Chapter 18: Destroying the door of imprisonment.
Summery: I may never know how it truly began, but I do know that I never truly had a choice in the events that led me here. I am in one piece now, and have unwillingly left my own world behind. That is all that matters, and all I need to know.
Disclaimer: I am in no way associated with any legal rights to one piece in any form, I do not own one piece or any part of the merchandising, gaming, manga, anime, characters, or anything of the sort. Please do not sue me as I do not have any money. The only things that I own from this fic are my own original characters.
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Amazingly, I am already 37/53 of the way through the first season, and once it's over, on to the Grandline! :D
1 don't worry, Kaede isn't super powerful, even if she stupidly thinks she is.
2 I'm surprised that none of you guys asked about what happened to the strange 'amber and glass like lump of metal' she got in the crystal cave. (or the shoe of that matter, because both items are still in her backpack.)
3 Nami might seem like a bitch during part of this chapter, but that is only because that is the way she was during episode 34, it's not a Nami bashing, so please bare with it.
'thoughts'
"Words"
(inner Kaede)
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For the past three and a half hours I had been practicing the thunder spell, and it was starting to seem that my rage was actually helping me.
While it had originally started off as nothing more then a static spark, it was now a decent bolt of electricity and had completely blown up at lamp I had attempted to light up with it, proving that it was getting a lot stronger then the blizzard spell had.
I had also practiced something else as well, though I had given up on it almost instantly as I had gotten tired of slamming into trees every time I got off the ground.
That wasn't exactly fun.
When I had left the hospital I had instantly headed for Pomoly, hoping I would be able to find a broom in one of the broken houses.
Luckily, I did.
While most to the brooms in Pomoly seemed to have been broken during the attack on the town, a few of them were completely fine, meaning I was able to use one to fly and store the rest of them in my froggy bag.
But flying seemed to be a lot harder then I had originally thought it would be, because every time I got off the ground, I some how managed to fly right into anything that was near by.
I still hadn't learned how to hover yet, so the broom always shot off the moment my feet were in the air.
Just as I was about to do another 'Thunder' spell, Zoro walked by, looking completely lost.
He has no sense of direction, seriously.
"Hey, Zoro!" I called, getting his attention and causing him to look over at me.
"Hey! What's with leaving me tied up like that?!" He demanded angrily, wanting to know why I had run off while he had been knocked out.
"Huh? Oh yeah! I forgot about that." I said, rubbing the back of my head in embarrassment. "Well, you see-" I started, only to stop as the ground started to shake. "What the?!"
If it wasn't for the fact that I had seen the Arlong ark a good two billion times, I would have been crushed like a pancake, but luckily, I had.
As soon as the rumbling stopped, which only took about a second, I immediately took off running in the direction the Zoro had come in, not wanting to get crushed by Sanji's boat as it landed.
"Hey! Where the hell are you going?!" Zoro demanded, thinking I was trying to get out of the argument.
"I'm going somewhere where I wont get crushed by a falling ship, if I were you, I'd run to!" I shouted, not stopping to look behind me as I continued to run, only stopping when I heard a loud crash and a yell come from behind me.
Part of me felt kind of bad for not dragging him out of the way with me, but a larger part of me was saying that he should have just moved when I told him to.
Oh well, can't change the past, now can we?
"Ah! Damn it all!" I heard from behind me, causing me to wince slightly at the sound of broken rubble being moved around. "What the hell were you doing?!"
"Duh, we're here to look for Nami, how come you haven't found her yet?" Luffy asked as I turned around and started walking toward them.
"You know, you probably should have moved when I said to, you would have ended up with a few less bruises that way." I said as I joined them near the wreckage of what used to be Sanji's boat.
Zoro simply shot me a glare, which showed me that he wasn't to happy with me at the moment.
Hey, it wasn't like it was my fault, he should have run when I told him to. At least, that's my story and I'm sticking with it.
"Hay? Where's Usopp and Johnny?" Luffy asked, wandering why they weren't there to.
"Usopp! Oh no, come on!" Zoro said, jumping up and heading for Arlong park.
"Huh? What's wrong?" Luffy asked stupidly as Sanji started dancing around me, asking me if I was OK.
"I'm fine Sanji, and you can stop dancing now." I said, starting to get dizzy from following him with my eyes.
I was to busy trying to get Sanji to stop giving me complements to even notice the conversation that Luffy and Zoro were having about Usopp, or to even notice Yosaku show up and make a proclamation about Usopp being dead.
