"Ryuu no Kagidzume!" I exclaimed as I swung my blade toward the girl, who eventually dodged it with ease using those bug wings of her while Flame lunged toward the boy, who commanded his 'doll' to punched away the hybrid, who landed next to me on his paws.

"Damn, this gonna be interesting." I spat with a grin as I took off all of my outer clothes, revealing me wearing a white tee with green shorts before I jumped toward the girl, kicking her away fast as she skidded away a few meters, causing the sands around her to cloud up.

"I guess fighting using kairoseki weapon will be cheating," I said as I threw away my weapon before ran toward the girl as I used my haki on both of my arms before we started attacking at each other using our arms.

"IRON FIST!" I punched her away right on her chin, upper-cut her. Not giving a chance to her to stand up properly, I ran again toward her and kicked her side with my right foot, kicking her away. This time I waited for her to stand up again as I kept readying my fists and my haki to detect her while the sands blocking my sights to her. I felt she stood up and jumped towards me fast, her scythe-arms lunged toward me.

I crossed my arms to my face, still using haki, as her arms clung to my arms and we face-to-face. I saw her dead fish eyes sparkled with annoyance as we glared at each other. I warded away her arms before we attacked to each other again, using our arms or feet. This apparently started to piss me off, not to mention the strong heat of the desert started to get me, so I kicked her away again a few meters as I panted heavily. I felt my head is starting to feel light and I felt blood started to trail down from my nostrils.

Damn, this is why I hate heat. Every time I did something heavy, like running fast for a full ten minutes or more, I will get a nosebleed. I brushed away the blood as she stood up again and we attacked to each other again, but this time the heat is truly got me as I kept getting slashes from her attacks before she kicked me away, skidding me toward the sand that made small clouds of sands.

I coughed before I brushed away the blood again that kept trailing down from my nose. I stood up again before I ran toward where the girl is, I divided my right hand's fingers into Asian dragon's talon-like as I coated them with haki before my slashed her face hard, with made her flew away as a clear two short claw marks appeared on her left cheek that started to bleed before she landed on the sands with big puff as clouds of sands appeared as she landed.

"I never thought I'll use this one," I muttered as I saw my right hand, that still forming dragon's talon before I put them back to normal. "I felt like an asshole to scar that pretty face of yours." I said as I saw her sat up and wiped away the blood from her new wounds without any expression.

"No one cares about it anyway." She replied as she stood up, "I gave away my humanity for the sake of my brother's and my life after those pirates kidnapped us." She continued.

"You were kidnapped?" I asked in confusion, "yet you still work with that Alligator, who is obviously a pirate even though he works with the World Government?"

"He saved us," she replied as her arms formed to scythes, "and he gave us a reason to live as he recruited us as agents and bounty hunters after we ate our DF that gave by those pirates that got us, forcibly." She continued before she lunged at me, which I quickly hold it back as I crossed my arms in front of me using haki.

"And now, to repay his effort to raise us up, we must kill all of you and that princess of the country." She finished as we face-to-face before she kicked my stomach fair and square as I skidded away a few feet, thankfully I could protect my stomach area using haki despite I still using it on my arms. Then suddenly I heard a loud whine and I turned my head. I saw that Flame was strangled by the sand 'doll' while the brat was laughing maniacally.

"FLAME!" I yelled before I ran toward him and the brat (along with the 'doll') and quickly kicked the brat right on the face, making the brat to flew away and the 'doll' started to crumble back into sands, releasing Flame away. I approached him as I checked any heavy injuries on him while he coughed hard (or looked like coughing).

"You okay?" I asked in concern as he sat up and on four before he glared at me, meaning that I interrupted his fight. "Fine, you're perfectly fine, whatever you are." I replied as I rolled my eyes before I stood up, facing my enemy as she assisted the brat, or her brother as she said.

"Kuso! How dare you kick my face away!" the brat yelled as he sounded so pissed off. "That is just a warm-up! Now play time is over!" he exclaimed before he slammed his palms on the sands that started to glow before many 'dolls' from the sands were formed around us. Thankfully my weapon is right beside me so I took it as the 'dolls' were lunged toward us. I brought up my weapon in the air before I started circling it fast in my hands, which slowly making a small circling winds.

