Then it came, deeper, stronger, older, screaming at me to use him, breaks the doors containing it, release the power within, and so do I.

All became clear as the fire burns everything on his way, turning my body into an empty hush, feasting in my flesh, bones, blood. I could feel it eagerness as he eats everything that made me, me. But I understand, and accept it, need it, crave for it.

Deep within me, the sacred fire burning. The hearth, gift of Hestia to me, had never been of this world and so the laws were rejecting it, turning it into a mere flame. CS warning became clear. From the start I have used it as a simple flame, never giving in, understand it, and it was dying.

It has always been more than a simple flame, a tool. It was sentient and wanted to burn the chain constraining it, burying it, killing it. The instant I return to One Piece, it was starting to be choked by the principle of the world, as no other power than the devil fruits should, will and would exist inside.

Because of my insouciance, I have nearly killed the boon bestowed upon me. But no more, never again. Breaking the last remanent of the chains tethering down, I let the fire burn within me.

Changing me, re-shaping me, turn me into what I was me to be, a blazing fire burning all threat to me and mine, the blaze shielding mine, the amber warming mine, the origin rising against the threat to our freedom.

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The eternity Alex feel when everything came to stop and Nami fall was but a mere second to all, so when the static form of Alex suddenly set ablaze, all stop and watch with a mix of awe and dread at the everlasting arctic blue fire engulf him.

As they stood frozen in their form, they see the fleshes blackened, the veins burst only for a dark-red vapour to rise, free from it fleshy prison.

They hear the bones creaks and snap, like brittle twigs in the hand of a giant.

For all-purpose he should be dead burned from the inside, his fleshes eaten, his blood evaporated, his bones snapped and turned to ashes, but the fire never dies, and the sound of a slow, heavy, beating heart shaking their soul.

The ma.s.s informs of is past being shaping into a gross ball of oozing matter. Against the heart" beat, and the fire move, expending and shrinking at every beating, following the rhythm that had been imposed on it.

Ussop would have pa.s.sed out when the ball of matter moved, if not for the hold the beating heart sound had on him.

For each second pa.s.sing, the rhythm quicken, the ma.s.s, morphing into yet another shape, and the fire burning stronger, purer, smaller.

In less than a minute, the past gross ball of blackening matter had turned white as snow. It shapes thining and compacting into a humanoid shape, until leaving a naked body standing. The same that the one that was consummated into the fire but so much different.

And when he opened his eyes, two glowings, burning, sky blue orbs fall on the three. They all stood frozen, looking at the other before Alex moved.

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When he hears that good-for-nothing Ussop had been p.i.s.sed that Jango had been cached right after meeting him, Ussop in itself wasn"t a threat, who was, was the one that had cathed Jango, because they know who he is, and if they had half a brain, they would know why he is here. His plan may not be exposed, but the fact that the crew would be here, will and if the marines of even pirates hunter take a whiff of them, then his 3-years plan would have been for nothing, and that something he can"t accept.

So he takes the only possible way that would lead to the least headache, get rid of any witness, and mostly that long-nosed brat that has been a nightmare, sprouting that he will be one day a strong pirate like his father.

With not knowing the power wield, nor the amount, he goes for the safest method. Wearing his gloves, he immediately executes the two techniques that have made him the pirate he was pa.s.sed. First had been the orangette girl to fall, the girl was weak and akin to a lamb ready for slaughter in front of him, then came the other one. This one was different and had skills, but her will to protect the fallen one would be her demise...

Or so he thoughts, but then, the unthinkable happens. The third, the one having traped Jango into a slab of rocks, take fire. It was due to the ominous feeling he had to feel from it, that his hunt has been stopped half-way.

Like the two others, he was captive by the fire, unable to look past it, to even react. The sight of a human burning from the inside have been gruesome, even from him, but he had been fascinated by the view neither less.

Then, as that the deformed ball of fleshes re-shaped, the ominous feeling turns to dread. Those soul-piercing arctic blue eyes were nailing him in place, he would have sworn to feel his soul quiver under the unflinching gaze boring through him.

Even when he had kept the same shape, he know that he was nothing like before, he could feel it in the deepest part of his being, a hunter has been born under his eyes. A hunted who was eyeing a much bigger prey than he was.

As disturbing could be, he knows he was nothing more than prey upon is eyes.

