One Piece: The Dreaded Enemy Chapter 9

Chapter 9.

The Straw Hats all left the Karnarger Gang Fortress and as they walked the fortress had then begun to collapse. The Straw Hats all turned around as they looked at it as the fortress crumbled and fell apart. The Straw Hats all looked on from a distance away as the fortress crumbled and smoked and exploded a bit from all that happened in it and the fortress soon became a smoking ruin.

Zoro said "Well it looks like it's just about over. With Don Karnarger being defeated along with all his men. It seems as though the Karnarger Gang is finished especially with the destruction of their fortress."

Luffy said "Well guys let's get going."

Everyone nodded in agreement as the sun was starting to set. The Straw Hats all began to leave through the trees. Dalko looked at all the Straw Hats will a smile and thought to himself "These guys are all really strong and powerful and they're also very brave and will do anything for their friends. I'm glad that I'm a part of their crew and I'm also glad that I'm able to be with Nami my twin sister now. I feel so happy now. I've met my long lost twin sister and I made some great new friends as well."

As they're walking Zoro looks at Dalko and says "Hey Dalko."

Dalko looked at him and said "Yes Zoro?"

Zoro said with a small smile "You did well back there. You're a very skilled individual. Great job and welcome to the Straw Hats."

Dalko smiled and said "Thank you Zoro."

Zoro smirked as he walked "Don't mention it."

Luffy said "I don't know about you guys but I'm feeling very hungry after all of this."

Nami smiled and sweatdropped and said "When are you not hungry Luffy? But then again you do have a point there Luffy I think we could all use a good meal after all that has happened."

Sanji said to Nami "I'll be right on it Nami and I assure you the dish that I prepare will be a very great one."

Soon as they are all walking through the forest they see a body on the ground a small distance away. Chopper looked at it and said "Is that...? Karnarger?" Everyone runs towards Karnarger and they see his bloody, bruised, beaten and unconscious body laying there on the ground. He was bloody and bruised all over on ever inch of his body.

Karnarger unconsciously muttered "Straw...Hat... I will not... be... beaten... By a worthless...Punk...Like you..."

Zoro looked down at him with a look of both utter disgust and complete and total pity. He then said "He's such a contemptible man and even when he's been beaten he still refuses to admit that he's been defeated." Zoro sighs "We should just leave him here."

Nami nodded "You're right lets just leave this jerk here and get back to the Sunny."

Soon noises are heard through the forest as some people start to come by. The Straw Hats all look at them and the people look at the Straw Hats and then they look at Karnarger's unconscious and beaten body. A bald old man with a white beard walks over to Karnarger and looks down at him and spends a few seconds doing so as he adjusts his glasses. He then faces the Straw Hats "Did you all defeat Karnarger and his whole entire gang?"

Luffy nods with a big grin "Yep! We did it and I defeated that Karnarg guy."

The villagers all are shocked as they facefault and comically shout "YOU DID!"

Luffy nods "Yeah."

The Old man got to his knees and bowed and said "We're all in your debt you're all true heroes for what you've done. You've beaten the deadly Karnarger Gang they've been tormenting this whole island for sometime."

The other villagers who have came from all over the island had also bowed to them. Luffy said "I don't want you to bow to us. We are not heroes you see we're pirates we beat up those guys were causing us alot of trouble."

Sanji smirked "Yeah and one of those jerks at the market area was trying to pass off fish that weren't the real deal. I could not have taken that lying down."

Franky said "But if all of you guys would really like to repay us. We're all pretty hungry."

The old man nodded with a smile "Of course we shall all have a big feast and party to celebrate this peace that you have brought to us all."

Luffy smiled "Thats good bring on the meat. And this party can be our own way of officially welcoming our new crewmate Dalko as well."

The old man chuckles "Of course we will."

Later in a town on the island at nightfall there was a big party going on to celebrate the defeat of Don Karnarger and his malicious Karnager Gang. Don Karnarger's unconscious body was in prison and in chains and he couldn't move. Meanwhile everyone else was in one of the islands tarverns that also doubled as an inn where the Straw Hats were all enjoying the party. They had already paid their respects to Saul, Nini and Sako at the destroyed Tavern in their part of the island beforehand.

