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Grand Line – Paradise
Drum Island
Meanwhile, going back a bit in time, inside the castle, in the girls' room, Dra. Kureha enters through the door at the exact moment a bookshelf is about to fall to the floor, the entire castle shaking as if in an earthquake, the bedroom windows vibrating intensely, seeming like they would shatter at any moment.
Quickly stopping the shelf from falling, some books inevitably sliding out and dropping to the floor, Dra. Kureha puts it back in place and turns to the girls.
"Things are a mess out there; those brats destroyed part of the castle. Rebuilding this is gonna be a pain in the ass. All I know is that I'm not the one who will be doing it. Maybe I'll make my next patient pay for the appointment by rebuilding the place! Yeah, not a bad idea", Dra. Kureha says, picking up one of the books from the floor and placing it on a nearby table.
"Did you see what's happening out there? We can't see clearly from this room's windows!", Nami asks. When the tremors started, they tried to look through the room's windows, but the windows were in a position that made it hard to see anything.
"Just a bratty marine stirring up trouble, your smoker friend, a brat with three swords, and a giant white wolf are fighting him", Dra. Kureha says, calmly, as if none of this is surprising to her.
"Phew! If Luffy's there and he's not fighting too, then there's nothing to worry about", Nami says, relieved.
"Guys! Everything's shaking, how can you all be so calm?", Vivi asks, alarmed. How could they be calm in this situation?
"They can handle it, and Luffy is there, he's strong in a way you can't even imagine", Nami says, as if it were obvious.
"Meh, I've seen crazier and bigger fights, I'm used to it", Dra. Kureha comments, shrugging, remembering a specific incident from the time she was part of a certain pirate crew. It was a fucking chaos involving two pirate crews, the Marines, and a certain group of disgusting people's. 'Hee hee heehee! Good times, good times, glad it's over!'
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In the air, falling from the mountain where the castle stood, Aramaki quickly regains his composure and starts punching Chouchou's head like a furious gorilla.
The white wolf, not letting go of Aramaki's neck even under the heavy punishment, was tearing at his torso with his Haki-coated claws, making the giant wooden golem roar in pain.
Between punches, Aramaki creates wooden daggers and drives them deep into Chouchou's back, making the giant wolf slightly loosen the grip of his jaw, and taking advantage of this opening, he grabs his jaw and snout before twisting, exerting an overwhelming force, dislocating and breaking the lower part of Chouchou's mouth with a nauseating crack.
Throwing the wolf away, Aramaki crashes to the ground the next instant, and with the cloud of dust from his fall still in the air, he gets up, his severed leg quickly regenerating as he does so, taking the moment to slapps his face to put out the fire, the flames not affecting him at all thanks to his technique 'Bokarin', which he used during the fall.
With the cloud of dust settling, Aramaki sees Chouchou in the distance through the dust, the wolf still within his line of sight.
Chouchou quickly gets up, his broken jaw, loose and dangling limply, regenerates rapidly in a few seconds, and from his back, the daggers quickly emerge, falling to the ground, his body expelling the intrusive objects when regenerating.
The second Aramaki sees this scene, Zoro appears at his side, delivering an attack with his three swords.
Reacting quickly, the marine forms a two-handed wooden sword and blocks the attack, his back seemingly open to possible strikes.
Said and done, while he was measuring strength against the Straw Hats swordsman, Sanji appears behind him, delivering a supersonic axe kick wrapped in hellish flames, aimed at the giant golem's neck.
Then, from his back, a giant wooden hand sprouts, coated in Haki, blocking Sanji's kick, the blazing flames having no effect thanks to his earlier technique.
Sanji then quickly jumps back, dodging another giant hand sprouting from the marine's back after another glimpse of the future.
Not letting Sanji gain distance, the giant hands leap out of the marine, a massive quadrupedal plant golem coming into view, it looked like a Demodog from Stranger Things made of vines and vegetation, its head opening like a flower as it lets out a piercing scream, thousands of irregular teeth exposed, looking like a shredder, what seemed like saliva flying everywhere with its roar.
