Chapter 7 - Sanji vs. Shoro
Usopp hit the wall hard, he slumped to the floor and stared wide eye'd at his opponent.
"You should have ran away with your friend." laughed Shoro as his arms transformed into a long pink wriggly worm.
"Keep away from me." shouted Usopp as he tried to raise his arms but couldn't gather the strength.
The worm wrapped itself around Usopp's neck "Any last word."
"Yeah." laughed Usopp "You should watch you back."
Shoro spun around just as Sanji's foot slammed into his face.
Shoro spun around in circles and sped along the floor.
"Sanji!" laughed Usopp
"Where's Robin and Chopper?" asked Sanji
"Chopeprs fighting the guy with the club and Robin went on alone." replied Usopp
"Go after her." said Sanji
"What about Chopper?" asked Usopp
"He's strong." smiled Sanji "He won't lose."
Usopp laughed, rose to his feet and followed down the path where Robin had went.
Shoro was back on his feet, he glared at Sanji "You fool. You would have been better of not interfering."
Sanji smirked.
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Robin had sped along the path, she entered into a large chamber with an altar in the middle.
There sitting on the altar was a large treasure chest.
"This is too easy." thought Robin as she walked towards the chest, she knelt down and opened the chest.
A large rock slammed down over the entrance and a hole opened up beneath her.
Robin fell into the darkness.
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"Sprint Boost!" called chopper as he transformed, he dashed away just in time.
Toshio's bat smashed the floor.
"Damn it." thought Chopper "I have to get that bat away from him."
Chopper kicked of from the wall and used the extra speed to gain the upper hand, he quickly transformed to his Heavy Boost and grabbed both of Toshio's arm, he jumped and landed both his feet in Toshio's chest. Toshio grunted and spun Chopper into a throw, he slammed the reindeer into the ground before bringing his club crashing into the reindeer's chest.
Chopper stared at roof as blood leaked from his mouth, he new straight away that his ribs were broken.
"Finished already." laughed Toshio "What a boring battle this was."
Chopper stood up.
"WHAT!" cried Toshio "That's impossible!"
"I won't lose, my friends are counting on me." he retrieved a rumble ball from his bag and ate it.
"That stupid ball won't help you." laughed Toshio
Chopper stared furiously at Toshio who continued laughing.
Toshio rose his bat and began swinging wildly.
"I won't lose to you!" cried Chopper as he transformed into Jumping Boost, he bounced around kicking of all the walls.
"This won't save you." laughed Toshio as he watched Chopper jump around the room.
Chopper launched himself at Toshio and transformed into his arm boost, he landed one hard solid blow on the woots steel and watched it shatter into pieces.
"NO WAY!" screamed Toshio, he spun around to see Chopper standing right next to him.Toshio rose his fist.
Chopper transformed into Heavy boost and caught Toshio's fist, he then caught Toshio's second attack and headbutted the huge strongman.
Chopper turned to Arm Boost and glared furiously at Toshio "Sakura Snowstorm!"
Chopper launched a massive amount of Kokutei Roseo attacks at Toshio who was unable to block.
All of Choppers attacks landed perfectly and sent Toshio crashing the wall, straight out into the open air, he plummeted below.
Chopper laughed and cheered in victory before collapsing.
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Robin awoke and a dark chamber that was lit only from the open hole above, she held her head and slowly rose to her feet.
"Where am I?" she thought, she looked around and took one step forward, the light suddenly illuminated in green.
She looked around and saw that this room had a treasure chest near the wall and hanging above it on the wall was a black mask with red circles surrounding the eye's and a blue circle around the mouth.
She felt strange, she felt as if the mask was calling out to her, she walked over, reached out and removed the mask.
A shadowy figure smiled in the darkness as she put it on.
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Sanji unleashed a barrage of kick at Shoro but amazingly Shoro fell to the floor on his own, Sanji aimed his kicks at the ground and watched as Shoro's body twisted around his legs.
"What the hell." snapped Sanji as Shoro entangles his arms and legs.
"I will crush you." laughed Shoro
Sanji looked around and came up with one option, he kicked hard of the ground throwing himself at the wall, he turned and using shoro to cushion his landing slammed himself against the wall.
Shoro recoiled and released Sanji.
Sanji spun around and delivered several kicks to shoro who smashed farther into the wall with everyblow.
"Too easy." laughed Sanji as Shoro slumped to the floor.
Just then Sanji heard footsteps, he turned to see Zoro and Nami.
"NAMI-SAN!" he cried in delight
"Sanji." she answered "Did you find Usopp and Chopper?"
"Usopp and Robin are down there." answered Sanji "And Chopper is through there somewhere." he pointed at the large hole in the wall.
"Let's go then." said Nami as she jumped through the hole "CHOPPER!"
She ran over to the unconscious Reindeer "are you ok?"
Chopper didn't answer, she returned to the chamber and Looked at her crew.
"Let's go." said Zoro as he headed for the passageway, Nami followed but as Sanji took a step he felt his legs getting pulled away.
Shoro bounced up and swung sanji into a wall.
Sanji coughed and landed on one knee "GO!"
Nami turned and ran after Zoro.
"You should have stayed dead." snarled Sanji
Shoro buried into the ground and vanished.
Sanji closed his eye's and focused, he jumped away just as Shoro came crashing upwards.
Sanji was too late too realize that only half of Shoro's body had emerged from the ground, his other half broke up behind Sanji and his two legs which had transformed into worm launched a flurry of blown upon Sanji. Sanji hit the wall, bleeding from a cut lip and a forehead wound.
Shoro's body emerged from the ground to show that he had grown thre times in size.
"How can you increase you size." spat sanji
"By training the Devil fruit to it's full potential." answered Shoro
Sanji and Shoro stood several feet apart.
"Ok." said Sanji "My next attack will finish this."
"What?" asked Shoro
"here we go." smiled Sanji as he launched himself at Shoro with a series of backflips.
Shoro braced himself and was ready for the attack, but Sanji used the last flip to launched himself into the air, he aimed his feet at shoor's face and called "Troisieme Hache"
Sanji landed a series of powerful kicks to Shoro's face, blood exploded outwards as his nose burst.
Sanji landed on his hand and prepared himself, he sprung upwards calling "Bouquetiere Shoot" he launched himslef upwards driving both of his feet into Shoro's chin.
Shoro flew backwards, a trail of blood flowing from his mouth, he slammed into the roof of the wall and fell to the floor, a portion of the roof collapsed like a spike and scewered Shoro before he was buried beneath a pile of rubble.
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Usopp sat panting "Nothing works."
He looked at the huge rock that blocked his path.
Zoro rushed by him and sliced the rock to pieces.
"Hey guy's" called Usopp as Nami came running along dragging along Chopper
"Here." she snapped as she pushed Chopper into Usopp's arms.
They four entered into the chamber with the treasure chest, the hole in th floor remained open.
"I guess we o down." said Zoro as he jumped through
"ZORO!" screamed Usopp "What the hell's he thinking"
"How do we get down?" asked Nami
Usopp removed a long rope from his bag and tied it around the altar. He tugged it to make sure it was secure before strapping Chopper to his back and sliding down, Nami followed him.
It took Sanji ten seconds to catch up, he arrived just as Nami slid down teh rope.
"Down the rope of love." he smiled
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To Be Continued...
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chapter 8 preview
Sanji and the others arrive just as the shadow figure attacks Robin.