318Two chapters in one day? Yes! This plot bunny is vicious! It haunts my sleep until I write more! I think I need help. Anyways, I hope you enjoy the two for one treat!
I do not own One Piece.
"Land! I see that Island! Ace! Sabo! Wake up! There's an island!" Luffy yelled at his two sleeping brothers.
They hardly caught any fish yesterday so they spent most of the night fishing in hopes that they would catch more. They didn't and were asleep most of the day because of it. Luffy only woke up because he thought he smelled cooking off in the distance, and he was right. The island wasn't but eight meters away now. Luffy was practically vibrating in excitement.
"Wha? Island?" Ace asked sleepily. He looked at the island Luffy was pointing to before a large grin stretched across his face.
"Hey, Sabo! We're here at last!" Ace shook the blond violently.
"I'm awake! Stop shaking me!" Sabo pushed Ace away and Luffy laughed at their antics.
"I'm so excited! I can smell meat cooking on that island!" Luffy jumped excitedly on the small boat.
"You can smell that far? You must be really hungry if your sense of smell is that strong." Sabo commented.
"We had nothing but fish all week. I'm sure he's ready for something else." Ace agreed.
"And whose fault is that?"
"Are you still going on about that?"
Luffy tuned out Ace and Sabo's fighting and focused solely on the island ahead of them. He could smell that meat like it was in front of him. His stomach growled at the scent. He didn't get much to eat this past week, but he knew it'd be okay. As long as Ace and Sabo were with him, he knew everything was going to be fine.
Growing impatient, and with the smell of meat taunting him, he grabbed the edges of the boat and pulled himself back.
"Gum gum…" Luffy said as he pulled himself to the back of the boat and aimed in the direction of the island.
"Luffy! What are you doing?!" Ace asked in a panicked tone.
"You're aren't going to-"
"Rocket!" Luffy interrupted Sabo and launched himself to the island. He flew through the air and landed on the small beach that lead into a town. The meat smell wasn't coming from the town, though. The meat was coming from the smoke in the distance.
"MEAT!" Luffy exclaimed and ran towards the smoke. He was so focused the meat that he practically pushed down two guys that were in his way.
"Whoa! What's the rush, kid?" The one with the head shaped like a pineapple asked grabbing a hold of his arm.
Luffy ignored him and kept running. His arm stretched pretty far before he was pulled back. He crashed into the pineapple guy and almost knocked him over.
"Let go of me, Pineapple Head! I smell meat and I'm not letting you have any!" Luffy demanded.
The guy with the poofy hair laughed, and Pineapple Head looked annoyed.
"Listen, kid, there are some bad people over-" Luffy bit down on Pineapple Head's hand before he had a chance to finish. The other guy laughed harder and Pineapple Head let go of Luffy.
Luffy took his chance to get away and ran off to the meat, ignoring the shouts of Pineapple Head. He ran down a path and came up to a crowd surrounding the house that had the meat smell. Luffy came to the only conclusion possible.
"They're trying to steal the meat! Hey! You can't have any!" Luffy started pushing through the large crowd of people.
He ignored the protests of the people he pushed away and quickly made his way to the front. He slipped around some weird fish looking guys and saw a long-nose fish looking guy pointing a gun at a pink haired lady. Two girls were off to the side, crying.
"Hey, Long Nose! Where's the meat?!" Luffy demanded out of breath from his run to the house.
There was a silence over the previously noisy crowd. Luffy didn't know why everyone was quiet now, or why they all had wide eyes and open mouths.
"Hey, Long Nose! I asked you a question!" Luffy shouted again. This time Long Nose looked angry and pointed the gun at him.
"You inferior, worthless, waste of space, human, scum! How dare you talk to a fishman that way!" he yelled.
"What way? I just asked where the meat is!" Luffy didn't even care that a gun was aimed at him. He hadn't eaten much over the past few days, and he wasn't going to let Long Nose keep him from his meat.
"You dare to insult me by calling me names?! Do you not know just how inferior you are to me?! You don't stand a chance against a fishman!" Long Nose yelled.
