"Such insolence! Get her out of my sight right now!"
"Yes right away!" The staff agree as they go to comply to her demand when…
Wait snake princess hey what are you doing!?" Alarmed, Elder Nyon gasps as Boa gets off her bed while the smirking blonde saunters over to the window watching on.
"You should be quiet and watch what happens. Just who do you think you are? Sprouting such nonsense my little sister Hayami marrying someone, a man no less! Offending my sister is offending me. Your era came to an end a long time ago you lost your place as Amazon Lily's empress three decades ago, Gloriosa. If my own selfishness should bring about the end of our kingdom, I would be forgiven for it…why is that? Indeed…I am beautiful!" Boa proclaims proudly leaning back, her head looking up at the ceiling pointing at Elder Nyon.
"You're a moron!" Mad, Hayami's hues flare fierce red.
"There it is the snake princess's extreme looking down pose!" In awe, an amazon gushes at the iconic pose.
"Sister you're going to break your back…" Sighing, Hayami attempts to warn her however…
"You may have been the empress of this kingdom once and yet you abandoned the kingdom and set off to sea! You betrayed the Kuja's!" Scowling, she snatches the elderly woman by her hair holding her up.
"And that is why I've lived quietly in the corner of the village!" The elderly woman attempts to defend herself.
"If so then you should have remained there! You have stepped far out of line to defy the empress like this!" Tense, Hancock exclaims as dark blue meet a lighter shade no words needing to be shed as she opens the window.
"I must admit I am quite impressed by your enthusiasm. I have lost to you." Briefly, Boa stops in her tracks.
"Have you come to your senses snake princess one can solve anything by talking it over. Thank you! So you are going then?" Hopeful, Elder Nyon asks as Boa stares down at the woman she holds.
"That was a joke. NOW….BE GONE FROM MY SIGHT!" Smugly, Hancock smirks suavely down at the old woman before bellowing boisterously tossing the elderly woman out of the window leaving the two smirking pleased to have such rubbish out of sight out of mind.
"Madams…how could you treat an old lady like that?" Tentatively, one of the amazons asks as both blue and blue meet, a small smirk upon the blonde's lips as with a simple turn…
"It was an accident…" Coyly, Boa lies to their face, acting all coy puckering her lips.
"We understand things like that do happen!" Happily, the amazons allow.
"Repair the broken window!" Sternly, Hayami orders the two.
"Of course!" The servants comply already rushing to do so.
"Irritating women…." Disgusted, Boa huffs glaring down at where the fallen figure had crashed.
"You know one of these days you're going to meet a man who doesn't find you attractive." Aloofly, Hayami points out.
"I'm sure just as I'm sure one of these days you're going to meet a man as tall as mountains." Mischievously, Boa bemused calls out smirking slightly at her sharp scowl.
"Urgh…touché sister dearest touché…" Tiredly, Hayami grumbles glaring to the side, her meeting a man as tall as mountains her ass! As if…!
"Nyoooo!" The two perk up at the cry.
"Huh…?" The two sisters share a blank look before Hayami turns towards the window.
"What is it?" Hancock asks Hayami peering over the window staring surprised at the elderly woman barely hanging on thanks to her snake staff.
"…! I may be old but I am still a Kuja warrior! My skills are as sharp as ever!" Elderly Nyon declares to her.
"She's alive. Seems you're losing your touch sister dearest." Dubiously, Hayami smirks slightly at the glaring Hancock.
"My hand slipped…is the bath ready yet?" Hancock huffs.
"Yes we'll put up the fences right away! It's time for the snake princess's bath! Please leave the palace! We shall now start bordering the outskirts of the palace! Nobody will be allowed inside the castle for the next two hours!" Loudly, the announcement plays throughout the island as the amazons are guided away.
"I take it you can take care of the paperwork." Hancock assumes as she makes her way towards the baths.
"Already on it." Hayami responds watching on as Hancock heads to the baths and she her office, tending to the documents.
"Heads up you lot the people from the castle are coming to be prepared for customers!" A Kuja warrior scolds some curious girls as the walls are set up.
"Hm? What are you doing? You're not allowed to go any closer to the palace!" Pointedly, another warrior adds as the bell rings.
"Hey why do they always make such a big deal out of the snake princess's bath time?" Befuddled, a young girl query.
"How old are you?" The warrior asks her.
"I'm 8." The young girl asks.
"In that case I'll tell you, in the past monsters know as gorgons existed in the world they were frightful monsters who turned everyone who made eye contact with them into stone. The snake princess and her sisters at the end of their adventure somehow managed to take one down. But at a cost, a terrible curse was placed upon them the monsters large eyes were engraved upon their back. If anyone were to ever gaze upon their backs those that looked would be turned to stone and die. The four gorgon sisters never take their clothes off around others because of this. Whenever they take a bath we put up this blockade to make sure nobody comes near them." The Kuja warrior explains to the young child.
"These eyes…are they like the ones mistress Hayami has when she's mad!" The girl gasps.
