Gura Gura Luffy chapter 4 : Baratie.
Lighningblad49 : that was a slight overlooking but I put their delayed rection in this chapter.
bzbegoun : It isn't a kindergarten they are still pirates. She is just there to keep things level headed and keep the crew from fighting against each other they will still chase treasure and be chased by marines.
f-ckthesystem125 : Thanks but as in my other story the pairing will only be in effect post time skip so until then I officially don't know.
Beta read by coduss
I don't own One Piece if I did Blackbeard wouldn't be so overpowered.
"Talking"
'thinking'
flashback
Technique
Previously
Usopp then came rolling down the road to join the crew he prepared himself to have to argue against Kaya, but what happened left him as surprised as everyone else, except Luffy, who somehow expected it.
"No, you won't have to come back here to see me. I'm coming with you!" said Kaya.
Now
The whole attendance was rendered speechless by Kaya's words. A long moment passed without anybody speaking.
"What? Is it that funny that I want to go with Usopp-kun on his adventures? Besides, staying in the mansion doesn't help since I am reminded of my parents in every room. I need to change housing, so I thought why not leave with Usopp-kun and his friends? Since they took care of Kuro with relative ease they should be able to protect me." said Kaya.
"But what about your medicine studies?" asked a Merry who didn't want his Ojousama to leave.
"I am sure that during their adventures they will find a good doctor able to tutor me in my studies besides I need practical experience, don't I?" asked Kaya.
"Shishishishishi!" laughed Luffy.
"Why are you laughing like that? It's serious! Kaya could be hurt, or worse! Besides, even if you could take down several men at once, you still have to explain that one by the way, I didn't think much about it during the fight because I was worried about Kaya and the town but HOW THE HELL DID YOU DO THAT!?" yelled Usopp having a very delayed reaction to Luffy's Gura Gura powers.
"He is right even if he should be quieter about it HOW THE HELL DID YOU DO THAT!?" asked Nami yelling as loud as Usopp.
'That's the pot calling the kettle black' thought everyone except Nami.
"I used my Akuma no mi powers. They allow me to create strong vibrations on almost every surface allowing me to create airquake, seaquake and earthquake, but in exchange I lost my ability to swim." explained Luffy.
"Ah, so you are a freakishly strong monster that can't swim." said Nami and Usopp.
'Yeah right…' thought Luffy, Zoro and Makino.
"But let's return to the subject. Kaya can't join us, it is too dangerous!" firmly said Usopp.
"If your girlfriend wants to come, she can come, especially if she can treat wounds because I have a feeling we are gonna need someone able to heal wounds in the near future." said Zoro, causing both Kaya and Usopp to blush at the girlfriend comment.
"That's right, look at him. You would think that being injured is his normal state." said Makino, teasing Zoro.
"Don't say that!" roared the swordsman causing the current Straw Hats to laugh.
Merry, Kaya and Usopp were still arguing about whether or not Kaya could join the Straw Hats, at first Merry and Usopp were both against the mere idea of letting Kaya leave the town, but seeing the happiness showed by his Ojousama when Usopp spoke about adventure or some silly story, Merry realized he couldn't hold her back from finding happiness even if it meant to leave town and be a pirate. .
"If nothing I say will change your mind Ojousama, then by all means leave town but you must promise to give me news about your wellbeing by taking a den den mushi in the ship and calling me regularly." said the butler.
"Thank you Merry! I'll leave you with a good portion of my fortune that should be more than enough for you to live until I get back." said Kaya before hugging her butler goodbye, having discreetly put her things inside the ship the previous night.
Usopp, knowing that nothing he could say could make Kaya stay on the island, sighed and then began to see the good things about Kaya actually joining the crew. She was, before her parents death, a good student. Always at the first place in every test and exam, she also had a gift with plants allowing her to make plant-based miracle medicines. Besides, he could impress her by being a true hero and showing her his sniper skills.
After gaining three more crewmembers on these islands, The Straw Hat Pirates sailed towards another adventure.
