BOOM
An explosion sends tremors across the resort, the sacred environment is being tarnished by the battle taking place.
Urouge and Doll exchange fist in the middle of the resort, the giant monk throwing heavy hooks at the female marine, Doll blocks his blows with her forearms, and responds with a barrage of fist to his chest area.
Pow
Doll lands a straight punch to his sternum and Urouge staggers back, still grinning like a madman.
"Nice hit~" He giggles.
Doll growls, about to lunge at him but stops her movement as she notices him bulking up.
"What the?" She gasps.
Urogue's muscles expand, the disproportion of his upper body and lower body becoming alarming.
The madman is still grinning at her, stomping towards her direction.
"Come on, hit me more~"
Doll clenches her teeth, "Fine,I'll play along. "
Instead of using her haki to end the fight, Doll decides to use Urogue's abilities as a punching bag.
Woosh
She flickers over to him, hitting his right shoulder, a kick to his knee, uppercut to his gut and ending the combo with a spinning kick to his pelvis.
"Ouff–" Urouge groans, falling to his knees at the cheap blow.
Doll showed no mercy and followed up with brutal kick to face with the soles of her shoes.
Crack
A sickening sound of bones cracking rings out as Urogue's head whipped back to place in a nauseating way.
"Finger pistol. " Doll jabs her finger just below Urogue's collarbone.
The mad monks eyes rolled to the back of his head.
"Cocky bastard. " Doll spits out.
"Well done, Babe." Gion teases.
"Don't call me that!" Doll snaps at her fellow marine.
Gion smirks like a smug bastard, seated on top of a boulder. "I was worried you forgot to use haki for a second. "
"Oh–please. You overuse your haki, little rabbit. "
*Sheath
"What did you say?" Gion's tone became ice cold, sword halfway out it's sheath.
Doll coats her fist in armament haki, "I'm not afraid of your blade, little rab–"
Slash
Gion slashes the air, a giant purple projectile closing on Doll.
"Tempest kick. " Doll kicks the air, a burst of blue flames erupting from thin air–clashing with Gion's strike.
The two attacks swirl around another in a beautiful display of azure and violet energy, flames and slashes littering the resort.
Cling
Bang
Gion's blade connects with Doll's fist, the two glaring at each other as their foreheads were a touch away.
"Is little rabbit mad?" Doll teases.
Gion's eyebrow twitches, " I didn't know you wanted to die at a spa resort Doll? I'll gladly fulfill your wishes.
Gion leaps back from her, channeling amethyst energy around herself, the energy forms into a giant spider.
Doll punches the air at high speeds, igniting her hands in flames and manipulating the element with her haki.
"Black Widows kiss."
"Tempest fist."
Gion's slash and Doll's flaming fist strikes collided in the middle of the resort, Gion's slash overpowers Doll's flaming fist, cutting them in half and still in pursuit of the marine.
"Sh#t!" Doll uses moon walk to avoid the strike. Propelling herself into the skies, she watches the projectile effortlessly cut the lake in half. The body of water split in two before gravity pulled it back down, the gashes in the earth were quickly filled by the lake water.
"That could've killed me!" Doll curses.
"Too bad." Gion huffs, sheathing her blade, she turns to the area where Doll left the rookie.
"Let's take you in."
----
[Marineford]
Back at Marine base, piles of paperwork dominate Sengoku's desk as the recent pirate activity in the first half of the Grand Line made his job more miserable.
In particular, the 12 rookie pirates have been a thorn in his back, many rapidly growing to lethal threats in the near future.
"Makes me wonder why I even have Warlords." Sengoku rubs his forehead.
"Cheer up, Sengoku. " Garp encourages as he munches on rice cakes in his superiors office.
A vein pulses on the Fleet Admirals head. "You got some nerve Garp."
"I know."
"You–"
Bang
His outburst was interrupted by the loud sound of his door opening.
"Sengoku-sama, the Warlords have arrived!" A petty officer announces.
