Hello everybody! I hope that you are all well and that you are ready for this new One Piece fic who will take us to the end of the Water Seven - Enies Lobby arc. Let's not waste any more time and let's go !
Disclaimer: I'm not the owner of One Piece. Everything belongs to Oda except my OC Ash.
Chapter 1: Davy Back Fight
It had been a few days since the Strawhat Pirate had come back from their adventures on the sky islands and life had taken his usual course. But there was an intruder among the pirates. Laying out on the chains which had been stretched between the mast and the railing of the upper floor of the Going Merry was Ashuku, more collectively conscript Ash, a young man with natural tanned skin, red eyes and white hair which had gatecrashed on the boat when the pirates had used the Knock-up Stream to reach the sky islands and had followed, and even helped, them to face danger who waited for them above. Laying out on his hammock made of chains, dressed in a white shirt with its sleeves rolled up to his elbows, a black linen pants with red stripes on the sides and black shoes, still wearing his famous scarlet scarf around his neck which hid his neck and the bottom of his face, he was looking at the rest of the crew with a slight feeling of incomprehension. It almost felt like they didn't gave a fuck about the dangers of Grand Line, with the captain sulking in his corner, jealous of Nami who was having a blast with her Waver on the ocean with the same ease as on the sea of cloud, Zoro was training, Ussop was checking the Dials he collected at Skypiea, Sanji was praising the navigator leaning on the railing next to Chopper, in his human form, ready to pull the Waver back on board and Robin who, like him, was enjoying the show with a small smile on her face.
"I have a hard time believing that this is the exact same crew than the one who faced and beaten 'God' less than 7 days ago. I could even say that they doesn't look like pirate at all."
After the navigator finished playing with her Waver and got back aboard, everybody went to the dining room so that they could do something everybody was looking forward to : the distribution of the gold they got on Skypiea.
- "Alright, Thank you for waiting. Now we will officially start distributing the loots ! Each of these worth a lot of money !" Announced Nami by displaying the aforementioned gold on the table, the pile of treasure shining brightly.
- " YEAH ! " Roared the three kid of the crew (namely the captain, the sniper and the doctor) already dreaming about what they could buy with this gold, Zoro and Sanji also sharing their own desire, although with more restraints, under the looks of Robin and Ash who were just looking at the scene, not that much interested about the gold, the latter also knowing perfectly that this sharing was going to mean for him.
- " First things. My share is 80 % of these. " Began Nami, smiling happily while pushing almost all of the treasure to the side.
- " Hold on a second.. " the 5 men of the crew jumped in holding out their hand towards Nami, sweat dropping.
- " I was just kidding. " She said, which relieved the crew.
- " Joke or not, I'm sure that everybody here can perfectly imagine you pulling out a trick like this one." commented Ash.
- " You, you stay quiet. You are not a member of the crew so you can always dream if you think I'm going to give you a share of it. " reminded Nami, which didn't surprise Ash at all.
- " I kind of knew it was going to be the case. But if I can allow myself, you all should save all that money and treasure for this boat. " advised Ash, taking the crew by surprise.
- " Eh ? The Merry ? " Asked Luffy.
- " No, my boat. Of course I'm talking about the Merry. I don't know if you noticed it, but with the boards and metal plates everywhere, it's more a patchwork than a boat to me. She seriously needs repair and not small ones. "
- "Hum. He has a point. We cannot let the state of the boat deteriorate any more than that. " Confirmed Nami, strangely siding with Ash. " We will share the booty later, when we shall know how much this is going to cost us. "
- " Yeah. We can't really rely on Ussop to fix everything… His repair skill are quite limited. " thrown Zoro who sat at the table with the others.
- " Hey, I am a sniper, S-N-I-P-E-R ! " Reminded Ussop, slightly hurt by the swordsman remark.
- " Hm… let's go to a shipyard, a professional one and get everything fixed up." Added Sanji before Chopper cuts in with a question.
- " Wow. There are people who can fix the ship better than Ussop ? "
- " There will always be somebody better that him, no matter the domain. " Answered Ash, laughing his ass off, totally forgetting that the one he was talking about was close by …
*BAM*
… Which he was reminded of when he received a hammer right on the back of his head from Ussop which didn't liked the insult.
