D vs Magma
The fight that everyone wants to see. Luffy vs Akainu. Enjoy and review everyone
Luffy jumped away from a large amount of magma that was about to engulf him. The magma continued moving closer and closer forcing Luffy to keep on jumping back. Luffy knew that with his new powers he could probably take the lava. However it would still be very damaging and as a result knew he had to avoid it when possible. Which was what he was doing right now.
Then he looked at the source of the magma, Akainu whose hands were both on the floor creating the magma flow. Luffy knew that he would have to get Akainu at some point. So he lept over the lava intent on getting Akainu. He stretched his arm back while hardening part of it with haki preparing to deliver a gomu gomu no bullet at Akainu. Akainu seeing this created a large wall of lava in front of Luffy which then was about to flow over him and kill him. Seeing this Luffy de-vulcanized his arm and instead stretched it to a nearby building and pulled himself away from the wave of magma. While on top the building, he looked at Akainu who in turn stared back.
"It seems that despite your incredible improvement all you're really doing is running away," commented Akainu.
"Like hell I'm running away Akainu. I'd never run away from you," Luffy shouted back.
"Really that doesn't seem like what you've been doing all this time to me," Akainu mocked Luffy.
"You're not going to defeat me if you continue running away. You would have to fight me some time," said Akainu.
"I will, don't you worry," said Luffy.
Luffy then held the edge of the building, then pulled back and launched himself at Akainu with incredible speed. Still mid air he stretched both his arm back and launched a powerful gomu gomu no bazooka at Akainu. Akainu who wasn't expecting the sheer speed of the attack didn't have time to properly counter was sent rocketing a far distance. Luffy landed gracefully after the attack. Not done yet he disappeared and reappeared right above Akainu and blew air into his hand and instantly moved it into his other creating a giant forearm. Immediately vulcanizing it with arnament haki hardening, he then drove his haki embued gear third enlarged arm straight towards Akainu. The result was a large shockwave that sent rubble and debris everywhere flying back.
All of a sudden Luffy felt and intense heat develop underneath his enlarge arm, the one he just hit Akainu with. Hissing from the pain he quickly removed it from Akainu only to see a large red magma dog coming straight towards him.
"Dai Funka" said Akainu as the large magma hound lunged upwards towards him.
Realizing that he wouldn't be able to dodge this attack, Luffy instead decided to block it even though he preferred if he didn't. Bringing his large haki enforced hand in front of him and opening it, the magma dog struck the palm of Luffy's giant hand. Hissing in pain he felt the magma hit his large open hand and began burning at it. Enduring he outstretched his other hand to a nearby building and pulled himself away just before the magma was about to melt him. From the building he began examining his hands which were scorched.
"Damn it. Even with haki and the power of D, his attack still hurts a lot," said Luffy examining his arm.
He then looked at Akainu who was staring at Luffy with intensity and a somewhat condescending look. Even though Akainu saw Luffy as one of the most dangerous people in the world especially now that he had his new powers, he still saw Luffy as just an inexperienced boy. It didn't matter that said boy took down two Shichibukai, infiltrated all three world government strongholds, participated in a big war, was part of the biggest invasion in history and had new powers under his belt. Luffy hated it when people looked at him with that look, especially from his enemies. And Akainu was arguable by far his greatest enemy.
"It's not easy fighting someone like him. Even if I get a good hit on him, his magma would end up burning me. But I can't just keep on letting him attacking me. I would have to attack him to win," thought Luffy analyzing his enemy.
"My best bet to defending against his attacks would be haki. I would use observation haki to avoid his attacks and arnament haki to minimize the damage," thought Luffy.
Akainu continued looking at him with his same smug yet stern expression.
"Are you going to just stand there all day?" asked Akainu.
"Standing around here all day wouldn't do me any good. I'll have to fight," said Luffy.
