This was supposed to be released a month ago. Or that is what I thought would happen. I never expected I could get the unluckiest turn of events. First I get like four exams in one week for my four biggest classes. Then as soon as that is done I have vacation for a week. I come back to some more tests and to top it all off I get my finals. And that finally brings me back here. Finally have time to produce a chapter, hope you guys don't hate me. Also in case you don't read the A/N at the end I suggest you do as it contains a bit more information and if I'm going to be on vacation or something. Let's get on with it
"I swear, that I'm never going to lose again! Until the day I fight him and win… I swear to never lose again! Any problems Pirate Queen?!" Zoro yelled.
"Hee Hee Nope!" Lucy said smiling.
"You two make a good team." Mihawk said turning around to depart, "I'd like to see you two again, sometime in the future." 'So I'm just a lost thought eyy.' I thought after not including me into that statement but then again I won't be with them for very long.
"Hawk-eyes!" Krieg yelled, "Did you come all the way here for my head, the infamous ruler of East Blue, Don Krieg?!"
"For a while yes." Mihawk said not turning around, "but I've already enjoyed myself here so I'm going to return to my nap."
"No need to be so curt." Krieg trying to provoke Mihawk, "you may have had your fun but I sure haven't!" His subordinates were yelling at their captain to stop.
"How about you die before leaving!" Krieg yelled.
"You never learn do you?" Mihawk reached as if grabbing his sword but instead fired a smoke bomb which allowed him to leave. The bomb also blew up the ship below it sending everyone who didn't react into the ocean. Lucy fortunately got away and stretched her arms to the baratie and hanged from the railing. 'It would've been hell for me if she got wet, with what she is wearing.' I thought with blood spurting out.
As soon as getting a safe grip on the railing Lucy turned around and yelled out to Usopp, "Usopp! Go on ahead!"
"Alright!" Usopp yelled back, "Zoro and I'll get Nami back so make sure you get a cook! Once we have 5 people in our crew, let's head to the grand line!"
"Yeah! Let's!"
"Oi, Usopp wanting to go to the grand line? What the hell." I say.
"Way to ruin the vibe." Usopp yelled at me with shark teeth.
They were sailing away before Sanji yelled out, "They're coming! Those damn pests."
"Oi, Old man if I chase them away, will you let me off the hook?" Lucy said still not getting up from the railing. Zeff replied with a yes.
"Finally the fight begins. What I was looking forward to!" I yell out.
"Oi kid, in this kinda fight you don't want to look forward to it." Zeff said looking at me out of the corner of his eyes, "especially one with Don Krieg involved."
"Want help Lucy?" I reached my hand out for Lucy. A quick sure came from her and she grabbed my hand and I pulled her up. I look back to Zeff, "I've fought people stronger than Krieg. This is no big deal for me."
"Even then, no normal human being should look for a fight unless they know what they are doing."
"Jesus, what the hell are you sticking on my ass for? I thought we were all cool" As soon as I finished talking everyone could hear a roar come from Krieg's ship.
"Oh! Looks like they are fired up as well!" Lucy said.
"Where's Patty and Carne?" Sanji asked.
"They're busy with battle preparations!" some Cook replied.
"Only in times like these, go to the control room and open the fins." Sanji said to that same cook.
"Wouldn't that just give our enemies a foothold?"
"Doesn't matter." Sanji replied, "the old fart wouldn't let us fight in the restaurant." The cook listens and runs to wherever the control room is.
"Let's get started!" Lucy yells from within the restaurant behind us.
"When the hell did you get over there?" I yell at her.
"Gomu Gomu no…" came from her, "ROCKET!"
She launched herself at Don Kriegs destroyed ship. While soaring through the air she prepared for another attack. "Followed by Gomu Gomu no..." She yelled in the air, "SCYTHE!" The attack knocked down the entire wave of Don Kriegs men. Before she landed, she grabbed onto a broken mast that was still attached to the ship to stop her from landing into the water.
"So the grand line is teeming with people like her?" Sanji said, "her fighting style is so beautiful!" he swooned.
"The grand line does have people like her, but not everyone is like her." I turn to Sanji, "But while she may seem strong, she is more weak than strong compared to the captains on the later parts of the grand line."
"You really know a lot about the grand line." Sanji said turning completely serious, "You make it seem like you've been there."
"I assure you that I have never been there, though I didn't just turn a pirate recently. I was with another pirate crew before it disbanded. My former captain taught everyone else what the grand line was and it's secrets." I reply, "that is how I know about the grand line."
"Why did your pirate crew disband?" we were stalling time until the pirates got onto the baratie.
"Personality issues. Everyone began to have a really big ego." I say turning back to the pirates swimming to our ship, "I myself was one of them."
"Wait are you…" Sanji tried asking me before a big yell resounded throughout the area. "Baratie's Naval Weapon! Sabagashira, No. 1." The first yelled, "If you don't want to die, then get the hell out of the way!" came the second. The baratie fish head moved from its position and turned towards the swimming pirates. The mouth opened revealing cannon holes from inside the mouth. It fired almost immediately after being exposed taking out a good number of the many pirates. And then right after that the so called "fin" was fully raised giving a good area to fight. As stated by the cook before, the opposing pirates spilled onto the newly raised platform. Both sides got hyped up and charged at each other. The battle had begun.
