The crew turned in the direction he pointed at only to see a Winter island with tall icy mountains in the shape of drums.
"Here we are Drum kingdom" Spencer introduced at the grand sight of the snow covered kingdom. Despite it being a winter island the kingdom was still a beautiful sight to see. Snow flakes falling down from the sky was such a magnificent sight.
The ship soon arrived at the harbor and docked beside the other ships. Some of the ships even had a Jolly Roger signifying that they belonged to pirates.
After they disembarked the ship, the vulture bounty crew disbanded after a heartbreaking goodbye but Taro chose to remain by Spencer's side. Unlike the others he and spencer have known each other since they were little.
It's a shame that their dream had been short lived. They had only been bounty hunters for a year and now they had been forced to quit.
They had really been unfortunate to cross paths with these three monsters.
"Man it freezing here" Naruto shivered uncontrollably. He could feel the cold in his bones.
"It's the climate condition here. Drum kingdom is known as a winter island. It always winter all year round" Spencer explained.
"If I knew I would have bought some extra clothes" Naruto groaned as he tried to shake off the cold.
"This island is way too cold. It makes me feel like I'm about to Freeze over" Roger laughed as he walked through the busy town of Drum kingdom. He wondered how the people of this island could go about their days with smiles on their faces despite the cold weather.
"Can you two stop drawing attention to yourselves?" Spencer questioned when he saw people casting strange looks their way when they heard them complaining.
"Good luck with that " Rayleigh scoffed when he saw the frustration on Spencer's face. For once he was glad that someone else could experience what he had to endure every day.
"By the way where are we going?" Naruto asked Spencer perplexed. Not long after they had gotten of the ship Spencer had claimed to know a place where they could gather information.
"It's a bar not too far from here, Taro and I used to go there a lot to buy and sell information on wanted criminals." Taro nodded along with Spencer's words.
"A bar?!" Naruto and the others promptly snapped towards Spencer and taro.
"what?" Spencer blinked owlishly at them before he was suddenly hit by a sense of epiphany and shouted. "No, no, no! it's not like that I swear!"
How could he have been so stupid? The whole reason he was in this mess in the first place was because he had invited into a bar.
"It not what you guys think! We meant well this time" Taro immediately added in to prevent them from losing their lives over a little misunderstanding.
Rayleigh sheathed his sword back and said. "Well it doesn't matter. If the bars turns out to be a fluke I won't hesitate to cut you up"
"Understood. We are here already" Spencer said as he pointed at a plain cooking bar hiding in a corner of the snow covered street.
"Well then let's go!" Roger shouted before matching into the bar with the rest following behind him.
The bell at the entrance of the bar chimed alerting the inhabitants of the new arrivals. They turned towards the door to see a group of five walking into the bar. They looked away shortly after scrutinizing the group.
"This way" Taro said before leading the group toward the bar counter where an old man was busy filling the shelves.
Spencer slammed his fist on the counter and shouted.
"Hey, old man! We'll like to order"
The old man grumbled underneath his breath, cursing them for ruining his peace. However his attitude did a180 when he turned around and saw Spencer and taro standing with the counter.
"Taro! Spencer! You guys are still alive? I thought you did after not seeing you for weeks."
"As you can see, we are still alive and well. We ran into some troubles on the way so we had to make a detour ". Spencer coughed nervously while sneaking glances at Rayleigh.
"At least you guys are well."
By the way who are those people behind you?" The old man questioned pointing at Rogers and the others. The three of them have been standing there for a while now without saying a word.
Spencer glanced at the three of them before turning back to the old man. A thin smile flicker on his face as he said.
"They are my friends. I brought them here hoping to help them get information's. Do you by chance know anything?"
"Not much" The old man stopped to pour all of them a drink then continued. " Only that they has been a lot of marines coming to this island lately. Almost like they are looking for something or someone."
"Marines?" Taro pecked up when he heard that world. " That had never happened before."
"What the hell could the marines be looking for out on an island like this" Naruto asked. The marines have a problem that they are trying to amend as much as possible.
"Beats me. Maybe it's a very dangerous pirate or something or whatever. I just hope they keep it as far and from me as possible"
As soon as he said that the door to the bar blasted open and a dozens of marines rushed into the bar startling the inhabitants.
"What's going on?" Naruto asked, feeling clueless about the situation. Rayleigh immediately turned to Spencer and taro who raised their hands signifying that they knew nothing.
