Hiccup and the others managed to pull the twins onto the deck, they were in tons of trouble. Astrid and Fishlegs had run away with their ship, Krieg was attacking the restaurant and now Hawkeye had arrived slicing through Krieg's galleon.
"What did you say?" Snotlout yelled furiously.
"Are you sure that they sealed off with the Going Tiger?" Hiccup asked.
"What exactly happened?" Toothless demanded.
Tuffnut looked at him. "Well, it all happened in only a few minutes."
A few minutes ago before everything went upside down, the twins had been curious on why Astrid and Fishlegs were so fixated on the wanted posters.
"Hey, what's the matter guys?" Tuffnut asked as he and his sister approached them. "We don't mean to prior anything, but what are you looking at?"
"Nothing really," said Astrid plainly.
Ruffnut looked over her shoulder and looked the wanted poster they were looking at. "Nice, now there is a good bounty pirate. I've got to say that I'm impressed, but I think you two are aiming a little too high going after Arlong, I'm not kidding that guy is really bad news. He was playing it: laying low for while, you know staying out of sight…"
"But these days that maniac is causing all sorts of trouble," Tuffnut nodded. "It is kind of tough walking away from a 20 million Gil bounty, though."
"That guy is so powerful that there is the slightest tiniest chance that we could lose and die," said Ruffnut.
They had been so fixated on Astrid they failed to notice Fishlegs had circled around them and then with one good shove he pushed them over the side and into the sea. Fishlegs had a sad look on his face and immediately turned his back on the twins as they popped their heads out of the sea.
"What you think you're doing?" Ruffnut yelled.
Astrid merely smiled down at them. "Doing business of course. Use your heads guys, we're thieves that only targets pirates and my next score is this ship. We never said that we were members of this crew, we were just travelling with them and nothing more. Even though we shared a short time with Hiccup and the gang, we sure had a lot of fun. Make sure that I tell them that I said if it's truly meant to be we'll see them real soon."
They then began making their way to the rudder leaving the twins completely bewildered.
"Hey, where you going?" Tuffnut yelled.
They were then pushed back by the waves as the Going Tiger sailed away.
"We're going to be in so much trouble," Ruffnut panicked.
"Our only job was to look after the ship and you're making us fail miserably!" Tuffnut yelled.
It was at that point that something sliced through the air and the galleon began to split apart causing ripples in the water. After that they swam their way to the restaurant where they met up with Hiccup and the others
The twins looked at Hiccup and the others pleadingly.
"And that's the story of how Astrid and Fishlegs took the ship," Ruffnut cried.
"Sorry," said Tuffnut.
Toothless slammed his fist against the wall the restaurant. "Dammit, they just had to make a bad situation worse."
"Those heartless thieves, Kaia, gave us that ship," Snotlout growled. "And I think I was beginning to like that girl."
Hiccup immediately pulled out a spyglass and looked out to see. "Wait, I see the ship!" He then immediately looked at the twins. "Tell me where your boat is."
"We have it moored to the restaurant," said Tuffnut.
"Toothless, Snotlout, don't just stand there, take their ship and go and get Astrid and Fishlegs," Hiccup ordered.
"Why don't we just let them keep the ship, those two away more trouble than they're worth?" Toothless asked.
Hiccup looked at him forcefully. "Fishlegs is the only person I would accept is navigate on the ship and I still believe that Astrid will make a make an excellent first mate."
Toothless looked at Hiccup and could tell that he was not going to be dissuade. "Fine, we'll do it," Toothless sighed. "Certainly one high maintenance captain, you know that?" He then looked at Snotlout. "All right, Snotlout, let's go."
"Right," Snotlout nodded.
The twins immediately and tied to their ship and began sailing their way towards them.
"The ship is ready for action," they said.
Toothless looked at Hiccup. "And what about you?"
"I think it's best that I stay here until I have everything sorted out, I still have a debt to pay with the restaurant," Hiccup pointed out.
"Be careful, the situation here could get really bad really fast," said Toothless.
"I know," Hiccup agreed.
The pirates was still clinging onto what remained of the galleon.
"We were supposed to be safe now. What's going on?"
"This ship has been broken to splinters!"
That's when they saw Hawkeye sailing towards them.
"Over there, it's that man!"
"He came back."
All the pirates were utterly terrified as Hawkeye sailed through the wreckage of the ship.
