There once was a man named, Gol D Rogers. He had fame, wealth, and power beyond your wildest dreams! Before they hung him from the gallows, these were the final words he said, "My fortune is yours for the taking, but you'll have to find it first! I left everything I owned… In One Piece…" Ever since then, pirates all over the world, set sail for the Grand Line searching for One Piece. The treasure that would make their dreams come true!

That very story has been told from ear to ear, over the long course of time, that the Legendary Pirate Gol D. Roger, traveled the Seven Seas, and struck the new age, the Age of the Pirates! For years, there has been plunder and chaos across the ocean in search for the legendary treasure, in the end, the one who finds the Treasure, will forever be known as the King of the Pirates! Our tale begins in a troublesome part of the sea, East Blue, said to be the treading groups for renowned Pirates, such as Don Krieg and Buggy the Clown, both having a high reputation and suitable bounty on our heads, but none have yet to be known like the Pirates of the East Blue seas, those who are just starting their journey and making their way into the horrid living known as the Pirate Age.

"God damnit Jasper!" was heard from a distance land, a small island known as Skulp Island, another treading grounds for nothing but Bounty Hunters and Salesmen looking for Weaponry business and work. The yelling being heard from a three-man group running away from a large large crowd of angry villagers, angrily thrashing about with their swords and firing rifles at three men, the one screaming still telling his head off at the others, "Why the living hell do you two always have to do this!?" The man said with bold fury towards the other. The crowd showering in hatred and frustrations as they shooed away the group, "I hope you all burn in hell!" "Die you Pirate scum!" All hateful comments just raining from the crowd, the other of the running trio that caused the problem giving off his light snickers of pleasure.

"Ah. Can you truly blame me for not trying? Did you see how elegant her figure was!? So curvy! So soft! I almost couldn't bare myse-!" As he was cut off by a right hook, nailing him square in the jaw by his companion running beside him, giving off a loud groan. "Shut the hell up… and run…" As the one running ahead of him, was watching his surroundings with a largely clueless expression, seeing butterflies floating about in front of him and smiled as he heard the crowd screaming behind him, "uhhh guys… What are we running from again?" Both of his companions looking at him with the greatest look of bitter annoyance and disbelief of the ignorance, the one causing the riot sighed heavily as he shook his head and cleared his throat, "Here we go again…"

[Flashback - 8 Hours before this chaos…]

The water lightly rocking in peace as the blistering sun was shining the clear waters, the seagulls flocking about in the sky above as a semi-large ship was wading through the waters, peacefully as ever, their large flag rippling in the wind. The printing on the flag was those of a pirate, a large skull dead-center in the cloth of the flag but instead of bones crossing the skull, windmill fans were the replacement. This being the ship piloted by the Windmill Pirate Crew. Little known crew, beginning their adventure on the seas not a week before this moment, the ship consisting of the three men fighting back the sea's deadly wonders. "Ooooooh! Guys, you think I could eat that seagull?" said in a somewhat soft and curious tone, coming from the mast of the ship dangling from the ladder of the standing platform, a childish laugh came from the man of 24 years, who stood at 5'6 and wearing a white plain, collared shirt open to expose his chest area which was slightly with scars on his body, covering his lower region would be black shorts that ran past his knees and a sash across his hip, with nothing but sandals on his feet that were still dangling from the edge of the bar on the ladder, as his deep blue eyes wandered across the ever blue skies, as his also bright blue hair flowed above his head and fall down from the direction his body was hanging. Still awaiting the answer from the others, he looked down and flailed his arms, "Hey guys! Did you hear me!? It's about lunch!" with his last words, the flailing about made him fall down the ladder and tumble on his head, as the others simply sat there in shock & awe seeing that the very captain of their ship was planted dead on his ass, "You see… I told you I should have been made Captain…"

That coming from the man on the right, Rio Hanaki, a 29 year old swordsman, sporting brownish blonde hair and hazel eyes. He stood at 5"8 and he wore a black vest the was unzipped to show a little bit of his chest with black gloves. Rio also wore black pants with black shoes and had his crew mark on his left arm, which again was the skull and windmill fans, also wearing thin black elbow pads. "Time and time again, you just can't keep your head on straight. One of these days, it's gunna crack like an egg." He grumbled to his friend, in a lecturing tone.

