Chapter 30
"ZE HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!" Blackbeard laughed.
Psycho continued to stare at the laughing captain with annoyance.
"What the hell are you staring at!? You look like you've got a problem with me being here! This is a war right?! I've got every right to butt in if I want to!" Blackbeard yelled.
Psycho smirked.
"Just getting a good look at you." Psycho said.
Blackbeard became confused.
"Trying to remember the face of your captor? ZE HA HA HA!" Blackbeard laughed.
"You really think you can pull that off? Capturing me?" Psycho asked.
Blackbeard smiled.
"I captured "Fire Fist" Ace when all thought it couldn't be done! That alone gave me a seat with the warlords of the sea!" Blackbeard boasted; his arms out wide.
Psycho chuckled.
"Oh, you mean those seven pirates who couldn't handle their bounties and needed protection from the navy?" Psycho said smiling.
Blackbeard's face became angry.
"Don't be a fool! Just because we were called warlords doesn't mean we did the government's bidding!" Blackbeard yelled.
Psycho continued to smile; his arms crossed now.
"You couldn't be criminals without protection… pitiful." Psycho taunted.
Blackbeard clenched his fists. Psycho smiled.
"I never respected anyone of the seven warlords. I wish they had been here when Cyclone and I cleansed this island of navy trash." Psycho said, "The seven warlords of the sea… such a big title given to chumps…"
Before Psycho could say anymore he suddenly started to sink. Psycho's eyes widened and he looked down to see he was getting sucked into darkness. Blackbeard smiled, his hand on the ground excreting darkness across the battlefield.
"BLACK HOLE!" Blackbeard yelled.
Psycho struggled to get out of the darkness and continued to sink while Blackbeard and his pirates laughed.
"CAPTAINS OF THE 1ST, 2ND,3RD, 4TH, AND 5TH SHIPS OF THE BLACK BEARD PIRATE FLEET! ATTACK! LOOK FOR DEATH'S GENERALS AND KILL THEM FIRST!" Blackbeard yelled.
Jesus Burgess, Shiryu, Avalo Pizarro, and Laffitte all took off into the battle running through the crowd looking for their opponents.
As Psycho sank he stopped struggling and stared directly at Blackbeard, who smiled back at him. Eventually Psycho was completely absorbed by the darkness.
Laffitte flew over the battle trying to find a DEATH general when he was pulled out of the air by strings.
BOOM!
Laffitte hit the ground hard and struggled to get up as Doflamingo stood over him.
"Now how much fighting do you think we can do if you're all the way up there? Hm hm hm hm ha ha ha!" Doflamingo laughed.
Jesus Burgess took out DEATH foot soldiers and navy officers as he looked for his opponent. Eventually he stumbled upon a man in an all-white suit.
"Hm? Either you're a navy officer or some type of official with an outfit like that!" Jesus said.
Lucci turned around to look at the giant man.
"My name is Rob Lucci, I just became a DEATH general today." Lucci said calmly.
"Oh really!? That's some big information you're telling me with such a calm demeanor!" Jesus noted.
"I'm assuming you want to know because you're looking for a DEATH general. So I told you I was one." Lucci said.
Jesus threw a punch at Lucci, but Lucci dodged it easily.
"At least allow me to get ready for battle before you attack me." Lucci said.
"To hell with that! Fight me!" Jesus yelled.
Lucci smiled and slowly started to change shape. Lucci stood slightly taller than Jesus, who just smiled at the giant human-leapord hybrid. Lucci held his fists to Jesus's chest and spoke.
"GIGA ROKOUGAN!"
As pressurized air blasted through Jesus's body blood spilled out the mouth of the giant masked man.
Next up, Alvalo Pizarro punched DEATH members away as they attacked him until it felt like suffered a scratch. His arm suddenly developed a large scratch wound and opened. Blood spilled from the cut.
"ARG! What the hell?" Pizarro asked.
He looked around but couldn't see anyone.
"Who the hell just cut me? It had to be a DEATH member, or even navy by accident… there are a lot of swords around me." Pizarro thought.
He continued to look around until three large scratches appeared on his body. The blood spilled from the three scratches and the horned man fell to his knees. When he looked up, Kuro stood over him and pushed up his glasses.
Shiryu walked calmly through the battlefield.
"Come on out DEATH general… I know you're in this crowd somewhere." Shiryu thought to himself while he lit a smoke.
Suddenly a giraffe human hybrid attempted to cut him. Shiryu blocked the sword just barely.
"So… you must be a DEATH general?" Shiryu asked with a smile.
