And we are back with another chapter. Sorry, the chapter is out later than planned guys. I had work and was really busy. Then I was a little stuck on what do with the chapter. But here is the next chapter anyway.

thanks to Dreamy-Girl2016 for favouriting.

Thanks to WhitewolfLune, ChaoticMercy, Wilken K, onyxwhip and AlcatrazDGold for the review.

to WhitewolfLune - yes, there is going to be a big fight. I like Hoshi too, he is an interesting and I'm sure people will have mix feelings with him as the story goes on.

to ChaoticMercy - Is it a devil fruit? Is it something else entirely? Well, keep reading and you will find out. Yes, things will be explained soon enough. Especially as more information on Hoshi is learned. Yes, there is more information on Hoshi that we will learn as the story goes on, no spoils on that though. But I will say this, Hoshi's power is interesting.

to Wilken K - thank you. I hope you can keep enjoying Hoshi's character as the story does on and he grows.

to onyxwhip - thank you. Yes, the first big fight is getting ready to go down. I wonder who the fight will be between?

to AlcatrazDGold - yes, I got the chapter fast. And yes, I got this chapter up thanks to your help. I'm glad that you enjoyed and had fun reading the chapter. I hope and like to think it made a few people laugh through it. Will it end at part 2? Well, you know the answer to that, but the others can all read and found it! It will be interesting to see how it ends. Hoshi has it clear he doesn't have any intention to help the people of the town, hasn't he? What will make him change his mind? Will something make him change his mind? Well, read to find out guys! No spoilers on that from me.

Thanks to Gooday1 and everyone else for the characters- I can't remember everyone and lose track, sorry guys. Spots are still open guys. Feel free to PM me or review. Make sure you look at my profile for what character spots are open, I will do my best to keep it up to date.

Thanks to AlcatrazDGold for reading over the chapter.

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Break the World

Chapter 4: The Attack Part 2

Later

Rob broke another pirate's arm as the man tried to hurt some pretty ladies. No pretty women were going to get hurt while he was around. "Ladies," Rob said with a tip of his hat. Before looking over at the pirates very annoyed. "Excuse me pirates, but one shouldn't harm a pretty lady. Nor should they attack a defenceless town. Now, leave before I break something important."

A few of the pirates backed down. This redhead man had managed to take out a number of their stronger crew members. What were they going to do?

Rob was watching the pirates careful as the townspeople were running away behind him. He knew the best way to get the pirates to listen to him and to back off the town was to take down the strongest member of the crew. Nine out of ten times, it's the captain. If not the captain, it's normally the first mate. But there are a very few very rare times when the strongest member is neither the captain or the first mate.

The redhead was surprised though, he would have thought that Hoshi would be fighting or looking for him or something. Where was Hoshi? Were he and Jeo-san fighting somewhere else?

Rob hoped that not too many of the nice townspeople were hurt. Though, he was wondering why not many of the men were trying to fight back against these pirates. They were strong fishermen after all. Not to be confused with fishman. One had to be fairly strong to be a fisherman, or sail in general really. Waking up early, catching fish with huge nets all day, carrying containers and buckets of fish and being out in the sea for long periods of time. He was sure that the men here were strong. Be them fishermen, builders and other jobs that involve heavy lifting and moving. Hell, Rob was sure that would be strong women who did those roles as well.

So why was everyone running away?

Sure, the pirates weren't exactly weak. But Rob wouldn't exactly call them strong either. At least, not the men who he has beaten weren't all that strong.

Oh well, not much Rob can do about it. If people wanted to run away and let the pirates take their belongings, there wasn't much he could do about it. But at the same time, he wasn't going to let the innocent people of this island suffer. It was against his morals to just run and hide. So he was going to buy the townspeople the time they needed to get out of town if he couldn't beat the pirates himself.

It wasn't that Rob didn't think he was strong enough, he was sure he was. The problem was more the sheer number of pirates. There were most likely too many for him to handle himself. the ship of the pirates looked quite large and doing a quick scan and count, there were probably close to a couple hundred, maybe more with the pirates. That was a lot of people to fight by oneself.

A pirate was staring at him in semi-fear. And by semi-fear, Rob means the guy looked like he was going to piss himself and seemed to be working out whether or not he should go up to Rob or not. The pirate looked like he wanted to speak to Rob or something for some weird reason.

"Can I help you?" Rob asked the pirate, deciding to find out what he wanted.