With that Luffy sprinted towards Akainu charging head long ready to fight him. Akainu responded sending out a large barrage of small magma fists at Luffy. Luffy dodged each of them and when he was close enough disappeared and reappeared in front of Akainu delivering a vicious kick to Akainu's midsection sending him flying back a great deal. Luffy disappeared and reappeared below Akainu and kicked him straight upwards sending up at a great height. Luffy then held is palm out and aimed carefully to deliver a well aimed gomu gomu no bullet. When Luffy felt his aim was just right he shot out his hand sending his gomu gomu no bullet out right at the still airborne Akainu. The result was that Akainu was sent flying into another building. Luffy then stood there watching the building waiting for Akainu to come out for he knew that Akainu was just fine after that assault. Both from his observation haki sensing him and from his knowledge that the marine admirals would not be defeated so easily.
All of a sudden Luffy heard rumbling from the ground. It sounded as if something was travelling from underneath it. Luffy jumped back as a large pillar of lava came from the same spot that Luffy was standing on. Then Luffy jumped away again as another pillar of lava emerged from where Luffy was standing previously.
"He's trying to attack me from underground," Luffy said while avoiding another pillar of magma.
"Luckily that attack requires a bit of time for the lava to come from the ground so it's easy to avoid with haki," deduced Luffy.
"Excellent deduction son of Dragon," said a voice that Luffy recognized to be Akainu's.
A pillar of lava began to take the shape of Akainu who stepped forward from the place where the pillar of lava emerged from.
"I expected no less from the spawn of Dragon. However it would take more than that to defeat me," commented Akainu.
"I know that bastard," shouted Luffy to the powerful fleet admiral.
With those words Luffy disappeard and reappeared behind Akainu ready to deliver a powerful punch. Akainu however was not fazed and actually saw this coming. He quickly grabbed Luffy's hand from behind and pinned him to the ground. Raising his arm, it turned to lava and Akainu brought it down hard to Luffy's face. Luckily Luffy was able to slip out of Akainu's grasp and then kicked him back to get some distance between him and the invincible fleet admiral. Luffy then went to punch Akainu which was blocked. Luffy the went for a kick and then another punch however both were parried and blocked. Akainu tried to deliver a punch of his own but Luffy blocked this one. Attempting yet another one, that one was blocked as well. The two repeatedly exchanged powerful blows between each other all of which were blocked by the other.
After another blocked attack, Luffy jumped behind Akainu, grapped him and threw him a short distance away. Akainu landed gracefully but Luffy was in the air and tried to kick Akainu. Akainu however moved out of the way resulting in the kick only cracking the ground. Luffy then tried to kick Akainu from the air again but like last time Akainu moved out of the way resulting in the only thing taking damage was the ground itself. Akainu sprinted after Luffy and decked him in the face sending him a rolling a good distance away. Luffy quickly got to his feet and stretched his foot out for a gomu gomu no stamp however Akainu dodged the straight kick and caught his foot. Sensing what Akainu was about to do, Luffy immediately applied haki to his outstretched foot which Akainu had in his grasp. Akainu applied heat into his arm intend on burning Luffy's leg. Luffy hissed from the pain but endured. Stamping his leg back cracking the ground Luffy applied as much power into the leg that Akainu caught delivering a gomu gomu no whip swinging his leg to a side and crashing him into a building forcing him to let go of Luffy's leg. Luffy then pulled his leg back relieve from Akainu's heat no longer burning him making his leg feel better.
However the relief was cut short as gigantic dog head of magma came out of the building straight towards Luffy ready to sink its magma jaws into Luffy and devour him in magma. Luffy was able to quickly get out of the way from Akainu's Inugami Guren. However to his shock and horror, the magma dog hit the ground created a large pool of magma. The magma pool was right below Luffy and he knew that if he didn't do something fast, he would land in the magma pool. He attempted to stretch his arm out to grab a building and pull himself away from landing in the magma pool when he saw a hand of magma try to catch and ultimately kill him. Luffy barely dodged Akainu's Meigo however he was still about to land in the magma pool. So instead Luffy stretched both his hands towards Akainu and grabbed him by the shoulders. Stretching his neck back and applying haki to his forhead thus turning it black, Luffy pulled himself towards Akainu resulting in his head snapping back and viciously headbutting Akainu. Akainu stepped back from the pain and held his forehead in pain. Seeing the fleet admiral in pain, Luffy took advantage of the opening and began twisting his arm back several times. Applying haki to his fist vulcanizing it, Luffy hit Akainu point blank with the gomu gomu no rifle. The hit resulted in Akainu flying back through several buildings while spinning fast. After he finished his assault Luffy looked at the damaged building that Akainu was sent spinning into while panting waiting for him to emerge.
