Gura Gura Luffy chapter 9 Drum Kingdom.
F-ckthesystem125 : Thanks and as for the sick people see in the chapter below.
Bloodshark : Thanks, if by fat person you mean Wapol please see the chapter below, and as for any giant joining the crew it won't happen until they get their new ship in Water 7.
ItsTheCxC : See this Luffy as a mix between the canon one with his becoming Pirate King obsession and Whitebeard with his vision of the crew, and also as he grew up with only his grandfather, as far as we know it, before he met Ace I think Luffy is someone that want to have a large familly.
Lightningblade49 : Thanks and glad you like it, Mary is going to be the little princess then will enter in competition with another character that will join later, Eyelash won't join : it is a pirate crew not a zoo, but Mr 2 will eventually join but not in Alabasta, as for Vivi I am still wondering wether make her join or not.
WaMiLoe : Thanks but the one that should deserve your gratitude is coduss.
Redery : Thanks but I thought of other that could back Usopp as long range fighter, as for Miss Valentine I made her name up as we don't know anything about some of the Baroque Works agents.
I don't own One Piece.
Beta Read by coduss.
"Talking"
'thinking'
Technique
Flashback
Previously
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.
Now
The crew sailed for a time with Nami and Nojiko's navigating and piloting skills, soon however Kaya noticed that some members of the crew developed symptoms of an unknown disease and this worried her greatly.
"Girls, are you sure you don't want anything for the fever?" asked the nurse, worried for her Nakama.
"No, I don't want to have some trouble when I make my calculations, besides if I am not there who will tell Nojiko where to go and the crew how to react to sudden change of weather?" answered the navigator.
"But..." stuttered Kaya not believing how someone could refuse a treatment that would help them feel better.
"Don't bother trying to convince her, when my sister make her mind, nothing short of the end of the world will get her to change ideas." explained Nami's sister Nojiko.
"Fine, but if you are getting worse, I won't be able to help you!" huffed Kaya vexed over Nami's refusal "I'll go see Sofia maybe she will be more reasonable."
Over near Sofia's bed, Mary was standing guard over her former coworker.
"How are you feeling?" asked the nurse to her patient.
"Not so well…"
"Want some medicine? I created one from plants that are known to reduce fever, so it should help you."
"Yes please…" said Sofia feeling down because of the fever she had.
"Will it help her?" asked Mary, worried for one of her few friends.
"Don't worry it will help her, but I can't do wonders, my mixture won't cure her." stated Kaya.
Meanwhile the boys were following the directions given by Nami before she collapsed due to her illness and so the ship was miraculously headed true.
After a while the girls came back and both Nami and Sofia were still suffering from whatever illness that was infecting them.
The crew sailed for a few days before the illness of the two members took a turn for the worst and even Kaya's mixture couldn't do anything to help them.
Luffy was a little embarrassed since he promised to reach Alabasta as fast as possible since the Newspaper showed that the country was on the brink of civil war, however he didn't want to let some of his crew suffer from an unknown disease.
In the end Vivi knew that she couldn't let their friends get worse so she decided to go look for a doctor for the crew, something that even Luffy agreed with.
Before they could change course they noticed a ship, looking mostly battered and not very secure baring an unknown pirate flag approaching them.
"Be ready for anything!" stated both Zoro and Alvida knowing that Luffy's crew was mostly constituted from a special kind of pirates. "We don't know their intentions."
A stocky looking man with furs on him interrupted them "Ho! Hey, you! Do you perhaps have a pose for Drum Kingdom, you see I am Wapol, captain of the Wapol pirates, and we are currently looking for this particular island. You see it is our home and sadly we don't have any means to sail on the grand line."
"No, Sorry. We don't have any pose for your home." said Luffy.
"That's too bad…you see if you had a pose pointing towards Drum Kingdom, I may have let you go with your lives, but now I'll just take your ship apart to repair mine and kill you all on the way!" said Wapol jumping on the Going Merry's bridge.
Wapol then ordered his men to launch grappling hook on the merry to tear it apart; however Sanji and the Swordsmen trio dispatched them easily enough.
Seeing this Wapol tried another approach "Your crew is quite good for rookies, I can't allow you to live since you humiliated me so much!" Said Wapol, opening his mouth so wide you could stack two fully grown men into it.
