11 Life Of A Bounty Hunter ( Part 5 )
A Month Later
( Drake's Pov )
After our little stay at the beach island, we decided to just travel around the West Blue exploring different islands and meeting new people. During one of our stays on one of those islands, we learned about how my deeds spread around crazy in the West Blue.
Me killing Bao and Cut along with some second-tier pirate crews reached pretty everyone's ears. Some merchants asked Captain Ethan as I would go his base to collect the bounties if the rumors were true to which he confirmed them at my request.
After that those merchants spread the news about me to the islands they traveled to and those who learned about me spread what they heard to travelers and other merchants.
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" Thor, this time you're going to fight pirates." I said to him as I steered the ship towards where a pirate crew was located on the map.
'It's about time he gets some experiences fighting against pirates.' I thought as Thor let out a scream of joy as I didn't let him fight any pirates during our travels.
" Drake, what pirate crew am I gonna fight? I can finally crush some pirate's skulls." Thor said to me in an excited voice.
Thor's hatred of pirates increased even more after we saw some of the horrendous things we saw pirates did. My hatred of them was already at its peak.
"You're not gonna fight the pirate crew if they have a bounty of more than $ 4 million berries." I said back to him ruining his fun.
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30 Minutes Later
Stone Island
As we reached where the pirate crew was located on the map, we saw dead bodies everywhere as we landed on the island. People wearing large leaves covering up their private parts laying all dead.
As we talked about where the pirates were, we saw nothing but dead bodies. Where the camp was, there was a large fire set by the pirate crew as we could hear them laughing.
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" Boss, I thought we killed everyone on the island." One of the mob said after he saw us.
One of the mops looked closely at my sword and my hair before he figured out who I was. " Hey, that's the pirate hunter." The mob said as he took a couple of steps back in fear.
" Rararararararr.... thats perfect. If we can kill the famous pirate hunter then I will be the most famous pirate Captain in the West Blue." The Captain of the mob said as he started shooting at us with his Gatling gun.
We dodged the bullets quite easily as I cut the Gatling gun into pieces in a few seconds as Thor started fighting him.
I killed the rest of the pirate mobs in a few minutes as some of them tried shooting at me but I cut them apart in half pretty effortlessly. Some of them begged me to spar them but I wasn't paying attention as I killed them.
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( Thor's Pov )
'It's always pirates destroying everything in their path.'
' Ruining people's lives, dreams, and home for their disgusting pleasure.'
' The thrash of this world.' I thought while I ducked the pirate Captain punches before I hit him back in the face. As we continued our fights, I noticed Drake killing the rest of the crew.
' Even though I don't like the bastard, I can't help but respect his strength."
' He's someone you can depend on no matter the situation.'
' Even though both of us disagree on most things, we still agree on pirates being the scum of the seas.
' I don't mind following someone like him'
As I continued my fight, I landed a lucky hit on the mob's head making him crash into the ground hard making a small crater where he falls down.
Before he can stand up, I kicked him multiple times on the face before I put all my strength into my right leg crushing that trash's skull as blood spew out falling onto my leg.
" You really did crush a pirate's skull-like you said you would." I heard Drake say to me as he looked at the crashed head on the ground. I nodded at him before I asked him if any of the pirates had any bounties.
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( Drake's Pov )
" The Captain of the crew has a bounty of $ 3 million berries, other than the no one has any bounty. Anyway, let's clean up this mess." I said to him while getting out a lighter from my ring and setting the dead bodies on fire.
Both of us get out of the fire's way as we walked out of the camp.
Thor looked around the island seeing the island's people dead bodies before he asked me a question. " Hey, what are we going to do with their bodies," Thor asked me as he pointed at the dead bodies.
" Had we been faster at getting here, we could have saved them but I'm sure you noticed by now we can't save everyone," I said to Thor as he agreed with me.
" So the least we can do is make sure they can rest properly. Let's make them some graves." I voiced to Thor as I took out some shovels from inside my ring. I stocked up anything I would need in a situation like this.
