Chereads / The Magician of the Straw Hats / Chapter 17 - Let's Play a Game

Chapter 17 - Let's Play a Game

"Arlong-san, you can just take a seat and relax" the martial artist fishman suggested as he crack his neck.

"If we let you do anything, Chu... Arlong Park would be destroyed" the thicked lips fishman stated as he looked at him.

The octopus fishman started pumping air as if he was about to launch an attack at the Straw Hat's pirates.

"Take this, dark power... black ink!" the octopus fishman shouted as he sprayed out octopus ink at them.

Kaito, Sanji and Zoro jumped away to avoid the ink while Luffy got sprayed as he didn't dodged at all.

"AAH... I can't see anything!" Luffy shouted in panic as octopus ink covered his entire face.

"IDIOT... why didn't you step away?" Zoro asked in disbelief.

"Luffy! get out of there" Usopp warned and shouted at him as he ran away to look for a hiding place.

"I can't move my legs, and I can't see" Luffy stated as his legs were stuck on the ground while covered in octopus ink all over his face.

"What?" Sanji asked with a frown.

"What an idiot" Zoro said in a gloomy face.

"Is this really the captain that I followed?" Kaito questioned in disbelief

"But you did that by yourself!" Usopp remarked in an irritated face.

The octopus fishman rushed at Luffy with a giant rock on his hands.

"Black Ink... On the Rocks!!" the octopus fishman shouted as he smashed the giant rock at Luffy.

Smash~ Crack~

Out of nowhere, Sanji appeared in front of Luffy as he kicked the giant rock into pieces.

Sanji complained about having to followed the craziest captain in the world as Zoro and Kaito nodded in agreement while Usopp praised Sanji for that kick.

Sanji and the martial artist fishman argued at each other as they faced off against one another.

"Still not moving, Luffy?" Usopp asked as he tried getting him out of the ground.

"It's just stretching, not moving at all" Luffy stated as he picked his nose.

"Are you even taking this seriously!?" Usopp questioned in disbelief.

The octopus fishman got angered at their antics as he took out a large rock at the ground and was about to threw it at the two of them but stopped as someone interferred.

"Hey, Squidy... can't you see that they're busy?" Zoro asked as he appeared right behind him.

"Why don't come and play with me?" Zoro added as he looked at him with a smirk.

The squidy threw the rock at him as they argued for a minute and started fighting.

"Okay, Zoro... you can take care of that octopus" Usopp stated as he wiped off his sweat on his forehead.

"Ah! I forgot to hold on to him" Usopp added as he saw Luffy flew away towards someone and crashed at him.

Whosh~ Bam~

"Huh...?" the thick lips fishman exclaimed as Luffy slammed at him on his stomach

"I came back to the same place" Luffy commented as he stretched back to his original position.

"...sorry" Usopp whispered as tears trickled down due to fear as he saw the thicked lips fishman with anger on his face.

The thicked lips fishman rushed at Usopp but paused and jumped backwards as several cards embedded the ground where he was at earlier.

"Now...now, you can't go after him since you'll be playing with me" Kaito said and walked in front of him with a sadistic smile.

"...Why don't you protect the villagers instead Usopp" Kaito added as he suggested to Usopp.

"O-Of course, o-only the bravest man is suitable for such a job of protecting the innocence" Usopp stated with sweat dripping on his back as he ran to the villager in order to 'protect' them.

Everyone paused for a minute as Arlong stood up and walked towards Luffy and the others as the martial artist fishmen told him to relax.

"Don't worry I just want to say something" Arlong stated as he slowly walked towards Luffy.

Luffy stretched his arms out as he punched directly at Arlong's face but was stopped as Arlong grasped Luffy's knuckles.

"You really think that you can beat us up?" Arlong asked in a menacing tone.

"So what if we do?" Sanji asked with a smug smile.

"Hehe... you never know, maybe we can" Kaito said as he chuckled.

"I must think that I can, moron!" Luffy shouted in anger.

"So, what do you want to say?" Zoro questioned with a smirk.

Arlong kneeled as he took out the ground that Luffy is stuck on.

"Why don't we play a game?" Arlong said as he lifted up Luffy and laughed out loud.

Arlong threw Luffy with the giant rock stuck on his feet to the ocean, the Straw Hat crew shouted in worries as they saw him sanked at the bottom of the sea.

"We must helped him!" Sanji suggested as he was about to dived down in the ocean.

"Hold up... don't dived down or you'll be playing right into their palms" Kaito stated as he grabbed Sanji's shoulder.

"Kaito is right, there is only one way we can help Luffy" Zoro stated with an irritated face.

"Beat them up and helped him, right?" Sanji asked as he lit a cigarette and smoked it

"I like that idea" Kaito praised as he smirked.

...

"Another loser thinking he can go against the mightiest species, Chu~" the thicked lips fishman said in a mocking tone.

"Oh? then what may be the name of this mighty fishman in front of me?" Kaito asked sarcastically.

"Chu... I am Chew, one of the chiefs of the Arlong's pirates" Chew stated with a smug smile.

"Is that so... then would you like see a magic trick?" Kaito questioned with a smile on his face.

"Magic... trick?" Chew asked in confusion.

Kaito threw a coin in the air as Chew saw and glanced at it but by the time he took his eyes out of the coin, Kaito had already dissapeared.

( N/A: he used misdirection if you didn't know... so yeah )

"Boo..." Kaito whispered behind him as he punched his face and made him rolled back a few meters.

"Wha... how can a lowly human has such strength?" Chew questioned in disbelief as he found his nose to be dripping with blood.