I would like Albertasteinthe21stGenius for cataloging this chapter and the future chapters making it easier to copy what we wrote together into the Document Manager, not plagiarism because it's original even if it's collaboration, and then post it. I still had to edit it first though. Thank you and I hope this author's note doesn't confuse any of you.

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"There she is!" Someone yelled. Yokai broke off from staring for a moment to look at the angry men striding down the street towards the docks. Turning back to ogling the girl, Yokai noticed that she'd gone white as a sheet.

He smiled at her, guessing that she was in some kind of trouble. He walked in front of the armed men.

"Hello boys. Mind telling me what's going on." said Yokai placing his staff in front of him. The men stopped in front of Yokai. There were 5 of them, they were wearing feudal armor except one of them had multiple sharp claw knives in each of his hands. He also wore a helmet.

"Move aside jackass! That bastard took something of value to us!" Yokai's grip on his staff tightened. Yokai turned toward the girl who was on the ground heaving for breath. Yokai turned to face the men once more. "You could've just pinned her down and take back what she stole, you know that right?"

The boss sighed deeply and took off his left gauntlet that he was also wearing. "I tried and this is what the bastard does." Yokai looked at the exposed hand, the ring and middle finger was cut off, the wound looked fresh.

"Well... That looks like it really hurts." said Yokai turning to face the girl, only just now noticing the bloody dagger on her hip. "Can't you just give them back what you stole. I mean is it really that valuable that you had to cut two of this guy's fingers."

The next moment after that, the girl grabbed Yokai's hand, smirking before putting on a sad and pleading face. "But master didn't you tell me to go get the map! I did it for some appreciation but I guess it was wrong."

Yokai stared at her, mind still registering what was happening. "Wai- wha?"

"So you're the boss, huh!" Yokai turned his head toward the boss. "Wai- wha?"

"You thought you could save that bastard's hide did you? Well you got something else coming to you." The boss got into a fighting stance Yokai finally understood what was going on.

Yokai turned and smashed his staff down. "Okay then. Bring it punk! Art of the Elementals: Dragon Breath!" Yokai blew gently on the surface as flames engulfed the men (the sound of a gun-shot echoed through the air) except for the boss who dodged the attack. The other 4 men fell, seared and knocked out cold.

The boss rushed toward Yokai who kept blowing on the staff creating an endless burst of flames. Soon though, Yokai had to dodge and stopped his assault. The boss slashed at Yokai who dodged the attacks, almost effortlessly. "Didn't know you were slow."

The boss kept slashing at Yokai. "You leave a lot of weak spots. Like for example... Here!" Yokai jabbed the bottom end of the staff into the boss' right ribcage which made him grunt in pain and stop his assault.

Yokai crashed his staff down once again. "Art of the Elementals: Glacier Hold!" Yokai blew onto the top of the staff once again. 4 bright beams shot out and attacked the boss. The beams struck his feet and hands, leaving giant blocks of ice in their place.

"What the-" The boss tried to move but that only made his upper-body fall forward, his ice cuffs landing firmly. "Art of the Elementals: Titan's Fist!"

Yokai lifted the staff and crashed it toward the ground, this time creating a growing crack that led toward the boss- "STOP CALLING ME THAT! MY NAME IS KEMO!"

Yeah whatever... As I was saying... Yokai crashed the staff, creating a growing crack that led to the boss. The crack split open and a giant fist rose from the crack hitting Kemo hard.

Kemo landed on the ground, before slowly getting up, tumbling a bit. "You going to kill me then... You're heartless for helping a thief..."

Yokai crashed his staff down once more. "I'm supposed to be heartless, I'm a pirate and an assassin. But I don't really like dirtying my hands anymore... Art of the Elementals: God's Cyclone!"

Yokia blew and a giant powerful gust blew toward Kemo and started spinning. The giant cyclone struck Kemo as he screamed in pain. "Ahhhhhhhh!" He fell to the ground defeated and beat up.

Yokai sighed and turned toward the girl who was watching him with amazed eyes. Yokai walked up toward the girl, eyes widening as he realised that she'd somehow been shot in the arm. "Yeah we need to fix that shoulder up . . ." he said, trailing off. as she suddenly smiled at him.

So pretty~ . . .

"This? Nah, I'll be fine. Um, sorry for making you fight those guys, but damn you can kick ass. My name's Sarah, what's yours?" she said, as she got to her feet.

"My name's Yokai and it's fine. I was going to fight them anyway." Yokai said, blinking and smiling, before looking toward the forest. "Wonder what time the Captain will be back. Or the first mate . . ." Yokai shivered, as if Christopher was glaring at him that very moment.

"Captain? First Mate?" Sarah said, cocking her head to the side in confusion, before chuckling. "Well they went into the forest, they're not coming out anytime soon."