If I had been paying attention, I would have been able to tell them what was actually going on instead of trying not to kill Sanji as I steadily got more and more annoyed with his dancing.
There was a reason why god made most men afraid of dancing. When men dance it tends to make women want to kill them.
"Kweh!" Choco said happily, ending my complaining as he tackled me to the ground, happy to be with me again.
"Hay! Be careful!" Sanji yelled angrily, causing me to hit him over the head with my mallet for yelling at Choco.
"Ah, it's nice to see you again too." I said happily, looking up at him to make sure he hadn't been hurt while Luffy dealt with Krieg.
I froze.
In less then half a day, he had somehow grown several inches, something that I was not at all happy about.
"Choco! How the heck did you get so big in less then a day?!" I asked, hopping up and looking him over.
"Wow!" Lil said in amazement, jumping onto his back and marveling at the fact that it was almost a full seven inches higher. "How did you grow so fast in just eight hours?" Lil asked, practically reading my mind as she did so.
"Kweh!" Choco said happily, ruffling his fathers to show how pleased he was about his new height.
"Oh, so you were fighting with one of the Krieg pirates, and you got bigger afterwards?" Lil asked him, causing my eyes to start twitching.
Who the hell let my Choco fight in a battle?
"Luffy." I asked darkly, my eyes hidden in shadow as I glared at the ground, causing Luffy, Johnny, and Yosaku to take a step away from me. "Which one of you let my chocobo fight?"
Knowing that not answering would probably get him killed, Luffy simply pointed at Sanji, who didn't seem to realize how close he was dying.
"That would be me my love!" Sanji said happily, not realizing that he was sealing his fate with that one sentence.
"BAMB!"
Sanji ended up with a huge lump on the side of his head, which he didn't even seem to notice as he was still making proclamations of love from his position on the ground.
"Sanji, if you ever let my Choco fight again before he's full grown, I will end any chance you will ever have with the opposite sex, as you will no longer have your gender determinative parts." I said darkly, knowing that there were two blood red stars in place of my eyes and a dark shadow covering my face. "Do I make my self clear?"
Sanji didn't seemed fazed by my state of anger as he simply nodded his head enthusiastically with his eyes still in the shape of hearts.
"You're even more beautiful when you're angry, Kaede-chan!" He said happily, causing me to glare at him again in annoyance.
"Good." I said simply, turning back to the others and remembering what they were probably talking about before I had stopped all the conversations. "You guys were talking about Usopp, right?" I asked, though I was pretty sure I already knew that answer.
"Yeah, Johnny was saying that Nami killed Usopp," Luffy said angrily, clearly unable to believe it. "But she would never do that to her friends! Not in a million years!"
I had just been about to explain what was going on when Nami appeared out of nowhere behind him, causing me to pause before I even got started.
"What was that about friends, Luffy?" she asked, causing everyone else to turn and look at her.
"Nami!" Luffy said happily, stopping when he saw the look on Nami's face.
"What are you doing here?" Nami asked, completely ignoring all the stares.
"What are we doing here? You're our friend, so we came to get you." Luffy said, only for Nami to laugh at him.
"What a pest." She said, crossing her arms and looking down at us.
"Huh?" Luffy asked, wandering what she had meant by that.
"Friends, huh? Don't make me laugh. You're just pathetic enough to deserve each other." she said, causing Luffy to blink at her in surprise.
"Damn you!" Johnny said angrily, stepping in front of Luffy and yelling at Nami. "You killed him! I watched you do it! And now, big bro Usopp is gone!" he wailed, pointing at her angrily.
"Yep, that's right." She said simply, shrugging her shoulders as though it didn't matter. "So why don't you kill me and get your revenge?"
"We'd love to, but that wound on your hand seems bad enough, so we'll let it pass." I said smiling ,catching everyone's attention. "I mean, with the amount of blood coming from it, you could probably claim you killed someone." I said, still smiling at her, causing her gaze to darken.
Kaede 1, Nami 0.
"Huh? What are you saying?! She did kill someone! And why would you let her off because of a hand wound?! Don't you care about what she did to big bro Usopp?!" Johnny demanded angrily, thinking that I was being heartless.
"Yeah! Wasn't big bro Usopp your friend?!" Yosaku demanded, unable to believe I would be so calm after finding out that someone had killed one of my friends.
"Yeah, didn't you care about Usopp at all? One would almost think you were heartless." Nami said, clearly trying to get a rize out of me and failing miserably.
Kaede 2, Nami 0
"Hm? Let's see what the spirits have to say about that." I said, reaching into my backpack and grabbing the magic eight ball.
"Oh great spirits," I said, shaking the ball as I did so. "tell us, has Usopp moved onto the after life?"
"'Definitely not.'" I read out loud, shrugging my shoulders at the answer.
"Huh, I guess that means he survived you stabbing your own hand." I said happily, putting the eight ball into my froggy bag as I did so.
Kaede 3, Nami 0.
The looks that flashed across Nami's face were priceless.
First there was the annoyed look that was on it when I pulled out the magic eight ball, or 'The spirit ball' as they thought it was called. Then there was the surprised look that moved across it when I told her what it said, and then finally there was the look of completely shock when I made my 'stabbing your own hand' statement.
Maybe I should add a few points to my score for each look?
Nah.
"Fine, believe what you want, but if you stay on this island, you'll all die." She said manically, recovering almost instantly from her reaction at my statements. "Because of your little friend, Arlong is now preparing to kill Zoro and all of his crew, and no mater how strong you think you are, Arlong will always be stronger."
Sanji chose that moment to start his annoying dance again, though this time it seemed to be fore Nami instead of for me.
"Ah! The look on her heartless face is even more beautiful!" He shouted happily, his eyes turning into hearts as he started waving his arms around at her. "Hi Nami! It's me, Sanji! Let's run away together!"
"Can it Romeo! This isn't the time or place for that!" Zoro said angrily, annoyed at how Sanji seemed to be to into a pretty face to actually pay attention to the situation.
"Excuse me?!" He asked angrily, pissed that Zoro had interrupted his decoration of love. "Love is like a hurricane, so back off and le- Hay! Listen to me!"
Zoro had turned his attention to Nami about half way through Sanji's ranting and had simply ignored him, not really caring what the love cook had to say.
"Nami, where is Usopp?" He demanded ,though he no longer thought that Usopp was dead.
He had learned his lesson, if I said Usopp was alive, then Usopp was alive.
"With the fishes." Nami said mockingly, trying to piss Zoro off and get a rize out of him.
It would have worked to, if it wasn't for the fact that stepped in and answered his question as best as I could.
"Well, no, he's already moved past the beach, so I think he's probably running through the forest now." I said thoughtfully, putting my finger to my chin as I stared off into space, trying to remember where Usopp had gone after the 'death scene' in the anime.
I couldn't remember it completely, I just knew that there was a scene where he was running across the beach, and then he was later going to show up in the same spot that we happened to be now, coming out of the forest and getting hit by both Zoro and Sanji while they were fighting.
"So technically, he's not with the fishes anymore." I said, pretending to be half off in lala land like Luffy always seemed to be.
Once again, the look on Nami's face said that I had won yet another point.
Kaede 4, Nami 0.
You know, at this rate she wasn't going to get any points.
"Hm, if you can really see all that, then why don't you just see your way home and leave!" Nami said angrily, not realizing how ironic her statement was.
Kaede 4, Nami 20.
"Kaede my love! Cheer up!" Sanji said when the raincloud of misery appeared over my head as I started drawing circles in the dirt.
"Stupid Nami.." I whispered childishly, still drawing in the sand as I silently wishing I could see my way home.
If I had been able to read minds, I would have been able to see the pained expression in hers, the expression that she was fighting to keep from showing on her face.
She hadn't expected that statement to actually hurt me, though she did wander why it had, but was going to file it away under 'things not to mention again.'
I knew that she hadn't actually wanted to upset me, and that she was just trying to drive us all away so that we wouldn't get killed by Arlong, but that didn't stop me from moping about the comment.
Even though my father had said that I might be able to go home again if I got strong enough at magic, I knew it was a very real possibility that I would never be able to manage it.
"What ever, Just leave while you still can. You outsiders have no right to but into this island's business. Don't you guys get it yet? I only joined up with you guys so I could steal everything you had, but now that you're broke, the dreams over. So get out of here, you're an eye sore." Nami said in an attempt to get us to leave as I continued with my moping.
Everyone stood in silence, unable to think of anything to say. It wasn't until Luffy fell back wards and closed his eyes that any of us moved.
"Luffy!" Johnny said in horror, thinking that something was wrong.