Luffy was enjoying the meat that he was eating as he said with a big smile "This meat is great!"

Nami said with a smile to Dalko as she sat next to him "So how are you enjoying being a Straw Hat so far?"

Dalko said "I'm enjoying it a whole lot Nami."

Nami puts an arm around Dalko and holds him close "Thats good Dalko. I'm very happy that I met you and that you joined our crew I feel very happy now that I know that I have a twin brother and that my twin brother is someone like you Dalko."

Dalko smiles as he says "I'm so happy to hear you say that Nami. You're a great sister and I hope we get along real well together."

Nami smiles and says "We will Dalko I know of it."

Everyone was eating and drinking and dancing and Sanji was flirting with many women as the party was going on for a few hours. Luffy was eating alot of meat and other foods happily and a good time was had by all. Zoro was also drinking some mugs of whiskey. Chopper was also enjoying himself as he ate alot. He also did his Happy Dance as several women complimented him.

Brook stands on a table with an instrument and says "I'm going to play a song in Dalko's honor everyone!"ok stands on a table with an instrument and says "I'm going to play a song in Dalko's honor everyone!"

He then begins to play a very joyous tune as everyone cheers. Dalko smiles as he looks around at all the people having fun and enjoying themselves. Then he looks at all of the Straw Hats and smiles as he thinks to himself "For the longest time now I've been all alone and completely by myself. It hurt me so much to be alone for so long.. But now I see that that pain in my heart will no longer be with me. My heart and soul will finally be able to find true peace after all these years of pain."

He smiles with his eyes closed and then he thinks of some of his past memories and his eyes widen and he clutches his head a bit. Nami looks at him and says "Dalko... Are you ok? Whats wrong do you have a headache?"

Dalko doesn't hear her as he clutches his head and groans in pain "No... Please... Don't please... Stop... Please stop..."

He then clutches his head with both hands as he screams in pain "STOP IT! PLEASE STOP IT! PLEASE DON'T DO IT PLEASE!"

Everyone including the Straw Hats all look at Dalko whose on the ground screaming in pain. He clutched his chest as he was sweating and said softly "Stop it... Please stop it... Please! PLEASE! STOP IT RIGHT NOW! PLEASE NO MORE!"

The Straw Hats came closer and Nami held Dalko and said "Dalko... I don't know what's wrong but I promise you that it'll be ok don't worry."

Franky saw some onlookers coming closer and he yelled "GET BACK GIVE HIM SOME BREATHING ROOM!"

Robin sees Dalko and runs over to him. Dalko calms down and sweats a little as he gasps for air for a few minutes. Robin says to him with concern "Dalko? Are you feeling alright? Let me help you up."

She and Nami both help Dalko to stand as he clutches his forehead a bit as he looks out of it and looks like he's about to pass out any second. Nami said to the Tavern owner "Excuse me but can we use a bed for my twin brother Dalko to rest on."

The owner said "Of course you can."

Nami said "Robin, Chopper can you both please help me upstairs to check on Dalko?"

Robin and Chopper both nod in agreement to this with Chopper putting his backpack on in case he had to get something for Dalko. They both help Nami to walk Dalko to the stairs and Dalko nearly falls to his knees but he manages to keep himself steady though. They all help Dalko up the stairs as Dalko is looking quite groggy and is sweating. Chopper looked at him with concern and said "Dalko are you feeling ok?"

Dalko looked at him and smiled a little and nodded "Yeah... Sorry about all this... I guess I kinda..."

Nami smiled "Don't sweat it Dalko we all had a pretty dig day today."

Robin nods with a smile "Your sister's right Dalko. Perhaps you just need some rest let's try and find you a proper place to sleep for the night."

Chopper said "Yeah. It will be ok Dalko."

Dalko smiled and said "Thank you. To all of you."

Nami smiled "Don't mention it Dalko. You're one of us now and we'll always have your back when you need us."

Soon they find a door and open it. There's a few beds inside of it and a window too and Dalko is helped to one of the beds. Nami said with concern in her voice "Is this bed good enough for you Dalko?"

Dalko nods "Yes it is. Thank you."

