7.- Cats
A/N: Thanks to those who fav/followed the story, and all the anonymous readers! ^^
At long last, the fight against the Black Cat pirates! Hm, it's been difficult to mix everything up, 'cause now I have to blend Koga with what happens in the anime (quite a difficult task, I assure you!). But I hope I've done it well.
-Zelga Lim Li: Thanks! Hope you continue liking it :)
-FourthWallBreaker: As always, it's a pleasure to read your reviews! Yeah, Koga can not only reinforce his physical abilities (such as speed, strength, stamina, agility and all that) but also his six senses. About the flashback, he had lost his parents in a bandit raid, and that attack produced a great shock in him. That, and the fact that he had also been attacked, made him lose all he knew about his parents and his life with them. Don't know exactly what I will do about his historical background, but I'll figure out something, don't worry.
-Pineapples and cake: Hahaha, I didn't read it like that! XDDDD
Disclaimer: I own nothing of One Piece but my OC Koga and other Ocs that will appear in the future.
The four Straw Hat pirates and Usopp worked all night in the liar's plan. Actually, its simpleness was almost insulting: four barrels of smelly oil in the slope to prevent the evil pirates to go up. Zoro, Nami and Koga had decided to be down the oily slope, as they were close-ranged fighters (Nami could take anyone down with her staff), while Usopp was up along with Luffy, the first one to be protected by the latter. Not that Koga particularly minded that; the liar was more a nuisance than a real help in battle, adn with a slingshot as a weapon, the pirates'd take him down in a blink of an eye.
Of course, as soon as Usopp and Nami saw the rusty old katana that Koga was wielding, they demanded answers about it, and seemed rather shocked and surprised to know that there was a real demon inside it. A demon that could adapt the katana's form into another weapon's. Currently, the chronicler was thinking on using the naginata form; the form he was more familiar with was the brass knuckles, but if he didn't practise with the rest of the weapons, he'd lose effectiveness in using them. And also, Sankaoken would be pestering him endlessly.
The sun was up and around for quite some time and the pirates hadn't arrived yet, nor did their ship. Something was very fishy, and it wasn't only the odor of the oil in the slope. What the hell was happening?
"Hey, are you sure Kuro mentioned this coast?" Zoro raised his voice asking Usopp, who seemed quite confused at the absence of pirates. "'Cause I don't think they have overslept."
"I was wondering the same thing." Koga admitted, raising his scarf up to his nose, hiding the lower half of his face but his eyes never leaving the great sea. "My sixth sense's still not tingling."
"But there's no other way to go to the village but up this slope..." Usopp mused in confusion.
Just then, Nami let out a 'Huh?' sound, and cupped a hand behind her ear, as if trying to hear something better. Koga glared at her with a question in his bicolored eyes.
"Am I imagining things? I can hear someone screaming 'Go!' from the north direction."
Usopp gasped as his face paled, as if realizing something disastrous.
"The north!" He squealed weakly, grasping his head between his hands in utter horror.
"What's going on?" Zoro snapped at the sniper.
"T– there's another entrance into the village in the north... But..."
"Don't tell me you got it wrong!" Shouted Luffy.
"They talked about his plan here, so I thought they'd attack from here!"
"Hurry! Which way are they going to attack the village from?"
After Usopp managed to indicate him the correct direction, their idiot captain zoomed off without looking back, shouting somehting about kicking someone's ass (probably Kuro's, or maybe Jango's), Koga frowned his intuition told him Luffy wasn't going in the right direction. Usopp said something about messing everything up and went in the same way the raven-haired boy had taken, without looking back.
"Help!" Nami shouted, and Koga raised his head just in time to see Nami and Zoro trying to go up the slope, the swordsman a little ahead from her; the girl had managed to latch onto Zoro's shirt after her foot slipped. "I'm slipping!"
"Ah! Let go, you idiot!"
