【One Piece】Dawn in the Darkness

Johnny and Joseph blocked the entrance to Arlong Paradise tightly, preventing the villagers at the door from entering. When they saw Luffy and the others coming, they excitedly shouted "Brother Luffy!!"

"Step aside."

Luffy looked at the wall blocking him, smashed it with one punch, and looked at the fishman sitting inside, "Who is that guy called Arlong?!"

Aaron sat on the throne and stared gloomily at the boy who dared to provoke him. "I am Aaron, what do you want to do?"

"I'm Luffy," Luffy said as he walked towards Arlong who was sitting on the throne.

"Oh, really? Luffy... who are you?" Arlong said.

"Pirate!" Luffy said coldly as he walked and stared at Arlong.

This answer shocked the other fishmen and the villagers who were watching. They couldn't believe that the boy was actually a pirate.

"Hey, stop right there!" The fishman standing nearby blocked Luffy's way.

"Hehe, where do you think you're going?" The other two fishmen blocked Luffy's way.

"Get out of the way!" Luffy glared at the fishman in front of him angrily. Before he could make a move, Qi had already knocked down the fishman standing in front of him.

"Didn't you hear what he said?" Qi grinned and shook off the blood on the tube.

The fishmen looked at the pipe in Qi's hand in shock. They didn't expect that their powerful fishman brother would be knocked down by one blow.

Luffy calmly walked past the fallen fishman and continued walking towards Arlong who was sitting on a chair. Finally, he stood in front of Arlong and punched him in the face with a clenched fist, sending him flying until he hit the wall.

"Brother A'long!" the fishmen shouted in shock.

"Don't make my navigator cry!!" Luffy yelled angrily at Arlong lying in the ruins.

"asshole!"

"How dare you attack Brother Arlong!!" The fishmen in the water rushed out towards Luffy, but before they could get close to Luffy, they were all kicked down by Sanji.

"Really, you run so fast by yourself." Sanji said to Luffy with his hands in his pockets, holding a cigarette in his mouth.

"Don't worry, I won't lose anyway!" Luffy said with a grin, he felt Sanji's worry.

"Idiot, when did I ever say I was worried about you!" Sanji looked away and said, "I was saying that you shouldn't monopolize the prey!"

"Really?" Luffy said, counting on his fingers, not caring about what Sanji said.

"I... I don't mind, Luffy!" Usopp put his hands on his hips, sweat on his face and his voice trembling.

"You're quite powerful, Usopp." Qi patted Usopp's shoulder and said with a smile, then stood next to Luffy.

Zoro, who came up from behind, looked at Usopp's trembling body and couldn't help but complain, "...You are really brave..."

"That's Roronoa Zoro!" One of the fishmen recognized Zoro's identity as a pirate hunter "He's a pirate hunter!"

"Hey! Who are they? They actually knocked Aaron away!" asked the villagers who were watching outside the wall. "That's not something an ordinary person can do!"

"If they can't defeat those bad guys either," Johnny said.

“Then there is no hope for the entire East China Sea!” Joseph added that they were also eager to fight, but they knew that with their current strength, they could not defeat anyone, and now the only thing they could do was to protect the villagers.

Joseph looked up at the villagers in front of him and said, "If you want to go in and interfere with this battle, you have to kill me first!"

"But why? You have no reason to fight!" Kenzo asked through gritted teeth.

"Because Sister Nami is crying!" Johnny said solemnly.

“Isn’t this the best reason to risk your life?” Joseph added.

The villagers looked at the five people fighting inside, and couldn't help but feel a glimmer of hope in their hearts. Can they gain their freedom again?

"Pirate hunters? Are you aiming for my head?" Aaron asked.

"We are pirates!" Luffy shouted.

"We are here for Nami." Qi looked at Aaron sitting in the ruins and said with a smile, but his eyes were cold. "You will pay the price for breaking your promise!"

"Hahahaha!" Aaron laughed. "They are just five low-level races. What can you do?"

"Brother Arlong!" An octopus fishman stood up and looked at Luffy and the others angrily. "You are worthy enough to fight with Brother Arlong? I will turn you into fish food!!" Then he pinched his mouth and made a trumpet-like sound, "Moo! Come out!"

When the villagers heard this voice, their hopes that had just risen suddenly turned into despair. “Impossible…”

Usopp looked at the huge sea beast and screamed in horror, "What...what is that?!"

Luffy and Sanji just looked calmly at the manatee emerging from the water "It's you."

Moo Moo had a huge bump on his head. He looked down and saw the two humans behind Xiao Ba. "Moo!" He couldn't help but shrank in fear and immediately turned around and tried to escape.

"Moo..." Moo paused when Aaron's low and threatening voice sounded. "If you want to run away, I won't stop you, right, Moo?"

Moo's eyes instantly changed when he heard Arlong's words, and he began to attack Luffy "Moo Moo Moo!!"

"What a waste of time, I'm not here to deal with this thing!!" Luffy shouted angrily, then stretched his arms back and rebounded to attack the manatee, "Bazooka!!" The manatee was knocked away by Luffy's attack and fell into the sea outside.

"What..." Aaron looked at the boy's outstretched arms in shock and muttered, "A devil fruit user?"

Luffy beat away the fishmen who were rushing towards him, then pointed at Arlong angrily and shouted, "I'm not here to beat these guys, I want to beat you away!"

"Great." Aaron said gloomily, "I also want to kill you with my own hands."

"It seems... we have to take action as well." A gray fishman named Kroobi said with his hands crossed in front of his chest.

An octopus fishman named Xiaoba was obviously enraged, "How dare you hurt Moo Moo like this!"

"We have to let them know the gap between humans and our race, chirp!" said a long-billed fishman named Aqiu.

"The main force is here." Qi said with a smile, and threw away the fishman in his hand. Except for the cadres, the other fishman minions have been cleared out by them. Well, the main forces are Zoro and Sanji. During this period, they have been proving that they can fight more than the opponent.

Zoro grinned and reached for the hilt, ready to pull it out at any time, while Usopp raised the slingshot high, ready to shoot.

"What does that octopus want to do?" Qi looked at the octopus puzzledly as it walked out and suddenly stretched out its mouth towards them.

Sanji lit up the cigarette and looked at the octopus standing opposite him, and said nonchalantly, "Octopus, you have to boil it in salt water first, then slice it, and then add some pepper to season it. It's best to drink it with wine."

"It sounds delicious!" Luffy looked at Hachi with shining eyes, his mouth drooling. "Sanji, I want to eat octopus!"

"Oh." Sanji stared at the octopus and smiled in response, "I'll let you taste the octopus feast after this is over."