I do not Own One Piece.

Just wanted to tell you that did an RP with someone on this because I couldn't figure out a fight with Talas...it was annoying and it took forever, so I asked him about it. I made a sign at the part he did his RP at...though it has comedy in it and I thought the fight would be a little...different, but hehe, tell me what you think! the sign is XxXxXxXxXxXxxxxxxX for when it starts and ends so, Enjoy...I was really sad when i re-read this chapter T.T

One Piece In Their World 2 Chapter 17

Note: This is going back a bit to Zoro's, and Luffy's fight with Talas.

Luffy's and Zoro's Time!!(POV)

As Luffy looked around for Talas, both he and Zoro noticed that animals had come around the dome and started throwing themselves against it.

"What the Hell's going on!" yelled Zoro looking at the animals seemed to get more wild by the second.

Talas watched them as the came up behind Luffy ready to slash at him with both is knives, though Luffy had already felt him coming and threw a puch backwards at him.

"UGH!" cried Talas as he fell back and hit the wall.

Zoro and Luffy now faced Talas, anger reeking from them. Talas scrambled to his feet again as the rumbling came harder and the animals around the dome were pounding against it more and more.

But right before Zoro was going to attack Talas, he started to run the other way.

"Huh?" said Zoro.

As soon as Luffy and Zoro were about to run to him, a bright light came from where Penelope was and then they saw a fireball surrounding her. Neither she nor Ace was anywhere to be seen though.

(He's got it to be up there...) thought Luffy.

They both looked forward, but the palace doors opened right where Talas was, some men, and the prince ran out. Zoro was pissed to get Talas back for what he had done, but everyone came in a group so that it was hard to tell where everyone was. Zoro and Luffy tried to look past them. They waited and soon the crowd passed. They saw Talas holding the prince by the neck, his knife piercing into the prince's neck.

"Don't move," Talas was smirking as he looked at Zoro and Luffy who had stopped in their tracks. Then Talas looked up at where Penelope was and couldn't see anything except a revolving ball of fire around where she was.

"God dammit," mumbled Talas as he felt pebbles come from above and saw that the water animals were still attacking the dome. Small cracks were beginning to form.

"Haha, I'll let you live, if you give me the throne!" Talas said into the prince's ear, still looking at Zoro and Luffy who were both glaring at him.

"Ummm…Uh…" the prince didn't know what to say.

"Don't you dare give him the throne!" said Zoro seething with anger.

The Prince looked up at him surprised, but couldn't see Zoro's eyes. They were shadowed and hard to fathom.

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The dome was also starting to crack behind him.

The prince steeled his courage and cried, "I…I...will not give up the throne!"

The knife only started to dig deeper into his neck.

"Hehehehhe, then I guess you will just have to die then!" Talas said with an evil grin.

The prince screamed as Talas positioned the knife where his stomach was. The knife slowly slid into his stomach. Talas continued to grin his evil grin because of how slow and painful it was for the prince.

The dome was now cracking even more. Water began to gush from the cracks. Luffy was fed up with standing and not being able to do anything while the prince was being killed in front of his eyes.

He launched his arm behind him and screamed, "Gumu gumu no..." his arm snapped forward with the force of a bullet, "PISTOL!!"

His fist collided with Talas' face at breakneck speed, which it literally did, nearly snapping Talas' neck as he was sent flying into the dome.

"Take that!" Luffy yelled as his arm snapped back to its original length.

Luffy and Zoro rushed to the prince to make sure he was ok.

"Do you think he'll be ok?" Zoro asked Luffy worriedly and then looking around for Aiva.

"There's only one way to find out!" Luffy exclaimed and then started throttling the prince.

"ARRRGGHHH!! STOP!!" The prince screamed as Luffy kept shaking him back and forth.

Zoro punched Luffy and took the prince from his grasp. Sighing he thought, "Why do I have to put up with this idiot..."

"Well...at least we know he's ok." Luffy remarked.

"You could have just asked!!" The prince yelled at Luffy, nursing his bruised neck.

