Chapter 9: The True Power of the Silver Fox

"Hello, I am Riko, who is also one of the 3 assassins as well . Who is this fine gentleman?" A woman with dark black hair and had on a traditional Wano style kimono greeted.

"Get the hell out of my way lady. Don't make me kill you." Killer responded.

"Oh my, such a rude man you are. But don't worry, I'll teach you some manners. " Riko said calmly while withdrawing her weapon.

"Just get out of my way!" Killer demanded before leaping toward the woman with both of his weapons spinning.

Without even opening her eyes, Riko easily blocked Killer's income attacks with her katana and slashed his arm as well.

They lunge for each other again, Riko's katana was moving so fast to the point Killer couldn't even keep up with it. "Ahhh!"Killer yelps when she gets a good deep cut right on his thigh and another on his shoulder.

Catching his breath, Killer waited until the time was right to strike back. "There!" He then deflected her sword from hitting him again.

"Ah, so you're not a half bad swordsman after all, but there is no way you can defeat me." Riko commented while smiling.

After Riko put her katana back into it's sheath, a large amount of blood was coming from Killer's torso.

They were now having a standoff, while giving each other the death-stare, even if Riko can't see it on Killer's face, she can still sense it from his deadly aura.

And once again they lunge for each other again, with both of them wanting to end the fight soon as possible.

After they landed back onto their feet, one of Killer's blades broke into little pieces.

"Our battle is over. Riko stated before her weapon broke like Killer's had done.

"Nice shot." Riko commented after she collapsed onto the ground with blood coming from her mouth.

"Losing is quite bitter indeed. In all of my years, I've only known what it is like to be the victor. Well play, Massacre Soldier Killer." Those were the last words she mumbled before passing out.

Putting away one of his non-broken blades, Killer started running through the barely lit halls.

-x-

When Roy found a place where there was no video-transponder snail that could see him, he then let Kc out of the coin she was entrapped in.

"What the, why did you let me out." Kc asked confusely as she stared in Roy's dark green eyes.

"Shhhh...you need to keep your voice down." Roy whispered in Kc's ear.

"Listen, I actually don't believe in this stupid cult or their god as well. I am an undercover agent who is working for the Revolutionary so I can stop Sanki's evil plans to take over the world."

"Hey I know the Revolutionary, Killer told me about how you guys are directly against the World Govermment." Kc stated, remembering the familiar name.

Roy nodded his head. " Come with me so I can take you back to the Revolutionary's base so you can be safe and protected there, as long as Sanki don't have you in his possession then their plans will be completely ruined. And by the way, thank you for freeing the slaves, some had worked here for more than 18 years. They are all on the Revolutionary's ships right now, safe and sound. I bet they all want to see their savior again, so what do you say come with me and we can escape from this hell hole together. " Roy said while holding out his hand for hers.

Kc only shooks her head." No, I can't abandon my crew. They are in this tower right now looking and fighting for me and I just can't leave them."

Roy only sighs. "Fine, but you need to play along as my prisoner again because I can't blow my cover just yet. But first I need to explain to you about the information that I have gathered about this tower and it's ruler as well."

-x-

Heat and Wire jumped in the air and landed where they were 20 feet apart from the large man.

When they tried to move their feet, they realized their feet were stuck on a sticky substance.

"Ha, I ate the Syrup Syrup fruit which is also a Logia type. Hi, my name is Sato, one of the assassins who were hired to kill anyone who stood against Lord Sanki's way." Sato stated.

Sato then extended his long sticky arm onto Heat, and covered his mouth with a thick layer of syrup. Wire tried to stab the sticky arm away from Heat's mouth but then his trident was now stuck onto the sticky substance as well.

*Why did he cover Heat's mouth at the first chance he's got, unless.* A light bulb then lit up in Wire's head. Reaching in his back pocket, he then pulled out a cigarette lighter and waited for the right time. Jumping out of his boots after he got a hold onto his trident again, Wire then lit his weapon on fire. Wire lunged toward Sato and cut off the arm where it had a tight grip onto Heat's neck. "Use this and light your swords on fire." Wire said after throwing the cigarette lighter to Heat's hand. Sato then created 8 tentacles out of syrup and started swinging them at the 2 pirates. One by one, Heat and Wire cut off the large tentacles with their fire coated weapons while trying to dodge them in the process. After Heat cut off the last tentacles with his 2 swords, he then landed a direct hit at Sato's actual body. Sato's eyes roll back into his skull before he completely passes out.

