Chapter 14:
"I hope everyone had a good night's sleep and a delicious serving of breakfast, because we're getting right into the next set of matches!" There was some cheering but everyone had calmed down a lot from the previous night. It would probably pick back up after lunch.
"I'm surprised the arena looks so nice," Robin commented as their group found an open area above the stone section again. She looked up and the holes on the ceiling were gone too. Hmm, wonder if there are any other giants besides Hajrudin.
She looked away from the ceiling and they all listened as the speakers turned back on. "So without further delay, let's get started! Remember folks, if you fight an opponent after the match has been called, your team will get a strike. One more, and you'll have to leave and forfeit the billion beri prize. I'm looking at you Big Mom's crew."
A few people laughed while most others dropped their jaws a little at the announcer's audacity. It was a good thing then that Yonko was one of the ones laughing. Big Mom was recollecting on the good feeling she had when she dissolved that weakling from last round.
"For the first match in the second half of round one, we have Koala vs Emporio Ivankov!" Everyone looked around and saw two people in cloaks stand up from above the dirt section of the arena.
One of the two was smaller than most people in the room, while the other was the opposite. As the smaller figure and the larger one jumped down, Jimbei was slowly turning his head toward the arena.
"Hey Jimbei," Luffy called to the fishman a couple rows below him, "look it's Iva-chan!"
"Koala," Jimbei whispered and he stared at the smaller figure's cloak. He couldn't see inside it, but the opening where the hood was shadowing the person's face moved away from him as if the person inside just met his gaze and turned away.
The countdown started above their heads and the fighters looked ready. Luffy kept shouting down and waving at Ivankov who was shaking. Everyone could see how much the cloak was shaking on the fighter below and whispers were going around as people recognized the name.
Ivankov was told to try and keep his cloak on, but the flamboyant Okama Queen couldn't handle everyone looking at him and threw the cloak up in the air. "YES, IT IS I! IVANKOV! LOOK AT ME!"
The man was wearing a skimpy pink outfit and his enormous head was only trumped by his huge purple hair. He looked thoroughly ridiculous, but to those who knew him or knew of him, they knew how powerful he really was. The girl in front of him had yet to take her cloak off as she was better at following their directions.
Jimbei's head snapped from the arena to the other side of the room where he saw Arlong and the others staring with dropped jaws down at the arena too. He couldn't tell what any of them were thinking, but he guessed they were trying to figure out if whoever this small person was, was the same as the girl they once had on their crew. The Sun Pirates and Koala, the girl who led Fisher Tiger to his death. Out of the three of them, only Arlong stayed cold to her the entire time she spent on the ship. Every crew member warmed up to Koala eventually, all except for Arlong.
The young girl in the cloak down below was trying not to look up in the stands. She tried hard not to look Jimbei's direction, but she saw him staring right at her and knew that he figured out who she was. The guilt tore at her, but she saw her opponent start moving and shook the stray thoughts away.
Ivankov didn't mind that his opponent was one of their own Revolutionaries. Koala was a strong girl and an impressive opponent he was up against and he wasn't going to go easy on her. "Death Wink!" he charged at her and sprang off the ground, twirling in midair and winking hard. His wink sent a huge gust of wind crashing into the ground where Koala was standing but the girl dodge-rolled to the right a second before it hit.
"Whoa," Chopper whispered as her watched the small figure in the cloak. He saw short brown hair fly out of the hood as the girl dodged another attack by backflipping and then doing it over and over as multiple explosions followed her.
"Death Wink! Death Wink! Death Wink!" Ivankov kept turning his head and the ground was exploding all over the place. The pirates who laughed when the funny-looking okama first appeared shut up as they comprehended how strong he was. And then they rethought how strong they thought he was when he shouted extra loudly, "HELL WINK!"
Koala knew she couldn't let this hit her and bent her knees a small bit before leaping high into the air. The ground beneath her exploded so harshly that sand flew up all over the place and she had to cross her arms to protect herself. Unfortunately for the girl trying to hide her face, the wind and sand blew her cloak right off of her and up in the air with the rest of the explosion. The girl reached for it but it was out of her arm's length and she fell back to the ground and stared over at Ivankov.
The Okama queen thought she was on-target that time and mumbled incoherently about how fast Koala was. Ivankov couldn't keep up with her and he knew what he had to do. "Emporio Female Hormones!" His nails extended and the large man stuck the needle-like appendages into his side.
