JLB: POLL UPDATE STUFF. Okay, everyone, I figured I'll close the poll this friday (September 5!). So go vote! Now, Nami tell them who's in the lead! (Only up to the forth place though.)
Nami: Pre-Robin and Ryan in first.
Ryan: Who's Robin?
Nami: The Twin's Devil Fruits in second.
Ryan: Am I going to get an answer?
Nami: ZoroxJamie and SanjixJamie tied for third!
Jamie: Wait, what?!
Nami: And in forth UsoppxRyan!
JLB: LOL!
Usopp and Ryan: WHAT!?
JLB: I don't own One Piece but I do own my lovely original characters! Now, Enjoy before I get killed. :D
I gripped the bat as hard as I could, trying to stop my now shaking hand. My mom just smirked at me, "Hello Darling."
I felt a lump form in my throat, "M-mom?"
She smiled, but something was wrong with it. It wasn't the same smile I remembered. It wasn't the kind, sweet smile I was so use to as a kid. It changed, it was more sinister.
I gulped, "W-what happened to you?"
Her smile darkened, "Nothing, darling. Now, why don't you come give your mother a hug? I've missed you so much."
I took a step back, "No."
She laughed, "Aww, why not? Afraid?"
I just stood in place, "I'm not afraid."
She raised an eyebrow, "Is that right?"
I nodded firmly, and heard some commotion from Zoro and Ryan's fights from behind me.
"Looks like we'll have to change that."
What's wrong with her? This isn't my mother! I held back the tears that threatened to spill from my green eyes. No matter how much I missed her, or wanted to know what was happening. I knew something happened to her, something changed her to this.
I stared intently at her waiting for her to do something to back up her last response. Nothing, she just stood there. I raised an eyebrow, and rested my bat on my shoulder.
She smirked raising her hand, and with one small flick thousands of ants where sent my way. My eyes widened and I quickly jumped away only to have them follow me with another flick of her wrist.
I looked up at her to see her smirking and I gulped. She must have eaten one of these devil fruits too.
I jumped at her, I have to hit her. I have to do something. Just as I raised my bat back, she quickly pulled her hand up and ants surrounded my body.
I gasped for air, when they tightened around my chest and crawled over my body up to my neck.
"Aw, you poor baby." Her hand rested itself on my cheek and I pulled away.
She smirked, "I see I was wrong, it isn't you who's afraid of ants. It's Ryan, how could I forget?"
I glared at her, and she just laughed. "Now, what was it your afraid of again?"
I just glared at her struggling against the many ants, she grinned, "Oh yes! How could I forget that?"
With a snap of her finger, the ants slowly started to morph, causing me to struggle even more. This is when I started to panic; I gulped pushing against the many glowing ants.
I tightly closed my eyes, and breathed in and out.
Please, don't let her me right. Please, don't let it be…
I held my breath, waiting, but nothing happened. I slowly opened my eyes, and gasped. Surrounding me in the air, were thousands of needles.
My breath caught up in my throat, and they slowly moved closer to my body. My eyes left the needles to catch a small glimpse of my mom in front of me with a smirk. "W-why are you d-doing this? Don't you love us!"
She rolled her eyes at me, and moved her hand so the needles moved an inch more, "I've never loved a single soul my whole life."
"B-but.."
"But what?" She said harshly, "I don't love. Love's for the weak and I'm not weak. My name is known throughout the grand line. I'm beyond powerful and can take out any man or woman with a flick of my wrist."
I moved my hands behind my back the bat in both hands; quietly I thought of a shield and concentrated hard.
"When I was younger, I found a fruit in the forest. Little did I know it has a devil fruit, a very powerful one. I lived in a poor run down island, so I barely got anything to eat. Even though the fruit was very foreign to me and was extremely bitter, I still ate it. The next morning I woke up, and my body felt stronger."
I felt the wood form against my back, and I waited for the exact moment to continue it around my body so she wouldn't notice.
"It was the Terror-Terror Fruit."
She closed her eyes and I smirked, "It lets me control my enemy's deepest fear."
I formed the wood against me and ran forward, running straight into her.
