He tore apart the clone with his teeth and hake covered fingers. He grabbed a wad of the string and wrapped them into little balls of plastic like consistency and shoved them in his ears. He got out of the palace and onto the roof to see Doflamingo had wounds, marks and a general look of being tired as he glared down at Law's bloody body.

"Tra-guy!" Luffy shouted in horror. "What happened to your arm? Why are you all bloody?!" The enemy laughed, and Luffy saw red. No! He wouldn't lose himself! It was already a disgrace that he used seastone before, he wasn't going to cheat and lose control. He was stronger than that.

He couldn't hear anything that Law or Dolfamingo might have said through the ear plugs he had in. He lunged at Doflamingo, covering his arms in haki. Law was holding his bloody stump. Just seeing it had made Luffy look down and make sure his left arm was still there. It was. Doflamingo was on his knees, coughing blood. Luffy didn't even get to see what had happened!

When the fake king grabbed Law's face, who looked like he was having blood loss based on his severed arm, Luffy made a jet stamp into the warlord's gut, throwing him back and rolling multiple times on the roof. Luffy planned on finally ending Doflamingo while he was down, not seeing that as a bad tactic, but Law stopped him.

"Wait! Please, let me… ugh-" he grunted, standing up on shaking legs. He went to the enemy and said, "There's no saving you anymore. The gamma knife destroys your internal organs without leaving an exterior wound. Don't forget, I'm a doctor," Law said.

"Doffy!" Luffy looked over to see a burnt blob of a human. That snot guy that Ace lit on fire. The sight was horrific. Luffy couldn't think of the last time he saw something so repulsive. "What did you do to Doffy?!" Luffy kicked him off the roof. They didn't need him there, stinking it up. Luffy looked at his foot in disgust. Bits of burnt skin was on it from kicking the severely injured body. Luffy hoped to never see him again. Damn, Ace really could be ruthless with his powers.

Luffy could hear fighting still going on below, and saw that the place was a mess, but Pica's statue was gone, or had fallen apart and was no longer in sight. Zoro must have won, then. Dolfamingo grunted and looked at Luffy hatefully for kicking that blob down. He shouldn't have gotten up from the bed anyways.

"You only deem those convenient as your family. You'd kill your own brother for trying to stop this madness," Law said. Luffy was worried about how much blood he'd lost, all over the roof, dripping badly even with a rope tied tightly around the stump. Luffy didn't know how or if he'd get that arm back.

"Yeah. It was such a shame he… betrayed me," the warlord said. "He pointed his gun at me."

Before Law could reply, Luffy walked over and slammed a foot onto Doflanigo's gut. "Straw Hat-ya!" Law said in annoyance.

"He's doing something weird in his stomach," Luffy stated. Doflamingo clenched his teeth at the pain from Luffy's stomp. The sounds continued. Luffy looked around and got a sharp slab of rock and slammed it into Doflamngo's stomach, tearing the skin up to reveal there were strings trying to patch up his stomach.

"Gah!" he cried.

Law finally collapsed, landing on his butt. He was too tired to fight anymore. He released a room that was surrounding the entire castle. Luffy honestly hadn't noticed since it was just so large. Doflamingo clearly needed a chance for the stitching to resume, even though Luffy had a handful of those strings in his fist, and began to speak of the war again.

"Do you really want me to have a violent flashback when I'm holding strings attached to your organs?" Luffy asked coldly. He pulled slightly, making the man gasp. He released a burst of haki, conqueror's haki that made Luffy drop the strings on impulse. But he was still down, and Luffy asked Law what they should do now.

"Tra-guy? Hey!" Luffy said in worry that Law had passed out. Luffy didn't know what to do to get him help. He was the only one around to help, but also the only one around to make sure Doflamingo stayed put. What did he do now? Law was covered in blood and it continued to seep out of his arm.