"What about Talas?" Zoro asked.

"I'm right behind you..." a voice that came from nowhere replied.

"What the?" Zoro started to say and then drew two swords as Talas came with a stab behind him.

"Zoro! What's going on?" Luffy asked Zoro. "Are you seeing ghosts?!" Luffy said, his eyes shining like stars.

"No, I'm- NOT!" Zoro replied trying to block Talas' onslaught of attacks. "ARGH! Tatsu-Maki!"

Zoro spun creating a twister of slashing attacks that caught Talas unaware, cutting him up and sending him flying.

"Hey! What's he doing here? I thought he was knocked out!" Luffy cried.

Talas got up and grinned, "You think that punch would have been enough to kill me?"

Yes, you're weak." Luffy bluntly stated.

"NO I AM NOT!" Talas yelled back. "And I'll prove it." He disappeared and then reappeared next to Luffy throwing one knife at Luffy, and then with his other dagger, cut a red line across Luffy's arm. "By doing this and I'll never be caught by the same attack twice." he stated.

He suddenly jumped, and Zoro's Oni-giri attack almost cut Luffy to ribbons. Zoro improvised and followed up with a second Tatsu-Maki attack while Talas was still in mid-air. Talas was again cut up by Zoro's attack.

Zoro smirked, "I thought you never get caught by the same attack twice!"

Talas growled and starting throwing daggers at Zoro. Zoro was hard-pressed to block them all and his arms continued to work as he blocked the knives.

Meanwhile, Luffy was talking to the prince and waiting for Zoro to finish up with Talas. He was taking a nap, his straw-hat covered over his face to block the light. The prince began poking Luffy.

"Aren't you going to help him?" the prince asked.

Luffy lifted his straw-hat and replied, "Nah, Zoro can handle this." And that was when Zoro collided with Luffy.

"Zoro! What the hell!" Luffy yelled at him.

"He's got too many knives!" Zoro screamed back panting.

"Watch out!" the prince yelled.

Zoro and Luffy jumped out of the way has multitudes of daggers came hurtling towards them...

"What the? How does he hold all those daggers" Luffy questioned.

Talas answered Luffy's question by showing him numerous daggers that somehow managed to stick onto his cloak.

"WOW!" Luffy exclaimed, his eyes sparkling. "That's so cool!"

"Luffy keep your guard up, if he was able to move so quickly with those daggers slowing him down, how fast do you think he really is?" Zoro warned Luffy.

"I'll be faster!" Luffy yelled pissed now and then initiated his second gear mode.

Surprised, Talas didn't have enough time too react before he was met with a barrage of attacks from Luffy.

"Gumu Gumu no...Jet gattaling!!" Luffy yelled as he showered punches at Talas, then went with his attack and stretched his leg out before it whacked Talas, "Whip! And..." Luffy brought his hands behind him and yelled, "Jet Bazooka!!" Launching Talas into the air before he even knew what had happened.

"Ugh...that was unexpected..." Talas said to himself and then shed his cloak.

He rushed Luffy and Luffy responded by charging at Talas. They continued to counter each other as Zoro started to walk over to Aiva.

The prince asked Zoro, "Do you think Luffy can beat him?"

"Yea, that guy doesn't lose easily, He's too stupid. They're both equally matched in speed so the factor that will decide this battle will be the person's strength." Zoro explained.

The prince heard Luffy yell "Jet Pistol!" and saw Talas go flying once again.

"Man...That Talas can take quite a beating..." Zoro said surprised, then called to Luffy. "Luffy! Let me take it from here! I have some payback I want to give that guy." He said thinking of Aiva.

Luffy appeared in front of him and frowned. "Alright, I was getting bored anyways. I'm hungry!"

Zoro unsheathed Wado Ichimonji from its white sheath and placed it between his teeth side ways. "Excellent..." He replied with an evil expression.

The prince took one look and thought, "What a scary face..." While Luffy sat down and started to complain about his empty belly.

