Chapter 7:
A tall man with grayish blue skin, with long white hair and a white beard, walked between the flames that seemed to flicker when he did. His eyes were cold and blue and he had a spear strapped on his back. The hilt of the spear was made of wood and all knobby and he reached up and grabbed it. "Get the Dragonglass," The Thenn said while lifting his large metal ax.
Jon nodded and rushed to the side of the room, but Luffy stayed where he was. "Can you speak?" He asked the white walker in front of him that drew a long sword made of ice. The monster didn't respond and the Thenn brought his ax down at the head of the frozen monster.
The white walker simply stepped aside and then moved as the Thenn swung back again. Luffy decided he had to fight this guy too and pulled back his foot, throwing it forward to try and kick the man. The dead warrior ducked and Luffy's foot went right over his head. He brought up his sword quickly but the pirate brought his foot back fast to save his leg and the force of the bring back knocked Luffy down. "That was close," he said and watched as the bald guy swung his ax at the wight again and his weapon got stuck in a wooden post.
Luffy ran forward and jumped up, "Gum Gum, Gattling Gun!" He started punching his fists down fast at the zombie who was trying to attack the Thenn while he was stuck in the wall. His fists didn't hit anything and he looked down to see the white walker disappeared in a cloud of snow. It flew around and reappeared behind the Thenn as Luffyy landed, "Look ou-" Luffy shouted and then his eyes went wide as a huge ice blade came out of the Thenn's chest from where it was stabbed into his back.
The white walker let him drop and Jon was still reaching for the Dragonglass. The monster looked at Jon and then at the strange man in front of him. It started walking fast towards an enraged Luffy. This white walker wasn't like the others and could think like a person. "Gear Second," the pirate muttered and bent his knees, pumping his blood faster in his rubber body.
Jon Snow looked back and saw Luffy's skin turned red and he had steam coming off of him. The man in the Straw Hat glared up at the white walker bringing down the ice sword towards his head. Then he was gone. He reappeared ten feet behind the confused wight that spun, sensing the pirate behind him. Luffy's Jet Pistol already slammed the dead man in the face, but it started rushing at him anyway and lifted its sword again, swinging down at Luffy's arm. The white walker's face was messed up but as it ran it started to fix itself. Luffy disappeared again, moving too fast for Jon or the Commander to see him and he came back on the monster's left side.
This time the white walker was ready and had sensed where the human was going to appear. It slashed out its sword before Luffy even became visible and Jon saw the pirate clench his teeth in pain and spun out as the ice blade cut through his shoulder. This white walker must have been so old that he was an experienced enough fighter to know where Luffy would appear, even if he couldn't follow him with his own eyes.
The Lord Commander got the bag of Dragonglass and started running for the door, but the wight moved in his way and smacked the bag from his hands. Jon reached for it but the monster backhanded him with the hand holding his sword and he was thrown out the broken door of the burning building.
Luffy got to his feet, growling in pain at the damage done to him. He looked at the hole in the entrance where the white walker was following Jon out and he looked down at the Thenn. He felt bad that he couldn't save him, but he wouldn't let Jon die too. Still in his Gear Second, the pirate rocketed out of the wildling hut and into the back of the white walker.
The force of Luffy's attack split the man in half as he flew right through him and Luffy landed next to a bruised Jon who was staring at him and then back to the white walker. Luffy's eyes went wide as the top half lifted up with little ice shards under it and landed back on top of the lower section, reconnecting itself.
The monster glared at the pirate and at Jon Snow. Luffy's eyes went wide as he realized they were right, he couldn't kill it. It's like a Logia. Crocodile's weakness was water, and Enel's was rubber, so what are these- he stopped and looked over to the side of the hut where a bag of Dragonglass lay. He was about to use his incredible speed to zip over there, when a small cloud of snow dropped from the cliff on top of the bag.
All three of them looked: Luffy, Jon, and the white walker commander as someone started walking out of the snow. It made eye contact with Jon and then Luffy as the zombie commander lowered his head to their King.
The Night's King nodded to his commander and the white walker stopped bowing and started charging at Jon with its sword raised. The Lord Commander had to raise a sword and try to block and the two of them began fighting as Luffy kept his eyes on this new enemy. "You're not like the others," Luffy said and kept his Gear Second up while he watched the Night's King. The zombie reached down and grabbed the bag beneath it, holding it in his hand as ice spread out from his fingers and surrounded the leather satchel. Then he clenched his fist and the only weapons that could apparently kill these things were suddenly destroyed.
The pirate stayed calm and yelled, "You don't scare me." He pulled back a fist and held out his other palm. "Gum Gum," he shot forward so he was a foot away from the enemy king, "Jet Bullet!"
His arm that was still far back flew forward to meet the rest of him and it slammed into air. The white walker wasn't there anymore and it had disappeared, coming back behind Luffy with a long ice sword drawn. The pirate was too fast though and moved to the right, narrowly dodging the blade coming down at his head.
He put his hands down and shot both of his feet behind him, "Spear!" The two feet flew through nothing as the King turned to snow and moved to the right. Luffy's fist was flying forward though, towards the spot the man reformed and slammed into the flat side of the blade of the enemy king. The Night's King was pushed back, but then pushed forward with his blade and Luffy's fist flew backwards and he dropped to the ground and had to roll himself backwards as the enemy chased him with his ice sword.
Jon was faring worse against the lower white walker that smacked him aside and then tossed him into the wall of a nearby building. The sword he picked up off the ground was useless and shattered when he tried to block with it. His head was fuzzy and he could barely see the enemy approaching him. He tried getting up but the commander walked towards him and started raising its sword. He reached to the side where his actual sword had been thrown earlier.
"No!" A voice shouted and a girl ran into Jon's field of vision, stabbing the point of her thin blade into the chest of the white walker. The injured man looked at the soaking wet girl wearing black clothes with short black hair. She was short, not half the height of the wight in front of her who was looking down slowly at the child.
The girl with her sword plunged into the monster didn't waver when her eyes met the gaze of the wight. "Stay away from my brother," she growled at the beast.
