Hey guys! I HAVE RETURNED AFTER ALMOST TWO YEARS OF BASICALLY GOING DARK FROM YOU GUYS! And I'm here to also say that I apologize DEEPLY for not even leaving an update as to what happened and...I'll say it now, I've had a rough and I mean ROUGH time since I was gone.
So...where to start? Well...for starters...I've gotten married! During the time I was gone, I've found myself the perfect wife and we've been together now for about half the time I was gone, so I've been busy doing...things if you will so that's one reason.
The next thing I wanna talk about is that I've been dealing with a lot of family matters and yes, some of it does involve Covid-19 and my attention has been heavily on that. Thankfully, everything's good now and my family including myself have been doing SO much better now.
And lastly which was the most serious one to me...I...actually lost my spirit to write. Yeah, I'm being serious in saying that I lost the spirit to write down the next chapter and just...didn't feel like continuing it.
But after some time off and some encouraging words from my wife who just so happens to be a writer like me, I've come back with a new spirit ready to go!
So to those who have still waited despite it being two years away from FF, it's about time that I payed you all back with the VERY LONG awaited Chapter 2 of The King's Reign of Destruction!
Enjoy!
The King's Reign of Destruction
Chapter 2
A King's Rampage! Where's Robin?!
-Present...
"What do you mean Robin's gone?!" Usopp asked in confusion.
Sanji got right to the point, "While I was on my way back after hearing all the commotion going on, I bumped into Chopper and he told me that he lost track of Robin!"
Chopper nodded and added in to the explanation, "Yeah! I went into a shop to get some books with the money we had and when I came out, she was gone! I searched around for her scent before that giant monster appeared!"
Hearing all this, Usopp threw his arms into the air in despair, "That's just great! First Merry can't be fixed, that giant lizard thing is attacking the city and now Robin's gone! WHAT ELSE CAN GO WRONG FOR US!?"
Nami looked to Luffy as she debated on what they planned to do now, "Luffy, what do we do now?!"
Said captain however was actually staring at Godzilla as he rampaged through the city of Water Seven as if he was lost in thought. They couldn't see...but there was a silent rage in those eyes that couldn't even be described.
But a sudden shake of his body by Nami broke him out of his state, "H-Huh? Nami?"
Obviously having noticed the look he had, Nami quickly got to the point, "Luffy what do we do now?! We need your help on this!"
For the first time in a long time, Luffy donned a quite serious expression as he told them of their plan in a rather serious tone than normal, "R-Right sorry. This is what we'll do."
He first turned to Usopp and Chopper, "Usopp, Chopper, you two will head back to Merry and make sure she's alright and see how Zoro is as well."
Usopp didn't hesitate as he cared for Merry deeply and nodded, "You got it Luffy!"
Despite how terrified Chopper was, the little reindeer nodded with the best brave expression he could, "Y-Yeah! We'll make sure M-Merry and Zoro are a-alright!"
With that, the two headed off into an alley out of the way of Godzilla's rampage as Luffy turned to Nami and Sanji, "Nami, Sanji, I need you two to search around for Robin. We can't risk her getting involved with that monster so I'm trusting you two to find her."
Sanji took a puff of his cigarette as he also donned a serious expression, "You can count on us Captain."
Nami while nodding did state something obvious as she could tell that her captain didn't mention himself, "W-What about you Luffy?"
His answer was simple as he turned around to face where Godzilla was, "I'm gonna make sure he come's no where near you guys."
"W-Wait Lu-"
Nami couldn't finish her sentence however as the rubber captain was seen stretching his arm forward before rocketing towards the King of the Monsters.
"LUFFY!" Nami screamed in terror.
She instinctively ran for her captain, but Sanji held her by her shoulders.
Sanji wanted to do the same, but captain's orders were orders and he needed to respect that, "Nami-san! I know how you feel, but we have to listen to him! He's giving us the time we need to make sure Robin-chan is safe!"
Letting go of her shoulders, the cook quickly turned around and made his way further into the city, "Now come on! We need to go find Robin-chan!"
