One Piece: The Power System

Time was different in these trial so no one knew how much time truly passed while they were inside. After Nami and Vindicate filled two carts up full of treasure, they decided to leave. Nami was very reluctant but they both were getting hungry. Vindicate kept a few c.h.e.s.ts to open later, it was no way he could leave them here.

Vindicate pushed one cart while Nami pushed the other. They walked to the exit door, and Vindicate opened it as they walked through it. Once they walked through, everything changed again. They were now in a square room with no doors to be seen in it. They wanted to turn around but the door they came through had disappeared.

"Where is this, why aren't there any more ways out?" Nami looked around, then she looked up and noticed that there was a door up above. The room was like a long rectangle with the door just sitting on a wall that was too high for them to reach unless they could fly.

"The door is so high, how can we possibly reach that?" Vindicate was annoyed, there were just too many doors. However, this was the last door and truly the way out if they made it through it.

*Gumble Gumble*

"I'm so hungry, are we actually going to starve to death with all this treasure on us? And my...I mean our treasure!" Nami was so depressed right now. If they manage to make it up to the door, was it even possible to take all this treasure with them?

If Vindicate had Geppo then he could make it out but he wasn't even aware of Geppo. He was taught Soru, Tekkai, and Kami-e by his father. This was for balance, one for speed, one for defense/offense, and one for dodging. This is why his dad had taught him these moves, while he didn't teach or tell him about the other three.

"Sigh, we need to get out of here somehow, or we'll starve to death. Let me tell you, that is one of the worse ways to go out!" They had to come up with something or else. "Maybe we can use the gold belies to help us get up and leave all else behind?"

"Absolutely not!" Nami immediately decline, she risked her life for these treasures! There was no way she was leaving this all here after so much effort, it would have been all for nothing. Vindicate expected this so he didn't even know why he suggested it.

"What about that black fruit on you, maybe we can eat some of that to hold us up for a bit. I just hope... that it isn't rotten." Nami just recalled the fruit he had in the big pouch strapped to his side.

"Oh, yeah!" Vindicate opened the pouch and took the fruit out. He honestly found this fruit unique and wanted to hold onto it but they were a desperate spot now. The Black Pumpkin fruit was revealed, it gave off a black and red aura for a second.

"This fruit seems a bit creepy, doesn't it?" Nami looked at the fruit's features and knew that this fruit was strange.

"Okay, I'll eat it first to test the waters, then you can take some afterward once I confirm." Vindicate looked at Nami to see if she would agree. Nami didn't seem to have a problem with that and nodded.

"Also, take care of that arm of yours, it's still bleeding from your early battle." Vindicate noticed Nami's bloody arm which she seemed to have forgotten about herself.

"Ah, right!" Nami was driven by greed and forgot that she was wounded, if she didn't treat it soon then it would get infected. Vindicate took a piece of the fruit which was surprisingly easy to rip through compared to the usual hard pumpkins.

"I hope this thing ain't rotten!" Vindicate put it into his mouth and swallowed it instantly. One would think you could avoid the taste of something if you flat out swallowed it but that wasn't the case for this fruit.

"Blargg! This fruit taste like complete trash, is that drywall I taste!?" Vindicate was making gag reflexes, this was the worst fruit he had ever tasted and he loved pumpkin pie. "That doesn't taste like any pumpkin I've ever had, not even rotten ones taste like that!" Vindicate tossed the fruit aside to the ground but some change occurred that Nami saw instantly!

"Vindicate! Your hands!"

"My hands!" VIndicate looked at his hands in shock!

Trial Treasury Erica and Nojiko

Nojiko had to carry Erica through one of the doors out of the three. Like Vindicate and Nami, they came across a treasury, but it wasn't nearly that much compared to Nami and Vindicate's encounter. Nojiko was stunned in place, while Erica was still asleep from before. Nojiko could only imagine if her sister had seen this place and how her reaction would be.

