p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Be careful" were Hancock´s last words when Luffy and the amazon leader entered the Prison of Impel Down. He started running as quiet as he could, which was nearly like a stampede of elephants, and made his way down in the prison. What he didn´t know was that he had a few old acquaintances waiting for him in there. The first one he ran into was Buggy the clown, who was surprised for his reason to get down there./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Ace? I knew him!" he remembered the narcoleptic glutton of a pirate who once entered his ship and made him took him to the island where he met his demise. He wanted to steal the bracelet in the other pirate´s arm or at least exchange it for a passage to the next level, but luck was not on his side and he felt with him. In the end, the clown ended up dragged like a lot of people in the madness of Luffy trying to get his brother out of that prison, along with a reticent Galdino and an overly optimistic Bon Clay. They were trying to escape the third level when…/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Luffy! What are you doing here?" someone intercepted them. Both former members of Baroque Works recognize them as the people that helped Mugiwara to defeat Crocodile. Jafar was at the head, looking worried. "Did they catch you?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""No, but Ace… I need to save Ace!" explained the boy, ready to move to the next level. The albino bit his lip, remembering the narcoleptic in question. He wanted to help him, but… well, there has been months trying to get to the next level without being seen by the guards and he was sure that with Luffy everything was going to be better. "And you? I thought you were searching for your friends."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""We are, it´s just that… after reaching this level it became a little bit difficult to get down" he answered, with Masrur behind. Really, why did he let the others leave him alone with his ex? Yes, of course, because Yamuraiha said so. She can be pretty convincing if she wanted. "Yamuraiha and Sharrkan managed, but get stuck inside… according to their messages, it´s pretty hot down there."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Yes, the lava inferno" commented Galdino, who knew a little bit about that place. He looked at the defeated guards. Mugiwara already managed to defeat many guards of Impel Down, practically cleaning the superior levels and would continue attracting attention until he found his brother. It was a great occasion to escape. "Buggy…"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""What are you two saying?" the redhead asked the two conspirators, that froze in the place. The Straw hatted kid probably lacked the wit to realise they were going to leave him there, but his friends didn´t and that was bad for them./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""It was… nothing"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Good, because now we have to move or reinforcements are going to catch us before we can advance" answered Jafar, before moving to the place the door was located. They jumped again, with Masrur throwing the two idiots, and moved to the next inferno. They landed in a lava filled environment, which affected everyone but Masrur and Jafar. "Great, now we have to find Sharrkan and Yamuraiha."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""They could be everywhere! We don´t have time to search for your friends, we have to get out of this place before the next…"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Don´t scream"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Don´t tell me what I have to… AHHHHHHHH! Ghost!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Shhhh" a voice came from nowhere. Yamuraiha dispelled her spell for some seconds, then get back to be invisible. "I made this camouflage for myself and Sharrkan, but don´t know how much it will last. The heat is too much" the Water magician whipped some sweat from her forehead. "He is a little bit occupied at the moment."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Occupied? How could he be occupied?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""We ran into a big patrol in the other door" she warned. "He stayed to listen to their conversation and to tip me on their plans. Apparently, they are setting up a trap for the intruder and escapees, which I think are you. We need to sneak past them, perhaps with my spell."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Yes, that would be a good plan, don´t you think, Mugi…" in that second they all realised that in the few seconds they let Luffy out of sight, he ran away to fight whoever that was in waiting for them. Jafar was the first to move, accommodating his household vessel in this arms./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""What the hell was he thinking about?!" he asked, grunting. Running in the middle of this hellish fire was tiresome even for him, but he could stand it. "Dammit… Yamuraiha, what do you know about the people who is waiting for us there?