Chapter 20:
"Where did Sanji go?" Nami asked as the blonde haired man suddenly sprinted the other direction and smashed through the wall.
Arya barely heard the orange haired woman behind her; she was too busy focusing on the three enemies in front of her on the stairs. The first of the three was the strongest by the looks of it. He kept swinging at her and then jumping a step up as she tried to swipe back with her slightly shorter sword.
The other two men behind him kept snickering and taunting the young girl who was trying to face them, though for some reason they weren't moving forward themselves against this girl. Too bad for them, none of the three were focusing much on the older girl in the back who had been twirling little blue sticks in her hands.
Nami smirked as the black storm cloud formed above the men's heads and even Arya was amazed at the sight. "Thundercharge Tempo!" Nami yelled and swung the third piece of her Clima Tact, sending a ball of electricity into the storm cloud and causing lightning bolts to fly down and strike their enemies who roared and collapsed from the charges.
"Whoa," Arya whispered and looked back at the magic tools in Nami's hands. "How did you do that? I've never seen magic like that before."
Nami started chuckling, then stopped herself as she remembered magic was a real thing. She lifted up her weapon and stated proudly, "It's weather science, not magic. I can control the weather with my perfect understanding of heat and cold patterns and... and," she smiled, "and with this cool weapon that Usopp made for me. It's the Perfect Clima-Tact."
"Cool," Arya said and then spun around as she remembered why they were there. "Let's go," she said and started rushing up the stairs again.
The girls reached the top floor of the large building they were running up and Arya thought they might have finally reached Sansa. She threw the door open and the two of them ran in the room. "Too bad," a voice laughed near them and the girls looked up, to see not a person above them, but a lot of large white spiderwebs.
"I'm having a bad feeling about-" Nami broke off in the middle of her sentence and Arya spun her head to the right. The younger girl's eyes turned huge as she stared at the huge spider with the face of a human hovering off the ceiling by a thread of white silk. The horrifying thing though, was that its stinger, a large spike coming out of its butt, was stuck straight in Nami's stomach, going through her back and out the front.
The orange haired woman fell to the ground with her eyes still open. "Y-You killed..." Arya started in fear.
"Oh she's not dead," Lyrro snickered as he spun on his web so he was facing the girl. When he spun, he didn't really know how to stop and he kept spinning, but tried to play it off like he meant to do that so he kept talking, "At least, not yet, yehehehe!" The spider shot up its silk and to the webs on the ceiling where it moved incredibly fast around the roof as Arya watched in fear with her sword raised.
Nami's okay, but I have to protect her. If I lose, he'll kill her, she glared at the strange person above her. "So you ate a Devil Fruit huh?" She asked and the man stopped crawlking around the ceiling for a second.
"Devil Fruit?" the man dropped off the ceiling onto his eight long legs: six of which had hands at the ends and the other two had feet. "How would you know what those fruit things were called?"
"Because a lot of my friends have eaten them," she said, trying to intimidate the Spider Man. "And they're all much better at using them. I bet they'll be here any second to," before Arya could finish, her foe opened his mouth and bared his fangs at her, dripping in purple liquid. The girl flinched, and the man spun his butt to her, shooting a web out of his stinger. The white web flew towards her as fast as a crossbow bolt and hit the hand her sword was in, pulling her back and pinning her to the wall with it.
The black haired girl panicked and reached over with her left hand, trying hard to pry her other hand free while her enemy approached. Right as Lyrro was about to get to her, she ripped her hand free, but Vengeance was still stuck to the wall. She couldn't grab it in time though and had to dive out of the way as her enemy bit down towards her.
She was too late.
One of Lyrro's fangs dug deep inside her right arm as she pulled away, and instantly the sting was worse than any normal wound. The purple ooze on his teeth scared her, and it sent tremendous pain coursing through her body. "Uurrghhh," she gurgled and tumbled to the side, trying hard to roll away from her enemy. She got as far as the open door, grabbing the knob and pulling herself to her feet. I can make it away from here! I can... Arya slowly turned back and her vision was doubled, but she saw Lyrro grinning over at her, and then turning back towards an unconscious Nami who looked dead with her eyes open.
"I won't leave without her," Arya said, mainly to herself. She was scared. It was only natural when faced with a huge Spider Human trying to kill her and her friends. The girl saw a box over on the table and it looked pretty important. "Why are you in here anyway?" she asked, hoping the crazy sharp pain would go away soon so she could get her sword back and fight. Nami's weapon was lying on the ground in front of her, but she doubted she'd be able to use it.
"Me?" Lyrro asked and grimaced at the girl, crawling around Nami's body and right up in front of her. He rose up so he was on his legs and back two hands. The front four hands all lifted up and she watched as the six fingers on each hand cracked individually. "While everyone else is having a blast down below, I'm stuck in here guarding those Demon Fruits or whatever you called them."
