The Thunder Demon Straw Hat Luffy (A One Piece Fanfiction) - Chapter 11
Luffy, Sanji, and Yosaku were currently walking through a forested part of the island four about ten minutes now. Not too long ago Luffy turned the sky black and began raining down thunder and lightning as a way to let the others know that he was here on the island. At first, Sanji and Yosaku were okay with what he was doing, after all, they saw what he did during his fight with Don Kreig but they were immediately beginning to get scared when the thunder was so loud that the island itself shook, and lightning bolts were striking random parts of the island. After Luffy was done sending his signal to the others, the three of them began walking inland. Even though Luffy was finished giving the signal the thunderclouds were still present in the sky with lightning flashing every now and then.
“I can sense a large number of people ahead,” Luffy said getting their attention. “It is still a distance away…about another ten minutes and we should reach where they are,” he said causing Sanji and Yosaku to look at him strangely.
“How do you know that?” Sanji asked with a curious look on his face.
“I used my observation Haki to sense them. Don’t worry as soon as we sort out all of this I am going to teach it to all of you,” he said earning a nod from Sanji. After walking for another ten minutes the group exited the forest and ended up in what appears to be a small village of some kind. Luffy looked around expecting to see someone in the streets but there was no one there, it looked to be completely deserted. It was odd because Luffy remembered he sensed people in this exact same location ten minutes ago. So he decided to use his observation Haki once more to try and see where all the people were. Closing his eyes he began to try and sense the life force of people around. After a few seconds, he reopened his eyes and spoke.
“I sensed that all the people in the village are just ahead of us,” he said point in front of them. The three of them then began walking up what appears to be the main street of the village until they spot a large group of people gathered around a man. The man was wearing a police uniform with a pinwheel on his hat and his entire body was covered in scars from his face down to his legs. The three of them stood at the edge of the group observing what was going on before they made their presence known. Luffy then tapped Sanji and Yosaku on the shoulder getting their attention ad pointer off to the left of the group causing them to look in the direction of where he was pointing. When they looked they saw a house completely destroyed. Usually, when a house is destroyed, the parts of the roof would still be at the top, but this time it was at the bottom. It looked as though someone picked the house up and flipped it upside down before slamming it into the ground.
“What could have the power to flip a house like that?” Yosaku whispered to the two of them.
“A Fishman,” Sanji replied causing Yosaku’s eyes to widen in fear. It was at that point Luffy decided to make their presence know.
“It looks like we missed quite the party,” he said getting everyone’s attention. After people starting to notice the three of them standing at the back, the crowd of people began part creating a path for the three of them to walk through. Luffy stood in the middle with Sanji on his left and Yosaku on his right as they walked through the path towards the man with all of the scars.
“Who are you three?” asked the man in the police uniform, “I’ve never seen you here before,” he said. Luffy looked at him with an emotionless look on his face for a while before he replied in his usual monotone voice.
“We’re just a couple of sailors looking for our friends who came to this island,” he replied as he walked and stood next to the man. “You wouldn’t happen to see them would you?” he asked. The people in the town were starting to get a bit nervous, they don’t really get a lot of visitors to this island.
“Are you pirates?” they man asked making the people in the villages even more nervous.
“Yes, we are,” Luffy said causing everyone’s eyes to widen in fear before they all started to back up slowly. “Relax, I mean you no harm I am just here looking for my crew. One of them is a swordsman with green hair, you may know him as Roronoa Zoro,” Luffy said surprising everyone at the fact that the famous pirate hunter became a pirate. “The next one is a long-nosed guy who goes by the name of Usopp,” he said. As he said that he noticed a look of recognition across everyone’s face.
“That brave boy is a part of your crew?” the man asked earning a nod from Luffy. “I see, I don’t know about Roronoa but that long-nosed man was here, but Arlong’s men went after him and they went running in that direction,” he said while pointing off in the distance. Luffy’s eyes were as wide as dinner plates when he heard that.
‘Damn it Usopp,’ Luffy thought to himself. He then sighed and began massaging his forehead before he spoke. “Thanks…um I didn’t get your name,” Luffy said.
“Oh forgive me, I am Genzo,” he said as he stretched out his head for Luffy to shake. Luffy grabbed his hand and shook it before he replied.
“Thanks for your help Genzo, I’m Luffy,” he said as he shook Genzo’s hand. Luffy, Sanji, and Yosaku then began walking off in the direction that Usopp was chased in before Luffy stopped and turned back to Genzo to ask another question. “He Genzo,” he said getting his and everybody’s attention. “I am also looking for a girl by the name of Nami, know where I can find her,” he asked causing everyone in the village to flinch slightly. The one thing that caught Luffy’s eyes, however, was the reaction of a blue haired girl. Not only did she flinched upon hearing Nami’s name but her facial expression changed from that of a serious one to a worried one and using his observation Haki Luffy could tell that her emotions were all over the place ranging from curiosity to worried. Before Luffy could question the village about their reaction he heard Zoro’s voice coming from behind him.
