Chapter 26: The Counter Counter Attack! Ellix and Kobata Rematch!
Colour Spread: Pirate Ninja's!?-The Strawhats are all clad in stereotypical ninja gear of their specific colours, jumping across japan-style house rooftops in the middle of the night. Usopp is stuck in a chimney whilst Chopper tries to pull him out, Franky is doing a 'Supeeeer!' pose in his revealing ninja clothes whilst Nami covers her eyes in horror. Brook leaps in front of the giant moon as a perfect silouette, with Robin calmly sitting down on a roof. Zoro balances on Sandai Kitetsu whilst Sanji balances on his left legs toes. Luffy is eating noodles wrapped around a katana and glaring at Ellix, who is eating twice as much, and Eri happily eats some cake using a kunai as a fork.
With Annabel and Dimo...
"Ultimate fighting style?" Annabel repeated as she tightened her grip on her scythe.
"What havingness are you mean?" Dimo questioned.
"You shall see...now..." Quinn sheathed both his swords and got into a crouching position, then he dashed in front of Dimo!
"Dimo!" Annabel cried.
"To you I say AHHHH!" Dimo screamed.
Quinn raised his leg behind him...
...and he kicked Dimo in the balls.
"MY LL'S OF BA!" Dimo shrieked as he fell to the ground, twitching in pain as he covered his sweet spot.
"The hell!?" Annabel facefaulted as Quinn dashed over to her next. 'Crap! He's over here no-'
He punched her in the boob.
"Gah!" Annabel also fell to the floor, both fighters clutching their sensitive areas in pain.
"Behold...my ultimate fighting style." Quinn said darkly.
"That's not a fighting style! That's just playing dirty!" Annabel shouted as she squirmed on the floor.
"You tard of bas'! This muddy playingness shall have not be standing!" He was interrupted as Quinn gave Dimo a merciless nipple twister. "PAIN THE OOOOOOOF!" He shrieked.
Annabel grabbed her scythe and tried to stand up as Quinn walked towards her. "You better not do that to me you pervert!" She threatened. But no, Quinn did something different, but just as terrible. A chinese burn. "OW! What the hell are you, YEOWCH! Stop that! Ouch!"
The two fighters collapsed once more, badly injured from the childish attacks. "You cannot defeat my ultimate fighting style!" He then drew his two swords. "Nitoryu: Futaga no atama Ryu!" Two waves in the form of dragon heads once again shot forward, Annabel and Dimo were thrown across the room from the blast.
"The playing of havingness he is grossifying." Dimo mumbled into the floor.
"Yeah, like that's fair." Annabel hissed as she stood up.
Dimo then hopped to his feet with a bright smile. "Then of well, I shall be havingness of the grossifying well asness!" And Dimo did that by jumping forward and biting down on Quinn's head.
"GAH! You little-!" Quinn growled as he tried to prize the midget off, but Dimo had firmly latched on with his teeth.
"...Okay." Annabel was too tired to argue as she leapt into the fray.
The fight quickly descended into name calling, hair pulling and eye poking in a childish scrap. "Enough!" Quinn roared, throwing them off. "This has gone on for too long! I shall finish you off her and now!" He then held onto both his swords as the air around him began to violently waver.
"This looks big..." Annabel mumbled, when Dimo placed what looked like a big red metal edged cover on her scythe. "What's this?"
"The boosting of attackness and defenceness shall be having!" Dimo told her as he began scribbling something down in his notepad. "WE shall be having the fattest attack now!" He then pulled out a giant aquamarine tank, but instead of a cannon, there was a launchpad. "Somewhatimportantling! Hopping up hereness!"
"That's a new one." Annabel sweatdropped at the new name before jumping on and readying her scythe.
"To you I say luck of goodness!" Dimo called as he aimed.
"Nitoryu..." Quinn whispered as he dashed forward.
"ULTIMATE SOMEWHATIMPORTANTLING CATAPULT FIRING!" Dimo announced as he fired Annabel towards him at great speed.
Whilst flying forward Annabel pulled back her scythe.
"SURUSAI FUN'IKI!"
"MOONLIGHT ROSE!"
The two sliced each other, skidding to an abrupt halt inches away from each other.
For a minute, nothing happened.
