Why is this story still alive? Isn't supposed to be dead?

Who knows why, maybe because I was busy as fuck? Anyway, I'm back with a short chapter. Sorry, but I'll be working on to ending this this.

Let's get onto this.

On the battlefield the chaos ensued as there was no sign of the carnage stopping with the gunfire and explosions going on non-stop. But that was the opposite with the situation on the Noah where it was the silence that had been present.

Very present. From the sidelines of the Noah, Luffy and the royals were watching the fight between Naruto and Hordy unfold and what they were seeing was something you don't see ever day in a fight.

The two moved fast to one another with such speed that the normal eye for even the Royal brothers' their training were barely keeping up with the speed. The only thing that they could see were the flashes and the occasionally small droplets of blood seething into the sea water. Slowly parts of the deck were to be covered by one side's blood or the other, but it was mostly of the one side that was losing.

Jumping away from each other, Hordy took an big amount of distance away from the human, growling while blood was leaking through his teeth "Don't think I'll be easily defeated by you, human!" Hordy yelled at him in such fury "You will not get in way of my plans!"

Naruto just stood there with his hands loose as he ignored the bleeding gash that must've been underneath his headband because blood was dropping down his face, without any faze he or emotion or even interest in his eyes, the blonde former marine stood there in silence.

Luffy just observed the battle and for once he also was too focused, silent and followed what one of his friends asked him, to watch out for Naruto on the sidelines and only intervene when needed.

Shirahoshi tried to contain her tears, not bearing to see this vicious fighting her brothers tried to calm her.

….

"URGH!"

Hordy's eyes widened as he sank to his knee and began screaming in pain as he reached for his stomach.

"W-What the…" Hordy looked down and saw that his hand was completely covered in blood, he had been stabbed, the human trash laid an hit on him! And it wasn't unnoticed by the Royal Princes.

…

"He laid a hit on him!"

"Wow! I haven't even seen it!"

Fukaboshi took a closer look at what his brothers said and noticed something on Hordy, that he wasn't just hit once "Luffy, do you see that? He-"

"Yeah," Luffy nodded "I see it, he's gutting him up."

…

"AAARGH!"

Hordy leaned on his pitchfork, he was feeling more holes in his body now he realized after that one wound. He felt the air going on his back in a dozen spots and the feeling in his legs were fading and feeling a bit soaked by his own blood.

Swirling the kunai around his fingers Naruto puts the small blade in his patch "Look at you, the big bad strong Hordy is drying out like a leaking water bottle."

His anger spiked up hearing that and demanded "WHAT DID YOU SAY!?"

"You heard me, I poked you out, you're literally are a gutted fish right now ready to be sliced open if I wanted to." He cracked his knuckles as the blubberish orange power was covering his arm again.

"Because I ain't done with you yet." Naruto said disappearing in a moment, shocking Hordy as he tried to look around where the human was before feeling pushed back in the gut and before he knew it was pushed right towards the deck of the ship.

…

Battlefield

Another big explosion occurred that got some of the fishmen pirates scattered around the area as they failed another attempt to try and get close to the armored vehicles of the former Marines.

The fishmen loyal to Hordy now found themselves in a trap, many of them now wanted to escape away before they would be encircled by the tanks of those humans and the men of Neptune's army who recently joined in.

BANG!

An fishman pirate fell down to the ground with a gunshot going right through the shoulder as the yellow skinned shark dropped his sword and began clutching his wound with his free hand as one of his comrades ran up to his side with an pistol in his hand.

"You alright?"

"…urgh," the guy grunted "the bullet didn't went straight through."

The comrade made a growl as he readied his gun "They'll pay for messing with us, They'll pay!"

"HANDS UP!" Two of the Damned turned up from behind and aimed at the back of the standing pirate with their rifles ordering him "Put the gun down!"

The fishman pirate turned around screaming with his gun aimed "Filthy Humans!-"

BANG! BANG!

Two shots dropped the resisting fishman to the ground as he was non responsive, the one with the mask on moved closer to the two fishmen pirates and aimed his shotgun at the remaining wounded.