It looked at her and snarled furiously as it brought up its ice blade above its head.
"Arya!" Luffy yelled as he saw the girl with her Needle sticking out of the enemy. He had no idea how she got there, but he shouldn't have looked away as the sharp, cold blade of the enemy leader slashed across his side before he could dodge completely. He spun out and hit the ground with blood coming from his right shoulder down to his side now.
The girl looking at the white walker tried to pull her sword from its chest, but it brought down its blade and slammed into her small weapon. As the blades touched, her Needle shattered into a thousand ice shards. Now the girl was starting to get afraid and she took a step back as the monster brought its sword to the side for one more strike.
Arya, Jon heard her call him her brother, and then Luffy shouted her name. Arya! He got to his feet fast and grabbed his blade that was buried halfway in the snow, putting it between the monster and his sister. The two blades clashed, ringing out over the battlefield. The Night's King walking towards an injured Luffy turned his head over and stared at the two blades of his commander and the crow touching each other.
Both Jon and the Commander seemed surprised by the fact that his weapon didn't get shattered. Arya moved out of the way as the wight swung its sword again, a furious expression on its face. Jon parried the blow, then sliced across his front and through the white walker's neck, where it shattered into a thousand little ice shards, blowing away into the wind.
Jon was still dazed by the hard hit to the head he took when the wight smashed him with the butt of its sword, but he looked down and saw a girl looking up at him. She wasn't the same as when he last saw her, she was older, had shorter hair, and looked more mature. But she was without a doubt, Arya Stark and he bent down, pulling her into a tight hug in the middle of the city full of a zombie army.
Arya started to cry as her brother wrapped her in a hug. She knew it wasn't the time, but she couldn't help it and tears started streaming down her face.
The Night's King started walking towards Jon, not liking the fact that a human had the capability to kill one of them. He stopped after one step and his head slowly turned around as he heard a voice.
"Hey," Luffy growled as he pulled himself on his feet. He pumped his legs into Second Gear again and it took a lot out of him, but his skin turned red and he started steaming. "I'm, not finished yet," the pirate growled and had blood trickling out of both corners of his mouth.
Gear Second was still a new concept for him, but every time he used it he could feel the strain on his muscles. It got worse the more times he used it in a row and three times this close together was bad news, just like when he fought Lucci.
"We have to help Luffy," Arya begged her brother and Jon could see that his sister didn't want this man to die. The guy in the straw hat had weird abilities and freaked out the Lord Commander, but he'd kept his sister safe so he was going to help him.
Luffy threw Twin Jet Pistols at his opponent but the Night's King turned his blade sideways and sliced Luffy's fingers to the bone as they hit the sharp side. He yelled out in pain but pulled his arms back fast enough that the zombie's slash forward didn't cut off his fingers. Jon started running forward, but the enemy wasn't going to risk Jon getting close and a snow fog descended on him. The two fighters against him and the girl behind them looked up at the snow cloud as the king reappeared at the top of the cliff.
He didn't look happy and Edd came running over, seeing Jon standing there. "Jon we have to go now!" The man yelled and looked at the other two. Edd had blood all over him, his brothers' blood as they were fighting white walkers all over Hardhome. "They've broken through the wall," he looked up where they were looking and all four of them stared at the edge of the cliff, a rising sense of dread building inside them.
Over at the wooden wall, Zoro was standing in the center of a mass of enemies. The zombies and skeletons and rotting corpses just kept coming. The horde didn't seem to go down no matter how many of his signature attacks he did. "Tatsumaki!" He yelled and spun all three of his blades, causing every white walker around him to get thrown into the air and slashed to pieces.
The other wildlings and crows were long gone. He'd been fighting alone for minutes now, stopping the horde from descending on the town behind him. There were more bodies around him than he could count, though they were more like body parts. His attacks were ripping through the enemies and he might have taken down a thousand or two already, but tens of thousands more were charging at him.
Zoro felt a slash on his side and turned to see enemies jumping into his twister with no sense of self-preservation. They allowed themselves to get cut up as long as they could get close to him. The tornado attack went away and he was panting roughly as he stared at another section of the wall get torn down and zombies poured through it running at him.
The holes in the wall were too big now and no one could close them up as zombies were getting through everywhere. Most of them were running straight at the green haired swordsman so he knew he was giving the others more time to escape, but he was doubting his chances now.
He lifted his sword and blocked an attack, just as he felt a sharp pain in his back. "Ahh!" He yelled furiously and spun two of his swords, sending a cannon attack at the five corpses behind him who jumped in for the attack. The long range slice went through them and destroyed a tent behind them that ripped to shreds.
When he turned to get them, he was slashed twice more across his back and he screamed in frustration. The scars on his back would never heal and they would forever make it seem like he ran away. At this point though, his only options were die or run away. The sword in his mouth was knocked out when he blocked an attack, but he sliced his other two swords and knocked the zombie away. He slashed through the enemies coming at him with a weaker cannon that was barely enough to smash the small dead wildling girl coming at him into a hundred pieces. My attacks are getting weaker. This is it, Kuina, I'm sorry.
Usopp was in a similar situation not far away where he was being chased by five enemies. He was running after the giant whose strides were much longer than his own. The large man was stomping on white walkers and ripping them in half as he moved and Usopp couldn't match him. The sniper turned around and shot once, twice, thrice at the enemies charging at him, but then he tripped as he wasn't looking where he was going and dropped on the snow floor.
The two zombies jumped at him and he lifted his shaky slingshot, firing one more exploding shot that blew apart one of the rotten corpses when the next one landed on him. It was a boney skeleton and had some flesh still on its body, mainly around its mouth. The skeleton tried biting down on Usopp's face but the pirate had his arms lifted up and was keeping it just far enough away. "AHHHH!" He screamed and tried lifting his weapon. The creature swatted it out of his hands and then clawed at the human's face with sharp nails. Blood poured down his face and Usopp screamed even more.
"Nami-san!" Sanji shouted off the side of the Thousand Sunny at the Mini Merry floating in front of them. They couldn't move the ship forward anymore and Franky released the chef so Sanji could run to the side and yell to the smaller boat.
