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.

21. Chapter 21

BLP 21:

"Sora, you did it!" Luffy shouted as he hopped over the wall from the finalists' area onto the stage. He ran over to Sora who once he lost his Wisdom Form, fell down to his butt in exhaustion. Sora was panting really hard, but hearing Luffy behind him he turned his head a little and flashed a pirate a smile.

"Ha, ha, did, you ever, doubt me?" Sora asked between breaths. Donald came running up on stage with Goofy while Goku ran the other way and hopped off the stage to go check on Krillin who was moaning as he lay on the ground. Donald ran up and used healing magic on Sora, but the kid held up a hand after receiving one burst, "I'm fine," Sora told the duck. Donald tilted his head to the side confused at why Sora would tell him to stop considering he was still injured, but Sora stood up himself and started walking to the edge of the ring.

He hopped down and walked towards Krillin whose friends were all gathered around him. "Here," Sora started, and they turned to the kid who just defeated their friend. Sora waved his Keyblade and stated, "Cure." A veil of green light shimmered over Krillin making the cuts on his chest seal up, his black burns fade, and the cuts and bruises around his body become fainter. The boy stopped moaning as much, but when he opened up his eyes he still looked defeated.

"Oh man," Krillin mumbled as he sat up and stared at the people around him. "I can't believe I lost."

"It's okay Krillin," Goku told his best friend while helping him up to his feet. "There's always next time-"

"But I wanted to stick it to that three-eyed freak for Yamcha," Krillin said in annoyance. He turned to Sora and frowned at the spiky haired taller teen, "I call hacks! That weapon is-"

"Krillin!" Master Roshi snapped, shutting the little bald boy up instantly. The group spun to the old man standing there who glared down at his pupil and started lecturing him about being a sore loser and other stuff like that while complimenting Sora on his skills. Sora looked downcast for a minute after hearing Krillin, but once Roshi was done talking, Krillin sighed and admitted that Sora was 'pretty good.'

"Wow, thanks Krillin," Sora told the younger boy. "I don't think I've fought anyone as skilled as you before though."

"Really?" Krillin asked excitedly.

Sora nodded his head a few times. He opened back up his mouth, but someone cleared his nasally voice behind him and he turned around. Standing there with a blue hat on his head and a wand in his hand was Donald, tapping his right foot on the ground impatiently. "It's time to go," Donald quacked.

"Huh?" Sora asked. "But I thought we were staying until the end of the-"

"Nooo!" Donald quacked in an outstretched voice. "There isn't any time!"

"I already told you Donald, we aren't leaving yet," Luffy told the duck.

"Since when do you make the decisions?" Donald quacked angrily at the pirate.

"Well I'm the Captain," Luffy said like it was obvious.

"WHAT?!" Donald quacked.

Most of the people around them were just staring at this exchange with confused looks, though Krillin started asking Sora what they meant about leaving before the tournament was over. As Sora explained how they were kind of in a rush to get out of there, Nami interrupted him and mentioned that they could stay for a few more days if it meant getting that prize money, to which Donald instantly started quacking at her again.

"But Donald, Sora and Luffy are both in the semi-finals," Goofy began in a quiet voice to his friend. "Gawrsh, if they leave now a bunch of people are going to be upset."

"Shuddup ya' big palooka!" Donald snapped at the royal knight. "A lot more people are gonna be upset if we don't leave now! And the King's one of them!"

"Why do you need to leave so soon?" Goku asked and tilted his head to the side.

"We don't," Luffy responded casually.

"QUA-QUA-QUACK!" Donald yelled, throwing his arms up in the air and quacking like mad.

"Is everything alright over there?" a voice asked very loudly and the boisterous group turned to see Rick standing at the edge of the stage looking at them all. Not only the announcer though, but every single person in the crowd was staring their way, and a few of them shied back realizing how much attention they were drawing.

"Yes, we're fine. Now, get on with the next match already!" Bulma snapped up at the announcer.

"Whoa!" Rick exclaimed. The man stumbled a few steps back and wiped his forehead of some sweat. "O-kay then! We're going to finish today's quarterfinal matches with a doozie folks! Will Son Goku and Gurgle please come to the stage?!" Rick shouted. Everyone wished Goku luck and the boy climbed back up on the stage before giving his friends another wave. Rick started announcing how Goku was the second place winner of the last tournament, a student of Master Roshi, and that his opponent was a mysterious figure in the martial arts world.

"What is he wearing?" a bear man muttered just a row behind where Sora and Luffy's group were watching from.

"I can barely see his face."

"What's up with his eyes?"

The figure in a brown trench coat was almost impossible to see. His hands did not come out of his sleeves and his coat covered up his feet too. As he stepped through the entryway to the waiting area it looked more like he slid across the floor like Sora in his Wisdom Form. He had a hat with a large rim pulled down over his face and his coat was pulled up over the bottom half of his face too, so all that was visible were his eyes and the small amount of black skin showing around them.

"Hello there Mr. Gurgle-sir," Goku greeted his opponent. "I look forward to fighting you."

"Grr, gurgg, grll," the person in front of Goku made noises like his name implied.

Nico Robin chuckled from the sidelines and Nami turned to her with a questioning look. Robin saw the look and said to her friend, "I wonder if when the monks asked for the contestant's name, they just wrote down the noise they heard?"

"Gurgle," the figure on the stage mumbled loudly, and Nami started laughing, before closing her mouth and feeling a bead of sweat drip down her face as Gurgle turned her way. She quickly realized he was not looking at her though, but at a boy standing not far on her left. She turned and saw Sora staring right back into the man's little white eyes, staring suspiciously at the figure who reminded him of something he did not like.

Goku scratched the side of his head as he did not really know what the figure was doing. Even as Rick started telling them to get ready, Gurgle kept staring right at Sora. Rick called for the match to begin, and the black figure looked back at Goku. It moved forward a foot, and then Goku was right in front of it. Goku punched five times into the creature's front in what looked like one hit to most people there. Actually, most of them just saw his arm sticking out like he had punched, but never saw the movement itself.

The figure in a trench coat lifted off the ground and up in the air a few feet. He flew back over ten yards and off of the stage. Half of the audience shouted, "Whaaat?" The other half just lowered their bottom lips at Goku's speed and ability to end a quarterfinal bout in a fraction of the time it took anyone else. Rick started shouting amazed praise for the boy and he called for someone to go check on Gurgle.

When they all looked back away from Goku towards the supposedly injured fighter though, everyone was confused to see there was no one there. Even Goku had taken his eyes off of his defeated enemy for a second and when he looked around he felt a weird sensation in his gut now that the guy was missing.

He was not the only one. Usopp turned to Robin and he saw the woman looked back at him and nod. They had both seen it when the figure lifted off the ground: what was underneath his trench coat. "We should go after him," Usopp stated, turning to the group and suggesting it.

"After Gurgle? Why?" Nami questioned, but she saw Sora and Luffy both nod at Usopp as well.

Sora turned to Donald and flashed the duck a small smile, "See, there is still good reason for us to be here."

Donald frowned, but he nodded his head and lifted his wand while Goofy pulled out his shield next to him. Sora started running off with Luffy at his side, and the rest of their group followed after them. Krillin stared after them confusedly, but he turned back and ran up to the stage to congratulate his best friend, and complain that he got the harder of the two quarterfinal matches they were in.

The travelers who chased after Gurgle ran as a group away from the stage and over to a bunch of tables where spectators ate between rounds. There were umbrellas sticking out of the middles of every table, and they all had different colors. The teens, pirates, and animals looked around and they were frowning as Gurgle was nowhere in sight.

"Where do you think he ran off to?" Nami questioned.

"I don't think Gurgle is a 'he' at all," Sora began. "I think it's a Heartless."

"He was too restrained to be a Heartless though," Nami added. She looked at the boy who turned to her as well and she continued, "Most Heartless would attack you and Luffy right away because of your Keyblades."

"That's not always true though," Usopp started. Everyone turned to the muscular man in a white toga, "Remember the Colosseum? Those Heartless entered tournaments too. I think, Hades probably put them up to it."

"Like Maleficent and Jafar, this Hades must have the power to control the Heartless," Robin observed.

"So someone who can control the Heartless, is here?" Sora asked, looking around to see if the others were in agreement.

Before their discussion could continue, Nami yelled out in fright and everyone looked ahead of them to see the umbrellas on every table lifting out of the holes in the middle. There were yellow umbrellas, red ones, blue, green, and a black one in the back. Oozing darkness spread out around a little area of them to make a small face with white beady eyes in the middle of them.

"Heartless!" Goofy exclaimed. He ran forward and slammed his shield into one of the red umbrellas, right before a blast of ice slammed into his back from one of the blue ones.

"Let's take them down!" Sora shouted. He lifted up his hands and his Keyblade formed in them.

