SailorStar9: After getting Chapter 120 out, this is Chapter 121 of this fic. For everyone who put this fic on your favorited and followed lists and/or story alerts, thank you, but remember everyone, a lot of authors (myself included) sustain on readers' reviews.

Pairings: Ace/Sasha, sibling Luffy/Sasha and Sabo/Sasha, patriotic-retainer Law/Sasha

Disclaimers: One Piece belongs to Oda Eiichirō-sensei. Me, on the other hand, own absolutely nothing, except my OC, the pairing and the fic idea.

Chapter 121: Arc 9: It Repels Everything! Kuma's Paw-Paw Power!

"My shadow..." Nightmare Luffy looked up at the ground. "Came back..."

"Aniki, what happened to you?" Sasha turned to her shadow-stuffed brother. "On the other hand, I don't want know."

"Nightmare Luffy?" Nami echoed after Lola's pirate group explained.

"So basically, you people gathered 100 shadows and made Luffy like that?" Usopp asked.

"But, he has only 2 to 3 minutes of that power left." Lola informed.

"Which would be rather redundant, seeing how Moria's already defeated." Sasha pointed out. "Tidal Wave!" she flushed the shadows out of Luffy.

"It's sunlight!" Lola's joyous crew cheered once dawn shone on them, every single shadow that was stolen had been returned. "We ain't afraid of the sunlight anymore!"

"Looks like everyone over there is alright." Chopper noted, the backlash of the shadows exiting Luffy had knocked the rubber man out.

"Don't you think Luffy's new fighting styles are a bit too harmful for his body?" Usopp queried, recalling Luffy's 'Gear Second' and 'Gear Third' back on Enies Lobby. "I'm worried. If there's gonna be stronger enemies than this from now on, he's gonna keep using these. If we don't pull ourselves together soon..."

"You're right." Nami agreed.

"A zombie!" Usopp exclaimed when Spoil appeared behind him.

"Nah, I'm just an old man with a big wound." Spoil assured.

"Aren't you the old man we met at the cemetery?" Sanji recognized Spoil.

"Unbelievable..." Spoil remarked. "To think we'd see a day where we can walk under the sun again. Thank you. I don't know how we can repay you.

"Oi, old man Spoil!" Lola waved.

"You guys." Spoil greeted. "So you're all safe?"

"Oh yeah, you guys." Lola turned to the Straw Hats. "I think we're long due for some thanks. Thank you, you guys. Every member of the Thriller Bark victims will never forget this." the entire group knelt before the Straw Hats.

"More importantly, one of you may marry me." Lola offered.

"NO!" Zoro, Sanji, Usopp, Chopper, Franky and Brook chorused in unison.

"Even if you thank us, Luffy already told you, old man." Zoro sighed. "We only fight on our own terms. You guys were just rescued as a bonus."

"What the hell are you saying?" Nami snapped, giving the swordsman a slap across the face. "Just as somebody finally thanks us!"

"How about we show you Moria's treasure?" one of the Risky Brothers offered.

"Well now, if you insist..." Nami grinned. "That's right! I..." she recalled Bartholomew Kuma. "Forgot something really important. I completely forgot... about his presence. It's really serious." she informed the crew.

"I see." a voice sounded from on top of a broken wall. "So my greatest fears have become reality?"

"So it will seem." Kuma replied the Den Den Mushi.

"He's here..." Nami stammered. "Guys... calm down and listen to me. During the fight with Moria and the others, I forgot to tell you, but on this island, there's another one... a Warlord!"

"What'd you just say?" Usopp was shocked. "That's...!" he turned to Kuma.

"A Warlord?" the others echoed.

"There's no way..." Usopp stuttered.

"Why are there two Warlords on the same island?" Chopper asked.

"Just when we finally settled on Crocodile's successor, it's not good to lose another Warlord." the voice on the other end of Kuma's Den Den Mushi, which sounded suspiciously like Sengoku, reminded. "Is he still breathing, even in the faintest?"

"Who knows." Kuma replied.

"As long as he is still alive, we will wait for his recovery and hope for him to remain in his position was Warlord." Sengoku stated. "We'll follow up until such time. The dignity of the Warlords would be lost if we were to lose them so easily. This news must no reach anyone else. These guys are a problem."

"That's right..." Lola recognized Kuma. "That gigantic body, not even inferior to Moria's... the pirate called 'The Tyrant', Bartholomew Kuma!"

"Do you comprehend what I'm saying?" Sengoku insisted. "We cannot afford to let anyone else know of Moria's defeat. This is a direct order from the World Government: including the Straw Hat crew, obliterate everyone on that island."

"Too easy." Kuma replied.

"No way!" Usopp panicked. "A never ending battle with the Warlords is just..."

"This is terrible, considering we just barely beat Moria." Chopper added.

"You guys stand back." Zoro stepped forward, drawing one of his swords. "I'll do this."

"Be careful." Nami warned. "He has some kind of ability. I saw him make a person disappear just with the touch of his hand. And he can change locations in an instant."

"Looks like yet another terrible bastard appeared." Franky snorted.

"That hand is dangerous..." Nami cautioned as Kuma removed his gloves.

