The Merciful Pirate
New World, a cloud fall
Around the New World, there are “sky falls” where clouds from the White Sea drain into a waterfall like path leading to the Blue Sea below. The journey is slow and long but safer than just crashing down into Sea from 50,000 m up.
There was a ship on the skyfall that looked down upon a completely black ship. Mad Monk Urouge commented, “this is what fate brings us upon our return to this sea. It was a disastrous sky island, and Kaido had jumped off. I wonder if it was worse for him.”
“Captain, surely this is the worst luck.”
Another responded, “the New World is vast, there’s probably enough good luck for everyone. Do you think we’ll see any of those supernova we met 2 years ago? Or even the Big Mom Pirates?”
Urouge said, “don’t bring any more luck to us. Let’s first pray to this man, for mercy.” Their ship landed on the deck of this giant black ship. Urouge noticed the crew of the ship had shackles and a crescent stamp on their chest. “This is a slave ship…”
A slave answered, “Hey don’t say it like that. He’s a good master, he feeds and trains us to be the best slaves.”
A huge man touched down shouting “OPA” as he landed. He stood at 300 cm with a burly red beard and a bald head. Well built with many scars, he also shinned an array of white teeth. On his chest was a burn scar in the shape of a crescent. This is Otto “Barbarossa” Heyritten, Captain of the Corsair Company.
“Look at this great catch! It’s ‘Mad Monk’ Urouge with a bounty of 801 million berries!”
“Brother is that how you introduce me to your crew after so long?” Urouge asked.
“Yes but I was trying to cheer myself up. My disappointment, I thought we were gonna see some babes fall off the sky island here! Waaaaah,” he started sobbing loudly.
“If you were waiting for that, we’ll just leave.”
A monk asked, “is this man really your brother?”
“Yes but he fell off the sky islands at five years old, after ripping off his own wings. He became a powerful pirate amongst the likes of Roger, Shiki, and Whitebeard back then, making him a Lurking Legend.”
After Heyritten was consoled by some of the slaves, “Urouge, I wanted to know since you’ve lived a long life, if a monk like you would ‘believe’ me. But you’re a heretic, aren’t you? Because you’re a pirate.”
“It’s not the piracy that kicked me out of the Monastery. Heyritten, what is it you wanted to say?”
“Before I left, I had a dream about the Moon. You know, down here, you don’t get to see the Moon all the time but I’ve learned to chase its sightings. Anyways, I had a dream about the Moon….”
Time Passed…
Urouge answered, “I see. Now I understand why you have these slaves and why you train them. But you think your role is to make the moon shine…before the Dawn? When is that exactly?”
Heyritten answered, “how long have you been gone? Kaido was defeated by a white haired Luffy as reported by Morgans. My calculations place the Dawn at the end of this year. I must be ready and find my shiner. Wouldn’t you want to join me, brother?”
“We haven’t seen each other in 45 years. Are we really even brothers?”
Heyritten laughed, “barbarbarbarbar! Tis true. Brother, why did you join the Monastery if you were just going to be a heretic?”
“I see, you’re implying my destiny was just to become a heretic. As you might know, the Monastery studies all things fundamental such as time. My heresy is using strength to power myself. The damage I take in battle is karma for every sin but then I take that karma and become stronger than the enemy.”
“I see, something told me to ask you that question so I could tell you this, let’s turn the karma of all the Celestial Dragons upon themselves. We can do this in our own ways! Barbarbarbar, this is my dream of the Moon!”
“Fine, Heyritten, we’ll join you. This sea has changed too much for me to not accept a good omen. But me and my crew will never be one of my slaves.”
“That’s a fair trade! Now I need to make my way towards a contact. Urouge, have you heard about the mysterious black ship swallowing fools in whirlpools?”
“Yes, I see too that is you, right?”
“Not just me but my pet sea king, the Kraken. Barbarbarbar, being a pirate is so much fun! Hey Kraken, we’re going,” Heyritten shouted. The monster under the deep responded, ‘I know I know, we’re getting closer to the All Blue’.
Heyritten wrapped his arm around Urouge, “hey wanna see my new skit? It’s about a guy who can’t laugh.” Heyritten then put on a weeping face mask. “Xeheheh, I laugh at all those who are troubled because they could never be as troubled as me. I am the great loser, Xebec!”….
“Gyahahahaha,” BOOM, Buggy exploded. Apoo pounded chest again and exploded Buggy across the sky. Queen reattached himself bragging, “not like getting cut in half will stop a genius like me!”
“Oh well, I’m done,” Mihawk said to the fodder crew mates turning around.
Crocodile and Daz returned to the rest of the Clown officers collapsed on the ground. Crocodile pointed at Judge, “I appreciate that you continue to stand there, but also you should just join our side. You partied with us last night so you deserve to be with us.”