Since the ship already had a name, Luffy then tried to draw the Jolly Roger but, sadly, drawing wasn't amongst his talents, so the result was quite frightful, to save the eyes of the crew, Usopp drew the Jolly Roger: a classic Skull and Bone but with Luffy's scar and his straw hat.
After that event Makino, Kaya and Nami enforced a crisis meeting in regards of the need to have a cook in the ship.
"We Need a Cook!" said the three women.
"Ok, but I don't know where to find one." said the poor Luffy who had to face three angry women.
"Try a restaurant." said Zoro.
It was then decided that the next member to join would be a chef. After a while Luffy and Usopp decided to test the Going Merry's front canon, and once again Luffy proved that he wasn't mean to be a sharpshooter and once again Usopp proved that he was to be the sniper of the crew by hitting the rock they were aiming for in one try. This of course impressed Kaya, who didn't know Usopp could shoot like that.
After the demonstration everyone went inside, except Zoro who was asleep somewhere on the ship. Luffy tried to learn how to draw, Nami was counting her money, Makino was reading a book and Usopp was telling Kaya about his slingshot Ginga Pachinko, when a voice coming from outside the ship was heard.
"Come out cowards! You'll pay for almost killing my buddy!" roared a sunglasses wearing man.
The noise managed to wake Zoro up who then went on the bridge to see what it was about.
"Is that you Johnny? Where's Yosaku?" asked Zoro.
"Aniki? Yosaku is very hurt, I don't know what he has but he suddenly collapsed on our last job, so I took him near a rock to think about what to do when some idiot decided to shoot us with cannonballs!" said Johnny.
"Shit!" yelled Zoro worried for his old buddies.
"What are his symptoms?" asked the three women.
"He lost some teeth, his skin turned grey, he also lost blood." replied Johnny.
"It's okay, it's just scurvy." said Makino.
"Bring him here we will heal him." said Nami.
"Luffy, Usopp, go bring some fresh lime fruits here." said Kaya.
"Aye Nurse!" saluted the two boys before doing as she asked.
The boys then came back with limes, and Kaya fed the juice to Yosaku allowing him to recover.
"You see now why we need a cook for this crew, don't you Luffy?" asked Nami.
"You are looking for a cook? Well, we know of a place nearby where you could find one. It is a sea restaurant called the Baratie." said Johnny wanting to help the ones that saved Yosaku's life.
So the crew decided to sail to the Baratie in order to look for a chef, as promised by Johnny two days later the going Merry reached the Baratie, a really big ship shaped like a fish who anchored near the Grandline. As they docked, they realize that they were next to a marine ship, whose lieutenant was entertaining a pretty lady.
"Who are you? I don't recognize your Jolly Roger?" rudely asked the lieutenant, which pissed Makino who thought that no matter what you are you should always have good manner.
"How rude…" said the bartender.
"We made our flag a couple of days ago, so what are you gonna do about it?" asked Luffy while raising a single eyebrow.
"Nothing, be glad that I, Marine lieutenant ''Iron Fist'' Fullbody, have better things to do than take care of weak pirates." said Fullbody wanting to impress his lady friend, before noticing Johnny and Yosaku.
"Oh it's you two, what are you doing here? Were you beaten by those no name pirate, tch, what weaklings you are." insulted Fullbody.
"We'll show you weak!" roared the two bounty hunters before leaping at Fullbody, who promptly beat them with his iron knuckles before entering the restaurant with his lady friend.
A bunch of wanted poster fell from Johnny's pocket on to the Going Merry's bridge. Almost nobody noticed Nami going to pick up one of them and freeze in shock, dread, and fear before returning to normal.
"Man, you are really weak." said Luffy looking the beaten up bodies of Johnny and Yosaku "You should ask Zoro for training."
"He just caught us of guard." said Yosaku defending himself. "Besides I am not back to my full capacity."
"Those are excuses." said Luffy.
However Usopp noticed that the Marine ship was about to fire at them.
"Whoa Danger!" yelled the sharpshooter but the marine ship had already fired a cannonball causing everyone except Luffy and Zoro to pray. Luffy, reacting fast, went on the cannonball's path and deflected it, saving the ship causing everyone to gap at him in surprise.