Too late. Nami used Zoro's back as leverage to get herself out of the oil, making him get trapped in the oil. It'd have been funny, but the swordsman was already too pissed off and some laughters would have made things worse.
Deciding to conserve his dignity intact, Koga watched the steep cliffs and chose to try to climb up them. After all, he was a fast climber, and was used to climb cliffs and trees when living in his native island. His hands expertly craved through the little leverage the fingers found, his feet following afterwards, and within minutes (not without some effort from him) he had climbed up while Zoro was still cursing Nami's name and all her family, still trying to go up the slippery slope.
Slippery slope. Dude, that stinks.
'Oh, shut up already.' Koga growled as he turned his katana into a fairly simple naginata, of dark wood and a red ribbon at the end, the curved, single-edged blade on its other end.
"Need help?"
Zoro raised his head, and gaped in surprise upon seeing Koga standing up the slope.
"How the hell did you get up there?"
"I climbed the cliff." Koga shrugged; he crouched on the floor, at the edge of the oil, extending the edge of the naginata that didn't have the blade. "Come on, grab onto this."
Zoro smirked, and then lunged to the end of the naginata that loomed over him a few good centimeters, grasping the red ribbon with all his force. The sudden weight made Koga bent slightly forward, yelping and clasping the wooden pole with his free hand, heels firmly grounded. Fortunately, though it took him by surprise, Koga managed to take him out of the oil thanks to him being so slippery, easing his task greatly.
Once the two of them were out of the oil, Zoro stood up and tried to clean his shirt of oil, while Koga sat on his butt. The swordsman looked at him and smirked while extending a hand; the chronicler returned it as he grasped it and let himself get hauled to his feet. Both of them glared at each other confidently, a small smirk in both of their faces, feeling something close to camaraderie between them.
"Thanks. I owe you one."
"Heh. You owe me nothing." Koga sighed and then looked at the path before them, dropping his smirk. "Now, we've to go after those idiots, before they get themselves killed."
"Right." The swordsman growled, frowning. "I still have to make Nami pay. Let's go!"
He quickly took off, the chronicler following close behind him. But of course, Koga regretted him being behind the swordsman. As much as he tried to guide him in the right direction using his intuition, Zoro somehow managed to get lost in a straight path, something he thought it was impossible until the blond knew the green-haired boy.
Dude, he'll get lost in a one-room house.
He snorted, before smirking in agreement. Yeah, that was the Zoro they knew.
"Oi... Isn't that Luffy?" Zoro's sudden question brought him back to the present.
Koga looked up ahead, in the direction the swordsman was pointing to, and sweatdropped as he saw the familiar figure looking confused his surroundings.
"Oi, Luffy!" Zoro called to him.
Luffy turned around, blinking owlishsly as they stopped just at his side.
"Oh, it's you guys!" He laughed. "I thought you were already with Usopp and Nami."
"Nami delayed us..." Zoro started, with a growl.
"... And this idiot got us lost." Koga signaled his companion with his thumb, interrupting him. Ignoring his protests, the chronicler frowned at his captain. "What are you...? No, don't tell me: you're lost too."
"Shishishishi, yup!"
BONK!
"How can you admit it so happily?!" Zoro smacked his head with shark-like teeth, a furious irk appearing on his head.
The chronicler sighed deeply, rubbing his forehead in annoyance. Now he had not one, but two hopeless lost idiots that he had to babysit until they got to the battlefield. He wasn't sure if he was going to be able to cope with two dumbasses at the same time and remain sane afterwards. And right now, his intuition was beginning to drive him crazy, enough to make his head and stomach ache.
"Usopp told me to go north and everyone knows north is colder!" Luffy was in an argument with Zoro while Koga had been musing about what to do with them.
"Idiot! Everyone knows north is up!" Zoro snapped, hitting him on the head with the hilt of his katana.
"Guys, this is not the time to argue about nonsense." Koga cut out short the captain's reply. "There's a battle coming up."
