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"Gomu Gomu no...Bullet!" Luffy yelled, shooting his rubber fist into Arlong's stomach. "Gomu Gomu no...Gatling Gun!" His fists shot out at rapid speeds, punching Arlong all over his body and the fishman pirate couldn't do anything to stop the attack. Arlong was soon sent flying backwards and landed on the rubble that was once his throne.
"Whew!" Luffy stretched his body, yawning loudly. "That was a good workout!"
The den den mushi grinned at the sight of the Straw Hat boy. He really was alive! Luffy bent down and picked up the small, happy snail and placed him onto his shoulder.
Arlong 'tsked'. "What exactly did you just do?"
"My warm-up." The future Pirate King replied, cracking his knuckles.
"Sha ha ha ha..." Arlong quietly laughed. "Not bad for a human. But you might have been happier had you died peacefully under the sea.
Luffy continued to stretch his body, shrugging his shoulders and wiggling his toes. "Eh? No, actually I'm very happy that I was rescued."
"Do you have any idea of how angry I am..." Arlong glared at Luffy. "The seething rage I feel after seeing my beloved brothers being crushed by you pathetic lot? Within time you'll come to realize that it probably would have been better if you had died at sea."
"I wonder if brother Luffy will be alright..even that fierce attack just now didn't affect Arlong at all..."
"Enough about that! Just how far was Brother Zoro sent flying?!"
"Get him, Luffy!" Usopp cried. "I'll back you up!"
"Enough with your "backup." Nami sweatdropped.
"Do you know what the hopeless difference between you and I is?" Arlong asked as he slowly rise to his full height.
Luffy tilted his head to the side. "Nose?" He asked, getting into a fighting stance.
"Is he joking..?"
"Or jaw?"
"I don't think so.."
"Webbed hands?"
"No! It's our race!" Arlong snarled, lunging at Luffy with his teeth, an attack Luffy was barely able to dodge.
Arlong continued to lunge at Luffy with his teeth, with the intent to murder him in mind. Luffy scooped up the small snail as he continued to dodge Arlong's attacks.
But Arlong moved with fierce speed and pinned Luffy to one of the columns and glowered at the rubber male. He opened his jaw and bit down on Luffy, only for the male to dodge by simply stretching his neck and moving to the side. Arlong's razor sharp teeth bit into the column, causing it to crumble and fall into rubble.
"Whew." Luffy blinked after just barely escaping Arlong's death bite. "Talk about scary."
"This is a power we fishman are born with." Arlong calmly stated. "A power that the heavens did not bestow upon your kind. Which is why you are the inferior species! We have been on completely different levels since birth!"
Luffy placed the snail onto his shoulder and glared at Arlong. "So what? Don't get so cocky just because of that!" Luffy punched one of the columns with his fist, causing it to crumble. "I don't need to chew through stone to crush it!"
"HAAAH! NICE ONE BRO!"
"THat's right! The end result is the same!"
"Such frivolous objections..." Arlong sneered. "You humans truly are an idiotic, weak, pathetic race! What can you do?! You couldn't even save yourself from drowning!"
Luffy bent down and picked up two swords. "Its because I can't do anything that I need help! Shishishi!" Luffy rushed towards Arlong and began randomly attacking the shark type fishman with the two swords.
"What the hell?" Arlong growled, dodging each attack. "You're just randomly swinging those swords around-" He was cut off when Luffy suddenly slapped him. Arlong's eyes narrowed in anger. "I don't have time to play around with you..." He took Luffy's swords and flung them behind him. "So enough with your-"
"Shut your trap!" Luffy yelled before his fist shot forward and nailed Arlong in his jaw. The bottom part of his mouth clashed with the top part, and his teeth were instantly broken. The shark type fishman flew onto his back and grabbed at his mouth while crying out in pain.
"Woah! He broke Arlong's teeth!"
Luffy huffed. "Of course I don't know how to fight with swords, you dumbass!"
"Just what is he trying to say?"
"I don't know a thing about navigation either! I can't cook! I can't lie! I'm confident that I wouldn't be able to survive if there weren't other people to help me!" Luffy stated, giving Arlong a hard glare.
"Hey." Usopp deadpanned. "Why am I just the storyteller?"
"Shahahaha...aren't you quite honest about admitting how worthless you are?" Arlong sat on the concrete indian style. "Must be pretty hard for your crewmates to deal with an incompetent fool like you. It's a wonder why they'd try so desperately hard to save you. You call yourself fit to be a captain, yet you don't even have an ounce of self confidence?! Just what exactly can you do, boy?!"
Luffy cracked his knuckles. "I can beat you."
"Alright, Brother Luffy!"
"Wohoo! He can do it!"
"Damn straight." Sanji smirked softly.
"If you lose, I'll kill you." Zoro muttered.
