Arlong

As I got closer to the shore and reached the island, I could see some fishmen waiting for me apparently. They look very strange and bizarre in real life, nothing like depicted in the Anime.

Their body looks just like a normal human with some light shade of a variety of colour on the skin but the face, OH GOD! THE FACE! It looked straight out of something like lovecraft's works.

This will get some getting used to, I wonder how strange the different creatures in the grand line will look. I only hope mermaids aren't the mismatched looked creatures these fishmen appear to be.

The guy in the middle with mostly human features and grey skin started taking to me,

"You are the infamous Red Robin, you must be here to hunt us but you have just dug your own grave. We fishmen are unlike the human weakling pirates you hunt, We are superior in every way to pathetic humans"

"Oh really? Why don't you show me some of your strength then?"

I felt like showing off a bit and just stood there taunting them to come at me with my fingers looking down on them.

They got really enraged at being belittled and rushed towards me throwing punches and kicks everywhere but I easily stood my ground, not even moving an inch. It seems the average strength of these guys is around 50 doriki.

I guess they didn't really lie, they really are on an average 10 times stronger than humans, it's really sad they have such a huge head start over humans and yet, there is not a single one of them at the top of the world. The best they could was barely shichibukai.

I soon got tired of them and quickly snapped their necks in less than a second, leaving one scared out of his wits.

"WHA...WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU?!"

"Tell Your captain that I am coming to hunt him like a dog. Superior race my ass."

He scrambled away towards arlong park stumbling all the way.

I let him go so that Arlong will prepare for my arrival and take me seriously, it will be boring and bothersome otherwise, I want all of them in one place so that I can take them out all at once.

I scanned the whole island and located cocoyashi village and there she was, a long time Anime crush of mine, damn she looks really cute with her cute Orange hair, heart shaped face,.... THE FUCK AM I DOING, SHE'S 10 YEARS OLD!!

I was sorting out my internal crysis, when I noticed that Nami seems to head towards Arlong park after a quarrel with her sister nojiko, It seems she has not managed to get much money during her last trip and she has to go and draw maps for Arlong again.

Nami at 11 years old isn't nearly as skilled or experienced as her older self who used her womanly viles to trick and rob men and is just a kid who is overwhelmed by the world.

It's actually kind of amazing she was actually Brave enough at this young age to go out into the dangerous world on her own to solve her own problems and return home where it is even more depressing and dangerous, working for the man who murdered her mother and all..... God, her life sucks so much.

I remembered the thing about her forced to draw until her hands bleed from the Anime and felt righteous anger, she was a familiar character after all.I wanted to save her, but first I wanted her to have a reality check first.

I walked towards her, to intercept her on the way to Arlong park, I stopped in front of her and got into my 'Mysterious strong stranger' mode so that, you know, sowing the seeds....

"Hey little lady, can you perhaps kindly show the way to a 'Arlong park' ?"

She looked at me stunned and after a while as realisation seem to have dawned upon her,

"You are that infamous teenage bounty hunter, are you here to hunt Arlong?"

"Indeed..... Is that a tattoo of Arlong I see on your arm? Have you been naughty, litle lady?"

She seems to struggle with herself for a while and then shift into her tough girl persona.

"That's right, I am a part of Arlong's crew, and if you know what's good for you, you will run away right now, Arlong is a fishman and is unbeatable by humans. Infact, you must be rich hunting so many bounties right? give me a 100 million and I might let you go without informing Arlong"

She's SO CUTE, trying her best to appear tough just made her more cute and the little princess seems to want to protect me by making me go away as soon as possible.

"Is that so....ok then, Just wait here for a minute"

I ran away towards my ship and back, collecting the money and giving it to her in a sack, leaving her gaping at my speed and the fact that I actually agreed to her demands.

She looked at me strangely for a while and then regained her composure and turned away from me,

"Hmph, you are now free to leave, I won't report you to Arlong, Be thankful"

She almost skipped away towards Arlong park barely able to contain her happiness as she could finally buy her village and save her villagers from the tyranny of Arlong.

I know the whole thing seems a bit cruel, my manipulation of her, but I think she needs this to understand a valuable lesson to never trust people like Arlong.I already knew she would never think I might be capable of taking him down. It is already deeply embedded in her mind that Arlong is unbeatable. Her mother who must have been an unbeatable pillar in her life was defeated easily after all.