"Ah! That's right!"
"But...!" The blond gripped the back of his red shirt just as he was going to run off somewhere. "You're going to follow me. My intuition will lead us."
It still lasted a few moments before he could actually convince them to follow him and to trust his intuition, but finally Koga was running ahead of the trio, with Luffy and Zoro at either side of him. Thankfully, neither of them got lost with him at their guide, and only ten minutes later, they reached the place of the battlefield, full of warcries.
The three of them looked at each other before nodding and stepping out of the woods and charged head on into the fight, effectively taking by surprise the unsuspecting pirates that had surpassed a pretty beaten up Usopp and a defenseless Nami. Wielding their own weapons (in Luffy's case, preparing his fists), each one of them took a great group of pirates in a blink of an eye and in a single attack.
"What took you guys so long!" Nami, though terrified, screamed in annoyance with her staff over her shoulder.
Swinging his naginata on his hand, Koga sighed as the four of them began bickering with their own idiocies. Were they going to argue at a time and place like that? He frowned when he saw Jango at the end of the slope beside a huge ship.
"It was you who made me fall down! And now you're blaming me!"
"I couldn't help it! Better one person fall down than both of us! Besides, Koga was with you!"
"Oi, don't drag me into your dumb arguments." The bicolor-eyed young man snapped, looking at the thief-navigator. But again, he was ignored as the swordsman and the girl continued arguing.
"You bastard! You didn't tell me which way was north!" Luffy yelled at Usopp.
"It was your own fault for running so fast!"
Movement from the downed dudes the three newcomers knocked out earlier grasped their attention, and they –finally!– shut their mouths and looked at the slowly standing pirates.
"Ah, they're still alive!" Luffy commented, stepping to the front, Koga and Zoro at both sides of him. "They're pretty tough!"
"That, or they're so scared of Kuro they'll do anything to get away from his wrath." The chronicler shrugged.
"The sky's been bright for quite some time now." Jango's voice floated in the air until it reached the Straw Hat pirates as he looked up at the sky. "Captain Kuro is a very impatient man." He shivered and then looked at his men, who were already kneeling in the ground. "Everyone! Are you going to tell me that you'll allow some kids to defeat you? We don't have time to fool around."
His hand went to his coat and pulled out a familiar object that made Koga tense. The hypnotizing ring. He was going to hypnotize the pirates!
"They are strong, so we'll have to be even stronger than them. Now, stare at this ring. On 'One! Two! Jango!', you'll become stronger. Your injuries will heal and you'll become very, very, very strong."
"Shit." Koga cursed loudly, making Luffy look at him in confusion.
"What's he doing?" He asked his chronicler.
"Hypnosis." Nami answered, skeptical. "Making them believe that they're strong. That's stupid."
Neither Zoro nor Koga said anything as they watched the pirates with their backs towards them, eyes fixated in the ring.
"One... Two... JANGO!"
The last word barely sounded before the pirates suddenly roared, holding their weapons high in the air.
"No way!" Nami had a look of complete disbelief. "They were still shaking not even a minute ago!"
"That's the power of hypnosis." Koga stopped swinging the naginata and gripped it with both hands, the blade pointing to the ground.
A pirate let out a battlecry as he slammed his fist into the cliff. Normally, someone trying to do that would end in him shattering his bones, but the whole cliff suddenly broke apart and fell down. Everyone watched it wide-eyed.
"He crushed the cliff!" Shouted Zoro. "How did they gain so much power in such a short time!"
"If one guy can crush a cliff... Then all of them..." Usopp was shivering, imagining the great power the pirates had suddenly gained.
"Go!" Jango pointed at them. "Go kill those pests!"
The pirates roared again and charged up the slope towards the 'pests', looking like bloodthirsty monsters. Just then, as he prepared himself for the fight, Koga suddenly thought that Luffy had been awfully quiet during all the display.
