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Chapter 7 - Chapter 6: An unwanted Guest

One Piece the Movie

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Chapter 6: An unwanted Guest

(Party Bar: 6 hours later)

The music was so loud your ears would burst, there was so much food that it filled the entire bar counter and some of the tables inside the bar. There were crates full of beer bottles for the part that had yet to be open. People were either dancing or singing, or trying to dance and sing.

Others were drinking and conversing at the counter where Makino was working.

There was a party at the party bar and everyone in Foosha village was invited to it.

It was meant to be a welcome home party for Luffy and so that everyone in the village could get to see him again before he left.

He was getting the chance to see so many old and familiar faces that he hadn't seen in a while.

Lots of people were surrounding Zoro and asking him a bunch of questions that he couldn't answer all of them at once.

So far they were having a great time, especially since they were being asked to sign a bunch of autographs from the villagers.

And even though he and Zoro were only staying for about a week, maybe two, Makino had set up this massive party at her bar and wanted to make sure Luffy had the time of his life while he was back.

And that's exactly what he was having.

Having all of these people acknowledge him for all the hard work he put into becoming a pirate made his world.

She also had some of the mountain Bandits act as bodyguards for the bar in case anything were to happen. She even decided that since this was a party for Luffy, that all of the food and drinks would be on the house. Just so that Luffy and everyone else could enjoy themselves.

She was basically catering the party, supplying food and drinks for all the guests that arrived.

Everyone from Foosha village came to the bar in order to celebrate the temporary return of the future pirate king Monkey D Luffy.

Children were even invited to the party, but she made sure that they weren't drinking anything other than water or root beer.

Vanellope was also doing a side hustle trying to make sure that any kid who wanted to go near Luffy had to pay up.

A few rookie pirates (Who were already in town at the time) had also gone to the party to meet the legendary straw hat pirates.

This was so that they could learn how to be great pirates like them too.

And speaking of which, Luffy and Zoro sat at the bar counter surrounded by most if not all of the villagers (that came to the party) and they were pouring out questions to Luffy about all he had gone through while he was out there.

And even though he was only going to be back for a short while, everyone was still more than happy to see him and they all wanted to know about all of the crazy adventures that he and his crew had, or at least the ones that they didn't hear about.

Luffy was more than happy to tell them, he even had Zoro there next to him to make sure he wasn't straying too far from the truth.

"And then just when all hope was lost, I'm tired, my bodies about to give out from using 4th gear, Doflamingo about to kill everyone with his bird cage", Luffy was saying, mostly everyone in the bar was listening in on the climax of the Dressrosa story.

This was the very event that caused Luffy to get the attention of both the Emperors of the sea.

"And so I suddenly get the idea to fly up to the top of the cage and blow my fist up to make my giant Gum Gum King Kong Gun and then I aim it right at Mingo, he's doing the same with his attack, were both sitting and waiting for the other to make a final move when suddenly….", he pauses trying to add some dramatic effect to his story.

Everyone had inched closer to him so that they could hear the finale.

Vanelope gulped down her root beer in excitement, waiting for the story to reach its best part and ending.

Even some of the other pirates had to try and hold in their excitement on what they were about to hear from the legend himself.

He balls his hand into a fist and positions it in the same way he did in the fight,"We both attack as hard as we can colliding our final attacks together, both of us not looking to give up, al hope seemed to be lost, before i suddenly feel the cheers and cries of all the people that I was fight for, and it felt like I was given a bunch of power because the next thing I knew had broken through Dolffy"s attack and Landed a giant punch that went BOOM right onto his face shooting him right into the ground"!!!, he shouted, motioning his fist similar to how he beat Doflamingo.

Everyone in the bar started cheering and clapping at the ending of the story of how he beat Doflamingo and saved all of Dressrosa.

They had only ever heard the stories of Luffy's adventures from either the newspapers or the navy so it was interesting to hear from the very person himself about how everything went down.

It was definitely much different from all of the versions that they were told over the years.

Vannellope looked at him with wide eyes,"Wow you really are amazing Luffy".

He responded by smiling widely and giggling.

Vanellope hopped up and down on her stool before stopping suddenly and looking towards Zoro,"Wait Zoro what did you do during the fight", she suddenly asked out of curiosity.

