"Did I tell you all about the time the Navy invited me to be one of the Seven Warlords?" Madam Bobble asked, lifting her heels high to avoid the snow.
"Woah, really?" Genu blinked, idly playing with a cool stick he found. "What did you do?"
"I respectfully declined..." The Madam reminisced, a sly grin on her face. "May have sunk a battleship or two, it's a bit of a blur."
The six daring adventures hiked through one of Minion Island's many forests, heavily dressed in an attempt to weather the ever-worsening blizzard. Constable was in the front, leading the pack with a map marked by the exploration team. Ket and Sukato flanked behind him, with Genu strolling in the back and Madam Bobble in the middle. As for Belle...
"M-Mom, can you put me down?" She requested, feeling beyond embarrassed. The Madam was carrying Belle on her shoulders, high above the snowy ground. Not only was extremely degrading, but she was also just a wee bit scared of heights!
"Oh, come on Bellie!" The Madam chirped, spinning around with her daughter on top. "It's just like when you were a baby!" She sang, causing Belle to almost fall off. The rest gave them concealed looks of judgment. How could someone so powerful and fearsome act so... Childish? Suddenly, Constable stopped.
"I'll be damned..." He muttered, looking up at the sight before him. It was a large building made out of old stones with a closed semicircle door on the front. At the top was an engraving of a strange shape... The Minion-Minion fruit! "You weren't lying..."
"Of course I wasn't." The Madam sighed, giving Constable a smack on the back of the head and nearly dropping Belle. She had her parasol in a holster on her side, letting her use both hands.
"Awesome!" Ket beamed, brushing past Constable to get a look at the temple. He tried to go in, but... "Uh... So is there like, a doorknob?" Ket wondered, unable to find any way to open it. He knocked on the door, expecting that to somehow do something. To nobody's surprise, nothing happened.
"Here, lemme see." Genu insisted, stepping up to the front of the group. He closely examined the sealed entrance and noticed some odd outlines, each in a different shape. "Clearly, it's some sort of puzzle... Give me like an hour. I'll figure this out!"
"That'll take too long!" The Madam complained, taking Belle off of her shoulders and giving her to Sukato. "Hold her." She instructed, pulling her parasol out. Sukato and Belle exchanged one glance before he immediately put her down, relieving them both from the plague of awkwardness. "I suggest you two move out of the way." Bobble proposed, a focused gaze on her face as Ket and Genu stepped back. The Madam walked up to the door and coated her parasol with Armament Haki. She took a long stance, held it out like a sword, and...
"SPRINGTIME STAB!"
As she shouted, the Madam jammed the iron-clad tip into the door. The moment the edge made contact with the surface, she opened her parasol. This generated an intense force, causing several cracks to spread along the door before... CRASH! It crumbled into a million pieces! The Freedom Fighters watched on in awe at her power, while Constable remained neutral and Belle looked away. She still wasn't on board with this!
The Madam removed the Haki from her parasol and put it away, looking back to the group. "Shall we?"
...
Minutes later, the gang was walking down a long, dimly lit hallway. There were torches along the sides, kept alive by some sort of mysterious oiling mechanism in the walls. Said walls were covered in odd paintings of violet humanoids with red eyes. Ket hesitantly admired the artwork before turning to Bobble. "What does this fruit do, anyway?"
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One Piece: The Freedom Fighters
FantasíaTwo years have passed since the Battle of Marineford, and the World Government has gone mad! In order to stop piracy, they've devised a new tactic: Stop it at the source. They have tightened their grip on the four Blue Seas, ruling with an iron fist...