Nami looked towards the direction Luffy went, before turning around and joining Sanji as they headed deeper into Water Seven, away from the chaos.
Luffy...please be careful...,Nami thought to herself with a worried expression.
-With Chopper and Usopp...
After leaving the others, both Chopper and Usopp had to deal with the fact that there was still a large crowd of people they had to go through in order to get back to Merry. Not to mention the fact that large chunks of debris blocked off paths that would've made their trip quicker.
"D-Damn all these chunks of debris! We'd have been at Merry by now!" Usopp proclaimed as they took another corner.
Chopper in his Walk Point was following alongside him as the Reindeer stare at all the destruction that had been caused by Godzilla and...well...he was absolutely distraught by everything he saw.
Despite the crowd of people running past them...he could see some of those unlucky who were unable to escape were crushed to death by the chunks of the buildings beside them, indicated by the pools of blood.
What made some of them worse was a few cases Chopper saw boys and girls sitting by those chunks, crying out for their parents who had more than likely been caught by the debris of the buildings.
It shook Chopper's soul upon seeing the expression's of them all, H-How...how can something like that...that monster...do all this?!
How could something so cruel and evil do all this!? This was a living hell!
His focus had been so distracted that he failed to notice Usopp running right for him, "LOOK OUT!"
"Hu-"
Chopper was cut off as Usopp tackled him and just barely avoiding it, Godzilla's Atomic Breath came where they were about to run, destroying everything in sight once more as loud explosion's followed afterwards!
Usopp had just saved their lives in the nick of time as they both breathed heavily upon seeing the beam head off further into a different part of Water Seven, "T-That was too close! You alright C-Chopper?!"
Chopper could only nod in relief as he shakily got up onto his hooves once more, "B-But what are we going to do now?! Every path that leads to Merry is either blocked off or destroyed thanks to that monster!"
Usopp gritted his teeth in annoyance as he tried to figure out any way they could take to get back-
*Slash!*
The sounds of rocks being cut caught their attention as they turned to see who it was and saw...Zoro!
During Godzilla's arrival, the sudden shake of the sea rocking Merry, it was more than enough to shake the Swordsman out of his slumber. And obviously seeing he was still alone and that giant monster was marching into the city, Zoro took that as enough to head in as well and find the others,
And lucky for him having been lost for nearly 20 minutes had bumped into Usopp and Chopper, "You guys! It's about damn time I found one of you guys!"
"Zoro! Holy crap, you have no idea how happy we are to see you!" Usopp said in relief, "How's Merry?! Is she still fine?!"
Zoro quickly replied back as he took a look around, "Merry's as best as she could be, but right now I wanna know what the hell is going on?! First that weird nose guy showed up earlier and now that monster?!"
"Well, you better listen while we meet back with the others, cause a LOT has happened..."
Thus Usopp explained their current situation, simple and quick for Zoro to know what they were doing.
Once explained about their situation, Zoro acted just as the others had, "Robin's gone? Have you guys found her?"
"We haven't searched for her, but right now Nami and Sanji are looking for her," Chopper told him.
"Luffy told us to check on Merry, but since you're here and Merry's safe, we have to regroup with the others and help in finding Robin!" Usopp added in.
Zoro nodded, before pretty much becoming their bodyguard as he jumped up to slice up another chunk of debris coming their way from above. For now, it seemed that they would be safe from Godzilla's rampage still going on throughout Water Seven.
They only hoped the others were doing just as fine.
-With Nami and Sanji...
After leaving Luffy as he kept Godzilla away from their area however he planned on doing it, Nami and Sanji still dealt with a problem. That problem being the crowds of people running around them in fear of the giant monster and were just trying to hide somewhere safe.
They weren't much trouble to get through, but the problem being evident was that they weren't able to spot through the crowd for any sign of Robin. It didn't help that the terrified people bumped into them quite a lot so it only made things a bit harder.
"D-Damn it people! Watch it!" Sanji yelled out in annoyance.
Nami for her part was lucky to have not been pushed to the ground as she tried looking past the crowd for Robin, "I-I can't see anything! Do you see any sign of Robin Sajin-Kun?!"
