Gold Tournament pt 2

The two were standing at the center of the field with eyes dead set on Doffy. Everyone were stunned with shock seeing the battle turn so quickly. Luffy's entrance was a surprised but what was more surprising was his punch against Vergo.

Vergo got back up and stared at Luffy. He couldn't believe such a skinny guy was able to launch him off his feet. He wasn't going to let it slide. As for Doffy, his eyes were on Yusei who was able to use two powers or one would think. He knew another person with that kind of power. He grins at this turn of events but it won't change the outcome.

"...you take on Vergo" Yusei tells Luffy while walking to Doffy. "We may be equally match...but the strongest one here...well if you involve their strength and power would be you….while I specialize in…"

Doffy jumps off the tower and start using his string to walk in the sky. Yusei took notice and quickly appeared in front of him with his fire coming off his legs and arms.

"Speed" Yusei said slamming his leg at Doffy who blocked it with his own leg that covered in haki.

The contact created a mini shock wave in mid air. Yusei started throwing multiple of fiery punches at Doffy who was dodging each one, up close. Luffy clenches his hand and watches Vergo come to him. He lets out a breath and inhales slowly. When Vergo was close enough, Luffy quickly dashed right to him until he was right in front of him. Luffy threw a punch but Vergo was prepared for him and slammed his leg right into his arm.

Luffy eyes widen with surprise feeling his feet get dragged on the ground from the impact. He stopped right at the edge of the field. If it was a little more powerful, Luffy was going to fall in deep water. Thankfully, that attack didn't do much damage on him. He grins and appeared behind Vergo and started rapidly throwing punches that kept increasing in power the amount of times it flings backward.

Vergo was blocking them with his arms crossed in front of him but that didn't stop him from moving. Yusei let out a blade of fire that separated him and Doffy. Yusei landed on the ground while Doffy stayed in the air.

"Why aren't you coming down now?" Yusei asked looking from below.

"There isn't a point for me...just like this match" Doffy replies with a grin. "I have to admit..that surprise attack was something...but I can promise...it won't happen again"

Yusei eyes widen sensing sharp needle strings coming down like rain. He kept jumping back trying not to get hit. It stopped but it wasn't over. Something was coming from around him. String started to come out from the ground, changing shape.

"I'll let them take care of you...while I-" Doffy said moving forward to Yusei's flag.

However, a block of ice appears in front of him again. He bit his lower lip getting annoyed. Yusei was feeling the same but for a different reason. Doffy was holding back on him. Not giving him the fight he wants. This angers him so much. Yusei gave a cold glare at the clones made of string that had swords pointed at him.

Yusei reached into his back pocket and pulled out a baton. He pressed down at the middle, causing it to extend on both sides into a bow staff. One of the Doffy clones swinged vertically which Yusei blocked with his bow staff that cut in two. His hair was covering his eyes. He pressed two more buttons on the cut pieces. Twin blades came out and covered in flames.

Yusei twirled and slashed against the clones chest at once. The force of his blow caused them to get pushed back. Yusei spun his swords and attacked each one at a time. He started with cutting their arms off then their heads. Once he was finished, they get consumed by crimson flames that burned the string to ash. Yusei wasn't done and started to run toward Doffy's tower.

His eyes were shadowed by his hair and the point of his blades were behind him. Vergo shifted his eyes to Yusei about to go after him until meeting a punch in the face by Luffy.

"Your fight is with me" Luffy stated.

Doffy's eyes followed Yusei. His grin widen seeing him falling into his trap. Someone came out of the shadow of the tower. The handle of a sword was tightly squeezed by a hand with tattoos on the knuckles. "Law" Yusei thought pointing his sword close to the ground that the tip was touching it.

A spiral of fire comes from his side's creating clones of himself. They started running outward with the swords cutting the earth. Law came out from hiding and raised his hand. Yusei stared at him intently.

Law open his mouth but looked up to see Yusei's clone jump above him but disappeared before Law could attack.

"Room" Law said causing Yusei to smirk and jump back quickly before getting trapped.

The radius of the trap was inches away from Yusei who was running from it. His arm was got in it. Law snapped his fingers. Yusei fell backward right the time the trap stopped.

Though, not all of him was able to escape. Yusei's right arm was floating in the room created by Law.

"Now my turn" Yusei said deeply piercing the ground with his blade. "Crimson prison"

There was a circle created earlier by Yusei's clones. Crimson flames sprouted from it and growing in size. Law was caught off guard not realizing there was a trap set for him. Still, this shows that Yusei knew about him and his power. Law just needed to break free from this prison.

