Chapter 2
Time skip – Two years later: Dressrosa
In a city full of love, joy and moving toys, a girl with wavy brown hair walked through the brick floor. She has fair skin, large doe brown eyes, tall nose and a pair of rosy lips. She has a cute baby-face, as she still has some baby fat on her cheeks. Her wavy brown hair down to her upper back and slightly bounced as she walked. She wore a loose, white singlet top which covers her slightly under average breasts, all the way down to the quarter of her thighs and had a creamy brown coloured belt loosely tired around her hips. She wore a pair of light sand yellow coloured shorts, which was mostly covered by her shirt, and a pair of silver open toe pumps on her feet. On her ears, there were six unique earrings - three on each ear - and around her neck was a silver bead chain, with two dog tags dangling on it. Her silver high-heels clicked and her hair and breasts slightly bounced as she walked.
"Any last competitors?" a blonde woman loudly yelled.
The brunette turned to the stand, where the blonde gladiator stood. She smiled widely and pranced to the stand.
"I would like to join!" she chirped.
The female gladiator blinked and scanned the brunette's profile, looking quite skeptical. "Are you sure, girly?" the blonde woman asked and slightly scoffed, "This is for strong warriors."
"Yep!" the girl grinned and popped her shoulder, "I'm strong!"
"If you insist," the blonde sighed and took out some forms, "fill them in."
"Okie dokie!" the brunette chimes and grabbed the quill pen.
"What's your name, girly?" the gladiator asked, while the girl answered the questions on the sheet.
The brunette looked up and gave the woman a toothy grin before replying, "The name's Shishinomi L. Nera and I'm going to travel with the next King of the Pirates!"
Luffy slammed his his fist on Don Chinjao's forehead, slamming him on to the concrete arena. The man's once pointed head shot up up to its former great glory, which caused the arena split into two and the former pirate leader falling in killer fighting fish infected water.
The whole stadium snapped into silence. Everyone had a shock look on the face, with their jaws dropped and eyes bold going out of their eye sockets. They can't believe it. An unknown gladiator just beat the legendary Don Chinjao, the once great pirate captain of the Chinjao Family and former 12th devision leader of the Happo Navy. Who could had thought a man with such scrawny limbs be so strong.
"Th-the winer is… LUCY!" the commentator finally snapped out of his state of shock and yelled loudly.
Soon, the crown snapped out of their bewilderment and an out roar of cheers rang through the coliseum.
Every was chanting the unknown gladiator's name, even the unknown girl, name Shishinomi L. Nera. She cheered loudly and her eyes sparkled in glee.
"Awesome! This Lucy person is so strong!" she gawked and leaned more forward from her opened window. Half of her body was peered over the window, her stomach is on the brick barrier and her legs dangled on the other side. She slightly kicked her legs and grinned widely, as the medic ran into the stadium to carry the injured, and possibly the dead, out of the arena, while the bearded gladiator walked back stage.
"Oi, watch it!" a gruff male voice snapped behind the brunette.
The girl allowed her legs fall limp and she turned her head back to the source of the voice. She blinked at the man with crazy green hair and sharp shark-like teeth. She crooked her head to the side and blinked in confusion.
"Can't you even apologise! You almost kicked me!" he growled and crossed his arms.
Nera blinked and a second later, the girl grinned widely. "Oh, sorry, sorry," she apologised and hopped off the window sill. She turned to face the grennette, placing her hands behind her back and smiled widely, "I'm Nera, by the way," she greeted the man, "and I'm going to travel with the next King of the Pirates!" She giggled and fist pumped, while the man scoffed at her. "What's your name?" she asked and smiled brightly
"It's Bartolomeo, you dumb bitch," he snared "and as if you'll able to travel with Luffy sempai."
Suddenly, his eyes widen, as he remembered a very important task. "You bitch! You made me forget that I'm going to see Luffy sempai!" he gasped and ran off.
"Luffy sempai!" he wailed as he ran through the corridor.
Nera blinked and fanned her hand to clear the mist, made by the green haired man. "Luffy sempai?" she said in confusion, then her eyes widened and gasped. "Luffy is here too?" she gasped and grinned widely, "I want to see him too!" With that, the brunette ran after the man yelling, "Wait! Take me to him too!"
Bartolomeo gripped the edge of the brick wall, while he started adoringly at his idol. He muttered his admiration for the rubber man, but he was too bashful to actually go up to the man who inspired him to become a pirate.
"Luffy sempai," he uttered out and gazed with admiration to the disguised pirate.
Suddenly, he felt a tap on his shoulder, making him snap his head to the left, but there was no one there. He then quick led turned to the right, seeing the same girl who almost kicked him and made him forget his mission to see his idol.
