"Now, you guys asked me about what the hell this paper is, right?" I asked back as I showed them Ace's Vivre Card and most of the Straw-Hats nodded in understanding.
"This," I pointed at the paper, "Is a Paper of Life." They 'ooh-ed' before nodding, looking back at the vivre cards that Ace gave them AKA my paper of life. "This in a special form of paper made in New World and made from part of a person's fingernail which is then made into paper."
"Now, look at this," I put the paper right in front of Flame and he breathed out fire, which making them gasped at the sight before the fire dies down, still revealing the paper fully with no burns. "It is completely fireproof and waterproof," I grinned before looking away a bit, "too bad there's no water here," I muttered before turning back to everyone.
"And look at this," I put the paper right on the crab's back and use my cap as a cover for the winds that kept blowing, they peeked closer and we saw that the paper slowly moving.
"It's moved!" Nami exclaimed.
"Isn't it because of the breeze?" Usopp asked.
"It's kinda hard to explain it to you guys when we're on the way to Alubarna and breezes are everywhere." I sighed as the wind blowing fast before looking back to where Luffy was before, "I wonder he will be okay…" I muttered before I felt a slight pain right in my stomach and I grunted in pain.
"E-Eri? Are you okay?" Nami asked in worry as she saw me in pain, "You look pale." She added.
"My stomach…" I breathed out as I gripped my stomach, "It hurts…" I added.
"What!?" I heard squeaky voice and footsteps before I felt furry hands on me to check me out. "Where does it hurt?" Chopper asked in worry.
"My stomach…" I replied as he lied me down and I curled in pain, still gripping my stomach, "It's like I've been stabbed right through from my stomach to my back by a hook." I added.
"But you don't seem to be bleeding," he said as he checked my stomach.
'Could it be… Luffy?' I thought as I started to worry about my baby big brother of mine and as I closed my eyes, I saw a picture of Luffy being stabbed by Crocodile using the hook before I opened my eyes again and the pain in gone. I sat up with blank face as the pain is gone and laughed nervously.
"What, the pain is gone." I pointed out and stretched out.
"What?" Chopper asked and I grinned at him.
"Thanks for checking me up, Chopper, you're the best." I told him and he started dancing as he denied that he's happy before he's back to the rein of the crab and I looked down with worried expression.
"Are you really okay, Eri-chan?" Vivi asked as she comforted me by stroking my back, I nodded.
"Yeah, I'll be fine." I replied with a weak smile.
"Zoro, you're only wasting energy." Nami pointed out and I saw that Zoro is making the camel on his sword as a weight. He snapped at him while Sanji-san is talking things before provoking the green head, which earning those two to fight again and stopped when Nami told them to by hitting both of their heads. I coughed when the smoke of Sanji-san's cigar blew over me and I hit his head for that, which he quickly apologized.
The others kept talking while I kept looking at the back in distance as the day got dark and I suddenly felt that I couldn't breathe. I coughed as I tried to breath and wheezing, kept struggling to breathe but no avail. The other who saw me quickly approached me and started to panic. I felt my head is starting to feel light and I saw stars in my eyes.
'So this is the 'Soul-Bond'?' I thought for the last time before I blacked out, earning panic cries from the others.
XXX
"Let's see. Even the A who still can't control their power fully yet, they still can feel their power through the 'Soul-Bond'. 'Soul-Bond' is a power that 'bonding' us with their 'bonds', such as families, friends, lovers, etc. that really close to them by showing them what happened to their 'bonds' such as the pain their close 'bonds' felt and flashes of what really is happened. These are usually only happened when their 'bonds' were receiving the event that endangered their life. Usually these will keep happening and will get more frequent when their 'bonds' are getting closer to them…"
"What, so this 'Soul-Bond' thing is like a vision of what really happened of someone or some people that close to us and can also feel their pain that got them badly?" I asked in confusion as I read the book. "It's kind of a pain in the ass, don't you think, Takao?" I asked to my partner, who is busying himself by feeling the breezes that brushed off his feathers.