“LUFFY!” Screamed Zoro as he ran up the road with his only sword in hand to meet Luffy. Luffy turned around and saw Zoro running towards him but frowned when he saw neither Johnny nor Usopp was with him. Luffy had thought that Johnny would for sure be with him for sure knowing how much Johnny and Yosaku look up to him. When Zoro finally arrived and caught his breath he spoke to Luffy. “Luffy, Nami is a member of Arlong’s crew,” Zoro said surprising the three of them.
“What did you just say?” Luffy asked with a surprised look on his face.
“You heard me, she is a part of Arlong’s crew. she even has his jolly roger tattooed on her shoulder,” Zoro said surprising the three of them again. After he said that Luffy began to think back and soon realized he never saw Nami’s shoulder, she always wore short sleeves hiding it.
‘That’s not possible. Arlong hates humans, so there is no way he would let one join his crew…Uhhhh something doesn’t add up,’ Luffy thought to himself. Luffy then walked back over to Genzo and took a seat next to him before sighing and pulling out a bottle of whiskey and a glass from his coat and pouring himself a drink.
“Okay forget about Nami for now, where are Usopp and Johnny,” he asked. Zoro looked around before shrugging his shoulders causing Luffy to sigh once again. Just as Luffy was about to speak everyone heard Johnny’s voice.
“BIG BRO LUFFY!” screamed Johnny as he ran through the crowd with tears streaming down his face confusing everyone. Upon arrival, he immediately dropped down to his knees in front of Luffy and began crying causing everyone to look at him strangely.
“Johnny, calm down, Where is Usopp? is he going to come running in like you and Zoro?” Luffy asked trying to calm Johnny down, but instead calming him down he made Johnny start crying even more.
“Big Bro Usopp is dead,” Johnny said causing everyone’s eyes to widen and making Luffy shot up to his feet. “Nami murdered him!” he screamed causing the villagers to gasp in shock before they all scream in fear when they heard a loud thunderclap above. Luffy immediately bent down and picked Johnny up by the scruff of his neck before speaking in a cold emotionless tone.
“Don’t f.u.c.k with me Johnny,” he said as he stared into Johnny’s eyes. “Nami doesn’t have what it take to kill anyone, stealing is as far as she goes,” Luffy said.
“Luffy is right even though she is with Arlong there is something off about her behavior when I saw her,” Zoro said.
“It’s true!” Johnny screamed as Luffy let go of him. “She was a traitor all along. She is trying to gain Arlong’s favor so she can gain the treasure in Cocoyasi Village all for herself, you don’t have to believe me but I know what I saw. Nami killed Big bro Usopp!” Johnny said. Zoro was about to speak but stopped when he saw Luffy with a serious look on his face staring up the road he came from. Zoro turned and looked up the road causing everyone to do the same. Everyone saw someone walking up the road towards the village. After a few minutes, everyone to makes out that it was Nami walking towards the village with a Bo staff in her hand. When she arrived in front of everyone her eyes immediately made eye contact with the girl with the blue hair and a sad look came across both her and the girl’s face. This did not go unnoticed by Luffy, he looked at Nami with cold eyes and spoke.
“Where is Usopp, Nami?” Luffy asked as he stared at her. Nami smirked before she replied.
“With the fishes,” she said causing everyone in the village to gasp once more. Genzo looked like he wanted to say something to Nami but before he could the sound Luffy chuckling filled the air causing everyone to look at him strangely.
“Oh…now I’m really mad,” Luffy said. As he said that lightning struck the destroyed house setting the rubble on fire. Johnny then shot up to his feet and pointed at Nami before he screamed at her.
“Damn you!” he screamed while pointing at her with tears streaming down his face. “Because you Big Bro Usopp is gone!” he yelled. Nami didn’t look the least bothered by his reaction, she just stared at him with a smug look on her face before she replied.
“Yep, that’s right,” she said causing Luffy to raise his eyebrow at her. “So why don’t you kill me and get your revenge,” she said causing Luffy to chuckle a bit before he spoke.
“Kill you?” he asked as he took a few steps forward. “Killing you would simply put you out of your misery…I’m going add on to your misery,” Luffy said as lightning flashed behind him. “You know even though you stole my ship and committed treason I wasn’t really going to do anything other than killing Arlong and leave with the bounty, but now you crossed a line,” he said making everyone in the village a bit nervous. “So, I am not going to kill you,” he said before reaching behind him and grabbing the blue haired girl with the tattoos by her hair and threw her down on the ground in front of him causing the girl to scream out in pain. He then placed his left foot on her c.h.e.s.t and pulling out his pistol and aiming it at her before he continued to speak. “I am going to kill her instead,” he said as he stared at Nami with cold eyes.
