-3rd person view-

The strawhats continued their trek on the moving crab toward Alaburna. A while ago Sanji managed to release the crew while Anya and Chopper found themselves a one-way trip to Alaburna. They were reunited, climbed aboard the giant crab, and sped toward their next destination. Unfortunately, Crocodile tried to abduct Vivi, but that failed when Luffy took her place to battle the instigator of the entire civil war.

Everyone was on edge. Zoro was using Eyelash to lift, Sanji seemed to be occupied with his cigarette, Nami felt a little exhausted about Usopp telling Chopper lies, Vivi looked calm while Anya stared in the direction they were traveling.

"You guys are wasting energy." spoke an annoyed Nami, but she was too anxious on the inside about their approaching conflict and about Luffy staying behind. "Especially you Zoro."

"Leave them be Nami-san. They need an activity to take their mind off their weakness. They feel unfortunate in the face of that warlord especially meat head over there."

Zoro sent a vicious glare to the blonde haired chef, fool in his mind. "You have something to say?"

"Yes!" Sanji said. "You're afraid of Luffy losing."

"Afraid? I know nothing of it, unlike you swirly brow."

Sanji quivered with rage. "You mosshead, now I'm really pissed."

"Yeah?" Before the two could fight, Nami bashed them both, silence their feud. "KNOCK IT OFF! There is no need for your stupid testosterone fest."

"IT'LL BE FINE!" Vivi shouted, looking more fearful than the rest of the group. "Luffy will win. I JUST KNOW! He promised to return."

"You're more worried than the rest of us." Nami smiled, "Anya where's your input?" She peered over the other girl in the group. The one who hadn't moved from her spot during the entire ride. Her face was hidden from the others as she seemed to staring at the endless desert flying by. If she was so worried shouldn't she look to the opposite direction? "Anya? Are okay?"

"You haven't said a word." Spoke Usopp. "He's your brother so of course he'll win right? He always does."

"Anya-chan?" Sanji raised a brow. "You okay?"

Being the closest Vivi shook the girl. "Hey? Ah?"

The purple haired girl fell backwards as she revealed her sleeping face to her companions. They all were completely shocked at her state.

Usopp gaped. "She's sleeping?"

A snot bubble manifested from her nose as she snored soundly. Seeing her sleeping made the group wonder how long she had been out.

Zoro smirked. "Leave her be. This might be her way of coping."

"That's not normal." muttered Usopp. "We're riding on a giant crab, I would've expect her to gush about how cute it is."

Nami shrugged. "This thing has a shady look, I'm surprised she didn't kill it and eat it. It doesn't matter what she's doing right now. We have other objectives on our plate and we don't need her to be distracted."

Vivi laughed. "Yeah, it doesn't matter right now. We need to focus on our destination."

Nami nodded. "Yeah, MOVE ONWARD SCISSORS!"

"Who?" questioned the doctor

"The crab's name. Creative right?"

-later—

Usopp woke up Anya by shoving smelly eggs in front of her nose. Her eyes shot open as she sat up and covered her nose."

"Arugh! Who did that?"

"Sorry, but we have a problem." Usopp raised his arm in a gesture of showing. She grumpily looked over and noticed a river by them. She gazed back at Usopp in a confused manner.

"Yeah?"

"This crab can't swim."

"What a dumb animal." She muttered. She stood and walked toward the group.

"We don't have time lingering here because of this crustation forgot what it is." Spoke the swordsman.

"Swimming will take even more time." Spoke Nami

Chopper gasped. "I forgot. Scissors likes dancers. Maybe it'll get him more power!"

Something stirred in the purple haired girl as she pumped her fist into the air. "OKAY! If it means getting this crab to go hyper then I'll sacrifice my dignity to fuel this pervert."

Zoro snorted. "It's looking at Nami."

"He says you're not endowed enough whatever that means." said Chopper.

Anya felt something break in her as she shied away from the group in a depressed manner while a dark rain cloud manifested above her. "Not…. Endowed… enough?"

Usopp coughed. "Come on, so what if you're not stacked you have other qualities."

One glare from the girl sent him jumping behind Zoro.

Nami shrugged and sway her hips. Instantly the crab exceeded its capacity and went beyond the normal limit. The giant crustacean went full throttle all the way to 11! The crab ran toward the river and managed to accomplish running on water…. for only a few seconds then it submerged while taking the crew with it. The ragtag group were finding themselves in another obstacle as they were maneuvering in the water

"That worked for all that good it did us." Spoke the blonde chef.

"How much time did we waste?" wondered the purple haired girl.

Vivi still looked apprehensive. "It took us 3 hours to cross the desert. We still have roughly two hours until the rebels reach Aluburna."

"Come on." State the swordsman. "We have to stop complaining and keep moving.

"Blah!" scoffed Anya. "We're going to make it." She started swimming. "Come on slackers!"

