9 Arriving in Arabasta

A few moments after Hawkins entered his room.

"Come on Robin, I'll take you to the girls' room, come with me" Sadi took Robin's hand to start heading towards the girls' room.

"Wait Sadi" Law said as he walked over to Robin and stood in front of her.

"LAW! I already told you to call me Sadi-Chan" Sadi was annoyed with Law, the others just giggled when they saw the situation.

Law gave Sadi an extremely serious look causing her to take a step back as she looked away.

"Nico Robin, although Captain Hawkins-has already accepted you in the crew I will be watching you, if a Vice Admiral and two Rear Admirals were behind you it means that you are dangerous" Law said as he looked seriously at Robin, who looked at him equally seriously for a moment before giving a slight smile.

"Don't worry dear Vice Captain, I won't bring you too many problems" Robin said with a slight smile, although in his mind he knew that it was the opposite, he had previously joined pirate crews which had ended up being chased by high-ranking marines. range, where they betrayed her in order to escape but in the end, she managed to escape, after so many times of being betrayed now she was the one who betrayed the pirates in order to escape.

"Oi oi, relax a little Law, we must trust the captain's decisions, don't worry about this guy," Robin growled, "if the captain accepts you, then the others and I do too" Bellamy said as he put an arm over his shoulder of Law and gave Robin a smile, unfortunately his smiles gave him the appearance of a psychopath making Robin take a step back.

"MORON! YOU SCARED HER!" Bepo shouted seeing Robin's reaction.

"WHO ARE YOU CALLING AN IDIOT?! DAMN PET!" Bellamy moved away from Law to approach Bepo, where the two started a relatively harmless fight again.

"What lively guys," Robin said with a smile.

"Come on Robin ignore those fools, the only important one here is Captain Hawkins and obviously me, Sadi-Chan" Sadi said as she took Robin by the hand and led her towards the women's room.

"Ok Sadi-Chan" Robin followed the girl without resisting, Law looked at her without saying anything.

The next day

"Captain Hawkins isn't awake yet?" Robin asked seeing all the crew except the captain on deck.

"No, the captain usually sleeps late, by the way, since we don't have a cook, we usually take turns preparing meals, today it's my turn" Sarquiss said as he handed Robin a plate of food.

"I understand Sarquiss-San, thank you very much" Robin received the plate with a grateful smile and proceeded to look for a place to sit, apparently the rest of the crew woke up much earlier than her, even Sadi had left the room without waking her up, so they ate together in the kitchen but they were all already on the deck training, the submarine was obviously on the surface of the sea by the captain's wish.

While Robin ate, he saw how they were training, Bepo was teaching Ideo and Sadi some techniques which Robin recognized as the Rokushiki, which surprised Robin because he couldn't imagine how these pirates had knowledge of the Rokushiki.

Robin turned his gaze to Sarquiss who after giving him his plate of food had gone to train, he was floating some very large weights and if the number on those weights did not lie then each end must weigh 500 Kg being a ton in total, and there were 2 weights floating around him, not forgetting that he was also floating.

'He must have a very powerful devil fruit' Robin thought as he looked at Sarquiss, then he shifted his gaze to Shachi and Penguin, who were doing some high-performance exercise routines.

He looked at Bellamy and Law who were having a light fist bump, although Robin couldn't tell they were both using Haki, their intention was to better their use of Haki and their ability to use it for long periods of time.

Finally, Robin looked up to the sky where he could see Kokushibyō flying Hawkins' mount, Robin considered Kokushibyō very cute although normal people consider him terrifying.

Just when Robin finished his meal, the door that led to the interior of the submarine opened, everyone turned to see and to everyone's great surprise the first to leave was not Hawkins, but Tokikake and Gion.

"What the hell are you doing here!? What did they do to the captain!?" Bellamy was the first to react and as he said this, he ran towards Tokikake with his fist wrapped in Haki, Law also ran alongside Bellamy as he unsheathed his sword and prepared to fight Gion.

"Calm down" A calm voice came from behind Tokikake and Gion, who stepped aside allowing Hawkins to come out on deck, they all calmed down, but looked at Hawkins and the two marines with confusion.

"Captain... what does this mean?" Law asked as he looked warily at the two marines.

Robin, who was a little further away, was thinking about how to flee, since she assumed that Hawkins had made a deal with the navy to hand her over.

