The Human Mace's Brute Force!
The End Nears!
Rina stumbled forward and she fell forwards. She braced herself against the ground using her hands. She slowly pushed herself back up to her feet. She looked around. She was alone. There were three bodies scattered about her, two of them dead, she grimaced as she took another step forward. She was alone…Sam! She panicked as she glanced around the room. No one was around her! Sam disappeared! Where? She looked to her left and then back to her right. He was gone. She stumbled forward again…maybe he went to get help.
"S-shit," said Rina as she fell to the ground once more. Her leg hurt like hell. She touched it tenderly and felt the pain shoot up her leg once more. She remembered Pura Pupuran mentioning the diseases that lived on the tips of the obsidian arrowheads. Her entire body shuddered as she thought of the diseases destroying her body. She heard of Marines gloating about how they almost died in battle, she didn't want to be one of the few that did.
She found herself back on her feet and slowly walking through the halls of the palace. She just had to find someone. Someone to stop the bomb, someone to help her. Someone. She made another half stumble forwards, but managed to brace herself before she fell. Maybe she shouldn't have demanded that Alexander kept away from the palace.
(-With Alexander-)
The man's blazing right arm roared past Alexander as Alexander dodged and ducked beneath the flaming hot punch. Alexander landed on the ground and looked back up. Emyre was already transitioning into his next attack. He spun his body around and launched a downward palm thrust with his left hand aimed at Alexander's chest. Alexander spun out and around, dodging the heated blow by only a few mere seconds. Finally, Alexander was back on feet and ready to fight.
"I thought you wanted to see ze power I have?" said Emyre with a demented chuckle as he straightened his body back out. He moved his foot forward onto the red hot ground in front of him. "How can you see zem without feeling zem?" He clapped his hands together once more, once again igniting both of his hands on fire. "Ze answer is you can't!" He charged forward and struck out with an extremely fast thrust with his right arm, Alexander couldn't move in time and was thrown back with a new blazing injury. Alexander collided with the ground and rolled over. Emyre's right hand went on impact.
"Hot! Hot! Hot!" shouted Alexander as he rolled about on the ground, the clothing on his chest being burnt clear off of him. There was now a little hole in his uniform right in the middle of his chest.
"Are we having ze fun yet?" asked Emyre with a chuckle. "I mean I am having ze fun, but are you?" Emyre bent down and lifted Alexander's head up with his right hand. Emyre brought his left hand up and into the air. He brought is down with surprising force into Alexander's shoulder once again sending him sprawling back in pain. "Yes, I am having so much of ze fun! Ze Marines should send more soldier for me to slaughter!"
Alexander stood up once more. He patted his now naked shoulder. "Crap, I really liked my clothing made me feel special, you know."
"Oh, so now ze marine has some smack talk, no?" asked Emyre. He brought his left and right arm back up and slide them against each other igniting them both once again. He fired a flaming punch with his right fist straight for Alexander's head. Alexander brought his left hand up and blocked the punch.
Alexander leaned forward. "Sledgehammer Uppercut!" Alexander brought his right hand straight upwards and into Emyre's chin sending him straight into the air. "Twin Mallets!" Alexander spun around and brought left elbow straight up and into Emyre before he had the chance to fall back down to the ground. Alexander brought his right hand around and back down into Emyre sending him shuddering into the earth.
"Oh, ze Marine has more zen some smack talk," said Emyre as he stood up, "but it is not enough." He began to spin his middle three fingers on his left hand around in the palm of his right hand. Soon a large ball of flames began to take form in his right palm. "Now, I don't suggest you dodge zis one. Ze woods are already a bit damaged from my previous attacks, no? Ze last thing I want to do is light ze wonderful woods on fire and cause ze town people to panic."
"I get the scenario," said Alexander, "you don't need to explain it to me. But I'm afraid I'm going to have to explain some things to you."
"What's zat?" asked Emyre, "you aren't like ze other people I met? You are going to defeat me no matter what ze cost? Or how about zat you will save all ze people and I will be blown away by your power? I've heard it all before, so don't even bother." Emyre reached back and tossed the large ball of fire through the air.
