Klang!
Kathertine opened her eye's, surprised to see she wasn't dead. Instead her gaze faded on a man at least six feet tall having a noticeable feature of red hair. If anything he seemed to dress like your common every day biker; that fixating his muscular body. It didn't put her at ease they way he smiled.
"Repel." Their she witnessed Pekoms being propelled in the air, by a dominating force. After finishing his job with the latter, Kid moved his way towards Katherine. Grabbing butt first and pulling her in too close for comfort.
"Hey baby…I like your bod." Kid says, Katherine was about to push him away, but the sound of a cocking rifle put her at ease.
Kid glared back at Dante behind him, unknowingly he prepared his fingers. "Do me a favor and put the lady down." Dante threatened, he pushed his rifle against Kid's head. "I can give your three seconds, one….two …three!"
"Get lost!" Kid swiped Dante's rifle in the air leaving him weaponless. Kid chuckled, lifting up Katherine's head. "Now honey where we?" That's right …" THAWP! Dante kicked Kid in his back sending him to his knee's. Katherine took this chance to slip away and stand by Dante's side.
"Thanks for the save." Katherine thanked, pecking Dante on the cheek. "I would be thanking him too,but he did just try to kidnap me."
"You look legal so it's not kidnapping." Kid growled.
KABOOM!-KABOOM!-KABOOM!
Everyone on the ship jumped as the Wolf shook with the explosions. At this time they remembered they're under attacked by Big Mom. Darrius pulled himself from the ground gritting his teeth. "Travious! Prepare the ship we're about to get outta' here!"
"What about Jerome and the other's? When they get back here i'm pretty sure he wants to see his ship." Luna acknowledged.
Darrius frowned at the acknowledgement, he had to agree. Travious agreed as well, but he knew the top priority. "Are top priority is the Wolf and nothing more. They'll find us later, but if we don't leave now we'll all sink!" Travious leaped to the door of the engine room, no sooner than he walked in jet's began to power up underwater. The Lazy Wolf was ready to take off, however a certain redhead wouldn't let that happen.
Kid rose from his knees gripping his back and gritting his teeth. "KILLER, CHAIN THE SHIP DOWN!" After his exclaim, Kid's ship launched large chains wrapping themselves around the Lazy Wolf. Travious growled seeing his ship trapped like an animal. He faced with Kid smirking like a maniac. "I came here too sink Big Mom's ship, but looks like I'm getting two for one."
Travious cocked his his gun something Kid seemed to enjoy. "Ready to die, bitch?! You messed with the wrong ship." POW!-POW!-POW!-POW!-POW!
Kid frowned; he placed his hand in front and all the bullets were put to a halt. "Messed with the wrong ship? Don't be a dumbass, I came into these sea's knowing exactly what I was getting involved in. I was under the impression that Portgas D. Jerome and his crew are the demons that took Impel Down and MarineFord by storm. However all I see here are a bunch of pussies!" Kid raised his fingers and the bullets followed in the air. Dante, Cassidy, Katherine, and Travious had to tighten their weapons too keep them in their grasp.
"The power to control metal, he must be a magnet man." Luna acknowledged, her eye's widening then shifting observing the situation. Big Mom's ship still attacked them and Kid's ship had them chained up. Then the latter himself was on their ship. "If I can knock him off ship, his crew would have too follow. Meaning that they would have to unchain us and we could get away. It's a long shot, but the only shot we have." Luna smirked at herself. "Look at me I was just crying over my dumb dad a second ago, and now I'm about save everyone."
"Now you all have three seconds too bow down to me." Kid laughed.
"Three …"
Despite his current situation, Darrius wondered what was going on in Luna's mind? Before he was too caught in thought, Luna turned towards him.
"Darrius, I want you to throw me." Luna and Luna exchanged glances before she repeated herself. "I said throw me."
Five seconds later a streak of air flew through the sky. Luna wrapped her hands together and suddenly there was silence.
