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Grand Line – Paradise
Somewhere at the beginning of the Grand Line
On a small, remote island used as a base by a pirate fleet that had been causing a lot of trouble lately.
In a large, blood-soaked clearing at the center of the island, with lifeless bodies scattered all around.
Surrounding the clearing, the entire island was, for the first time, covered by giant trees. If someone looked closely, they would see many bodies impaled in the treetops.
And sitting on a large rock in the middle of the clearing was the only living soul walking on solid ground on the island, a tall, muscular man with dark green hair, shirtless, wearing dark sunglasses.
The man then takes a half-empty cigarette box from his pocket, pulls out a cigarette, lights it, and takes a puff before grabbing a modified Baby Den Den Mushi with an amplifier antenna, which was vibrating non-stop in one of his pants pockets, answering it.
"Pero... pero... pero... kacha... Aramaki, I have a mission for you", a deep male voice says as soon as the call is answered.
"Sir Sakazuki! I just finished the extermination they sent me on to do! What mission is this? I hope it's an important one this time, I'm already tired of being sent on these easy extermination missions without being able to participate in a significant mission", the man, or rather, Aramaki, asks in a casual and rude manner.
"Yes, it is of extreme importance! The Drum Kingdom is being attacked by pirates as we speak! Your mission is to capture the Captain of these pirates, a boy named Monkey D. Luffy! You are authorized to kill anyone who gets in the way", the voice, now identified as Akainu, says seriously, planning to capture Luffy first before presenting to the Fleet Admiral the idea of using him to lure Dragon into a trap.
"Is this serious, Sir Sakazuki? Since when is stopping a pirate attack in some random kingdom and capturing some random brat an important mission?", Aramaki asks rudely, completely disappointed, no longer able to stand having to do these simple and boring missions he's been assigned ever since he got the invitation to join the Marines.
"Stopping the pirate attack on the Drum Kingdom is secondary; your priority is to capture the boy! The reasons behind this mission are classified! Just know that this mission is not as simple as it seems. According to our intelligence, the boy is strong enough to stand up to Vice-Admiral Garp, so don't underestimate him", Akainu says, warning him about the seriousness of the mission.
"Alright, alright! I got it! Anyway, I'm going to need an Eternal Pose if I want to get there in time before they run away", Aramaki says, giving in.
"I already sent an Eternal Pose to your location, it should arrive at any moment, there's also a wanted poster of the boy attached to it", as soon as Akainu says this, Aramaki hears a noise coming from above, where he sees a bird dropping an object as it flies by.
"It arrived! My men and I should get there in a few hours! I'll update you once I complete the mission", Aramaki says while easily picking up the Eternal Pose to Drum.
"Alright! I'll wait for updates", Akainu says before hanging up the call.
"Alright, let's see what you're capable of, Straw Hat!", Aramaki murmurs, unfolding the wanted poster tied to the Eternal Pose and then looking at Luffy's smiling face.
=Scene Break=
Meanwhile, back in Drum, Usopp looked extremely worried and scared about the implications of what that jester had said before being killed by Zoro.
"Stop trembling in fear, Usopp! The worst that can happen is the Marines showing up", Zoro says, annoyed by Usopp's constant shaking.
"I'm shaking because I'm cold, not scared! The great and spectacular Captain Usopp isn't afraid of anything", Usopp says, trying to maintain appearances despite his fear.
"Hmm, so that smell of shit isn't coming from your briefs, huh?", Zoro asks with a mocking smile.
"What? Of course not, I'm sure nothing came out of my butt, not even a little fart!", Usopp exclaims indignantly, confident that he didn't shit himself this time.
"Anyway, Sabo, Chouchou, we're on solid ground and the Merry is safe in Usopp's pocket and doesn't need me to take care of it, so let's train seriously!", Zoro says, dragging Sabo and Chouchou to train more intensely.
"So! Puh... puh... puh... wanna go help Dalton?", Usopp, feeling a bit uncomfortable and unsure how to hold a conversation with a duck he doesn't understand a single word from, asks Karoo, the only one from the group left by his side.
"Quack! quack quack, quack?" "Sure! Why not, right?", Karoo quacks, shrugging.
"Didn't understand a shit thing, but let's go!", Usopp says before moving forward, going to help Dalton.
=Scene Break=
With Luffy and Sanji, things went by quickly and 'smoothly', so to speak.
"Man, I don't know how you can walk around in just shorts and flip-flops! Don't you feel cold?", Sanji asks as they walk through the deep snow.
"That's because it's my ninja way!", Luffy responds with a smile on his face, imitating a certain ninja in an orange jumpsuit.
"You're a pirate, you idiot! Not a ninja!", Sanji says, correcting his idiotic captain.
"It's not that cold, it's just kinda fresh!", Luffy says, unaffected by the soul-freezing cold that was doing.
"You're not cold because your skin is as thick as leather, I think it must be a side effect of getting so strong that you turn into a monster!", Sanji exclaims indignantly.
"Yeah! Could be! Oh, hey! Did you know people from cold countries don't sleep?", Luffy asks, sharing a curiosity.