All eyes were on him now, they all inched closer to hear what he had to say

This made him a tiny bit nervous but he obviously didn't show it and gave them all a

Sly smiled l,"Well I actually had two roles to play in that battle, the first was to keep the Cage from closing in on all of us", he then put his arm around Luffy's back," the second was keeping this idiot from getting us all killed.

This made everyone in the bar laugh loudly including Luffy and Zoro.

Vanellope didn't laugh though, she was too busy admiring her two heroes and how far they had gone.

She couldn't help but feel as though she was meeting her personal role models for the first time.

Since she had met them earlier she had fluffed them with questions about their lives as pirates and all of their other crazy adventures.

And it didn't help that she was using her glitch fruit powers to teleport around them as she was asking questions.

Though it did make them nervous and overwhelmed at times. They were able to try and answer her questions to the best of their abilities.

She was definitely a child that didn't really have a lot of friends that shared this passion for being a pirate with her.

Curly definitely wasn't lying when she said Vanellope was a bag fan of them.

She has been hanging out with them the entire day showing Zoro all around town and even the kingdom(which was hard considering they weren't like the rich folk).

She had made it her mission to show them that she was making sure they had a great time, and she wanted to learn as many things as she could from them before they had to leave.

They were basically like her babysitter, just in charge of keeping her safe and out of trouble while they were there and making sure she's safe(well more like Zoro was making sure she was safe, Luffy just went along with whatever she did).

It wasn't an easy job considering all of the glitching, but it was a job that was given to them by curly.

The only reason they were looking after her was because Curly said she had to go and do something important and that she would meet them later on at the party and they had to watch her until then.

She didn't exactly give them much information about Vanellope, only that she was a bit of a wild child.

And she definitely was far from wrong about that.

Speaking of curly, she had been sitting at one of the tables with some of the other villagers and Whoop slap (who had long woken up from fainting earlier that day) they were both looking over at the two pirates.

Curly was chuckling at the sight, seeing her sergeant son finally getting recognised for the great pirate that he is.

She was also watching Makino's baby while she was working at the counter.

The baby was mostly drinking his bottle so he wasn't really much of a hassle.

Whoop took sips of his beer and while watching luffy tell his story.

She shrugged not wanting to bother him at that moment if he was upset with something before looking into her pocket to see if what she thought was important was still there with her.

It was something that she promised herself a long time ago that she would give it to him if he ever came back home and today was the perfect time to do so.

She looked at Whoop for confirmation before she did so.

He nodded in response telling that the time was just right.

So she had gotten over to the center of the bar tapped her spoon on her bottle to get everyone's attention,"ALRIGHT EVERYBODY, TODAY WERE HERE TO CELEBRATE THE FUTURE PIRATE COMING BACK TO US AFTER ALL THIS TIME AND WE COULDN'T BE ANY HAPPIER TO SEE HOW FAR HE'S COME", she announced to everyone in the bar before looking over at Luffy (who was chugging down on his drink).

She smiled before turning back to the crowd,"AND WE'RE HERE TODAY TO DRINK IN HONOR OF HIM BECOMING ONE OF THE FOUR EMPERORS OF THE SEA", she shouted excitedly before hopping off of the table she was standing on and waking towards the bar counter where Luffy and Zoro were sitting.

She smiled at him before pulling something out of her pocket,"AND IT'S ONLY FAIR IF WE GIVE YOU SOMETHING AS A WAY TO REMEMBER HOME AND WILL GIVE YOU GOOD LUCK ON ALL OF YOUR NEXT ADVENTURES", Seh pulled something out of her pocket and placed it in his hands.

He opened his hands and what he saw next completely shocked him.

It was Ace's necklace.

Curly moved in closer to Luffy's ear and whispered,"Garp had it fixed and brought it back to me so that I could give it to you whenever you came back home".

Luffy did hear any of what she just said. His mind was racing with the thought of Ace on that day.

It was as if he were brought back to those horrifying moments of what had happened.

All he could see was Ace being impaled by Akinu's Magma Fist, before falling dead to the ground.

These memories flooded his mind like a storm that showed no signs of stopping.

This caused him to just stare right at the necklace, as if he were entranced in it.

