Luffy had just ran off to find water with Usopp and Shura sighed then decided to look around for that red headed woman that she had seen before. She was about to jump on to a building and scope the city out like that; but stopped when she heard someone say, "Where do you think you're going?" Shura heard someone say and turned around seeing the disapproving looks on the crew's faces.
"I was just-…" Shura started to say but was cut off by Sanji, "I don't care what you are Shura, you're not going to just run off and disappear like that." Sanji said speaking to Shura as though she were a child. Shura's eye twitched in anger and annoyance.
"I'll do whatever the hell I want! You can't tell me what to do!" Shura shouted at Sanji, then jumped on the building before they could stop her then headed off jumping from building to building.
Okay that was pretty harsh and a tidbit childish, Shura would admit to that. But, they didn't want Shura to leave this world because of their own selfish feelings. Shura didn't want to see the world end because she didn't fix it. Although everyone got on her nerves she wasn't about to let something….Whatever the hell it was, destroy it.
Hopping building to building Shura tried to figure out where this Miss New Year would be.
Back with the crew, Sanji and Zoro growled irritated with Shura's natural rebellious nature, couldn't she understand that they didn't want to her to go!
Sanji took a long drag of his cigarette. "One of us should go after her." He said, Zoro stood up to go follow Shura but he was stopped by Vivi, "no." She said stepping in front of them "I'm sorry everyone… But I understand why Shura's acting this way. She's made her choice, there's nothing we can do to stop her. We just have to enjoy what little time we have left together with her, even some of us are angry and upset. I don't like it much ether. But it's who Shura is, there's nothing we can do about it." Vivi said giving a small speech mostly towards Chopper, Zoro, and Sanji.
"I understand that…. I just want to say goodbye." Chopper said speaking up with his head low and his hat covering his reindeer eyes. Sanji then took his chance to comment "I don't, if there's other people like Shura than why don't they just fix this world! Shura's apart of our crew, she has been for a while. With all due respect you don't fully understand how we feel Vivi-san. We've lived with Shura; we've picked on her habits and her likes and dislikes. What she can and can't do. I'm not just going to let that go that easily. Shura's my nakama." Sanji explained giving his own speech.
Nami blinked at this in surprise, it was true she did pick up on her habits and lived with her for a good while. Nami felt strange about all of this, a part of her always thought Shura was going to be there. It was just the way about Shura; you always think she's going to be there forever. But she isn't, one day she'll have to up and leave and that day for them was approaching quickly.
Nami didn't know what to think, on one hand Shura had sailed with them, fought with them, ate with them and everything.
Although Shura and Nami never got along greatly it didn't mean that she hated her. They had had strange bond, if you were to call it that. They didn't like each other but then again, they didn't hate each other ether.
But on the other hand, if Shura didn't take care of what was wrong with this world then it would end and everything in it.
Nami didn't know what she wanted Shura to do. Lose nakama or lose her life. It seemed that this situation couldn't be solved without giving up something. Nami sighed and decided that it was best for Shura to decide; after all she'd be the one doing the work.
"Let me go after her you stupid princess!" Zoro shouted as Vivi tried to hold Zoro back, Eye Lashes tried to help the princess as well but wasn't working out well because Zoro was dragging them both. "Mr. Bushido it's not something you can decide for Shura!" Vivi finally shouted causing Zoro to stiffen up, "Do you think that everyone at the palace was happy about me going undercover to save my country?" Vivi questioned remembering her father's upset face along with many others.
"But, it was something I had to do a…and I understand what Shura feels like! Everyone here living is more important to her than being here with us! She can't be with us without us dying! Please consider how Shura feels! Stop being so selfish! Remember what Shura said about jumping? Don't you remember the pain in her voice? We have the comfort of being able to stay in the same world, Shura doesn't even have one anymore…" Vivi exclaimed now relieving her full and true feelings, her eyes were on the brink of tears at the thoughts of what was going through Shura's mind.
"What's it like to jump from world to world?" "Painful." That short conversation echoed through everyone's mind, and then Vivi spoke up again sobbing.
"It was horribl… Horrible being away from my country and father for so long…. I can't imagine what Shura feels like being away from her world and her family; she probably had friends there too that she cared about. Shura told me that this is her third world that she's jumped too. Her third world Mr. Bushido! Imagine that no matter what you said to anyone, no matter if you loved anyone with all your heart it would all add up to nothing in the end. I just…. I just can't imagine what it feels like!" Vivi said finally breaking down over Shura, it was just all too much for the Arabasta princess to handle. She felt the pain of her people, the pain of the country, her pain, and pain for her friend.