"Why is she the only one there?" Chopper asked nervously and looked towards the shore where the screaming kept getting louder. The frenzied wildlings were pushing each other for chances to get to the rowboats.
Now it wasn't just the ones who were originally planning to leave with the crows. Every wildling in Hardhome was trying to escape and they were all crowding the shore. Nami was screaming and the pirates on deck started yelling too when they heard what she was saying.
"Luffy!
"Zoro!"
"Usopp!"
"Arya!"
Their shouts kept going and were drowned out by the wind and the screams of the wildlings, but they couldn't stop. They didn't see their friends on shore, and some of the white walkers had already made it there, fighting off a back line of wildling guards behind the women, children, and terrified men trying to escape.
Zoro was about to lower his swords, the pain and blood loss from his dozens of injuries too much, when a sword flew in front of his face and slammed into the closest white walker. It was the wildlings. A few of the ones who got away behind him came back including the one with the orange hair.
Tormund grabbed Zoro and started pulling the bloodied swordsman away who tried struggling weakly against him. "You've helped so many of our people escape," Tormund growled as he looked back and saw the men he took with him getting killed. They'd volunteered to help the stranger who helped them and the man continued, "Now let us help you escape."
"I don't run-"
Tormund put Zoro's arm over his shoulder and would drag him if he had to. "Don't make their deaths be in vain," he growled at the stubborn swordsman. Zoro looked back through his left eye, since his right was full of blood, and saw the zombies barely hesitated to smash through the other three or four men that came back with Tormund.
Zoro couldn't stand the idea of turning his back to the enemies, but this was a fight they couldn't win. He wouldn't spit on those men's lives as they decided to spend their last moments helping him escape and he started running with Tormund.
Down further in Hardhome, Usopp was struggling to push the skeleton's face away from his. He had both of his hands grabbing the monster's skull and pushing it away as hard as he could, but it still wasn't enough.
The creature snapped its head to the side, bit down on Usopp's left hand, and chomped two of his fingers off. "Ahhh!" The man with the long nose screamed and the pressure he had against the skeleton disappeared causing it to reach down to bite his throat now.
It looked like the end, when the skeleton stopped moving towards him and was pulled the other way. Usopp looked up through the blood in his eyes and the pain. He saw the giant rip the skeleton in half and then kick the next one running towards him. He lifted the human up on his shoulder and then started running for shore again. The man would have thanked the giant if he didn't have to clench his teeth to stop from screaming or puking as he looked at his fingers, gushing blood.
Edd, Jon, Arya, and Luffy were staring up the cliff wall where the Night's King and his commanders on their horses were standing. Edd gulped and the children of Ned Stark were sweating as they stared up at him. Luffy's vision was blurry and he knew his right side was bleeding bad, with his right shoulder bleeding a lot too.
"Our fight's not over yet!" Luffy yelled and pulled his hands to his side, ready for another round. He was ready to charge up there, when they started hearing charging footsteps.
As they watched, dozens of skeletons, corpses that had rotten beyond the point of having flesh anymore, started running straight off the cliff. Dozens turned to hundreds as the skeletons kept falling, all of them slamming to the ground below with the sound of crunching bones. Finally the falling stopped and the pirates and crows stared at the bodies littering the base of the cliff.
Luffy's eyes were wide and he looked right and saw the wooden walls were all but destroyed and a horde was coming at them from that way too. He looked back at the floor where a thousand zombies were lying, motionless. One of them snapped its head up and screeched a deathly yell that made every one of the viewers feel intense fear.
Luffy moved with the others as they started backpedaling. Edd's voice cracked as he screamed and turned around and screamed, "Oh, fuck!" Jon and Arya spun too and Luffy took one last blurry glance at the top of the cliff before running as well.
The zombies at the wall decided the holes there already weren't enough and they pushed against the rest of it, knocking down the entire wooden barricade and letting in the huge horde behind it all at once. The ones who jumped off the cliff merged with those as they all charged forwards.
Luffy's group kept running and Tormund and Zoro collided with them as they ran. Both groups kept running towards shore and Arya's foot was grabbed by the crawling top half of a wight sliced earlier by one of the crows. She yelled out in pain as it twisted her ankle and Jon smashed his sword down on the corpse's arm, cutting its hand off so he could run with Arya.
He picked up his sister and threw her over his shoulder as he ran forward. The pain in her ankle was intense, but she was much more afraid now that she was turned the other way. She was over Jon's shoulder so while the others ran, she looked behind her and she started yelling, "Go faster!" They were the last ones heading for shore and the only thing behind them were hundreds of corpses sprinting down the same path with the sole reason to kill them.
No one wanted to turn around but her high pitched scream made every one of them start sprinting that much faster. They were ducking under enemies left and right and those who could fight slashed them away when they came straight at them. They never broke their strides as they kept running full speed towards the mass of people and the water at shore.
The pirates on the Sunny were higher up than Nami, so they saw the red jacket first. It was in a small group running down the path with... All four of them dropped their jaws and shook in terror as they stared at the huge army of bloodthirsty skeletons running and screaming behind their captain.
"Hurry up Luffy!" They yelled as the white walkers were gaining on him.
Nami saw the red jacket too and she looked closer to see Zoro with their captain. She had the Mini Merry floating motionless out in the water and she yelled for them to get on one of the rowboats. Even if she headed back now, she'd have to run over all the people in the water and they'd likely tip her over trying to get in. At least that's what she reasoned with herself as she stayed still and didn't move the tiny boat. Usopp where are you?!
Tormund was running on the right side of the group and he was no longer helping the swordsman run as the man was doing it himself now. Everyone was running the same way and there was no fighting the enemies behind them.
"Rooarr, uurggh!" A low voice roared behind them. The man with red hair turned his head and saw the giant holding a large log with flames on the end of it. He swung it down at some zombies and knocked them up in the air.
Tormund called out to him, "Wun Wun, to the sea!"
The giant started chasing after them and the pirates in the water looking for their last friend saw Usopp in a green coat riding on the giant's left shoulder. They couldn't sigh in relief yet, as the giant turned and swung his giant burning log into the corpses and a few jumped up on his back.