"N-No…"

The masked guy cocked his gun and was ready to shoot him until he got tapped on the shoulder by his partner to follow him, so instead he pulled out a shotgun shell and laid it on the fishman's forhead with a warning.

"If you want to live, you better not let that shell drop, if you do. I'll blow you away." The unknown gas masked man made it clear before moving on with the battle, leaving the surviving fishman in shock on what just happened.

The same gas masked man then proceeded to do what he could best, pick down enemies and shot them with his shotgun, an veteran from the Damned's creation from the very beginning, he was one of the more experienced and harsh members of the crew. Seeing everything from mass villages burned by pirates to gas attacks that send men to madness. He had an absolute hatred for pirates, especially for two particular crews. But he also had an deep disgust for the World Government the other higher ups for their corruption, practice of slavery they were hiding, the World Nobles and all.

He kept his composure as the Beast tank rolled up right in front of him next to it Raider and Reiser watching how large droves of surrendering Fishmen pirates on their knees with their hands on their heads while being at gunpoint by Neptune's Army.

Reiser turned his head around and saw the two and ordered "Cover the rear end, we've got prisoners pouring in."

"WAAAAAAAH!"

That loud scream got the soldiers freak out until they saw it came from that big bearded guy named Wadatsumi.

"Why did you kick me? It hurts!" Wadatsumi yelled at Sanji who kicked the big guy multiple times in the head.

"Shut up or I'll kick your fat ass again!" The cook didn't take it slightly and shouted back angrily, shouting at each other like a mouse and cat.

"Even Captain Decken wouldn't kick me for no reason at all!" Wadatsumi points at his bulbs, forgetting the fact they were enemies. While behind the cook was standing still the Beast tank with a couple of Naruto's crew who sweatdropped.

"Is that guy literally complaining about getting hit in the head by his opponent?"

"Guess the big man ain't got much of a brain just yet."

Sanji just scoffed at the enormous idiot "You damn Steamed Bun bastard! How dare you…" The chef then jumped right into the sky right in front of everyone and shouting in fury "bring Nam down with the wind blast!

"This is my payback for you!" The giant replied with an attempt to hit him with his fist. Sanji barely took effort to dodge Wadatsumi's hits.

"This is for…" Sanji began with his leg "the wind blast that Nami took!" kicking the giant right across the right side of Wadatsumi's entire face, knocking him off balance and falling down on the ground hard.

"Wow." The witnessing Damned member said in awe "That' a tough kick across the face."

"Guess the bigger they are, the harder the fall is."

…

Nami was holding her hair as another wind blast ravished her hair "Another one? Come on!"

Nojiko covered her eyes to stop the dust covering her eyes and kept looking at her surroundings "I guess that pervert cook still has a crush for you?"

"Yes and every other pretty girl we come across. Not that it bothers me," The orange headed girl said as she starts swirling around her staff over her hand "now if you excuse me, I've got a trick in my sleeve for these morons." Scaring the fishmen daring to fight her.

Thus got one of the pirates to shout "Look out, she's going to us that trick again!"

"Black Ball!"

Small bubbles started popping out from Nami's staff and fly into the air, getting the fishmen to be fearful for what's to come.

"W-What's in those bubbles?!"

"Is she an witch of some sorts?!"

"A witch? That rude you guys." Nami fake complained before turning a smile on her face winking "What about a charmer, that sounds nice." Making a swing around her body with her staff, summoning hundreds of glowing bubbles from her staff before they all turned to normal ones with small thunder clouds in them.

Nojiko took a step back "This doesn't look good…"

"Enjoy the show, sis." Nami chuckled "Because this is what I've been learning for two years. Oh, and for you guys, this may not be a charm, but it will blow your mind."

A small electric spark popped open the bubbles and connected the dark clouds together.

"Clouds?"

"Oh-oh."

"Storm Cloud Rod!" Nami shouted as she swung her staff with the thunder clouds at the terrified fishmen pirates who were soon electrocuted and basically fried up to the bones, getting everyone around her and her sister.