Then, like a wild animal infected with rabies, the quadrupedal golem lunges at Sanji, vanishing from its spot, the ground cracking where it passed.
But before the Demodog could reach Sanji, Chouchou appears, tearing the golem in half with his jaws and claws, giving the beast no chance to do anything.
With the Demodog out of play, Chouchou and Sanji charge at Aramaki, who was exchanging supersonic blows with Zoro.
But before they could get in the middle of this exchange of blows, two Demodogs attacks them from behind. Yes, you read that right, two. The Demodog that had been torn in half earlier regenerates, multiplying into two, like a starfish.
With one more glimpse of the future, Sanji can easily dodge the Demodog that attacked him, while Chouchou, on the other hand, narrowly dodges.
What follows from that point is a battle of gigantic proportions, dragging on for kilometers. Aramaki was not only managing to keep up with the relentless attacks of the three but was also standing out, pushing the three Straw Hats beyond their limits.
Zoro and Chouchou felt their Hakis being increasingly pressured to evolve, their strength growing with each passing second.
And the more the forest and terrain around them were destroyed and devastated by the unrelenting attacks of the three Straw Hats, the more the vegetation grew and mutated, like a living organism trying to swallow them, pressing them harder and harder. The situation was far from easy for them.
Between cutting down carnivorous plants of all types and sizes and tearing apart endless Demodogs, Zoro still, somehow, exchanged constant blows against the giant wooden golem wielding a medieval sword. His body drenched in blood and covered in cuts and bruises, the ground beneath his feet muddy from the ferrous liquid dripping off his body.
And still, Zoro endured, refusing to fall, his strength seemingly endless, his muscles having been pushed beyond their limits for some time now.
But he could feel it, his body growing stronger and stronger the more it was pressured and wounded. So, as long as his mind had control over his body, he would keep fighting.
The constant attacks from all sides forcing his Observation Haki to evolve, grow stronger, glimpses of the future making his fight easier, fewer hits landing on him, better coordination with Chouchou and Sanji.
The same was happening with his Armament Haki, the constant clash of blows, the colossal force exerted, his Haki being hammered and stretched constantly, all of it contributed to his Armament becoming stronger, evolving. Just like Sanji, he felt his Haki wanting to flow out of his body, so he let it happen, the strength and destruction of his blows increasing even more from that point onward.
And even though the battle had become somewhat 'manageable', Zoro was still being pressured more than enough for his mastery and familiarity with the advanced forms of Haki to improve more and more as the fight went on.
Meanwhile, Chouchou was experiencing a similar situation, overwhelmed by unstoppable attacks from all sides. His body, despite showing no wounds due to the super-regeneration from his fruit, was drenched in blood and dirt, the red liquid dripping onto the ground, mud forming under his paws, his fur, once white and immaculate, was now completely red and dirty.
And in the face of this oppressive situation, his Haki is forced to evolve, his Armament, being twisted and stretched mercilessly at every moment, forged under pressure, grows stronger and stronger to withstand the constant punishment, then reaching the next step, flowing outward, making him capable of causing increasingly devastating damage.
And his Observation, having to deal with the chaos of attacks coming from all sides without pause, all trying to kill him, begins to grant him glimpses of the future, which makes him increasingly capable of attacking Aramaki, who was fighting Zoro in his wooden golem form.
Now, last but not least, was Sanji. Of the three, it's he who was passing for the hardest time; his flames no longer affected the sailor and his plants, rendering one of his main attack tools useless, leaving him with only his kicks and Haki.
His body, soaked in blood and dirt, was riddled with bruises and wounds, but even exhausted, his body refused to fall, his mind unshakable.
The bright side was that as the battle went on, he was mastering and growing more and more accustomed to the advanced forms of Haki, which in turn allowed him to make his flames increasingly hotter and more destructive.
And then, after some more time mastering and refining his Haki, his flames become so hot that they once again back to affect Aramaki and his plants, making the marine's technique useless.
