The World Of Crackheads

Chapter 2

Sobs.

Wails.

Screams.

Begging.

That was the sight seen and noises heard throughout the hospital. The fallen Admiral, soaked in his own blood. Nobody could deal with the death of the fallen Admiral, especially not his best friend, Captain Underpants.

He's an Admiral though--

Moving on, his ex-subordinates were calling his name with grief and broken voices. They begged the man to survive and live.

It was too late.

The doctor said he was dead, so the present Marines had surrounded his corpse. Their screams and begs were reduced to silent crying. Biting their lip to hold back, but these soldiers trained for justice couldn't do so. "Captain Jeffrey!" A random Marine sobbed.

"His name was Jeff!" His best friend, Captain Underpants, screamed.

Suddenly, the body that laid flat had risen-up. He rose up fast, blood-shot eyes opened wide. "My name is Jeff!"

Everyone seemed shocked, but random-Marine-number-two watched the newly revived man blankly. "Too late. Luffy's the Admiral now."

Jeffrey's heavy breathing stopped, eyes going dull. He laid back down and passed away.

"Just like that!?"

➵

Laughter echoed in the hall. Everyone remained deathly quiet - solemn. However, there were exceptions to a few adults.

There was a problem. A very big problem. A very, very big problem!

"Admiral Luffy!?" Sengoku looked around, the said boy nowhere in sight. He held a cloak in his hand, but once he saw Luffy wasn't even there for his own ceremony, his hands were gripping tightly on it. Sengoku became tremulous. He looked down, and sighed loudly. He'd rather not get frustrated when he knew this would happen.

The laughter got louder.

One of the four Admirals slammed their fists onto the floor. "He didn't show up!" He exclaimed, finding the absence of the Admiral - this very ceremony was for - very irritable.

Louder.

"Well, you shouldn't be surprised. He's Monkey D Luffy, isn't he?" Another admiral with a very colourful suit remarked. Unlike most, he had a relaxed smile plastered on his face.

Louder.

"I hate to interupt, but Kizaru is right. We all knew he wouldn't bother," A man with an afro-styled hair agreed. Unlike most, he was laying comfortably against a wall. "Garp seems amused about this."

Indeed, he was. The man couldn't hold back his laughter.

Finally, Akainu confronted the said man. "Why is he finding this amusing? There were other candidates too, but you picked Monkey D Luffy."

"Oh, come on. He is very capable."

"Capable as a Admiral: no. A strong ally: yes."

"And he can easily be a strong enemy. He is the son of a revolutionary, but he is getting such a powerful position!"

"Are you saying my grandson would rebel against the Marines and he would abuse his position to plot against the Marines?"

Akainu scowled, but he could not say a thing.

"Are we talking about the same Luffy?"

Now, everyone was laughing. This was the reason Akainu could not say a thing. It would be a ridiculous accusation. Luffy plotting something?

Yeah, right. That's the day Sengoku retires and Garp let's Akainu kill his grandson.

All that boy thinks about is food and a good fight.

"Really? You may be right that he wouldn't be fit to be an Admiral, but when would that boy ever plan a rebellion?" Garp laughed even louder than he had before. "Him? A rebellion? What an idea!?"

➵

"So how's the rebellion going?" Asked Luffy with a grin.

"It's going great. Need more allies though," answered a young man. Luffy followed him around, looking over him shoulder quite easily. The clipboard he held onto was full of names and information Luffy didn't bother to understand. He couldn't anyway, so who was he fooling?

Luffy shrugged.

The blond young man stopped his loitering, blurting out: "Wait, what?"

"So what do you want me to do?" He nonchalantly asked.

Seeing that it was the former Vice-Admiral who he carelessly answered, possibly exposing himself if it were anybody else, he felt relief wash over him. Wasn't he the cool headed one out their makeshift crew?

"Oh, it's just you, Admiral Luffy." He sighed. The young man was able to think over Luffy's question and answered, "I think I have work for you."

"Since you're," he paused, "you... people won't... respect you. No offense."

"What's wrong with being me?"

The man's black-eyes squinted, making his face almost resemble disgust. But before Luffy could acknowledge the look he was given, the man continued as if nothing happened. "So in order to get a better reputation, you'll be taking care of some clean-up jobs."

"Clean-up?"

"The first trash is corruption." He took a page out of his clipboard's grip and handed it to Luffy. "Looks like you'll be finding a new recruit too."

"Cool!" Luffy exclaimed with a grin. He skimmed through the document, but raised an eyebrow after finishing. "Could you explain this though. I don't want to read."

"You're hopeless."

"Thank you, Nini."

"How did you even recruit me?"

It's the power of main characters.

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