Chapter 3
As Luffy and Zoro were sailing they ran across three men stranded in the sea.
"Hey! Stop! You there! Stop!" Man A yelled. Zoro looked at Luffy.
"Your call, Captain." Zoro says not caring what they do.
"Sure, let's let them on." Luffy answers with a grin. Orochimaru slows down the boat, so the three men could get on.
"Hey! Stop the boat! We're members of Buggy the Clown-sama's crew! This boat is ours now!" The lead Pirate orders pointing a sword in Luffy's face.
"Huh?!" Zoro says pissed that they thought they could threaten his captain like that. Zoro swiftly takes care of the three pirates. Luffy grins at Zoro protectiveness and puts the three pirates to work. Two of them were now rowing the boat while the lead pirate sat in the middle of the two rowing. Luffy wanted to give Orochimaru a break from pulling the boat. So, this worked out perfectly.
"We're sorry. We had no idea you were the famous Pirate Hunter Zoro-san!" The lead pirate explains.
"Forgive our rudeness!" All three of them yell.
"ShiShiShiShi, Your reputation comes in handy, Zoro." Luffy says with a laugh. Zoro just shakes his head with a smirk.
"But what now, bro?" Pirate B asks.
"Good question… If Captain Buggy finds out a girl stole our boat and the treasure…" The lead pirate trails off in fear.
"Y-Yeah…" Pirate C says also scared.
"Who's this Buggy guy?" Luffy asks.
"You've never heard of Buggy the Clown?!" The lead pirate exclaims.
"Nope. Have you, Zoro?" Luffy asks.
"I can't say that I have." Zoro states with a yawn, not really caring.
"He's the head of our pirate ship! He's eaten one of the Devil Fruits, and is just an all-around terrifying person…" The lead pirate explains.
"Then he must have a bounty, right?" Luffy questions.
"Yeah, Captain Buggy has a bounty of $15,000,000 berries." Pirate B answers.
"Oh, he must be decently strong then." Luffy comments.
"D-Decently strong?!" The lead pirate yells.
"Who do you think you're talking about?!" Pirate C yells.
"Oh, well, we'll find out how strong he is when we hit land." Luffy states.
"Are we fighting him then, Captain?" Zoro asks itching for a fight.
"Yep. Row faster! I want to hit land soon." Luffy orders with a look in his eyes that says DON'T argue. The three pirate's row faster. They made land much faster than they would have alone.
-Orange Town-
Luffy and Zoro left the pirates knocked out by their boat. Luffy and Zoro were roaming around the town and noticing it was deserted.
"Huh? I wonder where everyone is." Luffy ponders.
"Probably got over run by this Buggy character." Zoro answers.
"Could be." Luffy says as they continue walking further into town. They came upon a dog barking at a guy on a lion. The dog seemed to be protecting the shop behind it.
"Get out of the way mutt! Richie, is hungry! If you don't move he will eat you for a snack!" The man on the lion yells. The dog just keeps barking and growling. A man that looks to me the mayor of this town comes out of hiding.
"That shop is Chouchou's, the dog, treasure! Don't you dare touch it?!" The mayor yells. At hearing that this shop was the dog's treasure, Luffy becomes pissed.
"Hey! Weird hair guy! Don't touch that dog's treasure!" Luffy orders. Everyone turns to look at Luffy.
"Weird hair? This is my natural hair!" The man on the lion yells insulated.
"I don't care. If you touch that shop, I will have to put you down." Luffy threatens.
"Haha, yeah, right, kid. You are no match for one of the Buggy Pirates main crew members." The man on the lion says confidently.
"Let's test that out. Stand back, Zoro. This is my fight." Luffy orders.
"Whatever you say, Captain." Zoro yawns going over to a wall and sitting down to watch the show.
"My name is Mohji the Beast Tamer! I'm the first mate of the Buggy Pirates. What is the name of the man who my lion, Richie, is going to eat?
"My name is Monkey D. Luffy. The man who is going to kick your ass!" Luffy declares.
"Etch, we'll see about that! Go! Eat him Richie!" The man on the lion, Mohji, orders. Richie runs and lunges at Luffy. Luffy uses Haoshoku Haki and Richie collapses on the ground. Luffy walks up to him and stands over him. Looking him in the eyes. Unknowing to Luffy, he was letting out the same silent cry that he did when he tamed his Sea King, Orochimaru. Richie feels/hears the cry and starts purring.