"You two, hurry and go up the slope!" Zoro ordered to Nami and Usopp, making the girl nod and begin helping the long-nosed boy up the slope. "We'll take care of this." Zoro drew his sword. "Oi, Luffy."
No answer.
"Uh, I think we have a little problem." Koga let out a groan as he watched Luffy's still figure.
The swordsman looked confused at his companion and then at his captain.
"Luffy!"
Snapping out of whatever trance he had entered, Luffy threw his arms up in the air yelling with all his lungs' might: "YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
"YOU GOT HYPNOTIZED TOO!" Usopp, Nami and Zoro shouted simultaneously, while Koga facepalmed with a frustrated expression on his face, cursing once more. The Black Cat pirates and Luffy charged at each other deafeningly yelling, the captain ignoring Zoro's calls.
"Gomu Gomu no... GATLING GUN!"
His arms moved frantically, their speed making it seem like he had multiple punches throwing at the pirates. Most of the pirates went face first to the punches, being knocked out instantaneously, the others following shortly after when Luffy charged at them. The few 'survivors' looked in disbelief as the raven-haired boy went past them straight to the pirates' ship, grasping the bow of the ship (that, ironically, had a giant black cat head on the end), while everyone stared in shock.
"Go, Luffy!" Nami cheered at him.
"Captain Kuro made a miscalculation! They're not just ordinary brats!" Jango realized, a little too late.
"He's tearing the ship apart!" Exclaimed one of the pirates, eyes wide in shock.
The sternpost finally gave apart with a mighty crack, and Luffy wavered with the gigantic length of wood on his arms; he then stared blankly at the pirates, who snapped out of their awestruck state and began begging for help to their captain Jango.
"On 'One! Two! Jango!' you'll fall asleep!" Jango stuttered frantically, pulling out his pendulum once more.
"One!" Luffy seemed not to hear him as he swung the giant bow like a black bat, pirates flying everywhere with frightened cries.
"Two!" He was getting closer...
"JANGO!"
They heard a huge snore coming from the rubber boy, who froze in the spot and began falling backwards with the bow landing on top of him. Koga sighed, inwardly wondering how the hell did he agree to follow such simpleton captain. Well, at least he had taken down a rather great bunch of people... Less work for Zoro and him to take care...
"Damn kid..." He heard Jango hiss in annoyance. "Ruined our whole plan... If captain Kuro sees this, he'll kill everybody!"
"I think they're finished now." Nami sighed in relief from her place sitting on the ground.
"Oi, his head is squished under the bow." Usopp said next to her, confused at their complete carelessness about their captain's well-being.
"Don't worry, he won't die from that." Zoro snorted.
"He's a monster." Koga agreed, nodding.
"How can you treat your own captain like that?" The long-nosed boy sweatdropped, looking at the older boy.
"What? I'm only saying the truth."
Suddenly, his intuition began tingling again, but it wasn't as strong as he perceived when meeting Kuro for the first time. Danger was close to them, a smaller threat than Kuro's, but a threat nonetheless. Better be safe than sorry, he supposed.
"Hey, Buchi!" Called a muffled voice from inside the ship. "Look at this!"
"What? What?" Asked another voice from the same place.
"Our sternpost is broken!"
Jango looked up to his ship with a somewhat relieved expression on his face, as if something dawned on him.
"That's right, we still have those two, our trump cards..." He muttered, and something close to hope made him smile. "Come out, Nyaban Brothers!"
Just as he said those words, two figures jumped off the ship and landed with cat-like agility on the destroyed sternpole.
The first one was a skinny man with a hunch on his back, with green, cat-like eyes, a huge grin and cat ears sticking from the top of his head. He was wearing a Navy blue shirt with light grey buttons and magenta bow tie, brown shoes and white socks sticking out of them, and on his hands he had a pair of dark brown gloves with claws.