While he was talking, Arya was slowly circling him around the wall until she was standing right in front of where her sword was stuck. She reached one hand back and tried prying it away while raising her other in front of her as a distraction, pointing at the far wall. "You call that having a blast? It's madness out there!" she was tugging harder but she couldn't get her sword away, "You probably wouldn't last ten seconds."
"Do you think I'm stupid?" Lyrro asked her, sounding genuinely confused. "Just because your vision is bad right now, doesn't mean I don't notice you trying to pull your sword off the wall you little bitch!" He dove at her and she decided it was all or nothing, spinning to the wall and grabbing her sword with both hands.
Arya yanked as hard as she could on Vengeance's hilt and ripped the sword from the wall. Continuing the momentum from tearing it off, she spun and jumped in the air, spinning as she did. She did two full three sixties in midair and her sword slashed across something fleshy. "Ahhh!" Lyrro screeched and stumbled back on his back four appendages. He had his front four arms risen with knives in their hands, but Arya's blind slashes cut him across the forearms and sent crimson blood splattering everywhere.
The girl landed, but didn't see the ground coming soon enough and fell to her knees with a rough landing. Her right arm was screaming in pain, and now it wasn't just where the monster bit her, it was all the way from her hand to her shoulder, and still spreading. "I'll have you know," Lyrro said and stopped panting as hard as he dropped on all eight appendages and started moving back and forth to confuse the disoriented girl. "The first man I attempted to use my poison on, his heart gave out after ten minutes of excrutiating pain. The other test subjects didn't last much longer, though one did survive. So I'd give you less than a five percent chance of survival here."
Arya's eyes snapped open wide and the girl snarled at the creature in front of her who stopped moving and took a step back in fear. Less than five percent! One survived! "How many Northerners did you kill in your crazy experiments!" Her rage boiled to the surface and the girl sprinted forward. She charged in from the front left, then took a sidestep so she was coming from the right, then a smaller sidestep back in so she was right in front of Lyrro's face as she brought her sword down.
The man rose all four of his front arms and crossed his knives as the girl's sword came down. He smirked, but then started sweating as she was pushing down on his weapons and actually pushing him back! He looked in her eyes with his human face and flinched. Arya thought she would be able to break his block, but then the girl felt two sharp pains in her sides. Her pressure lifted and the man pushed back with his other four arms, knocking the girl backwards while leaving the two knives from his last two hands still inside her.
Arya let go of her sword with her right arm, no longer able to handle the pain that was now covering her entire right side of her body. She lifted it with her left and managed to move her right hand enough to the knive in her right side, grabbing it by the hilt and yanking it out with not so much as a wince. Lyrro stared at the insane girl for a few seconds before he started laughing, "EehEehEeh, you really want to die don't you?" The girl dropped the knife in her right hand and then reached around to her left side, trying not to let the intense pain show as she ripped out the second knife with her wounded and poisoned arm.
The sound of the second knife clanking on the floor made Lyrro snap and the Spider Man sprinted forward, slashing with all four arms at the same time. The girl tried blocking over and over, but slowly and surely, knives were getting past and cutting her. Finally, Lyrro used both of his lower arms that stuck Arya with knives and double-punched her in the gut, causing the girl to spit up blood and fly backwards across the room as her sword fell out of her hand and slid the other way.
Lyrro was cracking himself up and didn't even care about the cuts on his front four arms anymore. This was the most fun he'd had all day. "I'll finish you off now Arya Stark, then I'll head down and help put an end to this so called rebellion you started. But before I do," his eyes moved slowly from the girl on the ground to the unconscious one near the door. "I'll let you watch as I have some fun with this nice, warm body."
Nami was still unmoving on the floor, and Arya shot her eyes over as the man crawled over towards her while sliding his top two hands together menacingly. "See how her eyes are open? Well, apparently, the subjects I've stabbed so far have reported that they're able to see, hear, and feel, everything that happens to them while they're paralyzed. The bad thing is, well at least for them, they can't move a muscle! They can't even speak, but oh I don't really need her to speak to have fun like some men."
He was walking towards Nami whose eyes were open and staring straight at him. If she could move, she'd be pushing away as fast as she could and screaming, but she couldn't. The absolute terror she felt at being completely helpless here only added on top of the fear she felt for her nakama who was dying behind Lyrro. Lyrro was looking at Nami, and the woman couldn't open her eyes any wider because of the paralysis, but at this moment she was so shocked she knew her eyes would have sprung open three times the size of normal.
Nami stared at the young girl standing up behind Lyrro. Arya was breathing long, deep breaths and her eyes were barely open, shadows covering them. The man walking towards Nami seemed to sense something was up and his face started to drench in sweat. He turned around slowly and then stumbled back closer to Nami as he stared at the motionless girl staring back at him. "Y-Y-You! What are you?!"