All while this was happening Curly had been continuing her speech,"SO I GIVE THIS GIFT TO YOU AS A WAY TO CARRY ALL OF US IN YOU HEART AND NO MATTER HOW FAMOUS YOU BECOME THAT YOU'LL NEVER FORGET US OR YOUR LATE BROTHER GOLDY D ACE"!!!

Everyone in The bar closed their eyes in a moment of silence to pay quick respects to Ace.

Once that was over everyone opened their eyes and turned to Luffy to see his reaction.

But to their surprise he wasn't doing or showing any emotion to what was said.

He was just looking down at the necklace Curly had just given him.

Everyone was confused by his strange reaction.

Curly Leaned her head to the side in confusion of this before waving her hand in front of him trying to get his attention,"Luffy, you ok"?

Zoro (who was right next to him) noticed that something was wrong and placed his hand on Luffy's shoulder.

This snapped him out of his trance and brought him back to reality.

He blinked his eyes and looked up to see that everyone was staring at him,"Huh what",he asked confusedly.

Zoro, seeing that Luffy wasn't right at that moment and wanted to take the attention off his captain.

He stood up and raised his pint,"OBVIOUSLY CAPTAINS SO HAPPY THAT HE'S AT A LOSS FOR WORDS SO LETS MAKE A TOAST",he ushered everyone to raise their pints for the toast which they did before he started,"A TOAST TO THE FUTURE PIRATE KING, AND LET THE NAME STRAW HAT LUFFY BRING JOY AND DREAMS TO ALL FUTURE PIRATE GENERATIONS"!The party cheered in celebration as he said this.

People began to start chugging down on their drinks and dancing.

Everyone was too busy partying to notice Luffy just sitting there looking at the necklace.

Everyone except Makino and Zoro who looked over at him with worry in their eyes wondering what was going on inside his head.

(Later That night)

Once the party was just about over and mostly everyone who was there had gone home.

There were only a handful of people who were still in the bar having a few more drinks.

Zoro and Curly were both doing a a drinking contest to see who could handle chugging the most beer without throwing up.

Zoro was on an easy hot streak, chugging beer after beer with no sweat.

And he was at his eighth bottle.

While curly on the other hand wasn't doing so well, falling out of her seat only after the fourth bottle

Zoro saw this and raised his arms in victory as Vannellope glided to his side and held his arm up,"Winner Roronoa Zoro", she declared.

Makino (who was on the other side of the bar counter) ran over to help Curly up from the floor and back into her seat before going to get her some water.

Zoro turned to Luffy (who was still looking at the necklace) and sat back down next to him before placing a hand on his shoulder ,"hey you alright captain,"he asked in a concerned tone.

The young captain slowly turned to his vice captain with an almost sad look on before turning back to the necklace,"It's-", he paused and took a quick breath," it's really Ace's necklace, the only thing I have left of him".

The swordsman almost knew where this was going and placed his hand on his friend's shoulder,"yeah it is and you know what I think he'd want you to hang on to for a while, shit he may even want you to pass it onto someone else", he said encouragingly.

Luffy looked back up at his friend with a smile, he then started bringing the necklace up close to his face and squeezing it tightly before putting it in his pocket.

Zoro had reached his hand over the counter and grabbed Liffy another drink and placed it in front of him.

Luffy didn't drink from it though and just simply turned his head around to see if anyone else was in the bar.

To his surprise it was completely almost empty with the exception of a few people, who were sitting at some of the tables still drinking.

"I mean just take into consideration how far you've come since you left home", he said before taking another sip of his drink and turning back to Luffy,"I don't know about you but that to me seems like a huge achievement and that's saying something".

"It doesn't say shit,"a voice from behind them shouted.

Luffy and Zoro turned around to see two men walking into the bar.

One of the men was tall with tanned skin and a muscular build and brown hair with a brown beard. He wore a black shirt, red dress pants, no shoes, a pair of sunglasses with orange lenses, and a tiger fur colored jacket over his shoulders. He also bore a scar on his left eye. He was smoking a cigar in his mouth.

The man next to him wasn't as tall but he also had a muscular build with just black hair that extended into a ponytail with stubbles on his face. His clothes like slightly similar to Zoro's except this guy's clothes were red and black( which Zorohad noticed before rolling his eyes). He wore golden hoop earrings on both of his ears and golden bracelets on both his arms. He had a sword on his left hip and a pistol on his left.