She growled, pushing me off of her, the wood forming back into a bat. I gripped it firmly swinging at her with everything I had.
Her hand shot up, and grabbed firm hold of the bat stealing it from my hand throwing it off.
She grinned, "You're pathetic."
I glared at her ignoring her comment, "So you didn't disappear like dad said, you came back here!"
She shook her head, "I didn't even wanted to be near that world, and I was forced to."
I smirked, "So you're not that strong."
She glared, throwing a kick my way quickly I ducked moving away from her. "I was forced by your father. It had nothing to do with my strength, you pathetic worm!"
"Worm? Honestly is that all you can come up with?"
She glared, "You're father also has eaten a devil fruit, he's allowed to transfer people from world to world."
"So, he's the reason you left."
She smirked, "And the reason you're here."
"Why would he want Ryan and me here?"
She smirked, pushing on the ground jumping up onto a building, "All in good time, my daughter."
I was about to follow her, when thousands of sharp objects were shoved into my back, "Next time, watch your back."
-Ryan's POV-
I kicked another hunter in the head sending him into the hunter next to him. Quickly I pushed myself forward running towards where Jamie was last. I gasped at the sight; Jamie was on the ground thousands of small needles in her back.
Quickly I pulled them all out and turned her around, "Jamie! Are you alright!?"
Her eyes where slightly open and her lips were quivering, "R-ryan.."
"What? What happened?"
"I-it was m-mom."
"Jamie, but.."
"No!" She yelled.
I jumped back from surprise and stared at her, "Jamie.."
"It was her! Yet, it wasn't her!"
I stared at her sadly, she looked completely terrified.
"How?"
She stared at me and then tried sitting up with much difficulty do to the loss of blood from her back.
"Jamie, we need to get you out of here."
I moved forward swiping her up in my arms, and ran over to Zoro skidding to a stop. He had blood on his face and Ms. Monday was on the ground with foam coming from her mouth.
I held on to Jamie tight, and stood next to Zoro. He smirked at the only people left, Ms. Wednesday, Mr. Nine, and Mr. Eight.
"Boss asked us to take care of this town.. Yet we were defeated by you three." Mr. Eight glared at us, "This will create a problem with our responsibility."
Mr. Eight quickly blew into his instrument, sending us flying. He landed swiftly, Jamie still securely in my hands. Zoro turned to stare at me for the first time sense I first appeared by his side. His eyes widened, "What happened to Jamie?!"
I gulped, "She said it was our mom."
Zoro looked towards me confusedly, "Why would your mom hurt her?"
I shrugged, "Better question, why is she even here when she disappeared 8 years ago?"
"You should be paying attention to what is going on."
We both looked up and saw Mr. Nine on the roof of the building in back of us. He jumped down, "Steel bat ultimate technique!"
Felt something moving around in my hand and glanced down at Jamie, pulling herself from my grip. "Jamie!"
She moved to her feet, and swayed from a moment, before a bat pushed through the palm of her hand. She jumped in front of Zoro blocking Mr. Nine's bat with her own.
They pushed against each other before they split apart. "This bat is made of steel, there's no way your wooden bat will win!"
She glared at him, breathing heavily, "That's w-what you think."
With one quick movement, her bat was swung and just barely stopped before hitting him in the head; he smirked moving his bat to hit her in the stomach.
She pushed back blocking it with her own bat, she moved it away from his and shot it forward into his stomach like a stick.
He gasped pushing back by the force before running at her. She was breathing heavily waiting for him to come close enough to her, but Zoro moved in front of her sending him flying.
"You shouldn't be fighting right now."
She leaned against his back, "Don't m-make me h-hit you."
He smirked, looking around, "Who's next?"
Ms. Wednesday stood on top of a duck smirking, "I am prepare to die!"
I tilted my head to the side, "When did she get that thing?"
She turned to both of us, and started swaying her body back and forth. "Look at my body closely! Confusing Dance!"
Zoro and I fell to the ground, and Jamie just stood there ignoring the whole battle.
I jumped back up, shaking me head glaring at her. She smirked, spinning a string with a small sharp knife like thing around her finger, "Let's end this with… flying fang!"