"Who says we're slackers?" grumbled Nami, "One of us slept the way and now has an extra amount of energy."

"BLAH!"

"She's not listening!" The sniper stared swimming. "We don't have a boat, are we even going to make it?"

"Anya-chan's passion is even affecting me." roared Sanji. "Better keep up Marimo."

"I'm not going to have you get in my way."

"RAAAAAA!"

Emerging from the water was rare aquatic fish that only existed in the waters in Alabasta. It bared its fangs as it sucked in the water with the intent on devouring the crew. The group panicked enough to try and get away. The trio (Anya, Zoro, and Sanji) were ready to take it down until a bunch of blurs appeared and tackled the beast. With their mighty kung fu abilities the mighty creatures knocked the not-so-mighty beast out of commission.

"Hey! It's those Kung fu Dudongs."

"OU!" The fighting dudongs shouted as the made a victory cheer over the defeat of the rare fish.

"They said 'We can't let our fellow disciples get eaten.'

"KYAAA!" shouted Anya with ecstatic compassion as she waved her arms frantically at the dudongs. "YOU FOUND US! IT'S FATE! I KNEW WE WOULD BE A TEAM OF ADORABLE BADASSES!"

Usopp coughed. "Chopper, tell them to help before Anya gets a stroke."

Chopper negotiated with the fighting animals to help them across in which they happily accepted with mass enthusiasm and to the delight of the dragoon. Once they made it across, and after Zoro dragged the violet haired lass away kicking and screaming, the group tried running the way there. The heat was unbearable and they came to a conclusion that would run out time and energy as they progressed, but more luck was on their side as Carue and a team of duckbills approached them.

"Carue-kun!" shouted Anya. She spotted the other duckbills and gushed over them. Nami hit on the head to calm down.

Vivi formed a smile on her face. "We'll be able to make it. They're the fastest here."

Sanji grinned. "So it's only a matter of time before we reach our goal." He then formed a frown. "The army is advancing and we're all approaching danger. You all remember what happens if that Okama comes along or anyone else who is a master of disguise."

Everyone nodded.

"The plan will work." The swordsman smirked. "Come on, we're going to cut our way through."

-Outside Aluburna, West Gate—

She waited with her fellow officers. She waited for the opportunity to kill the princess and her pirates. She waited for the blood to spill and waited for the sound of war to emerge as more blood would be spilling. A giggle escaped her throat. Heard by Miss Doublefinger, she stared at the spear wielder with curiosity.

"You seem excited."

"Aren't you." She smiled, which made Miss Double Finger uneasy and Mr. 1 glare at her. Mr. 2 twirled around like an idiot.

"Miss All-Saints day is just eager for Utopia to commence. Right."

The spear wielder giggled again and moved her head left and right while humming something eerily. Mr. 1 decided to pay no attention despite her being known as a psychopath in the seas. All outlaws and even the marines had some degree of sanity, but this woman was someone who refused to act her age. He didn't care as long as she fought as well as he heard. He looked at his female partner who gave the childish woman a disapproving glare.

He remembered hearing that people hated those who don't submit to the norm. He didn't like grown men acting like little boys. Mr. 2 was just an idiot and Mr. 4… he didn't know what to make of him, except he was slow on certain things. He heard Miss Groundhog day complaining about some nonsense and shifted to try and meditate for the upcoming war. The mission was to stop the Strawhats and kill the princess. Nothing more.

The group of mercenaries kept about their business until Mr. 4 alerted them, albeit slowly, of a group of people arriving in the distance. Six of them, shrouded in cloaks and approaching fast. Miss All Saint's got a little giddy and slammed her spear on the sand in anticipation of the fools that would cross them… no her. Mr. 4 fired his weapon, launching a…. trio of base bombs at the group. The attack missed, but caused them to be separated into three groups of two. Currently we'll focus on the two duckbill riders heading toward the south gate with Mr. 2 and Miss All saint's day not far behind them.

The two duckbill riders halted once they were far inside the city and turned around quickly.

"That was the Okama?"

"Yep, the very same idiot, but the woman who was with him."

"Beautiful."

"Shut up, she looks psychotic and she has a spear. She might be a dragoon."

"Are you two going to say the oath?"

"Only if she wants to. She rubs me the wrong way."

The two baroque agents finally arrived and confronted the two.

"Hee, hee," Giggled the woman. "Which one of you the princess?"

"We have you both now."

"I think it's us who has you." Spoke the shorter rider who began taking off her cloak."

The two riders unveiled them to the duo, shocking Mr. 2 while making the woman frown, which was rare. Anya held up the peace sign with smirk while Sanji took a puff of his cig. "GOT YA!"

Mr. 2 was peeved. "WHAT!? Are you serious? Where is she?"

