Italics indicate thinking
Bold is for attacks.
Rose's POV
"BLEG!" I coughed up a bunch of water.
"GAH! Mermaids do exist!" Usopp yelled.
"What's a mermaid?" Wyper asked.
"Certainly not that!" I added.
Chopper flopped to the deck "I can't move."
I climbed up the stairs after Zoro to get a look.
"I'll explain that later." Zoro added "Look at this, the island we were on before is nothing more than an inferno now."
"They have an order not to kill Nico Robin." Franky told us "That's why the bridge isn't getting attacked."
"We need to leave as soon as possible." Usopp said "We're too weak to keep fighting much longer."
"Look there." I said pointing to a part of the bridge "It's the only place with smoke but no fire."
"We protect this escape route." Zoro told us "And wait for Steve and Luffy."
Please be careful.
Nami told us that the ship was all set to go we just needed to wait for Steve and Luffy.
"It's gonna be hard to even get out of here with all these warships blocking the path." Sanji said.
"Hopefully we have some good luck." I smiled.
A loudspeaker started reporting to the Marine ships "The fifty pirates at the main gate…"
"That's my guys. No need to worry they can't be killed." Franky said.
"Have been obliterated, Death confirmed, survival is impossible. The number of survivors on the main island is zero."
I felt my lips quivering "This…it's…no fair…we came all this way."
"Come on! Strawhat! Torturer!" Franky yelled "Hurry up you two, your friends are waiting for you!"
One of the side walls where Luffy and Steve were exploded.
"Lucci is incredibly strong." Franky explained "If those two hadn't been holding him there, we might all be dead already."
"They won't die, right?" Usopp asked.
"Of course not." Wyper said.
The warships started firing and blew up half the bridge, isolating Luffy and Steve.
"The ships are circling them!" I yelled.
"And these other ones are coming to get Robin." Zoro added.
"The smoke cleared look!"
We could see them from where we were standing. Steve and Luffy were still in one piece, Luffy was steaming for some reason and Steve was covered in blood, sweat and dirt, but they were alive.
"We made it!" Franky yelled.
"We got Robin too!"
"You gotta beat that guy!"
"You deal with him and we can all go back! Together!"
The two of them smiled and shook their heads, and the rest of us got ready to fight for our lives.
"This will be a battle of endurance." Zoro explained.
The Marines on the warships near us hopped up to the edges and were getting ready to attack.
"Only officers of the rank Captain or higher should engage the pirates."
"All these guys are gonna be as strong a Smoker." I pointed out.
"Where's Sanji!" Wyper yelled.
"He was here a second ago."
"Damn cook." Zoro mumbled.
"CHARGE!"
"Here we go!" I yelled.
Men started jumping on to the bridge and we were left to deal with them. Franky punched one guy and broke into pieces.
"What the hell! They have Devil Fruit users!"
When Zoro slashed at a man Yubashiri rusted in his hand. He wasn't paying attention and someone was coming to attack him from behind.
"Zoro Move!" I ran forward and pushed him out of the way.
With out my bladed defense from my jacket-!
I turned around and the sword came down.
"AHHHHHH~!"
That was the loudest scream I ever let out, the most pain I've ever been in.
Wyper's POV
We all turned to see why Rose was screaming. That was the kind of scream you let out…
When you entire right forearm had been cut off.
"OH MY GOD"
"MY ARM AHHHHH~!"
She sat there screaming, clutching what was left.
"Holy shit!"
"What the hell do we do?!"
I skated forward and went to grab her and the arm "Chopper will have to fix it."
I just hope he can move.
I scooped up the girl and held and dial full of Knock-out gas up to her mouth, and went to reach for the dismembered arm, as I reached out for it some Marine kicked it off the bridge.
"YOU MONSTER!"
"IMPACT!"
"STRONG RIGHT!"
"ONIGIRI!"
We blew that guy off the bridge just like he had done to her arm.
"Just make sure she survives!" Zoro yelled.
I hopped off the faces of men until I got back to the escape ship.
"CHOPPER!"
"Oh God!"
"What happened?!"
"I can't move!" Chopper yelled.
"Then tell me what I have to do!" I yelled
"Cut off circulation, make a tourniquet. Rip your sleeve that will work for now."
Come on don't die.
Chopper started directing me the best he could until he started crawling forward trying to help.
"Please don't die." He whimpered.
Steve's POV
"We made it!" Franky yelled.
"We got Robin too!"
"You gotta beat that guy!"
"You deal with him and we can all go back! Together!"
We nodded to show we heard them and they went off to deal with the attack at the bridge.
