Chapter 10: Lost in a sea of sand: The Battle for Rainbase Begins!
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Summery: This is the Zoro version of part 2 of my fanfic 'My Life In One Piece'. Read that story first before you read this if you haven't already
Pairing: Zoro/Kaede
Rating: Currently it's only T, but I may very well change it to M at a later time.
Warnings: I'm crazy, so you can pretty much expect anything.
A/N1: I KNOW ZORO IS ALSO CALLED ZOLO,
A/N2: Yep, this is the Zoro/Kaede version. As I said in the final chapter of 'My life in one piece', each of the 'part 2s' are going to be completely different from each other, that way you can read the ones you want to read and not have to worry about them sounding exactly the same with just the names substituted, because that would be boring. (I mean, come on, who wants to read the same thing over in over again just so that you can read the pairings that you like, that would just be stupid.)
Massive note, please read!: OK, I know that most people hate 'super-power moments' for characters, and I've been fighting with it for a while, trying very, very hard not to do one since I know everybody hates them, but I just couldn't do it. I'm sorry, I want Kaede to have a 'I'm powerful and I'm going to fry your ass' moment for way to long, and fighting with it has given me the worst case of writers block I've ever had. Yes, that's right, the reason why I haven't updated in a while is because I have been trying to write this stupid chapter without having that kind of a scene in it, and have been screwing it up with each draft of the chapter. So, because of that, I've given up. I've decided that she's going to be super-powerful and you guys are just going to have to deal. If you don't like it, then kiss my fat ass, I. DO. NOT. CARE.
'thoughts'
"Words"
(inner Kaede)
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The moment the huge ball of electricity crashed into the wall, I closed my eyes in an attempt to not have to see my life flash before my eyes, only to snap them open again less then a second later when someone let out a ear splitting shriek and the entire room, or rather stomach, began to shake violently. oOoOoOoOoOoOo
The ear-splitting shriek was murder own my sensitive ears, it was so loud and so high pitched that I honestly thought that I was going to go deaf because of it. Surprisingly, when I began looking around for the source of it, I quickly came to the realization that it was in fact coming from the hippo-woman, who was screaming in agony do to something that I had not been expecting to see, even though it had actually been my goal the entire time.
There, in the exact spot that my spell had hit, was a massive whole of burnt and sizzling flesh, and, just beyond that, was a large tunnel of melted sand, all of which was quickly cooling to form fulgurite thanks to the heat absorbing abilities of the sand that surrounded it, rendering it as an almost completely crystal clear class tunnel, as well as the perfect escape route.
"What the hell?" We all shouted in surprise, seeing the huge hole of burnt flesh and semi-liquid fulgurite that my Thundaga ball had created.
For the single span of half a second, the three of us simply stood there gaping at the whole in front of us. All of us were frozen in shock, and it wasn't until Usopp, surprisingly, pushed his shock and surprise out of the way and shouted at us that we snapped out of our trance like states.
"What the hell are we waiting for?" He shouted as he began clawing his way out of the large pile of sand that had nearly completely encompassed his body. "LET'S GET HECK OUT OF HERE!"
Startled out of our trance like states, Vivi and I instantly started struggling with the sand that had piled up around use, each of us clawing our way out of our own piles, leaving large wholes where we had been encased by the sand. Once we were all free of the sand that had wrapped itself around us, we quickly made our way over to the large whole, still more then a little surprised that it even existed.
"The glass on the other side is probably really hot, if we escape through this, it might burn us." Vivi pointed out, though she didn't really sound like she was all that bothered by that fact.
Apparently, she'd rather be burnt to a crisp then drown in sand and get digested...
"Don't worry, I think I can cool it off a bit for us." I told them as I stuck my hand out towards the large glass tunnel while still trying to stay on my feet and not get knocked over by the thrashing burnt wall of hippo-intestines. "As long as the blizzard spell I use is weak enough, it should only cool the glass down and not shatter it." I add upon seeing the looks of apprehension on their faces.
Concentrating one keeping the blizzard spell as small as I could, I stuck my hand out and released the spell, instantly realizing that I had just used a new 'weakest ice spell', one that was so weak that it would probably only ever be used to make our drinks cool, or to cool down glass like I was using it to do at the moment.
