One Piece: The Power System

Spring Valley.

At this time both Erica and Nojiko are walking through a windy, grassy valley. This place was so calm that someone would just want to lay on the ground and relax and sleep. There has been no strange activity so far, but this place was strange since it was devoid of life.

"So this is spring valley. It's a pretty nice place, I wouldn't even living here if there were signs of life around here." Nojiko loved peace but in a world of criminals, crooked marines, and pirates, stuff like this didn't exist.

"It does seem peaceful but we were transferred here by that platform, don't let your guard down." Erica wasn't buying it one bit, this place may seem peaceful but it must be more to it than just silence.

"Right!" Nojiko nodded, this place was still a transfer place. "Where is the way out, we can't stay here forever? They could only see endless plains and nothing more, there weren't even any trees to be seen around here.

"I don't know." Erica said, "If my guess is correct, then this place might be a trial of some sort." Honestly, Erica couldn't be any more correct, this was indeed a trial they had to pass in order to win a prize.

"A trial? To get what exactly?" Nojiko somewhat believed what Erica said. The room sent them to a random place that wasn't on Myriad Island, so where was this?

"Hehe, I don't know that either?" Erica wasn't that informed on the map that Rein had but Nami and Rein somewhat knew what they needed.

Suddenly, they heard a voice.

[The battle will commence in 30 seconds!]

[Wave 1! First Wave out of Five!]

"Huh!" Erica's face changed a bit, a wave! Nojiko didn't like the sound of a wave, a wave of what?

"Nojiko, do you still think it's peaceful now?" Erica looked around seriously.

"Not Even!" Nojiko put up her guard, she had a little bit of training but it was not nearly enough.

[Wave 1 commencing!]

Suddenly, the ground around them shook, and the earth exploded open sending rocks and pebbles everywhere. Multiple grey figures emerged from the ground. They were slightly taller than the average human.

[50/50 Clay Golems!]

"Golems! What are Golems?" Nojiko looked at the army of grey figures, she was stunned seeing their appearance. The Golems were around 6,0 in height each. They had one glowing red eye on their heads like a cyclops. Their figures were plain grey humanoids with no notable feature besides their one bright red eye that beamed a red glow.

"I don't know either, I've never heard of a Golem before." Erica clenched her fist. These things were clearly hostile. Suddenly, they began to rush Erica and Nojiko by forming a sharp piercing weapon on their hands for impaling.

"Nojiko, I know you don't like weapons like pistol, swords, and spear but you're going to need to use one at least this once!" Erica reached into her storage ring and tossed Nojiko a spear and a 1700's looking barrel pistol. Nojiko caught the pistol, she had no choice at this point, she wasn't much of a combatant.

"Neppa~!" Erica punched as fire shot out and consumed the group of rushing Golems! The area was set ablaze. Most of the Golems were reduced to nothing by the attack.

[23 out of 50 Clay Golems Remaining!]

The announcement suddenly said. At that moment, several Clay Golems rushed out of the flames, many had died from the last attack but there were still more.

Bang!

Bang!

Nojiko shot her Gun at the approaching Golems, but they would only heal from her attacks.

"What!? Gunfire isn't working on them at all!" Nojiko started to feel a headache seeing the Golem regenerate. A golem was soon upon her with its speed.

"Watch Out!" Erica yelled out! The Golem swung its sharp spear-like arm towards Nojiko. Nojiko tumbled over to dodge the attack, then she shot another bullet at the Golem. She knew this would be useless, but she did so anyway, however, this time she shot one at its big red eye!

Crack!

It sounded like glass breaking as the eye on the Golem was destroyed. Afterward, it melted like icecream and turned into regular Clay.

"Gasp! The eyes are its weak point, it was so frigging obvious!" Nojiko smacked her forehead, how could she have been so oblivious to that obvious fact? Erica laughed and began to blast the rest of the Golems into nothingness.

[Congrats, you've completed the First Wave!]

[Next Wave starts in one minute!]

"Wow, that's no time at all to recuperate, but it's okay, we defeated them so fast with no effort." Nojiko gloated but all the work was done by Erica!

"How fun, what will the next things be?" Erica smiled with anticipation.

Dread Forest.