"Hey just because you're older doesn't make you the obvious cannonball for the captain Rio!" The man said as he rolled over onto his stomach and rubbed his sore head, "IT'S CANDIDATE YOU IDIOT!" He scolded with a strike of his sword to the top of his friend's head, before walking away to the other side and shaking his head. "Call me when dinner is ready."

The other witnessing the quarrel only shook his head, "You two are cat and dog with this stuff I swear…" giving a shrug and a soft flick of his hair, he smirked. This man was, Jasper Evans, lady killer extraordinaire and master assassin of the Windmill Pirate Crew, He wore a red coat with a tall collar that only goes down past his tail bone, with a black and gold lining. His hair, while never one color, is short and simple with a very cool style to it, covering his forehead but not being longer than his hairline in the back. It looks untidy but falls in a way that women have said looks good on him, shirt being white with a long collar. It shows his chest, and a muscular one if comments from the ladies have anything to say about it. Over his loose white shirt, he wears a brown vest that clips where his belly button lies, a large pink belt with multiple layers, giving it the look of bandages. Over his vest and shirt and around his waist are leather belts, mainly for style purposes. His eyes shown a vibrant green hue, and in his ears are large ear rings, in his right ear a large rainbow colored feather. And finally, in the middle of his mainly bare chest lies a pendant that he always wears. Turning away to let his coat float about and reach down to help the captain up, and dust off his shirt, he sighed. "Try and keep your head where it's supposed to be, alright Gerard?" As his Captain gave a nod and walked to the head of the ship with a soft nod, "When are we supposed to be landing anyways?" Asked with a bright curiosity, as he looked around at the seagulls flying about the sky.

"It shouldn't be too long, but you know, I'll go get some food going. Everyone around this ship gets grump-ass syndrome when they get hungry from the looks of it; Ciao." He said with a soft wave, and turning away and walking into the cabin of the ship as he went to prepare a meal for the rest of his crew. Gerard simply say on the edge of the ship's Bowsprit and hummed a soft tune to himself for a while, around a half hour later he saw something, it was another island off the edge of his eye. "Oooooh that must be where we were supposed to go…" With that he performed several backflips until he planted on the deck and hurried over to the wheel and steered the ship towards the island and headed for the docking bay, in the distance he made it from the island. 'Skulp Island' read a large sign before the docking bay, as the ship slowly pulled into the dock at a heavy stop as he could see there were several others that looked battered and broken in the lot, Gerard only keep his eyes around on those, "Looks like someone could use a paint job… like you, and you, and you… and definitely you.. and…" his words were cut off by his ship ramming into the side of another and leaving a rather large hole in the side that rocked the foundation of his very own, and startling the others as they both screamed from their slumped over positions, "GOD DAMNIT GERARD!" As they both rushed out seeing the hole in the other ship, their jaws dropped at the scene as water flooded into the broken region. Gerard turned to his mates with a wide grin, "Tape will fix this! It fixes everything!" As he said that, he dashed off of the ship and walked past the docking as the others followed suit, and remaining in their shocked state as they didn't know what to say, so they remained silent to keep attention down but hurried their way towards the town, as there was a loud commotion around the ship they crashed into, they gritted their teeth and pushed Gerard forward and ventured their way into the town.

After a short walk from the docking station, they reached a small town in the middle of the island, seeing business vendors everywhere and bounty boards lined on every street corner, the three of them seeing all of life flowing from this town, they all decided to get well acquainted with the locals, Rio stepped forward and motioned them both to follow as he looked back at them both giving them a heavy glare, "both of you… Try and keep as low a profile as you can. We are here for the treasure and nothing else, got it?" his words in a hushed whisper. As he turned away and examined a weaponry booth, and the vendor as he thought to himself, "This one right here… looks about right. How much old man?" He questioned looking at the very differently made sword that was placed against the table, the old man spoke to him the price following some silent coughing, Rio shook his head and paid the vendor with his own share of the last treasure they made and took the blade for his own, examining it careful. "Hey guys, don't you think this craftsmanship is a little weird?" No response was heard. His head throbbed as he saw that Gerard was still standing there but looking around at a fluttering butterfly, not minding any of the words that came from Rio, but seeing no sign of Jasper. "Oh man… Where did he go?"

