Luffy frowns deeply.
Ace was currently strapped onto his back sleeping without a care, while they was being watched.
It started a few weeks ago, the feeling of eyes on him caused him to move slowly to find the source of discomfort.
"Little Ace?" Luffy asks making sure the child was asleep, he was about to made a run for it and if needed, drop their supplies.
Luffy suddenly darts off running through the crowded streets, he saw fast movement, then he realized that someone was running along side him.
Running down the alleyway he comes to a halt when he noticed a group of men. Footsteps sounded behind him and stopped.
One of the men stepped forward, grinning nastily towards the child.
"Hello boy," It sneers at him, "Where is your mama?"
Luffy's eyes narrowed, he had taken on an adult before in this city, however it was only one, not a whole group.
Adults were different from animals in way of attacking, Luffy knew he was outmatched.
Letting his supplies go in both hands, he brings up his fists ready to fight these people. This caused them to roar in laugher.
While they had their laugh, Luffy took this to dash forward; he paused in front of the man and used man's own bowed knee to leap upwards, to come face to face with the crocked nose. It twisted in the air and hit out with his fist, surprisingly the man's head jerk violently to one side and fell backwards.
As Luffy lands onto his knees to the ground, the man's body thumped against the ground.
'That adult was the biggest.' Luffy thinks to himself, he eyed up the others who was staring in shock disbelief at what just happened, 'The other adults are smaller.'
Luffy licked his dry lips.
The other glared at him, he readied for they attack.
A tall blonde rushed at him, he swung his leg upward in line with his body just as the man reached for him with his arms opened wide, as if to grab him.
With a loud moan the blonde man fell face first into the ground.
Luffy heard a battle cry from behind and turns quickly to meet an on coming fist, instead of moving out of it's way, the child bought up his right forearm and shielded himself. The skinny brown headed man began to sweat as he stared into the eyes of the child.
With his left fist Luffy upper cut the man, making him seemingly float in the air for a moment.
'Are these moron?' Luffy thinks dully as he noticed the next adult sneaking his way, 'Not even wolves attack one at a time!'
Luffy did not care why they took turns in fighting, but he was glad they did, if they attacked him as one it would have been the end of him and Ace.