One Piece Fan Fiction ❯ One Piece - An Uncharted World ❯ Dusty Map ( Chapter 2 )

Chapter II - Dusty Map

What? That is impossible! This kid is the Pirate King!? But he can't even be that much older than me! Jeran's eyes showed a definite speculation about what Luffy was telling him, but the goofy looking boy had broken him out, and he wasn't going to deny the help of a stranger that busted him from his prison. “T-Thanks…And since you introduced yourself, my name is Jeran Kedamono.”

 

Luffy nodded and turned towards the open door, but before he could escape with Jeran, the steel door was thrown upward and through the ceiling as Terry recovered and now barred their path. “Eh!? Who is this guy?” He bawled his hands into fists and held them up in front of his face in a defensive position in order to fight the new threat before them. “Get out of our way!”

 

“I cannot do that,” Terry declared, gritting his teeth slightly as his body slowly became coated in polished, tough steel that made him resemble a metallic statue or a robot, “Unfortunately for you, I have to take you both down right here and right now, and that way you can join your friends at the stocks.”

 

Back where Zoro and Paulie were facing the other three Marine Captains, the green haired swordsman was cutting through multiple phantom copies of Hiruma while being attacked by a constant spray of bullets that were piercing through the crowd of fake duplicates. “Damn it…Just where is this bastard hiding!?”

 

Paulie threw out his rope in an attempt to grab Rick in a constricting grip, but he was unable to catch the blonde haired Captain as he dodged quickly out of the way in a dancing motion, spinning around on the tip of his foot and turning back to face the Shipwright.

 

“You'll never touch me like that,” Rick retaliated in a cold voice, “The powers of the Cha Cha Fruit allow me to see your attacks and dance around them with relative ease, therefore no matter how strong you are, or how fast you are, you will never touch me.” He slid out of the way again in order to avoid another one of Paulie's attacks and caught the rope as it passed by him. Tugging sharply on it, Rick pulled the other man in his direction and lifted him into the air, spinning him around and jumping up to land on his back. “Cha Cha Tango!” The rotation from Rick caused Paulie to start doing so as well, and with his opponent as the head of it, the vicious Marine Captain was moving as fast as a drill before contacting the ground and ripping up the earth while Paulie was injured heavily from the attack. “Well, that takes care of you, then, and now it only leaves Roronoa Zoro…Three on one will be too much for him…”

 

Despite how strong Zoro was, he was unable to defeat Kuragari and Hiruma while they were using stealth maneuvers in order to fight against him. “Shit…Why can't you bastards fight me like normal fighters instead of disappearing and moving around like that?”

 

“That is the whole point of it,” Kuragari replied, smirking faintly and disappearing from sight again before appearing behind Zoro, “Because you see…you cannot hit what you cannot see…Karasu Hari!” The feathers flew off of his wings like arrows and stuck into the swordsman's back several times before Hiruma brought him to the ground with a fierce gunshot from a rifle to his leg.

 

From the midst of Hiruma's phantom clones, the Marine himself walked out and stood over Roronoa, reaching back with his foot and kicking him in the ribs to keep him down. “Let's take them back to the Marine Base…” He reached down and picked up the unconscious man and draped him over the shoulder in order to carry him back to the prison where Jeran was supposedly still being held.

 

A sinister chuckle escaped from Rick after he tied up Paulie with his own ropes and started to haul him back along with his companions. “That's two of the Straw Hats that we have managed to capture already, and we were actually worried that fighting these guys would be a problem.” The three of them arrived back at the Marine Base in a short amount of time and started towards the holding cells in the basement of their headquarters.

 

A metal hand rose up and caught Luffy's punch as it flew right for Terry's face, and the metallic Marine smirked widely, drawing back his other hand and slamming the fist right into the boy's cheek, sending his head stretching back and soaring past Jeran. “You're the one who ate the Gomu Gomu Fruit, but even if you're made out of rubber, you won't stand up to my blows for very long!”

 

“This isn't a spectator sport!” Jeran shouted, taking on his full beast Wolf form and producing vicious looking claws from his hands. “I told you that once I was free, I was going to tear you a new one, Terry…and I always keep my promises!” Using the incredible strength in his legs, he lunged forward and immediately found his claws gripping Terry's throat, forcing him away from Luffy and slamming him against the walls of the dungeon. “Somehow I doubt that your metal body will be enough to stop me from rending your flesh!” He lifted his left hand up in order to strike him down, but the other man retaliated quickly and blocked it with the metal bat that he had created from spare scraps.