"They are different though the story says that the one who dealt the finishing blow was Hayami so the cursed was inflicted mainly upon her which is why whenever she is angry it is said the eyes of a demon will appear." The warrior reveals.
"A demon!?" The young girl gasps.
"Yes…it is why our leader is always level headed or at the least tries to be." She adds as elsewhere Hayami stands at her desk, piles upon piles of paper littered about the place, stacks of it towering over as she tries to get it all under control, cursing her sister's lavish tendencies internally.
"That sounds hard." The girl bows her head.
"It is for others but nor the gorgon sisters…they are above us!" The Kuja warrior dictates.
"I want you to stand guard." Hancock orders her sisters.
"Yes older sister!" Sandersonia agrees.
"Take your time." Marigold tells her as they both stand guard while their sister bathes…
Quietly, Hayami resides in her office on her throne before her desk dealing with the paperwork below. Her snake's tail curled around her leg a part of her snake is anyway as it spreads out, the snake has a dark pinkish red scales with stripes of coal black as it opens its mouth baring its feral fangs out towards the bunny below devouring it in one swift gulp.
"You're going to get hiccups Sora." Softly, she calls out to her snake softly slithering about the place, her sky blue bandanna a similar shade to the sash strapped to her waist, just as her hues narrow noting the soft sound of footsteps fastly approaching.
"Mistress Hayami!" The Kuja warrior rushes into her room earing a harsh hiss from Eely only for her to raise her hand swiftly stopping said snake glaring at the terrified Kuja warrior.
"What is it?" Tiredly, Hayami huffs brow furrowed.
"The monkey it's attacked the bathhouse!" She reports to Hayami her hues dilating dread clear on her furrowed features.
"Oh no…no, no, no!" Panicked, she lurches forward, whistling as her snake follows behind her towering over her as the two take off, heading to the bathhouse.
"Sister are you alright!?" Hayami rushes into the house staring stunned at the boy before her.
"Who is that?! A man!?" Sonia scowls at the boy before her.
"What is a man doing in this kingdom? What exactly happened here?" Marigold demands as she turns to Hayami.
"The hunters were supposed to deal with it." Hayami begins but…
"He saw my back." Boa reveals as immediately all of them flinch freezing from the news.
"Then the only solution is to kill him." Murderously, Medea sneers swiftly rushing to Boa's side, helping put her coat on, her hues fiercely flaring red as Sonia and Mari step forward armed and ready.
"Why? I only saw her back…but I think I've seen that somewhere." The boy blurts out.
"That thing you've seen on my back is something we don't want revealed even if we die!" Boa reveals resolved.
"That? Why? Who are you? Why?" Luffy quirks his head to the side lot.
"Take everything you've seen to your grave mero mero mellow!" Hancock's hands form into a heart as she fires her perky pink hearts at him however…
"Huh? Noro noro!? Crap I'm gonna slow down I'm slowing doooo….huh? " Posing, the boy's voice slows as next the group knew…
"Mero mero mellow!" Boa tries again but…
"Wahhh!" Luffy poses but…
"Eh?" The girls quirk their head to the side alongside the boys baffled.
"…" The group stare at one another lost.
"Why didn't you turn into stone!? Didn't you feel anything wicked in your heart even after watching me in the bath!?" Baffled, Boa gawks at the man.
"H-How the hell is that guy not stone!?" Shocked, Hayami stares shocked, everyone fell for Boa it was how things were she wasn't the beauty of the sea for nothing!
"That's ridiculous sister! The beauty of your naked body is at a level that could never fail to capture anybody regardless of their age and gender!" Marigold disputes.
"It's probably his fear of death that's suppressing his wicked desires he's a pathetic man…" Sonia reasons disgusted.
"I don't know what's going on but I'm outta here!" The boy turns to flee, leaping out of the window.
"He jumped out from this height!?" Marigold stares shocked.
"You can't run away! Pistol kiss!" Boa kisses her fingertip, a perk pink heart forming as she aims it like a gun firing it at the descending figure being hit a fair few times.
"Why couldn't I make it bounce wasn't it a bullet!?" Baffled, the boy ponders as he descends down from the high heavens.
"That man is a intrude capture him Kuja pirates!" Hayami orders calling out to them as they chase after the boy.
"How could you let that thing on our island!?" Incensed, Sonia scowls at Hayami.
"I didn't want it to, it just came, I thought the hunters would sort it out!" Fairly, Hayami tries to defend herself.
"Now look at what your little money did?!" Mad, Marigold remarks.
"He isnt my money and how was I to know he'd do this!?" Baffled, Hayami gestures to the chaos outside.
"You should have known all men are perverts! How could you let one get on this island!?" Boa demands from her.
"I didn't he just popped up besides I thought your mero mero thing would work. How did it not work!?" Hayami argues as she demands from Boa.
"I don't know!" Baffled, Boa exclaims.
"That kid was he dropped as a kid did he drop himself!?" Scowling, Hayami offers.
"No matter we must find him he saw what was on my back thanks to you." Boa reminds Hayami.
