Chapter 11:

"Winner: Pell!" The crowd cheered and the falcon man bent down and extended a hand. Mozu looked up at him in surprise and then took his hand as he helped her up.

"Wow," Chopper said with a small smile, "I never knew he was that strong."

The man didn't need to transform during his fight with the woman. She showed the audience a new invention of hers which was a mega-bazooka. She warned her opponent to give up before she'd have to use it, but Pell was just walking towards her slowly. The man wore an all-white cloak and had purple war paint coming down from the corners of his eyes. His look intimidated the woman who threw caution to the wind and fired all four shots of her four-chamber bazooka.

Every one of the shots hit and the crowd freaked out at the size of the explosions. "That's my sister!" Franky shouted and then dropped his jaw as the smoke cleared. Pell had one hand extended and the rockets all seemed to have exploded painlessly on his open palm where there was a scorch mark. He then proceeded to disappear and moved so fast that he was in front of the salvager from Water 7 in a second. He held his fist out and the woman fell back to the floor before shouting that she gave up.

Now that the man lifted her back to her feet, the cheers erupted even louder. A few of the more bloodthirsty pirates were pissed by the act of kindness, but the majority of them clapped louder for the Royal Guard after helping the girl up.

"Aw, Vivi you missed it," Luffy called down to the woman as her and Usopp were walking up the steps. Both of them looked a little nervous and they barely noticed Pell walking up the steps behind them.

Robin was quite surprised by the man's speed and power without his ability. Back in Alabasta she easily defeated him. Looks like he didn't want that happening again. She giggled and watched as Franky's adopted little sister walked back to the stands and was pat on the back by her twin.

"Princess is something wrong?" Terracotta asked from next to her husband. He wasn't as fast to pick up on this sort of thing, but she cast Usopp a dirty look, only to notice that the boy had the same freaked out look.

"Hey Nami," Usopp sat directly behind the woman. Sanji was next to him and the chef turned to the sniper wondering what had him spooked. "We saw some of the staff talking in a dark room," he whispered and the two of them turned to the guy with the long-nose. "I don't think we're safe being here."

"Of course we're not safe," Sanji countered. "It's very easy to die in this tournament," Usopp shook his head rapidly and shut the cook up.

"That's not what I'm talking about," he said and then stopped as a man in a purple uniform walked along the edge of the section in front of them and his head turned slightly up into the stands. Sanji and Nami both noticed the bulky man with blonde hair stare straight up at their sharpshooter and realized that maybe Usopp wasn't over exaggerating here. The man kept walking across the bottom of their area and the pirate in overalls sighed a breath of relief. "Those guys are planning something, I just know it."

Nami mumbled, "Hmmm, this whole tournament felt funky the moment I saw the flier." Usopp sweatdropped, remembering the navigator with beri signs in her eyes talking about how the billion was all hers. "We'll have to be careful around them for the rest of our stay here."

"I hope being careful is enough," Usopp grunted and gulped hard as he saw the blonde haired guard talking to three others, one of which was the man with the goatee, Flint. They all looked his direction at the same time and he snapped his head instead to the arena. The place was a serious mess and he forced his thoughts to wander, "Are they going to fix this any time soon?"

As if to answer his question, the announcer started yelling over the speakers. "Alright everyone! There are two matches remaining in the first thirty-two matches of the first round. At the end of these, we'll take a break for dinner and have the staff fix up the arena for the next half of bouts." He cleared his throat and shouted in an extra-loud voice, "These next two matches will have you on the edge of your seat, begging for more!"

The excitement in the room was building and most people had barely looked at the bracket or only looked for their own names so they didn't know what these two matches would be. "Are you ready?!" the man shouted.

"He really knows how to get people going," Robin commented as she watched hundreds of pirates get out of their seats and start roaring in agreement. They wanted to see the next match and this time they wanted to see blood.

