Chapter 10:
"Two of the Supernovas?!"
"This one's gonna be good."
"What are you talking about? Trafalgar Law's got this in the bag."
Usopp stared to his left and watched their ally start walking down towards the arena. "Go Law!"
"Hey, didn't we meet that Killer guy back on Sabaody?" Sanji asked and the rest of the crew looked across the room at Eustass 'Captain' Kid's gang. The man dressed in a blue muscle shirt, wearing a white mask with blue lines down it vertically and covered in little holes. He had two large metal objects on his wrists and as he was walking down the steps, he stretched his arms out to the sides and unclenched his fists.
The two metal objects on his arms dropped off his arms. While they were dropping out of the air, the man disappeared and almost everyone in the room had to snap their heads around looking for him. Zoro rubbed his eyes and sat up, now gaining interest in the fight.
Law, who was walking down to the stage, looked around and his eyes settled on a patch of the sand section that no longer had ice covering it. A second later, Killer appeared to the rest of the crowd and he was standing right in that spot. Then the metal things on his forearms hit back on the steps. The explosion made everyone in the vicinity's eyes pop out of their sockets and the rest of the room just dropped their jaws a little.
"Guess those muscles aren't just for show," Franky muttered. The steel arm braces must have weighed a ton, each. They broke right through the stone stairs and sent shrapnel flying everywhere. The man down on the arena cracked his neck to either side and pulled out two curved blades that strapped to his hands.
There are a lot of future opponents here, Zoro wasn't thinking about enemies of the crew, he was thinking of the men he would have to fight himself. There was the man in Blackbeard's crew that after asking Robin, he learned was named Shiliew of the Rain. He thought about the Gryphon man, Dello, and now there was Killer down below him. Not to mention Shanks's number two guy, he turned his head back across the room to see Ben Beckman watching Killer with an interested gaze.
Trafalgar Law dropped down to the stone section, or what remained of it, and he held his palm out below him. The countdown just started, but the man called out, "Room!" A large translucent dome extended from his hand and spread out over the entire arena, across every section and the water.
Captain Kid leaned forward in his seat and chuckled. His men were more nervous for their vice-captain, but the captain laughed at their expressions. "Killer's smart. He's got a strategy to beat every pirate with a higher bounty than himself, since he doesn't need a strategy to beat anyone lower. I'm sure he has one to crush Law," the red head laughed and shouted down, "Kick his ass!"
"Sure thing captain," Killer responded and no one could see, but under his mask they were sure he was grinning. The countdown reached three seconds and the second in command of the Kid Pirates flexed his muscles and veins appeared all over him. Law was already pulling his sword from his sheath and looked ready to fight as the countdown hit zero.
Law gasped and ducked by bending his entire body backwards. Right as he did, both of Killer's swords swiped across the air that the former Shichibukai was standing. The pirate captain made himself disappear and popped up on a different part of the arena, but the man who tried slashing at him vanished as well, only he was moving too fast for the pirate to see, not actually vanishing.
I have to keep moving, Law used Haki to know that Killer was about to attack him from behind and teleported to the spot right behind that. The man in the mask swiped with his swords but Law was no longer in the spot and he felt the man right behind him. The first mate of Eustass Kid swung one blade over his shoulder and clashed with the sword Law was bringing across to slice the man in half.
The two pushed against each other as wind lifted up around them. Everyone outside of the dome was looking inside as the two pirates disappeared and moved all around the inside. The two of them would appear in the same place with their blades pressed against each other. It wasn't always on the ground either: one second they had their blades pressed against each other on the snow covered section, the next they were hovering above the dirt section with their weapons pushing back and forth.
Suddenly the pace picked up between the two of them and even when their weapons clashed, they didn't clash for more than a second. The two of them hit so hard that shockwaves rippled out and appeared all over the arena, but the men themselves were hard to see.
