A/N: Sorry for the lateness of these updates, combination of being super busy over the holidays (More so than normal.) And this site being down at random times, as well as my internet too.
But I hope I made up for it with a double update for all my stories minus my One Piece stories, and a triple update for Ninja on the League for the 1 million views!
Beta: Memodo Shiki.
Chapter LXVIII.
On the Yonta Maria, the captains grow emotional over their admiration for Luffy's desire to be free, and they decide to drink their sake cups and pledge allegiance to Luffy regardless of his wishes, as Zoro drinks all the sake in Luffy's cup.
The seven crews then bring out food for a banquet to celebrate the formation of the Mugiwara Dai-sendan (Straw Hat Grand Fleet.)
Luffy is angered about this and that he cannot reciprocate the action, but the captains tell him that this is a one-sided alliance where they will come and help him whenever he wishes.
The crews then take part in the party, with Leo telling Cavendish that he will head back later on the Yellow Kabu while Orlumbus orders his fleet to set sail, continuing the party.
Flower Field.
On the Flower Field, Rebecca, and Kryos watch the Straw Hats depart as they hold each other's bare hands for the first time in ten years.
Now.
Yonta Maria A Few Days Later.
Luffy chuckled as everyone partied on the deck. Nojiko, Robin was sitting beside Naruto. Nojiko lifts her shirt in the back of the crowd. Naruto smiled at them before taking a bottle, and placed the cap on the edge of a table and slammed his other hand down on the top.
The cap popped off as foam came out of the bottle before Naruto brought it up to his mouth.
He stood up and walked to the stern with Robin were Law was watching the sea.
"You can't see Dressrosa anymore." Robin said looking out at the sea as Naruto took a drink from his bottle. "You achieved your goal in taking down Doflamingo, didn't you?"
Law just walked away, shouldering Kikoku. "Leave me alone."
Naruto waved over his shoulder before flipping the doctor off.
The Next Day.
"What. The. Hell?!" Thane and Naruto yelled out looking at Bartolomeo's ship.
The ship's design is based on both Monkey D. Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates former flag ship, the Going Merry. It also possesses a structure resembling Chopper's hat and antlers at its stern. It is slightly larger than the Thousand Sunny.
On the ship's deck is a large pedestal with a glass dome holding a piece of Luffy's Vivre Card that he gave each Captain.
The deck of the ship is littered with gum.
"Alright! Look around as you please!" Bartolomeo yelled at the Crew and Law. "This is the Barto Club's pirate ship filled with love for the Straw Hats! It's called… The Gōingu Rufi-senpai-gō (Going Luffy-Senior Go!)"
"I regret joining." Naruto groaned out as he face-palmed and dragged his hand down. Bartolomeo's crew was revealed to be just as big fanboys as he is before taking them inside Bartolomeo's room where there are wanted poster.
"We.. We have new posters!" Nojiko yelled out pointing to the wall that had a frame around each of the Straw Hats new posters. As well as autographs of each one who stayed in Dressrosa. Tate's and Kitchi's being paw prints with their names above them.
Wanted Dead Or Alive.
Monkey D. Luffy: $500,000,000.
Luffy's poster was him reaching for the camera eyes closed in a smile.
"It's 500 Million! Yeah!" Luffy shouted.
Uzumaki Naruto: $500,000,000.
Naruto's picture was of him holding a trench knife in his right hand and in front of him, smiling. (1.)
"Huh! Well, at least I look bad ass!"
Kitchi. (Pet.): $500-
Kitchi's picture's was him sitting in front of the camera grinning.
Kitchi just yipped and wagged his tail.
Roronoa Zoro: $320,000,000.
Zoro's was him with his bandanna on looking to the left.
"Oi! (Hey!) Do you have any booze?!" Zoro asked with a grin.
Nico Robin: $130,000,000.
Robin's picture was a close up with her left hand and arm covering her mouth from the picture.
"Oh no. It's gone up." Robin said looking at her new bounty.
Franky: $94,000,000.
Franky's picture was him in his General Franky armor.
"Just a little short!" Franky said noticing his was just under 100 million. "On top of that, it's General Franky's picture..."
Thane: $450,000,000.
Thane's picture was him with a slight grin, eyes glowing.
Thane just shrugged at his picture before walking off.
'Hell hound' Tate (Pet): 2,000-.
Tate's picture was her growling at the camera.
Tate yawned before going to sleep, head on her paws,
'Kami' Usopp: $200,000,000.
