One Piece: My Version
The King's Wrath, Annihilate Arlong Park!
(Arlong Park)
"Sheesh…" Zoro was exasperated. He had just finished killing off all of the mermen in the hideout, which wasn't even a challenge for him. "Nami told me to leave, but I can't. Luffy told me to stay wait for them. Damnit, hurry up!"
"Mohmoo! It's time for your meal!"
Zoro tilted his head as he heard the sound come from the front gate separating the pool from the sea. "Who's making that noise?" he said to himself before getting up from Arlong's chair and made his way to the gate. He climbed over the wall and on the other side, he saw a merman that appeared to like half man, half-octopus.
"Oi, are you the one who made that sound?" asked Zoro, surprising the merman with his presence.
"Eh? Who are you? I'm Hachi. Are you a guest of Arlong?"
'Guest..? Might as well play along.'
"Er…Yes I am. Do you know where your boss is?" he asked octopus-man.
"He left for Cocoyashi Village earlier ago."
"How do I get to that village?
Hachi presented a large ceramic pot. "Hop in! Since you're a guest, I'll transport you there."
Seeing as how Zoro's options were to either find another way himself, which would inevitably get him lost, or hitch a ride in a ceramic pot. The swordsman weighed his options before choosing the latter. However at that same time Zoro had left, Arlong came back to see his men had been slaughtered.
"Who did this?" Arlong roared. One of his fallen coughed up blood before responding.
"It was Roronoa Zoro… he did this…" were the merman's last words before dying.
Back with Luffy and the rest of the crew, they had the large cow-fish pull their small boat at a faster pace. In a few minutes, they reached the island of Commi. Of course the cow didn't slow down, it sped up a bit, much to the protests of Luffy.
It was too late for them as the cow dived and the boat made an impact on the shoreline before flying into the air. Yosaku was screaming his lungs off, Gin was hanging on for dear life, and Sanji and Hawkins were in mid-air, acting like nothing was happening. Luffy just smiled like a hapless idiot before whooping.
Zoro was walking through the fields, desperately trying to find his long-nosed comrade who had gotten in trouble. Of course due to his poor sense of direction, his results were zip to none.
"Where is that place again?" he thought aloud. Suddenly, he heard the sound of trees falling. He surveyed the forest, until he saw a small boat sailing on solid ground, carrying Luffy and the others… heading straight towards him like a torpedo.
"Hey Zoro!" shouted Luffy.
"!"
*CRASH! SMASH! CRUNCH!*
The destroyed boat was now lodged at the side of a small cliff in a steppe field. Luffy plopped down first, the rest followed soon after. Gin and Yosaku were face-planted into the ground as they weren't accustomed to Luffy's insanity and stupidity.
'Is this guy really a pirate?' thought Gin.
Sanji and Hawkins merely stepped down from the busted ship, when they heard a painful groan coming from underneath the ship. With immense strength, Zoro pushed the ship off of himself.
"You shit-for-brains, rubber-bastard! I could've been killed!" Zoro exclaimed his thoughts out loud.
The rubber-man looked at his first-mate confusedly. "Zoro, what are you doing here? You were supposed to find Nami."
The green-haired swordsman gripped Wado, preparing to slice up his idiot captain into cold cuts, when he was interrupted by said captain.
"Where's Usopp?" the young pirate asked.
"He's dead!" cried Johnny, who arrived with tears and snot dripping from his face. His face contorted in anger and sorrow. This grabbed the attention of all the crew, including Gin.
"Nami-oneechan did it! She stabbed him with a knife right in front of her boss! She really has betrayed us, hell; she didn't even belong with us! She was just using us the whole time! She's a black-hearted witch! She-"
"Liar! Nami is our nakama! She was smiling and laughing like she's never done before! If you say one more lie, you'll regret it! Got it?" The sound of a Haki-ampified voice came from Luff which ranged an estimate of 40 feet in diameter. The King's Disposition was more than just regular ambition control; it was enforcing your will onto others like a god among mortals. When one completely masters the Haoshoku Haki, they literally become a force of nature itself. It has been labeled as 'The Devil's Ambition' or 'The Conqueror's Absolute Will'. Another key difference in power with the Haoshoku Haki was the voice. It was 'The Voice of Absolute Will'. The power in the voice amplified by the user's disposition demanded to everyone in the area that he/she was the alpha.