"What's going on?" Nami exclaimed. She watched as the clear dome dispersed and the two men appeared in the sky before swinging their weapons crazily fast at each other. The two of them rocketed across the air and caused dozens of little explosions of air in a curvy line across the ceiling.
Usopp was biting down on his fingernails, Chopper was chomping down on his hooves, and Franky was nibbling on his metal fingers, all three so caught up in the suspense that they couldn't pay attention to anything else around them. Zoro was staring up at the man he would have to face in respect, when he saw the guy back in Sabaody, he wasn't a twig, but he wasn't muscular. Looks like we weren't the only ones training those two years. Now he was the epitome of speed and strength, but Law had a powerful Devil Fruit at his command.
The captain was able to hold out a hand and create another room. Killer had been keeping him occupied so he wasn't able to use his powers and had to keep to sword fighting, but he was more than an adept swordsman. Now he sliced up the dirt section beneath him and then rose two fingers as Killer was soaring at him.
The man in the blue tank top kicked off the air and flipped to the right. He just barely avoided four huge chunks of dirt that flew up in the air, each weighing well over a hundred pounds. The man with the long sword sliced it around the room and cut a huge chunk out of what remained of the ice mountain from when Roz shattered it. He also sliced a chunk out of the lake and a huge cube of water was lifting up along with a stone pile and more dirt covered in ice and snow.
Killer stared up at Law who was standing on top of a floating rock in the middle of the room. The man flicked his fingers and every chunk of environment started flying at Killer. The muscular pirate wasn't going to just drop dead; he jumped up and ran vertically up the stone section dropping down at him. Three dirt mounds were flying towards the side of the stone piece he was running up and without turning, the vice-captain dodged the chunks expertly.
Each time a chunk slammed into the rock, it stuck in place. Even when the massive rock hit the ground, it just stayed in place resting inside a huge crater left by Law's odd cuts of the ground. The level of the arena was moving down fast, but it wasn't much of a problem since most of the lake was flying right towards Killer.
The pirate jumped off the tip of the stone section towards Law, but the captain with the Op Op Fruit pulled the ice mountain in front of him. Killer started spinning his blades and drilled straight through the ice without losing his momentum, but he did lose vision of everything else for a moment, and Law took that moment to pull the chunk of lake right to the point that Killer was going to fly out of.
Now everyone in the room, including Eustass stared, wondering if it was all over as Killer was trapped by the water. Their eyes all went wide as the pirate kicked hard inside the water and shot with even more speed than before. He shot out of the top of the waves and slashed at Law to the left side. While the former Warlord blocked it, Killer brought the other sword across Law's side and cut him.
The Devil Fruit user made himself disappear as soon as the blade made contact with him, but he still had a large gash on his right side as he reappeared on a snow section he turned sideways. "Rrrr," Trafalgar Law grumbled as he wiped the blood on his hand onto his pants. He was wearing his white hat with the black dots on it, and it covered his eyes in darkness as he looked down.
Killer was dropping out of the air with his legs extended, trying to kick the pirate while he was still stunned from the last attack. His speed was unprecedented so far in the tournament and he crashed down into the ice, but Law jumped out of the way just in time. Killer's large legs didn't just break through the ground, they shattered the floor and the first crater that formed wasn't enough, breaking double the size and imploding the ground down another five feet. The water in the lake started pouring down into the snow section that was now at a lower elevation than everything else, but the lake emptied out quick and was now evenly dispersed between the lake and the huge crater.
Law dropped everything and panted a little as his room faded away. The water that Killer shot through dropped back down like a huge rainstorm that Law intelligently wasn't standing under. He was on the opposite side of the room as the large fall of water that smashed into the ground and splattered out in all directions. He swung his sword around him and the water splash that headed his way hit a wall of air and exploded upwards.
His opponent was going to use the water that hit Law to catch him when he was weakened, but he stopped charging when he saw now a single droplet hit his enemy. Law snapped his head up and rushed his opponent without using his Devil Fruit power. This surprised most of the room into silence except for the Heart Pirates. It was obvious after the first minute of the fight that Killer was the fastest fighter they'd seen all day, and Law hadn't moved much since he was teleporting around the arena.
