Chapter 3: The raid and the encounter
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"What" normal speech
"What" thoughts
"What" Katakuri's observation haki
"What" named attacks
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Katakuri narrowed his eyes at Shay's words. Shay's group had the number advantage, but the huntsmen group were trained and had their aura unlocked. Potentially Shay and some in his group could also have their aura unlocked as well. "We're at a disadvantage. We don't know whose got aura and who doesn't." Katakuri mused. "Let's see how my conquerer's haki affects them."
Katakuri sent out a small burst of haki. Almost immediately, a quarter of the bandits had fallen unconscious, and the rest appeared to have some sort of headache. Unfortunately, his haki also affected those in the group he was in. Resulting in some of them fighting unconsciousness, and others grabbing their heads."Whoa, what the fuck just happened. Hey you assholes better get up and stop fucking around." Said Shay.
"It's no use." Katakuri said. "They're not strong enough to stay conscious to fight us." Shay and the remaining bandits seemed slightly intimidated, but wouldn't back down. "You think you're hot shit, is that it?" Shay said. "Well, you're not. And we'll show what happens when you think you can take us on." Katakuri activated his observation haki, and pulled mogura out of his body.
"Fill them full of holes." Shay said as him and the rest of the bandits raised their guns and fired. The bandits with blades waited until the bullet barrage stopped to attack.
Katakuri suddenly appeared before them. He coated mogura in haki and slashed their weapons to pieces before they could even raise them fast enough to fire. He turned towards Shay and kicked him in the stomach and into a tree. "Uuuuuuh" Shay painfully moaned out, throwing up a bit of bile. The group of bandits and huntsmen began to fight. Katakuri quickly impaled one and threw him at another. He grabbed one one of bandits by the head and snapped his neck without hesitation.
Suddenly, there was several roars and howls. Everyone turned and saw a few groups of beowolves and ursai. The bandits began to grab their cohorts and began to flee while the huntsmen group began to ready themselves to fight the grimm. Katakuri saw that some of the huntsmen were winded and could potentially get injured. But he had to find out why the bandits were ambushing them. Robbing a group of huntsmen out in the middle of the woods while hunting grimm seemed too strange to him. Katakuri grabbed one of the huntsmen by the shoulder.
"Tell the others that i'm going after the bandits." He said. "Are you crazy? You'll be outnumbered and killed." Said the huntsman. "I'll be able to take care of myself. I'll leave tracks to follow." Katakuri replied. He then turned and ran, ignoring the yells of the huntsman, towards where he saw the bandits run.
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Shay and his group stopped to rest after running for a few minutes to catch their breath. The huntsmen were stronger than they thought. Especially the tall one with the scarf. He killed a few of them. "Raven's not gonna like this." He thought. "But those grimm showing up was the perfect distraction."
"Shay, what's the plan now? Those huntsmen had us on the ropes. If the grimm didn't show up, we'd be dead meat." Said one of the bandits. They all looked towards Shay. "Alright, gimme a moment to think." Said Shay as he turned around, his back facing them. "We could regroup with the others, but Vernal is gonna chew me out. We still have a strong number, but this time we won't give the huntsmen a chance to attack." He thought.
As he was turning, he saw one of the bandits in the group get impaled through the back and be lifted up. That was when he saw him. The huntsmen with the scarf. "Shit! I didn't even consider one of them following us. And it had to be this guy." Shay thought, internally becoming panicked. "Kill this fucker. Kill him right now." Shay barked out.
Katakuri pulled the body off of the trident and threw the body towards the bandits knocking down a few of them. He began to block the incoming blades from the bandits with mogura, with little struggle. He pushed the blades back, and slashed at a few of them. Several bandits received deep slashed along their bodies as they collapsed. Katakuri then turned to the remaining bandits, with Shay in front of them. He then activated his observation haki.
Shay turned and looked at the remaining bandits. "Well, what are you waiting for? An invitation? Get him." He said. They hesitated for a moment, but complied with the order. Shay, however, decided to run further into the forest.
"You can run all you like, but you won't be able to escape from me, Shay. You'll be wasting the lives of those people behind you, just trying to stop me is futile." Said Katakuri. Shay was beginning to sweat. "Shit. This guy knows I'll try to run. But if I don't, Raven and the others wont see this guy and the other huntsmen coming." Shay mused. "Fuck you, you aint getting me." He said. He turned to the others. "You guys stall him as long as you can. I have to warn the others." Shay ordered. They nodded and began to surround Katakuri. "Catch me if you can, asshole." Shay said as he ran off deeper into the forest.