"So you keep telling me. I said I was sorry okay!? Not my fault the hunters got sloppy…" Snippily, Hayami huffs looking to the side scowling.
"And you didn't decide to deal with it yourself?" Sonia scowls.
"I thought I could quietly transport them out no need for bloodshed for none of that. Not to mention the paperwork I've had to do since none of you are willing to do it kept me pretty busy." Briskly, she reminds the three making them crumble a bit by her words.
"Men deserve to be punishment sister." Seriously, Hancock reminds her.
"Urgh…don't have to remind me. Look could we just focus on capturing that monkey guy?" Drained, Hayami grumble.
"Oh now you want to…" Sonia scowls.
"Yes and back chatting isn't getting us anywhere now is it?" Hayami snaps back.
"She's right. We need to find that man and fast!" Marigold agrees as the hunt for the monkey continues…
"What is with this kingdom? There isn't a single guy here…huh?" The man furrows his brow after being chased around the island he finds himself caught struggling against the steel like confines of the snails coiled around his form as he knelt before the tall towering staircase leading to the throne Hancock occupies alongside her sisters with the crowd cheering for the man's death in the stadium stands.
"Marigold sama!"
"Hayami sama!"
"Sandersonia sama!"
"I said I was sorry okay…" Tiredly, Hayami grumbles leaning against the railing at the top of the stairs staring down at the boy below.
"We will talk about this later." Boa gives Hayami a stern look.
"Urgh…" Hayami sigh too tired to argue as the crowd cheer for them lovestruck.
"Now then let me ask you man. How and for what purpose did you come to this island?" Hancock demands from him.
"I don't know how I came here either! I was just flying through the sky and before I knew it I was here." He replies.
"Liar! You can't fool us with a ridiculous story like that. You must have a purpose!" Hancock assumes.
"If you want a purpose then I guess I want a ship. I'd be very happy if you have me an escort too but…anyway I must get out of here there's a important place I have to go. If you are the most important person here that's what I request I want to go out to sea." Smiling, he answers.
"He's giving false statements! Whatever that man said is obviously a lie as the snake princess said!"
"He is definitely hiding something!" A woman from the crowd accuses.
"Do you think you can fool us!?" Another adds as Marguerite bows her head listening to them demands death from the man that had been kind to her prior…
"Don't think that you will leave here alive. You won't be able to escape from death!" Hancock announcement as Marguerite jolts up from the cold curt tone of her leader.
"Wait a second please snake princess! H-He isn't the kind of person who would lie!" Marguerite suddenly stands up as the sisters arch a brow by the nobody but…
"Marguerite …" Hayami recognises brow furrowed at the blonde approaching the stage.
"Are you one of the guards in the kingdom?" Bored, Boa demands from her.
"Snake princess…what he said is all true…I don't think he has bad intentions for this kingdom at all." Marguerite vouchers.
"Who is she?" Boa turns to Hayami when nothing her sister's looking lost.
"Are you vouching for him Marguerite?" Hayami questions her standing up from her lurched position over the railing.
"I am!" Earnestly, she responds.
"The punishment of the crime of introducing into this kingdom which is forbidden is death do you understand?" Boa demands from her.
"I feel responsible. The one who brought that man here…it was me!" Margaret reveals.
"Margaret why?" Hayami demands from her.
"Snake Princess the saga of there's a reason for that!" Another voice erupts from the crowd rushing forward bowing before the group.
"That's right! We just through the man we found covered in mushrooms in the forest was one of the villagers that's all!" Alphela explains as she too bows before them.
"Sweet pea! Aphelandra!" Marguerite calls out to her friends.
"We are just as responsible as her for the sin of bringing him here!" Aphelandra exclaims.
"The saga of exactly!" Sweet Pea joins in.
"You two stop it! The one who said we should take him to the village was me!" Marguerite snaps scowling.
"If you say something like that…!" One of the Kuja pirates remarks.
"You're too honest Marguerite hahahah!" Hollering, another adds laughing by her side.
"What's with you? You tried to kill me so you guys are kind hahah!" The man merrily smiles at the three.
"Sister…" Hayami turns to Boa but she simply silently raises her hand to her, stopping her.
"The only one guilty of bringing the man here is me!" Marguerite insists as Boa stands up from her throne of sorts that is her snake shocking many. She slowly but surely descends down, the crowd going quiet as her heels clicking against the stone steps below are the only thing breaking the tight tension in the air as she slowly approaches them.
"Marguerite!" Her friends call out to her as she bows taking the blame.
"That's enough. Raise your head honest Marguerite. I like honest people. Tell me do you want me to forgive you?" Hancock uses her finger to raise the head of Marguerite.
"Y-Yes…" Blushing, Marguerite meekly whispers.
"Stand up." Hancock stands as does Marguerite, the other two behind blushing from the empress.
"The snake princess is gonna forgive those three criminals!?" Taken aback, those in the crowd gasp.
"As expected from the snake princess!
"Not only is she physically beautiful she is also merciful!
"Snake princess!