Shortly after, Gerard's head snapped back into the question as he pointed to a tavern down the lane, "Jasper snuck off into there, after a crowd of women. He seemed pretty excited, maybe he was thirsty." Rio sighed under his breath and took Gerard by the collar and pulled him into towards and into the tavern, seeing a large band and an area of people crowded with drinks, women, and hearty laughter going about the crowd, Rio sighed in relief as he saw Jasper alone at the bar and not surrounded by women, they both approached him and leaned over his shoulder, Rio raised an eye at him and proclaimed, "Got shut down this time pretty boy?"

Jasper's head tilted towards him and shook his head, "Not that, two of them were already wetting their britches but this isn't my glass of rum. See that big guy over there? That's the guy who's ship we hit… I recognised the flag on the ship and the imprint on his armor, they're the Krieg Pirates, said to be pretty well known in these parts of the sea." Taking a sip of the drink he ordered and looked down. Rio nodded in agreement, as he kept his hand on Gerard's collar, planting him in a seat next to Jasper, "Both of you sit here, and don't make any kind of scene." As he turned to the bartender and held his hand up, "Until then, I think I'll have a drink old man." He placed the Berri on the counter, as a couple drinks were passed down the counter as he took a swigg of the glass with a sigh, "This town has good ale. Drink up boys, we are heading into the life we wanted." said the man, both nodding in agreement and guzzling down their beverages.

After a short time Rio raised from his seat and waved at both of his friends, "Both of you better behave… I gotta take a leak…" both nodding again to him, as Jasper looked around and sighed, "Only if…" After taking another swing of his drink, before stopping in amazement at the sight, a beautiful, young woman dressed in a long, red and black dress with heels and her short yet curly red hair covered her eyes, gloves with the very same texture and coloring, her lips dipped in red, he saw this beauty. "A-ah.. Such an tender figure, hips swerved at the step, and perky lips and such a glamorous chest, yes yes!" He looked around and passed a small pill to Gerard, "Here drop this in rum for you and Rio. It's flavor additives, I purchased in the last town we passed. You'll love them!" He said with a keen smile, knowing he lied to both of his friends, being the ships doctor as well as the assassin, those pills were a special concoction to enhance the alcohol levels in the rum and make them pass out for a small time.

"Wow! Thanks buddy! I can't wait to try this." He said dropping them both in the alcohol and shoved his rum down with much haste, as his vision begins to blur after a while his head tumbles over and hits the counter, Jasper taking his time to make his move. He fixed his collar, and walked up to the woman and cleared his throat with gentle grace, "Good day, has heaven cast an angel aside or did you come to visit me personally?" His words falling from his lips like honey to the ears, as the woman giggled at his words, "You surely know the right approach to a woman. The name is Lindine" Taking her hand with much grace, and pressing his lips to her hand "Sir Jasper. How about I treat you to the time of your life?" He tossed some strapped together berries at the band, "Play us a saucy tune boys!" As he took her by the hip, pulling her close to his arms and dancing into the crowd with the others, giving her swift swings across the dancefloor and causing her giggle at every turn, him giving her sweet comments and groping at her which peaked her interest in him as she smirked, "Such a gentleman." She said in a pleased tone at his display, "I aim with high intentions m'lady. You've not see the world yet." His blonde hair giving her a soft wink and tugging her away from the crowd and towards a staircase.

As the time passed, Rio was still in the restroom leaning against the wall and slightly annoyed at all taken positions in the room. As he grumbled, "God why can't one of you finish already?" As he said that, one of the men snickered and flipped him off from behind, with much anger. Rio seeing as he was already in a bad mood, he walked behind the man took him by the back of the head and whispered, "Night night, dumbass." and sending his skull into the wall and crashing through, causing him to knock as Rio tossed him to the side the others hurried out of the restroom and past a large man walking in. With a long sigh, he finally got to relieve himself, the large man taking place beside him, after a small amount of time the man noticed there was one of his men on the ground.

"What the hell happened here!? You know something about this small fry?" The man asked as his golden armour shimmered in the light, and his tall figure overshadowed Rio, he turned his head, and spit on the ground. "Poor idiot got in my way, so I slumped him over. Not my problem." He fixed his pants and prepared to walk out of the door but the man stopped him, by his shoulder, sending his knee square into Rio's gut and sent him flying into the wall and sliding down the wall, "The name is Captain Don Krieg. Only I can kick around my men and get away with it. Don't let our paths cross again." He said as he took his way out the door, and Rio took hold of his gut for a second and took a long breath "Son of a bitch…" As he finished up and walked out as well, and back to his seat, he saw Jasper gone and Gerard passed out, he shook his head and rolled his eyes back, "You can't be fucking serious… This can't be good." As he mindlessly took his drink, pressing it to his lips and guzzling down the liquor, before stopping and falling onto the floor and passing out.

