Amazing, that was the only thing that Robin thought when she saw what she saw riding away in a carriage with Miss New Year and Crocodile.
Crocodile looked over at the beam of light clearly interested as to what had caused it. But Miss New Year had advised him that staying in Rain Dinners any longer would've been wasteful and would've back tracked the plan.
Robin looked over at Miss New Year's face to see what her expression was, and it was quite amusing to say the least. Her hair was disarray and her jaw hung low and wide open in clear shock as to what she saw. However, before Crocodile could catch her in the act of preforming this expression, she quickly recovered and regained her bearings.
Robin smiled then turned back to the window as the beam faded, she wondered faintly had she been the one to cause that.
"Speed, Strength and Ability mean nothing eh? Then how about the power of the Gods…?"
Robin was surprised the girl had not simply killed her with the thunder clouds that she had summoned up. No, Shura simply used the lighting to stun Robin rather than kill her. She had been frazzled when some of the millions had found her on that building top and awoke her.
"Stop the carriage." Crocodile suddenly demanded of the driver, who of course stopped as ordered.
The two women kept quiet but looked over at the man questionably as if to ask, what was he doing?
Crocodile just wordlessly got out and then told the driver to go on without him.
"My, that was unexpected." Robin suddenly spoke up after a few moments. Miss New Year shot a dark glare at her; Robin merely smiled "That girl is going to kill you." She stated calmly in an almost eerie way, "She's a lot stronger than what you think; your confidence in your strength is foolish and ungrounded." Robin went on, and then Miss New Year spoke up.
"Oh and you have facts to back up your statement that she'll be able to kill me?" She snarled at the burnet, Miss All Sunday chuckled. "I saw rage in her eyes when you burnt that picture. Had, you not had burnt it. You could've lived. But now she'll hunt you down to the ends of this world just to kill you." Robin said simply, she knew the rage behind Shura's eyes.
It held the same emotions she felt at Ohara, everything that ever meant anything to her burned right before her eyes. All because she knew how to read ancient texts, Robin personally had no interest in killing the man who killed her childhood.
But given the chance, to make him feel the pain she has felt over the years. Well, she'd be tempted to do it.
But, she probably wouldn't. No, what Robin was doing in their remembrance is decoding what the world government doesn't want decoded.
That's how Robin would get her revenge.
"They're getting away!" A marine shouted chasing after the straw hat crew, within the large crowd of them. "Go after them!" Another shouted "There they are!" "Get them" They all shouted running past Smoker who just watched the back of Shura become smaller and smaller.
Smoker should've realized what Shura said was true, although he knew it'd sound poetically cheesy trying to keep Shura in the marines was trying to keep a wild animal caged. It wasn't a good idea, and one day that animal would get free itself and run off.
And that's what Shura did, she got free and ran off with other people just as wild as she was. Though Shura was something that Smoker never knew existed and seemed to have unlimited power, Smoker didn't care to him Shura was just Shura and that's what she'll always be. He could only hope that one day he could see her again.
'Maybe when she's older,' Smoker blinked in shock at the thought that slipped into his mind. "She's been rubbing off on me too much." Smoker said turning slightly pink at his perverted thought.
Then a marine ran back from the group to see why Smoker was just standing there and not chasing after the pirate crew that took Shura.
"Captain! You're not going to go after them?" he questioned confused, Smoker looked down after he couldn't see Shura anymore and said "I'm not going to go after them, I'm tired." He answered "Tired?" The marine questioned shocked, "Oi," Smoker said before the marine could say anything else "Yes?" The marine said standing at attention "Call off the chase; we won't be able to catch them now." He said before heading over to the last remaining railing and leaning on it.
"We're going to regroup here." He stated "And contact headquarters; have them order all warships in the vicinity of the Arabasta kingdom to alter course and head here immediately." Smoker ordered of the marine, who then said "You're calling for reinforcements? But captain I don't know how the bosses will like the idea of you calling for a bunch of warships for just a few pirates." The marine said uncertainty to Smoker.
Smoker turned around and said in response "Sense when do I care about what the bosses think?" Smoker barked at the poor innocent marine, who was now shaking in fear "Oh… Y-Yes sir! Right away!" he shouted before running off before Smoker took the brunt of his anger out on him and begun chasing after the other marines calling for them to come back.
Back with the straw hats, they were running through the city trying to get away from the marines and to Alubarna as soon as possible.
"Hey, don't tell me we're supposed to run away the way to Alubarna!" Usopp shouted raspy from running so much and what happened only a few minutes before.