Talas got up and drew two daggers. He growled as he stared at Zoro's face. "What's wrong with your face?" He asked, before appearing right in front of Zoro and slashing sideways with his dagger.

Zoro replied with an evil stare that sent shivers down Talas' spine. "It's the last face you'll ever see in your lifetime, punk. And I'll make sure you see three of them!"

Talas wasn't fazed by the threat and came at Zoro again. He threw both of his daggers, caught them and threw them again as Zoro dodged the. As the two daggers kept coming Zoro decided that it was time to end this.

"Alright Talas, now it's my turn." he said to Talas. "I'll end this with one move."

"I see...then I will do the same." Talas replied, picking up his cloak of daggers.

They faced off and Talas began swinging his cloak around to gain momentum. "Dagger..." He unleashed daggers that came at Zoro in every direction. "Storm!" he yelled.

As the daggers closed in Zoro closed his eyes and started, "Nine-Sword style..." He created an illusion like the demon god Ashura, who had six arms and three heads with his spirit. "Ipugnata!" He said as he cut Talas into pieces.

He walked over to Talas and said to Talas' unconscious form, "I guess I'll end it here." Driving his sword through Talas' heart.

"Now...how will we get out of here," said as the water level had risen to his knees. He slapped his forehead as he saw Luffy flailing in the water.

"Zoro! Help! I can't swim!" Luffy screamed.

Zoro kicked Luffy and shouted, "IT'S JUST KNEE DEEP, GET OVER IT!"

Zoro started to look around then heard a splash next to him.

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"Huh?" he turned around to see Sanji, Nami, Chopper, Ussop, and Franky all standing there. Franky picked up Luffy, "We'd better get out of here before it fills up al the way." He yelled as he started running towards the tunnel that was also starting to fill up with water.

"Ah!" They all started running towards Robin, Kenn, and Aiva. Kenn and Robin were both clutching their heads as Sanji ran over to them.

"Robin, Kenn!" he was worried because they knew both of them couldn't stay in the water. Sanji picked up Robin bridal style and looked around to see if there was anyone else that could carry Kenn.

"Ehhh, I got it…Sanji," Kenn said stuttering a bit as he rose to his feet and made the air around him bring him above the water. It seemed that he was having trouble but then started to gain balance as soon as he was out. He looked around and saw the Prince and Chopper running, though the prince was holding chopper and had blood on his shirt. Kenn knew what to do, and took the air around them also, bringing them into the air. It seemed to take all his effort, but now it seemed that he had gotten the worst off the ground…except one. Kenn turned and looked over to Zoro.

Zoro's Time!!(POV)

Zoro rushed over to where Aiva was as the rest were running the others. As he got closer the water started turning red until finally when he go there, he could see it was all around. He couldn't stand seeing her like this. Aiva was half submerged in the water as Zoro got down on his knees and started frantically putting his arms under Aiva to bring her up.

"Aiva…Aiva…you hear me right?" he tried shaking her a bit in his arms, but her skin was…almost too cold. It was frightening him.

"Aiva…Aiva!" he yelled a little louder, near her, not wanting to tell himself that she was dead as some tears started to seep out of his eyes.

"Zoro! We have to go!" yelled Sanji as he started running. Zoro didn't realize that the water had now gotten deeper and heard the crushing of glass behind him. He didn't look, already knowing that the worst was happening and started running towards the tunnel, holding Aiva tight in his arms.

"Don't worry, we'll get you to a hospital Aiva...don't worry!" he said as he ran.

(She's not dead; I'll bring her to the hospital no matter what!) He ran as fast as he could, passing the fireball over him and already knowing that Ace would get out. Kenn was on the other side of the tunnel making and turned around, making him hurry. Finally he got inside the tunnel, but the water was still rushing in and Ace and Penelope wasn't with them.

"Ace…" said Nami as she turned to look at the fireball.

"Don't worry, he'll get out of there," said Luffy confidently looking up at the fireball.

"We…have to get her to a hospital…" said the prince. He was still in the air and was holding his wound in his stomach. Though it was bandaged up now because Chopper who was on the air with him and helped his wound.

