Chapter 9- Zodic Remix- Demon of Black Flames
Author Note: 2 Players survived Day 1. Sad... "Enjoy! You have 4800 minutes! Fail and be ACed!"


Sanji gulped nervously as Makai raised its fist again. Suddenly, the entire right side of Makai was blown away by something.

Takai's eyes widened as Blackbeard had somehow gotten free from the shadows that held him down.

"Tch, annoying insect!" Takai snapped coldly as Makai reformed itself with ease.

Sanji took that moment to jump up to where Takai was standing. Takai flinched as Sanji's leg slammed straight into the shadow boy's head with a thud.

But that thud wasn't from Takai.

Sanji stared in shock as his leg had hit a small log that appeared out of nowhere.

"Tough luck." Takai's voice said as his sickles cleaved into Sanji's shoulders.

Sanji quickly jumped away as his blood dripped off of Takai's sickles.

"Feh, this isn't even a good workout." Takai muttered as Blackbeard's fist flew down at his head from behind.

"Makai." Takai said and Makai effortlessly smacked Blackbeard back down to the ground, and also creating a small crater where he had landed.

Takai calmly watched as Sanji turned to face him and he felt a grin spread across his face.

"Sanji, Sanji, Sanji. When are you going to stay down, you mutt." Takai muttered icily while Sanji started to spin around like a top.

"Diablo Jamble." He muttered when he stopped spinning and his leg was glowing with heat.

Takai grinned as Sanji thrusted his foot at Takai and it hit him soundly in the chest… or so he thought.

Takai's body suddenly changed to shadows and disappeared while Sanji flinched in surprise.

"Makai." Takai's voice said again and Sanji barely had time to look up before the giant slammed his fist into Sanji's body.

"Hehehehe! This isn't even fun." Takai said from where he was standing on top of Makai.

He watched Sanji's leg cool down as the cook slowly stood back up.

"What… are you?" Sanji asked as over by his crater, Blackbeard slowly crawled to his feet looking very much enraged.

Takai just smirked as he glanced from Sanji to Blackbeard and then closed his eyes.

"Rakka." He said and in an instant, Sanji felt his entire body suddenly sink to the ground as he was pushed down by some unseen force.

The same was happening to Blackbeard, but he weighed more so Sanji could literally hear the Shichibukai's legs begin to break.

Takai chuckled again with his arms loosely at his sides. The sickles suddenly fell to the ground, but right before hitting, they stopped in mid-air.

"Jūryoku." Takai muttered as the sickles slowly started to circle around Blackbeard and Sanji.

Takai smirked as he watched the two try and follow where the sickles were moving around.

Sanji gritted his cigarette tightly in his teeth as he tried to move his legs, but failed as the pressure on them was still there.

Makai silently floated above Takai as it stared down with its glowing red eyes.

"Heh, well this certainly was time-wasting. But he did say to have fun… which I'm not." Takai muttered to himself, ignoring Sanji and Blackbeard for moment as he thought out loud to himself.

"I could just make them sink further into the ground. Or make them float higher and higher till they can't breath. Decisions, decisions…" Takai grimaced as he thought about which way to kill the two while Sanji continued to try and free himself from whatever pressure was on him.

Blackbeard's face was contorted in concentration as he tried to make the darkness around him move forward, but it just stayed there, pressed down by the force against him.

Sanji looked up to Takai and the nagging feeling came back.

His mind felt like it was going to split as he tried to think about the nagging feeling inside him.

'Urgh… I think… it had to do with shadows… but… Grah, I don't know what it is!' Sanji shouted in his head while Takai continued to think up ways of killing them.

Sanji closed his eyes for a moment, letting the pressure push him down to the ground as he concentrated.


A line.

Something he was told.

Something nagging at him.

A vision of an island cloaked in shadows.

A mirror that held darkness suspended above the ground.

An icy wonderland.

A mountain, a large animal.

A castle, a night.

Sparkling lights of a festival.

The fear of being without. The knowing of being with.

An undead, a wall.

Blood as red, laughter as chilling.

Tentacles, the beast.

A thick fog, a strange talk.

Large food, blazing fire.

Silver hair, a wolf.

A being as cold as ice, a demon as raging as flames.

A dragon, a bird.

A three headed creature of the deep, a plan gone horribly wrong.

A large whale, a swallowing man.

A steel arm, a talking spear.

A chain of islands.

The sun and moon.

The end. The beginning.

Sanji opened his eyes and stared into reality.


Sanji's foot collided with Takai's head and the boy was sent flying back along while Makai just floated there waiting for an order.

"Damn it! Makai!" Came the order and the giant lifted its fist only to miss Sanji completely as he was running straight at Takai.

Takai's eyes widened as Sanji pulled his leg back and sent it flying straight into his head.

Takai hit the ground with a sickening crack as his neck had snapped.

Sanji panted heavily as he stared at Takai while holding a hand to his head to calm his massive headache.

"What was all that? It felt… like a dream…" Sanji muttered as below him, Blackbeard was out cold with two broken legs.

He silently thought for a moment while going through his throbbing headache.

Sanji was too busy dealing with his headache to notice Takai grin before sinking into the roof and away from the area.

Makai silently dissolved too without Sanji noticing.

Sanji's legs felt like falling in on him from the pressure from earlier, and the only thing keeping him standing was one thought that went through his mind each time he went through his headache.

"I am so going to kill Luffy…"


Sanji is the first to learn about the illusion! XD