Chapter 12:
The countdown had started, and the room was chanting along with it. No one was going to stop the frenzied audience as they got out of their seats and roared the numbers at the top of their lungs.
"Ten!" The Blackbeard pirates all around the Straw Hats shouted.
"Nine!" Dellinger and a few of the other Don Quixote Pirates chanted and the young man pumped a fist in the air. They might have been enemies with Straw Hat and his crew, but this was going to be a fantastic battle.
"The Rumble Rumble Fruit," Diamante said still in shock. Doflamingo was leaning forward in his seat and his hands were interlocking with his chin resting on them. This was going to be good.
"Eight!" Shanks and his men yelled. They were looking forward to watching what Luffy's first mate could do. Ben Beckman was particularly interested just as Zoro was with his fight. The two of them knew they would face each other one day, and he was interested to see how his future foe would fight.
"This Enel guy," Lucky Roo muttered, "I don't like him."
The muscular shirtless man lifted off the ground he crashed down into and he held up his hands as lightning crackled around him. Enel was laughing at the look in Zoro's eyes, "What a wild beast. I will show you what happens when you go against God." The room erupted in even more cheers while a few of the weaker willed pirates back against their chairs in the presence of the man who called himself God.
"SEVEN!" Blackbeard roared and he and his commanders were already placing bets on the fight.
"You sure Shiliew?" Jesus Burgess laughed. Van Auger was looking at the swordsman oddly as well and then changed his bet to Zoro. "You too? You guys are nuts," Burgess looked down and laughed a little quieter, "I know I wouldn't want to be up against God." Even though he was joking, the bead of sweat dripping down his face showed there was a shred of belief in what the man said.
"I'm sure," the former Head Jailer muttered and took a puff of his cigar. He stared down at the man with green hair. It would be a boring day when we meet if you lose here.
"Six!" Jyabura and Fukuro shouted out. A few of the other CP9 agents looked at them skeptically, but Kaku was grinning too. He wanted to see how much Roronoa had improved since they last met. He was sure that he could win this time, but his eyes wouldn't leave the arena for a second.
"Don't fall out of your seat Kaku," Lucci said while leaning back in his seat. Kalifa was in the infirmary, and Lucci was the only other member not on the edge of their seat to watch the match. However, he was still watching both the Lightning Man and Zoro with piqued interest.
"Five!" Eustass Kid laughed and leaned in. Killer was still pissed about his fight, but he wasn't going to miss out on a chance to come up with a strategy against another future opponent. Usually he was only worried about people with higher bounties than his own, but Zoro's hadn't been updated for years; there was no telling how strong he'd become.
"Think he has a chance against the Rumble Rumble Fruit?" Heat asked. The man looked more like a scarecrow than a person but the captain and first mate didn't even turn their heads.
"Nah," Kid replied. "That's an invincible," he shook his head with a wry smile. "Even if he knows Haki, he doesn't stand a chance." The captain looked to his number two to look for Killer's agreeing nod, but the man in the mask didn't say a word. He just stared down at the swordsman whose eyes were literally exuding as much bloodlust as his swords. He could feel the rage and thirst coming from the one in Zoro's left hand. It felt like if the sword didn't get something soon, it would start slashing anything it came across to compensate.
"Four!" Shachi moaned feebly from his seat to join in with his best friend. Penguin was on his feet and waving his fist in the air for Zoro to kick the guy's ass, but his friend had still lost too much blood from his fight with Hannyabal and was staying in his comfy chair.
Law had his elbows on his knees and was resting his head on his knuckles as he watched down below. He'd seen some of what Zoro could do against Pica, but now he could truly see Mugiwara-ya's first mate's skills.
"THREE!" Scratchman Apoo and his gang, along with all the members of Capone's empty fortress screamed. They were all watching the arena from their feet and there really weren't many people in the room sitting down, though Bege himself was still in no mood to be up and cheering.
