The parade for the noble was raging on. Rusatge and his group were by the feast hall. They had killed a few marines and were disguising themselves in their navy uniforms waiting for Kizaru to zip away so that they could attack. Kizaru was casually lounging around as the servants finished setting up the plates. In the hall there were a few humans and one or two fishermen chained up on the floor. They were probably presents for Cortez. Rustage looked up to the sky and from the position of the sun, estimated it was about noon. Rusatge looked at a few cards and tried to calm himself down.

Tekking was ten times as nervous as Rusatge was. He had never fought an Admiral. He had fought one or two vice admirals, a small handful of rear admirals and he had seen his share of Captains but Kizaru was in a different league. Tekking looked at the clock in his hand. It was thirty seconds before all the den den mushi would go to sleep so he had to start the attack. Joy boy held a cannon up in his hands. It was much weaker than the one he would normally be using but he would make due with what he had. Pointing the cannon at a little diner full of marines he fired. The cannon collided with the diner and it exploded into a ball of flames. People screamed and ran everywhere. Marines were rushing Tekking and his gang. Tekking unsheathed his sword and took a deep breath. He charged forward, slicing up marines in the blink of an eye. They were fodder for his blade and to get Kizaru to come.

"Death to Cortez!" Tekking yelled out "Try and stop us you useless marines. Try and stop the devil hunter Tekking." The marines all around him were talking into their den den mushi. They had ten more seconds, Ohara took the chance to make a few huge blades and started destroying buildings and slicing down any marine in his proximity. In a flash of light and in the blink of an eye, stood kizaru. He looked down at Tekking who now stood before him.

"So...who are you?" Kizaru asked with a smile on his face. Rage brewed through Tekking, sure he may have a smaller bounty than Nux and Rustage, but that didn't mean he was a nobody. Leaping forward at the blink of an eye, Tekking swung for Kizaru's face. With his haki in full effect, Kizaru wasn't able to avoid a superficial wound. Tekking landed behind Kizaru, sword in hand. A little scratch below his eye glowed red as Kizaru turned around.

"The name is Devil hunter Tekking. Captain of the Brick pirates and a 625 million berry man" Tekking responded.

"Ohhh...impressive. I apologize for not recalling your name.". Kizaru responded gleefully. Saige lunged at him and swung for his back with her blade at full force. Kizaru dissipated into light as the blade cut through him and appeared right behind her. He chuckled, blasting a beam of light at her. She was barely able to stop his blast with her sword but the impact still sent her flying into some crates. Kizaru opened his mouth to say something as six saw blades started tearing through his body, going right through him. Still though they relentlessly flew around and into him in a fury. One blade that went for his face was followed by a cannon ball that Kizaru blew up before it could get to him.

"Wowww. Your whole crew is really scary Devil Hunter. Even your rabbits can use haki'' Kizaru jokes with a smile on his face. Tekking lunged at Kizaru again who was expecting it and pulled out his own light sword to counter it. Tekking broke off and jumped in the air, spinning his body really quickly in the air with his sword out. Kizaru split his body up in light and back to physical form to avoid the attack. He tilted his head to the side as he let more blades cut through him. Instantly he appeared behind Joyboy and Ohara. He hopped up on his left foot and swung his right at the speed of light directly at Joyboy who put up one of his arms to deflect the blast. Despite his efforts his arm broke and he was sent flying. Ohara conjured up twelve saw blades and ripped into kizaru to no avail. Though in an instant Ohara jumped up to him, his saw blade was now directly under his open hand. This time the blade was coated with haki. He sliced off Kizaru's arm in a swift motion and Kizaru gasped out loud. Then his dismembered arm turned to light and went back to his body.

"Just kidding" He smiled gleefully. Before Ohara could try anything else, Kizaru shot 5 beams of light into his arm. He shrieked and clutched his arms. Then he swung around kicking out sending an explosion of light towards Saige who was trying to sneak up on him. However the blast was aimed at Saige and not Tekking. With his haki hiding his presence from observation haki he got dangerously close to Kizaru with his blade ready for the kill. Kizaru simply smiled and opened his left hand. A glaring light shone from it and blinded Tekking who wasn't able to bring down his sword. Kizaru used his left foot to kick Tekking into the floor and down to the ocean. Kizaru yawned and blew up Ohara who was trying to stand up. Tekking suddenly broke through the dock under them and performed another spin move. Kizaru was caught off guard and got cut in the ribs.

