The two marines take seats on either side of their boss's son. The asshole, either not noticing that those men definitely do not want to be there or not caring, puts his arms behind his head and barks out an order.
"Barkeep! Give me and my men some of your finest beverages!"
Knowing what's about to happen, I resist the urge to hit him right now. I'll be much more satisfying a few minutes later when he's dug himself into a hole.
"Rika?" I say, quietly. "You should go to the back, in case he still remembers this morning."
She nods, and a moment later is sneaking through the door. It swings most of the way closed before Ria comes back through, carrying three filled beer glasses.
She walks hesitantly over to Helmeppo's table, and places the glasses on it before quickly moving back, obviously scared to be recognised. It's not hard to tell why, either; it doesn't take a genius to figure out that Helmeppo wasn't a great master. Even being feral the entire time isn't enough to prevent the instinctive negative reaction to a guy like that.
Thankfully, Helmeppo is an idiot. Not only does he not recognise her, but he doesn't notice that this is not normal behaviour.
One of his two goons mouths a silent 'sorry' to her as she walks away, and she nods before slipping away into the back.
"Man, I'm great!" Helmeppo says, kicking back in his seat and putting his feet up on the table. "A great person like me wouldn't be found in a dingy little place like this, but I came here to say that you don't need to worry, citizens! The foolish Roronoa Zoro who defied me will be executed tomorrow!"
Gasps echo out into the room, and I push my seat back and stand up.
That's my cue.
"Hey…"
Helmeppo turns around to face me, surprise and annoyance written on his face.
"What you just said… didn't you tell that man that if he survived, you'd let him go?"
His face puffs up as he produces a stupid, wheezing kinda laugh. "Hiehiehiehie! Where did you hear something like that? You didn't actually believe that, did you? That's just a trick, you'd have to be an idiot to believe it! That man dared to harm the greatness that is me, so he couldn't possibly be allowed to live!"
That does it.
*crunch*
The idiot goes reeling back out of his seat, his nose broken and face bloody as he smashes into the ground.
'Wrecked Helmeppo! Exp+ gained!'
There's a moment of silence as everyone tries to process what just happened. Helmeppo opens his mouth, to scream and put an end to the quiet.
I grab him by the neck, and start dragging him out the door. "We'll be talking to your father about this, you lying shitbucket."
"A-AH! M-marines! Help meee-ee-e!"
The marines do not help him.
One of them salutes me as I drag him out the door.
We're halfway down the street, the citizens gaping in shock, when Coby catches up. Had I been running at full speed he probably never would have, but now I can put him on Zoro-watching duty while I complete all the objectives for this story arc.
Helmeppo starts ranting between steps. "You- know- when- m-my- father hears ab- out! Thiiis! You'll be- executed-!"
"And I don't give a shit! You're going to tell Zoro the same thing you said in the bar about the bargain you made with him. If you don't I will kill you and trust me, Daddy won't be there to save you!"
We arrived at the marine base, and I casually vaulted over the wall, carrying the idiot with me. Coby also vaulted the fifteen-foot high wall, and I quietly lamented the death of physics before approaching the bound swordsman.
"Yo! This guy has something to say to you!" with that, I throw Helmeppo to the ground in front of him.
Expect a man like this to accept his defeat with grace and honour, and you will always be disappointed.
Expect him however to blubber, and wail, and whine, and you will be appropriately prepared.
"I Murbba-wahba ahhHHAHH dOh Eeeeeehhh baaaahnaaagh iwa iwann-a aaaah dadaaaa- aiie!"
So when Helmeppo manages to make noises for over half a minute without a single coherent word, I resume speaking.
"What this man means to say, is that he never intended to free you. In fact, he was outright bragging, in the restaurant that little girl's family own, about how he was going to have you executed tomorrow."
'Revealed Helmeppo's lies! Exp+ gained!'
Helmeppo's sobbing increases in volume as Zoro's incredibly pissed of glare centers on him, and the swordsman's gaze sharpens.
"Oh, he was, was he?"
"So you can't just stay here, yeah?" I jerk my head towards the towers. "You should join my crew! I'll need some real strong people to reach the top!"
"The top, you say?" He's actually listening now.
Time to deliver The Line. The statement of fact.