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Well… according to Sharrkan there is a group of big animals, a woman with a whip that dresses like one of those whores Sinbad was so found of… or worse" they all share a knowing look in that moment. "Many guards, probably all the personnel they were able to spare, a man with a Egyptian look…"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""A woman with a naughty dress?" Buggy thought for a moment and then realized it. "That has to be Sadi-chan! And her demon guards!" he suddenly stopped. "The torturer of Impel Down is here! That means we are not going to get out alive from here! Not if we engage the guards!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Egyptian… that one is the Vice Warden Hannyabal!" Galdino stopped in his tracks too, trembling in fear. "All the big fishes of Impel Down reunited to kill us!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Shut up!" the mage growled at them. "There is another one too, a man that´s always in a portable house… I think it´s a bathroom too" she frowned. "Obviously he had nasty stomach problems."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Stomach… Ma… Ma… MAGELLAN!" the clown and his friend tried to get away, but were, stopped by Masrur, who acted like a mountain between them and the door to the superior levels. "Let us go! There is no way we can defeat Warden Magellan! He is the most powerful man in Impel down, the poisonous man that kept this prison´s record of escapes in red!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Most powerful man, eh?" Jafar frowned, but wasn´t about to let down a friend. "Dammit, Ace, you couldn´t end up in a worse place, no?" he was immune to most poisons in his world, something he wasn´t so sure he was in this world. And his friends weren´t either. "Yamuraiha, can you help me? I will go save Luffy from that guy."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Why you?" Masrur finally talked./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""I have immunity to a lot of poisons due to my time as an assassin for the Parthevia Empire, so I´m the one with most probabilities of getting out alive of a fight with Magellan" he looked at his knives. "You will provide help from behind." Screams suddenly reached his ears. "Quickly! We don´t have much time!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Yes!" Luffy was already battling with Magellan when they arrived to the place, losing due to the poison. He was about to get up again to continue his desperate fight, when Yamuraiha´s borg got between him and the Warden, effectively cutting Magellan´s attack. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""What the…"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Hey! Mess with someone your own size, you monster!" taunted Jafar, getting into position. Not for the first time, he wished his household vessel was still working. That poison seemed to be of the metallic sort, making it susceptible to electric attacks. With a shock form his Bararaq Sei, the man would have been lying on the floor. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""You… think you can defeat me?!" the Warden screamed, attacking the albino next. He, unsure if he was really immune, dodged and handled his Hydra like he would handle a poisonous snake attack. he just didn´t grab the monster, knowing the result. His knives flew to the poisonous man side, striking him, but not causing him damage. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Dammit" a Logia. He hasn´t taken a Logia into account. With a fruit like that, it was no wonder that the prisoners considered him invincible. Only seastone can kill him, seastone that he didn´t have. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Hump, too bad… you weren´t my size after all" he prepared to strike him. then he saw something… a smile crept into his face. That cunt Yamuraiha surely knew how to take advantage of a distracted enemy! "What´s so funny?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""I would think you are the one that is going to bite the dust in a second. Look behind you, asshole" Magellan did it just in time to see Sharrkan breaking a side of the tunnel with his sword. Jafar had to admit it, even without his household the Heliopat king was strong. In that second Masrur did the same on the other side and Magellan was sent hurling down into the lava pit. Jafar was falling too, but he used one of his knives to hang from the ceiling and the other to prevent Luffy from failing. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Woow, that was close" Sharrkan commented, turning towards the guards, who couldn´t believe it. "Then" he made a movement with his sword. "Who is next?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""We don´t have time!" Yamuraiha, who flew everybody to the place, chastised him. "Luffy is badly poisoned and my magic can´t heal him thanks to his Devil Fruit" she moved her wand to make the others back away. "We have to move and find someone that can heal him!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""I know where to look!" Bon Clay said cheerfully at the same time as preoccupied, walking towards the gates of the next level. "He is supposed to be in the next level, but apparently he disappeared. But don´t worry! I´m sure I can find him!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""You better be" Jafar started to run, with Masrur carrying the ailing D. Luffy´s body was enveloped in a thin layer of magic to prevent him from poisoning Masrur too, so he was safe for the moment. "Who is this person?! And what is waiting for us in the next level?!