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Our next destination was Kuraigana Island, and it would probably the last island we have to visit before Sabaody Archipelago.
The sea was very gloomy and rough it was very difficult to sail the ship there was frequent whirlpools appearing on the route, and knock up stream. I had to make the sea around me under my control only then we were able to move forward.
"OYE I can see the Island ahead" the call from my crew made us feel relaxed as we saw ahead.
But the place ahead was gloomy with dark aura, definitely not an island I would like to visit after the rough sea journey.
"Man this place is definitely gloomy like a haunted island" I said, "What will there be ghost" Liana suddenly asked with shivering voice.
And I found the way to enjoy my stay in this place.
"Yes, may be few ok we shall found out about them" I said while seeing liana face turn pale.
"Alright let go see if anyone is living in this island".
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So far we had not seen any human as we roam around the island; there were some unique island which we can see afar.
"KiKikikiki", "kikikiki"
We heard some sound as we all went to the source.
Soon we heard some clash and fighting sounds with explosions, so we rushed to see a group of mandrill attacking a human who were fighting human.
The human was using a bow and arrows fight the mandrills.
The mandrills were unusual as they were using weapons to fight against him, with swords and suddenly a mandrill was using a Bow and arrow similar to the man and firing at him.
The only difference was the arrow's the archer was using was exploding upon contact with the mandrills while arrow from mandrill would just pierce through the trees and even a rock.
I quickly moved to save him as his all arrows was used up and a mandrill with a giant sword was about to chop off his head.
The man closed his eyes accepting his fate, but he did not feel the pain he prepared for instead a he felt someone lifting him.
He opened his eyes to see a man with white shirt and blue jeans with a black jacket in front of him whose had has turned into some fluid and was holding the mandrill down.
"Are you alright" I(arya) extended my hand as the man stood up struggling.
"This will be over in a moment" I said to him and released huge wave to wash up all the mandrills to a corner.
"Arya don't act reckless" my crew shouted as they made way to us.
"Well let's just relax a bit, before introductions" I said while feeling few mandrills standing up.
"These are interesting mandrills" I spoke as I faced two mandrills that attacked me.
"Be careful, these are called as humandrills they learn whatever technique you use and use it against you" the man informed.
"They cannot imitate a fruit user" I said while dealing with the mandrill and knocking them out unconscious.
The man was surprised at how easily I dealt with the humandrills.
"Sigh, I am Hawk an Engineer nice to meet you" he said, "I am arya a pirate" I shook his hand with a smile.
"Pirate, how funny" Hawk laughed and with the present state he was it looked terrible.
"Why are you laughing" I asked curiously, "Nothing, it's just I set out to sea as an pirate hunter but I had been saved by a pirate, It is just too funny" hawk said while laughing.
"I know anything can happen in this life, so what is your story" I said while interested in him, this is the first Bow and arrow user I met.
"Sure you can but before that let me treat him first" Deuce who just reached said, while taking out the medical kit.
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"So what is your story" I asked while having some meat, since we had a lot of time we set a camp here and joke and meroie started to cook, and the mandrills also joined after smelling the wonderful food.
"To begin with I was a shipwright Three years ago; I used to work under my grandpa who built ships in south blue. Three years ago the underground mafia family took over the island we lived in and they demanded us to build free ships for them to continue our business or pay 10 million every year".
"We refused them, but the mafia family was very powerful and soon made the employees to work for them casing us to go out of business. So I had to become a bounty hunter and hunt the pirates, but my grandfather did not agree to submit to the mafia family and stood against them".
"And as you know they had him assassinated, in a fit of rage I killed many of their members and had my revenge. After which since I had nowhere to go I continued to be a pirate hunter. After two years of successful life I become a little greedy and decided to target a famous pirate and my target was one of the warlord Dracula Mihawk, who lives here".
"And then when I finally reached this island five days ago I was attacked by this humandrills, they were a lot more ferocious then now and almost killed me several times. If you had not come in time I would have been dead by now" Hawk told his story.
"Mihawk is probably the strongest warlord at present, and also he is the world greatest swordsmen you though you could defeat him" Borodo asked, "Well I thought so, I may not look like it but I had captured a 100 million bounty head with just my archery skills" Hawk said with a little pride.
