Chapter 285 - Sabaody Archipelago 21.

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Third Person POV

Sabaody Archipelago, First Half of Grandline.

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Luffy came out of the ship while Rayleigh was already working on the ship with a bubble machine and tools next to the deck. Luffy continued his way to the deck of the ship while he saw his crew on the side of the ship, though some were missing, wanting to visit places on the island. It was already afternoon, so there were a few hours before nightfall.

"Enel and others, come with me," Luffy asked, and Enel clicked his tongue before following Luffy to the side where the ground had been destroyed by Luffy and Kong.

Meanwhile, the island was recovering from the confrontation that happened that day. Several trees had been cut down and burned, mainly from the fight between Luffy and Kizaru. At least eight giant trees had fallen, and all these parts of the island had become unrecognizable. Many civilians suffered from this fight, with trees falling in the middle of the city.

Kong was at the port while the marines carried Kizaru on a hidden stretcher to the ship, and the marines looked without knowing what to say or do.

"Just take him back to headquarters; he needs to rest for the next conflict where he will be needed," Kong told the present vice-admiral.

"Yes, Lord Kong!" he replied with determination.

"And the Tenryuubitos?" Kong asked him.

"They are on a safe ship to Merry Geoise," he replied.

"I understand, I will escort this ship then," Kong commented, so that nothing would happen to the Tenryuubito until they reached Merry Geoise. Kong was covered in blood from the intense fight and had several cuts as Luffy showed on his body. There was no winner in this battle, and both showed they had the same power.

"But what about the Straw Hat pirates, are we just going to leave them like this?" A recruit murmured beside him and trembled when Kong looked at him.

He wasn't angry at the question. "I know you thirst for justice, young one, but this is not the time yet. I made a deal with their captain as this fight led nowhere, and I intend to keep it," Kong said. After all, he wasn't like Akainu who lied; his words were true, and he usually kept everything that came out of his mouth.

Pero pero pero

His Den Den Mushi started ringing, and he knew very well who it was calling, so he looked at the marines. "I must go, you take care of all this destruction and take Kizaru away. We will deal with the pirates in the future." Kong said, and before anyone could react, he jumped with Geppo and flew up, heading to the marine ship going to the Holy City.

"Hello," he said, picking up the Den Den Mushi in the air.

"We heard what happened there, he took down an admiral...?" The voice of one of the elders didn't sound pleasant.

"Yes, Kizaru was taken down by the Mugiwara... then we fought in our beast forms..." Kong commented.

"Is he stronger than you?" The elder didn't seem in a good mood asking this question.

"No... In fact, we tied," Kong said while taking a big leap off the island and walking on the ocean, trying to reach the ship going to the Red Mountain.

"Even so, this is very concerning!" A third one exclaimed.

"First of all, tell me one thing, did you find the user of the Fuwa Fuwa no Mi in the group?" The fourth asked with a more urgent question.

"No, none of the pirates I fought used this fruit, and they all had a fruit," Kong concluded.

"So the user wasn't among them... tell us about all of them and everything that happened, we will eliminate them all and find out who might have this power." They said, and Kong began to recount everything that happened.

"So among the members not seen in the fight are the women, Kuina, with the power of ice, Nojiko with the power of the bomb, Nico Robin, whom we already know what power she possesses, Chopper, who seems to have a strange fruit but not the Fuwa Fuwa, Uta, who possesses the music fruit. This leaves us with only two suspects... who did not appear at Enies Lobby, Bepo and Usopp... One of them has Shiki's power, we will keep a special eye on these two in the group." The elders concluded while Kong nodded and turned off the Den Den Mushi a moment later.

He landed on the marine ship while there was a Tenryuubito bleeding and shouting at everyone. "Where are those idiots who attacked us, I want them dead! Immediately, bring me all of them!" The Tenryuubito snarled as Kong landed, sighing because he would have to endure the fury of that celestial dragon.

Meanwhile, back in Sabaody, the Worst Generation was hiding, watching the marine ships taking the wounded away. Among them, there were copies of Kuma being carried like broken scrap after being easily destroyed by Reiju and Lami, while Kizaru's nephew, the fat man, was also taken on the same ship as the admiral, unconscious on a stretcher.

"It seems the glory of the marines didn't last long..." Scratchmen Apoo commented after arriving at the port.

"Tsk..." X-Drake clenched his teeth at that.

"We didn't even have a chance..." Urouge commented nearby, with his whole body burned and injured, just from receiving a blast from a Pacifista.

"And to think he actually defeated the admiral..." Bege was no different from Urouge, but stunned that Basil had predicted Luffy defeating Kizaru.

"The Straw Hats are far ahead of us, and it's not just the captain... that crew is made up of monsters..." Basil commented.

