However, Moria was still conscious and emerged from Oz's stomach. The Shadow-Victims and the Mugiwaras still found a fight on their hands, as Moria sucked up all the remaining shadows on Thriller Bark. He called it his Shadow Asgard move.
Those who had their shadows stolen – like Robin, Sanji, Zoro, Luffy and Lola – stood firm as the race against time truly started. Inch by inch, the rising sun crept upward into the sky, threatening those without shadows standing without cover.
The Mugiwara captain geared up for one last strike, sending himself against Moria one on one. Taking the Shadow Box hit, Luffy only bounced back and used both Second and Third Gear, slamming a fast giant fist into Moria's gut. This made the Shichibukai spew forth shadows, as he lost control of the thousands Shadow Asguard. Finally Moria lost consciousness, letting free the horde of shadows within his body.
Having been burnt half way, Sanji, Robin, Zoro, Luffy and Lola were miraculously saved when their shadows finally returned to them. The rest of the Mugiwaras all freaked out at their saved nakama, now whole once again.
The fight was over, and the Mugiwaras had won. The once captive shadows had been freed and now returned to their rightful owners – who, by now, would be overjoyed in seeing the sun once again.
The Shadow-Victim Pirates all gave their sincere gratitude to their saviors, but the Treasure Hunter didn't really care since her focus was on the unconscious, yet victorious, Luffy. She was worried about the consequences on his body from his use of Second and Third Gear consecutively. Being so concerned while Chopper evaluated their captain, the treasure hunter barely managed to listen to Nami when the navigator finally remember the bad news. There was another enemy on the island-ship.
Indeed, there was yet another Shichibukai around, and revealed himself as his conversation on a portable Den-Mushi (mini den-den mushi) cut through the quietness of the post-battle.
Everyone was shocked to see the ex-pirate known as the Tyrant sitting calmly on a fallen tower. The jubilant cheer quickly turned to fear and shock as the Shichibukai received orders from the Den-Mushi to kill them all. Nami warned them on how dangerous he and his hands were, and how he had a teleportation trick.
Showing just that, the Tyrant suddenly appeared in their midst and struck the Shadow Pirates that attacked. Piercing them without touching them, the Tyrant watched quietly as the Victim's leader, Lola, took charge and forbad anyone to attack the Shichibukai.
After a very short, uneasy wait, the Tyrant casually challenged Roronoa and the Golden Thief. The Shadow-Victims naysayed this, venting their frustrated anger at having their saviors attacked so soon.
Zoro told them to stand back, as Kuma had asked for him. Verbally pushing the Golden Thief out of the fight, Roronoa exchanged thoughtful words with his opponent. Kuma stated that the Mugiwara Captain had gathered such an exceptional crew, the crew being noticed like their captain. The Swordsman attacked, and the duel was on. Zoro was put on the ropes by Kuma's Paw-Paw ability which Jiru argued that she would be more of a match against than the swordsman.
After losing the fight, but living only through Sanji's intervention, Roronoa Zoro and the rest looked on in shock as Kuma created an Air bomb; a process which the Golden Thief explained in horror. Kuma stared back at them, and gave them all a condition of escape: They all would walk away with their lives, if they only turned over Monkey D. Luffy.
Utterly and completely denying his deal, the gathered group all felt the terrible power of Ursa Shock Air Bomb.
The Golden Thief instantly had engulfed the group in one of her own Aura domes, but the dome was quickly overpowered until all she could manage was a fiercely concentrated air-shield over the inert Luffy. Holding and forming the energy in the air when it was twisted around like a tornado was beyond her skill level, and it took all her focus and willpower to hold a dome in place over Luffy. It cost her largely, as the Golden Thief was pummeled and struck with angry flying debris.
Only when the air and flying debris finally settled, did the Reiki-user release the protective dome when her focus was shattered by the pain in her left leg. A huge, room-sized boulder had come to rest on her left ankle and gravity was doing its work; drawing the stone down to the ground beneath; slowly, painfully, grinding her bone between it and the ground.
Painfully aware that she and Kuma Paw-Man were the only ones conscious, the Golden Thief hissed and spat like a cat as the towering Shichibukai approached her, still intent on taking Luffy's bounty. However, he uncaringly offered relief when he repelled the immovable stone chunk on her now broken ankle. The Treasure hunter cried with audible pain as she moved to shield Luffy with her body – if Luffy had met the end of his line, she would go with him. The Shichibukai wouldn't get away with taking just the captain.
Thankfully, Zoro appeared out of nowhere and managed to slice into Kuma's steel-hard shoulder; pushing the Tyrant away from the two. Watching in horror as Zoro started round two with the now-revealed cyborg Kuma, the Golden Thief weakly managed to reflect the mouth-laser beams away from Zoro. Noting how even the debris was reduced to slag, Zoro refused Kuma Luffy's bounty; and instead offered his own.
Zoro's offer sent Jiru in a mind-numbing rage; cussing out the swordsman as she threw her bounty as a counter-offer – shouting that the other-worldly knowledge she had would be most valuable to the so called Dr. Vegapunk whom Kuma stated was the one to modify him into the cyborg-like 'Pacifista.'
It was here that a third offer was given, as Sanji resolutely refused to allow neither Zoro nor his beloved Golden Thief to be captured by the Marines. Spouting off his poetic sacrificial nonsense about Zoro's dream and the Mugiwaras finding a new chef was for naught, as Zoro KO-ed Sanji with a sword hilt to the gut. Then, turning to a silently weeping Treasure Hunter, the swordsman forced her to swear to make sure that Luffy would become the next Pirate King. Unable to physically deter the strong swordsman, the broken Golden Thief watched as Kuma repelled the injuries in Luffy and offer it to Zoro; which would be the deal-sealer. Screaming in horror as the small sample the Kuma gave the swordsman sent the man screaming in death; she could only stare as Zoro agreed to the deal and asked to receive the large globe of red-tinted pain elsewhere, so that the Golden Thief wouldn't witness his death. Kuma agreed to this and the pair went off out of sight.
The Golden Thief could do nothing but weep and watch silently – being the only other life form conscious enough to do so. She held onto consciousness a bit longer, until Kuma removed a mortal wound from her. She then proceeded to pass out.