Chapter 26

Grandline, Paradise, little Garden

Two days after Azul had entered little garden another ship sailed down the small river down into the core of the island until they came about Azuls ship, which stopped them in wonder. It seemed someone was already on this island. The strawhats began to tie the flying lamb to the shore after which some people decided it was time to go exploring to the growing horror of the other half of the crew, after all it was already darkening and the island was filled with dinosaurs. All of them though were ripped out of their ongoing conversations by a male and female scream that echoed through the jungle accompanied by the far away sounds of metal clashing against metal. This caused even more horror amongst some crew members while letting others grow a little more wary of the islands inhabitants, except for one, the captain.

"Luffy, there may be dangerous individuals on this island, maybe even a warlord or something!" Nami yelled at her captain, being accompanied by the quiet sobbs of Usopps wails not wanting to die a v.i.r.g.i.n.

This however brought laughter to Luffys face while sticking out his tongue in Namis direction while proudly proclaiming: "I don't care! I want to ride a dinosaur!" and with that being said Luffy turned around while singing a wanderers song and hitting the trees with a stick he had picked up from somewhere, to find and ride his dinosaur. The rest of the crew remained, except Vivi, who followed after Luffy, and Zoro who wanted to explore as well which shortly after that evolved into a match on who, between him and the love cook (Sanji), could hunt the bigger dinosaur for dinner. And so it came that Nami and Usopp where the only ones remaining on the flying lamb, slowly crying themselfs to sleep.

(meanwhile with Azul, a few minutes before the flying lamb arrived)

"So? Are you gonna tell me, or do I have to get rough?" Azul asked the two people in front of him who had began to heavily shiver, caused by the heavy pressure Azuls passive haki was emitting.

"W-we were just ehm, err, sightseeing! Yes, that's right, sightseeing! hahaha" the woman in the yellow and green dress said, hoping her honestly pityful lie would work. Sadly she was having bad luck today as it seemed.

"Ohhhh, so you were sightseeing, I see. And? Did you find anything while sightseeing?" Azul asked, a beautiful idea forming in his head which slightly made his lips twitch upwards.

"Err, yes! Those barrels! Don't they look fascinating? And look the delicious beer inside of it. How about you take a little sip dear sir? I bet it tastes wonderfully!" The young woman kept on going while trying to lure the man before them into drinking the bomb spiked beer, originally intended for the two giants, to earn the bounty that was placed on their respective heads.

"After you, my lady. No please, I insist!" Azul said with a devilish grin on his face which caused the womans eyes to widen in horror, as Azuls iron grip landed on the top of the womans head, forcing it into the barrel which soon afterwards exploded outwards in a mighty explosion, with said woman in the center of it causing her to scream loudly. Azul on the other hand simply formed a protective bubble made of haki around himself to shield him from the blast. A little excessive but you could never be too careful!

The man had tried to escape from Azul, not effected by the explosion thanks to his devilfruit but Azul always knowing where said man was threw a punch at him which, on impact, caused said man to cry out in pain before fainting and ripping the trees he crashed into on his flight through the jungle out of the ground.

After having taken care of those morons, Azul walked over to a nearby tree and jumped on top of a branch to keep on spectating the rest of the giants duel.

Meanwhile Luffy and Vivi had found a dinosaur which Luffy promptly jumped on top of, nearly being eaten by said dinosaur, starting to ride it until he was tired of it and began marching with a laughing Vivi further into the jungle following the sound of smashing metal. Soon they came upon the sight of the two giants fighting.

"WOOOOOOOO, awesome!" Luffy yelled to which a voice replied from above:

"Can you shut up down there? Some people try to study here!" and after looking up Luffy and Vivi came upon the sight of a young man that was looking down on them with a disapproving look on his face.

"Ahhh, sorry, sorry, shishishishi" Luffy replied after which he jumped up to the young man who had returned to spectate the duel, completely dismissing the twos prescences.

Soon after the vulcano errupted once again and the giants stopped fighting while laughing at the fun they had had. Azul jumped down from his tree and walked over to the two, smiling all the while.

"Thank you for the magnificent fight you two, I've learned alot." Azul said while grinning up at the two who grinned back in reply, fully aware of the young warrior spectating their fight.

The body of the woman soon landed directly in front of Vivi though, who loudly exclaimed her name, seeminlgy a miss Valentine, in shock of seeing her so badly hurt. Soon afterwards Luffy and Vivi walked over to the three joking and laughing friends, Azul and the giants, and introduced themselfs.

"Hiiiiii, that was so AWESOME you guys! Do you have any spare armor for me? I want some as well! Neeee, can I have some of that meat, it smells soooo good..." the strawhat wearing man said while droolling like crazy which caused the giants to laugh and Azul to smirk in response.

"I'm very sorry for my friend, he doesn't really have any manners but he didn't mean to be rude towards you. My name is Vivi and this is Luffy. It's nice to meet you" The blue haired, elegant Vivi spoke with grace while Luffy just waved his hand next to his face as if that was all just irrelevant to begin with when there was meat to be had.

"Bwahahahaha, my name is Brogy and this here are Dorry and Azul. Nice to meet you as well and suit yourselfs, though we may need to go hunting again but no matter. Wouldn't take long anyways, bwahahahaha" Brogy spoke while cl.i.c.k.i.n.g his muck with Azuls after which they drank their fill in one go after which both of them burped which in Brogy case nearly knocked Vivi over, which again caused Azul and Dorry to laugh uproariously in reaction.

And so they spent the night, getting to know each other and soon falling asleep around the flickering fire. Soon the next day arrived and the vulcanos explosion signified a new duel to be had...