One Piece: The Order

by RogerShanksLuffy

Aaron Hawthorne wants to become a legendary assassin, and vows to take down every single Templar in the New World. Unfortunately for the Straw Hats, He and Luffy ends up dragging everyone else into it as well. LuNa later on. Rated M for language.

20. Raften: Templar Tournament

I've decided to do something that I think will be both really cool and really fun to write. After the Templar Tournament, when Ryokugyu and all of the Templars are defeated, the story will continue on with the events of Unlimited World Red, but an amped up and modified version based on this story. So, more islands and characters, like Sabo, Christina, Dragon, and more, will also be included. I'm looking forward to it, and I hope you are too. Now for the next topic: the story after this. I'm not sure how long the last part of The Order is going to be, but I'll probably do a few islands per chapter. I have a few small unfinished stories for Bleach and One Piece, and I'm almost done with Princess of Alvarez, but other than that, PM me with ideas! I will write anything for the following: Attack on Titan, Bleach, Fairy Tail, Naruto, One Piece, Pokemon X/Y, or Yugioh (any of them). As for the couples that I write for, I believe in the following: Eren x Historia, Ichigo x Orihime, Natsu x Lucy, Mavis x Zeref, Erza x Jellal, Mira x Laxus, Gray x Juvia, any of the Naruto Shippuden canon couples (Epilogue Marriages), Luffy x Nami, Zoro x Robin, Calem x Serena, Jaden x Alexis, Yusei x Akiza, Yuma x Tori, Yuma x Rio, Yuya x Yuzu, and Yuya x Serena. Let me know what you'd like, and if it involves romance, what couple you'd like. Also, a small note on Zoro's techniques. Yama is a god of death and hell in Hinduism, and Shiva is known as the God of Destruction and Transformation in Hinduism. Just because I wanted a deity that was a higher rank than Asura for the techniques. Thanks and enjoy!

Songs

Luffy and Nami: Rainy [Piano Cover] (Fairy Tail OST)

Arriving at Raften: The Very Very Very Strongest (One Piece OST)

The Coliseum: Luffy's Fierce Attack (One Piece OST)

Franky vs. Kuma: Karakuri Defense System, Activate! (One Piece OST)

General Franky: Franky's theme (One Piece OST)

Death of Kuma: Bloodlines (AC Syndicate Soundtrack)

Crocodile vs. Robin: Clavar la Espada (Bleach OST)

Dragon vs. Crocodile: Luffy vs. Ratchet Round 1 (One Piece OST)

Chopper and Brook vs. Hawkins: Kakuzu's Theme (Naruto Shippuden OST)

Law and Usopp vs. Kid: Mystogan's Theme (Fairy Tail OST)

Kid's Cross and Sabo vs. Kid: Released Power (Fairy Tail OST)

Christina vs. Fujitora: Heat of the Battle (Bleach OST)

Selene's Judgement: A Requiem (Bleach OST)

Christina's Memories: Nothing can be Explained [With Vocals] (Bleach OST)

Nami and Jinbei vs. Arlong: Duel of the Fates (Star Wars Episode I Soundtrack)

Luffy and Nami vs. Arlong: I Still Have a Soul (Epic Score)

Arlong beats Luffy and Nami: I Will Beat You (One Piece OST)

Luffy's Rage: Luffy vs. Ratchet Round 2 (One Piece OST)

Zoro and Mihawk's Entrance: Mihawk's Theme (One Piece OST)

Zoro vs. Mihawk Begins: The Battle Begins (Yugioh Arc-V OST)

Zoro Cracks Yoru: Karakuri Defense System, Activate! (One Piece OST)

Zoro vs. Transformed Mihawk: Breakthrough Even (Bleach OST)

Zoro's Last Stand: Unstoppable Forces (Epic Score)

Zoro's True Power: MKAlieZ part 1 (Aldnoah Zero OST)

Zoro's Victory: Rittaikidou part 1 (Attack on Titan OST)

Rayleigh and Sanji vs. Kizaru: Giant Stronghold, Takeoff (One Piece OST)

Kizaru Gets Serious: Powerful Enemies [Kizaru's Theme] (One Piece OST)

Aaron vs. Kizaru: Duel of the Fates (Star Wars Soundtrack)

Luffy and Shanks vs. Akainu: Training of One's Past (Asura's Wrath OST)

Akainu vs. Christina: Asura's Wrath Main Theme (Asura's Wrath OST)

Luffy vs. Akainu: The Eleven Supernovas (One Piece OST)

Luffy 5th Gear and Defeating Akainu: I Will Surpass You (One Piece OST)

Dragon vs. Ryokugyu: Archangel (Two Steps From Hell)

Dragon and Ryokugyu Transformations: MKAlieZ part 2 (Aldnoah Zero OST)

White Dragon vs. Golden Bull: Ultimate Power (Epic Score)

Aita's Armor: Counter Attack-Mankind (Attack on Titan OST)

Dragon's Defeat: Huge Dragon on the Move (Fairy Tail OST)

Demon Mode Phase 3: SSG Vegeta Theme (The Enigma TNG)

Although all of the ships were sailing besides each other, all of the Brotherhood's members were currently on the Thousand Sunny. But someone was missing.

"Hey Luffy, where's your girlfriend?" Sabo asked.

"Nami? Ummm...I don't know."

"She's been in the women's quarters since this morning. She doesn't want anyone to disturb her." Robin answered, taking a sip of her drink. Luffy stood up and walked over towards the door.

"Luffy, she just said she didn't want anyone to disturb her." Sanji said. Luffy ignored him and knocked on the door.

"Come in." Luffy looked at Sanji again and stuck his tongue out, angering the chef, making Jinbei have to restrain him from fighting his captain. Luffy walked in and closed the door behind him. The whole room was dark, and from the little bit of sunlight coming in, he could see that Nami was lying down on the bed, her head buried in her pillow. Luffy laid down next to her and put his arms behind his head, relaxing into his own side of the bed. Nami slowly turned over, facing him.

"Luffy…" she said, her eyes red.

"...You've been crying…" She slowly nodded her head, as another tear fell from her eye.

"How come?"

"Because...you and I almost…"

"Died? By Arlong's hand?"

"I don't ever want that to happen. I don't want any one of us to die to someone like him." she seethed.

"...Nami, don't worry about it."

"But I am worried! Because of what he said! He said that his powers prevent haki from working on him! And that means that you won't be able to save me…"

"...Maybe you don't need to be saved this time."

"W-What? Are you saying you don't care about me?!" she asked, offended.

"Of course not. But this time, like you said, I can't beat him, his powers wouldn't allow it. But didn't you notice something when we fought him? Your lightning attack did hurt him." Nami's eyes widened.

"Well, yeah, but...I don't know why. I feel like he did that to make us have a false sense of security."

"That wasn't it. Devil Fruits don't work like that. I mean, look at me." Luffy pulled on his arm, stretching it out. "I can't just stop my rubber powers all of a sudden to make myself take an attack that's not powered by haki. So why should it be any different for him? That lightning damaged him for real, and I think I know why." Nami listened intently. What Luffy was saying made sense.

"Why? Why did it?"

"Do you remember when I fought Eneru on Skypiea? The only one who could fight him was me, because lightning doesn't hurt a rubber man like myself. I was the only one who his powers didn't work against." Luffy closed his eyes. "Arlong is the opposite."

"What?" Nami asked, startled.

"Water conducts electricity. Remember what he said? He claimed he could take on any devil fruit user because of his water powers, EXCEPT for Hawkeye. He outright said that he was the second strongest Warlord after him. And that makes sense. Mihawk is made of lightning. So the only ones who can take him down are people with lightning based attacks." He pointed at her. "Like you."

"Luffy, you saw me fight him. With his full power, I didn't even last 5 seconds against him!"

"Nami, you know that I'll help you out. I'll do anything to free you from him. After all, you're the one who's going to be the Pirate Queen." he smirked. Nami's face turned beet red. Just then, they heard a knock on the door.

"It's me." answered Christina.

"What is it?"

"We're here. We arrived in Raften." Luffy and Nami jumped off of the bed, and walked out onto the deck.

"So this might be where the One Piece is Luffy…" Usopp muttered.

"Yeah...The next Pirate King and Queen…" he said, once again making Nami blush. Everyone else's jaws dropped to the ground while others just smiled. The ship docked, and everyone walked off onto the island.

"...I thought this place was supposed to be mysterious and unknown." Sanji complained.

"Not quite." Dragon said.

"You've been here before?" everyone asked.

"Yes." he answered.

"You have?" I asked him.

"Yeah. Roger took me here while I worked under him. He kept the island's details a secret between himself and his crew only. Because of the nature of the island, if people really knew what kind of place it was, it would get too crowded, and problems would cumulate."

"What kind of island is it?" asked Nami, curious.

"...The world's most exquisite and expensive resort."

"...Where'd Christina go?" I asked, noticing she was gone. Everyone looked down the beach to see her sprinting towards the resort.

"ME FIRST!" she screamed. We all sighed and ran after her. We walked into the city, looking around in awe. Skyscraper Hotels, tropical bars, pools, hot tubs, palm trees, and beaches could be seen everywhere. We finally caught up with Christina, who had stopped, and was looking at someone. Kid.

"I'm glad you're finally here. I'm here to escort you all to the coliseum where the tournament will take place. Follow me." He smiled, leading everyone into a golden coliseum.

"Wow...It's even bigger than the one is Dressrosa!" Luffy said, excitedly.

"That's right...I forgot that you participated in that. What was the outcome anyway?" asked Franky.

"Well, I won my block, and then I let Sabo take my place in order for me to break away and go stop Mingo. Obviously, Sabo won and ate the Flare Flare Fruit."

"Well, I'm glad it was you and not someone else from the Donquixote family." Usopp complimented Sabo.

"That wouldn't have happened anyways. Any member of the Donquixote family wouldn't stand a chance against me. The Navy challenged me after the coliseum fights, and I defeated one of their Vice-Admirals in under 3 minutes."

"Wow…Again, I'm glad you're on our side." Sanji said.

"Well, that was the least of our problems. While Luffy was busy fighting Doflamingo, I was preoccupied with fighting Fujitora, who ranks higher than him in the Order. He's the one who gave me trouble. We were at a stalemate throughout the whole battle, as neither of us ended up injuring the other."

"Well, this time will be different." Dragon said.

"Yes. Although Fujitora was holding back when he fought me. But then again, so was I." he smirked.

"Well, go take your seats. Everything will be settled before long." Kid told them.

"Which seats are ours?" Luffy asked.

"The balcony up there. You can get there taking the stairs. We're over there on the other balcony." He motioned over to a balcony where the rest of the Templars were standing, and Ryokugyu was lounging in a throne chair. We all walked up the stairs and then took our seats on the balcony. We looked around the coliseum and saw all different types of spectators seated: marines, revolutionaries, assassins, kuja women, and fishmen. Just then, Ryokugyu stood up and everything became quiet.

"Listen up! Today marks the beginning of the end! This is the final confrontation between the New World's Assassin Brotherhood and Templar Order. I'm sure you all saw the Templars pick their targets back at Marineford. So here's how this is going to work: the corresponding Assassin and Templar will fight each other. The match will be decided when one of them is either dead or unable to fight. As an additional rule, one additional assassin will be able to join in and aid their allies in the fight. However, if more than one joins, then we are allowed to send another one of ours in. Are we good? Good. The first match will be Cyborg Franky vs. Bartholomew Kuma!"

"Good luck." Luffy told him, as Franky walked down the stairs and into the arena. Kuma walked in shortly after.

"Begin when you're ready." Ryokugyu announced, sitting back down in his throne.