"My arm may be seperated from my body but…..I still have control...over my fire" Yusei said raising his hand.

Within the prison, streams of fire started coming out from every direction to Law. He kept dodging them but it was never ending. Each attack was gracing him but he didn't have the chance to rest.

"Your done" Yusei said coldly clenching his hand.

The prison shrunk in size. Law was grabbed by streams of fire burning into his skin. The size of the prison became the size of Law who was unable to move. Yusei's arm return back to his socket.

Yusei quickly appeared behind Law after slicing his sword through him, knocking him unconscious.

Fire started radiating from Yusei's body. He looks up at Doffy. Streams of fire started moving towards Doffy. Each tried wrapping itself around Doffy but kept missing. Doffy didn't stay still. Though, the more time goes by, the more closer Yusei's attacks were getting.

Vergo was slammed against the tower again by Luffy who was all red. He wasn't going to let Yusei handle Doffy alone. He gave Vergo a powerful punch, that should take care of him.

Before Luffy could help Yusei, it started snowing. Luffy looked up in the sky. The snow started coming down hard, covering the field in a blanket of snow. Luffy could see his breath.

"What is this?" Luffy said turning white.

It was getting to cold for him. He takes one step forward. A pile of snow engulfs him, up to his neck.

"Guh" Luffy said shivering from the cold.

Yusei shifted his eyes to Luffy. "Snow….the bird" Yusei thought seeing Doffy disappearing into the clouds.

"A rubber man and a fire boy...what an interesting pair" said a female voice up in the sky. "If I'm correct...rubber can easily break...under cold climate"

She was right. Since Luffy was made of rubber, his power is weaken. The colder it gets, the more strength he loses. It's already getting harder for him to breath. As for Yusei, he just wanted the clouds to go away. He can't see his target. He knows who was doing this. He researched every member of Doffy's group. Each one, he studied carefully.

This snow was nothing for him. It keeps melting when it touches him. Doffy may be gone from his sight. He still senses him in the exact place in the sky. Aokiji will continue to block his path.

A tornado of snow came down from the sky. Above it was Monet but with a unique feature that shock the audience. A pair of green wings and sharp talons. Yusei stared at her intently.

"Ooo, scary…" Monet said smirking. "Let me cool you off"

She flaps her wings causing a blizzard to directly hit Yusei. As well as moving the tornado to him.

"I'm not underestimating you….I've seen your power" Monet states. "Buring you in snow should stop you-"

She was surprised to see Yusei come walking out of the storm like it was nothing. He had his hair covering his eyes. He had his blades pointing behind him. Monet was starting to get nervous.

"W-well...it seems like-" Monet said.

"...are your wings real?" Yusei asked in a deep tone.

"My wings?" Monet asked raising an eyebrow.

In an instant, Yusei was running with a tail of crimson fire coming out from behind him. Monet eyes widen to see him jump. Before she can do anything she felt a chill go down her spine. It wasn't by the cold. She slowly turns her head and felt a deadly presences. She was met with eyes craving for blood. Yusei was right above her with his sword about to slice her. She was lost with words and movement under his gaze. It trapped her in fear.

The blade gets engulfed with fire. Yusei quickly striked down causing a wave of fire to come out from his sword and spread outward. The snow rapidly melted and Monet fell straight down to the ground.

Luffy finally got freed but the effects still lingers. It will take awhile for his body to return to regular temperature. As for Yusei, he had one of his blade pierced directly near Monet's face while the other was directly in front of her eyes.

"Tell me...I'm I still scary" Yusei said with an evil grin.

Monet couldn't move and couldn't look away at the blade that was coming toward her. Luckily, she was quickly moved from underneath Yusei by string that brought her to the tower. Though, Yusei's attack continued and slammed against the ground.

"That was a close one" Doffy spoke landing on the ground.

Yusei turned to him while scratching the ground with his blade. Just hearing his voice enrages him. He was holding back for the most part. It wasn't the time to let loose and go wild but it's difficult to hide the killer expression.

"Aren't you filled with surprises" Doffy said keeping his grin. "Being able to use haki this early in the year and having perfect control over your power….you two aren't like the others...but that doesn't matter to me….everyone is the same to me...you all are just….pieces to me-"

Luffy felt his arm being tugged. He soon felt his body straighten up. There was a tight grip around his arms and legs.