Gone where the long blood-red hair, gone the green eyes. Now stood a pure white mane and arctic eyes. Is heigh seems to have also changed, now nearing more the three-meter than the two-meter and half previously. The most disturbing feature was those blazing crystalline construct on the shape of ears and tail.

It was then that he vanishes from the place he had stood, unmoving since the start.

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Ussop day had started like any others, fooling the inhabitants of the island that pirates were coming in the morning, followed by few false stories counted to the pretty blonde in the large mansion and then his tour of the island with his minions. He was thinking about the possibility to knock up say pretty blonde and do a runner like his father when he sees the two boats dock on the sh.o.r.e.

While the two women that exit it was beautiful, he immediately became jealous of the man. He was tall, muscled, and was sailing with two hot chicks, maybe even banging both! As a proud liar and coward, it was his mission to annoy the s.h.i.t out of him, before humiliating him in front of the two, perhaps he would earn some steamy action for himself?

That when his chance came, the man had knocked some poor dude coming out of the grove and even perhaps of the closet.

He immediately screams murder like any self-respecting, law-abiding civilian, when everything goes to s.h.i.t. The first sign was Klahadoll coming out of the same grove, armed. The second was when he started to slice at everything and mostly the chicks he was previously thought to speaking into giving him some heads.

The third was when the previous dude catch fire, like, who spontaneously catch fire?

The fourth and most importantly the dangerous one was when say flaming dude appears in front of him, his eyes boring it is.

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Kuina was starting to become desperate, the man Alex had to warn them off, was now on them because of that stupid long-nosed brat. Because of him, Nami was down and losing an unhealthy amount of blood from the long gashes running on her back. She had very little hope that they would be able to save her. She had already her hand full to protect her from the deadly strike of the madman.

That when she sees Alex turns aflame, she would have found them beautiful if they weren"t burning the one that was rapidly becoming a good friend. But as soon as it started, she knows that something wasn"t right. That it wasn"t what they appear to be. She didn"t hear the screaming, nor did she see him trying to fight them, no, there he was standing, unmoving. So much that she would think that he was welcoming them, but it couldn"t be it, right?

After that h.e.l.lish view stop, she was frozen by the sight in front of her, and the rather prominent part of him hanging flaccidly...

"NO, bad Kuina! It"s not the time to think of it! That marvellous blade, the dangerous weapon that could ... No, bad! No thinking about ... But it would protect others if I could sheath it... Curse you father! Why did you have to give me that talk before I depart!"

Even against her will, she was about to take another peek, when she sees that he wasn"t here anymore, but in front of the long-nosed brat.

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"While I am thankful that the situation had made me realise it, you are one of the two reasons why Nami is dying, and for that, only death will await you, Ussop."

I could see his eyes widen when he realises that my tail had buried itself in his stomach, slowly burning his inward.

Before he could react, my tail came out of the liar"s belly in a trail of blood and came wrapping around on of Kuro leg. The moment it warps around it, I willed it to turn ablaze before squeezing tight.

I cut through the leg like in b.u.t.ter, the wound already cauterised by the time the stump fall on the ground, followed by Kuro.

the two deal with, I immediately go for Nami. Seeing the amount of blood, I could guess that she must not have more than a two-third of it still in her, a very dangerous situation that would lead to her death if I didn"t act.

At this point, they were only a single solution for her to survive, but the choice wasn"t mine to make. Turning her delicately, I could see that she was still conscious, but was swaying dangerously close to unconsciousness.

"H-hey!"

Even if she was weakly smiling at me, she was in great pain, but unwilling to show it.

"hey." How much I wanted it to came out softly, it didn"t."Nami, please, stay with me for a while more, it extremely important." I stopped until I was sure that she was fully here and able to take that decision. "I can save you, but it will cost you, dearly."

"Ho-how much?"

"Everything, you will cease to be the one you are, all to became mine, and mine alone, for the rest of your life, no turnaround, no return possible, all of you shall be mine, that the price."

"My sister? The others?"

I could see the

"I swear you will see them again, you could even stay with them if you want, but deep down you will be mine."

"Do it."

There wasn"t a shred of hesitation in her gaze, even if her voice was wavering, he will be strong, and so I didn"t hesitate too. Sinking my fang into her neck, I pomp as much as I can, hoping it was too late.

Unwilling to let her change here, I bring her in the grove, before erecting a stone house around us, and made a bath, filling it with the water I had in my storage and heat it to the most perfect temperature I could produce for her. While it wasn"t done in the best condition, she needs to be washed off all the grim.

