Ch 16 Don Krieg

Two days later, from out of the blue, a pirate ship bigger than Baratie anchors by the ocean-going restaurant, waving the flag of Don Krieg's pirates. The strawhat crew was inside the restaurant, sitting around a table.

Customer 1: " Don Krieg's Pirate ship!!"

Customer 2: " The hour glasses beside the skull mean that time's run out for their enemies..."

Customer 3: " There's no mistake!!! It's Krieg's pirates!!"

Customer 4: " What do they want?!"

Chef 1: " See patty!!? They're here! You deal with them!"

Patty: " It c-c-can't be! The Don of the pirate armada and his 5,000 men?! Here!? Would they come just to avenge one flunky!!?"

Alex: " Ummm.... I'm pretty sure that Gin is the Battle Commander of the Pirate Armada....."

Patty turns towards Alex, who was sitting nearby. A horrified expression on his face.

Patty: " W-w-what?!"

Alex: " Oh.... you didn't know? Well..... sucks to be you."

Patty: " Not just me! We're all dead!!"

Luffy: " That ship is huge!! Maybe Gin's come back to say thanks."

Sanji: " I doubt it..... But something seems odd."

Vince: " What happened to their ship.... It's been wrecked!!"

Sanji: " A great galleon ravaged to that degree.... that wasn't the work of men."

Sanji: " They must have sailed through a typhoon!!"

The doors open and standing in the doorway is Don Krieg himself, but he's barely able to stand, being supported by Gin as they slowly make their way inside.

Krieg: " Please.... may I have..... some food and water? I've got money..... lots of money...."

Vince: " What?"

Patty: " Who is that? Pretty shabby for a king."

Luffy: " He looks hungry."

Sanji: " What's going on?"

Don Krieg stumbles and falls to the ground, Gin rushes to his side.

Gin: " Don Krieg!!!"

Krieg: " Food! Water! Please!"

Gin: " The Don's on the verge of death!! If you don't help him, he's doomed!!"

Patty: " Ha ha ha ha!! How rich!!! Whatta laugh!!! Dis bum is the dread Don Krieg?!"

Gin: " This time I've got money!! We're customers!!!"

Patty: " Alert the Navy!!!"

Alex: " A lotta good they'll do..." He states a scowl present on his face.

Patty: " They won't wanna miss an opportunity to catch this fiend!! Don't feed 'em a crumb!! Just grab 'em!!"

Customer 1: " If he regains his strength, there's no telling what he'll do to us!! He's a pirate and a killer! Starving's too good for him!!"

Customer 2: " He deserves to die, so let him!!"

Krieg: " I won't harm anyone..... feed me and I'll leave quietly!!!"

Krieg: " I beg you.... help me!!!" He states, groveling.

Gin: " Don Krieg, don't!! Don't grovel!!! This isn't you!!! It's beneath you!!!"

Krieg: " Please.... I beg you!!! Leftover rice.... anything!!!"

Gin: " Don Krieg!!!"

Patty: " Hmph. Trying for sympathy?!"

Sanji: " Out of the way, Patty!" He yells, slamming his foot into Patty's head, sending him crashing to the ground. Sanji walks up to the two, a plate of food in his hand.

Sanji: " Here, Gin. He can eat this."

Gin: " Sanji!!"

Krieg: " Thank you!!" He devours the rice.

Chef 1: " Sanji!!! Take that food away from him!!! Don't you know who he is?!"

Chef 2: " He's 'foul-play Krieg,' tyrant of the Eastern seas!!! He started out in prison! Then he lied his way onto a Navy ship!!"

Chef 2: " He killed the officers and took over! That's he got his start as a pirate!!"

Chef 2: " Flying a Navy flag, he sails into ports and attacks both town and ships. Sometimes he flies a white flag, then opens fire!!"

Chef 2: " He'll stoop to anything to win. His duplicity is legendary!!"

Chef 2: " At full strength he'll be unstoppable!!! He says he'll go if we feed him, but we can't trust him!!"