- "Ok. I've decided." began Luffy, breaking the silence he was plunged in since a few minutes now. " Our next crewmember will be… a ship repairman ! We still have long way to go and we will need somebody who can take care of the Merry. It is our lifeline and our house! We need to find someone who can keep it in good shape ! "
A shocked filled silence followed suite of what Luffy just said, the crew apparently not used to his captain saying thing as intelligent as that. Talking about the boat, Ash had to ask a question, but he felt like the answer will be quite complicated.
- "Also, about the Merry." He began, feeling uneasy which was odd, the rest of the pirate witnessing this side of him for the first time. "Are you sure you want to keep that boat till the end ?"
Shock, then anger. Here was what Ash saw in the pirates eye, with the Exception of Robin who still was kind of suspicious.
- "THE HELL WAS THAT !? OF COURSE, WE WANNA KEEP THAT BOAT ! IT WILL CARRY US TO THE END OF THE WORLD, HEAR ME ?!" Shouted Ussop, apparently really angered by what Ash had said, making the latter take a step back before continuing.
- "You want to, alright. But the right question should be : Can she ?" asked Ash, talking about the Going Merry, the pirates frowning in confusion. "I mean, I've seen what it looks like on Grand Line and what's after it and I'm afraid that boat, even if you managed to find someone who can repair it, won't be able to survive all the way to the end. I'm not saying that it will happen tomorrow, but I think that you should think about it. Sorry if that hurt you but it's something you have to think about."
Ash then left the pirates alone with their thought and went to the hold of the ship to rest, the young man dozing off in the minute, missing an encounter with a bunch of sea monkey and demoralized pirates.
/-Later-/
Ash was stretched out on his hammock of chains in the hold, busying himself by reading a book while nibbling at some fruits when he noticed that the boat too quiet, as if no one was here anymore. Intrigued, he looked by the porthole and seeing that it was still daylight, he got up and went to the trapdoor of the hold, putting his book on Nami's deck when suddenly …
*BOUM, BOUM*
Two deep noises resounded echoed outside of the boat and Ash, more and more worried, got out and turned his head to the right and saw a gigantic boat with a figurehead shaped like the head of a fox with a black sail on which was drawn a skull with sharp ears and a strange nose, the word FOXY written over it, the word being cut in two by the skull. Two huge fox paws, attached to the boat by chains, were crashed in the ground of the island, preventing the Merry from going away.
" I've already seen this nose somewhere. Foxy… it rings a bell. "
- " A duel ? What kind of duel? " Asked the voice of Nami, which was on dry land, with Sanji, Robin and Zoro, which certainly meant that Luffy, Ussop and Chopper had left to explore the island.
- " But a Davy Back Fight, naturally. " Answered one of the members of this mysterious crew, all the members wearing some kind of black fox masks.
- " Davy Back Fight ? What is that ? " wondered Zoro, Robin answering the question.
- " It is more a game than a battle. According to legend, the game was invented a long time ago in the 'Pirate's paradise Island'. Many pirates group have been using it to acquire good crews. It's the way pirate groups fight over pirates. "
- " That's it. " Confirmed one of the pirates. " For every game won, the winners can take a crew member from the losers. And if they don't have any valuable members, or at least not anymore, we can even take their Jolly Roger, their pride. "
- " That's so foolish and meaningless ! We will never play such a lame game ! "
- " Idiot ! It doesn't matter if a crew like you rejects. " Countered one of the pirates by addressing the red-head person. " The game will proceed as long as the captains from both sides agree to it ! "
- " It can't be helped Nami-swan… This is the 'law' of the sea… No matter how foolish it sounds. If you run away or play tricks you will become the laughingstock of everyone in the world. " Agreed Sanji, siding with the pirates on this point.
- " So . Let them laugh. Who cares !? " She said indignantly, not understanding why nobody tried to side with her.
- " I do. I would rather die. " Stated Zoro, Sanji asserting the same thing, whereas Nami still refused to accept that fact.
- " Fine ! Then we have to stop Luffy, now ! "
She turned her heels, set on her idea to prevent Luffy from accepting this challenge, but she landed flat on her stomach on the ground, stopped clear in her tracks by a chain that was wrapped up around her right ankle. Following the chain with their eyes, the pirates saw Ash, standing on the island bank, the other end of the chain in his hand and seemed rather disappointed.