Urouge was watching intently and looked back and forth between his possible next opponents. It was clear that whoever won would be a tougher opponent that his first round, but there was also the doubt in his mind that he'd even last a minute with the victor of this match. The confident look on Enel's face matched the bloodthirsty one on Zoro's and it was hard for him to decide who he thought would win.
"TWO!" Luffy and his entire crew shouted. Even Robin and Jimbei, the more reserved members were up on their feet and cheering for Zoro. The atmosphere in the room was so intense that they couldn't resist joining in with the countdown between their shouts for Zoro to win.
Sanji found himself shouting mixes of insults and cheers, "Kick his ass shitty swordsman! Slice him up you lost marimo!" He wanted to see this poser God bloody on the floor in a few minutes, and he'd be seriously pissed if Zoro didn't deliver.
Robin called out, "Do your best Swordsman-san!"
"Go Mr. Bushido!" Vivi called down, smiling at the old nickname for him.
Usopp shouted down with Chopper that they thought he could do it, but at the same time they were more reserved than the rest of their crew. Most of what Chopper heard about the God came from Usopp, so all he knew were the horrifying stories that the sniper told him. The greatly exaggerated stories of how Enel incinerated miles in one attack and killed thousands of Usopp's own men.
In his mind, he hadn't really lied to the reindeer. Everything he told the furry doctor was in complete fear, and he was terrified that they, Enel's enemies, were so close to him again, especially since he knew the man had no need for money. He has a ship literally made of gold! And it can fly!
"Beat him up Zoro!" Nami yelled down and fell over the seat in front of her before getting up and brushing herself down. She wasn't even embarrassed she was so focused on the fight.
All of the Water 7 entrants and their groups cheered for the man and the Alabasta group joined in. Pell was the only one of them all that remained seated, though he did call out a few cheers of encouragement for the swordsman as well. The Dressrosa group chanted for one of their saviors and King Riku himself stood up and called down for Zoro to, "KICK SOME ASS!" Shocking Kyros and Viola to silence.
"You can do it!" Luffy shouted, and then the voices of every person in the room caught in their throats. They were all about to shout the number one, and it would have been the loudest number making the entire building shake, but it shook for a different reason.
The stone section beneath Zoro's feet was the source of the trembling of the entire room. After two seconds was called, the entire area above Zoro's head started to darken and his eyes flashed red before keeping that tone.
Dracule Mihawk rolled his eyes. When he was training Zoro, he could never get the man to stop making terrifying moves. The darkness above Zoro's head morphed so it changed into the shape of a giant black bull. The bull had two horns on the top of its head and red eyes that matched the swordsman below it. He held out his two swords like horns in front of him and as he moved, his arms lagged with the motions.
Many people remembered Takanomi doing the same thing in his match versus Krieg. His arms moved, and then the image of them started following his motions, making it looks like he was blurring his movements. Then he was gone.
Enel's face lit up as he realized what was happening. The countdown had been so loud and everyone missed the final number, so he was still subconsciously waiting to hear it, but it was never going to come. The clock had already hit zero and his opponent was inches in front of him. The man who called himself God zapped away, but not before getting slashed in the left arm by Kitetsu. Even when Zoro couldn't keep up with the man's dodge, his sword seemed to follow the flesh in the direction it was moving and bit into Enel's skin since Zoro wasn't going to stop using Haki once during this entire battle.
"You," Enel started with rapid breaths as he floated high above the swordsman. "You cut me!" His eyes were filled with fury and he held a hand down. Zoro knew better than to stand still, and the man above him shouted, "EL THOR!" The enormous blast of electricity that emerged from his hand slammed into the floor with such power that everyone was sure he just smashed straight through the ground and into the dining hall below. Everything started to disintegrate and the bright light that filled the room was ignored since everyone's eyes opened much too wide for them to close.
God's Mantra was impeccable, so he felt Zoro's presence still beneath him and running across the ice section where he kicked off of a stone chunk Law put there and flipped into the air while spinning with his three swords. He looked like a spiral of blades soaring across the sky, but Enel brought up his golden staff and vanished in a stream of lightning that appeared on the right of where Zoro was flying.
