After yet another long delay, which I must apologize for, I'm back with my next chapter.

As their fight began, both Alvida and Robin quickly understood just how dangerous each other were.

The first thing that Robin noticed was the strength of the woman and how it contrasted to her rather slender form. She wielded that mace as easily as a butter knife. To her credit she was at least better than that fat priest on Sky Island, recklessly destroying everything in sight.

Next was how she moved. This really confused Robin. Alvida was literally sliding all around the battle field on her bare feet. After a while Robin surmised that she too was a devil fruit user.

Alvida, on the other hand, noticed how calm Robin seemed during the fight. Her facial expression never changed once during her initial attack. That alone creeped her out. Though at least it was a different face from the one she had gotten when she had smashed that section of ruins. Now that was a scary face.

The fight continued with Alvida seemingly having Robin on the defensive. Robin had been simply backing p the whole time, trying to avoid getting hit by that huge mace, thinking of how she should go about stopping this woman before she really started swinging that thing around.

Alvida continued to press her attack, smiling widely. "I thought you said you wouldn't forgive me for destroying a piece of your precious ruins. Was that just an empty threat, or do you plan on getting serious sometime soon? Mmmm, maybe you just need a little more motivation, yes?" And with that, she swung her mace at another section of the ruins.

Robin immediately stopped and crossed her arms. "No more!" Hand sprouted out of Alvida's body. "Seis Fle-." She stopped when she saw that her hands could not grab on to Alvida's body. She tried a few times more but with the same results.

Alvida lightly chuckled at this. "Oh, is that your ability? Heh, well you're gonna have to do better than that if you want to beat me and my Sube Sube (slip slip) abilities." She slid across the ruins towards Robin, who had begun to run in the other direction.

"She has an ability. Worse is mine won't have too much of an effect on her. I have to find some way to beat her." Finding her chance she hid herself in some bushes so she could plan her next move.

Alvida came and looked around for her. "Where are you? Come on, I won't hurt you just because you have my sweet little straw hat. In fact, if you want, we could share him. Of course I would get a bigger piece of him, but still, at least you can be with him a little."

Robin sighed and turned around. "Ok, I can't grab her, I can't hit her. How do I beat her if my abilities won't do any good?" She thought for a second. Then something hit her. "Wait, that's it. What if I hit her with something that can't slide off of her, something that can still hit and hurt her? But what? What could I use?"

However she never answered her question, because something else caught her attention. A hole in the ground near where she was sitting. She wasn't sure how deep it went but she knew that it went into the direction of the ruins. Not waiting another moment she lowered herself into the hole.

Thankfully she had kept a small lamp with her, as her main bag was still up top. The small passage was dark, to the point where without the lamp, she wouldn't have been able to see her own hand.

After a few minutes of walking she finally came up on the exit. What she saw was something that looked like a prayer room. The walls were covered with various markings and pictures and such. But what caught her attention was what lay in the center of the room.

"A poneglyph. So it was true." She walked down the stone steps to the poneglyph and began to read it. After a while she grew a depressed look on her face. "Another super weapon. " Then she remembered the words that Gol D. Roger had left on Sky Island. "This is just another piece of the puzzle that I need to solve." She wrote down what was on the poneglyph and began her search for a way out, where she would put Alvida down for sure.

Fortunately, she didn't even need to move from that spot. The ceiling suddenly caved in and pieces of rock started falling down all over the place. Robin gracefully evaded each and every one before finally they stopped.

"Ah, there you are." Alvida's sweet, sultry voice came calling from the giant whole that was just made. Robin looked up in utter disgust at her.

"Do you have no respect for the history that was left for us here? Must you continue to wipe away the last shred of history those past left here?"

"I don't care about that. History is just that. History. And to be perfectly honest, I've had enough of all of your complaining about it. If you love history so much, I'll go ahead and bury you here, then someone will find you with these ruins." She jumped down.

But Robin was ready for her. "Cien Fleur Delphinium." Hands sprouted from the wall behind her and created sort of a track for Alvida. Since she couldn't stop herself she was pretty much just going wherever her hands wanted to go. She tried to jump off of the hands, but Robin would simply create a dip in them so she couldn't jump.

After leading her along like this she eventually made her slide smack dab in to a wall. Alvida fell backwards, blood trickling down her nose. "I was right. In that case…" She crossed her arms and concentrated.

Alvida got up slowly and felt her face. When she felt the warm liquid, she immediately drew her hand back to see that she was bleeding. She turned towards Robin with a look of absolute anger on her face. "Why you. I will… make… you…" Her voice got smaller and smaller as the shadow that loomed over her got bigger and bigger.

Robin looked up at the woman and smiled rather sweetly as the object behind her took form. A mass of her hands coming together to form one giant hand. "Grand fleur." The hand reared back for the attack. "Swat!" Suddenly the hand came down upon Alvida, utterly crushing her. When the hands disappeared, Alvida was seen, laid out and not moving.

Robin looked at her no longer smiling. "This place, this history, was left to us for a reason. Maybe if you stay here long enough, you will discover it."

"Rooooobiiiiiiiiin!" She heard the child-like voice of her ships doctor and climbed out of the tomb to see him, rather banged up, but still ok.

"Doctor-san, what happened to you?" She ran over to see if he was ok.

"One of Luffy's old enemies came and attacked me. I beat him and then I heard something from over here. SO I figured that you had gotten attacked as well."

"And you were right. She was with that big nosed clown." She looked back at the hole. "Doctor-san, I don't think that this was a coincidence. She asked for Luffy specifically, but she attacked me. And the fact that you were attacked means that the others might be attacked as well."

"I thought so too. Let's get back to the ship." And leaving both Buggy and Alvida behind, the headed back to the Merry.

Ok, this might not be as good as it could have been. I did the best that I could with this one so please R&R. Tell me what I could have done better, or what I could have changed. Other than that, thanks for reading.