One Piece: My Version
Chapter 6: Trouble in Orange Town and Recruiting Nami
It's probably going to be short, seeing as how Luffy is powerful.
(After Shell Town)
Luffy and his newly appointed first mate, Roronoa Zoro, had just liberated Shell Town from the tyranny of Captain Morgan, thus resulting in the remaining naval officers to thank them but gave them fair warning to get out of town, due to the fact they were pirates.
Of course Zoro was a bit unimpressed with the dinghy they had for a ship at first, until he saw what was pulling them; Ryoku.
The swordsman was a bit stunned when he saw a tame Sea King up-close, but Coby explained the reason for Ryoku's presence.
Speaking of which, Coby had joined the marines as a chore-boy/grunt; but to Coby, being in the Marines was a dream come true, even if Luffy had to beat him to a pulp in order to prove to the lieutenant that the bespectacled boy was not with them.
"You sure they'll let him join? I mean they do background checks or something…" Zoro pointed out; during his days being tied up, he couldn't help but overhear some trivial matters on how marines get drafted.
"Shishishi… Daijobu, they'll let him in for sure!" Luffy responded cheerfully.
Zoro sweat-dropped. "You know, compared to the other pirates I've seen… You're a little weird."
"Says the swordsman with green hair, wearing 3-piece earrings on his left ear…" Luffy smirked.
Zoro narrowed his eyes angrily at the straw-hat captain. "It's a representation of my santoryu-technique!" he yelled.
After a few hours of sailing in no particular direction, Zoro spoke up.
"Do you even know where we're going?"
Luffy scratched the side of his face bashfully. "Hehe… I was hoping that… you would know…"
"BAKA! THAT'S WHY YOU'RE THE CAPTAIN! YOU HAVE TO HAVE SOME NAVIGATIONAL SKILLS IN ORDER TO TRAVEL! HOW THE HELL WERE YOU ABLE TO FIND SHELL TOWN ANYWAY?" he yelled louder, this time his features changed to a more comical sense; his eyes were angry-white and his regular teeth were replaced by shark teeth.
"I winged it." replied the laid-back captain.
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Zoro pinched his eyebrows. 'Just great… I have an idiot for a captain!' he cursed inwardly at his misfortune.
As Luffy tilted back, now looking up into the blue sky filled with a few clouds. His eye suddenly caught a large pelican flying just above them. Luffy focused on the bird and his eyes suddenly widened when he focused his vision onto the creature's ankle; a small, black band… with the symbol of the Revolutionaries.
Luffy smirked. 'Tou-san.'
He suddenly remembered what Dragon told him and Ace when they were in their pre-teen years.
(Flashback: Luffy- 10 years old, Ace- 13 years old)
As the boys finished their daily, grueling Haki training, Dragon called them both.
"Ace, Luffy! Come here!" he yelled.
The brothers went to see Dragon sitting on a boulder, while he was supervising their training. Indeed they had come a long way despite their age, and now was the time to tell them of what to expect.
"Now that you boys serve the Revolutionary Army, there are few missions that you both will be required to do."
Luffy raised his hand. "Yes Luffy?"
"Are these missions going to get in the way of our goals?"
"Yeah, if it gets in the way of our dreams, you can just forget it!" Ace added.
Dragon smirked before ruffling the boys' heads. "Not to worry, the missions you two will get will be basically simple since you two are our covert operatives and they will not get in the way of your dreams, I promised you two I would make them a reality, didn't I?" Dragon's smirk vanished as his tone went serious. "However you two won't get that many, because you two are our only operatives in secret that only I, Ivankov and Inazuma know about. That said, I expect you two to succeed, otherwise it could set back our plans." he warned.
Luffy and Ace grinned as they each pumped an arm. "Don't worry Tou-san! We'll make sure that we'll get strong to complete our missions! Ne, Ace?"
"Aa! We're not ones to fail!"
Dragon's smirk returned. "I know… I'm just making sure that you two know what you're enlistment consist of."
Ace and Luffy turned their gazes to their wrists, which bore the small mark of the Revolutionary Army.
Dragon continued to explain more about their missions. "Now, when you both are out at sea, there will be messages that will be handed to you discreetly- make sure no one sees or know what you have."
Luffy raised his hand again. "Yes Luffy?"
"Ano… what about our nakama? Can we tell them?"
Dragon went serious again. "While I have no qualms with you two telling your nakama of your allegiance to the Revolutionaries, I implore you two that trust is a two-way street… They must trust you with their lives as you trust them with yours. In other words keep your friends close, and your enemies closer."
The brothers nodded in agreement.
(Flashback End)
Luffy knew the situation if Zoro found out, so he came up with a good excuse.