"My name is Monkey D. Luffy. And I'm going to be the pirate king!"
I don't say it because I want to pretend, or to convince anyone.
It simply is true.
The world stops for a moment to listen, just me, Coby, Zoro, the suddenly quiet Helmeppo, and a tension-ridden silence.
Zoro gives a solemn nod.
"Your goal is similar to mine, I suppose. To be the pirate king, and stand at the top of the world? I mean to get there too, as the greatest swordsman alive. And that's a promise."
He looks down to the side for a moment, his face shadowed, and one flashback about his tragic backstory later he keeps talking.
"Tell you what, Luffy. By now, I'm already a criminal. But if I'm going to be a pirate, I'm going to be a great one. If you get me my swords, I can handle myself from there. Make sure to grab Shimo's ball if it's still there, too. Do that, and I'll join your crew. Deal?"
"Deal!"
I'm already running toward the Marine Base, dragging Helmeppo with me. Stretching backwards then casting my arm forwards, the limb sailing out like an arrow shot from a bow, I reach up towards an open window on the side of the Marine Base and yank myself up and through, crashing into the far wall of a neatly carpeted corridor with a thump.
"Now, which way is Zoro's stuff, Mushroom-head?" I ask the wretch who's still letting out a low whine of terror.
"Iiiiishinmyroom!" He manages to squeak out, pointing a hand to the left.
And away we go.
I hold Helmeppo out in front of me as I run, following the directions of his panicked jerking to find my way. Left, right, up a spiral staircase, hey Nami, wait what?
I stop, standing in place, and look straight at the orange-haired thief who is carrying a half-filled sack of loot over her shoulder.
She looks back at the guy in a vest and shorts carrying a grown(if wimpy) man with ease, with the same confusion I'm projecting.
"Oh, hey cutie. You know where this guy keeps his stuff?"
She points up a nearby staircase with a dumbfounded look. "Yeah, just up there. I already emptied a few drawers but everything obvious is still there."
"Thanks!" I give her a wide smile, before taking off again.
"Hey, wait!"
I look back over my shoulder, holding Helmeppo with one hand. "Yeah?"
Nami hides her loot bag behind her back, pushes her chest out and bats her eyelashes at me. "You wouldn't happen to be willing to distract the base Captain for a few hours, would you Big Guy?"
Ha, joke's on her. I was going to do that anyway.
"Sure, why not. You're a very convincing girl, aren't you?"
"Hehe, I try!" She giggled, then winked and stuck her tongue out cutely for a moment, before disappearing through a door left ajar.
I let out a huff, and follow the directions I was given. Either I managed to stun her enough to turn off the lie machine, or I'd gotten a rare moment of honesty out of early-series Nami, because one final jerk of the wimp I held before me brought me to my destination.
A fancy bed in the corner, fine carpeting and a window framed in carved wood, and hung up on the wall a shield with several ornate cutlasses behind it. Rested against the wall are three katana in sheathes.
I look over to the desk, on which is a golden placard reading 'Helmeppo, son of Captain Morgan', an open logbook, and a row of pokeballs in holders.
Canon Luffy didn't know which swords were Zoro's, so he just took them all. In this case, his is a fine example to follow.
I not only sweep up Zoro's three swords, but all six pokeballs from the holder. That done, I turn to Helmeppo, who's watching me steal from his room in broad daylight right in front of him with fear and shock.
"Hey, Mushroom Head? You know that no normal marine can threaten me. The only one with the smallest chance is your father. And he's the one I want to beat into the ground. So why don't you run along to daddy, and tell him I'm here?"
His eyes bulge out of his head in shock, and he nods frantically before scuttling backwards out of the room on his hands and knees.
That done, I take a moment to remember which way Zoro's courtyard is in, then take the most expedient path there for a monster of my strength.
Right through the wall.
*CRASH!*
One overpowered teenager and two tons of brick spiral out into the air, and I cast forward my hand, grabbing hold of the cross Zoro is tied to, and yank myself down to the ground.
Zoro notices me coming in, and as I jet toward the ground our eyes meet for a moment, When I slam down on the far side from the marine base, I turn to face him and make eye contact. He nods, and I throw him his swords, perfectly aiming them to land in his hands.