About an hour later, there was a loud crash around the area where Don Krieg and his men were supposed to be sitting, it was the big guy himself breaking a table over the back of one of his men, "Where the hell is she!? I've been waiting for ages now!" As the bartender approached him in an afraid manner and muttered, "A-are you talking of that one fancy lookin' gal?" Krieg giving an obvious looking nod. The old man's finger shakily pointed to the stairs as the large, man hurried his way up the stairs and heard nothing much a womanly shriek, followed by several gasps and screams. "What the hell!?" As he stormed down the halls until he hit the room, kicking in the door and dropping his jaw at the scene as he saw Jasper and Lindine wrapped in sheets, they both looked over at the door as Jasper gave a look of displeasure, "You know, you'll have to wait your turn…" which made Lindine give Jasper a scornful glare, as Don Krieg stood there in pure frustration, his body shaking with pulsating scorn and hatred for the sight. His veins in his head popped and his teeth grit, his fist raised high in the air and prepared to strike as Jasper snickered and said, "Well shit…" as he hurried from the bed to grab his clothing and leapt out the window in a glorious manner, the sun shimmering off of his golden locks and his pride higher than the clouds. Finally, running around in his birthday suit and several more crashes being heard from the outside, Jasper laughed at his swift get away and ran towards the ship. As the crashing was so loud that Gerard and Rio begun to wake up, to the sound. "Once I get my hands on that fancy footed bastard, I'll rip his ass in half!" As Rio and Gerard exchanged a look of displeasure and nodded, "Jasper…" both pushing off the floor and rushing out, while everyone stared back at them rushing out the door. "Hold on!" Gerard said as he turned back, running to the bar counter and grabbing a pitcher of rum, and running out "This is mine now." Following close behind Rio, as he heard the sounds of gun shots being heard as a large crowd of men and angry villagers chasing after the two, knowing they were being seen with Jasper early. "Oh hell! Captain looks like they aren't happy!" Gerard turned to him and finished the glass, tossing it behind him and into the crowd, "Well, who would be happy at people who caused a heavy uproar of bloodthirsty pirates in their bar?" Which caused Rio to shake his head in anger,thinking 'this has to be one of the only moments where you aren't a dumb ass!' Before anything could happen, Jasper hopped out the bushes and ran beside the two of them, in a happy manner, "Well top of the morning friends! Nice weather were having?"

As Rio closed his eyes tightly, he turned to see Jasper behind him, and restrained himself from choking his friend out, but yelled out at the top of his lungs, "YOU SON OF A BIIIIII-"

[Flashback End - Present time]

The three still running away from the large crowd as Jasper leaned his head over to Gerard, they both nod to each other. "Well, then I suppose we should deal with this sooner or later." As they were close to reaching the docks at the end of the long path, he saw a large crowd of Don Krieg's men standing in front of their ship as they all formed a circle around each other, and looked around in the crowd seeing themselves surrounded, all they could hear was the sound of pistols loading and swords being unsheathed, Rio shook his head and flipped the hair around and spat on the ground, "Time to test out his new blade I guess… I haven't had the time to, because of these idiot friends of mine." As Rio proclaimed this seven of the crew mates walked up from the blocking crowd, and pointed their swords at him and grunted, "You're gunna pay for wreckin' our ship spike boy!" As the said that, Rio glared at all of them taking a large deep breath, as he took hold of the blade, it being a chokuto or straight sword. The hilt of the blade being jet black, and the extension of it longer than any normal blade made at that time, he ran towards the crowd and released the blade as he ducked down almost to waist level, his blade released so fast that two of the attacking pirates, giving a rotational motion in between two of the men and swiftly stabbing his blade in the ground once he got past the two, almost as fast as a bullet he was in his current position as blood poured from the multiple slice wounds of the two, Rio grinned. "Don't tell me you're all talk and no play? Come and give me some love." He released his sword, leaving it staked in the ground and spread his arms around in a smirk.