The marines quickly rushed to a corner of the bar and surrounded a huge man with a bandana seating there. "You. You are under arrest."
"That man" Spencer's eyes widened when he saw the man being surrounded by the marines. A look of shock and fear appeared on his face.
"That's…"
"Gurararara" The man laughed before he grabbed the halberd resting on the side of the table and stood up, revealing his full height as he towered over the marines. The marines subconsciously took a step back in fear when they saw this. The man turned to the man leading the marines and asked. "Do you really think you can capture me with a couple of weak marines, captain?"
"Do you know that man?" Naruto asked when he heard the fear in Spencer's voice. Spencer nodded and said. "That man is Edward Newgate. He is an infamous pirate who took on a marine battleship by himself. The bounty on his head is three hundred and twenty million "
"THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY MILLION?!" Naruto and Rayleigh exclaimed in shock. Naruto turned back to look at Edward standing tall amidst the marines. Rayleigh tightened his grip on his sword When he heard that. This was the first pirate they'd encounter with such a high bounty. However despite hearing the bounty Roger didn't seem to care. Instead he laughed excitedly and said.
"This is going to be fun"
"Why are you hesitating? It's just a number we gave him. Arrest him!" The captain shouted when he saw that the marines we're still struck with fear. The marines promptly snapped out of their fear and cheated at Edward. Between their captain and the pirate, they feared their captain more.
"Then come and get me!" Edward swung the halberd in his hand In a wide arc sending a couple of marines flying. As the fight started to get tense the people in the bar started clearing out afraid of being dragged into the fight.
"Rayleigh, Naruto, let's go" Roger said
"Wait Roger?" Naruto tried to stop him but Roger has already joined the battle. Naruto and Rayleigh exchange looks and sighed before joining the fight.
"Who the hell are you guys?" A marine demanded when he saw three other people joining the fight. They weren't informed that they'll be fighting other people.
"Nobody important" Naruto answered before kicking the marine away. Edward and the marine captain that had been fighting each other also took notice of the three of them as they defeated one marine after the other.
"Who the hell are you guys?!" The marine bellowed in rage as he watched his marines get beaten unconscious.
"Your fight is with me!" Edward shouted as he swung the halberd at the marine captain prompting him to block with his katana. His arm nearly went numb from blocking the attack.
"Tsk" The captain jumped away from Edward, putting some distance between them. He looked from the Roger pirates tearing into his soldiers and Edward. His gaze filled with hate. Although he wanted to continue he knew that he stood no chance against them.
"This is not over Edward. I will make sure that you all pay for this" The marine captain said before signaling for his soldiers to retreat from the bar with their beaten comrades.
"I'll be waiting. Gurararara!" Edward laughed as he watched the marines retreat with their tail between their legs.
"My bar!" The old man freaked out when he saw the damaged that his bar had taken. The entire place was in ruin. And worst part is the marines ran off without paying him for the damages.
"Sorry about that Raul" Spencer sweat dropped. He felt guilty since he was the one who brought Roger and the others to his bar.
"You really should start thinking things over before you act, Roger. That completely had nothing to do with us!" Rayleigh shouted at his captain for acting on impulse. He was about to eat him out some more when he noticed Edward walking towards them.
"Thank you for your help friends. But you should have just let me be. Helping me has brought unnecessary troubles to your group."
"It's not like we had a choice to begin with" Naruto grumbled underneath his breath as he sent a side glance at Roger.
" If you don't mind, can I know your names?"
"Naruto" Naruto said with a short nod.
"Silvers Rayleigh"
"Gol D. Roger. " Roger grinned before immediately adding " Will you consider joining my crew."
"Your crew?" Edward eyes widened in surprise. When they had first joined the fight he had thought that they were some thugs or bandits that joined the fight for fun. Never would he have thought that they were pirates. "You guys are pirates. Then how come I have never heard of you guys?"
"Because we are a new pirate group. We recently just got our bounty " Rayleigh said before pulling out their wanted poster for Edward to see.
"Twenty thousand!" Edward exclaimed when he saw the bounty poster, refusing to believe his eyes.
"Is it that high?" Rayleigh asked clueless. He rechecked the bounty poster to see if he missed any details. Naruto and Roger were also curious at Edwards reaction since they thought that it was pretty decent.
However Edward shook his head and said "No, it's low!"
"Low!"
"Your bounty is the lowest bounty I have ever seen in my life!"
"WHAT!"