Business & Pleasure

After the party that we had on Grand Tesoro and the long night of love making with Baccarat who definitely was going to find girls to take care of me together with her whenever I'm here.

Which I'm fine with so long as they know what there getting themselves into after all once they decide to do that, they'll be my women for good, and I told her to mention that to anyone interested, which she just nodded as she snuggled up to me as we laid in each other's embrace.

But all good things have to come to an end, and it was time for me and my crew to set sail once again back home to the Isle of Man.

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A few days later back at the Isle of Man in my office, I was going over several reports on situations that my crews all across the sea were doing, well most of them anyway, any crews not under my direct command I wasn't getting any info from.

Pizarro was honestly getting bored with being a Mob boss so he passed off the mantle to Mariano instead who took the role in stride, all honesty I just gave it to Pizarro because I thought he would like his king status back but obviously not so he back to being a pirate in West Blue as he goes around looking for more pirates to join his crew.

Shiryu was doing alright in the south blue but besides dealing with pirates and marines his crew mostly just relaxed on there down time as well.

North Blue from what I could tell is that Most of the Amber Lead had been Mined out of the country and soon will have Earth Totems go to Flevance to start both refertilize the land and start making normal plants grow once again.

As for East Blue…. Well from the last message I got from Buggy a few days ago everything seems to be fine with him so that's good, though I get the feeling that he will have to deal with Luffy just like Alvida did, though whether or not he will ask for help is a different story altogether.

On the grand line on the paradise side everything was fine around the Isle of Man and Amazon Lily, though a week ago Vivi had to return home for the next couple of months due to her turning 16 and her needing to get more involved in her country's politics.

And as for the New World, my Smile Orchards were coming along just fine and were being shipped out to Kaido with him paying a good amount of money, soon enough Doflamingo will be cut off completely from Kaido and then that will be the time to take him down, I just got to make him admit what he had done to Dressrosa in the first place, and some of my other crew members, specifically Catarina and Vasco were traveling around the new world taking down crews and either forcing them to join there crews or being killed off for saying no, Sanjuan Wolf was traveling with them as well making him a scary opponent to face when I huge 500 meter tall giant appears and crashed into the sea.

And that was basically it for my crews, though I did get invited once again to this years Fire Festival in Wano since I am the Daimyo of Kibi and me and Kaido have a good relationship, for now that is…

But onto something else because I got a call from someone I had no idea of who it was.

"Hello? Who is this?"

"Ahh! It's him! Big brother we got in contact with Firebrand Vargas!" I woman with a rather sexy voice says on the other line.

There was a bit of a shuffling sounds on the other end before a gruff voiced man came in from the other side.

"Ehem! This is Bear King, Leader of the Trump Pirates! I have gotten in contact with you today to make a business proposal with you." The man who calls himself Bear King says on the other end of the line.

"The Trump Pirates….. aren't you guys who own that island that's built high above the water in East Blue?"

"Hahaha! Looks like you have heard of my Clockwork Island then! Then this will make things easier for me, I want to have a meet up between us and discuss a business deal."

"Alright then, I will come to your clockwork island personally."

"Good! See you then!" He says before he hangs up, I hang up as well.

"Bear King, you better not be wasting my time." I say before I prepare my personal ship and head out on my own.

(A/N Bear King, the Trump Pirates and Clockwork Island are all form the second One Piece Movie, just so you know.)

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A few days later, I was able to approach clockwork island where I came across a ship barring the Jolly Roger of a Bear Head instead of a normal skull.

The ship hailed me down with a rather beautiful and sexy woman doing the hailing, and so I parked my ship right next to there's before jumping onto there deck.

There I came face to face with three people, a man who was rather tall and broad, though his arms didn't seem to match his body as they were skinny and not buff looking while he was wearing this Bear outfit with card aesthetics, specifically the Spade suit of cards.

Next was a rather beautiful woman tall, with shoulder length blonde hair tied in two ponytails in the back and brown eyes with cream color skin, she wore revealing yellow clothes with a purple fur coat with pink spots on it, She also wears red high-heels and a fishnet stocking over her right leg.

And the last guy has long black hair tied up in a ponytail and a stitched scar across his face, extending from the right forehead to the left cheek, He has red marking on the right side of his face, and a tear-like design on the left. He also wears a strapped vest over purple clothes that has diamond design, with a yellow furred collar, Overall, he resembles a court jester to me.

"Firebrand Vargas, I'm glad you could make it, please come have a seat." Bear king says as he leads me over to a table where we all sit down, him in front of me, the woman to my left and the jester looking guy to my right as we sit down.

"Now Bear King, what business deal do you wish to make with me that you called me here?"

"It's quite simple actually, I am currently making a weapon that will help me on my journey to become Pirate King, but with all the skilled engineers and scientists that I have, we only have enough materials to make 1 of these weapons, so I need more gear parts and iron to make more of these weapons."

"Ok, how many?"

"Well I do have a fleet of over 20 ships at my beck and call, and I'd like to have enough materials to make 5 for each ship including this one."

