Kazanonsen
After days of travel the straw hats had found a destroyed island, together with the two Giants Panz and Lily Enstrom, they stared a party and they witnessed Panz volcanic-style of cooking. While scouting the island, the powerful monster trio came across a woman half submerged in a pool of hot steamy water. The woman was name Ain and she had severe burns in her arms from a supposed battle against the marines. The straw hats became quick friends with her and empathized with her suffering for losing a father-figure in her master Z. The Giants became her best friends during the three days.
Lily the little Giant and Ain Zephyr's apprentice became close as sisters in those days.
Luffy found the mechanical arm of Ain's master and that depressed the girl they found, Ain, even more. She kept singing her old master's favorite song, a song the straw hats really loved to hear, especially Brook. On the third day her brother-disciple raided the straw hats with a group called the Neo-marines. He pledged his allegiance towards her, and both agreed to fulfill their master's ambition by any cost necessary. Ain used her power of regression to disable a few of the straw hats however they ran when faced with the monster incarnate that was Monkey D. Luffy.
She left a journal telling of her plan and telling them to run away before the New World exploded into pure lava. She, who hated pirates, wanted to save them, and give them mercy, saying that her power would expire in three days and the people whom her power affected would return to normal in time. Meanwhile Ain became depressed and sang her song in the depths of the black ship before deciding to use a part of her master's mechanical arm and craft a dagger out of it, after days of travel she met Aokiji in the sea, riding his bicycle and was able to get him on her side.
Ain headed towards the second End Point in order to destroy it.
Now, on the New Marine Ford, the fortress built on the side of the New World.
"So one of the disciples was able to detonate the Dyna Stones and he is now dead, is he?" Sakazuki's hand caught fire from the power of his magma as he saw Kizaru nod.
"Him and his little girl disciple are now dead because of the explosion, however that doesn't necessarily mean it's over, his original plan was to use the stones to blow up the three endpoints, thus annihilating the New World and everyone along with it." He started his speech, looking at a room full of vice admiral and rear admiral, worrying was that three rear admirals, and two vice-admirals were reported dead.
Kizaru smirked. "I struck him while he was defenseless, the old man had problems breathing because of his old age, now his little disciple was worrying, however I did not detect signs of life after the explosion."
"Nevertheless, his od crew escaped with the dyna stones didn't they, hahahahahaha." Green bull confidently laughed at Kizaru.
Sakazuki silently raged. "Precisely and that's why it's unforgivable, anyone who allied with Zephyr and calls himself these Neo-marines should be exterminated in the name of justice. However they are certainly scattered. We need to recover these dyna stones no matter what."
He then proposed a plan to stake out the two end points, with many of the defenses on the second island, admirals needed to scout the seas between the second endpoint and the third one. A small reconnaissance team to survey the strength of the Neo-marines on the second endpoint Kazanonsen and a full ensemble of vice-admirals and admiral on the third.
Unfortunately for them, they needed two additional days to mobilize their forces, by the time they were mobilized fully, Kazanonsen might be already compromised, Sakazuki wasn't willing to compromise his own forces on the second island just to blow up in their face. Kazanonsen was a necessary sacrifice for justice. Let the Neo-marines grow overconfident and then they would exterminate them in the third endpoint, finalizing their demise in the name of absolute justice.
Those were Sakazuki's orders as fleet admiral.
Most understood, they had lost both Momonga and Yamakaji, two powerful assets and revered vice-admirals, they couldn't afford to lose more and be weak.
"Now, vice-admiral Momonga was transporting a pirate criminal when he was attacked by the crew of the straw hat Monkey D. Luffy." Sakazuki read the next order of business, the emergence of that problematic crew on the New World.
Tsuru continued with the blessing from the fleet admiral, Garp's grandson had become quite a thorn on their side. "Reports say that Pirate Hunter Roronoa Zoro, his first mate killed Momonga. Monkey D. Luffy himself had killed and destroyed the G1 base last year, efforts to rebuild are still a continual process but there is no telling how much he hampered our hold on the first part of the Grand line, as you all know by now his power over rubber has disappeared, reports state that he has power over lightning, experts assume it is a highly dangerous logia power, it was used once again on their resurgence at Sabaody archipelago, where he was able to destroy a pacifist with no effort, he also used an attack that produced a similar explosion to Kizaru's power, this time destroying an entire fleet and killing a lot of our soldiers. The attack at the four battleships on the new world left no survivors, the team of reconnaissance reports extreme cruelty in their attacks against marines, hinting at some grudge the straw hat has against the Navy."
Tsuru's report on him continued for over an hour, not understating the power the crew caused, a greater bounty right now was off limits because of the higher ups. However the Navy from this day changed their approach towards the straw hats, the crew was now a big fish and the Navy would use bigger fish to catch them. As for the strange hatred towards marines stemmed from the reports, most thought it derived from the execution of Portgas D Ace, his brother's death might have incurred his anger towards all marines.
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They docked on the nearby island to Kazanonsen, there was a neat little port where pirates payed the owner as rent, Franky used this so he could fix the parts that were damaged in the naval battle. It was already night when they arrived, Sunny's speed was greater than that black ship so it would probably take longer for them to arrive, Franky and Nam had calculated they were two days ahead from Ain.
