Chapter 2- Meet the crew
As the sun rose over the horizon revealing to dark deep ocean that cradled the ships mighty hull the crew all awoke from last nights party. Each greeted each other with a hangover induced haze. As Akatski rose from the table he walked over to Clare and asked if she was hungry. "Sure I could do for some breakfast. What are you making?" She questioned curiously. "Ah. My famous egg omelets with bacon and cheese." He cheered enthusiastically.
While Akatski ran down stairs to prepare the meal Hitoru came walking around the door frame's corner and began petting Twilight. He stared blankly at the dragon before he shifted his stance towards Clare and asked. "I'm assuming Seven left early last night?" He fell asleep before everyone else but already knew he had. Thats just how Seven is. "Yes, he went back to the castle around 9 last night." She replied
As if on cue Shini rose from the shadows of the stairwell and greeted the pair a fair morning before he turned and walked outside out onto the deck. "You know Hitoru we could use your scouting to find land would you mind going and searching for some? I'm sure Seven could use some real ground." He asked in a strange tone. "Why do I need to go search we have a crows nest right there?" He said while pointing up at the top of the mast. Shini turned and walked up to him and grasped his shoulder. He whispered something in his ear and parted. Walking back behind him into the cabin of the ship. "Fine." Hitoru grunted before he jumped side. He began flying and went soaring across the sapphire waves till he was out of sight.
Clare was confused and ran back inside to ask Shini what he said to Hitoru. Upon entering the dark room she saw the Seven had come aboard and sat at the table along with Shini and Akatski. They were all eating a large plump omelet. Cheese was spewing from the sides as bacon bits fell as they forked the food into their mouths. "Seven I wasn't expecting you to be awake so early. Did you skip training today?" Clare asked as she sat and grabbed a fork next to a plate on the table. He merely glanced at her and began eating once more. "Yes I skipped training today I was paying respects this morning instead." He spoke in a dark voice.
"Well why don't we have a group training day then. We can all spar each other and see whos really the strongest." Akatski weaved in between bites of food and sips of his drink. "Thats a great idea." Screamed Shini as he slammed his fist on the table in excitement. Seven just watched in amazement.
Afternoon
Hitoru had arrived and landed on the deck of the ship. He was tired from exhausting his power without any breakfast for hours searching for land. "Hey I'm back. He shouted. "I didn't find any land but I met some people who said if we keep heading north we should hit land in a few days." No one had responded and the ship seemed dead. He became suspicious and walked in the cabin to check things out. "Clare you there? Akatski? Anyone?" He asked as he entered the doorway.
As he reached the table a note lay on the table. He picked it up and read: "Sorry Hitoru we all went for a trip trough the forest in the dreamscape. We should be back soon. Sincerely Shini.". Aww man. I love the forest its so fun there." He said while placing the note back on the table. As he turned the walk out of the cabin and out to the deck he heard a noise coming from down stairs.
Out of curiosity he returned to the stairwell and looked down the corridor. All he saw was darkness but kept hearing the sounds. "Whos ever there you better come out. I don't want to hurt you." He spoke loudly down the staircase. As he spoke the sound silenced. He quickly jumped down the stairs into the darkness. As he landed he heard the noise approach him, it knocked him out of the way and jolted up the stairs. Hitoru had smashed his head into the wall from the impact and quickly regained his prowess and chased the intruder.
AS he walked out of the cabin out onto the deck he looked around seeing no one. When his body was completely out of the cabin a large form appeared behind him and slammed a large fist into his back launching him across the ship. The mysterious shape disappeared and he stood next to the mast to help gain his balance once more. "What the hell?" He whispered to himself as began to rise in the air. Bareilles came floating steadily out of the cabin's storage room and out into the sky above the deck surrounding him. The shape reappeared in the middle of the deck and glared at the boy floating in the air.
"C-Clare! What are you doing?" He screamed as he slowly descended and the barrels landed hard on the floor. "I was chosen to be your sparring partner for tonight." She chirped. "What are you talking about?" He asked her. "We are doing sparring today for group training. Shini and Akatski thought of it." She replied.
