Yukiko was surprised at this turn of events.
Oz now with her boyfriend's shadow was keeping her away from Moria's minions and defying orders.
She guessed if Oz does have Luffy's persona now, his feeling toward her must linger in his subconscious.
Remembering how easily impressed he was....
"Um, Oz, dearie, if you put me down, I can show you a magic trick." Yukiko smiled.
"Magic trick?! Ok!" Oz complied.
Once he did, Yukiko used her power and thought of a Ruby, and to her luck a large Ruby did appear, then she created a Sapphire, an emerald, and a topaz.
Then she fused them together to make a large crystal rose.
"Oooooooh! Awesome!" Oz said shining in excitement.
"Oz! What are you doing?! I told you to get that woman for me!" A large person that resembled a talking gourd yelled from the tower.
"Huh? Oh,"
But then Yukiko said, "Don't Oz! He wants to do something bad to me!"
"Huh?! No way! So he's a bad guy?" Oz suddenly said as he went in a different direction with Yukiko in tow.
But during her "magic trick" Yukiko got two certain Pokémon out.
"Be on standby until I give the signal." She whispered.
A rumble of a dragon and a grim rumble vanished into the shadows.
Meanwhile, the crew minus Luffy found Nadia, Pachi and Varian who got separated from Yukiko.
"Where's Yukiko?" Franky asked.
"Oz, Luffy's zombie, has her. But the strange thing is he's defying Moria's orders." Nadia said.
"Of course!" Usopp realized. "Remember when Denguin fought against the other zombies because they attacked Nami? He had Sanji's shadow! And he wouldn't harm a girl!"
"Which means Oz won't give up Miss Beast Master because of Captain's love for her." Robin finished.
"She may be able to convince Oz to help us, but who knows." Brook adds.
"Although, Oz began saying he wouldn't give up his pirate queen, but she's taking it well...........does this happen to Yukiko a lot?" Nadia asked.
"Catch the attention of the bad guy?" Zoro asked.
"They chase after her? All the time." Usopp nodded.
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Thankfully, Luffy and also Nami appeared.
Although Luffy was a bit peeved that a zombie wanted his lover.
Up in the mansion, a man by the name of Bartholomew Kuma was silently watching everything. Despite the fact that he was dressed in black and white paw prints, no one would call this sentinel of the night 'cute', rather that the Shichibukai was more 'terrifying' than anything.
"YEAH~!" Usopp was cheering. "Beat the living crap out of him, Luffy!"
"Damn you!" Oz cursed as he charged toward Nightmare Luffy. "YOU LITTLE MIDGET! Gomu Gomu no..."
"Darkrai! Now!" Yukiko yelled.
From the darkness, a dark figure appeared.
"Dark Void!"
Pierna Fleur!"
"Here we go, Yohohoho!"
"Please!"
Brook used the 'footholds' provide by Robin to jump up the tower.
"Dark Void again, Darkrai!" Yukiko said.
"You again!" Moria screamed as Oz practically vibrated. "Why won't you die!"
"What's all this?" Oz muttered as clouds appeared around him. "Smoke? Clouds?"
"The forecast is rain!" Nami announced on the ground. "Cool Ball! Rain Tempo!"
Rain began to pour from the clouds onto Oz.
"It's raining!" One of them shouted. "How?"
"Is that girl some kinda magical wizard or something?"
"Yosh!" the voices of te other Straw Hats rang out. "'Emergency Hose' Construction... Complete!"
"Shit... you're pissing me off!" Oz shouted.
"Coup de Vent!" An explosion sounded.
"What the-?"
"Give it all you got!"
"I'm cranking it!" Usopp yelled, shouting.
"Let's go!" Franky yelled. "Extra Large Ultra Subzero Freezing Wind Cannon! FIRE!"
The cold winds blew over and the rain turned to ice on the ground, freezing Oz's legs and feet.
"I'm frozen! I can't move!"
"Amazing!"
"They froze him with the rain water!"
"Now it's my turn!" Sanji yelled from up above, just before a large, thick chain swung and restrained Oz.
"You did it!" Chopper cheered from above. "That was awesome, Sanji!"
"TOSS ME!" Luffy yelled.
"You sure about this?" Franky asked.
"It's alright! I'm a rubber man!"
"Gear Third! Hone Fuusen!"
"Zoro! Tighten in Oz's stomach!"
"Leave it to me!" Zoro called, swords spinning. "Santouryuu Ougi: Sanzen Sekkai!"
It was then that the gears holding onto the giant chain began to reel in.
"Nice one, Sanji! Oz's back is taut now!" Chopper yelked.
"What're they doing?"
"Go, Luffy!" Nami called.