In the second that Enel got there, the man brought back his golden staff and spun it above his head. Only a handful of people could see him while a couple dozen others just saw the blur that moved next to the swordsman. Right before Enel brought down the staff he laughed. The man with green hair saw him move and was stopping one of his blades to block the staff, but Enel's Observational Haki, or Mantra, was too perfect for him to stupidly smack his staff where Zoro was preparing to block. Instead he slammed it farther down where the swordsman was unprotected and then pressed a hand against Zoro's stomach. The pirate didn't even have time to blink, "50,000 volts," Enel said and his voice reverberated throughout the room as everyone locked on to the two of them.
His hand crackled white and glowed for a second before a huge blinding light shot straight through Zoro and widened into a cone shape before hitting the ground below. He slammed into the dirt section and the standing crowd winced hearing the audible thud of Zoro hitting ground before that ground was shredded by the man's insanely powerful ability. All of the Yonko were staring in amazement at this power unseen to them before. Blackbeard yearned to make it his and made it a goal to get it when the tournament was done.
Finally the lightning stopped and everyone gasped as they stared at the form on the ground. Zoro was standing, he was standing straight up on his two feet and covered in scorch marks. His clothes were badly burned but stayed on while he stared up in the sky. He had a wide smirk on his face that sent chills down even members of his own crew's spines.
"360 Pound Cannon!" He roared and spun so fast that Enel's Mantra predicted it, but didn't help him to dodge. The God couldn't move fast enough as the flying blades cut straight through him and into the ceiling. He was distracted by the attacks that weren't using Haki, and didn't notice the man who sprang up at him until it was too late. Zoro stopped right in front of his opponent and smashed him with the left hilt of his sword, then used Armament Haki to keep the man from dissolving while he held on to him.
He was about to snap his head and slash his enemy who couldn't use his Devil Fruit to vanish, but first he had to raise his other hand and block the staff coming down. He twisted his head to slice his opponent, but Enel made his head dematerialize before Zoro hit him so that the attack wouldn't hit. Zoro still had a few fingers clenching Enel's chest flesh, but the man with drums in a ring over his shoulders put an open palm in front of Zoro's face.
"Haki is not Seastone," Enel droned as his hand started to glow an inch from Zoro's eyes. "You might be able to hurt me," he added in slight amusement, "but you can't stop me from doing this. 100,000 volts," he said and the room gasped as this time the amount of electricity that left Enel's hand shot so powerfully into his enemy that it collided with the wall behind the stands and smashed straight through. The people sitting at the top of the stands looked back and above them in slight horror and then gulped upon seeing the melted steel around the hole that led to another corridor.
The God dropped his opponent out of the air and Zoro fell for a few seconds before clenching his swords tight. He coughed once and then managed to smirk with his Wado still in his mouth. He landed in a large puddle that was made by a crater connected to the lake by cracks. As he was about to charge forward to continue another assault on his foe, he felt Enel materializing next to him on his right. He slashed that direction with Shusui but the Rumble Man was already gone and floating above Zoro's head.
The swordsman was finishing with his slash and Enel pointed a finger down, creating a line of electricity that hit the puddle at Zoro's feet and electrocuted him before the God spun and kicked him with a lightning powered foot. As Zoro lifted off the ground and flew across the air, Enel slammed down his golden staff to knock Zoro into the large lake, before holding a palm straight towards the sky and calling down a massive bolt of lightning into the lake where the pirate splashed.
"At least you were more entertaining than last time," 'God' Enel commented as he landed on the dirt section and slammed his staff down next to him. Suddenly his eyes went wide before he instantly calmed himself by using Mantra to feel that Zoro was still there. What made his eyes bug out for a second was the enormous pillar of water than matched his pillar of lightning in size, except it was flowing the opposite direction.