And emerge he did. Magma began creeping out of the building slowly which then manifested into the fleet admiral himself.
"I must say son of Dragon that was an impressive combination," said Akainu while wiping some blood from his mouth.
"But as you can see I am just fine," said Akainu while moving his hands for emphasis.
"I can see that you magma bastard," said a frustrated Luffy.
"It must really get to you that you are unable to do any significant damage to me despite your new powers," taunted Akainu.
"Shut up," shouted Luffy.
"It must really be hard for you to know that your attacks aren't having much of an effect on me," continued Akainu.
"I said shut up bastard. And don't go pretending as if my attacks didn't work. They worked alright. I know they did," said Luffy defiantly.
"Oh and how do you know that," said Akainu seriously.
"Because of my haki. I'm using haki to negate your logia powers. And thanks to haki I can sense that my attacks did do some damage to you," answered Luffy.
"Some, but not nearly enough to seriously hurt me," countered Akainu.
Luffy gritted his teeth knowing that the powerful fleet admiral was right. Despite all that, Akainu was barely hurt. Worse was that he on the other hand was hurt in some way every time Akainu used his devil fruit powers.
"You see you can't beat me. You never could and that's fact. You know it," said Akainu.
"You are going to die here by my hands just like your adopted brother Portgas D Ace,"said Akainu bringing one of Luffy's most horrible memories out.
Immediately anger and rage for this man filled him. This is the man who killed his brother. This is the man who took his brother's life, he took him away from him. And he dares to mention his name. Akainu seeing the look on Luffy's face knew that he was getting into Luffy's head. Deciding to take the issue further, he continued to taunt Luffy about his older brother.
"Portgas D Ace was the bastard son of the Pirate King Gol D Roger. He is the worst trash in the world and I did everyone a favor by removing his cursed existence from this world," taunted Akainu.
Luffy had his eyes shadowed by his hair as he listened to the fleet admiral mock his beloved brother.
"He would have became just like his father had he been allowed to live. A truly dangerous enemy in the future had he been allowed to live. Fortunately I was able to stop him," continued Akainu's taunting.
Akainu paused to look at Luffy's face and saw that his eyes were shadowed by his hair making him unable to see his expression. But Akainu was no fool. He knew that Luffy was emotional and volatile and that he was getting to him. So he decided to press on.
"He represented the pinnacle of all evil in this world. An evil that was dormant within him and would have grown and matured had it been given more time to develop. An evil that had to be destroyed. For the sake of justice," said Akainu.
"And now I'm going to do the same to you, brother of Ace and son of Dragon," said Akainu to Luffy.
"I wouldn't let that happen," said Luffy softly.
"What was that son of Dragon? I barely heard what you just said," asked Akainu.
"I said I wouldn't let that happen Akainu. I would kill you here and now and avenge Ace. Do you hear me bastard. I'll kill you," shouted Luffy.
Akainu then looked at Luffy's face and decided to taunt him even further.
"The look in your eyes. The expression on your face and the words out of your mouth. I have heard them before. Many times in the past from many different enemies. And guess what. I kill them all. Not one of them were able to follow through with their bold and obviously futile threats," said Akainu looking at Luffy.
"I heard them and seen them many times before. But there is one person that I remember that coming from above all else. Do you know who that person is?" asked Akainu.
"Why the hell should I care. All I care about is killing you," shouted Luffy in response to Akainu.
"Oh but you should. After all, the one I'm talking about is your brother," said Akainu.
This made Luffy stop and look at Akainu in shock. Seeing that he got Luffy's full attention, he decided to continue taunting the young D by reminding him of his brother's death.
"The way you are looking at me right now, it's the same look that your brother gave me," taunted Akainu.
"The same look before I killed him," finished Akainu.