Usopp's picture was him injured when he stopped Sugar.
Usopp just switched between extremely scared and ecstatic before Franky strangled him, having the only bounty under 100 million who fought at Dressrosa.
(Only Alive.) Sanji: $177,000,000.
Sanji's picture is a close up without a shirt and a heart for an eye, smiling.
"Well, that's weird." Naruto stated seeing the only alive on the poster.
Nami: $70,000,000. (2.)
Nami's picture is a close up of her with her hands in her long hair.
"You got taken for pictures again?!" Naruto yelled looking at the women's pictures.
Nojiko: $75,000,000.
Nojiko's picture was again similar to Nami's with a wink.
"Wow." Nojiko said looking at her bounty.
Mai: $73,000,000.
Mai in mid float smiling. One hand has her umbrella, open, resting on her left shoulder with the other hand reaching out to the camera.
Emiko: $68,000,000.
Emiko's a side view with her paint brush pointing out like a wand, some paint on her outfit.
Olive 'Green Mistress': $100,000,000. (3.)
Olive's picture had her hat block her left eye, giving a smile.
Brook: $ 83,000,000.
Brook's picture was a picture that looked like his poster from when he was singing during the two year training. With the 'Dead or Alive' in his hair.
"It's like a poster for his concert!" Franky yelled out.
"Everyone who was in Dressrosa or apart of the crews went up by at least 50 million!" Bartolomeo said after explaining Law's is 500 million as well. "Ours went up by 50 million as well. But… Take a look at that. For 'Black-Foot' Sanji-Senpai, (Senior,) the price has gone up strangely high and the text is odd."
"'Only alive'?" Frankie asked as Usopp walked up to the posters.
"Since it's Sanji, I bet someone holds a grudge against him over a woman and wants to do the honors themselves." He said getting the others to chuckle at that.
Marine Headquarters.
Kizaru was cutting his nails as he at at his desk as a man was reporting to him.
"The A.O. Pirates, formerly of the Whitebeard Pirates, have just been wiped out."
"Is it that guy again?" Kizaru asked lazily.
"Hai, (Yes,) it's the Shichibukai (Warlord) Edward Weevil."
"How many captains who used to work under Whitebeard… Have been brought down?"
"16 captains, sir." The man replied back to the Admiral.
Kizaru looked down at the reports on the Whitebeard Pirates.
"Like the other cases, it seems like they were blown up along with the town after some kind of argument. The casualties are about 600. He always causes a lot of collateral damage. Even though he's the Shichibukai (Warlord) we can't just overlook it."
"What should we do?" Kizaru asked looking up.
"He says he's Whitebeard Edward Newgate's biological son and that makes him special but many people aren't buying it..."
"Hmm. Well, it doesn't matter to us if it's true or not. Whoever his father is, he has one sure value. As a pirate, he's overwhelmingly strong. Pretty much like Whitebeard when he was young. That's the only thing they have in common."
A Week Later Barto-Club.
Naruto walked outside and saw nothing but fog. "Can barely see my hand in front of my face." The blonde said as Bartolomeo and his crew laid down, seasick.
"You guys really need a doctor." Thane said walking out with Tate.
"Oyabun! (Boss!) I see something at two o'clock!" The man in the Crow's Nest reported as a large shadow came up in the fog.
Law looked at his Vivre Card and saw it was moving towards the shadow that was moving slightly.
He explained the island Zou created a dense fog and rapid tides to ward off any intruders before they sailed closer.
"Is.. Is that Zou?!" Naruto asked looking up as everyone did the same and gained a shocked look.
Zou, is a massive elephant, comparable to an island in sheer scale; its legs are disproportionately and extremely long. Its legs have two joints. However, it has comparatively small eyes which have sunken deep into their sockets, being barely visible and giving the impression that it has no eyes at all. Its skin is heavily wrinkled, reflecting old age, and its ears are tattered and frayed at the edges.
"You have got to be shitting me!" Nojiko said before noticing something. "How the hell do we get up there?!"
"Tra-guy! But this is a Zou! (Elephant)!" Luffy yelled out.
"Hai, (Yeah,) Zou is the name of a place that flourishes on the back of a massive elephant." Law explained as they looked up at the massive elephant.
"Nani?! (What?!) Is it alive?" Usopp asked the doctor who nodded.
"It keeps moving so it'll never be at the same location. It's a Phantom Island. It's not actually an island so Log Poses won't get you here. I've never been here before either. It's showing its back to us. That means Black Foot and the others could've gotten here much earlier."
