One Piece Legacy: Dead End Journey Part 21

Chrono sat on a barrel upon Riker's ship. To his left was Lester and to his right was Caramel, both were staring at him. "You two mind?"

"No not at all."

"I can't be the only one that finds this uncomfortable." Chrono put his head on his hands. "Well at least I know he considers me a threat."

"Shut up!!" Lester barked.

"Or what? You're gonna kill me?" Lester reached for his sword and Chrono kicked him into the deck of the ship. "Relax kid."

Lester pulled his head out of the deck. "You bastard!!" He lunged for Chrono but was kicked back down.

"What we learn?" Chrono looked over to Caramel. "What I wanna learn is why you just stood there and watched."

Caramel shrugged, and grabbed a cane.

"Like I care."

He started to dance away, and went to Riker.

"The entire time there, I didn't see Terry. Something's up."

"Good. Play the fool. If Chrono does anything, kill him."

"Of course... And I don't play the fool, I'm a joker!"

"You do know I can hear you!" Chrono yelled, forcing Lester into the deck. "By the way, this one is too arrogant to let me pee."

"We know."

Lester, got on top of Chrono, and sniffed the air.

"This smell... It's familiar..."

Swift, kicked down the door, and was giggling.

"I smell Gas... Lots of it... Flammable... Boom boom... Fire across the lands... CAN I SET SOMEONE ON FIRE?"

Riker stared at him.

"No."

"Damn."

-

Hyperion and Drew trudged through the forest. "Come on Hyperion. Couldn't you just fly us over."

"I could. But then our opponents will see it coming."

"Ugh! Who are we after again?"

"Chrono and Xander. Since Chrono's presence disappeared, we're now after Xander. Understand?"

"Yeah I get it." Drew walked past Hyperion. "So let's get this over with."

"Whoa. Drew's being hasty, you've got a date later?" Hyperion nudged him. "Come on. You can tell me."

"No I'm not! Besides, we didn't see Xander's boat. I'm sure he's not here."

"He is."

-

Xander is in his ship, drinking wine, and laughing with a guard.

"So, yeah, I said 'screw that third island, let's go!'"

-

"I'm certain."

"Hyperion... I've been working under you for a while now... And during that time I've learned not to trust you with stuff like this."

"What? Are you doubting your superior?"

"No no no!!" Drew shook his head. "Nothing like that.. I'm just doubting my friend..."

"You're only saying that so I won't get mad... Either way it would make me mad."

Hyperion steps on a bush, and he hears a scream. He looks down, and sees his foot on the crawling snipers hand. "Owww!! Watch where you're walking!!"

"Well, I'm sorry for not looking down." Hyperion said sarcastically. "Who're you anyway?"

"That's none of your business!! I need to be asking who YOU are!!"

"Bossy little man. I'm Vice Admiral Hyperion."

"A marine?! I'm sorry sir! But we need to get off this island immediately!!"

"Whats going on?" Drew asked. "Why do we need to leave?"

"Vice Admiral Terry. He's gone torch the whole island!"

"What?! How?!"

"He's filling the island with gas. At this point... It should take 15 minutes before the gas becomes the air."

Drew picked the sniper up and held him over his back. "Come on. Hyperion lets get outta here!"

Hyperion's arms grew into long black wings. "I don't know if I can carry both of you."

"It's worth a try!!" Drew jumped onto Hyperion's back. Hyperion flapped his wings and they started to float, then they dropped. "Hyperion?! Whats going on?!"

"You don't know anything about birds do ya? Well bird bones are hollow which grants them the ability to fly. And since the bones in my wings are hollow they aren't strong enough to fly all three of us."

"You can take one of us first." Drew offered. "It shouldn't take too long!" He dropped the sniper on Hyperion's back and jumped down. "And if it does....."

"Yeah, I know the speech. Tell Selena ya love her." Hyperion launched into the sky.

"......" Drew stared as Hyperion flew away. "I don't know what to do with him."

-

"Uh oh, I did it again."

Terry is standing on a tree, and his hand is gaseous, and enveloping the area.

"Fell in love, with another mistake."

Roku, who was carrying Beta on his back, heard the singing, and stopped.

"Why do I make these mistakes? Oh no, what if they're like the others?"

Roku, hid behind a tree, and was starting to listening.

"What will my friends think again?"

Roku, dropped Beta, and was holding his laughs.

"Why am I, such a grand mistake?"

"BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!"

Terry stopped singing and looked up. "Who's there?!"

Roku placed Beta behind a tree and some bushes and walked out. "It's little ol' me. And I've got to say that's a nice song."