It was hard to hold in all at once…
Sanji patted Vivi on the back, "You worry too much." He said trying to cheer Vivi up, but after her speech he felt bad for being mad at Shura.
He never considered Shura's point of view. He was ashamed of his selfishness that he had displayed.
The group stood solemn for a moment until Usopp and Luffy came running with Marines chasing after them.
"Well catch you this time Straw hat Luffy!" One marine in front shouted, as the straw hat crew freaked out because Luffy was coming in their direction.
They all agreed to head to Rain Dinners then spilt up.
"Where the hell is she…?" Shura mumbled jumping from roof to roof, trying to sense Miss New Year like she had that night. She figured Miss New Year would be here because of her showing up at the spider café and briefing the top agents. So she had to be working with Crocodile. But, the question was why she was working with Crocodile in the first place? She wasn't even of this world. What did she have to gain, and more importantly just WHAT THE HELL was she?
Shura groaned, her brain hurt too much from thinking too hard.
Shura then stopped when she landed on the next roof top and felt a presence, she then jumped up in the air before the attack hit.
"Impressive, you managed to dodge my attack." Miss All Sunday said appearing on the roof top behind Shura. Shura landed on the very same roof top she was on before and turned around to Miss All Sunday.
"Of course I did, it's not all that impressive." Shura's arms folded as she stared down Robin "Nico Robin you're not as dangerous as the government lets on." Shura said knowledgably, she had read on Nico Robin before she had started this world jumping thing. She did like the character and how it was built and portrayed in the show.
"Oh?" Robin questioned tilting her head to the side with a smile on her face; Shura rolled her eyes and folded her arms.
"Cut the bullshit, what the hell do you want?" Shura said tapping her foot impatiently, "You're a sekai no jumpa." Robin started calmly, Shura started at her like she was an idiot because of this "No shit, just tell me where this Miss New Year is and I'll be on my merry multi-dimensional way." Shura ordered the long haired burnet, this surprised Robin. She hadn't known that Miss New Year was the abnormality in this world. Now that she thought about it, it wasn't really all that shocking. Miss New Year always did look like she didn't belong.
Yes, even Robin knew about world jumpers. In fact she was well versed in what a Sekai no Jumpa was. Her home island had plenty of books about them.
"So it is true, the reason for your existence… Is only to get rid of what is wrong with the worlds you enter." Robin said slowly surprised, she never thought it was true. The books she were read was only theory and folk lore.
Shura growled lowly "Yeah, my life sucks. I know! Now where is she? I don't know when this thing, whatever the hell it is will pop up and try to destroy this world so I got to get rid of her as soon as possible!" Shura exclaimed waving her arms about, Robin blinked.
"What will destroy the world if Miss New Year isn't dead?" Robin questioned curious, nothing in the books said anything about this. Shura growled almost to the point of pulling her hair out, "I DON'T FUCKING KNOW! The last mother fucker who had the guide I'm using ripped the pages out about what destroys the worlds that are completely out of whack!" Shura basically screamed, didn't this stupid slutty cow boy hat wearing bitch understand this was important?
Robin seemed taken aback by Shura's outburst, "Now tell me! Where's Miss New Year?" Shura shouted at Robin who only said, "Getting the princess."
Shura's eyes widened "Vivi!" Shura shouted, and then began to jump off only to be stopped by Robin.
"What the hell are you doing?" Shura shouted, confused by her actions. "Miss New Year is my ally at the moment. So I cannot let you ruin Crocodile-sama's plans." Robin stated earning a low growl from Shura. "Get out of my way or you'll regret it." Shura threatened, earning a chuckle from Robin.
Vivi stood in the middle of countless agents trying her best to fight them off. Vivi's breathing was becoming labored from how many agents she had took down and it seemed hopeless for her because there didn't seem to be an end to the number of agents coming at her.
'I can't afford being held up any longer. I've got to…' Vivi thought then she trailed off in her mind as she went to charge at another agent, but that was stopped by her being hit on the back of the head with a rifle butt.