Lily and Panz went ahead to Kazanonsen, they had business there and took the last train for the night.
They went in for the hotel rooms and Nami, the devious woman that she was rented her room with her captain.
LEMON WARNING
"We need to scout that island first; we can't let Ain-chan do what she wants." Nami said with a pose, she was wearing a white dress that fit her smaller size and she was sitting on his lap as she told him this story.
Luffy thought long and hard about it, they met Ain recently and had become quick friends with her, her friend Binz was not a bad person either, they were trying desperately to finish the job their master started but to do that they would have to do the nigh unthinkable.
While he was thinking this, Nami connivingly started caressing his body.
"Nami why are you…"
"C'mon Captain, it's been a few hours since we had some sex, I've been wanting more~" she said with a smile so innocent and raised her dress to show her naked body underneath.
Luffy had some reservations, but it was Nami in the end, even if her body had been de-aged, she still had the same mind of a twenty-year-old woman.
She wasted no time and unleashed his fat soft cock out of his and with her small mouth she started gently massaging his tip with her lips, after a brief blowjob which he barely was able to contain his groans of pleasure, he orgasmed inside of her mouth.
The explosion of cum covered her whole body, to her tiny breasts to her tiny pussy, it was all covered in his scent.
He made her sit on his massive cock her tiny slit barely able to take on his girthy monster. His tip was all that was able to go in as her tiny pussy could barely contain it. She came at least twice from the penetration.
Nami took the initiative after that, she loved making her Captain groan in pleasure and the rough lengthy sex continued through the night, with Robin joining in unexpectedly, and he thoroughly enjoyed her barely mature twenty-year-old body.
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Luffy stood with Franky as he carried more tools to fix the ship.
Franky looked over the old man who owned the harbor. The man was looked lost in thought staring at their ship. "Ow, old man, if it's about the docking fee or other payments ask our navigator."
"Did the Neo-marines do this to you?" the old man asked, a child was hugging his coat and hiding behind him.
"Old man do you know the Neo-marines?" Franky asked as Luffy put his fist on his cheek to listen in.
"An awful lot of pirate ships been attacked for the past couple of months, most of the pirates who survived said it was Z and the Neo-marines who attacked. And it's always at the start of the New world, they always drift here eventually with their ships beyond repair" The man took a sip of his booze and cleaned his lips with his sleeves.
"All of them said the same thing, they were attacked by a man named Z."
Luffy paid attention, if both Ain and this old man stories were true than the man that she respected and looked up to as a father was this man called Z, the man with a mechanical arm made out of Sea stone, what a legend.
Luffy and the gang accompanied the old man towards his house, where his granddaughter was there, she was the mother of that child hanging onto the man's coat. The crew rested there, and the old man resumed his tale.
The granddaughter served them tea and completed his story. "These days all the customers that Grandpa gets at the dock are pirates with damaged ships and broken dreams, all with stories of being hunted down by Neo-marines. We earn a living on this island by fixing ships and renting out the docks for any pirate or sailor needing a pit stop. There is a sea train stop on the other end of the island, what happens is that pirates dock their ships here and visit Kazanonsen and other connected islands by the sea train without getting hassled by the administration for having pirate ships on their islands."
"Doesn't it get rowdy and troublesome to give a harbor for pirates?" the little Nami asked them.
"Grandpa was a sailor in his early days, so even if they are pirates, he can't help but look after them." The granddaughter commented.
"Dahaha, I just like anyone putting their life on the line in the new world, pursuing their dreams. But it's true that the strong eat the weak in this ocean, many a captain has lost their comrades or their resolve by going up against the Neo-marines, when I see them at that state constantly I think that these captains who lost their dreams are no better than husks, empty, better off dead than alive. It's tiring" the old sailor continued his tale, and the straw hats listened well.
Ain's hatred for pirates ran deeper than any here realized. However none here were deterred.
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Nami walked on the tracks underneath the sea's surface, jumping tracks and waiting for the train to arrive, Luffy and the others waited on the stone station as they watched the little Nami play around, one day until Ain would arrive in Kazanonsen.
And then on the distance, smoke coming out of the chimney and a train running in the distance, with cloudy skies the beautiful sea train arrived to the delight of everyone.
"Oh right, Luffy, moss-head and skeleton, your faces are too recognizable, leave the info gathering to us." Sora commented.
"Since the girl is arriving there tomorrow, why not soak up in the resort and hot springs before the fight." Zoro said with a smile to the agreement of Robin, Brook and Usopp.
"We should definitely spend more time in buying more clothes, our first shopping experience in the New World." Nami commented. "It seems they have the criminal brand on the island as well, Papagu is certainly rising up in the fashion world."
Franky elected to stay behind this time to fix the Sunny, but they would manage without his intense firepower, Luffy acquiesced, the cyborg had worked extra hard in the underwater civil war in Ryugu kingdom.
They entered the train in the direction of Kazanonsen, paying for first class passengers, as pirates they had to enjoy life and what better than spending Navy money they had stolen on the best things?
They would arrive in the afternoon; the little Chopper enjoyed the adjacent islands and patches of green land and the beautiful cloudy sky.