"Urouge versus Capone Bege!" The room couldn't have gotten louder as the screams filled the arena. A few of the more quiet pirates became annoyed by this and Robin looked around to see if any of the others were feeling the same way. Her eyes went wide and she couldn't stop from laughing at the sight of all the Straw Hats up on their feet and shouting like the rest of the pirates in the room.

"Two more Supernovas!" Nami yelled with a huge grin on her face. If the good ones all took each other out in the first round, there was a higher chance of their crew making it to the finals. Also she was feeling the excitement rushing through her as well and wanted as much as the rest of them to see this battle.

Usopp was cheering next to Sanji. His friend Sai went back to the other members of his group but weren't far from them and even the grandpa Don Chinjao was yelling his head off, yelling at the rookie captains walking down to the arena to kick each other's asses.

Luffy and Zoro were both going nuts as well, but Zoro was more reserved in his yells, mainly thinking about one thing. Whoever wins this match will be my next opponent! The man roared, "Give me a good fight next round!" He didn't want any weaklings going against him, it would give him too much time to relax before the third round. Even as he thought about his next rounds, his mind was primarily focused on the next match, his match.

The grip on Zoro's swords tightened and Robin watched bemusedly as it looked like the man had to hold his wrist to keep himself from drawing his weapons prematurely. Luffy was yelling for them to kick each other's asses and when they saw the participants, their shouts got louder.

"Yow! That guy looks like a short old man!" Franky pointed at Capone whose forehead vein popped in frustration and then he just smirked. The guy had a gray mustache and was smoking a cigar as he stepped down to the sand section.

"But his bounty is so high," Chopper countered. He was nervous as he looked at the bigger man. Urouge was a beast of a man: he had long blue tattoos going up his muscular arms and had two huge wings on his back. "Wait! Is he from Sky Island!?" Chopper exclaimed.

"Looks like it," Robin said while scratching her chin. This man must've left before Enel took over. If he was there I wonder if he could've defeated the monster. Her short time with 'God' was a very unpleasant time of her life and the pain of that day stuck with her for a while.

The muscular giant was holding a huge steel beam over his shoulder that was at least two feet in diameter. The cylinder looked dangerous and heavy, but the man was holding it effortlessly and smiling at his opponent. His huge black beard covered his neck and wrapped all the way up to his sideburns.

Capone Bege was staring at the man in front of him, not looking too worried. "This shouldn't take long," he stated and couldn't help but feel inspired by the hundreds of pirates chanting his name and to kill each other. "Can't let down the crowd can I?" He held up his arms and the countdown reached zero.

Urouge didn't waste a second and started charging forward as he brought back the steel beam. The man swung it forward but as it was about to hit his foe, the two foot diameter shrank down to a couple of inches and the end of the beam looked more like a thin wire now that Capone just had to reach up and grab.

"Huh?" Urouge kept smiling as he pulled back his weapon. As soon as the rod left a three foot radius of his enemy, it grew back to its normal size.

"What type of Devil Fruit is that?" Vivi asked in wonderment.

The crew all turned to Robin who was watching with interest before noticing they were staring at her. "You just assume that I know what it is?" She asked them. They all seemed disappointed and started to turn to look back at the arena, "Wait," she said with a sly smile, "I didn't say I didn't."

The others all looked back at her in surprise as she stared back down at the short captain. "The Fortress Fortress Fruit, a Paramecia," she said, feeling slightly proud that the others all looked to her when stuck on something. As she said the words, dozens of hatches dropped down like drawbridges from the front of Capone Bege's chest.

Pirates all around the room leaned in and stared as cannons were pushed up to the holes and stuck out of his chest. Urouge blinked a few times in confusion and other men around the room were looking close and seeing tiny people walking around in the open holes. There were four rows of opened doors on the man's chest and the man smoking the cigar muttered one word, "Fire."

Hundreds of people started laughing at the tiny cannonballs that shot out of the cannons and flew outwards. His enemy was a monster of a man standing over twice as tall as the mafia captain. Urouge saw this and began laughing too, wondering what the tiny cannonballs could possibly achieve.