"You know...I haven't forgotten what you did for us...both times on Sabaody. Saving us from Kizaru, and guarding the Sunny for two years. Why are you with the Templars?"

"...The world needs Order."

"Does it now? And you think that this kind of Order that your boss is offering is the right kind?"

"...Yes."

"Fine, then. I suppose there's no other way to settle this. Strong Right!" Franky ran up to Kuma and punched him hard across the face. When Kuma looked back, part of his skin was punched off, so his cybernetics were showing. Franky smiled.

"Did you choose me as a target because we're both cyborgs?" Kuma's insides fixed themselves, and his skin regenerated. Then he teleported behind Franky and took off his gloves. Franky whirled around and opened his left hand.

"Weapons Left!" After firing a barrage of rockets and cannonballs at Kuma, a smoke cloud and a few explosions occurred. But when the smoke cleared, Kuma revealed that he had blocked all of the hits with his paws. He then began thrusting his palms through the air, sending repelled air blasts towards Franky.

"Pad Ho."

'I know this move.' Franky glared at him. He jumped back and started firing weapons towards the blasts, intercepting them, and making them explode.

"Clearly, this is going to take forever if we continue on like this. So why don't I end this now? Iron Pirate: General Franky!" Franky's trump card flew down into the ring, and Franky climbed into the cockpit, getting it ready.

"THERE IT IS!" yelled Luffy, Chopper, and Usopp in unison, stars glowing in their eyes.

"I hope you're ready to lose, Kuma!" he yelled from inside the robot. Then Kuma created an enormous bubble of air.

"That's-" I began.

"Yeah. That's the same move he almost killed us with." Zoro finished.

"I'm not going to take that sitting down!" General Franky's arms revealed a small air cannon similar to Sunny's cannon. He began charging it up. Kuma released his attack towards his target.

"Ursus Shock." At the same time, Franky fired.

"General Cannon!" Franky fired his strongest attack towards the other one. Kuma then controlled it so that it would detonate early. The two attacks collided, creating a huge explosion and wind blast, which blew around the entire coliseum. After the entire thing subsided, both Kuma and Franky were gravely injured from the shockwave.

"...I guess I should finish this now." Kuma used his palms to extract all of his damage, making a red air bubble. Then he expanded it and contracted it in the same way that he fires Ursus Shock. Ryokugyu smiled, and Dragon and I stepped back suddenly.

"If he does that, Franky won't stand a chance!"

"What?!" everyone else yelled.

"When Kuma uses red air bubbles, they're much more powerful than his normal white ones!"

"URSUS SHOCK!" he yelled as he fired it at Franky. Franky blasted another General Cannon at it, but after the red Ursus Shock expanded, it quickly overpowered Franky's own attack and obliterated his Iron Pirate.

"Franky!" Luffy shouted. The entire robot was destroyed, and Franky was face down on the ground, covered in blood. Kuma started walking towards him to finish him off.

"No! He'll die if this goes on!" Robin said worriedly.

"Now then, Cyborg Franky...I suppose it's time...to finish you…" he stood over an unconscious Franky. Then I remembered what Ryokugyu said. One of us was allowed to jump in and aid them. There wouldn't be any interference unless more than one of us joined. I closed my eyes and sighed. The next thing that Kuma saw was me standing over Franky's body, blocking his path.

"Y-You-" But before he could finish his sentence, I had hardened my fist and charged it up with chaos, smashing it through his chest and out the other side, making everyone gasp. I flipped over and landed behind him. Kuma fell onto his knees and coughed up blood. I looked behind myself at him.

"I'm surprised you had any blood left in that cybernetic mind-controlled body of yours. I wish you hadn't betrayed us, Kuma." I looked at him sadly.

"Goodbye." I walked over to Franky, who was still unconscious, and picked him up, lifting him over my shoulder. I walked away and back up the stairs. Ryokugyu sighed.

"What a surprise...not. I knew that Aaron would end up finishing him by joining in. Someone go get his body. I suppose we'll give it back to Vegapunk, although I don't think he'll want to repair him." I brought Franky over to one of the beds in the infirmary, and Chopper began treating his wounds.

"You did well, Franky." Usopp said, standing at his side.

"Aaron, you saved his life." Robin said, looking at me.

"I know. But I ended up killing one of my friends too." I said, standing by myself.

"It had to happen, and you were prepared for it." Christina reassured me, putting her hand on my shoulder.

"He's the same as Arlong. Even though he betrayed us, he's still my friend deep down...Don't worry about me, I'll be fine. Let's go out and continue this. Chopper, can you keep treating him?"

"Of course!" The rest of us walked out onto the balcony again. Ryokugyu made another announcement.

"Okay, well, that was an interesting opening battle, even though we lost the round. Why don't we move on? Next match! Who wants to go?" he looked around at his subordinates.

"How about me?" Crocodile dispersed into sand and then appeared in the ring again. "Why don't you come down here, and then we can finish this? Nico Robin." Robin stared at him for a moment before turning and walking down the stairs towards the arena.

"She'd better win." Nami said, holding onto Luffy.

"Begin when you're ready."

"Mil Fleur, Gigantesco Mano, Slap!" Robin created a huge hand and smacked Crocodile across the arena, who couldn't care less. He simply reformed again.

"You know, it's really fortunate for me that you're my target. First of all, we have a history together. And second, you can't use haki, which means you won't win." He turned into sand once again and teleported behind Robin.

"Desert Spada!" He created a long dagger made of sand and launched it at her. Robin tried to block it with her gigantesco mano, but it didn't work, and went through her, making her cough up blood.

"Robin!" Nami yelled from the balcony. Crocodile released his powers.

"Mil Fleur, Gigantesco Mano, Slap!" Robin created a giant hand above Crocodile and slapped him into the water surrounding the ring. Although it hurt, she used it in the water as well to slap him out and back onto the ring.

"Mil Fleur, Gigantesco Mano, Stomp!" She created a pair of giant legs and continuously stomped him now that he was able to be hurt by her.

"She remembered how I beat him!" Luffy said excitedly. Everyone looked at him in confusion.

"When I fought him, I couldn't use haki yet, so I poured water on myself and made him wet so I could hit him. Robin's using that same concept here." Robin released her technique, and Crocodile slowly stood up, dripping with both water and blood.

"Well done, you've defeated a clone." he smiled. The sand dissipated and the real one formed without a scratch on him. Robin gasped and before she could react, Crocodile rushed up to her and grabbed her by the throat.

"I'm sure you remember that my powers can drain someone of all moisture in their bodies when I touch them, right?" he smiled evilly.

"Robin, no!" Zoro yelled, and was about to jump down, but Dragon beat him to it. Crocodile stopped immediately, and everyone else was on the edge of their seat, even the admirals, as they hadn't seen the full extent of Dragon's power in a long time.

"Dragon. I can do the same thing to you, if you wish. All I have to do is touch you, and I win."

"Good luck with that." Before Crocodile could blink, Dragon hardened his arm with armament haki and delivered a devastating punch to his face. The sheer force of the attack cracked and shattered the ring. Before Robin fell into the water, Dragon picked her up and tossed her towards us, where Sanji ended up catching her and bringing her to the infirmary with Chopper and Franky.

"Damn You! Sables!" Crocodile sent a giant sandstorm towards Dragon, but it was dispersed just as quickly.

"What?!" When the sand cleared, Dragon stood cloaked in a massive gale of green wind.

"Didn't you know? I possess the Gale Gale Fruit, which means I am the wind, and the wind is me. What can your sand do if it is blown away? Hurricane!" Dragon sliced his hand across the sky, making a very powerful wind blow around the entire island.

"T-This weather! I've felt it before! In Loguetown!" Nami yelled amidst the ensuing windstorm.

"It's the same one. That was Dragon who caused it." I told her. Dragon sent the windstorm towards Crocodile, who was then slashed around by the attack, and fell into the water. The wind blew him out of the water and back into what was left of the ring where he then continuously punched him with haki, until he fell over, unconscious. Dragon sighed and walked away.

"Aren't you going to kill him?" asked Ryokugyu.

"What for? You said that the rules of the tournament were that when the opponent couldn't fight any longer, the match was over. The only one that we need to kill is you, and maybe Sakazuki, depending on Luffy." Dragon walked back up the stairs, and back to the balcony. Meanwhile, Kizaru went down and carried Crocodile back up to the rest of the Templars, where the Marine doctors were giving him medical treatment. Ryokugyu was starting to lose his cool.

"Law, could you fix the arena?" he yelled over.

"Room." Law used his powers on the ring to put it back together.

"Next fight." Ryokugyu said, frowning.

"Then I suppose it's my turn." Hawkins said, walking down the stairs and into the arena.

"It's your turn, guys." Sabo said, looking at both Chopper and Brook. They walked down and into the arena.

"Brook, we can beat him. Unlike the past two battles, he chose two different targets, which means that we can overpower him by working together."

"Think that all you want, but I can take the both of you on at once. And before you ask, we all know your true abilities, reindeer. Your powers. I know that I can still beat you."

"Why don't you prove it?! Horn Point!" Chopper's horns grew, and he rushed towards Hawkins at a blinding speed. Hawkins was impaled by his horns, and afterwards Brook rushed over and stabbed him with his sword, leaving everyone surprised.

"If we want to win this thing, then we can't hold back. We can't worry about fatally injuring our opponents or not!" Chopper clarified for everyone.

"Before you worry about fatal injuries, how about you concern yourself with injuring your opponent at all?" Hawkins asked, as two Revolutionary soldiers in the crowd suddenly collapsed in their seat. At that point, Hawkins grabbed his sword and slashed both of them with a horizontal slice, knocking them back.

"CHOPPER!" Nami screamed, seeing a small pool of blood fall out of the reindeer's torso. They both looked up at Hawkins, who was unharmed. Just then, they saw two small straw voodoo dolls come out of his arm and fall onto the ground. He looked down at them.

'That's two. Eight left.' Chopper looked in the audience and saw the two dead Revolutionaries.

'What's up with that? I need to confirm something.'

"Brook, attack him one more time!"

"You got it! Hanauta Sancho: Yahazu Giri!" he yelled, slashing Hawkins multiple times, and then sheathing his sword after walking past him. Once again, Hawkins didn't do anything. Chopper was watching him intently with his Brain Point. He then noticed him glance into the crowd quickly as another Revolutionary soldier fell with slashes in the same pattern as Brook's move. Another doll fell out of Hawkins' arm.

'I thought so! Got it! His weakness!'

"Brook! I've figured it out! His weakness!" Brook jumped back next to him.

"What is it?"

"His devil fruit has a power where he can transfer any damage he takes to someone else nearby. Each time that he gets fatally wounded, he transfers it to someone else, and then uses up one of those dolls in his arm. I'm sure he has a limit, so if we can get him enough to use up all of his dolls, we'll be able to hurt him for real. The problem is, we don't know how many times he can use the technique. So we just have to keep going!"

"You got it!"

"Hmph. So you figured it out. But now that you have, I'm not going to stand here and take your attacks anymore." Hawkins took out his sword again, and this time rushed towards Brook and began exchanging blows with their swords.

"Soul Solid!" Brook yelled, imbuing his sword with a cold wind and freezing it. His strikes became more powerful, and was able to freeze Hawkins' own sword, shattering it. He then stabbed him 8 times. Hawkins jumped back, and seven dolls fell out of his arms, while one small spot of blood bled through his coat from his shoulder.

"Yes! He's used them all!" Chopper yelled. "Heavy Point!" Chopper ran over to Hawkins, but was intercepted and slashed by a bunch of levitating red and yellow tarot cards. Chopper and Brook looked at him, and saw him controlling the cards with his hands.