Zoro spun with his swords and lifted the entire lake in a water funnel that lifted up in the sky. He charged out of the funnel with his swords raised, but at the last second he changed his strategy completely and spiraled with the sword in his mouth, catching Enel off guard who was trying to block the swords in his hands with the golden staff. The Birkan pulled his body back but still received a shallow cut by Zoro's Wado Ichimonji. "I never did believe in God," Zoro muttered and didn't let up, attacking one way and then changing every second what attack he was planning on doing. It was a strategy he hadn't specifically come up with for this opponent, but for all Observational Haki users of great magnitude. Staying unpredictable was key to victory, and he was keeping the man on the ropes.
Enel flashed away and was clearly faster, but he didn't count on Zoro knowing his own Mantra and spinning with his swords to catch him off guard again as he reformed. This time the cuts were deep and three of them ran horizontally across Enel's chest, ribs, and stomach. "Stupid mortal," the man roared and slammed his staff on the ground. The ceiling erupted above them and five huge pillars of light dropped from the ceiling after being shot up there instantly by thin lines coming out of each of the fingers on Enel's left hand. This made the illusion that he formed those bolts out of nowhere, but a few of the more intelligent fighters in the room were able to notice the thin strands of lightning leading up from his fingers before expanding in the sky.
"Great Dragon Shock," Zoro flew between two of the lightning bolts with an insane look in his eyes. Shusui was held tightly in both of his hands, while his other swords were sheathed for the moment. He brought down his sword with such speed and power that Enel couldn't back away in time. Something in Zoro's eyes tried to keep him planted to the spot, but he wasn't a weakling and moved a second before he was cut in half. He dodged backwards but the sword still slashed deep into his torso and blood splattered in the air.
Many people thought the fight was over there. The cut was deep and they watched as Enel stumbled back and fell on the floor, blood splattering up a few times and then stopping as more of it leaked out of his chest.
"Is, is he dead?" Usopp asked.
"At least it was during the match," Sanji muttered, glad they didn't get a strike for that. The chef was shocked by Zoro's power even if he wouldn't admit it. He looked over to Nami to see what the woman thought, but her eyes were wide and she was shaking in her seat. The others all looked over and saw the woman was still very much afraid.
That's when Sanji and Luffy felt it. They felt it first because of their ability to use Haki, but the majority of people who couldn't, didn't need to in a second when Enel flinched. The man looked dead, his chest was cut open and blood poured out. Slowly, little lightning bolts stitched themselves through Enel's skin while Zoro watched in shock. His skin melted back together, and his heart pounded with the force of electricity pumping it.
Nami held her hands to her head. She had to watch this once before and it was one of the scariest moment of her life. Enel was truly a monster. When he defeated Robin, Gan Fal, Wiper, and Zoro last time, all she could do was watch as the all-powerful lightning power destroyed everything.
Robin shivered in her seat, remembering the pain of Enel's lightning finger shooting straight through her head. Franky and Brook were looking at their scared crewmates and it made them more than a little nervous. They looked down at the arena and watched as Enel's limp body lifted up and the turned so that it was standing in midair.
Then his eyes opened.
Enel was beyond furious. He had been brought to the brink of death, by this scum! The growl in his throat made several hardened New World pirates lose control of their bowels. They just watched a man literally pump his own heart and stitch his wounds until he was alive again.
"He really is God," Lulu whispered, his face completely blue as he fell out of his seat. The other Galley La workers were just as panicked and decided to choose this moment to pray. A few of them backed out of the tournament in that instant, deciding that they had no chance at all and didn't want to risk fighting God later on.
Enel felt the prayers in the room as over a hundred people started praying, and he began to laugh. The man was livid and he held his staff out while laughing maniacally, "200,000 volts, THUNDER GOD!" His entire form shifted in an instant and he was surrounded in lightning, his staff melting and reforming into a huge golden trident with a longer reach than before.
"Ah, so we're finally getting serious," Zoro untied the bandanna around his arm and wrapped it on his head. "Bring it," he drew his other swords again and stared at the much bigger target than before. His hits are going to be that much stronger, Zoro thought with a sense of caution. He knew he could easily cut his enemy now, but the second his blades touched the outer edge of the thunder god, the lightning would course though his body and burn him badly.