Arya paid no attention to him although her eyes were pointed straight into his. My sword is out of reach. I can't move my right arm at all, but the pain is now covering my whole body. I shouldn't even be able to move my legs right now. For some reason, she was completely calm and she lowered her gaze to Nami whose head was turned her direction the way she collapsed on the floor earlier. I can't pass out here. Nami, I won't let him do what he wants with you.
The black haired girl turned her back to the man facing her, and Lyrro was too shocked by her being able to move at all that he just stood their speechless. Every single man and woman he tortured was screaming in agony after only twenty seconds of being infected with the poison. Most of them didn't last over fifteen minutes before dying, but this girl with all her other injuries, was still standing. Suddenly his eyes opened wider as he realized what the girl was standing in front of and he took a step forward, "W-Wait a second, what are you-" his voice got caught in his throat as the girl turned back around and he watched her gulp, little drops of juice coming down from the corners of her mouth.
"You Fucking BITCH!" Lyrro realized he just failed the one job he was given and shot forward fast to try and stop the girl from swallowing anymore of their Devil Fruits. He brought his top right hand back with a knife in it and was aiming straight for the girl's neck.
She didn't know what power she just got, or how to use it, but she knew she had to do something fast. Arya rose her left arm and ducked her head at the same time. The man slashing his arm at her wasn't a pro at using his power yet, or maybe he would have focused on using many arms at once even in this stressful situation. Instead, after Arya ducked beneath his arm, she had him completely off guard and with his whole torso open for an attack. Alright, whatever I can do, please let it help me here! She slammed her left open palm into her enemy's chest and tried to focus on power inside her.
As soon as her hand connected, the man in front of her started to bring up his other arms and back down with the one that missed. He was going to end this now, but when he started moving, he suddenly dropped his knives and only the hands that didn't have any remained. His top four arms started shrinking back into him and his legs unbent and turned back to normal. The naked man in front of Arya, (since there weren't any clothes that fit him in his powerful form), didn't know what was happening, but he wasn't in his Spider Human state anymore.
The girl with long black hair looked at the rat-faced man's face and he was almost as short as she was. She didn't have time to think about if she was the one to do that, instead she did the first thing that came into her mind. "Raaa!" she smashed her forehead forward and caught the man in the nose since he was a few inches taller than her. He stumbled backwards and shot up his arms to grab his nose now gushing with blood.
"You bit-" he never finished as the air was knocked out of his lungs when the girl tackled him at the waist and to the ground. She reached to the side where one of the discarded knives was laying and she picked it up, bringing it above her head with rage-filled eyes and bringing it down fast with her left hand.
Lyrro shot up his right hand and stopped the knife, but it kept pushing down and he had to grab it with the other hand too. He smirked and started pushing up as the light girl sitting on top of him kept pushing down. She glared straight in his eyes, but he thought he had this won. All he had to do was take the knife and turn it on her. Powers or not, he was still stronger than a young girl.
Arya could barely feel her legs that were screaming in intense pain, but she brought up her right knee and slammed the naked man in his genitalia with a bone-crushing hit. Instantly he lost all the pressure he was pushing on the knife and Arya brought it down through his open mouth as he gasped in pain, and out the other side of his head where it stuck in the wooden floorboard.
The girl sat there on top of the man, her hand halfway inside his mouth still clutching the hilt to the knife. Her body never stopped being in pain the whole time, even as she started to hear her own heartbeat, but now as the adrenaline quickly passed, the pain intensified ten fold. "Ah, Ahhhh, AAHHHH!" she screamed and tilted her head back to roar in pain at the ceiling, grabbing the side of her head with her left hand as she fell to the right off of the dead enemy.
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"Robin-chan!" Sanji shouted and the black haired woman uncrossed her arms as a dozen men around her fell to the ground with cracked spines. "There you are! Where're Nami-san and Arya?"
The woman looked at the blonde haired chef jogging down the hallway towards her. They were in one of the main buildings of the large castle and there was fighting in almost every room as different sides tried to gain the advantage. "We split up to cover more ground in our search for," the woman paused and saw the two people behind Sanji. She smiled at the red haired teenager, "You must be Sansa-san, it's a pleasure to meet you."
"Where is Arya?!" Sansa demanded to know. Robin could understand why the girl would be impatient considering Arya told them they hadn't seen each other in many years.
The grown woman was going to lead them in the direction of the staircase the other two girls went up, when Sanji's eyes opened wide and he shot his eyes up. "I hear a lady in need!" He jumped up in the air and kicked a hole in the ceiling as he flew up. The people below just stared, Robin with a small smile, and the other two with shocked looks even after already seeing some of what this man could do.