"And Seven was cool with this?" Hitoru asked. "Yes, Seven is sparring with Shini in the Dreamscape, While Akatski is fighting Twilight. But they are waiting for us till they start. They want to watch." She said while a portal opened behind her and she stepped back into it. One opened in front of Hitoru and he climbed inside as well.
"Welcome. Hope you both have a clean fight. Remember that this is for training and fun so no mortal injuries and no KILLING." Shini welcomed both of them as heentered the realm.
Everyone else was sitting in lawn chairs waiting patiently for the show.
Clare and Hitoru both walked a good distance out from the group and stood a few yards apart from each other before Hitoru asked Seven for some props for the the fight. Seven was willing and created several variously sized crystal rocks. "That should do thanks 'cap'." He thanked before Shini yelled start.
Clare stood waiting for the boy to attack first. Which he obliged and rose into the air raising the rocks along with him and fired a couple at her. As they reached her she exploded into fire and a large phoenix rose high into the air until dispelling back to her original form and she flew down at Hitoru with a firey punch coced back. He threw up a few crystals to block the oncoming attacker flashing a brilliant light across the Dreamscape. They both went flying back a few feet and readied for another set of attacks.
Historyconvulsed and disappeared. Only revealing himself behind Clare and instantly slamming a shard hard into her side launching her into the ground skipping a few meters. She caught herself and flipped back on her feet with her hand burst into flames running at him with incredible speed. She slammed into a crystal he used to block her strike with and sent it flying back into his chest slamming him intothe ground. His body bounced back up into the air and she met it with a flaming kick to the face that sent him flying deep into the jungle.
Soon large trees began to rise and being fired at the girl. As they rose the braches were striped and the trunks sharpened by his telekinesis. She easily jumped and bobbed over the trees catching a few on fire and grabbing them using her immense strength she turned and launched them back at him. After he ran out of trees he once again teleported behind her but his time grabbed her arms and flipped her back over himself into the ground head first. As they both sat there for a second regaining their breath she spun and exploded into flames sending Hitoru back into the air and she formed a large bird of flame and flew at him with great speed. He caught himself in the air and pulsed breaking the flames back and pushing her down into the ground. He held the pressure on her and flew down slamming his leg surrounded by large rocks deep into her abdomen and jumped back to let her up. He bent over to help her up and she accepted his help.
"Nice fight." He said out of breath. "Yeah, you too. You've definitely gotten stronger since last spar." She replied in a rushed voice. They both limped back over to the rest of the crew. Seven was smiling with a proud look in his eyes. Akatski was high fiving Hitoru and turned to Clare. "You did good kid. For only your second fight you did well against him." He praised her. Shini Stood clapping. "Yes. Yes very good show indeed." He said while motioning his seat for Clare. Hitoru walked over next to seven and sat on a chair that Seven formed for him.
"So whos next Shini?" Asked Akatski. "Me and Twilight can go if you want?" He suggested. "Yeah that'll work." Shini said. Twilight jumped up and ran out to the clearing and Akatski walked over to his spot.
"Fight!" Shini shouted. Twilight's back twitched then bursted into wings and he launched himself at Akatski. He latched his jaws hard on the man's arm biting deep into the forearm. He creamed out before crushing a large fist into thebeast's jaws breaking the connection and launching the beast back. Twilight caught her self and slid on her claws till shestopped and jumped back on her hind legs and roared a fearsome roar. She the erupted into a crystal mist. All the was visible were her dark red eyes piercing the fog and staring into Akatski's eyes. The fog was blown out of the way as a colossal dragon peered out and growled before its massive wings flapped open sending wind rippling across the area. Akatski blew steam from his nose as his eyes turned a dark black and his body morphed into that of a enormous minotaur. The titans sprinted at each other Twilight slithering up close and Akatski stampeding over to her. They both clashed fist to fist and head to head. The shock wave shook the very ground and even sent Shini falling back over. The beasts roared at each other before Akatski grabbed the dragon and picked it up and growing in size he held the beast with ease. He threw the monster up and rammed his horns into the beast's side and slammed it through the forest knocking trees and rocks alike over in its wake. The beast winced in pain before slicing its sharp teeth deep into the minotaurs leg stopping the charge and allowing her to free her self. She flew back up and did a backflip and on the way up grabbed Akatski and raised him high into the air. She slammed him brutally into the ground and dragged him across the ground. She dragged him back up into the air and spun releasing him so that he flew into the castle. He crashed far into the building towers and sliced his arm open on a sharp crystalline edge. The large beasts muscle was dripping with blood before he stood and roared. He had flexed and haki hardened the skin stopping the bleeding and strengthening his fists. He grew in size once more and fired himself at the beast in the air and crashed a huge fist into he beasts face send fangs flying and the beast flying as well. Landing in the forest after sliding through a few trees.