Too bad for Zoro, he didn't have much time to think about it. Enel lifted up a large thunder foot slowly and as it touched the ground, the rest of him vanished. He made a joke that his new form made him slower, and then zapped away just as fast as before, appearing behind Zoro with his trident in one hand held to the side while his other hand was outstretched against Zoro's back.
Luffy had been cheering for his swordsman the whole time, ignoring the cries of shock and fear from his nakama who were worried about him. The pirate never felt the effects of being electrocuted, but Enel was still an insanely powerful enemy anyway. Without being rubber, Luffy wondered if he'd be able to beat the man. I definitely wouldn't have back then. At the moment however, there was only one thought sprinting through his mind. "RUN ZORO!" his captain shouted and the green haired man started to turn his head.
There was no chance of him avoiding this attack; he couldn't even turn around fully to take it head on. He didn't want a scar on his back though, and he managed to turn sideways before the beam of light shot out of Enel's hand. It broke the sound barrier and the ground underneath the increasingly large cone of lightning shattered and was ripped apart. The blast was headed straight towards the dirt section stands.
Hundreds of spectators tried to run and a dozen of those men in purple shirts appeared at the edge of the stands. They held out their hands as the enormous blast hit, and it stopped on them. The room let out a sigh of relief, before panicking once again at the sight of the guards and staff members getting thrown backwards by the force of the attack.
These men had stopped every attack from reaching the stands, even the huge cannonball from Capone last round, so the fact that this blast got past them made the audience even more afraid. The blast looked like it was going to rip through the stands and every person there, until suddenly the huge beam got knocked straight up and shot through the ceiling.
Hajrudin had recovered from the shock of the ice spear flying past his face in the earlier fight, he really did. It shocked him for a few rounds and he was nervous, but now he was sitting down and looking through the glass at the matches below. The man in the green cloak who stood up and punted the lightning upwards completely forgot about the giant sitting up there.
"AHHHH!" he yelled and dove backwards as a huge lightning bolt smashed straight through the ceiling and then the ceiling of his room. His eyes were wide and he was panting hard against the back wall.
"Get over it," a voice said from behind him. The other giant wasn't even watching the matches, but he didn't seem too panicked by the giant bolt of lightning that flew up into the room. Hajrudin couldn't just get over it and was hyperventilating at how close that blast had been to hitting him.
Everyone in the dirt section stands looked over to the man in the green cloak. They all noticed at the same time that none of the other cloaked figures moved. It was like they all knew that the man would save them at the last second. Some of the cloaked figures even had guards in their hands that they must have pulled away at the last second before their leader saved them.
Most of the room stopped looking over towards the dirt section and instead faced back to the arena where Enel was laughing hard. He was still in his giant two hundred thousand volt form and energy continued to snap around him. The man slammed the butt of his trident down on the ground and stared ahead at the burnt body of his opponent with a wry smirk.
Zoro was flat on his face on the ground. He was lying diagonal in a hole in the floor that was incinerated by the blast, and he wasn't moving a muscle. The speakers in the ceiling turned on and a voice shouted, but it wasn't coming from the speakers, "Don't you dare," Zoro's voice echoed through the room.
"Uhh, oops," the speakers turned back off and the announcer sounded flustered. The swordsman reached his right arm over next to him and grabbed one of his dropped swords. Zoro could feel his teeth digging into the hilt of Wado, but now he had two swords again. He didn't dare look around for his third one and slowly turned to face Enel.
The man's expression was priceless. His jaw was dropped to the floor and his eyes were huge. His mantra stopped working and it wouldn't have mattered since everyone stopped praying to God, and started fearing the demon in front of them. Zoro raced forward, ignoring all the pain shooting through his body and he sliced at Enel. The fat lightning man lifted his trident, but Zoro's blade cut straight through it and into the left shoulder of the man in front of him.
Enel lost his fat form and went back to normal while nursing his left shoulder. The wound was very deep and blood splattered out from it. His earlier stitching might have been able to close his wound, but it didn't replace the blood he lost. It looked like it was all over for the man who called himself a God as his left arm looked about to fall off.
