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Bold for Attacks

Steve's POV

"I'm sorry for yelling at you." Nami said.

"It's fine I understand. You haven't even said it but I can tell by the look on your face that pirates have taken a lot from you, so it's ok." I accepted the apology and began getting ready for the upcoming fight "Sides I snapped at you before, we're even."

"I can't take it anymore." The Mayor shouted "You guys and Chou-Chou are fighting why is it that I, The Mayor of this place, can only stand by and watch as everything we worked so hard for is destroyed by pirates."

"Just come down sir." Nami instructed.

"To a real man there are just some fights you can't avoid, right kid?"

"You bet old man." Luffy said excitedly.

"Don't encourage him." I sighed

The Mayor began telling us the story of how this village was founded and built from the ground up.

"I'm the chief of this village. I'm going to stand and fight!" The Mayor yelled proudly picking up a spear.

Just then another explosion rocked the village and a cannonball flew past us and annihilated all the homes in its path.

"GAHH! Even my house!" Boodle screamed as he looked towards what had been his home but was now just a pile of firewood.

Oh Crap! Zoro!

"Zoro was still inside!" I said voicing my worry.

Relief struck all of us when we saw some of the rubble move.

"Zoro are you still alive." Luffy asked hoping to see our friend emerge unscathed.

"Yeah. Hell of a way to get woken up." Zoro said emerging from the ruins of the former home.

The Mayor suddenly spoke up and began giving himself some sort of pep talk. He attempted to run and fight but Nami stopped him saying that it was too dangerous.

"I know it's reckless!" He yelled as he ran off to go confront Buggy.

"The village chief was crying." She noted

"Really I didn't see a thing." Luffy smirked.

I could tell by that look that he didn't care what the mayor was feeling our path was set, we needed to deal with these pirates.

"This is starting to get fun." Zoro remarked.

"I agree." Laughing the three of us got ready for our upcoming clash.

"How are you three so calm?" our orange haired friend asked.

"Relax," Luffy told her "I like that mayor so we won't let him die."

Time to find out if we can truly rely on Nami.

"Our destination is the Grand Line. So we'll need to steal that map you had of it from Buggy. Since you need the map to will you be joining us?" I stuck my hand out awaiting her answer.

"I won't become a pirate. Let's just call it…business partners." She slapped my hand away and we began heading towards Buggy base.

I didn't like that answer. But for now, it'll do.

LATER

Along the way to the fight Nami tried to convince Zoro to stay out of it and rest his injury, but he was having none of that.

"I'll be fine. My body will heal on its own but my pride will need to be recovered since all I did in the last fight was get hurt."

"Exactly Zoro and I got our asses kicked in our last encounters with Buggy's crew, we need to reclaim our honor." I added as we approached the bar Buggy was at.

"Men." Nami groaned "You're all so…ugh."

As we got closer, I could see that The Mayor was being held in a chokehold by one of Buggy's disembodied hands.

"I'll take care of this." I said running ahead of my friends.

Buggy was on some monologue about treasure and destroying the town, but I didn't care I grabbed the hand and freed Boodle.

Guess that's when Buggy saw that I had arrived on the scene.

"The Red Head." Buggy noted giving me the stink eye.

"Hey, sorry I'm late. I made a promise to reclaim this town and that's what I'm gonna do."

"So you've come without any fear." Buggy started returning his hand to his body "YOU'RE ALL DEAD!"

"Listen I'm just here for the map not to fight them" Nami told us leaving all the work up to us.

Apparently, our arrival wasn't just unappreciated by the pirates but also The Mayor. He was upset that we weren't letting him do the fighting and told us to stay out of his fight and not to interfere. Luffy wasn't too keen on The Mayor's ramblings and proceeded to smash his head into a wall to shut him up.

No need to be so violent we could have talked it out.

"Why did you do that?" Nami then proceeded to chew Luffy out for his treatment of the mayor.

I interrupted her tirade "Because he would have just gotten in our way."

"He might have charged in recklessly if he was left alone." Zoro added on "It'll be safer if he's unconscious."

It was time for us to begin our long-awaited fight.

"Hey big nose!" Luffy yelled.

With that they didn't waste any time trying to eliminate us. They fired the cannon again and Nami ran for cover. Zoro tried to get Luffy to dodge but he wasn't budging.

