One Piece (Love Story) [Part Two]

Chapter Three Hundred and Thirty Five

-Chapter Three Hundred and Thirty-Five-

"Who uses their bare hand to stop a hammer?" the Hammerhead asked in shock.

"On second thought, I probably could have found a less painful way to do that" Chopper admitted as he shook his now throbbing hand.

"Hey, Chopper, I thought that one was supposed to be your normal looking form?" Zoro smirked. "Sure you're okay looking so freaky?"

"You did gain a lot of muscles for that form, that's for sure" I said, raising an eyebrow. "I agree, you sure you're okay with not looking very human anymore?"

"I don't care anymore" Chopper happily laughed. "I wanted to look human before because I didn't have any friends, but now I want to be a monster, so I can help Luffy."

"Gotcha" Zoro smiled as I gave the reindeer a cheerful smile as well.

"I'll slice that smile right off your face!" the Octopus Fishman shouted as he shot towards Zoro, bearing a sword in each of his tentacles.

"Bring me the real strongest swordsman on Fishman Island" Zoro simply said after destroying the Octopus' swords. "There's no way it's you, I didn't even break a sweat" I chuckled with the roll of my eyes upon hearing this before listening to the sounds of the royal guards and Fishman pirates clashing against one another all around us. Like Nami and Robin, a lot of my focus was put on enemy pirates while a large majority of the men on our crew put their attention on the big shots. Though I tried to keep my attention solely on the Fishmen I fought, my curiosity and boredom got the best of them as I would occasionally look in Zoro's direction to see how his fight was going. I knew the others were doing fine in their own fights after giving short glances their ways—so, I had no real desire to watch their fights all the way through like I wanted to do with my Mossy.

"Straw Hat Luffy did it! He defeated the captain of the New Fishman Pirates, Hordy is down!" one of the Air Tank guards cheered. "He really did it, he really stopped him, we're going to be saved!" I couldn't help but smile as the pirates around us stared in shock and disbelief as their bodies started to shake. Some even crying out in fear and running away as they became aware that the Noah was still slowly making its way down towards the island. They were halted in their escape though when the Wobbegong Fishman attacked them.

Though I didn't care much for the words that were being exchanged between the officer and his men, I was amused to hear them all cry out that the Wobbegong and his fellow officers were insane before being attacked by the Hammerhead Shark Fishman. Listening to how he claimed that everything that was at fault was because of us humans, that we were the reason they were like this and why they were doing all this. Funny how easy it is to use one's hatred for others to excuse their actions. Even when they prove that they're no better than the people they claim to hate. I couldn't argue that he was wrong as humans had done awful things to the Fishmen, but we weren't the ones that made him, and his fellow commanders go out of their way to kill and harm their own people just because of their hatred.

With the shake of my head, I didn't feel the need to watch them beat up their own men any longer and scream their insanity for all to see and instead returned my attention to my own fight. A small smile gracing my lips when I heard Brook step in and save one of the Fishmen that the Wobbegong had attempted to kill. "Hey, not fair, you destroyed both of my swords" the Octopus Fishman said in disappointment as he held up his broken swords. "How can I win a swordfight if I don't have swords?"

"Not my problem" Zoro said, turning away from the Octopus, his lips quirking upwards into a small smile when we locked eyes. I widely smiled back at him, stabbing my sword into the ground and scaring the hell out of the Fishman that laid there as the blade barely grazed his cheek. My eyes flickered over his shoulder to see a green liquid seeping out of one of the Octopus' tentacles.