Momo fell and crashed on the ground. Momo was stabbed in one of his bone narrows right beside his spleen. An ordinary human would've died instantly being struck there, but Momo's anatomy was constructed differently, though it didn't stop how he was immobilized and bleeding from his chest.
" It's a shame," Razor said snidely. " If you used a sword instead of that weak pipe, you could've sliced my foot off and I'd surely bleed to death. But I guess that doesn't matter to me now that you're about to die." Razor, who stood limply up because his right shin was injured, moved his tail up as he prepared to finish Momo with it, smiled. " Don't get me wrong, fishman. I had a lot of fun playing with you. I wish we could've played just a little longer, but I've got other things to do. Farewell then, fishman."
Momo wanted to run—he wanted to fight back against the merciless, villainous Razor—but the wound in his chest near his spleen left him incapacitated. The only thing could do was remorse while Razor laughed heinously from his mouth.
" You're my family—Giru, Emily and Momo. As long as you stay with me, I won't let anything bad happen to you. And I'll do it again and again because I love you all the same. So until the day you become strong, smart adults, please stay by my side. "
" Master was right," Momo thought while reminiscing. I-I was just so angry. Master, I'm sorry—"
" Momo! Nooooooooo!"
Emily jumped out from beside Momo and pushed him out of Razor's way. But as Momo was out of Razor's way, Emily was in the path of his tail. In just one second—one second where Momo was staring into Emily's eyes, her waist was cut in half by Razor's sharp tail.
" Emily!" " Emily!"
Seeing Emily fall with her body cut in half nearly brought tears to Momo's eyes. Without a second of hesitation, Momo quickly ran towards Emily and kneeled down as he held her top half in his arms—the saddest part was she was still alive.
" M-Momo?" Emily calmly said. Despite having her body cut off, she had a smile on her face and small tears dripping from her eyes. " You didn't get hurt, did you, Momo?"
" Forget about me!" Momo shouted. As he held Emily in his arms, tears dripped from his eyes. " What the hell were you thinking? I-I mean… just look at you."
" Momo."
" W-What?"
" I'm sorry I made you cry, Momo. Please don't be sad. Try to be happy."
" H-how can you say that? It should have been me! I-I should've been the one he cut, so why did you try to protect me? I'm just a monster! I'm nothing but a big, scary, scaly monster! Why would you do this for me?"
Emily at first didn't answer Momo. In her last moments of breath—last moments she got to stare, smile at Momo—Emily raised her fragile arms up and rubbed Momo's face. His face of course felt rough because of his scales, but Emily didn't seem to care.
" Your eyes…their so gentle. You have the same kind eyes my brother always had. Just like you, he always felt like he was different, but just like you he'd seek comfort being near me. In all the time I've been sewing with you like I would with my brother, Momo, it made me so happy." Emily slowly raised her head up and kissed Momo's left cheek. Momo may've been a fishman, may've had rough scales instead of smooth skin, but his cheeks tinted red from embarrassment and he blushed. " Thank you for everything you've done, Momo."
In an instant—Momo couldn't stop, change, but could only watch—Emily's spirit left her body and she died in Momo's arms. Momo may've been a fishman who couldn't feel the warmth of skin, but he could feel her skin become frigid, and the coldness made Momo cry.
" Emily…no. Emily, please…please don't leave me. Emily…" Momo raised Emily up as he hugged her tightly. " I'm sorry."
" Aww isn't that sweet." Razor said in a wicked voice. Momo could almost hear his tail swaying in his sadistic joy. " The fishman loves the human. But I guess it doesn't mean anything now. That girl is dead, and you trying to be the hero got her killed by me. But don't be so sad. It's not truly good-bye." Momo turned his head back, and then he saw Razor with his teeth clenched. " You can join her in the afterlife!"
Razor pulled his tail back and prepared stinging him with his long tail. Momo, even though he was about to be stabbed, he was too sad too move. While he was immobilized, crying, a shadow scurried behind Momo and stood between the sad fishman and the vile Razor.
" Flicker-Flicker Push!"
The person hiding behind the shadows flicked his fingers at Razor's most vital area; his shin. Razor was pushed far away by the man hiding behind the shadows. Razor was pushed into the air, flying high into the sky, but didn't scream.