"Hey, there's food!" and he stretched all the way over to grab the pelican; he succeeded- sort of. The pelican actually munched on his hand, causing Luffy's being to be pulled back instead of his fist.
"YOU DUMBASS!" Zoro yelled as Ryoku pulled the dinghy and swam at high speeds to catch up to his master who was flying away.
Three pirates wearing pirate-clown facial tattoos recently helped out a red-haired girl, whom they thought was in distress and promised to hand over her treasure to them. However, they were horribly wrong; instead, she conned them by planting a fake treasure chest as bait, and when they boarded her ship, she traded up and stole theirs.
"How'd she manage to see that storm cloud coming our way anyhow?" commented the fat pirate.
"I don't know, and I don't care! That bitch is gonna pay!" replied the middle pirate wearing a black snow-cap.
The third curly-haired pirate suddenly saw something heading in their way at an alarming rate.
"Uh… I think we have bigger problems." he said pointing to the ominous, giant shape in the water speeding towards them.
At first they couldn't see what was pulling what, until they saw an image of a boat.
The middle pirate smirked. "Alright boys, this is our one chance…. Grab onto that boat!"
And so they did.
Meanwhile in the hustle and bustle of Orange Town… Wait a minute… There is no hustle and bustle... just… silence… and a few tumbleweeds rolling by to prove the town's why would anyone want to vacate a nice place like Orange Town? It's not like it's under control of a pirate or something.
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Oh wait… It is! Specifically, by the Buggy Pirates, led by one of the infamous pirates in the East Blue, Buggy the Clown.
Now there was nothing entirely special to the pirate-clown captain, except that he once served on Gold Roger's ship as a crew member. However, ever since his captain's execution, he went off on his own to claim the world's greatest treasure, Captain John's Treasure, which is said to be equally as great as One Piece; so in order to do this, Buggy couldn't stand out as much as his disbanded comrades, because if he did, the World Government would track his every movement and that alone would ruin his chances in searching for said treasure.
So he stuck to basic piracy and pillaging.
Now, however, he was looking for his map of the Grand Line that red-haired devil, Nami had stolen from right under his……nose.
In short, Buggy was not pleased.
"Somebody had better explain to me how you managed to let a weak girl like her, steal my map to the Grand Line!" he barked.
A fat, middle-aged, pirate, timidly walked up to his captain.
"Gomen-nasai, Buggy-sama… But we may have been due to the fact that we left the key in the lock of the treasure chest keeping the map, and only the robber knows-"
Buggy's eyes snapped wide open as he was instantly up in his face, threateningly.
".?"
The underling blanched before replying. "I-I-I s-said that only t-the robber knows."
"RUBBER?"
The underling quickly realized how his sentence was taken out of turn.
"No, no, Buggy-sama! I didn't mean that! It was a mistake!" he pleaded, trying to reason with his captain. But fate wasn't too kind today.
"A STEAK? NOW YOU THINK IT LOOKS LIKE A STEAK?" Buggy roared as he reached out and grabbed the crew-member by the neck.
"Ready the Buggy Balls!"
"No… No Buggy-sama! I'm sorry!"
"Fire!"
An explosion followed through, thus resulting in an incinerated town block and one less crew member. "Mohji, go and track that girl down… AND BRING BACK MY MAP!"
Running through the empty streets in another part of town away from the explosion, an orange-haired, teenage girl was currently being chased by two of Buggy's crew as they had found out that she was the thief. As they were about to catch up, an explosion was heard over their heads. They all stopped their little chase and looked up to see something falling from the sky. Of course, they couldn't see what it was as it came crashing down to the ground, due to the effects of Earth's gravity.
After a few seconds, the mass rose up from the small crater and it turned out to be… Straw-hat Luffy.
Luffy scratched rubbed the back of his head, and opened his eyes to the new environment around him.
"Are…? What the hell just happened? One minute I'm in the sky, and the next thing I know, I'm being blown out of the sky!"
The red-haired girl suddenly hatched a plan as to make her escape easier.
"Thanks boss!" She shouted out loud enough to bring attention back to her.
"Huh?" The four clueless men echoed.
She didn't bother standing to replay. She took off running and yelled back. "I'll leave everything to you, sir."
That knocked three of the four out of their daze, now towering over the boy. "Boss, huh?"
(One quick beating later…)
"Now… where am I?" Luffy pondered until he heard a solitary clapping from above.
He turned his attention to the same red-haired girl on top of the roof, who had him deal with those pirates.
"That was incredible!" she cheered as she dropped down to meet him.
"Thanks….Who are you?" asked Luffy.
The red-haired girl walked up and extended her hand to greet him properly.
"I'm Nami."
"Luffy." he greeted back.
