Kingdom cure: I'm back at last!
Xion: *pant* About time... *pant* ... you came back... *pant*
Kingdom cure: What's wrong with you? You look like you went through a marathon.
Aki: Don't you remember? One of the fellow writers sent their character to protect you from her.
Kingdom cure: Oh yeah. Did the fight really last that long?
Xion: If it didn't I wouldn't be panting like this!
Kingdom cure: yeah yeah yeah.
Xion: Don't just shrug it off!
Kingdom cure: It's actually your fault for getting angry at me for no reason.
Xion: What do you mean 'no reason'?! I had every right to be mad at you!
Kingdom cure: Enough to kill me?
Xion: Why not?!
Kingdom cure: hmmm... *takes remote out of nowhere and pressed a button, opening a hole under Xion, causing her to fall in screaming*
Aki: Why did you do that?
Kingdom cure: I don't like her current attitude. Plus, I only sent her to a place where she can cool off. *faced remote to a t.v. and pressed another button, revealing Xion in Antarctica*
Aki: Why Antarctica?
Kingdom cure: Like I said, to cool her off.
Aki: uh-huh... *sees Xion cursing and trying to summon her Dream Eaters* You also took away her Dream Eaters, didn't you?
Kingdom cure: *took out the said cards with sly smile* How did you know?
Aki: You really are evil... As evil as mcdinh...
Kingdom cure: Am I? Well, in any case, Happy~! If you can please~!
Happy: Aye! Disclaimer is the same as usual. Ah! And also, there's a big surprise in this chapter!
Kingdom cure: To my Beta Reader, if you are reading this, I know we talked about the whole no more other Keyblade weilders in One Piece world, but I just can't seem to resist this one. So yeah, please do forgive me.
Last time:
"What the-?! How'd he-?!" Zoro began to ask.
"Whoa! That's awesome! He does magic!" Huh? We all looked at the source of that voice and saw- LUFFY UNTIED HIMSELF!?
"When did you untie yourself?!" the rest of his crew demanded.
"I didn't."
"I did it for him! It's not fair for the captain to be left out of the fun," Genie reasoned.
"There's a reason for him to be tied up the way he was!" Usopp told him.
"Back to meal time!" At that, Luffy began to stuff himself again, taking everything from everyone's plate.
"Stop taking our food, will ya!?"
Around half an hour later, the whole room was filled with laughter, as the male pirates and Genie began to party all over the place.
'I guess it's nice to have a wild party every once in a while,' I thought.
After the dinner party, we all went to take a bath, the guys to the mens' bath, and us girls to the womens' bath. Before that, though, Genie, once again, disappeared.
'He sure likes to come and go however he wants, doesn't he?' I mentally assumed.
"This feels so good!" Nami sighed. "I wonder if any ships out there have baths this big on them!" While I'm in the water, Vivi is washing Nami's back, both little ways from the tub.
"I'm sure there are! The sea is so vast!" Vivi replied.
"Can't argue with that. Especially if the ships are made in the Grand Line. Anything is possible here, after all," I calmly added.
"We've seen giants, dinosaurs, sakura blooming in the land of snow..." Vivi had an excited look as she recalled our adventures on our way to Alabasta. "The sea must contain so many more unimaginable things!" Nami and I grinned at how happy she is, recalling all those adventures.
"Let's switch," Nami spoke.
Agreeing, Vivi was about to turn around. "Xion, do you want me to wash your back?"
"Sure," I accepted. Just when I got out and looked up at the wall that seperated the baths, you do not know how irritated I am WHEN I SAW ALL THE GUYS PEEPING ON US! With the exception of Zoro, who is not with the group, and Chopper-kun, who is a reindeer, therefore has no interest in human females. Noticing this, I quickly went back in the water, covering my naked body.
"Wait a minute, what are you guys doing up there?!" Vivi demanded.
"I am giving you guys five- no wait, ONE- second to get down and forget what you saw," I stated as calmly as possible, having a dark aura around me. In fact, it was dark enough for them, minus Sanji, who is stuck on lovesick mode, and Chopper-kun, who knows I would never hurt him, to get dark chills.
"Those guys... All right, it'll be B100,000 each," Nami told them. I was confused as to what she meant by that. She stood up, covered herself in her towel, walked over to them, and the next thing you know... "Happiness Punch!" She had them fall off the wall back to their side... BY REVEALING HER WHOLE NAKED BODY TO THEM!
"NAMI(-SAN)!" Vivi and I shouted in disbelief at what had happened, blushing. She only replied by giving us a smirk and a thumbs-up.
"DO NOT GIVE US THAT!" I yelled right at her face. "Why, out of all things, would you do that?! Don't you have a thing call 'dignity'?! Who, as a girl, in their right mind, would ever do that?!"