"Get away! No!" Usopp yelled and kicked the skeletons in their heads as they tried getting up Wun Wun's back. He knocked one down as the giant threw the log at the enemies and started chasing after Tormund and his group. The other got higher up and the pirates watching at sea saw the skeleton with a knife drop onto their friend who wrestled with it and then tossed the monster off of him to the front where his giant friend stomped on it.
Usopp's face was covered in blood from where the skeleton that bit his fingers off earlier scratched him, and now he had a large gash in his chest too that was making it hard to think straight. All he could pay attention to was holding onto Wun Wun's shoulder so he wouldn't fall off.
"You can make it!" Franky shouted to shore.
Sanji saw Arya and swore he'd kill Luffy and Zoro if they let her get killed here. "Run!"
Robin crossed her arms and a couple dozen arms sprouted out of the ground on shore, but the monsters kept running and trampled her arms. She was squirming in pain, but when a zombie slashed her arm with his sword, she had to uncross and she had blood coming down her right arm.
"Robin!" Chopper yelled and started giving her emergency first aid. He was ready to start helping as soon as he could after he saw what some of the wildlings on the escaping rowboats looked like.
The shore was covered in corpses as the first white walkers had met with the mass of wildlings and killed most of the ones who weren't able to get on the boats. There were still a lot of men and women fighting as the group made it down the path and to the dock. Jon had his sister on his shoulder and he couldn't pay attention to anyone else as he ran her straight to the rowboat and jumped in. Tormund, Zoro, Edd, and Luffy were behind him. The rubber pirate kicked off to the side and knocked away a zombie that tackled a wildling, but three more corpses fell on top of the screaming man a second later. He looked back and saw the thousands coming towards him and turned back around. They got in the boat and two other crows in it started rowing them away from the dock.
Luffy and Zoro were both bleeding badly, but they were looking for Usopp who they knew was still here. They hadn't seen Nami in a while, so they expected her to have gotten on a boat already and headed for the Sunny. The fact that the Mini Merry wasn't on shore assured them of this and they were only looking for their long-nosed sniper.
"Go!" Usopp pointed forward with his left index finger. The men on the escaping rowboat looked up to see Wun Wun fighting the white walkers with Usopp on his shoulder pointing the other way. The hand he was using to point was missing its pinky and ring finger but he was paying more attention to living than the pain now.
The fighting all over the shore turned into a one-sided slaughter as the massive horde made it through Hardhome and to the snow covered beach. Wun Wun started walking into the water and there were still some skeletons climbing up his back. This time Usopp didn't have to fight them off himself as the giant reached back and grabbed them himself, ripping them off of him with little effort.
A few skeletons ran down the wooden dock and jumped onto the retreating giant's back, climbing up to his shoulder and trying to bite his face. Usopp stayed as far as he could on the other shoulder trying to make himself invisible as Wun Wun kept walking while smashing any skeleton that tried biting him.
"Let's go now!" Jon shouted and the men who could, picked up paddles and started rowing.
"Come on row!" A crow yelled and they started paddling away. Luffy and Zoro looked back at shore from behind Edd and Tormund. Jon was in the back staring straight off alone as one of the fighting Commander White Walkers met his gaze with cold blue eyes after slicing an injured wildling.
Now Luffy felt the enraged feeling he didn't have at the start of the battle. At first he thought the zombies were mindless and attacked because, well he didn't know, he thought they wanted to eat brains or something. The fact that there were intelligent leaders of this dead army made him want to charge back on shore and take on all of them. That and the screams.
The screams ringing out all over Hardhome were too much. Wildlings getting slaughtered and overwhelmed by the enemy were everywhere and they couldn't drown out their dying screams among the war cries of the dead. Women, children, the old, everyone was getting killed by the army of the dead.
Usopp was looking back while Wun Wun kept walking deeper in the water. He stared at the people getting ripped apart and he felt more fear than he ever had in his life. I never thought something like this, could even exist.
Robin was talking to Chopper about how her arm hurt and how she wanted him to help. She managed to distract the reindeer from the screams of the people on shore, but Franky and Sanji were still watching. They were horrified and the amount of death on the shore was unfathomable. There were thousands of dead bodies lining the shores as the screams finally started to die down.
All of the white walkers who didn't have anyone left to kill started looking out at the water. They walked up to the edge of the water and didn't make a sound, a silence much different and much scarier than the screaming they'd been doing the whole time.
Edd and Tormund sat down and Zoro sat behind them, fading in and out of consciousness from blood loss.
Luffy walked next to Jon and they stared at shore where one figure walked through the crowd of white walkers. He walked all the way down the wooden dock and stared out at them with light blue eyes that sent shivers down their spines.
The boat kept getting rowed away and Zoro muttered to the men to take them to their ship which was the closest one to shore. All the other rowboats had made it past the Sunny, already heading for the Night's Watch ships, but the men listened to the bloody guy who they had no idea how he was still alive, let alone talking.
Jon made eye contact with the enemy who seemed to know he was the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch. The two of them glared at each other for a few moments, with Jon being the much more terrified of the two, but hiding it well. The right side of his face was covered in dripping blood.
He watched as the leader of the white walkers turned his head to the left. The Night's King had a crown of ice shards coming out of his skull and he looked towards the army amassed behind him. Jon looked over and saw the large amount of men inside of Hardhome, but he was also far enough away to see on the other side of the wooden wall where thousands more were standing.
They looked back at each other again and the King started to bring up his arms at his sides. Jon didn't know what he was doing, but suddenly he realized it as the bodies on the ground started to twitch.
"What is he doing?" Franky whispered.
Sanji dropped the cigarette from his mouth and stared with a lowered jaw as he saw the people start moving.
Usopp held on tighter to Wun Wun's shoulder and couldn't tell if he was shaking from the fear or from the screaming pain in his face, chest, and hand.
The Night's King rose his arms further until he had them straight out on either side with his elbows bent. Luffy felt an intense dread as he watched the bodies of all the people just killed. They started to rise and get back up to their feet, now with icy blue eyes. His hatred for the Night's King who treated the dead like his own personal pawns shot through the roof and he snarled at the shore.
