SailorStar9: With Chapter 216 uploaded, I present Chapter 217 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 217: Arc 14: Doflamingo's Ultimatum! Kill Or Be Killed


"Creepy." Kyros growled. "How are you still alive, Doflamingo?" he jumped back into the fight, sword drawn.

"Do you want me to teach you how to kill a person?" a Doflamingo clone appeared behind Kyros' back.

"Soldier!" Luffy warned.

"Kyros-nii-sama!" Viola shouted.

"This is how you do it." Doflamingo smirked, raising a leg. "Straw Hat." he hissed, Luffy having pulled Kyros to the ground to dodge the kick.

"There are two Young Masters?" Baby 5 exclaimed, seeing both Doflamingo and the clone closed in on the pair.

"Pentachromatic Strings!" both Doflamingo and the clone stretched out their stings from their fingers to land an attack, Luffy pulling Kyros away to dodge.

"Sorry," Kyros turned. "I dropped my guard."

"Gomu Gomu no..." Luffy charged in at Doflamingo.

"Armament." Doflamingo imbued his feathered coat with Armament Haki to guard against Luffy's rain of punches.

"Jet Gatling!" activating Gear Second, Luffy fired off his rapid punches at Doflamingo.

Doflamingo grinned when his string clone appeared behind Luffy, arms stretched when the said clone suddenly dissolved into thin air. Using Armament Haki on his fist, he then punched Luffy into a pillar.

"That hurts." Luffy winced.

"The tides have finally turned, Doflamingo." Sasha declared.

"You..." Doflamingo snapped his head at the younger female pirate. "What did you... don't tell me..." he realized, recalling the fight at the bridge. "You wretch! What did you do?"

"I've completely erased your Devil Fruit and its abilities." Sasha replied. "The String String Fruit will never make it's appearance in this world ever again. Dangling the Gura Gura Fruit in our nose is a big misstep; besides us and the Revolutionary Army, did you really think you can survive an onslaught from the Whitebeard Pirates as well?"

"Those wash-out pirates?" Doflamingo scoffed. "They're barely defending Old Man Newgate's territories. Now it's time to let you guys go. Pica." he gave the order. "Throw these nuisances out."

At Doflamingo's command, the Stone Assimilation human shifted the ground, throwing the intruders off balance. Grabbing the group with his stone hands, Pica then tossed them out of the palace.


"Gomu Gomu Balloon!" Luffy inflated himself, cushioning the group's fall.


"Now, let's bring an end to everything." Doflamingo declared, Baby 5 having freed Gladius from his ice prison. "Give the foot soldiers this blanket order: exterminate everyone and everything. Level this country to the ground: no one is allowed to escape."


"He threw us out into the garden of the Rampant Tower." Luffy looked up at the stone wall.

"We can't get near Doflamingo as long as Pica is there." Viola noted.

"The ground is descending." Luffy struggled to stay on his feet. "What's going on?"

"It's Pica." Law realized. "Since he can merge with stones, he can even shift the geography."

"The Royal Palace is going somewhere." Luffy looked up to see the palace shifting upwards.


"Citizens and guests of Dressrosa." Doflamingo addressed the panicked country. "I could have reigned over all you with terror from the start. After finding out the truth, I bet a great number of you want to kill me now. That's why I prepared a game for you. It's a game to kill me. I'm in the Royal Palace I won't run or hide. If you can take my life, the games ends there, of course. But there is another way to finish the game. Here is how: you kill all the people that I'm going to name now. Also, I will reward a large prize for killing each one of them. Kill or get killed. Everyone in this country will become hunters. The only way for you to survive is to kill somebody."


SailorStar9: So yeah, I neutralized Doflamingo's Fruit right off the bat, since I still think Law should've landed the finishing blow on Doflamingo. Any OOC-nes is regretted. *Sighs* Don't you just hate plot bunnies sometimes? Reviews are much appreciated.