Italics indicate thinking
Bold is for attacks
Steve's POV
"They say no fruit can exist twice." The grunt explained "But if the user dies the fruit will grow again somewhere in the world, for two years the Young Master has been growing the Flame-Flame Fruit."
Logia fruits are hard to come by but Doflamingo is using it as a prize what is he trying to do?
"If I had a fruit like that, I could turn my life around." The underling laughed.
"Like I'd let you eat it!" Luffy yelled.
"Hey calm down."
"I want it!" Luffy yelled.
"Why you can't eat it." I said "Or are you dumb?"
"Oh uh…Franky do you want it?"
"I like being able to swim."
"Can you even swim with that body?" Lil said.
"What about you?" Luffy yelled at Lil.
"No thanks I'm good." She crossed her arms into an X.
"I already at the Demon-Demon Fruit and you have rubber powers so we're out." I told Luffy.
"I can't just let anyone have it." Luffy said "Even if no one eats it I just want it."
"A memento Ehh? Well better to have it sit in a box with us then Doflamingo have it." I shrugged "Okay if it's important to you we'll get it."
"Let's just go." Franky said "We have business at the coliseum anyway."
We headed down the street towards the sounds of the area.
"Damn...this beard is fricken itchy." I said scratching my face.
"You look silly." Lil giggled.
"Wow this place is huge!" Luffy yelled looking at the coliseum.
"I kinda wanna participate now." Franky mumbled.
"You and Lil are gonna sit in the stands." I said "Luffy and I will take care of the combat."
"Boo…" Franky and Lil pouted.
"Grow up!"
You could hear cheering nearby; I wasn't sure if it was from inside or outside the area, nearby a group of soldiers were chasing a toy soldier who jumped up into the coliseum.
"Haha!" the toy gloated "You can't catch me and since police and Marines aren't welcome in the coliseum, you are out of luck! The only law that exists her is that of the Donquixote Family!"
The two cops wandered off and the soldier jumped down to us.
"Ahh old sirs may I carry your luggage for you?"
"He's so polite all the sudden." Lil observed.
"He's funny." Luffy laughed.
The soldier flopped around a bit.
"Will you get out of the way?" Franky asked.
"Ah how rude of me!"
"He's being polite again!"
"Toys are supposed to make people laugh, especially kids." The soldier scanned our appearances but stopped at Lil and backed away before rubbing his eyes "Apologizes I almost confused you with someone else."
"I've been getting that a lot lately." Lil sighed.
"The entry desk will close soon." The loudspeaker said "This is the last call for participants in today's tournament."
"Come on Luffy let's go." I said dragging him along "Lil listen to Franky."
"Okay."
"Wait for us!" Luffy yelled at the desk.
"Look Luffy." I said "It's fine to go all out, but don't let on who you are, in other words no powers got it."
"Yeah, yeah." he said scribbling his name on the sheet.
"Don't write that!"
The L-U was already written so we rounded it out with C-Y. For me I wrote my name as…Stew.
I've done better at being clever…
"This is the waiting room." The female attendant said "please wait here till you are called."
"Hey how are you gonna fight without your arms?" Luffy asked.
"You forget, before I had these powers I fought a different way, it's time to break out my old toys." I said spinning the handles to my whips in my hands "I hope I still got it."
"Seems like you can use anything you want here." Luffy said walking around.
"Hey old man." Some muscle head yelled "Beat it this is a place for serious fighters not spectators who wandered in. Get out."
"Ehh?"
The guy tried to take a punch at Luffy but Luffy slid around him and threw him to the ground.
"ShiShiShi, nice to meet ya." Luffy laughed.
"Discretion is the better part of valor my friend." I said walking passed.
"Did you start this fight." A guard asked "Be gone you're disqualified."
"HUH?!"
"Causing fights before the match is-!"
A huge axe flew passed and slammed into the floor.