With one swift movement from the duck, it ran forward missing all of us completely, "What are you doing?!"
I shook my head, "What's with these people?"
Jamie laughed faintly, "T-their special."
I lightly smiled hearing the fear escaping her voice more and more. "Jamie, maybe you should rest we only have one more person to take care of."
Zoro butted in the conversation, "You stay with her Ryan. I got Mr. Eight."
I nodded walking towards my sister, carefully helping her onto my back from a piggy back ride. Before we got to far, I heard Zoro yell. I stopped in my tracks and looked back towards where the fight was.
"Should we go back?"
Jamie nodded against my back, "O-okay."
I sighed, turning around and running back. "Zor-"
I stopped when I finally reached him and saw four bodies on the ground in front of him.
"Hey."
Jamie peaked over my shoulder and rested her head there, I spoke up again, "What's Luffy doing here?"
Zoro turned and stared at us, "Ms. Wednesday tried to use him against me."
"A-and he's still s-sleeping?"
Zoro nodded, and took a swig of the alcohol in his hand. I glanced down at the ground and saw everyone slowly starting to get back up. I heard coughing from next to me; I glanced over and saw Jamie next to me.
"You okay?"
She smiled, "Y-yeah. I'll be fine, I think the bleeding stopped. She didn't shove the needles in that far."
I nodded smiling at her turning back to the people below.
Two new people stood in front of the three struggling fighters. "Mr. Five! Ms. Valentine!"
"More baroque works agents?"
I answered my sister with a small nod, "I think so."
Mr. Five had a pair of dark sunglasses on, and a long black trench coat. He was the first to speak, "Aren't you ashamed of yourselves?"
Ms. Valentine was the next to speak. She had a short dress on, and a hat covering her short her. "That's the difference between you and us!"
She giggled, twirling around an umbrella in her hand. Mr. Eight glared at her, "You came here just to laugh at us?"
"We came here from our duty, you shouldn't ask such things."
Mr. Nine sat up staring at Ms. Valentine, "Thank you very much! With your abilities those people will be defeated without a doubt."
Mr. Five sneered at them, "What the hell are you talking about?"
"You said you came here to help?" Mr. Nine sputtered out.
"You think we came to the grand line just to do that?" Ms. Valentine giggled.
Mr. Nine stared at them confused, "Then what are you doing here!"
"Don't you have any brains? The boss sent us because someone knows our secret. Our company goes by, 'everything must be secret!', No one should know about our pasts or anyone's identity."
Mr. Five crossed his arms and continued, "That person knows the real identity of the boss, and that's not allowed."
"When we investigated we found out that someone was sneaking into Baroque Works."
Mr. Nine's hands shot up from his side, "Even though I wear a crown it's not me!"
Ms. Valentine laughed, "We're not talking about you."
Zoro took the last sip of his drink and looked down at Luffy, "We should get him out of there."
Mr. Five smirked, "The betrayers are the two that disappeared from Alabasta!"
Mr. Eight stood up, and quickly jumped in front of Ms. Wednesday, bullets shot from his hair towards Mr. Five, "I won't let you touch her!"
Ms. Wednesday gasped, "Igarum!"
He turned around, "Escape!"
"Zoro, I'll get Luffy." I spoke up, "You take Jamie down."
Zoro nodded grabbing Jamie, and I jumped down ignoring the fight best as I could.
I grabbed Luffy dragging him away from the battle but not before hearing one last thing from Ms. Valentine, "The traitors are Igarum, the leader of the royal guard of Alabasta and The princess of Alabasta, Vivi Nefertari!"
LE GASP! :O
I learned something funny today, let's just say it'll be interesting to write now.
I hoped you enjoyed it! The next one should be out soon, I swear!
Sofi Bleuphyre: I was doing that as I wrote that! Thank you! I like the bat too. xD
Thomas Drovin: Damn, you're good. ;) But sadly, I like more twists then that so, there's a few more that will appear in the next few. And you'll find out why, in a little bit! Oh really? I'll go check them out! :D
Pirateking1: Thank you for voting again! I put up different ones I thought of this time! :D Because, evil laughs are fun. xD
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