"Now then…" Luna began. "I'll show you father, i'll show you what my real power." She began striding forward, heedless amounts of rifles pointed at her, of men willing to kill her. Her eye's deepened, those icy blue eye's transforming into sapphire. Claws burst from her boots as if they were paper. "For this, a guardian is what I am." Wings burst from her back and shoulders.
"Two…"
"A Griffin, that girls Luna Light. Things just got interesting." Tapamgo tapped his cane three times already hearing the sounds of cocking rifles. "On my command I want you all to fire."
"We should let Luna handle this." Dante and Katherine said simultaneously. Immediately noticing Katherine blushed while Dante looked away sighing in embarrassment. "We should all probably take cover."
Dante sighed while nodding his head. "I hope you two don't become one of those couples that speak at the same time. I probably said that before, but my god is that annoying."
"Three …" Kid laughed. "NOW YOU ALL DIIEEE!"
Luna's wings swung across the sky, sweeping everyone off their feet. Bullets forcefully spun around her, Luna the bounded forward. Shaking the Wolf like crazy, she pinned down Kid on the floor then squeezed him by the beak.
"Didn't you hear me?" Rhetorically asked Kid raising a finger. "One transformation isn't going too do you any good. …I said DIE!" He pulled down his finger, TWAK-TWAK-TWAK-TWAK-TWAK!, hurtling massive clods of swords down on her back. Luna slowly reverted back to her human form, he smirked at his handy work.
Darrius, Dante, Travious, and everyone else could only watch as he struck down one of their own. But they wouldn't dare interfere because they already knew one thing…
"GET THE HELLL OF MY SHIP!"
…He was already dead.
Martel only wished that he would have never stepped of ship. He wished that he would have never met the old woman. He wished he would have never listened to Seiran. He wished that Seiran had never ditched him. And most of all, he wished that he could KILL SEIRAN!
"First that bastard finds a woman, then leaves off with that woman! Along with those freaking bratty kids! Now I'm about to get eaten by some fat cow!" Angrily shouted Martel. "You know what that's a insult to cows everywhere!"
"Queite!" A pirate poked him with a stick. "You should be honored sacrificing yourself for Big Mom should be a honor. But …huh…" He leaned into Martel's ear, whispering something he didn't want to be heard. "But, that would be a insult to cows everywhere."
Annoyed Martel kicked him in the mouth. "Don't agree with me, I don't like you!" Martel nodded his head, he made zero plans to die today. He would have too gather all the knowledge he had, easier said than done. As he thought of his plan Charolette lifted him over her mouth. Lucky he came up with a sure fire plan. "That's it!"
Charolette halted her hand and moved Martel in between her eye's. "What is it?"
"Big Mom I have a deal you can't refuse." Martel chuckled.
"I don't make deals with my food." Charolette responded.
"What if I say that I can make you a meal fit for a queen…such as yourself." It pained him too say those last few words.
Hearing his proposition, Charolotte cracked up laughing with her man following. Just as she stopped and faced Martel, her man stopped seconds later. "What do you know about cooking food for me? I'm one of the four Yonko the one with the biggest appetite. My chefs cook twenty times a day just too fill my hunger."
She believed she made a point, but realized she didn't when Martel laughed. "Let me tell you something lady, I probably haven't been on the crew for long, but I know one thing." He entered a serious tone and darkness covered his eye's. "If you cook for Jerome, you win."
The first question to pop in her mind was, win what? The second being, what is a Jerome? Her food claimed itself serious. Against her better judgement, she would allow her food to cook. She released the man from her grip and monitored as her chefs led him to the kitchen.
She licked her lips in anticipation. If he failed, she would get to eat him and if he succeeded, she gets to eat him anyway. For her it was a win win.
"Fuuuuuuuuuuck! YOU CRAZY ASS BASTARD!" Kid screamed in agony gripping on to his shoulder. Blood dropped like crazy and he was believed to be losing consciousness. All he could do was watch his severed arm burn in the blue flames that surrounded it. "You bastard! … Just like your damn brother Straw Hat and… your fucking father… DAAAMIT!"
