The Elementalist Lucia [One Piece x OC fanfiction]

XXXXVII - Forced fight

The days passed quietly and they were only a few miles from Dressrosa. Law still hadn't told them anything concrete about his plan. They knew that their final target was Kaido, that their intermediate enemy would be Doflamingo. The coming night would certainly be the last one they would spend on the Sunny before starting their fight on Dressrosa. As usual, Lucia came to perform her little nightly ritual. Chopper and Usopp were on guard tonight, they were back to back on the deck, hands clutching makeshift weapons, watching the sky for any trace of Doflamingo if he came to attack them. Law was sitting on the bench that surrounded the main mast of the boat. Lucia came to sit beside him to be more comfortable, her papers on her knees, a pencil between her fingers and began to draw, regularly raising her eyes towards the sky. She did not speak to him, understanding that he was certainly trying to sleep a little before the next day which would certainly be eventful.

After a few minutes, a slight movement in the open sea caught her attention and she turned away from her work to squint a little, trying to see what could have caused it but she saw nothing. She shook her head and giggled, she was imagining things. But the second she thought that, the boat was assaulted by a volley of projectiles that fell from the sky. Lucia got up hastily before a fist crossed her face brutally. The fight then started between these creatures and the pirates, who had no idea who their opponents were because of the darkness. The clouds had suddenly covered the moon and prevented them from discerning their surroundings properly. Using her sword and her powers, Lucia defended herself as best she could, but she still felt overwhelmed by her attackers. But what are these things?

A hissing sound was heard and suddenly everything stopped. Then a voice pierced the silence, the light returned, and they saw a man standing on the top of the ship's mast. Lucia squinted her eyes to see him better. He announced that his name was Breed and that he had the powers of the trainer's fruit. At his side, a sea rabbit carried Caesar. Without warning, their mysterious attacker escaped with Caesar. Franky ordered Luffy to take the Shark sumberge, their submarine, to follow their trail and retrieve Caesar. Chopper grabbed Luffy's neck to accompany him, and without thinking Lucia did the same. The carpenter called out to them:

"EH! I remind you that the submarine can only hold three people! If Tra-guy comes with you it will be a problem."

"No", replied Lucia. "I don't take space, I am made of water, I remind you."

"Ah yes..." thought Franky. "Well, it's great, so go ahead."

Lucia smiled before going down by the trapdoor which led to the submarine and taking place on one of the seats, Chopper on her knees, the rudder between her legs. They shot underwater, easily spotting their mysterious assailants. Chopper remarked that the creatures looked like rabbits and Law explained that they were indeed sea rabbits, but that they didn't belong here in the New World. Chopper then described what he had heard during their fight, which one of the animals had yelled that it didn't want to do this. Lucia frowned:

"Do you think they were forced into it? You think they were forced to do that by that man?"

"That's what I'd like to find out" Chopper explained.

They then managed to disembark in the enemy ship by going underneath and discovered a huge natural cave. If Lucia, Chopper and Law tried to be as discreet as possible, it only took a few seconds for Luffy to start screaming. Law immediately tensed up:

"Damn it we said we were trying to stay undetected!"

"Everything is in the verb Trafalgar, everything is in the verb... "trying"", sighed Lucia.

They followed a corridor and ended up in the center of an immense aquatic dome, dominated on all sides by water, surrounded by glittering fish. Amazed Lucia could not hold back a huge smile, captivated by the architecture of the structure which gave her to see her favorite spectacle. However, after a few steps, they were again attacked by these strange animals which jumped on them. They then launched into battle, dominating their opponents quite easily. Nevertheless, one of them resisted them more, mastering the Haki but it was not enough to resist Luffy for long. The sea animal had a most surprising reaction afterwards, it threw itself at Luffy's neck. In fact, the strange animal had already met the pirate captain when he was in the Alabasta kingdom. Chopper told them that he had become his disciple after the pirate had defeated him the first time. Lucia scratched her head: