Emperors Defeated

Neo gritted her teeth as Hera started to slip from her grip.

Big Mom called on the cloud. "Mother's Misery!"

Neo tightened her winds around Hera as the cloud started to slip pieces of herself from the winds. Suddenly her magic vanished.

"You will not stop Big Mom!"

Neo turned to see a man holding a pollution stone towards her. She turned to attack him but paused when one of the crew snuck up behind the man. Archer brought down a piece of broken wood on the man's head. The man clasped to the ground with a heavy thud.

Archer snatched up the pollution stone and shoved it in his pocket.

Neo gave him a grateful smile.

Archer smiled back before turning back to the fight with his fellow crewmates.

Neo turned back to Big Mom. Hera, Napoleon, and Prometheus had connected. Their bodies began to merge together. Electricity and heat brushed against Neo's skin. 'Law, be careful. Hera, Napoleon, and Prometheus are merging to become stronger.'

'Take care of it.'

The white of the cloud began to turn a light gray then a dark gray. Hera, Napoleon, and Prometheus' forms swirled then solidified into what looked like a combination of a thunder storm and a ghost. The three kept a female appearance with long flowing hair, pointed nose, and sharp nails. Lightning danced around her wrists like live bracelets.

"Go get them, Misery! Show them their place!" Big Mom ordered with a grin.

Neo resisted a snort and an eye roll. Elements will never be able to defeat her. Unfortunately, she wasn't going to be able to defeat these elements. But she was going to be a thorn in their side if nothing else.

With a slow deep breath, Neo focused the majority of her attention on the entity in front of her, the rest was on Law if he needed her. Law and Kid would handle Big Mom while their crews and allies had their backs with the emperors' grunts.

Misery tilted her head, taking in Neo. "You think you can defeat me? You haven't been able to make a single dent in me."

"You haven't been able to dent me either," Neo said with a small smirk.

Misery frowned. Lightning and fire flashed and flared around her. "I am different in this form. Stronger. You will not stall me any longer."

Neo tilted her head. "Guess we'll see."

Misery gritted her teeth then rushed forward. "Die, brats!"

Neo braced herself, her eyes locking onto the creature rushing for her. Images flashed into her mind. Misery was going to swipe her long nails of her left hand, but stop short then bring a lightning bolt towards Neo with her right hand. Neo readied to move then paused when she noticed something off about the attack. It was slow approaching.

Misery followed through with the attack Neo saw.

Neo pulled herself away with her winds. Another image came. It was a similar attack with Misery's movements slow. Was the element creature missing on purpose? Could it be possible that Big Mom's will wasn't as strong with her element sidekicks while she was fighting against Law and Kid? Or was the emperor's tiredness effecting the control?

Neo back jumped a punch from Misery. Swiped a lightning bolt away with the flick of her hand.

"Misery!" Big Mom called. "Stop playing with that elemental and kill these two pests over here!"

Neo's eyebrows rose. Perhaps her observations were correct. There was no way Misery would be able to stop her so of course Big Mom would give the creature different orders, direct orders to kill Law and Kid. Heat simmered in her chest. "Not with me around!"

Misery flew towards Neo before arching over the elemental and headed right to Law.

Neo growled and followed. Winds exploded from Neo's crystals as she sailed forward and landed a kick on Misery's head. "Stay away from Law!"

Misery slammed onto the floor. Her cloud body mixed and shifted before solidifying again. Her eyes flashed as she looked at Neo. "How dare you kick me! You shouldn't be able to touch me!"

"Um, hello?" Neo pointed at herself. "El-e-men-tal. I can touch anything dealing with all of nature. Like it or not you are going to obey me."

"I will never obey anyone but Mama!" Misery's face contoured with rage. Her cheeks sparked with lightning, something Neo assumed was the creature's way of turning red with anger. Misery shot through the air, ping ponging around the room in an attempt to throw Neo off.

Neo followed the creature with all her senses, her mind being pounded with future images of what Misery was going to do. Each time the creature got close to Law, or Kid, Neo blocked the attack. Both parties crew more angry they weren't getting anywhere.

Neo huffed, her body growing tired with the combined efforts of her trying to stop Misery and Law trying to stop Big Mom.

Misery shot out a peal of lightning.

Neo moved too slow. Her hand swatted at the lightning, but a piece of it flew passed her and towards Law. Shifting into the wind, Neo flew over to Law and reappeared beside him so the lightning hit her instead of him. 'This is ridiculous. I feel like I'm fighting against myself.'