Chef: " That two faced scoundrel should starve!!! The world would be a better place!!"

Vince: " Sanji!! Watch out!!" He yells, his danger sense going off as Krieg gets up and slams Sanji into the ground hard enough that he slides back a distance.

Gin: " Sanji!! You said you wouldn't, Krieg! You swore you wouldn't hurt nobody if I led you here! That man saved our lives!"

Krieg grabs Gin by the shoulder, hard enough to make him yell in pain.

Krieg: " The food was good. My strength is returning."

Vince: " Gin!!!"

Sanji: " So that's how it is....."

Krieg: " Nice restaurant. I'll take it."

Chef 2: " Outrageous!!! Krieg wants the ocean-going restaurant!!!"

All of the customers, except the strawhat crew, run out of the restaurant. They all sail away on the cruise ship they came in on.

Patty: " Ung..... Huh? What's all da ruckus?" He asks, waking back up.

Gin: " Don Krieg..... you swore....." He grasps his shoulder in pain.

Luffy: " Gin!! Are you ok?!"

Krieg: " My ship's a wreck. I need a new one. When I'm finished with you, I'll dumb you."

Krieg: " I have about a hundred men on my ship who still draw breath. They're dying form wounds, hunger and thirst."

Krieg: " They need a hundred rations of food and water. You will prepare them. Some have already starved to death, there's no time to waste."

Chef 2: " You expect us to feed a hundred pirates?! So they'll have the strength to take over our ship?! We refuse!!!"

Krieg: " Refuse? You don't understand. It's not a request."

Krieg: " It's an order! Do not defy me!!!"

Gin: " Sorry, Sanji... I... I never meant....."

Patty: " You!! You got us into this mess!!! Where are you going, Sanji?!" He yells as Sanji turns to walk into the kitchen.

Sanji: " The kitchen, of course. We've got a hundred meals to prepare." He states, taking a puff of his cigarette.

Chefs: " What?!!!"

Gin: " Sanji?!!"

Krieg: " That's right."

Luffy: " Sanji."

All of the chefs pull out guns and point them at Sanji.

Vince: " What do you guys think you're doing?!"

Chef 3: " Are you Krieg's dog, Sanji?"

Chef 4: " We can't let you into the kitchen. We're not going along with this. It's an outrage!!"

Vince flips over the chefs surrounding Sanji, landing in front of him.

Vince: " You guys know Sanji!! You know he's not some traitor!!"

Sanji steps in front of Vince, his arms out.

Sanji: " If you want to stop me..... fire."

Sanji: " I know they're unredeemable villains. But my job is to feed people, not to judge them. It gets complicated."

Sanji: " If a man is hungry, I feed him!!! That's a cook's job. What's the problem?"

Patty goes to attack Sanji, but Vince jumps in the way, taking the attack to the face. Vince stumbles back, a smirk on his face.

Vince: " You gotta hit harder than that, or you'll never take me down."

Patty: " Hmph..... Sanji, I know you feed the people I chase off. Maybe you're right to do that sometimes."

Patty: " But this time, you're wrong!!! Now you and Vince keep still. I'm gonna defend this restaurant!!!"

Patty: " He may be Don Krieg, but he's just one man. He can't beat all of us!!"

Patty: " This is Baratie! We deal with rowdy pirates everyday. And we know what kind of customer service to Give'em!!" He exclaims, picking up a large weapon. He aims it at Don Krieg.

Patty: " You've eaten! Here's your dessert!!! The meat ball of doom!!!!!" He yells, firing the weapon at Don Krieg.

Krieg: " Impudence." The cannon ball slams into him, causing an explosion and sending him out the door.

Patty: " Blast, I busted the doors."

Chef 2: " It's nothing. A small price to pay for saving Baratie."

Sanji: " What about the men on Krieg's ship?"

Patty: " Hmm..... I say we smear butter on the ship and set it on fire."

Vince: " Guys..... my danger sense is going haywire. I don't think he's down."