Luffy's outburst alone made all of his Nakama nearly pass out or lose their lunch from the sheer will of Monkey D. Luffy. The bounty hunter brothers weren't as fortunate as they were knocked out by the force of Haki with foam coating their mouths.
The sound of a wooden staff clattering to the ground rang through their ears. They all turned their heads and to their surprise, it was Nami. Her face looked pale and terrified. Tears ran down her cheeks as she collapsed unto her knees. A moment ago, she was just on her way back from Arlong's place after 'killing' Usopp when she had the misfortune of getting blasted with Luffy's Haki. This was different than when Luffy used it during the crew's training sessions; this was actually Luffy's emotions poured into it, and she could sense that he was angry.
Luffy halted his tirade and his rage ebbed away. He looked at Nami with a blank expression. He took a few steps forward before he was staring down at the navigator. Nami shakily lifted her head up; she berated herself for not seeing it sooner: This boy was more than just your average pirate/Devil Fruit user. No, he was the kind of person who could destroy and conquer the world if he wanted to.
'He's going to kill me, I know it... I was a fool thinking he was no match for Arlong!'
As soon as she saw Luffy make a gesture with his hand, she shut her eyes tightly, fearing of what Luffy would do to her. However, she felt something cover the top of her head. She opened her eyes and saw Luffy still standing there, without his hat on and his expression still unreadable.
"Luffy… I'm sorry…"
She then told everyone about how she and Nojiko were raised by a marine retiree for a foster mother named Bellemere. She also told them the time Arlong came to the island, ravaged the whole place, killed Bellemere right in front of her and forced her to write maps for him. Lastly, she made a deal with Arlong, that if she managed to get 100 billion Beli, she could buy back the village from him.
Usopp arrived at the scene moments later after Nami's confession. He was breathing heavily after sensing Luffy's power. It was right then and there that Usopp realized that even though he had the Haoshoku Haki, that outburst from his captain alone showed that he was still a novice compared to Luffy. He figured that Luffy must have had years of training just to harness it. Shaking off his doubtful thoughts, his attention went back to the scene before him and decided to make himself known.
"Guys, Nami didn't kill me! She just pretended to by stabbing her hand!"
However the crew members were still recovering from the effects of Luffy's Haki to notice the sniper's unexpected arrival.
Luffy's regular tone of voice brought them out of their stupor. "Damn Straight!" he pumped his fists in the air and yelled into the heavens.
"We'll take it from here Nami!" declared Luffy.
Nami sat there stunned when she saw Zoro and Usopp sporting their own grins; Hawkins as usual was unreadable, but he showed an inkling of understanding. More tears threatened to escape but she quickly sniffed and wiped them away with her hand.
Nojiko came running in with a panicked look on her face.
"Nami, the Marines are here! They're trying to steal the treasure!"
At the mention of marines, Sanji glowered as he clenched his trembling fist angrily.
The navigator/thief snapped her head up. "What?"
After dropping off the unconscious bounty hunters, the reunited crew made their way to Nami and Nojiko's orchard farm to see the rat like marine captain of the 16th branch, Captain Nezumi ordering his men to confiscate all of her stolen treasure, and took his leave.
It was then Nami realized that Arlong planned this. This way, she would never let her go and he would get more money out of it. She suddenly felt a grip on her shoulder. Her brown eyes met a dark-ringed black one. She immediately felt heat rise up in her cheeks.
'Oh God, why do I have this effect when I come in contact with him.' she thought.
"Allow me, Nami-san." spoke Sanji.
He immediately got working and kicked the marines into submission until they were bloody pulps. But to be honest, Sanji wanted to do much more to them than a simple beating.
When he was finished, the pirate-chef walked up to Nami and bowed. Nami, feeling grateful to him for saving her money decided to give him a reward.
She smiled coyly. "Arigato, Sanji-kun. And here's your reward." she leaned forward and gave him a quick, chaste kiss on the lips. The action took the chef by surprise; a light blush crossed his cheeks. Her sister was just as surprised.
'Nami, do you really like this guy? You barely even know him.'
Later, Nami apologized to the villagers for betraying them and told them everything about the deal she made with Arlong. To her surprise and shock, they knew the truth when it was revealed to them eight years ago. In actuality, she felt rather glad and content that her fellow villagers were with her and never lost faith in her all these years.
Now it was all up to her friends to take care of the root of her problem.
