Charmaco Blaze (OC)?!
As Ghidorah launched himself off Zunesha's head and saw the figure below, he instantly recalled the man's name.
BOOM!
"ROOOOOAR!!"
A deafening crash was followed by Zunesha's agonized wail.
A massive crater had been gouged into its colossal body, and around the wound, its skin was cracked in countless places, blood pouring out in torrents.
"Little elephant, I've made up my mind.
Your vow with 'Nika' is fulfilled.
Now take Sky Island and leave these waters."
"No…"
With Ghidorah's voice fading into the wind, a deep, earth-shaking rejection echoed across the sea.
For the first time in millennia, Zunesha spoke again:
"I... will... stay... behind."
"You damned fool… then get out of my way and wait for me beneath Bika!"
Ghidorah barked angrily.
As mighty as Zunesha was, his massive size made him a liability against an enemy of this caliber—one of the Twenty Kings.
Just seeing Charmaco Blaze here confirmed what Ghidorah had feared:
Imu intended to use Zunesha.
He hadn't expected their hatred to run so deep.
"I... will... be... waiting… there... for... you…"
Zunesha responded stiffly, step by step lumbering toward the first half of the Grand Line, blood trailing behind it.
"Damn it!"
Charmaco Blaze, silver-haired and furious, cursed loudly as he turned his gaze toward Ghidorah.
"Ghidorah… so you're still clinging to hope?"
"Hope?" Ghidorah sneered.
"The best solution for traitorous dogs like you—
is extermination."
He didn't waste another word.
With a single flap of his wings, he dove at Blaze, summoning fierce storms as he went.
"Not a chance!"
Sensing the shift in the sky and wind, Blaze sprang into the air without hesitation.
His fingers stretched wide, claws curved inward as he tore through the air.
"Vmmm—"
A subtle sound rippled as the space around him twisted like silk.
Then, from above—
King, still observing, was stunned to see two enormous ocean spouts rise from the sea, each nearly a hundred meters wide.
Like watery dragons, they spiraled upward, hurtling straight at Ghidorah.
Ghidorah moved to dodge—
—but suddenly, a gravitational force engulfed his massive body, yanking him toward the torrents with inescapable strength.
Whooosh... whooosh... whooosh...
Fighting the crushing pull, Ghidorah's wings flapped with explosive fury, generating a storm that swept across the region.
Dark clouds swallowed the sky.
Hurricane winds roared as if the sea had entered a typhoon.
The wind, like blades, slammed into the two water spouts and shattered them instantly.
And just like that—the gravity vanished.
"Eight hundred years, and you haven't improved a bit."
Ghidorah mocked coldly, glaring at the now-breathless Blaze in the distance.
"ROOOOOAR!!"
With a thunderous cry, black clouds churned, and bolts of lightning rained down.
Linked to the thunderclouds, Ghidorah himself became a conduit of electricity—his golden scales flickering like lightning rods.
From each of his three heads, a beam of energy fired—converging on Blaze in an overwhelming strike.
Just before impact, Blaze's firm voice echoed:
"Gravitational Wall!"
Suddenly, the space to the right of the beams warped and shimmered.
Under King's wide-eyed gaze, the beams were—redirected—as if tugged by an invisible force, arcing around Blaze and shooting off into the horizon.
King's eyes widened. His worldview felt shattered.
"Light… can bend?!"
What he didn't know was this:
Charmaco Blaze possessed a Gravity Devil Fruit.
A fearsome power, akin to—but even more refined than—Fujitora's Gravity Fruit from years to come.
While gravity and weight may seem similar, gravity could manipulate even light, given sufficient force.
Back in the ancient days, the Twenty Kings began researching Devil Fruits specifically to counter Ghidorah.
Blaze had once been the main countermeasure, warping and distorting Ghidorah's attacks.
"What a thoroughly infuriating ability…"
Ghidorah grunted, retracting his beams without emotion.
He dove again, wings crackling with thunder, leaving a trail of sparks in the sky.
Blaze raised his claws and tore at the air before him—this time, generating waves of gravity.
From the ocean below, razor-thin water blades rose, sharpened by inverse gravitational pull.
There were ten of them—each over a hundred meters long, transparent and shimmering blue.
Under the immense pressure of reversed gravity, the blades tore through the sound barrier with a screeching howl—
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
An unrelenting series of explosions erupted.
Water vapor filled the sky like rain.
Inside the droplets—thin strands of red mingled.
But Blaze showed no joy.
He knew—this level of attack was nothing to that monster.
Without hesitation, his face strained with pulsing veins as he shouted:
"Gravitational Field!!"
A low hum whispered through the air.
A dark-gray spherical space suddenly expanded, stretching nearly a kilometer wide.
HUMMMMM!!
Within that massive sphere, space began to tremble.
Ghidorah, mid-air, was violently pulled downward—
—but halted midway, wings flaring, resisting the drag.
From afar, it looked as if the beast were trapped inside a crystal sphere, pulled both upward and downward at once.
Two massive forces—opposing gravitational pulls—wrenched him apart.
"Inside my field," Blaze declared grimly,
"everything is under my control."
"The gravity here increases with the size of the field.
Right now, you're in a tenfold gravity zone."
"One kilometer is my limit,
but within it…
10,000 times gravity should be enough to crush you."
CRACK... CRACK...
Under the crushing force, Ghidorah's bones began to fracture.
His three heads were being pulled down, unable to rise.
Suddenly, one golden eye—until now shut—snapped open, blazing with radiant light.
His lips curled into a slow, cold smile.
"Blaze…"
"Did you forget something?"
"I used to be human, too."
"Looks like you've all been napping these past eight centuries."
THUMP. THUMP. THUMP...
A deep, echoing heartbeat thundered from within him.
Rhythmic, powerful—like the beat of a war drum.
Blaze's expression changed wildly, as if recalling something terrible.
He roared in fury:
"BASTARD!
You won't awaken—NOT HERE!!"
Throwing caution aside, Blaze pushed his gravity field even wider.
His face contorted in pain with every meter the field expanded.
One kilometer—his limit—was already reached.
But he had to do it.
He had to destroy him before he awakened.
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