This is the 42nd chapter. I don't own the series of One Piece.
Unbeatable Powers
Attempting to escape from the Upper Yard, Nami and her team were heading to the east coast when Eneru suddenly appeared. He attacked and severely burned Sanji and Usopp, then vanished. As if it is place, Satori's twin brothers, Hotori and Kotori appeared, seeking revenge. Meanwhile, the 6 who headed south in search for the ancient ruins, were separated after the encounter with the giant snake. Each has encountered enemies and being forced to fight for their lives. In most recent battle, Chopper fought and defeated the priest, Gedatsu.
Upper Yard
In the Upper Yard, the battle continued, and many were losing numbers during the fight. Kamakiri and his fellow tribesman continued to follow the trail of Milky Road that leads to the God's Shrine, but he grunted in pain since he had to save Raki from Ohm and he still feeling the effects of that slash wound a while ago. He couldn't think about it right now, tried to focus on getting to God's Shrine to get to Eneru and kill him, which he didn't realize that he already left to take down the remaining Shandorians.
"You all right, Kamakiri?"
"Don't worry about me! Stay focused on the surroundings!" Kamakiri ordered, looks up. "There."
As they continued to head further through the jungle to find Eneru's location, they noticed a giant beanstalk in front of them. The giant beanstalk that's connected to the Upper Yard and where Eneru's God Shrine is held which it's at the top.
"Look! At the clouds above! I can see Giant Jack!" Kamakiri told him, continuing to ride on the Milky Road. "We're close to the ruins of Shandora! Eneru's gotta be up there somewhere."
Kamakiri then heard a sound of scream as he stops himself for continuing to head for the Giant Jack, turns and finds out that his fellow Shandorian is nowhere to be found. However, he didn't realize that it was Eneru who took down the Shandorian with only second thanks to the Devil Fruit power, leaving him severely burned.
"You called?" The voice of Eneru said with a sinister smirk, which it got Kamakiri's attention when he slightly glances over his shoulder and saw him at the large tree branch with his legs crossed, with a Shandorian on his hand. "I'm right here behind you. Did you want something, brave Kamakiri of Shandora?"
"Eneru, you bastard!" Kamaniri snarls angrily, watching Eneru letting go of the Shandorain as he falls down to the ground.
"Have you forgotten to whom you are speaking? I am god, you know." Eneru told him with a scoff, then smirks which made Kamakiri readied his spear. "And I know exactly what you're thinking, warrior. You're wondering why I came down here."
It got Kamakiri shocked, as if Eneru can read him like a book and knows what he's thinking thanks to 'Mantra'.
"Mantra?" Kamakiri muttered, but Eneru laughed since he's right on the mark.
"I don't need my 'Mantra' to read what's written all over your face." Eneru mocks with a laugh. "But I don't blame you. Normally, I don't bother to fight, but this time, I'm a player in this survival game, too. Besides, I'll be leaving this land soon. I was just saying goodbye to Gan Fall, professionally curtsy, you understand."
"A game?!" Kamakiri snarled angrily. "A Game?!"
"I also don't need my 'Mantra' to tell me that you'd really like to kill me." Eneru mocks, causing Kamakiri to clench his spear tightly. "Very well. I must admit, you've shown great courage in reaching me. So, I'd say you're entitled to a reward, call it a display of God's mercy. So then, I'll give you 5 minutes. For 5 minutes, I won't move a muscle."
"What?!" Kamakiri said, looking at him.
"I won't dodge or attack, and I won't fight back. Fry me, skewer me, I am at your mercy." Eneru told him with an amused chuckle.
"Why you!?" Kamakiri growled.
"But once those 5 minutes are up, you will know what it means to face God in the very depths of your soul." Eneru said with a dark glare which Kamakiri finally had enough as he throws his Milky Dial to form a trail of clouds that leads to him.
"I've had enough of you!" Kamakiri snapped, gliding his way up to the Milky Road and then leaps in the air with his spear ready. "Time to die, Eneru!"
Eneru can only smirk in amusement since he won't get skewered, but decided to enlighten him as Kamakiri lunges at him and the fight begins.
At the Milky Road of the Upper Yard, Nami, Gan Fall, Caius, and Ventus were fighting against Satori's twin brothers, who were still laughing and dancing around the deck of the ship. Nami was able to get Usopp and Sanji inside of the cabin just in time before they'd make it even worse than they've already are. Nami charges after them with anger, swings her Clima-tact which made the twins dodge by leaping away, making the navigator misses her target.