Now that the Surgeon of Death was moving though, it was clear he didn't need his ability to stay an impressive opponent. He disappeared to the majority of the audience who had to keep rubbing their eyes as this time Law was the one to cut his enemy and he slashed across Killer's stomach. The muscular pirate pulled back at the last second so the wound wasn't too deep, but it wasn't shallow either.
"Room," Law wasn't letting up with his assault and the dome expanded to encompass Killer. The man brought up a sword ready for Law to appear in front of him, but this time he was the one switched with a boulder behind the Heart Pirate Captain. Law spun with his sword out and sliced the spot behind him, at the exact same moment that he switched Killer into that spot.
Sshhll-diing the sound of sword cutting through flesh and then slamming into other steel rang out through the room and everyone stared down as Killer's upper half fell off the lower half of his body. Law's sword connected with Killer's blade but only after it had sliced through his torso. The man in the mask didn't panic when he was cut in half, he knew Trafalgar D. Law's ability too well for him to do that, and he hadn't lost yet.
Killer pressed down on one of his blades as his body fell face first to the ground. He pushed up and sprang off the weapon before twirling in midair and cutting with his other curved blade. Law ducked just in time, but his hat wasn't so lucky and the top part of it got cut off. Killer then turned the blade and brought it right down, but found that his weapon was suddenly replaced by a rock. Law smirked, and then oofed as a rock slammed into the top of his head and he stumbled backwards.
The lower body of Killer sprinted forward and started delivering heavy kicks to the other pirate as the crowd started going insane. For the majority of them it was the first time they'd seen Law's power, and the Massacre Soldier Killer wasn't letting up for a second even after he was cut in half. Most of them were in such a confused frenzy that they believed Killer was controlling his lower half through sheer willpower and not through a loophole in Law's ability.
The Surgeon of Death crossed his arms and took several powerful kicked before kicking back himself and knocking the legs down. As soon as the legs dropped though, Law felt something coming on his right. A slash from my right shoulder to my waist, he flipped up in the air and spun with his sword, blocking the first strike and then spinning his blade off to cut off Killer's hand before his second blade could come for him.
"Shambles," the opponent's right hand stuck to the bottom of his left foot and the top half of his body locked in to the side of his left leg.
"Shit," Killer was managing when his body parts were separated, but now he was at a complete disadvantage as his body was no longer shaped correctly. He leapt up in the air and landed on his foot-hand before clenching the stone beneath him. Law was mildly surprised that Killer was still fighting, and even more so that he crushed the ground beneath him with his hand.
When the ground exploded, dust flew up in the air. The doctor pirate jumped up in the air but still had to cross his arms and avoid the stone shrapnel that Killer threw up at him through the cloud. He closed his eyes for a split second so that the particles wouldn't get in them, and when he opened them, they opened wide to see Killer's misshapen torso swinging around and slamming him with both of his legs before the man dropped down and landed on one hand.
"Go Killer!" Kid shouted through the yells of everyone else. He was laughing his ass off at the shit show in front of him, and he knew he picked the right first mate as he watched the deformed man fight against a man with a 440 million beri bounty. Killer had the same confident yet restrained aura as when he got out of his seat radiating off of him, and his captain wasn't the only one who noticed.
"This guy's really strong," Luffy said to Zoro who he knew had already picked out the man as an opponent. The two of them had been able to keep up with most of the movements so far, but even Luffy couldn't follow Killer at some points in the fight.
The various Yonko around the room were watching the two men, all seemed at least a little impressed, though Kaido was growling at the captain who formulated the plan that stopped the production of his Smiles.
Law was slicing up the arena again, and Killer's dodges were now slower and less refined. The Surgeon threw a giant dirt section at his opponent, and Killer landed on it with his right foot and right hand, which was still attached to the bottom of his left foot. If the man was only a little less strong, he wouldn't have been able to keep up his speed while running on a hand and foot at the same time.