Luffy crouched beside Law, shaking him awake, but he was delirious. What should he do? Law or Doflamingo? What should he do? He could fight the warlord a lot easier without worrying or needing to heal Law. When he was about to grab Law and flee, Dolfamingo stood up behind them, and Luffy threw a fist back and let it slam into the man's face, covered in haki. He grabbed his arm, and Luffy kicked him with his foot in the chest.

He then grabbed Law once his arm was let go, and jumped with him over the roof. Robin was down in the flower field, thank goodness. He gave Law off to her, who was very injured and tired.

"Haha, he's already dead!" Doflamingo said, pointing a finger at Robin and Kyros, who were handling Law. Luffy punched his wrist, making him scowl. It had deflected the direction of his string attack. Who would have thought strings could be so dangerous a weapon. "Let's stop this already, Straw Hat Luffy. Just let me kill him."

"Over my dead body!" Luffy snapped, hands up in front of him, fists covered in haki. "If you want to try and make me have a flashback, go for it. You're the only one in danger from it, now!" he said. Doflamingo smiled except it wasn't a smile, more like a vicious sneer promising pain.

The fight started again, and Luffy noticed he kept going after his left arm. He knew that it was weak there somehow. "I don't know how much Law fixed you, but there has to be damage somewhere! Hahaha!" Luffy dodged more string attacks that were shredding up the palace roof and barely missing him.

Luffy jumped up and sent a haki covered kick at him. "You'll never understand!" Luffy shouted, and grabbed onto a string, though it burnt his hand, and pulled harshly, just barely jerking Doflamingo, and slammed a foot into his face. "You're a different kind of monster!" he snapped, and flipped out of the way from a string attack that would have shot a hole in him.

The man was furious that Luffy had even tried to use his own attack against him. More veins were clear on his forehead. He was pissed this whole time, though. Since the moment they got on the roof, he was pissed, even through any of his wicked smiles. Luffy hoped Law was okay, and his arm was somehow able to be reattached.

A string, a thick one shot through the area right at Luffy's feet, which he barely missed. It destroyed one whole wall of the castle, breaking it into pieces as it rained down onto the flower field. It crushed the sunflowers, and dust and debris were thick in the air. Luffy used gear second to get behind Doflamingo, planning on showing him just how harsh Luffy could be.

The warlord had already shown he was a monster, why not have Luffy do the same? He bit the man on the shoulder and tore a chunk of skin off, dashing back away from him, and wiping his mouth.

Doflamingo looked kind of shocked and put his hand over the deep bite wound. Luffy never liked ripping skin off. It wasn't like it tasted good to have a bunch of skin and some fat or muscle in his mouth. It was disgusting. "I was told that D's were the enemy of the gods. I can be the enemy of the whole world if I want!" he said in a snarl, letting out any animalistic behaviors.

He had a blast and sent it right at the man, who for the first time in a couple minutes had to dodge. Doflmanigo wasn't the only one that could destroy the building. "You asked what I am. I'm a blood drinking monster!" Luffy shouted, wanting to throw him off his game. He shot a jet pistol at him, aiming for an arm. It didn't break or was severely injured, but it hit.

Had he cracked it a little bit? The man believed him on this, and was glaring at him, silent. "Then I guess it would be in the best interest of the world to kill you now. Not that I'm interested in what's best for the world. I want to destroy it!" He put that wicked grin back on, and attacked once again.

Luffy matched his kick with his own armament haki covered foot, slamming both hakis together and creating sparks of conqueror's haki. Both were going all out. Doflmingo was angry, and Luffy was furious, both for very different reasons.

Luffy jumped back and quickly forced both fists to be huge and covered in haki. He wasn't making a single hit that wasn't covered in haki, because he knew this enemy was strong enough to definitely need that. He shot the grizzly knuckle at him, breaking more of the already crumbling and pretty unstable rooftop.

Anyone below could have been crushed. Sugar might be dead right now. Though that would probably be for the best based on what she could do.

