Journey to One Piece

337. Secrets come out

337. Secrets come out

Shiki, undeterred, used his devilish powers to navigate through the chaos. He reappeared in the air above Ken, a wicked glint in his eyes. "Fuwa Fuwa no Jet," he shouted, accelerating towards Ken with incredible speed. The sheer force of his charge created shockwaves that disrupted the flames around him.

"Flames aren't the only thing in my control." Ken smirked. 

Ken summoned the power of the heavens. His eyes glowed with a blue intensity as he unleashed a powerful lightning strike with Stormbreaker. He sent a torrential cascade of lightning towards Shiki, who floated confidently on his levitating islands.

Shiki, a cunning smile on his face, manipulated the very fabric of gravity. Islands shifted and danced in response to his whims as he effortlessly evaded Ken's celestial assault. "Fuwa Fuwa no Cyclone," he countered, creating a whirlwind of floating debris that spiraled towards the God of Thunder.

But this was the opening Ken was waiting for. Shiki had been concentrating on defense for sometime now and now that he got the chance, Ken vanished from his spot and appeared behind Shiki within a heartbeat. 

"What..." Shiki was alarmed. 

But Ken's hand was covered with Susano and if that wasn't enough the hand Susano was light aflame and covered in lightning. Shiki wanted to make the last defense using his Devil fruit powers but it was already too late. The huge hand covered with fire and lightning struck Shiki with it's full might. 

Blood flew around and even though he had used Armament Haki he couldn't stop the intensity of the attack and was taken down in that hit alone. His face planted on the ground leaving fire and lightning in its wake. 

Zephyr, for the first time gulped down his throat looking at the skeletal hand that was glowing intensely. He had seen the hand and the whole monster that had come out of Ken in the war, and that too in the television. 

Now seeing it live gave him the chills and made him realize that his dream of pirate free era was in jeopardy just because of a single crew. It wasn't the Navy that was the most dangerous at the moment. It was this small pirate group. 

He needed to get out of here in order to regroup and come up with a better plan to decimate the New World and bring peace. But before Zephyr could even take more than 10 steps, he was surrounded by three people. 

Zor, Sanji and Luffy. 

"Ossan.. Where are you going?" Zoro asked. 

"Oye he doesn't look that old." Sanji said. 

"I like his hair." Luffy replied and Zephyr felt disrespected. He was going to attack one of them when he felt his mechanical arm stop in it's swing. The three of them didn't even move but his mechanical arm refused to move. He turned around only to see the orange haired girl making a bit weird but aggressive pose towards him. 

He didn't know what she was doing but whatever it was, it had stopped his mechanical arm. At the moment he couldn't move and when he tried, he felt the mechanical arm was breaking apart from inside and it was already getting painful as he gritted his teeth. 

"Nami.. You don't need Avatar mode for it?" Luffy asked quite surprised that Nami was able to do metal bending as she had learnt over the years in training. 

"Idiot, the avatar mode only accumulates the power over bending accumulated by previous Avatars. She is the first of her kind to do metal bending. Nami-swaan is sugeeio." Sanji said while Zoro just stayed silent.

Nami was sweating buckets as she was trying to dismantle Zephyr, and she almost gave up when two of his subordinates came after her and tried to ambush, only to be stopped by Brook and Chopper. 

Chopper used a beam of light from his antlers while Brook froze the other. They didn't even know what had hit them and was take out instantly. 

Zephyr was downtrodden and he knew that he would have to leave. He steeled himself and instantly cut his arm in half with the help of his able arm using haki. Luffy and others didn't expect that to happen at all, and before they could stop the man, he held the two subordinates up with a quick shave and then basically ran away.

Luffy wanted to go after him but Sanji asked him to stop as he was inconsequential at this point as they had one of the man under control for whatever the fuck was going on. Shiki was under the rubble of his own doing and had to slowly be taken out by him for him to get up. 

There was a huge mark on his face and the battlefield now was in complete ruins, with his palace in total shambles. All of his subordinates were taken care of and even the doctor was held down by dark magic by Robin who tried to ambush the Straw hats. 

Suffice to say, he was both horrified and intrigued by the magic of Robin when she held him down. Chopper was particularly angry with him because in ethical way, he had betrayed the profession of doctors. 

"Bastards.. All bastards.. How dare someone from the weakest sea bring me down?" Shiki roared. 

"If you want I can send you back to the same prison and let you rot there and this time, I will take you your hands." Ken said and he wasn't being sarcastic about it. He was serious. Shiki shut up when Ken said that. 

He more so had annoyance written over his face rather than fear for Ken. Maybe he was annoyed of being beaten down by the weakest sea again. 

"Let's talk shall we?" Ken said as he took a chair from the rubbles and sat down on it. And so did the Straw Hats. They wanted to break him down but since Ken wanted to talk there might be reason.