330. Island

It's been 3 days since the war, but the crew hasn't reached the next island yet. Right now, The Clown Pirates are sailing slowly because the weather is quite good. There's also something that Buggy needs to do, so they need to slow down.

Currently, Buggy and Deon's information team are keeping tabs on the crew's families, Marine, & WG. They've sent men to look after their families since the war ended. The Marine & WG might do something even though Buggy has warned them, so he increased the protection for his & his crewmates' families.

"There is still no movement from Marine & WG that indicate an attempt to find our families. All Marine bases that we spied on are focused on the increasing pirate activities," says Deon.

In the last 3 days, a sudden increase of activities on all seas happened. The Marine's defeat has made most pirate crews that want One Piece hastened their plan. Many pirate crews have entered Grandline in just 3 days.

The crews that haven't moved when the news of Clown Pirates' attempt to reach the last island spread have finally moved now. They didn't take it seriously before, but Marine's defeat has made them realize that the Clown Pirates' success rate is high. If they don't move now, they won't have any chance at all.

Also, the defeat of such a strong Marine fleet led by both Garp & Sengoku has dropped the Marine's and people's morale. So this is the best time for pirates to move, or so they thought. These small pirate crews from Blues just don't know Grandline's horror yet.

The challenges on Grandline aren't just Marine, there is still weather, the sea itself, and even other pirate crews. Most of the time, the Marine doesn't even need to move, and the number of pirate crews will reduce naturally.

Even so, the Marine still needs to move and maintain peace. The defeat of their strongest fleet didn't make them depressed. Instead, it made them even more motivated, or angry to be precise.

The world is looking down on them right now, so they want to prove to the world that they are still as tall & firm as ever. Sengoku is very good at speech and he could prevent Marine's morale from dropping too much.

He made the soldiers realize that he & Garp are still humans, and they can lose. However, if they stop enacting justice just because of a loss, then peace will never be created. His speech was sent to all Marine bases and it made the Marine gets motivated to get stronger as a whole.

So right now, in contrast to what these small pirate crews thought, The Marine doesn't get weaker. They get more determined instead and they want to stop all these pirate crews. So now, the Marine is busy with the pirate crews, and they leave the Clown Pirates alone.

Even so, Buggy needs to stay vigilant because he knows that WG can always make dirty moves, dirtier than what pirates can do. So his crew keeps updating their information 24/7. They are so focused on it that they don't realize a week has passed and they arrive on an island.

This island is a medium-sized island without any town or even a village from what the Clowns can see. There are only ruins here, maybe the result of a long war on the Country that once stood here. But this island looks normal with many green trees growing on it.

"Damn, it's hot here," says Palu as he takes a step on the island.

"Yeah, I'm amazed this place isn't a desert despite having this level of temperature," says Enel.

"What should we do, Lord? There's no village or town from what we can see. These ruins also seem untouched for a long time," says Cricket while looking at the ruins on the coastline.

"Maybe there's a small town or village hidden behind that forest. We need to explore it and get information. At the very least, we need to refill our supplies while staying here to charge the Log Pose. Everyone except for Deon's team explores this island in groups. Find as many things as you can and return before night. Deon, you stay here with your team and keep up the work," says Buggy.

Everyone nods before they start working on their tasks. They all know they need to act fast on such an unknown and strange island. The crew has visited many uninhabited islands, so they already know what to do.

While his crewmates do their tasks, Buggy stays on the ship with Deon's team. He wants to keep updated on the situations around the world. He plans to keep doing this for a month to make sure that everything will be fine.

But suddenly, a blizzard appears on the island even though it was very hot just a moment ago. Buggy tells Deon to call their crewmates back immediately because the blizzard is strong. Then right after they all returned, the weather changes again into a very strong rain.

"What the hell?! It changes again," says Enel.

"This is New World, so this can happen," says Cricket.

"But this kind of change always happens on the sea. It's the first time we find an island that gets its weather change in an hour," says Enel.

Enel is right, usually, such a fast change of weather happened on the sea. Even on Grandline's islands, weather can last for quite a long time. The weather will last for at least a few days before it changes, not an hour.

Buggy orders his crew to stay on the ship first and observe the island's weather for now. They do as he says and keep looking at the weather. After observing for a day, they confirm that the weather changes almost every hour, it changes 25 times a day. The weather types range from mild ones to horrible ones.

"This island is really absurd. We haven't explored the whole area, but I'm sure there's no one living here," says Enel.

"You don't hear any voice?" asks Palu.

"No, at least not from people, I only heard animals on a few locations since yesterday," says Enel.

"It's good enough if there are animals here. That means we can hunt and there are edible plants on this island. There should also be water here, so we will gather all of them. The only problem is we don't know how long it will take for the Log Pose to set," says Buggy.

"How will we gather them if the weather keeps changing like this?" asks Manba as the weather changes from warm to thunderous.

"Ruff & Dela are working on suits that will protect us in all weather so we won't need to change clothes. It will take a while, so we'll stay on the ship till he finishes," says Buggy.

They agree and stay on the ship that floats near the island. The next day, something happens, but it's not Ruff & Dela finishing the suits. A ship approaches the island and surprisingly, it's a Marine ship.

The Clowns are looking at it calmly as the ship approaches them. They don't attack because the Marine unit on that ship has announced their arrival and they don't want to fight. So Buggy tells his crew to just watch for now.

Surprisingly, the Marine unit is led by an old Vice-Admiral that will retire soon, Vice-Admiral Ancott. Well, he is in charge of the closest Marine base from here, so it's understandable. However, there are also some WG agents, CP0 agents to be precise.

"So, what do Marine & CP0 wants from us? Just a warning, but we aren't in the mood to play around with you," asks Buggy.

"Clown Lord, we don't want a fight, we just want to offer a proposal from the 5 elders," says an agent.

Buggy stays silent for a moment before saying, "Go on."

"20 years, we offer you a 20 years treaty. We won't touch any of your territories and your families. In exchange, you need to stay silent about what you know. After 20 years, we will discuss it again," says the agent.

Buggy is quite surprised before he grins, "Well, would you look at this? The 5 elders are scared, aren't they? Still, they want to negotiate with me through these puppets? They are not taking me seriously. Tell those old bastards that if they want to talk to me, they better those wrinkly feet of theirs in front of me. Don't think that they can just tell me what to do while they sit on their rotten chairs on Mary Geoise. They better come down here or I will drag them down along with that fookin Sinful City. I will wait here for a few days."

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