Author's Note: New chapter is up, since there was this omake I wanted to do.

Disclaimer: Eichiiro Oda still owns One Piece. Also, there is attempted rape in this chapter, so do proceed with caution. Thank you, and have a nice day.

Ch. 48: "Fighting and Taming the Dragon Lady."

Behind closed bedroom doors, the situation was far more grim than what Daisuke and Mai-Yee's current reality suggested. Aki somehow ended up locked inside of a bedroom with an intoxicated man. Unfortunately, said intoxicated man thought Aki was very attractive, and that is how he ended up on top of her.

"Please, get off of me!" Aki pleaded.

"No! When I see a beautiful girl at this place, I always have to spend some time with her! And, guess what? You're my hundreth whore I will be sleeping with! Gehahahahahahaha!" The man laughed as Aki tried to kick him off of her. But, the man ignored her kicking, as he was undoing the clasps of her dress.

"NOOOO! Please, don't do this to me! I want to be pure and pretty for the man I love, not corrupted and filthy like you!" Aki pleaded.

"Come on? Not even for a little while?" The man asked as he slid Aki's dress of of her shoulders.

"No, you disgusting pervert!" Aki said as she pushed the man up, allowing for her to sit up. Then, the door flew off of its hinges, and Heathcliffe entered.

"Aki, I –" Heathcliffe said worriedly before notcing Aki – who was now only wearing her underwear – and the drunk client. "What the fuck have you done to my girlfriend?"

"You're – You're his girlfriend?" The man asked, surprised. Heathcliffe calmly walked up to the man.

"Yes I am. To hit on my girlfriend is one thing. To grope her – whether it be on accident or on purpose – is another thing. To rape my girlfriend is another story," Heathcliffe icily explained.

"I-I-I didn't have sex with her, I –" The man explained before Heathcliffe cut him off.

"I don't fucking believe you! You destroyed my girlfriend's purity and her sense of beauty! Go ahead, rape her AND my brothers! See if I care? Hell yeah, I totally care! You deserve to fucking die and burn in Hell for what you just did, and what you are going to do!" Heathcliffe said before throwing the man into the wall.

"Sarutobi-kun!" Aki cried, chocking back tears.

"Aki, listen to me. Put your dress back on and run. Run back to the Hyperion. I was dead wrong about this place – It's much worse than I thought," Heathcliffe explained before turning to the client. "Prison of Hell!"

Fire erupted around the drunk man, and the flames spread all around him, trapping him. In a hurry, Aki put her dress back on, ready to run.

"Run, Aki!" Heathcliffe yelled as he ushered Aki out of the rapidly burning, hotel room.

"Sarutobi-kun, aren't you coming?" Aki frantically asked Heathcliffe.

"I can't. I don't know where Holden and Soren are! I have to get them out of here before something bad happens to them, and I also need to get you - *Cough* - out before –" Heathcliffe said before passing out from inhaling the smoke. Aki kneeled down to Heathcliffe.

"Sarutobi-kun, wake up! Please, wake up! We have to get out of here!" Aki cried in desperation as she shook Heathcliffe to try and bring some life back into him. After a few seconds of trying to get him up, Aki picked up Heathcliffe and placed him over her shoulder, all while holding his scythe in her other hand.

"Sarutobi-kun, I know your brothers may seem important to you right now, but I have to get you to Ageha so you can be okay. I love you, and we can't afford to lose you," Aki thought to herself as she ran down the hall, ducking and dodging clients alike. Aki then bumped into Kartik.

"Kartik, where are Holden and Soren? Sarutobi-kun's out cold, and he wanted to find his brothers! But-But –" Aki stuttered before Kartik cut her off.

"They were downstairs gambling, last I checked. But, we really have to get out of here. We re-united with Daisuke and got Mai-Yee back, but, when we tried to escape, the Dragon Lady cut off our escape. It's a madhouse down there, since Yuki-Rin and Enlai are both fighting the Dragon Lady while everyone else is fighting various courteaseans," Kartik explained. "Here, I'll take Heathcliffe back to the Hyperion."