Both Gerard and Jasper, were dodging bullet fire and whistling and cheering for their friend, "Way to go Rio-sama! Show them who's spiky!" Gerard said as he mocked and laughed at the marksmanship of the gunners. "Yeah, show them the Windmill Pirates aren't anything to mess with!" Jasper added on to Gerard as he saw that Don Krieg and another individual were heading towards this direction as people started to die and bodies flew around, "We gotta move fast Gerard!" As the scene cut away from Rio for a second, Don Krieg and the other man was seen, the other dressed in some strange but obscene sphere armor, "What the jolly hell…" had came from Jasper as he saw the other man's get up, both Gerard and Jasper pressed their hands to their mouths and struggled to conceal their laughter. After several attempts they both fail at their task, and burst into laughter at the outfit the man was wearing, and that didn't please him on bit causing him to step forward towards the start of the laughter, Jasper rose from holding his gut to see a large sphere heading towards his face, "Fire Pearl Surprise!" Before the attack made contact, the sphere set ablaze and struck Jasper dead in the face, sending him into a burning pain and spiraling to the ground, as he laid there with burn smoke running from his collar and cheek, as Pearl stood there in boastful joy, "Now there is something to laugh about! How about that pretty boy!?"

Jasper softly rose up, chest first like an undead out of the casket, his cheek was severely burned and his joking expressing now gone to frustration, "You know, ladies don't take pity on this face when it's this damaged… And that kinda hurt." As he said that, his skin slowly started to revert back to normal, the burn marks and everything turning back to his clear, perfect and natural color as he flipped his hair out of his eyes and smiled at the crowd, "Aha! Works like a charm~" As he said that with much charm itself, and vanness. The women in the angry mob fainted. Jasper got up from the ground and dusted himself off like nothing, smirking at the man and snickering, "That the best you got?" Pearl seeing him unharmed only made him more frustrated, the rest of his spheres ignited in flames at the passion of the anger, "First you try to disgrace the woman of our Captain… Then you insult me, I'll show you what true hell is! With my new armor, I am now Pearl the Steel Wall! I got beaten by that slick from the Straw Hats with my last, but this time hehe this time, nothing is standing in my way from an actual challenge!" As he said that, Pearl rushed at Jasper screaming, "I've only lost blood in battle once! And that was the last time!"

With those words, Jasper simply let out a small 'tsk' and tossed his coat off of his back as he reaching into every place he could on his torso and tossed several objects into the air, around 10 of them being tossed, Jasper blew a kiss at the crowd and dashed towards his opponent and leaping into the air, using Pearl's head as a stepping stood, the things he tossed into the air, were several very easy to conceal daggers, all of them floating about at the sky as he grabbed six of them between his fingers, three in each hand, Pearl turned around to see Jasper swirling them daggers at them at blinding speeds, each of them flying past Pearl's head which caused him great fear at just the very speed, the very force and speed made the blades gash each cheek on Jasper, giving him cat like markings on his cheeks that slowly dripped blood. Before hitting the ground, Jasper grabbed the last two daggers, one in each hand and smirked at Pearl, "And such a bold faced lie was told on this day, I thought you only bled in battle once in your life? Sorry to break it to you, but you are no match against this Assassin!" As he pointed the daggers in a provoking manner, at Pearl he stood there in shock at how he broke his record again for not bleeding in battle, the rest of the crowd afraid to even continue the gunfire at the fighting pirates, but Don Krieg of course only standing in frustration, spoke boldly, "Kill that worthless bastard or you're going overboard!"

