31 Chapter 30

Using Observation Haki, I was continually scanning the area around us while we were exploring the island. Dinosaurs attacked us from time to time, but Nojiko handled them all on her own. With her Devil Fruit powers, she was like a fish in the ocean in this thick jungle.

Nojiko was having fun using her Wood Manipulation and took a page from Xander's book, by shaping the trees around us into various wooden constructs. We have a group wooden golems walking around us like bodyguards. All of them have spears instead of arms, which they used to pierce most of the dinosaurs attacking us.

"Your crew is so amazing, and to think you just entered the Grand Line, that makes it even more astonishing," Vivi said with admiration in her eyes.

"Shishi, we are all special what can I say." I'm proud of what we were able to achieve so far.

"And you all seem like good people, especially you. After reading the article about you and Zoro, I envisioned you to be scary demons, but you are anything but that." Vivi exclaimed once more.

"Listening to Aisha and Nami, I can understand why they would call him a demon." Nojiko snickered and caused Vivi to blush at her comment.

We couldn't continue our conversation further since I felt a few life forces moving in our direction with extreme speed. In a second five giant wasps appeared before us. I believe they are wasps, due to the lack of hair on their bodies. Each one of them was at least three meters in height with a meter long stinger.

"Fine specimen."

"The Queen would be happy."

"They smell nice."

"Don't kill any."

"The Queen likes them alive."

After their quick conversation, they immediately attacked us. Nojiko impaled two of the wasps, while I enlarged my arms and crushed the other three.

"Ok, call me crazy, but I'm pretty sure I heard them talk," I told Nojiko and Vivi.

"I didn't hear anything other than their buzzing," Nojiko said.

"Same here. Are you okay Luffy?." Vivi asked me by placing a hand on my forehead.

"Hmm, I think I might know what's happening, but I'm not completely sure." I was about to continue and tell my speculation to the girls, but I felt an uncountable amount of presences surrounding us with my Observation Haki. And in seconds there were hundreds of wasps buzzing around us.

I created my last clone, and he created one more. One of them stuck next to Nojiko, while the other stuck next to Vivi and Carue making sure none of them get hurt.

Enlarging myself to my limits, I stood at ten meters tall almost reaching the minimum for an adult giant. Initially, after Awakening my Rubber fruit in the fight with Alarick, I was only able to grow five meters. But after practicing, I was able to extend my limits even further. Despite that, I feel like I still haven't mastered the abilities of my now Awakened Devil Fruit.

I started swatting and crushing all the wasps around us with relative ease. Nojiko had erected a wooden structure around her and Vivi to protect them. While also stabbing any that come near with wooden spears. The clones helped defeat any that managed to slip past them or break the wood. I felt another giant presence move in our direction, but that one had no ill intent towards us.

"Gegyagyagyagya, I haven't seen an adolescent giant in a hundred years. What are you doing here young fella, did you come to see the great Dorry?" A giant at least twice my current height started stomping on the wasps and helped us clear them.

"I'm not a giant," I told Dorry after we eliminated the wasps around us.

"Are you sure? You look like one, gegyagya." Dorry laughed out and smacked me on the shoulder. I turned back to my natural height, which is one meter and eighty-five centimeters. My heigh has slowly increased since eating the Zoan fruit.

"I see, you must have eaten one of them fruits then. Gegyagya, I haven't had guests in a long time, let me invite you, folks to my place. I'll treat ya to some nice dinosaur meat." Dorry said, while also looking at Nojiko and Vivi.

The moment I heard him say meat, I was already jumping around and asking to lead us faster to his place.

"Are you sure this is a good decision? He might want to eat us." Nojiko whispered in my ear.

"It's fine since we don't have much meat on us compared to dinosaurs, shishishi," I reassured Nojiko on the way.

"I've heard stories about giants, but this is the first time seeing one. They are larger than I previously thought." Vivi commented while observing Dorry.

"Adult giants are at minimum twelve meters tall, but they don't have a limit on how large they can grow," Dorry informed us.

