One Piece and the Celestial Dragon - Chapter 39 Alabasta 1

Ezio arrived with his ship at Alabasta. All his crew members had missions so he was alone. Well, you couldn’t say alone, because in the jail of his ship were many prisoners. Besides Ezio, there was one of the few crew members that joined him out of her own will. She was Hina, and she looked at Ezio like he was a knight in shining amor. This made Ezio a little bit nervous. He liked the real character of this girl, but in front of him, she turned into this shy and nervous girl. This was annoying.

Alabasta was an important island for his future plans. Besides the new crew members for his organization, another important aspect was that he needed territories and kingdoms who wouldsupport him. He wanted to realize this plan only when he had enough subordinates and had his people all over the world, but Alabasta should be the second big nation that joined him and Ezio thought that he had enough arguments to make an alliance with King Cobra.

The first nation under his banner was Amazon Lily – the whole world knew that this island was protected by the Blackflame family. Ezio had to do this because Hancock wasn’t a Shichibukai. Besides this, Amazon Lily was an island with strong warriors who could all use haki. This was a strong nation that would help him in the future.

Alabasta was also a special nation. Maybe they looked weak because they were played by a single Crocodile, but the Nefertari family had a long history and they even had the chance to become Celestial Dragons. This showed that Alabasta was one of the biggest nations in this world. This would be an important location to take control over the Grand Line.

The first thing Ezio met on Alabasta were the Kungfu Dugongs. Ezio really liked these funny creatures. After he fought against them, they all wanted to become his disciples. Ezio had to admit, these guys weren’t weak and with enough training, they could be useful. So he recruited these little guys. They were perfect members for Hachi’s special crew.

Ezio was frustrated that his reputation as a hero slowly transformed into the reputation a kidnapper had… When he saw these little guys that wanted to join him out of their own will, he was so happy he nearly cried.

Ezio wasn’t a fan of Alabasta. The desert wasn’t a nice place to live, but his opinion changed when he arrived at the capital. This was an old city with a long history.

…

Ezio ordered all his crew members to wear a mask. This was the reason why Hachi looked like a thief. Maybe it was okay to kidnap pirates, but these guys kidnapped everyone.

The thief Hachi was standing again on a Marine ship. This time Smoker and Tashigi stood in front of him.

„Want to join us?”, asked Hachi.

„Screw off!”, answered Smoker annoyed.

„Wasn’t you there when Crocodile destroyed Alabasta? Don’t you want to change it? When you join us…”

„SCREW OFF!”

Hachi sighed. Smoker stood on the list Ezio wrote, but Ezio mentioned that it was nearly impossible to get that guy. Hachi took out the paper were Smoker was described and read the sentence his boss wrote.

[Hachi, if you get Smoker, I will reward you with 100 million Bely. I tell you, this guy is a good guy, but forget about recruiting him… Tashigi would be nice, but that would also be impossible. Well, you can try, but if he don’t want to join, give him a transporter snail.]

„The boss knows everything…”, Hachi sighed. „Smoker, take this snail. When you face another situation like the one in Alabasta, you can call us. It’s good to have a Celestial Dragon as an ally, you know…”

Smoker took the snail and looked at Hachi emotionless.

„By the way, do you know where the Spiders Cafe is?”

„Oh, I heard about it! It has a good reputation”, said Tashigi and explained Hachi where he could find it.

A while later Hachi arrived at the Spider Cafe.

In front of him were Miss Doublefinger, Miss Goldenweek, Miss Valentine, Mr. 5, Mr. 4… Besides all the members of Baroque Works that were in Impel Down, the rest worked at this place.

„Hello guys, want to join us?”

„Who are you?”, asked Miss Doublefinger.

„I’m from the Blackflame family, my boss is Blackflame Ezio”

This wasn’t convincing. When a pirate was asked by a Celestial Dragon to join them, then all pirates would think that they would become slaves. This was the reason why all of them attacked Hachi.

„Sigh. Our jail has too many people, where should we put these guys? Why are these pirates always attacking me… Well, let’s bring them to our ship first”