He takes off his jacket and boots and leaves his jacket on a chair and his boots to the side of his bed as he gets into the bed and pulls the blankets to his chest as he lies down. Nami smiles at him and says "I hope you have a good rest Dalko. We're going to be going back downstairs to tell the others that you'll be ok. Some of us will probably come in later to check on you. And if you need anything don't be hesitant to call us ok?"

Dalko smiles "Thank you very much and I'm sorry for all the trouble that I'm causing."

Robin smiled and closed her eyes "Don't worry about it Dalko. In this crew we're always there for one another no matter what."

Chopper said with a smile "Yeah.."

Soon Dalko closes his eyes and turns his body over to a side as he falls asleep. Nami, Robin and Chopper leave the room and close the door behind them. They both look down and stand in the hall and then they look at each other. Nami says "I think that there is something wrong with Dalko."

Chopper said "I think so too. I mean I don't think it was the stress of all that has happened that was what caused what happened downstairs."

Nami said "I think so too. Maybe something happened in his past but what it is... I don't really know."

Robin said "Whatever it is we should let him tell us when he's ready to tell us we shouldn't force him into it."

Nami looks at the door sadly and then said "You're right lets all go back downstairs and find the others and tell then that Dalko will be ok."

Robin and Chopper nod in agreement. Nami and Chopper begin to go back downstairs to the others but Robin stays behind. She looks at the door to the room Dalko is with a sad expression on her face as she thinks "Poor Dalko. Somehow I feel that he has suffered quite pain in the past. I hope that he'll feel better soon and probably be able to tell us about it too."

Robin sighs and walks away to where the others went. She then took one last look at the door and then left to join the others. Meanwhile in his room Dalko had tears in his eyes as he was sleeping. He covered himself in his blankets as he slept and sobbed silently and thought back to horribly painful and bad memories.

Meanwhile, Razaka was sitting in his throne like chair on his main ship. Just then a man came in he was leanly muscled and had pale skin and shadows around his eyes and a gaunt smiling face with a black moustache and black goatee he was wearing a black jacket. He had a grey shirt and dark grey pants and black boots and he had a black belt with a silver buckle and he bowed to Razaka and said "You called for me my lord?"

Razaka smirked a little and said "Yes Salzo I did. I wanted to tell you about some news. Meaning that Dalko has joined up with the Straw Hats Crew and was reunited with his twin sister Nami after all these years."

Salzo smirked "Really sir? Thats amazing I still remember Dalko from two years ago. And I remember when I saw his sister and him around 20 years ago. Kekeke."

Razaka said in amusement "You really enjoyed that assignment didn't you?"

Salzo smirked "Ooo yes I did and I love that me and my men caused so much pain death and carnage. And I took some men and left others to die as well after I did some fun things. Thank you for assigning me with that mission it was a ton of fun."

Razaka smirks and says "Unfortunately you let 4 survivors live. Bellemere, Nojiko and Nami and Dalko who wasn't found by Nojiko when she found Nami as Dalko was buried uner rocks." He then glares "That was a clumsy error."

Salzo looked down and kneeled sweating "I know High Admiral... My most sincerest apologies... I'm so sorry sir... I failed and I acknowledge my gross failure that day... Please forgive me... Though I know I don't deserve it... I'm so..."

Razaka said "Calm down you fool. A person that I entrusted of the role of Captain of one of my ships should not be so sniveling and pathetic it will make me look bad if one of the Captains under me is a worthless weakling."

Salzo got up and breathed in and out "I'm sorry sir."

Razaka said "It's alright at least you succeeded in one assignment to persuade Arlong to go to that island where Cocoyashi Village is. However to more pressing matters my little game with Dalko has gotten more interesting."

Salzo said "How so?"

Razaka said smirking "Well first he joined up with his sister and the Straw Hats and then they have beaten the Karnarger Gang that has been tormenting all of Castelia Island and I find that very interesting as I know have 10 people to cause pain to instead of merely 1."

He then gets up and stands there and walks down the steps and smirks "This will be such fun and the Straw Hats seem like they may be good prey for me. They will all fall and I will make Dalko watch as I kill them all before I end him as well."

He grins with a dark grin.

Thats the end of Chapter 9.

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