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(Opening 1: Uso by SID)
The earth itself was being shaken by Ebriah's heavy attacks. To those who remained at Arlong Park, they can see parts of the vibrant red crustacean smashing its claws into the ground. To the villagers, it was a horrifying sight, as the cries of rage and the tearing up of earth can be heard even here.
"How is Gian-aniki going to beat something like that?" Yosaku mumbled.
"He better have something planned out, because it's going to come after us after it's done with him…" Genzo said.
"Hey! Have more faith in him!" the two bounty hunters shot back.
"We also have Arlong to deal with…" Nojiko pointed out
Meanwhile Arlong seemed to have grown tired of waiting, and after seeing two of his officers defeated rage was boiling within the massive fishman.
"Hachi… Kuroobi… How dare you people do this to my brethren?! I'm going to kill you with my own hands now! You inferior species have no idea who you just angered!"
Zoro and Sanji tried to rush him, but Arlong's monstrous strength easily sent them packing. The sawshark fishman unleashed his Uchimizu bullets, the water droplets hitting with the force of 10 rifles. Zoro and Sanji were both struck by the water bullets, wondering just how much strength Arlong has.
"Do you see that? This is the difference between our species! Why are you trying to risk your lives anyway? Do you really think that girl would-?"
"ARLONG!"
One voice surprised all the villagers anxiously watching the fight.
"Nami!"
"What's Nami doing here?"
"Nami-aneki!"
The orange haired girl, now having bandages wrapped around her shoulder and still wearing the straw hat, arrived and stared defiantly at the massive fishman. The past few minutes allowed her to gather her thoughts and proceeded to do what's she was about to do next.
"Hello Nami, are you here to see these people die?" Arlong sneered at his cartographer.
"I'm here to kill you!" Nami shouted as she raised a knife.
"Kill me? At least you're persistent! How many times how you tried to kill me before? And how many of those times have worked?"
Nami glared and bit her lips. It was true. Many a nights has she tried to assassinate the fishman. Poisoning, frontal assault, anything you can name she tried. Nothing worked, and each time Arlong simply laughed it off, convinced that the girl he enslaved can do nothing to him.
"It's not like there is any reason for you to kill me, now is there? After all, I've been taking pretty good care of you these past few years if I do say so myself! Now, how about we make another deal? You come back as my cartographer, and I'll spare every rebelling villager today! Normally I'd kill them without a second thought, but I'll make it a special case this time! However, the same doesn't go for the 5 people who were arrogant enough to believe they could defeat me." He gestured to the Strawhat pirates.
"If I were you, I'd choose to stay as my cartographer. These 3 fools before me cannot even match my strength, while the long-nose was killed by Chew. As for the bastard that bonded with that traitorous animal, Ebirah is making short work of him right now!"
Nami gasped as another ear-splitting screech sounded, following by the thunderous sounds of Ebirah's claws slamming into the ground. She'd only encountered the creature a few times, and each time it had capsized a sailing ship near the area. She is still haunted by the screams of sailors that have fallen to its claws.
"So, Nami. What will it be?"
Nami was silent, she desperately wanted her village to be safe. She tried to drown out the angry protests of those close to her and instead looked at the 3 pirates facing down Arlong. Despite growing increasingly exhausted, Zoro and Sanji stood fearless in the face of danger, while Luffy was openly challenging the fishman to make a move.
"I have to believe that they can do it! I have to believe that Usopp and Gian are still alive! I just know it!"
With a wide smile, Nami then turned back to the rest of the villagers.
"Everyone! I'm sorry! Will you all die with me?" this simple sentence made the entire village beam in pride.
"OF COURSE WE WILL!"
"So that's how it is… Very well, you've all signed your death sentence." Arlong snarled and prepared to attack, when he was hit square in the face by a rotten egg.
"Don't worry guys! I will provide cover fire!" Usopp shouted… from all the way at the wall.
"WHY ARE YOU OVER THERE?!" All the villagers' facefaulted. Nami smiled in relief as she realized the liar had survived.
Arlong realized what this meant "Chew was defeated as well… YOU HUMANS HAVE GONE TOO FAR THIS TIME!"
"Your opponent is me, Arlong!" Luffy issued a challenge, however the timing was interrupted.
Because just that moment a pure beam of blue light shot towards the sky and the entire island was enveloped by a blast of energy so powerful that even the trees were beginning to bow. Everybody had to shield themselves to prevent being pushed back. It was then that they heard it; a sound that they will not forget soon.
"SKREEEEEEEEEEEHOOOOORRRRRKKKKKKKKKK!"
A few minutes earlier:
Gian was hopping left and right as he attempted to avoid the bludgeoning claws as much as he can, every so often shooting an Atom Ray back towards the giant lobster. They were going further inland, as Gian hoped to keep the environmental damage as low as possible. What he was about to do can essentially terraform the land around it if he used it excessively.