“What do you think you are doing Luffy!?” ask/yelled an angry Sanji. “She has nothing to do with this!” he said.
“Ohhh she has more to do with this than you think,” Luffy said as while looking at Sanji. “You see, when you first arrived here I noticed the first person you made eye contact with was this girl and a look of recognition came over both of your faces. So I came to the conclusion that the two of you have history, hell I’d go as far and say the two of you are related,” Luffy said causing Nami to flinch. When he saw her flinch he smiled and spoke again. “Seems I hit the nail right on the head, hmmm I would go further and say you two are sisters,” he said causing her to clench her fist and grit her teeth. “And you see, Usopp’s dad in a way raised me. So, Usopp is in a way like a brother and seeing how you kill him it is only right I kill her. An eye for an eye right?” Luffy said with a smug smirk on his face. “Those tactics you normally pull are good for the pirates here in the East Blue, but the thing you seem to be forgetting is that I am from the Grand Line, we pirates from there tend to be a bit more ruthless and smart than these ones you got out here. So…any last words you want to say to your sister, Nami?” he asked as he pulled the hammer of his flintlock pistol back getting ready to fire while waiting for hear what Nami has to say. Everyone had their eyes widen when they saw Luffy pull the hammer back. A few villagers hid their face not wanting to see what was about to happen, Genzo looked like he was getting ready to push steal the gun away from Luffy, and Nami looked like she was seen a ghost of some kind. After a minute she finally screamed out loud.
“USOPP IS NOT DEAD!” she screamed causing everyone’s eyes except Luffy’s to widen. Luffy just smiles at her before he spoke.
“I know,” he said before he took his foot off of the girl and place his pistol back in its holster. Nami looked beyond confused along with everyone who was there.
“W-What do you mean you know?” she asked in a surprised voice. Luffy looked her with a smirk before he spoke.
“He is right over there,” he said while pointing between two houses. Everyone looked over and saw Usopp hiding behind two barrels between the houses. Upon seeing him Johnny and Yosaku immediately ran towards him and began hugging him. While they were doing that Luffy looked down at the girl he was about to kill and stretched out his hand to pull her up from the ground. The girl was a bit hesitant at first but eventually, she took Luffy’s hand for support in getting up. “Sorry about that just now,” Luffy said while looking at the girl. “Just needed to teach your sister a lesson,” he said.
“It’s no problem,” she said while dusting herself off. “She can be a bit of a problem sometimes,” she said causing Luffy to chuckle a bit before he turned his attention to Nami.
“So Nami, what’s your plan now?” Luffy asked with a smug smile on his face. Nami looked at Luffy with rage written all over her face before all that rage transformed into a smug smirk similar to Luffy’s which confused him.
“You know I feel really sorry for you guys,” she said in a condescending tone. “Thanks to Zoro’s stupidity Arlong is going to kill him and anyone who is a part of his crew,” she said causing Luffy’s eyebrow to twitch a bit when she said Zoro’s crew. “I don’t care how strong you guys think you are, you are no match for the real monsters. I grantee that if you stay on this island you will surely die. So its a choice of life or death,” she said with a smug smirk as she stared at Luffy expecting some sort of fear to be written on his face, but instead, he was staring at her with the same smirk before he then started to chuckle.
“Oh, Nami…do I really look like the type of person who is scared of dying?” Luffy asked rhetorically before he looked at Zoro and spoke. “What about you Zoro, are you scared to die?” he asked causing Zoro to chuckle.
“Not even in the slightest,” he said with a smirk.
“And Nami,” he said causing her to look at him. “If you think Arlong is a monster, you are in for a rude awakening,” he said as lightning flashed behind him. Nami turned away for a second preventing Luffy and the others from seeing her face while she clenched her fist. When she turned back around she looked at Luffy and screamed.
“Fine! Go ahead and die!” she said before running off in the direction of Arlong Park. As she ran off Luffy looked around to see everyone looking at a running away Nami. Luffy began to start walking in the same direction soon followed by Zoro and the rest of the crew.
“We are going to find a good spot to talk about what happened while you guys were here,” Luffy said earning a nod from everyone. After walking for a while the crew came upon what appears to be a flooded field where the villagers plant rice. At the end of the field was a tree that was providing a decent amount of shade so Luffy decided to go there and relax for a bit. Zoro, Usopp, and Johnny then began to tell them everything that happened from the time they left the restaurant to the time they reunited with Luffy. They began to tell him about how Usopp and Johnny basically left Zoro to the fishmen and went to hide in a town that Arlong had destroyed because one person couldn’t pay tribute money. At first, Luffy was angry at the fact that Usopp had to abandon Zoro to save themselves but after hearing what Zoro did at Arlong Park it calmed him down. Apparently, after Nami broke Zoro out of prison and told him to leave he decided to wait there and kill a bunch of fishmen while he was there. Luffy assumed that was what Nami was talking about when she said Arlong wanted to kill Zoro for his stupidity. Luffy was then surprised to find out Nami saved Usopp’s life by stabbing herself in the hand and now that he thought about it she was wearing a black glove when they encountered her.