"Kuina!"

"Yes?"

"I need you to disrobe her and put her in the bath, make sure that she was immersed until the head, and the wounds washed."

"Why me, I mean, I pretty sure she wouldn"t mind at this point if she is to became your..."

"But for now, she is not! I won"t betray her trust just for a little show of flesh, if she wants me to look at her naked, it will be in her conditions and when she wants! And I have a cleaning up to do."

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Immediately after that, Alex exit the house, leaving the two girls alone.

"Your still awake, are you?"

She didn"t need Nami to respond, she could see the orangette opening her eyes.

"Can you help me?" Ask her weakly, pointing at her clothes.

"Hum, sure."

Taking the small knife he left behind, she carefully cut open the ruined t-shirt and bra, before taking out her short and panty. She raises her slowly before lowering her delicately into the warm water, hearing a small grown of satisfaction at the heat spreading once again in her.

Taking the cloth he also left, she wipes the wound clean of the drying blood, as much as she could, without touching the edges of the cuts. She was also the one to break the silence after hearing the battered breath of Nami ease into more steady one, proving that whatever he has done to her was working.

"So... You and him?"

"I had felt something the first time I saw him, I can"t believe it was only three days since then."

"Yeah, it strange..." Say Kuina wistfully, Making Nami crack an eye open.

"I don"t seem to be the only one." Say her in a playful if weak voice.

"What?! No!"

Kuina spluttering and flushing face was all Nali need to burst into a small laugher, making the other girl even redder.

"Good."

"What?! Why?" Ask her more surprised than curious.

"You have seen him, see what he as, I alone won"t be able to handle him, I will need help to wear him down," Impishely says her, thinking back of what she had seen and felt not too far before.

"You wouldn"t mind sharing him?"

"To tell the truth, I don"t think I would have been alone, I don"t know why, but I have the nagging feeling that it would have happened anyway. If I had to share him, I prefer knowing with who, and, as soon as we are rid of Arlong, I need to bring Nojiko in, the more we are, the better the chance."

"You would bring your sister into this?" Ask Kuina stunned at the revelation.

"She would have wanted a piece of him anyway. If he is, and I know he will get us rid of Arlong, their no way she won"t want to "thank him" and she wouldn"t be able to walk back after being with him, so why not?"

"To be honest I wouldn"t have taken you for the type of girl to share what was her, much less her man."

"And you would be right, but not anymore. I start to think that what he was saying when he way that I would become his, some small thing in me are changing, I could feel it, but couldn"t care much."

"Are you?"

"As long as I am at his side, it won"t matter, we will only form a larger family that all."

"Hum."

Kuina stays pensive for a little, but she couldn"t but agree with Nami. After losing her mother and Zoro, the prospect of forming another, larger, family with them was becoming a more and more appealing call as time pa.s.s.

She was taken out of her musing when she hears Nami let out a soft moan. Glancing at the girl, she was astonished to see that the previous wound has closed without leaving scars behind. Her body was also starting to change. Her height was widening as time pa.s.s. From her original 1m69, she soon gains a complete meter, turning her into 2m69 tall.

Another change that Kuina was jealous too was the expansion of her breast and a.s.s. Before Nami was far from flat, but now? Her C cup had turned into an outrageous E and that may not even be the end of it! She was two years older than her and she had barely reached the D cup! Let not talk about her a.s.s, only that Alex would have matters to grab and play with.

She was seriously starting to think that she would ask, no demand him that he turn her sooner that she was planning. For practice shake of course! I wouldn"t do that he was far too tall for her. Yes, it was definitively not for the b.r.e.a.s.t.s and a.s.s expansion, but for equity, that it! Equity!

She was taken out of her perverse thoughts when she sees two soft-looking, crystallines like, ears pop on the top of her head, and when she looks in the water... Surely, a tail had also poped. Those arctic blue appendages seem real when she see then move at the slightest sound made.

Looking closer, she could see that the fur on it was forming strangle crystal-like structure, a little like ice shard, while they all seem to be set ablaze, only to be an optical effect of the light reflecting on the fur.

Looking back at Nami, she could see that she had fallen asleep, surely from the previous exhausting situation and the strain of the change.

Rather than try to move the now taller girl, feeling that the water wouldn"t turn cold any time soon, she leaves her peacefully soaking into the warm water.