He started to thin out and his chest popped into two large breasts that his skimpy pink outfit barely covered. He was still over two times as tall as Koala, but he got more and more feminine until he looked entirely like a woman. The men who found her attracted started gagging a little as they thought of his actual appearance.
Sanji, who had been looking away for the beginning of the match, suddenly spun around and stared at the fight intently. He kept his mouth shut because he knew what was inside that body, but he was okay with looking now.
"Go Iva-Chan!" Luffy shouted.
Like that bastard needs any encouragement, Sanji frowned as he thought about all the times he lost to the Okama. He had to admit, Ivankov was incredibly powerful, even more so in his female form that in his male.
The girl Ivanov was fighting wore a dark purple hat with goggles on it and had a light pink blouse on below the cloak that was now floating back down. She didn't bother picking it back up as whatever damage was done was final now.
All around the room, there were large groups of people not watching the match at all, but instead staring at the dirt section stands where the group of cloaked figures were sitting. If Emporio Ivankov was here, then the man who stopped Enel's blast the day before could only be one man.
Doflamingo was staring over with an angry look on his face. Actually all of the Don Quixote Pirates were scowling or giving death eyes to everyone around them. The captain was watching the Revolutionaries with an angry expression though as he realized his chances of winning just decreased again. Now he was on the same side of the bracket as three Yonko and the most wanted man in the world. The two men he wanted to fight the most, Luffy and Law, were both on the other half of the bracket and he'd have to get through everyone to get them.
The reason he and the rest of his family were furious though, was the bad news they received the night before. Trebol's body was still sitting in his and Pica's shared room where the larger man had spent the night before staring at his dead nakama through the night. His injuries in his match with Kaku were too severe and he succumbed to them.
The String Man almost cut apart the messenger, but he decided against it for the sake of the rest of his crew. Starting anything in this place was straight up asking for trouble and he didn't want Kaido or Big Mom turning around and taking out his family.
The Revolutionaries down below were battling ferociously with each other in hand to hand combat. While in his female form, Emporio Ivankov could take stronger hits, could throw stronger punches, and moved faster than she ever could while in her normal state. He was punching and mainly kicking using Okama kenpo that Koala was struggling to keep up with.
Ivankov kicked for the younger girl's head but Koala moved slightly to the right and it flew right past her. The stance she was in made Ivankov pull her leg back fast and cartwheel to the right.
Koala had one arm extended and the other clenching a fist at her side. "Gyojin Karate," she started and all the fishmen in the room froze and stared down at her wide-eyed. "Samehada Seiken!" She punched her fist forward towards the spot Ivankov was about to be.
The Revolutionary officer knew Koala would aim in front of her and stopped at the end of the attack. Ivankov instead sprang off his hands halfway through his cartwheel and jumped up into the air, spinning the whole time.
While he was up in the air, Koala's attack shook the ground of the stone section she was standing on. Little rocks and pieces of the floor started lifting up around her as the ground cracked near her feet.
"She knows fishman karate?" Usopp wondered out loud and looked towards their fishman friend. Jimbei's face showed complete shock though and the others stared down at the arena where the whale shark was looking.
"Jimbei-san," Brook started as he looked back and forth between the girl and the fishman, "do you know Koala-chan?"
Zoro, Usopp, Vivi, and Luffy all looked over at him with questioning looks, but at the same time the rest of the crew's eyes went wide. Recognition filled their faces as they remembered Jimbei's story back on Fishman Island.
Robin sighed and looked down at the innocent little girl in the arena. Her face showed intense concentration as she attempted to defeat her superior in the army.
Sanji looked at the cute girl down below and then at Jimbei. He recalled the young slave girl who became one of the Sun Pirates for a while was also called Koala. Telling from the look on Jimbei's face, this was the same person. He also remembered what happened to Fisher Tiger after they brought the girl home to her island. The blonde man lit his cigarette and frowned, looking across the room and seeing a group of furious fishmen trying hard to stay in their seats.
Ivankov landed after the attack and instantly charged forward with a relentless attack at the girl. Her punches and kicks moved much faster than before and Koala couldn't dodge them all.
The girl was a master of fishman karate, but her attacks were being masterfully dodged by the Revolutionary commander. Ivankov clearly gained the lead in speed and strength as a fist aimed down at Koala missed by an inch and hit the floor of the dirt section. The ground beneath her fist cracked, then the cracks spread out and one ran up the side of the wall and into the stands of their own area in the crowd where the cloaked figures moved to the sides and one chair broke. Ivankov dropped her jaw and pointed, "That's my chair!"