" M-master?" Momo turned his body around, where he was still holding Emily's body, and he saw Master Leopol and Giru standing before him. " Master, it really is you. "
" That's right, it is me, Momo. Even though you might be said, it's that feat of bravery that helped me. By hitting his vital spot, I managed to use my Flicker-Flicker technique. It's a special kind of Rokushiki marital art that I've learned to master."
" That's right!" Giru shouted optimistically while raising both his arms up. " You're the best, master! You can stop this thing, right?"
Leopol however looked grim as he tilted his head down. " No, Giru, I can't."
" Huh? What do you mean?"
" I mean I'm not strong enough to stop him. I-I just don't have the strength too. I'm sorry, Giru."
" Hahaha. You're joking, right? You can actually stop this thing, right? You're supposed to be the greatest martial art fighter in the world. If you're not the strongest, then why am I taking lessons from you?"
" I'm sorry, Giru, but I just don't have the strength to win."
" You liar! You told me you could make me strong! I went under your wing just for the sake of becoming strong, then I was suppose to beat you and become the greatest martial artist in the world! But you failed me, you liar!"
Momo, Giru and Leopol then heard the sound of rustling off in the distance. Without a moment too lose, Giru dashed from away from Momo and Leopol and ran to where the noise was coming from. As he ran, Giru's body glowed bright white just like he did the first time he faced Momo. But then Leopol appeared in front of Giru and held his hand out too stop him from moving.
" Just what are you trying to do, Giru?"
" What does it look like? I'm going to beat this thing where you failed. I'm going to use my Devil Fruit power on it."
" You can't. The power of your Devil Fruit is stilly massively unstable. And you still haven't finished your training."
" Forget that! When I beat this thing, I'll be known forever as the greatest warrior in history. How do you like that, Leopo— " Leopol stopped Giru by holding his hands out and hugging the small, callow student." W-what are you doing?"
" I'm just showing you the love and affection your family spurned from you. You're my very first student—you've always been like a son to me—and yet I've never once hugged you like a father should. But I'm afraid I need you to do something for me, Giru."
" Huh? What could you possibly want me to do for you?"
Leopol raised his right hand up and prepared to karate chop Giru behind his neck. " I need you to be strong. I need you to live on. In time, you'll need to fight. But that is not today." Leopol chopped Giru behind his neck, and Giru was unconscious on contact.
" Master!" Momo shouted seeing Leopol knock Giru out. " Why did you do that?"
" I had to do it, Momo. If he used his Devil Fruit Powers, things would turn into a genocide. Now…" Leopol switched Giru's unconscious body with Emily's dead body; he made Momo hold Giru while he held Emily's top half. " I need you to get out of here, Momo."
" What? I'm not leaving you. You said so yourself that I'm no longer your pu—"
Leopol raised his hand in defense. Leopol shushed Momo, walked up to Momo, then he rubbed the young fishman's head. " No matter whether I'm your master or not, you'll always be my pupil. But you need to think things for yourself, Momo. "
" Master…"
" And as for you going…" Leopol prepared to flick his fingers; he pressed his index finger against his pinky and walked up to Momo, smiled. " I wasn't 'asking' you. Flicker-Flicker Push!"
Just like with Razor, Leopol flicked his fingers, but this time he did it on Momo's chest. And just like before but with different people, Momo with Giru were both pushed far away by Leopol. Leopol took sympathy on them and smiled watching them fly.
" Good-bye, you young child's. I wish I could've been with you just a little bit longer."
" It's time for you to die, old man!" Razor shouted from behind. Leopol turned his head around and saw the villainous Razor sauntering towards Leopol with a snide smile on his face. " I enjoy the scent of blood; really I do. And killing someone as old as you will give quite the scent. But are there any last words you'd like to say, oldy?"
Leopol took off his top clothes and exposed his chest. Leopol then clapped his hands together as his body glowed bright white. As he was glowing, Leopol smirked.
" I have something I'd like to tell you." Leopol held his hands out and small white balls glowed bright white. " Before I trained in the art of martial arts, I ate a Devil Fruit. The name of the Devil Fruit was Bomu Bomu no Mi Fruit ( Boom Boom Fruit). My entire body is a massive dynamite that's set to blow. "
" Ha. That's not going to scare me, oldy! Even if you do manage to blow up this entire village, it won't do anything against me. I'm not only made out of weapons but I'm also larva too them. I'll just grow back."