"Yes, besides my sword, I can use my cards as weapons. Like so." Hawkins swiped his hand at Chopper, and all of the cards made a straight line that slashed across Chopper's torso, once again causing blood to spill out from him.

"Ahhhh!"

"Chopper!" everyone screamed again.

"Monster Point!" He yelled after eating a Rumble Ball. He transformed again, and stared Hawkins down in his monster form. Hawkins didn't seem fazed whatsoever. He took his cards back, and put them away. Brook once again used Soul Solid. Hawkins sighed, and looked at both of them.

"Well clearly, now that you're that big, my cards won't work on you anymore. So I suppose I should use my own transformation. Demon Conquering Mode." Hawkins' body became covered in straw, the same material as the voodoo dolls.

"What kind of transformation is that?!" Brook yelled. Hawkins stood almost as tall as Chopper's monster point, in his transformed state. He looked like a giant scarecrow. Before Chopper could see him move, Hawkins jumped up and slashed Chopper across the front multiple times, making blood pour out, and before long, his transformation was undone, and he fell forward onto the ground, unconscious.

"CHOPPER!" everyone else screamed. Brook rushed up to him and was about to stab him when Hawkins grabbed his sword right out of his hands and slashed Brook across the front too, sending him straight towards the water.

"Brook! No!" Luffy yelled. But before Brook could fall into the water, Zoro caught him and rushed over to Chopper as well, bringing them both up to the balcony.

"Heal them! I'll deal with him!" Zoro yelled, landing back into the arena.

"Roronoa Zoro…" Hawkins acknowledged. "Our bounties are equal, you know. Both 320 million. As a fellow Supernova, I get excited whenever I fight someone in the same league as myself. So you'll forgive me if I don't hold back like I did with those two?" he asked, now hardening his demon form's arms with haki. Zoro smirked and took out his swords, imbuing all of them with his own haki.

"So you want to see the difference between us? Fine. One Sword Style: 108 Pound Phoenix!" Zoro launched his flying slash attack at Hawkins, who's demon form was instantly split in half, making him revert to his base form.

"Wh-What?!"

"Three Sword Style Secret Technique: Three Thousand Worlds!" Zoro started spinning his swords around like a helicopter blade, and rushed past Hawkins, slashing him straight across the front, making him fall over, unconscious. Zoro sheathed his swords and walked past him.

"The gap between us? It's wide. You're nothing compared to him." Zoro said, walking past him and back up to the balcony where everyone else was. The Templars grabbed Hawkins' body and healed him along with the others.

"Thank you, Zoro." Luffy told him.

"Don't thank me. It goes without saying that I'd save any one of us in an instant. How are they?"

"I healed them all with haki, but they still need to take it easy." Christina told him.

"Let's go back out. The next match is going to happen." They all walked out again and saw Kid standing in the ring already.

"How long are you two going to make me wait?" he yelled up, smiling.

"...It's our turn, Long-Nose. Let's go." Law told him. Usopp reluctantly followed him down into the ring, preparing to take down one of the strongest Supernovas, in league with Luffy.

"I'm going to start right away." Kid took out his pistol and unsheathed his dagger. He aimed at Usopp and fired, but he used his Observation Haki to dodge it without moving. Kid ran towards him and continued firing, while Usopp continued dodging. He started slashing the dagger towards him as well, using the two weapons in a combo, and succeeded in cutting Usopp's face.

"Room! Shambles!" Law yelled, creating a large force field around the three of them. He swapped positions with one of the bullets, and countered Kid's dagger with his own sword. The bullet that swapped with Law flew towards Kid, but he knocked it away with his robotic arm. But that split second knocked him off guard long enough for Law to smack the dagger and pistol out of his hands and slice him across the chest with his sword. Kid got knocked back, but healed himself with haki. He threw off his coat, leaving just his black shirt. He grinned.

"Repulsion!" Kid created a few clusters of metal and shot them towards the two, who just barely dodged due to the speed of them.

"Over the two years since the war, I overcame the fatal flaw in my devil fruit through training. Now I don't have to be near metal in order to use it, I can create it myself! Attraction!" Kid started ricocheting the clusters off of the arena. This time, they hit both Usopp and Law hard in the back, making them cough up blood and fall onto their knees.

"Observation Haki doesn't work against ricocheting attacks. You can't predict random movements." he grinned at them.

"Grghh...Maybe not, but this can! ROOM!" Law quickly created a large sphere encompassing the whole coliseum.

"Have you forgotten? This entire space is my operating table! Anything within it is bent to my will! Even you!" Law quickly unsheathed his sword and sliced the clusters in half, making them fall into the water.

"Shambles-"

"Oh no you don't! I invoke the cross!" Kid flung out a Templar Cross around his neck, which was gold and decorated with citrines. It began glowing, and all of a sudden, Law's field disappeared.

"What?! Room!" Law attempted to create another sphere, but it didn't work. Law looked over at Kid, whose cross was still glowing.

"What did you do?!" he yelled, glaring at the Templar. Ryokugyu grinned from where he was sitting.

"I invoked the power of my cross. Each one of us, save for Kuma, wears a Templar Cross pendant around our necks. There are two powers imbued in every cross. The first is that since all of us are devil fruit users, it gives us the power to swim and not drown when we fall in water. The second is that depending on our target, we are allowed to nullify the powers of one of our devil-fruit eater targets. So for me, I chose to nullify Law's powers, since he's the only devil-fruit user of you two. So unless you either defeat me, or destroy my cross, your Op-Op Fruit won't work." he smirked.

"Special Attack: Green Star: Impact Wolf!" Usopp yelled before shooting a pellet towards Kid that transformed into a rampaging grass wolf.

"I don't think so." Kid created a giant metal hand and smacked right through the wolf with ease. He then swiped it across the arena, knocking the two into the water.

"Law!" I yelled. Usopp rescued him from drowning, and got back up into the arena, but Kid continued his assault, and before long, both of them were on the verge of defeat. They were face down on the ground and could barely move.

"Usopp! Tra!" Luffy began to jump into the arena, but Sabo stopped him.

"Let me handle this, Luffy." Sabo jumped into the arena and squared off against Kid.

"Come to save these two? What do you think you can do against my newfound powers?"

"Melt them."

"What?!"

"Fire Fist!" Sabo blasted a powerful wave of fire towards Kid, who tried to block it, but was unable to. When he came to, he was injured, and his metal arm had partially melted. He growled and dispersed it.

"Fine! Then I'll just create something that you can't melt! Metal Monster!" he shouted before his entire body became covered in metal. He looked similar to Hawkins' transformation, but was more powerful. Sabo tried to melt it again, but this time it didn't work.

"You see?! This form's metal is more sturdy and well-made than my previous attacks. Your fire won't be able to melt it!"

"..." Sabo smirked, which made Kid frown.

"What's so funny?"

"Do you know what's unique about fire? As the color changes, so does the temperature. And as it happens, red is the lowest of the five. The Flare Flare Fruit turns someone into a fire, so as I change the color and increase the temperature…" he said while the fire changed from orange to yellow to white, "I grow stronger. White Fire Fist!" he yelled before unleashing a blast of white fire towards Kid. He once again tried to block it, but this time, was completely overpowered, and when the explosion died down, all of his metal had completely melted and disintegrated. Kid's shirt had been burned off, and he was damaged.

"Why, you…"

"I'm going to end this now, if you don't mind. Dragon's Breath." he said, hardening his fists and then unleashing a burst of haki into the arena, shattering it in half. Kid was sent up into the air from the shockwave, and Sabo quickly jumped up after him. Burning Dragon Claw Fist: Fire Flame Dragon King!" he yelled. He created a normal hardened dragon claw, but used his fire powers to ignite it, making the impact much more powerful onto Kid's chest. Blood dripped from his mouth, and he was just about at his limit. But then, Sabo's claw became imbued by his white fire, and sent another powerful shockwave through his body again, and sent him spinning into the water, giving Sabo the win. He sighed, and grabbed Law and Usopp, carrying them back up into the infirmary where they were healed. In the meantime, Arlong jumped down into the water and retrieved an unconscious Kid. Ryokugyu crushed part of his chair, and used his power to repair the ring.

"Fujitora! It's your turn! I'm saving the Master Templars for last."

"Of course." Fujitora walked out into the ring slowly. Sabo looked at Christina.

"Ready?"

"Always." The two of them walked out into the arena together.

"Last time, my normal fire didn't work against you, so this time, I'm going to start with my White Fire." Sabo said, creating said white fire on his fists and through his pipe.

"And you?" Fujitora looked at Christina. "I'm afraid that I'm not very familiar with your powers."

"Don't worry. You'll see them soon enough." she responded, hardening both of her legs with haki. Christina teleported to him and kicked his arm, which he blocked with his own haki. She then landed on the ground and hardened both of her arms.

"Finger Pistol Yellow Lotus!" she yelled, firing multiple finger pistols at Fujitora, who hardened his cane-sword with haki and was blocking them. She then quickly jumped into the air, using Skywalk to keep herself up there. Meanwhile, Sabo launched some white fire blasts towards Fujitora, and continuously punching him with Dragon Claws. He finally broke through Fujitora's haki and blew him back a bit before the purple admiral noticed Christina launching an attack on him.

"Tempest Kick: Slaughter!" She quickly shot multiple air blasts from her legs towards him. Fujitora began blocking it, but was overwhelmed by the many attacks. The ring became covered in a white smoke due to the attacks.

"Tempest Kick: Victory Bird!" Christina yelled. She sent a powerful Tempest Kick shaped like a bird down towards Fujitora, which created a large explosion. When the smoke had cleared, Fujitora stood only slightly damaged from the assault. He sighed, and then threw his admiral's coat off into the wind.

"I suppose that in order to stop two of the strongest Master Assassins at the same time, I'll have to get serious. Jupiter." He unsheathed his cane-sword and sliced horizontally towards the two of them. They braced themselves, but felt no pain or wounds. All of a sudden, the two of them were brought down to their knees, and then all the way down onto their stomachs.

"Hrghh...I...can't...move!" Sabo yelled. Christina tried to get up, but fell back down again.

"You won't be able to get up from those positions. You see, my devil fruit, the Force-Force Fruit, is based on gravity. And with that power, I have the ability to make my weapon match any planet's gravity that I choose. I just changed it to Jupiter, which is the planet with the heaviest gravity in the solar system. Earth's gravity pulls people down at a rate of 9.8 meters per second squared. Jupiter is 24.8 meters per second squared. Basically, right now, you weigh 2.5 times what you do on Earth. So if you weigh 140 pounds here, you weigh 350 thanks to this." Christina growled. She looked up into the sky and saw that there weren't clouds. It was clear. She smirked, and after a few seconds, a ball of white light appeared in her hand. She shot it up into the air, and it quickly expanded. Fujitora looked up.

"Hm? What is that supposed to be?"

"Moonlight Pillar." Fujitora gasped as he was suddenly engulfed in a column of blinding moonlight. When it disappeared, Fujitora was damaged, and Christina jumped to her feet while Sabo was recovering.

"Hrghh…Hm?!" Christina quickly jumped over to him and placed her fists on top of each other, hardening them with haki.

"Rokuougan!" She blasted a shockwave through him, making a hole through his stomach. She jumped back, and Fujitora fell onto his knees.

"You weren't aware of my powers? How strange, because my father has been well informed about them for years. It seems to me that your superiors don't trust you very much. I ate the Moon Moon Fruit, so I can control the moonlight and create temporary artificial moons. And in addition to that, I possess all three types of haki and am a master of the Rokushiki. I'll have you know that I'm stronger than Sabo." She said, standing over him.