The group ran forward together and attacked the creatures of the dark. Once a few of the Heartless were defeated, several spheres of black formed in midair and Heartless wearing suits of armor flipped out of the bubbles. Simultaneously, a few pots leaning up against a wall nearby grew six spider-legs each and started chasing the fighters around.

Nami grinned upon seeing the Pot-Spiders, as she remembered from back in Agrabah that these Heartless tended to drop a lot of Munny upon their defeats. She charged one with her Clima-Tact and spun in across the entire front of her body. She smashed the blue staff into the potted creature of darkness and knocked it backwards, but another one took that moment to come up from behind her.

"Nami!" Usopp shouted. He charged towards her and dropped his jaw as the Heartless hit her before he could reach. Then, Nami's body disappeared and Usopp spun his head to see another Nami not far away from the one who just vanished.

"Mirage Tempo!" Nami called out, and four more versions of herself, each only varying a little bit, appeared on the battlefield. Usopp sighed a breath of relief, then saw one of the Umbrella-Heartless swooping down at him while spinning really fast. He waited until it was right about to hit him, then it was like he vanished, appearing on the opposite side of where he was just standing. The spinning Umbrella fell, split in two and fading away.

"Only a few left!" Sora called out. He pointed his Keyblade ahead at three of the remaining Umbrellas and saw that none of them were yellow. He smirked and called out, "Thundara!" A bunch of lightning bolts dropped out of the air on top of the red and blue Umbrellas, making their white eyes grow wide for a second, right before they exploded into dark nothingness.

Luffy snapped his arm back after taking the head off of an armored Heartless, and he looked around for any other opponents. After a few seconds he smiled and put his hands behind his head, "Shishishi nice!"

"Is that it?" Nami questioned. She looked next to her and saw Goofy standing there with his shield still raised though. After him she could see Donald standing on top of a table and he took a step backwards nervously. "Guys?" She questioned the dog and duck, wondering what was wrong.

"Something's here," Sora said, loud enough for all his comrades to hear him.

Robin was standing only a few feet behind Sora and she stared at the boy curiously for a second, wondering what it was he could feel that she could not. That's when it appeared. He walked out from behind a wall across the courtyard where Sora, Donald, and Goofy were already looking. Luffy snapped his head that way too and his eyes lit up, "Smokey!"

Smoker stumbled out from behind the wall and he looked their way, "Run," he said, then fell down to his knees.

"Did, did he just say-" Nami started, then every one of their jaws dropped as the wall behind Smoker exploded towards them.

Smoker was on his hands and knees and he coughed up some blood on the ground. Get up! He yelled at himself mentally. He looked over his shoulder and the sweat all over his face intensified, actually getting him to the point he could get back up on his feet. He jumped up and turned his legs to smoke, crossing the courtyard of turned-over tables and knocked-down chairs to reach the group of people he was traveling with.

"What's happening Smoker?" Sora called down at the man.

"That bastard," Smoker snarled.

"Wait a second," Luffy muttered, turning slowly to Smoker. "Did you see Zoro again? Is he here?!" Luffy spun back to the destroyed wall that was settling dust and smoke from the explosion.

Smoker shook his head once, "I told him to bring me to Tashigi, but I never fulfilled my part of the deal." He turned and looked straight into Luffy's eyes, "He told me I had to kill you. But, I-" he ground his teeth and turned back to the wall he came around himself, "I betrayed my Justice on the words of a pirate. Still, after telling me no, he was not done with me." Smoker started coughing again and he rose up his arm, then looked down at his sleeve and the dark, almost black, blood on it.

"What's wrong with you?" Usopp snapped over at the man he was still angry at, but at least wasn't trying to kill them for now.

"He ripped out my shadow," Smoker snarled. "Turned it into a monster with all," he hesitated, but muttered for them all to hear, "with all the darkness in my heart, or so he said." If I wasn't going to do his bidding on my own accord, he still needed to take us out. But, I don't understand why he himself would not do the job?

They all kept staring over at the wall, when a bead of sweat rolled down Sora's face. "Does anyone else feel like the smoke has been settling for way too long?" He was staring at the hole where more and more dust and smoke kept simmering, but he felt like it should have stopped a while back. As he was looking though, the smoke and dust stopped falling at all, and just shot forward across the courtyard like a gust of wind had slammed into the back of it.

Most of them crossed their arms in front of their faces, but Smoker yelled over it all, "Don't let the smoke hit you!"

Suddenly what he told them about it being a Heartless created from himself made them a lot more worried. They snapped back open their eyes and tried dodging in different directions, but the smoke still hit them and they yelled out in pain as it cut and burned them. When it all passed, the group collectively got back up to their feet and turned around in the direction of the arena now. The tournament was clearing out, and this area was a little away from the stage so there were not many people around, but those that were ran away when they saw the cloud of smoke shrink down into the shape of a man.

Shadow Smoker looked just like the man himself, only gray. His entire body was gray and his eyes were beady and white like other Heartless. "Why isn't it black? Like Sora's back in Traverse Town," Usopp mentioned, and they all remembered back to that time, except for Robin who just tilted her head wondering what they were referring to.

"It looks more complete, more like Smoker," Nami whispered to herself, and then her eyes went wide as she spun from Smoker to Sora to the Shadow. "Maybe, it's because Sora doesn't have any darkness, but Smoker was so close to giving in before."

"I don't have any darkness?" Sora whispered. He thought back to his fight with Krillin, and back in Traverse Town like was just mentioned. Anti-Form, I know what it is. Whether I try to ignore it or not, that's the darkness in my heart. He did not say a word as he walked forward and rose up his Keyblade. "Valor!" He called out, and his body surrounded with light.

"If this Smoker is a Logia like the real one, I won't be able to touch him," Usopp muttered angrily.

"Me neither," Nami whispered and Robin nodded her head as well.

Smoker growled and Luffy saw how badly hurt Smoker was from before he even got here. "Usopp, Nami, Robin, get out of here," he stated it in a calm voice and Usopp nodded. He put a hand on Nami's shoulder and she looked up into his eyes, and nodded. The two of them turned and ran off after Robin who was already jogging away. "Alright," Luffy started, and he lifted up his hands. A Keyblade formed in his grasp with a white hilt and a long black shaft. "Let's take him on!"

"Let me help!" a voice called out. Luffy, Sora, Smoker, Donald, and Goofy spun and saw Goku flipping through the air over and over. The young boy with spiky black hair landed next to Sora and grinned at him. "I can't wait for our semifinal match Sora," Son Goku said excitedly. "But," he turned back and tilted his head in confusion, "why are there two of that guy?"

"Don't you notice anything weird about that one?" Sora questioned, and then he shook his head fast as he realized he was wasting valuable time while in Valor Form. Sora snapped his Keyblades down to either side and he charged forward. Luffy pumped his right fist down on the ground and he shot forward even faster than Sora, but as Sora got a head-start, they both reached Shadow Smoker at about the same time.

The following combos from their Keyblades happened too fast for a distant-watching group of pirates to be able to follow. Even Usopp had to shake his head a few times to stop everything from being so blurry and find the two Keybearers he was supposed to be watching. Donald and Goofy ran in for attacks of their own, but the Heartless knocked them back effortlessly making the Keybearers look back in worry for their friends. Shadow Smoker punched forward two fists that disconnected from his arms and plowed an off-guard Luffy and Sora backwards, but Goku sprinted in between those arms and appeared right in front of Shadow Smoker. After two of his fists went right through the man, Goku pulled in his arms to the side.

"If punches won't work," he began, and a ball of blue light started to form between his palms. "Kame-HAME-HAAA!" The tiny blue ball grew larger and larger until it was big enough that it surrounded the Heartless's body entirely. His attack pushed forward and the gray man behind it held up his hands to try and stop the attack.

"Waawawa!" Donald yelled out and swung his wand above his head. A bolt of lightning slammed down on Shadow Smoker, zapping him enough that he flinched and the attack pushing against him kept flying right through his body. Smoke dispersed in the air above the blue beam as it kept flying into the distance, and while Luffy and Sora called out how cool the attack was, Goku stared confusedly at the smoke as it turned fully black and then sizzled out of existence.

"What was that thing?" Goku wondered. He turned and looked at the people behind him to see if they knew, but Luffy started whistling and looking the other way, while Sora shrugged his shoulders unconvincingly.

"Damn," Smoker growled, and he finally collapsed down again. He was panting heavily and he could barely breathe. I can't believe he created that thing from my own body. All this nonsense about hearts and Heartless suddenly seems a lot less childish. He lifted up his head a little suddenly feeling presences right in front of him. Smoker lifted his gaze up the legs of several people standing in front of him, and he saw five disapproving looks back down at him.

"We need to talk," Usopp said, arms crossed in front of his body, a tone so serious in his voice that his crew members could not remember a time they had heard it before.