"To move" Doffy said raising his hand causing Luffy to turn. "I'm going to win this...without making a sweat...I'll let your partner deal with you….you two seem...close"

Yusei turns around to Luffy who had string controlling his movements.

"I've seen has much I can see from you….it's not worth my time dealing with bunch of nobodies…..it's beneath me" Doffy said clenching his hand.

Luffy started running to Yusei and threw a punch which Yusei took in the face. It made him drop his swords. "1" Yusei thought stumbling backwards. Luffy threw another punch directly at Yusei's gut. "2" Yusei thought. Luffy repeatedly threw punches. Yusei wasn't dodging or trying to protect himself. Luffy tried breaking free but couldn't. He gave Yusei a powerful punch that smashed him into the tower.

"8" Yusei said softly to himself spitting out blood with his head down.

Doffy grinned and looked at where Aokiji was. Doffy decided to entangle him in his string to stop him from moving when Monet covered the whole place in snow. He didn't seem to find anyone else hiding nearby so it's safe to say, the flag is his. Doffy jumps up but freezes after hearing a loud sound.

Yusei slammed his fist into Luffy's gut. Yusei stared blankly at the ground.

"Your better than this...don't let string control you" Yusei whispers to Luffy's ear.

Luffy fell forward after Yusei gripped the strings in his hand. He squeezes them causing a stream of fire to head directly to Doffy's fingers who cut the line. Yusei tilts his head to Doffy with his eyes widen.

"You got the wrong idea of me...Doffy" Yusei said softly.

Doffy eyes widen sensing danger coming around him. Small tornadoes of fire came out of the ground turning into Yusei. They all attack Doffy who quickly got rid of them. Yusei appeared instantly above him when the clones disappeared. He slammed his haki covered fist to Doffy who blocked with one arm covered in haki. The impact created a small shock wave.

"Oh really" Doffy said narrowing his eyes on Yusei.

Yusei got low on the ground and wiped his leg to Doffy who dodged and kicked him to the side. Yusei rolled but quickly got up and swung his arms, releasing fire out of them. Doffy pulled himself into the sky again. Streams of fire started stretching toward Doffy.

Doffy released thousands of string toward the fire. They were strong enough to cut the fire into small pieces. Yusei was about to jump until he felt his leg get stuck to the ground. Doffy grins pulling his arms out.

"Gruh" Yusei said feeling his arms being stretched apart as well as his legs.

Layers of string wrapped around his limbs tightly. It was digging into Yusei's skin. This was different from before. "This string….there's haki" Yusei thought clenching his teeth. He can try to burn it but it was no use. Yusei glares at Doffy who was looking down on him.

"I did tell you…" Doffy said and wrap Luffy in string before he could move."your nothing compared to me...Yusei"

Doffy lands on the ground. Yusei continues to bring his arms together but was shot with sharp needles of string that brought him to his started to wrap itself around Yusei's neck. This was the reason why he didn't want any of his friends to get involved. Doffy's power with string.

Flashback

"Controlling people?...how can he do that?" Luffy asked.

"Don't know...I guess the string attacks certain points of your body making you become a puppet" Yusei said moving a chess piece.

"Hmm...thats not good" Luffy said crossing his arms.
"That's why you shouldn't be seen with anyone….if Doffy knows who is closest to you...he will use his power to turn them against you" Yusei states.

"Uh...well if that happens we can just cut the string" Luffy replies.

"I don't have much research on that...we're going to have to experience it to know for sure" Yusei exclaims.

"What do you mean?" Luffy asked.

"Have him control one of us...then I'll know….how to free someone from those strings...hehe" Yusei said with a evil chuckle. "Our surprise attack will bring the whole stage down"

"...you mean the gold tournament?" Luffy asked.

"...though, if we did interrupt the opening match….the student council would be able to stop us" Yusei said rubbing his chin.

"Hmm...I have an idea" Luffy said grinning.

Flashback ended

Almost everything went as planned from the beginning. Doffy took control of Luffy. The reason why Yusei didn't do anything about it was because, he deserved the pain. Those punches was just something he needed.

Once it was over, Yusei wasn't going to hold back against Doffy but then this trick involving his string being covered with haki. Yusei didn't think it was possible. He clenched his fist tighter.

"Just in case you try something else" Doffy said slowly.

Yusei's eyes widen after seeing Doffy's shadow above him. Doffy placed one foot flat on Yusei's back, covered in haki. He added force to his legs and slammed Yusei's body hard into the ground even adding conquers haki which pushed Yusei further in.

