Chapter 6: Old Foes once Fought

"Zzzzz...zzzz...zzzzz..."

"Mr Ellix? Are you asleep?"

My eyes snapped open to see Florina standing over me and biting her lip. "Yeah, don't worry Florina." I mumbled. "Ever since I ate the Dream-Dream Fruit for me taking a nap is like Luffy eating meat, I feel much better." I jumped up and smiled at my two nakama. "So your gonna ride Billy?"

Nami smiled. "Yep, are you sure you can keep up with us using Geppo and carrying Florina?"

"No problem! If I can use it to climb a mountain I can keep up with Billy. You ready Florina?" I looked down at the small girl to see her biting her lip again. "Florina? What's wrong?"

She looked up at me with glassy eyes. "Mr Ellix...I miss my family..."

I patted her head with a reassuring smile. "Don't worry, we'll find your family, I promise."

"Shishishi!" Luffy chuckled. "Your lucky Florina! Ellix doesn't even know his family."

I turned on him with shark teeth. "Baka! Don't tell her that!"

"Mr Ellix...You've never seen your family?" She said sadly.

I sighed. "Yeah, I was literally dropped off by a News-Coo in Orange Town with a letter containing my name, the chest containing the Dream-Dream Fruit, and the key for it. Oren found me in a wooden basket."

She just stared at me. "Oren?"

"The man who trained me in Rokushiki." I said with a smile. "Oren was a vice-admiral who was forced to retire in Orange Town due to too many battle wounds, seeing as no-one else could take me in he took care of me and trained me since I was five."

"Mr Oren sounds really nice!"

"Apart from his discipline..." I mumbled. "But yes, he is pretty nice."

Flashback

"Hey Oren-senpai." I called. "How did you become a vice-admiral?"

His tattered vice-admiral coat fluttered in the breeze behind him. "Through hard work and training, that is how you succeed in life."

"I don't get it."

"Of course you wouldn't, your five years old, but you should become stronger, that's why I plan to teach you Rokushiki." He snorted.

"Nani!? Really? That would be cool! But..." Tears started to form in my eyes. "Am I ever gonna see my own family ever again?"

He turned to me. "The letter said that you came from the New World, if you ever hope to reach their then you must become stronger if you truly want to meet your family."

I sniffed back my tears. "Ok Oren-senpai."

He nodded. "Good, now we start immediantely! Move those legs!"

He then proceeded to chase after me. "Ahhhh! Stop it Oren!"

Flashback End

Seeing as Orange Town was the only place I knew, I always considered it the place I was 'born', but I still carried the letter, chest and key around with me. Hoping that I could find my real family in the New World.

"I'm sorry Mr Ellix, I'm worried about my family and you don't even know yours." Florina started biting her lip again.

I just smiled. "Don't worry about it, I'm used to it, but I'm sure that your family misses you too."

"Okay." She whispered. "I'll try not to be sad anymore."

She climbed up onto my back while Luffy and Nami sat on Billy, if it was Sanji I'd have been worried, but I'm 99.9% sure Luffy's asexual.

"Mr Ellix. You and Mr Luffy are really strong. Have you beaten a lot of bad people?"

"Shishishi! Hell yeah! We kicked loads of guys as-"

I clamped my hand over his mouth. "Don't swear in front of little kids Luffy!"

"Nani? Why?" He mumbled through my hand while tilting his head.

Nami just sighed. "Baka."

"But we did!" Luffy cried. "We beat Arlong, those number guys, Crocodile, Earlobes, Pigeon guy and Moriah."

Florina just laughed. "Those are really funny names!"

"They weren't actually called that Florina." Nami spoke up.

"Yeah." I said. "But Luffy really did beat them."

"Mr Luffy beat them? Then who did you beat?"

If I could I would have crossed my arms. "The first person I beat as a straw-hat? I guess that would have been...Fyuro at Arlong Park. They hurt Nami so we had to go and beat him up."

"Yeah!" Luffy yelled. "We had to go and beat up that Arlong bast-"

I placed my hand over his mouth yet again.

