Broken Log Pose

by tmb1112

The Straw Hat crew finds themselves with a broken Log Pose on the middle of the Grand Line. They are forced to wander until they come across a strange island with the Kingdom Hearts characters on it. Destiny Islands. Starts at the beginning of Kingdom Hearts One, and right after Alabasta for One Piece.

17. Chapter 17

Chapter 17:

"So where are we going?" Usopp asked the girl leading their ragtag group down the sidewalk. They all looked terrible with soot still covering their clothes.

The pig with the girl up front looked back at them. "You mean you didn't come here for the tournament?" Oolong asked.

"Another tournament?" Nami questioned with a sigh.

"The World's Martial Arts Tournament," Bulma said, looking back at the group following her. "I'm sure you've heard of it, even if you are from 'Far Away.'" She said, quoting Sora and looking at the kid skeptically after saying it.

Sora laughed sheepishly and looked away, starting to whistle so he could avoid the question. "Let's just pretend like we don't know what it is, wanna explain it to us?" Sora asked, glancing back to Bulma with a small smile.

The blue haired girl sighed. "Where'd you guys come from? Space?" She asked and laughed at her own joke.

"Haha, ha, haaa," Usopp laughed along and a few of the others put on big smiles to make it seem like it was a real funny joke and not the truth.

"You guys really don't know?" The blue haired teen asked, looking around at them all. She sighed and looked back forward, before starting "Every three years, the strongest fighters all over the world gather together to see who's the strongest of them all. This year is the twenty second WMAT."

"WMAT?" Luffy asked in confusion.

"World's Martial Arts Tournament," Bulma said in exasperation. "It's an acronym," she said, seeing that Luffy had no clue why she called it a bunch of letters first.

"Acro-what?" The pirate asked her.

Bulma stared at the idiot for a few seconds then sighed. "Not another one," she mumbled. She turned forward and saw some people down the road who waved over to her. "Alright, we made it back to the stadium. Good catch there Oolong," Bulma said to the pig walking with her.

"Yeah, we sure got lucky stumbling on these schmucks," Oolong said sarcastically.

His tone wasn't appreciated by the travelers behind him. They were distracted though by the calls coming from the people Bulma was waving at. One of them ran towards her and despite looking like just a little kid with a shaved head, he ran really fast. The boy ran up to them and when they could see him better they saw he had six dot-shaped scars on his forehead.

The kid wearing a blue suit and matching snazzy blue hat looked around at the people Bulma brought. "Who are these guys?" The kid asked in a high-pitched voice, showing his short stature wasn't the only thing that was stunted. "And have you seen Goku?" The kid asked the people behind Bulma.

"He's still not here?" Bulma asked worriedly. She looked over towards the walls surrounding the WMAT building. There was a desk in front of the entrance and the monks were still sitting behind it which meant the sign in sheets were still out. "If he doesn't hurry, he's going to miss the cut off time."

"I'm sure Goku will be here," someone said behind Bulma and her short friend. "Krillin, why don't you go look around for him?"

The little kid with a bald head under his hat nodded and ran off, picking up dust as he did. The man who walked forward and sent Krillin away was wearing a black suit, top hat, and sunglasses. He looked very old from his cane and white facial hair, but for some reason, Luffy, Smoker, and Usopp all got the feeling that this was a very impressive old man.

Walking forward next to the old man was a taller, more muscular, and much younger man with short black hair. He had on a similar blue suit as the kid who just ran off. "I'm worried Goku isn't going to make it," Yamcha said, sounding nervous just like the rest of them.

"Is this Goku guy really strong?" Nami asked, raising her eyebrows at the people in front of her.

"Really strong?" The tall man asked in disbelief. "Haven't you heard of him? Goku was the runner up of the last tournament!"

"Sounds impressive," Robin said.

"You know what's more impressive?" The old man spoke back up, stepping forward closer to Nami and Robin. "The man who taught Goku," he smiled wide at the ladies' amazed looks. You've got 'em Roshi. Time to seal the deal! "And, you know what's even more impressive?" He asked, leaning forward and raising his hands towards the women's chests, drool coming out of his mouth.

"You old perv!" Bulma shouted, jumping forward and bashing the old man on top of his head, giving him a much worse nosebleed than the one he already had. She left him lying on the floor and looked up at the teenager around her age and the older woman. "Sorry about him," Bulma said, though she didn't seem too focused on her apology. She was much too worried that Goku wasn't going to show up in time. Once she actually looked at the other two women though, she saw there was no need for her to step in at all from the expressions on their faces. She had probably just saved Roshi actually.

"Five minutes until sign ups are over!" A bald man sitting behind the desk over near the entrance shouted.

"Oh no!" Bulma shouted, looking around for her friend.

As she spun around her head, her eyes bulged at the sight of the entrance to the WMAT. There was now a line stretching four people back from the desk. She spun back in front of her and saw the orange haired teenager face-palming as there were four empty spaces around her now where her friends used to be.

"Hold on there," Yamcha called over to the others who just ran on line. Usopp was second in line and turned to see the muscular guy in an orange gi walking his way. Yamcha pointed at him and said, "He seems fine to enter, but the rest of you should think about this first." He looked at the two skinny teens and the weird dog-person who also didn't look very strong.

"That's right," Master Roshi said, suddenly recovered from his head wound before. "If you are not prepared to get seriously hurt, then you should not-"

"Don't worry about us," Sora assured the two men from his spot third in line.

Goofy stood behind Sora with a happy smile on his face, and the dog leaned forward and put Sora in a friendly headlock. "That's right hyuck! Sora here has the Keyblade."

"Weapons aren't allowed in the tournament," Yamcha mentioned.

The knight with a shield and the Keybearer both went wide-eyed. "What if the weapon is part of his body?" A voice asked and Yamcha turned to see the beautiful orange haired girl standing right behind him. His face went red and he leaned back, but Nami just stepped closer, "Would that be okay?"

"Oh, uh, I-I don't know about that," Yamcha stuttered out.

Nami pushed by him and walked over to the desk. She slammed her hands down on it while her captain stood next to her, ready to sign up. The two monks behind the desk looked very afraid of this skinny woman glaring at them. "Would that be okay?" She growled at them. "If the weapon came from his body, that would be fine right?" She asked, her eyes looking red to the men behind the desk.

"Uhh," the fatter monk turned to the guy next to him. They whispered for a few seconds, then the fat man looked back at her. "I do believe that is within the rules-"

"Perfect," Nami said, her red eyes turning back to normal and a bright, cheerful smile coming to her face.

"You seem awfully into this all of a sudden," Yamcha said confusedly to the woman who at first seemed against this.

Nami turned to him with a huge grin and then looked back at the sign near the wall. "That's a lot of money right?" She asked, pointing at the reward posted. She didn't know the type of currency this world used, but she knew what a lot of zeroes at the end of any number meant.

"Yeaaahh," Yamcha said slowly, as if that was obvious. Nami didn't like the attitude and she spun to him angrily, making the man shy backwards with red cheeks.

Bulma watched as Yamcha shied away and she frowned over at the other teenage girl. Watch yourself Nami, he's mine. The blue haired girl walked over with a huge fake smile on her face. "Too bad about the reward money though," Bulma said with a sigh.

"Huh? Why's that?" Nami asked, while the men behind her started signing up.

She turned to Bulma and Bulma shrugged with a small smile. "Everyone knows Yamcha, Krillin, and Goku are going to be the only competitors for this year's WMAT."

"Ehh?" Nami asked, leaning towards the other girl while Bulma leaned right back. "I'll have you know my boys here are much stronger than yours."

"Oh yeah?" Bulma asked, pushing her face right back at Nami. "You wanna make a bet on that?"

"Wait, that kid from before is in the tournament?" Sora asked, thinking about the small kid who ran off.

"Don't sound so surprised," a voice said and Sora spun to see the kid wearing a blue hat was right behind him. Krillin smirked at his surprised reaction, the continued while pointing at himself, "I made it to the semi-finals three years ago. This year I'm going to win!"

"Not so fast there Krillin," Yamcha said from the opposite side of the line. "You're gonna have to get through me first. And after my training these past three years, I know I'm going to win."

"Nope," a voice said and they each looked in to see Luffy step right up between them with crossed arms. "I'm going to win," the pirate said, then grinned and looked at either of the fighters next to him.

"Not if I have anything to say about it," Sora called behind him, then stepped up to the sign up desk himself.

The monks behind the desk seemed nervous with the fourteen year old in front of them. "Are you sure you want to enter?" One of the men asked Sora carefully. "You could really get hurt-"

"Don't worry about me," Sora assured the two men. He leaned forward over the desk and smiled, "I'm going to win."

The skinny monk sighed as Sora wrote his name down. "That's what they all say."

"But you know, I'm really getting worried," Bulma said, looking around as there was still no sign of this boy they were all waiting for.

Nami looked next to her at the gray-haired Marine Captain who had his arms crossed. "Hey," she said to him, making him glance her way with an annoyed look. "You're trapped here just like the rest of us, how about you enter this competition and win us some money," she offered in more of a commanding tone.

"Why would I do that?" he asked her in annoyance.

"Well we need to eat while we're here," Bulma said as if it were obvious. "And we don't have any of this, place's, currency."

"Hey Master Roshi," Krillin began in a whisper. He leaned up to the old man next to him, "Isn't Zeni the currency used all around the world?"

Roshi hummed to himself and muttered, "That's right Krillin. I don't know where these folks could have came from," he thought about it a little harder, but was suddenly distracted as was the rest of the group.

Three people had walked straight up to Master Roshi. There was a tall muscular guy on one side, a very short little boy with pale white skin on the left, and in the middle of the three was an old man with a hat that had a bird with a long neck sticking out of it. The old man was wearing sunglasses just like Master Roshi and he started off in a smug tone, "Hello. Nice to see you come out of your shell, Master Roshi."

Everyone turned to their old man in a black suit and could see him glaring back at the new arrivals. All three of the people who walked up to them were wearing green outfits with symbols on the front of them, tight black hats, and baggy yellow clothes under their green outfits so that their arms and legs were covered by them. Still, one look at the tall man on the right and everyone there could tell he was extremely strong.

Nami looked at all the people they just grouped up with, and not one of them seemed to recognize these strangely clad people. Only the old man was glaring at them intensely through his sunglasses, and the air suddenly became very thick. Roshi started in an uninterested tone, "Hermit Crane what a surprise. After all these years you're still alive."

"Heh heh heh, the lines on your face are just as deep my old friend," the other old man with a strange gray mustache that spiked down on either side of his mouth replied. Crane and Roshi glared at each other.

"Well that was rude," Bulma said, and most people were glaring at these new arrivals with a look of dislike.

Smoker kept looking at them for a few more seconds, then he thought about what Nami told him. We do need money. Anyway, this tournament might be good to make my Haki stronger. It may be the only way to stop that Maleficent woman. He turned and made his way for the sign ups while the others bantered with each other.

Crane was midway through insulting Master Roshi and his students, saying that anything was possible if they did well during the last tournament, when Luffy suddenly spoke up. The pirate was pointing a finger at the old man and asked, "Why does he have a stupid bird on his head?" Every person there dropped their jaws, and then Sora burst out laughing. Master Roshi was getting ready to make a retort to his old rival, but that was so much better and he snickered for a few seconds before bursting out in laughter with the rest of them.

"Laugh all you want," Crane stated with only a slightly annoyed look. "Fighting against my team is an act of futility. Not even Jackie Chun could handle my boys. Do yourself a favor and go home."

The tall man next to Crane smirked and looked into Yamcha's eyes who glared right back at him with an annoyed expression. The short one on Crane's left showed no emotion as he stood there with his arms crossed in his sleeves like the other two in the Crane Hermit's school for Martial Arts.

"We can't go home," Luffy said with a shrug. "So I guess we'll just have to beat you," he added and grinned over at the old man.

Crane looked over at the pirate, then insulted the old man in front of him for taking on such students. Roshi immediately retorted something about the other man blowing hot air, and the two of them jumped up in front of each other pressing their foreheads into each other and growling with sharp teeth about not getting in the other's way. Finally, Crane turned and walked over to the entrance. He looked back once at the big group, "You've been warned. Now suffer the consequences." He turned and walked inside, only talking to his two pupils next to him, "Let's go. I've wasted enough time on these fools."

The three of them walked inside the WMAT stadium, and Yamcha walked over to Master Roshi. "Who was that guy?"

