A/N: Hello, I do hope you like this chapter and story and will continue reading. I intend to update two more chapters for this before next Thursday.
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Chapter Fourteen: Fight for the Flag Part Two
Third Person POV
'This is no time to be resting! I should get out of here while Doctorine isn't here!' Nami thought as she walked to the door with her checkered coat. 'I didn't like being stuck here for three days'
She opened the creaky door which she should not have done. The creaking got the attention of Wapol who was a floor below her, and in perfect view. "I got lucky! It looks like I can leave without a problem"
That's what she thought, until she saw a cackling man when she looked over the railing. "W-Who's that?!" she exclaimed as sweat beaded on her face.
"You must be one of the Straw Hats!"
'He looks like a bad guy!' at least she's smart. Not wise, but smart. "I don't have any idea what you're talking about!" she waved dismissively to the man. "I'm wrong?! Really?!" he was acting a lot like one of Luffy's replicas.
"I'm a Navigator who happens to be passing by!"
"Oh, I see!"
"See you later!"
"Alright!" Wapol raised his hand in a wave. As she walked away he started climbing the column closest to her that's connected to the second floor. "Liar!" he yelled when he jumped onto the second floor.
She was shocked to see him. She started running, angering the man. "Wait, you idiot!" he yelled as he chased her. "No!"
"Don't come near me! Go away!" Nami yelled as the man got closer. She ran down the stairs, jumping the rest of the way when she had nine, icy steps left to go. Wapol tried to jump down the stairs to follow her… and got stuck.
"Did I gain some weight? I'll do this then, Munch-Munch Factory!"
The man started eating himself to make it so he was small enough to fit down the stairs. "What is that?!" Nami freaked when she saw the animated, metal mouth.
It started hopping down the stairs with a whistle, and a thud, with every jump, and step, it took, skipped. When it was on the first floor with Nami, it was jiggling because it was still eating itself.
"H-He turned into a bucket!"
Smoke was blown from the mouth before he spoke. "Miraculous Bone Structure Shaping Technique, complete!"
Wapol came back out of the Munch-Munch Factory as a man with weight loss. "Slim Wapol!" he announced proudly, hands on hips. Nami was terrified. "I won't let you escape me"
Nami started running before Slim Wapol leaped after her.
He landed on her, hands on shoulders, pushing her down onto the icy, stone brick floor of the Castle. "I will eat you first! Maaahahahaha!"
"Found you!"
Luffy's POV
"Found you! Get off of Nami!" I yelled, foot colliding with… is that Slim Wapol?
I heard the wall crack when I pulled my foot back from the man's face when he hit the wall far away from us. "Are you okay Nami?" I asked when I reached her. She sat up on her knees, mouth agape as she stared at my ruined coat.
"What happened to your coat?" she asked in shock. "This?" I asked looking at the tattered and ripped places on my coat.
"Wapol shot Cannonballs at me because I was protecting a Flag that wasn't his. It's no big deal" I shrugged. "That is it, you brat!" I angered Wapol! Yay!
"Man! His body is really tough! That makes it fun though!" I smiled, cracking my knuckles when I turned to the angered man. "Believe it or not, this is the Arsenal!" and I'm pretty sure it is locked.
"I'm the only one with a key to this room. Obviously, there are various types of weapons in here. When I eat them and make them a part of my body using Munch-Munch Shock, you will witness a horrific human weapon!" that's if you can even open it.
He tried for his key, but it was gone. He was quite surprised by that. His eyes were bulging which was hilarious.
I started laughing at him as wind blew inside. Somehow, my Fire orange shield-thing disappeared. I really need to fix that. "This isn't over"
I made myself stop laughing, wiping my eyes of the tears. "Wait!" I yelled as he ran off. "I have another trump card" he said when I chased him up the stairs.
"Hold it, Wapol!" I yelled as I continued chasing him. We were almost to the top of the staircase. I watched him get up to the upper level from a hatch in the ceiling.
Don't the upper levels house the Tin Titan Royal Crown Seven Barrel Cannon?
I treaded through the snow to get to Wapol. "That won't do anything but annoy me Wapol, and that's if it works" I told the man when I got to the room with the Seven Barrel Cannon.
"Time to be blown away, Straw Hat!"
He pulled the lever down, but all that did was create a circle of snow dust around the Cannon from the brush of air. He tried it again, and many more times, with the same result: Nothing.
