Circus Fruits

Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece, but I do own Draconian.

Okay, before I start this off, I'd like to apologize to all the people reading this, I spelled Hawkeye's last name incorrectly, it's Mihawk, not Meathawk, I'm sorry. I also accidentally spelled Cursed Fruit with a k, I was a little confused with how they said it on the show I thought it might be k, again, I'm sorry. Now on to the chapter! Oh, and there's going to be a line where he looks back into his past, it should be obvious which one it is, but I'll label it just in case, but only for this chapter.

Draconian's back leaned against the mast so that he was laying in the shade as he looked over the map of the small section of world he was in, trying to find where he was. "Okaaay, when I fell asleep I was around here," he put his finger on a small section of drawn water. "Judging by the direction the wind was and how long I probably slept, I should be..." his finger traveled across the map until finally stopping a few inches from where it originally was. "Here."

"Now," he looked around the map. "Dry land is closest to the east of where I am, and that should be that way." He pointed to the left side of his ship, since he was sailing south. "Now all that I really need to do is find a town, or should I say choose a town, there's a good number of them."

He drew his finger down the side of the map, going over the names of each town in his head and trying to remember all that he could about each, which wasn't really that much. For some odd reason, though, the names seemed familiar to him, he didn't know why but it kept nagging at the back of his head. That was, of course, until his finger landed on a specific name.

Joyous laughter erupted from Draconian's mouth as he stared at the town. "I cannot believe that I didn't recognize this area immediately, I've been gone for only about a year and already I forget. Well, I know where I'm sailing."

With that, Draconian got up and headed around to slightly change the sail so that now the ship slightly turned to the left so that it sailed to the mainland, where his home town was.

Diana traveled over to one of the busiest tables of the day, carefully carrying a tray laden with drinks. She had been working at the bar for most of her life, trying to make a living. She was a very kind person at heart and would always try to make conversation with the people that came here, well, the decent people, at least. Despite being in her late thirties she still looked almost as beautiful as the day she met Hawkeye Mihawk. Her long black hair flowed down to her slim waist, not as shiny as it used to be but still better than anyone else in the town. She was about five and a half feet tall with an almost petite body. Her face looked just as beautiful as it had been before, more like a mature version of her original beauty than an older version. Her eyes had remained the same, though, they were a deep blue that were almost always full of love when she had her child, Draconian, living with her. Nowadays they weren't filled with that, but were still full of happiness, she wasn't really lonely after her son left, she still had the town, and it's Draconian didn't actually run away.

Right now she was humming a little tune that had popped into her head as she waited the tables, easily able to hear herself over the noise. The noise went through every single part of the bar, but you could easily hold an actual conversation with someone without having to shout. It was almost always like this in the morning and early afternoon, although it was pretty rowdy at night, good thing for her that nowadays she wasn't assigned the night shift, but she did have to help with it whenever there was a really big crowd.

While she traveled her way back to the counter, still humming that little song stuck in her head, she heard the ringing of the bell as the door opened. To tell you the truth this meant nothing to her as people were always coming in, but she looked over as was her habit, in case it was somebody she could talk to. The person who entered was definitely not who she was expecting, but she still called out in her cheery voice.

"Hi, Joe, I'm surprised to see you here," she talked while she mended her way to the graying man. "You don't usually go to bars, did you have a really bad day?"

"No, not really, actually it was a pretty good day, but that's not why I'm here. There's a new ship sailing into the port right now."

She shrugged. "So, that happens almost every day, what's so special about today?"

"You'll see, just come on down to the place with me, I promise you'll like it."

"Okay, okay." She let out a sigh. "I know you're not going to let me back out on this, let me just tell my supervisor about it, I think everyone's got their drinks anyway." She then headed to the back of the place and returned a minute later, taking off her apron as she did so. "Let's go."

It was a pretty short walk, due mostly to the fact that she worked in the bar that was closest to where the ships docked, which is what made it the most popular bar in town. When they got close, Diana could make out what had to be the ship that Joe had mentioned, since it was the only one actually traveling in. It was actually a fair distance away, she guessed it would take around five to ten minutes for it to actually get to shore. At first it didn't really look that special, she couldn't see anything that would make her want to actually see this. True, the dragon carving on it's front was beautiful, but it wasn't that special, she could have seen it later, and the ship wasn't even that big.

