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"Yep. This is your room, alright." Luffy said as he looked around the girly room that was Helmeppo's. He immediately eyed Zoro's swords and smiled as he walked over to them. "Found them. Thanks for your help," he said before he dropped an unconscious Helmeppo on the floor. Luffy didn't want to kill him. Helmeppo could still be redeemed, and he did in the anime. Luffy then tied the swords onto his back, then walked to the window, spotting Morgan and the marines, all ready to kill Zoro and Coby. "Better get down there," he said before stretching his arms out and flying out the window.
"FIRE!" Morgan shouted before the marines fired away. Zoro and Coby looked away, expecting death. None of them expected Luffy to appear before them and step in front of the path of the bullets.
"WHAT?!"
"LUFFY NO!"
"STRAW HAT!"
Luffy just smiled as the bullets stretched back in their body before he bounced them all back, laughing that it was useless as the marines ducked to avoid being hit. Zoro just stared at him as he asked what he was. Luffy turned around with a smile and a thumbs up. "My name's Luffy. And I'm the man who will be King of the Pirates."
"Do you have any idea what that means?" Zoro asked.
"King of the Pirates means King of the Pirates," Luffy answered.
"It sounds crazy, but he's dead serious about it," Coby said as Luffy untied the swords off his back and held them in front of Zoro.
"Got your sword for ya. There were three, so I grabbed them all. Are they all yours?" he asked, feigning stupidity as he already knew the answer.
"Actually, they are. I use three sword style." Zoro said, moving his arms around in his bindings.
"Alright. I'll let you go. But if you fight now, you'll be labeled a criminal in the eye of the marines. So it's either fight or dies. Well?"
"Hmph. It looks like I don't have a choice, huh?" Zoro said with a smirk. "Fine. I'm in."
"YES! Look, Coby! I got my first crewmate! Zoro, you will not regret it." Luffy said as he danced around. He was one step closer to getting his crew together again.
"Stop dancing and untie me, you moron!" Zoro shouted. Luffy stopped and tried to untie Zoro, while Morgan ordered his men to attack.
"If guns don't work, use your swords!" he bellowed. Soon, all the marines were charging at them, ready to cut them down. Luffy tried hard to untie the knot, waiting until they were close enough.
"Man, these are really tight," Luffy said. In anime, Luffy also struggled, but Zack thought he just dumb enough not to figure out the knot. How wrong he was; these knots were tight.
"Quit screwing around already!" Zoro said.
"There, got one," Luffy said as he untied his left arm.
"Give me my sword now!" Zoro screamed. Luffy gave him a sword, which he used in the blink of an eye to cut the ropes, unsheath his other blades, and stop the marine's attacks in mid-swing.
"Whoa!" Coby said, while Luffy just smiled.
"Move, and you die." Zoro threatened through his clenched teeth, causing the other marines to cry.
"Scary."
"Ah, I could have ripped them apart with my strength. Dammit, I need to act smarter." Luffy smacked his head. He doesn't need to follow the canon and definitely needs to use more common sense. Also, it would do good to show his crewmates that he was smart and not an airhead, as was shown in the series.
"Alright. I've fought the marines. That officially makes me a wanted criminal, so I'll join you as a pirate. But I'm only going to say this once. Even though I sail under you, I only care about my ambition."
"Which is?" Luffy asked, knowing the answer.
"To be the greatest swordsman in the world. And if you make me give up my dream for any reason, I'll cut you where you stand. Got it?"
Luffy just smiled, remembering this speech before as he nodded. "Got it. And it suits me just fine. King of the Pirates should only have the best on his crew."
"Heh. You're a cocky one." Zoro said with a smile.
"What are you standing around for?!" Morgan bellowed. "Kill all of them now!"
"Zoro. Duck." Luffy said before he pulled his leg back. Zoro did so as Luffy called out, "Gum Gum no...WHIP!" as his leg stretched out and swatted the marines away. Zoro just stared at him as he asked what he was. "I ate the Gum-Gum fruit," Luffy said, leaving Zoro to stare at him.
Morgan narrowed his eyes as he thought of the rumors of the Devil fruit. How eating one granted you the power of the Sea Devil but made the ocean reject you and took away your ability to swim.
"Gum Gum fruit! This is insane!" one of the marines said, snapping Morgan out of his thoughts. He listened as the marines starting saying they were too strong to beat and that they didn't stand a chance against the two of them.
"THIS IS AN ORDER! THOSE WHO JUST SPOUTED WEAKNESS, TAKE YOUR GUNS AND SHOOT YOURSELVES!" he shouted. All the marines stared at him as he went on. "I HAVE NO USE FOR COWARDLY WEAKLINGS LIKE YOU LOT!"