"He goes by Master Shen, and I used to call him friend-" before Master Roshi could continued, Oolong shouted out in a panic, "Time's almost up! There's only one minute left!"

A turtle that was with the group, named Turtle, waddled right next to a blonde woman with curly hair, lifted up its head and said in a low voice, "He's not gonna make it."

Luffy looked down at the turtle with wide-eyes. "The turtle can talk too?!" He shook his head and looked around at all the awesome creatures with him.

Yamcha had an idea as everyone panicked. "Hey Puar," he started and a blue cat floating next to his shoulder looked in at him. "Transform into Goku and sign up for him."

The group that came with the Keybearers were confused as to what he was talking about, but before the cat could show them its transforming skills, the blond woman pointed her hand down the road. "Wait. Look here he is!" Launch held up a hand excitedly and everyone spun to face where she was looking.

"Hey everybody!" the boy sprinting down the road called out. He was wearing tiger skins and had an orange pole strapped to his back.

Nami looked from him, to the teen next to her, then back to him. "Wow Sora, he's got spikier hair than you do."

Sora was thinking the same thing as the kid with black spiky hair came running all the way down the road and stopped right in front of him.

Goku sprinted straight to them so fast that he had to skid to a stop and the dust clouds rising up behind him finally settled down. All of Goku's friends ran up to him excitedly asking how he's been, then the pig Oolong walked up and asked, "I just have one question for you Goku. Did you swim here?"

"Yea. Part of the way. From a place called Yahhoy," Goku responded.

Everyone from this world gasped at his response and the others just looked at each other confusedly. Nami turned to Bulma, "Why is that so surprising?"

Bulma turned to the woman next to her with sweat on both sides of her face. "Yahhoy's on the other side of the Earth," Bulma said with bulging eyes.

Nami turned back to the kid in front of her and gulped. She glanced back at her captain and the others with her, They can beat him right? He's just a kid!

Master Roshi walked over while everyone was talking, and he said, "Well Goku, what's important is that you are registered. Now, why don't we get something to eat. It's customary to eat before a big fight. And since they don't come any bigger than the World's Martial Arts tournament, we should dine on the best meal this town has to offer!"

Everyone clapped for Master Roshi and Goku exclaimed that that sounded great. While Master Roshi turned around and looked inside his wallet to check how much he had on him, everyone else turned and started walking away.

"If the old man is treating, how about you guys come eat with us?" Bulma suggested to the group closer to the wall who she brought there.

"We would love to," Nami replied with a grin. "A free meal is the tastiest meal as they say," she said and then started laughing loudly.

Luffy ran up to the spiky haired boy walking with the rest of his friends. "Hey, you're Goku right?"

"Yeah, that's me," the teenage boy responded to the older teen. "Nice to meet you whoever you are."

"Luffy," the pirate said with a grin. "I hear you're pretty strong."

"Yeah, I'm trying to win the tournament this year," Goku said with a smile on his face.

"Well you'll have to beat me first," Luffy replied with a competitive smile.

"You're on," Goku said back and started laughing, and Luffy joined in with the laughter.

"I'm Krillin by the way," the short guy walking on Sora's left introduced, looking up at the taller spiky-haired boy next to him.

Yamcha looked down and introduced himself to the kid as well. Then the older man stated, "You know, Goku and Krillin were trained by Master Roshi. So even though they are just kids like you, they are pretty strong. Are you sure you want to be in this tournament?"

Sora just grinned at the older man and then looked down at Krillin too, "You guys better get ready." He held up his right hand and a yellow hilt formed in his grip. Out from the hilt came a long silver shaft with prongs at the end of it, and Sora slashed it in front of him a few times. "I'm going for the gold!"

"Whoa," Krillin said, dragging out his voice. "Where'd you get that cool weapon?"

"I don't know," Sora replied with a shrug. "But it's pretty strong. I'm just glad that monk guy said that I could use it in my fight."

Krillin started sweating a little, "That seems a little unfair."

"What? You think I'm going to beat you?" Sora asked, smirking at the shorter boy around his age.

The bald kid snapped his head up, "What? No way!"

Sora grinned at his Keyblade vanished in a bunch of shards of light. The group continued to walk towards a nice fancy restaurant, laughing and getting to know each other. All the while, a single shadow watched from far behind them. It stood at the entrance to the WMAT and continued facing towards them for a few seconds. Then, it turned inside the gates and looked across the opening towards three figures in green and yellow outfits. The shadow stared at them for a moment, then as the tall muscular figure looked his way, he vanished.

Tien Shinhan glared at the entrance to the WMAT for a few more seconds, then shook his head. It must have been nothing. Do not get distracted. I am going to win this tournament, no matter what.

---

Sora lifted up his head in the middle of the night. He and his friends were in the back of a truck that Bulma had handy in her pocketbook. Apparently on this world, there were these capsule that when opened, could be storing things as large as houses. The blue haired teenage girl tossed it on the ground and a huge truck showed up in front of the hotel that she and her friends were staying at. There, she said the group she met could stay for the night. She let them use her phone too, and they called up Bulma's dad to see how the ship was coming along, only to receive a lot of loud quacking over the line as Donald shouted at them to stop bothering them so that he could finish the ship faster.

The reason Sora lifted up his head midway through the night though, was that he was excited. He crept out of his bed and threw on some clothes as fast as he could. The boy headed for the door to the truck, but right before he reached it he heard behind him, "Sora?"

The brown haired kid spun around and lifted up a finger to his mouth. "Shh," he said over to the dog-guy who also sat up in his bed. Goofy held his hands over his mouth and looked around, but it didn't seem like anyone else woke up on account of him talking. Sora saw Goofy was confused, so he waved his hand towards him while keeping his other hand up to his mouth to make sure Goofy stayed quiet.

When he and Goofy got out of the truck, Sora released a deep breath and turned to his friend. "Sorry for waking you up," Sora apologized to the knight. "I got really excited thinking about tomorrow's tournament, so I wanted to get a headstart on our opponents."

"Gawrsh, that sounds like a great idea," Goofy said, nodding at Sora. "I need to practice without my shield anyway," the dog added.

Sora smiled at his friend and nodded his head down the road a little. "Let's head over to the tournament ground then."

The two of them ran down the street in the dark as it was still late at night. No cars drove past them as they ran, and the two excitedly reached a little forest near the tournament ground. "Here looks like a great place…" Sora began, then quieted down as he looked ahead of him with some sweat coming down both sides of his face. Directly in front of him was a muscular man using a tree trunk as a punching bag. Sora turned to the right and heard a man grunting every time he did a squat while holding a hundred pound rock over his head. A little farther away were two furry creatures punching the air over and over again in slashes with their sharp claws.

"Looks like we aren't the only ones who thought about this, hyuck," Goofy observed.

"We were just thinking the same thing," a voice said behind them.

Donald and Sora spun around and their lips curved into big smiles at the sight of Krillin and Yamcha standing behind them. "Looks like you weren't as confident as you made yourselves out to be," Sora said with a chuckle as he looked at the students of Master Roshi's Turtle Hermit school

"Hey, speak for yourself Sora," Yamcha told the boy who was also out here in the dead of night. "We just came to get a headstart…"

"On the competition," Sora finished, crossing his arms as he did. "Same with us."

"And what do you think?" Krillin asked in a nervous tone. He looked around at everyone, "I don't remember the competition being so big."

Sora smiled and looked at all the muscular guys around them. Ha. These guys are nothing compared to the Heartless. I can't wait to show them my stuff. "Come on Goofy, let's go spar."

Yamcha and Krillin watched as Sora and Goofy ran off to a different area of the forest. "Spar? Are they nuts?" Krillin asked skeptically. "If they hurt each other before the matches…"

"Well, then there will be less competition for us, eh Krillin?" Yamcha asked with a grin, and the smaller fighter next to him smiled and started laughing. Yamcha looked after Sora and Goofy with a strange look though. The weapon that kid has. It seemed really strong. I'll have to look out for that tomorrow.

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"Preliminaries?" Luffy asked confusedly as he followed Goku, Krillin, and Yamcha into the main hall of the WMAT. "What are those?"

Krillin looked back at the lanky pirate with a big smirk that he had this knowledge and the older guy didn't. "Well, the tournament is too big to let everyone fight in the finals. So they have prelims to decide who the strongest eight are before the main tournament starts."

"Only the strongest eight?" Usopp asked, looking around the room at all the strong, muscular fighters around the room. The long-nosed man gulped as he then looked around the group with him, "And last tournament you three made the final eight?"

"That's right," Goku replied with a casual smile as if he didn't understand why Usopp looked nervous. Goku looked around a little more, and then saw an old man he recognized and ran over to him. The others all followed and Yamcha and Krillin smiled at the person who they recognized. "Yoo-hoo," Goku greeted the guy, tapping him in the back a few times.

Luffy and the others watched as Goku greeted the old man with blue hair spiked up above his head and very familiar white facial hair. Smoker stared at the old man a little longer than the others and he thought, Isn't this the same old man who bought us dinner last night? Roshi? He listened as Yamcha explained to Luffy, Sora, Usopp, and Goofy that this guy was Master Jackie Chun, and the winner of the last tournament. Smoker's eyes widened more, He won the last tournament? That pervy old man? Guess this tourney isn't all it's cracked up to be.

The monk in charge of the room got on a microphone and started announcing to everyone how great it was that they were all here. "… a record high 187 fighters…"

"187?!" Usopp exclaimed.

"That sure is a lot of people to beat," Sora added with a nod of his head.

While they talked about their opponents, they noticed the sounds of munching and looked to their lefts to see Goku and Luffy standing next to each other, both of them eating huge rice balls.

Soon after the monk finished his announcement, another monk went up and told the fighters that to decide the matches, each of them would draw lots from the box in the front of the room. Every fighter got in line and walked up to the box to figure out when they were supposed to fight. Luffy was the first one on line, and he excitedly reached into the box and pulled out a handful of white slips of paper.

"Only take one!" the monk behind the box yelled at him.

"Then how do I know if I get number one or not?" Luffy asked the guy.

"You don't!" the monk shouted.

Luffy frowned but only grabbed one slip and walked away, dropping all the others for the monks to pick up and put back in the box, reshuffling the contents. The rest of their group got their ballots, then gathered together and they unfolded the slips of paper in their hands that had their numbers on them. Luffy groaned as he opened his slip and muttered as he pointed it towards his friends, "Number 2."

"Well, at least that's close to number one," Sora offered as a consolation. "I got one hundred and six," he added, showing the others his number as well. He turned and looked at the tournament bracket up on the wall near him. "That puts me, in the first half of tournament block 3." Since two people got picked from each of the four blocks, it made sense to separate each block into two to figure out who they would be facing.

"I'm in the second half of block one," Goku said with a scratch of his head.

Krillin chuckled and said, "Second half of block two." He turned to Sora and showed him his number which was only one away from being put in the first half of block three. "Aww, too bad. I don't get to kick your butt until next round."

Sora turned to him and grinned, "I was just about to say the same thing."

"What about you mister?" Goku asked Jackie Chun who was up reading the board.

The old man turned and smiled at the group, "I am in the first half of block 4."

Yamcha looked around at them all and then looked at the slip of paper in his hands. "Don't be with Goku. Don't be with Goku," he muttered to himself, then smiled wide as he unfolded the slip of paper. "One hundred and seventy three, good, that puts me in the second half of block four."

Krillin threw his hands up in the air. "That's great! None of us are fighting each other!"

"One hundred and seventy four," a voice read out directly on Yamcha's left.

Everyone spun around and stared at Goofy who was holding up a slip of paper with the number directly after Yamcha. He turned to the man his height right next to him, "Gawrsh, that means we're fighting each other doesn't it?"

Krillin lowered his arms back down as he realized he celebrated a moment too early. Then, another voice spoke up, "And I'm in the first half of block four too." They all looked over to Captain Smoker now who stepped forward and looked at the man with a white mustache and beard who he knew for sure was that Master Roshi from yesterday. He opened his mouth to say something about it, but the old man narrowed his eyes at him and he closed his mouth. The old man doesn't want them to know, and he got me some food. I guess I could keep the secret. Smoker gave the man a small nod.

Roshi nodded his head back at the man who seemed sharper than the rest of his group. He was sweating a little and thought, That was a close one. He turned a little to Goku who was smiling and talking to his friends. As Master Roshi I could never fully test your strength. I know as Jackie Chun you will not hold back against me.

