OP74: Snake Queen vs Vampire Queen

It was vicious, like the resentment of two sisters who were having a row at each other. Kick after kick.

*BOOOMMM!!*

*BOOOMMMM!!*

Both ladies groaned, their clothes were ragged and the land shattered with every clash of their kicks imbued in Armament Haki. Hancock grunted, blocked and counter-attacked simultaneously, not using her arms at any point; her Haki was stronger than Stussy's, and she also possessed Advanced Conqueror Haki to impulse her attacks, but Stussy's devil fruit gave a sweet amount of physical strength.

Plus the CP0 lady's wounds seemed to regenerate so fast that it was visible to the naked eye, her kicks were also imbued in darkness, much like Peter Hornigold, her devil fruit gave her the possibility to manipulate darkness to a degree.

*BOOOMMM!*

Hancock ducked, and Stussy's kick blasted a gargantuan chunk of soil when it impacted the ground. The Snake Belle took the chance to kick the blonde's only support.

!!!

Stussy's wings flapped, preventing her fall but at that point a pink ribbon wrapped around her arm. Seeing this new facet of Hancock's power, she could not predict it.

Her wrist turned into stone and Hancock pulled harshly.

*WHOOOSH!*

*BAANGG!*

"UGH!"

What received Stussy was a knee kick to the face from the merciless Hancock who knew no mercy. The blonde shot like a rocket, blasting several trees before coming to a stop.

"Five years of slavery in which you bastards who were supposed to uphold justice, looked down on us".

"…"

Stussy's nose and hand had shattered with the impact, but they quickly regenerated, She groaned in front of the standing princess who looked down on her, one of the agents that made sure that the celestial dragons could get away with their wicked deeds, scot-free.

"I have a beloved mother, beautiful sisters and a handsome fiancé that have given me enough love to move past what the people you protect have done to me. But I'll never forget those I must destroy! Stand up!"

Hancock wanted more, it wasn't enough.

"I don't know what you're talking about… I just follow orders. Just like them".

She pointed at Tsuru and Gion who had yet to join the battle. The two ladies groaned in discomfort.

"Don't compare us with you!" Yelled an outraged Gion much to Stussy's amusement.

"Compare? Hehe~ as a member of the CP0, I have authority over every rank in the marine below the Admirals".

!!!

Gion turned towards an irritated Tsuru who nodded, It was the truth and Stussy clung to that, her ridiculing gaze fixed on Gion.

"Help me kill this criminal pirate right now, this is an order" The way she saw things, they were at an extreme disadvantage. This group was not composed of weaklings... every single one of them was a monster!

To one side she saw the devastation caused by two users of powerful devil fruits -darkness and lightning- who were being played like children by Dark Mantle Veyron, feeling more and more frustrated every second.

On the other side, she saw a worse scene. Two antique CP0 members fought against the Empress of Amazon Lily and the vision wasn't much better.

What she saw was a bloodied mess of revenge two individuals, a humanoid white tiger and a humanoid salamander could do nothing but retreat in front of a woman that wished for blood.

'If this fight continues, the Upperyard won't last and we will all die'.

"You… do you really think I'll follow that order?" Tsuru crossed her arms with disinterest.

"Vice Admiral Tsuru, what option do you have? Could it be you wish to be labelled a traitor?!"

Stussy knew their only way to get out of this victorious was if this legendary marine joined them, but contrary to what she expected from one who was loyal to her cause, Tsuru stepped back.

"I'd rather be labelled a traitor than a murderer of innocents. Me not making a move against you, is as far as my passion for justice is willing to take me. I'm trying my best… to not join her and end you".

Tsuru's stance was clear. Since the worst scenario had come across, all she'd do would be stand aside and help neither party.

"If that's your choice… what about you, Rear Admiral Momousagi?" The same question, different target.

Momousagi clenched her hands and looked around at the anarchy they had caused in this innocent land. It didn't matter the reason, it wasn't a good enough reason.

"Momousagi".

"Tsuru… what should I-"

"It comes to a point for us at this age when we can't put our feet down any longer, Garp and me... we have been in this for too long to do any different" Tsuru began.

'Even if sometimes we don't agree with the process'.

"I guess deep inside I'm a puppet just like her, trained to kill for the sake of the world government".