Jon was a lot more reserved and a lot more afraid as he looked at the army that quickly doubled, maybe even tripled in size. All the new additions to the army walked up to shore and stared out as well, joining their leader who rose his arms at his side, showing he was the one doing this. This is our enemy now. This is their power.
Nami looked from the Mini Merry and her throat clenched up. She couldn't breathe and she stared in absolute horror as Karsi's dead corpse started walking towards shore and made eye contact with her. The blue eyes of the woman had none of the same care she had when talking to her children earlier. She was now a monster.
"Get on!" Franky yelled down to the rowboat that the crew on the Sunny were finally able to move towards themselves. The Mini Merry came over to them as well and Nami docked inside while the others were climbing the ropes up to the ship.
The crows and wildlings couldn't care less about Franky's interesting designs and the grass covering the ship. They got up and walked right to the front where they stared at the army.
Jon was the last one to get off the rowboat and he finally climbed up the ropes after the others. Luffy was snarling and clenching and unclenching his fists over and over. "I want to get them," he said and then stumbled a little as he paced. His skin was pale and he had lost too much blood that everyone knew he shouldn't be walking, but they weren't going to tell the pissed off pirate that.
"Luffy please," Chopper begged as he saw his captain's injuries. The man in the straw hat glared at the reindeer and then glared off the side of the ship towards the smug enemy king who had them running away. He knew he'd overwhelmed them, and that was before he even had this huge new addition to his army.
Franky was standing on the bow of the ship staring down at the figurehead. The large smiling sun that looked like a lion wasn't an intimidating force on the outside, but inside... "Luffy," he said, for once not referring to the captain as Straw Hat. He sounded deadly serious and at a time like this it was necessary, even if he wanted to reveal it in a good mood to get everyone impressed by his invention. "You want to defeat them all?"
Everyone on the ship turned to the cyborg. Sanji had just helped the giant get up on their ship from the water and Usopp lowered to the ground. He accepted the pain a while ago and walked towards the large group on the bow. Franky turned to him as he approached, "There's still one weapon on the Sunny that I haven't revealed yet. You up for firing it?"
Usually at this time, Chopper, Usopp, and Luffy would be super excited to see it, but all three of them were serious as they stared at him. Chopper realized that he was being distracted and went back to tending to Zoro's wounds, which were easily the worst of everyone there. Luffy was next if he could hold his captain down long enough, or sedate him, the reindeer thought to himself, figuring it might be easier that way.
"Definitely," Usopp responded, planning his revenge on the enemies even as his chest and hand bled severely. The scratches on his face stung, but they were the shallowest of his wounds.
Nami was shivering inside the cabin and had a blanket wrapped around her. Images of Karsi standing up and looking at her, the wildling child getting pulled into the tent for slaughter, and the rotten little kid she smashed with her Clima Tact filled her mind.
Sanji felt a twinge in his neck and turned around. He left the deck of the ship and walked into the kitchen. The blonde man walked over and sat down against the wall, and not a second later the woman who was leaning there next to him buried her face in his shoulder and sobbed her eyes out.
Arya had stopped crying from when she originally saw Jon because of everything going on. She hobbled to the opening in the back of the lion figurehead where Franky told Usopp to go into. She was small so she fit in there with him and looked around at all the metal and machinery that she didn't really understand.
The white walker commanders on shore were staring out at the harbor, and they didn't know why the ship wasn't leaving already. It was just sitting there and repositioning itself so that it was pointed straight at the center of their forces, at the Night's King. The dead man lowered his arms and they all stared at the front of the ship where the group that rode on the small rowboat were standing. The jaw of the smiling lion dropped and there was a metal tube inside it that stuck out of the front of the ship.
Jon, Luffy, Edd, the other three crows, Robin, and Tormund stared off the ship at the army in front of them. Most of them were doubtful as to what Franky was planning, but the cyborg shouted up from inside the deck, "Cola energy charging!"
Arya and Usopp looked at a gauge next to them that the needle in it suddenly spun all the way, "Fully charged!" The sniper yelled to the cyborg who called to him. "Now what?"
"Get as many in the circle as you can," was the shipwright's response. Usopp started twisting the handles and focusing in to get the entire white walker army in his sights. There were still a few outside of Hardhome that he couldn't get in the frame, but the majority of their forces were concentrated and he had them locked.
Arya saw that Usopp was good and she shouted, "Now what?!"
"Press the button on the handle and then pull the lever," Franky yelled back at them.
Usopp did as his nakama said and then the men and Robin on the bow of the ship looked down. The cannon sticking out of the Lion's mouth started to glow with blue light and rims of purples surrounded it and condensed in. It looked like all the light around them got sucked into the cannon that started shaking.
Luffy couldn't help the amazement from showing on his face as the cannon lit up. "Gaon Hou!" Franky yelled and then he, Arya, and Usopp yelled together, "FIRE!"
Usopp and Arya were thrown backwards inside the small chamber and the people on the deck almost fell over from the jolt of the Gaon Hou. Wun Wun's eyes went wide as he watched from behind the group standing on the ledge. They all stared in awe at the large blue beam of light that shot out of the lion's mouth.
It flew towards the shore so fast that the Night's King only had time to open his jaw in shock. Never in his millennia of being undead, had he ever witnessed something like this. The blue beam smashed through him and his Commanders, all the new corpses added to their army and the old rotten wights from their old one. The blast ripped apart the dock and all the buildings on shore in its path. Even the zombies who weren't caught in it were thrown backwards by it or pulled into the beam and shredded to pieces. The beam incinerated the corpses and kept going until it hit the cliff in the back, where the explosion was beyond massive.
The rock wall blew apart and huge chunks of it flew up high in the air. The white walkers were standing still, not having orders to retreat or do anything else but stand where they are. This caused all the ones waiting along the shore to get crushed by huge pieces of rocks that hit the ground and tumbled over them. Some of the skeletons tried getting back to their feet, but with shattered bones they couldn't do anything.
