Hi guys I hope you had a good start to the new year! I'm sorry that it took again so long to upload this chapter but I felt like having the need to finish the next chapter first (which is defenitly going to be up loading within next month, I promise), and boy this was hard work, but enough of this for now. I hope you'l enjoy reading this chapter just as much as I enjoyed writing it!
Chapter 18: Luffy with the Gum Gum head
"LUFFY! You're an idiot!" Nami shout out while she walked up to Luffy and wacked his head with her fist, "Why did you do this?!"
"I just wanted to congratulate her for the rescue mission!" Luffy said not knowing why Kid lost consciousness as Robin kneeled down to Kid to look if she hit her head somewhere.
"Well, YOU KNOCKED HER OUT" Nami yelled furiously.
"I think she has a fever… we should bring her to Chopper as fast as possible."
"But first we have to pick up Zoro and Sanji at those rocks!" Ace explained and pointed with his thumb to the Rocks behind him.
"And where are Usopp and Chopper then?" Nami asked.
"They stayed at the camp ground." Ace answered while Luffy looked around.
"Luffy I know that look, don't even think about it…" Nami said because Luffy had his I-have-an-awesome-idea expression at his face then it was already too late.
Luffy grind wide and stretched his left arm in the direction of the rocks and while he put his other around Robin and Nami while saying "Gum Gum…" "Oh god… I don't like that very much…" Ace muttered with an risen eyebrow before Luffy suddenly shouted "…ROCKET!" and catapulted himself and the two girls towards the rocks. Ace who had stood in shot direction jumped out of the way and all he heard was an impact. "LUFFY WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!? YOU ALMOST KILLED US!" Nami screamed furiously.
"Don't worry Nami-Swan, I would never let anything happen to you and Robin-chan!" Ace could hear Sanjis voice in the distance while Ace turned around only to see that Kid still laid on the ground were she felt unconscious. Ace let his head hang and walked, while grumbling nasty things, towards Kid to throw her over his shoulder while he started to approach the rocks where Luffy and the rest were located.
As Ace came closer to Luffy, who was chased by Nami, with stones armed which she threw after him while she had Sanji on her tail, he approached Robin and Zoro who were only staring at the bizarre scene. "Ace how is Kid feeling?" asked Robin when she noticed them.
"I hope she's uncomfortable, while bleeding over my coat…" Ace stated testily, because felt Kids' blood running down his leg. "Hey Ace here you are again!" Luffy said after he saw Ace with Kid on his shoulder and changed direction to approach Ace while he dogged the stones, which were thrown by Nami.
As Luffy came closer to Ace he suddenly changed direction and one of the stones Nami threw at him hit Ace on his head. Ace suddenly seemed pissed off even more and shook Kid off his shoulder so that she fell to the ground. "LUFFY!" Ace yelled madly and chased now after Luffy, while Sanji and Nami stopped and looked to Kid.
"Hey you brute, who do you think you are to treat a lady like that!" Sanji yelled and run now to Ace, who had Luffy in a headlock.
"What? She's not a Lady she's a mean heck! She don't even likes anyone of you, so what are you getting so overanxious for?" Ace asked after he blocked Sanjis hit.
"That's not true, why else would she had saved Robin and me?!" Nami asked angrily, "Why are you so mean to her, after all she's been through?!"
"We don't have anything to do with what had happened to her in the past, so why is she such a stick-in-the-mud?! And why are you angry at me anyway, I could have left her easily behind!" Ace argued cool.
"Nami calm down, why are you getting so emotional about that?" Robin asked her friend rationally while she approached Kid, to see how she was doing.
"Because, I too needed a long time before I trusted Luffy and the others." Nami explained.
Ace only grunted at the answer, but still he knew Nami was probably right about Kid, all she needed was time to warm up with everyone (after all despite her grudge towards pirates she did save Luffys crewmates).
"Whatever, let's go back to the camp." Zorro suggested when Sanji walked towards Robin and Kid.
"Right in which direction was it again?" Luffy asked the swordsman.
"WHY DO YOU ASK HIM, YOU MORON!" Nami and Sanji yelled in unison.
"So you mean you know where we have to go?" Luffy asked the two of them.
"Not yet, but I know how to figure it out!" Nami said astutely, "first I need to know in which direction the sun was while you were coming here.
"That's easy, this directions!" Zoro and Luffy said now in unison and pointed in the opposite direction.
"WHY ARE YOU TWO EVEN ANSWERING!?" Nami yelled again while she gave both of them a clot and started to breathe heavily.
"Nami- Swan are you okay, don't get so stressed out because of those retards!" Sanji tried to comfort Nami while he helped Robin to check on Kid, but then he was interrupted by Zorro who attacked him with the backside of two of his swords.
"Whom are you calling a retard, kitchen boy!" Zoro asked menacingly while Sanji blocked Zoros attack with his left foot.