"They're all alive just like you said." Lucci spoke "Congratulations, but will they have that same face for a few more minutes?"
"Jet Bullet!" Luffy punched Lucci in the stomach but this one was weaker than before.
"Tempest Kick!"
It feels like my legs and gonna fall off.
Once again Lucci took the blow like it was nothing "You're losing your edge, you won't escape this place! Even if this island is gone I'll pursue that woman to the ends of the earth!"
"So will I! Whip Blizzard!" I spun in the air and swung as fast as I could
"Finger Pistol!"
"GAH!" Lucci's finger drove into my shoulder and then into my thigh.
"Jet Stamp!" Luffy kicked forward, but Lucci appeared behind him.
"Six King Gun!"
Lucci clenched both his hands and a pulse shot out and ran through Luffy.
"Luffy!"
Luffy silently fell to the ground I tried to move but my legs wouldn't work.
"Now to finish you two off."
"LUFFY! STEVE! What are you doing get up!"
"Usopp…" I saw him, just barely, my vision was fading.
He took off that silly mask…
"Don't misunderstand! I came to rescue Robin not to see the two of you. Hey you, big cat from CP9. I'll be your opponent."
"No don't!" Luffy yelled.
"Stop trying to be the hero!" I added.
"I have no business with defeated men; I think I'll go kill the rest of them now." Lucci smirked.
"Come here cat man I'll blow you away!" Usopp said.
"Stop it Usopp!"
"You'll get killed!"
"Shut up, what can half dead guys like you do?!"
"We can finish him!"
"Then get up!" Usopp yelled "That's not like you two. Even through all the smoke, we can still see the sky and the ocean. This place isn't hell, so stop acting like you gonna die!"
"UGH!" I struggled but I managed to stand, my legs burning with exhaustion "He's right you know."
"Yeah." Luffy said getting to his feet "This ain't hell."
"Win and we can all go home together!" Usopp yelled.
"You got it!"
"You two can still move?" Lucci asked.
"I never said I gave up." I told him.
Lucci returned to his larger hybrid form "I'll finish you both off. Don't worry about your friends once I finish with you I'll end all of them! Finger Pistol Spots!"
Lucci dashed forward and started stabbing towards Luffy and I, then he stopped and put his hands in front of him.
"We won't get hit by that." Luffy and I said jumping away.
Lucci's tail wrapped around my waist and held me in place.
Shit!
"Ultimate Six King Gun!"
"AAGGGHHHH!"
"STEVE!"
It felt like my internal organs exploded. I stumbled forward and coughed up a mouthful of blood.
"Bleh!"
I struggled, but I stayed on my feet.
"Why won't you just die?!"
"Luffy. Everything goes into this next attack." I panted with blood dripping out my mouth.
Luffy started punching the air as fast as he could and I started kicking as fast as I could.
"Iron Body!" Lucci braced himself
"JET GATLING!"
"SHAVE TEMPEST: NEVER-ENDING STORM!"
"RAAHHHH!"
The attacks slammed into Lucci and he got battered back and forth. The wall of the room caved in and Lucci collapsed to the ground defeated.
Luffy and I also collapsed and fell to the ground, my body unable to stand any more.
"It's over…" Luffy said trying to catch his breath.
"WE'RE GOING BACK TOGETHER! ROBINNNN~" I called out.
"Come on let's go!" Usopp called "Jump over here! You just get to this side I'll carry you the rest of the way."
"I can't move…" Luffy said.
"My body's frozen!" I yelled "It just can't…"
"Stop being stupid you won. We have Robin back; all you have to do is get over here and we can leave!"
The cannons lowered and pointed at the room we were in.
"Crap we're gonna get killed!"
Everyone started yelling for us to stand up.
"We really shit the bed this time." I mumbled "All that work just to die now."
"Look down."
"Who the hell said that?"
"It said to look below?" Luffy told me.
"Jump!" Usopp yelled "Jump into the ocean!"
A bunch of hands sprouted up.
"Okay we're moving!"
We hit the ledge and fell towards the water.
"Merry!"
I looked down and saw our ship was there waiting for us.
"You came."
We splashed down in the water and someone threw us onto the deck.
"Hurry up we gotta go!"
I laid out on the deck trying to catch my breath.
"Thanks for moving me Robi-" Robin slapped a hand over my mouth to stop me.
She said nothing for a moment, her hands reaching up over her eyes before she took them down.
"Thank you everyone." Robin said, her face still stained with tears.
"No problem." I smiled.
"We can talk after we get out of here." Zoro said "Chopper what's the situation with Rose?"
"She'll live." He sniffled "But I can't do anything more till we get back to town. There was nothing I could do about the arm though."