The laughter all stopped as the cannonballs reached a three foot radius of the man's body. It looked like they all hit some invisible wall and started merging out of it while becoming more than twenty times larger into full sized balls. The other member of the Worst Generation only had a second to drop his jaw out of the usual smile as a dozen cannonballs crashed straight into him.

BOOM! The center of the sand section exploded and sand went everywhere. The balls that missed were headed straight into the stands but five of the guards in purple jumped up in the air and punted or punched the balls straight into the ground where they exploded and made a bunch of craters.

Usopp was distracted by the staff for a moment and he didn't like the fact that they all seemed so strong. He originally felt that if they really were planning something, his crew alone would be able to handle them. Remember it's not just us, all the Emperors are here too, he sighed in relief before realizing what he was doing and choking on his breath. That isn't a good thing!

They all looked back down at the pillar of black smoke rising from the arena and expected to see pieces of Urouge scattered around the area. A few of them were smarter than that though and didn't think for a moment that a man with his bounty could be defeated that quick. They were right.

Bege didn't seem too surprised, but he still looked frustrated as Urouge stepped out of the smoke covered in black burn marks, but he was grinning again. It was time for his mouth to drop as the beast in front of him was tired of getting pummeled. Urouge bent his knees and his torso hunched over as he flexed all his muscles. The man clenched his fists, "AaaaaAAAAHHHH!" He got louder and louder as he yelled and all the sand around him pushed away creating an even larger crater below him than was formed by the explosions earlier.

The transformation that occurred following the increase in aura made a few people sick to their stomachs, while the rest of the crowd started cheering at the new development. Every one of his muscles chose that moment to bulk up and his form was now much more than three times the size of the person below him.

Capone subconsciously took a few steps away from the man before his back bumped into a large ice chunk that was ripped out of the ground by Law earlier. His eyes focused on Urouge and the man was looking crazy.

He had a dark black aura starting to form around him as he stood there and panted hard with his signature smirk. The monster was now towering and his muscles had muscles. His clothes could barely contain him and tears were starting to form around his short white sleeves that looked like they'd taken damage before in the same way. They were already frayed and other parts of his outfit were patched up as if he'd recently broken through them.

"Rraa!" the man pushed his left foot into the ground and the solid section beneath all the sand cracked under the pressure. Splinters flew up from the small increase in pressure down and then the man was gone. The hole exploded outwards as he moved so fast that the air vibrated.

Capone wasn't ready for this, and his enemy appeared directly in front of his face and swung his left foot. The power behind the kick was enough to shatter the ice wall behind Capone, but as soon as his foot came close to the short man, it shrank and never reached the man. Bege was sweating, but he calmed himself down when he realized that Urouge wasn't fighting this smart, he was more like an animal on a rampage.

Still, an animal could be dangerous and the monster threw both of his arms forward at ridiculous speeds. Even though the invisible wall around Capone shrank the arms, slowed them down, and lessened the power behind them, the older man still couldn't help but wheeze out a breath as the two fists collided with his chest.

The spot the fists hit was apparently another door above the top row that was firing at him. A salvo of cannon fire erupted out of the rows and cannonballs flew out, but not a single one did any damage to the monster point blank in front of Capone. The man even punched forward at one point and sent the tiny cannonball back into the man's stomach where it exploded and the cannon that fired it blew up as well.

The crowd had to look close to see the tiny people inside running around and trying to put out the fire as others continued shooting. "Use Big Mike," Capone growled and the man in front of him stopped punching for a second. He stared into the larger door that he broke off with his double fisted punch, and saw a massive cannon in comparison to the others being wheeled towards the entrance by a large man whose muscles could be compared to his in his not bulked up form.

"Get ready for the recoil Father!" a man shouted from inside the body and then the cannon was lit. The cannonball came out of the steel barrel and Urouge's eyes went wide. If the tiny bullet sized balls could become large enough to plow into his stomach and knock him backwards...