-x-

"Ah...isn't it the little traitor himself." The same man who was wearing the eyepatch stated while grinning.

"I don't know what you mean, who have I betrayed, Michael." Roy responded with no hesitation in his voice.

"Cut the act right now, and hand over the girl to me this instant." The man wearing an eye patch now identified as Michael demanded.

"How long have you known?" Roy asked coldly.

"For a while, but after eavesdropping on you and the girl's conversation, my suspicions of you were confirmed." Michael stated while pointing a gun inches away from Roy's forehead.

"Roy, let me out! I can defeat him. Just let me out." Kc shouted as she bangs her hands on the card's glassy surface.

"Don't worry, I can take him on . No matter what, Sanki can not have you in his possession so you need to stay in there for a little bit longer." Roy stated while taking up a fighting stance.

Roy dodged where multiple bullets were fired at him, he then jumped and did a flip while still in the air and tried to land a kick square in Michael's face.

Roy's face widened in shock when Michael caught his foot with one hand.

Roy then tried an uppercut punch and to his amusement his attack landed on his target.

Michael stumbled back a little, because he wasn't that much of a large guy, Roy easily sweap him by the foot which made Micheal fall on his back with a loud thud.

Roy now had Micheal at gunpoint , but when he tried to pull the trigger something made his hand caught on fire. "AHHHHHHHHH!" Roy cried out in pain as he tried to extinguish the hot flames that had consumed his whole hand.

Flipping the sliver coin from his pocket, Kc instantly popped out of it. After she was free, Kc immediately blew her icy breath at the burning piece of flesh, before bending down and coated the injured limb with a thin layer of ice. "Thank you." Roy thanks while sighing in relief.

"Ahahaha, What do you think, I got him only a few days ago." Michael exclaimed proudly while pointing at a ferret-like creature that was now combusting in flames.

The ferret was really smaller than a normal ferret like if it was only a baby, the top half of the ferret was a reddish color with a tint of brown and in the middle of it's chest was a small patch of light yellow fur. The bottom half was a really dark shade of gray and the middle of it's body where the 2 different colors of fur intertwine, the gray parts had a flame-like pattern on top.

But what really caught everyone's attention was how his head, all the way down to his back was on fire and the tip of his long tail looked like a torch.

"What the hell is that thing?!" Roy demanded with wide unbelieving eyes while pointing at the fiery beast.

"It's a Fermoke or you can just call it a fire ferret. It's a rare creature from the New World that is pretty much impossible to find anywhere, even in their natural habitat, and yet a person managed to catch this little runt right here." Michael then gestures to the tiny animal.

Kc only stared at the burning animal , she could tell how sad, scared ,and alone it felt from being taken away from its family. She and the wild beast were the same; they will never see their family again, no matter how much they wanted to.

"Kc what are you doing, stay back." Roy shouted when she started walking closer and closer to the scared animal. The ferret then spit out a small fireball toward her, which Kc easily dodged and put it out with her ice breath.

"Shhhhh..it's okay I'm not going to hurt you." Kc said in a soothing voice.

The ferret looked at Kc curiously as he died down his flames and slowly walked toward the woman.

When the Ferret crawled onto Kc's hand, she was now playing a game of hot potato with the ferret. Steam then came from Kc's hands when the Ferret completely laid his heated body onto her cold hands. Seeing a metal collar that encircled the ferret's small neck, Kc pressed her finger on it for 10 seconds while letting her fingertips become cold to the touch. After she breaks the collar and half, the ferret climbs across her arm and onto her shoulder and starts nuzzling his cheek against hers.

"I think I will name you Kenzo. Do you like Kenzo?" Kc asked and the Ferret nodded his head, signaling her he liked the name.

"Alright Kenzo, do whatever you want to your previous master." Kc said with a devilish grin.

A minute later Michael was nothing more but tiny ashes.

"Good work, little buddy." Kc said as she patted Kenzo's head lightly.

"Well, well, ...you're quite more interesting than I thought." A new deep voice stated.