"What?" said Luffy looking at every one shocked look.
"HOW THE HELL DID YOU DO THAT?!" asked every one.
"YOU DIDN'T USE YOUR POWER HOW WAS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE,!" asked the Straw Hat pirates
"My grandfather used to throw cannonballs at me, and believe me when I say that my grandfather can throw cannonballs faster and stronger with his bare hands than the cannon they just fired, so it was no big deal." replied Luffy.
"NO BIG DEAL?!" yelled every one.
"We should have known that the grandfather of a monster is a monster." complained Nami.
However, what everyone missed due to Luffy showing off was that the cannonball Luffy deflected hit the Baratie.
In the restaurant, Fullbody and his date were sitting at a table, when Fullbody tried to impress his date by identifying the wine that had just been served. He tried to have the waiter to agree with his guess only for the waiter to say that Fullbody was wrong.
"What?! I'm wrong?! Why, I ordered that wine!" said Fullbody.
"Yes, but I changed your orders because your poor choice of wine wasn't compatible with your choice of dishes so I had to change it for your Lady friend's sense of taste." said the waiter somehow able to in the same sentence trash Fullbody, while praising his date.
Fullbody wasn't going to let that waiter get the better of him, so he put a fly in his soup.
"Waiter! I want to speak to the chef, Why is there a fly in my soup?" asked Fullbody.
"Maybe the fly is enjoying the taste of the soup." replied the waiter causing the whole room to laugh at Fullbody.
At that moment the whole Straw Hat crew plus Johnny and Yosaku entered the restaurant to eat and recruit a cook. Fullbody get up and threw the table away.
"Nobody disrespects ''Iron Fist'' Fullbody, and certainly not a pitiful waiter like you!" yelled the enraged man.
"The fool wasted food…" "Sanji will kick his ass." came from the cooks that were watching the scene from the stairs leading to the kitchen.
Fullbody then tried to punch Sanji, but the cook dodged and using quick footwork was able to hit the marine lieutenant, he then held him by the throat.
"Nobody wastes food on the sea, do you hear me? And trying to hit a cook from the sea is suicide." said Sanji.
A cook then came down the stairs.
"Who shot a cannonball at us?!" said the cook.
"Patty, what happened?" asked Sanji.
"The head chef was buried under the remains of the roof, he's fine but the one who shot the cannonball at us won't be." said Patty cracking his knuckles.
"Ho, I know who did that." said Luffy.
"Really." asked Patty.
"Yes it was the marine ship that shot a cannon at our ship, trying to sink us but they missed and hit you instead." lied Usopp, thinking that Luffy was going to say he did it.
"Is that so?" asked Sanji who hadn't buy the lie 'There is no way a marine ship would miss a target.' However, when the three Ladies all confirmed Usopp's story, Sanji was instantly convinced of the marine's guilt. He then went to hit him some more for daring to hurt his boss.
A shot was then heard coming from the outside of the restaurant, and entered a man looking hurt and famished who sat at a table, he seemed to be holding a smoking gun causing the ordinary customer to scream in fright. The cook named Patty went to see him.
"Hello customer, do you have any money?" asked politely Patty.
"Do you take lead?" asked the guy pointing his gun on Patty, who promptly beat him and threw him out to the cheers of the customers.
Outside the restaurant.
The man was sitting down on the planks that made the outside bridge of the huge ship, when Sanji came out with a freshly made dish.
"Thank you…but why?" asked the man as he ate his fill.
"I have known hunger, and I vowed that I would keep anyone from feeling the same, so that means I feed you." said Sanji.
"I like you. That's settled you're now my new crewmember." said Luffy from behind Sanji.
"What? who are you?" asked Sanji and the man.
"Monkey D Luffy, the one who will be the pirate king." said Luffy.
"Hahahaha! You got spirit I give you this, the name is Gin. But I warn you, don't go to the Grandline. You'll only find death there. My captain's whole fleet was almost entirely destroyed by two men only a week after entering there." said Gin.