The lobster raised its claws again when suddenly it felt something lightly strike its head. Tilting its head it saw a band of 10 humans running towards it, the one in the lead holding up a rifle.
"That's right you rotten crab! You smell the scent of Letchi dontcha? Then come finish the job!" Deimo shouted as he fired a few more shots.
"Deimo-san! What are you doing?!" Gian demanded as Ebirah roared and turned to attack them, which they avoided narrowly.
"Giving this shrimp its retribution! I've got nothing to be afraid of! This time I'm going to-" he then spotted Gian's new bestial appearance, and his eyes involuntarily widened and his jaw dropped. "What the hell happened to you?!"
"THAT'S NOT THE CONCERN HERE! GET OUT BEFORE YOU GET YOURSELF KILLED!"
"Don't be thinking I'm afraid of dyin'. I've already lost everything to this monster, and if I were to lose my life today I'll drag it down with me and cook it in the infernos of Hell!" Deimo snapped and unsheathed his rapier. "FOR BELL-MERE-TAISA!"
Deimo charged again, ignoring the protest from Gian as he attempted to futilely spear the mammoth crustacean. It was then that, in his haste, he accidently tripped and fell short of his target. The lobster chirped and raised his right claw and thrust it forwards.
"Deimo-san!" the remaining villagers cried out in fear as the time seemed to slow down.
Then one voice cut out above the rest, a small voice, but one that was backed with emotion.
"PAPA!" Bota's shrill cry was unmistakable. It was hearing this that something within Gian snapped.
The claw came down and struck its target.
Only for the man to push back.
"G-Gian-san?" Deimo stammered as he watched the transformed youth grip the spear like claw, throwing his weight back at it. Part of the claw dug into his shoulder, but Gian refused to give way.
"You're a real pain in the ass you know that? What do you think you're doing throwing your family away just to die alone?!"
"Now stand back… you don't want to get in my way for what I'm about to do." Gian snapped before snarling in pain as Ebirah's spearlike claw pushed further into his shoulder.
"I won't fall… not here! I promised Triton-senpai I will see him again someday… I'M NOT GOING TO DIE TO SEAFOOD!"
Suddenly Gian's body began to glow blue, the light growing brighter and brighter each passing second.
Then the blue light shot towards the sky and the entire area was struck by a powerful pulse. Deimo was knocked back, landing onto some of his villagers as he heard Ebirah let loose a screech of shock.
Then the light faded, and Gian had disappeared.
In his place, there was something that the villagers of this island would never imagine seeing in their lifetime.
The creature that stood before them was an absolute massive monstrosity, even taller than Ebirah by a fair amount (though to be fair, Ebriah can't stand on 2 legs). Its appearance is similar to what Gian looked like before, only this time it was supersized. Its coal black skin was a sharp contrast to the cloudy backdrop. Its long tail swept back and forth, scattering some of the trees nearby. A forest of maple leaf shaped dorsal fins lined its back. Its head, a massive cranium in the shape of a predatory dinosaur, glared hard at the crustacean who couldn't help but cry out in futility.
With power coursing through him, Gian let out a thunderous challenge at his opponent.
"SKREEEEEEEEEEEHOOOOORRRRRKKKKKKKKKK!"
Ebriah screeched a warning to the monster; the foul aura was now at an overwhelming level. It hated it with every fiber of its body, and it wanted nothing more than to destroy what stood before it.
Gian flexed his newly grown muscles; this should be able to handle the rest of the battle. A Full Transformation is something that rivals a natural disaster, which is why he's only used it once before and that was during a training session with Triton. He hopes to end this battle quick before any lasting damage befalls the island.
"Now… it's showtime…"
"WOW A DINOSAUR!" Luffy pointed; he was obviously not concerned there were now 2 giant monsters near his vicinity, heck it isn't every day you see something like this!
"So that's what the Full Transformation looks like, I thought it would be bigger." Zoro mumbled, but he was relieved inside. This can really turn the tide of this battle.
"That's a Kaiju-zoan's Full Transformation, those guys were way off on the…" Sanji appeared to say something, then stopped himself. Those stories he's heard from those guys when he was a child, now suddenly doesn't seem so farfetched after all. Looking at the monster before him, he could understand why his family is so interested in it. Something tugged on his mind when he thought about that, but he brushed it off.
Usopp, Johnny, Yosaku, and the rest of Cocoyasi village were all slack jawed at what they were witnessing. Something like this happening in East Blue was unheard of! If this is what the Grand Line has to offer, then what could other people from there be like?
Nami similarly was rather shocked. Someone who had been close to her, who treated her like a crewmate just like the rest of them, has something like that within him. She hoped that this boost would be enough to help him win.