She reverted back to her original size and stature and ran happily over to Seven who let her jump in his lap. Akatski roared before also reverting back into his previous form. He walked up to the group holding his arm. "Damn this hurts. Hey Clare mind closing this?" He asked. She stood and burnt the wound closed and sat back down. Everyone praised him and helped him sit down for he sprained his leg. "Now for dessert." Seven whispered as he stood and walked over to the starting spot. "Seven." Shini said while looking at him in a cold blank stare. "There is no holding back. You can handle the fight can't you?" Everyone was scared by the tone he said it in. It seemed as though he was going for a death match. Seven only began to laugh and spawned a beautiful sword. It was long and thin, the hilt had a dragon engraved deep all the way to the tip the blade and a crystalline dragon as the butt of the blade. They both moved in position.
Shini took off his gloves and threw them to Hitoru who put them in his jacket pocket. Shini then flexed his left arm the ground began to shake worse than when the titans clashed. He arm became fluorescent and then exploded into a dark black aura. His eyes also were taken over by a veil of darkness before he jumped into the air and pounced on Seven. Seven merely shrugged off the blow with his sword and spun around the attack. He slashed at Shini who surprisingly at the angle caught the blade with his left hand. Both men stood in the place then erupted into a collection of lighting fast strike until finally Seven was thrown back by a forceful palm to the chest. He slid back on his heels and coughed up blood. He began laughing harder and Disintegrated his weapon in his right hand before flexing himself exploding his right hand into a weapon of mass destruction similar to that of Shini's. They both stepped back before clashing once more and met fist to fist exploding into a large dark orb and the imploding out into a dark purple. Again they both fought in a untraceable barrage of attacks until Shini was thrown up into the air. Seven Blinked above him and punched down on his stomach bouncing Shini off the ground back up before Seven spun creating another scythe in his right hand and dented the scythe's staff into his ribcage forming a crater in the ground where Shini's body lay. Seven backed off and brushed his scythe into oblivion. Shini stood after a moment and looked around hazily before grasping what happened a minute ago. He flashed and kicked Seven in the throat hard enough that he went soaring across the dreamscape. He flew through the castle which was self repairing itself and through the other side and slammed in the meadow where they paid their respects the night before.
Everyone got up and ran over to watch the fight. For it was no where near over. Shini laid his hand on ground and disappeared. He was moving too fast to see before slamming into Seven's body right before he crushed into the ground. He went rolling through the meadow until he was stopped against a tall sturdy object. He was lying in a creator and blinked a few times before standing to see Shini watching with a terrified look slapped on his face. Seven was confused and turned around to look behind him sense Shini never fears anything. As he turned his eyes made contact with a large stone and his heart fell as he fell to his knees. He had landed on her grave site, he open his eyes with his head tilted towards the ground and saw the skull of the person buried. He snapped then and there He suddenly stiffened and wind erupted from his body sending Shini back several yards. Seven stood and began laughing hysterically and tears beganrunning down his face. The almost unnoticeable winds in the forests and around the castle began to pick up and rush around lifting up fallen trees and rubble from the castle and formed large tornados of debris. He became shrouded in darkness until he faded away and out of the darkness walked a large black night with raging red eyes with madness pouring off of him. Laughter as loud as a siren pierced the skies.
Shini gathered himself and stood back up and his arm discharged into a bright white light and he punched his fist into the ground. Cracks formed in the ground around him and filled with light. Suddenly a fissure erupted from under him and thousands of Wooden warriors called the Dread rose from the ground like zombies and rushed around the crazed knight. The knight twitched and threw his arms out and behind him animmense wall of portals ripped open and hundreds of colossal crystal dragons rained out from each portal. They each fought the Dread, a few groups charged for Clare and everyone else. "Quick hold off the dragons I'll get Seven back under control." Yelled Shini to the crew as his arm began pulsating and he blinked away.