 

A cocky smirk crossed the Marine's face as he pushed Jeran back and shifted his right arm into a rapid firing gun, “You did not honestly think that it would be so easy to overpower a Captain, did you!?” A spray of bullets began to fire erratically in the exposed space, but they were all for nothing when Luffy jumped in front of Terry, taking all of the shots and simply sending them back at him due to the reflective impact of his rubbery body. “Of course…You being rubber makes you immune to bullets and most projectiles…”

 

“Gomu Gomu no Bullet!” Luffy shouted, stretching his arm back and past Jeran before bringing it forth quickly in order to deal a devastating blow to Terry's exposed abdomen, but the metallic man changed his chest composition and caused steel spikes to burst out; however, the punch did not stop and Luffy's fist simply rammed into his stomach despite being pierced by the sharp spikes.

 

Violent coughs and gags began to escape from Terry after he spat out blood and saliva, “I never expected you to actually continue with your attack after seeing the spikes…You really are a bold one.” His eyes rolled into the back of his head when he collapsed forward and hit the ground with a loud thud of his steel hitting the stone floor of the dungeon.

 

Frowning slightly, Jeran walked out of the dungeon and headed up the stairs into the main part of the Marine Base to see that all of the lower ranking officers had been wiped out completely. Luffy should have killed that Marine Captain…He defeated him, though, and I did not, so it is his decision what to do with him…

 

Just as soon as Jeran was about the turn the corner, Kuragari came face to face with him, and blinked for a couple of seconds before realizing the situation at hand, “You escaped!? How the hell did you manage to get out of your prison!?”

 

A surprised gasp escaped from both Luffy and Jeran, but the rubber boy interrupted and ran in front of the wolf boy. “Zoro! Paulie! What did you bastards do to them!?” Without hesitation, he drew back his fist and aimed a swift punch to Kuragari, who just barely managed to avoid it by flattening himself against the wall. “I'll kick your asses!”

 

Rick, who had been carrying Paulie, took Zoro off of Hiruma's hands and began to walk away from the battle that was undoubtedly going to break out. “You two take care of them and I'll take Roronoa and this rope guy to the other prison.” He disappeared from sight quickly after walking down one of the many corridors in the base.

 

“This is a very confined space, Kuragari-san,” Hiruma stated, pulling out his double barrel rifles and holding them at the ready, facing both Luffy and Jeran, “Should we not take it outside?”

 

There was no time for a response from Kuragari as an elongated leg belonging to Luffy began to smash through the ceiling several times and cause most of the room they were in the come crashing down around them and opening up the space a lot more, “Well…I guess that answers your question, doesn't it, Hiruma?” The raven shifted to his half-beast form and took flight into the air away from both of the Pirates below him. “You take the wolf! Their Captain is mine!”

 

With an intimidating howl, Jeran dropped to all fours and rushed over to Hiruma, only to be surrounded by dozens of clones of him all wielding rifles and pointing them at him. “What is this? Some kind of magic!?” Before he could react, a sharp pain pierced into his shoulder as one of the rifle bullets dug into him from the crowd of copies. “Fine…If that's how you want to do it, then I'll just tear through you all until I find the real one! Garou Garou no Tsume!” Leaping into the air and spinning around with a rapid centrifugal force, Jeran turned into a violent maelstrom of rotating claws and fangs that literally ripped through each of the clones, causing them to dissolve into a shadow-like mist. I see…They're just phantoms! So the real one must be hiding here somewhere!

 

“Fantomu Shuuto!” Several of the phantoms dissolved and were drawn into Hiruma's gun before being fired out as bullets. He'll never get which one is the real one…Four are fake while only one is real!

 

The powerful rotation never stopped as Jeran headed in the direction that the shots were fired from, taking a bullet right to his leg and cringing in pain, but he still did not cease as he came upon Hiruma and tackled right into him, ripping into his body and tearing up his Marine uniform, sending cloth and blood spraying everywhere.

 

“If I am to die here, then we'll die together!” Hiruma declared, lifting up his rifle and putting it right to Jeran's chest, and without hesitation, the trigger was pulled and another bullet plowed right through him, tearing through his skin and coming out the other side completely, causing his own blood to go flying. “No Pirate is allowed to live…!”

 

With the battle ended, both Hiruma and Jeran slammed into the ground and went sprawling about while Luffy and Kuragari fought further away.

 

“Stop hiding, you bird brain!” Luffy shouted, becoming impatient and trying to watch Kuragari as he flew around and used his vanishing acts to confuse him. “How do you expect us to fight if I can't even hit you!?”

 

“Karasu Arashi!” In a hail of black feathers, Kuragari appeared behind Luffy and held out his right arm, causing his feathers to stand up on end and sharpen to the consistency of a blade. “Karasu Katana!” Swiping out with it, he aimed to take off the Pirate King's head, but that was denied when his opponent quickly, and seemingly instinctively, dodged out of the way.

 

With a wide grin, Luffy reached up with his hand and grabbed Kuragari's arm, twisting around and looking up at him with his confident expression. “I've gotcha now!” His free arm wound up like a screw as he stretched it back and then quickly brought it forward, slamming it into Kuragari's stomach, knocking the air out of him and sending him flying back. “Gomu Gomu no Rifle!”