"Take them to the meeting room." He orders, turning back to Garp.
"This conversation isn't over."
"Sure thing." Garp crunches louder just to piss him off.
---
Just outside the Warlord meeting room–
"Isn't this an interesting sight?" Doflamingo sticks out her long tongue, towering over Smoker.
The newly promoted Vice-Admiral had no issues staring back at the Warlord.
"You're still a pirate even if you wear a navy collar." Sonya emphasises.
"Such cruel words...you and me severe the same master after all."
"I'm nothing like you!" Sonya lifts her Jitte, aiming the weapon at Doflamingo's chest.
"Smoker don't. " Gion warns, her own focus was on Gecko Moria, watching the whole dispute with a disturbing grin.
"I hate working with pirates. " Gion grumbles.
Doll kept her distance from the madness, her disdain for pirates increasing as the whole Warlord system made no sense at all, ' We're froze their bounties so they can hunt other pirates but all they do is treat Sengoku-sama like a fool.' Doll flexes her jaw.
"Are you going to hit me, Smoker?" Doflamingo tests her restraint.
"Don't test me." Smoker puffs out smoke directly to Doflamingo's face.
The Warlord froze, her eyebrow twitched and her usual smirk disappeared.
"You little –"
Before she could do anything, iron bars wrap around Doflamingo and Smoker, catching them off gaurd.
"What the!?"
"Hina!"
Hina leans on a pillar, finger raised in the air, "Hina, doesn't want you two fools fighting. "
Doflamingo flexes her muscles, trying to break the bars but they resist.
Smoker tried to make herself intangible with her smoke fruit but she felt a force stopping her.
"Haki?" She gasps.
"Impressive. " Doflamingo praises.
"Admiral Kizaru has been great teacher for Hina." She snaps her fingers, the bars vanishing off them.
By the entrance of the meeting room, Dracula Mihawk sat on a bench, boredom evident in his face and Yoru resting next to him.
"You've been staring at me for a while now." He calls out.
"Eep!" Tashigi yelps from behind a pillar, "I'm sorry,"
Mihawk notices the swords by her sides, "Those blade aren't yours."
"Wha?" Tashigi gawks, "Well...they belonged to wicked men, whom I killed. " Tashigi confesses.
Mihawk nods,"You collect blades from pirates." He concludes.
"That's right, I want to collect all the Legendary blades." She confidently proclaims her dream.
Mihawk shows a faint smirk, "Such a hefty dream. I look forward to the day you try to take Yoru from me." Mihawk stands, grabbing the blade and walks into the meeting room without giving Tashigi another glance.
She stood there, shocked at the invite to challenge him. 'Did Mihawk challenge me? The strongest swordsman acknowledged my presence! Wait, he didn't ask for my name –that bastard!' Tashigi groans out, her inner turmoil reaching new heights.
The Warlords enter the meeting room, another mandatory part of their "job"
The meeting was attended by 5 of the 7 Warlords, Crocodile and Boa Hancock did not attend as the Empress had urgent matters to attend to and Crocodile had been recently defeated by the rookie pirate, Monkey D. Luffy and exposed for inciting a civil war and trying to discover an ancient weapon, therefore the man has been stripped of his Warlord title and imprisoned in Impel Down.
Sengoku spoke about Kaido's fall and how it changed the balance of power and demanded the Warlords take their jobs seriously.
---
[Strong World]
A small island in the treacherous seas of the other half of the Grand Line, is the territory of a certain Red-haired crew.
The one armed Emperor sat slouched on a beach chair, bottle of rum in his sole hand.
"We finally meet after so long." Shanks teases, tipsy eyes looking at the man on in front of him.
"Out of all people in this world, you wanted to meet me?" Ramos questions.
Admiral Haiuma(Portgas D. Ramos) stands before Yonko, Red-haired Shanks and his crew, in pirate lands...
"Have a seat kid, there's a lot we need to talk about."