The Straw Hat's Red Devil - Sky Island Saga (No. 3)

TROUBLE AT THE BARATIE

TROUBLE AT THE BARATIE

East Blue Saga - Baratie Arc - Episodes 21 - 23

DAKOTA'S POV:

When Zoro opens the restaurant doors, we're welcomed by stunned customers, looking over to the Marine Lieutenant Fullbody, his beauty of a date, and a blond in a suit holding the Marine by his jaw. "Is this a fight or something?" Zoro wonders, reading the tense atmosphere and looking at the scene before us with a bleeding Fullbody.

"Don't go ruining our food," The smoking blond threatens the Marine - when I mean smoking, I mean he's smoking a cigarette; he's not my type -. "Messing with a cook of the sea is a good way to get yourself killed... remember that well." Suddenly, a big guy with pink hair and an apron walks over to the Marine Lieutenant and the suit guy, who looks unhappy at the pair.

"You're at it again, Sanji?" The guys ask, walking towards them. "What're you doing to our customer? Isn't that a Marine Lieutenant?"

"Gotta problem, you crappy cook?" Sanji asks, turning his head, not seeming to care. "Don't talk to me that way!"

"A crappy cook like you has no right to call me crappy!" The other cook snaps back at the younger man. "To a restaurant, customers are everything! Beating up our valuable customers, what're you thinking?"

"Customer or not, it's no different," the young blond cook argues. "This guy not only ruined our dishes, he insulted the Chef!" Sanji releases the injured Marine Lieutenant, letting him fall to the floor, where he sits looking wounded. "That's why I thought I should teach him a lesson." I couldn't blame him. He's not wrong; the cooks on my Dad's ship are much worse than this if you leave a crumb on your plate.

"Ah, Aunt Alice," I muse, smirking as we watch the exchange from the door with interest.

"What kind of restaurant is this? Do you treat all your customers like this? How does it even stay in business? I'll destroy it! I'll destroy your precious little restaurant! I'll destroy it! I'll contact my superior right now!" The humiliated Marine Lieutenant threatens them, sitting on the restaurant floor; this seems to enrage Sanji as he looks down at Fullbody.

"I guess that means I can't let you leave this place alive," Sanji growls at him directly, scaring the Marine as he looks up at the blond cook and walks towards Fullbody with the intent to seriously injure or kill the Marine Lieutenant.

"Stop it, Sanji!" The other cooks shout, trying to hold back the younger male as he tries to reach the Marine Lieutenant.

"Let go of me!" He demands, trying to pull free of them. "He started it!"

"Stop it! Stop fighting, Sanji!" The cooks yell at him as they struggle for control against the younger cook.

"Just who do you think you are?! Huh?!" The blond cook shouts, struggling as he reaches his arm out towards Fullbody, who shakes with terror at Sanji. Suddenly, the ceiling cracks open, and Luffy and an older blond man fall through a hole they'd made and crash onto the floor with a thud, startling the customers and cooks.

"What's he done now?" I groan as we stand in the restaurant doorway, and Usopp tries to get a better look from his spot behind Zoro and me.

"What is it this time?" Someone asks, seeming used to all the fights and ruckus.

"Man, that surprised me!" Luffy whines, getting up next to the older blond man, who seems shaken by the sudden fall and injured, most likely from the Marine's cannonball attack earlier.

"O-Owner Zeff? What's going on?" A cook questions the old man who'd fallen from the ceiling.

"Damn it, see what you did?! You broke my ceiling! It's all your fault, boy!" The Owner snaps at my baby brother, ignoring the other cooks.