(At Arlong Park)
Arlong was not happy, at all. First, he gets attacked out of nowhere by a weakling human, then he finds out that Roronoa Zoro had killed off half his crew. He growled irritably at his misfortune. But, at least he still had his insurance: Nami and her map-making abilities. As long as he continued to have a hold on her, he would get more money than ever before and get a head-start on building his empire.
That short moment of greed lasted for only a few seconds when he suddenly heard the double-steeled doors from the side-entrance burst open and tear themselves off from the bolted hinges.
The fishman let out an irritated snarl. 'Great, now what?'
The rest of the crew took notice of the destroyed entrance. They noticed several shapes enter the park. One was their recent prisoner, Roronoa Zoro, the other was the long-nosed sniper they thought that Nami had gotten rid of, and the other two were a scruffy-looking pirate with cannonball tonfas while the other looked more like a heavy metal rock star. Lastly, there was a very pissed off teen with a straw hat.
"Which one of you is Arlong?" he spoke.
"That'd be me…"
Luffy walked slowly towards the merman; anger evident in his face. When more flunkies tried to halt his approach, Luffy just blasted them with a force of Haki that knocked them back a considerable distance.
"Who are you?" inquired Arlong.
"I'm Luffy, and I'm a pirate." Luffy replied.
"Well Luffy, what business does a pirate have with me?" Luffy stopped right at Arlong's side; his expression unreadable, until it contorted into full-blown rage.
"NEVER MAKE MY NAKAMA CRY!"
Arlong didn't see an attack coming until he felt a powerful hit to his jaw. The impact of the blow sent him flying back, through the wall and crash-landed further down a forest path, leaving behind a crater trail.
"Arlong-sama!" the lowly henchmen cried before they rounded on the one who struck their leader.
"Why you… Kill him!" they all jumped at him, preparing to attack. Their assault was halted due to a series of heavy-weighted tonfa strikes and a levitation throw courtesy of both Gin and Hawkins. The result, all of the mermen flunkies were out of commission.
"Weaklings shouldn't interfere…" Gin casted them a death glare.
"Lest they suffer the wrath of our captain." Hawkins added.
Outside of the gate, Johnny and Yosaku guarded the entrance, preventing the angry mob of villagers from entering. Nami and Sanji got there to see the two at the entrance.
"Johnny? Yosaku? What are you guys doing here?" Nami asked.
"Those fish-bastards made Nami-senpai cry!" replied Yosaku.
"What other reason would we be here for?" added Johnny.
The two noticed Sanji and let him through. The cook rejoined the others as they came face-to-face with Arlong's generals: Kuroobi a manta-ray merman, Chew a blowfish merman, and Hachi the octopus merman. They took note of Nami and the angry mob of villagers at the entrance.
"I knew you were a traitor, Nami." Kuroobi sneered.
Chew shook his head and added his input. "Yare, yare…. You've caused quite a lot of trouble Nami. Allying yourself to an amateur, no-named pirate crew and instigating a rebellion of your weakling villagers."
Hachi glared and pointed his finger accursedly at Zoro. "Oi, Oi! That's the guy I gave a ride in my pot! He tricked me!"
Kuroobi and Chew groaned at Hachi's stupidity before getting ready for battle.
When Arlong returned, the left side of his face had a large fist-print in his left cheek, blood trickled out his mouth and he was this close to losing it.
'I see, so that's their relation to Nami.'
"You fools'll pay for what you did!" shouted Hachi. "And now to punish you, I'm gonna summon the heavy artillery! HEY MOHMOO!"
The water in the pool rippled before a large shape rose from the surface. It revealed to be the same cow-fish Luffy had encountered earlier. Only this time the creature had a large bump on his head and it seemed to be crying anime-tears.
"Eh? Mohmoo, what the hell happened to you?" Hachi cried; shocked to see his pet had been injured.
Luffy and Sanji glanced up at the sea-beast. They could've sworn that it shrunk in fear when they acknowledged it. After an awkward pause, the creature made its way back into the watery depths.
"Mohmoo… Where do you think you're going?" Arlong addressed the cow-fish, which made it stop in its tracks.
"If you want to leave, fine. I won't stop you. Go, Mohmoo…"
Something about that sentence trigger something in the beast's mind and reverted back into a ferocious beast. It bellowed a 'moo' before turning back to face the enemy pirates.
The Straw Hats prepared to attack, all except Luffy. He seemed to be waiting for something, or particular nakama he had known for years to be exact.