He'd never run on a hand and foot together before. Sure, he'd trained his arms by running miles on his hands, but never at the same time as his feet. The concept would have been confusing and near impossible if he wasn't in this situation, but he was in this situation and he cursed himself for not planning for this.
Killer was getting desperate as the front half of the dirt section he was about to jump off got sliced in two and he had to leap to the other part and then dodge dozens of ice spikes that appeared in the sky above him and started raining down fast. They stuck into the dirt chunk that was now falling out of the sky and piled up on top of each other until there was a tall tower of ice spikes leading up to him and then taller. It was like Law decided to just make some artwork in the middle of their fight and his opponent got flustered with anger.
The man in the torn blue muscle shirt kicked out with his good leg and broke the tower in two. He dropped onto the top of the bottom half that was still sticking to the dirt below, and Law's mouth opened wide as the man caught the giant top half of the tower with one hand. He was able to keep his blade with him since it was strapped around his palm, while at the same time digging his fingers into the giant ice pillar and flipping in in his hand. He threw it at Law so fast from his sideways position on his legs, that the Heart Pirate could only move a few inches to the side and felt the wind rush past his face as the ice didn't just get out of his room, but also smashed through the ceiling and flew right past the giant Hajrudin's face who fell backwards as the ice spear flew into his viewing room and then out the ceiling above him and into the distance.
Suddenly blood splashed from Law's face as the spear really had gotten too close and left a deep scratch on his left cheek. The pirate captain drew his sword while bringing the dirt section down below towards him. Since the ice was sticking out of the dirt, it moved as well and Killer was dragged twenty feet in a matter of one second before staring as Law slashed around his sword faster than most people could see.
The man would have been able to dodge, if he wasn't replaced by a rock that Law was holding. He had it in his pocket for just the right time and tossed it up right before he started slashing his sword. As the first cut was about to finish, he replaced Killer with the rock and his sword cut right through him. Of course that was followed by all the other slashes and then Law finally stopped.
The room became silent as everyone stared up at the weirdly shaped figure of Killer, and then at Law. They all gasped as the muscular man suddenly broke into a hundred pieces as fell out of the sky. The Room wore off and Law fell down on top of the ice pillar where he sighed and resheathed his sword. It wasn't a particularly long fight; the two of them were moving fast enough to decide the winner in a matter of minutes, but then again, Law didn't often have long fights. The Heart Pirate captain had a few injuries and he looked over to the pile of pieces of his opponent. He hadn't really decided what to do about him yet.
"Wow! Winner: Trafalgar D. Water Law," the pirate flinched and looked angrily up at the ceiling. That was supposed to be a secret and the fact that the person in charge figured it out made him very, very suspicious. The roars of the crowd overshadowed the fact that a few people in the room were very surprised by what was just said.
Monkey D. Dragon was staring down at another man with the Will of D. He was surprised, having heard a lot about Trafalgar Law, but never hearing his full name like that before. From the looks of it, Law wasn't too happy about his name being announced either and he started walking away.
One of the men in purple jumped down to the arena and over to the pile of cubes that made up Killer. "Hey!" Eustass Kid shouted from the stands. Law stopped moving and tension rose as the cheers died down. "You mind putting my man back together," he didn't say it as much of a question, as he did a statement. There was no room for argument in his tone, and everyone wondered what Law was going to do.
The two captains of the Worst Generation stared at each other for a few seconds and then Law smirked and turned around with a chuckle. "Room," he called out. The Pirate Hunter in the Straw Hat crew felt a little relieved. He was itching to fight the man that he watched Law put back together pretty fast, and he was glad the creepy surgeon didn't decide to keep him all cut up like that.