'You're doing fine, Neo. Remember, you are a royal elemental. That creature is only made of elements, and Big Mom's soul.'

'I know. It's the soul part that's the...' Neo's brow lifted.

'What is it?' Law dodged an attack from Big Mom.

'You're right. They are only elements. I think I know how to stop Misery now.' Neo took a deep breath and exhaled, allowing her body and tone to shift. When she spoke, her royal tone came out, booming over the room. "That is enough! The powers of the elements shall no longer attack the man I love nor anyone else here! Stand down, Misery!"

"You think you can order me around?" Misery laughed then stopped. Her face shifted into a vision of confusion. She didn't move. "What is this? Why can't I move?"

Neo held the creature's gaze. "You are to stay put."

"Mama! Help me!" Misery called out.

As she did, Neo sent a strong gust of wind to cancel out Misery's voice. She turned her attention to Law. A few yards from him Big Mom was standing, her eyes locked onto Neo.

"What are you doing to Misery?!" Big Mom demanded. The woman's footsteps boomed as she headed for the elemental. "You are going to die! Release her!"

The air around Neo crackled. A glow appeared around her body. Then, just like in Dressrosa, crystals began to form on her skin. Her wings appeared. Everything around them silenced. Neo felt as all of nature turned its attention to her. She felt her elementals pausing in confusion. Keep fighting, my elementals. I am all right.

Big Mom froze in her tracks. Sweat appeared on her forehead as her eyes widened. She walked backwards a few yards.

"What's going on? Why is Big Mom moving away?" Kid asked, his eyes looked between the two women. "How is that skinny little brat able to do this? And why hasn't she done it before?"

Law hummed. 'Neo? Do you realize your body is crystal again?'

'I can feel a change, but I don't know what's happening.' From the corner of her eye, Neo spotted a beam of bright green light extending out from her, but where it was going she didn't know. Then she spotted another beam of light. This one was a blue gray and fragmented. It pointed in a different direction but only for a few feet before disappearing completely. 'Do you see the beams? What do you think they are?'

'I don't know.'

"How..." Big Mom said. A bead of sweat trailed down her face. "How is it possible? It's like I'm facing all of nature." She gritted her teeth and fisted her hands. "How can a little brat like you cause someone like me to hesitate to attack? Answer me!"

Neo tilted her head.

"Answer me!" Big Mom demanded.

"I am nature." Neo held up her hand. Wind crystals appeared around Big Mom and started sucking out the air from the woman's lungs. "If I wished it I could kill you..." She allowed Big Mom to sweat for a moment before releasing the hold. Big Mom gasped for air. "But I will not. I am not like you."

Big Mom took several gasped of air before refocusing on Neo. She stepped towards the elemental. Her eyes burning with hate and rage and promise of death. "You are going to die for doing that to me! I was gracious enough to allow you to join my family! But you decided to be ungrateful and deny a wonderful chance to live a perfect life and have real love!"

Neo gritted her teeth. Everything that Sanji had told her about what happened with his attempted forced marriage came flooding back. Thunder clapped above them in rapid succession. Her royal voice bounced off the air around them. Her hand lifted towards Misery. "You are a liar, Big Mom. You have no idea was love really is."

"Huh?" Misery looked down at her body as it started to come undone and separate into the elements she was made from.

"You dare speak to me like-" Big Mom started.

"Silence!" Neo snapped. "You are selfish. You hurt your own kids when you don't get your way. You force them in marriages they don't want all for your personal gain." She released her winds from Misery.

"Mama! Help!" Misery shouted. She tried to get to Big Mom, but her body vanished before she could. Her cries fading along with the rest of her.

"What did you do?!" Big Mom shrieked.

"I released what you had no right to control in the first place." Neo shot towards the emperor. With her elements engulfing her crystal fist, she slammed a punch on Big Mom's face. Bone cracked and snapped. The large woman flew away from Neo and smashed through the wall. "That was for all the pain you have caused, especially for Sanji."

Several people gasped. "No way! How did she do that to Big Mom?!"

"Was that conqueror's haki?!"

"No! It was something else!"

"How powerful is that woman?!"

Seconds passed before Big Mom groaned and picked herself up out of the debris. She pressed a hand to her face. "Ho di yoth ges pas my aki?!"

"Law!" Neo called. "Big Mom, your rein of terror ends today!"