By the looks of it, they both looked like pirates who had been visiting the island.

Zoro turned around to face them,"we gotta problem here", he said before placing his hand on his sword and gripping it tightly.

The Zoro wannabe stepped forward,"You damn right we got a problem with you pirate hunter", he stopped before pointing towards them,"There's no way in hell we're gonna except a little runt like you as an emperor of the sea".

Zoro shot him a glare, the wannabe did the same, as if he were trying to challenge him.

Luffy gave the two men a confused look as he turned to face them as well,"who are you guys", he asked curiously.

The wannabe stop before shooting him a grin,"Well if you must know, I'm Vice captain Reddy Ruger", he said before turning and pointing to the taller man (who was still standing in front of the door),"And that right is the captain of the tiger claw pirates, Spike Terrano".

Makino returned from the back with a glass of water in her hands when she saw the two new pirates in the bar.

She unfortunately knew who those two pirates were because they and the rest of their crew were always causing problems in the bar whenever they came for a drink.

She handed Curly (who was still sitting in the stool right next to Zoro) and walked over towards them,"What are you doing here spike, you know you're not supposed to be here after all of those fights you caused",she said, tapping her foot on the floor.

The tiger claw captain raised both his arm's high up,"hey, come on now Maki that's no fair we just came here to enjoy the straw hat party and grab a drink just like everyone else", he said with a sly and flirty smile.

Makino gave him a look of disgust as she took a step back.

Curly (after drinking some water) got up and made her way over there to back Makino up,"Party's bend over for hours so best it bozos both of you", she had ordered them.

He ignored them and walked to one of the uncle and tangles to grab one of the beer pints.

Spike turned to grab one of the pints of beer before taking a sip out of it and look over at Luffy,"For years Kaido and Big mom ruled these sea's with an iron fist and you expect me to believe that a snot nosed little shit like you was actually able to beat them", There was a moment of silence before the two men burst out laughing,"HAHAHAHA DON'T MAKE ME LAUGH".

He walked closer to them,"Why would anyone in their right mind believe that you, that laughing stock of all pirates, actually be worthy of calling yourself an emperor".

"You know what I think captain", Reddy turned to his captain before turning back at them,"I think the must've pulled some strings and made the whole Wano story up just to rise up their bounties, shit if anything I bet a lot of the straw hats adventures are nothing but farses", he boldly stated before snatching a beer of a passed out customer.

Zoro raised his eye browser in response to the statement,"Wow, now isn't that a bold accusation", he said sarcastically nudging Luffy on the elbow,"That sounds like a lot of trouble for a person to go through just to boost up their reputation as a pirate especially as an emperor".

Luffy sat there, his head tilted to the side in confusion,"Yeah, why would I need to do that when all I could just do is go on an adventure".

"Because cowardly pirates like you don't have what it takes to be real pirates, much less emperors, so there's no real reason for us to possibly believe that you of all people could single handedly defeat one of the most powerful of them", Spike said.

Vannellope stood up in offense,"Hey Luffy's a better pirate than you'll ever be".

Spike turned to her and laughed,"Don't count on it kid, pansies like them could never beat great pirates like kaido and big mom".

Zoro started to chuckle at that,"Hey if you don't believe us you're more than welcome to go to Wano and look at the big ass craters captain left Kaido behind after knocking him out of the sky with a giant fist".

Spike gave him a stare.

Zoro then raised his hands in defense,"But hey believe what you want it won't kill me", he said before once again, picking up his beer," it also won't change captain's title of emperor one bit".

Reddy stepped up and pointed at Zoro,"Hey, no one's talking to you Lapdog", he said furiously.

Zoro's eyes rows in response to that comment before he started to snicker to himself and going to open his beer,"You know I've been called a lot of things over the years, Pirate hunter, moss head, an alcoholic, an Topographically Agnostic, and a racist for some weird unknown reason", after a couple of twist and turns he got the bottle open before taking a sip,"But lapdog's definitely gotta be the strangest".

He then sat the bottle down behind him and turned back to Reddy with a terrifying stare,"Never once has anyone ever been stupid enough to call me a Lapdog".

This sent a chill down Reddy's spine but he kept a brave face, not wanting to look weak.

