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Chapter 7: The Selvanio forest
Meanwhile Kid was busy by frighten off the hugest dragon the rest of the dragons were defeated or chased away by Luffy and the others.
Luffy had ensconced himself behind a roasted dragon and crammed its meat down; while Zoro and Sanji quarreled over the numbers and heights of dragons they'd beaten. Ace was standing apart from Luffy and was staring up into the sky.
"Oipf Ath! Why dof you starepf into spath? (Oi Ace Why do you stare into space)" Luffy asked still munching, before he heard the sound of a cushioned bounce.
"Are you crazy?! Let go of me!" suddenly Luffy heard Kid scold, as well as Zoro and Sanji who stopped trailing their strengths at once.
Luffy, Zoro and Sanji looked over to Ace, who were holding Kid in his arms, then he dumped her down with a hacked off expression. "Jerk…" Kid mumbled venomously
"Did it hurt, you damsel in distress?" Ace smirked, when he crouched down.
"You'd better shut your moth right now…" Kid snarled dangerously, when Sanji approached them.
"Let me help you, Kitty-Kid!" Sanji said while he danced around her and bow down to held out his hand for Kid.
Kid just punched Sanji in his face and he fell three Meters away on the ground. "Why you're such an imp to whoever wanna help you?" Ace asked irritated while Kid jumped on her feet.
"I said you should shut your mouth" Kid repeated with an enraged voice, she barely could bridle the volume of it.
"Jeez… you're acting like an old wed!" Zoro joked.
"What did you say?" Ace and Kid snarled synchronously their eyes filled with pure rage glaring at Zoro. Ace was so disgruntled that flames flickered around him, those were reflected in Kids furious eyes and so they gave them the most badass appearance imaginable.
"N…nothing…." Zoro gainsaid while he was almost shitting his pants and thought swallowing `Memo to myself… don't ever say that again… in their presence!`
Luffy shook with laughter as he saw Zoros' shocked expression, what drew Ace' and Kids' attention to him. Ace awe-inspiring aura (the flames) faded as he and Kid stared at Luffy, after a while those two looked fretfully at each other before they turned their faces with an annoyed: "hmpf!" away.
Kid was the first who recollected herself and walked in the direction in which the rest of the straw hat members had been decamped. When she couldn't see any sign of Nami, Usopp, Chopper and Robin she turned around and said: "Keep on moving, if the others are getting into a fight they won't hang on long!" when she saw Sanji packing some of the sliced up dragons' meat into the backpack.
"You're so helpful my shining star!" Sanji said and put the backpack back on his back, "Don't worry Nami~Swan, Robin~Chan your knight in shining armor is on the way!" he shouted before he ran ahead passing Kid.
"Man… He's such a pain in the ass!" Zoro mumbled irritated before he, Luffy, Ace and Kid followed Sanji.
When the sun began to sink Nami, Usopp, Chopper and Robin reached completely exhausted the border of the forest. "Oh my gosh… do you think… the others are okay?" heckled Chopper worried.
"Stop asking the same question over and over!" Nami said annoyed, because Chopper asked that question almost every half an hour.
"But I'm really concerned about them…" Chopper whined.
"Don't be afraid, Chopper! They know how to defend themselves; after all I taught Luffy, Zoro and Sanji some good techniques." Said Usopp panting and tried to put on a brave face.
"And why were you then running away, Moron!" Nami yelled at Usopp fuming.
"Is it because you were worried about us?" Chopper said with shining eyes staring at Usopp, who was struggling for words.
"That's exactly the reason!" Usopp said with a cool grin on his face and a thumb up in Choppers direction, what impressed the reindeer even more, Nami on the other hand just slapped her palm against her forehead and moaned frustrated.
"Here they come!" Robin said calmly but with an eased ton, when she saw first Kid then the others appear on the top of a sand hill, before the group ran the hill downwards.
"Thank goodness! I was so worried about you, guys!" yelled Chopper relieved when he saw a huge haunch in Luffys' hand, when he and the others reached the group.
"Were you worried about me as well Robin~chan?" Sanji asked flattered, while dancing around Robin.
"Eh… sure…" Robin answered out of polite.
"It's already too late to walk to Selvanio, I suggest to go to a house in the forest, so we can rest until tomorrow." Kid recommended while Sanji was grinning like a Cheshire cat.
"Good idea I'm totally exhausted! How far is the house away?" asked Nami worn out.
"Not so far, though it's in the opposite direction of the city…" Kid said after she thought about it, before she continued easily "at least one hour!"
"What?! And how far is the capital?" Nami wanted to know with a shocked expression on her face.
"The distance is also decent… Only three to five hours, if we hurry." Kid explained off-handily, what caused Nami to crack a haggard smile.
"I can't walk three to five hours!" said Chopper dog-tiered.
"Alright then let's go to the house and Sanji's gonna cook us a yummy supper!" yelled Luffy eager.
"WHAT?! You're already hungry again?!" yelled Zoro and Sanji astonished.
"You just ate half a dragon!" Kid added in surprise, while Nami, Chopper and Usopp jaws dropped open even Robin had a disbelieving expression on her faces.
"It was just a small one and I burned everything already." Luffy defended himself.
"What ever! I'll lead the way, so stick around me! Don't lose your way!" said Kid resolute.