"Shishishi! Your captain must be weak." said Luffy.
"My captain is Don Krieg, the strongest man in the World!" exclaimed Gin shocking Sanji.
"No, the strongest man in the World isn't your captain since his fleet was destroyed by two men. That means those men are stronger than he is, or he wouldn't have let them destroy his fleet in the first place." replied Luffy.
"…I give up." said Gin.
"So Sanji, now that you know who I am, Join my crew!" said Luffy.
"I refuse, I need to stay here." said Sanji.
"No I refuse." replied Luffy.
"What?"
"I refuse your refusal."
"What the hell?" roared Sanji.
"I must return to my captain now, so goodbye and thank you for the food Sanji." said Gin as he sailed away on a raft.
"Sanji, Back to work!" roared a voice from inside the restaurant.
"Coming! Shitty geezer…" said Sanji as he returned inside.
The day after.
The Straw Hats were waiting for Luffy to convince Sanji to come with them, but Sanji was adamant he would stay in the Baratie, so while Luffy tried to think of a way to get Sanji to leave with them the others took the most of the Baratie : great food.
Sanji was very pleased to have very beautiful ladies in his restaurant, so he took the job of serving the Straw Hats table even if that made him able to hear Luffy's incessant demands. The ladies all reacted differently, Nami took advantage of Sanji's weakness by having him serving her dishes for free, Makino was very pleased to have a young man charmed by her looks but, unlike her younger friend, she didn't take advantage of the waiter's weakness, and Kaya didn't care as she was listening to Usopp's stories.
Zoro, feeling generous, tried to warn his fellow male that his charms weren't affecting the three women.
"Listen curly eyebrows, what you are doing will fail, because Kaya only has eyes for long nose, Nami is a witch and only has feeling for money, and Makino is much too old for you." said Zoro patting Sanji's shoulder in pity. Sadly Zoro didn't notice the Killing Intent sent his way by Nami and Makino, who didn't appreciate his comments.
"Too old am I!" said Makino with a tick on her face.
"A Witch, with feeling only for money, eh?" said Nami gritting her teeth.
Then both women proceeded to teach Zoro that saying bad things about women who are within earshot is a very bad idea which could only send him to an early grave.
"You see Nami, this is the way you teach a male to behave." said Makino to Nami while hitting Zoro on the head.
"I understand Makino-sensei, teach me more." said Nami while also hitting Zoro on the head.
"That will teach you marimo, you shouldn't treat a lady like this. Go Nami-chwan Makino-swan!" said Sanji while he cheered Nami and Makino.
The day after, Luffy was still trying to get Sanji to accept his proposition with Zoro, Usopp, Makino and Kaya watching him while the rest of the crew was in the ship resting and quite bored of watching Luffy and Sanji's little game. Suddenly a very battered galleon bearing Don Krieg's Jolly Roger sailed to the Baratie, and Gin holding a very hungry man entered the restaurant.
"Please give him food, he needs to eat or he will die, I have money this time!" pleaded Gin.
"No we won't feed that monster so he could kill us all." said Patty.
"Please! I promise to leave once I eat…" pleaded Krieg.
"Why should we trust your word pirate?" said Carne, another cook.
But before the cooks could do anything Sanji had already given Krieg food.
"What the hell did you do Sanji? Now he will kill us all!" yelled Patty and true to his word Krieg hit Sanji once he had finished to eat.
"Captain! why did you do it?" asked a shocked Gin.
"I like this ship, I will take it." said Krieg, causing the customers to, flee the ship.
"But captain, you promised not to hurt anybody on the ship." said Gin.
"Yes Gin, but you see the old ship is barely functional, so I will take this one which is in perfect condition, but first you are going to prepare food for all of my men who are outside starving." ordered Krieg.
Sanji was about to agree to feed Krieg's men when all the cooks drew their weapon on him. Patty hit him and shot a cannonball at Krieg, but Krieg was perfectly fine and revealed the armor he wore beneath his coat.
"You see?! Because of this I am the strongest man in the world and all who dare to go against me must die!" roared Krieg but before he could kill the cook, the head chef appeared with food for a hundred men.
