Final fight part two.
Luffy looked up at the pillar of water with a completely blank look on his face. "Oh, that could be trouble."
Vivi, on the other hand, had gone into near complete shock. She had already figured out that he had indeed gotten himself a devil fruit ability. That much was obvious by the little speech that he had put on, combined with the fact that, even if he was completely out of his mind at the moment, if he wanted to have any chance of even competing with Luffy, he was going to need one. But this was the last things she had expected him to come up with. "M-mizu? B-b-but I thought that it was just a legend. Just a fairy tale that was told to us when we were kids. There was no way that such a fruit could possibly exist. That would make the user….."
"Invincible." Kohza finished for her. "Yes such a fruit does exist. Far away from civilization in the deepest, most dangerous parts of the Alabastan sea of sand. There lied a secret cave where a lone fruit waited for someone to claim it. And now that I have, no one, not even Crocodile himself, can stop me."
Bellamy smirked. "So get ready straw hat. You may have gotten yourself out of a few scrapes in the past, but this is one fight that you have no chance of walking out of. Spring Snipe!" He launched himself at Luffy.
"That again. Gomu Gomu no Fuu….." But he never finished because Kohza picked that moment to use his powers to wrap sea water around his legs, rendering his powers useless. Bellamy hit Luffy straight in the face, sending him flying back. Luffy hit the building behind him with a wicked thud.
Luffy stood up again and looked at the two men. "Fine then you go first. Gomu Gomu No Pistol!" he sent his fist straight for Kohza. Kohza simply smiled and raised his hand, creating a massive wall of water in front of himself. When Luffy's fist touched the wall, it retracted straight back to the owner.
Luffy observed the scene. "Damnit. I can't hit either of them because of the water." Then he saw his answer. "Of course. Vivi! You aren't affected by the water. I need you to help me."
Vivi was still standing off to the side, watching the scene unfold, still not able to completely register what was going on. "Kohza, why…."
"Vivi!" Luffy tried to get her attention, but didn't succeed as he was once again knocked back, this time by a giant wave that Kohza had summoned.
"So straw hat, are you ready to surrender just yet, or are you still thirsty for more?" He chuckled at his own joke.
Luffy slowly stood up. "Man this isn't good. Vivi! Come on, help me." He gave it one more try, but was met with the same response.
"Damnit, he might be right. I might not be walking out of this one by the time this is over. Where are the others?"
"Oh, I doubt that they will get here anytime soon. Even if they get past my first surprise I still have another waiting." Kohza smiled wickedly
Near the middle of the island…..
Robin and Chopper had been fighting through the waves of bandits that had decided to show up. It seemed as if there was no end to them. That was when Robin noticed the water and how it was seemingly shifting unnaturally.
"Doctor-san, can you keep them busy for a second? I'm going to see what's going on at the ship."
"Go on ahead Robin. I can handle this."
She nodded and crossed her arms. "Eye Fleur." An eye appeared on one of the buildings near the fight as she saw it unfold. "This is bad. Sencho-san is losing his fight and princess-san seems like she is in shock right now."
"How is Luffy losing? Whoever it is can't possibly be much worse that Crocodile right?" Chopper asked knocking away another bandit.
"The man he is fighting appears to have a devil fruit ability. An ability that lets him control water."
"WHAAAAAAT? An ability like that exists?" Chopper was nearly shocked right out of his fur but continued to fight.
"Even if there isn't much we could possibly do, we must hurry and help him." She said a slight hint of worry in her voice.
"Robin-chwaaaaaan! I am here to rescue you." The slightly perverted tones of the ships cook could be heard from behind them, and sure enough Sanji and Usopp were coming up from their own little adventure.
"Sanji, Usopp, you guys alright?" Chopper asked now finished with the bandits.
"Aside from a few cuts and bruises, yea were good. Don't supposed you guys were attacked by someone were you?" Usopp spoke.
"That is correct long-nose-kun. It was someone tat Sencho-san had already defeated. Apparently they were trying to get revenge on him through us."
"I see. Well I guess we should head back to the ship. Then since I'm sure he is probably gonna be a target as well."
"A little too late there. He's already being attacked, and according to Robin he's getting beat. We will explain on the wa-. Huh?" Something caught Chopper's attention. "Oh, it's Nami. Let's get to her so we can explain all of this."
On the other side of the island.
"Argh, why do I always end up back at this cliff?" Zoro looked over the cliff for the fifth time now. "No time to waste, I have to get back to the ship now, before Luffy steals all the fun." And once again he took off……….
In the complete opposite direction of the ship.
Back at the ship……..
Luffy was starting to wind down a little. In truth he was never really able to get things going in the first place. Every time he even attempted to mount some kind of offense, Kohza would simply use his powers to stop him in his tracks. The rest of his crew had not come back yet and he wasn't even sure if they even knew that he was in trouble. His only real hope at this point was Vivi, who still remained unresponsive off to the side.
"Ok I guess we are done playing with you now. Mizu bubble!" He created a giant bubble full of water with Luffy inside of it. Luffy never had a chance to escape from its grasp.
Vivi watched on in horror. She was torn inside. On the one hand she knew she had to help Luffy. He was her captain. She needed him to survive. He was the reason she was alive today, the reason her country was still there, and part of the reason she had decided to leave her country. If he died there would be no reason for her to stay with the ship.
On the other hand Kohza had been her friend since before she could remember. There was no way that she could ever raise any kind of weapon against him. Even if he was different from the Kohza that she knew he was still leader in her mind. "Kohza, leader, please stop this now. He has done nothing to you please release him."
"Hmm, no. Not until you agree to return to Alabasta with me. And if you still refuse to comply then maybe I should try someone a little closer to home. Like, oh I don't know maybe, Cobra?"
She froze. "You…. you would…."
"He is at fault as well for letting you leave. He will share the same watery grave that this filthy pirate is buried in." Luffy's body had almost gone limp. He was running out of air fast. "oh, you should have seen his face when I told him that I was bringing you back. He tried to stop me too, but the sword that I held next to his neck quickly changed his mind."
'He really isn't the same person that I once knew. Fine, I see how it is then.' She hung her head down low, letting her bangs hide her face. Finally…. "Kohza?"
"Yes Vivi, have you fina-" His words were cut off as he was yanked back by his neck and thrown against a building.
The bubble disappeared and Luffy was set free. Bellamy looked over at Kohza and found a sort of string like thing wrapped around his neck. A string that led back to Vivi.
"I'm sorry Kohza. I know that we may have been friends for a long time, and for that time I had the upmost respect for you. You tried to kill Luffy, and even though I knew something was wrong with you then, I still believed that deep down you were still the Kohza that I knew. But when you threatened to kill my father that was the last straw. I won't simply stop at defeating you." She raised her head and looked straight at Kohza. If the eyes were the windows to one's soul, then hers was a raging inferno that showed no signs of stopping. "Kohza, I'm going to kill you."
Yay, we finally get to see a darker side to Vivi, something that I'm sure most of you will somewhat appreciate considering how soft she was in the anime.
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