(A/N: New chapter! Enjoy!)

Chapter 3: Huge Battle! The Giants Dorry and Broggy!

Usopp, Venus, and Nami could only watch in terror, as a fat, mountainous, Viking-like figure sent trees crashing down left and right. They screamed at his gaze landing on them, before he let out a huge, bellowing laugh. "So..." He leaned down to their level with a tooth-baring grin, "What's the answer?"

"W-what was that?" Nami stammered. "C-could you repeat that?"

He leaned in closer. "I asked you if you have any alcohol."

"A-alcohol?" Venus raised an eyebrow.

Usopp nodded fearfully, as Nami inched away. "We've got a little..."

"So you've got some?" He smiled with ecstasy.

"I-it's not for drinking. It's for cooking and disinfection. But if you like, we'll give it all to you," Nami offered, as Usopp backed away with his hand holding Venus' wrist.

The giant let out an earth-quaking scream, scaring the three into losing their footing. He looked back, and it turned out that a t-rex had bit into his backside. Usopp protectively kept Venus close behind, as they all gawked. "Dino..." He whimpered.

"Dinosaur?" Nami squeaked.

The giant wielded his axe, and to the trio's horror, beheaded his attacker! Usopp and Nami fearfully hugged each other, keeping Venus in between, as the head fell like a rock.

"I'm Broggy, Elbaf's strongest warrior!" He laughed in victory, and held the head out to them. "Now I've got meat too. I'll treat you, my guests." They stared in terror, getting the wrong idea, before collapsing on the deck.

Broggy stared in confusion, and in concern, when they weren't moving. "H-hey..." He poked at Usopp's belly.

"P-pretend we're dead," Usopp whispered, "No matter what happens."

"D-doesn't pretending to be dead only work on bears?" Nami asked quietly.

Venus' forehead was prodded next, before he was silent, and watching them. "I think it's working," She whispered.

"Whoa! What a view!" Luffy admired the island from the brachiosaurus' head. "I wanna have lunch here."

"This isn't the time for idle chatter!" Vivi scolded from down on the ground with Karoo.

"Ahhh... oh?" Something caught his attention. "So there really are volcanoes. And there's a mountain with huge holes as well." He grinned widely.

"It's dangerous! Come down already!" Vivi ordered.

"Huh?"

"Even if it's well-behaved, it's still a dinosaur!"

"This guy's no trouble!" He assured with a hand wave. "More importantly, there're huge holes over there!" He pointed to his right. "That's one weird landscape!"

"Forget about the landscape! Just come down!"

Instead, Luffy stretched himself to look his ride in the eye. "Say, I have a favor to ask. Will you take me over there?" The longneck ignored him, and continued eating from a tree. "Hey, stop being so mean, and take me there." Still nothing. He readjusted himself, and pointed to the holes. "Over that way! That way!" When it continued eating, he stretched his arms around its neck. "Not this way, here! This way!" He forced it to look in said direction, to Vivi and Karoo's terror.

"Who'd do something like that?!"

A quaking rumbled throughout the area, as Luffy ceased his forceful movements. "Oh, sorry. But, um..." To his ecstasy, more brachiosaurus', the source of the quaking, came in stampeding, and loomed over him. "Amazing!"

"Luffy-san! Like I said, it's dangerous! Come down already!"

He didn't hear Vivi's orders. "And those dinosaurs are taller, so it looks like I'll have a better view."

"That's not the point!"

Luffy launched himself on a taller dino's head, and looked again. "As I thought, I can see the holes better." He turned around at hearing a growl, and jumped away from another's snapping jaws, clumsily landing on its head. "Oops!"

"Watch out!" Vivi watched in terror, as he dodged them left and right.

Luffy, on the other hand, was enjoying himself, despite the danger. "Vivi!" He slid down one's neck. "Wanna come over here?! It's fun!" They could only gape at him without a word, before he pulled himself up on the tallest's head. "The view from here is especially good!"

Unfortunately, his ride flicked him up in the air, and caught him in its jaws! "He's been eaten!" Vivi exclaimed.