Pieces of houses and large planks of wood shot in every direction and sliced zombies' heads off and cut them in half even as the beam started to fade and die down. Huge chunks of cliff were still falling out of the sky and some of them were splashing in the water around the ship.
One large rock was coming down and Luffy punched up at it, breaking it into a hundred smaller pieces that rained down on the sides of the ship. Only a few smaller pieces landed on the Sunny, but nothing dangerous.
The men who were shocked by the cannon barely noticed the man whose arm stretched up and shattered the huge rock. They were looking at the enemy they thought would be the death of them all, or at least what was left of them.
The cloud of snow and dust started to settle and everyone looked at the carnage caused by Franky's weapon. He wasn't lying when he asked if Luffy wanted to kill them all. There were almost no white walkers left standing in Hardhome. The ones that were, were on the far corners when Usopp fired so they were out of his sights and there weren't that many of them. Outside the village were a lot more, but still hundreds of the ones there were killed by a large section of wall that landed on top of their forces, splitting them in half.
"That, was, amazing," Usopp muttered and then passed out next to Arya who shook him a few times. She looked at his hand that she noticed was covered in blood before and gasped as she looked at the area where his two missing fingers were. His green coat was also ripped near the left side of his chest and she pulled it apart to see blood seeping through and soaking his clothes. "Chopper!" She yelled.
The little reindeer was wrapping Zoro in bandages and he ripped the end of with his teeth. "On my way!" He yelled and ran towards the lion head where he ran in and gasped at Usopp's injuries. He had Arya help him undress Usopp's torso so he could work on fixing him.
Outside, the men of the Night's Watch and Tormund couldn't speak. They were staring at shore, waiting for the enemy forces to get back up and be as strong as ever, but there weren't even any enemies there. It wasn't an issue of alive or dead; their enemies were literally nonexistent. The insanely powerful attack left nothing but dust of most of the creatures there, including the leaders of the White Walker army.
"They did it," Edd muttered and turned to watch the strange captain of this ship fall over. His right side was covered in blood and one of the others shouted for the weird talking animal to come tend to Luffy's wounds too.
Heavy Point Chopper carried Usopp out of the room, dropped him carefully next to Zoro, and asked Arya to keep applying pressure on the chest area until he could finish wrapping the wound. He'd wrapped the long-nosed man's fingers and slowed the bleeding in his chest, but it still looked bad to the girl sitting with him.
Out of everyone on the ship, the sharpshooter spent the most time with her. He worked hard to get her involved in the games Luffy, him, and Chopper were playing and always tried getting her to fish with him. She knew he was dong it to make her feel welcome, but it didn't bother her.
Once Usopp heard about Arya's sword master, he felt horrible about thinking badly about the girl. He judged her too soon and he wanted to make it up to her. They wound up being good friends even if he wound up talking most of the time in one-sided conversations. She enjoyed the stories he told her and sometimes the crew told her they weren't lies and she was amazed by their adventures.
Now though, as she sat on her knees over him, with her hands covered in his blood, she felt so guilty. She was the one who told them to come this far north. She ignored the warnings of the white walkers and led her friends up here, and now they were... "Arya," her eyes opened wide at the sound of the low whisper.
She looked above the part of his chest she was holding the bandage to and saw the pirate's face. He was smiling. Usopp even managed to chuckle a little. "It's really okay," he told her, seeing the guilt on her face. "Once Luffy decided to come here, there was no stopping him anyway. Besides, we've had worse. I'll be fine," the man missing two fingers chuckled and Arya couldn't see how he was doing it.
In fact, the painkillers Chopper injected him with were helping a lot in that aspect, but to the girl he was just being very, very brave. She looked up at her older half-brother who was staring at the shore still in shock with his black brothers. They'd helped her reunite with him after so many years. "Thank you," she whispered and looked down at Usopp, but his eyes were closed again. The smile on his face was still there while he slept.
Usopp may have been the only one on the ship with a smile, though his was mainly to help Arya. Chopper brought Luffy over and was performing emergency surgery on him while Franky came over to help. The cyborg had to rebuild himself on the brink of death once, so he knew some basics of surgery. Chopper learned he was actually quite skilled and had the cyborg finish working on Usopp while he patched up Luffy himself.
The Night's Watchmen turned with Tormund and they stared at the group of pirates on the ship. They'd had enough of looking at nothing on shore. The wights who weren't caught in the original blast were wandering around on the shore, suddenly without any orders or direction. Everything else was destroyed and the place was more of a frozen wasteland than when they arrived.
"Who the fuck are they?" One of the black brothers asked. Now that their original enemies were gone, the only thing to be afraid of were these crazy people and their strange powers.
Another crow rose his sword a little, "With power like this they could cause chaos everywhere."
Four hands appeared out of that man's body and removed the sword from his grip. The hands tossed the weapon away from the screaming man to the tall black haired woman who caught it casually and stared at the fine workmanship on the blade. "I'd like to kindly ask you to refrain from saying such threatening things while you're here," she said in a calm tone with a small frown. Every one of the battle bred warriors in front of her shivered and shook their heads.
"Understood," they stated in unison.
A/N Hello everyone, I hope you enjoyed the latest chapter! Sorry for where I ended it, originally I had it finishing after they shout 'FIRE' but I didn't want to leave it at such a big cliffhanger so I put in the next bunch of paragraphs too. Before anyone says that Gaon Hou can't kill white walkers, because I know someone will, just because it isn't known to the people in Westeros, doesn't mean it's not a real weakness. They didn't even know Valyrian Steel could kill them until this part, so there could be a lot of weaknesses, like super lazer beams! Also I kind of don't want to spend the entire story in the North which is what would happen if they survived.. We've never seen the Night's King fight, so I made him strong enough to fight on par with Luffy, deal with it. I thank you again for all the follows and favs for my story, and I appreciate most of the reviews, even the harsh critism ones. I normally do this for all my other stories, but I haven't so far for this one so I'm going to start now with... Review responses!:
qwertypous chapter 1 . Jun 5
you know it's really boring without brook. can you please change the timeline and make the strawhats from new world entered this city. because they are more badass than this current one.
