A/N: Here's the second update, readers. Enjoy.
Last time:
"You think you can destroy this flag?!" Luffy challenged. The cannon hit, and Chopper, Sanji and Kureha watched in worry and horror. Me? I already had an idea about what happened to the rubberman. Besides, knowing Luffy, it's going to take more than a cannon to beat him, isn't it?
"I bet that sent you flying, you hippo!" Wapol laughed.
"Don't be so sure," I said.
"What are you saying? You saw, didn't you?"
"Yeah. All I see is smoke. But what about what's behind it?" It wasn't long until the smoke subsided that they all know what I'm talking about.
"I-impossible! He's insane!" Chessmarimo stated.
"I don't know whose pirate flag this is, or where it came from... but this is a flag you pledge your life to. You DON't fly it as a joke! THIS ISN'T A FLAG YOU CAN BREAK DOWN AND LAUGH AT!" I couldn't help but notice how amazed Chopper was, seeing Luffy like this. Seeing him like this, I somehow calmed down. "It will never be destroyed! The skull and crossbones is a symbol of conviction!"
'I wonder why it's at times like this when Luffy uses his brains,' I thought.
"Oi, Reindeer," Luffy called out to Chopper. "I'm about ready to kick these guys' asses! What about you?"
"I..."
"Chopper," I called, getting the young devil fruit user's attention. "Luffy may not look like it, but he's really strong. Besides, he's not the only one ready to fight."
"Xion-nee..."
"Are you threatening me?!" Wapol suddenly asked. "You hippo-bastard! If you're so eager to protect that flag, then just stay RIGHT THERE!" He was about to shoot his cannon at Luffy again, if I didn't get in his way.
"Like I'll let you!" I was about to cut his arm, but the ice cube Heartless got in my way again. Just how many of these things are there?
"Xion-san! Leave the idiot king to me!" came Sanji's voice. Halfway when he charged towards Wapol, unfortunately, I heard a bone of his crack.
"Guess he's not fully healed yet," I muttered.
"Well, of course. Considering how he's overdoing things," Kureha said. The next thing you know, she charged towards Sanji and jump kicked him in the back. "Doctor Stop!" Boy, that looks like it hurts a lot. Am I glad I'm not in Sanji's position.
"Ahaha! What the hell are you hippos doing?!" Wapol laughed. It may be too late to realize this, but is it just me, or does he call everyone around him, unless it they're working for him, hippo? He's more of a hippo, if you ask me. "Just keep watching from there. I'm gonna blast him into dirt!"
"I won't let you!" I protested, taking out the surrounding ice cubes.
"You're a pain in the ass, throne-stealer. Icy Cubes! No need to go easy on her! Show that hippo your true power!" As soon as he gave that order, the cubes fused together into a blue obese-human-like Heartless, with a blue staff.
"What the-?!"
"Now Blizzard Lord, while I and Chessmarimo take out these hippos, you hurry up and kill that throne-stealer!" Wapol ordered. "And while she's occupied, DIE STRAW HAT!"
I want to focus on taking out Wapol, but the Heartless has to come first, seeing that it won't let me go close to the king.
"STOP!" came Chopper's voice. I looked and saw the young reindeer charge towards our main target, preparing to punch the lights out of him. Unfortunately, his attack was blocked by Chessmarimo.
Just when I looked back at the Blizzard Lord, it was about to attack me with its staff. Good thing I had my instincts, or it would've hit, and probably freeze, me. As I continued to fight this fat Heartless, I listened to what was happening with the others.
"You probably haven't made a single friend you whole life," came Chessmarimo's voice. "You pitiful monster! For what reason do you have for protecting this country?! What a joke!" Are they talking about Chopper?!
"SHUT UP!" Yep, they were. And now I'm mad. "Even if I don't have any nakama, I can still fight!" Excuse me. "As Doctor's flag flies, I-"
"What are you saying?!" I questioned Chopper, not taking my eyes off of Blizzard Heartless.
"YOU GOT NAKAMA RIGHT HERE!" Luffy added. "WE'RE YOUR NAKAMA!" I'm so happy that I'm not in their position, or Luffy's rocket attack would've hit me as well.
"Straw hat!" the young reindeer shouted in worry. "Are you alright?!"
"I'm fine. I'm rubber."