"Yeah... um... are you Rob?" the pirate replied.

"That's one of my many names," the redhead answered. "Why?" Spinning around and kicking a pirate in the gut who tried to get past him. "Back-off from the people or I will break you in two, and I don't think you want that."

The pirate talking to Rob gulped as he was shaking, this guy was intimidating. Just as much as the blue-haired guy was.

"I.. um... well... you see..." the pirate said nervously. "The kid with the blue hair..."

"I know him, yeah," Rob said with a semi-serious looking face. "Why? Did you hurt him and the old man?"

"Um... no!" the pirate said shaking his head and hands. "I don't know anything about an old man! The blue-haired kid just asked me to tell you that he was leaving and he wanted you to go to the dock to meet him!"

Hoshi did what? Hoshi is going to do what?

"I'm sorry, what?" Rob said a little in shock. "Hoshi is calling for me, so he can leave the island? Isn't he going to help the people of this island?"

The pirate shook his head for a no. As far as he knew, the kid wasn't going to save the island or its people.

Oh, Hoshi is going to get it. Rob is going to ring his damn neck or knock some sense into the kid. Whichever one works to make that idiot see sense! How can the kid just leave the island to fend for itself? He should be helping!

"Where is the dock?" Rob asked the pirate, annoyance radiating off him like heat from the summer on a hot day.

The pirate nervously pointed off to his right, back the way he came.

"Thank you," Rob told the pirate as he started to walk that way before he stopped. "But if I found out anyone here has hurt the people of this port town, I will kill you all where you stand. One by one. Slowly and painful only using my hands and feet, am I understand?"

The pirates all nodded their heads and ran back to the docks past the redhead. They all decided that they would much rather deal with their captain being angry at them than pissing off this Rob guy.

Rob smirked as all of the pirates ran away from him. That's what he thought, they were all spineless sea dogs. Now, to go see Hoshi.

Hoshi was moving things around on his small ship. It wasn't really big enough for two people for a long period of time, but he could handle it until Rob left the ship at the next island. It was one of the things on Hoshi's to do list though. To get a bigger ship when he starts up his crew. He was trying to work out what he wanted in a First Mate, other than the person to be strong and loyal. Something similar to what Monkey D. Luffy had in the Straw-Hat Pirates that he had read about in history books. That would be good. To have a strong and loyal First Mate that Hoshi knew he could count on.

"Hoshi!" Rob shouted as he had his arms crossed as he was standing on the dock near the ship. "What the hell are you doing?"

"Getting ready to leave the island because I don't want to deal with pirates, you coming or what?" Hoshi answered honestly. The younger sighed as he could feel the redhead staring at him in an disappointed look. The looked reminded Hoshi of the look his mother sometimes gave him when he did something she didn't approve of. "They're not helpless people. They're strong fishermen and other tradesman. The town will be fine. Besides, the pirates aren't even that strong."

"Leaving? How can you leave?! Don't you care what happens to the island? To the town? To the people? To Jeo-san?! He's your godfather!" Rob said having a go at the blue-haired young man. It was taking everything that Rob had to ot beat the shit out of the brat.

"No, why should I care? They've done nothing for me," Hoshi told the redhead bluntly.

"What does that have to do with anything!? They're your family! Your friends! You need to help them out when they need it and they will help you out when you need it!"

"Help me out? Help me out!" Hoshi said moving from the ship to the dock and standing right in Rob's face. The height was a little noticeable between the two with them being this close together. Rob being taller at 6 foot 2, while Hoshi was 5 foot 9. "Where were they when I was taken from here against my will by the World Government and Marines and those bastards killed my mother?! They did nothing to help me, so why should I help them?!"

"So you're not helping them out of spite?" Rob said looking at the younger man in an almost disgusted look. "Or is this your form of revenge against them for your mother's death? What would she say about this? What would this person who you're apparently looking for say to you if they knew you were doing this? Leaving these poor defenceless people to fend for themselves?!"

"Not like I can ask either of them since they're not here and that's those people's fault!" Hoshi yelled in pure anger as he pointed at the burning town. "So why should I care if they get hurt?!"

"And what if they are killed?!" Rob yelled right back. Deciding that Hoshi needed to take a hard look in the mirror at him. The kid has no idea how heartless is he, does he? He was never going to make or get friends doing things like this. "Can you live with that on your conscience? Knowing that you couldn't save your mother, but you could have saved the people in this town? Here, today."