"Are you the bastard who trapped me and my crew in this hell hole?" Kc demanded when she spotted a man wearing a white coat and had long blond hair.

"You guessed correctly, I am Sanki, the person who will become the world's next ruler." Sanki announced confidently.

When Kc felt something hit her in the middle of her neck, her eyes started getting a little heavy as she struggled to stand up.

"Kenzo, go to the man with blue hair." Kc ordered the tiny ferret weakly before her eyes could stay open anymore.

Knowing the plan just in case they were in this type of situation, Roy made a mad dash from where Kc and Sanki were.

"Oh well, I'll just kill him later." Sanki muttered to himself after picking up the unconscious girl.

*Please, let this plan work or I'm really a dead man.* Roy thought to himself as he ran through the long halls.

-x-

Kid was reunited with his crew again and were now trenching through the long stairs case that extended for miles and miles .

"Eustass!" Roy shouted as he held up a piece of paper.

"It's you, I am going to fucking kill you!" Kid shouted as he was full on sprinting to where Roy was now running away from him.

"Wait, I'm not your enemy." Roy shouted as he ran for his life from the short temper pirate captain.

"Shut the fuck up you little piece of shit. Slow down so I can wring your fucking neck." Kid retorted.

"I have a note from Kc." Roy said after he dropped down the sheet of paper so everyone could see it.

The note said: "Hey shit head, don't kill Roy. He is actually a member of the Revolutionary who is undercover as one of the main officers of the cult. If I'm not with Roy right now that's because Sanki has taken me captive and I am now becoming a human sacrifice. And that is why I had Roy risk his life to deliver this note to you.

Ps. And if you're still not convinced it's me then here is some proof.

Remember how I chained you to your bed after you really got drunk to the point you mistake me as a prostitute. Then I put about 20 chickens in your bedroom and left them there for about an hour while you were still chained onto your bed. And on that exact same day, we ate chicken-pot pie and scrambled eggs for dinner. Or all of the times I turned your room into a winterwonderland."

"Yeap, the Bitch definitely wrote this." Kid exclaimed with gritted teeth.

"Follow me, I know a shortcut." Roy stated as he led the group of pirates.

"Don't order me around." Kid scoffs.

-x-

"Wake up, I want to see your pretty little eyes." Sanki said.

When Kc looked around in her surroundings , the room the 2 of them were in had nothing but light purple crystals and she noticed most of her body was stuck in a strange thick waterly substance.

"What you see before you is all the crystals that have collected moonlight for 20 years which is also Lord Perses power source as well. The last step is to unfreeze him, and that is where you come in." Sanki explained as he gestures at all of the beautiful crystals.

"You're not going to win, the Kid Pirates will come and kick your ass." Kc managed to mutter before the blue liquid completely consumed her.

Kc felt lifeless , she was in an endless drift which she knew at some point her end was coming soon.

Cracking her eyes when Kc felt someone else enter into the blue liquid, she could see an arm reaching out for hers.

Kc gasped for air while coughing aggressively as Kid held her close to his chest.

"Kc's an important part of my crew. I won't let you lay a finger on her." Kid announced to Sanki.

"K-Kid." Kc muttered.

"Jeeze, what are you doing hanging around with this ass hole? Aren't you going to become a famous rockstar? " Kid exclaimed playfully.

"Ahhhh!" Kid yelps in pain when something strikes him from behind.

"I ate the Meteor Meteor-fruit, I can create or become a human Meteor."Sanki exclaimed while smirking at Kid's painful expression.

"If you want her, you'll have to go through me." Kid stated with fire burning in his eyes.

"Is that a challenge? I am quite interested to see the powers of a man with a bounty over 100,000,000 beri" Sanki retorted before Kid tried to repel a dagger at him.

Kid rushed toward him and landed multiple punches and kicks before activating his devil fruit. "Punk Gibson."

Then all of the Kid Pirates started attacking Sanki all at once.

Killer used his non-broken blade to try to slash him, before Heat shot fire at him as well.

Everyone was now pointing and shooting their guns at the large flame that covered Sanki.

All the pirate's gasp, after Sanki easily walked out of the fire and didn't have one single injury on his body, not even a tiny scratch.

"Is that really the best all of you guys can do? I expected a whole lot more from one of the most strongest pirate crews in the Grand Line. I can't waste anymore time with a bunch of weaklings" Sanki said while clapping his hands slowly.