Yokai looked at Sarah in confusion. "Why not?"

"Because the Dincinto Family will most likely get them." said Sarah. "You don't know them?"

Yokai was even more confused now. "No, who are they?"

Sarah stared at Yokai in surprise. "They're an infamous mobster group and the boss over there is one of their top dogs. If eyewitnesses saw you take him down, you would be on their hit-list by now!"

Shocked to hear a mobster group was on this island, he sighed. He knew would have to fight them along with the crew. He mentally prepared himself. "This is going to be a long day."

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Christopher felt like strangling someone. Damn Fletcher.

Soon after they had entered the forest, Fletcher had, by some mysterious means, escaped Christopher's grasp and run off dragging a flailing Ken behind him. Therefore, it was now up to the cook to track down the captain on an unfamiliar island.

Christopher was having a major sense of deja vu. Seriously, this kind of thing was happening way too often for his taste. Well, at least the ship was safe with Yokai guarding it. With that thought, Christopher bellowed "FLETCHER! WHERE ARE YOU?!"

And so on.

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Ken felt like he was going to be sick. He tried to keep a hand covering his mouth while the other hand kept a tight hold of Fletcher's arm. Ken's legs flailed in the air as he was pulled along.

"FOOD!" Fletcher screamed.

Ken wanted to point out that they were going the wrong way, but that would require opening his mouth.

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Christopher paused. On second thought, maybe it wasn't such a good idea to yell so loud. Vaguely in the distance, he heard a familiar voice scream "Food!"

While heading in that direction would have been a great idea if he wanted to catch his captain, Christopher suddenly had more important things to worry about. Like the giant fist that had just appeared in front of his face. Christopher's eyes slowly traveled up the equally large arm until his gaze landed on a very serious face. Brown eyes heavy with disapproval, the newcomer said "You are a fool to have trespassed in the forest of Dincinto Family."

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Fletcher's headlong dash through the forest came to an abrupt halt, and Ken was almost sent flying as his momentum carried him forward. Thankfully, his white-knuckle grip on Fletcher saved him from the potentially nasty fate of being skewered on a spear. Wait, spear?

Oh, yeah, a giant had just randomly appeared in front of them, and he did not(italic) look happy.

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"So, they're giants?" Yokai said questioningly as Sarah finished explaining everything to him.

"Yep," Sarah replied, "and they hate trespassers."

"Okay done." Yokai tightened the bandages which made Sarah squeak in pain. "So you said that this mobster group or whatever most likely captured my friends. Are they strong?"

Sarah nodded. "Yeah they're really strong, at least the executives are at least. The boss is one of elite guards but really the elite guards aren't any stronger than a marine soldier."

Yokai sighed and looked out toward the forest. "Still I'm pretty sure my captain and the first mate won't be captured by some mobster group. In fact I'm pretty sure that they'll be running out of the forest with one of those executives chasing them or something like that."

Sarah rolled her eyes and sighed. "I'm telling you that they won't. The executives are all devil fruit users who actually ate powerful fruits. Even though there are only three of the before the real boss of the family, they're trained merciless assassins"

"So. I'm an assassin and so is the First mate." Yokai said nonchalantly.

But you're captain isn't an-" Sarah was then interrupted by a yell coming from the forest. Yokai and Sarah looked toward the forest, where Fletcher seemingly appeared out of nowhere with Christopher, running away from something. "Let me guess, those two are the two people who went into the forest."

"Hey Yokai! Hi!" shouted Fletcher smiling and giggling while a giant buff ox/man appeared from the forest.

"I didn't mean it literally!" shouted Yokai staring in disbelief. "What the hell is that thing!?"

"That's one of the executives!" shouted Sarah which gave enough reason for Yokai to jump off the ship and go toward the duo.

The duo stopped in front of Yokai when he reached them. "Hey Kai! Look what we found!" Christopher banged Fletcher in the head while Yokai gave him the "Are you serious?" face.

"Why are you calling me Kai!?" Fletcher giggled before jumping out of the way along with Yokai and Christopher.

The Ox/man slammed his fist down toward the trio who dodged the attack, allowing the ground to suffer the consequence of the impact. "Don't ignore me!"

The Ox/man had bulging muscles wearing nothing but underwear. He had a lot of hair coming out from his arms, legs, torso, and face. He also had decent sized horns on the top of his head.

"Shut up Stupid Ox! Stu... Stuox! Oxpid? Hm?" shouted Fletcher before standing with his eyes closed, seemingly thinking.

Christopher shot his tongue toward the executive who grabbed it. "Shi-" The executive pulled on the tongue toward himself lifted Christopher off his feet and toward the executive who punched Christopher with his free hand. "Agh!"