"Then you shouldn't have broken it," Koala yelled as she sprang at the distracted okama queen. Ivankov turned back, right as both of the girl's feet were about to hit and the girl winced as her legs pushed into the other woman's face. Ivankov's purple hair fluffed up, but she fought through the pain and reached up both arms at the same time, grabbing Koala by the feet.
Koala's attack was powerful, but she didn't trump Ivankov's pain tolerance or durability. The large woman extended her arms and started swinging around with the girl's legs in her arms. The girl moved faster and faster until she was just a blur, "I-I-I-Iva-a-a-a," the girl tried to speak but was spinning too fast. Finally Ivankov let go and the girl flew straight out into the nearest wall where her back slammed into it and made a person-shaped crater in the concrete.
"Koala-chan," Robin whispered sadly as the girl coughed up blood and then fell out of the hole in the wall. She looked to be struggling to get up, but Ivankov was right in front of her with his/her fingernails extended and pressed up against the girl's neck. A trickle of blood came out of Koala's skin before she even realized Ivankov was next to her and her huge eyes grew wider. "I give up," she whispered.
"Winner: Emporio Ivankov!" the announcer shouted. The audience cheered and the girl got back up to her feet. Ivankov was shouting out into the stands and enjoying his victory a lot, but there were figures moving in the stands and she wasn't the only one who saw them.
"No," Jimbei stood up fast and the crew around him looked up.
"Jimbei-san?" Vivi asked, confused at the nervous look on the fishman's face.
"Arlong!" he shouted and started running down the steps of their stands.
Nami snapped her head to the other side of the arena where Arlong, Chew, and Kuroobi were all marching down the steps with furious, rage-filled expressions on their faces. The cheers were starting to die down as people turned around and saw one fishman coming down from one side and three more on the other.
A few of the cloaked fighters tried standing up but the man in the center of them at the bottom row held up a hand and they froze. None knew why they leader commanded it, but they wouldn't go now that he'd stopped them. Ivankov didn't need to be told not to interfere as he was one of the few who knew all about the girl in front of him.
Her eyes were downcast and her purple hat shadowed her eyes as she flicked them from one side of the arena to the other. Three fishmen dropped down on one and the one in the middle of them she was most afraid of. His eyes were full of bloodlust and he looked like he was ready to kill. Jimbei dropped down on the other and she couldn't even look his direction. He was always so nice to her on the ship, and yet it was her village who betrayed the Sun Pirates to the Marines.
"It is you isn't it?" Arlong growled as he marched towards the girl in the arena.
"Umm, excuse me," the announcer started.
"Shut it!" The leader of the Arlong Pirates shouted up and then snarled back at the girl in front of him. She was staring at the ground and he stopped walking when he was ten yards away. "You, you killed aniki."
The girl didn't look up, but she flinched noticeably and her head turned a little to the right where she saw Jimbei standing opposite Arlong. The whale shark fishman wanted to be sympathetic towards the girl, but all the rage he felt from that day forward was building up inside him and he lost his reason for coming down in the first place. "Why?" the man demanded to know and Koala's hopes that he might be on her side were crushed, "We took care of you, we brought you home," he was keeping his tone calm, but his eyes were full of anger. "Why did your people betray Fisher Tiger?"
A few of the people in the stands looked at each other and shrugged. They didn't know what was going on, but the name Fisher Tiger was well known throughout the world. He was the man who freed the slaves. Chew bared his teeth between his huge lips and he questioned, "Did that mark on your back mean so little to you?" The two fishmen on either side of Chew looked towards him in a little bit of surprise but the long-lipped man continued, "We made you one of us, you had a Sun Pirate symbol on your back, the only human we ever trusted enough to give."
Arlong humphed because he never trusted a single human in his life, but Kuroobi looked hurt as well. The man with the sharp elbows glared down at the girl, "Instead of thanking the man who saved you from the Government, who brought you all the way home," the man was getting progressively louder and the tension in the room was building. A lot of people were enjoying this even more than the fight. Ivankov was watching closely to make sure nothing got out of hand, but she wondered if she should just stop it now. Kuroobi continued in a harsh tone, "You repaid his kindness, by stabbing him in the back. You turned him over to the very same people who enslaved you."
