A/N: Hello, I do hope you like this chapter and will continue reading.
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ASL D Brothers- I think I answered this at some point in the story, or the previous one, but Luffy promised to tell them how he knows so much once he gets everyone together. How Luffy is so much stronger and different than in the series also helps them believe in him more than they did in the cannon. Also, at how fast-paced they are going they sometimes don't have time to remember what he said. And that is probably my fault which is why I'm editing these chapters again, so I can remember or write down what Luffy has told them before.
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Chapter Five: Baroque Works Interferes
Luffy's POV
I got up from the ground, watching the duel in awe.
I wonder if Usopp is watching it. The Elbaf Giants are the reason I think Usopp will like this place.
The 'Warriors of Elbaf' are the bravest Warriors of the land and sea, not just because of their size either. There are some Giants that are bigger than them and/or stronger than them. Some are smaller, some are weaker, but their bravery isn't any smaller/weaker because of it.
Usopp's POV
"This is incredible!" I was frantic with excitement as I watched the duel. "A couple inches to the left or right and it would've been over!" I exclaimed in admiration. "What an incredible fight this is"
I was in awe of the Giants' strength.
"Every one of their attacks is aimed at a vital spot. Just one slip up and they're dead" I informed absently. "Have they really been fighting for over a century? It must get old" Nami asked, but I ignored her. I was too immersed in the fighting.
"This is our chance to get away" Nami realized. I remembered something when she said that though.
"I think there's something you will like on this Island, Usopp"
Is this what Luffy meant? "Usopp?!" Nami yelled, but I ignored her again. "Amazing" I said absently, awed with the fight.
"Why?! I can't remember! Gababababababa!"
"They fight so seriously, but they can't remember why" I said. "This fight is too intense"
"This is an example of a real battle between real men!" I told Nami. "Say what now?" she asked before I spoke.
"'I love the name of honor, more than I fear death'* a Gunner** said those wise words to me" I told her. "They choose living with honor over a death without it" I elaborated.
"That honor stuff doesn't interest me in the slightest. I should get back to the ship because I didn't have time to bring the pants Luffy said we should when we leave the ship. If I end up with one of those diseases, I'll never hear the end of it. Are you coming or not?" Nami asked.
"No, I'm staying to watch" I answered, absently. "This is my goal, to be a brave Warrior like each of these two Titans" I reminded her. "So, you want to be a Giant?"
I ran over to her when she asked that. "You haven't listened to a word I said, have you?" I asked her in annoyance. "Isn't there something you're supposed to be watching?" Nami pointed at the Giants.
I watched them from the log she was sitting on. "There's a Village full of Warriors like these two" I smiled when I remembered a book Luffy said was for me.
I found it in the room Luffy made specifically for me. It had everything I needed in it. The book was called Book of Elbaf, a blood red book with golden scrawl; it was like the book he gave Nami.
"I've wanted to go there since I read Book of Elbaf, these Giants are from there" I told Nami. They fell to the ground, before punching each other in the face with their Shields.
Luffy's POV
"Gegyagyagyagya! So Brogy's guests are friends of yours then? I saw a young boy with a long nose and a woman there" Dorry told us.
"That's Usopp and Nami, they said they didn't want to get off the ship though. Shishishishi!" I laughed. "If they're your friends then I guess I can thank you for these yummy refreshments"
Drinks? Zoro normally drinks all the alcohol on the ship. A Pterosaur screeched from above us as I mulled over where they could've gotten those. It couldn't have been from us. "Does it really take a year for the Log to set here?" Vivi asked the Giant.
"Yes, it does. Did you not see the huge piles of Human skulls around here? I guess it's hard not to" Dorry answered her. "People who come here normally die before their Log resets; they will either be eaten by Dinosaurs, suffer from heat stroke or starvation. Some are even killed because they attack us, they all die… even one year on this Island is too long for Humans" Dorry explained sadly.
"Even if we do last here for a year, who knows what will happen in that time? My whole Country could be in ruins" Vivi despaired. "Is there another way off the Island, Dorry?"
I want to try and find the way without using my Log. I consider it cheating if I, or we, use someone else's power who isn't here. The previous Global Leaders aren't here, and the Log was originally theirs, so it is someone else's power who isn't here. The man set down the barrel of wine before speaking.
"We have an Eternal Pose, but that leads to our Home Country of Elbaf. You could try to take it by force" Dorry suggested, eyes narrowing. "We don't want to go to Elbaf, just Drum Island. It's the next Island after this where a certain member for my Crew lives" I told him.
"You could try sailing straight in a random direction, maybe you'll get there… if you're lucky" he suggested.
"Shishishishi! Maybe so, it would be fun to find out, shishishishi!" I laughed gleefully. "There was one person who tried leaving before his Log reset, gegyagyagyagya!" Dorry laughed. "What happened to him? Shishishishi!" I asked, slapping my knee.
"How should I know? Gegyagyagyagya!" Dorry asked in return. I felt Vivi's anger before I looked at her, still laughing.
"Shishishishi!"
"Gegyagyagyagya!"