"Eh? What's a fishman?" Luffy tilted his head to the side in confusion.
"What's a fishman?! You mean you don't know?" Long Nose asked.
"No."
"Well, let me enlighten you. A fishman is someone like me. Someone who is superior to any and every lowly human on this planet. And it's the thing that's going to make me King of the Pirates!" Long Nose boasted.
"No you're not, Long Nose! I'm going to be King of the Pirates!" Luffy yelled and the silence returned.
Long Nose narrowed his eyes and steadied the gun aimed at Luffy. He somehow looked angrier than he did before.
"Shut up and die, you worthless human! And my name is Arlong!" he yelled.
"Huh? Armung? That's a dumb name!"
"It's not Armung, you idiot! Arlong!"
"Armbong?"
"Arlong!"
"Arlumm?"
"ARLONG!"
"Oh, I get it!"
"Finally!"
"It's a mystery name." Luffy said as serious as he could.
"DIE!" Long Nose yelled and pulled the trigger.
"LUFFY!" Luffy heard his brothers yell and felt a sharp pain where the bullet hit. The bullet made part the part of his body that it hit stretch back. It stayed stretched back for a few seconds before it flung out of his chest and zoomed past Long Nose's head. Everyone, including his recently arrived brothers and the two guys he ran into earlier, had the same weird look as before. Luffy ignored them and rubbed his chest where the bullet hit.
"Ow! That hurt you jerk!" Luffy yelled.
"Luffy!" Ace and Sabo called as they ran over to Luffy, and smacked him on the head.
"What was that for?" Luffy asked.
"That's for rocketing over to the island and running off!" Ace yelled.
"You would be dead right now if you weren't made of rubber!" Sabo yelled too.
"But I smelled meat, and I'm hungry!" Luffy pouted and his stomach growled in agreement.
"What's worse, being hungry or being dead?!" Ace shouted.
Luffy thought the question over. It was a hard decision. He didn't like being hungry, but being dead meant he couldn't be King of the Pirates. But being hungry really sucked. Being dead sucked too. Luffy felt his face getting hot and his head staring to hurt from trying to make the decision.
"Are you okay, Luffy?" Sabo asked in concern.
"Yeah, your face is all red." Ace pointed out.
"I can't choose! They both suck!" Luffy whined.
"IS IT REALLY THAT HARD FOR YOU TO CHOOSE?!" They both yelled.
"So, you're a devil fruit user. But what's one doing in the East Blue?" Long Nose asked.
"Who are you?!" Ace demanded and got between Luffy and Long Nose.
"Oh, that's Long Nose! But that's not his name! His real name is a mystery name!" Luffy said.
"MY NAME IS ARLONG, YOU MAGGOT!"
The two guys from earlier started laughing. The crowd around them backed away and started muttering to each other about something. Even Long Nose looked shocked at the guys.
"What the… Why are Whitebeard's division commanders here?" the pink-haired lady asked.
"Whitebeard?!" Sabo asked in shock.
"Who's Whitebeard?" Ace asked.
"Whitebeard is the strongest man in the world. He's the captain of the Whitebeard Pirates. His crew members are really strong, especially the division commanders. If those two are really division commanders then they are a force to be reckoned with." Sabo explained.
"Really? The strongest man in the world? Do you think he'll join my crew?!" Luffy asked excitedly.
"HELL NO!" Ace and Sabo yelled.
The commander guys laughed even harder after Luffy's question. The one with the poofy hair calmed down enough to speak.
"I like that kid. He has spunk!" He said in between chuckles.
"Agreed." Pineapple Head wiped some tears from his eyes before straightening up and looked at Long Nose.
"Enough of that. It's time to get down to business. Arlong, we were sent by Jinbei to make sure you didn't do anything to terrorize the innocent. Looking around, however, we can tell that your intentions are anything but peaceful. Our orders were to stop you if you proved to be a problem." Pineapple Head said.
"And guess what. You're a problem. So now, we have to step in." Poofy Hair said and pulled out his sword.