A lot of people in the audience had figured it out already, but to say that someone was once a slave was a rough thing to do and a many gasped. Jimbei glared at his fellow fishman for a second before turning back to the girl. It was a good thing most everyone there was a criminal, none of them would be reporting this to the Government.
Arlong was ready to go on a rant about how they could never trust humans, and how she was a burden from the very beginning, when they saw the droplet. The girl's head was down, her eyes pointed towards the dirt below her, and suddenly another drop fell from her face. "I'm sorry," she whispered, as if it would make any difference at this point. She didn't even want to say it at first because it would sound like she was begging for forgiveness, but she couldn't hold in how she felt any longer. "It's all my fault Big Bro Tiger got killed..."
"You don't have the right to call him that," Arlong growled.
She flinched and looked up and the four fishmen in front of her looked in her eyes. Jimbei's angry glare went away at the sight of her eyes and he stared at her shaking face. There was water dripping down it, but tears alone weren't enough to move the other fishmen.
"When I," the girl started and then stopped because she was choking on her words. "When I heard that, that my village turned in Fisher Tiger," she avoided calling him her Big Bro again. "And that he died, because humans wouldn't give him blood," she paused again and everyone was staring at her. "I couldn't stay with them anymore. I left my family, the village, the island, but it wasn't far enough. Everywhere I went, people thought fishmen were monsters, but the real monsters were people." Her tears were building up in her eyes again but she stayed strong. She wanted them to know that she blamed herself, she wanted them to know that she'd been tortured by the thought of their captain her entire life, so that they would know punishment was being dealt out.
A smile formed on the girl's tear-streaked face, "But then I found people who weren't bad. They told me I could change; that I could avenge Big Bro Tiger." She turned around and pulled the back of her blouse down and revealed the Sun Pirates mark, still there. "Because I am a member of the Sun Pirates!" Kuroobi and Chew were staring at the mark now and they tilted their heads down. They tried hard to hate all humans, but the memories of the smiling girl on their ship were coming back.
Chew stood there and thought about the time he found the girl out scrubbing the deck late at night. She kept cleaning all the time because she thought if she stopped they would kill her like the Celestial Dragons in Mariejois would. He dismissed her at first, but watching her clean the deck reminded him of how much pain the Nobles had put them through, and he turned to the girl, making funny faces with Hachi until she stopped cleaning and started laughing.
The fishman with pointy elbows recalled the day before Koala left. They knew the island was close, and he'd been with Arlong mostly in staying away from the girl or just giving her dirty looks. Somehow she'd grown on him though and he watched her as she had a talk with their captain. The red fishman was always so hateful towards humans, but with Koala on the ship, he saw the captain change, so why couldn't he? He offered the girl a piece of bread later that day, and she thanked him for it with a smile. Not the forced smile she had because slaves always had to smile to please their masters, but a genuine, grateful smile.
Both of them looked down and their anger dissipated. The people in Koala's village were the worst kind of scum in their eyes, but they couldn't put the blame of what happened on this girl. They even felt a little bad that she'd been carrying this guilt for well over a decade now.
The leader of the group with the saw-shaped nose glanced at his comrades and then scoffed at the girl in front of him. "I'll never forgive humans for what they did to aniki," he scowled at her and the girl turned back around and faced him. "You're no better than the ones who put the bullets in his chest." He turned and walked away.
After a few seconds, Kuroobi followed him. Chew looked up for a small moment and met eyes with the girl, but then he spun and walked after his comrades. They were the only three remaining members of the Arlong Pirates, their crew just kept getting smaller.
Jimbei watched his brethren leave and then turned to the girl who was staring at him. He met her gaze and opened his mouth when they were cut off, "Please get off the arena!" The announcer called down, "We need to proceed with the next match."
No one really expected Jimbei to attack this girl, so the suspense in the air disappeared when Arlong left. It was a little disappointing, but relieving to a lot of people in the room that nothing went down. The whale shark closed his mouth and nodded, not knowing what to say to her. Did he forgive her? The man didn't even know that himself.
"Jimbei!" Ivankov shouted as she walked over and put an arm around Koala. She was still in her female form but she was as loud as ever. "We have to catch up! VI'll find vyou at lunch!"
"Yes, yes," the man waved off the eccentric okama and then walked the other way. Ivankov jumped back into the stands with Koala who put her cloak back on fully covering herself. Ivankov stayed out of his cloak as he turned back to normal, but he had to find a new seat because he accidentally broke his own during the fight.