"It is not like that!-"

"It is… but you don't have to be like me. Make your choice and know that I'll support you no matter what, my way" The old lady smiled, this was her apprentice, 'The future belongs to the young, and you have always been a righteous one, Momousagi... perhaps you know better than me the path we marines have to follow'.

Gion looked around at the fights, Ironically it was a group of pirates the ones that upheld true justice and not her, a marine.

'This is not the way it should be'.

She brandished her sword and flickered, landing next to Hancock and pointing her sword at Stussy, setting her position clear for everyone on the battlefield.

Hancock scoffed, "Nobody asked for your help".

The princess thought it was too late for her to join in this junction after standing there for the longest while, berating her sense of justice, "Those who doubt themselves don't belong on the battlefield".

"It is me who doesn't need your help, pirate! Keeping order and bringing justice to the innocent is the job of a marine. If I don't stand against her right now, how can I look at my instructors in the eyes!"

"You realise that you're betraying-" Stussy wanted to berate but she was stopped in her tracks.

"I don't care. I'm in the right, you're in the wrong. That's all I care about!"

*WHOOOSHH!*

With intensity, Gion's sword clashed against Stussy's long claws the woman looked peeved, irritated and even angry, emotions she oddly felt. Her appearance was becoming more and more hideous, adopting a purplish skin colour and a more demonic appearance. If there was anything she hated was working hard for anything, and these women were taking her far off her feet!

"Then you all can die- ugh!"

*BOOOOOMMMM!!!*

A massive white body impacted against her, sending her and the man who crashed into her, flying to the destroyed upper yard jungle.

*RUMBLE!!*

"M-Mother…"

Hancock flinched, feeling a wave of ominous Haki was over her, just like Gion. They saw Primrose whose body was bloodied and her hands were holding something. She tossed it like trash on the ground, it was a heart!

The marine lady and her daughter flinched further when she stepped on that hard without the slightest regard, like stepping on a cockroach.

Lying behind her was the deceased body of one of the CP0 members, Gismonda, his chest torn open and his heart yanked out. His transformation resembled that of a red salamander, but his corpse was going back to normalcy.

"Mythological Zoan model Xolot? I don't care, die... I hope you enjoyed having your heart crushed because that's what your world nobles did to me for five years".

Veyron gulped audibly during his fight between a battered Peter and Enel, he knew Primrose's heart was still holding a great deal of hatred, but he never imagined she'd be this bloodthirsty.

Primrose wasn't having it.

Guernica, who was in a hybrid transformation -a mixture of human and white tiger imbued in white lightning- stood up from on top of Stussy, his slit eyes realising that they were fighting foes that they couldn't defeat.

One of them was already dead, Peter Hornigold and Enel looked like they were in their last breath, half of the Upperyard had turned into a wasteland and he couldn't see a future in which he defeated this woman whose Conqueror Haki made him feel helpless.

Primrose wasn't aiming to stall, she was aiming to kill.

"Five years you took my babies from me… I have a lot of frustrations to release, so bear with me until I yank all of your filthy disgusting hearts out of your chests!"

*BOOOOOMMMMMM!!*

Primrose's legs were imbued in ridiculous conqueror Haki. The man, Guernica who had the Mytholigical Zoan, Model Byakko, flickered away from her strike, leaving Stussy in the worst position.

<Perfume of Death!>

The blonde vampiress covered her arms for protection, but the collision allowed her to know just how helpless it was. Primrose's Conqueror Haki was leagues above her daughter's. All she could do was see and feel how every single one of her bones shattered under the pressure of the kick, blasting her like a helpless kitten.

*BOOOOMMMMM!*

"We can't defeat them, RETREAT!"

A single death of a CP0 member was enough. But alas, that was not Veyron's plan.

A gigantic forcefield covered the area, It would take a toll on his powers but he didn't mind, none of these people deserved to live.

"None of you is leaving here until you're done and dusted. How many helpless inventors, revolutionaries, and Samaritans… have you slaughtered mercilessly for the sake of the world government? How many good people have you shot dead?"

In his eyes there was nothing but the eyes of Patrick, his driver, shooting that bullet and ending his life for nothing, just following orders.

"It is time for you to understand what it means to be on death row and helpless with a bullet ready to go into your brain, for nothing".