"Not telling you." Sanji said. "You gonna have to at least fight us."

Miss All Saint's day giggled. "Hee, hee. Conceited blonde man is foolish. Very Foolish." Her gaze shifted toward the lancer. "You? You're conceited tooooo? Are youuu?"

Anya face formed into a disapproving frown. "You annoy me for some reason. Something makes me want to kick your teeth in.

"My teeth?" A sly smirk formed. "Hmm… what should I take from you? That's cool shade of purple. After I kill you I'll cleave that hair off." She noticed the spear. "A spear eh? Just a regular spear user or do you…. classify… as a dragoon?"

Mr. 2 snorted. "A dragoon her?" He twirled around. "It doesn't matter you two are going to tell me. You handle the girl, that blonde man is mine."

Sanji narrowed his eyes. "Be careful Anya-chan. I don't know what Luffy would do if you die."

"I don't plan on it." She made her declaration. She then jammed her spear, the bladed end into the sand. "I swear on the oath."

Miss All saint's day did the same and got down on one knee. Anya followed the other woman's example. Sanji and Mr. 2 ignored them and attacked, with Mr. 2 send the blonde chef away from the girls. The two of the kept fight in the distance until they weren't seen.

Anya and Miss All Saint's day clasped their hands and prayed, loud enough for the other to hear.

"In the light of sun!" spoke Anya

"In the dark of the moon." Replied the agent

"Hear our plea under the light of hope."

"Hear our cries under the dark of despair."

"We raise our hands above to heavens."

"We raise our spears to beyond."

"Grant us the courage to fight our kin."

"Forgive us when we shed their blood."

"Until death grasps us, comfort us."

"May our fiery soul guide our blades into eternity."

"Augment!" Both girls shouted as they opened their and grasped their weapons.

"Not bad Lavender Lancer. So you are a dragoon after all. You even got the oath right."

"My master had to beat it into me."

"Hmph. NOW COME ON! I want to hear your scream."

"Shut it!" The two rushed at the other with their spears twirling. They screamed as they made contact. They jumped back swung at each other again and again. Anya rolled to the side and tossed her shield, like a discus, at the woman. The baroque agent dodged and charged at her.

"Now you're defenseless."

Anya back flipped away from the horizontal slice. She leapt forward and spun.

"Morning Buzzsaw!"

The older woman squeaked at the incoming human buzzsaw and quickly rolled away. Anya immediately touched ground, ran to grab her shield and placed it on her back. She whirled around to find her opponent glaring down at her.

"Cute trick, how long did it take you?"

"It took me a year to get that technique completed and I have been loving it ever since."

The older woman laughed. "Oh, you are a real problem. Too troublesome to let live. I shudder to think how strong you will get.

Anya gave a cheeky grin. "Me too."

The women collided with strikes, turning the street into their personal arena. Anya moved back quickly, but received a cut across her cheek from the deranged woman. She blocked a kick meant for here and followed it up with spinning back kick. Miss All Saints grunted as she was hit, yet retaliated with a piercing blow. Anya dodged to the side and delivered a blow with the polearm of her spear. The older woman grunted and went in for a cut. Anya jumped away in time as the woman gave a very eerie laugh.

"Do you giggle every time?"

"Yeeeessss." She smiled darkly at the purple haired lass who only felt a slight chill which switched to annoyance. "I'm sure you've heard of me.. or have you? I was once known as the terrible killer in the South Blue.

Anya raised a brow, she went through her memory of the notorious woman outlaws that came to mind. Big Mom, Smoothie, Hancock, Alvida, Lady Boxer,… wait. Anya growled. "You're that Ripper aren't you? Liz the Ripper."

"Heh, heh, yep."

"Killed your own mother by stabbing her 40 times and you're a dragoon no less."

"You're a pirate."

"I didn't kill my own mother."

Miss All Saint's day sighed. "So? She favored my brother and ridiculed me for years, forgive me if my mind broke that day."

"How did you become a dragoon?"

"I'll never tell. He he."

"Fine, I don't care. I'm kicking your ass!"

Anya rammed her spear into a barrel and tossed it at the agent. The woman sliced the barrel and water splattered all over her face. Anya dashed forward and slashed at her. Miss All Saint's day leapt toward the wall and kicked off, using the momentum to shoot toward with a piercing strike. Anya backflipped away and used her shield like a frisbee.

The woman yelped as she received a hit by the shield. Lavender Lancer mimicked the woman by leaping toward the wall and rocked toward with a cut. The older woman jumped rolled to the side of the slash and retaliated by delivering a power kick that send the girl flying and crashing into a nearby house. The woman ran inside to attack. The D. sister saw this, grabbed a vase and threw it. The killer destroyed the vase with her spear and then tried to pierce the girl. Anya moved her head away just as the spear pierced the wall.

"This is fun girl."

"Shut it."