"Especially not by some pretty boy knock off wearing cheap versions of my clothes", he said examining Reddy's clothes.

Reddy turned red at that comment and stepped forward until he was a foot away from Zoro,"You think you scare me please, I bet your sword skills aren't even as good as people say they are".

Zoro responded simply by standing up taking another sip right in front of reddy,"Look I would love nothing more than to give you a demonstration but I'm not entirely in the mood to do so and if I'm gonna be honest I'm not really a fan of using my skills on little small fries bitches little you", he turned and sat back in his seat to finish his drink.

Reddy went bright red in anger as he was about to charge and attack Zoro but Spike placed his hand in front of him to stop him.

"And you know what straw hat", he started, grabbing another pint while making his way to Luffy," You like to sail around the world with that stupid ass smile talking about how you gonna be the king of the pirates, but all of us real pirates see you for what you really are", Luffy gave him a confused look right before spike took a big gulp from the beer pint and spat it all over him, leaving him soaked.

Vannellope and Makino both gasped at what had just happened.

Curly was about to lunge out and attack him but was stopped by Zoro, Who placed a hand in front of her.

Spike poured what was left inside on top of Luffy's head,"Your just some scared and stupid little kid that likes to sail around all of us successful pirates and making us all look like a laughing stock and giving us a bad name well you know what I want you to get through your empty head", he grabbed Luffy by his shirt and yanked him up towards his face,"Your a joke and you always will be".

Those words echoed in Luffy's head after they came out of Spike's mouth.

Though it bothered him, he wasn't a tiny bit intimidated by Spike's comments nor was he the least bit shaken by his threats.

Spike began to grin after he said this before being shocked by a sudden scream.

"STOP IT RIGHT NOW",Makino shouted at them.

The three of them turned to see and angry red hot Makino standing next to them, once again g tapping her foot,"This bar does not tolerate violence, especially during a party, so you can either THIS BAR DOES NOT TOLERATE VIOLENCE, ESPECIALLY NOT DURING A PARTY",she stepped forward, staring right at spike,"SO YOU CAN EITHER GRAB A DRINK OR GET OUT", she shouted right in his face.

Spike and Reddy, both looked at each other with wide eyes, everyone in the room was the same way.

No one had ever seen Makino get so angry before unless someone gave her a good reason to.

When that happened everyone knew better than to push her any further.

Spike turned to Luffy (who had more of a blank face) and grinned,"Well see you around straw hat", he said maliciously before shoving Luffy to the

Ground and laughing loudly.

Makino went to see if he was ok and helped him up.

Spike turned to Reddy,"Let's blow this joint", he said before pulling out his wallet, grabbing a couple of bucks and placing it on the counter.

He turned around and made his way to the door.

Reddy did the same but not before turning back to them with a sly grin,"Later pansies", he said before falling Spike out the door.

Once the door shut there was a moment of silence.

Zoro spun around in his seat and looked to the ground where Luffy was (with Makino right next to him) and said,"You know something tells me that he doesn't like you".

The two of them looked at each for a couple of seconds before bursting out laughing.

This surprised everyone in the bar.

They were both mocking and laughing about the two pirates.

"And you always will be", Zoro mimicked Spike in an obnoxious way.

That made Luffy laugh even harder causing him to roll around on the ground.

Vanellope and Curly looked at them both in confusion wondering how they were so happy after what had just happened.

Makino however, just smiled and sighed in relief, thankful that Luffy was acting the way he usually did.

Even if it was around pirates like those two assholes.

Makino had helped Luffy up from the floor and began brushing off any dirt or food crumbs off his clothes.

Once she was done Luffy looked at her and smiled,"Thanks Makino, sorry if we caused a bit of trouble with those guys".

She then looked at him with a shocked expression on her face wondering how he could apologize when he did nothing wrong.

She bowed her head,"No Luffy I'm the one who should be sorry, I should've made sure those pirates didn't cause any trouble while they were here, Curlys crew and I usually keep them in check, but instead this time I just sat there and let them disrespect you guys", she began to apologize profusely to him for those pirates.

Curly also stepped in,"I'll make sure they don't cause you guys any more trouble while you guys are staying here."

Luffy simply smiled and patted her on the shoulder," Don't sweat it".

"Stuff like that happens all the time especially if it's with other pirates", Zoro chimed in.

