Chapter 24:
"Where are we heading Nami?" Usopp asked as he walked up on the front deck where Nami was at the helm. She had a compass in her hand and a map sitting next to the wheel. Robin and Franky were up there as well and were leaning on the railing on the starboard side. Luffy was sitting on the smiling Thousand Sunny's figurehead, leaning back against one of the pieces of the lion's mane.
The sharpshooter was wearing a long sleeved black shirt with his bow slung over his back. It was still pretty cold so no one was wearing short sleeved shirts or shorts, but the crew had been to the farthest reaches to the north in Westeros; they didn't need their coats for this chilly weather. Nami pointed off the port side where the land they were following started to curve around, "Right there should be Flint's Finger, which means in a few hours we'll round Cape Kraken and leave Blazewater Bay."
The orange haired navigator had a decent map given to her back in Winterfell, but she'd already seen some discrepancies in the land she was seeing and what was written on the map. She smiled as she thought about editing her world map inside the cabin later and adding another smaller one of this region as well. "Well," Usopp started as he took off his bow, "I don't understand what any of that means, but we're going south right?"
"Yeah," Nami chuckled and turned to the man drawing his weapon. "What are you doing?" She followed where he was looking back on the ship, but there weren't any targets lined up like he occasionally had. He did draw a curved arrow from the quiver on his back though and he knocked it. "What are you aiming at?"
"There's a target on the other side of the kitchen," Usopp said with a smirk. Now Robin and Franky turned around and Luffy poked his head over the mane of the Sunny's figurehead.
Robin smiled at the navigator who was watching Usopp closely while he drew his arrow farther back. The sniper was staring up at the black pirate flag at the top of the mast and it was flapping towards the front of the ship. The wind was behind them which was keeping them moving fast across the water. Nami was smiling at the man next to her and admired what he was doing, He's judging the wind's direction, its speed, the direction of the ship, how fast the ship will move in the time his arrow is up... Usopp released the arrow and shouted, "For the first time ever!" The arrow arced up in the air, "Sure Kill," he continued and the arrow passed the back of the ship and flew over the water.
It looked like he missed his target and Luffy started laughing. Franky grinned, "Maybe next time bro..." he stopped and his eyes went wide as they were staring at the curved arrow that began spinning in midair.
Usopp opened his mouth wide and shouted, "Boomerang Arrow!" The arrow flying back slammed into the wall and stuck on something. Instantly, the sniper, Nami, Franky, and Luffy were all running for the back of the ship to see if Usopp hit his target.
Robin chuckled at them and grabbed the spinning wheel. She stopped it and positioned it back forward, keeping them on course. The woman sighed and then looked back over her shoulder, wondering if Usopp hit his mark.
The other four were racing to the stern to see if Usopp's set up target was hit with an arrow. Luffy grabbed onto the mast and launched himself up, but while he was arcing through the air, the other three sprinted across the grass.
Bran was sitting on Summer's back while Chopper was changing the wolf's leg bandages for the wounds it received during the assault on Winterfell. The two of them looked at the group running by and Chopper asked, "What's everyone doing?"
No one wasted time to explain because it had suddenly turned into a competition. Franky made it to the stairs first, but Usopp grabbed onto his shoulders and started climbing over. The cyborg reached up to pull him off, when Nami slid in between them and the wall and pushed both of them over the railing where they dropped back down to the grassy deck.
She turned at the top of the stairs and stuck her tongue out at them, but she felt some wind rush by her and spun to see Luffy running past her and around the kitchen. Sanji was opening the door to the kitchen with a plate holding three cups of tea on it. "Nami-swan, Robin-chan, Arya-" Luffy ran right past him and he pulled the tray back while kicking his captain up in the air. "You almost made me spill the ladies' drinks!" he yelled angrily at the man in the straw hat as Luffy arced through the air.
Nami smiled wide and as she ran past Sanji she called out, "Thank you Sanji-san!" He thought she meant for the tea that she didn't grab so he started chasing after her, but really she meant for slowing down Luffy so she could be the first one there.