"You're a quite a violent little princess aren't you?" An agent said as Vivi turned around to face them only to have the barrel of the rifle pointed at her "But then again, you were a frontier agent after all…" The same agent went on; he earned no reply from the princess but continued anyway. "Don't you think it's time to play nice and come with us?" He questioned with a laugh, Vivi looked away and thought 'I have to hurry and met up with the others.' "Let's go." The very same agent ordered not noticing the impending shadow up in the air. "The boss is waiting." He added reaching for Vivi, "Don't touch me!" Vivi shouted enraged at the man, and then Pell came in to save the day.
Shura let out a cry of pain, "Clutch!" Robin said listening to the cracking of bones that belonged to Shura. "You bit…bitch." Shura gasped as Robin chuckled then begun to walk towards Shura. "Speed, strength, and ability mean nothing when someone is fighting with me. No one is out of my reach." She stated earning a bitter laugh from Shura "Bullshit!" Shura snapped earning another chuckle from Robin, "You have evidence to go against my claims…?" Robin questioned believing Shura was just bluffing until the very end. Being as they say "all bark and no bite."
"I don't need any." Shura growled, she glared harshly at Robin "Now let me go!" Shura shouted loudly, Robin chuckled at Shura's demands. To be honest the girl wasn't in any position to be making any.
"I can't it's against Crocodile-sama's orders." Robin replied shrugging, Shura stood up slowly even though she was still in Robin's clutches. Robin then felt a large gust of wind start to gather and grey clouds floated overhead. The wind was becoming stronger and stronger as each second passed.
Sand was being kicked up and Robin had to lift up her arm to shield her eyes. She looked above her arm when she heard Shura take a step forward.
"I don't care what that damn Crocodile said, I SAID LET ME GO!" Shura shouted, and then thunder sounded overhead. Robin took an unconscious step back. It was frightening; Miss New Year said that jumpers were strong. But was it possible that they could control the very elements of the world which they were in?
Then Robin regained her bearings, there was no way that Shura was causing the storm clouds. Robin had her bound, so if it wasn't Shura than what was causing all of this?
Robin's thoughts were cut short when she heard Shura say, "Speed, Strength and Ability mean nothing eh? Then how about the power of the Gods…?"
"Impossible!" Robin cried out in shock.
Back with Vivi and Pell, Pell had gotten rid of all the bounty hunters then flew back upon the Vivi where he had set Vivi. "Vivi-sama," he said but that was all he was able to get out before a third party came into the picture.
"My, My how rude of you. Injuring the princess's escorts to Crocodile's dinner party." Miss New Year said walking over with her arms folded, "And I was hoping I wouldn't get my dress dirty before the ball." She pouted, Vivi and Pell glared at her.
"Miss New Year." Vivi hissed through her teeth, Miss New Year smiled "I'm so flattered that the Princess knows who I am." She said mockingly, Vivi then lost her temper "SHUT THE HELL UP!" Vivi screamed charging at Miss New Year with her weapons ready to go.
Miss New Year covered her mouth with her hand as she laughed. Then her light hearted expression turned into one of a murder "Pathic mouse." She said darkly, her shadow then took the form of that resembling a cat of some sort.
"VIVI-SAMA!" Pell shouted in fear of what horrors that he had saw coming from that woman. Truly, Miss New Year was the devil in the flesh.
Just as Miss New Year was able to attack Vivi a figure jumped into the fray of the attack knocking Vivi out of the way.
"Vivi-sama!" Pell shouted once more running over to the princess that had been knocked back by some strange person.
Vivi placed her hand on her forehead as it bleed from a scrape that came from being knocked so roughly aside. She then looked up and gasped in shock. "Sh-Shura-san!" She cried in horror, Miss New Year had Bagh nakh on (Which is basically those gloves with blades on the knuckles) and they were being held back by Shura's bare hands.
"Thank Goodness, I was able to get here just in time." Shura said grinning, although it was clear that she was in pain. Miss New Year's eyes widened then they narrowed "Sekai no jumpa!" She screamed in rage then tried to press on to cut Shura's hands into chunks.
Shura kicked her back far enough to give her a second to speak. She then turned to Vivi. "Vivi go catch up with the others! Don't look back!" Shura demanded with the utmost seriousness in her eyes, Vivi opened her mouth to protest but quickly shut it because of the look on Shura's face.
"Understood." Vivi said nodding, then Pell helped her off the building then she charged off towards Rain Dinners.
"Don't think you'll get away Princess!" Miss New Year said in tone that was of pure animalistic lust for blood. Pell flew up and knocked her back before she could even get off the building to chase after Vivi.
