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Luffy was sitting on his favorite seat, the figurehead of the Going Merry as Chopper, Sanji, and Usopp stands on his right, and Nami, Nojiko, Robin, and Vivi stand on his left as they look at their Captain, who stares ahead at the horizon as Zoro stands on the other side of the ship by the kitchen, lifting weights.
"Hm? Rain?" Zoro thought out loud as he stopped lifting weights and looked up as small pieces seemed to be falling down around them.
"It's... not rain..." Sanji reluctantly said as they moved down to the main deck.
"What is it?" Usopp wonders, looking up to see something large heading straight toward them.
"No... something's falling!" Vivi shouted as she pointed up to the sky as a large ship came crashing towards them.
"What?!" They all shout as it comes crashing down into the water next to them, causing large waves from the impact. The ship rocks on the waves as more pieces continue to shower down on them.
"Hang on! Hold on to the ship!" Zoro shouts at the whole crew over the loud noise as the waves crash around them.
"What?! What is it?! What is it?!" Nami cries out as pieces of debris keep falling from the sky.
"Dream! Yeah, this must be a dream!" Usopp deludes himself as he and Chopper flies around and smacks their heads together.
"Hey! More stuff's falling! Be careful!" Sanji shouts, and Vivi looks up too, seeing the smaller pieces of wood keep falling, but it seems to thin out.
"Turn the rudder! The rudder!" Nami ordered Zoro as he held onto the mast.
"No way that'll work in these waves!" Zoro snaps back at her, knowing the current condition they were in wasn't a good one.
"Luffy, protect the ship! It can't take this any longer!" Sanji orders a smiling Luffy, who was enjoying this.
"Got it!" Luffy agreed as he extended his open hand over the ship's railings. For a moment, nothing happened when a sudden push forced the Entire ship to move right as if someone had suddenly pushed it.
"Good job." Robin praised, looking at the place where the ship was slowly sinking.
"Why the heck did a ship fall from the sky?!" Luffy questions scratching the top of his head, and Vivi remembers something from one of her father's stories as she was growing up.
"How weird..." Usopp shivers.
"There's nothing in the sky." Zoro notices.
"Oh man, the Grand Line is a crazy place! First, we see a ship graveyard inside a rainbow mist, and then a ship falls from the sky!" Usopp shivers as he and Chopper cling to each other. They are just waiting for the next crazy thing to happen.
"What is this??" Nami mutters, her face going pale, looking down at her old Log Pose.
"What's wrong, Nami?" Luffy asks, being the first to notice her odd behavior.
"What're we gonna do?! Our Log Pose is broken! It's stuck pointing upwards." Nami shouted at the heavens above. The others looked in shock to see that the Log Pose was indeed pointing upwards, except Robin and Nojiko, who were completely calm for some reason.
"That's not it. It was updated by an island with stronger magnetism. If the Log Pose needle is pointing upwards, that means a Sky Island has caught the Log Pose." Robin concludes and looks up with curiosity written all over her face.
"Sky Island?!" The others exclaim, besides Nojiko, who rolls her eyes. Vivi gasped, vividly remembering a woman with long blue hair telling her about the Sky Islands!
"What's that?" Nami asks with skepticism.
"A floating island?!" Luffy beams.
"D-did that ship and those bones fall from there?" Usopp asks in fright.
"But I can't see anything resembling an island in the sky," Zoro argues as he looks up at the sky full of smaller clouds, his hand on his forehead, blocking the sun and trying to get a better look.
"That's not how it works." Robin points out, and the others all look at her. "It's more like an ocean floating above our heads."
"A sea?" Nami questions in disbelief but Luffy, Usopp, and Chopper seem thrilled with the thought of the next adventure.
"I'm getting more and more confused," Sanji comments dryly, not really buying it.
"Yaay! There's a sea with an island floating in the sky?! Alright! Let's head there right away!" Luffy cheers as he points up to the sky.
"Hey, guys! Turn the rudder upwards! Upwards rudder full!" Usopp joins in, and Robin covers Luffy's mouth to stop them from spouting nonsense.
"In any case, you can't turn upwards, Captain." Sanji points out, inhaling his cigarette.
"To be honest, I've never seen the sky island, nor do I know much about it," Robin confesses, shrugging her shoulders.
"Yeah! An island or a sea can't float in the air! So the Log Pose really must be broken." Nami argues, and Vivi shakes her head, holding the side of her head; flashes of a woman with blue hair pass through her eyes like a clap of thunder at night.
