For this chapter I added a character without giving him an appearance first. I am sorry for that but I am a horrible writer so it's natural for me to make mistakes. I'm at least not a bad person that I would leave out Albert astein the21st. genius for helping me make this chapter. Please read and review.
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Stuttering curses as he tripped, Yokai curled into a ball as he rolled into the great big dent caused by Cannibal's latest stomp. Truly, this was the definition of stupidity. Cannibal just kept doing the same thing over and over again, yet expected a different result each time.
Reaching the bottom of the dent, Yokai leapt to his feet, having just had an idea. Placing the end of his staff on the ground, he called out "Ancient Art of the Elementals: Dragon Quake!"
The brown earth shard began to glow as the ground started to shake violently. Roaring his displeasure, Cannibal began to wobble back and forth in an effort to keep his footing. As cliche as it is, the bigger they are, the harder they fall. Cannibal fell backwards, making the ground shake even more than it had been previously.
Yokai fell over when Cannibal fell down. Scrambling to his feet, he scurried away from the giant, waiting for him to get up. After a few moments, Yokai realised that Cannibal was unconscious.
With a grin, Yokai hurried to catch up with his captain so he could help save Ken.
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Christopher's eyebrow started to twitch, his irritation growing.
He wanted to take away the new information in his eyes and in his head. He was getting tired of this game, a headache forming as Papaya's fists thumped into the ground. He had succeeded in making the giant angry, but it was now backfiring.
"Why can't you just knock yourself out or something?!" He yelled angrily, running around behind Papaya to gey away from the giant's pounding fists.
Seeing this, Papaya tried to move faster than Christopher in order to turn around and hit him.
Papaya began to panic as he tripped over his own feet, arms flailing as he crashed into the ground. Christooher yelped, scrambling out of the way of the falling body. After several minutes of waiting, Christopher realised that the giant had knocked himself unconscious. The cook sweat-dropped, muttering "I didn't mean it literally . . ."
He relaxed with a sigh. Fletcher probably didn't need any help, and besides, Yokai was helping him. So . . . What now?
The cook stretched his arms above his head, and sat on a conveniently nearby rock to wait for his idiot captain to return.
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Fletcher stared up towards the sky.
"Wow . . . You're huge." He said loudly to the man towering over him.
Staring down at the puny trespasser, the head of the Dincinto family couldn't help but sigh in annoyance. All humans were weak, even the ones that had eaten those strange Devil Fruits. He had been undefeated in all his years, and there was no reason that he would be defeated now.
"Puny trespasser . . ." he said slowly, "The fact that you are here means that you must have defeated my sons . . . you should know that do not like those who harm my sons . . ."
Fletcher squawked.
"You can talk!"
The giant frowned. How foolish could one human be to ask such a question? Of course he could talk.
Fletcher then remembered why he was there.
"Oh, yeah! GIVE KEN BACK!"
As if the young captain had not spoken, the giant rumbled "For harming my sons . . . it is time for you to die, puny trespasser."
Fletcher was not ready to die yet and he wasn't intimidated by this giant no matter how strong or how fast his punches and kicks were. He kept dodging the flurry of blows using his wind powers, watching and waiting for an opening. Neither his nor the giant's expressions changed. Fletcher leapt into the air, having seen the opening he'd been waiting for. He drew a fist back, and as he began to fall, his punched the air and yelled "Knuckle Wind!"
For a moment, all was still.
Then the giant reared backwards, the imprint of huge knuckles clearly visible in his cheek as he fought to regain his footing.
He wasn't the head of the Dincinto family for nothing. With an angry mutter, he retained his balance, glaring at the puny trespasser before him.
Fletcher took the opportunity to yell "GIVE KEN BACK!" at the top of considerable lungs.
" Your going to regret looking for him, puny CAPTAIN!" The head of the Dincinto family yelled. He took a deep breath in and held his breath. He knew Fletcher's powers came from the wind so if all the wind was in his mouth Fletcher's power would weaken.
Or so he thought. Unfortunately for the head of the Dincinto family, wind is not merely air, and even if it was, not even a giant could hold all the air in the world in only his mouth.
So, while the giant was standing there feeling rather smug, Fletcher prepared his next attack.
He began to punch the air, his punches slowly gathering speed and power. He would have looked a little silly punching only air if small whirlwinds hadn't started forming in front of him, created by the slight differences and friction within the air caused by his constant punching. Suddenly, he stopped punching, opting instead to kick sideways at the air in a similar manner to his 'Wind Whip'.