"Well," Takao started as he turned to look at me, "I think it's really convenient." He replied.
"Why is that?" I asked back.
"Because that way, we could feel and saw what really is happened to them while we're away, so we could go and save them as fast as we could." He answered, "Do you understand now, Ojou-sama?"
"Oh." I turned my attention back to the book as my eyes twinkling slightly at the thought of saving our 'bonds' before I remembered all of my trio brothers, who aren't here right now as they left for hunting along with Flame, before smiled softly.
"I guess you're right…"
XXX
"Ngg…" I groaned softly as slowly I opened my eyes and slowly sat up, which is surprising the others around me.
"What happened?" I asked as I rubbed my eye as a stray tear appeared in the corner of my eye.
"You just fainted a few minutes ago because of something! We should be the one that asking you 'what happened'!" Usopp exclaimed in worry.
"Is that so?" I replied as stretched myself up, "Just happening to get a hurting event from someone, just that." I said as I grinned.
"Haa?" Usopp stared at me in confusion, "I totally can't understand you at all…" he sighed and I giggled as I grinned before I grabbed his nose and pulled him closer to me.
"Nanda, are you saying that I'm a mystery?" I asked mischievously while he yelped in pain before I let go his nose as I laughed and slapped his back hard. "Why thank you! I'll take that as a compliment, Long-Nose~" I said as I smirked playfully.
Then I just realized that Takao is nowhere around us from the time we left from Rainbase earlier. I wonder where he is.
"Does anybody see Takao before we left?" I asked out loud.
"Now that you mention it, I haven't seen him after we separated ways earlier." Zoro pointed out as he kept doing what he did, "Isn't he goes with you, Vivi?" he asked to Vivi.
"Un," the princess shook her head, "He told me to go on ahead while he hold up the enemies." She explained. "I wonder…" she muttered.
"I see." I said before I saw ahead as I felt a large amount of water straight ahead of us. Sure enough, I saw a river right ahead us. "Oi, I saw a river in radius of 5 kilometers." I informed them, "What should we do? This Ero-Crab can't stand of water right?" I asked.
"Yes, 'Moving Crabs' are creatures of the sand." Vivi answered.
"WHAT!? THIS CRAB CAN'T CROSS WATER!?" Usopp exclaimed, face-faulted, "But it's a crab! I mean, come on!"
"If the crab can't make it to the other side, then we have to run." I said. "Crossing the river will take a day to get to the other side, that will be a waste of time and we only have 4 hours left to stop the war." I continued.
"Then what should we do!?" the others started panicking, "Do something, 'Scissor'!"
"Oh yeah! Scissor loves dancers!" Chopper informed. Then Nami took off her coat, revealing her dancer outfit.
"Like this?" she asked and then the Ero-Crab's eyes turned around to look at us.
"He's looking over here." Chopper and me said as we sweat-dropped.
And as expected, two other perverts (the ero cook and the ero camel) were also starting to 'mero-mero' over Nami, along with the crab that even adding the speed and the other two perverts fainted because of the 'ero power'.
"Perverts." I deadpanned as I rolled my eyes.
We kept going and the crab eventually crossing the river by running on top of it while everyone else seems surprised about this. This kept going until a quarter way of the river and the crab eventually started sinking down deep into the river.
"WE'RE SINKING!" Usopp exclaimed.
We quickly rose up from the river to the surface and started to swim forward. Then I felt something right in front of us and the thing resurfaced, revealing it as Sandora Rare Catfish.
"GYAAAAAAAAHH!"
"A Sandora Rare Catfish! Named because it's extremely rare!" Vivi informed us.
"WHO CARES ABOUT THAT!?"
"It also loves to eat humans!" Vivi exclaimed as most of us started swimming back in fear as the catfish about to chomp us down. But then a herd of kungfu dugongs came to save the day by beating the fish up. Then we climbed on the fish, using it as a boat while the kungfu dugongs pulling its' whiskers as we floated toward the other side.