The woman ran around the right side of the kitchen at the same time that a wrestling Franky and Usopp came around the left, trying to beat Nami over there. She was first by less than a second, but then Luffy came crashing down next to her while Sanji ran up on her other side. "What are you all running for?" Sanji asked and then stared ahead at the wall with a dropped jaw.
Zoro was taking a nap leaning against the back wall and there was a small red circle taped to the wall above his head. It wasn't even half a foot away from the top of his green hair, but the arrow was smack in the middle of the target. Usopp looked shocked for a second, before quickly calming down and remembering how confident he was in his skills to put the target there in the first place.
"That was risky bro," Franky warned as Usopp pulled the curved arrow out of the wall. "What if you had hit him?"
"He wouldn't have," Zoro stated and stretched his arms over his head as he stood up. "That was a nice nap," he looked back at the little hole in the middle of the red circle and grinned. He'd partially awoken when Usopp was setting it up, but he didn't tell the sniper who looked really nervous setting the target up above him. I knew you'd hit it, Zoro's faith in his nakama was not misplaced and he was glad that he wasn't the only one training on the ship. "Oi, ero-cook, get me some food," Zoro reached forward to grab a cup of tea from the tray, but Sanji pulled it away.
The blonde haired man stuck up a leg and lowered his swirly eyebrow as he remarked, "These are for the ladies only. You idiots have to wait until dinner like everyone else."
"Ooh, dinner sounds great right about now," Arya said rubbing her stomach as she walked around the side of the kitchen too. Sanji smiled at her and spun around, saying he'd get to work on it right away. As he ran off, she turned to Zoro and said with a cocky smirk, "You're welcome."
Oh she played Sanji so well, she's really learning, Nami grinned at the younger girl as most of them started laughing.
"Miss Navigator," they heard a voice start and all of them looked at the wall where a mouth had suddenly appeared, making shivers run down a lot of their spines. "Which direction should we turn once passing Cape Kraken?"
Nami's eyes went wide as she realized their heading might be off and she started sprinting back across the ship. Everyone began to scatter again to get back to their own things, but Zoro stopped next to Usopp and patted him on the shoulder, "Nice shot." The sniper was feeling nervous ever since Zoro got up, but he was glad the swordsman wasn't pissed. Putting the target there was the only way he could pressure himself enough into thinking it was a real situation. Normal practice was always so difficult for him to improve during; he improved the most during battles.
Zoro kept walking past the guy with the long nose and figured he had a solid hour until dinner was ready, even with Arya asking the cook to hurry up. Sanji always took his sweet time getting their meals ready. He walked over to the mast and jumped up the ladder quickly, starting his warmup before he even got to the training room above.
When he popped open the bottom hatch and stepped inside, he heard two sets of grunts and looked around. On the right side of the room, Gendry was swinging back and forth and pushing back Jon towards the wall where the weights were racked. Both of them were wearing light leather armor, though the swords they were using were practice ones and had blunt edges.
It still hurt to get hit by one, and when the younger man with short hair heard the hatch closed with a bang, he was momentarily distracted. Jon took that chance and the man with long black curls ducked beneath Gendry's next attack. He slammed his sword into the younger man's legs and swept them out from right under him. The man hit the ground and reached down for his left leg that he could feel was already forming a bruise on its calf. Gendry looked up and saw Arya's older half-brother standing in a fighting pose with his sword held up so the point was only a foot from Gendry's face. "Yield," the man admitted on the floor.
Jon nodded and lowered his sword, reaching down with a hand instead. Gendry looked at the hand and then grabbed it and got pulled up to his feet. The two of them turned at the same time towards the man who entered during their fight. "Want to spar?" Gendry asked the green haired swordsman.
"You serious?" Zoro asked him with almost a disinterested look on his face. He'd come up originally to weight train, he'd already trained with his swords earlier that day. Now that he was looking at the two of them though, both men looked like they were willing to spar. "You know you can't beat me."
"Doesn't mean we won't try," Jon retorted right back at Zoro and rose his blade again.