The Kid Pirate got to his feet after being put back together and was panting hard, muttering curses between every gasp for air. It was terrible having his lungs torn apart, he wasn't even breathing but he was conscious the whole time and could feel every piece of his body. Lost first round, that's fucking embarrassing. The man didn't thank Law for putting him back together, he just turned and walked back towards the stands where pirates moved out of the way to avoid the man's wrath if he decided to turn on them.
Despite his fury however, Killer was one of the only Kid Pirates who could resist the urge to kill and was smarter than his opponents who would attack others outside the ring and risk disqualification. He marched up the steps and up to the hole in the floor where he dropped his arm weights. He looked down and then kept walking, "I need bigger ones," he mumbled as he got back to his seat.
There were no words of encouragement from his nakama telling him it was alright that he lost. Most people in the room thought he fought bravely and was a powerful fighter, but he didn't win, and isn't that really all that matters? To the Kid Pirates it was, and the captain wasn't against letting his crewmate know as he started laughing. Only one other crew member, the one behind the captain grinned and chuckled, but he was also in the tournament unlike most of the others. The man had stitches all over his face and usually was frowning, but right now he grinned at Killer who was fuming in his seat.
By being put back together, Law had healed the majority of his injuries, but the most damage was done to his pride. A first round loss. Unacceptable.
"Let's get on with the next match!" the announcer shouted.
"Man, that was crazy," Usopp whispered. The large muscular man sitting next to him nodded. Sai was the leader of the Happo Navy, but he struggled to keep up with the fighters the entire time the battle was going on.
Most of the other Straw Hats had a lot of difficulty watching the fight as well, but the announcer didn't turn on Instant Replay. A few people voiced their complaints from Blackbeard's huge crew, but the announcer ignored them. "I guess if the finish is visible, they're not going to waste time rehashing old stuff," Nami commented as the next to names were being called.
"Shachi?" Chopper said and scratched his chin as he looked around. "Hey, it's another one of those guys," he pointed over to where Law was walking back up in the stands. One of Law's crew members in a white jumpsuit and wearing a teal blue hat stood up.
"Yay! Go Shachi!" Vivi and Nami shouted together and the man in the white jumpsuit blushed and opened his mouth a little. His best friend Penguin was full of jealousy behind him, but he couldn't wait for those beautiful girls to cheer him on like that. The man was filled with newfound confidence and charged down the steps, not caring who this Hannyabal guy was.
"Careful out there," Law warned as he walked past his crewmate. "This guy's with the one who beat Bepo."
The white bear was sleeping behind them, still exhausted from his battle and unnatural super-quick healing. Law couldn't be gentle since he needed to get out all the poison before it set in, so he didn't expect his first mate to be waking up anytime soon. Shachi gulped and walked down a little slower as he watched one of the two lone figures at the top of the ice section who was now walking down.
Luffy recognized the man just like he recognized Magellan. The guy had strong beliefs in justice and protecting the innocent, but the boy in the straw hat remembered kicking his ass before Blackbeard showed up and beat him up even more. Even though he crushed the guy, he remembered it being a tough battle and he had to use Gear Second to beat him. "This is another tough one," Luffy mentioned to his crew who were skeptical.
The man walking down from next to the much larger former Warden of Impel Down looked as ridiculous as the vampire guy. Luffy tilted his head to the side, somewhat remembering the man rambling on about getting a promotion. He couldn't figure out why the guy would be here and not back at Impel Down.
I finally get the job as Warden, and then Magellan had to throw this on me. "Hannyabal, I know exactly where Straw Hat and Blackbeard are going to be, you coming?" Well of course I'm coming, but I couldn't be the Warden and join, so I had to quit and leave Saldeath in charge! Hannyabal was angry and his grip on his three-pronged spear tightened.
Shachi gulped at the man with the trident and he held up his fists as the countdown began. Calm, he thought and his breath slowed down, all the sounds around him drowned out by his release.
