Oyabun Luffy's Detective Story - Axe-Head Family, friends or foes?
Chapter 8 - Final Phase!

"What the?" Buggy wondered out loud as he angrily held in hands a light blue haired doll while the tune still continued to play. "WHAT THE HECK IS THIS?"

"Sorry, were you expecting someone else?" A voice came above them as Buggy immediately looked up to find the fox-girl, Dusty, sitting on the rooftop above, playing the Kato instrument on her lap where the tune was coming from, grinning down at them.

"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU!!!" Buggy yelled at her. "AND WHERE'S PRINCESS VIVI?!"

"She's save," Dusty replied. "We've been on to your little plan for quite sometime now."

"WHAT?!"

"Who's we?" Cabaji questioned.

"Enough off this, Axe destroy!!!" Buggy commanded as Axe stepped forward with his giant axe in his hand, smirking.

"With pleasure! Quake Stomp!" he yelled slamming his axe down hard on the ground, causing a miniature earthquake around him, Buggy and Cabaji, making the two villains fall over from the ground shaking, meanwhile Devon moved out of it's range as if he knew where to go. "Opps…my hand slipped," he said, smirking a little at them.

"What was that?" Onami asked as she felt something shake, while the group was very close to the castle.

"Felt like an earthquake," Usopp commented.

"Huh? I didn't fell anything," Luffy replied.

"It was a small one at the least," Zoro replied. "It felt like it come from the palace."

"Oh no, I hope Vivi is alright!" Chopper worried as he ran alongside them. Finally, the group reached the huge royal palace of Grand Jipangu.

"We're here, no why aren't there any guards out?" Usopp wondered as he looked around. "Maybe we're too late?"

"VIVI!" Luffy yelled out.

"VIVI!!!" Onami, Chopper and Usopp called out together.

"VIVI-CHAN!!!" Sanji loudly yelled out. "Where are you!!!"

"I'm right here," a voice suddenly came from behind, making most of them jump a mile high in surprise before turning around to see three people behind them, once of which they knew very well.

"VIVI!!!" they called out, apart from Sanji who called her Vivi-chan. "You're all right!"

"Of course I'm alright," she replied as her two guardians, Chaka and Pell stood behind her.

"But, that red-nose…" Usopp was about to say before Vivi cut him off.

"I think it's time you guys found out the truth," she explained.

"What are you doing? Take out that fox!" Buggy yelled at Axe as he finally got back to his feet after being knocked down by Axe's quake.

"And why would I do that?" Axe replied as he held his giant double axe over his shoulder, still with a smirk on his face. "To my own family."

"YOUR WHAT?!" Buggy screamed at them.

"Then that would mean…" Cabaji replied before he felt a blade up against his throat as he instantly looked over to see Devon pointing one of his swords at him.

"Fooled ya," Devon smirked before an explosion suddenly came from behind them.

"WHAT NOW?!" Buggy yelled as he turned around to see that part of the back wall of the garden had been blown down.

"Buggy-sama! We've got a problem!" Mohji yelled from the other side of the hole.

"We already have a problem in here, what is it?" he questioned as the smoke cleared to see Austin standing in the middle of the hole in the wall with his palm faced out with a pair of red gloves with a red shell in the middle of them.

"Well done kid," Devon told him.

"CAN SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON?!"

"It's been a complete set up all along!" Cabaji yelled before he pulled out his sword and charged at Devon, while Devon just calmly pulled out his other sword as Cabaji ran towards him.

"Tanketetsu," Devon mumbled as he clutched his pair of katanas in his hands.

"This way everyone," Vivi told them as Luffy and the others followed her through the palace, escorted by her guardians, Chaka and Pell.

"Wait Vivi, You still haven't told us what's going on!" Usopp questioned as he walked behind her.

"Don't worry all will be revealed in due time," Vivi explained. "But for now, just leave it up to them."

"Them?" Sanji asked as they finally reached the gardens. But as they did, a loud slashing noise was heard. Everyone's (including Zoro's) eyes widened in shock as Buggy faithful family member, Cabaji, fell the ground in pain and unmoving.

