Journey to One Piece

272. Arrest them

But at the end Luffy came out of the sulking feelings once he saw food that Sanji had brought. And thus with that a new celebration began. 

"Jinbe. What about your crew?" Ken asked as he at some desserts that Sanji had made. Ken remembered that due to his old relations it took him some time to join his crew. In fact it was only in Wano that Jinbe came and started to work together. 

"The last 2 years I have been here and I have settled my past connections." Jinbe said while drinking a huge jug of alcohol. 

"Oh so basically you are jobless." Ken commented. Now it was time for Jinbe to mop on the floor. Seeing this Ken laughed and continued with the banquet. As they were having fun, Ken looked at his friends in the banquet. 

Ace and Luffy fighting over a big piece of meat. Zoro was chugging down alcohol. Franky now looked just like any other person and not like a Cyborg, thanks to the new character that he received after finishing Victor Stone. 

Brook was close to finishing his character so he had become a little cold but he still threw in skull jokes here and there. One thing they understood over time was that the character progression was a bit faster if they acted like the character in real life, which Ken himself didn't know and thus now he was also trying to act like Yamamoto. 

But Ken was failing to do so because he was too serious for Ken to emulate in real life. 

The others like Nami who was also very close to finishing her character of Avatar was dancing around. While she did so the four elements was revolving around her. One thing to be said was that Nami had progressed much better than Aang. 

She had somehow figured out lightning bending. Zeus was going to be very powerful it seemed in the future. Robin had become more beautiful because of her new character and since she was kind of acting like the character she seemed to be more charming than anyone here, even more than Nami by a bit. 

Chopper's second character was almost godlike so he was also in a new path. But among all the character Chopper's second character was progressing very slowly. In this journey they had decided to leave Caroo and Banchi in Alabasta. It was too dangerous for them to be in New World and it was Vivi who suggested that. 

Vivi too got herself a new character and honestly speaking she too got an awesome character but then again the progress was slow, but unlike last time, she could now fight with the crew and even learn the elementary forms of Haki over the past 1 year. 

She wasn't the brightest student in fights but she was getting there slowly. Ussop got himself a very strong character and was getting more used to hand to hand fights as well as gun fights. As they were discussing and having a good time when suddenly many fishmen royal guards came and surrounded them. 

Jinbe and others had already noticed this but didn't stop them since they haven't attacked. After surrounding the Straw hats. Finally after the royal guards surrounded them, the three princes of the royal family came. 

From the looks of it, it seemed like the three princes had seen some kind of ghosts a few minutes ago and looked extremely haggard. 

"What is the meaning of this, Fukaboshi-sama." It was Jinbe who spoke first and he was quite irriated and honestly a bit disrespected in front of his friends. 

"I am sorry, Jinbe-san. I am really sorry. I didn't have any other choice and I will have to do this.." Fukaboshi said and he was almost in tears. 

"Shirahoshi has been kidnapped by Hody and along with them Hacchi." Ken who was been chewing on some meat said while not being flustered at all. His words sent shock among Jinbe and the princes. How did Ken know? Of course Jinbe wasn't that surprised as he had seen how Ken's haki worked and how powerful he was before.

"Hody? Hody Jones? How dare he? Why did he kidnap?" Jinbe was furious. The princes were stupefied for a bit and then went on to explain what had happened. Hody and his friends had been in the Ryugu royal army for quite some time and thus were given high positions since they were powerful and resourceful but who would have known that they were just snakes in fishmen skin. 

Few hours ago, out of nowhere they rioted and kidnapped their princess. And after kidnapping them they asked us to hand over the Straw hats to them or else their precious princess would die. They also put a bomb collar around the neck of the King and said that if they didn't do it, they would first blow off the head of the King if they didn't return to them with the Straw hats. 

They had also kidnapped Hachi so that Jinbe wouldn't interfere with them. 

"Who is Hody?" Marco was confused and thus asked. Jinbe went on to explain who Hody was and how his role model was Arlong. Jinbe had only met him once or twice and always felt something was off. 

And he was right. 

Now he had come to bit them in their ass. 

"So we need to beat the ass out of Hody?" Luffy asked.

"No.. No.. I am sorry you can't.. Our father's life in danger." Fukaboshi pleaded. He was ashamed but there was nothing he could do. He was here with some of them just to arrest them and send them away to the criminals. 

"I don't care what you think. We are pirates and we do what we like." Luffy said. Marco and others didn't say a word when Luffy said that. Fukaboshi gulped down and he was remorseful for a bit but after few seconds he had steel look in his eyes and directed the guards to come up and arrest them. 

"You shouldn't have done this." Jinbe seeing the guards coming up to catch them, couldn't help but shake his head.