Arlong had a mix of rage, awe and fear after seeing the Full Transformation. Having been from the Grand Line, he's seen many Devil Fruits before. However, nothing compared to something to that caliber, and Arlong was worried this would shift things against him… he shook off this thought; Ebirah will have to take care of this. He had a bunch of despondent humans to kill first.
"So each and every one of you managed to live somehow… I will make you all wish that you had died earlier!"
"Then bring it on! I'm going to take you down!" Luffy promised and got into a fighting position.
Meanwhile:
Gian roared as he and the lobster both simultaneously charged at each other. The two titans met with the sound of a thunderclap as each threw their weight against each other, neither side giving an inch. Eventually though, Gian was able to muster enough force to start pushing the giant lobster back, to which an anxious Ebirah hastily stabbed its right claw into his thigh. Gian roared in pain and cocked his fist back and charged it with atomic energy before slamming it into its carapace, Causing Ebriah to scuttle back with a pained groan.
"Good, I can hurt it now." He thought.
To the side, the villagers of Letchi were staring at the battle with their eyes almost popping out of their sockets.
"Impossible… I never thought that something like this could possibly…" Deimo whispered in awe
"Deimo-san, what did Gian-san just do?" an old villager asked.
"Something that I've only heard from stories back when I was a marine, something that I initially believed to be mere legend…"
"Will this be enough?" Narsha asked.
"We will have to see. Right now no one is to intervene on this fight. There is nothing more we can do besides have trust in Gian-san." Deimo ordered, before his eye was caught on a rather heartwarming sight.
"You can do it, Gian-nii. I know you can." Bota was clenching his fists and whispering encouragingly.
Deimo placed a comforting hand on his son's head, just happy that the boy got his speech back.
Cutting back to Gian, the battle was progressing on. With the massive power boost that comes with a Full Transformation there are things that he can do now that he couldn't have done before. Case and point: Throwing Ebirah over his back in a surplex that rocked the entire area. The lobster screeched angrily as it brought down its hammer claw in an attempt to cave in the Kaiju-zoan users' skull. Gian sidestepped before slamming his weight into the lobster, dazing it for a quick second before charging his tail up with atomic energy.
"Here's a throwback to 8 minutes ago, except it's slightly different! ATOM STINGHAMMER!"
True to its name, the tail was swept down like a sledgehammer, bashing the massive crustacean on its carapace. The sound was loud enough to be heard for miles as Ebirah groaned in pain.
Gian didn't let up on his attack as he charged again, this time predicting a claw thrust by Ebirah as he let the massive appendage pass harmlessly over his ducking body and he forced his weight towards the lobster's underside. With each arm gripping a piece of Ebirah's carapace, he used his newly gained strength and flung the lobster a set distance away. Ebriah landed with a massive cloud of dust enveloping it.
"Now this is more like it!" Gian muttered to himself as he continued his fight.
As this is happening:
As Gian and Ebirah continued to make thunderclaps with each of their blows, Luffy and Arlong were locked in combat themselves. For the rubber boy, it was clear that this fight is going to be difficult. Arlong's fearsome strength was high above his own, and he was fighting his hardest right now.
It was when Arlong opened his jaws and thrust his head forward was this fact made more apparent. Luffy narrowly managed to jump over the bite, and Arlong instead got a mouthful of rock. This was not an inconvenience for him, however, and every human present were slack-jawed as the saw shark fishman simply chomped through the stone pillar. Luffy screamed as Arlong rampaged after him, thrusting his jaws out all the while.
"Shahahaha! Look at you right now! The power of these jaws will be more than enough to finish you off."
"So what if you bit through a pillar? I can break through rock without biting it!" Luffy shot back.
"You're so delusional. You really think you have a chance against me. Tell me, rubber boy, do you know the difference between the two of us?"
"Hmmm… the nose?" Arlong's sneer dropped at that.
"The gills?" the fishman was getting progressively angrier.
"Oh! I got it! You have webs between your hands and we don't!"
"IT'S OUR VERY RACE!" Arlong snarled and charged again to deliver another bite "You humans can't do anything! You can't breathe in water, your strength is pathetically weak, there is absolutely nothing you have over us fishmen!"
"So what? I know that there are things that I can't do! That's why I have nakama that help me!" Luffy shouted.
"I don't know how to cook, I can't use swords, and I don't know how to navigate or turn into a giant monster. I can't even lie! (Oi…!) so that's why I need help from those that could!" hearing this his crew smiled, and even though he's a few distances off, Gian couldn't help but feel some sort of pride in his chest.
Arlong snarled and rushed in for another bite. But this time, Luffy didn't attempt to dodge.
"What I can do, is kick your ass!" Luffy's declaration was met with his fist slamming into Arlong's face, sending the fishman tumbling back and shattered the prized teeth that he was using previously, and the villagers erupted into cheers.
