39 Fight, Fight and Fight

'Ghost Steps'

''Soru''

Abel and Norris clashed once again while Crocodile tried to support Norris despite being weakened by the rain. Abel's face turned dark as he fought with 1v2 and wasted time and stamina.

-Heavy Rain ( 4 minutes remaining)-

' This bastard!' Abel cursed Norris inside but spoke calmly outside.

'' There is no need for us to fight. After I kill Crocodile I will let you have the ponegliph. I am not interested in it anyway. '' Abel lied to end this meaningless scuffle.

'' Crocodile can help me complete this operation with his influence and ability. Also your underlings annoyed me very much. I can't leave without annoying you.'' Norris sneered as he attacked Abel once again. Abel blocked him and stepped back.

' 3 minutes later, Crocodile will recover his abilities and he will be xtremely troublesome when he can utilize all his abilities. My possibility of Beating them 1v2 after 3 minutes... is zero.'

Abel analyzed the situation and realized that he wouldn't be able to win if this goes on like this. He took a deep breath and his eyes turned cold as he gazed at Norris.

' Since I can't escape and can't win in a 1v2. Let me show you the consequences of annoying me.'

'' İf you want to play like that I will accompany you!''

After Abel threw this sentence out he took out his wine cup and started spilling on himself under the dumbfounded looks of Crocodile and Norris. Abel turned to Norris and opened his arms wide as if to hug him. Norris was shocked but felt a little danger from this unexpected move and escaped with Soru. Abel followed him with a Ghost step and a strange scene happened as Abel tried to hug Norris and Norris dodged while they flashed constantly. Crocodile watched the situation dumbly.

' What the fuck are they doing?'

'' You fucker! What are you trying to do!?'' İn the end Norris got mad and attacked Abel with a shigan. Abel didn't care as Norris's finger pierced his stomach he hugged Norris tightly and didn't let go.

'İmperial Flame'

Flames exploded as Abel's imperial flame burned Norris. Abel's endurance also rose by %70 as he activated imperial flame. Crocodile attacked him with sand attacks but Abel took the weakened Crocodile's hits with his raised endurance.

'' Tekkai!'' Norris tried to resist but flames were too powerful. İt was much more powerful than the ordinary flames Barbossa caused. After 10 seconds Abel stopped hugging Norris and immediately went inside a house while spamming Ghost steps.

' Fuck! I need fireproof clothes! Not everyone should see my handsome looks this closely!'

Abel forgot that even though he was immune to his own fire, his clothes were not. Fortunately only his upper body was naked and he flashed away without being seen by anyone. He immediately took out spare clothes from his space ring and hurriedly put them on. Norris on the other hand was not that lucky. Norris coughed blood with his badly burnt chest. His clothes were burnt badly and even some parts of his trousers were burned. He was mostly naked on the street, his mask was also gone and his face was exposed.

'' Y-You fucker! Where the hell are you?'' Norris roared but fortunately Crocodile was calm. The house Abel went in was turned into sand and attacked Abel who is inside. Abel flashed away with a ghost step and sighed in relief as he come out fully dressed.

' Ah... it would be very emberassing if I was seen!'

Abel looked at the nearly naked Norris awkwardly.

'' Why are you naked on the street? You are also not very good looking, this is not pleasant to the eyes.''

Norris glared at Abel and sent a punch as they clashed once again. Abel took out Aranruth and started to recklessly attack Norris, injuring him and getting injured as an exchange. Abel normally didn't like such a reckless style but his time was limited and he wanted to take out or scare away one of them. He couldn't take out the weakened Crocodile because of Norris's protection so he ignored him entirely and recklessly attacked Norris. After 2 more minutes Norris and Abel stopped both breathing hardly with various injuries. Abel looked at Norris coldly and spoke calmly.

'' Do you think you can do whatever you want without paying the consequences? İf you don't go away now, I will ignore this weak-ass and kill you first! He is entirely useless while it is raining anyway.'' Abel threatened. He really was willing to put his life on the line to scare away Norris. Otherwise after the rain stops he would definitely lose in a 1v2. Even though rain only had 2 minutes remaining, Norris didn't know this so Abel bluffed as he fought like a madman to scare away Norris.