Luffy sat up on the brach's tongue in confusion. "Where am I?" He then started falling down its long throat, grabbing his hat along the way; out of nowhere, it was beheaded, giving him a way out. He soon landed on a giant, waiting hand, as the ground rumbled. "Whoa..."

The skinny, Viking-like giant laughed. "I was watching. What a lively human, grappling with longnecks in this jungle. You're the first guest in a long time."

"You're huge! Are you a human?"

"You're asking me if I'm a human?" He laughed again, and held his sword behind his back. "I'm Dorry, Elbaf's strongest warrior!"

On the ground, Karoo had collapsed in fear, so Vivi was kneeling in the grass. "G-giant! I've heard of them, but this is my first time actually seeing one."

"I'm Luffy. I'm a pirate."

"A pirate?! Good for you!"

"Karoo! Wake up! We're getting out of here while we can!"

Just then, Luffy remembered his friends down below. "Oh yeah, the ones over there are Vivi and Karoo. Nice to meet you!"

Vivi glared in his direction. "Luffy-san had to open his big mouth!"

Dorry laughed heartily. "I'll invite you guys to my home!"

Elsewhere, Broggy was roasting drumsticks of t-rex meat over a fire. "It looks yummy."

Usopp turned his eyes to his back cautiously, keeping his body still otherwise. "How long do we have to pretend to be dead?"

"After all, this strategy doesn't seem to work against a giant," Nami whispered.

He averted his gaze to the girls, and accidentally squealed at a pile of skulls. "Shh!" Venus shushed.

Broggy looked back at the noise, but strangely, they didn't appear to be moving. "Hmm, I guess it was my imagination."

Usopp turned his head, and laid back down in relief. "Why'd you make a noise?" Nami asked quietly.

"I couldn't help it, since there're tons of skulls lying around!" He defended himself.

"I know, but..."

"I wonder if we'll be eaten like that soon." He whimpered.

"Don't give up!"

"We'll be fine," Venus added.

"But..."

Nami sat herself up. "We don't have to wait here like this, just to be eaten."

"It's yummy! It's yummy! Dinosaur meat!" Broggy sang through his work. "Grill it with red flame, and take a big bite! It's yummy! It's yummy! Dinosaur meat!"

Nami, Usopp, and Venus sneaked away behind his back. "That way!" The moment they were at the other side of the mountain, they urgently made a run for it, no longer staying quiet. When Nami and Usopp leaped over a fallen tree, Venus wound up clumsily tripping over it. "Ow!"

"You...!" Nami grumbled in frustration.

Usopp came rushing over, and took her hand. "You okay?"

"Yeah, thanks." She regained her footing with his help, brushed herself off, and they stopped to catch their breath. Usopp collapsed to his knees, as Venus flopped on her back.

"I-in any case," Nami panted, "We were able to escape."

"Y-yeah," Venus heaved.

"At least we got far away from that giant's stomach!" He wheezed, but then squeaked in fear when he felt a drop on his back. They all looked up, and a saber-tooth tiger was eyeing them with hunger from a tree.

"Uh oh," Venus' eye widened.

"But it might've only gotten us closer to a saber-tooth tiger's stomach," Nami remarked nervously.

They screamed and made a run for it, with the fierce feline hot on their tails. "No! No! No! No!" Soon, the four were running in the opposite direction, now the targets of a t-rex. A giant's foot stepping in their path made everyone screech to a stop. It was Broggy, from earlier; and he looked hungry. The t-rex and tiger zipped away, leaving the trio shaking in fear.

"In this jungle, no matter what we do, our fate will always be the same!" Usopp cried. "It's just a matter of whose stomach we end up in."

"We did everything we could," Nami shook her head, "Let's accept our fate."

Broggy kneeled down to look them in the eyes. "Oh, you guys're awake? The meat is done; have some! It's in return for the alcohol."

Later on, the three gaped in awe at the dinosaurs roaming the area, before a single drumstick was set down, towering over them. "Now, eat! Dinosaur meat tastes good."

"I-I have no appetite," Nami stammered.

"Don't hold back!" Broggy insisted.

"I don't want to eat," Nami and Usopp refused nervously.

"Dinosaur meat tastes good, I'm tellin' ya."