But the man dodged and moved swiftly to knee Luffy in the face, throwing him back as his arms snapped back into place. He was kicked into the rubble of rock from before, when Law had been attacking him while Luffy wasn't there to watch. He rolled and landed hard, though he didn't let himself stay down for long.

"You defeat me? Ha! Don't make me laugh! The bird cage will close completely within the hour! I'm sure there are some who won't be fast enou-" Luffy slammed a fist into his face.

"Shut up! This is a fight, not a monologue!" Luffy snapped. He did this to Crocodile those two years ago and it pissed him off. Well, it sure did the same for this man. "I don't need to hear anything more, I will save this country no matter how bad it can get!" Luffy was talking a lot too, but he didn't think about that.

The man lost his grin, joyless though it may have been. It was time to go all or nothing. He had never used it against anyone but the boss of his training island. He had developed it after Rayleigh left him for those lonely six months. He wished he could have seen it, even if it was kind of weird.

When using it, it pushed his body and haki to the limit. But now was the time to use it, this man wouldn't be easy to take down. No matter who it was, out of all of the people who wished to kill him, they'd all need to go all out against him. He was stronger than any warlord he'd faced before, even though Luffy was exponentially stronger than he had been when he fought Crocodile, Moria, Kuma and Blackbeard. Thinking about it, he'd fought a lot of warlords so far.

He only had so much time as the bird cage was quickly closing, shredding the land and city by the razor sharp strings. He had to get this over with soon. He wouldn't let anybody else die!

"Gear fourth!" He blew up air into his haki covered arm, but was shocked and deeply concerned when his body did not turn into his self-named "bound man". Instead, all of his limbs were affected by the blown air. He was horrified when he was definitely not looking human anymore. He was some beast now. This was not his gear fourth! What the hell?!

Was this from being turned into a stuffed dog?! "Oh, you've turned into a beast. What's that panicked look on your face?" Doflamingo asked, sounding mocking. Well, Luffy had to deal with this. It was useless to back out. He'd just have to wing it. Though it felt wrong, it felt awkward. When he was a toy, he wasn't actually a body. He didn't have bones or muscles, he was just made of fabric and stuffing.

He attacked, finding his legs were extremely powerful, almost like Bellamy's were but faster. He shot his arms out, which had haki covered claws as the fingers, and grazed his cheek before twisting to the side and shooting his legs out, which he wrapped around his neck and pulled before snapping it back to his body and twisting further to have his face run into his fist.

This form was extremely flexible, more so than his real gear fourth. He was deeply annoyed, and had no idea what to expect of this form. He was truly winging it right now. It was concerning, but he was trying not to focus on that. He pumped the air into his arms and slammed Doflamingo into the roof of the building, only for him to slip away by latching a string to the bird cage bars above, making his way into the air.

He had a red ring around his neck, and was catching his breath. His nose was bleeding. Luffy thought this was useful for now, and hoped it would stay that way. He was glad he'd always been tactically smart during fights. The smartest he ever was most of the time.

Usually, he'd created a king kong gun, so he tried that. Standing on both back legs, he pulled it off, though it wasn't nearly as thick and around. More muscular and lean, but he could tell it was strong regardless. He jumped up and slammed it into Doflamingo's chest, launching him off of the roof, off of the whole mountain, which was damaged beyond repair, and into the city, slamming into a building that wasn't already ruined. Many were.

He shot after him, and found he could use sky walk in this form. He didn't know the time limit. There had to be a time limit for this kind of power, just like his original gear fourth. Which he'd rather be using, as he knew it's ins and outs. He turned around and brought in his legs, only when they hit, they weren't as wide, and they had claws, which slammed into the enemy's face, leaving gashes and making him cough blood at the same time.

"A monster came! It's fighting Doflamingo!" people in the area shouted. Luffy shouted at them to run, and they did. Doflamingo was tough, and was still standing.

