SailorStar9: With Chapter 211 uploaded, I present Chapter 212 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, 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 212: Arc 14: A Showdown Between the Warlords! Law vs. Doflamingo!
"You want to make me pay?" Doflamingo echoed. "For what I 13 years ago?"
"You know what I'm talking about." Law retorted.
"What are you gonna do with Giolla?" Doflamingo asked. "You know what kind of family we are."
"He's right, Law." Giolla confirmed. "I don't mind sacrificing myself for the Young Master."
"Then, I suppose you don't mind if I do this." Sasha just smiled sweetly as she manifested her 'Heart of the Ocean' sword. Without even a warning, she stabbed the over-sized woman with the blade, extracting the Art Art Fruit.
"That..." Doflamingo gaped.
"The Art Art Fruit..." Giolla recognized her own Fruit. "That's impossible!"
"Impossible?" Sasha echoed amusedly. "It's exactly what I did with Gecko Moria two years ago; I removed his powers. I did the same with Blackbeard back on Water 7, Doflamingo; I can do the same to you and not lose any sleep over it." she gave the Warlord a cold smirk. "I'm done being the nice, benevolent Queen, not when there's Blood Traitors like you who expect to get away with High Treason unscathed. Law, do whatever you want with her." she informed the older 'D'. "Without her Devil Fruit abilities and with her totally unable to gain any Devil Fruit powers, she's practically useless now."
"You, Thalassa-ya, have a vicious streak." Law remarked, activating his 'Room' and teleporting Giolla out of the battlefield. "You better run as far as you can." he warned Giolla.
"I'm not gonna leave Young Master and run!" Giolla protested.
"I don't need you." Doflamingo retorted. "I don't need you here, now that you've lost your Devil Fruit powers. Just go."
"Yes sir!" Giolla fled to the other side of the bridge.
"I saw Black Foot earlier." Doflamingo noted. "Which means our plan is not going so well."
"You lost your trump card, Caesar." Law related. "You will lose the SMILE factory while you're fighting me here. This will be your end."
"It is unreasonable for you to hold a grudge against me, Law." Doflamingo fired back.
"It's not a grudge." Law corrected. "I've been living my life until today to attain that man's long-cherished ambition."
"Thousand Falling Water Spears of Death!" Sasha rained her multi-shot water spears down on the Fighting Fish that had jumped up to attack them. "I really need to rename that." she muttered, the seawater was now red from the fish's blood.
Taking the opening, Law reactivated 'Room' and rushed forward at Doflamingo, managing to dodge the string attack the older pirate had aimed at his back.
Doflamingo back-flipped, avoiding Law's sword slash and put up a string barrier to block out the younger pirate's sword thrust.
"Well, the bridge is really going to get destroyed by the end of this fight." Sasha noted. "Welcome back." she cast a look at Law who had returned beside her.
"What's the matter, Law?" Doflamingo mocked, giving chase and breaking the bridge into pieces with his strings. "I thought you wanted to kill me."
"Water Wall!" Sasha raised a wall of seawater to block out Doflamingo's attacks.
"Room!" Law reactivated his sphere. "Takt!" he diverted the falling debris from behind Doflamingo and fired them at him.
Doflamingo reached out a hand, slicing the cut off pillar into half, only to have the rest of the pillar smash into him.
"And here's hoping Doflamingo doesn't have Awakening." Sasha muttered, Law closing on Doflamingo who had broken out of the pillars relatively unscathed.
"Mes!" blocking out on Doflamingo's defense of his sword strike, Law thrust his free hand towards the older pirate's unprotected chest.
Dodging the hand, Doflamingo back-flipped and kicked Law back to the ground.
"Sea Bubble!" in 'Flight Mode', Sasha took Doflamingo's back and injected the seawater sphere in the Celestial Dragon's back.
"Wretch!" Doflamingo hissed, sensing his strings vanishing as his ability was nullified. "What did you do?" he demanded, landing on the side of the bridge that was still intact.
"Nullified your Devil Fruit power." Sasha replied. "Law, end this!"
"Got it." Law nodded. "Room!" using up the last of his strength, he reactivated a 'Room' and swapped himself with a falling piece of rubble. With his sword raised, he brought it down on Doflamingo who used Armament Haki to block the blade.
Flipping back, Doflamingo kicked Law away. "What are you going to do, Law?" he mocked, strolling nonchalantly towards the exhausted surgeon.
"Azure Dragon Tail!" Sasha blasted Doflamingo off with a water tornado. "Have you forgotten about me, Doflamingo?" she reminded. Not giving the disoriented Warlord time to recover, she closed in for her next assault. "Dragon Wave Palm: Sixty-Four Palms!" coating her hands with her 'Sea Bubble' spheres, she attacked Doflamingo, injecting jets of seawater into the older pirate's body as they stuck their targets with increasing velocity. "Dragon Wave Palm, Final Palm: Water Pulsing Palm!" she ended the barrage, the repulsion force throwing Doflamingo back across the bridge. "Law, take a breather." she advised. "The final effects of my attack will only come into full effect after two hours."
"Thalassa-ya, what did you do?" Law was astonished by how effortlessly the younger female had taken down Doflamingo.
"You know how one of the universal weaknesses for all Devil Fruit users is seawater?" Sasha asked. "Then, what do you think will happen if I inject seawater into a Fruit user's bloodstream?" at Law's wide-eyed expression, she continued. "The seawater will continue to negate the Fruit user's ability until he dies; no one will be able to remove it, no one will be able to heal him."
"For two hours?" Law echoed. "Then, I can still hold Doflamingo back for at least that long. You have to get back to Dressrosa and meet up with the others, Thalassa-ya. I'll be fine." he insisted. "Room! Shambles!" he teleported Sasha off the bridge.
"Hey, Doffy." Diamante voiced from the Den Den Mushi. "Are you in the middle of something?"
"It's okay." Doflamingo replied. "Carry on."
"Violet betrayed us." Diamante informed.
"Black Foot was here, so I thought something was wrong." Doflamingo noted.
"We were gonna find out what the Straw Hats were up to using her Glare Glare Fruit power, but we still don't know." Diamante explained.
"Don't worry about it." Doflamingo assured. "Diamante, deploy Lao G and the others to the SMILE factory."
"Okay, I'll do it if you insist." Diamante ended the call.
"Law, while you're drawing my attention as a decoy, other members of the Straw Hats are planning to destroy the factory." Doflamingo stated. "Even if you die here, as long as the factory is destroyed, Kaido will kill me once I lose all the SMILEs. Isn't that how your little scenario goes? You said you were using them, but if you didn't trust them, you couldn't plan something like that. How can you trust Straw Hat so much?"
"Because I know the 'D' will blow up a storm again." Law smirked.
Growling, Doflamingo slammed a fist into Law's stomach.
SailorStar9: Any OOC-nes is regretted. *Sighs* Don't you just hate plot bunnies sometimes? Reviews are much appreciated.