"They said, 'we can't let our fellow students perish'." Chopper said.
"But, uh, it's not like we're Luffy's students or anything." Nami commented.
"At least we're alive." I said as I smiled in relief and squeezing out the water from my clothes while Flame burst out his fire to steam out the water from his furs.
An hour later, we finally arrive at the other side of the river.
"We're doin' good. Think we can make it in time!?" Zoro asked.
"I don't know. Even with Eyelash and Flame here, it will be tough!" Vivi said.
"But never forgets that these two can only hold two people each." I said.
"And from here on the Baroque Works will be trying to trap us!" Usopp exclaimed.
"Isn't there any way we can travel as an entire group?!" Nami asked before she spots something from afar. "Wait! Over there!" she exclaimed as she points ahead of us.
"What's that!? Enemies!? M-m-m-more of them!?" Usopp yelled in fear.
"No." I told him as I smirked and putting in a lollipop into my mouth. "It's just Carue and the 'Super Spot Billed Duck Squad', right?" I pointed out as the others looked closely, revealing it to the ducks.
"QUAAAACK!" Carue quacked as the ducks giving us salutes. The ran toward them and everyone was about to mount them, but I quickly stop them.
"Wait wait! Before we left, we should think of a plan!" I told them. "First, Baroque Works agents are spotting Vivi as their main target, right? That is, my friends, should be the main thing we should think about."
"Then what are you planning?" Zoro asked and my bangs shadowing my eyes completely as I smirked.
"Just leave everything to me!" I grinned as my eyes glinted with mischievousness.
XXX
"Heyheyheyheyheyheyhey! Thisokay!? Weokay!? Thosepiratesandtheprincessbetterarecoming!" Miss Merry Christmas exclaimed. "Icanalreadyheartherebels'battlecry!"
"Atthisrate,therebels'willgetherefirst! Didn'tthewanttostopthisbattle!?" she sighed.
"They probably just can't make it in time." Miss Double-Finger said, "They were in Rainbase for quite a while."
"What!? Youserious!?" Miss Merry Christmas replied while her partner saying something to them in a veeeeeerrry long sentence, which unfortunately quite ignored by the others.
"So… if the fighting starts first, what are we supposed to dooooo?!" Mr. 2 asked.
"We don't have to 'dooooo' anything. If the battle starts, not even the princess can do anything about it." Miss Double-Finger replied.
"All we have to do is kill the ones we were told to kill…!" Mr. 1 continued, "Can't okamas even understand that?" he asked, mocking the okama.
"I think you want a nice big taste of my okama kenpo! Hmmm!?" Mr. 2 growled.
"Oh please, just stop it." Miss Double-Finger said.
"AH! Back! Backhurts! Mr.4,amassagenow!" Miss Merry Christmas exclaimed while her partner tried to tell them something.
"Theyyyyyyyyy arrrrrrrrrreeeee coooooooommmm—" but before he could finish his sentence, he was cut off by his partner even though he kept continued his sentence.
"WHAT!? SPITITOUTAALREADY,YABIGFATSLOTH!" she yelled and snatched the telescope and saw it by herself in distance, "D… ducks!?" she exclaimed in disbelief.
"Ducks!? What do you mean, Miss Merry Christmas?" Miss Double-Finger asked.
"Therearetoomany! Sixof'em!" the other replied, "Without 'Straw-Hat', the list only said five people, right?!"
"No, Miss Merry Christmas. Didn't you listen to the boss? There's the 'Mr. Prince' guy, plus there could be more. So the numbers do work out." Miss Double-Finger replied.
"No matter how many more of them there are, our target is still the princess. Stop your chattering." Mr. 1 said.
"Look over there! I can see the rebels! There are so many! That princess is one loony loon if she thinks she can stop all of them!" Mr. 2 exclaimed as he saw the rebels before hr turned toward where the herd of ducks is, "And that loony look is coming from this direction! 'Ambiguous'!"