The crowd cheer oblivious to the furrowed frown of Hayami and the sly smirks of the gorgon sisters as next the group knew…
"Mero mero mellow!" Hancock's hands formed into a heart striking the three with her heart beams, turning them to stone.
"What the…!?" The man gawks at the stoned state of the three.
"Those fools!" Furious, Selene curses.
"Hey what did you do!? They turned to stone why!? Hey…Hey! Hey what did you do to them!? They saved my life!" The man crawls over to the stone statues scowling.
"Yes they have been punished for saving your life." Boa confirms coldly turning her back heading back up the throne.
"Because of me!? Wait! Turn them back to normal!" The man orders as Boa blanks him.
"Who do you think you're ordering around?" Bored, Boa scoffs.
"Hurry up and turn them back to normal!" The man orders.
"Bring Backura to the arena!" Boa orders as Hayami sighs sadly.
"Backura already!?" Astonished, Ran, the Kuja pirate says shocked.
"Oh ho he's a goner!" The other Kuja pirate adds.
"I told you to turn them back to normal!" The man glares at the group above.
"This place is the kingdom of the warriors Amazon Lily, where if you are powerful you are beautiful you should die fighting we are going to watch it. that blank panther behind you used to be an executioner by the empress of this kingdom for many generations. After this not even a single bone will remain. Backura seems to be extremely hungry, doesn't it?" Boa explains to the boy below just as a black paw slams down upon the stadium from the panther easily towering over the boy his back turned to the beast behind him as the snakes smoothly unravel.
"Yes it is sister because it hasn't been fed for a while." Marigold informs him.
"Be grateful man even if it's a small and think money like you Backura will eat with pleasure!" Sonia adds.
"…I wonder if his bones are rubber too." Tauntingly, Hayami remarks amused almost as a sickening sadistic smirk crosses her lips.
"Seems we're going to find out." Bemused, Boa exclaims.
"What about these guys!? Are they going to turn back to normal!?" The man demands.
"What a disrespectful way of speaking to the snake princesses!" Disgusted, a woman from the crowd sneers.
"Finish him Bacura!" Boa orders but Bacura is swiftly ended by a firm fist to the cheek tossing them out of the stadium shocking everyone but…
"Seems things have gotten interesting wouldn't you say sister dearest?" Dubiously, Hayami smirks smugly at her sister's furious fist trembling.
"He didn't even use Haki!" Horrified, Ran gasps.
"So he did that just using brute force?" Flabbergasted, Daisy says shocked, the only one person to accomplish that was Hayami sama!
"There is something wrong with all of you…even after your comrades have been turned to stone by that woman why are you laughing so childishly!?" Cross, the man yells at the people.
"The savage is shouting at us!" Angrily, a girl gasps from the crowd cross.
"Unbelievable!" Another angry voice soon joins in.
"What an animal!" Agitated, another adds as Hayami simply sighs at the uproar the boy below had caused.
"What the snake prince did wasn't wrong!" One of the girls defends.
"They have broken the laws of this land!" Another adds.
"The ones at fault are them!" They accuse.
"I will be…forgiven no matter what I do. If you asked why…indeed it's because I'm beautiful." Boa boastfully dictates flicking her hair winking at the cheering crowd.
"SNAKE PRINCESS!" The crowd cheer gushing over.
"You think so too right?" Smugly, she looks down at the man but…
"You're pissin' me off!" The man glares at Boa baffling many.
"Sister get a hold of yourself" Marigold rushes over to her.
"This is just ridiculous!" Sonia scowls at the man elbow.
"This is interesting I like this guy." Hayami smirks slightly bemused by the spirit of the man.
"Sister how can you say that!? Don't you see how distressed your sister is over him!?" Mad, Marigold demands from her.
"What? it's a nice change of pace!" Fairly, she shrugs.
"There can't possibly exist a man…that can't be captured by my charm. I can't bear that man's existence!" Boa reels back holding her head, her hand over her eye closing her eye unable to look at the man below.
"How can you speak to the snake princess like that!?" Disgusted, the crowd glare at the man.
"Hurry up and execute that man!" Another voice from the crowd cheers.
"Execute him!" Another adds.
"Go Marigold and Sandersonia take that man's head!" Boa orders the two.
"Yes leave it to us sister!" Sonia agrees as she leaps on stage, Marigold joining as the two shift forms the crowd cheering for the boy's execution…
"What impressive forms even though they are cursed they are still so beautiful!
"This is proof that they defeated the monster Gorgon and took its power!
"Even after they were cursed the sisters are still so beautiful!
"Cursed? These are just devil fruits though…" The man furrows his brow at the too salamander like creatures surrounding him armed and ready to execute him as the crowd cheer for his head while above arrogantly stands Boa Hancock and the silent stoic Hayami watching on from above.
"Maybe I should swallow him up?" Sonia smirks snickering down at the male below.
"Or maybe I should strange him to death?" Dubiously, Marigold offers amused as they both look down at the boy below.