"Ryuu no Toppu (Dragon's Gust)!" I exclaimed as I gripped the staff before I twirled in a full circle fast, causing a strong gust of wind to wipe away the 'dolls' of sands and made them crumbled back into sands. The brat cursed at this before he did it again, but this time using the huge stone near him. The stone slowly started to reform from the usual stony form into golem like, but this one is pretty bigger and muscular than the previous ones.

"Kamin' Holem!" the brat called, which I assumed the stony's name as the thing turned to him, "Go kill them!" he commanded. The golem turned toward us and we prepared for any attacks, until the golem suddenly sighed and sat down on the sand, refused to do what the brat's ordered it about.

"Wha—come on! There's no time for this!" the brat whined as he ran toward the golem and started pulling its' hand, "Come on! We have to kill them first then the princess!" he exclaimed again. But no avail, the golem refused to do so as it turned it's' head away and huffed, which of course causing the brat to jump up and down at this. The two of us sweat-dropped at the sight while the greeny girl face-palmed.

"It seems I should do this by myself first." The girl said as her arms changed into scythes, "You can join me later after you succeed to persuade it to obey your command, Mr. 0, 5." She continued while her partner replied with a grunt as he pulled the golem's hand hard.

Then she lunged toward us and I was about to hold her arms up, only stopped by a circling fire that lunged toward the girl and the girl flew away back a few feet before she's back to her feet, some burn marks on her. Then the circling fire landed right in front of me, revealing it to be Flame.

Then he glanced at me with a look and I immediately understood at the look. I nodded, "Alright, if you say so." I replied before I walked away from him before both Flame and the girl started their fights. Then I turned my attention back to the brat and the huge golem, who was still refused to obey the brat before its' supposed 'eyes' landed on me. We just stared at each other before the golem finally stood up, causing the brat to fall on the sand before he stood up again, boasting with excitement.

"Alright! You finally heard me!" he exclaimed before he turned to me, "Now, go kill her!" he ordered and the golem roared loudly, making me to cover my ears at the loudness before my nosebleed is back. I cursed lightly as the golem ran toward me and I wiped off the blood before quickly jumped away as the golem tried to punch me with its' huge, stubby hand. The golem was surprisingly fast despite its' huge and heavy appearances before it roared at lunged toward me once again, this time it got me as it punched me away hard, making me flew away fast and landed right on the other rock around us.

I coughed out blood as I slowly pulled out from the rock by the gravitation that eventually shaping into my form and landed on the sand hard, making me grunted in pain as I felt my back head is starting to bleed and from my forehead also. I pushed myself up and coughed out blood, while the brat laughing happily at my current condition.

"Finally! I bet that's gonna slows her down a bit! Come on, did it again until she's dead!" he exclaimed in happiness, which replied with a groan by the golem. I looked up as the golem slowly approaching my and brought me up using its' hands before it slowly tried to crush me in it's' hands. I groaned in pain as I slowly felt that some of my bones are starting to crack up. I screamed in pain as I felt my some of my ribs started to snap, which eventually making the golem stopped by unknown reason. I coughed out blood as I wheezed slowly, my sights started to flicker out as the golem put me down on the sands slowly, which eventually making the brat yelled at it in confusion.

I grunted in pain as I felt an intense pain from my sides' right where my ribs are. I bet some of my ribs are broken or fractured. But I pushed myself up and slowly on my feet, my arms holding my sides as I looked up at the golem, who just watching at me with its supposedly 'eyes' blankly. I walked slowly toward where my weapon is and took it, gripping it hard before I jumped toward the golem, ignoring the immense pain from the broken ribs.

"Ryuu no Setsudan O!" I exclaimed as I cut the golem off in half, my eyes shadowed by my bangs as the golem was sliced off and landed on the sands with loud boom and big puff of sand clouds. I landed safely on my feet before I used my weapon to help me stand up properly.

"Sorry…" I muttered softly, my bangs shadowing my eyes, "I'll pay you off by beating that brat up." I continued before I looked up, with new determination in my eyes as I gripped my weapons and looked at the brat right in the eyes, which making him flinched a bit in fear.

