SailorStar9: With Chapter 213 uploaded, I present Chapter 214 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 Eiichirō-sensei. Me, on the other hand, own absolutely nothing, except my OC, the pairing and the fic idea.

Chapter 214: Arc 14: A Moving Castle! The Top Executive Pica Rises Up


"It seems like nobody's here." Kin'emon looked around, once the group exited the side door.

"Wait." Viola stopped the group. "Could you close the door?"

"Is the the entrance to the palace?" Luffy asked, peering from behind a stone tower.

"No, it's the entrance to the Rampart Tower which stands under the palace." Viola corrected. "To reach the palace, we still have to climb up. The Rampart Tower also has a secret entrance. Let's go. Don't let the guards see you. If we make a scene, they'll call the Executives then we'll be stuck. Particularly if the Executive named Pica finds us, all hopes of facing Doflamingo will be lost."

"Where's Luffy-dono?" Kin'emon wondered as they followed Viola.

"Look!" Wicca pointed, the dwarf finding Sasha a more comfortable ride than Zoro.

"Gomu Gomu no Giant Pistol!" Luffy was already running towards the gate, his arm inflated and smashing it through the doors.

"I'm so glad I'm the adopted one." Sasha muttered.

"We have no choice." Viola realized. "Let's go. Since it's come to this, it's faster this way."


"Where's Mingo?" Luffy raged through the palace.

"Wicca, get off me for a moment." Sasha requested. "Ex-quip: Dragonite's Wheel Armor! Hold on." she told the female dwarf as she took to the skies. "Circular Blade!" she took out the attacking guards in front of them. "Kin'emon, you need to get to the Toy House, right?" she reminded.

"I want to go there, too." Wicca interjected. "To take part in Operation SOP."

"We're gonna got to the Toy House together, then." Kin'emon looked at the dwarf who had jumped onto his hands. "Now, where is the Toy House?"

"It's beneath this building." Wicca looked down. "But... maybe, go down those stairs first." she pointed ahead.

"Now I know where to go." Kin'emon let Wicca climb onto his shoulder and the pair took off.


"Which way?" Luffy asked, the group was now ascending upwards.

"Left." Viola replied.

"No one's here." Luffy turned the corner. "I'll get you soon, Mingo."

"Their security isn't keeping up with us." Zoro noted.

Luffy suddenly stopped when the candles along the corridor started going out one by one. "What's this?" he wondered as the stone walls started to rumble. "Something is on the wall." he blinked as Pica's face emerged from the stone wall above them. "What the..." he gaped as Pica's form stepped out from the wall.

"Oh no!" Viola gasped. "It's Pica. Be careful. He's a top Executive of the Family. He's Pica, eater of the Stone Stone Fruit – a stone assimilation human."

"If we get it in the teeth, we'll be crushed with a blow." Zoro growled, the group dodging Pica's punch.

"We can't advance if nothing is done." Luffy pointed out, the group moving out of the way of Pica's foot. "I don't care if you're a top Executive or something." he activated Gear Second. "I gonna go kick Mingo's ass. Get out of my way!" he jumped right in front of Pica's face. "Gomu Gomu no Gatling!" he rained his rapid punches at Pica, demolishing the stone wall.

"That was too easy." Zoro noted, the group running past.

"Zoro, don't jinx it." Sasha deathpanned, Pica having reformed himself from the ground, his large hand reaching over their heads.

"He's not just a stone man." Zoro remarked.

"He can merge with stones." Viola explained. "Which mean he's practically taking control of this whole stone palace."

Sinking both his arms into the walls, Pica pulled the walls in and squashing the invaders with them.

"That's close." Sasha remarked, blocking out the walls with a water bubble barrier.

"Hold on a sec." Zoro looked around. "I'm gonna..." stabbing one of his swords into a crack in the wall, he released his energy blades, slicing the stones into pieces.

"Gomu Gomu no Storm!" bursting out, Luffy let loose his rain of punches, with Pica using a stone wall to block off the attack.

"Let me do it!" Zoro took over. "What?" he gaped, Pica gripping onto the floor and waving it like a carpet. "How annoying. Three-Swords Style: 108 Pound Phoenix!" he sliced the stone wall into pieces.

"Gomu Gomu no Gatling!" Luffy's attack demolished the second stone wall.

With Luffy shattering Pica's stone fist with a punch, Zoro took out one of Pica's legs with his swords.

"Let's get away from the stone man!" Luffy led the group off.

"We're trapped!" Viola gasped, when Pica erected a stone wall in front of them after regrowing his limbs.

"Luffy, take them and go." Zoro instructed, slicing down the wall. "Leave him up to me. "You go ahead and kick Doflamingo's ass. This stone guy is gonna get cut."


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