They continued to hold back. "Is he trying to get us to eat the dinosaur meat first..." Usopp whimpered.

"In order to fatten us up a little..." Nami continued.

"And then eat us?" He finished.

"Yeah, he's acting like a giant, all right."

"When we're still so young."

"Maybe we taste best when we're young."

"What a waste..." Broggy remarked, "It's good, I'm tellin' ya."

"Hey, it is good! Guys, you gotta try it!"

Nami looked up at the witch's voice. She and Usopp gaped in horror; she was eating! "VENUS!" She yelled.

"What're you doing?!" Usopp cried.

"Eating," Venus replied, "I'm hungry from all the running."

"He's gonna eat you!" Nami hissed.

"No he won't; I don't taste good. Besides, no sense in wasting food."

She fell back in defeat when Venus kept eating. It seemed Sanji was rubbing off on her. "If we somehow keep fasting until the Log is stored, and don't get fat, we may be able to survive."

"But how long will it take for the Log to be stored?" Usopp asked fearfully. "If I don't eat for three days, I'm sure I'll get tempted by this smell of meat, and eat it."

"Broggy-san! Can I ask you a question?"

"Hmm? What's the matter, young lady?"

"H-how long will it take for the Log of this island to be stored?"

Broggy smiled widely. "One year."

"What?!" The two collapsed at that.

Venus almost choked on her bite. "A year?!"

"Oh no," Nami whimpered, "There's no way we can fast for a year."

"I... definitely can't help eating," Usopp cried.

"Well, make yourselves at home!" He laughed.

Meanwhile, Dorry was at his own home with Luffy, Vivi, and Karoo. Luffy was helping himself to a large drumstick. "This is yummy, giant old guy!"

"Your pirate lunch thing tastes good too, although it's a little too small for me."

"Of course it's good!" Luffy had another bite. "It's a special lunch the chef on my pirate ship made. If you say it's bad, I'll beat you up!"

"Beat me up, you said?" He laughed, as Vivi and Karoo tensed up. "What a funny squirt you are!"

"Th-they're becoming awfully friendly," Vivi remarked.

"By the way, why are you living alone, old guy?" Luffy asked. "Isn't there a village or something?"

"Hmm? There is a village. It's a warriors' village called Elbaf. It's somewhere in the Grand Line."

"Hm?"

"But there're rules in the village."

"Rules?"

"For example, if we start a fight in the village, and both sides can't back off, we are judged by Elbaf's God. Elbaf's God always gives divine protection to the righteous one, and lets the righteous one survive."

"I see... Elbaf's God, huh?"

"I caused a disturbance, and this island is currently the site of a duel between a certain man, and myself. The righteous one will win the duel, and survive." Dorry laughed. "But we haven't been able to settle this for about 100 years."

"You guys've been fighting for 100 years?!" Luffy asked in surprise.

"It's nothing surprising, since our life span is at least three times as long as yours."

"Even if it's three times, your interest in fighting would wane in 100 years, wouldn't it?" Vivi questioned. "Is there any point in continuing to fight? It's a duel to the death, right?!"

"Well, I shouldn't be outdone by Zoro with this one," Sanji boasted to himself, now dragging the t-rex he faced off against earlier on, "It's decided that I'm the winner of the competition to obtain kilos of meat."

"I'm the winner of the competition to obtain tons of meat!" Zoro gloated, also dragging his three-horned adversary.

After turning a corner, the two rivals encountered each other. "Zoro!"

"Sanji!"

They smirked at each other pridefully. "I win!" They declared simultaneously, before glaring. "You lose!"

They pushed their catches side by side for comparison. "Look! My prey is bigger!" Sanji pointed out the t-rex's tail extending past that of the triceratops.

"What?!" Zoro exclaimed angrily. "This competition is about how many tons of meat we can get, right?! Mine is obviously huskier than yours!"

"Ha!" Sanji scoffed. "It's all a matter of if we can use it for cooking. Your prey looks full of bones. It has no more than 5 grams of meat for cooking!"

"There's no way we can eat meat full of sinews like that!" Zoro insisted.

"Tsk! There's no use in competing with such small prey," Sanji smirked, "I'll go capture a big one that'll silence you."

