Elsewhere...
Luffy was learning, while super-speed was useful in many circumstances, it was not too great when you had a poor sense of direction. Which explained the hundred wrong locations and dead ends, like the twenty times he got into sight of the village. Which ended this time at a cliff wall.
Back at the north slope...
The pirates were jumping and hollering out in pain from the as they stepped on the small spiked spheres which lined the path upwards. They men were trapped in a manner, which allowed Usopp to take a shot at them, "Eat this Killing Marble!"
A man was thrown back from the power of the slingshot launch as the pirates got more and more upset at the two of them. Nami turned to her ally and told him, "You're cool! Keep up the good job! I'll go and get some rest now."
"You haven't been fighting at all, and now you're tired?" asked Usopp as his eyes bulged at his anger caused by this news.
As Nami turned she was stopped in her tracks, causing the native boy to asked what the problem was. She spoke enough for him to hear, "There are some caltraps here, behind us."
"It's your fault, isn't it?" asked the blacked haired boy as he turned to look at her. Taking his eyes off the attack, allowing a pirate with a huge hammer to sneak up behind him. The young woman shouted out a warning. It was in vain as Usopp was hit and knocked to the ground as the pirates easily walked up as the boy bled off to one side.
A pirate jeered, "You think you can stop us? Let's go everyone. Captain Kuro is waiting."
"Aye." was the common reply. Yet this didn't stop Usopp as he grabbed the pants of the pirate in from of them, like an anchor down on a moving ship, slowing the pirate down.
The long nose boy spoke as he tried to stop the pirate, "I won't allow any of you to pass this slope. Even though I've been lying my whole life, I want this day to be as peaceful in the village as any other day in the village. No, I want it to be more peaceful."
"You better shut up, kid" shouted a second pirate with his sword drawn and about to plunge it into the wounded defender.
Nami took this moment to slam her staff down on his head, then had to block the attack of a second pirate who charged her. Yet the force of the blow forced her into the side of the cliff, placing her in major pain. The pirates then turned back to the wounded Usopp to finish him off.
Their captain had other plans, "Hey! Just get in the village, all of you. Don't pay attention to those kids. Did you forget about Captain Kuro's plan? If you ruin his plan, he will kill everyone of us. Have you realized that? Stupid!!!"
They knew their former captain's punishment for failing would be as dire as this or greater. So the pirates ignored the defenders, and moves as fast as they could up the slope. The sniper tried to stop them again, but was kicked off in a rush. He called out to the pirates, "Stop! Please! Don't kill anyone!"
Nami and the young man were shocked when pirates were tossed into the air, and fell down the hill either by air or rolling down by land. They turned to look at the cause of this benefit for them. The pirates asked their captain, "What is that? We never knew this village had these kind of people."
Standing at the top of the slope was Luffy and Zoro, looking down.
"What is that?" asked Zoro, with one of his trio of blades over his shoulder and behind his head.
"How should I know? But I don't like it." said Luffy in his human form, as he stretched his arms again.
Zoro yelled his comments to his female companion, "Nami! You really are a pain. You stepped on my head."
"Usopp! Next time, you should tell me where north is!" was the comment from the straw hatted man.
"Who are they?" asked Jango as he placed his hand on his hat.
Meanwhile at Kaya's mansion...
Kuro, as his Clahador's disguise, was sitting on the steps to the front door, hands on his cheeks while rubbing them. He said one thing to start with, "Late! Those idiot's should realized what they will receive if they have ruined my plan. even so, they are still late. If they forgot... I'll kill them all!"
Kuro began the slow walk to the northern slope.
(Posted Sat, 07 Aug 2010 19:56)
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