Nami was speechless. 'She's that powerful?! I couldn't sense her haki when she was training me...Come to think of it, besides Luffy, Rayleigh, Hancock, and Arlong, I can't sense anyone else's.'

"Say, Dragon…" Nami began.

"I can see it on your face. You're wondering why you haven't been able to sense a haki as powerful as hers before, right?"

"Y-Yeah. Why is it that I can't sense hers, or Aaron's, Shanks', or your's?"

"Even though you can use haki, you're still just a beginner with it. When you get onto a level of power and experience like Christina, Hawkeye, Aaron, Akainu, Shanks, Ryokugyu or myself, we're able to use our haki without any effort whatsoever. Shanks' haki is such that when he so much as walks near weak-willed people, they will collapse automatically, without him lifting so much as a finger. However, the opposite is also true. We have the ability to conceal our haki as well, even to other haki users such as Luffy and yourself. It's because we're on a higher level. For example, you know that I'm twice as strong as Shanks, so could you imagine if I simply walked around with all of my haki rushing around me? You'd have to be at least Warlord level to be able to remain conscious. And that doesn't even cover being able to completely withstand it."

"You think I don't know...that they don't trust me? Transformation: Gravity Tiger." Fujitora transformed into a giant, purple, hollow tiger and stared down at the two of them.

"You see, I'm fully aware that I'm only in the Order because I'm an Admiral. Kuzan standing against Saka was an unforeseen result, and when he left, it made it even worse. One promoted, and one resigned. Only Kizaru was left. So I was promoted by the World Military Draft to fill in one of the positions. The Grandmaster decided to step into the other Admiral's seat, and inducted me into the Order, and decided to recruit Arlong, Kid, and Hawkins in as well, to prepare for the Brotherhood's assault."

"And you're fine with that? You're okay with simply being another pawn in his game?"

"It would be a far scarier fate to betray him and demand to be respected. I intentionally blinded myself years ago to escape the horrible sights of this world. The only ones that truly matter are the Master Templars, not someone like me. But I still retain my pride as a Templar. So, I will do my best to stop you! In this form, if you touch me, you'll be affected by gravity that is on the same level as the Sun. That's 28 times stronger than Earth's, and 11 times stronger than Jupiter's. Do you think you can win now?"

"Of course. You weren't really paying attention to what I said before, were you?" Christina hardened her arms and created moonlight spheres around her hands and punched Fujitora's tiger form up into the air.

"My powers are based on moonlight. The moon's gravity is one-tenth that of Earth's. Any of your gravity abilities won't work on me. Moon Goddess Form!" she shouted before using her own transformation. Fujitora fell to the ground and slowly recovered, staring at her.

Christina's appearance hadn't really changed much, but her haki was on a completely different level than before. She now stood wearing a shimmering silver dress, and had a large scepter with a moon symbol at the top in her left hand.

"H-Her haki! I can barely breathe!" Nami said breathlessly, holding onto Luffy for support.

"Take a good look. Christina hasn't had to get serious in a long time. This is her full power. When she takes this form, her haki jumps from 70,000 to 150,000." Christina composed herself as she announced the full name of the form.

"...Selene's Judgement."

"Selene?" Fujitora asked. "The Greek Goddess of the Moon?"

"Yes." Christina held her scepter up towards Fujitora and it began to glow a brilliant white.

"Moonlight Damnation." she muttered. Before Fujitora could react, he was obliterated by an enormous explosion of white light that created an atomic cloud shaped like a crescent moon. When the smoke cleared, Fujitora was facedown, his transformation deactivated. Christina released her own powers and grabbed an unconscious Sabo, carrying him back up the stairs.

"Quite the impressive Third in Command you have there, Dragon. To be able to take down an Admiral's full power with minimal effort." Ryokugyu smirked, retrieving Issho's body.

"Woah…" Nami said under her breath.

"Exactly. And you made the stupid mistake of challenging her to a fight back in Solacia. You would have lost, Luffy." I told him. He was completely shocked. Christina healed Sabo and walked over towards everyone else.

"...What?" she asked as they all stared at her in disbelief.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN WHAT?! THAT WAS AMAZING!" they all yelled.

"Hm? I thought you knew about my strength…"

"No! When would we ever see you in action like that?! You just took down Fujitora like it was nothing!" Nami praised her.

"I know." she said nonchalantly.

"You know, I have an idea. Let's make this interesting." Ryokugyu announced, standing up and leaning over the balcony. He created a small gold orb of light around his hand, and then let it float into the air. It dispersed, and then everyone could suddenly see someone's memories. Christina's memories.

"Lady Christina, it's time for training." a Marine soldier told her. She was young, only perhaps 6 years old.

"Alright." she said unenthusiastically. She began training with some marine soldiers, while they taught her the basics of combat. From the sidelines, a young Sakazuki was watching with his arms crossed. When the training was over, he walked over.

"Vice Admiral!" the soldiers saluted.

"Nice work today. You're dismissed. Christina, come with me. I want to talk to you about something." She followed him into Marineford.

"Admiral Sengoku."

"Sakazuki. What a surprise. Did you need something?"

"I trust that you know how Christina's training is going, right?"

"Yes. I hear that it's going very well. She's a natural fighter-"

"It's not enough." he said sternly. Christina looked up at him.

"...What do you mean? You want to push her even further?"

"Yes. She's excelling because it's not challenging to her. I can tell that she's bored with her training. She must have mastered these skills long ago. I know she's very young, but...I'd like to begin training her in the Rokushiki."

"Really?" Sengoku asked skeptically, raising an eyebrow.

"Yes. If she can master the Six powers plus the Rokuougan, I guarantee that she'll become at least Vice-Admiral rank later on."

"Alright then, fine. I'll get someone to teach it to her."

X

"She mastered all seven powers in only a few months. She's quite gifted." Sengoku was telling Sakazuki.

"Right. I suppose that she can keep honing her skills and begin going out on small missions."

X

"Those damn marines. How many times have they covered up events only to preserve their reputation? Those godforsaken Celestial Dragons. I'm not going to be part of the World Government anymore. I'm finished with them." Christina was muttering while storming down the hallway with her belongings in her backpack. She walked towards Vegapunk's lab.

"Um, Lady Christina, remember that this area is restricted-" began one of the soldiers before she knocked him unconscious with her Finger Pistol. She sliced the door in half with a Tempest Kick and walked into the main room. Vegapunk looked behind him.

"You...What is it? You know that this a restricted area, right?"

"I don't particularly care. I'm leaving the Marines and joining the Revolution. I just came to take something." She walked over to a glass cube that had a white devil fruit with moon shaped swirls in it. The label read that it was a logia type, called the moon-moon fruit, and was a Piece of Eden. She broke it, and took it out.

"No wait! Don't-" But it was already too late. Christina waved while eating the fruit and walking out of the room.

"Th-Those were my memories…" Christina muttered.

"A few little fun facts about your companion. You didn't really know too much about her, right? I gave you some background information." Ryokugyu smiled.

"Why even bother?" she asked.

"I'm not really one for secrets."

"...You kept your entire existence to the World Government a secret for most of your life." I corrected him.

"But I quickly came out about the Order once I was known."

"..."

"..."

"You're hopeless." we said at the same time.

"Are you ready for the next battle then?" he asked.

"As ready as I'll ever be. Let's do this." Arlong smiled, and jumped down into the ring.

"Nami. Good luck. And you know that if you're in trouble, I'll help you out in a heartbeat." he reassured her. Nami smiled back at him and kissed him on the cheek.

"Alright then. Are you ready, Jinbei?"

"Of course!" The two of them walked down into the arena and stood opposite of Arlong.

"Start when you're ready." the Grandmaster sighed.

"I should have taken care of you a long time ago." Jinbei said.

"Yes, you should have. I warned you that day when I left. That if you wanted to stop me, then you had to kill me. And you let me go. And now you're going to pay the price for that decision, because with my current strength, you don't stand a chance. Even if Nami can use lightning attacks to injure me, she doesn't have the physical strength to be able to fight me as an equal." Arlong then jumped over to Jinbei and punched him into the side of the coliseum with a hardened fist.

"Jinbei!" Nami yelled.

"Fishman Karate: Samegawara Seiken!" he yelled. He fired a water wave with his fist that suddenly blasted past Arlong.

"You're a devil fruit eater, and the weakness of every devil fruit user is water!"

Arlong simply walked through the attack, completely unaffected.

"Huh?!"

"Jinbei, it doesn't work! He's-" Arlong grabbed her throat before she could finish her sentence. Nami's color drained from her eyes.

"N-Nami!" Luffy yelled. He dropped her onto the ground, making her cough and catch her breath. Arlong had already moved on to Jinbei, who was getting continuously punched by his Armament Haki.

"She's right, you know. I'm made of water, so no water attack will work against me. It's the fourth most powerful devil fruit out there. Of course the three strongest being the Rumble Rumble, Chaos Chaos, and Order Order Fruits." Arlong picked Jinbei up and slammed him against the arena.

"You're barely able to stand, and I haven't even gotten serious yet. See what I mean, Jinbei? You missed your chance to kill me. Water Rifle." Arlong created a rifle made out of water, and then added haki, making it turn black in color. He shot Jinbei multiple times, making him fall unconscious and begin to bleed out.

"Luffy!" Nami yelled out.

"On it!" he jumped into the ring and started throwing punches at Arlong, who was dodging them effortlessly. But then he activated Second Gear, and quickly kicked him against the back wall of the coliseum with a hardened leg. He then ran over to Jinbei and quickly used Haki Healing to stop the bleeding and partially heal the wound. Arlong jumped back into the ring and revealed his necklace, a gold templar cross with onyxes in it. He smirked.

"I invoke the cross!" Suddenly, Luffy's Second Gear deactivated.

"Huh? What happened? Second Gear!" he shouted again, but nothing happened. He tried to use his rubber powers to pump more blood through his body, but he didn't stretch.

"What's going on?!" Arlong suddenly jumped over to Luffy and began bombarding him with punches, knocking him to the ground, covered in blood.

"Don't you remember when Kid used his cross against Law? Besides letting you swim even as a devil fruit user, we're allowed to nullify one devil fruit's powers. Neither one of my targets are devil fruit users. However, I knew that you would jump in to save Nami, so I chose to nullify the Gum Gum Fruit." he smiled maliciously. Nami's eyes widened, and Luffy gritted his teeth.

"So until you beat me, or destroy this cross, you can't use your powers. You're just a normal human."

"Not quite! I can still use my haki!" he shouted before hardening his arm and punching Arlong right in the stomach. However, he was unaffected. But Luffy suddenly became weak and fell onto his knees.

"Do you get it now, Luffy? My combination is invincible to you. My cross nullifies your powers. Even when that happens, you still have the same weakness to water. Whenever you attack me, you become weak due to my water powers. The only kind of attacks that can work against me are lightning-based, and since you're made of rubber, you can't conduct electricity! You're an insulator!" But then Luffy smiled.

"There's a loophole in your combination. It's not invincible. There's one fatal flaw!"

"Enlighten me then! What is it?!"

"When you take away my rubber powers, I'm no longer made of rubber!" Luffy tried to stretch his arm, but it didn't work. "Which means that I can become electrified! Nami!"

"Right! Thunderbolt Tempo!" she yelled before using an electric blast on Luffy. He then jumped over to Arlong and punched him right through the chest, making blood fall out of his mouth. Luffy took his fist out and hardened both of them, beginning to punch him repeatedly.

"I'm not letting you use Neptune's Fury. Listen to me, and listen good. I've thoroughly had enough of you. For Nami's and everyone else's sake, DON'T EVER COME BACK!" he yelled breaking Arlong's cross. Luffy felt his rubber powers return to him.