"It's better than wasting your magic though, isn't it?" Nami tried to reason.
"I'd rather waste my magic!"
After that... 'eventful' bath time, we all went back to the guest room. It was then that we decided when to leave.
"Tonight?" Usopp repeated after Nami.
"So we're leaving?" Chopper-kun asked.
"Well, I think we should too," Zoro agreed with our navigator.
"Yeah. There's no reason for us to be here any longer," I stated.
"And the Marines are getting bolder with their approaches," Sanji added.
"Yosh! Luffy, you decide!" Usopp told the rubber idiot.
"Yosh! We're leaving after one more Alabasta banquet!" Of course he would say that.
"We're leaving NOW, numbskull!" the swordsman and I shouted, wacking him in the head.
"The longer we stay here, the better chance for the Marines to get us. Do you really want that to happen?!" I then questioned. Just then we heard the sound of a door opening.
"Excuse me, you have a call," one of the servants informed.
"A Den Den Mushi?" Nami asked.
"From who?" I also asked.
"From someone called Bon-chan," he replied.
"Bon-chan? Who's that?" Sanji questioned.
"We don't know anyone called that," Usopp told him.
"But he claims to be your friend, so..."
"Friend?" Sanji went and answered the call.
"Hello? Hello? Hel-lo~?" came a familiar voice from the other side, followed by a laugh. "It's me! It. Is. ME!" At that point, Sanji hung up on the oh, so familiar person, only to have the Den Den Mushi ring again not long after.
"WHAT IS IT?!" Sanji demanded, as Luffy grabbed the snail phone.
"Oh, it's you. What do you want from us?" he asked.
"Oh!? Isn't that the voice of Straw-chan?!" Yep... It's him, all right... "You're so strooong~! I was so surprised~! Oh, yes, yes! Don't go calling me Mr. 2! If the Marines get wind of this conversation, I'll be in super big trouble!"
"He just said it himself!" Chopper-kun pointed out.
"Just spit it out," Zoro told Mr. 2.
"Ah, right, right, right! I took your little ship!" SAY WHAT?!
"WHAT THE HELL?!" we all shouted.
"Asshole! That ain't funny! Where are you now!?" Usopp demanded.
"I'm on your boooaaat~!" Mr. 2 answered.
"Of all the annoying bastards in the world..." Sanji spoke.
"It had to be him taking away our ship!" I finished.
"You've got it wrooong, all wrooong~! Aren't you and I friends~?"
Some time later after that unexpected call, we all thought about what to do.
"He's upstream on the Sandora River," Luffy recalled the location.
"Can we trust him?" the chef asked.
"We were friends with him before..."
"But it doesn't change the fact that he was also our enemy," I reminded the straw hat-wearing idiot.
"The idea of you two becoming friends again scares me," Zoro told him.
"But, we don't really have a choice," Chopper-kun said.
"That's right. He's got our ship," Sanji agreed. "If he tries anything funny, we'll just kick his ass."
"In that case, we all agree that we have get moving already, right?" I questioned.
"Yosh, let's get going. It the ship is taken, we gotta-"
"Hey, everyone," Vivi spoke, interrupting Usopp. "Hey... Everyone... What should I do?" We all remembered about Vivi's role in her country. And with everything we've been though and the conversation we had back in the baths, I'm sure she's torn apart between wanting to become a pirate with us or stay and support her country.
A little time later, after a private conversation between us pirates, we all came to a conclusion for Vivi.
"Listen carefully, Vivi. We'll give you 12 hours to think," Nami told her "After we take back our ship on the Sandora River, then exactly at noon tomorrow, we'll swing the ship past the eastern harbor once. I doubt we'll be able to drop anchor, so if you want to keep adventuring with us, that will be the last chance you'll have to jump on board. If so, we'll celebrate! As pirates!"
"You're the princess of the kingdom, so this is the best invitation we can give you," Sanji added.
"Come, Vivi! You have to come! Come right now!" Luffy 'encouraged'.
"Stop it, Luffy!" Usopp said.
"How many times must you be told to not make decisions for other people?" I asked.
"Let's go," Zoro told us, already jumping out the window, which happens to be our current exit.
"What? Don't you guys want her to come!?" the idiot of a captain asked.
"That's not it at all, you rubber idiot!" I wacked him in the head with my Keyblade, hard. "This is a choice Vivi has to make. We have no part in deciding for her. Now stop acting like a child and leave her to make a decision for herself." With that we left. Or were about to, when the door opened to reveal Vivi's dad.
"Excuse me. I just remember that there's something I want to talk to Xion about," he told us.
"Me?"
"Yes. You guys are leaving right now? Why don't you wait near the front were the Super Spot-Billed Duck Squadron are? This won't take too long."