"Is Arya up there?" Robin called up to the man above.
"Get up here fast!" Sanji yelled back down in a completely serious tone with some panic in his voice too.
The woman down below crossed her arms as Sansa shouted, "Is it Arya?! Is she okay?!" As she asked, they heard a bloodcurdling scream come from up above.
"Arya!" Robin shouted as two large wings made of hands sprouted on her back. She recognized the girl's voice and was going to head up as soon as possible, but she figured the sister had as much of a right as anyone to know what was going on. Robin grabbed Sansa under the shoulders and the teen screamed as she was slowly lifted up through the hole at a great strain to Robin who couldn't hold it for much longer and the wings disappeared as soon as they got to the next floor.
She was going to shout back down to the man they left below that he'd have to go around, but one look at the room she entered and she didn't care about Theon anymore. Nami was unconscious near the doorway with a small puddle of blood under her and her eyes wide open as if she were, dead. Arya was squirming next to a dead man with a knife sticking out of his mouth as a puddle kept growing beneath him.
The hole Sanji kicked in the floor was right between the two girls and he kept snapping his head back and forth, not knowing which lady to go to since he didn't know what he could do anyway. "Arya!" Sansa screamed as soon as she dropped to the floor, no longer caring about the woman's strange power, or Sanji's strength, or the spiderwebs around the room. All she cared about was her screaming sister who kept rolling around in pain.
"Hang in there Arya!" Sanji shouted over to the young girl as he raced over to Nami-san. He grabbed her by the wrist and shoved his ear into her left breast, an action that would normally make his nose explode with blood, to check if she was breathing. He didn't have a single dirty thought in his mind as he checked for a pulse and heard a faint heartbeat inside the orange haired woman's chest. "Nami-san's alive!" he shouted and Robin nodded before spinning to the other girl.
"Poi-" the girl screamed, knowing her friends were in the room but not being able to focus enough on them. "Ahhh! Poisonnnnnedaarrggh!" She managed to scream something that she thought they'd be able to use to help her get better, but neither of the two knew what to do.
"Is there an antidote?!" Robin shouted, but the girl just started screaming louder and was unresponsive.
"Arya, Arya hold on!" Sansa shook her sister and felt her hands get wet. She looked down and saw both hands covered in blood. "It's not just poison, look!" The other two looked where Sansa was pointing and saw gashes in either side of Arya's coat, going all the way into her sides.
Sanji took one last look at Nami and then turned to Robin, "Take care of Nami-san," he stated and then rushed to Arya's side.
"What are you doing?!" Sansa shouted as the man lifted the girl, making her scream even more.
Sanji winced at the girl's agonized screams and he barely glanced at the beautiful red head. "I have to get your sister to our doctor. He's back at the ship," which in hindsight was a really bad idea! "I'm the fastest person on the crew." He turned and kicked the solid stone wall in front of him, shattering it so he could look outside. Sanji looked down at Arya's face one more time and cursed himself for not being there to help her earlier. Chopper! You better be able to help her! He kicked off the ground and up in the air, before kicking again, trying the same thing he did earlier for a second time. the amount of force he put in the kick was enough to make a small shockwave on the air as he flew forward and over the outer wall of Winterfell, before kicking again, and again, as fast as he could back in the direction they came.
"ARYA!" Sansa screamed as her sister flew away into the distance. It was the first time she'd seen her for so long, and now they were separated again. "I promised myself," she whispered as she fell to her knees, "that if I ever found her, I'd never let anything bad happen to her. But I..."
"Arya will be fine," a voice said behind Sansa and she turned to see Theon at the door. The man only saw the last bit when Sanji kicked away, but he walked over to Sansa, "I've never known anyone stronger than her, right?" Except for maybe Robb, just the thought of the brother he betrayed made him flinch, but he had to help Sansa now.
Robin looked back and saw the man standing above Nami who still hadn't moved. She looked around at all the spiderwebs and deduced that the man who fought them must have had a Devil Fruit and if Nami was alive but motionless, then that meant she was paralyzed. But what was a strong fighter like that doing in here? She looked around and her eyes focused on an open box sitting on a table on the other side of the room.
Nico Robin walked around the hole and over to the table where she looked down inside the box and let out a small gasp. She looked back and saw the twitchy man with curly hair comforting Sansa as the girl started to cry. Nami's head was pointed her way, but the navigator was unconscious so she assumed she didn't see it as she shut the box and slid it inside her coat in one of its inner pockets.
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"Chopper-aniki, where are you aiming?!" Franky shouted down to the lower deck where Chopper was firing one of their rarely used canons at one of the enemy ships attacking them. The cyborg was above deck with his arms crossed to protect from the arrows raining down on him.
"Sorry!" Chopper shouted as another canonball landed innocently in the water.