"To be honest I could do that if I really tried." Shura said in a matter of fact tone, Usopp then shot her a dirty look. "You blew up a casino with pure energy, you control fire and lightening, and you walk on water. You could do WHATEVER you want." He snapped as he ran as fast as he could.
"Oh, Eyelashes!" Nami called for the camel, "Where is he?" She questioned just as she said that Chopper came up on a giant crab.
Everyone stared in amazement, Luffy wanted to eat it, Usopp was afraid of it, Sanji was impressed that Chopper came back with something that could help them, and Nami was weary of it because of its shady looking face, Zoro looked like he usually does, and Shura well Shura was laughing at it.
"Why are you laughing? Chopper worked really hard to get this for us!" Nami shouted at Shura who was holding her stomach laughing. Chopper then said "Actually he's Eyelashes' friend, he was born in this city so he has friends all over Arabasta. But, they're all perverts."
Shura let out an even louder laugh. "Chopper, you went to Rain base and all you got was crabs~!" Shura blurted out laughing earning a whack on the head from Nami. "Honestly, you and Luffy are just alike you almost die and make us worry to death then you say something stupid like that!" Nami shouted angrily while Shura rubbed her head grinning still about her joke.
Vivi couldn't help but smile in amusement at this. Seeing this Shura was much better than seeing her die right in front of her.
Once everyone got onto the giant… Crab. Then it headed off.
Shura sat there on the crab still snickering "Crabs…" She mumbled giggling at her joke earning yet another hit upside the head by Nami. But just before Nami could say anything Vivi was pulled away by Crocodile's hook.
Vivi screamed in terror while everyone looked over in shock because they had been caught off guard by this move.
"STOP! Chopper!" Zoro shouted wanting Chopper to stop the crab before they went too far ahead that they couldn't get Vivi away from Crocodile's grip.
As the crab stopped, even though Luffy almost lost his balance he recovered quickly then yelled.
"It's him!" He growled then stretched over grabbing Crocodile's hook and throwing Vivi back on the crab and letting himself be pulled by Crocodile.
"Luffy!" Shura shouted shocked as Nami caught Vivi, "Hey Luffy!" Zoro shouted after making sure Vivi was okay. "That idiot!" Sanji snapped angry and worried about what Luffy had just done.
Vivi who had just fainted for a moment came to then realized what was going on and shouted as well. "Luffy-san!"
All the while Crocodile was pulling Luffy back to him, "You guys go on without me; I'll be fine by myself!" Luffy shouted, everyone sat there shocked at the captain's orders just as he landed on his head in the sand. "Make sure you get Vivi there safely! Get her back home! Make sure!" He ordered not even bothered by the fact that he had just landed head first in the sand with his trademark grin plastered on his face.
Everyone was taken aback by this order from the captain of their crew. Shura stood there staring at Luffy like he had lost his mind.
"Make sure okay?" He said again before Shura could even say anything.
"He's insane," Shura said too shocked for any other words than that. "Idiot." Zoro said mostly to himself, then came back to his senses then took charge of the situation. "Oi! Let's go Chopper! From here… Straight to Alubarna!" Zoro ordered the ship's doctor, whom of which nodded tear fully and said "Right. Got it." Then caused the crab to continue on, as he tried to hold back his tears "Let's go!" Chopper ordered the crab.
Shura stood there not really listening to Usopp complain about how Zoro better protect him now.
She just stood there staring at Luffy's slowly fading figure, 'Will he really be okay?' Shura thought actually worrying about Luffy's well-being. She didn't know how things were going to turn out now, everything seemed to be so messed up right now she didn't know up from down.
She was sure she had almost died back there, she surprisingly remembered it well.
Shura didn't fell a thing after being stabbed in the stomach; all she remembered was waking up in this strange field of grass at night. She remembered how cold she felt, but it wasn't a bad kind of cold.
She remembered turning around and seeing someone, she didn't remember what they looked like. All she remembered was seeing black silky fabric and a white face.
They didn't say anything; they just stood there staring at Shura who of course stared back wondering why they looked so filmier like she knew them. Or at least heard of what they looked like, she remembered them shaking their head as Shura reached out to them to pull them down to her level to see what they looked like.
Then after they shook their head Shura heard their voices, the straw hats and Smoker's voice.
They sounded worried, and scared. Shura remembered feeling surprised because she had forgotten all about them; she had been so consumed about finding out who that person was that she had forgotten why she was there.
Then she felt anger remembering her picture. Her picture of Minato, the only thing that helped her remember him and now it was gone because of her. Shura felt rage, pure unadulterated rage burn deep inside her.