"Tact!" At Law's command, the top of a tower broke apart and rained down on Big Mom. Calling on his awakened powers again, he placed the glowing orb on the blade of his sword and gave Neo a quick glance.

Neo nodded. She wrapped her winds around Law and guided him into the air and down towards the emperor.

Law jutted his sword down. It pierced through the older woman's chest.

"Not this again! Trafalgar!" Big Mom glared. "Misery! What are you doing just sitting there?! Kill them!"

Neo stepped between Big Mom and Misery. "You will no longer use the elements against us."

"You brats will die for this!" Big Mom glared daggers at Neo. "You will pay for this!"

Law's sword extended down through the floor and disappeared.

Neo sensed the blade passing through the ground that was under them and down into the dirt below.

"You've got guts, I'll give you that! Now get off me, Trafalgar!" Big Mom demanded.

"Captain!" Some of the Hearts' crew reached their captains ears, though neither turned to address them.

"Did you croak?! Listen to me!" Big Mom said.

"What are you doing, Captain?! Let go or you'll die!"

"Law!" Neo called.

'Not yet. It has to be deeper.' Law said, "Puncture wille!

"Ah!" Big Mom coughed out blood. "Burn him to ash, Misery! Misery?! Can't you hear me?!"

"Afraid not," Neo said, crossing her arms. Her winds blew towards both Big Mom and Misery, making sure their voices never reached the other. "Misery and you will no longer be able to work together."

"You little brats!" Big Mom hissed and reached out for Neo. "You're going to pay for this!"

"Now, Eustass!" Law shouted.

"How many times do I have to say it, Trafalgar?! Don't tell me what to do!" Kid snapped. He had a long gun like thing on his arm.

"You think you can take me down?! Give it your best shot! I am Big Mom!"

"That's why I'm going to finish you off!" Kid said, releasing his attack.

"Your era is over!" Law said.

Kid's hit exploded against the emperor.

But when the smoke cleared, Big Mom was smirking. "You blasted brats!"

Neo dropped to the floor, as did Law and Kid. Their attacks just wouldn't bring the emperor down.

"I'll let you choose your fate when this attack is done tickling me," Big Mom said before she stood. "You can either give me fifty years from your lifespan or you can live on as my slaves. Live or slave." Big Mom's eyes glittered. Souls began to seep out of almost everyone who was in range of the emperor.

"Boss, maybe we should fall back!"

"Ah! She's stealing our lifespans too!"

"She doesn't look anywhere near death's door! What a monster!"

"Captain! Neo! We've got to get out of here!"

"You guys go ahead!" Law said.

"You think the last gasps of an old windbag scare me?" Kid asked.

"R-room. Your death screeches are doing my ears in."

"Their souls aren't coming out?!" a grunt cried out. "She's an emperor, and they're not scared at all?"

"Hold on tight, Mama! I'll save you!" Misery said, struggled to get out of Neo's hold. "Release me, you brat!"

"Not going to happen!" Neo snapped back. "Stay down!"

Misery collapsed back to the floor with a death glare at Neo.

"I'll handle this just like the man who saved my life," Law said.

"Blasted emperor! You just don't know when to quit! I'm sending you packing straight to hell!" Kid screamed.

"Silence!" Law said.

Everything around Big Mom went silent.

Neo sighed with relief and released her winds on Big Mom. Her body wobbled, but she refused to give into the tiredness.

"This technique cancels out every sound you make," Law said.

"Mama!" Misery said. "I can't hear you!"

"Have another!" Kid attacked again.

Big Mom was pushed through all the floors and down through the earth and into t lava lake below.

"No!" Misery shrieked as she split back into her three original selves and then faded away.

"They defeated Big Mom! This is huge! This is really huge!" The allies in the room cheered before continuing to fight the grunts of the emperors.

"Is it really over?" Neo walked over to Law and sat down with her solar crystal working to heal them.

"Big Mom is." Law exhaled.

"Should we brace ourselves?" Kid glanced up to the hole in the roof. "Kaido's still up there."

"No, we've done our part," Law said. "Even if Kaido is the one that comes back down I have no strength left to put up a fight."

Neo rested her head against Law's shoulder while their two crews continued to fight around them. Tears gathered in her eyes. 'I miss Cora.'

'I know, love.' Law planted a kiss in her hair. 'It'll be over soon.'

Neo allowed herself to close her eyes for a few minutes. Suddenly she felt something shift in Luffy. Her eyes shot to the hole in the ceiling.

