Gura Gura Luffy chapter 8 : Little Garden
Lightningblade49 : I quite agree with you so I may add a training chapter after Ennies Lobbies...
bloodshark : Thanks and for the vote please see the A.N. at the end of Chapter 6 to know more.
F-ckthesystem125 : I got Chocolatier from Miss Goldenweek mini stories where at the end she used one of her technique to show the dream of almost all of the Baroque Works officer agents, there Miss Valentine was shown as a Chocolatier. As for the ages I may have overestimated Makino's age so that will be corrected she is know 32 years old.
mrgrey23 : Yes the Merry will be upgrated after Alabasta by the royal shipwrights.
I don't own One piece if I did Blackbeard wouldn't be so over powered.
Beta read by coduss.
A.N. I warn you as we don't know anything about miss Golden-week's real age and based on her apparence I made her 10 years old mainly due to the fact that since Makino is now with Luffy, she won't have the child she had in canon during the Timeskip, By having her act as the mother figure of the young people I will use as crewmembers I am in someway apologising to the character.
Previously
"Crocodile will think that we are heading to Little Garden without an eternal pose, so he will make mistakes, whereas we have an eternal pose, but we will still go to little garden!" said Luffy showing that he acted like he destroyed the eternal pose before Miss All-Sunday to misinform Baroque Works.
The crew then sailed to Little Garden.
Now
everyone.
The Going Merry was sailing toward an Island covered with great trees, the crew thought that the name little garden was not appropriate as the Island was no way like a garden or little.
"I'm still wary about Miss All-Sundays' warning, we should be careful." said Vivi as she looked at Little Garden.
"You think there are monsters there?" asked Kaya.
"Don't know, but no matter what we need to restock. I didn't have time to in Cacti Island." grumbled Sanji as he threw his captain an angry look since the cook didn't forgive his captain for taking him away from his pretty ladies.
"I agree, but I don't know if the place is right to do that." said Makino as she looked at the jungle that was around them as Nojiko sailed the ship up a river.
"I have never seen a jungle so deep before. It looks like it is unexplored." said Sofia.
"This thing is called Little Garden?!" yelled Nami, Nojiko and the former Bounty Hunters in disbelief.
"This island isn't named well." grumbled Alvida.
"I don't see anything ''Little'' nearby." said Usopp looking at the biggest tree he has ever seen.
"Look around, those plants' species are only in books." said Kaya in wonder as she had to read a lot of medical books and some of them were about plants and their healing or poisoning factor.
Suddenly, a powerful screech was heard coming from the sky startling the girls and causing them to jump in the air screaming "Kyahhh!"
"Oh my, all the girls are so cute when they are frightened." said the perverted cook blushing like crazy.
"Pfft, it is just a bird, it's normal in a jungle." grumbled Zoro having been woken by the girls screeches.
As the bird flew over them they could see that it wasn't a normal bird since it looked like a cross between a lizard and a bird.
"A lizard with feathers..." wondered Luffy in wonder as he looked at the prehistoric bird.
A great noise shook the whole island, even the Going Merry, causing the crew to jump.
"That noise, Is that normal?!" asked Nami frightened.
"It sounded like a volcano eruption." said Nojiko.
But before they could ponder what that meant a huge tiger approached the bank only to fall over dead shocking the whole crew.
"How is that normal?! That the king of the jungle fell over covered in his own blood huh?!" yelled Nami afraid of what could possibly be on the island.
"The decision is taken, we won't land on the island!" said Usopp.
"Yeah, we will wait on the ship for the log pose to reset. And then we sail directly to Alabasta." stated Nojiko.
"Sanji make me a bento." ordered Luffy trembling in anticipation.
"Bento?"
"Yes a pirate special." replied the over excited pirate captain. "It smells like adventure."
"Wait a minute Luffy. Where do you think you're going?" asked Sofia looking at Luffy.
"Going to explore, want to come?" said the straw hat wearing boy with a big smile on his face. "Sanji, the Bento!"