A monk started announcing on a microphone at the head of the room, "We will now start with the elimination round which will decide which eight fighters will fight in the championships. Each match will be one on one and confined to the boundaries of the ring. There is no time limit, and each match will continue until at least one opponent is defeated, leaves the ring, or gives up. No weapons are allowed. In the event that an official ruling is needed to clarify a winner, all decisions will be made by a judge whose decisions will be final. The tournament does not take responsibility for loss of property, or life."

Luffy looked at Usopp expecting him to gulp, but the man with a long nose just chuckled seeing his captain look his way expectantly. "I've been in a lot of tournaments Luffy. You better hope we don't meet up in the finals."

The announcements ended and Goku turned to Krillin. "Well this is it," he told his best friend. "Good luck Krillin." He bumped elbows with the other short boy and then started laughing loudly as the bald boy walked away. Goku, Yamcha, and Krillin were all wearing orange fighting gis with the Turtle Hermit symbol on the backs of them.

There were four tournament stages inside the large room, allowing the preliminaries to go pretty fast. The first stage was set up the fastest, and a monk was there already reading off his clipboard. "The first match will be from block number one. At this time, fighters number 1 and 2 may enter the ring."

Luffy grinned as even though he didn't get number one, he still got a match in the very first fight of the first round. He jumped up in the air and landed on the stage, right in the middle of it. The judge looked at the skinny guy with small arms and legs and sighed, then became very nervous as he looked across the ring and saw a dragon-creature stepping up on the ring. The purple creature had two huge wings and very muscular arms and legs, walking on those very buff legs right up to the center of the stage and looking down at his opponent.

"Oh wow, looks like Luffy got a tough one in the first round," Yamcha stated as he saw the creature Luffy was going up against.

"Pshh," Usopp laughed at the comment from the man next to him.

Yamcha and Jackie Chun both looked in at Usopp confusedly, but then Sora spoke up from next to the muscular pirate. "I doubt Luffy is too worried."

Both of the other men looked back at each other, shrugged, then turned to the stage where the dragon was laughing while looking down at his opponent. "I'm going to gobble you up little man."

Luffy continued staring at the face of the huge lizard monster for a few more seconds, then asked, "Can you breath fire?"

"What?!" the thing that looked like a dragon, but totally wasn't, yelled at Luffy. "That's racist! I'll show you!"

The judge started the match, and the lizard guy punched a huge fist down at Luffy. Luffy lifted up his right hand, catching his opponent's fist as it was swung down at him. "Shishishi," he chuckled as his black hair shadowed his eyes. His straw hat was resting on his back over his red shirt as he didn't want it to get hurt during his matches. He looked up a little into the dragon's black eyes and pulled back his left hand, throwing it so far behind him that it went over the second ring, and over the third one behind that, stalling both fights and making the fighters look over with dropped jaws. "Gum Gum," he started loudly, then his extended arm snapped forward all at once and his hand slammed into the dragon's stomach, "Bullet!"

One second the purple dragon guy was there, the next second there was a hole on the opposite wall that was in the perfect shape of a dragon. "Shishishi," Luffy laughed and grabbed the bicep of the arm he just used. He looked around the room and saw the vast majority of people gawking at him, "Who's next?" he asked, and a few dozen fighters felt the instant urge to back out of their fights if they had to go up against this guy.

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Outside the hall where the prelims were going on, the others were sitting at a table drinking sodas and overall being bored together. The women and the animals from this world were all lazily lounging about. "Not being able to watch the matches is lame," Nami complained, slamming her hands down on the table. "What are we supposed to do in the meantime?"

"The first matches have already started," the pink pig wearing a pair of overalls said. "There's no point in trying to sneak in now."

Bulma lowered her soda a little, "I just hope they all get through it in one piece." She looked at the two women sitting on her right opposite Launch. "Are you sure you should have let Sora enter the tournament?"

Robin nodded her head at the younger woman. "Sora-kun is quite strong."

"I'm amazed actually," Nami said in a confused tone. She leaned back in her seat and looked up at the sky. "Only a few weeks ago, I feel like I could have beaten him. But now," she thought about the last tournament she watched back in the Olympic Coliseum. "He's keeping up with Luffy and Usopp. I don't know how he does it."

"That little brat and the hunk are on the same level?" the woman with curly blonde hair opposite Nami stated in a deep voice. "Huh? That I've gotta see for myself."

Nami's forehead twitched as Launch called Usopp a hunk and she stood up out of her seat just as Launch was getting up. "Who do you think you are?" Nami snapped at the woman they just met.

Launch turned her head slowly and glared at Nami. "What was that Red?" she asked, nicknaming the girl in front of her. "Are you asking me a question in that tone?" Launch reached down and lifted up a submachine gun in front of her.

Puar screamed and dove for cover along with the rest of them who knew Launch's habit of pulling out guns when she got angry. Nami was shocked, but Bulma tackled her down knowing the other girl wouldn't be ready. They all waited for the bullets to fire, and they waited a little longer, and then they got up and looked towards Launch just to drop their jaws. Launch was standing there with two hands covering her mouth, six more hands holding her arms to her sides, and the machine gun that was in her hands was now resting in Nico Robin's.

Robin turned to the others around her with a small smile, then looked back at Launch, "I would ask you to refrain from pointing weapons in my direction." Though she said it in a calm voice, two more hands appeared out of Launch's shoulders and lightly rested on her throat, immediately halting all struggles coming from the curly haired girl. Then, all at once, Robin's extra hands vanished and she slid the gun back across the table towards its owner.

Blonde haired Launch stared down at the weapon cautiously, then snatched it up, but Robin wasn't playing a trick on her and just let her grab it. After a few seconds of glaring straight into the dark-haired woman's eyes, Launch smiled from ear to ear and started laughing in her deep tone, "Hahaha! I like you! Hahaha!"

The others all started laughing along nervously and got back up in their seats. Nami looked at Launch like she was a crazy person, but besides that they got back to normal. After a few more minutes of sitting down though, Robin stood up out of nowhere and looked to Nami. "I am going to go on a walk."

"Where to?" Nami asked her older friend, confused as to where she could be going.

Robin looked up at the bright blue sky of this new world above her. "Exploring," she responded, thinking of all the amazing things she could learn about this world. The smile on her face was genuine and Nami smiled at her, standing up and offering to join. Robin nodded her head at the younger woman, and they said goodbye to the group of friends they made who waved them off. Robin turned to Nami while they walked, "While we are exploring," she began, making Nami turn towards her. She continued, "We should look for this world's Keyhole. From what Jafar told me in our time together, I do believe they are quite important to Maleficent's plans."

Nami's eyes widened. "You think this world has a Keyhole?"

Robin nodded her head. "I believe all the worlds do. And since the boys are all occupied, I believe we should find it ourselves."

The younger woman nodded a few times with a small frown on her face. "I guess that makes sense." She sighed, "We get stuck doing all the work while they play around all day. Sheesh."

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Meanwhile, a few hundred miles away, Donald hammered away at pieces of the Gummi Ship. He muttered angrily to himself over and over again, getting distracted by his angry thoughts even and hammering down on his own thumb. "WAWAWAWA!" he quacked and ran around the lab as Bulma's father, Dr. Briefs, shouted at him to calm down and stop knocking over the pieces they had already put together. Finally Donald calmed down and stared at his swelling red thumb for a few seconds, blowing on it. Then he pointed his head up and quacked, "When I get my hands on Luffy…"

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"Hey Luffy come on," Sora called to the pirate behind him who was looking around at some more of the competition. "Goofy and Yamcha are about to start their match!"

Luffy turned and ran over to the spiky haired kid who was standing at the third stage where Yamcha and Goofy were facing each other.

"You can do it Goofy!" Sora cheered on his friend.

"Haha," Krillin laughed in a taunting tone. "There's no way Yamcha loses this match." Krillin himself had just won a match against a man a hundred times his height named Anton the Great, the former world's wrestling champion who was too strong that none of his opponents in the wrestling league wanted to fight him anymore. Krillin beat the guy about as easily as Luffy beat his first round match.

Luffy was about to retort how Goofy was pretty strong, when he noticed Yamcha moving his hands into a stance in front of them. The match began and immediately, Yamcha vanished to ninety percent of the people in the room. To the left of the stage, two figures in green uniforms who were wearing black hats could easily follow the movements of the man, as could Goku, Krillin, and Master Roshi, or Jackie Chun as he was going by in the tournament. As for the rest of the room, it became incredibly hard to see where the man with short black hair vanished to.

Yamcha reappeared on Goofy's left side, then snapped his wrist up and hit the dog guy in the face. Sora lowered his bottom lip at Yamcha's speed, then watched as Goofy fell down to the floor and didn't move. "One hit," Sora whispered in amazement, and a little bit of nervousness.

Usopp and Luffy were amazed too and stared at Yamcha in a new light. Yamcha turned to Goofy's lying down form and bowed a little. The monk lifted up a hand and said, "Since contestant one seventy four is unable to fight…" then he stopped talking.

A bunch of people around them gasped and Yamcha spun back around to see Goofy standing back up on his feet. "You sure pack a punch hyuck," Goofy said with a smile. He reached up and rubbed his muzzle a little. The guy in front of him in an orange turtle hermit gi frowned, then charged forward again with a flurry of punches and kicks. Goofy started swinging his arms back at the guy and charging head-first with his head ducked down to stay protected. Yamcha ducked, dipped, dived, and dodged each of Goofy's punches, just to swipe right back and hit the dog in another unprotected area.

Goofy stumbled backwards as midway through one of his punches, Yamcha got a hit into his stomach. "Ugh," the dog muttered, staggering back until he was standing almost on the edge of the ring. He looked back a little, and then when he looked back forward, Yamcha was directly in front of him. "Uh oh," he said, then Yamcha kicked him in the front and he flew off the ledge out into the crowd.

"Contestant one seventy four has left the arena. One hundred and seventy three, you advance to the next round."

Yamcha broke a sweat, but he calmed down his breathing a little and smiled. He put his hands together and bowed to the dog-guy who was lying on the ground outside the ring with swirls over his eyes.

"Goofy!" Sora exclaimed, running over to the other side of the ring where Goofy was thrown off. He lifted up his arms and the Keyblade appeared in them. He lifted it up and called out, "Cure!" A bunch of people looked over in confusion, then saw the green light that left Sora's weapon shimmer down over Goofy. While Sora held his Keyblade out, he stared at it funny, as it looked different from the normal Kingdom Key he had been using, and it wasn't the one he got from the Deep Jungle either.

"Whoa Sora, when did you get that?" Usopp asked as he showed up next to the kid and stared at the entirely gold Keyblade in his hands.

"I, I don't know," Sora whispered. Looking at it, it kind of had a style similar to what he would expect from Agrabah. Three Wishes. He heard the voice in his head and swung the weapon across his body, "Wow, it's a lot heavier than my normal Keyblade. I bet it packs a bigger punch too!"

After Sora called out his healing spell, Yamcha and the others in the room noticed he didn't look very concerned about his friend anymore. However, there was no need to be, as Goofy got right back up on his feet looking got as new, without any of the bruises he got during his fight with Yamcha. Yamcha hopped off the stage and walked over to them, "Wow Sora, that's some great weapon you've got there."

"It made him all better," Goku added as he looked at Goofy who walked over.

The dog person walked right up to Yamcha and chuckled, "Gawrsh, you sure are strong Yamcha."

"You're not bad yourself," Yamcha laughed and said back to the creature in front of him.

Sora smiled and turned to Yamcha, "With his shield, Goofy's one of the strongest guys I've ever met. I bet he could have taken you."

"I don't know Sora," Goofy said before anyone could come up with a retort. "I think Yamcha's just stronger than me."

"Really?" Sora asked in surprise that Goofy was saying that. He turned back to Yamcha and grinned, "Wow, I can't wait to fight you then."

Yamcha laughed and looked at the kid, but Sora didn't seem as nervous as he thought the kid would be after seeing that last fight. Sora clenched a fist in front of him once his Keyblade disappeared. "By the end of this tournament, I'm going to be much stronger." Around his body there was suddenly a feeling of warmth that each of the figures around him could feel. "I just know it, the strength I get here is going to help me save Kairi."

"Who's that?" Krillin asked the taller teen next to him who looked incredibly determined.

