Author's Note: (Blah, blah) usually Usopp's thoughts, but occasionally someone else's.
(Blah, blah) Sogeking's thoughts.
Also, in this chapter, Sogeking and Usopp's name switch when ever the mask is on or off. Just thought I'd tell you so you don't get confused.
Round Two-Revenge of Sogeking
The time had gone from 4:35 PM, the time of Usopp's death according to Kaya, to 10:23 PM. It was dark and cold. Kuro had forced Kaya past the park and into an abandon building. Although the outside was creepy and depressing, the inside was nicly furbished and seemed so clean you could eat off of it. Kuro must of worked hard to keep it like this. Kaya, however, wasn't too impressed and seemed disgusted. Why wouldn't she? The man her family trusted so much had murdered her best friend, kidnapped her, and he had pre-written the ransom note two days ago. Her parents, probably in the next seven minutes would find the note and give into Kuro's demands: $9,000,000 and a drop of all charges.
Kuro kept Kaya in a large, pink bedroom. It was like any other bedroom, it had a window-which was locked with a lock and key, one door which was the exit which was locked, and she was sitting on a king-size room even though the room looked like it belonged to a five-year old. She sat on the edge of the large bed and looked at the floor. She couldn't believe that her nice afternoon with Usopp had ended the way it did. The thought of seeing Usopp's bloody body made her tear up as she started crying.
"Aw, why the tears Miss Kaya?" said the sound of Kuro's voice as the door opened, reveiling the Black Cat himself. Kaya looked up from her spot and gave a terrible excuse of a death glare at Kuro. "Ooh the chills." Kuro mocked as he walked over to her. "What's the matter? Aren't you happy to see me?"
"How could I be happy?" Kaya snapped as she shot up at Kuro, "You kidnap me and you killed my best friend! Your a monster!" she shouted at the outlaw.
"Now, now Kaya," Kuro teased as he lifted his claws to Kaya's chin, making her flinch and make her eyes bug out in fear. "You wouldn't wanna mess with a murderer, would you?" Kuro asked. Kaya shook her head as she sat down. "Besides, Usopp was a bug that needed to be exterminated. He is a poor excuse for a 'warrior' as he calls himself. Not even worth being called a school boy." Kuro told Kaya, deepening her depression.
"Take back what you said about Usopp." said a voice. The voice seemed to have come from...Kaya's pocket? Kaya quickly took it out to see a girly looking snail. It was her Baby Den Den Mushi. Who had her conncection? "Usopp is a better man than you ever were."
"What?" Kuro asked, yanking the andry looking snail from Kaya. "Who are you? How did you get this connection?" Kuro shouted into the snail.
"I'm surprissed Kuro. Usopp told me very much about you, yet you don't know who I am?" the mysterious voice asked. Why was he talking about Usopp? "Anyway, I don't appreciate people talking about my friends like that. I especially don't like it when people nearly kill them."
(Nearly?) Kaya and Kuro thought. "Who are you? Is Usopp alright?" Kaya shouted into the Den Den Mushi.
"Yes. He's just find Kaya. Trust me." the voice answered. Kuro growled.
"Who are you? Enough of these games!" Kuro shouted, only to be answered by laughter.
"Who am I? I am the Hero of Justice! I am the Saver of the ones needing to be Saved! I am Sogeking! King of Snipers!" the voice shouted. Kaya and Kuro's jaws dropped a bit. Kuro seemed even more angry. Sogeking...real? It made him growl. "I suggest you let Kaya go." Kuro chuckled at Sogeking's demmands.
"Or what? You'll come in here?" Kuro asked. He laughed at the idea. "Go ahead. The second you do, I'll kill you." Kuro practicly dared him to do something. The window was locked so he couldn't do that. The door was the only way in and if he did, he would be dead. Kuro's answer was, once again, laughter.
"Maybe I didn't make myself clear." Sogeking told him. Suddenly, something smashed through the window and smashed itself into the back of Kuro's head, knocking him over. Kuro rubbed his head as he tried to figure out what the hell hit him. Was it metal? Kuro looked onto the ground to see a metal ball bearing on the floor where it hit his head. "I am Sogeking! King of Snipers!" Kuro and Kaya looked out the window to see a man standing on a lamp post in the park. It was hard to see, but he wore some sort of mask and had a red cape. He held some sort of green staff and had a brown Den Den Mushi on his shoulder. "That was my Metalic Star."
Kuro was angry and astonished at the same time. First of all, he was shot with a metal ballbearing. What the hell was that about? Second of all, he was about two miles away and it was dark! How could he have shot that without hitting anything else but him? Kuro slashed the door into pieces and quickly grabbed Kaya's Den Den Mushi.
"I hope you dug a deep grave Sogeking. Because you're going to lie in it!" Kuro shouted as he through the Den Den Mushi at Kaya as he made a dash out the room. Kaya could only watch in amazemad went on how fast Kuro ran and how good a shot Sogeking how far a shot Sogeking had shot.