"Yeah yeah, coming."
"Why not." replied the blonde woman.
"Say Luffy, can I come?" asked Makino and Vivi at the same time.
"Of course."
"Are you sure about that?" asked Nami and Nojiko.
"Of course, better go explore than stay here and do nothing." said the two women.
"And besides, I can count on Carue." added Vivi as an afterthought but everyone can see that this didn't please the duck very much.
'This news didn't seem to make him happy.' thought everyone but the owner of the duck.
"Makino and Vivi will have a bento made with love!~" sang Sanji from the kitchen.
"Could you make a drink for Carue?"
After Sanji finished preparing the food and drinks for the explorers, the group composed of Luffy, Vivi, Makino, Sofia, and Carue landed and went exploring Little Garden.
"Let's go for adventures!" yelled Luffy as he walked in the jungle.
"We shouldn't stay gone too late." added the girls.
After the first group left, a bored Zoro decided that he would go for a walk too, his two sidekicks Johnny and Yosaku decided to follow.
"Yo Zoro, Johnny, and Yosaku if you happen to come across something that look edible please take it back to the ship as we'll run short of food otherwise." stated the cook.
"Right, I'll bring back something you can't even catch yourself." said the green haired swordsman.
"What was that you Marimo!" yelled the cook.
"Huh?"
"I can't let such words go like that...You think you're a better hunter than me?!" said Sanji glaring at his archrival.
"Of course what kind of question is that!"
"We'll see about that! I challenge you to a hunting contest!" yelled the cook.
"A challenge?!" wondered Yosaku.
"Can we participate?" asked Johnny.
"Why not!" said both Zoro and Sanji.
The four contesters went down a path completely alone with the mission to find the biggest beast they could, the heaviest beast brought back would win.
5 people remained on the ship. Usopp and Kaya who, after watching the crazy hunters leave, decided to kill time by studying medicine or inventing some new kind of ammunitions. Nami and Nojiko, who read books to.
kill time, and finally Alvida who cleaned her heavy club before deciding to sunbath.
With the explorers group.
The four pirates (five if you count the duck) were exploring the thick jungle that covered most of this Island, finding strange animals that should have gone extinct a long time ago, like the ammonite that Luffy mistook for a cuttlefish stuck in a seashell or the huge diplodocus that he mistook at first for a seaking. Vivi, Sofia, and Makino came to the idea that somehow this island was stuck in the prehistoric era due to the freaky weather conditions of the Grandline.
With the hunters
Zoro, walking in the jungle, somehow met a triceratops easily twice as tall as he was. After briefly wondering if this kind of meat was edible he just cut the dinosaurs and brought the corpse back to the ship for the contest.
Sanji, not unlike Zoro, met a tyrannosaurus. But the cook didn't bother to cut the beast; he simply kicked it into submission and brought the dead carcass to the ship, certain of his victory over the idiot swordsmen. He also thought that he would impress the ladies with his hunting skills.
The headgear wearing swordsman who answered to the name Yosaku was calmly walking in the jungle, his single bladed naginata on his back. The man thought of asking Sofia to use her powers to make the thing heavier but sadly the woman couldn't do that yet. Yosaku walked for a long time and encountered a freaking dinosaur so, in a very Yosaku fashion, he jumped in glee thinking that the contest was surely won as the thing looked quite large, not very tall but surely large like a stegosaurus should be. As a training exercise the man ran back to the ship carrying the thing on his back.
The sunglasses wearing swordsman was walking in the prehistoric deep jungle, when he suddenly met a raptor, however the beast saw that the human was armed so it ran away with the human in close pursuit. After a while Johnny managed to cut the raptor's leg muscles stopping him from running away from him and was able to quickly kill it and bring it back to the Going Merry.
Back on the Going Merry.
The five pirates who stayed on the ship waited quite a long time before Nami seemed to remember where she heard the name Little Garden before, and so she and her sister she searched through all the books on the ship.