"All of you saw what I'm capable of. You know there's no hope of victory in your future." Katakuri said, as he took a stance. The bandits seemed a bit intimidated but stood defiantly, all of them holding their blades towards him. "You ain't getting past us." One of the bandits said. "Then I'll show no mercy. I'll easily ram right through all of you." Katakuri replied as several haki coated mochi fists emerged from his back.
"G-get him." Said the bandit in front of the group. They all charged, but Katakuri threw and barrage of fists and slashes, courtesy of mogura, at the group. He ended up killing a few of them. But in a matter of minutes, he whittled down the number to two bandits, and quickly incapacitated the closer one by slamming the flat of the bladed prongs to their temple. He grabbed the remaining one by the throat. "I suggest you point me in Shay's direction before i make you tell me." Katakuri threatened, bringing mogura under their chin.
"H-he w-w-went t-that w-w-way." The bandit pointed to his right. "Good. You can sleep now." Said Katakuri as he threw the bandit over his shoulder, hitting the ground. The bandit turned to look at Katakuri. The last thing the bandit saw was a black, shiny fist rushing towards their face.
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Shay ran as fast as he could. "I hope the others buy enough time for me to get to raven. She'll waste that tall fucker and make him wish he never came here." Shay thought. As he slowed down to catch his breath for a moment, he heard something coming. He turned around and saw Katakuri, running full speed towards him.
"Shit! Shit! Shit!" Shay fearfully thought as he started to run again. Katakuri turned his arm into mochi and stretched it. Shay turned around and saw his arm. He began to dodge katakuri's attempts to grab him. Katakuri returned his arm to normal length and coated his fist in haki. He aimed his arm at shay's back. "Yaki mochi." Katakuri's forearm began to inflate, the pressure in his arm building up until it exploded and launched his fist at shay's back, igniting his fist on fire as it rocketed towards shay.
Shay turned around in time to see the flaming projectile speeding towards him. He barely had time to dodge as it was seconds from hitting him. The haki coated fist was inches from him when it hit a big tree. "Tch. I'll grab him myself." Katakuri mused. He regrew his arm and aimed mogura at shay's leg and threw it.
Mogura flew through the air for a few feet until it hit shay's foot, causing him to trip and fall to the ground. "Aaarrrrrgh FUCK!" Shay yelled out. He began to try and crawl away from katakuri as he walked closer. "You better start talking or else this could get much worse for you." Said katakuri, as he began to crack his knuckles. "Why are you bandits attacking the huntsmen." Questioned katakuri. "Fuck you." Shay said.
Katakuri grabbed one of shay's index fingers and broke it. "AAAAARRRGHH FUUUCK!" Shay screamed out. Katakuri merely stared at him, showing no remorse for what he just did. "I'll ask once more, why were you and your group attacking us." He said. "Fuck off." Shay said, clutching his broken finger. "Then i'll have to break another." Katakuri replied.
Shay voiced his opinion until katakuri broke his middle finger. "You motherfucker!" Shay cried out. He clutched his broken fingers and tried to crawl away again. But katakuri grabbed his wounded foot and squeezed. "AAAAAAARGH FUCK!" Shay screamed as he immediately grabbed his wounded foot.
Katakuri grabbed his ring finger and started to bend it. "Start talking or i break this one too." Katakuri threatened. "You can eat shit." Shay replied. Katakuri snapped his ring finger, cause shay to cry out again. "AAAAARGH! FUCK YOU!" Shay cursed out. "I'm starting to become impatient. You will talk, or i will start cutting off all of the fingers on your other hand." Katakuri threatened while holding mogura close to shay's unbroken fingers, and began putting pressure on the fingers with the trident.
"SHIT! OKAY! OKAY!" Shay said. "WE WERE SUPPOSED TO KILL OR WEAKEN THE HUNTSMEN GROUP WHILE THE TOWN WAS BEING RAIDED BY THE OTHERS." He screamed out. Katakuri mulled over the new information. "So that's why they've been attacking us. They want to weaken our strength incase we get back to the town. I'll have to inform the others and get back to protect the civilians and evacuate." Katakuri contemplated. He heard shay mutter "im fucked" over and over again, and hit him in the temple.
Katakuri used his observation haki to sense the location of the other huntsmen. After a few minutes of searching, he finally found them. Katakuri grabbed the attention of the group. "We need to return to town. The bandits planned to take us out or at least weaken us incase we got back early while they were raiding it. One of them was kind enough to inform me of what was happening." He said. Everyone in the group began to check if they were still good and ammo, aura, etc. After a few minutes, they began to run back to town.