Pearl took that as a displeased note to speed up the process as he smacking his spheres together causing them all to ignite in blue flames, Jasper raised an eye at the combatant as he saw Pearl rushing at him again, but stopped as Pearl stopped and flung several flaming pearls at Jasper this coming to a shock, Jasper avoided most of them but got struck in the right hand, dropping his dagger and turning his eye away for a second, Pearl got several clean and strong hits at him sending him into a tree, as Jasper took a minute to compose the situation, he looked around for the position of his blades and smirked, reaching into his brown vest, and pulling out several small pellets and tossing them to the ground, creating a large surrounding of smoke and haze in the area, "I work in the dark, to penetrate the light…" Jasper said, in his soft yet sweet tone, giving way to multiple possibilities to his location as he said, that footsteps could barely be heard. Moving as swiftly, and silently as a mouse, all of the daggers were retrieved as he took his position to strike the blind Pearl, "Where the hell did you do!? C-cowards hide in the shadows! Come out!" with those words, Pearl flung several more pearls in every direction he could in attempt to attack Jasper, but failing as he did so, in a hushed whisper, "No matter how hard your armor is… everything has a breaking point, and my blades are that point!" As he said that he tossed several daggers at a heavy power and velocity, as the thinned and hard edges pierced into the foundations of the armor and caused cracks in them as the smoke slowly clearing in front of Pearl, he could only see Jasper taking a dash for him, and running his arms behind him, as his body took in momentum from the running, he kept towards him, and begun a right 360-degree rotation at the center point of the breaking point of the armor, "Now! Silence Step! Final Waltz!" As he said that, he sent both of his palms pounding into his point of the armor, both hands pointed in opposite diagonal positions, in an upward position and nothing but pressure was sent into the spot, which shattered soon after that single hit, but Jasper didn't let up, he perform swift shifts in his body in both directions and sending his palm into the same spot over and over, repeating his formation. His several palm thrusts caused his armor to crack away and shatter at the strikes. Before long, Pearl was at his knees coughing blood from the pressure being pushing into his organs from the armor hitting his skin and the blows as Jasper only laughed and fixed his hair, "Next time… Don't try and challenge our Crew!" As he said that, he used the same display of strange power he used to repair the burned and damaged skin, he used showing that his skin was changing, as he sent that last thrust at Pearl, his very palm cause a heavy cracking in his face sending him flying backward and planting to the ground, before he turned to his crewmates, giving them a thumbs up, "Alright! That was a walk in the park." He said strolling towards the rest.

Rio sat on the bodies of several other Krieg Pirates that tried to fight back at him, two of them sitting there holding their faces and screaming in pure agony as smoke rose from them, they only yelled for the sensation to stop, as Rio stood up and sent his foot into the head of the screaming men, "Idiots… Making such unneeded noises when I'm trying to have a conversation. Anyways, I think this should hold us. Maybe we shou- ARGGGH!" He said as he felt a sharp pain in his back, and a cryptic voice spoke to him, "You think that you can kill off our men and not get hacked by this crew?" As Rio backed away as fast as he could, he ripped his sword from the ground and let blood trickle down his back from the long, deep slash. "You think you're tough shit because you got one good hit off of me!?" with this frustrating exclamation, as he pointed his blade at the man, showing it was a shirtless man, with a gas mask over his mouth, lazy black hair over his eyes, and a sickle and sword, one in each hand. They both took their positions as they dashed towards one another. Rio making the first slash as their blades danced about, Rio managed to gash the man's chest in a cross formation on his chest, "That's trading blows!" As the man raised an eye at him and growled heavily, returned with a sweep of his sickle and cutting the bridge of Rio's nose while he was stepping backward. As the blood dripped down his face, Rio smirked as he placed his finger on his nose as a sizzling noise was heard and a small amount of smoke came from his skin, Rio giving off a light inhale and exhale, he removed his finger showing a closed wound on his nose, "Child's play…" The masked man, only stood back and nearly lost his cool in shock. His mask was falling from the slash damage, and muttered under it, "D-devil.. powers.. You're a devil user!" Raising his weapons in a readied stance, they both rush at each other, a whirlwind of sparks rippled from each blade as the two crossed blades time and time. With almost every release, blood was slung to the ground from either of the bodies, as both of them locked blades in a deadlock, blood showing down their bodies from the slash wounds, they both stood eye to eye at the moment of collision and glared, "Tell me Devil user, What is your poison?" His question being of his fruit power.