In an instant, Kuma teleported in the midst of the Rolling Pirates.

"I see now..." Franky was stunned. "He really did change locations in an instant."

Using 'Pad Ho', Kuma took out a row of the Thriller Bark Victim's Association pirates. He then teleported backwards, facing Zoro's back. "'Devil Wind Zoro'" he addressed the swordsman. "Shall I start with you?"

"If it's a fight you want, then I won't back down." Zoro stood firm. "That would be without honor."

"You lot are pretty famous." Kuma stated. "I would seem that on Straw Hat Luffy's ship, there are quite a few skilled subordinates. You all caused quite a bit of trouble. It appears the Captain is not the only one responsible for your renown."

"Nitoryu lai: Rashomon!" Zoro released his attack, only to have Kuma dodge the assault with his speed. With his paw above the swordsman, the Warlord slammed his palm at Zoro who somersaulted back to avoid getting hit. Turning, Kuma sent another 'Pad Ho' attack at Zoro, who barely managed to dodge the paw-shaped beam.

"What's with that guy's ability?" Nami was shocked. "What are those marks he left on the rubble?"

"Sanjuroku Pound Ho!" Zoro sent his air blast at Kuma who merely deflected the attack with his paw. "So that's your ability." he realized.

"The power to deflect everything." Kuma stated. "I ate the Nikyu Nikyu Fruit; I am a Paw Man."

"I don't know if you're a Warlord, maybe he's not that tough." Franky mused, only to be proven wrong when Kuma fired a 'Pad Ho' at him and sending him flying backwards with a paw print on his chest.

"Cyborg Franky, is that all there is to your strength?" Kuma inquired.

"Perhaps he is possibly deflecting air itself." Robin concluded "A normal cannon won't hurt Franky at all."

"I call it 'Pad Ho'." Kuma explained. "By repelling air at the speed of light, I make a shockwave that can pierce through anything. Well, that's over." he rooted himself on the ground. "Tsuppari Pad Ho!" he let loose a series of 'Pad Ho' at Zoro.

"Toro Nagashi!" Zoro dodged the paw pads and closed in on Kuma who used his paws to deflect Zoro's swords.

"That's as far as you go!" Sanji jumped in, just as Kuma was about to release a 'Pad Ho' from Zoro's back and slammed a kick on Kuma's chin. "Concassé!"

"Bastard, don't butt in!" Zoro snapped, before gaping when he saw Sanji fell to the ground, holding his leg in pain.

"'Black Leg Sanji'." Kuma mused. "You must be him."

"Why the hell is he so hard?" Sanji muttered. "Is his face made of steel?"

"Fire Bird Star!" Usopp fired his bullet at Kuma.

"'Sogeking'?" Kuma turned. "What a ridiculous name." he repelled the flame bird back. "As I figured, getting rid of you all in your injured states isn't fair at all." he noted after awhile. "The Government ordered me to completely obliterate you, but..." he raised his paws and charged up his next attack, forming a giant paw-shaped air bubble between his hands before shrinking the air bubble.

"If all that air pressure were to suddenly expand, it would create a massive shockwave." Robin realized what Kuma intended to do. "It would turn into a bomb."

"I will spare your lives." Kuma declared, the compressed air bubble was between his paws. "If, in exchange, you give me the head of Straw Hat Luffy. If I return with his head, the Government will not complain."

"You're asking us to betray our nakama?" Usopp glared.

"Come, bring Straw Hat to me." Kuma instructed.

"NO WAY!" the Straw Hats declared in one voice.

"That's a shame." Kuma admitted and released the glowing paw-shaped bubble. "Ursus Shock!" the said bubble expanded outwards, the energy lash threatening to level the landscape of Thriller Bark, when suddenly, the bubble popped and vanished.

This girl... Kuma thought as Selena's Divine Haki rippled out from Sasha. She possesses Conqueror's Haki? No, what I'm feeling is much purer than Conqueror's Haki... this Haki encompasses even that of the universe. This girl... she can't be!

"Return to the Gorosei, Bartholomew Kuma." Sasha ordered. "And tell the Gorosei that if they want to see me, they should come here themselves. I will neither flee nor hide."

Somewhere at sea on his Marine vessel...

Garp paused in mid-bite of his rick cracker when he felt Sasha's Haki.

"Someone pissed my Sasha-chan off." the Vice Admiral muttered and stored his rice cracker packet away because he decided Coby and Helmeppo needed more training.

In the Revolutionary Army Headquarters in Baltigo...

Dragon looked up from the report he was reading and turned to the open window when he sensed the familiar shimmer of Divine Haki.

On the Moby Dick...

Ace was sparring with Vista when he felt Sasha's Divine Haki and resulting in him almost getting nicked by Vista's swords.

Somewhere deep under the ocean on the Polar Tang...

A certain 'Surgeon of Death' who was lounging at the submarine's controls, peered open his gray eyes as he felt the familiar power that had saved him in Flevance some 14 years prior.

SailorStar9: Any OOC-nes is regretted. *Sighs* Don't you just hate plot bunnies sometimes? Reviews are much appreciated.