SailorStar9: With Chapter 221 uploaded, I present Chapter 222 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 222: Arc 14: A Tearful Reunion! Rebecca and Kyros!
"It's the fourth level." Leo remarked, once the water bubble popped after the reduced group arrived at the field.
"Thank you all." Rebecca knelt down.
"Rebecca-sama, we have to go save Princess Marsherry now." Leo informed. "Is it okay to leave you and Sashaland here?"
"We'll be fine." Sasha assured. "The others will be here soon enough. Now go save her."
"Okay." Leo nodded and leapt through the field with Cub right behind him.
"Somebody made it here, huh?" Diamante stood up from his resting place in the Sunflower Field. "It's you two..." he grinned down at the two younger girls in front of him. "The Top Executives of our Family are guarding this plateau. I didn't think anyone could reach it, but there was a slight chance, so I've been waiting, but... Rebecca! I can't believe you made it here. Swinging his large sword, he stuck the two girls. "This..." the taller man found himself unable to budge when his blade was blocked off by a large spiked mace Sasha had conjured. "Ex-quip: Winter Purgatory Armor!"
Aside, Rebecca watched as Diamante and Sasha clashed weapons, neither parties backing down.
"What did you come here for?" Diamante was suddenly behind Sasha, sword raised. "Don't tell me you're here to kill Doffy." he mocked, the mace fending off his attack. "That can't be. You recklessly challenged me with that over-sized weapon. You know you have no chance against Doffy. Or you came here to challenge me, believing in some miracle?"
"Has anyone ever told you that you love your voice too much?" Sasha retorted, expanding her frost aura and coating the grass with a sheet of ice.
"Sure." Diamante grinned widely. "If you wanna challenge me, I accept." activating his Devil Fruit, he flattened his sword and swung it at Sasha, the extended sword was deflected by the mace's swing.
"Rebecca!" Kyros jumped in, slashing Diamante with his sword.
"You're..." Diamante gaped. "Kyros!"
"I won't let you take away another member of my family from me!" Kyros swore. "I'm sorry, Rebecca." he apologized. "As a toy with no future, all I could do was teach you how to fight; even though you're a gentle person like your mother. But it ends today. You don't have to fight anymore."
"What do you mean by that, Kyros?" Diamante demanded.
"It means, today, I'll settle my score with all of you!" Kyros declared.
"That means it's the end of all of you!" Diamante snapped.
Bowing out of the fight, Sasha retreated to Rebecca's side as they watched Kyros and Diamante clash blade.
"You monster!" Diamante snapped, forced on the defensive, before renewing his attack, both swordsmen refusing to back down.
"Rebecca!" Luffy hollered from the staircase Bartolomeo had created.
"Lucy!" Rebecca hurried to the edge of the plateau.
"The key!" Luffy urged.
"Great, we both made it." Rebecca sighed in relief.
Dodging the attacking metal toy soldier, Luffy used the toy's head to launch Law and himself into the air.
"The key!" Luffy shouted. "Give it to me now!"
"Here it is!" Rebecca held out the heart-shaped key.
"Behind you!" Sasha warned as the toy soldier closed in.
Stretching out his and, Luffy grabbed the key just as the toy soldier's mouth opened to swallow them.
"Room!" Law activated his powers, the Sea Prism Stone cuffs dropping to the ground. From inside the toy soldier, he sliced the giant toy into pieces.
"You two are late." Sasha chided.
"You jerks!" Diamante growled.
"Finally, we caught up with him." Luffy declared.
"Finally I'm free." Law added.
"We're here." Luffy focused on the palace. "The fourth level: where Mingo is."
"Law!" Diamante glared. "Straw Hat!"
"Diamante." Law recognized the swordsman.
"I'm sorry, you two." Kyros blocked off Diamante. "My hands are full with this guy. Could you take care of Doflamingo for me?"
"Of course!" both 'D's chorused.
"Let's go, Straw Hat-ya." Law led Luffy off.
"You're fighting me, Diamante!" Kyros reminded, Diamante reaching for his flint gun.
"Don't get in my way!" Diamante snapped, firing his gun at Kyros who deflected the bullets with his sword. "What annoying bastards. I won't allow you idiots to get into the Palace. You tremendous idiot! Traitorous brat!" he send his flatten sword flying towards the 'D' pair.
"You left your back open." Sasha deathpanned, striking the undefended Diamante from the back with her spiked mace. "It's over, Diamante." she declared. "You can feel it, can't you? Your Devil Fruit is already starting to disintegrate: the Winter Purgatory Armor is designed to deal purely against Devil Fruit users." she disengaged the Winter Purgatory Armor. "I've already removed Doflamingo's Devil Fruit, now I've dealt with yours. What's stopping me from using the same power that leveled Enies Lobby to remove every single Devil Fruit from the users of the Don Quixote Family?"
"You won't..." Diamante paled. "
"Won't I?" Sasha fired back.
"Room!" Law reactivated his powers. "Shambles!" he moved all three pirates from the Sunflower Field.
"Is this the palace?" Luffy wondered, the trio reappearing in front of the stone wall.
"Yeah, we finally made it." Law nodded.
"But doesn't that ability consume quite a lot of energy?" Sasha wondered.
"It does," Law confirmed. "But having those Sea Prism handcuffs on and being carried around to this point wasn't so bad, after all. I was able to save my energy." resting a hand over his chest, he activated a small 'Room' bubble. "Mes." wincing, he proceeded to extract the bullets that were fired into him. "He purposely used lead bullets." he hissed, looking at the lead pellets in his hand. "That jerk."
"All right." Luffy declared. "Let's go and kick Mingo's ass."
"Wait." Law held him back. "Doflamingo isn't someone that you can beat just by force of will alone. You need to cool down."
"How can I cool down after getting this far?" Luffy retorted.
"I'm saying if you don't, you can't defeat him." Law argued.
"Water Prison!" Sasha locked both arguing parties into a water bubble each. "Don't make me drown the two of you." she glared, sufficiently shutting both 'D's up.
SailorStar9: Any OOC-nes is regretted. *Sighs* Don't you just hate plot bunnies sometimes? Reviews are much appreciated.
