Chapter 8 – The Warehouse Rumble!

The impact caused Trunks to fly back. Trunks was lifted off his feet and into the air.

(*CRASH!*)

Trunks' body collided with a large heap of the junk. Boxes and slabs of wood had covered his body, so nobody knew if he was conscious or not.

The noise caused the steel doors to roll open, revealing a group of pirates on the other side.

"What's going on in here?" they howled.

Gurlop and his hem turned around and unsheathed their swords.

"If you value your life, you'll turn around and walk away!"

The men paused then grinned menacingly.

"Oh, so it's a rebellion, huh?"

Before they knew it, they were charging at each other, hacking and slashing away with their swords.

Tylias would've helped, but something caught his eye in the distance.

In the far corner of the room sat a cloaked person. The cloaked person was completely hidden in the corner, hiding in what was left of the shadows.

"Geez, I hit that guy pretty hard." Tylias sniggered while cracking his fingers. "Hey Gur, you need any help?"

"Nah" he replied, crouching from an attack, "Me and my boys are having some fun here!"

Tylias picked up a fish from the sack and began eating it. He then picked up another, and another.

"Can't let these go to waste" he muffled due to his mouth being full.

"You're a peculiar boy" the cloaked figure said soothingly. "What business do you have here?"

Tylias looked up to respond but the figure was gone. Instead, the person was already standing beside him.

"AHH!" he screamed, jumping out of the sack. "Don't scare me like that!"

The mysterious person sighed beneath its cloak and with a blink, a katana was pointing right at Tylias.

"I said…" the person repeated, "What business do you have here?"

The katana was a single-edged sword with a curved blade. The handle colour was light red and, from what he could see, had a pattern carved in it.

"Oooh!" he awed in a whisper, "Nice sword!"

"FOOL!" the cloaked person yelled.

The person withdrew the sword and twirled. The cloak flew off and swayed into the air, as if the wind blew it.

Tylias only now realized that it was a girl he was talking to and he was even stunned by her beauty.

"Woaaaah!" he screamed, admiring her long brown hair that was near shoulder length.

Her body was slim and smooth and quite toned, much like the figure of an hour-glass.

She wore torn dirty trousers as well as a brown shirt, just like Gurlop and his men.

"I won't ask you again, child!" she sneered, pointing her sword at him once more, "What's your business here? And why did you hurt my master!?"

"Because he's a bad guy" he replied nonchalantly.

"You know nothing!" she yelled, her eyes turning from mystical to deadly. "You know nothing of our master's kindness!"

"KINDNESS" Tylias laughed loudly, "Not from what I heard"

"THAT'S RIGHT" Trunks croaked, pushing aside the crates and junk, "Julia here owes me her life for what I've done to help her"

The bruised boss proceeded to light another cigar and took a deep inhale. He smiled widely, revealing his pure white teeth. Smoke began to seep out in-between the teeth and he spoke again, "Isn't that right, Julia my dear?"

"Yes, master" she replied, her voiced quivered slightly. Although she had the eyes of a serious killer, beneath them lied something else. Something hidden from the rest of the world.

Tylias, taking a bite from another fish, spouted "Don't believe it. Not in a million years"

He continued to chow down on the piles of fish still in the sack, to astonishment of Julia and Trunks.

"That does it!" Julia hissed furiously, "THORN STING!"

She and her sword charged straight on, with hopes of impaling the fish obsessed pirate.

Tylias saw the attack coming and shifted to the side, her attack completely missing.

In the heat of the moment, just before she could use another attack, he picked up a fresh fish tucked away in the sack and smacked her across the face with it.

"FISH SLAP!" he yelled out, the fish smacking her cheek.

Julia stopped for a second, her entire face beginning to go red and steam shooting out of her, to shout, "IS THAT REALLY YOUR FIGHTING STRATEGY?! I'M BEING SERIOUS HERE!"

Tylias shoved another fish in his mouth just before replying.

"Mmph, mmph, mmm mpphuh" he choked, with his mouth full, unable to speak.

"How dare you humiliate me! How dare you mock my dream!" she yelled, swinging her katana from the side.

He swallowed a large chunk of fish and proceeded to yell out his next move.

"COPY-COPY DECOY!"

(*Poof-poof-poof*)

Several copies of Tylias appeared in a circle, completely surrounding Julia and Trunks.

They all began to run around, still maintaining a circle, so that the real Tylias could be mixed up with them.

Whilst all of this was happening, everybody in the warehouse was watching. Gurlop and his crew had stopped fighting Trunk's workers.

"Wow, I've never made this many copies before!" they all laughed together. "Must've been from all that fish I ate!"

"A devil fruit user" Julia said in amazement, completely puzzled by what she was seeing.

"No matter!" she then said, raising her sword. "THORN AGILITY!"

One by one the copies vanished in dust as Julia was rapidly taking them out in mere seconds. At the blink of an eye she appeared in one place and then the next. All of this was happening while Tylias, being connected to his copies, could feel the cuts she was making. His devil fruit powers come at a great price that he can't swim, but he can also feel the pain that his copies are feeling. While he'll never pass out from pain, it was still a risky move.

"Wow, she's fast!"he thought to himself.

More and more copies began to disappear as they all ran around panicking. Trunks, during all of this, was laughing up a storm while Gurlop and everybody couldn't keep their eyes off the epic battle.

As the last copy died out, Tylias picked up a random piece of wood in hopes it would shield him.

Julia sent her katana strike downwards, slicing straight through the piece of wood but not touching him.

Despite that, she kept her sword steady as he felt backwards and on to the ground.

"Stop mocking me and my dreams, you worthless pirate! I will never lose to you!" she screamed, huffing and panting. The agility attack seemed to have worn her out.

"Your dreams?" Tylias spouted.

Julia collapsed to the ground, tears beginning to flow out her eyes.

"Yes" she answered, "My dream to become the greatest fighter and capture pirates!"

Trunks suddenly burst out laughing.

"Get up, Julia! Don't be such a weakling!"

"Y-Yes" she sniffed, getting off the ground. "Yes, master"

"YOU LEAVE HER ALONE, YOU FAT IDIOT!" Tylias yelled in rage.

"NO! YOU SHUT UP!" she said, grabbing onto Tylias. "YOU KNOW NOTHING!"

Tears began to pour out more rapidly; she tried desperately to hide them.

"You don't know how Trunks once saved me!"

AN:

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