I noticed Carue wasn't laughing, but he was going to before he realized how irritated Vivi was. He started sweating in fear of Vivi's anger.
Usopp's POV
"'Brave Warriors of the Sea'? What is that?"
"It's you guys. All I want is to be like the two of you someday!" I told Brogy. I was in awe of the Giant in front of me. "You want to be a Giant?"
"Hear that?" Nami asked, grinning from ear-to-ear. "That's not what I mean!" I yelled at them in annoyance. How do they all come to that conclusion? I think Gunner and Luffy are the only ones who don't come to that conclusion. "I want to be brave like you and the other Warriors of Elbaf!" I elaborated.
"Gababababababa! I see!" the Giant laughed happily.
"We know we're all going to cease to exist sometime, but we know it's better to die with honor than without it. As a Warrior of Elbaf, to die such a great death would be an everlasting treasure. That is what we seek in our Country" I know my eyes are sparkling in awe and excitement. "I've decided…"
"I'm going to learn from you guys. I'll call you master!" I told him, bowing on the ground.
Luffy's POV
An explosion occurred when Dorry drank the concoction. It was before I could try to stop him from doing so since I just realized what it was I was smelling earlier. I thought it was from the Volcano. "Dorry?!"
I jumped on Dorry's chest, looking at the injuries on his face. "It exploded in his stomach! The other Giant must've booby trapped it!" Vivi theorized. The idea that that was even a suggestion angered me. I jumped down from the Giant's chest, getting in Vivi's face to yell at her.
"Brogy would never do anything like that! They both honor the customs of their homeland!" I yelled at her. "Then who did it?" Vivi asked.
"Try Baroque Works! They're here, right now, on this Island" I told her angrily. "Luffy? Is that right?! Are you friends with these 'Baroque Works' people?" Dorry asked me.
"No, we're not. They're trying to destroy Vivi's Country" I told him. "I see, can you show me proof of this?" he asked coughing up blood. I searched through my pouch, taking out a book.
"Here, it has everything on Baroque Works in it" I told him when I enlarged the book so he could read it. He read the information about Baroque Works before nodding his head.
"I see, thank you young Pirate Captain" Dorry thanked before he fell backwards. His eyes rolled back into his head.
"Freeze" "Return" I ordered when the black book with silver scrawl was in the air. I stretched my arm to grab it once it became small again. I untied my pouch once it was back with me again, putting it inside. "How are you so sure it is Baroque Works?" Vivi asked me.
"My Crew wouldn't do that, and neither would a Giant of Elbaf. Neither of them are like that" I told her easily.
*Rumble* "Isn't that their signal?" Vivi asked.
*Boom* *Boom* *Boom* "Yeah, it is" I frowned, eye covered by my hat.
Dorry got up, worrying me when I saw and heard his labored breathing. "You need to rest Dorry! If you go, you'll surely die" Vivi told him. "At least let me heal your stomach before you go" I suggested. I know he won't take the offer, but it is worth asking.
"I will fight, I am Dorry…" he coughed up blood, making my frown deepen. "…I will fight for Elbaf's pride!" he continued. "I will die as a Warrior" he finished. He got up, his breathing still labored.
~Alabasta Saga~
Dorry struggled to get up, sweat rolling down his arms with the strain.
When he finally stood to his full height, he lifted the Sea King's skeleton out of the ground. "Luffy?!" Vivi yelled in fear before half of my body was trapped under the skull. "Hey?!" I exclaimed in annoyance, cheeks puffed out childishly.
"I will not run away, even with these injuries" Dorry told us. "I didn't have the God's protection, that is all this was" he finished as he walked away. "Someone has interfered with your duel!"
He stopped walking when I yelled that. "Any duel that has been hindered isn't a fair duel, right?!" I yelled at him.
"Silence! How can a mere Human know anything about the Warriors of Elbaf's customs?! You're a Human who couldn't have lived more than two decades" Dorry shouted. "Because I know Loki's great great great great grandmother, the Giant, Alida!***" I yelled.
"You should know nothing about the Giant, royal Alida" Dorry told me, walking away again. I continued punching the skeleton, annoyed with its weight on my back.
Time Skip: The Fight
When the fight started, I was still punching the skeleton. "Right after I meet a great Warrior, this happens!" I complained, punching the ground. "Just calm down" Vivi told me.
"Who in Baroque Works would dare interfere?! I will make them pay for this!" I yelled in anger.
"Luffy? Carue's missing" Vivi worried. I looked up and heard Usopp from the collection of Stands****. He was yelling my name repeatedly for whatever reason.
Usopp jumped out of the Jungle, running right into a rock not far from where I was stuck. He bounced off of it with a *boink* and landed on another, face first, with a thud this time. *Thud* Now he's face-first on the ground, that must've hurt. "Oww…"
"I have terrible news! A Dinosaur ate Nami!" he informed frantically when he ran over to us.
"She wasn't eaten by a Dinosaur" I told him blandly. "She was taken by Baroque Works" that got him to calm down a bit. "Eh?! But… Why capture Nami and not me?" he asked.
