abaody Archipelago, the land where Barlow would truly make his name. Here Barlow would start down the path he had been on for the two years that had passed since he had left his mother's home. Hand on the hilt of Wado Ichimonji, Barlow walked through one of the more densely populated towns of the specific island he was on. Crowds of people walked past Barlow, and as they passed Barlow noticed how strange their behavior actually was. The huddled masses of people all walked with their heads down, which would explain why no one seemed to notice Barlow despite his height, which would normally have drawn more than a few crazy stares by now. Along with their down facing stares, he noticed that all the members of the large crowds stayed together in groups, none of which were actually smaller than 5. "What's up with these people? Why are they acting so weird?" Barlow's curiosity would not last long though, as the heads of all of the people around would all snap up at the same time as a loud ringing sound filled the air. The heads of the people snapped up, though Barlow was still mostly ignored. The masses of people scattered, all running straight towards Barlow and nearly running him over.

The crowd around Barlow shrunk quickly as the people within it all ran away, seemingly trying to avoid the source of the loud ringing that was getting closer by the second. Not satisfied with being oblivious to what was going on around him Juan would grab one of the still running men by the shoulders and lift him up to look him in the eyes. The 5'7 man was astonished and unable to speak while face to face with the giant named Barlow, evident by his still running legs despite being in the air. Once the man realized that he was no longer in the ground he would begin to speak frantically,"Let me go! I need to go before that crab bastard gets here. He's as bad as those Noble bastards, except he never leaves and he takes everything!" 'Crab? Noble?' Barlow knew what those words meant, but he had no clue exactly what the scared man meant to say when using them. Before he could ask though, a loud band would be heard as the man in Barlow's hands went lifeless in front of him.

 

ith the man that was held in his hands now dead and unable to answer his questions Barlow would drop him from his hands to the cold hard ground below him causing a small dust cloud to come up upon impact. Ahead of Barlow, there stood a particularly strange sight. Standing about 22 meters away from Barlow was what appeared to be a huge humanoid crab, standing on two legs and covered in a collection of golden chains with a jewel covered gold crown on his head. The huge crab stood even taller than Barlow at 18 feet tall, and he was surrounded by a group of about 13 men that all seemed to be human-crustacean hybrids. There were about 6 massive lobsters of varying heights over 6 feet, with the remaining strange creatures being a combination of shrimp men and crayfish men between 4 and 6 feet. "Strange. I've never seen anything like this." He would say to himself before shouting over to the crab,"Hey Freak! The hell is wrong with you, scaring off all these people."  While Barlow couldn't care less about the people themselves, he was interested in knowing what was so special about this freak other than his appearance.
The crab who had previously been keeping only one eye on Barlow while looking at the small shrimp man who had shot the man out of Barlow's hands looked both eyes over to Barlow while smiling an revealing an impressive collection of gold teeth. "Gigigigi, What's wrong with me? Nothing is wrong with me." 'Aside from the obvious' Barlow thought, but kept to himself to avoid interupting and missing any important information. "Those puny humans simply fled to avoid a run in with a superior being. Any human knows that they have no chance against a fishman." The statement had a lot of confidence behind it, but Barlow was still confused. "Fishman? What makes you freaks so impressive? I don't think anything's too special about a bunch of walking dinners." With Barlow's remark, the group of Fishmen would all have their eyes bug out as the crab fishman would grow angry. "You don't talk to the Captain of the Gold Tooth pirates like that! I didn't get a bounty of 8 million by just allowing anyone to talk to me however they wanted. I did it by killing any human who didn't know their place and taking all of their possessions. Maybe instead of telling you all this," The crab fishman would hand his golden Crown off to one of his lobsters,"I should just show you the difference between our races."