"You missed us!" Hotori taunts.
"Cyclone" Ventus fires a small burst of wind right at one of the twins, which they dodged again and floating in the air like a balloon.
"Harpe" Caius then fires the dark orbs, and the twins dodged again, floating away while watching them spinning around with a laugh.
"These two are becoming a real pain in the ass than their fatass brother!" Ventus said in annoyance. "Are you two gonna take it seriously or not?!"
"Oh, we will, and we'll kill you all! Starting with you! You will all pay!" The twins shouted with a laugh, turning to Nami when one of them sticks his hand close to her face which made her widen her eyes with horror.
'An Impact!' Nami mentally exclaims, but the dial lets out a gas that made a farting sound which causes her to cough and stumble back as she then collapses down to the deck with disgust.
"I stored my fart in the Flavor Dial!" Kotori mocks with a laugh which made Gan Fall realizes their tactics.
"So that's it! They have four different types of dials they're using instead of just one." Gan Fall muttered, earned their attention as they demonstrating four Dials from each hand.
"That's right! Axe, Flame!"
"Impact, Flavor!"
They then join arms and continued to speak, taunting while earning a tick mark from Ventus.
"You won't be able to keep track..."
"...which one is Hotori and which one is Kotori!"
"One dial as in which hand! It's so much fun to guess!"
"Surprise Dial Illusion" The twins then join arms and spins around rapidly which Ventus is very annoyed of their childish tactic, same can be said with Nami and Caius, but Gan Fall twirls his lance.
'We know what they have, there's no time to waste.' Gan Fall mentally thought, clenching his fist while Nami puts her Heat Pole and Cool Pole together to form a cross, Caius and Ventus readied their weapons.
"I didn't care which one of those puffballs was which in the first place!" Nami said as she readies her Clima-Tact, aiming at the twins. "Some typhoon, boys!"
She then swings her Clima-Tact and the cross detaches the Electric Pole, which the twins dodge easily by jumping in the air and floating down to the deck.
"You missed!" Kotori mocks as he and his brother laughed, but both Gan Fall and Caius charges after the twins which gotten Hotori's attention. "Guess which Dials are my right hand!"
Kotori aims his hand at Gan Fall, who covers himself with a cloak and Caius turns into a dark fog as he fires a fart from the Flavor Dial.
"I fooled you! More farts!" Kotori mocks with a laugh, but Hotori is in front of him.
"Were you expecting flames?" Hotori adds as he fires his Flame Dial.
"The gas is highly combustible to fire!?" Ventus exclaims in dread with realization.
"And he's going to ignite the gas!?" Nami adds as the flame and fart gas explodes, causing her and Ventus to cover their eyes as the smoke quickly disappeared and noticed Gan Fall isn't here. "Old man!?"
The twins then laughed while dancing around at the deck.
"Fool! He's been blown away!" The twins mocked with a laugh.
"Don't count on it." Ventus said with a scowl as the dark fog formed into a figure of Caius and Gan Fall, rushing after Kotori which the twins were caught off-guard in shock.
Gan Fall slashes Kotori with his lance.
"Nebula Slash" Caius channeled his scythe with dark aura as he unleashed his four-slash combo and then sliced his head, sending the dead Kotori and his head flying out of the ship.
"That was a childishly obvious trick." Gan Fall said. "I'm afraid you've underestimated us."
"And the cost of your arrogance...is death." Caius adds with a death glare which made Hotori trembled in fear.
'Return!' Nami mentally thought as the cross is returning which made Hotori caught off-guard again. "Cyclone Tempo"
Then the Clima-Tact creates a massive wind to blow him right at Ventus.
"Dragon's Fang" Ventus flings his lance, impaling Hotori right at the heart. "Go to hell! And take your brothers with you!"
"Celestial Shooter" Ventus then launch his attack by delivering an uppercut slash, then swirl and slashes him again, sending the dead Hotori flying out of the ship while Nami's Clima-Tact reattached itself with a smirk.
"Well, that takes care of those two fat twins." Ventus said with his narrowed eyes. "Man, these guys are annoying and a pain in the ass."
"Even so, they are the powerful Divine Soldiers, trained by Eneru and Satori." Gan Fall stated. "And I must say, you three are superb."
"For the moment, the twins are eradicated. But we must be on guard since the massacre is still ongoing." Caius told him. "We'll never know either Eneru or anyone will show up."
