12 Chapter 12

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The fight continued as the boy used his great speed to get the drop on the crabs and finish them off quickly. But after finishing Mr Krabs number fifteen, Luffy's movements started getting slower, and he started to huff a bit. And he started to look a bit skinny.

Luffy clicked his tongue, he hadn't used the technique so intensively, and it seemed like it was showing the drawback of the technique. The recoil was hitting hard for Luffy, he needed a break or two, before using it again.

Rather than his muscles returning to normal size, they shrank making him look skinny, as if he didn't eat for a few days.

But then he noticed something, he was surrounded. The last five of the crabs had surrounded him. But were hesitant on attacking him. Luffy clicked his tongue, how was he going to pull that off?

The straw hat boy swept the sweat from his forehead. 'I need some time before I can use my gear 1 again. Those crabs are way tougher than they looked, my punches and kicks won't do shit against them, the only silver lining is I can kill them if I get the drop on them and pierce their heads with my blade.' He panted while thinking.

'But man, it would be useful, if I could practice my Geppo here. I would be able to get out of the tough spot if I could. Even if I don't have full control of it. But the old man would interrogate him later.' He thought, as he took his stance and readied himself.

"You have about ten minutes left, brat."

Biting his lips Luffy tried to calm himself down, not using 'soru', and now this. "Fuck you, gramps!" He muttered to himself. He was sure the man was having a good time with his chips and tea.

"Huh, you said something brat." He said, with a yawn.

Luffy kept shut, 'Stupid old man, and his broken haki.' He sighed, 'Come on Luffy, only five left, you can do it.'

But there was no time as both crabs hit him with their giant claws at the same time.

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Garp watched as he saw Luffy, twist himself like a spring and jump of high in air, avoiding the two of the crabs attack. But Garp wondered how the boy would avoid getting mid-air.

The answer came, as Luffy stretched his limbs and grabbed a dead body of a fallen crab to pull himself back. Missing the attack of one of the crabs that wanted to cut him with his claws.

Garp grinned, the boy was an exceptionally talented fighter. Monkey D.s thrived in battle. Still, his estimation was right, the growth of his grandson was kinda unnatural. He was growing a bit too fast.

But when he looked up how Luffy was training he felt that the unnatural growth made sense. Luffy wasn't playing anymore, he was serious, more determined. Even Garp at that age wasn't like him.

He felt proud that this boy was more talented than both himself and Dragon. He could already see the boy making name for himself in the marines.

But if he wanted to use this talent, he would always need to push himself hard. Only after that, he could reach his true potential.

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Luffy smiled, getting some distance. He was about to charge at them, when he saw one of the dead crabs that he killed a few minutes ago. 'Is it me, or does the shell of crab look loose.'

Not waiting, Luffy ran forward, and garb the shell from one side, and pulled. Surprisingly enough, it wasn't that hardly attached to the dead crab.

And he grinned. "Aui, crabs. Wanna play fetch?" Holding it with both arms, he started spinning the large yellow shell around him with his stretched-out arms, before throwing it towards them, "Gomu Gomu no Yellow Shuriken."

With their huge size, the crabs were a bit slow. And because of that both of the crabs lost a few of their legs due to the flying projectile. Luffy didn't miss the chance and attacked.

Finishing the last one, Luffy panted heavily. 'Yosh! I finally did it. My youth runs wild.' But on a more serious note, his limbs felt like jelly. And to make matters worse..

"I need some meat." He groaned, his whole body hurt, and the fact that he felt hungry. Hungry! For God's sake. His pain failed in comparison to the hunger he felt, how did that work? Anime logic I guess.

The ground shook as Garp came down, laughing, "Bahahaha… you did a great job brat. I trained you well, you will be a fine marine one day."

He was too tired to refuse the old man's claims. So he just snorted.

"Come on, lets roast some crabs for lunch," Garp said, as if he didn't eat a full meal just an hour ago.