Gendry smirked, "Besides, we might learn a thing or two." Both of the swordsmen from Westeros were admitting that Zoro was stronger here, and the pirate was glad they were. It meant they weren't as immature as he was when he challenged Hawkeyes for the first time.
Training Arya takes time away from my own training, I don't have time to be training every swordsmen who joins the crew. He opened his mouth to reject them when he realized something, What am I talking about I don't have time? There's all the time in the world, and what was it Arya said? 'We're on the same crew now. Wouldn't you prefer someone strong watching your back?' As these two are right now, they're a bit above average for the normal pathetic fighters on this continent, he smirked at them and drew one sword from his sheath, his new one, but they have potential.
Zoro flipped his Akai Yoru so that the back side of the blade was facing his opponents. "Come," he beckoned and the two men looked at each other, getting serious. They turned back to Zoro and then started circling different directions, one on Zoro's right, the other on his left. They were going to make him defend from both sides since it looked like he was only going to use one of his three blades.
The pirate swordsman kicked off the ground and shot to his left quickly, slamming the blunt end of his blade into Gendry's armored chest, still hard enough to make the man oof and tumble backwards into the wall. Zoro spun and saw Jon now running across the entire training room since he was on the complete opposite side. Zoro met him halfway and parried the sword as Jon was bringing it down. The former Commander of the Night's Watch knew Zoro was faster than him, so he started bringing down his weapon earlier than he normally would. Zoro was impressed by this, a little, but he easily parried the sword aside and then hit Jon in the face with his clenched fist around his hilt.
Jon Snow fell back and went down to his knees, struggling to hold his weapon in one hand while he grabbed his face with the other. Gendry got back to his knees too, and both of them were wishing they'd worn helmets and some more armor before coming up here. "Had enough?" Zoro asked, but both men got back up on their feet with weapons raised. "Good. Your first mistake was splitting up. Against a stronger opponent, don't spread yourselves thin or you'll be picked off one by one."
Neither of the other two said a word against what Zoro was telling them. He obviously knew what he was doing if he was this powerful. Even if it went against what they'd been taught their whole lives, they were willing to accept the advice of this pirate.
By the time Luffy started running around the ship shouting that dinner was ready for everyone, Gendry and Jon were covered in bruises and drenched in sweat. Zoro had two blades drawn with the blunt edges facing his opponents and he was smirking. The two of them had come up with a pattern where after a few blows they both struck at the same time on different points. He had to draw his Wado Ichimonji at that point and block the second weapon, which to the two of them seemed like an accomplishment.
He nodded at them and slid his swords back in his sheaths. "Thanks for the pointers," Gendry said before rushing off for the hatch. He was famished after all the training and couldn't wait to get downstairs. Jon nodded back at the pirate too and then made his way for the ladder down.
Zoro frowned once the two men were gone. Arya was never the one to suggest they finish training, she never stopped before he said it was time to finish. When she hit the next mark, such as making Zoro draw another blade, or drew blood from her teacher, she was never satisfied and didn't like letting him know that she was proud of her achievements, because she knew she could get better. Occasionally she would let her emotions show when she was happy about something she did, but it was like she reminded herself every time that she still wasn't strong enough and would get right back to training. Those two were fast learners yes, and they had a lot of skill and dedication, but they couldn't be his students. Arya is my pupil. I'll help the other two out occasionally, but my focus will be on her, and me. He looked down at his three blades and knew he was nowhere near as strong as he wanted to be either.
"That was an amazing dinner," Jon told the blonde haired chef as he picked up another plate and brought it into the kitchen. The whole ship just ate dinner together and every normal meal for this crew felt like a party.
Sanji grinned and started talking about what he did with the fish to make them taste that good. Jon listened closely because being able to cook was a good trait to have. He didn't expect to be as good as Sanji, but he was willing to learn a few pointers if he ever had to make a similar dish.
The man with the swirly eyebrow normally liked talking to the female members on the crew more than the men, but all the women were occupied at the moment and Jon was better company than a few of his other nakama. Especially because the man wasn't rude and actually thanked him for the food and helped clean up instead of just running off as soon as his stomach was filled like every other guy on the ship. The two of them were still chatting when they walked out of the kitchen.
