"Just so you know, you can't escape me. Nor can you beat me. I am made of light after all."
"That may be so, but not even light can protect you from Haki", Raymond replied. "But we'll have to go for the KO if we want to escape him. From what I remember, he's fast. About as fast as light, so as long as he's still conscious we wont be leaving this island."
"He's likely more dangerous than a silencer. It's going to take a lot more effort to put him down", Gurin said.
"Then we accept your challenge! We have fought for our lives many times! This shall be no different", Kumadori said.
"Ohhhhhh. How exciting! Very well, let's begin!" Kizaru pointed out a glowing finger towards the group, and prepared to fire.
Jabra dashed forward in Zigzags moving quickly as he dashed along. "Just TRY and hit me!" His speed must have increased a lot over the time!
"Not so fast Jabra. Have you forgotten...", he said right before vanishing. ….I am light, he whispered as he appeared right next to Gurin with the intent on kicking her.
"Oh, no! Look out Gurin", Kumadori called out as he jumped in front of her and hardened his body. The kick impacted Kumadori, and even sent him flying to his right.
"Kumadori-San!"
"Ohhhh, he took the hit for you. That must have hurt."
"And so will this", Ramond said, as he dug both of his claws into the false monkey! "Ugh, fighting without weapons is gonna suck!"
"Hold him still Raymond, Jabra shouted.
It was easier said than done. It didn't take much effort for him to toss the false fox into the air. "Farewell", he said as he pointed a glowing finger up towards him.
"No you don't", Jabra yelled. The wolf latched onto Kizaru's leg. I never let my prey escape!"
"Who said anything about escaping?" He rapidly shook his leg in an attempt to shake Jabra off.
"Ugh... ah", do something", he said between muffled yells.
Gurin took a bite of a fruit she had stashed in her jacket pocket. "Try this on for size!" She rapidly spit out green flamed seeds at the admiral.
He tried to block them at first, thinking they were just flaming seeds. However, he did not realize that the green flame was much different from normal fire. It was enhanced, and had as much technique as Haki! The bullet impacted his palm and drew blood, but he reacted quickly and hopped out of the way. "Oh, that's a surprise. I have one too", he said as he pointed and fired a beam towards her. Her long body was too much of a target for the explosion, and it managed to blow her backwards.
"Stop it, you're destroying the city", Raymond yelled. His eyes flared as he watched the people flee from the city.
"Whats the problem. They can rebuild, can they not?"
"You...I cant believe someone who was kind enough to help me, would do this. My father was right, you really can't trust people nowadays"
"Oh, you poor deluded kid. I'm afraid you're under the impression that this is destruction. You haven't seen destruction yet", he said. His eyes seemed to almost be invisible behind the yellow glasses. He quickly warped over towards him. Jabra was tossed onto the ground in the process.
Raymond quickly held his arms out in front of him. They were somewhat stubby thanks to this false form, but luckily his Haki helped protect him from the kick attack. "Ugh! Ack! How dare you attack my friends!"
"Oh, you've grown a lot since I last met you. It's too bad, you didn't become a marine. You probably wouldn't be in this situation."
"That may be true. Though be that as it may, THIS is my life now. STAR PUPIL!" He shot a burst of energy through Kizaru's shoulder. It even managed to draw blood. "How do you like MY light?"
Kizaru zoomed backwards and up towards the tree. "What a surprised!? Who'd have thought you all were capable of actually hurting me? I can see it will take a little more effort to put you all down. Though I'm not actually trying, you've definitely caught my eye. "Now watch carefully. It could be the last thing you see." Kizaru held his hands together and created a yellow sphere of light.
Gurin, managed to stabilize her body and looked on ahead only to see the area being bathed in a yellow light. "Oh no! Whats he doing? He's going to level the town with that! We've got to stop him!"
Further into town, Kalifa, Fukurou, and Moira were in the middle of a confrontation of their own. Rafflesia and Springer returned in an attempt to take their revenge. "You two have NO chance of beating us. Not only have we got stronger, but there's three of us and two of you", Fukurou shouted. Just then, a huge explosion could be head coming from further outside the city. "What was that?"