"Here's your food, take it and leave." said the head chef.
"No! You can't give the food to that monster!" said the cooks.
"Monster? Him and his men are just Grandline dropouts, not monsters." said the head chef.
"You are "Red Leg" Zeff, aren't you?" asked Krieg.
"What of it?" replied Zeff.
"You were once a powerful pirate captain who went to the Grandline and survived there to make it back. You must have kept your navigation log, so that means I have ever more reason to take this ship. I won't leave until my men are all fed, so make your decision. Fight or flight?" said Krieg before leaving to feed his crew.
"We must protect the Baratie!" yelled the cooks getting ready for a fight.
"I am sorry about my captain, but ever since we interrupted a fight between a red haired man and a man with hawk eyes and they obliterated our whole fleet, the captain hasn't been the same." said Gin causing Zoro to grin.
"Oi Captain, we're going there right?" asked Zoro.
"Yeah, to become the Pirate King we need to conquer the Grandline, so of course we'll go there as soon as Sanji agrees to come with us." replied Luffy.
"Then cook, you better agree to come fast." said Zoro.
"Shut up Marimo." yelled Sanji.
Suddenly a great tearing noise was heard from the outside, all of them went to see what that was only to watch Krieg's galleon fall apart. Worried about the Merry, the pirates rushed to where they anchored only to find Johnny and Yosaku in the sea and the Merry gone.
"Johnny, Yosaku what happened?" asked Luffy.
"It's Nami-aneki, she profited of the fact that we were distracted to push us over board and steal the ship." said Yosaku.
"She must not have gone too far you guys go after her, while I stay here to convince that cook and once you have found where she went, one of you will pick us up and we will take Nami back."
"Yes but Zoro went to see the guy with the big black sword." said Usopp causing Makino and Luffy to still.
"The fool! He isn't ready to face him yet!" yelled the two of them.
"What?" asked the rest of the Straw Hats while Johnny and Yosaku went to look for a raft big enough to house all of them.
"The man with that blade is Dracule Mihawk, the strongest swordsman in the world, and Zoro wants to defeat him, but he is nowhere near that level, so he will most likely lose if not outright die." explained Makino ignoring Luffy's roar of "He isn't allowed to die!"
"Kaya, you better be ready to patch him up, and I think that you should prepare some painkillers." said Makino before they went to see Zoro's foolish battle.
With Zoro on a piece of destroyed ship.
'I never thought to meet him so soon, it must be fate.'
"I've never seen such graceful skill." said Zoro.
"A sword with power alone is weak." replied Mihawk
"So that ship was cut apart with that sword too?" asked Zoro.
"Of course." replied Mihawk.
"You are the reason I sailed on the seas." said Zoro looking at a sitting Mihawk.
"For what reason?" asked Mihawk as several Don Krieg's pirate surrounded them.
"To challenge you to a duel!" said Zoro as he drew his sword, shocking the Don Krieg's pirate, Mihawk's expression couldn't be seen as his hat shadowed his eyes.
"A duel." said Mihawk with a bland tune "Such a pathetic weakling." as he looked at Zoro with disdain before jumping from his coffin raft to where Zoro stood.
"If you were a decent swordsman you would have seen that I am much stronger than you and not drawn your sword. Challenging me... Are you that brave or simply stupid?" asked the curious swordsman.
"This is for my own ambition, and for a promise to a fallen friend!" stated Zoro as he drew his three swords.
"Fine I accept your challenge but unfortunately I have nothing smaller than this." said Mihawk as he drew a small knife from his necklace.
"Stop mocking me! Don't regret it when you die!" roared the angered swordsman as he rushed his opponent.
"You have yet to experience the real word." stated Mihawk.
"Oni Giri!" said Zoro as he drew close his opponent, but the move that felled many opponents was countered effortlessly by Mihawk, shocking everyone.
"What!" yelled a shocked Zoro as he saw his three swords held back by a single pocket knife.
'I can't move, what happened?' thought a sweating Zoro as Mihawk looked impassive. 'His strength couldn't be that far ahead of mine.'