Luffy began reminiscing on the last memories he had of his brother. The ones where he had a huge hole in his chest and his brother poured his heart and soul to him. Luffy had never seen his brother so vulnerable before. He always seemed so strong and invincible. Yet on Ace's death bed he seemed so insecure about his place in the world. His words were so heart wrenched and painful that Ace was actually crying. Fire fist Ace, second division commander of the Whitebeard Pirates was crying. It tore Luffy's heart especially now that he is dead.
"I've had enough of you talking about Ace like that," shouted Luffy who sprung towards Akainu.
Stretching his foot up and hardening the end, he brought down the haki enhanced gomu gomu no battle axe at Akainu who block it with one hand. Immediately Luffy attempted a gomu gomu no stamp which Akainu blocked with the front of his hand. Luffy jumped towards Akainu and delivered a lightning fast gomu gomu no bullet towards Akainu's face. The attack hit dead on forcing the fleet admiral to take a few steps back. Luffy using the moment began twisting his arm around rapidly applying haki hardening to the fist to deliver a powerful haki enhanced gomu gomu no rifle to Akainu's broad chest. Akainu seeing the attack went into a horse stance and prepared to brace himself for the powerful attack. The attack hit Akainu's chest causing him to grit his teeth from the sheer force but he endured. The force of Luffy's attack backfired as a result of this and sent his hand snapping back.
While Luffy was flung back from the backlash of his attack, Akainu grabbed Luffy's foot and slammed him into the ground cracking it severly. Then using all his might, he flung Luffy with all his might. Luffy was sent into several buildings as a result of Akainu's powerful throw. With Luffy a large distance away, Akainu prepared to unleash one of his most devastating long range attacks. Raising his arms into the air, they turned to magma and several huge fists of magma were unleashed into the air and were raining down on the area that Luffy was thrown to.
"Ryusei Kazan," said Akainu as the giants fists of magma were sent into the sky from Akainu's magma fists.
Luffy was quick to his feet only to watch to his utter horror a huge barrage of huge magma fists raining down from the sky like meteorites. Luffy remembered this attack well during the war of the best. This was perhaps the single most devastating attack launched by the marines during the war of the best two years ago. This attack took the most lives during that great war. It was an apocalyptic attack that made the battlefield resemble the end of the world. Luffy watched as the magma fists were sent from Akainu's magma hands into the air where they came crashing down one after the other creating massive damage onto the battlefield. Each magma fists that hit the ground created an explosion of magma that burned anything that was near it. Luffy knew that not only was he supposed to dodge each magma fist, but ensure that he was not near them when they hit the ground or else he would be burned.
Using his observation haki he kept a close eye on each fist of magma that came from the sky. Luffy kept jumping away from each magma fist that crashed to the ground. He was jumping around quickly trying to avoid not only the magma fists itself, but the explosion of lava that resulted. The raining shower of magma fists came one after the other with Luffy jumping around continuously trying desperately to avoid each attack. This continued for several minutes until the attack finally stopped. However when Luffy looked around, he noticed that he was surrounded by a pool of magma. It was then that Luffy realized what Akainu was really planning.
"Bastard he," was all that came out of the shocked Luffy's mouth.
"I see that you finally caught on to what I was doing son of Dragon," stated Akainu who was walking slowly and menacingly towards Luffy.
"You see I knew that I wouldn't be able to hit you with that attack. The Ryusei Kazan is an attack meant to create mass destruction. It is very effective in destroying entire armies of enemies. It is not however good at killing single targets such as yourself," stated Akainu who was now walking on the large lava pool.
"But veteran fighters know how to make the best possible use of their attacks. And I was able to use my Ryusei Kazan to surround you in a pool of lava. Face it son of Dragon there is nowhere to run," said Akainu who was now right in front of Luffy.
Akainu's hand then turned to magma again as he prepared to deliver his next attack in the now immobilized Luffy. Luffy realizing that a point blank attack from Akainu would surely result in his death jumped backwards a great distance over the magma pool.
"Not so fast son of Dragon. Inugami Guren," said Akainu who sent a wave of magma that turned into a dog's head straight towards Luffy. Luffy saw that the attack was coming towards him too fast and he couldn't dodge in mid air meaning he had to block it. Biting his thump, he blew some air.
