"Who is he fighting Gweniveir!?...." Rika's voice was full of tears. Gwen stayed silent and closed her eyes. "WHO IS HE FIGHTING!?!?!? TELL ME!!!!"
Gweniveir re-opened her eyes and took a deep breath, "I don't know..."
"Hmhmhmh..." the man chuckled, "I ges dis isn't zo bad... I kin kill all U ta make up fo not fight'n Zeeek."
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Episode 23: "What Happened Else Where: Gweniveir vs Wolfgang; Beethoven Appears!"
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"Zo, it's deer Gweniveir... Ur father wood B zo zad ta no 'is daughter is a pirate 'unter..."
Gweniveir refocused herself, "You do not speak of him as if you know ANYTHING! about my relationship with!" She pointed her sword deadly at Younko Wolfgang, her opponent.
"Hmhmhmhmhm, zall we continu?" In an instant, the man had dashed in front of Gweniveir and struck her, with his hand.
Gwen was knocked back by the blow and her hand was.... cut?
Rika was shocked, "How... how did he cut her?"
"Could it... could it be he has the Supa Supa no mi?" (Mr. 1's devil fruit) Frank was terrified... terrified if need be, he could not defeat him and protect Rika or Hatori.
Wolfgang chuckled at Frank's remark, "Supa Supa? Oh nonononon no my deer frend, zuch a fruit is too low my standards.... This..." His whole body then warped and shaped like pudy, his whole color completion, even his clothes, turned a pale white. Then his strange melted like deformed body leapt at Gweniveir.
She quickly spun her long samurai sword as fast as she could in a clock ward motion and cut some of Wolfgang before he retreated back. But his retreat was fake and his strange body slithered very quickly to her blind side, and pierced the right side of her abdomen, mainly getting her rib cage.
"GUAAA!!" She withered in pain and sunk to her knees.
Wolfgang returned to his completely normal form. "I am a Logia... de SukaiKumo SukaiKumo (sky cloud) no mi." (You remember all that crazy stuff they did with clouds on Skypiea? Well he can basically do ALL of that with his body and more. So it's not real clouds is Skypiea clouds, if that clears things up for you)
"What!?... No... That's.. That's ridiculous! Such a power exists!?!?!" Rika had heard storied from Perona and others during their travels about the Sky island and they types of strange clouds there. But now she was scared more than she had ever been in her entire life. And it was mainly this man's presence.... he simply was not a GOOD soul.
"Hatori! I said leave!" Gweniveir was screaming at the top of her lungs. Doing her best to keep back tears. She started to doubt she WOULD live this.
"Oh..." Wolfgang cooed, almost as if he was trying to flirt with her. "Is zhe worried about her prezious daughter??? Zo zentimental.... at least I no U 'av a heart."
Gweniveir shook her fist. She had no choice. He had backed her into this corner already, and so early in the fight. But now she also had to finish quickly in order to protect Hatori and the others. She knew he would not let them escape.
She took of the top of her armor first. A simple tan clothe of a shirt, then her boots, and finally her armor bottoms, simple deep dark purple shorts under them.
Wolfgang raised a brow, "An wat R we doing???"
Gwen then slide her feet apart and took the horse stance, she tucked her sword back and posed as ready to wield it back at a moment s notice, ".... Killing you."
Then, all most as fast as Wolfgang if not faster, she dashed for the man and swung.
Wolfgang almost didn't react in time. He stomach was about to barely nicked when Gweniveir lunged and thrusted it into him without him retreating fast enough. And it stabbed him clean all the way through.
She grinned, "You think I would come here so ill prepared!? The back side of my blade is thinly lined with sea stone.
"Gua!.... U, BITCH!!!!!" He snarled at her and shoved her off with great force and she flew back a couple feet. He then pulled the sword out of his body, blood pooling out of the cut. Then as he finished pulling it out and threw the sword aside, his body closed up and was completely normal.
"Now... ta kil U whil I can!" He dashed at her, his arm shaping into an axe and he swung down.
Gwen rolled out of the way and went towards her sword.
She grabbed it just in time as Wolfgang engulfed her in giant white ball. She now no longer could be seen. And Hatori began to panic for the worse.
They heard noises like muffled sword clashes. Then...
*SHING!*
Gwen s sword popped out of the ball. The ball remedied and Wolfgang was in his normal form again. With his distance away from the sword his cut healed once more.
"Dam bitch." He was getting very tired of this.
*BOOOOOOOM!!!*
The piece of Red Line on their left just split in two and then, about a minute later came a great big blue flash.
"ZEKE!???!" Rika wanted to go over there to see if that was him.
Gwen was distracted as she looked over there and Wolfgang seized the moment.
He fromed both of his hands into blades and began swinging. Gweniveir reacted enough to block and the pacing began.
Wolfgang used his legs even, forming them into anything sharp he could think of, swords, axes, spears, anything.
Gwen blocked then struck, blocked then struck, swung, lunged, blocked, attacked, defended.
Back and forth they went and their dashes and attacks became faster and faster.
But Wolfgang started getting the upper hand and then tripped her.
As he lunged, spiking his whole body, ready to land on her and impale her. Gweniveir stuck her sword out in front of her, ready to impale him as well.
The Yonkou stopped just in time and backed away.
As Gwen got to her feet, she tired watching carefully, but Wolfgang decided to go for something easier..... the daughter.
He dashed for Hatori.
"HATORI!!!!!!!!" the mother's voice cracked at her volume of distress as the sinister man went for the innocent girl.
Frank, without any hesitation of thinking, ran in front of the girl and swung at the man. But he simple pushed the partial giant a side and continued to race for her. Rika grabbed Hatori and held her tight.
