Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece
Like the last chapter it was snowing heavily when I edited it, this time the roads were frozen so I couldn't leave the house. Thank you CuddlyChristina for helping me write this.
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She gave her a very strong leer, and began to try and get out as quickly as she could. Didn't take her long until she was hacking at the entrapment with her sword.
Soon, the entrapment found itself breaking down, slowly but surely. Eventually, Charlotte broke out, and would quickly charge after her. Rupert however rolled his way up to her ready to smash her with his root muscles.
To their surprise, Jio made the save for Charlotte, as after he struck him with his staff, he told her, "I'll try and deal with this tree man. You go after the girl and possibly her friend, too!"
"I don't think she has any friends, but thanks."
Jio talked big, but he still couldn't use Rollicka's power of rock manipulation to hurt the tree monster, and he was glaring with great immensity at him.
"Try and mess with me, kid. Go ahead, I dare you." he taunted towards Rupert as he prepared his attack.
The berserker growled before his eyes illuminated when he charged. Jio struck hard with his staff, dealing fair damage to Rupert in the torso area. And when Rupert swung his arm, he jumped out of his path.
He narrowly took a small hit, but that didn't stop him attacking him again with his weapon. This time his shard got Rupert in the jugular. Rupert shuddered as he took the hit, before slumping to the ground and clutching at the area as it bled instantly.
Even in his monstrous form, he was still sensitive to pain. However, the blue-haired girl seemed to have no intention of losing to Charlotte, unlike him.
Charlotte tried hitting her while she was scribbling on her notebook. Whatever was being written made all her punches miss.
"I can control every way you try to hit me. And I know which way to dodge when you try." The blue haired girl gloated.
Charlotte grit her teeth, before thinking to herself: There needs to be a way to take her out!
Then the blue-haired girl pulled something out, a poster. She stretched the poster from her head to her toes and then walked into it. The poster looked malleable, but it stretched until it finally concealed her skin, then it changed her. She started to grow bigger in bulk like Rupert did, but instead of being topless she kept a bikini top, her long hair turned into a ponytail, and her feet turned into bulky dinosaur feet with four sharp toes.
"Oh shit..." Hardy muttered as he, Charlotte and the others noticed the girl's change of size and appearance.
"Is this her real form?!" Henry asked, looking genuinely shocked.
Charlotte knew different. Whatever power she possessed seemed to also change her into whatever she made into a poster.
"So that's your ability?" she asked. "That's nothing compared to...this!" she added, before morphing into her wolf form.
Although Charlotte was once again in her intimidating form, she was barely in a feat of strength compared to her enemy. She scratched her wolf claws only to have one nail ripped off by the blue haired giant gripping her claw.
Charlotte reacted by growling in slight pain, though she still kept her angry and hungry eyes on her. "One nail down means you're starting to become weaker, aren't you?" the girl asked her.
Charlotte knew that was a rhetorical question so growling was the best response to a sadistic small chested girl who only wanted to see her cry.
'Don't think you'll try and take me down a peg,' Charlotte said internally as she climbed up to her torso and used her uninjured hand to claw at her.
Her claw finally left a mark on her skin. She made a very annoyed remark after being hurt. "That hurt, you fat pig."
Charlotte flinched. No one has called her that in over seven years, but that was a name she was referred to by a lot of boys growing up.
"That's what you want to call me, fat pig?" She said in a voice inhuman and cold.
It was so unexpected for Charlotte to talk in her wolf form, as she was once unable to speak. It seemed that those lingering memories had begun to crawl back to the surface.
And they made her completely furious. She took one long staggering breath before roaring away trees, rocks, and even peel off surface from the ground. She was in deadly form now.
The blue-haired girl was in shock as Charlotte charged for her upwards, until reaching her head. This was a much stronger attack, it sent the blue-haired girl flying into the sky.
Charlotte narrowly landed on the ground with her feet, though she winced a bit at one of her claws, since one of the nails had been torn up. This increased her rage, and increased her speed on her feet until a spiral footwork caused a landslide of dirt to rise up and fall towards the blue haired girl.
When the girl hit the ground, she felt the landslide come her way, and it was enough to take her down.
Charlotte was so berserk even winning didn't quench her blood thirst and need to rip the girl in half. Luckily for the blue haired girl, she had her angelic armor poster up her sleeve.
"Two can play that game." she said with a grin.
She walked through the poster, less strut due to her hesitation of facing Charlotte, but she passed through and this time floated into the air. Not only was she floating, her body grew to greater height and bigger bulk with two angelic yellow wing appendages sticking out of her back close to the nape of her neck. Her arms were filled with a long thing saber more gold than her yellow wings, her whole body was garbed with white illuminating armor, and her face was covered in a helmet with six rubies; three vertical on each side of the helm.
"Holy crap...I think Charlotte might need some help with this gal!" Etoile exclaimed.
"Think again." Hardy replied.
The blue haired girl boosted her power and her ego swinging her sword left and right with ecstasy brimming on her face.
"I never thought I'd be using this form again, but you have proven yourself worthy-"
Werewolf Charlotte jumped off the ground and nipped her teeth on the angel's right wing! The girl screeched as Charlotte's fangs cut right into the wing, before chewing it off, and throwing it onto the ground.
The wing was the size of a ship, but her razor sharp teeth made quick work of it. Now one-winged, the girl attempted to fight back against her. She tried cleaving through her big burly wolf arms with her sword, but that didn't work when she had those oscillating red eyes and berserk power. The sword was stopped.
It wasn't long before Charlotte clawed at her face, blood beginning to pour out of the cuts.
She finally collapsed on the ground.
With her seemingly dead, Charlotte reverted back to her human form, smiling fearlessly. The rest of her nakama felt as though they were victorious. Charlotte felt this inordinate feeling what she used was a failure, something a captain should never do.