Luffy, Nami, Robin, Lily and Sora rented a private room and he sat his tall body on the couch leaning back, with Sora by his left side, Robin pressing her round and large breasts on his right and sitting on his right leg, Nami and Lily on his torso, playing around, he rested as he enjoyed wine and caveat and fun conversation with the girls.
It was a pleasant travel. Being a pirate was the best indeed.
They arrived on the island a bustling city full of tall buildings and white walls, of steam chimneys and factories, of hot springs and massive resort selections, of theaters and bars. Of the massive volcano and desert on the other side.
"Alright everyone, make sure you remain unnoticed by the government."
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The rest of the team used bars and seedier locations for information gathering, however they were only able to learn that the Navy itself was waiting on the third End Point, piecing it all together it painted a horrible picture of what the World Government was doing, they did not care about this island or its population of about three-hundred thousand. Robin worked splendidly as a dancer, she wore a very tight velvet shirt that pressed against her bosom and almost showed her braless nipples, and a long skirt cut on the side showing her legs, wearing gold bracelets and anklets, her hair was styled differently and she used contact lenses to hide the true color of her eyes, for the bar and clubs it was an excellent disguise, and Nami as a small part-time waitress in the bars.
After they finished their gigs at the bars and clubs, they would often be accosted by some drunk stalkers, however petals flowed, arms sprouted from their backs and they were murdered by the woman with the power of Flowers, she faced them all with a cold smile as she held Nami's hand as they vanished from the alleyways to end up in another gig at another bar or club, vanishing and killing, vanishing and killing again, the day had just started after all.
Chopper landed a work at polishing shoes of important individuals, politicians, party goers, rich sons looking for jobs, anyone with quality boots needing a great shine.
Chopper absorbed information and relayed it to Brook who would make timely visits to their homes, to rob them of valuables since they were pirates after all, as well as information towards anything weird.
Usopp and Sora however visited underground gambling dens, with her using a small low-cut dress, revealing her incredible bosom for lusty men to open their jaws open, she was a man before, she knew what tactics to use to get men talking without ever having to do anything. Usopp was an expert at drawing wins in the gambling space and forced agreements with the Den owners.
Of course not always they would be so… friendly to say a nice word, some gambling den owners sent goons after them, which meant that Sora would kick and massacre them all in turn.
Any unsuspecting goon had their head literally erased by her powerful kicks, staining the walls of the alleyways red, she would then proceed to hunt down the owners and kill them in their suites or houses.
In just one night the murder cases had soared 55% from last year on this City-state island because of Robin and Sora indiscriminate assassinations of targets once they were sufficiently irritated. Both taking quite a liking to their captain newfound ruthlessness and applying to their own actions without remorse, just satisfaction at being able to kill without being criticized by their Captain.
Panz and Lily had arrived one day earlier, and they already started making their food festival, one of the main reasons they wanted to arrive here in Kazanonsen. However they also were ears on the ground, waiting for their friend Ain to show.
As for Luffy, he passed all day sitting on the sands of the desert, his work was to put on a wig tonight and go on cabarets and gather information from any girls willing to serve him booze, it was also the job of his first mate but the man got lost in some tropical forest on the other side and Luffy was too lazy to bring him back since he could sense the swordsman with his observation and the man was at the peak of the volcano right now.
The sun was turning orange and Luffy kept his fist against his cheek as he saw the sands of the desert move. "If I were leading a small cell of terrorist I would need to anchor near the desert and move the whatever-bombs up the volcano to destroy those end-things or whatever, right?"
Passing through the city would be suspicious.
However he couldn't keep his observation here in this wide desert all day, he had to go back to the city.
The way to go was to mount an ambush when the Neo-marines are ready to descend and corner Ain while someone deactivates the bombs.
"Damn; these so-called strategies are complicated." Luffy scratched his hair and left the desert. Being ruthless and reckless was more of his style than all this undercover work.
After visiting seven major cabarets and grilling the girls working there for information, he wasn't able to find anything new of the Neo-marines, however he was able to get a news that satisfied his bloodlust, a rear-admiral had arrived with a few fifty soldiers on an office building nearby, most likely reconnaissance to see how strong the leftover Neo-marines were.
He couldn't let the marines discover that Ain was still alive now, could he? And he couldn't let a marine stay alive when he was in walking range now, could he?
His smile was one only the most sadistic devil could produce.
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The rear admiral arrived with his crew in the empty office near one of the alleyways, here they could work and not be disturbed. "The main points that need to be surveyed was the desert and the volcano, it would be very hard for any Neo-marine bastards, remember this island is just for us to spy where they are storing the Dyna stones, and their relative strength."
"Yes, Rear-admiral Juno!" the men nodded and went inside, organizing it to be a base of operations.
He arrived at his own room which had a desk already and a snail transponder ready, when suddenly he heard of a scream outside, he looked over the window of the second floor and saw three of his men horribly disfigured.
"Enemy attack! Men—" when suddenly his own door exploded and in came the 6'8" man known as the son of Dragon. Carrying the body of one of his own lieutenants, bloody and headless, his spine broken and his body flopping about being carried by one hand only. To reach here he would have to go over fifty marines, there was no way he could have reached here so fast, this man was a pure monster. "Monkey D. Luffy—"
The rear-admiral first instinct was to reach the transponder however a lightning spear broke through from the pirate's fingers, vaporizing the poor creature.
