Pirates Vs Bounty Hunters!

"Pirates are attacking?! What the hell is going on?!"

Frantz screamed as he watched as the town was hit with a bombardment of cannonballs.

"What?! We need to help!"

Luffy was about to run off but Frantz grabbed his arm.

"Hold on, Luffy! You can't!"

"Why not?!"

"Because you're a pirate! You need to stay under the radar, especially now! Do you know what would happen if your identity were to be revealed during this mess?! The entire island will turn on you! They'll treat you like the enemy!"

"I don't care!"

Luffy pulled his arm out of Frantz's grasp.

"I spent a night having a blast with the people being attacked! We drunk, we ate, we laughed together! There's no way in hell I'm gonna step back and watch them die because I'm a pirate!"

"Then what about Hancock?! Are you just going to run into battle carrying her on your shoulder?!"

Luffy's body flinched.

"...I'll just give her to her crew."

"There's no need."

Hancock spoke and Luffy help her off his shoulder.

"You're awake?"

"Who could sleep when there's so much noise."

Caria spoke causing Frantz to look at her.

"How much did you hear?"

"Everything."

Frantz let her down. She glanced at Luffy and Hancock.

"So you're Strawhat Luffy and Boa Hancock."

She then looked at Frantz who was covered in cold sweat.

"And you and the mayor knew but still welcomed them to the island."

Frantz opened his mouth.

"None of that matters now!"

Luffy spoke before him.

"People are getting attacked and we need to help! I don't care about who's a pirate and who's a bounty hunter! I'm gonna kick those guys' asses and then we can fight about it after!"

Caria looked at him and then Frantz.

"I don't know what you and Tate are planning but I'm going to trust you for now."

"I'm going!"

Luffy activated Gear Second.

"Calm down, Strawhat."

Caria called out to him.

"Did you forget where you are? This is Bounty Island, an island of bounty hunters, and what do Bounty Hunters do best?"

A chain of explosions erupted in the air. It was obvious the cannonballs being fired were shot down. Caria showed a savage grin.

"We hunt pirates."

Meanwhile, the coastline had turned into a warzone. Explosions erupted in the sea, on land, and in the air. Citizens rolled cannons to the coastlines and started firing at the approaching ships. Cannonballs clashed and resulted in a storm of flames.

"Kill them all!"

"Don't let those bastards reach the island!"

"Sink their ships!"

"Turn them into Sea King feed!"

The citizens roared as they fired their cannons.

"Wow, they really are an island of combatants."

Rainbow Shelly stood on the bow of her ship looking at the coastline with a telescope.

"It feels like we're attacking a naval base."

She threw the telescope to a subordinate.

"Sending in the fodder first was a good idea."

"Don't call them fodder. They are members of our alliance."

Niara was on his ship sitting cross-legged on the tip of his ship.

"Please, they're just weaklings who begged to serve under our flags. Only the 5 of us are true members of this alliance."

Shelly turned her head to the ship next to her. Its Jolly-Roger had a skull that looked like part of it was eaten. A woman was standing with her arms folded in front of her chest. She was dressed in boyish clothes like shorts, an oversized shirt, and a captain's coat.

"Isn't that right, Gumi?"

"....."

Shelly didn't receive an answer.

"Don't tell me..."

She leaped from her ship and landed on the other ship. She landed next to Gumi.

"This little..."

She slapped Gumi's back.

"Wake up! How can you even sleep with so much noise?!"

"Huh?"

Gumi opened her eyes and started rubbing them.

"Are we here already?"

"Yes, you idiot! How can you fall asleep standing up?"

".....You just close your eyes?"

Gumi looked at Shelly with confusion.

"Y-You...If you weren't so adorable I would've killed you already."

"Thanks?"

Gumi looked confused again. Shelly gritted her teeth but took a deep breath. She started playing Gumi's hair.

"I can't stay mad at you."

"If you two have time to play around then you should get to work."

A new voice interrupted them and made Shelly frown. She turned her head to the ship beside Niara that had a feline skull as it Jolly-Roger. Before she could say anything, a shadow leap out of the ship and landed on the ship in front of her. It continued to leap from ship to ship, gradually approaching the coast.

"Tch. That damn cat went off on his own."

"Huh? Is it time to work?"

"Not yet, Gumi. Just leave that eager fool alone."

"Okay."

Shelly continued to pet Gumi.

At the same time, Luffy and the others were still in front of the mansion.

"So, are you saying you guys can handle everything on your own?"

Hancock asked Caria who nodded.

"We should be--"

"Shit!"

Frantz shouted while looking through his telescope.

"What's wrong?"

Caria asked.

"I noticed the guys attacking didn't come from any big pirate crew so I started to wonder how they made it through the calm belt. I started looking around and spotted five large ships in the distance."

Frantz's serious tone made Caria's heart race.

"Whose ships are there?"

"The Abstract Pirates, the Wild Cat Pirates, the Mist Pirates, the Gorge Pirates, and the Origami Pirates."

"What?!"

"Huh? Do you know any of them, Hancock?"

"The only pirate I care about is you, Luffy."

Caria looked at Hancock and Luffy with shock.

"You don't know them? Were you living under a rock this last year?"

"I was on an island fighting bloodthirsty monsters."

"I was too busy planning a life with Luffy."

Caria was dumbfounded.

"Those five pirate crews belong to pirates who like you were, Luffy, rookie pirates with bounties over 100 million, Supernovas. They're all dangerous pirates who..."