Crocodile's face turned red with fury as he was insulted by Abel along the way.

Just as Norris was about to speak his den den mushi rang. Norris opened it and a cold voice ordered him.

'' I found the person we are looking for. We don't need Crocodile anymore. Come here immediately.'' Norris looked at Abel coldly and left immediately to obey the order. He left a sentence before leaving.

'' That ponegliph... you better not have any designs on it. Researching history is forbidden.''

Just a few seconds after Norris left...

-Heavy Rain is over. Cooldown: 30 days.-

Abel sighed deeply. ' He finally left but rain is also gone.'

Crocodile also realized the rain was gone and started to dry himself using his ability. He sneered at Abel.

'' I don't know what sort of ability you have, but it seems limited. I will teach you what it means to be fighting the desert itself.'' Crocodile spat as he turned into sand and left. Abel couldn't locate where he is located before whole desert started shaking and attacking Abel madly. Abel sighed as he ran away.

' Ah... What a disaster.'

[On a ruined Town Outside the Capital]

Robin was kneeling on the ground bleeding while the masked figure with huge sword looked down at her. Her mask was already slashed away by him.

'' Look at what state you are in now. İf you haven't resisted this would be much easier.''

'' I heard you failed at Water 7. You can't afford to fail anymore, it seems. You are the team leader of cp-9, right? I have heard rumours about you. They say, no one in first half of grandline is your match.''

Team leader's eyes turned cold as he spoke.

'' Yes. Government needs to secure Pluton immediately to not be at risk in case of a major war occuring in east blue. Since the blueprints are gone along with Tom's disciple, we can't afford to let you escape, since you have the power to revive it as well. Just give up alrea-''

Before he could complete his sentence a barrage of swords attacked him immediately. The Team leader( He is the leader of Cp-9 before Lucci got the position) took out his sword as he fought with the newcomer.

'' Who are you? What is wrong with your face?''

Hakuba didn't answer as he kept madly attacking the Cp-9 leader. Robin's eyes turned bright as she used her ability to attack the cp-9 leader as well. Unfortunately, Hakuba seemed to dislike Robin's help and sent a few sword slashes towards her way, injuring her.

'' WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU!? GET LOST!'' Cp team leader was mad and slashed even faster then Hakuba and overwhelmed him. He kicked Hakuba down and was about the slash at him but Robin interfered with her ability, annoying and distracting him constantly. Hakuba got up and kept madly attacking the team leader.

[ Capital]

Abel kept running from the desert itself while he ate the food from his storage ring, trying to refill his stamina. ' Fuck, Fuck!'

Crocodile attacked Abel madly while turning everything around into sand and sending them towards Abel. Abel couldn't understand how Luffy beat an awakened devil fruit user in desert with his pre-timeskip form.

'İs it because he is the main character while I am cursed because of my looks?' Abel complained as he ran away from Crocodile while eating food.

' Unique skill Hunger activated. Refilling stamina slowly.'

Crocodile started laughing behind him.

'' HAH! HAH! HAH! Stop running! There is no escape. I sent a sandstorm towards Capital. Look outside the capital. Since you exposed me I decided to kill the royalty before leaving this country. Maybe you can save some of them if you hurry back.''

Abel's face grew dark as he saw a huge sandstorm speeding towards Alubarna castle with speed.

' Fuck! Bernard is still inside the castle isn't he!?' Even though Abel didn't care about other people, Vivi whom he wanted to farm relationships and Bernard who is his underling couldn't die! Abel left before Bernard started his fight, so in his mind Bernard was still eating happily in the castle. The reason Abel ran away was he knew that Crocodile's stamina and health was even worse than him right now. Before Norris came Abel beat him up very badly. So as long as Abel ran away while eating food and recovering beating Crocodile would be very easy and safe. Abel sighed as he cursed his luck.

' All my plans are just keep getting fucked up!' Abel immediately changed directions and headed towards Alubarna castle.