Urouge was out of his position right in front of Bege and jumped backwards before slamming his legs on the ground and bending his knees again, shooting himself high into the air with another jump. The half-size cannonball hit the barrier of Capone's wall as the Fortress Man himself stumbled back from the shot. Big Mike was the name of the cannon and the man using it, and the guy was struggling to keep the cannon from rolling back and slamming into the back of the stone room they were in.

The huge cannonball hit the clear wall and suddenly the majority of the room couldn't see Capone anymore. His entire body became shadowed by the huge cannonball that was leaving his personal space. "That looks like the one Garp threw at us on our way out of Water 7," Sanji muttered, then cursing under his breath for dropping another cigarette with a dropped jaw.

The massive black ball shot forward and it looked like Urouge jumped too soon. The man was already on his descent and looked like he was going to slam right into the ball. "THAT EXPLOSION IS GOING TO KILL US ALL!" Usopp shouted and panic set in the room immediately.

"Did you really need to do that?" Zoro grumbled at the sniper as pirates all around him started stumbling out of their chairs to hide for dear life. Capone didn't look worried and the swordsman guessed that an explosion would weaken as it hit his wall too. He'd be tough to fight. My swords would shrink before hitting him, hmm, he looked back up in the sky, and suddenly he didn't think he had to worry about fighting Capone anymore.

Urouge started screaming again and the black aura surrounding his ridiculously muscular body started focusing on his back. The two large white wings were oddly larger than the tiny ones they saw on all the inhabitants of Skypiea. Those people only had the wings since they had yet to evolve out of the useless features, or so he'd heard from Gan Fal back on Sky Island. As he stared at the monster of a man in the sky, it looked like he didn't care what the wings were supposed to be for.

The black aura surrounded the white wings until the feathers themselves became black. The wings grew larger and instead of the curled up position behind him, they extended out and showed a large wingspan six feet in either direction. Just as he was about to fall in front of the cannonball, he flapped his wings once and spiraled around the top of it before flying downwards towards his enemy. There was a burning aura behind him as he sped down and the wind became visible as it rushed past his face.

He pulled back his right fist and the muscles in his left arm shrank back to normal. All the extra muscles seemed to find a new place to go and his enormous right arm tripled in size as his muscles looked ready to pop. His hand looked like it was on fire as he was descending so fast and the man ignored all the screams of the audience who watched the giant cannonball behind him finally collide with a dirt chunk that Law dislodged earlier.

The rumble that followed lasted for a millisecond as the building shook and then all at once, it hit the fan. BBOOOOOOMMMMMM! The explosion was too close to everyone for them to dodge and the blast was louder than anything most of them had ever heard.

Strong pirates all over the room shielded their bodies and the bodies of their crews as the ball exploded in a flash of blinding light. "ZEHAHAHAHA!" Blackbeard laughed from his seat in the stands while even his commanders were panicking around him. Only Shiliew kept his composure and was watching a different part of the arena as the spot where the ball exploded.

When the blinding light faded and the enormous explosion subsided, half the room were stunned they were alive, while another half were looking for the reason that they were. They spotted it after a few seconds and now everyone in the room stared at the guys in the purple uniforms with concern. Who were these people?

Ten of the staff members jumped up right as the explosion hit and they held out their hands. The ball of fire was kept inside along with all the shrapnel and the guards moved closer together as the explosion burned itself out. There was an invisible force exuding from the guards' hands as they dispersed the explosion and landed all over the arena and in the stands.

A few pirates looked over and saw the chairs they were sitting on completely destroyed. They turned around and saw a few women wearing purple uniforms behind them, and didn't even remember getting saved. "They moved so fast."

"I didn't even see them."

"What's going on here?"

"Who runs this place?"

Over all the confusion, a few people weren't even concerned about the explosion. Kaido's crew was ignoring it while Zoro looked away from the purple clad guards and back down to the arena where he was shocked by what he saw. Capone was still standing, seemingly the only one standing there after the explosion failed.

