Fishman Pirate Arlong
With 2 new crewmembers, Luffy was on his way to find the rest of his crew.
Yosaku was still crying over what happened.
"How long will you be crying?" Gin asked.
"You should be happy," Luffy stated.
"But I'm very touched from departing from those chefs," Yosaku cried.
"I thought you should have been through these kind of situations before," Sanji responded.
"I want Nami to get back to us soon, so we can go to the Grand Line!" Luffy cheered.
"Are you sure you want to go to the Grand Line with only 6 people?" Gin asked, "I mean it's called the Pirate Graveyard for a reason."
"We'll recruit more people once we get into the Grand Line," Luffy explained.
"I'll be happy as long as Nami is with me," Sanji said.
"I think you guys are dreaming!" Yosaku yelled.
"What's the big deal, we already have someone that was in the Grand Line," Luffy stated.
"Actually, the Krieg Pirates didn't even manage to reach the first island," Gin responded.
"See! You know little about the Grand Line, and once Zoro knows that, he might rejoin me!" Yosaku yelled, "The place where Nami's heading to is very dangerous!"
"You already told us that. Some pirate is there," Luffy said.
"Not just any pirate. It's the Fishman Pirate Arlong," Gin responded.
"And?" Luffy asked.
"He has a higher bounty than Don Krieg," Gin stated.
"I'm hungry. Let's eat!" Luffy yelled.
"Are you even listening?" Gin yelled.
"You should know a few things. First, about the Grand Line: the reason that it's called the Pirate Graveyard is because it consist of 3 factors," Yosaku responded.
"Three?" Luffy asked.
"One: the seven war lord pirates lives there," Yosaku explained.
"Warlord?" Luffy asked.
"I heard of them. They were big bounty pirates until the world government decided to hire them as legal pirates," Gin responded, "Captain Krieg use to complained that those guys are pathetic excuses for giving up their bounties to be Marines' pet."
"Why?" Luffy asked.
"Some say it was because the pirate era was getting worse," Gin replied, "However, there's a story going around that it's because of Revolution."
"Revolution?" Luffy asked.
"Some guy name 'Dragon' has been traveling around the world and recruited anyone that is against the world government to fight them," Yosaku responded, "Rumor goes, the world government hired pirates in order to make sure that the revolutionist don't gain any more power."
"Why?" Luffy asked.
"Well, one reasons is what happened 10 years ago," Yasaku explained, "On some random island here in the east blue, there was a huge fire near a populated and highly rich city that could of claimed many lives. But sometime during the chaos, the leader was said to be there and helped those that were caught in it in return. They say pirates caused the fire, but there were rumors that the pirates were hired by someone to create it. Many think the revolutionist leader was behind it."
"A fire caused by pirate…" Luffy responded, "Wait! Was the starting point of the fire was at the garbage yard around that village?"
"Yeah, why?" Yosaku asked.
"Because I was there!" Luffy responded, "It happened at the island where I grew up!"
"What?" Sanji Yosaku and Gin yelled.
"You're joking right?" Gin asked.
"No, I really was there! So was my brothers!" Luffy responded, "I don't know anything about the revolutionist, but I do know the pirates that caused the fire was hired by a nobleman family."
"Why would noblemen want to kill people?" Sanji asked.
"Well, they didn't like living near poor people and hated anyone that isn't rich," Luffy responded.
"How do you know this?" Gin asked.
"Because my late brother: Sabo was from a noble family," Luffy explained, "And man did he hate it. He use to complain how hard his life was just living with his family. Its one of the reasons he wanted to be a pirate and left the island when he was killed."
"I find it hard to believe that noble people would want to kill so many lives," Sanji responded.
"I do," Gin responded, "I never trusted Noble or rich folks."
"Don't tell Usopp that. It was thanks to a friend of his we got the Going Merry, and she's rich," Luffy laughed.
"Anyway… one of the 7 warlords is the fishman Jinbei," Yosaku explained.
"Fishmen? Are they like mermaids?" Luffy asked.
"Do you even know what mermaids look like?" Gin asked.
"No, but I have an idea," Luffy replied.
"Speaking of mermaids, the mermaid island in the Grand Lin must be very famous, right? I think there will be many beautiful mermaids lived in that place." Sanji said blushing.
"Jinbei left some monsters in the East blue sea in exchange of becoming one of the warlords," Yosaku explained.
"Do they look like this?" Luffy asked showing a drawing of a regular fish but with himan legs coming off it's bottom.
"That's a fish with human legs!" Sanji laughed.
"Won't you pay attention?" Yosaku yelled, "Anyways, the place where we're heading is called 'Arlong Park'. Arlong is the fishman pirate who is as strong as Jinbei. That place we're heading too is under Arlong's control."
"That's why you're coming back, right?" Gin asked.
"But how can you know that Nami is going there?" Sanji asked, "Maybe she was heading to another place."
