Daughter of Dragon
Chapter 2
Disclaimer: I don't own One Piece but I own this fiction and any other OC's in this story
ITALIC: THOUGHTS
BOLD: MOVEMENTS
Zoro gazed at his captain curiously.
There was something otherworldly about her that Zoro could not fathom.
The incident of Shells Town was still fresh in his mind.
How Luffy handled an entire Marine base and how easily she took down the infamous Axe-Hand Morgan with her bare hands was still fresh in his mind.
For a girl, Zoro would readily admit that Luffy fought with tremendous skill, speed, and strength.
Elegant and graceful yet wild and unpredictable, that was Luffy's fighting style.
In terms of a fighter, Zoro could admit respecting his new captain.
As a leader though, Zoro has yet to have an opinion.
"Are you ready?" Luffy inquired her first mate while grinning like a savage as she held her flintlocks tightly in each hand.
Zoro gave his captain a questioning look before drawing his swords. One in each hand and the sword that he consider his treasure securely in his mouth.
"Ready." Zoro answered positively.
"Good."
Luffy then proceeded to barged into a Bandit infested building guns blazing.
Truth be told, Zoro hated guns.
For him, a gun is the weapon of the unskilled.
After all, using a gun requires little to no skill to use.
Point, pull trigger, repeat, that is how one use a gun and Zoro hated it.
Also, without ammunition, guns are completely useless.
In hs opinions, a weapon that requires zero skill to use is a weapon not worth using.
Then Zoro sees how his captain uses her flintlocks and Zoro's opinions in guns change drastically.
Zoro had never expected guns to be used in such a way that it can be consider as a work of art.
When his captain entered the building, she was met with a hail of gunfire.
She dodged the bullets flying at her by simply shifting her body to avoid the projectiles, making it seems that the bullets were merely passing by her.
As she dodged, she also returned fire.
And it was a thing of beauty.
In a span of three, five seconds, Luffy fired several bullets while moving her arms in several different angles. She remained stationary while her arms were in a blur, constantly moving, guns constantly firing.
The muzzle of her flintlocks flashed with each bullet that her guns were releasing.
The bullets released from her weapons cut through the air and struck every intended target.
No bullets were wasted, not a single one.
Five seconds passed, and Luffy exited the building, leaving dozens on the ground, bleeding from gunshot wounds.
"I'm done, you deal with the rest." Luffy told him and Zoro smirked as he charged in.
Time to show to his captain that he was also a capable fighter.
He could feel his swords humming with excitement.
"Why are we going town-to-town, taking down bandits?" Zoro asked while enjoying the food presented in front of him.
Luffy and Zoro were eating in a bar, an assortment of food; all of them look delectable and delicious, on their table.
The quantity of food in front of them cost around 50,000 berries.
But the bar that they were eating in did not charge them a single cent.
The food in front of them was given to them as payment for getting rid of the bandits that were terrorizing their town.
"Why are you asking now?" Luffy inquired, finishing her seventh plate.
Zoro could only shrugged. "I though we're pirates. Since Shells Town, the only thing we've been doing is Bounty Hunting."
It has been two weeks since the incident in Shells Town. Since they left, the two of them have been drifting from island to island, taking down bandits left and right.
Today, they took down their seventh Bandit Group.
Finishing her eight plate, Luffy answered Zoro. "I have three reasons why we are Bounty Hunting." Luffy began while filling her plate with food. "First, we don't have a ship worthy enough to sail in the Grand Line. My Sail Boat is good but it won't last a second in the seas of the Grand Line. We are collecting bounties so that we can commission a Ship of our own."
That make sense, Zoro admitted.
"Second, I am still searching for more Nakamas." Luffy pause to take a mouthful of meat and when the meat was safely downed to her stomach, she continued. "And before you ask, I am not going to settle for weaklings. The Pirate Crew that I envision is small, a crew between 10 to 20, but all of them must either be strong enough to take hundreds of men or possesses talents and abilities that are one-of-a-kind or simply indispensable."