"Rubber?"
"Luffy's not kidding, Chopper," I spoke, facing the reindeer-human hybrid. "Also, what was I to you then, back when I was constantly visiting this island?"
"Xion-nee..."
"Oi, Reindeer. You think you can finish that guy off?" Luffy asked, pointing at Wapol's two-in-one servant.
"He's nothing. No problem," Chopper replied.
"If that's true, then mind if we team up?" I asked.
"Yeah. It's been a while since I fought with you, Xion-nee. I want you to see the results of my training while you were gone."
"Then, it's settled," Luffy declared. "My opponent is going to be Jamaguchi!"
"You low-life Straw Hat! How dare you fly around like that!"
As though it understood the situation, the Blizzard Lord jumped over me and Chopper, landing next to Chessmarimo.
'I would be happier if it actually landed on them instead,' I thought. 'Besides that, I can't fight at full strength yet. Meaning I can't use any of my Links at the moment.'
"I won't hold back anymore," Chopper said.
"You think you can defeat me? Eh, Monster?" Chessmarimo asked.
"My name is Tony Tony Chopper! I recieved this name from the greatest doctor in the world! Even when the Doctor forgave you, you laughed at the way he lived! I'LL NEVER FORGIVE THAT!"
"You're the one who won't be forgiven! Prepare to be stomped! And while I'm at it, Blizzard Lord will make sure that you will freeze to death here, after it takes care of the throne-stealer!"
"You know, you always called me 'throne-stealer', when I have a name," I spoke. "And that name is Xion! I'm a Keyblade Weilder and the First Mate of the Straw Hat Crew!"
"Rumble Ball," Chopper spoke, taking out what seems to be a round, yellow pill. "The Rumble Ball's effect lasts for only three minutes. So in three minnutes, you and that Heartless will be defeated!"
"Three minutes!?" Chessmarimo repeated. "As if a weakling like you and that throne-stealer can beat me and Blizzard Lord in three minutes!"
"Three minutes? You sure?" I asked the reindeer.
"Yeah." He tossed me a pill similiar to his, only white in color. "That's the pill that only works for you, Xion-nee. Just as the Rumble Ball can currently only work for me. The Skill Ball."
"Skill Ball?"
"Yeah. You wanted me to make a pill that's similiar to the Rumble Ball's effect, only for those who can wield a Keyblade, like you. And before you left, the I managed to perfect it. You tried it, to see if it works, which it did."
"Oh? Sounds interesting. How do I take it? Just swallow it in one gulp?"
"Yeah." Chopper tossed his Rumble Ball into the air and caught it in his mouth. As he ate it, he said, "Rumble."
I place the Skill Ball in my mouth and swallowed it, felling power surge through my body.
"And just what can you do?!" Chessmarimo questioned us, as he prepared two fire arrows and the Blizzard Lord jumped above us, preparing to fire something as well. "Yukidoke no ya-Marimo!" The arrows were fired at us, as were the Heartless' ice crystals.
"Walk Point! Kyakuryoku Kyouka!" Chopper shouted, turning into his reindeer form, dodging the arrows and crystals.
For me, I saw some kind of line connecting the crystals. All the ones near the Heartless has lines connected to it. Trusting my instincts and the power of the Skill Ball, I just dove down into the snow, literally. The weird part is that time stopped when I did that. As I remained 'in the snow', some kind of graph appeared before me. The aligning of the dots on it is similiar to the aligning of the ice crystals. I touched the one that glowed and connected it to the dots closest to it, all the way until I hit the big dot, which seems to be the Heartless. When I finished connecting the dots, I came back to reality and found myself gliding on the lines that I saw earlier, making my way to the Blizzard Lord. Once I was close enough, I knocked it down to the snow.
Just as I did, I saw Chopper hovering in the air next to me. At least, I think it's Chopper.
"What? What form is that?" Chessmarimo asked the guy who seems similiar to Chopper. "Wasn't your man-beast form that little reindeer from before!? Pretty crafty!" Okay, so this guy next to me is Chopper.
"Xion-nee, use me for jumping support." I did as Chopper wanted me to do, knowing that he had an idea of some sort, and jumped higher. "Guard Point! Kegawa Kyouka!" His fur suddenly puffed out, making him look like a huge ball of fur. Chopper took the hit from one of the hammers that Chessmarimo currently weild and bounced away from him. Whereas I took my chance to use Fire Dash at Blizzard Lord. As my attack hits, I could've sworn it looked like it was going to split apart. Afterwards, I jumped back to where Chopper was.