Nami doesn't like to think about it since they just took care of the twins, but she knows the Reaper makes a valid point since she did remember how Eneru took out Usopp and Sanji with only his Devil Fruit power. For now, Nami decided to patch up both Usopp and Sanji while Ventus helps her out.
Outside of the Upper Yard
Meanwhile at the White-White Sea, Pagaya and Conis are taking Aisa to the Upper Yard since the Skypieans are heading the same direction as the young Shandorian is. Though, Aisa is still trembling since the sky-shark destroyed the waver, but apparently, she kept hearing voices in her head because of her 'Mantra', and it keeps diminishing one by one which it's mostly happening during the ongoing fight between the Divine Warriors and the Shandorians.
"Uh, do you mind if I call you Aisa? Can you really tell which way the Gravity Blue Rider's ship is heading?" Pagaya asks.
"Yeah." Aisa answered tearfully.
"That's amazing. Even from this far away, you can hear the sounds of their voices inside of the forest." Conis said surprisingly, but worried about the young Shandorian. "But, are you sure you're feeling alright? You've been trembling ever since we picked you up."
"It's just...It's just that I've never ever been this afraid before..." Aisa said, crossing her arms to her knees. "...Everyone's voices...everyone's voices keep disappearing one by one."
Pagaya just stayed silent, knows why Aisa is like this which it made him realize that she's got 'Mantra' that's on par with Eneru's. She only got that 'Mantra' when she's an infant, which it's still scaring her when she kept hearing voices.
"Yes, I am sorry. We got to hurry, Conis." Pagaya suggested.
"Yes, father." Conis replied as her father continued driving towards the Upper Yard to find the Straw Hat pirates.
Upper Yard
While back at the Upper Yard, Gan Fall got his armor on including his Impact Dial that's from his gauntlet since he's about to get ready to leave in order to get answers from Eneru. Gan Fall is getting very suspicious about him since he mentioned about his former Divine Warriors been turned into slaves for the past 6 years, and he wanted to know what happen to them. Both Ventus and Caius are now on guard since they're the only two lines of defense because Luffy's team, mostly Robin and Leon, are on their way to the ruins of Shandora while Zoro and Chopper got themselves lost, and Luffy is still inside of the snake's belly.
"Hold on! Where do you think you're going?!" Nami demands.
"I'm sorry, but I've got to locate Eneru." Gan Fall said with an apology.
"Finding Eneru in the middle of a jungle? That's like you're asking a death wish, and Eneru is very hard to find thanks to his Devil Fruit power." Ventus points out. "And what makes you think he'll tell you if you were able to find him?"
"But I must know why Eneru has chosen to come down into the forest and take a personal hand in this." Gan Fall told him. "It could be..."
"It could be what?" Nami questions in dread.
"When Eneru first appeared, he captured 650 members of the Divine Squad under my command. I don't have time to explain my suspicions, but I fear that my men's lives may be in grave danger...No, this whole land may be in danger." Gan Fall explains with grim expression. "Pierre, can you fly?"
Pierre responds with a reply of squawking, 'pierre'.
"Wait!" Nami protests when Pierre spreads his wings while Gan Fall climbs onto his back.
"I will you leave you three heading to ruin to find your crew. You should manage just fine." Gan Fall told the navigator.
"That's all!" Nami said, groans in frustration as Gan Fall rides with Pierre and flies away.
"Nami, we don't have time for this! We still need to find a way to get out of this island." Ventus told her seriously. "Also, we still need to meet up with our crew, but with Eneru around, things have gotten very difficult. And some of our crew are up in the ruins to look for gold, but with dangers around the area, they might've got themselves lost."
"And let's not forget, the Shandorians and Eneru's priests are still fighting, which we all know Luffy and Zoro could get involved in a crossfire. Same can be said with Chopper." Caius adds.
Nami can tell both Ventus and Caius are making some valid points since Luffy's team are still heading to the Skull's Right Eye to find the gold, but with everything happening between the full-scale assault and Eneru decided to join the fray, they're in a very bad situation. They went inside of the cabin to check up on Sanji and Usopp, which they're still unconscious.
"If only Chopper is here to give them First-Aid, I wish he'd hurry up and get here." Nami said with a sigh, but hearing an explosion sound that's coming from the outside of the ship. "What was that?!"
Then, they heard a loud sound of a horn and a waver driven by Pagaya along with Conis and Aisa making their way to the Straw Hats.
"Heso!" Conis greets with a smile and waving her hand while Aisa glares at the pirates when Nami, Ventus, and Caius looks at them with surprised look.
