❝Our family was never meant to have a happy ending were we❞
❝No we weren't❞
In which a girl fights to put the broken pieces of her family back together again
One Piece || Eiichiro Oda
East B...
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𝕃ooking at Zoro and Luffy with a deep breath out in relief, Nami smiled at them from the ground. "Well, it's about time."
"Wow, that was great. You guys are really that strong?" Usopp observes in awe, getting a sharp nod from Luffy.
Getting up from the ground, Nami frowns at them with her arms crossed in front of her. "Could you guys have been any slower? What took you so long?"
Zoro sharply looked at Nami with a snarl in his tone. "You're the one who pushed me down that oil slick so you can get out!"
"You did what!" Liliana shouts to Nami as she looks away with a grimace.
"It was an accident. I slipped, you fell. At least one of us made it out of there. That's better than both of us being stuck at the bottom," Nami responds flippantly.
"IT SHOULD'VE JUST BEEN YOU!" Zoro snarls out.
"Then we wouldn't have struggled so much trying to hold off all these bloody pirates," Liliana adds, incensed at Nami's casualness only getting a sheepish shrug as an answer.
"Run straight north, he says. That's just great, how am I supposed to know where north even is out here? Huh!" Luffy calls out to Usopp as Liliana sharply turns on him with narrowed eyes.
"Then you should've asked."
"Exactly! So shut up," Usopp agreed, facing Luffy with a glare, "You ran away so sure of yourself ready to take on anyone."
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Looking at the two, Luffy rubbed the back of his neck with a sheepish grin. "Well, I just got excited and I started running, you know."
"What am I going to do with you?" Liliana mumbled out, with a gentle shake of her head as a relieved smile formed. "At least you're here now. I was nearly at my limits."
"Yeah about that. How the hell did you do that?" Usopp asks Liliana, remembering how she seemingly moved things with her mind only to get a shrug in response, irking Usopp.
Looking towards the group of pirates at the bottom of the slope, the group watches with narrowed eyes as the Hypnotist starts to hypnotise the pirates. "What's he doing? It looks weird," Luffy asks.
Memories of her earlier panic attack hit Liliana full blast as she clenched her teeth in anger, absentmindedly scratching at her forearm. "It's the bloody hypnosis trick he pulled on me earlier."
"Trying to convince them that they're stronger than they are like that would work," Nami adds with wide eyes.
"Stronger. Stronger!" the Hypnotist calls out, waving the disc around in front of the crew, as Luffy stares on in a trance, "One. Two. Jango!" At that all the pirates roared, invigorated by Jango's hypnotism. They all stare in horror as one of the men punches the stone wall, breaking a huge chunk from the cliff face.
"No way," Nami quaked. Oh for the love of, Liliana grimaces, a small tremor in her hands appears as she tries to stifle it between her clasped hands as she viciously nibbles on her bottom lip.
"That one guy completely destroyed the cliff! That's what I call power!" Zoro exclaims, a cold sweat breaking out on his forehead as his grip on his swords tightens.
Staring down at the energised pirates, Nami grimaces in terror, disbelief at what she is witnessing. "I always thought hypnotising people was a bunch of crap."
"That was just one of them. Imagine what the whole crew could do," Usopp notes.
"Anybody have any suggestions because now would be a great time to voice them?" Liliana stammers out, turning towards the group, getting worried shakes in return. Standing next to Luffy, she gently bumps shoulders with him whilst calling out his name, getting nothing in response. Turning towards her cousin, she sees that his eyes are shaded by his straw hat, frozen in place. Strange, he is usually more vocal in situations like this, Liliana wonders turning towards the now running pirates.
"Hey, you guys you might wanna move," Zoro demands, getting their attention, "Luffy. You, me and Liliana will take it from here."
Liliana nods her head, narrowing her eyes on the rapidly advancing pirates as she balled her trembling hands into fists beside her. In the corner of her eyes, she can see Nami and Usopp sneak away for cover.
"Alright then, what now?" Zoro asks the two after seeing that Nami and Usopp are safely away, getting zero response from Luffy and a wry smile from Liliana.
"Do what we usually do. Wing it and hope for the best," Liliana says, coming up empty in her head for any sort of plan to use, turning towards her abnormally silent cousin. "Luffy agreed?"
Not hearing a response from Luffy, Zoro glances at him in confusion, exchanging concerned looks with Liliana over his shoulder. "Luffy?"
Luffy suddenly starts to growl lowly as Liliana furrows her brows. Calling out his name once more in concern, Zoro turns to Luffy slightly. Suddenly Luffy lets out a gigantic roar, throwing his hands up widely to everyone's angered shock. "Don't tell me that freak hypnotised you too!" Zoro barks out, his mouth hanging down.
"Oh bloody hell," Liliana sighs out, as she drags her hands down her face, relieved that they now stand a chance.
Luffy races down the slope to the pirates with a mighty roar, leaving the rest of the group in shocked silence as he throws multiple punches towards the pirate in quick succession, bellowing a roar that could be heard across the whole island. "GUM-GUM GATLING!"