"Luffy-"

"Go Zoro…We'll wait for Ace and Penelope while you three go." Luffy was looking the other way as he said this and Zoro just nodded as Kenn dropped Chopper and the Prince to the ground and they started running the other way.

(Hurry, Hurry!) Thought Chopper. He had seen how much blood had come from Aiva and he wouldn't know how bad it was until he was going to get a better look at her.

"Hurry! I think we are close to the other city!" yelled the prince and they could see an opening on the other side. They all started running faster and finally got to the other side. They stopped as they could see it was still night and then heard people panting on the side. There, were the prince's helpers that were awaiting him there.

"Prince! You are alright!" said one of them and coming over to him.

"Yes! But we need to get to a hospital! Is there one here?" the prince looked agonizingly at them but none of them answered, they hadn't been outside of their dome much so all they did was look around for a building that looked like a hospital.

"Shit, shit!" Zoro could feel the blood seeping through his shirt and then finally went down on his knees.

"Zoro!" said Chopper shocked and then went over to him, as did everyone else and they gathered around him and Aiva.

"Chopper! See if you can help her here. If we wait to long…" He didn't know what would happen, but she had to stay alive! Chopper nodded and went over to look at her. She was worse now. Her skin had lost all it's color and she was cold to the touch. Though the thing that scared him the most was…she didn't look like she was breathing. Tears started to come though Chopper's eyes as he felt for her heart beat on her neck, chest and wrist but got nothing besides the cold skin.

(Why…why?!) He thought. He looked up to see Zoro's agonized face and could tell he didn't know what to do.

"Chopper! How is she!" Chopper looked at where she had been stabbed and took a closer look at it. The blood was so much that it seemed to clog…and Chopper knew this wasn't right. More tears came as he started to bandage the wound but when he went around her back, he could feel a hole there too.

"Aiva…Aiva?" he tried shaking her a little, giving her something to drink, anything that would wake her! But nothing did, the water just staying in her mouth, not going down it. Chopper now knew…and he couldn't bear it.

"Zoro…" Chopper started to cry even more was biting his lip as he saw Zoro start to well up in his eyes.

"She's…dead." Chopper couldn't say it anymore. Instead he poured out tears as Zoro looked blank and his eyes just stared beyond.

"Chopper, you're lying," Zoro still looked into the distance.

"Chopper." He said with more voice.

"I'm sorry Zoro, theres-there's nothing I can do, her vital organ has cutt cut straight through…and the blood could only…" Chopper didn't say anymore as he started to cry worse.

Zoro couldn't belive this…

(Is this true?) He looked down at Aiva and placed his arms on her shoulder.

"Aiva…wake up…Aiva…AIVA!" That was when he couldn't take it anymore and started to scream her name.

"Aiva, AIVA!!" he yelled holding her by the shoulders and trying to not shake her violently but yet trying not to think she was dead. The blood was going through the bandage as finally Zoro stopped screaming her name and let her down again. Her skin was so cold and pale; he missed its warmth and started to cry. He felt like someone shot a hole through his heart, though tried not to cry. He clutched his knees and were digging his nails in, but tears still came out.

"It's okay to cry…Zoro…." Said the prince from behind him. Even though he heard him, Zoro still clutched his knees as memories flooded into him. When they first met, him sparring with her, playing in the snow, the nights they've spent together. But at the same time…it seemed like such little time. He wanted more time…to see her smile…to feel the energy from her, to hold her once more in his arms. But he couldn't.

Chopper could hear someone coming through the people and suddenly saw the rest of the crew there. Penelope came out and once she saw Zoro, she also started to cry. Luffy covered his eyes with his hat as tears poured down. Everyone else was also crying.

(This….can't…be…) they all thought. They all cried and looked at Aiva's body as she laid on the ground, still and motionless.

Hope you enjoyed this chapter. I was really really really sad when I read it! T.T

Thanx Waver-chan for reviewing! Heres the next chapter up for you! :D

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