Jimebi walked away and thought about what Koala said. It wasn't her fault, he knew that, but a part of him still wanted to hate her for making them go to that island in the first place. It's wrong to blame a child for the sins of the parents. He thought back to the war and watching Luffy and Ace get hunted by Akainu. The man believed evil ran in the blood and wanted to kill them for who their parents were. He hated Akainu, so he shouldn't feel this way. He furrowed his brow and walked all the way back to his seat. His eyes widened as he thought of something, Koala, you didn't join the Revolutionaries because you were a slave, he'd assumed it but now he realized he was wrong, you joined because the Marines killed aniki. You're willing to go against the entire World, just to avenge him... a smile tugged at Jimbei's lips and he decided.
"Jimbei-san," Robin whispered from the man's left. "Just making sure, but you don't hold any grudge towards Koala-chan?"
"No," the man said and looked towards the cloaked figures' area. "Not at all."
"Good," Robin whispered in his ear and Jimbei's skin crawled. That wasn't a 'good,' now we can all be friends, that was a 'good,' if you answered wrong I would have killed you in your sleep. He didn't know how Nico Robin knew Koala, but he figured he should warn the other fishmen to stay away from the girl if they wanted to stay alive.
"Ahem," the announcer called out. "Now that, um that's over with. Let's get started with the next match. 'Red Hair' Shanks, and Bellamy please come down to the arena!"
"Hey Captain, this guy's got a 195,000,000 bounty," Lucky Roo commented and sat back in his seat.
Shanks yawned and stood up out of his seat. "I wish I got a better match first round, but at least I get to take on one of the brass of the Revolutionary Army after this."
Meanwhile, Emporio Ivankov was slamming his hand into the ground with his head bowed. "This is so unfair!" He shouted.
Shanks laughed as he looked over towards the Revolutionaries and then jumped down to the stone area of the arena. Hmm, wonder if I can take out my opponent like Luffy did? He watched his foe drop down to the ice section and he discarded the thought. The man's willpower felt strong enough to withstand his blast, even a directed one and he grinned.
"Akagami Shanks," Bellamy muttered to himself. He'd been preparing himself for this fight all day yesterday and all night. Seeing the name next to his on the bracket unnerved him for a moment, but he calmed himself down and decided not to forfeit.
"Go Shanks!" Most of the Straw Hat crew cheered from up in the bleachers. Nami was glaring down at the man who insulted them so much in Jaya and was going to start insulting him when her eyes went wide and she turned to her captain.
"Go Shanks! Yeah Bellamy! Kick each other's asses!" Luffy was getting into the fight between two of his friends but most of his crew was staring at him in surprise.
"Luffy! What are you doing?" Nami grabbed him by the cheek and stretched him, "That's the guy who attacked us and the Merry back on Jaya. He beat up you and Zoro, then the monkeys and old man Cricket! Don't you remember?!"
"Yeah," Luffy said slowly, but then he turned his head to Nami with his eyes closed and said, "But he's changed. We're friends now. Shishishishi!"
Shanks glanced up in the stands while the timer ticked down. Hmm, so he's friends with Luffy. Guess I won't destroy him. The pirate had his sword drawn a small bit, but he slid it back into his sheath as the timer his zero and he rushed forward. At the same moment, Bellamy bent his knees and his legs turned into springs.
The Yonko was much too seasoned a fighter to be surprised by a Devil's Fruit and he kicked off the ground to the left. The blonde haired man he was versing had his springs bent that direction and he moved to cut the man off. Bellamy's springs pushed farther in though without releasing yet and Shanks got to the spot the pirate was going to fly to and stood there.
He's going to take my attack head on?! Bellamy tightened the fist he had clenched and Luffy suddenly noticed something. The pirate with Doflamingo's tattoo crossed out on his chest with a large 'X' was wearing a long-sleeved button down shirt. The man had springs in his legs that were getting pushed together farther and farther to make him shoot off faster when he finally released, but inside the sleeve he was also tightening a fist to put more and more power into it. His fist was moving closer to his shoulder as his entire arm pulled together in a tightening spring.
"Are you going to move, or," Shanks started. He thought the man was going to be flying off his feet right away which is why he stopped charging and went to cut him off, but this was getting disappointing. Suddenly his Observational Haki told him what attack was coming and his eyes opened wide. Bellamy moved faster than almost everyone in the room could see. He applied so much pressure to his springs that the release sent him flying at his opponent.