With a flash of light and crack of sound, and a display of incredible sword skill, he slices himself free in one smooth movement, and slides his now sheathed swords into his waistband.
I weigh up the pokeballs in my hand, and tilt my head.
"Which one's yours?"
"It has my initials on the back."
I look over the balls in my hand, and identify the right one. The 'R.Z' on it's back is carved into the white metal with some sharp object, presumably to keep it from rubbing off.
I toss it over, and he swipes it from the air and flips it over in his hand, scanning it with his eyes for a moment before nodding and stashing it away.
'Recruited Zoro! Exp+++ gained!'
"What now then, Captain?"
I lift up a pebble, take aim, and hurl it at the statue I can see slowly being erected on top of the marine base, full force.
A normal thrown pebble would barely nudge it. A normal thrown pebble couldn't even reach the several hundred feet to the top of the tower.
That said, my thrown pebble crashes into the statue's head with a resounding *CLANG* that can be heard even down here, and with snapping ropes and screaming marines, the statue falls, smashing to pieces on the tower, chunks of giant stone man falling through the sky.
"WHO DARES!"
I stare the axe-handed giant standing atop the tower in the eyes. Despite the distance between us, the communication is as clear as day when I point two fingers at my eyes, then turn my hand to point at him.
The apocalyptically angry man somehow becomes even more furious, and outright leaps off the tower, lunging towards me axe-first.
Unfortunately for him he is an above average east-blue marine captain.
He doesn't have half the jump distance needed to reach me, and hitting the ground after a fall of over one hundred meters takes the wind out of him. By the time he manages to stand up from having doubled over, my fist is less than a second from his face.
"Coby? You should probably run. They wouldn't let you join if you helped pirates." I quietly address him, and he puts on a purposefully exaggerated scared face before fleeing with his arms in the air above him.
Perhaps he'd be more noticeable for doing so, if there weren't quite a few machines doing the same thing. Apparently the captain being mad was a scary enough occasion that his own men acted like panicked children.
Not that surprising. He outright killed someone for mildly irritating him in the manga, and right now he's so pissed off that he forgot gravity exists.
I put one hand on my shoulder, and start winding up the other arm. Zoro puts his third sword in his mouth.
Then as Axe-Hand Morgan charges, we meet him with fist and blade, shattering his stupid metal jaw and slicing all along his torso. I slide under his swipe, wrapping both arms around his head several times over, and slam him sideways into the ground.
Because that's what happens when an average east blue marine Captain tries to fight two monsters.
'Defeated Morgan! Exp++ gained!'
Morgan coughs up blood, his limbs splayed out as he finds himself unable to climb to his feet.
"I don't understand why you'd be erecting a huge statue of yourself. Are you compensating for something, Morgan? Lack of morals? Penis size? The fact that your greatest victory is built on a lie?"
"W-what? H-HOW DA- Urk!" he coughs again, cutting himself off.
"Yeah, that old dude, Kuro of a Thousand Plans? Faked his death. The guy you took to his execution was just some crewman of his, the real captain snuck his way out and had a minion wear his hat and take the fall."
"YOU LYING PIECE OF SHIT! I WILL NOT LET YOU UNDERMINE MY GREATNESS WITH YOUR LIES!" Morgan yells, so furious that he ignores his massive injuries and probably half-kills himself to shout so hard.
I fold my arms and stare down at him. His eyes go wide with rage, and, blood soaking the ground, he takes a swing at me with his axe.
It's slow and easily avoidable, but I already got enough hits in. Besides, weapon clashes are cool.
*ting*
Sure enough, Zoro catches his axe with ease, trapping it between all three swords. He flexes his arms, and the metal of the axe-head ripples, before shattering entirely, shards scattered on the ground.
With that, Morgan's eyes roll back in his head and his body hits the ground.
There is silence.
Marines are staring in shock.
Zoro takes a stance, preparing to strike before they can.
I just relax. They won't be attacking.
"Woo!"
One man's shout is what sets it off. A quickly building avalanche of cheers and celebration sweeps over those present, as the gathered marines celebrate the end of this island's oppression.
'Saved Shells town! Exp++ gained!'
