Mikoto was lost. He had no idea which way Sage had run off. He didn't even know where the rest of his crew, or former crew, was. Finding Sage and saving Sage was going to be a lot harder then he had thought. Man, he missed his crew…well, he had Enma scouting in a different direction, but Enma was no Hiro-Shu or Zesiro.
Then again if Sage had been kidnapped would he even be able to do anything to save her? His strength failed against Karasu…how could he be so certain it would do anything against this Snazzginton Pimp guy? He lost Ridley already. Not only that but then Sage, Zesiro, and Hiro-Shu all got hurt. Not to mention himself. Would he be able to defend her or would he just die trying?
Mikoto had been second guessing himself for such a long time for now. He had to bounce back soon if he planned on being able to save Sage. Just because he had lost his will doesn't mean anything…he was going to save Sage. Well, of course, he hoped he wouldn't have to, but if it comes down to whether or not he can he will. He will, if necessary save Sage.
His head sunk back down. That is if he could only find her. Why couldn't she just scream like the damsel in all of the movies? It sure would save him a lot of time. He waited to see if by some kind of iconic twist of fate a loud scream would pierce the sky, but nothing. He sure was going to have one hard time finding her.
He didn't even remember what perfume she was wearing…if he could remember that then he'd just use his superior sense of smell and try to track her, but she used different perfumes quite often. He'd be lucky if he could remember the smell of one of them, much less all of them and then to remember which one she was wearing. He'd just have to find Zesiro and Hiro-Shu first. Four pairs of eyes searching would definitely be better then two. Now what does Zesiro smell like?
(-With Zesiro and Hiro-Shu-)
"Ungrateful bear," said Zesiro, "try to do a man a favor."
"Calm down," said Hiro-Shu, "there is no law in the world that says when you invite someone onto your crew they have to join."
"Heck," said Zesiro, "Mikoto just makes it look so easy."
"Mikoto?" asked Corra, "who's he?"
"The captain of our pirate crew," said Zesiro, "well, more correctly the former captain of our former pirate crew. He quit and right now it looks like it's the end of the Infinity Pirates."
"What a brat," said David.
"Hey," said Zesiro, "don't go insulting our captain…former or not."
"Yeesh," said David, "it looks your entire boat is filled with drama queens. First a captain who up and quits. Then a half-shark half-man creature with the personality of a tiger. What's next? You going to sprout eagle wings?"
"Do you want me to kill you? Yes or no," said Zesiro, "it's a very simple answer."
Hiro-Shu ignored the two bickering men and turned his attention to the lab. The numerous bodily organs and limbs still hung from the ceiling. Its amazing that neither Zesiro nor Corra, seemed to notice them. Hiro-Shu was about to interrupt the fight when he noticed something, a small portrait behind a jar with a red organ floating around in it.
He reached out and gently pushed the portrait to the side. It was a picture of a little boy, probably no more then 11 along with one older male. The boy was wearing similar clothing to what David was wearing now, although a younger style. Corra looked over Hiro-Shu's shoulder and glanced at the picture.
"What kind of boy wears a pink hood shirt?" shouted Zesiro, "you look like a member of an all girl gang!"
"Half-fish, you are going to be in for a world of hurt if you keep insulting me!" shouted David, he seemed to just now notice Hiro-Shu was holding the portrait. "PUT THAT DOWN!" he screamed.
Hiro-Shu jumped at the loud noise directed at him and dropped the photo onto the table. Thankfully, it was a short drop and it didn't shatter, but that didn't stop David from rushing over and checking on it. Anyways, he quickly stood it back up and pushed the organ jar back in front of it.
"Talk about a temper tantrum," said Zesiro.
"Get out!" said David, "unless you are a patient of my hospital. Get. Out."
Hiro-Shu slowly backed away to the door. Zesiro followed after Hiro-Shu, but stuck his tongue out at David to have the last laugh in their argument. Corra put her hand on the door, when David stopped her.
"Your body still hasn't fully healed," said David, "its going to be a few more days at least. Just go over there and lay down."
Corra sat back down onto the seat and sat there while David examined her leg. "Where's your mother in the photograph?" She asked.
"Dead. She died several years before that," said David paying a tedious amount of attention to the uninjured leg.
"I'm sorry," said Corra covering her mouth, "It must've been so hard for you and dad."
"My father died alongside my mother," said David.
"Oh my gosh," said Corra, "I'm doubly sorry!" She bowed her head. "I just assumed the man in the photograph was…"
"I can hang out with an old man when my parents die," said David, "I had to learn my medical skills from someone."
"Oh. Um…who is the man then? Your teacher?" she asked.
"Patients aren't supposed to ask their doctors question," said David.
"Yeesh! You didn't mind my previous question!" she said.
"That's because your previous questions were wrong," said David, "I was correcting you, educating you."
"Well, why don't you educate me about the old man?" asked Corra.
"Because," said David, "You don't need to know anything about the old man."
"But I want to," said Corra.
"I DON'T CARE ABOUT WHAT YOU WANT!" shouted David, "My job as a doctor is to heal the injured by any means necessary! If I cared about what people want half the population on this island would die! They don't want strawberry medicine! They don't want an expensive procedure! They don't want me to cut them open and look at their innards! Well, guess what I do what I have to do, not what people want!"