" I know I'm not strong enough to defeat you. But that doesn't mean I can't lesion you." Leopol slowly ran towards Razor. While he was running, he stretched both his arms out. " By the time you recover, I know two strong, noble fighters will come and put a stop to your rein of terror. And I know this because—" Leopol finally reached Razor, jumped up while his body was still glowing, smiled." Those fighters are my sons."
Leopol's eyes glowed with a red ultraviolet light. Red ultraviolet light glowed everywhere out of Leopol's skin. Leopol's body wasn't a dynamite, it was a bomb, about to explode, it went…
BOOM!
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Back in the present, Momo of whom had been badly wounded and was bleeding blood everywhere from his body, finally returned to the reality of his dilemma.
" He called me his son. A human actually called a fishman like me his son. I-I made a vow after that fateful day. I promised myself I would never let anyone else close to me get hurt—Daniel and Razi. I promise the two of you, Razi, Daniel, I will get strong so I can protect both of you."
Through the turmoil of Momo's past and the pain of having water gushing against his blood, Momo felt something swelling up inside of him. Momo felt energized—he felt like his rage was giving him power—but with it he started going berserk.
" I WILL BECOME STRONG!"
X_X_X_X
Doctor in his obscene beast body had moved to the water where Momo was pushed into. Doctor had a deviant smile on his face as he thought about the five stages of grief—denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance—all of which he had but no longer felt content too after seeing Momo drown.
" And that takes care of you, fishy. Now I can finally get on with—what?" Doctor couldn't see himself as he was blinded by his rage, so he was surprised seeing the hideous, animalistic face of a purple-furred lion reflection in the water. " No! That can't be me! What happened to my face? Where is my beautiful face?"
Doctor trembled seeing his own reflection in the water; he found himself to be morbid and grotesque. But remembering his sister Emily and remembering her untimely death, Doctor growled from his jagged, serrated lion teeth.
" Damn them all! They're nothing but disgusting creatures anyways! They did this to me! And I'll make them all pa—"
Small bubbles soon floated out of the water. Dozens of bubbles were floating out, flying into the sky, then popping. Then underneath the water came the cold, scary eyes of the fishman Momo. His eyes were in full berserk—red, wide, glaring—and they seemed to be glaring at Doctor.
" I don't want to hurt you," A loud voice growled out from Momo's vocal chords. " But this senseless violence must end." A small whirlpool started to spin around Momo in the center of the water. As the water was spinning, small water droplets splashed out of the water and drizzled on Doctor. " Fishman Karate: Crasher Lake!"
Momo slammed his left arm on the surface of the water. As he did, the water at the other end was pushed up and a giant tidal wave roared towards Doctor. Doctor didn't' move. He was too shocked, angry, and was sucked in by the tidal wave, and then he was pushed by the massive wave underwater.
" Shit, my Devil Fruit weakness is catching up! I can't even move a muscle! Am I going to drown like this?"
Momo however had other plans for Doctor. The berserk fishman kicked his webbed feet into the water and pushed Doctor into the rocks below the waterfall. Doctor smashed into the rocks as he was weak, fell off the rock's surface and fell straight into the water. He made a giant splash while he falled.
Meanwhile, under the water Doctor was no longer angry. The water felt so peaceful and relaxed the once angry doctor. As he sank to the bottom of the water, where his body felt like it weighed 500 tons, he smiled thinking back to his sister.
" I am defeated. I now understand it wasn't the fishman's fault. Sister, though you are kind, your kindness was your undoing. I guess it's just up to you, Yoh and Umbrage. I know you'll fight your hardest. And for you, sister, I just want you to know…" Doctor closed his eyes and kept them shut to get a vivid image of his sister Emily smiling in his mind. " I'll be joining you soon enough. I want us to play together…just like we used too."
X_X_X_X
Lucas finally woke up after being out for so long. The first thing she felt was the pain of her recently stitched arm. Wrenching, gasping, Lucas applied pressure too her hand to stop any more pain.
" W-where am I?" Lucas thought out loud turning her head both ways too get a better view of the forest. " Jen? Jen, are you around here, Jen? Jen?"
" I'm afraid it's no use calling out for his help, captain," the snide voice of Yoh said somewhere nearby.