---

That Night

Inside giant camper Bulma leant their group, parked in front of the hotel their new friends were staying at, the group of travelers were meeting in a more grim mood than usual. "I vote we leave him behind," Usopp spoke up, and he did not care that Smoker himself was sitting across from him in the camper, leaning against the wall with his butt on the floor.

Under very direct instructions, Sora had not healed the man yet. Smoker looked exhausted, and earlier Sora wondered if that monster Goku defeated was not really that strong, but he quickly realized that the reason Smoker was so injured was because he was stuck fighting that Shadow Smoker for a while, weakening it for them. "Leave him behind?" Sora repeated softly. He looked at the Marine with white hair whose face was shadowed by his own bowed head. "But, what about the person he's looking for. Tashigi, right?" he questioned Smoker directly.

"If we find her, we can save her ourselves," Usopp countered. "Smoker knows we will too. That's why he isn't saying anything."

"I agree!" Donald exclaimed. The duck walked forward and held up his feathery arms, "We don't need everyone coming from world to world! Quaack! I've been saying that all along!" He turned to the scary older man next to him, and added, "Nothing against you, sir, but it's our duty to the King not to meddle in other worlds! Bringing everyone-"

"We get it," five people muttered at the same time. making Donald drop his bottom bill.

"What about you Smoker?" Luffy asked. He was oddly serious which showed how much this question mattered. He specified, "What do you want to do?"

Smoker sighed. The Marine lifted up his head and looked into Straw Hat Luffy's eyes. Luffy looked right back down at Smoker's face, bruised, with trails of blood going down both corners of his lips down to his chin where droplets dripped off. "I've got no right to say so, but I wish to keep going with, you." Saying it hurt his pride, but for some reason it did not taint his feeling of honor anymore than he already had that day. "If there is a chance to save my Sergeant," he paused and thought back to what Luffy said during their match. Instead, he changed his speech, "There is a way to save Tashigi, and I want to find it on my own. I still can't trust pirates, not with this, not with her."

"Huh," Luffy mumbled thoughtfully.

"So what do you guys want to do?" Sora asked. The pirates looked at him and Sora turned a little to Donald, "I mean, I think we should listen to Donald." He turned to Smoker and gave the man a small smile despite Smoker's frown in his direction. "I know you can't trust pirates because of your own reasons, but I'm not a pirate. I'll save your Sergeant, I promise." He held up a fist in front of him and smiled confidently, but Smoker's serious expression did not fade at all.

"How about," a woman's voice started and they all looked to the far front of the vehicle where Robin was quietly reading a book. She looked up from it and continued, "We wait until the end of the tournament to make a decision?" A few of the others looked at each other and started nodding. Robin continued, "It would be foolish to keep Luffy and Sora up when they both have such important matches tomorrow. Let us leave this discussion for tomorrow."

"Agreed," Nami said.

"Alright," Usopp consented.

"Yosh!" Luffy agreed.

"Grrr," a low mumble growled out and they all looked to the middle of the vehicle. Standing there was Donald literally shaking where he stood. The duck snapped his head up and quacked, "This is ridiculous! The ship is fixed! The King is out there! We need to leave!"

"Donald," Sora began.

"Gawrsh, Donald's right Sora," Goofy started to his friend as well. "We've been here for days hyuck, we need to go save the world order." Goofy did not even mess up saying 'world order' this time like he had on multiple previous occasions and Sora frowned realizing that it was probably more serious this time.

"Luffy-" Sora began.

Luffy plopped down on the floor where his blanket was and he smiled up at the ceiling. "I can't wait for my fight tomorrow. I'll get that three-eyed bastard for you Usopp." He closed his eyes and then laughed as Usopp made a joke about Tien's eyes. He could tell Sora was still looking at him and he spoke up, "I made up my mind. We're staying until the end of the tournament."

"But-" Sora continued. He saw Luffy start frowning and Sora just closed his mouth. "Nevermind," he whispered. He turned to Donald and Goofy and shrugged apologetically at his friends. "Soon guys. Let's just finish up the tournament, then we'll be so strong we can speed through a bunch of worlds faster than we would have been able to before." He tried twisting it around on Donald, but the duck started shaking his head disappointedly and turned around, going to walk to a different part of the camper to sleep.

"Stupid Keyblade," Donald mumbled as he marched off. "Picking stupid Keybearers."

Luffy's eyes opened up and the pirate frowned deeply. In the corner of his eyes he saw Sora look downcast at least until Goofy patted him on the back and they left to go to sleep as well. Luffy kept frowning however. Why did it pick me? I don't want to save the universe or anything. I just want my nakama back. Sanji, Chopper... Zoro. Zoro... You want me dead? I thought, why would, we- you were right. "Luffy, something seriously wrong is happening here. We might actually have to leave without the extra food if things go south here..." He warned me. He wanted to leave. "We should leave before whatever is happening here happens! The crew could be separated, we might never get back here, our dreams don't exist in these other worlds. You'll never be the King of the Pirates!"

As Luffy thought it he realized something. Those were the last words Zoro had said to him. He then told Zoro to go get Riku, while he tried to save Sora, but after that he had not seen Zoro again. It didn't seem so bad to him, but now he thought about it a lot harder. Years. Zoro's been gone, for years. He rolled on his side, That's not fair. Why did- he rolled the other way and clenched his eyes shut. I wish I didn't break the Log Pose.

---

"Welcome folks to another day at the World's Martial Arts Tournament!" Rick shouted into his microphone and the crowd got riled up.

Sora and Luffy were standing together with Goku inside the waiting room. The three of them were stretching and talking to each other, but the mood was noticeably a tad heavier than the day before. What did not help was the shadow looming over them that kept drawing their attention to the other side of the waiting room.

"He looks meaner than yesterday," Sora whispered. "I didn't think that was possible."

Luffy frowned over at the three-eyed martial artist as well. He thought about Usopp, and then Yamcha getting his leg shattered. "I'm gonna kick that guy's ass."

"Hold on," Goku started, and Luffy turned to the younger kid with spikier black hair than his own. "I'm going to be the one who beats him. For Yamcha."

"How are you going to beat him when you don't even make it to the finals?" Sora asked. Goku turned to him and the two started bantering in a friendly way, but Luffy could tell Sora definitely looked nervous about his upcoming fight, whereas Goku was totally confident.

Tien kept glaring at their area of the waiting room with a hateful look in his eyes. A flash suddenly showed itself in his mind and he remembered the day before. The sun was gong down, and he was still at the tournament arena. Master Roshi is Jackie Chun. Why would he show himself to me? Fighting with anger, rage, those are important teachings of Master Shen! What was he talking about? Why did he say those things?! He just wanted to save his pupil's life. I will not spare Goku though, not after learning he killed Tao.

The triclops clenched his fists at his sides, and his two normal eyes narrowed at the enemies before him. Luffy and Tien heard their names get called and they both started walking out towards the arena. Sora followed after with Goku for a second, but he stopped short and turned around. He looked back into the waiting room and watched as several spheres of darkness appeared in the air. Air Soldier Heartless flew out of the spheres, creatures with the same dark faces as the others, but with orange wings sticking out of their backs, orange aviator helmets over their heads, and red claws on their dark purple hands.

Sora snapped up his hands and his Keyblade formed, allowing him to charge his enemies with confidence. Luffy stopped walking towards the stage with Tien. The latter kept walking, ignoring his opponent, but Luffy looked down at his right hand that was shaking. His Keyblade formed and his eyes went wide, and then he thought about the last time this happened and he spun around. Looking back up in the waiting room he saw Sora battling a squadron of Heartless with Goku running back to help him already.

He took a step that way to help out, but Rick called out his name again and Sora turned towards him, smiled, and waved at him to get going to his match already. Luffy looked surprised, but he nodded back and smirked before turning and heading to the stage. He let his Keyblade vanish for now as he stepped out on the arena, and the crowd of people roared out his name and cheered for him as he held up his fists above his head.

"Crush him Tien Shinhan, and make it to your next match," Shen called up to his pupil.

Tien did not respond, making a tick mark appear on the side of his master's face. Next to the Crane Hermit, Chiaotzu looked at the stage nervously and the albino midget whispered, "Tien." Something was off about Tien. Even his normally harsh demeanor was snarky and sarcastic at times. And when he became serious, he looked like a scary, but mostly composed warrior. Tien looked beyond angry, and Rick was hesitating to announce the match after remembering what Tien did to Yamcha after the end of the last match.

"I just want to remind the competitors that if your opponent, is killed, you are also disqualified- eep!" Tien shot him a glare and Rick's face turned pale. "A-Anyway, let's start the match."

"Why does Luffy keep getting the crazy guys?" Nami whispered nervously.