"Wait a second!" The man calls out surprising Boa and Hayami sharing a look.
"You're going to beg for your life?" Sonia smirks down at him.
"Even if you apologise now your sins can't be pardoned!" Marigold tells him.
"It's nothing like that." The man approaches the stone statues.
"He's…clearing the stage?" Scowling, Boa glares at the man.
"It would seem so…." Softly, Hayami exclaims.
"They don't have any cracks right? You three wait here. Sorry about this because of me you guys got turned to stone. If Chopper was here I'd ask him to check on you right away." The man apologizes to the stone statues after setting them safe and sound away from the fight.
"Shouldn't you be more concerned about your own safety instead of theirs?" Sonia reminds him.
"Shut up! I can do what I want. Anyway I just gotta beat you guys up then you'll turn them back right?" The man returns to the stage.
"No way! Hahahahahahah!" The crowd burst into laughter at the man's confidence.
"He thinks he can beat the sisters up?" A girl giggles in the crowd.
"Funny! Making people laugh during his execution men are hilarious!" Haughtily, another one chuckles.
"I can do that right? Beat you up?" The man asks as even Sonia and Mari join in giggling, but Hayami remains quiet, brow furrowing.
"Yeah sure you can…if you can that is." Marigold wipes a tear away.
"Oi kid!" Hayami calls out.
"Lady Hayami is talking to the man!?"
"Lucky!"
"What could our lady grace him with!? Why would she!?"
"Eh?" The man turns to the blonde.
"Careful of those spikes between the arena and audience yeah?" She gestures to the spikes below.
"Oh…thanks." Happily, he smiles at her.
"Why are you telling him that?" Tense, Hancock hisses at her.
"You think I want this to be quick? I want this match to go full on! Falling to your death is so booooring! Besides I got money running on this." Hayami remarks making Boa sweat drop.
"You are such a brute!" Boa huffs.
"Oh come on live a little!" Hayami smirks slightly.
"Then let's start." Smirking, Marigold flips her axe.
"Kill him Sandersonia Marigold! For the crime of trespassing on this island of women! For the sin of insulting me show him the art of punishment!" Boa calls out raising her hand to them.
"Finish him off!" The crowd join in just as she strikes her blade down, but Luffy dodges said strikes barely managing to as in mid-air, she spits some purple spit at him.
"Wha…!? Poison!? That was close!" Luffy gawks at the purple poison sludge dripping down from the railing outside the stage staring shocked at it oblivious to the poisonous gas being emitted from it.
"It's deadly too bad for you!" Marigold smirks spitting another burning the railing he was once perched upon as he flies in the air dodging each spit of purple sent his way, oblivious to the build-up of gas forming around him.
"Gomu gomu stamp! She bounced it back!? That hurts…but I'm made of rubber…" He rushes forward but said rubbery kick is blocked by her hand as she sends him back with the back of her axe.
"Why does it hurt…when I'm rubber! Wait that guy with the battle axe…it was just like this but he wasn't a devil fruit user so its not an ability." Astonished, Luffy ponders to himself baffled by how she hit him as he leaps in the air gasping as he is caught by a familiar tail.
"That's unfair don't hog all the fun Mari I want to have some fun too." Sonia smirks swiftly snatching him by her tail as she lays on the ground bored, pleased when hearing the crisp crunch of bone below.
"You're a fruit user too, a paramecia type!" Sonia smiles as she lowers the strangling choking boy down as she lays on the ground bored while watching him struggle.
"I knew it! Why did you lie about your bodies being cursed!?" Confused, the man asks astonished.
"That's a secret. I can't tell anyone even if they're about to die. But you can't use Haki right? People who are not from this island are unfamiliar with it. That's why you're weak. A kick with the left foot. I'm over here." Sonia glances to the side, easily dodging said strike with ease.
"She predicted my move!?" Luffy gawks at her move.
"Hebi slam!" She swiftly slams him down onto the ground below.
"Gomu gomu!" Luffy tries his gatling but…
"Snake dace…" Smiling, she easily dodges said strikes.
"There's no attack Salamanca can't dodge with her haki!" The girl in the crowd gushes.
"You're too easy to read I've already grasped your movements…" Soia smirks hands behind her head dancing almost as she easily dodges his hits.
"Don't forget there are two of us!" Marigold soon strikes him with her tail throwing him out of the stadium.
"Oh crap!" Cursing, he flips himself over as Boa looks away as he is about to hit the spikes but is swiftly slammed by both tails before descending down into the spikes.
"Awww and here I thought it would on for longer." Disappointed, Hayami whines.
"You sound disappointed." Boa remarks.
"It's because I am." Annoyed, she huffs, here she hoped for some real fun only then to falter as the crowd cry disappointed when he uses his rubber arms and managed to save himself from said spikes.
"He really should just give up and fall in!" Daisy giggles.
"Agreed he stands no chance against the best of the Kuja pirates." Ran agrees as they continue watching…
"The snake princess tucked her hair behind her ear! " The girls gush over that single action.
"Her beauty knows no doubts!" Another adds squealing.