"So we were chasing an elephant that was walking away." Robin stated as she looked at the elephant.
"Hai (Yeah.) Get ready to make landfall." Law said walking forward. "Can you give us some food?" He asked Bartolomeo who glared at him.
"For you?!"
"Can you give Straw Hat-ya some food?" That changed Bartolomeo's mind as he ran into the kitchen.
"Hey, I hear there's a tribe that hate humans here." Kanjuurou said getting Law to nod.
"Hai, (Yes,) it's the Mink Tribe. They hold off humans and people say the history of their country goes back nearly a thousand years."
"That elephant is that old?!" Naruto asked looking up to the elephant.
Bartolomeo started to gush as the saw the Sunny chained to the elephants hind leg. After getting no response when calling for the others, Luffy stretched over and saw they weren't there.
Naruto used Sukai Wōku. (Sky Walk.) and jumped over. "Maybe they had to get on the elephant? It's the only thing I know they could have done." He said before the Sunny was pulled as the elephants leg moved forward.
"Bariabiriti: Suteāzu (Barrier-bility: Stairs.)" Bartolomeo created stairs having the others run over before the Sunny moved away.
The Barto Club expresses their happiness at being with the Straw Hats, despite the Straw Hats ignoring them as Kanjuro works on a large drawing.
"Is it a lizard?" The Crew asks as Kanjuro has the drawing come to life, and it emerges as a big, long, and pink dragon.
The Straw Hats are shocked at how pathetic it looks.
"It's cute." Naruto blinked at that as he looked at Robin who had pink dusting her cheeks.
"Is it going to fly us up to the top?" Usopp asked looking at the dragon. Only for the dragon to grab the elephants leg.
"All right, everyone, cling on its back! It's gonna climb up!" Kanjuurou said as the Straw Hats, Law, and the samurai then climb aboard the dragon as the Barto Club tearfully departs, and they prepare to make the daunting journey up and reunite with their crew mates.
As they got a good ways up the leg, the dragon quickly grows tired and struggles to keep ahold of the elephant's leg, and it slides back down to the Sunny.
"Attaboy, dragon!"
"Come on, you can do it!"
"Go, Ryunosuke!"
The Straw Hats started to encourage it, with Usopp dubbing it 'Ryunosuke', and it continues climbing despite its progress being lost.
"I wonder how Sanji and the others got up here?" Luffy wonders as Ryunosuke continues climbing. "Kin'emon, Kanjuro. Come to think of it, why do you want to go to Zou?"
The samurai explain that Zou was their original destination after leaving Wano Country, and they wanted to reunite with Momonosuke as well as see if their comrade, Raizo, a ninja who was separated from them at sea, had made it here.
"Etetetetetetet…"
Suddenly, they hear something forcing them to look up.
They see a small monkey falling down towards them.
He's a small, humanoid monkey wearing a striped top hat and a suit.
"Look out!"
"Duck!"
The Straw Hats and Law dodge the falling monkey, but Kin'emon and Kanjuro are distracted from playing around and are hit, causing them to fall off Ryunosuke.
"Oh no! Those two fell!" Luffy yelled out looking at the falling trio.
"Oi! (Hey!) Are you alright?!"
"Kin'emon! Kanjuurou!" Usopp yelled down.
"Did they hit the water?" Nojiko asked looking down.
"Luffy-Dono! We're both okay! Go on up! We'll catch up soon!" Kin'emon yelled up as they hear the monkey shouts at the samurai for trying to enter Zou without permission.
"Guy's, Ryunosuke can't handle going back down." Naruto said getting the others to see the dragon struggling.
They decide to continue on to the top.
Later, the sun starts to go down, having Luffy fall asleep as Ryunosuke nears the top. Luffy loses his grip on Ryunosuke, forcing Naruto to grab him. As the pirates near the top, Ryunosuke gives a last push upward, and they reach Zou successfully. However, Ryunosuke turns back into a drawing, and the pirates mourn for it except for Zoro and Law,.
"It's just a cheap drawing. We're in unfamiliar area, look forward."
The pirates walk toward a gateway just in front of them.
"That must be a gate into the country." Zoro said as they continued.
Naruto and Law noticed a guard tower but no one was around.
"Where is everyone?" Naruto asked quietly as Tate and Kitchi ran to the trees and sniffed.
Luffy pulls himself to the top the tower, allowing him to survey the entire area. Usopp joins Luffy as the others walk through the gateway, whose gates were destroyed.
