SailorStar9: With Chapter 227 uploaded, I present Chapter 228 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: Married!Ace/Sasha, Sibling!Luffy/Sasha, Sibling!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 228: Arc 14: Lightning Dragon King! Protect Sasha's Life!
"I found you!" Jesus Burgess sang, suddenly appearing from the billowing smoke of the battlefield.
"You..." Luffy took a defensive pose.
"Jesus Burgess." the former First Mate of the Blackbeard Pirates declared. "And I'm in luck." he grinned when he laid eyes on Sasha. "The one who defeated my Captain is here; I can avenge him right now! I won't let you get away! Die!" pushing Luffy aside, he pulled out his curved dagger and charged towards the defenseless Sasha. "For Captain Teach!"
"Just stop it." in his half-diamond form, 'Diamond' Jozu body-slammed Burgess off.
"You..." Sasha recognized the Third Division Commander. "So, you're the one Marco sent, 'Diamond' Jozu."
"Our pride as a Whitebeard Pirate won't allow us to let our newest sister be wounded against a traitor." Jozu explained, the diamonds on his body receding.
"Ace babbled about us being married, didn't he?" Sasha asked the older pirate.
"He may have bragged about it over the Den Den Mushi at dinnertime." Jozu grinned.
"That hurt, you bastard!" Burgess spat, shaking his head to regain his bearings.
"So, this is the scum who is trying to reform the Blackbeard Pirates; whose former Captain attempted to hand Ace over to the Marines." Sabo remarked, kicking Burgess deeper into the stone wall. "Jozu, catch." he tossed the Gura Gura Fruit over to the Whitebeard contact. Twirling his pipe like a baton, he pointed its business end at Burgess. "I'm Sabo from the Revolutionary Army." he declared. "Both Straw Hat Luffy and Thalassa Sasha are my younger siblings. What do you want with my sister, Burgess?"
"Those two are your siblings?" Burgess echoed. "Don't get in my way. I have no business with you or the Revolutionary Army. I only have business with..."
"You have no business with you?" Sabo formed a crackling lightning ball above his hand. "Jozu, can you let me take care of this?"
"I'm taking that ability!" Burgess announced, getting to his feet. "Galleon Lariat!" he let loose a powerful punch at his opponent, Sabo simply dissolved into lightning to dodge the attack.
Giving Burgess a series of kicks to the chest to keep him off-balance, Sabo powered up lightning in his fist. "Thunder Dragon Claw Fist!" he slammed his elemental, Armament Haki-coated claw into Burgess' torso, electrifying him and sending him flying back into the wall. "Thunder Dragon King!" he growled. "As soon as he saw the Goro Goro Fruit's power, he changed his focus to me. So his objective is, as they say, hunting down Devil Fruit eaters."
"Armament!" Burgess got back to his feet, coating his arm with Haki. "Take this!" he threw the punch.
Sabo sent his lightning onto his pipe, fending off the fist. Sending lightning to his feet, he used 'Lighting Pulse Step' to move swiftly into the air above Burgess, his pipe blazing with white lightning. "Chidori True Spear!" he slammed the lighting-charged pipe onto Burgess, electrocuting him.
"You're such a canny guy." Burgess grinned.
"I can say the same about you." Sabo fired back.
"Aren't you gonna finish me off?" the defeated Burgess asked, still recovering from the 'Chidori: Thunderclap' bolt attack Sabo had used just moments earlier.
"Don't need to." Sabo replied, walking off.
"You brothers are too lenient." Burgess mocked.
Sabo shot him a glare and gripped his head with in a vice claw. "That's enough. Stop talking."
The Devil Fruit you got. Burgess hid a smirk, hiding his dagger behind his back. If I can't steal it here, it'll damage my reputation as a hunter of Devil Fruit eaters. I won't give it up: the Goro Goro Fruit.
Sabo jumped back to avoid getting slashed by the dagger. "Chidori: Thunder!" he called down a lightning storm that converged on Burgess as its center, the devastating attack literally frying the over-sized pirate from the inside out.
"In just two years, Sabo-nii..." Sasha whistled in amazement. "I can't believe you managed to master the Goro Goro Fruit to this extent."
"Hello?" Koala voiced over the Den Den Mushi when Sabo finally picked up. "Sabo-kun? Where are you?"
"I'm at the Palace." Sabo replied. "I just handed the Gura Gura Fruit over the Jozu. That aside, Koala, have you found the list?"
"Boy!" Koala pouted. "Yes, I have."
"Then, just call the ship and..." Sabo instructed.
"I did." Koala cut him off.
"Well, then let's meet up with Hack underground." Sabo informed.
"I'm with Hack and the others underground waiting for you!" Koala snapped.
"You never change, do you, Sabo-nii?" Sasha giggled, Sabo cutting off the connection before Koala could rant on him.
"Well..." Sabo shrugged. "Let's get out of here before the Navy moves in."
SailorStar9: Any OOC-nes is regretted. *Sighs* Don't you just hate plot bunnies sometimes? Reviews are much appreciated.