Now was the time to put a bit of her charm. "You're pretty strong… Say, how about you and I partner up? We'll make loads of money off of these pirates."
Luffy however walked away. "Not interested."
Nami was taken aback a bit, but before she could interject, she heard Luffy's stomach growling.
He turned back to face her. "I'm hungry…." he moaned.
(With Zoro and Ryoku)
'Man, I can't believe this…' Zoro groaned inwardly at the situation. First, his idiot captain had to get caught by a pelican and hoisted away into the air. Then, three stooges for pirates hitched a ride and threatened to take over the ship, until he stopped them, but causing the bird to go out of sight.
At least Ryoku had tracked his master's scent, because the swordsman had the worst sense of direction ever. So they quickly made way to the docks where Zoro jumped off and ran to find Luffy in the town. But of course, he had the worst directional sense…ever.
(Back with Luffy and Nami)
Luffy was just finishing off a sandwich he just happened to come across inside a house that Nami showed him. She explained to him about how the people were deserted and that Buggy the Clown ruled with an iron fist.
"And what about you…? Are you here to rob the houses while the people are away?" Luffy implied.
Nami narrowed her eyes at him. "Don't insult me! I only steal from pirates!"
Luffy had finished his meal and got up. "Ahh… Delicious! Well thanks for the meal, bye!" and he walked out the door.
But Nami went after him. "Ch-Chotto Matte! What about my offer?"
Luffy stopped and turned to face her. "Well what can you do besides steal?"
Nami flashed a grin. "Well, my navigational skills are no laughing matter."
Now Luffy was interested. "Wait… So you're a navigator?"
Nami nodded. This caused Luffy's grin to appear and widen considerably.
"Alright! Now I've finally found a navigator to join my crew!"
'Crew…? But he isn't a marine… Wait…'
"By any chance, are you a pirate?" she asked.
"Yeah, why do you ask?"
Her cross demeanor returned. "I hate pirates more than anything!"
"Oh, come on!" he whined. "I need a navigator! It's just me and a swordsman who has the worst sense of direction!"
"Care to repeat that captain…?" spoke the rough voice that came from said swordsman, who seemed to be quite perturbed by his captain's comment.
"What? It's true! You couldn't find your way out of a paper bag!" Luffy countered.
Zoro snorted then looked at Nami. "Who's the girl?"
Luffy's grin returned. "Zoro, meet our new navigator!"
Nami slapped him over the head. "I just told you I hate pirates! I want nothing to do with pirates!"
Luffy went serious for a moment. 'Then why do you have pirate tattoo on your left shoulder?'
"Ah… So here you are Nami…" drawled an unknown voice.
All three heads turned to a giant lion and a man with…bear ears?
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At first, the trio stared at the strange man's attire, but then they started snickering and it eventually evolved into full-blown laughter.
"T-That's some headdress!" laughed Zoro.
"Oh, m-my sides are splitting!" cried Nami.
"Hahahahahaha! I wonder if he lost a bet!" Luffy added.
The headdress-wearing man however, was not amused as the tick mark was apparent on his forehead.
"How dare you? Do you three know who I am? I am of Captain Buggy's crew! I am Mohji the Beast Tamer. This is my lion Ritchie, the first animal I tamed."
The lion growled at the prey in front of him.
Mohji still noticed that the trio was still laughing at him.
"Ritchie, attack!"
The lion leaped at them, unsheathing its claws. Luffy saw it coming however and in an instant, he socked the lion on the right side of its maw with a single punch causing the massive creature to fly and crash through a few buildings.
Mohji's eyes bugled out of his skull as snot was dripping out of his nose. "RITCHIE!" he cried.
Nami couldn't believe her eyes; this guy, no older than herself just took down a huge, savage, bloodthirsty lion with just a solid punch.
Mohji was about to make a run for it, when all of a sudden, he was bashed over the head by a bespectacled old man wielding a spear and wearing old-fashioned battle armor.
As soon as he saw the trio, he raised his spear ready to fight.
"Who are you three? Are you with Buggy the Clown?" he demanded.
"Nope, but we are pirates." Luffy replied calmly.
"Don't lump me in with you two!" Nami yelled.
Then the mayor ranted about how pirates have been taking control of his precious village and people and proclaimed that he was going to do something about this and stormed off in the northern direction of the town.
Luffy and Zoro decided to follow him. Nami berated herself for following shortly, but probably she wanted to save the mayor from getting killed.
But before Luffy forgot, he picked up the unconscious form of Mohji by the scruff of his neck, swung him around and around and tossed him sky-high into the direction the Mayor went.
"What did you do that for?" Zoro asked.
Luffy grinned. "Message Delivery."
Later, they reached the town square where the mayor was being lifted off the ground, being strangled by a…disembodied hand?