Luffy and Usopp saw a city covered by forests and even massive buildings with a Whale-shaped tree on the other end.
"So this is the back of the elephant!" Luffy exclaimed looking at the city on the elephants back.
Luffy leaps off the gate and goes exploring by himself, while the other pirates survey the seemingly abandoned city, noting that the ground is hard to walk on and that there is heavy damage all around them, including faint traces of gunpowder and gas.
"I hope Nami and the others are OK." Nojiko said walking beside Naruto and Robin.
"I'm sure they are." Naruto replied as Tate and Kitchi ran ahead.
Not noticing they stepped on a large elephant print.
Meanwhile, a humanoid rabbit spies on them from behind a bush.
She is a white-furred, blonde-haired rabbit mink with brown eyes, rabbit ears, a rabbit-like nose, and a large round fluffy tail. She seems to be short. She's wearing a short orange dress with laced-up open sides with a green cape, a single rabbit paw-like gauntlet, and brown, high-heeled boots.
This is Carrot, a member of the Inuarashi Musketeer Squad, and a ruler's aide.
She gained a shocked look that they managed to get past the monkey.
Carrot then ambushes them, managing to dodge Zoro's slash and clash with his sword.
'Did she just… Jump in mid-air?!'
"Matte! (Wait!) Stop, Carrot!" A woman yelled out.
Suddenly, a giant crocodile-like creature bursts onto the scene. Riding it is a female tan-furred, blonde-haired, curvaceous and well-endowed canine human hybrid with dog ears, a dog-like snout, and a large bushy tail.
She's wearing Nami's long blue pants, high-heeled shoes, and green-white striped bikini. She also has a blue mini cape and a blue cloth around her pants.
This is Wanda, also a member of the Inuarashi Musketeer Squad, and a ruler's aid.
"Forget about them-teia! More importantly, we have an invader in the Whale Forest!"
"Taking animals?!"
"They're the Mink Tribe!" Law explained holding his sword.
"The hell? She's wearing Nami-chan's clothes!" Naruto yelled out pointing at the canine mink.
"Are they cannibals?" Robin asked as she crossed her arms.
Suddenly, Carrot jumped high in the air.
"Wow, she jumped high." Frankie said pushing his glasses up as he stared.
"How is it?! Do you see something, Carrot?!" The Canine mink asked looking straight up.
"I do! Maybe it's a little too late! On the other side of Kurau City, there's a disturbance in the Whale Forest!" Carrot replied.
"I thought so! Let's go, Warney!"Wanda said to the crocodile. "Get on, Carrot!"
"Hai! (Okay!)" Carrot replied as she fell down to the ground.
"We don't have time to transport you-teia guys!" Wanda said looking at the pirates. "Do as I say! Go through the Rightrump Forest to your right and turn left a the dark swamp! And you'll reach the Rightflank Forest! You'll find the corpse of your-teia friend there!" She said getting shocked look from the Straw Hats.
"Wait at the Rightflank Forest! We'll be there later!" She said taking off as Carrot landed on the crocodile.
"I hope she's talking about Brook." Naruto said watching the Minks run off into the forest.
"Are you crew mates here?"Robin turns and asks Law if his crew mates are here as well.
Law affirms this, explaining he did not plan a way to get back to them because he thought he would never see them again, but he realizes he has Bepo's Vivre Card in his possession.
Law then explains to the Straw Hats that Bepo, his navigator is also a mink, but left Zou at a young age before following the direction the Vivre Card is pointing toward.
Luffy, Whale Forest.
"Gumo Gumo no… Kane! (Gum Gum Bell!)" Luffy stretched his head back, added Haki to his forehead, and slammed it against a bull mink.
He is a large, orange-skinned male bull mink with two large horns, a small nose, and long, messy, light orange hair flowing down his back. He's wearing dark clothing with a light-colored cape draped above his shoulder.
This is Roddy, a Guardian of the Whale Forest.
"Mō Garava!(Moo Golova!)" The mink headbutts Luffy as electricity covered his head.
Off to the side, a large, gray-skinned gorilla mink is watching the fight. He has large canine teeth, small eyes, a mustache, and a black afro. He's wearing a suit with a dark-colored cravat.
This is Blackback, Also a Guardian of the Whale Forest.
"Why isn't Erekutoro (Electro) having any affect?" He asked looking surprised that the electricity isn't harming Luffy.
The bull pushed Luffy to a tree before Luffy pushed off of it, pushing both away from it.
