A/N: Hey guys! So sorry again for the lack of daily uploads. I try to upload a chapter or 2 a day but it's getting hard. So if I don't post for a while there are reasons such as... A: Writer's block. B: School. C: Other stuff. So anyways let's start this chapter with a word that had -ing or -in'.
A New Legend
The Terror of the Gontempest Family part 4
Fight Begin! The Last Two Guardians!
Ray, Emerald, Luna, Chris, and Calico were standing near the corner of the entrance into the fortress, thinking of a way to sneak in there. "Why are we hiding? We're going to raid the place so we should do it now." Ray asked looking around the corner where two guards stood with guns.
"If we attract too much attention then the whole fortress will be after us!" Chris sighed. "I don't think the five of us can take out 500 people including the remaining Elite Four members and the boss."
"Ah screw it. 500 people isn't that many." Ray walked out of hiding much to Chris' surprise.
"What are doing you idiot!" shouted Chris, but quiet enough for the guards to not hear. Before Chris could receive a response Emerald grabbed Chris and pulled her as far from the guards viewpoint as possible. "Just give it up. He's too ignorant to even care."
Once Ray was not too far from the guards, they immediately pointed their guns toward him. "Hey, where do you think you are!? Get lost, kid!" However despite the threat, Ray kept advancing toward them and started whistling. "Damn brat! Fire!" Just as they were about to fire, Ray fired two crystal toward them, which caught them off guard, allowing the crystals to hit them.
At that moment, Emerald, Luna, and Calico came running from the corner, followed closely by Chris; who seemed annoyed.
"Okay now that those two are taken care of, how are we going to open this door?" Ray mused, as he looked at the door the guards had been guarding; it was solid metal, and only lacking some gears to make it a pretty obvious joke. "Well, let's see if this works." Blood hardened around Ray's fists before he proceeded to punch the door multiple times. No visible damage or result was seen. "This door is actually a whole lot stronger than I thought."
"Here let me try!" Emerald formed a pickaxe made of emerald and started to mine the iron. After several hits, the iron cracked. "Now try pounding it."
Ray nodded and the blood on his right fist turned into the shape of a drill that started spinning before hitting the wall with his "Blood Drill" technique. The crack grew large in a matter of seconds, allowing the door to crumble in little bits and pieces. Chris stared at Emerald. "Your power is really ironic, you know that right?" Emerald sighed and nodded her head in agreement. "Don't blame me. I didn't choose my own devil fruit." Chris blinked in confusion as the group headed inside.
Inside Count Gontempest's room, several alarms began wailing, as a screen on a wall showed Ray and the group running inside the building, weapons at the ready. "What do you know? Five people have entered uninvited. Well, seeing as Jeff and Elijah are busy outside..." He pressed a button not too far from the screen. "Aika Ikisuru, we have unwanted. Take care of them, will you?" Then, he released the button, and looked back at the bounty posters. "Ah, I forgot to get him to guard this room."
The halls of the fortress were quite empty, especially considering that Chris recently stolen something of value from there. "What happened to all the guards?" Ray noted, as the group headed through several corridors without any interference. "Didn't you say that there was at least 500 guards here, Chris?"
"It was just sarcasm!" yelled Chris before sighing. There were 500 guards but they all weren't inside the building. They were all outside looking for her. A thought ran across her mind. "I hope that she won't run into too much trouble."
"Hey Chris what are the other members of the Elite Four like?" Emerald asked, as they rounded another corner. Chris tapped her chin in thought before making a "I got it" face.
"Well like I told Ray and that other girl that one of them is a devil fruit user whose power has something to do with floating and the last one, who is the most powerful of them all uses-" Again, before Chris could reveal the final member, a total scream of fear rang out through the hall.
"That sounded like girl! This family really does like kidnapping. What's next? Are they going to start kidnapping pigs?" said Ray picking up the pace.
"Hey wait!" shouted Emerald trying to catch up with Ray as the others tried too, leaving Chris alone.
