CH 21

USOPP! NAMI! DUCK!" Luffy yelled out. They looked back before freaking and ducking, letting an enraged Zoro swat the entire crew away like flies, all the way back down the hill. Everyone looked up to see an oil covered Zoro breathing hard. He finally caught his breath before glaring down at Nami.

"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't cut you to pieces!" he growled out at her.

"Hey, it's not my fault. I tripped, you fell." she said.

"BULLSHIT!"

"Hey Zoro. What took you so long?" Luffy asked, getting a death glare from his first mate.

"Not now Luffy." he growled out.

"This is nuts!" one of the pirates said as they were all picking themselves up from Zoro's attack.

"No one said anything about monsters being in this village!"

"What do we do Captain Jango?!"

While they were all asking Jango what to do, Luffy and his friends were chatting at the top of the hill.

"Why didn't you fight Luffy?" Nami demanded. "You could've used that Haki or whatever and taken them all out with no problem."

"She's right." Usopp said. "All you did was sit there and pick your nose." They both glared at Luffy while Zoro remained silent as Luffy looked at them all.

"Nami," Luffy said as he looked her in the eye. "You want to go to the Grand Line for certain reasons. Right?" he asked, keeping her reason for money to himself.

"Y-yeah." she said before Luffy looked at Usopp.

"Usopp. This is your village, and you want to protect it. Correct?"

"Of course I do." he answered back.

"Well to do that, you both need to get stronger." he said in a calm voice. "I'm strong, but that doesn't mean you need to count of me to do everything." Both of them just looked at him as his words sank in before he continued. "No matter how good you guys are at using tricks or deception, sometimes fighting is the only answer, no matter how much you try to avoid it."

"He's right." Zoro said, gaining there attention. "Whether fighting for your ambitions, your home, or for some other reason, without strength there's nothing you can do." he said as he unsheathed his white blade. "And the only way to do that is either through training or fighting others." Both just let their words sink in before they sighed and turned back to the pirates down the hill.

"Hey, what's he doing down there?" Usopp asked, noticing Jango swinging a ring back and forth in front of everyone else.

"It's Hypnosis." Nami said. "He's trying to hypnotize them all." While the ring swung, Luffy pulled his hat over his eyes, remembering that he went all out last time he stared at the ring. If that happened now, he doubted that the island would still be left after he was done.

"One...Two...JANGO!" Jango said. A moment later, all the pirates gave out a loud battle cry, ignoring their wounds from earlier as one smashed the side of the cliff with his bare hands.

"W-what the fuck?!" Zoro yelled.

"He...smashed the side of the cliff!" Nami gasped.

"And now all of them are that strong." Usopp muttered in horror.

"Hmm. Maybe I'll help this once." Luffy said as Jango ordered them all to attack again. As they charged up the hill, Luffy stood up, his hat covering his eyes as a grin appeared on his face. "You guys asked about that third form of Haki right?"

"Now's not the time Luffy!" Nami screamed at Luffy. Zoro was getting his other swords out but stopped when Luffy held up his hand.

"I got this Zoro." he said as the pirates were nearly upon them. They were a few feet away before Luffy looked up at them all. And then, before anyone knew what had happened, Luffy had let out a controlled blast of Haki at all the pirates. Time seemed to slow down as all the pirates, besides Jango, stumbled and fell, everyone of them unconcious. Luffy just smirked while the others felt their breath catch in their throats as they stared at Luffy wided eyed.

"Oi...Luffy." Zoro managed to say.

"What...was that?" Nami said as Usopp's jaw hit the ground.

"That," Luffy said. "Is Conqueror's Haki."

"Conqueror's Haki?" they all asked.

"It's very rare and said that only one in a million can use it." Luffy explained. "It's basically my willpower against theirs. Since my will was stronger, that happened." he said as he pointed his finger down at the unconcious pirates.

"No way!" Usopp said as he, Nami, and Zoro stared at the scene before them.

"That's...impressive." Zoro said. Nami was stunned speechless as she glanced back and forth between Luffy and the pirates.

'No way. Maybe...' she thought before shaking her head. 'No! I almost have enough. I won't risk their lives. Besides...they're still pirates.'

"This...can't be happening." Jango gasped out. "How did this happen?!" he screamed. "If Captain Kuro sees this, he'll kill us all! He began to sweat before he heard two voices coming from the ship and got an idea. "Since it's come down to this...NYANBAN BROTHERS!" he shouted. At his words, two figures lept from the ship and landed right behind Jango.

"Sham here Captain Jango." said a skinny man with a hunch and green hair.

"Buchi here. What's going on Captain?" said a fat man with a large bell around his neck. Both of them had clawed gloves and cat like features.

"Those kids up there are keeping us from our job." Jango said as he pointed at the four on the hill. "Deal with them."

"W-what?" Sham said as he shook in fear. "But we're just the watchmen."

"No way we can take them on." Buchi said as he coward next to Sham.

"SHUT UP AND ATTACK ALREADY!" Jango ordered.

"What's wrong with those two?" Nami asked.

"They look ready to piss themselves." Zoro said as he walked forward a bit. "So who deals with who?"

"You can have them all to yourself Zoro." Usopp smiled as he waved a bit.

"Yeah, have at em Zoro." Nami said smiling as much as Usopp. Zoro just grunted as Sham came running towards him, waving his claws in the air. He was sounding like a scared kid trying to act tough to a bully as he got closer. Zoro just watched with a bored expression as Sham got closer.

"Keep your guard up Zoro." Luffy said as he watched everything happening in front of him.

"Alright." Zoro said as went for his other swords, but blocked as Sham's cowardly farce faded and attacked him.

"Zoro!" Nami and Usopp shouted as Sham jumped back away from Zoro. Zoro noticed he was missing two of his blades, which were on Sham's back. Sham took his swords and tossed them down the hill. Zoro went to attack Sham, slicing his side before running for his swords, only for Sham to jump onto his back and hold him to the ground for Buchi to jump into the air and stomp his head into the ground. Zoro managed to evade in time before using his one sword to block Sham and Buchi's relentless attack.

"He'll be a scratching post soon." Usopp said as he loaded his slingshot and aimed at the brothers, but was stopped by Luffy.

"Those two will kill you if you do that." he said. "If you want to help, get Zoro his swords."

"I'll get them." Nami said as she made her way past the Zoro and the Nyanban brothers and ran for his swords, not noticing Jango walking up the hill with his ring out. Jango stepped on the blade just as Nami grabbed the blade. She looked up just in time to see the ring coming towards her, but stop just as it pierced the fabric of her shirt on her shoulder.

"That was too close." came Luffy's voice. Nami looked up to see that Luffy had grabbed Jango's arm, preventing Jango from hurting her.

"Hey! Let go you bastard!" Jango yelled as he tried pulling away from Luffy before he turned blue and gasped. Nami just stared before she heard Sham and Buchi gasp in horror. She, Zoro, and Usopp all looked at where they were looking, while Luffy didn't budge as he knew who was there. "C-C-Captain Kuro!" Jango managed to squeek out.

"It's past the appointed time to attack." Kuro said in a calm voice from on top of the hill. "Yet, everyone is unconscious or being held off by children. He adjusted his glasses before bellowing out "WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?!"

Sorry. I guess the fight is next chapter. I apologize and hope you'll all bear with me here.

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