Journey to One Piece

65. Magic filling the gaps

Without stopping himself Hachi plunged all his swords at Luffy in order to slash at him. There was no warning, nothing. It was because Hachi felt that Luffy had broken his trust and insulted his food.  As the 8 swords were inches away from Luffy's body, Hachi heard a sound in his ears.

"Enbu"

A single sword blade which looked like it was burning in fire was so hot that before the sword could even touch hachi's swords, he felt the brunt of it from a distance. Hachi, who was proficient in 8 swords, wanted to counter the sword strike that was going to land but it was already too late.

It was Zoro who used the first form of Sun breathing and stopped the attack of Hachi. Two attacks from two different people and the fishmen around along with the few marines saw for the first time the pure brilliance of two people that they had never seen before.

Sanji's kick broke a bone of Arlong and Zoro's sword broke all the 8 swords of Hachi. There was a complete silence after this. Only the waves crashing on the pool were all the sounds that the people around were able to hear.

"It's not your place to tell us who is my friend and who is not. Nami is our nakama and that is all I care. I might not be able to fly, I might not know how to be a good swordsman or I might not know how to navigate and cook. But I know that my friends will be there to help me on my journey." Luffy said as he put his fingers in triangle shape and placed it near his mouth.

"Katon: Gōka Mekkyaku" (Fire Style : Great Annihilation)

*fushhhhh*

Luffy blew the air from his mouth and the air passed through the fingers it released a very majestic spray of flames towards Arlong and all his crew. The move was so fast that they didn't even understand what just happened.

Arlong, who was already in pain, had to run and dive into the pool in order to escape the barrage of fire that this Straw Hat guy just emitted. But others were not so lucky with it. The other crew of the Arlong pirates and even Captain Nezumi were in the way of the fire.

A majestic fire release like this was enough to burn away the people around. This jutsu was kind of exclusive to the Uchiha clan but apparently Luffy had already learnt it. It showed how good his inclination towards fire was. The devil fruit of Luffy was really playing its part here.

This move surprised even Ken. Luffy was really good when it came to learning new techniques and surprising them. When Luffy learnt second gear, it came as a surprise to everyone. Now it seemed like Ken was in the other side of the trick too.

Luffy was really made for battle. After the fire slowly diminished, Sanji slowly came forward and delivered a nice kick at the head of Luffy. Luffy was blown away by that as he didn't expect Sanji to do that.

"Baka.... If I didn't have fire resistance I would have died there."

Sanji wasn't really angry but was just irritated that he too was the victim of Luffy's attack. It was good that his new body gave him fire resistance along with using fire through his feet. Finally everyone got to see the destruction. There was nothing that remained. The chairs and the tables were completely burnt away.

Smoke was coming out from the bodies of the people as their whole bodies were charred. Thankfully this was One Piece world and people have a tough life, otherwise they would have been dead in Ken's previous life.

Luffy didn't mind that Sanji had hit him. He put his straw hat back on his head and smiled like a foolish person as Sanji.

"Sorry Sanji, I couldn't stop myself."

Meanwhile Hachi was in tears seeing his friends lying around, half dead. He was both angry and sad. Angry because he couldn't save them and sad because his friends were at the brink of death. He fell down on his knees as he took one crew member in his arms and started crying.

"What are you crying here for? It's not like they are dead." Ken was irritated by the cries of Hachi, Hearing that, his cries stopped immediately. In order to see if what Ken said was right, put his ears on the chest of his fellow fishmen, only to hear the heartbeat.

Hachi looked ecstatic seeing his friend was fine. Seeing the foolishness of Hachi, everyone had their hands on their forehead. This guy really was hopeless. even Nami didn't feel like doing anything to Hachi seeing how easily he was manipulated.

It was Luffy that had almost killed his friends but a few words from Ken made him feel like Luffy and others were not even responsible. Short term memory loss patient.

Meanwhile Sanji came forward and looked at the pool. He knew pretty well that Arlong was fine and was hiding in water. Since water wasn't exactly his dominion, he needed to wait, but he highly doubted that Arlong would ever show up.

"Oi sniper. Can you find him?"

Sanji looked at Usopp who was trying to use his glasses to see where Arlong. He was excited seeing how powerful his crew mates were and wanted to help but how could he find someone in this way.

"Do I look like a fishmen to you?"

"With your nose, I actually think that you are a fishman."

"What did you say?"

"You heard me right!! Nose - kun."

"Stop you two, I will find Arlong." Nami said as she took out her wand and muttered

"Revelio"

An invisible force emitted from the wand and slowly entered the ocean water. Soon a very vague image of a person swimming in the water was seen a few metres away from the edge of the pool.

It was Arlong.