Enel stumbled back a few steps and coughed. It wasn't a small cough either, he kept going in a fit and held one of his hands up since the other wasn't working. He coughed and blood splattered all over his hand.
"I," the man started and all the injuries on him were catching up. He stumbled for a few seconds longer and then planted his legs on the ground and stared at Zoro through bloodied eyes. "I AM GOD!" He lifted off the ground and lightning started to crackle all around him,
The lightning wasn't white anymore, but a reddish orange color and flared out randomly. It slammed into the ceiling, the floor, every area was smashed by these bolts and the purple shirted staff members were jumping around trying to stop any bolts headed for the crowd. Most of the audience was having trouble deciding whether or not to be more scared of Enel or Zoro, so they wound up being terrified of both and sliding as far back as they could into their seats.
"Raaaa!" Enel lifted his good arm and five red lightning birds shot out of it and flew down towards Zoro. At the same time, the swordsman reached up and grabbed his sword from his mouth with his other arm.
The green haired man held his arms to the side so his swords were sticking straight out. Everyone in the crowd stared down in shock as a red aura started surrounding him. It looked like it had a swirling face and two large horns sticking out of the top of it.
Zoro leapt in the air and swerved past the lightning birds. Back on Sky Island he couldn't even dodge one, but this time he managed to dodge four before the fifth slammed into his head and snapped his neck backwards.
The God in the sky grinned and then fear took over as Zoro's head lifted back up and he kept raising with the large red aura around him. The red aura had two arms sticking out as well with large sharp swords on it and the swordsman turned his blades inwards so the sharp part was facing Enel.
"Ahh, AHHH!" Enel screamed as the monster and his aura swung their swords from the sides of their bodies in. Their arms crossed and the blades sliced straight through.
"Nitouryu, Devil Execution," Zoro dropped out of the sky while everyone was in stunned silence. They stared not at him, but at the man with the Rumble Rumble fruit whose head was no longer attached to his body and both halves were falling out of the sky on different sides of the swordsman.
Hawk-Eyes nodded and grinned at the man he trained for two years. He knew how the man liked his theatrics while fighting, but they weren't just for show. Everyone in the room just considered him a huge threat... including Takanomi himself. The greatest swordsman grinned and looked around at the few swordsmen who could give him a good fight. There was Shanks for sure, but then also Zoro and Vista would be worthy opponents as well.
Besides Hawk-Eyes, everyone else in the room was shocked. All of the Straw Hats included, they were all just staring at the swordsman falling out of the sky.
Even Luffy was staring with a dropped jaw at his first crew member. He'd never seen Zoro fight at that level before.
Every one of Zoro's past opponents gulped and thought about what would have happened if the man attacked them now. Cabaji wet his pants and Daz Bones started sweating hard. One of the top executives of Doflamingo's family had a sweat drop coming down the side of his face as Pica thought about his fight with the man compared to this.
Kaku was shaking in his seat and Rob Lucci turned to him. The leader of CP9 was surprised too, but he was more by what he was seeing now, "Are you afraid?"
"No," Kaku's trembling continued. "I'm excited," the man with the long square nose turned to Lucci and grinned.
"Winner:" the announcer called out, "Roronoa Zoro!"
"Sorry Nami," Zoro said with a small smirk a second before he slammed into a large rock below him. He faded out of consciousness but still managed to finish, "I just couldn't resist." Enel's body landed on one side of him and the head landed on the other.
A/N There we go! End of the first half of the first round with another victory for the Straw Hats. Zoro takes out Enel with a deadly finishing blow and takes him down. I hope you all enjoyed the fight and leave me a review telling me what you think of the battle. Try to guess who the next two opponents for these fighters are going to be. The start of the next half of the round initiates with Koala vs. X. Guess who X is and I'll give you a shout out at the top of that chapter. The match after hers is Shanks vs. Y. Guess who Y is and the same thing will happen. Anyway thanks for the reviews and to everyone keeping up with this story. Here are some responses to the reviews for last chapter.
