【One Piece】Dawn in the Darkness

"Those ships are also evidence that we are approaching Alabasta." Zoro said as he looked at the large number of ships appearing on the sea.

"There are Alabasta logos on them." Usopp could see the logo on the ship through his goggles. He said tremblingly but firmly, "Should we attack now?"

"Don't alert the enemy." Qi said with a smile.

"That's right, just some minions!" said Zoro with a smile.

"Let's go eat!!" Luffy shouted excitedly as their ship was getting closer and closer to the port.

The appearance of a strong wind allowed them to enter the port faster. They docked the ship at a hidden port. As soon as the ship docked, Luffy flew off the deck like a gust of wind.

“I’m hungry!!”

"Luffy, wait!!" Qi didn't expect Luffy to rush down so quickly, and hurriedly followed him. He didn't want to look for him in such a big city at all.

"Wait, you guys!!" Nami shouted angrily at Luffy and Qi's backs. She couldn't believe that Luffy didn't hear anything they had just said on the boat. He didn't realize the seriousness of the matter at all.

"Let's go ashore and buy some necessary supplies!" Sanji said, "Leave Luffy to Qi."

"This is the only way." Nami sighed.

……

On the other side, Luffy, who rushed out to find food from the beginning, followed his nose and somehow ended up in the desert.

Luffy looked at the desert in front of him in confusion, totally unable to understand why he was in the desert when he was clearly following the smell of food. Just as he was about to walk towards the building with smoke coming out of the chimney, a hand grabbed his collar.

"Idiot! You don't know how to walk and you rush out alone!!" Qi pulled Luffy's collar and walked in the opposite direction.

"Qi, do you know where there is a restaurant?" Luffy asked with a smile, not minding Qi pulling his collar at all.

"It won't be in the desert anyway." Qi said speechlessly, "Let's go back to Rapeseed Town. There's a restaurant there."

"Let's go, let's go!!" As soon as Luffy heard there was a restaurant, he immediately broke free from Qi's hand and ran in front of him impatiently.

"What an idiot." Qi complained speechlessly, but he still quickened his pace. He also needed to go to the town to see if he could get some information about the rebellion in Alabasta.

……

The Straw Hat Pirates were searching for their captain and vice-captain while purchasing supplies for their journey through the desert at the center of the market.

"The place of Rapeseed Flower is too big. It's too difficult to find Luffy and Qi." Vivi said worriedly.

"Don't worry, Vivi, we can just go find them in the noisiest place," Sanji comforted.

"Compared to this, I'm more worried that guy will forget that he is wanted and attract the navy." Nami said with a headache.

"Don't worry about him, let's go eat first." Zoro suggested. He believed that with Yuki following behind Luffy, Luffy would be fine.

"Wait, that seems to be Mr. 3's boat." Weiwei said in surprise as she looked at the boat docked on the other side of the shore.

"It seems that Mr. 3 and the others have also arrived in this country. We have to hide carefully." Nami said worriedly.

"After all, they thought we were dead. It would be troublesome if we were found here." Sanji said while smoking.

At this moment, Zoro suddenly noticed that a man with the Whitebeard symbol on his back appeared here.

"Hello, do you know this person?"

"Straw Hat Luffy?"

"He may have come to this city. I have been looking for him for some time."

The others also noticed the two men. They were talking about Luffy. They watched the conversation between the man and the vendor warily, trying to get more information. They couldn't allow a dangerous person to try to target Luffy, but after the man found that he couldn't get any information from the vendor, he stuffed the wanted poster into his pocket, then thanked him and turned away.

They looked suspiciously at the back of the man walking towards the restaurant, trying to figure out who he was and why he was looking for Luffy.

"Why is he looking for Luffy?" Chopper couldn't help but ask.

"He looks very strong!" Sanji said solemnly.

"Maybe a bounty hunter? To get Luffy's bounty?" Nami said puzzledly.

"No, the logo on that guy's back is Whitebeard's. He is Whitebeard's crew member." Zoro said solemnly as he looked at the tattoo on the man's back. Why did Whitebeard's men look for Luffy?

"Why did Whitebeard's crew track down Luffy?" Sanji lit a cigarette. "It seems that we need to find Luffy and Odd as soon as possible. We need to discuss it in advance. If that man is an enemy, we will be in trouble."

Zoro noticed that the woman who looked like Kuina that he met in Rogue Town before was also here. He quickly hid aside and said, "The navy that appeared in Rogue Town before has actually chased us here."

"What?!" Usopp heard what Zoro said and hurriedly pulled Nami and the others aside to hide. "There are navy here! We must find Luffy as soon as possible!"

"But...we don't know where Luffy is." Nami said helplessly, holding her forehead.

……

"That store is very noisy...what happened?" Smoker asked as he looked at the restaurant in front of him surrounded by a crowd.

"It seems that a customer in the store died suddenly." Dashigi said.

"Lieutenant General, something bad has happened. A big shot has come here!" a navy soldier hurried over and shouted.

"What's the rush?" said Smoker unhappily.

"Yes, it's because Fire Fist Ace appeared in the restaurant in front!!" the navy said anxiously.

"Go!" Smoker ordered, and then took Tashigi towards the noisy restaurant.

the other side

People in the restaurant were mourning the man who had died suddenly from eating desert strawberries.

Ace, who was thought to be dead, suddenly woke up from his food and said nonchalantly, "Too bad, I fell asleep again."

"How is it possible that someone could suddenly fall asleep while talking and eating!!" people in the restaurant shouted in disbelief.

Ace looked at the people shouting in the restaurant in surprise. Were they the circus arranged by the restaurant? Then he thought that Luffy should be arriving in Alabasta soon, so he took out a wanted poster from his pocket and asked the boss with a bright smile, "Boss, do you know if this guy has been to this city? He was wearing a straw hat..."

Before Ace could finish, a serious voice suddenly interrupted him.

"Captain of the Whitebeard Pirates' second team, Portgas D. Ace, what are you doing in this country?" Smoker said sternly.

Ace carefully put away the wanted poster in his hand, then turned to look at the marine blocking the door, grinned and said "I'm looking for... my brother."