Chapter 7:

"That marks an end to the first quarter of the first round. So far sixteen participants have moved on, while fourteen have lost. There was one forfeit and one casualty. Now, we have a few announcements before we start the next match." The announcer was pulling out a sheet of paper and they could all hear it ruffling over the microphone. "The staff politely requests that all captains order your crews to clean up after meals. Also, we had housekeeping go into some of the rooms, and they were scarred by how messy it was in there."

Sanji and Zoro each looked sheepish as they remembered the state they left their room in. "There have been a lot of forfeits, but as of now, the door is opening for anyone who wishes to leave. If you want to stay and continue watching the matches, then by all means, stay!" The huge iron doors on the wall started to get pulled open and not many people were moving.

Finally, everyone looked down to see two fishmen walking out of a hallway nearby. They walked on in front of the other and there was a body wrapped in a sheet between the two of them, resting on their shoulders. "Gyaro, Tansui," Jimbei muttered. The men were like brothers to Macro and the looks on their faces pained some of the other Straw Hats too. Even though they kidnapped Camie, this was rough to watch.

What made it worse was the fact that hundreds of pirates were booing them for leaving the tournament early and forfeiting their matches. "So that was Gyaro," a deep voice muttered from the stairs near their seats. He had just come over to talk to Luffy, but hearing Jimbei mutter those names made him watch the fishman leave. "Guess I have a forfeit my first round."

"You!" Usopp pointed at the shirtless man in front of him. He had a long green cape on and a white cover that wrapped around his neck. "Sai right?"

"God Usopp!" the man shouted.

Nami and Vivi looked at each other with open jaws as the man bowed low to their sniper. The man looked insanely strong, but he was bowing to their friend and calling him, 'God.' "Seriously Usopp, what..."

He pretended not to hear her and started talking to the leader of the Happo Navy. "So you guys made it out of Dressrosa okay huh?"

"All thanks to you God Usopp. You have our utmost gratitude for saving us from a lifetime of servitude as toys." The man sat down next to the sniper and continued to talk while the large iron doors shut again.

"Okay everyone, we're going to get started on the next matches. Here we go!" The room burst into cheers and everyone was hoping for an intense battle. Ever since lunch ended, they'd only had same crew fights. First Vista fought Izo, then Buggy fought Cabaji. Neither were, boring, but they didn't get the blood pumping like some of the others before the break.

"The next match is, Ben Beckman versus Avalo Pizarro!" The room exploded in cheers from multiple sections. The Blackbeard Pirates all cheered on one of their infamous commanders who escaped from Impel Down, and the Red Hair Pirates cheered for their first mate.

The man mixed in with Blackbeard's crew had long blue hair, on pretty much his entire head. His mustache and beard hair went even farther down than did the hair on the back of his head. He had large white horns sticking out of either side of his forehead and wore pearl necklaces that draped over his muscular chest. He was dressed extravagantly in exotic furs of endangered animals and had metal braces around his arms.

Ben Beckman stood up from near his crew and they were all cheering for him as he dropped down to the arena. The left side of his face had a large X-shaped scar and his hair was gray, pulled back in a ponytail. He had a rifle on his shoulder and stared from the dirt section at the Corrupt King who dropped down to the stone area.

"Oooh, I get to fight him? Meow!"

The room's occupants stared down at the weird man who kind of looked like a cat. His mustache stuck out perfectly to look like whiskers, and he wasn't helping with the sound effects. "Is he a cat?" Chopper asked Zoro who frowned and looked down at the reindeer to check if he was serious, which he was.

"No," Zoro answered.

"The first-mate of Red Hair Shanks is really strong I'm guessing," the man cackled and lifted up his arms, giving everyone a good look at the metal contraptions on them. "I think I'm going to need more than just this." The Corrupt King growled out a lower, "Meow," and everyone stared at him, wondering if he was going to take this secretly.

"You're not a cat!" Sanji shouted down at the man. Only ladies have the right to meow like a cat! Blood started dripping from his nostrils but he froze and his heart-shaped eyes turned back to normal and widened as he watched the man in front of him.

Zoro felt just as stupefied as the man's face was transforming. His skin was turning black, and fur was coming out of his arms, legs, and neck. "Cat Cat Fruit: Model," his ears pointed up and he grew a little larger and more slender, his fancy clothes staying on the whole time, "Pantherrrr."

