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Shunakoo25

Wow that's to bad that it will only going on until the two years time skip. I hope that you make a sequel though. Hehehe. Nice update again. You never failed to amazed me.

Unfortunately, my ability to write good content for this story and to maintain my love for it is starting to fade. If I do write a sequel, it will probably be a one shot. Right now, I'm just trying to get this story finished before life comes by to take up my time again.


WindBear47

Will Lucy be using Aquirius during agua laguna? THAT would be awesome!

For me, the trip between Water 7 and Enies Lobby was really boring, so I just decided to skip over it. And there is a reason why Lucy has not been using Aquarius, aside from the fact that I want to show off the abilities of her new spirits will be revealed in this chapter.


Yo

Will you make up an island just for lucy when they become separated by kuma or will she go with zoro?what kind of new stuff will she learn there? Will she learn some type of haki like observation or armament?

I'm not sure if I will make up an island just for Lucy, since I'm not sure if I will be able to make an entire chapter for that. Even then, I'm not sure what to make the island look like. I might ask for help from the readers for that one. But no, she will not go with Zoro. And she will only learn observation or/armament haki if there is someone on the island to teach her, or something about the island that forces her to learn it.


Once they arrived at the island that was Enies Lobby, they were able to meet up with Sanji and Usopp, who disguised himself as a man named Sogeking. They all ended up getting split up and heading towards the wall separately. Lucy was doing her very best to avoid the Marines looking for them. She couldn't deny that this kind of life was very thrilling, but it was also extremely stressful. She wasn't used to actually being wanted by the authorities. Sure, she and her team had gotten into trouble because of the destruction they caused on jobs, but they'd never actually been wanted.

As she rounded a corner, Lucy came face to face with a group of Marines that were searching for intruders, like Lucy for example. Lucy skidded to a halt and turned to go the other way. Unfortunately, the Marines that had spotted her earlier were still chasing after her, so there were Marines behind her as well. She was effectively surrounded.

They raised their weapons at her. "Alright pirate scum! Just surrender and tell us where your friends are!" one of them shouted.

Figuring now was as good a time as any to try out one of her new spirits, Lucy grabbed Aquila's key from her key chain. "Open, Gate of the Eagle! I summon thee, Aquila!" she shouted out, earning many strange looks from the surrounding Marines.

Their strange looks turned to shock as Aquila appeared out of nowhere. "How may I be of service ma'am?" he asked formally with a salute.

Lucy snapped her whip as smirked in challenge at the Marines. "Would you like to help me fight these guys, Aquila?"

If it weren't for Aquila having a beak, Lucy would have sworn that he smiled. "Yes ma'am!" he said eagerly.

They stand so that they were back to back. Lucy used her leather whip to go bowling, using a Marine as a bowling ball to knock down the pins, which were also Marines. Aquila, on the other hand, was using his wings to create powerful gusts of wind that blew the Marines away like so many leaves in a hurricane . . . or in an Aqua Laguna. Within ten minutes, Lucy and Aquila were surrounded by now unconscious Marines.

Lucy brushed some dust from the fight off of her clothes. "Alright, now to regroup with the others . . . " she said with a sigh.

"Ma'am, if you'd like, I could carry you to your friends." Aquila offered.

"Wait really?" Lucy asked. "Are you sure it's okay for me to accept?" She was afraid of abusing Aquila powers.

"Yes. It has been a long time since I have had a key bearer and I could use the exercise." said Aquila. "If it makes you feel better ma'am, going by air would be faster than walking, less taxing on your feet, and it would make it much easier to avoid the soldiers running about."

"Well . . . I suppose as long as you're okay with it." said Lucy, still feeling slightly bad about agreeing to let him carry her.

Now that he had an affirmative answer, he turned his back to her and knelt. "Get on." he told her simply.

Tentatively, Lucy got on his back, putting her arms around his neck so she wouldn't fall backwards. Aquila hooked her legs with his arms so she wouldn't choke him when he straightened. Once he was certain that his key bearer had a secure position and very little could go wrong, Aquila leapt up and flapped his wings, ascending them into the air.