Kaku smiled.
"I just got recruited today so I appreciate the compliment, but the real general is elsewhere! You're fighting me right here and right now though!" Kaku said.
Shiryu looked him up and down. Kaku's arms and legs were stretched completely but his neck was tucked in.
"What the hell kind of form is that?" Shiryu asked.
Kaku smiled.
"A form I made up! Pasta machine!" Kaku said, throwing another sword attack.
As the DEATH members fought the navy and Blackbeard's pirates, A now calm Cyclone looked down at Tashigi and over at Smoker. Cyclone holstered his sword and looked around.
"He said there were 5 commanders did he not? Where's the fifth one?" Cyclone asked.
Blackbeard lifted his hand off the ground and looked at the darkness that had swallowed Psycho into the ground. Blackbeard chuckled and looked down at the fallen fleet admiral.
"Ze ha ha ha ha. How embarrassing is that? All that tough talk to be swallowed by darkness!" Blackbeard taunted.
Akainu looked up at Blackbeard in pain.
"Don't… don't get too cocky… he… he…" Akainu struggled to speak.
"Hm? He what? Spit it out!" Blackbeard yelled.
"He… can't die!" Akainu spit out.
Blackbeard picked up Akainu by the collar.
"Ze ha ha! It doesn't matter if he can't or not! I can keep him in that darkness as long as I feel like it! The force inside a black hole is so strong light can't even escape! Unless I decide to expel him then he's trapped for eternity!" Blackbeard explained, "ZE HA HA HA! Now watch as I destroy his army with one attack!"
Blackbeard closed his left hand and brought his arm across his face. A white orb formed around his fist and grew bigger the more he focused energy into it. Blackbeard smiled hard and wide as the orb finally shone a bright white.
"SEAQUAKE!" Blackbeard yelled as he threw a punch at the air.
CRACK! BOOM!
A loud boom echoed across the battlegrounds and it looked as if reality itself had cracks in it. Blackbeard smiled hard, but that smile soon turned into worry as the explosion of energy got everyone's attention, but nothing happened to anyone.
"HUH!? WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED!?" Blackbeard yelled out.
Blackbeard continued to stare straight forward until he looked down in fear. Psycho stood in front of him, one of his legs out of the darkness, the leg that was free was bent slightly.
Psycho blocked the max charged seaquake with only his left forearm. As Blackbeard stammered, Psycho pulled his leg out of the darkness and stood straight up. Blackbeard choked on his words.
"Planned on me keeping me trapped Teach? You really are a coward..." Psycho said softly.
Akainu looked up with complete shock, as did the navy.
"How did you get out!?" Blackbeard yelled.
Psycho turned his arm around and grabbed Blackbeard's fist. Blackbeard tried to pull away but couldn't.
"He's stronger than he looks! Ze ha ha." Blackbeard chuckled to himself.
Psycho looked up at Blackbeard.
Akainu continued to look up at Psycho with shock.
"What the hell is this man!?" Akainu asked himself.
"Let's continue, shall we?" Psycho asked.
GRAND LINE WATERS EN ROUTE TO LONG RING LONG ISLAND
The remaining straw hats and the leaf shinobi sat in their meeting circle.
"Okay! So Luffy, Hancock, Robin, and Zoro are all out at the moment. That leaves us to break down what we've learned about Psycho." Kakashi noted, "So, between what we've seen at Arlong park, talked about, and what Hancock told me we should have a good idea on what we're up against. Naruto, you fought him, what did you learn?"
Naruto looked down.
"Yeah… the guy packs a crazy strong punch. He was fast enough to dodge my punches in nine tails chakra mode AND Luffy's gear second with little effort." Naruto said.
"He's also legit with the shinobi talk. He can also use jutsu and has chakra running through his body." Sasuke added.
"That's right. He did use a few jutsu didn't he? Water prison and shadow clones…" Sakura said.
"What are jutsu?" Usopp asked.
"Basically special techniques we ninja have developed that use chakra to manipulate things around us." Sasuke answered.
"That sounds cool! Can you teach us that!" Chopper asked.
"Yeah! Imagine me using jutsu!" Franky added.
Kakashi sweat a little bit and held up his hand.
"Take it easy guys, we're talking about Psycho remember?" Kakashi said.
"I believe he even used a couple of Luffy's moves…" Sanji added.
"Yeah… red hawk and gum gum bazooka." Nami said softly.
"Can't he blast beams of energy too?" Brook asked.
"That's what I saw! Do you think it was a devil fruit?" Chopper asked.
