This is it, folks. Who will come out on top?

The battle ground was deathly silent. There were no birds in the sky and the wind had completely stopped. Even the waves had calmed down. It was almost as if nature itself had decided to stop what it was doing and watch the oncoming battle.

Off to the side near their ship, the straw hat pirates looked on. Nami, Sanji, Chopper, and Usopp were all openly cheering her on, though Sanji was decidedly more open with it. "Vivi-chwan, when you kick this guy's ass I will give you a nice full body massage! With oils! And you can wear your bikini! Or not!" This comment promptly got him a fist to his head, but he didn't care as it was Nami that hit him.

Luffy and Robin had opted to simply standing and watching their newest member fight with small grins on their faces, though for different reasons. Luffy already knew that he had nothing to worry about with Vivi. She had gotten infinitely times better that she was when they first met. This guy may have had his devil fruit ability, but against Vivi, that wouldn't matter. So Luffy stood and watched, confident that his nakama would hold up her end of their little bargain.

Robin, on the other hand, was actually quite interested in just how much the former princess had improved. Yes in Alabasta she had easily defeated her in their only battle, so she didn't expect much at first. But when the captain said that she wanted to fight this battle on her own, her eyebrow raised slightly. When she looked at the princess this time, actually looked at her, there was something else in her eyes. Something that wasn't there before. This intrigued her, so she would look on and see just how much she had indeed improved.

Kohza stood looking down his former friend, one he had at one time respected above all else. The confident look on his face had already left when she started fighting him. Then he found out that his colleagues had failed as well, and the straw hat crew had arrived to help out. Now the anger had started to set in. Now he knew for a fact that he was not getting his way. 'Fine then. If I can't have her then no one will.' "Vivi, you said at the start of this battle that you were going to kill me. Well, that is not going to happen, because the one that will be leaving this battle a corpse will be you."

Vivi listen to him, her eyes finally growing more serious. The raging inferno that burned in her eyes only intensified with his statement. 'Looks like he's done taking it easy on me.' However she would not say anything back to him. The time for words was over. Her fingers tensed as she prepared herself for this fight. 'Only one of us will walk away from this.'

The air grew thick with anticipation. Time seemed to slow almost to a halt. The crew waited anxiously to see who would make the first move, and to see who would leave the battle field.

"Mizu Blast!" Kohza brought his hands up and two powerful streams of water rushed towards Vivi. They came so fast that Vivi almost didn't have time to react.

"Peacock Spider Dome!" She created her dome again, but this time the blast actually knocked her backwards. Kohza intensified the blast, hoping to break through her dome. Vivi was able to roll the dome to the side, narrowly escaping having her strings broken through. She dropped the dome, and prepared the counter attack, wrapping her strings around each other to form her one big string.

"Peacock Spider Whip!" She brought it around Kohza's side. He fired his blast at the string to stop it, and just barely did. He turned back to Vivi, and narrowly avoided getting pierced by the string that she shot towards him.

"Mizu Machine Gun!" He fired of his rapid fire water balls at her. She attempted to dodge them all, even using her strings to knock a few away when she couldn't, but was unsuccessful, and got caught by one on her leg. Kohza saw his window and unloaded, never letting up. Vivi was getting pummeled by his attacks, but fought through the pain and attacked.

Peacock String Guillotine!" Shooting two strings out, one on either side of Kohza, she brought them together in a scissor motion. Because she didn't have any real power behind it though, she was not able to remove his upper torso from his lower torso, instead crushing a couple of his ribs. His attack stopped and she was freed, not wasting a minute. She rushed towards him before he could recover.

"Peacock Spider Revolution!" She spun around in a full 360 degree spin. Kohza was unable to move out of the way fast enough and was knocked hard against the side of a building.

Vivi stopped then, waiting to see whether or not her latest onslaught had done any real damage to him. Her eyes narrowed slightly when Kohza stood from the small pile of rubble that he had been buried under. His eyes now matched hers. "Ok, let's see how you like this one. Mizu….." He gathered the water and formed it into a drill like shape. He did a grossly overexagerated thrust with his arms towards her. "Drill!" He fired the drill at an incredible speed.

Vivi had just enough time to move a few feet to the side, and that turned out to be just enough to evade the high speed drill. A few seconds later she became extremely glad that she didn't try to block it. The water drill had made its way cleanly through a building, leaving no cracks in the stone structure.

Vivi turned back to Kohza, and for the first time since the battle began she showed a hint of fear in her eyes. Kohza saw this and pressed his advantage. "Have some more!" He summoned a few more drills and fired them off.

Vivi rolled to the right and dodged one, then made a near fatal mistake when she jumped into the air to dodge the second one. Kohza smiled, thinking that he had her right where he wanted her.

Vivi, however, already anticipated this; evident by the fact that right before she jumped she dug a couple of her strings into the ground. So merely a second before she would have been impaled, she pulled hard and slammed herself into the ground. She stood back up and faced him once again.

Even though it angered Kohza that his latest move was unsuccessful, he held his composure down. Then something hit him. "Well, if she can't block it then all I have to do is make her try to block it. Just like this.' He formed one more drill and aimed it for…..

The straw hat crew's ship. "Go ahead and avoid this one, Vivi! Mizu Drill!" He fired the drill.

Vivi rushed over to stand in front of the ship. 'No choice, I have to try.' "Peacock Spider Bullet!" She formed her giant string once more and fired it at the center of the drill.

The two met at the half way point, both parties with intense looks on their faces.

And Vivi's string went right through the drill. Not wasting a minute she separated the string while it was still in the drill and spun her strings like a fan, causing the drill to break apart.

