Chapter 2: Shichibukai Boa Hancock
The first thing students think of when they hear the word 'Marines' is absolute reign. The Marines in Grand Line Gakuen are a group of students who put the school rules as their top priority to ensure the well being of the students. Any student foolish enough to oppose the Marines has never set foot on campus to tell the tale. However for the first time, the Marines had never met such humiliation as yesterday.
Yesterday's battle between a troop of Marines and three first years had became the talk of the school. The absolute Marines were not as almighty as the students thought they were.
"Really what is this! Because of that blunder, the Marine's morale has now wavered."
"Calm down, Sengoku." An elderly woman preached to the infuriated Fleet Admiral.
"Tsuru, how can I keep calm at a time like this? The Marines are the school's protectors if the students' trust in them wavers how will this affect the morale of our officers."
"They're smart kids. If the Marines were as weak as to be dependent on the student body's support, they wouldn't be where they are now. As a teacher, you too should know how strong they are after all they are trained under our wings."
"Tsuru is right. What would our students think if they saw their teacher acting like this? Right, Garp..."
"..." No response except for the sound of rice crackers being eaten.
"Garp..." Momonga repeated.
No reply other than the munching sound of the eaten rice crackers.
"Will you just..."
"Zzzzzzz..." The old man continued to sleep at the same time eating a bag of rice crackers.
'He was sleeping!?' The whole Marine instructors were baffled at their companion's action. Although it wasn't unnatural for him to such a thing in fact it would be more surreal if he didn't. At least that explained why it was oddly quiet.
"Garp!" The Fleet Admiral yelled at his idiotic friend's ridiculous action waking him up with a knock to the head.
"Itie! Really Sengoku, I never knew you were one to hit an old man in his sleep." Garp rubbed the small bump on his head.
"If you hadn't fallen asleep there would have been no need in the first place! Give me that!" Garp's precious bag of rice crackers are forcefully take from him which were later emptied by his dear old friend.
"My rice crackers!"
Just another everyday interaction between the two close friends for the elderly Marine staff.
"Now that you are finished with your comedy routine, we would all like to continue on with our main focus."
"Tsuru's right! You shouldn't lose your cool like that." Garp advises his good friend, Sengoku.
"I don't want to hear that from you!"
As the source of his rage, the Fleet Admiral found it infuriating, but recalling Tsuru's words, he continued where he left off.
"As all of you have heard, yesterday a Marine witnessed two first years fighting. Attempting to stop the fight, the Marine was injured by both students when he was caught in between of their attacks. Thankfully, another Marine who was on patrol stumbled upon the scene and called for reinforcements. Then one of the students, Monkey D. Luffy started shouting the word 'Meat.' His intentions are unknown. According to the Marine officer, Monkey D. Luffy took all his crew with him using his devil fruit power, the Gomu Gomu no Mi, to escape and landed in classroom 1-A where Eustass Kid and Trafalgar Law along with several of their crew were residing. And as soon as they arrived, the battle was completely one sided in favor of those first years. Even the backup platoon were useless."
"Hahahahahaha!"
"Garp, this is no laughing matter! Look at the mess your grandson as caused! First, it was your son and now your grandchild! Learn to control your family!"
"Calm down, Sengoku. You are right this is no laughing matter." Tsuru slightly looks in Garp's direction. "But this isn't something our students can't handle. We have veteran officers, vice admirals, admirals, new recruits we've scouted from all over the world, and the Shichibukai."
The Shichibukai are a notorious group of troublemaking students whom not even the Marines can handle. But as long as they are allied with the Marines, they are pretty much allowed to do as they please.
"Speaking of those brats, according to a Marine report, Donflamingo has been acting strange recently. Apparently, he's holed up in Dressrosa."
"That's nothing new. None of those Shichibukai ever bother to show up for their classes. I received a report on Boa Hancock who used her womanly charms to take over half of the first year's money and valuables. She even turned my men to stone when we arrived to tell her of the summons." Had Momonga had been a hair's breath away from stabbing his own hand, he would have met the same fate as his men.
"I received a report on Dracule Mihawk. Apparently, a hundred first year years challenged him, and he singlehandedly beat all of them."
"I-"
"Don't bother. I can already guess what you're about to say." Sengoku felt a migraine coming. If he heard another report, his head might just pop.
Sengoku sighs in resignation. "This year is going to be chaotic."
A peaceful quiet morning inside the male dormitory. Since classes were temporarily suspended, the first years were given extra leisure time. Some chose to sleep in. Some chose to play around. Some chose to play pranks on each other. It was a nice quiet morning. In fact, too quiet for One Piece Gakuen's standards.
"TRAFALGUY!"
And there goes the once peaceful morning along with Law's precious reading time.
Maybe if he ignores the straw hatted boy, he'll leave him alone.
"Hey Trafalguy, you awake! Let's eat breakfast together! Can I have your meat!"
Or not. Judging from the constant pounding at his door, it looks like the straw hatted boy won't be leaving him anytime soon. Seeing as there's no other choice but to comply with the noisy straw hat gang leader, Law began to take his leave unless he wanted to get a new door.