"Guys, it's terrible! The island…is…inhabited…by…" started the navigator as she and her sister barreled on the bridge to warn their Nakama just as a huge shadow could be seen on the bank looking at the ship.
The five pirates were completely shocked as a huge giant kneeled on the bank and looked at the five pirates on the bridge of the boat.
"…You got any alcohol?"
"Uh...Y-Yeah a little..." stuttered Usopp looking at the giant whose head was tall as the Going Merry causing the Giant called Broggy to smile as wide as possible, before screaming in pain and surprise as a huge tyrannosaurus bit him on the a**.
"A dinosaur!" yelled the pirates completely astonished at the kind of animals present on this island.
The giant, angry at the dinosaur that dared to bite his a**, drew his axe and promptly cut its head off. "I'm Broggy. Bahbahbahbah! The most powerful warrior of Erbaf!" He turned to the pirates and pointed the tyrannosaurus head at them "You're my guests; we'll share this piece of meat."
The pirates were tremendously shocked, as it wasn't everyday that a huge giant invited you to eat with him.
With the explorers.
Luffy somehow was able to climb to the top of the diplodocus' head and use the vantage point to observe the geography of the island.
"Luffy, you should come down, it may be dangerous." warned Makino looking at her captain with a disapproving look at his childish attitude, the two other girls shared this opinion.
"Bah, don't worry. I'm sure he is harmless."
"Even so, this is a dinosaur not a pet." scolded Vivi.
"I can't see the whole island unless from here." replied the Straw Hat captain, before the beast, fed up that a clown made noise from the top of its head, decided to put an end to that by eating the little thing.
The three women were shocked at Luffy's fate but, fortunately, a giant appeared and promptly cut the dinosaur's head to free the pirate captain from the beast's throat.
"Gahgahgahgah! There is a lifefull young man, it has been a long time since the last visitor." laughed the giant as he put Luffy on the palm of his hand.
"Wow you're quite tall! Are you Human!?"
"Gahgahgah! That's a good one! I'm Dorry, the most powerful warrior of Erbaf!" exclaimed Dorry.
"A…G-Giant…" stuttered Sofia and Makino looking at the shocking scene that took place in front of their eyes.
"So the rumors were true, they do exist…" softly said the princess looking at the scene while caressing her duck who was passed out foaming from the mouth.
"Nice to meet you! You will all be my guest's tonight." stated the giant.
"Shit, he saw us…" muttered the three girls.
In Broggy's house, with Alvida, Nami, Nojiko, Kaya and Usopp.
"Bahbahbah! The meal is ready my friends!"
"We...aren't v-very...h-hungry..." managed to stammer the sharpshooter terrified by the giant.
"Don't feel nervous, dinosaur meat is very tasty." said Broggy
"No, really, we aren't hungry." added Kaya and Nojiko looking quite green when they noticed the human skulls on the ground.
"Say Mr. Broggy, can I ask you how long does the log pose need to set to the next island?" asked a nervous looking Nami.
"Just a year. Bahbahbah! You should make yourself at home, you will surely stay here for quite a long time." laughed the giant warrior as the five pirates fell over the log they were using as a bench.
"A...year?!" said Alvida in disbelief since she didn't belief that such a long time was needed.
In Dorry's house, with Luffy, Vivi, Sofia, and Makino.
"Gahgahgahgah!" laughed the giant very amused with Luffy's antics.
"Hey the dinosaur meat is quite good, Giant."
"Gahgahgah! Your bento pirate's special is quite good too, but a little too small for my taste." laughed Dorry to the shock of the spectators.
"Am I dreaming Makino-san?" asked Vivi tremendously shocked.
"I don't know..." replied the bartender completely astonished at her captain ability to make friends with
everyone.
After that little scene, the two new friends talked about their origins and the time needed for the log pose to set on the next islands. After Luffy denied the offer to fight the giants for their eternal pose as they already had one but they didn't want to rush so as to not miss any island.