*Chirp Chirp* Little, hatchling Snow Birds chirped from one of the holes where a Cannonball comes from. Two hatchlings hopped out before a mother Snow Bird flew to land on the top of the weapon. It was a beautiful with its Blush pink and Amethyst purple feathers.
"A Bird's nest…!" the man was in shock apparently. What did he think the Castle was going to be like when he got back?
That after years of being gone everything was going to be the same? That someone wouldn't move into an abandoned building? That animals won't make nests wherever they can find, even in his Castle?
"Snow Birds!" I cheered happily as I remembered the five hatchlings in the nest on the front door. I started laughing when I saw his face.
"How dare you make fun of me, you brat!"
The Snow Bird chirped at him making me smile. The Snow Bird has a beautiful voice when its happy. "I am the King of Drum Kingdom!" which no longer exists. He opened his mouth, about to eat the poor Snow Bird.
Rushing over, I closed my hand over his face, closing his mouth in the process.
"This is it for you, Wapol. It doesn't matter what status someone holds! It doesn't matter if someone is 'great' or not!" *Chirp Chirp*
"You cannot make-up irrational rules because it works for you, you cannot take away another's happiness because it makes you happy, you can't harm innocent creatures because they annoy you. You left your Country when it was at its most dire moments. You are no King, you're a Tyrant, and Tyrants must be dealt with"
"It does matter, Straw Hat. Drum Kingdom is a member of the World Government, this is a World-class offense!" he tried to reason.
"You think I care about that! The Government knows who I am and what I can and can't do. Whether it's a World-class offense or a petty crime, they can do whatever they want to me and I won't care. I might even revel in fighting them! This, right here, is my own fight!" I grinned deviously.
"You, stupid idiot! I will eat you!"
He opened his mouth, but couldn't do what he wanted because my fingers stretched, keeping him from eating me. "Just try!" I smiled as I was pushed backwards. "Munch-Munch Shock! Tongue Cannon!"
"Yikes! I forgot about that!" I exclaimed when his tongue morphed into a bronze Cannon. "Disappear!" he yelled as the Cannon was fired.
I heard the man laughing on the ground below me. I had jumped right before the Cannon was fired. "That brat let his guard down! Maaahahahaha"
I smiled when I dropped from the ceiling. "Actually, that was you!" I grabbed his shoulders before he could even think of moving. "One, two…"
Pushing down on his shoulder, I lifted myself into the air. I spread my legs to do the splits before spinning my lower body. I felt him tense under my fingers. "Let me go, brat!" he yelled when I grabbed his waist with both of my feet.
"Gum-Gum…" I started, flipping so he was facing the ceiling. "Bowgun!" he flew upwards, towards the ceiling and crashed through it and outside through the roof of the tower.
It's quite ironic because, if I remember correctly, the way he got stuck gives him a perfect view of the flapping Flag.
Flipping to my feet, I smiled when I was standing again. Stretching my arms outside the hole in the wall in front of me, I pulled myself onto the outside of the tower. I started scaling the tower. "Ahh!" he screamed in fright when I reached him.
"You had better be prepared when you insult someone's skull Flag!" punching my fists together. "Gum-Gum…" I stretched both of my arms back to start an attack.
"Just wait a minute! I'll give you status and a medal!" he tried to bargain. "I already have the highest status one can have in this World" childishly sticking my tongue out at him. "I-I'll make you vice-King then!"
"Bazooka!" I yelled, pushing my hands into the man's stomach. Where I hit him won't cause permanent damage and it wasn't hard enough to kill him either. He still went flying though.
Third Person POV
At the edge of Gyasta, everyone was surprised to see the white rope attached to a large tree with circle windows. "A young man in Town accidently found it"
"This used to be Dr. Kureha's house!"
They rode a Boysenberry purple and Lace white mushroom-like Gondola up the rope. Zoro was happy about the ride while Usopp worried about the Gondola's weight limit as it was a bit crowed.
"We can't let Dalton go alone! He's injured!"
"If it comes to it, we will fight as well!"
"I get that, I do! But we won't be able to get there like this!"
Dalton was breathing heavily from his injuries and the rapid incline. "Paddle harder!" Usopp ordered the paddlers. "Don't push yourself too hard, Dalton" Vivi advised the injured man in a soft voice.
The man tightened his fist as he remembered what Wapol, Kuromarimo, and Chess told him not too long before Wapol and the rest left the Island.