Nojiko whistled at that "That's one impressive attack, Nami."

A small chuckle escaped from the sibling's lip "Yeah, I thought you'd say that."

…

From a distance, the Damned saw the damage the two women did to the surrounding fishmen. One of those witnesses was Flame currently getting bandaged up by one of the medics.

"I couldn't do anything for your arm." The medic said shaking his head "Sorry, man."

"No sweat, soldier. Just keep your equipment ready for the others." Two men helped out Flame standing up and started walking him out of the field so he could be brought to safety. Reiser was approached then by Raider and Lee with a few of the other men.

"And? What's the status?"

"We're looking good, sir. Enemy is losing numbers quick." Lee brought up "They're either getting mowed down or surrender."

"What about the officers of Hordy's crew?" Reiser questioned, they still posed a threat to them.

"Straw Hat crew seem to be handling it."

"Think they need help?"

"I'll doubt it." The new voice was Jinbe who joined in the men's conversation and added "If they've been training for two years, I doubt they'd be needing anyone help right now. especially with Hordy's top men."

"What about those pills they've been eating?" Raider asked remembering seeing one of those octopuses eating them like sweets before turning nuts and killing everyone around him.

"Energy steroid pills." Jinbe answered with a frown "don't worry, it's just fake power, it will warn them down once the effect runs off."

"Steroids, tsk. And they call themselves superior to us." Lee said loading his gun "Calling themselves superior but need a cheating way. Bastards."

Jinbe nodded "That's why its better for Luffy's people to deal with them while we take care of the remaining forces. Got anything on Foster?"

"Foster and Vinny are closing off all the buildings of the plaza." Reiser told his big fishman friend "Meanwhile Chouji and is gone AWOL, I don't know where."

"Vinny?"

"The infiltrator guy's real name." Lee cleared it "We still use our codenames from back in the day, sorry pall."

"Okay…" Jinbe said turning to the gigantic tank "What about those guys in the tank?"

"They got enough fuel, shells, and rounds to go around the plaza for the day." Raider said as another shell was fired from the Beast into a retreating group of fishmen pirates. The Raider turned up to the Noah ship and wondered "You think the captain's doing okay?"

Reiser raised an eyebrow "Why do you ask?"

"Captain's been off lately. Made sense if the fuck he's fighting is responsible for running him out of his only home." Getting some of the other Damned members to try and think how the fight was going on up there.

…

Up in the Noah, Luffy just stared at how the battle now was unfolding inside the massive ship. With the only signs being the destruction of the sides and the explosions of dust that came out of the windows it was clear that both sides were not going easy at each other. Fukaboshi had the same thoughts, except he also showed concern for the state of the ship because of its importance that had yet to be fulfilled.

"Shouldn't we try and help Naruto?" Ryuboshi offered his thoughts.

"No," Luffy said getting heads turned to him "This is between him and Hordy."

"But Hordy's a monster." Manboshi protested for that fact "He's literally veiled to kill Naruto for just being an human."

"Don't think Naruto forgets that," Luffy said to the big boned prince with seriousness "right now he's too busy thinking about taking Hordy to one end to another."

Shirahoshi couldn't help but keep her hands in front of her mouth as more explosions occurred inside the Noah more then once.

"Calm down, Shirahoshi." Her brother Fukaboshi said to calm her as he kept his focus on the ship that was standing still above the island that was their home, waiting for one of the two to come out alive.

…

Inside the Noah

The old ship was now only filled with rotten and old wood that could break with the minimum effort. Then a body slammed through several walls before landing his body against the harden floor. That was the body of Hordy who just got flown back a few meters until he hit a wooden thick branch that stopped him. Not a moment to be spared, Naruto already ran at him with his kunais and aimed for the head with his kunai knife and Hordy already ducked away before running to the side and dodged it just in time before the balcony partly fell down. Hordy now was shirtless and his eyes were blood red with his veins popping out of every muscle.