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""The next level is the Ice hell! A frozen wasteland where the prisoners freeze to death as a punishment for horrible sins… which weren´t exactly sins, they just have a different vision of the world and justice that the World Government."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""What?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""It´s the place where the put the captured members of the Revolutionary Army!" the okama explained. "The person we are searching for was a rebel and they locked him in there!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""A… a rebel? Who is him?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Sometimes a he, sometimes a she" corrected the former member of Baroque Works. "We are searching for the Miracle Worker… EMPORIO IVANKOV!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Emporio… Ivankov?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"-A few minutes after-/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Welcome… TO NEW KAMA LAND!" Jafar was completely astonished and somewhat creeped out. He has seen plenty of strange things in his years as an assassin and as Sinbad´s assistant (more in his years with Sinbad, he had to admit that), but this was the creepiest of all. The man on the stage… well, he believed it was a man… danced like a complete maniatic, emitting strange sounds./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""This is the guy?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Yes, this is" answered Bon Clay, leaving the injured Mugiwara in the purple haired okama´s care. Fortunately, his prowess healing was better than his dancing and singing abilities. The boy was taken care of in a few minutes, but he was a left in another room. And another surprise, in a corner they found Drakon and Hinahoho, cowering. Both married men were surrounded by young busty girls, but apparently they were trying to escape. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""What the hell are you two doing here?" asked the albino, crossing his arms. The two of them, got red, trying to hide their faces. Too shamed to talk, the dragon look alike and the Imuchakk lowered their heads more. Then a prisoner came and attempted to kill Ivankov, but he okama king rejected the projectile and was turned into a woman. "What the actual hell?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Hummm" Masrur got closer from behind, rubbing his chin. Now, this was another thing he hasn´t thought about. Perhaps… "Would you be open to try that?" Jafar looked at him in disbelieve. "Do you think you would get on with my wives better if you are the same gender?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""What?!" he looked at the redhead in disbelieve. The other generals suddenly stared at him with interest, like the absolute gossip mongers they were. "Are you insane?! I´m not getting on with your wives or you!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Oh my Solomon, you two are back together?!" Yamuraiha drank a few sips of martini./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Of course not! And it´s never going to be! He already has two chicks and I´m not third dish!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Why? The Fanalis are open to same sex couples and polygamy, so…"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""I don´t care how open you Fanalis think you are. I´m not getting back with you."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Vou should be more open with vyour feelings…"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Hey, keep those nails away from me!" Jafar jumped with his assassin instincts away from Ivankov before he could inject him with his nails. They spent some time in that petty fight, until Luffy woke up and demanded food. He tried to enlist the okama queen in his plan to recover his brother, but the man didn´t style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanThat was when the straw hat boy dropped his bomb and the eccentric guy finally changed his mind. Jafar, not wanting to be in the same place as Ivankov, decided to wait in level 5.5 for them along with the generals, sans Hinahoho and Drakon. Finally, they came back from level 6 empty handed./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""They already moved Ace!" announce the young Supernova, somehow full of energy despite recently recovering from a fatal poisoning. The albino bit his teeth, as this only meant one thing. "We are going to Marineford!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Marineford?" asked Yamuraiha. "Does that mean…?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Yes, we are meeting Sin again very soon"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"-Under the Tarai Current-/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""I don´t know if you should participate in the wat" Sinbad approached Judal from behind while the magi was looking through the bubble. The raven stared at a fish, a pretty coloured one that reminded him somewhat of Kougyoku. "I´m just saying, without your wand you are practically useless. There is no need…"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""I have to be there" the magi raised a hand, as if trying to make a butterfly land on a finger. Probably a rukh butterfly then. "The rukh says you are going to need me, that my family and crew are going to need me… so I´m going with you, to fight with you."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Since when do you do what the destiny says?" the king raised an eyebrow. "You are the dark magi, aren´t you? You cursed your destiny, you don´t follow it."