Logia Brothers Chapter 23 (Patreon)

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Chapter 23 – Goodbye, Little Garden

The morning light had broken over Little Garden and everyone was waking up from the previous night’s banquet. After some time for any hangover to pass, the expanded group had some breakfast. Sanji once more showing off his skill by making a breakfast that even Dorry and Broggy could enjoy. The two giants had happily scarfed down their food and washed it down with fresh water. It was as late morning when everyone noticed Luffy and Sabo chatting and laughing. It brought a smile to Nami and Koala to see their lovers being brothers. Including what looked like teasing and boasting.

“Come on, Sabo! Just like when we were kids! I’m a lot stronger now! I’ll beat you this time!” Luffy challenged with his right fist raised in front of him.

“How many times have you said that before, little brother?” Sabo laughed with a challenging smile.

“Sounds like you’re scared to me.” Luffy retorted with a wide grin.

“Huh, maybe you doneed me to school you again?” Sabo stared Luffy down. “You seem to have gotten a big head, Crybaby Luffy.”

“Hey! You’re getting a punch for that!” Luffy huffed indignantly, his fist sparking with electricity for a brief moment.

“Really now?” Sabo chuckled as wisps of ash and cinder came off his coat.

“If you two are going to spar take it further away from the rest of us!” Koala shouted as she backed up with Marianne behind her.

“Luffy, don’t drag us into it please!” Nami also shouted to her lover as the Straw Hats all took notice of the approaching spar and started backing away.

“Oh? Are they going to spar?” Broggy questioned as he and Dorry came back from washing up in the sea.

“This should be interesting. Devil Fruit Users have entertaining fights normally.” Dorry grinned as the two warrior giants sat down with their backs against one of the mountain-sized skulls of their ancient catches.

The group watched on as Luffy and Sabo stretched a bit before their spar. Sabo crouched down into a wide horse stance, placed his palms on the matching knee, then he twisted his torso to stretch out his shoulders and back. Luffy stretched out his legs, switching from one to the next by shifting his weight and balance. When the two brothers finished their stretches, they shook out their arms and legs and squared up with about three meters between them.

“Dorry, Broggy, could you give us a countdown?” Luffy asked and the two giants grinned.

“Three…” Broggy began with a smile.

“Two…” Dorry had a matching grin on his face.

“One…” Broggy rumbled with the beginnings of a chuckle heard in his tone.

“Start!” Dorry roared and both Luffy and Sabo blurred forward to meet in the middle!

A loud clap was heard as the brothers clashed. Luffy’s fist centimeters from Sabo’s face, the punch stopped by Sabo’s grip on his little brother’s wrist. Sabo’s own strike, an odd-looking strike that pressed his index and middle finger together, separate from his ring and pinky finger that were also pressed together with the thumb by itself parallel to the other four fingers, was being blocked by Luffy’s grip on Sabo’s wrist.

“That’s a funny looking strike, Sabo.” Luffy commented with a grin.

“It’s the claw of a dragon.” Sabo informed him with a smile.

The two brothers separated and jumped back to make some distance from one another. They were quickly back at it in another blur. Luffy lashed out with a kick which Sabo blocked with his forearm. Sabo struck with his dragon claw Luffy parried the blow away. A back fist from Luffy was caught and a knee was sent towards his midsection. Luffy’s own knee came up to block and there was a small shockwave on impact. A flurry of strikes and kicks were exchanged and most of the Straw Hats stood there, mouths agape, as they actually saw Luffy have to tryagainst an opponent for the first time. To their eyes the brothers were nothing more than blurs!

“Hmm, Luffy’s doing really well,” Koala commented as she followed the spar. “Sabo only has a few people that can keep up with him in the Revolutionary Army.”

“You can see them?” Vivi questioned the other woman, completely unable to follow the fight.

“Trust me, it’s not easy.” Nami spoke up with her brown eyes locked on the fight. Even pushing her Observation to its current limit was only letting her see each punch, kick, knee, elbow, and occasional head butt as a blurring motion. “I’ve never seen Luffy have to get serious before. Every enemy has always been so far beneath him he didn’t have to really try.”

The brothers separated again, this time leaping backwards and leaving about fifteen meters between them.

“So, are we done with the warm up?” Sabo asked with a grin.

“Sure thing, let’s try and make this more fun!” Luffy’s wide smile was in full effect.

