"Chess!" Wapol yelled. "What are you doing?"
"Apologies my King." Chess said. "That pirate with the Straw Hat from yesterday...seems familiar somehow."
"You knew that guy and you didn't tell me?!" Wapol bellowed. "Not in person!" Chess said. "I think he might've been in the newspaper awhile ago."
"Eh. Forget it." Wapol said before ordering everyone to continue on to Big Horn, none of them noticing an injured guard hurridly limping away.
-With Luffy's group-
Luffy and his group kept walking until they came across an entire herd of lapahns the size of polar bears.
"Are these...lapahns?" Sanji asked.
"This don't look good." Greg said as Luffy stared at the lapahns before looking at Sanji.
"Take Nami for a moment Sanji." Luffy said as he untied Nami from his waist and left her in Sanji's arms bridal-style.
"Huh? What are you doing Luffy?" Sanji asked. Luffy didn't answer as he walked toward the lapahns. One of the lapahns with a scar near his left eye lunged at Luffy, only to hit snow as Luffy dodged it.
"Don't tell me you're gonna fight them!" Greg yelled as the lapahn raised it's paw into the air while Luffy raised his own hand. Just before the paw hit Luffy, it stopped when Luffy glared at it and released a low level wave of haki. The lapahn glared at him before lowering it's paw as they stared at each other.
"Move!" Luffy said in a tone that said he meant business. The lapahn stared at Luffy before they all slowly moved on.
"What...the...fuck?!" Greg asked in bafflement as he shivered. "What did he do?"
"Something called Haki." Sanji said as he tied Nami to Luffy's back.
"Let's go." Luffy said with a smile before they started walking. Greg just stared in shock while the lapahns from earlier kept following, but at a distance. -In Cocoa Weed"She left?!" Usopp said. "We just missed her?!" "I'm afraid so." one of the villagers said.
"Do you happen to know where she went?" Vivi asked.
"We heard it was Gyasta next." another man said.
"Gyasta?" Dalton asked.
"Where's that?" Usopp asked.
"On the other side of Big Horn." he said.
"We gotta go back?!" Usopp shouted. "DALTON!" came a shout from the doorway as an injured man came stumbling in before collapsing. Dalton quickly ran over and caught him to keep him from hitting the floor.
"Aren't you with the patrol?" Dalton asked. "I'm all that's left of the patrol." the man wheezed out. "A ship came out of nowhere and attacked us."
"Who did this?" Dalton asked.
"It's...it's Wapol!" the man shouted. "Wapol's returned!" Everyone in the building were now looking shocked and horrified at this before Dalton mounted a horse and rode off.
"Mr. Dalton! Wait!" Vivi shouted. Dalton kept going before slowly changing into a bison and charged off to confront Wapol.
-Somewhere on the island-
"Ah man...it's freezing." Zoro said. "I followed those fish too far. Where am I?" he asked himself before spotting a sleigh in front of him with a reindeer pulling it and an old woman sitting in it. "Hey! I'm saved!" Zoro said before walking towards them. "Hey granny, mind giving me a lift?" he asked before seeing her outfit. "Why aren't you cold?!" he asked before Dr. Kureha motioned him to come closer with her finger.
"You should watch what you say!" she said before punching him far away. "I'm still in my youthful 130's!" she said before leaving Zoro in the snow.
-In Big Horn-
"Wapol's returned!" shouted a villager.
"Wapol?" Gin asked. He and the rest of the Straw Hats that stayed in Big Horn were chatting in Dalton's house.
"You mean that King that everyone hates?" Valerie asked.
"Judging by how the town's panicking, I'd say that it's the same guy." Alvida said before they all heard some gun fire. They all walked towards the windows and peeked out to see what was happening. They looked around until they saw a man standing on what looked like a white-furred hippo and laughing a lot.
"That's him." Nojiko said as Wapol walked toward a building and did something that none of them saw coming. They watched as Wapol's mouth grew huge before biting down on the building, chewed it, and swallowed.
"What the- Did he just eat a house?!" Gin asked as Wapol finished the building before laughing.
"First a knife, then a house." Valerie said. "What next?"