Summary
Shadow of the Gun and Sword of the Lost, now only live for killing, they are not the great hero's they once were but Admiral Cody, the sapphire wind has plans for the last two living members of the straw hat crew, after all he does posses the two, thousand year fruits. Unlike the devils fruits they don't make the eater a hammer. After Five long years these two stand side by side with the powers of the Hourglass fruit and the dragon heart fruit. Now they will carve their way into the past.
Hi I'm Bijuu go crazy, I hope you like this fic, it's really just an idea at the moment and i want to know what people think about my ideas.
Disclaimer: I do not own One piece.
Shadow of the Gun
Lougetown was a thing of the past, it was more like Lougecity now. It was home to one of the most deadly marine forces, Shadow of the Gun, a master marksman who never lost a target and next to never had to shot twice. His job was simple, kill any pirate that came into his scope, the only people who truly knew who he was, were the man who'd come to be known as Captain White Dragon, the women now known as Captain Moon Blade and The Sapphire Wind AKA Smoker, Tashigi and Coby.
White Dragon and Moon Blade had recently come to Lougecity to find the man known as Shadow of the Gun, this was no easy task even though the man worked directly under the great Admiral Coby, also known as The Sapphire Wind. Not many people understood why he was called the sapphire wind, after all his hair was pink. Coby was by far the youngest of the three admirals but at the same time he was also the strongest. He'd kept the promise he'd made after the Straw hat pirates were killed at Enies Lobby, he became an admiral and now he was trying to change the world.
To do this he had made a critical decisions, he needed the best in the world, for this job he needed the man who'd been callously forced to work under him, he needed the greatest marksman in the world. Shadow of the Gun wiped out hundreds of pirates, not by choice but because it was the only way to protect the only thing he had left, the women he loved. He knew she'd never approve of this method of protecting her but without her he was just a meat sack, lifeless and empty.
Coby trusted only three people now, Smoker, Tashigi and above them Shadow of the Gun and his most secret operative known as Sword of the Lost. Coby, Sword and shadow shared the pain of losing a friend and mentor in the battle at Enies lobby. Coby had huge plans for the future and for this he needed all three of them to be right in front of him, sadly Shadow didn't trust him in the slightest but it would be a totally different story for Sword, a man that the world thought was dead. He'd only sent the two captains because it meant he could smuggle Sword onto the island and both Shadow and Sword off of the island.
Sword had departed from the ship the moment it landed an vanished into the crowd, just as planned. This left Smoker and Tashigi with no real work to do other than watch. They entered the crowd gathered in the streets, totally ignoring the stares they were getting, it was a rare sight for new marines to arrive in in Lougecity, seeing as almost all pirates feared to even come close to the island. They wandered the streets aimlessly for most of the morning on which their ship had arrived.
After a while the silence had really gotten to Tashigi. "Smoker what is this all about? Why did the admiral suddenly send us off to get him of all people. The man who wants to destroy the world government the most."
"You should know that we wont get anything out of that brat unless he wants to spill the beans. Now we just have to wait until Shadow shoots." Replied Smoker with sigh.
As if playing on Smoker's words a resonating bang came to their ears from the old town square where the ruins of the pirate kings execution platform lay. As the pair dashed down the streets the sound of more and more gunshots reached their ears and they defiantly knew that Shadow and Sword had found each other. Things could get really messy really quickly if they didn't stop this fight.
As they pushed their way through the running crowd towards the old town square they begun to notice the pure tension in the air constantly increasing. Finally as the crowd fully cleared and there were only two people left in the square, besides Smoker and Tashigi, the fight begun in full intensity.
Shadow shot three rounds consecutively from each of a pair of pistols. He only seemed to be testing the other man. Sword with a flurry of his two swords cut each individual bullet in half, leaving himself unharmed. Sword rushed Shadow in an attempt to startle the marksman but Shadow wasn't that much of an amateur and he didn't really feel fear anymore. He effortlessly blocked the two swords with the sea stone barrels of his pistols and pushed Sword away while letting off a single round empowered by will. Sword barely managed to get out of the way of the round as it impacted with the ground creating a massive hole.
They stood still for a moment, looking at each other in silence. They both wore cloaks covering their whole bodies. Sword was tall and well built, Shadow could tell this despite the cloak. He didn't seem like an average pirate by any means, his will was just too noticeable, too powerful but all the same like that of a wild beast. Shadow could tell that this man was almost as powerful as he was but he had a strange feeling that this man had lost a lot of strength in his lifetime. Sword as well could tall a lot of things just by looking at the smaller and more agilely built man. Shadow seemed to be a very strong person with very strongly focused will, he just had the aura of a battle hardened warrior and he knew one thing, as he was now he'd lose.
Sword wasn't all that bothered by the fact that he'd probably lose unless luck was really on his side, not that it often was, after all he was cursed. 'This might just be very interesting. I wonder just who is this Shadow of the Gun?'
