Hello again, back with another chapter, this one will feature the Strawhats, Usopp pirates and Kaya VS the black cat pirates
Also: the Sunny's klabautermann looks like a 16 year old girl wearing a cloak, usually with the hood down, revealing a head with red hair just past the shoulders and a face with green eyes and a small but distinguishable nose. She also has a mysterious aura around her and when she is not serious she usually wears a "Luffy like" smile on her face, the aura of mystery intensifies when she puts her hood up.
Good news, I got a bata, her name is LucyNyy, go look her up here on fanfiction, bad news, I don't have the stuff back yet
Legend: chapter 2
And: Going Merry and future Going Merry talking" for this chapter only
Attacks from canon will be Romanized from the original i.e. "santoryu: oni giri"(meaning three sword style: demon slash) while original attacks will be partly displayed in English I.E. "nitoryu: devil slash" or "ittoryu: imp slash" (nitoryu meaning two sword style and ittoryu meaning one sword style) explanations to non-canon attacks will be given at the bottom of the chapter they first appeared in
Story start
Chapter 6: the lie that would remain a lie
At the mansion: some time after Klahadore left the mansion to meet up with Jango
There was knocking at the door, and with Klahadore gone shopping, Merry went to open it.
What he saw was surprising: there stood 2 young girls the youngest looked to be about 10 and the oldest looked about one or two years older, both had a wide smile on their face, they both had a petite noseand white hair, the only difference between the two was that the youngest had blue eyes, and the oldest had blue-green eyes, he also felt an mysterious aura surrounding both of them, both were wearing cloaks with the hood down and looked like they could be twins if not for the different ages and different eye colors, he recognized the immediately.
"You are the spirits I saw on the Going Merry!" Merry exclaimed
"You saw us?" the younger one said, Merry nodded at the question
"Can we come in? We want to talk. Is that alright?" the older one asked
"Sure, come on in. and of course I want to talk, I have a few questions myself" Merry said
After they went inside the 3 began talking, with Merry asking some questions. Like who, or what, they are. The two gave their names and revealed to merry that they are both spirits from his ship, The Going Merry. They also revealed that they were klabautermenn. This revelation shocked Merry because while he knew of the klabautermann legends he didn't know they were real, he also knew that usually there is only one klabautermann per ship, so he asked how it was possible there were two of them, they refused to answer that question, only saying that their situation was special. Merry's las question was why they decided to reveal themselves because from what he knew, klabautermenn only revealed themselves to people that loved them once the ship they inhabited was doomed, and last time he checked the ship (which was yesterday), the ship seemed to be perfectly fine. Their answer shocked him: "because we wanted to go on adventures with you and lady Kaya, and because we don't care about tradition, not anymore." They answered
It was at that last question Kaya came downstairs, wanting to stretch her legs for as much as her sickly body allowed her to. She heard both the question and answer the two gave Merry. She, Merry and the two klabautermenn (the oldest deciding to name herself Kaya, both to lessen the confusion between the 3 Merry's a bit and because she liked the name) talked until 11 pm before her Kaya's body gave into the tiredness and had to be carried upstairs by Butler Merry, the 2 klabautermenn going back to their ship. Tomorrow would be a busy day, even if nobody but the klabautermenn knew that.
With Luffy and his crew and Usopp: at the same time Merry opened the door for the 2 klabautermenn
Luffy was explaining that Klahadore was really a former pirate known as Kuro 'of a 1000 plans' to Nami and Zoro, saying that Kuro was planning to obtain Kaya's fortune. By having her hypnotized and changing her will to give all of her fortune to him, before having her killed in the raid. So when Usopp came telling the same story, they told that they already knew thanks to Luffy.
The group went to their respective sleeping places Nami Zoro and Luffy back to the ship and Usopp back to his home
South beach the beach where Kuro and jango met: the next day really early in the morning
"And done" Usopp exclaimed, having trapped the south beach
'And I still have time to prepare the other side, just in case, and get one of my fathers' old guns' he thought as he walked to the north beach, where he met Luffy and his crew, including Sunny, who he hadn't met yet in person
North beach, the beach where sunny is moored again: a short time after Usopp got there
Nami, Zoro and Usopp were busy laying some traps, Luffy wanted to help, but sunny prevented him from doing so, telling him he had to watch for pirates on the south beach with her, she asked Usopp to join her as soon as he was done, saying Zoro and Nami would be enough to guard the ship and the north beach, where she was moored.