Anya quickly swiped her spear, delivering a cut across the woman's side who tried to avoid it. The woman growled and kicked the girl hard in the face and then once against in the stomach causing the girl to gag. She delivered a spinning kick that knocked her away. Anya rolled over and glared up with a bloody bruise on her head and blood dripping from her nose. She wiped it away and snorted up anything else. She snarled and leapt toward her, not caring about the property she destroyed. Miss All Saint's day yanked out her weapon and attacked. The two girls fought around the house swiping their spears and using acrobatic moves to avoid each other's deadly attack.

"Dragon tooth!"

Miss All Saint's day sent powerful kick to Anya's chest that sent her flying away through a window. Anya landed hard on the group and groaned in agony. She took deep breaths, trying to regain her composure. She heard the woman approaching. The purple haired lass looked up at the woman who had a deranged look on her face.

"Awe, are you hurtsy wurtsy?" She watched the girl spit out blood. "Do you want me to kill you and make it all better?"

Anya gave a smirk. "Do you mind if I do foxtrot before then?"

"Hmm?"

"It's a dance."

"What does dancing have to do with this battle?"

"Everything, some forms of martial artist were originally dances or people watching animals do their thing."

"Oh shut." Miss All Saint's Day launched herself at the girl. "AND DIE!" Anya rolled when the woman got year and was blocking each hit she delivered.

"Die like your brother!"

Anya's eyes widen

"That's right! Crocodile killed him, he killed him good. Gutted him, maimed him, incinerated his corpse, and there may be some defecation for added injury. GAHAHAHAHAHA!"

The older woman spun around quickly to deliver a powerful swiped that cut across Anya's front destroying her shirt and causing her to bleed. To add more damage the strong force sent the girl back again in a spiral before she landed with a sicken crash on a wheel barrel. Anya cried out in pain as she felt pieces of wood penetrate her skin.

"Crocodile did him a favor. I AM doing you a favor! You are all fools to come here and challenge us. What makes you think you can compete with the big leagues, especially one of the Shichibukai? Did you really think it would be easy to come bumbling in here with your cute little self and win against me? Did you believe your brother the captain could win? Your crew? You children are playing games based on the lives of us adults. You should've stayed home and continued your pathetic lives in the East Blue. Nothing you do here will matter when you're dead." She spread her arms out. "That little princess, she was a fool to come back here and try to save this miserable country. This country will be our new home, our Utopia. She will die and I'll take all that lovely blue hair of hers and make it my trophy."

Anya started breathing heavily and each word that came out of agent's mouth made her more angry. So angry she was about to explode. She got up slowly and glared at the woman. The glare was so hateful and intense it sent goosebumps down Ripper's spine. She didn't let it phase her, all she did was smirk.

"Do my words sting you? Are you going to cry? It's the truth and the only thing you will know before you die."

Then Anya chuckled darkly which made the woman confused, none of her victims chuckled before dying. Get mad or plea for mercy, but not laugh.

"My brother may be an idiot, but he is not a loser." The lancer gave her dark grin. "Sure he jumps into things without thinking, a glutton, and simpleton, but he's more than that. He is my rock in this twisted world and I'll be damned to believe you that he is dead. He'll be the Pirate King and I'll help him fulfill his dream. We may be fools, but we're not losers. I'm carving my way through here and that starts with breaking you."

Miss All Saint's day snarled. "That's not how it goes. You're supposed to be begging or just plain hopeless." She formed a psychotic grin. "That'll change."

"My will is too strong for you to break me." Anya spotted her shield across the street, she then focused on the woman in front of her. She didn't need it for what she was going to do next. She twirled her weapon and got in a fight stance. "I'll finish you and keep going."

"Hmph, come on little girl.

The two continued their battle which took them jumping along the walls. Anya took note that her opponent was the better the jumper than her. Once they reached the rooftop they fought and fought. Anya managed to get a strike with the blunt end of the spear while the older woman slashed the girl, cutting her clothes causing her to bleed in more areas, but Anya ignored that by delivered more slashes at the other woman as well.

Miss All Saint's day grunted in pains from blows, but seemed to get crazier with each hit she got. Anya maneuvered in a way as ballerina to avoid a deadly thrust. She quickly went in and delivered a powerful hard kick causing the deranged woman to stagger back. Anya swung upward, delivering a powerful cut across her chest that caused her to howl in pain and the force sent her flying across the roof.

"How do you like that?"

Miss All Saint's day got up and roared in pure rage while ignoring the would she received. She charged at the girl in a maddening manner.

"I WILL HAVE YOUR HEART!"

They resumed their fight. It was battle of wills. Anger vs. crazy. They jumped across the roof tops and crashed through a window where more property was damaged due their fighting. Miss All Saint's day delivered a powerful kick that caused a hole in the way. Anya took the opportunity to jump through the hole toward the outside.