Sanji gritted his teeth in annoyance as he avoided another fleeing person, "No! I don't see anything!"
SKEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOONGK!
The two Straw Hats turned to the side where they heard Godzilla roared and felt the ground shake, hearing explosion's go off as the King of Monsters unleashed another blast of his Atomic Breath.
This only made the people scream even louder in terror and unfortunately for Nami, one of the fleeing people beside her bumped into her hard, sending her down to the ground.
If it weren't for Sanji quickly coming over to help, she would've been stepped on a lot.
"Nami-San! Are you alright?!" Sanji asked, helping her back up.
Nami shook her head to shake the dizziness away and quickly reassured him, "I'm f-fine Sanji-"
Her words died in her mouth as she gasped in surprise as she saw someone running inside a tall building and...it looked like...Robin?!
She quickly pointed to the building beside them, "There! I think I saw Robin head inside!"
Quickly nodding, Sanji picked her up bridal style and doing one large leap to avoid the crowd of fleeing people, the two were right at the entrance of the large building.
They had to be quick as the condition of the building didn't look well, looking as though it was ready to fall apart.
But without hesitating, the two Straw Hats ran into the building to find Robin from what Nami had said.
"Robin-Chan! We're here to save you!" Sanji yelled out.
"Come on Robin! Come with us so we can get somewhere safe!" Nami also yelled out.
They continued running up the stairs of the building, calling out for Robin to see if she'd answer their calls and head back with them. But their work had little to no answers back in return, except for occasional people trying to escape the building.
However as they ran past another room, Nami stopped in her tracks as she heard the yelp of a woman coming from one of the rooms! Maybe Robin was in here!
"Sanji-Kun! Over here! I think I found her!" Nami called out.
Sanji skidded to a halt, quickly turning around to meet with her at the door, "You heard Robin-Chan in here?!"
Nami nodded, pointing to the door she stood in front of, "I think I did! In here!"
Not wasting any time, Sanji slammed the door open with his foot as he and Nami barged into the room.
Only...upon entering the room was a...most unpleasant sight indeed as said woman Nami had believed to have been Robin wasn't her as...well...she picked the wrong room to hide in as the roof came off above her and now she laid crushed on the floor.
Nami couldn't believe the sight as she held a hand to her mouth, wide eyes staring at the corpse, "O-Oh my...god."
Sanji solemnly walked up to the lady's corpse and brought a hand down her face to close her open dead eyes shut as he too couldn't believe the sight that greeted them.
But then the cook's eyes widened in shock as the ground beneath them shook and before he had a chance to warn Nami as she looked down at the floor they stood on-
*Crack!*
The floor of the room they were in broke apart as the shaking was actually once again Godzilla's Atomic Breath which completely tore off the top part of the building!
"NAMI-SAN!" Sanji yelled out.
Nami screamed in terror as they found themselves falling down into the room below as the chunk of the building they were in plummeted to the ground. Just before she made impact, Sanji was able to take some of the damage that she would've gotten if he hadn't done so.
With a loud thud, the chunk of the building they were in exploded into multiple pieces and a large cloud of dust covered the area it landed in.
As the smoke cleared, Sanji gritted his teeth from the pain as half of his face was now drenched in blood, there were some broken bones but he'd live. But then he realized right away...and that he couldn't hear Nami saying anything!
Quickly looking around, the cook frantically searched for any sign of her, "Nami-san! Where are you!?"
"O-Ove...r...h-he..here," Nami's voice weakly sputtered out.
Hearing her voice, Sanji quickly made his way and wished he didn't see what he did as he got to work with getting her out of the predicament she was now in.
Nami hadn't gone unscathed like him as a piece of rubble made impact with her body and now one of her legs was trapped underneath it. But considering her condition, her leg was the least of her problems as it felt like her WHOLE body was broken.
Without hesitating, Sanji quickly got a hold of the rubble and lifted it with all his might to free Nami from her confinement, "H-Hang on Nami-san!"