Rear-admiral Juno unleashed his blade and coated in Haki, the other hand was holding a sickle and chain which was also enhanced. "So it's true, you ate a lightning logia."
"Oh, so the government is still confused about that… nice to know." The man who had the aura of a supreme king threw the lieutenant towards him, staining his coat with the blood of his comrade.
"You bastard" the rear-admiral almost burst a vein in anger and met the straw hat midway.
He utilized every of his Haki on a single bisecting strike at the naked skin near the ribs of the straw hat, however the sickle and his katana failed to even break skin. The man didn't even turn into the element of lightning, he just took it. "Huh? are you not a logia?"
"Dumb marine, you need to hit an area where I don't have passive Haki or overpower my own passive enhancement, if you can't do that you won't even scratch me." Luffy opened his arms and hugged the man with such force.
"Ahh Iron body." The man screamed. However it wasn't enough, Luffy pressed and pressed, and crushed the marine in his arms like a bottle of mayonnaise being crushed by a press, the body he hugged exploded in a shower of gore, all was left was parts of the cranium and a three pieces of the tail bone connecting with a floppy spine.
These rear-admirals think they're hot shit when they can't even use armament for defense and rely on something weaker like iron body. Luffy was disgusted, at least try to mix the two techniques, it would make your survival more likely when messing with a beast of pure physical might as him.
"Ah, killing marines really makes my day brighter." Luffy used a towel and cleaned the spots of blood and pieces of meat on his muscular torso. And walked with a smile of contentedness towards his resort. He really wanted to try the hot springs at night.
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It was a bit strange seeing her Captain invade the hot spring that the straw hats had exclusively rented in the resort, Nami-san had strictly said that this hour was for the females to bathe, Luffy walked in with Chopper on his shoulder like it was nothing with a small towel near his crotch, however even then it did not hide the length of his soft cock, it was still very big even while soft.
Nami and Robin did nothing to stop him, even welcoming him, Sora was stupefied at that. Chopper was acceptable since he was a very innocent reindeer and was not even interested in human females, however Luffy had already shown previously that he loved women.
Yet both Nami and Robin kept pressing their naked bodies onto him as he relaxed on the bath. Sora had her arm blocking the view towards her own breasts however she was feeling a bit hot on her face, naughty thoughts kept coming to her during the entirety of the bath.
It didn't help when he sat on the seats and told the three of them to clean his massive back, Robin and Nami gladly cleaned his back and front, Sora had a red face as she kneeled naked behind him and cleaned his back with her sponge. She noticed many arms made by Robin cleaning him, with Nami going on the front and using her breasts on his cock pumping up and down, she was giving him a boobjob without any shame, he even came on her face.
During all this Sora was ashamed to say there was a trail of her pussy juices from her pussy to the ground at being teased like this.
Nami and Robin accompanied him towards his suite.
Sora rested on her own bed and started masturbating, however she didn't know who she was fantasizing about, Nami and Robin's bodies or the body of her Captain.
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"Arara, I didn't expect such a warm welcome." He said in the shores of one of the town's bays, he was walking on the stone path when he saw Luffy land on the stone fence, overlooking the crashing waves. On the alleyways there was a woman wearing a professional blazer and red social shirt with a leather skirt and wavy eyebrows.
"You were blowing your presence all over the island, anyone with a modicum of observation would arrive here or run away. Of course some of us are mentally challenged and would rather chase smoke." Sora said muttering about the moss-head that lost his way yesterday and was still running around in circles on the damn volcano.
"What are you doing here Aokiji?" Luffy asked with a tenuous expression as he swung a flat stone to bounce seventy-three times in the waves. Dawn was almost coming; the day of the confrontation was finally here, and an ex-admiral had arrived.
"Ah… what am I doing here? Uhh…" the man creased his eyebrows and scratched his forehead in thought. "What am I doing here?" he asked himself as if he had forgot his purpose for being here.
"Are you mentally challenged as well?" the blond asked while looking at the clock.
Luffy had no words for the ex-admiral, no matter how the man may hide his intentions, he was not getting out of this without answers.
"Ah, don't be so cruel sister." The ex-admiral sighed.
He told them that he was temporarily helping a daughter of his old master and that he wanted to see how it would all turn out.
"So you're helping Ain in the end after all?" Luffy asked him, without any jokes, completely serious.
"Arara, so you know about that, well I can't do nothing about that after all." he let a freezing breath.
"Oh, want to fight? You know I respected you Aokiji, you left the damn Navy, even if you had to lose to that Akainu, an ex-marine is good in my book, I don't understand why you want to help Ain in her insane plan, but if you get in our way then the result might not be pretty. We're not like two years ago."
Luffy and Sora stretched and walked away from the admiral, Luffy mocking the man for trying to start a fight right in the middle of the port where many fisherman were arriving.
"I can't believe you would help her in her self-destructive path, you must have a very soft spot for her master." Luffy said while waving his hands in goodbye as Sora walked with him. "I wanted to fight this Z guy myself." The straw hat muttered; a bit saddened that the legendary man had died before he could see what he was capable of.