"No, Navigator. Our concern right now should not be the Log Pose. It should be how we get to the sky. No matter what weird situations this ship gets caught up in or how panicked we get, we must not doubt the Log Pose. This is an ironclad rule." Robin pointed out, and she looked at her old Log Pose. "What we should doubt is rather the common sense in our heads. There's definitely an island where it's pointing."
"Vivi, are you alright?" Luffy asks, concerned. He had noticed her strange behavior, looking over at the princess, who stiffened slightly before turning to look at him.
"Nothing, Luffy. Just a little headache." Vivi said dismissively; Luffy looked a little dejected but decided not to pry on her business.
"What's that woman doing, opening the coffin?!" Chopper gasps as he hides behind the mast with Nami, who keeps pouting at the Log Pose, and Robin pieces the skull back together.
"Can you learn something from that?" Zoro asks with a raised eyebrow, looking at Robin intently.
"I don't know." She answers.
"You've got strange interests!" Nami exclaims from her hiding spot.
"A pretty woman and the dead now; that's an interesting combination," Sanji comments with a weird grin.
"Hm? Where's Luffy and Usopp?" Zoro suddenly asks, and Nojiko simply points over at the broken ship the two morons were.
"Jump, Luffy!" Vivi hears Usopp tell him, and Luffy jumps over to the other part of the ship.
"Okay!" Luffy yells back.
"What're they doing now?" Zoro asks, scratching the back of his head.
"Exploration, they said." Chopper answers, still hiding.
"Oh, restoration complete!" Sanji announces, and Vivi looks over at the skull.
"The holes here are man-made," Robin points out, looking at it from up close.
"I see. Then this guy was pierced there and died, huh?" Sanji guesses, sitting crossed-legged near the coffin.
"No, these are indications of medical treatment. It's craterization, isn't it, Doctor?" She asks the little reindeer with her beautiful smile.
"Yeah, in the past, they made holes in the skull in order to constrain a brain tumor. But that's a medical technique from very long ago." He confirms, getting a close look at the hole in the skull.
"That's right. It's been at least 200 years since he died. He was in his early 30s. He fell sick while traveling on the sea and died. The reason his teeth remained in good condition compared to his other bones is... because tar was rubbed onto them. This custom is characteristic of some areas in South Blue. So considering history, that was a ship for an exploration party from the past." Robin explains and gets the book she brought with her, and flips to one of the pages. "Here it is. The 'St. Briss' of Briss, a Kingdom in the South Blue. It set sail 208 years ago." She shows them the picture, and it's almost the same.
"That's the same ship as the one that fell," Nami confirms, with her index finger on her chin.
"Come to think of it. It has a symbol like that." Zoro agrees, pointing at the said symbol.
"You can find out all that just by looking at bones?" Nami asks Robin with an impressed look.
"Dead people tell no Tales, but they do hold information. If the ship was for an exploration party, it should still hold various records and evidence." Robin points out.
"Yeah... but the ship sank in the sea," Nami said and looked over at the sinking ship. She rushes to the side, and Vivi sees why Luffy was at the sinking ship into the water, with Usopp standing on a submerging piece of wood.
"What're you guys doing?!"
"I found it," Luffy shouted instead of answering, grabbing Usopp by his shoulder, turning to lightning, and appearing at the main dock with Usopp, who was flabbergasted for a moment.
"Hey, everyone! I did it! I found something incredible! Look at this!" He unrolls the piece of paper, which seems old as it has tears around the edges, though it seems crudely drawn, and Vivi remembers something similar, but she can't remember when.
"A map of the sky island?!" They all gasp in surprise, and Luffy hands it over to Nami, who looks over the map.
"Skypiea... " She reads over.
"See? See?" Luffy grins as Nami rewards him with a kiss on the cheek, much to Sanji's annoyance.
"Alright! The sky island exists! It's a dream island! We can go to a dream island! A dream island!" They cheer as they dance around the deck.
"Don't get so carried away! This only means it exists, nothing else." Nami says, and their mood dampens. "Stop with that look! We still need to find a way up there!" She punches into the side of the beaten mast angrily. "Listen, Luffy! I'm telling you, we don't know how to get there!"
"Um, Nami, please treat the ship with care," Usopp mutters over her, shouting.
"You're right. What do you think we should do?!" Luffy asked her.
"Nami's cute when she's angry, too." Sanji coos as they watch the two talk.
