"Well now, shall we begin?"

A dark aura enveloped Maria. The trio suddenly felt odd sensations in their chests. They wanted to go walk towards her, serve her, kneel down to her. Rem and Fang were both strong enough to resist this desire, but JoJo had no such willpower.

"JoJo! What the hell are you doing?!"

"Captain...I can't stop myself! For some reason...I trust her! I want to go to her!" JoJo sounded very love struck, completely enamored with Maria. Rem enveloped his finger with a thick and lengthy amount of paper around ten feet in height.

"Cool it!" Rem hit JoJo's head before he could go farther to the unnaturally charismatic captain.

"Ouch!" JoJo began rubbing the top of his head with hands, no longer having the desire to go to their enemy.

"JoJo! Get back here, you dumbass!" Rem commanded sternly.

JoJo started to run back towards his allies, determined to go out of range of Maria. But before he could reach them, a whip had grabbed hold of his leg! JoJo looked back, it was the same wolf riding pirate that had promised to tame him!

"I, Liam Steinbeck, will be your new master from here on out!" His voice was demanding respect from JoJo, as if he were an animal. JoJo pulled on the rope with all of his might, which brought the wolf tamer right onto the floor.

"JoJo!" Rem began. "Remember that strategy we talked about a few days ago? When we have to fight tough guys?"

"Oh, right! I remember!" JoJo had suddenly become very serious. He furrowed his brows and proceeded to glare at Liam. "JoJo..." Even Fang became curious about this 'strategy' they were talking about. "RUN AWAY!" JoJo immediately began running to the old slave ship they had arrived to the town on.

Fang found himself seriously questioning his decision. Maybe dying would be easier?

Liam's wolf lowered his head and let his master crawl onto him slowly. "Captain!" He called out. "Leave that one to me! I'm be a damned poor wolf master if I let him get away!" Maria nodded with a slight smirk, confident that it was only a matter of time until JoJo was under her control.

Goliath the fishman was the next to speak up. "Captain. I also want to have that bastard swordsman to myself. There's no way I'll forgive his disrespect!" Maria chuckled at Goliath's eagerness to fight for her. "Heheheh, go wild!" The civilians watching cheered as soon as Maria gave Goliath the OK.

Goliath charged at Fang, using his sharp nose as a weapon. Fang's sword and Goliath's nose clashed, their blades were in direct conflict with the other. "This is an awfully unique way to use my nose, huh? After this fight, missing one arm'll be the least of your worries!"

Fang smirked at Goliath's bold claim. "I doubt you or that bitch you call a captain can do anything to me by yourselves." Goliath broke his nose away from Fang's half-sword. His face was once again fuming. The crowd was once again jeering at Fang.

"Who the hell do you think you are?!"

"Don't you dare call our Maria a bitch!"

"You're jealous of her, I know it!"

"Annoying bastards..." Fang grumbled under his breath.

"SHIN." Maria began speaking again, the dark aura from before still emitting powerfully. "Goliath! You dumb-ass! Take your fight further into the town, you're taking away my spotlight!" Goliath was shocked at his captain's scorn, his face turning completely pale and his will to fight dropping to an all time minimum. Fang raised an eyebrow as Goliath gloomily pointed a finger to the town, far away from where his captain was as to prevent their fight from upstaging hers.

"Tch, fine. Anything to get away from these damned spectators." Fang said, leering at the anxious audience. Fang followed as Goliath, who was clearly still downtrodden from his captain's scorn, led the way.

"About time." Rem stretched his body with confidence. "Let's quit stalling and fight already!"

Maria smirked. "I wouldn't rush it, I've got a feeling that you'll be putty at my feet before long."


"Wolf, sit!"

JoJo and Liam were both standing parallel to each other on the deck of the slave ship.

"G-get away!" JoJo was holding a bottle of liquid in his left hand and a stick with a wicking knot attached to its tip was visible in his pocket. He was cautiously facing Liam, who looked as if he would be ready to pounce onto him at any given moment. "Hahahaha! What's that you've got there?" JoJo defensively shielded the items with his body. "It doesn't matter, I suppose. But I will inevitably tame you. Captain Dema—er—Monkey D. Maria! Will be very satisfied!" Liam said hesitantly.

JoJo payed mind to this for no longer than a split second and took the bottle's corkscrew off of it. JoJo rapidly forced the bottle's contents into his mouth, he seemed hard able to keep the contents in his mouth and his cheeks were puffed out as a result of the liquid in his mouth.

"Lionel! Bite the wolf's leg until he agrees to obey!" The wolf pounced at JoJo at lighting fast speed. His fangs locked onto JoJo's leg, knocking him down to the floor and ripping apart the flesh, a stream of blood traveling down JoJo's leg. "Argh!" The fluid in JoJo's mouth spilled onto Lionel's head as he cried out. With a pained expression, JoJo angrily grabbed the upper and lower parts of the wolf's mouth. Then, using all of his might, he tightened the grip he had on the wolf's mouth, deliberately causing pained yelps as Lionel's mouth was being crushed. He pulled the dog's teeth away from his leg painstakingly, revealing the beast's teeth red with JoJo's blood. Even Liam seemed frightened as JoJo grew furious, his pupils seemed to have disappeared without a trace.