Before the creature could appear before Nami and Vindicate, they heard an announcement.

[The battle will commence in 15 seconds!]

[Wave 1! First Wave out of Five!]

"What the..." Vindicate was speechless, was this some sort of test?

"A wave!? A wave of what?" Nami clenched her teeth, she didn't like where this was going!

[Wave 1 commencing!]

As soon as that was said, a terrible smell permeating the air, it smelled rotten! Nami held her mouth to prevent herself from vomiting, she also held her nose. Vindicate scrunched his face from the smell and backed away.

[100/100 Flesh-Eating Zombies!]

Hearing the last announcement being made, Nami almost fainted in terror. Vindicate face turned a bit unsightly, who didn't know about the tales of undead creatures like these in books or stories? The Zombies came from the forest with their deformed and rotten appearances, eyeballs hanging from their socket and exposed rib cages!

Nami's teeth could be heard chattering and suddenly, her knees felt weak, she had never been this scared before in her life! "What are you doing!? If you sit there like that, they're going to rip you apart and feast on your flesh!" Vindicate turned to see Nami in shock as she looked at the slowly approaching Zombies.

"I-I c-can't stand." She was too stricken with fear to move. Vindicate grabbed her arm and helped her up.

"They're slow, so we have the advantage. Aim for the head and we should be able to take them out with ease." Vindicate handed one of his pistols to Nami along with some ammo. "See, this is why you need to be strong like Rein said or things like this would occur where you can't fight back, at least believe you cant." Vindicate said no more and began to shoot the Zombies that were approaching in their heads.

Nami aimed with shaky hands and steeled herself.

Bang!

Bang!

Several shots could be heard from her and Vindicate. Vindicate's aim was really good, so every shot was a headshot that took them down with every blow. Nami, however, wasn't so good and would hit them on the body, this did nothing to them.

"We'll soon run out of bullets, I don't want to waste anymore." Vindicate wanted to save his bullets for some other time so he opted for close combat.

"Soru!" Vindicate used Soru which would surprise Rein but there was a reason he knew this combat style. His father was an Ex-Marine and he taught Vindicate many things to defend himself before he died a while back. It was safe to say that he wasn't new to any of the Rokushiki styles at all, he knew 3 out of the 6!

"Tekkai Zangai!" Vindicate crushed many Zombies with his fist, they were way to slow to catch him. Nami had a decent amount of ammo, but they were closing in on her!

"EEk!" Nami shot many of them in a panic, she missed her shot a lot.

"UHHHhh!" The Zombies G.r.o.a.n.e.d as they closed in on Nami.

"Give them the runaround, they can't catch you!" Vindicate hurriedly to speak to Nami. She snapped out her stupor and ran farther away to load and take aim. She focused this time and manage to actually kill one with a headshot.

"I-I Did it!" Nami was quite happy but that was just one, there were about 60 left to kill!

"Nice! But there's still an army left of them to kill, don't celebrate just yet!" Vindicate said as he smashed one of the Zombie's skulls.

This continued for the next thirty minutes. Nami would just run around them and kill as much as she could. She was extremely relieved after knowing how dumb and slow they were. Eventually, the Zombies were no more, the smell got worse for some reason after they were defeated.

[Congrats, you've completed the First Wave!]

[Next Wave starts in three minutes!]

"Damn, they don't even give you time to really rest!" Vindicate and Nami were tired, this was especially the case for Nami. Vindicate could go on for much longer but killing zombies would soon weigh on him. It was obvious that the rounds or waves were going to get harder over time.

"I need more bullets. I'm almost out." Nami spent most of her time trying to avoid the zombies rather than killing them. She left them to Vindicate to deal with after she had distracted them until he was done killing the ones he was fighting.

Vindicate gave her a few more bullets to use, she just put them in the pouch on her waist her sister gave her. Nojiko got this pouch bag from Bulwark city when she was there, Nojiko was a quick shopper.

After 3 minutes of relaxation, they heard another announcement.

[Wave 2! Two out of Five Waves!]

"What will it be this time?" Vindicate looked around cautiously. Nami's forehead was filled with sweat, she knew that the creatures should be stronger than the last ones.