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Well, I´m done with not following my destiny" the magician sighed. "In the last few days I learned that I spent so much time focusing on the bad things in my life that I didn´t see the beautiful things destiny brought to me. My siblings, Kouen nagging me to train together… or for him to beat me into the ground… that was hard" he rubbed his neck. "Little Kougyoku trying to make me play dolls with her and… and Hakuyuu and Hakuren carrying me to the big peach tree in the garden…"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""It sounds good"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""The real thing is, I´m not going to make the same mistakes again. This time, I´m going to fight by my friends side and win or die with them" he smiled, honestly for the first time in many years. "So I´m going with you."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""It´s good to know" he sighed, putting an arm around him. for once, the magi didn´t fight against him. "Try not to die, okay? I don´t want to be alone in this world… I mean the only one from our world here."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Oh, I won´t, believe me" he laughed a bit. "If I dare to die before him, Kouen is going to kill me" he stared at the other side. "And let´s not talk about what Kougyoku might do to me. I would woke up in make up and a dress."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Your sister seemed like a little devil" they stared at the water, that was clearing. The battle was approaching and, with it, the time to part with some friends. "I wish they were there. And my household. And my allies. We would do the Extreme Magic and vaporize those marines like we did with the medium thing."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""The medium thing? It kept coming back, I thought" he sighed. "But in the end you did it, you destroyed it before Ill Illah could enter the World" a pained expression suddenly appeared in his face. "Sorry, sorry, I shouldn´t have mentioned the dark god you later helped enter, but…"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""I know you think I´m forgiven and perhaps for some people in my world I am… it´s me who couldn´t forgive myself. I was so fucking stupid…"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""You always are, you stupiddness" Judal said. When was he finally going to stop wallowing in guilt and self-pity? Most of those people wanted it, he did nothing wrong in their eyes. The only person he betrayed was himself and he should have already forgiven himself. "You always made things different too."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"-Back in Impel Down-/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""We have to escape in this second!" Jafar said, looking to the poisonous man that was quickly approaching him. finally, the little Mugiwara thought a plan and managed to send them flying to the ship Crocodile and Jimbei stole for them. The albino got the wheel and, remembering the days of his travelling with Sinbad, started to navigate the Tarai Curent./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""What are we going to do now, Jafar?" Yamuraiha walked up to him, trying to use her water magic to take the ship through another path, failing because the current was too strong. "We are meeting Sinbad, I´m glad for that, but… I don´t want to go to that war. We are not longer fighting King candidates, we and Sin could actually…"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""It´s going to be okay, yes?" Drakon stopped her. "Everything has always gone okay and this time too" the dragon sat down. "We are getting together, rescuing that Ace guy, helping them escape and… and return to our world with our king. Everything is going to be okay."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""In a war nothing goes okay"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Everything is going to be okay, listen to me in this" he stared into her eyes. "Everything is going to be okay."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Trust Sinbad" Masrur voiced the collective thought. The man was of few words, but he knew when his friends need a few words of encouragement. "And the Mugiwara boy too is one of a kind. Together I´m sure there is no force that´s going to stop them. And that problematic magi is stronger than anyone could believe. They are going to make it."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"-In another place-/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Where are you going now?" Sabo asked Pisti and Spartos, who were trying to leave Baltigo, as if he wasn´t eavesdropping. "Okay, okay, I know" he followed them. "It´s horrible that Dragon denied your request, but you don't have to…"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""He said his army isn´t going to take part in the War, but we can do whatever we want as our own persons" the knight answered, exiting the castle. He and his companion started searching around the deck, trying to find some ship they could use. "So we are taking a boat or something like that and go to help in Marineford. I hope that we make it in time…"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""A boat? Dude, you are dreaming if you want to reach Marineford in a boat" he made a sound and a big black bird arrived. "Do you two want t ride?