"Ohhh...that's an impressive move Devil hunter...what's it called?" Kizaru asked. Tekking stood there with a blank look on his face. Not knowing what to say. Who would think to name a move. It seemed like it'd be a hindrance in battle so he had never really considered it before. He took a good minute to think.

"It's...umm, the...Tekking tumble?" He said, shrugging his shoulders. Kizaru chuckled lightly and drew his light sword. Tekking lunged forward and they clashed for a few seconds. It was hard for both of them. Kizaru couldn't use his observation haki to guess Tekking's moves and Tekking found blocking sword slashes at light speed quite difficult. In the end however Tekking was pushed back onto the ground. He huffed as he held his sword behind him. Kizaru stood above him. His glowing finger preparing a beam of light to end the battle.

Out of nowhere, Joel came up and put his hands out shielding his captain. Kizaru gave a confused look. He looked at Tekking who also had no idea what Joel could be thinking. Kizaru paid no mind to it and fired a beam into Joel's head. The beam went right through his mask and exited the back of his head. Joel's head slumped to the side, but his body didn't move at all apart from that. Then a pink liquid started flowing from the hole in his head. It spilled onto the dock. Kizaru now looked even more confused on what was going on. Tekking was also creeped out. After a good minute of silence. Joel's arms shot out in front of him. His arms were straight and rigid but his wrists were limp. Almost like he was being held up by strings. Then his fingers started to move. They moved quickly and efficiently and his arms also moved from side to side. Then the strangest thing happened. Both Kizaru and Tekking started hearing a piano playing. Both jerked their heads from side to side until they realized that it was Joel who was making the sound. The composition was slow at first with a fairly upbeat sound. As it picked up speed it started to sound more chaotic. There were random keys thrown into the fray but they didn't seem out of place in the scope of the song. Joel lunges forward at Kizaru with both of his arms still out. He leaped up and roundhouse kicked Kizaru in the head. He hit him. Kizaru shifted to the side, confused as to how he was hit. Then Kizaru fired a few beams at Joel which all hit him but none slowed him down. The blood gushed out of him but he didn't stop. He just leaped up at him and unleashed a fury of kicks. His body was contorted and his feet moved much faster than the rest of his body, but still his arms were outstretched. As he attacked more and more, the melody grew more and more insane. The keys boomed through both Tekking and Kizaru's head. The sound trailed off into random little spurts of music before suddenly focusing again. There were times when Joel would just play two keys over and over again for no real reason and then continuing as if that little interval hadn't even been there. Joel leaped at Kizaru and found himself right in front of his face. He then performed a front flip in the air with his right foot out and his left foot curled up, bringing his foot down on Kizaru's head. Kizaru took a knee and then drew his light sword. He slashed at Joel who leaped around avoiding the sword. Kizaru then dissipated the sword and appeared right before Joel only to smash his foot in the masked man's face. The impact tore the dock below them up and Joel skidded to the side, destroying the floor as his body was jerked to the side, but his stance and posture never wavered. Through all of this the music just kept getting more and more intense. Tekking had to take a knee because of the overload of sounds pumping into his head. He couldn't even call it music anymore. It was just sound. It had no rhythm or tune anymore, it was more than noise but much less than music. It was a sound that Tekking had never encountered before, a sound that nobody should have to hear. It was truly the sound of madness. Kizaru was getting fed up with fighting Joel. It was no longer fun and the sound from his hands were ripping apart his brain. He put his hands together and fired an array of beams at him. Dozens of blasts ripped through Joel's body and he didn't move or react. Holes riddles his torso and legs but his mask didn't suffer from stains. Even the previous hole from the blast was clean and without damage. However one beam hit his hand, and he hit a sour note. No one would have noticed that the note was out of place with what the previous insanity but the sound stopped the minute the beam hit him. Kizaru's body started convulsing and he fell to his knees. His skin crawled. His blood was boiling. It bubbled under his skin making the whole body vibrate on its own as the blood spastically bulged out as if it was trying to rip itself out of Kizaru's body. Tekking was also having the same effect going on with his body. The blood should have boiled his brain, but yet he could still think. It did no good however because all he could think was how much pain he was feeling. It was truly the most intense pain he had ever felt in his life. Then the sound that silence had left was shattered when Joel started playing again and both Joel and kizaru returned to normal. Both thinking, 'what the hell is this guy?'.