Luffy takes the Iron Throne

by tmb1112

The Straw Hat crew, after getting their new ship at Water 7, land on a strange island where no one's heard of a Log Pose before. The crew gets stuck there and their dreams seem to be lost, but their newest crewmate tells Luffy a different King he could be. Not the King of the Pirates, but the King of the Seven kingdoms. Starts in 5th season of Game of Thrones

27. Chapter 27

Chapter 27:

Wasn't it raining? Zoro stopped swimming for a second and looked around the rough waters near him. He looked up and it was pretty cloudy all over the sky, but he didn't see his ship anywhere.

After the massive kraken hit him in the crossed swords with one of its tentacles, he was rocketed at least a mile away before he hit the water. When he hit, he skipped on the surface and tumbled over and over because of how fast he was moving. He finally slowed down enough to drag a huge trench through the surface of the Bay, but he was so disoriented that he sank down several meters before finding his way back to the surface.

The waves were larger back then and it was raining over him, but the man decided to swim back the direction he thought he came from. Now he had no idea where he was and looked around the calmer water with an annoyed expression on his face. "Where did they all go?"

The swordsman grunted and kept swimming through the chilly water in the way he was previously going, hoping to find his way to the Sunny soon.

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Usopp held onto the piece of driftwood for dear life as he kicked in the water behind him. His legs were like a motor as he sped over waves and around other pieces of debris. The man with the long nose kicked right up to the front half of a boat that was sticking out of the ship graveyard that had become of this Bay.

He jumped up on the boat and ran right up to the only two conscious people still on it. "Sanji!" the man yelled in fear as he saw the blonde haired man's head resting in Robin's lap. All three of them were drenched from more than just the torrential downpour, but from falling into the water.

"Usopp-san," the woman with black hair said softly with a small smile. She turned from him and started coughing into her arm again, her body still feeling like she'd swallowed a bucket of salt water. She had swallowed a bucket of water and she knew it was resting in her stomach right now. Her strength was sapped from the effects the sea was having on her and she determined that it must be another side effect of having a Devil Fruit ability.

"Damn," Sanji muttered as he stared straight up in the sky. "I'm lying in Robin-chan's lap at a time like this," he couldn't even smile no matter how much he wanted to. He tried to push himself back up, but his left side screamed in pain and he just squirmed around reaching back down and grasping his side furiously, mad at his body for being so weak. My comrades are getting hurt all around me!

"Your ribs are quite injured Sanji-san," Robin said as she grabbed Sanji's hand and moved it away from his body. Even at the sight and feeling of Robin grabbing his hand, Sanji still didn't smile and he didn't get a nosebleed. This sole sight made Usopp as shocked by any development happening across the battlefield.

The sniper looked away from the two of them and back towards the Sunny. There was a huge kraken on the other side of it and Luffy was up in the air covered in steam. He was zipping around and bouncing off the swinging tentacles that were attempting to hit him.

While their captain was occupied, Zoro was still nowhere in sight. "I can still fight," he heard a voice and looked back to see Sanji staggering up on his feet. Robin smiled and stood up as well, stumbling a step to her right and grabbing her head, but keeping the smile on her face as she steadied herself.

Usopp took a step forward and the other two stood behind him on his right and on his left. He looked to his right and saw Franky on a closeby ship, grabbing onto a mast and pulling himself back up. The cyborg was staring right back at the huge squid next to the Sunny. He didn't notice the Ironborn man charging at him from behind, right towards his weak spot. The sniper's eyes darted around quickly and he spotted a discarded quiver from one of the men who were taken out by Robin a while ago.

Franky punched his right fist into his open left palm and glared ahead at the squid, "I'll pay you back ten times..." he heard a squelch and turned around fast, seeing a sword risen high up, about to slam down on his back. The man holding it wasn't bringing it down though, he was standing there, shuddering, as an arrow stuck straight through the left side of his neck and out the right.

Both Sanji and Robin stared wide-eyed over at the other ship where the man Usopp hit dropped his sword, reaching for his neck as blood splattered out of his mouth. The chef's jaw was dropped and he stared back at Usopp who wasn't even shaking. His legs were sturdy as he took the quiver in his hand that he only had time to quickly grab the arrow from, and now slid his right arm through the strap, putting it on his back. Sanji closed his mouth but was still staring at the sniper in shock, He just killed that man.

Robin's heart fluttered when she saw the man holding his neck drop to his knees. It seems Luffy isn't the only one who's realized what needs to be done. These people won't stop attacking, they're very persistent, and very dangerous. The woman calmed down much quicker than Sanji, and much more so than Franky.

Usopp did this? The cyborg stared at the man on his knees who had his hands now wrapped around the bloody arrow sticking out of his neck. It was like he didn't know why he was so injured all of a sudden, and only now the realization that he was shot started to process. It didn't process for very long though, as the man fell forward on his face.

Franky looked up and saw a few more men on the ship he landed on after slamming into Luffy's giant balloon. They were hesitant to charge at this large man now that he saw them, but it didn't matter if Franky was looking at them or not. Five more arrows came out of nowhere at the same time and slammed into all of their heads, throwing them over the sides of the ship or just taking them down where they died on the deck.

