SailorStar9: With Chapter 190 uploaded, I present Chapter 191 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 191: Arc 13: To Annihilate the Straw Hats! Legendary Assassins Descend!


"They could come after us at any moment." Nami reminded. "So please come back as soon as possible."

"I hope this Master guy will just come clean about those children." Chopper remarked.

"If he doesn't, I'll force him to." Franky promised. "I'll shove my fingers into his nose and make his back teeth rattle."

"Franky, please don't talk." Robin requested.

"All right, let's go now. Luffy grinned.

"By the way," Nami turned to the snoring Brownbeard. "Why is he sleeping, too? I wonder how far Zoro went." she wondered as she rechecked Sasha's rune placement, the remaining trio had settled back in their hideout.

"He's with Sanji and Brook, so I don't think he's lost in the snow-capped mountains." Chopper reasoned. "What happened?" he looked up when the ceiling started crumbling down on them, the debris were being deflected off the energy barrier Sasha had put up.

"Again?" Nami winced. "What's going on?"

"This is not an earthquake or something." Chopper decided. "We're under attack."

"Nami," Sasha looked up from her ritual circle. "The current barrier array won't hold up under such a degree of attack. Replace the runestones with the Level 3 pale green runestones." she tossed the sack of runestones to Nami.

"Right." Nami nodded and opened the knapsack and pulled out four green runestones with three lightning symbols engraved on them.

"Nami, hurry!" Chopper urged as a large piece of rubble almost hit the sleeping children. "If it collapses, the kids are..."

"I know!" Nami shouted. "Just one more! I'm done!" she declared, the final runestone was put in place, and an even stronger barrier manifested around them, shielding off the falling debris.

"I fell asleep." Brownbeard blinked, the quake shaking him awake. "Something's going on outside." he looked up. "Somebody's come here to rescue me, maybe? Law? The Master? No, we're on a snow-capped mountain, so it must be them."

"Hey, brown guy." Nami snapped. "You know something, don't you? Who is it? You better say it, or you'll get it."

"It's no use looking for them because they'll never show themselves." Brownbeard chuckled. "We don't even know their faces. They'll carry out an assassination at any cost in exchange for their reward. All we know about them is their footprints are huge and they have low voices. There's one more thing that we know about them; they're furry, giant, beast-like men. The Snow Mountain Killers: stalking out from deep in the snowstorm. And we happen to know their names: Rock and Scotch. People call them the Yeti Cool Brothers. We really don't know much about them, but they were from a snowy region. But nobody really knows what they look like. They're giant and large. And they came here to rescue me. Your names are on their kill list now."

"What is this?" Scotch, with his rifle in hand, was stopped by Sasha's energy shield. "Your name is Brownbeard, isn't it?" he looked at the chained Brownbeard. "Your name is also on our kill list."

"What's with this guy?" Chopper exclaimed. "He's huge but I didn't notice he was here."

"Are you Rock?" Brownbeard asked. "You just made a joke, I think. I probably misheard it. The Master asked you to save me, right?"

"I'm Scotch." Scotch replied. "You didn't mishear it." he corrected, readying his rifle to blast through the barrier. "I'm here to kill you by the Master's request. Listen." he played back the recording Caesar made on the Den Den Mushi.

"And what's that guy's name?" Caesar's voice was clearly heard. "He's been captured by them. That shit with a beard. He was known for his stupidity. Oh yes, Brownbeard. He was easy to manipulate because he is so dumb, but he's a pain now. I don't need him. Kill him."

"Answer my question." Scotch demanded. "You're Brownbeard, aren't you?"

"No..." Brownbeard was in denial. "Master!"

Scotch's first gunfire shattered the energy shield like glass, his next consequent shots then taking out Brownbeard. "How annoying." the assassin retorted. "You should drop dead in a cooler way."

"Hey, Scotch." Rock chided from the hole in the ceiling. "Don't shoot too wildly. You don't wanna hit those brats."

"Oops." Scotch muttered. "That's not cool."

"Look at that." Rock turned to the snowy landscape as Luffy and the others hurried back. "Their captain is back. Let's start with them." with Luffy temporarily disposed off, he reached into the hideout and grabbed Nami.


"Luffy!" Chopper ran outside, Sasha was still inside the hideout trying to repair her ruined runestones. "I'm sorry!" they took Nami with them!"


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