Suddenly, an even bigger set crashing of waves was heard behind the opened water-gate. Out of the surface arose a familiar, mud-colored, red-eyed Sea-King. However, Luffy noticed a small, no, huge difference regarding his nakama's appearance. For one, the sea-monster was 4 times the size of Mohmoo and seemed to have an elongated neck adorned with the same green fins and spines reaching from the top of its head to its newly evolved torso and ending at the tip of its new tail. The beast's eyes narrowed at the smaller creature in front of him and snarled. Mohmoo paled at the larger creature.
"moo…?"
"ROOOOAAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!"
With a pathetic whimper the cow-fish quickly swam at accelerating rates, far away from the bigger monster. Said monster glared at the distance Mohmoo was going before hearing his master's call.
"Ryoku!" Luffy happily cried, his attitude ranging from calm to happy-go-lucky again. The Sea-King turned its head too look down at his master before descending his head to meet him. Ryoku nuzzled his snout so Luffy could give it a big hug.
"Whoa, you got huge! How did you change so much?"
The monster merely grunted and whined affectionately while the villagers looked at the pair like they were the oddest thing in the area; a boy and his Sea-King. Luffy then ordered Ryoku to wait by the Going Merry, to which the monster obeyed.
Arlong had enough of this foolishness. "Hachi, Chew, Kuroobi… Kill them!"
His three generals stood in the way of the Straw Hats.
"It's time to show these humans who's on top of the food chain." said Kuroobi.
"And put them in their place, chu~! added Chew.
Hachi suddenly wielded six swords, one in each hand.
"I'll go after Zoro first! He'll pay for making a fool out of me!" he visibly fumed.
Zoro noticed his opponent was a swordsman that wielded twice the number of swords he had. He grinned in bloodlust, and undid his bandana around his arm and tied it around his head. There was just one thing… the fight with Mihawk destroyed his swords, not counting Wado.
But not for long; Both Johnny and Yosaku tossed their swords up into air calling for their brother to catch them. He did so and was now prepared to fight. Zoro was having somewhat difficulty holding off this octopus-man who dared to call himself a swordsman. If he was in tip-top condition, the fight would be over with already. Sadly, his recent loss to Mihawk left him with still fresh wounds that were being held down by bandages alone to stop the bleeding. However, the most troublesome wound was the large slash mark across his chest from Kokutou Yoru.
Zoro breathed laboriously as felt his vision blurring a bit.
"Looks like you're too heavily injured to even fight to your full potential, while I'm still strong! Admit defeat Roronoa Zoro! Because of my six arms, I can wield six swords at once! And with my superior strength, I can easily overpower you!"
Though the bandana shadowed his eyes, Zoro showed minor annoyance. "Shut up and fight, octo-freak!"
That insult caused Hachi to fume visibly. "You bastard, take this! Octopus Swords!" he ran at Zoro, flailing all six sword-wielding arms ridiculously.
Zoro needed to end this fight quickly or else he would succumb to his wounds. Once the octopus-man began his onslaught of attacks, Zoro began to counter with his own unorthodox style. Once he found an opening, he took advantage of it.
"Santōryū- Tō Rō Nagashi!"(Three Sword Style- Bleeding the Wolf)
The fishman didn't feel a thing until Zoro slipped passed through his assault. After that, he felt a large cut upside his abdomen.
The surprised Hachi promptly ignored the pain and rounded at his opponent again.
"You bastard! Now I'm really mad! Pot-Stance Attack!" Hachi charged forward, his sabers lined up into a pot-like form.
Zoro was about to block until he saw a vision in his head, revealing a failed block and Hachi head-butting him in his torso.
'Okay, how about this…?'
He waited for his enenmy to get closer until he made his move. He began to spin his entire body into a crazy circular motion and channeled Haki into his blades.
"Tatsumaki!"(Dragon Twister)
Hachi didn't see the attack coming, until he was launched into the air by an air-slicing tornado, his swords shattered and multiple, heavy slash wounds riddled his entire torso. The octopus fishman landed with a crash. He tilted his head up shakily.
"How…? Beaten by a human…? And with only…three swords….?"
Zoro casted his fallen enemy a hard look. "You swords may weigh more, but my swords are much heavier."
With a cough, Hachi passed out from his wounds.
"Hachi!" Chew cried at his fallen childhood friend. When the fishman sniper wasn't paying attention he was knocked back from the force of a Haki-enhanced lead pellet shot square to his forehead. He never even saw it coming and it hurt like hell! He shakily stood up, feeling disoriented from the sniper's attack.