I am also interested to know how Arlong will play this off as there is no Nezumi in the equation. I followed Nami stealthily towards the park as she almost ran towards it in anticipation.

She burst into the park and saw that all the fishmen in the island seems to have gathered in this place. Arlong seems to have gathered everyone to brief them on to find me and report me so that he may kill me for the offence I have committed. She shook her head to clear her confusion and walked toward Arlong with the sack.

She held the money in front of her, barely able to contain her excitement.

"I want to buy cocoyashi village, here's the money" Everyone fell totally silent.

Arlong seems almost comically stunned by that and looked constipated for a while.I could barely hold my laughter at the ridiculousness on his face with his shark-sawfish face and all.He had not prepared for this at all ! He recovered though and signalled one of his henchmen who smiled evily.

The random fish-man snatched the sack from nami before she could react and ran away from the park, unfortunately for him, straight towards me. I slammed his face onto the dirt and took back my money.

Back at the park, Arlong loomed over the tiny frame of Nami who looked scared and confused.

"Oh dear, it seems the money has been stolen by one of my pirates gone rogue. I am so sorry dear, you will have to make the money again to save your village"

Nami looked down in despair, realising that Arlong never intended to keep her promise and that he was just using her,

"But.... but... why? YOU PROMISED! You promised that you'd honor an agreement when it comes to money."

He held her head on his fist with his face close to hers,

"When did I do that? I never got money from you, you'll just have to gather all the money again, until then you can continue making maps for me"

Nami seems to have fallen into despair, realising that she will be slaving for him her entire life and seems to have given up hope.

I decided that this has gone on for far too much longer than necessary seeing her expression and soru'd towards her side and slapped away Arlong's hand.

"Hey little lady, you seem to be in trouble, do you perhaps need me to rescue you?"I smiled at her reassuringly.

She looked at me with such despair filled eyes that seems to have gained a lot hope with my appearance and confidence. I feel very guilty now for starting the whole thing and letting it go on for as long as it did. She managed to whisper in a weak voice,

"Yes... Please"

I turned towards Arlong and cracked my knuckles,

"Prepare to die bastard"

Arlong looked at our byplay seemingly amused,

"HAHAHA, You maybey strong in this weak sea kid, but we are superior species from the grand.."

I didn't let him finish and Punched him into the water with around a quarter of my power.

I turned towards the crew who were just starting to register what just happened and quickly soru blitzed them all, breaking a dozen heads every second. Even the commanders kuroobi,hachan or choo didn't really pose any real challenge, all it took was a little more force on my part.

I feel like a total badass, like Minato namikaze with his thunder god technique, I even have the slight flashes of white from my hair. I was enjoying the dumbfounded expression of Nami as I curbstomped her life's tormentors when I felt something coming out of the water.

I was waiting for this as I wanted to test if I'm durable enough to catch one of Arlong's shark darts with my bare hands without using hardening.I prepared myself by getting into position so that Arlong comes straight into my hands.

He shot out of the water extremely enraged, faster than I expected and as the tip of his saw reached my hands, I tried to grab and stop his momentum.

His nose-saw was also sharper than expected as it managed to cut my hand quite deeply as I stopped him just before his nose reached my body. The sudden change in momentum broke his nose and I punched him in the gut leaving him retching blood on the floor.

He looked at me with his angry red eyes,

"YOU DESTROYED EVERYTHING I WORKED FOR, YOU MONSTER! I'LL KILL YOU!!" He tried to lunge towards me despite his situation, so I grabbed his head and slammed into the floor, completely destroying his proud saw.

"Such a pity, you were part of the crew of fisher tiger, A noble merman who tried to liberate slaves, humans and mermen alike from celestial dragons, something nobody else in the world dared to do. He must be rolling in the grave with how you turned out"

Arlong twitched on the floor with uncontrollable anger and I finally decided to just put him out of his misery and end it, I bend down and quickly twisted his head and he finally stopped moving.

As I turned around, I saw Nami seemingly unable to decide whether to be scared or happy. I smiled reassuringly at her and she, seeing my smile, decided on the latter and hugged me crying her heart out.

I comforted her, whispering stuff like everything is ok and rubbing her back while repeating the mantra in my head,

'I am not a pedophile,I am not a pedophile,I AM NOT A PEDOPHILE!'