Chapter 2

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The sky and the sea were peaceful and all Zoro wanted to do was take a nice nap. Unfortunately, the witch kept nagging on them about irksome problems. Especially since the boat was way too small for the three man crew.

"I know it's annoying, and I know you don't want to think about it much less plan things in advance, but you have to think about the bigger pictures!" yelled Nami in increasing irritation. "We can't just go on about our journey without any foresight or planning, because there are things we can and can't change! What if we do something that brings an even worse outcome, or we don't do anything and nothing changes! Don't you have anything that you regret?" screamed Nami with extreme frustration.

At the last sentence Luffys' whole body froze. Of course he had something he regretted. Ace… He could save Ace this time. No, he WILL save Ace this time. This was the chance that he'd desperately wanted for two years as he trained his body to the brink of exhaustion. When the time for that came, Luffy will fight like hell, but until then, thinking still hurt his head. He said so to Nami.

"OK, fine, I give. I'll just have to talk about this with the smarter crewmembers when they join: until then, at least think about the next island. Remember, it's the island with Buggy. Where we first met?" inquired Nami a bit desperately.

"What's there to think about? We go there, kick his ass, take his map and leave," said Zoro irritably. Nami just huffed in irritation and sighed wearily. It was going to be a long and tiresome journey up ahead for her.

"We're almost at the island and from what I remember there were three of the Buggy pirates out at sea with lots of treasure. I robbed them blind by tricking them and leaving them in a storm. What should we do now?" asked Nami with hope that at least they'll answer this question.

"Like I said, we'll beat them up and steal their treasure," replied Zoro nonchalantly.

"Fooooood…." whimpered Luffy in anguish while his stomach rumbled. In another time, they might have seen a huge bird flying up ahead, but because they were a bit early this time, they didn't see anything. Except for the three Buggy pirates.

As soon as they saw the Straw-hats, the Buggy pirates sailed towards them trying to look scary.

"Hand over anything valuable to us if you know what's good for you. We're with Buggy the clown," they tried to threaten. Zoro looked at them darkly with shadows over his eyes and glared. After a few moment of beating, the Buggy clowns were on their knees and begging, "We had no idea that you were the famous Pirate Hunter Zoro! Please forgive us!"

Nami smiled evilly and said "We'll be taking your treasure then, and your boat. You can take ours," and added, "Dark, low clouds indicating an approaching cold front have been sighted to the south. Heavy rain will soon begin to fall, accompanied by a dusty squall. Small boats in the area should beware of capsizing!" warned Nami cheerfully as the Straw-hats sailed away on their stolen boat. The pirates behind them screamed as the storm struck leaving them stranded.

"You're an evil witch," muttered Zoro under his breath as Nami laughed and waved goodbye at the Buggy Pirates.

They reached the port of Orange town. After they secured the boat, they looked around town for Buggy. It was as secluded as it was before.

"Alright, I think Buggys' tent was this way. We steal the map and run away, right?" asked Nami in a hopeful voice.

"FOOD!" shouted Luffy as he ran in random directions. Nami sighed in irritation and pointed towards the nearest house and told him that the food was in there. Luffy cheered and entered, immediately asking for food from Nami. Nami cooked from the stolen food for Zoro and Luffy in dejection.

"After this, we go find the MAP!" exclaimed the redhead in exasperation. After they ate everything that was in that unfortunate house, they went towards where Buggy was.

"I'll go in and steal the map and the treasures," her eyes turned to Beli signs as she said the last word, "While you guys stay out here and be a look out. If they see you, you can kick their ass," Nami said excitedly, her thoughts only on the treasure. Nami entered the storage tent of the Buggy pirates, and she looked around for the key to the safe. She found it easily because the morons just left it out on the open. The cat burglar smirked and opened the safe with the map with her newfound key. It was so easy that it was almost like stealing candy from a baby. A commotion was heard outside and she hid a groan. Spoke too soon.