"Whoa," Onami, Usopp, Sanji and Chopper responded as they still stared at what happened in shock, while Luffy and Zoro just smiled.

"AWESOME!!!" Luffy called out, with his eyes lighting up.

"Hmm, not bad," Zoro simply replied. "But isn't e meant to be on their side?"

Meanwhile, in the other side of the blown in wall, Buggy's henchmen stumbled to their feet, some with a lot of bruises on them.

"Darn that kid," they mumbled as Austin had already run over to Devon. But then they noticed the princess was now on the scene and all smirked. "Now's our chance, let's get 'em!" they agreed before charging over towards where Vivi and the rest where.

"Eh? Those guys?" Luffy said as he noticed the henchmen charging over towards them before raising his fist. "Gomu-Gomu…"

"FIRE-BOW!!!" a voice yelled before Luffy could carry out his attack and dozens of flaming arrows came down at the attacking henchmen.

"AH! HOT! HOT! HOT! HOT!!!" the ones who got hit and burst into flames screamed as they ran around on fire.

"Where'd that come from?" Onami questioned as they all turned their heads to see the archer with the Yumi bow still in her hands across the garden. "Hey, it's you!"

"Yep, it's me alright," the female archer, said as she lowered her bow to reveal her face.

"It's Oniri!" Usopp pointed out. "What are you doing here?"

"Same as you," she replied before noticing something. "WATCH OUT!" she screamed, as before they knew it, the six-armed merman from Buggy's family was right above them.

"Yeah! That's right! Get her Hachi!" Buggy cheered

"Rokutouryuu Ougi Rokutou no Warutsu!" the merman, named Hachi, yelled as he pointed all his six swords together and he was about to come down on Vivi.

"Vivi!" Luffy yelled as he was about to run over, as Zoro's eyes suddenly widened and put his arm in front of Luffy.

"Wait, Oyabun," he told him, as Luffy looked back at him, a little surprised.

"What are you doing, bastard!" Sanji yelled at him. "We've got to save Vivi-chan!"

"Too late, It's already over," Zoro simply replied as they looked back over to where Vivi was to see, Hachi had stopped in mid air as all his six swords had been blocked by one single katana.

"You know, it's never right to attack a woman," the owner of the katana said as he stood I front of Vivi, protecting her.

"It's that guy from the bar!" Onami pointed out.

"DJ! How'd he get here so quick?" Usopp wondered out loud.

"That's because I ate a devil fruit, the Speed-Speed fruit," DJ replied as he still blocked Hachi attack, but turned his head back to Vivi. "If you would just excuse me for a moment my dear," he said to her.

"Hmm, reminds me of Sanji-kun," Onami said as DJ turned back to Hachi, clutching his sword tighter. "Rapid Slash Attack!!!" He yelled as he suddenly disappeared and then reappeared a few feet away while Hachi screamed in pain as a huge blood slash appeared across his chest.

"Whoa," Usopp responded as Hachi fell to the ground and DJ turned back to Vivi.

"Are you okay, my dear princess," he asked.

"Yes, I'm fine, thanks to you," she replied as she smiled at him.

"Aww, Vivi-chan looks so cute when she smiles," DJ poetically replied.

"Yep, he's a Sanji alright," Onami mumbled as Sanji was fuming at DJ's closeness to Vivi.

"Grr, I've had just about enough of this," Buggy angrily said as he watched the events take place. "Mohji, Richie, take them out!" he yelled as the tamer and the lion got back up.

"With pleasure," Mohji obeyed as he smirked. "Go Richie!" he commanded his lion.

"ROAR!" Richie roared as he charged at the group before being hit by a flying small rock on his head. "Rar?" Richie growled as he turned to the direction of which the rock was thrown from to see Dusty, as she pointed a finger down at Buggy.

"He did it," she said.

"YEAH RIGHT!!!" Buggy yelled at her as Richie growled angrily at her, taking a few small steps towards her.

"Whoa, nice kitty, nice kitty!!!" Dusty said as she slowly backed away up the roof of which she was on. "I don't want to be fox meat!"

