SailorStar9: With Chapter 173 uploaded, I present Chapter 174 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, Background Protector!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 174: Arc 12: The Noah Closing In! The Fish-Man Island Facing Destruction!


"You... bitch!" Hody snapped at the defiant female.

"He's pretty tough." Luffy remarked.

"And who're you calling bitch?" flames were dancing in Ace's eyes.

"Do know what Fish-man Karate is?" Hody was immediately in front of the water wielder.

"Too slow." Sasha tsked, ducking to dodge the palm thrust. "Your skill is nothing compared to Jinbe-sensei."

"Of course." Jinbe agreed. "That's why you should depend on fake power."

"Iron Shell Squad!" Hody summoned the shield specialists.

"Fire Fist!" Ace simply took out the shields with his trademark attack.

"Armament Haki, hardening!" all three fighters blocked off Hody's next kick and Luffy's kick sent the overgrown Fish-Man to the ground.

"Shark Arrows!" Hody threw his water bullets at the trio.

Drawing a semi-circle with her foot, Sasha started spinning as she expelled energy from her pressure points. "Dragon Wave Palm: Sky Rotation!" she conjured up a hemispherical energy barrier that deflected Hody's attack.

Taking the small opening the two 'D" brothers offered as they fended off Hody's attack, Sasha launched into her close-combat fighting technique as she closed the distance between Hody and herself; coating her hands with solidified water, she attacked, "Dragon Wave Palm: Sixty-Four Palms!" the energy pulses from her open palms sending tremors through Hody's body as they struck their targets with increasing velocity. "Dragon Wave Palm, Final Palm:Water Pulsing Palm!" she ended the fight, both open palms striking Hody in the stomach, the repulsion force sending the drugged Fish-Man flying back into the stone wall.

"I knew that technique was devastating from the state of the training dummies, but damn..." Ace whistled.

"What is it?" Jinbe turned as the over-looming shadow of Noah entered the plaza and halting the on-going fights.

"What is that?" Nami gaped.

"The Noah!?" Jinbe recognized the ark.

"Super big!" Franky gawked, exiting the cockpit of General Franky.

"It's..." Shirahoshi blinked as Wadatsumi dropped from the ship.

"Captain Vander Decken, I fell off!" Wadatsumi called. "Stop the ship! I don't wanna die!"

"Damn, that woman!" Hody cursed, freeing himself from the debris.

"How tough can he be?" Luffy wondered.

"No kidding." Sasha agreed. "His organs should've been pretty rattled up by that move."

"Did you say Decken?" Hody growled. "That crazy pirate. This is not part of the plan."

"Shirahoshi!" Decken chuckled from his seat attached to the Noah's bow. "Accept my love! Did you hear me, Shirahoshi?"

"Princess Shirahoshi!" Jinbe gasped. "Don't tell me Decken threw the Noah like he threw those letters and axes?"

"I've been loving you for 10 years since you were just a kid." Decken added. "There is no one who could love you like I do in all the wide world. It's my love! Love! Why can't you just accept it? Things that I threw with my Mark-Mark Fruit power won't stop until they crash into something or hit their target. Noah the giant ship; it embodies my love for you. Accept it and drop dead, along with all of Fish-Man Island, Shirahoshi!""

"Did he just say he's been loving Shirahoshi for a decade?" Sasha asked. "Won't that make him a pedophile?"

"Captain Decken, what about me?" Wadatsumi asked as the Noah closed in on the plaza.

"Wadatsumi, it's too late." Decken laughed. "It's impossible for me to save you. So I need you become a sacrifice upon Shirahoshi's death, along with the island."

"Princess!" Jinbe suddenly realized Shirahoshi was missing. "Princess Shirahoshi!"

"I am over here!" Shirahoshi voiced, poised before the falling Noah.

"Since when did she..." Sasha gaped.

"Why did she do that?" Nami asked.

"Because that ship is flying towards her." Jinbe replied.

"Then she..." Nami realized what Shirahoshi intended to do.

"That's the girl that I love!" Decken gushed.

"I thought that you only wanted to just take my life." Shirahoshi shouted. "If I am the only one who you want to kill, please don't harm the other people of the Ryugu Kingdom. Come and get me!" swimming upwards, she shifted the Noah away from the bubble shielding the plaza.

"How amazing!" Decken raved. "How amazingly beautiful you are, even your mind. You're trying to take the matter into your own hands in order to save the country, aren't you Shirahoshi? You're eligible to become Vander Decken IX's wife, as I thought. You better die while you're still beautiful and live in my heart forever." he drew out a dagger and threw it at Shirahoshi, piercing her upper arm.

Her mind made up, Shirahoshi sped up, drawing the Noah away from the Fish-Man Island.

"She's a stubborn girl, that's for sure." Sasha sighed and took off after Poseidon's avatar.

"Oi, Sasha, where are you going?" Ace shouted, the two 'D' brothers running after the water user.

Meanwhile, Hody was climbing up one of Noah's chains, making his way to his traitorous ally.

"Sanji, wait!" Luffy called out to the blond cook who was using Sky Walk to catch up with Noah. "We'll go up there. You stay here and take care of the plaza."

"But Luffy, the ship is in the water." Sanji reminded.

"Jinbe-sensei, do you think that the ship is filled with water?" Ace turned to his teacher.

"I don't know, but I know Decken is a Devil Fruit user." Jinbe replied.

"Then that would mean there must be air for him." Ace concluded.

"Take these with you." Jinbe tossed three bubbly corals to the trio.

Stretching out his hands to grab Sanji's foot, Luffy launched himself towards the Noah.

"Flame Commandment: Fire Pillar!" Ace propelled himself to the Noah using his 'Fire Pillar tech.

Sasha reactivated the 'Flight Mode' of her ' Hydro Guardian Dragon Armor' and took to the air after the ark.


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