Shura looked over at Pell, her hands still bleeding and blinked once. 'Where have I seen those clothes before..?' Shura thought then her mind flashed back to that time in the dessert after Ace had fried that lizard to death. Then Shura screamed "YOU'RE THE FREAKY ASS FALCON THAT CAUSED ME TO GET LOST IN THE DESSERT!" Shura screamed pointing at Pell flicking blood every which way because some of her cuts weren't as deep as others therefore they bleed more.
Pell looked over exasperated with Vivi's apparent Nakama. "Now is not the time to be nostalgic." He stated trying to remain professional. However it was hard with the expression on Shura's face.
"You owe me an apology!" Shura shouted waving her arms about then pointing at Pell; this even caused Miss New Year to stare at Shura like she was a complete idiot. "She's not serious is she?" Miss New Year asked turning to Pell who sighed roughly "Unfortunately I think she is." He replied.
"You bet your ass I am! Now apologize!" Shura shouted at Pell demanding an apology like some spoilt bratty princess with a bad mouth if I may say so myself.
"Aren't we supposed to be fighting?" Miss New Year shouted angry that she was being ignored; Shura looked over at her then blinked "When the hell did you get here? Where'd that crazy cat lady go?" Shura said looking around for said crazy cat lady.
Miss New Year's eye twitched she was able to handle her calling her "a crazy cat lady" but it was crossing the line when Shura started to call "Here crazy cat lady! Here kitty! Kitty! Kitty! Kitty!" Shura called for 'Crazy cat lady' as though they were a cat.
"I AM THE CRAZY CAT LADY YOU IDIOT!" Miss New Year screamed charging at Shura and slashing every which way, Shura dodged each slash the best she could.
However, Shura had used up much of her charka from today and had hardly had any rest or food. So it was clear Shura was at a very unfavorable vantage point.
At Rain Dinners, Luffy and the others were in the cage much like in the series and of course even in the most serious situation. Luffy was goofing off.
"Sanji impression." Luffy said mimicking Sanji by pretended to be smoking then he said "Who the hell ate all the meat?" in a low Sanji like voice, Usopp standing beside Luffy was trying to keep from laughing but failed ultimately.
As Luffy and Usopp conversed, Nami became annoyed beyond restraint "Would you guys take this…" Nami growled with her eyebrow twitching then she hit both Usopp and Luffy on the head just as Usopp was about to do a Zoro impression.
Luffy and Usopp groaned on the floor of the cell in pain as Nami shouted "How can you act so stupid in such a dire situation!" then she was answered by the captain himself "But we can't get out! I'm getting bored!" Luffy shouted in his defense, which wasn't a very good one.
"It's dire BECAUSE we can't get out! We might be killed at this rate!" Nami angrily screamed at Luffy, and then she turned to Zoro after hearing him snore loudly "AND WHY ARE YOU SLEEPING!" Nami shouted angrily then gave Zoro the same loving treatment that Luffy and Usopp had received.
"Oh is it morning already?" Zoro asked rubbing his eye sleepy; Nami replied "It's the middle of the day!"
Crocodile having enough of just sitting there listening then spoke up, "You're an authoritative young lady, aren't you?" Nami hearing this turned to the Frankenstein knock off with her hands on her hips "What about it?" She questioned confidently, and then she even dared to say "Enjoy that little ego trip of yours while you can! Once this guy bust out of this cage, he'll knock your worthless behind above the clouds. Not to mention what will happen to you once Shura gets here! Isn't that right Luffy?" Nami said point over to Luffy then mentioning the literally spit fire crew mate of hers.
Luffy pumped up screamed loudly "HELL YEAH! BRING IT ON!" Usopp, on the other hand cowered in the background.
"Your crew puts a lot of faith in you as a captain, Straw hat Luffy." Crocodile said from his dinner table "Trust. Heh, it's the most useless thing in the entire world." Crocodile said scoffing at the very thing that stitched the straw hat crew together.
Nami grew angry then said mostly to herself not caring if Crocodile heard her or not. "What's up with this prick? Making fun of us…!" She growled getting angrier by the second, Usopp ran over before Nami could shout something that would get them all killed and said "Just quit it! You'll make him mad." He said trying to calm Nami down.