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The smaller buildings in flames was the first thing they saw. "It's already begun." Katakuri said to himself. The group began to comb through the streets for anybody that could potentially be left behind. After walking a few blocks, they saw the rest of the bandits looting and scavenging through a few buildings. "All of you, get the citizens evacuated. I'll handle them." Katakuri said. He heard them protesting his decision when he began to morph his arms and create a mochi wall behind him. "Just get all the people out. I'll handle all the bandits. They are nothing but weaklings to be handled." He said as the mochi wall closed behind him.
"There's quite a few of them with bladed weapons, no firearms as of yet. There's 16 of them. This group will be potentially easy to handle." Katakuri mused. He ran forward and activated his observation haki.
They all turned towards his direction and pulled out their weapons. A few of them mecha-shifted their weapons into firearms and fired. The commotion alerted the entire bandit tribe and they began to converge on their location.
Katakuri deactivated his haki and morphed his body into mochi to avoid the bullets harming his actual body. He then created multiple haki coated fists. "Mochi gattling." Katakuri said as he unleashed a barrage of fists, running through and hitting all of the bandits in the group. After a few moments, it appeared that all the combatants were incapacitated.
"These bandits won't be getting up anytime soon. But the remaining ones are the problem. The rest of them will swarm here like moths to a flame after hearing the gunshots." He thought as he heard multiple footsteps nearby, a few feet away by the sound of it. He coated mogura in haki and waited for them to appear. His eyes began to glow as he activated his haki again.
A large group of bandits, 21 of them, appeared and readied their weapons. There was someone in front of the group. She had short hair, tan skin, and icy blue eyes. She wore a brown vest over a torn shirt, with maroon colored pants. One of the pant legs was rolled up and she had a tattoo on her arm. "You should surrender before things get worse for you." She said, pointing two gun/crescent blades at him.
Katakuri leaped and activated his conquerer's haki, knocking out a majority of the bandits and stabbed one of the remaining few that withstood his haki. The one he assumed was the leader began to fire shots at him. He twirled mogura and blocked all the bullets fired at him, while finishing off the one he stabbed by stomping on his windpipe.
"You're gonna pay for taking out almost half of our tribe." The woman said. She appeared to be somewhat angry at what he's done. "And i am to assume that you will make me pay? Don't overestimate yourself. You don't have the strength to stand against me." Katakuri said as he twirled mogura in his hand. The woman smiled. "Maybe not me, but once raven gets a hold of you, you're dead meat." She replied.
Katakuri then pulled mogura back into his body. "Kaku mochi." He said as he morphed his arms into hardened squares and coated them with haki. "Then until this 'raven' appears, I'll have to dispose of you." Katakuri said as he disappeared and reappeared in front of the woman, throwing his square shaped fist forward. Her eyes widened as she blocked his punch, and was sent flying a few feet.
"Shit! This guy ain't a pushover. Raven and the others better get here fast or i won't last long against this guy." She thought as she picked herself up. But before she knew it, he was already upon her. This time however, she knew better than to block his attack, so she dodged under it and ran.
Katakuri began to chase after the woman while attacking. There was various degrees of damage and debris around from the strength of his punches. She managed to last for 10 minutes, but was starting to show signs of fatigue. "The others need to fucking get here already. I don't know how much longer i can last against this guy." She thought. He threw another punch, but this time she wasn't fast enough to dodge. She was sent back stumbling a few feet. "A glancing blow, but it wasn't very effective." He thought.
She caught herself and began to open fire on Katakuri. He used his hardened arms to block the bullets while he rushed her. She used the crescent blades to try and stab him, but his arms blocked the stab attacks. Katakuri quickly swept her feet under her and kicked her at a wall. She hit the wall and quickly picked herself up again, and looked at what he was going to do.
"Yanagi mochi." He said as his leg was up in the air and multiple tendrils with boots on the end appeared. He threw his leg down, and all the boots came down. The woman began to dodge most of the boots, but took another glancing blow from the last one. She hid behind some debris from his attack and began to examine the scrape on her arm as it began to bleed a little. "I won't last if he keeps pressing me like this. I'll have to keep him away until i can catch my breath." She thought, as she reloaded her weapons.
"Eat this you bastard." She yelled out as she began to fire at him. Katakuri morphed his chest and let the bullets harmlessly hit him. "Your bullets have no effect, it useless to continue to try and fight me." He said. He pulled out mogura and began to block the continuous rain of projectiles flying towards him.
After a few seconds, her guns ran dry. "Shit." She said. Katakuri took the opportunity to attack her once more, while she was out of ammoi. She blocked his attacks, but began to accumulate cuts along her arms and legs. "That... all you... got?" She said between breaths.