"Really?" Florina suddenly got her huge grin. "So you and Mr Luffy were like knights saving Princess Nami?"

"Sure, why not?" I replied with a shrug. "That guy was really annoying though..."

Flashback

I dashed into Arlong Park, Luffy was currently fighting the man himself and Zoro and Sanji were resting. Since I left Orange Town I wore a blue shirt with a yellow 'Criminal' brand on the front with some blue jeans and a chain attached to my waist which was also connected to my key in my pocket.

"Luffy!" I yelled.

"Another one?" I heard a deep voice say. I turned to see a grey fishman with a toned body, wearing a green lotus patterned shirt and a red belt, with black shorts and red sandals.

"Who are you?" I called.

"My name is Fyuro, a clouded archer fishman, and first mate to Arlong-sama."

I instantly went on the offensive. "You work for Arlong!? The guy Luffy's fighting? The guy who made Nami cry!?"

He smirked. "The very same." he got into a battle stance. "So human...what am I to you?"

I dashed forward with Soru and smashed his stomach with a lightning speed fist, sending him flying into a wall. "My enemy."

He immediantely stood up, looking more annoyed then injured. "Do all of you REALLY think you can defeat Arlong Park? We are fishmen! Chosen to be the stronger species!"

I punched him with Soru again, making him smash into the wall a second time. "If your a fishman, then I'm a superhuman!"

He got up again, this time angry. "Superhuman? Don't make me laugh! Those two words don't belong in the same sentence let alone together in one word!" He dashed forward and pulled an open palm back. "Now take this! Fishman Karate! Hyakumaigawara Yashi!" his open palm descended towards my chest.

"Tekkai!"

My body shuddered from the impact and a small amount of steam came of his palm, but I remained unharmed. He did an incredible face-fault at the lack of damage. "Wow! Your really strong! I'm really glad your my first opponent." I said with a smile.

He glared at me. "Are you mocking me human!?" he roared as he punched me in the face after my Tekkai disengaged. I smashed into the opposite wall with a cry of pain.

"Gaahhh! That hurt!" I yelled clutching my face.

"So...I guess you really are just all talk." I heard him say.

"You just surprised me, that's all! I will beat you and Luffy will save this innocent village!"

"Oh? So who is innocent here? These humans? They are under the crime of being weak."

"You don't get to decide that!" I retorted, leaping into the air. "Rankakyu!" I slashed my leg through the air towards him, causing him to leap towards me, narrowly avoiding the silver wave. "Geppo!" I jumped out of the way in mid-air before he could ram into me, both of us landing on either side of the water.

"You have some fancy tricks for a human." He sneered. "But that's all they are."

"Soru!" I yelled, dashing in front of him. "Shigan!" I stabbed my finger into his stomach, but instead of creating a bullet wound it left a deep bruise.

"Did you really think you could pierce a fishman's body with just your finger?" he suddenly dipped his hand in the water and wrapped a small amount in his palm. "Human skin however, is weak, and can be pierced easily." he then threw a glob of water at me. "Uchimizu!" the water shot at me with surprising velocity so much that I didn't have enough time to react as it hit me in the stomach, spraying blood.

"Glack!" I coughed as blood flew out of my mouth. Staggering backwards and regained my balance, covering my new wound. "Damn it...Shigan!" I attempted to stab him but instead he leapt into the water. I scanned it's surface looking for the fishman, when suddenly another water shot flew out of the water. "Kami-E!" My body leaned to the side to avoid the attack, along with five more before he leaped out towards me.

"Die human!"

"Soru!" Again I dodged and leapt towards him. "Rankakyu Hoiru!" I leaped into the air and spun around, slamming my silver leg into his face, making him skid across the floor. He got up but before he could recover I rugby tackled him. "Soru Tekkai!" The added speed and iron strength tackle made him shoot off through one of the many holes in the wall. However he just stood up and charged again with pure hatred written in his eyes.