"Mina!" Usopp yelled and held his bow over his head. Franky looked over in shock at the sniper and Sanji and Robin looked at the man between them. The sharpshooter felt the burden falling on him, and his eyes were looking across the battlefield covered in broken ship shards and working ships still full of men. He stared across everything all the way to the Sunny and then up at the crow's nest where he saw a woman with orange hair leaning back against the training room. "Let Luffy take care of the kraken!"

Nami was knocked out, Zoro thrown somewhere and still not back, and Luffy was focusing all his efforts on this humongous kraken that was several times larger than the one they defeated before and ate. A thought went through the bowman's head as he wondered if this thing was getting payback for them killing its kin before reaching Eastwatch, but he shook the thought away and got his mind straight. "We still have a battle to fight! PROTECT THE SUNNY, AND DEFEAT THEM ALL!"

Sanji smirked as he never thought he'd see the day where Usopp would take charge over him and actually act like the Vice-Captain he always bragged about being. He held up an arm and yelled, "Yeah!" The blonde man remembered what Robin said earlier that they chanted at the beginning of the fight. "We're the Straw Hat Pirates!" He jumped up in the air and kicked off of it, "Moon Walk!" The man shot off to the closest ship and a cluster of screaming bodies flew up in the air.

Robin joined in with him and crossed her arms, calling out, "We're the Straw Hat Pirates!" A web of arms started forming on her back and she yelled, "Cien Fleur! Wings!" the webs merged into large smooth wings that lifted her off the boat and flapped once. The woman flew horizontally above the surface of the water, holding her arms crossed and making the men on the ships below her scream in pain as hands appeared between their legs and crushed their man parts.

She'd been constantly practicing her power until the point of fatigue, wanting to be able to control two hundred flowers as easily as she controlled one hundred. As she got better at it, she solidified her control over the hundred hands she needed to form her wings, and she was able to use them for much longer every time she tried.

The woman saw arrows flying up at her and she spiraled, turning her body perpendicular to the water and allowing two bolts that would have hit her wings to fly in front and behind her. She finished the spin and smiled as she cracked men's backs on ships below her.

Franky roared, "WE'RE STRAW HAT PIRATES!" He jumped off the ship and did the front crawl through the water. The kraken was swinging its tentacles around a lot trying to hit the pirate it was fighting, and the waves were growing larger again.

Some men on a pirate ship crested over a wave and saw the large robot enemy swimming towards them through the water. There was a carcass of one of the broken ships from the first wave between them and him, but the metal man didn't slow down and swam straight through the ship, the wood splintering around his arms. "Shoot him!" they shouted and the men all fired their bows at the cyborg swimming straight towards them.

Franky kept swimming as arrows slammed into his upper body and crushed against him. He jumped out of the water when he was about to hit the ship and pulled back his right arm as his body twisted. One more man below fired and this one had the lucky shot of them all, hitting the only vulnerable part on Franky's entire front. The arrow slammed into his left eye and jammed in there, the robot man screaming as it hit.

"I got him!" the bowman yelled and pumped his fist as the man with huge forearms above them faltered for a second. Then, the guy dropped his bow and shit his pants, as the man falling from the air tilted his head down and glared at him with the one right eye snapped far open and glaring straight into his soul.

"Who did you get?!" Franky roared and fell right down on top of the man, splintering the wood beneath them. All the other men dove backwards away from the spot Franky hit and they looked over in terror as the large man grabbed their comrade by the neck with his left hand. He lifted up his right hand and bit down on his fingers, pulling back and ripping all the skin on his hand off, revealing a huge metal hand. "STRONG RIGHT!" The cyborg punched down on the man's face and crushed it with his iron fist.

The man was slammed straight through the deck and then through the bottom of the hull. Franky snapped his head up and lifted his right hand-weapon that was dripping blood. He pulled it back and the men standing around him with their swords raised didn't know whether to charge or run away. He punched forward and his right hand disconnected from his arm, flying out connected to a chain and slamming into the first man. He grabbed the chain and yanked it hard to the left, using the force to snap his hand around in a large circle that slammed into every man on the longship and knocked them off.

They were all floating around in the water, some more injured than others. With all the waves and broken pieces of ships floating around, their ship was the safest place to be and they started climbing back up to face this man who they still had superior numbers over. About twenty got on the empty deck and looked around seeing no one in sight.

Franky squinted through his right eye and it was starting to get blurry too. The intense pain in his left eye was making him dizzy, but he could at least make out the general direction of the ship he was just on and now hiding near. He spun out from behind the piece of wood he was hiding behind and waited for the ship covered in men to get to the top of its wave's arc. He reeled back and then pushed his chest forward, firing a huge ball of Fresh Fire at the ship, blasting it to smithereens in a blazing inferno.

Back on the ship that Robin and Sanji left, Usopp was still standing there with his bow in his hands. He was going around the dead and unconscious men and grabbing all the arrows in their quivers if they had them. His quiver was now so packed it was difficult to slide the last arrow in and he grinned, ready to get back into the mix, even if these arrows weren't explosive and could only take on one man at a time.

The sniper was about to start jumping across planks of wood to get to some enemies, when he felt shivers down his spine and turned towards the Sunny. The eyes of the sniper allowed him to see all the way over there, though it did help that the rain had slowed down, (mainly because the Gaon Hou broke through many of the clouds above them, and the rainclouds tried to fill in the empty area, spreading the heavy rainfall thin).