"It had to be! I just can't see it being anything else." Nami said.
"I'm not so sure about that..." Sasuke said.
"What do you mean?" Usopp asked.
Sasuke was quiet for a moment.
"When he prepared that beam attack.. a different energy ran through his body in place if chakra.. and focused itself at the palm of his hand." Sasuke said, "I could see it with my sharingan."
"What in the hell did we get ourselves into?..." Usopp asked.
"What do you think it could be, Sasuke?" Naruto asked.
"I.. honestly have no idea.. we'll have to find that out another way unfortunately." Sasuke said.
"Um, Mr. Sanji, what are devil fruits?" Hinata asked.
Sanji lit a smoke.
"Devil fruits are special fruits, from the devil himself, some say. Basically, they grant you special abilities. The main problems are that unless you refer to an encyclopedia on them you won't know what your power is until after you've eaten the fruit. Also… anyone who eats a devil fruit is hated by the sea and loses their ability to swim." Sanji explained, "Devil fruits are the reason Luffy can do those crazy attacks, Brook's skeleton body, and Chopper's ability to speak and change forms."
Hinata gasped.
"Oh my.." Hinata said.
"Hancock and I spoke on it and we actually think he has four devil fruit abilities." Kakashi said.
The entire room gasped.
"How is that possible Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto asked.
"I don't know… but we do know that his rubber ability is the result of a devil fruit, his youth HAS to be a devil fruit, maybe his those beams could be a devil fruit, and his ability to turn into light." Kakashi said
The straw hats became shocked and panicked.
"Light!? Did you say light?" Nami asked.
"The only man that could turn into and manipulate light… was that damn bastard Kizaru." Sanji said.
"Oh yeah, you all don't know." Kakashi said.
"Hm? Know what?" Franky asked.
Kakashi sighed.
"Well… apparently… Psycho… stole Kizaru's powers." Kakashi said.
Everyone in the room became shocked.
"Huh!? How!?" Nami asked.
"Hancock told me he used some sort of strange technique and took the powers because Kizaru didn't deserve them." Kakashi said.
"Just WHAT the hell is he?!" Naruto asked himself.
"That's crazy… I can't believe it." Franky said, "That bastard made us look like chumps… just to find out Psycho took his powers."
Kakashi looked over at Franky.
"Agreed. That's why we're going to this island so we can get this training done. It's going to be a while of intense super training though. We can't let what happened at Arlong park happen again." Kakashi said.
Everyone in the room smiled. Nami looked down at her compass and noticed they were getting close. Nami ran outside and everyone followed.
"There it is! Long Ring Long Island!" Nami said.
Naruto smiled.
"I can't wait to get started with this training!" Naruto yelled.
As Naruto and the other's started to get closer to Long Ring Long Sanji started to get a bad feeling.
"I can… hear people on that island… it sounds like they're in an intense fight." Sanji thought.
LONG RING LONG ISLAND
"Room!" Law said as a giant blue orb surrounded himself and 100 fishmen, "SHAMBLES!"
The fishmens' heads were replaced by cannon balls and exploded, wiping them all out. Arlong smiled with his arms crossed from a distance. Law's room disappeared and he fell to one knee breathing heavy.
"Oooooo getting tired already? Trafalgar Law!" Arlong yelled.
Law continued to breathe heavily.
"You do realize the more you kill my fishmen brothers and defy me you're making things far worse for yourself!" Arlong noted.
Law smiled.
"You think I give a damn about that? Heh, like I said, you gotta pay for what you did to my crew." Law said.
Arlong smiled and un-crossed his arms. Law stood to his feet.
Arlong suddenly disappeared.
"ARGH!" Law gasped.
Arlong appeared in front of Law and cocked his arm back as far as he could, Law was too weak to quickly move.
"R…roo-!"
WHAM!
Arlong punched Law in the stomach with all the power he could generate. Law coughed up blood and groaned, his pupils disappeared as he flew away from Arlong. Law dragged through the ground until he crashed into a giant rock.
KRSHHHHHHHHH BOOM!
"SHAAAA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! IF YOU WERE GOING TO LEAVE DEATH THEN YOU SHOULD'VE AT LEAST TRAINED WITH THE REST OF US! HA HA HA HA HA!" Arlong laughed.
Law lay unconscious on a pile of rocks, blood pouring from his head.
"The powerful training Psycho and Cyclone-san gave us made us SUPER powerful! Increased speed! Agility! Durability! And especially power! SHAAAA HA HA HA HA HA!" Arlong continued.
Law slowly gained consciousness and fell over onto his stomach.
