"Does it strike fear into you? The unknown", Claire asked.
"Not so much fear as it is anger. It gets on my nerves...and right now, so are you. You come to our bar, and attack our friend, and you act so nonchalant about it! And here I thought you were cool", Moira replied.
"The less you knew the better. Although now it seems like that won't be an issue anymore. I didn't really pay you that much mind during my spying, but I did pick up on your devil fruit ability. The ability to create shockwaves and gusts with your voice. A very nice one indeed. It would be very hard to counter something like that." There was a sureness of sort in her voice. It almost seemed to imply that she already knew the counter.
"And yours? There's no way you can get pierced in the head, and come back to life without some kind of supernatural help."
"Its the Kiss-Kiss fruit. A very special paramecia type that allows me to do quite the marvelous thing. Anything I leave my lipstick on allows me a retry, if you will."
"A retry", Moira asked, sounding confused.
"That's all I'll say. Besides, you're doing this to find out about him, right", Claire asked as she pointed at the still downed Blueno.
"You're right! Now COME AT ME", she shouted, prompting another burst of wind.
Claire sidestepped it however, and grabbed one of the tables. "No need to raise your voice. I'm only having fun." Claire tossed the table across the, narrowly missing Moira, as she the latter ducked. Moira took a deep breath. "I'll just dodge it again!"
"Goose Call", Moira shouted. This time A bigger gust came out, and knocked Claire over. I can make the attacks bigger...dont know if you knew that. That counts as landing a hit, by the way."
"Hmph. So it does. I was just testing the waters, but I'll give you that I suppose. What's your first question", Claire asked. She didn't seem hurt that much.
"Who IS Blueno? Tell me about him", Moira said.
"Very well. Seems like a good place to start. Blueno is a highly trained member of an organization of agents, known as Cipher Pol."
"Hold your tongue! Your giving away important information", Blueno shouted from, across the room.
"Anyway, as I was saying...", Claire continued, purposely ignoring Blueno." Blueno, as well as I are part of Cipher Pol. I'm a lot higher up on that pole, but you get the idea. The more important thing is that we're not just agents... we're also..."
"Also, what? Why'd you shut up", Moira asked.
"You want to know more? You're going to have to earn that info", Claire replied as she quickly zoomed up to Moira. She grasped her by the neck tightly, and tossed her out of the giant hole Moira made.
"Moira! You heartless witch", Gilligan said to Claire.
"Meh. I've been called worse things. Now sit tight! I'll be coming back for you Blueno!" Claire quickly hopped outside onto the sandy beach behind the bar. Only to see Moira trying to recover from the throw.
"She's so strong! What kind of training do these cipher pol people go through", she asked herself. No matter! I gotta win this!"
"Now then. Let me show you something special." Claire kissed her hand, and left a yellow kiss mark on it. Despite having two different lipstick colors, the color on her palm was completely solid. "SPORE GUN!" She blew the imprinted lipstick out the palm of her hand, and it went flying towards Moira.
"Woah!" Moira prepared to dodge...but she noticed that the kiss flew off course. In went to the left of her and landed on the sand instead. "What? She missed?"
"Not quite." Claire blew more several kisses at the sand around the two, even blowing some behind herself as well.
From what Moira could tell, there were seven blown. "I don't get it. What is this?"
"SPROUT", Claire called out. The lipstick imprints on the ground began to rise into the air. At first it looked as if they weren't going to do anything, but then they suddenly began to take form. Thy stretched and warped into the appearance of Claire herself. It was almost as if they were clones of her. There were only six of the to sprout however. One of the kiss marks faded away once it hit the sand.
"She multiplied!" How is that even possible!?"
"Just one of the powers of my Kiss-Kiss fruit. Anything with my lipstick on it can sprout a clone of me out of it. Each clone is connected to my conscience as well", she said as she held her hand with the kiss imprint on it. Each clone simultaneously did the same.
"Wait...so...wait! The glasses! You left your lipstick on those glasses inside the bar That's how you kept coming back! You never truly died! Only your clones have!"
"Wonderful, you figured it out", all the Claire clones said, as they all clapped. The yellow lipstick allows me to make clones of myself, while the red lipstick allows me to pierce objects like a bullet. And of course, it allows my clones to do the same thing." Each clone kissed their hands, and blew a red kiss at Moira. "AMORE STROM!"
"Oh crap!" Moira tried to dodge the kisses as they flew, but she couldn't get out the way of any of them. The speed defying kisses were just too fast to completely avoid. Some of them skimmed her arms and legs, but a few of them even pierced right through her side. "Ahhh! Damn!"
"Give it up, little girl. You're in over your head. You'll be swiss cheese with this next attack." Each clone surrounded her and each kissed their hand again in preparation for another attack.
"Not again your not! Just because there are more of you, doesn't mean I can't fight you all at once", Moira called out as she did a handstand.
"What kind of dance move is that", each of the Claire's asked.
"Its more of a song! 360 OWL!" Moira shouted as she spun around on her hands. The gust of wind spun with her. The gust went through each clone, poofing them away. All but one that is. The force of the shockwave hit the real Claire and forced her onto the hard cement sidewalk by the sand.
"That hurt! She's pretty unpredictable it seems. Going to have to change my tactics!"
"Thats another hit! I get the feeling I'm not going to like this next answer. What did Blueno do before he came to this island. What are you and he, in this Cipher Pole?"
Claire smiled and stood up. "I hope your ready for this one..."