“So Nami saved you from being killed by Arlong?” Asked Yosaku.
“Yeah, she did,” Usopp replied.
“Why would she do that if she is a member of Arlong’s crew?” asked Johnny with a confused look on his face.
“I believe I can help with that,” came the voice of a woman startling everyone. Luffy looked up and saw it was the Nami’s sister.
“And who are you?” Zoro asked while he looked at her with calculating eyes. Before she could reply Usopp answered Zoro’s question for her.
“That’s Nami’s big sister, Nojiko,” he said while pointing at her. “She saved me from a Fishman when he arrived and took me to her house,” he said. Luffy sighed before he spoke to Usopp.
“I really need to teach you Haki, Usopp,” he said in an exhausted tone. Upon hearing that was Nami’s sister Sanji immediately went into his flirt mode causing Luffy to look and Zoro and nod his head signaling Zoro to smack Sanji across the head.
“You all need to know the reason she joined up with Arlong’s group and if that doesn’t get you to leave here I don’t know what will,” she said earning a raised eyebrow from Luffy.
“Well tell us all about it. I have to admit I’m curious,” said Usopp. Luffy then got up from where he was sitting under the chair and began walking away. As he was walking away he spoke.
“I’ll pass,” he said while walking away. “I don’t care about her past. I’m going for a walk,” he said confusing them. Zoro sighed and went and sat against the tree was sitting against before he spoke.
“Don’t mind him, that’s just how he is,” he said as he placed his arms behind his head. “We’ll hear you out,” he said. After Luffy left the rest of his crew to her what Nojiko had to say about Nami, he began walking on a lonesome road at the that was in the middle of the flooded rice fields and the forest. He had been walking for a while and he was quite some distance away from the rest of the group, it was then he noticed there were three figures in front of him. As he continued walking towards the three figures he noticed that they weren’t moving, they were just standing there looking at Luffy. As he got closer he realized that they were fishmen. They were all slightly taller than Luffy and were definitely more muscular. The three fishmen stared at Luffy as he got closer and when he was close enough for them to speak the octopus Fishman was the first to speak to Luffy.
“Hello there, stranger,” he said with his arms folded.
“Hey,” Luffy said while walking right past the three of them.
“I’ve never seen you on this island, are you a guest?” the octopus asked while the other two stared at Luffy with a calculating look.
“Just passing through,” he replied never stopping to even look at them.
“And where are you headed?” the Fishman with a rather long mouth asked.
“Nowhere in particular, just walking,” he said as he began walking away from the Fishman. The octopus Fishman smile and began waving at Luffy while he spoke.
“Well have a good walk, stranger,” he said happily as he waved at Luffy. Luffy didn’t say anything all he did was continue walking away from the group. If you were to ask Luffy why he was walking he couldn’t give you an answer because he didn’t know himself. It was very odd for Luffy usually, he would always make well thought out decisions and everything he did he did it for a reason, but right now he didn’t have a reason for what he was doing. After walking some more Luffy reached a cliff that gave a great view of the beach and the open ocean. While staring out at the ocean Luffy couldn’t help but smile as he looked out to the ocean and thought about the freedom that comes with being a pirate. While he was looking out and enjoying the view, he noticed something at the corner of his eye. When he turned his head slightly to the left he saw a marine ship and from the looks of it, it was from Marine Branch 16.
‘Did the Marines finally decided to take action against Arlong?’ Luffy asked himself as he stared at the marine ship.
“I better head back…got a weird feeling that trouble is just around the corner,” he said to himself as he turned and started walking back to meet the rest of the crew. He decided to take a different route back mainly because he didn’t want to run into those fishmen again. So, he took the long way that would take him straight to the village and then from there he was going to head back to the rest of the crew. After walking for about 15 Luffy entered the village and began walking up a pretty busy street. Suddenly everyone in the street including Luffy stopped and looked ahead. Walking towards Luffy was a group of Marines along with Genzo. Luffy narrowed his eyes slightly before he began moving to the side of the road and ducking into one of the allies.
‘Did Genzo call the Marines here to arrest me?’ he asked himself. Just as the Marines were passing by Luffy manage to hear their conversation.
“What do you want with Nami?” Genzo asked causing Luffy eyes to widen.
“Your job is just to lead us there, I suggest you do that and stop asking questions,” ht eMarine captain that looked a lot like a mouse said. Just as the Marines left Luffy turned his body into lightning a teleported himself to the crew’s location. Zoro and the rest of the crew were sitting around waiting for Luffy to arrive for about 5 minutes now. Usopp was doing something to his slingshot, Sanji was smoking, Zoro was sleeping, and Johnny and Yosaku were playing cards. then out of nowhere a bolt of lightning struck the ground kicking up a lot of dust and scaring everyone half to death. when the dust had finally settled everyone saw Luffy standing there with a serious look on his face. Upon seeing him Usopp, Johnny, and Yosaku immediately shot up to their feet and shouted at Luffy.