"What is it, Neo?" Law asked.

"Something's happening to Luffy," Neo said. "He's changing." She touched her temple as she tired to comprehend the shift happening in her friend. "Something's not right. He feels like... an animal?"

"An animal?" Law cocked an eyebrow.

"As if his devil fruit is a zoan type." Neo shook her head. "I think I got hit too many times by Big Mom. That can't be right."

"It's not you, Princess," an earth elemental said. "We all sense a change in Straw Hat Luffy."

"Then what is happening to him?" Neo eyebrows tilted with worry. Should she go to him?

"He is Joy Boy." Zunisha called to her.

"Zunisha? Who is this Joy Boy?" Neo asked.

"Who are you talking to?" Kid asked.

"Hush." Law waved at him.

"Don't tell me what to do!" Kid snapped. "Do I have to kill you to get that through-"

Neo wrapped the loud man in vines, covering his mouth to silence him.

Kid stared daggers at her.

"A man who lived in the Void Century. He has returned. And he is now Straw Hat Luffy. I can heard the Drums of Liberation."

"Drums of Liberation?" Neo mumbled.

"What did he say?" Law asked.

"Luffy is Joy Boy now and he's releasing the Drums of Liberation?" Neo scratched her head. "Nothing makes sense."

Law touched his chin. "Straw Hat's devil fruit was a zoan type all along? But how? Why would it be labeled as a paramecia?"

"But... but I would have sensed that. Wouldn't I have?" Neo asked.

"Not unless there is something else at play here," Law said.

Neo's shoulders hung. "I don't care anymore. All I want is for this fight to be over and all my babies back with me."

"You might get your wish soon enough." The earth elemental pointed back to the opening above.

Neo looked up. Her jaw dropped at how Luffy was suddenly making sport of Kaido.

The young captain grabbed Kaido and slammed him into the ground before whipping the emperor around like a rope then whipped the dragon's head on the ground multiple times. Kaido retaliated with a blast, but Luffy, turned everything around him into rubber, pulled up part of the ground to block it. All the while Luffy was laughing like a madman.

"He's laughing too much. Luffy never takes fights like this so recklessly." Neo wrapped her arms around herself. "I don't like it."

Law placed his hand on her shoulder. "Easy. Straw Hat will be fine. He hasn't let us down so far."

"I know, but still... I don't like this." Neo placed her hand over Law's.

Kaido chomped his muzzle down on Luffy. Luffy then could be seen bouncing his way through Kaido's body before he ballooned up. Then, without warning, his hands come from Kaido's eyes.

"Did Luffy's hands just come through Kaido's eyes?" Neo put her hand to her mouth, her stomach shifting.

"No." Law shook his head. "I think Straw Hat turned Kaido's eyes rubbery."

Luffy shot out of Kaido's mouth, grabbed him and used the emperor as a jump rope.

Kaido slipped free and shot a Dragon Breath at Luffy, frying the rubber boy. Luffy fell then runs through the air and somehow making distance back to the island.

"I can't watch this!" Neo covers her eyes. A crash forces her eyed open. Luffy's head had came through the roof, his eyes bugged out of his head, shocking all of them in reaching the same way. His head retracted back through the roof and to his body. Neo feels him weakening. "I'm not sure how much longer he can do this."

Neo continued to watch the fight. Her body tensed, ready to react if she thought Luffy needed her help. Keeping her eyes on the fight, she felt fires around the building flare up. "Elementals! Go help with the fire and the injured."

The elementals head off to fulfill their orders.

"Neo!" Chopper ran over and dove into the elemental's arms. "The island is getting closer to the capital! Shouldn't you wind elementals stop it?"

"No," Neo said.

"What?!" Chopper shrieked. "Why are you saying no?!"

Neo smiled and patted the reindeer's head. "Because it's not meant for us to do. Momo is the one who has to do this. He is the true shogun of Wano. He must save his people. And that is what he's doing right now."

A few minutes passed, or maybe it was several. Neo wasn't sure. All she knew was the fight had came to an end when she felt Kaido's body falling towards the same underground lava lake Big Mom fell into. Then Luffy's body went back to normal as he fell through the air.

Neo grabbed Luffy with her winds and brought him down to her. She placed his head on her chest and held him close as he slept. Tears pooled in her eyes. "Luffy, you idiot. Always making me worry. But you did it. You defeated Kaido. The war is over. You freed Wano."

Luffy smiled in his sleep.