The Heart gang were delighted to see their captain first thing in the morning along side them is the Straw Hat gang. With the Straw Hats there, it was a rather noisy breakfast. Sanji and Zoro at each other's throats. Brock playing some music but not before asking to see Nami's panties in which he received a lightning bolt in response. Usopp continuing where he left off in telling the Heart gang about his amazing adventures although they already saw through his lies after the first sentence he spoke about how he once lead a gang of 1000 men. Chopper on the other hand took Usopp's tall tales as the truth. Nami was chatting with Robin about what they should do in the meantime while classes were suspended. Franky was making blueprints on a new robot design he thought of.
Honestly, Law found their company to be pleasant. Noisy but pleasant. It wasn't everyday he would be around people other than his subordinates. Anyone else would just stay clear away from him be it other gangs or classmates. Not that it would mattered to him.
"Whe~~~w! I'm stuffed! That was so good!" Luffy pats his now fat stomach while the Heart Gang except for their leader are staring at the stacks of plates in disbelief. How could one person eat so much?
"Now that classes are on hold, what should we do?" Robin asked.
"Nap."
"Meat!"
"Wherever Nami-swan and Robin-chwan want to go!"
"I want to go shopping."
"I want to eat cotton candy!"
"Why don't we-" Before Robin could finish her sentence, the Heart and Straw Hat Gangs received some unexpected guests.
"Monkey D. Luffy and Trafalgar Law, you are both to be taken in for punishment. Do not think you can get away scot-free."
No surprise considering the damage they did the previous day. But how were they going to get out of this? Now that the Marines are after them, both of their school lives won't be very peaceful. The Heart Gang began to worry about their captain. They didn't want him to get expelled on the second day of school.
"I suggest you quietly follow us and just maybe your punishment will be lightened." The Marines officer arrogantly remarks with his head up high.
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"I see that you're petrified with fear. It's only natural after all you delinquents are nothing but trash before their superior."
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"Will you just...?!" The Marine was stupefied to see that Luffy was eating and what's more in his sleep too. Who eats in their sleep? Actually didn't he just finish eating a ton of food?
"Wake up, you idiot!" Nami bonks Luffy straight in the head.
It was practically an everyday thing for the Straw Hats. Their captain would do something stupid and someone would knock some sense into him. Although not everyone shared the same view as they did. The Marines were at amiss at what to do. People don't just normally eat in their sleep.
"Hm." The now woken Straw Hat captain looked around to grasp the situation as to why there were so many Marines around them. "Who are you?"
The Marines face fault at the Straw Hat boy's obliviousness. A troop of Marines are surrounding his table and he has yet to comprehend the danger he is in?
"We're Marines?!"
"Eh?! But this is a school?!"
"Not that marine! We're this school's protectors, the Marines!"
"This school has protectors?"
"That's right. Now quietly-"
"That's amazing so you guys are superheroes!" Luffy's eyes glint in amazement.
"Well, superhero is going a bit far." The Marines officer sheepishly grins while scratching his head in embarrassment. It wasn't often someone calls him a superhero.
"We're more like messengers of justice." The Marine strikes a cool pose trying to look cool in front the delinquents before him.
"Amazing!" Both Luffy and Chopper shout with glinting eyes.
"Don't praise the enemy!" Usopp shouts at the two naive fools.
Like Usopp said, the delinquent shouldn't be complimenting him. The Marine officer had regained his composure when he realized this and continued back to his duties.
"Monkey D. Luffy and Trafalgar Law, you are both summoned for the destruction of over three classrooms and part of the school grounds as well as injuring over a hundred Marine officers."
"We did?" Luffy tilts his head to the side having no recollection of such a thing.
"You just did that yesterday?!" Shouted by both the Marines and the Straw Hat gang. There should be a limit to forgetfulness no scratch that stupidity. Life was not easy for the Straw Hats having to deal with their captain's idiocy on a daily routine.
"Enough, stalling Monkey D. Luffy! The longer you stall the more severe your punishment will become!"
"Punishment? What punishment?"
"Your punishment for the damage you did yesterday?!" Were his words even getting through to that thickheaded delinquent? How can someone be so dense!
"Punishment like expulsion?" Luffy asked.
"Similar to that but not as far th-"
"Whaaaaaat! We're going to be expelled!"
"Not necess-"
Unfortunately for the Marine officer, Luffy was never a good listener. Luffy bolts out the cafeteria in hopes of escaping expulsion. And sadly for him, Law ended being dragged in by the Straw Hat's stupidity when said Straw Hat delinquent used his long rubber arm like rope to get the Heart delinquent.
"Mugiwara, give us back our Captain!" Law's friends except for Jean Bart yelled at the straw hatted boy for kidnapping their precious leader. However their effort were futile as the Straw Hat delinquent had made off with their leader.
It was only a few moments later that the Marine officer came back to reality.
"What are you waiting for go get them!" He ordered his soldiers to search for the two. Hopefully, things will end well.