"You think I'll move just because of some cannonball." taunted Luffy.

Luffy used his Gum-Gum Balloon technique to bounce the explosive back at the men who fired it.

The explosion destroyed the bar and most of the people on it if I had to guess.

"Good you lowered their numbers." I praised.

"How did you do that?!" Nami questioned.

"We're not done yet" I pointed out the injured bodies being used as shields by Buggy and another man.

"How cruel using their own crew as shield." Nami said.

Buggy began conversing with the other man who had withstood the blast by using what I now recognized as Richie. I saw that Mohji was emerging from the rubble, and was very pissed that this other man had used his pet as a shield. The two began bickering until Mohji tried to tell Buggy about the fact that Luffy was rubber, which shocked Nami. Mohji was thrown at us by Buggy for not informing him of that important fact sooner.

"MOVE!" Mohji screamed at me.

"No, how about you move." I answered whipping him in the face and gaining satisfaction for my earlier loss. "Can't believe I lost to you."

I saw that Zoro was blocking Luffy from and attack by a man on a unicycle. Luffy offered to fight on Zoro's behalf since he was injured but Zoro stood his ground. The man who had introduced himself as Cabaji went straight at Zoro, breathing fire into his face and kicking his wound. Zoro crashed to the ground in pain while Cabaji continued his assault.

This guy's fighting style is all trick-attacks, things like kicking dirt, breathing fire, and spinning tops he doesn't make it easy to fight him head on.

I was beginning to get worried that Zoro might actually die when he stood up and did the unthinkable.

"Did you find attacking my wound that much fun?" Zoro took his sword and cut his own wound "That enough of a handicap for you? I will become the world's greatest swordsman; let me show you the difference in our skills."

"You can't possible win with that injury." Cabaji taunted "You can use that as the excuse when I beat you."

Nami informed Luffy and I that she was going to sneak into a warehouse to steal from Buggy since we were going to retrieve the map form Buggy himself.

"And if you manage to get the map we may work together again in the future."

She wished us luck and ran off down an alley in search of treasure. I turned my attention back to Zoro's fight but saw no sign of Cabaji. That was till I looked to the sky and saw him flying through the air throwing small tops at Zoro. He readied himself and preformed a direct downward stab that I had no worries about Zoro blocking except Buggy was sending a hand right for him, to hold him still to prevent him from dodging.

Luffy stepped up and stomped on the hand "Don't interfere with their fight."

Zoro leapt out of the way of Cabaji attack and moved his swords into position to attack and dashed at Cabaji "Oni Giri!" and with that Cabaji fell to the ground defeated saying that he was ashamed to have lost to a thief.

"I'm not a thief, I'm a pirate." corrected Zoro as he collapsed.

Zoro fell asleep and left the rest of the fight up to Luffy and I.

"You mean your pirates?" Buggy asked

"Yep so hand over the map of the Grand Line" I said pulling my whips out and preparing to strike "Nami said you had one."

"Why would no-names like you even wanna go to the Grand Line it's not like they offer sightseeing tours." Buggy joked

"We're gonna be kings of the pirates." Luffy and I stood our ground with serious looks on our faces.

"You two, Kings of the Pirates? Like hell next they'll say I'm GOD!" Buggy yelled.

"Enough let's get started, I'm ending this." I said

"Seeing your disgusting red hair reminds me of that other red headed guy." Buggy had a look of displeasure on his face.

There's that look again. Like he's seen me before.

"Red Haired? Do you know Steve's dad?" Luffy asked.

"I thought I told you to keep that information on the down low."

"So you really are related to him. Yeah I know Shanks what's it to you."

"Where are they? My parents." I wanted to know so bad. I haven't seen mom and dad since I was little. I just wanted to know if they were ok "Do you know something?"

"Maybe I do maybe I don't." Buggy said holding the information over my head.

"I don't get it" Luffy butted into the conversation.

"I mean that I'm not nice enough to tell your friend what he wants to know. And I'll kill him before he can hear the answer."

"Luffy!" I yelled "You stay out of this. I'm fighting this alone."

"But I'm the one who challenged him first."

"You took down the fur ball earlier; you already had your fun. Besides this guy and I have some things to discuss."

"Fine."

"Here we go. I'll crush you and make you tell me what I want to know."

AN

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