SailorStar9: With Chapter 187 uploaded, I present Chapter 188 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 EiichirÅ-sensei. Me, on the other hand, own absolutely nothing, except my OC, the pairing and the fic idea.
Chapter 188: Arc 13: The Straw Hats Reunited!
"Wait!" Kin'emon shouted. "Go back! It was that man! It was he who cut me down."
"So, does he have your body?" Chopper asked.
"No, he most likely does not, however..." Kin'emon replied.
"Then this can wait until later." Sanji cut him off.
"Please wait." Kin'emon pleaded. "He might know something."
"Our first priority is to find the back door." Sanji corrected. "We're not going back to meet the Navy."
"I don't see any doors that look promising." Nami remarked. "Where is the backdoor?"
"Alright." Franky declared. "Super-let me take care of it."
"The samurai was with them." Law recognized Kin'emon's head. "I can't let the Straw Hats escape, either. I'm sorry for this, Thalassa-ya. Room." he formed a second bubble. With four stabs of his sword, he extracted Nami's, Sanji's, Chopper's and Franky's personalities. "Shambles." he swapped the cartoonish hearts.
"What was that?" Sanji asked, in Nami's body. "It felt weird... I guess that's not important right now. Now hurry and run, damn kids. Did I drop my cigarette?" he wondered, his fingers grasping air.
"Follow me." Chopper, in Sanji's body, took the lead. "What's this?" he pulled out a cigarette stick.
"What are you doing now, Sanji-kun?" Nami, in Franky's body, asked.
"I'm particularly super this week." Franky in Chopper's body, declared. "Finding a backdoor will be easy."
"Guys, I think Law just did something..." Sasha trailed.
"Like what?" Nami asked. "Come to think of it, my chest feels light." lifting Franky's sunglasses, she peered down. "What's happened?" she exclaimed, seeing she was in Franky's body.
"I don't believe it!" Sanji gushed, realizing he was in Nami's body. "My chest is so heavy."
"I've turned into a human." Chopper gasped, seeing that he was in Sanji's body.
"Did I just turn into a raccoon dog without..." Franky looked at Chopper's hoof.
"Everyone, calm down." Nami stated. "I know, let's do a roll call. Chopper!"
"Yeah!" Chopper answered in Sanji's body.
"Franky!" Nami turned.
"Present!" Franky replied in Chopper's body.
"Sanji-kun!" Nami growled.
"What?" Sanji twinkled in Nami's body. "Nami-san?" he blinked.
"Just as I thought..." Sasha sighed.
"Wait, why isn't Sasha affected?" Chopper thought to ask.
"Let's just say, that guy is honor-bound not to use his abilities on me." Sasha grinned.
"We were able to get out through the backdoor, but what should we do now?" Nami asked, the group had now escaped to the snowy mountains.
"This is a really bizarre situation." Chopper admitted. "But the only thing we can do now is run."
"What's going on here?" Franky wondered. "Things have gotten super-complicated."
"It's freezing..." one of the overgrown children tripped over the snow and forcing the group to stop.
"Damnit, taking them out of there without a plan was a bad idea." Franky cursed.
Don't go overboard, Law. Sasha mused.
"What should we do?" Chopper asked, the group was now shielded inside Sasha's 'Ocean Blessing Dome'. "The children won't last too long."
"But there aren't any warm clothes around here." Franky pointed out. "I wonder if there is a mountain hut nearby."
"I see that I have no other choice." Kin'emon declared. "Put a leaf on each of your heads."
"This isn't the time for nonsense." Franky snapped.
"Besides, there isn't a single plant on this island." Chopper pointed out. "So there aren't any leaves."
"Then, use rocks or something else." Kin'emon instructed. "It matters not. Make haste."
"So, what's up with this?" Sanji asked, now that everyone had a piece of debris on their heads.
"Alright." Kin'emon nodded. "Doron!" in a cloud of pink smoke, the group had donned on winter coats, complete with gloves and boots. "The truth is, I consumed a rare type of fruit, and ever since, I have been able to use magic to change anything into a disguise. Though, I must warn you that it's magic, so the clothes will vanish if you remove them."
"There they are!" Luffy shouted, the others were on Brownbeard. "Hey, guys!"
"What are they doing here?" Nami looked at Sasha.
"This place will do." Usopp remarked, the reunited group were now taking refuge in an abandoned hideout.
"This equipment looks like the stuff in the laboratory." Franky noted.
"But it's all in pieces." Robin added. "Maybe there was some kind of big explosion."
"As long as it shields us from the blizzard, it doesn't matter." Franky shrugged.
"Now, where do we start?" Sasha mused.
"My lower body has returned to me, it has!" the tearful Kin'emon wept in joy, reunited with his legs.
"Sasha is right." Luffy agreed. "So, who turned into who?"
"First off, I am Franky." Franky declared, in Chopper's body.
"I'm Chopper." Chopper added, in Sanji's body.
"I'm Nami." Nami, in Franky's body, pointed herself.
"And we are Nami-san!" Sanji announced.
"So, to start at the beginning," Usopp went into summary mode. "This is the samurai from the Wano Kingdom we've heard about." he pointed to Kin'emon. "The distress call that we received was meant for the Crocotaur they call Boss. It came from one of his subordinates. This is because this samurai was relentlessly attacking the centaurs."
"However, I was only attempting to find and rescue my missing son, Momonosuke." Kin'emon defended. "I merely cut down those who stood in my way. Behold, all these children were imprisoned in that facility. Momonosuke must be in there somewhere as well."
"But the question now is, what happened after they sent the distress call?" Zoro reminded.
"It was the man from earlier." Kin'emon replied. "They referred to him as one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea."
"What?" Luffy burst out from the snowball he was buried under. "Torao is one of the Seven Warlords now?"
"Indeed." Robin confirmed. "He joined their ranks during the past two years."
"Before I knew it, I was cut into three parts." Kin'emon continued. "My head was thrown inside the facility. My torso was simply abandoned. My legs seem to have been used as monster bait."
"I encountered someone who was just a torso." Brook supplied.
"That obviously must be this guy's torso." Zoro concluded.
"Did you see it?" Kin'emon demanded. "Where? Where did you encounter my torso?"
SailorStar9: Any OOC-nes is regretted. *Sighs* Don't you just hate plot bunnies sometimes? Reviews are much appreciated.