"Which way ma'am?" asked Aquila.

Lucy briefly freed one hand to point towards a large build on the other side of the island. "That way." she said before reasserting her hold around his neck.

Aquila said nothing and flew in the direction she had indicated.

• • •

When they caught up with the others, they were standing on the ramparts of the wall. Lucy was the last one to arrive out of the group, probably because she had spent a lot of time running from the Marines. Zoro became a little pissed as he watched Aquila land and Lucy get off of his back. He didn't even know why he was angry, just all of sudden he just really didn't like Aquila.

As they stood there, they listened to Robin as she revealed her past, and her reason for betraying them. They acknowledge her reasons. A man wearing a mask over half is face, with a bad personality, laughed and pointed up at a flag, telling the gathered Straw Hats that the flag represented the one hundred and seventy affiliated nations that were after Robin.

After confirming that he was aware of that, he turned to Sogeking *cough cough* Usopp *cough cough* and told him to shoot the flag. Utilizing his new slingshot, Usopp shot the flag, setting it of fire. The members of CP9, Robin, Franky, and the masked guy were shocked speechless. In that one moment, the Straw Hat crew had declared war on the World Government. Unable to doubt them anymore after their declaration of war, Robin shouted that she wanted to live, begging them to take her to sea with them.

Everyone seemed happy with her response. Even Franky. He took out the blueprints for the weapon known as Pluton, and burned them with a fire breath. He said something to the masked man that seemed to really anger him and he pushed the blue haired man off the balcony. Lucy told Aquila to catch him. That was before Luffy grinned and stretched his arms to grab all of his crewmates before jumping off the wall. Everyone fell with the laughing Captain, screaming.

Aquila caught Franky in mid-air right before the Rocket Man slammed into the both of them at it shot off the half open drawbridge, while the others landed on top of it. Then it crashed into the Tower of Justice. After emerging from the wreckage, Aquila, looking quite battered, tells Lucy that he has to go back to the Celestial Realm to heal. Once he left, they spoke with a very round man named Fukuro who revealed that each of the five members of the CP9 possess a key, and one of them is to Robin's seastone handcuffs.

With having said that, he ran off further into the building. Luffy went after him, but Usopp and Zoro held him back. Eventually they sent Luffy after Lucci. Knowing they were racing against the clock, having to get the keys before Robin is taken through the large Gate of Justice, they split up, heading off in different directions.

Lucy ran through the tower, searching for members of CP9 so she could get a key. Eventually, she came across Nami fighting Kalifa, who seemed to have some sort of bubble power. Since Nami seemed to be having a difficult time, Lucy offered to step in. And by difficult time, Nami's legs had become smooth, shiny, and slippery, much like the bubbles that seem to have filled the room.

Doing some quick thinking, Lucy tried to figure out which one of her spirits was best suited for fighting Kalifa and her bubble power. Upon seeing a puddle of water on the floor she grinned, having found her answer. Of course, who could forget her strongest spirt?

Still grinning, she grabbed one of the golden celestial keys from her keychain. "Open, Gate of the Water Bearer! I summon thee, Aquarius!" she shouted out as she thrust the key into the puddle of water.

Nami and Kalifa's eyes widened as a beautiful, blue haired mermaid appeared, holding some sort of urn. However, the mermaid's lovely face was marred by an angry and disgusted scowl, which was directed at her summoner, Lucy. "A puddle?" she asked in indignant disgust. "You summoned me . . . from a puddle? What next, toilet water?" she demanded.

Lucy cowered under the spirit's glare, "S-sorry Aquarius, could you just um . . . help me fight her?" she asked meekly, pointing at Kalifa.

"Don't think you can order me around you little brat!" Aquarius shouted as she attacked Kalifa with a massive amount of water from her urn anyway.