But it was not over yet, for Arlong simply got back up and sneered at the crowd.
"Now look what you did… you broke them…" Arlong's teeth clattered out of his jaws…. Only to be replaced by a fresh set, much to Luffy's shock.
"But, fortunately for me, I happen to be a shark, and sharks can regrow their teeth!" To emphasize on this point he proceeded to rip out two more sets of teeth, and held them in his hands giving him the illusion of having 3 sets of jaws.
"I'm going to tear you to pieces now… Tooth Gum!"
Arlong thrust one of his arms forwards, the gnashing of teeth creating a clanking sound as the bit down the air, Luffy just barely avoiding it. Now Luffy was on the defensive and was constantly dodging the monstrous attacks.
The villagers then felt something heavy crash into the ground. Further away, Gian and Ebirah's struggles were also reaching a new height as the giant lobster stabbed his right claw forward, which Gian dodged but was struck by the follow up left claw, knocking him down. Ebriah wasted no time in scuttling up his body, pinning him down with its weight and slamming its claws repeatedly into the Fully Transformed Gian.
"Atom Incinerator!" Gian had to pull this off quickly as his forced atomic energy into his dorsal fins, superheating them in the process. The result was that Ebriah was stabbed into by multiple hot needles of bony fins. The lobster howled in pain as Gian managed to dislodge him and slam his leg into the lobster's head.
Back with Luffy, the rubber boy suddenly got an idea as he was dodging some of Arlong's attacks. As Arlong thrust one of his arms forwards he jumped up and delivered another punch to his head. This managed to knock loose a set of teeth…
"I thought I'd told you, that it's useless for you to go for my teeth?" Arlong sneered before thrusting his arms, only for Luffy to jump behind him… and did the unthinkable.
"Look! Now I have them too!" he shouted jubilantly with none other than Arlong's teeth just barely stuffed into his mouth as those who are not fighting all facefaulted.
Faraway, Gian was preparing for another attack when he suddenly brought his palm to his forehead and groaned.
"Gian-san… what's wrong?!" the villagers of Letchi asked as they watched from the sidelines.
"I don't know what he did, but I just know it. Somewhere… somehow… my captain just did something incredibly stupid…"
"And how do you know that?"
"Trust me… if you've travelled with him for as long as I have, then it just comes to you. You just know when he does something that makes you braindead."
"…ok, but shouldn't you be focused on something else, like… I don't know… THE FIGHT?!" Deimo snapped.
"Oh, right! Still have to take care of this lob- OOOOFFFFFFFFF!" Gian grunted as Ebriah charged into him again… much to the chagrin of the former mayor.
"You point out the stupidity of others, yet you do something like this… pot, meet kettle."
Speaking of which, Luffy is about to put his plans into action!
"Tooth Gum!" Arlong thrusted his hand forward again, this time actually managing to catch Luffy's in the chest and the teeth dug into flesh.
"AAAAAHHHHH! I'VE BEEN BITTEN BY A SHARK!" Luffy screamed before chomping down on Arlong's neck, causing the fishman to yell and release his prey.
"Ha! How does it feel to be bitten by your own teeth?" Luffy taunted as Arlong pulled the dislodged teeth out and threw it aside.
"How about you tell me? After all, you humans have jaws that are way too weak to do any noticeable damage." He then thrust his arm forward, the teeth clasped in that hand latching onto Luffy's arm and Arlong began to squeeze. "But our jaw strength allows me to tear apart flesh!"
Luffy screamed again and did the only thing he could at the time; slamming his foot into Arlong's face, managing to free himself. Luffy rolled around in pain as Arlong got back up groggily.
"He still has his arm…" Zoro breathed a sigh of relief as others did the same.
"Such persistence… but you won't be able to last forever!" Arlong then dove into the water in front of Arlong Park.
Luffy scanned the water, waiting for his opponent's next move, until the water in front of him suddenly rippled and Arlong shot forward with the speed of a torpedo.
"Shark on Darts!" using his nose, the fishman was literally a flying spear of destruction as he sailed towards Luffy. Luffy just barely avoided the attack, which Arlong flew into the side of Arlong Park, drilling a sizable hole into it.
He barely had a chance to catch his breath as the fishman came flying at him again.
Luffy gritted his teeth, this could be problematic…
Back with Gian, it appears that Ebirah has gone into a frenzy, and was just slamming its claws down left and right as Gian tried to block. By now this side of the island was getting very torn up from all the fighting, and Gian knew he had to end this quick.
As Ebriah slammed its left claw down like a hammer, Gian grabbed onto it, only this time he decided to try something different. Ebirah's beady eyes widen as it saw that its opponent now had mind, because Gian's dorsal fins flashed blue for a second before Gian lanced an Atom Ray right through the claw; severing it from the lobster's body!