While we were walking on the way, I stumbled and nearly fell, due to receiving the memories of one my clones. He found a giant wasp nest and infiltrated it.

While scouting inside the nest, he was able to discover a massive dark blue colored block shaped stele with unreadable symbols on it. Once he saw it, he immediately made his way out of the place. Unfortunately, the clone got killed in the process of escaping. Surprisingly he was trapped in honey and was suffocated by the Queen Wasp.

"Are you truly okay Luffy? You've been acting very strange since arriving on this island." Nojiko asked me with concern.

"Yeah, don't worry about it! I sent out a clone earlier to explore, and he found an interesting place before dispelling." I told Nojiko with a smile. She gave me a weird look but trusted me for the most part.

Dorry led us to a giant cave, and we sat down in front it while grilling dinosaur meat. He told he is from a village called Elbaf, which is in the second part of the Grand Line. Dorry explained he is on Little Garden due to a quarrel he had with another giant named Brogy. How in their village, there is a law that if you have a disagreement with someone else, they beseech their God Elbaf for his judgment. Elbaf being a just God bestows his divine protection to those who are right, and will ensure survival to the righteous. Dorry told us how for the past a hundred years he has been fighting with Brogy on this island, and how they have already forgotten the reason behind their quarrel.

While Dorry was telling us his story, I received the memories of the other two clones that were sent to explore. One of them saw Zoro take care of two Baroque Works agents. He was easily able to deal with both Mr.3 and Miss Goldenweek with relative ease. Using Soru, they weren't even able to see him before he knocked them out. Zoro tied them up with some vines and was wondering what to do with them before a Tyrannosaurus attacked him. After killing the dinosaur, he brought the Baroque Works agents with him.

The other clone saw Yosaku, Johnny, and Mikita had beat Mr.5. Well, mostly the swordsman duo did the fighting, and Mikita cheered them on. Johnny and Yosaku have been improving drastically under Zoro's teaching. But the important part was what he saw afterward and the reason he dispelled. He saw a woman exploring the island.

The woman was wearing purple cowgirl clothes that were hardly covering her private parts. She had shoulder-length black hair and blue eyes, with a long, thin and defined nose. Judging by her face, I would bet that that's Nico Robin.

Before I could find an excuse to leave them for a bit, a volcano erupted near the middle of the island. Dorry got up and prepared to fight with Brogy. I couldn't miss seeing them fight.

Watching the giants duke it out was an amazing sight. Their fight lasted for about thirty minutes before both of them fell down injured. I suddenly had an idea, and I made my way towards them. They were talking about the visitors both and competing which are better.

"Gegyagya, look that's Luffy, the one I was talking about!" Dorry pointed at me.

"Nice to meet you small giant, my name is Brogy, Elbafs strongest warrior, gabababa." Brogy jokingly greeted me.

"Please to meet you too Brogy." Enlarging myself, we shook arms.

"So you guys have been fighting for over a hundred years without a clear victor correct?" I asked them.

"Yes!" They responded in sync.

"Would you like to make a bet with me then?" I told them with a grin. They didn't respond and sat there watching me.

"I bet I can beat you both together in a fight. If I win, both of you will sail under me and forget your quarrel, if you win I will become your slave." I told them with a challenging look.

"GEGYAGYAGYAGYA!"

"GABABABABABA!"

They both started laughing so hard the ground was shaking.

"I like your guts guy, but there is no point for us to take that bet," Dorry stated.

"We have no need for slaves. The only thing we need is our pride." Brogy backed him up.

"I see, both of you are afraid of losing to someone smaller than you." The moment my words left my mouth, the aura around them changed.

"Take back your words!" Dorry said.

"We are afraid of nothing!" Brogy stated.

"So the bet is on then, or are you too scared?" I provoked them once more.

They both got up and were already in a fighting position, despite having just fought a deadly battle for thirty minutes.

"BRING IT ON!" They cried out together.