Anything past them getting Brook would have been much too strong in my opinion, plus I would have had to make Zoro all injured from Thriller Bark if I put it before New World. New World Straw Hats are more badass, but it isn't very challenging for Luffy to be able to Conqueror's Haki his way through Westeros.
Wolvenstromchapter 1 . Jun 5
Yes. More of this. Immediately!
Just kidding. But seriously this has potential. Especially if devil fruits start turnin up.
I haven't really thought about putting Devil Fruits in here, but having Tyrion show up with some badass Lion power would be sooo cool, so I'm glad you gave me the idea! Thanks!
iitrnr
They don't know about haki yet. I wonder if they will gain it at some point? I'm curious about why you chose this particular point of time for transition into Westeros... and not after they entered the New World. Is it because Brook will be too odd for Westeros? Thanks.
They are at a point in the show close to where Luffy starts showing his Conqueror's Haki, so putting it in here may be in the near future.
qwertypous chapter 2 . Jun 6
so your saying you already have 50k words but you only release 4k each? please can you make it 10k per update since you haven't stopped writing. if it's a daily update maybe 4k is ok or 5k.. oh and please can you make them learn how to used haki? specially luffy?. taking westeros is going to be a challenge for them but against the OTHERS it's going to be hard..
No Haki against the OTHERS was definitely a challenge. when I put that I had 50k words, I may have been exaggerating a little... oops. I was really excited, but it wasn't far off. What you should know though is I don't cut chapters off based on how long they've been, I end it where it feels right, which in those first few chapters was shorter than this 9k chapter. Thanks for the continued reviews!
Shadowtail15 chapter 2 . Jun 6
Good story
But I dont think luffy would whant the iron throne because that would make him responsible for thousands of people he dosent know which would limit his freedom
Thanks! He doesn't really know much about what it means to be King yet. And who knows, maybe he'll wind up being more like King Robert and letting his awesome advisers take care of the kingdom while he has fun. I doubt it, he'll probs have to learn some responsibility, but that's far in the future.
GR chapter 2 . Jun 6
And how are you gonna let Zoro fight at full with only 2 swords, TWO swords, dammit.
So that I can build him up to getting that THIRD sword!
Guest chapter 2 . Jun 6
How was my life existing without this crossover? It's perfect. I was wondering where Brooke was and then realized that a 9 foot tall skeleton might be a bit much. Can they come and save Sansa? Before episode 6? Sanji could feed her lemon cakes and she could be the crew diplomat and Aryan would keep her safe and the Strawhats would keep them safest of all. And they can save Gendry from his rowboat.
Haha, my thoughts exactly, well, at least for the Brook part. Maybe a talking skeleton in the New World isn't much of a stretch for people there, but on Westeros I don't think anyone would get used to it. Sansa's entrance is coming, soon!
Monkey D. Funky chapter 2 . Jun 7
Haha, Wobuffet.
You're story is really going great! Keep it up!
XD
Mojtaba13 chapter 3 . Jun 8
first of all if you think that any of the marines they fought didn't die in enies lobby at the hands of either luffy or zoro or some of the other straw hats than i dont know what to say. obviously its a manga so they wont actually show you the killings because of dumb reasons just like naruto never killed anyone. not looting the ship is even dumber.
Feel like you could have worded that, better, but I agree it does seem dumb that no one ever dies, yet they don't. I like to imagine that characters in One Piece were dying, just to be reminded that Enel, Pell, Pagaya, a long list of characters always are shown alive when you're sure they're dead. To think they killed off those Marines that Luffy punched and kicked would stun me, especially since they're always shown writhing around on the floor or "unconscious." Looting the ship? They weren't even planning on looting the ship, they were just looking for a fight. When have they ever looted?
Guest chapter 3 . Jun 8
Yeah...I don't think you get that behind the happy nature of One Piece, there is a lot of horror and death. Pay attention to the fights and back stories. The only difference is they do not give into their darker emotions.
Back stories yes, there is a lot of death. Robin, Zoro, and maybe Luffy because of the Terminal Fire have been around a lot of death, but not thousands of people getting ripped apart in front of them. This would still be somewhat of a shock to them.
Vatsyayana69 chapter 3 . Jun 8
that was awesome,please make luffy the emperor of the world and have have him marry daenerys to get an army for conquering
XD Loving the enthusiasm! Thanks for the review and Luffy meeting Daenerys is going to be a fun chapter.
free man writerchapter 3 . Jun 9
This is such a bizarre and unique crossover and I love it. Keep up the great work
*bows* Thanks a lot!
Vasto-Lorde26 chapter 4 . Jun 9
Loved the new chapter. Also love how quickly you update.
Thanks! Figured since I was gone for close to a week I figured I'd post two in a row!
Dp11 chapter 4 . Jun 10
Ya game of throne zombies are scarier, but not stronger then the thriller bark zombies. Lol the kraken has been eaten! Well white walkers better run because Luffy is coming!
I think the GoT zombies are stronger than the 'normal' Thriller Bark zombies, not the generals or specials, but at least the normal ones. Why? Cuz they walk slowly and get scared, and surprised. I based the characters reactions mainly off of the Thriller Bark, but scaled up a lot. Nami and Usopp screamed and ran when they saw the zombies from Thriller Bark, but Usopp did have his redemption later on fighting Perona, just like how he ran back to the fight here.
qwertypous chapter 4 . Jun 10
bwahaha.. you know you should make the white walkers hard to defeat that would really bleed the strawhatss before they can defeat it.. all of the current strawhats know nothing about haki so it would be hard for them.
Oh yes, they definitely bled the Straw Hats before the super mega awesome Gaon Hou could finish them. No haki was definitely making it harder for them, though Zoro still managed to take a huge chunk out of them in his fight.
iitrnrchapter 5 . Jun 11
Great chapter. Will Jon be on their crew then?
Maybe... He did laugh and accept that if Luffy defeated the whole white walker army he'd join. But what about his other commitments? Thanks for the review!