"GRAGHHH" Yusei screams out in pain like he never felt before.

Doffy jumped from Yusei with a big grin. He was flying is way to the flag. Yusei had his cheek against the ground with his hair covering his eyes and mouth slightly open.

"It's over" Doffy said reaching for the flag.

The king will once again win. However, the audience let out a noise of shock. Doffy slightly looks over his shoulder.

There was a stream of crimson climbing up the tower with speed. Right at the time Doffy grabbed the red flag, the pink flag was grabbed by Yusei's clone.

The clone's body was reverting back to fire, letting go of the flag that started gliding down.

A hand was raised up high. The flag landed directly into the hand belonging to the boy standing with one leg up and the other bent.

"T-THE...W-WINNER….ITS A TIE!"

OOO

From the moment Luffy punched Vergo. Nami and the others couldn't keep their eyes off the two. They were fighting was not like before. Luffy got stronger and Yusei got faster. It wasn't just their abilities that impressed them. Yusei's way of fighting was planned out. Robin could see that Yusei was fully prepared for this fight as well as Luffy.

There were moments that scared Nami. Watching Luffy almost freeze to death but Yusei came and saved them. Even though, his intentions were not visible. That expression he had toward Monet, terrified Kira. She was relieved that Doffy moved Monet away from what Yusei was going to do.

There was a shift in the atmosphere when Luffy was turned against Yusei. Each punch made their friends not want to watch. It reminded them of their fight. They found it out that Yusei didn't do anything to stop it. He could have easily dodged but he let those attacks hit. Kira felt the urge to jump in but she couldn't They all were at the edge of their seats when Yusei and Doffy were the only two left standing.

Everyone sitting watch became worried when Yusei let out a painful scream. He proved himself after taking out two of Doffy's team members. He was being cheered for to win. His calm composure and deadly expression made every excited to see him win against Doffy. The king of the academy. Having a first year beat him would change everything.

However, Yusei look to be unconscious on the ground while Doffy was going for the win. Everyone began to frown and lose their excitement until they saw a bright light coming from the bottom of Doffy's tower. It was Yusei's clone who made it to the top and took the flag at the same time as Doffy.

Everyone got off their seats, even the student council when Yusei forced himself to stand and take the flag in his hand.

"It's a tie!" Brook shouts

The announcement made everyone cheer and yell. Yusei was breathing heavily feeling the string loosen and turning back into its regular state. Luffy chuckles getting up seeing so many people cheering their name and waving their arms. Doffy landed to the ground with his back facing Yusei who turned to him. This made everyone quiet curious to see what Yusei was going to say.

"...Guess I was right….you weren't going to win" Yusei said with a slight smirk. "..and neither am I...I had a small feeling that I wasn't going to win...but even so, I wasn't going to let you win...which means"

Yusei took the usb drive from his neck and broke it in his hand. He also burned the pink flag.

"Oh don't worry...I wasn't dumb and didn't make copies of these files…." Yusei said chuckling. "You were right about one thing…..well half right….I'm not nothing...I'm less than nothing...I'm something that shouldn't exist….so let me ask you….how does it feel...that someone like me...kicked you off your throne"

Doffy turned and gave a cold glare to Yusei who couldn't help but grin seeing Doffy's angry side.

"What's the matter...you stopped grinning?" Yusei said. "...maybe I can damage your pride a little more…..the leader of this team...well...that place is for the strong isn't it...so...its good for you to know that...I am not the leader"

Doffy eyes widen with shock as well as everyone else. From the way he was fighting, it was clear that he was.

"...I don't like responsibility or want to be a leader...the true leader is-" Yusei said raising his hand.

Flashback

"...what?" Yusei asked.

"Come on….it sounds fun….why not participate!" Luffy replies.

"Well for one thing...that isn't my goal" Yusei states.

"Oh come" Luffy said rubbing Yusei's shoulder. "There are strong people in this academy...we can finally test how much stronger we got from our training"
"Oi!...your right" Yusei said grinning.

"So lets join the tournament!" Luffy shouts.

"...hmm...fine" Yusei said sighing

Flashback ended

"Monkey D. Luffy" Yusei calls his name with his finger pointing at Luffy who had a blank expression.

Everyone in the audience was quiet after that announcement. Doffy had his teeth clenched while staring at Luffy who didn't look the slightest threatening.

"EH?" Everyone said.