I wasn't really sure how I knew that it was a new spell, one that was just slightly different from a blizzard spell but about one tenth as powerful, or how I knew what to call it, but sure enough, the moment I was about to release the spell, I called out an entirely different name then what I had originally meant to do.
"FROST!" I called out as I released the spell by slamming my hand against the burnt flesh, though I wasn't really sure how I knew that I had to actually make contact for the spell to work.
The moment my hand touched the flesh, all of the burnt and still sizzling flesh, sand, and fulgurite around it quickly started to cool, even going so far as to form a small layer of frost on it, which spread out from the point that my hand was touching much, growing and continuing outward until the entire tunnel was completely cooled and covered by frost.
Another effect that the frost seemed to have was the large hippo-woman releasing another ear splitting shriek as her wound suddenly went from burning hot to icy cold, which would have sent a normal person into shock.
"Well, it's not as destructive as your blizzard spell, but it still pretty cool, now, the question is, can you cool down drinks with it?" Usopp asked seriously, causing two small vein to appear on both Vivi's and my forehead.
"I don't really think this is the time for that, Usopp!" Vivi shouted at him as I grabbed him and quickly shoved him through the hole, whispering 'ladies first' so low that I was pretty sure that he didn't hear me.
Once I got Usopp through the hole, he actually got the hint and started crawling through the large glass tube, all the while trying not to slip and fall back onto Vivi (who was right behind him), and thus into me. Sadly, with as much thrashing as the large mass of flesh that the tube was jutting out of was doing, along with the fact that every single inch of the tube was covered in frost, it was almost impossible for him to not slip.
Surprisingly, the only thing that saved us and kept us from falling back down into the the stomach was my claws, which I promptly vowed to never call useless again.
With me constantly keeping us from actually going to far back, though I was kicked in the face quite a few times because of it, it only took us a little over thirty seconds to get out of the hole, though by the time we actually managed it, sand had started to pour down the tube thanks to a rather strong wind.
The moment we were out of the tunnel, the three of us created dust trails, or rather sand trails, as we took off as fast as we could, all of us still remembering that the hippo-woman was about to explode,
Sadly, the three of us didn't get very far before it happened. Just as we reached about thirty or forty feet away from the hole, the glass tube itself shot out of the ground like a missile and all of the sand behind us suddenly started to rise, forming a massive hill of sand that just continued to get larger and large.
At first, I though that it was the hippo-woman, which I'm sure is what the others were thinking as well, but I quickly realized that the hippo-woman (what was her name again) was no where near that size. She was big, but not that big, which could only mean one thing.
She had exploded, and she had exploded underground.
Just as we all reached the same conclusion, and promptly tried to speed up our escape even though we all knew it was useless, the 'hill' finally exploded, creating a massive tidal wave that rushed outward in all directions. The force of the wave was so strong that for a second I almost felt as if I was really being carried off by a massive wave in the middle of the ocean. It pushed and swhirled all three of us, trying to bury all of us while also trying to push us outward, making it feel as though we were being pulled, crushed, and torn apart all at the same time.
"Usopp!" I screamed when I saw him slowly going under the sand while trying to reach out to him uselessly.
To late.
Before I had even reached out my hand, he was already gone, having been buried in the sand not even a moment before. Praying against all the odds that he would be OK, though I couldn't really see how that was even possible, I continued my own struggles with the sand, trying not to get dragged under.
"Kida!" I heard Vivi shouting from a little ways off to my right.
Turning my head to the right as best as I could while trying not to get dragged under or crushed by the pressure of the sand, I saw that Vivi was being dragged under, and again, before I could even reach my hand out to her, she was gone, buried in the sand just as Usopp was, and a second later, so was I.
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I'm not entirely sure how long I was out of it, but when I did finally come to, the sun was already setting, I was half buried in the sand with only my head and one arm showing, and there was a large gash in my forehead, but most of all, I was completely alone. (A/N: Don't worry, I didn't kill them off, she just doesn't know that yet)
Vivi was gone.
Usopp was gone.
And I was completely alone.
Two of my crew-mates, two of my friends, and most of all, two people I had grown to think of as family, were gone, having been buried alive in the sand.
All I could do when I realized that I had somehow survived while they hadn't was cry. I know, it sounds lame, and its not really much of anything, nor does it help the situation, but, really, what else could I do? What could anyone really do when they find that someone they cared for was gone?
