Pirates of the Grand Line

The Curse of the Thousand Sunny

Chapter 11

By Wakback

Mage slapped the mop down on the hardwood floor as he and Soge were mopping at the brig. Zoro, Chopper, Nami, Sherms and the rest of the crew in one cage, U.B. alone in the other.

"Squawk! Shiver me timbers!" Squawked Sherms parrot.

"Sherms says you missed a spot," Chopper translated. This got a jab from the mop in response.

U.B. then leaned forward in his cell. "You knew my father?"

Mage and Soge turned to him with unchanged faces. "You mean Metal Marlo?" Soge clarified, "Yeah, we knew him. He was never too happy with what we did to Luffy. You know the mutiny and all. He said it wasn't right with the code. That's why he sent his piece off to you. He said we deserved to be cursed for our treason."

"Stupid sympathizer," Mage muttered.

"Good man," Zoro corrected with a solemn face.

"As I was saying," Soge continued. "Now as you can guess, that didn't go so well with Wakback."

"That didn't go so well with Wakback at all," Mage repeated. "Tell them what he did to him."

"I'm telling the story here!" Soge snapped before turning back to U.B.. "So you see, what Wakback did, was strapping a cannon to Metal's metal bootstraps. And the last we saw of him, he was sinking into the deep, black oblivion. …'Course it was only after that we found out that we needed his blood to lift the curse."

"Now that's what I call Ironic." Mage finished with a nod of the head. They all then swiftly turned at the sound of footsteps to see Wakback, Jyabura and Gin.

"Bring him." Wakback demanded as he tossed the keys to Mage.

Kaku looked through a spyglass to see lights still on aboard the ship. "I don't care for the situation," he notified, "any plan of going into the cave could lead into an ambush."

Luffy then tapped his shoulder for attention. "Yes, but you could be doing the ambushing. Here's how I think it should go. I go in, I convince Wakback to send his men out in their boats. In the meantime, you all go back to the Dragoon and wait for them to come out. When they do, Blast them to kingdom come with the cannons and there you go. Destroyed, dead, done. What do you have to lose?"

"Nothing I'd be sorry to do so," Kaku muttered as he shoved Luffy's hand off of his shoulder.

"Now, I'd to be honest with you on this. Despite this plan, there is still chance of casualties. And that includes the future Mrs. Commodore," Luffy pointed out with a smile.

"I'm sorry, but it's for your own safety," a Marine pleaded to the thrashing girl being shoved into the captain's quarters.

"But he has to know!" Orange shouted. "The pirates! They're cursed! They can't be killed!"

"Oh don't worry, we already know;" the Marine replied. "A little Angel flew down on deck and told us the whole story," he said with a smirk. He then closed the door and locked it.

"Graaaah!" she shouted. "Luffy! I should've known you'd do this!"

Soge and Mage were shoving U.B. along as Wakback led them in tossing a green apple up and down in his hand.

"No need to fret boy," Soge comforted. "A slice of the palm, a couple wipes of blood, and where done."

"Not this time!" Mr. 9 interrupted as he began to shove U.B. by his own. "He's only half Burner. We spill it all!" he finished a Growl.

"...Hmm. Guess there is reason to fret," Mage said to Soge before they both laughed.

Soon enough, the ritual was in full swing as Luffy arrived, weaving his way through the crowd causing a wave of amazement.

"Begun by blood," Wakback began, "by blood… be un… done." His eyes were as wide as they ever had been as he saw Luffy making his way to him and U.B. who was shoved over the chest with his neck about to be cut. "…No… No! It's not possible!" he said in amazement.

"Not probable." Luffy corrected.

U.B. then rose as high as he could. "Luffy! Where's Orange?"

"She's safe," Luffy assured. "Just like I promised. She's all set to marry Kaku just like she promised, and you're about to die for her just like you promised. So really, we're all men of our word. ...Except for Orange who is a woman."

"Shut up! You're next!" Wakback shouted as Jyabura placed a paw on his shoulder to keep him still. Wakback then raised the knife back to U.B.'s neck.

"You might not want to be doing that just yet." Luffy warned.

Wakback then looked at Luffy like he was crazy, which really wasn't too far off. "No I really think I do."

"Your death wish." Luffy mumbled, but Wakback heard every word. Wakback rolled his eyes, pulled the knife away from U.B.'s neck, and looked back at Luffy

"And why don't I want to be doing this yet?"

"I'll tell you why." Luffy tried to walk towards Wakback only to find Jyabura's paw still on his shoulder. Luffy swatted it away and then continued making his way up to the chest and Wakback. "You see, right now, as we speak, the Marine Battleship 'The Dragoon', the current pride of the Marines, is waiting outside your front door."

As Luffy stated, Kaku and his men were positioned outside the cave entrance. In one of the boats were Kaku, Jango, and Fullbody.

"What are we doing here?" Jango asked.

"Here's how it works," Fullbody replied. "The pirates come out, unprepared and unaware. We catch them in a crossfire, and send them down to the Davy Jones Locker."

"…I know why we are here, but why aren't we doing what Luffy said we should do? With the cannons and all?"

"Because it was Luffy who said it," Kaku spoke with malice.

Jango then looked confused. "...Do you think he wasn't telling the truth?"