After quickly checking that none of the swords they threw into the air in jubilation was going to hit anyone, I jerked my head to the side at Zoro, signalling to leave the area subtly.
"Come on Zoro, let's go! Leave the marines to their celebration!" I start weaving between partying marines, bouncing out of the way of two who have spontaneously engaged in ballroom dancing, and make my way to the gate.
He says sheathing his swords, tucking all three into his waistband, and gives a serious nod.
More than five times a normal man's dexterity helps with making your way through crowds too.
We reach the gate quickly enough, it having already been thrown open by the marines so we simply walked out.
"By the way, Luffy?" Zoro says as we wander out of the marine base. "That power you used to pull yourself into the marine base… what kind of monster are you?"
His words almost catch me off guard, but then I realize that due to finishing the fight so fast, and without openly using my fruit powers, the conveniently expository marine didn't pipe up about what devil fruits were. I turn, and look right at him with a big grin. "Simple: I ate a devil fruit, the Gum Gum Fruit! I'm a rubber man!"
Zoro simply nods. "I see. Devil fruit users are rare around these parts. I've heard rumours, but the only one I met until now was an idiot who thought his ability to glow in the dark made him a real warrior. At least he wasn't stupid enough to try to take me on."
That was definitely something that Zoro never brought up in the story. Probably due to how different events played out. The low-down on devil fruits having been given, it no doubt didn't seem important to bring up in canon.
On the walk back through town, we see revelry in the streets, more than one person rushing around, excitedly telling everyone they can about the fall of the corrupt marine captain. I come to a stop, seeing a marine rush away from a kebab stand with a huge smile on his face. I stroll up, taking a look at the meat on offer. "Hey Zoro, do you want anything? You gotta be starving after all that, and I got a bit of cash left!"
He nods, giving a hungry stare at the food, mouth open slightly. A little bit of drool drips down in anticipation of the first meal he'd be eating in weeks. They say that a person should start with lighter food when they haven't eaten in ages but eh, it's Zoro. He'll be fine.
I take a look at the cloaked girl running the stand. Her hood obscures most of her face, only a chin and mouth visible, as well as two blonde pigtails that hang loose from either side of her face. The brown, rough-made cloak covers most of the rest of her body, save for two well-groomed white-feathered wings on her back that mark her out as some sort of angelic pokegirl.
She notices my gaze, somehow, despite her eyes being obscured, and smiles slightly. "Hello, would you like any kebabs?"
"I'll take all you've got!" I shout, staring down at the 8 skewers of freshly cooked meat on the grill. The peppers added for flavour are lightly sizzled, and the meat chunks are still letting off a small amount of steam.
"That will be 400 beri, Sir. They would be more expensive, but with such wonderful news, I've decided to host a celebration sale!"
I reach into my pocket and pull out a 500 beri coin, tossing it expertly to the cute angel standgirl.
"Keep the change, ma'am."
I grab 4 for myself and give the other 4 to Zoro, quickly removing the meat from a skewer like a vacuum, and see Zoro emulating me with his own, eating at almost me-like speed.
"EVERYONE! MAY I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION, PLEASE!" the nearest snail starts blaring out a commanding voice, heavy with joy..
Everyone stops to listen to the voice coming from the snails. "PEOPLE OF SHELLS TOWN! OUR DAYS OF LIVING IN FEAR ARE OVER! CAPTAIN MORGAN… HAS BEEN DEFEATED!"
The market goes dead silent in respect to the announcement, several people present looking around to time it right, and just seconds after it finishes almost all the people present erupt into cheers in unison.
I casually clean off another entire skewer in one move, savouring the taste, before setting off once more.
My next destination, less than ten minutes later, is the Cracked Barrel. Though, as I muse on the name, I'm not sure Ririka named it. After all, the Cracked Barrel isn't an awful name. The woman took the first syllable off her own name for her daughter, and then one letter out of her daughter's name to name her doggirl. We're lucky the place wasn't named Ri Bar.
After that, you have to wonder if that woman has an original bone in her body. I quickly shake that thought off though, throwing the door wide open and proudly striding in."I'm baaaack!"
"Big bro Zoro!" My only crewmate is hit by a ballistic Rika, and I turn to see Ria's smug grin for a moment before Ririka recalls her, maid costume and all.