"Ahh, it is a nice song. Sure, it's fanbase consists of girls between the age of 13-16, but what do I know? Besides, every time I sing that little tune... Someone has to make a new map."

Terry stopped, and put his hands on his hips, looking down at Roku.

"Time I teach you the way of life."

Roku rubbed his head. "I have the strangest feeling of deja vu."

-

Kent looked at Chrono carefully while sitting on the edge of Riker's ship. "Do you really think it's a good idea to leave him like that?"

"He wouldn't dare cross me. He's learned a while back that he's no match."

"I still don't trust him." Kent stared even more intently in Chrono's direction.

Chrono looked up. "What do you want Newgate?"

"I'm watching you."

"Okay, enjoy me sitting on a barrel being watched by a clown and a boxing reject."

Lester, scoffed.

"Boxing? Why'd I be a boxer? That sounds like the dumbest idea ever."

Caramel, scoffs at well.

"A gang leader? Do I look like a gang leader to you?"

Chrono sweat drops.

"I didn't say anything about a gang leader."

-

Kent turned to Riker. "Seriously you can't just leave him like that."

"I told you already! He's under my control and command!" Riker barked.

"You're being careless. The first chance he gets he will take advantage of you." Riker gritted his teeth. "You know it's true."

Riker closed his fist and punched Kent off the railing. "You think you know everything huh? Well you're nothing but a weakling. An idiot. You made it this far by luck and luck alone!!"

Kent got up to his feet. "Riker. You're treading on a mine field. One wrong move and it's gonna blow up in your face."

"Well... Why am I being an idiot?"

Riker looked around, and sniffed the air.

"Wait a minute... Why are we fighting at all?"

"Because you called me a idiot and a weakling!"

"Idiot you are, but no weakling... So why would I say that?"

Kent, punched himself in the head.

"Yeah, I was acting like an idiot. So why were we fighting?"

Riker, pointed at the air.

"Does the air... Smell and feel thicker?"

"Gas?" Kent sniffed the air. "It's familiar... But I can't place my finger on it.. Rhea and Jericho should be able to..." Kent looked over to Riker. "Where's the girls?"

-

Rhea is on the ship, playing with a ball, with a man in a distance watching her.

"I... THE GREAT MIGUEL, SHALL SPY ON THIS WOMAN!"

Rhea, looks at the bush, and Miguel is doing a pose. He looks at her, and crouches back in the bush.

"I SAW YOU!"

"JUST AS I PLANNED!"

Rhea stared at Miguel for a while. "Just why? Why are you doing that?"

"I THE GREAT MIGUEL DONT HAVE TO ANSWER THAT!"

Rhea scoffed. "Young man! You will answer me!"

"WHAT? I'M OLDER THAN YOU!"

"Sure you are. Do you even know how old I am? No? Okay then you can't make that call. So I'll say it again. Young man! Answer the question."

"THE GREAT MIGUEL ONLY ANSWERS WHEN DEFEATED IN HAND TO HAND COMBAT!"

"Well then... Why don't we..."

Rhea ducks from a tree thrown at her, and watches Miguel grab an oak tree, and prepare to throw it.

"Mommy!"

Rhea's eyes flashed. "He's gonna attack from my left." She turned left and rolled out of reach when Miguel swung the tree. Her eyes flashed again, she looked up at Miguel preparing to smash his joined fists down. Rhea flipped backwards out of harms way. "This guy moves as fast as my devil fruit can predict." Rhea's eyes flashed, she jumped into a nearby tree and dashed along the branches. "Not good!!"

Miguel was ranking through the forest, trampling anything and everything in his path. "YOU CANNOT ESCAPE ME!!!" He bellowed. He jumped ahead and smashed his fist into a tree, breaking it in half.

Rhea lost her footing and fell out of the trees. Her eyes flashed again and she rolled onto her hands and flipped away just as Miguel dropped his foot, leaving behind a giant hole. "That was close."

He kicked her in the air, grabbed her legs, and slammed her into a rock, causing it to split in half.

"Yes, I almost missed you."

-

Roku got on one knee, gasping for air. "A gas man?... Great." Roku stood back up and took a deep breath, not exhaling.

"Not gonna work." Terry explained, dragging the air out of Roku.

Roku let it go. Unable to breathe he charged for Terry. His feet started to tremble until he got under the tree Terry was standing on.

"What? You want me to kill you up close?"