"ShiShiShiShi, good kitty." Luffy laughs as he pets Richie. Richie just lays there acting like a regular house cat.
"What have you done to, Richie?!" Mohji demands.
"I tamed him. He's mine now." Luffy says simply.
"How dare you! I will kill you!" Mohji yells and tries to hit Luffy, but Luffy dodges and KO's Mohji with one punch.
"Well, that was uneventful." Zoro comments while getting up and walking over to Luffy, and now, Richie. The mayor walks up to them and starts explaining the situation on what happened to the town.
"Don't worry about a thing. We'll take care of this Buggy guy for you." Luffy reassures with a grin. Luffy and Zoro start walking to where the mayor pointed to where Buggy was.
"So, why are we helping this town? Aren't we pirates also?" Zoro asks.
"My pirate crew is not going to be like these pirates. I was raised by better pirates then these pirates. Also, we will get the treasure they have." Luffy explains. Zoro was once again shocked by Luffy.
'I was right to trust this pirate.' Zoro thinks with smirk.
-Where Buggy is Stationed-
When Luffy and Zoro arrived they saw a clown with a big nose threatening a pretty girl.
"So, you thought you could steal from me the great, Captain Buggy of the Buggy Pirates, and get away with your life? I think not girly." The clown with the big nose, Buggy, yells.
'Shit! I can't die here! I still need to gather more money… for them.' The pretty girl thinks in desperation.
"Hey, big nose!" Luffy yells.
"Big nose?!" The Buggy Pirates cry in horror.
"B-Big nose, did you say?!" Buggy asks through grit teeth.
"Yep, sorry but I going to have to ask you to leave this town." Luffy says with a grin.
"Oh, yeah, and who's going to make me? You?" Buggy asks with a laugh.
"What do you think you're doing idiot?! You're going to be killed!" The pretty girl cries.
"If you're going to steal from pirates with that half assed resolve, then I can't help you." Luffy responds.
"Resolve? To kill needless like a pirate? Is that the resolve I need?" The pretty girl demands.
"No, to put your own life on the line." Luffy declares with a serious face. The pretty girl was struck into silence thinking back to when her precious person died.
"Don't worry, Cat Thief Nami, I will get to you after I take care of this trash." Buggy reassures.
"Yeah! Kill them, Captain Buggy!" The Buggy Pirates started crying.
"Don't leave me out of this fight, Captain." Zoro says walking to stand next to Luffy.
"Of course not." Luffy says with a grin.
"Oh, another contender. In that case, Cabaji get out here!" Buggy orders. A man with a long scarf, and buzzed hair on one side and long shoulder length hair on the other side comes out.
"Yes, Captain." The man on the unicycle, Cabaji asks wheeling out of the tent.
"You take the swordsman. I will take this punk nose kid." Buggy answers.
"Yes, Captain Buggy." Cabaji replies moving to stand in front of Zoro.
-Luffy vs. Buggy-
"I will blast you." He readied one of his Buggy Balls. He launched the ball at Luffy.
"Gomu-Gomu Balloon!" he inflated and took the ball to his gut, it sank in and bam! The ball was sent flying back and Buggy cried in terror. The ball hit and blew up a good portion of his main ship. Buggy himself used two of his men to shield himself, his hands floating and holding them by their necks. "What kind of jerk uses his own crew mates as shields?"
"Call me what you want, but my man know that my power is one that will flashily reach the top. No one is fit to be pirate king but me!" Luffy's eyes narrowed. "I ate the Chop-Chop fruit, no blade can hurt me, not only that..." He dropped his crew men, and his hands drew out his knives. "I can chop and separate my parts at will, making killing fools like you easy!" His hands whipped out, trying to slash, or stab at Luffy.
Luffy used his Kenbunshoku Haki to see where they were gonna go, and easily dodged them.
Buggy was full of confidence. Thanks to his Chop-Chop power he could separate his parts as he wanted, and while Luffy was made of rubber. He couldn't be hurt by a punch, but one good stab to the heart and this fight would be his. 'How is he dodging!?'
Luffy dodged and quickly stomped on his right hand, and smashed the left one with both of his fists. "Gaaaaaaahhhhhhh!" the smashed hands floated back to their master. "Damn you!"
