And here we are, the last part of this arc! Enjoy!
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"To get me to use my 'legblades'," Said Karuga. "I only use them as a last resort against my toughest enemies. You should take pride in that."
"I'll take pride in it once I'm done beating your ass!" Said Ado angrily.
"Then your pride shall never come!" Said Karuga. "I will show you what it is truly like to be defeated!"
"Bring it on!" Yelled Ado, beckoning Karuga towards him with his hand.
"Very well!" Roared Karuga has he dashed towards Ado with his armblades as the two resumed their battle.
"Shit, I really can't move like this..." Thought Coco as she lay on the floor, desperately trying to get back up. "I'm just gonna have to trust Ado here! I really don't want to but I've got no choice!"
"Sunpou Sunpou no BIG!" Yelled Ado as he grew about 20 feet, so that his head was nearly touching the ceiling. "Eat this, you bladed peice of shit!" He yelled as he swung down his Nodachi that had also been enlarged.
"No matter how big you'll become, the result will be the same!" Said Karuga who jumped out of the way of Ado's oncoming blade. He then jumped onto the blade and using extreme precision climbed up it and slashed Ado across the face, leaving a scar. "Plus, now that you're bigger, my accuracy has become better!" Karuga added, landing on the ground.
"Damn you bastard!" Said Ado as he returned to regular size and tried to slash Karuga with his Nodachi again, but Karuga again blocked with his armblades.
"Is change your size and waving this Nodachi around the only thing you can do?" Said Karuga while contiuning to block Ado's blade easily. He then kicked one of his legblades straight up towards Ado. "LEGBLADE UPPER SLASH!"
"Shit!" Said Ado quickly while ducking back. Though he managed to avoid getting hit, the legblade made contact with the Nodachi, knocking it out of his hands as it felw across the room and landed on the floor.
"If you try to reach it, I'll slash you up before you can get there. What will you do know?" Smirked Karuga in a confident tone.
"I'll just do this then!" Said Ado, thinking fast. "Sunpou Sunpou no SMALL!" Ado shrunk to a size so small he was practically invisible to the naked eye.
"Hmph, I may not be able to see you but I know what you're up too." Thought Karuga. "Because turning small doesn't decrease your strength, you're going to latch onto me and deliver some of those fast punches of yours to attack me. That's rather impressive but unfortunately for you, along with my speed my reflexes are also incredibly fast. Once you punch me, I'll find and hit you right back right away!" Suddenly Karuga felt a sharp pain from behind him. "He's on the back of my left leg! I've got him!" Karuga turned and prepared to fire a punch, but stopped short when he realized the attack was from behind one of his legblades. "Damn him, he's clever! He attack from behind one of my legblades, if I punch there I'll get nothing but a slashed hand!"
Suddenly, Karuga felt something jump off his shoulder, he then looked up to see Ado, now regular size, falling down on him.
"MULTI SPEED PUNCH!" Yelled Ado as he began raining his fists down on Karuga, who took a direct hit. After the attack was done, Karuga was bleeding all over, yet due to his incredible strength was still able to stand.
"You...that was pretty good." Panted Karuga, and you could tell by his voice he was severely weakened. "But this battle isn't over yet! I will use my strongest attack against you!" With that, he took his tow armblades and began to rub the two blades together.
"And just what are you doing this time?" Asked Ado, narrowing his eyes behind his sunglasses.
"What am I doing?" Smiled Karuga. "I'm doing THIS! HONOO NO YAIBA!" As soon as he was done speaking the two blades ignited and lit on fire.
"Hi...his blades just lit no fire!" Pointed out one of the spectating chefs.
"He used the friction of his blades to ignite them..." Said Zeff.
"Now, Nakim D. Ado, prepare to burn in hell!" Said Karuga reading his blazing armblades.
Ado merely smirked. "Just see if you can make me!"
"Fool!" Yelled Karuga as he ran towards Ado with his blazing blades. "You cannot hope to escape my blades now! Even if I do burn you I can simply just burn this entire restaurant to the ground! BURNING BLAZE SLASH!" Karuga then delivered the flaming blow towards Ado.
"Hey, maybe you haven't noticed yet," Said Ado. "But after I attacked you with Multi Speed Punch, I picked my Nodachi back up."
"What?!" Said Karuga. He then looked and saw that Ado was indeed holding his Nodachi, and had clashed it against Karuga's flaming armblades.