"What was that?" Jon stopped Sanji in the middle of his sentence and the two of them listened. He heard the grunt again and this time he heard where it came from and looked up.
"That shitty marimo," Sanji growled and clenched his fists. He heard Arya grunt in pain, but he had to stop himself from charging up into the crow's nest and yelling at Zoro for training too harshly. He did once and the young lady wouldn't speak to him all night for treating her like she was inferior because she was a girl. He learned his lesson then and knew he had to restrain himself when it came to her. He realized that Jon still didn't understand what he was getting at and he motioned with his head up at the top of the mast, "Arya's training with the idiot."
Sanji pulled out his pipe and lit the bowl with a match, calming his nerves. "Go check it out if you want," the chef offered and then walked away to hopefully find Robin finished with her book.
Jon figured he could check out her training for a little. It wasn't like he was doing much else on the ship since he didn't feel in the mood for playing hide and seek like the rest of the boys inside the ship. Nami was making maps based off the day's travels and they were already anchored so he didn't need to worry about sailing either. Wonder how light it is compared to mine and Gendry's.
The man climbed the mast and started to lift up the hatch inside. He did it slowly as to not make his sister lose focus, but when he poked part of his head up into the training room, his eyes widened.
Arya had her small two-sided sword held in her right hand and she was swinging it around in a wide arc towards Zoro who had two swords drawn. While he went to block with one, he struck with the other, but the girl snapped her wrist the other way and her sword pulled out of its arc and into a block of her own. Zoro clashed his sword against hers and then brought down his second sword that he was originally blocking with.
She held up her weapon and brought her other hand to her hilt, using as much strength as she could muster to hold off both of Zoro's swords. The green haired man was glad her strength was improving, But you're still too weak. He pushed hard and the girl jumped at the same time.
Zoro smirked as he realized she was anticipating the push; she knew she was weaker than him and was baiting him by pushing back against him. Since she jumped when Zoro pushed her, she flew back twice as far and reached the wall she knew was behind her. The girl pressed her legs against it so her knees bent in, then she sprang off with her sword extended in front of her.
The man was still too fast for her and simply sidestepped to the right, but Arya wasn't expecting the lunge to hit him either. He taught her to think several steps ahead in case her plans failed, and then to have backups for those too. She was fully extended with her sword pointed at Zoro, but she tucked in her legs and curled into a ball, ducking her head as well under the slash of Zoro's Wado he had aimed for her face.
Jon's eyes went wide and he clenched the hatch with his right hand. He wanted to jump up there and tell Zoro to be more careful. Had his sister not ducked at the last second, she would have been slammed in the face, which even by the back of Zoro's blade, could have done some serious damage considering who was swinging it and how fast he was doing so.
The girl tucked into a ball and rolled on the floor in a forward tumble. She stuck out her sword to her right side as she rolled and Zoro had to jump to avoid his legs getting slashed. All this happened in the matter of a few seconds, but the man up in the air came back down hard with both of his swords. Neither was giving the other a moment to rest and Zoro was trying to hold back a smile as he kept attacking her.
The girl had such a serious look on her face that he could tell she was treating this like an actual battle. She always treated it like an actual battle, and he ducked as she swiped for the neck. When he ducked down, the opening was too obvious and she knew it too. Arya tried to jump back, but Zoro brought up both of his arms at the same time and slammed her armpits with his hilts. He first pointed his swords down at the floor so when he rose his arms he could hit her with the hilts of her blade and she lifted up in the air from how hard he hit her.
Vengeance started to slip from her grasp as she opened her mouth in a gasp from the pain, but she clamped her teeth shut and grinded her teeth through the pain. Grasping her weapon with both hands and spinning while she was in midair. She spun around fast, continuing to shift her body weight in midair to keep the spiraling motion going. What originally was only a three hundred sixty degree spin, had turned into so many rotations that neither of them kept count and Jon stared in awe at how fast she was moving. Zoro liked this move, he was impressed she came up with it herself, but he had seen it before when training with her, and he'd come up with a countermeasure just as fast as she came up with the move.