Lightning danced across Luffy’s body while Sabo’s coat and hat began to emit clouds of black ash and glowing embers. Both brothers raised their right hands, their index and middle fingers extended. All the Straw Hats recognized this technique of Luffy’s. Seeing Sabo apparently know it as well was surprising, but not a complete shock. Koala was on the opposite end of the spectrum. Sabo had told her the origin of this technique, but to see someone else, even the original creator, using it against Sabo was new.

A thin beam of lightning left Luffy’s fingers at the same instant that a bullet of burning ash left Sabo’s. The two attacks met closer to Sabo, simply because lightning was the faster attack, bit the blast the colliding powers caused was surprising. Sabo raised his left hand, in the same ‘gun’ position and fired from both hands. Luffy responded in kind and the brothers had a shootout against each other. Explosion after explosion went off as their attacks met and the audience watched on with various emotions.

“Sabo knows the Pistol?” Nami watched on as best as her Observation would allow.

“He calls it his Cinder Shot, but yes.” Koala replied as she watched the Devil Fruit shootout.

“Anybody else having some trouble keeping up?” Usopp questioned, though his eyes never left the spar.

“No.” Sanji and Zoro denied as they watched on. It wasn’t the full truth, but the two could follow the fight fairly well.

Sabo seemingly exploded into a cloud of burning ashes that covered the impromptu battlefield. Luffy disappeared in a spark before the wave of ash could touch him. He reappeared above the billowing, black cloud and unleashed a barrage of lightning bolts into the ash. The black cloud was blasted with multiple holes, only to respond with large black spears of compressed and solidified ash being launched at Luffy en masse! Another spark and Luffy was no longer in their path, now standing on the opposite side of the swirling ash cloud.

The Straw Hat Captain sparked brightly, completely covered in lightning now and a crackling cage of electricity surrounded the ash cloud. Now contained, Luffy began to shrink the lightning cage and further trap his older brother. Or he would have, if a brightly burning drill of ash didn’t blast a hole in his lightning cage. The drill exploded into another, smaller cloud that then reformed into Sabo. The top hat brother’s arms were nothing more than clouds of ash and cinder as he spun through the air. From the clouds emerged vicious, black, sickle-like blades that spun through the air towards Luffy. It was a wave of spinning death that blanketed the whole area of their battlefield. Luffy’s arms were a bright white-blue storm as he deflected and destroyed every sickle headed his way. When the wave finished the battlefield was filled with sickle blades. The only clear spot was directly around Luffy. With a flex of his power, a wave of lighting was launched from Luffy and shattered every sickle on the field.

“Not bad, Luffy, you’ve gotten better since I saw you three years ago!” Sabo praised his little brother as he landed on the ground.

“You too, Sabo!” Luffy laughed as both brothers’ right arms became a raging storm of their respective element.

“We should probably take cover with Dorry and Broggy.” Koala recommended the group. She’d seen this particular technique before and didn’t fancy being even this far away if two of them were going to clash! The group of humans took refuge near the sitting giants, both of whom hadn’t taken their eyes off the fight for even an instant. They could easily follow a battle at this level with over a century of experience.

“Haiken!” Sabo bellowed as he threw his fist forward. A burning, hell storm of ash and embers exploded forward, decimating everything in its path!

“Raiken!” Luffy thundered in reply as he threw his own punch. The titanic blast of lightning that had decimated the Black Cat’s ship and remaining crew back in East Blue appeared again. The attack simply made everything it came in contact with vanish in the blinding light!

The two attacks clashed and a resounding explosion shook Little Garden. Even Dorry and Broggy shielded their eyes with a hand as the shockwave blasted passed them! The two elements had slammed together in an immense display of power and the land was torn asunder. Part of the grass was now burning while sparks of electricity danced throughout the air.

“Holy shit!” Mikita gaped at the level of power she was witnessing for the first time. Was thiswhat it was like when skilled Logia Users did battle?!

“One more?” Luffy grinned wildly at Sabo. He hadn’t had this much fun in years! He’d missed going all out on Mt. Corvo with his elder brothers!

“You think you can handle it?” Sabo also had a ferocious grin on his face as he stared down his little brother. He’d definitely missed his brothers over the last three years. He couldn’t go all out like this with most of the Revolutionary Army members. Except for Dragon, of course, the Leader was powerful to say the least.

Luffy’s response to his brother’s question was to become lightning. He was too bright to directly look at as he revved up for an even more powerful technique! Sabo responded in kind, becoming lost as his body blasted a volcanoes’ worth of ash and cinder into the air. Everyone watching could swear that over the crackling of wild lightning and the snapping of the burning ash that two roars were heard.