"The only weakling I see is you," Luffy said as he glared at Morgan. He smirked as Morgan glared right back as a few veins started sticking out on his face and neck. He seemed to snap as he threw his coat off.
"YOU LITTLE SHIT! I AM THE GREAT CAPTAIN 'AXE HAND' MORGAN!"
"Hi. I'm Monkey D. Luffy," he said as Zoro sheathed his swords, watching to see what his new Captain could do. "Zoro. This is my first order. No matter what happens, don't interfere. Got it?" Zoro nodded, wondering what Luffy would do as Luffy walked towards Morgan.
"Hey, Morbib."
"MORGAN!"
"Right. How about a bet?" Luffy said. This got everyone's attention as Luffy smiled. "You win this fight, we die."
"And if you were to somehow win?" Morgan asked, wondering what the scrawny kid would want.
"You die, simple as that," Luffy said.
Everyone was now gapping at Luffy, thinking he really was insane, as Morgan smiled.
"Peh. Fine, you little brat. NOW DIE!" Morgan screamed as he raised his ax. He brought it down towards Luffy with all his strength, ready to kill him then and there.
Everything seemed to slow down as Morgan's Axe, which was the bane of everyone on the island, was caught in between Luffy's fingers. A light blue sheen of light covered his hands.
Luffy was happy to see that magic coated hand worked like Armament Haki. It may not negate devil fruit power, but the magic strengthened his body just like Armament Haki.
The only downside was that Luffy only had a trickle of mana in his body. Not enough to coat it all over his body, and he would need to replenish the lost mana by eating and fucking a lot. Luffy put pressure on the Axxe and broke apart like glass.
"WHAAAAT?!" Morgan screamed in horror at the sight of his now destroyed ax. The marine's jaws hit the ground while Coby had fainted. Zoro stood there, wide-eyed at sight. He then noticed that the top of Luffy's head that the ax struck had changed into a light bluish color before returning to normal. Luffy smiled as he placed his hat back on his head and made a fist.
"My turn," he said before delivering a punch to Morgan's face, making him cough up blood, and a loud audible crack was heard before he was sent crashing into the marine base, smashing into his son, who was looking for them with a gun.
Everyone just stared at the hole while Luffy laughed. "I win. and he died," he said, holding up a finger. The marines all looked at each other before cheering about Morgan's defeat. Luffy just smiled as Zoro tapped Coby with his foot to wake him up.
Back in the pub, Luffy and Zoro were eating food like there was no tomorrow, while Coby had already finished.
"Ahhhh. That hit the spot." Zoro said. "Three weeks with no food sucked."
"If it was me, I'd be dead in three days." Luffy managed to say with a full mouth of food.
"How can you eat more than me, anyway?" Zoro asked.
"Please, eat all you want." Rika's mother said with a smile, happy that the town was free from Morgan's reign. She walked back to the kitchen to cook more food.
"I'm sorry. You're feeding me, even though I wasn't any help." Coby said.
"It's alright," she said.
"So Luffy. Who else is on our crew?" Zolo asked.
"Us."
"Wait. Just...you and me?" he asked, pointing at them both. There was Nami, but he couldn't find her anywhere after the Helmeppo fiasco. Not even in the Marine base, which was odd.
"Yep."
"Our ship?"
"Don't know yet," he answered.
"Well, this is a great start," Zoro said sarcastically. "Now I need to go relieve myself in a brothel before I go on the devil's journey with you," Zoro said before chugging all the ale down his throat.
"Brothel?" Luffy asked, astounded. In anime, Zoro didn't seem to be the type to look for the pleasure of the flesh. But anime was made for kids, and this is the real world. Zoro was an adult, and all the fighting, blood, and death could make anyone go and relieve their stress by pounding a few women.
Luffy also needed to make use of his Incubus bloodline and recharge his batteries.
"Yes, a brothel, that's where you find the prostitutes, willing to fuck for a few coins... You never got in a bed with women?" Zoro asked, surprised. Normally, a boy in this world would go and taste their first woman right after hitting puberty, and girls would lose their virginity a short time after they flowered.
Though there were many exceptional cases like those who were waiting for the right time as they loved someone or the dumb shit that easily get shy around girls or they are asexual.
"Ha! I never got the chance. I was always training to get stronger, you see. But I guess it's time to show my powers in that department."
Zoro rolled his eyes at that and said, "Virgins always make a fool of themselves when it's their first time. Don't get your hopes high; I had seen many boys run back crying because they couldn't last more than five seconds. Also, prostitutes are not easy to satisfy, if you want to satisfy them, but they will give you the best time of your life if you have given them a good amount of money and be a little respectful."
"Thank you for your advice, sex guru. Now, let's go and find ourselves a good girl, shall we." Luffy beamed a smile.
But before they could get up, the marines arrived.