But then she looked up at the person perched on the back of the dragon's head, staring out at the town with a huge grin on his face. Diana's face lit up in joy as she saw her son, his clothes billowing in the wind, his hand over his eyes to help shield them from the sun and so that he could see the far bank clearer. A faint "whoop" was heard as Draconian obviously shouted in joy, either from seeing the town or, more likely, spotting his mother. Everyone that stood at the port, which wasn't really much, stayed to watch until the ship finally pulled in. Most people just stood where they originally were, except of course Diana, who ran over to get closer to the ship.

Instead of climbing off of the ship or laying down a kind of plank to help him get off, Draconian launched himself off of the dragon head upon seeing his mother. His body spun through the air as it turned so that he went head over heels through the air once, like an acrobat. He landed right behind his slightly startled mother, wrapping his arms tightly around her in a hug, a huge smile on his face. "Gotcha."

Diana laughed along with her son, squirming a little as he placed kiss after kiss along her cheek. She squeezed his arms with her hands, partly to hug him back, and partly to try and move them. "I get it, get it, let go of me."

"Never." He stopped kissing her cheeks, only to hug her tighter.

"Ugh, come on, I'm not as strong as those pirates that are still in my bar, which I should get back to soon."

Draconian's face featured mock shock. "You mean you'd rather spend the day in a bar full of sweaty men than spend time with your son who's just come back after a year?"

"Well, at least in the bar I won't get squeezed to death."

"You're just complaining because you're old." Draconian laughed, only to have is mother move her hand up and twap him in the nose playfully, which only made both him and her laugh. Finally he let go of her, only to go heading back to his ship. "I'll be right back, I have to tie her down."

Once done, he returned to his mother's side and walked with her back to the bar. She turned her head to him while they walked and started conversation. "So, how have you been doing while you were away?"

A chuckle came to his lips. "I should be asking how you've been, god knows you can't survive here without me."

This earned him another playful twap on his nose. "Hey, if I can survive with you I can easily do it without. Besides, I asked you the question first."

"I've been doing fine, taken down a good number of pirates. I've gotten a lot better with my sword skills and controlling my Cursed Fruit powers."

A chuckle had come to his mother's lips like his before. "I still remember the day that you had eaten that fruit, heck, the whole town still remembers it," she leaned over and gave him one of those playful pushes, a smile on her face, "hero."

"As do I, mom," he put his arm around her shoulders as they neared the bar, "as do I."

One year ago...

It started off just like any other normal day, Draconian woke up to a bright morning and put on his signature clothes, strapping on both of his swords as he did so. He didn't really do this for protection, it was more for the show, and besides, he'd gone through a lot to get these swords, he's always going to carry them around. Once dressed he headed downstairs and out the door, traveling to the bar that his mom worked, she had always got up before him because of the time she had to work. When he entered the bar he went to sit in a chair at the counter, ordering a drink and some eggs and sausage, like he did every morning. There were two reasons that he came at the bar, one was to talk to some of the pirates, it was interesting hearing the tales, the other was to watch out for his mother. True, there was a good chance that no one else would try and get too serious with her like that one time, but you could never be too safe. He would have loved to stay all day, but once it got to around noon he would head out and go to the one area in the forest to train.

Well, he wasn't able to do it this day.

As soon as he left the bar and started to head towards the forest, he stopped as one of the incoming ships distracted him. It was already docked, and people were heading out, there were two things different about it, though. One was the fact that all of the crew were gathering up in front of their boat, this wasn't usually odd, but this time it seemed, more organized. The second had to be the flag, it was the usual skull, but it had a big red dot in where the nose was, probably one of those clown noses. The town that he lived in did once in a while get some kind of strange pirates, but this was stranger than any others, and Draconian could have sworn he heard something about a clown pirate, dangerous he had heard.

Draconian turned around from where he was going and headed towards where the ship was docked, but decided to keep close to the wall, he didn't know why but he felt he should do something like this. Other people from the town had started to slowly gather at the site, some of them with wide eyes, maybe they had heard about this guy. When it looked like a good number of people had come to see what was going on, the ranks of pirates split in the middle to let someone through.

Draconian's sight was blocked by one person in front of him, so he crept a little closer, trying to get a better view. His sight was blocked even more, though, as more people came, reacting from the voice of someone speaking, probably the person that the pirates had let through.

"People of this town, my name is Buggy the Clown and I have decided to take over your precious little village. If I were you I wouldn't try and put up a defense."

