86 Day & Night II

*CLAAANGG!!*

*BOOOOOOOMMMMM!!!*

Every single strike contained utter devastation.

"Veyron, I never expected this..."

*CLAANG!*

"You make me crazy!".

"Ugh!".

*WHOOOOSHH!*

Mihawk was spamming those island-ending slashes like they were casual strikes, in fact, Veyron could tell the more she used them, the stronger she became. It was as if she was learning of her own mistakes and regulating her 4th Haki. It wasn't a matter of output, it was a matter of control. 

Likewise, Veyron was learning about his devil fruit in this combat in order to defeat her. 

It was a battle mother and son neither wanted to lose.

Pointing his sword towards her, he mixed both the power of his devil fruit and the power of his Psychokinesis, Veyron created a cannon where the electric energy concentrated before being released in the form of a devastating lightning beam that Mihawk evaded swiftly, the beam impacted in the sea and resulted in a catastrophe of lightning unravelling underwater, something physically impossible. 

Veyron grunted when Mihawk with her wicked expression flashed in front of him, she didn't need to utter a single name to her techniques, her sword could cut virtually anything, and a single strike in the right place was all she needed to reap life and destroy huge expanses of land while she was at it. 

"I love you, son!".

"What a weird way you have to show love!".

*CLAAANGG!!!*

The strike overpowered him and Veyron was sent like a rocket to the sea below, impacting inside and creating a shower of water. He grunted at the weakness produced by the sea, if not for his Psychokinesis, this fight would have ended right away. 

He created a protective field around himself and resurfaced.

By now their clothes were tattered and dishevelled, her hat and coat were blown away, all she had was her shirt torn to bits and he could even see her beautiful and seductive chest bouncing behind, it was a major distraction. 

Mihawk noticed this and smirked, she removed her shirt and wrapped it around her chest, preparing for the next round. 

"We don't want you to get distracted, love~".

"Does either of us need to die tonight?".

"I will fight until I can't fight anymore... in the new world I didn't have many good challenges..." She straightened her sword, "Fighting you today made me realise more than ever... that I don't want to share you, Veyron".

"..."

"I'll defeat you and make you mine today".

"Sounds like a barbaric tradition..."

"When has things been any different between us?".

"Let's end this with one attack..."

"NO!".

*WHOOOSH!*

*CLANG!!*

"I want to fight you for days!"

'Only you make me feel this way whenever we fight... why end it so soon?'.

Unlike her who was wholeheartedly enjoying her time with her son, Veyron was getting more and more cornered, 'I can't defeat her in a battle of attrition, I have to end this with one move!'.

But Mihawk wasn't even leaving a single breathing room. 

*CLAANGG!!*

!!!

She felt it in her senses, nevertheless, it wasn't an attack that she could not evade. Mihawk stepped into the air and got out of the way, the wave of kinetic energy sank into the sea and what happened after could only be described as a tale of fantasy books. 

The ocean started to levitate. 

"Incredible... I always thought your 4th Haki was way more devastating than mine but to think I'd be this much..." 

A huge chunk of the ocean started to levitate up in the air leaving even Veyron surprised and confused as to the cause of this effect. Nevertheless, she showed up an opening and that was all he needed.

The beam of lightning phased by her, Mihawk put her sword brimming with sword intent in between and sliced the discharge in two pieces. 

"Going as far as to distract me, what a naughty boy... do you wish to win this fight so badly?".

"OF COURSE!"

'I want to show you... that I won't lose again!'.

With all preparations in place, Veyron raised up his sword and charged it with a load of kinetic energy. 

*WHOOSH!*

All of the energy spread in the atmosphere converged on his sword, causing a tyrannical whirlpool to form beneath him as the great chunk of water that had been levitating fell back into the water with the impact of a falling island. 

Mihawk frowned and readied her sword for whatever he wanted to do, she twitched her tongue in annoyance since he did wish to end this fight quickly instead of keeping up with her for a long period. 

"Anyway, come to me... show me what you've got!".

She swung her sword once and created a gigantic flare of green aura that intimidated Veyron to the utmost.

*RUMBLE!!!*

A mixture of red and green lightning was being released from her sword, making him know that she was using her conqueror haki to the utmost, not a single shred of energy left behind. 

"If you're going to do your best, don't expect me to do any less!".

*BAAAANGG!!!!*

The ocean split in two by her mere intent but Veyron didn't retreat at all. He growled audibly and used the lightning devil fruit for the exact purpose he had gotten it in the first place, a battery. 

To Mihawk's shock, the discharge was done on himself!

*CHAA!!*

The lightning storm around them increased in strength to the point the colour morphed from a bluish colour into a reddish one, resembling blood. 

The energy reached around the sword reached such a devastating extent, that soon enough, it just couldn't take it. 

