I corrected the mistake. Sorry for the inconvenience.

13. Buggy Arc: Buggy

Buggy was fond of his nose.

Everyone in his crew knew that.

So when a no-name pirate came and insulted his nose, he cursed Shanks a million times. If only he had obtained all that treasure, he was considering a plastic surgery.

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"Big nose! Can you give us the map to Grand line?" Luffy shouted.

Nami panicked.

"Why are you insulting his nose?"

"Why are you even asking him for the map, you dimwit of a captain?" Kid said irritated.

Luffy waved his index finger.

"Tsk. Tsk Kid. You have to be polite when asking someone something."

"Calling him Big Nose was hardly polite." Zoro retorted. "And I don't remember you being polite to me when you asked me to join."

"That was just you." Luffy whistled.

Meanwhile Buggy's face had gotten as red as his nose.

"Why would I give you the map and who the hell are you?" he shouted.

"Monkey D. Luffy. The man who's going to be the Pirate King. That's why I need the map." Luffy shouted back. Then added.

"Since you won't be becoming the Pirate King anyway, mind giving it to us?" A few veins popped up in Buggy's head.

"Ha Ha." He laughed like he was in pain.

"The nerve of these guys." Buggy muttered.

"Load in the Buggy bomb." He yelled at his crew, who did as ordered and lit up the cannon.

To Luffy's surprise the Buggy Bomb which was supposed to be aimed at them, went slightly off course. To his horror it hit their ship which flew into pieces.

Okaaaayy. That was not part of the plan. But that means he'll get Going Merry again. There there. Luffy's awesome sea ship, I mean Raging waves, rest in peace.

Unfortunately Kid did not share the same enthusiasm.

"Your red reindeer nose which looks like a ripe tomato freak, how dare you #?)( ! Our ship and I'll +#%/ x& you." He yelled.

"DON'T INSULT HIS NOSE." Nami shrieked.

"He looks like someone murdered his first love." Law helpfully added.

"Be serious, you." Zoro told him, a sweat drop appearing on his head.

While the strawhats were busy mourning the loss of their first ship, two of Buggy's crewmates which Luffy remembered had once given Zoro a difficult time when he was stuck in a cage, proceeded to attack them.

Before he could move a muscle, Kid had already chosen his favorite iron pipes from the debris and thrown them at the two lackey's, effectively knocking them out.

Unsheathing his sword, he charged head on at Buggy, slicing him into half from the middle.

"That was fast." Zoro commented after a moment.

Luffy, already aware of Buggy's upper half heading towards their back, grabbed Nami and ducked.

There were several exclamations of shock.

"Is he flying from his waist up?" Kid exclaimed.

"It's like my room except he can control his body parts." Law squinted his eyes.

Buggy attacked again laughing maniacally and both Zoro and Law cut him instinctively to no avail.

"This looks bad." Nami whimpered.

"First of all stop using the swords to cut him up." Luffy told the other three. All three of them looked at their swords and promptly put them away.

"Geez, makes one think the only one with brain on this crew." Luffy said cheekily.

"That was insulting on so many different levels." Law grimaced.

Luffy ignored him. "Anyway he's a Paramecia. A normal sword can't cut it. Maybe if you use Haki."

There it was again. Haki.

Nami raised her eyebrow at the foreign word and the others nodded in unison.

"Leave him to me. You guys have other opponents to take care of."

Luffy pointed to Buggy's crew members who had recovered from the initial beating.

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"What's this? An animal circus?" Kid said irritated as a bear pounced on them.

"Seeing how their Captain is the joker, I wouldn't be surprised Eusstass-ya."

"Come on Ritchie eat them alive." One of them, the white furry guy ordered the lion dramatically.

"We wouldn't be exactly alive if it eats us." Zoro gave his useful input.

The lion attacked as the guy stuck his nose in the air and said, "I am beast tamer Mohji and there's not a beast I can't tame."

Law kicked the lion hard, who was sent flying towards the middle of city.

Mohji gave another dramatic cry of "Ritchie" and went to retrieve him. That was the last of the beast taming guy, the strawhats saw for a while.

Cabaji, on the other hand concluded that he didn't needed Mohji. Him and his idiotic beast only took extra space on the ship.

"I'm Cabaji. Captain Buggy's Chief of Staff. Unfortunately for you, I won't be as easily defeated as Mohji." He clenched his sword.

"Did you perhaps decide to ignore the events of 3 minutes ago when you got knocked out by falling iron pipes?" Kid asked, snorting.

Cabaji pointed his finger at Kid.

"You'll be my first opponent. I need to get the weak ones out of my way."

Both Zoro and Law save out poorly suppressed laughter.

"What did you say?" Kid screamed.

He grabbed his sword and struck Cabaji head-on, effectively knocking him out for good.

"I'm telling you, Eustass-ya." Law said in between is laughs. "It's the lipstick."

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Buggy studied the strawhat wearing pirate. Something was bugging him. The strawhat maybe?

"Say your farewell Strawhat. This will be over in a few seconds."

Luffy gave a creepy grin that sent shivers down his spine.

"You're right." His fist turned black and Buggy recognizing the power stepped back.

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Nami filled the bags with gold after gold, her eyes sparkling.

"Let the idiots fight," She thought.

"Luffy," she called back to her Captain, who was busy making a fool out of Buggy. "Carry the other bag okay?"

Luffy did not respond. Instead he addressed his opponent.

"Sorry Buggy, you're a nice guy and all but right now you're in the way, so move." The last punch was aimed at his stomach and Buggy cursed as his limbs twitched on a pile of rubble. Luffy's laughter rang out in his ears.

"Let's meet again Buggy. Oh. And before I forget, Shanks sends his regards."

The last thought Buggy had before losing consciousness was, 'I knew that hat looked familiar. Why is it always that damn Shanks?'

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"Oi." The ticking mark on Nami's forehead increased in size.

The crew seated, divided 2 to 3 in the two available boats, all turned their heads towards her.

"Why do I only see one bag of money? I remember telling you to carry the other." She pointed at Luffy.

"But Nami, I remember you saying that it was your treasure. You should take care of things." Luffy nodded, as if agreeing with himself.

The navigator stare at him baffled. Law patted her on shoulder.

"Next time Nami-ya, ask nicely."

She looked from person to person and then declared dramatically, "I knew I hate pirates."

OMAKE

Chouchou had sat in front of the store, protecting it from harm long after the owner had died. So when a huge ass lion decided to drop from the sky, he had no qualms about ripping it apart. And thus Ritchie developed a severe case of cynophobia.

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Sorry, guys. This fic hasn't been abandoned. Just think of these as short hiatuses. Whenever I have time and inspiration I write. Thank you for your support and I apologize once again.

PS: Btw the manga is going absolutely amazing.