6. Scrap Islands: First Mate and First Ship

Jamung had no time to realize what had happened. One second he was glaring at the brat with the strawhat the other he was laying down in between rubble someplace far away. Maybe the kid had some teleportation abilities like him.

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Kid felt his jaw drop. His captain was awesome.

Luffy had aimed a punch at Jamung's chest so fast that Kid was unable to trace the movement with is eyes.

And Jamung flew just Killer had seen Herdin go.

"Sir."

"Lord Jamung."

"Master." Came several cries of alarm.

"Hmm. That was fast." Luffy replied carefree.

"We won?" Killer made out, his voice so unsure that it could be mistaken for denial.

"Nah." Luffy shook his head.

"He's not down yet. He'll be back there..." Luffy pointed to in front of the mob and smirked. "...right now."

Right then Jamung teleported where Luffy had predicted, scratches covering his body, a trail of blood trickling down his head and he looked down right murderous.

"You have some nerve boy." He growled.

Luffy just laughed it off which of course angered his opponent further.

"You won't be laughing before long. I ate the Teleportation Fruit. You just caught me off guard there." He showed his uneven teeth.

Then he turned to his men.

"You guys take care of those two." He pointed at Killer and Kid who glared at him.

"I'll take care of the one in the Strawhat."

Luffy debated whether to use Haki or not.

While he was not a showoff (oh who was he kidding? He was a total showoff), he needed to prove his strength to Kid otherwise he wouldn't gain his respect.

"There's no need." Luffy announced.

"What?" Kid turned to him.

"I promised I'll take care of them. So let me do it." He said stubbornly.

"Alone? Oi Luffy are you sure?"

But his concern went unanswered as a weak blast of Haki knocked Jamung's subordinate out.

Jamung enraged teleported himself, carrying a huge sword, behind Luffy.

"Die." He screeched.

"Gear second."

Luffy's speed put Jamung's teleportation fruit to shame. Faster than Jamung Luffy was behind him.

"Caught ya off guard." Luffy stick out his tongue and punched.

Jamung hastily teleported out of the way but Luffy was on him in seconds with relative ease.

What followed could be described as flash of lights and blurry images.

"Killer." Kid turned to his best friend and made a neutral, deadpan face. "We might just become the best crew in the world."

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Luffy was toying with him. His speed was half at best and strength even less so.

Not long and Jamung had become a bloody mess on the ground. When he didn't twitch, Luffy grinned satisfied with his handiwork.

"Woah. Now this is done I'm soooooooooooooooo hungry."

And he went back to eating like before the fight, as if he was never interrupted.

His two audience sweatdropped.

"Ne. Captain." Kid called to Luffy.

Luffy's ear wiggled.

"Say that again."

"Captain?"

"One more time."

"Captain."

"Another time."

"Why?"

Luffy turned around showing an unexpectedly happy and dreamy expression on his face.

"Feels nice ~." He sung. "Coming from ya ~."

Kid used all his will force not to drive something sharp and metal into his now sworn Captain and instead settled on smirking.

"You might wanna see the ship."

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"WOAAHH!"

Luffy's voice rang throughout the South Blue. In front of him was a ship, a little smaller than Going Merry loaded with weapons, docked across route towards North Blue.

"So cool. It looks like a mini warship." Turning to Kid. "Where ya got that?"

"Do you think we got nothing out of Jamung?" Kid gave an involuntary shudder at the name. "I even gave it a makeover."

'Goods thing he gave it a 'Make over' and not a 'Make up' .' Luffy mentally added.

Now that he observed Kid carefully, he wasn't wearing make-up. Nah. The lipstick was still there. Probably his white shirt made him look normal. Well, normal than usual.

"Oi. Idiot Captain do you want to stock?"

"Why did you add an idiot?" Luffy whined. "And a 'Captain' from you felt so nice." He went back to his dreamy state.

Kid deadpanned.

"And Killer picked up my stuff from the boat coz I asked him."

"...Right. Umm, Luffy what about the situation here?" Kid asked doubtfully. "I don't want all my damn efforts to go down the drain."

"Ah. Don't ya worry. I already told the mayor that this island is under Strawhats protection." Luffy assured him.

"Strawhats? The hell is that?" ؛

"Hmm? Our crew name." Came the answer.

"Oi wait. How come I didn't get any say in the name?"

"Coz I'm the Captain." Luffy retorted.

Kid muttered something about selfish captains.

"And when did you do all this?"

"When you were having your emotional goodbyes." Luffy laughed.

"I wasn't having 'emotional' goodbyes." Kid huffed indignantly.

"Yosh Kid. We're heading to North Blue."

"Why?"

"Coz It'll be fun."

"That's your reason?!"

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"The name of this ship is Luffy's awesome sea ship."

In the middle of the ocean Luffy screamed.

"Too long. Too freaking long." Kid yelled.

He was going to go insane. Unfortunately he just realized it and it was too late to turn back.

"Hmm? What about the 'gun, cannon and sword ship?"

"Is that a pirate ship? It looks like a food menu with weapons on it." Kid yelled yet again.

"You know if you yell that much your voice is gonna be hoarse." Luffy advised him.

Kid twitched.

"...So, Lucky lucky go ship?" Luffy offered.

"I'm going to kill you."

Luffy grinned unfazed.

"Raging waves?"

Kid blinked.

"That's actually ...acceptable." He muttered in disbelief.

Both settled into silence for some time...meaning...a few seconds.

"Say, Kid? You said your sister was a pirate?"

"Yeah?"

"Which crew?"

"Hmm? Oh yeah." Kid smirked. "Her name is Eusstass Clau and she's the second division commander of Whitebeared's crew." He finished.

Luffy blinked.

Three.

Two.

One.

"WHAT?! WHY GOD?"

"You okay?" Kid asked confused.

Luffy grabbed Kid by his shoulders and started shaking him.

"Why second? Why not third or fourth?"

"Like hell I know."

"You've got to be kidding me."

"Captain. Calm down."

The said Captain was now running and panicking at the same time as the ship approached the Reverse Mountain.

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So here's another chapter. And yep Kid's the first mate. There may be delay in the next chapter because I'm going abroad for a while so sorry in advance. See ya next month sometime.