"Conis?" Nami said in confusion when Pagaya, Conis, and Aisa are in front of them.
"Heso!" Pagaya greets with his thumb up.
"And it's Pagaya...What are they doing here?" Ventus asks, but it got them annoyed of that horn making a sound.
"AND WOULD YOU KNOCK IT OFF WITH THE HORN ALREADY?!" Nami and Ventus yelled with a tick mark on their heads as Pagaya turned it off.
Aisa turns to them with a pout, about to get ready to fight them which Pagaya quickly notice that as he grabs hold of her while tried to get her to calm down, which it doesn't seem to be working.
"Let. Me. Go!" Aisa grunts, struggling while holding a Dial.
"Wait! No! You mustn't go! " Pagaya protests. "You can't go into the forest, you'll be killed! I promise, we'll only stay for a little while!"
"I said let go!" Aisa yelled which Nami, Ventus, and Caius noticed the young Shandorian.
"And, that's..."
But after Pagaya, Conis, and Aisa arrived at the Going Merry, the young Shandorian is about to get ready for a fight which Ventus took that Breath Dial from her hands and given her a good spanking with his tail. Aisa whines after getting spanked, telling the young Dragoon to stop which he's not going into until he stops.
"Oh, this young lady is Aisa." Pagaya told her as Aisa fell on to the deck with her butt marked in red as she rubs it with her hands.
"That hurt! You Blue Sea Devil!" Aisa complains, turning to Ventus with teary eyes.
"Would you want another spanking?" Ventus asks in a dark tone, turning to her with a dark glare which causes her to quickly shakes her hand. "That's what I thought."
"Overkill much?" Nami said with a sweat drop when Conis rushes to them.
"This is terrible! They've been burnt black!" Conis said with panic tone. "They need First Aid at once!"
"At any rate, I'm sorry. Now quick, turn your ship up the path we just came on." Pagaya suggests which it got their attention as they turn and see a Milky Dial formed a path that led them to the outside of the Upper Yard. "We used a Milky Dial to create a new river. If you follow it, you can exit directly to the White-White Sea. Quick before the enemy realizes we're here."
"Then, shouldn't you have been a little quieter?" Nami asks warily which Pagaya realizes something.
"Oh, by the way, I almost forgot. I brought something to give you." Pagaya told the navigator, who turns her head.
"For me?" Nami inquires but noticed a new and improved waver. "A Waver?!"
"When did you get the time to fix that?" Caius asks surprisingly.
"I hope you don't mind; I repaired the Waver you brought along with you when you came up from the Blue Sea." Pagaya explains, then turning to Nami. "Please, take it. It belongs to you after all."
"Really?!" Nami squeals excitedly.
"Luffy is in for a surprise when he sees this." Ventus states with a smirk.
"Yes, but I'm sure he'll try something foolish with the Waver." Caius agrees.
"Oh, right, almost forgot." Pagaya said, putting a bag full of Dials which it's fixed and improved. "I've also repaired those Dials as well. It also belongs to you after all."
"Thanks." Ventus said with a smile, going through the Dials. "Now we've got our own set of Dials, we might get a chance to test those out and making sure we go over them. But knowing Luffy, he'll probably think we'll use them for his own childish antics."
"Yeah, though with your pouch, you can hide it, so he won't find it." Nami told him.
"Perhaps I should warn you though. There are no ordinary Waver or any of the Dials." Pagaya informed them, earned their attention. "They're far more powerful than any normal Waver and the Dials. I'm sorry."
While in the battlefield at the Upper Yard, the battle between Shandorians and the Divine Warriors continued with a number of explosions while massacre each other with their own set of arsenals and Dials. One by one, the numbers of the Shandorians and the Divine Warriors are starting to decrease and the Shandorians are patching up their tribe from the fight and defending the wounded warriors. The fight is turning into a bloodbath ever since.
Eneru, however, yawned out of boredom and he was clearly unamused. Kamakiri has taken quite a beating, but he's not giving up that easily as he lets out a war cry while readying his spear. Eneru turned slightly since it got his attention.
"What? Oh, you're still here?" Eneru said, but Kamakiri thrust his spear right at the head.
It didn't faze him and not feeling any pain whatsoever, using his Devil Fruit power to conduct electricity and use the spear as a lightning rod to shock Kamakiri which causing him to grunt in pain.
"I'm sorry, I guess I must've dozed off. Is something wrong? You seem to be in pain, Kamakiri." Eneru said with a smirk, watching Kamakiri feeling the numbness and electricity from his body. "You see, I've kept my promise, haven't I? I haven't moved a muscle."