Now, that had definitely jarred something within Draconian, he had heard of Buggy, although he didn't know he was a clown. It was rumored that he had the powers of a Cursed Fruit. This might be the best time to prove himself to everyone, to show them that he wasn't just some bi-product of Mihawk. Instead of trying to get a better view of what was happening up front, Draconian headed in an alleyway between the bar and a store. He jumped up and pushed off one wall, turning around and pushing off the other as soon as he hit it, continuing this until he got to the top of the roof. He then continued by jumping from roof to roof until he was on the corner of the roof closest to where Buggy and his crew was, going down low so as not to be seen as he looked on at the assembled.

They all seemed like a regular crew, nothing really clownish about any of them, but Buggy, let's just say if he wasn't in front of them all and deep in the crowd you could tell him apart. He didn't actually wear clown make-up, but he did have two crossed bones painted on his forehead and a blue streak, like a painted on scar, over each eye, he also wore one of those clown noses and had on the red lipstick, which contrasted greatly with his teeth, which were shown in a wide, evil smile that took up his whole mouth, it looked like he always did this. He had blue hair, which barely peaked out of the corners of his orange hat, which was in the style of one of those pirates that little kids imagined, and it had a skull and crossbones drawn in the middle, the eye sockets seeming a little bigger, but he did have some hair coming up out of the two ends and falling down to hang over the sides. The odd thing about his clothing to Draconian was that he wore a coat over his shoulders, having it pretty close so that it didn't fall off, since he didn't put his hands through the sleeves. It was orange and the opening down the middle was covered in some kind of white fluff, like fake animal hair. It also had one of those shoulder things you might see on people in a marching band, with yellow tassels connected to a green shoulder piece. Finally, he wore a purple scarf with the end pulled out a little in front, and his shirt and pants were just like any other pirate's.

"Now, how are we going to do this?" Buggy clapped his hands together. "Are you going to surrender and let us take over your town, or am I going to have to take it over by force." Slowly he pulled out a knife to have it waggle before him. "I'm sure you'll make the right choice."

At first the town looked slightly nervous, but one by one each person straightened up to face Buggy and his crew, it also helped that the pirates from the bars filtered out to stand with the towns people. This made Buggy stroke his chin. "Hmm, looks like you want to do this the hard way, good, I just found a little something while sailing that I've been dying to try, and even if you're stronger than you look, a well placed Buggy ball should make you all think twice about sticking up to us." With that, Buggy reached inside his coat and pulled something out.

Upon seeing what it was, most people gasped, others had their eyes widen, but a few just looked on confused as to what it was they were seeing. Draconian, well, his jaw just dropped, he was speechless, because what Buggy was holding in his hand was what could only be a Cursed Fruit.

Buggy laughed. "Now, it's true that I already have Cursed Fruit powers, but coming up on this, I can't help but want to have two powers, and there's nothing really for me to lose, the other one I've already eaten has prevented me from swimming, this power is just an added bonus. I'm not completely sure what it can do, but I don't really care, a power is a power, and even the oddest ones are great." With that, he started to lift the fruit to his lips.

Draconian leaped from the roof, spinning a little in the process, and landed in a crouch in front of the crowd of towns people and pirates, which had slightly shocked everyone, seeing as he came from nowhere, and even stopped Buggy from eating the fruit as he stared at the person who had just come flying in. Still in the crouched position, Draconian's voice drifted over the dock where everyone was, almost sending a shiver through a few people's spines. "Get away from my town, now."

Buggy was unaffected, though, as he just stared at the odd figure before him, the Cursed Fruit seemingly forgotten in his hand. "And who are you to make me?"

Draconian stood up, raising his head as he did so to stare at Buggy, revealing his eyes. "My name is Draconian Mihawk, son of Hawkeye Mihawk."

A slight shiver went down Buggy's spine as he heard this and looked into his eyes, but he straightened back up after a second and stared at the young Mihawk. "Well, it doesn't matter who your father is, soon I'm going to have two Cursed Fruit powers, something that no known person has had before, and I'll be stronger than anyone alive, including Mihawk!" With that, he once again raised the fruit to his lips.

"Anyone who thinks they can beay a person, especially my father, just because they have powers is an arrogant fool." He muttered under his breath. Suddenly, before Buggy could even get the thing close to his lips, Draconian whipped out his katana and threw it like a spear towards the fruit. It traveled at an incredible speed, hitting the fruit so fast that Buggy didn't even see it coming. As it shot off the fruit, now impaled, stuck onto the blade to follow it as it hit the side of Buggy's ship.

At first Buggy was silent as everything had gone by so fast, but soon he turned around to look at the ship, barking out at his crew. "Get my fruit!"