Usopp stared straight at the mast of the Sunny where three men were climbing up. They were searching for Devil Fruits, and the room at the top of the mast was the last place they hadn't searched yet. He looked up a little and saw Nami still sitting there unconscious, Nami. The man drew his bow calmly and took a deep breath in, breathing halfway out and releasing the arrow he'd knocked and pulled back already. He didn't watch the arrow fly, he just drew a second arrow and repeated, then repeated a third time.

On the front deck of the Sunny, Jon and Gendry were guarding the two staircases at the back of the front section. Dozens of men were running around the ship and more were boarding still. As long as they kept them trapped coming up the small staircases though, they could continue fighting one at a time, and could keep protecting Bran and Arya behind them.

Gendry saw a few guys climbing the mast, but he couldn't plow through all the men in between him and it to save the woman on top. He realized he didn't have to a second later though, as one man fell off the crow's nest with an arrow in his back. Then next got hit in the armpit and he let go, falling back down and landing on his friends down below. The third man freaked out and tried climbing faster, but he got hit square in the left temple and his hand got caught in the ladder, letting him dangle there unmoving.

Jon batted another man away and held his bloody sword menacingly in front of the enemy soldiers who were debating whether or not to climb up the steps. He just hoped that Ghost was still safe in the room below deck that he'd hid the very badly wounded wolf in. If anyone walked in down in that cramped space, he was pretty sure his wolf could take care of it... hopefully. He lost so much blood though... the man shook his head, he had to worry about his siblings first.

Arya was standing on the front deck up on top of Summer's back. I'm being useless just sitting here, she looked one more time at her younger brother and then back up at the giant squid behind the Sunny that was still distracted at the moment. She heard loud warcries behind her and was the only one on the Sunny who had the liberty to look in front of the ship and see what was causing the yells.

The girl gasped as she saw the huge ship moving fast through the water. The men rowing it weren't slowing down for anything and Ironborn already in the water had to swim away. One partially damaged longship directly in front of the Sunny had men trying to bail the water off the boat, but the gigantic Iron Victory plowed straight through the damaged ship and the men remaining on it had to scatter and abandon ship.

One man stood at the very front of this huge ship and he pointed his sword forward. He was covered in full steel armor and Arya knew if this guy fell in the water he'd be as much of a hammer as Luffy or Robin, or me. She thought and gulped, remembering this new weakness of hers that she hadn't had the misfortune of falling victim to yet.

Victarion Greyjoy roared at the top of his lungs and the three hundred men on the deck of the ship behind him rose their weapons and yelled. They stared ahead at the ship they were to attack and the kraken behind it with anxious, bloodthirsty anticipation. "For the Greyjoys!" he yelled. The men roared in approval, and he continued, "For the Iron Islands!" An even louder roar sounded and the man shouted one more time as the front of the ships slammed into each other. "FOR GLORY!" he jumped off the front of his ship and over the Thousand Sunny's figurehead, landing right behind Asha Greyjoy's corpse.

The man ignored the other two corpses on the deck and stared right at his niece. "Who was the one to kill her?" he asked and looked up at the other people guarding the bow of this ship, the only safe place for them left on it.

Jon and Gendry were pushed back from the top of the stairs and they started walking back slowly with their swords raised as more and more men pushed through and started surrounding the group on the ship's bow. They made a triangle formation around the wolf holding Bran on its back.

Summer growled at the men walking around it who were staring at this monster of a beast and waiting to get their shot at it. Jon was at the back left, standing there with his broadsword raised and dripping blood. Gendry was on the back right, brandishing his own bloodied weapon and snapping his helmet around to keep all the men in his sights. There were too many of them and he gripped the bottom of his helmet, tearing it off his head and dropping it at his feet so he had better peripheral vision.

Both he and Jon knew how dire this situation was and it looked hopeless from their standpoint. There was one more member of the triangle though, and Arya stood in front of Summer's head, between her unconscious younger brother and the fully armored leader of the enemy's armada.

"I did," the short girl with the thin red blade stated, answering the enemy commander's question. The man standing there suddenly realized that the girl's blade wasn't actually red, and he also knew whose blood that was staining the weapon. It was his kin's.

"Then you, girl," the man said and lifted his weapon in a great stance that Arya instantly knew had been perfected over a lifetime of battle. "Are the one I shall face. I praise your skills for you to be able to handle my niece, but I will have my vengeance. No one interfere until this fight is over."

The men dropping down from his own ship nodded immediately. They glared at any Ironborn not in the commander's Iron Fleet who didn't see the purpose of waiting and looked ready to jump in and attack the men behind the girl at any second.

"You need your vengeance?" the short girl with long, wet, black hair asked furiously and glared straight into the eye holes of her enemy's helmet. "You attacked our ship and hurt my friends. My Vengeance," she lifted her blade and slashed it across the front of her body, splashing the blood on it onto the enemy commander's armor, "will have your life," the girl finished.

Jon and Gendry looked behind them at the girl standing farthest to the bow of the ship and both of them wanted to run in and protect her. "Stay back," she ordered the two of them and they stared at the girl's back as she prepared to fight this powerful man. "Do not interfere, protect Bran." The girl took a step forwards as the man she was facing did too, "I am a warrior!" she shouted and swung her blade, clashing it against the man's as he was bringing his sword down.

The Greyjoy leader was not surprised the girl was able to handle his blow. As he already told her, he was impressed that she defeated Asha; he would not be defeated the same way. The man brought up his left foot, but the girl jumped backwards and brought her thin blade with her. Victarion missed his kick, but he slammed down the foot he rose and pushed off the deck. The man kicked off the ground and shot forward, his armored boot chipping the already damaged deck beneath him. He spun his body and swung his sword around his whole chest to hit her.