The man wiped his face of the blood, and stared at the monster that was Luffy. A different monster than his original gear fourth, vastly different. He twisted to get a momentous punch that slammed into the enemy's neck, making him cough. Was he in shock, and that was why he was getting pummeled?

He was kicked with a haki covered fist, but Luffy was all covered in armament haki, and he was just thrown back into a building, but was uninjured. "As if that could work!" Luffy shouted. He made an arm stretch out, and then the claws did the same and wrap around his leg, yanking and jumping to him as he tripped, but didn't fall, and landed his whole body on him, knocking the wind out of him.

Covered in haki and being this size, he was pretty heavy. He didn't want to be too close for too long, and jumped into the air, using the technique Sanji and CP9 did. However, it was kind of hard to keep up in the air. He was fatiguing, and would need the break soon. The people watching from a distance were shocked by Luffy attacking Doflamingo, and not looking human at all.

They seemed to assume it was some monster they'd not seen before. Luffy went in for one final attack before he needed to flee for a break. That part was still the same with his original gear fourth. But he was surprised when the ground turned into strings, the man somehow manipulating the environment around him. Luffy had never seen anything like this before. "Offwhite!" he shouted, the name of his attack as it targeted Luffy in points.

"Devil fruits can do more than that! A whole world of possibilities opens with an 'awakening'! I can turn anything I want into strings! You could never master such a power! When a power is awakened, it can be used by your surroundings as well!" His power didn't seem like a paramecia at all anymore. How strong was his devil fruit?

Luffy heard the king over the siren, the real king, telling everyone to live and not lose hope. He mentioned Luffy fighting their dictator and torturer. Now everyone knew it was up to Luffy and Luffy alone now. But he focused on dodging the large clumps of razor sharp strings. Even if his blood dissolved them if they broke the skin, he knew that they would just reform that way.

But, why was his blood damaging things and not just people now? Was it like that before? Did something change? Maybe because the strings were enemies, too? Dissolving weapons would be great!

Using blood against him would not work, it seemed. More of the town turned into pillars of string that was hard to escape from as they came from all directions. He never thought this was possible. Well, he had heard that Akainu summoned magma from below Marineford in the war, but he didn't think that was the same as this.

One more attack was all he had left in him, and it was just an overpowered jet bazooka. For once, he had no name for these attacks, only trying to figure out what to do next, what his new gear fourth could handle, what it could pull off. There were no shouts about his attacks, just focused silence.

The attack threw him through a few more buildings until he was still. Not dead, and not fully defeated yet. People saw him standing in front of the pummeled and injured false king, and cheered him on, realizing he was actually Straw Hat Luffy, the pirate who was going to save their country.

It was already severely damaged, and every moment with the bird cage getting smaller, more was wrecked. Though the enemy was injured and seemed to be unconscious, he clearly wasn't defeated since the damn bird cage was still there, and still shrinking. He could hear the screams of many. Damn, he was running low on blood. Severely. Gear fourth had always taken up a lot of haki and blood.

Though he didn't have a source, it would be best to get some blood during the break. One more hit would work. Maybe he'd get real serious this time and just rip his insides out with his clawed hands. He leaned back and shot forward, only to deflate instantly, before he could deliver the true finishing blow, and went flying around as the haki receded, and his body went back to normal.

He landed somewhere random, far from Doflamingo, and panted hard, exhausted and helpless at the moment. He just had to hope he didn't get targeted by any enemies. Even a fodder worker could kill him right now. He couldn't rely on his haki anymore, only his senses.

Hearing a furious man, though with amusement in his voice, shouted in triumph that Luffy was at death's door. So it was that guy, Burgess. The one who got severely injured by living from the Impel Down massacre of his crew two years ago. Luffy wondered if any others were alive. There was no more Blackbeard crew. They hadn't reformed without their captain. He was long gone, dead.

He couldn't move at all. Then he heard Doflmingo's laugh. The bastard was still kicking. Would Luffy really have to tear him apart? He was already beheaded and just fine. Maybe if he ripped out and crushed his internal organs that would get him. It would be messy, and he didn't like messy, but the man needed to be stopped no matter what.