Draconian was already off, though, even before Buggy had reacted. He drew his scimitar out, holding it in his right hand, as he ran straight towards Buggy, knowing that the quickest way to get to the fruit would be through him. Once he was close, Draconian slashed the sword out at an incredible speed towards Buggy's midsection. He hit, but once the sword completed it's slash, the upper body that was the result of the cut went up and Draconian, instead of heading around, just pushed the legs aside to keep on heading to the sword. The odd thing was, other than how the body was disconnected, there wasn't actually any blood, and it somehow just didn't all feel right. But he couldn't worry about that now, it was finally his chance to get a Cursed Fruit.

All of the crew of Buggy's ship that were near where Draconian's sword had landed were already going for the katana, and to Draconian they were dangerously close, he would not give up his only chance to have a cursed fruit. Once he got close enough to where his sword was, close enough being the "outskirts" of the solid mass of bodies that were trying to grab it, Draconian launched himself into the air, flying towards the direction his sword was. His legs went out to his side, like he was doing a split.

"Dragon Hurricane!"

As he was flying through the air he started to spin his body, his feet continuously going around in circles as they hit pirate after pirate, sending them flying back as his path became a little more clearer. He turned his body a little to the side, knocking aside more pirates in the process. Once he was halfway there from where he had originally launched off, gravity had taken over and his body went down. But still he didn't stop, he landed on his left foot, his right foot still out and spinning, knocking people around him in a circle. He used the momentum from this to launch himself one more time at the direction of where his sword was. After smacking many pirates in the head or abs, he was finally able to clear a kind of path, leading to the fruit. It was almost too late, as right now somebody was tugging at the sword, trying to get it out. Draconian jumped forward, this time not spinning through the air but still smacking anyone who got near him with a well placed kick. Once he got to where his sword and the fruit was, he grabbed the person tugging at it by the scruff of the neck and threw him into some other crew members, knocking them all down.

But he still wasn't able to get the fruit, as he didn't have enough time from all the people coming at him. He soon had the cure for that, though, as he whipped his sword out to slash at the first person near him. That didn't stop them, however, as they all came on harder, this time with swords, little good that did. Draconian's slashes blocked every single attack made by one of the pirates as he continually spun around to defend from all sides, he was even able to get in some of his slashes too, which were never blocked. Finally they all jumped forward at once, only to have all of their blades blocked as Draconian was able to lock his sword with all of theirs so that no one was able to move until he moved his own blade. He was finally where he wanted to be as shoved everyone else back with his scimitar as he spun around, grabbing his sword with the Cursed Fruit hanging on it, and as he spun back to face everyone he bit down.

It tasted horrible, but he didn't care, he bit down again before he had even swallowed the first bite, and he bit down again and again, rotating his sword so that he could eat every part of it, making sure that he would get the power. Juice ran down his chin as he chewed, and everyone just stared at him as he continually attacked it until there was nothing left but a little bit of scrap on the sword, which he flicked into the sea. And there he stood, panting from the speed at which he ate and by how much he had eaten in that time, a kind of determination in his eyes and juice from the fruit running down his chin and blade.

"NOOOOO!" Buggy's voice rang out through the whole port they were in. "How dare you eat my Cursed Fruit! How dare you!"

Draconian raised his head to stare at Buggy, his eyes full of fire as he wiped the juice from his face, although that might have just been a reflection of his hand, which had suddenly burst into flame, along with his feet and other hand. Draconian shouted in alarm, springing back in surprise as he tried to beat them out on his shirt. His face was filled with alarm for a few seconds until it slowly turned to realization as he noticed that he couldn't actually feel the fire, yet wherever he stepped with his burning feet there was smoke marks. He stared at his flame covered hands in amazement, which still held his swords, almost oblivious to everything else around him.

"KILL HIM! Make him suffer for eating my fruit!"

Two distinct forms moved as the rest of the crew that wasn't knocked out by Draconian moved aside, revealing a giant lion that was ridden by a man with a short-cut, curly lion's mane hairdo, and a man on a unicycle with dark blue hair and holding a cutlass. The man on the unicycle rode over to a building where he remarkably was able to ride up it, obtaining an amazing height, and coming down towards Draconian, his cutlass pointed straight down so that it would hit first.

It was only a few seconds that Draconian heard Buggy screaming that he tore his attention away from his hands and up to the two attackers, mainly on the unicycle guy, since the lion was pretty far away. When he looked, the guy on the unicycle was already falling straight towards him. Now, he could have dodged, but that just wasn't the kind of thing he did. Draconian brought up his scimitar, spinning it in a wheel pattern so fast it was a blur, it was positioned so that when the unicycle hit, that's what it would be hitting.