Arya ducked underneath the attack that she was in a bad position to block. If she tried and it was too strong for her, it would push her blade aside and slice straight through the middle of her head. The man she was fighting changed which way he was swinging his blade as soon as the girl ducked under it. He slammed the sword down into the ground and stuck it in the wood. He grabbed the weapon's hilt with both hands and then jumped up with his body sideways, using the sword to support his weight and kicking forward with both legs into the girl's chest, throwing her backwards over the injured direwolf and over the railing behind it.

The girl barely weighed a hundred pounds soaking wet, but that kick was so strong that Gendry and Jon stared at the commander like he was crazy. The man looked at the two of them and then started charging at Summer. Both of Bran's guards ran over in front of the man to protect the wolf, but Victarion Greyjoy changed directions and ran around Gendry who followed him closely with his eyes. He really wanted to strike the man down now to stop him from the girl he was chasing, but he respected Arya's wishes and watched him go instead.

Jon opened his mouth to yell at Gendry for letting him run right past him, but he heard a few snarls and looked ahead to see some of the men surrounding them looking like they might ignore their leader's orders and dive in for some revenge. Their armada was in pieces, but they had enemies right here they could kill and get revenge on. All the former Night's Watchman could do was hope they didn't decided to act on these urges, and pray that Arya defeats her opponent without his aide.

One particularly nasty man with a cut across his cheek took a step forward, and then a sharp arrowhead stuck straight out of his eye. The rest of the men stared at him as he fell forward and they saw the back of the arrow sticking out of his head. Gendry smirked thinking about who the only person who could do that would be, and he stated in a cold voice, "If any of you take a single step towards us, you will die."

The friend of the man who was just killed lifted up from the ground where he was checking his buddy's pulse and he roared in hurt at the loss of another friend during this battle. He jumped to the left and started running forward in a swerve pattern, but it made no difference, he still took that step forward. An arrow flew through the right side of the back of his neck and he spun out mid-sprint and skid across the floor right up to Summer's feet.

The wolf snarled at the other men who were looking very nervous, and the golden furred wolf scared them all ever more by reaching down and chomping down on the dying man's head, crushing it and splattering blood all over the place.

On the grass deck, Arya was out of sight of the distant sniper who wished he could still see the girl he was trying to protect. He couldn't interrupt her duel that he saw get started, but he wanted to watch and make sure she was alright and that no one else was trying to interrupt.

The girl was currently rolling to the right across the deck. Her opponent was dragging his weapon through the grass and tearing it up as he pulled it towards the girl. She stopped rolling as she hit a body lying on the ground and she had to act fast.

Arya pushed one hand down on the ground and swung her legs up spinning around on one hand and kicking the approaching man in the chest before he could lift his sword and get her. That was like Sanji's Party Table attack, the girl realized what she just mimicked and pushed off of the hand she had pressed on the ground. The fifteen year old backflipped and held her sword out as she did so it moved like a blur.

Victarion could barely see the attack as the girl spun around and landed back on her feet. She had her right leg straight out to the side like she was starting a split, while her left was bent down keeping her in a crouch. Arya's left arm was pressed against the floor. Her left hand clenched a fistful of grass while her right held Vengeance out to the right over her straightened leg, "Hiyaa!" she shot forward like an arrow and jumped up in the air spinning around three hundred and sixty degrees before hitting her enemy's sword with her own, actually pushing his back this time.

Arya knocked his blade far enough back that her blade was pressed against his armored chestplate, but she couldn't cut steel and her blade was now as far as it would go. The man let go of his sword with one of the two hands he was using to push against the girl's strong attack, and he grabbed her by the face, grasping her entire skull with his left hand. The girl screamed in pain and kicked up with her left foot, catching Victarion in the chin and making the man release her.

She dropped to the ground on her knees and then lifted her blade above her head as she saw the man swinging down with his right arm. Arya only lifted it with her right hand since she was using her left to grab her throat that was feeling bruised after being grabbed by the man's steel glove.

There were Ironborn all around the two fighting pirates, and they burst out in cheers as their leader's downwards swipe knocked the girl's blade down with little trouble at all. She did manage to slow it enough that when his blade hit her right shoulder, he only cut halfway through it. The man growled and ripped the blade from her shoulder, making the girl scream high-pitched in pain.

Vengeance dropped from Arya's right hand. She reached up and grabbed her shoulder with her other hand. It wasn't two seconds before blood covered her left hand and she screamed out in pain again as she squinted her eyes through the pain. She looked up at the enemy leader who had both of his hands on his blade's hilt.

Victarion was panting, but he had a large grin on his face. This was a well fought battle and he reveled in every moment of it. He rose his sword with both hands so the tip of the blade was above the girl. "No," the girl stated and stood back up, grabbing the man's blade with her right hand.

The fully armored man stared at her wide-eyed and looked at the risen arm he just cut through. She shouldn't have been able to feel that arm, let alone use her hand to grab his sword. Her shoulder was bleeding badly, but Victarion saw something in the red blood that made him gasp. The girl's shoulder started to ooze the black stuff that filled her wound. It overflowed and she looked at her shoulder, a great feeling filling her chest.