"Listen, just hear me out here." Luffy said to Wakback. "You send your men to the Dragoon, they do what they do best, mom's your uncle, daddy's your aunt, and there you go. The makings of your own fleet. Now obviously you get the better ship as your flagship, I mean who can argue with that? But then what of Sunny? Make me captain of Sunny, I'll fly under your Roger, give you 10 percent of all me plunders, and then you get to introduce yourself at tea parties as Commodore Wakback. Savvy?"

"And I guess in return you want us to not kill the welt?"

"No by all means, kill the welt." At this, U.B. was shocked. "…Just, not yet. Wait until, the opportune moment. Like for example:" Luffy then picked up four coins from the chest and jingled them in his hand. "When you've killed off all of Kaku's men. Every. Clink. Last. Clink. One. Clink." Now finished, Luffy waved his hand open to show it empty. Meanwhile, U.B. was finishing putting the pieces together.

"You planned this all along! Ever since you heard my name!"

"Uh… Yeah."

Wakback then decided for some haggling. "I want 50% of your plunder."

"15."

"40."

"25. And I'll throw in a new coat! A nice, Black Leather one! What say you? Commodore?"

Wakback smiled as they shook hands. "We have a deal!"

"Kick-Ass!" Luffy said with a smile. He then turned to the crew. "All hands to the boats!" He then realized my mistake. "Oh, um, oh, ah… sorry. Caught up in the moment. You give the orders here."

Wakback then smiled. "Gents, take a walk."

All the Pirates then started to leave as Luffy's smile faltered a little. "…Not to the boats?"

All of the men, including Kaku were confused at what they were seeing. On a rowboat was what looked like two 'ladies'. Each had a parasol in their hands and one was waving a fan while the other was rowing. But the night was too dark to make out anything else. As for the two 'ladies' themselves, Soge rowed in increasing anger. Mage was more relaxed as he talked quietly.

"You know, this just like what the Greeks done in Troy. You know, without the wooden horse and instead in dresses."

'Remain calm,' Soge thought. 'Don't snap. Your humanity is riding on this. You can regain your dignity later. I can't believe I went along with the mutineer just for this shit.'

Matt arrived at the door to the captain's quarters and knocked slightly.

"Orange? I just wanted to let you know how happy I am for your decision today. I couldn't be more proud. But still, if a decision is made for the wrong reasons, which makes it a wrong decision. So I'm just wondering if you… Orange? Orange are you even listening to me?"

He entered to see no Orange, and the window was open with tied bed sheets trailing down as a rope. He frowned hard at this. "Now look at what you've gotten yourself into."

Meanwhile, the lieutenant of the ship pulled out a spyglass to get a better look at what was coming to the boat. It was what appeared to be two 'ladies' in a rowboat. He then heard a silent 'yoo-hoo!' from one of them. Nobody noticed the skeletal pirates that arrived from the waters except those who were already killed by them as they swept like a plague.

As for the 'ladies', Mage waved his fan as he called out again. "Yoo-hoo!"

"Oh, would you please stop it?" Soge demanded angrily. "I feel like an idiot enough as it is."

"…You look nice though," Mage spoke.

Soge smiled in fake agreement before he suddenly ditched the parasol and throttled his partner. "I look nice?" he shouted as he snapped. "Do I look nice to you NOW?"

That's when they noticed that they were exposed. Soge then pulled out his Slingshot, Kabuto, and shot with expert aim. The bullet whizzed and hit the surprised lieutenant's hat off. Said man turned just in time to see the Skeletal pirates attack.

Matt then poked his head out the door, also to see the undead pirates. To say he wasn't surprised would be a lie. So he just silently closed the door pulling his head back in.

Back in the cave, U.B. was standing with his hands tied and guarded by two pirates. Wakback was lying down as he waited to finally be able to live again. Luffy was just shifting through the treasure and occasionally slipped something into a pocket of his. Wakback lifted his bony head to look at him.

"You know Luffy, I must admit, I thought I had you figured out. But it turns out you're a hard man to predict."

Luffy dropped a statue he was holding as he turned to reply. "Not quite true Wakback. You see, I'm me, Monkey D. Luffy, Man worth of 300 Million Berries. That means I'm a dishonest person. And a dishonest person you can always predict to be dishonest. Honestly! You see, it's the honest ones that are hard to predict. Because you honestly can't predict, when they're going to do something really stupid."

Luffy then knocked over a nearby pirate after taking his sword and then he tossed it to U.B.. He caught it and knocked over the pirate, who then slashed his sword, only to cut U.B.'s ropes. Wakback finally caught up with what happened and pulled out his own bone-sword in defense as Luffy charged towards him. They clanged blades in every direction before Luffy suddenly sliced off the bulge of his Coat. He laughed in victory before he noticed that Wakback was now angrier than ever.

U.B. meanwhile was facing an unfair fight. He was dealing against two pirates and was barely able to dodge much less attack. He then turned and was surprised. It was the bomb pirate that got the best of him at Port Royal. He swung his blade forward as he now started to fight three on one.

Wakback and Luffy were constantly outdoing the other with all kinds of moves and tricks.

"GOMU GOMU NO PISTOL!"

"HAKACHI: NIBAI-KIZU!"

But as both of us tried to stay on top there attacks crashed together having they get up close.

"Ha ha," Wakback chuckled. "You're off the edge of the map Luffy. Here there be Monsters!"