Omake: For Her Hero 3
By Zaru
Hancock yelled as she was sent flying through stone and mortar, tumbling through the streets of the ruined town. She lifted her head, blood dripping down her crown as her once pristine black locks were bloodied and disheveled.
"God...DAMN YOU!" Hancock roared, her Haki surging forth as she kicked the ground, earth rising in tow as she sent massive pannels of the street flying down the boulevard, it crashing towards her target. She conjured a Heart on her hand with a kiss, reaching back with the other hand as the pink substance formed.
"Slave Arrow!" And fired, the volley of arrows going down the street... the dark blue burst of Haki surging forth and blasting the pink arrows into flitters of light as Hancock covered her eyes from the wave. Her Observation Haki tingled, eyes wide as she saw that white furred monster open her maw, blue fire erupting from it.
She dodged, the entire street becoming encased in ice and shattering into diamond dust as Hancock lept over it. Such a power can only be wielded by a Mythical Zoan, with them having powers that could equate on some levels to Logias!
But as quick as thunder, the blue-flaming wolfess was in the air, roaring with her Kanabo as she swung, Hancock raising her arms to defend herself as she poured Haki into her arms for defense.
Even so, the blow was hell as she screamed, being sent flying once more into the streets and carving a divot into the stone. She recovered, but she felt a sharp pain in her leg that made her fall to a knee as she turned, seeing her beautiful pristine leg... bent as sharp pain lance through her body.
"Snake Princess!" called out a voice as Hancock turned, seeing Elder Nyon hiding behind some ruins with several other Kuja women. "This needs to end! Just do as she says! Please!"
The air was cold, and behind the frozen hell, the Snake statues atop of Amazon Lily's central mountain was shattered, one of them falling. The town, whichever wasn't destroyed or frozen over, in flames. She can hear the cries of her people.
Up ahead, she can see her marching towards her. That beast with the rope belt, the robe of azure fire lacing around her as whatever she touched turned frozen. She swung her club, dispatching the flames as her sky blue orbs burned with fury as she marched forth, like a machine.
"TURN. HIM. BACK!" She growled out, canines bared as Hancock glared back. Those were the only words she said outside of her attacks.
Again.
All of this... for one single disgusting man.
"The island won't last much longer!" Nyon yelled as the earth began to shake and rumble, thunder lancing down from the heavens. "I beg of you!"
"I... am a Warlord of the Sea... the Pirate Empress!" Hancock roared out, ignoring her mentor as she rose up to one leg. "I won't... on my pride as a woman! Bow to a man's slave!"
"Please Princess! The island won't take much more!" Nyon bayed, the thunder in the heavens rippling as more of the Kuja cried out. And Hancock began to hear it with her Observation Haki.
More of her people trying to climb out of the wreckage of their bout. Crying for their wounds. Little children crying for their mothers and sisters.
Even so...
She won't bend the knee... no matter how painful, to a man ever again. The taste disgusting upon her lips. The burning and pain in her insides and loins making her sick.
"Your Izuku! Will remain frozen in stone! Or be destroyed! He was weak, and I am strong and beautiful! And I will ALWAYS be forgiven for that fact alone!" Hancock roared, seeing the beast freeze on the spot. "Unlike you! You loathsome beastial slave!"
The woman, and poured her Conqeuror's Haki with Armament into her good leg, and charged with one ground-destroying leap.
"PERFUME!" Hancock roared. This will save her people! Save her sisters! Save herself from man once more!
"FEMUR!" She was on the stunned beast instantly... and she felt her kick land on nothing, the Conqueror's Haki kick going wide, leveling entire stone buildings to dust in her motion as Hancock felt her stomach fell...
Before she felt a club cave on her face. Her beautiful, pristine, carved face as her scream was muffled by her being sent to the ground, cratering as she went meters into the bedrock...
Only for whiplash and pain to lance through her neck as her hair was tugged and Hancock felt herself flailing and going back up... and back into the stone again as she screamed, pain lanching through every part of her body.
The beast roaring as she swung with her claws wrapped around her leg, bashing her into the bedrock again and again as the island seemed to quake under her motions under each strike. Nothing was spared. Her head. Her chest. Her arms. Her leg as she was slammed about like a ragdoll. Hancock was beginning to see spots and stars, fading in and out of consciousness by virtue of the pain keeping her awake, on top of the screaming from her lungs.