- " Hey, you little pest, it looks like you don't understand what's happening. The Davy Back Fight is, in a way, an institution within the pirate world and until proved otherwise, you are one of them. " Said Ash by approaching Nami who was sitting on the ground, the 3 other Strawhat observing the scene silently. " Which means you have to follow these rules, whether you like it or not. If you don't do it, you are going to dishonor your own person but also this crew. And furthermore, if Luffy decides to play the game, you will have no choice but to follow him, otherwise, this would be an act of insubordination. Unless you are just afraid of joining this other crew, which would be the same as saying that you don't think you have what it takes to win. So, are you still going to be that stuck up or are going you to assume the choice you did when you joined this crew of your own free will ? "
With each words pronounced by the red eyed man, Nami felt herself sinking more and more into the ground, every word having the effect of a punch in her gut. But she had no time to recover that 2 explosions resounded through the island, confirming Nami's fear : Luffy had accepted the duel.
/-Later-/
The island, which was basically empty a few minutes ago, now looked like an immense fair with stands, scenes and even some attractions which had been all put up by the Foxy Pirates, apparently decided to make of this Davy Back Fight a real party. From their part, the Strawhat Pirates was finally gathered while Porche, one of the most important crewmember of Foxy, explained the rules of the Davy Back Fight, Nami was seen sitting on a box sulking. Foxy then approached the crew.
- " Well, I hope that you are ready. Because by the end Davy Back Fight, you will be no more than 5. Eheheh ! "
- " 4 in fact. " Précised Ash, grabbing the attention of Foxy and his crew. " I'm not a member of this crew. They are just giving me a lift, in a way. "
- " I see, in this case, I am going to have to made you promised to never intervene in those game. You will have to remain neutral. After all, it's a duel between pirates. " Said Foxy, which seemed to be enough for Ash
- " No problem. They have their problems, I have mine. And I'm sure that they'll manage. ".
- " You could also say that you don't care, you now. " Zoro complained, not really amused by the situation.
- " On the contrary. To be completely honest, I heard about this crew. Foxy is a cunning, not to say a cheater, and all his crew follows him in his machinations. Even those who don't participate in a game are going to have to pay attention to avoid an excess of cheating. " Explained Ash before adding mentally " and your crew being the only one at the moment who can interest me, I'd be damned if I had to see your crew go haywire because of that guy. "
The Strawhat were all thinking about who was going to participate in which game, with Sanji, Luffy and Zoro quarreling to know who would do the fight of the last game, Robin reading the document listing the various games, Chopper eating his cotton candy and Nami and Ussop depressing.
- "Hey, what will happen if we lose ?" Began Ussop, his head lowered. "They'll take me, the great captain Ussop for sure."
- "No, they will take me because I am so cute…" Said Nami, in the same position as Ussop, just next to him.
- "I'd rather say ' the big coward Ussop ' and ' the stingy witch", it seems better.
Ash bend himself, with his back toward the ground, to dodge the blows, for a moment dressed in a long black coat and sunglasses, before getting up without forcing, the navigator and the sniper ending on the ground, having lost their balance because of their punch.
- "Calm down. If you want to have a chance to win, you'd better form the best teams as possible. Well, who play what ?"
/- Donut Race - Ash POV -/
With the rest of the Strawhat, i was positioned at the edge of the island looking at 2 boats which were going to engage in the Donut Race. A boat race around the island with a small particularity : the participants had to build their own boats with only wooden 3 barrels and 2 oars and as I was looking at the two boat, I already had a bad presentiment. Nami, Robin and Ussop's boat was ridiculous compared to the one of the Foxy's team and as if the fact that they had a better boat wasn't enough, the team was consisting of Porche, Foxy's lieutenant, Kapouti, a fishmen and the third member was not even on the boat since it was a star-shark named Mounda which was going to pull their boat. In other words, the Strawhat was more than off to a bad start. By watching them positioning themselves on the starting line and receiving an Eternal Pose to find the island back, I understood that the beginning of this race was going to be quite rowdy.