"The persons you are thinking of, of course!" Sanji answered teeth-gnashingly.
"ENOUGH!", Nami yelled madly when she whacked Zoro and Sanji at their heads and mumbled exhausted afterwards, "You're killing me…"
"I'm getting really hungry, Nami we're is now our camp?" Luffy moaned as he approached Nami.
"SHUT UP!" Nami yelled again but then she couldn't stand anymore and let herself sink to the ground while she massaged her temples, because she was about to get a headache.
"Oh Nami-Chan please try to calm down, you are too weak to yell like this." Sanji said comfortingly as he got back on his feet and approached her.
"Could somebody please just tell me where the sun went down when you arrived here?" Nami asked weakly.
"Well I'm not to sure about it anymore but I think it was more or less that direction." Ace said suddenly and pointed in a third direction.
"Yes! I guess he's right! The sun set was in this direction the whole time right in front of us." Sanji agreed.
"Alright now we just need to know where the forest lies so we can find our camp." Nami said.
"I don't think we can wait until sunrise Kid has a pretty high fever and I'm not a doctor but as far as I'm concerned her pulse is also very high." Robin explained after she let go of Kids underarm.
"What my Kitty-Kid has a fever!" Sanji said as he stood up and ran to Robin and Kid and added with a serious face, "Maybe a mouth to mouth respiration will help!"
"I DON'T THINK THIS'LL DO A THING!" Nami yelled while she threw a stone at Sanji's head.
As Sanji began to sulk Nami said frustrated again: "We don't need to wait for the sunrise, that's why I needed to know where the sunset was. Now Luffy can get up that mountain and spot the forest for us."
"Alright then! Gum Gum…" Luffy said and stretched his arm toward the top of the Mountain, "CATAPULT!" and catapulted him self to it.
"OI NAMI I CAN'T SEE A THING!" Luffy yelled suddenly down from the top.
"What was I thinking, he never listens to plans…" Nami mumbled annoyed while she slapped her palm against her forehead.
After Nami explained her plan to the rest of the group Sanji shouted to Luffy: "ACE IS GOING TO CLIMB UP A BIT HIGHER SO HE CAN FIRE A FIREBALL INTO THE AIR!"
"WHY THAT?!" Luffy shouted his question.
"SO YOU CAN SEE THE GOOD DAMN FOREST, YOU IDIOT!" Sanji shouted back.
" AH RIGHT! ACE, WHERE ARE YOU RIGHT NOW?!" Luffy asked.
"ALMOST AT THE TOP OF THAT ROCK WE WERE HIDDING BEFORE!" Ace yelled while jumping to the top of the rock, "MADE IT, NOW WATCH OUT!"
As Ace prepared him self to fire a fireball into the air he suddenly felt how something looped around his waist as he heard Luffy yell: "GUM GUM…"
"WAIT LUFFY! NOOO!" Ace shouted while trying to grab on to something but it was already too late, Luffy already had yelled: "GRAB!" and yanked Ace towards him.
Not bad enough that Ace dashed several times on his way up against the mountains surface he came to a halt by smashing face side against the rock Luffy was holding on to while he heard the rest of the group asking " What happened?! What's wrong?!"
"Ups… sorry!" Apologized Luffy with an innocent grin.
"There're moments that I ask myself why I consider you to be my brother!" Ace grunted teeth-gnashingly.
"But I already said I'm sorry!" Luffy began to sulk.
"Guys, Are you okay!?" Robin yelled.
"ACE'S BEEING MEAN TO ME!" Luffy yelled sulkily.
"I'M THE ONE WHO'S BEEING MEAN?! YOU'RE THE ONE WHO SMASHED ME AGAINST THAT FREAKING ROCK!" Ace yelled annoyed and added after he breathed through still irritated, "Anyway! Let's look for the forest!"
"oh right!", Luffy said, he had forgotten about that, so he turned his head around to look into the darkness and for a moment he looked very hard, then he whispered: "Ace, I can't see a thing… how about you."
Ace whacked Luffy on his head and yelled madly: "SHUT UP!"
Ace let his hand burn so that he could find a place where he could stand on. After Ace climbed a few meters downwards he reached a rock, where he could stand with his legs apart. As he pulled his fist behind his shoulder, he concentrated his power in his fist and it burst into flames. As he yelled: "Fire Fist!" when he flung his fist forward a sea of flames burst through the night sky.
"Wow!" Luffy gazed in amazement at that sight, just as the others did from the ground but as fast as the flames have appeared the fast they vanished into fin air.
"Alright the forest lies in that direction!" Ace said pointing in the direction he saw a few trees standing while the flames did light up the night sky.
"That was amazing, Ace! I'm sure this is your most powerful attack!" Luffy said enthusiastically.
"Not quite!", Ace responded in a swag manner, "Let's get down to the others!"