"Sleepy..." Luffy said in answer, rolling onto his said and yawning deeply.
"Sleep? At a time like this?! And in the middle of the road?" Yosaku demanded, thinking that Luffy was crazy.
And as a D man, he technically was.
"Well, I'm pretty tired, and I'm not going to but into other's affairs, I'm not interested." He said, still continuing on with his plan to take a nap. "But I'm not leaving either. Good night."
Everyone had different reaction to this. Lil crawled up onto his side and joined him, Yosaku's mouth dropped open, Johnny simply stared at him, Zoro smack a hand to his forehead, and Sanji took a puff on his cigarette.
Me, Choco, and Nami on the other hand, had different reactions.
Me and Choco simply walked over to a tree and sat down against it, and Nami growled in anger at Luffy's actions.
"Fine! What ever! Just go ahead and die!" Nami shouted angrily, turning around and running off toward Nojiko's house.
Sanji attempted to call after, but stopped when he saw that it was already to late.
I had originally planed on continuing to practice the spell 'Thunder' spell when she ran off, but ended up falling asleep before I could even get a chance to.
When I had finished practicing the 'Blizzard' spell back on Johnny's and Yosaku's boat, I had almost past out because of how tired I was, and then I had ended up finding the little boy, and practicing the 'Thunder' spell, as well as a little bit of flying.
In short, I was so tired that the moment I closed my eyes, I fell asleep.
I wasn't really sure how long I had been asleep, or even if someone had tried to wake me, but the fact that I awoke to the sound of gun shots wasn't exactly comforting.
"Huh?!" I shouted in surprise, shooting up from the ground and out of my dream.
"What the heck was that?" Lil exclaimed, jumping up from her position on the ground next to me as Choco got up as well.
"i think it sounded like gunshots." Zoro said, standing up and readying his sword, thinking we were about to go into battle.
It wasn't until Usopp spoke up that I realized what was going on.
"I think it came from the direction of Nojiko's and Nami's house!" Usopp said, causing all of us to stare in worry in the direction he had indicated.
The moment he pointed out where the sound had come from, and as soon as my head had finally cleared itself of sleep, I realized what had happened.
The marines had just shot at Nami, and had gotten Nojiko's arm instead.
"Nojiko's just been shot." I said, grabbing my backpack of the ground and pulling my new broom out of my froggy bag. "Let's head to Cocoyashi village, we'll be able to see how bad her arm is there."
"right." Everyone said, nodding their heads in agreement, and then watch in amazement as Zoro took off running in the wrong direction like always.
After we caught up to Zoro and told him he was heading in the wrong direction, which I should have known was going to happen, we turned and headed for Cocoyashi village, with me stopping momentarily to swing my leg over the broom.
Hopping onto my broom, I kicked off the ground as gently as I could, only to go whizzing through the air and into a tree half a second later, leaving a big impression of my body like in 'George of the Jungle'.
"Ow-" I moaned, falling to the ground and then standing up again, determined to get to Cocoyashi Village by flying.
I was going to do it, even if it killed me in the process.
"Kweh!" Choco said in a worried tone as everyone walked over to me.
"I take it you still can't fly that thing?" Zoro said, causing me to hit him with my mallet.
"Shut up! I'm working on it!" I said angrily, huffing in annoyance as I swung my leg back over the broom.
"Huh? So you mean witches can really fly on broomsticks?" Usopp asked, seeing that the thing I had flown on was nothing more then an everyday broom.
"See! See! Isn't she great!" Sanji exclaimed, as I simply lifted my legs off of the ground this time instead of kicking off, smiling when I didn't zoom off this time.
"Ah, that's better!" I said happily, exhaling a breath now that I had finally managed to hover. "Ok Lil, hop on."
The look on Lil's face when I said this, PRICELESS!
Seriously, have you ever seen a cat look so horrified before that her eyes were six feet in front of her face? It's funny, trust me.
"What?! You want me to get on? When you keep hitting trees?" She cried, causing me to glare at her as I bent over and grabbed her by her tail and lifted her onto the tail of the broom.
"Yeah! Of course you have to ride with me!" I said, ignoring the looks on everybody's faces. "Every witch flies with her familiar, and that just happens to be you, so get used to it!"
"But! But! There isn't even any seat belts!" she cried, wishing I would let her get off.
Paybacks a bitch, isn't it?