Arya looked back forward and she began to take a step towards her enemy who looked back at her with no fear. The enemy commander stated calmly to the girl who was lifting her foot up, "So you're one of them. You ate a magic fruit." The girl ignored him, and as she finished her step, darkness began seeping from the bottom of her feet. It bubbled around in a puddle below her for a second, and then it shot out in every direction. It was encroaching over the entire grass deck all the way to the sides of the ship where it started seeping over like water overflowing a sink. Meanwhile, a young woman had just awoken in the crow's nest high above and was staring off of it right at the terrifying little girl.

The men standing in a circle around her and her opponent felt so strange as the ooze covered their feet. They didn't like how it felt and the sight of the bubbling liquid made them scared. Then their feet slipped through the surface of the black layer. Their legs started sinking down into the darkness below them and every person there started yelling and screaming.

Victarion swung his sword forward at the girl, but she ducked under it and ran straight up to him. She got between his arms so her face was half a foot away from his, the worst position for him to try and hit her in. The girl was looking straight into his eyes because he had already sunk down below the knees and they were the same height. The man looked at her through the holes in his helmet and his eyes went wide at the huge smirk on the injured girl's face.

That hurt so fucking much! But this power feels so good. She pressed her right hand up against her enemy and his silver armor started getting covered in black. The man tried swinging his arm back across at her, but the darkness was sapping his strength and he could feel it leaving him. He was in no position to hit her anyway with her being so close to him; he had no angle.

Arya started laughing as the man dropped his weapon and it fell on the black floor. The point of it fell first and stopped, the blade sticking right out of the ground. The weapon sank slowly into the ground and then the hilt disappeared. Everyone else around Arya had already sunk down into the darkness, but the man in front of her was fighting it and only half his body was down, with the rest of him getting covered in a dark cloud.

"The Iron Islands will be victorious," he muttered as he tried to use his hands to push himself off the ground, only to get his hands stuck in the floor. The man looked up at Arya who was just watching him sink down with a huge smile on her face. The girl started laughing at him, louder and louder until it was in a mocking tone.

"You were the best your army had to offer?" the girl scoffed and then bent down so her head was right above his, and she was looking down into his eyes through the helmet. "Pathetic," she sneered. Nami found herself pushing herself back away from the railing surrounding the crow's nest, shivers running down her spine at the sound of the younger girl's voice.

The Greyjoy fleet commander slammed his head forward, slamming into the girl's forehead with his steel helmet. He wasn't in a great position to hit her, and the force of the hit wasn't too strong, but it was enough and the girl stumbled backwards, blood seeping out of her forehead in a steady stream that ran down the right side of her face.

Arya opened her eyes and saw everything tint black. Darkness surrounded her entire face as the wound she just received started to heal. So I can feel pain, but it won't last long, the girl smirked and started cackling, "This is great. I feel great!" She looked back down at the man whose head was still sticking out of the ground and she growled at him for causing her pain. "What are you still doing up here?" She asked and walked back the few feet she stumbled away. The girl kicked the man at the bottom of the helmet and it went flying off, sinking into the darkness behind him.

She stared straight into the man's eyes and asked, "What's your name?"

The man knew it was over. His men were already sucked in, and he would be in a matter of seconds. He sighed and accepted his fate, knowing that this was a worthy adversary when he chose her in the first place. "Victarion Greyjoy," the man said and Arya grinned, having heard of the famous uncle of Theon Greyjoy.

"Well, Victarion Greyjoy," the girl said with a smile on her face, the darkness warping around her to make her look like a demon. The blackness shrouded her eyes as she stared into the enemy's. Arya lifted a foot above his head and put it down lightly on top of his black hair. "Get the fuck down already," she pushed down hard on the bottom of her foot and the man sank down into the hole.

As soon as he was gone, the darkness covering all the way to the sides of the ship started retreating back towards the girl. The girl was panting hard and she fell down to one knee, still grinning as she thought about how powerful she was. The darkness sank all the way back to her feet and the black cloud surrounding her face went away.

"Hey!" Men started running out of the cabin and seeing that none of their comrades, dead or alive, were on the deck of the ship anymore. "I thought the Commander was out here!" He shouted towards one of the other men who ran inside after Victarion showed up on the ship.

"He was!" a man who ran out shouted and looked around, "Where did he go?"

"I killed him," the girl down on the grass shouted up at the men. Instead of scaring them like she thought would happen, the men started charging down in a crazed frenzy. She panicked and looked around for her sword, but like everything else on the deck, it was pulled into the black hole she created with her power.

Jon and Gendry were facing off against a large group of men. A few of them were at the top of the staircases and saw the girl as the last one standing and their leader nowhere in sight. Their comrades who were watching earlier ran back down there to help, but they were nowhere in sight either. "Attack!" the men shouted, seeing as nothing was holding them back from finishing these four off anymore.

A group of over fifty charged in at the steering wheel where Gendry, Jon, Summer, and Bran who was getting way too pale for comfort, were lying. It wasn't going to matter if he killed himself by overexerting his power anyway, as all the men charging in were going to accomplish that.

Arya was alone on the grass deck and had her back to the wall leading to the front deck. She had staircases on either side covered in men and there was a huge crowd of them charging at the girl who claimed to have killed their commander. She held up her hands and tried to summon something to protect herself with, but her powers wouldn't activate. "Ahhh!" The girl screamed and crossed her arms as the men were about to reach her.

CRASH!