The other one was a complete opposite, an overweight man wearing an outfit that reminded more of a cow than of a cat, with white and black dots. He had pale skin, sharp teeth, tiny eyes, and a hat with cat ears that covered one of his eyes. He dressed stripped black and white pants with a yellow sash, dark brown shoes, a blanket-looking cape on his back with a white fluffy brim, pale blue gloves with claws on his hands and a shoulder pad on his left arm.
"You called, Captain Jango?" Asked Skinny, sinister grin plastered on his face.
"You called...?" Fatty repeated rather stupidly.
"Sham and..."
"Buchi!"
"Together we are the Nyaban Brothers!" They exclaimed in unison.
Koga frowned, wondering if for the first time his intuition was deceiving him. Surely those two weren't exactly 'powerful opponents'... Were they?
"Sham! Buchi!" Jango called to them as they hopped off the sternpost to the hypnotist's side. "We have to get across this slope, but as you can see, someone is standing in our way. Take care of them." He signaled to Koga and Zoro who were up the slope.
And 'pouf!', the Nyaban Brother's cocky attitude suddenly made a drastic turn.
"That's– That's impossible for us!" Sham, or Skinny, cried in fear as he backed away.
"They look very strong!" His brother agreed, trying to hide behind Jango... without success.
"Furthermore, our job is only to look after the ship!"
"Yes, yes. We aren't supposed to battle!"
Up in the slope, Zoro, Koga, Nami and Usopp looked confused the exchange between the seemingly terrified Nyaban Brothers and the unfazed Jango. The four of them questioning the same thing: 'Weren't they supposed to be the trump cards, as that hypnotist called them?'
"Sham, just do it." Said hypnotist snapped Skinny, starting to get angry.
"Wh– what?! Me?!"
"Just get going!"
Sham, defeated, began to clumsily run up the slope, between frightened tears and shouts, leaving all his spots open.
"Koga." Zoro called the chronicler's attention. "Don't interfere. I'll take care of this."
The bicolor-eyed young man frowned, still feeling something off in all this, but still he shrugged.
"Yeah, all right." And he relaxed his fighting stance, just a bit.
"Prepare to die!" Sham was screaming at the top of his lungs. "My claws are really sharp!"
"What can you do with those claws?" The swordsman wielded one of his katanas, gritting his teeth. "If you don't stop, I'll kill you!"
Skinny didn't seem to hear him as he continued screaming like crazy, but suddenly, about seven feet from Zoro, his behavior changed again:
"Only you?" He smirked devilly. "You can't kill me."
And he attacked.
SWISH!
However, thanks to Zoro's sharp reflexes, he could save his life. Eyes wide in surprise and shock, he brought up his only katana just in time to block Skinny's claws before they pierced him.
"Shit!" Koga cursed, gripping his naginata. "It was a trap!"
So his intuition had been right after all; he let his guard down.
"You..." Zoro let out a murderous look at the treachery cat, who smirked.
"You must be thinking I'm a coward. I was only pretending to be a coward. If I didn't, you wouldn't have let your guard down."
Sham jumped back, evading Zoro's katana. Noticing something strange, the green-haired swordsman looked down and cursed loudly when he noticed that, in fact, his two remaining katanas were no longer tied at his waist, but tied in Sham's back.
"When did he...?" Nami exclaimed, realizing the same fact.
"He became careless." Koga growled.
But still, one enemy was no match against Zoro the pirate Hunter, even with only one katana. He was more than enough to take Sham down, and didn't need help.
"Did you lose something?" Skinny mocked, smirking. "I wouldn't know anything about it."
"Return those katana to me!" Zoro snapped, not amused in the slightest. Whoever dared to touch his katana without his permission entered instantly in his bad side. And when Zoro had a grudge with someone...
"Zoro, calm down!" Koga called for him by his name for the first time, trying to get his attention. "He's trying to drive you mad!"
