Journey to One Piece

95. Unwelcome guests

The Isshi 20 got to work immediately. No matter what, he was once their King and until their lives were threatened, they would always help someone whose health had been affected in any way. Ken didn't bother to ask their help for Nami because he was sure that Nami wasn't in extreme danger. She just had a little fever and in fact she was able to do the normal work just fine.

After the initial high fever, his medicines had helped her lessen the temperature by a lot and was much better. Of course It was best to take her to Chopper and let him take care of Nami to make her completely fine.

After another day of sailing and constant snow, they finally saw the outline of Winter Island. The world of One Piece has a very weird relationship. Any island that was bone freezing cold, they tend to be more technologically advanced. Be it Drum Island which was medically advanced, Karakuri island which was supposed to be the birth place of Dr. Vegapunk or Egghead Island which was the current home of Dr. Vegapunk. All of these islands were winter islands which was a very odd thing to have for a technologically advanced island.

"There is an island up ahead." Zoro shouted.

Ken came to the deck where he saw Luffy and Usopp still playing with snow. But after Zoro's shout shout and Luffy sat at the head of Merry to have a close look at the new island.

But as they came forward to the island, they were a little puzzled to see so many people standing on the shores. All of the people had one thing in common and that was everyone had various kinds of weapons in their hands.

Ken knew why it was like this. Drum Island was raided by the Blackbeard Pirates recently and thus they had a very negative emotions and hatred for any kinds of pirates.

"Go back to where you came from."

"You are not welcome here."

"Go back to the sea, your scummy pirates."

"Bastards don't come here."

All kinds of shouts and insults were thrown at them as they approached the shore. Luffy and others were a little surprised but this was the actual response any person could have once they saw the jolly roger of a ship.

"Why are they so angry with us?" Luffy was still a little confused.

Vivi couldn't take it anymore and shouted back.

"Please! We are sorry. We are not here to hurt you, But we have a patient who needs immediate medical attention. We just need to show our crew mate to a doctor."

Everyone was a little surprised by this but they still didn't budge. They kept on clamoring about the pirates to go back. Ken was getting annoyed and shouted.

"We have a half dead Wapol with us. If you let us see a doctor, we will hand him over to you along with his subordinates."

"What?"

"What did you say? Say that again!"

A man with huge stature wearing a green vest came forward. He was very tall in respect to others and seemed like he had quite the muscle.

"You heard me right. You do recognize the ship behind. Right?"

This man was Dalton, one of the loyal guards of King Wapol once but he had conscience. He served the King for a long time, until Hiriluk, the deceased doctor friend of Chopper, gave him the courage to stand against the King.

Now he was doing his best to keep the Kingdom safe and help it to stand once again on its feet. Dalton looked at the huge dome shaped ship behind Merry Go and recognized it instantly.

"You are in collusion with him?" Dalton shouted as his body slowly turned into a huge body which had black hair all over his body, two horns coming out of his head. Dalton had eaten the Ox-Ox fruit and this new form was the hybrid between a man and ox which made him seem like a Minotaur.

Dalton was ready to fight this group with his power if he was threatened again by Wapol. The men around too pointed their guns at Luffy and his crew.

"Did you hear what I said, Ox head? I said we will trade things. You can take the half dead Wapol and in return allow us to take a patient to the doctor." Ken said again and this time with a louder voice and clarity.

"Oye, show him the body." Sanji shouted. The Isshi 20 ran to the deck of their ship and brought out the sleeping body of Wapol. He had bandages in his lower jaw which seemed to be missing altogether. Everybody's jaw was on the floor looking at it. They had never seen a person with such a weird face but they were sure that this was Wapol. That unique body structure could only belong to Wapol.

And top it all, he could see the faces of old comrades who had been hiding behind. They were trying to shy away from the eyes of Dalton. They had been having nightmares of what happened with Wapol and they were living in fear at every given second. Though they would be imprisoned here at Drum Island but it was better than living under the fear of the Straw Hat Pirates.

"Who did this to him?" One of the men asked in curiosity. Everyone had a bright face seeing their old king suffering but they were curious about the reason he had lost his lower jaw and now looked so awkward. The Straw Hat moved their heads and looked at Ken.

"You did that?" Dalton getting the cue asked.

"He was being an asshole in the ship and took a bite of my food, so of course my brother here beat him up." Luffy said with a loud mouth. He definitely wasn't the person who could be silent for a long time and spoke his mind.

Sometimes Ken wondered if his brother had an inner monologue or not.