"Now you're not the only one who's holding a burning blade." Grinned Ado as he knocked Karuga's blades away and slashed the offgaurd pirate across the chest, leaving a bloody, burning scar.
"He did it!" Thought Coco.
"G...GYAAH!" Yelled Karuga, as he fell to his knees, clutching his chest, which felt to him like it was on fire. "H...how?! How could it come to this?! I'm the Pillar Man Karuga! My bounty is one of the highest in East Blue! You're just a nobody! HOW?!"
"Hey, I'm not a 'nobody'," Said Ado pointing to himself. "I am the future Pirate King!"
"Damn...you...." Said Karuga, before falling to the ground, defeated and knocked out.
"He...he did it!" Said Carne. "He actually did it! He won!"
"So he has." Said Zeff. "Not bad, Person of D....."
Meanwhile, outside of Baratie, the three ships, not knowing of the events that took place, where still waiting for their captains to show up.
One of the pirates looked at his watch. "Dammit, what's takin' em so long? They should be done by now..." Suddenly, Ado burst outside with the bodies of the defeated ship captains piled next to him.
"Huh? What's this guy want?" Said another pirate, taking out some binoculars and looking through them. However, when he saw the sight, he froze in fear and dropped the binoculars to the ground.
"Oi, what do you see?" Asked another pirate.
"He...he..." Stuttered the pirate. "He defeated our Captains!!!"
"WHAT?!" Yelled the rest of the crew in unison.
"Now listen here, everyone." Said Ado smirking, propping up his sunglasses. "I don't want these lingering around, so you come and take these, and get the hell outta my sight!"
"Yyyyy....YES SIR!" Said the pirates. And so they did, gathering the boides and then fleeing in terror.
"And...there!" Said a chef. It had been a few hours since Karuga had been defeated. Two chefs where busy finishing up bandaging Vega, who had come to.
"Thanks," Said Vega, who now had bandages all acorss his chest and stomach. "I'll be fine now."
"But seriously, that was one serious wound you got there," Said another Chef. "I think you should take it easy for a while..." Suddenly he found Vega's Claymore inches away from his neck.
"I said 'I'll be fine'." Repeated Vega.
"Right, right, of course..." Said the nervous chef.
"Woah, look at all this meat!" Said Ado, who was sitting at a table which had nothing on it but meat. "Can I really have all it?"
"Of course!" Said a chef. "Without you, this place might have been taken over! It's the least we can do."
"Then, I'm helping myself!" Said Ado, who began chowing down on the food. Meanwhile, Coco was watching both of them, while smoking.
"Those people are idiots..." She said to herself. "It's a good thing I said 'maybe'. I really don't feel like going..."
"You should go." Said Zeff, who suddenly appeared next to her.
"Oh, and why's that?" Asked Coco, not giving much of a care.
"That man will go places that you could probably never even dream of going if you waited for an opportunity here." Said Zeff, grinning slyly. "That's what you want, right?"
This made Coco go stiff. "This geezer...how does he know that?!"
"Now then, YOU!" Said Ado as he suddenly interrupted by pointing towards. "You're coming with me, right?"
Coco thought it over. Though she didn't really care, the words Zeff had just said for some reason had made an impact on her. "Whatever. I got nothing to do here anyway."
"YES! I knew you would accept!" Said Ado.
"I've denied you five times already, idiot..." Thought Coco.
"Oi Coco!" Said Pati, who had regained consciousness and was also bandaged. "What do you mean by that! You're the head chef! Who's gonna take charge?"
"Didn't you say you wanted it?" Asked Coco, not even looking at him and instead lighting a new cigarette.
"You bitch, not even acknowledging me, I'm gonna...AH I'M GONNA MISS YOU SO MUCH!!!" Said Pati, who broke down in tears.
"Idiot..." Thought Coco.
"Alright! Now, can get some food or something before I go?" Said Ado, not ignoring the fact they still had no food on their ship.
"Already got it." Said Zeff, dropping a large bag of food.
Ado smiled. "Yosh! Vega! Coco! Let's return to our ship!"
"...This is your ship?" Said Coco, as they where now outside and in front of the small ship Ado and Vega had arrived in.
"It was originally for me..." Said Vega.
"We'll just have to get a bigger one later is all!" Said Ado, hopping onto the ship. "Now then, let's go!"
"What am I getting myself into..." Thought Coco as she and Vega also stepped on, as they began to sail towards their next destination...
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And there you have it! Next chapter will be starting the next arc! Be sure to look forward to it, and please take a moment of your time to leave a review!