"I can't..." Kamakiri grunts, collapse down to his knee with a heavy pant as he coughs blood out of his mouth. "...Beat you...can I?"
Kamakiri pants heavily after feeling the effects of electric coming from Eneru using the spear as a lightning rod.
"No, you can't. Do you understand now? I am living lightning." Eneru told him with a smirk, then used his Devil Fruit power to shock Kamakiri with intense electricity. "Try as you might, no mere man can defeat such divine power. Surely, as a native of the sky, you've seen it flashing in the distance, have you? Since ancient times, men have trembled before the unknown forces of nature and worship them as God. Anything the fools could not understand, reduce them to abject terror. No matter what happens to mankind, whether for good or for evil, it's said to be the work of God."
Eneru continued to give Kamakiri, who grunts in pain while tried to get up, more shock treatment.
"It's inevitable, mankind accepts that it can never defeat the disasters of nature." Eneru continued, turned his eyes over to Kamakiri. "I'm one of them, that's what makes me God. Do you understand?"
However, Kamakiri had enough of his mockery has he lets go of his spear, jumps back in midair with a war cry and pulling out the Burn Dial. He then activates the Breath Dial that has blue smoke.
"Oh, a Breath Dial, eh?" Eneru said, amused as Kamakiri charges after him.
"Burn Blade" Kamakiri then swings his Burn Blade and slashes Eneru along with the tree which has no effect on him as he turned into lightning, vanished while a tree falls down.
Kamakiri realizes that he won't stand a chance against him, decided to withdraw as he leaps off of the tree branch and lands on the waver board. He then flees out of the fight, but Eneru is forming back into a human form and a tree falls into the ground.
'I have to tell Wyper! We can't win this battle! This is suicide! Even if he sacrifices himself, the Reject won't work!' Kamakiri mentally shouts in panic as Eneru stood up, using his 'Mantra' to sense a Shandorian fleeing.
"It's too late to run now." Eneru said.
'We've got to fall back and regroup! Or else...Or else...' Kamakiri mentally, but heard a flash of lightning as he stops himself and notices Eneru in front of him thanks to the Devil Fruit power.
"Did you think that you could move faster than lightning?" Eneru asks with a smirk, laughing. "Your 5 minutes are up...and now it's my turn."
Eneru then uses his Devil Fruit power to gather some of electricity, while Kamakiri tries to retreat in horror since he won't be able to get to Wyper in time.
"1,000,000 Volt: Vari" Eneru aims his hand as Kamakiri, who shouts for his leader as lightning strikes and electrocutes him with a sound of thunder roaring and flash of lightning, leaving him severely burnt as the Shandorians falls into the ground.
Eneru chuckled with a smirk but noticed something when lightning strikes a number of Divine Warriors and the Shandorians, leaving them severely burnt.
However, Aisa screams that was loud enough for them to hear as they turned to her with worry.
"What?! What's happening?!" Nami said in dread as Aisa begins to cry and kneeling down to the ground. "What's wrong? Aisa?"
'The voices...they're disappearing...' Aisa mentally shouts in horror with teary eyes, trembling.
Eneru lands on the ground, watching the Divine Soldiers and the Shandorians fallen to the ground since he failed to realize that lightning travels on the Milky Road to shock them.
"Damn! I guess my electricity traveled down the Milky Road. Another 20 voices vanished after that lightning bolt, the stupid fools." Eneru said in annoyance, realizes his mistake as he then uses his 'Mantra', sensing Gan Fall flying his way to find him, then Sareena and Yama fighting at the ruins, and Chopper climbing up on the Giant Jack. He senses the Shandorians fighting the Divine Warriors and his priests waiting for their opponents. "On the Upper Yard, 85 people began the survival game. 2 hours have passed, and of that 85. 56 have fallen...13 of my Divine Squad still remained...8 members of the Straw Hat crew are still with us...And 7 warriors of Shandora. That means there are 28 players still in the game, that's a lot more survivors that I've predicted there would be. No matter, they'll fall into their turn right after another. The only real question remaining is...who will come with me?"
Eneru then lets out a smirk with a chuckle, after counting the number of warriors has fallen and the number remained. Though, he's still fighting and to find out who will stay with him.
While inside of the snake's belly, Luffy was able to find gold that's been in the stomach acid. Though, he's still hungry and wanted something to eat while being clueless as ever since he's questioning himself of where he is.
That's it for the 42nd chapter.