Suddenly one of the volcanos erupted, causing Dorry to take his weapons looking ready for a titanic battle.
Meanwhile in Broggy's house the other giant did exactly the same with Broggy looking even more eager to fight than his opponent.
The following fight that took place shook the whole island, sword met axe and when those were lost, fist met fist. The girls didn't understand why these two giants fought when they simply could talk and go back to their home together; the two boys, however, knew that this fight was a matter of pride and that the giants would continue to fight until one of them won fairly.
"Ready to lose Dorry?" taunted Broggy.
"Speak for yourself Broggy."
"The reason for this fight was forgotten such a long time ago." those were the words each of the giant told their respective guests before they headed to fight each other.
The fight grew in intensity when Broggy hit Dorry's helmet, as a response Dorry almost managed to decapitate his fellow giant warrior who threw his axe at him. Then they both punched the others with their buckler, sending them both on the ground and ending the match in a draw.
"73 466 fights and 73 466 draws." muttered both giants as they fell on the ground, after spending a little while panting from their previous fight they laughed and talked like good old friends.
"Bahbahbahbah listen to this Dorry, I have guests that gave me some alcohol, want some?"
"Gahgahgah! Of course! It's been a while since I drank anything other than water."
Earlier, on a Holiday resort island, two Baroque works officer agents were taking a break.
Mr. 3 and Miss Golden-Week were currently taking a break, as was authorized by their agency unless orders came in they were free to do as they pleased, so that was why they were in a Holiday paradise resort.
Unfortunately Mr. 3 noticed that his partner withheld their orders, and was furious.
"Miss Golden-Week…in light of our partnership I will spare you this time. But, should you do that again, it will be the boss that will kill us both!" darkly said Mr. 3. Scared, his partner handed the orders to him.
"Hmm…Mr. 5 was killed and Miss Valentine defected...why am I not surprised? He was a hot tempered fool and she was a blond woman unable to fight by herself, she must have given up when her partner was killed. Pity, I would have hoped that Mr. 2 would have been killed." said Mr. 3 reading the letter "We are ordered to head to Little Garden and kill the Straw Hats and make sure that the princess didn't tell anyone else of the boss' identity."
"What are we gonna do Mr. 3?" said the young girl as she looked at her partner a little afraid of him.
"Don't worry Miss Golden-Week, I have a plan. That's why we are the Mr. 3 pair." arrogantly said the agent.
Back on Little Garden in Dorry's house.
Dorry, having taken some barrels of alcohol from his friend/rival Broggy, laughed with his new friend Luffy while the girls that were with him looked on wondering what kind of relationship Dorry had with the other giant.
Makino suddenly spotted something she didn't like, and voiced her concern: "Wait Dorry-san, don't drink from that barrel. I don't recognize it and, since I'm a bartender I'm the one that buy the crew's supply of alcohol and I know I didn't buy that one."
Surprised at her outburst the giant let the barrel go, and he was lucky to do so as no sooner than that the barrel exploded, thankfully no one was hurt.
"Are you sure that you weren't the one that brought that barrel here?" asked the angry giant.
"Yes!"
After being stared at long and hard by the giant who finally said that he believed them, the pirates wondered why someone would want to trick Dorry.
"Say Dorry, before you said that you were a warrior of the sea, does that mean that you were a pirate?" asked an over eager Luffy.
"Yes..." started the giant wondering what the straw hat captain was thinking about.
"So that means you have a bounty?"
"Yes and Broggy too we are both wanted for 100,000,000 berries..."
"AH! I get it now! Someone must have heard of you and your endless fight with Broggy so they must want to get your bounty by weakening one of you enough to lose the fight, while severely wearing down Broggy enough so that both of you would be to weak to struggle against capture and so they would be able to get your bounties." said Vivi sure of herself while all of the people present looked at her like she grew another head. "What?!"
After thinking about it they all agreed that something was up and, as they were going to warn Broggy of what they discovered, the volcano erupted, signaling another fight.
