Sandstorm

Abel stood at a destroyed bar close to Alubarna Castle. He was bleeding and exhausted from Crocodile's attacks. He couldn't dodge properly since he rushed to the castle without rest and didn't have time to attack him at all. Crocodile looked at him mockingly.

'' So what if you have found my weaknesses? Don't you have tons of weaknesses as well? HAH HAH HAH. Keep these words in mind, in this sea of death called grand line, you won't be able to walk far with your obvious weaknesses. İs it that hard to abandon some people? A little kid that you met just today. Pathetic...''

Abel flashed Crocodile a smile.

'' You indeed have a spy in Castle, you knew about the broadcast immediately as well. I will have to properly thank that person after this is over.''

Crocodile looked at Abel disdainfully.

'' Still arrogant as always. Why are you still here? Go rush to the castle, maybe you will save your dear princess and underling.''

'' No need.'' Abel watched as the sandstorm got closer. He managed to position himself at the right side of the sandstorm close to castle after much difficulty. There was no way he would miss this skill even if it was his first usage.

'Use Sandstorm'

' Sandstorm activated'

' Sandstorm is on Cooldown. 30 days.'

Abel sent his own sandstorm towards the Crocodile's sandstorm. Abel's sandstorm was not smaller than Crocodile's, both of them clashed before the horrified gazes of citizens and changed direction at the last second. The two sandstorms combined and turned into a giant sandstorm that engulfed a third of the capital. People screamed as they hided in their houses. The giant sandstorm speeded away from the castle and outside the capital towards an unknown direction. Crocodile looked at Abel blankly.

'' What sort of devil fruit did you ea-''

Abel didn't miss this chance as he rushed at Crocodile immediately with Aranruth stained with wine. Crocodile hurriedly used the desert to create shields around him but he was at his limit and was extremely exhausted. After a few seconds Abel managed to find an opening and slashed towards Crocodile's throat, this was a trap prepared by Crocodile, however. Crocodile created an extremely fast sand spike towards Abel's heart. Abel could only change the direction of his sword to block it, giving an opportunity to Crocodile. However Crocodile's trap didn't work as Abel just slightly tilted his body and Aranruth didn't stop as it went towards Crocodile's throat. Crocodile's eyes opened with shock but a split second later, everything was over. Crocodile's head fell to the floor while the sand spike went inside Abel's chest, injuring him heavily. Abel's cold eyes looked at Crocodile's corpse and spoke casually.

'' Well, at least I am walking farther than you.''

Abel of course signed in with Crocodile before killing him but didn't check his rewards yet. Abel searched Crocodile's clothes and found ponegliph's location that he stole from the royal family. Abel coughed blood as he nearly fell to the floor. He cursed as he looked at the huge wound on his chest. Abel took out the 5 pills he got from farming relationships with Dorry and Broggy in Little Garden. These 5 pills were healing pills that speed up healing slightly. Even though it would still take Abel at least 1-2 weeks to fully recover, this pills at least would make him stay awake in short term. Abel knew he couldn't faint or rest right now.

' There is still that damned cp-9. I hope Bernard or others didn't provoke them.'

After walking for a few minutes Abel sighed in relief. 'At least the bleeding stopped.' Abel also checked his stamina immediately.

'Remaining Stamina: %10'

'Ah... Not good at all.'

Abel immediately took out food and started eating crazily as he run towards the broadcast area to meet with Cavendish. Cavendish didn't answer his den den mushi for some reason and Abel was a little worried. ' That guy better be alive! Even though he isn't as handsome, he is still decent.'

Abel immediately stopped as he saw Bernard sitting on the floor. After Bernard saw Abel he stood up excitedly and started talking.

'' Captain, I beat that horn-haired guy! Did I do well?'' Abel didn't answer as he gripped Bernard from his throat and slammed him into a building.

Bernard looked at Abel with a pained smile and spoke.

'' W-what gave me away?''

'' He never calls me captain, only boss. İs that you, Mr.2?''

Mr.2 sighed as he turned to his normal self and started to explain himself hurriedly.

'' Look, I just want to escape here safely! I wanted to escape with a red haired girl, but after she saw your underling was very injured she went after him. I don't have anything to do with Crocodile or Mr.0! I can give you valuable intel! I know the person Cp-9 is searching for! I also know their possible locations! Let's ally togather!''

'Lie Detector activated.'