Then the next thing she knew she was standing in a middle of a crater with Luffy coming down for her.
Shura sighed after Zoro made his speech then sat down once more.
Tanaka stood at the top of the sink hole that crocodile had made, sighing as the young man ran his fingers through is hair. "I better make this quick, Koenma won't like it if I stay here for too long." Tanaka said pulling out a staff and hitting it on the ground once, that caused the sand to go in reverse bringing Luffy back up to Tanaka.
"It's seriously uncanny how you two are so much alike." Tanaka said picking Luffy up and walking off with him. "Well, I better go get you patched up. Koenma might not like it very much though."
Back with the rest of the straw hats, Shura sneezed.
"Seriously, who could be talking about me at a time like this?" Shura mumbled rubbing her nose, Vivi over heard her and looked at her worriedly "I hope you aren't getting sick." She said only to be waved off by Shura. "Vivi, getting sick is the least of my worries." Shura said leaning onto on hand, Vivi nodded.
"Sorry, I forgot." She said feeling remorse for her simple comment that did more damage than what she originally thought.
Shura then looked over to Zoro who was using Eyelashes as a weight, and then at Usopp who even in the face of danger was lying like a dog.
After a few moments of sitting there watching everyone, Shura let out a whine "All this tension is hurting my stomach." She complained earning a glare from Zoro who muttered something and the only word Shura could make out was Minato.
Shura's light attitude suddenly turned sour, Nami mumbled about how stupid Zoro was for making that comment and Sanji was on standby to calm Shura down if she tried to kill Zoro.
"What did you say?" Shura said rather calmly despite her expression, she decided to not to jump to conclusions before killing Zoro. Zoro then stared Shura straight and the eye and said "If the tension's bothering you so much then you can just go back to the last world to your precious Minato! I don't even see what's so special about him anyway." Zoro said causing Shura to become angry for a moment then Shura took a deep breath to calm herself down.
"You really want to know why he's so special to me." Shura said staring Zoro then turning to everyone else "Well do you?!" Shura then shouted at everyone else, but she got no answer. "Minato is special to me because he was the first person to actually listen! Whether what I said was sarcastic or not, he listened! He wasn't just my boyfriend; he was my team mate, and my best friend! He didn't care about where I was from, he didn't care that I didn't come from a rich family like he did or that I'm not all that bright!" Shura shouted clearly upset and embarrassed to bring all this out into the open, she wasn't used to showing these kinds of feelings. But she felt she had to say this before she left for some reason.
"Shura-san-" Vivi said only to be silenced by Shura's glare, her glare almost said to Vivi 'I'm not done.' So the princess kept quiet.
Shura then took this as an okay to on. "Minato waited a whole week at my side while I was in a coma from poisoning. He didn't move once unless someone made him, and do you know how I repay him? How I show my gratitude for all the kindness that he gave to me. I DIE! I drop dead right in front of him during some stupid festival that was important to him! And that picture was all I had to remember him by!" Shura said now with her head down crying "Damnit." She said rubbing her eyes "I got sand in my eyes." She mumbled giving a lame excuse for why she had cried suddenly.
Zoro could only stare in shock at what Shura had just said to him so blatantly, now he understood why Shura was so angry when that picture was damaged. Why she had guarded it with every ounce of her being up until now. Shura didn't want to forget, it was so clear now. Zoro glanced down at his most prized sword. It was just like he didn't want to forget ether, both he and Shura wanted to remember.
Apart of Zoro wanted to hit himself until he bled because of what he had said. Because now, he understood.
The rest of the ride to the capital was silent and as they reached the outside of the city everything was oddly solemn.
Shura stood there with her new found friends and Usopp around her and growled.
"Ugh! What's up with this sad thing! You know what! I hate every last one of you guys. Sanji you're a pervert with a small dick! Nami you're a bitch end of story. Vivi you're whiny and need to realize that you can't handle everything on your own. Zoro you're a pretentious ass, Chopper you're a freak of nature and should be shot because of that and Usopp." She said stopping on Usopp who stared at her along with everyone else. "I hate you." Shura said causing everyone to become completely confused "Tell Luffy he's an idiot, and fuck you all. Shura out! Peace!" Shura said before walking away from the group only to be chased after by Chopper and hugged.
"Shura I'll miss you." He said as Shura stood there. "L…Let go. I…I don't like sad goodbyes, so hate me for a little bit. Okay?" Shura said turning around with tears welling up in her eyes. Chopper smiled tearing up as well and nodded. "O-okay!" he said before letting go and running back to the group. If Shura had turned around to look at the group. She would've seen Zoro just staring straight ahead with the usual look he had, Sanji crying as he held onto Nami about missing Shura-Chawn already, Vivi waving with a sad smile. Chopper clinging onto Usopp crying his eyes out and Usopp with an annoyed look on his face because Shura said she hated him.
