Luffy's new age chapter 6

Circus comes to town
It had been a few days Luffy and his crew had left the marine base. Luffy was thinking about an old story that Shanks told him.

(Flashback) Luffy was sitting in Minako's bar, Shanks had been telling Luffy about his days as a younger pirate. As Luffy finished drinking up some of his soda, Luffy asked Shanks, "did you ever have a rival, I'de really like to meet him." Shanks replied, "No way! but I did have an old friend that I did have a rivalry with.." One of Shank's drunken crew shouted, "Come on, are you really talking about that old clown." Shanks then shot him a glare and said, "Hey! He may be a clown but he's an old friend." The crew member then passed out. Shanks then told Luffy of the day their friendship turned into a large rivalry. Luffy then said excitedly, "I want to meet him one day!" "Make sure you give him a bonk on the head for me for all the treasure he took!" (End Flashback)

Luffy was sitting on the deck of the Orca, thinking about where Buggy was. Luffy then said to Minko, "Minko, I need food that will help me think." "Coming right up!", Minko yelled. After a few minutes, the crew was in the galley and Luffy told them of Shank's rival. While Luffy ate his steak, Zoro was putting down some whiskey, Minko was having a salad. Minko remarked, "we are starting to run low on food." as she looked at Luffy knowing he was at fault. After about 2 hours, the crew had spotted a pirate ship looking like a circus tent. When sailing towards the ship, 3 pirates snuck aboard in hopes of taking over the ship. One had a pompadour, one of them had a tattoo that looked like a skull with a bolt on it and the last one had a ski hat. Zoro quickly noticed them, knocked them out and brought them to their captain. After the pirates woke up, they introduced themselves as the "try-hard trio". The one with the pompadour, his name was Donnie. The one with the tattoo, his name was Simon. The one with the ski hat, his name Samath. Zoro remembered the three seeing as how they were in a dojo, they grew up training in, however they apparently never remembered him. They made a deal with Luffy: if they could get one of their captain's officers to join Luff's crew, they will follow him as well. Luffy then asked, "is one of them a musician?" Zoro then knocked Luffy on his head.

(At a Pub in town)

"Aren't those three back yet?" smirked an unknown figure with a black hat...