CH 46

"Bastard! Thousand Brick Fist!" he shouted as he swung at Sanji again, but missed.

"Now...FACE SHOT!" Sanji yelled as he kicked Kuroobi through the building, ending their fight for good. "That's that."

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While they were all fighting, two others were far off near some wetlands.

"That human could run fast." Chew said as he looked down at a bleeding Usopp. He had shot him with a water blast and was now smirking before he started walking back to Arlong Park. Usopp looked at him with a grin.

'Glad I made that special ketchup star for something like this.' he thought as he watched Chew keep walking away. 'Those fishmen are way too powerful. Sorry Nami. I wanna help, but I don't wanna die either.' When Chew was safe distance away, Usopp sat up. 'Still, with all this ketchup, I'll look like I was hurt. Maybe a bit of dirt will help out to make it seem more real.' He then began to rub some dirt on his arm. "What should I say? 'Sorry, but I lost.' Hmm." As he kept talking, his friends and all the others back at the village were flashing through his mind.

'Aren't we crewmates?'

'I prefer death!'

'Sorry Usopp, but this is for the sake of my business.

'It's an honor to help a lady in need.'

'Do you know how hard it's been for Nami?'

'You can't win, so stay out of their fight.' 'LET'S FIGHT!'

Usopp just stared at the ground as an image of his crew all laughing flashed through his mind before he started to tremble as tears fell from his eyes.

'I'm nothing but a liar and a coward!' he thought before he stood up, wiped his eyes, and looked in Chew's direction. "HOLD UP, YOU FISH BASTARD!" he shouted. Chew stopped in his tracks, which made Usopp jump in terror.

"Oh? Still alive huh? Chu." Chew said as he looked back at Usopp with a bored glare.

"Of course I am! A little water's nothing to me!" Usopp yelled as he fished around in his bag of tricks. Chew looked annoyed as he slowly started walking back.

'The moment I left my village, peace and safety became foreign to me.' Usopp thought. 'Those guys push themselves to the limit everyday, living their lives to the fullest. That's why they laugh so much.' He got his slingshot out and aimed at Chew, who was now starting to run. 'If I don't fight as hard as they do, I won't have any right to travel on the same ship as them.' "I WANT THE RIGHT TO LAUGH WITH THEM!" He shouted as he let loose an exploding star. Chew lunged at him, punching through the explosive star and straight into Usopp's face, smacking his head to the ground before flipping and landing a few feet away as Usopp lay on the ground bleeding.

"Moron. You should've just kept playing dead. Guess you're too dumb to even do that. Chu." Chew said.

"Is...it over?" Usopp asked as he lay bleeding on the ground.

"Yeah. For you!" Chew said as he kicked Usopp's side.

"Knock it off!" Usopp grunted. "USOPP HAMMER!" he shouted as he smashed his hammer into Chew's shin. Chew garbled in pain as Usopp stood up. USOPP RUBBER BAND OF DOOM!" he shouted, making Chew flinch. Chew opened his eyes after a few moments to see that Usopp had disappeared.

"AHHH! I FELL FOR THAT?! CRAP! WHERE'D HE GO?!" Chew shouted before he turned red with embarrassment. "That little prick!"

"CATCH!" Usopp shouted from the trees as a bottle flew towards Chew, who caught it with ease.

"Liquor?"

"Lead Star!" Usopp shouted as the bottle shattered, splashing Chew with glass and booze.

"I've had enough of these tricks! I'll destroy you with my squirt cannon." Chew said as he began sucking up water from the area.

"So what if they're tricks? Doesn't matter." Usopp said. "Usopp the Brave will not run from this fight." He said as Chew, who looked like a bloated whale, aimed his attack at the forest.

"SQUIRT CANNON!" he shouted as he blasted all the water at the forest, destroying all the trees in his path. Usopp looked on in terror while Chew just stared in disbelief that Usopp revealed himself. "Dumbass. TIME TO DIE! SQUIRT MACHINE GUN!"

"CRAP! HOW'D HE FIND ME?!" Usopp shouted as hundreds of little water droplets blasted away at the tree he was hiding behind. "CRAP! THIS IS BAD! I WENT OUT TO SEA TO BE A REAL PIRATE! TO BE A BRAVE WARRIOR OF THE SEA! MY DAYS JUST PLAYING PIRATE ARE OVER!" he shouted as Chew kicked the tree he was hiding behind in half and caught it in mid-air.

"What's over?" Chew asked with a grin.

"This fight!" Usopp said as he rolled away before aiming at Chew with his slingshot. "Booze is flammable! USOPP FLAMING STAR!" he shouted as Chew was soon enveloped in flames.

"AHHHH! HOT! FIRE! HOT! HOT! WATER! I NEED WATER! WATER! WATER! WATER!" Chew shouted as he ran for the nearby wetlands with Usopp right behind him. Usopp jumped into the air right at Chew. "USOPP! HAMMER!" he shouted before knocking Chew down in the wetlands. He soared over to the other side before he hit the ground and skid to a stop. He got back up to see Chew lying down in the water before he started getting back up.

"Bastard!" Chew grunted, sending Usopp into a terror induced frenzy with his hammer and a rubber band. By the time he was done, Chew's head was covered with bumps as he lay there crying and unconscious. Usopp looked to the sky with his hammer in hand breathing heavily before he felt backwards into the water.

'I did it...I beat a fishman!' he thought. "EVEN I CAN DO IT IF I TRY! DON'T UNDERESTIMATE ME, YOU BASTARD!" he shouted. "I AM USOPP, THE PIRATE!"

()()()()

'No way.' Nojiko thought as she just stared at the scene. 'They're actually defeating the fishmen. This is...unreal.' "THAT'S IT!" Arlong yelled as pushed himself off the ground, flinging Luffy off as well. "Hachi...Kuroobi...I've had enough of you vermin hurting my fishman brethren!"

"ARLONG!" came a shout from behind the crowd. Everyone looked to see Nami glaring at Arlong.

"Well if it isn't Nami?" Arlong said. "What are you doing here?"

"I've come here to kill you."

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