The Straw Hats knew one thing despite Shura trying desperately to turn her leaving into something sour. They were going to miss her and looking for one piece wasn't going to be the same without her.
"Shura-Chawn!" Sanji shouted trying to go after Shura but was held back by Nami as he wailed and cried tears.
But it wasn't that Shura was leaving that hurt the straw hats the most. It was that, even if they called her name. She didn't even look back at them.
Nami frowned at the sight of her retreating figure quietly. She should've realized all a long what Shura had been trying to do to them.
She was trying her best to make them hate her, to make them happy that she was going to leave.
That's what Nami tried to do not too long ago. She tried to make everyone she cared for hate her so she could do what was best for everyone in silence.
Nami's thoughts were on depressing thoughts for only a few moments until Luffy's face popped into her mind. A smile cracked the mask of that frown instantly.
That's right…
If anyone could reach across the edges of space and time to still have a connection to someone it'd be Luffy, and if Luffy was their captain, the straw hats captain, than surely it didn't matter if Shura was leaving. It didn't matter at all.
Once nakama, always nakama.
Miss New Year stood on top of a building awaiting for the world jumper to appear, she knew that the girl would be able to find her, she had already managed that once. So she didn't have to make much of a scene about it in order for their long awaited fight to commence.
But in the back of New Year's mind a little voice inside of her screamed for her to get out of this world while she still could. That voice shouted quietly about the monstrous display that the girl had made only hours before.
Not only that but the voice had brought up what that Robin woman had said.
"She's going to kill you." Katherine scoffed quietly, as if that child of all people could manage to kill her. She was much more powerful than her! So much more.
However, as much as she hated to admit it. She was quiet frightened when the girl had charged at her like an animal out for blood. She shuddered a bit at the thoughts of what could've possibly had happened if Crocodile hadn't stopped the girl.
Shaking such weak thoughts away New Year went back to surveying the horizon for the girl so she could get this over with.
Finally when New Year spotted her, she folded her arms waiting for the girl to jump onto the building then begin her monologue, but much to New Year's surprise, Shura just walked past as if she didn't even notice her on top of that building.
New Year's eye twitched slightly at this, "HEY!" She shouted loudly trying to get her oppinate's attention. But Shura didn't respond to her rather loud shout.
Growling lowly to herself, the red haired woman jumped down to cut off the other girl's path.
Once landing in front of the other female, Shura blinked curiously then took a step back.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?" New Year shouted at Shura who seemed a bit bewildered at the moment.
"Wha-…?" Shura questioned curiously wondering why this weird woman was yelling at her. New Year stared at Shura for a moment then sighed. "You don't recognize me do you?" She said leaning back and folding her arms with a eyebrow cocked quizzically.
Shura blinked then held her hands in front of her "Hey if this is one of these things were you claim some bastard kid of yours is mine I'll let you know lady I'm a chick!" She said as if that had actually happened to her before.
"Oh for the love of-!" New Year shouted face palming "I'm the woman who burnt the picture of your boyfriend!" She shouted as Shura stared at her for a long moment then Shura shouted "Crazy cat lady!" As if she had finally recognized her.
New Year's eye twitched dramatically at this, why of all people in this world her opponent had to be this IDIOT!
Sighing roughly New Year then opened her mouth to say something but she didn't get a chance to when Shura's fist met her face sending New Year launching about five feet away.
"I've got to admit I didn't recognize you at first. However, that doesn't change the fact that I'm going to kill you." Shura said with a disturbingly blank face, New Year stared up at Shura with an unsure look on her face wondering to herself what she had could've possibly unleashed when she burnt that picture.
With a crack to her knuckles Shura then closed in upon the older woman who sat there helplessly.
"Ah~! I feel so much better now!" Luffy shouted with a stretch as Tanaka stared a him unamused. "I'm happy you feel that way." Tanaka said despite the look on his face clearly stated that he was very much unhappy at the moment.
"Hey, Mikkō-sha-san (Stowaway-san) what's wrong?" Luffy said earning another twitched from Tanaka. "Koenma is so going to be pissed with me for this!" He suddenly shouted grabbing his head in obvious fear of this Koenma.
"Ko-emma? Who's that?" Luffy questioned as Tanaka cringed at the butchering of his boss's name. "A God, an all-powerful fire and brim stone God that will KILL me once he finds out what I've done!" Tanaka shouted falling to his knees as Luffy stood there and picked his noise.
