Jade Force
Chapter Nine: Dragon Force
I couldn't just leave you with that cliffie of a fight scene for another week XD It demanded to be written! Two updates in one day isn't too shabby, I think ^_^
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"Ooh, what a scary power you have there~!" Kizaru exclaimed, looking at the damage her breath attack had caused to the buildings behind him. "What kind of Devil Fruit did you eat?"
Aubrey sneered, backing off a few paces, eyes shut tight in concentration. "It's Magic, not a Devil Fruit." She whispered around the voices that were plaguing her senses. "Metsuryū no Mahou."
Come to sea with me!
I ate the Gomu Gomu no Mi! I'm a Rubber –
I'm a Flame Man, I ate the Mera Mera –
Bara Bara – !
Mero Mero –!
Gurahahahaha!
"Ooh~, doesn't that sound fancy!" He was mocking her now. "I didn't think magic was real~."
Aubrey tried a smirk. "Really? Well, I'll have to change your mind, then."
Using speed she'd picked up from a childhood of fighting Vulcans, Aubrey appeared behind him and launched out a powerful kicked, her leg a pillar of condensed jade. To her surprise, he blocked the attack almost contemptuously, firing another ray of light at her. Jade scales lit up and deflected most of the power from the attack, but gradually, Aubrey was forced onto the defensive. Deciding that hand-to-hand was not the way to win this fight, Aubrey summoned her Nanarenbu swords, and attempted to use the attack on Borsalino.
"Hisuiryū no Nanarenbu!"
"Hisuiryū no Hokou!"
"Hisuiryū no Yokugeki!"
"Hisuiryū no Jaberin"
"Hisuiryū no Kotai ken!"
She was severely outclassed – she hadn't been this overwhelmed since she last fought with her father, and demanded he go all out on her. Not a single attack seemed to affect him, although one of the Javelins had managed to graze his cheek, drawing blood.
Beaten and bloody, Aubrey finally collapsed to the ground, her scales gone, and with the full understanding that the Admiral had been playing with her. She had attempted to use both of her Secret Arts, but they took time that she couldn't spare, and had resulted in her being kicked several metres away and through a few buildings.
"Mmmm, you certainly put up a fight, for someone without a bounty!" He drawled, holding his glowing finger above her head.
The future showed two images to her – Natsu-kun, a few years older than she herself was, wrapped in both flames and lighting, and Gajeel-kun, older again, iron scales with heavy shadows rippling. If such a thing were possible for them…
Dragon's have strong lungs! Quartzerine whispered in her memory. We need to, to breath out such unconventional elements!
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To Borsalino's surprise, the Dragonet suddenly opened her green eyes, dark face full of determination.
"I'm a Mermaid Heel Madoushi, of Salix," She hissed at him, eyes slightly out of focus. "Even if you're frightening, even if you beat me, I'll never run away! The pride of the guild rests in this mark of mine!"
Borsalino stared at her for a few seconds longer, before snorting, gathering more light into his hand, and then releasing a constant stream of it, a blast rather than his normal laser.
When the light and dust cleared, though, it showed him Aubrey, still very much alive and intact, her cheeks puffed out and head turned away.
"White Jade Dragon Mode! Shiratamaryū no Hokou!" White light danced amongst the jade shards that Aubrey roared at him, and this time, she blasted him away.
The smile she offered him was almost feral. "It's time I showed you a little trick. This magic of mine, Dragon Slayer Magic… It's called Lost Magic, where I'm from." That strange smile grew. "Lost to the ages, very few people know how to use it… It's the power of a dragon, inside of a human." A faint green light began to glow around her body. "And there's nothing more powerful in the world… than…
"Dragon Force!"
Shocked, Borsalino watched as raised ridged scales grew around her eyes, claws extended from her fingers, and a dragon-like tail whipped backwards and forwards beneath her coat. White hair was swept up and back, extended canines flashed in another one of those smiles, before suddenly she was gone from his vision, only to reappear behind him, her tail lashing around and crashing into his head with enough force to send him flying. He didn't go far – she appeared again, sending him back in the other direction with another roar, and then she was above him, and suddenly his face was in the ground, her leg a pillar of jade that had sent him there.
"Let me show you the power the power of the all-woman's guild!"
The ground beneath them lit up with that white and green light, a circle with a dragon's head in the centre, surrounded by strange patterns.
"Metsuryū Ougi! Nekoyanagi no …"
Clusters of green-white lights floated around them, and Borsalino was surprised at how … fluffy, and cute, they looked…
"Mame denkyū!"
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The Redhaired Pirates stared, open mouthed. This girl had managed to take out an Admiral – on her own!
"O-oi, everyone…" Shanks finally managed to whisper. "What do you think?"
"It's not like you to ask first," Ben Beckman mumbled back, eyes still wide, latched onto the girl who'd just feinted.
"She's not like a normal recruit."
"True…"
"They'll kill her anyway," Yasopp managed to squeak, bug-eyed. "She'd be safer with us, even in the New World."
"She's been living with Shakki-san and Rayleigh-san for a couple of months, too." Lucky Roux added weakly, his meat hanging forgotten, his smile slightly dimmer than normal. "She'd definitely bring something to the crew! That sixth sense of hers seemed pretty cool!"
"Although, I'm pretty sure she said she didn't want to come to sea," Beckman added as an aside at his captain, having regained some of his composure.
Shanks laughed. "Better at sea than dead, Benny! Alright, men, let's set sail!"
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Translations:
Hisuiryū no – Jade Dragon's
Hokou – roar
Nanarenbu – seven slice dance
Yokugeki – wing slash
Jaberin – Javelin
Kotai ken – solid fist
Shiratamaryū no – White Jade Dragon's
Nekoyanagi no Mame denkyū – Pussy willow fairy lights
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Animeluver2818 and AlexandriaAckerman, I hope the fight scene met your expectations! ^_^