"Hehehe, so you're hungry for a bit of fox eh?" Mohji said to his pet as he smirked and looked at a petrified Dusty. "Go get her!"

"ROAR!!!" Richie loudly replied as he jumped high and landed hard on the spot on the rooftop where Dusty was, breaking the roof a little. Richie looked around, as Dusty was no longer there.

"Missed me!" Dusty teased as she now sat on the next level roof of the palace as Richie angrily growled and jumped after her again, landing on the rooftop spot she was on, breaking that as well.

"HEY! STOP BREAKING UP THE PALACE!!!" Chaka yelled in their direction, as Luffy just laughed.

"Hahaha, that looks like fun!" Luffy laughed.

"Oi, Straw-Hat! Where are you?" a voice yelled as they all turned around to see a tall man with black hair sticking up and wearing a purple robe. But the thing about this man, his eyes were completely white with no pupils in them.

"Baka, I'm right here," Luffy replied.

"Where?" the man questioned, as he looked around even though Luffy was standing right in front of him.

"Gedatsu, you can't see with you're eyes rolled back like that!" Buggy back at the man, he called Gedatsu, as Gedatsu's eyes suddenly widened (turning back to normal) and his mouth dropped.

"HOW CARELESS!!!" he said, with his face still shocked.

"What a baka," Onami mumbled as Gedatsu raised his fist, ready to attack.

"Let's go then," Luffy replied as he got ready to attack, but then someone stepped in front of him. "Huh?"

"Leave him to me," the new person told him, as Onami, Sanji, Usopp and especially Chopper gasped. "I can handle this."

"Hey wait a moment, isn't that…" Chopper said, before he was suddenly interrupted.

"JET PUNCH!!!" Gedatsu yelled as he suddenly shot towards them, punching the new person square in the face, making them go flying back, crashing right into the palace wall, and through the rooms behind it.

"What? Oh no!" Usopp cried as he and the others were shocked by the sudden turn of events.

"KIRSTY!!!" Chopper cried after the fall of his assistant.

Meanwhile, up on the high rooftops on of palace.

"Yo kitty, kitty, kitty, over here!" Dusty called out as Richie pounced at her again. "Or am I over here?" Dusty said as Richie looked up to see Dusty sitting on the top roof of the palace.

"ROAR!!!" Richie angrily roared as he made a final pounce over at her, but this time, as he jumped over, he went right into her, chomping his huge lion teeth down hard, but not realising he went a little to far and missed the his landing point on roof top. But just as Richie thought he won, here looked down to see not the little annoying fox he was sent to kill, but a stuffed life size rag doll, like before but with fox ears and a tail stuck on it. "Grr?" Richie wondered as he looked back to see Dusty sitting back on the rooftop, grinning like a crazed fox as she waved good-bye to him. Richie then looked down to see he was still flouting in midair. The odd coloured lion gulped, holding up a little sign saying 'yikes', before gravity finally took affect and fell down as Dusty lent over the edge, as she saw a small cloud of dust form around the place where Richie finally hit the ground below.

"Ooh, that's gotta hurt!"

Back down at the palace gardens, Luffy and the others shared in shock at the huge whole in the wall, of which he blonde haired doctor had crashed back into, thanks to Gedatsu's Jet Punch

"K-K-K…" Usopp tired to say but he was just too shocked to say anything, as Sanji looked back at Gedatsu, fuming.

"Oi bastard, what gives you a right to hit a woman?" Sanji yelled at him, while Chopper ran around screaming.

"DOCTOR! DOCTOR! WE NEED A DOCTOR!!!" He cried as he ran in circles.

"What was she doing here anyway?" Onami wondered out loud as she still looking on, shocked at what just happened.

"You wanna fight? Then bring it on," Luffy told Gedatsu.

"Oi, oi, oi, didn't I say I would handle this?" a familiar voice came, making everyone's eyes suddenly widened as they turned around to the smoking hole in the palace, in see a figure coming out from smoke clouds around it.

"What? Imposable! No ordinary person can survive Gedatsu's Jet Punch!" Buggy yelled as he watched from the sidelines.