"You? Be the pirate king? Not gonna happen." his leg stretched. "The one who will be pirate king is me!" He launched a Gomu-Gomu whip and Buggy separated his top from his bottom, but Luffy knew he'd do this, so he stretched his arm up and did a Gomu-Gomu chop on Buggy's head.
"Damn you! I despise little brats like you, and that straw hat!" He grumbled. "It reminds me of that man I hate more than anything!" He tried to stab the straw hat, but Luffy dodged it.
"This hat is my treasure and I will protect it!" Luffy tried to punch him, but his upper half left his lower half and he flew off drawing his swords to attack Zoro.
"You can hurt me kid, but your swordsman can't, he's dead!" Before he could get far Luffy kicked Buggy in the balls, which dropped him like a ton of bricks.
"That...was not...nice..."
"Neither was attacking my crew, this is our fight stupid big nose!"
Buggy twitched and all his pieces split up. "Chop-Chop Festival!" the many parts floated around in the air. "Can't hit me now can you?"
Luffy smirked. "Gomu-Gomu Gatling!" a barrage of fists, and thanks to Kenbunshoku Haki, he hit every part one by one!
"Gah, my parts!" they were sent flying off into the distance, by the time he put himself together he was merely hands feet and head. Luffy's arms stretched back.
"Get lost Buggy, and never come back!" he launched his Gomu-Gomu bazooka and hit Buggy sending him flying into the distance. Since his parts were too far out of range, he couldn't assemble them with his power he'd have to go and find them.
-Zoro vs. Cabaji-
The cyclist claimed to be a swordsman, but he wasn't like any swordsman Zoro had ever faced. He seemed to care more about cheap circus tricks and underhanded tactics than fighting with a sword.
He launched a barrage of tops, with tiny blades in them. Zoro put his head band on, and got his three swords out. He slashed through the tops like they were nothing. A weaker man would have been slashed apart, Cabaji used it as both an attack and a distraction.
While Zoro slashed apart his tops he cycled up a wall and dove down, planning to spear the swordsman. Zoro dodged the attack, and slashed with his three swords. The three blades met Cabaji's sword, and here is why you don't ride a unicycle while in a fight.
He had no ground and was sent flying back. "Damn it!" He got his ground and rode back at Zoro. "You will die!" Zoro blocked his attack. "Got you, Circus Trick Fire Breathing Art!" he blew fire from his mouth.
"I've had enough of your cheap tricks."
"How did you survive?"
"Oh please, your little circus act isn't even cute. Try training a few years before dreaming of challenging me." He took a fighting stance.
"I'll show you, I am a swordsman!" He cycled at Zoro. Zoro rushed forward, and in a flash Cabaji's sword and unicycle was cut to pieces.
"A cheap sword for a mock swordsman." Zoro sat down and watched his captain fight.
After the battles were over and won, the pretty girl was in shock.
'They won… They actually won.' The pretty girl thinks in awe. Luffy then looks over at her.
"Are you okay?" Luffy asks.
"I'm fine. Thank you for saving me." The girl says.
"Don't worry about it. I wanted to fight him anyway." Luffy says with a grin. "I'm disappointed though, he was not worth his bounty."
"Yeah, his "swordsman" was a joke also." Zoro grumbles.
"My name is Nami. I'm a pirate thief. What are your names?" Nami asks.
"My name is Luffy and this is my first mate and swordsman, Zoro." Luffy answers.
"Your pirates, then?" Nami asks sounding disappointed.
"Yep! But my crew is better than pirate crews like Buggy's. Are you… a navigator by chance?" Luffy asks when his haki nudges him to ask.
"Yes, I happen to be the best." Nami says proudly.
"Great! I am in need for a navigator! Join my crew." Luffy says. Nami was about to protest, not wanting to join a pirates crew, but see saw Bell-mere's ghost behind Luffy. She was smiling and nodding at her to go with him, and to trust him. Nami gets tears in her eyes.
"Yeah, what's wrong? Why are you crying?" Luffy asks worriedly.
"No, it's nothing. Yes, I will join your crew. I will be the best navigator for you." Nami declares.
"ShiShiShiShi, the King of the Pirates deserves only the best." Luffy says while laughing. They then grab all of Buggy's treasure, and then leave. As they were sailing away they each thought.
'Going with Luffy was the best choice I could have made.'
'Bell-mere, I don't know why you wanted me to go with these pirates, but I will do my best to see what you see.'
'I can't wait to see what the next adventure is! I can feel new Nakama are coming!'