Hola, amigos! TheRealEvanSG here with another quick update! For those of you who don't already know, and I know some do, I have posted another fanfiction separate from this series, Gender Confusion Confusion, which is about Luffy and Zoro turning into girls and another dangerous threat descending onto the crew! Check it out when you have time, ne? Okay, here are my replies to reviews on the previous chapter:

DarkLord98: Just that... he can control and create armor, as well as anything that can be considered armor!

SugoiAuthorToBe: I know, right? It's a toss-up which One Piece character is the uncoolest of them all, Ivankov or Wapol. I'd say Wapol, because he's an enemy, but Ivankov is a close second. That stupid okama scarred me for life the first time I saw him. XD

Chapter 25 start!

Ascend the Drum Rockies!

Rabbits Aren't So Evil After All

Previously on One Piece Full Blast:

"MATTE, BITCHES!" yelled an angry - - and slightly familiar - - voice. "YOU'VE BROUGHT SO MANY HUMILIATIONS UPON ME! I'M GONNA MAKE YOU PAY!"

One of the other men riding the White Walkie, a guy covered almost completely in armor, nodded, the metal of his armor clanking as he did so. "Yeah! We're gonna beat you to pieces-kuranku!"

Lucy and Diamond stopped and turned. Charging towards them were four men riding a large, hippo-like creature known as a White Walkie.

Wapol and his three most powerful underlings had returned.

-BACK TO FIRST PERSON P.O.V.-

We regarded the idiots riding the weird-ass hippo thing curiously. It was a bit impressive that Wapol had survived Lucy's Gum-Gum Bazooka move, considering he was a complete moron, but the guy in armor really confused me. I remembered this arc pretty well, and I don't think there was anything about a man dressed entirely in gray, shining armor. My eye still twitched like mad at the sight of the clown-jester dude.

The hippo riders rushed in front of us and turned so sharply they were nearly thrown off their ride.

Lucy blinked, body an unhealthy pink color. "Eh? Nani? Who are you guys?"

The purple-haired king glared at my captain as I shifted Sanji into a more comfortable position on my back. "How dare you bring such humiliations upon me!" he growled. "I'm gonna chew you two up!"

"It's Wapol, Lucy-chan," I informed her, and her eyes widened a little in recognition.

She glared at him this time. "Move."

"Well ain't you kabas?" the man huffed. I tilted my head and wondered why he had just called us hippos. "Why the hell should I move!?" (He was effectively blocking our path.) "The girl on your back and the the guy on that pink-clothed girl's back look like they're dead."

"You should just give up on them!" Armor Dude crowed.

Deciding it just wasn't worth it to fight them now, though I was curious about the newcomer to Wapol's crew, we simply ignored him, turned, and began to walk around the giant hippo. We made it around the animal and about a hundred feet down the path before Wapol shouted something again.

"Chess!" he called. "I've just thought of a new law! Write this down!"

"Hai!" said the voice of the clown-jester.

"Anyone who ignores the King is to be executed... at that very instant! You two! I'll start with the ones ignoring me the most! Kill the sick and injured ones first!"

Lucy and I froze and turned to them with a sharp glare, shouting "NANI!?" in infuriated rage. The clown-jester (Chess?), the afro-dude, and the armor-covered man had leaped off of the four-man hippo and were now flying at us.

Our three enemies landed lightly on the snow and charged forward, legs pumping like pistons, achieving a speed much faster than we could.

"Leave the girl on her back to me!" Chess said.

Afro-Dude nodded. "Then I'll take the unconscious guy on the other one's back!"

"I call the brown-haired girl when you two're done with those guys-kuranku!" Armor Dude called.

Chess and Afro-Dude kicked off the snow, jumping high into the air. The man with the afro raised his fists, which were stuck inside what looked like black boxing gloves, and shouted, "Eat this! Surprising Marimo!"

Spikes popped out of the gloves as he descended towards me, aiming for Sanji's head. I grunted in mild shock and dived away, sliding to a stop on the snow. I nearly lost my footing, but managed to right myself at the last second and began to charge the offender, but froze as I realized something: If Lucy couldn't fight because Nami would absorb all the pain, then I was in pretty much the exact same situation except with a certain love cook.