Sora frowned and his mind flashed for a second to the moment where Kairi was flying towards him. He held out his arms, but she flew right through him, and then his world… The teenager's face distorted from his happy smile and the warmth of the moment was gone. The others in Sora's group could tell what he was thinking about, though Goku, Krillin, and Yamcha were confused as to why Sora seemed so serious all of a sudden. Before they could ask why this was, a voice spoke up on their left and everyone turned.

"You call that a good fight? It's surprising what amateurs consider decent fighting these days." The man saying this was the tall guy who was with the Crane Hermit the day before. He was wearing his green outfit with the baggy yellow pant and arm sleeves under it, and smirking at his opponents while looking down on them. In front of him was the under two foot tall albino kid who was dressed the same way as his partner, and was staring straight ahead at Krillin.

Krillin looked back at the albino kid nervously as the boy was just staring at him. Then, after a few seconds, the boy lifted up a hand and pointed at Krillin, saying, "Midget."

Luffy couldn't help it, he burst out laughing. Krillin went red in the face and pointed at the boy who was half a foot shorter than him, "Who do you think you're calling a midget?"

The small person just stuck his tongue out at Krillin and started wagging it around which only made Krillin angrier. Tien looked down at his partner, "Chiaotzu, stop it. You know it's not polite to make fun of your inferiors. Especially when they're as grossly inadequate as these fools."

"You want to fight?" Luffy growled at the guy taunting him straight to his face.

"Save it for the ring Luffy," Usopp said, holding his captain back.

Tien scoffed at the idiot on his left, then made eye contact with Usopp for a little longer than the long-nosed man liked. "None of them have the slightest chance of surviving the preliminaries, let alone the tournament."

Yamcha walked forward and cracked his knuckles at the man. "Get lost or get hit. It's your choice."

"Judging from your last fight, I'm in no hurry," Tien replied with a cocky smirk. "You had a chance to land a critical blow on your opponent and you let it up."

"Whenever I fight," Yamcha began, "my goal is to defeat my enemy, not to kill him. However if I come up against you, I'll be sure to reconsider that policy."

"Ooooh," Sora said and started laughing at the awesome line.

"Really? Why wait? Fight now," Tien said, and all three of the tall man's eyes glistened as he said it. Yamcha told him he was ready anytime the man wanted, as he wanted to shut him up as soon as possible.

Goku tried to get his friend to stop, but it was only when Jackie Chun walked over that the fight was broken up.

The group went over and watched the annoying guy's next match, only to be stunned by how fast he was as he defeated a sumo wrestler with ease. The rest of the first round matches came and went swiftly. Jackie Chun got his first match and swept the floor with his opponent, as did Usopp who clapped his opponent's templed and kicked him in the chest to send him out of the ring. Even Smoker won without a hitch, not even having to turn into smoke in his first round match before knocking his opponent out. Finally it came to Goku's turn.

At first Goku's friends seemed to think he had this one handled, however when they learned the man's name, Yamcha and Jackie Chun lost their confidence quickly. "Who's King Chapa?" Sora asked, hearing a few other people say his name nervously. "Who is this guy?"

Yamcha spoke nervously, "People say he's one of the strongest men in the world."

Jackie Chun nodded, "The last time he entered the tournament, he won without being touched by a single opponent."

"What? No way!" Krillin exclaimed.

Everyone looked on nervously as the match started, but immediately, Goku got the first blow. Chapa lost his confident attitude and stopped complaining that he had a child as his first match. "I can see this is no ordinary child," he stated, and then he and Goku charged at each other. Chapa barely missed a kick, but as Goku came down for a punch after his dodge, King Chapa caught the boy's fist in his hand. However, Goku spun his leg around which was his real goal the whole time and kicked Chapa multiple times in the chest before bringing back both legs, and kicking the man in the stomach, knocking him down.

"Yeah Goku!" Sora called out.

"Go for it!" Luffy yelled.

Krillin and Yamcha turned to their new friends, and they lost the shock on their faces that Goku was beating King Chapa. The two of them started cheering too as did most of the fighters around the ring who were happy to see Chapa not only get hit, but get knocked down in the tournament like never before.

When King Chapa got back up, he started a technique that Jackie Chun told them was called the Eight Handed Fist. It sounded dangerous, and from the look of bloodlust on Chapa's face, they knew it wasn't going to be pretty. "Now you will know, why I am feared." Chapa told Goku, getting ready for his attack.

Goku started dodging masterfully as Chapa punched so fast that it looked like he had multiple arms. Usopp looked at Luffy for a second and said, "It's like your Gattling Gun technique." Luffy nodded his head, but was too busy watching Goku dodge and block every attack to really care about what Usopp said. Then, Luffy cheered as Goku swept Chapa's feet out from beneath him and taunted the man for leaving his legs unguarded.

In King Chapa's anger, he jumped up to his feet and charged Goku. The grown man with dark skin and a black beard slammed a fist towards Goku, but the child leapt up in the air so fast that only a select few were able to see him. Goku soared up in the air and it didn't look good as he must come down at some point and Chapa was ready for him. "Ah! I can't watch," Usopp said, lifting up his hands to his face as one of the strongest men in the world got ready to slam a fist into Goku's face.

The spiky haired boy dropped farther and farther, then King Chapa punched forward. At that exact moment, Goku opened his mouth and exhaled one of the biggest breaths of his life. The wind from his breath hit the floor of the arena and pushed him up, just enough that King Chapa's fist passed right under him. Then, while everyone gasped and the enemy was off guard, Goku slammed both legs into the man and knocked him right off the arena.

As Goku got off and talked to his friends, the group with the Keybearers gulped at the kid's amazing strength. Krillin told Goku to save some techniques for later, and Goku laughed, saying, "I totally agree with you. That's why I'm saving some of my best techniques for the finals. I can't wait to face the strongest fighters, like you guys," he looked at Yamcha, Krillin, and Jackie Chun with a big smile on his face. The fact that this wasn't even one of his best techniques made the rest of the group gulp again.

The rest of round one went by pretty fast, with a few interesting fights going on. It was finally reaching the end when a guy at stage three called out, "Fighters 105 and 106, please make your way to the stage."

"Well," Sora said, looking around at his friends around him, "I'm up," he said with a bright smile.

"Go get 'em Sora!" Goofy cheered on.

"Kick some butt," Luffy added.

Sora walked away from his friends with a smile on his face, trying to ignore the bead of sweat rolling down the left side of his head. This is embarrassing. I feel like using my Keyblade is cheating when everyone here has just been using their fists. I don't think I can win without it though. "Hmm," he hummed to himself as he hopped up on the tournament floor.

Up ahead of Sora was a guy who looked like a bear, but also had very humanlike features too. He was wearing a tan, sleeveless fighting gi so that Sora could see how large his arms were. He lifted up his claws and clashed them against each other a few times to show how sharp they were. The young teen gulped and looked behind him. Right at the edge of the stage, Luffy, Usopp, Goofy, Krillin, Yamcha, Goku, and even that Jackie Chun guy were standing. Some were waving up at him, others called out 'Good luck,' and a few just nodded their heads, getting serious as they looked at Sora's opponent.

"Alright," Sora whispered to himself, calming his nerves and wiping the sweat from his face. He thought back to his island back home, thought about fighting Wakka, and Tidus, and Selphie. They were strong too, and I never once needed the Keyblade to beat them. Though, I did have my wooden sword… Come on! Focus! Sora shook his head and lifted up his fists in front of him, "Bring it on," the kid said, grinning at the bear guy.

Contestant 105 glared at Sora and bared his sharp teeth, snarling at the kid a few times before the judge called out that the match was starting. The bear charged forward, and despite his large mass, he was a lot faster than he looked. He swiped down his right hand at Sora, and the kid leapt up in the air letting the paw pass right beneath him. As it flew under him, it slammed into the arena floor and cut straight through the tiles.

"He's faster than he looks," Jackie Chun said, scratching his white beard while some of the others watching Sora's fight turned to him. "It does not look like his burly figure slows him down at all. Young Sora is at quite the disadvantage."

"Oh no," Krillin exclaimed, turning back to the stage nervously. "You can do it Sora!"

The bear man spun around as soon as he finished his slash and ran to the opposite side of the ring where Sora was descending. The brown haired kid thought about pulling out his Keyblade, but he closed his eyes and thought, NO! Save it for a later match! You entered to get stronger, now fight! Sora reached out his right hand right as the bear man slashed forward at him, and he curled his palm over the front of the bear's claws.

"Aggh," Sora grunted loudly as two of the claws cut straight through the front of his palm and out the back. Blood splashed back and his friends gasped, but then gained confused expressions as Sora's pained look turned into one of a smirking, competitive teen. "Got you," Sora said, and clenched his fingers down around the bear's paw. He twisted his body in midair and swung both of his legs at the surprised bear's head, slamming him right in the left side of his temple.

The furry brown bear fell to the side and his claws came out of Sora's hand. Sora watched as his foe fell and his own eyes went wide at the sight. My kicks did that much to such a big guy? Whoa! Sora did a flip and landed on the ring with his hands risen back up in a fighting stance. His right hand hurt a little, but he wanted to wait until the end of the fight to heal himself. What was it Riku always said when he'd kick my butt? Yeah, 'no pain, no gain!' Sora charged forward as the bear guy was getting up, and the large furry foe slashed back and forth at the smaller human who dodged each of his blows.

Alright, Donald needs his staff, Merlin needs his wand, and I need my Keyblade, but I saw Leon and Aerith use magic without having weapons in their hands. As Sora was distracted, he saw the bear lunge at him and swing both arms inwards to try and get him in a bear hug. Sora leapt straight up, right before the bear clenched on him, and he barely escaped the furry man's grip. His friends let out a sigh of relief as it looked like he was going to get caught, but escaped just in the nick of time.

"Ha," a voice laughed behind Sora's friends and they all looked back to see that triclops from before and his short friend grinning at the arena. "That one is one of your friends too?" Tien scoffed at them. "You should be embarrassed."

"Hey! Sora's much stronger than you buddy!" Luffy yelled at the muscular man.

"Hyuck, he's not even using the Keyblade," Goofy added, showing that he knew Sora could be winning much easier now.

Yamcha tilted his head to the side, "Yeah. I've been wondering about that. Didn't your friend with the orange hair say that the monks allowed for Sora to use it as long as it came from his body?"

Usopp nodded his head, then watched as Sora descended from the air with his hands outstretched, pointed at his opponents. The kid looked to be struggling hard with something, but it wasn't working and after a few seconds he was right above the brown-furred enemy's head, and got slammed by a heavy paw to the stomach. "Then what's he doing?!" Krillin exclaimed at the sight of Sora tumbling across the arena until he was almost at the edge. Sora stuck his hands in the ground and skid to the very edge where he finally stopped and was able to get up to his feet.

Sora closed his eyes and held out both of his palms in front of him towards his enemy. "Do the same thing as when the Keyblade is out," he said out loud, hearing the words in his own ears over the shouts from people around the stage for him to open his eyes. "Let the magic flow through me. Donald said to focus it all into one point, and Merlin taught me that it was never in the concentration at all, but the emotions I feel while using it." His breathing calmed down and all the noises around him drowned out except for the footsteps of the bear charging across the arena towards him.

Captain Smoker of the Marines looked at the kid from back in a crowd at a different stage. He didn't gather with the rest of that group, but he was still interested in this boy, especially with what he was doing now. That kid's going to get himself killed just standing there. What is he-

"Sora move!" Usopp yelled at the boy.

"Sora!" Krillin, Luffy, Goofy, and Yamcha all yelled together.

Only Goku and Jackie Chun stayed quiet, and their eyes opened wider at the sight of Sora's hands in the second before the bear reached him. "Taste my claws you little brat!" The bear-man yelled, swinging his right and left claws down at the same time.

Tien's three eyes widened from where he was standing behind the group of Sora's friends. Just like Goku and Jackie Chun, he noticed it at the very last second. That kid's hands.

Sora's eyes snapped open and he stared right into his opponent's. "Fire!" Sora yelled. Out from a point directly in between his right and left hands, a small dot of red appeared. The bear's face became covered in sweat as the front of his body became hot, but in the next second that sweat became tears as a huge ball of fire crashed straight into his chest. It burned through his gi while he was thrown backwards. He landed on the ground and started rolling around to put it out before his fur caught fire too but accidentally rolled right off the stage onto the floor outside the arena.

"C-Contestant 105 is out of the ring," a scared monk who was backing away from the teen called out. "Number 106 advances."