Unfortunately, even with the monstrous strength being in the monster trio, he couldn't lift the rubble off of Nami alone...at least till helped arrived.
"Sanji!"
He didn't need to turn around to know who that was as quickly coming to his aid, Chopper in his Heavy Point helped Sanji lift the rubble up as Usopp pulled Nami out from underneath.
Zoro walked up to the cook as he wiped his forehead, "Have you guys found Robin?"
Sanji shook his head, "No luck Marimo. But that doesn't matter right now because Nami-san is hurt!"
The others looked down at Nami's condition as they could already tell she was in a bad-
*SKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOONGK!*
Everyone turned to the sound of Godzilla rampaging through the city still and the shake of his roar caused more rubble from the destroyed building to come down!
"I-I-I THINK WE SHOULD GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE!" Usopp yelled frantically.
Sanji hated having to leave considering that Robin was still out there, but Nami's condition was just something they couldn't ignore, "We need to bring Nami-san somewhere safe so let's head back to Merry!"
There was no question to what Sanji said, a unanimous decision made by them all as Chopper picked up Nami with a careful grip and they all made their way back to their only safehouse from the chaos going on.
Looking back however as he could see the hulking giant's back far from their area, Usopp pondered on something, "W-Wait! W-Where's Luffy?! I thought he would've been with you guys!"
Sanji knew that he couldn't hide it from them and straight out told them exactly what Luffy was doing, "What do you think? The shitty captain is making sure that giant thing isn't coming for us or near our area!"
In response to what Sanji told them...well...
"HE'S WHAT!?" Everyone minus Zoro yelled out in disbelief.
-With Godzilla (Earlier)
The King of Monsters was not messing around today as he was making sure these people knew the terror and fear of being in the presence of Godzilla himself! And it was safe to say that it was working out just fine indeed.
Destroying buildings left and right, tail whips and all, Godzilla made sure nothing stood in his path as he unleashed another barrage of his Atomic Breath, many explosions appearing where it made impact!
His raging eyes looked down below at the mixture of stone and water, almost savoring the sight of people running away in fear or dead either by him or the debris. Needless to say, Water Seven was becoming hell itself thanks to Godzilla's rampage.
From far away however, Iceburg companied with Kalifa got to work as they informed the men to get to their battle stations to defend their home from Godzilla.
"Prepare the cannons!" Iceburg commanded his men through a Transponder Snail.
Up top some buildings, large cannons appeared as they all aimed for the King of Monsters who simply continued on his rampage to destroy everything. He noticed their feeble attempt to try and stop him, only narrowing his eyes to get a better view.
Iceburg didn't hesitate, thrusting his arm forward, "FIRE!"
All the cannons fired off their shots all aimed directly towards the face of Godzilla.
*Ka-Boom!*
They watched on as the top of Godzilla was completely covered in smoke from the cannon fire and...everything stopped.
Obviously having not expected it, Iceburg looked as did a few survivors, "I-Is...is it dead?"
*SKEEEEEEOOOOOONGK!*
His hopes were completely shattered as Godzilla walked out of the smoke, unleashing his Atomic Breath upon the cannons that DARED to attack him.
In a fiery fashion, they were all left a smoking pile, no survivors left from the carnage.
Iceburg could only look on with anger as he saw his men immediately destroyed by Godzilla's attack, but they weren't going to back down now, "Prepare more Cannons! Don't let Godzilla get further into the city!"
He quickly turned around to meet Kalifa's eyes and began to bark out orders, "Kalifa! Go meet up with the other Galley La members and help them evacuate everyone to somewhere safe and out of Godzilla's wrath!"
Kalifa nodded as she pushed her glasses up and made her way down the building they stood on and got to work. In the meantime however, the other remaining Cannons began to fire at Godzilla who only continued on through the city.
The King of Monsters had enough and wanted to show just how useless the human's defense's were as he unleashed another wave of his Atomic Breath only this time in a massive wide range.
Going from right to left, Godzilla's attack obliterated all of the buildings that stood in front of him that looked to have those annoying cannons on top and they all fell with a giant explosion, a fiery wall of black smoke indicating the damage.