"Mr. 1…" Miss Merry Christmas called, "All we have to do is to get rid of the princess…? Alright, then why don't you tell me which one is Vivi?" she asked as her attention kept at the ducks, revealing that the riders are wearing the same cloaks that hiding their faces.
"Oh no! they're all wearing the same cloak!" Mr. 2 exclaimed in shock.
"And those birds are Alabasta's quickest, the 'Super Spot Billed Duck'!" Miss Double-Finger said.
"Damn! Now we can't tell who's Vivi…!"
"IT'S TOO 'AMBIGUOUS'!" Mr. 2 exclaimed.
"Get'em,Mr.4!" Miss Merry Christmas ordered her partner and he fired his bazooka toward the ducks, revealing the ammunition to be a baseball ball, which eventually a time bomb.
"Stay away from it!" one of the riders yelled and they dodged the bomb and kept continued their journey.
"They dogded! Those birds are fast!" Mr. 2 exclaimed.
"Two have broken off to the south! They're splitting up!" Miss Merry Christmas exclaimed as she saw two of the ducks splitting off from the others. "Those ones are going to the south gate. The south gate is straight where the rebels are headin'! So one of them is Vivi!?"
"Leave those two to us!" she exclaimed, "Let's go, Mr. 4!" she continued as they ran after the two.
"Hissatsu: 'Kaen Boshi'!" one of the riders exclaimed as he fired toward Mr. 1, which eventually hitting him straight and burning him while the other riders splitted off by two people each groups.
"Mr. 1! Two more split off that way! one of them could be Vivi!" Miss Double-Finger exclaimed. "They're going in the west gate." She added as she watched the group right at her right calmly.
"Damn…! Follow them!" Mr. 1 replied.
Then suddenly one of the last groups of the ducks eventually crashed into Mr. 2 and kept going toward south-west gate.
"3 of the 5 gates to Alubarna can be entered from the west! So they're going in separately! Same thing, we'll still kill them inside!" Miss Double-Finger said, finally figuring it out.
"You're not getting away from me now!" Mr. 2 exclaimed as his nose is bleeding before took off to run after them who crashed into him while the other two ran after the ducks that went past their right earlier also.
After a few minutes, the agents finally got their prey.
"Oooh, not too bad! Thanks for following us in!" one of the riders that being followed by Mr. 2 said.
"What!?" the okama replied in confusion.
Somewhere with the Mr. 1 pair, they also got their prey.
"Stop! Stop!" one of the riders exclaimed and the ducks stopped and turned around to face their predators. "You people are good at guessing! Yes, I am princess Vivi!" the person said.
"What the hell are—"another one said before the person stopped and clears their throat before continued their words with a little high voice, "In the world are you saying? I'm the real Vivi!"
Somewhere with the Mr. 4 pair, they also finally got their prey.
"I think this should be far enough." One of the riders said as they stopped and turned around to face their predators.
"Time to show you who we really are!" the riders exclaimed in the same time (even though in different places) as they threw off their cloaks, revealing their identities at once.
"Sorry, try again!" they said with different expressions at once that showed toward their predators.
Somewhere far from Alubarna, two figures in cloaks those riding two species of animals walked up from the boulder that hiding them earlier.
"We must Hurry, Vivi." One of the riders that eventually riding a fire wolf-dog hybrid said as the person jumped off the hybrid and took out a bisento with trident at the end of the staff. "The rebels will be here any minute now." The person continued while the hybrid snarled toward other two figures behind them.
"But Eri-chan…!" the other rider that eventually riding a big sized duck tried to protest but cuts off by the other.
"You want to save your country, don't you?" the person with the hybrid asked as they turned toward the other, "Now hurry and try to stop them." The person continued before looking back toward the other figures that coming toward them. "Let us stop those two before they kill you and the war will happen." The person added and by the words they said, it could be seen that the person is smiling.