Lucas turned her head around. Behind her was the devious, ruthless smile of the traitorous pirate Yoh. He had both his hands behind his back, had his left leg over his right leg, and chuckled while clenching his teeth together.
" Yo-ack!" Lucas shouted after the pain in her arm started acting again. " Damn. If he tries to attack me, I'm a sitting duck. Stupid, useless arm." Lucas looked everywhere for Jen as he was the only member of her crew not being controlled. " Hey, where is Jen."
" Ooh, he's around her, captain. Or should I say ex-captain?" Yoh finally raised his arms out from behind his back and showed Lucas what was in his hands—she gasped in horror. Yoh had the severed, decapitated head of Jen in his arms. " Take a good look at this, Lucas. This is what will become of you. Muwahahahahaha!" Lucas's fear outweighed her pain. Seeing her beloved Nakama Jen's head, which was being held by the snide, ruthless Yoh, the trims of Lucas's eyes turned red as she mourned him and cried.
" J-Jen."
" Ha!" Yoh laughed snidely. " It's a funny thing with this one. Even when he was on the peak of death, he never stopped believing you'd come and rescue him. In fact, before he died, he kept yelling—" Yoh raised Jen's decapitated head beside his face and made a worried face like he was impersonating Jen. " Captain! Captain Lucas please save me!" Yoh's face returned to the snide, wicked smile and he raised Jen's head over his head. " Then, when he died, he said—" Yoh closed his eyes, opened his mouth and stuck out his tongue. " Cappppptttttaiinnnnn—Ugggggghhhhhhh!"
" Y-you bastard!" Lucas exclaimed, though when she did she winced from the pain in her arms.
Lucas's mind couldn't overcome the feelings of grief in her mind—sorrow, loneliness, broken heart, forlorn suffering, desolation—and she couldn't stand seeing Yoh laugh at her Nakama's death and touching his head up and down like a basketball.
" Haha! That was such a riot!" Yoh caught Jen's head and stuffed it between his right arm under his elbows. Yoh sneered his teeth at Lucas as he walked slowly towards her. " You can continue sulking if you want, Lucas, but it's not going to bring him back. But what you can do is sit still for me. I finally understood why you rejected me." Yoh reached down and clamped his hands on Lucas's hair. With a small tug, Yoh pulled her head up. " It was because I was treating you like a lady. Apparently you're too tomboyish you've forgotten how a woman is treated. Well now I'm going to treat you like a man."
" B-bastard—"
Yoh ignored Lucas and kicked her in her stomach. Silhouette of the tree branches shadowed the misery in her face, but Lucas was coughing up blood every time Yoh kicked her. Lucas wanted to run, she just wanted to get away from Yoh with the severed head of her Nakama, but her debilitated injured arm wouldn't let her move. She could only bleed and cry about her sorrow.
" You're my bitch! (kick) And I'm going to train you to act just like a bitch should! (kick) I'll rectify you of everything you have with spunk (kick) , pugnacity (kick), and your own free thoughts so you'll be obedient too me—"
BANG!
A bullet was shot from behind and charged straight into Yoh's back. When the bullet made contact, a small shock of electricity hit his back. Yoh was more confused than shocked. As Yoh turned his head around, he saw the body of Jen. What he saw wasn't the real Jen, but Jen without his head and holding one of Lucas's revolvers.
" Impossible!" Yoh exclaimed seeing headless Jen with Lucas's guns. "You should be dead!"
" J-Jen…?" Lucas moaned while she was still on the ground, but smiled weakly seeing her Nakama's headless body. " Jen."
Yoh was less than pleased, reached down his back and pulled out a giant axe with a giant blade, shouted, " If cutting of your head won't kill you than I'll slice you into mincemeat!" Yoh ran slowly while stomping his feet on the ground and making loud echoing sounds. When Yoh was near Jen's body, he raised his axe over his head and then he chopped his axe down. " Die!"
Yoh missed his swing. Just before his axe could slice through the skin of Jen's body, an orange ball of light flew out of the hole on Jen's neck and Jen's body fell on the ground. Yoh didn't like missing. He huffed, puffed, and he swinged his axe around and yelling like a baboon while swinging it.
" Come on!" Yoh shouted swinging his axe around. " Show yourself! You can't hide yourself from me, whoever you are! I am going to slice you up—"
Out of nowhere, behind Yoh's back, a giant piece of bark flew out from behind and smacked him in his back. Yoh was ticked off as his head was red and his eyes became white. Turning around, Yoh sliced his giant axe at the bark, but a small orange ball of light flew out before his axe made contact.