Vannellope stood up and spoke up,"But you shouldn't have that happen to you especially not by losers like them", she turned to Luffy," How could you let them bully you and talk down to you like that especially when you are an emperor now".

She had a bit of anger in her eyes," plus you are also super strong so you coulda kick all their asses if you wanted to".

Luffy in response gave her a confused look,"Why would I wanna do that".

"Just because you can beat somebody up doesn't mean you should",Zoro said from behind her," especially if you know that same person is much weaker than you".

Vanellope (still not wanting to let this go) turns right back to Luffy,"But, Luffy, they disrespected your dream of becoming the king of the pirates and they said you weren't really an emperor doesn't that make you want to get mad and fight them".

Luffy however responded by simply shrugging his shoulders,"Why would I get mad over that when I actually am an emperor".

She was shocked at how unbothered he was about the situation.

It was as if what they had done to him just a few minutes ago meant absolutely nothing at all.

Zoro got up and walked towards her before speaking up,"Why would we bother getting worked up over them not being able to accept the fact that the straw hat pirates aren't a rookie crew anymore, especially if everything that has happened to us up until this point was true, and sometimes it's better not to fight a battle that isn't worth half your time", he then placed his hand on his captain's shoulder", those loser don't wanna believe the truth that's their problem and and not gonna lose any sleep or my cool over it and you shouldn't either, but if they start causing too much of a ruckus than we'll be more than willing to set them straight".

Vanellope turned to Luffy, who was smiling widely as he placed his hands on her shoulders,"Someone once told me that, They can laugh at us all they want, but when you aim high you offend find some fights that aren't worth fighting".

Those last few words stuck to her like glue as if she had been told the most important thing in her life.

Luffy stood up and nodded to her,"so don't sweat it ok".

Makino watching this reminded her of that time when Luffy was a kid like Vanellope and Red Haired Shanks and he told Luffy almost the exact same thing 12 years ago when they came to Rothy's bar and may have caused a bit of a ruckus.

It made her happy to see how much Luffy had grown from all those years ago.

It was almost like that exact day with a few changes.

It was like he was becoming more and more like him every time she saw him.

The thought of this made her chuckle a tiny bit.

She turned towards the clock and saw that it was getting pretty late and she would need to close up shop and get ready for the next day,"Hey guys, why don't we wrap this up for tonight and we can all meet up in the morning to explore the island",she suggested.

Curly (who had just been sitting back and watching all of this) smiled and stepped forward in agreement,"Yeah she's right it is getting a little late".

She then turned to Vanellope and remembered how Zoro promised her that they would give her a tour of their ship.

She placed her hand in j Vanellope's head,"Why don't you two take Vanellope here with your guys back to your ship and give her that tour she was asking for earlier and the two of us can clean this up, hell she can even spend the night there if she wants to".

Vanellope's eyes went wide after hearing that and she turned to Curly,"Really".

Curly nodded in response to her question,"As long as they say it's okay".

The little girl turned to Luffy and Zoro with puppy dog eyes as a way of asking if she could go.

Luffy and Zoro both looked at her before turning to each and grinning.

Luffy turned back to them,"Yeah sure that sounds awesome".

Vanellope froze for a moment before squealing loudly and started glitching herself up and down and all around the party bar walls.

The two pirates smiled in joy seeing how happy they made the young girl.

Zoro stuck out his hand and grabbed the little girl before she could teleport anywhere else,"Alright come on let's get a move on we need to let them clean up before they make us help".

Vanellope nodded at this and glitched herself on the floor,"Last one there is a rotten egg", she said before running to the door.

Luffy laughed as he chased after her, but not before turning to Makino and Curly, and waving goodbye to them.

He ran out the door and continued his race with Vannellope.

Leaving Zoro, Makino, and Curly inside the bar.

He was about to go after them but was stopped by Curly," Make sure you watch after them for me ok", she asked with a worried look on her face.

He turned to see Makino with the same look on her face.

Zoro smiled and nodded to them in response before turning around and making his way to the door.

Once they were home Makino had breathed a sigh of relief seeing as though nothing too bad had happened.

Curly turned to her and placed her hand on her shoulder,"It really is good to see him again, huh".

Makino chuckled and said,"Yeah it really is", she said relieved.