"This man is nothing but talk how silly…!" Smirking, Boa remarks.
"And he still got you…" Hayami remarks.
"Silence sister." Snippily, she sneers at the amused Hayami until the by springs back on stage.
"Shut up you idiot!" Irritated, he yells at Hancock earning a small smirk from Hayami.
"I can't take it sister!" Boa cries reeling back dramatically, a hand to her head.
"I'm sure." Smirking, Hayami remarks as the crowd roar enraged at the nerve of the boy.
"He insulted the snake princess again!"
"Unforgivable!"
"Hurry and kill that man!"
"Sonia Mari! Put an end to that man's life right no so that I will never heard his filthy talk again!" Angrily, Boa orders her sisters reeling her head back as she points doing her pose.
"I wanted to enjoy it more but since it is our sister's order it can't be helped." Sonia sighs.
"Playtime is over." Marigold dictates.
"Margaret!" Selene calls out.
"Sonia Mari the hell are you doing!?" Mad, Hayami calls out to the two but they continue moving the stone statue of Marguerite about as if she were some doll. This was to be an honest and fair fight, Marguerite did not need to be involved nor used as a means of leverage where was the honour in winning when relying on such cheap parlour tricks to win!?
"Hey what are you doing? Don't touch them! What if they break! They saved my life!" Luffy roars at them.
"I'll break them!" Sonia smirks.
"You said she saved your life then she deserves it." Marigold adds.
"Too bad for this girl, but it's your punishment." Sonia reminds him.
"Quit screwing with me this is a fight between me and you stop it!" The ma yells rushing forward.
"From above." Sonia predicts as Mari reels her axe back hitting the predicted spot.
"Hey you! Dammit let go!" Luffy reaches for Marguerite but is slammed to the ground and grabbed by the tail as he struggles.
"You're the one who thinks this is a fight this is a public execution." Marigold reminds him.
"Watch it quietly this is nothing compared to the wound in our sister's heart." Haughty, Sonia sneers tossing the statue back and forth as angry Hayami lurches forward, her hues raw red only to be stopped by the vice grip of Boa's hand glaring at her to not move.
"This is punishment for letting a man loose sister." Boa reminds Hayami her hues raw red narrowing into Boa's baby blue.
"Hey stop it! She admired you!" Luffy yells at them.
"Everyone in this kingdom would that's why I think she would be satisfied with that." Tauntingly, Sonia scoffs.
"Like hell she would! Are you stupid!?" Scowling, Luffy yells.
"Such insolence!" Tauntingly, she continues tossing the statue up and down.
"We'll take the other ones out soon after each and every one of them slowly while you watch…" Marigold adds as her grip tightens around Luffy.
"Here I go one…two…" Sonia smiles raising the statue.
"I TOLD YOU TO STOP DAMMIT!" Luffy suddenly yells as everyone's eyes widen when next they knew a wave emitted from the boy, a bright burst of wind hitting the crowd and the two above as they stare shocked until…
"AHHH the warriors fainted!" A girl squeals nearby which fed up, Hayami uses as she swiftly snatches Marguerite back baffling said snake sisters.
"Sister!?" The two turn to stare down at her.
"Hey it's you." Luffy perks up at the sight of the blonde silently setting the stone statues back.
"This is a fight between you two and the boy I already have issue with it being two on one but I bit my togue. I had done enough damage today with the boy being loose so I held my togue but this is too far. Marguerite is one of our own, she tried to get the boy and failed but she is still one of our own and to use her to win a fight…where is the honour in that!?" Hayami demands from her sisters staring shocked at her as they all bow their heads.
"Sister…" Softly, Sonia and Mari call out to her.
"Mistress Hayami is approaching the stage!"
"So beautiful!"
"She looks so fierce!"
"Will she join the fight!?"
"Continue the fight but do not bring them back into this is that understood?" Swiftly, she turns on her heel ordering them as obediently, the two-nod complying to her command as she returns to the top.
"Thanks blondie!" Beaming, Luffy thanks Hayami.
"Blondie!? Tch I didn't do this for you dumbass!" Hayami hollers at the laughing Luffy.
"Could it be…" Selena begins baffled watching…
"That was conqueror's haki!" Ran realizes.
"That's a joke right? Only one in a million people are capable of using it. The haki of the chosen ones!" Daisy points out.
"Oh thank god not a single scratch on her! What? So you listened to me after all? Thanks!" Luffy laughs smiling when peering over the edge to see the three safe and sound.
"Go to hell straw hat!" She snaps as Luffy laughs.
"He has the conqueror's haki just as I do….what is going on!? Isn't he just an ordinary kid!?" Baffled, Boa ponders to herself biting her thumb tense.
"Heh…this really has gotten interesting." Hayami remarks as she joins Boa's side ignoring her glare.
"Geez you lot are so nosy." Luffy stretches.
"He doesn't realize that he used haki?" Mystified, Mari gawks.
