Ch.20-The Final Showdown
Disclaimer-One Piece isn't mine, okay?
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"What do you mean?" Emily asked the partially breathless spirit.
"I mean, Pam found the really powerful spells and is starting to cast them." Kristina answered.
"You're kidding…" Emily gasped.
Kristina roughly shook her head, "No, I'm not. I saw everything she did, including hearing her plan on using all the powers for herself to take over the world."
"We have to stop her!" Emily cried.
Quickly, she ran passed Kristina with the rest of her group. They ran for not more than fifteen seconds when the room got darker than it was before even though the flames from the torches had not gotten dimmer. The rooms started shaking violently, so violently that the entire group fell off their feet and loud chanting came from the room Pam was in.
"Oh my God…we're too late…" Nicole gasped.
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Pam had found the most powerful spells that she could find as Kristina was busy warning the Straw Hat Pirates and Nicole about her. She was extremely disappointed because she was unable to find the spells that could give one infinite powers that she knew was there, but she was unable to find spells to give her enough powers to take over the world and the pirates.
"I call up on the powers of the knights of the Almanian Gods. Brave and powerful warriors, hear my call. Of all your powers, give me all!" Pam chanted loudly in the ancient Almanian language. Suddenly, she felt a surge of energy enter her body. Within a few seconds, she felt power that she never felt before…and she liked it.
Pam was now able to cast any spell without chanting it. All she had to do was snap her fingers and the spell was cast. An evil laugh escaped from her mouth and with the snap of a finger, Pam was standing on the large platform used for sacrificing. The platform began to rise up to the top of the castle, causing the entire castle to shake violently and for each floor she rose, the evil woman got bigger and bigger.
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The Straw Hat Pirates and Nicole regained their balance as soon as the shaking lightened. Not one of them bothered to enter the room Pam was originally in for they had a feeling that she was no longer inside of the castle. They all ran outside of the entire castle, up many flights of stairs (they ignored the elevator) and into the dark outside.
A large, very large Pam was standing six feet above the castle, smirking at everything below her: the people, animals, and magic creatures, as they stared at her in confusion and fear. With a quick laugh, Pam snapped her fingers and many different lightening bolts fell from the sky and hit the ground. The fairies screamed.
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From inside Pam's ship, the screams were easily heard. The ship shook violently as each lightening bolt struck the forest floor.
Kim, Kelly, and Ryan were slammed into the walls repeatedly. With the help of Mark, Matt, Stacey, and the other Marines, Kim, Kelly, and Ryan were able to make it out of the ship and onto the Almanian ground.
"Oh my God! What is that thing?" Ryan asked, pointing at Pam.
"It's her! She must have gained powers to help her take over the world!" Stacey screamed.
Matt looked over at Mark, "Why the Hell didn't you tell us this would happen?"
"Because I can't see the future! I'm not psychic, you idiot!" Mark shouted at him.
"Hey, you guys are magic creatures. Can't you do anything to stop her?" Kelly asked Mark, Matt, and Stacey. The three shook their heads.
"She has the powers of an Almani and none of us has any powers stronger than that." Stacey answered.
"Hey, look! It's Emily!" Kim shouted, pointing at the emerald haired girl in front of her.
"Emily!" Ryan shouted, running towards her. Kim and Kelly followed him.
Emily turned her gaze from Pam to the three Marines and said emotionlessly, "Don't come any closer."
Kim, Kelly, and Ryan immediately stopped. They couldn't explain why, but they had a feeling that only she knew how to defeat Pam and wanted no interruptions when doing so.
Kristina handed Emily her flute, "Pam does not have any infinite powers, but don't underestimate her. If you aren't careful, she can quickly kill you. Use the Dark Diamond Bracelets and your flute if you have to and…good luck."
Emily smiled, "Thank you." Emily handed Zoro Misao's bracelet.
As soon as the man slipped the bracelet over his wrist, Emily closed her eyes and chanted, "I llac nopu eht stirips fo ym tneicna Almani srotsecna. Dnel ruoy sgniw ot Oroz dna Iman ot pleh taefed eht ymene gnikcatta Almania!"
A light covered her, Zoro, and Nami. Two sets of wings came out of Zoro and Nami's backs. Emily made her wings come out. The three flew up into the air and in front of the large Pam.
Pam's large head was about the height of Zoro's body, her eyes much larger than his head. The look she gave Zoro, Nami, and Emily was frightening. She smirked at them, but didn't move. Her body started to shake as if she was about to have a seizure and a huge laugh escaped her body.