And I was quite right because just as the starting signal was given, the Foxy Pirate which were on the island all fired at Nami, Robin and Ussop, sending them far from the circuit whereas Mounda pulled Porche and Kapouti took the lead. And the Strawhat had hardly enough time to take a breather that a gigantic rock coming out of nowhere fell from the sky and almost crushed them. I turned to the Foxy Pirate who were all chuckling, before being beaten down by Luffy and the others, clearly not amused by all those dirty tricks. Although according to me, that had more to do about the fact that they had no other means to help their friends which, meanwhile, had lost a piece of their boat because of an attack of the fishman before they were counterattacked by Robin which grew arms on Kapouti to throw him back, landing on Mounda's head, slowing down their enemy boat.
After that, we stayed more or less like blind due to the fact that the competitors had disappeared, keeping up with their race around the island, the only information which we received were from the commentator, but I didn't really paid attention to it. I was too worried by the fact than Foxy had just disappeared with his gorilla and I had a feeling it wasn't to go pick strawberries. Comments remained nevertheless rather instructive : thanks to them, we learned of a sudden and brutal acceleration from the Strawhat which had overtaken Porche and her team, overtaken once again in the next second by the Foxy, traps made of arms coming out of nowhere, a coral reef filled with whirlpool, a smokescreen appeared suddenly in this dangerous zone because of Foxy, which did not prevent the Strawhat from overcoming this obstacle with no problem at all thanks to Nami and her navigating skill, which took all the Foxy pirate by surprise, a second brutal acceleration thanks to Ussop who blew them over a huge whirlwind and a piece of the island making them take a huge lead, followed by all kind of traps put by Foxy who did not have the slightest effect, like for the false road sign or the false arrival.
"This guy really have no shame." I said to myself while Nami, Robin and Ussop, their boat covered with flower shaped shuriken had just appeared, finally approaching the real arrival. They were a few meters away from the finish line with the rest of the crew already celebrating their victory but when I saw Foxy reach their level from the island bank, I understood that he one last trick up his sleeve, and probably the best he had.
NORO NORO BEAM !
Foxy stretched his hand towards the Strawhat boat and some kind of pink beam struck them dead on, but the biggest surprise was that they seemed to haven't suffered any damages, even if they seemed slow.
Very slow.
TOO slow.
Taking advantage of the sudden immobilization of the Strawhat, Porche arrived and crossed the finishing line before the others then winning the Donut Race.
/- Shortly after -/
Everybody was back on dry land, the Foxy Pirate celebrating their victory whereas with the Strawhat, the atmosphere was not set fair.
- " What happened to you ? " Chopper wondered. " You were about to win and you suddenly stopped. "
- " It's because of Foxy. " I explained drawing the attention of the crew. " He ate a Devil Fruit. It is him who slowed them down. "
- " Indeed, nice deduction. " Confirmed Foxy by approaching us. " There are things in this world that scientist still haven't discover ! The particle I'm controlling slows down everything it touches. Demonstration, Hamburg ! "
The gorilla took a bazooka and fired at his boss, who used the same beam to slow down the cannonball. Except that when he finished his explanation, he had forget the said cannonball which exploded after about thirty seconds sending Foxy fly far off.
" Is it possible to be that stupid ? "
/-Groggy ring-/
I'm going to try to forget the moment when Foxy picked which one of the Strawhat had to join him because I admit that seeing Chopper, forced to join this other crew was painful. After all seen his personality and even his age were basically one of a child who was ripped away from his family. But Zoro had calmed him down as I would have been able to expect it from him : words hard but right. 'Then just sit tight, and quietly watch the game. ', it is the kind of cool sentence that I could keep in stock to use it again myself. Anyway, it was now time for the second round, the Groggy ring. A kind of ball game where one of the players of each team is the ball. The first team who manage to put the opposite team 'ball' in their opponent circle win the match. The rules stipulated that weapons were forbidden, but I wasn't that concerned for Sanji and Zoro. Sanji could fight and even without sword, Zoro remained a true powerhouse.
- "I am sure that we are going to win this duel. With those two in the match, we cannot lose !" Asserted a hopeful Ussop, hope I did not share regrettably.
- "I have a bad presentiment. Well, it's not as if they had a giant in their team. AHAHAHAHAH !"