"You shitty piece of trash! You really think you can win!?" He grabbed onto my arm and readied his palm.

"Rankakyu!" I shot my leg up in a silver line, slamming into his jaw. "Shigan! Shigan! Shigan!" I stabbed him three times in the chest, leaving more red bruises.

"You are in too over your heads you bastards!" He dipped his hand in water again.

"Geppo!" I leaped in the air and kicked off of it multiple times, gaining some distance between the two of us.

"Uchimizu Mori!" the water shot out again, this time in the shape of a harpoon, I gasped as I quickly realized it was much faster and could only move enough so that it slashed my side and didn't kill me. I gritted my teeth in pain as I crashed onto the cold stone floor beneath me. "Uchimizu!" I leaped to the side as another water shot fired towards me.

"Soru!" I dashed forward and kneed him in the stomach. Making him skid back.

"Uchimizu!"

"Kami-E!"

I swayed to avoid the attack as he leapt forward and attempted to punch me. "Rankakyu!" I shot a silver wave into his chest, making him skid back again.

"Uchimizu Mori!" the water harpoon shot at me again forcing me to dodge again. He was giving me the run-around and I was tired of it.

"Rankakyu Hoiru!" This time I leapt in the air and spun my silver leg so it would crash down on his head, smashing him into the ground.

He grabbed at my leg and I could only watch in disbelief as he dangled me upside down and pulled his palm back.

"Senmaigawara Yashi!"

"Tekkai!"

The palm smashed into my chest with devastating verocity, smashing through my technique and shooting me into the wall, creating yet another hole. I got up coughing blood and clutching my (I was pretty sure at the time) broken ribcage.

"Still alive?" he said. "You are persistent for a lesser species, but going against a fishman is declaring death upon yourself! Uchimizu!" he sent another shot towards me.

"Soru!" I dashed past the liquid, clutching my chest in pain. I grabbed his arm with what little strength I had. "Soru!" I threw him over my head, smashing his face into the ground with lightning speed. Then continued doing it. "I don't care what you look like! I don't care what you call yourself! I don't care who you are! But If you mess with my nakama, I will come after you! Because they'd do the same for me!" I threw him into the wall yet again. Heavily panting.

He got up and glared at me in hatred. "Don't make me laugh! You damn humans are weak and beneath us! Your all weak bastards who can't even protect a single person! Just like that woman years ago!"

My mind flashed back to the story Nojiko told us, and I glared at him with rage of my own. "Take that back! She died protecting the only things she cared about! If that isn't true strength I don't know what is! Because of you Nami was left all alone!" I dashed at him and put all of my energy into my right arm.

"Shigan Koren!" I started stabbing my finger into his body as fast and as quickly as possible.

"You...can't...win..." He grunted as I continued my attack. I kept stabbing until I finally drew blood. "Wh-What!? Im...possible!"

"Ahhhhhhhhh!" I roared.

Finally I slowed down, my arm burning and my whole body exhausted. Fyuro finally collapsed backwards, eyes rolled into the back of his head. I sat down, heavily panting...just as a table landed in front of me.

"What the-?" I looked up to see pieces of furniture being shot out of Arlong Parks tower.

"Ellix...Luffy..."

I turned to see Nami at the entrance, covering her mouth and tears streaming down her face. I just smiled, as I heard a massive smash I looked up in shock as the tower collapsed on top of me.

"Ellix! Luffy!"

Flashback End

"You could've warned me when you brought the whole tower crashing down." I mumbled.

I had told my story to Florina, obviously leaving out the gory detail and swearing, and she was practically drooling over us. "Mr Ellix and Mr Luffy are so sugoi, they really are like knights!"

"We're not knights! We're pirates!" Luffy yelled back.

"But that is a nice thing to say Florina." Nami said looking at Luffy. "Thanks again for that you guys."

"Shishishi! We're your nakama! Of course we kicked Arlong's-"

I just had to look at him this time.

"Are we all ready then?" Nami called.

"Ready!" Me and Florina called back.