Franky uncrossed his arms as the ships were approaching and he saw the Kraken's on their sails. "Haha, these must be those people whose God we ate," the cyborg remembered the tasty squid on the other side of Westeros and rubbed his stomach. It'll be a while before Sanji or the others come back, looks like I'm in charge for lunch!
The closest ship was about to reach them and the pirates on board the Greyjoy ship roared warcries. The Ironborne looked at the strange enemy ship with the smiling sun-lion figurehead and figured it was going to be an easy plunder. They had ten ships with them, and there was only one man on the large ship's deck, as well as one below who kept doing something that made a big black ball go flying at them and land in the water.
"Board them and plunder the ship! Kill any who stand in your way!" a captain of a ship that pulled up along the other side of them shouted.
Franky twisted his left forearm and his wrist opened up revealing a large open socket. "Weapons Left!" he shouted and a small cannonball shot out of his hand at the ship on the starboard side of them. The ship got a huge hole on the deck and pirates were thrown to different sides from the shock of the explosion. "Master Nail Gun!" he roared and pulled back his head, puffing out his chest.
The cyborg snapped his head forward and shot rapid fire nails like bullets out of his mouth. He turned his head while he did it to fire across the side of the enemy ship, riddling it with holes.
He heard people landing on the deck behind him and saw that the ship that pulled up on the port side was now unloading pirates on their deck. They were all holding swords and started charging at him, but Franky pulled back his right fist and swung ahead, "Strong Right!" his fist dislodged at the wrist and flew at the closest man, throwing him backwards and off the deck of the ship, back on his own where he hit some men about to drop another plank to help board.
The men panicked when they saw this attack and stopped charging, but Franky didn't retract his arm disconnected with a chain. Instead, he grabbed the chain with his left hand and whipped his arm across the deck, slapping several invaders in the faces and knocking them backwards onto the rails of the ship and in some cases over altogether.
Another ship was coming in from the front and the woman in charge of this one watched what was going on in front of them with great interest. "Ram them at full speed!" she shouted. "I want that ship!" No man was going to argue with Asha Greyjoy and the ones who weren't firing arrows started pulling ropes to make them move faster.
Franky heard shouting as the men on the starboard side tried to regain themselves and start boarding. While the left side was stalled for the moment, he spun and pulled back his head again, scaring the men who thought he was going to shoot nails at them again from his mouth. He didn't though, instead he shouted, "Fresh Fire!" A large puff of flames shot out of his mouth and into the deck of the enemy ship, scattering more men and lighting the boat on fire, causing their crew to start abandoning ship.
"I hit it!" Chopper yelled as he fired at point blank and actually hit the ship on their port side. Now both ships were shaking terribly and the men were panicking too much by all the crazy unknown attacks that they'd never seen before to keep invading. Before the Straw Hat Pirates could celebrate, both were knocked on their butts from the jolt they received as the front of their ship was slammed by another.
The two bows collided, and the Sunny received little damage on the amazingly strong Adam wood it was made out of. Asha only became more interested and shouted at the top of her lungs so her whole fleet would hear her. "We will not stop attacking until this ship is ours!"
Franky got back to his feet and ran up to the bow's top deck where dozens of pirates were jumping on their ship. He looked past it and saw another seven ships moving towards them fast. "Chopper bro, I could really use some help up here!" How long will three bottles of cola last me? I'll have to recharge sometime during this fight, but if Chopper can't hold them all while I am...
The reindeer ran up from below deck and threw open the cabin door. As he did, and arrow slammed into the wood to his right and he jumped in fright. He was already in his Heavy Point, but as he looked around and saw men start climbing aboard from both sides, while Franky faced off against fifty up ahead of him, he pulled out a Rumble Ball and popped it in his mouth. Ten men on either side were charging at the really hairy man who just came out of the cabin and they all had swords drawn. "Arm Point!" Chopper yelled and his fists and forearms turned huge. He shot out his hooves at the same time and hit two men on either side, knocking them backwards and into their friends, all of which fell off the ship.
The reindeer had some experience fighting a lot of enemies, but not much and he had to dodge multiple weapons at once as he punched the men. A sword scratched his skin and he yelled, "Jumping Point!" His legs turned long and before the men could even be surprised, the reindeer flew up in the air with an amazing leap. A few of the less stunned enemy pirates aimed their bows up at the arc of the furry creature and fired, but Chopper dropped into Brain Point and became a much smaller target that all the arrows missed.
Meanwhile, Franky was having just as hard a time on the bow of the ship. Every time he punched a man and knocked the guy out or threw him off the ship, two more replaced him as they jumped on the Sunny. He wanted to take the battle somewhere else, but these people were here for the ship, he couldn't leave it alone.