Ben Beckman seemed mildly amused and he brought the gun on his shoulder down to hold it with both hands. The way he held it made no sense as he grabbed the barrel with two hands and held it diagonally across his body. The timer hit zero a few seconds ago, but neither man made their move yet and the suspense was growing.

Pizarro never stopped smiling once as he rose his arms and the metal contraptions on his wrists popped out. The large gold rings around the steel started spinning and spikes extended from the metal as he started charging at Beckman. When he got close, he swung an arm down but Ben had rose his rifle and blocked it. "That won't work, I'll cut right through your gun!" Pizarro pushed down harder on his arm but it wouldn't budge.

The man growled and swiped his other hand, this time not using the device but using his claws to try and rip at Ben's chest. The first mate of the Red Hair Pirates did the same thing to his weapon, and right as the attack was about to hit, he focused hard on that spot and armament Haki so strong that it became visible appeared. His pitch black chest deflected the slaw swipe easily and knocked back Pizarro.

"Meooow!" Pizarro shouted and looked down at the chipped nails on his left hand. Beckman charge forwards and swung his weapon at Pizarro's head, but this time the Blackbeard commander rose a hand and stopped the attack. He caught the weapon and at the same time swung his arm in front of the gray-haired man. The first-mate didn't even have to dodge far, but that wasn't Pizarro's plan, and while his arm froze in front of Beckman, the spinning gold rings shot off of his metal arm coating and slammed into Ben's stomach.

He was forced to let go of the gun him and Avalo Pizarro were holding onto and he flipped backwards, letting the spinning disks fly past under him and into the wall behind the dirt section. Ben turned his head and saw the spinning rings finally stopped after tearing up a huge section of the wall.

"Pay attention!" Pizarro cackled and jumped in the air. Ben was turning back when Pizarro struck, but proved he didn't need his gun to fight him. Shanks's first mate rose an elbow and blocked the punch from the panther's strong fist. It hurt Avalo more than it hurt him, and Ben dropped down into the lake from where he jumped.

"Grrr, meow. Think I can't get you in the water because of my Devil Fruit!?" he shouted and rose both of his arms. The spikes sticking out of the metal devices started firing rapidly into the water and moved so fast that people could only see the splashes coming out as the bullets flew in.

"Get him Ben!" Yasopp shouted from the stands, getting out of his chair to yell out at his friend. "Kick his ass!"

Roars rang out throughout the stands as Ben Beckman flew out of the water with a fist pulled back. His arm was coated in Haki and he slammed it down on the man in front of him. Pizarro rose his arms and crossed them just in time and Beckman's fist collided with his steel. Ben's fist pushed hard against the strong metal but Pizarro wasn't letting up and pushed back.

Both men were sweating, and both had smiles on their faces. "RrrrRRRAA!" Ben slammed hard and put all his strength behind the attack. A loud creak sounded out and the crowd looked to see the metal on Pizarro's left forearm was crumpling.

"Ah!" Pizarro felt his precious weapons being crushed and didn't want to lose his right arm as well. The man accepted the attack and pushed back to roll away. Beckman finished his punch and grazed the retreating Blackbeard Pirate, spinning him out of control and making him slam face-first into a pile of rocks on the stone section.

He stumbled to his feet, or paws, and turned back to see Ben who was moving so fast he was barely visible. The man phased in and out of sight as he ran on the right, then on the left as he crossed the barrier between dirt and stone sections. Then he phased to right in front of Avalo and lifted a knee, bringing it up under the panther man's chin and knocking his head backwards as he lifted him off the ground.

Pizarro flew up in the air from the strike and the gold rings on his right arm had begun to spin already. When Beckman tried to follow up and jumped above Pizarro with his hands brought together in one large fist, the blue haired pirates slammed his forearm up and cut into Ben's chest, higher than the cut marks he previously inflicted. Beckman still brought down his arm even with the blades spinning around against his chest, and he collided his double fist into Pizarro's sternum, pressing it down on his solar plexus and spreading the man's ribs apart. All that happened in the timespan of one second and everyone in the arena stared as Ben went spiraling off in the air with blood raining down around him, and Pizarro shot straight down into the ground and left a massive person-shaped hole in the sand section.

