Aura [One Piece Fanfiction]

chap. 9 (a dog's loyalty)

chap 9 - a dog's loyalty

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"What's this? The rest of your friends ditched you, except this one? Poor thing. And you tried so hard to run away," a man who was sitting on top of the lion said to us with a smug look. "Captain Buggy is pretty mad. You guys have committed a pretty serious crime," he continued as the lion stopped to a halt in front of me. Oh, great. Another one of the clown's circus-freaks.

"What the heck are you supposed to be, wearing a weird cap like that?" Luffy asked with a confused tone.

"You idiot! Watch what you're saying! This is my hair!" the man screamed at him.

I sweat-dropped. "That just makes it even weirder."

"Shut up, you two! I am the 'Beast Trainer Mohji' and I will not be mocked by brats who don't know their place!" he shrieked at us. "I have no reason not to kill you two. Tell me where Roronoa Zoro is now."

"We don't want to," Luffy said as he glared at him.

"Fine, then. Kill them, Richiee!" Mohji commanded and the lion pounced at us. I phased so that the lion passed through me, which resulted in him destroying the cage. I could hear the chief and Nami yelp in shock while Luffy just grinned now that he's free.

I phased back at the wrong moment for Luffy and I were abruptly shot backwards and went crashing through a house because of Mohji's kick. I let out a groan as pain shot throughout my body. I opened my eyes to see Luffy's arms wrapped around me and that I was sitting on top of him. I stood up, my knees trembling and my eyesight still blurry, making it challenging for me to do so. I then helped Luffy up and fixed my hair and dusted off the dirt that were on my blouse.

"Huh, what a shock. We ended up all the way here at the other side," I stated as I looked at the house that we just crashed through.

"Yeah, but now that I'm out of that stuffy cage, after we get rid of those people, I'm gonna make 'Nami the Thief' our navigator!" Luffy said with determination. I just chuckled at him as we started walking back where we came from.

"You're both still alive?! How the hell did you two manage to survive?!" the chief demanded at us.

"You guys smashed through a house! What's more is that you both appear to be perfectly fine, which is too weird!!" Nami exclaimed.

"We're not normal people in the first place," I grinned at them.

"What is your purpose here? Why are you fighting those pirates?" the chief asked.

"I just chose my goal a moment ago. It's getting the Grand Line map and a navigator!" Luffy said while Nami just glared at him.

"And we'll start by looking Zoro. Mohji might've gotten to him already if we don't move now," I said I grabbed Luffy's arm and walked towards the chief's house.