"So he has no control over it…" Sonia reasons as next thing Hayami knew…
"That hurt dammit…! I ain't scared of an attack that you can't even hit me with! Gom-ARGH! What's up with this smoke!?" Scowling, Luffy heaves as the purple poisonous gas finally takes effect as he heaves staggering about as Sonia strikes with her tail, Mari joining in on the fun as the boy is helpless to their strikes.
"My poison melts anything it touches but that's not all it does." Smirking, Mari notes the purple gas floating about the stage.
"This is no-huh? What's this? I feel dizzy!" Drained, Luffy staggers shocked.
"I won't underestimate you any longer. You are our prey. I will weaken you with my poison. I will trap you and then bring you down for good! If you so much as inhale my poison your consciousness will fade!" Firmly, Mari spins her axe ready to finish things.
"That hurts dammit gomu gomu pistol!" Pathetically, Luffy tries to hit them but staggers as his hits don't even hit the two simply standing there watching the gas do its things.
"What's wrong? Could the gas have taken affect? As expected he's practically dead meat!" Sonia smirks down at the boy below.
"No matter how hard you try as long as you can't use your ability you're no different from a mouse to us! Give it up already!" Mari raises her axe to him before dealing blow after blow with her tail until throwing him off stage.
"SHE DID IT! HE'S FALLING INTO THE SPIKES!" Smiling, a girl from the crowd cheers.
"I can see clearly I'm healed! The poison came out!" Luffy realizes as he stretches his arms out holding onto a railing.
"His hand! It's the man's hand!" Panicked, a girl at the front frightenedly squeals.
"Hahaha!" Happily, he swings about the ditch.
"Look at that, how persistent! Mari sama, Sonia sama the man is still alive!" One of the girls snitches to the two as Mari reaches out spitting splatter after splatter of poison but Luffy imply throws himself upwards taking a heavy inhale and…
"Gomo gomo no…blow away!" Luffy blows said poison puddles and gas away as the stage returns to normal much to the shock of the snakes' sisters as next they knew…he uses his gear second.
"Why isn't Sonia sama hitting him!? Daisy whines.
"Hmm…Sonia sama may be good at observation haki but the best out of the sisters has to be Hayami …" Ran remarks eyeing the blonde above alongside armament haki at that.
"Sonia! Mari!" Hayami calls out to the two concern clear in her tone towards them as Sonia despite her snake hair attack is thrown down to the ground, chocked thanks to the rubber dragging her down to the ground steam spewing out of the boy before them. Mari is soon thrown back by the boy's single strike, making her fall on her back just as Sonia and Mari struggle to stand.
"Sonia! Mari! What are you playing around for?!" Furious, Hancock however doesn't share the same level of worry while she glares at the two.
"Big sister…" Softly, Sonia and Marie whisper.
"Have you forgotten that you are here to punish that man!?" Mad, Hancock glares down at them.
"P-Please forgive us big sister we will finish him off right away!" Sonia says shakily.
"She's burning!" Luffy gasps.
"Salamander!" Marigold exclaims fierce flames of snakes sprouting out from behind her while Sonia has her snake hair out as the two surround the steaming red skinned boy.
"You're not gonna get away!" Sonia snarls.
"No matter how slippery he might be there's no escape from this! There's no attack stronger than this!" The crowd cheer.
"Gomu gomu no…Jet gatling!" Luffy roars swiftly striking both fierce flames and snake hair breaking their hair horrifying the crowd.
"AHHH!" Sonia screams scaring Hayami.
"Oh no sister Sonia get away from me! What? I'm being pulled when did our tails…" Mari tries to break free but fails to do so.
"Sonia!" Hayami cries out when said sister screams fierce flames eating away at her as both sisters with their tails tied together bash into one another causing Sonia to catch on fire as Mari tries to push her back to save her however it only makes things worse when she collapses and the fire spreads.
"It burns! It burns!" Screaming, Sonia sobs in pain.
"Please wait sister you'll pull me too!" Mari tries to stop her however…
"Watch out Sonia there's spikes!" Hayami tries to warn her as Sonia grabs onto the railing as just then the fire feasts downwards…
"What an outrage." Boa curses as just then…
"Sonia!" Horrified, Hayami cries out as the flames feast upon her back burning her top as her back is about to be exposed but before it could…Luffy lunges over.
"That man…" Hancock's hues widen when he wraps his arms around her, using his body to shield said mark.
"He…" Hayami steps forward shocked stunned at the ma.
"He's going to drop her into the trench and impale her like a beast!" The girls accuse angrily unaware of the stunned shock locks of the gorgon sisters.
"You dammed man!" Mad, Sonia glares up at Luffy.
"Don't move! Even if you intend to kill me I won't kill you." Luffy assures her.
"Don't get cocky bastard Mari hurry up and kill him now you have the chance! What are you doing Mari?" Sonia demands from Mari.
"I can't…the man he…he's protecting us…" Mari whispers weakly.
