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Wait? You all know Wapol?" Dalton asked.
"Yeah." Usopp said. "He's just some jerk pirate that attacked us. Though, I drove him off." Usopp said which got him a fist to his foot, courtesy of Gin who was sitting down in the snow. "YEOW!"
"Don't take credit for things you didn't do." Gin said as Usopp hopped on one foot. "Especially since it was the Captain who did the deed."
"He did say something about wanting to get to Drum Kingdom." Alvida said.
"If it's Wapol, then it must be the man I met when I was little and went with my father to the Council of Kings." Vivi said. "Council of Kings? Who are you?" Dalton asked.
"Um...anyway, I didn't see him, but I heard everyone call him Wapol. We ran into him yesterday on our way here." Dalton looked shocked at that bit of news.
"Are you...serious?" he asked.
"It doesn't make any sense." Vivi said. "If your country is destroyed, why is your king alive and being a pirate?"
"That's only a ruse." Dalton said. "He's probably just sailing around these waters, waiting for the chance to return."
"So Wapol and his men were chased out and forced into piracy because they lost to the Blackbeard Pirates?" Vivi asked.
"Lost to them? Tch!" Dalton said in disgust. "When the pirates attacked, they didn't even try to fight!"
"What do you mean?" Vivi asked. "The moment Wapol realized how strong they were, he fled his country faster than anyone else, leaving the rest of us at the hands of those pirates!" Dalton said as his face twisted in anger at the memory. "All the citizens despised him for his cowardice.
"WHAT KIND OF KING WOULD ABANDON HIS COUNTRY?!" Vivi shouted in outrage. All of the Strawhats looked at her in shock. "To just abandon everyone like that is unimaginable!"
"I couldn't agree more." Dalton said. "But because of this, Wapol's reign has finally ended. Now this island belongs to the people who remained. The towns, and our hope for a better country, are slowly coming back to us. That's why we fear Wapol's return. We cannot let that happen, no matter what. We must make this a better country." Everyone stared at him as some smiled at his statement.
-With Luffy's group-
Luffy's group was steadily hiking up the mountains as the wind kept getting stronger.
"Jeez. Stupid blizzard." Greg grumbled.
"You got that right." Sanji said. "How can you walk around in just sandals and shorts Luffy?" Sanji asked.
"It's my polymer." Luffy said.
"You mean policy?" Sanji corrected.
"Yeah." Luffy said as they kept going, even with a baby lapahn trying to attack them. They kept on walking and dodging while talking about why people in snow countries don't sleep and why women have white smooth skin.
"You two are a bunch of weirdos." Greg said after listening to them.
"He's the one saying stupid stuff about snow women." Luffy said. "And your snow people never sleeping is any better?!" Sanji said before kicking the lapahn away. "GET OUT OF HERE ALREADY!"
"If that was supposed to be a lapahn, I'm not impressed." Greg said before they kept going while sniffling a lot.
-Back in Big Horn-
Vivi and the others were chatting before a big woman appeared and, to their horror, told them that Dr. Kureha had come down to a neighboring village. After hearing that, Dalton, Vivi, and Usopp went towards Cocoa Weed Village in an attempt to meet Dr. Kureha. While heading their, Dalton apologized for thinking she wouldn't come down so soon and for the lack of doctors.
"It's not your fault about the lack of doctors Dalton." Vivi said.
"She's right." Usopp said. "Now let's get going to Cocoa Weed!" -Near the Straw Hat Ship-
"MAHAHAHAHA!" laughed Wapol as his men took out the guard patrol. "Ah! Drum Kingdom! As beautiful as it was when I left! Chess, how does my castle look?"
"It looks to be okay." Chess said as he looked through some binoculars towards Drum Castle.
"Excellent!" Wapol said with a grin. "Time to return to my life as a King!" he said before ordering his men towards Drum Castle, then yelling at his pet White Walkie Robson for not moving.
"Wapol!" one of his men shouted as he ran towards him.
"What is it?" Wapol asked, still a bit agitated at Robson.
"Those pirates from yesterday are here!" he said as he pointed at the Straw Hat ship. "There ship is right there!"
"WHAT?!" Wapol said. "Those little bastards are here?! Even though they claimed to not have heard of this island?! KILL THEM ALL!"
"It's empty!" the soldier said. "No one's on board or around it!"
"Judging by the footprints, they went to Big Horn your Majesty." Kuromarimo said as Chess had a his hand under his chin in thought as Wapol ordered them to go to Big Horn.
"Chess!" Wapol yelled. "What are you doing?"
"Apologies my King." Chess said. "That pirate with the Straw Hat from yesterday...seems familiar somehow."
"You knew that guy and you didn't tell me?!" Wapol bellowed.
"Not in person!" Chess said. "I think he might've been in the newspaper awhile ago."
"Eh. Forget it." Wapol said before ordering everyone to continue on to Big Horn, none of them noticing an injured guard hurridly limping away.
-With Luffy's group-
Luffy and his group kept walking until they came across an entire herd of lapahns the size of polar bears.
"Are these...lapahns?" Sanji asked.
"This don't look good." Greg said as Luffy stared at the lapahns before looking at Sanji.
"Take Nami for a moment Sanji." Luffy said as he untied Nami from his waist and left her in Sanji's arms bridal-style.
"Huh? What are you doing Luffy?" Sanji asked. Luffy didn't answer as he walked toward the lapahns. One of the lapahns with a scar near his left eye lunged at Luffy, only to hit snow as Luffy dodged it.
"Don't tell me you're gonna fight them!" Greg yelled as the lapahn raised it's paw into the air while Luffy raised his own hand. Just before the paw hit Luffy, it stopped when Luffy glared at it and released a low level wave of haki. The lapahn glared at him before lowering it's paw as they stared at each other.
"Move!" Luffy said in a tone that said he meant business. The lapahn stared at Luffy before they all slowly moved on.
"What...the...fuck?!" Greg asked in bafflement as he shivered. "What did he do?"
"Something called Haki." Sanji said as he tied Nami to Luffy's back.
"Let's go." Luffy said with a smile before they started walking. Greg just stared in shock while the lapahns from earlier kept following, but at a distance.
-In Cocoa Weed-
"She left?!" Usopp said. "We just missed her?!" "I'm afraid so." one of the villagers said.
"Do you happen to know where she went?" Vivi asked.
"We heard it was Gyasta next." another man said.
"Gyasta?" Dalton asked.
"Where's that?" Usopp asked.
"On the other side of Big Horn." he said.
"We gotta go back?!" Usopp shouted.
"DALTON!" came a shout from the doorway as an injured man came stumbling in before collapsing. Dalton quickly ran over and caught him to keep him from hitting the floor.
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