"Have you heard this before? Hybrid form," said Alexander. His normal slightly tanned complexion was replaced with a dark blue coloration. Small studs lined the backs of his arms, shoulders, and back. His hair vanished into his skull, leaving his head smooth and blue. The fire ball collided with Alexander's chest and exploded all around him. A brilliant burning fire engulfed Alexander's body.
"Oh my god," laughed Emyre, "what a fool. I don't care what kind of Zoan-Type Devil Fruit you ate, no animals can handle ze raw power of fire! All animals fear fire for a reason! It is ze ultimate destructive force."
"Huh," said Alexander as he emerged out of the fire, "my hybrid form didn't absorb as much as the heat as I thought it would. I still felt a lot of the heat."
"What ze hell kind of Devil Fruit did you eat?" asked Emyre.
"You guys always ask the wrong question," said Alexander, "whenever anybody sees me they see a human that can turn into a steel bodied Marine, they miss the interesting part."
"I don't really care about ze interesting part," asked Emyre, "all I care about is whether or not I can kill you and zat just takes some a couple minutes of research." Emyre clapped his hands together once again igniting them in flames. He charged forward beginning to make a punch with his left hand.
"Damascus Kick," shouted Alexander as he brought his right leg straight up into the air. Alexander then brought his leg down with an extreme amount of force directly upon Emyre's shoulder. The force combined with the density of the metal, slammed into Emyre sending him straight into the earth beneath him.
Emyre twisted around and was back on his own two feet before Alexander even had the chance to launch another attack. Emyre shook his head. "You are gonna have to do better zen zat if you hope to defeat me." His arms were extinguished, probably when he was slammed into the ground the dust covered the fire and put it out. He reached into a small pocket on his pants and pulled out a small glass ball. He lifted it up to his face and smiled. He swirled the liquid within it around in front of his own two eyes.
"Catch!" Emyre tossed the glass ball at Alexander. Alexander brought his two arms up and in front of his body. The glass ball shattered as it came in contact with Alexander's arm. The clear liquid splashed all over Alexander.
Alexander groaned and backed up. The clear liquid coated his arms and most of his upper chest. He brought his arm up to his nose and took sniff. His eyes widened briefly before he quickly dodged another one of Emyre's blazing blows. "This is oil, isn't it?"
"Ah, you are a smart one," said Emyre as he straightened his back out. "And what happens when oil comes in contact with fire?" Emyre lifted his burning left hand into the air for emphasis. "Chances are…your death."
Emyre dashed forward his burning arms fully extended. Emyre reached out his arm aimed right at Alexander's throat. Alexander dodged backwards avoiding a possible devastating burn, but he wasn't quite fast enough to completely avoid Emyre. Emyre reached downward and grasped onto Alexander's leg with his burning left hand.
Alexander let out a sharp cry as he plummeted to the ground, his leg still searing with pain. Alexander quickly slammed his leg into the ground suffocating the fire and putting it out. Emyre wasn't down, though. He launched a downward chop with his still blazing right hand straight down. Alexander rolled to the side and watched as Emyre's chop drove his own hand into the ground beneath it.
Alexander brought himself up and back onto his own two feet. "Sledgehammer Uppercut!" Alexander took a quick step forward and brought his heavy iron fist straight into Emyre's jaw sending him up into the air. Alexander dashed forward and jumped up into the air with the intent of hitting Emyre again. But he was a little bit too slow. Emyre twisted around and brought his normal hand back around into Alexander. He opened his mouth and spat a small puddle of oil over Alexander's face. Alexander fell to the ground and landed on his stomach, Emyre was more fortunate and landed on his feet.
"You got oil in your mouth?" shouted Alexander as he brought his hand up to his face and tried to wipe the oil off of it.
"Among other zings," said Emyre as he walked closer to Alexander with a chuckle on his face, "ready for your one way ticket into some burning and agonizing pain?"