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"Okay, towards Marineford. And now they are complete, plus a surprise for the D.s. Who want them to meet in the next chapter? Review!/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Ace? I knew him!" he remembered the narcoleptic glutton of a pirate who once entered his ship and made him took him to the island where he met his demise. He wanted to steal the bracelet in the other pirate´s arm or at least exchange it for a passage to the next level, but luck was not on his side and he felt with him. In the end, the clown ended up dragged like a lot of people in the madness of Luffy trying to get his brother out of that prison, along with a reticent Galdino and an overly optimistic Bon Clay. They were trying to escape the third level when…/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Luffy! What are you doing here?" someone intercepted them. Both former members of Baroque Works recognize them as the people that helped Mugiwara to defeat Crocodile. Jafar was at the head, looking worried. "Did they catch you?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""No, but Ace… I need to save Ace!" explained the boy, ready to move to the next level. The albino bit his lip, remembering the narcoleptic in question. He wanted to help him, but… well, there has been months trying to get to the next level without being seen by the guards and he was sure that with Luffy everything was going to be better. "And you? I thought you were searching for your friends."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""We are, it´s just that… after reaching this level it became a little bit difficult to get down" he answered, with Masrur behind. Really, why did he let the others leave him alone with his ex? Yes, of course, because Yamuraiha said so. She can be pretty convincing if she wanted. "Yamuraiha and Sharrkan managed, but get stuck inside… according to their messages, it´s pretty hot down there."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Yes, the lava inferno" commented Galdino, who knew a little bit about that place. He looked at the defeated guards. Mugiwara already managed to defeat many guards of Impel Down, practically cleaning the superior levels and would continue attracting attention until he found his brother. It was a great occasion to escape. "Buggy…"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""What are you two saying?" the redhead asked the two conspirators, that froze in the place. The Straw hatted kid probably lacked the wit to realise they were going to leave him there, but his friends didn´t and that was bad for them./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""It was… nothing"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Good, because now we have to move or reinforcements are going to catch us before we can advance" answered Jafar, before moving to the place the door was located. They jumped again, with Masrur throwing the two idiots, and moved to the next inferno. They landed in a lava filled environment, which affected everyone but Masrur and Jafar. "Great, now we have to find Sharrkan and Yamuraiha."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""They could be everywhere! We don´t have time to search for your friends, we have to get out of this place before the next…"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Don´t scream"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Don´t tell me what I have to… AHHHHHHHH! Ghost!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Shhhh" a voice came from nowhere. Yamuraiha dispelled her spell for some seconds, then get back to be invisible. "I made this camouflage for myself and Sharrkan, but don´t know how much it will last. The heat is too much" the Water magician whipped some sweat from her forehead. "He is a little bit occupied at the moment."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Occupied? How could he be occupied?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""We ran into a big patrol in the other door" she warned. "He stayed to listen to their conversation and to tip me on their plans. Apparently, they are setting up a trap for the intruder and escapees, which I think are you. We need to sneak past them, perhaps with my spell."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Yes, that would be a good plan, don´t you think, Mugi…" in that second they all realised that in the few seconds they let Luffy out of sight, he ran away to fight whoever that was in waiting for them. Jafar was the first to move, accommodating his household vessel in this arms./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""What the hell was he thinking about?!" he asked, grunting. Running in the middle of this hellish fire was tiresome even for him, but he could stand it. "Dammit… Yamuraiha, what do you know about the people who is waiting for us there?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Well… according to Sharrkan there is a group of big animals, a woman with a whip that dresses like one of those whores Sinbad was so found of… or worse" they all share a knowing look in that moment. "Many guards, probably all the personnel they were able to spare, a man with a Egyptian look…"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""A woman with a naughty dress?" Buggy thought for a moment and then realized it. "That has to be Sadi-chan! And her demon guards!" he suddenly stopped. "The torturer of Impel Down is here! That means we are not going to get out alive from here! Not if we engage the guards!