"Mugiwara, unhand me!" Law didn't appreciate being dragged by Luffy into some unknown part of the campus. Fortunately, it looked like there were no Marines around.
Listening to Law's order more like request to Luffy, he released Law from his rubber arm.
"Hey Trafalguy..."
Law was a bit taken back by the sudden seriousness in Luffy's tone. It was rare for the Straw Hat to show such seriousness as he is infamous for his stupidity. Whatever he has to say must be serious.
"Why are we being expelled?" And with that all that tension in the atmosphere left along with Law's good faith in him. Even after all that, he still hasn't got it?
After a long explanation, Law managed to get through to the thickheaded Straw Hat. It took him several tries for Luffy to start getting a grasp of their current situation. Now that Luffy was informed of his current predicament, Law was curious as to what the Straw Hat's response would be.
"Now Mugiwara-ya-"
"Meat!" Apparently, Luffy had other things on his mind forgetting about his surroundings completely focused on the delicious scent of meat leaving a shocked Law behind.
Following the smell of meat in the air, Luffy headed towards a building completely focused on the delicious scent. Just imagining the delicious meat made Luffy's mouth water. In the middle of Luffy's fantasy, he accidentally bumps into a girl.
"Kya!"
"Ah, gomen. Are you alright?" Luffy offers his hand to the short blond haired girl with a green snake wrapped around her waist.
"Th... Thank you...!" It wasn't until she just realized what was going on that she used her snake as a bow ready to shoot at Luffy. "Who are you and what are you doing here!"
"I'm Luffy and I'm here to find the delicious meat here." Luffy answered casually without any sense of danger despite the fact that a girl is about to release an arrow at him.
"Don't lie! What kind of excuse is that! All men are forbidden from entering Amazon Lily's territory."
"What's this Amazon Lily? Aren't we in Grand Line Gakuen?"
"You don't know that in this school there is a large number of delinquents that make up the student body so fights for territorial rights isn't uncommon. However it is because of this that it makes it hard for the regular students who want to live a normal school to get any peace and quiet without having to end up being dragged in some stupid fight over who is stronger. So this school is divided in numerous territories under various delinquents. And one of them is Amazon Lily that is protected by one of the Shichibukai, Boa Hancock."
"Shichibukai?"
"You really don't know anything. I take it you must have been from a different school before enrolling in here. Then that I guess that explains why you're here. Shichibukai are delinquents that engage into fights and mug other students like regular delinquents. However unlike other delinquents, they are allowed to do so because they work with the Marines. Another privilege they have is that they are allowed to expel other students. And our leader, Boa Hancock, is one of them."
"Is she strong?" Luffy imagines this Boa Hancock as a big muscular woman like those female bodybuilders.
"What a silly question. Of course, she is. If not for her, Amazon Lily would be targeted by many gangs. Not even the bravest man would dare to step foot here."
"Do you know where I can find some meat?"
"Oh, just go straight ahead, then turn...δΈ€ Forget about the meat! Listen if a man is found on Amazon Lily, then he is immediately expelled from this school."
"What!" Hearing that Luffy makes a brake for it before he gets discovered but not before he stops for a moment. "Oh yeah, thanks for your help and sorry for bumping into you! I'll see you on campus when I make it out of here."
Luffy waves goodbye to his new friend as he departs.
Once Luffy is out of sight, the girl starts to giggle at the strange man. Shortly after one of her friends calls her out.
"What's wrong, Margaret?"
In hopes of escaping expulsion, Luffy ends up another situation where can get expelled. It seems that Luffy isn't having much luck at his new school.
"Where's the exit?" A currently lost Luffy started searching for a way out of Amazon Lily however with no luck. Maybe a higher range would give him a better view without even thinking if someone saw him. Luffy uses his Gomu Gomu powers to stretch his arms far enough to grab onto a tree which he successfully accomplishes but ends up accidentally using up too much strength and instead is catapulted.
Meanwhile in search for the Straw Hat boy, Law hopes that he can find him before the Marines do. Really that child has absolutely no common sense. As strong as he may be, Law can't seem to shake off this back feeling. The way Luffy is it can only spell disaster.
Law remembers to make sure to steer clear from Amazon Lily's territory only a fool would dare to walk into that land.
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He couldn't have... Could he?
Law wouldn't put it past the Straw Hat boy to do such a thing. But this is Amazon Lily where all men are forbidden from entering, even if he somehow ended up there, there would have been an uproar about it already. No matter where he goes he is bound to cause some sort of trouble. Now the bigger issue is where to start looking for the Straw Hat.
"Buhoo, it's water! Hot, hot, hot! I'm dying! I'm drowning! Help..." Strangely enough, Luffy felt something odd about the water. "Ah! I can stand! Huh, this is a bath house?"
"A man?!" The long raven haired woman was surprised by Luffy sudden appearance from the ceiling.
"That thing on your back. I think I've seen it." Luffy points at the woman's back forgetting that he has just broken into a woman's bath.
"You saw it..." The woman on the other hand did not look pleased to see a man. Having her back already seen, she became more displeased.