Kartik then picked up Heathcliffe and draped him over his shoulder.

"What about Matsu? Shouldn't you be protecting her?" Aki asked Kartik, who led her to the stairwell overlooking the lower floor.

"I sent her back to the Hyperion for her own safety when things got way too out of hand. She managed to fight off a few of the lower-level prostitutes, but the poor girl looked like she was going to faint at any minute," Kartik explained.

"I think I had it worse. Had it not been for Heathcliffe, I would've gotten raped," Aki said sadly. Kartik put his hand on Aki's shoulder.

"Don't feel sad, Aki. Things will be okay, and life moves on," Kartik said before running off to get Heathcliffe and himself to safety.

"Kartik, wait! Please take me with you!" Aki yelled, realizing that she was now in big danger. Out of panic, Aki fell down the staircase.

"Can I help you up? Don't you want to help your friends?"

Aki looked up and saw the one person that everyone was fighting against – Shenhua "Dragon Lady" Jiang.

"No. I can help myself up," Aki said curtly as she got up. The Dragon Lady laughed to herself.

"Pitiful. No maiden trips while chasing after her beloved. Tell me, was that handsome, purple-haired man a client of yours?" The Dragon Lady asked Aki, who said nothing and put the blade of Heathcliffe's scythe to the Dragon Lady's neck.

"Shut up. I never want to hear the word 'client' used in that context again. All your 'clients' are basically whores who like to inflict pain and trauma on others," Aki said coldly.

"Well, we all can't have good people in the world, honey. It's a part of –" The Dragon Lady explained before Aki cut her off.

"You will never count as a good person. You put my friend into sex slavery, you kidnapped a little girl, and you are directly responsible for hurting my boyfriend, causing many people physical and emotional damage, and for almost taking away my dignity," Aki explained as she used the scythe to knock the Dragon Lady flat onto her stomach. "You know something, Shenhua Jiang?"

"What is it, CLIENT?" The Dragon Lady asked Aki, calling her "client" to taunt her. "Are you just jealous that you're not as prettier as my girls or that you're too pure to be working for me?"

Aki had enough of this. She gripped the scythe tighter, wanting to finish up the Dragon Lady's game.

"I HATE YOU!" Aki yelled before swinging the scythe down, cutting the Dragon Lady down and defeating her. Aki took a breath, looking at the faces of her nakama, who must've been as shocked as she was.

"A-Aki?" Yuki-Rin stuttered, trying to find the correct words.

"Wha – I –" Aki said before she felt herself fall to the ground and lose consciousness. The black-haired, glasses-wearing, Chinese pajama-clad girl from earlier ran up to Aki.

"She's… Gone?" The girl asked them.

"Yes. She's gone," Yuki-Rin answered. It seemed like everyone on Xinjin Island was relieved, as the Dragon Lady seemed to be slain.

Omake: A Typical Day in the Life of the Capricorns.

6:30 - Hana and Sebastian are the first ones up. Sebastian cooks for everyone while Hana watches for land. By "watches for land", we mean, "enjoys what little peace and quiet she can get on the ship before everyone else wakes up".

7:30 - 7:45 - The first Capricorns get up. Aki gets the bathroom first, and fights over who will get it next are inevtiable.

9:00 - Breakfast time! Everyone sits down and gets their food.

9:04 - Thierry stumbles in, hungover from last night. Ageha gives him a cup of (decaf) coffee while giving him a lecture on excess drinking.

9:10 - While Ageha's back is turned, Thierry spikes his coffee with whiskey.

9:30 - The News and Mail Coo Birds come. Aria pays the News Coo two Beri for a paper and ten Beri for various letters and packages.

9:40 - Aria complains about the movement of the Yonkou/what the Shichibukai are up to/what the Supernovas are doing.

9:45 - With breakfast over, the Capricorns go off and do their own things. Except for Z.G. and Gareth, who must wash dishes.

