Supreme Swordsman Zoro

As Zoro extended his aura his spirit clashed with an aura that was like a literal black hole, everything around it was s.u.c.k.e.d into it and its greediness knew no bounds!

A 'huh' was heard from the island as a dark-skinned man with a relatively big nose and missing teeth started to ignore the defenders of the islands as he muttered to himself:

"Someone with Observation Haki in paradise?"

The man wore a white shirt and green camo pants and sandals, he also had a red sash tied around his rotund belly and a small black beard, he had a crimson bandana on his head and shaggy dark hair.

Near him stood a hulking man who wore a fighter overall and a champion belt around his belly, he had a luchador mask on his face and purple hair, he looked over at his boss as he seemingly stopped using his devil fruit powers and asked:

"Boss are you ok?"

Marshall D. Teach or otherwise now known as Blackbeard frowned as he started to sense around with his rudimentary Observation skills, even since his youth he tried to find the perfect devil fruit and when he joined WhiteBeards crew he forgone some of his Haki training and decided to search for it, somehow his crewmate Tatch got his hands on the devil fruit and he killed him to take it from him.

Even though Blackbeard's Haki wasn't advanced his devil fruit made it so he didn't even need to have advanced Haki as it weakened the devil fruit powers of those he used his powers against, of course, he would be at a disadvantage against someone who had more advanced Haki but he was in paradise, people didn't even know about Haki around here!

At first, he decided to get his devil fruit then make up for his Haki with a few years of training. A man with a giant sniper rifle was waiting nearby and looked at how Blackbeard was frowning, he had a monocle over his left eye with a target on it, he wore large overalls and a blue cape, a man that looked like he came out of some sewer on a deadly sick horse also appeared nearby, he seemed like he could fall over at any time but the horse just didn't do it.

Blackbeard then looked over at the harbor where Zoro's aura was coming from and decided to investigate, it wasn't that important for him to steal from the Drum Island citizens, he only came here to get some fun before he decided to get ahold of the new super rookie and give him to the marines so he could become a new Shichibukai, things were heard around that Jinbei the Fishman wanted to abdicate the position for some reason.

Zoro with swords unsheathed told his crewmates:

"This guy here is bad news and Kaya is still sick, you guys go towards the giant mountain meet the witch and heal her up, I will deal with these guys here."

Luffy wanted to protest saying he wanted to fight as well, he felt way stronger than before with all the training, Sanji wanted to join too but Zoro shook his head and said:

"I'm not sure if you could be helpful but Ok, you need more serious fights to grow, Usopp Nami Kuina you guys should go with the doctors and make sure Kaya gets to be taken care of."

Usopp nodded his head heavily, he needed to take care of Kaya, he took her from inside the ship and strapped her on his back, he followed the doctors as Luffy Sanji and Zoro walked towards the commotion.

Blackbeard frowned as he looked at Zoro's face which appeared he took a wanted poster from the pocket of the white shirt he had on and looked at Zoro then the wanted poster then started laughing:

"Zehazehahaha, it seems I didn't even have to search for you, Demon Blade Zoro, you just came up yourself to me, make's things easier."

Blackbeard looked towards the luchador looking fellow and said:

"Burgess take care of his friends while I will fight with Demon Blade, Van Augur provide support fire, Doc Q you do your things alright?"

Doc Q coughed and acknowledged while Burgess started laughing:

"Wehaaa, it's time to get this show started boss."

Van Augur the sniper nodded his head pensively like he didn't care and put the giant sniper rifle in front of him while he started to run around.

Zoro frowned as he sensed the powers of the man's crewmates but then shook his head, Sanji and Luffy were fortunately strong enough to take care of them, Doc Q was weak while Burgess was a bit below Luffy and Sanji as for Van Augur at least Luffy was immune to bullets as for Sanji...

Hopefully, he would learn something in this fight that would get him through it.