Iceburg unfortunately got caught in the midst of it all as while he wasn't badly injured, the force of it was enough to send him flying into a wall on impact, breaking his arm and rendering him in a defeated state.
But luckily for him, having been nearby with all the chaos going on, Paulie had shown up after seeing his boss get sent flying back.
Quickly running up to the downed president, Paulie held him up by his shoulder as he stared off where Godzilla was, "D-Damn, it seems like nothing works against that creature! What do we do now?!"
Iceburg stared as well where Godzilla was and could only look down in defeat, "I...I don't think there's anything else we can do...all that we C-CAN do...is save as many p-people before its t-too late."
Realizing their situation, Paulie begrudgingly nodded as it was really the ONLY thing they could do as he helped Iceburg back to the safehouse they had some of the survivors taken to away from Godzilla.
Said King of Monsters however only relished in the destruction, his hatred for the humans being shown in its destructive glory.
*SKEEEEEEOOOOOOOO-*
*Slam!*
To the disbelief as he unleashed a loud roar to show the world to be terrified of him, what felt like a giant boulder get sent hurdling right into his face and...it made him stumble!
Who dared to do such damage to make such a thing occur!?
Godzilla stared down to his left and saw...a young boy wearing a Straw Hat staring him down with a glare that almost rivaled his.
Luffy...had arrived.
-In an Unknown part of Water Seven...
As everything else was going on with Godzilla...something else was occurring which would forever change the course of how the world was supposed to go.
In a far away part of Water Seven, a certain Archaeologist who had escaped death once more thanks to a mysterious face was finally waking up after what felt like an eternity of slumber. Goodness...her world was still dizzy to her since she slammed her head hard into a wall before.
E-Everything hurts...b-but...where a-am I?, Robin thought to herself.
She looked around the room she was in and was rather surprised by how fancy it looked which made her assume this must've been one of the expensive hotels or something that Water Seven had.
Robin tried to get up, but as she sat up from the bed, she flinched in pain as her hand went to her waist as she soon realized that her entire stomach was covered in bandage wraps and unfortunately her top was gone leaving only her bra showing as well as small bandages on separate parts of her face as well.
Who did...?
"So you've finally awoken I see," A voice suddenly spoke up.
Robin's eyes widened as she heard the voice, the tone male and one she didn't recognize as she quickly got into a defensive stance...well...if you could call it a stance as she just had her arms crossed, ready to sprout arms over her potential enemy.
The voice spoke up though and reassured her, "Don't be afraid...I'm not here as an enemy...I'm here as an ally."
Robin though was suspicious for obvious reasons, looking towards the direction of the voice, "A-An Ally? Just how do I know for a fact t-that I can trust you?"
Stepping out from the shadows, it was revealed to be the same man with the silver armor over a black tight suit, but the difference to how he was seen last time was that his helmet was gone and you could see his face as he had spiky black hair that went up and white skin to go along with it.
"Well, if it weren't for me you'd probably end up being a pile of mush under rubble," The man told her in a somewhat smug attitude.
Robin though wasn't having it and in a warning for him, sprouted arms on the man's shoulders and all she needed to do was give one twist and his neck was snapped in half.
"You have one chance to tell me why you've taken me here or else I'll snap your neck here and now," Robin told her with a cold tone.
The man wasn't afraid of the threat nor the arms on him as he quickly got to the point, "It's simple. You see...I've brought you here to this safe place under the orders of my captain as you're the key needed to take down Godzilla for good."
That was all he needed to say as Robin's eyes widened in shock upon hearing that, dropping her arms as the ones on the man dispersed into petals upon the information told to her.
She was the key...to take down Godzilla?
To Be Continued...
Next Time
The King's Reign of Destruction
Chapter 3
Hidden Allies! Luffy V.S Godzilla!?
I'll keep this outro short, but I hope you guys enjoyed the long awaited Chapter 2 of The King's Reign of Destruction, leave a review on what you guys thought and I'll see you all in the next chapter!