I was going to answer, but Vivi got to it before I could. I was getting even more irritated than before just from thinking about Nami being captured. "That alcohol might've been for us to" Vivi mentioned making Usopp curious.
"What about the alcohol?!"
Vivi explained what happened making Usopp as mad as I was earlier. "This is terrible!" Usopp exclaimed as I heard grunts coming from where the Giants were fighting. "There's no way they can settle a century of honorable battle like this" I agreed with him on this.
Blood erupted from behind the tree line, making me sad and angry. "This is like a test from Elbaf, the God of War" I remembered Dorry telling us.
"I didn't have the God's protection, that is all this was" Dorry mentioned after.
I grinded my teeth before hitting my head repeatedly on the ground. I was annoyed with myself for not being able to do anything. "Luffy? Calm down!" Vivi cautioned before I screamed.
"Who was it?! Who did this?!" I screamed so loud I know it could be heard from anywhere on the Island.
I struggled to get free when I heard that Brogy was in one of Mr. 3's artworks. "I hear you Luffy. I don't care who it is, I'm gonna make them pay!" Usopp declared but I saw that his legs were shaking.
"I'll go to Usopp!" Vivi volunteered. "Good! That'll be reassuring!" Usopp said, giving her a thumbs-up. "None of you will be going anywhere!" a familiar, irritating voice said. I looked up, seeing it was Mr. 5.
He threw an unconscious Carue on the ground a second after he made his appearance with Miss Valentine. I saw Vivi run over to the Super Spot-Billed Duck in fright and worry. "We don't need him anymore, so you can have him back"
"Carue!"
"Who are these guys?!"
"That's Miss Valentine and Mr. 5, they're Baroque Works' cronies from Whiskey Peak" I answered Usopp through gritted teeth. I was even more annoyed with them than before. "Why did you do this to him?! He did nothing to you!"
"You're right Princess, he didn't. We needed him to lure the two of you out, but this ugly Bird wouldn't squawk. We only consider the Straw Hat dangerous out of your group, but since he's already neatly trapped we don't need the Bird anymore" Mr. 5 explained. He was grinning like a maniac.
"Carue" Vivi worried. *Qu…ack* "What a pitiful Bird" Miss Valentine said. That angered Vivi. "Were you the ones who planted a Bomb to injure the Giant Dorry?" Usopp asked them in anger.
"Yeah, so?" Mr. 5 asked before asking Miss Valentine if he is on the list. "No, we should take care of him anyway since he looks like a friend of Monkey D. Luffy" Miss Valentine suggested. "So, it was you, I was right!" I said struggling to get out from under the skull again.`
"How about I just defeat you right now?!" Vivi yelled in fury when she stood up.
Mr. 5: "Oh? You are going to try and struggle, Miss Wednesday?"
Miss Valentine: "Do you think you stand a chance against Officer Agents like us?"
"Peacock Slasher!"
"Me too! Special Attack: Exploding Star!"
The two yelled, running forward. The Star exploded but it didn't reach the duo. Miss Valentine ascended into the air with a puff of smoke. "Such a nice explosive blast!" Miss Valentine complimented.
"Nose Fancy Cannon!" Usopp was charred by the man's attack.
"Such a pity! 10,000 Kilogram Press!" Miss Valentine yelled. The attack hit Usopp, knocking him over. I looked over to see that Vivi was being held in the air by Mr. 5 who was holding her by her throat.
"We won't kill you just yet, there's no need to be so upset" Mr. 5 chuckled darkly.
"We were told to abduct you, those were Mr. 3's specific orders" he explained. "Mr. 3? The Wax-Wax Fruit man?! He's on the Island?!" Vivi asked in anger. I saw her hands tighten around Mr. 5's arm, the one that was holding her by the neck.
"You mean Galdino? The one who doesn't want people to know he's Mr. 3 but openly wears 3s all over his body?" I asked. Mr. 5 nodded in surprise. "Have you seen him before?" he asked me.
"Just in Book of Baroque Works and The Human: Galdino" I told them easily. The Human: Galdino is a Violet purple book with golden scrawl and border. "So, you're the Captain of the Strawhat Pirates?" Mr. 5 asked.
"You already know that, don't you?! I'm pretty sure one of us told you that at Whiskey Peak!" I yelled at him in childish annoyance. "I don't remember that, just being punched by your annoying mug" he told me.
"That was my carbon copy, not me" I told him blankly.
A/N: Hello, I finished this at 8:55 P.M. on September 23, 2017. I'll finish the rest of the Little Garden Arc on the next update.
I finished rewriting this at 10:51 A.M. on October 8, 2018.
*Quote by Julius Caesar on BrainyQuote.
**This is the name of the being in the Colosseum that trains with Usopp. Gunner is level 1, the lowest difficulty in the 'Ranged Weapons' class.
***Pronounced like Alvida but without the 'v'
****I found that a forest is called a 'collection of stands'. I had 'from the woods' before but it's a Jungle, not the woods. There were other words I could've used but they seemed wrong for this. These words were: grove, copse, and clump.
`He has so much muscle for a 17-year-old with skinny arms. So cool!
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