He'd watch her descend, and then he'd use one blade to halt the spinning sword in her hand, while pressing the other blade to her throat and calling the match. This time though, he knew it was different. She'd been fighting smart this whole time and he could tell her battles in Winterfell made her more experienced than the last time they sparred. They'd trained since then, but this was the first real spar since her injuries were only now at a good enough point for her to fight at one hundred percent.
Her breathing was calm, and Zoro knew she had a plan ready. He blocked the sword as she was coming down like usual, but then he took a step back instead of going for a strike with his other sword. Arya was surprised and already had a move ready, hesitating at what she should do next. She knew what she was going to do when he went in for the next attack, and what she'd do if he saw that coming, but she didn't plan for this.
Zoro saw the millisecond pause while she was still in midair and he pressed hard with the sword he had against hers. The force of his blow knocked her backwards and she rolled across the floor, slamming into a weight rack hard and dropping her sword this time. "Shit," she muttered and clenched her fists, "I thought," she snapped her head up, "you didn't..." She closed her mouth, there was no point in complaining about what he should have done.
"Still need work," Zoro said and the girl across the room got up angrily.
Arya kept clenching and unclenching her fists. Jon was about to step up through the hatch and tell her how great of a job she did, when he saw something flicker on her face and he froze. Zoro didn't like the look she had either and he'd never seen this before after beating her in a spar. It's not fair! I should've won! Grrr, how can I be so weak?! She was basing her strength off of Zoro and it still felt like she was an ant compared to her master.
"What is it?" Zoro asked. She looked like she had something to say, but she kept slamming her mouth shut and shaking her head.
"I," she started and then closed her mouth, looking down. Don't whine! It's embarrassing! But he's not making me stronger! This is just, POINTLESS! She clenched her fists again and something seeped out of the bottom of her feet, stunning Zoro and Jon who were watching with lowered jaws now. "You, you don't get it!" She started off quiet, but at the end of the sentence she was shouting and she lifted her head up, glaring into Zoro's eyes with a nasty animalistic snarl on her face.
A dark substance was flowing out from beneath her feet, but now Zoro saw as the same gaseous blackness started seeping through her knuckles and floating around her hands. I need to kill them! If he's not helping, then he's only in the way- what?! No! I don't think like that, she unclenched her right fist and the darkness disappeared around her hands. She lifted her right hand to her head and started shaking her head back and forth, falling to her knees.
"Arya!" Jon shouted and jumped through the hatch, running over to his sister as the black substance seeped back into her feet and vanished. The girl moved her hand away from her face and stared at it in fear. How she felt a minute ago, it was so unnatural. "Are you alright?" her half-brother asked as he got up to her and bent down to a knee.
The fifteen year old girl lifted her head and shook away the scared look she had, nodding at her brother who looked concerned about her. "Arya," Zoro began and the girl looked over to see her sensei staring over at her, now with his mouth closed again. "In Winterfell, did you eat a fruit with strange patterns on it?"
"If you're asking if I ate a Devil Fruit," the girl started and got back to her feet, "then yes, I did."
Zoro frowned deeper, "You thought you needed one to become stronger?"
"No," the girl said quickly. "I was fighting someone with a power, he was too much for me." The other two knew that just from seeing her and Nami's injuries after, but they thought she manged to take him down with her on her own. "If I didn't eat it," she began and spoke in a quieter tone so only the two men in the room with her would hear, "the man, he was going to-" she paused with a hurt and embarrassed expression and the other two went wide-eyed, but then Arya finished, "to Nami. I couldn't let the bastard have his way with her."
She lifted her head and looked at her brother and her teacher, "I didn't want to eat it, I had to." Her stern expression faltered for a second and she grabbed her stomach where the feeling originated. "I didn't know it would make me feel this way. I hate this feeling," but at the same time it felt so good. The girl smirked for a second and then shook her head again. "What's happening to me?"