The straw hat crew stared at the man's mouth not knowing what he intended to do with it, their surprise turned to horror when they saw Wapol's mouth tearing some of Merry's parts and swallowing them turning his body into some lumber.
"You are not allowed to touch Merry!" yelled Usopp taking his slingshot and firing at Wapol like a man possessed.
However Usopp's shot didn't seem to hinder Wapol very much so Luffy, not wanting to see his ship eaten by a hippo looking man, took matters in his own hands by punching wood-Wapol in what would be his stomach, making him spit out the part of the ship he ate, turning him back to normal. Then Luffy punching him with enough force to sand the hippo man far away.
Wapol's men looked stunned to see their captain get beaten so easily by someone they thought as inferior, before Chess and Kuromarimo, Wapol's two lieutenants, took charge of the crew and fled looking for their missing captain but not before swearing revenge.
"My, my Luffy, you know how to speak to girls don't you?" flirted Alvida before she was smacked on the head by Makino.
"Now it's not the time for that, we need to find a doctor and fast, and you Luffy, you should at least have asked if they had a doctor on their crew." scolded Makino worried for their ill Nakama.
"Don't worry Makino-san I recognized him, it was Wapol king of Drum Kingdom, the land of medicine, this is where you can find the best doctors in the world so we should head there." said Vivi.
"Great pant I have calculations to make." panted a seriously ill Nami.
"ABSOLUTELY NOT!" roared all of the crews together except Sofia that was still resting in the infirmary as ordered by Nurse Kaya.
After managing to get the stubborn navigator to rest, the rest of the crew relied on Nojiko's piloting skill to sail the ship following their pose who pointed in a different directions than the eternal one.
So they managed to get the going merry in one piece to a winter island where Drum Kingdom was.
"How come the weather fixed itself when we approach an Island?" asked a curious Makino to the only one who sailed on this particular sea before: Mary and Vivi.
"You see there are four kinds of Islands in the Grandline: Winter, Spring, Autumn and Summer ones. Each one is classed with the weather there is on them, so while the weather can change in open sea, when close to a particular Island it will change to the weather reigning on the nearby island allowing skilled Navigator to know when they are close to an Island." answered Vivi stealing the words from Mary's mouth who pouted cutely when she realized that she would have explained the same thing but not very clearly as she was only ten years old and not very experienced on the grand line weather.
After sailing for a little while the crew landed on the next Island, and it was decided that they would split up: Luffy, Sanji and Alvida would go look for a doctor to heal their ill Nakama, Zoro and his two trainees would train near the ship to keep an eye on it and defend it if needs be, and finally the rest of the pirates would stay in the village they saw earlier in order to restock the ship.
With the shore party.
The two groups reached the village but they were stopped by the villagers who, lead by a man wearing green vest over some kind of armor looking like a soldier, seemed hell bent of not allowing the visitors to trespass on their turfs.
"I saw your flag you are pirates, we won't let you walk on our Islands and cause mayhem, last time was enough!" roared an angry villagers.
"We are not here to cause Mayhem, we have members who are ill and we need a doctor and fast!" said Luffy in a hurry since he didn't know whether the two diseased girls would die soon or not but he wasn't willing to take the risk.
"As if we'd believe you pirate scum!" roared another angry villager.
Seeing Luffy close to snapping and charging his way through the villagers, Vivi decided to intervene to keep the bloodshed to an absolute minimum.
"Please Villagers-san we really aren't here to cause trouble for you, we are only here to heal our friends." calmly said the princess bowing to the villagers while urging the others to do the same, shocking their leaders who recognized her from a previous meeting they had in the past.
"It can't be...Princess Vivi? What are you doing here with them?" asked Dalton, leader of the villagers in the king's absence.
"Like I said we are here to find a doctor to heal our friends, they contracted some kind of disease and our nurse can't cure them." explained the princess.
"There are no doctors here except the Ishi-20 that work for Wapol, but seeing as he fled the country a year ago when the Blackbeard Pirates attacked, they are no longer here, and the witch that lives in the castle in the mountain. But I wouldn't go there you best to wait for her here, she come down in the village once in a while to restock." explained an somewhat sorry Dalton to the pirates.
