I would like to thank Albertasteinthe21stGenius for helping me create this chapter. I should say that in every chapter. I'm also happy Albert is helping a friend of mine complete his story. Now that the chapter is finished I hope you have no problems reading it and have a most happy today or tomorrow if you read this chapter when the sun is down.
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Christopher was thrown away from the giant, landing hard on the ground next to Yokai. The monk slammed his staff down. "Ancient Art of the Elementals: Dragon Breath!" Yokai blew the staff as fire seared the air around it, rapidly making it's way toward the executive who dodged it and ran toward Yokai before punching him back. "Augh! How is he moving so fast, when he's that large?"
"I'm going to crush every single one of you!" roared the executive before his eyes widened in surprise. Fletcher appeared in front of the executive smiling his usual bright smile.
"Nope. I'm going to crush you! Captain Punch Shogun Fist!" Fletcher punched the executive sending him scooting back a couple meters. "And Captain Kick Jumping Lemur!" Fletcher ran toward the confused and slightly dazed executive before jump kicking him in the chest, this time sending the executive flying back.
"Argh... Who the hell are you!?" The executive slowly stood back up keeping a sharp eye on Fletcher. "This kid..."
"I'm Fletcher G. Perkman! And I'm going to beat my rival Monkey D. Luffy!" Fletcher giggled in self-confidence.
"Well than... I will introduce myself as this will be the last name you will ever hear! My name is-" Fletcher kneed the executive upward before twirling in mid-air and kicking him back. "I don't care about who you are!"
The executive got up and glared at Fletcher before getting on his hands and feet. "Fine then! It doesn't matter! You're going to be crushed by this attack anyways! Rampaging Charge!" The executive ran, err, ran/crawled, I don't know, toward Fletcher who stood there. The executive's horns also got larger.
"Oi, get out of there!" Christopher ran toward the clashing duo as fast as he could. "I'm not going to make it, and my tongue can't reach that far!"
Yokai slammed his staff down and was about to send a twister his way, but that quickly left his mind. The executive was just about to ram into Fletcher but Fletcher had other plans. He took out something red and stopped to the side, allowing the executive to hit the red object, taking it with him. "Oh. He took it with him."
The executive stopped and pulled the red object off his face. It was red cloth. He turned toward Fletcher who seemed disappointed. "Did you just try to..." His face turned that into complete anger. "I'm going to crush you even harder!"
Fletcher looked at the executive and cocked his head to the side. "Huh." The executive resumed his previous stance, or whatever it is and charged toward Fletcher once again. Fletcher got into a stance like he was about to hug the crap out of the executive and the executive struck Fletcher.
"Fletcher!" shouted both Christopher and Yokai as they watched only to be surprised. Fletcher and the executive weren't moving an inch. "He stopped the executive!"
Fletcher's hands were gripping the executive's horns and was preventing him from moving. The executive tried to push forward but Fletcher was stronger. Through clenched teeth Fletcher moved his head back. "Bison..."
The executive looked up at Fletcher, a bit intimidated. "Head-butt!" Fletcher launched his head forward, smacking it, into the executive's head, knocking him out. Fletcher let go of the executive as he fell to the floor and reverted into a full human form.
Yokai and Christopher ran up toward Fletcher who was holding his head. Christopher than smacked him in the head. "OW!"Fletcher looked at Christopher with a pout. "What was that for?"
"You could've got killed you idiot!" Fletcher rubbed his head and giggled. "No I wouldn't. I'm strong."
"So any reasons why he chased you guys out of the forest?" Christopher looked at Yokai. "I don't know. He just kind of yelled at us, Fletcher punched him and then he transformed into that beast thing and chased us out of the forest."
"How did you that?" asked a new voice. Christopher turned toward the and Fletcher looked up. It was Sarah. "You just took down one of the executives and you barely have a scratch other than torn clothes."
"Who are you?" asked Christopher eyeing her cautiously. Yokai walked in front of Christopher and waved his hands. "This is just some girl I saved, not one of them or whatever."
"Name's Sarah, what's yours?" asked Sarah smiling nervously. Christopher sighed. "I'm Christopher and this is our idiotic captain Fletcher."
"Can you tickle my feet?" asked Fletcher with a smile. Sarah looked at him weirdly and Christopher banged his head for the umpteenth time, though this time it created a bump on Fletcher's head, also saying something about how all girls don't do that. "But the girls on the other island did it."
"So a mobster family is on this island... Great." Sarah had told Christopher and Fletcher what she told Yokai and they more or less didn't care.
"Mr. Dincinto and the other two executives will come and crush all of you!" shouted the man before his voice became quiet. Christopher looked over at him and sighed. "Shut up!"
They had filled several buckets full of sea water and placed both of his feet into it and his hands were chained up, so he couldn't move them. The sea water barely enough to make the executive weak.
"So now what?" asked Yokai while yawning. "Do we set sail now?"
"No!" Everyone turned to look at Fletcher who was previously sitting, now standing. "They took Ken!"
"They know who Ken is?" said Sarah mentally. The executive chuckled. "Yes we have took Ken. If you want him back, you simply have to go to our base of operations."
Fletcher looked at him in confusion. "He means their base." Fletcher made an "Oh" sound before looking at the executive. "Why not just say your base?"