"What happened?" I asked as we slid along the currents.
Zoro picked me up and dragged me over to the unconscious girl. She was asleep but she looked peaceful despite not having her right arm from the elbow down.
I couldn't help but laugh "Kinda like Dad now."
I looked up and saw the warships were firing on each other. I managed to at least sit up.
"Nami get us out of here." I said.
"Don't worry there's no sea Merry can't cross."
A cannonball almost hit us but Wyper and Sanji used Luffy as a slingshot and sent the shot back.
"Franky do it!"
"Coup De Vent!" Franky blasted the water and the ship flew into the air.
Usopp let off a smokescreen. Those two things combined with a little luck, got us all out of there alive.
"Thanks for coming to get us Merry." Luffy thanked the ship.
"What you guy did was pretty outrageous." Franky said "Shooting that flag and all."
"All we did was go get back a friend who was taken away." I said using the railing to help me stand up.
"We didn't just get a friend" Luffy laughed "We got your girlfriend!"
"Shut it you little brat."
Luffy hopped off the figurehead and started walking around the ship and walked up to me
"Do it!" He yelled pushing me.
I bumped into Robin but managed not to fall over "Nice to see you."
"Yes hello." She giggled with a small blush.
"Come on!" Luffy yelled.
He's such a pain sometimes…
Everyone else started egging us on and telling us to do it already.
"You know you want to Little Brother." Rose said from her spot on the ground "I didn't give up an arm so you two could stand there awkwardly."
I couldn't help but laugh "Should we just give them what they want?" I asked Robin.
"They'll never leave us alone if we don't" She said getting closer to my face "Thank you…thank you so much."
"You don't have to say anything." I smiled "For you, I'd cross any sea."
"Stop taking so long!" Luffy yelled pushing me again.
My head moved forward and my lips connected to Robin's. We kissed for a few seconds before everyone started clapping and making it super uncomfortable.
"That was nice." She said staring at me.
"I will do what I promised." I told her "Our first date will be in Water Seven."
"I look forward to it." She smiled.
"Hey a ship's coming!" Luffy yelled.
"Did they find us already?" Rose asked sitting up.
"Will you stop moving around?!" Chopper yelled "You still not in the clear yet if you open that up, you'll bleed out for sure!"
"I'll take a page from Zoro's book." She told the deer "I'll say yes and then not do it anyway."
"I wish you'd take a page from his book and just sleep." Chopper grumbled.
"I heard that!"
"It's the Galley-La ship." Wyper announced.
"Ice pops!" Luffy waved.
They shipwrights and Iceberg seemed happy to see we were still alive. A sharp creaking noise started coming from the middle of the ship. I pulled Robin back just as the front and back halves split and Merry broke in two.
Crap, it was inevitable but still.
"As expected…" Sanji grumbled.
"But!"
"We knew this Luffy." I said trying to calm him "They told us Merry couldn't go on like this for much longer."
"Please, Ice pops you have to fix Merry she's our friend, she's been with us forever. Just now she saved us."
"Then why won't you let her sleep?" Iceberg asked "What I'm witnessing right now is a miracle. This ship has long since passed its limits. I've been a shipwright for many years but I've never seen such an amazing ship before. It has lived an amazing life."
"It's time Luffy." I told him.
"I understand…" he lowered his hat over his eyes.
We borrowed some lifeboats from Icebergs ship and got ready to say our goodbyes. Luffy and I would be the ones sending Merry off, the others would watch from a distance.
"That bottom of the sea is a dark place." Luffy said moving the torch closer and starting the fire "So we're gonna see you off here Merry. It's for the best Usopp isn't here, I don't know if he could take it."
The fire grew larger and larger and began to engulf our ship.
"Thank you Merry, for carrying us all this way." I spoke as it started to snow.
I sat there staring into the fire, remembering all the good times we had had on that ship, all the times we spent with our friend…Reverse Mountain, the Sky Island. Without Merry I don't know how we would have gotten through those events.
"I'm Sorry."
"What?!"
"I wanted to carry you all just a little bit further. I wanted to go on more adventures with you."
"We're the ones who're sorry!" Luffy yelled "I can't steer I ran you into Icebergs."
"And I ripped the sails!" I added "And Zoro and Sanji are always breaking things."
I felt tears leaking out of my eyes
I don't want to say goodbye.
"Usopp tried to fix you but he's no good at it." Luffy said "We're Sorry!"
"But I was happy. Thank you for taking good care of me. I really was happy…"
"MERRY~!"
After that she didn't say anything else. We watched her sink to the bottom. We got onboard Iceberg's ship and sailed back to Water Seven.
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