Something slammed down into the wall above Arya's head, blasting the wall apart and digging through the front of the ship all the way to the huge direwolf, knocking it forward and into several men who were charging and not expecting an almost two ton wolf to slam into them suddenly.

The boy on top of the wolf fell off and tumbled to the railing where his eyes stayed rolled back in his head. Bran had dried blood all over the bottom of his face and there was some coming out of his ears now. His skin was ghostly white and the man who crashed so hard into the deck that he stopped everyone from fighting looked over at Bran and frowned deeply.

Luffy stood up and he had a piece of wood sticking out of his side. Franky's ship was strong, but his Gear Second had run out and he wasn't strong enough to fend off the giant tentacle that slammed down on him. The Adam wood was splintered and broken all over the place and Luffy looked around at the blood soaking the front of his ship. When his eyes stopped on Bran, he saw how injured his nakama was: missing a leg with a melted stump around his lower thigh, blood covering his clothes and seeping out of his ears, he was a mess.

Arya looked back behind her and up a few inches to where the start of the hole was. The girl didn't wait and climbed up before the men in front of her regained themselves. She pulled herself up and ran along the side of the hole until it just became splintered wood and she got next to Luffy. Gendry and Jon were sitting up on either side of him and looked up at their pirate captain who was panting hard and looked like he was on his last legs like the rest of them.

"Bran," Luffy said, but he wasn't looking over at the young boy anymore, he was looking up at the giant squid that had all eight tentacles held right over the Thousand Sunny.

Nami was lying on her back and staring straight up at the tentacles hovering above her. They were coming up on every side of the ship, going hundreds of feet above the mast before they curved and pointed back down so the tips of them were aimed straight at the ship down below. Any second now it was going to slam all of those tentacles straight down and kill them all. It's all over, she thought and stared at the monster's eye that was on the enormous head between two of the huge tentacles.

Suddenly she saw something fly above her head and she watched as arrow after arrow slammed into one of the tips of a tentacle right above her. The woman smiled, she knew she was about to get crushed, but, Usopp's still trying.

"Hey squid! Look over here! Here squidy squidy squidy!" Usopp was shouting and firing over and over, but the monster was so huge that his arrows didn't even make it look at him. He was in the front of the Sunny, and the monster's tentacles were blocking him from getting a shot on its eye that he thought might actually stop it. "Nami!" he yelled in horror as he watched the tentacles started shooting down.

Sanji, Robin, and Franky all turned from their respective battles as they saw the monster bringing its appendages down and they opened their eyes wide, or in Franky's case, his eye. They screamed their friends' names and knew they wouldn't reach the ship in time, regretting leaving the monster to their captain and him alone.

Luffy stared right between two of the descending tentacles and into the massive eye of the kraken. He ignored all the screams of his own nakama, the howls of the wolf, and the terrified Ironborn who were all jumping off his ship in an attempt to save themselves. The pirate's straw hat was behind him, waving around on his back and his black hair was soaked and spiking out all messy on his head. His pupils widened and then a small white circle appeared in the middle of them, making a small white circle in the centers of his eyes. "BRAN!" he yelled and pulled his fists in at his sides.

The tentacles all stopped right above the top of the crow's nest and the huge squid froze. Everyone on the surrounding ships trembled at the voice and their minds started to blank. Ironborn in the water got knocked out and ones on the boat started passing out and falling all over the place. A few captains managed to stay awake along with their stronger crew members and they reached over the sides and pulled in their comrades who suddenly fell asleep. They were terrified as to what just happened, somehow that loud shout seemed to knock out the whole fleet.

The kraken's eye widened and it looked down at the man it was just fighting. Bran? It wondered and its eye looked over to the left side of the skinny teenager, looking instead at the shorter kid who was leaning up against the railing unmoving with his eyes rolled into his head. Is that... is that... the squid's eye looked back over and saw a girl next to Luffy who fell down to one knee when the teen screamed. And her, she's... She's my sister! The boy closed his huge squid eye shut tight, and then his eyes rolled back into his head as he transferred back into his normal body.

"Ugh ack, ack," the boy coughed violently for a few seconds and Arya and Luffy, the only two conscious people left on the ship, spun their heads over to him.

The girl with long black hair was feeling very tired and her thoughts were all jumbled, but at the sound of her brother's voice she jumped back up to her feet and ran across the front of the deck. Luffy watched the girl run over and then looked around with a confused look on his face. Jon, Gendry, all the remaining Ironborn who didn't jump off the ship fast enough, and even the huge direwolf Summer, all of them were lying unconscious on the floor. He saw off the side of the ship where several ships around him were still floating, but he only saw a few dozen figures still moving out there.

Sanji looked around with a stunned look as everyone on the ship he was on fell down around him. Did Luffy do that? He heard the scream, but for Luffy's voice to do that, he must possess some strange power that the chef had never seen before.

Robin looked around as well, shock covering her face as everyone around her fell asleep. She uncrossed her arms and allowed herself to fall back to her knees, panting hard and finally accepting the well deserved break from fighting. Could it be? I thought it was just a legend, she looked back at the Thousand Sunny where eight tentacles were slowly moving up in the air and curving back around.

The kraken darted its eye back and forth and looked around the battlefield. The reason Bran got so lost inside it, was because it was actually an intelligent creature, much like when he tried taking over humans and found it very difficult. This thing was even harder though because of its strength added on top of its intelligence, and he couldn't control it.

