In the highest floor of the Vargstruck Mansion

Semi defended herself with her fishing rod as Takeo walked towards her while dragging his blade, leaving a trail in the carpet that he was standing on "You stupid pirates invade our island, and try stop our plans? Man or woman, I don't care which you are! You will not disturb us!" Takeo began to run faster and prepared to attack while Semi stood normally and smiled.

Takeo was irritated by her lack of concern "What's so funny girl? You think you can outplay me with a damned fishing rod?! I will not fall for that nonsense again!"

"Well, this really isn't any normal fishing rod. But you're not worth proving that to. You should look behind your back first, Mr. Takeo." Takeo's eyes widened as he felt someone tapping on his shoulder, he then turned around to see Kuma smiling at him.

Kuma grinned evilly as a creeped up from behind an unsuspecting Takeo "Clumsy Snake!" he used one katana to strike Takeo from behind, making him fall forward to the ground. Takeo got up immediately and gritted his teeth at Kuma, who was ignoring his shoulder wound.

"Ha! You really are pathetic! Throwing crap in my eyes like that! Consider yourself lucky that I used the blunt side of my blade just now, or you'd be a dead man. I don't fight dirty, so let's keep things clean from here on. Got it, bro?" Kuma said as he flipped his blade back to normal sheathed it.

Takeo lost it and yelled back at Kuma as his sanity was slowly drained from him "I don't need sympathy from some stupid pirate! Rargh! Diminish!" Takeo ran toward Kuma in a rage and vertically swung at him.

Kuma smiled and caught Takeo's blade between his thumb and index finger of his left hand with ridiculous ease, giving Takeo a worried expression. "Unhand my blade you hooligan!

Kuma yawned with his free hand in front of his mouth "Nah sorry, can't do that. I can give ya some swordsman to swordsman advice though! You need to work on those swings of yers! I've seen newspapers that can cut deeper than you! Heh." Kuma used his right hand to slowly unsheathe Takarichi as Takeo tried desperately to remove his blade from Kuma's grasp, "Keen Talon!" he then instantly swung it diagonally at Takeo, conjuring a lighting-blue, crescent shaped, bolt of compressed air that forced Takeo into a wall. The impact with the wall created a large bright blue explosion and split the wall in half. Kuma sheathed his weapon as the entire room shook. From outside, one could see Kuma's technique explosively exit the mansion and disperse into the sky, temporarily lighting the dark village of Perfro.

Back on the other side of the large room

Once recovered, Tora stood up with his shirt off, his skin was crimson red and eyes were completely white. He had an even more muscular physique and on his back was a large tattoo of an orange bull. "ARGH! DON'T TOUCH MY DAMN HAIR YOU BASTARD!" blood vessels bulged on his forehead. He quickly held his head as if he were in deep pain, but immediately ignored it and faced Golokstein

Golokstein turned to face Tora, who was getting pumped "Hmm? What's gotten into him?" he asked.

Daiko stood up and rubbed his head "Uhhh... It probably wasn't a very good idea for your to grab him by his hair. He really, really hates that."

"DAMMIT! WHY DOES THIS ALWAYS HAPPEN! IT HURTS SO GOOD! SOMEONE STOP ME!" The engraged vice captain pointed his face towards the ceiling as he yelled at the very top of his lungs.

Daiko scratched his head, "Uhh... Tora? Are you okay?"

"IT'S LIKE I'M ON FIRE HOT HOT!" Tora crouched and leaned forward as he repeatedly slid his foot on the ground, like a bull preparing to charge, he slowly faced Golokstein and prepared to attack "I'LL KILL YOU FOR THIS! MIGRATION!" Tora charged at very high speed towards Golokstein. *FWOOOSH!*

Golokstein grinned "Whatever this is, it's not enough! You both are too weak! You've allowed my fortune to fool you into thinking I am weak!" he stood still, planning on withstanding the attack as he previously did. Tora's fist made collision with Golokstein's stomach, causing him to cough blood "Aaargh!".

"RED HERD" Tora continued with a very fast barrage of mid-air punches, each punch was clearly hurting Golokstein and leaving imprints on his torso. With every hit, vibrations could be felt in the air and the entire mansion shook. After the attack, Tora continued with a very powerful uppercut to the jaw, causing Golokstein to lose balance and stumble around. He then pointed his palm at a dazed and dizzy Golokstein "RED PALM!" the large man's chest caved in as he was sent flying into a wall from the shock wave emanating from Tora's hand.