Crying, though it was only a small thing, was really all I had to give them.
For a long while, I simply cried, unable to even try to dig myself out of the sand. My white hair was splayed out in the sand, tears were running down my face, and the sand itself just seemed to laugh at my loss.
I'm not sure how long I laid there crying, but by the time I was done, the sun had gone down and the moon had risen into the sky, but most of all, by the time I was done crying, anger, furry, and rage had set in, which was quickly squashed by a calm that I had never felt before, a calm that took away every emotion I had ever felt.
Ever so slowly, with the calm still permeating my very being, I dragged myself out of the sand, keeping my head down and began to slowly make my way back towards Rainbase, though I will probably never know how I knew it was in that direction.
When I finally entered the town, I just kept walking down the street, not even bothering to hide my face even though I was a wanted pirate. As I continued walking, more and more people started gathering around me, all of whom had the wrong looks on their faces if they were trying to pretend to be ordinary citizens. It wouldn't take a genius to see that these people were anything but thugs and pirates themselves, and they were just the people I wanted to see.
As more and more of them gathered around me, while for some reason not stopping my progression through the city, several of them started chuckling darkly, which either meant that they were thinking of my bounty, or they were the worst kind of thugs.
Doesn't matter, they won't survive either way.
Suddenly, I stopped causing several more of them to start chuckling, the a few of them finally noticed that there was something wrong with the atmosphere, or maybe they just realized that my eyes were hidden, which is always a sign of pain to come.
"Well, well, well, what do we have here?" One of the thugs asked, walking forward out of the crowed to stand right in front of me, not noticing that a good twenty of his sixty or seventy men were starting to look a little nervous and were looking around themselves, trying to figure out why the air was suddenly starting to crackle with an unknown energy.
Sadly for them, they weren't smart enough to take the hint that nature was trying to give them, they stuck around when they should have fled.
"You wouldn't happen to be from Baroque works, would you?" I asked with my eyes still hidden in shadows caused by my bangs.
"Yeah, and what is a pretty little thing like you going to do about it?" He asked darkly, stupidly stepping into my personal space.
Wrong fucking move.
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Cue bad-ass fight music
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"THUNDRAGA!" I shouted furiously, bring my hand up up and snappy my fingers right under his nose, hitting him in the face at point blank range with my most powerful attack and causing him to go flying back in a blast of light and the sound of a thousand chirping birds, not unlike the sound of Kakashi's favorite move in that anime Naruto.
"What the fuck?" One of the meant in horror when he saw his friend slam into a wall before dropping to the grown no longer breathing. "The bitch killed him!"
Before he even finished his sentence, another Thundaga spell shot through the air, this time slamming him in the chest and sending him flying through the air. Seeing two of their friends fried in a heart beat, the other members of baroque works made a huge mistake.
They attacked.
"Get her!" several of the men shouted as they all began to swarm me.
Seeing one of the men bring a sword down to cleave me in two, I dodge to the left, grabbing one of his friends and throwing him into the first one's path, causing the man to cut his own friend down.
"THUNDRAGA!" I shouted again, slamming another man in the face with my new favorite thunder spell and some how managing to get a few of his buddies as well in the process.
At this point, instincts took over, and my instincts promptly got me the hell out of the way of some big ugly guy's twin swards that were about to dice me into little pieces from behind. Spinning around to face and and lunging forward to get my hands on him, I quickly grabbed his face, and shouted.
"BLIZARA!" in an instant, the man was turned into a human pop-sickle, once again, I spun around to attack, catching another man in the face as well. "Fira!"
For several minutes, this happened over and over again, with me using just about every spell I knew to either speed me up, block their attacks, or cause them an immense amount of pain while dealing their friends killing blows. The fight went all through out the city, and when I finally pulled my mallets out of my froggy bag, though I could have sworn they were with Lil, buildings weren't even spared. Hit after hit, the mallets destroyed everything. I had my steel mallet in my left, and my impact mallet in my right, and I was hitting everything I could with them.
Within ten minutes, I had taken down a large portion of the city's buildings, though I was very careful not to take down any residents as I really didn't want to hurt any innocent bystanders.