JoJo punched the wolf square in the jaw, several of its teeth were broken apart from just the single blow. "Lionel! Are you alright?!" Liam panicked over several more of Lionel's pained yelps. "You've the audacity to try and go above the natural order? You're a wolf, a freakish one at that..." Liam threateningly used his whip to strike at the air, letting out a large cracking sound. "I won't allow you to try to stop this order, wolf."

JoJo slowly got back up from the deck's floor, unable to move farther because of his wound. He silently took the stick from his pocket, simply spitting out the liquid from his mouth. Instantaneously, fire was blown out from the stick. "AHHHHH!" Liam cried out in pain as he was burned by the flame, he made no effort to stand up, even when his mount was being burned even worse from the fluid spilled onto its head.

JoJo spit out the small remainder of the liquid in his mouth onto the floor and began to speak. "So I guessed right, huh?" JoJo simply watched as the duo suffered from the burns he had inflicted upon them. "You can't walk can you? That's why you ride that wolf." Liam calmed down, panting heavily, Lionel rolling on the floor to extinguish the flame that had ignited on his forehead.

"Keh, keh, keh..." Liam chuckled lowly. "That was a very dirty trick, wolf..." A bead of sweat fell down JoJo's face as Liam slowly climbed on Lionel, who had risen up from the floor after stopping the flame on his head. Both of his opponents were emitting a powerful killing intent, Liam was smiling in a beast-like fashion that gave JoJo a feeling of foreboding. "But you can't have expected that to have been enough to kill me. It lacked a certain...flare."

Liam began striking his whip in the air, a cracking sound being caused each time it happened. As he continued to strike the air, the whip became longer and wider. "W-w-what the hell is that?!" All of JoJo's rage had been replaced with fear. The whip grew to extraordinary heights, easily being seen from far off distances. It seemed more like a tendril than a whip.

"Say goodbye you damned, disobedient monster! MASTER WHIP!" The sheer brunt of Liam's whip completely crushed JoJo, he could feel an insanely painful stinging sensation. The deck's floors were too weak to withstand the forced of the attack, sending JoJo down to a lower level, the same place the slave auction was held. The old man Thomas had been standing on the same platform he used to auction off slaves.

"What on Earth are you doing to my precious Clara! Don't you realize how valuable this ship is?!" Thomas scorned JoJo, he was unable to tolerate other people being the one to destroy his ship. Liam had jumped into the room on Lionel from the hole his attack had made. The whip was back to its normal size and Liam had a sadistic look of pleasure. "Keh, keh, keh! This is what happens to beasts that don't know their place!" JoJo was trying his hardest to get up, but couldn't find the strength in him to get up.

"You uncouth...ne'er-do-well!" Thomas was fuming mad, glaring at Liam for the damage he had done to the ship.

"An old man? Are you with these pirates, too?" Liam inquired, sounding completely unimpressed with him. "This means you'll have to die as well, you know." Thomas vanished from sight as Liam said this. "Just because I'm an old man..." Liam heard a voice behind him. "Doesn't mean I can't keep up with this awful generation of pirates!" Liam was sent flying to the slaves' waiting room, another human like hole in the wall was created, right next to the one Rem had made earlier.

His whip had escaped his grip and fell right next to JoJo, who despite still being severely injured with blood pouring out of his body, was still amazed by the old man's strength. Lionel dashed to his master a yelping with concern as he jumped through Liam's hole. Thomas slowly walked through the hole, panting heavily from having just hyper oxygenated.

"Still alive, are you?" Liam was once again on top of Lionel. This time, however, he seemed as if he had finally run out of energy. "Old man...let's finish this." Liam's veins were visible on his skull, he was panting heavily and his teeth were grit.

"I agree, you harmed my precious Clara."

"Pipe down, you did the exact same thing." Liam waved his hand forward as if using his whip, only to grow pale as soon as he realized something horrifying. He let his whip fall in the other room!

Crack! Crack! A whip could be heard nearby, striking the air. Crack! Crack! Crack! Several more whip cracks could be heard. JoJo limped into the room, the whip at hand. He continued to strike the air multiple times, the whip was getting larger and larger.

"What the hell d-do you t-think you're doing with H-Higgins?!" Liam yelled out nervously.

"Higgins...that's this whip's name?" JoJo said over the cracking. The whip was even larger than it was before, JoJo continued with the whip, it broke through the ceiling and only continued to enlarge the whip even more.

"Stop! You'll kill us with that thing, you damn wolf!"

JoJo finally stopped, the whip looked incredibly heavy, it seemed impossible to think that anyone could carry it. Thomas, Liam, and Lionel all looked extremely frightened. Thomas even had a stream of tears running down his face.

A loud CRACK resonated throughout the area. Even the people far away from the ship would certainly be able to hear it. The sound of it was so powerful that the wall of the room was easily blown away with just the sound.

"I refuse to ever have another master!" JoJo declared proudly!

"I won't be a burden to captain, even if it kills me!"


AN: Sorry this chapter took so long! I was drowned in schoolwork again, but I should have a bunch of time to study during the winter break. I'm really hoping that I'll be able to finish this arc quick and introduce some of the OCs that got submitted. Special thanks to AddictWithAPencil and Condor-K for their stupendous characters. Also, would anyone be interested in beta reading? I'd really appreciate it!

Thanks for reading!