"And I'll back you up!" Usopp yelled, fistpumping.
"Enough babbling, you pathetic humans!" Arlong shouted and his cracked teeth fell out, only to be replaced by a new set.
"Ah! His teeth grew back!" Luffy stated in surprise.
"I am a shark after all. My teeth will grow back every time." Arlong replied, standing to his full height. "And the new ones are always stronger than the last ones! This is the gift bestowed to me by the heavens!" He pulled out his teeth twice, and both times they grew back. He held up his pulled out teeth which a vicious smirk. "Now do you realize just how much we are superior to the humans?"
"Tooth gun!" Arlong shot forward and his three sets of teeth began to unleash a barrage of attacks on Luffy. The rubber male was quickly cornered, and just as Arlong's teeth were about to chew him up Luffy lifted up one of the fishmen lying on the ground and used him as a shield.
"A-Arlong, it hurts.." The random fishman muttered as Arlong sank his teeth into him.
"Whew." Luffy breathed a sigh of relief. The den den mushi sitting on his shoulder was shaking slightly, but stood strong- he had to become stronger for Luffy and for Luffy's friends. And the snail knew that Luffy could kick Arlong's ass.
"Why you..." Arlong growled.
"That gives me an idea.." Luffy suddenly grinned.
Click.
"How dare you use one of my brethren as a shield?!" Arlong snarled.
"What are you talking about? You're the one who attacked him."
"Brother Luffy says he has a good idea!"
"What could it be?"
"Did he come up with a secret strategy or something?"
"Tooth gun!" Arlong shouted once again and lunged at Luffy using the same attack as before.
Luffy swiftly dodged each attack, and as soon as Arlong came close enough Luffy kicked him in his jaw once more. His teeth fell out once more.
"Yosh! It came out!" Luffy grinned and picked up Arlong's teeth.
"You..do you still not understand that no matter how many times you try...that it's futile to try to crush my teeth!?" Arlong bellowed.
"Could it be that this has something to do with the idea Brother Luffy came up with..?"
Luffy put Arlong's teeth into his mouth. "Look! I have fangs too!" The snail sitting on his shoulder sweatdropped.
"Just how long are you gonna be playing around?!" Arlong snapped, and swung his teeth at Luffy. The rubber male wasn't able to dodge this time and took a stab to the side.
"Aaah!" Luffy yelped, clutching his side. "I've been bitten by a shark!"
"It's because you were playing around!"
"Augh!" Luffy cried out once more when Arlong's teeth bit him in his stomach. The den den mushi stared at the wound on Luffy's stomach with wide eyes.
"Urgh!" Arlong gasped when Luffy suddenly bit Arlong on his shoulder, using Arlong's on teeth. The shark type fishman threw Luffy off of him and clutched his shoulder.
"Hah!" Luffy smirked. "How does it feel to be bitten by your own teeth?!"
"They may be my teeth but with your feeble jaws...!" Arlong tsked, taking the set of teeth out of his shoulder. "Listen up...what defines a shark's teeth is it's ability to rip flesh!" Arlong bit down on Luffy's arm, spilling lots of blood.
"Ack!" Luffy cried. The snail stared at Arlong's mouth on Luffy's arm in fear- he was so close to him! If he had went an inch higher he would have bitten him, and killed him!
"His arm's gonna be torn!"
"Brother Luffy!"
"Argh.." Luffy began to scream before he brought his arm, along with Arlong, up and slammed him onto the ground. Luffy pulled his arm from Arlong's mouth and scrambled away from him.
The rubber male pulled Arlong's teeth out of his stomach and coughed up blood. The den den mushi rubbed his tiny head against Luffy's ear, as if to comfort him. Luffy only sighed and slowly stood up, turning to face the other pirate captain.
"Eh..?" Luffy blinked, looking around. "Where did he go?"
"LUFFY!" Usopp yelled. "The WATER!"
Suddenly the fin of a shark popped up out of the water. Luffy stared at it in shock. "There's a shark in the water!"
"Yeah!" Usopp deadpanned. "That's Arlong!"
"What..?" Luffy frowned. "He dove under water..?"
And suddenly Arlong flew out of the water, headed straight for Luffy and the den den mushi. His sharp nose hit Luffy right in his stomach, causing the rubber male to fly into the wall. The snail sneezed a bit as the dust around them settled. Luffy clenched his teeth and held his stomach, which was oozing more blood.
"Damn it...barely dodged that.." Luffy muttered.
Arlong flew back into the water, leaving Luffy to stare after him in thought.
"Hmph." Luffy stood up and glared at the water. "Come at me, you stupid shark!" He held his hands out in front of him and pulled all the fingers of one hand using his other hand. "Gomu Gomu no Shield!"
"Eh? What's that stance?"
"Don't tell me he's seriously planning to stop Arlong with that!"