"Krieg, the man that destroyed our fleet is back! What are we going to do?"
Toothless turned and saw Hawkeye sailing through the wreckage. "Th-That's him." He could feel his heart beating erratically. "That man is…"
Krieg leaned over the railings and looked down at Hawkeye. 'That son of a bitch.'
The pirates were utterly terrified, paralysed with fear.
"That psyco followed us back here. He's going to kill us all."
"Everyone is going to die."
Hiccup looked towards Hawkeye. "I've heard stories about him for my father something tells me they weren't exaggerated."
Toothless nodded. "I've heard the same tales, only a handful of people have managed to survive by his hand."
"So that's Hawkeye."
"Yes, the greatest swordsman."
The chefs just stared at Hawkeye, because he was not holding a single weapon apart from a greatsword strapped to his back which had a black blade.
"That's got to be the guy that destroyed, Krieg's ship," Gabriel assumed. "He sunk 50 pirate ships out on the Grand Line all by himself."
"Looks like it came back to finish the job, but is that all he wants?" Zale wondered.
"Wait a minute, he just looks like any ordinary Drake, he doesn't even appear to have any special kind of special weapons with him," said a cook.
"He carries his weapon on his back," Zeff's explained.
All of them gasped in shock.
"That's impossible," said Gabriel.
"He couldn't have destroyed a galleon like that with nothing but a sword," said Zale.
"Hawkeye, is a true master, he is without a doubt the greatest swordsman in the world," said Zeff.
Toothless just stood there. 'I never thought that I would meet him so soon. The time has come, for me to fulfil my promise.'
One of the pirates glared at Hawkeye. "Y-You monster! Why are you doing this to us? What the Hell have we ever done to you?"
"Just killing time," said Hawkeye simply.
"Bastard!" the pirate yelled and pulled out a pair of pistols.
Hawkeye then immediately drew his sword with one hand, it had to be a good 20 inches long. The pirate then fired his pistols, but Hawkeye merely twisted his sword and the bullets bounced off the blade missing him entirely. He moved so fast that none of the pirates could see what had happened.
"What? I missed?" the pirates stared. "But I aimed straight for him?"
"He diverse at them," said a voice behind him. The pirate turned and to his astonishment he found Toothless standing there. "He changed the course of the bullets using the tip of his sword."
Hawkeye then immediately shaved his sword as if nothing had happened.
"That can't be," said the pirate stunned. Toothless smiled and then approached him. "Hold on, who do you think you are?"
One of the pirates then noticed the three swords strapped around his waist. "He's got three swords, it couldn't be."
"I've never seen a sword handled so gently all with such grace," said Toothless addressing Hawkeye.
Hawkeye looked at him. "There's no strength in swordplay based upon force."
"Did you also use that sword to slice up this ship?"
"I did."
"Then it's true, you're the best."
Hawkeye just sat there in silence and it was hard to tell what he was thinking.
"I sailed out to sea for only one reason, to meet you," said Toothless.
"And what is your goal?" Hawkeye asked curiously.
"To beat you," Toothless simply.
Hawkeye smiled. "How foolish."
Toothless then drew Light Fury and pointed it straight at him. "You've got spare time so let's do this."
The pirates stared at Toothless in shock.
"No way, it's him, Toothless of the Three Sword Style!"
Krieg looked immensely intrigued. "Really? A Pirate Hunter."
Ragnar too was shocked. "He's a what?"
Snotlout could see that the Going Tiger was drifting further and further away. "Hey, Hiccup, we better hurry. Come on, the Going Tiger is about to say right out of sight."
Hiccup was more focused on Toothless than anything else.
"Hey, Hiccup?" Snotlout blinked.
Hawkeye just sat on his boat. "A fight? You're a weak pitiful creature."
Toothless just stood there unshaken and Hawkeye suddenly vanished, a split second later he landed on the wreckage of that galleon opposite Toothless.
"If you are in fact a competent swordsman, you should see the disparity in our abilities even before we crossed swords," said Hawkeye. "I must ask you why have you challenged me? Could it be your courage or is it simply your ignorance?"
"My ambition, dries me" Toothless answered as he placed his Light Fury in his mouth. He then drew his other two swords. "Also I made a promise I intend to keep."
The chefs just looked outside the restaurant in wonder.