Smoker was standing to the right of the group and he said nothing about her remark, though his forehead did scrunch up in annoyance. Usopp darted his gaze over to see how the man would respond to that, and he smiled smugly as the Marine stayed quiet. Guess he can't deny he was definitely pretty crazy yesterday.

"Well, fighters to the ready," the announcer announced. "Let the first semifinal match of the twenty second World's Martial Arts Tournament, begin!"

You could hear a pin drop in the stadium as every single person shut up. They closed their mouths and sweat started pouring down their faces. Tien did not waste a single second to remove the upper half of his green gi. The fighter ripped it off in one tug, then brought his arms down to his side and start yelling. Luffy himself slowly dropped his jaw as Tien's skin started shaking, and out from the fighter's back sprouted two more arms as muscular as his originals. Luffy would have whispered, 'cool,' if he was not slammed in the face by a fist in the next second.

Luffy's head snapped so far back that his neck extended and his head went stretching all the way off the opposite side of the arena. He grinned, and yelled out, "Gum Gum Bell!" slamming his head back as fast as he could to try and hit Tien. When his head was almost directly over his own body, Tien decided to dodge, moving a little to the left and then slamming his upper left elbow down on Luffy's upper back, smashing him into the arena, before following up with a kick that sent Luffy spinning around up into the air.

So fast! Luffy thought, though he was not expecting much else after seeing the man's fight with Yamcha. He did not get hurt much from those physical attacks, but he knew Tien had other methods of beating him he needed to avoid. As Luffy hit the top of his arc, he punched his right fist out to the side as hard as he could without stretching. It was a technique he had been hoping to try this fight, and he smirked as it paid off.

"Whoa," Sora gasped out as Luffy's arm pumped and his went into Gear Second in midair. Normally he has to pump his arm on the ground and press his legs too. He's advancing so fast, Sora watched as Luffy pumped a fist again to make his light skin turn red and steam to start coming off of him. The pirate did not bring his Straw Hat onto the arena with him, leaving it instead with Nami who had it tied around her neck like Luffy sometimes did, resting on her back.

"Go for it Luffy!" Nami shouted up at her captain.

"He's much faster now," Master Roshi admitted from where he was standing on the left of the group of travelers. "But is it enough to match Tien?"

"Of course," Usopp said without hesitation. A bead of sweat rolled down the left side of his face and he whispered, "Prove me right Luffy."

"Gum Gum," Luffy began and he pointed both of his legs down at Tien as he fell towards the stage. "Jet Stamp Gattling Gun!" He slammed his right foot down at the triclops and then immediately sent his left. To the spectators it looked like Luffy had dozens of legs slamming down one after the other faster than they could see. Tien dodged for a second or two before he was hit by a foot and winced, underestimating how much it was going to hurt. More attacks started hitting him and Tien smacked himself in the chest with his two right fists, then grabbed his left biceps with those hands.

Tien's entire body started steaming red like Luffy's, but unlike the pirate's, Tien's body became harder. Luffy's attacks started bouncing off of him as if he were a thick steel wall, only without leaving any dents. Steam lifted off of Tien's body and the man only got pushed down into the stage, making a deeper crater with every hit, but showing no sign of pain.

Luffy snapped his legs back up to his body and did a backflip before landing. Once he hit the ground, he had no time at all to prepare before Tien charged him again. Luffy lifted his right arm to block, but Tien was coming from the other side, only feigning to the side Luffy tried guarding from. Luffy saw his right fist coming though a second later and he leaned his head back, letting Tien's fist fly right over his face. The pirate lifted up his steaming left leg and swung it around in a Gum Gum Jet Whip, though he could not shout the name as every attack was happening within seconds of each other.

Tien tried jumping over Luffy's swinging leg, but it hit him in the shins when he was almost above it. The triclops started spinning over and over in the air before slamming down hard because of a fist now planted in his back. "Jet Pistol!" Luffy yelled once his fist snapped back and Tien was face-down in the stage.

The three-eyed man in the stage made a deeper crater than before and debris flew out from it. The crowd cheered. Some people gasped, and Tien's comrades shouted out his name in panic. "Get up Tien! You are disgracing the Crane school and me!" Shen yelled at his disciple.

Tien was already getting up on his feet, but hearing these words made his face look even darker than a second ago. Gone were the witty remarks he was making in his fight against Yamcha, gone was his personality. Tien turned and looked over at the Crane Hermit, then after the old man flinched he looked back at Luffy. "Grrr," Tien snarled, baring his teeth at the younger teen.

"That fool is going to lose me the match," the Crane Hermit growled. The man with pointy facial hair and a pair of sunglasses on thought hard for a few seconds and then he smirked upon having a great idea. "Chiaotzu," he began, turning to the floating midget next to him. He whispered quietly to the albino student who then looked at him as if asking if he was serious. "Do it," Shen snapped.

Chiaotzu hesitated but nodded slowly at his master. He looked back to the stage where Luffy was running towards Tien again, and Chiaotzu subtly put up his hands in front of him. Tien was charging at Luffy too, and right when they threw their fists at each other, Luffy's face filled with agony and he brought his arms down to his stomach. Chiaotzu gripped Luffy's stomach with his mental powers, and Tien hit him in the face with a fist so strong that Luffy's friends shouted out his name in fear.

"Luffy!" Sora yelled and then snapped his head around to follow Luffy's path bouncing across the stage.

Tien stared at the pirate who bounced twice before managing to stop himself right at the other edge of the arena. He was breathing heavily, and the announcer was shouting how great of a hit he just landed. "This is my fight," Tien growled, his voice echoing around the stage. He lifted up his right hand and stuck out his index finger.

Luffy was groaning in pain and he leaned up a little from the floor, only to go wide-eyed at the sight of Tien holding up his finger to prepare for one of those beam attacks Chiaotzu used on him before. "Need to, get up," he muttered, but as he pushed down on the floor his stomach screamed out in pain again and he dropped back on his back. "Ahghhgh!"

"Luffy get up!"

"Captain-san!"

"Luffy!"

"Wawawa! Get up you big rubber idiot!" Donald shouted, making a few of his friends around him look at the duck in surprise.

"I, can't," Luffy moaned out and could barely crack open his eyelids enough to see Tien slam his arm down to start the attack. But then the pain was gone. Luffy was not focused on the pain anymore though, and neither was anyone else.

"DODON RAY!" Tien roared, and he pointed his hand to the side of the stage, at the small white figure floating there with his arms risen at Luffy. Chiaotzu's eyes only had a millisecond to widen before the ball of red light slammed into him. Shen turned his head in shock and looked at the explosion next to him that engulfed his second strongest pupil. "Stay out of my way," Tien growled, and those who looked away from the explosion and Chiaotzu's burnt, falling body, turned only to scream or move back in fear.

Tien had both of his hands risen up with two more Dodon Rays forming on them. He turned his head and glared across the stage at Luffy who was staggering up on his feet, but then turned a little more. Luffy turned as well, and Sora and Goku who were watching from the stage wall looked to their lefts in surprise at the figure who was now standing in the doorway to the back of the stage.

Usopp's eyes grew, That's right! We never did find him yesterday.

Standing there in his trench coat and hat, was Gurgle. The short man with very little black skin showing turned his head towards Tien and he started sliding across the arena. Rick lifted back up his microphone after shouting into it about Tien going crazy. "Uh, contestant Gurgle please get off the stage, the match is still going on..." he faded off towards the end as Gurgle walked straight up to Tien who did not back away.

The student of the still in-shock Crane Hermit stared at the man in front of him for a few seconds. No one knew what was going on as he looked into the eyes of the dark form. But while he was looking into Gurgle's eyes, a circle of darkness spread around the cracked stage under his feet.

"Oh no," Usopp whispered.

"He's giving in to the darkness," Robin stated calmly, though a bead of sweat was dripping down her face.

Bulma and Launch looked over at their new friends confusedly, but were getting very nervous from the looks they had. Usopp gulped and he started in a quiet voice, "If a normal hunter like Clayton could get so strong, what's going to happen if someone like Tien..."

Gurgle's hat fell off and two antennae stuck up over his entirely dark head. The Heartless under the hat started dissolving, turning into black nothingness that swirled up in the air and started surrounding Tien. The triclops stood there and took it though. This is what happened to Smoker. But he denied it. I will accept this power. I will make it my own! Tien rose his fists and watched as his muscles covered in black wisps that made curved lines around his arms. It looked like there were black snakes on his arms wrapped in coils up to his shoulders, and then around his torso, neck, face, and his legs under his green pants as well.

Tien's entire body became covered in thick black stripes. There were lines of his normal skin as well, but those were still a tanner shade than usual, and shrinking slowly as the black stripes grew thicker. His bald head had a single stripe going from his forehead down to the back of his neck. His eyes were still white on the outsides, but the irises in the middle sent chills down the spines of those watching. They were bright red with tiny black pupils in the middle.