"Ok, here we go!" I said, leaning forward and praying I wouldn't go shooting off into the sky like a bat out of hell.
I would like to say that it worked, and that I didn't go flying off like a bat out of hell and right over Cocoyashi Village and into the sea, but unfortunately, that wasn't the case.
"Hey! There's the Nami and Nojiko!" Lil shouted as we zoomed off over the village, only to start screaming in horror when she realized I had no control over the broom. "AHHH! AHHH! We're gonna die! We're gonna die! AHHH! AHHH! I'm gonna throw up! I'm gonna throw up! AHHH! AHHH!"
"Don't throw up on me!" I shrieked in horror as we continued flying even though we were no longer over the island. "AH! How the hell do you turn this thing?!" I shrieked, hoping that we weren't going to get lost.
"WHAT?! YOU MEAN YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO TURN?!" Lil shrieked, finally realizing the trouble we were in. "AHHH! WE REALLY ARE GOING TO DIE!"
Then, the un thinkable happened. In my jerking attempt to get broom to turn, I ended up causing the broom to start spinning, making us do a barrel roll in mid air as we continued zooming through the air, and causing Lil to throw up as we did so.
Luckily, I somehow managed to dive us into the water and then back out again, successfully cleaning the vomit off of us.
Somehow, during the dive I managed to end the spinning and stop us from moving forward, though I wasn't sure how.
"Have we finally stopped?" Lil asked, clinging to the broom's tail and praying that we weren't going to go flying off like that again.
"I think so." I said, looking around wandering why we weren't zooming through the air anymore. "How come we stopped?" I asked out load, still trying to figure out how I had managed to get it to stop.
"I don't know, but I think we stopped when you sat up when trying to pull us out of the dive." Lil said, still shaking in fear of us shooting off into the air again.
"Really?" I asked in surprise. "That's all it takes?" I asked, leaning forward and shooting off again, then forcing myself to sit up and smiling when I saw that she was right.
Well, at least I could stop now.
"Please don't do that again." Lil begged in misery as she lowered her head back down to the tail of the broom, still trying not to throw up again.
"Sorry, I'm just trying to figure out how to fly this thing." I said, leaning to the side slightly and looking over my shoulder at her, instantly straightening up again when the broom started to turn. "Huh?" I said in surprise, realizing that I had just figured out how to turn.
'OK, now I have 3 parts of a five part puzzle.' I thought, still wandering how to make it go without flying off at high speed.
"Great, now maybe you can get us back." Lil said, only to freeze when she realized what she was saying. "No! I didn't mean that!" She said, fearing that I would start flying again.
"Don't worry, I want to try figuring out how to control the speed before I head off again." I said, causing her to sigh in relief.
"Ok, well, at the risk of shooting off into the sky again, did you ever try leaning forward only a little? Maybe the speed depends on how far forward you lean forward, which would explain why we stop when you sit up all the way." Lil said, once again proving that cats were among the worlds smartest animals.
"Hey, I bet you're right!" I said happily, hoping that I would be able to control the speed now.
"And maybe pushing down on the broom makes it go down, and pulling up makes it go up, because that's the only thing that would explain how we dove into the ocean and came back up when you were pushing and pulling on the handle." She added, explaining her theories on how the broom worked.
OK, if she was right, then that was all five parts of the puzzle.
1) go
2) speed
3) turn
4) elevation
5) stop
All the things needed to know how to fly.
Leaning forward as little as I could, I smiled when I started to move forward without shooting off at high speeds.
Puzzle complete.
"Great, now can you get us back over land, I'm not liking this hovering over water thing." Lil said, indicating that, as a cat, she really didn't like water.
Rolling my eyes at her, I did as she asked and headed off into the direction of the island, smiling when I started doing loop de loops at will.
Flying was so cool.
When we finally over Cocoyashi village, the rest of the gang were just arriving in it, showing that we weren't that late at all.
Heading down to them, I hovered right behind Usopp, blowing on the back of his head, then moving higher in the sky so he wouldn't see me when he turned around to see what was breathing on him.
"Guys, I really don't like this, the town's empty and I keep getting this weird feeling that we're being watched." He said nervously, hoping that whatever was watching him wasn't going to kill him.
"Quite playing Usopp, it's just your imagination." Zoro said, thinking he was still jumpy from the gunshots from earlier.
"Uuuuuuuusopp!" I whispered in a creepy ghost like voice in his ear before rising into the air again.