Roku shook his head. He started to sway side to side before falling back to a knee. He held himself up and stared at Terry. A shockwave shot out from Roku's body, everything around him bent away and Terry was knocked down. Roku gasped for air. "Oh that was close." He started breathing heavily. "Too too close." He looked back at the place where he left Beta. "I can't leave yet. My friends are in danger."

Terry pulled himself out of the bushes and picked sticks from his hair. He grinned, and he turned his arm into black Haki.

"Let's see, how committed you really are."

He punched Roku in the chest, and slammed his foot in his mouth.

"I know your type. You will sacrifice everything for friendship? Correct?"

Roku looked Terry in his eyes and nodded. He sent a powerful punch into Terry's gut, hunching him over. "And you're the type to shoot down others just cause they see things differently than you."

"And we are different because? You crush dozens, if not hundred of dreams, because they 'bothered you'. Tell me, how are we different? Because you have friends... That's hilarious."

"You can't understand..."

"That only you have friends? That I don't have any friends? What if I told you that my greatest friend, in my entire life... Died, because of someone like you."

"You're wrong." Roku punched Terry away. "Tell me. What is someone like me?"

"Easy. You all think of only yourselves, and the ones you love. If someone you see that you don't care for suffers, you only laugh. If that was your friend, everyone must stop for you and them. That's what you bastards do. My friend... Was a marine, who was killed after saving people from marines. That damn pirate, justified it with 'he killed my friends'. Tell me, is that right? My friend was saving innocent people, stopping pirates from killing people, and they killed him. If that is what you damn bastards call 'friendship', then I want nothing of that garbage. With the world I'll create, no pirate will ever live, and people can live in harmony, establishing friendships and loved ones."

"So that's who you think I am? Well you're not the only one who wants a new world. But the way you're going isn't the right one. Killing others to get your way is what I'm hearing."

"So tell me... Without violence, how would you solve the problem? Is violence the only way you can answer me? Might makes right?"

"Without violence? Impossible. Might doesn't always make right. Use your head and think about the consequences. Violence may be what it all comes down to, but death is always avoidable."

Terry laughs, and smirks at Roku.

"Doesn't that sound contradictory? Might doesn't make right, but if I use enough violence, it will be? That's not an answer... It's a tyrants motto."

Roku shrugged. "I'm a gladiator, might and brains are all I got. I fight for whats right, I don't kill."

"Ahh yes, because you are right. Be cause you say so... How awful."

Terry kicks Roku in the chest, and slams him down.

"You know what pisses me off... We are so familiar!"

Terry grins, and lifts Roku up, by his armpits.

"We are practically brothers! We both know how the world works! Justice, and chaos, is measly words used by the strong! Wonderful!"

"Brothers? I've only known a few members of my family. I don't know how brothers work." Roku grabbed onto Terry's head and smashed his into Terry's. Terry stumbled back, dropping Roku. "I have my own moral compass, if something doesn't feel right I'll fix it."

"Excellent... I knew it. I decided to slaughter anyone who was my enemy, and any enemy of justice, is that. My moral compass, demands me to fix the problem."

"That's your compass? I guess we were born to be enemies. Sometimes doing the right thing doesn't appear that way."

"Bah, no more measly pathetic talk of right or wrong... Right now, I'll judge you."

"Judge me?"

"How much potential you have, I mean."

-

Hades and Artemis sit in the lower decks. "So how's the pirate life treatin ya?" Hades placed his hands behind his head and laid back. "I see you've made it to Super Rookie Status."

"Yeah. I'm having fun I guess."

Lok, who was ordered to watch them, snarls at Roachy.

"You think you're a tough guy?"

"No sir!"

"Good. Because I know your type... Scrawny, weak, and a whiner."

"I don't whine!"

"Bullshit!" Hades yelled from across the room. "I haven't even known you for a day yet and all you've done was bitch and moan."

Lok put his fist out, and Hades fist bumped it.

"I haven't known him for a minute, and I know he's a whiny guy."

Kira, raised her finger, and looked at Roachy. She put her hand down.

"I still kind of like him."

"I am unloved."

Artemis crossed her arms. "Well it's insanely hard to love a roach.....maybe you should take off the costume."

Roachy looked up. "Uhh... You see the problem with that is...."

Hades squinted. "He's not wearing any clothes under there."

"No, I am... It's just... It'd be awkward..."

Lok and Hades started to rip Roachy's clothes off.

"SHOW US YOUR TRUE FORM!"

"EXACTLY!"

When they were done, they saw a plain looking man, in his under-where. Hades kicked the wall.

"No wonder you where a roach costume... Without it, you'd be a forgotten character in a crowd."