He looked across the stage at Luffy and he smiled. Luffy snarled at the sight of the man in front of him who he already hated, but was now a monster on top of that. He lifted up his right hand in front of his body and a Keyblade formed in it. "Let's-" Luffy started shouting, but never finished as Tien kicked off the floor and reached the other side of the stage in a second. Tien had a knee lifting up towards Luffy's chin and Luffy's eyes darted down while his head leaned back, though he knew he would not be able to dodge in time. It turned out that was not even necessary though, as the knee never finished, and instead a fist flying in from the left slammed into the side of Luffy's head.

The young man in an open red shirt slammed down into the stage and bounced right off the other side while coughing up blood. He opened his eyes and his vision was blurry, but what he did see were all the people right below him he was about to crash down into. He became more focused realizing where he was and he threw his arms back towards the stage, only for Tien to jump up before he could grab onto the wall, and grab him by the wrists. The three-eyed man twisted his own arms once, twice, then so many times he looked like a blur. Meanwhile, Luffy was getting swung by his extended arms in a circle over the entire stage, until Tien finally whipped up with his arms and then slammed down as hard as he could. Luffy first went flying high into the air, and then an aura surrounded him because he was brought down so fast into the floor right in the middle of the crowd.

"Move out of the way!" Krillin shouted, jumping backwards and pushing some people with him.

"Get out of here!" Usopp yelled to some civilians around him while he tried to cut up flying debris with his longsword.

Screams rang out around the entire arena. Luffy hit the ground so hard that cracks shot out around his impact point and then the ground dented down and debris went everywhere. Rick the announcer would have shouted about Tien's victory if he were not right in the middle of where Luffy was slammed down. The blond WMAT announcer pushed his hands down beneath him, "Ack, ack agh," he coughed over and over while trying to open up his eyes. His eyes stung when he did because there was so much dust around him, and Rick spotted his sunglasses on the floor between his arms, shattered. "Oh man, I really liked those glasses," he said, before looking up and completely forgetting about them.

The dust from where Luffy slammed down was starting to clear, but the screams were not stopping. Krillin was looking around in panic because besides the two people he pulled away, almost everyone was hit by some debris. He spotted Bulma lying on her stomach on the ground to his left, and he ran over to her, "Bulma! Bulma are you okay?" He turned her over and the woman started coughing, but she did not look very injured so Krillin sighed in relief.

He helped her up to her feet and they looked in towards the spot Luffy was slammed down. "Whoa," Krillin said while sweating pretty badly. "I hope Luffy's okay."

"Wh-Why don't you go check?" Bulma suggested, though she and Krillin shared similar looks of fear as they stared at that dust cloud. Their fear was intensifying every second as more of the dust settled to the ground, revealing the muscular silhouette right on the edge of the stage looking down at them. The shadow dropped off the stage and started walking forward, between people on the floor grabbing at their arms or legs in pain. A different shadow started standing from right in the middle of the dust, and the dust was thin enough now that they could all see who it was.

The figure in the center of the smoke pushed down on his knees, and his lower legs pumped once before his entire body was red again, and steaming. His opponent also had what looked like steam coming off of his body, only his steam was jet black. "I didn't think you'd be satisfied with just losing the tournament," the muscular figure walking towards Luffy with crossed arms in front of his chest. He only had two of them now, but they looked more menacing than ever with the black lines coiled around them that seemed to just emit a dark energy.

Luffy spat to his right and though he was not paying attention to it, he did catch that the color of his spit was more red than usual. Tien was using the power of darkness now, so even his physical attacks were hurting a man made of rubber. Luffy lifted up his left palm and held it out in front of his body facing Tien, he pulled his right fist back to his side, and yelled out, "Jet Pistol!"

A fist flew forward so fast that the remaining dust around him and Tien dispersed like a widening tunnel around his stretching arm. Krillin's eyes went wide and the short teen felt a serious pit of despair in his chest, for Luffy's arm cleared a tunnel through the dust, and gave him a clear view of Tien standing there holding Luffy's right fist in his hand.

"Jet Rocket!" Luffy lifted his feet off the ground and allowed his outstretched arm to retract, pulling his whole body at Tien who was not expecting the reckless attack. Luffy smashed into Tien with enough momentum to knock the two of them backwards, but Tien did not release Luffy's fist and he now used it to yank a non-stretched Luffy towards him and grab the pirate around the throat with his free hand.

Luffy started choking and writhing around in Tien's grip. "Contestant Tien! You have won the match! Now please, put Luffy down," Rick could see as well now and he was taking small steps back even while he shouted into his microphone.

"Tien Shinhan!" This voice, Tien did listen to and turned his head a little with a frown. Master Shen was staring at him and continued, "You have made it to the finals. I never doubted you, now, return with me at once so that we-"

Tien turned away from Shen and looked back at Luffy. More specifically, he looked at his own hand around Luffy's throat, and after a few seconds he started grinning. Shen was shocked that his pupil who he had taught to fear him would turn away, and furiously he snarled at Tien and yelled, "You will respect your master!" He ran forward to teach his disciple a lesson.

Tien was smiling at the hand he had choking Luffy, but he spotted Shen charging at him and turned his head at the last second. Shen made eye contact with all three of his bright red eyes and the Crane Hermit flinched. Wrong move. Tien spun and threw Luffy at Crane so fast that the two of them tumbled across cracked pavement until they were off of the damaged area, and started making new damaged area with their bodies. Luffy slammed into a wall head-first, though since he was rubber it really did not feel like much. Crane on the other hand, slammed into a brick wall and smashed straight through it, then bounced off of another wall following it and lay on the ground barely able to moan.

"We have to stop him!" Nami shouted as she saw Tien turn and look at where Luffy was pushing himself off the ground again. Their captain still had Gear Second powers, but Nami did not know how much longer that would last, and considering how many times he had used it recently she knew he would not be able to power up again without seriously damaging his body.

The navigator turned to Usopp who had stepped in front of her to cut up debris flying their way a minute ago, and she froze when she looked at him. The muscular, tan-skinned, long-noised, pirate and hero, dressed in a white toga with a golden belt around his waist, and who had a broadsword in his right hand, was shaking where he stood. I couldn't land a hit on him before, and now he's turned himself into a monster! Luffy's getting his butt kicked. How am I- How could I, stop someone like that?

"Hey triclops!" a voice shouted far to Usopp's right. He glanced over and saw two figures standing on the stage now. The shorter of the two had spiky black hair and his fists risen in a fighting pose. The taller of the two boys had brown spiky hair, and he slammed his hands out to his right side, forming a yellow hilt in them with a long silver shaft sticking out of it. Sora, the muscular hero thought, and he watched Sora call out, "If you're gonna fight Luffy, you're going to have to deal with us too!"

Sora hopped off the stage with Goku, and then on either side of them came two more figures. One rose his shield and the other his wand, and Usopp listened as Donald and Goofy shouted out in agreement with Sora. He clenched his eyes shut and his curled his fists in anger at himself. Still, he could not help his legs from shaking and he cursed himself over and over again in his mind. "Usopp," a soft voice spoke in front of him and he opened up those clenched eyes. "You are not the same man you were three years ago. You've shown me that every day since we found you at the Colosseum." Nami reached to his right hand that was wrapped around the hilt of his broadsword, and she gently clasped both of her hands around it. He looked down at that hand, then back into Nami's eyes as she stared into his and said, "Now go save Luffy. Go save our captain."

Usopp's eyes turned huge and he nodded with a dumbstruck look on his face. His legs were no longer shaking, and he turned his head to see Tien looking at Sora, and then the three-eyed monster turned back to Luffy and grinned some more. "Bring it on, freak," Luffy spat at his enemy, and he rose up his steaming arms.

"People! Fighting outside the ring is against the rules, if you continue-" Rick stopped shouting into his microphone as out from the floor in front of him rose two Shadows. At first he just stared at the dog-like black creatures with beady little white eyes for a few seconds, but when they started running at him he had the right idea by turning and running away.

"Now no one will interrupt us," Tien said, and his grin grew even wider. All I had to do was will him to go away and those creatures obeyed. I am stronger than ever! Tien rose up his fists and he charged at Luffy, right as the pirate shot forward to attack him.

"Gum Gum Jet Gattling Gun!" Luffy screamed. He had blood dripping down the corners of his mouth and his body was in agony, but he pushed through and swung his fists forward faster than he ever had. Tien punched his arms in the same way, making it look like he had a lot more than he really did. Fists of red and black blended together as it became a blur in between the two fighters.

A fist would get pushed away by the back of Tien's arm as he punched it forward, and that fist would just barely miss as Luffy inched his body out of the way, while throwing another fist forward that Tien could not avoid, but barely flinched from being hit from. Luffy did not notice since he was too busy pounding away at Tien while the man hit him with fists that made his body scream in pain, but Tien's arms were very gradually getting blacker. Two of the black lines swirling around his elbows on top and below it merged together, while a thick swirl on his right wrist started seeping up the top of his already tanner-than-usual hand. Every time Luffy landed a hit on Tien, the blackness seemed to spread out a little more, not that the martial artist was worried.