Ebriah's howls of pain could be heard across the entire island.
For the first time in its life, the mammoth crustacean actually felt fear. All its life it had been the alpha predator of these waters, nothing can top it. Who would've thought that this newcomer would take its throne from it? In one last desperate attempt to survive, Ebirah thrusted its right claw forward and tried in vain to impale any major organs, but it was not to be. Instead, it felt its claw being gripped and then it felt itself depart from the ground.
Gian spun the lobster around a few more times before letting go, sending Ebirah flying in the direction of Arlong Park. His dorsal fins then began to flash blue as light gathered near his mouth.
"SUPERCHARGE: MASSIVE ATOM RAY!"
A minor shockwave actually burst forth when Gian released this larger-than-normal beam. The heat ray struck Ebriah square in the chest as it propelled it further. Ebirah let out one last scream of pain as it felt its shell literally getting cooked.
Then it landed, all the momentum sent it skidding across the land before it crashed through the back portion or Arlong Park, narrowly missing the building itself. This sent a cloud of dust that nearly obscured all the Cocoyasi Villagers' vision.
All this time Arlong was still torpedoing at Luffy, and when the massive crustacean smashed through the back portion of Arlong Park, he was so shocked that he didn't even realize that Luffy had managed to grab onto him as he sped past, before his face made impact with the pavement as Luffy slammed him down hard.
When the smoke cleared, Ebriah was laying forward, one claw missing and much of its midsection literally turned to slag. Pieces of melted carapace were dropping steadily as the light dimmed in its eyes.
Ebirah, the once feared super-predator of the Conomi Islands, is no more.
"Shame… I was kind of aiming at the building…" Gian mumbled, before shrugging and began walking back to Arlong Park, intent on finishing the job.
As he departed, Deimo and the remains of Letchi trailed behind and looked on with a somber smile. This man had just avenged their lost village, and all those who have lost their lives from the lobster's previous assault, even if he didn't realize it.
"Gian-san… Thank you…" Deimo couldn't help but have a tear drop down from his eye.
The Villagers of Cocoyasi were shocked at the scene, the corpse of the lobster sitting just a few feet from them. It really appeared that these 5 pirates were going to win!
"YEAH! GIAN-ANIKI DID IT! HE THREW THAT LOBSTER INTO ORBIT!" Johnny and Yosaku both cheered.
"I can't believe it, Gian-san just defeated the monster that has plagued the shores for the past 8 years…" Nojiko was in shock.
"These people… they really can do this!" Genzo hoped. It was still too early to get their hopes up, but it seemed like victory was almost assured at this point!
"Gian…" Nami murmured. A smile began to grow on her face.
They barely registered said Kaiju-zoan user was now stomping towards them, his footsteps making small quakes with every step.
"Skrehahaha! You all look like ants from this high up!"
"You almost squashed us with that throw!" Zoro complained.
"Yeah, that was kind of the plan." Gian joked, Zoro grinned at this.
"Good to see you did it."
"Y-you're not hungry right now… are you?" Usopp quivered. Gian, however, misinterpreted that worry
"What do you think? I nearly used up all my stamina just to maintain this new form! I think I can out eat Luffy now!" Hearing this, Usopp nearly fainted.
"Hey Gian! That thing looks like it has a lot of meat in it! We should eat it after the battle!" Luffy proposed.
"Don't get your hopes up that quickly, we're still not done here… Can we even cook something that big?" Gian pointed out.
"Yeah… if I take enough lobster meat from it, there should be enough for everybody on this island…" Sanji mused.
"Ok… so eating it is possible. Still gonna have to finish up first though."
Arlong grunted as he got up from the pavement and glared at everybody. Everything was going wrong! These humans were supposed to be dead right now! Rage was growing more and more within him, and even in the face of Full-Transformation, Arlong wished that he could just tear them all apart. The transformed monster then spotted the recovered fishman.
"Give up Arlong, You lost. Maybe Luffy won't beat you up too bad if you just surrender and face judgement."
"I lost? Is that what this has come to? Well if I've lost then I'll kill everyone here first!" the fishman snarled.
"Where are you going with this?! Do you think you haven't caused enough pain for everyone on this island?!" Gian yelled
"IT IS NOT! I WON'T BE SATISFIED UNTIL THE ENTIRE WORLD FALLS UNDER MY CONTROL! ALL YOU HUMANS HAVE NOTHING TO BE COMPARED WITH COMPARED TO THE FISHMEN! YOU AREN'T GOOD FOR ANYTHING EXCEPT TO BE RULED OVER BY US!" Arlong screamed.