“Wait… No… No, no, no, no!” Koala’s panicked reaction set off warning bells for everyone. The reactions of Dorry and Broggy were even more shocking. Both giants’ arms were now jet-black and the Elbaf warriors dug their fingers into the earth. Their massive hands now acting as shields for the humans gathered around them.

“Ash Make: Cinder Black Dragon!” Sabo’s voice rang out, loud and clear, from within the hell storm of burning ash. The massive ash cloud, glowing from within by tons of burning cinder, formed into a massive Eastern Dragon. The long serpentine body, the long whiskers, the antler-like horns, the four legs, each with three claws, and the long tail that flew behind it. The dragon looked almost alive, burning orange light visible from within its large eyes, snarling maw, and the various cracks along its sinuous body.

“Goro Goro no Lightning Storm Dragon!” Luffy called forth from the massive lightning bolts that now leapt from his body, a similar Eastern Dragon to his brother’s. The same body, whiskers, antlers, legs, claws, and tail though all slightly different in their own ways. The sparking beast was hard to look at, being as bright as it was. Though for those that could see it, they saw a blue-white dragon with dark-purple light coming from its eyes and opened jaws, various sparks of the purple lightning emerging along the length of the massive dragon as well.

The two titanic dragons rushed towards each other at the brother’s will. The clash of such power would likely level the entire area! Dorry and Broggy steeled themselves to take the blast for their human friends. They were giants! The greatest warriors of Elbaf! Even this immense show of power wouldn’t take them down!

“LUFFY!!!” Nami screamed at her lover, the sound of her voice somehow heard above the two massive dragons about to clash.

“SABO!!!” Koala was also screaming for her lover’s attention, to get him out of this combat high before the spar killed someone!

Just as the two dragons would have clashed they both veered away from each other. Sabo’s black dragon was heading to the right and towards the ocean. While Luffy’s white-blue dragon headed upwards towards the cloudless sky. The black dragon kicked up a massive spray of ocean water as it crashed into the drink. Steam billowed out from the water for a while as the dragon cooled and slowly broke apart as it was soaked. The white dragon lost cohesion and disappeared in a shower of lightning bolts that could be seen even in the bright morning light.

Luffy reformed from his lightning state and solidified into his normal body. Sabo followed suit and the billowing clouds of ash swirled together into his normal form. The two brothers both exhaled and chuckled at each other. It had been a fun spar! It brought up many good memories for the two of their childhood growing up on Mt. Corvo.

“Luffy you idiot!” Nami’s fist crashed into the back of Luffy’s head, nearly making the Captain face-plant into the ground.

“Sabo!” Koala grabbed Sabo’s coat and pulled him down slightly so he could see the angry pout on her face.

“Are you tryingto kill all of us?” Nami demanded as she shook Luffy back and forth by his red vest.

“Seriously, I get that you two haven’t seen each other in years, but that’s no reason to totally lose control!” Koala reprimanded Sabo with her angry pout in full effect.

“Sorry Nami…” Luffy apologized as the orangette stopped shaking him.

“My bad, Koala, sorry about that.” Sabo rubbed the back of his head.

“What the hell are you two?!” Vivi screamed while pointing at the two brothers. “You made giant dragons! Out of Devil Fruit Powers! What the hell?!” The princess was clearly having a hard time processing what she’d just witnessed.

“We’ve had our powers for a decade Vivi; of course we know how to really use them.” Luffy shrugged off her question casually. Nami shook her head and let out an exasperated sigh.

“Well, to be fair, we did get some very good training with them.” Sabo remarked as he adjusted his cravat that Koala’s grip had upset.

“What kind of training lets you do that with a Devil Fruit?” Sanji questioned as the rest of the humans walked closer to the brothers.

“Hmm, well both Grandpa and Kuzan are really strong.” Luffy looked thoughtful.

“Kuzan?” Zoro questioned, not familiar with the name.

“Marine Admiral Aokiji.” Sabo clarified only for everyone’s jaws to hit the ground. Even Dorry and Broggy looked shocked that the two men had received training from a Marine Admiral.

“How?!” Usopp demanded as he pointed between the two brothers.

“Grandpa.” Luffy replied plainly.

“Luffy’s Grandpa.” Sabo replied while pointing at Luffy.

“Yeah, sure, that explains everything.” Mikita deadpanned at the two of them.

“I’ll explain it later.” Nami shook her head. She knew who Luffy’s grandfather was, and Luffy rarely talked about himself much.