"You… long-nosed bastard!" Chew noticed Usopp running away so the merman-sniper gave chase.
Kuroobi cracked his knuckles when he was facing Sanji, Hawkins and Gin.
"Alright, which one do I pick first?" the manta-ray said smugly.
Both Sanji and Hawkins knew they could handle this easily, but they wanted to see what Gin could do besides defeat a couple of flunkies. Gin got the idea and walked calmly up to the merman, swinging his tonfa once around.
Kuroobi laughed uproariously at the smaller man. "You think you stand a chance, runt? Let me tell you something about the difference in our strength. Whether I'm on land or in the water, my Fishman Karate is powerful. So your chances of beating me are zero!"
Just as Kuroobi got into his stance, he was decked in the head by a single tonfa coming from his right, but it was too fast for him to see it coming. Taken by surprise from the attack, Kuroobi was knocked back, but kept his stance so instead of falling he skidded back until his legs planted him in place. The manta-ray fishman furiously grasped his wounded head and picked up a few pieces of his shattered pride.
"Damn you!" Kuroobi cursed vehemently at Gin. He would not hold back anymore. They both charged forward until both sides clashed.
Gin was surprised at how much strength he had to use just to hold him here. They both pushed off and charged again. The two would attack and defend respectively. Gin would have thought that defending against a stronger opponent would be troublesome, but strange visions of his opponents attacks came to his mind so he could see them ahead of time and counterattack. Unfortunately for him, his opponent was faster than him. He had to be careful not to pull any punches or his opponent could kill him in an instant.
After a whirlwind of exchanging blocks, Kuroobi broke through Gin's defenses and landed a crushing blow to the chest.
Gin saw it coming, but couldn't defend in time. He felt the wind knocked right out of him as the force of the blow felt like a shotgun blast up-close. The raggedy pirate was knocked back a few feet more than when he knocked his opponent. Thankfully, he was used to this kind of abuse when he dealt with marine captains or enemy pirates with heavy weapons. Each time he would get stronger from his victories because he had a message that he viciously beat into his head when he served under Krieg.
'Failure is not an option.' He would win. And this time, he had more reason to fight than to just prove his strength, he fought for the same reason the others were fighting right now: for your comrades, thus giving him the strength he needed to continue fighting.
Kuroobi unleashed a flurry of strikes upon Gin, who defended and retaliated as best as possible. After a few minutes of brawling, both sides were both beaten badly and bleeding profusely from their heads. After a steady stand-off, Gin began twirling his tonfa at an alarming rate while his opponent got into a knife-hand stance. Gin made a mad dash, his eyes fixated on his target, guaranteeing to end the battle. Whether it was God's divine gift or Buddha's blessing, Gin could suddenly see Kuroobi's next move even though his eyes showed him that his opponent was still in his stance. Deciding not to waste this chance, he finally saw the attack his opponent made just as it was pictured in his mind. Gin dodged it in time and with all the strength in his arms, made the final strike.
"Airon Shotto!"(Iron Shot)
Both of his iron-ball tonfas made contact with the fishman's midsection and head, knocking Arlong's lieutenant out cold and sending him flying through the wall with a loud crash in a similar fashion his leader had received from Luffy but not as strong.
Gin panted heavily but remained standing. That was the most difficult fight he had ever been in. During his days under Krieg, he had to fight off 3 units of marine battleships all on his own, avoiding many shots fired at him, and dodging and retaliating against marine soldiers and captains that were 2x's stronger than he was. The only thing that kept him going was his resolve of servitude. Hell, all those times he had fought were merely brutal trials of the world. This fight he had just come out of proved to be another test of his resolve and to prove himself to the crew.
Meanwhile, Usopp was running from Chew until the path led them to a dense thicket of woods on one side and a small pond on the other. But the long-nosed sniper knew he was at a disadvantage considering both their running speeds were nearly equivalent to each other. Usopp had no choice but to turn around. Usopp prepped his slingshot and turn around quickly. His Haki senses showed him Chew about to strike him in the face, so he thought quickly and purposely tilted backwards, narrowly dodging the fishman's oncoming fist. He stumbled and combat-rolled backwards until he had his opponent in range and fired another Haki-pellet aimed at Chew's neck. The force of the blow caused the fishman's windpipe to close-up temporarily disrupting the intake of air making Chew choke and cough for a few minutes.