Once she got outside and she rolled over to avoid the dive the older woman performed. She dashed toward the wall and kicked off it while delivering a piercing strike.

"Midnight Spike!"

The woman leapt away as the attack hit and leapt toward the girl to strike. Anya barely avoided, but the woman managed to cut her shoulder. Anya roared a battle cry and unleashed a powerful kick to the stomach then punched the woman across the face. The woman tumbled over after the punch.

The woman fell to the floor away from her as Anya dropped to one knee. She panted heavily and glanced at the falling body rising up and the woman also breathing heavily. The older turned toward her with a dark glare. They were losing stamina and both wanted to end this quickly. She groaned as she slowly stood up and continued to pant. She needed to finish this and then move on. Hopefully Vivi got into the city safely.

Miss All-Saint's day calm demeanor grew into annoyance. Who was this girl and why did she last this long? How come some baby face pirate is becoming a hassle. Both were bleeding, but she expected the girl to keel over. She growled and got ready for the finisher, this was going to be last one and she had better die. 'Yes,' she thought in a deranged manner. 'ceasing to function.' Her signature grin appeared on her face, but it didn't faze the other girl like it did in beginning.

Anya scoffed at her face and twirled. She had to make to make this one count and she knew this would be the last one, the last attack. Pain was racking all over her body and her clothes were worse for ware, making her breast partially exposed, her hair was messed, and that cut on her shoulder was still bleeding, but none of that mattered. The agent insulted her brother, her life, her family, her friends and she was going to cause pain and misery to this country. Vivi didn't deserve it.

Anya stomped her foot on the ground and charged. Miss All Saint's day roared and charged forward. They glared at each other with hatred and thoughts of pain, but then something occurred in Anya's mind. Something her master said.

"Don't behave as a brute charging in. Take advantage if your opponent is no long composed. Think."

She smirked. Just before they collided, the older woman swiped her spear at the young girl with all her might. Anya quickly maneuvered away, buried her foot in the sand and kicked it up as she sent sand in the face of the older woman. That short distraction gave Anya the chance she needed. She leapt at her.

"Midnight Salsa!"

Anya twirled gracefully in the air twice as she put all her power into her spear. She delivered a strong horizontal double cut that not only cut deeply, but the force sent her flying away. Miss All Saint's day screamed in agony as she felt the deep cuts delve into, yet her screaming cased when she crashed through the wall of the house and into the other side. Anya grunted as she landed and dropped to her knees.

She clutched her shoulder, feeling the opened wound. She groaned and started walking through the wall to make sure she was down. She stalked forward and peered through the hole. The woman was down, bleeding and wouldn't be waking up anytime. She sighed and collapsed on her butt. She was glad it was over... sort of. There was something inside of her that wanted the fight to last a bit longer. She shook her head and checked the house for anything to wear.

-Anya's p.o.v.

That woman was something else. Crazy strong and crazy demented. All around insane and too dangerous to be left alone. She needed to be brought down a peg. I want to rest and sleep, but I can do that until this mess is over. I searched the house for something to wear, but much to my dismay all I found was a shirt for men and a cloak. It is something so why not. I found a first aid kit, but it wasn't much. I cleaned myself of the wounds and wrapped bandages around myself to ease everything. I need to see Chopper-kun for further treatment. I ran to the kitchen and found four apples. I haven't had food yet, there better be a feast after this is done, but these apples will do.

The three of them went straight down while I took the fourth one to save for later. I took one last look to make sure that woman was down and then took off.

I dashed down the street toward the palace. The pain was still there, but I was running on Adreneline and pure will. I would rather sleep after this war is taken care of. The atmosphere feels tense, did not help about the stench of gunpowder and blood in the air. I ignored all that and continued my trek. I lost my shield and I didn't feel like getting it back. I have another one back at the ship, I wish I had some fruit ability that gave me the power to command shields or create shields out of thin air.

-Ken's p.o.v.-

Smoker told us to watch this country. He told us not everything is as it se. I'm standing on the roof looking over the city and all I see are people fighting each other. Countrymen against countrymen. The rebels are putting up a good fight, but the King's men are giving their all. Here I am watching, looking for anything that doesn't seem right. Tashigi wanted to help out, but I opted to search what Smoker meant. I watched more until I left to look for the rest of my comrades.

Anya's p.o.v.

I ran into, Sanji, Usopp and Chopper on the way to the palace. The war was too deep and thick here. People fighting left and right for a chance of seeing Alabasta in a new light, but that won't happen until Crocodile is dealt with and Luffy is the number 1 guy for the job. Still, it was disheartening. They are just pawns in that walking suitcase's twisted game. Each step he took was carefully calculated; he had everyone take part in this carefully calculated real life chess. All for this Utopia that deranged wench was stupidly spouting.