"Yosh! Let's go Billy!"

Billy quacked in reply and took off, with me dashing alongside with Geppo. "Mr Ellix! Who else did you beat?"

Luffy looked over at us. "We beat Croc-guy! He was messing with Vivi's country!"

"Oh yeah, at that time I battled...Wait! Luffy! You missed someone out!"

Luffy tilted his head and strained his face. "I did? You mean that 3 guy?"

"No, not him, you remember Wapol?" I asked.

He seemed to strain more before hitting his palm with his fist. "Ohhh! That fat guy!"

"Sure, why not?" I said sweat-dropping.

"So...who did you fight Mr Ellix?"

I smiled remembering. "Wapol's older brother. Musshuru!"

Flashback

Luffy dashed into Nami's room, I had been with her ever since she woke up. His eyes darted around the room, looking for something.

"Luffy? What are you doing?" Nami asked.

He turned to us as if he hadn't noticed us. "Oh! Nami! Ellix! Nothing's wrong! There's not a fight going on outside or anything! I'm just looking for something warm!"

We both just sweat-dropped at him. "Your a terrible liar..." I mumbled.

Nami sighed. "You can use my coat, but don't you DARE damage it!" she pointed over to it.

"Ah! Arigatou Nami!" He said before pulling it on and dashing off.

I got up and turned to her. "I'd better go, will you be okay here on your own?"

She pouted at me. "I'm not some damsel in distress you know."

"I-I know!" I replied waving my arms frantically. "I was just worried."

"Fine, fine, just go."

I quickly grabbed my coat and threw it on. "Sorry!" I called as I ran off after Luffy.

When I reached the main doors I was met with the thing I least expected to find. Chopper, Sanji and Doctorine, Wapol who now looked like some kind of weird house-tank, a freakish mixture of Chess and...something-Marimo? And some guy who looked like Wapol, except he had slightly pink hair in a bowl cut, a white fox scarf, a purple cape, and regal looking attire, he was also wearing some kind of eye-mask, and instead of a metal chin he had a moustache/beard combo.

I looked above me to see my captain on the top tower, protecting Dr. Hililuk's flag from attack. "You see? It can't be broken." He plunged it back down into the tower just as Wapol's look-alike appeared next to him and kicked him off.

"Luffy!" Me, and Sanji yelled as Chopper watched on. The slim version of the over-eater suddenly launched hundreds of violet energy shots at my captain from his hair.

"Shade Dance!" He yelled as the attack met its target, shooting him into the ground.

"H-Hey! Are you okay!?" Chopper called out.

"I'm fine." Luffy replied, standing up. "'Cause I'm made of rubber." The altered copy started an onslaught of punches and kicks on him, forcing him backwards.

"Rubber? How is that possible?" Chopper asked Sanji.

He smiled in return. "He ate a Devil Fruit, he's a monster." It was then he noticed me. "There you are, how's Nami-swan?"

"Don't worry, she's fine." I was totally glued on Luffy's battle as his opponent turned his right arm into a drill.

"Sting Drill!" His transformed arm bore into Luffy's back and sent him sprawling across the snow. He then closed in for another attack.

"Luffy!" I yelled. I dashed between the two of them and stopped the punch from connecting.

"Ellix!"

"Luffy! Take care of Wapol! I've got this guy!"

"Ok! Arigatou! Kick his ass!"

I then turned to face my second powerful opponent as a pirate. "So...who are you?"

"I am Musshuru, older brother of Wapol." He sneered. "I don't believe we met earlier?"

"Rokushiki User Ellix, bounty 10,000,000 berri, Lookout of the Straw-Hat Pirates!"

He looked at me with disgust. "Don't try to impress me with titles."

"I'm not! I carry them with pride!" I retorted firmly.

"Let's see where your pride gets you. Sting Drill!" His arm transformed and drilled right through me! Or rather my after-image as I dashed behind him with Soru. I tried to punch him in the face but he blocked it with his left arm, after weaving behind him to dodge a right hook I tried to round-house kick him, but he simply ducked and tried to uppercut me, forcing me to jump back. I charged at him and our fists connected, our foreheads pressed against each other so our faces were inches apart.