A few hours later, we all got on a duck from the Super Spot-Billed Duck Squadron and head over to our ship.
"I like this!" Zoro exclaimed.
"Farewell, oh country of sand!" Usopp cried. "Oi, Luffy, you still eating?"
"Arabasta food is the best!" the captain told him. "Sanji, make some of this tomorrow!"
"Sure. I was interested in it, too," Sanji answered. "I got some recipes off Terracotta-san. And I picked up some spices too."
"Nami, are you feeling sick?" Chopper-kun asked, noticing how sad the navigator looks.
"Nami, want a piece of meat? But only one," Luffy offered. The girl was still silent though.
"Nami-san, it's about Vivi-chan, isn't it?" Sanji asked her. "I understand how you feel, but if you keep thinking so much, you'll never get over it. You two were good friends for so long, but come on, look up."
"He's right," I, for once, agreed with him.
"... I'm... giving it up... For Vivi," she spoke, confusing us on what she meant by 'giving it up'. "My B1,000,000,000."
"OF COURSE YOU ARE!" most of us yelled in response.
"YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT MONEY!?" Sanji added in shock.
"Usopp fell off!" Chopper-kun informed.
"How can he just fall off like that?!" I wondered.
"NAMI! Quit being so misleading!" Zoro yelled.
"Huh? What's your problem? There's no point in worrying about Vivi," the navigator sai- No wait, SHE'S NOT WORRIED ABOUT HER OWN FRIEND?!
"OI! Usopp has FALLEN OFF!" Chopper-kun once again informed.
"That's his problem."
"IT'S YOUR FAULT!" we all shouted in response.
"By the way, Xion, what did Cobra wanted to talk to you about?" Nami changed the subject.
"Nothing much. And DON'T JUST CHANGE THE SUBJECT LIKE THAT!" It was a lie, actually. The thing Cobra wanted to talk to me about was something between us and, soon, Vivi.
*FLASHBACK*
We were in his room at the time of the conversation. There, he took out a book and, surprisingly, a hidden stairs appeared.
"Follow me," he told me, walking down.
"Where are you taking me?" I asked.
"You'll see."
Eventually, after a long walk down, we reached a dead end. I was about to ask him why he took me to a dead end when he pushed a brick and a secret passage way opened up.
"Does anyone else know about this?" I asked, as we continued to a different room.
"No. But I think it's near time for Vivi to know," he replied.
Continuing down the path, I saw something up ahead. Turned out, it was a Poneglyph.
"Can you read this language?" he asked me.
"Not really. But I think I know who does." I was about to take out my Dream Eater, when the king suddenly just stopped me.
"I'll tell you what it is about then. This Poneglyph is what a good friend of mine left before he suddenly disappeared. It is a message to all Keyblade wielders, such as yourself. It says...
Fellow chosen of the Keyblades, beware of the X-Blade.
It's power is unlike any other Keyblades that you know of.
It is said to be the key to Kingdom Hearts, the heart of all worlds, as well as the great source of power and wisdom.
Because of this, many previous chosens had tried to obtain the power for themselves, all to cause a war to happen and be consumed by the darkness.
And it is due to this, the X-Blade was separated into seven shards of light and thirteen shards of darkness.
If it is possible, I wish that all you Keyblade wielders to not meet at all.
For if you do, if all the needed shards come together, I fear for the worse for each and every one of you.
All I ask is to protect Kingdom Hearts from those who seek its power.
If anyone, whose heart is consumed by darkness, achieves in gaining this power, all will be lost."
As the king recited the Poneglyph, my eyes widened at the message.
'That must be what Robin meant back then,' I thought, recalling the time when we set off to Little Garden. 'Was she afraid that I might be one of the shards of the X-Blade? That couldn't be...'
"I promised my friend," spoke the king, getting me out of my thoughts, "that if I meet a Keyblade wielder, I am to give them a test."
"Test?" I repeated in a confused tone. All of a sudden, I saw what I didn't expect to see at all... The king... has his own Keyblade...
The handle is black with a white tip and is surrounded completely by the yellow guard. Each side of the guard sports two spikes that point diagonally downward. The shaft of the Keyblade is yellow with concave edges and ends in a point. On the tip of the shaft is a large, silver, "X" shaped charm, which connects the teeth of the Keyblade to the rest of the weapon. The teeth are a black, circular arc lined with spikes. The Keychain is similar to the the teeth of the Keyblade. The spikes of the left and right sides round off in the middle as a longer spike, which has a black line that runs down its middle.
"A test to see if you are an ally or an enemy. As my friend said, there are Keyblade weilders who used their powers for evil. For all I know, you might be pretending to be a Keyblade weilder of light. So I must test you, see where your heart resides."
'What did I get myself into?' I mentally asked, as the king got into battle stance.