"Do you know what hopeless difference there is between you and I?" Arlong asks as he stares menacingly at Luffy.
"Nose? …... or the jaw?" Luffy seriously answers while others think he is joking until they realize to their dismay that Luffy is actually serious.
"Webbed hands!" Luffy shouts like he finally found the true answer.
"IT'S OUR RACE!" Arlong rushes and tries to chomp his teeth on Luffy's head but Luffy keeps dodging until he is cornered to a pillar. Getting his chance Arlong grabs Luffy by the neck and tries to bite Luffy's head but Luffy uses his hand to grab his head to the side and thanks to his rubber powers Luffy's neck stretches with no problems and Arlong's teeth sink deep into the pillar behind Luffy.
"Ha, look at that idiot! He bit that rock pillar! His teeth must be br...!" Before Usopp could finish his charade the pillar crumbles down to the people's horror.
"If he got bit by that, he wouldn't just get bitemarks. His bones would be chewed right through." Sanji says at the spectacle and me and few others feel the chill from the image.
"This is the power that we fishman are born with. A power that the heavens did not bestow upon your race. WHICH IS WHY YOU ARE THE INFERIOR SPECIES! WE'RE ON COMPLETELY DIFFERENT LEVELS FROM THE MOMENT OF BIRTH!" Arlong still keeps going on with his fishman superiority.
"That's true. That ability's not something a human can achieve even after years of training." Usopp analyzes what has happened and I look at Usopp with a raised eyebrow.
"Humans can do much more than crush some stone after years of training." 'In this world.' I say to Usopp and then Luffy smashes the remains of the pillar with his fist.
"So what!? Don't get cocky just because of that. I don't need to chew through stone, to crush it!" Luffy says as he shows his power and I just point at Luffy while looking at Usopp with a gaze that says 'Look at that, idiot.'
"YOU HUMANS TRULY ARE AN IDIOTIC, WEAK, PATHETIC RACE! WHAT CAN YOU DO!? YOU COULDN'T EVEN GET OUT OF A WALL WITHOUT HELP!"
"It's because I can't do anything, that I need help!" Luffy picks up two swords from the ground as Arlong rushes towards him and laughs while others wonder if Luffy could use swords.
"The hell? You're just swinging around those swords randomly!" Arlong dodges Luffy's flurry of random sword swings and then stops to flick the blade off Luffy's left hand with his nose.
"I don't have the time to play around with you. GOT IT!?"
But Luffy doesn't listen and swings the other sword with both arms like a baseball bat but Arlong bites down on the blade breaking it. "Enough with your stupid little g..."
"SHUT YOUR TRAP!" But Luffy just lets go of the sword and uses his momentum to make a swing to the right side of Arlongs face breaking his teeth. "GUAHHH!"
"OF COURSE I DON'T KNOW HOW TO FIGHT WITH SWORDS YOU DUMBASS! I DON'T KNOW A THING ABOUT NAVIGATION EITHER! I CAN'T COOK! I'M NOT A SMARTASS! I CAN'T LIE EITHER!"
"Heh." "Oi." I give a small chuckle while Usopp is not amused about his part.
"I'M CONFIDENT THAT I WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO SURVIVE IF OTHER PEOPLE AREN'T THERE TO HELP ME!" Luffy finishes his "grandious" speech.
"At least he knows it." My muscles start to lose strength as I feel the boost wearing off as my emotions calm down. Others also notice that I slowly revert back to my old self.
"What happened to you exactly?" Sanji asks on behalf of everyone but I just put my finger on my mouth and shush them.
"Shh. This is the good part." I just watch without giving an explanation as Arlong gets off the ground.
"Shahahaha. Aren't you quite honest about admitting how worthless you are!? Must be quite hard for your crewmates to deal with such an incompetent captain like you. It's a wonder why'd they are still even following you. YOU CALL YOURSELF FIT TO BE CAPTAIN WHEN YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE AN OUNCE OF SELF-CONFIDENCE!? JUST WHAT EXACTLY CAN YOU DO!?"