"Woohoo!" Sora cheered, pumping a fist up in the air. He winced as he clenched his right fist to cheer, and the holes in it yelled out in pain. "Guess I can heal up now." He closed his eyes and thought, Cure. The boy waited a few seconds, then a few seconds more. Nothing happened and he sighed, "I guess it is a lot easier with the Keyblade." He rose up his left hand and his new golden Keyblade appeared on it. He used the Three Wishes Keyblade that he got from sealing the Keyhole in Agrabah to heal himself, then allowed it to vanish in a cluster of light particles.

When the fourteen year old hopped off the stage, his friends all ran up to him. "Wow Sora, I never knew you could do that," Luffy told the boy.

"Me neither," Sora laughed and started scratching the back of his head while laughing. He held his right fist out in front of him and flexed, grabbing his right bicep with his left hand. "Guess I'm stronger than I look huh?" he asked, this time looking over at Goku and his friends.

"Wow Sora, what do you call that attack you just did?" Goku asked the other boy.

"What do I call it?" Sora asked confusedly. He thought for a second and then shrugged, "It's just Fire magic."

"Magic?!" Krillin exclaimed, sweat coming down both sides of his face at Sora's simple explanation. "But that's impossible!"

"I don't know Krillin," Yamcha told the kid next to him. "The Kamehameha Wave sure is a lot like it."

"The Kamehameha is a martial arts technique!" Jackie Chun snapped at the teenager with black hair who jumped at how angry the old man just got. Master Roshi remembered he was in disguise and cleared his throat, "I mean, I am sure Master Roshi would disapprove of you calling his technique, 'magic.'"

"You're right," Yamcha said, feeling a little nervous at the thought of saying that in front of Master Roshi.

"Great job everyone on your first round fights," they all turned to Goofy who was goofily smiling at the group. "I betcha all of ya' make it to the finals."

"Haha, I hope so Goofy," Usopp told the dog-man next to him. "All I know, is that I'm going to make it for sure." Usopp flexed his huge muscles and grinned at his comrades around him.

"Me too!" Luffy exclaimed.

"Me three!" Sora added.

"Me four!" Yamcha and Krillin both said at the same time, then looked at each other and started arguing which one of them was going to be the fourth.

"Alright, settle down boys," Jackie Chun told them as they all started getting riled up. It seemed like their group was too large for them to all make it through, but now that they checked the brackets again, none of them had to fight each other before the next round at least.

Soon after Sora's fight, the monks started up the second round of the preliminaries and everyone found their fights getting harder than during the first round. Goku and Krillin seemed to get easier opponents as they had hard matches for their first rounds, but the rest of them put in some effort to defeat their opponents. Yamcha defeated a boxer who was pretty good, but had no defense for his kicks. Jackie Chun defeated a very muscular fox-man, and Usopp wrestled a sumo wrestler to the floor before lifting the several hundred pound man over his head, spinning around, and tossing the guy off the arena stage.

Again, Sora was put up against a tough opponent, this time a human. He managed to keep from pulling out his Keyblade again, but he was almost knocked out of the ring twice during the fight. After it was over, the old man with white facial hair and a blue spike over his head walked over to him. Jackie Chun started, "You must be careful my boy. Holding back to get a good fight is fine, but don't risk losing for it."

"I know," Sora told the old man. He smiled at him and added, "Thanks for the advice, but I'm not going to lose."

"You seem mighty confident for someone who got pretty cut up in their last fight," Master Roshi told the boy who just smiled back at him again.

"I know, but," he looked down at his hands and then clenched them into fists. "I can feel myself getting stronger. And I'm going to need to be much stronger if I'm going to save Kairi and the other princesses." Sora shut his mouth fast and he realized that this might be breaking some of Donald's rules. Well, I never actually mentioned anything about other worlds, but-

"Princesses? Where?!" Jackie Chun/ Master Roshi exclaimed, his nose starting to bleed.

"Haha," Sora laughed and said to the man, "you're a lot like that Master Roshi guy."

Jackie's eyes widened and he spun around, "What? I am nothing like the great, handsome Master Roshi." He walked away from the boy without saying much else, wanting to keep his identity a secret from as many people as he could.

Once the second round of the preliminaries was over, the judges called all the remaining contestants to the cafeteria for a lunch break. They only had an hour and a half to rest, but Sora told his friends he would use healing magic on all of them so they were all rested for the next matches. He thought it was a great idea, but Goku denied it saying that he didn't need help, and that he would rather win without it. This made Krillin and Yamcha deny the help too, then Luffy and Usopp after him. Sora sighed as it seemed like his idea wasn't very helpful after all, then he had an idea and ran off with half of his food still on his plate.

Sora ran over to the room where the most injured losers were being treated by the tournament's medical staff. "Here, let me help," Sora offered them. The medics turned to the boy as he pulled out a weapon out of nowhere and it glowed green. The first man he helped was covered head to toe in burns, though Sora had no idea how that could have happened without his helping hand. He called out his magic and the doctors looked amazed as the man's burn marks seemed to go away. After about an hour of healing people, Sora used his spell on the very last person in the room who he thought he would need to use 'Cure' on twice to make the man feel better. However, once he called out his spell, it felt like his Keyblade shook and the amount of green light that came out of it was much more than before.

"Wow! I think I just learned Cura," Sora exclaimed, looking around at the totally confused and awed doctors around him. He shook his head as it was clear none of them knew what he was talking about. He ran off excitedly to go tell his friends. This is great! I already leveled up my fire, blizzard, and thunder magic, so now- Sora came skidding to a stop right before he reached the cafeteria where he assumed his friends would still be.

He had a strange feeling in his gut and spun around fast. After a few seconds he chuckled and rose up his right hand, where a golden hilt appeared with a golden shaft sticking out of it. He pointed it down the hall at the four muscular black creatures that just rose out of the ground with beady white eyes and little antennae sticking out of the tops of their heads.

Sora charged his opponents and yelled out, "I knew there had to be Heartless on this world somewhere! Tell me, where is your boss?" He jumped up and slashed at a creature that was punching towards him and his Keyblade slammed into the black fist, then parried off of it. Sora bounced back, then rushed forward faster than before, closing the distance as his enemy was still stumbling back off of the parry. He slashed twice, but before he could finish the combo, two of the other muscular Heartless dove towards him.

"Fast," he whispered, and barely dodge-rolled to the left to evade them. He came out of his roll and pointed his Keyblade up at his enemies. "Thundara!" A cluster of lightning bolts came down on his enemies, shocking them for a few seconds. He tried to use another magic attack, but he could already feel it, his magic was depleted. Cure takes too much out of me, and Cura probably takes even more now! As he was distracted by his lack of magic, one of the four monsters stomped its foot on the ground hard and Sora fell backwards. He landed on his butt and looked up to see three others dropping towards him with fists pulled back. He rose up his Keyblade to block, but he couldn't block all three of them.

In the cafeteria a room over, Yamcha was standing face to face with Tien. The two of them confronted each other again, and even though Jackie Chun tried stepping in, the two were still glaring into each other's eyes and no one could tell whether or not the two of them were about to throw down. All of a sudden, the floor of the cafeteria shook and they all spun their heads to the door on the opposite side of the room.

"What was that?" Goku asked, looking away from his foot for the first time, as he was the one of the only two not paying attention to Tien and Yamcha's potential scuffle. He looked over to the door on the opposite side of the room and for some reason he felt funny.

"Whatever it is, it's not good." Jackie added, letting go of Yamcha's wrist and turning to the door on the opposite side of the room.

Luffy was still eating his food furiously, when out of his right hand suddenly shot his Keyblade. He stared at it in surprise for a second, then he and Usopp looked across the table at each other. The two pirates jumped out of their seats and started running across the room for the other door, when suddenly all the shaking stopped.

The entire room of people stared at the door for a few more seconds, when suddenly it opened up towards them. A single boy walked into the cafeteria with a casual smile on his face. "Sora! Are you alright?" Usopp asked as he reached the boy walking towards them. Sora nodded at his friends and told them he just had to deal with a few big Heartless in the hallway.

Luffy had his Keyblade out, but he noticed that Sora didn't so he lowered his arm and it disappeared again. He looked down at his hands, Guess the Keyblade knew there were Heartless here even before I did. That's weird.

"There were a few strong Heartless in the hall," Sora said as he approached his friends. He punched a fist forward, "I taught them who's boss."

"So there are Heartless on this world too," Usopp muttered, clenching his fists.

Goofy walked over and stated in his silly voice, "Gawrsh, well Leon said the Heartless would follow the Keyblades. Maybe they just found them." The others looked at the tall dog creature wearing a green shirt and yellow pants with a big yellow hat on his head. He didn't usually sound smart, but sometimes he really made sense.

"You're right," Usopp said in a low voice. "Since we didn't see any until now, unlike every other world we visited, there's a good chance the Heartless just got here."

"Remember Bikini Bottom?" Sora asked the other three. They looked at the teen and he was deep in thought too. Sora continued, "When the Heartless appeared, everyone panicked like they had no idea what was happening."

"But why only these two worlds?" Luffy asked, total confusion on the pirate captain's face as to what was going on.

Usopp scratched his chin, "I think, maybe it's because we went off course. The worlds we've been going to. Maybe, maybe they're leading us somewhere."

"And the Heartless are getting stronger on every world," Sora added, trying to put two and two together. "So, then we are probably getting closer to Maleficent! Right?" He looked around at his friends for confirmation and they all just shrugged at him.

Usopp gave the boy a small smile, "Could be," he offered. Sora smiled back and then before the conversation could continue any further, an announcement was made for everyone to return to the preliminary stages to get ready for the next matches. While the others walked off, Usopp stared at Sora's back, thinking, Either we're getting closer to Maleficent, or the Heartless are just adapting. If so, soon they will be stronger than we can handle. The worlds will… he shook his head and clenched his teeth, No. We aren't going to let that happen.

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The next round of matches were intense. Every fighter was stronger than the last and the competitors had to battle their way through the toughest matches. While most of them had finished their matches from right after lunch, they heard some commotion coming from a stage on their right and ran over to it.

On the stage was a twenty foot tall man with enormous muscles, stumbling back, and back, and then he toppled off the side of the stage. "Great job Nam!" The group heard someone shout from right next to them and turned to see Goku waving his hand at the man on the stage. The dark-skinned fellow was wearing a turban and a yellow fighting gi, and he walked over to the side and hopped off to walk over to Goku. "That was a great fight Nam," Goku told the man.

"But Nam, why are you here?" Krillin asked. "Does your village need water again?"

The dark-skinned, lean but muscular guy named Nam shook his head. "No, this time I enter the tournament for myself. To test my strength against the best fighter I have ever met," he looked down at Goku and bowed. "I can not thank you enough for what you did for my village." He looked up at the old man with blue hair who was also with them, "And Maste-" he saw the old man shaking his head furiously at him. "Oh right!" Nam said in panic. "I mean, and Jackie Chun for helping my village."

Captain Smoker almost laughed at the slip up that no one else noticed. Now I'm certain, but I still don't understand why that old man is pretending to be this Jackie Chun fellow.

While the others who were new to the group asked Jackie Chun and Goku how they helped Nam, they suddenly heard a commotion from another stage near them and watched as a man came flying off it. The guy was bald with six dots on his forehead just like Krillin, except much taller and buffer.

The man in an orange and yellow fighting gi jumped up to his feet and pointed at the stage, "Cheater! He used a weapon during the match!"

The judge on the stage looked from the man on the floor, back to the boy on the stage, then to the guy on the floor again. "I'm sorry sir, but he did not enter the ring with any weapon."

"But he's holding it right now!" the man shouted, storming back to the stage and jumping on. He pointed a finger accusingly towards Sora who needed to draw his Keyblade in order to beat this fighter. "Look!"

"It's a part of me," Sora told the man, though he wasn't sounding too sure of himself as he said it. The golden hilt and long blunt shaft shattered into a bunch of shards of white light, which made the fighter yelling at him take a step back, but still yell more at him.

Another judge ran over and started consulting the one from Sora's stage, while the kid himself looked down at his feet. I knew this was a bad idea. He looked around and saw a lot of the other fighters glaring at him as well. Maybe I should just forfeit-

"Great job Sora!"

"Nice one!"

The fourteen year old turned his head and saw Luffy and Usopp jumping up and down and cheering him on. His blue eyes opened wide and a smile tugged back at his face. Next to his friends, the members of the Turtle Hermit school were smiling as well, and a few of them called congratulations to him.