Aokiji looked at his master's favorite bottle of sake. He saw his own reflection of him in the mirror, one of the great perks of his power is that it always kept his booze cold.
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Lily washed her little hands as she helped her father close the shop after a day of festivities, their little city-wide party had netted them a lot of money to buy another ship for them and not be so reliant on on the goodwill of the Straw hats.
"Thank you for the meal" there was a last customer of theirs finishing her meal, she wore a black hood over her face.
"Why are you doing this Ain?" Lily asked, expanding her hand and grabbing the hooded customer.
Panz also prepared his knives for combat, on the meanwhile Ain stood still on Lily's hold, as her dark-skinned Giant friend pleaded with her to stop her plans to destroy the New world, she told Ain that the Straw hats were still in this sea and would be caught up in the aftermath. Following a plan that was not hers, following something that she knew was wrong was—
However that was the limit, the hooded figure drew an intricate dagger with a Damascus style of forging and nicked Lily's hands, Lily screamed, not because of pain but because of surprise, she shrunk immediately due to the knife affecting her power.
"It works well with Devil fruit users… a memento of my master" she said as she stared into her own reflection of the blade, a devil fruit user using a sea stone dagger was a riot now that she thought about it. She was desperate enough when she saw the power of Luffy, this dagger would give her a fighting chance if they ever met again in combat.
Panz tearfully attacked her, and Lily in turn got up and started attacking again, however the Giants were simply outmatched and soon their bodies were strewn on the ground, bleeding from their wounds.
"Don't go, Ain, you're my friend, please." The little Giant said to her.
"You don't understand."
If she had lost her father, she would understand her pain, Ain looked at the fallen Panz for a moment. If she would lose her father, they would be the same. However when she raised her dagger, she lost her resolve, because superimposed on Panz's face was the face of her old master, her father. The cool and amazing Zephyr, seeing that she took a step back, she couldn't do this to Lily, not her best friend.
Lily reached out to her, with those tearful blue eyes, Ain stared at her and her dagger glinted, it would be the easiest thing to slit the throats of these dreadful and hateful pirates, just one attack and it would end their lives. Pirates all deserved to die. Her master dedicated his entire life towards justice, the Neo-marines all had their fair share of terrors from past experiences, Binz suffered long because of pirates. Her master lost his wife and daughter to pirates, he lost his arm and his apprentices to a warlord named Doflamingo.
Ain should kill them, should have killed them, but only tears fell from her violet eyes. She clenched her teeth and walked away with the sea stone dagger trembling in her hand. This dagger was the symbol of her mission, she would carry it through, no matter the consequences.
"Even if I were to disappear, the all-knowing ocean leads the way~" she sung her tearful goodbye to the Giants who took care of her for those three days and nights where she was wounded and without her father.
Lily yelled her name; however Ain ran away towards the alleys.
Three buildings at that moment exploded, already vacated of citizens, it was a distraction in the city so that the marines would be occupied. In the meantime Ain ran in the alleyways towards the edge of the city and towards the volcano.
She carried on the back of her cape six dyna stones; it would be enough to blow this entire End Point. Binz and the others would serve as a distraction in the desert to draw away the attention from the volcano, a double distraction for the incompetent marines.
And she would kill any forces guarding the volcano itself if need be, but for the moment she would keep to the shadows like a silent killer.
However her heart started having severed doubts, her mind was plagued by indecision.
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The straw hats were not near the explosions in the city, nor there were any marines alive to be confused by the first distraction.
And now ice pillars had risen towards Nami, however a plasma beam melted them.
"It's ready!" she said as the thunder cloud was formed, Luffy arrived and grabbed Nami's weather baton, overcharging it with his electric power and with their combined strength they dropped a pillar of lightning over the Neo-marines, however an iceberg was formed, the hot lightning melted the iceberg however the ex-admiral kept reinforcing and freezing the hot water and steam in the air.
Meanwhile Brook, while an accomplished swordsman was having trouble against the massively motivated Neo-marines who used mediocre-level Haki and other Cipher-pol skills. Chopper arrived to help him; however his strikes had a hard time knocking the breath of Haki users and Iron body users.
These men were forty and fifty years old, having led a life under Z they also sought justice along with their master. However in the recent days they've been under the leadership of Ain, they came to realize that the girl they looked after like a little sister was now carrying the weight of their dreams in their soldiers, it made these men who were in the retirement age cry and try harder just for her.
They couldn't let these pirates get in the way of what she was going to do.
And so they fought bravely against them, however Monkey D. Luffy was an overwhelming opponent, when all seemed lost the ex-admiral Aokiji saved their lives from an electrifying end at the hands of the ruthless pirate captain and had been fighting him for the better part of dusk while also protecting them from his attacks.
Aokiji was no slouch, he was also aiming for the straw hats as hard as Luffy was aiming to kill the Neo-marines, any attacks of ice, be it spears freezing the atmosphere, teleporting with the moisture in the air, anything that Aokiji tried to do to end the straw hats was being blocked by Luffy's titan-like strength and his lightning storming around him.