But either he didn't hear him because of the fury, or rather he decided to ignore him, the swordsman's dark eyes were fixed in the skinny cat, an angry scowl on his face. It didn't matter that he had dropped his guard before; he wanted to recover what was precious to him, at any cost. Even his own life.
But, what Zoro wasn't aware of was that he wasn't alone anymore. Him risking his life could lead to Nami and Usopp's death, if things went really bad. He couldn't afford someone being careless anymore, as hot-headed as he knew Zoro was.
"These will only be in the way." Sham commented, grabbing the two katanas and throwing them down the slope; Koga could almost hear Zoro's blood beginning to boil in anger. "Now I feel much lighter!"
"How you dare throw my precious belongings!"
The swordsman blindly charged at Sham, slicing him almost in half as Skinny screamed in agony. Not waiting to watch his enemy fall, he lunged forwards with an arm extended towards his katanas, but he didn't foresee that Sham would have escaped from his slash practically unharmed and had jumped up from behind him, landing on his back and catching both his wrists, forcing him to fall face-first to the ground.
"What were you trying to cut?" Sham mocked him once more. "I'm a cat after all! Come Buchi, it's your turn!"
"Gotcha, Sham!" His brother answered as he ran towards them and jumped high in the air.
Koga cursed and also dashed forwards, impulsing his legs with his Kaizen Kaizen Fruit powers.
"Cat Technique! CAT-A-PULT...!"
"LOOK OUT!" Yelled Nami.
"CAT-AST– UAGH!"
SLASH!
Somehow, the chronicler managed to intercept his attack mid-jump and had sliced the fatty one with the blade of his naginata, cold bicolored eyes staring at him intently. Losing the power of the jump and the attack, a gash appeared in the center of his chest and both the blond and the fatty fell to the ground, the first rather smoothly and the latter creating a small crater around his body.
"BUCHI!" Sham shouted, wide-eyed, looking at his fallen brother in the ground.
Seeing that Sham's concentration had faltered, Zoro managed to pry out of his grab and kicked the Skinny guy in the stomach, rolling out of the way when he tried to attack him with his claws. Both the swordsman and the chronicler were back to back facing Sham and Buchi respectively.
"Damn you bastard!" Buchi got back to his feet in no time with a not-so-deep gash on his chest, glaring furiously at the blond. "How dare you cut me in the middle of my attack!"
"You forgot that I'm here too." He simply answered, gripping his naginata with both hands. "And besides, two against one isn't fair."
"Heh. You saved my ass once again." Zoro smirked, not taking his eyes off Sham, who was glaring at him with deep hate.
"Don't get too used to it. Keep your head cool, and everything will be alright."
"Whatever you say. I'm not used to fighting with one katana, but I guess I have no choice."
"You..." Buchi growled, his small eyes squinted and fixed in the chronicler. "I'm gonna smash your head!"
"Oh, really?" Koga swirled his naginata in one of his hands, a confident smirk hidden behind his scarf. "I'd like to see you try."
"Buchi, let's do it!" Sham exclaimed, still furious. "Let's make them pay!"
"YEAH!" Buchi jumped high above Zoro's and Koga's head until he was beside his brother. The chronicler frowned and then positioned himself beside his companion. All this jumping was beginning to annoy him greatly; they were more like monkeys than proper cats.
"NEKO-YANAGI DAIKOSHIN!"
Both Nyaban Brothers yelled in unison and charged at them with their claws scratching at them with lightning speed. Zoro and Koga began to frantically block their strikes the best way they could, though it was much difficult block them with a naginata than a katana.
Bad idea to use me as a naginata than a broadsword or a pair of brass knuckles, shitty owner. That mistake might cost you your life.
'Shut up, crappy demon.' He growled inwardly as he ducked a pair of claws that had been headed to his face. 'It's your fault, always saying to practise with all your forms so I don't slack in them.'
Don't you dare die on me, brat. Or I'll get you and haunt you down eternally.