"So since you have one almost made already you want about 99 of them to be made, can you show me the schematics for it?"

Though after I say that he becomes a bit hesitant about me looking at them personally, but I just Scoff at that, "Bear, if I really wanted this weapon and your schematics, we wouldn't be talking here now would we?"

Seeing what I said made sense he pulls out the schematic and shows me this rather large cannon he wants to build, the King Cannon as it is called, it fires cannon shots that are more similar to artillery shells than normal cannon balls so if they hit a ship they could do devastating damage.

Based upon the size they are basically artillery cannons but smaller compared to there normal counter parts.

(A/N you know those antitank guns you find in Battlefield 1? Yeah that's basically a King Cannon but strong enough to heavily damage ships instead.)

"You know that this won't be cheap right? We're talking roughly 3 million berries here to get all the parts you need, though if you don't have enough right now we can have you pay me over time, though I'm gonna have to take something from you as collateral if we do that." Though looking at Bear Kings face, he doesn't have the money at the moment to pay it all off.

"That's a pretty steep price your giving me here you know? I can only do 1 million currently as an up front payment, and the rest I'd have to pay over time…." Bear king says regrettably, after all since East Blue is considered the weaker of the Seas there isn't as much money flowing around here so 1 million is his limit or he won't have enough money to feed himself and his men.

"That's fine, though then what are you going to offer up as collateral then?" This is to give them a reason to keep paying me as when the debt is settled they will get back what they gave to me, but if they can't whatever they hand over I get to keep and they won't get it back.

Bear King had to think about this overall, but then he looked over and saw that Honey Queen, the only woman in his group and his adoptive sister was looking at Vargas longingly, though I ignore it mostly since most women lust over me most of the time now a days so I just get used to it, then he had an idea.

"May I discuss something with my crew about what we can use as collateral?"

"Sure take your time, I can wait a bit." I say as I lean back and pull out a cigar before lighting it as I wait for them to discuss what they need to talk about.

After what seemed like a heated discussion where from what I could tell the Jester fellow was against it, but it seemed whatever it was it was 2 v 1 so they went with Bear Kings plan before going back to me.

"We will pay the 1 million now, and the person we will put down as collateral is Honey Queen, she has agreed to stay with you until we have payed off our debt of the remaining 2 million berries."

"…. Alright fine, I'll take the payment of 1 million berries and Honey Queen along with me, and in a few days you will begin to receive shipments of materials needed to make you King Cannons." I say before we both shake on it.

And with that said his men came back and put several chests full of berries on my ship and Honey Queen also boarding my ship, then both me and Bear King signed a contract about our business deal before handing him a copy while I kept the original, and with that we said our goodbyes before I set back out to home.

"So I guess you wanted to be the collateral from what I could tell?" I say looking at Honey Queen who was currently looking over at me with a seductive look while I was sailing the ship back across the Calm Belt and towards home as I usually do.

"Of course, I do love my brothers and all, but I know personally that there dream of being Pirate King is a pipe dream, if they can achieve it I'll be happy for them, but I'd rather be somewhere far from them because I feel in the end it's destined to fail, so why not go along with someone who actually has made a true mark on the world?" She says as she comes up to me and wraps her arms around my neck from behind.

"You know I have plenty of beautiful women at my side, are you sure about this?"

"Well it's better than what I had, plus I get out and see the grand line and see what it's like there."

"Well besides it being more dangerous than East Blue, it's basically the same, though there are many more marines here that normal pirates have to deal with."

"Mmm sounds interesting then, I think I'm gonna like it here in the Grand Line."

"Well I hope you do, and don't worry I'll help you get stronger than you are so you can survive down here." But she just smiles at that before letting go and taking her seat once again as we let the Yuda lead us home.

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Though somewhere else in East Blue a certain Clown was having a terrible time, his plans for Orange Town were ruined by that Strawhat kid, his sword friend and that purple haired girl who stole all of his stuff.

Then he and his crew were beaten to a pulp, and when he was going in for an attack on the straw hat kid his entire body minus his head, hands and feet were taken from him before he was launched off Orange Town and he was very lucky to be alive and somehow landed on a small island and not in the sea, if he did he knew he'd be dead.

So with his remaining knives he cut down a few trees and built himself a makeshift raft and was currently paddling out to sea, while trying to not be attacked by sharks, and if he is fend them off with his remaining knives.

"Dammit!!! I'll get you Straw Hat Kid if it's the last thing I do…. But first I better find the rest of my body, I just need to get back to Orange Town to get my body back and somehow find my crew….. No Buggy your not gonna ask him for help, this might be a desperate situation but you've been through worse just get there, get your body back, and find your crAHHHHHH!" He was suddenly cut off as another shark decided to attack his small raft but he was lucky enough to hit it in its face with his knives and kill it so he was safe for now.

"DAMN YOU STRAW HAT!!!!" He says in fury as he begins to paddle harder and harder to get back to Orange Town as soon as possible.