"What's wrong with you-gara?!" The gorilla asked. "How can you be unhurt after getting that attack?!"
"That didn't work because I'm made of rubber." Luffy replied looking at the two.
"Rubber?"
"It's my turn!" Luffy yelled running to the bull, and headbutted him again. They headbutted each other several times having electricity come off each time they attacked each other.
Suddenly, several of Law's crew mates came running up with Bepo leading them. They tried to stop the fight, only for the Gorilla to stop them having Luffy and the Bull to continue.
"That's enough!, Guardians!"
They looked to see Wanda and Carrot run out of the forest.
Carrot threw a red cloth out having the bull run to it as Wanda threw bananas out to the Gorilla.
Wanda dropped down and looked to Luffy.
"Huh? A dog."
"You-teia are Straw Hat Luffy, aren't you?" Wanda asked resting a sword on her shoulder and placed a hand on her hip. I'm Wanda." Carrot then dropped down beside the canine. "She's Carrot."
"And a rabbit." Luffy said looking at the two.
"We won't do anything to you so stop resisting." Wanda said to Luffy.
"There are a bunch of strange creatures in this country." Luffy said tilting his head. "It's like having a ton of Choppers. Do you know me?"
"Of course." Wanda replied having Luffy sit down.
"What's with them?! I didn't do anything and they just attacked me!" Luffy said as Wanda walked to him.
"That's because you-teia invaded the forest where you mustn't enter." She replied before leaning down and licked Luffy on the nose.
"Oh, what are you doing?!"
"The Guardians eject invaders from the forest. That's their job."
"So I wasn't allowed to enter?" Luffy asked as Wanda stood up and turned around and looked up.
"No, you weren't. Guardians! We'll take him out of here! Please forgive him!"
"For Wanda's sake… Let's retreat, Roddy!" A voice said from the top of the trees. "BB!"
"Pedro!" Wanda said staring up.
"Everyone, retreat!"
Suddenly, large number of Guardians that had secretly surrounded Luffy all quickly disperse; Luffy is bewildered due to not knowing they were there.
"Just be thankful this wasn't a moonlit night." Wanda said as the falling leaves surrounded her and Carrot.
"Straw Hat! It's been awhile!" Bepo said running to the confused Luffy. "Hey, Straw Hat, don't you remember us? We took care of you after the Paramount War! I'm shocked!"
"OH! You're the talking bear from Tra-guy's crew!"
"Tra-guy? No, we work under Trafalgar Law! The Heart Pirates!" Bepo said to Luffy who nodded.
"That's what I said."
Kurau City; Straw Hats, And Law.
"No doubt. This place was attacked." Thane said as they travel through Kurau City, noticing the massive damage and the lack of anyone here.
Robin, Zoro, and Law inspect various buildings as Usopp continues panicking, and the Straw Hats see large claw marks on the buildings, big footprints on the ground, and torture devices with blood on them.
"This attack. It must have just happened recently." Robin said going in a building and saw food still on the oven.
Wanda, Carrot, And Luffy.
Wanda explains to Luffy that the country was destroyed by a pirate named Jack who was under orders from the Yonko (Emperor.) Kaido to get Raizo. Having both her and Carrot emotionally remember the bloodshed that occurred not too long ago.
Suddenly, the ground begins shaking, and the minks prepare for something.
"Rain-Ruption!"
"Climb a tree!"
"Get on Warney! I'll take you to Rightflank! Your friends are there!" Wanda tells Luffy to get onto Warney.
"Great! So Sanji and the others are there!" Luffy exclaims, excited to see Sanji and the others. However, Wanda fails to affirm his statement, and Luffy looks to her.
"What's wrong?! They're all there, aren't they?!" He asked Wanda who remained silent.
To Be Continued.
A/N: Thanks for reading and let me know of any mistakes.
Beta: Memodo Shiki.
1. We decided on him having the same bounty as Luffy and the picture is the picture of Asuma for the Chakra Blades/Trench Knives Wiki page on Naruto's wiki site.
2. For those that forgot, I had Nami's bounty at 20 mil as that's what I thought/believed it should have been and I had her fight more since I had Nojiko help her out.
3. Olive was filler and her bounty was 50 million.
Sorry for the lateness of these updates, combination of being super busy over the holidays (More so than normal.) And this site being down, as well as my internet too.
But I hope I made up for it with a double update for all my stories minus my One Piece stories, and a triple update for Ninja on the League for the 1 million views!
Nothing else to say.
Talk To You Later,
Lone Wolf Out.