Tien could see the black lines spreading, but it did not bother him. I have full control! The darkness is under my control, and I understand what I need to do to keep it that way. I will not let it take over me! He could feel the darkness getting stronger and he could tell what it was trying to do, but he only smirked thinking about it, as he knew, or rather believed, that he was far too powerful to be taken control of.

Finally one of Luffy's Gattling Gun punches hit Tien square-on in the middle of the face and the man lost focus for a second. That was all the time Luffy needed to follow up with a dozen other powerful punches into his body. Luffy had already been throwing those punches for a while though and his Gear Second was about to run out. He knew it was time, and he roared as he swung both fists forward as hard as he could into Tien's chest.

Goku, Sora, Donald, and Goofy were all staring in awe. They thought Luffy was on the ropes which is why they ran over in the first place, but it turned out their rubber friend did not need the help they thought he did. Tien got lifted off the ground and thrown all the way back to them, and Sora and Goku almost did not back away quick enough for Tien to go flying between them and crash into the side of the stage.

Most people watching the fight had run away when things started to get dangerous, but there were groups of several people hiding off to the sides. Two people, Krillin and Bulma, started cheering as the stage cracked and pieces of it went flying up in the air. Luffy's body faded out of Gear Second and though the pirate tried to remain standing he failed and collapsed forward. He landed flat on his stomach with his face pointed out to the side, panting wheezing breaths that his friends could hear all around.

"Luffy!" Nami and Usopp called out. They started running towards their captain, while Bulma and Krillin jogged over to blue-haired Launch, Oolong, and Turtle who were at the front of a larger group of spectators who were wondering if it was safe to come out yet. The two of them froze when they were right in front of the group as every single person in front of them turned blue in the face. Usopp and Nami froze a few feet away from their captain and they slowly turned towards the stage after hearing someone scream out in fear.

Sora looked around the area he was in and his eyes widened in panic. "Donald, Goofy, get these people out of here," he told his two friends who were also looking very nervous at the moment. They looked at the young teen and then looked around to see five or six moaning people and a few unconscious ones around the area Luffy slammed into the ground.

"Got it!' Donald exclaimed in his nasally voice.

"Hyuck, we'll take care of this Sora, but you be careful," Goofy said while running over and picking up two people at a time to carry away over his shoulders.

Sora did not have to be told that twice. He rose up his Kingdom Key and gulped at the sight of the man standing up inside the debris of the side of the cracked stage. His arms were sizzling black and he watched as the last bits of even slightly Tien's own skin color faded from them. His legs followed suit and his torso above his waist looked like it would not be far behind. Small, thin lines of tan skin cracked the suit of black on Tien's body. The black line over the top of his head had widened as well and now went down the center of his face as well, right over his third eye, his nose, down over his lips, and to his chin where it then merged with his all black neck. The line was widening to the sides of his face and made black circles around his side eyes. His eyes no longer had red irises in the middles of the whites, as those irises had widened to cover his entire eyes that now glowed bright red.

Next to Sora, Goku was staring at Tien with a deep frown on his face. "I don't know what's gotten into you Tien, but we can't let you hurt anymore people." The boy stood in a fighting stance and cracked his knuckles with a small curl of his fingers.

"Goku," Tien growled, still his own voice, but with a deeper sense of malice in it than ever before. His mouth curled into a twisted snarl and his body trembled. Then, Tien's feet lifted off the floor and he floated up higher, and higher, and he moved back so he was over the top of the stage. "I planned to kill you in our fight in the finals, but I am fine with doing so right now. COME!" He roared the last part, "I will avenge Tao, and I will kill you!" He spotted something and finished in a deep growl, "And no one will interfere."

Krillin yelled out in surprise and stopped charging away from the spectators who now all turned tail and ran away except for Krillin's friends who called out his name. Several large monsters just appeared in front of Krillin, in the shape of black muscular creatures with two arms and two legs, almost like martial artist Heartless. They attacked the small boy who freaked out and jumped backwards, but then glanced behind him and saw how many spectators were still too close, not to mention Bulma and the others. He could not just run away.

While Krillin started battling those Heartless, Usopp took a deep breath and he took a step forward. "Nami, protect Luffy," he said. Nami smiled at Usopp's back and made an affirmative noise while nodding her head once. He gave her a quick look over his shoulder, "I'll be right back."

She looked back into his eyes caringly, "You better."

Usopp charged towards the stage and ran right past Donald and Goofy who were running the other way while carrying wounded civilians. The animal creatures looked at the muscular figure as he ran past them, and then they looked into each other's eyes. Donald and Goofy nodded at each other, and they prepared to put down the people they were carrying and run back to the fight.

Tien floated above the stage with his black arms held out to the sides of him in an all-powerful way. The cocky smirk on his face curved up more on his right side than his left and he tilted his head in a malevolent way. "If you do try to stand in the way of my fight with Goku, I will have no problem destroying you as well," he spoke without really looking at Sora, but when Sora responded he gave the kid a harsh glare.

Sora slashed his Keyblade in front of his body and he called out, "I might not be as strong as you, but as long as I'm fighting with my friends, you'll never beat us!" When Tien turned to the boy after hearing this, his red eyes widened a little. Usopp stood at his back and rose up his sword with both hands, putting his hilt right in front of his waist with the blade pointed up at Tien. Donald and Goofy came running back over and they rose their weapons to stand with Sora.

Goku looked around at them all and he frowned. He wanted to beat Tien in a fair fight, but as he looked up at the monster floating above them, for some reason he no longer felt like he was looking at Tien. "Well then," Tien began, and he pointed his hands down at the fighters beneath him, "feel the fear of death." His fingers glowed and Dodon Rays rained down from the sky.

"Crap! Now what?!" Usopp exclaimed as the red beams fell towards them.

"Everyone get away from the stage!" Donald shouted back over his shoulder.

"I've got this," Sora said. His friends turned his way and watched as Sora's body illuminated and changed his clothes blue. "Wisdom!" He called out, and he pointed his Keyblade up in the air as he did. The end of the Keyblade glowed white, and little white beams shot out of the tip up towards the falling Dodon Rays.

Every falling red ball exploded in a mass explosion of light and heat. People screamed and shielded their eyes as smoke rushed down towards them and they became unable to see anything. When they looked back towards the stage, they saw Sora firing attack after attack up into the smoke cloud where he thought Tien should be. Suddenly something appeared on Sora's left side. He only barely started turning when Goku was now between him and the shape, raising his arms and blocking the kick Tien aimed for Sora's neck.

"Raa!" Usopp yelled, running forward and bringing down his sword towards Tien.

"Wawawa!" Donald rose his wand and a bolt of lightning dropped down on Tien's head. The man jolted and then Usopp smashed the broadsword down on top of Tien's head. Many people gasped as it looked like Usopp just tried to kill him, and then those same people gasped as Usopp's steel sword snapped in the middle.

The top half of the blade went spinning up and up through the air, while Usopp stood there with a stupid look on his face as he stared at the hilt of his blade and the small bit of steel still sticking out of it. Tien snarled and darted his eyes towards Usopp who took a step back, but before he could do anything he had to block Goku's punches and Sora's beams coming from his other sides.

Tien backed away and then pointed his right hand forward, firing a beam of red light at the floor in the middle of his opponents. "Dodge!" Sora yelled. The boy slid across the ground with light shimmering out of his legs. While he was sliding backwards he spotted something out the left side of his eye and watched Krillin get pushed back by the Heartless he was fighting with only his fists. "Krillin!" Sora called out, and he pointed his Keyblade that way. "Fire!" His more powerful magic in Wisdom Form along with the fact that Krillin had already weakened his opponents made the muscular Heartless fighters explode instantly.

Krillin looked over to Sora to call out thanks, but the bald boy stopped and his small black eyes opened wide in surprise. Sora heard Goku shout from behind him, "Sora, look out!" but he did not turn fast enough. The beam of light that hit Sora sent him flying in an explosion much larger than his own body. His blue clothes singed and the boy's face looked like it was in a lot of pain while smoke steamed off of him.

Dark Tien smirked and turned to Goku who watched Sora fly off the stage and then glared back at his opponent. "Stop it!" Goku yelled in rage, and he ran forward faster than ever before in the fight. He charged Tien and commenced a flurry of punches and kicks too fast for Usopp, Donald, and Goofy to follow, but the one Goku was fighting was handling them with little difficulty. Tien started getting pushed back though and the muscular triclops opened his red eyes wider as he felt each of Goku's hits getting stronger than the last. What is this?! I am the strongest! Tien tried blocking to his right but in his anger he missed that the punch coming was a feint and Goku was actually aiming a kick at the left side of his head.