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Egyptian… that one is the Vice Warden Hannyabal!" Galdino stopped in his tracks too, trembling in fear. "All the big fishes of Impel Down reunited to kill us!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Shut up!" the mage growled at them. "There is another one too, a man that´s always in a portable house… I think it´s a bathroom too" she frowned. "Obviously he had nasty stomach problems."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Stomach… Ma… Ma… MAGELLAN!" the clown and his friend tried to get away, but were, stopped by Masrur, who acted like a mountain between them and the door to the superior levels. "Let us go! There is no way we can defeat Warden Magellan! He is the most powerful man in Impel down, the poisonous man that kept this prison´s record of escapes in red!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Most powerful man, eh?" Jafar frowned, but wasn´t about to let down a friend. "Dammit, Ace, you couldn´t end up in a worse place, no?" he was immune to most poisons in his world, something he wasn´t so sure he was in this world. And his friends weren´t either. "Yamuraiha, can you help me? I will go save Luffy from that guy."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Why you?" Masrur finally talked./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""I have immunity to a lot of poisons due to my time as an assassin for the Parthevia Empire, so I´m the one with most probabilities of getting out alive of a fight with Magellan" he looked at his knives. "You will provide help from behind." Screams suddenly reached his ears. "Quickly! We don´t have much time!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Yes!" Luffy was already battling with Magellan when they arrived to the place, losing due to the poison. He was about to get up again to continue his desperate fight, when Yamuraiha´s borg got between him and the Warden, effectively cutting Magellan´s attack. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""What the…"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Hey! Mess with someone your own size, you monster!" taunted Jafar, getting into position. Not for the first time, he wished his household vessel was still working. That poison seemed to be of the metallic sort, making it susceptible to electric attacks. With a shock form his Bararaq Sei, the man would have been lying on the floor. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""You… think you can defeat me?!" the Warden screamed, attacking the albino next. He, unsure if he was really immune, dodged and handled his Hydra like he would handle a poisonous snake attack. he just didn´t grab the monster, knowing the result. His knives flew to the poisonous man side, striking him, but not causing him damage. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Dammit" a Logia. He hasn´t taken a Logia into account. With a fruit like that, it was no wonder that the prisoners considered him invincible. Only seastone can kill him, seastone that he didn´t have. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Hump, too bad… you weren´t my size after all" he prepared to strike him. then he saw something… a smile crept into his face. That cunt Yamuraiha surely knew how to take advantage of a distracted enemy! "What´s so funny?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""I would think you are the one that is going to bite the dust in a second. Look behind you, asshole" Magellan did it just in time to see Sharrkan breaking a side of the tunnel with his sword. Jafar had to admit it, even without his household the Heliopat king was strong. In that second Masrur did the same on the other side and Magellan was sent hurling down into the lava pit. Jafar was falling too, but he used one of his knives to hang from the ceiling and the other to prevent Luffy from failing. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Woow, that was close" Sharrkan commented, turning towards the guards, who couldn´t believe it. "Then" he made a movement with his sword. "Who is next?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""We don´t have time!" Yamuraiha, who flew everybody to the place, chastised him. "Luffy is badly poisoned and my magic can´t heal him thanks to his Devil Fruit" she moved her wand to make the others back away. "We have to move and find someone that can heal him!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""I know where to look!" Bon Clay said cheerfully at the same time as preoccupied, walking towards the gates of the next level. "He is supposed to be in the next level, but apparently he disappeared. But don´t worry! I´m sure I can find him!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""You better be" Jafar started to run, with Masrur carrying the ailing D. Luffy´s body was enveloped in a thin layer of magic to prevent him from poisoning Masrur too, so he was safe for the moment. "Who is this person?! And what is waiting for us in the next level?!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""The next level is the Ice hell! A frozen wasteland where the prisoners freeze to death as a punishment for horrible sins… which weren´t exactly sins, they just have a different vision of the world and justice that the World Government."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""What?