Everyone around watched the men standing on the battlefield. The place was a mess, puddles all over the place with small lakes forming inside craters. In some parts the ground went so far down that the fighters were confused how they didn't break into the dining hall below. Law had really done a number on the arena and Hannyabal jumped up on a huge dirt cube before watching the countdown hit zero. He snapped his head down from the yellow numbers to look at his opponent, but the man was no longer in front of him. "Ehhh!?" the chubby man wearing a large green headdress shouted. He looked back and forth but didn't see his opponent anywhere.
The old Assistant Warden didn't know Haki, but he could still feel the presence right behind him and jumped forward. He did it a second too late and his momentum was increased by a punch in the back from Shachi. The pirate's punch was followed up by the man springing off the dirt and kicking twice with his right foot into the soaring man. His first hit was in the kidney and the second was in a nerve cluster on the back that sent his opponent crashing down to the ground and yelling as he grabbed at his back in pain.
Law was a great surgeon, his pirates all knew at least a little about medicine. Shachi was one of the top doctors that his captain trained, he knew all the vital points, and which points hurt the most when you attacked them. The man lowered his hat over his eyes and then lifted back up his arms, holding one extended in front of him and the other curved over his head.
"Whoa, that guy's pretty good," Nami said, not just cheering for him because he's their ally anymore, but because she thought he was going to win.
Zoro grunted, "He's a pirate in the New World. What do you expect?"
However, his opponent was the Warden of the infamous Impel Down for two years. Hannyabal was no pushover and as Shachi jumped forward with another punch ready, the man dressed like an Egyptian brought up his trident and the fist collided with steel. Shachi felt a strong hatred towards him as he looked into his enemy's eyes and the man who worked at the great prison spun his weapon and knocked back the pirate.
By pushing his arm away, Hannyabal forced Shachi wide open and followed up by jabbing with his trident over and over again. The thin man in white pulled his stomach out to the side and ducked beneath the blade, but he couldn't dodge all the attacks and one of the prongs went straight through his side at one point.
He dropped to the ground and rolled away from his enemy. Shachi lifted to his feet and felt immense pain in his side. He tore off the clothes around the spot and looked at the wound. "Damn," it wasn't just a graze, he got impaled fully and it was bleeding a lot. He looked up and saw Hannyabal charging at him. "I give up." The man was a doctor and knew when he lost. Sure, he could try to continue fighting and might still win, but it wouldn't matter if he died before getting to his next fight anyway.
"Aw man," the Heart Pirate moaned to himself as the mystery announcer called out that he'd been defeated. Then he heard something that brought a huge smile on his face and lifted his spirits high as he walked back up in the stands, leaving a trail of blood behind him. Vivi and Nami started cheering for him again and nothing was a better remedy. There was no point in going to the infirmary when Trafalgar Law was his captain. Just sit down next to the man and your injury would be at least sealed up within the minute.
He snapped his head towards the Straw Hats females who were shouting that he did a good job and felt jealous towards all the male members over there. "Hey Captain," he groaned and his skin was getting a little pale as he sat down in his seat. "Why don't we have any girls on the crew?"
The members of the Heart Pirates noticed their friend was about to pass out, but Law just chuckled at the man and created a small room around them for him to work in. Penguin sighed, they'd never convince their captain to do that.
Above the edge of the stone section of the arena, Vivi looked around and had a light blush on her face. "What is it Princess-sama?" Igaram asked the girl with blue hair.
"Hey Vivi," Usopp nudged her with his elbow. He was standing in the aisle next to their chairs and had a small smirk on his face. "When you gotta go, you gotta go," he said and started laughing as he saw the girl's flustered expression. Igaram went red in the face and started yelling at Usopp for being so improper. Then he was suddenly stopped and shocked silent.
"I'll be right back Igaram," Vivi said to her caretaker and stood up, smiling at Usopp and punching him playfully. "Do you know where the bathrooms are?"
"I was just about to go look for them. Wanna come with?" he asked and received a couple strange looks from the males around him. "Not to the same room!" he yelled at them.
"Oh I get it," Zoro said with a nod of his head and Usopp thanked him. "You're just scared to go alone so you waited until you saw someone else who needed to go."
