The Tea Party From Hell

Decisions Of War

This chapter picks up right after the previous. Much shorter than chapter 5 was. I'm trying hard to finish some of my 202 unfinished fanfictions but I'm a little depressed right now so luckily there is still a lot left of this one and Sons of Beasts part 2. Enjoy~

Once everyone was gathered, someone having gone back to get Maykuru, and all of the peace keeper chess men were gathered as well. Luffy sat down against the nearest wall.

"Daifuku, form two military units," Katakuri ordered.

"Okay," his brother replied. He turned to the crowd of chess soldiers. "We'll split up into two groups and chase them! One group, bring back Straw Hat's head, and the other, bring back Bege's.

"Ruffy, you better change back to partial form. We don't want someone accidentally killing you," Daifuku added.

"I was going to anyways," Ruffy said as he got to his feet. "I'll help the group going after the Straw Hats," he said. And when Katakuri started to protest, Ruffy turned to him seriously.

"I can smell and hear the best. Sanji smells like Pudding's perfume, since he was carrying her. He also smells like a very identifiable tobacco, from his cigarettes. Luffy is also easy to find. He smells like meat. Like he ate a crap ton of it right before starring in this whole mess. He's also quite loud, and I have great hearing.

"I'm going with you. I won't be the one to cut his head off, okay? Just cause I can't fight very well now, doesn't mean I'm useless, right?" Ruffy asked seriously. He and Katakuri stared at each other, the elder being the one to cave.

"Fine. Let's go," Katakuri said, before Ruffy suddenly stopped, freezing, his eyes wide. "What is it, what's wrong?" he asked, letting worry come into his voice.

"It's that feeling I get when Mama goes on a rampage. She's alive... and pretty pissed I bet," Ruffy said, taking deep breaths. "Sometimes I hate having animal instincts. They suck," he complained. "She wants wedding cake."

"Damn. Well, before we leave we need to notify some others for their help. We'll stay away from Mama right now."

-x-

"The Tea Party turned out like that -bon?" The Baron Tamago, or whoever he was now, exclaimed. Katakuri didn't like having to recount the whole event, but it didn't take long to summarize.

"Yeah, it was a disaster! The wedding and the wedding cake were all ruined! The execution of the Vinsmokes was foiled!" Mont-d'or shouted angrily. "On top of that, Bege was betraying us and plotting to kill Mama!"

Ruffy was sitting down again. He still hurt in a lot of places. He had never had something heavy fall on him, so hadn't known what to expect. He wished they could leave already so they could find the Straw Hats and put an end to this mess. If they hadn't already gotten too far to follow. No, they had to be somewhere near. Pudding said she lead them to the area behind the Seducing Woods. Where they had gotten Brulee, who was feeling down, but pissed as she stood across from him a ways.

"Damn Bege! I completely respected him for his great abilities- noir!" Tamago exclaimed.

"But we still don't know anything about the explosion," Compote said, the oldest sister in the family.

"If it was any of them, I'd bet on the Fire Tanks. The only ones on the Straw Hat's crew who are good with things like that aren't here." Everyone looked at him in confusion.

"I used to talk with Straw Hat before the whole Fishman Island incident. He's my biological brother after all. So yeah, we talked. But not in a long time," Ruffy said, trying to hide the sadness. Katakuri and some others looked at him with sympathy.