Meanwhile in Broggy's house.
"A valiant warrior of the sea? What's that?" asked the giant after he drank almost all of their alcohol and having rested from his fight with Dorry.
"That's what you are, and that's what I want to become." proudly said Usopp not seeing Kay looking at him with star in her eyes or the three other women shaking their heads at their antics.
"You want to become a giant?!" asked Broggy truly puzzled by what he understood of Usopp's dream.
Nami, Nojiko and Alvida laughed their asses off before they looked at Kaya's face and paled, Kaya gained a strange look on her face at Broggy's word and blood leaked from her nose while drool leaked from the corner of her mouth, Usopp looked thoughtful before he snapped out of it.
"Are you doing this on purpose or what?! I want to live with pride like the Erbaf's warriors." said a proud looking Usopp.
"Bahbahbah! Really?! I guess that it's because we giants live much longer than humans that we don't care about material treasures. To us, our pride is greater than any treasure. But your girlfriend looks like she was more fond of the becoming a giant idea." laughed Broggy while Usopp became redder than a tomato if that was even possible. Nami and Alvida looked thoughtful at Broggy's words and decided that they would talk to him later as the volcano that was the signal of the start of the fight erupted once more, prompting Broggy to leave his home to stand and fight for his pride.
Deep in the jungle in a wax house.
Mr. 3 was waiting for his underlings while Miss Golden-Week slept on a bench. An otter and a vulture soon entered the house; they were known as Mr. 13 and Miss Friday, and were infamous as the Unluckies.
"Ah, the Unluckies you're almost late." said Mr. 3 looking at Mr. 13.
"…." screeched Mr. 13 with no sound exiting his mouth.
"Why did I order you to come here?" repeated the wax user as if he understood the otter. "Because I'm your superior, you're weaklings, and lastly because I have a plan where your abilities could be of help but don't go over your pathetic heads, I don't need you to execute the plan." arrogantly said the weird haired man.
"…." screeched the vulture looking a little afraid of Mr. 3.
"Why should you do what I ask?" getting a nod from the Unluckies "Because if you don't do what I said I will kill you." said Mr. 3 darkly and looking extremely eager to kill those he deemed weak.
Extremely scared, the Unluckies quickly agreed with Mr. 3's plan, what nobody noticed was that Miss Golden-Week woke up during the meeting and heard almost everything. Extremely scared she wondered if she somehow could leave the agency like the former Miss Valentine. Her mind made up, she devised a plan to escape from Baroque Works, using her power if need be.
In Broggy's house.
Once Broggy left, the five Straw Hats thought that they should go find the explorer group in Dorry's house, however they had to drag Usopp as he wanted to stay and watch the titanic fight between the two giant warriors.
Deep in the jungle.
Zoro lost his way in the jungle while dragging his prey for the contest, and was a little embarrassed; suddenly his swordsman senses told him he wasn't alone.
"Nami? What are you doing here?" asked the swordsman his guard down since he was in the presence of one of his Nakama, or so he thought. The doppelganger leaked wax that captured the unfortunate pirate that was in the process of arguing with himself for getting caught in a trap.
In another part of the jungle Yosaku, having dropped his prey by the ship, was looking for both Johnny and Zoro but, sadly, he too managed to lose his way in this deep jungle. He was soon caught in a similar trap that the one that caught Zoro except it was a doppelganger of Zoro.
Johnny was in the same position as his friends found themselves, caught in Mr. 3's special wax doppelganger trap.
Of the group that was going to go see Luffy, only Usopp managed to reach Dorry's house as the others were caught one by one by Mr. 3's traps, the only thing that changed was the doppelganger used.
When Usopp reached Dorry's house he was both scared and angry. Angry because he lost Kaya during their flight from the dinosaurs and scared because he thought that everyone was eaten by the very beasts that inhabited the island.