"I CAN BEAT YOU." Luffy declares with a confident smile on his face.
The rest of the people cheer at Luffy's declaration while I've turned myself into an observer. Wanting to witness the moments I've seen before on a screen with my own eyes.
"ENOUGH BABBLING, YOU PATHETIC HUMAN!" Arlong's broken teeth fall off as his teeth grow back.
"Aah! His teeth grew back!" Luffy shouts the thing that has startled almost everyone here.
"I AM a shark after all. My teeth will grow back every time. And these new ones are always stronger than the last! No matter..." Arlong rips of his new set of teeth and another set quickly grows and "how many times!" he rips the second set off once again as everyone looks in astonishment.
"This is the gift bestowed to me by the heavens. Now do you realize, just how much superior fishmen are?" Arlong uses the ripped off teeth as weapons for each hand and snaps them like castanets but each are like hand held bear traps.
"TOOTH GUM!" Arlong rushes at Luffy trying to bite Luffy with his ripped off teeth while laughing but Luffy successfully shields himself by using one of the downed fishmen as a meat shield to Arlong's shock and anger.
"WHA!? MY FELLOW FISHMAN! WHY YOU...!"
"Hmm.. That gives me a good idea." Luffy smirks as he plans something stupid yet effective if used properly.
"YOU USED MY CREWMATE AS A SHIELD! YOU LITTLE BRAT."
"What are you saying? You are the one who attacked him." Arlong accuses Luffy for his injustice but Luffy just retorts back.
"...Is he sure he isn't a smartass?" Sanji asks no one particular.
"I bet he only understood smart out of smartass. That's why he is a dumbass." '[Ba-dum tss~]'
Everyone just looks at me for a second with various expressions before just focusing back on the fight where Luffy is dodging Arlong's barrage of attacks. Seeing his chance Luffy kicks Arlong in the face sending him sprawling on the ground and sending the teeth out of his mouth flying off.
"You! How many times have I told you that It's worthless to destroy my teeth? DON'T YOU GET IT!?"
"Look! I have the same teeth as you now." Luffy shows off his second set of teeth while looking like a retard.
"How long will you continue to insult me!?" Arlong rushes at Luffy and succeeds in getting a small bite off of Luffy.
"AGH! I GOT BIT BY A SHARK!" Luffy rolls on the ground in pain and Johnny and Yosaku shout at Luffy to stop playing around while Luffy shouts back that he isn't playing.
Arlong continues his assault on Luffy and while dodging Luffy decides to pick up a piece of broken concrete to block Arlong's attacks but Arlong just smashes through it easily and Luffy hastily dodges away.
Arlong continues his mad pursuit while laughing and finally gets a proper bite on Luffy flank but Luffy doesn't give up and bites back at Arlong, sinking Arlong's own teeth deep in his left shoulder.
"How was that? You got hurt by your own teeth! Shahahaha!" Luffy laughs at Arlong while mimicking him.
"It is my teeth, but your jaws aren't strong enough." Arlong rips off the teeth from his shoulder. "Listen! Shark's teeth has the power that can destroy the human body in just one bite. THIS IS THE REAL POWER OF A SHARK'S JAW!" Arlong bites down on Luffy's right elbow trying to bite the arm off as Luffy tries to resist by tensing his muscles to the absolute limit.
Luffy grabs the back of Arlong's head with his left hand and swings his leg up high before smashing it hard on the ground to generate momentum that he uses to flip Arlong over as Luffy smashes his elbow towards the ground and Arlong with it. The hit makes Arlong blank out for a second and Luffy uses this chance to get free and rolls away.
Luffy removes the teeth that have been sticking on his flank and gets up panting as he looks around for Arlong.
"Eh? Where is he?"
"Luffy!"
The definition of smartass... Anyways sharks are fancy creatures. The funny thing is that recently I've only seen vids about people petting sharks instead of all this deadly stuff.
The whole damn week I've had the evening shift and I even need to work on the weekends... So damn tired. Morning shifts feel like shit but I'll still have energy after it but after evening shifts I just turn into a useless sack of bones.
Happy readings everybody~!