"They don't sleep? Why?", Sanji asks, intrigued.
"Because if they sleep, they die!", Luffy explains, remembering of when Shanks told him about it.
"Where did you hear that? From Usopp?", Sanji asks, not taking this very seriously.
"No! Shanks told me once", Luffy says, as if that explains everything. But since Sanji didn't know that Luffy knew a Yonko, it made no difference at all.
"Shanks? What Shanks?", Sanji asks, confused, not associating the name Shanks with the Yonkou Shanks.
"Shanks, the Red Haired!", Luffy says, being more specific.
"By Shanks, the Red Haired, you mean the Yonkou Shanks?", Sanji asks just to make sure.
"Yeah, him!", Luffy responds innocently.
"Since when do you know him?", Sanji asks, surprised that Luffy is speaking seriously.
"Since I was a kid, didn't I already say that before?", Luffy responds before asking, certain that he had already told the crew he knew Shanks.
"Well, to me you didn't tell!", Sanji says, certain this was the first time he was hearing this.
"Now you know!", Luffy says with a smile.
"Anyway! If people in cold countries die if they sleep, why does Dalton's house have a bed?", Sanji asks, still doubting this information.
"That's true, it must be to the people who just died!", Luffy widens his eyes as if he's just discovered something new.
"Yeah, must be! Now listen to this, did you know there's an island where the women are so stunning and beautiful that people started referring to them using the name of a precious stone? Jade Beauties, if I'm not mistaken!", Sanji comments sarcastically before sharing a curiosity as well, remembering the day when someone had told him something interesting in the past.
"Jade? It's not that green stone? So, the women on this island are green, like aliens?", Luffy asks, trying to imagine what a jade beauty would look like; the only thing that came to his mind was a green alien woman.
"No, you idiot, they told me they're white as snow, with the most beautiful skin you've ever seen! Besides, there are jade stones that are white", Sanji yells, correcting him.
"But jade is green, I'm sure of that! I think whoever told you this was just messing with you; that must be it! Or maybe you just heard it wrong! And if they're that white, couldn't it be they're anemic or something? It's not normal to be white as snow unless you have some special physical condition; otherwise, you're sick", Luffy asks, raising an eyebrow in doubt.
"Nah, you're just dumb! I'm sure I didn't hear anything wrong! But speaking of aliens, if I weren't committed, I'd love to meet a green alien woman", Sanji says, imagining Nojiko with green skin and little antennas on her forehead for some reason.
"Shut up, cigarette breath! By the way, committed? Did Nojiko agree to date you?", Luffy asks curiously.
"Not yet! But I'm sure my love will win her over!", Sanji says, looking at Nojiko in his arms, hopelessly in love.
"You're an idiot, man! But I guess persistence is the key to progress, huh? Well, go for it, I guess!", Luffy comments with a goofy smile on his face, giving Sanji an imaginary thumbs up.
"You're the idiot, rubber brain! Anyway, looks like we have company", Sanji yells irritated with Luffy before turning to the group of giant rabbits blocking their path.
"Yeah, I'd love to fight all of you, guys! But we're in a hurry, so sleep for a bit!", Luffy says to the giant rabbits before knocking all of them out with a pulse of his Conqueror's Haki.
"Well! That was quick and anticlimactic! By the way, what were those things, anyway?", Sanji asks while they pass by the unconscious group of giant rabbits and continue on their way.
"They're big and white, so they must be polar bears!", Luffy says, deducing incorrectly.
"Of course not, idiot! Didn't you see the rabbit ears? They must be those Babans Dalton talked about", Sanji asks irritably before trying to deduce what those creatures were too.
"The name's not Babans, idiot! The name is Lalambas!", Luffy scolds his cook, certain that the name was Lalambas, even though he was also wrong.
"Shut up, man! You only talk shit!", Sanji says, letting out an amused snort.
"Mmhm! Shut up, you living tobacco!", Luffy says, sticking out his tongue at Sanji.
=Scene Break=
Back in Bighorn village, Dalton was checking on the injured from Chess's escape attempt.
At that moment, Usopp and Karoo arrive at the site. "Hey, Dalton! Need help with anything?"
"Usopp, right? It's all good, the doctors have already treated the injured! By the way, where did your friends go?", Dalton comments, thanking him for the offer with a nod.
"Zoro dragged them off to train! Well, if you need help with anything, just let us know!", Usopp comments, offering his and Karoo's help to Dalton if he needs something.
"Quack quack!" "That's right!", Karoo quacks, waving his wing.
Then, the elderly woman from before, who had been mistaken for a mountain-climbing bear, approaches them and says, "Mr. Dalton! Mr. Dalton! I heard you were looking for Dra. Kureha, right?"
"Well, yes! But they've already taken the patients to...", Dalton starts to say that they've already taken the patients to Dra. Kureha, only to be interrupted mid-sentence.
"Guess what, Mr. Dalton! They said she's in the other village!", the elderly woman says with a cheerful smile, thinking she was helping them.