Lucy had begun to rush the man as well, but she must have suddenly remembered what we had told her earlier, because she, too, froze, though she clearly didn't like it. Her face was twisted into a near-snarl, but Lucy growled in anger and nodded at me, taking off up the path. I followed suit, and arrows shot into the ground in our wake, probably fired from Chess's bow.

"SHIT!" Lucy roared, blowing steam out of her nose. "I'LL REMEMBER THIS!"

"This ain't good!" I growled. "Oi, bakas! If you wanna live, don't you dare follow us! We've been plagued by those Lapahns since we set foot on this stupid mountain, and if you follow us, you'll get attacked by them, too!"

I wasn't worried about them, I was just giving them a hell of a good reason to leave us alone.

"You coward!" I heard Afro-Dude taunt.

There was the whistle of several more arrows soaring through the air at us and we dodged just in time. Meanwhile, the clown-jester was yelling, "It's futile!"

"Just give it up already," came the smooth voice of the guy in armor. "Armor-Armor... Frisbee-kuranku!"

I blinked and looked over my shoulder, past Sanji, to see a highly reflective shield with a keen edge spinning towards me. My eyes widened and I leaped into the air, a foot catching the top of the shield. I used this fact to kick off of it, tumbling down to the snow.

I scrambled to my feet and saw the shield coming back.

"Dammit!" I gasped. "Not good! Tropical Tempest Body!"

Water was pulled out of the air and warmed so that it didn't cause me any excess cold. It wrapped itself around my entire body as I ran, and the shield smashed into me. I panted from the effort of maintaining this move, but my body only rocked back slightly, otherwise totally uninjured... well, okay, I figured that I might have a bruise on my stomach tomorrow, but that was it. The shield, however, cracked and shattered. I ripped through the falling metal shards and continued to sprint up the slope.

"That was really cool!" Lucy approved when I caught up to her. "What did you do?"

I released the water from around me and Sanji. "Tempest Body," I explained through short breaths, "is a special move I learned in the 'month-and-a-half' of training after the curse. I cover myself in water, harden it a little, and it protects me from most attacks. That bastard Fennu tried to use it to save himself from getting stabbed by me, but Aeso abandoned him and the water became normal."

"Oh," she said simply. "Why didn't you use it in Little Garden?"

"It takes a lot of energy out of me, almost as much Blue Getsuga Tensho used to. That's why I'll only use it in situations like this, when I have no other choice."

Mentioning Fennu brought the image of his blood-covered corpse to mind. I shuddered and forced it back.

My straw hatted captain glanced back and panted a little. "Nani?" she muttered.

"What's the matter?" I asked, glad to have a distraction from the memory of the fishman I'd killed last month.

She frowned. "No one's there... Why's that?"

"Maybe they gave up."

My neck tingled in a danger warning and I looked ahead, cursing the Lapahns for coming back for us - - but wait! There weren't any Lapahns! Just a wide mouth closing down on us and emerging from a pile of tumbling snow.

Wait, what?

I yelped in surprise, a short "KYA!" Lucy heard it and I swore her cheeks got pinker, but she looked ahead and saw what was troubling me. The giant maw snapped shut just as the two of us sprung away.

"What the hell!?" I shrieked. "The snow's trying to eat us!? WHAT'S UP WITH THIS STUPID MOUNTAIN!?"

"This is our Snow Country's specialty," a voice behind me said. "White concealment! Snow Makeup!"

We still hadn't landed, and we looked back to see Chess, Afro-Dude, and Armor Dude almost swimming through the snow, the Armor Dude with his spiked boxing gloves in full out pokey mode. Armor Dude was hovering on a flying shield and had grown spikes on his metal gloves. Chess was pointing two arrows at us.

The sniper clown sneered. "If you're that weak, death will come instantly!"

"This game is over-kuranku!" Armor Dude added.

"CHECKMATE!" all three bellowed.

There was no where to run. They had leaped out of the snow and were now flying at us in a direct collision course. If we attacked, we would just hurt Nami and/or Sanji. We couldn't dodge because we were still falling. In a second, the enemy would be upon us, and then it would all be over.

