazaguruma bar in a instant, heading towards the palace.

"I hope we can make in it time!" Onami hoped as they ran on while Chopper made a little detour, stopping in at the Tomahawk bar across the street.

"Hey Kirsty, there's an emergency! We got to…go?" Chopper screamed as the ran in before seeing the bar was completely empty.

Meanwhile, outside the royal palace, the clown family stood up against the back wall while the unconscious bodies of two royal guards laid next to them.

"Huh, that was easy," Buggy said as he, Cabaji, Axe and Devon, who was still carrying Austin where about to go in.

"Hey wait, what about that kid? Aren't you going to leave him here?" Mohji asked Devon while he just glared back at the lion tamer.

"And why would I leave my hostage behind? Who knows what trouble he could cause," Devon replied as he glanced down at Austin while Austin just looked up at him.

"I'm sure we can handle a little kid," Mohji told him.

"Fine, what ever you say," Devon replied as he set Austin, who was still tied up, down against the palace wall.

Before Buggy, Cabaji, Axe and Devon went off to sneak into the palace, while Mohji and the rest of the family, including a tall dark man biting his lip and a six armed merman, waited outside.

As the four of them snuck in, they found themselves in the palace garden, that up the other end of it was a light blue haired woman, sitting with her back to them playing her koto instrument, that was letting out a beautiful tune that filled the area around her, leaving her totally oblivious to them.

"There's our prize," Buggy smirked as he quietly began approaching her.

"Wait boss, are you sure you don't want one of us to nab her instead?" Axe whispered to him as Buggy just shook his head at him.

"No, this one's mine, I've been waiting a long time for this…" Buggy replied as he outreached his hand towards the, still, oblivious blue haired girl as the beautiful tune continued to play.

"VIVI-CHAN!!!" Sanji yelled as they ran along the pathway to the castle.

"Please don't let us be do late!" Onami pleaded.

"Wait for us, VIVI!!!" Luffy yelled as the group neared the castle.