The sand started falling into the hole and burying the man, but a claw reached up and grabbed the edge, pulling himself out of the hole. Pizarro was nursing his left arm and coughed up blood from the last attack, but he was still smiling. His opponent was falling out of the sky and wiped some blood from the corner of his frown.

Ben Beckman glared at Avalo Pizarro as the man with black fur charged at him. The panther leapt in the air with both claws pulled back and swiped at the same time at the falling man who could only cross his arms. The sharp nails sliced through his arm skin and more blood spurted from his wounds as he was thrown over to the dirt area and left a trench from the edge of the water until halfway up the area.

He coughed a few times and had his arms on either side of the trench. His enemy was laughing and charging across the short distance to them, but Ben wasn't going to let him get another free kick in. "Sorry this has taken so long captain," he mumbled and grinned over at the red haired pirate in the stands, "I'll end it quickly."

"You'll end it?!" Pizarro shouted and turned his arm so the spinning rings shot out one at a time. They spun around in midair towards Ben, but as each one was about to hit him, he focused his Haki on that point and the disks shattered. Pizarro kept charging and brought back his claws, clenching them into fists. "Die!" He shouted and threw both fists right at Ben's face.

Beckman shot an arm up between the two furry arms of Pizarro and everyone gasped as the panther's momentum was stopped short. Ben's reach was longer, and his hand clenched around Avalo Pizarro's throat as the other man swiped at him with his claws. One claw grazed Beckman's face and caused a splash of blood to fly across the dirt area. This made the man angry and he slammed his cat-like opponent into the ground by his neck.

He hardened his foot using Haki and lifted it up, stomping it down on Avalo's already bruised ribs. This time he heard a loud crack, followed by two more as ribs broke. Blood splattered from Pizarro's mouth and to finish it off, Beckman gave him a good hard kick that rolled the man all the way to the lake where he dropped in.

"Winner: Ben Beckman!" The man wiped some blood from his face, ignoring the cheers from all around the room at the exciting battle. He walked over and grabbed the rifle lying on the floor and started walking back towards his area.

"He needs a doctor!" Chopper shouted and watched as the battered first mate climbed into the stands and walked towards his crew. "Why isn't he going to the infirmary?!"

Two staff members ran out and one dove down into the water. Pizarro's limp form came flying out a second later and the other one caught it and jogged towards the medical bay.

"I want to fight him," Zoro stated as he stared at the man getting scolded by someone they could assume was the doctor of their crew. Chopper looked back and forth between the men and frowned, neither one was good with letting their doctors help. Every time I put bandages on Zoro he pulls them off when I'm not looking!

The crowd was still buzzing with excitement as everyone was talking about that last match. "Wow, he's as strong as ever." Luffy was amazed by his idol's crew and boasted to his friends, one of the few times he did even if it wasn't for himself, "I once saw him take out an entire gang of mountain bandits using just the back of his rifle."

"Whoa," Usopp said in amazement. He wondered if he would ever be strong enough to do something like that without breaking a sweat.

"Usopp!" Luffy turned and saw his friend for the first time. "Where were you before? We met with Shanks's crew and Yasopp really wanted to meet you."

"He did?" Usopp asked with wide-eyes. "Oh," he became a little sullen again, "I'll go talk to him, in a bit. I want to keep watching the matches now though," he received some odd looks from other members of the crew, but Luffy just smiled and nodded.

"Okay, I want to talk to Shanks more anyway. I didn't get to tell him about Sky Island, I thought he'd be really interested about it!" The others smiled at his excitement.

Robin looked at her captain and opened her mouth, but then closed it with a smile. Gol D. Roger's crew went to Sky Island, which means Shanks was there. Luffy's in for a surprise. She grinned and looked across the room at Shanks before turning and looking over at Buggy, Do they know the history? Rayleigh said they found out, but were the two of them there when they did?

"Robin-chan are you alright?" Sanji asked.

She shook her head clear and smiled, "Yes, just," she paused and looked across the room at Dragon, "thinking about something."