"Fifth Gear!" he yelled, becoming cloaked in golden aura. "Nami!" he held his hand out to her, and she took it.

"Together!"

"Right!"

"GUM GUM GOLDEN LIGHTNING HAWK!" they yelled together, their fists crashing into the fishman. They stood in the arena, next to each other, thinking that they beat him.

"I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF YOU, LUFFY! NEPTUNE'S FURY!" Arlong screamed from inside the rubble, and destroyed it, revealing himself at his full power, his eyes glowing teal. He flew towards them, his fist colliding with Luffy's face, grabbing him, and flying away to the other side of the coliseum with his body. Arlong crashed him into the side, and continued beating him so fast that Luffy could not fight back.

"Luffy! Knock it off, leave him alone!" Nami yelled. After a few minutes, Arlong jumped back into the arena. Luffy slowly fell off and into the water, unconscious.

"Luffy!" Zoro yelled. He was about to dive in after him, but I stopped him.

"Zoro, don't! If one more of us joins in, another one of them will too, and they'll kill Luffy and Nami for sure. Don't worry, I have faith that Nami will save him." Arlong slowly walked towards the young orange-haired navigator. She had never been so scared in her life. Luffy was in the water drowning, Jinbei was beaten to near death, and the man responsible, her old nemesis, was coming for her to do the same. Her life was at an end. But this is not how Luffy would allow things to end, he would go out fighting.

Nami hardened both of her arms and her clima-tact, and began throwing attack after attack at him. But none of them proved effective, as he simply brushed all of them aside, still walking as calmly as ever. Before she knew it, Arlong was towering over her, looking at her with bloodlust in his eyes. He hardened his fist and backhanded her across the face, making her go flying across the ring, rolling in the process. Once again, he appeared in front of her and grabbed his Kiribachi, hardening it with haki.

Even though Luffy was drowning, his eyes snapped open the second he felt Nami's haki fluctuate. He felt that Arlong had struck her. He sensed their auras and saw that he was standing over her with his sword drawn. Luffy's haki began to surge.

"Time to die, Nami." he grinned evilly. "Huh?" He turned around to see a giant geyser burst out of the water. Arlong and Nami looked on with curiosity until they saw the water subside, and a single figure standing across from them. He came into view, and they saw Luffy with his entire body hardened in haki. His face was dark, and his conqueror's was out of control, rushing around him. He slowly began to walk forward towards Arlong.

"So you escaped death on your own? Interesting. Water Pistol Gatling." He fired multiple shots towards Luffy, and they hit, but he didn't even flinch and just kept walking.

"What…? What's going on? Neptune's Fury!" Arlong activated his full power once more and rushed over to Luffy, throwing two hardened punches at him. However, Luffy caught them both single-handedly.

"What?!" Arlong yelled. Luffy viciously kneed Arlong in the stomach, making him cough up blood, and the attack sent him across the ring. He continued walking towards him. At that moment, he started mumbling angrily.

"You hurt her…" he said, full of rage. Nami's eyes widened.

"Wh-What?" Arlong asked, almost sounding afraid.

"YOU HIT NAMI! HOW DARE YOU!" he yelled, his voice not the same as it usually was. He lifted his head up so that everyone could see his face. His eyes were bloodshot and red, full of hate. Nami had seen Luffy pissed off before, but this was on a completely different level. Luffy was absolutely livid. Arlong flew up to him once more, and began throwing punch after punch at him. Luffy easily dodged each and every one of them, and punched Arlong hard in the chest, sending him flying. Luffy teleported back in front of him again.

"Gum Gum Hawk Pistol!" he yelled, hardening his arm and punching him in the face over and over again until he was completely unconscious. After regaining control over himself and his haki, he leapt back into the arena and walked over to Nami, bending down next to her.

"...Are you alright?" he asked.

"Y-Yeah, I'll be fine. Let's go." He helped her up, and they left the arena. Kizaru retrieved Arlong's body, healing him in the infirmary with his haki.

Nami led Luffy over into one of the empty rooms on the staircase. "We did it, Luffy…" Nami whispered to him, and then leapt onto him, trapping him in a fierce kiss. When they parted, she hugged him.

"That's the second time that you've saved me from him.

"And this is the second time that I'll say this: you're my friend, girlfriend, and future queen. I love you, Nami. I always have and I always will." She blushed and chuckled.

"To think that I'd end up meeting you by pure chance back in Orange Town. If you had never shown up, I wonder how things would have went for me?"

"No differently. I would have come by Cocoyashi at some point and would have stopped Arlong all the same, and recruited you into my crew. And we would fall in love all over again." he smiled at her.

"Come on, you. The next match will be starting soon." she smiled, tapping his nose playfully. They walked back out onto the balcony.

"Are you ready?" Ryokugyu asked.

"Always." Mihawk walked down to the arena slowly.

"...It's our turn." Hancock said, looking down at him.

"No, It's MY turn." Zoro said, beginning to walk down to the ring.

"Excuse me?" she asked harshly. "You seem to have forgotten that he chose two targets."

"I don't particularly care what you think. This is my battle, and mine alone. It always was. I had every intention of fighting this battle myself. That man is my reason why I set out to sea. To surpass him as a swordsman is my ultimate goal in life. And that's a goal that I have to accomplish myself. If I was only able to beat him because you were fighting alongside me, that wouldn't be a real win for me. So sit this one out. I don't care if I die, as long as I'm able to fight him with my full power." Zoro said, continuing towards the arena after a few moments of silence.

"B-But-" Hancock began, but then saw Luffy's hand in front of her, blocking her from following after him. She looked at him, and he shook his head with a serious expression on his face.

"Let him do this. This battle is Zoro's entire reason for living." Zoro walked out into the arena slowly, and stared Hawkeye down.

"Roronoa…"

"..."

"You're going to take me on myself?"

"Of course! I wouldn't have it any other way!"

"Fine then! I'd prefer it that way anyway! Come! Show me the results of all of your training!"

"You asked for it! One Sword Style: 360 Pound Phoenix!" he yelled before launching a powerful flying slash attack towards the World's Strongest Swordsman. But Mihawk effortlessly dispersed it by swiftly moving his Yoru to the side.

"You'll have to do better than that."

"One Sword Style: Great Dragon Shock! Zoro slashed towards him, and quickly passed by him. A large blast of air then sliced through Hawkeye, who looked stunned for a moment, but then disappeared, and only some lightning remained.

"You only killed a clone. Did you forget that I ate the Rumble Rumble Fruit?"

"Of course not. Two Sword Style: Nigiri. Tower Climb!" he shouted shooting an upward slash towards Mihawk, who dodged it.

"Tower Climb Return!" He then shot a downwards slash towards him, but he once again dodged.

"Flash! Ripple!" he yelled as he rushed him head on and slashed diagonally. Mihawk cut Zoro's arm with his Yoru, making him jump back. Mihawk didn't give him time to recover, as he launched an energy wave towards Zoro. Zoro growled before he placed his sword in position.

"Two Sword Style Draw: Rashomon!" he yelled, splitting the energy wave in half by slicing downwards.

"Hmph. Let's see if you can stop my attacks as easily now." he said calmly, then imbuing haki into his Yoru. Mihawk slashed again, but this time it was much more powerful.

"Three Sword Style: 108 Pound Phoenix!" The two attacks collided, and for a time were equal, but Hawkeye's overpowered it and ended up injuring Zoro.

"Hrgh...Three Sword Style: One Gorilla! Two Gorilla! Two Gorilla Slash!" Zoro ran towards Mihawk and swung his swords towards him, who countered with his own attack. Zoro growled at him and sliced again, managing to cut across his torso. Mihawk quickly hardened his foot and kicked upwards at Zoro's chin, making him cough up blood and fall onto his back. Zoro slowly got up and glared at him.

"Why don't you take this seriously?!"

"I'll start taking this seriously when you can convince me that I should. Right now, I don't really have to try very hard."

"Fine! You want me to try harder?! Three Sword Style Secret Technique: Crossing the Six Paths!" Zoro slashed at him six times, and it was so fast that it seemed like he didn't even move. An inverted "S" shape was formed from the attacks. This time, Mihawk had to swing quickly in order to stop Zoro's attack.

"So now you're using skills that you developed over our training period. But have you noticed what I have yet?"

"What?"

"I haven't moved from this spot. You haven't made me move a single step yet." Zoro's eyes widened in realization.

'These two years of training...I chose him as my master because I couldn't learn from anyone else! If I need to beat the World's Strongest, I need to learn from him and analyze his fighting style. But even now, even though he ate that devil fruit, he's still just toying with me?! He hasn't even used his powers yet. It looks like I don't really have a choice anymore. I have to use that.'

"When were you going to tell us that your devil fruit was also a Piece of Eden?" I asked Christina.

"Eventually." she said, playing with her hair.

"The First Civilization made 4 devil fruits. The Order Order, Chaos Chaos, Moon Moon, and Sun Sun Fruits."

"Sun Sun Fruit?" Luffy asked.

"Yep. It's the counterpart to my powers. A logia that uses the sunlight. Right now, it's in your mother's possession, although she hasn't eaten it."

"Mom has it?" Luffy asked Dragon.

"Yes. We're holding it for safekeeping. She doesn't want to lose her ability to swim, so we're trying to find someone who's willing to eat it."

"What about Nami?" Luffy suggested. Nami looked at him skeptically.

"The powerup would be a nice change of pace, but I still want to be able to swim too, Luffy. Who would be able to rescue you if I couldn't?"

"Zoro, Sanji, Usopp, Franky-" Luffy began counting on his fingers.

"I get it, I get it. But still, if we're ever alone and something happened to you, I need to be able to save you from drowning."

"Aaron! Do it!" Zoro yelled from down in the arena.

"Alright, fine." Zoro hardened all three of his swords with haki, and then I used my wind to lift him into the air, and flew him back a ways, out of the arena. Then I launched him forward so that he would fly back into the arena at full speed.

'What's he planning?' Mihawk thought.

"Three Sword Style Secret Technique: Billion-fold World Trichiliocosm!" he roared, rotating his swords at a tremendous speed, and then slashing when he got towards Mihawk. The swordsman quickly countered Zoro's attack, but when the collision finished, a crack emerged on Yoru, and Zoro was unharmed.

'H-He cracked my blade?! Impossible!' Zoro smirked.

'Now, while he's distracted.'

"Three Sword Style: Rengoku Oni Giri!" Zoro quickly slashed past Mihawk, creating an X-shape with the blood that he drew from his former master. He turned around and got ready again.

"Three Sword Style: 1080 Pound Phoenix!" he yelled, launching his most powerful slash attack towards Mihawk.

"200 Million Volt Vari!" he yelled, imbuing his blade with both lightning and haki, making it much stronger. Mihawk unleashed a blue, electrified wave of energy that cut Zoro's apart and ended up slashing his chest vertically.

"Gah!" Zoro yelled in pain, clutching his chest. "I...have to work through the pain...ignore it! Three Sword Style: Ultra Tiger Hunt!" he yelled, placing his two swords behind him perpendicular to the ground, and the third one still in his mouth. He jumped towards Mihawk and slammed the two swords against Yoru with haki. Mihawk took a step back, but sliced Zoro away.

"I got you to move." Zoro smirked. "Three Sword Style: Black Rope Dragon Twister!" Zoro used one of his strongest moves against Mihawk, making a spinning tornado that whipped around the arena. Mihawk faced it, and braced himself.

'That attack looks like the Grim Reaper's Scythe. Black Rope Dragon Twister. Seems that he's finally getting serious.' he smirked.

"El Thor!" he announced, creating a huge pillar of lightning. The attack crashed down directly onto the tornado, dispersing it.