"Cool it." A tanned skin man said "The big guy started that fight so toss him."
The tanned skin man was accompanied by two other men, a very tall and bulky old man and a lighter skinned fellow with long hair and missing teeth.
"Wow it's Sai and Boo from the Flower Country!"
"Even Don Chinjao is here!"
"Hey thanks." Luffy waved.
"Don't mention it." Boo shrugged.
"Yeah don't mention it." Sai nodded "No need for thanks…no need at all…TAKE IT BACK!"
"Don't reject it so passionately!" Boo yelled pulling him back "Sorry he gets cranky easily."
"SCREW YOU!"
Apparently, there were all sorts of big names around, Dagama the tactician, The king of Prodence Elizabello, the assassin brother Kelly and Bobby Funk, Suleiman the beheader, the bounty hunters Abdullah and Jeet, and the pirate admiral Orlumbus.
Luffy was quick to run around and try on every piece of armor he could find. I was going more lightweight with my armor and wrapping up my face with some bandages.
I look like a mummy, I feel stupid, but it's better than that damn beard.
"Look a statue, I want one!" Luffy yelled, clinking around in armor.
"You do know there is a weight limit?" a blonde-haired man said.
A handsome guy was sitting there watching us while gently twirling a rose in his hands.
"It's useless to try; I will be the one to win that fruit. I got here without the powers of a devil fruit." The man said "so imagine how strong I could be with the powers of a fruit."
Luffy started ditching armor but I was listening to the man ramble.
"Is the weight limit why everyone is almost naked like that statue?" Luffy asked.
"No, it's because the audience wants blood." The man said "The area was built to show off the true nature of humanity. I saw you flip that big guy over there…what's your name?"
"I'm Luffy, the man who will be King of the Pirates."
He didn't even last one question!
"Shut up." I hissed "His name is Lucy, he's forgotten you know how old people are."
"How funny." The man said "Had you really been Strawhat Luffy I'd have killed you right here."
"…?"
"I entered the New World three years ago." The man said "The world was shaken by the appearance of the Beautiful Rookie 'White Horse' Cavendish. My bounty posters were stolen by woman so they could hang them in their rooms and stare lovingly at them."
He thinks highly of himself.
"But then…a year later!" Cavendish started to get pissed off "That damn Whitebeard war happened and the new rookies showed up with their big battles and big bounties and no one cared about me anymore."
"So, you're in a sophomore slump." I said.
"Once I get the Flame-Flame fruit I'll have my revenge."
I wandered off leaving Cavendish to gloat about his evil scheme of revenge.
"Hmm." I looked at Luffy "You kinda look like that statue."
"Yeah I do."
"Does that man interest you?" a female voice said.
There's a woman competing?
"Who are you?"
"My name is Rebecca." She said "Thank you for dealing with Spartan, he was a jerk."
This girl was young, probably not even eighteen, but her body wouldn't lead you to think that she looked mature enough to be in her mid-twenties, her long pink hair was tied into a braid and she was wearing revealing chainmail.
I feel like I'm gonna get arrested just for looking in her general direction.
"This statue is of the greatest Gladiator Kyros." She explained "he won 3000 battles without losing, he only ever took one hit."
"He's that strong…" Luffy said.
"That was twenty years ago, but…no one in this country knows anything about him."
"Huh?"
"No one has ever met him, not an old person, not another gladiator, it's like he never existed at all."
"Why is there a statue if he doesn't exist?" Luffy asked.
"That is one of the mysteries of this country." Rebecca smiled.
From behind us I could hear some guy harassing Rebecca.
"Is everything alright?" I asked.
"Just…ignore them." She mumbled.
She looks like she's gonna cry.
"Today will be my last fight, I will win the Flame-Flame fruit…and defeat Doflamingo."
"You gonna beat up Mingo?"
"What round are you in?" the girl asked.
"C." we both said.
"Ahh, I'm in D, best of luck, maybe we'll meet in the second round."