3rd POV
The "Sabagashira, No. 1" turned to Krieg himself before the two idiots at the wheel tried to fire the cannons again. It ended in failure as Krieg grabbed onto the cannon before yelling out, "I'm Don Krieg, the man who'll rule the world's oceans." and he launches the big figurehead into the restaurant with insane amounts of strength. The spectacle offered lots of gasps and yells of shock.
"All those useless bastards… all talk and no substance." Sanji sighs. He then jumps up and with a massive kick, destroys the figurehead and sending it's two inhabitants into the ocean.
"So he really is strong." August snickers getting looks from the cooks and Sanji when he lands.
Sanji lands back on the ground and without turning around yells to August, "You sure talk highly, if you can back that up then let's have a contest…" he stops short after when he notices August isn't on the baratie anymore, "eh? Where did he go?"
Causing multiple gasps by the cooks and pirates, in a matter of seconds what seems like a teleportation August is on the broken ship.
"I'll leave all the weak pirates to Sanji and whoever else can fight." August said cracking his index finger with his thumb, "I'll take care of you instead."
"That speed… You're not some regular person after all." Don Krieg said to the newly arrived man, "So you can back up all that talk you said before."
"I can't say the same about you yet" taunted August. He then turned to Lucy and asked her, "Would you mind getting back to the baratie? You can't fight here with all the water."
"So you really are weak to water, kid!" Krieg then destroys the mast Lucy was grabbed onto with one of his many weapons.
"He just proved my point." Krieg followed up with swinging around the weapon and slamming it into the remaining part of the mast that Lucy was holding onto. The attack launched her to the baratie.
"I've heard people say you are a heartless man, and from what I see that is true." August turn to Krieg, "But I never thought you wouldn't have a sense of honor."
"I'll do whatever it takes to be the strongest." snickered Krieg.
Lucy flew straight into a man who was covered in armor throughout his entire body with only some of his body showing. The man was unfortunate to have the girl slam into his head. The "attack" caused a nosebleed. The man looks up and touches his nose to find blood.
"Shit." Krieg muttered. "IT'S BLOOD!" all the minor pirates yell.
"What's up with him? Insecure about his own body?" August asks Krieg.
"He hates being injured." replied Krieg.
"So he's a pussy? I never thought that the all "mighty" Krieg will allow him into his crew." snickered August.
"PEARL! Stop it! There's no need to go wild over a damn nosebleed!" Krieg yelled, "This ain't the jungle!"
"I'M IN DANGER!" Pearl yelled out before his body set aflame.
"I'd hate to fight him. With all that fire."
"So you admit to a weakness, you little shit!" Krieg yelled as swung the mace-like weapon at the teenager. August avoids the attack by doing a no hand cartwheel, flipping over the weapon. "It's not really a weakness but rather an annoyance or a nuisance." August said, brushing off dust, "Normally I'd just roundhouse kick his head but with the flames I could risk myself from losing money. These clothes are expensive to get you know."
"So instead of being worried about injuring yourself you worry about the money that it will cost to replace those clothes?!" Krieg yelled, "You arrogant little shit!"
Krieg ran at August, no longer using the mace-like weapon, full speed and punched at August. August countered it with a duck into an uppercut straight to Krieg's jaw. Using his strength he jumps into the air above them both and follows by an axe kick onto the knocked back Krieg.
"Oi, everyone!" a krieg pirate yelled, "The captain is getting defeated!"
Krieg gets up after getting his face smashed into the destroyed boat, he appears to be unfazed. "DAMN PEARL! Before he burns the entire boat down I will destroy those fins!" He picks up the weapon he used before and he swings it downward towards the fins, almost seemingly aiming at where Sanji and Pearl are fighting. "Of course this unhonorable bastard has to do something like this." August says before he jumps into the air and destroys the weapon's end. August lands onto a mast with such force that it breaks and falls towards the baratie onto Pearl.
"Oi Krieg!" August yells jumping from the mast onto the ship with Krieg, "I'm your opponent so stop interfering with everyone else's fights!"
"Oi August, he's my opponent. I'm going to kick his ass not you." Lucy said.
"Stand down Sanji, Lucy!" someone said behind the two. "I don't want to end up fighting either of you." Gin had gun up to Zeff who was on the floor.
"GIN!" Everyone yelled.
CRASH! Everyone turned to the two figures at the corner of the fin. One was lying on the ground and the other laid a foot on top of the body that dugged into the broken fin. "This crew really does establish what everyone thinks pirates are." came the man standing up, "Assholes who don't seem to have the courage to fight like a true man!"
"August!" Lucy yelled. Lying on the ground was an assassin who had tried to sneak up on Lucy and kill her without anyone noticing.
"I left Krieg to you, Lucy." August said not looking up, "Now let me take care of this asshole right here."
A/N: Hope you guys enjoyed that chapter. Showed you a bit of what August's powers extend to. Also want to point out that this story has gotten a few changes from what it originally was meant to be. I never changed anything of the previous chapters but what the story will lead up to and what August's mysterious past and what he went through before has changed drastically. What I had before would make tragedy seem like nothing. Came to the conclusion that August would be insane after what he went through and even after the reincarnation he should still be insane. Especially his character makes him seem like what he went through is nothing and it didn't really impact him. Follow and/or Favorite if you enjoyed and leave a review if you have questions about the series or want to convey thoughts. Peace!