"Luffy San!"
"Take this 'Special Bazooka'!" Luffy roared.
"Don't bother, I'll send you flying back with my bazooka!" Oz roared as it pulled its arms back. "Gomu Gomu no... Huh? I can't move! I can't move my right arm! I can't stretch either!"
"Not being able to feel damage is a zombie's weak point," Robin observed.
"This is your shadow. Finish him off, Luffy!" Zoro growled.
"Gomu Gomu no..."
"GO!"
"Get him, Strawhat!"
"How's that?" Usopp and Franky cheered.
"Giganto... Bazooka!"
A huge crackling noise was heard as Luffy made impact. That sound was the sound of Oz's spine snapping. Oz soon fell to the ground, coughing up blood.
"HE DID IT!" the bystanders cheered. "THEY WON! THEY REALLY DID IT THIS TIME!... Why did he syelled.
Yukiko ran over to Luffy as he shrunk and she grabbed him before he fell.
"Don't celebrate yet!" Yukiko called out. "There's still Moria!"
True to her word, Moria was still up.
Moria glared at all of them. "Kishishishi! This ain't no playground scuffle! A true pirate doesn't fear death itself!"
Luffy, tiny as the captain was, still glared at him.
"To think they teamed up with you losers of the forest," Moria continued. "Now I see how Strawhat got that ridiculous power-up! How desperate of you to use my own shadow abilities against me!"
"Shut up! Just return the shadows!"
"Strawhat!" Moria called. "You dare wreck such havoc... across my precious Thriller Bark!" He panted to recover his breath. "You really tore the place apart!"
"That's because you got in the way of first!" Luffy retorted. "Now give us our shadows back, before the sun comes up!"
Moria began laughing. "Kishishishi! Even if I didn't touch you guys, death would have awaited you the way you are now! You're nowhere near ready for the New World! Even though it seems you gathered yourself some fine minions... all will be lost. And do you know why? "
"Oi, Strawhat!" one of them called. "We ain't got time to be standing around chatting'! Look at the sky! It's getting brighter already!"
"Hurry up and get our shadows back! THERE'S NO TIME!"
"I'm speaking out of experience!" Moria continued. "Why did I lose all my minions, despite them being famous across the globe?
All the Straw Hats awaited the answer.
Moria's hands tightened into fists. "I lost my nakama because they were alive!" Snakes of shadows flew from his feet out. "Had they been dead zombies from the start, I would have had nothing to lose! Zombies are immortal! Eternal warriors that can be replaced even if they fall! With my army of the dead, I once again aim to become the Pirate King! You guys should be grateful to be serving as my slaves!"
The black tendrils struck out across the island as shadows gathered, feeding themselves into a grinning Moria.
"Giratina. Get ready." Yukiko whispered as one mirror surface shimmered.
Moria laughed. "Now, all the shadows of Thriller Bark, become my power! Shadows' Asgard!"
Strawhat!" Moria gloated. "You absorbed a hundred shadows, am I right? Then I shall take one hundred... two hundred... three hundred! Four hundred... five hundred!"
As Moria continued to pump shadows into his body, his voice got deeper and he began to grow in size.
"Six hundred! Seven hundred! Eight hundred! Nine hundred!"
Everyone looked on, their eyes wide and horrified, as if they were actually in a living nightmare. Moria had grown at least ten times his usual size. His legs were now bent, somewhat like a lizard's, and his feet grew big purple claws.
True to his name, Moria turned into a giant gecko.
"Kishishishi!" The gecko cackled. "One thousand!"
...........
"GIRATINA! SHADOW FORCE!"
Next thing everyone knew, a giant dragon came from above in a haunting fashion.
It was a large gray draconic Pokémon with three gold half-rings on each side of its long neck. Its head has a gold crown-like object surrounding it with two large horns pointing sideways. A thick black stripe runs vertically along its front with five red horizontal stripes. Its six legs are thick and have golden claws. Two golden half-circles similar to those on its neck are on each side of each leg, resembling shackles.
"Wha-?!"
"Is that a dragon?!"
The attack from Giratina was an epic thing of beauty, cannonballed straight into Moria's throat and sending the giant stumbling back.
"What strength!"
"The shadows are coming out!"
"Think I'll let you escape?" Moria closed his hands over his mouth. "The source of my power!"
"Giratina, once more! Darkrai! Dark Void! Now Luffy!" Yukiko yelled.
"I also have something to tell my shadow..." Luffy groaned from where he bounced on the ground, getting to his feet. "If you really want to be the Pirate King... you gotta..."
He disappeared in a flash, going straight for Moria.
"...GET THE HELL BACK TO ME!"
