Chapter 27: Meeting Wapol

Kai waited for the ship in the distance to get closer with the rest of the crew other than Nami, who had all come onto the deck ready for a fight. When the ships got close enough to each other a large man with a huge mouth jumped onto the boat. Vivi gasped when she saw him because she recognized him. It was Wapol!

Kai watched Wapol land on the boat. "Maaahahaha! Everything here is now my food! I am the king of Drum Island so you can't defy me!" The crew tilted their heads to the side. Zoro thought 'who cares if he's a king? I'll still cut him.' Sanji thought 'What did he mean that everything is his food? He realizes this is a boat right?' Vivi thought 'what kind of King becomes a pirate and eats other peoples boats?' Usopp started shaking and thought 'He's gonna eat us?!!?' Kai thought 'He's reaching for the seastone. Should I just let him eat it and see what happens? That would be funny. But if he eats it and dies then he won't invent wapolmetal and chopper might not join the crew. Plus if he eats it and gets too strong for Luffy I don't wanna beat his ass. Too much work.' Luffy thought 'he wants my meat? No way!'

""""What an idiot. You think I won't cut you? / You want to eat a boat when I can serve food? / Why did you abandon your people to become a pirate if you're a king? / You think you can eat my meat!?"""" Zoro, Sanji, Vivi and Luffy all said at the same time.

Kai chuckled and smacked Wapol's hand away from the seastone. Not taking any chances. "Who just called me an idiot?!" Wapol yelled as he grabbed a cannonball from the Merry's deck. The four who just spoke pointed at themselves. """"I did."""" They all said together, causing Kai to laugh. "Wahahaha!"

Wapol had a vein pop on his forehead. "Let's see if you can keep laughing after this!" He yelled as he threw the cannonball into his mouth and chomped down on it. He swallowed it and the crew clapped, acting like it was a circus. Wapol bowed to the crowd before he regained his senses. "It wasn't a performance! It's my devil fruit! I ate the chomp-chomp and became a chomp man! I can eat anything I want and become that thing while I digest it! Now give me your boat! I'm hungry."

In a rare moment of bravery Usopp yelled out. "You can't eat Merry! She's one of the crew!" Everyone nodded and Wapol laughed. "Maaaahahahaha! A boat being part of your crew? What a funny joke!" This ticked off Kai and he decided to get things over with. He turned to Luffy and said. "This one's mine. I called it, remember?" Luffy complained. "Aww but I wanted to fight. Oh well, if you don't kill him I get to fight him next right." Kai just nodded and walked towards Wapol. Luffy smiled and yelled. "Don't die, mouth guy! I wanna fight you next!"

Wapol just ignored the idiots saying nonsensical things and his mouth turned into a cannon as he shot a cannonball at Kai who was walking towards him. Kai just slashed up with his sword and the cannonball split into two in front of him, both halves missing either side of his head by less than a foot and flying into the ocean behind him creating a huge splash in the water. Zoro watched this closely and felt he was closer to an answer.

Kai just kept walking casually and sheathed his sword as if nothing happened. He stopped about 2 meters in front of Wapol and said. "Those pirates who attacked you. How strong were they?" Wapol freaked out that Kai was still alive and acted like nothing happened. He didn't even attack Wapol back. Wapol tried to turn his body into something else but stopped when he felt a cold sensation on his neck. He looked down to see a blade on his throat with a small amount of blood running down, proving the blade's sharpness.

Wapol gulped. He couldn't even see him draw his blade. In fact no one on the ship did. Kai was too fast. The crew was surprised by Kai's speed but didn't say anything. "W-what?" Wapol said as he was still scared. If only he had his retainers on the ship with him. Then this kid wouldn't stand a chance! He thought.

"Those pirates that made you piss your pants and run away crying like a little bitch. Just. How. Strong. Were. They." Kai asked while looking at Wapol. He wanted to get a read on Blackbeard's strength. He didn't know exactly how strong he was and if he could learn a bit about him before he had to fight him he would welcome it with open arms. Blackbeard was a massive variable in this world. One who could change everything if you don't take him seriously.

"I-I-i don't know. All I know is that the captain had a massive scar on his chest. It looked like three long lines, like an eagle attacked him. But it was also burned badly. That's all I know." Kai hummed for a bit in thought. That was obviously Marco. He kept thinking before speaking up again. "Pineapple, huh. Alright 'King' Wapol. What about fire? Did that work on him? Obviously you must have used it when you saw his burns right?"

Wapol started sweating deeply. "I-I didn't think about that. So I don't know." Kai sighed. He thought out loud for a bit. "It should work though, fire give off light after all, it's like a natural counter, if I just tell HIM not to touch Teach then he should be able to hurt him, I just don't know how good Teach's haki and other stuff are. Dammit, he's too mysterious." Everyone on the ship was very confused and were looking at Kai who just sheathed his sword.

"This is for Vivi." Kai said. Wapol asked. "Wha-" before getting a punch to the face from Kai sending him flying off the ship into the air so far he became a little star in the sky and disappeared. Kai could have sworn he heard. "I'm blasting off againnnn." But just assumed he heard wrong. "Wapol-sama!" Everyone on his ship yelled as they chased after him. "He can't swim! We need to go fast!" They yelled as they picked up the pace of their rowing.

Kai looked at his fist for a while with a huge smile on his face. "That felt good. I've wanted to do that for 6 years after all. I always hated that shitty king." Everyone was confused and Vivi laughed. "Vihehehe. Thanks Fujin, I've wanted to see that for 6 years too. Is that why you took off your coat?" Kai nodded. "It would be pretty bad if a marine punched a king in the face after all. Even if he tried to start a war by hitting a princess and abandoned his kingdom. He is technically still a king after all. I never understood that anyway. They never would have won that war."

Viv just nodded. "He is terrible at politics. I can't fathom how he is still king." Everyone else was confused by this until Kai and Vivi explained how they met. Leaving out the part about Kai using a mysterious power to help her. The crew was shocked about this. What a shitty king!

Kai went to his room and grabbed his marine coat again before walking back out. He went up to the crows nest and sat down on the railing smoking. His den den mushi rang and he picked it up.

"Hello, this is Aunty Jenn's seafood restaurant and aquarium. Where yesterday's fish are today's dish. How may I help you?"

"Smokokoko. That one was pretty good, brat." Smoker laughed at Kai's joke.

"Thanks. What's got you in such a good mood Smokey? Did you finally get the balls to ask Hina out?"

"... She asked me." Smoker said after a long pause. Kai didn't say anything for 8 minutes and Smoker yelled. "Say something!" Kai waited for one more minute not saying anything for a total of 9 minutes.

"WAHAHAHAAHAHA! Smokey! You made her ask you???? Wahahahaha! You need to grow some balls! I know a guy actually. He already has one happy customer. *cough* Croc *cough*"

"Shut it brat! At least I have a date! What about you? I haven't heard anything about you and a woman since you arrived in marineford!"

Kai scoffed. "Smokey, Smokey, Smokey, I'm just waiting for the right one. Do you have any idea how hard it is to ward off all these hyenas when you're as handsome as me? Besides, I met a pretty cute devil recently."

"Handsome my ass. You don't even show your face, brat. Did you forget you wear a mask?"

"Why do you think I wear the mask Smokey? It would be game over for you and everyone else if I took this thing off. I'm doing this for the good of the world. If everyone fell for me all at once I wouldn't know what to do."

"*sigh* Whatever you say brat. Any news on the Straw Hats?"

"Yeah, I got a tip that they were going to Alabasta soon. We should meet there."

"Is it a reliable tip? Who is it from?"

"One sec. Smokey."

"Hey, are you guys reliable?" Kai called out to the crew.

"Yeah."

Kai nodded. "Yeah, it's reliable."

"You can't just ask them that! Obviously they would say they are reliable! Tell me who it is!"

"Oh, that? His name is Luffy."

"Luffy, Luffy, I don't see any information agencies with that name in the database, but it does sound familiar." Smoker said as he was looking through documents trying to find an information dealer named Luffy.

"Of course it sounds familiar." Kai said as he waited for Smoker to catch on. After 10 minutes of waiting for Kai and of wondering where he heard that name before from for Smoker. Smoker looked up at his wall and saw a certain wanted poster. His eye twitched and a vein appeared on his head. "Did you say Luffy?"

"Yeah. Luffy."

"Straw Hat Luffy?"

"Yeah. That's what I said."

"Was he the one you asked a question before then?"

"Yeah. Who else would it have been?"

Smoker went quiet for 11 minutes. Then. "WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN?! YOUR INFORMATION SOURCE IS THE CAPTAIN OF THE PIRATE CREW YOUR TRYING TO CATCH!"

"Well yeah. The best information does come straight from the source. What's wrong?"

"WHAT'S WRONG?! WHAT'S WRONG!? WHAT DO YOU MEAN WHAT'S WRONG???? WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU FUJIN?? WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING TO STRAW HAT LUFFY RIGHT NOW? WHAT ISLAND ARE YOU ON?!!"

"I'm not on an island. I'm on a boat right now."

"YOUR'RE ON THEIR FUCKING BOAT!?! CATCH THEM! NOW! WHERE ARE YOU GUYS?! I'M COMING!"

Kai looked over to the crew and asked. "Hey. Where are we right now?" Luffy looked up at him after looking at the map. "We are in the Hog hat region of the sea and on our way to Drum Island." Kai nodded. "Thanks."

"I have no clue where Smokey. They just won't tell me."

"FUJIN, I CAN FUCKIN' HEAR THEM TELLING YOU! YOU JUST THANKED HIM FOR TELLING YOU! I'M GONNA FUCKING MURDER YOU! YOU'RE SAILING WITH PIRATES! AS A MARINE!"

"So?"

"SO? SO FUCKING CATCH THEM! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?!!"

"Hmm. A lot. Anyways Hina doesn't like guys who yel- actually wait. Maybe she does? Maybe she's a masochist?"

"YOU'RE DEAD! YOUR FUCKING DEAD FUJIN! I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!"

"*click* Oops, I hung up. Oh well. What was I doing again?... Food! Hey love cook! I'm hungry. Can you make me something?" Sanji clicked his tongue and went to make food. "What's with him?" Kai asked Zoro who had just finished laughing at Smoker. "He said something about only cooking for beautiful women from now on. But I guess he still won't let anyone go hungry no matter what." Kai just chucked. "What a good kid."