The cyborg laughed as a few men got past his defenses and slammed their swords into him, just for the weapons to make a loud clank against his metal chest. "Too bad! My body doesn't have any weak points!" He felt a sharp pain in his back and stumbled forward, reaching back and feeling an arrow shaft sticking out of his behind.
"His back is unprotected!" a bowman on one of the ships that pulled up along the port side shouted.
"Shit, they figured it out!" Franky shouted and the angry men in front of him started charging again, this time knowing where they'd have to strike. The cyborg jumped backwards off of the higher deck and onto the main one covered in grass where Chopper landed behind him in his small Brain Point, trying to figure out a weakness to the army attacking them. The reindeer turned around and without saying anything, he ripped the arrow out of Franky's back causing the older man to scream in pain.
"Sorry, had to do it before you bumped into something and got it stuck farther in," the doctor apologized before turning back to the enemy surrounding them. "Got any ideas?" Chopper asked, hoping Franky would have something in mind.
"Yeah," the cyborg said and cupped his hands together as he pointed at the half of the men on the left side. "Go all out."
The men around them started to sweat more as they wondered if this wasn't their enemies' full power. "Roger," Chopper said and the small reindeer turned much larger with his horns growing multiple times their original size. "Horn Point!"
"Coup de..." Franky shouted and his forearms puffed out, even surprising the commanding pirate girl who watched from the upper deck that her men just took. "BURST!" His arms emptied of all the air inside and knocked forty men around him backwards, over half of whom flew over the ships around them and all the way to the water, while the others just crashed into masts and sails and different ships, leaving holes in them.
The reindeer that looked more like a jacked up bull at the moment stamped his hooves on the ground and charged forward. He dipped his horns down and then snapped them up, bucking around as he knocked several men to the sides and off of the ship. A few men were thrown so far up in the air that they grabbed onto the crow's nests of their own ships trying not to fall all the way back down.
A few men came in from either side to attack the reindeer whose main weapons were on the front, but Chopper shouted, "Guard Point!" and his body puffed out huge, throwing the men to the side whose swords didn't break the reindeer's skin. "Arm Point!" he turned back to his form with very muscular-arms and spun to a fat man wielding a broadaxe who dodged his horns earlier and was now sprinting at him. "Kokutei Roseo!" he roared and sidestepped as the man brought down his axe, splintering the wood with his strong attack. However, it was nowhere near as strong as the attack the muscular reindeer hit him in the chest with that made him cough up blood before he flew backwards through the sails of two ships and out over the water where he bounced twice before falling underwater.
Franky punched left and right with his Franky Boxing, but he felt sword slashes on his back and fell to a knee. He spun and extended his right arm out, knocking back a line of five pirates before pulling his chained arm back in and removing the skin from it, allowing everyone to see the metal underneath.
"He's some sort of monster!" a pirate yelled.
"They both are!" another shouted and stepped back.
"Quiet!" Asha shouted to her faltering men. The girl dropped down to the grassy deck and pointed at the two fighters, "They're bleeding. If they can bleed, they can die! Now let's finish this!" She rose her sword too and all the men stopped hesitating at their leader's command.
"I'm running low on Cola," Franky admitted while wincing each time Chopper removed an arrow from his back. They had a small break, but it didn't look like it was going to last long.
The doctor looked at the scratches on Franky's back and they were bleeding a lot. He wanted to close them up now, but the enemies weren't giving them any time. "My Rumble Ball just ran out," the reindeer added. "Using another would be too unpredictable and wouldn't help much."
"It might be your only option bro," Franky stated as the men all closed the circle in on them. None of them wanted to be the first to charge, having seen so many of their comrades taken down already.
"Raaa!" a man roared and the other pirates all joined in with the screams, charging at the same time. The Ironborne overwhelmed their enemies who tried punching and kicking their ways out, but couldn't handle the magnitude of their enemies' numbers.
"Weapons, Left," Franky shouted between punches and his left fist opened up again, firing a hail of bullets at his enemies and throwing them backwards as he spun and tried to hit them all. A large sword hit the top of his arm and pointed it towards the ground where he started firing at his own ship and had to stop. The sword was dragged up Franky's left arm, slicing the skin as it made its way to the robot's face.
The pirate bit down on the sword and yanked it out of his opponent's hands. He opened his mouth and as the sword dropped, another large flame shot out from his mouth, but this one was noticeably smaller. Crap, I'm out of Cola, and there's no way Chopper can hold all of them without me...
"Stop!" Asha commanded and everyone turned to the girl standing a few feet behind Franky. She had no idea he was empty. She just saw him defeat one of her strongest men and burn a dozen with his strange body. "If you want your friend to live, then don't move."
Franky looked back at her and saw a Heavy Point Chopper on his knees. The large, brown-haired girl had the tip of her sword pressed against the side of Chopper's neck and the reindeer was spitting up blood on the ship's deck, unable to handle all the attacks on him with only his Heavy Point.