"We don't have time to wait for her here, we will go to the castle." stated Luffy with Sanji agreeing with him as it would help beautiful ladies, Alvida knowing Luffy couldn't carry both girls and not wanting to let Sanji carry one, she chose to accompany them if only to keep the perverted cook in check.
Dalton knowing he couldn't do anything to stop them warned them of the danger of the mountains: The Lapahn, huge man hating snowrabbits and the monster of the mountain that lived near the castle.
With the warning given and understood the group of five left in a hurry to get to the doctor as fast as possible.
With the three swordsmen and the one spotted duck near the ship.
"Listen to me guys, We are going to go swim in this very, very cold water in order to train ourselves, got it?" said Zoro to the two lesser swordsmen Johnny and Yosaku.
"Yosh! If we can swim in that the cold won't bother us anymore!" yelled the two former bounty hunters, happy to be able to train with their Aniki.
Carue watched them not knowing what the three crazy swordsmen would do, when he saw them jumping in the water he became afraid for their safety as he knew that jumping into near freezing water was bad for the health.
So listening only to his courage the duck jumped after them but as soon as he touched the water he froze in a duck shaped ice cube, luckily a rope that was tied to one of his legs made sure he didn't float away.
With the tourist group in the village.
The group of six split in three, Usopp and Kaya went to watch the stores, Vivi and Nojiko spoke with Dalton to learn a little more about Wapol and the Island in general while Mary and Makino made snowmen as the child didn't really have time to play with snow before.
Suddenly one of the villagers came running looking extremely frightened about something "Dalton the witch is down in the village, she is looking at my little boy who is sick, please do something!" pleaded The afraid looking male.
"Right, I will do what I can." stated Dalton as he got up to see the only doctor left on this Island.
The soldier arrived to see the old doctor finishing to heal the little boy.
"You should warn the next time you intend to come down here, otherwise I wouldn't have to send a group of people with sick members up the mountain to see you Doctor Kureha." said Dalton in a somewhat scolding tone.
"Tch, You know I don't work like that Dalton but did you really send them up the mountain?" asked doctor Kureha.
"No, but they said they didn't have time to wait for you, and since I didn't know you intended to come down that seemed the best thing to do seeing the state of the diseased."
"Mmmpff, Maybe. But then I have to go up there once more don't I, and Dalton it is Doctorine for you." stated Doctorine as she left for her home.
With the group of five up in the mountains.
This group of pirates was running in order to reach the doctor's home in time to heal Nami and Sofia.
After a while of running they encountered a horde of Lapahns that attacked them as they hated all mankind, the huge rabbits were defeated with some difficulty as they knew the Landscape very well and since Luffy and Alvida carried their friend they couldn't fight very much, so Sanji had to fight practically alone, but in the end his kicks were too much for the Lapahns.
The Lapahns, angry to be so easily defeated, started to jump up and down as a group causing to ground covered in snow to rumble.
"Shit those rabbits are causing an avalanche, we must run or we'll be buried under a lot of snow and we'll all die!" said Alvida as she read about the danger of such thing by curiosity during the time it took them to reach this island.
Prompted by Alvida's warning the two boys ran like the king of hell was after them, but sadly the avalanche still caught up with them. Luffy and Alvida, due to their devil fruits powers, were no worse for wear and managed to break out of their burial site quite easily. Sanji was still buried so the two other pirates looked for him in the snow.
In the end they recovered the cook but he was unconscious, so Luffy had to carry him.
Back in the village.
"Dalton! Dalton!" called a villager completely terrified.
"Yes, what is it?" wondered the guards' leader. Calming the frantic villager.
"Wapol's ship has been sighted, he's coming back!" yelled the villager.
"Don't worry I'll take care of it."
Near the harbor.
Wapol and his men had finally succeeded in finding the path to Drum Kingdom, when they saw the familiar shape of the Going Merry; Wapol went mad as he thought they lied to him about not having any pose to Drum Kingdom. To calm himself he ate the town, but when he heard that Doctor Kureha was still in the country he once more went ballistic.
The Mad King then promised himself he would made them all pay for this treachery.
"Dalton, What are you doing here traitor?" asked Wapol to his former henchman.
Instead of answering, Dalton changed into an half bison half man, showing he ate the Ushi Ushi no mi model Bison, and attacked his former king, injuring him before anyone could react.