"Fine with me… see ya later!" Luffy yelled while he stretch his arm around that rock the group was hiding earlier before he shout out, "Gum-Gum ROCKET!"
Luffy launched himself towards the ground.
`Sometimes I really do hate him` Ace thought annoyed.
"LUFFY WHY DID YOU DO THAT! KITTY-KID'S ALREDY BADLY WOUNDED!" Sanji yelled madly what made Ace grin, while he climbed down that mountain (at least Kid wasn't speared and Luffy would get his punishment too)
After some time Ace reached the ground and walked towards the rest of the group. "Where's Luffy?" Ace asked Zoro while Sanji was trying to wake Kid up by softly tapping her checks her till he was interrupted by Nami who wacked him.
"He's over there.", Zoro explained pointing at a pile of stones from which two twitching legs protruded before he looked at Ace, "What happened to your face?" Zoro asked.
Ace griped at his face and discovered when he looked at his hand blood and said as if it was nothing: "Oh I'm bleeding…" and added a bit annoyed: "your captain happened!"
"Care to know who's gonna carrying Kid to the camp?" Zoro asked to change the subject.
"Eh nope, why should I?" Ace retorted the question.
"Ah don't know! Just thought you wanted to know you're task." Zoro explained indifferently.
"What!? Why me of all people?!" Ace asked stressed out.
"Well we figured it would be the best since you're already covered in blood anyway. Our love-sick cook's gonna carrying Nami and Robins' bag and I'll drag Luffy along."
"No, I'm not a pack mule!" Ace responded.
"See? He doesn't want to carry her back to the camp; I'm going to carry all of you Ladies."
"Sanji, you can't carry all of us at once… take that situation seriously. Or be at least quiet." Nami said a bit annoyed
"What ever you wish Nami~Swan!" Sanji responded before he became quiet.
"Why don't you carry her around and take Luffy?!" Ace demanded.
"Well she can get pretty violently…" Zoro stated.
"Exactly! And that's why I don't want to carry her!" Ace responded.
"But since your face's messed up already why should I take the risk?" Zoro asked.
"We can also just leave her here; I mean we killed all spiders off."
"THAT'S UNECCEPTABLE!" Sanji yelled madly and attacked Ace but he blocked the attack easily.
"That's not an option, if we leave her here she's going to die because of the fever and blood lose which by the way could attract other animals!" Robin explained.
Ace became suddenly quiet by all his rivalry he hasn't thought about that. "Ace you can't be seriously…" Nami started to say but stopped when Ace pushed Sanji aside and approached Kid, then he crouched down next to her and looked at her for a moment: Kids' face was pale and she breathed heavily.
He knew he would regret it eventually if he wouldn't help her and he would never do something he'd regret. "Alright; let's go!" Ace said after he lifted Kid onto his arms, "But just so you know, as soon as that heck awakes and whacks me once, she's your problem!" Ace explained and after Zoro threw Luffy over one shoulder the group set off to meet their friends.
While the group went up that hill Robin panted deeply and since Sanji was so over flown with joy that he got to carry Nami, Zoro asked her eventually: "Robin are you really gonna be okay?"
Robin looked at him and wanted to answer him when suddenly all of her strength went out of her legs and she would have fallen if Zoro wouldn't had griped her arm. "What's going on? Where am I?" Zoro and Robin could hear Luffy mumble when all of a sudden a fired up Sanji attacked Zoro and yelled madly:" How dare you to lay a finger on my Robin-chan!"
But instead of hitting Zoro he hit accidentally Luffy who had screamed when he had seen Sanjis' foot approaching him.
"I didn't lay a finger on her she fell, I'm not sneaking up on every opportunity! I'm not a psycho as you!" Zoro yelled, while Luffy was again lying unconsciously at his shoulder, and added "And because of you Luffy still can't walk by himself, you idiot!"
"Sanji-kun, could you please stop the racket he was just helping me!" Robin explained calm after she was back on her feet.
"But I don't want him to help you! Nami-Swan is it okay if you get on my back so I can carry both of you?" Sanji asked.
"Of course." Nami said and Sanji put her carefully down and thought while climbing on Sanjis back, 'if he wants that, fine with me as long as Ace's carrying Kid.`
`Now, that's a happy pack mule!` Ace thought distractedly after he saw Sanji running up the hill happy as a sand boy while he carried both Nami and Robin, he wasn't sure if he should be disgusted, amused or irritated by that. Ace was about to follow Sanji when he realized that Zoro walked in another direction. "Zoro… Wrong direction!" Ace directed Zoro. Ace thought: `what a kindergarten.` while Zoro walked ahead of Ace so he wouldn't get lost.
When Ace and Zoro reached the top of the sand dune Luffy woke up again and so he was able to walk on his own; and so the group continued its way to the camp while carrying the women.
Just to let you know I fell in love with that idea of Ace lightening up the night sky, I imagine it would look so beautifully awesome! Any volunteers who would draw that