Kohza looked on in shock. "No! But how did she….?!?!" Unfortunately she didn't give him anymore time to ponder this as she latched her string to the top of a tall light post and launched herself into the sky. She then got all of her strings ready for her attack, inspired by her captain. "Peacock Spider………STORM!!" And just like her captain did against Crocodile, she fired her strings at Kohza in rapid succession.

Kohza looked on in shock as the onslaught of strings came at him. All he could do was cover up as the strings came at him, piercing his skin lightly on various parts of his body.

Vivi didn't let up. In fact the moment the first string connected she upped the power, letting out a vicious war cry, almost making it seem like she had hundreds of strings instead of just eight.

Once she was sure that she had done enough damage she stopped it and landed on the ground, panting like she had just run a marathon. Kohza was standing there, his body nearly covered with puncture wounds and scratches. Soon he lost the energy to stand and fell to his knees.

Vivi stood up straight and stared directly into his eyes, which were still staring defiantly back at hers. "And now to end it." She set up one of her strings.

Kohza coughed up a little blood and then spoke. "Can you do it though? Now that I can't defend myself, now that you have me in the best possible position, can you really go through with it?"

"I told you at the beginning that I was going to kill you, and that is what I am going to do." At this she had heard a few confused gasps from her crew. 'That's right they don't know.' She didn't want to explain it just yet. 'I'll wait until afterwards. They'll understand.' She steeled herself once again and attacked. "Peacock String Bul….." A hand appeared out of nowhere and held on to her arm before she could shoot out her string. She looked at the hand, and saw that she had one extra arm.

Steaming she turned back and looked straight into the eyes of the ships archaeologist. "Robin! Why did you stop me? I though you agreed to let me handle this on my own!"

Robin looked up at her, completely unfazed by her angry outburst. "This was an order from sencho-san."

Vivi was in near shock. She slowly turned to the stern look of her captain. "L-Luffy, why?" Her voice broke a couple of times when she spoke.

"Why do you want to kill him, Vivi?"

"He threatened to kill my father, and tried to kill all of you. He doesn't deserve to live. So please let me finish this."

"The battle is finished right? You beat him. You already did what we agreed to."

At this Robin spoke up. "Besides, princess-san, if you kill him, wouldn't that make you worse that he is? If you kill him even though he didn't kill anyone, then who is really the monster here?"

At this Vivi's eyes cleared up, the fire that burned inside of them leaving so fast it almost seemed as if they were never there. She was fighting for revenge, but for what? He didn't actually kill anyone, yet here she was, ready to kill him over something he didn't do.

Her arms hung at her side, her strings retracted into her sleeves, and her hair hung over her face. "Leave, Kohza, and never bother me, this crew, or my father again." She began to walk back towards the ship to rejoin her crew.

Kohza, however, had other plans. "Straw hat, you think I will let you escape with showing mercy towards me? Well you have another thing coming." Mizu…." Water rose from the sea and formed into its drill shape. And it was behind Luffy. Vivi just barely saw this. "No!" She turned and fired her string at Kohza.

Dri….." The attack would never initiate as her string would pierce his chest, his heart, coming out of his back. They both stood there, frozen in time. The crew looked on with awed expressions on their faces. Vivi had finally realized what she had done and quickly retracted her string. Kohza stood there for a good 10 seconds before finally falling on his face.

Vivi looked on in horror. "No. K-Kohza. No. No, no, no." She had dropped to her hands and knees, her eyes beginning to well up with tears. "I killed him. I killed him."

The crew looked on, not daring to guess how she was feeling right now. Robin was the first one to move, heading to the side of the fallen princess. "Come on, princess-san; let's get you back to the ship." She gently lifted her to her feet and led her to the ship.

"Oi everyone, if you still need to get something from here go get it. We set sail as soon as we are ready." Luffy lowered his hat over his face to cover his eyes and walked back to the ship slowly. "But Luffy, there's no one here, so we can't by anything." Luffy kept on walking as he spoke. "Then just take it."

The crew was somewhat surprised by their captain's attitude but did not question it.

However, there was one last loose end that no one thought would come up again. "Spring Snipe!" Bellamy came flying out from the building that Vivi had knocked him through, and was aiming for Luffy. "Straw hat, you won't be getting off that easily!"

Unfortunately for Bellamy, he would. "Oni……………..Giri!" From God knows where, Zoro came, slashing at Bellamy with his swords. Bellamy skidded to a stop right in front of Luffy.

"Ah, don't tell me that I missed everything." Zoro stood up straight and saw that the crew was just about to separate once again.

"Yeah, you did. Where the hell were you, sword boy?" The cook spoke from behind him.

"Looking for the ship, but no matter where I went I always ended up back at the same stupid cliff."

"Baka, I swear, you have no sense of direction whatsoever." Nami said from the ship.

While Nami told Zoro about what happened, Sanji, Usopp, And Chopper went to retrieve what ever provisions that they needed. Robin stayed in the ladies quarters with Vivi, who had begun to cry over everything that had happened. Luffy began prepping the ship for take-off with the help of Zoro, after he was done talking to Nami.

Once the others came back, the ship set sail for the next island. Vivi never left the room and either Robin or Nami were in there to at least try to comfort her. Sanji offered anything he could to her, even the massage that he promised her. That got him a boot to the face by Nami. Zoro slept, Usopp got back to work of Nami's weapon, and Chopper went around mending everyone's injuries.

Luffy was on his favorite seat, his big stupid grin back on his face. Apparently whatever was bothering him before had all but vanished. He stayed there until the night time, only to be told that he had night watch this evening, so he retook his position on his seat.

He was looking up at the night sky, seemingly admiring the stars when he heard footsteps behind him. When he turned around, he saw the blue-haired princess standing there. "Um, Luffy? Do you mind if I stay with you tonight?"

Ok. That. Was. Tiring. Hopefully it will be worth it. R&R&have a nice day.