Suddenly, after Luffy explained what happened to Dorry, they saw several things happen in a very short time, a huge amount of blood was seen near the giants battleground, and Carue's body was brought by the Unluckies who seemed to taunt Vivi and her allies into following them as they knew that in a straight fight they would lose very badly.
"What have you done with Carue?" asked a concerned Vivi.
"…." said the Unluckies as they left heading to the deep jungle.
"Dammit!" swore both Vivi and Sofia who somehow understood the Unluckies speech.
"Care to translate for those who only heard animal noises?" asked Makino sweetly but anyone could see she was anything but.
"All Baroque Works agents are expected to understand the Unluckies as they are their messenger." explained Sofia to her Nakama, making it clear that she no longer considered herself part of Baroque Works but truly a Straw Hat Pirate.
On the battle ground after the giants' fight.
Zoro, Johnny, Yosaku, Nami, Nojiko, Kaya and Alvida were all exposed on a wax cake with candles on the top while Dorry and Broggy were bound on the ground with Mr. 3's harder-than-steel wax.
"Hahaha! Now that my Candle Jacket is fully solid not even a giant like you could get out! You were so happy to have won that you let your guard down, ''Red demon Broggy'' even if your victory was only possible thanks to my help." arrogantly said Mr. 3.
"Why you..." roared Broggy as he tried with all his might to break the wax, he was almost free when an explosive gift from the Unluckies sent him into unconsciousness.
"He almost scared me, Doru Doru arts: Ken!" roared the agent as he slammed wax made swords in Broggy's hands and feet.
Watching this, the trapped Straw Hats wanted nothing more than to beat the shit out of the arrogant man, but sadly none of them could move unless they cut their own legs of, but then they would die of blood loss ultimately, so while the swordsmen were ready to do it, The girls choose to wait for reinforcementsm this being Luffy and Usopp.
Suddenly, while Mr. 3 taunted his captive with his huge wax cake, making the girls think he was compensating for something, Luffy, Vivi, Usopp, and Sofia erupted from the jungle looking ready to defeat Baroque works.
"So you're ''Mugiwara no Luffy''? Maybe I'll collect your bounty too."
"You can try." replied Luffy to Mr. 3.
"Luffy, don't waste your time with him! Destroy the cake, otherwise we'll die!" "Hurry Usopp-kun! Help me!" yelled the trapped Straw Hat Pirates.
"No." said Luffy shocking everyone but Mr. 3 and Miss Golden-Week.
"…Colors trap: Uragiri no Kuro." softly said Miss Golden-Week 'If he manage to free himself and defeat Mr. 3, I'll join him since he would most likely be able to protect me…'
"Luffy, no matter what stay in that circle." said Sofia as she had somewhat of an understanding of Miss Golden-Week's abilities having worked with the Mr. 3 pair when she was still working for Baroque Works.
"Miss Valentine it isn't nice to interfere in a fight that isn't yours." said Mr. 3 as he went to attack her only to meet Luffy's fist as he took a step out of the black circle that made him betray his friends, more than likely saving Sofia's life.
Shaking his head Luffy managed to clear his thought and went again to attack the cake but sadly Miss Golden-Week already painted another circle on him and the ground.
"Togyu no Aka, hit here please." said Miss Golden-Week as she pointed to the circle in the ground.
However as she didn't take into account the possibility of Luffy having any abilities, she was tremendously surprised when Luffy used his Gura Gura no mi powers when he hit the ground, The earthquake that resulted broke the cake, the bindings that were keeping the giants on the ground, and shook the whole island. Needless to say that Miss Golden-Week was to scared to even trap Luffy, so she erased the Togyu no Aka on Luffy's back and went to hide from Mr. 3' wrath as surely the mission couldn't succeed anymore. However she decided to observe the following battle between Mr. 3 and Luffy and as such witnessed Mr. 13's defeat at the hand of Usopp when he made the otter swallow a Tabasco ball when he had his mouth open as well as Miss Friday's defeat by Vivi's Kujakku slashers.