"Please hang in there, Dalton!" Vivi pleaded when Dalton coughed up blood. "What do we do?! Dalton! Dalton! Dalton!" Vivi cried. "Don't worry about me, I'm fine"
Dalton started remembering back then. When he told Chess and Kuromarimo that a Country should have heart*. "What's wrong with wishing a Country will have a heart?!"
He pulled a string of Dynamite from his jacket, scaring and worrying everyone on the Gondola. He started talking to them about a plan of some sort.
The Gondola reached the top of the Mountain before Usopp and Zoro got out. "I'll check it out, so you don't need to worry! You can come later" Usopp told the passengers.
Zoro walked ahead of him, angering him again. He even put on a show for the passengers.
They walked up the stairs, with Usopp cowering behind Zoro's legs when they reached the top. This angered/annoyed Zoro because he didn't give Usopp permission to cling onto him.
"Let go of me! If you're scared, take your own advice!"
Luffy's POV
Looking down from my spot on the chipped tower, I heard Usopp and Zoro on the ground below. Usopp was clinging to an annoyed Zoro.
Leaping off the tower, I rapidly fell towards my two Crewmembers. I landed right in front of them in a cloud of powdered snow.
When the snow cloud disappeared, I was ankle deep in a messed-up pile of snow that was covering Usopp and Zoro. "That's cold!" I complained. "Hi Vivi! Shishishishi" I laughed happily when I saw her
"What were you trying to do, Luffy?!" well, Zoro's furious with me again.
"I'm surprised you came up here! I thought you didn't want to Usopp," turning to him when he stood up. He looked proud despite taking the Gondola instead of climbing up here himself. "And I thought you were going to train close to the Merry" turning to Zoro this time.
"Don't be silly! If there is a Mountain in front of me, I am the kind of guy that is going to climb it" Usopp declared, sounding proud. "But you came from the stairs that lead to the Gondola"
Usopp wilted before Vivi walked up to me. "Are Nami and Sanji okay?"
"They're fine. Nami still needs rest and Sanji can't move for a while or he risks not being able to walk again. It should be fine with Dr. Kureha as their Doctor. She doesn't let her patients leave the Mountain unless they're cured or dead. She's very strict about her patients' health" I smiled.
"What were you doing on top of the Castle?"
"I was fighting Wapol, he's been a jerk ever since we met him. The fact he abandoned his Country when it needed a King most was even more reason to kick his butt! I just sent him flying so he should be long gone by now" I answered my Swordsman with a grin.
"So, as I thought, the one who was flying earlier was Wapol!" that was Dalton. "You beat him?!"
"Yep! Sorry that you couldn't have your revenge" I apologized to him. "What about his top two henchmen?"
"Chessmarimo was beaten by Chopper" I smiled. He was shocked.
"I found us a new friend Usopp! He's super interesting and is going to agree to join our Crew before we leave"
*Crunch* Looking to my left, I saw Chopper. He was hiding the wrong way, as always, behind a tree. "You're that Reindeer… you've been fighting all this time!"
*Crunch* I watched as Dalton fell to his knees, bowing in gratitude for what we did. "Thank you! With this… Drum will be reborn…"
Everyone came up worrying me. "Calm-Calm Silent Ring!" I activated the Calm-Calm Fruit before they could speak. Chopper couldn't hear them call him a monster, so he won't run away so quickly.
"Don't call Chopper a monster you guys! He took care of Wapol's henchmen!" I yelled at them. "He's the new friend I was talking about, Usopp!" hitting Usopp on the head. I looked to Chopper to see his confused head tilt.
"That thing is?!"
"He isn't a thing! He's a Reindeer that accidently ate the Human-Human Fruit, because of people calling him a monster he's scared of Humans!" I corrected angrily. "Are you gonna call him a monster or raise your weapons at him?" I asked everyone.
They all shook their heads no, so I deactivate the Calm-Calm Fruit I replicated. The clear, almost transparent barrier disappeared.
"Come over here, Chopper!"
The Reindeer shook his head, running into the Castle making me frown. "Does he not want to honor the wish Hiluluk had for him?"
A/N: Hello, I finished writing this at 8:58 P.M. on October 24, 2018.
*Wapol and the others are just like the Gorosei and most Marines: 'Governments don't need to have heart' 'He's right. What's important is the system'
I do hope you like this chapter and story and will continue reading.
