One Piece: Unreal Adventure-Chapter 73: A Warlord?

"Anyway, you said Arlong is from the Grand Line, right? Do you have any more information about him?"

"He's got the highest bounty of any pirate in the area," Yosaku nodded. "He's worth 20-million, but I'm honestly not sure how that compares to some in the Grand Line. He once sailed with a Warlord, though."

"A Warlord?" Coby asked. "One of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, the pirates sanctioned by the World Government to fight for them? Wait, isn't Mihawk a warlord?" he winched at the thought, if the man wanted, their journey wouldn't even reach to the grandline.

They were lucky, that Luffy had some connections with Shanks. It was almost amusing how a newbie pirate from East Blue, which was considered the safest sea had so many connections to big shots.

Johnny and Yosaku nodded. "Yup."

And that made Coby confused a bit. "Why would anyone become a Warlord? Don't they work for the government, why would pirates work for the government?"

"I'm sure they each have their own reasons," Sanji said. "But mostly it's because the government gives them free rein to do whatever they like as long as they follow some of their orders... it's a messed up system. Bound to be taken advantage of."

"I can see many ways, how someone can take advantage of that," Coby said, looking down. The flaws of the Marines are too bold to go unnoticed. So, his decision to join Luffy' was better then joining that organization.

"There are a few others that have been in the paper," Sanji said, perking up. "I've heard about Boa Hancock, the one who's called the most beautiful woman in the world." Sanji almost cooed at the name. Coby sweatdropped at the love-cook.

"Then there's Gecko Moria. He used to be a rival of one of the four Yonko, supposedly." Johnny said, "Also then there's Crocodile, he was supposed to have fought Whitebeard. The last one I know about is Jinbei, a fishman."

"Jinbei is the one who sailed with Arlong," Yosaku nodded. "The rumor is part of his agreement to become a Warlord was freedom for Arlong and some of his former crew from the Marine prison Impel Down. That was almost a decade ago and Arlong has been lying low here in East Blue since."

Coby frowned. "So he basically gave up and lived here hiding in the blue."

"Basically yes," Sanji said, "The grandline is a scary place... I have experience in that department." He said chuckling to himself.

Coby was wide-eyed, "You have been to grandline!?" Johnny and Yosaku was also surprised.

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"More like got kicked out there... The old man, Zeff, found me there... he had to lose a leg to save me from some very bad people." He said, his mood bit sour thinking about that day. His mother might have gave her life to protect him from his so-called family, but her sickness got worse and she passed away. All that running was for nothing, as his father had already deemed him unworthy and left him to die. "He had to lose a leg just to save me..."

"Wow," Johnny said,

"I don't know what to say?" Yosaku said.

"Chef Zeff rocks!" Coby said, making Sanji chuckle, as he ruffled the pink-haired pirate's hair.

"Well, that he does. While my real father abandoned me, but his enemies wanted nothing more then to kill me... I would have lost my life that day. Zeff saved me, and I found another father... which just so happened to be better than my original one." The blond said fondly. "I'm a man with daddy issues." he laughed at his own joke.

The others didn't know what to say.

"But then we had to starve a whole month in the clam belt, until we were rescued... it kinda sucked, but it also gave us the valuable lesson of food. That everyone deserves it... no matter how bad they are." With that he was finished cooking. Dinner was ready.

But then they were interrupted when all of them heard a sound. "Moo?"

"What was that?" Sanji said, frowning getting out of the kitchen. The kitchen was

"A cow?" Yosaku wondered.

"Why would a cow be way out here in the ocean?" Coby asked.

Almost as if answering Coby's question, the ship rocked, a swell of water growing upward from the port side. The bulge was stripped away by gravity, leaving a large, white cow with green splotches and a golden nose ring to stare down at them.

"What is that?!" Johnny screamed, fumbling for his weapons.

"Sea monster!" Coby yelled, pressing himself into the wall.

"Sea king!" Yosaku cried. "I thought we left those waters!"

"Moo?"

Sanji on the other hand had a thoughtful expression. He snapped his finger, "A sea king... cow variant... now I'm real interested in what I can make out of you."

With that he moved, his leg snapped out, kicking the beast in the side of the face. The sea king flopped backward into the water, sending a deluge of pseudo-rain over the ship. It retaliated again, but Sanji was kind of beating the heck out of it.

"Wow," Yosaku, Coby, and Johnny muttered together.

"Anyway, food's up," Sanji announced, as the sea king was barely conscious. Kicking black and blue.

Coby was the one who asked, "A-Are we going to eat that?"

"Why not? Sea-king meat is my specialty, let me get my knives..." Sanji said standing top of the sea king's face.

"Moo?!" the sea king paled.

Coby kind of felt bad, for the poor thing. "We can tie it up, and let it pull the Going Marry," he suggested.

"Yeah, we could get to Big Sis Nami fast that way." Yosaku thought aloud.

"Great idea!" Sanji turned to the sea king, already pulling out a rope from somewhere. "Alright, Cow! If you don't want us to eat you, be useful and pull us that way!" He pointed forward.

The commotion brought all the rest of the crew to outside, and Gin, Usopp, Zoro, and Kuina had different reactions. Sparky just seemed to be bored, and seeing the sea king it mouth watered.

Sanji seeing this, he spoke, "Sorry there, Sparky." He said, pointing at the cow, "We kind of need to use him for the ride, I have a few sea-king meat in the fridge, I will fry them up for you."

Sparky seemed to be down for a bit, before cheering up. Jumping on Sanji's shoulder, he patted his head to hurry and make food again. The love cook chuckled at the eager monkey.

Using the sea king to propel their ship through the water was the best decision the partial crew had made.

After dinner, Sanji made sure to also feed the sea cow and a small break, though the poor beast run out of stamina real fast from all the pulling.

The compounding fatigue started taking its toll on the poor cow as the Conomi Islands came into sight. Everyone barely had time to scream before they flew from water to air, their ship being sling-shotted into the air over land.

The ship seemed to sail through the empty air, only meeting air resistance. The residents in the ship braced for impact, Going Marry might survive this, but it would take a ton of damage.