"Damn you! How dare you ruin my carefully crafted plan! And as for you Miss Golden-Week, rest assured that I will inform the boss of your betrayal!" roared the enraged Mr. 3.
"How dare you threaten one of your Nakama!" yelled an equally enraged Luffy.
Knowing what was likely going to happen, the Straw Hat crew wisely vacated the place thinking that the giants would be able to survive the onslaught that was about to happen.
"Let's see how you deal with not being able to move! Candle Lock!" said Mr. 3 as he tried to bind Luffy's leg to keep him from moving around too much.
Sadly for the Baroque Works officer agent the pirate captain didn't let himself be bound by the wax trap; he jumped over the wax, kicking Mr. 3 in the head while doing so, sending the agent into a up close meeting with a tree.
"Are you ok?" taunted the captain, not feeling threatened by the Doru Doru no mi user.
"Grrr…Stop mocking me Mugiwara! Let's see how you like my ultimate move! Candle Champion!" yelled the enraged Mr. 3 as he wrapped an armor of wax around himself and hardening it to be harder than the strongest steel.
Luffy didn't move an inch as he watched the wax armor form itself around his opponent, when it was done Luffy only lifted one eyebrow not very impressed with his opponent's so called ultimate technique.
"Is that it?"
"Don't you dare mock me!" roared Mr. 3 as he finally lost it due to his opponent unstoppable teasing and taunting. The wax wearing man charged like a berserker without thought, with the intent to kill this little upstart.
Despite the fact that his opponent didn't have any head protection Luffy decided to make a point by shattering Mr. 3's armor with his Gura Gura powers via a sucker punch. Mr. 3's Candle Champion didn't have a single chance against the might of the Gura Gura no mi, the wax shattered like glass leaving the agent armorless and very vulnerable. Luffy didn't let Mr. 3 have any hope of getting away without a good beating, Mr. 3 was left unconscious looking black and blue.
Somewhere deep in the jungle.
Near Mr. 3's candle house, Sanji was riding a saber-toothed tiger that dared attack the Straw Hat's cook before getting curious about the house; he was so curious that he momentarily forgot about his self appointed mission of rescuing the pretty ladies while letting the men rot to hell.
The cook took the time to drink a cup of tea inside the house before he recalled the pretty ladies that awaited his heroic action to free them; at least in his little fantasy.
Suddenly a Den Den mushi ringtone could be heard from a picnic basket, naturally the curious cook answered the phone.
"Hello this is the shitty restaurant, have you a reservation?" asked Sanji.
"Shut up! I don't have the time for your bullshit! I have waited for your report for hours." said a rough voice from the snail phone.
"A report? Who is on the phone?" asked a puzzled cook wondering where the hell he was.
"It's me... Mr. 0..." answered the same rough voice.
"Ah! Yes, Mr. 0. Sorry I didn't recognize your voice." apologized Sanji trying to pass as a Baroque Works agent.
"Mr. 3, is what I asked you to do done?" asked Mr. 0 paranoid as ever, not giving any hint as to what he asked Mr. 3 to do, however Sanji wasn't an idiot and, for Mr. 3 to be on the same island as them, meant that he was likely here to kill them.
"Ah, you mean the Straw Hats? Yes, I took care of them." said Sanji getting the Shichibukai to settle down, but the cook spotted someone from the house's window.
The cook then took care of the intruders that searched for Mr. 3 by the orders of Mr. 0, but sadly he made too much noise and the snail phone receiver was still on the table and not back on the snail's back.
"Mr. 3, what was that?" asked a suspicious Mr. 0.
"Ah, one of the pirates had thought it'd be cute to only play dead, so I had to put an end to that notion. Sorry for the noise." said Sanji trying to save the life of his friends, by tricking the Shichibukai.
-Tut tut- it seemed that Mr. 0 hung up, fed up with what he thought to be his underling, so Sanji destroyed the snail phone and left the house to look for his Nakama.