"The greatest swordsman in the world going up against Toothless, two masters of swordplay," said Gabriel. "What kind of a fight is this going to turn out to be?"
"There is another person alive who can defeat Toothless, he's already the best in the world!" said Tuffnut.
Hawkeye then immediately reached into his jacket and pulled out a small knife.
"Funny, what you think you're going to do with that?" Toothless asked.
"It will be more than adequate, after all you wouldn't kill a fly with a cannon would you?" Hawkeye asked. "You might have quite the reputation in the East Blue, but that doesn't mean much to me. This sea is by far the weakest of the four. Unfortunately, I don't carry any blade smaller than this one."
Toothless glared at him. "I've had just about enough of your attitude." He then immediately dashed towards Hawkeye as quickly as he could. 'Now you die!'
"You have no idea how big the world really is," said Hawkeye narrowing his eyes."
"Triple Dragon Fang!" Toothless roared.
He then swung all three blades towards Hawkeye, but astonishingly he was able to block them with his simple pocket knife.
Toothless' eyes widened in shock. "What the—?"
"Toothless," Hiccup called.
The twins just stared openmouthed.
"What? Toothless' attack was stopped?" Ruffnut stared.
"But that's crazy! That attack never fails to stop an enemy!" Tuffnut yelled in bewilderment. "What's going on here?"
Toothless was completely stunned. 'I can't move my swords. What has he done? No one has been able to defend against that technique and he stopped it with a pocket knife. No, this can't be happening, he can't be this much better than me? There's no way that our skills are this far apart.'
Toothless had jumped back and then charged in for another swing. "I'm not that far behind from the world's strongest!"
Toothless then began swinging his swords as quickly as he could, but Hawkeye just kept on blocking his attacks with his pocket knife. To add injury to insult he was barely moving his hand either. Eventually he pushed back and Toothless toppled over much to the shock of the twins.
"You just toying with him, right?" Tuffnut asked. "Fight for real!"
"Toothless!" Ruffnut cried.
Toothless glared at Hawkeye. "You can't be that much better than me!"
Toothless then immediately charge at him once again, but Hawkeye merely backed away using his pocket knife to block every single swing. Eventually he was backed away to a railing, but he merely jumped on top of it and then jumped into the air as Toothless brought down his sword slicing through it.
He then landed directly behind Toothless, who quickly turned around and began swinging his sword at him once again. However no matter what he did, Hawkeye was able to block it flawlessly.
"Such ferocious swordplay," said Hawkeye.
Toothless then swung Light Fury towards him, but once again he blocked it with a pocket knife. The attack was powerful enough to send a small shock wave across the deck. Everyone was transfixed upon the battle, even Krieg's pirates.
"How can he defend against Toothless Three Sword Style with such a small knife?"
"He's more of a monster will blade than the great Toothless."
Toothless kept on pressing his attack and didn't let up in the slightest. 'I did not devote my entire life to swordsmanship to be dispatched by a toy like this!'
Hawkeye then sidestepped and Toothless lost his footing. Hawkeye then immediately slammed his hand right on top of Toothless' neck and as he felt he began to remember the countless defeats that he suffered from Bladewhip's hand. He began to remember the promise they shared and the constant training he went through so that he could take out his frustration the moment he heard that she died.
Toothless hit the ground and was barely conscious, but regardless he began to pick himself up and faced Hawkeye once again. 'I will defeat this man, for her.'
Toothless then advanced towards him, though he was stumbling slightly and swung another one of his blade at him. Hawkeye merely moved out of the way and he toppled over and he was completely worn out.
Hawkeye looked down at him. "What is it then? What weight you carry upon your shoulders, speak up weakling!"
The twins had seen enough and immediately drew their swords.
"How dare you call him a weakling, you will pay for that!" Tuffnut yelled.
"We'll teach you a lesson!" Ruffnut yelled.
They were about to jump off the boat, but Hiccup grabbed the two of them and held them down.
"Ruff! Tuff! No! Get back here!" he yelled. "Just stay put."
Snotlout just stood there. "Hiccup?"
Toothless had picked himself up once again and faced Hawkeye. "No! I won't lose, I refuse to be defeated!"
The two of them just stood there in utter silence and all anyone could hear was the waves in the ocean.