"Gear third," said Luffy as his arm grew bigger.
He made the air go to his forearm and then opened his enlarge hand and applied haki to it vulcanizing and hardening it in the process. Then he held the black hardened enlarged hand out to shield him from Akainu's attack.
"Foolish boy you think that shield would be enough. I'll burn that shield and your arm of," shouted Akainu as his attack quickly advanced forward.
Akainu's dog bite blaze hit Luffy's hardened gear third hand. Despite Luffy's enlarged vulcanized hand shielding him from the attack, the sheer force of the attack pushed him back. Also the attack was slowly burning into Luffy's vulcanized hand. Luffy was sweating profusely from the intense heat and gritting his teeth in pain from magma touching his hand. Eventually Luffy finally landed on the ground and braced himself on the concrete to better block the attack. Luffy wasn't sure how long he could take this for the attack was surely burning away at his haki and the intense heat was taking its toll on Luffy.
Akainu however while his dog bite blaze was still trying to burn away Luffy's shield turned himself to magma and lunged himself towards Luffy with his hand in the shape of a magma claw. Luffy was so distracted from Akainu's first attack that he did not see nor sense Akainu heading towards him with his magma claw. It was only just as Akainu was about to attack that he sensed Akainu about to attack.
"Meigo," said Akainu who lashed out his claw shaped magma hand towards Luffy.
Luffy jumped out of the way to avoid Akainu's attack. That action also got him out of the pathway of Akainu's other attack, his inugami guren.
"So still have some fight left in you," said Akainu.
Luffy dropped to his knee clutching his arm which shrunk back to normal size. He was panting heavily and his arm was scorched from blocking Akainu's dog bite blaze.
"However it seems that you're at your limits. My last attack certainly did a number on you didn't it," said Akainu arrogantly.
Luffy was still on one knee holding onto his arm as he glared at Akainu. Akainu however was not intimidated and walked to Luffy and grabbed him by the throat lifting him in the air.
"Son of Dragon and one of his Knights. One of his most powerful subordinates. Look at him now," said Akainu condescendingly.
"I told you that despite your new powers, you could not defeat me for I am justice. And you're a heinous criminal who is trying to destroy our society. This was bound to happen," said Akainu who still held onto Luffy's throat.
"You think that you could just do what you want and get away with it. How naïve. You truly are a reckless and foolish boy," said Akainu.
He then squeezed Luffy's throat harder causing him to gasp for air.
"You took down one of our Shichbukia. You gave sanctuary to the demon of Ohara and then declare war on the world government. If that wasn't enough you took down yet another Shichbukai. But is that not enough for you? No it isn't, you just had to attack one of the world nobles. However you were not done were you. You just had to spit in the face of justice by breaking into Impel Down. And the worst was wrecking havoc during the war. And for what, to rescue that dangerous criminal Ace," said Akainu.
Luffy grabbed the hand that Akainu was holding his neck with. However Akainu was un-phased by Luffy's act of defiance.
"Your scum of a brother deserved to die," said Akainu.
He then held his hand out which then turned to magma.
"And now so would you," finished Akainu.
Luffy squeezed with hand Akainu held him with and a pumping action was seen from his hands. Luffy's entire body began to turn pink and steam was now forming from his body.
"What the," said Akainu curiously who before thought he had Luffy beat.
Luffy shot both his hands back and brought them together hitting Akainu with a powerful gomu gomu no jet bazooka. The admiral was forced to let Luffy go as he was sent flying back by Luffy's powerful and lightning fast technique. However he landed on his feet and staggered back a few feet. He then held his chest that was hit by Luffy's attack as he looked at the pirate turned revolutionary. His eyes widened as he took in Luffy's new appearance.
Luffy was now crouched on the ground with a fist on the ground and his other hand resting on his leg. His skin was pink and steam was rising from him. Luffy looked at Akainu his eyes determined to defeat him.
"Gear second," were the words that came out of Luffy's mouth.
Luffy activates his Gear Second. He now has both the power of D and gear second active. Luffy is now at full power. The fight is really picking up.
Round of applause everyone 60 000 words at last. Another milestone.
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