"Dragon Whirlwind!"

Not only did it spin fast, but the flame that was covering Draconian's hands had crept up to cover his sword, creating an even wider circle of flame. The guy on the unicycle finally hit, only to have his sword smashed away to the far side from the whirling blades and to have the bottom of the unicycle destroyed from the heat and blade. In the process, some kind of backlash from the attack sent the guy a little bit back up into the air.

Draconian reversed his grip on the scimitar and quickly slammed the point into the ground so that it would stay there and put both of his hands on the handle of his katana, quickly drawing it down and to his side as the flame from his hands spread to every part of the blade.

"Dragon Blitz!"

Draconian leapt up so that he was even with the guy, slashing the sword upwards as he did so, not only drawing a big cut along the man's body but also hitting him with a blast of fire, which immediately knocked him to the ground and out of the fight.

Once he landed back down, Draconian then turned to where the giant lion was, only to see that it was much closer than he had anticipated. It was already almost to him, so Draconian jumped off the ground faster than he usually would because of desperation. Originally he probably would have tried to land on the back, taking out the guy riding it first then it, but because of his desperation and quickness, the fire at his feet had blasted the ground, sending him up higher than he had ever actually jumped before, until he was up twice the size of the biggest ship in the harbor, which was Buggy's. Looking below, he could barely make out the man on the beast's back jumping off as the beast itself grabbed onto the top of the building and launched up at Draconian, right as he was falling down. Determined to use this to his advantage, Draconian raised his right foot so that it was held straight up and over his head, the flame increasing as it somehow knew what he was doing and acting to his will. It didn't look like he and the lion would cross paths at first, it looked like the lion would fall back down before it could happen, until the fire on Draconian's right foot blasted upwards, speeding him down even more towards the beast.

"Dragon Meteor!"

Once they crossed Draconian slammed his foot down, right onto the lion's face, sending it right back down at an incredible speed to slam right into the ground, raising some dust and creating a small crater where it hit. Draconian then gingerly tried to control the fire in his feet, luckily able to blast a few times when he got near the ground so that he slowed down enough so as not to get hurt by the fall. The man that was originally on top of the beast was now kneeling beside it, until, of course, Draconian came over and slammed his flaming foot into his chest, sending him smashing into the wall of a nearby store.

For a while everything was silent as people just stared, contemplating what all just happened. All that was heard was the deep breaths of Draconian as he tried to center his mind and gain control of his powers. After a few seconds he stared at his hands, mind finally centered as he tried to find the source of his powers. Finally, the flames on his hands died down, along with the ones on his feet.

Buggy stalked over to where Draconian was now standing, growls continually escaping from his lips in anger as he muttered. "If you can't get something done right then you have to do it yourself."

Draconian looked up from his hands as he heard Buggy approach, finally curious about what had happened earlier. "So what the hell is up with you."

This made Buggy stop in confusion. "What?"

"I cut you earlier and your top half..." he raised his hands upwards and shook them, indicating Buggy's body flying.

"Boy, you just took out my two best after eating my precious Cursed Fruit, and now is the time you ask that!"

"Well, it doesn't really matter when I ask since I'm going to beat your ass anyways."

Buggy growled. "So that's how you want it, huh? Well, I might as well tell you, it won't make much of a difference anyways. I have eaten the Chop-chop fruit, which gives me the power to..."

"I know what it does," Draconian interrupted, "I was told by a friend of mine, don't know if you've heard of him, his name is Shanks."

Buggy's eye widened. "Shanks! That stupid bastard!"

Draconian was a little surprised. "What the..."

"Don't talk to me about that poor excuse for a pirate, I hate him!"

"What's wrong, one day he kicked your ass or something?"

"I'm not telling you the story, but let me just say that pirate doesn't even deserve to lick my shoes!"

Draconian's eyes narrowed in anger as his swords once again caught on fire, except this time it was just the blades instead of the whole sword, and for some odd reason his hands didn't even flame up. He then spoke through gritted teeth. "How about we just start this fight?"

"Fine by me, boy." Knives suddenly appeared in Buggy's gloved hands as he ran forward towards Draconian, mouth parted in a hysterical laughter.