"Johnny and I was thinking the same thing. But based off the direction she was heading and her strange behavior that involved Arlong's wanted poster. And when we told her that he was invading again, she stole the ship," Yosaku said, "There has to be a connection."
"How about this picture?" Luffy asked showing a new drawing of the same fish, only the legs were coming off where it's tail fin was at.
"Isn't that the same fish?" Gin asked.
"Maybe Nami has some business to do with those mermaids, or maybe she's a mermaid," Sanji asked.
"What did you say?" Luffy asked as he showed that he added more to the fish he just drawn.
"Stop making me mad!" Sanji yelled.
"Don't you understand what I just said?" Yosaku asked.
"You want to tell us that those fishmen are very strong, right?" Luffy asked.
"No! It seems that you don't get the point. Those fishmen are very strong!" Yosaku yelled.
"I knew that," Gin responded, "After all, Arlong has a bounty higher than Captain Krieg's."
"Don't worry, we will see how strong they are when we arrive," Sanji said.
"Yes. Don't worry Yosaku," Luffy responded.
"My story didn't teach you anything?" Yosaku asked.
"Anyways, let's eat first," Sanji said, "What do you want?"
"Roast Beef!" Luffy yelled.
"I want fried bean!" Yosaku yelled.
"I'll take whatever you can make," Gin responded.
…
On an island in the northwest part of the east blue, the whole island was controlled by human/fish like pirates known as Fishmen.
The leader was a fishman with a swordfish like nose, shark like teeth, a fin on his back, wearing Hawaiian like clothes, and a winter cap on his head.
Their flag was a cross bone with a swordfish on the front of it.
The pirate crew had bargain their way out of trouble, and that's what they were doing now.
A marine captain that had a face like a rat and even wearing a hat with rat ears on it was talking to the pirate captain.
"This is the money for this month, captain Nezumi," the fisman captain said giving the marine a stack of money.
"You really know your work, Arlong," Nexumi responded.
Arlong started laughing.
"You don't have to be formal. Money can buy everything in this world!" Arlong laughed, "Money is the best. You can trust it more than the human."
"Absolutely right," Nezumi agreed.
"I hate humans, except for a woman and the person who easily understands like you," Arlong laughed.
"The business is done, so I'm leaving now," Nezumi said, "It's not good if someone sees a marine ship in this house."
"Thanks a lot. But why don't you stay for some meal?" Arlong offered, "If someone tells the government, I will kill that person for you."
"Thanks, but no. I'd better leave," Nezumi said.;
"Hey! The captain is leaving! Someone take him to his ship!" Arlong ordered.
A fish man with a long mouth and 6 arms that look like they have suckers, wearing swimming trunks and t-shirt, a tattoo on his forehead, and hair that spiked around his head jumped out of the water.
"Get on the jar. I will take you to your ship," the fishman said
"Sorry to bother you Hachi," the marine said.
"Your face is very funny. That's why your name is Nezumi, right?" Hachi asked.
"Hey Hachi! Watch your mouth!" Arlong told Hachi.
"Oh! I am sorry," Hachi responded, "Please get in the jar."
"That's okay," Nezumi laughed.
The marines got into the jar that was docked next them.
Hachi jumped into the sea and used his 6 arms to carry the jar and swim to shore.
…
Nami was outside the house where Arlong was at.
She was wearing a strapped shirt that had straps that goes over her shoulder, revealing the tattoo of the Arlong Pirates on her left shoulder.
She was about to enter when a boy came up with a sword.
"Get out of my way! I will go in and kill! If you don't get out of my way, I'll kill you too!" the boy threatened, "I said get out of my way!"
Nami used her staff to hit the sword out of the boy's hand and strike him as well.
Then Nami stepped on the boy's back.
"Now that you understand, go back to your house," Nami told the boy as she dropped some money, "I will give you my money. This money will protect your life!"
"Darn it!" the boy complained.
Nami got off the boy and walked into the entrance into the building.
The entrance actually led to a bit of land around a larger building.
"Ho! You're back?" Arlong greeted, "It's been a long time."
"You still have a very weak security system," Nami said.
"You think that anyone dares to go against me?" Arlong asked, "How much did you get this time?"
"A pretty good amount, but I feel a little bit lonely this time," Nami responded.
"Where did you learn that kind of talking from?" Arlong laughed, "The person who loved to betray people like you feeling lonely? Ha!"
"You think so?" Nami asked.
"Our friend has returned! Let's party!" the crew cheered.
"Hey! Where's Hachi?" Nami asked.
"Oh, he's just dropping something off," Arlong responded.
"That's good. Once Hachi has returned, I'll ask him to drop me off close to town," Nami thought.
A/N: Sorry about the short chapter. I thought I finished this chapter here. I thought of having Hachi showed more of the kind and generous side he had in the grand line in one piece toward Nami in this story. He's just stuck fighting for Arlong, just as Nami is. I still plan to have Hachi fight Zoro to get back at Zoro for tricking him.