"Okay then," Zoro agreed, "I'll go capture a super big one that you can't even touch this time."

They watched, as a volcano suddenly erupted in the distance. "Okay. The next eruption is the signal to end the competition," The cook decided, "Bring back your prey to the Going Merry by then."

"Yeah, I'll take you up on that!"

"Whoa!" Luffy watched the eruption with Vivi, Karoo, and Dorry. "That's a huge volcano eruption!"

"Well, time to go," Dorry stood on his feet.

"Hmm?"

With Broggy, the trio noticed the eruption as well, after Usopp and Nami gave in to temptation. "What's that?" Nami wondered nervously.

"An eruption... hmm?" Usopp turned to Broggy when a drumstick was thrown in to the fire, to see him staring daggers. 'His face suddenly got tense...'

"Sorry, I have to head out for a bit." He stood up with a wide grin

"What? Head out?"

"Yeah," Broggy replied to Nami, "That was a signal for the duel that I've been in for 100 years."

"A duel?"

"With whom?" Usopp asked. "Where, and for what reason?"

"Reason? I don't remember." Broggy laughed, as Usopp gulped.

"It became our routine before we realized it," Dorry said to Luffy, "The eruption of the central mountain is the signal for the duel."

"What?!" Vivi exclaimed. "To have such hatred that you'd try killing each other for 100 years is... what on Earth caused this fight?!"

"Stop it," Luffy ordered with his hand up, surprising her, "It's not like that." After she lowered his hand, another giant appeared amongst the trees.

"Right. It's because of our pride." As Broggy charged in, the duel officially began. "I forgot... the reason a long time ago!" Their weapons clashed, sending a sonic wave washing over the whole island

"What? Wh-what's wrong?" Vivi looked over Luffy in concern, when he fell on his back.

"Oh boy," He puffed out some air, "What a huge duel!"

Deeper in the trees, another t-rex sniffed at a strange, square hut made entirely of a white substance; it then tried to take a bite out of it, only to break its teeth. "Hey, big lizard." Mr. 5. "You're in our way."

Ms. Valentine, now wearing a blue jacket over her lemon dress, smiled evilly. "Let me take care of it." She shot up into the air above their adversary's head. "10,000 Kilogram Press!" She rocketed back down, and crashed into it, before walking inside with Mr. 5.

"Oh hello, Mr. 5," A man greeted him. He was in a blue striped sleeveless shirt, yellow-green pants, and blue sneakers, and had his hair slicked up like a number 3 on top of his head. Mr. 3. He was with a child-looking woman with red braids, a blue cloud-print button-up, a teal t-shirt with "Golden" on the front in orange, a maroon skirt folded down at the top, purple and white striped stockings, a pink wide-brim hat with a green band, and pink sneakers.

"Ha! What an extravagant power you have, building an improvised house in the jungle," He commented, "Let me tell you something, though. This mission is still ours." After hearing of Mr. 5 and Ms. Valentine falling short at Whisky Peak, the two were ordered to go assist them. "I don't want you to meddle in it."

"We'll never goof up like that again," Ms. Valentine added.

"Goof up?"

"Hmm?"

"That's not it. You two are weak, Mr. 5, Ms. Valentine." Mr. 3's words made them angry. "Well, don't look so stern. Look at this." He took out a wanted poster that looked decades old, featuring a younger-looking Dorry and Broggy, with a 200 million berry bounty. "I'd like to thank you for giving me an opportunity to come to this island."

Mr. 5 had a closer look. "Dorry the Blue Ogre, and Broggy the Red Ogre of the Giant Warrior Pirates."

"I've heard of them in an old tale," Ms. Valentine remarked, "This is a wanted poster from 100 years ago!"

They turned to Mr. 3. "Yeah, but those guys now live on this island. Their bounty then was 100 million berries per head. 200 million berries for the two of them."

"200 million berry bounty heads? But they're giants," Mr. 5 pointed out.

"Superb criminals execute their crimes by using their superb brains," Mr. 3 lectured, "All you have to do is follow my instructions. If we give it a little thought, we can cut through any mountain."

(A/N: The giants have entered the picture! But so have some adversaries. You know the disclaimer.)