"What the hell do you want?" the grennette growled.
The brunette grinned and slightly giggled. "I want to see Luffy too!" she stated loudly. She snapped her head to the commotion across here, were the bearded gladiator, beautiful blonde and old man fought. Well, at least to the girl. "What's happening there?" she asked and grinned, "I want to see!"
Before she could run towards the group, the green haired man pulled her back and pinned her on the wall. "Don't be stupid!" Bartolomeo roughly hushed the girl, "You cant just go there! What if Luffy sempai notice us?"
With that, the pirate captain started blushing and gushing at the idea of his idol noticing him.
The brunette blinked and crooked her head to the side. She peered over the wall, seeing the people that started the commotion. She scanned every person, but she could not find the person the greenette was mentioning. She turned back to the spazzing male and slightly crooked her head. "Where's Luffy? I don't see him," the girl said innocently.
Bartolomeo snapped out of his moment and glared at the girl in front if him. "Don't say Luffy sempai's name in such disrespect manner!" he barked. He scoffed and peered over the comer of the wall, pulling the brunette's head to view the crowd. "Luffy sempai is that one over there," he stated out and pointed at the bearded gladiator.
Nera blinked and intensely started at the person who was said to be Monkey D. Luffy. She studied his structure, features and how his bodied moved. It looked really familiar, but it can't be him. Luffy doesn't look that old. He doesn't have a beard or had that cross scare on his chest, even though there was the very same scare under his left eye.
"Liar," she accused and turned her head to the man, "Luffy doesn't look like that. That's just an old man."
The pirate captain's eyes widened and pushed himself to stand up straight. "That is Luffy sempai, you bitch!" he gritted his teeth and balled his fist.
The girl turned back at the crowd and hummed. "Oh, the old man coming this way," she stated, making the green head snap his attention back to his idol.
"Oh, my god! Luffy sempai is coming this way!" he squealed, "What do I do?" With a squeak, Bartolomeo ran off after the bearded gladiator, while chirping, "Luffy sempai!"
Nera blinked and fanned her hand to clear the dust. She coughed and scattered her hand until the dust cleared out and grinned widely. She then started laughing softly at her new "friend's" antics. Her ears perked when the speakers announced that her block was going to start its match soon.
"Oh, I have to go!" the brunette gasped and ran off.
The crowd, especially the females, screamed loudly at Cavendish's speech. The cheered man shook in his skin and tears fell from his eyes.
"I'm super popular!" he gushed with sparkly eyes.
Everyone started to settle down and that commentator grabbed his transmitter snail with enthusiasm. "Well! In the meantime, everyone has gathered-"
"Wait!" a loud shout was heard from the entrance of the coliseum.
Everyone snapped their heads to the entrance, seeing a silhouette of a petite figure, with slender long legs. The figure jumped off the retreating metal bridge towards the ring. The crowd gasped at the latecomer, seeing like she would not make the jump. However, the figure slightly kicked the air, giving her an extra boost to the arena and gracefully landing on the edge of the fighting ring. Light shone on the figure, displaying the competitor, number 557, Shishinomi L. Nera.
The girl looked around the crowd and other competitors. Her doe eyes blinked and in an instant, her lips stretched to a large grin, shunning many males and melting their hearts with her innocent smile.
"Sorry for being late," she giggle and smiled brightly and melting many of the guys like butter under a hot sun.
"Wooooh! Who is this cute girl? Just jumping into the ring and stole my little heart!" the commentator yelled excitedly, "This cute, unknown competitor, Shishinomi L. Nera! Can she fight? Or will she get hurt?"
The brunette turned to the stage where the commentator sat and grinned widely. "Don't worry, I'm strong!" she assured the man and bumped her chest, with her fist, proudly.
"Waaaah! She's cute and has guts! Let's see what she can do!" the gut-belly gladiator yelled through his transmitter snail.
The girl spun to her opponents and saw a group of men staring hungrily at her.
"You better watch out, girly," one jeered.
"This is a man's game. We don't want you to get hurt do we," another mocked.
"Why don't you just run along home and bake cookies or something?" the third scoffed.
The gong rang loudly throughout the coliseum and Nera's lips twitched into a smirk, before jumping high up in the air, as soon as the the loud golden plate was heard.
In a flash, the brunette disappeared, without the men noticing and the man on the right felt a sharp pain on his jaw. His head smashed into the one in the middle and sending the three men out of the ring in an instance. Their bodies stacked on the wall from the competitors and audience and the fell in the infested water.