"Mihawk has 500 million bounty I think, if not for him joining as warlord I think his bounty would be more than a billion" I said while chomping on a leg piece.
"That much" everyone shouted and spit out what their food on my face, "1 Billion no one gets that much bounty" They all literally screamed in my ears, scaring the hunmandrills.
"Hey get away from me, and don't be surprised this is grandline where the sea we crossed till now is considered as paradise while the other half of grandline is called new world, and the crew of yonko will have people who are same level as mihawk" I said while finishing another piece of meat.
"Now I am really scared" lily said while she felt chills, thinking about a man with 1 billion bounty.
"Guess I really did become to overconfident and greed" Hawk said with a laugh, "No I think I can take on mihawk once I master the haki" Ace said while burning with new passion.
"World's greatest swordsman, I want to see how skilled he is" Liana asked while imagining he view, "Well I think I am strong enough to take him on" I said with a laugh, with the new technique I planned I can take anyone on.
"Well anyway hawk, how long it would take for the log pose to set for Next Island" Borodo asked.
"I don't know, since my log pose got broken by the humandrills I cannot even get out of this island" hawk answered.
"Then let's just stay here for a week and train on new techniques, if the log pose adjusts itself then it would be better if not we just have to travel without guidance" I said while looking at the gloomy sky.
"Hawk how about you join us till the next island since you cannot get out by yourself" I asked, "Thank you, I would really help me".
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Since I was here I hoped to met with Mihawk, and went to his castle but he was not there feeling a bit let down I returned to the camp only to find ace was actually having a boxing match with a mandrill.
And they are even cheering, "I was just out of for a moment and you guys started to have fun by yourself" I asked.
"Ho arya, come join us we are betting on who would win Ace or ban (the mandrill)" they informed me.
It was very interesting to see that the mandrills are actually learning from us and a mandrill has started to cook, the hostile Humandrills has become a little less hostile and they sure are a great company as we all soon mixed.
Don't ask me how it just happened.
These humandrills were strong any rookie would face some serious threat from these humandrills, and for some reasons they are much more skilled in martial arts and sword arts then us.
This frustrated liana to no end since she was defeated by a monkey, 'Seriously these monkeys are strong'.
This stay made the perfect place for training and I began to pounder over what has to be done.
I began to train my body instead of fruit power, Soru was a good technique and the only martial arts technique I had mastered.
And frankly I was not able to perform it at Samuels level which made me frustrated, as I felt how strong Rob lucci would be.
I can take him on with my devil fruit power and win but what if I was tied up in sea prism stone, this thought kept bugging me. As such I did what I must do, and frankly it was not easy to improve myself every day. I am not a genius like the canon characters and before I got here I was just a nerd who makes things and watch anime in free time, so it took a lot of will power from by part to this mindset and I would be unmotivated very easily every time since I would win my fights with ease using my powers. But I know in new world I would be nothing but a weak little punk, I was scared, I had blindly followed what I want and now the shit was about to get real and I don't have strength to push forward.
"Hey arya, want to see how who is stronger borodo or the boss monkey" Ace asked bring be back to reality, as I saw a huge humandrill with sword similar to mihawk was fighting with borodo.
The battle was a close one as Borodo won by knocking the monkey with a head butt.
As I watched their fight I became even more worried "Alright listen everyone as of the way we are now we cannot continue our journey".
"What are saying we can totally kick others butt, even that mihawk guy you praised I can kick his ass" Ace said 'he was way too arrogant to admit others are better than him'.
"Ace we should listen to arya, he would never say something without reason" Meroie spoke, she is a little weird when she sees a strong man but she was patient and collective minded in the crew.
"Right mindset kid, don't let your fame and superficial strength get the best of you" A person spoke suddenly.
As everyone turned to see the new person, as he walked through the fog and the humandrills would move away from him.
My pupils became small as I saw the man who resides here the world greatest swordsman Dracula Mihawk.
"Who are you" borodo asked while all my crew became very alert and were ready to attack at any given moment, it is because we can sense the difference in strength between us.
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