Hey, everyone I stayed up late so I could have another new chapter up as soon as I could for all you guys to make up for neglecting the story for so long. I hope you all enjoy it.

"AAAAAAA" Giant Talk

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Chapter 17: Welcome to Little Garden

Sometime the next day, I think it was around noon, I woke up and climbed down the crows nest to see what everyone was doing.

Zoro was sleeping up agianst the mast, no real suprise there.

Luffy and Usopp had tied Carue to a rope and were getting ready to toss the poor bird over board, apparently to use him as bait. But, luckily for Carue Vivi quickly intervened.

Sanji and Nami were no where to be seen.

"Good Morning, Cortez." Vivi greeted me the moment I touched the deck.

"Mornin'." I replied. "Sorry, about those two trying to use Carue as bait."

"It's alright." Vivi told me. "I'm just glad that it wasn't to late."

"Well, I'll make sure those two don't do it agian." I told her as I made my way to the two.

The next thing that happned is what normally happened when the two did something stupid, I hit both of them in the head and yelled at them for being idiots and told them to fish like normal people.

"Don't you think that was a bit much?" Vivi asked as I made my back over to her.

"Nah, those two need a firm hand from time to time or they'd get themselves killed." I told her.

Unfortanetly, the peace of the afternoon was quickly ruined by the arival of our resident perverted cook.

"Shitty Drunk! Who do you think you are getting so close to Vivi-chwan and knocking me out...twice!" Sanji yelled as he came flying out of no where giving me a flying drop kick.

"I didn't do anything that you didn't have coming, you swirled-face pervert!" I shouted back at him.

"What was that, you drunken ogre!" Sanji shouted getting in my face.

"Will you two assholes, shut up!" Zoro shouted at us.

"Who are you calling asshole, asshole!" Sanji and I shouted back.

The next thing to happen was Me, Sanji, and Zoro all got into a fight complete with an anime dust cloud. But, during the scuffle I managed to escape just before Nami arrived to put a stop to the whole thing.

"Will you two knock it off!" Nami yelled as she hit both Sanji and Zoro on the head.

"I tried to stop them." I said, playing innocent.

Nami just gave me a look that said she didn't believe me, but she jsut continued her way back to her room. While, Zoro and Sanji went back to their buisness.

"Umm...Cortez?" Vivi said to get my attention. "Why did you quite fighting before Nami showed up?" she asked.

"Cause." I replied. "While, Luffy is the captian, Nami is the boss and you don't want to piss the boss off." I explianed.

After a while things went back to normal, Usopp was working on some new fishing gear, Luffy was sitting in his favorite spot, Zoro was sleeping, and Nami was sitting in her chair soaking up the sun.

Sanji then emerged from the kitchen with some kind of fruity drinks and Carue quickly began chugging the things down like they were water, with Usopp and Luffy chanting 'chug' for the bird to go faster.

I was just sitting up in the crows nest watching all this go down while, I kept a look out for anything that may have caused us any problems.

"Hey, guys! Look over there!" I heard Usopp shout from the starboard, how he got there so fast I'll never know. But, everyone turned to see what he was talking about to see a dolphin leap out of the water...unfortanelty this dolphin was the size of a submarine! And when the damn thing jumped right over the ship then you wouldn't be suprised when the color drained from everyone's face.

"Ahahahahahaha! Run away!" Luffy ordered in a cheery voice. And none of us argued as we got to work on getting the ship ready to get away in case the dolphin decided for a repeat performance, which it did but luckliy all it did was help us get away from it this time.

"Land!" I shouted to the rest of the crew, the moment I saw the landmass appear on the horizon.

"That must be Little Garden." Nami said while checking the Log Pose.

"Yahoo! Our second island on the Grand Line!" Luffy cheered.

We all decided to assemble on the bow to get a better view of our stop.

We sailed up to the island through a river mouth, the large dark jungle dwarfing our ship.

"Tha place doesn't live up to the name." Usopp commented, while shaking.

All of the sudden we all hears some very loud 'cawing'.

"What was that!?" Nami asked as she nevously looked around for the source.

"Just a little bird." I told her.

I didn't notice the large shadow looming over the ship or the fact that everyone else lost all the color to their faces, if it wasn't for Vivi pulling me to the side then I would have been in the claws of a bird the size of a jumbo jet.