“It was a great battle!” Dorry praised the two young men.

“That was excellent, even by Elbaf’s standards! Well done!” Broggy gave them a bright smile. Both Sabo and Luffy grinned in return to the giants.

With the spar over, the two groups began to prepare for their individual departures from Little Garden. Zoro and Sanji were butchering up a large dinosaur for meat to take with them. Usopp, Vivi, and Mikita were gathering fruit for the voyage and storing it on the Going Merry. Sabo and Koala were getting Marianne settled into their small ship. The sixteen year old artist was more than willing to go along with the two Revolutionaries after seeing what Sabo could do!

Before either group left, Dorry and Broggy gave them a warning.

“The Island Eater swims the waters on the side of the island that you’ll need to sail to leave this island.” Broggy informed the humans.

“It’s a massive fish type Sea King that can swallow small islands whole, hence its name.” Dorry continued and all of the humans looked perturbed, barring Luffy and Sabo.

“We could probably deal with it.” Luffy looked over to Sabo.

“Possibly, but it’s have to breach the surface so we could get a good shot at it.” Sabo mused as he thought about the situation.

“It only emerges from the depths to gobble up ships that try to leave this island.” Broggy mentioned to the two brothers.

“Unless you have a spare ship around, one of your groups will have to be the bait to lure it to the surface. But if you do so, Broggy and I can guarantee your safety, so long as you sail straight ahead, no matter what.” Dorry promised their new friends.

“What about Mr. Three’s ship?” Marianne spoke up, the quiet artist’s suggestion making everyone look at her. “What? It’s not like anyone is using it now.”

“I like it.” Luffy laughed and Sabo chuckled.

“Could we trouble one of you to go get the abandoned ship and bring it to the other side of the island while we sail our own ships there?” Koala asked Dorry and Broggy with a smile.

“Of course, for our friends such a task is simple. Gyababababa!” Broggy laughed as he and Dorry turned and started to walk towards the other side of the island to pick up Mr. Three’s old ship.

Within the next thirty minutes the two groups were ready to leave Little Garden. Dorry and Broggy had brought Mr. Three’s ship to the edge of the island and placed it into the water. With a nod from Nami, the abandoned ship was pushed forward by a light, in giant terms, push from Dorry’s boot-clad foot. The vessel floated away from the island. As it passed out of the shallows and into open waters a massive form rose up from the ocean!

“Huh, so that’s an Island Eater?” Luffy tilted his head at the mountain-sized goldfish-like Sea King.

“Can you two really do something about that?!” Usopp demanded from the crow’s nest of the Going Merry. The brothers’ were both strong, he’d witnessed that firsthand, but that Seaking was the size of a mountain!

“You’ve only seen us pit our powers against each other.” Sabo grinned as he and Luffy both stood at the bow of the Going Merry.

“Wait until you see what we can do when we work together!” Luffy’s wide smile was back and the Captain was clearly excited.

“You should do it quickly then,” Broggy spoke up. “As soon as the Island Eater swallows that boat it’ll dive beneath the waves again.”

Sabo’s left arm turned into a swirling cloud of burning ash. In the next moment the ash shot high into the air and formed a large black sword that even dwarfed Dorry’s weapon! Heat from within the blade emanated outwards from the construct. Luffy lifted his right arm, turning it into a sparking storm of lighting and added his power to the super-massive construct. The black sword was now sparking with bright lightning and giving off a ridiculous amount of heat. Even the Island Eater took notice of the massive weapon, pausing in its attempt to eat the empty ship.

“Mountain Cleaver!” Luffy and Sabo roared as Sabo used his control over his construct to swing the massive blade down on the Island Eater. Luffy amplified and focused the lighting onto the edge of the blade until it was too bright to look at. The Island Eater, a creature so massive it had never had to fear for its life before, floated on the surface unaware of its situation. The god-like weapon sliced the gargantuan Sea King in two as if it was made of paper! Even Dorry and Broggy felt their eyes widen at the sight of the Island Eater felled in a single blow by mere humans!

“Are you sure they’re human?!” Vivi screamed as the waves from the attack hitting the sea had caused the two ships to rock and tilt.

“Set sail!” Luffy pointed straight ahead as the Going Merry’s sails were lowered and caught the wind. Sabo leapt off the Going Merry and onto his own smaller ship. Koala lowered their sails once he was back on board and the two ships both sailed away from Little Garden.

“It was great seeing you again Luffy!” Sabo waved to his little brother as their ships’ paths began to diverge.