Jon looked to Zoro as the pirates seemed to know more about these fruits than anyone. The master swordsman just shook his head though, not knowing what to tell them. "I suggest you talk to Robin or Chopper, they know more about it than I do."
"Um, guys," Arya started again and this time looked away from them. "Could you actually keep this from the others? I'm pretty sure Nami knows, but..."
"Your choice," Zoro stated, accepting her wishes. "But they're all going to find out sooner or later. They'd probably be happier if you told them yourself than if you keep another secret." He finished and the girl sighed, accepting he was probably right.
"Okay, I'll tell them," she paused, "tomorrow." She didn't know what the big deal was. It wasn't like a third of the crew didn't already have these powers. I guess, I just don't want them to think I'm not me anymore...
The spar was over and Arya said she was going to go take a shower. Zoro nodded at the girl who left and then Jon walked up to him. The man with long black curly hair stared at the pirate swordsman, "You saw that look on her face." Jon stated it instead of asking as a question, because there was no way anyone could miss the look she gave Zoro a few minutes before.
Zoro nodded slowly and Jon continued, "Did the fruit do that to her?" Jon knew his sister had changed, but since seeing her he had no reason to suspect she would totally snap like that.
Zoro was thinking back to Rob Lucci and how the Leopard Man liked the taste of blood because of his Devil Fruit. "Possibly," the green haired man stated and scratched his chin, thinking that after Arya told everyone, he was definitely going to have to have a talk with Chopper about it. The truth was, he was freaked out by the way the girl looked at him, and he didn't get freaked out easily.
"Are you sure its the same ship?" Asha Greyjoy shouted and slammed her left fist into the table. A few of her officers stared at the fist that was wrapped in bandages; it was better off than her right which was broken at the wrist, but that punch still had to hurt her broken fingers.
The man who reported nodded his head, "It's hard to mix up a ship like that one with any others. The stupid grinning lion on the front is all we needed to see before reporting back here."
"That's the ship that defeated your fleet?" a voice asked from the head of the table. Everyone around the table, including the woman who slammed her injured fist there, turned and looked at the chair pointed at the roaring fireplace. Balon Greyjoy turned and smirked, "There are rumors going around the kingdom, I'm sure you've heard them."
A few of the people in the room nodded, but Asha shook her head and said angrily, "What rumors?"
The muscular woman in armor was the only captain that was a female. She was one of the only females in their entire fleet other than the other high born girls. Asha's uncle Victarion spoke from the seat on the nearest right of her father. "Tales of magic powers in the kingdoms, similar to the ones you described from your previous encounter with this ship."
Another of her uncles, her father's youngest brother Aeron opened his mouth. "The Drowned God has seen fit to bestow upon us great gifts of power, in the shapes of oddly colored fruits." Her Uncle Aeron was a priest of the drowned God and had hair down to his waist which often got wet when he walked into shallow water, getting him the nickname...
"Damphair, you've heard of the source?" someone asked. He held very high influence and was well-respected by any religious man in the Iron Islands, which was most of them.
Victarion and Balon both looked over to their younger brother who nodded. "If it is true that the ones on that ship have these powers," he started and Asha made eye contact with her uncle's dark fierce eyes. "Then we must obtain them. They could have more of those fruits on board their ship."
"We'd be unstoppable," Asha agreed as she thought back to the way those men were able to fight her. They were more like monsters, and having an army behind a monster like that would truly be a force to reckon with. "I volunteer to-"
"Victarion," Balon started, ignoring his daughter and speaking over her. The Lord Captain of the Iron Fleet turned to his elder brother and Balon made eye contact with him. "Take the Iron Fleet. No! Take every ship we have." Balon had heard rumors of these powers as well, and with them the Iron Islands could finally be the most powerful of all the houses. They'd been repelled from the north by the Boltons, just as they were by the Starks years before. They had had enough of defeat. "You will lead the Ironborn to victory."