"You call that 'little'!" Usopp shouted at me.

I just shrugged my shoulders. "It could have been bigger." I told him.

The next sight we saw as we sailed closer to the not so 'Little' Garden, was a tiger the size of a tour bus, but it suddenly became bloody and colapsed..dead.

When we fainally managed to dock Luffy decided he wanted to explore the island with Vivi tagging along. Sanji and Zoro decided to have a hunting contest and see who could get the most meat for us to eat.

"Man, I can't wait to see what's all here." I said to myself as I stood on the railing of the ship ready to jump onto the island.

But, the moment my feet left the railing something or rather two somethings grabbed a hold of my legs causing my top half to fall forward until my face slammed into the side of the ship.

I was then quickly hauled back onto the deck of the ship by the two culprits who caused me to face-plant.

"Don't leave!" Nami and Usopp shouted with anime tears running down thier faces. "There's no one to protect us!"

I slowly stood back up, a hard feat to do when two people are holding onto your legs. "You know all you to had to do was...ASK!" I shouted at them as I then shook them loose of my legs. "Geez, if you need me I'll be in the bathroom...dealing with my bruised face!"

The little trip to the bathroom wasn't all that eventful. I just made sure that nothing was broken and cursed the two the entire time I was in there, but by shouting every possible insult I could think for the two out loud so they could hear them. I was angry and needed to vent, okay?

When I was done I decided to go back on deck to see what the two were doing, but the moment I stepped out I was immediatally tackled to the ground by said to. And at first I thought they were mad at what I was saying about them, but I saw that their faces were ghost white and they were both on the verge or crying.

"Can I help you two?" I asked.

And the only answer I got was the two pointing behind themselves.

I threw the two off so I could see what they were pointing at and saw it was the face of a middle aged man, with blonde hair and large blonde beard that covered up most of his face with the bottom part resembling a semi circle.

"WELL?" asked the giant.

"Well...what?" I asked back cocking an eyebrow at him, which he probably couldn't see.

"I ASKED YOUR FRIENDS IF YOU HAD ANY ALE AND THEY SCAMPERED OFF." he expalined while motioning to the two that had moved behind the mast for a better hiding place.

"Yeah, we have a few barrles. Your welcome to them." I told the giant. "I'll go get them." I then turned towards Nami and Usopp with a wicked grin on my face. "You two stay here and keep our guest company."

The next thing I know two smoke trails were leading from the mast to the kitchen and no Nami or Usopp to be seen.

'Hook, Line, and Sinker.' I thought.

"YABABABABA! THANK YOU!" He said. "AT LEAST YOU TALK, YOUR NAKAMA ACTED AS IF I WAS A MONSTER! YABABABA!"

"They've just never met a giant before." I told him.

"YET, YOU ARE ACTING SO CALM IN THE FACE OF ONE." he said.

"You aren't trying to kill me so, I don't see a problem." I explained.

"YABABABABA! YOUR A FUNNY LITTLE GUY!" he laughed out.

Before I could retort the door suddenly opened and after some whispering of who was going back outside Usopp was suddenly pushed out, his entire body shacking in fear.

"W...w...w...w...we g...go...got...th...th...the...ale." Usopp managed to squeak out.

But, all of the sudden the giant roared in anger cuasing Usopp to fall to the ground unconcious. I saw that the reason for his anger was a T-Rex had tried taking a bite out of his back, but the giant was prepared as he unsheathed a single-headed axe and in one fell swing decapitated the dinosuar.

Holding the head of the prehistoric beast up high he shouted for all to hear. "I ALONE AM THE GREATEST WARRIOR OF ELBAF, BROGY! YABABABABA!" After his celebration he turned back to me. "NOW, THAT I HAVE SOME MEAT...WHY DON'T YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS JOIN ME?"

"Sounds like a plan." I told Brogy as I placed the barrels of ale that Nami had pushed out for the giant, into his hand and threw Usopp onto his hand as well. I went to get Nami and saw that she to was out cold from Brogy's yelling or the sight of him cutting of the head of the dinosuar I wasn't sure. I jsut let out a sigh and carried her out to Brogy's waiting hand.

Once I and Nami were in his hand he began walking through the forest dragging the dinosuar corpse behind him.

'At least I get a good meal at of this mess.' I thought.

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