Nojiko laid Erica down for her to continue sleeping while she took Erica storage ring to fill it up. The storage ring had a limit on it as well, so she couldn't take everything like she hoped to. She noticed may c.h.e.s.t in the room but couldn't open them.

Nojiko tired to open another c.h.e.s.t and it opened with ease. "Huh? They looked nice, but I don't like weapons like these." When she opened the c.h.e.s.t, it revealed two gold-black pistols, they had strange design on.

"Where's the trigger on them, how can anyone use them without that?" Nojiko saw that there was no trigger when she picked them up. They looked like Lucian's pistols from league of legends but black and gold instead.

"Hmm, maybe Vindicate will like them, I'll just save them for him instead." Nojiko put them back into the c.h.e.s.t and threw the c.h.e.s.t into the storage ring. Sadly, Vindicate and Nami were the only ones in the crew that weren't aware of the storage ring.

Time went by and Erica finally woke up after sleeping for nearly two hours. She was still tired but she woke up because of the danger she had faced earlier, so she was still in cautious mode. "Where is this, oh my gosh, what is this place!?" Erica stood up in surprise seeing the land of gold and treasure.

"This place is where our reward is, we can take any treasure we want. After we're done we can go through that door over there." Nojiko pointed to the exit door up ahead and said.

"Nice! All our effort wasn't for naught, let clean up!" Erica looked at her finger and found that her storage ring wasn't there.

"I have it, I've loaded it up to the limit already, so we should probably leave." Nojiko walked around this place as if she was shopping, she picked up many things and put them into the storage. She was also waiting for Erica to wake in order to leave.

"Oh, okay." Erica shrugged, she wasn't a greedy person anyway and was only going to take as much as she could for Rein, who she knows, would want them. The two approached the exit and opened it up to leave. They were greeted by the same room just like Nami and Vindicate.

"I am having some serious back problem right now, I think my back in swollen from that fight with that Golem!" Erica complained as she felt her back, she looked around the room and saw no doors. However, Nojiko saw a door up above them in the same fashion that Nami had discovered it.

"What a strange place to put a door, do they want normal people to be trapped in this place?" Nojiko wondered which idiot made this room, it was clearly here to trap people that wanted to leave with the prize gold.

"They can try, but that will all fail in the end!" Erica grabbed Nojiko out of nowhere which startled her. She simply used Geppo to reach the door and pass through it. Once they walked through the door, they spawned on a platform in some room.

"Let's go through that hallway, that seemed to be the way out!" Nojiko pointed to the pathway and immediately both ran to it to leave. The hall was already lit for some reason, so they didn't need to do anything.

They walked for about ten minutes until they came to another room that was completely lit up. They saw a long stairway in the room that led upward. Erica took the spyglass out from her storage ring and looked at the top of the flight of stairs.

Once she looked, she saw two figures at the top of the stairs.

Rein and Kuina!

"Gasp! Kuina and Rein are at the top of the stairs, let's go meet with them!" Erica said excitedly.

"Really? Where is Vindicate and Nami?" They were the first to pass through the platform but Rein and Kuina were the first to pass the trials and make it here. So where were Vindicate and Nami, did something bad happen, Nojiko was starting to get worried.

"I don't...know." Erica said slowly "Vindicate is a capable guy, maybe they're safe." Erica hoped they were. If the trial was just as hard as hers then she wasn't so sure. They could be...

"Let's go talk to Rein and Kuina about it to see what we can do about them." Nojiko agreed, there was no other way at this point. There must be at least 100 stairs to climb in order to reach the top of this platform.

"F.u.c.k! Who made this trial and place, I want to beat them so badly!" Nojiko was annoyed with the idiots who made this trial, why were they making things so difficult!? Rein had already discovered Erica and Nojiko the minute they appeared in this room.

Once they made it to the top, they were greeted by Rein. "Nice! You guys made it through the trials...alive!" Rein looked Erica who didn't look so good and tossed her some medicine.

"Thanks, it was some serious hell, we found some creatures called Golems." Rein knew of Golems from video games.