"You still wont tell me what this is all about? This is why Moira is out there fighting that woman", Gilligan said. He was attempting to stop Blueno from bleeding.
"Its for your own good. If anyone finds out about it...they have to be killed. I would look the other way for you two...but that woman wont. If Moira gets anything out of her, she'll be killed! I have to go and SAVE her!" Blueno attempted to stand, but he was in a lot of pain. "How can she hit so hard, with a kiss!?"
"You heard her! She wants us to stay right here. She doesn't look like much, but she can handle more than you realize. More than...I realize", he said. "Maybe...I worry about her more than I should, even. It's been so long since I've seen her fight someone. Anyway, I cant fight like I used to, and your to injured to fight...we'd just get in the way.
Blueno reluctantly, held still. All he could do was hope Moira had a plan to beat the silencer. Perhaps he couldn't beat her...but Moira had a unique fighting style, that aided her without having to get too close. Maybe he could trust in her to triumph.
"My god...so that's what he didn't want us to know", Moira said as she held her chest. She felt her heart skip a beat. "An assassin has been working with us? What a horrible life it's been for him and all who were involved.
"Rethinking things are you", Claire asked.
"Not really. He hasn't caused any trouble since he's been here. Whether it's because he's undercover, or because he really has left all that behind...I'm not sure. But all I know is that if anyone's going to kill him, its going to be me. For lying to us, that is", she replied with a straight face. I need the true answer out of him and I wont allow you to kill him."
"'Allow', she says. As if I need your permission. You definitely know too much now, so I'm going to have to end you." She kissed her hand again, and left another yellow kiss mark, and blew three kisses on the ground direcly in front of herself.
"Are you going to make more copies of yourself? I'll just destroy them all again."
Claire gave a small smirk. "Oh dearie, you didn't destroy them all the first time. "SROUT!"
Moira saw the three kisses sprout into clones again...but something new was happening. The sand beneath her moved, as if something was around her. As it turns out, there was something BENEATH her. The sand shot up behind her, and within that screen of sand, was yet another Claire clone. From behind, the Claire clone grabbed Moira tightly by the neck! The grip had enough force to send pain even throughher chest. "What!? Where did SHE come from?"
"Surprised? There was one kiss that didn't sprout when it landed. Believe it or not, I can control WHEN the clones sprout as well. "Now if you don't mind, I'd like to get this over with." The three Claire clones sprang over and grabbed onto Moira.
"N...nah...gah." Moira tried to yell and attack her captures, but the grasp on her neck muffled her voice. The shockwaves would not come out!
"Now...POTSHOT", Claire said as she blew a red kiss at Moira. It traveled so fast, Moira could barely see it.
"IRON BODY!" Moira thought to herself. In an instant, her body hardened. Claire's kiss impacted Moira right in her chest, causing a spurt of blood to shoot out. It took it a second to register, but the pain of the attack hurt all over! Even though it only impacted her chest, it somehow affected her stomach, her head and even her limbs!
"Oh, an iron body technique! Seems Blueno taught you something after all huh? Thanks to it, you managed to stave off death this once, but it won't help you again." Claire kissed her hand, prepared to fire another attack.
"It wont be that easy, Lady... I refuse to die without the answers I'm after. SEAGULL SHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUT", Moira managed to cry out. A wave of wind erupted from her mouth! The force of the wind was so stong, that it affected more than just the beach area. All the remaining windows and glasses in the bar shattered! Even all the whisky and alcohol on the shelves broke, at the force of Moira's voice. The gust also blew through and knocked them both against the wall.
"Ugh! One of her attacks", Blueno asked.
"Yeah. Last time she did that, she broke every...aw, Moira not the booze again", Gilligan said as he eyed all the leaking drinks behind him. Wait...Moira!
"No more waiting around, I'm going out there!" Blueno was finally able to stand now.
"Wait! Blueno, wait!"
"Ahhhg! You have the most ANNOYING voice", Claire called out as she fell back to the ground. All the clones around Moira fizzled away, and the real Claire was blasted into the air. "My ears! I cant even hear myself talk!"
"Hehe. You might have been a little tipsy from all those drinks earlier. Even though used Iron body, I think you still aimed a little too far to the left...oh wait, she probably can't hear me", Moira said. She held on to her chest. The bleeding was still going, but she wasn't dead yet. Either way...Take a hike! "HUMMINGBIRD KISS!"
A powerful wind blew directly in front of her, blasting both sand, and shells all over! Just when Claire finally regained her focus, all she could see was a blurry Moira, behind a wave of sand. At that moment, Claire was blasted off of the ground. "Ack! Not bad...but this isn't over. I'm not done with your OR Blueno", Claire said to herself, as she fell into the sea behind her. Being unable to swim, she was unable to do anything but sink into the water.
"And THAT'S what happens when you make me raise my voice! Ugh!" Her head was pounding, and her chest pain only became worst after the shout. Not to mention her throat was now aggravated.
"Moira! My baby, are you ok! Did she hurt you", Gilligan said as he ran out onto the sand.
"Of course, she hurt her, Gilligan! Moira where is she? BE careful, she could still..."
"I blew her into the water", Moira said. Her voice was nearly gone. "I don't know if she has any clones left though. If there's even a single set of lipstick marks left from her, she could easily come back. She told me some interesting stuff about you Blueno...lots and stuff."
Blueno gulped. "This isn't good. We're beyond compromised now...". Blueno allowed Moira to hop onto his back. "Well I suppose there's only one thing left to do now..." Even if she may be gone, the others may still be in danger.