248 Chapter 248
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The fight between the two pirates looked to have no end in sight as their figures turned into a blur. Each trying to kill each other. Sand and Ice clashed.
The temperature of the surrounding area had dropped considerably due to the open fight.
As the fight continued, the blade of Kuina started humming white, donning all of her attacks in white.
"I will not lose here!" Crocodile screamed as he continued his assault, with multiple wounds on his body.
The Warlord stepped forward with his own volley of attacks, as his sands changed in color, taking on the Color of Armament, making it look like volcanic sand.
Even the Warlord was surprised to see the manifestation of his own Haki, but it was a surprise he welcomed.
It had been years since he lost his ability to use Haki. After getting beat by Whitebeard, after losing his arm, he had lost his will. Resulting in him loosing his Haki. But now it seemed the death battle had reawakened something inside of him, making him regain his power.
Even though Crocodile was grateful for seeing the Color of armament mixed with his sand, he was also furious that he had to resort to using this against such an inferior being. "You are done now, little girl!"
"Shit…" Kuina gritted her teeth as she had to put more effort into countering Crocodile's endless barrage.
She skipped back trying to buy some distance, but Crocodile followed through gaining what appeared to be second wind. The sand attacks increased in strength, and she was on the losing end.
Now all of Crocodile's attacks were leathal. As each attack could cut through her ice coated skin like butter. The Color of armament denied all her defenses as it cut through every one of Kuina's attacks, putting her on the backfoot.
Seeing this the Warlord wanted to end this. "Desert la Spada!" Crocodile attacked, a large tsunami of black sand crushing crashing down onto the swordswoman. Intending to crush her.
Kuina gritted her teeth as she held Wado Ichimonji in front, standing against the wave of sand.
Seeing the attack coming she felt dread, but she held on. She couldn't lose now. No. She refused to lose. Not only for herself, but her friends as well.
It felt impossible as the seconds went by. But yet she had a near unbreakable will as she stepped forward, her breathing getting more chaotic. As she channeled all of her will to manifest ice.
A deep, ancient power tugged inside Kuina. A power that manifested due to her unyielding willpower and mastery over Virf. And she grasped that power, molded it, shaped it around herself and her blade, empowering her. Making her connect with her blade and power on a much deeper level.
The muscles in her body cramped with power, the veins around her arms became visible because of the increased pressure. Unknowingly a mark started spreading from the back of her head around her forehead, white in color. Creating a unique mark of sorts, taking the shape of a small snowflake on the right side of her forehead. But that wasn't all, the strength behind Kuina's attack increased dramatically as she struggled against the wave of sand.
Rather then aimlessly struggling against the sand, she used her increased strength to get out of the situation. It seemed what ever happened to her made all of the pain and fatigue go away from the body. Adranilin, maybe. She didn't know.
She was more focused on her blade, Wado Ichimonji. It seemed what ever anchint power did, it also affected her blade.
She could feel it, her blade, it was calling to her. It was saying something, no, it was as if she could feel the emotions of her blade. It was calling out to her.
It told her to pour her all energy into it. To trust it. And so she did.
The marking from her forehead started to spread around her body, small snowflakes stretched out from underneath her kimono, going around her forearms before meeting the blade and mixing with it.
Wado Ichimonji started turning pure white due to the frost, before it took a black shine along its edges, manifesting Kuina's own will into the sword, awakening her Haki.
But it was unstable so she had to act now. Kuina attacked so did Crocodile, a last effort of strength between the pirates.
"You will die here!" Crocodile growled, "I will show you what true strength is… I will show you what despair is… I will make you and your crew regret even stepping foot on the country." He said with venom in his voice.
"Do you ever shut up!" she grunted, her will not wavering against the superior opponent. Kuina stepped forward, putting all her effort into the strike, drawing her blade downwards in a beautiful arc of frost and ice.
The black sand in front of her split immediately, digging a trench in its way as the arc traveled from her sword, a white slash, its borders black, that took the shape of a crescent moon. Freezing everything in its sight before destroying it.
Crocodile stared in shock as he saw the attack coming but it was too late to do anything he tried to block it with sand and haki. But Kuina's attack proved to be stronger.
Still the Warlord struggled, gritting his teeth, as he tried to push back the attack.
But rather than pushing it back, the flying slash destroyed anything in it's path cutting Crocodile's body.
"I-I lost," Crocodile stood still glaring at Kuina, before he fell apart into two pieces. Blood and guts dyed the sand in red, marking the end of the Warlord as he fell to the ground, regret and anger evident in his eyes.
Kuina looked at her opponent one last time, before her eyes became hazy, Wado Ichimonji still in her hand as she fell to the ground. The last thing she remembered was getting caught by a particular greenhead before her world turned dark.
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A bit earlier,
Mr. 1 made his way towards Rainbase city, a large wound on his body that stretched from the left side of his shoulder to the right side of his torso. The wound was still fresh, drawing blood, but he didn't have time to even tend to it.
A gift from a certain female marine whom he crossed paths with back in the capital. But it didn't matter, he could deal with the pain, but for now, he needed to get to his Boss's side.