“LUFFY!” they yelled while running towards Luffy. Luffy looked at everyone before he spoke.
“Come on, its time to move,” he said before he turned and started walking towards the village with Zoro on his right and Sanji on his left while Usopp, Johnny, and Yosaku followed behind. As the group was walking towards the village they passed a mob of villagers armed with weapons headed in the direction of Arlong Park. As they walked by Luffy turned towards Johnny and Yosaku and spoke. “You two go make sure those villagers don’t do anything stupid before I get there,” he said causing them to nod before running after the villagers. Luffy the rest of the crew continued on towards the village where he can sense Nami. When they got there they aw Nami kneeling on the ground with a dagger in her hand while she was clawing the tattoo on her shoulder while crying. The next that that happened caused everyone’s eyes to widen. She took the dagger and stabbed it right in her shoulder where the tattoo was while screaming Arlong’s name over and over.
“Arlong! Arlong! Arlong! Arlong!” she screamed while stabbing her shoulder every time she said his name. Just as she was about to stab her shoulder again Luffy turned his body into lightning and teleported behind her and caught her hand before she could stab herself again. She turned around and looked at Luffy with tears streaming down her face before she spoke in a soft voice. “Luffy,” she said before she dropped the dagger. “What do you want?” she asked while looking at the ground. “You don’t know anything. You don’t know what’s been happening on this island for the past eight years,” she said while crying.
“Nope, I don’t,” Luffy said in an emotionless voice.
“This has nothing to do with you. I told you to leave this place!” she said while digging her fingers into the ground.
“Yep, you sure did,” he said once again in the same emotionless voice.
“So leave! I told you to leave! Get out of here!” Nami screamed while tossing sand from the ground at Luffy which he ignored. She then hunched over on the ground with tears streaming down her face and blood running down her arm crying while Luffy just stared at her crying with no emotion what so ever on his face. she then turned and looked up at Luffy and stared into his cold eyes before she spoke in a soft voice. “Luffy…help me,” she said. As she said that Luffy reached up on his head and took off his straw hat and placed it on her head causing her eyes to widen when she remembered what the hat meant to Luffy.
“Hold on to this for me,” he said before turning and walking back to Usopp, Sanji, and Zoro. “Let’s go,” he said to them.
“RIGHT!” the three of them replied in unison before they began walking towards Arlong park leaving a sobbing Nami behind. The four of them walked for about five minutes in complete silence and the closer they got to Arlong Park more the sky would darken. When they came in sight of Arlong Park they saw the mob of villagers standing in front of the gate being blocked from entering by Johnny and Yosaku. When they got into speaking distance Luffy spoke.
“Step aside,” he said causing the crowd to part into two allowing Luffy and his crew to walk through. When the group was in front of the large gate that was the entrance to Arlong Park Luffy looked to Usoop and spoke. “Do you think we should knock?” Luffy asked jokingly causing Usopp to laugh before he replied.
“Umm let me think…NOOO!” he said before he started laughing with Luffy. Luffy then walked up to the gate and covered his fist with Armament Haki before he punched the gate destroying it. When the gate was destroyed it kicked up a lot of dust preventing those who were inside to see who was outside, and those who were outside couldn’t see inside. When Luffy destroyed the gate the villager’s eyes were as wide as dinner plates at the strength that Luffy had. When the dust finally settled everyone saw the fishmen standing around a larger Fishman sitting on a white lawn chair staring at Luffy and the group of villagers with wide eyes.
“What that..” Arlong said in surprise at the sight of his gate being destroyed by one man who didn’t seem to use any weapons. Luffy dusted off his captain’s coat before he looked at the fishmen and spoke.
“Now which one of you is Arlong?” Luffy asked as he stared at the fishmen with cold emotionless eyes.
“Arlong?” asked the shark Fishman sitting on the white lawn chair. “That just happens to be my name,” he said.
“Good, then you can call me Luffy,” he replied while standing in front of the group with Zoro on his right and Sanji on his left while Usopp was hiding behind the broken down wall.
“Luffy?” Arlong asked from his position in the chair. “And what exactly does Luffy want with me?” Arlong asked in a condescending tone. Luffy stared at him and smirked before he replied.
“Oh nothing really, just here to kill you,” Luffy said causing Arlong and his entire crew to start laughing loudly.
“SHAHAHA! Do you pitiful human think you could kill me? A Fishman?” Arlong said while laughing.
“Yes I do,” Luffy said getting slightly bored. Arlong finally stopped laughing and looked at Luffy before he started to speak.