"The world shouldn't be this far off!" yelled Zoro as he tried to cut his opponent once more, but Mihawk calmly deflected all Zoro's blows with his small knife.
But Zoro pressed on and as Mihawk was back to the safety barrier, he thought he had him but the strongest swordsman in the world calmly jumped over Zoro and watched him cut the safety barrier.
"Such unrestrained skill." commented Mihawk as he stalled Zoro's sword with his knife.
"Just with that thing he is able to take on Zoro's three swords! That's a monster amongst monsters!" yelled a pirate watching the two fight.
As the fight went on Zoro slowly began to lose it as he felt insulted that his opponent didn't dare to use his sword against him, this caused him to make a mistake and loose his footing and receive a blow to the neck.
"Why are you trying to be the strongest, weakling?" asked Mihawk, causing the Straw Hats that came to watch to get angry.
"Aniki's a weakling you say? Bastards!" roared Yosaku ready to fight Mihawk himself along with Johnny, however both were stopped by Luffy.
"Don't interfere! This is Zoro's fight It is his pride that you would damage if you interfere." said Luffy as he seemed to struggle with the idea of kicking Mihawk's ass himself which was noticed by his friends and Mihawk himself.
"I can't afford to lose!" panted Zoro dizzy since his neck was hit by Mihawk's hand.
"Tora Gari!" said Zoro however before the move was even launched Mihawk's knife pierced Zoro over his heart but not deep enough to kill him showing a great amount of skill.
"Do you wish to have this go through your heart? Why don't you step back?" asked a curious Mihawk as Zoro didn't move.
"I don't know. I'm not sure why myself. But if I were to take one step back, I believe that all those important oaths, promises and many others dealt till now, will all go to waste and I'll never be able to return before you ever again." said Zoro as blood began to fall from his mouth.
"Yes, and that's called loosing" said Mihawk.
"That's why I can't step back." laughed Zoro.
"Even if it means death?"
"Death may be better" said Zoro grinning despite his wound.
'What a strong will, preferring death over defeat' thought Mihawk impressed by his opponent's will.
"Kid, announce your name!" ordered Mihawk as he stepped back.
"Roronoa Zoro!" stated Zoro as he prepared his greatest technique by putting two of his sword before him and one in a reverse grip at a weird angle.
"I'll remember that. It's been a while since I saw such a will. As a reward, a gesture to a fellow swordsman, I will wield my Kokuto Yoru the most powerful sword in the world to end your life." stated Mihawk as he drew his blade acknowledging Zoro as a worthy opponent.
"I appreciate your offer." said Zoro.
The Straw Hats struggled not to intervene as they feared for Zoro's life.
"Santoryu ougi : Sanzei sekkai!" said Zoro as his most powerful technique met the world strongest slash.
There was no contest as two of Zoro's sword fell into pieces as Mihawk turned to kill him of Zoro turned too to met him face to face.
"What now?" asked Mihawk.
"A wound in the back is a swordsman greatest shame." stated Zoro.
"Well said." said Mihawk impressed before he cut Zoro diagonally across the chest almost cutting him in two and sending him into the ocean.
"Zoro!" yelled the Straw Hats, thinking him to be dead.
'Why that guy and his stupid idea's'
"When I decided to become the greatest swordsman in the world, I had already discarded my life."
Why didn't he give up it was obvious he was gonna loose' thought Sanji thinking back to what Zoro said to him.
Free of having to hold back to preserve his first mate's pride Luffy, showing tremendous leg strength, jumped over 20 meters of ocean to get to Mihawk, without run-up.
"You are his friend? You showed great restraint back there I commend you for that. Don't worry, I didn't kill him." stated Mihawk while dodging all of Luffy's punches, which stopped Luffy's will to fight.
"What is your goal?" asked a curious Mihawk.
"To be the Pirate King." replied Luffy.
"That is much more difficult than surpassing me, you make a good pair." stated Mihawk.
"Luffy, do you hear me? I promise you that from now on I won't lose to any swordsman until I am the best." vowed a barely conscious Zoro held by Sanji who dived to keep him from drowning.
