Chapter 21: Conquer
"Let's fight brat", Garp tells me with a serious face, " ok gramps", I remove my swords from it's sheate ready for the fight, without any words we start attacking each other and trading blows but Garp has the edge on me, we keep fighting but I slowly start to lose.
After a while of fighting I get exhausted and I was about to faint I felt someone quickly pull me away from Garp and I realize it's not just me, I got a crew with me.
" you ok captain" jimbei asked, "yeah im good don't worry" I said, " you've got a nice crew there one who's willing to protect you brat.
"I know and that's why I'm gonna fight you and win", I get back in the fight with garp, but I'm still losing, but Im not afraid of death,
as we keep fighting, my crew joins in but they get defeated pretty soon, "don't worry I'll take it from here guys".
But, I feel something, I realize I got hit hard, I felt myself losing air on my body and as I saw death in front of me, "im not dying yet until I complete my dreams with my crew".
I felt it slash me, but I got up and grabbed it in the face with all my might, knowing that if Im going to die, I might as well try to fight back, " im not dying yet you bastard, I still need to complete our dreams, so I get up and start trying the conquer the one thing that, I start overpowering it and after a struggle I beat the one thing that could kill me at any moment, I wake up to the real world ready for a rematch with Garp, " kid, your not dead, that's a surprise".
With anger I say " King of Hell, Three sword style, Asure: Blades drawn from a dead Man's game.
I imbue my swords with haki and attack Garp with this technique cutting him in the chest, he then groans on pain " nice kid, you got me on that one but that dose t mean you can beat me".
We then start the fight again, trading attacks with each other but this time I put more of a fight.
I then decide to use one of my strongest attacks " Purgatory Onigiri" as I imbue my swords with both armament and conquerer haki.
He smiles and tries to block it with his arms imbued with armament haki but that results in a cut in his hands, but then he jumps at me and quickly starts hitting me, I jump back but he's done a lot of damage to m, I think to myself how I should train my observation haki more.
After a while of fighting, I realize we aren't going anywhere with this, " yo old man, wanna fight another day when I'm stronger so I can give you a challenge, he smiles at me " what makes you think I won't just kill you right now", but I then see him thinking and he then said " fine brat but don't expect this from me again, I need to go train my disciple to become stronger".
I then watch him leave back on his ship, I look at mine and I see the damage it has received and I decide that when we get to land imma find a shipwright to help us fix the ship.
I then walk towards my crew and wake then up, then vivi asks " what happened zoro and did u win".
" oh I didn't win but I didn't lost either, it ended at a standstill".
Me and the crew then starts discussing and after a while we all went to rest in our various rooms.