"I will," the man stated and stood up. He looked over at Asha. "They were able to defeat a small army, and that was when they were anchored. Only a small portion of their forces were probably on board when they repelled Asha. This time they'll be stronger," the man raised a fist in the air, "but we'll be stronger too!"
His fierceness got many of the men riled up. Even Asha didn't care as much anymore that she wasn't being put in charge. She would prove herself in the battle that she could be put back in charge of her own fleet.
The Ironborn roared their warcries, getting themselves ready for the battle against magical forces. They knew their enemies were strong. They knew their numbers could mean nothing against the magic and transformation abilities that Asha described. But they were Ironborn, "We Do Not Sow!" They yelled and began preparing for the next day's battle.
A/N Hey everyone! The next battle is approaching fast, this time on the water! I must've written the battle scene for eight hours straight and it covers several chapters, so I hope you enjoy and I'm going to start writing the post-battle now and finding out where they're heading next. Ironborn arc, I think that's a good name since it won't all be on the Iron Islands. Winterfell is officially over with, though we may see some flashes over there to see what Rickon/Sansa/Theon are doing. If anyone has cool Devil Fruit ideas and GoT characters to give them to, then let me know in a review. Now, a few people have guessed, and this time it should be apparent, Arya got the Yami Yami Fruit. She controls darkness, and before everyone starts going "but Blackbeard isn't dead... blah blah blah," here's how I imagine things went down without Luffy being at Impel Down: All the escapees would never have been released since Buggy would have failed without Luffy's help, he might have even been killed for trying to escape(wink hint nudge). Now, without all the escaped inmates, Magellan never orders Shiliew's release to help quell the uprising in his jail. Now, I'm guessing Magellan still would have beaten Blackbeard and his crew and without Shiliew there to go and bring them the antidote, whoops, they're dead. War of the Best then can completely change without Blackbeard or Luffy's appearance, so I wonder what other fruits I can put in here. You can argue if you like that Blackbeard might have defeated him, but we will never know, so this is how it will go in this version. Anyway, hope everyone enjoyed this chapter and is anticipating the awesome battle I have coming up. Leave a review below!
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My question is how will Luffy restore order in the South since the Rivendells lost most of their lords to effectively control the area, and the other house heads will have to be dispose of since their actions to be on the top can't be tolerated and will fight Luffy until he's dead or they are dispose of (and at this point, I think it maybe the best thing for Westros)?
Not saying its not possibly but Luffy will need a great general and politician behind him to effectively bring Westros into a new, better future instead of like Great Alexander, where his empire feel apart over night after he died, and that is assuming Luffy is that lucky.
You got me thinking a lot about the politics of Westeros and how they can fully change things to a point where the house lords aren't getting everything leaving the common people poor. I've come up with a few ideas and it may work, though you're right in that Luffy will need some help from smart people who know the ropes... maybe Tyrion? or Varys? Olenna Tyrell?! The Sparrow?! Who knows?!
Nice, honestly I'm happy. I love the Straw-hats, But they need this. Consequences, because even if they win, making easy just wouldn't be proper. Crossovers are often my favorite, & yours just might be one of my MOST FAVORITE! Thank you. You have done so many things right.
Thank you. I'm glad you liked the battle with the white walkers. Glad you love this story so much.
This was what I was afraid of, it pisses me off. The Devil Fruit thing, but this is to good to stop reading.
Glad you're going to keep reading. Just give it a chance, you might still enjoy the story even with the fruits coming out of nowhere.
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So is Cersei imprisoned yet? Where exactly are we in the timeline as of now?
Season 5 is finished. We saw those guys who said they were going to execute Jon. We saw Stannis reach Winterfell with his army and get destroyed. All that happened in the last episode so now we're not following the storyline of Game of Thrones anymore. If I'm still writing this when the next season starts, I may incorporate some of the things from the next season: Euron Greyjoy, the temple thing where they see dead people, I don't know much about it, but there are a few things I think I'll be able to add. Maybe they'll even head back to Braavos at one point and Arya could show off her stuff to Jaq'n H'gar!
Thanks again everyone for reading. 'Till next time!