Jerome dispersed the flames in his hand as he lifted up Kid by the neck. "First off, you messed up Luna and NOBODY does that. Second my parents were married so I'm not a bastard. I can't say the same for Luffy, but don't insult him otherwise! Finally…" BAP! Kid was suddenly rocketed off the ship. "Stay off of my ship!"
Kid's departure was ended with a twinkle in the sky, he's crew panicked and chased after him. "I told him this was a bad idea!" Killer shouted as they rode off. Jerome puffed smoke out his nose, at this time Kid's arm finally burned away.
"Damn." Darrius commented. "Wait the chains are loose, Travious!"
"I'm already ahead of you!" Travious called before the jets fired up BLOWWW! and no sooner the Lazy Wolf blasted away from Big Mom's ship.
Shaun laid in bed in a relaxing sleep, he would've slept longer if a constant beeping didn't keep going. His eye's jumped open inside a dark room all he could see was two other people in the room. He could recognize one of them as Razzle, by the orange hair. The other is a girl with long black hair and laid on her stomach.
(Flashback)
Jerome blew the fire out of his nose. "I said….ENOUGH!" Jerome eye's shot open and the invisible force knocked out Shaun and Razzle, unintentionally.
(End of flashback)
"Guess I should've played that smarter then." Shaun groaned, patting his head. He laid back on his pillow and considered his actions. "I should've known his not that type of pirate. Otherwise he wouldn't have had me treated. Maybe they can help me out with Kya." After hearing voices outside the door, his curiosity peaked.
"Crash, is pop tart awake yet?"
"I don't know and why are you calling him that?"
"He looks like a pop tart and I'm hungry."
"Your not hungry, your bored."
"Oh."
Shaun couldn't hold back his smile, he wanted to be man, but that was a funny conversation. He decided he would get comfortable for the time being. Too pass the time he grabbed some manga on the near by table. He opened up the first page and read, "Yaoi and Yuri, surely that's the name of the characters."
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Crash opened the door and Shaun quickly pulled his bloody nose from the manga. "Your a pervert." Shaun said, quickly.
Crash was confused until he realized what Shaun had in his hands. "What the!… those aren't mine!"
"What did deus ex machina appear in the form of this?" Shaun presented the manga.
Crash sweated as he was being accused of such of thing. He then felt a presence hanging over him, so he quickly turned around finding Jerome, Dante, Tegami, and Cassidy sticking their heads in. "Will you people get out!" They left in a puff of smoke, Crash then turned back to Shaun. "And you, stop reading it and get out if you feel better! I have to operate on Luna."
Shaun decided on staying and watch Crash operate on Luna. Just by looking he could tell Crash knew more than any doctor should. He learned that Crash loved operating and finding things out of the usual. With his devil fruit powers he could do things out of the ordinary or far better.
Just after Crash finished operating, Shaun popped him the question. "Wanna play a game of cards?"
Inside the kitchen, Onion and Pepper have been treated to a meal after a warm bath. Neither of the cooks weren't around at the time so it was up to Katherine too bring together her cooking skills. As Onion watched her slice tomatoes he drooled like a dog.
"Whoa, that girls got a bod." Commented Onion, before the musician noticed him as well. She smiled at him and kneeling down to his height.
"You must be Onion and this must be your sister Pepper. Your parents must've been hungry when they named you." Katherine joked as she petted him on the head making him smile goofily.
"Your a pretty mermaid." Swooned Onion.
"Aww, your so sweet." Katherine swooned, holding her hands to her cheeks before pulling him in for a cuddle. "Your cheeks are like a cupcakes." She said after peking him on the cheek. He blushed and drooled heavily as Katherine pulled away.
"You know your a love struck fool!" Insulted Pepper, she pulled in her soup about to swallow until she witnessed Dante walk by. "PEEESB!" She spat her soup on Onion, who groaned in disgust. "Who's the stud?!"