Okay, Zoro can agree to that and he can respect that as well. Zoro does not like the thought of taking care of incompetent weaklings.
"Finally, I am amassing our funds so that we're prepared to sail in the Grand Line and not look like beggars that would result to plundering civilians." Luffy finished with all seriousness. "By the way, we are not going to plunder villages for money. I draw the line in harming people that do not mean me harm. I am above intimidating people that cannot touch me in a fight." Luffy stated with conviction.
Again, Zoro gave his captain a smirk.
'I am under a good woman.' Zoro thought with relief.
"Understood, captain." Zoro was satisfied with his captain's answer.
"Good." Luffy nodded as they continue to their meal. "By the way, the last Bandit that we threw into the Marine Precinct was a dick." Luffy commented distastefully but there was a sense a humor in her voice.
Zoro chuckled in agreement. "He wasn't worth 2,000,000."
"He wasn't worth a dime."
The two ate, conversing and joking with each other, a good atmosphere surrounding them.
Before they left the island that they were in, Luffy ushered Zoro to a secluded area where no one can possibly stumble upon them or hear them.
There, Luffy stood across her first mate.
Zoro could only looked at his captain in confusion.
"Draw your sword, Zoro. Let's have a spar." Luffy told him while removing her treasured Straw Hat from her head and securing it behind her. "I am going to show you something nice." Luffy prompted him.
Zoro could only smile in anticipation as he drew his three swords. He took his signature stance and awaited for his captain to be ready.
Seeing this, Luffy cut her forearms with her revolving rings, creating a large open and bleeding wound on her arms.
Zoro was confused at this but his confusion turned to shocked when he noticed that there was no blood seeping out from the wound.
"Branch Of Sin: Crows Claw!" A scythe-like blade, three feet in height and one feet in widths, burst out from the wounds on Luffy's forearms.
Zoro stared at this in surprised, and thus was only able to barely defend himself when Luffy disappeared from his line of sight and appeared directly in front of him. She swung her blades at him with the intent to take his head.
Zoro was able to block but the force behind the attack was enough to take him off his feet and threw him several feet backwards.
"Zoro, have you ever heard of Devil Fruits before?" Luffy asked him as the aforementioned swordsman got back on his feet.
"Haven't heard of them." Zoro answered curtly.
"I don't know the specifics but Devil Fruits are mystical fruits that can give the eater many different and varying kinds of strange and interesting abilities, though the eater would never be able to swim ever again." Luffy explained with the best of her ability. "Accordding to Grandpapa, Devil Fruits are rare in the East Blue, but they are common in the Grand Line. I hope you won't be suprirced when you see some strange ability users when we sail in the Grand Line."
Luffy then cut her wrist before showing it to Zoro. "I ate the Chi Chi no Mi, or the Blood Blood Fruit. This fruit gave me the ability to manipulate and generate blood." To prove her point, Luffy willed a considerable amount of blood on the palm of her hand. She then willed her blood into severals shapes, from a flower to a shuriken to a miniature cat.
Zoro could only stared at this display in fascination.
"What are you, the Devil?" Zoro asked, although there was no fear in his voice.
Luffy shrugged. "I am Monkey D. Luffimia." Luffy stated casually. "So, you want to continue this or do you want stop?"
"Bring it, Captain." Zoro grinned maliciously at her.
Luffy grinned animalistically as she pulled her right arm back. Compressing the blood on his palm, he formed a sphere of blood the side of a baseball.
"Branch of Sin: Ganta Gun." Luffy hurled the sphere of blood at Zoro. The ball of blood travelled through the air with the speed of a bullet fired from a high caliber bullet.
Zoro avoided this attack and the sound of trees falling behind him made him glad he did so.
Zoro charged at his Captain with the used of his favorite technique.
"Oni Giri!" Zoro shouted as he charged at his captain at high speed.
Luffy's grin became wider and she swung her Crow's Claw at the charging Zoro.
There blades met.
The force behind Zoro's attack pushed Luffy back a considerable distance.
But Zoro was the one who was taken aback.