Kalifa screamed in shock and fear as she was washed away by the attack. Lucy grabbed onto something solid as well as Nami so the same would happen to them. This was why she didn't hadn't used Aquarius much. Her attacks effected an entire radius, and her friends, especially the more susceptible ones like Luffy, Chopper, and Robin, would be hurt by the attack too, even though Lucy was used to it.

The job done, Aquarius glared at Lucy again before turning her back to her. "Don't summon me again for a while, I'm going to be on a date with my boyfriend." the spirit smirked and looked back at Lucy again. "With my boyfriend." she repeated before disappearing.

"YOU DON'T HAVE TO SAY IT TWICE!" Lucy protested angrily before sighing and standing up.

She helped Nami up, who had been sitting next to her dazed, stunned, and soaked. They regrouped with Kokoro, Chimney , and Gonbe as they started making their way out of the Tower of Justice to rescue Robin. Suddenly, the tunnel they were running through started filling with water. As they ran through the tunnel, trying to escape the rising water, they were joined by Sanji, Usopp, and Zoro.

However their attempts to escape the water were futile as they started to slowly drown after the water had filled the hallway. Thankfully, Kokoro, who turned out to be a mermaid, saved them. However, right before Lucy blacked out from lack of oxygen, she remembered seeing Zoro's worried but defiant expression as she felt someone's hand slip into hers and squeeze it tightly.

When they woke up, they would be with Franky and Robin on a Marine ship that the two had overtaken. As Kokoro and Franky filled them in on what had happened while they were out, Zoro started staring at his hand as if its existence confused him somehow. He spaced out for a bit as his thoughts drifted back to when they had been drowning in that room before Kokoro had saved them.

He remembered refusing to die in such a stupid way, thinking that he couldn't die like that, but more than that, he remembered the pained, scared, and desperate expression on Lucy's face as her lungs burned for air. Without really thinking about what he was doing, Zoro grabbed her hand and gave it a squeeze, as if he had been silently trying to assure her that everything would somehow turn out alright.

Why would he do that? He didn't feel the need to that with any of the other crewmates, so why just Lucy? Why had he felt the way he had when he and Lucy had gotten so close during their sparring session? All these thoughts were running through his head currently. They were so confusing and he didn't know what to do about these new feelings he was experiencing, and it was starting to annoy him that he couldn't figure it out. He kind of wanted to ask someone, but his pride wouldn't let him.

Even if he was able to swallow enough of his pride to ask, the was no one in the crew he could ask. Nami and Robin would tease him for it, then use the information to blackmail him. Sanji would laugh his ass off at him and tease him mercilessly for not knowing. Usopp would have been the safest bet, if he wasn't such a coward and bad at keeping secrets. Luffy and Chopper most likely wouldn't know what he was talking about. And there was no way he was going to ask some stranger.

Zoro was distracted from his thoughts as the ships that were part of the Buster Call set their sights on the crew, planning to capture them, especially Nico Robin. In preparation, Zoro, Usopp, Sanji, Robin, and Lucy moved on to the bridge in preparation to fight, drawing attention away from the ship where the injured Nami and Chopper were, as well as Kokoro, Gonbe, and Chimney. As they wait for the Marines to arrive at the bridge to fight them, they see an exhausted looking Luffy still fighting Lucci. They cheer him on, encouraging him to beat the user of the leopard devil fruit which seemed to newly motivate the rubber captain.

As the Marines reach the bridge to capture the crew, they realize that Sanji is missing. Nami decided to get off the ship too since Chopper couldn't move. Those on the bridge were attacked by two hundred Marine captains and lieutenants, some of them were Devil Fruit users, which made fighting them off a lot more difficult. During the fight, Zoro lost one of his swords, Yubashiri, when it was touched by a Marine who could rust anything he touched.

Lucy summoned Lupus to help her fight as she activated her magical whip. Lupus growled and blocked a Marine that tried to attack Lucy from behind. Tilting his head up to sky he howled, causing all the Marines around them to clamp their hands over their ears to block out the sound. This made it much easier for the Straw Hats to fight off the attacking soldiers. Then Lupus turned into a wolf and attacked the Marines. In the background of all the fighting, Lucy could hear Usopp shouting at Luffy.