Long Nose got over his shock and smirked evilly at the two division commanders.
"It doesn't matter how strong you are, because in the end, you're still a couple of humans. Your power can never amount to the might of a fishman! You are no match for me!" Long Nose pointed his gun at Pineapple Head and shot him.
Luffy expected him to fall down dead, and was surprised when he didn't fall. Blue flames appeared where the bullet hit him. The wound was gone within seconds.
"So cool!" Luffy yelled out.
"Immune to bullets, huh? Fine by me. Chew, bring me my shark saw!" Long Nose shouted to Big Lips.
"You'll soon see the true superiority of fishmen! I will send you back to Whitebeard in pieces!" Long Nose grabbed his shark saw. It was a large sword with a bunch of teeth like parts sticking out on one side.
"Now Die!" Long Nose yelled as he jumped forward and swung his sword at the two.
Pineapple Head didn't budge an inch, but Poofy Hair intercepted it with his sword and was holding it back. Long Nose seemed surprised that a human could stop one of his attacks.
"Impressive, for a human that is." Long Nose said as he and Poofy Hair started to fight.
It wasn't really much of a fight. It was more of a one-sided beat down. Long Nose was losing badly and each blow only seemed to make him angrier. Finally, there was a creaking sound. Everyone paused and saw the shark saw break in half. That seemed to be the last straw for Long Nose. His eyes went red and he charged forward with all of his strength.
"YOU INSIGNIFICANT, LOWLIFE, HUMAN! YOU DARE THINK YOU'RE A MATCH FOR A FISHMAN?!" He roared.
"Doesn't he realize that it's the other way around?" Ace asked.
"I think he's lost all since of reality." Sabo said.
Before Long Nose could hit Poofy Hair, he was send flying high into the sky. Everyone looked at Pineapple Head as he lowered his leg.
"Sorry to intervene in your fight, Thatch, but he was pissing me off with his superiority complex. If you don't mind, I'll end this."
"Be my guest. His 'holier than thou' attitude was pissing me off too." The one called Thatch sheathed his sword.
Luffy watched in amazement as Pineapple Head's arms turned into fire wings, and took off to the sky. He made it above Long Nose in no time. With a great burst of strength, Pineapple Head kicked Long Nose all the way down to the ground. Long Nose made a huge crater when he crashed and dust was sent flying everywhere. Everyone stepped closer to the crater and waited for the dust to settle. When it was finally clear enough to see everyone except the fishmen let out a huge cheer. Long Nose was out cold. He definitely wasn't getting up any time soon.
"They did it, Bellemere! They saved us!" Luffy turned to see the two crying girls clinging to the pink-haired lady. She also had tears in her eyes, and hugged the two girls with everything she had.
Pineapple Head landed next to Thatch, and turned to the other fishmen, who now looked like they were about to wet themselves.
"If any of you still wish to fight, we will gladly take you on." Thatch said.
"W-what will happen to Arlong, and us?" one of them boldly asked.
"We were ordered to take out Arlong if he turned out to be a problem, so we're going to personally see to it that he gets turned in to the marines. We have no orders for his crew. So if you leave with the strict promise of leaving these people alone, we will let you flee." Pineapple Head said.
The fishmen looked at each other for a second, and then they ran as fast as they could to their ship. Luffy was staring at them in amazement. They fought the fishman without breaking a sweat. Luffy momentarily forgot his hunger and walked up to them.
"Where are you going, Luffy?" Sabo asked but Luffy didn't answer. Instead he walked up to the two commanders.
"That. Was. AWESOME!" Luffy cheered with stars in his eyes.
"Well, we are Whitebeard Commanders. Being awesome is in the job description." Thatch said proudly.
"Hey, you wanna join my crew?" Luffy asked with a big smile.
"Luffy! You can't just asked people in other pirate crews to join your crew!" Ace said.
"Why not? Pineapple Head can fly, and Thatch can use a sword! I need a flying pineapple and a swordsman in my crew!" Luffy pouted.
Thatch started laughing again and Pineapple Head looked annoyed.