"Roronoa Zoro, my name is Dracule ''Hawk eyes'' Mihawk, live to see another day and when you are ready come and challenge me again. I'll be waiting!" roared Mihawk as he jumped back to his coffin like raft and sailed away.
Usopp then took charge of Zoro and he along with the rest of the crew pus Johnny and Yosaku sailed away to follow Nami, while Luffy stayed here to beat don Krieg and convince Sanji to join.
After the Straw Hats left, the battle between the Baratie and Don Krieg finally began as the fish head of the Baratie detached itself showing it was a mini ship. However Don Krieg, showing his strength, picks it up and throws it at the cooks only for Sanji to kick it away.
As the battle between the pirates and the Baratie cooks was continuing, with a slight advantage to the pirates because, while the cooks fended of pirates attack before, the Krieg Pirates are much stronger than the average ones. Proof of that came up when a tall man wearing a pearl an steel armor defeated their strongest fighters with one blow.
"I am Pearl, the strongest fighter of Don Krieg! I never once bled in my life." stated Pearl.
As Luffy was watching Sanji defeat the pirate with his kick only fighting style, Krieg kicked him away taking advantage of Luffy's distraction, however that wasn't for the best as Luffy collided with the back of Pearl's head and smashed it against the floor causing Pearl's nose to bleed.
"What is that stuff? Blood?! My Blood?!" yelled Pearl freaking out.
"Now Pearl, calm down and don't do that." said the Krieg Pirates as they watched their strongest fighter lose it at the sight of his own blood.
However, Pearl didn't listen to them as he simply hit his pearls together causing his armor to lit up on fire.
"Fire Pearl!" screamed the crazy Pearl. He then proceeded to lit up the little arena in front of the Baratie's door on fire causing all of the fighters to back down except Sanji.
"Idiot, I'm a cook. Do you think I 'm afraid of fire?" asked Sanji before kicking Pearl making him loose more blood.
Krieg, not wanting to get the boat more damaged, tried to kill both fighters by launching his big knob towards them, but Luffy sent it back to him showing that his arms were strong too. The knob broke the mast and it fell on Pearl's head which knocked him out.
However Gin, who was inside since the beginning, got behind Zeff and broke his peg leg and held him hostage. his life or the ship. However to Sanji it was all the same. Since the restaurant was Zeff's treasure they couldn't hand it to Krieg, but they couldn't fight back either since doing so would make Gin kill Zeff.
Pearl, who woke up, took advantage of the situation and punched Sanji sending him flying to the wall. Pearl proceeded to mock Sanji saying that a ship couldn't be a treasure and that he was a fool for believing that. Something that deeply angered Luffy.
"Pearl close!" said Pearl as he punched both Sanji's temples at once.
Seeing this sent Luffy over the edge he punched the floor causing the arena to be destroyed angering Krieg and Sanji.
"How dare you destroy my ship!" roared Krieg.
"Why did you do this?" asked an irate Sanji.
"If you don't want it to fall into Krieg's hand and you can't fight for it then it is better destroyed." stated Luffy, making Zeff smirk.
"Gin, kill the old man now!" roared Krieg.
"But If I do that they'll fight back." stammered Gin not wanting to kill the old man who fed his crewmates.
"Take care of that. I'll take care of both of them." said Luffy while pointing at Krieg and Pearl.
"With pleasure." replied Sanji as he jumped at Gin to kick his head, forced to let the old man go to defend himself. Gin drew his tonfa and countered Sanji's kick.
Luffy, for his part calmly, walked to Pearl. But that was just a front to hide his fury.
"Gura no Danmaku!" roared Luffy as he launched a flurry of high-speed Gura coated fists at Pearl which not only totally destroyed Pearl's armor but also almost every bones in his body were reduced to dust after this onslaught.
"What the hell?!" yelled the pirates and the cooks at seeing the powerful fighter get trashed that easily.
"You ate a devil fruit, didn't you boy?" asked Krieg.