South beach: about 15 minutes before the raid begins
"Hey!" Usopp shouted "we are done on the north beach, and I got one of the old guns my dad has" he said as he pointed to the rifle on his back. "I modified it so it can shoot the same ammo as my slingshot, even the special ammo I made." Usopp boasted
Usopp gained a solemn but serious look "I just hope I don't have to use it, a weapon like this one can kill. And while I do want to protect Kaya, I don't want to kill if I don't have to"
Sunny nodded "that's a good attitude to have, not killing unless you have to, because if you go around killing random people you might lose yourself, and become the very thing you despise"
Usopp nodded at that piece of wisdom.
The three sat there in silence, waiting for the storm to come.
North beach: about 10 mins before the raid
"I hope they don't land here, Sunny has all my treasure on board, I don't want those pirates to take it" Nami said before adding in thought 'especially because I'm so close'
"Don't worry if those pirates come here I'll cut them up" Zoro said, a bloodthirsty grin on his face 'and maybe I can work on unlocking that haki stuff sunny told me about, I know how to unlock it, now I just have to DO it'
"Zoro, I'm seeing something over the horizon" Nami said after a short silence "it's the black cat pirates, you try and hold them off when they land, and I will go and get Luffy and the rest" Nami said before she ran off to get Luffy, Sunny and Usopp
Zoro grinned a bloodthirsty grin; eyes filled with anticipation "Finally"
South beach: a little more than 2 minutes before the raid
Luffy was running around, being inpatient while Sunny and Usopp were sitting at the top of the beach inlet and watching Luffy.
"Luffy, Sunny, Usopp! They're here! Zoro is holding them off at the north beach while I'm getting you guys" Nami shouted when she saw Sunny and Usopp
"Yosh! Finally, let's go kick some ass!" Luffy shouted enthusiastically"
Usopp was decidedly less enthusiastic "yeah, uh let's hope they won't kill us"
"Don't worry, you are the sniper, you are staying concealed and in the rear while covering our backs" sunny said "I on the other hand will be with Luffy kicking ass" sunny finished enthusiastically, though it was more subdued than Luffy.
They then ran after Nami, back to the north beach
North beach: 4 minutes after the black cat pirates landed, Zoro is holding them off
'its too many if those weaklings, if only I already had that haki stuff, then these weaklings wouldn't be so much trouble' was Zoro's thought before he unleashed another, recently discovered, Tatsumaki.
'What was that?' Zoro thought as he both noticed and felt something different about this twister, 'could this be haki? Let's test that' he focused on the feeling he felt during his last attack again. Once had a good feeling he again he shouted "Tatsumaki"
The twister he unleashed would have looked the same, if it wasn't for its massive size compared to his previous ones. Now Zoro was sure: he unlocked armament haki, now all that was left was getting more skill with using it and being able to call upon it on his every whim. And that was the easy part, according to Luffy at least.
While Zoro looked on at his accomplishment he didn't quite notice one of the surviving black cat pirates sneak up on him until it was almost too late and was about to react to meet the attacker and cut him down when he heard a shout of "jet pistol', Zoro turned around just in time to see the pirate attacking before suddenly a fist appeared in his face from the side that send him flying into a cliff wall
"You're late, Luffy" Zoro said
"Just in time you mean" was the somewhat cheeky reply from Sunny, Luffy already throwing himself in the one sided brawl
Usopp was on one of the cliffs shooting random pirates with his slingshot. He saw Sunny was zipping around at high speed, knocking out people left and right. A bit further down was Luffy knocking pirates out by the dozen using his gatteling attack. Zoro was at the back, having been somewhat tired out from fighting nonstop, was on guard duty preventing the pirates to escape, using any pirate unfortunate as Haki practice.
This went on for a minute or two when the battle was interrupted
"WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?" kuro shouted. The battle stopped immediately
"C-Capt- I mean mister Kuro, my apologies, I didn't know they would be this prepared or th-" Jango began before "SILENCE" was shouted by Kuro
"I don't care what happened, I will give you five minutes or I will kill everyone here" Kuro looked towards where Usopp was hiding "and I will make your death agonizingly slow for disrupting my plans"
Usopp shivered, and was resisting the urge to run; he thought of the villagers, his three subordinates form the Usopp pirate group and finally Kaya. He resolved himself and instead of running he took the rifle from his back, and started to load it with a lead star, preparing to shoot kuro, to incapacitate, and if it proves truly necessary, kill him, though he hoped it wouldn't come to that.