"NO FUCKIN' WAY!" I howled.

Lucy was furious. "STOP IT!"

Just as Chess, Afro-Dude, and Armor Dude smirked and began their attacks, three flashes of white sped past us. Suddenly, three huge Lapahns were there and had spied their clawed fists at the bastards. All three of the enemies were blown back with the blunt force of the attack, spinning around in a dizzying manner. Lucy and I were allowed to land on the snow safely, though our eyes were wide in shock.

"The polar bears?" Lucy gasped.

I blinked. "They're... helping us?"

Oh yeah, that's right. I remember this happening in the original series. I also realized that the mouth coming out of the snow must've been none other than that bastard king. I felt incredibly stupid for thinking it was the snow itself.

The Lapahns hovered in midair for a brief second, then fell to the ground, gravity taking over their rounded bodies.

"LAPAHNS!?" Wapol yelled, gaping. The two rabbits were standing in a classic karate stance, blocking the other pirates' advance. "But... but they never bond with humans!"

One of the rabbits turned to us and seemed to grin, its red eyes sparkling. Lucy's own eyes widened in recognition. "You..." she said.

I suddenly remembered the baby Lapahn we had encountered about... eh... fifteen minutes ago? I had been against helping it at first, but Lucy was so kindhearted she would even help somebody that had been trying to kill her moments before, and we had (reluctantly, in my case) unearthed the baby Lapahn's parent from the snow. Well, I assumed the one we saved was the baby's parent, due to the thing's miserable crying.

The one looking at us now looked exactly like the Lapahn we had saved. It even had the seem indent on its cheek. Its child was sitting on its back. The two of them raised their fists in thanks.

I grinned. "You guys aren't so bad after all!"

Lucy was ecstatic. "ARIGATOU! You're a big help!"

We once again made for the cylindrical mountain as Chess, Afro-Dude, and Armor Dude struggled to their feet, though Armor Dude seemed a lot less hurt than his comrades. Maybe this was due to his armor. I supposed even the stupidest-looking things had a use in this world. As we ran, we passed more and more of the Lapahns, all of which were nodding at us in thanks.

"Don't let them escape!" we heard Wapol command the degenerates.

"Hai, sir!"

There was the sound of the Lapahns growling in anger, and then before we knew it, the two of us were all alone on the mountain path, our only companions being ourselves and the unconscious people we were carrying.

THIRTY MINUTES LATER

"Doctor..." Lucy groaned, struggling through the knee-deep snow. Night was falling and the sky was darkening, or at least, that was what it looked like. With a small blizzard swirling around us, it was hard to tell. "Doctor..."

"Save... your breath..." I panted, shivering from the cold. My energy was depleting quickly now, and I wondered how I was gonna make it up the mountain. "We'll... need it... for the journey... ahead of... us..."

We pushed through the snow. Another potent gust of frigid wind ripped across the path, and before us, what seemed to be a wall of snow parted. Suddenly a steep rock face was visible right in front of us. I gasped and craned my neck back, looking up.

I couldn't even see the top of the cliff, though I could almost see the waves of wind tearing down the mountain and attempting to push us deeper into the snow.

"We're... here..." I managed.

"The mountain..." Lucy said. "I can't even see the top."

We panted some more, standing still.

"At the top... there is a doctor..."

I looked at her and nodded shortly. "Yeah. Just... three miles of mountain."

The straw hatted girl glanced at Nami. "Just... hang in a little... longer, okay? Nami, Sanji?"

I wrapped water around my body, as well as Sanji's, and warmed it, though I only hardened it around my hands and my feet to reduce the exhaustion. "Water... Armor..." I gasped. "Yosha... let's do this!"

Lucy tied the cloth holding Nami to her body tighter, then nodded.

Together, we placed our hands on the frozen mountain and began the long climb. Both of us had discarded our shoes so we could get a better grip on the mountain, though my feet were still protected from the weather and the sharpness of the rocks because of my modified Water Body. It was tough, but we pushed onward, simply because there was no other choice.