Whoever was watching the scene, had their eyes widened and mouths gapped. Then they cheered loudly for the girl and chanted her name.
"The kawaii fighter was right! She is strong!" the commentator stated enthusiastically, "But can she defeat the big guns of this match?"
Luffy gazed as the screen, as he gripped the bars of the imprisoned gladiator's cell. His eyes widened in shock and gasped loudly, while intensely stared at the girl shown on projector.
"Nera is here too?" he mumbled to himself and then grinned widely. 'Wow, she must be a lot stronger than the last time I've seen her,' the pirate captain thought, while laughing happily.
"This is the first time there is another female competitor with such body shape, other than Rebecca," one of the gladiators stated, "she's strong too."
"I wonder who is she," commented another injured gladiator, "I've never seen or heard of her. It's like she came out of nowhere."
The disguised gladiator hummed at the imprisoned men's comments, but didn't say a word and stared at the screen.
Nera gracefully landed on the stadium once again. She disregarded a three gladiators coming straight towards her. She stretched, while one man came running towards her and her body flopped backwards, causing the man to crash to the other warriors on the other side.
"You bitch," a bold gladiator snarled and swung his sword towards her.
"Shave," the brunette muttered and disappeared from the men's peripheral.
"What the hell? Where did she go?" the bold gladiator questioned and pulled his sword out of the floor.
"It seems that our kawaii fighter has escaped the clutches of those big scary men," the commentator spoke through the transmitter snail, while projector snails scanned for the brunette's where about, "and is now playing at the edge of the arena?"
"What the fuck are you doing?" a gladiator with an axe spat, "This is a fight to the death and you're playing with the fish?"
The men ran towards her with their weapons, not carrying she was a girl nor her back was facing towards them. The gladiators smirked and slammed there weapons on the seemingly unexacting girl. However, before they were anywhere near to strike her, five fighting fish jumped out of the water and flew straight to the men, shredding their body into pieces.
The brunette stood up and turned around and smiled sweetly. She grabbed two fighting fish at a time, which were flopping around in the arena, and threw them back in the water. Once all the fighting fish were back in the water unharmed, she giggled with glee and squatted down once again. "Thank you for helping me," the girl grinned and the same five fighting fish hoped out of the water and dove back in again, almost like they were communicating with her.
"What just happened?!" the announcer gasped, while other spectators had their eyes widened once again, "Those fighting fish came out of nowhere and seemingly helped Nera. Well, ladies and gentlemen, our kawaii fighter, Shishinomi L. Nera, is not who she seemed to be. I wonder what other tricks does she have up her sleeve?"
The girl stood up once again and turned to her left, seeing a female gladiator being ganged up by five other gladiators at the very edge of the ring.
"If we kill you, we'll be heroes!" one darkly chuckled.
"Let's get her!" another evilly ordered.
Rebecca gulped and was ready to dodge all their attacks. However, she was completely surrounded, with little to no path to escape. She braced herself for some scratches and wounds, but she never thought someone would actually come and help her.
She saw flash of white and out of the blue, there is a girl wearing a loose white tank top and brown hair in front of her.
"You know, ganging up on someone is very mean," Nera scolded cutely.
"Who the hell are you?" one of the men spat.
"Do you want to die early?" another sneered.
The girl smiled cheerfully and took a deep breathe, while closing her her eyes. She exhaled and her eyes opened once again. Her roses lips parted and sweet melody escaped her lips. Her head swayed and not long, a dozen of fighting fish jumped out of the water and pounced at the men, giving them the same fate of the other three from earlier.
The brunette turned her head and grinned at the pink haired gladiator, before walked towards the large fish. She picked up two and placed them on her shoulders, before walking towards the edge of the stage.
"Hey," Rebecca called for the brunette, wanting to thank her, but the pinkette was cut off before she could.
"Can you help me put them back in the water? I don't want them to die," the unknown fighter pleaded.
Flabbergasted, the gladiator dumbly nodded and slowly walked towards one of the flapping fish. She squatted down and started rolling the fighting fish towards the edge of the arena.
"Hurry, get them while their vulnerable!" Rebecca heard a loud shout behind her. She gasped and snapped her head to the source, seeing a couple of gladiators raising their weapons at her.
"No," she gasped in terror and await for her death.
Authors Note: Second Chapter! Just in case if anyone got confused, Nera is the same girl from last chapter.
I hope you all enjoyed it. There will be more action next chapter!
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StarPurpleandBlue: Thank you very much for your support and comment. I'm sorry it may disappoint you, since her personality is a lot like Luffy's, at this moment, but her character will defiantly develop in further chapters and she will be distinct from Luffy.
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