"In any case, we can't move the ship forward this way! What we need now is information, as Robin said. If a huge ship like that really went to the sky, then they're definitely a way for this ship to go there as well. Let's somehow pull out whatever records remain in the ship!" Nami reasoned.
"But the ship has completely sunk." Usopp points out.
"If it sank, then we'll salvage it!" Nami grins, and Vivi shakes her head.
"Alright!" Usopp and Luffy cheer, punching their palms.
"As if we could!" Zoro snaps at them.
"What's salvage?" Chopper asks Robin as he stands next to her as she sits on the steps.
"It means to pull up a sunken ship. But it won't work since that ship is too big." Robin tells him with a smile, but it seems Usopp has an idea as he starts tinkering with some of the barrels, making them into diving suits. Zoro, Sanji, and Luffy get into one each.
"Well, well... you really make us do reckless things," Luffy smirks from inside the makeshift diving suits.
"Nami! I'll be sure to find a clue to the sky!" Sanji promises with heart eyes, much to Zoro's annoyance.
"I will keep everyone safe down there. Nami and Robin protect the ship while we are down there." Luffy ordered, his goofy tone disappearing, now speaking with his Captain voice.
Robin smiled, happy to know that Luffy trusted her enough to put the ship's safety in her hands.
"I'm counting on you!" Nami winks at him.
"Worry not. There are no defects in my design." Usopp boasts, and a giant fish jumps out of the sea, eating one of the birds.
"Then, I wish you... good luck!" Nami waves them off, and they jump off the side into the water, diving down with air hoses wired up onto a reel as they go down further.
"Oh, boy..." Luffy mutters through the hose.
"This is Chopper. Everyone, please respond." He says as he holds onto the brake to keep it steady.
"This is Luffy. There're tons of monsters down here, over." His voice sounded a little off.
"Is this a giant sea snake's nest?" Zoro asks next.
"This is Sanji. Whoa! They looked this way!" He adds in.
"Okay?!" Usopp gulps.
"Chopper, hold the brake tight, okay," Nami warns him.
"Okay!" He replies.
"Phew... I'm glad I didn't go." Usopp sighs as he wipes sweat from his brow.
"Salvage, salvage!" Vivi heard shouting, and it came closer as they all turned around to look as if a larger ship was sailing towards them.
"What the heck is that?" Usopp exclaimed as he looked through one of his goggles. As they come closer, still shouting and smacking together, cymbal gets louder when a final whistle goes longer as they come to a halt.
Nami, Vivi, and Robin stand in front of the ship. The Navigator's arm turns gold.
"Aye, aye, sir!" Vivi hears men shouting from the ship.
"Is this the area where a ship sank?" A voice asks from the other ship, which looks ridiculous with a monkey figurehead.
"Aye, aye, sir! Boss!" The men reply and an ape-like man stands on the ship's side facing away from up, all dramatic.
"By boss... they mean me!" He turns around, shouting. "Prepare to salvage the ship! The sunken ship belongs to me, the king of salvagers: and the boss of the Masira Pirates!" He yells again, with his men cheering him on.
Masira is a human with ape-like features. He wears an orange-yellow jumpsuit and also has headphones and goggles!!
"Are they pirates? They don't seem much..." Nami mutters.
"Hey, you! What're you guys doing there?! This is my turf!" He demands.
"Your turf?" Nami asks him, wondering if she has heard him right.
"That's right. Every ship that sinks in this territory belongs to me. You haven't touched anything that's mine, have you, huh?" He asks them. It seems they're in for it now.
"Looks like... he's going to salvage the ship," Robin concludes, seeming calm.
"Yeah, that's what it sounds like," Usopp mumbles as he crouches behind the reel.
"Then what? Doesn't this work for us?" Nami questions and Vivi shakes her head.
"Quit mumbling! Answer my question!" Masira orders them, and Vivi smirk as an idea comes to mind.
"Excuse me! Can I ask you a question?!" Vivi asks him in the most innocent voice she can muster.
"You're asking me a question?! That's fine. Ask me anything!" He replies easily and seems a little simple-minded.
"It looks like you're going to salvage the ship. Is that right?" Vivi asks him with a fake smile.
"'Looks'?" He repeats and whistles, clearly getting the wrong idea. "Hey... do you find me that 'monkeyful'?" He asks her.
"'Monkeyful'?" Vivi repeats the word.