Usopp used his skills as a sniper to annoy the hell out of Aokiji with spikes, poisonous clouds, carnivorous plants, and other assortments, all just to keep Aokiji sufficiently occupied. And Aokiji couldn't disable any straw hat because Luffy himself was blocking and repelling and melting every ice attack thrown.
Aokiji looked at Luffy's expression. The god of destruction appeared almost disinterested in this battle. This was just stalling for both sides.
"Arara, is there someone waiting for her already?"
Luffy smirked and tried to kill one of the Neo-marines but was blocked in time by the ex-admiral who commanded ice.
"Ah, I miss the old and cheeky Monkey D. Luffy." The ex-admiral complained about his two-year transformation.
"You say like things changed, not much is different, I will find the One Piece, I am still reckless and stupid, it's just that people die to my punches more often than not, it's that people's hearts just stop working after I shock them a bit, it's just that people melt when I hit them with plasma, what can you do? What can you do?" he said with a neutral face, however his eyes stared into the ex-admiral's soul.
The man before him was a true demon.
This new Monkey D. Luffy was a pain, he was almost more psychotic and murdering-happy than his grandfather. Nevertheless Aokiji always knew that this bloodline was a pain, even back two years ago.
His hands turned to ice as he faced the man who controlled the heavens.
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On the other side of the volcanic island, on pools of hot steamy water, two people fought, a woman wearing a black blazer over a red social shirt, leather skirt with pantyhose and heels. And the other individua., a shinobi hailing from Wano who used a massive shuriken and control over all matter of flora.
He closed the distance and teleported behind her with his shuriken spinning like a saw blade, she gently evaded the attack and kicked him in the side, however a tree was born in the way so all she did was blow splinters all around him, he attacked her with his hands, forming trunks of wood in every attack, plant life always defending him when he kicked.
To turn matters worse he would break his own bark that he created to form splinters of wood coated with armament to shower over here, these splinters were like spears that sunk into the rocky ground like iron pipes on sand.
She avoided them gracefully however he pointed his hand towards her, and a flower bloomed on it, spitting a cloud of poisonous explosive gas that blew up the area, winds travelling as far as the other side as their destructive fight continued.
"You're the most dangerous enemy I've ever fought, your devil fruit is really a pain." Sora turned to stare at the pools of water, now it was a fully grown jungle for giants, this man was troublesome to fight.
She was a few thousand feet from the problematic shinobi.
But she was done now, her skirt was a bit frayed and her hair was a mess from all the hot steam. She spun in place, her right leg burning hotter than the sun, a brilliant white light replaced her leg.
"It's not only our Captain that can make things melt." She said with a teasing smirk. "Diable Jambe: Star heel."
She slowly hit the air right in front of her, the world itself broke from that kick and a blast of pure Kinect force coupled with heat rushed faster than Mach twenty, the shinobi raised a forest of titans, made a golem of wood and a dragon that blocked the white shockwave, he made three shields of wood and a forest of bark around him, he activated armament on his whole body and used the improved steel body to protect himself.
However the attack ripped off half of the island away, like a star of destruction, the sea itself parted to a massive catastrophic hole.
The rest of the island suffered an earthquake as the sea rushed to fill the crater formed on the seabed.
The forest and all protections created was blown away and se found his body on a canopy, his shinobi clothes ripped away and massive burns on his body, but he was still breathing.
"Incredible, you were able to survive that strike even if I didn't hit you directly, just a thousand feet away." He had made her use the feet of the devil again, most enemies just were obliterated by her normal kicks, but the shinobi made her feel like using one of her trademark styles kept hidden for really powerful foes and he still survived.
He was breathing but was completely out of it, his eyes were white, and he would probably take a couple of hours to wake up.
She stepped with force near his left ear, missing his face, if she kicked his face he would have died. "I'm never in the mood of killing unconscious opponents, thank your luck that you passed out, if you were still up, you'd be dead. You're also a great friend to Ain-chan as well, it'd be a waste to kill you."
She took out a fancy gold lighter with diamonds and lit up, her addiction to smoking was gone and done, she quit smoking almost for two years now, ever since Iva turned her body to this gender, however some times she still got the urge and to counteract that she kept this lighter with her, and when she had the urge she kept staring at the flame for a few minutes.
She looked at the flame in the canopy of burned trees, as the waves crashed on the fissure she created with her kick.
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At the same time Sora and Binz fight started.
"So you were waiting for me." She walked on the burning steps near the volcano, the six stones were already placed and ready to detonate.
Zoro was sitting cross legged on a rock, with his katana resting on his shoulder.
He said some pleasantries and started mocking her resolve, she shot back with an insult to their way of life, that pirates had robbed everything from her, and she finally had the means to end it all.
She drew her dagger and pistol, and their fight started atop an active volcano.
Zoro was careful only one touch with her power was enough to end the fight, yet the woman was also incredibly proficient in her dagger and gun use, she had cut his arm and there was a bullet wound on his stomach.
She kept evading his strikes with her nimble body until his cursed black sword cut her robe off, revealing her blue hair and violet eyes, a purple shirt with white frills and brown hot pants.
She stomped the area and it regressed to being a pool of lava, the Pirate hunter rushed her stepping on melted rock, uncaring as it burned the soles of his shoes.