"You're insane… just because we're of a different species has nothing to do with which one of us is superior! This stupid notion that one race is superior to another is complete bullshit! Yet you use this as an excuse to enslave an entire island?!"
"I'm the insane one, is that right? HOW DARE YOU SPEAK OF MORALITY TO ME? HUMANS CLAIM THERE IS EQUALITY, YET YOUR SOCIETY IS FILTHIER THAN EVERY OTHER RACES'! YOU SPEAK OF NO ONE BEING SUPERIOR TO ANOTHER, YET YOU PURPOSELY STEP ON ALL THOSE THAT DON'T SHARE YOUR VALUES?! WE FISHMEN HAVE BEEN LOOKED DOWN UPON BY HUMANS FOR EVER AND WHEN WE DECIDE TO STEP UP YOU CLAIM YOU WERE THE ONES BEING OPPRESSED?!"
Gian was solemn at this. It's true: humans and fishmen never really had the best relationship with each. Hack had once told him that fishmen generally view humans as an inferior species, and likewise humans saw them as nothing more than just freaks. Discrimination was abundant between the two species, and has been for centuries, even though there have been a number of individuals (like him and Hack) from both sides that interact with the other well. It was a lesson to Gian that made him remember that the world isn't as bright and beautiful as people believed.
After hearing that spew, it was clear to him that Arlong had personal experience with this, and that was what amplified his hatred for humans. Everyone else at the scene were also having trouble taking this in.
"Don't you see that by doing this you aren't fixing the problem at all? You're just encouraging more people to hate fishmen!"
"They can hate me all they want! I represent the hate of fishmen to begin with, and it's something I've embraced. You come to my territory, harm my brethren, and just expect me to be ok with this? You have no right to say anything that I've done is wrong, when I am just returning the same treatment you've bestowed upon us! My former captain, all he did was show the world his strength, and you humans killed him in cold blood for that! He could've been saved, but you humans denied him the blood transfusion that he desperately needed! And you expect me to just let that go? All I am doing is showing you who is truly on top, IS THAT SO WRONG?!" each word were spat out as if they were poison in his mouth. This was not merely a superior complex, there was no arrogance. Just pure, unbridled hatred in Arlong's words.
By now the fishman's pupils have turned into slits, and it did not go unnoticed by the people around them.
"Oh no… Arlong's eyes have changed!" Genzo warned.
"Those are the eyes of Sea Kings when they are enraged… he's going berserk!" Sanji gulped.
"Arlong… I've never seen him like this before! Luffy! Gian! Be careful!" Nami shouted.
"Now I'll show you… Just how superior our species is!" Arlong howled before ramming his fist towards Luffy, who happened to dodge. However, that was not where he was aiming, because Arlong's fist retracted from the wall behind it to pull out a scary-looking weapon.
"IT'S THE KIRIBACHI!" Nami paled. Arlong only took this out when he was really enraged, and none who have faced it ever lived. Kiribachi was massive pole, with 6 tooth-like blades protruding from the side. It is Arlong's trademark weapon, and he couldn't wait to carve up the one who pushed him to this.
"Oh, that doesn't look good…" Gian mumbled.
With a roar, Arlong slammed the weapon down where Luffy once stood, tearing up a large chunk of pavement as the boy literally missed it by centimeters.
Arlong then noticed Gian's massive fist careening towards him, and he promptly dove into the water just as the punch struck the ground with a heavy BOOM.
"Shark Twister!" Spinning the weapon around underwater, a bladed waterspout formed and speared itself right into the Kaiju-zoan user's torso, drilling into him and knocking him back with a CRASH!
"Gian!/Gian-Aniki!/Gian-san!" a chorus of voices shouted as dust obscured the view of the fallen Kaiju-zoan user. When the smoke cleared Gian had reverted from his Full Transformation, having no more energy to maintain it.
"Arlong just knocked down a monster…" Genzo whispered.
"Dammit… I can't move anymore…" Gian groaned as the after-effects set it, a newly arrived Deimo now cradling him urgently "Luffy's gonna have to finish this by himself…"
Said Rubber boy was just about to go help when another Shark Twister flew at him instead. He hastily dodged again, only to have a few more aimed at him. Before long he was perched on one of the roofs of Arlong Park while having to dodge waterspouts.
Arlong then erupted out of the water, swinging Kiribachi down hard, ripping up a large portion of the roof. Luffy could go nowhere but up, and Arlong repeatedly spun in the air so that he was similar to a living buzz saw. The two went higher and higher, before Arlong threw a kick at the rubber boy and sent him flying into a window and the two disappeared inside; a very specific window…
"They went into the-" Nami realized, for that particular room had a very long history with her.
Inside:
Luffy groaned and looked around, only to see that the room was full of paper. More specifically they were maps, hand-drawn from scratch and very detailed. Aside from the bundles and piles of paper, there was nothing else in the room save for a small desk with a pen on it.