The humongous monster looked around at all the ruined sails of ships that had kraken's on them. Its eye narrowed at the one ship that didn't have a kraken on its sail. The other arms stopped moving down, but then the small boy on the side of the ship got his attention.

"Bran please," Arya tugged at her brother's arm, but Bran reached up for her hand and demanded for her to help him up. The girl hated how stubborn he was being, but she grabbed his right arm and lifted him with little difficulty. He weighed even less than her, and she could carry that much weight easily, so putting his arm over her shoulder and dragging his left foot across the wood wasn't very hard.

Luffy came up on the boy's other side and he thought he knew what Bran was going to attempt. Bran lifted his other arm and Luffy put it over his shoulder, slouching down a little to match Arya as they walked down the steps, having to step over an unconscious pirate on their way to the grass deck. "Here's fine," the boy said in a raspy whisper, trying to keep himself conscious while he moved.

Bran looked up into the squid's eye. It let all of its tentacles except for one sink back into the water and it had the last one pulled all the way up in the air and behind its head, ready to slam down insanely hard on the ship directly in front of it. Please, Bran thought while he stared straight into the kraken's eye, it looking right back at him and hesitating. We will not hurt you, we respect you, and your strength. These are your seas. The child continued to stare at the kraken that began lowering its tentacle back down in the water. Thank you very much, God of the Sea.

Its head began to sink back down into the water. It had burn marks, bruises, and a few internal injuries here and there, but it accepted the warg's praise and respect. The monster sank down completely and then the Drowned God was gone. Its shadow disappeared as it sank far down to the bottom of the sea.

Arya lowered her brother back down to the ground and then fell on her butt next to him. Luffy was panting hard and he had to use Gear Second three times during the entirety of the battle. He finally figured out how the make himself stop turning small after Gear Third though which was a positive and on the last time his Giganto Pistol deflated back to normal size, he didn't shrink as well. He had to focus on keeping the air that was already in his body there, instead of letting it all escape with the air he blew into his bones when the Bone Balloon technique ended.

Luffy dropped down on Arya's right and Bran's left, making a small triangle of the three of them. A ray of light shone down from the sky and landed right on the three of them, then quickly widening to expand over the ship. They looked up and stared at the sun sticking through a hole in the clouds. The rain had stopped a little while ago, but now the clouds were finally dispersing enough to see the sky behind it.

"Haha, hahaha, haha hahahaha," Arya started laughing and she couldn't stop herself, grabbing her stomach as it started to hurt from how bad she was laughing. "Did we win?" The girl smiled at the two next to her and then Luffy started laughing as well.

"Shishishi, shishi," Luffy nodded and kept laughing with his teeth clenched in a bright smile.

Bran shook his head at the two of them, "I, I hurt my comrades," he whispered.

Luffy patted him on the back so hard his face almost flew forward and slammed into the ground. The pirate captain kept laughing and said, "Don't worry about it. Everyone knows you were just trying to help. Besides, we're all fine," the pirate captain fell backwards at that moment, the fatigue too much for him to even sit up anymore, but he kept on laughing.

"Looks like we finished off the last of them," a voice stated and Bran and Arya turned their heads around to see Sanji land behind them. "And you've finally come to your senses," he said with a grin over at the small boy who sheepishly looked down. Sanji ignored the sharp pain in his ribs as he walked forward and leaned against the mast.

"Yes, that was a super surprise when you brought that monster squid to the surface," they all looked over at the right railing where a silver metal hand was clasped on the wood. Franky reached up with his other hand that still had skin on it and then tossed his body up on the deck. Everyone stared over at him wide-eyed at the sight of the arrow sticking out of his left eye. "Oh don't look at me like that, it's not that bad."

"Yes it is!" Sanji, Bran, Arya, and Luffy all yelled at him.

"You should get Chopper-san to check it out," a voice said and they all looked up to see Robin flapping her wings and landing down on the deck of the ship. She looked exhausted. Everyone turned their heads to her except for Luffy who was too exhausted to lean up and just looked at her with his eyes from where he was laying. The woman didn't know if she'd be able to handle using her Wings again, but she was glad to see that she was much stronger now and handled Cien Fleur like it was walking. She was holding a man in her arms and lay him down on the deck of the ship.

"Usopp too?" Sanji said and scratched his chin. "Luffy, did you-"

"I don't know," the captain said and scratched the top of his head. "I didn't think I did anything, but..."

Before Luffy could say another word, Arya jumped up to her feet and startled all of them with the sudden movement. "Where's Chopper?!" she shouted and looked around. The girl ran to the starboard side and stared off over all the ships around Ironman's Bay.

There were a few sailing off into the distance, but they were already miles away. One looked like it was trying to push through wreckage of other ships as a whole six members of its crew were able to stay conscious. They weren't powerful enough to row through all the driftwood and carnage left behind by the other ships, but it wasn't the ship she was looking for.

"I'm sure he'll be here any minute now," Luffy said, not worrying. "Same with Zoro and Nami, everyone is fine."

"Speak for yourself," Franky said and Sanji couldn't help himself but laugh at how the cyborg could still have a sense of humor with an arrow sticking out of his head. "But I really would like Chopper-bro back here soon."