Frantz stopped talking as he moved his telescope from his eye.

"We're going to the coastline."

He mumbled before running.

"Wait, Frantz!"

"One of the Supernovas is on the move!"

A crystal grew out of Frantz's arm. It morphed into a rifle.

"Panthera the Savage is on the move!"

A boom reached Luffy and Hancock's ears. Caria had disappeared from where she was. She quickly caught up to Frantz and even shot past him.

"Hancock, I'm going!"

Luffy disappeared too. Hancock was about to move when the door of the mansion flew open and the Kuja girls ran out.

At the same time, a massive shadow was moving from ship to ship. It stopped at the ship closest to the shore. It was a massive humanoid cat that looked like a cross between a lion and a tiger.

"Panthera?!"

Panthera ignored the surprised pirates around him. He bent his knees as his leg swelled with muscles. With a boom, he blasted off the ship with so much force it nearly capsized.

"Enemy incoming!"

"Shoot him down!"

The bounty hunters fired their weapons at Panthera. His body hardened as he activated his haki. Sparks flew as the bullets bounced off him.

"He's gonna land! Everybody get ready!"

Panthera landed on the shore and shook the earth. He kicked off the ground and flew at the nearest target. The bounty hunter coated his sword in haki and slashed at Panthera's head. Panthera blocked it with his arm and thrust his claws through his chest. He lifted the body in the air and used it to block shots fired by the other bounty hunters. He charged at them and they did the same.

"Kill him!"

The bounty hunters fired shots at Panthera. He blocked them with haki and kept running. Three leaped at him swinging glaives.

"Savage Fist!"

He punched out and the shockwave hit the bounty hunters. Their weapons broke and their rib cages imploded. Their broken bodies hit the ground as Panthera ran past them. A second wave of bounty hunters charged at him. He leaped into the air and swung his leg.

"Savage Wind!"

Blades of wind rushed at the bounty hunters. Some stopped to block it with Haki, others ran through it ignoring the cuts to their body.

"Not bad."

He hardened his claws with haki and cut through those charging at him. He evaded sword slashes and gunshots with agile movements. He craved through the flesh of everybody around him. Limbs danced in the air as he took on dozens of bounty hunters at once.

"Oh, Panthera is really going at it."

Niara said while looking through a telescope.

"You know he doesn't like to beat around the bush. At least he's making himself useful."

Shelly was still coddling Gumi.

"Do you see any of those Supreme Five we heard about?"

"No, not yet...Wait, I see-"

Niara rolled back. His telescope hit the ground destroyed. He rolled to his feet with his eyes widened.

"I was sniped? From where?"

His body flew back as he was hit in the shoulder.

(If I didn't try to move out of the way I would've been hit in the heart.)

He thought as his body turned into mist.

"The sniper is using armament haki, be careful!"

His voice rang out for all to hear. Shelly and Gumi had taken cover.

"I guess one of the Supreme Five has made an appearance."

Cold sweat covered Shelly's forehead.

"To be able to snipe from so far away is insane."

Meanwhile, Frantz stood on top of a build looking through a sniper scope.

"I'm not as fast as Caria so I won't catch up, but that doesn't mean I can't make myself useful."

He created a bullet out of crystal and loaded it into the crystal rifle.

"I just hope Luffy listens to what I said."

Earlier when racing towards the coastline, Luffy had passed Frantz as well.

"Luffy, don't use your devil fruit when you fight! If you do it will cause confusion on both sides and lead to unnecessary death! Remember don't reveal your identity no matter what!"

Frantz shouted at Luffy as he passed him.

"Alright! I get to train my haki this way anyway!"

That was the last thing Luffy said to Frantz before heading to the shore.

"I wonder what happened with Hancock."

As he said that Hancock ran past him with the kuja girls following behind her. He smiled and turned his attention back to the pirate ships.

"Shit!"

He cursed as he saw a thick fog covering the sea.

"Niara's powers huh?"

He grinned.

"Don't underestimate, the Supreme Five."

He fired.

At the same time, Panthera was still clashing with the bounty hunters on the shore. In the meantime, pirates started to dock.

"Kill the bounty hunters!"

They started charging onto the land.

"Dammit! Push them back!"

The bounty hunters started attacking the pirates. However, that only created more openings for Panthera to attack.

"Help Boss Panthera!"

More pirates flooded the shores firing guns and swinging their swords.

"Hm?"

A group of them stop as they were surrounded by butterflies.

"What the-"

A pirate swung his arm to shoo the butterfly out of the way. His arm fell to the ground the moment he lifted it.

"Huh?"

His body was assaulted by countless slashes. The same happened to everybody around him.

"AHHH?!"

They screamed in agony as their bodies were cut to pieces. Caria appeared where they were with her poncho floating in the air. It fell to the ground and revealed she was wearing a tank top with belts around it. These belts had sheaths with two short swords in each. Panthera turned towards her after hearing the screams. She stood before the dismantled flesh with two blades in her hands.

"Butterfly Swords? That's unus-"

Panthera blinked and a blade was inches away from his face. He ducked under the blade and rose with an uppercut. A blade stabbed into his fist before he could punch up. He looked up and saw a blade stabbing down towards his face. He leaped back with his eyes widened.

"What speed!"

Panthera started grinning in contrast to Caria's cold glare.

"Let's go, Little girl."

Caria pointed her blades at him.

"I'm gonna skin you alive."