Yoh blinked seeing the orange light, his lips became lisp, he muttered, " What the—"
Another piece of bark then flew out from behind and smacked into Yoh's back. Yoh sliced the bark in half, but another log flew out and smacked Yoh behind his back, again. Dozens of giant pieces of bark soon came out of different directions and smacked into Yoh in all sides.
" This is just—" A piece of bark smacked into Yoh's face and then fell down. " Getting—" A piece of bark smacked into Yoh's face and then fell down. " Ridiculous!"
Yoh was being bombarded by a barrage of bark. Yoh continued swinging his axe around, he was trying to find the source responsible for his vexation, but every time he sliced one piece of bark a small orange ball of light just flew out of the bark before he made contact.
" I know someone's responsible for this," Yoh thought as he was bombarded by bark. " But who can it be? Lucas is crying like a dog below my feet, all of her crew are under Doctors' drug, and Flinch, Doctor and Umbrage should've taken care of those pests she was with. The only one left is…Jen."
Everything became silent as pieces of bark stopped firing at Yoh. But as the bark finally stopped hitting him, Yoh could hear the sound of something rolling towards him. Below his feet, seen by the twilight of the moon, Yoh saw the head of Jen rolling towards him.
" No…it can't be…"
The head of Jen rolled too Yoh's feet. Yoh picked up Jen's head and raised it too his head. Jen's face looked pale, his hair seemed to be sparkling, but otherwise Jen seemed the same as when Yoh saw him with his head attached.
" This is just too spooky—"
" Boo!"
Even though he was just a head, Jen's eyes popped open and he laughed in Yoh's face. Yoh dropped the head and let it fall to the ground. While Jen's head was on the ground, he rolled backwards to his decapitated body and laughed from his mouth.
" J-Jen?" Lucas mumbled as she was confused. Jen then saw Lucas and the small puddle of blood she coughed up. Jen's head rolled to Lucas, stopped in her puddle of blood, and he smiled. " Is that really you, Jen?"
" Yep. And let me just point out it's nice to be on your blood, captain, but I'd appreciate it more if you could stand up."
" Impossible!" Yoh shouted behind Jen. " I cut your head off! You should be dead."
" Silly Yoh. You can't kill me. " All the animation in Jen's head went away and he closed his eyes as a small ball of orange light seeped out. Jen's headless body then walked in, grabbed Jen's head by its hair, and pulled him up as he placed it over his hole. A coating of orange light glowed from Jen's body, then Jen's head smirked. " You can't kill me because—" Jen ripped his shirt off. Under his shirt, two large holes were on his upper left and far right parts of his body. " I'm already dead."
" W-what?" Yoh and Lucas both stammered together.
" That's right. See, before I died, I ate a Devil Fruit. I believe the locals where I found it called it the Tamashii Tamashii no Mi Fruit ( Soul Soul Fruit). They also called me a Fukkatsu Ningen ( Reviving Human). Unlike Soul King, who you probably know as Brook from the Straw Hat Pirates, my soul isn't just something that lies in a persons' body; it's me entirely. My whole mind is really in that green, small smoke we call our souls."
" Y-you mean too tell me you're…immortal?" Yoh gawked as he stuttered in fear.
" Not really. Since my soul is me, if what I'm putting it in is destroyed before I can leave or my soul is destroyed when it leaves that vessel, I too will die."
" Heh. Too bad for you."
Yoh heard the sound of moaning off in the distance—almost like zombies were stepping towards him—but he smiled hearing their noises. From behind him Lucas's possessed crew walked in. They all avoided Yoh as they walked past him and headed towards Jen.
" Are you scared now, Jen?"
" Meh." Jen scoffed and smirked while he moved his head down. " I have no reason to be afraid of my own crew." Jen then clutched his hands together as he glared into Yoh's eyes. " But I hate you with every essence of my soul. I will fight you for Captain Lucas and everyone in her crew you hurt, you monster!"
" What a cliché. You're about to be killed by your own Nakama's, and yet you feel resentment towards me; a traitor. I can understand what your ordeal is, but I just don't understand you, Jen." Yoh smiled snidely while every member took out their weapons—axes, katana's, swords, chains, knives—and they all glared at Jen with their cold eyes. " And I don't have too. These men are going to end your miserable, soulless life. Men, attack!"