'He got rid of it…'

"You've proven to me that I should give this my all. So I suppose I'll start getting serious. Max 200 Million Volt Amaru!" Mihawk transformed into his thunder god form and revealed his true power. He then held his hands up to the sky.

"Now then...let's see you stop this. Raigo!" Out of the sky emerged an enormous dark ball of lightning. The ball started flying towards Zoro, who seemed distraught.

'I can't just dodge it, because then the whole coliseum will be destroyed, maybe even the whole island, and everyone else will get hurt. I have to either deflect it back to the sky or disperse the attack itself. And there's only one way to do that.'

"Demon Aura. Nine Sword Style: Asura!" Zoro yelled, creating his nine sword style illusion.

"There's that form again!" Usopp yelled, looking at the demon swordsman.

"Asura Silver Mist!" Zoro countered the attack with all of his swords, and tried to slash it apart, but it proved to be too strong. He was getting pushed back by it. Mihawk began using his hands to control the Raigo ball. He brought it down on Zoro, and compressed the explosion so that it wouldn't blow up the island. The ring flashed blue before a blinding light enveloped it, and an explosion followed. When the light disappeared, Zoro was face down, his swords plunged into the ring. Mihawk had deactivated his transformation, and was looking down at him.

"Zoro!" Luffy yelled. He was about to jump into the arena, but I pulled him back and restrained him.

"Luffy, don't! Zoro would be furious if you interfered at this point!"

"It looks like you weren't ready to defeat me yet after all, Roronoa Zoro. What a shame." He lifted his sword up, ready to slash down and kill the Pirate Hunter. When he did, Zoro caught the blade with his hand.

"What-?!" Zoro glared up at him, and quickly grabbed his swords.

"3 SWORD STYLE: RENGOKU ONIGIRI!" He screamed, knocking the Master Templar back to the edge of the ring.

"Listen to me, Hawkeye. If I wasn't able to at least take that attack head on, then I would have given up on this foolish dream of mine! I would be of no use to Luffy! BECAUSE WHAT IS THE PIRATE KING WITHOUT THE WORLD'S STRONGEST SWORDSMAN ON HIS SIDE?! YOUR TITLE IS GOING TO BE MINE!"

"200 Million Volt Amaru!" Mihawk transformed once again, and hardened his Yoru with both haki and lightning."

"...It's time. Time for me to use that." Mihawk looked at him suspiciously.

"Use what?"

"That's right, you weren't aware. I kept it a secret from you, but I developed a few new techniques while training on your island." Zoro pointed to his left eye, the scarred one.

"My eye. I made that scar myself, I didn't get it from the baboons. I've been storing up a massive amount of haki within my eye in order to further develop my Demon Aura techniques. I'm able to make clones out of sheer haki, like you." Mihawk looked intrigued, but was not surprised.

"Show me then. Perhaps these new powers of yours may prove to be a challenge." he taunted, crossing his arms.

"Fine by me." he grinned evilly. "I unlock the seal." was all he said before the scar on his eye faded away. He slowly opened it, revealing a dark red glow, and an incredible wave of haki suddenly bursted around the arena.

"Demon Aura: 30 Sword Style: Yama." Nine clones of Zoro appeared, formed out of Armament Haki, all looking ready to kill. Now this took Mihawk back.

"Perhaps you can defeat one of me, but what about ten of me?" They all put their swords in their hands and mouth and prepared to take on the Master Templar.

"Yama: Red Flash!" he yelled, and all of the Zoro's began slicing past him, and jumping around the coliseum, making a sort of dome shape while attacking him. Mihawk was blocking most of the attacks with his quick reflexes and Observation Haki, but was still getting cut by a lot of the attacks. He was gradually losing his strength. The outline of Zoro's attacks became a dark red, like hardened blood. The attacks continued until all of a sudden, all of the Zoro's stood around the edges of the coliseum, staring down a breathless and wounded Mihawk.

"This is the end! Demon Aura: Nine Sword Style!" They all announced, creating their Asura form.

"My ultimate technique! Demon Aura: Ninety Sword Style: Shiva Annihilation!" Mihawk threw off his coat and shirt, and activated his transformation one last time. He powered up his sword to the maximum, hardening it, and then imbuing the whole thing with lightning, turning it light blue and shock-immersed. He held it up to the sky, striking a lightning bolt into the sky. All ten Zoro's flew towards the arena, and slashed consecutively at Mihawk. A massive amount of slashes occurred, and after the collision subsided, both of them stood back to back, covered in blood, and not moving. Then, after a few moments, Hawkeye finally dropped his sword and fell forward in defeat. Zoro dropped his swords as well, and threw a victorious fist into the air. Everyone slowly smiled, then cheered.

"Luffy! The title is mine! Now it's your turn! Go and achieve your dream!" he yelled.

"YEAH!" Luffy responded happily. Ryokugyu growled. Mihawk was one of the most powerful Templars there was, he hadn't expected him to lose.

"Kizaru! Let's not waste any time! It's your turn." Kizaru nodded, and teleported down into the ring, retrieving Mihawk's body and sword, while Robin went down and helped Zoro get his swords and get to the infirmary. Sanji and Rayleigh went down to fight Kizaru. Rayleigh pulled out his sword, and Sanji activated his Diable Jambe immediately, not wanting to risk anything against the 3rd in command of the Templars.

"Begin when you're ready." Ryokugyu sighed. Rayleigh flew towards him and lunged with his sword.

"Ama no Murakumo." Kizaru created his own light sword and countered Rayleigh's. The two began slashing at each other while Sanji flew towards the Admiral, hoping to hit him while he was preoccupied.

"Diable Jambe: Collier Strike!" he yelled, launching his flaming leg towards Kizaru. He kicked Rayleigh back and clashed with Sanji's attack.

"Bien Cuit: Grill Shot!" he surprised Kizaru by jumping onto his hands and kicking him with his other leg. He left a dark burn print on the Yellow Admiral's suit, and kicked him away, making him hit the edge of the coliseum hard. Kizaru groaned and looked at the grill mark on his suit.

"You damaged my suit. Interesting, Black Leg. Yata no Kagami." he said calmly, creating an orb of light in his hands. Instantly, Kizaru teleported across the arena and kicked him hard across the arena, making him hit the coliseum, causing blood to fly out of his mouth. Sanji gripped the edges, not wanting to fall into the water. However, Borsalino had already teleported in front of him again.

"Amaterasu." he smiled, pointing his index finger at him, creating a blinding flash of light.

"AGHH, MY EYES!" he yelled, falling into the arena, and covering his eyes.

"Yasakani no Magatama." he said, flying into the air and raining down many small light particles. With Sanji's eyes out of commission, he wouldn't be able to stop them, and would take them head on. Thankfully though, Rayleigh flew in front of them and deflected them with his sword. Kizaru jumped down to the ground.

"Ama no Murakumo." Once again, he formed his sword and flew towards the Dark King, and they engaged in swordplay once again. But this time, Kizaru's moves were much faster, and Rayleigh couldn't dodge all of them, getting struck continuously. Kizaru kicked him away.

"Do you honestly think that that was my fastest that I could go before? My Glint Glint Fruit makes me a Light Man. I'm able to travel as fast as the speed of light: 300 million meters a second."

"That won't save you from our Observation Haki, though." Sanji replied angrily, appearing from behind him.

"Flambage Shot!" He ignited one of his legs and jumped above Kizaru, coming down to kick him. However, Kizaru easily blocked the attack with his sword. He then flipped up and kicked Sanji into the air.

"Yata no Kagami!" He teleported above Sanji and attempted to kick him down into the arena, but Sanji blocked his kick and the two began colliding with their legs. Sanji once again appeared above Kizaru.

"Once more! Flambage Shot!" he yelled, this time being able to kick the Yellow Admiral down into the arena hard, causing it to crack. Rayleigh then appeared in front of him and hardened his sword with haki. Then he started slashing at Kizaru, who once again blocked with his sword and kicked him away. This time, Kizaru stepped on Rayleigh, stopping him from getting up, and shot some light blasts into him, making him too damaged to move.

"Rayleigh!" Luffy yelled up from the stands.

"That should take care of him." Kizaru said, walking away and focusing on Sanji, who landed down into the ring.

"I'm done playing around, kid." he said menacingly, preparing his leg with his powers.

"Good, because so am I." Sanji smirked. His flames began appearing around him, and his Diable Jambe's fire began to change color, just like Sabo's did. His leg became encased in blue fire after he was done.

"Blue? The hottest temperature of fire?" asked Kizaru, who seemed interested.

"That's right. That also means that it's the strongest form of this technique." Sanji quickly dashed under Kizaru and kicked him upwards into the sky with little effort, causing the Admiral to growl, as he had noticeably taken damage from the newly powered attacks. Sanji flipped up into the air above Kizaru.

"Poele a Frire: Spectre!" he yelled, flaring up both of his legs with blue fire, and continuously kicking downwards onto his target. After a large barrage of kicks, Sanji kicked Kizaru downwards, making him slam into the arena. Sanji landed in the ring once again, looking down on the yellow admiral.

"Luffy, he did it!" Nami yelled happily.

"No...not yet…" I told them. Kizaru quickly kicked Sanji away and jumped back to his feet.

"Ama no Iwato!" he yelled out, kicking a giant light beam that was shaped like a monkey's head off of his foot. Sanji attempted to shield himself, but the attack ultimately overwhelmed him, engulfing him in a large explosion. Kizaru took off his sunglasses and threw them to the side. He started to become engulfed in his devil fruit's aura.

"Transformation: Monkey of Light." he said sternly, suddenly changing his form and growing in size. I stepped forward.

"I knew it." I said. Kizaru now stood on his arms and legs, in a giant yellow monkey form. Sanji stood up slowly, his suit in tatters. He stared up at the Master Templar. Kizaru moved his hand towards Sanji, ready to slam him down onto the arena.

"DIABLE JAMBE: BIEN CUIT: GRILL SHOT!" he yelled, blue fire raging, and hoping to heavily injure his hand with the lasting grill mark. However, Sanji's attack didn't even slow him down, and his humongous hand smashed the blonde chef into the ground.

"Sanji!" Luffy yelled. I clenched my fists. Kizaru lifted his hand back up, revealing an unconscious Sanji stuck in the ring.

'Neither of them can win against Kizaru in that form. Not many others of us here can either...I have to fight.' I jumped into the arena and quickly activated Demon Mode, kicking Kizaru across the face, and landing on the opposite side of the coliseum. I jumped towards him again.

"Ama no Iwato!" he yelled, launching a beam of light shaped like a monkey from his mouth.

"Demon Mode Phase 2!" I yelled, changing to my silver and blue form and flying straight through the beam easily. I arrived in front of Kizaru.

"Chaotic Pandemonium Fishman Karate: Nine Circles of Hell! First Circle: Limbo!" I yelled, performing the nine circle sequence. By the end of it, Kizaru was heavily damaged.

"Ama no Murakumo!" he yelled, his monkey form now wielding a giant light sword. He slashed at me a few times, but I managed to block them. I stood facing him.

"One more time. This is the end, Borsalino! Ninth Circle: Treachery!" I cloaked my fist in haki and demon mode aura, and jumped at him, jamming it through his chest. His monkey form quickly left him, and we stood at our normal heights, my fist still through his body. I pulled it out, and he stumbled for a minute before falling onto the ground, bleeding out.

"...That's one-third of the way complete. My revenge is getting closer to its end. Two more of you left." I said darkly, glaring up at the other two who I swore my revenge upon. I slowly walked past his body, picking up Rayleigh and Sanji and leading them to the infirmary. I placed them down on the beds and healed them with haki before Chopper began bandaging their wounds. Akainu retrieved Kizaru's body, and covered it up with a cloth, knowing that he had already died. He clenched his fists walking away, and jumped down into the arena. He glared angrily at Luffy and Shanks, who headed down and stood opposite of him.