Though he was able to push Luffy back, the fact remain that his Captain was able to stop all three of his swords, completely rendering his technique useless.
"By the way, before I forget." Luffy said with a laugh. "I am a Combat and Fighting genius, so when I beat you to the ground, no hard feelings." Luffy pushed Zoro backed before going into a peculiar stance.
Luffy got into a crouching position, like an animal about to charge at its prey. Eyeing Zoro with a savage like look in her eyes, Luffy lunged at Zoro, her Crows Claw glinting with the setting sun.
Zoro met her charge with all of his swords.
Zoro could feel his entire body groaning. The strength of his captain was unreal.
'This is going to be fun.' Zoro thought happily.
Sailing into the next island, Luffy knew that she needed a navigator.
Luffy had accepted that she has a poor sense of direction. She is the type of person that merely follows the wind and would accept where the wind would lead her.
Luffy knows, in the seas that she would be sailing, that mindset might get her killed.
Luffy gazed at her slumbering first mate and shake her head.
Zoro, for all his prowess as a swordsman, has a sense of direction of a stoned, drunk, retarded lemming.
She could not believe that a human being can have such a poor sense of direction.
Shaking her head, Luffy started wondering where she can find a navigator that she can tolerate.
For one thing, Luffy needed someone with a great sense of direction, a person who can read weather patterns, and finally, someone that can fight or has enough sense to not get in her way while she neutralizes the threats around them.
Luffy knew that being meticulous is not an option for someone starting a Pirate Crew, but she also knows that to survive in the seas as a pirate, quality is better than quantity, and being picky with her recruitment would guarantee her and her crew a better chance in surviving the neverending ocean.
"I guess searching town-to-town for a navigator won't be a waste of time." Luff muttered while pressing her Straw Hat to cover her eyes. "I knew I should have listened to Sabo-nii when he was lecturing me and Ace how to navigate. Stupid Ace-nii."
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Arriving at Orange town, Luffy decided that she hated the place.
Orange Town, if nothing else, was depressing to the point that she wanted to grabbed her first mate, hop into her sailboat, and leave.
But they need money to commission a Pirate ship and they are also in a desperate need for a navigator.
Regardless of what Luffy wanted, the needs of her crew come first.
"Where to, Captain?" Zoro asked dutifully.
"The nearest bar. We need to ask if they have a Bandit infestation and if anyone there here has a bounty that this town wants to get rid of."
Zoro nodded as they head towards town. "How much do we need to get a ship? We already have 12,000,000 in our pockets."
"We need 45,000,000 for our ship and another 30,000,000 when we set sail in the Grand Line."
"You do know that us taking down random bandits won't let us reach that goal, right?"
"I know." Luffy admitted but she did not look undeterred. "We need one lucky break, just one and the two of us are set." Luffy guaranteed her first mate before sparing him a glance. "Trust me."
Zoro only nodded.
With the life that she had lived in the past 8 years, Nami learned to value opportunity.
If one sees an opportunity, one takes it, no questions ask, no buts or ifs.
When opportunity presents itself, take it as fast as you can.
In this world, everything for survival.
"Boss! You're here " Nami shouted with feigned glee at the two random people that she came across as she run from the three pirates that was sent after her. The pirates looked passed across the girl., their eyes landing on the peculiar individual.
"Great! Mind taking care of these guys for me? I got the map, so I'll head back to the ship." With that said, Nami bolted as fast as she can.
Only to fall down hard when someone grabbed the back of her collar.
Nami groaned in pain before her eyes widen at the sight of a bayonet between her eyes.
"I don't like being set up." Nami stared fearfully at the girl with the blackest eyes that she had ever seen.
The girl stared at her as well for a full second before a radiant smile graced her lips.
"Zoro, I like this girl, make sure she doesn't run before speak with her." Luffy looked at the three men that were chasing Nami. "This won't take a minute." Luffy muttered before going after the three men.
Luffy first targeted the man in the middle. A swift, hard kicked on the jaw was enough to floor the man.