Wolfgang's hand formed into a sword blade and went to chop the girls down.
*GRIP!*
His head suddenly jerked and was short of cutting the girls. He felt as if he couldn't move. ("WHAT'S HAPPENING!?") Then he noticed his hand was normal, and the look on Rika and Hatori s faces wasn't of relive... but of more sock and confusion.
"What are you doing?.... Wolfgang."
He shuttered at that voice.... he knew who it belonged to. Not Frank's, not Gweniveir s...... BEETHOVEN'S.
He looked back and saw him.
"H-h-... how-... how did U get 'ere!?"
The man smiled, he had Wolfgang's hair gripped in his hand, "Same as you.... I walked. What are you stupid?"
Wolfgang was now angry, he tore away from the man's grip and backed away.
"Go home Wolfgang... you lose today." He stared very seriously into his eyes.
"U won't be arond foreva ol' man!... An I wil be de one ta deel de final blo."
Beethoven stepped a little closer to him, "You are not my BLACKBEARD Wolfgang. Don't treat me like I'm frail."
"Az to U don't treet me lak a week pup..." With that Wolfgang seemingly disappeared as he left the battle field.
Then suddenly, Beethoven smiled, "Hahahaha! Good to see you again Gweny-chan!" He went to hug Gweniveir.
*SLAP!*
She hit him, not as hard as she could, but hard enough. "Why are you here!?"
"Geez! Was that slap really necessary!? I come all the way out her JUST to see you and I get hit in the face!" Beethoven rubbed his cheek.
"UNCLE BUGGY!!!" Hatori ran up to him and gave him a hug.
"BUGGY!??!?!?!?!!?!" Rika and Frank almost had a heart attack.
"A Hatori-chan! At least SOMEBODY is happy to see me!" He stuck his tongue out at Gweniveir.
"Why WOULD I be happy to see you?"
"Because.... I'm your god father."
"SELF-APOINTED god father. I told you before, it's pointless to try and take up the slack that HE left."
"Come now, don't be like that. He DIED. If came a saw you. You can't hold a grudge because he died too early. He couldn't have predicted that."
"YES HE COULD HAVE! HE COULD HAVE NOT GONE! AND DON'T DEFEND HIM! YOU HATED HIS GUTS UNTIL THE POINT HE DIED! DON'T BE RICHOUS NOW THAT YOUR 'FRIENDS' ARE ALL GONE!!!" Gweniveir s face was covered in tears now.
Buggy became very solemn now, "I apologize, I'm just doing what he asked."
"......... Thank you... But it's not necessary..." Gwen put her armor back on and picked up Hatori. "Come, Hatori, we're leaving now."
"Awwwww... Rika! Tell Zeke-san good bye for me!!"
Buggy shook his head and turned to Frank and Rika, "Now! Where is Zeke-san eh? I would like to talk with him." Then he noticed Frank's face, "You look familiar... What's your name?"
Frank was surprised, "I... uh... Frank-shirokishi, Dekata."
"Ah? So I was right? You're Nuro Dekata kid? HA! What are the odds!"
Frank's eyes widened, "YOU KNEW MY FATHER???"
"I did, he was a good man. I'm sorry to have only found out about his death 6 years ago. He didn't talk to his old CREWMATES often when he left for the simple life."
"My father.... was a pirate?"
"Indeed, and one HELL of a party guy! Hahahaha!"
Frank smiled peacefully.
Then, Buggy looked to his right. Towards the piece of rock Chopin and Parker where fighting on.
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"ugh...." A bloody Parker struggled to get up, then.
"AAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!............" He was crushed under the paws of the large Lion that he was fighting. But this lion was different, it was red and had a flame on its tail. This was Chopin, the fire beast.... the Chimera.
He turned back to his normal form, blood and many bodys of Parker all over the rock. "SEE!? I told you I'd kill you, you fucking piece of shit!!"
Then his eyes widened, he whirled around to see a small figure staring at him.... and he 'FELT' who that figure was.
"No....... NO! FUCK! FUCK YOU! YOU RUIN EVERY THING!!!! YOU FUCKING OLD MAN!! FUCK YOU!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!" He knew continuing was pointless now. He turned back into his Chimera form and jumped into the sky. As Chimera, he has the ability to spontaneously combust anything he touches, therefore, in the sky as he 'steps' he ignites the oxygen atoms to keep him above the sea. (what a way to travel!)
"What was that?" Rika referred to the roar they just heard.
"Nothing, just a brat getting spoiled again. Now, let's go get Zeke-san shall we?"
"Wait," Frank stopped him, "What about Parker-san? Is he ok?"
"Oh he's fine. He's not even here. He even sent his clone to Mariejois. He's been on his ship the whole time."
Rika: "How do you know that?"
"Because... he's one of MY crew. He came because I wanted him to keep an eye out for everything till I got here. Any corpses Chopin made over there will eventually dematerialize. Don't worry about it."
Buggy then detached his feet and went flying over to the piece of Red Line Zeke was on.
In their fight, Bach's moment he was waiting for, was this man's arrival.
The arrival to the GREAT Captain Buggy.
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"So that's what happened." Zeke was listening to the whole story.
"Pretty much," Buggy took a puff of his cigarette. "So, now that I finally have your attention."
He sat up straight and got close to Zeke. He looked dead serious. Then smiled cheerily, "I want to talk and relax with you! How bout a drink?"
Zeke smiled too, "Ok."
"Better yet, let's got talk with SHANKS." He got up and walked out the door. "Come on!"
Zeke blinked, "Shanks???"
To Be Continued....