"Oh come on! Does everyone have a habit of just leaving me alone!?" she asked herself, as she saw the group vanish away from her vision. Then, when she was about to follow them, she spotted a corridor that strayed from the path they were taking. "Well, they won't run into problems at first." With that, she took off into the corridor.
Ray and the others ran for a while before running into two corridors. "Oh great!" Ray and the others stopped looking at the two corridors. Ray turned and faced the group. "Okay, we have to split up. How about Emerald and I go through the right corridor and Calico and Luna go through the-" Ray was interrupted by a question.
"Why do you like meditating so much?" asked Emerald walking down the right corridor with Calico. Ray stared at the duo as they vanished from view. "Come on Ray." Ray turned toward Luna who was walking down the left corridor. "Right..."
As Chris ran down her corridor, she was looking around ever corner for guards, knowing that if she was spotted, hell would break loose. Luckily, every corner she searched, there was no trace of anyone looking for her.
"Guess the Gontempest Family is a poor ass family full of idiots." she sighed, as she leaned against a wall in frustration. "And god knows what the others have gotten themselves into..." Before she got ready to run back out of the corridor, she noticed another hallway leading into a bright, glowing room. "Now what?"
Peeking around the corner, she suddenly went from curious to ecstatic in time-frame of a split second. In front of her, a open vault, full of riches. "No guards, plus a lot of riches, equals heaven!" She yelled excitedly, as she ran toward the vault, not noticing the shadow behind her.
Ray and Luna's trek though their corridors were just as uneventful as Chris' was. "Oh come on! This isn't even a raid anymore! There are literally no guards here except for the Elite Four who are probably in the right corridor where emerald is and... UGH! Why have a giant fortress when there is no one here!?" Luna giggled at Ray's frustration.
"Why can't something dangerous and fun happen! Like if an Elite Four member just appeared in-" Just then Luna stopped and slapped her hand over Ray's mouth. Ray closed his mouth and Luna retracted her hand.
"What is it?" asked Ray in a low tone. "Someone's here." replied Luna looking in front of her. Ray looked past a corner where a shadow was walking into another corridor. "Let's follow him. We can probably pry some info off of him." Ray followed the shadow smirking with Luna following.
"You talk a lot." said Calico with droopy eyes. Emerald looked at him like he just insulted her. "At least I'm not as bad as Ray!" Calico looked at her doubtfully. "I'm starting to doubt that."
Calico stopped by a corner and searched it before continuing. Emerald followed and continued talking. "Hey want to hear some gossip?" Calico decided to ignore her, hoping that it would work. That was a big mistake. Emerald pouted and started screaming. "Knock it off will you!? What the hell, it's like your a completely new person." Emerald kept on screaming before stopping. "WELL SORRY! Like Ray, I also have a type of alter ego! That only shows up when-" Emerald was cut off by another scream. They both looked toward the direction of the scream before running toward it.
When they finally reached the end of the corridor, they saw something neither one of their crew mates has found; a room that was very big and tall, where giant bubbles were coming out of giant machines in the ground taking a minute to even reach the top of the room. A woman wearing a kimono was hanging on for dear life on a rope, at the top of the room, which would kill any person. "Oh, won't anyone come save me!?" she called, as her eyes caught onto Emerald and Calico. "Oh, you have to help me! Count Gontempest left me here hanging, to die, and did I mention I need help!"
Emerald sweat-dropped. "This is way too unbelievable to be true. It's a trap." The woman who apparently heard Emerald somehow started to panic. "No! It's not a trap! Please help me! I beg of you!"
Calico sighed. "Might as well help her, just in case." Emerald sighed too, before making emerald stairs that lead from the to the hanging woman. The woman let go of the rope and stepped onto the stairs before running down them. "Why did this damn room have to be so tall!?"
Emerald sat down and started breathing heavily as the woman stepped onto the ground near them. The emerald staircase disappeared and Emerald took in one last deep breath before getting back up. "Didn't think I'll have to create that much."