Arlong shot up from out of the ocean once more, smirking as he headed straight for Luffy and the den den mushi.
Only for his attack to be stopped as Luffy wrapped his fingers around Arlong's face with a smirk of his own and pushed off the shark type fishman, bouncing away and landing against the side of the building. Arlong, on the other hand, went flying into the building.
"What happened to Luffy?! Was he hit?!"
"No! He bounced himself away from Arlong!"
"Shishishi!" Luffy grinned. "That one work on me!" The snail sitting on his shoulder blinked, dazed. He had already been through a lot with Zoro and Sanji, and now he and Luffy were jumping all around from place to place.
"Shark on Darts!" Arlong dived for Luffy once more. "You can't escape from me! And then he went for Luffy once again as they were both falling towards the ground. "Time to finish this!"
"As if I'll let you!" Luffy shouted. "Gomu Gomu no Net!" His fingers wove around each other and became bigger, creating a rubber net that trapped Arlong. "Followed by..." He placed his feet together. "Gomu Gomu no Spear!" And with that being said Luffy's feet shot down and nailed Arlong in his stomach, causing the fishman to throw up blood as he went down.
"Wohooo! Go Luffy!"
"It worked!"
"Eh? Is he dead?" Luffy blinked, and peered down at him, but got his answer really soon.
Arlong's eyes were nearly white. His pupils were dilated more than what one would assume to be possible. The veins in his eyes were a dark red.
"Arlong's eyes changed..!"
"They are the same eyes that a sea king has when it goes berserk! Luffy must have made him really angry..."
"Thats the first time I've seen those eyes.." Nami muttered.
Arlong suddenly grabbed Luffy by his hair. "How dare you do that.." He began as Luffy and den den struggled to get free. "To me, a fishman?! Your superior!" Arlong flung Luffy all the way towards the rubble, where Luffy landed as if he hadn't just been thrown by a fishman.
"Ah that was scary!" Luffy scratched his head. "It didn't hurt but he looks really pissed...oh.." Luffy blinked as Arlong began to move towards him. Arlong punched the wall, and Luffy quickly moved away. Arlong brought his hand out from the wall, and held up a large sword shaped saw.
"Thats one big ass saw!"
"What's that?!" Luffy yelled. Even den den was shaking, though he had been shaking throughout the whole battle so this was nothing new.
"Luffy, that's Kiribachi!" Nami yelled.
Arlong swung huge saw at Luffy, and the rubber male had no choice but to dodge each attack the best he could. The snail was barely holding on to Luffy's shoulder by this point in time.
Luffy was finally forced to crash through one of the windows, away from the crowd. Now it was only he, the den den mushi, and Arlong.
Click.
Luffy sat with his back against the wall, the den den mushi still sitting on his shoulder. Arlong loomed over them with a sadistic smirk.
"Don't get in my way anymore." He stated, tightly clutching his sword shaped saw. "You damn rubber brat."
"What is this room?" Luffy asked, looking around curiously. "It's full of paper."
Indeed there was paper everywhere. Tall stacks of old papers sat side by side on the hard floor. There was a bookcase filled to the brim with navigation books. And sitting close to Luffy was a chair and a desk with a half finished map on it.
"They're not just papers. These are all the maps that Nami spent eight years drawing." Arlong looked around the room, that ugly sadistic smirk still on his face as he looked at all the well drawn maps. "For us fishman, obtaining data about the sea is simple but using that data to draw maps is another matter. Even if you search the whole world, you won't find anyone who could draw maps as accurately as these. Nami is a true genius."
"Ah..." Luffy frowned, and now the den den mushi sitting on his shoulder was no longer shaking. The small snail was growling softly, wanting to attack this fishman for making his friend suffer for eight whole years.
"There would be nothing more tragic than to waste those god given talents that she possess!" Arlong continued on.
"..." Luffy picked up a pen from off the ground. "This pen...is encrusted with blood..."
"For Nami, there is no better happiness than to stay here and to continue to draw maps! For the sake of my ambition, that is!" Arlong pointed his sword shaped saw at Luffy with a loud chuckle. "Once we fishmen learn everything there is to know about the seas from Nami's maps, we will be invincible! The world shall then become my empire! And this island, or the East Blue in essence, shall be my stepping stone for that!"
"..." Luffy continued to stare at the pen.
"Do you think you could use her more effectively than I?!"
Luffy dropped the pen, and sat deathly still for a moment before he gripped the end of Arlong's sword shaped saw. "Use?!" He squeezed it hard enough to break it. "Just what do you think she is?!"
"She's a brilliant cartographer." Arlong raised an eyebrow at the sight of the end of his sword being crushed by the rubber captain. "Of course she is still a member of your inferior race, but she's got a good head on her shoulders. I'll have her continue to draw maps in this room forever. I'll buy her any clothes she would ever want, so she will never be in want as long as she lives. In return, all she has to do is draw maps for me. Because you see...we are crewmates."