Katakuri merely raised one of his eyebrows at her words. "Your attempt to show bravado won't help you in your situation right now." He said. He began to turn his arm into a mochi ball and began to twist tightly.
"But you are the first one to last this long against me. I commend you for that. But it's over for you." He said. "Mochi tsuki." Katakuri jumped at her and threw his arm forward, mogura spinning at a high speed. The woman barely dodged his attack and took some scrapes for her trouble. She turned and saw him pulling his trident out of the ground.
Her eyes widened as she saw the clean hole in the ground were she was previously standing. "T-that could've been me if I hadn't moved at the last second." She thought, beginning to sweat. But she had to pull through until the others got here. Katakuri turned to her and activated his observation haki.
The woman picked herself up off the ground and held her weapons in front of her. They both turned and heard several footsteps coming closer to their location. The woman turned to him and smirked. "Looks like my backup is finally here." She said. Several bandits appeared moments later.
"So she was stalling for time. Unfortunately for her, they won't last very long against me." He thought. "Looks like my backup is finally here." Katakuri mimicked. "Is what you'll say." They heard the footsteps drawing closer. The woman widened her eyes at what he said. "But don't think your cavalry will be able to stop me." He said.
He created multiple mochi fists from his back, coated them with haki and waited for them to appear. "Holy shit!" She thought, as her eyes widened. The bandits then chose to appear at that moment, unaware of the black colored fists closing down on them. "Jeez, vernal you look like-." "mochi gattling." the bandit who was speaking didn't get to finish his sentence as he and the rest of the bandits were being pummeled into the ground.
Katakuri pulled the mochi arms back into his body. He then turned to her. "Do you understand now? How hopeless it is fight against me." He said. "But at least i know your name now, vernal. So i can put it on a gravestone." The woman, now called vernal, turned to him. "Fuck you, you're gonna have to kill me if you want me to give up." Vernal said defiantly.
Katakuri aimed his arm and coated his fist in haki. "Then I'll dispose of you right here and now." He said. "Yaki mochi." His arm began to inflate and heat up, the pressure building up in seconds. "Shit, that's probably not good for me." Vernal thought. Katakuri's arm exploded and sent his fist flying towards vernal like a bullet. She managed to barely dodge it, and saw the fist go through several walls.
"A lot of good that did. Now you got one arm." Vernal said, smirking as she pointed that out. Katakuri then regrew his arm after she said that. Vernal dropped her smirk and began to sweat internally. "You were saying?" He said as he gripped his new hand into a fist. "I won't be going down so easy you fuck." She said as she aimed her guns at him. "How long will you last until more of your associates decide to show up." Katakuri said.
Vernal began to open fire and run behind a broken wall, while katakuri blocked the bullets. "I'll have to switch to fire dust blades, i'm running low on ammo." She thought, as her crescent blade began to catch fire. Katakuri narrowed his eyes at the flames dancing on the blades of her weapon. "So this is one of the offensive uses of dust. Unfortunately for me, I'm not able to use dust, otherwise mogura would have interchangeable prongs." He mused.
Vernal ran forward, jumping and clashing her blades with katakuri's. The stalemate last seconds as katakuri overpowered vernal, bringing her to a kneel. "Don't think that you have the strength to fight me. I've proven time and time again that i am above you in terms of combat. Just give up." Said katakuri. Vernal only stared defiantly and rolled back out of his weapon's reach. "Shut up. you think you're better than me, is that it?" Vernal said angrily. "You should know your capabilities by now. You aren't strong enough to pose a threat to me." Katakuri said as his eyes closed.
Vernal only yelled angrily and ran forward. She began to attack katakuri, while he only dodged her attacks. "Stop. Dodging. You. Bastard." Yelled Vernal. Katakuri countered and slashed her in the leg. Vernal stumbled back and looked at the injury. "Shit, it's a bit deep. It's definitely gonna affect my movement speed." She thought. Katakuri stabbed mogura into the ground and walked a few steps forward. "Kaku mochi." His arms morphed into square shapes and hardened. "How long will you keep up this pointless struggle of yours?" Katakuri asked.
Vernal didn't answer, at least verbally. She ran towards him and began to attack once more. Katakuri dodged her attacks and countered, hitting her in the stomach and sending her through a wall nearby. "That was a heavy blow. If i take another hit like that, im done for." Vernal thought as she threw up some bile. She picked herself up and hid behind some debris as katakuri walked through the hole in the wall.