Then Annabel's scythe enhancer broke and she fell to her knees.
"Somewhatimportantling!" Dimo yelled in shock.
"It's over..." Quinn stated.
Just as both his swords shattered and blood shot out of his chest, accompanied by a blizzard of rose petals making him collapse.
"Now it is." Annabel nodded as the petals faded.
Dimo skipped over to Annabel. "Jobness of excellence, Somewhatimportantling." Dimo praised her.
"Thanks." Annabel smiled as she strapped her scythe to her back. Suddenly the whole room started flashing red and a siren went off. "Nani!? What's going on!?"
"Heh heh..." The two looked at Quinn, who was barely conscious. "My defeat...has turned this tower...into a bomb...prepare to die..." And he passed out.
"...To you I say crap."
With Me...
"Rankakyu Hebi!" I swept my leg sending a snaking airwave slashing into the pirates in front of me...now I had to run from the huge crowd of pirates behind me!
"Stop Rokushiki Nightmare!" They roared.
I was now at Ship 7, and boy this place had a lot of weapons, and it was really hot! But I was so close to Kobata! 'I don't have time to fight that many guys! Sarah could already be dead by now!'
As I continued to run I saw two figures in front of me, squinting at them I realised it was Thom and Catherine, and boy, they did NOT look too good! They were covered in wounds from head to toe, as well as burn marks!
"Thom! Catherine! What happened to you two!?" I yelled at them.
"Never mind that!" Catherine shouted. "You just keep running to Kobata! We'll take out these guys!"
"Are you sure!?" I yelled at them.
"Trust me Ellix, these guys are nothing compared to the guy we just fought! So keep running!" Thom shouted.
I eventually passed them and they blocked the following pirates from coming after me.
'Thanks you two, once I'm done with Kobata, I'll come and help you!' I thought, looking ahead. 'There it is...Ship 1...'
I dashed into what looked like a long corridor with a fancy red carpet going through it, paintings were hung up on the walls, and I noticed Gundar and Kobata portraits. 'These must be all the Thief Pirates captains...' I thought, just as I noticed a long staircase.
'There!' I began running up the stairs, fueled by adrenaline and anger until I finally saw a giant set of double doors made out of gold in front of me. "HRAAAAAAH!" With a jump and a kick I kicked the door open and landed inside the room.
This room was dome shaped, and had glass for its roof along with a diamond chandelier, the rest of it was golden walls, and circled in it was glass cabinets, displaying a large variety of impressive treasures, from diamonds as big as my head to clothes with emeralds sewn in them.
And standing in the centre, was Kobata, holding Sarah at gunpoint. "N-Nightmare!?" He facefaulted in shock.
"KOOOOOBATAAAAA!" I screamed as I dashed over with Soru and kicked him in the face, throwing him back into the golden wall as his gun clattered harmlessly to the ground.
"E-Ellix." Sarah breathed as I landed next to her. "If your here...then is Tack..."
"He's fine." I reassured her. "Quickly, get out of here."
"...Th-Thank you." She sobbed as she ran out of the room.
Meanwhile Kobata threw away the debris smoke and walked towards me. "You've become a real thorn in my side, Nightmare, a mouse who keeps coming back to the lion. Do you really wish to go to Marineford that badly?"
"This isn't just about Marineford anymore." I told him. "It's time for you to face True Justice, and pay for what you've done to Gundar and Specter!"
"My father and son? Mehehehehehe! Nothing but an old geezer and a meer boy, Nightmare!" He spread his arms wide. "Look at these treasures, Nightmare! I alone obtained all of them, something my crippled father could never do! These are the spoils of victory! And more precious then any 'family'! Mehehehehe!"
I clenched my fists. "You value spoils...more then your own family!?"
"Oh? Are you deaf? Mehehehehe!"
I glared at him in pure anger before readying my leg. "Rankakyu!" I sent out an air wave that destroyed one of the treasures.
Kobata stopped laughing at this. "My precious treasure!"
"Rankakyu! Rankakyu! Rankakyu!" I kept up the attacks, destroying all the glass cabinets and their contents.
"What the hell do you think your doing, Nightmare?" Kobata demanded, I just ignored him.
I smashed the last one and glared at Kobata. "There. They're gone. What's most important to you now?"
