The flames are too high

"Now everybody will die due to your selfishness. The innocent children, the happy couples, the nostalgic old dudes going about their lives.. Everything and everyone will die. Hahaha... Hehehe.." Doflamingo laughed as if he had won some kind of race competition. 

Ken just looked at him as the castle and the trees were slowly burning down and getting destroyed. The yellow flames raged as it casted a yellowish hue all around and his glasses reflected the destruction that his country was facing. He knew that there was no way he could get away now but he didn't want to just lose. 

'If I can't reach the top, I will not let others reach the same point.' 

That was his philosophy since he was a child. He vowed to give the same treatment he had received when he was young never introspecting if there was something wrong with him. He was 'gassed' up all his life since he showed Conqueror's Haki quite early and thus he had been put to pedestal. Since he couldn't go against the Celestial Dragons, he made a country for himself where he could be the 'Celestial Dragon' and rule as he pleased. 

Ken just looked at him with no expression in his face. There was no change in his expression nor his internal feelings. Honestly speaking he had been expecting this move of his from a long way and he had asked his friends to take measures and they had been on that for sometime now. 

And in addition he wouldn't let Doflamingo to dance around for too much anyways. 

"What? You don't have any grand words for me here? Punisher Kenny?" Doflamingo asked. 

"Because words wouldn't be able to cover up the anger that I have for you." Ken said and then pointed his sword's tip at him. "Let my sword do the talking." 

"BANKAI Zanka no Tachi."

The very ground beneath Ken's feet seemed to quake as he uttered those words. The fire which had been raging around suddenly stopped burning, vanishing faster than any water could ever accomplish. But the heat, the heat that engulfed the surroundings was palpable. 

The heat was unbearable. The very air seemed to sizzle, and the ground cracked beneath the pressure of the unleashed power. The sky itself seemed to catch fire as if the sun had descended from the heavens and claimed the battlefield for its own. The people who didn't even know what was going in the country felt as if all the water in the country had just evaporated, their throats became dry and lips cracked. 

Many of the people had fainted just because of the heat was too much and they all could see that it was coming from the castle. Before it was just a small heat emitting from the main castle but now it was if the sun had just landed on the castle and threatened to burn everything down. 

"Yare.. Yare.. Did he just open the bankai?" Zoro murmured. 

"Didn't half of the forest just burn down when he first tried his bankai." Nami said as she looked at the huge man standing in front of them. They had been on their way around when this huge man showed up and the voice of this man made both of them laugh so hard that Nami actually rolled on the floor. 

Of course, it was Pika. 

Zoro couldn't believe that someone of his stature would have that kind of voice. Pika thus getting incensed struck at Zoro with all his might. And with that Zoro vs Pika had started and Nami scuttled away. She didn't want to be in between the fight of these two but she also made sure that the people around were safe and sound. 

Robin and other teams were now in conflict with the other members of the Donquixote pirates. Luffy who was running around with Bartolomeo had already felt the heat before of the shikai and knew Ken was fighting but he was caught up with many minions. 

Some known minions and some unknown minions, all of them came to stop Luffy and take away the Devil fruit. Doflamingo had already sent the information to do but he didn't threaten them publicly like he did like he did in the actual story. 

"Huh! Bankai.. Bastard.. What is going on?" Luffy shouted. 

"Luffy senpai, do you understand about the heat?" Bartolomeo obviously felt the heat, and its sudden change. 

"Yes. Ken.. He has opened his bankai. He must be pissed off. We need to go." Luffy shouted. 

"What is bankai?" Bartolomeo asked. 

"Eto.. Ken told me something inside his sword gets alive.." Luffy thoughtfully said and Bartolomeo made a weird picture about it in his head. 

Sanji was forced to meet the popping guy and he had to take care of him. So everybody were held down and the bird cage had already started which was been seen by Chopper and Ussop. And of course, Fujitora came and helped. Ussop and Chopper almost made a run but seeing him blind made them a bit secured. 

Chopper promised to make them invisible if he went after them and thus Ussop and Chopper along with King Riku and Fujitora were actively trying to stop the bird cage. 

While this was going on in the whole country with each Straw Hats taking care of the people and making sure that the Donquixote pirates were been taken down, Doflamingo's sweat was evaporating with every passing moment. 

The black sword in front of him gave him a fear that seemed to originate from the depth of his soul. He had never seen such a sword before and he was sure that this sword was alive. 

"Zanka no Tachi, Higashi: Kyokujitsujin" 

Ken shouted and all the flames which had been seemed to get sucked away in an instant. But for some reason it didn't give him relief, but more anxiety. The sword had turned complete black and he could feel it held deep power within it at the moment. 

He just didn't know what.

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