The woman ran up to Calico and hugged him tightly. "Thank you so much!" Calico recoiled a bit in surprise. "I don't know what I would've done if you hadn't come along!"
Emerald stared at the woman as one of her eyes started twitching. (Oh no! Ray's twitching disease is contagious and has affected Emerald!) "I was the one who saved you ma'am."
Calico, a bit uncomfortable by the situation, pried himself away from the woman's grasp. "No problem. Now let go of me!" Emerald, whose eyes are still twitching, grabbed Calico and started approaching the door. "Well have a nice day ma'am!" Emerald waved briefly before glaring at Calico. "And you need to learn why it's bad to take credit that you didn't work for."
A steel door slid firmly shut, preventing the duo from leaving. "Oh god da-" Then the duo heard laughter, and turned to find the woman staring at the ground. "Well truly this is unfortunate for the two of you pirates? Now you two have to battle... ME!" Suddenly she ripped the kimono off revealing a suit that seemed to be made for running and a pair of blades protruding from her arms, which didn't surprise the duo.
The woman grinned demonically. "I am the second strongest of the Elite Four! My name is Aika Ikisuru, the fastest person in the world! You both shall crumble before my speed, and... And..." She suddenly droned off, holding her chin in curiosity. "What other lines should I use?"
Emerald sighed as Calico stared at Aika with a "You wasted my time for this" look. "You meaning tell me, that you set up a dumb scheme to have someone save you, so you could forget what you're supposed to say?" When no response came from Aika, she turned and formed a pickaxe and started pounding on the door. "Yeah, screw this bull crap. We're out!"
"Hey wait! You can't leave!" Aika suddenly yelled, which made Emerald tilt her head to face her as Calico still stared at her with the previously mentioned look. "Do you have any idea how long it took to think of that plan and hang up that rope in order to get you idiots here!? THIRTY MINUTES!" My time is precious, and cannot be wasted on nonsense! So you start fighting me or I'll hold me breath!" Then, she clasped her mouth shut, intending to make Emerald and Calico to fight her after feeling bad.
"You can go kill yourself. We have more important matters to take care of." stated Emerald as she cracked and broke the door and Calico was prepared to follow. "See you around!" They were about to run off when in just a split second, Aika appeared in front of them, with her swords drawn. "How did you...?"
"Nu-uh! No way! Definitely not!" she yelled, as she began waving her arms around in frustration. "You two are going to fight me, and I'll take your sorry arrogant asses over to count Gontempest, so he'll kill you for disrespecting me!"
Sighing Calico unsheathed his sword as Emerald created emerald boxing gloves. "Okay prima-donna bitch! Bring it on!"
Chris was now standing inside the vault, and there was a shit-ton of treasure standing before her. "I'm in heaven! The gods have returned my call!" she yelled, as she promptly jumped into the pile of gold, hugging the treasure in her arms. "I knew helping those guys would benefit me! I'm rich now!" However as she spoke, she didn't notice the fist cocked above her head. It wasn't until she saw the reflection of the shiny red fist in the gold did she return back to her senses, and promptly turned around, only to look at Ray's demonic grin.
"Chris!?" blurted Ray, demonic grin fading instantly. "What are you doing here? How did you get here so fast!?" The questions were, in actuality, asked by both persons, neither having no idea that Ray and Luna's path intersected with Chris'.
"This is great! Now that you're here, you can help me get all this treasure out of here!" Chris said, her gaze returning to the magnificent mountain of gold. "This'll be enough for a giant ship and-"
"Look Chris, we don't have the time for this shit!" Ray moaned, as he sat down. "We really need to find the remaining Elite Four members are even better the boss!"
Luna giggled again not saying anything until a loud booming sound resonated throughout the vault. The vault door had been shut and a man was standing in front of it. Three pairs of eyes fell directly on him. "Sorry to interrupt, but I couldn't risk this fellow to leave. He has something I want."
A/N: Well there we have it! Hope you enjoyed and I tried to pull a plot twist but decided not to as it would disrupt the story. Thanks for reading and see you guys later! Please review!