Kobata's eyes widened in rage. "You little bastard! I'll beat you within an inch of your life and then toss you out into the ocean!" He got out a remote and pressed a button, making cannons emerge from the walls. "Get blown away!" He pressed it again and the cannons started firing.
"Kami-E!" My body leaned like paper to dodge the cannonballs.
"Counter Body!" Kobata glowed orange as he easily took the cannonballs. "Now, Counter Shock!"
I tried to lean away, but he punched me in the stomach with his other fist, pumping the strength of several cannonballs doubled into my body. The wind was easily knocked out of me as I was thrown across the room, I clutched my stomach in pain and struggled for breath as I tried to settle the immense pain in my digestive track.
Suddenly the cannons were fired again, and now defenceless, I was tossed around like a rag doll from the several cannonball explosions. I staggered around in a daze, my vision swaying as heavy black smoke billowed out of my mouth.
"Counter Shock!" I felt a second powerful hit to my body, this time to the chest, I felt several ribs crack as I threw my head back and coughed up a mouthfull of blood. However I gritted my teeth and grabbed onto his arm whilst I had the chance.
"Nani? Ngh! Let go of me!" Kobata demanded.
"Hah...S...Sleep Touch!" I gasped. A rainbow veil covered Kobata, and he fell asleep standing up. I clutched my chest to let the pain lessen a little before I positioned my fists in front of his chest. "Rokuogan!"
I evened the score. Cracking several of his ribs and making him cough up blood, as well as throwing him into a wall. He emerged a few seconds later, face twisted in pain. "How-gack!...How could I have fallen asleep?"
"I knew it." He looked at me. "You can't use your counter powers whilst your asleep. I told you, all Devil Fruits have a weakness! Soru!" I dashed forward and attempted to grab him again, but he jumped away.
"I see, but you can't put me to sleep if you can't touch me!" He pressed the button again and the cannons once again prepared to fire.
I sucked in a load of air. "Sleep Dust!" Exhaling forcefully I breathed multicoloured powder over him from a far distance.
"Nani!? N-No..." He fell asleep again, and whilst I dodged the cannonballs with Kami-E, he took most of them without Counter Body.
As the dust cleared Kobata staggered to his feet, wiping away the blood that was on his chin. "I was careless..."
'He's pretty sturdy.' I thought. "Sleep Dust!" This time I shot out blobs of powder that burst and spread on contact, but Kobata was ready this time and dodged them.
Kobata aimed a right punch, but I blocked it with my open palm in a defensive stance, pushing the force away. He punched again but I knocked it away with my arm, as he attempted another punch I leaned to dodge and grabbed it. "Soru!" I threw him into the wall at Soru speed.
"Hraaah!" He dived at me from out of the smoke and I had to block both swiping arms, unfortunately I didn't expect the kick to the face that sent me skidding back.
"Damn you!" I growled as I charged with a straight punch, he crossed his arms to block it (I think he used Haki as well) I tried a right hook but he blocked that as well, then aimed a punch which I caught. As he swiped a leg at me I hopped into the air, as he aimed a punch at me I kicked it into the ground. I attempted a kick but Kobata blocked it with his other arm, pushing me away.
"Soru!" As soon as I landed I spun around and dashed in front of him, knocking away his arms and kicking him hard in the stomach, sending him skidding back.
"Urgh!...You!" He dived at me with another punch but I just sidestepped to avoid it. His Kenbunshoku Haki allowed him to predict this and he swung a fist at me, but I grabbed it.
"Sleep Touch!" The multicoloured veil covered him and he fell asleep again. "Geppo!" I jumped into the air to get some good distance between us. "Rankakyu Kyogeki!" I shot two Rankakyu's that curved and hit his sleepy self in a pincer movement.
I landed in front of the smoke as he once again stood up. "You little..." Kobata snarled. "You'll pay for this!"
"Soru." I didn't hesitate as I dashed towards him.
"Counter Speed!" Suddenly he wasn't in front of me, but beside me, punching me in the face! I was sent spinning across the floor until I stopped and forced myself to my feet.
"Well, well, what have we here?"
I glared at Kobata, but then my eyes widened in horror.
He was holding the wristband Nami gave me, and the Eternal Pose to Marineford.