"That was an exciting match. Let's see if we can keep the blood pumping!" Everyone, including many of the Straw Hats, cheered in approval at the announcer's voice. "Alright then. For the next match, we have Gurango versus Tazzo!" Someone in Buggy's side of the stands stood up and he was clearly the largest man in the crew. His grin was menacing and he looked around the room for his opponent before the voice came back over the loudspeaker sounding a little sheepish. "Uhh, my bad."

The crowd sweat-dropped at the sound of that and all the momentum from the last match slowed down. "What?!" A hundred people shouted at the same time, asking what was wrong.

"Well, Gurango is the doctor of Don Krieg's crew, so he had to forfeit his match," groans filled the arena and Tazzo roared angrily before slamming back down in his seat and surprisingly not breaking it. "Anyway, we'll move on to the next match. Chaka versus Igaram!"

"I give up!" Igaram shouted as he stood up. The Straw Hats shrank down since they were sitting next to the man. It was embarrassing that the next forfeit happened right next to them and they didn't want to be associated with it.

He sat back down, ignoring all the jeers from the crowd and spoke to those around him. "I wasn't going to beat Chaka," the man next to him nodded, knowing it was true. "And I clearly would not have stood a chance in the rest of the tournament either. Vivi-sama, you should also..."

"I'm going to fight," she told him and the man frowned at her obstinate look.

"Get on with the matches already!"

"I want to see some blood!"

The bloodthirsty cries from the crowd got louder and the loudspeakers turned back on. "We're sorry about this folks, there isn't much we can do in this situation. However, we'll start right away in the next fight. Will Magellan and Bepo please come down to the arena?"

A few people cheered but noticed the ominous quiet that fell in the room and stopped. They looked around and saw all of the Blackbeard Pirates looking unnerved and the crew stared back at their commanders who were glaring down at the arena. Half of Buggy's crew started growling and glaring as well.

"Is this some kind of joke?" The large man who just received a forfeit scowled as he finally saw the man. A large person who looked like a vampire was standing in the audience and started walking down towards the ice floor beneath him. His clothes were black and his face was grim as he walked down.

"No Government or Marines!" Someone shouted and the roars of disapproval were louder than when Kuzan walked in the room originally. Magellan was one of the first entrants and stayed hidden in the shadows for the majority of the time he spent there.

The announcer's voice sounded loud and clear, "He is no longer the Warden of Impel Down, nor does he have any involvement with the Government." Shocked silence filled the room as the poison man walked down to the arena and dropped down. The ice around his feet started to lose its color and grew darker in his presence.

"Bepo?" Usopp muttered, "Where have I heard that name before?"

"Look!" Chopper pointed and Luffy got out of his seat in excitement.

"IT'S THE BEAR!" he shouted and the white bear stopped moving in his tracks. Sweat started coming down his face and he turned nervously towards Luffy, looking nervous as he did.

"Yo Bepo," Law called down to his first-mate who was walking down to the floor. "You can give up if you want."

The bear shook his head and kept walking down towards the arena. Luffy turned his head back to Magellan and thought back to his time in prison. The Warden told him multiple times that Ace would die, that he wouldn't be able to save him. It made him furious, but the man turned out being right in the end. "Go Bear!" he shouted down.

"Yay Bepo!" Nami called out and Vivi started cheering for him as well.

The two members of Law's crew sitting on either side of him turned to the other side of the section where two beautiful women were cheering on the bear. "Do you think they'll cheer for us?" Shachi asked.

Penguin looked up and started drooling with red blushes on his face, "I hope so." Law sighed at the two men wearing white jumpsuits next to him.

The pirate captain held his palm down, his fingers extended and curled up. He stared down at the arena with an intense stare and wasn't going to miss a single second of the fight.

"I will capture all the prisoners who escaped," Magellan stated in a low voice as the countdown neared its finish. "You may not be one of them 'Wild Bear' Bepo, but a pirate is a pirate. You will face justice," the bear facing the demon dropped his jaw a little as his opponent started to turn purple.

Magellan grew three large dragon heads from his back, "Hydra!"

"Hi-yaa!" the white bear started doing flips as he jumped towards the water. He wanted to stay close since he was fighting a Devil Fruit user. Two of the dragons started slithering around after him and he had to jump and flip over them. The third started coming down from the sky and Bepo saw it at the last second.