"Ah, I take it Kizaru has found someone. Good, I hope he blasts them to hell", Springer said.
Moira stopped and thought for a second. Kizaru? You mean the admiral, right...wait! What!? An admiral of the navy is on this island too what for!?
"Hunting you goons of course! You've made an enemy of the entire government at this point!" Rafflesia slithered forward in the blink of an eye, and managed to catch Kalifa off guard. She wrapped around the sheep, quickly, but before she could stay for long, a "shigan" in the form of a beak from Fukurou stabbed her right in the side. The wool cushioned some of the paralyzing effect of the Shock-Shock fruit, and so did Fukurou's beak...but it still had somewhat of an effect.
"Her touches spread easier like this it seems, so I'll deal with her! You guys take care of Springer", Moira said as she flew over towards the three."
"Good, this will be payback then. I'll destroy you for Serenity. AND for Benson", Fukurou cried out."
"Then take your best shot, owl boy!" Springer hopped into the air and prepared to slam both of his claws down. Fukurou moved out of the way just in time. "I'll skewer you and each and every one of your friends for beating on me back on Zero Island!"
"And I owe YOU for your little bomb trap all last year. "Taste my feathery fists of fury!" Fukurou doled out multiple punches. Even in bird form they seemed to be effective, to deal some form of damage, but Springer was not please."
"You think those stupid feathers can hurt this fuzzy bear body?"
"No, but your nose is soft. Shigan!" POKE! Right in the springers soft nose!
"Ow! You little bird bastard!" He slammed his paw down onto Fukurou and pinned him. "Now to finish what I started!" That's what he thought at least, but his attack was interrupted by a swarm of bubbles washing over his body. "K-Kalifa". He said before falling to his knees."
"Now get ready for a baaaaash", Kalifa said as she rammed into the grounded bear.
"Ugh, not you too", Kalifa Moira said.
"Focus on me, doll. You know, snakes usually eat birds", Rafflesia said as she smiled, revealing two sharp fangs.
"You can eat CRAP for all I care", the shockwave traveled straight forward, but Rafflesia managed to slither out of the way.
"Storm leg!" Rafflesia created a shockwave with her tail, that zoomed past Moira's wing. The force from the attack managed to knock her to the ground! She quickly wrapped around her and squeezed tightly.
"Moira", Kailia called out. Just as she was about to charge over. A big fuzzy paw was brought down on she and Fukurou.
"See, you never stood a chance! Hatchet, Springer and I are particularly tough members of the silencer branch! The fact that you all beat us before must have just been dumb luck!"
It was becoming harder and harder for Moira to feel her body. The combination of binding and shock-shock fruit was making her body go numb. "Ack! Damn you Rafflesia!"
"Your starting to look quite appetizing! I wonder how you'd taste!" It almost seemed like she was drooling. Her pupils seemed to give off a very unsettling flare."
"Funny, I was just thinking the same thing", Springer replied as he stared down at the owl and sheep he managed to catch.
"Kalifa, these psychos are gonna try and eat us", Fukurou yelled." People all around were scattering from the battlefield in fear. Most of the civilians knew that when a fight ensued, it was best to stay out of it.
"Don't take it the wrong way. Call it a once in a lifetime craving", Springer replied. Several drops of saliva drizzled onto the ground.
"Bye bye birdy", Rafflesia said as she opened her mouth wide. She must have known Moira could yell since she was gripped so tightly. With little effort she shoved the bluebird into her jaws."
Fukurou gasped! "She...she ATE Moira!" It appeared that way...but soon after, something interesting happened.
A muffled yell was heard, and for a second, it looked like Rafflesias body inflated like a balloon. Moira flew right out of the snake's mouth! "What's the matter? Did I give you indigestion? The second you shoved me into your mouth, you stopped squeezing, and that gave me the opportunity for some heavy damage." Rafflesia's pupils had vanished as she wobbled from side to side, before falling over. It would seem the impact from Moira's attack on her insides caused enough damage to knock her unconscious.
