One Piece (Love Story) [Part Two]

Chapter Three Hundred and Thirty One

-Chapter Three Hundred and Thirty-One-

"Straw Hat! Take them down!" one of the Fishmen in the crowd loudly cheered as one of the stone walls around the plaza was suddenly destroyed.

"I should have known Vander Decken was going to fail me—he couldn't even get rid of one lousy princess" Hordy's familiar voice greeted as he stood among the rubble of the now destroyed wall.

"Captain Hordy!" his men shouted before cheering upon seeing that their captain was back up and moving about.

"Her power is too great—it really is the stuff of legends, once I found out it was real I knew I had to eliminate her as soon as possible" he frowned as I finally noticed that his appearance had changed quite a lot from the last time I saw him. He looked a lot bigger than before and his once-black hair was now snow-white. "But then...you got in my way" he growled. "Admittedly, I should have known something was wrong when you were captured without putting up a fight, Jinbe. You really like these humans, don't you?!" he accusingly asked.

"People like you are the worst—you've completely forgotten your pride, see!" he huffed. "You grew up with Tiger in our district, and let's not forget Arlong—he was like your brother! Both of them were beaten or killed by humans!" he ranted. "But instead of avenging them, you went and got in bed with the humans! It's pathetic, Jinbe—gutless like Neptune!" he sneered.

"But soon, everything is going to change...once I'm king that is" he cruelly grinned. "Hear that? I'll start with the World Summit, that'll be the perfect place! With every ruler in the surface world in one place, they'll be easy to kill—then the whole world will learn to know to fear our underwater kingdom" he revealed. "Their kingdom's in disarray, we'll drag the humans into the depths and enslave every last one!

"In time, there won't be a soul left to stand against us and we will rule the Great Pirate Era!" he laughed. "Oh yes, you pirates will bow the same as everybody else—just you wait, see! These humans are more than capable of holding their own, yet they kneel before me!" he motioned toward the human men who were lined up behind him with shackles around their necks and ankles. "That's right, in a moment you'll be just like them, Straw Hats! I'll be king of the Fishmen, king of the humans, and King of the Pirates!"

"Is that so?" Luffy asked as Hordy chuckled.

"And to think there's only eleven of you here to stand in my way—what can you possibly do when we're 110,000?!" he shouted as his men started to cheer. "Kill them, New Fishman Pirates!" he ordered.

"Here they come!" Chopper cried as Pappagu clung to his back, crying as well. "No way we can fight this many at once! We're done for!"

"This is exactly the reason I don't like hanging out with you guys!" Pappagu sobbed.

"Well, I mean, we never said you had to leave the ship" I said.

"Before this begins, it's been a pleasure traveling with all of you" Robin calmly said.

"Same" I nodded.

"Don't say that!" Usopp screamed.

"There's so many enemies, wow..." Brook breathed. "If I try to cut them all, my eyes may pop out" he said, ready to unsheath his sword. "Then again, I don't have eyes, so they can't!" he laughed.

"Just 110,000? That's nothing we can't handle" Nami said, using Zoro, Sanji, and Usopp as a shield around her own body.

"Hey, wait! You're just saying that cause you're behind us!" Usopp snapped.

"And here I go, it's time to shine!" Franky grinned as he hopped down from the ship. "Super Armor Me! Alright, let's do this already—get over here!" a small robotic hand left the palm of his bigger hand and started to eagerly motion for the Fishmen to charge forward.