"Well, it seems we're here… Do you know where this is?" Arlong taunted.
"This place… is the room Nami stays in where she draws maps for me!"
This made Luffy's eyes widen.
"That's right! During her time here, she's helped me plenty. She was quite the useful tool, you could even say that she was my…comrade!"
"…What did you just call her?" Luffy asked with a frown. "Nami is my navigator!"
"Oh please! What can you do to make it better for her? In this place she has all the money she could want, nothing to worry about food or clothing! All she has to do is draw maps that assist me in conquering the rest of these seas!" Arlong cackled before slamming Kiribachi downwards, pinning Luffy to the ground.
"Once I have a map of the world, nothing can stand in my way! And Nami will help me with that! Even though she's a human like the rest of you, she at least has the intellect and skills to differentiate herself from the rest of your pathetic kind. All that talent is wasted on the rest of you, only I can use her as well as she is?"
Arlong then forcefully wrenched his hand down, intending to slice the rubber boy in half, however he found that he was unable to; Luffy's got a hand around it.
When he looked down, Luffy had a look of absolute rage on his face. While Arlong was talking, he'd noticed many things about the room. Like how some of the maps had water marks on them, and how the pen was stained with blood…
"…Did you just say… you were going to USE her?!"
The grip on Kiribachi tightened. Arlong tried to wrench it free but Luffy's grip was too tight. It got to the point where Luffy forcefully snapped the saw-like blade in half.
Arlong growled and thrusted his nose forward, only for Luffy to grab onto that too. The boy ignored the pain of the spines digging into his hands as he forcefully bent the nose in a 90% angle. Arlong roared in pain.
"I don't care about how great you think fishmen are! I don't even know why all this is happening. But I do know one thing: That this room is making Nami suffer! And because of that, I will destroy it!"
"Wait, you don't know what-" Arlong tried to protest, but Luffy was already in the process of thrusting his foot out and stamping at one of the walls, causing a large hole to cave in and sent multiple maps flying out. Luffy continued his ransacking, throwing a table here, ripping up a pile of maps there. Just like that, many years of slaving away was destroyed in a second.
"STOP! What are you doing?!" Arlong shouted as he charged forwards to try and stop him, only for Luffy to throw him into another shelf and scattering more maps.
Outside, people could see everything getting thrown out of the room.
"That's a lot of paper… Hey Deimo-san, can you show it to me, I can't pick anything up right now…" Gian mumbled.
"They're the maps that Nami were forced to draw…" Deimo deduced, and his fist tightened.
"And Luffy is tearing the entire place apart…" Sanji mentioned.
"Yeah… hope he burns it as well…" Gian sniffed.
Nami was silent as she watched everything tumble out of the room…
With each item thrown, it felt as if another burden in her heart was lifted, one by one.
All of her memories of the room flooded back to her, how she was forced day by day to make maps until her hands bled. All the psychological abuse she suffered within.
All of that, now seemed to be floating away…
"Luffy…" tears were threatening to break as sheets of paper was fluttering around "Thank you…"
Inside, Luffy was still destroying all the equipment, and Arlong was at his limit. Everything he's built up to now will not be taken away from him!
Luffy's leg then stretched up, breaking through the roof. He was going to destroy this room along with the entire building. Arlong picked up what his plan was and in one last attempt, opened his jaws and began spinning in a corkscrew fashion.
"SHARK ON TOOTH!"
The whirling deathtrap of teeth torpedoed towards Luffy in break-neck speed, the jaws slamming into the rubber boy's side. Luffy yelled in pain but refused to stop, as he brought his foot down in one last attack.
"Gomu-Gomu no… ONO!"
Like a 1000 ton weight, the foot smashed into Arlong, sending crashing through the top to the bottom floor with a massive CRACK. The impact was so powerful that it sent shockwaves up the entire building.
Then pieces of it began to fall apart.
First the bottom falls away, then the remaining floors. Everything that held up the once impressive compound is beginning to give way, and it was not long before the entire building was beginning to collapse. Finally, the massive sharkhead that held the Arlong Pirates' Jolly Roger tumbled down as well.
Arlong Park, the fortress of the Conomi Islands, is now just a heap of rubble.
"Luffy is still in there!" Nami shouted desperately.
"Dammit! Deimo bring me to the wreckage I'll try digging him out!" Gian struggled. Some of his movement is beginning to return, but it wasn't enough for any serious activity. Deimo had to remind him of that while he and everyone else present looked on anxiously.
Zoro, Sanji and Usopp all looked on, equally anxious and hoping he would get out.
Then the pieces of rubble broke, and out emerged a tattered, dazed, but still alive rubber boy. He was silent for a while before shouting to the high heavens.
"NAMI! YOU ARE MY NAKAMA!"
