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"Andell had powers this whole time?!" Saberie blurted, easily punting the giant's attack away from her, allowing Zoro to get his attack in. The giant Oni-Saberie cricked her neck and glared at the monster, "You wouldn't try attacking me when I'm off-guard, would you?" She asked rhetorically, then raised her club and brought it down several times on the creatures head. "BECAUSE THAT'S. REALLY. RUDE."

(( So I DON'T get to eat the queen?? ))

((YEAH once we kill it, let's drag it out and you can cook it!!! XD
also GLAD TO HAVE YOU BACK!!))
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Zoro nodded to himself, satisfied that he had toppled the giant queen cawchap. However, his pride soon faded when his eye scanned the disaster that his attack had summoned. "Oh, great," he sighed to no one in particular. "More of 'em..."
Swiping his blades furiously through insect-like bones, he joined Hadlar in the assault of the large group of monsters, taking care of the ones surrounding himself first.

Luffy tried harder, again and again, to break through the queen's shell with his teeth. Scraping and gouging with all his jaw strength wasn't enough to even dent the surface, however. "This thing is crazy!" the rubber captain blurted, spitting out the tiny fragments of the shell's coating he had been able to chip away. "It can't be eaten!!" Well, not from the outside, anyway...
Grabbing the crystal out of his tied up shirt, he called to Zoro.
"Oi, Zoro!! Catch this and protect it with your life! I have an idea!!"

The swordsman looked up just in time to see the elongated blue crystal come hurtling towards him. He lunged forward in a panicked haste to grab it, and he managed to snatch it up just before it hit the ground. "Be more careful with that thing, dammit!" Zoro cursed, recovering from his shock of almost dropping the precious crystal they had come so far to retrieve.
Silently, Zoro tried to convince himself that Luffy's 'idea' was not gonna be a stupid one...

Luffy swung out his leg in a fast, whipping action and cleared the area around the queen. Now he had direct access to the monster's fallen body.
Gripping the queen's top and bottom jaws, Luffy flexed his muscles and with force, pried the monster's mouth open. He crawled into the mouth, straightened his body up half way, then hardened his arms and feet with armament black defenses, to keep himself from being crushed. Gritting his teeth in a snarl, the captain stretched his arms and began slamming his fists down the queen's throat in rapid punches. "Quit rampaging all over my friends, you stupid bug!!!" he roared.

((More people post! C'mon!!))
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With the crystal safely tucked under his haramaki, Zoro joined Yokuta in defending Luffy and dwindling the number of cawchap surrounding them. The swordsman's arms were cut from the occasional slashing of teeth and claws from his skeletal enemies, but he wasn't even getting close to exhaustion.

Luffy smirked as sweat rolled down his face and dripped off his chin. He was doing it! His punches were having an effect. Feeling encouraged, he kept up his armament barrage for another thirty seconds before he switched his right fist into a slightly smaller version of his usual Gear Third.
"GOMU GOMU NO...GIGANT HOOK!!" the captain screamed, thrusting his giant black fist down the Queen's throat. The attack was aimed with a hooking motion so that as soon as the clenched fist was a good ways inside the creature, he turned his hand over and jerked it upward, making a forceful attempt to shatter the monster's skeletal frame along her neck from the inside, and at the same time rip her enormous throat.

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((damn that sounds violent, but it's the only idea I got!!!!))

((SABE! andell is doing something concerning you LOL enjoy))

The beast's roar was cut off as it gagged, Luffy's fists where doing a number on the massive queen and she was unable to fight back, as it began to cough up minuet amounts of blood each time Luffy pulled his fist back. All it could do was support itself with it's arms to keep from collapsing to the floor, and the swarm of her own underlings gathering around her in an attempt to protect her only hindered her movement.

Responding to Saberie, "I don't know how many but I think you may be right!" Hadlar yells over the shrieks and roars to the cooper. "Luffy we should get out of here before we get overrun!" he said coiling his vines around a group of cawchap and bowling them back into the crowds with immense force.

Skarner took to the air with a mighty flap of his wings changing back to human form he grabbed his pistols and began firing into the crowd of cawchaps which had swarmed him.