"At least the marines are gone, which I don't understand, but I'll enjoy my stay on this island a bit more before heading to Fish-Man Island," Scratchmen Apoo said.

"That's strange... Let me see, the chance of the marines returning to this island with a powerful force... 5%..." Basil saw that, surprised.

"Chance of something big happening... 100%!" He murmured, even more scared.

"Something big is going to happen?" Bege approached, looking more confident in Basil's predictions.

"It seems so... but what will happen? And it won't be on this island..." He murmured.

Many reporters were scouring the area, taking photos of the aftermath of the conflict, wanting to publish in tomorrow's newspaper, while writing articles and interviewing witnesses all over the island.

While the marines took care of the injured civilians, and the marine ship left the port finally returning to Marineford, Luffy was training with Enel in the middle of the destroyed forest with other members of his crew until nightfall.

When night came, all the crew members gathered and had a banquet in front of Shakky's bar while the ship was anchored next to them.

"I saw several reporters around the island... Do you think we'll be in tomorrow's newspaper?" Kuina asked while looking for Zoro after he got lost following their training session.

"Most likely, after all, we beat up Tenryuubitos..." Luffy said. "Although I'm not sure if there will be news about Ace tomorrow or the day after tomorrow," he added.

The banquet continued with Rayleigh and Shakky also participating, drinking and eating with everyone. Bonney didn't leave and ended up bringing her crew to stay at the corner watching the banquet. Despite participating, they didn't mingle with Luffy and the others.

It was early morning when the crew boarded the ship and slept in their cabins. The next day, as Luffy had predicted, the news of the Straw Hats beating up five Tenryuubitos was in all the newspapers around the world. It began with Luffy walking through the streets of the island, carrying Saint Charlos by the hair while appearing all bruised. The photo showed Shirahoshi and Bonney behind Luffy, with more photos following this one showing all the Tenryuubitos injured by all the pirates at the auction.

"I'm also on the cover as an accomplice?!" Bonney began to cry upon seeing that, her reputation now tarnished, and she would be even more pursued by the world government.

"Hahaha. You look great there!" Luffy came to her side and laughed. In the photo, she was shown with her hand on her hip, arguing with him.

"That's not cool at all!!" Bonney snarled with a grimace.

"What will the world say about us..." Hugo asked.

"Haha, I look great in the photo riding that fish!" Yamato exclaimed, looking at her photo on top of the Tenryuubito while riding that thing.

Some crew members didn't care, but many of them, the more cowardly ones, were crying rivers at that moment, "It's over, first we dropped a meteor on Merry Geoise, now we beat up Tenryuubitos... what will become of us?!" they exclaimed.

"You guys seem to forget that our captain already killed a Tenryuubito..." Zoro mocked.

"He what?!" Rayleigh, Shakky, and Bonney shouted at this information.

"It was only two." Luffy shrugged while Bonney seemed to have lost her soul at that moment, and Shakky and Rayleigh didn't know what to comment about it.

After a while, Luffy dressed Bepo in his wig, and he finally seemed to have the courage with the prisoners being taken to Sunny Go along with Uta and Bepo. They then departed, heading for Skypiea.

Meanwhile, people all over the world were reading the newspaper and being shocked by the facts reported in the papers.

East Blue.

"They beat up a group of..." Woop Slap fainted at that moment while reading the newspaper in the throne room of Goa.

"They are doing so well at sea!" The queen said with a smile while seeming happy, while everyone looked at her crying, begging her not to cheer for pirates beating up Tenryuubitos, as it could lead to the kingdom's downfall.

Somewhere in the New World.

"Dragon!! Your son, look at what he did!" Someone shouted to the leader of the revolutionaries.

Calm Belt.

"Sister! Have you seen the newspaper?!" Boa Hancock's two sisters entered the place while the other should have been resting but was also looking at the newspaper and crying.

"Yes, he really beat up a Tenryuubito!" Boa Hancock seemed very happy about it.

Paradise, Grand Line.

"Captain!!" A man approached with the newspaper.

"I know, he's in the Sabaody Archipelago!!" The man with green hair said. He left his cabin and went to the deck while his crew gathered.

"Listen up, everyone, our next target is the Sabaody Archipelago!!" He said on the ship's bow to the crew while everyone raised their hands and shouted.

The ship's figurehead was different, with the face of a flaming monster with purple fire. He had another figurehead some time ago, but had to change it in Water Seven to one with the iconic straw hat man, and ended up putting another form of this same iconic man, after all, he was a big fan of Luffy.

"Let's get to Sabaody as fast as possible!" He exclaimed.

"Yes, Captain Bartolomeo!" The crew quickly resumed setting the ship to sail.

"We'll meet soon, Luffy-Senpai!!" Bartolomeo exclaimed with stars in his eyes.

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