❛ YOU LOSE AGAIN.❜
₊˚៹ . ❪ episode : 122 ❫˖ ₊˚.⋆
࿐┊ CH. 20┊🏴‍☠️🌊👒

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         CROCODLIE STAYED QUIET LAYING ON THE FLOOR LISTENING TO HER WORDS, knowing she was correct and had figured out his weakness easily, thanks to his carelessness when he fought her back in the desert.

         (Y/N) knocked down her straw hat to hang around her neck when she lifted her arms up, the water following out from the top of the barrel as it formed a moving and circling water gimbal around her figure, four columns of water twisting around each other.

        "Now I can beat you fair and square!"

          She stared him down with narrowed eyes as those words left her mouth, one of her arms up across her head while the other was raised near her stomach to control the water. She made the water gimbal smaller around her figure, and grew tensed when she heard Crocodile chuckle amused.

         His eyes were covered by the shade on his forehead, and he sat up slowly into a crouched position on the floor, blood still running down from the corner of his mouth. More laughs left him before they became hysterical, confusing the girl who watched him weirdly from inside her water barrer.

        "You think.... you can defeat me?" Crocodile eventually stopped laughing like he was insane, and smugly asked the girl stood up in a defence position getting ready to fight him.

          She clenched her fists up into tight balls, wet hair sticking to her face from drenching herself in the water from the barrel on her back, and grunted out, "Of course I can. Since you no longer can turn into sand."

          He smirked a bit impressed, and lifted his hand up into the air to wave it around a little mindlessly, "I'm indeed amazed that you figured it out. Especially when you were close to dying..." He drawls out making her glare at him more, "But that is still nowhere near enough to put you on the same level as me. That's the level of Seven Warlords of the Sea."

        She scoffed and rolled her eyes, as the water circling around her figure picked up its pace feeling her change of emotion, "So what if you're one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea?" She repeated rhetorically raising her eyebrows, "I'll just kick your ass and take that role for myself."

         The three people watching her went silent for a few seconds, and heavy stunned silence taking over the roof. Cobra blinked owlishly at her claim, and was still in confusion as he muttered, "Who on earth is that girl?"

         "She's a pirate. Haven't you heard?" Miss All-Sunday answered hearing the question from the king, her eyes not moving from the scene in front of them, "Looks like the princess escaped death once again."

          Cobra gaped in awe now understanding what was happening, and who she was as he turns back to the pirate captain, "Then she is the one...." He trailed off in realisation, causing Miss All-Sunday to chuckle, "who brought Vivi back to this country.."

         (Y/N) slammed her palm into the column of water near her stomach, which sent out a water spike that froze over creating an ice one. Many of them flew out from her hands moving them, trying to hit Crocodile with the sharp ends that he just missed each time barely.

        "It's no good If I dodge it." He reminded through a cocky smirk, the veins of his forehead irking up a bit more at her constant hits on him as he smashed one of the ice spikes with his own palm, "As long as it doesn't hit me, my hand can absorb any kind of fluid."

         She watched with a scowl as he did evaporate the water inside the ice spike, making it disappear like it was never there. Taking this chance seeing him standing up, she ran at him making the water flow back into the barrel as she leapt over his figure and skidded along the floor on the other side of him.

        "You told me, didn't you..?" She now flashed a confident grin that had his wavering a bit, and she grabbed the nozzle attached to the barrel, drenching herself in more water that went all over her body, "Depending on how Devil Fruit powers are used, you can become stronger."

        Crocodile thought her next attack wasn't going to hurt him, but when he saw her massive air punch coming towards him and it quickly changing into multiple circling ice spikes, he knew he had to dodge. And just by a hair, he made his body turn into sand before they could impale him.

         "Impertinent brat! Desert Spada!" He grew more furious when he reappeared again further way, and sent another one of his sand attacks, that was cutting straight through the roof and made dust be brought up because of it.

         She panicked a bit seeing the same move that he used on her before, and swerved out of the way from an air blast out from her boots, only missing it by a few inches also. It left a massive line that cut right through the roof, causing her to sweat drop at the damage he created compared to her.