It didn't matter, we have to get over there. We maneuvered through the engaging forces as we reached the castle wall. We were just about close to the castle wall.

"AHHH LUFFY IS ALIVE!" Chopper shouted

I gasped and turned toward where Chopper was looking at three people by the wall. A huge smile was plastered on my face as I ran and grabbed my brother who only grunted at me putting weight on him.

"Idiot, don't scare me again. I heard a moron done you in.

"Sorry." He chuckled sheepishly.

"Anya, Sanji, everyone? You're all okay!" Vivi sounded relived. I released my brother just as he shot he arms up the wall.

"Of course." I wagged my finger at her. "You think some scrubs are going to kill me?"

"You're mighty overconfident." muttered Usopp.

"I have every right to be."

Then Nami and Zoro came in, completing the gang. This fell into Zoro and Sanji arguing about dumb stuff. Nami was scolding Usopp about her weather device. It wasn't until Luffy spoke everyone paid attention.

"Sorry guys, I lost to him once. This time I won't lose."

Zoro snorted. "So? Hurry up and finish him."

"If you can't win, who can?" screamed the sharpshooter.

"Show leather head he'll rue the day." I gave him a thumbs up.

My brother nodded. "I'll finish it… all of it."

"ALRIGHT!" We cheered

Then shot himself like a rocket up the wall. After he did, Vivi gathered us and informed us of Crappy the croc latest scheme.

"So there's a cannon getting ready fire at the palace?" I asked.

"How are we going to look for it?" questioned Usopp

Chopper gave a disgusted look on his cute face. "So he's going to kill his comrades?"

"That's low for him, but expected from his type." Commented our navigator.

"I feel I should roast his keester." Said the chef.

"Leave it, we nee-."

Zoro, Sanji, Vivi's friend, and I noticed someone trying to kill Vivi. A baroque agent no doubt. Sanji and Zoro quickly knocked him down, surprising the others with his appearance. As he dropped, more of those goons showed up.

"WE"VE FOUND YOU PRINCESS! KILLING YOU WILL GIVE US A PROMOTION! THAT MEANS WE'LL BECOME THE NEW MILLIONS!"

I grunted in annoyance and walked forward. Zoro and Sanji were annoyed as well. We don't have time to deal with these guys and we needed to make every second count to find that giant cannon. I twirled my spear and shot myself at them with Zoro and Sanji right behind me. We kicked their butts and ran off in different directions with a partner to find that giant cannon. Sanji and Usopp. Chopper and Nami. Vivi and that bird guy and…. Me and Zoro

As we ran I pondered for any potential places for a cannon to be kept. I dodged a few other skirmishes in the city, but it was distracting me from keeping an eye for a whole cannon. They obviously hid it well and any moron would know what the appearance of that huge hunk of metal. It has to be something… something… 6 minutes have passed and still noting. All I can think about these people ending their lives and Vivi continuing to suffer just because of that crappy suitcase. What would've happen if my home was in this state, I don't care about that royals, but the people in Fuusia village are great people, even the ones in the Gray Terminal have good ones.

"Wait…" He called out to me as if he something occurred to him.

We both skidded to a halt.

"Something's bothering me. He's aiming for the palace right?"

"Yep."

"He would need to be in full range without obstacles."

"Meaning it needs to be out in the open… somewhere where it will not miss. Could it be somewhere… high?"

"High… such as."

"Oh." My mouth formed into an o, indicating I had an idea. "Of course! He must be aiming from a higher range! Like the biggest place in the city."

"Makes sense, but where do we look?"

My eyes caught something as I was looking for something familiar. "THERE!" I pointed to a clock tower not too far from our spot.

"Right." He said as he started running…. left. Why is sense of direction this bad?

"IDIOT! " I grabbed him by his hand and dragged him toward the correct route. "This way moron."

"Don't insult me." He muttered. We continued running toward our destination while I continued to hold his hand. "You're treating me like a child."

I gave him a seductive smile. "Maybe I just love holding your hand."

His eyes and his mouth opened wide in a shocking manner. I laughed at his expense. It's hilarious. "Man you are shy."

"I'M NOT SHY!"

"Awweee, I won't tell!"

"Troublesome girl… you're not too hurt, are you?"

"Of course I am. At this point I'm just ignoring my body telling me to stop. You on the other hand look someone put you through a meat slicer."

"It felt like that… now come on, we have to go… and let go of my hand."

"I don't feel like it." I stuck my tongue out at him as we continued running.

-Ken's P.o.v.-

I got tired of the roof so I snuck away and tried to find a means to stop this fighting, because something here is causing it. I joined up with Tashigi and Miyako and we just happened to run into that woman. Yes, she was familiar and the grunt shouting her identity made it all to clear. It was Nico Robin, the notorious 8 year old that sunk 8 ships somehow. Now she's a smoking hot evil babe. I think she's evil, but how did an 7 or 8 year old destroy ships. Did she consume a devil fruit? Plus she had the king with her.