“Let me enlighten you humans about us Fishman because it looks like you clearly don’t understand the hard truth that is right in front of you. From birth, we fishmen are able to breathe not only underwater but also up above the surface while you humans can only do one. We are also ten times stronger than any normal human above the water and in the water where you humans have your strength cut in half, ours increase astronomically. Heaven gave us the power to separate us from you. So we are different! Humans are lower and weaker since the day they were born!” Arlong boasted to Luffy who was beginning to get bored.
“Are you going to run your mouth all day or are we going to fight?” Luffy asked in a bored tone. It pissed Arlong off at how easily Luffy was dismissing him.
‘Who does this lowly human think he is!? I am the man who will rule the seas, this human should be honored to be in the very presence of a being like me!’ Arlong screamed in his head as he stared at Luffy with a look of pure bloodl.u.s.t. Just as Arlong was about to scream at Luffy the octopus Fishman spoke.
“Let us deal with these guys, boss,” he said getting Arlong’s attention. Arlong thought about it for a second before he replied.
“You’re right, Hachi,” he said to the Fishman now named Hachi. “These lowly pieces of trash isn’t worth my time,” he said before he looked up at the sky. “And make it quick, it seems like a storm is coming,” he said causing Luffy to smirk along with the rest of his crew.
‘You have no idea,’ they all thought with a smirk on their face. Hachi then walked over the side of the pool like structure that seems to lead out into the ocean and placed both of his hand on his rather long mouth before he started to play it like a trumpet. As he did that the people of the village were beginning to get scared then all of a sudden the ground beneath their feet started to shake and the water in the pool began to get rough and rather large waves began to form. As Luffy looked at sea he saw something rather large coming towards the island rather fast. It was underwater but judging from the size of the wave that was heading in their direction, whatever it was it was really big. Hachi then began to laugh loudly as he spoke.
“HAHAHA! Now every single one of you will become fish food!” he said with his arms spread out wide. “Mohmoo, RISE!” Hachi said. As he said that something very big began to rise out of the pool. What came out of the pool was something Luffy hadn’t expected. It was a giant sea cow. It has a big round nose with a gold nose ring, cow-esque face, and horns, green spots throughout its body. Hachi then pointed at Luffy and his crew before he gave an order to the giant sea cow. “Get em, Mohmoo,” he said causing the sea cow to turn it’s attention to Luffy and the gang along with causing the fishmen to charge at Luffy. Sanji and Zoro were about to attack the fishmen, but Luffy stretched out his arms stopping them.
“Stop,” Luffy said with his arms stretched out to his side. “I got this,” he said before electric blue sparks of lightning to surround his down. He then looked up to the thundercloud infested sky and spoke in an icy tone.
“Raging Thunder!” Luffy said as he closed his fists. Just as his fists closed a loud booming thunder sounded above before 50 bolts of lightning came down from the sky and struck Mohmoo and every Fishman except for Arlong and the three who Luffy had met before. It electrocuted every one of Arlong’s men killing them and because of the fact that Mohmoo was in the water that added an extra level of torture to its suffering. However, even though it was in the water Mohmoo did not die. Luffy assumed that it was because of its size that the lightning bolt was not big enough to kill it. So instead, Mohmoo fell back into the water with its eyes rolled back in its head. The villagers all had wide eyes at what they just saw. It was like Lightning rained down from the heavens and killed all of Arlong’s men
“What kind of man is he?” asked one of the villagers.
“He defeated…no slaughtered Arlong’s entire crew with just one attack,” the village doctor said.
“That’s big bro Luffy for you, he has devil fruit powers,” Johnny said enlightening the villagers.
“Devil fruit powers?” asked Genzo earning a nod from Johnny and Yosaku. “I thought they were just myths,” he said as he stared at Luffy. Arlong and his three officers had their eyes widen as they looked at their fallen brethren.
“Way to steal all the fun Luffy,” Zoro said causing Luffy to chuckle before he replied.
“Don’t worry, those were just the trash. They aren’t worth your time,” Luffy said before pointing at the three fishmen standing in front of Arlong. “Those are your targets,” he said causing Zoro and Sanji to smile while Usopp was shaking in his boots.
“How dare you!” Arlong said with rage written all over his face. “How dare you kill my brothers!?” he screamed before turning towards his officers and yelled out an order. “Kill them! Kill them all!” he screamed.
“Yes boss,” they said before the three of them charge towards Luffy. Before they could reach Luffy Zoro intercepted Hachi, Sanji intercepted the Fishman with weird elbows, while Usopp from distance away from Arlong Park used his slingshot to sent a flaming bomb at the Fishman with a long mouth causing him to chase after Usopp. Luffy stared at Arlong from his same position he stood from the time he entered Arlong Park.
“Why don’t we let our subordinates fight it out first before we throw down,” Luffy said before he pulled out a bottle of whiskey and summoned a thundercloud to create a throne from him to sit. He then poured himself a drink and sat back and watched all of his crew members fight the fishmen. He was using this time to see exactly how Sanji and Zoro fighting style was so he can decide how to advise them in using their Haki. He was interrupted from his observing by Arong’s voice.