"The ruling stands," the second judge called out. "As it seems the attack came out of contestant one hundred and six's own body, it is not qualified as a weapon by our rulebooks. Contestant 106 advances."

"Nice," Sora pumped his fist in the air and hopped off the stage, walking towards his friends who were congratulating him. "It was a piece of cake," Sora said proudly, smirking at the group and then looking at the new member with a little confusion. "Who are you?" Sora asked the tall man with darker skin than the rest of them.

"Sora, this is Nam," Jackie Chun introduced the man next to him. "He was a semi-finalist from last year's tournament."

"Really?" Sora asked, looking at the man in surprise.

Nam smiled back at the boy and said, "So you are contestant 106?" The others all looked at Nam confusedly, and the man continued, "I do believe that that means we will be facing each other to determine who makes it into the finals." Sora's eyes widened and the others all looked back and forth between the two of them.

"Oh," Sora said, looking a little nervous suddenly. Then, the nerves were wiped from his face and he grinned at the man in front of him, "Well I'm going to win!"

"I look forward to seeing you try, and to what that strange Key-like weapon can do," Nam told the boy who he didn't see his match, but did see the blade disappear at the end.

Sora looked hesitant all of a sudden, "Wait, so you aren't upset that I can use it?"

"Heh," a mocking voice laughed from the left side of the group. They turned to see the arrogant triclops guy was walking past right when Sora spoke. "Only a weakling would complain about someone else getting to use a weapon. A true fighter would be able to beat you even if you have that pathetic toy."

"Pathetic toy?!" Sora yelled at the guy. "I'll show you how pathetic it is when we meet in the tournament. Oh wait, you probably won't get far enough to face me." The kid smirked at the taller, balder guy who turned and glared at him for that comment while Yamcha, Krillin, and Luffy laughed behind him.

"You don't think I'll make it far enough?" Tien asked, scoffing at the kid's arrogance. He was going to say more, but he heard his number get called and turned away. "I am going to show you just how far I am going to go." He walked away and the group of strong fighters watched him walk up to another stage and get on. He glared straight at his opponent who looked like he was part wolf, and part man, like some sort of Man-Wolf.

When the match started, Sora instantly gulped as he lost sight of the man he was just taunting. Tien appeared behind his opponent, and then glared all the way back at him, making Sora take a small step back. What Tien wasn't expecting, was that Man-Wolf was actually a half-decent fighter, and when he appeared behind him, the furry blue guy spun and slashed at him with his claws. The three-eyed man hopped backwards, barely dodging the end of the wolf's claws.

Then, it was all over before anyone could blink. Tien shot forward and his barrage of punches and kicks was too much for his opponent to keep up with. Man Wolf swung a claw, but all anyone saw were shattered nails flying up in the air as Tien punched him right in the fist. Man Wolf fell to his knees, and then Tien kicked him so hard in the head that half the room gasped thinking his opponent's neck was going to snap.

The judge called him out as the winner, then immediately shouted for medical personnel to come over and take him away. Sora was still a little tired from his last match, but he took a step towards that stage to go and help the wolf guy. As he took that step, he felt a strong steady hand on his shoulder and turned to see Jackie Chun looking him in the eyes. "Sora, I heard what you did for those injured fighters from the first rounds. And though I believe you had their best interests at heart, sometimes a fighter needs to feel pain in order to teach a valuable lesson."

"But, I want to help anyone I can," Sora told the old man next to him who was wearing a very good blue wig. "What if he's seriously hurt?"

"Hmm," Jackie Chun hummed. "Do what you think is right, but I will say it again. You have a great power to be able to heal people, but use it wisely. Many fighters would think themselves unlucky to lose a fight and come out of it without a scratch. It would sully their honor."

Sora closed his eyes, clenching his fists hard as he thought about what the old man was telling him. Then his eyes snapped open, and he ran across the room while Jackie Chun just sighed. Sora ran all the way up to the wolf-guy who was getting carried away, and he pulled out his Keyblade, curing the man. As soon as he did, he ran off, wondering now because of Jackie Chun whether the man would thank him or yell at him because of what he did.

A few more matches went by, until finally it was time for the final round of the preliminaries. Some people had to go more times than others because of the odd number of contestants, but at this point, anyone left who had to fight would be making it into the next round by winning.

Goku's match was first, and again he defeated his opponent with ease. The only match that took him more than a few seconds was his first one against King Chapa. Even his last one, against a man five times his height with muscles ten times as big, was no match for the small boy in an orange gi with a long brown monkey tail sticking out of his pants.

"You know," Usopp started, scratching his beard stubble. "I never asked about it because so many people on this w-, I mean, in this tournament are animals," he corrected himself from mentioning the worlds and had to reprimand himself mentally for almost letting it slip again. He turned to Jackie Chun and the other two besides Goku wearing orange jumpsuits. "But, why does Goku have a tail?"

"I was wondering that too," Sora mentioned, but looked away a little. "Since no one mentioned it though, I kind of thought we shouldn't."

"Well, Goku's just a monkey boy," Yamcha said with a shrug. "Takes a while to get used to, but I mean, we've seen stranger."

"Stranger than that?" Sora asked in surprise. "Like what?"

"Heh, would you believe me if I told you we saw a dragon?" Yamcha asked the kid.

"Whoa," Sora said in awe, and Yamcha sweat-dropped as the kid instantly believed him.

Jackie Chun stared at the teen confusedly, wondering how he just instantly believed that without questioning. Luffy also said that was cool, but Jackie kept staring at Sora, He does not seem like an unintelligent boy. Most people would doubt the existence of such a creature though. He looked at the taller, more muscular man next to the kid and stayed confused seeing that Usopp also believed it, and then he chuckled to himself as the funny dog-guy said it was cool too. That one, I can believe.

The next match after Goku's was a guy named Panput, who was up against Krillin. Krillin told his friends to wish him luck, then he ran up on the stage, and did the same thing Goku did by knocking his opponent out of the ring in one shot. Everyone started shouting how Pamput was an amazing boxer, how he was the top of the world in his profession, but he didn't last ten seconds with Krillin. As Jackie Chun explained it while Krillin walked over, it was not one shot, but three separate punches Krillin hit the man with in this chest, right before kicking him in the face.

"Four hits in that short a time?" Sora asked in awe, then saw Krillin smirking at him as he approached and tried not to look so amazed. He did however, say, "Good job," when the bald kid his age, but a foot shorter, walked up to him.

Krillin was planning on bragging to Sora's face, but after the kid congratulated him, he hesitated then just smirked and scratched the side of his face a little. "Ah it was nothing. Now that the finals are coming, I can really start showing what I've got."

"Yay Krillin," Goku exclaimed and started dancing around with his best friend. "We made it to the finals again!"

"Yeah, that was an impressive match," Usopp told the boy. "Though that second punch was a little too close to the family jewels." Usopp looked a little nervous at the thought of such a strong kid punching him in the nuts, but the Turtle Hermit school's students looked at him in surprise for another reason.

Jackie Chun looked at the muscular, tan-skinned man next to him. He did not look much stronger than many of the other buff figures in the room, but he seemed to have a good eye to be able to judge a single one of Krillin's fast punches. Just as he was watching the man in a white toga, Usopp lifted up his head a little hearing his number get called. He turned to the side and flashed his friends a smile, before leaping up in the air and doing a front flip on top of the stage.

As soon as he got up there, Yamcha groaned because he heard his name be called from another stage nearby. "I really wanted to see this fight," he complained as he turned and started walking away.

"Don't worry, there won't be much to see," a voice said walking the other way. Yamcha and the man turned towards each other, and the guy walking towards Usopp's stage turned out to be the guy with three eyes from before. Tien smirked while looking at Yamcha, "I'm sure it will be over quickly." He walked the rest of his way to the stage and hopped up.

Tien's shirt and undershirt were gone since he took them off before his first match after lunch. Usopp looked across the stage to the other extremely muscular fighter who he had seen a few of his matches. This guy is brutal, but he's also one of the strongest people in this room. I'll need to think smart.

"Too bad, this is as far as you're going to make it," Tien mocked his opponent.

Usopp glared into his enemy's eyes and then closed his eyes. "If you ever lose your sword in the middle of the battle, which you shouldn't because it's an extension of your body! Anyway Captain Laserblades, if you ever lose your sword, or if your weapon breaks, it does not mean the fight is over. The stance for fighting with your fists is different that with a sword though. Like this." Usopp opened back up his eyes and turned his body to the side, lifting up his arms into a fighting stance that he felt he didn't need for most of the other matches. In his mind suddenly flashed the last time he used this stance, and Maleficent's face appeared in his mind right before he recalled the dozen meteors, thorny vines, and green flames that devastated him in his battle with her. I will not let myself lose again, not like in Agrabah. It's my fault Jasmine was taken. I need to redeem myself, right here!

"Match begin!" The judge called out.

Usopp pressed his feet down hard on the tiles beneath him and then kicked off the floor. Tien had watched a few of this man's former fights, but never before had Usopp shown such speed. He rose up his arms and blocked the kick that came flying at him. He uncrossed his arms to try and punch the man, but Usopp backflipped off of the kick to avoid being hit. He landed on his hands and then flipped again back on his feet where he got in his stance and lifted up his right arm to block Tien's first strike.

Tien's left kick slammed into Usopp's right arm and the men pushed against each other for a few seconds. He's strong! Usopp thought, having to raise his other hand to push against his blocking arm in order to steady it.

This man is not even a member of the worthless Turtle Hermit's school. How is such an amateur blocking my kick? Tien frowned angrily and spun his other leg, catching Usopp on the other side and making the man in a white togo slide back across the floor. Tien sprinted after him and punched over and over while Usopp crossed his arms to try and block them all. He saw fists flying at him so fast that it was getting hard to dodge and block them all. A few got past and slammed into his chest, but he remained on his feet until Tien moved faster than before and came up behind him, slamming a leg into his back.

Usopp hit the floor and skid across it almost all the way to the edge. Tien stopped moving for a second and stood up straight, glaring over at Usopp who staggered up on his feet, then spun with a determined look in his eyes. "Pathetic," the triclops said, grinning mockingly at his foe. "I'm surprised they let such losers into the tournament."

"Hey! Usopp's not a loser!" Luffy yelled from the side of the ring. "He's going to kick your butt!"

Usopp smiled a little as Tien looked over and glared at his captain. Thanks Luffy, I needed that. The sweat on Usopp's face went away and the man stomped his feet down on the floor, pushing the tiles down beneath him with his strength. "I'll have you know I defeated the top hundred strongest men in the world in single combat," Usopp bragged, lifting up his right hand as he did and grabbing the white sash over his shoulder.

The liar slid the sash off and let it drop to his side so that all he had on was the white cloth around his waist. He clenched his fists tightly and lifted them up on either side of his body, while Tien stared at the scar going from his shoulder all the way across his body to his waist. "I did not get to where I am today," Usopp continued through a strained voice as his muscles bulked a little more. "By losing to freaks, like you!" Usopp yelled and then charged across the arena towards his opponent.

He's faster than before, Tien thought as he had to raise up his hands and block each one of Usopp's punches as the man arrived. He saw Usopp fully extend his arm in a punch that went past his face, and he ducked down followed by a chop up into Usopp's armpit. The gladiator winced, but kept from screaming out in pain and brought down his other elbow towards the man crouched in front of him. Tien saw the elbow coming down and he swept out a leg, taking Usopp's feet out from under him and making the incoming elbow miss.

While Usopp fell, he swung a fist from his arm screaming in pain after Tien hit him in the armpit. As he punched, he heard a crack in his own shoulder, but Tien wasn't expecting a fist from the arm he thought he dislocated, and the fist collided with his chest, knocking him back across the floor. Tien skid backwards while Usopp landed flat on his stomach. The muscular young pirate heard his friends calling out his name and he knew his opponent would be charging right back towards him. He pushed both hands down beneath him, then pressed down hard, throwing himself high up right as Tien was bringing down a foot towards him. His back slammed into the bottom of Tien's leg faster than the martial artist was prepared for, and Tien was knocked backwards. He stumbled back on one foot, and right as he regained balance with his other, Usopp was coming down with both hands pulled together in a fist towards Tien's bald skull.