Crocodile's eyes lightened. 'He is finally not escaping in a straight line! I can still kill this bastard.' Crocodile was in a really bad situation, even though he was using whole dessert as his ammution and chasing Abel, he was the one in a disadvantage since Abel was much faster than him and had higher stamina. He was still bleeding and would lose sooner or later. Fortunately after he learned about the broadcast he sent a sandstorm that would hit the castle in case he failed to stop the broadcast in time.

After Abel's direction became obvious and predictable, naturall he was attacked even more fiercely. Abel gritted his teeth as he tried to outrun the desert behind him.

[An Alleyway in Capital]

Mr.2 stood up shakily and walked while stumbling every step. He walked for a while and barely managed to get to the end of the alleyway. Just as he sighed in relief Rena appeared in front of him. Mr.2 immediately went into a defensive posture as he frowned at her.

'' Who are you, pretty girl? Were you about to sneak attack me like the last one!? I really don't know you, stop joking around!''

Mr.2 couldn't understand how unlucky he was. He happened to see Robin before she put her mask on and was sneak attacked by her since Robin didn't want her identity exposed. After getting heavily injured by Robin's sneak attack he met another girl who seemed to be trained to a degree cutting his path.

'' Relax. I don't intend to fight with you. You are one of the members from Baroque Works, right? Your organisation is already exposed. You have no future. World government will not tolerate someone scheming against a country under their protection. Answer a few of my questions, and I will help you escape this country.''

Mr.2 looked stunned. He really had no idea about what happened since he was recovering from his injuries. Mr.2 frowned as he looked at Rena and replied.

'' Girl, if what you say is the truth, I will help you! Let's escape this country togather as friends!'' Mr.2 declared emotionally much to Rena's surprise. Mr.2 didn't want to deal with Mr.0's revenge after his failure and decided to befriend and escape with this girl. İn Mr.2's mind as long as he had a friend and they helped each other out, they would be much safer. Just as Rena was about to ask her first question she realized Mr.2 was looking at a direction dumbly. Rena frowned and turned around. Her facial expression was exactly the same as Mr.2, fully open with shock and wonder. The direction they are looking at...

Bernard was laughing madly as he run into a building after building. His hands were gripping Blueno's shoulder's, Bernard was holding Blueno in front of him while running into buildings, after they crushed one building Bernard would find another one and crush on it while holding Blueno in front of him. Blueno glared at Bernard as he kicked him, injuring Bernard greatly. Bernard was seemingly unaware as he crushed Blueno's back into another building. They went inside and then out while Blueno's back was used as a weapon to crush all walls on their path.

' FUCK!' Blueno was furious. Even though he wasn't getting damaged as much as Bernard who was getting kicked by him constantly his situation was extremely humiliating. After a few seconds Bernard finally reached where Rena and Mr.2 is located. Bernard was about to continue crushing with buildings since he was having fun but something else took his attention and Bernard threw Blueno to a house at the side of the road and looked towards Rena's location. Rena looked at Bernard whose whole body was covered in blood with a horrified face. ' H-he is going to die?'

'' A-Are you okay!? I will treat you, please stop fighti-''

Bernard ignored her and went towards the stall that took his attention earlier. This was a meat stand, unfortunately it's owner already left after the chaos in main road caused by Abel and Crocodile's fight. Bernard immediately pounced on the meat, he was so distracted by the eating that he didn't even check what happened to Blueno. Blueno stood up from where he was sent flying and glared at Bernardwho is busy eating. ' This fucker!'

Just as Blueno was about to make a move Rena went in front of him and spoke.

'' I-I will fight with you! Stay away from him.'' Rena was rather emotional after seeing Bernard's terrible state. She didn't want this person to die. So she stepped up even though she was not a match for Blueno. Unfortunately she was pushed aside a second later as Bernard who was done with eating looked at her furiously. He still remembered Abel's words from whiskey peak clearly.

'' Small fries fight with small fries! Don't interfere!'' After pushing Rena aside Bernard rushed at Blueno again with confidence and pride.

Blueno, Mr.2 and Rena looked at him dumbly.

' You are calling yourself a small fry... Why are you so prideful... What sort of person is this guy?'