"Flying pineapple! I love it!" Thatch howled in laughter.
"How is it you know Thatch's name, but not mine?" Pineapple Head asked.
"Luffy, stop talking to them. We need to talk to the townspeople about stocking up provisions." Sabo said trying to lead Luffy away.
"Provisions? What provisions?" Thatch asked done laughing.
"Provisions for our journey! We're pirates too!" Luffy answered.
"Don't tell them that!" Ace bonked Luffy on the head.
"Pirates? Aren't you too young to be pirates?" Pineapple Head asked.
"Well, we were going to set sail when we were seventeen, but- MMPH!" Luffy's mouth was suddenly blocked by two pairs of hands.
"Shut up already! You don't need to tell them that!" Ace yelled.
"Hey, Luffy, aren't you hungry? Let's see if we can find some meat." Sabo said.
All thoughts of the two grown pirates on the island vanished from the moment Sabo said 'hungry'. Luffy's stomach growled in protest of being forgotten about. Luffy pushed the hands out of his face.
"MEAT!" He yelled.
Pineapple Head chuckled and said, "He has a one track mind, doesn't he."
"If you're hungry, I just finished cooking." The pink-haired lady said. At some point she finished her hug with the two girls, who were now on either side of her. She was now standing not too far away.
She looked at Luffy and said, "It's the least I could do. If you didn't distract Arlong when you did, I would have died for sure."
"You have meat?!" Luffy asked.
"Yup! Roasted duck with tangerine sauce! Does that sound good?" she said with a small laugh.
"Yes! Meat!" Luffy cheered and started running toward the house when his brothers grabbed him by the shirt.
"We appreciate it, miss, but Luffy eats more than ten grown men. I don't want to deplete you of all your food." Sabo said politely.
"Would it help if all of us brought food of our own?" one of the villagers asked.
"Yeah! Let's turn this into a celebration, and thank the Whitebeard Pirates for helping our village!" another villager shouted.
"FOOD!" Luffy was ready to gnaw his arms off he was so hungry.
"A celebration sounds nice, but first things first. Genzo and Bellemere need to have their wounds tended to, and we need to call the Marines to get this criminal behind bars." Said an old man wearing sun glasses.
"Yes sir, Doctor Nako." Said a villager.
"We'll eat after their wounds are tended to." Doctor Nako said as he kneeled next to a wounded man on the ground.
"But I'm hungryyyyyyy!" Luffy whined.
"Shut up! You went several days with little to no food, you can survive a few more hours!" Ace said.
"Wait, what?" Thatch asked.
"Why would you go so long without food?" Pineapple head questioned.
"Because we didn't pack enough food when we left home." Luffy said and was instantly met with his brothers' hands in his face again.
"Dammit, Luffy! Stop telling them everything!" Ace yelled.
"So you're not from this island?" Pineapple Head asked.
"Mind your own business!" Ace yelled at them.
"You know, if you went so long without food I can cook you something. I am a Whitebeard Chef after all." Thatch said. Luffy pushed his brothers aside and ran up to Thatch.
"Meat!" Luffy exclaimed for the hundredth time.
Thatch laughed and said, "Yeah, I can make meat."
"Luffy! We are not going to eat with these guys!" Ace said.
"If you're so hungry, we can just hunt somewhere!" Sabo agree.
"Right!" Luffy yelled and ran back to his brothers.
"What are you guys in the mood for?" Sabo asked.
"Do you think they have alligator on this island?" Ace asked.
"Yeah! Gator!" Luffy cheered. He was hungry enough to eat anything.
"Let's look in the forest and see what kind of animals they have." Sabo said.
"But we left our pipes in the boat. We need to stop there first and grab them." Ace said as he started to head towards the harbor.
Luffy couldn't wait to eat his full again. The week on the boat, while fun, was torture without food. He wished that they listened to Sabo when he said that they needed to stock up on more food before leaving. But Ace said that if they didn't leave then Sabo would be taken away again. Luffy didn't want his brother taken away. He would do anything to keep him safe, even if it meant going hungry for a week.