Luffy looked towards Burgess then started to run quickly towards him he already had his target, Van Augur suddenly pulled the trigger of his giant gun and hit Luffy directly between the brows but the bullet ricocheted towards Burgess hitting him directly in the stomach making him start bleeding.

Burgess looked towards Van and shouted at him:

"YOU DAMN UGH, HOW COULD YOU SHOOT ME INSTEAD OF HIM!"

Van Augur looked as before and he responded in the same way:

"I guess the boy has a devil fruit power, it seems I'm useless against him, I will try to shoot the blonde one with the curly eyebrow, for now, hold on."

But before he could continue his sentence Sanji appeared near him and tried to kick him in the head and end the fight right there and then, unfortunately for Sanji the man was quick on his feet and ran away immediately.

Doc Q coughed then started to throw apples around which when it rolled by Luffy's feet it exploded and threw Luffy into the air!

Burgess jumped after him and used a piledriver technique on him ramming him into the snow, but Luffy got out easily then patted his clothes so he could get rid of the snow. He cracked his neck then started to stretch his arm backward while running forward towards Burgess while shouting:

"Gum-Gum Pistol!"

Luffy's arm snapped right where it was before coming back with quick speeds, the arm was so fast Burgess couldn't dodge as his specialty wasn't speed. He could only toughen his muscles up to take the punch directly, Luffy intentionally or unintentionally hit the same spot that Burgess was shot in making him flinch in pain as he coughed up a mouthful of blood.

Luffy started to attack Burgess with a flurry of punches to take the advantage he created for himself, Sanji tried to catch Van Augur but he was too fast!

Fortunately, Sanji had his ace in the hole when it came to speed, as he trained with Nami and the others he started to realize that he could run even faster than before, even though it wasn't a huge improvement it should be enough for him to catch Augur and cave his skull in with a precise kick.

Zoro was tense as he observed Blackbeard's movements he knew he couldn't let his guard down against his opponent as he still didn't know which kind of devil fruit the man ate.

Suddenly Blackbeard put a hand in front of him and shouted:

"Korouzu!"

Zoro felt a strong gravity taking a hold of his body as it wanted to take him directly into Blackbeard's dark hand where the suction force was coming from!

Zoro remembered that Haki was supposedly easing the effects or even erasing the effects of devil fruit owners if the Haki was more advanced than the devil fruit owners, Zoro's feet were getting dragged around as trenches appeared in the snow when suddenly he transformed into a dark metal man, he encased his whole body into Armament Haki in its advanced hardening form!

Blackbeard's eyes narrowed as he looked at Zoro's Haki, he knew he couldn't use his devil fruit powers without getting near to him anymore, his haki looked a tiny bit more advanced than his own even though he didn't focus on it.

Suddenly Zoro started to through the motions of a sword technique as the image of a dragon appeared behind him then he transformed into a dragon himself!

An Azure Dragon of giant proportions rushed towards Blackbeard as Zoro's voice came from the dragon's mouth:

"Three sword style: Azure dragon rush!"

Blackbeard grunted as he took the blow with his body and a slash appeared on his big belly, but the slash wasn't deep as it was only a surface wound.

Zoro frowned as he backpedaled away from Blackbeard, the man was extremely sturdy, actually, his body seemed a bit too strong!

It was strange like his body was made from a material he couldn't truly cut!

Blackbeard looked at his wound and put a hand over it suddenly the wound disappeared!

But Blackbeard stamina seemed to have sapped a bit after the wound healed, Zoro wondered if he used his devil fruit or did he know a particular technique that healed him.

Blackbeard started rushing towards Zoro as he put his hand down on the ground:

"Blackhole!"

A giant hole of darkness appeared on the ground which started to drag Zoro into it, even though he still had his Haki activated that didn't mean he was fully immune to Blackbeard's devil fruit, it could only weaken his effects and it seemed Blackbeard started to use his Haki too!

Sanji looked over at Zoro as he suddenly appeared over at Van Augur and tried to kick him in the head but Van Augur dodged and took a shot directly towards Sanji's lower area wanting to make him a eunuch!

