Chapter 3: The mystery island and the man named Carlos

Ken noticed a large blur in front of him, he got closer to it and noticed it was a island. Ken looked up Excitedly and said "Finally I made it to my first island, I wonder what kinds of folks lives here?"

Ken seen a dock nearby and went dock his small ship, he noticed quite a few bigger ships were docked here too, and they all had flags with skulls on them so Ken guessed they where all pirate ships.

He watched the pirate ships with passionate eyes for about 10 minutes, you could of seen it on his face how much he wanted one.

Ken snapped out of it and started heading on the island. While he was walking he noticed a huge hill infront of him.

Below the hill they was a sign that said: "If You Are A Pirate And Your Not Strong, Do Not Continue Are Your Life Will Be In Dangerous."

Ken knew he was strong so he struggled his shoulders and started walking up the hill slowly, from no where a boulder started rolling down the hill. Ken looked surprised, he used his Devil Fruit and turned his legs into two flaming lions legs and jumped over the boulder. Ken said "Where that came from? I better be careful..." Ken continued up the hill slowly, a couple of sharp bamboo sticks flew near his head, he barely dodged, Ken knew it was time to start running up the hill.

Ken finally made it up the hill, he noticed a giant sign that said: "Welcome Strong Pirates" Ken was surprised that any island would welcome pirates so easily.

He passed up the sign an noticed hundreds of stands and shops below the hill. They were food stands, gun shops, sword shops , trading shops, whatever you could think of this island had it.

Ken was surprise at what he seen, he also noticed most the people around the shops and stands were pirates base on how they looked.

Ken traveled down the hill and went look around. He noticed a food stand, but he was completely out of cash, so he passed it up with sad puppy eyes.

He noticed a crowed of people and went look at what was going on. There were a Swordsmen and a street fighter going at it. Ken was excited about the fight and joined in, he dodged the swordsman slash, and kicked the other man in the mouth knocking a tooth out. The Swordsmen ran after him, Ken focused flames into his left claws and said "FLAMING SLASH!" Ken broke the Swordsmen sword and also burned his shirt off. The Swordsmen was scared and ran away, the street fighter backed away and took off crying holding his missing tooth.

Ken felt bad for the two men, from no where the crowded of people started clapping for Ken. One man asked him of his name, another asked if he had a bounty already being that strong, a girl asked if he had a wife, and ken himself was surprised at all the attention he was getting for beating up them guys. Ken coughed and said " Hello, My name is Ken Gold. Morgan, I don't have a bounty yet, and I'm a little too young to get married already don't you think?" the crowd of people started laughing, Ken laughed with them.

Ken noticed a man was walking to a small group of guys, they were 7 to be exact. Ken left his crowd and went snooping to see what was happening over there. One of the group of guys told the man "what do you think your doing scum? Do you have a problem or something, if not get out of our way!" the man answered back in a direct way and said "Yes I do have a problem, I have a problem with your pig of a captain that is. Where is he..?" the other guy glared at the man with cold eyes and said "If you wanna know where he is then defeat us, get him guys!" the group of men surrounded the man and started to attack, the man jumped up in the air, drawn a gun from the side of his pants, reloaded it in mere seconds and shouted out "FLANK SHOT!" The man shot 6 times at the men without them even noticing, ever shot hit its target without fail.

The gunman landed on the ground and only left the dude that was talking unharmed, the gunman changed his clip, he started reloading his gun with black bullets. The talkative man was finally quite, has was also scared of what he just witness and said "W-What are you going to do with me?"

The gunman said "Nothing yet, but I'll give you one chance If you talk now I will let you go, where is your captain?"

The talkative man shook his head and said "I don't know where he's at, I-I never seen him for 3 days..!" The gunman raised up his brown handgun and pointed it at the talktive man, the talktive man peed his pants and said "h-he's on the other side of the island, he's located at the only beer shop on this island, b-but why do you wanna meet such a crazy killer? He will try to..." The gunman shot the talkative man in the middle of his stomach, the talkative man thought he was killed for sure, The gunman said "Because that bastard killed my best friend for no reason, oh and you will blow up in 5 seconds, I told you already, you only had ONE chance."

the talkative man eyes opened wide, he started running around, the gunman started counting down: 5...4...3...2...1 on the last count the talkative man blow up in a big explosion. His clothes were burnt to a crisp, and the talkative man skin color now was reddish and dusty black because of all the blood leaking out of him and the gun powder that blown him up.

Ken seen what happen and was surprised, for two reasons: one, that the gunman aimed at all six men shoulders, instead of going for a kill shot and two that he aim the explosive bullet at the man stomach, it caused damage but if he'd aimed at the talkative man head he would be dead now.

Ken walked towards the gunman and with a grin he said "Whoa you didn't try to kill any of them even though you knew they was aiming for your life, your a really good man. My name is Ken Gold. Morgan, and you?"

The gunman looked at Morgan with a small smirk "You have pretty good eyes Ken, I don't feel the need to kill people I have no hatred for. Oh and my name is Carlos Norman Hathcock ."

Ken said with a even bigger smile "Well we feel the same no point killing a person that you don't have any desire to kill or hatred for, why don't you join my crew? Your really strong ."

Carlos looked Ken right in the eyes and said "Sorry, but I have some business to take care of with this pirate captain, he killed my best friend Tan, a bear that I grow up with since birth, just because Tan was passing in front of him, he murder Tan in cold blood. I have to take revenge for my fallen friend, after that we can have a fight and if you can keep up with me then I will join."

Ken looked at Carlos with intense eyes and said "Alright let's avenge your fallen friend, then we can fight and you can join my crew." Carlos looked a Ken and said "Ok let's go!"

Thanks for reading ^.^

(What awaits Ken and Carlos tag team against this mysterious captain? What is this island name? Stay tune for next time)

P.S: I already did my character list for Carlos but I will upload it next chapter (I feel we need to showcase him more)