(Later On The Sunny)

It had been about an hour since they had returned to the ship for the night.

While Zoro had been taking Vanellope on a tour of the ship and showing her where she would sleep for the night.

Luffy wanted to take this time to go and look out at the sea.

The ship was parked in Foosha village harbor pointing towards the sea.

Luffy was lying outside at the ship's deck just looking out at the sea.

It sure was beautiful that night, especially with the light shining from the moon.

Even at night the sea looked beautiful to him, even if he wasn't able to swim in it.

He continued watching over the sea for a few minutes before reaching into his pocket and pulling out Ace's necklace.

Once he pulled it out he did what he was doing earlier and looked straight at it.

He knew what Zoro was saying earlier but he honestly couldn't help it.

Seeing something from his late brother after so long had conflicted him a lot more than he would've ever expected.

It was like the last few hours ever since he's been back home he's seen nothing but reminders of Ace.

Though Luffy had come to terms with Ace's death he was still very much hurting from it and in some way he still blamed himself for it everyday since.

Losing his brother in such a horrible way had stuck with him for a long time.

He was never going to be able to fully come to terms with Ace's death no matter how many good things were happening to him.

He had always thought that he and his brothers would stay together for as long as they could and now that one of them was gone it just wasn't the same.

All he wanted now was to get strong enough to protect his friends and achieve his dreams.

He had to find the One Piece no matter what and he was going to find it.

He tightly squeezed the necklace in his hand and put it back in his pocket.

Zoro suddenly walked out of one of the ship doors and made his way to where his captain was lying down.

Once he got there he stood over him as he too began to look out at the sea as well,"It's a beautiful sight ain't it", he said admiringly.

Luffy chuckled and said,"Yup".

Zoro started to walk towards the edge of the ship and lean on the rail,"No need to worry about the kid she's currently taking refuge in choppers room, says she likes the look of it".

Luffy didn't say anything back, he just continued to look out at the sea.

"You know it's definitely odd to meet someone who's actually a fan of you and knows damn near everything about you", he said looking over at where he left her.

"Yeah it's totally weird", Luffy said, still not taking his eyes off the ocean.

Zoro then turned his head to look at the village,"Quite the place you came from huh", he said getting up off the rail," I can see why you wanted to come back here so badly".

"Yeah it's great to see everyone again after so long", Luffy said, turning to look back at his home.

"Can't wait for what tomorrow brings", he said excitedly.

Zoro looked at him and chuckled," you know I don't mind being in this quiet environment for a bit and I mean come on what's the worst that could possibly happen while we're here".

Vanellope suddenly appeared in front of them with an excited look on her face,"Wow guys your ship is even more cool than I thought it was and it even has all of its battle scars too".

"Yeah Franky does a hellava good job keeping this old thing together", Zoro said, looking around the ship.

He then looked toward the town and saw just how dark it was at this time of night,"Jesus guess you guys never heard of a street light huh".

Luffy turned his head to the town too,"yeah it can get pretty dark around here".

Vanellope gasped,"We should tell scary stories while we're here and it's dark out".

Zoro and Luffy thought about it for a moment.

After a second or two Zoro shrugged,"I'm down".

"Does anybody know a scary story?",Luffy asked.

Vanellope shook her head, she was hoping they would know any good scary stories.

There were a few moments of thinking before Zoro spike up,"I could tell a story about Arashi being if you guys want to hear that", he suggested.

After her that suggestion, both Luffy and Vanellope looked at him with confused faces

Zoro saw this and slapped his hand on his head,"Arashi is Japanese for trolls".

Vanellope's confused face disappeared as she understood what he was talking about.

Luffy however still didn't understand,"What's a troll"?, he asked curiously.

Vanellope turned to him,"A troll, you know those big smelly monsters that eat people and turn to stone when the sun comes out".

Luffy's confused face had yet to disappear even with that brief explanation she gave him.

Zoro sighed seeing that his captain still wasn't getting it,"They're basically made up mythical creatures that people used to make scary stories about to kids".

Luffy still barely understood what they were talking about but was still curious,"Wow I still don't get it".

Zoro once again slapped his hand on his head," you know what I just tell a brief story and see if you'll try to understand".

Luffy nodded his head.