I stood silent as mouse talked to that woman. I noticed Nico seemed angry and annoyed. I would be too if I was chased since childhood. The king pleaded with us to not worry for him and help his country. How noble, most of them would only care for themselves and doom their worshippers. He earned my respect. She then used her ability to… sprout alot arms and break the bones of a few of our men.

That's it? That's the power she used to destroy the ships? I expected something similar to Whitebeard's power, but this? Multiple arms? There's no way she could've done something with that power as a kid. Of course there is the other reason and the Government exploded things out of proportion to make her a devil girl. She was from Ohara, the island of scholars and that got wiped off the map by a method that's… dumb… but… anyway. They were against the government and had the potential to shake the world at its core. They could read those tablets that have a location of those supposed deadly weapons used long ago. Yeah, that's the reason why she is so dangerous.

My heart skipped a beat when she told us about a cannon being used to shoot at the palace soon in 7 minutes.

"Damn," I cussed. "That's not enough time to search all over the city and dismantle it."

"You better use your time and not find me." Nico Robin glared. "Go or do you want to die here.

I turned toward Miyako. "Miyako, Tashigi, take everyone and find that cannon. I'll stay here."

"No." Tashigi glared at me. "You need my help."

"Fine, Miyako?"

The redhead saluted and led the men away while we dealt with Nico Robin. Only this time she became even more ticked off. Did she want us to leave her alone? So I dashed at her quickly, but unfortunately she managed to use her power to subdue me and Tashigi and beat the crap out of us. Then she left us to lick our wounds. What the hell? A killer like her should have ended us, but she didn't. She doesn't look the type to leave loose ends since her track record told me otherwise.

Then Crocodile approached us and I embraced myself for death, but all he did was mock us. Called losers and told us to back to HQ and be with Justice. After he left I never felt more angry and vengeful than I ever felt before. All I could think about how much I wanted to kill him or better yet kick him all the way to Impel Down. I firmly believe, possibly making a wild accusation, that he set up this stupid war for his own amusement. But Nico is here and she can read those giant stone tablets. So is there one here? Did they do this just to read a bunch of forbidden words?

As we were picking ourselves up we felt another person approach us. It was Strawhat Luffy and he looked pissed. He must have fought somebody by the look of him, but he looked ready for more.

"Where's Crocodile? Tell me where he is"

"Why?" I narrowed his eyes.

"SO I CAN KICK HIS ASS!"

I blinked and gazed into his eyes. He was dead serious about that claim… whether it's true or not, but this kid is going up against a longtime veteran, but he did fight 3 of the toughest in East Blue. I don't know if I should send the fool to an early grave, but my gut told me the opposite. It told me to let him go and finish the fight. My gut never led me astray before…

"There!" I heard Tashigi spoke. He ran in the direction where Crocodile went. I didn't do a thing; all I did was watch him run off practically facing death. Nice knowing you idiot.

"So." I said as I stared at my partner. "You think he can or…"

"Doesn't matter what happens. We have to find that bomb. Maybe he can or can't. The fact is we try to help. Besides I think he can."

I nodded and we both took off running. I take one last look where he ran and I felt as if I believe he can win this too. I don't know why, he's a pirate, but not a typical one…. Not yet at least... or... eh. So why not root for the outlaw for once?

-Anya-

Zoro and I made it to the building and ran 8 floors before stopping. We stopped for bit to rest until we heard everyone familiar voices yelling from the outside. It was the gang, they must've figured out the same thing. We both peered and saw everyone below, except for Sanji. He was three floors below and yelling at Zoro for being higher than he was.

The two bickered before I yelled at them stop and focused. I barely had any energy left and I longed to sleep and eat, but that wasn't the best thing right now. I pushed that aside once more to hear about the plan to bring Vivi up to the top. Chopper, Zoro, and Sanji were needed for it to work. I decided to walk down stairs to join the others.

The plan was for Chopper to shoot himself up with Vivi in tow and then throw her toward Sanji who would launch her to Zoro where he would continue the trend until she made it up the clock tower. I wanted to do it, but Zoro told me go meet the others. I merely grunted and left. I finally reached outside in time to see Zoro fall to the ground. I gazed upward anticipating what happened next. Moments later I witnessed two figures, fall out and onto the ground in front of us. They were only Baroque agents. No biggie… I think they need a psych evaluation after this because they dressed like frogs

Vivi successfully defused the cannon and all was well. No it wasn't. That crap headed croc put in a failsafe to change the cannon into a bomb that's going to explode if we don't find some way to defuse that. We're all tired and there's no way Vivi can stop this. There's no way to die in a pathetic way like this. I cursed the crap head's name just before that bird guy swopped in.