Tears were flowing freely now. The boy that she'd met not long ago, along with his friends have liberated not just her, but her entire island. For the first time in ages, Nami felt truly free.
"Yes… of course I am…"
Luffy then noticed everyone staring at him.
"What's everyone looking at?"
Gian and the rest of the crew chuckled at that. Even though the kid just toppled an entire building he still was so carefree.
"Hey Gian, why are you lying on the ground? Is it nap time?" Luffy then asked.
"It is for me, after what I just pulled out I feel like I can sleep for a month. So go ahead and do whatever and-" his eyes suddenly widened and a look of fear rose on his face.
"LUFFY LOOK OUT!"
Nearby:
Twitch… twitch…
The world of Ebirah was black.
That previous attack had not only broiled the creatures' insides, but it had also melted its sensory organs.
Ebirah is now blind.
But that doesn't mean it couldn't feel.
And feel it did, sensing a large amount of humans nearby, and one particular one still reeked of the vile energy.
Rage simmered within it. It didn't even manage to kill it! It's there, taunting it, and Ebirah wanted it gone. That last attack mortally wounded it, it probably only has a few seconds top to live. But it would make sure that it make that foul energy cease to exist first.
With one last desperate strike, Ebirah forced its right spear-claw forward.
It felt impact with something; the squish of flesh. The gurgle of pain…
And that's all Ebriah had time for as it slipped from this world.
Back:
The scene was gruesome.
Luffy looking dumbfounded. Zoro, Sanji, Gian and Nami were pale. Usopp had fainted by this point.
The villagers of both Cocoyasi and Letchi were equally scared out of their wits.
And one scarred, beaten up fishman does not have long in this world anymore.
Because Ebirah's claw was now protruding a good 2 inches out of his chest.
You could imagine the shock and horror that everybody felt when Arlong erupted from the rubble, intending to at the very least drag the person who dismantled his entire empire to hell with him. By now he wasn't even thinking straight, he just wanted to see the boy dead.
Fate had other plans.
Arlong's breathing was beginning to increase, his mouth was filling with blood. His vision was becoming unfocused.
Who would've guessed that he, who ruled the Conomi Islands with an iron fist, would be where he is at today? The claw had impaled him through the heart, there was no way he can survive this.
His vision was beginning to blank. White was filling his mind by now. And at the center of it, was a tall, red seabream fishman. Wearing a captain's coat. The figure was facing away from him.
"Tiger-aniki… I was just giving the humans what they deserve… is that so…wrong…?"
Then the figure faded, and Arlong gurgled one last time, coughing out a pint of blood in the process.
Then he fell limp.
'Saw Tooth' Arlong, self-proclaimed tyrant of the Conomi Islands, is dead.
A/N: So that's it for the climax of Arlong Park. There was a lot of planning with this, and some parts were played around with more than once. But this eventually became the result. To be fair I keep getting the idea that it could be better, but this is what came out. I did give Arlong that new attack, which i thought is just something I can play around with.
The biggest thing people are probably going to ask me about is Arlong's death. It something I played around with for a while. Originally I wanted it to be more like canon being that he lives and gets arrested like he did. But honestly, Arlong is a really tragic character when you think about it. He may have been a pure villain for the human characters, but he genuinely cared about his fellow fishmen. Unfortunately for him, it was through Fisher Tiger's death that he let this hatred consume him and forced it back on the humans who he viewed lower than dirt, becoming no better than humans who did discriminate against fishmen. But what makes him different from Hody Jones, is that he actually has a sense of loyalty, as shown by his time with the Sun Pirates. So with that I decided to let him take his hatred with him to the grave. It probably could've been written better, but this is how I did it.
G: Way to get political with this… and it was so lighthearted too…
Just you wait buddy, this is only the beginning…
But yeah, I finally got this out of the way. Next chapter would be wrapping up the arc, which is mostly going to be personal explorations for Gian. Then we go to Loguetown arc and I'll tell you right now, it's going to be mainly Gian-focused as I'm going to be going deeper into some of his relations. After this we probably won't see the Full Transformation much until probably Alabasta.
So with that, I hope you enjoyed the last portion of the fights!
Responses to reviews:
To pokemonking0924:
G: He dead.
That he is.
To anquan:
You'll see in two chapters… and the rest when we get there….
G: see? Overwatch is preventing you from getting there fast enough!
Don't objectify that.
To Vergil Leonidas:
G: Sorry he was playing Overwatch.
I still finished it!
G: Yeah, but you had to change it several times because you replacing the dialogue with 'Ryuu ga waga teki wo kurau'.
We promised never to speak of it….
But yeah, here it is!
We'll see you next time!
Leave a review and Gian will actually play support for once!
G: fuck that! I want it to be High Noon Forever!