"I'll show you who is weak! Repel!" Kid called out another attack.

"I shall punish you for disrupting the wonderful ceremony of my god. Shooting Star!" Sanki was now flying so fast to the point it was almost impossible for the human eye to see.

Without even trying, Sanki landed one punch after another while dodging Kid's efforts to strike him.

"Damn it that guy is too fast. I need to rely on all my senses to defeat him….. I got you now!"Kid shouted after punching nothing but thin air again.

*What the hell, is he getting faster and faster.* Kid thought to himself in anger.

"Be proud you got your hits in, cause it won't happen again." Sanki stated before making Kid's body into nothing more but a human punching bag.

"And finally I'll show you the true destructive power of the Meteor Meteor fruit. May you find this man guilty, oh Great Perses, the god of Destruction…. Grand Star Cannon." Sanki prays before creating and shooting a large meteor at Kid.

"Hmmm, that attack is the same as getting hit by a real falling meteor. It's a miracle his body's still in one piece." Sanki commented as he walked closer to Kid's unconscious bloody body.

"And now you're dead, bye bye Eustass." Sanki said after he released a large meteor that was ½ of the tower's size.

"Captain!" Everyone in the Kid Pirates shouted.

"Ice Shield!" Kc creates a large shield to block the oncoming meteor.

"What, how is that even possible, no regular ice can withstand a meteor that large and powerful." Sanki then noticed something in Kc's hand.

"I can't believe this. She's eating the Crystals." Sanki commented with widened eyes.

Blue lights surrounded Kc as her eyes turned completely white and her body started to develop god-like features. Then a small symbol in curvy patterns had shown up on top of Kc's forehead which then covered most of her body as well. Kc then grabbed her throat in pain and rolled on the ground after she puked out a glowing white substance.

"You fool, Moon Crystals are extremely poisonous to humans. Did you really think you could power up with them." Sanki stated while grinning.

When Kc got up, the room started getting colder and colder to the point it was below freezing.

*No way, her body absorbed the energy from the Moon Crystals.* Sanki thought to himself in pure shock before Kc lunged toward him, grabbed him by the neck and made his body crash into multiple hard rocks in the process.

"You hurt my friends and were going to kill my captain right infront of my eyes. Hurt them again, and I'll fucking kill you!" Kc shouted as she made Sanki's body hit each floor of the tall tower.

"You don't scare me…. Shooting Star." Sanki retorted after he flew away from Kc's grasp.

"Ahaha, no one is able to catch me at this rate of speed." Sanki stated while laughing.

Kc then transformed into her full fox-formed and was now jumping onto one falling rock after another, then she launched herself toward where Sanki was flying.

After Kc headbutted Sanki right in the gut, they both flew back up to the top of the tower.

For her final attack, Kc held her breath and shot out a large ice beam at Sanki, making him become a human-ice statue, she then punched him into tiny little pieces.

"Get on...Hurry!" Kc demanded after she created an ice slide that led back to the ship and a boat that was big enough to fit everyone in the crew.

After the last person hopped inside the ice boat, Killer then reached out for Kc's hand.

"What are you waiting for? Come on, let's go." Killer said.

"Please forgive me." Those were the last words Kc said before she covered everyone's whole bodies with a thick layer of ice so none of them could escape.

"What the hell are you doing?" Killer shouted as he struggled to free himself.

"Making sure you guys won't get in the way." Kc responded coldly after pushing the large block of ice down onto the slide.

"I'm sorry, but it was the only way." Roy said while biting his lower lip.

"What the hell are you talking about, and what the fuck is Kc doing." Killer demanded.

"You see, she planned this all from the start after I gave her all of the information I knew about the Tower of Reborn and Sanki as well.

Flashback -

"Wait, the guy who rules this tower is the same level as a vice Admiral." Kc asked.

Roy nodded. " Yeah, I don't know that much about Eustass Kid's strength but I'm pretty sure he's not at the vice admiral level. For a last resort, eat the crystals that are located at the top of the tower, because it will give you a major power boost. But only do it as a last resort, there is a 50 percent chance you will die instantly. A 40 percent chance you will live but get no power up and finally a 10 percent chance it would actually work, but you will most likely die by a power overload and will also kill your friends in the process." Roy explained, not liking that plan one bit.

