A Small Adventure (One Piece fanfic)

Glimpsing Into the Future

I've come back with the milk.

Btw this entire chapter is just the fight and her being half dead so uh... it will be boring teehee (it had to be done for plot 🙏🏽)
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"You didn't get any faster. How did you do that?" CP0 man questioned, pulling his foot from the indent he made in the floor.

I rolled away from him and rubbed my temples. "That's a really good question, give me a second to think about why," I responded.

He turned toward me as I started standing up. Although I am very pleased with the possible new power in the works here, I am still on the verge of passing out. The rusting agent has entered my lungs not too long ago, and parts of my limps are currently suffering from rusting as well.

"I should probably not let you do that," he said while he flew forward and stabbed a haki coated finger into my shoulder. He didn't use his other hand, which laid limp by his side. I guess I really did break it. His voice brought me out of my head, "Are you not phased by the pain of a finger pistol?"

I grabbed his hand and shook my head, "It hurts like hell, but so does the rest of my body. Now let's get to it before I really do drop dead." I punctuated this by pulling his finger out of my arm and throwing him across the room.

His side hit the floor and he skidded to the nearest wall. "That's the outcome I'm hoping for," he replied. He reached his arm forward and shot another blast of his poison at me. I struggled to get full body haki going, but I completed it just before it got to me. The rusting slowed just as it did earlier, so I ran straight through the gas and forced ryou through my arm. He started getting up, but I'd already reached him. I threw a spiked fist down at his side. Even the floor below him erupted upon impact.

He coughed up blood and the gas stopped flowing from his arm. I dropped the ryou and groaned in pain as my body throbbed. "I was already exhausting myself by using haki as a defense and as a way to simply touch him, but I guess I've got to pull out all the trump cards," I grumbled to myself. Full body haki is exhausting, but in a situation like this I'm pretty sure it's my best bet at coming out of this relatively alright.

I shifted my hand into a blade. I would have struck him with it, had I not seen him jump up and kick me in the stomach when I approached him. I jumped back a few feet in surprise. He kicked himself back to his feet and gave me a look of confusion.

"How did you know I'd get up when you tried to strike?" he asked.

"I thought you already hit me," I admitted. I held my head as it started throbbing just as much as my body was right now. Is this another exhausting power? Is it a branch of observation haki? I can't be using another haki on top of everything else I'm doing.

I dropped to my knees when I saw him shoot a hand forward and grab my head. His hand flew over me a second later. This is reminding me of someone. Someone who could predict things seconds before they happened. Someone who would say what I was going to say before I could.

Is this what Katakuri was using? He was just using this constantly? Is he a monster?

I can't believe this. "You've got to be kidding me-" I was cut off by a fist hitting me in the ribs. I cringed in pain as an elbow thrusted up into my chin, stopping me from going to the side and instead sending me toward the ceiling.

My eyes focused on the CP0 man. He was jumping towards me to hit me again. I propelled myself off the ceiling before he could get to me and headbutted him in the stomach. We both hit the floor and rolled away from each other.

When I was back on my feet, I shifted my arm into a chain with a scythe at the end. Why am I getting distracted at a time like this? And with Katakuri?

I grabbed the scythe's handle with my other hand. Gas Man jumped to the side when I threw the blade at him and lunged toward me to counter attack. I got another vision of him aiming a finger pistol at my shoulder, so I jumped to the side and tugged the scythe back to me. It cut his back on the journey to my hand, but he braved through the pain and blasted poison into my face again.