"You should know that those 'pawns' of yours aren't just a mere 'pawns'," I told him sharply, "They have 'souls'. Having 'souls' meaning they're 'alive'. Just because you gave them 'lives' doesn't mean you could order them to do whatever you want." I continued as I walked closer to him. "They may be your 'pawns', but they're still have 'souls' and 'freedoms'. You should know that you can't order them freely just like the golem that attacked me, right?" I pointed out as I'm right in front of him, making him stared at me in fear.

"If I were you, I'll treat them like my nakamas, not some kind of tools!" I yelled before I kicked him away far. Sure, he may be a kid, but doesn't mean that I will give him any pity. Enemy is enemy, doesn't matter how old, how weak, how strong, how tall they are, they're still enemy. Ignoring the pain from my ribs, I approached the brat again and pulled him closer to my face by grabbing his shirt.

"Listen to me you brat! Those 'pawns' of yours aren't tools! They're nakamas! Sure, they may be followed your orders, but doesn't mean you could pushed them around to do your orders! If they refused to do so, then don't push them to do so! Just because you gave them 'lives', you could order them freely at your will!" I yelled, "Devil Fruit aren't just giving you awesome powers and use it to fight, but also giving you a lifetime grief and responsibility! That DF power of yours won't disappear unless you're dead! So use that power to do something positive, not negative!" I continued, which making him trembled in fear and his eyes started tearing up before I let got my hold of his shirt, letting him fall on the sands.

"Now, where are we?" I asked slowly as half of my face was shadowed and smirked slowly, "Should we finish this fist-to-fist?" I asked as I walked back a few steps and bringing up my haki-coated fists. He gritted his teeth before he stood up as well, readying his fists.

"So you mean that I should treat them like friends?" he asked.

"Is there another thing in my obvious words?" I replied as I smirked.

We lunged at each other and exchanging punches and kicks at each other for a long period of time, probably around a minute or two. For a brat, his kicks and punches sure are hurt. And he's fast. But then he kicked me right on my left ribs, which making me grunted in pain and coughed out blood as I landed on the sands. I kept coughing before I'm on my feet again and wiped off the blood from the corner of my mouth.

"This won't last long." I said as I readied my fists with haki and lunged at him, which slightly caught him in surprise. "Because I'll finished you here and right now!" I exclaimed.

"Get a taste of Garp-jii's 'Fist of Love'!" I exclaimed as I hit him right on top of his head, which fortunately making him fainted at the immense pain from the punch and landed on the sand. I panted slightly as I landed on my knees, coughing blood lightly. At the same time, a loud explosion was heard from afar and I turned to see what it is.

Apparently, it was Flame and the girl, which probably already finished as I saw the girl landed on the sand hard, burns were here and there and she's unconscious. I was slightly pity at the girl for tasting a hot fire fresh from Flame. It was really a nasty and not a good thing to taste, apparently.

::FAR WEST SIDE OF ALUBARNA BATTLE::
::WINNER: ERICA & FLAME'S TEAM::
::PRIZE: A LITTLE UNDERSTANDING::

Then I heard another explosion from afar, but this time not from Flame, it's from Alubarna.

So the war is already started?

As Flame approaching me with body full of cuts, he licked my cheek to get my attention. I turned and petted him before I turned to our now unconscious enemies. Sure, they may be enemies, but they're lost now. Maybe it would be a great idea to bring them along to the city. So maybe after these all over, they'll get a treatment from someone and they could live here as normal citizens, as not many people knew them, right? Right.

"Come on Flame, grab these two and let's go to the city." I told him as I stood up and took my weapons as I took off the blades and put them into the cases before slipping my baton length bo staff into my belt. He actually protested but obeyed it too in the end. I put the children on his back and we walked toward the city quite fast, but not fast enough to make the children fell from Flame's back. After we arrived right in front of the city's gate AKA the stairs, we met with Chopper and Usopp that was wrapped in bandages like mummy.

"Ooi! Minna!" I called as we approached them, making the turned to us.

"Ooh! Eri! Flame!" Chopper called back as we stopped in front of them, "Are you alright?" he asked in concern as he saw our bloody features before his eyes landed on the figures on Flame's back, which making him quickly backed away frantically. "A-and who are them!? Enemies?!" he asked frantically.