 

Kuragari slammed into one of the walls that were still intact, but also went right through it due to the impact of the punch delivered to him by Luffy; his arm took a great deal of damage and the bones inside of it quickly became battered to the point of breaking. “Aghhh!” He screamed in pain and fell to the ground, shifting to his human form and biting his lip to ignore the sharp jolts shooting through his broken arm. “I was aware of his strength, but I sorely underestimated his speed…This is bad…With Rick being the only one left to fight, I don't think that we'll stand a chance anymore…” Those were his final words before he simply collapsed forward and passed out due to the pain.

 

“Phew, that was pretty dangerous,” Luffy said confidently, putting a hand up to his Straw Hat and patting it slightly to make sure that it was still there, “I guess I should go find Zoro and Paulie now!” With that declaration stated, he started to run in the direction of which Rick carried them off, but he would not be running for long as his two nakama came walking up to him with a couple of scrapes and bruises covering their body. “Yo! You guys got away from him?”

 

Zoro nodded in response and put a hand to his shoulder, moving it around a bit and sighing, “He did cause us some trouble, but Paulie managed to tie him up, and we just decided to leave him there…I suggest we leave this Island before anything else befalls us…”

 

“Hey,” Paulie began, lighting up a cigar and looking over at Jeran's fallen, bleeding form, “He looks like he could use some medical treatment, but we wouldn't have time to take him to Chopper…This could be pretty bad…”

 

“Psst…Hey…Over here…” A faint voice called out to them as Zoro spotted a man in a tattered, brown cloak waved at them from a dark alleyway, “Yeah, you guys…Pick up the boy and bring him over here and I'll treat him for you…”

 

A wary glance was cast upon the stranger by Zoro as he slowly reached for his swords, but Luffy picked up Jeran and walked over to the stranger, listening to what he said and taking him into the alley, which lead to a small building that resembled a shack. On the front of it above the door was a dust covered Red Cross the signaled a Hospital, although not a very large one.

 

Pulling out an old fashioned key, the supposed owner of the Hospital unlocked the door and opened it, ushering them all inside quickly before closing it and locking it back, “Hurry up and set him down on the bed in that room behind us and I'll heal his wounds,” He followed Luffy into the room he pointed out to him and stood over Jeran after the black haired boy set him down. “A bullet in the shoulder, leg, and a large bullet wound from a rifle in the chest near his heart…That is quite lethal, but it is nothing I cannot take care of.” His hands hovered down to Jeran's body and a blue light emanated from them onto him, closing up the bullet hole, removing the two bullets, and then closing up the other holes as well.

 

The three Pirates standing opposite the Doctor could only watch on in amazement as he used an inhuman ability to heal the fallen teenager.

 

“That was incredible!” Luffy exclaimed, his mouth opening wide with excitement as he patted his hands on the Doctor's shoulders roughly, causing him to stumble slightly and nearly fall onto the bed himself.

 

“Be quiet…!” The man snapped back with as soft a voice as possible, but he was also stern with his words. “You cannot make so much noise when there is an injured patient…” After he managed to silence them, he slowly went about treating their wounds with his restorative powers and ushered them back into the front room so that Jeran could rest. The room was covered in dust as well as maps all on the walls and the tables and desks and chairs, so there were very few places to sit down.

 

Paulie eyed the maps rather appreciatively, since he had an eye for sketch works due to his job as a Shipwright, “Hey, Doctor…What are these maps of?”

 

The man, who Paulie had affectionately dubbed “Doctor” glanced up at him after closing the door and lightly put a hand behind his head, “Oh…Those are maps of that Unknown World that the Marines were keeping concealed to the rest of the world so that they could gain supremacy over them without having to worry about Pirates invading the territory…I used to work for the Marines as a Doctor, so that is how I have such knowledge, but after I quit that job and worked here in town as the town's only Doctor that would treat for free, they started to barge in here and smash up the place while demanding that I sell the property to them for something more important, but I refused, and in consequence to them breaking and entering, I simply snatched all of the maps while they were distracted and I kept them for myself.”

 

“Can we have them?” Luffy asked right out of the blue, popping up beside Doctor and grinning widely as usual. “We're Pirates, and we don't like the Marines either, so why not put the maps to good use and let us use them? Our Navigator is great and I'm sure she can decode these maps despite how old and dusty they are.”

 

Doctor pulled back his hood, revealing his fiery red hair, green eyes, and fair complexion as a smile crossed his face, “Well…Why the hell not? You've got yourself a deal there, kid.”

 

Author's Notes: Allow me to translate some stuff for you guys if you do not know the meanings of the words.

Cha Cha Fruit - Dance Dance Fruit

Karasu Hari - Raven Needle

Gomu Gomu Fruit - Rubber Fruit

Garou Garou no Tsume - Wolf Claw

Fantomu Shuuto - Phantom Shot

Karasu Arashi - Raven Storm

Karasu Katana - Raven Sword