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A couple Of Hours Later
We made about 80 graves all in together for the island's people. It took us about four hours in total to dug out the graves and put the bodies in the graves. Since we didn't know their names, we just decided to label the graves with the island's name and today's date.
" Yo, Drake I checked that was the last one," Thor said to me as we walked back towards the ship.
" You know any place I can buy a large weapon I can use to crush my opponent's skulls with." Thor asked me as he climbed up to the ship's deck while I just air walked to the steering wheel.
" You want a club, hammer, or a mace?" I asked him as he reached the deck of the ship.
" I want a large hammer, it doesn't have to be ranked, it just has to be strong." Thor said back as I told him I would ask Ethan about it.
" Alright it's been a while since we went back to Tranquil Island, I'm sure you miss Atalanta and the kids." I said to Thor who nodded at me as he went inside to his room.
I started steering the ship towards Tranquil Island but I noticed there were about 4 pirate crews all together on the same island two days away from my current location. I decided I would visit the island when we are done with Tranquil Island.
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Two Hours Later
Tranquil Island
Once we docked the ship in the harbor, Thor went straight towards the orphanage as I decided to visit the Marine base to ask Ethan if he had any information about the pirate gathering.
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" Drake, my little friend it's good to see you again," Ethan said to me as he saw me walk inside his office. We said our little greeting before we went straight to business.
" That's right afterward spread about your accomplishments the remaining four top-tier pirates and second-tier pirates in this part of the sea decided to team up to take you down," Ethan explained to me as I asked him if he knew anything about the pirate gathering.
" I see, but shouldn't the rest of the branches around the West Blue took any action as this could threaten the whole West Blue." I asked him as he explained that some of the branches were under the thumb of some pirate crew due to them getting a large sum of berries from them. Other than the main branches are planning to take action once everything is prepared.
" I see, I can be the main vanguard of the operation. Once I finish up the Captains then the Marines can take out the rest of the pirates. " I said to Ethan as we kept talking about a plan that can take out all the pirates in the West Blue in one mission.
"O right before you leave, I received a notice from Marineford." Ethan said to me as I was about to walk out of his office.
" It stated that they plan to send out an admiral to take you to Marineford." Ethan said to me surprising me as I thought they would only send out a Rear Admiral to recruit me.
" Hahahahah, there's no need to be surprised. Marineford has done this for all those who have shown Admiral or higher-level talents. You see talents like that are especially rare to the point they are only three in the Marines. Marineford is nearly willing to do anything to recruit talents like you especially those who wish to join willingly.
" They did the same thing for Admiral Sengoku-sama as well. He was a former bounty hunter just like you." Ethan explained to me as I comprehended everything. I asked him if he knew what admiral was coming to which he answered no. It seems like there are only two admirals now as Garp kept rejecting the promotion.
" I see, thank you for your notice." I said to him as I walked out of his office wondering who the other Admiral was. I already knew Sengoku already became an Admiral but hearing him being a former bounty hunter was a surprise. But then again this is real life, not a fiction story. I wouldn't mind Sengoku coming since he's one of my favorite characters in the show.
( I know he doesn't have a backstory but this is an AU.)
( Also is it san or sama, I gotta look up the honorifics. I fix it if I made a mistake on that part )
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If you liked the chapter drop some power stones. If you have any advice or valid criticisms you can put them in the review section or here. If I made any mistakes do let me know as I fix them once I have the time. Note english isn't my first language and I use the free version of Grammarly.
You don't have to read this part but it's just me ranting about some of the comments I saw before they were deleted.
First, people if you don't like the story then don't read it. If your gonna keep complaining about everything but are still reading my story what are you doing. If you don't like my story just stop reading and commenting dumb shit on the chapters I post. It saves your time and I don't have to read your stupid comments either.
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This isn't a wish-fulfillment story like Im not gonna change shit just because some people didn't like it. People gotta stop acting so entitled. Again this is my story don't yours, so stop acting as it belongs to you. I would understand just a little bit if you paid for it but this is free.
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