"Why the stunned look? I AM captain of the Thief Pirates after all." He smirked.
"Give those back!" I demanded, jumping towards him to wrestle them from his grip, but he just zipped away to dodge.
"Oh? Who's 'Nami?'"
"GET YOUR FILTHY HANDS OF OFF THAT!" I kept making wild grabs for the two items, but he just kept dodging.
"And an Eternal Pose to Marineford? Is this your only one?" His words were taunting.
"I said GIVE THEM BACK!" I shouted.
He laughed. "Mehehehehe! How delightful, I think I deserve some COMPENSATION for you destroying my treasures...but, I'm a kind man. I'll let you keep one of them."
I grinded my teeth as he grinned at me. Weighing up my options in my head, I didn't really have much of a choice, my head drooped in defeat. "The Eternal Pose...please give me the Eternal Pose..."
Kobata smiled darkly. "Aren't you the polite one? Here then...CATCH!" He threw it at me!
"NO!" I made a diving leap for it.
But I could only watch as it smashed against the floor.
"Mehehehehe! Butterfingers, my turn." And with that he snapped the wristband in half. "There, now we're even."
I just looked at the two broken objects in defeat, my only method to get to Marineford, gone. My only piece of Nami, gone.
"Who is this 'Nami' anyway?" Kobata asked me as he stepped on the broken wristband pieces. "I bet she's like Specter's mother, some filthy slut you just picked up for a good time! Guess you and I aren't so different after all Nightmare! Mehehehehehe!"
My head snapped up as my eyes were filled with rage. He had insulted Specter's MOTHER. Compared ME to HIM. And CALLED NAMI A SLUT!
"YOU BASTAAAARD!" I screamed at the top of my lungs.
A dark aura suddenly burst out of me, flooding the entire room and beyond.
With Thom and Catherine...
Thom and Catherine were still trying to hold back the pirates, but the battle with Strahg had taken its toll on them both and they were slowly losing will.
Suddenly a dark aura swept across the area, the pirates' eyes rolled into the back of their heads and they foamed at the mouth as it hit them before falling unconscious.
As for the duo, they had collapsed, barely able to maintain consciousness from their fatigue.
"Hah...hah...was that...hah...Hasoshoku Haki...?" Thom panted.
"Hah...it had the same...effect..." Catherine wheezed. "But...hah...something was wrong with it...hah...it was so...dark..."
With Me...
The dark aura finally disappeared as I glared at Kobata, who was staggering drunkenly around. "Impossible..." He mumbled. "That couldn't have been-"
"Daydream!" I cut him off by slamming my hands into either side of my head, making it pulsate as my body was covered in a rainbow veil, whilst multicoloured strands emanated off of it.
"I won't ever forgive you..." I told him darkly.
Ooooooh no! Ellix is about to go ham on Kobata! I've had to lock him up in the closet so he cools off.
Ellix: STUPID KOBATA! HOW DARE YOU COMPARE ME TO YOU!?
Uhhhh, reviews, anyone?
Alin: Hey! Can I join you? Nobody's picked me up yet and I'm bored.
...Suuuuuuure?
To Thief-chan: Sorry to hear your holidays are ending, good luck with...school, *shudder*. Eri-chan's weaknesses huh?...*Evil laughter*
Alin: The author's getting scary!
To Son of Whitebeard: Thank you!
Alin: I think your my favourite reviewer!
To Zusenheim:...Am I thinking what your suggesting? Wait, what ARE you suggesting? STOP CONFUSING ME!
Alin: Psst! What does Fansanana mean?
I have no frikkin idea.
To HikariLight99: That's so weird, I was thinking about Ratchet too!
Ellix from within the closet: Huh? Are you talking about the Ratchet incident? That wasn't so tough...although...during that time Nami's body was...*Sound of fierce steam*.
Well, thank you for reading! It's my birthday this weekend, so I'm gonna see if I can post a special one-shot for my One Piece readers!
Alin: Is it your special project?
Pffft! No! It's just a little birthday celebratory thing! Fingers crossed for One Piece Unlimited World Red. Thank you for reading! Reviews are always appreciated!
Alin: Nakama!
Ellix: Hey! Did you guys just end without me!?