"Heard that Luffy, Zoro?" Nami and Sanji meant to their Capitan and the swordsman and earned as an answer an annoyed glare from Zoro.
"Forward March!" Kid yelled, before Zoros rage could end up in a massacre, and went at full pace into the forest, before the Straw Hats and Ace followed her.
The group ran over hedge and ditch while they crossed the forest, leaded by Kid. Although Kid tried to keep an eye on the group behind her, were two of them after a while missing.
"HALT!" Kid shouted the moment she noticed that the group wasn't complete anymore and stopped.
Nami, Usopp and Chopper sank to the ground out of exhaustion, while Sanji and Robin looked a bit confused to Kid; Ace on the other hand seemed annoyed, because normally he wouldn't let anyone command him around but Whitebeard. "What's wrong Kitty~Kid?" Sanji asked.
"Where are the swordsman and your captain?" asked Kid heckled up.
Nami prop up from the ground and looked around before she yelled madly: "I'M GONNA KILL THOSE TWO!"
"It figures!" murmured Usopp drained.
Kid placed the fingers of her right hand around her nose bridge and started to massage it, to calm her anger down before she started to speak calmly: "Well… they can't be far away yet… I suggest we should spread out and look for them!"
"I'm in your team!" Sanji yelled gushingly and flung his arms around Kids neck.
"GET THE HELL AWAY FROM ME! I DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT TEAMS!" hollered Kid out, while she punched Sanji away from her.
Just When Kid lost her patience Ace started to laugh, because he had a huge fun seeing the situation was over her head. Kid glowered at Ace, who couldn't stop laughing, while she approached him. Kid clenched one fist and whacked Ace on the head so hard that he fell to the ground, "DO YOU STILL THINK THAT'S FUNNY?!" asked Kid yelling.
"Just you wait…" Ace muttered under his breath and darted at Kid to start a brawl.
`Oh no… that's bad…` Nami thought seeing her plan pass away, when she saw Kid and Ace fighting and tried to figure a way out of this mess. But then Nami saw some cherry blossoms wafted while she heard Robin mumbling something under her breath with her arms crossed before her breasts. All a sudden Ace stumbled forward and dragged Kid with himself to the ground. Ace braced himself up from the ground, his palms flat on both of Kids sides, before their lips could touch while Kid froze in shock. Ace stared some moments into Kids wide opened, sea blue eyes, before he realized that her breasts were pressing against his chest. `Maybe I should just…` Ace started to think, but he rejected his unfinished thought and pushed himself a bit away. To cover his hesitation Ace began to smirk and just when he wanted to say something with his sassy attitude he fell asleep. Suddenly Kid woke from her paralyze and looked down at her and Ace and shocked Ace on his jaw, so he would be tossed away from her. "DON'T EVER GET THAT CLOSE TO ME AGAIN, YOU SICKO!" Kid yelled madly.
Just when Kid jumped on her feet and Ace looked sleepily around, the group heard grunting and pounding of hoofs and everyone was looking for the source of noise. Suddenly a huge warthog jumped out of the bushes right behind Usopp. In the last second Usopp managed it with a cry of fear to roll away, out of the way of the raging warthog. "YAHOO!" Luffy, who was riding on the warthog, yelled in excitement.
"Luffy!" everyone yelled without being surprised.
"Oi Sanji, I found more meat!" yelled Luffy delighted when he saw his ship cook.
"ARE YOU NUTS?!" Nami screamed furiously when she whacked on Luffys head, after the warthog was slain.
"One nutcase to go…" Kid mumbled irritated while she massaged her nose bridge again.
"Where's Zoro?" Luffy asked when he noticed that Sanji was the one, who sliced the warthog into pieces, "Is he lost again? Unbelievable!" Luffy shook his head in embarrassment.
"You should talk!" Usopp yelled at his captain.
"SHUT YOUR TRAPS!" Kid hollered stressed out, because of those pirates every attempt to calm down came to nothing.
Luffy and Usopp broke off at once, whereby Usopp hid behind his captain.
When Kid saw Luffys shocked face she breathed frustrated through before she spoke calm: "Suggestion… now that one nuisance is found how about split up into teams…"
"Yahoo!" Sanji yelled delighted and danced into Kids direction, but she gave him a deadly glance, so he stood still.
"I wanna figure out the teams by playing Rock-Paper-Scissors!" Luffy said in a childish voice just when Kid wanted to continue.
"In that time Zoro could be over the hills and far away!" Nami argued.
"And what if…" Luffy started again.
"New plan!" Kid snarled suppressing her anger, "I bring you guys to the house and you keep your feet still."
"I'm for it!" said Chopper with a raised hoof.
"Oh no! That's lame!" Luffy complained.
"I won't let you any choice!" Kid responded angrily.
"Luffy, Kid's right… When she grew up here she knows the forest best, we would only get lost and starve to death…" said Robin sinister.
"I didn't grow up here…" Kid snarled bitterly before she mumbled a bit calmer, "but thanks for the support."
"All right then… let's go to the house were Sanji's gonna cook supper for us!" Luffy accepted the new plan and flicked the warthog over his shoulders before they went farther. This time Kid went on normal walking speed so no one else would get lost.
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