He frowned at me. "Your fast."

I frowned back. "So are you." We leapt away from each other, skidding against the snow. "Those drill and shot techniques, did you eat a Devil Fruit?"

He smirked. "The Noko Noko no Mi. With it I can generate spores from my body."

I crossed my arms. "Noko is short for 'mushroom', and some of them release spores, so in a way it's also called the Spore-Spore Fruit."

"Call it what you will, Shade Dance!" The pink bullets were shot again, this time towards me.

"Soru!" I leapt into the air to avoid it. 'So those bullets are actually concentrated spores.' I thought. "Rankakyu Rasshu!" I moved my legs as fast as possible, sending multiple silver waves towards him, all of which he avoided by jumping backwards.

"Take this!" He yelled as long purple vine like spores shot up towards me.

"Geppo!" I kicked off of the air to avoid the attack and slam myself into the ground, only grazing Musshuru. We both charged each other with a battle cry, slamming each other with our fists and legs, I could only barely keep up with him using Soru, and it was really intense. He brought his leg up and slammed it into the ground where I once stood. I had dashed behind him and leapt into the air. I brought both my fists crashing down but he only had to backstep behind me. He threw his fist at me and I blocked it with my palm, but he was much stronger then me and quickly the fist slammed into my face, throwing me back.

"Lot Stiffen!" Suddenly six purple clones of Musshuru surrounded me.

"Tekkai!" I put up my defence as they began rapidly punching me, causing me only minimal damage. "Rankakyu Hoiru!" I jumped and whipped my leg in a full circle, causing them all to disappear in a puff of purple spores.

"Sting Drill!" My opponents arm transformed and spun into my stomach, not enough to pierce me but it still damn hurt! He then grabbed my face with his other hand and leapt into the air, slamming my head into the snow and creating a crater in the process, which he simply backflipped out of. "Do you know who we are? We are the rulers of the Drum Kingdom, no-one dares stand against us...and now you know why." He lectured me.

I stood up, coughing a small amount of blood and faced him. "This battle isn't over yet!" He seemed slightly shocked at my remark, I readied my finger and aimed at him. "Shigan Dangan!" I poked the air itself, sending a compressed air bullet into his stomach, making him skid back, as I leapt out of the crater I saw he was wounded, but there was no bullet-hole. If I didn't believe he was tough until this point, I certainly did now.

"Soru! Shigan!" I dashed towards him and tried to pierce him multiple times, but he simply dodged and leapt back again.

"Run Hypha!" This time a load of white spores ran through the ground in my direction.

"Soru!" I dashed into the air again, looking back I saw the spores had hardened into a twisted unnatural sculpture. 'I DON'T want that to hit me.'

"You can't run forever!" More spore tendrils were sent up at me.

"Geppo!" I charged at him from the air again.

"Sting Drill!" This time he aimed for my face, creating a cut on my left cheek as I skidded behind him. "Run Hypha!" I dodged the second white spore wave and dashed forward with a battle cry. Our fists met again, this time I applied enough pressure to slam his fist into the ground and dash behind him before he could jab me with his other hand. Our legs clashed together like swords until we broke away.

"Sting Drill!"

"Shigan!"

We weaved, bent and ducked to dodge each others moves whilst trying to get a hit in ourselves, we both went back to fist-fighting to try to get a hit in.

"Kami-E!" My body leaned left and right to avoid his punches before I brandished my finger. "Shigan Koren!" I jabbed my finger into his stomach until he was blown away into a tree where he went limp. 'Did I get him?' Suddenly he leapt towards me, I barely dodged and tried to punch him before he disappeared. 'Where is he?' I thought frantically as I scanned the snowy terrain.