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""It´s the place where the put the captured members of the Revolutionary Army!" the okama explained. "The person we are searching for was a rebel and they locked him in there!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""A… a rebel? Who is him?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Sometimes a he, sometimes a she" corrected the former member of Baroque Works. "We are searching for the Miracle Worker… EMPORIO IVANKOV!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Emporio… Ivankov?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"-A few minutes after-/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Welcome… TO NEW KAMA LAND!" Jafar was completely astonished and somewhat creeped out. He has seen plenty of strange things in his years as an assassin and as Sinbad´s assistant (more in his years with Sinbad, he had to admit that), but this was the creepiest of all. The man on the stage… well, he believed it was a man… danced like a complete maniatic, emitting strange sounds./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""This is the guy?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Yes, this is" answered Bon Clay, leaving the injured Mugiwara in the purple haired okama´s care. Fortunately, his prowess healing was better than his dancing and singing abilities. The boy was taken care of in a few minutes, but he was a left in another room. And another surprise, in a corner they found Drakon and Hinahoho, cowering. Both married men were surrounded by young busty girls, but apparently they were trying to escape. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""What the hell are you two doing here?" asked the albino, crossing his arms. The two of them, got red, trying to hide their faces. Too shamed to talk, the dragon look alike and the Imuchakk lowered their heads more. Then a prisoner came and attempted to kill Ivankov, but he okama king rejected the projectile and was turned into a woman. "What the actual hell?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Hummm" Masrur got closer from behind, rubbing his chin. Now, this was another thing he hasn´t thought about. Perhaps… "Would you be open to try that?" Jafar looked at him in disbelieve. "Do you think you would get on with my wives better if you are the same gender?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""What?!" he looked at the redhead in disbelieve. The other generals suddenly stared at him with interest, like the absolute gossip mongers they were. "Are you insane?! I´m not getting on with your wives or you!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Oh my Solomon, you two are back together?!" Yamuraiha drank a few sips of martini./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Of course not! And it´s never going to be! He already has two chicks and I´m not third dish!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Why? The Fanalis are open to same sex couples and polygamy, so…"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""I don´t care how open you Fanalis think you are. I´m not getting back with you."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Vou should be more open with vyour feelings…"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Hey, keep those nails away from me!" Jafar jumped with his assassin instincts away from Ivankov before he could inject him with his nails. They spent some time in that petty fight, until Luffy woke up and demanded food. He tried to enlist the okama queen in his plan to recover his brother, but the man didn´t style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /spanThat was when the straw hat boy dropped his bomb and the eccentric guy finally changed his mind. Jafar, not wanting to be in the same place as Ivankov, decided to wait in level 5.5 for them along with the generals, sans Hinahoho and Drakon. Finally, they came back from level 6 empty handed./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""They already moved Ace!" announce the young Supernova, somehow full of energy despite recently recovering from a fatal poisoning. The albino bit his teeth, as this only meant one thing. "We are going to Marineford!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Marineford?" asked Yamuraiha. "Does that mean…?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Yes, we are meeting Sin again very soon"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"-Under the Tarai Current-/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""I don´t know if you should participate in the wat" Sinbad approached Judal from behind while the magi was looking through the bubble. The raven stared at a fish, a pretty coloured one that reminded him somewhat of Kougyoku. "I´m just saying, without your wand you are practically useless. There is no need…"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""I have to be there" the magi raised a hand, as if trying to make a butterfly land on a finger. Probably a rukh butterfly then. "The rukh says you are going to need me, that my family and crew are going to need me… so I´m going with you, to fight with you."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Since when do you do what the destiny says?" the king raised an eyebrow. "You are the dark magi, aren´t you? You cursed your destiny, you don´t follow it."