         "You keeping using the same technique... Are you really trying to win-" He goes to ask the girl watching her getting ready to send an air slice, that he dodged once more but wasn't expecting her to appear right in front of him so quickly.

            His eyes go wide when she laughed in is face seeing his surprised reaction, and aimed a powerful punch across his cheek, "Sure am!" She exclaimed sending him stumbling into the floor harshly, "My goal was this from the start, Croco!"

           She lifted her arms up above her head which made the water from the barrel fly up behind her like a wall, "Time to get soaking wet!" She snapped her arms back down over her head, the water flowing the movement to fly towards where Crocodile was fallen on the floor.

            "That's obviously what you'd wanna do! Sables!" He made a sand storm that was sent up where she was, causing the girl to yelp as she was caught in the wind gust. She yelled out more getting sent up into the air unable to break free, and landed clumsily on one of the pillars on the roof once it was over.

           Crocodile stood back up with a cruel laugh, and raised his arms up from his sides smirking at her, "You're struggling desperately, Fox Girl (Y/N)." He called out in a mock, "You can't do anything without the barrel after all. This isn't any different from out first fight."

          She gritted her teeth knowing he was right, and clenched her fist around the handle of the barrel realising a heavy sigh, "You're correct. It's no different like this. I can't control water very well, yet." She voiced lowly, as she flexed her fingers on both arms while the water was slowly starting to cover her legs.

          His expression changed from its once smug one to a look of confusion, and then an incredulous one seeing what had happened to her. His rage was spiking up also, and felt his eye twitch, "Is that brat... serious..?"

          Now she made the water covering her lower half split apart into an octopus form around her figure, her palms outstretched to control the man water tentacles that covered her from each side in the middle. She made it so he wouldn't be able to touch her without getting through the water first.

          "Check out this new technique, Croco!" She called out in a chirpy tone grinning, making one of the water tentacles wave around like it was greeting him, which made Miss All-Sunday laugh into her palm and for Crocodile to clench his jaw annoyed.

          He was at his wits end with how she was taking their fight, and felt his veins appear on his forehead more, "Stop messing around, you damn brat!" He yells in a scold, making his lower half turn into sand as he starts to charge at her next with his gold hook ready to swing.

           She smirked seeing him coming towards her now, and made two of the right tentacles fly forward to wack Crocodile's figure, causing a heavy amount of water to slapsh all over him. He came to a skidding stop feeling that, and was left drenched in water crouching on the floor.

        "Who's messing around?! I'm always serious!" (Y/N) exclaimed also growing annoyed at his claim, as he struggles to move from his spot and grows fearful when he couldn't since the water she placed on him was working.

          She goes to separate the water in one swift movement, and brings the side of her legs to smash into Crocodile's stomach strongly, causing his body to bend a bit and blood to splutter out of his mouth.

            The kick was so powerful that it sent tremors through the air and ground they were all standing on, as his figure goes flying back and crashed into a stone wall on the roof. That goes into pieces also when his back landed on it, and created a massive explosion of rubble and dust.

           He didn't seem to be getting up straight away afterwards. She leant up from her bent over position, exhaling a breath of air as she rubbed the back of her hand over her mouth, "How's that sand gator?" She grumbled glaring at where she last saw his figure.

         Her (E/C) eyes flashed an orange hue for a few seconds, turning to where Miss All-Sunday was hearing the king groaning in pain, and watched with a frown seeing the girl holding him down on the ground with her devil fruit power.

          Miss All-Sunday felt her stare and shifted her attention to meet it briefly, before she hummed to herself and looked away soon afterwards. That only happened since the rubble all over Crocodile was thrown off suddenly, and his evil chuckle was back, which signaled he was still alive.

          "Go already, Nico Robin...." He drawled out in a rumble, and exposed her real name to the other two listening, as he was sat up now once the dust cleared, "unless you wanna be dried up too. I'm losing my patience."

          The said girl flickered her eyes to the other one quietly watching the scene, and turned back to Crocodile with a single head nod, "Yes, as you wish." She said before taking the king by his shoulder, and started to lead him away.