(I guess that's why he's called King of Snipers.)
Kuro was outside in half a second as he looked at the spot where Sogeking was. He couldn't see his face, but he could tell he was grinning. He got into running position and made ran at top speed at to the park. Kuro was incredibly fast as he got closer and closer to Sogeking. He drew his claws, ready to drench them in blood. He got closer and closer and then...he stopped. Kuro stopped in his tracks and felt a powerful sense of pain his feet.
"OW~!" he shouted as he jumped back. (What the hell was that?) He looked at his feet to see spikes in them and blood. He then heard the annoying laugh of Sogeking as he looked up to see him.
"Oh! Sorry. Forgot to mention about my Caltrop Hell!" he shouted as he pointed to the ground. Kuro looked as well to see caltrops around the entire park area. When were those there? "You see, my friend Usopp told me about your speed and I prepared for it. Let's see you hit what you can't touch!" Sogeking laughed as he grabbed somethign from the bag slung over his neck. "Take this! Sunflower Star!" he cried as he fired a Musket Ball. The Musket Ball exploded into five in the shape of a pentagon as they zoomed in on Kuro. Kuro quickly removed the caltrops stuck in his feet as he dashed around the park, avoiding the explosives.
"I must admit, you are quite clever." Kuro congratulated, "Setting caltrops so I can't reach you and standing on the lamp post that's in the middle of the park so you can shoot me no matter where I am. Quite smart." Kuro then dashed to the park and raised a claw into the air. "But not smart enough!" he shouted as he slashed the ground with his claw, sending the caltrops in front of him to fly away. He then proceeded to do this across the park, getting rid of all the caltrops.
"Oh no you don't! Triple Exploding Stars!" Sogeking cried as he fired his Exploding Stars at Kuro as he continued to clean up the caltrops, but Kuro's speed prooved to be a problem again as he avoided the explosive pellets and got rid of the last of the caltrops. (Damn it! Looks like it's time for Plan B.)
(Because it's always better than Plan B)
"Now you're mine!" Kuro shouted as he ran across the park, to fast for Sogeking to keep up with, as he jumped to Sogeking, arced back his claw, and
SLASH
swiped the claw across Sogeking's chest, sending the sniper to the ground on his back. Now Kuro was standing on the light post, looking down on Sogeking.
"I must say. You are much harder to kill than I thought...Usopp." Kuro told the sharpshooter, making him flinch.
"W-what are you talking about? I'm Sogeking." Sogeking told him, using the Kabuto to stand onto his feet.
"Oh come now! Enough with these lies! Especially since your nose is a dead give away!" Kuro shouted, pointing his clawed finger at Sogeking's nose. "If you're going to disguise yourself, making a mask that hides your most obvious feature." Once Kuro was done talking, he jumped down and had his claws across his chest. "Get ready to die!"
"Not yet! Super Smoke Star!" Sogeking shouted as he shot another pellet at Kuro, exploding into a much bigger smokescreen than a normal Smoke Star.
"Again with the smoke Usopp?" Kuro said as he prepared himself for anything Usopp might pull. "These tricks of yours are getting old."
"Foolish Kuro." Sogeking said. Kuro tearned to his direction to see him standing there. "Do you honestly think those toys of yours will defeat me?"
"Toys?" Kuro shouted. "I won't be insulted by an insect like you!" Kuro could take a lot of things, just not being insulted by people he saw beneath him. Kuro lifted his claws and slashed them repeatedly on Sogeking again and again. Blood splattered across his weapon and face as he brutally attacked Sogeking. "Do you still think this is a toy?" Kuro shouted. Something didn't seem right though. Didn't people scream when they're getting torn apart? The smoke cleared for Kuro to find that he wasn't killing Usopp. He was slashing at a scarcrow with Sogeking's mask, a Tone Dial, and ketchup packets! "Damn it Usopp, where are you!" Kuro shouted as he looked around the park to see nobody.
"Multiple Fire Stars!" Usopp shouted as several Mustet Balls were shot at once at Kuro from his left. Kuro turned just in time to see the pellets burst into flames. Kuro jumped away from the Scarecrow, avoiding the attacks as the Fire Stars hit the scarecrow.
"Try all the tricks you want, but they will only delay your death!" Kuro shouted. He was getting angrier and angrier by the second at Usopp's antics and...he was smilling! "Why are you smilling?"
"Because you called me an insect and which one of us is getting stomped?" Usopp mocked. Kuro was now pushed over the edge of his temper as he rushed at Usopp.
"You'll pay for opening your mouth you-" Kuro stopped talking when he stopped moving. The problem was that he didn't stop on his own. His feet were stuck. "What the-what is this?" he shouted as he looked down to his feet to see some sort of pink blob stuck to his feet and up to his ankles.