Draconian leapt forward, flaming swords ahead of him, as he met Buggy head on. He swept his scimitar so that it hit the daggers, carrying them to the side so that they were for the moment out of the fight. His katana slashed down towards his legs, cutting through the waist, only to have the legs disconnect from the main body as it floated higher up. He then spun his body, bringing his scimitar in to slash at Buggy's head, but missing as it flew off the body, laughing all the while. But cutting it wasn't his goal, as he completed his spin, bringing his left foot up, which was now flaming, to slam into Buggy's floating midsection, sending it sailing back as the legs stayed where they were.

The head floated to the body, slightly grimacing from the blow. "Nice kick, boy, but you still need to learn to always count your cards!" The legs kicked out, only to be caught as Draconian let go of his katana and grabbed the kicking leg, swinging it around and slamming it back towards Buggy. He then picked his katana back up and faced Buggy while he connected his whole body back together.

Buggy then launched himself forward again, or so it looked. While running he jumped into the air, hands stretched out. To Draconian it looked like he was going to try to stab him with all those daggers, which was stupid since he failed the first time. He was taken aback, though, as Buggy's hands disconnected from his body and flew at Draconian.

He quickly dodged the first one, but with the second one he had to bring his scimitar in to knock it off to the side. Once landing on the ground, it floated back to Buggy's hand where he stood grinning that big grin of his. "Didn't expect that, now, did ya?"

"Don't get all high on yourself, it didn't even work." Buggy just grinned even wider, confusing Draconian, until he looked at Buggy's hands, or hand, as only one returned. Draconian whipped around to see the other hand flying right at him. He quickly ducked back, slashing up with his katana to send it flying overhead. He then brought his scimitar up and smacked the thing with the flat side of the flaming blade. It then returned to Buggy, who shook his hand as he received it.

"Ooh, oh you'll pay for that." He then brought both of his hands up over his head and slammed them down, releasing what seemed to be a big whirling storm of daggers. The thing was about as tall as Draconian was, and went whirling at a blurring speed heading straight towards him. Luckily he was able to jump to the right, dodging it with a little blast of fire from his feet. He was sure that if that thing hit him he'd be shredded to bits. He then looked towards Buggy, who had released another one of the things. This time Draconian had to jump over it, not needing a blast of fire for this since he was already good at it. The thing whizzed by below, slamming into a building, scattering daggers everywhere and carving numerous cuts into the thing.

"Let's see you dodge in midair!" Buggy released a third whirling mass towards Draconian, who was now stuck in the air.

"I don't need to." With that he spun around, bringing his sword back as he did so.

"Dragon Sweep!"

The fire on the sword increased as he swung it towards the mass, destroying it and sending daggers flying everywhere. He was a little unlucky, however, as one flying dagger drew a cut on his cheek, making him wince. Once landing on the ground, Draconian brought his swords up in front of him in a fighting stance, preparing for the next stage of their fight.

With a crazed growl, Buggy launched himself at Draconian, who had launched himself forward, swords raised. Draconian ducked under Buggy's knives as he slashed sideways, bringing his sword in for a slash at his midsection, only to have that part of Buggy float off. His katana blocked the both hands as they came in, reversing his grip on the scimitar and swinging it up towards Buggy's face, hilt flaming as he tried to smash his nose. However, the head popped up again, going up and slowly circling Draconian's body, laughing his annoying laugh. Draconian was still facing the main body, arms attached, as it continually tried to stab and slash him, the disconnected legs were on his right, trying to kick him, only to have him dodge and kick him himself, sending them sprawling down and not able to get up.

Draconian brought both of his swords between the arms, sweeping against them to send them out wide, and give him a shot at the chest. In the process a part of each arm flew off to start circling the body. Ignoring this for now, Draconian slashed with each sword at the chest, cutting it into three parts, two of them each having an arm. He knew that all this would happen, but what he was hoping was that the flame from his swords would also hurt Buggy in the process as it cut through, which unknowingly to him it had, Buggy just hid the fact by wincing when Draconian wasn't looking.

Draconian spun around, swords slashing to try and hit any part of Buggy's body he could, but missing anything that was there. The legs had somehow gotten back up and were now headed back towards Draconian again, kicking out at him. He was able to easily dodge the kick as he slashed down with his scimitar, cutting them in half so that the legs were now separate. Draconian spun around, his right foot out and flaming as it spun around, trying to hit body parts. Luckily he was able to one of the midsection pieces, and he brought it low to hit the two legs, knocking them once more down.