He rose both hands and the dragon exploded around the bear's outstretched palms. Poison splattered out to the sides, but the purple goo didn't make it past the shield Bepo had put up. Magellan opened his mouth and shot a ball of poison at the bear, not stopping a moment to be impressed by his ability to block the last attack.

The invasion and destruction of his prison humbled him as a fighter and he put his arms to the side as he rapid fire shot blobs of goo from his mouth and they slammed into the area that Bepo was standing. The bear was just able to dodge the attacks and flipped out of the way every time with milliseconds to spare.

"Rar!" the bear called out in a non-threatening voice that made most of the pirates start laughing. Magellan seethed through his teeth since he wasn't able to hit the bear, and he started breathing out purple haze. Bepo didn't notice it at first, but slowly he started shaking and his vision became blurry. Magellan hadn't moved from his spot, but to the bear he was swirling around and there were now four of him. "Huh," he turned, feeling an attack coming from behind even though he didn't see it and rolled out of the way just in time.

A long purple snake shot out of a goo splotch behind him, one of the balls Magellan had shot from his mouth. All the piles of goo started shaking and snakes flew out from all around Bepo. He blocked one with his open palm and it exploded outwards without touching him, but the others started nailing him, and despite his Observational Haki, he wasn't fast enough to dodge them all.

The water! He dove to the side, barely evading another snake aimed for his chest and slammed into the lake. Some of the poison globs on his skin washed off and the bear stayed under water as he tried to regain his composure. He looked up and saw the man who looked like a vampire standing right at the edge, all I need to do is get him in here!

Magellan grew three more snakes out of his back and released them down at the water, which was quickly losing its blue color. More and more poison dripped from his back and poured into the water, but suddenly everyone in the room gasped as the stone beneath Magellan's feet crumbled and he lost his footing.

Bepo was right at the edge of the water and had punched the stone wall as hard as he could. The water resistance lightened the attack, but he had enough strength to take away Magellan's foothold. He couldn't hold his breath any longer though, so he swam up and jumped out of the water. The large smile on his face caused the crowd to start cheering for him and two of the large dragons stopped pouring into the water and collapsed.

The third wavered and then the head shot up from the water and pointed straight into the air next to the ascending bear. Bepo turned his head towards the pillar of poison and his eyes went wide as Magellan was floating in the purple goo. His eyes were red and he was dripping purple as his arm shot out of the column and grabbed Bepo around the throat.

"Ah!" The bear squirmed as poison dripped down the purple demon's arm and covered his whole body. The goo coated him from head to toe within a second and Magellan kept pushing out more.

"ROOM!" A huge clear sphere extended out and encircled the entire arena and the stands all around it. Some people freaked out as they were caught in it, but most just turned over to where Trafalgar Law was sitting with his palm outstretched below him. "Shambles!" Bepo appeared next to him covered in purple goo and the bear was coughing and sputtering up poison.

"Ca-captain," he managed to say with a mouth filled with purple liquid.

Law unsheathed his sword and sliced faster than most people could see, his target's body staying still as he did. When he stopped, Bepo shattered into a hundred different pieces and half the room screamed in panic.

"Winner: Magellan!" the announcer called, but no one was looking at the poison man. The former Warden landed on the ground and walked back towards the bleachers where he sat next to a lone other figure in the shadows.

Everyone was still staring at the captain of the Heart Pirates, the infamous Surgeon of Death. With surgical precision, he seemed to have sliced up his crewmate into hundreds of pieces and a large pile of purple globs was getting larger on the floor next to him. He kept flicking his fingers every few seconds to dispatch the poison into the water. Soon he stared at his mumbling nakama's mouth and flicked aside the last drop of purple poison from his lips.

"Whoa," Luffy said with amazement.

Emporio Ivankov was staring with wide eyes as the bear was hit by almost as heavy a dosage of poison as Luffy had. He wished Law was there in Impel Down so he didn't have to force Straw Hat-boy to undergo the treatment that took ten years off of his life.

Bepo was put back together, but the bear looked very weak and collapsed on the chair behind Law where the surgeon was working on him.

"Wow," Chopper said in wonder, "I wonder if someday I'll be as good a doctor as he is?" Law finished the surgery in a couple minutes in the middle of a crowded room, not seeming distracted at all by everyone's shouts that he should have let the match finish on its own.