"You're a…monster!" the mayor cried while being choked.
Buggy merely laughed. "Close… I ate the Bara-Bara no Mi(Chop-Chop Fruit). I'm a split man! Blades have no effect on me!"
Buggy had not noticed their presence yet until Luffy grabbed the hand that grabbed the mayor.
"Who the hell are you-" the pirate-clown was cut-off as he noticed something was off; his hand was spewing out blood as well as the stump he detached it from. Then Buggy began to feel an immense amount of pain from said stump.
"AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!" Buggy hunched over in pain.
"Captain Buggy!" his men cried as they ran towards their wounded captain, but they were dumbfounded as to how this could happen to a split man.
Then something small hit the platform; it was his hand. As the wounds were healed, so was Buggy's power, so he was able to reattach his hand seamlessly. He was a little pale from the blood loss, but was still able to stand on his own.
He glared at the boy with the straw-hat. "Wh-What kind of power is that!"
"Why don't you come down here and find out? Big nose!" Luffy taunted.
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Nami gaped at him. "Are you trying to get us killed?"
"Bastard…." Buggy hissed under his breath. "LOAD THE BUGGY BALL!"
Soon enough, there was a large cannon pointed downward at the Luffy, Zoro, Nami, and the mayor.
"FIRE!" and with a loud 'boom' a red cannonball with a clown Jolly Roger was fired and heading their way at high speed.
It would have hit the target, if it weren't for Luffy's fruit power.
"Black Hole!" and sure enough the same inky-black darkness outlined Luffy's arms as he summoned a large, smoke-like vortex out of his left hand in the way of the Buggy Ball's path. As a result, the Buggy Ball was swallowed whole by the darkness.
A silence fell through the opposing teams. Buggy's crew as well as the captain himself had their jaws drop to the floor and eyes bulge out of their skulls.
Nami and the mayor couldn't blink after witnessing what just happened. Zoro merely raised an eyebrow.
'So he was responsible for the black smoke back at Shell Town.' he thought.
Luffy gave a dark grin as his hat overshadowed his eyes. "I have the powers of Yami-Yami no Mi… I'm a dark-man. My power is a Logia-type which controls the power of a black hole and its destructive gravity. I can absorb anything into my darkness… and repel it."
Buggy registered what he just said. 'Uh-oh…'
With the same arm, Luffy summoned the same black vortex from before and lifted it to the pirate crew in front of him. "Liberation!" instantly the same Buggy Ball from before was shot out, this time at an accelerating rate. A large explosion was followed soon after, and the building that was claimed by the Buggy pirates had fallen and was reduced to rubble.
Luffy's darkness rescinded as he grinned. "Well that takes care of that!"
But sadly, he was wrong as he soon heard a rustling in the rubble and Buggy emerged from it, with a few scorch marks and carrying a few loaded bags of treasure. Beside him was some guy on a unicycle. Buggy looked at Luffy with a mixture of fear and anger; anger took over as he dropped the treasure.
"You damned bastard! Look what you did to my crew! You're gonna pay! Cabaji, kill them!
The man on the unicycle known as Cabaji, pulled out his sword and wheeled his way to them, but not before Zoro stood in his way.
"I'll take this one. You handle that guy." the swordsman gestured to Buggy.
"Hmm… then this'll be quick."
The mayor decided not to get in the way and hid in the nearest building. Nami on the other hand, took this opportunity to steal Buggy's treasure while the fights were going on.
Zoro made quick work of the acrobat on wheels, commenting that if he had been seriously injured it would be more of a challenge.
Buggy prepared to split up again until Luffy stopped him.
"I wouldn't do that, unless you want a repeat of what happened to your hand."
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?"
Luffy tilted his head innocently. "Oh, did I not mention? My power is of a black hole, which pulls in everything, including Devil Fruit users… observe…" Raising a hand and aiming it at Buggy he summoned a small, swirling vortex in the palm of his hand. "Kurozu (Black Vortex)!"
The pirate-clown suddenly felt a powerful force lift him off his feet as he was immediately pulled in by an unseen force. Luffy roughly grabbed him by the neck. Buggy tried to use his powers to escape his grasp, but found that he couldn't. "Also, I can nullify any Devil Fruit user of his/her powers, and all I have to do is touch them."
Buggy's eyes widened respectively at this. This boy was a walking black hole with the power to cancel out Devil Fruit abilities.
"And now Buggy, it's time for your flight." Luffy outstretched his free arm and pulled it back into a fist.
"Seeya… Gomu-Gomu no Pistol!"
And in one shot, Buggy the Clown was sent flying through the sky until he was out of view. Luffy clasped his hands once again and brushed them off.
"Now that's the end of that!" he grinned widely.
End of Chapter 6!