"That's not why I asked that pirate to get you. I'm leaving, are you coming with me or not?" Hoshi said to the redhead, wanting the matter to be dropped altogether.

"I'm not leaving the town and the people to deal with the pirates by themselves," Rob glared at the kid. "So you can go without me. I can't believe you want to leave innocent people to die over a petty thing."

"It's not petty!"

"It is and you know it!" Rob shouted as he walked away from the younger and the ship. Walking back to the town to help out the people of the town that he barely knew, but was still willing to help. The redhead wouldn't be able to live with himself, let alone sleep if he didn't help get rid of the pirates. "And here I thought you were a misunderstood kid, but really, you're nothing more than a coward and heartless wrench! You're scum! You're worse than these pirate scum."

Hoshi stood on his ship and watched the redhead walk away, most likely to his doom. As the blue-haired young man was sure that the older guy wouldn't be able to handle all of those pirates on his own. Well, who cares?

Hoshi shouldn't. The guy was being a prick over things he didn't know or understand.

It wasn't petty. It wasn't out of spite or revenge. Hoshi just didn't want to help people who did nothing to help Emilia. They could have stood to the men who took Hoshi. They could have stopped the people from killing Emilia. But they did nothing! They just let the World Government and Marines take him and kill his mother like it was something that happened every day! Like it was normal!

It wasn't normal! It wasn't fair!

"Sometimes, life is unfair," a female voice echoed in his head. "But when it is, it's what you make of what you get that counts. So fight back against the unfair, and make it fair again. Just because the world gives you lemons, doesn't mean you have to make lemonade. After all, when the rich run the world, it's the innocent who pays."

Even if the town people were innocent, the world is just unfair and they need to take it. Though, Emilia wouldn't agree with that. She never believed that the innocent should have to the pay the price of the rich and powerful running the world. Of people thinking they could do whatever they wanted to just because they were stronger, bigger and better than everyone and anyone else.

Hoshi could already hear the others voices telling him to go do what is right. To stand up for the innocent, like it or not. It wasn't about it being fair or not, it was about morals. It was justice. It was about being the bigger person.

"I didn't raise you like this," the same female voice echoed.

"Shi, you need to help them," his ghostly-looking friend told him. "They need you."

Hoshi looked back to the burning town. He could hear crying and screaming and the scent of burnt meat and wood was in the air like a bad smell. The fire seemed to be uncontrolled and just running wild, like an animal hunting its prey. But it wasn't just the buildings or the boats that that were burning now, no. The forest and beach seemed to be too.

Could he really just leave things like this? Let the memories from his young childhood burn along with everything and everyone?

Of course, he could. He wasn't his mother and he wasn't... This had nothing to do with him. If everything burnt, then it might as well burn to the ground.

"Don't touch my brother!" a young voice carried on the wind, getting the blue-haired young man's attention right away. Brother? "I won't let you hurt him!"

A young teen around thirteen-years-old was standing in front of another teen who was on the ground injured. They both looked scared as one was trying to protect the other.

Rob could see the boys, brothers by the looks. Probably twins by how alike they looked. They were corned off to the side. The younger one had tripped over and the older boy was trying to protect and was staying by his brother's side. Of course, the younger told the older to leave him behind, there was no point in them getting killed. But the other boy refused to leave his brother alone.

"Run Hunter!" the boy on the ground told the one in front of him as the pirates were making their way to them.

"I'm not leaving you, Haden!" Hunter told him as he stood there in front of the other with a stick in his hand.

Rob wasn't sure if he was going to get there to help the boys. He had his hands full between the pirates and the fire. There was no way the kid was going to last long against the pirates with a stick.

"Run kid!" Rob shouted at the boy who was there, the kid looking like he was going to pee himself. But still not moving, the kid wanting to protect his younger twin brother. He couldn't just leave him behind. Rob saw movement from the corner of his eye towards the young teen. "Move!"

The kid closed his eyes and waited for the axe to slice him. There was no way his stick was going to stop the axe and the man using it.

"Hunter!" the other boy screamed.

No! Rob wasn't going to make it! The kid or kids were going to be killed and he wasn't going to be anything about it! He needed to get past these pirates now! The two teens were just kids! They didn't deserve to die!

"RUN!"

The next thing Rob saw as he was trying to get past the pirates to get to the two kids, was blood.

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