"You're aren't even ugly, so people can look at you twice. You're so plain looking, I bet your own momma forgets what you look like."

"That's harsh." Roachy slumped over. "Can I get my costume back now?"

Hades lifted the torn cloths. "Uhhhh......" He hid them behind his back. "What costume?"

"It's alright... I'll just stay here."

Hades looked away. "Ugh. Fine.... I'll lend you some clothes. But I want them back!!" A black coffin rose from the boards. Hades kicked the lid off, revealing a young woman. "This is Shay. She's a.... Whats it called? Whatever she can make clothes out of anything." Hades pulled on his shirt. "She made this out of spider webs."

Shay, fixed up the clothes and Roachy put them on. They were exactly like his old ones. Shay, put her hand out.

"Where's my pay?"

"You'll get it... IN HELL!"

He slammed the coffin down, and was laughing.

"Why would she need money anyway? She's dead." Hades rubbed his head. "Something I'll never understand. Something else I don't understand is why she gave you another roach costume."

Roachy, was modeling for Kira, and looked to Hades.

"Cause this is my main style, of course."

Hades sweat drops.

"You have an awful taste in clothes."

-

Hyperion dropped onto a marine ship. "Ugh!" He groaned, pushing himself back up. "How much do you weigh?!"

"167 pounds. Why?"

"That means I've been carrying over 300 pounds!!" Hyperion pushed the sniper off his back and flapped his wings. "Stay here and I'll go get Drew." He flew off into the forest.

-

Drew is dodging uprooted trees. "Whats going on? Trees don't just fly outta the ground!" He ducked down to avoid another. "Seriously?!"

"EAT THIS, PIRATE!"

"I'M A MARINE!"

"REALLY?! WHAT'S THE KEY WORD!"

"I hope it works... Kujas brujas are the worst."

"Wow, that's an old one. I mean, real old."

Miguel, comes out, holding Rhea.

"Well I am an old marine.... Well a young old marine. Ya know what, it's too complicated to explain in a few words."

"Ahh, let me guess... You are really an old man, but you took pills that make you look young!"

"... Sure. Whatever helps you understand."

-

Roku dashed along the trees, breaking through anything that stood in his path. "Dammit... Where'd he go?!"

"Right here!" Terry appeared out of nowhere and kicked Roku down. Just as he came he disappeared.

"Dammit!! This is getting hella annoying!!" Roku pushed himself back up and observed his surroundings. "Come on... Where are you?" He looked to his side and jetted his elbow out. Terry appeared hunched over holding onto his gut.

"You got me..."

"Really?!"

"Nah."

Terry put his hands up, and put them into a fist, slamming them onto Roku's head. Roku dropped back, holding onto his head. "How many times have I been hit in the head today?" He looked over to Terry who was slowly disappearing into the wind. "Oh no ya don't!!" Roku charged for Terry and punched.

Terry was completely gone. "Too late." His voiced echoed from everywhere. "I'm surprised you lasted this long. It's very uncommon for a pirate to give me this much trouble.. Usually they pee themselves just at the mere mention of my name."

"Sorry man. But your reputation exceeds me. I don't know what you've done in the past, or the name you made for yourself. As of now, you're just another mountain I need to move." Roku looked around for Terry. He checked left and right, up and down, front to back. Terry, laughed, and smirked.

"Oh, I'll tell you where I am."

"Where?"

"Behind you."

Terry, had his gas arm in Roku's chest, and he was smirking.

"One wrong move, and I make my arm solid... Meaning... You lose your heart."

-

Jericho sat strapped to a rolling chair. Vines wrapped around his body preventing movement. "So why am I like this again?"

"So you won't leave." Rosa said flatly, growing vines on Fea. "You're getting the same treatment."

"Why? I haven't tried to escape." Fea looked down to the vines.

"That doesn't mean you won't."

"But what about you? What prevents you from leaving?" Fea asked.

Jericho looked up. "Yeah! How come you're not tied up?!"

"I'm not even supposed to be here, so I can leave whenever I want." Rosa explained, growing an apple from a vine. "I wanted grapes."

Her Apple is cut in half, and she stares at Jericho.

"Not me."

She stares at Fea, and Fea shrugs, hiding the knife she has. "So it was you?"

Fea out the knife behind her back. "You have no proof."

Rosa exhaled and flicked her wrist. Vines grew from the ground and wrapped around Fea, from her feet to her neck, restricting even the slightest movement. "I can see the knife in your hands."

Fea bit the vines, and they slapped her.

"I hate these vines."