“You have devil fruit powers,” he noted causing Luffy to roll his eyes.
“You just figured that out?” Luffy asked in a bored tone. “I thought you would figure it out when I killed all of your men and send you pet cow to sleep,” he said while shaking his head.
“Why you!” Arlong growled from his sitting position as he stared at Luffy with a look of pure hatred. Soon both Luffy and Arlong’s attention was drawn to Zoro’s fight with Hachi. When they looked over they saw Hachi airborne with all six of his swords broken and blood gushing out of his body. His body was crashed landed behind Zoro kicking up a lot of dust when the dust settled everyone saw Hachi laying in a small crater out cold. Luffy looked over to Zoro and saw he was in pretty bad shape.
‘He still not fully healed from his fight with Mihawk…That being said, he manages to defeat a pretty strong Fishman while being severely wounded,’ Luffy thought to himself before he spoke to Zoro.
“You did well Zoro. I expected nothing less from my vice-captain,” Luffy said with a smile as he watches Zoro stumble over to him. “Rest now, you earned it,” Luffy said as another thunder cloud came down in front of Zoro from him to collapse on. Luffy then turned to look at Sanji’s fight and was surprised at what he saw. Sanji’s fighting style seems to revolve around his legs, but the thing that puzzled Luffy the most was the fact that Sanji was not using his hands. In Luffy’s mind, he would be more effective if he just started using his hands but everyone has their style that represents who they are, can’t really tell them to stop being themselves. Luffy then watches as Sanji kick the Fishman whose name Luffy learned to be Kuroobi, through the main building of Arlong Park.
“Well, that takes care of that,” Sanji said before lighting up a cigarette. He then looked over to Luffy and began walking towards him and Zoro.
“You did well, Sanji. Now all that’s missing is Usopp,” Luffy said before taking a sip of his drink.
“Do you think it is a good idea to let him fight that guy alone?” Sanji asked.
“Yeah, he’ll be fine,” Luffy said as he stared at Arlong who was looking at the fallen forms of Hachi and Kuroobi with nothing but rage in his eyes.
“How…how is this possible!?” Arlong screamed. “Humans can’t defeat fishmen! We are superior beings in every way, shape, and form!” He yelled before he stood up from his seat causing Luffy to do the same.
“Guess it’s my turn,” Luffy said before downing his drink. Just as Arlong was about to rush at Luffy he spotted someone behind Luffy and smiled. Puzzling Luffy, he turned around to see what Arlong was looking and saw Nami wearing his straw hat with her shoulder all bandaged up and her bo staff in her hand.
“Hey Nami,” Arlong said. “Did you come here to see me kill these pathic little pirates?” he asked c.o.c.kily.
“I’m here to kill you,” Nami said in a chilling voice that surprised Luffy slightly. Arlong was about to respond to Nami but before he could the voice of Usopp interrupted him.
“LUFFY!” Usopp screamed from behind the broken wall causing Luffy to smile. “I got you back,” he said with a smile. Usopp looked like he been through hell and back. His nose was broken, there was dirt all over him, and he was covered in bruises.
“Impossible! Chew was defeated?” Arlong asked in disbelief as he stared at Usopp. Usopp simply smiled and give Arlong a thumbs up. Luffy chuckled before he turned his right hand into Lightning and sent it towards Nami causing everyone’s eyes to widen. The lightning hand raced towards here faster than she can move. She closed her eyes expecting pain and waited for it to come, but nothing. She slowly reopened her eyes and saw Luffy placing his straw hat back on his head. Luffy smiled at her before he spoke.
“You need to relax Nami,” he said as he placed his hat back on. “Your punishment will come,” he said causing her shiver in fear of what Luffy had planned. He then turned towards Arlong and spoke. “Time to die shark,” he said causing Arlong to start laughing.
“SHAHAHA! Foolish human, do you seriously thin-ugh” Arlong was interrupted from his speech by a lightning coated fist being buried in his stomach sending him flying backward crashing into one of the walls of Arlong Park.
“You talk way too damn much,” Luffy said as he stared at Arlong picking himself out of the rubble. The villagers and Nami stared at Luffy with eyes the size of dinner plates.
“He laid Arlong out with one punch,” said one villager.
“Amazing!” said another. Luffy ignored all of the villagers cheering and focused on Arlong.
“It doesn’t matter what species you are from,” Luffy said getting Arlong’s attention as he stood up. “Your strength is useless if you don’t know the proper way to use it. I guess that’s why you could never beat Jimbe,” Luffy said with a smirk pissing Arlong off.