"Start!" Ryokugyu yelled. Akainu and Luffy ran towards each other and clashed with their haki.

"Daifunka!" he yelled, charging up a giant magma fist and launching it towards Luffy.

"Third Gear! Armament: Hardening! Gum Gum Elephant Pistol!" he yelled, his fist crashing with Akainu's. Both cancelled each other out, but Akainu had already taken action and was rushing towards Luffy.

"Meigo!" he yelled, launching his hellhound attack towards the Straw Hat pirate. There wasn't enough time for Luffy to react, and his eyes widened, preparing for the pain. Just then, Shanks appeared in front of the attack and slashed it in half, rendering it useless. He then ran towards the Red Admiral and slashed at him multiple times with his sword. Akainu hardened his fists and continuously blocked Shanks' attacks from his hardened sword. Although he was blocking them, they were strong enough to cause him trouble, and noticeably knocked him off balance a few times.

"I've had enough! Inugami Guren!" he yelled, launching another hellhound attack towards Shanks, who blocked it with his sword. Akainu shaved towards him and kicked him across the arena.

"Shanks! Gum Gum Hawk Gatling-" Luffy began, but Akainu didn't give him the chance to execute his attack. His shave was extremely fast, and he once again appeared in front of Luffy.

"Meigo!" he yelled, punching right through Luffy's stomach, creating a hole. It imploded, leaving a small flame in the middle. Luffy's eye color drained, and he slowly fell forward onto the ground.

"LUFFY!" Nami shrieked. Christina jumped down into the arena, and leapt towards her father, her fist coated in both haki and a moonlight sphere.

"Moonlight Fist!" she yelled, punching him back halfway across the ring. He grunted, and faced off with her.

"Shanks! Heal Luffy!" she yelled over to the emperor who was slowly standing up.

"On it!" he yelled, rushing over to Luffy.

"Oh no you don't!" Akainu yelled, heading towards the two.

"You're fighting me!" Christina yelled, getting in the middle and kicking him back.

"Haki Healing." Shanks said, fixing Luffy's wound and removing the fire from inside of him. Luffy slowly sat up with Shanks' help.

"I'm not going to hold back, father! Moonlight Goddess Form: Selene's Judgement!" she announced, entering her transformed state. Akainu was not fazed whatsoever.

"Magma Armor." he said calmly, fire and lava surrounding him and engulfing his body. His eyes began to glow yellow, while the rest of his body became covered in fire, and red and orange in color. They ran at each other once again. Christina coated her whole body in haki to ensure that she wouldn't get burned from her father's powers. The two of them began exchanging blows, and seemed even for a while, but it was clear that Akainu had the upper hand. He punched her back a bit.

"Face it, you're not strong enough to take me on on your own yet, Christina. When you enter that form, your haki's strength may increase to 150 thousand, but when I use my magma armor, mine increases from 90 thousand up to 200 thousand, the same as Ryokugyu's base amount." He said, walking towards her.

"Moonlight Damnation-"

"No." He cut her off, and shaved towards her, grabbing her staff and snapping it in half like a twig. This promptly undid her transformation, leaving her vulnerable. She looked up at the man towering over her, her own father, still treating her like a child. For once, she was afraid.

"Inugami Guren. So long." he said coldly, charging up his magma dog attack and preparing to fire it towards her. But just then, Shanks interfered and knocked him away, undoing his attack.

"Red Hair!"

"Surprised? You thought one kick could take me down? Get real! I'm one of the Four Emperors, and a Master Assassin!" Shanks yelled, suddenly surrounded by a huge amount of glowing red energy, his own haki materialized. He used Shave as well, and matched Akainu's speed, the two of them clashing across the arena, too fast to track their movements.

"Knight's Blade!" he yelled, making his red energy waves close around the red admiral and explode, making him fall back into the ring. Shanks landed back down and pointed his sword at Sakazuki's throat.

"It seems that you won't win this after all, huh?" he asked, his eyes narrowing.

"You think that I'm intimidated by you? Wake up." he grabbed Shanks' sword and tossed it away from him, then kicking the emperor back and jumping up, punching him in the chest with his haki fiercely. He then charged up his magma armor on his fist and punched him once again. Shanks hardened his own arms, and grabbed Akainu's hand, attempting to hold it back, but it wasn't enough, and the magma fist plunged right through him.

"Gah…!" Shanks let go of the arm, and when Sakazuki pulled his fist out, the Emperor fell over.

"Shanks!" Luffy yelled. Christina ran over to him and healed him.

"Thanks, but...I'm afraid I won't be able to fight anymore...not with this wound. It's up to you guys!" he said, leaving the arena for full medical treatment. Christina rushed towards her father and began punching him repeatedly, but to no effect. All of her punches merely hit his magma, and her haki wasn't strong enough to make a dent in him. He kicked her away, making her fall into the water.

"Damn!" I yelled, jumping down to get her. The Red Admiral turned his head towards Luffy.

"Just you now. You know, after the war, I gave up on personally killing you. I was content with simply allowing one of the others to take care of you. But now that I'm face to face with you once again, Monkey D. Luffy...I can see that there's a large difference in satisfaction between simply seeing your corpse and turning you into a corpse." Luffy stood up, his face dark. He hardened his arm with haki, and bit into it, inflating his muscular structure.

"Fourth Gear! Bound Man!"

"Hm?!"

"Gum Gum Kong Gun!" he yelled, retracting his fist back into his arm, and fired it at a speed faster than his jet pistol. The force of the impact seemed to split the air apart as it surged towards the admiral. He got hit straight through the stomach, and his fist went all the way through him, as Akainu coughed up blood and tore through the arena, outside the coliseum and into the city. Luffy flew after him. The admiral stood up again, clearly enraged.

"Transformation: Hound of Hell!" he yelled, becoming his magma dog.

"Meigo Fire!" he shouted, breathing fire in the shape of a dog towards Luffy, who dodged it.

"Gum Gum Culverin!" he yelled, launching what looked like a regular Gum Gum Hawk Pistol towards him, but then Akainu started running away from it. Luffy chased after him, continuously redirecting his fist towards the admiral's transformed state. Akainu slashed it away with his paw and lunged towards Luffy.

"Gum Gum Leo Bazooka!" he yelled, knocking him away. However, it didn't do that much damage.

"Hah...Hah...Aaron was right, he's nothing like the others…" Luffy muttered. Akainu pounced on Luffy, his giant paw trapping the Straw Hat captain.

"Hrghhhh-Gah! I can't move!" he shouted.

"Of course you can't. I'm not letting you move, either. Let's see you dodge this at point blank! Inugami Guren Explosion!" he roared, spewing a magma dog at Luffy that exploded on impact.

"Ugh!" Luffy was gravely injured from the attack, and had to deactivate fourth gear. Akainu still held him under his paw.

"Fifth...Gear!" he choked out, becoming cloaked in a golden aura. He pushed Akainu off of him, allowing him to move freely again.

"Gum Gum Golden Elephant Rifle!" Luffy yelled, activating third gear, hardening his arm, and adding fifth gear's golden speed and power boost to it. He launched it towards the hellhound, and it smashed into his chest, knocking him back into the arena once again. Luffy jumped above him.

"It's time for me to finish this! Fourth Gear!" Luffy activated fourth gear again, and then fifth gear on top of it, making it become cloaked in golden haki.

"GUM GUM...GOLDEN KING KONG GATLING!" Luffy screamed, unleashing his most powerful attack towards the red admiral. He completely obliterated the whole arena, and was sending Akainu crumbling down through the rubble and into the water. The coliseum was getting destroyed from the sheer haki explosion.

"We should hurry and leave!" I yelled. We all ran outside of the coliseum and at a safe distance from the battle. Luffy landed back down into what was left of the ring. The arena was crumbling and the whole place was in flames. Akainu was back in his base form.

"Gum Gum...Red Hawk!" Luffy screamed, preparing to finish his nemesis with his brother's keepsake attack. He rushed towards the admiral and smashed his fist through his chest, making him lose his consciousness. Luffy let go and ran out of the coliseum as it crashed to the ground.

"M-MONKEY D. LUFFY! AHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Akainu roared as he fell into the darkness. Luffy dived out of the building and onto the ground, heavily injured.

"Luffy!" Nami ran over to him happily. She helped him sit up.

"Are you alright?"

"For now, yeah. But it's not over yet."

"He's right. The worst is yet to come." Ryokugyu said to everyone, standing nearby with his arms crossed. I glanced over at him.

"So you two, are you ready to fight?" he smirked at Dragon and myself. We both stepped forward. Dragon waited a moment before I felt him hit the back of my neck and knock me out.

"What the hell…?" I muttered before falling unconscious.

End POV

"Dad, why did you do that?!"

"Because I don't want him risking his life anymore against him. He'll be out for a while. I'll be finished with Ryokugyu by then. Take him and stand back so that we can fight."

"Are you sure you can take him by yourself?" Christina asked.

"Don't worry about me. I'm more than a match for him."

"Alright." Christina picked Aaron's body up and everyone went back aways so that they wouldn't get caught up in the battle. They were still close enough so that they could see the fight.

"So, it's the Mentor of the Assassin Brotherhood vs. the Grandmaster of the Templar Order. Let's see who's better, Dragon!" he yelled, taking a defensive stance. Dragon threw off his cloak, leaving just his black suit and white shirt under it. He crouched down, and unleashed his conqueror's haki. Ryokugyu did the same, intending to counter it.

Nami remembered the sheer power of Dragon's haki when he effortlessly defeated Crocodile back in the arena. All of a sudden, a massive shockwave spread throughout the island, blowing them back, and hanging on to something in order to stay still.

"Wh-What is this wind?! Is that his devil fruit's power?!" Nami screamed.

"No! That's merely his base conqueror's haki! He hasn't used his devil fruit yet!" Christina confirmed. Dragon all of a sudden hardened his arm and rushed towards Ryokugyu. He punched him across the face, creating a crater in the ground where the impact was. Ryokugyu wasn't fazed at all, as he took the punch to the face, and didn't move whatsoever. He still had his arms crossed, and looked back at Dragon as if nothing had happened. He hardened his own arm and punched towards Dragon, who caught his punch. They jumped back a bit, but just as quickly rushed at each other and threw a barrage of haki-clad punches at one another. Every single punch collided, and created shockwave after shockwave throughout the island.

"If this keeps up, the island will be destroyed!" Zoro yelled.

"I'll take care of that." Christina said, creating a haki shield around the island.

"There. I shielded the island in haki, so it won't be destroyed so easily now."

"Cyclone Slice!"

"Crushing Punch!"

"And they're off." Christina commented. Dragon created a wind-like aura around himself, while Ryokugyu created a sphere of green earth aura around himself. They once again threw punch after punch at each other. Ryokugyu hardened his arm with his Crush-Crush powers, and threw a very strong punch at Dragon. However, the former admiral merely increased the level of his haki and punched right through the armor, shattering it.

"Hm! Not bad!" Ryokugyu punched Dragon hard in the face, making him fly back into a building. The Green Admiral rushed after him, punching the building with his powers again, making the whole thing crumble to the ground. Dragon emerged above him and kicked him hard down into the ground.

"Woah...And neither of them have even used their second devil fruit yet…" Usopp mumbled. The two monstrous fighters faced off once again.

"I don't think we're going to get very far like this." Ryokugyu said, throwing off his Admiral coat and beginning to unbutton his green suit.