Outside, one of the Buggy pirates recognized Zoro and shouted in surprise. Everyone else also realized who he was and came to the conclusion that Zoro was here to collect their captains bounty. Most of them lunged to attack Zoro, while some ran off to warn Buggy. Luffy just hung around looking for more food.

Zoro beat up the Buggy grunts with extreme ease and waited for Nami to finish stealing everything she could. Which meant everything that the money grubbing witch could squeeze out of you.

"So, you're Zoro. What do you want? Are you here to collect my bounty?" asked Buggy, appearing from behind the tent with two of his goons following. Buggy looked as ridiculous as ever, with the big red nose, the long blue hair in the ridiculously stupid hat and the stupid clown motif. Zoro still couldn't believe that this loser became a Shichibukai.

"Nope, I don't hunt bounties anymore, but even if I did, yours is pitiful," replied Zoro in a disinterested manner, just oozing contempt.

"Well. I'm interested in you. Taking you out will earn me a lot of fame," relied Buggy in a high-pitched voice, trying (and failing) to sound threatening. The green haired swordsman sat down, leaned against the tent, closed his eyes and seemingly went to sleep. The eyes of every member of the Buggy flew out of their sockets and their jaws hit the ground. They were absolutely shocked about the clear show of disrespect and the audacity of the swordsman. The most shocked and furious out of them was Buggy himself. Nothing like this has happened to him since he had come to the East Blue. Nobody that strong was in this part of the ocean. 'Zoro is just overconfident,' Buggy consoled himself.

"Shishishi, I think he's tired… Bully, no it was Buffy, wait, umm Buffoon. That's right, your name is Buffoon. Do you have any food, I'm still hungry," added Luffy cheerfully. The expressions on their faces were hilarious. This was just as fun as it was the first time, even though he knew exactly what was going to happen. Buggy was always a very funny person. He should be a clown. Oh, he already is. Shishishishi.

Buggys' whole face was red. There were steam coming out of him and his eyes were blood shot. He looked as if he was having an aneurism. The other pirates looked terrified out of their minds about what Buggy was going to do.

"I'M BUGGY THE CLOWN! HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT! I'LL FLASHILY KILL YOU! I'LL FLASHILY KILL YOU ALL!" shouted Buggy with spit flying everywhere. "PREPARE THE BUGGY BALL!" screamed the clown and the Buggy pirates stepped all over themselves to follow orders quickly. They rolled a moderately big cannon and pointed at Luffy.

"You'll regret ever saying that, you straw-hatted idiot. You piss me off. Especially that straw-hat," hissed Buggy furiously.

"Oh, this. Shanks gave it to me. You know Shanks, right? From what I remember, he saved your life," Luffy replied cheerfully.

"How dare you! It was all his fault! He set back my plans 10 whole years!" yelled the red-nosed weirdo hysterically, "I'll blow you all to bits with my Buggy Ball," warned Buggy, he lighted the match given to him by his crewmates and lighted the fuse.

"Fire!" he yelled as the cannon exploded. There was a huge bomb and smoke everywhere. He couldn't see clearly and assumed that he hit Luffy and the others.

"Gyahahaha," laughed Buggy as he ridiculed, "No one can mock me and live to tell the tale. Now, it's your turn," hissed Buggy in a sinister (ish) manner, but as soon as the smoke disappeared, they could see that Luffy was completely unharmed. It even appeared that he crushed the Buggy Ball in his hands with no harm whatsoever.

"Geez, Luffy. Couldn't you stay out of trouble for just a couple of seconds? It didn't take me long to steal everything," chided Nami nonchalantly. She had all of Buggys' treasure behind her, and was leaning against them. She looked ecstatic that she had so much treasure behind her.

"Wh-what happened? He took Buggy Ball head on without a single scratch! Is he a monster like the Captain?" asked the pirates frantically.

"THAT'S MY TREASURE, YOU LITTLE THIEF! HOW DARE YOU STEAL FROM ME! I'LL KILL ALL OF YOU IMBECILES!" screamed Buggy in outrage.