Tien reached up both hands, and caught Usopp by the wrists as the man fell in front of him. Usopp was surprised he got caught in midair, but he used it to his advantage and kicked forward both of his legs. He kneed Tien in the chest over and over, but suddenly the man in front of him started laughing, and laughing even harder as Usopp continued to knee him. He clenched harder on Usopp's wrists, and the former sharpshooter clenched his eyes in pain and opened his mouth, but closed it again, refusing to scream out in pain. "A tough guy huh? Let's change that," Tien tossed him up in the air, then jumped up after him. Usopp managed to open his eyes again, just in time to see the knuckles as they collided with his face.

Only a few people were able to fully see how many times Tien slammed his fists and legs into Usopp while the other man could not fight back. "Usopp!" Sora shouted at the man in the sky who was being hit by a flurry of blows. "Fight back!"

"Usopp!"

"Us-" Luffy started, then dropped his jaw as Tien lifted up both fists above Usopp's head like the man with the long nose did for him a minute ago. Only this time, Tien's attack followed through. Both of his fists crashed down on Usopp's skull, slamming the man's jaw closed so his teeth chattered together, making blood spurt out of his nose and his eyes to roll back into his head. Luffy's eyes widened and the black pupils got larger with a smaller white dot in the middle for a second, "USOPP!"

The tan-skinned man crashed down into the stage below and did not move an inch. Tien landed next to him and laughed at the fool lying on the ground next to him who thought he would pose a challenge. "As I said, pathetic," he laughed and turned away, walking off the stage as the judges called out that he was the victor.

Yamcha was running back over to the arena to see what happened, when he saw Tien walking his way with a cocky smirk on his face. Behind him, he could see Goku and the others running up on the stage with worried looks on their faces. Yamcha glowered at the three-eyed man, "What did you do?" He snarled at him. "What happened to Usopp?"

"Ha! That idiot?" He motioned with his head back to the stage he was walking away from. "You should just be glad I let him live."

Yamcha glared into Tien's eyes, all three of them. "When we meet in the finals, I'm going to teach you a lesson you won't soon forget," Yamcha growled at him.

"Wow, I'm amazed you made it. I could never do what you do. Survive on blind luck alone," Tien shook his head as if in disbelief that someone could possibly be so stupidly lucky.

"We'll see if it's luck when I'm kicking your teeth in," Yamcha replied.

"It's so sad when losers mistake their luck for actual skill," Tien said then started laughing. He would have continued to laugh, if he didn't hear the number of someone he actually wanted to watch fight. He turned from Yamcha and glanced at him, "We'll continue this in the ring."

"Couldn't have said it better myself," Yamcha retorted.

Over at Stage 2, two fighters were getting up on the stage and facing each other. Luffy kept looking back over his shoulder at the other stage where Sora was holding his Keyblade over Usopp, but even his Cure magic didn't wake up the man who had blood seeping out of his eyes after that final blow.

The bump was hard to see under all of Usopp's thick curly hair, but Sora was feeling around for it and even after his magic the bump was still huge. He just sighed in relief that Usopp's head didn't crack open completely.

While he was helping Usopp, Goku and Krillin were angrily looking over towards Tien who was at the stage next to them. Yamcha walked over to his younger friends and growled, "I can't believe that guy."

"He was already winning," Krillin said in his high-pitched voice. "There was no need for him to be so brutal."

Goku just growled in agreement, and then all three of them saw why the man was standing in front of Luffy's stage. Standing in front of the skinny pirate, was a boy only a foot tall, maybe a little more. He had pale white skin and a black hat over his dome. He was wearing the same yellow baggy clothes and green cover that his older friend Tien had on earlier.

"Finish him quickly Chiaotzu," Tien told the shorter member of the Crane school.

Jackie Chun and the boys from the Turtle Hermit school walked over to the stage as well, looking back one more time at Usopp and Sora before heading there. As they turned back and walked over to see Luffy fight this small figure, Jackie Chun froze and turned around as he heard his number get called as well. "Well, I'll see you boys later," he told the kids in orange gis around him.

"Aw Jackie, you're fighting now too?" Goku asked disappointedly, wanting to watch his new friend Luffy and his old friend Jackie Chun fight.

"Oh don't worry," the old man with a blue wig said to them. "I believe that I may be able to win this fight as well. Wish me luck boys," he turned and walked over towards Stage 4.

"Good luck!" Goku called after the man.

Up on the stage in front of Goku and his friends, Luffy kept looking over at Usopp while the match got ready. The small person in front of him looked over where Luffy was facing, then looked back at the man in front of him. "If you're his friend," the little guy spoke in a really high-pitched voice, "then you must be very weak."

Luffy kept staring at Usopp for a few seconds, though his head did twitch and his eyes narrowed. He slowly turned towards the little man in front of him, and recognized the uniform the boy was wearing. "So you're with him?" Luffy asked dangerously, his eyes darting to the man behind Chiaotzu. Tien saw the pirate's gaze, and he immediately knew this teenager in front of him was stronger than the man he just defeated.

Tien looked at his partner's back and spoke telepathically to him, "Chiaotzu, be careful. I am sure he is no match for you, but he is a strong opponent. Do not hold back as much as in your previous matches."

The little guy looked back and nodded at the man behind him, but as he looked back forward his eyes widened to see the skinny figure in a red tank top open down the middle standing right in front of him. Luffy had on a pair of blue pants rolled up to his knees, and he reached behind his back, grabbing the hat he had resting there and placing it on top of his head. "Don't speak badly about Usopp," Luffy said in a low voice to the smaller figure in front of him.

The judge looked at these two fighters and he gulped before raising up his hand, "Let the match, begin!"

"Why's that?' Chiaotzu asked his opponent, regarding Luffy's last order. "He's weak-"

Luffy slammed his fist forward towards the small guy's face. Chiaotzu's eyes widened at how fast the fist was approaching and he had to leap up to get away from it. Luffy was able to follow his movements though and watched as the small figure reached the top of his arc, then punched towards him.

Krillin grinned from the side of the arena, "He's got him!"

Right as Luffy's fist was about to hit Chiaotzu however, the little man lifted higher up in the air over Luffy's fist. The pirate snapped his arm back to his side, his rubber powers shocking the people around him once again at how strange they were. Still, what shocked people even more perhaps, was the fact that Chiaotzu was not coming down. The pale boy floated up in the air with his arms at his sides, smiling down at Luffy who had a confused look on his face.

"He's flying!" Yamcha exclaimed in surprise as he had never seen anything like this before.

Luffy just kept glaring up at the man in the sky. This one's for Usopp. He saw how fast that little man moved to dodge both of his fists, and he knew he was not going to hit him at this speed. Before Luffy could make a move however, Chiaotzu descended from the air quickly and appeared right behind Luffy's head. The pirate was only mid-turn when the boy kicked him in the left temple.

Tien smirked as it looked like Chiaotzu might have ended the fight right there, as Luffy's head snapped to the side so far it looked like it might have broken. Then, his neck extended out and his head snapped right back into place. "That won't work," Luffy laughed, spinning on his left foot and raising his right leg at the same time. "Because I'm rubber!" He slammed his leg out towards the smaller figure who backed out of his range, but then lowered his bottom lip as Luffy's foot extended and crashed into his stomach. "Gum Gum Stamp!"

The smaller fighter went flying back and everyone looked closely as he neared the wall on the other side of the ring. Right as he was about to hit it, he stopped in midair. The little man floated up high and panted a few times while glaring down at Luffy. "Chiaotzu! No more playing around!" Tien called up at his pale-faced partner. "Finish him off!"

"You can do it Luffy!" a voice yelled, making Tien and many of the others at the stage turn around.

Standing back near Stage 1, standing tall, was the man in a white toga with the sash back over his shoulder. He did not even look over at a shocked Tien, just kept looking at his Captain on the arena floor. "Kick his butt Luffy!" Usopp shouted at the younger man who used to be the same age as him.

"Usopp," Luffy whispered as he glanced over and saw his comrade doing alright. "Yosh!" He turned back and faced the sky where his opponent was looking down at him. "Come down here!" Luffy yelled up in the air, then rose up his right bicep and grabbed it with his left hand. "I'm gonna kick your ass!"

"Haha," Chiaotzu laughed down at the pirate. He rose up his right finger to the side of his head and everyone looked closely as a small ball of yellow light formed on it. The tiny ball grew bigger and sparks flew from it as Chiaotzu looked down into Luffy's confused eyes, "Dodon Ray!" He yelled, pointing his finger down at the arena floor.

Luffy saw the attack coming close and got ready to take it, when suddenly he imagined that ball colliding with his body and bursting him into flames. His eyes widened as the vision stopped and the attack was almost upon him. He leapt to the right and the ball crashed into the floor where he was just standing, exploding in a fireball. "Ah, that was going to burn me!" He landed and then looked up, only to go wide-eyed at three more of those Dodon Rays coming down towards him.

"Dodon?" Goku questioned as he heard the attack name that was being shouted by Chiaotzu. "I swear I've heard that attack before," he scratched his chin trying to think back on where he had heard of it.

As Luffy jumped around on the stage dodging all the attacks, Tien turned his head over to Goku. He marched over and glared down at the younger boy, "What do you mean you've heard that attack before?"

Goku turned and glared at the guy who hurt Usopp a minute ago. "I remember now. Mercenary Tao used it when I defeated him."

"What?!" Tien shouted. "There's no way a punk like you could have beaten Tao."

"It's the truth," Goku replied, angry that the guy was doubting his word. "Tao killed my friend's father, so we fought each other. When he lost, he tried throwing a grenade at me and I kicked it back at him. He got caught in the explosion."

Tien's face covered in sweat as he glared down at the kid with shaking hands of anger. Tao was one of the strongest men I've ever known. It's impossible for a brat like this to have beaten him.

Another explosion rang out on the arena and everyone looked to see Luffy barely made it away from that one. The pirate patted down the front of his shirt that had caught fire and finally had to take it off and throw it to the side where it burst into flames. "Grrr," he growled at the loss of his favorite shirt. He snapped his head up in the air and finally realized why another Dodon Ray hadn't come down yet. Up in the air above their tournament stage, Chiaotzu was holding up his right hand again, only this time the size of the Dodon was much larger than any time before. He held of a glowing yellow ball that was at least ten times the size of his own body and kept pulsing golden light.

All of the other fighters around the room looked over in awe at the enormous attack forming in Chiaotzu's hand. Luffy himself went wide-eyed as it grew even larger, and he finally gritted his teeth and slammed his hands down on his knees. "Alright," the pirate in a straw hat growled, "Gear, Second!" He pressed down on his knees and his legs from below the knee all the way to his feet pumped. His legs pressed down like a couple of accordions and then extended back to normal.

"What was that?" Goku asked in surprise.

"Go for it Luffy!" Sora called out from next to Usopp.

"You can do it, hyuck!" Sora snapped his head to the right and saw Goofy was right with him, cheering on Luffy. Goofy smiled at the teenager on the fighting stage and shouted, "Luffy!" Sora smiled and turned back, then yelled out his friend's name too.

Chiaotzu finally felt his huge ball of energy was big enough, and he threw it down at the stage below. "DODON RAY!" Most of the other fighters in the room backed up far, but Luffy just stood in place while his skin turned red and steam came off of him. The ball crashed into the stage and the explosion was so large that Goku, Tien, Sora, and everyone else had to shield their faces with their arms as the heat from it pressed against them. Debris flew everywhere and Chiaotzu just stared down at the top of his explosion that covered the entire center of the stage.

"That's one crazy attack," Sora muttered as he finally lowered his arms from his face. He looked up in the air, surprising Goofy and Usopp who were staring at the smoke of the explosion, looking around for the captain. Usopp suddenly noticed that the boy with spiky black hair on his right and the tall bald man weren't looking down at the explosion either, and he snapped his head up in the air.

Tien stared up at his partner and shouted, "Chiaotzu! Behind you!"

The little man got midway through turning when Luffy appeared to the rest of the participants' eyes who couldn't see him before. Luffy had his left palm pointed towards the small man, and his right fist clenched next to him. Chiaotzu looked terrified as Luffy showed up behind him, not because of his sudden arrival, but because of the enraged snarl on Luffy's face. It was hard for Luffy not to grind his teeth like this with the amount of pain he was in after transforming into this form. At least I did it in one pump this time, he thought, while slamming his right fist forward so fast that Chiaotzu was barely able to lean back away from it.