"What!? Enemy!?" Usopp joins in.

"Well, previously, yeah they are." I replied and sat down on the sand slowly, winced a bit at the movement that cause the pain resurfaced again. "But anyway, can you treat them, Chopper? And don't forget us too." I asked him.

"B-but what if they attacked us!?" Usopp asked frantically.

"Oh come on, we can just practically kick them in their shins, it's no big deal." I replied calmly, "Besides, they're out cold now, so don't worry." I continued.

"But are you sure about this, Eri?" Chopper asked in concern, "They may be injured, but they're still our enemies."

"They're unconscious now, so worry not." I replied with a grin and he nodded.

"If you say so." He replied before he checked on Flame, me and the other two before he started treating us. He started telling us about our injuries, but I could be careless cause I don't understand a thing of what the hell is he saying. Right after he finished, Sanji-san came to us, all bloody, along with the Ero-Camel.

"Eri-chwaaaaan~~! I'm glad you're alriiiiightt~~~!" he swooned as he saw me, which making sighed at the sight.

"Yes, yes, whatever." I replied.

"Oi, Usopp." Sanji-san called as he threw something to Usopp, who caught it and revealing it as his goggles. The long-nosed teen looked so happy at it before he put it on himself, only revealing as one of the goggles fell off and he yelled at Sanji-san at that.

"What? You should be grateful that I brought it back." The cook replied without any care. Then he helped Usopp up and put him on the camel's back while Chopper on the camel's head. Sanji-san was holding the girl while Flame was taking the brat on his back. We walked into the city while Usopp is crying.

"Why are you crying like that?" Sanji-san asked.

"Who's crying? One who says the other is crying is the real one crying!" the teen replied.

"Nani?"

"It's because… that damn mole…" Usopp paused for a bit, "She said Luffy… was already dead!" he exclaimed.

I quickly hit his head for that, which earning a loud yell from the small doctor and a loud pained yell from the long-nosed.

"If Luffy was dead, then I'll know it fast, baka." I replied sharply. "Besides, if he's dead, I'll able to feel it." I continued. "Do you think he's dead?" I asked back.

"Of course not!" he replied.

"Then there's no problem, right?" I smiled a bit. "Let's talk about everything else after all of these. First we must go to the palace to see if Vivi is fine." I continued and the others nodded as we kept walking fast toward the center of the city, one time Usopp slipped off from the camel's back and fell onto the ground, which making the others to help him up again.

After a while, we finally arrived at the center of the city, where the war resides. The heavy ironic smell of bloods and heavy smell of gunpowder are everywhere. Iron clashing with each other, loud sounds of guns that were shot, and cries of war and in agony, are everywhere. It was totally a chaos. I was slightly shook up at the situation, making me all remember about the Summit War in the future later.

Loud sounds of blades clashing at each other; the loud explosion from the cannons; heavy smell of gunpowder; people screaming in agony that either from pirates or marines; nasty ironic smell of bloods; battle cries from either pirates or marines; and loud cry of deep sadness from Luffy.

I was so preoccupied at the thought as I didn't realize that my breath was getting shorter and shorter and I eventually started wheezing, suddenly got a panic attack. I fell on my knees as I still busy at my thought of the Summit War, not realizing Chopper's panic cries and the other's surprised cries. I finally snapped out of the thought after Chopper shook me back and forth hard in his Heavy Point in panic expression.

"Eri! Snap out of it!" he exclaimed as I finally regain my conscious.

"Ch-Chopper…?" I asked softly.

"It's okay, don't panic. We're here, snap out of it." he said softly as I hugged myself.

"…yeah… I'm fine, I'm perfectly fine…" I muttered softly and closed my eyes, trying to calm down slowly and I felt Chopper's hand on my back, making circles to sooth me. "This is not Summit War… no one gonna die… Ace and Luffy will still be alive… they won't die…" I shuddered at the thought of Ace died in Luffy's arms, bloods on the rubber man's palms and dripping out from Ace's hole wound and splattered out on the stony floor as he fell onto the floor after he slipped off from Luffy's arms.

I took a deep breath before sighing, calming myself down before felt both Zoro and Nami were running nearing us and eventually right beside us. Those two talked to the others while I finally able to calm myself down and finally on my feet again.