"Sorry, Franky," Chopper coughed up a little bit of blood on the deck and he didn't know what to do. They were completely surrounded.
The cyborg tssked, "Alright, I won't move." A man behind him slashed him at the backs of the legs and his calves screamed out in pain as he fell to his knees. "Arrghh!"
"Franky!" Chopper yelled and the reindeer saw ten men coming behind the cyborg. All had their weapons raised towards his back, ready to plunge them through the robot's unprotected region.
"Stop!" everyone heard a voice scream from above them and they all looked up just in time to see a man fly down out of the sky behind Franky's back and kick all the men away. "I don't know what's going on, but Arya needs Chopper's help!"
The reindeer looked over and saw the bloody girl writhing in Sanji's arms. He tried to move forward a little, but the woman next to him pushed the sword farther in his neck. "And don't even try transforming. I'll stick you through before you can take a step," the woman said menacingly and Chopper flinched, really wanting to help his nakama but too afraid to move.
Blood was dripping off of the tip of Asha's sword and Sanji turned to see the reason why Franky was down on his knees almost letting those men kill him. The situation instantly became a hundred times more serious, "Release Chopper." The pirate demanded in as harsh a tone as he could, never imagining himself using such a tone with a woman before.
She pushed the sword a little further and the whimpering reindeer tried to hold in his tears from the pain and terror he felt. "S-Sanji," he whispered and looked up at Arya in the man's arms. "I need to treat her fast right?" The doctor asked.
The blonde haired chef's mind was racing. Here he was, with a dying girl in his arms whose only chance of being saved was by Chopper. His nakama were about to be killed, they were all about to die, and he could stop it. This girl was definitely the one in charge, defeat her, and he'd beat them all, allowing Chopper to save Arya. It was simple right? I will never hurt a woman. I will never hit a woman. Sanji didn't know what to do and he froze where he stood.
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Luffy stood on the wall of Winterfell, looking out over the frozen wasteland in front of him. At least, most of it was a frozen wasteland. A few miles in the distance of where he was looking, a forest was on fire. The snow seemed to stop over there and huge puddles that looked more like lakes had formed over the muddy ground.
"It can't be," he whispered, still in disbelief as he looked out. Something was coming towards him and he looked at the dot as it grew larger and larger, turning into a man on a horse. He was ignoring all the screams and clanks of steel on steel coming from the town behind the walls. There was an entire army inside that was fighting amongst itself, breaking apart and fighting for either the Starks or the Boltons.
The pirate on the walls couldn't care less about Starks, or Boltons, or Winterfell at the moment. All he cared about was the man on the horse who from where he was standing, he could tell the man was laughing his head off. Then, Luffy's heart clenched and his eyes widened, veins popping on his eyes making them turn bloodshot. The man on the horse tossed a small ball of fire up in the air and it exploded like a firework, making him laugh even harder.
Ace, Ace, Ace, Ace, ACE, ACE, ACE, RAMSEY BOLTON! Luffy's mind switched from the sudden grief and desperation, to hate and unadulterated rage. The pirate's legs pumped on their own and he was off of the wall in a second, flying through the air like a missile where he landed on the path outside of Winterfell, never noticing the green haired man who saw him leave. He hit the ground and the man on the horse riding towards his castle pulled on the reins a little as he stared at the glowing red figure who kept steaming.
He pulled on the reins, but his horse didn't stop moving fast enough before a fist hit the horse's face and the creature's neck snapped. The animal was dead before it knew what had happened and the sprinting animal dropped to the ground, falling on Ramsey as the young man fell and skid across the floor painfully. The fist that slammed into the horse was barely visible to the man on it and he started freaking out as the person on the path wasn't there anymore, but a foot away from him on the left. "Who are you?!" Ramsey shouted as his body burst into flames, melting the snow beneath him and pushing all the water to the sides with his intense fire.
"You're Ramsey Bolton!" Luffy roared and didn't wait for a response as he disappeared again in his Second Gear, appearing right in front of the flaming man with his head pulled all the way back. He smashed forward a Gum Gum Bell without screaming his attack, but his head flew straight through the flames with no effect whatsoever.
His hat was dangling on his back by a string, so it didn't get burned up when Luffy's head flew through the fire, but his hair did get singed. The pain hardly registered to the pirate who smashed his foot down beneath Ramsey's feet and broke apart the ground, sending cracks in several directions.
What am I worried about? Ramsey tried to calm himself as he fell down and rolled away as the ground shifted. I'm FIRE! I can't get hurt! He pushed his hands down and pillars of fire made him fly high up in the air where he spun around and kicked his leg down towards the man below him who was still steaming. "Flame Talon!" a whip of fire flew down and scorched the snow-covered Earth, melting it all, but not hitting the man who was already gone and up in the air above Ramsey.