Waddling back a few feet the greying fishman growled while the blood was slowly flowing out from his arms into the ground until he noticed the same kunai knife flying right at him with an paper on it in flames.

"What the-"

BOOM!

It exploded right in the face of the leader of the New Fishmen pirates as the room was covered in smoke room, as the sound of kicking and blocking could be heard. The fight was still going on.

The smoke then cleared off in a swift as Naruto and Hordy were seen going at each other at every angle with their fists and feet, with both not giving an inch. Hordy tried to use brute force by smashing whatever was in his path as he tried to lay an hit on Naruto who dodged his steroid-powered fists with ease.

Naruto caught the fist in midair and held it with his strength, he then had to reach his other hand out to catch Hordy's other hand, a stalemate was now precedence. Only leaving the two to speak as the ship kept going down.

Laughing at the situation Hordy began to talk again "Give it up, Naruto. There is no way you can defeat me, face it. Humans are inferior to Fishmen."

"I had that bullshit talk about racism with Arlong, so spare me with that crap." Naruto said keeping his ground "So why don't you just stop this nonsense before you get everybody down on the island killed?"

"Haha! Like I would pass an opportunity like that." Hordy's insanity must've crossed again "I wonder which comes first – your friends and comrades being shattered to death along with the island or your last breath! Can't wait to see that to happen." Hordy just gripped harder as the steroids were puming through his veins.

"Like I will let you have that satisfaction, Hordy. I've should have taken you out decades ago when I had the chance."

Seeing the anger in the human's eyes, Hordy chuckled to himself as he spoke "Oh….Little Naruto holding back an old grudge against me, I can see it in your eyes. Does it have something to do with me killing Queen Otohime?"

"Shut up…"

"No, that may not be the hardest part." Hordy played around "It may be the fact you grew attached to the island down below, how does it feel, going with that hate for all those years by those who you called 'friends, school mates and nice neighbors' for them to turn their back on you."

Naruto's eyes darkened in the shadows as he thought back to that.

"The Princes, your former crewmates, the teachers. They all forced you to flee and you've been branded a Vicious Murderer for most of your young life…" Hordy easily rubbed it in as this had unintended consequences "How does it feel?"

By the twitch of his hands, Naruto responded-

SNAP!

Hordy's face expression then suddenly changed and he fell to his knees before an horrible scream escaped from his mouth.

"HAAAAAAAAH!"

Naruto punched Hordy away from him and coming out from it was the blood from his mouth that was leaking, losing a bit to bit by the hands of this human.

Then the room just turned cold, like extremely cold. Hordy wondered where it came from, it was an cold not even the most darkest parts of the sea had.

"You want to see an monster? I'll show you." As Naruto was about to finish what he started, he felt something happening around the ship that he did not account for. Hordy soon realized it himself and began panicking through his red eyes.

The Noah...stopped.

…

"It stopped…" Manboshi couldn't believe what he was seeing in front of him, for some reason, without an air bubble the mighty ship Noah stopped from crashing towards the island "H-How? How did it stop? There's no bubble?"

Ryuboshi was a baffled as his brothers while Fukaboshi was too concerned to what was playing through his mind about this strange aura that was coming from the ship.

"Luffy…you-"

"I know." Luffy answered "Its Naruto, don't worry. He's going to be alright."

Minutes earlier….

On top of the highest structure of the plaza, one of the few female members of the Damned held her hands above her head and where she was pointing at was the Noah. Katara was that person and she had two snail responders right next to her "Air Tank crew, with Katara here. You got the shot ready?"

"Y-Yes! But the ship, it-"

"It's me! Don't worry about it, fire the bubble!"

"Right!"

Katara was holding the ship with all her strength as she knew the battle was almost done over "Vinny, status report?"

"Straw Hats are currently taking out the officers one by one. Its only a matter of time. We're waiting for an response from naruto."

"Let Straw Hat focus on that, over and out." Katara ended the second call as she used her powers to keep the large quantities of water strong against the ship as long the Air Tank Crew needed..

"You better beat that bastard fast, captain."

That's it for today's chapter.

Good night!