Then a voice echoed throughout the room "CROCODILE!" Vivi screamed angrily, she was held bound by Robin who was seemly okay, besides the burn marks on her body and clothing. Shura was tied up being carried by a nameless goon with Miss New Year closely behind with Shura's bag with the rip on the side in her clutches. It wasn't clear if Shura was conscious or not because her eyes were being over shadowed by her banes.
"VIVI!" The straw hat crew shouted seeing Vivi first then Smoker stood up and shouted "Shura!" being the first one to notice her.
The straw hat crew all stared in shock. "Shura!" They all shouted, Miss New Year laughed.
"Surprised, you shouldn't be. This sekai no jumpa is merely an ant compared to my caliber of power." She said amused, she then walked in front of Shura who lifted up her head and watched her glaring at her wordlessly.
Zoro spotted the bag that Miss New Year had in her hands, as did Nami.
Most everyone in the cage understood why Shura had rage burning bright in her eyes as Miss New Year carried that bag.
Crocodile ignored her then said "Welcome, Princess of Arabasta Vivi. Or rather Miss Wednesday." He said mentioning Vivi's other name as well.
"You've done an admirable job of slipping through the hands of our assassins." Crocodile said mocking Vivi with each and every word that he spoke, then he stood up "But what's even more so impressive is your choice of nakama." He said making his way over towards Shura's direction, whom of which had been sat down on a chair by the goon who had already left.
He laughed as soon as he got a good look at Shura's face, "So very powerful, yet merely a child." He said reaching out to touch Shura but stopped for some reason. That reason was the awfully loud growling coming from the cage which the straw hats and Smoker was in.
Crocodile turned to the cage and laughed loudly, "How adorable, you seem to have many suitors pining for you!" He said to Shura who stared at him with a dull look on her face.
"Well, aren't you going to say anything?" Crocodile said interested in what Shura had to say, he was curious as to what she as a world jumper had to say. Shura blinked then said "Oi ugly, do you realize how much your breath stinks? I know, you can't be exposed to water because it doesn't let you use your powers… But really, would brushing your teeth every so often hurt all that much?" Shura questioned bluntly, Crocodile's smile turned to a frown then he smacked Shura across the face with the hook hand.
He became bemused when he watched the cut that had formed on Shura's face disappear just as quickly. Then Shura turned back to Crocodile "Or do you realize in the first world I lived in that your existence is actually a pun on a book called Peter pan? There was a pirate captain named hook who was afraid of a Crocodile with a clock inside it." Shura said earning another smack and just like the last time the cut healed as quickly as it was received.
These smacks with the hook hand didn't scare Shura in the least bit, in fact it only encouraged her to speak even louder and make even more rude comments about Crocodile.
Shura stared Crocodile straight in the eye then said loudly, "How about how FUCKING cliché you are! Honest to God himself! Really? Slicked back hair, giant dangerous animals, two slutty women at your side, a LAME ASS power! What did you read comic books and watch kiddy shows then say hey these guys are badass I'm going to copy EVERY FUCKING VILLIAN THAT HAS EVER EXISTED!" Shura shouted loudly, and then Crocodile shouted back "ENOUGH!" Shura smirked at then but closed her mouth.
Shura then heard shuffling of silk fabric and then brought her attention to Miss New Year who had been going through her things. Miss New Year looked over at Shura then smiled as her eyes lit up with interest.
"My, you really did love the last world you were in didn't you?" Miss New Year said pulling out the picture of Shura and Minato. Shura's eyes narrowed and a murderous intent came off of her body.
"Don't touch that picture." Shura growled lowly, Smoker looked over questionably at this and stared at the picture.
"What does she mean by last world?" Smoker questioned, this caused the others to turn to him and stare at him as if he was an idiot.
"You don't know?" Usopp questioned surprised, he was about to say what Shura was but was cut off by Zoro. "He doesn't need to know Usopp. Shura obviously didn't trust him enough to tell him." Zoro said glaring at Smoker out of the corner of his eye.
Smoker growled then glared at Zoro dangerously, how DARE this lowly pirate claim Shura didn't trust him! Smoker was livid with anger, but before anything could happen Luffy shouted.
"DON'T TOUCH SHURA'S SPECIAL PICTURE! OR I'LL KICK YOUR ASS!" He shouted loudly clearly angry, Shura's head snapped over to Luffy in surprise then she smiled. 'That's right; he understands why I'm so protective over it.' Shura said remembering how much the hat upon Luffy's very head was special to him just like Shura's picture.
