The Daughter of the King (English)

Chapter 12 - Nasty Kittys - part 1

~ On the coast/cliff ~

The five had arrived at the cliff. "That's it," said Onion, "The captain is always here when he needs some peace and quiet." The children began to look around, as did Zoro and Nami. "The Straw Hat Girl isn't here," Pepper said sadly. Zoro raised an eyebrow. He had a feeling Luffy had to be here somewhere. Nami walked a little closer to the cliff and looked down. "That's pretty steep." "Nami, you better be careful there!" Zoro said behind her. She was about to step back when something caught her eye. She narrowed her eyes and saw...something red lying on the beach below them. "Hey, there's something!" she shouted. The others came closer and also looked down. "I can't see anything," said Onion. Pepper turned around and shouted as he ran, "This way! I know a way near here that can get us there faster!" The others followed him. Nami and Zoro looked at each other briefly. They had a bad feeling about it.

Pepper was right when he said the path wouldlead quickly downwards. It almost resembled a slide created by nature. Whenthey arrived at the place they had seen from above, Nami took a horror air."That's her!" "That's the Straw Hat Girl!" said Onion and Pepperin shock. Carrot did not get a word out. "Luffy, what happened here?""She has to have fallen," said Pepper and swallowed hard. "And musthave died as a result," added Onions. And Carrot said: "That must be the reasonwhy the captain..." Suddenly a strange noise was heard and everyone becamesilent. Only the noise of the waves could be heard next to the strange sound. Zoropulled the eyebrows together. If he didn't know better, he'd say it soundedlike snoring. But it wasen't possible thar Luffy was... what did he think?Almost anything was possible with his captain! "This woman..." he said with asmile and pulled one of his swords out of the haramaki. He stepped towards herand hit her bottom, which was sticking up into the sky. The result was a twitchin the hands. Nami raised her arms in shock while the three children clung toher in fear. The black -haired woman was yawning. Small stones fell from herhair and she stretched her arms. Still a little sleepy, but smiling, she said:"Morning." "Morning? Are you crazy?! Do you actually know scarred we was becauseof you?! ", Nami shouted at her. "Hey, what is wrong? I just slept, "Luffydefended herself, when she noticed something," Wait. Why did I sleep at all andhow did I get here? "She looked around. "Take it easy, Luffy. What is the last thingyou can remember? "Asked Zorro. She pressed a finger against her forehead andbegan to think. The others looked at each other a little worried as her faceslowly turned red. The others could just hear Luffy's murmur: "I was onthe cliff with Usopp at the top when this butler and this strange guy with hisblade pendulum ..." She broke off. She remembered everything again. Shecould have slapped herself! Why had she stared on the pendulum? "Ah, thatdamned butler and his Hypnoheini! They'll regret it as soon as I get my handson them! "She screamed angry. The five looked at the zettering black -hairedwoman without understanding before Nami said: "Wait, Luffy! What do you mean bythat? What exactly happened here?" The straw hat wearer grabbed her hatand looked at her before she took a few deep breaths and said: "Thisbutler is not who he seems to be." They looked at Luffy questioningly. Shelooked up and began to tell about what happened.

"What?! Kaya should be killed?! The village is under attack?! Is that true?!" the three boys screamed in horror. The black-haired woman put her hat back on and said calmly: "Yes, that's what they said. There is no doubt about it." The children looked at them in fear as Zoro came next to her and said: "Tell me, how did you actually fall asleep and end up down here? You didn't say that before." She blushed a little when he asked this. She was a little embarrassed, so she left that part out. Nami raised a skeptical eyebrow and asked, "Why are you suddenly blushing so much? What happened here? And I expect an honest answer!" Embarrassed, she laughed and scratched the back of her head before she began to talk quietly. They were so engrossed in the conversation that they didn't notice the three boys themselves having a conversation about the butler. However, Nami noticed something and joined them. Luffy and Zoro were interrupted from their conversation as the three let out a scream and pumped their fists into the air before running down the beach and disappearing. "Oh, no!" Luffy shouted. "What?" asked her first mate. "If we don't hurry up and get food, the shopkeeper will be gone, along with the meat!" Zoro rolled his eyes, walked up behind her and hit her head with his scabbard. She flailed her arms like crazy to keep her head from falling back into the crater that had been created by her fall from the cliff. "Now is not the time to think about such things," Zoro said before gravity won against his captain. Nami, on the other hand, had to pull herself together not to slap her hand against her forehead before she asked: "And what do we do now?" Luffy stood up, looked at the sea and said: "That's obviously. We'll wait for Usopp and talk to him."