"Damn it, how many of you slime balls are there?" I shouted angrily, still swinging at any one and anything that came my way, and just as well too, seeing as how many of their agents were still stupidly trying to take me out.
If it was one of the primary agents, they might have had a chance, but seeing as these were just random unnumbered lackeys, they didn't stand a chance in hell, especially not with the mood I was in. "Aren't you people even worried about the citizens getting hurt or something? Our attacks might get one of them if you don't back off now!"
The man that was attacking her, simply laughed my statement, infuriating me further by his seemingly lack of care for innocent bystanders.
"Citizens? You're kidding right?" He laughed, lunging at me once again with a spear that seemed sharp enough to cut through just about anything. "Rain base doesn't have any citizens in it anymore, they were all told to leave and head for the capital for safety so that we could have our meetings without anyone finding out about them. This entire town is filled with nothing by baroque works agents, so give up! Surely you don't think you can win now!"
Hearing his declaration loud and clear, I simply knocked his stupid spear out of the way when he lunged at me, and gave him a true smile.
"Thank you." I said simply, causing him and all his friends behind him to falter slightly.
"Excuse me?" one of them asked stupidly, wandering what the heck I was thanking them for.
"Thank you, for telling me that I mean." I said, getting into a stance that I had been practicing ever since I had seen Zoro use it in Whiskey peak.
"And would that be something to thank me for? Are you happy that I told you that it's impossible for you to win? Does that mean you're going to give up and surrender?" the man asked, though he didn't exactly sound as though he would actually let me surrender and was in fact just asking because he wanted to gloat about it afterward with his friends.
Yeah the fuck right. Like I'm about to surrender to a moron like him!
"I'm thanking you, because that means that I no longer have to hold back." I said calming before performing a move that Zoro had performed with two of his swords, only I was using my mallets instead. "Hawk Wave!"
And with that, I spun around and swept my mallets outward, creating a small wave of energy that went flying the air. While my attack wasn't as wide spread as Zoro's was because of the fact that mallets have very broad and concentrated areas instead of wide and narrow areas, the attack was a bit stronger then his because of the impact mallet.
The moment I unleashed the attack, the wave shot out and acted like a canon ball made of energy and flew through building after building, leaving a large hole bigger then a man in each wall that it passed through. Everyone that stood in its path was blown away or crushed by the force of it. The men that had been standing right in front of me had gotten the worst of it since they were practically at point blank range, meaning that there wasn't a trace left of several of them.
Using everyone's surprise to my advantage, I took my impact mallet and started tapping the absorbing side of it over and over and over again until the mallet became so heavy that I could barely move it. Once I could barely lift it, I used every ounce of strength I could muster and lifted it above my head with both arms before bringing it back down to slam the discharge side into the ground.
The earth quake it created, even with the sand absorbing most of it, was huge. It sent shock-waves through all the surrounding buildings and even launched a few carts here and there into the air. Te force of it was so powerful that I could actually see what could only be a really young and really small banana-gator off in the distance get bounced in the air.
Well, now I know where Crocodile's casino is.
The moment I saw the gator get launched into the air, I took off in its direction, sighing in relief when I realized that the mallet had lost all of the weight it had gained with the taps I had given it. If I had had to carry it all the way to the casino with it weighing that much, then it would have slowed me down by a quite a bit, and that wouldn't be any good.
Crocodile was waiting for me, and I had no intention in making him wait to much longer.
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Luffy: AH! Vivi and Usopp just got killed! AH!
Fuyu: No, you dumbass, she just thinks they've been killed, I wouldn't off any of the main characters, moron.
Luffy -Looks around stupidly- oh... can we have some meat then?
Lil' -Slap- Idiot, I want to find out what happens next! Don't you?
Luffy: Oh, yeah, sorry about that.
Fuyu: Um? Lil? If you're just in my head, then don't you already know what's going to happen next?
Lil': …
Fuyu: …
Lil': You do realize that you're just talking to yourself again, right?
Fuyu: OMG! Insanity REALLY IS contagious!
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Ack, sorry about that, I was bored, anyway, I hope you guys liked the fight scenes so far, in the next chapter, we reunite with the so called dead Vivi and dead Usopp as well as everyone else and we get to the final battle with all the baroque works agents. I hope you guys liked this chapter as much as I liked writing it (once I decided to hell with it and just wrote it with her having a super power moment)
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