The attack turned out to be enough to calm Tora's nerves. With every punch that he landed, his skin turned a lighter shade of red, until he was back to his normal tanned skin tone. It seems that violence and destruction are the only things that can successfully alleviate his anger.

"Whoa! Wow! Tora! You have to find a way to teach me how to do that!" Daiko said as Tora put his hand on his forehead in pain again and immediately collapsed.*thud*

*Zzzzzzz*

"Uh.. Tora? Are you alright?" Daiko said while staring at a snoring Tora. "Ehh.. Alright, then Tora, you take a nap, I'll finish this."

Golokstein stumbled slowly to his feet and coughed up blood. "W-what in the hell was that? How could someone... anyone hurt me when I'm in this form!"

Daiko got into fighting stance "That was my first mate kicking your ass! And I'll finish from where he left off!" Daiko prepared to finish off his enemy when he heard footsteps from behind him. It was young Austell, on his face was an expression of both fear and anger. It appeared that Austell has finally managed to garner up enough courage to face his corrupted uncle, but not enough to prevent his legs from shaking.

Daiko turned around "Oh hey Austell when did ya get here? Me and Tora were just finishing beating up your uncle. Hope you don't mind!."

Austell interrupted "No, Daiko. It's alright now. I understand... I was being a coward before b-b-but not anymore... this is my family so I'm going to take care of this myself. Even if I die here, I can't go on living with the shame of letting someone else do this for me." Austell's legs were shaking uncontrollably as he prepared to face his uncle, who was still standing at more than 12 feet tall with his muscles at their overgrown size. Austell didn't even recognize his uncle when he first entered the room, as this was the first time he had seen his uncle in his transformed state. He never even new that Golokstein had eaten a devil fruit. This fact alone was enough to quadruple Austell's fear. His uncle didn't even look human with his gargantuan 12 ft tall height. Not to mention the bruised and bloodied body and face from his earlier beating from Tora, and the extremely creepy smile. Austell has always been afraid of his uncle, but he never imagined it would be this bad. "Who... WHO IS THAT?!" was all he could think as his body trembled.

However, taking into consideration the horrible treatment his uncle has given him and the entire island for the past years, Austell managed to muster up just enough courage to stand his ground. He clenched his fist and briefly turned to face the young pirate captain next to him "Daiko... that's your name right?"

"Yup the one and only! What's up?!" Daiko responded

"P-p-p-please... No matter what happens, don't interfere." He said while locking eyes with Daiko.

He nodded "Gotcha! Alright then, take 'im down Austy! But you're still gonna be our navigator, don't forget it!" Daiko said, now standing at ease.

"Umm... I'll think about it. I'll think about it..." Austell said to himself.

Semi and Kuma walk up to to Daiko and Austell. "Whew that Takeo guy was annoying. Annoying but weak. I should have skewered that damn bastard. " Kuma said while picking his ear with his pinky. "He's lucky I'm a real genuine dude."

Daiko looked at the two "Oh so you two are done with that other guy already? Cool! Austy here is gonna finish off the Golok guy for us! Then we're outta here!"

Semi looked at Tora, who was face down sleeping on the floor with his shirt off, she could see the large tattoo of a bull on his back but was more concerned as to why he was unconscious on the floor "What in the world happened to Tora? Did he really get beat up that fast?" she asked.

Daiko reassured Semi "Oh don't worry 'bout him, he's just taking a little nap!"

"If you say so." Semi then looked worriedly at Golokstein, who was still recovering from Tora's attack, and then back to little Austell, who was stepping forward to fight. Semi truly felt worried for the young navigator, as he was just a scrawny, short 13 year old boy who wasnt even half the height of his crazed ripped uncle. "That guy over there is huge, how does a little boy like Austell plan on doing that?!" she said.

"I dunno, we'll see I guess." Daiko said "I bet Austy has some cool secret power like a laser gun or... something!"

A bleeding Golokstein gave a sinister grin and faced Austell, "Ha! You worthless boy, you're not even worth the title of being my nephew. You're trying to face me? Just because these rookies are giving me trouble? You're even more moronic than I originally thought."

Austell protested "N-n-no! You're wrong!" poor Austell was still shivering and shaking in despair.