'Did I succeed?' she thought to herself. 'Because I just can't fail at a time like this!'
Her eyes turned red for a gleaming second as it felt like a lump was climbing out of her trachea, but she composed herself. She didn't want to repeat what happened to her father when he met Jane.
"Don't you have to deal with me? Or do you expect me to flee?" Herbert asked, which was enough to get her attention.
"Oh right, thanks for reminding me. Hardy."
Hardy slithered in his bubblegum form before making Herbert experience what it mean to be in a vore novel.
"HEY!" Herbert yelled as it looked like he was consumed.
"Are you really going to devour him? In that form of yours?!" Fritz asked.
"He's not really going to digest him." Charlotte explained. "But he will be constricted through the walls of bubblegum until Hardy spits him out."
Indeed, Hardy would constrict him for some time. Herbert could smell the faint scent of bubblegum, but grunted as Hardy continued, before eventually spitting him out. This left him in a puddle of pink goo.
"Hardy, can I borrow your hat for one minute?" Charlotte asked. Hardy complied giving her the hood. She smiled while reaching in and pulling out a hood with pins near the neck. "Thanks, friend."
She pierced the pins through her neck to cover her face from the puddle of sticky goo.
"I don't appreciate this humiliation!" Herbert exclaimed, managing to stand up. "Trying to get consumed in some vice-like grip...Ugh!" he added.
"Well I don't like looking at it, hence the hood-cap." Charlotte replied.
"So what do we do now? Jump him some more? Interrogate him? Or maybe persuade him to work with us?" Henry asked.
"He worked for us once. I guess we can get him to work for us again." Charlotte replied, hood still over face.
"I guess." Etoile said, shrugging. "Fine. I don't really care either way." Herbert simply told them bluntly, crossing his arms.
"So are we going to get to this court room Monkey D. Luffy was in or not?" Fritz asked.
"Of course! Besides, I can't let you guys down!" Charlotte replied.
Hardy and the others smiled, while Herbert nodded in agreement.
The five crewman, one tailing young holy-boy, and the schizophrenic assassin also prisoner moved through the forest to find the entrance to the court.
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The blue-haired girl was still reeling from her defeat. However, it didn't stop her from getting up, and taking out her sketchbook.
"Enjoy your victory now, pirate king daughter. Because next time you will see what demise looks like."
Her sketch was vague but it was a shadowy stenciled figure in all black chewing on something that used to be a fruit but was now only a stem.
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After long walking and constantly having Henry the ships appointed sniper hold a rifle on Herbert, they made it to the building they were looking for.
"So this is the court in question? Looks pretty spiffy, visually speaking." Charlotte said to herself as she examined the court.
"No way it can be this clean after forty-two years without someone being here." Hardy said in wonder.
"You think we can investigate the place?" Etoile asked.
"As your captain I say we are explore three people together. One side choices a coin toss so we can decide who gets Herbert." Charlotte explained.
"Very well." Fritz replied, before asking, "So, who will represent heads and who will represent tails?"
"Since I'm the captain I get to make the first choice." Charlotte yelled. "Or not. Being a captain means ordering you for the sake of pillaging and sailing, so Etoile your team gets to call first."
"Okay, captain. I call tails."
"I'll be going with heads." Hardy replied. "And so will I." Jio added.
"Alright then, the others will be joining me for tails." Etoile said.
Fritz then flipped the coin, until it eventually landed on the palm of his hand in a split second.
It was tails. Hardy and Jio sighed, they had to pair up with Herbert. Charlotte grasped him tightly.
"Let's move. Fritz, Etoile, and Henry good luck together."
Fritz simply nodded, with Etoile and Henry following his lead.
Henry kept his eyes up and his rifle raised to the ceiling.
"See anything suspicious in this building?" he asked.
"I'm not sure, but we'll find out soon, right?" Etoile replied, turning her head towards Fritz. "Perhaps." was his curt response.
Etoile noticed a speckle of light illuminating through the walls. She used her powers to create a small statue of blood in the shape of a toe. The toe wiggled to life before moving off her hand and into the wall. In no time, the wall was burst open and from behind the plaster...she saw a black shirt dark skin man with curly black hair, a white sunhat, and only big bulk shaped white eyes where the pupils should be.
Henry gasped. Being a former member of the marines he knew what this was, a Pacifista.
"You must be one of those Pacifistas!" he exclaimed.
"Hey, how'd you know who I am?" the man replied.
Fritz raised his hand in the air.
"Back away from her!" He yelled knowing how powerful these cyborgs are.
"How is it still operating?" Henry wondered aloud.
"I don't know why!" Etoile replied, sporting a baffled expression.
"If it isn't too much trouble for you three may I please ask...GET ME OUT OF HERE!" The Pacifista uproared, engulfed in a brown aura while making that loud noise.
Henry almost flinched in terror, until Fritz said, "Sounds like somebody wants to break out of here."
Etoile did not hesitate to attempt to free him with her blood made claws. Three talon marks appeared in the wall where she believed his shoulders must be.
He found himself breaking away, slowly but surely. He would then say to them, "Thank you. If it weren't for any of you, I'd still be trapped."
"No problem. It's not everyday we get to come across something that should have been destroyed years ago." She replied.
"So these Pacifistas do exist after all..." Fritz said to himself as he rubbed the back of his neck in thought.
"Now I know you want to blow us all up with your little mouth-beam, but since we freed you why don't we let you go. Either parley while we are on the seas and save your energy for trying to kill us later...on another island."
"Ever the one who has the friendly conversations." Etoile remarked, and kept her eyes off Fritz so when she asked her new question Fritz moved thinking it was for him. "Do you have a name?"
"PX-12." He replied.
"Okieee. Can we name you with an actual human name?"