"Right. I think it's time that we got serious." Ryokugyu dropped his suit onto the ground and formed green spheres around his hands, while Dragon's wind rushed around him much more fiercely. They rushed at each other.

"Gaea's Wrath!"

"Aeolus' Wind Blast!" The force from the collision caused a shockwave that expanded around the entire island.

"Ah! My haki shield is about to break! Everyone get down!" Christina yelled. They all jumped down and the shockwave pushed them all back into the forest while Dragon and Ryokugyu were still going at it, throwing blow after blow at each other. Dragon punched him back halfway across the island.

"Hrgh, damn you!" Ryokugyu took off his tie and threw it on the ground. He surrounded himself with a golden aura, and jumped back towards Dragon at an incredible speed. He punched him hard with a golden fist, sending him flying backwards across the island.

"Grah…grrrr!" Dragon jumped back towards him and the two continued clashing to a standstill. They fell back onto the ground, panting.

"Apollo's Judgement: Celestial Punch of Destruction: Beam!" he yelled, thrusting his fist through the air and unleashing a golden burst of energy towards Dragon, who braced himself. The Assassin Mentor appeared behind the admiral and kicked him in the face, sending him back a little bit.

"Fujin's Tearing Rupture!" he yelled, before the ground started cracking and wind blasted everywhere, heavily damaging Ryokugyu. The two of them stood opposite each other again. Ryokugyu threw his shirt off, as it was mostly in rags due to Dragon's last attack. Dragon got rid of his suit and shirt as well.

"We won't get anywhere like this, it'll take too long."

"Agreed. Let's start fighting for real." Green Aura surrounded the both of them.

"Transformation: Bull of Earth!"

"Lizard Lizard Fruit, Model: Dragon!" The two monster fighters transformed into their green bull and black dragon forms. The two of them rushed at each other as their claws and hooves clashed. Ryokugyu tried to impale him with his horns, but Dragon caught them in his mouth. He lifted the bull off the ground, flew high into the air and sent him crashing down towards the ground. Ryokugyu regained his balance and landed on the ground without much damage. He quickly looked up at Dragon, who was speeding towards him, and began to charge a powerful attack. He blasted a powerful green beam from his mouth towards Dragon, and continued shooting it across the sky. Dragon simply continued dodging it, and flew in front of him.

"Cyclone Incineration Blast!" he yelled, firing his most powerful blast point blank at him. Wind and fire were sent flying everywhere, all around the city. When the blast cleared, Ryokugyu stood standing, injured, still in his bull form.

"You really are powerful, huh? Alright then. TRANSFORMATION: GOLDEN BULL OF LIGHT!" he screamed, before his bull form glowed, and continued to grow larger. His skin became gold in color, his horns larger and more curved. Two large red Templar crosses were emblazoned on his side, made out of pure energy. His eyes were glowing a crimson blood red, and his tail split into five, whip-like tails.

"Wanna try again?" he grinned.

"Cyclone Incineration Blast!"

"Phanes' Judgement: Golden Laser of Redemption!" Ryokugyu's blast easily overpowered Dragon's this time, heavily damaging him. The golden bull rushed towards him and impaled him with his horns, and then launched him across the city, making him crash through buildings.

"Dad!" Luffy yelled, worried.

"Don't worry about him, Luffy. He's not finished just yet." she smiled. Dragon got to his feet, and white energy began surging around him.

"TRANSFORMATION: WHITE DRAGON OF WHITE BRILLIANCE!" He shouted, before his dragon form began to glow and transform again. His wings, claws, and other draconic features all became larger, and his entire body went from pitch black to a glistening white. His teeth became more like fangs, and his eyes were glowing a bright turquoise blue.

"Phanes' Judgement: Golden Laser of Redemption!"

"White Dragon's Light Blast." This time, Ryokugyu couldn't even match Dragon's new power. His blast was completely overpowered, and Dragon flew around faster than he could analyze, continuing to injure him with his claws and fangs.

"Wow...he's amazing…" Luffy breathed.

"I know." Christina smirked.

"Aaron and I at our full strengths could barely defeat his golden bull form in his clone at Dressrosa. And here we are with the real one, and he's getting tossed around as if he's nothing."

"Dragon is the strongest man alive. No one can beat him." I said, finally waking up and rubbing my face.

"Oh, you're up."

"Why did you guys knock me out? I could have helped."

"Dragon doesn't want you to get hurt in this battle. And you can see that he'll be just fine on his own."

"No, he won't." I started walking forward. Ryokugyu's bull form was completely gone, and he stood in his human form again. However, he was smirking. And that didn't mean anything good.

"Hehehehe HAHAHAHAHA! MAGNIFICENT!" Dragon landed on the ground.

"Why are you so happy? You can't win. Your death is only a matter of time now."

"Is it? I beg to differ. Tell me something. Did you think that the only sage in this war between us was Aaron? Did you ever stop to consider that a Templar Sage was around as well?" Dragon realized what he was asking.

"No...you can't be…"

"Oh, but I am! AHAHAHAHAHAHA! Look at my eyes." Ryokugyu's eyes changed. Dragon looked at him, shocked.

"I have both Anisocoria and Heterochromia Iridum in my eyes. Anisocoria is the condition where one of my pupils is smaller than the other. And Heterochromia is the condition where I have two different colored eyes. See?" Ryokugyu's left eye had a smaller pupil than the right one did. One eye was yellow, while the other was blue-gray.

"You know, if I wasn't a Sage and didn't have this power, you're right: I would have died facing you. My admiral transformations are not as powerful as yours, I admit that. But I have a final power that transcends far beyond those powers. Aita's Judgement: Armor of the Order." Ryokugyu's body began to glow, and his outfit changed. When the light vanished, he stood full-clad in golden armor with a red cape attached to his shoulders. His eyes were now undoubtedly those of a sage.

"Well, let's see just how powerful you've become, shall we?! White Dragon's Light Blast!"

With almost no effort whatsoever, Ryokugyu flew right through the blast and charged his fist up with golden light. He slammed his fist into Dragon's head, and that one simple attack completely obliterated his transformation. Dragon appeared on the ground again, in his base form. Blood was coming out of his head, and he was noticeably shocked.

"W-With just one punch…?" Ryokugyu smirked.

"That's right. With just one punch, your powers are rendered useless. Want to see what else I can do?"

"GRAHHHHH!" Dragon's haki exploded around him, and he rushed up, throwing a flurry of punches at him. Ryokugyu simply took the hits, dodged them, and caught some of the blows. He punched him hard in the chest, making him cough up blood and keel over.

"It appears that you are now powerless to stop me. So long, Dragon." he said, placing his foot on his head.

"Hyperion's Judgement: Astral Strike of a Thousand Gods." He charged up his fist and got ready to kill Dragon.

"I don't think so."

"Mm? Gah!" I kicked him, sending him back a few feet.

"What?! Dragon couldn't even do anything to me, and one kick from you pushed me back? How?!"

"I'll let you figure that one out for yourself. Tell me something. Did you even realize how easily I took down Kuma and Kizaru?"

"Well, that was to be expected."

"Was it? Kuma may not have used haki, but he was still a force to be reckoned with. And yet I took him down with a single punch, not even in Demon Mode." Ryokugyu's eyes widened in realization.

"You...you've gotten stronger, haven't you?"

"Yes. I trained the whole way from Evergia against you every time. I know your techniques inside and out. And if I'm right, not even Aita's Armor will save you."

"Why don't we test that theory?! Amaterasu's Judgement: Solar Oblivion of Rebirth!" Ryokugyu charged up an immense amount of power into his fist and lunged at me. I simply extended one hand and blocked his attack with no effort.

"Th-This can't be…!" I kicked him hard in his armor, causing it to crack, and sending him flying back.

"Do you want to see what I've been able to do since our last battle? Demon Mode." I became cloaked in black and purple chaos.

"Demon Mode: Phase 2." I ascended to the second form of my transformation, changing the color of the energy to silver and blue.

"One more. Demon Mode: Phase 3." I activated the final stage of my transformation, changing the glow of the chaos to a dark red, and my eyes began glowing black. Faster than anyone could see, I teleported in front of him and punched him hard through his chest, causing his armor to shatter. He fell forward onto the ground, now in his base form, bleeding from the chest.

"Hmph." I teleported to where everyone else was, grabbed Christina, and went back.

"A-Ah?! What was that for?!"

"I thought you said that you wanted to finish this together?" I asked. She looked down at the ground and was surprised to see Ryokugyu bleeding out.

"W-When did you-?"

"Just now. This is why you should have kept me around. Dragon wouldn't have had to get hurt."

"To be fair, you should have told us about it, then we would have known."

"Well yeah, but that ruins the whole surprise. I'm a whole lot more badass now that I kept it secret until the last minute."

"IT'S NOT ABOUT BEING BADASS!"

"Well it should be."

"Shut up!"

"Do you want to do this or not?"

"Ugh, fine." I lifted him up by the neck and threw him against the wall of rubble. We both extended our hidden blades and stabbed him in the chest.

"G-G-Gah...you two...hehehe...don't you see the futility of what you're doing?"

"Killing you isn't futile." I replied.

"Well maybe to you, but in the long run, it won't matter at all. You should know by now that the Assassin-Templar conflict will never end. There will always be more Templars to rise up and take control when we lose, and there will also always be Assassins to do the same when you lose. From Chaos, Order is born. And from Order, Chaos is born once again. It's a never-ending cycle."

"We know that." we said at the same time.

"Huh?"

"Let me tell you something." I leaned down so that I was eye-level with him.

"I don't really live in the future. I live in the here and now. Not all Templars are evil, you know. We both consider Shay Cormac a hero. But I know for a fact that this Order was corrupt, and needed to be stopped. Granted, I only killed 4 of you, but it doesn't matter, because without you at the helm, they won't dare try to reconstruct it. Because let's be honest here. Mihawk and Arlong, Kid and Hawkins, Fujitora and Crocodile, they all think and act like me: in the moment and on a whim. They only joined the Order because someone as powerful as you was leading it. Maybe if Akainu was, but do you honestly believe that they'll regroup under someone else like Fujitora or Dracule? Their powers, while commendable, are nowhere close to our levels. Plus, now that Dragon doesn't have to worry about you or Blackbeard anymore, the Navy is backed into a corner. They'll know soon enough that they can't stop the Revolution from happening. So I don't really care that the conflict will never end. Because there will always be someone like Luffy or I to stand against you when the time calls for it. And THAT is all I have to say to you." He stared at me for a moment before grinning and falling over. It was finally over. The man that had been the start of everything for me was finally dead.

"Haki Healing." Christina healed Dragon, and he stood up.

"Well done." was all he said.

"Of course that's all you'd say." I pouted. We went and met up with the others.

X

After burying the bodies of Ryokugyu, Akainu, Kizaru, and Kuma, we decided to leave the island. Luffy claimed that he didn't want to look for the One Piece yet.

"No. I won't allow myself to find the One Piece until we sail through the whole Grand Line! We came straight here from Evergia, we didn't stop anywhere along the way. So until we visit the rest of those islands, I don't want to come back here and look."

Dragon decided he would keep the Order Order, Magma Magma, Glint Glint, and Paw Paw Fruits at Zou with him. As we all came together on the Sunny, we were just about to depart, when…

"Do...you think that we can come along too? Back to Evergia?"

"Hm?" I looked over the side of the ship to see Mihawk and Arlong.

"What happened to your ships?"

"They're still docked at Evergia. Fujitora already left with Crocodile, Kid, and Hawkins."

*sigh* "Alright, come on." They walked up onto the ship. After checking with Luffy and Nami, who were fine with having those two on board, we decided to take off and leave the Templar Tournament behind us.

End.