End Flashback -

Everyone just stood there in shock after hearing what they just heard.

"She knew she was most likely going to die for nothing and yet she still ate them?" Wire asked not knowing if he heard that right.

Roy nodded, not looking the tall man in the eye.

All the members in the Kid Pirates watched the island as it was completely covered in snow while the Tower of Reborn was nothing more than a block of ice.

"What the hell happened, did I kick that blondy's ass? And how are we back on the ship, I couldn't have been knocked out for that long, right ?" Kid asked as he cracked open his eyes.

"Don't worry, he's dead and Kc created an ice-slide from the top of the tower all the way down to the ship's deck." Killer responded.

"Oh yeah, where is she?" Kid asks which made everyone on the deck go silent.

Killer, Kid's first mate and best friend then pointed at the large block of ice.

"Boom!"

After the Tower of Reborn exploded, it then started snowing for miles and miles across the sea.

"She's gone." Was all Killer said after Kid fell on his knees while staring at the ruins of the once enormous tower.

When all hopes seemed lost, a small beam of light shot out from the Tower and was now flying across the sky.

As the beam got closer and closer to the ground, all of them realized it wasn't a rock or a beam of light, it was Kc.

"Kc!" Kid shouted as he jumped off the deck and onto the sea.

"Wait-" Killer stopped himself when he saw most of the ocean had been turned into ice.

Kid full on sprinted on the ice, despite falling on his face 4 times, he just kept on running until he could reach her.

Kid jumped and enbraced Kc in his arms, not caring in the slightest about how much pain he was in from how freezing Kc's body temperature was and his many injuries as well.

"Quick, she needs medical treatment this instant. Give her to me, we have some of the best doctors on the Wind Granma. " Roy stated while holding out his gloved hands.

"Hell no, I'm carrying her myself." Kid retorted, ignoring the pain from his almost frostbitten hands and arms.

-x-

When Kc open her eyes, the only thing she saw was a bright light that was directly shining in her eyes.

"Ah, you're awake." The doctor exclaimed happily,

"W-Where am I?" Kc asked in a weak voice.

"You're on the ship of the Revolutionary, you've been asleep for more than 3 days now. Your scary captain and your crew have been waiting outside of the door for a while. You're going to need to stay on this ship for at least another few days so I can monitor your condition. Those Moon Crystals really did a number on your body." The doctor responded as he got out a stethoscope.

After she was done with her check up, a familiar blond man and red haired captain had walked in.

"Hi Kid and Killer, how have you guys been?" Kc asked as she sat up.

"Not much, just waiting until your sorry ass is well enough to come back onto my ship." Kid answered.

After giving Kid the finger, she then turned her attention toward Killer when she noticed something was moving around in his long hair.

"Oh yeah, Roy told me to give you this little guy." Killer said after he handed her the fire ferret.

"Kenzo!" Kc said as she let the little fur ball climb on top of her shoulder.

"Kid, we got a new crewmate. " Kc said as she held up the small ferret.

"Said who?" Kid scoff.

"Said me, he's my new little buddy. Plus he can light himself on fire." Kc retorted.

The ferret then made the top of his tail burst into flames like a small candle.

"Fine, you can keep him but if it burns down the ship, then both of your asses are mine." Kid said as he crossed his arms.

Seeing her reflection in Kid's goggles, she noticed the same curvy markings on her forehead hadn't disappeared yet.

When she tried to rub it off, Kc then came to the conclusion that it's never going to come off.

"What does this strange symbol mean?" Kc asked while pointing her forehead.

"Um, you will find out soon enough. Just don't let anyone see it." Was all the doctor told her.

The days on the Revolutionary's ship went by quickly, she even got to perform a few songs for them at dinner.

But what really confused and worried Kc was how she kept on falling asleep in random places, especially when she was eating. It turns out one of the side effects she had developed after

either eating the Moon crystals or from using too much of her power all at once, she now has Narcolepsy.

She even met a nice young man named Sabo after she had another narcoleptic attack at lunch. Sabo told her for some reason when she had narcoleptic attacks, it made him remember something or someone really important in his life who also has them.

Thank you for reading.

The Revolutionary's ship is called the Wind Granma just in case you didn't know.