Shanks was one of the few people who was able to see Bellamy coming, and he also knew which hand the man was going to use to attack. The Emperor lifted up a hand and punched forward as Bellamy's fist was about to hit him. Even with all the speed of his lift-off and the amount of pressure behind his fist, Bellamy's hand stopped as it collided with Shanks's. The room became silent as everyone turned from where Bellamy was standing one second, to where he had a fist pressed up against Shanks the next.
Then the shockwave hit. The ground beneath their fists exploded down and the ice cracked all the way up to the bleachers and down to the water. The crater that appeared beneath them doubled in size after a second and Bellamy strained to push into his attack, "Raaaaahhhh!" He pushed as hard as he could, but Shanks's feet dug into the ground below him and the Emperor pushed back too.
Bellamy felt his hand moving backwards and he lifted his legs to the man's chest. He pressed his feet up against the Yonko and moved his hand away, allowing Shanks's momentum to move him closer before kicking off and flying all the way to the stone wall around the stone section and pushed his hands against the wall, bending in his spring arms and pushing off to fly back at the red haired man.
Shanks was following closely behind Bellamy though, and when the man sprang off of his hands, Shanks grabbed him by the front of the shirt and twisted him in midair. The pirate worth almost two hundred million beri slammed into the ground and made an indent in the stone. The emperor watched as his opponent got back to his feet and then the red haired pirate took a step forward and punched the man in the forehead.
"Ooo," a hundred people said at the same time as Shanks's fist made an indent and Bellamy slammed back into the ground and tumbled across the entire arena where he slammed into the wall of the dirt section. The group of cloaked fighters looked down off the edge to see where the man went, but he was embedded in their wall so far that they couldn't see him.
Serves him right, Nami smirked. She didn't know how Luffy could have ever become friends with this jerk, but she was glad he got his... No way.
Shanks was surprised the man was getting up after a punch like that. He didn't put any Haki into it, but he didn't think he'd need to. Bellamy was struggling to get out of the hole in the wall that was shaped oddly like a person's body. He fit perfectly back through it and glared over at Shanks on a different part of the arena as him. "Shit," he muttered, his plans going down the drain. Nothing was working, and the Yonko wasn't taking him seriously.
"Come back in a few years," A voice told him from his right and Bellamy didn't even have to turn to see who it was. Shanks moved faster than before, and the man was no longer standing half an arena away from him, he was right on the pirate's side and chopped the man on his neck. Bellamy collapsed unconscious and the Red Hair crew started cheering.
Luffy clapped it up and cheered for his friend too. Shanks hopped up in the stands and walked around the ledge to get back to his seat. "Winner: Shanks!"
Everyone started cheering, even if most of them missed the fast-paced action. No one was running over to help the injured pirate and a staff member dropped down from the wall and picked him up. He carried Bellamy over to the door leading to the infirmary and Luffy frowned. He didn't think any doctors would be helping with Bellamy, but at the same time he didn't think Shanks hurt him enough for him to bother sending Chopper to check up on him. The rubber man smiled and then cheered again for Shanks's victory.
"Let's keep going right into the next match," the mystery announcer called out. They wasted a lot of time between the last two matches, so they were going to hurry up this break in the action. "Actually folks, Tansui was one of the competitors in the next match and he's already left the island, so his opponent will be moving on and we'll be going right into the following bout. Will Jimbei and Hack please come down to the arena!"
"Good luck Jimbei," his crewmates said but the man was looking over to the other side of the room where Koala came from with a wide smile.
"Hack!"
The man in the cloak frowned. They were supposed to stay hidden, but Ivankov had already kind of ruined that for all of them and was still sitting down without his cloak on. A smile broke out on his face and he lowered his hood as he dropped down to the arena. "Jimbei," he watched as the whale shark ran down and jumped onto the stone section.
They walked over to each other and greeted like brothers, grabbing each other's forearm and then pulling in for a hug. "I won't go easy on you my friend," Hack warned with a grin and Jimbei started laughing.
"You could never defeat me before," the two of them started running to the right and the former Shichibukai jumped, "and you still won't." Both of them landed in the water and for the first time in most of the audience's lives, they were about to witness a battle between two fishmen in the water.
A/N Hey everyone and we're back with the second half of Round 1. Ivankov and Shanks move forward to the next round and we're setting up for a battle between the fishmen! Hope you enjoyed the fights and the interaction between the former Sun Pirates and Koala, felt it had to be done. Next time we get some more good battles as the first round continues. Thanks for reading and all the reviews! 'Till next time.