This was an attack he didn't use often, since it required several minutes of warming up that he wouldn't have in the heat of battle. But with the giant just standing there, he had all the time in the world.
Then Fletcher roared "Wind Storm!"
With those words, the attack was unleashed, the small whirlwinds gathering height, wind-speed and debris as they hurtled towards the head of the Dincinto family.
Some of the dust-devils only came up to the giants hip, some of them whirled parallel to the ground like a Wind Whip. On the other end of the scale, several vertical ones reached his shoulder and chin. The breath he'd been holding was forcibly knocked out of him as the wind storm struck.
' This is insane and impossible!' The giant thought because swallowing all that air made him speechless after what Fletcher's attack had done to him.
Staring up at the sky from his newfound place on the ground, the giant growled in anger. He would not be beaten by one puny trespasser!
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Yokai panted as he halted, watching as a giant rise from the ground with a roar to loom over his pouting captain.
' Fletcher needs my help!' The monk feared the giant would kill Fletcher if no one helped him.
Yokai set the end of his staff into the ground and intoned "Ancient Art of the Elementals . . ."
Think, think, think, what would bring down the giant? He was even bigger than Cannibal or Papaya had been which reminded Yokai, just how was Christopher faring?
Light Bulb!
" . . . Thunder Quake!" Yokai finished. The earth and lightning shards in his staff began to glow.
The earth shards were causing the earth to crack and crackle. No fissure big or small would not allow the electricity coming out of the ground to electrocute Giants. While normally earth and lightning don't quite see eye to eye, this was an exception. Rather than bolting from the blue, the electricity twined upwards from the ground like vines, the giant's hair standing on end as he was electrocuted.
And down he fell, for the second time in as many minutes. This time, he did,'t get up.
So, the head of the Dincito family was defeated. And when the ground had settled back to its usual placid self, Fletcher asked the all important question . . .
"Where do we find Ken?"
After all the fights and winning Fletcher and his crew had to go through against Giants that just wouldn't give up the giant beneath him finally gave the captain the answer he was looking for.
"Puny trespassers . . . actually beat me . . ." a heavy voice rasped.
Fletcher and Yokai tensed, eyes locking on the prone form of the giant lest he get up once more. But he no intentions of doing so, instead rumbling "Your puny friend . . . is back at my base . . . you have to travel a . . . bit further into the forest."
Yokai nodded. He already knew this due to Sarah's directions. With a sigh, Yokai hurried to follow him.
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Christopher was bored. Very, very bored. What was taking them so long? He yawned, hand covering his mouth.
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"Fletcher! Do you even know where you're going?" Yokai yelled.
"NOPE!" Fletcher yelled back.
"Then slow down and let me lead the way!" the monk called exasperatedly.
Fletcher didn't know the meaning of slowing down but he knew a hit on the head from his nakama meant stop running and listen to the person who hit him because he wasn't trying to kill him.
"Ow! Kai!" Fletcher whined as he rubbed his head.
"That's not my name!" Yokai replied.
"So?"
Yokai blinked.
"So what?"
"So, where's the base?" Fletcher asked.
Shaking himself out of his brief reverie, Yokai started walking in the right direction, dragging Fletcher along behind him to avoid having the boy run off again.
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When they finally reached their destination, only one thought was going through their heads.
"Big." Fletcher said.
And indeed, the base was big. It had been built for giants after all.
Yokai walked up to the over-sized double doors and raped on them experimentally . . . then blinked in surprise. The doors sounded . . . hollow. He took several steps back, eyeing them speculatively. Now, he if he were to-
"Tornado Punch!" Fletcher yelled. Yokai stared as the doors suddenly smashed inwards, revealing that they were, indeed, hollow, which was why Fletcher's . . . unique technique worked so well. With a sigh, Yokai followed his eager captain inside.
Yokai and Fletcher saw where the giants stored the bones from the Sea Kings and giant animals they ate. Finding Ken was easier than Yokai thought it would be. They saw him holding his legs in a dark corner behind bones of a Sea King.
The bones were shoved aside by a happy Fletcher. Before Ken knew it, he was being crushed in a great big hug. Then Fletcher dropped him.