Without warning, the hands stabbed in on either side of them, coming from who knows where. Draconian brought both of his blades out with his spinning body and slashed them across the knives, sending them to the side. Once he stopped, though, Draconian found the hands were now somehow in front of him, knives held between fingers in a fan like pattern. At a speed too fast for him to block they slashed at his midsection, one missing as he swung his body to the side but another scoring a slash across his chest. Immediately he slashed down at both of them, sending them to the side once more, no doubt to come right back at him.

Buggy's laughter was behind him right now, as it had been for a good amount of the thing. This was his only chance at him for now, and he wasn't going to waist it with a slash or something obvious, he knew just the trick. The only way to locate him was his sound, and whenever Draconian had seen him before he was hovering at the same level, so he had a good guess where he was. He only had one chance right now, he didn't want those knives to come back in for now, they might hit him again. So once again, his right foot lit up on fire.

"Dragon Kick!"

His foot snapped back, the heel slamming into Buggy's laughing face and sending it across the port and into a wall. It cost him, however, as one of the hands was able to cut him across the left side of his abdomen. Once Buggy hit the wall, however, all of the pieces of him fell to the ground. They didn't stay there, though, as after a few seconds they got back up and headed towards Buggy, connecting up with him so that his back was now leaning against the wall. His chin leaned against his chest, but still he was able to manage a loud chuckle. "Gotcha twice."

It was true, he had been able to cut Draconian twice, but the whole thing had cost him a lot more than it had Draconian. Other than the kick to the face, his clothes was charred wherever the swords had cut him, the skin there red from the heat, and Draconian still got a few other kicks in their also. With a small groan, Buggy pushed himself from the wall and stood facing Draconian. "This has been fun, but I think it's time I end it here."

With that, he held his arms up to the side, daggers still in hands and a wide grin on his face. Suddenly, his whole body fell apart as all his pieces flew off, and it wasn't just the hands, legs, and that stuff. His whole arm had split into many small circular pieces, the same thing happened with his legs and midsection, except the midsection's pieces were bigger. The only things that weren't split up like the others were the hands, feet, and the head. Everything flew right at Draconian, who slashed down with both swords as soon as they got to him. The slash did nothing as it missed, all the pieces going around the blades and circling his body at a confusing speed.

In a kind of desperation, he continually spun his body, slashing everywhere with his swords and getting his feet out there. Once in a while he was rewarded with a hit, but whenever he cut something it would just split apart more and if he was able to kick something it would just come back in. The hands had attacked a couple of times, but he was able to quickly dodge or send it to the side. This was getting him nowhere, nothing slowed down and it didn't seem to be doing any damage at all. He felt a sting in his side as one of the hands had just come behind him and slash him, creating four cuts along the side, to him it kind of looked like a cut from an animal. Sooner or later he'd just get worn out, and the hands would be able to hit him more, and he'd lose, probably getting the town destroyed in the process.

The hands came up in front of him, this time pressing against each other and swiping down, but not to cut him since they were actually a good few meters away, but as Draconian almost realized too late to send another one of those whirling dagger masses at him at close range. Luckily he was able to barely dodge it, but when it hit the ground beside him it sent daggers flying everywhere, cutting him a few times. Buggy's laughter was heard overhead. "Just admit it, you can't win, you're just a stupid kid trying to stand up to a real pirate, thinking you can we just because you're daddy is famous. Where is he now, anyways? I don't see him around here, I bet you lied anyway, just a chance thing your eyes are the same. There's no need to surrender, just so you know, you're going to die anyways, every part of my body is circling you so fast there's no way you can slash them."

Draconian gritted his teeth in anger from his words, raising his swords, but stopped when he remembered that last part. Circling all around me, eh? This gives me an idea.

"Let's see what these powers can really do." Draconian raised his swords from his sides so that they were hanging out to either side of him, the scimitar's sharp edge facing the front while the katanas sharp edge was facing the back. Suddenly he started spinning, moving in the direction that the blades' edges were facing.

"Dragon Tornado!"

The fire on the blades of the swords increased, traveling upwards as Draconian slowly increased his speed, until a tornado made completely of fire was spinning along with Draconian. Caught up along with it was Buggy's body parts, which were too preoccupied to move out before getting hit by the wave of fire.

After a while the flames finally died down to reveal slightly charred body parts lying all around Draconian as he slipped his swords, the fire now extinguished, back into the sheaths. The body parts then gathered all back together, slowly, as Buggy's head floated up a little. When they were all connected Buggy was on all fours, struggling to move his smoking body up. His face was the only thing that looked the same, since he must not have been in the whirlwind of parts originally.