The Baroque Agent skated on the ground using the blades on his feet, using it for fast travel as he made his way toward his destination. He was almost near his objective and could see the Rainbase city, but that wasn't what surprised him. No, it was the fact that there was a battle going on.
Just from the Sand and Ice he knew who they were. "Why is the White Lady here?" Mr. 1 frowned, he had seen Kuina in action against 'Fire Storm' Ace, those occasional pillars of ice that clashed against sand gave away who Crocodile was fighting.
"I have to get to the boss's side immediately." Mr. 1 said as he sped up, entering the Rainbase city as he made his way towards the fight. If the White Lady was here, that means the other Straw Hats were here as well.
'Sir Crocodile might need my help…' Daz Bones thought, 'I have to get there, now.'
Suddenly a large flying slash made the Baroque Agent stop in his tracks. The slash dug a deep trench in front of him, as if stopping him from going any further.
"This is as far as you will go," Came a voice from the side as a pink-haired boy came out of the corner. "Please, don't make it hard."
"Get out of my way… brat." Mr. 1 said as his arms morphed into blades. He recognized the pink-haired boy. The Hero of the Navy port incident, Coby.
"I really don't want to fight you…" he said casually, "Don't wanna get any more blood on my clothes, that's all."
Mr. 1 growled as he moved his fingers morphing into a smaller blade as he jumped at Coby.
The pink-haired pirate in question just sighed, as to him the attack was too slow to even view as a possible threat. A bone-like claw came out of one of his arms and he swung it sideways.
"Gah!" Mr. 1 was thrown back as the attack not only damaged him, but created a deep wound from the right side of his shoulder towards the left side of his torso. The new wound and the previous wound, made an X-shape scar on the bounty hunter's chest.
Daz Bones was thrown away as he went through several buildings due to the attack. But Coby wasn't done.
Before Mr. 1 could even get up, the pink-haired pirate appeared right in front of him, pulling back his fist. "Tekkai," he said, before putting the pirate to sleep with one punch that sent his head a few feet deep inside the ground, creating a small crater.
"Another shirt ruined," Coby sighed, seeing the blood marks on his clothes. He shook his head as he took out the sea-stone cuffs from his pockets and cuffed the pirate's arms behind his back, before dragging him away from the fight between Kuina and Crocodile.
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A/N:
Honestly, I love Crocodile's character. Heck, I might even write a fanfic on him. Him being an SI or sort. He was a villain that was taken care of too early in the story.
But its good that he's also making names in the current One Piece Manga right now.
Anyway, the things that I love about Crocodile, are the things that made his downfall evident. Crocodile isn't a man that would run away from a fight against the Straw Hats. Surely not against Kuina.
And even if he was somehow able to beat Kuina, there was Sparky, Zoro, Sanji, and not to mention others were there as well. And it would be stupid to keep him alive for plot convenience.
Also, Luffy told Kuina to not hold back, and give it her all. With all shit that Crocodile did to Vivi's country, I don't see any way how Crocodile will live. That's why rather than forcing him to stay in the story. I made him go bye bye.
Hope you guys understand.
Anyway, I hope you liked Kuina's powers. It's a mix between Senbon Zakura and Breathing style, mainly drawing inspiration from both.
The chapter took longer than I expected. But anyway, enjoy!
Also these are all of Kuina's move set so to speak:
[Kuina]
Swords: Wado Ichimonji.
Techniques: Single sword Swordsmanship, Ice Manifestation, or Virf
Student of Whitey Bay and Tsurara Oikawa
Techniques:
Bleeding Serpent - Basic Flying sword-slash that follows it's target like a whip
Howling Serpent- A sword Thrust that is very destructive, and has freezing effect.
Sub-Zero Viper-shot- Where Kuina stabs her sword in her enemy and freezes her inside out.
Sakura Hurricane: A powerful and swirling that created a tempest of frozen wind, along with ice petals, like Sakura leaves and attacked her foe, intending to encase them in ice, and cut them to pieces with the frozen sharp leaves.
Ice Pillar: Basic Ice pillar that erupts from the ground to strike her opponent.
Ice Breathing (Learned from the books left by Tsurara Oikawa.)
Currently has three techniques:
Ice Breathing: Dance of the Yuki Onna!
Ice Breathing: Yuki Onna, is a technique that increased the connection to ice powers in a Virf user. Increasing the durability on the skin, along releasing mist that froze anything in it's path.
Ice Sword Style: Crystal Sakura Hurricane
No Sword Style: Clawing Serpent
Ice Sword Style: Crystal Coffin
Ice Sword Style: Howling Crystal Serpent (evolution of Howling Serpent)
Ice Sword Style: Bleeding Crystal Serpent (evolution of Bleeding Serpent)
Ice Sword Style: Dancing of the Moonlight Blades (evolution of Crystal Sakura Hurricane)
Ice Sword Style: Sub-Zero Viper-shot (evolution of Point Zero Viper-shot)
Freezing Moon: An epic white sword slash parted out from Kuina's blade, with it's insides pure white and it's borders black, it showed of her mastery over her frost manifestation that was now empowered her armament haki.