"What?!" Chessmarimo gasped, looking dumbfounded at either Chopper's transformations or the fact that I was cloaked in fire.
I saw Chopper got up from the corner of my eyes, shaking off the feeling of getting hit. Then his head came out of all that fur, making him look like a sheep.
"Impossible! It was a direct hit!"
"No effect," the now-sheep-looking reindeer corrected.
'It's probably because of the fur,' I thought, not wanting to give away what seems to be the secret of this new form.
"The Zoan Family's transformations should be limited to three forms! What the hell are you!? And as for her, it's impossible to glide all the way up to where Blizzard Lord was at and just set oneself on fire, like you did! Are you even human?!"
"The Rumble Ball is a drug that distorts the wavelength of the Devil's Fruit's transformations," Chopper explained. "During my five years of research, I've discovered four additional transformations. Beyond the three-level transformations!"
"Seven-level transformation?! Who cares how many you have?!"
"Yeah. And as for Xion-nee, the Skill Ball is also a drug. However, unlike the Rumble Ball, it allows the Keyblade Wielders to make extra usage of their surroundings in battle. The one that Xion-nee used earlier to climb up there was called Reality Shift. There's another one called Flowmotion, similiar to the Reality Shift."
"What was that?!"
"Then that time-stopping effect and the graph is also part of the Reality Shift," I said to myself. "This is some boost. Thank you, Chopper."
"Th-thanking me isn't going to make me happy, you dummy~!" Or so Chopper said, as he does his happy dancing.
"Sure it isn't."
"What seven-level transformation?! What Reality Shift and Flowmotion?!" Chessmarimo spoke, getting Chopper's attention back to him and the Heartless. "Your tricks won't work on me or Blizzard Lord!"
"These aren't tricks!" my partner and I corrected, as we charged into our opponents.
The Blizzard Lord began to blow a breath of ice at me and Chopper, who changed into his jumping form and helped me avoid the breath. "Arm Point! Wanryoku Kyoka!" He released me and his arms gained a lot of muscles in them. "Xion-nee! My hooves!" Getting the message he's giving me, I used his hooves to kick myself towards the Heartless. As I did, I felt a great amount of power surging through my whole entire body and found myself going in a speed similiar to Luffy's Gomu Gomu no Rocket.
When I was close enough for an attack, I found myself spinning as I continued to go to the Heartless and ended it with a shockwave on the ground. "So that was a Flowmotion! Felt awesome!" I exclaimed, as I landed safely on the ground. Looking back at the Blizzard Lord, it was splitting up into the ice cubes. "Now to end this. Once and for all!" Warrior's Pride was then wrapped in flames, as I went for a charging attack. "Fire Buster!" With that, all but one was destroyed. "Begone already," I said, stabbing it.
Looking back at Chopper and his opponent, I see Chessmarimo, but Chopper is nowhere to be seen.
"Chopper?!" I shouted in worry.
"Kokutei... Roseo!" The young reindeer shot out of the snow from below Chessmarimo and palmed, or hooved, him in the chin, hard. Not only did it knock him out, it even left a mark on his cheek.
"Three minutes," the young reindeer spoke, as he changed back in his hybrid form.
"YEAH! Reindeer! Xion! Great job, you two! Awesome!" Luffy kept praising us on our victory, much to Chopper's embarrassment.
"Shut up~!" Yep, he's embarrassed.
"So, what about you, Luffy?" I asked, seeing that he's done on his side.
"What do you mean?" Why did my captain ask me that? Please don't tell me...
"You finished your battle with Wapol, right?"
After a moment of silence, Luffy realized what I meant. "AHH! Where did he go?!"
"WHAT WERE YOU DOING WHILE CHOPPER AND I WERE BATTLING?!" I demanded. Suddenly, my head started to hurt. I clutched it and went on my knees.
"Xion(-nee/-san)!" I heard them call. The rest of the words were a little faint, as my sight got blurry.
'This pain... It feels familiar...' I thought. 'Does this mean... that...' Before I can continue my thought, I blacked out.