Zoro, Nami, and Emily were blown back a few feet from the sickening breath of the large woman.
"Ha ha ha! You three actually think you can defeat me? Dream on!" Pam laughed. With a snap, Pam casted a powerful wind spell against the three in the sky. As Emily, Zoro, and Nami were being blown around, Pam was too.
Even after the wind spell was over, Pam was moving around like a bolt of lightening. Zoro, Nami, and Emily focused their energy on their Dark Diamond Bracelets, but had a huge problem. Although they were able to get their energy into their bracelets, their target was moving around so quickly that they were unable to get her if they tried.
"Dammit! She's too fast!" Zoro grunted, struggling to keep Pam as a target. Pam kept laughing and jumping from place to place.
"What are we going to do?" Emily asked. Though she too was an Almani, she never seen such fast power and didn't know how to defend herself and her friends.
Suddenly, Pam stopped moving around. She snapped her fingers and instantly, three bubbles covered Zoro, Nami, and Emily. The bubbles started filling up with water. Nami and Emily banged their fists against the walls while Zoro tried slicing the walls, but none of them had any effect.
Soon, none of the three were able to get any air from inside their bubbles.
"Nami-san!" Sanji screamed.
"Nami! Emily! Zoro!" Luffy screamed.
Emily looked down at the rest of the Straw Hat Pirates, Nicole, and Kristina, with an apologetic look on her face. Slowly, the girl closed her eyes, ready to accept her fate.
As she closed her eyes, Emily heard a woman singing a song with the most beautiful voice she had ever heard before. Without opening her eyes, Emily saw a green haired woman singing the song to a small emerald haired baby girl: Lilie and Emily. Through the water, Lilie's lullaby was so clear and enchanting that Emily thought she had died and met her mother.
A light, tingling feeling filled her body, telling Emily that she was still alive. Emily opened her blue-green eyes. She saw Zoro and Nami struggling to get at least a tiny bit of air from the water-filled bubbles. She looked down at the flute in her left hand. The flute may help her, if she would have to strength to play it.
She lifted the flute up to her lips and played the lullaby she heard Lilie singing to her. For each note she played, the bubble she was in got larger and larger before it completely exploded, but she didn't stop. She kept on playing the lullaby until the bubbles around Zoro and Nami exploded.
Zoro and Nami gasped for air while Pam again started to jump around from place to place.
"Oh no. She's doing it again." Nami sighed, "What are we going to do?" Zoro shrugged.
Emily almost did, but her mother's lullaby kept playing in her head. Why does this song keep playing in my head? What does it mean? Emily wondered.
"Emily! Look out!" Kelly screamed from the ground.
Before Emily could move, Pam hit her with a strong, invisible force. Losing control of her wings, Emily hit a large stone wall. Her back slammed into the wall and her hair ribbon flew off of her head and into her hands. Wincing in pain, Emily looked over the back of her ribbon, where the notes were sewn and gasped, "Mother's lullaby…Mama sewed in on here when I was little. This lullaby…it has to be a key in defeating Pam."
Emily tied the ribbon back into her hair and flew back up to Zoro and Nami, ignoring the calls of the people below asking if she was okay.
"Are you okay, Emily?" Zoro asked.
Emily nodded, "Yeah. I'll be fine. I think I know a way to slow her down."
"How?" Nami asked, "She's moving so fast I can't even tell where she is now."
"Trust me." Emily told her. Both Nami and Zoro nodded. "Please make this work." Emily whispered, placing her flute once again to her lips. Taking a deep breath, Emily began to play Lilie's lullaby, this time, clearer and more beautiful than she did from inside the bubble she was imprisoned in. Pam was not affected by the melody, but something else sure was.
The barrier from the river leading to the sea was suddenly shattered. The sea breeze was rougher than it ever had been before, seagulls flew in, dropping shells onto the large woman, slowing her down, but not enough. But, that wasn't all that was attacking the evil woman. Umiryuu and a few of his sea friends swam into Almania for the first time in fifteen years.
The creatures from the sea carried mud from down on the ocean floor, where it was very thick and strong. Emily kept playing the melody and the creatures quickly hurled the mud at the woman's feet all the way up to her waist when she landed on the castle roof.
Pam was now moving very slowly for only the infinite powers of the Almani, if she had them, could have easily removed the thick mud from her body. Dolphins from the sea were carried up to Pam's large body along with whales by large flying birds. Water was spouted into Pam's eyes, blinding the woman.