And then, after tearing a Demodog apart with a flaming axe kick, splitting it in two, the flames from his kick devouring the pieces like ravenous beast, incinerating them into ashes within seconds, Sanji turns and charges toward Aramaki, in his giant golem form, using Soru, his steps drying and charring the mud, cracking the ground and leaving black footprints in his wake, black smoke rising from them.
On the way, while advancing, he tears through and incinerates with his kicks another more hundred Demodogs that try to attack him and an endless variety of plants of different types and sizes that attempt the same, without reducing his speed or stopping on his path, all while constantly dodging vines and explosions caused by clouds of explosive pollen.
Meanwhile, Zoro, finally managing to match his attacks against Aramaki's, no longer feeling like his muscles were about to burst with every exchanged blow, comes out on top in a clash for the first time.
Their attacks collide, a radius of kilometers devastated by the shockwave, the two at the epicenter, and then, Zoro prevails, forcing Aramaki's sword back, the arms of the giant golem being flung backward with force, leaving him completely open to attacks.
And in this moment, Sanji appears behind him, in the air, spinning his body like a flaming top, before delivering a powerful kick coated with Advanced Armament Haki. His position in the air resembled that of a soccer player performing a volley, however, his leg completed the arc by ending in a fully vertical, downward position, the flames on his leg completely blood-red, black smoke adorning the bloody flames.
"Logi Jambe: Coupe Gourmande!!", Sanji murmurs, a flying black and flaming slash then shoots from his leg, tearing Aramaki vertically from the left shoulder down to the middle of his abdomen, the red flames of the slash scorching and ravenously devouring the two severed halves as the giant golem roared in pain, black smoke rising into the sky.
And then, in the next instant, the golem stops roaring in pain, his eyes stop glowing, and the movements on his wooden face become static, as if he had turned into a sculpture.
Zoro then charges in the direction of the giant golem, which, by the way, had more than tripled in size since the fight descended from the mountain. The only part that remained the same size was its head. It was now easily the size of a mountain, so the distance between them was considerable.
Disappearing from where he was using Soru, the swordsman's steps cracks the ground, the shockwave from his movement destroying his surroundings, and as he approached the walking mountain, he murmurs, "One more time! This time, let's cut something bigger! Santoryu Ogi: ..."
Getting into position, his two swords spinning like a fan, from afar his body looked like a mass of plasma moving through space-time at unimaginable speeds, "... Ichidai Sanzen..."
And then, he appears behind Aramaki, having already delivered his attack, "... Daisen Sekai!!", he finishes, the giant golem being split in two behind him, cut horizontally at the waist, the shockwave of the attack being felt throughout the island, cold winds scratching everyone's skin in the next moment.
And as the upper part of the giant golem's body rose into the air, detaching from the lower half, with one of its hands still firmly gripping the colossal sword, Chouchou appears suspended in the air, his jaw closing around the golem's head.
Before Chouchou's jaw could close completely around the golem's head, Aramaki, back in his normal form, is ejected with force from the back of the wooden golem's neck, his mouth spewing a mouthful of blood, Sanji's previous attack having been converted into internal damage to his body.
[In case you guys didn't catch on, Zoro's attack wasn't converted into internal damage because Aramaki had already returned to his normal form before that, so now the giant golem is basically just a statue, an immobile object.]
And then, as Chouchou was tearing the golem's head apart with his jaw, a 'creature' resembling a dragon sprouts from the giant statue's back, grabbing the marine in midair and flying into the sky. Its body was made of intertwined vines of various sizes, wooden scales protecting some areas of its body, it had four limbs, large feathered wings with green leaves on its back, and its head was basically a carnivorous plant, like the head of a Demogorgon, but vegetal.
Riding the Demogorgon dragon, Aramaki flies over the area, the dragon's head opening like a flower, roaring stridently, and meanwhile, the two parts of the inactive giant golem fall to the ground, the giant sword, still held by the headless upper part, piercing the ground deeply.
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(AN: 2,366 Words)
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