Chapter 102 - Chapter 104

A small water tribe fishing boat was always the easiest targets for pirates working in the area. Ransom or just a night entertainment. It all depended on who was in the fishing boat.

And right now the pirates were licking their lips. The little southern water tribe boat contained three kids. It was two girls and a boy. The eldest one seemed to be one of the girls.

The boats surrounding it wasn't much bigger than the little boat. It was about two times the size of the kid's boat.

"Come on, kid. Stop acting like that. We are nice people so why don't you just let us get you home. We know the way." A man standing on the leading pirate ship said with a blade in hand. He looked a lot more ready to kill than he did helping.

"I'd like you to leave. You have no place being here. Anytime now my dad is coming here and he'll kill you all." The eldest girl said with a simple looking spear in hand. It was a stick with a shark tooth as the pointy end.

"Brave words. But I'm afraid that you three have allowed yourself to drift into the wrong neighbourhood." The men around him started aiming their throwing spears.

"Don't worry, this won't hurt one bit." He raised his hand and brought it down, signalling the attack to start.

The pirates took aim at mainly the eldest girl and threw the spears. Coldness and cruelty were written on their faces. Fear and panic on the kid's faces.

"May I borrow that one, thanks." A man suddenly appeared behind the eldest girl, and he grabbed the simple-looking spear from her.

He held it up against the incoming volley, and in one swift motion, he moved the spear around and blocked all the incoming spears. He sent them all back at the attackers without much effort. Pure weapon mastery was everything that the man used.

"AAH" One of the pirates got his own spear lodged into his thigh before he could even see what happened.

"Time to go for a swim." He raised his right hand slowly. And then he threw a simple palm strike towards one of the pirate ships.

A mighty and precise air blast was summoned and slammed into the pirates. They were launched off the boat like a cannonball and landed in the sea.

He quickly did the same to two other pirate ships. Now only the leading ship was left with any people on it.

"Wait here, and here's your spear, thanks for letting me borrow it." He gave back the spear to the girl that stood there in complete shock. She grabbed hold of the spear like she was on autopilot mode, she moved like a complete robot at the moment.

He took a step forward and he almost instantly arrived on the leading pirate ship. The pirates that saw him appear before their captain almost fainted from fright. He was just like a ghost, appearing and disappearing whenever he wanted.

"Men! Kill him!" The captain jumped in fright and was about to cut the man. But the unknown man was faster, go figure.

"You are coming with me. I am sure that this water tribe would love to learn more about your operations." Dragon quickly tapped his neck before he could say anything more and he lost consciousness.

"The rest of you should go and swim. I hear the water is refreshing." He waved his hand and another air blast slammed into the pirates and shot them off the boat like the rest.

He moved back with the same movement technique and he was back on the little fishing boat again. He threw the unconscious man on the floor and sat down in the boat.

"I-I am sorry, Sir, but who are you?" The eldest girl among them said with a strained smile and an unknown fear building up inside her.

"Portgas D Dragon. Nice to meet you." He bowed with cupped hands. A common greeting in this new world.

"ahm, T- thanks for saving us, but who are you?" She said and also cupped her hands carefully.

"The easiest answer for you to understand would be, a travelling air nomad. I just happened to come by here and see you were in trouble." He smiled and that seemed to somewhat calm her down. Dragon's smile had developed a calming and tranquil effect during his years as an air nomad.

"This is out in the middle of nowhere, how did you get here?"

"Nothing is nowhere. Everything is somewhere and it all has a purpose." Dragon almost saw smoke rise from the girls head.

"W-What?! What are you talking about." She almost yelled in his face.

"Not now, wait a second." Dragon was staring up in the air, and suddenly he whistled. The sound seemed to travel for miles and it was incredibly clear.

"Now we wait." Dragon said and smiled and leaned back against the side of the boat.

"KAA!" Suddenly from above the clouds appeared the scream of an eagle. Orlando came diving down and he brought a storm with him.

He did a circle around the boat and caused it to almost tip over. The kids inside of it screamed in fear for their lives. And Orlando finally calmed down and he started to hover beside the ship.

"How are you doing, Orlando? You were really slow to catch up." Dragon laughed and calmed down the wind storm in the area.

"KAA!" Orlando seemed annoyed and he screamed louder than usual.

"I know. Sorry for leaving you behind and also scaring you with that little revelation of mine." Dragon raised his hands in defeat.

"That's a giant eagle. I've never seen anything like it before. Is it yours?" The girl asked carefully but also in slight excitement.

"He is not an object I own, little girl. He is my partner. My friend for life, and also our ride back to your home." Dragon saw the faces of the kids evolve to pure shock.

"We are riding it?" She said while staring at the massive wings spread out in front of her.

"If you keep calling Orlando it, you're gonna have to get home by yourself." Dragon used his angry tone because he really found it rude and annoying that she kept calling Orlando it.

"I'm sorry, I guess. So are we riding i... Orlando?" She said and swallowed nervously for almost messing up again.

"Yes... We are, so hang on." Dragon started to really dislike the child, but he grabbed hold of her arm and threw her onto Orlando's back.

"AAAAAAAH" She screamed the entire flight up with tears in her eyes. And her brain hadn't even fully processed everything that happened here.

"Now, you two." Dragon said and walked towards the two other kids. They were trying to back off from him with tears of their own flowing down their face.

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