The sniper froze and Vivi started giggling as she walked down the steps. "That's, n-not what happened at all," Usopp exclaimed and chased the blue haired girl down. How'd he know?! Usopp thought with a panicked expression but he got over it quick and started walking with Vivi along the edge of the arena.
"Mozu vs Pell," a voice called out and they cast a look over their shoulders to see the man sitting in front of Vivi stand up and start walking down to the section below them.
"We can stay if you want to watch Pell," Usopp offered, though he really did have to pee and hoped it would be a quick match.
"No, it's fine," Vivi spotted the girl with large square hair that was walking down to the arena. She was a member of the group that kept talking to Franky, and she wasn't too worried about her friend. "Pell's been training nonstop since the war," she sighed and they walked into a doorway and into a long corridor. "He blamed himself for the high amount of lost lives in the conflict."
"But that's crazy!" Usopp shouted. Vivi shushed him but they were the only two in the hall and the sniper shook his head. "Without him the death toll would have been so much higher, including all of us too! He sacrificed himself to carry away that bomb," Vivi put a finger on his lips.
"I know all that, you don't think I've told him that every day?" She was exasperated and the muscular man she was walking with apologized. "It's okay, he just spends too much time training nowadays. Instead of the days when he'd carry me around on his back and fly around the country, now he says he's too busy and that I should focus on my training." She laughed, "At least he wants me to train instead of tend to all the princess duties like Igaram!"
"Train?" Usopp asked her and she stopped walking for a second.
She laughed nervously, "Haha, yeah, with my peacock-slashers. I've gotten really good with them," Usopp lied for a living, so this wasn't very convincing.
"Hey Vivi, what are you hid-" he stopped as he heard something.
"What is..." Vivi stopped as Usopp put a hand over her mouth. The man held up a finger to his lips and then motioned with his head to a doorway they were about to pass.
She gulped and followed him as they snuck over to it. She wanted to say that this was a bad idea and they should just find the bathroom and get on their way, but the pirate inside her wanted to see what Usopp heard. Now she could hear the voices coming from inside the cracked-open door too and the two of them looked at each other.
Vivi nodded and it was Usopp's turn to gulp as they lined up at the door and peeked inside.
"Macro's men are gone," a man in a purple uniform stated. He was one of the guards who ran around protecting the room from Trebol's Sticky Tidal Wave earlier. Usopp remembered because he was the one closest to their group. The man had a brown goatee that wrapped around his lips and his mustache looked pretty cool too. He had long sideburns but his hair was in a crew cut. There was another figure next to him with blonde hair a little longer than his comrade's, and he didn't have any facial hair. They were both around the same build, husky men broad at the shoulders and very muscular.
"They weren't important anyway," the blonde man added. "We got back the Eternal Pose from them and sent them on their way. The other two were too stupid and heartbroken to notice when they stepped outside."
"What are they talking about," Vivi whispered to Usopp. The sniper barely noticed her and was freaking out as he stared at these men.
There was a third person in the dark room standing in front of the others. He wasn't as large as they were, but he was about a foot taller and had jet black hair. It rose above the top of his head a couple inches and then leveled off flat and his skin was a darker tone than the two white men in front of him. He nodded at them, "Yes, Macro's group held no real value. How's Trebol doing in the infirmary?"
"Looks like he's going to pull through," the blonde guard said.
The one with the full beard grumbled, "That's not good-"
"Flint," the taller man stopped him from saying anything else. "Excuse me, are you lost," this time the voice was much louder and more assertive. Usopp and Vivi froze outside the door and the man with large muscles wearing overalls and no undershirt pushed open the door.
"Actually yes," he said with a smile on his face. It would have been more convincing if Vivi didn't look so worried next to him and hiding her concern with a shaky smile. "We're looking for the bathroom..."
"It's down the hall on your right," the brown haired man stated and took a step towards them.