Arya turned around and the others were worried now as they looked into her eyes, "I saw him. Earlier, after the Gaon Hou missed and the kraken appeared, I saw him getting thrown into a bag." The girl cursed herself for forgetting. She was a little preoccupied at the time as enemies were swarming her and a giant squid was attacking the ship. Then she had to fight the enemy commander and so much happened that she forgot all about it.

"What do you mean?" Robin asked, worry covering her face.

Sanji was climbing up the ladder to the crow's nest as he thought Nami might still be up there. He got to the top and was happy to see the woman there with two dead bodies next to her, both with arrows in their chests. Good work Usopp, the man grabbed the orange haired woman and jumped off the nest, falling back down to the grass. He looked at Arya who was explaining how the reindeer was overpowered.

"I wish it weren't true," Arya whispered and tears were falling from her eyes, "but they've taken him."

The girl's eyes went wide as the rubber man lying on the ground in front of her slowly stood back up on his feet. He grabbed the hat hanging on his back and he plopped it on top of his head. His whole body was screaming in fatigue and pain, but he wasn't falling back down. "We're getting Chopper back. Everyone, get the ship ready, we're setting sail."

"Roger!" Robin, Sanji, and Franky shouted.

Bran fell backwards and his eyes closed. Arya dropped down on her knees next to her brother and felt his forehead. "He has a fever, and I know he's lost too much blood." The girl started crying and she put her head down on her younger brother's chest. She could hear his slow heartbeat and she knew it was happening again, she just knew it. "Don't die Bran."

The girl suddenly felt something on top of her head and she looked up with teary eyes. She stared in shock at the hand Luffy had on top of her head. In the hand, was his straw hat, and now she was wearing it. She saw him freak out several times about almost losing that hat, or in Winterfell when a man threw a rock at it and he flipped out. He was letting her wear his hat. "We're getting Chopper," Luffy told her and removed his hand from the hat sitting on her drenched hair, "he'll help everyone. No one will die." He looked up at the sky and clenched his fists, Never again.

A/N Hey everyone! This was a long time coming, but hope you enjoyed the finish to this battle. One ship takes down an armada, hope it was an interesting two chapters. The battle was a lot of fun to write and I hope I gave each character enough time. Arya's darkness powers show through again, but with it she got a little... creepy. Bran's lost a leg and Ghost and Franky have been shot, half the crew got knocked out by Luffy's weird new power, and Chopper's been kidnapped... also Zoro's off swimming somewhere XD! You'll have to wait and see how this turns out, leave a review telling me what you think!

iitrnr

The build up was great... and now you've left me really anxious for the next chapter.

Yeah I apologize. Thank you for the review, and I kind of made you wait a long time for this. I've been having a hard time keeping up my grades in college and at the same time I'm pledging to a fraternity, so finding time to edit is tough. Glad you're still loving the story though!

SlurpthisStuff

Thy asses will be kicked

Thine asses were beaten, drown, shot, and sucked into darkness! XD hope you enjoyed!

justin D. anderson

So, I was thinking about how, Bran was able to war inside one of the iroborns mind, and force his mind away since brans will was stronger. His will, so is being a warg essentially being able to use a type of pseudo conquering kings haki?

It kinda seems that way huh? I guess if Bran's will is stronger he can make someone do his bidding, but it has to be a lot stronger, like how Luffy can't just knock out anyone weaker than him, they have to be a lot weaker, ya feel? Thanks fo the review!

Gammaman

You wrote a whole lot of reviews, and I think I responded to them before but I'll just mention it here. I don't think Pirate King and King are the same thing, Luffy doesn't either, but he isn't the type of guy to waste his life trying something just to fail, and he knows they aren't getting off this island now. Anyway, it's not going to change so let's just leave it at our differing opinions. I do like the idea of adding more than just the light hearted and dark sides of OP, and adding some inspiration like Chopper retelling Hiluluk's last words, or someone talking about how Gol D. Roger died with a smile, those would be cool. So thank you for the reviews! And I hope you continue to read despite our differing views, :)

Shattering

If they have Franky on their team, then that means they have got a new ship by now. And it doesn't have a lamb at the helm but a lion... it's a very simple fact, don't mix them up.

I went back in the story because you made me feel like I wrote something wrong, but I didn't. I was referring to the Mini Merry on the line you were mentioning, which does have a lamb figurehead. It's a very simple concept... Pay more attention and you would've noticed they weren't on the Sunny.

tsun

Ussop run away and abandon a nakama? That's stupid. Maybe before grand line And yes, ussop is coward but to abandon a nakama? He won't do it!

All the straw hats looks stupid here. A little bit of tore won't scare them, heck I was lol when they become uneasy about the idea of using someone's death as a message. Crocodile destroyed a city! To make a message.

This ugh...

Usopp does this constantly through One Piece, literally up until this current arc, and perhaps more in the future, we don't know yet. Saying that he won't run away and abandon nakama is imagining a perfect Usopp, which in the beginning of this story, he wasn't. As of right now, he is much better at helping his friends and if you had read past chapter six I'm sure you would've appreiciated the character development. Crocodile did destroy a city, and the Straw Hats hated that, I don't see any of the points you are trying to make.

Redripper666

the after note in q&a are to long

I'm glad you think so, next time don't read through them all, ok?

Again thank you to Everyone who reviewed, and I mean everyone, and I hope you leave some criticism and suggestions after this one too! Tell me what you think, possible Devil fruits for the future, and any questions you have for the story. I'm a very busy guy, but I'll try to post another chapter soon! 'Till next time!