Rio simple shakes his head, showing he was growing tiresome of the fight, and grinned, "It's better if I show you, rather than telling!" As he said, as he performed a complete sweep kick at the same time cracking his sickle in half and making it fall into the air as he caused the man to tumble to his back, Rio jabbed his blade into the earth next to his face and caught the broken part of the sickle, "Meltdown…" As he said that, he caused the temperature in his skin to rise, in contact with the metal within seconds, it would begin to drip away metal droplets as the droplets slowly and carefully fell into the slash mark, leaving deep and painful sears in flesh as the man screamed to the extent that he'd pass out from the feeling and drop his weapons. Rio taking his from the ground and walking away, "If you need me. I'll be in the ship…" Everyone else in the crowd standing speechless at the scene, as the swordsman walked away as if nothing had happened. All that was left was Don Krieg himself, walking forward after witnessing the humiliation of his crew, only felt a hateful rage in his chest against them, "You're all going to die! Everyone of you!" Krieg shrieked out as he pulled out two pistols from his sides, and his shoulder plates and sides of his armor released multiple guns as they all released a hail of fire upon the Captain of the crew, kicking up a large pile of dust and and smoke as he laughed manicly, the gunfire stopped and the dust slowly cleared as a body wasn't shown in the spot. Krieg stood there in confusion as he wondered where in the living hell he could be, "You know you're aim could use some work. Kinda like, actually trying to hit the target?" Gerard said as he was standing above Krieg on nothing but air as he smiled down and him and jumped up blasting an air current downward, knocking Krieg flat on his ass and then softly making his way to his original position, holding his fingers up to the peace sign.

"My name is Captain Gerard Hanwell! Next in line for the Pirate thrown!" As he said that, it made Krieg laugh raising back on his feet, "Last time I heard that… a goofball made a mistake! Boys, Send it down!" As he made his call, a long halberd was sent from the crowd of his men, "This was specially made for taking care of troublesome Devil Fruit users like you! This blade was specially made with seastone and reinforced steel! Try to avoid this you pesky fly!" As Krieg swiftly slashed his weapon at Gerard, he only ducked underneath the first slash as Krieg released the pistol at his side and took fire at Gerard, barely escape the blast, he held his side as the bullet grazed his side, he saw that his shirt was damaged in angered him as he inhaled a deep long breath, "Wind Wind Current!" As he said that, the release all of the air he built up in a high pressured stream of wind that smack Don Krieg into several trees, and made him drop his halberd, and groan in frustration, "You are one troublesome little… FIRE THE CANNONS!" As his order followed through, some of the crewmates snuck by him without notice as several cannonballs launch towards him, Gerard crosses his arms and builds up a strong enough current of wind that a pillar would launch him in the air and avoid the explosion above him, as Don Krieg and multiple other's continued the gunfire, Gerard only took the second to all up another strong current of wind that pushed back on the bugshot upon contact with the wave of bullets as he saw that Don Krieg had a large amount of gunfire still coming towards him, Gerard flipped off of his current and rode another as he surfed through the air, screaming "WOOHOO!" At every flip, as he dodge and rolled past bullets he got a fair distance away from Krieg as he smirked at him, "This is the end of the line for you! Windmill Fan!" As he kicked several thin edged wind slashes at Krieg in the front of his armor, cutting away segments so they would exposing his chest and several broken weapons fell from his chest and to the ground, Krieg begun to panic at the sight, "D-damn you! Die!" As he tried to toss the halberd at Gerard, he ran at it, jumped on the Halberd, and launched his fist towards his stomach, "Taaaaaaaaake this!" Wind gathering at the center of his fist in a large collect as Krieg drops his guns in panic, Gerard stops at Krieg feet and smiled, "Gale Upper!" As he shoved his fist into Krieg's gut, releasing the current in the form of a rather large tornado, it sending him swirling into the sky, "And now for the finale! Bird's Eye Drop!" He took control of the current that was already above and carrying Krieg to send him at a spirally force crashing through his very own boat and causing it to slowly sink into the sea. Gerard panting softly a the effort dodging the bullets was, "No biggie, this guy was a kitten compare to our home…" He spoke to Jasper as he took his by the collar and muttered to him. "Let's just get the hell out of here… Before we catch anymore trouble."

After pulling their ship from dock and sailing away a voice was heard in the distance, well-wishing the ship a safe travel, "Sweet Assassin! Be safe in your travels! Never forget more!" was said from the damsel that Jasper accompanied in the tavern. "Hey loverboy looks like you got another addition to your fanclub." Rio said with a teasing tone. "Oh haha, keep it up funny man. Let's just find the right island this time." Gerard was once again ignoring the conversation of them both, and humming his tune on the edge of the ship, "I wonder if that seagull ever got eaten…", both of the crew mates giving their captain a sadly unsatisfied glare, and speaking simultaneously, "What the living hell goes through your mind on a daily basis!?" With a cheerful and vigorous response, "BIRDS YOU IDIOTS!" As they floated away, their screaming and chaos followed them through the sea, thus ending the first tale of the Windmill Pirates.