"Robin don't worry it's not what you're thinking" Hawkins said as he gave Robin a look who looked surprised for a moment before calming down and giving a nod to Hawkins who continued speaking "And law, this is a new technique that I was able to achieve thanks to your help, do you remember that I asked you for the hearts of those two Rear Admirals? I used them on two Voodoo dolls, I guess these should have a strength equal to their real counterparts, although the haki they use is actually my own haki, so they are also a fun way to increase my haki...unbelievably they have a slight consciousness thanks to the hearts, but they are not able to speak without being ordered to say and they do not have a personality, they are just straw mannequins with the power of rear admirals" Hawkins explained his technique and everyone was extremely surprised, especially Robin who could appreciate the great increase in strength of the crew by adding two powers to the rear admiral level.

"Captain you are without a doubt amazing," Bellamy said as he approached Tokikake and touched his face which felt like real skin.

"Incredible captain, I didn't think we could combine our abilities in this way" Law said as he also got closer to look at Gion more closely, his respect for Hawkins greatly increased.

"What's the next island we're going to?" Hawkins changed the subject as he inquired about their next destination.

"It's the kingdom of Alabasta" said Robin, everyone turned to see her "It is said that the Shichibukai Crocodile has recently set up a casino in that place" Robin finished giving the information he had.

"A casino? Perfect, Captain, can we stay there for a few days?" Sarquiss was excited, he was still floating with his ability.

"Do you want to play cards Sarquiss?" Hawkins said with a slight smile.

"Captain, I'm not as good as you hahaha, but in a casino there are not only games of chance, there are also beautiful women." Sarquiss was imagining a scene where he was winning at roulette while he had two beautiful girls sitting on the table. your lap.

"True, although not everyone on this ship could get in," Hawkins said as he pointed at Bepo, Ideo and Sadi.

"Ah damn brats!" Sarquiss said as he fell back on the deck in disappointment.

"In any case, we would be entering what can be considered the territory of a Shichibukai, one of the dogs of the navy" Law said in a serious way considering the dangers that the crew could pass through.

"Oi oi, who are the Shichibukai anyway?" Asked Bellamy who was less aware of this topic, the others also paid attention to hear the answer that would be given, because they did not know that they were the Shichibukai either.

"In the world there are seven Warlords of the Sea... Pirates chosen by the Government, who have been given the privilege to operate freely without any restrictions. In exchange for all this, when they are needed, they must lend their services, their immense power and renown to work hand in hand with the government, the current Shichibukai are: The World's Strongest Swordsman Dracule Mihawk, The Tyrant Bartholomew Kuma, The Pirate Empress Boa Hancock, Jinbe the Knight of the Sea, Gecko Moria, the newly appointed Shichibukai and current King of Dressrosa Yaksha Celestial Donquixote Doflamingo and finally The King of the Desert Sir Crocodile" Robin explained while everyone was trying to memorize the information.

"DOFLAMINGO BECAME A SHICHIBUKAI?!!" Law who hadn't heard of this news seemed disturbed to learn that Doflamingo was now in league with the government and the navy.

"Calm down Law, even if Doflamingo becomes the pirate king we won't stop to help you with your revenge" Hawkins told him as he put his hand on Law's shoulder.

"...Thank you captain" Law said as he gave Hawkins a nod.

"Get ready, you must increase your training... Robin come with me I will teach you some things" Hawkins said this and started walking with Robin to a part of the deck of the ship.

"Hey, do you think the captain is interested in Nico Robin for a sexual issue and that's why I accept her in the crew?" Sarquiss whispered to Bellamy.

"Even if it was, that Robin girl would be lucky to fall into Captain Hawkins's eyes," Bellamy said as he looked at Robin.

"Stop talking about Robin-Chan and the Captain behind their backs, you fool!" Sadi appeared behind Bellamy and Sarquiss to hit them on the head.

"Agh, calm down brat!" Sarquiss and Bellamy said with white eyes and sharp teeth from rage, Sadi just stuck her tongue out at them and ran off to continue practicing with Ideo and Bepo.

With Hawkin and Robin

"Robin, I have knowledge that you possess the power of a devil fruit, could you tell me what your power is?" Hawkins asked Robin, even though he knew what Robin's power was he couldn't just get ahead of himself.

"Ah Captain-San my power is that of the Hana Hana fruit" Several arms emerged on the floor of the ship "It allows me to make any part of my body bloom in the place I want" Robin explained.

"The Shigan is perfect for you, I'll teach you the basics so you can do it, once you have adequate control, I'll teach you the Tekkai so you can increase the defense of those limbs" Hawkins explained.

"I'm in your care captain" Robin said with a smile.

1 week later

Alabasta port city: Nanohana

"Captain smell this perfume, do you think it goes well with me?" Sadi asked as she showed Hawkins a bottle of perfume.

"Sadi stop bothering the captain with your silly girl things" Ideo said from the side as he looked at the different products on the market.