"And you called me a love struck fool." Mocked Onion. "But what you don't know is that one day Katherine, will be my queen."
Dante looked over hearing his words. "Hn."
"Your not jealous are you Dante?" Katherine teased him.
"Don't be ridiculous, I don't get jealous." Dante responded.
Tegami was in the middle of eating some vegetables when Lee encountered him. "Oh, hey Lee. Do you need something?"
"Sounds a little formal for you." Lee noted before coming to his question. "I noticed how you don't usually touch or go near fruit. Out of curiosity why exactly don't you?"
"Nothing much, I'm just allergic to them. If I get even close I start too rash up and get hives." Talking about his allergic reaction somehow made him chuckle. "That reminds me of the time when I accidentally ate some and me and my wife had to go on a crazy adventure. But the one important fact about that day." He gave a thumbs up and a sharky smile. "I still kicked ass."
Lee turned and laughed along with him. "That's nothing, me and my brother tried out some odd potions. So we played a prank and for a week are entire classroom had green hair. They chased us down like animals." Wanting to move on to a different subject, Lee thought of something of Tegami's interest. "Tegami, did you hear that they appointed two new Admiral's?"
"After what we did at MarineFord they better." Tegami bragged, remembering when he sliced Kizaru in half. Even now that moment was still funny. "I won't be surprised if you knew their names."
Lee pulled out a newspaper from his pocket. "Let me see… yes, one of them is Admiral Yama and the other is Bronze Seal. Yama is a man with the power too destroy a mountain and they say Bronze has control over two devil fruits. One of them have been eaten by his coat."
"Sounds badass, I can't wait until we fight them." Tegami punched his fist in excitement.
"How do you know we'll fight them?"
"Trust me, I know."
Lee smiled at the man, he admired his waving ability too fight anytime. Something he believed wasn't around enough these days. "I like talking to you Tegami."
On the deck, Jerome sat down on the Lazy Wolf's head and he had Travious coming up behind him.
"So you think they'll still find us?" Travious asked him.
"They have too, I will give it some more time," Jerome answered. "If not then we'll send out a search party."
"Lucky we know that they're strong. So even if they do run into Big Mom, we know that they can handle themselves." Travious says.
"I don't know," Responded Jerome. "For some reason I just have this feeling."
Suddenly footsteps were heard, but sounded more like someone was limping. Just then some bushes began too rustle. Both became shocked when Martel stepped out beaten with bruises.
"Martel?!" Shouted Jerome.
"Who else?" Muttered Martel before clasping.
Jerome and Travious rushed Martel into the infirmary, interrupting a very good card game. Crash didn't have time to answer questions so he worked his magic, Cassidy came in for assistance. While he was working he told Shaun and Luna they would have too leave and they did so. Shaun went to have a conversation with the captain and Luna went her merry way. She walked down the halls until she ran into Darrius who was waiting for her on the wall.
"Come on Luna, we need to talk." Darrius told her, Luna followed him, but was tempted too know what he wanted. She hopped it wasn't about her past something that just came back too haunt her. She believed she found her true strength when fighting Kid, but that quickly turned against her. "Here we are."
Before she knew it, they moved into the storage room. "What are we doing here?"
"Well little sister of mine i've decided on training you. What happened today was way too close and I don't want that to happen again." Darrius admitted, but sounded tough. "So since your training under me, I have to ask you not to use your devil fruit. Agreed?"
"Wait!, this is all happening so fast! I have too think." Luna tried too wrap her head around everything. First training and then no devil fruits. "Why do you want to train me?"
"I already told you, I don't want you getting hurt like that again." Darrius repeated, somehow actually sounding sad. "Do you not understand the seriousness?"
"Yes, of course I do. It's just that…" Luna stopped herself, she did want too become stronger and Darrius wanted to help her with that. She didn't want to be the weak and the helpless, she wanted to be something more. "Never mind. I'll do it and I will train harder than ever before!"