"That means 'handsome.' Do you think I am?" He asks her, and Vivi grins innocently.
"Yeah!" Vivi answers, and he gets a goofy look on his face.
"Oh, come on, stop it!" He blushes, clearly falling for it.
"But there isn't such a word, is there?" Usopp asks quietly. "So, are you gonna salvage it?!" He asks the monkey man.
"Of course! If there's a sunken ship in front of me, I'll salvage it! I'm that kind of man! If it's on the water, I'll sink it and salvage it! I'm that kind of man! There's no ship that we can't salvage!" He boasts.
"Then... is it okay if we watch you do it?" Vivi asks him, pattering her eyes at them.
"Hm? Oh. I see, is salvaging work new to you?" He chuckles. "Okay, go ahead and observe it!"
"Alright! Well done, Vivi! Let's see how things go for now, everyone." Nami tells them, and men come up from the water, beaten badly.
"Be... be careful!" Vivi hears faint voices from the ship.
"Boss! There's trouble!" One of the crew warns Masira.
"What's wrong?!" Masira asks as he looks over his shoulder.
"The members who went into the sea to set the cradle are...!" One of the crew tries to tell him.
"Did they get hurt by Sea Kings?" He asks, but Vivi knows who is responsible.
"Well... it looks like someone beat them up." He replies, and Vivi sighs at those morons.
"What?!" Masira shouts and turns around, facing away from them. "Are you saying there's someone down there in the sea?"
"Those idiots...!" Nami mutters, preparing to toast all the monkeys if they attack.
"This isn't good." Usopp quivers in fear as Masira turns around, facing them, looking angry.
"Then... hey, you guys! There's someone in the sea! Be careful!" Masira warns them as Nami and Usopp shake, thinking they were found out.
"Thanks!" Vivi wave at him calmly.
"Guys! Hurry up and set the cradle! Let's start salvaging!" He shouts his orders, raising his arms in the air.
"Aye. aye, sir!" His men shout back, and he turns goofy again as he keeps waving at them, though Nami doesn't help as she waves back.
"He's waving at us... don't let him notice the air supply, Usopp." Nami warns him as he stays pumping air for the boys.
"I know."
"Hey, you guys, imagine that they're pumpkins! Don't get nervous... just because people are watching, okay?" He tells his men, and Vivi frown, not liking the thought of being looked at as a pumpkin.
"Aye, aye, sir!" His men seem to like the idea as they get to work happily.
"Drop the cradle!" He orders them.
"Aye, aye, sir!" They reply and start lowering it down into the water, and men in suits start dropping it down after it into the water.
"Watch out for the mysterious enemy!" Masira warns his men as they begin to dive.
"I wonder if they're doing this out of pride or something." Usopp muses as they watch their little show.
"They're trying to give us a show, I guess..." Nami looks over at her, and Vivi smiles back at her.
"Get moving!" Masira orders his men as they move around.
"Aye, aye, sir!" They reply back, getting ready.
"Cradle set, confirmed!" Vivi hears from the ship. It seems the divers are watching.
Suddenly the voice of Luffy is heard, and as Usopp immediately tries to silence it, Masira looks over at them. Silence spreads over them. Nami narrowed her eyes, and so did Robin, who used her Devil Fruit to sprout out hands in their blind spots just in case she needed to kill all of them.
"What's that monkey?! What's that monkey for?!" Usopp asks him as he points at the figurehead.
"Oh, this one?" He giggles. "You have a discerning eye. You're right. This is no ordinary prow." They all let out a sigh of relief as he doesn't seem to suspect anything. "Launch Barco-hunter!" Ropes begin to attach, and they lever the figurehead into the air and then down into the water.
"Whoa!" Usopp gasps as it all goes on.
"Wow! Amazing!" Chopper marvels at it.
"It really is amazing!" Usopp agrees with the reindeer.
"What does that do?" Nami and Vivi ask them, not seeing it.
"40 meters to the target! 30 meters! 20... 10... Barco-hunter joint... completed!" His divers say from the speaker.
"Alright, then! I'll start blowing air!" Masira says back as he picks up a hose.
"Aye, aye, sir!" His men cheer.
"What? No way..." Nami mutters as he takes a deep breath. "Is he going to breathe into that and lift the ship up?! That's crazy!" He blows into the hose, which forms a large bubble of air that travels down.
"The body of the ship has risen!" One of the divers confirms, and Masira stops.
"Now! Pull it up!" He orders his men.