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Well, I´m done with not following my destiny" the magician sighed. "In the last few days I learned that I spent so much time focusing on the bad things in my life that I didn´t see the beautiful things destiny brought to me. My siblings, Kouen nagging me to train together… or for him to beat me into the ground… that was hard" he rubbed his neck. "Little Kougyoku trying to make me play dolls with her and… and Hakuyuu and Hakuren carrying me to the big peach tree in the garden…"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""It sounds good"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""The real thing is, I´m not going to make the same mistakes again. This time, I´m going to fight by my friends side and win or die with them" he smiled, honestly for the first time in many years. "So I´m going with you."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""It´s good to know" he sighed, putting an arm around him. for once, the magi didn´t fight against him. "Try not to die, okay? I don´t want to be alone in this world… I mean the only one from our world here."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Oh, I won´t, believe me" he laughed a bit. "If I dare to die before him, Kouen is going to kill me" he stared at the other side. "And let´s not talk about what Kougyoku might do to me. I would woke up in make up and a dress."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Your sister seemed like a little devil" they stared at the water, that was clearing. The battle was approaching and, with it, the time to part with some friends. "I wish they were there. And my household. And my allies. We would do the Extreme Magic and vaporize those marines like we did with the medium thing."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""The medium thing? It kept coming back, I thought" he sighed. "But in the end you did it, you destroyed it before Ill Illah could enter the World" a pained expression suddenly appeared in his face. "Sorry, sorry, I shouldn´t have mentioned the dark god you later helped enter, but…"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""I know you think I´m forgiven and perhaps for some people in my world I am… it´s me who couldn´t forgive myself. I was so fucking stupid…"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""You always are, you stupiddness" Judal said. When was he finally going to stop wallowing in guilt and self-pity? Most of those people wanted it, he did nothing wrong in their eyes. The only person he betrayed was himself and he should have already forgiven himself. "You always made things different too."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"-Back in Impel Down-/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""We have to escape in this second!" Jafar said, looking to the poisonous man that was quickly approaching him. finally, the little Mugiwara thought a plan and managed to send them flying to the ship Crocodile and Jimbei stole for them. The albino got the wheel and, remembering the days of his travelling with Sinbad, started to navigate the Tarai Curent./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""What are we going to do now, Jafar?" Yamuraiha walked up to him, trying to use her water magic to take the ship through another path, failing because the current was too strong. "We are meeting Sinbad, I´m glad for that, but… I don´t want to go to that war. We are not longer fighting King candidates, we and Sin could actually…"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""It´s going to be okay, yes?" Drakon stopped her. "Everything has always gone okay and this time too" the dragon sat down. "We are getting together, rescuing that Ace guy, helping them escape and… and return to our world with our king. Everything is going to be okay."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""In a war nothing goes okay"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Everything is going to be okay, listen to me in this" he stared into her eyes. "Everything is going to be okay."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Trust Sinbad" Masrur voiced the collective thought. The man was of few words, but he knew when his friends need a few words of encouragement. "And the Mugiwara boy too is one of a kind. Together I´m sure there is no force that´s going to stop them. And that problematic magi is stronger than anyone could believe. They are going to make it."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"-In another place-/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""Where are you going now?" Sabo asked Pisti and Spartos, who were trying to leave Baltigo, as if he wasn´t eavesdropping. "Okay, okay, I know" he followed them. "It´s horrible that Dragon denied your request, but you don't have to…"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""He said his army isn´t going to take part in the War, but we can do whatever we want as our own persons" the knight answered, exiting the castle. He and his companion started searching around the deck, trying to find some ship they could use. "So we are taking a boat or something like that and go to help in Marineford. I hope that we make it in time…"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;""A boat? Dude, you are dreaming if you want to reach Marineford in a boat" he made a sound and a big black bird arrived. "Do you two want t ride?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"Okay, towards Marineford. And now they are complete, plus a surprise for the D.s. Who want them to meet in the next chapter? Review!/span/p