All of Lucas's crew charged at Jen with their weapons held up high. Jen however didn't try running forward or running back as his body was covered in an orange glow. A small orange ball of light seeped out of Jen's mouth, zoomed on the closet member who carried an axe, then the orange ball entered the axe-wielding members' mouth.
" Gulp."
The man's body then started to glow bright orange. Jen possessed the pirate inside his body. The man spun around, turned his face to the nearest member, and he whacked the dull side of his axe into his face. The axe-wielding pirate soon went into a frenzy where he continued whacking his axe in the sides of the pirates' faces.
" Your enemy has taking over his mind!" Yoh shouted to his group of pirates. " Get the one with the axe!"
The pirates did as Yoh told them and attacked Jen while he his soul was possessing the pirate wielding an axe. But while they were attacking the axe-wielding pirates, Jen's orange soul seeped out of the pirates mouth and entered through the mouth of a pirate holding a knife.
There was soon a brawl between Jen's soul and all of the pirates. One pirate punched the pirate with Jen's soul harboring inside of him, but Jen's soul seeped out and entered through the other pirates' soul. These actions were recapped, pirates attacked Jen but he controlled them, then a stronger pirate would fight him. But with every body Jen switched too, the previous one lost consciousness.
Lucas watched while in great pain, saw her Nakama Jen taking down the hordes of her own pirates, smiled. " You're really something, Jen. I'm surprised by how much you've grown. Not only can you win, but maybe one day you'll be stronger than me." It was then she noticed one of her revolvers lying on the ground, smiled. " But that days not today."
Jen finally switched to the pirate with a chain and giant rock attached to the end. Jen spinned his chain in circles, stretched the rock out around his body, and slamming it into other pirates' faces. The pirates all collapsed—they were unconscious; not dead—but Jen still had to get out of the other pirates body and move back to his original pale body—which he did.
All of Lucas's pirates were knocked out. Jen could hear the sound of their breath while they were silently breathing. But while all of Lucas's pirates were down, Jen, who had a knife cleaned from blood in his hands, walked up to the vile, traitorous pirate Yoh.
" H-hey…you're not still mad about me cutting off your head and all?" Yoh murmured staring at the red-trims of Jens' glaring eyes. "I-I was just kidding with you is all. I know you would survive, Jen. You seem like a good, docile, gentle boy." Jen stood in front of Yoh with his head impeding what he'd do with his knife. " So why don't we let bygones be bygones and just move on—"
Yoh quickly swinged his axe out and tried slicing it through Jen's body. His axe went to a stop, blood trickling out covering the axe, and Yoh laughed snidely. " Jokes on you, Jen. Haha! I'm going to kill you, then I'm going to kill that daughter of a liar and a tramp!"
Yoh pushed his axe down too add pressure and deepen the wound he inflicted on Jen. As he was pressing down, making gushes of blood ooze out, Yoh was smiling wickedly and chuckled to himself. It wasn't until he pushed as far as he could—losing all the numbness in his arms—he saw the blade of the axe turning around and actually cutting through Yoh's hands.
" You're small brain hampers your ability to actually swing a weapon, Yoh," Jen said inside of Yoh's giant axe. The axe pulled out and a small blood bleeding with blood was seen. " My soul allows me to control anything that's inanimate or that doesn't have a will of its own. With this axe you've been holding onto for so long, I'm the one who's going to slice you into mincemeat."
The wood in Yoh's axe turned around and nearly sliced through Yoh's head, but Yoh dropped his axe and jumped back before his axe could touch him. It wasn't over yet as the axe stood up, the metal head bending up and looking at Yoh, and the wood jumping towards him.
Yoh was scared, his mouth was lisp, and he crawled back while his own axe was jumping towards him. While it was jumping, Yoh started to sweat drop.
" Stay back!" Yoh shouted . The axe spinned around and prepared to hack into Yoh. " Noooooooooo!"
"Blazing Shotgun!"
One of Lucas's bullets fired into Yoh's chest and a small explosion came out. The explosion scorched Yoh's chest, he yammered in pain, then he fell on the ground. Jen turned his head around and saw Lucas as she was holding one of her revolvers in her unstitched arm.