"Oh really?" Usopp said in mock surprise. "I knew it, didn't I tell you it was farther down," he exclaimed at Vivi angrily. "Sorry for disturbing you," the pirate said to the man with the goatee and the figure stopped walking towards him. He seemed at least mildly convinced that they really were just looking for the bathroom which in reality they were, however they did do some snooping first.
"I-I guess you're right," Vivi conceded and tried to play along. Her acting skills from when she had to be a Baroque Works agent came back to her and the woman smiled at the three in front of her. "Thank you for the directions," she walked out of the room.
"Women," Usopp scoffed with a shrug of his shoulders, "what are you gonna do?" He laughed and then walked out of the room after Vivi. The two of them sped walked down the hall and stopped in front of the two doors to the bathrooms.
"What's going on?" Vivi whispered. "That sounded like conspiring to me. What did you..." she stopped and noticed that Usopp's face was turning blue.
"Got, to, go," Usopp pushed open the bathroom door and ran inside. He had to pee before, but getting scared almost made him piss himself. That would have been embarrassing in front of Vivi, and it definitely would have given away that they'd seen something.
As the man stood in front of the urinal and sighed a deep breath of relief he thought, What did we see? He flushed the toilet and walked up to the sink, looking at his face in the mirror and splashing some water up on it. One thing's for sure, he gulped, this isn't just a tournament.
A/N Not just a tournament?! Then what's going on?! We won't know for a while as I'm just going to keep going with the tournament ;). The first half... of the first round of the tournament is almost over and I don't know yet whether I'll have the fighters come back after dinner for more fights or just continue the tournament the next day. Hmmm. What do you think? Also, we got Law and Hannyabal going on to the next round with more fights on the way. Stay tuned for all the action! Also, no one's figured out who Zoro's going to fight yet. We've had some good guesses, but still looking for that right answer. I believe his fight is announced in the next chapter and happens the one after... or the other way around, not gonna check now XD, but whichever it is, the guessing will probably be done after this chapter. See if you can figure it out from the clues given so far and post a review with the name!
IDon'tFreakingKnowYou
OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOSSHHHHHHH TRAFALGAR LAW AND KILLER!
ERMERGERD! Haha, hope it was as intense as you were hoping it would be.
Lightningblade49
LAw and Killer should definitely leave interesting reunifications afterwards considering Kid hates Law and Luffy's likely to step in if something happens same with the other alies.
Kid and Law are definitely enemies, and Killer had a plan to defeat Law. However, plans don't always work out, especially against the unpredictable Surgeon of Death! Well... I guess it's a little predictable since Law won, and I mean, who didn't see that coming XD! Thanks for the review and there may be some more Kid Pirates v Heart Pirates conflict later on. The way that Kid talked to Law suggested confrontation between the two, and I don't know how they can avoid it now! ;).
Son of Whitebeard
love the dinosaur df
Haha, had to come up with a cool dino to make one of Drake's nakama, and I figured a blue pterodactyl was as badass as they get lol.
mirandaThis basically kinda sucks for aokiji cuz after having a somewhat difficult time with the first mate of the kaido pirates, it doesn't seem like he's gonna win with big mom... and I loved how falco was staring at usopp the whole time :D can't wait till the next chapter! Bye ;)
Up against one tough opponent, just to face another in the next match. He's probably already resting up now, and it could be a day or two until his next match, and a man at an Admiral level can heal pretty fast. Unfortunately, Big Mom didn't really have much trouble finishing off Wire, so she won't have the same disadvantage he does. I loved the Falco and Usopp scene, it's just so much fun to write Usopp as a character, even if he backed out of the tournament itself. Thanks for the review!
Guest
Great story! I hope you update soon
Thanks!
zorobin-4ever
zoro's opponent? ,hmm, i think its shiliew,haha.
If you read above, then you'll see I mentioned good guesses... I really just meant this one. It was a good try but I'm sure you'll be pumped when you hear who his opponent is! Thanks again everyone for reading and reviewing! 'Till next time!