"Ferric Fist!" Alexander quickly fired a single punch straight at Emyre, his steel-like fist flying through the air. Emyre brought his two arms, trying to start another fire, but he was just a couple seconds too slow. Alexander's hard fist slammed into Emyre's chest, forcing air out of his lungs and probably wreaking havoc on his rib cage. Emyre hit the ground hard, he gasped for air as he tried to bring himself back to his feet, but Alexander was already on him. "Full-Metal Hammer Heel!" Alexander brought the heel of his foot straight down into Emyre's back. His heel forced Emyre right back into the ground.
Emyre grimaced as he laid at rest on the ground for a couple of seconds. Alexander placed his foot on the top of Emyre's head. "Where are the bombs?" asked Alexander as he began to apply a little amount of pressure behind his foot.
"Do not make me laugh," said Emyre from his place on the ground, "I'm a paid professional of ze Taka organization. I know better zen to spill ze beans on our operations. Death before failure."
"That's very admirable for a killer, but…" said Alexander as he began to press down harder with his foot, "I believe that you, personally, prefer failure before death. Let's test to see which one of us is right."
Emyre grunted at the increase in weight. "You're just wasting time right now. Ze bomb will go off before I tell you…as a matter of fact, even if I told you ze locations of ze bombs, you wouldn't be able to stop ze explosion."
"I guess that means you are fine with me killing you then," said Alexander.
"Yeah, right," said Emyre with a chuckle, "you and I both know you don't have ze rights. You need me to return to ze Marine Base for further interrogations. But you and I both know I won't say a zing."
"So are you saying I should kill you instead of taking you back to the Marine Base?"
"Of course," said Emyre. He opened his mouth and stuck out his tongue. On his tongue was a small piece of flint, "see you in ze afterlife!" He spat the small piece of flint off towards his left hand. The small piece of flint ignited as soon as it came it touch with Emyre's steel-coated left hand. His arm burst into a bright red flame. In one swift movement Emyre brought his left arm all the way up and grabbed a hold of Alexander's waist. The oil that was spilled over Alexander exploded into flames. And with Alexander, Emyre also disappeared in the flames.
(-With Rina-)
"Damn," said Rina as she nearly crumpled under her own weight. She had barely gotten out of the prison when she collapsed. Now her ears were ringing…loudly. She tried to get back up, but her legs still weren't strong enough either due to blood loss or maybe the obsidian arrow tips really did do their trick. She stumbled forward another couple of inches.
"Here she is!" shouted a man. He was dressed in the same royal armor as the rest of the guards. He rushed to her side.
"Shit," said Rina, "gonna k-kick a girl while she's down."
"Sam told us the story," said the man as he lifted her up. Rina immediately fell back to the ground. A second man ran up to her, together the two men lifted her up. "Do you happen to know where the bombs are?"
"I was hoping you'd know," said Rina, "I wouldn't t-think she could plant a couple of bombs among a place like this without b-being spotted." Rina breathed heavily, she was running out of breath.
"She's good," said the man, "she was hired to do this. Its not likely that she…"
"Shut up," said the second man.
"What? Why!" shouted the first man.
"Can't you tell that the little girl passed out?" replied the second man. The first man looked over at Rina. Her head was slumped down between her shoulders. Her legs were dragging across the ground.
"Passed out or dead?" said the first man.
"Either way we got to get her to the infirmary and stop the bombs."
"Leave it to the Marines to have the local forces do all the work while they sleep."
Ungrateful soldiers. Anyways, Emyre has been taken down by the brute force of Alexander's hybrid form. I had a little problem with the ending, but that just shows you the lengths Alexander goes to protect the innocent. Rina has been knocked out cold due to loss of blood or disease in her body take your pick. The bombs are about to blow, Alexander was caught in an explosion of fire, Rina's knocked, Mark's pretty close to dead, so whose left to save day? Find out next time!
Also, if you review the character submission form (like any of you do that), I made a slight edit to the 'Sexual Orientation' section and the 'Devil Fruit' section. Nothing major or to get worked up about. I just stated if there is anyone in the story you want your character to be in love with (or if you want them to be single) please say so. Also if you submit a Devil Fruit please give me details on its powers.