"But Eneru was killed by a group of annoying brats Psycho had rag dolled so a seat is open! Why don't you come back Law!? Be a DEATH general with us again and rule the world!" Arlong bargained.
Law grabbed his sword and got to his feet very slowly.
"Heh." Law chuckled, "Sorry, Arlong-ya… but I have no desire to join the group that killed my crew."
Arlong looked at Law with confusion.
"I'll kill you here so they can rest in peace!" Law yelled as strong as he could.
Arlong walked towards Law slowly with a smile.
"Such loyalty... maybe if you were this loyal to DEATH they would still be alive." Arlong stopped talking when he stood in front of Law.
"My power is beyond anything you could imagine. I can split this island in half with one full power punch!" Arlong stated.
Law's eyes widened as Arlong cocked his arm back as far as he could again.
"You won't survive this attack again!" Arlong yelled.
Law "tsk'd" as Arlong swung a punch for Law's face.
"DIABLE JAMBE: JOUE SHOT!"
A flame kick suddenly kicked Arlong on the side of the face knocking him to the side a little. The flame kick was followed by another kick to the face sending Arlong stepping away and falling on his butt. Arlong rubbed his chin and heard a noise.
"RASENGAN!" Naruto yelled coming out of the sky.
Arlong zipped out of the way as Naruto crashed into the ground. Law stared with surprise.
"Hm? Cook-ya? What are you doing here?" Law asked.
Sanji turned and looked at Law.
"Hey, you're that Law guy aren't you? You alright?" Sanji asked.
Law looked at Naruto who stood to his feet. Arlong smiled.
"Well well… look who's here!" Arlong yelled.
Kakashi, Franky, Brook, Usopp, Sakura, Sasuke, Nami, Hinata, and Chopper all slowly appeared behind Law. Law looked back with surprise.
"Huh? Straw hats? And who are these people?" Law asked.
"We'll have to explain later. Can you fight?" Sasuke asked.
Law struggled to stand straight up.
"Yeah I can… HUAG!" Law coughed up blood.
"No, you're not doing any fighting right now!" Sakura yelled laying Law down, opening his jacket, and placing her hands over him.
"Naruto!" Sakura yelled.
Naruto's expression was covered by his headband as he stood with his arms crossed. Arlong stared at him smiling.
"So, you've come back for another ass whooping hm?! SHAAA HA HA HA! Psycho's first beating didn't teach you a lesson?! He left you and your friends almost dead if I recall correctly! Say, where's Straw hat? I knew it was too quiet!" Arlong noted.
Naruto grit his teeth and tensed up.
"Well I guess it doesn't matter! Killing all of you will give him something to come back to! SHAA HA HA HA HA!" Arlong laughed.
Naruto's body slowly turned golden with black stripes.
"Oh, that form again!? You truly haven't learned your lesson!" Arlong taunted.
Naruto continued to stare towards the ground with his hidden expression and and gritting his teeth. As Naruto got angrier his yellow flames took over his body completely and manifested in front of him.
"Hm?" Arlong asked.
The flames around Naruto transformed into a cloak as Naruto blasted at Arlong with terrifying speed and punched Arlong in the jaw, Arlong didn't budge. Everyone stared at the giant fish man. Arlong snickered.
"SHAAAAAAAAA HA HA HA! SHAAAA-"
RUMBLE… CRACKLE…
Arlong looked down at the ground and noticed it started to crack under him. Before he could study it further there was a big boom and the ground under him burst into rocks and pieces.
The air pressure blew the army of fishmen behind him onto their butts and Arlong slowly felt his feet lift off the ground. Arlong was all of a sudden knocked away by a huge punch.
Arlong's pupils disappeared and blood flew out of his mouth as he was knocked through the island and into a small mountain.
KABOOOM! CRACKLE CRACKLE
Sanji, Usopp, Chopper, Brook, Kakashi, Nami, Hinata, Franky, and Sasuke all stepped to Naruto's side, Sakura watched them with a smile as she cared for Law.
"Go get em guys!" Sakura thought to herself.
Naruto still held his angry expresson and looked up with golden eyes.
"ARLONNNNNNGGGGGG! WE'RE GONNA KICK YOUR ASS RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOWWWW!" Naruto yelled.
In the debris of rock and smoke Arlong lay bruised up with cuts on his body. Arlong broke a rock to dust in his hand and smiled.
"Who… are you guys…?" Law asked again.
Sakura smiled at him.
"WE'RE THE STAW HAT SHINOBI!" Everyone yelled in unison.