She's only screamed this way once before, when she was-
The wolfwoman, roaring with all the rage of a beast, then chucked her through the stone, and Hancock twisted and tumbled through the earth, tearing it as she rose back over it, and skidded like a stone before rolling, face in the dirt as Hancock struggled to breathe.
She looked forth, seeing her town in ice and flames. Her mountain crumbling... and that mass of lightning in the form of the white furred demoness striding forth... kanabo in hand, eyes aglow breathing hard as she storde forth, each step like a quake as her form was covered in shadow, save for those burning sapphire orbs.
"Ne..." Hancock tried to rise up, but fell back, and her tongue even felt teeth that were missing. "Never..."
The beast stopped, eyes wide... before they narrowed... and it raised it's club... and Hancock can see it. The world around her becoming cold as dark-blue lightning erupted from the blue-fire demon, forming a darkening hellscape of black and blue.
Eyes aglow as she reared her club back, dark-blue Haki crackling around it.
And her eyes boring into her, hatred and rage as her fangs were barred and claws gripping her club as her blue fire robe exploded with her Haki.
Hancock tried to stand again, but her arms failed her as she fell...
No...
This can't be the end.
Not like this…
Now to a woman who would go this far. To throw her own independence and freedom for a man.
NOT LIKE THIS!
SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL! SHE WAS STRONG! THE NAVY FEARED HER!
SHE WAS FREE!
SHE WAS INDEPENDENT! FREE FROM THE TOUCH AND CHAIN OF MAN SO WHY!
WHY IS THIS BEAST! THIS CHAINED DEMON TO SUCH ONE! THIS... BITCH!
STRONGER THAN HER?!
WHY!?
She saw it as the beast reared her club back… and she had nostalgia of facing a terrifying foe. One with a similar club. And horns…
And whose single swing decimate a fleet of fifty Marine warships.
"Get out of there Princess! You're gonna be killed! PLEEEEEEAASE! RUUUUUUN!" Nyon yelled as Hancock tried to rise…
But fell again, and her heart sank as the land became enshrouded in ice. The word spoken from the demon... chilled Hancock to her soul, her pride and bravado fading as she saw the overlap.
Of the horned demon, one white furred, the other large, imposing with blue scales and a violent club.
"Die..."
She saw the blue eyed demon take a step toward. And roared, swinging the Kanabo.
覇
海
"HAKAI!"
And a dark blue explosive burst surged forth, turning the earth molten as it seared right for her as Hancock could only stand wide eyed.
A single woman has this much power.
All for the sake of one man.
Why…
Why her with the power? Why go so far?
She couldn't hear Nyon scream or the sundering of heaven and earth as the dark blue blast surged right for her…
Until the dark blue skies and hell scape around her became illuminated in bright green light.
A massive air blade sundering the earth and colliding with the shockwave from the side… gale force winds erupting all over as Hancock used her one good hand to hang on for dear life as the earth began to shake.
Even the heavens was split in two, the dark stormy skies being cleaved to reveal the bright blue calm skies of the Calm Belt.
She opened her eyes, seeing the wolf demoness breathing hard as she gazed to the side.
And her eyes went wide.
"That's far enough. This fight is over." And Hancock's mouth was open.
With one hand on his long black blade, Dracule Mihawk stood where a line carved into the earth as if the gods had taken a knife to the soil of Amazon Lilly and cut it.
Beside him, a blonde haired Kuja archer she didn't recognize… and the statue of that man she froze.
"Hawk...eye…" Hancock uttered, before coughing out blood
"What are you doing to him…" the demoness uttered, staring at Mihawk, club gripped.
"I am fine seeking a challenge, but today I am not in the mood. This amount of life about to be wasted needlessly, all on the effort of one's pride." He gave Hancock a sideways flare. "Is not something I can simply ignore. Hence forth, I'm putting an end to this spat."
"Princess!" The blonde called out. "Please! Turn Izuku back now! Yamato!" She turned towards The wolf demon. "If he returns to normal, will you leave this island?" She begged.
The monster breathed hard, before her eyes settled on her, her gaze softening.
"Marguerite wasn't it?" She said. "You invited me and Izuku… and yes… "
The demon's eyes softened, eyes no longer aglow with blue fury.
"if he comes back… we will leave…"