"Would you like me to take out this brat?" inquired a peculiarly dressed fellow. He had blue pants with a yellow sash, but that's where the normality ended. He had a white fluffy half shirt, white bear claw shoes and his hair was white and… looked like a goat. It even had ears… He was riding his pet lion called Richie. The lion was large and had purple fur… Everything about the Buggy pirates was ridiculous.

"By all means, Mohji" replied Buggy darkly.

"I am the Buggy Pirates' Beast Tamer, Mohji!" boasted Mohji as he, riding Richie, got in front of Luffy.

"You have the weirdest hair that I've ever seen," smiled Luffy. Mohji looked pissed.

"You're awfully cheeky for someone about to die. You'll learn to fear me soon enough. I am the beast tamer Mohji. There is no animal in the world that I cannot tame," boasted Mohji. He looked down towards Luffy, expecting to be feared, but to find him picking his nose, looking disinterested. The weirdo got real angry.

"Kill him, Richie!" screamed Mohji. Richie attacked Luffy with his paw, in a surprising display of power. Luffy avoided the strike with extreme ease, but the place where he stood was rubble. Richie tried to attack him again with the same result. With an excited smile, Luffy stretched and knotted his arm, and took a hold of Richies' muzzle.

"Gomu gome no Muchi!" yelled Luffy and threw Richie over his head and crushed him against the concrete. Richie the Lion was out like a light.

"Richie!" screamed Mohji with tears in his eyes. He had gotten off Richies' back just in time. "What the hell are you?!" asked Mohji hysterically.

"I ate the Gomu Gomu no Fruit and this time, you won't destroy Chouchou's treasure," replied Luffy ominously. Luffy stretched out his arm and punched Mohji in the face. Mohji was knocked out cold.

"He beat Mohji! He's our First Mate! How could this have happened!?" the Buggy Pirates were hysterically screaming. "Did you hear that? He ate a Devils Fruit! He's a monster just like the Captain!" added the others fearfully. Buggy himself was beyond furious. 'No one disrespected him and made him look like a complete fool! That straw-hat idiot was going to pay!' he thought. Luffy smirked at them and drew a big breath, as if he was about to scream…

"BIG NOSE!" he shouted with glee. The Buggy Pirates were shocked speechless. They just couldn't believe he had the gall to scream that to their Captains face, just like that. They looked towards their Captain fearfully. Yep, Buggy was pissed. He was more than pissed. 'That bastard…' was the only thought in his head.

"You're pissing me off, asshole. You dare call me that?" hissed Buggy in strangled voice, as if he was barely controlling himself. "FIRE THE BUGGY BOMB AGAIN!" screamed Buggy, and the others scrambled to get it done.

Nami and Zoro just stood behind Luffy as the cannon fired. They didn't look worried at all, as if they weren't about to be blown to smithereens by the cannon. They even looked a bit bored. Luffy smirked and called out "Gomu Gomu no Fuusen," and enlarged himself just as the ball hit. The Buggy Ball bounced off him and hit back at Buggy at three times its usual speed and power. Most of the pirates went down at that. Buggy used his cronies as shield and survived. As the smoke cleared, another weirdo with a long scarf that was riding a unicycle came out.

"Captain Buggy," called out the weirdo.

"What is it, Cabaji," asked Buggy.

"Please let me handle this," asked the newly named Cabaji with bluster.

"Alright, show them your acrobatics," approved Buggy with glee.

"The Chief of Staff, Cabaji the Acrobat," boasted Buggy as Cabaji jumped with his unicycle and went to attack Luffy with his sword.

"Captain Buggy's rage has been transferred to me," gloated Cabaji as he tried to strike Luffy. Zoro got in front of him and deflected his strike with ease.

"Since you're a swordsman, I'll be your opponent," said Zoro confidently. Cabaji went on and on about how fighting Zoro will increase his reputation and just as he was about o finish, he blew fire from his mouth. Zoro knew it was coming and avoided it. With just one sword, he deflected everything else the acrobat tried.