"Saa! Go! Stop those rebels!" the person ordered the other, who nodded before took off after bid a good luck.
The person, pulled the cloak off and threw it away, revealing the person to be Eri and the hybrid as Flame.
"Zan'nen'na," Eri chuckled and swirled her weapon before pointing it toward the other two figures with her eyes changed into blood-red with slits, "It looks like you two are gonna stuck with us for a while…" she continued with evil smirk as shadows fell over her.
"Mr. 0, 5 and Miss Half-Day, I suppose, eh?" she said as the other two figures revealed as two of the agents.
"Two agents at once? It's like killing two birds with one stone…" she chuckled darkly.
XXX
"First, put on cloaks!" I commanded them and they obeyed. "Second, mounts the ducks!" they did what I said. "Lastly, you guys really looked the same with those cloaks." I grinned before turning to the ero-camel. "You, put on the cloak and mount the duck also!" I ordered him and he did it fast.
"Now, you guys look the same if you guys cover your face with the hoods of the cloaks." I grinned, "Then now one will know which one is Vivi while you guys ran toward Alubarna as you guys attracting the agents." I continued. "You guys will start splitting up after they got close to Alubarna by two people each groups. One toward west gate, another one toward south-west gate, and the last one toward south gate." I finished.
"As expected from the strategist, Eri-chwaaaan~!" Sanji-san swooned.
"She's taken already, Ero-Cook." Zoro told him.
"Then what about you?" Nami asked and I smiled.
"I'll go with Vivi along with Flame. Who knows something will happen to her while you guys attracting the agents, right?" I grinned. "Now, let's do this, minna." I said for the last time and put on my cloak before mounting Flame.
"TO ALUBARNA!" I battle-cried loudly.
"YEAH!"
XXX
I chuckled darkly, "I never thought that I could be this genius and badass." I grinned evilly as a small glint appeared.
"The princess is getting away, onee-chan." Mr. 0, 5 told his partner as he turned to look at her, "What should we do? Kill this woman and her dog first? Or goes straight to the princess?" he asked.
"Looks like we should kill her first, otouto." Miss Half-Day replied as her arms changed into scythe-like and a pair of green-and-transparent bug wings appeared on her back. "So there won't be any disturbances." She continued coldly.
Mr. 0, 5 grinned playfully at this, "Alrighty!" he replied before he put his opened palms on the sand surface and it started to glow for a moment. Then suddenly the sand under him started to make a shape like a golem-like as it stood up tall, the damned brat on top of the creature's head.
"Devil Fruits, eh?" I muttered as I saw their powers, "this gonna be interesting." I smirked before turning to the brat. "Oi, what DF did you eat?" I asked casually.
"I ate Paramecia Type DF," the boy said with childish but dark smile, "Pōn-Pōn no Mi, in other word, I'm a pawn man!"
Then I felt a fast movement rushed to me and I quickly jumped back, revealing it to be that green head girl tried to cut me up into small cubes with her scythe-like arms.
I landed on the sand softly on my feet as I pointed up my weapon blade toward the two while Flame snarled beside me, baring his fangs as his paws starting to be on fire, meaning he's extremely pissed off. Well, that brat sure calling Flame a dog, so not really a surprise.
I smirked, "Well," I started as I kept smirking, my blood-red eyes with dark slits eventually glinted with excitement and blood-lust, "This gonna be a looong fight." I continued before the four of us jumped toward our prey at once.
This is war!
A/N: YOOOOOOOOO! XD
Sorry for the late. I was busy this month (as I will do a semester exam later in the first of December) and I eventually waiting for the One Piece Manga to update so I could finish the story at the time One Piece is over. So I decided to update the story at least once a month, but it could be more than twice, fufu. *evil smirks*
(As it kept showing Law's past, not that I was complaining about it, no. I eventually was sad and angry about the fact that Traffy is called as 'White Monster' and Cora-san died. Damn you Odacchi! Why do you kept making me so sad!?)
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