Toothless then immediately took up a swords stance. He stood up straight and raised his arms placing the blades of his other two swords behind Light Fury. "Tiger Trap!"
He then moved in towards Hawkeye, but he merely plunged his dagger into his chest stopping him in his tracks. Everyone just stared in horror as blood began to pour out of the wound, thankfully he had plunged the knife just above his heart so he was still alive.
"You were defeated, yet he won't step back," said Hawkeye curiously. "Why not?"
"I don't know," said Toothless honestly. "But I will not run, even if I retreat a single step I would be shattering the promises that I made. I can't run, I would lose my honour. You see without that there would be nothing left of me."
"That is what defeat is."
Toothless snorted. "Then I won't accept defeat."
"Then you'll die."
"I would rather die than give up."
Hawkeye looked at him. 'A strong heart indeed. He chooses death, before defeat.' He then removed his knife and placed it back into his jacket pocket. "Sir, state your name."
Toothless raised his swords and placed them in a position the handles in a position that resembled a triangle. "I am Toothless."
"I'll remember that," said Hawkeye is he drew his greatsword. "No one is strong as you has come around in quite some time. So as a swordsman is courtesy, I will use the world's strongest black sword to finish you."
Toothless nodded. "Thank you, I appreciate it."
Everyone was completely stunned at the stand-off.
"Whoa, he took it out!"
"That's the saw that sliced up the ship."
Toothless stood strong and firm. 'This is it, it will either be the world's strongest or death.'
Hawkeye then placed both hands upon his greatsword and everyone just watched in anticipation.
"That's enough, Toothless! Stop it!" Ruffnut pleaded.
"Three Sword Style: Secret Technique!" Toothless yelled as he began spinning the sword so fast that it was almost a blur.
Hawkeye then immediately charge towards him. "Fall!"
"Three Thousand Worlds!" Toothless roared.
He then swung his sword at the exact same time that Hawkeye swung his and the two of them past one another. Everyone then watched and then suddenly the swords in Toothless' hand shattered to pieces and blood began to pour out of his chest. He then fell to his knee feeling completely exhausted, he had given it his all but the power difference between the two of them were staggering.
'I've lost,' he said as he removed Light Fury from his mouth and sheathed the sword. 'Never in my life did I imagine I'd lose. So this is the power of the greatest in the world.'
He then rose to his feet and faced Hawkeye and raised his arms.
Hawkeye was taken aback by this gesture. "But why?
"Scars on the back of a swordsman shame," Toothless answered simply.
Hawkeye smiled and held a firm grip upon his sword. "Fine."
He then swung his greatsword down onto Toothless and his entire chest was sliced open.
"Toothless!" Hiccup cried.
Hawkeye looked at Toothless as he dropped his sword. "You shouldn't rush these things, young man."
"Toothless!" Snotlout cried.
"Toothless!" the twins yelled.
"No!" Hiccup screamed.
Ragnar just stared in bewilderment. 'Why?' He remembered what Toothless had said inside the restaurant to them all. 'He's insane, his opponent was way out of his league. How this fight would and was clear from the start, why choose death?' He then immediately looked at Toothless as he fell into the ocean. "Don't be stupid, give up your ambition and live!"
Krieg's pirates were completely startled I what they had witnessed.
"So, this is the power of the Grand Line, it's terrifying."
"The Pirate Hunter Toothless was as helpless as a newborn baby."
Hiccup was utterly furious and immediately transformed into his human dragon form. "Damn you!"
The twins immediately jumped into the sea and began swimming after Toothless before he drowned.
"Toothless!" they cried.
Hiccup then immediately took off and swung a fist towards Hawkeye. This sudden transformation startled everyone present.
"He must be some kind of freak," said a cook.
Ragnar's eyes widened. "Since when could he do that?"
Krieg just stood there calmly as his pirates' stared openmouthed. "So that loudmouth little twerp has the power of the Devil Fruit."
Hawkeye merely sidestepped out of the way and hiccup's fist collided with the wreckage of that galleon.
He then looked at Hiccup as he attempted to free his arm. "Are you that young warrior's comrade? I'm impressed with you for not interfering."
Hiccup narrowed his eyes as he finally freed his hand. "It wasn't my fight, but now I'm starting to wish that I interfered."
"Fear not, there's nothing to be upset about. Your friend will live," Hawkeye assured.