"Where'd Urouge go?" Sanji muttered. He got distracted by the explosion but now his and most people in the room's attention was brought back to the sand section. Capone Bege was standing there and his arms were flailing around, but his opponent wasn't in sight.

Nami was shocked, "I thought that punch was going to finish him off. Where'd the other guy go?" They looked around before noticing that Capone wasn't just throwing his arms around randomly; he was smacking at his body.

"You don't think..." Vivi started.

"Looks like his enemy decided to fight from the inside," Jimbei stated with an impressed tone. "I'm surprised he came up with that strategy on his own."

Inside Capone Bege's stomach fortress was a mess. Men were lying unconscious and bloodied all over the place and Urouge was currently smashing the man called Big Mike into a brick wall and straight through to the other side. "OUCH!" The mafia boss roared as someone was smashing through his insides. "Get out of my stomach!" he roared and suddenly his body started shifting.

The boss wasn't moving around his insides, he was simply halting the use of his Devil Fruit despite the pleas from his men inside. The doors on his chest opened wide as everyone inside his body was being expelled. The walls were closing in and pushing everyone away as they turned into flesh.

Suddenly people started flying out of the hatches and into the invisible barrier where they tumbled across the floor and into craters. Finally Urouge came crashing out of Capone's body with his hands covered in red, having tried to get a little extra damage in now that his opponent could be hurt easier.

Most of the men were unconscious, but a few were standing up and turning around with rifles and pistols in their hands pointed at Urouge. Capone himself wasn't using his Devil Fruit anymore, but he was never one to give up. He reached down to his waist and drew a pistol that he pointed at the muscular man point blank. "I win."

"No," Urouge chuckled, "you lose." He pointed at the men pointing weapons at him.

"Capone Bege, you are disqualified," the announcer's voice called down. "Your whole crew is in the arena with you, that's obviously cheating." The room was filled with silence before everyone started booing the pirate and his men who were shaking in embarrassment and fury.

The captain wanted to shoot the guy anyway. Fuck the tournament, he wanted to crush the man who beat him so badly. "Captain," one of his men pleaded. Capone looked at him and saw the man wasn't looking at either of them, he was staring up in the stands. Oh right, don't want to start something around the Yonko.

"Pull out," he commanded his men and they all lowered their weapons before walking back towards the stands. He was the only name they entered for their crew, so now they were defeated and it was a complete waste of money. Capone hated wasting money. His crew knew he was in a bad mood and kept a solid distance away from him.

Urouge, or the Mad Monk, took a knee where he was standing and his muscles reverted back to normal. He rested an elbow on the knee that was still up and closed his eyes on one knee. After a few seconds of sitting there he stood up and held both hands high in the air. The ending might not have been what people were hoping for, but the match was intense and he received a loud roar of applause from the crowd.

"Finally," Zoro stated and his shaking had stopped as a sense of calm fell over the pirate. The calm was worse than all the bloodlust they'd seen leaking from him the whole day and his friends backed up a little as the man with green hair stood up. It was seriously hard being next to him right now, he had a murderous look in his eye despite the small grin he had as he stepped away from his seat and onto the steps.

Urouge started heading back in the stands and looked over where he saw Zoro cast him a small look and smirk. For some reason he felt unnerved by that smirk and there was a glint of red in the swordsman's eyes as he continued walking down the steps to the edge of the stone section.

'Winner: Urouge,' was still plastered in yellow writing underneath the center platform, but Zoro didn't care. He knew he was up next and walked right out to a small area of stone that was untouched so far.

"Does anyone know who Zoro got?" Nami looked around and the others shook their heads nervously back at her. Even Sanji didn't say anything to the swordsman when the man stood up and walked away, taunting him at the moment just felt wrong and he truly felt sorry for whoever it was that was about to fight the shitty swordsman. "Remember Zoro!" Nami yelled down at him, feeling she had to remind him in case he forgot, "Don't kill your opponent!"