"Alright, I'm calm now." I said in new determination and huffed as I smiled softly before turning to the others, "Well, what should we do now?" I asked until suddenly a sandstorm was picked up right in the middle of the war, which most likely that Alligator's doings.

"That stupid Alligator…! How dare he do this…!" I growled as I heard cries in agonies from afar, along with gunshots, before I heard Vivi's loud cries from the top of the palace and looked up, the loud battle cries from both rebels and royal armies' sides were heard again, along with loud sounds of blades clashing to each other and gunshots.

"Vivi-chan…" I bit my bottom lip at this as I closed my eyes before opening it again. Then suddenly I saw Vivi was hold up by the damned Alligator right on her neck, across the rail of the palace at the top, about to make her fell straight into the war if he let go of his grip. Goddamnit! After Luffy beat him to a pulp, I'll give him the finishing touch!

Then just like I just thought earlier, the damned Alligator turned himself into sands and eventually making Vivi free fall into the war, which making almost all of us called her name loudly. But then I felt two familiar presences from the air right on top of where the war resides.

I saw a flash of navy blue and red right on the air as a big falcon with white robe soared in the sky as someone shout out Alligator's name and eventually got Vivi before she fell straight into the war, revealing the flash of navy blue and red as Takao and Luffy, who got Vivi in his arms. Most of the Straw-Hats cheered as they saw Luffy who got Vivi in his arms. I smiled softly at the sight before I saw Luffy propelled his arms onto the top of the palace while we ran toward them.

"Minna… you're all here!" Vivi said as she saw us and I hugged Takao hard as I finally see him again, which earning a pained yelped from him and I just realized his bandaged wings.

"Yep, we're here!" I replied with a grin before turning to Takao, "What happened to your wings?" I asked.

"Nico Robin got me." he replied shortly and that short answer immediately made me burst out in flames of fury.

"How dare she…!" I growled in fury, which quickly cold off by Takao saying it's no big deal, as long he didn't use his wings, he'll be fine. I huffed, "Doesn't mean I'll forgive her easily." I said.

"Sorry guys, I lost to that guy once…" we heard Luffy said and we all turned to see Luffy. "So this time I can't lose…" he continued.

"If you can't win, who can!?" Usopp yelled at him.

"Hurry up with it…" Zoro said softly while the rest of us just smiled at these.

"I'll finish it now… all of it!" Luffy declared as he glanced at us.

"ALRIGHT!" we exclaimed in sync at this before Luffy launched himself to where the damned Alligator is.

"Minna!" Vivi called and we turned to saw her, "There's bomb somewhere in the city! Please help me found it and stop it before it explode!" she said. "Or else the bomb will wipe Alubarna along with the people in the city!"

"Bomb, eh?" I echoed back, "So we're gonna play hide and seek with the bomb? Damn, this gonna be a dangerous game I ever played." I continued as I put in a candy into my mouth.

"B-BOMB!?" Usopp yelled in fear, "YOU MEAN THERE'S BOMB SOMEWHERE IN THE CITY!?"

"Apparently, she just said that, thank you Mr. Obvious." I deadpanned before turning back to Vivi, "Sure, why not?" I challenged her as I smirked, "This will be a great gamble." I added evilly.

This is a gamble between our life and the country's!

A/N: heya minna. I'm so tired right now cause it's right in midnight here, so sorry if there's some errors here and there. Not to mention Monday I'll get a semester exam, and I haven't read any of the subject later in Monday. Damn. So I decided to submit a chapter before I fight with my exams.

And for those who guessed that the children from the Fish-Ossan in HIrox-kun's Special Chapter are the Mr. 0, 5's pairs, you're correct! XD

Seriously though, how did you know that!? Are you by any chance a psychic!? *le-gasm*

Reviews!

For gamelover41592: Thanks! XD Yep, Soul-Bond is kind of important, but not that important though. It's just telling Eri-chan on how her 'bonds' are doing, like Ace when he's drowning in the riverbank because he was chased around (if you don't know, search for Ace's Great Blackbeard Search. It's like a short story in the manga as the cover. Go read it! It was hilarious!).

For Guest1: Hmm… I'll think about it! Thanks for the thought!

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