But obviously, as usual, I should have shut the hell up. Because when Foxy team appeared, it was composed of Hamburg, Foxy lieutenant gorilla, another gorilla, which was twice the size of Hamburg named Pickle and the third one, twice as big as Pickle who was moreover mixture between a fishman and a giant, Bigpan the wotan. And naturally, in their team, it's this giant who acted as the ball.
- " NEXT TIME YOU WANT TO DO A REMARK LIKE THAT, JUST DON'T !" Roared Nami and Ussop, shaking me like a freaking cocktail shaker.
Let us get back to the match which had just started and Sanji wasted no time, jumping over Pickle, targeting Bigpan. But as he was trying to run along his arm to reach his head, he had begun stalling due to the fact that Bigpan was an eel fishman making his body extremely slippery. Taking advantage of that, Bigpan sent Sanji flying far off straight toward Hamburg and Pickle, the latter tackling violently Zoro with a shoulder tackle while Hamburg caught the airborne Sanji before sending him towards the Strawhat goal ring. Zoro tried to prevent him from doing so but he was once again tackled by Pickle who began spinning on himself, sending Zoro to the ground and Sanji in the air again. Thrown into the air by Bigpan, Hamburg caught Sanji and dived towards the goal ring but while everything seemed lost for the Strawhat, Zoro got up, grabbed Pickle by the legs and began spinning him like a propeller before sending him straight on Hamburg. But at the same moment, Sanji had managed to release himself from Hamburg and hurl him back down with a big kick, the 2 gorilla colliding with such a strength that they were both knocked out at the same time.
- "Hey, they do have some great teamwork, it would seem." I commented by looking at the cook and at the swordsman.
- "You're 100 years too early to be of any help to me !" Threw Sanji.
- "I'm not doing this for you!" Answered Zoro.
- "Or not. In fact, they are getting on my nerves."
Bigpan being alone on the field, he began running after the 2 pirates who, much to my shock, just ran away instead of attacking him, which Ussop noticed as well.
- "Why are you running away ?! He's the ball !"
- "Open your eyes, idiot ! He has knives under his boot !"
- "I don't think those are regulatory cleats."
And indeed, by looking at it closely, we could all clearly see that there was long blades under Bigpan's boots. The question was : why was the referee not reacting ?
Simply because he was looking away from the field, whistling casually.
- "YOU CHEAP MOTHERFUCKER !" And that didn't pleased Sanji who shot towards the referee sending his shoe right into his head, which made him get a yellow card from that same referee. As for me, I was grinding my teeth.
- "Bastards. They really give no shit at all."
- "So you find that unfair ? And the Donut Race? Wasn't it already biased enough for you ?"
- "For the Donut Race, there was no referee and there no holds barred. There was nothing to criticize there. On the other hand, here, there is a rule forbidding the use of weapons and the referee is acting like nothing while they are clearly cheating. It's this kind of shit that I can't tolerate."
All this time, Zoro was busy evading Bigpan who was now swinging a huge axe, and when him and Sanji had more or less decided to attack together, they found themselves booby-trapped by the slippery body of Bigpan which put himself in a position which made Sanji and Zoro spin against his body like hamsters stuck in a wheel. And since we were in a situation more than abusive in term of cheating, Hamburg and Pickle had just returned, the first one wearing American fists and metal elbow guard and the second had spiked shoulder pads. And the referee, too busy turning his back to the field stretching, saw nothing and let things happen.
This is when things turned bad for the 2 Strawhat players. Propelled in the air by Bigpan, they were welcomed by Pickle who sent Zoro towards Hamburg, the latter striking the swordsman on the ground with a punch and then, propelled by Bigpain, the leader of the Foxy team struck Zoro like a comet with all his weight, metal covered elbows first to literally nail him in the ground. It was then Sanji's turn to feel the wrath of the cheater, first Pickle who, being propelled by Bigpan, knocked the cook with his spiked shoulder pad, then received by Hamburg who sent him back towards Pickle's shoulder pad, the rebound sending him in the air where he was struck by Bigpan who sent him crashing on the ground. But while everything seemed finished for them, Zoro and Sanji got up, under the surprised looks of the Foxy Pirate, and even mine.
"Well, talk about inhuman stamina."