"What's that Mikkō-sha?" He questioned seemly uninterested in the actual reason but asked anyway. Tanaka glanced over his shoulder than cringed in disgust. "For some reason or another I had a lapse of sanity and helped you." He said as Luffy stared at him for a moment and then laughed. "You're weird!" He said laughing and pointing at Tanaka who was unamused.
"You think you can defeat me world jumper?!" Katharine shouted at Shura charging at her and throwing punches. Shura dodged and then said "Obviously you haven't known me too long. Anyone who knows me well knows I don't think!" Shura shouted kicking her in the chest. This sent the woman back a bit and Shura stared at her with fierce eyes "And it's not about whether I win or lose. It's about standing over your cold dead body." Shura said with eyes as sharp as knives and trust me, if looks could kill. Dear Katy here, well, she'd already be dead.
New Year then stood up and reach into her shirt as Shura stared at her oddly. "What are you… Doing?" Shura questioned kind of not wanting to know what New Year was doing at that moment then New Year pulled out a Cat o' Nine tails. Shura stared at her for a moment and then said.
"Maybe you don't know this but, I'm not into chicks, let alone the whole M and S thing." Shura said as New Year's face turned red. "THAT'S NOT WHAT IT'S FOR!" She screamed in embarrassment as Shura scratched her cheek. "Maybe I should get an adult. I feel as though my innocence is in danger." She mumbled only to have New Year go after her with the whip. Shura's face then turned pale and she ran away. "I NEED AN ADULT! I NEED AN ADULT!" She screamed running away from New Year who was screaming at her to get back there so she could beat her to death.
However the way she had worded it only made Shura run faster. "I do not want! I do not want!" Shura shouted with tears brimming up in her eyes.
In retrospect, maybe the cat o nine tails wasn't the best choice as a weapon to fight against a pervert like Shura.
But hindsight is 20-20 after all.
Shura jumped into a crate to hide from the now suddenly rape-astic Miss New Year. Shura sighed in relief taking a deep breath for a moment. She had to figure out a way to kill her without ending up in an awkward situation like that again.
"Curse my good looks." Shura mumbled when suddenly the crate around her exploded.
"Found you." New Year said with a crazed look in her eyes. Shura gulped then shot off before New Year could hit her with the whip.
New Year ran after her as well, Shura raced through the entire capital city with New Year chasing after her.
She ran across the way when Nami was fighting with Miss Double Finger. "Sh-Shura?" Nami questioned curiously as Double finger had a similar look on her face when she seen New Year.
"Out of my way! This bitch is trying to make me her bitch!" Shura shouted running away as New Year shouted "I'm going to claw your eyes out and cut out your tongue!"
"I'm not into that!" Shura shouted with rivers of tears coming out of her eyes. Nami stared at the scene before her as Double Finger sighed. "Co-worker?" She questioned as Nami nodded. "Yeah, Mr. Two is like that sometimes as well." She said feeling Nami's pain at the moment.
Shura tried to hide in several ways and in several places.
She pretended she was a statute which worked for about five seconds, she transformed into someone else which worked a little bit until she slipped up and New year found out. She even tried the thing where you stand behind someone and move every time they try to look behind them which only served to make her angrier.
"Stop running you little bitch!" New Year shouted at Shura "If this keeps up I'll use my posion on you like last time!" She shouted at Shura who stopped and then turned around.
"What did you say?" She questioned as New Year smirked "I made the posion that killed you in your last world. Don't you find it a bit odd that they weren't able to find an antidote but needed to kill off each spore one by one?" She said as Shura seethed.
"You made the posion that killed me?" She questioned as New Year nodded. "You made the posion that killed me and took me away from Minato?!" Shura screamed with her anger rekindled, she almost instantly forgot about why she was running before. All she wanted was blood.
Shura walked over and grabbed New Year, "You took me away from Minato! You caused me to die in front of him like that?!" She screamed throwing New Year into a building "YOU MADE ME BREAK HIS HEART!" Shura screeched charging at her like a angered bull. New Year stood up only to receive a head in the stomach from Shura as she sent her through the walls of each building.
Once they ran out of walls Shura landed on top of New Year and began beating her face in and choking her as she slammed her head on the ground.
"WHEN I'M DONE WITH YOU! THEY WON'T EVEN FIND THE BODY!" Shura screamed in animalistic fury that made her sound like she was demonically possessed.
New Year for the first time in her life, actually feared for her life at that very moment of time.
It seemed in order to get out of this situation she needed to do something and fast.