The Ishi-20, Wapol's personal doctors patched him up, and Wapol in true evil mastermind fashion gloated and told his plan instead of finishing his foe.
"I will reclaim my throne, and everything will go back to what it was! I will eat that witch and that straw hatted wanabee pirate captain for daring to stand up to me, and while I am at it if you continue to stand up to me I will order Chess and Kuromarimo to kill every citizen of this pathetic city."
Dalton, not wanting to cause the death of the inhabitants, surrendered but was shot by Chess' bow like the cowards they were.
Wapol, Chess, and Kuromarimo then boarded Robson, Wapol's Hippo and went towards the castle, as they were a quarter of the way there, they were surprised and buried in the avalanche which continue its way into the town burying the injured Dalton.
With Zoro, Johnny, and Yosaku.
After swimming in the Ice cold water for a while, the three swordsmen went into town and saw the ''fight'' between Wapol and his men and Dalton, angered at such cowardice the swordsmen defeated the rest of Wapol's men quickly, then the villagers begged them to help find Dalton, which they tried to do with no success.
They then were joined with the crew that stayed in the village and with the added help they found Dalton, but he was gravely wounded, Kaya tried to patch him up but the wound was way beyond her ability to heal.
The only solution left was to beg the Ishi-20 to heal Dalton as they were doctor, the 20 doctors didn't know what to do so when they were reminded of their oath by an irate Kaya they complied, They healed Dalton teaching Kaya how to do it in the process, and told that they were very afraid of Wapol and as such obeyed his every command.
With Luffy, Alvida and the wounded.
After digging up Sanji from his hole in the snow, Luffy found a baby Lapahn and dug him up too, saying that no one deserved to be left out alone like that. Then they continued their way to the castle.
Suddenly, further along in the way of the castle, the group was attacked by Wapol, Chess, and Kuromarimo, as they were carrying unconscious people, Luffy and Alvida couldn't afford to fight them, so they were forced to dodge the attack, arrows, fist and cannonball were dodged either clumsily or gracefully.
After a while of dodging, a horde of Lapahn went and attacked Wapol and his men allowing Luffy and Alvida to continue their way to the castle where the doctor lived.
"Luffy, you were right to save that Lapahn from the avalanche, he was with the one that allowed us to flee." said Alvida impressed by the luck Luffy had when dealing with people.
"Shishishi! Told you so, but still I hope that they can hold on long enough for us to reach the castle." said Luffy.
Finally the two of them reached the bottom of a huge mountain on top of which was he castle they had to reach to heal their friends.
"How will we manage to climb that?!" said Alvida wide eyed as she looked at the smooth rock, not being easily climbable.
"We will climb we don't have much choice in the matter." said Luffy as he prepared to climb the mountain Nami over his shoulder and Sanji between his teeth.
And so the two of them climbed the mountain, braving snowstorm and very cold temperature, showing their determination to heal their friends.
When they almost reached the top, their tiredness caught up to them and they lost consciousness, thankfully they were caught before they could fall by a being with big furry arms.
"Heal them first." managed to say Luffy before he fell unconscious to their savior.
The diseased girls regained consciousness and found themselves being starred at by a reindeer/man hybrid that looked a lot like a tanuki.
"Oh what a cute tanuki!" exclaimed Sofia as she had to fight her instinct shouting at her to glomp the cute thing.
"I am not a tanuki, I am a reindeer see I have antlers!" yelled the hybrid before blushing as he realized he spoke before someone unknown.
"How kawai!" yelled the two girls as they tried to glomp the poor reindeer who wasn't used to being called cute like that.
Luckily for the reindeer the Doctorine entered the room and sent Chopper away, then she told them about him, how he was shunned by his herd because of his blue nose, how he then found the Hito Hito no mi, ate it giving him human intelligence, how he was shunned by the human for his human form looked more like a gorilla than it did a man, how he was then found by doctor Hilluluk who taught him medicine until his death and how Wapol and she fit in all this.
The girls saddened by Chopper story decided that they would pressure Luffy into adding the reindeer doctor in the crew no matter what.
After some adventure where Chopper was chased through the castle by Sanji and Luffy who thought he was meat, before being scolded by the girls, Wapol finally reached the castle.
Doctor Kureha and Chopper stand firmly in front of the former king, who recognized them and as such were angry.