Back with the giants and the rest of the straw hats with a hidden miss Golden-Week.
Broggy was bawling his eyes thinking he killed his only friend, only to be scolded by the awakening Dorry because the weapon were dull from all the fighting for a hundred years, and so the wounds they received weren't life threatening.
While the giants were arguing amongst themselves Makino, who wasn't fighting, managed to find a little spy in the person of little Miss Golden-Week.
"So, what's a little girl like you is doing within an organization like Baroque Works?" asked Makino curious how such a child could be in a criminal organization.
"Between that and slavery, the choice was quickly made. And the choice between staying with a madman like Mr. 3 or going with the one that was able to defeat him and make it look easy is also quickly made." answered shocking Makino and Luffy who somehow managed to find his way to the little hideout.
"Are you going to join my crew then?" asked an eager Luffy thinking that someone able to trick the mind of the marines could be useful, and that was also well within the ideal pirate crew he had in mind as the crew little daughter.
"I wasn't going to let you have the choice." confessed Miss Golden-Week.
"No…it's not supposed to work like that, I'm the one that don't let my future Nakama have any choice whether to join the crew or not, not the other way around." complained the straw hat captain.
After Miss Golden-Week joined the crew, they went near the boat to compare the beasts the hunters brought back to the ship, after Zoro went to find the one he left in the jungle, this fact made the giant remember that they began to fight nearly a century ago.
After the final farewell with the giants and the contest ending in a draw, the Straw Hats, using their eternal pose as a guideline, sailed in a straight line trusting the giants to watch them from the island, and true to that warning as long as they sailed in a straight line.
The giant goldfish that almost swallowed the going merry was killed by the giant who sacrificed the remains of their weapon in orders to allow the ship to sail away.
"You see Kaya? This island is made of Goldfish crap like I told you." said Usopp to his ''best Friend'' who laughed as the ship sailed in the direction of the Alabasta kingdom.
To be continued...
The crew so far
Monkey D Luffy, captain, Gura Gura no mi, 17 years old "Mugiwara no Luffy" wanted for 70 000 000 berries
Makino, bartender, no fruit, 32 years old
Roronoa Zoro, first mate, no fruit1 19 years old
Usopp, sharpshooter, no fruit, 17 years old
Kaya, nurse, no fruit, 18 years old
Sanji, cook, no fruit, 19 years old
Nami, navigator/treasurer, no fruit, 18 years old
Nojiko, pilot, no fruit, 20 years old
Johnny, bodyguard of Makino, no fruit, 19 years old
Yosaku, bodyguard of Kaya, no fruit, 19 years old
Alvida, treasure hunter, Sube Sube no mi, 26 years old "Kanabo no Alvida" wanted for 5 000 000 berries
Sofia former Miss Valentine, chocolatier, Kilo Kilo no mi, 21 years old
Mary former Miss Golden-week, painter, no fruit, 10 years old
Book of technique
Mr 3's special wax doppelganger trap : Mr 3 traps his opponent in his wax by using wax doppelganger as decoy.
Candle Jacket : Binding technique where Mr 3 slowly covers his opponent body in wax before hardening it making it very difficult to escape.
Candle Lock : Binding technique where Mr 3 tries to binds his opponent's arms or legs in wax cuffs.
Candle Champion : Mr 3 coats himself in his wax to create a wax armor allowing him to be much more durable only if the technique is completed by Miss Golden-week's paint.
Doru Doru no arts : ken (Wax Wax arts : sword) : Mr 3 creates a wax sword.
Colors trap Uragiri no kuro (Colors trap black of betrayal) : Miss golden-week creates a black circle with her paint in wich the opponent is hypnotised into betraying those he cares about.
Colors trap Togyu no aka (Colors trap red of bull fighting) : Miss Goldn-week paint a ed target onthe ground and on her opponent in order to make him attack that very spot no matter how much he don't want to.
Next chapter Drum Kingdom and New Nakama.