Opavia

78.

vitani and kierra stared forward at hatchan inside the cage, covered in ink.

"What th-"

"Hey, we know this guy." Zoro muttered.

"Oh!" Hatchan smiled innocently. "Hello again."

"Again?" Luffy asked.

"It's not what it seems like. I left Arlong's gang when him and the others got captured by the navy. I dedicated my life to good and became an octopus-fritter shop owner." He smiled. nami scowled and turned to luffy, zoro and vitani.

"hey zoro." vitani smirked. "is this the octopus that kicked your ass a while back?"

"oh shut up!" he snapped, vitani snickering.

"you knew them?" Kierra turned to Vitani who nodded.

"yeah, we fought him and his friends a while back." vitani murmured.

"Oh, oh, OHHHHH!" Luffy yelled, immediately shaking his hand. "No way."

after seeing who they were saving, luffy immediately disagreed to help. camie leapt over the edge in rage only to be captured by three fishermen, hatchan banging his head against the cage desperately.

"camie!" he cried.

"this is pathetic." vitani muttered.

"alright, we might as well save him after all." nami sighed. "it's safe to say hatchan is basically harmless. and plus we promised camie we'd help."

"oh nami-san." sanji awed.

luffy stretched into the air and grabbed the starfish and cammie from the flying fishman, leaping onto the deck.

"cut up the octopus' cage and untie him, zoro!" he yelled.

"the flying fish riders have got you surrounded!" hatchen warned as kierra bit her thumb.

"listen up you guys! luffy yelled. "time to fight!"

she drew her symbol on the deck and sat as her rock collumn leapt from the water and roared. it reached out to grab a handful of fish, throwing them away irritably as he roared again. vitani leapt off the monster' shoulder and landed on a fish, throwing the man overboard.

"how do i fly this thing.." she muttered, adjusting in her seat.

"hey, watch out for me!" she flew around kierra's monster as it growled an okay, vitani drawing her bow. she placed her foot on a handle to steer, firing at another fish so she sliced its wing and unbalanced it.

another man flew infront of her as she smacked the fish with her bow.

she looked up as luffy flew up on a fish as well, laughing hysterically.

"this is so cool!" he yelled.

"hey! be careful!" vitani warned. she leapt up as the fish dove down underwater, landing on the rail.

"don't tell me he went under." she muttered as kierra rose. brook and chopper shot off past her, kierra screaming.

"what the hell?!" she screeched as they jumped over the edge into the water. franky and nami shot into the water after them, kierra turning back to vitani.

"nice steering!"

"why thank you." she beamed sheepishly. more fishermen had begun swarming the air, vitani sighing.

"wow, this is such a waste. why don't you just take them all out with lightning?"

vitani looked up as brook leapt into the air, playing his violin.

"don't want to ruin the fun." she hummed. the fish men fell asleep, luffy leaping up and latching onto another fish.

"luffy, get back!" vitani yelled as the fish crashed into a building, kierra leaping off the ship. she landed on the deck, looking back at vitani.

"tan, you coming?" she yelled. vitani leapt down, looking up as the remaining fish riders fell into formation.

one attempted to swipe nami as she disappeared, the men flying into a thunder cloud she had created. "mirage tempo."

"throw me." vitani smiled, kierra sighing.

"whatever you want." she spun, sticking her leg out as vitani leapt up. kierra kicked the air air up, vitani bouncing off of it. she landed on a fish's face as it screeched, vitani beaming. she shocked the fish, leaping off of it to land on another.

she looked down as the masked man stepped out on a sea-bull, balling his fist.

"Where is he?!" He roared, the battlefield falling silent. "Black Leg Sanji, I'll kill you!"

"sanji?" kierra hummed as vitani landed beside her sister. "what the hell did he do?"

"don't play dumb with me, black leg. it wasn't that long ago." he fired harpoon guns, kierra throwing up a barrier. she dropped it as luffy ran forward, kicking off his mask.

vitani stared forward in complete disbelief, kierra snorting to contain her laughter.

"what the hell?" vitani whispered, stAring forward at the man who looked exactly like sanji's wanted poster.

"you shut your damn mouth!" sanji roared. vitani and kierra blinked. sanji dove into the water and sprinted up to him, kicking his face.

"who cares?!" he roared.

"if you won't take responsibility than who will?!" duval roared.

"oh shut the hell up! i'm more pissed off about the picture!" sanji snapped back.

brook cracked up in laughter with kierra, holding each other.

"once i'm done with this, ill kick your asses!" sanji snapped.

"you can go ahead and handle this one." vitani shooed, sitting down beside zoro.

she looked up as the fishmen snatched sanji underwater with an iron net, leaping up to hold luffy back. she looked up as the foshmen carried a large anchor over the sunny, dropping it. the mane of the sunny began to spin, kierra staring up in horror. the mane spun to dodge the achor, the ship firing backwards.

"oh kaya's will." she breathed, dodging bullets. the mouth of the sunny opened, a cannon extending out.

"let's move." vitani murmured. she pulled luffy out the way as the sunny fired a single beam. kierra yelled, throwing up a barrier to protect the straw hats on the dock, vitani holding luffy down protectively. she rose, standing slowly.

"vitani, head back and help franky on the ship."

"are you sure?" vitani turned to luffy as he cracked his knuckles.

"yeah i got this." luffy nodded, vitani disappearing.

she reappeared beside kierra, looking down as usopp stepped out of an compartment.

"hey, nice aim!" kierra pat his shoulder as he passed, obviously shaken.

"th-thank you." he stammered.