This caught Miss New Year's attention "Special? No, I don't think the picture it's self is all that special. I think it's the subject matter." She said smiling deviously; her eyes glinted with evil intent.
Nami caught on to this and gulped, "No, she's not planning on…" She said scared of Shura's reaction, Shura had threatened to kill her just for touching the picture. But what she was planning on doing was a one way ticket to the afterlife.
Shura glared dangerously at Miss New Year, who merely smiled and placed the picture over a candle and let it burn.
"YOU BITCH! I'LL KILL YOU!" Shura screamed in fury, she ripped apart her binds and charged at Miss New Year like a wild animal. Shura's eyes burned red with the lust for Miss New Year's blood. She was very well intending on killing Miss New Year herself.
But as Shura charged towards Miss New Year, Crocodile stepped in and before she could stop herself. She was caught on his hook.
"SHURA!" the room echoed with Shura's name from various voices, but Shura's world went dark and her eyes closed slowly then she collapsed on the ground.
Crocodile laughed loudly, "My, she has a lot of fight in her!" He said sarcastically then kicked Shura aside sending her flying into the cage. "She's weak, and for her to cause what she has done to you Miss New Year that means your weaker than she is." Crocodile said glaring over in Miss New Year's direction.
Miss New Year gritted her teeth in anger, it was only a matter of time now. Then Crocodile would be the one serving her and not the other way around. All she had to do was wait. Then she'd be the one calling him weak and pathic.
"Shura." Usopp said running over to Shura trying to shake her awake his arms were reached out through the holes of the cage as he tried to shake her hard enough to wake her up. "Shura, wake up!" Shura didn't respond at all. Then he reached up to check her pulse as the others looked on considered. He waited a few moments with a grim expression on his face. "She's barely alive." Usopp said feeling the fading pulse of Shura.
"Not for long though, penetration though the stomach like that causes a slow and very painful death." Robin said speaking up; Vivi stared over in Shura's direction in shock. Shura's blood was everywhere, and she was bleeding out more and more as each second passed.
"Shu-Shura-san…" Vivi said tearing up and anger, the anger inside of her was bubbling up as each second passed. The only noises that could be heard in that room was the laughter from Miss New Year and Crocodile and the growls coming from the straw hats and Smoker in the cage.
Why? Why did everyone have to suffer from the hands of this… This MONSTER! Everyone, her people and her country. Now even her friends, rage boiled inside Vivi.
'So much pain, so much suffering… I DON'T WANT TO SEE ANYMORE BLOOD SPILT BECAUSE OF THIS MAN!' Vivi screamed in her mind, Vivi was terrified at were her thoughts were headed. She wanted to kill Crocodile herself and watch him die slowly and painfully in front of her.
"What? Is the Princess sad that her little pet got hurt…?" Miss New Year teased causing, Vivi to snap.
Her eyes burned with flames of hate and rage, and her voice became cold as the blade on a knife as she said "No matter where you hide, Crocodile. I will see to it that you and your associates die by my hand! Mr. Zero, if you never had set foot in my country…!" She shouted running down the steps which she had been at the top of pulling out her weapons to attack.
"Wait! Vivi! Let us out!" Luffy shouted but his shouts were ignored by the Arabasta princess who was so consumed by her rage that she wouldn't stop until at least she got some way to let some of it loose.
"…Arabasta would have still been at peace! And everyone wouldn't have to SUFFER!" Vivi screamed as some of the straw hats cried in the back ground to be let out. But, they were ignored. What Vivi wanted more than anything was Crocodile's blood and to hear him beg for death.
"Kujaki string!" Vivi shouted lunching her weapons at Crocodile beheading him and cutting the back of the chair that Crocodile was sitting in off. She landed on the table breathing heavily, Smoker in the cage seen all of this and said "Futile." When that was said, Crocodile's body burst into sand.
"Satisfied?" Crocodile's disembodied voice said as the sand that came from Crocodile's body floated behind Vivi and begun to form together behind Vivi's back. "Being from this country, you should already know…" Crocodile's voice went on as the sand continued to form. "…That I have the power of the Suna-Suna fruit." He said, the sand that had been forming begun to take shape that was of Crocodile's pervious form before his body turned into sand.
Finally when it solidified and his body was back to normal, but his head was still forming. Crocodile's normal hand covered Vivi's mouth from behind. Vivi let out a tiny frightened cry, she knew what the hand on her face could do. It would do the same thing to her that it did to thousands before her.