Usopp knew that in terms of strength, he was no match for the fishman. Right now, he had to find a place for cover in the woods. But when Chew saw him make a break for it, he ran after him, and followed him thoroughly.
Chew looked around, but his prey was nowhere to be seen.
"Alright, where are you? Come on out take your punishment like a man!" he demanded. His beady eyes shifted from tree to tree until finally he saw the shape of a human come running out of his hiding place.
Chew smirked. "There you are…" he took a quick intake of breath, his cheeks puffing out.
"Hyappatsu Mizu-deppo!"(Hundred-Shot Water Cannon) he began to shoot jet-stream bullets of water out of his mouth like a machine gun. Each water-bullet was capable of tearing through dense objects like a wet tissue-paper. Within moments at least a dozen, shredded pieces of lumber fell before him.
Chew thought he had hit his mark, when suddenly a bottle was tossed at him. Naturally, he caught with ease. He took one glance at it, and laughed.
"Beer? Are you that desperate to cling for your life, that you're bribing me with booze? Don't make me laugh!" the fishman scoffed and shook his head at the ridiculous idea of mercy.
That moment of overconfidence was all Usopp needed. He fired another lead bullet, this time at the bottle that Chew was holding. As a result, the bottle shattered and the alcohol was sprayed all over the fishman sniper.
Taken by surprise, Chew growled angrily, all while getting beer out of his eyes.
"Damn you! Are you trying to piss me off?" he shouted.
Usopp stood out in the open facing his opponent, his slingshot in hand with a red-colored pellet. He calmly addressed his adversary.
"Did you know that alcohol is very flammable?" he stated while preparing to fire at him.
A look of shock crossed the fishman's features.
"Kaen Boshi!"(Flame Star)
The shot was fired successfully, and Chew was on fire. He cried out in pain, ran out of the woods and back to the path where he saw the small pond. Usopp gave chase and took out a hammer.
When he saw his enemy attempting to put out the flames, he sprang from his hiding place and with his Haki-infused hammer, smashed it right into the fishman's face. Usopp repeatedly hit him until Chew was knocked out and his head was covered in sores, bruises and lumps.
With a few heavy breaths, Usopp grinned. He had won his first battle.
Back at Arlong Park, Arlong himself was furious. These humans had the nerve to rebel against him after he had given them mercy, and now they had pirates defeat his entire crew, leaving him the only one standing.
Sanji and Hawkins were about to attack, when they were stopped by Luffy.
"Leave him to me; I'll make sure he never comes to hurt Nami again!"
Arlong glanced at his fallen. "Hachi…Kuroobi…"
Then Usopp came back. A little dirtied up, but fine nonetheless.
"Hey guys! I just took care of that fishman. What'd I miss?" said the sniper.
Arlong snarled. "Chew…"
Now it was Luffy's turn to step up to the plate.
"You… Look what you've done to my crew! Do you have any idea how angry you've made me after you've killed my crew?"
Luffy stared at the shark-man with a blank expression. "No, and I don't care. You're out-numbered and outmatched."
Arlong's misdemeanor shifted into a menacing grin, a guttural chuckle escaping his throat.
"Tell me human; what's the difference between us?"
Luffy pondered on this for a few moments before a number of answers came to him.
"Teeth…? Fins…? Gills…? Noses…?"
Each answer continued to add insult to injury on Arlong's part, pissing him off to no end. The villagers were speechless at Luffy's carefree attitude towards there oppressor.
"Oh, now I know! It's webbed hands and feet!"
That was last straw.
"IT'S OUR SPECIES!" Arlong jumped at him, preparing to bite down on Luffy's skull, had not said pirate seen the attack coming and retaliated with a powerful kick upside the fishman's head, launching him up to the air. Luffy disappeared and reappeared right in front of Arlong, with a twisted arm stretched back. And then, just like a spinning top, the arm spun so fast it was like a human drill.
"Gomu-Gomu no Rifle!"(Gum-Gum Rifle)
Luffy's twister-punch made contact. The force of the blow was so strong; it ruptured a few of Arlong's internal organs and broke several of his ribs in one shot. The saw-shark fishman was shot into the pool area and a colossal crashing of waves was heard by everyone witnessing the fight.
Luffy landed nimbly on his feet. His arms relaxed at his sides. His expression was still blank. He suddenly caught sight of his enemy swimming around in a very shark-like pattern until he submerged.