*CRACK!*

Youbi cracked and the crack continued to expand until eventually. 

*BOOOOMMM!!*

The edge of Youbi shattered into millions of pieces, unable to hold the kinetic energy around the sword coupled with the electric energy. From the handle, something else began to form taking the shape of a gigantic red electric hammer. 

"Take this, Mother!".

<Mjolnir! >

The red lightning hammer resembled the last judgement cast upon the human race, the moment that hammer fell down, it was over. It didn't matter what town, city, island... country. It didn't matter where it fell, that place would disappear leaving no trace. 

This was his determination to her, the promise they made. A promise in which he'd become the strongest man alive and she'd become the strongest swordswoman. 

He had yet to take the title from Whitebeard, but she could feel it... this level of power was something only the strongest man alive could output. 

Mihawk's grip on her sword tensed, she saw Veyron's nose dripping with blood... he was overusing his psychokinesis just to defeat her... his brain had been taken to the maximum and after this attack, he'd likely not be able to continue his fight. 

'I hope we survive this... but I don't intend to hold back...'

*WHOOOOSH!*

Like a bolt of lightning Veyron nearly teleported in front of her and the gigantic electric hammer started to descend towards her, simultaneously she swung her sword in an upward motion. 

Neither of the two touched. 

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM!!!*

There was only one possible result of this clash of powerhouses: Ragnarok unveiled. 

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**

A few miles away in the main marine warship Stussy was standing at the edge of the deck with her gaze fixed on the gargantuan thunderstorm in the distance, it had been two hours since the fight started and it was still going. Next to her were Gion and Tsuru. On the opposite end of the ship were Akainu and Zephyr, they were all sensing the waves coming from every strike in the distance. 

"Those two are mother and son... what need is there to fight to this extent? Could it be there is context we don't know about?".

For her, it didn't make sense. Such a catastrophe was something the battle between two Yonkos would produce. 

"Maybe their relationship is not as close as we thought?".

"You don't understand... for swordsmen the desire to duel is everything. Those two may be mother and son but they also recognise each other as rivals" Gion held her sword and added, her eyes furrowing a bit when a shining bright red light started to emit from the thunderstorm. 

"How far does this rivalry go?" Stussy inquired with concern. 

"It is hard to tell, most times it ends up with one of the parties dead... but since they're mother and son, I don't think-".

Her words were overshadowed by a sudden light coming from the source of the fight that was so bright that their eyes almost scorched. Everyone gasped in disbelief including the Marines who were just waking back up after fainting before. Once the light receded what appeared before them -eliciting the dropped jaw out of every spectator- was a catastrophe without precedents. 

A gigantic electrical sphere that reached into the clouds its colours were green and red, it continued to expand, clearing the sky and allowing their frightened eyes to know how big exactly this massive ball was. 

A catastrophe that sadly for all of those in the ships (and as far as ten miles around the centre of the explosion) had several waves of impact. 

*RUMBLE!!*

The first wave was compressed unadulterated Conqueror Haki shattered any mind defences and sent all the marines back to sleep. Tsuru and Stussy fell on their knees, Zephyr held his own very well still aghast while Akainu had to hold the handrail to prevent herself from falling forward, she couldn't believe the intensity and how intimidating this will was compared to any she had ever experienced. 

*BAAANG!* 

"Momousagi!".

Gion fainted on the spot, falling harshly on the deck, Tsuru crawled towards her but she didn't have the time.

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM!!!*

!!!

The second wave was an expansive shockwave and a sound so loud it could shatter one's eardrums. It destroyed a great part of the ship's deck after having it lean starboard at least thirty degrees and that was considering the ship was at least five miles away from the site of impact.  After this wave, only a shocked and frightened Admiral Zephyr was left standing.

He wondered whether those two were humans, 'There is no way... a human shouldn't possess this much power!'.

The third wave was more tame, it represented in the form of a bright red light spreading under the ship as if a sun had lit up underneath them, it was a sight that defeated the laws of physics, red lightning strikes under the seas. To their further disbelief... droplets of water started to levitate around them differing in sizes and Zephyr even believed for the briefest second that the whole ship was floating, which was only confirmed when he looked behind them to see some of the warships tailing were indeed levitating some higher than the others slightly out of the water before falling back down and levitating again.

As far as the eye could see there were gigantic chunks of water levitating above the sea... this phenomenon lasted for ten minutes together with the last wave, a green-coloured sky that went as far as the eye could see, overshadowing the sun.

When Tsuru stood back up together with Stussy who was trying to aid Gion, what they saw was a world of fantasy. Something that should not exist. 

A world where the sky was green, the sea was shining red and water islands levitated above the sea in a majestic manner. 

"T-This is..."

"The Haki of Dreamers".