Springer's attention quickly shifted over towards the two. "What!? She lost again?"
"Yeah, and so will you!" Kalifa's wool seemed to grow slick", and more bubbles shot out again", wrapping Springer up in a cloud of bubbles
"Ugh, not again!" The two were easily able to slide from underneath his claws afterwards.
"YES again! Let's turn him into a fuzzy honeycomb, Kalifa!
Back on the battlefield with admiral Kizaru, the dust from the previous blast was staring to clear. A lot more than ground had been destroyed. It looked as if some of the building had also been crumbled. "Ohhhhhh! Looks like I overdid it that time. Oh well. I wonder if any of them survived. That was quite an attack!"
"Alright, that's the plan", Raymond said. They were a bit dinged up from the explosion, but far from heavily injured. They took shelter just out of kizaru's sight, behind a bunch of big shrubs. Gurin was a bit bigger, so she had to stretch out further down. Luckily the smoke was still thick enough to mask them a bit. "Kumadori, are you ok?"
"Worry not! I can execute the plan, most...", was all he said before they all shushed him!
"Alright! I didn't anticipate him being this strong, OR fast, and we're at too much of a disadvantage. Jabra's not used to fight in animal form, Gurin's too big a target like this, and I can't use any of my dangerous weapons with these tiny paws. We're going to have to strike HARD and get away quickly. That's where you come in, Gurin."
"Right. I can fly us all back to the ship once you execute the plan.
"Maybe they already perished...", Kizaru said to himself.
"He's too stupid to use his Haki it seems. Either way we should treat it like it our only chance. You all ready", Jabra asked. Everyone knodded, and took positions. Gurin stayed low to the ground and flew towards the left of the Kizaru. With great speed, Kumadori moved towards the right. The two were on the sides of the admiral.
"Ohhhh, you were alive afterallllll. That's unfortunate."
"We'll show you unfortunate", Jabra yelled. He and Raymond both charged forward and jumped.
"Then I'll just have to...", Kizaru began to say as he pointed. Suddenly, he felt something wrap around his right arm and pulled it. It was pink hair! Another bunch of it wrapped around his right leg. His left arm and left leg were also wrapped by Gurin's hair.
"You have fallen into a trap, that we call, WRATH OF THE FOREST", Kumadori said. The combined hair of the two managed not only wrap around Kizaru, but he ground next to him. The attack was made, so that If the opponent managed to escape, from the bind, they would land on more hair, and be ensnared again.
"You two are up. Quick", Gurin yelled."
"Now its time for our combine attack! Cresent cleave", Raymond shouted. Jabra swiped his foot horizontally left to right, while Raymond did the same, only right to left. They both made a big X shade wind blade. The blade flew quickly, and impacted Kizaru dead on.
To Kizaru's shock, they managed to draw more blood from him. All he could do was gasp as the hair loosened from him. The force of the scythes knocked him onto his back. "They caught me off guard...", he said. Despite that, he still seemed to be so nonchalant about it.
Kumadori hopped onto Gurin's neck. Right before she zoomed off. "Hurry, hop on! We're getting out of here."
Jabra and Raymond both hopped onto her back. "Tell, Akainu to suck an egg", Jabra yelled! Al four of them vanished from the battlefield in an instant.
"Oh dear. I suppose I should report this in. Hello? Hellooooo? Helllooooo", Kizaru asked repeatedly into what he thought was his baby snail transponder. Unfortunately for him, he was speaking into the black snail. The one that was only good for recording.
"Raymond, tell me where everyone is", Gurin said.
"Gotcha!" He activated his Observation Haki, and had a clear view of where everyone was. "To your left! Blueno Serenity and Borya are coming out of the pottery store. Everyone, get ready!" He, Jabra and Kumadori all prepared to grab hold of someone!