"Zoro! Nami! NOW!" Emily shouted, removing her lips from her flute, "Focus all your energy in your bracelets!" In an instant, Zoro, Nami, and Emily's bracelets started to glow brighter than they ever had. Emily moved in between them and stuck out her right arm, the one with her bracelet out in front of her.
"What do we do now?" Zoro asked her.
"Imagine your bracelets as a weapon!" Emily shouted.
The three flying in the sky closed their eyes and imagined the energy of the Dark Diamond Bracelets merging together to make an invincible sword of energy that would be able to slice through anything in the world.
Zoro, Nami, and Emily opened their eyes and, just like they had imagined, there was a large, golden sword of energy from the Dark Diamond Bracelets on their wrists. By now, Pam was able to see and was NOT happy at the new weapon she saw.
Snapping her fingers, Pam sent a fireball five times the height of Zoro at them. Normally, the fireball would have burned Zoro, Nami, and Emily to a crisp, but they had their new weapon. Zoro, Nami, and Emily swung their sword and sliced through the fireball. The fireball was sucked into the sword.
Zoro, Nami, and Emily flew up to Pam and with a quick swing, stabbed Pam right into her evil heart.
The woman screamed as she felt the pain of fire and energy fill her body. Finally, the screaming stopped and she felt no more. Pam's large body shrank back down to its normal size and sank down into the mud.
"Is…she dead?" Emily asked nervously, not letting her guard down. Zoro and Nami didn't answer. The sun dried up all the mud covering Pam. The mud cracked and shattered onto the castle roof. A soft breeze blew the dried mud off the castle roof and onto the forest floor. And laying on the castle roof was an unmoving Pam in a large pool of blood. Zoro nodded.
"We did it!" Emily screamed, flying around in the air. Everybody on the forest floor: the pirates, Marines, and all the magical creatures started cheering.
Nami turned to Emily, "Emily? How long is this flying spell supposed to last?"
Emily paused, "Uhhh…"
The wings suddenly disappeared off of Zoro and Nami's backs and the two started falling towards the ground. Emily still had her wings and tried to pull them back up into the air, but was unsuccessful.
Emily's wings disappeared and she fell towards the ground with Zoro and Nami, screaming in fear.
Quickly, Luffy sucked up a bunch of air and shouted, "Gomu Gomu no Balloon!" His body became a large balloon that caught Zoro, Emily, and Nami before they hit the ground. Unfortunately, because Luffy was rubber, Zoro, Emily, and Nami bounced off his body and back into the air.
Every one of the Straw Hat Pirates was running around, attempting to catch one of the three that was flying through the air. Only two of the three was caught.
Sanji was lucky and caught Nami in his arms before she hit the ground. Zoro fell down to the ground, catching Emily as she fell on top of him.
"Are you okay, Zoro?" Emily asked, getting off of the man's body.
Zoro winced in pain, sat up, and nodded, "I'm okay."
"You actually got rid of Pam?" Usopp asked Emily.
Emily nodded and looked around. Every animal that came from the sea was gone and Lilie's lullaby was being played from the sea.
The sound was faint, but Emily could hear it perfectly. The Straw Hat Pirates, Marines, Nicole, and all the magical creatures in Almania could hear it, too. This song…could it be the Melody of the Seas? Emily wondered. She thought deeply and remembered reading an entry from her mother's diary about the Melody of the Seas:
"The Melody of the Seas is an ancient melody that allows the person playing it to bring anything in the sea to his or her own aide or can make a dozen sea creatures dance on the waves and makes the sea play the same melody. It's only a legend, but Almani have been trying for 500 years to find the melody and none have been successful."
"I…I did it." Emily whispered.
"What did you say, Emily?" Chopper asked her.
"I found it. I found the Melody of the Seas." Emily gasped.
Quickly, before anybody could say anything else, Emily ran into the castle while calling for Chopper (who was still carrying Lyssa and Sabrina) to follow her.
Not only did Chopper follow her, but so the did pirates, Nicole, and the Marines. Emily didn't explain what she was going to be doing until she stepped in front of a long mirror on the second floor.
"I'm going to speak with the Almani gods…and I'm taking Lyssa and Sabrina with me. The gods will pick a suitable punishment for them. I want you all to wait here when I get back." Emily announced.
"Emily…" Zoro said.
Emily stared at him, "Please, Zoro! This is something I have to do alone."
Zoro hesitated, but nodded, "Okay."