He and Vivi communicated with each other… and then carried the bomb to the sky. That idiot… he's sacrificing himself for his kingdom. Noble, but what about Vivi? Vivi is going to cry even more, she's losing someone important. She lost Igaram and now another important figure in her life. I don't want to see her crying, I don't want to see her miserable.

He ascended further and further until we couldn't see him no more. I watched the sky with a lump in my throat and felt goosebumps on my skin. Each second in the sky felt like an eternity.

Until the sky erupted in a burning fireball.

The explosion danced across the sky and emitted such a force so powerful it felt as if the gravity became our enemy and knocked us down to keep us from moving. The good thing is that the powerful wind knocked every single fighter off their feet to keep them from fighting

As we came to, we turned out attention to the sky. I watched, expecting him to return as if he let go at the last second and flew as fast as he could to avoid the explosion. Who am I kidding? No one could survive that. I placed my hand to my face and started crying. Again, I had to watch some die in front of me and I was helpless to stop it. I couldn't save Sabo because I was too young and weak and I could not stop Vivi's friend from sacrificing himself because Crapcroc outsmarted us. Just….what good is being strong if you fail to protect? Why the hell did I put all that training if I can't stop somebody from being killed? Damn it.

"He…. Why?" I heard Sanji croak at what the fruit user had done.

"He… sacrificed himself… for Vivi… for this country." I heard Nami speak.

We all remained that way until a shout from Usopp alerted us to something even more horrifying. The fighters, anyone and everyone participating in this war, were getting up after being knocked down by the explosion. One person slowly and eagerly raising their sword high and yelled with a bloodthirsty cry.

This started a chain reaction through every rebel and Royal guard in this city. Each and every one of them started to gather up the will and strength they had to resume fighting this… this… dumb war again. ARE THEY OUT OF THEIR MINDS! They nearly got killed, but they resume after an aftershock knocked them away. Fighting and fighting and fighting, that's all I see out there. A senseless stupid war caused by some pathetic reptile.

"STOP! PLEASE!" I heard Vivi's voice cry out from above and all I can do is look up to see a girl around my age plead for her people to stop. "STOP FIGHTING! STOP IT!" She repeated over and over again, but it fell on deaf ears. Every single one of them were so in tuned to fight for the sake of their country, for their ideals, their bloodlust, that they cannot hear a girl who infiltrated an organization to stop this very thing from happening.

"Guys…" I heard Nami choke. She rushed toward Zoro and pushed him forward. "We have to stop them." She had tears in her eyes. "Go." She pushed Zoro, I and the others forward to stop as many people as we can from fighting.

That's what we did for who knows how long. I went to the nearest and pounced on them while trying to hold him down, he cursed up a storm and called me some words that kind of offended me, but I didn't care, I gave him a head-butt and resumed on to the next person. This wasn't going to work, but each person we knock is another person living…. Right? We just gotta keep doing until something happens.

"Guys look!" I heard someone speak and pointed at a body flying through a destroyed building. Upon closer inspection and good eyesight we realized it was.

"CROCODILE?!" We all said at the same time.

If that's him… Luffy… he won. YES! HE WON! HE WON! He sent that bastard packing with a punch.. no multiple punches… a storm of them. I wish I had seen it. But sadly the people in front of me continued fighting as if nothing happened. That should've done it. Luffy beating crocodile should've ended this farce. So w… huh? I thought I felt water…. and another drop. I looked to the sky and saw a rain cloud beginning to form. Then it started to pour little by little. I looked across the battle field as it continued to pour. These idiots were just noticing the rain and began to slow down their carnage.

Duh, this was all about the Dance Powder and not having any rain. The people thought the king was a tyrant by using this forbidden powder when he wasn't all along. Rain was the whole reason for this war so yeah they should slow down. The rain continued to pour as everything grinding to a halt.

"STOP FIGHTING!"

I smirked as these idiots were realizing Vivi existed. Each eye turned to her, recognizing she up there as they heard her commanding or pleading them to stop their fighting. They did just that as Crocodile fell on the ground in the middle of the battlefield. I chuckled at that and smiled at the royal friend.

This dumb war was over.

A/N: Things have interesting to say at least. There you have it, the oath. Took me awhile to come up with it and if it's not epic enough then I tried the best that I could with it.

Yes I had Anya pair up with Sanji when they were confronted by Bon Clay and Miss All- Saint's day. and didn't include Eyelash riding in along with them. Let's say he was with Vivi and Carue as they made their trek to the palace where both animals got separated from her.

Miss All-Saint's Day aka Liz the Ripper. I kind of made her combination of Jack the Ripper and Lizzie Borden. There was rhyme about Borden giving her mother 40 whacks.

Did Pell die for real? Wait until next chapter which will wrap up Alabasta.

Until next time.