Suddenly popping into the area around the queen Andell appeared spinning a bomb on the tip of his finger "Hey~ red head!" he said with a smile as though nothing was going on around them. "I got a Aaaaaawesome idea! Batter up!" he shouted as he threw bombs her way with the intention of her knocking them into the massive groups of cawchap surrounding them.

Moments after Luffy began his attack the queen had finally taken all it could, its arms went limp and it lost consciousness. The massive insect dropped down about to land on the crew below her. Before she could land on any of them Yokuta swooped down and pushed her from the side, causing her to land ontop of the approaching drones instead of Luffy's crew and Hadlar.

Way to go Luffy!" he yelled over his shoulder, watching as the queen dropped "Swordsman!" he shouted over at Zoro "Is that gem you guys need still in one piece?"

IF it wasn't for Saberie's quick reflexes, those bombs would have hit her square in the head. She quickly caught them, then tossed them asidde at the cawchaps. The bombs burst into flames, engulfing the sstrange insects. "Oi oi, good plan," The cooper stated, "But watch where you throw your bombs, kid!"

Luffy nodded gratefully to Yokuta, then dashed into the clearing, hoping that Saberie and Andell would follow his orders. The cawchaps seemed confused due to the crews' sudden departure and refusal to continue fighting, but soon the creatures gave chase. "Don't look back! Keep going!!" Luffy called to the group, increasing his run to a whooshing sprint. "Zoro, lemme have the shiny rock!"
Carefully removing the crystal from his haramaki, the swordsman handed it off to his captain in a swift motion.

After about twenty minutes of running, Luffy started to get tired. He cast a glance over his shoulder to see how closely they were being followed, and when he saw nothing, he slowed his pace to a slow jog and caught his breath.
The rubber captain was still soaked in a red hue from his face to his exposed stomach, his shirt still tired around his waist. The Queen's blood that was caked on him made him sick when he inhaled, and he made himself more exhausted by trying to breath less deeply. Soon he slowed to a walk and tried not to think about the sticky blood he was coated in.
Suddenly, a loud buzzing of wings could be heard from farther down the tunnel, drawing nearer and nearer.
"I'll take care of it," Zoro announced, positioning himself for a fight with his swords at the ready. Soon enough, a swarm of cawchaps emerged out of the darkness. With a powerful strike, the swordsman cut the air with all three of his blades, shattering the bones of several cawchaps in the front line. He then used a single sword to destroy the rest of the advancing group by creating a sparking fissure on the floor of the cave that escalated into the walls, sending crushed rocks onto the cawchaps' heads.
"Thanks Zoro!" Luffy puffed, grateful for his first mate's assistance with the huge group of enemies. The captain wasn't sure he could deal with anymore fighting until he recovered his strength.
"Guys," Luffy began, continuing his walk through the cave. "I need meat. Really badly. Now."
"I might be able to kill an animal for you once we leave this damn cave," Zoro responded, meaning it. "Not sure what kind of variety we're gonna have for a menu, Captain, but I'll do my best. If s**t Cook would actually listen he might be able to prepare it for you, but I doubt he's paying much attention to us."
The comment about Sanji made Luffy snicker.

The group continued to head out of the cave, picking up their pace as the blue lights got brighter and signified that they were closer to the entrance. Finally, they reached the outside.

"Someone seal that damn cave. Luffy, I'll be right back. I'm going hunting."

Running out behind the group Skarner took his pistol from the holster on his hip and shot down the tunnel at one cawchap which had broken away from the swarm, and managed to keep directly on their trails, the bullet pierced through it "You 'eard yer captain, close off the blasted cave!" reloading his gun incase more came.

Yokuta stood ready near saberie letting the redhead close off the cave entrance. Standing ready just as Skarner was, making sure no other cawchap got free from the cave.

Turning to luffy and the others Hadlar slightly grimaced "Your crew is in danger.. My people are nearing the end of their ropes and are being used for sport as we speak.. and your going to eat..?" he questioned, Hadlar's worries for his people where starting to take a toll on him though he wouldn't admit it, the thoughts which had been racing through his mind since he found out what was happening to his people.