"How do you know how to speak with the gods of your people?" Robin asked her.
"When Pam kept me prisoner, I read a tablet talking about them and how to meet with them." Emily answered.
Then she put her right hand on the mirror and chanted, "Nepo eht rood ot eht Almani sdog." A light shined from the mirror, waking up Lyssa and Sabrina, who were now on the floor.
"Good luck, Emily." Chopper whispered before giving Emily, Lyssa, and Sabrina hard shoves through the mirror. The door then closed.
Now Emily, Lyssa, and Sabrina stood in a dark room, in front of seven people, men and women wearing masks to cover their faces.
"We have been watching you, Emerald Emily and we must say that we are quite impressed with all the things you have done." The gods announced.
"I…I have a few questions for you." Emily said to them.
The tallest god nodded, "Let us hear them."
Emily took a deep breath, "I ask you all if you may punish these two." Emily pointed at Lyssa and Sabrina.
The god nodded his head, "We will do that."
The gods looked at each other and chanted, "We, the Almani gods banish the two wrong-doers to the Black World for all eternity."
A dark purple light covered Lyssa and Sabrina. The girls screamed, cried, and begged the gods not to send them to a new and possibly scary world for all eternity, but the gods ignored their pleas and sent the girls to the world. Lyssa and Sabrina were gone immediately.
"What else do you have to ask us?" Another god asked.
Emily hesitated for a moment, but after remembering her promise, she asked, "Is there any way you can free the Almani trapped in the bubbles?" The gods stared at each other. The seven of them huddled together and started whispering.
Emily waited for nearly ten minutes before the god's discussion ended. All seven of them turned towards the small girl.
The oldest one cleared his throat, "We will do more than that. Because they were killed so unfairly, we will resurrect every single one that died during the attack, even Kristina."
Emily's eyes widened, "You will? Will the resurrected ones look any different than they did before they died?"
The god shook his head, "No, they will be the same age and look the same. They'd just look like they had been frozen in time within the last fifteen years."
Emily smiled widely, "Thank you so much."
"However," another god interrupted, "We are unable to resurrect your family."
"Why not?" Emily asked.
"Your family left the forest and for that we can't bring them back to life." The god answered.
"And besides," another added, "their bones were used in a potion and we can't bring them back." Emily nodded and asked the gods more questions:
"Why aren't the Almani allowed to leave the forest?"
"They are allowed to leave."
"What do you mean?"
"The Almani have been allowed to leave the forest for hundreds of years. They just don't know it. If they leave, we can't resurrect them."
"Will you still watch over them?"
"Always."
"Do you know any more powers than the ones in the sacrificing room?"
"We do."
"Will you let the other Almani know them?"
"If we find someone that can handle the powers, then 'yes'."
Before Emily could ask another question, a deep voice called, "Emily!"
Emily jumped, "It's Zoro…"
One of the gods smiled, "Go on home, Emily…"
Emily stared at the god, "But I have so many more questions to ask."
The god placed her hands on Emily's shoulders, "All your questions will be answered in time. Now, go home to your family. And remember: we will always watch over you, even if you leave."
Emily smiled and nodded. "Sayonara." She softly called, stepping through the mirror.
"What's wrong, Emily?" Zoro asked the small girl.
"I kept my promise." Emily answered. She looked around the room and saw that the Marines were gone. Before she could ask where they were, the ground started shaking and a light filled the sky. When the shaking stopped, the Straw Hat Pirates and Nicole ran to the windows.
The light was still there, so they couldn't see what was going on outside, but they knew it had to be big. When the light was gone, everyone knew something weird happened. The bubbles were gone, there weren't any graves, and PEOPLE were walking around outside.
"Excuse me? Are you lost?" A familiar voice asked from behind them.
The group turned around at the voice. Emily let out a gasp, "Oh my God…it's you…"
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A/N: Okay, that was the 20th chapter. I hoped you liked it. R/R if you want, but don't flame me if ya hate it.
Oh, and here are some of my Almani translations:
I llac nopu eht stirips fo ym tneicna Almani srotsecna. Dnel ruoy sgniw ot Oroz dna Iman ot pleh taefed eht ymene gnikcatta Almania I call upon the spirits of my ancient Almani ancestors. Lend your wings to Zoro and Nami to help defeat the enemy attacking Almania.
Nepo eht rood ot eht Almani sdog Open the door to the Almani Gods
A/N: Remember, if you have any ideas, send them to me.