Sarah looked at the executive and looked like she was trying to study him. Fletcher got up and jumped off ship. "Okay then! Let's go save Ken!"
Christopher sighed and jumped off ship and mumbled. "Yes captain." Yokai turned toward Sarah. "You stay here and guard the ship for us okay."
"Wait why!?" she asked in surprise. "You still owe me for two things." said Yokai that seemed to shut Sarah up.
Yokai was just about to jump ship and follow his crew but he turned to face Sarah. "Oh yeah... Um, do you know where the base of operations we're looking for is?" Sarah face-palmed and sighed deeply. "Yeah."
Sarah told Yokai where the base of operations was and he nodded before jumping ship and running to catch up with Christopher and Fletcher. "Those idiots are most likely going to die..."
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Christopher skidded to a halt, his way forward once again blocked by a giant fist. With a sigh of irritation, he looked up at the man with narrowed eyes.
"Another one? That was quick." the cook said casually, putting a hand on the hilt of his sword. Fletcher pouted beside him, yelling "Get out of the way!"
The giant chuckled.
"And just why would I do that?"
"'Cause we gotta save Ken!"
With a smile, the giant said "I'm afraid that this is as far as you go, trespassers, or my name isn't Papaya!"
Everyone stared at him.
"What?" Papaya asked curiously.
"You're named after a fruit." Christopher stated.
"Can I eat him?" Fletcher asked his cook, drooling. He got a smack on the head in reply.
Yokai, who arrived in time to hear the question, yelled "Cannibal!"
"No, that's my brother. I'm Papaya."
Once again, everyone stared at the giant.
"Can we just beat him up already?" Fletcher said, picking his nose.
"I'll do it. I'm the cook after all." Christopher stepped forward. With a nod, Yokai grabbed Fletcher and started running.
"This way to the base, Captain!"
"'Kay, Kai!"
"Stop calling me that."
As the sound of his idiot crew mates' arguing faded into the distance, Christopher drew his sword with a smile.
"Shall we?" He said to Papaya. The giant slipped into a fighting stance in response.
When the fighting started, Papaya chopped his giant arm down to Christopher's level. What the giant didn't know was that Christopher had expected that to happen, dodging it by jumping high in the air. After his feet were above the giant's arm, Christopher extended his tongue and pulled himself on the giant's big thumb. Grabbing his sword in both hands, he prepared to stab it into Papaya's palm.
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With a blast of wind, Fletcher propelled both himself and Yokai out of the way of a giant foot that came crashing down.
"Garahaha! You dodged!" a deafening voice thundered.
"Watch it! You almost stepped on us!" Fletcher yelled indignantly. The owner of the voice just laughed at him.
"Garahaha! Puny trespasser! The whole point was to step on you!"
While Fletcher fumed, Yokai called up "And who might you be?"
The giant's response was to try and stomp on them again while yelling "I am the almighty Cannibal! Garahaha!"
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Papaya screamed as the black blade drove into his flesh, starting to hop from foot to foot in pain. Christopher held onto his sword for dear life as Papaya waved his hand around frantically.
"You sonava-" Papaya cut himself off, abruptly calming down. But when Christopher yanked out his sword-
The giant shrieked, once more jumping and flailing about as blood started to pump out of the wound. Personally, Christopher thought the guy was being a baby. Considering Papaya's size, the wound was relatively small.
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Fletcher once more whisked himself and the monk out of the way of Cannibal's over-sized foot.
"This is getting annoying." the young captain muttered, for what seemed to Yokai to be the twentieth time.
"Then go!" the monk cried crossly, "You save Ken and I'll deal with this guy!"
"Really?" Fletcher said, excited all of a sudden, "Thanks Kai!"
"That's not my name!" Yokai yelled after Fletcher's retreating back. Then he jumped backwards to avoid being flattened. Now . . . what was the best way to bring down a giant?
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Not entirely sure how he had managed to do it again, but going with the flow, Christopher held on for dear life, his sword stuck in Papaya's other hand as the giant danced about. Seriously, what a baby. Something like this was only as bad as a wood splinter to a giant, yet he was acting as if it was a big deal.
Christopher sighed, nearly biting his tongue, pondering ways to end this 'fight' as quickly as possible.
'Sometimes I wish my Devil Fruit was different. Like a Giant-Giant fruit or something so it would be easier to fight him . . . I could cut through his heart or neck but even though the guy is trying to kill me, he doesn't deserve to be killed by my sword.' Christopher thought and tried to imagine how it could work.
Maybe he could trick Papaya into hitting himself? But surely no one was that stupid . . . apart from Fletcher. He'd never know unless he tried.
"Yo ugly!" he yelled, pulling out his sword. He shot out his tongue and grabbed the giant's wrist to keep himself from falling. He then swapped his arms for his tongue so he could keep talking.
"I heard your momma fell from the sky and only survived because she was the biggest giant around. I also heard when she fell she fell on her head and was dumb enough to marry a lizard."
Papaya gasped.
"Don't say things like that about my momma!"
The giant then tried to punch Christopher, who quickly dropped to the ground, leaving Papaya to punch his own wrist. The giant howled as a distinct crack was heard.