With a mighty attack powered by Giratina and Darkrai, Luffy cannonballed into Moria, sending the giant gecko into the mast and breaking the entire tall building to collapse on top of Moria. As shadows flew into the air, the crowd cheered as Luffy safely flew away like a balloon.
Darkrai caught him as he was exhausted taking him to Yukiko.
With astounded faces, the people watched as the mast of Thriller Bark collapsed on top of Moria, gravity squeezing every last bit of shadow from the mouth of the Shichibukai.
"Strawhat.....Beast Master..." he wheezed. "Then go see for yourself... In the New World... What a true nightmare there is... In the New World...!"
The shadows came spraying out of Moria's mouth, like an erupting volcano.
"All right! The shadows are returning!"
"At long last!"
"THE SHADOWS ARE COMING BACK!"
"We have our shadows!" Lola cheered.
"Our dark days are finally over!"
"ALRIGHT! HOORAY!"
"Looks like everyone over there is alright too," Chopper remarked.
But then Darkrai, and Pachi growled.
Yukiko looked in their direction frowning.
"We have company."
Everyone looked up to see a rather large man.
"So it would seem," Bartholomew Kuma spoke to a miniature DenDen Mushi.
"Who's that?" Usopp muttered.
"He's here!" Nami almost cried, hyperventilating. "Guys... calm down.. and listen to me... During the fight wit Moria and the others... I forgot to tell you, but... on this island... There's another one...! A Shichibukai!"
The Straw Hats began to panic.
"What d'you just say?" Usopp gasped before he looked up. "That's..."
"A Shichibukai?" Almost all of them finished at once.
"Th- There's just no way...!" Usopp panicked.
"Why are there two Shichibukai on the same island?" Chopper panicked.
"Just when we finally chose a successor for Crocodile... It's not good to have lost another Shichibukai." the DenDen Mushi was saying. "Is he still breathing, even in the faintest?"
"Who knows..." Kuma remarked.
"As long as he is still alive, we will wait for him and hope for him to remain in his position as Shichibukai. We'll follow up after such a time. The dignity of the Shichibukai would be lost if we were to lose them this easily." His words then took an ominous bent."This news must not reach anyone else. Man, these guys are a problem..."
"Right..." Lola murmured. "That gigantic body, not even inferior to Moria... the pirate called 'the Tyrant'...! Bartholomew Kuma...!"
"Him? 'Tyrant' Kuma?"
"The guy who has no limits to his brutality?"
"Do you comprehend what I'm saying?" the voice continued. "We cannot afford to let anyone else know of Moria's defeat. This is a direct order from the World Government... including the Straw Hat crew, obliterate... everyone on that island!"
"Too easy." Kuma remarked after a while.
"W- What was that he just said?"A buzz was beginning to build.
"O- Obliterate...? Oi, oi, by obliterate...?"
"He means us? Why?"
"This just can't be happening...!"
Yukiko saw red.
"As long as there is a breath in me. I'm not letting you take my man. Giratina. Will-o-wisp."
The Renegade Pokémon complied as fire was launched at Kuma who deflected it with his Paw Paw Fruit but then....
"Darkrai, Disable."
That successfully hit Kuma, and Giratina used Will-o-wisp again and this time, could not activate his power to his shock.
"Darkrai, time for action!" This time, Yukiko takes out her Z Bracelet.
"Before light there was darkness, as black as if there was nothing. Now...let yourself be swallowed up!"
Darkrai raises its head and arms and a spiraling sphere of purple, red, and black energy forms above Kuma's head. Darkrai then throws the sphere at the Shichibukai, and it expands into a miniature black hole. Kuma is then sucked into the black hole, which shrinks to a much smaller size, causing it to explode.
As Kuma was falling, he looked worse for wear as he had shown robotic parts.
"Pachi, Shock Wave! Varian, Swift! Giratina! Send him out of here! Shadow Force!"
Then Yukiko focused as she conjured a crystallized orb. "Crystal Pulse!"
Giratina roared and rushed at Kuma hitting him dead on and Pachi's Varian's and Yukiko's attacks sent him flying into the sky.
Everyone was surprised and flabbergasted.
"Whoa! That creature and dragon trounced Kuma! A Shichibukai!"
"What are they?! They beat Kuma as if he was a fly!"
"I can see why they call her Beast Master!"
As Yukiko walked over to Luffy she collapsed, as that attack took some of her energy.
"Sorry, I just need some rest." Yukiko said as the crew smiled.
At a distance, Nadia smiled.
'Looks like your hunch was right with this one................
Dragon.' She thought.
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Next chapter Brook will join the crew!
The government are not gonna be happy with this outcome!
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