The dread each had a long sword made from dull stone and moss strung across their bodies and weapons. The dragons were each solid black and had razor sharp teeth and claws that would strip flesh like a knife through warm butter. The large groups of summoned monsters clashed creating anenormous battle field of conflict. The crew all split up and began attacking the dragon on slaught.
Shini reached Seven who was standing hunched over in laughter. his dark armour shield and concealing his face, his tears, his pain. "Its alright Seven we can rebuild the grave better than before we can have a real memorial service this time with the crew. It'll be great trust me." Shini pleaded. "Trust...Trust..." Seven repeated befeo a blast of energy shot through Shini as Seven blasted his fist into his gut launching the man across the battlefield. Clare flew high and caught Shini before being caught herself by Akatski who was in a smaller but just as lethal form of his mino-mino devil fruit. Shini was in great pain all his ribs were broken from the one punch and he had to fight the strongest man ever. He puts White beard to shame even in his prime. Shini woke up 5 minutes later in Clares arms as she was protecting him from dragons as the other men were fighting of the horde. He stood and held his hand high above his hand. Lightning began to form above and and started striking randomly at eh ground blasting off dragons and some Dread alike. Shini then convulsed and entered a white orb he formed with his left hand. The large orb turned from white to black quickly as Shini walked out he was back to full health and was more energized than usual.
Seven's back muscles were moving in place before his back broke and out shot four large black wings. Each large and powerful, he launched himself up at an alarming rate until the clouds blocked your view of him. Large shards of crystal began to flew through the clouds opening small pockets and slammed into the ground exploding into large piles of scrap metal. Hundreds if Dread and dragons were being destroyed by these large constructs of destruction. When Shini began to Build his way up with wood from his Life Life devil fruit Seven pulsed and lightning struck him from the sky. Shini slammed intothe ground forcing a large creator. Seven pulsed once more harder than ever before and a large asteroid sized ball of crystal broke heavily over the clouds falling at anunbelievable rate. Akatski saw the ord and grew to a unfathomable size and crashed his fist into the ball crushing half of it as his fist stayed inside and he rammed his horns deep into the orb and rammed it over to the side of the battlefield. When he started to move the great planet of blue his horn chipped and he roared in pain as the ball fell father and he had to grab it with his arms and threw the ball. It landed with such force it knocked him over and shattered in to. His muscles were pushed beyond their breaking point and he reverted back to himself high in the air. He had passed out from the sheerexhaustion of strength it took to accomplish such a feat. Hitoru crushed some near by crystal into a fine powder and sent it up as a cloud under Akatski to catch his fall and carry him down to Clare for protection.
Shini was healing Hitoru when Akatski arrived from his descent. He immediately broke and began refurbishing the crew mate. Seven had enough of this banter and jumped from the dragon and pulsed as hard as he could nad formed himself into a pure ball of energy and rocketing towards the ground. Akatski had woke up and saw this while everyone was paying attention to him. He had to do something. He jumped up and grew bigger than ever before and cupped his body over his friends and held on for dear life as Seven hit the ground.
When he hit the air froze and time stood still before everything ruptured and a brilliant light ranged over the dreamscape and a force came over and obliterated everything the forest gone, the castle gone. The light faded and Seven was standing there unconscious on his stomach. Shini had opened his eyes still deaf from the shockwave he was delirious and saw that Akatski was laying on his side a few yards away. He thought that he should find Clare first and Hitoru before he went to get Seven. He began his search for Clare and then saw her screaming and shaking Akatski vigorously and sobbing. He ran over there and his expression fell ill as he fell to his knees and blacked out. The last thing he saw was Clare crying covered in blood that wasn't her own. Hitoru was also unconscious from theethereal shaking that happened from the impact this leaving the only person awake was Clare...
AN: Ok well that took a while to write. So if you have and comments remember to message me and I'll get back to you. I would love some feedback on the fights I'm sure how to improve my writing style when it comes to that aspect. None the less hope you enjoyed.