Sanji, Alvida, and Luffy then joined them outside, eager to fight against Wapol and his men. The former king gloated and demonstrated his Baku Baku no mi powers by turning into things he recently ate, he became an house with cannon in lieu of arms.
Chess tried to fire some arrows at them but Alvida got in the way and, thanks to her Sube Sube no mi power, she was able to send the arrows away.
Kuromarimo tried to fire some of his techniques with his afro shaped gloves but Sanji didn't let him do it, and managed to quickly kick him away.
Wapol then tried to fire some cannonballs at Hilluluk's flag, but Luffy got in the way and send the cannonball back at him sending him into his hippo and sending the hippo flying away with the strength of his comeback.
Alvida, using Chopper as a pusher, was able to slide with great speed at Chess and used her big iron club to smash Chess head in defeating Wapol's chief of law.
Sanji promptly kicked Kuromarimo in the head while he was distracted with Chess' defeat.
Wapol, angry at his lieutenants' defeat at the hand of what he thought to be inferior pirates, decided to swallow his own men to combine them into something stronger.
"I am neither Chess nor Kuromarimo, I am…Chessmarimo!" said the newcomer with a dual tone causing all of the protagonists to sweatdrop at the ridiculous name.
"I'll take care of him! Rumble! Brain point scope!" said Chopper as he munched on a little yellow ball, he then put his hooves in a square form.
'What is he trying to do, firing a laser?' wondered Luffy in his head.
'I got his weak point!' exclaimed Chopper in his own mind.
"Are you just going to stand there?" asked Alvida to Chopper as she watched Chessmarimo getting ready to attack.
"Take this!" roared Chessmarimo as he fired a mix of afro shaped projectile and arrows.
"Jumping point!" said Chopper as he changed into a form that favored his leg; he then has able to jump away from Chessmarimo's attack.
"Arm point! Kokutei Roseo!" roared Chopper as he punched Chessmarimo in the chin defeating him.
Sadly nobody noticed Wapol slipping away in the heat of the battle inside the castle.
However Nami and Sofia, predicting Wapol's intent, closed the armory and threw away the key, leaving Wapol powerless.
"Damn you girls I will devour you!" roared an enraged Wapol, not noticing that only Nami was in front of him.
"Hey fatass, you know the weather today? It will rain girls!" said Nami confidently, confusing Wapol.
"Huh?!"
"Hissatsu 10,000 kilos Guillotine!" said Sofia as she descended upon Wapol leg extended like a guillotine.
The poor Wapol didn't predict that and was crushed by Sofia's weight.
When the former king regained consciousness, the only thing he saw was Luffy's foot heading right to his face, it was then that Wapol was kicked away from this kingdom once and for all, with a broken jaw by Luffy.
After that the rest of the straw hat crew reached the castle too with Dalton in tow, the later was then crowned king by the people.
The straw hat crew stayed for a few days until Nami and Sofia were given a clean bill of health by the Doctorine. It was then that Luffy decided that Chopper had to join them as a doctor and not as an emergency food supply like Sanji seemed to think at first.
It took some severe coaxing from the girls, mostly Mary, and Luffy but in the end Chopper agreed to go sail with them as their doctor.
After that they got onto the Merry where Vivi found her frozen duck, needless to say the three swordsmen were in for quite a scolding.
In the end Carue was alright and after they thawed him off, he was glomped by Vivi who didn't want her duck to die frozen; the swordsmen were given quite an evil glare after that little tidbit.
After that the going Merry was ready to set sail direction 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
Tony Tony Chopper, doctor, Hito Hito no mi, 15 years old
Book of technique
Rumble : Chopper's drug allowing to change into more forms.
Brain point : Chopper's hybrid form when under Rumble ball's effect.
Scope : Chopper's only technique when in Brain point allowing him to see the foe's weak points.
Jumping point : Chopper's form streghtening his legs allowing him to jump more effectively.
Arm Point : Chopper's more power oriented form.
Kokutei Roseo (Carving Hoof Cherry Blossom) : A powerfull punch by Chopper leaving a hoof shaped mark on his opponent.
Hissatsu 10 000 kilos Guillotine (Sure Kill 10 000 kilos guillotine) : A powerfull leg strike with a 10 000 kilos weight behind it.
Next chapter An Okama and the start of the Alabasta arc.