The Devil's Grin - A One Piece Fanfic (Snail-like Updates)

Arlong's Reign Ends Nami Joins the Crew

So first off i want to give credit where credit is due. For the creation and management of the One Piece world we the mighty master Oda to thank. Also for Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z that Flying Nimbus came from... the guy that made Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z. Sorry dont remember who that is. Then there is the credit due to Wednesdays because this chapter wouldn't be finished today without it. (For those who don't know Wednesday is the day i go to salt lake. It takes all day and i end up sitting there for hows sometimes.) And finally , thanks to that magical place that all dreams come from. China! Just kidding. Though seriously someday your going to be able to buy manufactured dreams. There goes imagination. Enjoy the chapter. Special idea received on the salt lake trip at end of chapter.

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It was the third night straight that the villagers had been celebrating. D didn't blame them. They had spent roughly ten years paying Arlong for their lives. All that was over thanks to the Straw Hat Pirates. He would like to take some credit, but, being a manipulator instead of a fighter kinda lost you that right.

"Captain Ussop's Amazing Story number four hundred and sixty three!" Ussop crowed hoarsely from the top of a rickety stock of tables and chairs before collapsing. The night had been like that for the most part. Everyone was hitting their limits and collapsing. Zoro had passed out after drinking for three days straight. Sanji had passed out from drinking as well as overloaded testosterones. Luffy was still searching for meat. In fact he was searching for a delicious watermelon soaked meat. Which D was hoarding. Oh the pleasures of being a multi-powered being. He hadn't been all powerful in centuries. Now he was getting of topic. Lets see... Right! The crews whereabouts.

Nami had snuck home around the second day before the night party had picked up. Genzo also seemed to have disappeared, though D was sure where he went. Nojiko was passed out in one of the alleys clutching a helpless kid that fell asleep trying to get away. As for what he had been doing? Eating of course. It took a lot of sustenance intake from his copied bodies to fill his original. Ten times as much. So when the party had started and he felt Quil's presence back in the cave he had popped in and told her he would be a while since there was a three day celebration going on. She was very understanding. It reminded him of his days with Roger's crew. They really enjoyed parties. A policy that Shanks had certainly taken with him when he went his own way. Now he felt dipressed. Tht wasn't te right word. Great now his mind was beginning to warp. Warp Garp, hehehee. He was drunk. One of the dishes must have been made with alcohol.

He needed some fresh air. He stood unsteadily and spun his cape around him. Wait, he did that wrong. Grabbing his cape, he spun into it and appeared on a cliff over looking the sea. There stood Genzo next to a grave marker drinking. Every once in a while he would pour some of the bottle onto the marker.

"Waste of a good drink if you ask me." D turned to see Bellemere standing next to him. She smiled at him. "Personally I never could understand why you would give the dead something they couldn't use. A good burial was the only thing the living could give them."

"Maybe it helps them feel better?" D wobbled slightly as the world spun. No, he had spun.

"Your drunk." Bellemere noted. "Which side does it make feel better?"

"Exactly!" D chuckled. "Do the spirits feel better knowing their loved ones still come to talk to them." He sobered up slightly. "Or do the living feel obligated to do something for them since they could do nothing to keep them from dying." Where was Bellemere? Instead of a pretty woman in front of him, Luffy and Genzo stood in front of him.

"Over here." Bellemere waved from the side.

"Who are you talking to?" Genzo asked as Luffy started choking on some food.