"Sting Drill." I heard from behind me. I felt the drill hit my back and throw me forward into the snow. "Run Hypha!" The white spores hit my whole left side, I looked at it in horror as my arm and leg were encased in a spiky statue. "Snow Spore!" A cloud of purple spores washed over me, and I instantly had trouble breathing and my strength completely left me. The whole world seemed to go fuzzy as I collapsed into the snow, and I saw my opponent smile and walk off...

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"...llix!"

I thought I heard something. Did I imagine it?

"...upid...man!...ke...p!"

"El...ba...pen...r mo...!"

The world seemed to be coming back into focus as I felt some sort of liquid run down my throat. Chopper and Nami were standing over me.

"Ugghh...What happened?" I groaned.

"You got poisoned you stupid baka!" Nami yelled at me with her hands on her hips.

Everything came flooding back and I shakily got up. "How did I survive?"

She held up a glass test-tube with a light blue liquid in it, now half empty. "Your lucky I managed to swipe this off of that spore user."

"How much do I owe you?"

"750,000 berri."

It took all my willpower not to groan before I headed for the castle. "Stupid human! Where are you going?" I heard Chopper call after me.

"To find Musshuru!"

"NANI!?" Nami yelled. "You just lost to him!"

"I didn't lose! I just got poisoned! I'll be much more carefull this time!"

"YOU STUPID BAKA! GET BACK HERE!"

"Sorry Nami!" I called again as I dashed inside. I instantly found him with...his SLIM BROTHER!? Oh, and they were battling Luffy together. "Hey!" I screamed at him. As he turned to face me I punched him in the face with Soru, making him smash into the wall. "I told you this battle isn't over yet!"

"Ai-chan!" Wapol yelled as his brother was sent through the wall.

"Ellix!" Luffy said happily. "See dome-head? Ellix isn't dead!"

I leaped through the new hole to find myself in a frozen dome room covered with snow. Musshuru was staring at me angrily. "How did you survive my spores?"

"I took the antidote." I said plainly.

He seemed confused and checked his pocket, face-faulting afterwards. "Ehhhh!? It's not here!" He turned to me, clenching his fist. "Clever, but you won't survive a second dose! Run Hypha!" This time I anticipated the attack and leapt away. "Snow Spore!" The ominous cloud headed towards me again.

"Shigan Dangan!" My air bullet shot through the cloud, allowing me a safe passage to jump through.

"Lot Stiffen!" Six more violet clones came towards me, but this time I just dashed past them. Our fists met again, and again, and again as we started an onslaught of punches against each other, cancelling out each time, we eventually broke away. When I suddenly fell to my knees.

"D-Damn it!"

"You've still got some poison inside you haven't you?" He said as he charged me. "Sting Drill!" I ducked as he slashed my other cheek, drawing blood.

I hissed at the pain but jumped into the air. "Soru!" I brought both my legs crashing down on his head, squashing him like jelly before he popped back up coughing blood. "Soru!" I shot him in the stomach with both my feet, shooting him into the wall.

"Shade Dance!" Purple shots hit me from the smoke, pushing me against the opposite wall. "Sting Drill!" The powerful attack smashed me through the stone barricade and I landed outside in the snow, my whole body hurting badly and twitching from the poison.

"Do you know what is unique about my Devil Fruit?" My opponent said. "Every 10 years I must release a large amount of spores to balance myself out, and that time has come again. It'll flush all of you out of this castle like rats from a sewer."

My eyes widened. "Y...Your brother and those two-gack!...Are still here!"

"They already know, they'll be long gone, and all of you won't survive!"

He brought his leg around to kick me in the side. "Tekkai!" The leg slammed into me, causing my weak knees to buckle. "Damn you...stay away from my treasure!" I punched him in the stomach and threw him back, then I dashed onto the roof of the castle with Musshuru in hot pursuit.

"Shade Dance!" I barely managed to dodge the attack, my whole body violently shuddering. "Your treasure? Have you hidden jewels in this castle or something?"

I panted heavily. "I realised...huff...during my journey...huff...that my treasure..." I glared at him. "Are my nakama!"