- "Listen up, you three! Give me a monster burger !" Shouted Foxy, talking to the three players of his team, taking us by surprise. But it was more like a signal that Hamburg and his buddies understood immediately, even if they did look surprised. Hamburg took out 2 big metal bats, ' to smash it up' according to him, Pickles brought 2 swords out 'to slice it up' and Bigpain had taken out 2 big metal plates to smash them in between.
- " So they want to make a hamburger with Sanji and Zoro acting as ingredient ? " I simply said before throwing one of those small remark I'm a specialist of. " A burger tasting like cigarette and lawn, that is going to be uneatable. "
- " SHUT UP ! " Roared out the 2 concerned before focusing themselves back on the game, seeing Hamburg and his companions approaching them, the first one striking the ground, the second spinning like a cutting spinning top and the third smashing his plates together. But Zoro and Sanji were not impressed at all. Sanji rushed at Hamburg so fast that the monkey saw nothing coming and received a kick right in the face before being send flying back by Sanji, going straight to Bigpan's plates who, being too slow on the uptake, didn't react fast enough to save Hamburg who end up being crushed by the enormous metal plates. Pickle, wanting to avenge his boss, threw himself at Sanji, spinning his swords when Zoro arrived, catching him by his feet. Pickle decided to change target, but Zoro was already ready.
MUTORYU : TATSU MAKI !
Zoro used, without his swords, one of his techniques sending Pickle flying, more exactly right on Bigpan who was torn up by the swords of his friend but it didn't stop there for the giant.
ANTI-MANNER KICK COURSES !
Sanji had appeared behind him, hurling him with a violent kick in the back, what had the effect of putting him almost KO while keeping him up. Zoro then began rushing at the giant, Pickle standing once again on his way but Sanji was there. He struck Pickle and sent him towards the sideline, more exactly directly on the referee who still had his eyes closed and was crushed by Pickle.
- " You did that on purpose ! You attacked the referee indirectly." Began the referee, putting an hand in his pocket. "RED CARD" except that his red card, but also the yellow and his whistle had disappeared, until I found them all Nami's hand, the latter sticking her tongue out. And meanwhile, I saw Zoro standing on Sanji's leg, to carry the deathblow to team Foxy.
AIR FORCE : POWER SHOT !
With one powerful kick, Sanji sent Zoro towards the head of Bigpan, which was still unmoving, the swordsman catching the giant by his upper teeth and making him fall over towards the back heading for the goal line, planting the giant's head inside it, scoring a goal and offering the victory to the crew, but that asshole referee still had to whistle to officially put an end to the match and I was going to take care of it. I took the whistle from Nami's hand and walked towards that fucking referee.
- " Hey, my man. Wake up, I think you had to blow the whistle, isn't it ? "
- " Ah ! That's right. I almost forgot ! That punk attacked me twice. " He complained while catching the whistle and finally whistling.
- " There it is ! The ending whistle ! THE VICTORY IS OFFICIAL ! "
- " Huh ? " The referee seemed surprised by what the commentator had just said but he quickly understood that he had been fooled. But since the round was finished, I finally could do something I wanted to do from the very beginning without any kind of risks.
SHOCK FREE KICK !
I kicked in the referee like I'd shoot in a football, sending him far from here before returning towards the pirates who were about to gather.
/-Later-/
It was the moment to choose which crew member from the Foxy Pirate they planned to take. Naturally, Luffy was directly going to choose Chopper, but Nami prevented him from doing so.
- " Luffy, the last duel is a fight between captain. If we take Foxy now, they will be forced to give up and we can take back Chopper without fighting. "
This idea lifted a great deal of protests from Foxy and his men, whereas the Strawhat seemed to find this plan very cunning but great. But I felt like I needed to make them realized what it involved.
- "Your plan is not bad. Twisted and vile, but not bad. But that would meant that Foxy will join your crew. You really want that ?"
And the answer of the crew came really quickly, a ringing "We don't need that kind of trash" which struck a monstrous blow at Foxy's ego but it's not like we had we were giving a fuck about that. In the end, naturally, Luffy got Chopper back, much to the joy of the little reindeer. But you should not forget a detail : there was one more duel and a defeat in this duel would mean of definitive loss of a crew member. Everything would be decided with the last duel : the captains fight !
