HOLY MOLEY!!!!!! I'M SCREWD!!!!!

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The figure strode towards Pearl, a butcher knife glinting in each of his hands, and Usopp lurched against the chains and let out such an inhuman, animal like snarl that the both of them jumped.

"Don't you touch her! Don't you dare touch her!"

The figure ignored Usopp and started his advance stumbled to her feet and backed away, "Leave me alone," she said.

"Run…Pearl." Usopp coughed again and his head went limp, blood falling from his mouth and dripping to the ground in red splatters. "Run… Please…run."

Pearl's lungs and legs hurt. Her lungs were like ice again, and her legs felt as though she'd already been running nonstop. She shook her head, as if to clear up some invisible fog. "U-Usopp, I can't leave you," she said "Luffy'll kill me if I do… if I don't to myself first…"

Usopp's only able response was another desperate cough.

Something flowed through her at that moment that most people would call "courage", or even" bravery".

Pearl just called it "pure adrenaline".

She planted her retreating feet and clenched her fists at her sides.

Only Usopp noticed the pale gold chain peeking out of her hand.

"Oh!" the figure had the smile in his voice again. "Are you going to come without a struggle?"

There was no answer for him. Pearl was too afraid to answer anyway.

She took in a deep breath. Pearl then started singing her Muse-Muse Sonic Boom for all it's worth. The song she sang…My Immortal by Evanescence:

"I'm so tired of being here

Suppressed by all my childish fears

And if you have to leave I wish that you would just leave

'Cause your presence still lingers here

And it won't leave me alone

These wounds won't seem to heal

This pain is just too real

There's just too much that time cannot erase

When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears

When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears

And I held your hand through all of these years

But you still have

All of me

You used to captivate me

By your resonating light

Now I'm bound by the life you left behind

Your face it haunts

My once pleasant dreams

Your voice it chased away

All the sanity in me

These wounds won't seem to heal

This pain is just too real

There's just too much that time cannot erase

When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears

When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears

And I held your hand through all of these years

But you still have

All of me

I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone

But though you're still with me

I've been alone all along

When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears

When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears

And I held your hand through all of these years

But you still have

All of me

Me…

Ahhhhh…

Me….

Ahhhh….

Me…………….."

The man crashed into the stone wall beside the tank and then dropped to the ground, landing on his feet with an almost cheerful bounce.

"Okay then." the figure nodded, as if deciding something. Pearl blinked, and his black form vanished.

"Pearl!" Usopp choked out. "Move!"

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Me: I'M DEAD!!! I'M DEAD!!!I'VE DIED!!!I'M DEAD!!!!!

Usopp:…..um…..Pearl-chan?….he hasn't killed you…

?: Yet….

Usopp: Yet….WAIT!!!!YET?!?

Me: *smacks Usopp and ? upside the head* Dammit! Don't spoil my stories you Duh!!!! Duhs!!! (Miss MerryChristmas from Arabasta…Best Usopp fight scene EVAR!!!)…Anyway…REVIEW AND I'LL GIVE YOU VIRTUAL PLUSHIES OF ANY OP CHARACTER YOU WANT!!!…..Except Usopp….he's mine*wink wink*….also I'll up the price of hittin the 4Kids head to…20 belli…for….15 whacks and keep it 5 belli for 10 whacks at Mosshead… ;3