'' Speak! Be quick!'' Abel was a little anxious as he learned there were more than one cp-9 agent here and Bernard was fighting with Blueno.

' Fuck! How did things end up like this?'

[ A Forest in The Desert]

Barbossa looked at the sky with a happy smile. He dragged his injured body here by crawling alone! He was so scared that Norris would come after him that he never stopped to rest.

' How the hell did I find a forest in desert? Whatever, he isn't following me, otherwise he would already caught up to me!'

Barbossa was extremely happy as he started praying to the whiskey god earnestly.

' Almighty whiskey god, your grace won't be forgotten! I will give you 5 percent of my earnings when I became rich! Well... 5 percent is a bit too much actually, you are a god anyway. You don't need this much, right? 1 percent should be right...'

Even though Barbossa decreased it to 1 percent he was still dissatisfied and wanted to back away from his promise. But his internal monologue was interrupted by a den den mushi call. Barbossa hurriedly opened the call and started speaking hurriedly.

'' Captain! I lost a lot of money while trying to accomplish your mission. You are very rich and generous, you would obviously compensate me, right? I want-''

'' Fuck! You are still talking about money? I have a mission for you. Go and copy the ponegliph immediately. The plan has changed, Cp-9 is here. You can't hang with them for now. We might need to escape depending on the situation.''

Barbossa was a little surprised. ' İs that guy that can't be hurt by bullets was from cp-9 as well?'

'' Ah, Captain, I fiercely found with one of them and even injured him! There should surely be a reward for this sacrific-''

'' İf you met them you would have died. Stop lying'' Abel's disdainful voice cut him off immediately. Barbossa was speechless and felt like crying. ' I really met and fought with him, okay?' Barbossa was dissatisfied and after Abel gave the coordinates to the ponegliph he tried to explain himself.

'' Captain, I actually used a genius strategy including the whiskey you gifted me and the candles in the room-''

'' Oh. So it was all because of my gift! İt makes sense now! I really am awesome.'' Abel was in a hurry and didn't want to chitchat with Barbossa so he cut him off shamelessly and ended the call.

Barbossa's face turned red as he cursed. ' Shameless bastard.' He sighed and crawled towards the location of ponegliph. İt was at least close to his location. Abel would pick him up when he went there, since he couldn't move properly. 10 minutes later Abel finally met with Barbossa who managed to copy the ponegliph at that time. Abel dragged Barbossa with his left hand while his right hand was dragging a huge pouch filled with who knows what. Barbossa wanted to ask but was very tired and just closed his eyes. ' Probably another crazy thing. I don't care anymore.'

Meanwhile...

Norris was after Nana who was sent flying by Abel some time ago. Unfortunately for her, Norris who was going towards his captain to report about the ponegliph happened to see her and was torturing her for amusement. Norris appeared in front of her with soru and kicked her down again while laughing. He stomped down hard and broke her legs in one move.

'' Hahahaha, you can't run anymore? You can still crawl like that other guy though. Come on, crawl for me!'' Norris was extremely annoyed by his encounters today so he took revenge from Nana to vent his anger. Nana immediately tried to crawl away pitifully. Just as Norris was about to continue with torture he saw his captain. There were two people lying on the floor beside him. Hakuba was defeated by the Cp-9 leader clearly and was fainted, while Robin was on the floor with various injuries. Team leader looked at Norris and spoke coldly.

'' You are late'' Team captain scolded Norris.

'' Captain, I was dealing with something else. There is actually a ponegliph hidden in this countr-''

'' RUN! CAPTAİN RUN!'' At that time they heard Blueno's screams while Bernard was behind him chasing after him. Norris looked at Blueno disdainfully. ' This idiot picked a fight and now running to us for help?'

'' GET BACK, SMALL FRY!'' Bernard shouted after him. They were fighting to death just the way Bernard liked. Bernard didn't understand why this guy started running all of a sudden.

'' I AM NOT RUNNİNG FROM YOU!''

Just as Norris was about to scold Blueno he saw what was behing Bernard's back and his face turned pale. Robin looked stunned while cp captain's expression changed as he turned around immediately. Cavendish who just opened his eyes and woken up closed his eyes again immediately.

' What the fuck is going on?'

Before anyone could do anything the giant sandstorm that can swallow third of the capital, combined by Crocodile and Abel's powers crushed into them, sending them at different directions buried.