“DON’T MENTION THAT BASTARDS NAME!” Arlong screamed as he rushed towards Luffy. Luffy just stared as Arlong rushed towards him and didn’t move. Arlong then grabbed Luffy’s head with one hand and his shoulder with the other before he opened his mouth to bite Luffy’s neck. Everyone saw they had their eyes widen, well everyone except for Luffy’s crew who knew exactly what was about to happen. Arlong bit down on Luffy expecting to taste blood but instead of blood, he got a mouth full of lightning that exploded in his mouth blowing him back. From the spot on Luffy’s neck that Arlong clearly bit off, everyone saw in place of blood and flesh was electric blue sparks of lightning that started to reform Luffy’s neck. Arlong from his position on the ground stared at Luffy.
“Did I forget to mention I ate a Logia class Devil fruit,” Luffy said with an innocent look on his face. “Oops,” he said pissing Arlong off.
“I’ll show you why we fishmen are superior!” Arlong said before leaping into the water. Luffy looked at the spot where Arlong dived into with a confused look on his face.
“Did he not get the part where I control lightning?” Luffy asked out loud before walking towards the edge of the pool and held out both of his hands in front of him. “I guess he was dumber than I thought,” Luffy said.
“Electro-Murder!” Luffy called out causing ropes of lightning to shoot out of all ten of his fingertips and go into the water electrocuting everything in the water. After a few minutes, Luffy shut the technique off and stared into the water expecting Arlong’s body to float up to the surface. He waited and waited for about five minutes but nothing. Then all of a sudden Luffy saw a shadow in the water racing towards him, then faster an any of the villagers could blink Arlong shot out of the water with his pointed nose aimed right at Luffy’s heart. Luffy simply sighed before he covered his palm in armament haki and caught Arlong by his nose causing his eyes to widen.
“So, this is the unbreakable nose,” Luffy said before he bent it downwards breaking. Everyone present heard the sound of Arlong’s nose break. It was loud enough to make a few of them wince at the sound. Luffy then tosses Arlong over his shoulder causing him to go crashing through one of the windows of the second floor. Luffy then turned his body into lightning and teleported himself to where Arlong was. Luffy appeared in a room filled with paper, books, and sea charts hanging up to dry. He looked around the room and saw there was also a desk and in the corner of the room was Arlong laid out bleeding on a bunch of sea charts. When Arlong noticed what he was laying on he immediately shot up to his feet and began trying to get the blood off of the charts. When he noticed it was futile, the map was already ruined. His head shot around to Luffy was looking around the room, when Luffy turned and looked at Arlong he noticed that Arlong’s eyes were similar to that of an enraged sea king.
“You bastard!” Arlong screamed while clutching a map covered in blood. “Look what you’ve done!” he said while pointing at the bloody maps in the corner. “I made Nami draw all these maps for the last eight years and now you ruined it!” Arlong screamed. Luffy walked over to the desk in the room and picked up a pen that clearly had blood stains on it before he spoke.
“So, this is Nami’s room?” Luffy asked in a cold tone.
“Yes, this is where I had her draw all these sea charts,” Arlong said. As he said that Luffy took a step back before he kicked the desk straight through the window angering Arlong even further. “You bastard! What are you doing!?” he screamed as he saw a bunch of maps fly out with the desk.
“You just pissed me off. So, no more games,” Luffy said as he flipped the pen around and covered the tip in haki before stabbing it in the side of Arlong’s neck causing him to scream out in pain before falling to his knees clutching the side of his neck. When he looked from at Luffy who was staring down at him it was the first time in Arlong’s life that he was afraid for his life. Staring back at him was the cold emotionless eyes of Luffy that seemed to stare right into the depts of Arlong’s soul. Luffy then took a step back and placed his right hand on the top of his straw hat and tilted it down a bit before he spoke in a chilling tone.
“Judgement,” he said confusing Arlong and scaring him at the same time. As he said that a pillar of lightning came down from the sky and swallowed the building and some parts away from the building.
The villagers and Luffy’s crew were startled when they saw a giant pillar of lightning come down from the sky and swallowed up the main building in Arlong Park. The villager and the crew ran back a few feet not wanting to get caught in whatever was going on.
“LUFFY!” Usopp and Nami screamed out in fear of the worse happening. Zoro who was now awake look towards the two of them and spoke.
“Relax,” he said getting their attention. “Luffy told me once that Lightning doesn’t affect him. So, he is fine,” Zoro said as he stared at the pillar of lightning. The pillar was there for about an entire minute preventing any of them from seeing what was going on. When the pillar disappeared what they saw cause their eyes to widen. The entire building was gone, all that was left was a pile of ash with Luffy with a serious look on his standing in the middle while some ash flying around him and lightning flashing behind him. There was no Arlong, no Fishman, not even a brick from the building was left, everything was now just ash. Luffy then walked towards the group and stopped beside Nami with his back towards Arlong Park and his eyes looking straight ahead.
“You’re my navigator. Got that?” Luffy asked causing a teary-eyes Nami to nod her head yes before Luffy walked pass her and everyone in the direction of the village.
**CHAPTER END**