Tien got slammed hard in the left temple and lifted off the stage, flying back to the other side and slamming into the wall separating the waiting area for fighters. The wall collapsed around and on top of him leaving the man under a pile of debris.

"Did you get him?" Usopp wondered aloud, trying not to sound too hopeful.

Donald gulped and Goofy held his shield in front of him with a bead of sweat rolling down the left side of his face. They both glanced off the side of the stage where Sora went flying, but the boy's Drive Form wore off and he was back in his normal clothes, sitting there on his knees with his head bowed to the floor, unable to get up. "Sora!" Donald called out, and rose his wand sending some green light over to Sora.

The Cure magic got Sora back up on his feet and the boy nodded thanks at Donald before jogging over himself. When Sora was just about to reach the stage though, the pile of debris moved and they all looked to the collapsed wall where Tien punched a fist up through some solid cement. His entire fist was black, and as he pulled his body out from beneath the rubble they could see that there were no longer any light, or even tan areas to Tien's skin. His body had become entirely dark, little wisps of black seeping off of him, and his expression was looking more emotionless now than a minute before. It still looked angry, but almost like there was no conviction behind the anger, like he had no reason for that anger and it was more of just an animalistic rage.

"This, doesn't look good," Sora muttered aloud as he walked up between his friends.

Tien rose up both his arms and out from the floor on the sides of the fighters facing him arose a dozen of those muscular Heartless who were fighting Krillin before. The short bald boy himself was running towards the stage but skid to a stop when he saw the squad of powerful monsters appear. Tien's puppets attacked the fighters and none of them could avoid being hit by the overwhelming numbers. Usopp's sword was broken and though not defenseless with just his fists, it was difficult to damage Heartless of this caliber without a weapon. Goku was having a little more luck, and Sora's Keyblade was doing a number on them, but after only twenty seconds of attacks Donald and Goofy had gone down.

Usopp saw a monster swinging for a dazed and sitting Donald, and he dove in front of the fist and tried catching it. Instead, the fist pushed right through Usopp's hands, hit him in the chest, and sent him flying backwards into Donald, where they both rolled into another Heartless that punched them into the floor.

"Guys, get up!" Sora called out. He could see Usopp and Donald not moving, and the other Heartless were all now turning on him and Goku. Krillin ran up to the stage on the other side and was attacking a couple of them on his own, but they couldn't take them all.

"Look up!" Bulma shouted towards the stage and her friends.

Sora, Goku, and Krillin managed to look up between dodging their opponents, and the three boys went wide-eyed at the sight of Tien rising in the air. The man had a glowing dark aura around him, and he started yelling and making the sky shake around him. "I don't like the look of this!" Sora yelled, then had to snap his head down and block a fist coming for him with his Keyblade.

Master Roshi looked back towards the stage, and he saw Tien floating there in the sky with a look of unbridled anger on his face. Roshi frowned and turned to the wall he was standing near that had a hole in it. He hopped through the hole and looked ahead at the small figure with pale white skin floating above a moaning Crane Hermit. "You there, Chiaotzu was it?" Roshi began.

Chiaotzu stopped trying to rouse his master and turned instead to the other old martial arts master at the tournament. "What do you want?" Chiaotzu snapped in an angry tone.

"I want you to stop your friend," Roshi replied to the young boy. Chiaotzu opened his eyes in surprise and he looked over Roshi's head towards the stage where he could see the black form up in the sky.

"Th-That's Tien?" Chiaotzu asked in horror.

"He is going to kill them all," Roshi continued in a serious tone. "I believe you may be the only one who can stop him."

"Why should I?!" The immature boy snapped. "Goku killed Tao, he deserves it!"

"That is your opinion, and though I would like to change it, now is not the time!" Roshi snapped back at the kid who closed his mouth and looked a little more nervous now. "This is not about your quarrel with Goku. This is about Tien. Your friend will not be able to come back from this if he drops much farther. Look at him and tell me, is that the same man you know?" Chiaotzu's eyes turned huge and he snapped his gaze back to the stage where the Heartless all over it were vanishing.

The fighters on the stage looked around confused at why their opponents vanished. They were not all that upset about it, but it did leave a bad feeling in their chests that only increased as the dark fighter up in the air started raising his arms in a way that made them look like they were leaving behind images of themselves that faded after another was made. Then, everyone watching dropped their jaws and just gawked as those two arms stopped moving. They stopped moving because eight other arms came out of each arm and wrapped around them, while dozens of other arms appeared all around Tien's body and locked him up, and four arms sprouted from Tien's neck. Those arms were not as muscular as Tien's, and looked more feminine, and Sora figured it out a few seconds after it started going on.

Sora spun around and looked around off the stage for a second before spotting the woman he was looking for. "Robin!" he called out happily, seeing the woman standing amongst the spectators still remaining with her arms crossed and her palms raised to the sky.

Bulma, Launch, Turtle, and Oolong turned to the woman who a few of them remembered using this against Launch two days before. This time though, Robin followed through with her attack and she clenched those open palms she had facing the sky. "Clutch!" She called out. Her arms all tightened and the ones around Tien's neck tried pulling his neck back, but Tien remained still. Robin started sweating and she smiled a small nervous smile, It was worth a try, even though I expected as much from someone who could defeat you Luffy-san. What happened next she thought she was prepared for, but still screamed out in pain from anyway as Tien grabbed two of her extra arms and clenched down so hard he broke them.

All of her extra arms vanished, but the pain stayed with her as she collapsed to her knees whimpering in pain. "Robin," Launch, the nice half with curly blue hair, dropped down next to her new friend and examined Robin's arms to see if they were injured at all.

Sora spun angrily from the woman in pain and glared up at Tien, but his anger was quickly overshadowed by his fear. Tien was floating there with his hands pressed together in front of his forehead. His entire body was shaking and his hands were glowing orange with sparks of lightning shooting out of them. He spread out his palms a little making a triangle-shaped hole between his fingers allowing him to see down to the fighters below. He focused on them, and on Goku in particular, then zoomed back out to encompass the entire stage in his line of sight.

"RaaaaAAAAA!" Tien started shouting, and his entire body was violently shaking in the air.

"That doesn't look good," Goku stated, nervously looking up at Tien's glowing form.

"He's drawing his own life energy into the attack," Master Roshi said in a shocked voice. He turned around once more and spoke seriously, "Is this really the path you choose to follow? To kill at the cost of your own lives? Your own souls?"

Chiaotzu looked at Roshi, then back at the stage, the Roshi, then the stage. The midget saw Tien's attack about to be readied and he made his decision, flying at the stage as fast as he could. "Tien!" Chiaotzu shouted. The tiny boy flew over Nami and Luffy, then over the fighters on the stage so he was between them and his long-time partner, and closest friend. Tien kept shouting even as Chiaotzu floated underneath him, and the small pale-skinned boy in a green Crane school gi had to try hard not to run away in fear. "Tien! Please stop this. Something's come over you!"

"Move out of my way Chiaotzu!" Tien ordered his partner. "This isn't your fight!"

"It isn't yours either," Chiaotzu yelled back. "Your match ended a long time ago. Just wait until tomorrow to kill Goku in the finals!"

"Tomorrow?" Tien muttered. His red eyes flickered and his lips curled up into a menacing smirk, "You think I can wait? When my vengeance is so close at hand?!" Tien's muscles buffed out and his body surrounded in a red and yellow aura that seemed to make the entire sky above him the same color. Dark wisps swirled around inside the light and a bright yellow light formed in the triangle between Tien's fingers. "Now get out of my way!" Tien yelled. He changed his gaze to Goku and the others down there and yelled at the top of his lungs, "Take this! TRI BEAM HAAAAAA!"

"Tien!" Chiaotzu shouted into the blinding light above him. He tried flying backwards but he was not fast enough and the outside of the beam still hit him. Chiaotzu's smoking body went flying to the side while every fighter down on the stage below could only stare in horror at the attack coming towards them. The sky filled with a brilliant yellow light that made it near-impossible for the fighters to see the man behind the beam.

"Ahhh!" Nami screamed and she pulled her head down into her knees. She clenched her eyes shut and hugged her legs close to her body for some sort of extra protection while the entire WMAT arena shook around her. "AHHH!" Her screams got louder as the ground lurched, the concrete beneath her feet actually shifting around. It felt like an earthquake. Other people were screaming and yelling things at each other about running, but the woman with orange hair suddenly remembered who were right beneath that beam. Nami snapped her eyes open in a sudden panic, hoping to see her friends safe and sound away from the arena.