On Snow Mountain, I lost track of time. Seconds turned into minutes, minutes dragged on and became hours. Climbing that damned mountain was the toughest thing I had ever done in my life, and I had an extra source of warmth, as well as protection for my hands and feet. The water wrapped around both me and Sanji kept the unconscious pirate in place, but it also drastically weakened me. That wasn't the only cause of my trouble, however. Once, I reached for a crack in the mountain, thinking I'd make it my next handhold, but my fingers brushed uselessly against a smooth part of the cliff and suddenly I found myself hanging in the air, supported by nothing, trapped in a free fall all the way back down to the bottom. I screamed in terror, somehow managing to maintain the layer of warm water around me. The strong wind attempted to rip the cry away from me, but Lucy must've heard it, because the next thing I knew, I was simply hovering in midair, a rubbery hand wrapped around me.

I looked down, hanging above the path hundreds upon hundreds of feet below.

That was a huge mistake.

I couldn't even see the bottom anymore, and I got a terrible sense of vertigo. I almost threw up, but managed to force the bile back down at the last second, leaving a sour taste in my mouth and an unpleasant feeling in the back of my throat.

Lucy stretched me back up and allowed me to regain my grip and footing on the mountain, then we continued up, slightly more afraid than before.

My muscles were freakin' sore. Every single move felt like I was waging war against my nervous system. And still I ascended the mountain, growling in agony. But as bad as it was for me, it was a thousand times worse for Lucy. I had once glanced over at her and saw her sliding down the mountain, screaming in pain, somehow keeping her grip, but tearing up the ends of her fingers and feet in the process, lines of red blood trailing above her as she fell.

"Oh my gods!" I gasped. "Lu - - LUCY!"

"Save... your... breath..." I heard her retort as she finally halted to a stop, tears building in her eyes.

I felt myself crying. "You... baka! You're hurting yourself... too badly! You'll be killed!"

She shook her head stubbornly and started climbing again. "Don't worry about me... Just... keep climbing... Doctor..."

I didn't like it, but she was right. Up here, there was nothing to do but climb. Well, except for falling. You could do that, too. But that didn't seem like a very good option to me,so I took my captain's advice and continued scaling the cliff, panting in exhaustion. My muscles screamed in protest. Every bone in my body yelled in pain.

The bad news? I was on almost zero energy.

The good news? I was on almost zero energy.

Which is to stay, I still had some left.

As the deadly ascent continued, I found myself muttering the same mantra as Lucy: "Doctor... Doctor... Doctor..." It was like a was a broken record player, only able to say the same thing over and over. I blocked out everything else from my mind, all the agony I was inflicting upon myself, the feeling that my body needed to shut down right now, the animalistic howling and snarling of the wind as it punched me relentlessly. I ignored all of it, focusing my entire being, my entire soul, on the climb. The wind picked up so badly it cut through the layer of protective water around me, and it swirled around Chiwohiku, nearly ripping it from its belt around my midsection. I gasped and held it in place with my mind, then struggled upwards again. After what seemed like days, but was probably a few hours, the steepness of the slope lessened. The endless rock wall gave way to a floor of snow which my water-covered hands and feet plunged into. Ahead of me, I spied a faint castle jutting out of the descending gloom.

I had done it. I had reached the top.

Grinning weakly to myself, I allowed my fatigue to take the wheel, welcoming unconsciousness with open arms.

There we go! The newest chapter of Across the Sands! Sorry it was so late. Play practice doesn't end until 6:00 now, so basically the only time I can work on this fanfiction is the weekend. I didn't even get to begin this chapter until this morning.

Diamond: That... was the worst... freaking experience... ever...

Lucy: We made it... to the doctor!

I hope you enjoyed this new update! For those of you who are new to the One Piece: Full Blast series, I'd really appreciate it if you would follow and/or favorite this novel of the story, though it isn't necessary for you to do so. I'd also love to hear what you have to say about this fanfiction, so please review! Oh, and in case you forgot, please check out my newest fanfiction, Gender Confusion Confusion! I promise you won't be disappointed, although there's no Damon or Diamond in that story.

-TheRealEvanSG