She and him kept meeting in close combat, with her dagger and pistol blocking every single sword strike, then she rushed to an area where there was nobody to the surprise of Zoro, however his surprise turned to pain as she regressed his position to where she rushed to. Almost as if time tuned back, but it was only his position in reality that did. She struck him with a lunging blade on the gun wound, however he dodged to the side at the last second, only making a gashing line that led to his side of the stomach.
She revered his position again and shot him, she reversed the sky to make it rain, she revered the atmosphere to make a steam cloud, she reversed his position more than fifty times, always ambushing him.
He had no agency over his body, however he concentrated, and on the next time, took her by surprise and slashed her arm off, the one holding her pistol, the arm was cut clean off.
The woman crouched down in pain as the blood kept gushing out of her stump.
Zoro pointed his blade at her and told her to give up here unless she wanted to lose more limbs.
"T—The ocean… knows how the world will end~" she whispered the song, drawing strength from her master, even when her arm was cut off.
She got pale and was huffing heavily, however she stood her ground, and she used her power of regression to regress her body to a previous state, her cut arm returned back, the gun returned, the arm reattached itself and her paleness and stress vanished, she turned to stare at him with a determined look.
"I have the power to regress anything, anything! Don't you get it, with my power nothing can hurt or kill me, I am essentially invulnerable, now get out of my way."
"No, sorry, I can't let you… your resolve is too weak, this dream you want to accomplish isn't yours, thank deep, what did your master want to truly do. What reason you have for killing all these innocent people?" he pointed at the city with his sword, a city full of criminals, but also of working people, of people wanting to take care of their family, of young men and women looking for work, of old geezers saying how the new generation was bad, of the young saying the old generation was worse. Of children wanting to paly with a ball, of rich children being homeschooled, a society full of innocent people that she wanted to blow up just because her master said so.
She was reminded of his words; Z-sensei was a hero of justic—
"Shut up, what do you know?!" she yelled and he kept grilling her about her resolve, about her motivations, about what led towards here, but she did not care, she was going to do this, if she didn't what would her life have been for? What did her master die for? She could regress time itself; she couldn't regress her master back to life, her power was useless.
"And there are ways to defeating invulnerable opponents." Zoro tied his bandana to his head and entered a serious stance, with his armament coating the surface of his blades.
"I'd like to see you try." She said with a bite, this man was not Monkey D. Luffy, therefore he was a man that could be beaten.
A giant earthquake was felt by them; however they did not care.
They met again in a field of lava, with her activating steel body and her armament on her sea-stone Damascus dagger.
This was the last strike, two who had easily killed vice-admirals met, and Zoro's sword broke the dagger into little pieces, a shard was embedded deep into her thigh and she lost all of her strength and fell on the rocky ground, with her leg twitching, her arm couldn't even lift to get the shard out of her body.
She saw her sea-stone dagger broken into pieces, with one shard piercing deep into her muscles sapping her strength and started to cry, she yelled and struggled on the rocky ground as she cried and cried.
She had failed, she had failed her father once again. She banged her head on the ground so hard it made her forehead bleed as she cried and convulsed on the ground, her hand tried reaching for her thigh. However she couldn't pull out the piece of sea stone, and she couldn't regress her wounds because she could no longer use her power for anything.
"Your blade lacked resolve; thus it was broken." He said with finality.
What resolve? What was this elusive concept this man kept hitting on that she didn't know? What was wrong finishing what her father started?
Then someone came over the hill, it was Lily and her father, they nursed her again as Zoro watched.
"Why do you come here? I hurt you so much, I turned back on you, I said you were detestable pirates, why?"
"Because my best friend was hurting more, why wouldn't I help you?" the Lily who had returned to her normal age said as she took the sea-stone shard out of her thigh, while losing strength, the little Giant kept her hold on the shard as she pulled it out of her body.
The little Giant called Lily started crying with her.
"God, I can't deal with crying women." Zoro muttered.
"Yeah, but they've both need their time together now." Panz muttered by his side as they watched Ain hug her friend and started crying hard on her shoulder.
Without many words said, a lot of meaning was transmitted between the two Giants and Ain herself, something that Zoro had no more business listening in to.
He descended the mountain. Their friend Ain was already saved, it would quell Luffy's selfish desire to keep his friends and comrades happy.
And it was a good relief to set someone as powerful and with so much potential as Ain towards a better path, however the honor-bound Zoro would never speak of his relief towards the blue-haired woman to anyone, it was embarrassing enough.
"Thank you. Pirate hunter, Roronoa Zoro."
He heard someone mutter that, but it must have been the wind.
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She was carried down the mountain, she saw the blond woman of the straw hats drag Binz on her back without any problems, the huge earthquake must have been her doing. Then he woke up and the woman delivered him towards the greatest doctor she ever met, Chopper.
She saw Luffy staring at her, with the ex-admiral in front of him, and she ordered her troops to stop the attack. The fifty men who stayed behind with her and Binz approached her with the air of big brothers, all worried.
She really didn't deserve them; she was about to doom this sea and everyone along with it with a misguided hatred towards pirates inherited from her master.
She apologized for everyone, all of this was her own selfish desires and sense of loss after her father died at the hands of Kizaru.
