【One Piece】Dawn in the Darkness

"Hehehe, come with us to Sky Island, Lucci!" Luffy said with a smile as he looked at Lucci who was stunned in front of him. Then, without waiting for Lucci to react, he immediately hugged him and rushed out of the forest with a rocket, running along the coast towards Merry. In order to speed up, he even kept using rockets while running.

Lucci, who was in his arms, had completely lost consciousness due to excessive blood loss and someone's rocket.

Badgers was very angry that his enemy was taken away by an unknown arm, causing his attack to miss. "Captain, let's go after him!"

"He can't run away! Prepare the boat." Blackbeard grinned. He just remembered Lucci's identity and believed that the World Government would be very interested in this news.

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Luffy kept running along the coast. He could feel that the guys who had fought with Lucci before were not chasing him. Although he really wanted to beat up those guys who injured Lucci, he knew that they were Lucci's enemies and he would not steal his opponent.

Lucci asked him to leave, so he didn't go over, but just stretched out his arm so that his brother wouldn't be angry with him. Luffy showed a bright smile on his face, and then he noticed that Lucci's breath was getting weaker and weaker, his heart tightened, and he stopped, hugged the unconscious body to his chest, and checked his condition. Luffy pursed his lips, he needed Chopper.

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"That guy? What on earth is he doing?! It's morning, already morning! 46 minutes past the agreed time! We're almost behind the current." Nami kept pacing back and forth, anxiously saying, "It must be because the gold bars he brought back were too heavy! That guy definitely didn't consider this!"

"No...he probably didn't even calculate the time from beginning to end!" Usopp complained.

"Nami, let's prepare to set sail first. Once Luffy arrives, we will set off directly." Qi said calmly.

"This is the only way." Nami gritted her teeth and said, "If we are any later, we will not be able to catch up with the current."

Everyone quickly prepared to set sail, and as soon as Luffy arrived, they set off immediately.

"Saruyama United Army!" Kulikate shouted to the salvage team on the shore, "We must not mess up this mission! No matter what happens, we must escort these guys to the end!!"

"Ohoho!! Yes sir!!"

Just as they were about to board the ship, Luffy's voice came from the direction of the coast.

"Hey! Chopper!!"

"It's Luffy!!" everyone shouted with joy, and then they found something wrong, Luffy was holding someone in his arms.

"Who is that?" Usopp had just finished speaking when he saw Luffy stretch out his hand and grab the railing of the Merry, jumping from the ground to the deck.

"Chopper!!" After Luffy jumped onto the deck, he immediately carried Lucci to Chopper and shouted in panic, "Save him!"

"Move him into the lounge!" Chopper's expression immediately became serious when he saw the person in Luffy's arms. The man was seriously injured. Just from the appearance, he could see two fatal wounds. It was obvious that he had lost too much blood and was in shock. "He needs immediate treatment."

Luffy helped put Lucci on the bed, then looked at Lucci's unusually pale face, pursed his lips, then looked at Chopper, his voice trembling a little "Help him, Chopper!"

"Yeah!" Chopper nodded seriously, then immediately took action and began to rummage through his medicine box, taking out a roll of bandages, a bottle of sedatives and painkillers, a syringe and a stethoscope.

Luffy gathered around Chopper, anxious to know the result, until Chi entered the lounge where Chopper was being treated and pushed him out.

After Qi pushed Luffy out of the lounge, he went in himself. He frowned as he looked at Luffy lying on the bed, wondering how could he be so badly injured, and more importantly, there was a seastone bullet in his body.

Although he was puzzled as to why his clone did not disappear after his real body was shot by the seastone bullet, he could feel that after his real body's fruit ability was restricted by the seastone, he could not use it either. Qi threw the thought aside, turned to look at Chopper and said calmly, "Chopper, take out the bullet in his abdomen first. It's a seastone bullet. That bullet hinders his healing speed."

"Okay, I understand." Chopper nodded seriously and carefully treated the wound on the man's body.

After giving Chopper his instructions, Qi left the lounge. As soon as he came out, he saw Luffy standing at the door, staring at the door he pushed open.

"Qi, how's Lucci!?" Luffy's face was a little pale, and there was obvious worry in his voice. He had never seen Lucci injured so badly. In his impression, his brother was always stronger than him and had never been injured in front of him or behaved so... vulnerable.

"Don't worry, Luffy!" Qi said, "Luffy doesn't want you to worry either."

"I know." Luffy lowered his head, thinking of the bullet that Lucci pushed away, and felt a little depressed. "Lucci was injured so badly to save me."

"Luffy, don't forget, Lucci is your brother. No one can hurt his brother in front of his brother." Luffy gave Luffy a hug, patted his back comfortingly, and said softly, "Believe in your brother, he will be fine."

"Yeah." Luffy nodded heavily, a smile on his face again.

"Now let's go to the long-awaited Sky Island!" Qi said with a smile.

"Let's go now!" Luffy shouted excitedly, then jumped off the boat and quickly handed the bag he had been carrying on his back to Uncle Kulikate, with a bright smile on his face, "Uncle, thank you for helping us repair the boat!"

Everyone standing on the deck looked at the smile on Luffy's face again and secretly breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts. Luffy's condition just now really made them worried, but when they saw Luffy smiling as usual, they completely relaxed. Luffy's laughter was enough to make their worries disappear.

"Come on board!" Kulikate said with a gentle smile on her face.

"Hurry up and get on board. We will lead the way in front and you just follow us!" the apes and gorillas shouted loudly on the boat.

"Let's go!!" Luffy shouted with a smile as he jumped onto the boat.

"Boys! I'm going to say goodbye to you right here! There's one thing you must understand!" Kulikate grinned as he looked at the ship that had already sailed away from the coast. "That is, no one in the past could prove that the Golden City or Sky Island didn't exist! Maybe someone would laugh at you, but so what! It's because of dreams that romance can be achieved!!"

"Romantic huh??" Luffy repeated with a smile, although he didn't understand what it meant.

"Yes! Thank you... for getting the gold nuggets back... please don't fall from the sky!" Kulikate said with a smile.

"Hehehe! Goodbye, uncle!!" Luffy grinned and said goodbye to Uncle Kuriko.