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Chapter 23 - Shanks's arm

'Stupid shanks. Oh a chest, I bet he has some cool treasure from his last expedition.' Luffy thought as he looked at the chest lying soundly on the corner of the room.

Without thinking, He opened the chest and started eating a fruit that was inside.

"Yuck!" He said taking out a bite out of the fruit.

"Eating out of Frustration Luffy?" Shanks asked Luffy, who was nomming down the purple fruit.

"Stupid shanks." Luffy said as shanks looked at what Luffy was eating just before Luffy ate all of it.

"What did you JUST EAT LUFFY!" Shanks shouted as he lifted Luffy into the air by his feet, trying to get the fruit out of his stomach.

But instead, Luffy's feet stretched and his face hit the ground. Luffy was visibly shocked.

"What!" the crew screamed in shock with their mouths wide open, some spotted their drinks out.

"Luffy did you eat a fruit that looked like this." Lucky roo drew a picture of the Gomu Gomu Nomi and showed it to Luffy.

"Y-Yeah!" Luffy gulped as shanks shook him.

"LUFFY, WHAT YOU JUST ATE WAS THE GOMU GOMU NO MI, A DEVIL FRUIT, AFTER EATING IT YOU LOSE YOUR POWERS TO SWIM AND TURN INTO RUBBER!!!" Shanks heavily implied on the rubber part.

"Nani!!!" Luffy was shocked as his eyes budged out of their sockets. An object felw towards the bar and broke one of the walls.

*Crash*

*** (outside a few minutes ago)

"You picked a fight you couldn't win kid." Higuma commented as he men circled around Ao, Ao couldn't help but sigh upon listening to Higuma.

"Do you really think a nobody like you has the strength to defeat me?" Ao asked, His aura was enough to scare some of the bandits but Higuma was no normal bandit.

He licked the blade of his sword.

"I have killed 50 men kid, today it will be 51" Higuma said as he approached Ao with his Cutlass in hand.

"Now DIE!" Higuma said as his strike was easily dodged by Ao and his sword only hit air.

Higuma Frantically looked ahead of himself, trying to find Ao.

"Looking for me." A punch came from behind him, it was Ao who sent the punch on Higuma's way. Just before his fist made contact, it became black.

"Augh." Higuma was thrown back several meters and crashed into the wall of the bar. The wall broke and he went inside it.

Ao's fist went back to his regular colour.

"What happened!?" Shanks commented as he looked at the bandit lying on the ground with a Bloody nose.

"That Dipshit." The bandit said as he got up from his previous position and looked around him. After realising that he couldn't beat the brat, he started thinking and an idea came to his mind.

He picked up the kid, the one with a stupid look and a bandage under his eye and put him on the edge of his blade.

"You guys, Deal with them." Higuma commanded his men. His men obeyed him and started fighting the pirates.

"What will you do now him, You friend will die if you attempt to do anything."A trickle of blood escaped from Luffy's neck.

Shanks gritted his teeth. The bandit ran towards the port while keeping Luffy hostage.

"Defeat his goons first." Shanks commanded his men, who took immediate action and started defeating all the bandits one by one.

"Let's go rescue Luffy." Ao said as they all nodded, They made their way to the port, Trying to find Luffy but realised that the bandit leader and Luffy were already sailing on the seas.

"Save me, Shanks." Luffy screamed from the small boat as it got farther and farther away.

"I have no need for you now." Higuma said as he threw Luffy into the sea. Luffy tried Swimming but realised he couldn't move his arms.

A large sea king emerged from the seas and Ate Higuma, Luffy was visibly scared once he saw the bandit getting swallowed alongside the boat. He closed his eyes, Expecting the worst.

"Luffy!" Shanks said as he swam near Luffy, But it was too late. The seaking took a bite and blood escaped.

"Give me a sword." Ao asked one of shanks'crew members to give him a sword, the pirate gave him a Cutlass.

"Soru!!"

"S-Shanks?" Luffy said as he realised shanks was hugging him, But where did the blood come from.

Luffy looked at Shanks's side and found shanks' Left arm missing.

"SHANKS! YOUR ARM!" Luffy screamed as he looked at the stump in Shanks' arm.

*Zwwpt*

Ao appeared near Shanks'and Luffy and fell on the water, He looked at the sealing and jumped at it from the water.

"DIE!" Ao screamed as he coated his sword in haki and cleanly sliced the sea king in half. Conqurers released from the strike out of sheer rage as a region of sea started generating violent waves.

"Ao?" Shanks said as he looked at Ao. Shanks'was tightly holding on to Luffy and was about to use Conqurers to get rid of the sea king but that sea king was killed in a single strike, by a child no less.

"Shanks, Your arm." Ao said as he looked at Shanks's arm.

"I know, Take Luffy to the shore, he is unconscious, I cannot Swim with only one arm while holding him." Shanks said to Ao, who obeyed him and took him to the shore.

Shanks's swam to the shore with one hand. He looked at Ao with Admiration, Awe as well as shock.

'What a strong will! This must be his first time but his haki is very strong and potent...'

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