""What?!"" "Quack?", Dalton, Usopp, and Karoo shout, surprised and shocked.
"Shit, what do we do now? Luffy and Sanji should already be arriving at the castle, and the doctor's not there", Usopp asks, worried, not knowing what to do.
"Come on, quickly! If your friends are as fast as you say, then we'd better go to Dra. Kureha and ask her to return to the castle as soon as possible", Dalton says before he starts running, going to prepare his sled so they can reach Dra. Kureha faster than on foot.
"Where are you going, Dalton?", Usopp asks, seeing Dalton starting to run somewhere.
"I'm going to prepare my train so we can get there faster!", Dalton says in a hurry.
"The sled is too slow, let me take care of this!", Usopp says before using his Devil Fruit to grow to six meters in height, grab Dalton and Karoo more easily than if he were at his normal height, and then disappear using Soru.
But after covering only about two hundred meters, Usopp stops, turns around, and goes back to where they were before.
When he gets there, he turns to the elderly woman and asks, "Which village is the doctor in again, ma'am?"
Ignoring the fact that Usopp had grown suddenly, "Oh! She's in Cocoaweed village!", the lady says, swearing that the big-nosed kid in front of her had just blinked out of existence before reappearing.
"Alright! And which direction is this village?", Usopp asks hurriedly.
"That way!" the lady says, pointing and looking in a direction, only to realize the boy had completely vanished when her gaze returns to where he was just a second ago.
=Scene Break=
An hour and twenty minutes in the past, in a restaurant-inn called Stool, a little boy was crying loudly in the middle of the dining saloon, and despite all his efforts to understand the reason for the crying, the boy's father had made no progress in that regard.
Meanwhile, outside, two very eye-catching figures were walking along carefreely, with one of them pulling a dark red sled.
"Did you hear that, Chopper? Heeheeheehee! Sounds like we have a patient in need of medical attention!", a mature female voice comes from the smiling figure beside the figure pulling the sled.
Not receiving even a word from the figure walking next to her, she continues, "A child crying non-stop like this can only mean a sick body! What an irresponsible father!"
The two then quickly arrive in front of the restaurant. "This is it! Step aside!"
Then, taking an attack stance, the owner of the voice delivers a powerful punch, ripping the door off its hinges, making quite an entrance, startling both the people inside the restaurant and the passersby outside.
While everyone stared in shock at the elderly lady with an incredibly fit body for her age, who had just knocked down the restaurant's front door, and at the reindeer wearing a red top hat with a white 'X' in the middle and an burgundy shorts, that came right behind her, the said lady says with a smile on her face, with her punching arm still extended, "Hey, punks!"
"D... D... DRA. KUREHA!", everyone present shouts, stuttering in the presence of that greedy witch.
"Is everyone alright, brats? Heeheeheeheehee! Looks like I have a patient here!", the lady, or rather, Dra. Kureha, asks, lifting her glasses while observing all the surprised and shocked looks with a smile.
=Scene Break=
Now, back in the present, Usopp appears in the middle of Cocoaweed village, returning to his normal size while letting go of Karoo and Dalton.
"What was that?", Dalton asks, stunned.
"Soru! And now? How do we know where she is?", Usopp responds as if only that explained anything, before urgently asking.
"Excuse me, Mr. Antenor! We heard that Dra. Kureha is in the city! Can you tell us where she might be?", Dalton looks around for a moment before stopping an elderly sir, hunched and wrinkled, who was passing by, and asking.
"Oh, Mr. Dalton! I saw her going into the Stool's restaurant!", the hunched and wrinkled elderly sir says, barely able to see Dalton in front of him, which, if Dalton stopped to think about it, wouldn't be a very good indication of the truthfulness of what the elderly sir had just said.
"Alright! Thanks for the information, Mr. Antenor! Let's go, Usopp! It's this way", Dalton thanks the almost blind elderly sir for the information before turning around and starting to run in a direction, with Usopp and Karoo following him closely behind.
The three of them then quickly arrive at the inn-restaurant, and entering through the broken door, they find the owner, Stool, cleaning up the mess that Dra. Kureha made when she entered his restaurant.
"Stool! Where's Dra. Kureha?", Dalton asks as soon as they enter the place.
"Oh, Mr. Dalton! She left about fifty minutes ago!", the restaurant owner, Stool, says, stopping sweeping when he hears his name being called.
"Shit, what do we do now, Dalton?", Usopp asks, unsure of what to do.
"Shit! Stool, do you know where she went?", Dalton asks, trying to think of a solution to their problem.
"I heard someone say she went in the direction of Gyasta, but with how much time has already passed since she left, you guys probably won't find her there either", the owner of the restaurant, Stool, says, giving them his opinion.
"Shit!", Usopp exclaims, rubbing his forehead.
"Quack quack?" "What now?", Karoo quacks, worried.
"Sorry, guys! Since she had already come down the mountain yesterday, I assumed she wouldn't come down again for at least a few more days", Dalton says, apologizing.
"No! It's okay, Dalton! There was no way for you to know", Usopp says with a sigh.
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(AN: 2,840 Words)
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