“That’s not how an alliance works and I’m a monarch! I’m not choosing between two evils!”
Apoo and Queen shouted, “you stay neutral!”
Behind the dead Doki, Caesar complained, “trouble follows me wherever I go ever since I met Doflamingo. I’m hoping this Judge alliance would be my final stair into freedom but you still had to be here.”
Buggy shrugged, “hey you guys can still do whatever you want, I just want the gold that Apoo is hiding.”
“So Queen should just leave Apoo.”
“So Queen should just leave Apoo,” Buggy repeated.
Caesar and Buggy both leaped into the air shouting, “SO QUEEN SHOULD JUST LEAVE APOO!”
“NO! You guys are the worst!” Apoo and Queen shouted.
Then three more Numbers started rushing over to this coast. Buggy was shocked and Caesar sighed. “What’s with all the ruckus?” asked the saber-tooth tiger man, Kuan “Who of the Droplets” Habdurra, the Captain of the Nine Clawed Pirates. The Numbers blocked the Clown group from the ship and Judge group from their ship with the last one blocking escape to empty land. The nine cats jumped off the numbers and then stood amongst Apoo and Queen. Habdurra was in his hybrid form already. He growled and spoke, “what kind of stupid invasion is this?”
Buggy hid behind Caesar, “who the hell are you?”
“Who indeed,” Habdurra responded.
Queen shouted, “this is one of the Topi Roppo and previously a member of the CP9, you couldn’t handle him Buggy.”
“I just wanted treasure,” Buggy muttered.
Habdurra stated, “Buggy, we’re already connected more than you know. Shanks is your fellow crewmate on Roger’s crew, the same Shanks who stole the Gumo Gumo from me. Jinbe, the man who rescued Gumo Gumo Luffy from Akainu, who personally fired me, was the same man you caught in the Paramount War. Because you did, Jinbe was able to defeat me just last week and Luffy defeated Kaido. You’re the reason we’re hiding out here!”
“No, it sounds like I never met you so we’re not connected at all! Get a day job, loser!”
“You’re still hiding behind me,” Caesar pointed out.
“Fuck, I had to meet up with my other contact by the end of the day,” Apoo admitted to Queen. “That’s when our friendship was going to end.”
“Well we’re still friends right now. Even with Mihawk standing out there, we should be able to take care of the hoodlums here.”
Mihawk took a seat and opened the newspapers, he quietly said “they’ll obviously lose without me. They could just argue for a Davy Back fight over the gold.” A crewman heard this and said, “oh that’s what we should do! To make it fair for Apoo’s team or otherwise, Buggy will crush them.” Someone else argued, “and Buggy is always merciful”. So they all started chanting, “Davy Back Fight! Davy Back Fight!”
Buggy’s face gleamed. He lowered to his gang while holding on to Caesar, “the nine of us and Mihawk challenge you to a Davy Back Fight over the Kaido gold you have on this island!”
Apoo argued, “you haven’t even seen it yet!”
Buggy tossed him a pistol, “listen up. Just grab your own crew of nine and we’ll have a three round Fight for the gold. Fair and square, like pirates.”
“Ten….did you just steal Caesar?”
“Wait what!! You idiot,” Caesar shouted.
“Shut up, I’m cooking here.”
“Good job Captain,” Alvida, Perona, and Galdino said with a thumbs up. “Look over here Gassy.”
“huh? Gassy?”
Click, Cabaji put seastone cuffs on Caesar’s feet. “Yup, he’s totally on our team,” Mohji stated.
Apoo and Queen exchanged looks. Apoo then whistled and a number grabbed the Vinsmoke family. “Let’s see the five of you plus Queen, Habdurra, Inbi, and my ally coming in tonight.”
“Huh? How am I going to approve someone I haven’t met?” Buggy asked.
“Approval? I’ll do whatever I want. You’ve probably met him before anyways.”
“I’m just saying, you better not be cheating.”
“You’re the cheater even bringing up the game. Hey, you can even choose where.”
“In town.”
“The town?? Sure, we’ll get to put a little show on for them. These are really isolated people though. They had good wine, that’s why Kaido protected it. They have a huge theatrical culture here so our first round should be a show.”
“Okay and the second a team contest before the one on one match up.”
“Fine. We’ll trade crew members in between rounds so we can get back Caesar and even Mihawk.”
“Assuming you’ll win. I’ll be stacked from your crew,” Buggy and Apoo then shot their pistols in the air.
The crew cheered, “its a Davy Back Fight!”
Mihawk was shocked, “what have I done!?”
Morgans laughed, “it’s a Davy Back Fight!”
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