10:54 - After an hour of silence, Karin and Matsu get into a Kartik-related arguement.

10:59 - Soren attempts to break up the arguement, which fails.

11:02 - Showtarou is sent in to break up the arguement. Like Soren, he also fails.

11:05 - Karin and Matsu's arguement is FINALLY broken up when Kartik casually strolls by and remarks about the lovely weather.

11:06 - Karin glomps Kartik so hard, he falls to the ground. All the other Capricorns watch.

11:07 - Drusilla and Z.G. pull Karin off of Kartik. Matsu calms Kartik down by whispering to him that Kartik's parents would never love somebody as unsophisticated as Karin.

12:00 - Lunch time! Because he is running low on supplies, Sebastian makes everybody ramen. Only Kazuma and Yuki-Rin are happy.

12:10 - Deciding that lunch was an epic fail, everyone but Yuki-Rin and Kazuma feed their ramen to Ajax.

1:30 - Everyone is asleep, because they're bored. Except for Hana, who is looking for an island/reading a yaoi manga.

2:23 - Hana spots an island, waking everyone up.

2:35 - Everyone prepares to dock at the island. Sebastian almost drops the anchor on his foot.

2:45 - Everyone gets off the Hyperion, except Showtarou and Ajax, who are on watch duty.

3:15 - Mina arrives to take over for watch duty. Showtarou and Ajax leave.

3:40 - Holden accidentally shoots himself in the leg WITH HIS OWN GUN at a carnival game. Ageha drags him back to the Hyperion.

3:45 - Heathcliffe and Soren follow after, still laughing over Holden's mistake.

4:04 - Ageha tends to Holden while giving him a lecture on gun safety.

4:10 - Heathcliffe and Soren arrive to visit Holden. The visit consists of sitting around and eating junk food.

5:00 - The other Capricorns arrive on the Hyperion. Aki and Heathcliffe begin making out. This weirds both Holden and Soren out, and they leave, with Soren carrying Holden.

6:00 - Dinner is served. To make up for earlier, Sebastian made sushi for everyone.

6:06 - Kazuma begins to bring up ways on how to make sushi in a manly way. Nobody really wants to hear about it.

6:08 - Just as somebody is about to yell at Kazuma, Blaise and Sadie come to the Hyperion asking for directions.

6:09 - Aria, sensing that these people are suspicious, give Blaise and Sadie directions to the wrong place.

6:10 - Blaise and Sadie finally leave, saying something about "now we can go to that museum".

6:13 - Kazuma resumes his lecture on manly ways for making sushi. To shut him up, Yuki-Rin begins making-out with him.

6:15 - Most of the Capricorns leave, not wanting to see Kazuma and Yuki-Rin make out.

6:16 - Kazuma and Yuki-Rin resume eating like nothing happened.

6:25 - Dinner is unofficially over. Kazuma and Yuki-Rin are forced to wash dishes after their spectacle they made.

7:45 - The adults leave to go drinking/gripe about the younger crew members.

8:00 - To pass the time, the younger Capricorns play "Would you Rather...". Yulia almost maimes Daisuke for asking her "Would you rather get married to me or get married to Kazuma?"

9:15 - At the bar, everyone but Kartik and Matsu are drunk.

9:20 - Kaoru, being the third-drunkest person in the group (behind Karin and Thierry), begins to drunkenly try and suck blood from Matsu. Kartik breaks up the fight.

9:45 - The adults return to the Hyperion, where some of the Capricorns are asleep.

10:15 - Thierry drunkenly rambles on to Dewey and Alec about what he was like at Dewey's age. Dewey falls asleep listening to the lecture.

10:32 - Thierry passes out. Everyone else either pass out due to the alcohol, or decide that it's time to go to sleep.

11:11 - Meanwhile, with Blaise and Sadie, Aria's directions led them to a goat farm.

Ending Note: Wow, this omake must be longer than the chapter.

Review to see what the Capricorns will do next now that the Dragon Lady is defeated.