"SHUT YOUR MOUTH IDEO!" Sadi yelled at Ideo and then turned to look at Hawkins who was smelling the perfume "What do you think captain?".

"Smells pretty good Sadi-Chan, buy it if you want" Hawkins said, Sadi nodded quickly as she paid for the perfume.

The whole crew was buying different things, they were all dressed in typical Alabasta clothes.

"Captain, do you think I should buy a sword?" Sarquiss asked Hawkins as he looked at a few swords on weapons stand.

"Oh I think it would look good as long as you can throw slashes at a long distance along with your ability it would be a good combination" Hawkins said as he looked at a gold bracelet.

"Captain, do I notice it yet?" Law whispered to Hawkins.

"That's right, someone has been following us for a while...Bellamy, take care of him" Hawkins replied to Law and then gave the order to Bellamy while looking out of the corner of his eye at a tall and thin guy who was watching them from a few more positions. behind.

"Okay captain," Bellamy said as he smiled and adjusted his sunglasses.

Later

"Captain, it seems this guy comes from the Shichibukai Crocodile" Bellamy said as he came along with a man a little beat up, but not too much.

"Crocodiles? What do you want with me?" Hawkins asked the guy who got nervous.

"I'm a Rain Dinners casino worker and Sir Crocodile invites you to enjoy the casino at Rainbase" The guy said while trembling with fear.

"I see…. Very well, I imagine that they have prepared some method of transportation for us" Hawkins then ordered "Lead the way".

"Yes, first we must sail to the city of Erumalu, once there we will take a land transport that will take us to Rainbase" The man explained as he went to the pier, once there they saw that another ship was next to the Polar Tang.

"Follow us to Rainbase" The man said as he started to walk towards the ship.

"Robin, wear a mask from now on... Crocodile could cause us trouble if he sees you" Hawkins said once they were on the Polar Tang.

"Okay captain, thanks for your advice" Robin said with a slight smile.

Time jump: until arrival in Erumalu.

"Oh, why do the houses in the city look so worn out?" Robin asked the man in charge of guiding them.

"Lately there have been many sandstorms passing through the city" explained the man.

Hawkins just looked at the city in silence, if he wasn't wrong soon the city would be destroyed because of Crocodile.

"Come on, these are the F-Wani they are a type of bananawani less fierce and smaller than their counterpart, they are also fast within the Sandora Desert" said the guide while showing a large number of giant crocodiles that have two growths in the form of banana, one on the tail and one on the nose, both of which were in mounts ready to be worn.

"I don't need to ride one of those" Hawkins said and then let out a loud whistle, in a few moments Kokushibyō landed next to Hawkins.

"Kokushibyō let me ride you" Sadi said as she tried to mount Kokushibyō but he avoided her.

"Well let's go" Hawkins said as he climbed on top of Kokushibyō.

1 day later in Rainbase

Inside the Rain Dinners Casino

"My name is UltraKing, I am the manager of the casino and I will take you to meet Sir Crocodile" said a thin man of medium height with white hair emulating a crown, he has a mustache above his mouth.

"Captain, can we wait for you here in the betting area?" Sarquiss said accompanied by Shachi and Penguin.

"Okay, but #2 will stay with you" Hawkins said, behind him there were two figures dressed in white with masks of the same color that covered their faces, in each mask there was a number, 1 and 2 respectively, said figures They were the straw clones of Gion and Tokikake, Hawkins had changed their clothes and added a mask to avoid attracting attention, carrying two Navy Rear Admirals with him. Robin was also wearing a mask for now.

"Okay I'll make sure they are well taken care of, for now follow me I'll take you to Sir Crocodile" Ultraking said and started walking towards Crocodile's office.

After walking for a few minutes, they arrived in front of a door with gold touches, Ultraking opened the door and stood to one side of the entrance.

"Keep going, Sir Crocodile is waiting for you inside" UltraKing said as he waved his hand for Hawkins and the others to enter, once they were inside UltraKing closed the door.

When Hawkins and the others entered, they could see that the office was large in size and there was a large desk with a chair behind it, the chair was in the dark preventing them from fully seeing who was in it.

"Basil Hawkins... I've been waiting for you" Crocodile said as he stood up smoking a cigarette.

"Crocodile... Why did you invite me to your casino?" Hawkins asked, the others only intensifying their attention on Crocodile.

"You see, I am creating an organization called Baroque Works and I am interested in having you join it. How about being my right hand man?" Crocodile said as he took a drag on his cigarette.

'Another Shiki!?' Law, Bellamy and Bepo all thought this at the same time.

End of chapter.

This chapter might feel a bit plain since there wasn't much progress in the plot, but in a review I received they told me that there is no interaction between the characters, so I decided to increase that aspect a bit.

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