"Glad you made it back! I see that that confidence wasn't misplaced one bit! Word on the street is that someone beat down Axe-Hand, and I can't tell you how glad I am to have Zoro free as well!"
"Yeah! He was kinda weak, it was no big deal!" Yet another Monkey family tradition. Wrecking giants who could crush an army of normal men, and laughing it off.
Ririka struts up to our table with a slight blush, and slams down a platter of sandwiches almost three feet tall. When she gets close enough I think I hear a buzzing noise for a moment, but she swirls away a moment later with a "Come see me in the back room when you're done!"
Luckily her business sense is better than her naming sense, because a man who a quick 'Observe' confirms is a civilian, presumably a relative of Ririka's, given his name of Rio, is handling bar while she leaves for the back rooms.
Zoro plops down onto a chair, and I slide into a seat opposite.
"I didn't bother for the fight with that failure of a marine, but since I'm going to be working for you I'd better introduce you to my girl."
He fishes his pokeball from his waistband, and presses the button, releasing his pokegirl in a flash of red. An amazonian woman with breasts the size of my head, dark grey skin and a lighter brownish-red underbelly appears next to him. A long, winding fish tail sways behind her, and her hair is a similar green to her master's, chin-length and well trimmed..
'System? Deep observe on Zoro's girl'
Warrior of the Sea
Shimotsuki
Level 7
Str: 75
Con: 60
Dex: 30
Int: 20
Wis: 8
Cha: 12
Mood: Furious(Helmeppo), Relieved(Zoro), Proud(Zoro)
Species: Pokegirl(Amadeus, Rock/Water)
Health: Completely healthy
"So anyway, this is Shimo. She's been mine for a few years, and we've picked up a few tricks. Shimo? This is Luffy, and I'm going to be joining his crew as a pirate, joining forces to make it to the top of the world."
The woman nods, and gives a warm smile. "Thank you for helping my Master, Sir. He wouldn't listen when I told him that marine brat didn't intend to keep the deal."
"Hehe! No problem Shimo, and welcome to the crew! But no need to be formal, just call me Luffy!"
"Very well, Sir Luffy. And thank you again." She nods solemnly, bowing slightly. Conversation done with, I swipe my hand across the platter and stuff everything I grabbed into my mouth.
'Wow, these are good.' I think. They are indeed, proper hearty food, thick bread filled with meats, cheeses and vegetables. A feast that would probably cost quite a bit, if I wasn't the saviour of this town. I quickly shove another few handfuls from the platter in my mouth over the next few seconds leaving it half emptied. That's plenty of eating for even my belly. I figure that Zoro and Shimo can handle the other half.
"I'll be back out at some point tonight, guys. Enjoy the party, I'd like to see what the fair lady wanted in her back room."
With that I excuse myself from the table and hop over the bar, heading to the back of the store. The barkeep steps aside, and I open the door marked 'private' to reveal a flight of stairs leading up. I walk up without hesitation, and reaching the top of the stairs, I come to a short corridor, with one of it's three doors left ajar. On the left side is a smaller door, with a handle lower down than usual, with pink stars drawn on it. On the right, a glass window reveals the broom closet within.
Straight on, the door hangs half-open, light shining out from within. I hear moaning and shuffling from where I am, and decide to address the issue. "Hey lady, I'm here!"
"Come right in!" A voice rings out from the open room, and I move forward, nudging the door open in order to enter.
The room is lit up in orange by a roaring fireplace on the far side. The curtains are drawn over the windows for privacy. And set in a corner is a large, though basic, bed, on which a naked Ririka sits, eyes closed in pleasure and fists bunched up in the covers. Her legs are wrapped around Ria's shoulders, her thighs holding tight to the equally naked pokegirl's head as she kneels between her Mistress' legs, eagerly lapping away at her pussy.
Ririka's eyes open, her hands unclenching from the bedsheets, and she gives me a heated look. "Get over here and join us, Luffy!"
She unlocks her thighs to free her pokegirl, who gets up from between her Mistress' legs and rushes over to me. She grabs my hand and pulls me forwards, as Ririka gets up and stretches her arms out high, pushing her chest out and letting me have a good look at her beautiful body. And despite her age and having given birth, she has a fine one. Her body is on the smaller side, short and petite with subtle but shapely curves, and perfectly to-scale breasts, just large enough to be a handful.