“Let’s meet up again, Sabo!” Luffy waved back along with the rest of the Straw Hats. Luffy perked up as he turned to wave goodbye to the two giants as well. “Dorry! Broggy! It was awesome meeting you guys!” Luffy yelled back to the two waving giants. “Take the fresh Sea King as a going away present! Shishishishi!” Luffy had listened to the two giants last night, knowing that they’d both missed the taste of Sea King. He felt it only right that they be given the Island Eater that had caused them so much grief over the last few decades.

“Gegyagyagyagya! What interesting humans have been born in the last hundred years we’ve been stuck here, eh Broggy?” Dorry laughed even as he eyed the mass of fresh Sea King meat.

“Gyababababababa! Indeed, Dorry, some very interesting things that we’ve missed!” Broggy laughed just as loudly as his friend did.

“Well, I don’t know about you, but I’m going to slice me off enough of that meat to last a while. We still have a month or two to wait for the old man to get here.” Dorry sighed a he waded into the sea on his way to drag at least half of the Island Eater into the shallows.

“I’ll help you.” Broggy grinned as he waded out beside Dorry. “Can’t have you taking all that Sea King for yourself!” The animals and seagulls of Little Garden would be sharing in their newfound bounty soon. It was best to cut off as much as they could carry before the animals go to it. With any luck the other half of the goldfish-like Sea King; that was still pouring out a lake’s worth of blood into the ocean, would attract other Sea Kings that had avoided Little Garden ever since the Island Eater showed up. It should make for good fishing, for giants, later on.

-The Going Merry-

“That was a fun island!” Luffy smiled while sitting on his special seat atop Merry’s figurehead. “Is Alabasta anything like that, Vivi?”

“Of course not!” Vivi shook her head at the Captain. “We don’t have dinosaurs, or giants, in Alabasta! Humans had a hard enough time colonizing Sandy Island in the ancient past, it would have been completely impossible if there were dinosaurs too.”

“Well, we’ll be able to see it soon enough.” Nami smiled as she sidled up next to Vivi and put her arm around the princess’ shoulders. The orangette navigator eyed the Eternal Pose that Vivi was holding and lined up their course. “We’ll get their much faster thanks to the Eternal Pose. We won’t have to worry about island hopping.”

“Thank you all so much, for taking me back home, and for helping me.” Vivi bowed to Luffy as he looked back at her. “I’ll never be able to thank you enough.”

“Eh, you don’t have to bow or anything.” Luffy shook his head. “Just fill my belly with all the tastiest meats you have after I smash in this dumb Croc’s face!”

“Of course!” Vivi beamed at Luffy. “I’ll have every meat dish that Alabasta cuisine has to offer, made for you if you want!” She promised and then giggled when Luffy started drooling.

“We’re friends, Vivi, that’s more than enough!” Luffy wiped away his drool to give her a smile.

“For Vivi, but I still want to negotiate with the king too~!” Nami chuckled as she pulled Vivi into a side-hug and gently laid her head atop the bluenette’s.

“Nami…” Vivi played along with an exasperated sigh. The two women had become very close in only a few short days.

“To Alabasta!” Luffy cheered and pointed forward.

-In the bathroom-

“Ugh, my head, I hope the pain killers kick in soon.” Mikita groaned as she splashed some cool water on her face. “I can’t believe I can still get Climate Sickness. I’ve been on the Grand Line for a few years now. I should be used to this.” The platinum-blonde looked at her reflection and sighed. Her skin was flushed and she looked tired. “Maybe a nap will help?” She made her way to tell Luffy and Nami that she’d be resting for a bit. She’d probably have to explain Climate Sickness to the newcomers, but she’d be fine in a day or two. She gently scratched at the annoying bug bite she’d gotten on Little Garden. It figured that some dumb mosquito or something would bite her while they were there.

None of them could have known how drastically their course would be changed tomorrow morning.

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Well… That’s probably not good…

The Straw Hats might need to make a detour.

Other than that, holy hell! Sabo and Luffy show off what they can do! You don’t have Logia powers for ten years, along with training from an Admiral and Vice-Admiral, who happens to be Monkey D. Garp, and stay a beginner!

How did you like that spar? Did you like how the brothers left Little Garden?

Luffy gave Dorry and Broggy the best, in his meat-obsessed mind, going away gift ever! They did say they were missing the taste of Sea King after all!

How will things continue to change, as the butterfly flaps its wings?

Keep reading to find out!

Until I get your reviews, later!