'You're already doing that.'
From the corner of his eye, Koga suddenly saw something that made his eyes widen. Usopp was aiming at them with his slingshot! What the hell was that idiot doing!
Fortunately, as the tiny ammo went flying towards Sham, Zoro blocked the trajectory with his own back, and he grunted with his back bent.
"He's distracted!" Sham exclaimed joyfully, scratching his exposed chest with his sharp claws. Zoro bent his knees slightly as he backed away, his sword still raised though.
Koga made the mistake of getting himself distracted, and Buchi, of course, knew how to take advantage of this. His intuition tingled in alarm just as the fatty one was beginning to move.
"Shit!" The chronicler tried to move his naginata to block the claws.
"You're mine!"
And just like the swordsman, he got scratched in the chest too, though not as deep as Zoro's because he had moved back in time. Cursing, the blond supported himself with his naginata, trying not to fall pathetically to the ground, blood dripping and messing up his shirt.
"What are you doing, idiot?!" Shouted Zoro, glaring from aboce one of his shoulder at the shocked sharpshooter. "Don't help us! You want to die?"
"Of– of course not!" He answered, lowering his weapon. "I was just trying to help you guys!"
"Then don't do it." Koga also looked at him, recovering a little of breath and resuming his fighting stance. "This is our fight."
And deciding to take the upper hand instead of waiting to the other, he launched himself towards Buchi and drew a wide arc with his naginata. He almost took Fatty by surprise, but he crouched to the ground just in time and tried to headbutt him in the stomach; however, the chronicler put a foot over his face and used his impulse to jump high in the air, swinging his weapon and slashing his clawed hands and making him cry out in pain and rage. The blond planted a foot on his wounded chest and pushed forcefully, dropping him to the ground, and prevented his rise with the blade of his naginata pointed at his ugly face.
"You're better that way, in the ground, not moving." Koga commented coldly, his bicolored eyes showing a steely glance. Fatty paled visibly as he nodded twice, not moving an inch and his claws destroyed.
Looking around, he noted that Nami had disappeared from her spot beside Usopp, and felt a woosh of wind behind him as the girl rushed past him towards Zoro's swords, jumping over the fallen bodies of the pirates, unconscious or even dead already. But what the chronicler noticed and what the orange-haired girl didn't, was that Jango (whom they had all forgotten) had moved at an impossible speed and had reached the katanas at the same time Nami did. Koga's eyes widened in shock as he pulled out his pendulum and sliced open her shoulder in a swipe.
"Nami!" Usopp cried out.
The girl's body crashed to the ground, her shoulder covered in blood.
"What do you need those swords for?" The hypnotist asked to the fallen navigator with a little smirk.
But then, he looked up and screamed in fear and shock. Koga turned his head to see a familiar figure standing at the top of the hill, holding a large bag on one hand.
"The night has long since passed." The figure's voice was impassible but also had a hint of barely contained anger in it, making the pirates that were still conscious begin to freak out. "So, why is it that you seem to have made now process on the plan. WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!"
Despite knowing that the situation was no laughing matter, Koga couldn' help but to smirk slightly as he lowered his naginata to the ground and raised his scarf up until it reached his nose.
Now that the King is here, we should think on moving our own pawns, don't you think so, brat?
'Yeah. Kuro's going to fall, right here, right now.'
A/N: And that's it for today!
I have to admit, I had thought on adding a third brother to the Nyaban brothers for Koga to fight against, but I had discarded that idea as I hadn't enough imagination to create someone completely out of the blue xD
I suppose Koga's fight against Buchi was somewhat pretty quick, but I'm eager to upload Kuro's fight against Luffy, and I didn't want my OC to get tired too quickly. Sorry.
Well, I leave you for now. Please feed the review monster if you don't want it to hide in your cupboards and scare you in your sleep! Nah, joking. But please do comment. It'll give me a boost!