"You just stepped into my Sticky Star." Usopp tolld him.
"When was this here?" Kuro asked, "When did you have the time to put this here?"
"I put it there when you were killing me." Usopp said with a snicker. Kuro was in shock. Usopp had planned this entire fight! How was it that he was a step ahead of him this entire fight? "Next time you plan to kidnap my friend, make sure I'm a possible variable." Usopp informed him as he loaded the Kabuto with another pellet and took a couple steps back. "Now Kuro! Face the warth of Fire Bird Star!" Usopp cried as he fired the pellet at Kuro. The pellet then exploded and transformed into the shape of a pheonix as it soared at Kuro who was wide eyed as the fire bird made contact with Kuro, causing an explosion. Usopp watched the inferno in great extent.
"That takes care of that." Usopp said with pride as he walked past inferno where Kuro stood and grabbed his mask. "That'll teach him to mess with The Great Sogeking!"
"Oh really?" said a voice that sounded like Kuro's. Usopp jumped as he turned around and saw a black blur stab something into his chest. When his eyes caught up, he saw a chared Kuro glaring at him with a claw stabbing through his gut. "H-how? How did you avoid my Fire Bird Star?" Usopp asked, fighting the urge to spit blood. Kuro grinned as he through Usopp onto the ground.
"How? This is how!" Kuro shouted, showing him his left hand, which had no claw and was burnt and bloody. "I used this hand to counter your little fire cracker. I was able to redirect it to your little glue trap." Kuro said, pointing to his feet which had no shoes on. "And now...I'm going to kill you." he told him as he stabbed his claws in his chest, purposely avoiding his heart to make him suffer and raised him onto his feet as he constantly punched him over and over again. "Do...you...know...how...long...I've...waited...for...this?" Kuro asked, punching him with each word. "If you knew your place in this world, this wouldn't happen! If you stopped trying to be a hero, I wouldn't have to beat you to a pulp!" Kuro shouted, hitting him across the face more and more. "You are a bug!" Kuro shouted. His fist was about to deliver another hard punch to Usopp's already beated face, until Usopp caught it with his hand. "Still trying to play hero? Why bother?"
"Because Kaya is counting on me," Usopp told him as he shot a death glare at Kuro, "and...I have a secret weapon." Usopp said as he lifted his other hand. In his hand was some sort of Dial that Kuro didn't recognise. "This is my...Impact Dial." Usopp told him. Kuro flinched at that.
"Y-you're lieing! Nobody would be as foolish to use such a destructive Dial!" Kuro shouted, only to be answered by Usopp snickering.
"Then I guess you don't now me as good as you thought! Impact!" Usopp cried as he slammed his Dial on Kuro's forehead as hard as he could and then
BLAM
Kuro was sent fling across the park until he hit the lamp post. Usopp was shot against the tree where the scarecrow was bakanced against and hit it hard. He wailed in pain as he grabbed his arm and chest. Kuro's claw was shot out of it along with Kuro and Usopp was feeling the pain in his chest, back, and arm.
"God! This hurts so bad!" Usopp cried. Usopp bit his lip as he forced himself to stand, despite all the injuries and pain and grabbed his mask and put it back on. He used the Kabuto as a walking stick to leave the 'battle field'.
"This is impossible." Kuro said. It was with a voice that was filled with absolute pain as he was drifting into unconsciousness. "You are an idiot."
"Maybe...but I'm the idiot who beat you." Sogeking told him as he walked away, leaving an uncsonscious Kuro on the ground.
"Sogeking!" shouted a female voice. Sogeking recognised it as Kaya as she ran to him, completely tired. "What happened? Are you OK?"
"Yes...I'm fine. Thank Usopp that he told me about Kuro's speed or I'd probably be in worse condition." Sogeking lied.
"I'll be sure to. Thanks Usopp." Kaya said to him, making Sogeking flinch a bit. "Usopp, I know your under there." Sogeking sighed. He was figured out.
"How did you know?" Sogeking asked her. Kaya smilled back at him.
"Because I know you." Kaya told him. Kaya looked over her shoulder when she saw police cars coming to them. "You better get out of here before the police get here." Kaya told him, making him jump. "Be sure to tell me all that happened here later."
"Sure thing. But first," Sogeking said as he ran off, surprisingly fast for someone who was beaten so badly.
(I can't believe Kaya knew I was Sogeking!)
(I told you she would find out.)
(Will you let that go?)
(No.)
OMG! Kaya and Kuro knew that Usopp was Sogeking! How will this effect the future? OMG OMG! Anyway, Episode Preview
Finding people depressed in Syrup Town isn't all that hard with all the robberies, kidnap, and murder. But finding ever person depressed is something completely different. So why isn't Usopp depressed? What the hell is going on? And is that haunted house the key?