JoshRand1982
go ahead and kill Enel. make it an accident or something but Enel needs to go. other than that nice chapter. I really enjoyed the fights.
Haha, you called it. That bastard got his head chopped off and he's not pumping his heart again after that one. Thanks!
Melashnaw
OWMAGASH UPDATE SOON I AM SO EXITED
Srsly how can you just stop the chapter there argh
Mwhaha, I stop it there 'cuz I'm evillll! Have a bunch of stories I'm working on right now but I tried to keep the update speed still in check. Hope you enjoyed the battle and outcome.
LittlemissTraffy
I will not surprise myself if Buggy won in this tournament in the end!
*looks both ways and sticks lips out nervously* I don't know what you're talking about. Buggy winning?! Of course not. Ha, haha, ehhh...
LittlemissTraffy
Oh... I was disappointed there, no more chapters... Well, guess i just need to wait 'til the next update. I'm trembling in excitement and then bam! Major cliffhanger! Ugh! It's like One Piece's anime "To be Continue" and manga's "End of Chapter" all over again! Anyways, I think Zoro will win since he has a very strong Armament Haki and I'm saying this even if Enel is Lightning. Enel's fruit power is pretty useless if he didn't know Armament but I can't say that since he has a strong Observation Haki too.
PS. I already love this! The fighting scenes are well-written and i can really imagine them, and i still have that overwhelmed feeling. Damn!
PPS. I'm also curious to the Tournament-maker's motives. Whoever he was, he's crazy for gathering lots of strong pirates and other organization.
PPPS. Maybe it's Akainu too? Lol.
Yeah Enel is a very strong fighter even without Armament Haki because of his super-powered Devil Fruit and awesome Mantra. He's one of the fastest (if not the fastest) fighter in the tournament, or at least he was :p. Zoro's a monster though and who can possibly stop the man who kicked the crap out of God. Maybe it's Urouge... maybe. Glad you loved it so much that it had you frustrated with the spot I'm at right now. And yeah those crazy tournament staff people are definitely planning something, but what, and why?! XD!
Lightningblade49
Respect for zoro is going to sore
Oh yeah, no one can ignore him now after watching that fight. Enel had the Yonko leaning forward in their seats and then Zoro goes out there and kicks his ass.
Guest
Enel is probably a better challenge for Zoro, but i would still like to see what ideas you have for a powered up Pica with new abilities
Pica will still have interesting fights, or fight, depending on who he gets. Zoro couldn't have picked a better opponent though. Enel embarrasses him by beating him without any trouble at all. Only Hawk-Eye can say the same thing since he dealt a Lion's Song to Kuma in that fight. His last fight with Enel he was considered trash, and now he's paid back the God for his failure.
Guest chapter 12 . May 8
Btw you said yourself that getting one strike gets the person disqualified, before two which disqualifies the whole crew. By that logic Big Mom should be out of the tournament
I looked back and saw that and cursed under my breath. Too much changed from that to go back and change the rest so thank you for catching that. I changed chapter three by just fixing that sentence to mark it as one strike as the team but not a disqualification for the person. Can't have Big Mom out that quick! Oops, I apologize for the mixup, and thanks a lot for the help.
RedZoro
I want to see this fight !
that's so exiting !
Haha, glad I had you anticipating it!
Guest
Keep up the good work! This is one fic i really hope to see completed. It would make me very happy if you would bother to put in a bracket showing who has fought who and who hasn't fought yet (Without spoiling upcoming matches, of course) Then it could be updated over time so everyone keeps a decent overview of the tournament.
Thank you and I'm thinking about putting in a bracket somewhere, but after the first round since it's easier to make a sixty four match bracket than a 128. Plus once the first round is over, it won't matter if I fill in the entire bracket because it won't be a surprise anymore if you just read through and figure out who's versing who. I'm really glad you hope to see it finished, even if I'm still in the first fraction of the matches that have to be fought. It's going to be a really long chapter and I'd be glad if you stayed with it until the end.