"I'm sure you will," Robin said with a smile and the little reindeer jumped up in her arms, talking about how it didn't make him happy that she thought so.

"For the next match," the crowd finally quieted down and listened in. The previous fight was more interesting than they thought it would be with someone going against the old Warden. However, anyone from the prison escape knew that Magellan was holding back a lot of his power. The mysterious announcer continued, "We have the matchup of Disco versus Kuromarimo."

"That guy!" Chopper growled and they saw a man with an afro walking down from a portion of the stands. Another one of Wapol's cronies walked down from the stands and jumped to the snow floor.

"Ew," Sanji muttered, remembering getting those fuzzy afros stuck on his skin before. They were sure annoying to fight since every time he kicked them they got stuck to his feet.

"Who's Disco?" Nami asked and looked around.

The crew started to hear a loud symphony of different instruments coming from one section of the dirt area stands. Everyone looked up there and saw a crew of brightly dressed figures with one in the middle making scratch noises with his mouth. "Scratchman Apoo," Robin stated, "another one of the Supernovas."

A man from Apoo's crew stood up and started to strut down the stairs with a trumpet in his mouth. "Doo doo doo, toot tooty toot!" He swung around as he played and it made a few of them want to get up and start dancing with him.

"Beat him up and get me my money!" A loud annoying voice shouted from up where Kuromarimo came down from before. The man playing his trumpet was interrupted and lowered the brass instrument, his face turning red. He was furious and jumped from halfway down the stairs and across the entire arena so that he landed on the other side of the lake in the ice section.

Disco glared at his opponent as he landed, but wasn't looking where he was going and slid across the ice without stopping until he hit the wall and his head slammed into it first. Most people in the room sweat-dropped and the annoying voice laughed again, "What a hippo!"

"Eh!" Chopper remembered the stupid king say the same thing about Hiluluk when the doctor blew himself up and it made his fur stand on end. A few of the Straw Hats looked at the small form of their doctor and he still looked menacing. "Shut up Wapol!" he shouted towards the man above the ice section.

"Who said that?!" The former king of Drum shouted. Chopper glared at him across the room and the man with the huge mouth just kept shouting out insults.

The timer hit zero while Wapol was shouting and his subordinate got ready to fight. He lowered his fists a little when he saw his enemy lifting back up the trumpet. His confusion only grew as the man wearing yellow and black striped pants and a bright orange t-shirt started to blast into his instrument.

The music was loud and obnoxious, but the man was a musician and the notes were coming out correctly. The only one of the Straw Hats not frowning or covering their ears was Brook who started swaying to the trumpet noise. Kuromarimo also seemed unaffected and plucked a mini-afro from his head to throw at his opponent.

Suddenly a longer and louder blast than before came out of the trumpet and a beam of blue light shot out of the instrument, striking his enemy in the forehead and shooting the blast straight through his face and out the other side. The beam got wider and enveloped the whole man's head as Disco played louder, still with a wide smile on his face.

When he stopped blasting the note, the red beam dissipated and everyone stared in shock at the headless body of his opponent. Not even his afro remained after that attack and the torso of the corpse dropped down to the ground, the mini afro in his hand falling off his fingers and rolling away as if a light breeze hit it.

"Oh, uh, Winner: Disco!" The man started laughing and played his trumpet in a normal tone as he danced back up to his portion of the stands. He crossed the dirt area of the arena and jumped up over the wall so he could walk up the stairs. Whenever he swung his head one direction while he played, people would cower or duck their heads from the horn of the trumpet's path, expecting another beam to shoot out and hit them.

"He didn't have to kill him did he?" Chopper asked. Even he felt bad for the man who got his head incinerated.

Zoro turned to their doctor, "Not all pirates are like us. Actually, most would kill their enemies when they fight them." There was an unspoken rule in the Straw Hats, one that they felt wasn't necessary to even mention. When they fought their enemies, they didn't do it to kill, they did it for victory. Although some of them, such as Zoro, often ignored that rule.

"Let's get right to the next match," the bloodlust from the crowd was growing. The last fight wasn't very long, but someone dying right in front of them made hundreds of pirates start cheering harder than ever before and shouting to get the next match started already. "Ideo and Arborn come down to the arena!"