"I'm bored. Let's go." the young captain announced. He left, followed by Yokai who was carrying a slightly shell-shocked Ken by the ack of the shirt.
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"You really beat the Dincinto family?" Ken asked disbelievingly for the third time.
"Yep." Yokai replied as they passed the unconscious Cannibal.
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"Oi, Chris! Wake up!" Fletcher yelled.
"Wha'?!" Chris mumbled, sitting up straight and blinking rapidly. Spying Ken, he said with a yawn "What took you guys so long?"
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Sarah watched the forest anxiously, not that she actually expected anyone to come out.
"Hi Sarah~!" Yokai called.
"Hi!" she called back distractedly. No, there was no way they could have made it, they had to be all-
"What the hell! You're alive?!" She yelled at a perplexed Yokai.
"Is something wrong?" he asked worriedly, putting Ken down. Fletcher laughed in the background.
"You saved Ken!" Sarah shrieked, hugging the man. In the background, Christopher hit Fletcher and started dragging the boy back to the ship.
While Christopher was dragging Fletcher away Yokai stayed behind with Ken and Sarah.
Sarah continued to shove a large bag of supplies at the monk. Where the bag had come from was a complete mystery, as Yokai could have sworn that it hadn't been in her possession thirty seconds ago. Before he could refuse the supplies for a second time, however, an extremely long tongue shot out and snatched it from Sarah.
"Oh!" she said in surprise, watching the bag fly towards Christopher. The cook grabbed it in his free hand and said to Yokai, "Have you forgotten how much Fletcher eats? We need these supplies."
And with that, he was dragged away by Fletcher, the captain suddenly impatient to leave.
The reason for Fletcher's impatience came in the form of a Marine warship. Waving goodbye to Sarah and Ken while deflecting many, many cannonballs, the boys sailed on to their next adventure.
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Dorobou sat in his comforable chair in his opulent office, piles of money before him atop his expensive Adam wood desk. With great patience, he was counting out the money into a suitcase.
"300 000 beri, 310 000 beri, 320 000 beri . . ." His quiet voie filled the office. He kept on going, until he had 500 000 beri stacked into a plain black suitcase. Then he called for his assistant.
"Rodroy?"
A man dressed in a, well, dress tottered into the office.
"Yes, dear?" The cross-dresser asked.
"Please have this delivered to you-know-who" Dorobou said, holding out the suitcase.
"Of course, dear." Rodroy said, gently taking the suitcase and wobbling back the way he'd come. Dorobou got another, battered brown suitcase for one of his less dangerous clients, and went back to counting money, as usual. His days always seemed to go the same way. However, Dorobou liked the predictability of his life, and he knew that as long as the money made it on time each week then his life was never going to change. He smiled in contentment as he counted.
"50 000 beri, 60 000 beri, 70 000 beri . . ."
Unfortunately for Dorobou, today wasn't going to be like any other day. Because today was the day that Dorobou would make the acquaintance of Fletcher G. Perkman.
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Fletcher raced around and around the small ship as if he was a headless chicken. While he wasn't a chicken, he had the feeling that he would cerainly be headless if his cook ever caught him.
"You ate all our supplies!" The aforementioned cook screeched, swinging his black blade at Fletcher's head. The young man ducked, letting out a wail.
Yokai watched them with a sense of bemusement. They had had plenty of supplies yesterday. The captain couldn't possibly have eaten it all in one night. The monk thought that maybe it would be a good idea to check. Dodging his crew mates, he ducked into the kitchen.
The cook was right. Fletcher had eaten all the supplies.
"Ancient Art of the Elementals: Dragon Breath"
The unfortunate young captain realised that his hair was on fire. He jumped overboard. After all, water puts out fire, right?
Christopher shrieked. "Idiot overboard!"
Belatedly remembering that Fletcher was a fruit user, Yokai shrugged off his robe and jumped after his captain. And that is how Christopher saw the monk's boxers. Pink, with blue lovehearts all over them.
Having had more than enough for one day, Christopher went to take a nap. Yokai was presumably capable of baby-sitting Fletcher for a few minutes . . .
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When Christopher woke up two hours later, the boat was tied to the dock of a small seaside village. It really shouldn't have surprised him when neither of his crew mates were on board.
It really shouldn't have surprised Yokai that his captain was already causing trouble.
Rodroy, however, had every right to be surprised as the very important black suitcase went flying through the air and landed out to sea and sunk like a stone.