"Your nakama? They won't be around much longer! Sting Drill!" I dodged thanks to a spasm of pain, only to be punched in the face and sent sprawling across the tiles. "The Fatal Bomb is almost ready! All of you will vanish in spores!"

He went to punch me again, but I ducked at the last second. "I won't let that happen! Rankakyu!" The wave hit him square in the chest, knocking him into the air.

"Shigan Akai Hasu!"

"Shade Dance!"

I threw both of my fingers rapidly at him, until it looked like they were multiplying, cancelling out Shade Dance and hitting Musshuru in the process, until he was launched into the tower left of the flag, I looked up at the right one to see a victorious Luffy giving me the thumbs up. I returned the gesture and dashed into the left tower, stamping hard on Musshuru's gut.

"Soru..." I began winding up my arm so fast it turned into a rotating flesh wheel. Mushuru's eyes widened in horror.

"W-Wait! Stop Rokushiki! The Fatal Bomb is complete! You don't want to risk you nakama's life do you!?"

I pulled my arm back so fast it wasn't even a blur.

"T-T-This is the end! Fatal Bo-"

"Ken!"

I slammed my fist into his face, feeling bones crack and blood stain my hand as I threw him with my fist far into the distance until he couldn't be seen. I saw a large cloud of purple spores appear in the distance, it quickly spread for a moment before evaporating in the air.

I finally let myself fall back to rest, unfortunately I forgot I was on a tower and fell to my death until an arm wrapped around me and snapped back to it's black haired owner.

"Hey Ellix?" Luffy asked. "What's wrong? Do you need meat?"

"Luffy...I would LOVE some meat right now."

He did his trademark grin. "Shishishi! Me too! Hey! Wanna help me catch that reindeer?"

"Apart from Chopper..." I mumbled while sweat-dropping.

Flashback End

"Mrs Nami stopped you from being poisoned Mr Ellix! She's a hero!"

"We're not heroes! We're pirates!" Luffy put on his pouting face. "I wish I could've beat that guy..."

"It's still frightening to think a Devil Fruit can unleash something like a Fatal Bomb..." Nami said with her head on her hands.

"Luffy, by the time I beat him I was hurt, tired and poisoned! I don't think you would have wanted to battle him." I argued.

"Eh? That sounds like when I battled Crocodile." Luffy replied with a tilted head.

"Never mind." I muttered under my breath.

Just then the little body on my back started squirming around. "Mr Ellix! Mr Ellix! I can see my village!"

"Really?" I said. "Where?"

With her good arm she pointed to a nearby island. It definitely looked different from the others, as I could see a group of houses nestled in the middle. "See Florina? I told you I'd get you home!"

She hugged my neck. "Thank you so much Mr Ellix! You too Mr Luffy and Mrs Nami!"

We all smiled. "No problem! Shishishi!" Luffy laughed.

Nami patted Billy's neck. "Billy? Can you take us down there?"

We started descending towards the island, but then Billy recoiled, shaking it's head around with a sickly look on it's face, before frantically flying off in the opposite direction.

"Billy!? What's wrong!?" Nami called.

"Hey Billy! Where are you going!?" I called as I chased after it.

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Hyakumaigawara Yashi: Hundred tile break Palm

Uchimizu: Water Shot

Hoiru: Wheel

Mori: Harpoon

Senmaigawara Yashi: Thousand tile break Palm

Rasshu: Rush

Dangan: Bullet

Hypha: A type of fungus that grows on the ground, known to have poisonous spores.

Akai Hasu: Red Lotus

Ken: Fist

So that's it, my first fight scene, well two anyway, I hope you enjoyed them, please review and say what was good, what was bad, and if you have any questions.

To TheRealEvanSG, thanks! I'm glad you liked it! He does seem that way doen't he? Ellix just thinks he isn't good enough for Nami sometimes. I guess some people can sympathise with that...maybe?

One Piece belongs to Eiichiro Oda (Musshuru is non-canon as he is only in Movie 9.) Ellix, Florina and Fyuro all belong to me.