He turned and stretched his arm to grab mogura from where it was placed. "If you won't show yourself, then i'll start stabbing through things." Katakuri said. He kicked away some rubble and began to destroy possible hiding spots until he saw the end of her shoe. He kicked away the rubble she was hiding behind, and attempted to grab her. She slashed at his hand and reloaded her weapons. "Eat this." She said as she began to open fire on him. Katakuri morphed his body into mochi and simply waited for her to run out of bullets.
Her guns clicked, indicating that her ammo clips ran dry. "Aww crap. That was the last of my bullets." Vernal thought as she ran. Katakuri then walked forward, intenting to finish her. But before he got within arms length, several gunshots rang out and sped towards him. Katakuri blocked the shots as they were coming. "Vernal, over here." Another group of bandits appeared. She ran towards them and they ran away from him.
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"Man, am i glad to see you guys." Vernal said. After running a few blocks, they hid in an alleyway, to patch up vernal and catch their breath. "You look like shit. Was that guy really giving you that much trouble?" One of the bandits asked. Vernal finished bandaging her leg and turned to them, her expression serious. "Where's raven?" She asked. "Raven is fighting off the town guards with the rest of the tribe." One of the bandits answered.
"That guy was unbelievably strong, and could morph his body. None of the others lasted a second against him. We need raven to take him out." She said as she picked herself up. The others followed suit and they began to walk out of the alleyway. They walked a few steps until their feet were stuck to the ground. "Did you think you could escape from me?" Katakuri appeared from a rooftop, looking down in their direction.
They began to try and pry their feet out of the mochi. One of them managed to free their feet. but before katakuri could take him out, vernal intercepted him. She looked back at the bandit. "Go and get raven, we'll hold him off." Vernal yelled out. The bandit immediately ran away from the area, leaving the others behind. Katakuri pushed vernal back and kicked her into the others. "Don't think you can last now that you have others with you. The results will be the same. There's no hope of victory in your future." He said as he twirled mogura above his head.
Vernal and the others got up and began their attack. Some opened fire with their guns while others rushed him with their blades. Katakuri merely blocked the shots and sent out a burst of conquerer's haki, leaving only him and vernal. "What was that? He took out the others without touching them." Vernal thought as her eyes widened. She took a step back as he walked towards her. "W-what the hell are you?" She asked, somewhat intimidated by him. His eyes began to glow as he walked forward. "What i am doesn't concern someone who is about to die." Katakuri answered, as he thrusted mogura forward. Vernal blocked his attack and attempted to counter him, but to no avail.
She began to accumulate more cuts on her arms and legs. And her stamina began to wear down, her movements becoming sluggish and sloppy. "Damn it. I'm getting slow and tired, and he only has light sweat on him. This guy is ridiculous." She thought. Katakuri turned his arms into mochi and began to twist them quickly, holding mogura away from him. Then he thrusted mogura forward, the trident spinning like a drill. Vernal narrowly dodged the spinning trident, and run towards him. She switched her blades for wind dust blades and pushed her remaining aura into them. As soon as she got near him, a metallic black fist rushed to her face, hitting her into a trash can nearby.
Katakuri pulled his arms back and turned them back to normal. Vernal weakly got up and put her blades in front of her defensively. Katakuri slammed the flat side of the bladed prongs against her defense, damaging her weapons and kicking her in the chest. He grabbed vernal by the front of her shirt and put mogura at her throat.
"Do you understand how pointless it is?" Asked katakuri. "Your struggle was pointless, it only delayed the inevitable." He said. Vernal only stared defiantly at him and tried to break his hold on her. "Fuck you." She said weakly. "You're gonna be dead meat soon enough." Katakuri merely closed his eyes at the threat she insinuated. "Do you have any last words? Or perhaps a last request, seeing as how you'll be dead in a few moments." Katakuri asked her as he opened his eyes. Vernal looked over his shoulder and smirked. "Yea, i want you to die now." She said. Katakuri' narrowed his eyes and activated his observation haki immediately.
A long red blade entered the edge of his vision and began to speed towards his neck. He dodged and turned around. A woman in a shallow cut red and black dress, with a red girdle-belt, some bead necklaces and red matching gauntlets with a mask resembling one of the creatures of grimm appeared. On her waist was a sheath with a rotary chamber with, what he assumed was, multiple types of dust blades. "And who might you be, seeing as how you defeated almost half my tribe?" She asked.
To be continued.
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Aaaaand cut. Man things are building up to a calamitous exchange. Katakuri finds out about the raid and comes in to save the day. But we'll see if he does. But thats enough of that. This would've been out a bit earlier but one piece treasure cruise world clash happened. That game has a grip on my soul lol. But I've managed to get some time to finish this. I'll get to work on chapter 4 after this, so stay tuned.
Cremvtxriv out.