Eight chapter! And a cliff-hanger again XP Please enjoy and review :D
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"SANJI-KUN!" Nami shouted when she realised the floor was going to collapse.
"NAMI-SAN! GRAB MY HAND!" Sanji yelled and reached out his hand to grab the navigator. "Sky Walk!"
They barely escaped the collapsion and Sanji felt like a hero saving a beatiful lady,"Are you alright, Nami-san?" He asked politely.
"I am fine, I just sprained my ankle!" Nami said and wiped her forehead before she looked down. "You know, I am really happy I took you with me!"
For Sanji it was the biggest praise he could ever have but he had no time to think about it when he felt something hitting his left leg.
"SANJI-KUN!" Nami shouted again when she realised the chef couldn't keep his balance in the air with a damaged leg. The gentleman he was, however, he bit his teeth and landed on top of a steady floor to make sure Nami had a safe place to stand.
"Shit!" Sanji cursed and pulled the knife out of his leg. There was a flow of blood coming from the wound but the bleeding stopped pretty quickly after the pressure was gone.
This is a top-class kitchen knife! Who would waste using such a beauty against his enemies?! Sanji raged by himself.
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Luffy was running around the mansion with no idea of Dess' whereabouts. Well, he found the kitchen and stopped to eat for a while but then he continued his journey and soon he needed to look for a toilet. He was such a simpleton he didn't realise using haki would have been much more faster than just running around like a headless chicken.
"DESS! WHERE ARE YOU?!" Luffy shouted and his voice echoed trough the whole building.
Meanwhile in the lower floors, Chopper and Zoro's search for explosives was interrupted when they heard their captain's shout. "That idiot!" Zoro cursed,"He should be looking for the enemy silently, not inform everyone about his whereabouts!"
"I think that shout was not a problem!" Chopper realised,"Echo makes it really difficult to locate!"
Zoro and Chopper ran trough the hallways, checking if there were other explosives which could be used against them.
Then they heard silent steps coming from behind them and they saw a glimbse of red hair. "SARA!" Chopper shouted at the woman,"What are you doing here?!"
Zoro stared at the woman, not quite trusting the woman. "I was looking for Sanji-san, he is in danger!" Sara explained and Chopper gasped.
"That's horrible! You should warn him!" Chopper worried and shared glances with Zoro,"Last time we saw him, he rushed off with Nami towards the higher floors!"
"Okay! Thanks!" Sara said and was about to head towards the stairs when she stopped,"By the way, what are you guys doing?"
Zoro tried to signal Chopper to keep his mouth shut but the reindeer didn't notice it. " We are trying to locate if there are any other explosives in here! They could be dangerous!"
Sara blinked before she realised Chopper's ability. "Yes, I guess your sense of smell is pretty good!" she said and patted Chopper's head, smirking creepily, "That's no good, is it?"
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"You are that Dennis-guy!" Usopp gasped when he realised who he was facing and smiled,"I guess you can't be so strong since you are just a mere messenger!"
Dennis smirked at the long-nosed man,"Oh, I wouldn't be too sure about that!" Dennis said before he hit the younger man straight to his nose.
"You bastard!" Usopp whined from the ground,"That's unfair! You broke my nose!"
"What's unfair? I thought pirates were unfair!" Dennis said and attacked again but this time Usopp had enough time to dodge and see how the fist went straight trough the wood on Sunny's deck.
"Usopp you bastard!" Franky shouted,"Don't let your enemy damage our ship!"
"Just focus on your own enemy!" Usopp adviced and took some distance between him and Dennis. It was going to be annoying if Dennis used short-range attacks and Usopp needed some more space to shoot his enemies.
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Brook wandered around the big mansion. He hadn't found any treasures or anything worth money. Their navigator would be disappointed but it wasn't really his fault they had nothing of value.
Brook almost collided with Chopper and Zoro. Expecially Chopper looked pathetic, somehow as if he was disappointed with himself.
"Brook! You need to warn Ero-cook!" Zoro ordered the skeleton when he recognised him.
"What happened?" Brook asked.
"We have no time to talk right now! That woman is probably after him and she is not an ordinary woman!" Zoro explained.
"You mean she is a devil fruit user?" Brook inquired.
"Probably! Just go and tell him not to let that bitch touch him!" Zoro adviced,"Last time we saw him he was heading to upper floors!"
Brook nodded and rushed off to inform his nakama about the situation.
"I am sorry, Zoro...I wasn't much of a help, was I?" Chopper whined but Zoro only smiled at him gently.
"It's not your fault, it's that woman's fault!" Zoro reassured the small doctor and secretly hoped that Brook would find their chef before Sara.
"But how are we going to find those explosives now?!"Chopper wondered.
"We just have to trust our luck!" Zoro laughed but he was feeling actually pretty nervous.
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Sanji and Nami walked forward the hallway. Sanji was limbing his left leg slightly but he was doing his best not to worry their navigator.
"Sanji-kun, let me have a look at that wound..." Nami asked but Sanji shoke his head.
"It's fine, Nami-san!" Sanji reassured the orange-haired woman,"It doesn't even hurt!"
"Sanji-san!" Brook shouted and flew towards the duo,"It seems like you are okay!"
"What do you mean?" Nami inquired. She got worried when she saw the face the skeleton was making.
"Sara is after you, apparently trying to kill you!" Brook explained and Sanji gasped.
"Why would she do something like that?!" Nami hissed angrily. "We have done nothing wrong and especially Sanji-kun has treated her like a princess!"
Sanji just stared at Brook,"Well, she is just a woman! Even if I can't hurt her, I can run away from her!"
"That's not going to be so easy!" Brook sighed,"She is a devil fruit user!"
"She is WHAT?!" Sanji and Nami gasped at the same time. They had never thought about the chance that the innocent girl could be a devil fruit user.
"That's right," they heard a feminine voice behind their backs and they turned quickly to notice that Sara was way too close to them. She could almost touch Sanji's shoulder. "Well, I just learned a while ago about devil fruits but now I know that I have eaten one of them!"
She grabbed Sanji's shoulder and used her powers quickly this time. She had been too slow with the reindeer and he had survived with only small side effects. Sanji couldn't push a lady away so he just stood there while Nami tried to get Sara away from Sanji and Brook was just looking at the scene because he could do nothing in his spiritual form.
Sanji gasped when he realised Sara's powers had slowly started to affect him before the world went black in front of his eyes.
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