Luffy yelled at the top of his lungs, "That's my brother's power!"
Ramsey remembered something the merchant telling him something about each power being unique and reappearing when the person who used to have it died. "HAHAHA! So your brother is dead! Must have been pathetic if he died while having this amazing power!" He rose his arms above his head and a huge ball of fire started to grow. "I call this one the Raging SUN!" He brought down his arms towards the person below him who was shaking in fury.
Luffy was enraged by the man shouting at him. Usually it was a good tactic to make your opponent mad, because they got sloppy, but this was not one of those times. Luffy's pupils shrank and a small circle appeared around them as he roared at the top of his lungs, making Ramsey gulp as his head felt a little dizzy. "RAAAAHHHH!" The rubber pirate flew straight up and through the enormous fireball, getting his body bdaly burned as he did, but keeping his right arm pulled all the way back on his quick journey through the fireball considering how fast he moved.
Now the steam coming off Luffy's body as he appeared in front of Ramsey wasn't just from his Second Gear, it was from the flames caught on his shirt and shorts and hair and hat. His whole body was on fire as he roared, "Gum Gum Bullet!" His right arm flew up through the fireball that the rest of his body just flew through and Ramsey saw the very end of his opponent's fist was jet black a second before it hit him in the stomach.
"But, I'm, fire," the man managed to gasp as his stomach was pushed back and his head snapped forward. His whole body trembled and he heard several cracks inside him. Internal injuries formed all over, but Luffy wasn't finished and he twisted his fist in the man's gut and pointed him down at the ground where the huge flame ball just hit and disappeared. The massive crater had water soaking in from all sides of it and the man who flew down fell in the shallow water.
Ramsey coughed up a lot of blood and moving made his whole body scream out in pain. He looked up and saw the skinny man who fought him falling back down with shreds of his shirt still on, but no longer steaming or red. He dropped down and landed at Ramsey's feet, walking towards him in the water. Ramsey rose a fist to attack him, but the other man grabbed him by the skull and slammed him down in the ground.
Luffy's rage intensified as he thought about what they told him about this man. All the people he murdered, and tortured, and raped. He thought about the man's fire powers and the rubber teen snapped, lifting the man's head from beneath the water in the crater and then shoving his head back down. Ramsey tried to use his powers to evaporate the water, but he couldn't do it and nothing seemed to be working as he felt weaker and weaker by the second.
The man reached down and grabbed his sword from his waist as he was being dunked, drawing it and cutting the man holding him down. Luffy yelled as the sword slashed across his torso, but he grabbed it with his free left hand and clenched tight, shattering the sword. Ramsey's body flickered red for a second, but the water quickly put him out and he turned back to normal in the growing puddle at the bottom of the crater. His large attack earlier melted so much snow and it was all moving towards the lowest point it could find, which was where the two men were fighting.
Luffy shoved the man's head underwater even as the water level rose up to his knees, then his thighs. This time he didn't pull the man back up and Ramsey kept writhing around under his bare fists as Luffy tangled his hands in the man's hair and pushed down harder, smashing his face into the dirt below. This made Ramsey open his mouth and water flooded into the Bolton boy's lungs.
The pirate was panting hard and kept shoving the man under as hard as he could with pure hate in his eyes. Finally the man stopped squirming beneath him and Luffy let go, taking a step backwards and staring at the body as it floated at the top of the growing puddle, face-down.
The pirate sat down and the water covered him up to midway up his chest. He lifted his hands and stared at them, his eyes starting to water. He tilted his head up towards the sky and screamed at the top of his lungs, tears streaming down his face. "Ahh, Ahhahaahh! AHHHAAAHHHAAAH!" His mouth unhinged thanks to his Devil Fruit powers and the man watching from the edge of the crater stared down at his captain, not knowing what to say.
A/N Hey everyone! So I wrote out this long author's note with lots to say about fights and Haki and cool stuff and how Zoro might replace Jimbei and I answered your reviews with long responses that were paragraphs each and I thanked you all for them, and then my internet went down as I saved it. I would go back and re-edit this whole chapter and rewrite all the review responses and this thing again, but it's 2:00 A.M. and I have work tomorrow. I'm going out all night tomorrow and all day/night Saturday. As well as leaving early morning Sunday for a three day vacation. I hope you enjoyed this chapter and FUCK YOU INTERNET FOR CRASHING ON ME CUZ I JUST SPEND AN HOUR EDITING!JKFHSJ
Anyway thanks everyone who did review, and I hope you leave feedback for this chapter too, I'll probably put both last chapter's and next one's review responses at the end of the next chapter. Sorry again for not responding here, but I'm way too tired, peace everyone... XD 'Till next time!