There was a pause in the fighting as Luffy defeated Lucci. Shortly afterwards, an announcement came from the Den Den Mushi's located around the island, congratulating Luffy and the Straw Hats. They reveal themselves to be the Franky Family, and the Galley-La shipwrights that came with them, Yokozuna, and the giants Oimo and Kashi, all dangling by Paulie's rope to escape the destruction of the Buster Call. They inform the Straw Hats and Franky that they are all well, causing Franky to cry in joy and yell his defiance at the Marines.

The soldiers noticed that Luffy was now completely immobile from his fight with Lucci, and they began advancing again. Then they notice the overtaken ship with Gonbe, Chimney, Kokoro, and Chopper on it and fire at it. The Straw Hats watched in horror as it began sinking. Then they sighed in relief as Sanji appeared, carrying the four that had been on the ship. They run from the ships as they begin to open fire on the crew before aiming at Luffy. They were trying to figure out how to get Luffy over to them when Lucy heard a voice.

And she wasn't the only one who heard it either. Usopp and Luffy heard it too. The voice told them to look below. Quickly, Lucy and Usopp urge the others to jump down to the sea below and for Robin to use her powers to toss Luffy down as well. They did so. Kokoro threw Chopper and Robin threw Luffy as the others jumped before the two jumped after them. They had all landed safely on the Going Merry. Lucy knew what this feeling was now, the ship had its own spirit! That was what that presence she had been feeling was. It was been just like when she had sensed something about Loke, back when they first met in the guild.

Two of the Buster Call ships fired at the Going Merry, but missed and ended up hitting each other as they were caught in a strong current. Sanji had started to close the Gate of Justice, causing the whirlpool currents that had been separating the Gate and Tower of Justice to return. Nami was able to use these currents to their advantage. However, the ships were still firing at them as the masked jerk kept screaming orders. Robin quickly put a stop to that nuisance by breaking his spine. Sanji and Zoro were able to deflect the shots by using their rubber captain as a sling. With a Coup de Vent from Franky, they were able to completely escape from the Marines.

Everyone escaped safely and they managed to meet up with Iceburg and some other shipwrights in a Galley-La Company ship and they eagerly greet him. Unfortunately, their celebration would be short lived as the Going Merry's hull finally split in two. The occurrence left them devastated.

Once again, Luffy pleaded desperately for Iceburg to fix the ship, but unfortunately, he could not. He had already done what he could after he'd found the ship laying on Scrap Heap Island. He too had heard the voice of ship, telling him that it wanted to sail once again and it had been carried off by the waves of Aqua Laguna after he had done what he could for the ship. Iceburg commended them on having a ship with such loyalty, but informed them that the Merry had already gone beyond what it should have been capable of.

After moving over to the Galley-La ship, the Straw Hats set the Going Merry aflame for her final voyage because Luffy didn't want the Merry to be alone at the bottom of the sea. Everyone present could hear the Going Merry's spirit thanking the Straw Hats for taking such good care of him. Sobbing, Luffy apologized for all the damage they had caused him, but the Merry just stated that he loved all the time they had spent together, and that his only regret was that he couldn't carry them any longer. As the ship burns away, the crew cries for the loss of their friend, even as the Going Merry thanks them one last time for giving him a wonderful live.

The only who did not cry was the ever so stoic Zoro, though his sadness could still be seen. Next to him was Lucy, who was sobbing and crying out her grief for all the world hear. She turned to bury her face into the chest of the nearest person, like a child seeking comfort. Zoro's arms automatically went around her in an effort to comfort her as he felt tears soaking through his shirt. He couldn't bring himself to remove them once he noticed what exactly it was he was doing.

Still mourning the loss of their friend of the Going Merry, they returned to Water 7.


Annnnd done! That went on a bit longer than I would have liked it to but there you have it, the Enies Lobby and Water 7 Arcs are finished. In the next chapter, there will be some more focus on the Zoro/Lucy relationship since it is now time for the second Water 7 arc.

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