The lazy ex-admiral came by her side and supported her as Chopper came to treat her wounds.
The Neo-marines and Binz crowded around her as she softly described her master before he became obsessed with destroying 'evil' as he said. She described his dreams, she described his real family, she described what he took pride in and what he hated about himself and the system that he abided by.
Two hours passed, Chopper's treatment was done, and the night was only beginning.
"So you guys are staying with Ain?" Luffy asked the two Giants, Panz and Lily Enstrom.
"Yeah, we're sorry that we've troubled you so much." Panz bowed.
Lily smiled. "Thank you so much for everything Luffy!"
"We'll always do what we desire, we are selfish like that." He said and his crew smirked.
"We'll definitely be seeing you again, right?" Lily asked with uncertainty.
Luffy and the straw hats walked slowly out of the desert, he turned his head to look back and gave a smile. "Yeah, if you're still in this vast ocean, we'll eventually meet again."
He and the straw hats waved their goodbyes, this adventure was over, there was no need to remain here anymore.
Ain looked at the backs of the straw hats with calm violet eyes, her face turned of determination. "I'll definitely repay my debts to you." They cared for her, they stopped her when she was going on the wrong path, if they were ever in danger in the future she would arrive to help.
Aokiji climbed the volcano, froze the dyna stones and shattered them, the second end point was saved, the only one that was destroyed was the first.
Ain and the rest of the troops dumped the three hundred or so dyna stones they had stored into the sea floor, they exploded down there, however it barely created waves above the sea. These weapons were now destroyed and wouldn't be used for evil anymore.
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Luffy and the others boarded the ship, Robin arrived by his side, and delivered two presents, two Dyna stones that she had stolen secretly from their ship while they were occupied with the fight.
Luffy stared at the two vials of dyna stones with the coldest look, and the most satisfied smirk. He couldn't believe that Aokiji was so preoccupied with his battle in the desert that he didn't notice that Robin wasn't part of the battle. Robin of all people escaped Aokiji's notice!
Luffy thought it was ironic, but he also didn't want the two of them interacting in any way, their story was heavy and not pretty, it would only cause Robin stress if she were to face the ex-admiral again.
"We got great rewards for this mission; I am sufficiently satisfied." He said towards the crew as Franky stored the powerful and dangerous weapons deep beneath the ship to be used later.
"And you said that you didn't need any rewards for helping the Giants and Ain." Nami complained.
"Ah, but they shouldn't believe in pirates, they are bad people who steal and murder as they want." Luffy said with an ironic tone as he grabbed his beer.
"You're sounding like a final villain there Luffy." Usopp had a disgusted look in his face however his words had a tone of sarcasm.
The tension broke and they all laughed at Usopp's joke.
Luffy laid on the lawn as he stared at the dawn of the sun. "Heh, I really wanted to fight Zephyr." He said as he remembered how many people looked up to him.
Nevertheless it was time to start another party, mission success!
"Hey Brook, sing that song that Ain liked to sing."
"With pleasure, Captain."
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They put his mechanical arm together with the grave of his disciples who were killed by Doflamingo, she had picked up the pieces of the dagger and laid them with her master's mechanical arm. She did not need a sea stone weapon to become strong, she had to find her own resolve from now on.
She was reminded of the warlord's laugh, she was reminded of her master crying over the bodies of his apprentices, without an arm. There were many people in the world who deserved retribution, there were many people in the world that deserved to be saved from injustice.
"So, want to come with me?" The ex-admiral Aokiji offered them to work under him, for the Neo-marines, Ain and Binz and the two Giants from the Enstrom Family who accompanied Ain faithfully.
However.
"No, we'll carve our own path this time, by doing what's right." Ain and her people returned towards the black ship after paying respects to the grave.
"Do you wish to become pirates? Mercenaries? What do you want to do?!" the ex-admiral Aokiji pressed her hard for an answer.
"Who knows? We're a blank slate now." She left with a non-answer.
"The ocean saw the world begin~" she sung goodbyes to the ex-admiral Aokiji. Ain thought about the past, one of the two dreams Zephyr had was becoming a hero of justice, ever since he was young he would wear capes and helmets, using elaborate weapons, he would call himself Z, he would save damsels in distress, people who couldn't protect themselves. That strong justice inside of him eventually made him enlist to the marines when he was only twelve years old, he passed many wars, he kept his strong sense of justice.
"You don't need to come with me Lily." Ain said as she stared at the dawn of the sun.
"What are you saying, why shouldn't I accompany my best friend in her big adventure?" she said with an excited smile.
"Honestly, you're a dummy, we here are a bunch of pirate haters you know?" Ain asked with a big smile and tears running down her face.
"But we are comrades, aren't we?" Lily asked with an emotional tone in her voice as Ain hugged her again.
"Mhm." Ain couldn't trust her voice and just nodded in her best friend's embrace.
Both turned their eyes to see Panz serving a big barbecue to the old members of the Neo-marines, everyone partying and talking to the gentle Giant, with Binz by his side as they talked animatedly about Wano and Elbaph.
Zephyr told Ain the stories of the past, after defeating villains and bullies when he was just a kid, he would always say those words.
"I'm always there to take you on! I am the hero of justice… Z!"