The man with the long shoulder blades near Usopp stood up and stretched with a smirk on his face. "Time for another tournament. I will be the strongest one day, time to get stronger." He flexed his arms and punched his fists together before walking down.

Usopp was cheering for him as he walked away and Luffy turned to the man walking down the stairs on his left. He got out of his seat and cupped his mouth, "Go exploding guy!" He shouted at the man who helped him in Dressrosa, even if he didn't want him to at first. They all wanted to fight Doflamingo who he called as his enemy, but Ideo wound up helping anyway so they were friends now.

"Yes, go Ideo!" King Riku shouted in his gladiator costume. He felt like a young man again after watching all these battles, and he was starting to feel the urge to fight his own soon. Him and his family, bar Rebecca who had fallen asleep (still exhausted from her fight), all cheered for one of the saviors of their country.

Even Kyros managed to pull his eyes off of his daughter's sleeping form to call down cheers for the man. Many people recognized him as he walked down, a very famous fighter in many New World tournaments. This one had the biggest reward of any they'd seen though, so everyone knew he'd never fought against many of the people gathered.

"Where is Arborn? Where is my opponent?!" he called out and lifted his arms, causing the crowd to cheer.

"Herrrrree," a low voice growled from up in the stands and everyone snapped their heads over to where the panda woman came from earlier.

"Oh, a member of Kaido's crew eh?" Ideo clenched his fists and grinned, "This will be a fun fight."

The large form in the stands grew larger and larger as it stood up from its seat. Whoever the man was, he was transforming before he got to the floor and his long blue cloak could barely conceal the form underneath. While everyone was looking his direction, the person disappeared and popped up at the edge of the arena. He dropped down and left a much larger crater than when Rixa dropped to fight Chew.

"I'm going to eat you," the man said and everyone in the room dropped their jaws. "Even your bones," his cloak hid his face and the man who could make his fists cause explosions was a little put off by the statement.

He chuckled, "That's why they call you the beast pirates. You're a bunch of animals," the man got into a fighting stance. His black eyeliner darkened his eyes and he wasn't playing around. Fighting one of the Yonko's crew members wasn't going to be a joke, and he was excited by the prospect of it.

The timer hit zero and both men vanished. Nami and Vivi stared down at the floor with confused expressions. The girls turned to Sanji to ask where they went, but the chef's head was darting back and forth, his eyes shooting around the arena. They turned and saw Chopper and Usopp snapping their heads to the side, barely able to see what was going on.

"Princess Vivi," Chaka whispered from the other side of her than where Nami was sitting. The two girls turned to one of the heads of the Royal Guard of Alabasta. "They are not gone, only moving too fast for some people to see." He hadn't turned his head to them and was watching the fight without any difficulty.

Robin watched the incredibly fast paced fight for a few seconds before looking around the room. Hmm, about one third of the people here can see what's going on. Most of Blackbeard's men are in the dark about what's going on, only his commanders and a few others are watching easily. Shanks's crew looks fine, so does Doflamingo's and the CP9. She looked over and saw a few Revolutionaries looking around with difficulty, but most of them were watching the battle as a few explosions shook the dirt section and a large foot-shaped crater appeared on the ground with a loud crash.

For the people who could see the action going on, Ideo looked to be on the defensive. However, each time the massive green fist shot out from under the cloak and slammed into the enemy, Ideo crossed his arms and caused an explosion to blast the man who hit him. He was tiring fast though, and his next kick aimed at the man's head did little damage at all, only knocking him off balance a little and tearing off the green cloak covering the man.

The hit was enough to slow them down and the two men stared at each other. Arborn was covered in burns and had black scorch marks all over his bare, green skin. The other man was favoring his left leg and stared wide-eyed at his opponent who licked his lips with a long tongue.

"You're an..."

"Ogre," the man replied, "Human Human Fruit- Model Ogre. It's a Mythical Zoan," he said and despite the burn marks, Ideo noticed his opponent wasn't sweating at all. "Now it's time for you to get in my belly," he laughed and snapped his head back to roar at the sky before disappearing again. This time he moved faster than Ideo could see, being worn out from a stomp inflicted a few moments before he tried his last kick.