"Acrobatic special, Murder under a cloud of smoke!"

"Acrobatic special, Hundred Spin Tops Wind Attack!"

"Acrobatic special, Climbing the Mountain!"

"Acrobatic special, Rising Fireworks!"

On and on it went, but nothing worked. Zoro either deflected or destroyed every attack Cabaji had. Buggy even tried to mess with the fight but Luffy stopped him. The green-haired swordsman seemed to tire of the lame attacks Cabaji displayed and finally attacked.

"Ittoryu lai: Shishi Sonson," attacked Zoro. In a single strike, Cabaji went down, blood spurting everywhere. Zoro just looked indifferent as the Buggy pirates looked on with increasingly horrified looks on their faces.

"He beat Cabaji with a single strike! He's a monster! Captain, what are we going to do?" were some of the question the rest of the pirates had. Buggy looked as if he was having a stroke.

"How dare you little thieves defeat us! I am Captain Buggy, the man who'll become the Pirate king!" screamed Buggy in frustration.

"No, I will become the Pirate King," corrected Luffy nonchalantly. Nami wondered if Buggy was just joking. He had to know that he could never be the Pirate King. For gods' sake, he sailed with the actual Pirate King. He had to know that he didn't have a chance in hell of becoming the King. He couldn't be stupid enough to believe he had an actual chance after sailing the weakest sea and getting a confidence boost, did he?

"Stop fooling around, you idiot! You're going to become Pirate King!? Then I'm God! Stop dreaming!" screamed Buggy.

"You talk too much. I met someone who said he was God. I kicked his ass," replied Luffy casually and added, "Just bring it on."

"Just looking at you pisses me off. You'll die soon, because rubber can't bounce knives, right?" said Buggy gleefully, readying his knives.

"Yes, but I don't have to," smiled Luffy.

"Bara Bara Japanese Cracker!" yelled out Buggy and threw his hand with his knives. Luffy avoided them without a problem, but Buggy just kept throwing even more knives at him. Luffy avoided all of them with ease. The clown, previously confident, grew more and more irritated as none of his attacks connected. What annoyed him the most was because the straw-hat idiot was laughing and not taking him seriously at all. He wasn't attacking but just jumping around laughing his head off.

"You're funny and all but this is getting boring. So see ya!" laughed Luffy and attacked, "Gomu Gomu no Bazooka!" Buggy went flying so far that they couldn't even see him anymore.

"Well, that's that. What now?" asked Zoro casually.

"That was anti-climatic. The first time we fought; it was way more emotional and interesting wasn't it? Now it's just boring. Buggy was pitiful. I can't believe I once thought that he was powerful," said Nami candidly.

"We are stronger, as well as know what happened, so of course it's boring," replied Zoro indifferently.

"Now that it's done. I'M HUNGRY!" yelled Luffy.

"I saw everything that has happened. I'm very grateful. Even though I'm the mayor, I couldn't do anything to save my town that is my treasure. We'll give you people anything you want as a reward. We'll give you any food you want as well," said a short man in a weird armor gratefully.

"Woohoo, FOOD!" cheered Luffy with vigor. The other villagers all came out and they threw a huge feast after hearing about what happened.

"This didn't happen previously, but I'm thankful we didn't get thrown out this time. Luffy is NOT going to leave half of my treasure this time," Nami said resolutely. They had a big party and Luffy gorged himself on the food and Zoro on the alcohol.

They decided to leave before nightfall and sailed away with lots of provisions given to them by the townspeople. The straw-hats could even see Chouchou barking as they sailed away.

"Next, Usopp!" yelled Luffy happily.

"Yeah, finally someone I could talk this whole mess seriously with," sighed Nami contentedly. Even if the fight was a letdown, she could at least enjoy the adventures without having a heart attack this time. All the fight they will have for the time being are pretty weak. Especially compared to the monsters they will face eventually. Hopefully, this time they will be ready and nothing horrible will happen…