Starting to approach, Ririka sways her hips seductively and reaches out to wrap her arms around my head, and upon reaching me she pulls me into a long passionate kiss. The feeling of her soft lips pressing against my own, opening wide and playing her tongue across my lips.
She pushes her tongue into my mouth and starts twirling it around mine. After a few more moments she breaks away from the kiss, drawing back and giving me another look, blushing down to her neck. "Luffy, I wanted to thank you for not only saving my daughter, but the whole town as well. This poor woman has so little to give her saviour though, except her body. Please, accept this gift and enjoy me and my pet to the fullest~!"
I give her a hungry smile, and push her onto the bed face up, sliding off my vest and kicking off my shorts. Ririka balances on her elbows and takes in my muscled chest as I undress, licking her lips with a flush.
"Ria. Get on top of your mistress, face down."
The doggirl quickly complies, shimmying up the bed and crawling over Ririka, placing her legs on either side of the other woman's and wrapping her arms around her in a tight hug. She shifts her butt, Ririka moving in tandem to present both of their pussies, glistening from their arousal, lust having already driven deeply into both women.
As I move closer, aiming my dick between the continually moistening slits, I hear that buzzing noise again. I move my head closer for a second. Sounds like it's coming from Ririka, actually.
"What's that noise, Ririka?"
"Ah, when I heard that you'd succeeded, I just knew that I'd have to be passionate and excited for a proper reward. So I've been wearing an egg vibe for the last half hour, to make sure I'd be perfectly ready. Alas, I am trapped, and cannot remove it! Why, a dashing young man would have to rescue me from this pleasurable torment if he wished to take me in that hole, hint hint~!"
"I see, well I can assure you, it worked just fine." I say, my two fingers sliding into her moist folds without resistance. I wrap a finger around the egg, pulling it out and leaving a trail of wetness hanging in the air for a moment before it snaps and I toss the still-vibrating device onto the nightstand.
I push my dick slowly in between the two girls, teasing at both of them and moving back and forth in the tight tunnel created by two bodies held so close together, coating my dick in their juices. Then, without warning, I plunge it straight into Ririka's cunt, earning a scream of shock.
"AAAAaaahh!" not even giving her time to adjust, I start pounding away at her. "Mhn-! Mhn-! Yes! YES! Take me, Luffy!" she moans, arms wrapping around Ria's shoulders and squeezing tight, grabbing fistfuls of her hair.
Not wanting to neglect Ririka's beautiful pet, I take two fingers and shove them into her. A simple devil fruit usage later, and my fingers bulge up to as thick around as my dick inside her. The little slutpuppy whimpers slightly at the increased size, which only increases as I start pumping my fingers in and out.
The doggirl's yelps and moans start to intermingle with those of her Mistress, the lewd sounds coming from one woman or the other in unison. With one more thrust, I expand into both, and the two girls climax at the same time.
"YYYAAAHHH~!"
"MMMNHH!"
"Ahhh…"
I take my cock and slowly remove it from Ririka, much to her dismay. Not wasting any time I remove my fingers and thrust straight into Ria.
"Mhn- mhn- mhn- aah, tha-that's it, Luffy-sama! Make this lowly animal slut your bitch!"
I thrust in and out with great speed, bringing Ria up to the point, before pulling back out, ignoring the cute whine. I push back into Ririka, then pull out and push back into Ria. I continue pulling out and thrusting into the other for a few, taking advantage of my absurd dexterity to pound two women at once, slamming both of them against the bed with a repetitive banging noise, until I can feel my own climax slowly approaching.
"Ok, which one of you fine cumdumps wants it left in you?"
They both respond with an enthusiastic positive.
"Ah, please! Please stick it in me, Luffy-samaaa~!"
"Go ahead, I'm wide open, quickly, I'm close, do it!"
I let my seed loose into Ririka, much to the doggirl's displeasure. Though she doesn't vocalise it the whine is plain to hear. "Don't worry, Ria." I take a full handful of the doggirl's ass, pulling it to the side, and then giving her a slap.
"This was just the beginning. Now, who's ready for a round 2?"