"Shall I turn you into a mummy?" Crocodile said directly into Vivi's ear, as Vivi tried not to show that she was afraid. "H-He's a sandman!" Usopp stuttered in shock. "HEY YOU! Leave Vivi alone! I'm gonna kick your ass!" Luffy shouted waving his arms about, it was more than enough that Shura was right in front of him. Dying and he couldn't even do anything about it. Luffy didn't want Vivi to be in the same position as Shura.
Crocodile glanced over at Luffy then turned his attention back to Vivi. "Take a seat. It's about time to start the party isn't it, Miss New Year and Miss All Sunday ?" Crocodile said earning nods from the two women "That's right," Robin said "Party?" Nami questioned curiously as to what their capturers meant. "It's pass twelve." Robin said looking at a pocket watch in her hand "Operation Utopia has officially begun."
Without going into much detail about fighting with the banana crocodiles, and the Mr. Prince bit. Everyone managed to make it out of the underwater part of rain dinners… Well almost everyone.
After everyone got onto the side walk next to the lake around Rain Dinners and caught their breathe Nami had time to ask. "I-Is everyone okay?" She asked loudly laying on her back trying to take in as much of air as possible.
"Yea-." Usopp went to say but Luffy cut him off. "Where's Shura?" He shouted loudly, Sanji blinked the let out a cry of shock. He had gotten her bag during the mess of it all but he forgot Shura!
"You shitty cook! You left her down there!" Zoro shouted grabbing a hold of Sanji and shaking him.
"I thought you had her!" Sanji shouted back grabbing a hold of Zoro. "N-Now everyone let's just calm down!" Usopp said not wanting a fight to start, now was certainly not the time for something like that to be happening.
Smoker got up and was headed for the lake. "Hey! What are you doing?" Usopp shouted at Smoker who was taking off his jacket "What do you think? I'm going to save her." Smoker said as if it was the simplest thing in the world.
"You can't you ate the devil fruit!" Nami shouted, but before anything else could be said or done there was loud rumbling heard.
Storm clouds formed over Rain Dinners, the ground quaked with fear that shook the whole city. Cracks even began to form from how hard the ground was being shaken so hard.
"W-What's going on!" Nami shouted as the others who had been standing up fell back on their behinds. Thunder sounded over head like the roar of a lion.
Then suddenly, a large burst of light burst out of the lake around Rain Dinners. Destroying the building above it completely, and the water flew everywhere. But the debris from the building was burned in this straight beam of light.
Everyone was frozen in shock by this display, and it could be seen for miles upon miles. It was possible that the whole country could see it.
Then when the light faded into merely balls of light that floated around innocently as if they didn't caused that mass destruction and the water had been spread over the whole city. The only thing left in the wake of all of this was a large crater and at the center of it was…
"Shura!" Luffy shouted being the first to see her. He went to jump towards her down into the crater but was stopped by the immense amount of murderous intent radiating off of Shura. It was so thick that it seemed to be pulsating in the air in waves.
"Bring me… Miss New Year." Was what Shura said, her voice echoed much like the thunder that had been heard before. With the clouds still dark and foreboding overhead and the addition of the powerful display Shura had put on. Quite frankly, it'd make any grown man shit himself.
What Shura had just preformed was no easy feat. But a way to explain it you would have to go back to when they were outside of Nanohana and Shura was reading her black book on the ship.
The name of this display basically translates into 'burst of light'. What the book explains this to be is a burst of energy released from inside of a world jumper in order to save them in dire situations and it also heals them of their fatal wounds. It's a pretty handy for most world jumpers. However this can only be activated when the world jumper is near death and is submerged in water and has a burning desire to stay in that world.
With all this achieved, the energy is released from inside the world jumper. And depending on what they are intending on doing will be the effects of the surge of energy.
Like Shura for example, her burning desire is to kill Miss New Year. Therefore, the burst of energy has a destructive element to it. Now, I know what you're thinking. If Minato had plopped Shura into water when she was dying in the last world she would've lived right?
Wrong, Shura did have a desire to stay in that world with Minato. But it wasn't a burning one. The emotion wasn't strong enough so she couldn't have stayed anyway.
In the end, Smoker let them go.
As the marines were chasing the Straw hats and Vivi Luffy shouted "Everyone! Let's head to Alubarna!"
"AYE!"
