Chapter 39: The Alabasta Poneglyph 1

Alubarna Palace

In front of a man sitting on a throne, a tall man with a noticeable scar on the bridge of his nose was seen kneeling. As everyone might know, this man was Crocodile.

"So King Cobra, here I had helped you caught the culprit of the drought in Alabasta. Don't worry, right now he was just a man without any power within."

"Shichibukai Crocodile?! Shouldn't you work together with the World Government?! Why are you doing this?!" Cobra was shocked silly when he know Crocodile was the one responsible on the drought.

"It was a useless attempt asking him. He didn't have the energy to answer it. Well, I will answer in his stead. He planned this so that the civilians of Alabasta would start a rebellion against you. Then, he will used the rebellions as a chance to usurp the position of Alabasta Ruler. Another target of his was the poneglyph that was being kept inside of the Palace"

Again, Cobra was shocked with the revelations that were made by Narmi. Never could he expect all this drought was only a means for Crocodile to get the poneglyph.

Suddenly, tears started to fall down on Cobra's cheeks. He felt greatly hurt because of this revelations. His civilians suffered so much from this, and he couldn't help but thought that he was a failure as a King to his subjects.

Narmi knew what Cobra were thinking, so he said.

"Wipe your tears, King Cobra. All of this wasn't your fault. You weren't a failure of a king. Instead, you were an honorable king. You didn't hesitate to jump on the chance that I had presented, only because you thought of the citizens that reside in Alabasta. For this, you are worthy of my bow."

Narmi bowed slightly. Nevertheless, it could still can be count as a bow. Cobra, the receiver of the bow, just smiled and stood proudly when Narmi said that. This was because Narmi's action and statement before this which said that he didn't bow to anyone.

"Thank you, Narmi Amsi. Well, you had done the part of your deal. Follow me, I will lead you towards the room in which the poneglyph were being stored. But before that…."

Cobra said before turning his heads towards the guards and ordered.

"Guards! Arrest this man and put him into the prison. We will hand him to the Marines after this. Do not attempt to call the Marines right. This gentleman here was the saviour of Alabasta. We would give him the hospitality he needed for as long as he stay here."

Then, he signalled for Narmi and the others to follow him, before he started to walked away. All of them quickly walked following the pace of Cobra.

While walking, Cobra and Narmi had a little chat among themselves. They talked about their backgrounds in which Narmi lied about his. He couldn't said that he was from another world. He just stated that he was from Foosha Village.

"King Cobra, don't you have family?"

"Yeah, I have only my daughter that were living with me right now. My wife had long been gone when my daughter were still young."

"It must be painful for you, when you lose your wife. So, where is your daughter? I haven't seen her yet."

"Haha right now she was with her maid in her room. I usually gave her freedom on what she want to do. And so, how about your family?"

"My family I guess I only have an old man at Foosha Village. As of my wife, although we were not married yet, this girl here with black hair, she would be considered as my wife. Nico Robin was her name. While the others in my crew, all of them I considered as my family."

"That girl with orange hair was called Nami. The man with sword in his hands, he was name Trafalgar Law. While the large-build man, he was our cook, Henry Rock."

Narmi introduce Nico Robin and the others towards Cobra. Cobra bowed slightly towards them because as of now, there were no one around, and also all of them was Narmi's family and crew member. Naturally, he acted respectfully towards them.

After walking for a while, finally they reached at the Tomb of The Kings. Cobra then head towards a statue of Sea Cat and proceed to turned it. And when he done so, suddenly one part of the ground was lifted and revealed a staircase leading underground.

"We kept the poneglyph underground to protect it as that was the duty passed down over generations."

"Though, I might add it wasn't to protect it King Cobra, rather it was World Government's intention of hiding it. Poneglyph was pretty much indestructible. It actually didn't need for any protection." Narmi stated the fact about poneglyph.

Cobra was stunned when he just got a new information on the poneglyph. Before this, he didn't have any information on poneglyph, and he thought it was their duty to protect it.

"Don't worry over the small details, King Cobra. Let's just continue walking towards the poneglyph. Please lead the way."

Not long after they started following the staircase to the underground, finally they reached a big door that was the entrance to the Alabasta Poneglyph Chamber.

"This here was the Alabasta Poneglyph Chamber. You can copy any contents in it. It was our promise after all. If you need anything, I would try to help, but if you need me to read it, I admit that I also didn't know anything about it."

"It's alright. We got our expert here after all. You can just wait for a while. It wouldn't take a long time."

Then, Narmi and the others started to copy the contents of poneglyph, while Robin decipher the contents of it.