"Golems in this place, now that pretty interesting." Rein said, "They could be from the Void century so that would make sense." Rein speculated that this was the case, there was no way it could be anything else.

"Void Century? What is that?" Kuina walked over, she had some strange goo on her shirt that Nojiko caught sight of right when she walked over.

"I'll explain that some other time, you might want to get that bug Goo or blood off your shirt." Rein chuckled from the memories of their trial.

"I told you, It won't come off, Hmph!" Kuina was mad that she couldn't get it off, but Rein made sure to rub it in.

B-Bug Goo and blood?" Nojiko's face changed a bit and so did Erica's.

Rein began to relay his trial. They had to fight swarms of bugs in the thousands at first while some were deadly poisonous. They had to fight a big Red firebug that could shoot fire and was totally fire resistant. Kuina had to run most of the time from the swarms that would appear, Rein and Kuina had to fight ten waves!

He told them about the slimy tentacle bug monster that caught Kuina which made him laugh. Just when he wanted to say more, he was nearly slashed by Kuina who had a cherry red face.

"Shut up, Rein! Don't say anymore or I'll chop you into ten thousand pieces!" Nojiko and Erica seemed to understand that something embarrassing happened and chuckled a bit but didn't pry about it.

"Hehe, Well, I ran into a big treasury, I wanted to take the whole thing but once I took to much, we were booted out!" Rein recalled the scene of himself s.u.c.k.i.n.g the place clean but was warped out by some strange force.

Nojiko's mouth twitched, greedy to the point where the treasury couldn't tolerate him, how sad! Erica laughed and was glad that the storage ring had a limit or she probably would have been kicked to the curb just like him.

"We're worried about Vindicate and Nami." Erica said

"No worries, they're alive, take a look over there. " Rein pointed to the wall that showed everyone pictures on it. Erica and Nojiko were dumbfounded seeing the pictures, they could see a green light under everyone's picture. This indicated that they were alive and well, so all was well.

Nojiko sighed in relief.

"Oh Yeah, once I got up here I obtained this." Rein took out an emblem of some sort that had Lion's head on it just like the one on the map.

"What is it for?" Erica looked at it and Rein handed it over to her to see. At that moment, Rein sensed two more people enter the room.

Nami and Vindicate!

"Well, Nami and Vindicate are here, they just have to climb the stairs." Rein said casually.

"They're here, do we go meet them?" Erica wanted to greet them but was stopped by Rein as he said they can come up here with no problem. After twenty minutes of waiting, both Nami and Vindicate made it up the stairs.

"Which dumbass made these damn stairs!?" Vindicate stomped his foot and said in annoyance. Once they made up the stairs, they looked ahead and saw their crew waiting for them and felt relieved.

"Nami!" Nojiko ran over and Hugged Nami.

"Ouch!" Nami felt the pain from her arm when she was hugged.

"Oh, sorry! Nojiko backed away and saw the wound on her arm. "We need a medic or something for both of them." Vindicate didn't look so back, he was healing pretty fast for some reason, maybe it was because of that Devil Fruit he ate.

Rein came over and applied some special medicine to her wounds and bandaged her up. Vindicate said he was okay and didn't need any medical attention. The exit was right ahead, the trial had been finished but before that, they heard a voice around them.

"Finally, everyone is here, this great deity had been waiting for everyone to group together!" This person's voice appeared out of nowhere, it had feminine vibe to it so Rein deducted that it was a female.

"Show yourself and stop hiding!" Vindicate looked around cautiously.

"Calm down, this god will show itself, hmph!" A silhouette jumped out and appeared in from of everyone.

"What the heck!" Rein said

"Oh, I worried for a little bit but it was just some overgrown furball, haha!' Vindicate laughed with tears in his eyes, it called itself a god!

What a Joke!

"You dare! You lowly mortals!" What appeared was familiar to Erica and Nojiko!

"Guys, it's the Cat from the picture Puzzle!" That's right, it was the cat from the picture puzzle. It had blue fur and green eyes, it also had black stripes on its back.

What did this mean?