Usopp spon around as fast as he could, fully convinced that there was something scary behind him.
"Guys, I'm telling you there's something following me!" He shouted franticly, causing the others to turn and look at him.
"Usopp, would you get a grip already? I'm telling you there isn't anything following us!" Zoro said in annoyance as I slowly descended behind all of them now that they were all looking at Usopp's back.
"Yeah, now hurry up so we can go see the delectable Nami, the unforgettable Nojiko, and amazing Kaede." Sanji said, taking another puff on his cigarette as he said it.
"Are you guy's sure you aren't being followed?" I asked, smiling at the back of their heads evilly.
"Yeah, now let's-" Zoro said angrily, only to freeze when he realized who was talking.
"Huh?" They all said, turning around and looking at me.
"Sorry about that Usopp, but I couldn't resist doing it now that I can control this thing." I said happily, hopping off the broom and setting Lil on the ground.
"That was you?!" Usopp said angrily, annoyed at the fact that I had been screwing with him.
"Yeah, yeah, let's go." I said, ignoring everyone's stares as I turned around and headed off in the direction of Nami and Luffy.
"Luffy," I heard Nami say sadly as we neared where they were, causing me to smile when I saw that we weren't late at all. "help me."
Nami's words were enough for him. All Luffy had been waiting for was for her to want him to help. He wasn't going to interfere with her life if she didn't want him to, but the moment she wanted his help, he gave it to her.
Luffy stepped forward and set his signature straw hat on her head, causing her to look up at him with tear filled eyes.
"Of course, that's what friends do." he said, turning around and taking a few steps toward the rest of us, throwing his arms up into the air angrily. "He's gonna pay!"
"Luffy." Nami cried, turning around to look at him with teary eyes, only to stop in surprise when she saw the rest of us standing there, all of us sitting lazily as though it was just any other day.
Well, almost all of us were sitting. Sanji and Choco were both standing up lazily, but that wasn't the point.
The point was, we were all there for her, and that fact was enough to send her teary eyes over the edge.
"Let's go." Luffy said, causing causing all of us to stand up and grab our weapons.
"right." We all said in unison, with Choco saying 'Kweh' instead.
Time to kick some fishman ass.
The walk to Arlong park was amazing. Never before had I ever felt that kind of adrenalin. All the things we had all seen since we got to the island had played themselves out over and over again in our heads. There were so many horrible things that we had seen here, and now we were going to end them and the man that caused them.
It felt awesome, it felt empowering, and it felt scary as hell.
As we finally neared the east entrance of Arlong park, a huge group of people turned to look at us, clearly having just been told by Johnny and Yosaku, who were currently sitting bruised and banged up in front for the giant gate to Arlong park, that we were the calvary.
"If those guys can't beat Arlong and his gang, then there's really is no hope, not only for this island, but for the whole of the east blue." Yosaku said as he and Johnny stood up.
"Those are the faces of the five men that are going to change your destiny." Johnny said, smirking at us over everyones shoulder as we continued getting closer. "Burn their faces into your memory."
"Scuse you, it's four men, one woman, and a cat." I corrected as we neared them, smiling when the crowd parted for us. "And the bird isn't fighting."
Once we finally got to the door, I turned to Luffy just before he was about to knock the door down.
"Luffy, may I have the honor?" I asked, smiling at him as I did so.
Luffy simply blinked at me fore a second before finally answering.
"Kay." He said, though I think the only reason why he agreed to it was because I was holding my impact mallet on my shoulder.
Don't fuck with the mallet.
The entire time we had been heading to the village, I had been slowly adding more and more energy to the impact mallet by tapping it on the ground. I had stopped adding to it as soon as it got to the maximum amount I could hold.
Taking the mallet off of my shoulder, I smiled vindictively at the gate while Zoro and Luffy moved everyone back, something that seemed to confuse everyone that was watching.
Only Luffy, Zoro, Lil, Choco, and Nami had every seen me actually hit something with the mallet, and Usopp had only ever seen it explode when someone picked it up.
"Arlong!" I said evilly as I swung it as hard as I could at the gate.
The moment the mallet hit the gate, the gate and the entire wall it was attached to went flying off as though they were as light as a feather.
"Luci, we're home."
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I still haven't decided on the pairing and I'm still waiting for more people to make suggestions for it before I put up the new poll, so you don't have to worry about it just yet.
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