But Luffy couldn't get up. Ten minutes. He expected he'd need ten minutes. Hopefully not longer. They were going to find him. Either Doflamingo or that Burgess guy. God, how terrible would it have been if he got the gura gura fruit. But Ace had it, and wouldn't let it go easily. He'd guard it with his life, as it was the last remnant he and the Whitebeards really had of their beloved father and captain.

He was very concerned before he was grabbed and his arms tied around the neck of his brother, like the last time he'd saved an exhausted Luffy. "Ace," Luffy sighed in relief. He still had the watermelon bag with him. He was a bit dirty from wherever he'd gone. "I… need ten minutes. I think. Then… I'll finish it," Luffy promised.

"Straw Hat! Firefist!" Burgess shouted, suddenly bursting through a building. Luffy's eyes widened in worry, knowing he was helpless, but Sabo was there, and beat him away with a pipe. He still fought with a pipe.

"I won't ever let my brothers go through anything like that again," he said with a smile. Ace grinned, and Luffy let out a watery smile, with Ace running off, one of the pressing enemies being fought by Sabo.

Ace said, "Don't worry, he's tough." Luffy never worried about Sabo being weak. He fought off Burgess, who indeed had bad wounds. Covered in scars, half of his face badly damaged, and a mangled arm. Luffy assumed it had been due to one of the monsters of Impel Down that Luffy sicked on the remaining crew.

Ace ran with him as Luffy slept, regaining his strength. They could both hear Doflamingo killing people to find Luffy. Ace turned down an alleyway and nabbed a running marine, knocking him out with a slam to the head against the brick wall. He untied Luffy's arms and laid him down,cutting a large gash into the marine fodder, dripping it into Luffy's mouth.

Some of the color came back to his face, but he was still unconscious. Ten minutes, so he had six left. They had to hide for those remaining six minutes. He really pushed himself again, but he didn't look dead on his feet, and was still moving normally. No more nerve damage. There were cuts and bruises to his injured arm, which pissed him off.

Small floating dandelions drifted down from above, but didn't touch either of them. The cage was getting faster, and people rushed past the alleyway. After eleven minutes, not ten, Luffy woke up, and stood. He was covered in blood and bruises. Too many haki hits to count. He was uncomfortable, but the pain had dulled significantly with the blood Ace had given him.

"Go get 'em, Lu!" Ace said, and Luffy nodded, following the scent of the man, and finding him with his hand at Viola's throat, her eyes closed and limp. The man was grinning as he choked the woman. Luffy knew she'd helped quite a bit, even if he didn't engage with her much. She was very useful for them, and Luffy wouldn't let her die.

He shot forward and grabbed Doflamingo's arm, wrenching it to the side to release Viola. He used gear second again and got her far away, into a crowd of a bunch of citizens. "Keep her safe!" he ordered before zooming back.

"So, you're revived," Doflamingo mocked. "You sure did cause a lot of deaths during the last eleven minutes." Luffy scowled. "And you seemed to have healed a bit. I take it it's from blood? Seems Law is like you as well, huh?" He sounded conversational, but still mocking. He wasn't afraid or bothered by the whole blood thing. He was more of a monster than Luffy was, and he knew that well. He didn't hesitate to turn the area into string, and work to impale Luffy. He guarded his gut with haki, but it still hurt. He was using strong armament haki, too. Luffy hadn't fought someone else who could do that since Rayleigh. He wasn't used to this, but he'd make do.

"Are you going to do that beast technique again?! Or are you too tired?"

"I'm going to kill you this time!" Luffy shouted, transforming back into that gear fourth that he should really rename later. He did skywalk into the air before dropping down. The entire ground was strings, and thousands of needle-like clumps went after him. He would let himself be impaled if he had to.