           Now once they were gone from sight, Crocodile placed his palm onto the grass below him causing (Y/N) to narrow her eyes on him in confusion, "Listen up, Fox Girl. Every rock on the ground can be destroyed." He told her with a wicked gleam and smirk, causing her eyes to go wide.

          The ground where his palm was started to go a brown colour, as it was being dried up by his Devil Fruit. The plants go next making them shrivel up, and it went all the way through the very material holding the palace roof together.

          She gasped in alarm when the ground also started to shake from him destroying it, as he announced his next move and made the entire floor break apart into many rocks. She was trying to get a grip on the water around her, and keep herself steady on the shaky roof also.

            The ground split apart even more causing her to scowl at the male causing it, and jumped back a few meters away from the massive holes in the floor he created. She swinged her arm forward again, making all the water tentacles to fly at him and try to slam into Crocodile.

          However instead of the water hitting him, he used his palm to suck up the liquid, and quite easily too. She shrieked in shock at that, and quickly snapped back the three tentacles she had left in the water octopus protecting her.

          "You thought you killed my powers, brat?" He growled the question still being knelt on the floor, palm outstretched also in front of him as he snickered amused, "But that's a mistake. The true power of sand is drying. Look!"

          She gulped nervously watching him place down the palm in the air on the dry ground, "My right hand dries out everything... with no limit..." He explained and started to create sand that was floating in the air from his palm in a spiral, as the ground was shaking way more now.

           In all the spaces that had holes in them suddenly exploded with sand spilling from inside them to outside, and it had the entire area becoming unstable to stand on. The stone statues were becoming sand also from his power in the works, as they slammed into the floor destroyed.

         "I need to get out of here, fast." (Y/N) muttered to herself nervously trying to stay stable on trembling ground, and let the water flow back into her smaller barrel around her neck, as the other one had broke mid clash with Croco.

           He looked up with a dark look crossing his features watching the girl struggle against his technique, "Everything that's connected to this land.... Dry up!" He sneered through his teeth making her stomach drop realising what was coming, "Ground Death!"

            As soon as he yelled that the entire ground had broken free from its already chaotic mess, as the dust around them picked up more into a deadly storm breeze, making the roof not so visible to the eye anymore.

            (Y/N) had just barely caught herself on the edge of the roof, as she was blown away by the strong winds that even her couldn't stand against. One of her hands were gripping onto the edge, while the other held onto the straw hat tightly in between her fingers.

          She huffed out some air pulling herself up more, being careful not to slip as she was dangling in the air, "That was close.... His right hand is seriously a problem." She sighed to herself in a grumble, spotting the ground below that was now all sand. She really wished she would sandbend, everything would be easier that way.

           The pupils in her eyes were slits now without her knowing it, just like how foxes get sometimes and used her enhanced sight to try and look for the others. She searched around for any sign of her boys, brother and best friends but found nothing but people fighting below. 

            She was so focused on trying to locate the others that she didn't realise Crocodile has formed right in front of her, where she was dangling off the side of the roof still. And she only did when is deep, raspy voice hit her ears in a menacing tone.

          "You made me waste my energy..." He was knelt down where she was on the edge, a cruel smirk over his lips as she strangled a gasp out seeing him reaching for her, and grabbed her by the neck in a tight grasp.

         (Y/N) straight away freaked out trying to break free from the hold, but if she did move one of her hands from the ledge, she surely would be dropped down to ground, with no one to save her but herself. Once again, she was shown how weak she was compared to someone who's mastered their skills.

          Her wide eyes stared into his gleaming ones, and felt him squeeze her neck some more cutting off her air supply, as she now chokes, "You... lose again... Fox Girl (Y/N)."

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─►☆ AUTHOR'S NOTE :
yall im so excited to finish this arc since its like actually so close to being done and im even more excited to write the wano arc whenever i get up to it omg i have so much in store for that arc 😈 like im rewatching it currently and ughhhh they all look so good in their outfits especially sanji zoro and law >>>

anyways why isn't there any fics of kin'emon??? LIKE HELLO!?!?! i don't understand why there isn't cause he's such a big softie bimbo but this could be my sign to write one on my other account so only the ppl reading this will know about it BAHAH 😭