" Captain?" Jen asked while he was looking down at Lucas. " Why didn't you let me have my way with Yoh, captain? He committed treason and mutiny against our crew. He deserves to die—"
Lucas fired a warning shot besides Jen to shush him up. Lucas then dropped her gun. She used her free arm to push herself up and limply moved towards Jen. While walking, she breathed raspy and was sweating.
" Even-ack-scum like him-ack-doesn't deserve to die-ack-Jen." Lucas walked besides Jen's right side. Jen turned his head to the right and saw Lucas's smiling face. " You're-ack-different from-ack-him, Jen. You're strong, kind and noble."
" Umm, thank you, captain. That was really amazing shooting you did back there, captain."
" Well of course." Lucas stood triumphantly as she placed her unstitched hand on her waist and started laughing out loud. " I am the daughter of the greatest sharpshooter in all of the blue seas. I am the daughter of the great Sogeking. But I will remember him of the man my mother mentioned, who both looking out for me even when they're dead, Ussop the pirate."
" That's great to hear, captain. Now please excuse me." Jen stomped up to Yoh as he grabbed his scorched body by the collar and pulled him up. " Yoh, you're charged with mutiny and have committed treason against your captain. What do you have to say for yourself?"
But while Jen was squeezing Yoh by his neck, Yoh started laughing snidely. " I say you and your bitch of a captain is dead. You may've defeated me, and if by some miracle you're able to defeat Flinch and Doctor, you'll never be able to defeat Umbrage. His lust for blood is strong! You'll never be able to stop hi—"
" Shut up!" Lucas raised her revolver up and raised it at Yoh. She fired a small bullet from her gun and it went straight into Yoh's chest. When he was hit, Yoh felt tired, lethargic and closed his eyes as he snored soundly. " My tranquilizer bullets work like a charm. He should be out for a few hours. But while he's asleep, Jen, I need you to get a branch or a piece of rope and tie him out."
" Aye aye, captain."
Jen ran away from Lucas to look for a tree with a friable branch. As he looked for a branch, looking both ways, he noticed a pair of footsteps he believed were Razi's.
" Razi sure has been gone for a while. I hope he's alright. Could he actually have met—""
" Jen, over here!"
Jen flinched at the sound of Lucas's voice. Jen then ran too where Lucas was lying. Lucas was scared, she was sweating, and her fingers twitched at something ahead of her.
" What is it, captain?"
" Jen…l-lo-look…"
Jen looked down at where Lucas was pointing. It was his great horror and mystery that he saw the shadow of a tree. Only when he was looking at the shadow, gasping in the process, he saw what looked like knife marks on the shadow of the tree—the real tree itself was perfectly fine.
" Could this be…Umbrage?"
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" Crap!" Razi shouted while he was scratching through the bark of a tree in his wolf form. " Which way is North?" Razi then went into a frenzy scratching the bark of the tree like it was his scratching post. " North (scratch)! North ( scratch)! North ( scratch)!"
Razi was having trouble finding the nearest stream. After searching under rocks, around trees, and even under the ground, Razi couldn't find even the smallest drop of water. Being the irrational, thick-headed person that he was, Razi felt comfort using his claws against something, but it eventually became tiring for him.
" I-ack-must-ack-get that water for-ack-Jen. I made a-ack-promise to-ack-him."
Razi leaned his body against the bark of the tree. Razi damaged the tree more than he thought so, and as he applied pressure to it, he pushed the tree down.
It was by coincidence—no, a miracle was the word Razi would use—behind the large stump of a tree was a small pond of water seeing at the end of the woods. Razi's eyes sparkled like stars seeing the pond of water, then without thought he sprinted through the trees and headed for the pond.
" Water here I come—"
Razi was ambushed by a strong, furry creature. Razi was pushed to the ground by the strange creature and he saw how the creature was pigmented. The creature was also ravenous, he was snarling his fangs and sticked his pitchfork of a tongue out, and he was choking Razi around his neck.
Razi however was just as ravenous as the creature. His mouth was the only part of his body that wasn't restrained, so Razi bit the creature on his neck. The creature howled in pain feeling Razi's serrated sharp teeth squeezing through his neck. While the pain of sharp metal was piercing through his body, Razi let go and ran for the pond of water.
" Got to get that water back to Jen. Got to get that water back to Jen."