[75/75 Skeleton Soldiers!]

Suddenly, they heard the sound of bones clanking together through the Forest. What emerged was Skeleton soldiers with different weapons in their hands. Some had a sword, spear, Bow and arrow, and axes. Their eyes exuded a cold red glow devoid of life and emotion, they were only here to kill!

"B-b-bone soldiers!" Nami looked at the intimidating soldiers in surprise. Their speed was much faster than the zombies, they were speed walking to get to Nami and Vindicate.

Zink!

Suddenly, an arrow came flying pass Nami!

"Ah!" Nami's heart jumped, it was so close to piercing her in the face. She was fortunate that this skeleton wasn't so good or she would have dropped dead with that arrow to the face.

"Careful! Those archers are sitting back in the forest. I'll kill them first!" Vindicate rushed passed the close combatant skeletons to kill the archer skeletons that were sitting in the forest attacking from afar.

Nami started to shoot the skeletons in the head as she did with the Zombies but it took two hits to the head to take them down. "Darn, they don't die instantly like the zombies and they're much faster, how annoying!" The skeletons were also armed, so you would be killed in a single blow if you were hit in your vitals by them.

Vindicate was taking down the archers as fast as he could, there were only ten of them but five spearmen were guarding them, were they intelligent?! Vindicate didn't engage them in a close fight and only shot the five to death before they could attack him.

"Yeah, die again, and I dare you to come back!" After finishing them, he easily defeated the annoying archer skeleton who could fight from long range. Vindicate then looked towards Nami who was being sieged by Skeleton swordsman and axemen, there were a few spearmen as well.

Nami couldn't fight this many so she stopped shooting and made run for it. "Forget this, I'll definitely die if I sit here! Where did he go, how could he just leave me here? Why didn't he just take me with him?" Nami was just talking out of fear, she knew what Vindicate really went to do but was too scared to think positive right now.

The skeletons had infinite stamina, they could play this cat and mouse game all day. They were also speed walking so the target would eventually get tired and after that, it was death! Vindicate slammed down into the horde of skeletons and blew them in different directions.

Nami turned around after hearing the booming sound and found that many skeletons had been scattered about. Nami loaded the gun in her hands and ran over after she had noticed that Vindicate had returned. Vindicate quickly destroyed several skeletons by aiming for the head, he kicked and punched while Nami shot them from afar.

Vindicate just tossed Nami his other pistol. He preferred to shoot rather than fight up close but at this moment, he didn't have much ammo to spare with so many enemies. It took them thirty-five minutes to completely wipe out the skeletons. Vindicate was almost tagged by a Spearman skeleton with its long-range but he dodged and put it down.

"Jeez, I'm starting to get a bit tired now but I should be able to take on another round or so." Vindicate was breathing quickly from exhaustion. They had finally managed to defeat the skeleton army.

[Congrats, you've completed the Second Wave!]

[Next Wave starts in Five minutes!]

Vindicate sat down where he stood, he needed all the energy he could spare. Nami walked over, bones were scattered everywhere along with several weapons from the skeletons. "Not much ammo left, what will we do? There are three more rounds left before we can leave this place." Nami sighed seeing Vindicate tiring position, this wasn't looking so good so far.

"Damn, I swear we better get a good prize for this or else, I'll have to find the one responsible for this trial and there will be some hell to spend!" They were risking their lives doing these crazy wave games, if they didn't get anything for success then that would make anyone made.

Nami nodded and sat down as well. "They better give us some treasure or something worth a lot for this crazy fiesta." The two stayed silent for the next five minutes to even save their breath.

[Wave 2! Three out of Five Waves!]

Nami clenched the gun and looked around, then...

[25/25 Ghouls!]

"Ghouls!" VIndicate was surprised. Ghouls were more vicious, smarter, and faster than the low ranking version of themselves, the Zombie.

"Oh, this isn't going to be good!" At those words, many figures appeared out of the forest. They looked at Vindicate and Nami with drooling mouths, and they all grinned evilly seeing fresh prey! Nami felt many chills run down her back seeing their sinister appearances and ugly smiles, they were definitely intelligent!

"Prepare, we may have run to cover to fight these guys!" Vindicates face turned grave.