Luffy closed his eyes and relaxed. Nami and the villagers began to protest.
"Luffy, what are you doing? If you stay like that you're a sitting duck!"
But young pirate captain paid no mind, for he knew when his opponent would strike. All he had to do was wait and see.
"Shark on Darts!"
Like a torpedo, Arlong shot himself out of the water and was about to skewer the puny human with his nose. But Luffy's strength was greater than his. With a clenched fist, he backhanded Arlong's attack, swatting the fishman away like he was nothing but a fly. The result of that caused Arlong to lose balance and run through another wall.
All others watched in amazement. Here standing before them, was a small-time pirate taking down their oppressor like he was nothing.
When Arlong returned, his eyes changed. They were formed into slits and revealed an icy-blue color. In short, he was pissed off.
"So you're finally getting serious then?" mocked Luffy.
Arlong made a mad dash at Luffy and opened his jaws wide so he could chomp down and rip him to shreds. Sadly for him, Luffy was faster than he was and could predict his attacks easily. Arlong resorted to shark frenzy and continuously attempted to bite at Luffy from various directions, only to find them futile, as his prey had his eyes closed and arms crossed all while dodging his attacks with relative ease.
"Maa, is that really all you got? This fight isn't even the least bit interesting." said a bored Luffy.
Arlong was seeing red. How dare a human both mock and belittle him. He was the superior species and his enemy was a lowly evolved life-form. So why couldn't he lay a finger on him? The shark-man refused to believe he was getting beaten so effortlessly.
All of Cocoyashi's villagers and Nami included were dumbfounded. Luffy was toying with Arlong. He only landed three strikes on Arlong and already they saw the fishman having trouble with him.
"I swear, you're way too slow…" Luffy insulted him some more while dodging, fueling more rage in Arlong.
"DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU! I'LL KILL YOU AND EAT YOU ALIVE!" Arlong roared. However, just when he was in mid-chomp, Luffy grabbed his nose out of nowhere. Arlong thought he was being foolish in doing that and attempted to stab him with it. But wait… he couldn't budge. With all his fishman strength he desperately tried to push his nose forward so he could stab Luffy, but to everyone's surprise, he just didn't budge. The answer, Luffy was holding him in place.
"Impossible! No human should be stronger than a fishman!"
To Luffy, it was hardly an effort just to hold him in place. When Dragon trained both him and Ace, he made sure they would be strong enough to take down a giant like an average human.
"You seem to be very proud of your nose…." he stated before snapping it to the side with a flick of his wrist.
Arlong howled in pain. He stopped his assault to clutch his nose and snapped it back into place.
"That's it! I've had enough of this!" Arlong ran to the side of his HQ and ran his arm through the wall. He seemed to be trying to find something. He found what he was searching for and yanked it out from the wall. It revealed to be a large saw-toothed zanbatou capable of shredding and destroying.
Nami gaped. "That's—Kiribachi!"
Luffy whistled. "That's a dangerous-looking sword." he remarked. He grasped the hilt of his scimitar, unsheathed it and showed it to Arlong.
"How 'bout a swordfight?"
With a roar, Arlong leapt at Luffy, preparing to cleave him in two. Luffy just smirked. With a loud *clang*, Kiribachi was the one cut in half. The top-half went flying into sky before landing over the gate and into the open sea. The zanbatou was cut down to size, leaving only two saw-teeth.
Luffy sheathed his sword. Arlong looked at his now-broken sword before snarling. Luffy could've sworn he saw foam coming out of his mouth.
"Awww…. Are you cranky 'cause I broke your toy…" mocked the teen.
Arlong charged again, swinging the broken sword. But Luffy disappeared in a blur, making the shark-man miss. He looked around for the young pirate-punk, until he heard another whistle.
"Over here…"
Arlong heard that coming from his upper left. He saw Luffy standing up on the scaffolding roof of the second floor.
'How did he…?'
Arlong launched at him again. "Shark on Darts!"
No one saw what happened next except for those with keen eyesight. When Arlong ran Luffy through with his nose again, the scarred teen merely side-stepped out of the way, and decided to use the fishman's force against him. In that short span of time, Luffy grabbed the back of Arlong's head and rammed him through the window. Luffy followed swiftly by jumping in.
"Eh? What is this place?" he thought out loud, not even paying attention to heavily wounded and beaten fishman before him. He was too busy noticing the piles of paper in the room.