Back on the beach; Jango had called his two strongest fighters down, Sham and Buchi, the two were crying fake tears, flailing their arms and started attacking Zoro, who, thanks to his newly unlocked haki, swiftly took care of Buchi, though Sham managed to steal one of Zoro's swords, forcing Zoro to fight with just two
'Dammit I'm not at my best without my third sword' Zoro thought 'at least he wasn't able to take both, or even all of them. I'm at least half decent with two' he resolved to train up his skill with one and two sword style up to par before he would continue to develop his three sword style 'maybe even some no sword style attacks if I somehow lose all of my swords, I have to be able to defend myself even without them' Zoro added in thought
Zoro's first attack didn't hit, he thought it did, but sham was revealed to be a skinny guy hiding his body in a bulky suit, and sham was using his thin and flexible body to deliver precision strikes to Zoro, the most noticeable being a small but relatively deep gash of about 10 cm in the center of his stomach/chest area going from upper right to lower left that, while not directly life threatening, needed to be stitched up after the battle and it needed to end at least somewhat soon, because all the movement was forcing too much blood out of the gash
The battle felt like hours, but it actually took only a little more than 3 minutes, , Zoro slashing and blocking, sham dodging and countering, Zoro's strikes were strong, and sham's quick, both styles equally lethal in their own way. The tide of the battle turned when Zoro managed to slash sham in his right arm, it wasn't deep, but enough to seriously hurt, Zoro didn't notice this, being too busy trying to block sham's counters, until after about a minute when he did, he noticed sham favoring his left hand for attacks, so when he glanced at sham's right arm he finally noticed the shallow, but long gash he knew he found a weak spot in sham's defense, and decided to end the battle with one blow. After a particularly fast swipe sham's right side was exposed, and Zoro finished him off with his devil slash and grabbed the sword sham stole from the ground
However just after Zoro put his sword back in its proper place, a hypnotized buchi came crashing down, and a mob of hypnotized grunts they were about to attack when a wave of power knocked them, excluding buchi, out
"Thanks captain" Zoro said, though the look he gave Luffy added 'for keeping the strongest looking one awake'
"No problem" Luffy replied, having also gotten the wordless message
Zoro had a significantly easier time against Buchi, who, despite being hypnotized to not feel pain and to be stronger, was taken care of within the minute
"Time's up" Kuro chillingly commented "Jango, go find the girl and make sure she writes her will, meanwhile I'll deal with the thra-" "Klahadore! What is the meaning of this?" Kaya was standing behind Kuro, aiming a gun at him
"No offense, but this is simply business, and you dear kaya are the centerpiece of my plan" kuro said
BLAM, a shot was fired, by Kaya no less, and Kuro? Kuro had vanished
Kuro had his arms draped around kaya, his cat claws aimed at her neck
"You are lucky I still need you, or else I would have killed you for that stunt" Kuro threatened
BANG, another shot, this time by Usopp and his gun, this one managed to hit Kuro in his left shoulder, rendering his left arm useless
"so you found the guts to shoot me" Kuro commented "Jango go take the girl and make sure she writes her will the way I want it" jango nodded went to grab the girl and was promptly slammed in the nuts by Pepper holding a long stick. Usopp was shouting to take kaya somewhere safe and protect her
"And you, I'm not just going to kill you, I'm going to keep you alive and make you scream for deaths embrace when I'm done with you, I will keep you alive and torture you until I'm statisfied" this comment caused Usopp to faint from overactive imagination, none of what he thought up was pretty by the way
"no you are not" was Luffy's reply
"Oh? And what will you do about it"
"This: gear second"
"Steam? Is that supposed to be threatning?"