The orange haired woman shouting this down to him still couldn't break the good mood Zoro was in. A lot of pirates in the room felt their stomachs twisting while they looked at the Pirate Hunter, and even more felt worried after hearing that from the navigator of the Straw Hats. "Sorry Nami," he responded, "I might not be able to resist."

"Someone looks eager for their fight!" The man in charge shouted into the microphone. "For the final match of the first sixty four contestants, we have the Pirate Hunter, RORONOA ZORO!" Cheers burst through the crowd though many people were too on edge to say a thing.

"His opponent is unheard of by my staff, and does not have a bounty," half the people in the room groaned thinking that the match was going to be completely one-sided. "He's a newcomer in the New World..."

"Wow he really wants to build up this last match before dinner," Robin chuckled.

"Who could it be?!" Usopp laughed. "If they don't have a bounty then Zoro's gonna kick their ass for sure." The others couldn't disagree with him there and then their mouths all dropped one by one as the announcer read out the opponent's name.

Jimbei and Vivi turned around and saw the blue faces of the crew behind her. None of them were able to make a sound and Franky and Brook also looked confused by the other's reactions. Luffy lost his shocked look and his mouth twisted into a smile and Robin started laughing.

The other four however, were staring down at the arena in stunned silence. "What? Who is this guy?" Vivi asked. The princess looked back down to the floor and her jaw dropped at the same time as almost every single person in the room.

The man that was just called out didn't just walk down, he made an entrance. The center of the dirt area started to crackle and the ground began shaking as the sky above it lit up. A huge pillar of lightning flew down from the sky and engulfed a huge chunk of the section, sending debris flying in every direction. The ground shook and laughter was heard. "This is my first opponent? Do I have to beat these weaklings over and over," the man's condescending voice sent chills down the audience's spines.

"Enel? Who is that? You guys know him?" Franky asked the crew.

"Zoro no!" Usopp shouted and hugged Chopper tight. Sanji lit up a cigarette and took a long drag of it while Nami started biting her fingernails.

"He's a monster," the woman with the orange hair whispered.

The countdown started under the center of the room and Zoro smirked wide as he drew his swords. Enel lost the cocky look on his face and his senses went off the charts. "Looks like you're stronger than when we last met."

"You have no idea," Zoro pulled out Kitetsu and the blade screamed in bloodlust. Every swordsman in the room could feel the tremendous thirst for blood coming from the cursed blade and were unnerved by the swordsman who could wield such a blade. He pulled out Shusui and the legendary samurai's blade shimmered.

The last weapon he drew was Kuina's. He put the Wado in his mouth and glared at his opponent. He wasn't lying when Nami told him not to kill his opponent, it was going to be very, very hard to resist.

A/N ZORO VS ENEL! I've been waiting for this matchup and I hope I've built it up enough for the rest of you. Pell turned out to be a boss and Urouge kicked Capone's ass before the man was disqualified for cheating. Now, the final match before dinner, in the destroyed arena, Roronoa Zoro must fight the invincible powers of the Rumble Rumble Fruit, and he has to do it without being rubber. Who. Will. WIN?! Thanks to everyone who read and I hope you enjoyed the chapter. Leave a review below telling me what you think of the matchup and no shoutout today since no one guessed this match. Here are responses to the reviews though!

Son of Whitebeard

troubles in the toilet

Hahaha, trying to sneak in some plot in an average pee break was tough XD!

Yayaya1234

I love this

Thank you! I'm going to start giving the name of one opponent in the next chapter at the end of the previous chapter and I'm going to see if people can guess who's going to verse them. Almost halfway through the first round!

Guest

If he isn't fighting shilliew, then my best guess is Pica or Issho

Pica was another good guess but Zoro's going to be up against Enel. Issho is a Marine so he's not gonna be in the tournament. Finishing the first round with a bang! Thanks again everyone. 'Till next time!