"Aye, aye, sir!" They reply.
"Send more air! On the double!" He orders, and there's a cry from one of the speakers.
"Boss! The crew that's in the water...!" One of the men shouts.
"What's the matter?! What happened, guys?!" Masira shouts.
"There's someone in the ship!" The diver cries out, and there seems to be a fight on the ship; Masira jumps up onto the railing shouting.
"How dare they hurt my guys?! Who the hell are they?!" He shouts and poses with his men holding a background of flames.
"Boss! Help!" More cries come from the divers.
"I'm coming! Keep on working on the salvaging operation!" Masira orders them and jumps off, diving down.
"Aye, aye, sir!" His men reply, and he swims down. He walks off up the stairs towards the kitchen, about to open the door when there's shaking like an earthquake. He runs towards the side to look down to see a large shadow moving below them.
"Hey, underneath the ship..." Nami gulps at the huge shadow.
"Y-yeah... there's something down there." Usopp shivers as the shadow grows closer to the surface before bursting up, rocking the ships a little as a giant tortoise bursts out of the water.
"What's this?! What is this thing?!" Usopp shrieks, and Vivi walk down to see in its mouth the air hoses and the ship in its mouth.
"Boss! Boss!" Masira's men scream from their ship.
"What is this?! What is it?! What?! A continent?!" Chopper shrieks some more, and Vivi walks over, placing her arm around her shoulder for comfort.
"I don't know! I don't know! I can't see anything! I can't see anything! This is a dream!" Usopp cries as he covers his eyes.
"A dream?! Really?!" Chopper beams with disbelief.
"Phew! It's just a dream..." The two cowards sigh and go to walk away.
"Oh? Were they all... eaten along with the ship?" Robin questions as she watches the giant tortoise munch on the ship.
"Ahh! You don't have to spell it out!" Usopp exclaims as he jumps over to her.
"Yep, definitely were eaten," Luffy confirms with a grin.
"Stop... saying... that..." Usopp cries out.
"Yes, I see the air supply hoses going into its mouth." Robin agrees, making Chopper start running around the deck, screaming.
"Luffy and the others were really eaten!" Chopper screams and Vivi sits on the railing, watching him, ensuring he doesn't hurt himself.
"Yeh, poor Luffy," Luffy said, wiping away fake tears while sitting beside Usopp, who cried.
"He was the best captain." Chopper cried, hugging Usopp, as Luffy patted Usopp on the back with a broad smile.
"Ohh, wow. Never knew you held me on such a high pedestal!" Luffy said, sounding genuinely surprised, when both Usopp and Chopper suddenly stopped crying, pulling away to see Luffy smirking.
"You're alive!!" Both shouted, not believing their eyes.
"Of course we are. A monkey is no problem for us." Zoro said from behind Usopp, looking somehow offended.
"That's an Amazing Dinner!!" Luffy suddenly shouted, pointing at the giant turtle. Despite its size, Luffy knew one of his strong attacks could kill it without a problem.
Suddenly it's like someone blew out the sun, as it turns almost as dark as night.
"What?! What's going on?!" Usopp whimpers, and Vivi looks around at the dark clouds blocking the sun. She remembered stories her parent used to tell her when she was nothing but a troublesome girl who couldn't stay in one place for more than a minute.
"It became night?!" Chopper shrieks and runs over to her, holding onto her leg, shivering a little.
"Can't be! it's not that late yet!" Nami says in shock as she looks at her pocket watch.
"How ominous...! This sudden night is a sign that monsters will appear! They'll sink our ship! Hurry up and save our boss!" The men on the other ship say.
"Set sail! Hurry up and get out of here!" Luffy ordered right away.
"Yeah, let's get away from that turtle!" Usopp quivers with tears falling down along with Chopper.
"Turtle? No, there was a monkey in the sea!" Zoro argues.
"He must be one of the sea animals." Sanji agrees with the swordsman.
"He was getting along with Luffy for a while," Zoro says. The whole crew nodded, seeing that happening.
"They are both monkeys." Sanji agrees.
"But when he saw this stuff that we got from the ship, he suddenly started going on a rampage," Zoro tells them.
"He went on a rampage like a gorilla!" Sanji adds.
"His name's Masira. He's a salvager. But it's amazing that you guys could escape from that turtle's mouth!" Usopp explained.
"Hm? Something's wrong with the turtle. His mouth's staying open... oh, that's why you could escape!" Usopp points out as they look over at the tortoise with its mouth hanging open, and they get to their feet in shock.