Draconian walked over to him, not really in a rush as it was obvious he had won. Once he was in front of the groaning figure of Buggy, Draconian drew his right foot back, which was once again covered in fire, all the way to above his shoulders.

"Dragon Sledgehammer!"

The foot came down and slammed into Buggy's face, launching him all the way back to fall on the other crew members that were knocked out earlier. "Now get out of my town."

A few of the crew mates that weren't knocked out helped Buggy up and hoisted his groaning body between them. Somehow through all the pain that he went through and all the groaning he was doing Buggy was actually able to speak.

"You'll pay for what you've done, I'll destroy you and your town. Crew mate!"

The head of one of the crew members that had stayed aboard poked his head over the rails. "Yes, sir?"

"Load one of the Buggy balls and fire on the town."

"Yes, sir." He saluted and went back, his voice could be heard shouting a few orders, and a cannon peaked out between the rails. Moments later he came back out, carrying a big red cannonball with the help of another person and loading it into the cannon. "Cannon is ready, sir."

"Then fire, you idiot!" Buggy coughed from the exertion of shouting, but he was still able to laugh as the crew mate set fire to the rope on the cannon.

Draconian chuckled, a grin appearing on his face.

Buggy stopped laughing. "What's so funny, boy, your town is about to be blown to smithereens."

Draconian held up his hand, and without even having to ignite the whole thing, a fireball appeared in it, making Buggy laugh even louder, earning him some more coughing. "You're going to battle my Buggy ball with that! I don't even think that I can hold it in!"

As Buggy burst into more laughter, the cannons rope was getting down to it's last length. Draconian knew this, so instead of waiting he just went ahead with what he was going to do, and shot the fireball out, making it fly right into the hole at the end of the cannon.

The whole cannon exploded as the fire hit the Buggy ball, taking out a big portion of it's rail and the upper side of the area of the ship that the cannon was in, they were lucky that it didn't take out the whole side. Draconian looked at the thing, criticizing the damage. After he was done he turned around and walked back towards the crowd, remarking as he went. "It still looks kind of sea worthy, so get out of my town and take your stupid crew with you."

Buggy growled as he was helped up the ramp. "This isn't the last you'll here of Buggy the Clown, I promise you that, I'll get my revenge someday!"

Draconian stopped, looking back. "You better hope that this is the last that I hear of Buggy the Clown, otherwise I'm going to give you a beating a lot worse than the one I gave you today."

Not being able to think of a come back, Buggy slowly drudged his way up the ship with help and sailed off, leaving the village unharmed except for a few small damages done from the fight.

About a month later, Draconian set out on his new ship, sailing the seas to improve his skills by taking down pirates, and to search for his father.

Present Day...

Diana stared at her son while carrying a tray as he sat at the bar, sharing some laughs and telling some of his stories from the sea. She knew that he wouldn't be staying for long, but it was still comforting to have him here, and she'd treasure every moment she have with before he left again on another voyage to find Hawkeye Mihawk.

There, done. Hopefully you guys liked the fight scene, it's not my best but the quality should still be good. Sorry if it's not that long either, it's just the certain battle, I mean you can't have a long fight for every battle, it just depends on how each person ranks and the moves used. Oh, I feel like I should remark on the length of the whole thing, because there's a good chance that the lengths of each chapter are going to not be the same, and I don't mean by just a little bit, I mean that there's going to be short and long, but not short as in reading it in only a minute short. Now, to respond to reviewers, normally I'd respond to each person separately, but it seems I can only respond the same way for each person, so here goes.

FieryKitsune, Hutchy, and Angel of the Mirror: Thanks for reviewing and telling me it's good, especially FieryKitsune, thanks for saying my idea is interesting. Um, hopefully I updated fast enough with this chapter, but I don't know when my next chapter will get out, I've got to do some writing with my friend Anters, and I've got a small vacation coming up.

Now, there is something I want to address, I looked at my Hits, which if I am correct says when people come to my site, and it said 35, I only got three reviews. So for the people who aren't reviewing, please do, if you're not a member it doesn't matter, you're just labeled as anonymous, I'm just saying this for the people who might not know, just in case. Last thing I can remember, I'm only doing the "one year ago" thing for this chapter, in the next one I'm not going to even label it, you'll have to figure out which is a flashback yourself, but don't worry, I'm only doing two more chapters where the fights are just memories. Oh, and sorry to say, Luffy and the gang will only be in a couple chapters, I think near the end of the story, which will be a long way away, sorry again. Read and Review!