"I like your spirit already!" Cheered Darrius, giving a monkey smile. He knew it wouldn't take much to convince her and he knew this weapon would work for her. "Catch." Darrius tossed a loaded pistol into Luna's hand. "That's why I brought you down here, your gonna be a sniper."
Luna held onto her new weapon just recognizing it as that. "Just like Dante."
Outside the infirmary Shaun started his much wanted conversation with Jerome. During their talk he found it hard to tell if he was paying attention or was spaced out.
"…So again I apologize for attacking you out of the blue, it was out of character. But I ask one request from you and your crew." Shaun divulged.
"Sure thing pop tart." Jerome responded.
Ignoring what Jerome called him, he continued his explanation. "Ugh, well it all started on a normal day like any day…"
(Flashback)
The sun began too set and all the children everywhere began to go home. At the park a young torques haired girl hopped on the back on Shaun. The latter sighed in relief knowing that they could finally go home. By the time he did, he laid the hyper girl down in bed and kissed her sweet dreams. Instead of sleeping he went meditating of the rooftops.
CRASH! Something broke through some glass snapping out Shaun. He looked at the streets and saw not one, not two, not three, but all the children on the island walking like zombie's. Worried he jumped on the ground and tried snapping the kid's out their trance.
"Come on wake up!" Shaun shook the kid.
Hearing a flute play, Shaun took that as a hint. But one other thing came to his mind…Kya.
(End of flashback)
"I'm babbling, long story short I wasn't able to stop them and they got away with the kids. Which is why I promised I would be the hero and bring them all back. So will you help me?" Shaun requested, as a gambler he was that his story would work.
"No," Jerome answered, shocking Shaun. "I won't help you because I'm not a hero. I take the meat, I eat the meat, and I don't share the meat."
"Hallelujah!" Cheered Katherine from the kitchen.
"I won't help you if it means being a hero." Jerome stated.
"Hn, fine then." Shaun and Jerome shook each others hands. "You won't have too be the hero."
OVA: Where's Damita and Crystal?
Damita walk over to Crystal who is tinkering with robotic sphere like creatures. He picked one up without her noticing and started drawing a silly face on it.
"Okay this should work." Crystal turned on her creations with the push of a button. 'Waking' up they all started walking and flying around. "It worked I'm a genius!"
"So am I." Damita presented her robotic with a silly face drawn on it. "I call him Link the great!"
Crystal's eye twitched along with her hair. "YOU NAMED THEM?! YOU NEVER NAME THEM!"
"Cool your jets nerd for brains." Damita shot back, flicking her on the nose. "I'm just having some fun, something you should learn."
"Touch me again and you will face the consequences!" Crystal threatened, getting a good laugh out of Damita before he flicked her again. " I will DESTROY YOU!"
Damita laughed at her threat, but was taken off guard when she tossed him overboard. She smirked at her work and had a full intention on letting him help himself.
A/N: Yes I know late on the update. Just so you know I didn't just bring Kid here to get his ass kicked. He helped with developing Luna and there's another future reason. Most of you are probably wondering what happened to Seiran this chapter? All will be answered next time. Now response time.
Ogrespi: Really has it? I didn't even notice. Thanks for the compliment!
V God22: I'm sure all has been forgiven.
Darkness Within: Thanks for the review, it's rare to see a guest reviewer. Sorry not much of Big Mom kicking here. (That we know of.)
Dalightning Kid: Let's just say things won't be a happy reunion. (Dark chuckle) no, just no. I don't know if I want too write a dark enough storyline when kids are getting eaten. Even if I find that in character for someone like Big Mom.
Carolyn12: Thanks for the support! It's what keeps me going. Yeah, I'm not planning on killing Kat off anytime soon. I heavily enjoy writing this crew and their adventure's, so it's fun throwing some humor here and there. Try not to laugh too hard.