And suddenly Luffy stood up and kicked the desk out of the window. He turned around and punched the bookcase, sending it flying out of the building too.
"Just what do you think you're doing?!" Arlong snapped.
Luffy didn't answer, and instead threw yet another desk out of the building. Arlong lunged at him, desperate to keep his precious maps inside the room, but Luffy was having none of it and he dodged the attacks while throwing more stuff out of the building.
Arlong finally managed to grab Luffy by his neck. "Those took eight years for her to draw, you little shit!" He reached over and bit Luffy in his neck, hard. (And lucky for Moshi, he was sitting on Luffy's other shoulder.)
"Argh..." Luffy growled. "I ain't got a damn clue about fishmen..or how great they are.." Luffy reached behind him and grabbed Arlong's nose. "Nor do I know anything about her maps...but! I finally know how to help her!" Luffy snapped Arlong's nose, causing the fishman to reel back in pain.
"This room that she never wanted to be in...I cannot allow it to exist! I'll erase this place down to the very last trace!" Luffy declared, the den den mushi bobbing his head in agreement.
"Gomu Gomu no..." Luffy lifted his foot up high, higher than the ceiling, and high enough for all the villagers and Nami and the rest of his crew to see.
"Don't get so conceited now! As if the mighty Arlong Park could ever be destroyed by the likes of you!" Arlong growled, standing to his feet once more. He opened his mouth wide, exposing his razor sharp teeth. "Shark on..."
"Tooth!" Arlong bellowed, running towards Luffy with ferocious speed.
"Battle Axe!" Luffy cried, bringing his foot back down into the room.
The den den mushi couldn't do anything to stop what happened next. One moment he was sitting on Luffy's shoulder, glaring daggers at Arlong, and the next thing he knew he was being thrown out of the building.
He couldn't see the ruckus that was going on behind him as he flew. He didn't know what Luffy was doing. All he knew was that he was flying and that he was scared out of his mind.
"Oi! It's den den!"
"That snail is flying! Just what the hell is going on!?"
The den den mushi's eyes widened as he saw each of the villagers looking at him in awe. And there were four faces that he recognized the most, though one face in particular was standing out the most to him.
"I've got you, Moshi!" She cried, holding her arms out for him. And in seconds everyone, including Usopp, Zoro (well...Zoro was asleep, but it's the thought that counts!), and Sanji, were doing the same- they were holding out their arms so that they could catch him.
"Don't be scared, Moshi!" Usopp chimed in. "We've got you!"
And Moshi smiled widely, as he knew he was safe because his friends were going to catch him and he knew he would be just fine.
He fell right into Nami's arms, and she softly patted his head before placing him onto her shoulder. The den den mushi stayed close to her ear, smiling widely, glad to have his friend back. He then looked over at the wreckage that was once Arlong Park.
"Luffy!" Nami began to rush towards the rubble, but was held back by Johnny and Yosaku.
"Brother..." Johnny muttered.
"A-Arlong Park is destroyed..?"
"Which one of them won?!"
"Just what the hell happened in there?!"
Usopp scurried over to Nami's side and they both shared glances of worry.
And suddenly, from the wreckage, a tall figure stood up with blood running down his arms, his fists clenched, and his black hair messier than usual.
"Luffy!" Nami, Usopp, Yosaku, and Johnny cried in unison.
Luffy took a deep breath.
"Nami! You're my crewmate- You're my nakama! Got it?!"
Nami could feel the wind blowing her hair around as his words reached her ears. Tears began to spill down her cheeks, and this time they weren't tears of sadness. They were tears of joy.
"G-Got it!" She replied, wiping away her tears with her wrists.
"ARLONG PARK HAS BEEN DESTROYED!" The villagers cheered in happiness, throwing down their weapons and hugging each other.
"Shishishi!" Luffy grinned.
Click.
And so the Arlong Park Arc has BASICALLY reached it's conclusion! Yay! (Though there's a kinda surprise in the next chapter..)
Guys, I feel really happy now. Know why? Because I'm really sticking with this story. I can't believe I'm still writing it, and I'm happy because I've just finished one of the hardest parts to write in One Piece- the Arlong Park arc. I'm nearly done with the East Blue Saga, and to me that's a big milestone!
Special thanks to Leo, Johnny Spectre, mello, LuckyLucy, hikari, Lammy, Wolfy, and BlackRabbitAlice, because honestly if it weren't for you guys I would have quit a long time ago.
Thank you to Mr. 0-San for making my day with that hilarious review. Seriously, that really made my day.
I still have a very long way to go before I reach the current arc, don't I? I guess I better get to writing!
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