Chapter 12: Farewell giants, hello fish mouth

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It felt ridiculously hot around me, my eyes blinking away the wax melting off me. I felt someone grab me and pull me with them, leading me out of what turned out to be fire!

I hadn't even realized I went unconscious after being covered by the wax. How long had I been like that? The fire is entirely new, though. I mean, what was I expecting the heat to be coming from?

"Why are we engulfed in flames?! What is happening?!"

Orion's voice came from above me, bringing my attention to him. "Your captain and the long nose set the structure ablaze, thus freeing us. Now, shut up and let me get you away from this disaster area."

And as he promised, he carried me away from the fire and set me down, leaning me against one of the many trees in the surrounding area. Noticing Nami and Vivi had gotten out, I went to get up, only to feel excruciating pain in my legs, forcing me to sit myself back down.

Oh yeah. I forgot.

Clenching my fists, I stared at the semi-deep cuts around my ankles. My legs were in as terrible shape as Zoro's were, which was saying something because he was going at that shit like he was chopping trees. Holding tightly onto my now almost completely burnt up shirt, I attempted to breathe as calmly as possible but failed pitifully. I'd noticed Orion was gone, so not wanting to look at the blood around my feet, I turned my attention back to the enormous flaming wax thing.

Mr. 5 had Usopp in a headlock, threatening him several times over, irritating me. I wanted to go and deal with that weird booger flinging guy, but I knew I shouldn't stand up right now. Not in the condition I'm in.

Something moving in the flames caught my eye as the shadow jumped through the fire wall surrounding us.

It was Zoro!

Damn, he looks cool like that!

Coming down, covered in flames, the swordsman shouted, "Flaming Oni Giri!"

As soon as he'd escaped the fire, Mr. 5 was dealt with in a single blow, leaving him screaming in agony. Chuckling darkly, I smiled at the sight of that guy in such a state.

Serves that guy right for putting the giants and us through all this bs.

The Baroque Works agent collapsed on the ground, unmoving.

Eyes trained on the flaming mosshead; I don't think I'd ever seen him look like that before. It's kinda scary, I won't lie.

"You know these flaming swords aren't too bad." As if he needed to look any cooler, he landed on the ground only a few feet from the charred man, not even giving the guy a second glance. Hearing a loud slam, my head turned to face Broggy, who had just escaped the flames himself. I'm just happy he doesn't seem too badly injured by Mr. 3's antics from earlier.

Zoro called out to the giant, "Hey, there. Glad to see you made it out alive." The giant turned and looked over at Dorry laying on the ground, who had yet to move. Seeing the sadness in Broggy's eyes made me sad for them again, feeling awful for the two of them.

I'm glad Luffy took care of that wax freak, but this still sucks. I mean, how are they going to recover after this? That is, if Dorry even gets up. I can hear his heartbeat, but it's quite faint, especially for a giant, so he could go either way if he doesn't wake up soon.

"Y/n! Are you okay?!"

I turned to where the voice came from, and spotted Vivi and Nami running over to me.

"Hey! Yeah I'm okay!" Or at least as good as I can be right now.

Please don't chew me out, Nami.


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