Sanji almost transformed when he realized what the man wanted to do, that was his little friend down there, and he didn't even meet anyone else yet too! He couldn't lose him!

Sanji dodged by the hair of his teeth as the bullet lodged itself in his left leg, Sanji's speed started to take a worse turn as his leg was injured and Van Augur immediately created space between them, he aimed at Sanji's forehead and he was ready to launch another shot!

Time started to slow for Luffy as he looked at Sanji, there was no way the cook could dodge Van Augur's shot, Burgess was injured but he still had some fight in him but he decided to ignore him and started to run towards Sanji wanting to intercept the bullet for him.

Van Augur smiled as he put his hand over the trigger, one second, two seconds, three seconds, the shot was taken and the bullet started flying towards Sanji's head ready to pierce directly through it!

Luffy's perception of time seemed to slow down as he seemingly saw how Sanji's head blew up and all his gray matter started to spread on the white snow on the ground blood seeping into it transforming it creating blood flowers below.

Suddenly before the vision could become true Luffy's skin started to turn pink and he appeared in front of Sanji and redirected the bullet right back to Van Augur, his pinkish skin turned back to normal and the bullet hit Van Augur in his shooting arm virtually incapacitating him for the rest of the fight.

Doc Q and his steed known as stronger suddenly appeared out of nowhere at their location and threw some kind of gas at them, Luffy knew he shouldn't inhale the gas while Sanji was still shocked at his near-death situation Luffy took him by the waist and started running.

Fortunately, the gas's speed was quite slow so they could escape from its range in time.

Zoro didn't have time to look over as he was still clashing with Blackbeard, he hoped that the duo was Ok.

Blackbeard suddenly took a horse stance as he said:

"Blackhole liberation!"

A bunch of houses started to be thrown at Zoro from the black hole that Blackbeard opened around him which Zoro started cutting down at high speeds.

It was a good opening for Zoro!

Zoro suddenly started running towards Blackbeard as he started spinning his swords while muttering:

"Nothing can stop me, there's one dream and that's the one be at the top, killing my way through thousands of armies, decapitating the wicked helping the unlucky, Three swords style secret technique: Three hundred thousands worlds decapitation full-body hardening!"

Zoro cut directly through all the debris and appeared behind Blackbeard as he sheathed his swords and started panting heavily, this technique drained him of his Haki as well as his stamina and strength, hopefully, it would be enough to take care of Blackbeard.

Blackbeard suddenly vomited a mouthful of blood as countless tiny slashes appeared on his body which he then made disappear, but the damage was still done!

Blackbeard looked at Zoro with anger in his eyes then he used his devil fruit powers to absorb his crewmates, he was injured and while Zoro was exhausted he didn't think it was worth to fight it to the death with him, he felt Zoro was still holding something back, as he didn't use his ace in the hole as well, the fight would be too taxing and if a third party appeared the loss for him would be gigantic, as Ace was still on his trail!

Maybe he was nearby if he detected the climax of the fight with his Observation Haki and came while Blackbeard was weakened there was a chance he could actually die before he could attain his ambition!

Blackbeard sighed as his rotund body suddenly started running at high speeds! How could such a fatso run so fast was unknown but Zoro was too tired to run after him, Luffy tried to stop him but a gut punch from Blackbeard almost incapacitated him, Luffy coughed up a mouthful of blood as he looked at Blackbeard running away then jumping into a small dinghy afterward he used his devil fruit powers to make it disappear on the horizon at high speeds.

Zoro sighed as he looked at the man, he didn't know who he was but he was extremely dangerous! If the man had a better Haki technique than him he could have lost miserably, his devil fruit power was extremely strong!

Zoro looked around and used his Haki to feel the location of his crewmates then smiled as he felt them on the top of the mountain along with two different auras, he indicated to Luffy and Sanji that they should go as well.

They had to make sure Kaya would get treated by the witch, so that meant they needed to fork out quite a bit of money...