BOOM! CRASH! BANG!
Arlong Park was going absolutely nuts! Dust everywhere, smoke from Usopp's crazy bombs, water splashing from the pool—the whole place looked like a tornado hit it. And right in the middle of all this chaos sat Nami with Luffy's straw hat on her head, crying her eyes out while watching these insane pirates tear the place apart just for her.
"Alright, fish-face!" Silas yelled, charging straight at Quadshot with his sabre gleaming. "Let's finish this!"
His red hair was flying everywhere as he ran, and man, he looked pissed. Quadshot just grinned with all those scary shark teeth.
"Come get some, pretty boy!"
But then—WHAT THE HELL?!
Quadshot's leg kicked out and suddenly water droplets were flying like bullets! Silas barely dodged, feeling them rip through his shirt and scratch up his chest.
"What?! Since when do you know martial arts?!" Silas shouted, rolling behind cover.
"Surprise!" Quadshot cackled, reloading his guns while his feet kept shooting water like cannons. "Twenty years of Fishman Karate, baby! You thought we only knew how to swim and shoot?"
Silas grinned, spinning his pistol. "Hah! Finally, a challenge worth my time!"
Meanwhile, on the other side of the courtyard...
"STOP SPITTING AT ME!" Usopp screamed, running around like a headless chicken while Chew chased him. "THAT'S GROSS!"
"HOLD STILL!" Chew roared back, shooting water bullets everywhere.
"NO WAY!" Usopp's slingshot went THWIP! "Smoke Star!"
Purple smoke exploded everywhere. Chew couldn't see anything and started spitting randomly.
"Where are you, coward?!"
"Right here! Usopp's Panic Shot!"
THWIP! BOOM!
His explosive pellet bounced off like three walls and somehow hit two random fishmen who weren't even fighting him. They went down hard.
Usopp stared. "...Did I just do that?"
But the really scary fight was happening underwater. Sanji was drowning! Well, not drowning exactly, but he couldn't breathe and Kuroobi was kicking his ass. Literally. With karate. Underwater karate.
Sanji's lungs burned but his eyes blazed with determination. No jokes this time. No cigarette. Just pure willpower. Kuroobi moved through the water like he was born for it, while Sanji felt like he was fighting in slow motion.
"Fishman Karate: Thousand Tile True Punch!"
The punch sent shockwaves through the whole pool. Sanji barely dodged, bubbles escaping his mouth. His vision was getting blurry, but he wasn't giving up. Not when Nami needed them.
Up top, Zoro was having his own problems. Six swords versus three? Not exactly fair odds.
"Six Sword Style: Octopus Pot!" Hatchan's swords spun like a blender of death.
"Tch!" Zoro gritted his teeth, blood soaking through his bandages. "Six swords? So what. Three Sword Style: Oni Giri!"
CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! Sparks flew everywhere as steel met steel.
"You're pretty good for a human," Hatchan said, spinning his weapons.
"Pretty good?" Zoro's grin was sharp as his blades. "I'm gonna be the world's greatest swordsman, octopus. You're just practice."
And in the center of everything, Luffy was going toe-to-toe with the big bad fish himself. Arlong's claws raked across Luffy's chest, drawing blood, but the rubber boy just grinned wider.
"Gum-Gum Gatling!"
His fists turned into a blur, pounding on Arlong's scales like a machine gun.
"GAHAHA! That all you got, rubber boy?!" Arlong's jaws opened wide, showing off those terrifying teeth. "Shark On Darts!"
He tried to bite Luffy's head off, but rubber don't work that way! Luffy stretched and bounced, using Arlong's own strength against him.
"You talk too much! Gum-Gum Bazooka!"
WHAM! Both hands shot forward and sent Arlong sliding across his own courtyard.
Back with Silas, things were getting crazy. Quadshot was unleashing hell with all four flintlocks blazing while his feet shot water bullets from every puddle and fountain!
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! Four guns roared in sequence while water bullets flew from Quadshot's kicks. But Silas was like a dancing blade of death—his sabre deflected bullets left and right while he weaved between the water shots, closing the distance step by step.
"Getting tired, Red Hair?" Quadshot taunted, reloading two pistols while the other two kept firing. "Four arms, four guns, twenty years of training! You never stood a chance!"
"You talk too much!" Silas's sabre caught two more bullets with perfect timing. Instead of retreating, he spun forward, using his sabre to deflect a water kick before bringing his pistol up at point-blank range.
"Flash Reload: Point Blank Shot!"
BANG! His bullet caught Quadshot right in the shoulder, spinning the four-armed fishman around.
"GAH! You sneaky bastard!"
"That's what you get for underestimating a sneaky bastard!"
And Usopp? Usopp was accidentally becoming a legend.
"Usopp's Super Ultra Mega Panic Attack!"
THWIP! BOOM! THWIP! BOOM! His shots were bouncing around like pinballs, hitting everything except what he was aiming at, but somehow taking out enemies left and right.
"STOP MOVING RANDOMLY!" Chew screamed.
"I'M NOT DOING IT ON PURPOSE!" Usopp cried back, accidentally nailing three more fishmen with a ricochet. "MY LEGS WON'T STOP SHAKING!"
The villagers watching from the walls couldn't believe it.
"They're... they're actually winning," someone whispered.
"Look at them fight for Nami," Genzo said, his scarred face showing hope for the first time in years. "They're not just a crew. They're family."
Underwater, Sanji was running out of air. His lungs burned and his vision was going black, but Kuroobi wasn't letting up.
Sanji's vision was going black, but he wasn't giving up. His lungs screamed for air.
Then he remembered something Zeff told him once: "A cook protects his hands, but sometimes you gotta use everything you got."
Sanji's eyes blazed. If he was gonna drown, he'd go down fighting. His leg whipped through the water with everything he had left, connecting with Kuroobi's jaw.
The fishman's eyes went wide. Even half-drowned, this human was still dangerous.
Nami watched it all through her tears, finally getting it. These guys weren't just pirates who happened to fight together. They were nakama. Family. The real deal.
"Luffy..." she whispered, holding his hat tight. "Everyone..."
For the first time in eight years, Cocoyasi Village had hope. These crazy Straw Hats brought something Arlong could never understand: people who'd die before they let their friends suffer alone.
The sky was getting darker, but the battle was just getting started. In this courtyard full of broken dreams and scattered money, a bunch of impossible idiots were about to show a tyrant what real strength looked like.