"That would be true, but the only thing is…" the voice said as the smoke finally cleared to see Kirsty standing their with a giant gash above her forehead and parts of her body really broken up, slowly closing up and fitting back into the right place. "I'm not ordinary person," she finally said, as all her wounds were now fully healed.

"Whoa!" Onami, Sanji, Usopp and even Zoro responded.

"AWESOME!!!" Luffy and Chopper cheered as their eyes lit up.

"Ah, not another devil fruit user," Buggy angrily mumbled as Axe, who wasn't that far away from him, just smirked.

"That a girl," he said, watching it take place.

"Hey Kirsty, did you eat a devil fruit too?" Chopper asked her.

"That's right, I ate the Heal-Heal fruit, it let's me heal myself when ever I want, also I allows me to take any damage that I've healed and send it straight back out twice as strong," Kirsty explained, not taking her eyes off Gedatsu for one moment, as he just stood there with his arms crossed outwards. "That was one hell of a punch you came at me with, I could hardly see you until it was to late," Kirsty told him as he just stood there and raised his fist.

'Indeed. The attack is called Jet punch, it's impossible for you to see it. The only problem is that it can only be used once,' Gedatsu said in his mind, leaving him just standing there quietly.

"What's the matter, to scared to talk?" Kirsty asked him, as Gedatsu's face suddenly dropped, realising he forgot to speak as Kirsty just smiled.

"Shut up! Don't embarrass me! JET PUNCH!!!" he screamed as he came at her with the super fast and powerful punch, this time punching with his other arm, making her fly back again.

"NO! DON'T DO THAT!!!" Buggy yelled over at him as Kirsty got to her feet and a healed up again.

"Like it was saying, that was one hell of a punch, mind if I borrow it?" she said as Kirsty raised her fist, once all her wounds had closed up again, as her fist started to glow a little. "Heal-Heal Reverse…

'This girl can absorb attacks and then send them right back at you…and I've just attacked her with the Jet Punch at full strength…twice,' Gedatsu said in his mind again before his face suddenly dropped. "HOW CARELESS!" he finally said out loud before Kirsty suddenly charged at him.

"…JET PUNCH!" Kirsty yelled before she suddenly let out one powerful punch right at Gedatsu, making him go flying away.

"WHOA!!!" Nearly everybody responded in shock Chopper and Luffy looked at her with their eyes lit up.

"AWESOME!!!" they cheered.

"Richie!!!" Mohji cried over his knocked out pet lion, lying deep in a lion shape hole in the ground, before Dusty suddenly landed perfectly, crouched with her arms sticking out, while the others turned their attention back to them.

"TADA!!!" Dusty happily called out as she stood back up again and Mohji glared over at her.

"Darn you Fox! Just wait until I…" he yelled as he rinsed his lion taming whip at her while Dusty got herself ready for his attack, but cut off as someone grabbed his arm of which he held it in. "Huh?" Mohji wondered out load as he turned around to see a woman with long fiery red hair, smirking at him a little.

"Until you'll do what?" she asked as Dusty smiled upon recognising her.

"Chizuru!" Dusty happily called out as Zoro's eyes widened upon the appearance of the new girl. He then looked up to see the other woman, with black hair and blue eyes, he'd meet in the forest, sitting on the palace rooftop as she smiled and gave a little wave at him.

"How many of you are there?!" Buggy yelled at them. Mohji grew more angry as the turned back to where the remaining henchmen were left standing.

"That's it! Attaaaaaaaaaaacck?" he yelled at to them, but once he turned around, he was shocked to find all the henchman that had been remaining were now all knocked out on the ground., with a tall lobster figure standing over them.

"You were expecting someone else?" the lobsterman said.

"Yay! Herman!!!" Dusty cheered at the lobsterman, Herman, while Chizuru smirked and then turned back to Mohij.

"Nobody to save you now," she told him before he suddenly looked at her with a petrified look and with in a blink of an eye, he crashed onto the ground unmoving.

Author's notes: few, that was a long one! I hoped you enjoyed!