Golokstein continued with his insults as he looked down at Austell in complete disgust "You're complete garbage, you've been utterly useless since the day you managed to crawl out of your late mothers womb like the cockroach you are. I've seen rats that have more worth than you, you insignificant, irrelevant, pointless little shit! You've been nothing but a thorn in the side of MY business! No one has ever liked you, not even your family! Everyone in the village wished you were DEAD you WORM! THAT'S WHY THEY LEFT!" Golokstein laughs maniacally as Austell began to give in to his words "YES, CRY! YOU USELESS PIECE OF TRASH! CRY LIKE THE INSIGNIFICANT LITTLE WORM YOU ARE! "

"..." Tears began to run down Austell's face as he bit his lower lip and his legs finally gave in, causing him to fall to his knees and hands, his long, straight black hair hung down from the sides of his head, blocking his face from view. All that could be heard from little Austell was his whimpering and sniffing, and his tears dripping to the floor. "He... he's right... I've been useless all my life... I should just... die..."

Semi ran over to Austell and knelt beside him, patting him on the back and hugging him as he whimpered "It's okay, Austell you have every right to cry. I can only imagine the horrible things he's said and done to you over the years." she said softly and concernedly.

She then looked at Golokstein with anger "And you! You should be ashamed with yourself! How dare you talk to your own nephew like that! What kind of sick, twisted man are you?! There's more to life than money!" she yelled.

Daiko yelled at Golokstein also "Yeah, shut your mouth you coward! Stop talking to our navigator like that!"

Golokstein looked at Daiko and Semi in disapproval "And what would you fools know? You barge into MY island and interrupt MY business so that you can apparently take this worthless boy with you to the Grand Line? This boy here is garbage! I should've gutted him years ago!"

Still smoking, Kuma stood back and silently watched the argument from the background as Austell's tears dripped to the floor.

Daiko was gritting his teeth in anger as he prepared to fight "Arghh! That's it you bastard! I've heard enough crap! Iron Chain F-huh?" Daiko stopped in the middle of his attack when he noticed something blue shoot straight passed him at high speed. Whatever it was, it moved so quickly that Daiko didn't have enough time to identify it. "Wha?"

It was Kuma, he leaped into the air towards Golokstein with his fist pulled back, he then punched him in the face*POW!*. The force of the punch lifted Golokstein off of his feet and sent him crashing into the wooden wall. Kuma then landed on his feet while breathing heavily, on his face was a look of anger.

"K-Kuma..." Semi said silently with her hand still on Austell's back. Austell lifted his head up to see his uncle still recovering on the floor.

Daiko looked at the swordsman "I didn't know you could throw a punch like that Kuma. Nice one..."

Hei gnored Daiko and yelled at a downed Golokstein "Get up ya jackass! Yer gonna pay for talkin' shit to my little brother like that ya big wuss! Man you're just like that Takeo asshole! I hate your kind, you're only tough when you're pickin' on kids like little bro Austell!"

Austell's eyes widened after listening to Kuma's words "Little...brother?" he thought to himself.

Kuma continued "A real swordsman. Only throws punches when his brotherhood is being challenged! It's best you remember this, man. Because next time, it won't be a fist that hits you!"

Golokstein wiped a bit of blood from his lips as he returned to his feet again with his bowl-cut hair shadowing over his eyes. It was pretty clear that he was slowly losing his sanity (whatevers left of it) "That little boy over there... is worthless. He's a waste of... money!"

Kuma yelled back "There's more to life than money, like princess said! There's beer! And girls too! Get over yourself ya moron!"

Golokstein lost it "My... business... It's MY BUSINESS! The Vargstruck family is under MY CRONTROL! It is MY CREATION!" his muscles expanded even more, it looked as though his vessels were going to pop." YOU HAVE NO PLACE HERE!"

Unexpectedly, Austell responded after wiping the tears on his face with his arm "No it's not! You're a liar, uncle! My father is the one who lead the trading family not you!"

Suddenly, with blood still on his mouth and chin, Golokstein let out a sinister and very disturbing smile "Your father hmm? What if I told you that I'm the one who murdered him? HA! He was a liability to MY BUSINESS! Your father is dead you useless boy! How does that make you feel? HAH!"Austell's eyes widened in complete shock, and then lowered in anger.

The young boy gritted his teeth as tears ran down his face again "Damn... you..."

Semi yelled once again at a demented and mentally disturbed Golokstein "How could you ever be proud of that! He was your brother wasn't he? You're just a monster! " Semi turned her head towards Austell as he fell to his hands and knees again but began groaning this time, it was clear that he was undergoing some kind of transformation.