Zoro turned around and began as he looked out at the distance,"Alright from what my teacher told me as a kid, there was once a time where there was a bunch of magical creatures that lived in harmony or something, but then came the trolls, who were hideous, monstrous beasts that were almost entirely indestructible from everything but the sun which was the only thing that could kill them, and they wanted to devour all of mankind and they were like super close to doing so, but this old man named Merlin stepped in, he was apparently a wizard that knew some kind of powerful magic strong enough to defeat the trolls, which he did, he and his sword buddy king arthur used this excalibur and defeated the trolls and banished them to a far away place, but not before the king of the trolls swore revenge and that he and his army would return and kill everyone or something like that", he turned to Luffy,' you understand that.

Luffy was still somewhat confused about what he had heard so he just shrugged his shoulders.

Zoro sighed in frustration and decided just to leave it at that.

"Well after hearing that i kinda wanna talk about another story", she turned to both of them," anyone else wanna try".

They'll all started thinking for another moment before Luffy spoke up,"Hey I think I got some-",but then that feeling from earlier had returned the feeling of being watched.

He looked over to Zoro who by the cautious look on his face seemed to have felt it too as he was grabbing the handle of one of his swords,

Vanellope gave him a confused look wondering what he was talking about,"You got what"?, she asked curiously.

He didn't answer, he insisted hopped up from where he was sitting and started checking his surroundings.

She turned to Zoro to see if he knew what Luffy was doing but he was doing the same thing.

It was like they were looking for something, something important.

And they were, they were looking for the person who had been following them for almost the entire day.

Whoever this person was had been following them since they had arrived at the island but couldn't find any sign of them.

But this time was different, this was a much more prominent feeling and it was close, really close.

Vanellope (who had been just sitting there and watching them look around the ship) was just about fed up with not knowing what they were doing,"GUYS"!!!, she shouted trying once again to get their attention.

This time it worked and the two of them turned to see her tapping her foot before walking towards them,"Can someone please tell me what's going on".

After realizing that she was still here, Zoro's eyes went wide.

Whatever was out there was obviously a threat to them and didn't have the best intentions with them.

The two of them could probably handle whoever was out there but she was in more danger than any of them.

He quickly ran over to her and placed his hand on her shoulders,"Vanellope, I need you to go back to chopper's room and lock the door".

She turned her head to the side in confusion,"what why".

Before she got an answer though she was already being ushered to the door,"We don't have time to explain, just do it", he said urgently.

He brought her to the door but she turned around to look at them to see if this was some kind of joke, but when she saw Zoro"s face she saw just how serious it was.

She looked to Luffy, he was still looking for whatever was out there.

This helped her realize that this wasn't a joke they were playing on her but something much more serious this was.

She nodded to him and ran inside the door.

Zoro then turned and made his way to his captain,"You were feeling that too huh"?, he asked as he stood behind his captain and got into a battle ready position.

Luffy did answer him but he did yell out in the distance,"I KNOW YOU'RE OUT THERE, COME OUT NOW SO I CAN KICK YOUR ASS"!!!!, he threatened.

There was no response, there was only silence and the movement in the waves.

This was like this for the next few seconds until they suddenly heard a sound.

They couldn't fully make out what exactly it was but it almost sounded like a humming sound.

The two pirates continued checking their surroundings until they finally heard where the humming sound was distinctly coming from.

The sound went from humming to all of a sudden there was singing.

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"Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream (bung, bung, bung, bung)"

"Make him the cutest that I've ever seen (bung, bung, bung, bung)"

The singing was echoing all over the ship as if giant speakers were planted on the ship.

They were looking around trying to ignore the song but they still weren't able to find anyone.

They then heard a loud screeching sound coming from the second floor deck.

"Give him two lips like roses and clover (bung, bung, bung, bung)"

"Then tell him that his lonesome nights are over"

They looked up toward their second floor deck and saw an ominous shadowy figure standing there.

The figure stepped forward revealing himself to be a man with bright yellow eyes.

It was the same man that came into Makino's bar earlier that day.

Luffy and Zoro both got themselves into a battle ready stance preparing for what was about to happen next.

"Well well, hello friends",he said, his mouth formed into a malicious smile.

"Looks like I finally tracked you down", he said.

(End of Chapter)

Sorry for the delay

More is coming soon.