"Nah, Luffy teleported us with his ability." Sanji cleared the confusion.
Suddenly Masira comes jumping out of the water, yelling before landing on the side.
"Don't think you can get away after stealing treasure from my turf!" Masira shouts at them.
"Treasure?! There was treasure?!" Nami asks Luffy, all giddy.
"Yeah, there was a lot." Luffy grins, and Masira seems to notice that it's turned dark and looks over to his ship with his quivering men.
"B-Boss...! Behind you!" They shout.
"Hm? What is it?" He asks and looks over at the giant shadows of people with what appear to be wings on their backs.
"Monsters!" Everyone screams in Fear, seeing the shadows of giant creatures that seem taller than the sky itself.
Smoker
The gentle breeze passed through him, but it did little to calm him down. With his heart almost bursting from his chest, Smoker felt like a fish in front of a Shark, or in this case, a Mad Dog.
The flag of the Marine flew high above the upcoming ships; Smoker counted over ten of them. All War Ships, designed to be unstoppable, were made to destroy cities or even islands.
What is this? What has made The Marine and World Government think they need to spend so much firepower on killing one Rookie, Smoker thought, his teeth digging into his cigarettes, almost biting them in half.
Smoker wasn't facing her, but he knew his subordinate was shivering in fear behind him. The reputation of Admiral Sakazuki was well known amongst the Marines. Some called him a mad dog who kills without cause. Some went as far as calling him the future of The Marines.
Smoker didn't know where Place Sakazuki belonged, and he wasn't sure he wanted to know.
Soon the First War Ship reached his own ship, and the atmosphere felt warm, very warm, as the sea started emitting steam! A group of Marine officers put up a wooden bridge that connected the two Marine Ships with each other.
Heavy footsteps started getting closer. Each footstep felt like a knife cutting the silence amongst them. Smoker saw him walking towards them, his hat hiding the top half of his face, only his mouth and chin visible. The Officers saluted accordingly as he passed by. Unlike Smoker's crew, the officers of the Admiral didn't seem afraid. Or if they were, they did a good job hiding it.
His feet stepped in his Ship; Smoker was sure he could hear his subordinate's heavy breathing behind him.
"It's Good to meet you, Admiral Sakazuki." Both Smoker and Hina greeted him with respect towards the Admiral.
Sakazuki is incredibly tall, light-skinned, and unusually muscular. He's about as tall as his fellow admirals, with a square-shaped face, very pronounced facial features, and short black hair. He stands at 306 cm. He is wearing a standard Marine cap and sports a crimson, double-breasted suit decorated with what appears to be a pink rose on his left buttonhole. Unlike many high-ranking Marines, he wasn't wearing a tie but instead leaving his light red colored flower-patterned shirt unbuttoned, showing his muscular neck and part of his tattoo. He was wearing black gloves and black shoes.
The tattoo on the left side of his chest is black, containing numerous images of flowers integrated into its design. Sakazuki's tattoo has flame-shaped edges extending from the admiral's left shoulder to his hip, covering part of his back and ribs. He has another smaller tattoo in the shape of a black sword on his right deltoid and a small part of his biceps.
"Captain Smoker. The Marine is proud of your work as a Captain. You have shown promise. I'm sure they will reward you with the title of Vice Admiral once you return back to the Headquarters." He spoke with a deep voice, getting straight to the point. Smoker gulped silently, his body shaking in fear, his face sweating. What is happening? Why can't I move?? Smoker thought in alarm. He couldn't even move a finger.
"I don't know if you have been informed, but it seems The Storm Pirate, Monkey D. Luffy, has a hostage in his ship. Princess Nefertari Vivi." Akainu informed them it took everything for Smoker not to gasp.
Storm Pirate! The Wanted Poster refers to them as The Straw Hat Pirates!! Smoker thought, finding it strange that an Admiral would make a mistake. Unless.
"A ship is already headed towards Alabasta to inform the King of his daughter's fate and to make sure everything is alright in his Kingdom," Akainu added, his eyes focused on Smoker.
Smoker found it strange that the Admiral was telling him that. What is he trying to do? We are not involved with the Alabasta anymore, so why inform us in the first place? Smoker asked himself, finding the whole thing way too suspicious.
"Due to his danger level, The World Government has seen him as too dangerous and influential to be kept alive. Now, tell me everything you know about Dragon's Son."