The man on her left tried to retaliate with his saber but she caught the wrist of the man to her left, effectively stopping him in mid-swing.
Twisting the man's wrist, Luffy disarmed the man and a swift kicked on the stomach was enough to send the man keeling on the ground.
Swiping the saber, she parried the blow from the last man standing of the group. Luffy parried the blow so hard that the man's saber as well as the one that she had swipe shattered on impact. The man was shocked but Luffy was not. She grabbed the man by the throat before effortlessly lifting him up of his feet.
Luffy looked at the man with completely apathy before slamming him hard on the ground, head and neck first.
Luffy turned his attention to the man whose saber she swipe. The man was slowly getting on his feet. Luffy shook her head before taking three steps towards him. When the man was on his feet, Luffy throw him upwards before catching him and brutally slamming him on the ground. His neck ricochets on the ground on impact.
With the three men incapacitated, Luffy turned her attention back on the girl.
"You are going to the bar with us."
Nami was wised enough to not reject Luffy's offer.
Nami was both nervous and somewhat scared.
She was nervous due to the woman that she was sitting with.
She was scared due to the flintlocks in front of her. The bayonets attached to those flintlocks looked sharp, extremely sharp.
"So," The woman spoke and Nami looked at her carefully.
For one thing, Nami was blown away by how pretty she was and that smile on her lips was very bewitching.
On the other hand, the woman was emitting an aura that trumps even that of Arlong the Fishman.
"Can I have a name?" The woman asked her cordially.
"Nami." Nami answered softly.
The woman nodded, before extending her hand at her. "Monkey D. Luffimia, please call me Luffy." Nami shook her hand. "The guy drinking behind me is Roronoa Zoro. He is my First mate."
Nami perked up at the mention of first mate. She narrowed her eyes. "Are you guys Pirates.?"
Luffy shook her head. "Not officially, not yet." Luffy answered casually, calculatingly looking at Nami. "For one to be a Pirate, one must have a ship and one must fly a color(flag). I have neither, not yet that is. For now, me and my associate are Bounty Hunters collecting funds for our Pirate Crew and eventual sailing to the Grand Line. Currently we have 12,000,000."
When Luffy saw Nami's eyes perking up, she knew that she has her hook.
Time to reel her in.
"You dislike pirates, right?" Luffy asked and the look in Nami's eyes was all the answer that she needed. "Don't bother answering that, but at least answer this. My associates and I are in need of a navigator. I look at you and I see someone who knows her way around the seas. I also like your eyes. You have very pretty eyes."
Nami blushed at that compliment and the way Luffy was staring at her was making her fidget.
"I know you don't like pirates, I can see it in your eyes, but I would like to ask you to be our navigator, at least until we have a ship and until I can fly my colors." Luffy offered before adopting a thoughtful expression. "Name your price."
Nami was really staring at the girl. She was different.
She claims to be a pirate but she spoke in a way similar to that of a negotiator, a businesswoman trying to broker a deal.
Her voice was firm and strong, but diplomatic.
And her eyes, Nami have never seen someone with such strong eyes.
Nami did not know what come over her but she started speaking about why she was in the island. "I'm Thief but I steal strictly from Pirates." Luffy did not look trouble by this so Nami continued. "I'm here to steal from Buggy the Clown."
"Funny way to call a pirate…" Luffy commented with a smile. "So, if I help you steal from him, would you be our navigator, even for a while?"
Nami doubted whether or not Luffy and the infamous Roronoa Zoro could win against Buggy the Clown and his crew but maybe, just maybe, she can use this to her advantage.
"Yes."
Luffy grinned at that answer.
Hook. Line. Sinker.
Okay, I'll be first to admit my dislike for the Orange Town Arc and I really hate writing for something that I dislike.
Still, I will write the fight between Luffy and Buggy and it will appear through a flashback next chapter or during the Arlong part of this story.
For now, please enjoy...
P.S. Rest In Peace...Dusty Rhodes...An amazing wrestler, an even more amazing Wrestling Booker, a revolutionary in the wrestling business. My condolence to his surviving family...