More people in the audience, including Chopper and Usopp, were completely unable to see the man's movements this time and he appeared right behind Ideo. The ogre grabbed his arms and held them out to the side before opening his large mouth wide. Everyone stared in shock as the man's jaw seemed to unhinge and rows of razor sharp white teeth reflected the lights on the ceiling. Ideo tried kicking backwards, and nailed an explosive kick right in Arborn's gut, causing the whole dirt area they were on to explode in a massive fireball.

The crowd leaned forward in their seats, waiting for the flames and smoke to die down so they could see what happened. Gasps sounded from every corner of the room, and some of the stronger willed members of the pirate crews had to look away.

Zoro tried to keep watching, but there was no pleasure in looking at the sight in front of him. He was just as excited, if not more, by the action going on as the next guy, but the scene in front of him was hard to watch.

Ideo's bottom half from about his waist down was lying in a dirt crater that he himself created. No one could see his upper half, but from the sounds of crunching bones, and the sight of Arborn chewing with red splashing out of his oversized mouth; they all knew what had happened.

The sniper of the Straw Hats felt his fists clench tight as he watched the man he might have even called a friend get swallowed. "I told you," shivers ran down many people's spines as Arborn picked up Ideo's legs, "I'm going to eat you." He tossed the legs in his mouth and then walked away, picking at his teeth with his fingers.

"Oh," everyone heard the announcer's voice, "Um, yeah. We all know who the winner of that fight was, haha," he sounded like he was pulling at his collar nervously and not many people cheered. "Good job Arborn," the voice called out.

The staff members who had run onto the arena to clean up turned around and walked away slowly after the bottom half they were going to take away was eaten as well. "That's a person right?" Nami asked, trembling in her seat, "So he's a cannibal?"

"Remember how Lucci liked the taste of blood?" Chopper asked, anger masking the fear in his voice. "Carnivorous Zoan types are usually made more aggressive and bloodthirsty by their powers. I doubt he was like that before he ate his fruit, but Ogres are known for eating villagers and I'm sure his fruit had an effect on him greater than just his powers." The Straw Hats and the Alabasta group listened to his explanation and then stared back at the shrinking man who walked back into the stands.

"I-I want to fight him," the group turned around with shocked expressions as Usopp spoke up. The long-nose sniper looked scared, but there was also fury in his eyes.

Robin looked down at his hands while the others were looking at his face, "Sniper-san, your hands," Usopp calmed down for a second and looked down at his fists. His fingers had been clenched in so hard that his nails dug into his palms and they started bleeding.

"Oh," he said, sitting back down.

"Sure," Luffy responded finally to what Usopp said before. "He's all yours."

Nami wanted to shout that Usopp couldn't possibly handle that guy, but the liar's face was set and he wasn't going to change his mind. Chopper ran over to him and started wrapping his palms. Oh Usopp, why are you acting like the other boys? You're supposed to be the rational one! The navigator shook her head but didn't say anything.

"Alright," the announcer seemed to get his things in order and was ready for the next match. "Who's ready for another fight?" Roars of approval rang out in the Colloseum. "Good! Then will Wire and... Charlotte 'Big Mom' Linlin please come down to the arena?!"

Hollers and woops sounded from all around the room as many were getting ready to watch a Yonko in action for the first time. "You're the underdog Wire," Eustass Kid told his crew member who stood up and cracked his neck to either side. The man wearing all black didn't smile at the aspect of a good fight, or frown at the opponent he got. He didn't look scared, or happy, or excited, the man looked calm.

He walked down from the stands and dropped to the sand area, looking across the arena to where a woman plopped down from the stands onto the ice. Though 'woman' wasn't the best way to describe the monster in front of him. She was a beast covered in slime and goo and steam rose up all around her as she started to laugh.

The countdown began to lower and Nami heard one of Blackbeard's pirates mutter, "Three matches in a row with the loser dying? This is getting rough," so far only two had died in a row. So he's talking about him? She looked down at the man wearing black and despite his calm look, most people in the room already thought him a dead man.


A/N Hope you enjoyed the latest fights. Sorry for the late update, was trying to catch myself up on Game of Thrones before the new season started but I found a little time for this. Next time we get two big fights: Big Mom versus Wire, and one other that I won't tell you about teehee, see you next time.