Sword charged once again but this time he had no intention of using the average marksman's fear of close combat. He attempted to slice at the tendons at Shadow's elbows, only for his blades to get caught on ends of the seastone barrels of Shadow's guns. Shadow pulled the triggers leaving Sword with barely enough time to reinforce his blades with will, sword's arms were blasted to the sides along with his blades which only survived thanks to his will. Shadow push kicked him to the ground and shot another powerful round at Swords right shoulder. Sword barely deflected the round and relived his mistake less than a second to late. He'd foolishly blocked with his left sword, an amateur mistake for a swordsman of his level. A lead round pierced straight through his left shoulder and right into a nerve cluster, he could easily take the pain but that wasn't the problem, it was the fact that he'd lost control of his left arm, that meant that the fight was over.
Shadow of the Gun stood over Sword of the lost, the last of ten lead rounds still in his right hand gun, everything was in slow-motion as he looked upon the face of the man he'd just defeated and could kill if not for his heart which lurched back into life at seeing this supposed dead man. He pulled the trigger, a single tear rolling from each of his eyes.
The sound of that single round was deafening but at the same time Sword didn't even hear it, he was just to astonished that he'd been spared by the legendary Shadow of the Gun. Shadow broke the silence with cold words. "Why are you here?"
Sword chuckled. "Even your tone's a lie, eh old friend."
"Zoro-san? What do you want with a traitor like me?" He asked softly.
Zoro or Sword of the Lost turned his eyes to the sky. "I want to sail with that man again, I want to sail with all of them, even that shitty cook. What do you say Usopp? Do you want to redo that voyage? Because that's what I intend to do."
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Zoro-san, you've lost your mind, you can't go back and redo life, it's impossible to…" Laughed the ex sniper of the straw hat crew emptily.
"No!" interrupted Zoro. "No you're right but you, you can, you're the only one capable of using that fruit."
"Fruit? Devils fruit, why would I want one of those, they only bring misfortune." Spat Usopp in utter disgust.
Zoro saw past this, Usopp didn't think that devil's fruits were evil but it everyone of his friend who'd eaten a devil's fruit had died, he was just trying to blame something. "They're not devil's fruit, they're similar but they won't make you a hammer. Please, just come with me, admiral Coby will explain everything."
"How? How did you get this weak?" Demanded Usopp from his standing position.
Zoro pushed himself to his feet with his right hand. "I survived, I gave up my strength for my life. A spirit offered me life in exchange for half of my strength, I took it."
A sense of truth rung in Usopp's ears. He'd known that Zoro had meant every word he'd said and then he knew. Even if there was only the slimmest chance in the world of sailing with his Nakama once again, he knew he had to take it, The captain would risk everything for him, so he'd risk it all for them. "Okay let's do this."
With all said and done Zoro sheathed his swords and begun to walk over to Smoker and Tashigi. "Come on, we have to go to the other end of the east blue to met up with him."
Usopp hid his guns and walked towards the others. He felt something deep inside himself that he hadn't felt in years, he felt the beginning of an adventure, the biggest on of his life yet.
For three day's Zoro and Usopp had been confined to the Smokers quarters on the marine transport ship, because if they were seen it'd cause way too much trouble and they couldn't spread out because they weren't allowed in Tashigi's room but now in the dead of night they found themselves along with Smoker and Tashigi sneaking aboard the flagship of Admiral Coby, The Sapphire Wind. The guards were already unconscious when they got up to the deck.
They quickly dashed over to the Admiral's personal quarters. Smoker Knocked softly on the door three, two, eight. The door flew open and powerfully built athletic man stood in the doorway, his identity given away by his pink hair.
"Get in here, now." He ordered with a huge sense of authority.
As Usopp entered the cabin he spoke with utmost seriousness. "let's get straight to the point. What are you trying to do?"
Coby nodded and pulled a box out from under his bed. He opened it revealing two strange fruit's that seemed to give off a pleasant aura. "These are the Thousand year fruits, the Hourglass fruit and the Dragon-heart fruit. Usopp you are the only man I trust that could eat the Hourglass fruit because the other three are well not all that great at remembering thing's. They are also clumsy. The powers of these fruits surpass time so I want Zoro to eat the other one, we don't know if you'll get another chance."
Zoro and Usopp could easily pick out a lie but right now Coby was telling the whole truth.
"What do these fruits do?" Questioned Zoro.
Coby smiled sharply. "The Dragon-heart fruit allows the user to call upon the aspects of a dragons body, harden your skin, strengthen your muscles, breath fire and control it or even change into a dragon. The Hourglass fruit allows one to manipulate time, you can travel through time or even rewind time but even if you do this everyone's consciousness who is put back into their younger selves keeps the powers that they have gained from a devils fruit or a thousand years fruit. So…"
Coby vanished in a blur of sapphire blue and before they could even react, he'd shoved the Dragon-heart fruit down Zoro's throat and the Hourglass fruit down Usopp's. They didn't feel in the slightest any different until Usopp saw everything before his eyes stop and then moments latter start again. For Zoro the experience was also very interesting he felt for just a moment an unstoppable beastual furry inside of him and then it was asleep like a little kitten.
"Whoa." The said simultaneously.
Coby pulled out a map. "Okay this here is Lougetown. I want us all to be taken back to just a couple of days before you guys arrived here, don't waste any extra time, we'll be needing your crew to fight in Arabrasta. Other than there's nothing all that important, just make sure that everyone is as strong as possible. Usopp let's do this."
Usopp nodded and once again felt the new power within him swell, then it ripped out sending the five occupants of the room back into the bodies they had before that fateful day they entered the Grandline.
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