He didn't have a huge hand in this form to block. No huge fist. It was about to get messy. He let himself be impaled as he focused all his strength in shooting his hands down, stretching the talons before making them redirect on both sides of the enemy. He steeled himself for the mess and dug his fingers into his guts where he wasn't guarding with armament haki.

Luffy pulled, ripping apart his torso, pulling thick bits of skin, and organs out, crushing them in his hands. The blood dripped off his hands as the strings disappeared. Luffy knew the bird cage was still there, the man was still alive, so he went after the throat, and ripped his neck apart, severing all major veins and arteries.

Like Blackbeard, he made sure there was no recovery for him. He even dug his stretched out talons into his eyes and ripped them out. But he was dead by then. He punched a hole into the ground after retracting it as much as he could, and dumped the body inside. As he fell - his body to not be recovered or seen - the grinding stopped, and the bird cage disappeared, as if it was being erased from the top down.

Luffy changed back to his normal form, tired still. His hands and lower arms were soaked in blood. He fell down onto his back. He heard cheering and sobbing from every direction as the nightmare was over. There was no more Heavenly Demon, he would never hurt anyone again. He just wished he didn't need to kill him to stop everything.

Even though he didn't think he deserved to live, Luffy had not wanted to rip him apart. His strings were no use now, with a ripped apart body with no major organs anymore. He was dead, and hopefully the body was never recovered. A blue dome appeared, and next thing he knew, he was on the ground next to Law.

Luffy put his arm over his eyes and choked up. Law actually took off his jacket, what was left of it, as it was ripped up and deeply soaked of blood, and took both of Luffy's arms to try and wipe the blood off. "I tried to kill him many times, too. I just didn't succeed," Law said simply. Luffy let him wipe his arms off as he composed himself.

"The marines will be after us soon. We should find the others and regroup," he said once the arms were wiped enough. Luffy nodded, swallowed and stood up. He was tired and needed more blood. Law was also pretty tired. It looked like his arm had been reattached, which was great news.

Luffy took his numb arm in his hand and cradled it close. The both of them used sound and smell to avoid enemies, and collect their friends or allies. Most were injured or exhausted. Luffy latched onto Zoro the moment they met. Luffy cried into his suit jacket. "It's over. No matter what happened, the outcome was what we wanted. Doflamingo won't ever hurt anybody again." Luffy nodded. He hadn't ripped somebody apart like that in awhile.

It didn't feel good.

It made him almost feel his arms were burning with the blood. Even his numb arm had a phantom burning pain he knew wasn't real. They came across Kyros, also covered in blood, and went to his home, the best place to hide from the marines. Law walked behind the group, quiet and looking lost in thought. Nobody spoke to him.

Franky was pretty damaged, but said he could just repair himself. Robin took Luffy's hand kindly. They knew how upset Luffy had been the first time he ripped somebody apart, but that time he had been out of control, trapped in seastone. This time, he made a conscious effort, made a choice, to tear Doflamingo apart.

Ace showed up and rubbed Luffy's back. The arm sash over his marking was long gone long ago. "Sabo's a bit busy right now, I think," he said softly. "We'll meet up later." They followed Kyros, all of them collected, slipping through the ruined island easily. Many places to hide and sneak past. They made sure to be far, far from the admiral, Fujitora. It was only those who had been the targets in the kill or be killed game that were gathered at the small house and current hideout. When they got there, Zoro let Luffy have blood to heal his remaining injuries until he was just sleepy. Law was very bothered when Franky asked if he needed blood, too. Everybody knew, and it pissed him off. He'd hidden it from everyone all this time, and yet these people knew it without even spreading the info around between them.

"It's not like we can't keep a secret, Tra-guy," Robin said lightly. Usopp nodded in agreement. Nobody mentioned their fights at all. Ace gave Law some blood without any hesitation. It didn't bother him, he was their ally. It would be more comfortable to have him in top shape to fight on their way out of there.

Yeah, he killed Doffy.