Guest chapter 4 . Jun 9
It'll be awesome to see them react to the massacre of hard home, we shall see how they fare. Chances are...a little too well :P.
Thought it would be a little easier with the entire crew there, so I had them draw straws like in Punk Hazard. The massacre will definitely stay with them for the rest of the story and it will be a good transition into the type of world they're living in now.
Guest chapter 5 . Jun 11
I agree, this should be a challenge for the current straw hats, while post time skip strawhats would deal with the white walkers rather easily the same can't be said for pre times kip strawhats, and without Brook too.
I totally agree, but Franky's secret weapon was really a step up in power. The new Thousand Sunny for the win!
Guest chapter 5 . Jun 12
I'm not in the habit of reviewing but this story interest me.
A few things, yes GoT zombies are a lot scarier but in no way more powerful.
The scene about Arya during and after the fight is wrong. Behind the bright and happy face of the OP world is a lot of death and horror and as someone commented before the SH just have not given themselves over to their darker nature or despair. I mean look at Namis, Frankys, Robins or Choppers backstory they are full of death and despair.
Yes the SH don't go for the kill after the enemy is down but it's not something they actively hold back from doing.
A good example is Zoro back in W7 against the shipwrights he actively avoided killing them by using the back of his sword, this is not something the SHs always do.
Read an arc of OP as an observer instead of entertainment and pay attention to the backstory and you will notice the countless horrifying things OP has. heck look at the Dressrosa arc and you'll see that.
Sorry this went way longer than I planed.
Keep up the work and the great updates.
First off thank you for the review. Nami's mom died, Tom died, and Doctor died. Those three had one person die, not full of death. Robin was the only one who saw a lot of death and she reacted differently than most of the crew. It was mainly the killing after the fight was over that was the main thing, the fact that Arya stabbed him when he had no weapon was pretty brutal, much more so than doing it in the fight. Your other points are pretty solid and I was trying to make the transition into the darker world a little too obvious so I lessened how dark the OP world was, and for that I apologize.
erin chapter 5 . Jun 12
Yes! A new chapter and I just watched that episode of GOT and it was epic. I can't wait to see how the four strawhats fight again the whitewalkers and wights
Was a tough fight for all of them and I hope you liked the battle!
General Slime chapter 5 . 21h ago
Honestly I can't see how the Straw Hats can lose. In terms of power the GoT universe is pretty low tier, though the White Walker Magic might give them some trouble. Can't wait to see what happens next though.
White Walker magic turns the leaders into badass Logias with their few weaknesses and such. GoT universe is pretty low, but after Water 7 it's not like the Straw Hats are godly with their power either.
DestinyVain chapter 6 . 18h ago
I facepalm, well ussop and nami is normal human though, is it something wrong with me but i really want both of them to just die in this chapter, they kinda become a burden, though its all my opinion. I thought with all the crazy adventure they at least will fight together with their crew menbers and here i see them running away.
Usopp still runs away in Dressrosa from Trebol before ultimately coming back. It's kind of his thing to run and then come back at the end, but I'd say a horde of zombies scarier than the ones in Thriller Bark (that also made him and Nami scream and run for their lives) would make them run. It's their characters, if you don't think they stayed true to what they really would have done, watch the arc after Water 7 again.
thunder18 chapter 6 . 17h ago
Great chapter Update soon
Hope 17hrs wasn't too long XD!
General Slime chapter 6 . 14h ago
Luffy can take on a thousand marine soldiers on his own at this point, each one trained to take down pirates on the Grand Line, even Luffys giant pistol or axe move could basically crush a good amount of the zombie army.. Zoro can slice train cars in half in a single motion so fast most can't even see his blade, Nami calls down lightning, and Ussop's explosive ammo could take on anything we've seen in Westeros so far (hell his explosive ammo he used against Luffy has the same power as a cannonball). I get you want to balance the two universes but making the Strawhats completely ineffective against the zombie hordes is kind of dumb.
Stop telling me how strong One Piece characters are. Yes, Usopp can beat a wight with one of his explosives, he does so a bunch of times, but there were simply too many of them. Nami takes a while to spin all those balls, change the weather of Westeros from snowy blizzard to thunderstorm, Zoro was slicing them all apart, but thousands upon thousands of nonstop sprinting zombies was too much for him. Luffy's third gear turns him tiny for a while which is too big of a side effect to try here when surrounded by deadly enemies. Anyway, uh, thanks for the review!
zxq48chapter 6 . 5h ago
Good fic but really really should have used the straw hat crew from the recent chapters. There are 2 reasons for that. 1 they are stronger and more experinced. Currenlty I cant see them wining against the white walkers. And since noones there to teach luffy he isnt going to become stonger. 2. Pradaise is already mostly explored but new world on the other hand is entirely uncharted. I qould probably believe if westroes lied somewhere within the new world.
Glad someone agrees that the Straw Hats here wouldn't be able to beat them, especially with only four of them, and two being Nami and Usopp. Luffy will get stronger, even if no one is there to teach him. I don't think no Rayleigh certainly means he won't learn how to control his power better, though he may not get as strong Observational or Armament as fast, or at all. Putting it in Grand Line was solely for the powers of the characters at this point, so just try imagining that everyone else bypasses the island and the Log Pose caught some weird magnetic field or something of the sort. Thanks for the thought out review.
Erin chapter 6 . 18h ago
YESSSSSSS!, I was so glad to see this chapter up and you did not disappoint. Can't wait for part 2 :D
Glad you liked it and I hope you don't think Gaon Houing the enemy was a cheap way to end it.
Guest chapter 6 . 13h ago
Have you forgotten that Luffy alone is able to fight a thousand, Ziro cut building, Nami bring down lightning and Ussop is able to use fire in his attack.
If you intended on giving OP the finger in favor of making GOT look good you did, you messed up with the SHs character and power levels.
Zoro killed over a thousands enemies here. Luffy was stuck fighting the Night's King without any weapons that could kill him. Don't know what's wrong with having Usopp and Nami run from scary things, like they always do. Don't think I messed up their power levels.
Bobboky chapter 5 . Jun 13
Nice work
Thank you.