Still, the punch was strong enough to make Chiaotzu's head snap to the side and some blood to come out of his mouth. Luffy continued with his punches, and they started moving so fast that it looked like he had dozens of hands punching at Chiaotzu at the same time. Chiaotzu was dodging back and forth, but as the fists moved faster and faster, he stopped being able to dodge them all. Luffy was dropping down towards the stage, since unlike Chiaotzu he could not fly, but he wanted one last hit before he was done and threw his right leg all the way up.

His right foot crashed through the ceiling and kept rising higher and higher.

Over in the waiting area nearby the preliminary room, hundreds of people and anthropomorphic animals looked up over the building at the foot extending higher and higher up into the air. Nami and Robin were walking back towards their new friends sitting at a table when they saw the extending steaming foot up above the building. Nami pumped her right fist in the air, "Go for it Luffy!"

Bulma and the others sitting at the table looked over to see Nami smiling at the building while she shouted that. The blue haired woman looked back over at the building and her eyes turned huge, "That's Luffy?!" She exclaimed, suddenly putting a lot more thought into that bet she made with Nami.

Inside the tournament room, everyone gawking up at the ceiling only did so for a second longer, before Luffy slammed his risen leg back down through the roof. "Gum Gum, JET AXE!" He slammed his foot down right on Chiaotzu's head and the midget dropped out of the air like a missile, until Luffy's foot slammed him into the tournament stage and down into the ground. The stage split in half and chunks of it went flying in every direction.

Sora rose up his arms again to block from debris just like he had to block Chiaotzu's explosion not long before. When he lowered his arms he watched Luffy drop down and land on one side of the crack going through the stage. There was a large hole in the middle of the arena with two cracks going out to either edge from the hole. Scorch marks covered most of the ring, and Luffy spat to his side as he landed. As his feet touched the ground the steam stopped coming off his body, his Gear Second wearing off.

Tien had his lower jaw dropped, but slowly it closed again even while most other people in the room shouted in shock. He stared at the stage seriously and glared right at Luffy, but then his attention shifted to the hole in the stage. "Get up Chiaotzu."

"Great job Luffy!" Krillin called up to the pirate. "You taught that freak what for!"

"Woohoo!" Sora cheered.

Luffy turned to his friends and looked right at Usopp. He grinned at the long nosed man and his friend smiled back at him. Usopp didn't need to say anything, he and Luffy both knew that was a fight to avenge his loss in the one previous. While Usopp smiled at his captain however, his eyes started getting wider and wider and Luffy spun around to where Usopp's gaze was pointed. Luffy became shocked himself at the sight of Chiaotzu floating up out of the hole in the stage.

The judge who was walking over to the hole in order to call the match fell backwards when he saw the little guy covered in cuts and bruises lifting out of the floor. Chiaotzu frowned deeply at Luffy and then his body started spinning around. He spun so fast it was hard to see his face anymore, and he turned sideways so he was parallel to the arena floor. His black hat had come off when he was hit by Luffy's steaming foot, and his pure white head glistened as he shot towards Luffy like a bullet. Luffy tried punching the small man, but Chiaotzu's spinning head pushed his fist to the side and the boy kept flying, slamming straight into Luffy's chest.

Luffy slammed to the ground and tumbled back across one side of the arena. He got up to his feet and jumped to the left as the spinning, flying boy almost crashed into him again. Luffy threw both of his arms far behind his back, "I'm winning this!" The pirate yelled, putting his hands together so far back he was almost touching the wall near the entrance to the building. "Gum Gum-"

The spinning kid suddenly stopped spinning right in front of Luffy and he pointed his right index finger forward instead. "Dodon Ray!" He yelled, right as Luffy started bringing forward his Gum Gum Bazooka. Luffy's eyes went wide and he tried to shout out the last word of his attack, but the ball of yellow light slammed into him first. The room filled with light as an explosion blasted over Luffy.

"Luffy!" Sora and Usopp yelled at the same time.

"Oh no!" Goofy exclaimed. He looked at the stage where a huge blast of fire erupted followed by a cloud of smoke. The dog brought up his gloves to his face, "Uh oh." He thought about how King Mickey entrusted him and Donald to follow the Key, yet he just let one of the Keybearers…

"As I thought," Tien laughed from next to the group of fighters watching the match. "In the end he was no match for Chiaotzu's skills."

Said fighter was smiling at the explosion in front of him, and he lowered down to the ground. The short man planted his feet in their black shoes to the floor, then turned to start walking away. "This match is over," he bragged. He took one more step and then his face covered in sweat, making him stop moving. The smoke behind him was clearing and everyone else watching the stage gasped at the sight of the figure standing in the smoke, covered in burns.

Luffy's head was bowed and his bangs were singed from underneath his hat. Luffy reached up his right hand slowly and grabbed the hat on top of his head. He took it off and looked at the front of it, to see there was some black from where the flames of the explosion burnt his hat. Usopp dropped his jaw a little and muttered, "Uh oh." Sora and Goofy looked in towards their friend who gulped in front of them. "Luffy really doesn't like it when people touch his hat. It's his treasure."

As Usopp was saying it, Luffy stated, "Usopp. Catch." The long nosed man was surprised, but lifted up his hands and carefully caught his captain's hat as it was tossed to him. Luffy took a step out of the clearing smoke towards his opponent, and he started rising up his fists again. "You bastards hurt my friends, made fun of my nakama," Luffy threw one of his hands far back behind his body and it spun around and around.

"Now Chiaotzu!" Tien yelled. "Don't hold back!"

"Haa!" Chiaotzu yelled, rising up his hands at the pirate in front of him. His hands seemed to glow yellow for a second, and Luffy dropped down to his knees, his arm snapping back to his side as he yelled out in pain. "Hahaha!" Chiaotzu laughed as Luffy started moaning and groaning at the pain.

"My, stomach," Luffy sputtered out as his face turned blue. My insides feel like they're being clenched. I can't, move. He lifted up his head a little while grabbing his stomach with both hands. Chiaotzu floated up in the air a little and then hovered straight up to him. The little guy looked Luffy straight in the eyes, then in an instant he had a knee slammed into the side of Luffy's face. The pirate just sat there on his knees while Chiaotzu kicked back and forth, over and over again into Luffy's face and body.

"Stop it," Luffy growled, then oofed and winced as he was hit two more times, both by Chiaotzu's legs. The boy never punched him, just kept his hands pointed out towards Luffy while the pirate groaned in agony, his body tearing itself apart from the inside.

"What's happening to him?" Sora asked loudly, looking around to see if anyone knew.

"How many secret techniques does this guy know?!" Krillin exclaimed angrily.

Luffy lifted his head some more as Chiaotzu slammed his left foot into his face again. This time, Luffy pushed his face right into the kick and then kept turning, making Chiaotzu sweat as he made eye contact with the pirate. Luffy slammed his clenched right hand down on the already broken stage hard, and cracks shot out around his fist. He let go of his aching stomach with his other hand too, and slammed that one down as a fist. Chiaotzu started floating back while his partner stared at Luffy in shock, That's impossible. No one should be able to escape from Chiaotzu in that position!

The pirate whose clothes were torn, whose hat was charred, whose body was burned, whose friends were injured right in front of his eyes, stood up on one leg followed right by the other. Chiaotzu glared harder at his opponent, even as he floated back through the air, but he never once lowered his hands from in front of him. Luffy stood there, unable to move his arms anymore as his body screamed out in pain. Hit him! Punch him! AAHHHH MY STOMACH! His hands twitched to clench his torso again, but he resisted the urge and just bowed his head. "I won't lose," he growled, his voice dangerously low. "I need to get stronger," his hands clenched and the pain became bearable.

Across the room, two men were facing off against each other from different sides of a stage. Both of them felt the shift in the air and they spun, looking back across the room at another stage that had been drawing their attention for a while now. Smoker's eyes tripled in size and his bottom lip lowered. "There's no way," he whispered.

Luffy snapped his head up and glared straight into Chiaotzu's eyes. Wind raced around him and dust lifted up as he did. The rubberman's black pupils dilated and a smaller white circle appeared in the center of them. "You won't stand in my way!" He yelled at the pale child in front of him. Out from Luffy's body exuded a force of energy that slammed straight into Chiaotzu, but also slammed out in every direction around Luffy.

Krillin and Yamcha's eyes popped out of their sockets and they stuck their tongues out at the sudden burst of energy. They heard thuds behind them and turned around only to drop their jaws further as the majority of the people in the room collapsed. Their eyes rolled back into their heads and Luffy's strange aura made them drop down to the ground.

Smoker stared straight over at Luffy while almost everyone between them collapsed to the ground in the rush of aura.

The boy in front of Luffy lowered his arms down, his entire body covering in sweat as he felt his will breaking. He looked down at his hands as they lowered, wondering what was happening. Chiaotzu heard Tien call his name, and he snapped his head back up, only to see Luffy with his spinning arm all the way back again. He tried raising up his arms, but Luffy was already throwing his spinning arm forward this time. "Gum Gum RIFLE!"

"That turtle is probably lost, or maybe he just ran away," Master Shen said, then laughed at the group of women sitting at a table in front of him. "He knows his students don't stand a chance against my own."

As Bulma opened her mouth to shout a retort at the old geezer, everyone in the waiting area spun around hearing a loud crash. They all looked over towards the large building where the preliminaries were taking place, and watched as an entire section of the wall got knocked down and debris flew outwards towards them.

Nami sighed as she saw Luffy breaking the building again, but then she smirked wide seeing what it was on the end of that long extending fist. "What was that you were saying about your students making it to the finals?" Nami asked the annoying old man in front of her. "You must be going senile. Isn't that one of them there?"

The Crane Hermit's jaw dropped at the sight of the wall breaking, but even more so as he saw what Nami was talking about. "Chiaotzu!" he yelled in fury. "How dare you disappoint me like this?!" He watched as the small boy dropped with the rest of the debris and landed on the ground far outside the arena.

Inside the building, Luffy's arm snapped back to his body and he took a deep breath seeing that his opponent was knocked out. He looked around to see if the judges would call his match, but then tilted his head in confusion as the judge for his match was unconscious next to the stage. "What happened to him?" Luffy asked, turning towards Usopp and the rest of them. His eyes opened a little wider as other than Usopp, Sora, Goofy, Goku, Krillin, Yamcha, Jackie Chun, Tien, and a small handful of other people, everyone was knocked out. "What happened to everyone?" he asked again, this time looking around the room at the dozens of knocked out people all around him.

"Well this sure is interesting," Jackie said after getting over his shock. He looked across the stage to the shocked man across from him who he hadn't really started his match against yet. "It seems that our officiator has been incapacitated," he said with a laugh. Smoker finally got over his shock just enough to glance over at Master Roshi in his disguise. The old man continued, "Why don't we take a small break before our match then. We will need a judge to continue after all."

Smoker nodded his head slowly, then watched as the old man hopped off the stage. He looked over towards Stage 2 where everyone was gathered around Luffy. Straw Hat knows Haki of the Conquering King. I never would have guessed. With that power he could become one of the most feared pirates on the sea, if he ever learned how to control it properly. I shouldn't give him that chance… Smoker clenched his teeth as he glared over at the young man, laughing and scratching the back of his head in confusion. Forget about pirates and the sea! The ocean is gone! The world is gone! With that strength, maybe he would be able to fight someone like Maleficent. NO! As soon as I consider these pirates as allies, is the minute I lose all honor as a Marine. Straw Hat, his eyes narrowed across the room at the dangerous pirate, I swore I would take you down, and that's what I'm going to do.

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A/N Hey everyone! Hope you enjoyed the chapter, the really, really long chapter. XD Anyway, leave a review telling me what you think: your reactions for the chapter, predictions for the next one, or any other comments. I'm still writing the next chapter but I'll post it as soon as I'm finished with it.

avatoa chapter 16 . Jun 22

Oh sweet fudge, here we go.

Haha, the tournament has begun! I was trying to think of another cool world that would make the characters stronger, and nothing like a world based around fighting to help out with that!

Guest chapter 16 . Jun 22

Nice addition with Bulma and Oolong! does that mean we are going to see Son Goku (I'm assuming Dragon Ball era) at some point further down the road?

Im liking how you handled Luffy's character struggle with Zoro's turn to the "darkside" , it seems to be very in character!

Yep! We definitely got some Son Goku in here, and you were right, it is Dragon Ball era Goku. Putting them into Dragon Ball Z would have been a little hard for Sora and Luffy, but here they've got a chance to really show their stuff. Thanks for the review and I'm glad you like the Zoro turning evil bit!

Thanks again to everyone who reviewed! 'Till next time!