"Did you really need so many dishes, Borya", Blueno asjed.
"Of course! Especially since you all keep accidentally breaking them. Show some restraint with your strenght."
Serenity shook her head. "Its like you said, cheap plates will only...", that's all she had gotten to say before she Blueno and Borya were swept up by a zooming creature. Upon closer inspection, it was Raymond whom was on Gurin's back whom had grabbed hold of her. Even in fox form, his six powers training gave him enough strength to hold something bigger than he...though in such a comparing size, he still seemed to struggle to hold her. "Woah, woah! Where's the fire?"
"No time to explain yet! Raymond, where's our last three", Jabra asked. As he held Blueno by his leg, from his teeth, much to Blueno's surprise. Kumadori held onto to Borya, he appeared to be shoving dishware into his pouch in an attempt to stop them from flying all over the place.
"Make a left up here... there's another person with them...and what looks like a bear? They're both on the ground though, so it must have been a fight here as well. More marines?"
"Either way, we've got to get back to the SkyDancer. Get ready", Gurin said as she sped up.
"They were definitely more threatening when we encountered them last year", Kalifa said as she eyed the two downed silencers.
"Hah! We should finish em off before they try to come after us again."
Moira looked pretty hesitant at first. While she has never killed anyone, she probably wouldn't be opposed to doing so, against someone who was trying to kill her or her friends. She probably wouldn't feel good about it, but still. "If that's what takes, so be it." Luckily, an easier choice was made for her, and she along with the other two combatants were swooped up by the passing dragoness.
"Are you three ok", Borya asked.
"Dont tell me that was...", Gurin began to say.
"Yeah, it was rafflesia AND Springer. They attacked us out in the open. Where are we going", Fukurou asked loudly.
"Back to the ship!" Flying back made the journey much faster than it did with them walking. They were there in a matter of minutes this time! Even though they were by the ship, they were still in their animal forms. This SHOULD be remedied the second they get back on the ship. "Is everyone ok?"
"I'll be ok when I can walk on two legs again", Raymond said as he hopped up onto the ship, and as they expected, he reverted back to normal. "Oh! How I have missed you", he said as he kissed his own thumbs. "Next time I see that admiral I'm going to shove a rocket up his ass and set it off!"
"Thats harassment", Kalifa said as she patted him on the head."
"Oh you don't know the half of it, sister!"
"Don't worry, we'll get him next time. Great enthusiasm though.
"Thank goodness! I don't stick out as much being my regular human form. Where to next", Gurin asked.
"Anywhere that's not here. While we were talking to that shopkeeper, I got a new lead that might help us. Its not Levely we need to be aiming for. It a place called Last Call", Serenity said. Everyone exchanged looks of confusion. This one DEFINETLY didn't sound like something any of them would have heard. "Hey, I'm just as confused as you are...but we've been in unknown territory for quite some time now. This should be no different right. Come on, we're almost there", she said with a smile.
Everyone else gave a smile as well, but they were interrupted by another random explosion further onto the island. "Is that dope blasting away in an attempt to find us", Raymond asked.
"I don't know...but lets go! The last thing we honestly need is to draw attention to ourselves", Kalifa replied.
That night, aboard the skydancer, everyone tried to settle down after the day's events. "So the two idiots just attacked us out of nowhere. Sure they had us pinned for a second, but they weren't as strong as they were before", Fukurou said.
"Well, we're all clearly getting stronger. I don't think they're actually training anymore, just tailing us", Jabra said.
"I wont be able to sleep tonight. I think my adrenaline is still going. This is giving me the chills...but in a good way", Raymond said as he rubbed his arms.
"Strange huh? As scary as he sounds, im looking forward to meeting him. I wonder how far away this place is anyway. How long do you think we'll be traveling", Gurin asked.
Blueno looked out into the night sky. The stars seemed to give off some sort of strange glow. As if they were warning the group...was a a warning for something good, or for something tragic? "Thats going to be our next mission. We need to find out as much as we can before proceeding."