"no but this is, jet pistol" Luffy punched kuro in the gut, knocking the wind out of him, though he was still concious
"Luffy I'm going after kaya and her 'guards' to keep them safe, can I trust you to finish things up here?" Sunny asked
"sure you can"/"no you will not" Luffy/Kuro said at the same time
Kuro tried to intercept sunny, to no avail as she dodged despite kuro's speed and was punched in the face by Luffy for his effort, the punch made Kuro stagger, and the following bazooka knocked him out
"That was boring" Luffy concluded
"Zoro, Nami! …where's Nami? "
"I saw her entering the black cat pirate's ship, I think" Zoro said
With Nami
"What a bust, looks like these guys don't even have 10,000 beri" Nami said after finding the black cat's treasure room and observing its content
Despite the low amount she still went and gathered it all up for later use
Back with Luffy and co
"Oh, okay" Luffy said "let's go wake up Usopp"
Waking Usopp took a few minutes; the guy was knocked out from whatever it was that his mind conjured up after kuro's threat
Finding the group would take even longer, thanks to Zoro going the wrong almost way every time, Luffy resolved to never let Zoro go up front or beside him ever again
10 minutes later: the Usopp pirates vs Jango
Another ambush, was the thought of Jango when he noticed the 3 boys trying to attack him again after faking their hypnotism induced sleep, and he was tired of it, so he decided that he would just kill the boys
He would not be able to kill them thanks to two cloaked figures attacking jango from his sides, allowing the three boys to get away, kaya recognized the 2 immediately
"Merry, Kaya! What are you doing here?" Kaya, the human one, asked
"Well we came to save you, we want to go on adventures with you while you are still alive, not when you are dead" the older of the two, Kaya, the klabautermann, said
The two stood in front of Kaya and the tree boys protectively
"I want to help out too" came another voice
Another figure appeared from the forest, once again the figure was cloaked but she was larger, and sounded more mature then the other two
Jango was about to attack but a wave of power swept through the area that stopped Jango in his tracks; he took a few steps and fell down, knocked out
"What was that?" Kaya asked
Sunny grinned "wouldn't you like to know"
It was that moment that Zoro, Luffy and Usopp found Kaya
The next day
The group minus Usopp was at the shore near the mansion: the straw hats on the shore near the Sunny. Kaya, Merry and their klaboutermann counterparts were standing near the Merry, both were getting ready to sail and both were waiting
"where is Usopp? I'm sure he would want to come with us"
With Usopp: at the same time
"…and hereby I officially disband the Usopp pirate group" Usopp finished for his three crying subordinates and friends
Usopp calmed the three down and reminded them of his final order: to live for your dream, because he would be doing the same. He then said his goodbyes, the three boys returning it while Usopp ran towards where he put his stuff.
Usopp grabbed his giant bag and ran towards the coast at the mansion hoping he was not too late
Back with the Strawhats and Kaya's crew
"don't worry, he will be here soon" Sunny said
Luffy nodded in confirmation, Nami was about to question how they knew before she remembered they could sense it with that haki stuff they keep talking about, 'I really should go and train to unlock my haki, it is so useful' she then got lost in thought about all the ways she could use it to steal from pirates or beat Arlong with it. She then banished that last thought, she wouldn't do that, not when she was so close, 'and besides, no one in the east blue could beat Arlong anyway' she added in thought, although there was a small voice in her head saying that that statement was not true as she looked at Luffy and Sunny
In the time it took to form those thoughts Usopp had aready arrived, stumbled, rolled down the hill, and stopped by Sunny's foot, that was conveniently planted between his legs as he was stopped from rolling into the water, Usopp would be walking funny for days.
After a few words both crews got onboard their respective boats and set sail
The two sailed together for a while before splitting up
With Kaya: a few minutes after splitting up with the strawhats
Kaya was thinking about yesterday evening, and the days before that, meeting and befriending klaboutermenn was not something she thought would ever happen. She also didn't expect to be sailing now, when a few days before she was a sickly girl. It all began when she met the Merry's klabautermenn in her mansion s few days ago, the were fun to be around and they told them about freedom, the fresh, yet slightly salty sea breeze and the adventures the older one had in the alternate future, they even suggested that in may help her to get away from the mansion for a while to be away from the constant reminders of her dead parents and, now that she thought about it, the whole debacle with Klahadore being a pirate named Kuro. That last incident was the reason she decided to take the klaboutermenn's advice, and go on a cruise around the east blue with Merry and the two klaboutermenn. She was already feeling better, and decided to go back inside. She still wanted to be a doctor after all. So she would go inside to take a book and start learning, Merry was already in the kitchen preparing something for her and the two kabautermenn were steering the ship. Kaya smiled and looked through the port, towards the slowly shrinking shape of the thousand sunny and wished Usopp and his new friends good luck.
On the sunny: at the same time
Usopp sneezed, before smiling and looking at the slowly shrinking silhouette of the Merry in the fading sunlight
"Good luck to you too, Kaya"
To be continued… soon I hope
At least sooner than this one had a case of writers block, still have it by the way, so don't get your hopes up
The good news in that I have the next chapter ready to go as it was written before this one and thus before I got writers block, the bad news is that besides my writers block, is that my schedule is also slowly filling up, leaving less time for me to write
Attack explanation
Nitoryu: devil slash, a 2 sword version of Zoro's signature oni giri
Zoro also has a one sword version: ittoryu: imp slash