When she opened her eyes though, she had to blink a few times wondering if she was seeing correctly. She stared ahead about twenty feet to the edge of the stage, or at least where the edge of the stage should have been. The stage was gone. The entire square arena had been annihilated, leaving only a gaping square hole down into the planet so far that it was pitch black inside. Nami got up to her feet and she stumbled a few steps forward before falling back down to her knees. Her eyes were full of water and she could barely breathe as she looked at the hole. "Sora," she whispered in a hoarse voice, "Donald, Goofy… Usopp," the last name made her entire body fill with dread and the tears spilled down her face. "Everyone."

No, they can't be, they couldn't have! Nami started snapping her head every which way looking for any sign of them. She spotted Krillin standing in front of Bulma and their other new friends, but the bald boy was not crying out Goku's name. Instead, the boy was looking over Nami's head, and she in turn followed his gaze up into the sky. Nami's jaw dropped and her heart skipped a beat at the sight.

"Whoa," Sora exclaimed. The teenage boy with spiky brown hair leaned left and peeked over the side of the white cloud he was on. "That was a close one, the whole stage is gone. Thanks Smoker!"

Smoker was frowning as he flew in the air with both arms carrying passengers. He was grimacing mainly because of the long-nosed pirate in his right arm who he saved just like the kid and the animals. He did it on pure instinct seeing the monster attacking the stage, but now that he saved the same man who brought up kicking him off the Gummi Ship, a pirate, he frowned at his own actions. Smoker looked up above him into the red eyes of a very angry Tien who glared back at the man who stole his revenge from him. As he looked at Smoker though, he realized there was one person not in his arms and grinned thinking that Son Goku got caught in his attack. Smoker's eyes widened though and Tien felt a presence behind him, making him spin around with a look of astonishment on his face.

Goku had leapt up right before the beam slammed into the stage, and before Smoker could pull him out of the way. He rose so high and so fast that he flew right past Tien who got distracted by his own explosion and Smoker's interference. As Tien turned to him now, Goku was on his descent with a fist pulled back. "HAAA!" Goku yelled and slammed his right fist down into Tien's turning face. The triclops' face got smashed so hard that even covered in darkness it was easy to see the pain on it. Unlike Tien, Goku could not fly, but he hit Tien hard enough to make the man start dropping with him and allowing Goku to get in hit after hit on him as they fell.

Tien was getting hit by very powerful blows over and over again, but the darkness was a powerful ally. He glared at Goku with burning red eyes and the next time the younger boy punched forward, Tien lifted a hand and caught the fist. Goku became surprised, and then the boy's tongue shot out of his mouth and his eyes bulged as Tien pulled his fist towards him and brought a knee up into Goku's stomach. He landed near Nami on the side of the giant hole where the stage used to be, and the woman backed up as Tien smashed Goku down on the ground in front of her.

He lifted up the kid by his head and pulled his fist back far. "Grrr," Tien growled, no longer able to make out words in his current state. The black line on his face spread out to the sides and covered his entire head, making it so there was no longer any part of Tien's body still visible under the black. His right fist emitted an aura of darkness as he prepared to punch it right through a struggling Goku, but before he could, something caught his eye behind Goku and his red eyes went wide.

Nami was on her butt, having fell from sheer terror of being too close to this monster. When she saw where it was looking though, she turned her head a little and looked behind her to see none other than Luffy standing there. Her captain's head was bowed, his black hair a mess with strands covering his eyes, the corners of his lips leaving trails of blood down to his chin, he looked broken, yet somehow, he was standing. "Luf-fy," Nami whispered in a raspy voice.

"Oi," Luffy spoke in a hate-filled voice that gave Nami shivers. "He was your nakama wasn't he?" Nami did not know what Luffy was talking about for a second, until she spotted Chiaotzu lying maybe ten yards to their left. She was surprised she did not notice him before, but he was a very small figure so it was easy to miss him, especially when he looked so different covered in bad burns.

Tien looked over and saw Chiaotzu lying there, and his furious snarl wavered. The curled frown distorted and the man beneath the darkness stared in shock at the boy on the ground. "Chiaotzu?" He muttered. Memories of his oldest, and only friend flooded into Tien's mind.

Luffy did not care about any of that though, and the pirate captain continued to see Tien as only one thing, his enemy. Smoker landed beside him and the four he picked up were put down so they could all get back into fighting stances around Luffy. "Luffy," Sora whispered at the sight of Luffy's blood-soaked face. He would use his cure magic on the pirate, but he had a feeling he might still need some in a second.

Tien's eyes darted from Chiaotzu to Goku and back again, but the boy in his hand was not going to just sit there and wait. Goku chopped up with both arms and knocked Tien's arm away from him when he felt the older man loosen his grip a little. As he fell to the ground, he spun and slammed a kick into Tien's side. Tien kicked at him but Goku bounced off the floor and avoided it by inches. Tien took a step to follow Goku, but again his head turned and he looked over at Chiaotzu. Tien grabbed the side of his head and rubbed it while continuing to snarl.

Sora saw where the frustrated man was looking, and the boy holding a Keyblade had a great idea. "He's not fully controlled by the darkness yet!" Sora shouted. "Tien! Snap out of it!" Sora charged the person in front of him who looked at him and started growling, but Sora shouted out, "Chiaotzu!" and Tien hesitated long enough for Sora to start a combo of Keyblade swipes on him. "He's your friend right?" Sora shouted while continuing to attack Tien.

A kick slammed Sora backwards, tumbling over and over until he managed to flip himself and skid back on his feet a few more yards to a stop. When Sora got thrown back, Luffy flew into action. The pirate had pumped his legs while Sora charged Tien, and in Gear Second he flew at Tien and slammed as powerful attacks as he could muster into the man. "Gum Gum, JET GATTLING GUN!" He pushed his body forward and punched so hard forward with so many different punches that Tien got lifted off the ground and over the hole behind him where he continued to get pushed back.

"RRAAAHHH!" Tien roared in pain, and from something else. What's going on?! I'm losing! WHO CARES?! CHIAOTZU! I hurt Chiaotzu! KILL! This power is evil, I need to get rid of it! Tien roared again in agony and he lifted both hands to his head while Luffy collapsed to the ground once more, the steam leaving his body and his consciousness fading. Without the constant attacks on his body though, the darkness worked only on his mind and it was getting harder for Tien to fight it himself.

"Luffy!" Usopp called out and ran up to his captain. He looked above the giant hole towards where Tien was yelling and grabbing at his head in the sky. "We need to stop him now!" Usopp called out. He thought about his broken sword and knew there was nothing he could do from down here, but a shadow passed over his head and he looked up in surprise to see a boy in full red clothing soaring through the air at Tien.

"Snap out of it already!" Sora yelled, swinging two Keyblades into Tien's left and right sides. He slashed back the other ways and then came down hard on the man's head while flipping himself. Pieces of black coating were coming off with every attack and Tien's skin could start to be seen beneath it. Slashes of wind flew off of Sora's Keyblades in every direction as he attacked, and when he started falling, Tien tried punching him, but he backflipped off of the air itself and landed on the left side of the old stage. Right as he landed, he jumped back up in the air and pulled both Keyblades as far back as he could, "Take THIS!"

Tien's red eyes flared and he punched towards Sora at the same moment the boy swung both Keyblades forward. Everyone watching squinted as the sky became filled with a bright light even brighter than the one from Tien's attack earlier. This one however, felt a lot less threatening, warmer. It was a pure white light, and when it started to fade everyone could see Sora still in his Valor Form passing Tien with both of his Keyblades extended out to the sides. He passed Tien who was shirtless, showing his torso was back to being pale just like the rest of his body. What was in front of Sora though, had most people gasping.

The black coating of darkness that Sora pulled apart piece by piece was swirling around in the air in front of the boy who started to fall down to the edge of the hole. He looked up as did everyone else and they all watched as the swirls started to morph and formed into a figure they all recognized. Gurgle was trying to reform in the air, but pieces of darkness kept swirling off of him and he looked like he was really falling apart. Sora lit up bright and his clothes turned back to normal, but he still lifted that one Keyblade in his hands determinedly and jumped up at Gurgle. "I've had enough of you!"

Sora smashed his Keyblade into Gurgle and the creature exploded into a cloud of darkness that quickly faded out of existence leaving a strange sight to behold. A red heart shimmered up in the air where Gurgle just was for a second before fading away. Sora landed down on the side of the stage again, but his feet were partially on the edge and he wobbled there flailing his arms around for a few seconds, before promptly falling back into the bottomless hole.

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A/N And the boss of the world is defeated! The tournament takes a dark turn as Tien turns on even his own comrades after throwing Luffy out of the arena. Gurgle turned out to be a Heartless in disguise, Smoker's on the chopping block, Zoro's still lurking and being evil, and the tournament is about to end! This was the last chapter for the DBZ world, but there will be some falling action next chapter before they take off on their next adventure! Hope you enjoyed, and thanks for reading!