Hiccup looked out to see and saw the twins had retrieved Toothless from the sea, he was bleeding badly but the wound wasn't as deep as everyone believed.
"Toothless, say something, please," Ruffnut pleaded.
Hiccup looked up. "Toothless!"
Toothless spanner bit of blood and the twins immediately swam towards the boat and Snotlout help them get aboard.
"Come on, let's hurry and get him out of the water," said Snotlout as he pulled Toothless on board.
Once he and the twins were on board, Snotlout immediately pulled out a medical kit. "I've got some medicine, here!"
Hawkeye just stood there with his arms crossed. "It's still far too early for you to die. My name is Hawkeye, you're strong, but there is much for you to learn. No matter how many years it takes I will hold this title as the greatest swordsman in the world and wait for you. Until that day you must hone your skills, then seek me out, Toothless!"
The twins were still concerned about Toothless' well-being.
"Please say something," Tuffnut pleaded.
"Anything!" Ruffnut begged.
Zeff just stood there firm. "Not just anyone can earn the regard of Hawkeye."
Hawkeye then turned and looked at Hiccup. "You… what is your goal?"
"To become the Pirate King," Hiccup answered.
Hawkeye smiled. "Your ambitions are even more loftier then your friend's, that is quite the task."
"So long as I have strong friends like him, I know that I'll make it," said Hiccup firmly.
"He's alive!" Snotlout cried from the boat looking immensely relieved. "He was just unconscious."
"Toothless," Tuffnut cried.
"If you're alive then say something," Ruffnut pleaded.
Toothless then grabs Light Fury and raised the blade high into the air. "Hiccup, can you hear me?" he choked.
"Yeah!" Hiccup called.
"I'm sorry for disappointing you, I know that you need nothing less than the greatest swordsman in the world," said Toothless apologetically. "I've let you down, please forgive me."
He then coughed up some blood.
"Okay, okay, stop talking now," said Tuffnut.
"Toothless!" Ruffnut cried.
"I solemnly swear that this moment forward that I will never lose again!" Toothless promised. "Until the day comes when I defeat him and take his title! I will never… never be defeated! Is that okay, King of the Pirates?"
Hiccup merely smiled. "Fine by me."
Hawkeye smiled slightly. "You're a good team, I hope to see you again someday."
Hawkeye was then making his way to his boat, but Krieg stepped forward.
"Hey, Hawkeye," he called and Hawkeye came to a stop. "I was under the impression that you had come here to take my life. Won't you here to kill me, Ruler of the East Blue?"
"The thought had crossed my mind, but I've had enough fun for today so I'm going home to get some rest," Hawkeye admitted.
Krieg smirked and cracked his neck. "I don't care if you've had enough, I haven't even gotten started."
Unsurprisingly, his men weren't exactly thrilled that he wanted Hawkeye to stay, especially after what they have seen in the past 10 minutes alone.
"Um, but sir…"
"Maybe it's not a good idea to try to keep them here."
Krieg ignored them and focuses attention on Hawkeye and then immediately opened up his turrets and held out a couple of pistols.
"Now it's time to die!" Krieg yelled unleashing a large of bullets.
"He just won't learn, will he?" said Hawkeye as he drew his sword.
Suddenly there was a massive explosion and the rupture of water consumed the area. The explosion caused many of Krieg's pirates flying, but Hawkeye had somehow managed to avoid the attack and escaped.
"Damn, he escaped," Krieg muttered.
Hiccup had flown over towards the restaurant scaring many of the cooks and then he turned his attention onto Snotlout and the others.
"Snotlout!" Hiccup called.
"Hiccup?" Snotlout blinked.
"Go on ahead, I'll leave Astrid and Fishlegs to you," Hiccup ordered.
"Roger that, don't you worry about a thing, Toothless and I are going to get them right back and you make sure you get that cook to join our crew!" Snotlout yelled. "And then on the Going Tiger all of us will set sail to the Grand Line!"
"You took the words right out of my mouth," Hiccup smiled.
Krieg had managed to gather his men or what was left of them and turned towards the restaurant. "All right, men. We ran into a little distraction from our plan, but the real fight starts now! We are going to take that ship!"
"Yes, sir!"
Hiccup looked at Zeff. "So, boss, if I take down these pirates will my debt to you be paid?"
Zeff shrugged. "Suit yourself."