With that Rebecca walked off.
What a strange girl…
"Hey Luffy let's go watch the first round." I said walking over to the railing.
It had only just started but almost the whole round was done, only a handful of people we left. A man with a bag on his head, a couple of simple gladiators…and a woman with a katana and long blue hair tied into a messy pony tail.
"Hmmm?" I mumbled "is that…?"
"Huh? What are you talking about?"
This woman, her shoes were ice skates, and she was gliding around the stone taking slices at the man in the mask.
"Blade Runner!"
She sliced at the man but he blocked her sword with a punch. The woman slid back before picking up speed and getting ready to attack again.
"Jump…" the girl jumped up and spun in the air "And Kick!'
The blue haired woman drilled the big guys chest with a kick from her skate blades but he just shrugged it off.
"That is!" I yelled "That's Arbell!"
Lil's sister was skating around the ring taking shots at the bagged man. She was a skilled fighter but she wasn't doing much.
Who is this guy?
The guys arm jerked and the air blasted Arbell up and out like it was nothing.
To lose just like that.
"And it's over!" the announcer yelled "The winner of Round A is the masked man Mr. Store!"
The big guy reached up and took the mask off.
"What's this?!" the announcer called Gatz yelled "His true identity makes his strength understandable!"
"Him." I growled.
"It's the Blackbeard Pirated First Fleet Captain Jesus Burgess!"
"The champion…" I stared out at him.
He's the one who tried to pick a fight with me in Mock Town.
Lil's POV
"This can't be…" I mumbled as Franky and I watched from the stands.
"To think she'd be here." Franky mumbled.
"Big Sis."
"I thought those two could win this." Franky said "But it's gonna be harder than we thought."
"Arbell…"
My sister pulled herself out of the water and trekked back to the locker room of the coliseum.
Why…is she here?
"Let's go." Franky said "We have a job to do."
"I'm coming with you."
"Mr. Soldier." I gasped.
"I told you you'll just get in the way." Franky mumbled "If you don't know where the factory is you're wasting my time. I'll just mug someone for the location."
"Wait!" the toy yelled.
"What?!"
"We need to go somewhere else; you're drawing unneeded attention to us."
The crowd was staring.
"Fine…" I said.
"Just who are you?" Franky whispered.
"I'll explain later let's just go." The toy warned.
Monet's POV
"You wanna go to Green Bit?" the waiter said "Can't really recommend it, are you all explorers or researchers? Cause unless you wanna risk your life you should avoid it."
Law had instructed us to sit at a café and await the time to drop of Caesar. Since we were undercover so to speak I was giving some new clothes, which meant I got eyeglasses and a white lab coat to put over my outfit from Punk Hazard.
"That bridge does look solid." Robin remarked.
"Yeah it's an iron bridge." He said "But no one uses it."
The bridge was covered in keep out and danger signs.
"Around Green Bit live the Fighting Fish." I explained "Before they appeared people used to go to Green Bit but now it's too dangerous…that was 200 some odd years ago by now."
"Shlololo…what's a Fighting Fish?'
"These are fish with horns and jagged teeth; if you get close with a ship, they'll flip it. That's why they built the iron bridge to protect it from the fish but that was useless." I said.
"You mean those fish can take down a bridge!"
"Let's change the meeting place Law!" Long nose cried.
"I will do no such thing, my plan has already hit a kink as is, and why is no one is a panic over Doflamingo's resignation?"
"What do you think Rob-."
"Shush." She whispered pulling her hat down.
I looked behind her and saw three men in masks walk by.
"CP-0?" Law mumbled.
"Why are they here?"
"Wait zero?" Usopp mumbled "do they have something to do with CP-9?"
"They are even higher, they truthfully don't exist." Robin explained "Nothing good ever happens when they are near."
"Hmmm." I hummed "This is odd. How much longer should we wait?"
"We can move soon." Law said.
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