/- Captains fight -/
I had only a haste : for this masquerade to ends. The big part of the fight between Luffy and Foxy had taken place indoor and thus we were unable to see anything. Yes, yes, indoor. It is also what made me want to go to sleep. During the choice of the battle zone, they spun a cannon and after the cannon stopped naturally, it fired a flare towards the zone where the fight will take place. Except that the cannon stopped not naturally at all, since it literally stopped dead in its track and had fired the flare in the Foxy Pirate boat. Which means that the dickhead had at his disposal all of his weapons, traps and stratagems besides fighting at home. If it was already not enough, Luffy was the naïve kind and was tricked every time. Luffy which moreover wore an afro and had a flaming skull drawn on his torso, probably an idea of Ussop who became Luffy's trainer for this fight. All found that cool, I found that stupid, but I refrained from doing any kind of remark. In the meantime, Luffy wasn't in the best of shape. As we had been able to see him on the first part of the fight, before they disappeared inside, Foxy perfectly knew how to use his slow-motion power, although his stupidity had allowed Luffy to bash him up correctly. We were afraid all the same a little while after they reappeared and when Foxy was standing victorious over Luffy who was spread eagle on the ground. But he had got up in an instant. At the moment, Foxy was bombarding Luffy with punches taking advantage of the fact that the rubber man had been immobilized by a sword made of its slowing light. But once again, displaying his inhuman stamina, Luffy got up, fists raised in front of Foxy. And after each assault from Foxy, he kept getting up.
Again and again.
- "To save… my nakama… I WILL FIGHT TO THE DEATH !"
His cry had echoed through all the audience, lifting, after a moment of silence, approving roar from all the audience, conquered by his will. The fight enters its final rush when Foxy called for some kind of vehicle flying thanks to the power of Noro Noro no Mi, Luffy having difficulty to dodge, taking once again a hard hit to the face, but he always stood and his next words took us all by surprise.
- "I'm… going to win …"
An assertion which seemed daring. He was barely standing and seemed at the edge of the unconsciousness. And such a boldness did not pleased Foxy.
- "Bullshit ! You can hardly stand ! If you want to die so badly, I'll keep hitting until you drop !"
MEGATON NINE TAIL RUSH !
GOMU GOMU NO GATLING !
And the blows rained once again, an outburst of exceptional violence and right in the middle of that, Foxy stretched his fist to once again used his slowing light, but Luffy set his fist against his opponent.
NORO NORO BEEEE…
And they suddenly stood still, none of the two moving at all, nobody understanding what was taking place. Until Luffy put a knee on the ground and loosened the fist he had placed against Foxy's one, revealing what he hid inside it.
A piece of mirror.
And that's when I understood, my eyes opening wide in the face of this revelation.
- "He turned the Foxy's beam against him ! His beam bounces on reflective surface. He had him at his own game !"
GOMU GOMU NO FLAIL!
Luffy during this time had spun his fist like a flail and had punched him straight in the face of the rival captain who, since he was slowed down, was slowly twisting himself under the power of the blow whereas in the audience, a countdown began.
- "10 ! 9 ! 8 ! 7 ! 6 ! 5 ! 4 ! 3 ! 2 ! 1 ! 0 !"
When they reached zero, Foxy took off from the ground, propelled towards the sky and outside the fighting zone, under the stunned looks of his crew which, carried by the fight, had done the countdown of the defeat of their own boss.
- "AAAAAAAAHHHHH ! BOSS !"
- "AND IT IS FINISHED ! With this last round, the Davy Back Fight is ended and won by the challenger, STRAWHAT LUFFY !"
Here we are ! I admit that I didn't expect this chapter to be so long, seen that I didn't plan to linger over the Davy Back Fight. It is not the chapter that pleases me the most, but because since it's a transition chapter, I used it to work on the use of the first person pov. I hope that you'll like it and don't worry, the next chapters will be much more like my first fic, which I invite you to read if it's not already the case. Also, I'm sorry for the delay but I was on holyday this week. Starting tomorrow, I'll go back to my usual rhythm, starting with my Fairy Tail fic. See you !
Next time: epilogue of the Davy Back Fight. A threat made of ice. The strength of the Marine.