"Maybe, I don't have to tell you weakling." shot back Luffy shocking the Krieg pirates
"Why did you call me boy?!" asked an angered Krieg.
"Not only are you pathetically weak, but you are also deaf." stated Luffy.
"DIIIEEEEE!" roared Krieg loosing it, and shooting his knob at Luffy stopped it with one hand and crushed it with his powers.
With Sanji and Gin.
"Since you are eager to die, I will be the one to kill you." said Gin hoping that Sanji would simply give up.
"Fine with me, but don't expect me to let you kill me that easily" replied the cook, before both warriors rushed each other.
Foot met Tonfa in a fury of blows, and were equally strong. It was the same every time, Sanji and Gin were about the same level of strength but sadly, Sanji was still suffering from Pearls previous punches and Gin was able to pin him down. But he was unable to kill Sanji as Sanji saved his life once.
"I can't do it." stated Gin
"Then don't. But I think your captain will lose." stated Sanji as he watched Krieg get the beating of his life.
A few minutes earlier after Luffy destroyed Krieg's knob.
Krieg did not want to admit that Luffy scared him as he destroyed one of his most powerful weapon as if it was made of glass. Not thinking clearly, he prepared his most powerful weapon, the Giant Battle Spear by combining both shoulder plates of his armor. Once he was ready, his crew cheered him as they thought that Luffy would be dealt with soon.
"So that is your most powerful weapon, I will enjoy breaking it." said Luffy, before having to dodge the spear, however he was caught by the blast that resulted from the impact with the ground.
"Is that it? You rely on tricks. Without them you are nothing. Let me show you true strength." said Luffy greatly disappointed by the one who called himself the strongest.
Luffy then grabbed Krieg's spear and broke it to the shock of every Krieg Pirate, he then proceeded to severely beat Krieg, but still not finishing off.
"Gura no Danmaku!" said Luffy once Krieg got up from his previous beating. Krieg's armor was obliterated by Luffy's powers and, like with Pearl, almost every bone in his body was reduced to dust.
Luffy then picked up the battered bodies of Krieg and Pearl and threw them before the Krieg's Pirate.
"They are both alive but they won't be for long, now LEAVE!" roared Luffy as the pirates picked up their wounded members and fled.
After the pirates fled and the wounds were healed, Luffy once more tried to add Sanji to his crew, and as Sanji was about to say no for the last time Zeff and the Baratie cooks interceded.
"Sanji it's time for you to leave to realize your dreams. You are already as good as I am in the kitchen, so go with the brat and find the All Blue, for you and for me." said Zeff.
"Shitty geezer…you all..." started Sanji with tears in his eyes.
"Yes, you should leave. Besides, maybe we will have more clients when you aren't here to throw them out." said Patty with all the cooks agreeing.
"Ok then. I'll go with him and find the All Blue, for you s*** geezer." cried Sanji.
"Go you damm brat." said Zeff with tears in the eyes too.
As Sanji went to get his things, and Luffy asked for some food for the trip, Yosaku came to the Baratie dead tired claiming that they found where Nami was, but that they needed Luffy's strength to deal with this.
"Where did she go?" asked Luffy.
"Not very far from here to a place known as Arlong Park, which is on Conomi Islands." said Yosaku.
"So that's where we're going." stated Luffy as Sanji came with his things.
So Luffy, Sanji and Yosaku sailed to Arlong Park to get Nami back.
To be continued...
Luffy's crew so far.
Monkey D Luffy, captain, Gura Gura no mi (Tremor Tremor fruit), wear what he wears in canon
Makino, bartender, no fruit, wear a short sleeved shirt with usually a skirt and orange and white sneakers
Roronoa Zoro, first mate, no fruit wear what he wears in canon
Usopp, sharpshooter, no fruit wear what he wears in canon
Kaya, nurse, no fruit, wear different kind of dresses with heeled boots and sometimes a coat if it's cold.
Translations.
Oni giri : demon slash
Tora gari : tiger hunt
Santoryu ougi sanzei sekkai : three sword style secret technique three thousand worlds
Gura no Danmaku : Tremor Barrage
Next chapter Arlong Park.