"Look Sandersonia cape has been burned up and her back is exposed! If that man lets go the gorgon's eye will be exposed!" The girls gasp in the crowd as Boa stares stunned at the sight while Hayami places the back of her hand over her mouth muffling the small, shocked sob threatening to break through from the sight scared stunned and so much more…
"You're covering my back?" Baffled, Sonia stares stunned up at Luffy.
"You mentioned this earlier right? You'd rather die than let anyone see it right? So don't move!" Luffy asserts.
"Sister…" Sternly, Hayami turns to Boa, a grim grave look upon her distraught facial features as Goa glares, her hand forming a fist.
"I know…" Pained, she grimaces glaring down at the ground below before arising from her throat.
"The show is over! Before the Gorgon's eye is exposed everyone clear out!" Hancock announces to the crowd swiftly shuffling out.
"This is terrible!"
"Hurry I don't want to be stone!"
"The Gorgon curse ahhh!"
Terrified, the people flee fearful of their rulers oblivious to the shaken glassy hues of Hayami staggering back, feeling her knees buckle. Her ears ring, remembering the fierce flames feasting upon the building, the people's sharp scream, the stench of flesh being seared, the crisp clink of chains as she curled in on herself before being tugged forward snatched, their hands, his hands, her hands all over her as she screamed, pleaded, begged for it all to stop but it didn't, it never did, it never would…
"You're nothing but damaged goods…"
"You'll be a fun toy to break in though…"
"A fun side piece to play with…."
A sharp sob threatens to escape the shaking lip of Hayami as she slams her hand over her mouth muffling the sob trying to break through, blinking back the tears, her hues flickering from raw red to icy blue as she tries to remain strong, remain firm, remain together. She looks towards Boa, her hand over her hues no doubt going through her own experience as shyly, she slides her hand over to Boa's trembling hand, not looking at her. She feels Hancock's hand claps around her own, the two squeezing their shaking hands, bringing them back to reality as next Hayami knew her legs gave way as Sora swiftly caught her much to her relief leaning into Sora's side shyly shuffling into hers, concern clear in her expression. They hold one another, trying to get through this, no words needing to be shed between both gorgon sisters form their painful past.
"You were just fighting me…why are you helping me?" Mystifed, Sonia demands from Luffy.
"The thing you don't want anyone to see has nothing to do with our fight." Firmly, Luffy tells them.
"The man you tried to condemn to death has just saved you. Though you might fool the kingdom you can't keep lying to yourself forever. The thing you four sisters have on your backs is…" Elderly Nyon watches sadly staring at the pain siblings seeing their struggling states through this.
"Can I let go now?" Luffy asks as he looks around finding no one in sight as he releases his grip on her.
"Sonia!" Mari rushes over to her.
"We are so sorry sisters not only did we lose but we were saved by our enemy!" Sonia apologises as they bow before the two on their hands and knees back in their regular forms.
"Don't be. Sonia are you alright?" Hayami rushes over to the two, descending down the stairs concern clear in her tone towards them.
"I am fine sister." Sonia smiles softly down at her.
"You two are gonna fight me next?" Luffy assumes as he points to Hayami and Boa.
"That is enough. That is not my intention." Irritated, Boa scowls at Luffy, shakily exhaling.
"Really? She doesn't have any cracks right?" Luffy asks as he slaps Marguerite's statue form.
"Stop slapping her!" Harshly, Hayami snaps at Luffy.
"What? I'm just checking…look can you change these guys back now?" Luffy argues as he turns to Hancock.
"What did you say?" Scowling, Hancock glares at Luffy.
"You should be able to do that somehow right? They were only protecting me they didn't do anything wrong please!" Luffy bows before her, on his hands and knees shocking them all at the genuine concern he has towards them.
"I do indeed know how to turn those back to their old selves. However…you said there was a place you wanted to sail to did you not?" Hancock reminds him.
"Yeah my friends are waiting for me." Luffy answers.
"Is that so? I will only fulfil one of your requests do you chose to have the statues turned back or do you chose to leave this island? You must choose." Hancock gives him the ultimatum smirking smugly at the obvious answer.
"Snake princess would you truly go that far? Elder Nyon furrows her brow at Hancock.
"Reveal your true nature man! Internally, Hancock smirks smugly waiting for the answer she expects alongside Sonia, Mari and Hayami when…
"Really thanks!? Then you'll save them right!?" Smiling, Luffy beams brightly in relief.
"…Wha…" Hancock whispers shocked.
"Thank you so much!" Merrily, he plants his head down on the stage floor thanking her, lowering himself as the Gorgon sisters stare stunned at the sight before them, watching his straw hat hit the ground too. Stunned, Sonia and Marie turn towards the two shocked Hayami and Hancock no words able to come out as they stare stunned at the man before them.
"Not even a second of hesitation a man with such great haki is willing to bow his head for the sake of those who saved him? He might be able to…" Elder Nyon trails off.
"Sisters…" Shyly, Sonia and the meek Marie call out as both Boa and Hayami share a look and nod. She descends down towards the statutes passing by the grinning giddily Luffy smiling as she brushes past, tending to the stone statues of Marguerite and her hunters…