"What's with all these pieces of paper?"
Arlong grunted when he got up. A sinister smile plastered on his face. "This… is Nami's room… The place where she makes maps for me…"
Luffy listened on until a pen dropped to his leg. He picked it up and noticed it was covered in dried blood.
"This pen is…."
Arlong chuckled. "Ahh yes… Nami used that very pen to make all these stacks of maps. Normally we fishmen know the sea like back of our hands, but it's hard for us to draw maps as perfect as these. I will admit this boy; among your vermin, Nami stands out perfectly than all the rest. When she was ten she had the cartographical skills that only people would dream of having. She truly is a prodigy….That's why I'm not letting her go… her skills serve no other purpose than to serve as the pillar for my fishman empire! And it all starts here in the East Blue! Once I have all the world's maps at my disposal, no one will stand in my way! My empire will flourish and you humans will serve as our slaves!"
Luffy only paid half-attention to the fishman's rant. He was too busy crushing the pen in his hand. His eyes shadowed by his hair.
"You see? I have full use of Nami as my tool… What could you possibly hope to use her for?"
That moment, all hell broke loose. Luffy felt rage and hot-white anger fill his soul. He lifted his head up to meet Arlong's predator gaze with his own. Only his, was 10x's scarier.
"USE? YOU EXPECT ME TO USE HER?" Luffy's vocal roars echoed and amplified over the entire complex of Arlong Park. The foundation itself was shaking. Concrete walls began to crack with large hairline fractures and lumber supports began to chip and splinter.
Cold sweat beaded down the side of Arlong's face. 'What is he?' he thought frantically. His attention was brought back when Luffy began smashing the place.
"You fool! My maps what are you doing to my maps?" Arlong yelled indistinctly.
Luffy's glare only intensified at the fishman. "It's this room… She doesn't want to be in here anymore! I'LL DESTROY THIS PLACE AND ABSORB IT INTO MY DARKNESS!"
As if on cue, Luffy activated his dark logia powers. The darkness around him began to swallow the papers into the dark oblivion. He shot his leg up through the roof and high into the cloudy sky above as far as his powers would let him stretch. The darkness was coating it, resulting in the clouds above the complex to turn pitch black themselves.
With a sound of thunder was heard, Luffy made his final attack.
"GOMU-GOMU NO YAMI KUJIKU!"(Gum-Gum Darkness Crush)
Arlong made the foolish choice of attacking Luffy, which proved useless as he felt the force of Luffy's wrath added with the force of 100x's normal gravity. The attack itself felt like an almighty weight crushing the fishman as he went through several floors and 15 feet through the ground, leaving a large fishman outlined crater.
Saw-Tooth Arlong was finished; beaten by the very humans he claimed were inferior.
Suddenly, the outcome of Luffy's last attack destroyed Arlong Park from the inside-out. The spectators stood clear as large building crumbled to pieces.
When the dust settled, there was no sign of Luffy. The locals were now worried. Surely a crumbling building wouldn't topple someone as powerful as him, would it?
The answer… Hell no! For just then, the same person who had liberated them appeared from out of the rubble. He dusted himself off like it was no big deal.
The scarred teen's eyes landed on Nami. "NAMI! WE'RE NAKAMA!" he exclaimed with pride.
And for once in her life, Nami shed tears of joy.
However, the villagers and the rest of the Straw Hat pirates noticed that he wasn't finished as Luffy summoned his darkness again.
He slammed his hand down onto the ruins of Arlong Park.
"Black Hole" all of the rubble was pulled into the darkness, leaving nothing but an empty space on the ground.
Luffy turned to the direction of the pool, noting that the gate was still open to the sea. Aiming carefully, he released all that he absorbed into the darkness.
"Liberation!"
The debris that went into the human black hole came out in smaller, crushed pieces and released into the ocean, where they would sink to bottom and no one would have to see it again.
After switching off his powers, Luffy turned to face the stunned-speechless villagers of Cocoyashi. After a few minutes of silence, they all cheered. They laughed, they cried, some even went so far as to slapping each other to make sure that this was indeed happening.
And it was… The nightmare of Arlong Park was over.
Hey readers! Sorry for not posting this up sooner, I've been swamped with tests left and right! Anyway, I'll be sure to get started on the next chapter right away.
Next Time on One Piece: The Aftermath and Arrival In Loguetown!