Corra was hiding behind the table again from David's albeit reasonable, but childish temper tantrum. David sighed. He dropped his syringe on the table and tried to pull himself up on top of it. He was just a bit too short to manage it. Corra got up and walked behind and was about to do it, when David shouted again. She backed away. Finally David succumbed to his vertically challenged problem, got a chair, and climbed up on top of it.
"Listen," said David, "That man taught me everything I know. I'm not going to just talk about him with any old stranger. The memories I have him are a treasure to me so I don't go handing them out."
"I under…" before Corra could finish her sentence the door blew open. Pieces and chunks of wood splattered all over the ground. On the outside or well in the doorway was a beast that resembled a coyote, only thing was it was wearing a black T-shirt with a red question mark on it and shorts.
"My door!" shouted David, "what did you do to my door, you mongrel?"
"You door is broken! I couldn't push it open!" complained the coyote.
"Of course, you couldn't it was a pull door!" shouted David.
"Did that coyote just talk?" asked Corra.
"Coyote's don't talk!" shouted David. Corra responded to this by slinking back behind the table.
"I'm only half coyote!" said the coyote. It slowly morphed into a young man with black hair. His shirt remained the same, it just filled out into a more human-like form. "But I'm one hundred-percent Mikoto!"
"Yeah, well, Mikoto, I don't really care who you are and how much of a coyote you are," said David, "but I'm going to ask you to leave."
"Mikoto?" asked Corra.
"Yeah," said Mikoto, "Mikoto D. Azgard. Wait, a second. You are that girl my crew fished up!"
"Fished?" questioned Corra with her voice full of concern.
"Yeah, fished," said Mikoto. "Anyways, you've guys seen a girl about this time tall," he motioned at about Sage's height, "black hair with some bluish tint in it…" he scrambled around for the next word, "kind of cute, probably wearing a skirt, goes by the name of Sage."
"You make her sound like a dog," said David, "but no, can't say I remember her."
"What about a Fishman?" asked Mikoto, "big, burly, looks like a great white with feet?"
"No," said David.
"What are you talking about he was just here!" shouted Corra. "You got into a fight with him."
"Get out," said David, " I was about to tell this lovely young lady about the man in my photograph."
"I can wait," said Mikoto.
"Well, you see," said David, "when I was young my town was attacked by pirates. After ransacking the place for a couple of days they killed my mother and father." Mikoto tapped his foot. He was trying to rescue someone and this shrimp of a doctor was holding him up. "I was so distraught after it. Terribly, miserably distraught. Terribly, miserably, horribly distraught. My life was being shot to pieces. I lost control of my Devil Fruit powers."
"You are a Devil Fruit, too," said Corra amazed.
"Yes, I did, you know what I probably should've started with that," said David, "let me start over. I ate a Devil Fruit at a very young age. My dad was a very successful tradesman and got his hands on one. I mistook it for candy or something…I'm not physically deformed so I was accepted in the community."
"Sage is going to be kidnapped if I don't stop her!" shouted Mikoto.
"Kidnapped?" shouted Corra.
"I thought you said you could wait," said David, he quickly added as a wrap up, "he's my tutor both in Devil Fruit tactics and in medicine."
"I lied," said Mikoto, "it seems to be something we pirates do. Anyways, according to this man in the bar with some freaky tattoos. His name was Enma or something. He said that some guy in here was a famous kidnapping pirate. I need to find Sage and protect her."
"Yeah, he's here," said David, "I just fixed up one of their pirates. Got the place where the ship is docked."
"You do!" shouted Mikoto, "I'll just go there, beat them up where they can't kidnap Sage and I'll call it day! In order to do that I'm going to need a few good men. Any ideas where Zesiro and Hiro-Shu went?"
The duo looked at him dumbfounded.
"The shark and the golem!" shouted Mikoto.
They both shrugged.
"Great! First I lost Ridley, then Sage, now those two!" said Mikoto complaining. "I don't have time to waste. I'll just go beat them up myself. Where is their ship at?"
"Who says I'm going to tell you?" asked David.
"Maybe you didn't hear me," said Mikoto, "I am going to go help a friend of mine from being kidnapped! Now where is their ship at?"
"You just knocked down my door," said David, "leave!"
"I'll leave when you tell me where their ship is!" shouted Mikoto.
"Come on, David," said Corra, "What would your teacher do?"
David huffed for a second, before resigning, "you're right." He walked up to Mikoto. "Hi-YA!" said David launching a powerful kick to Mikoto's shin.
Mikoto let out a brief yelp and grabbed his leg, "What the?"
"I said 'what would your teacher do'?" said Corra.
"I know. I'm just too nice to kick him in the other place," said David.
"Your teacher was a sociopath!" shouted Corra.
"In more ways then one," said David, obviously enjoying Mikoto's pain.
The Base is Discovered!
Mikoto Prepares to Attack!
Well, this chapter did not go as I planned. I was planning to go more indepth with David's past...yeah, that failed. Oh, well! The man in the photograph is David's old teacher, what happened to him you ask? I have no idea! Anyways, I hope you people caught on about David's and Corra's fighting abilities. I mentioned them! I think...I hope I did. Anyways, since I have already shown you Kira Samore's power here is a quick refresher for those of you who forgot.
She uses Haki mainly for the concealment of herself from her enemy, enemy intimidation, and the sharpening of senses. Main weapons are a long silver chain, senbon needles coated in poison, 2 large hunting knives. The fighting style while using hand to hand combat is kicks and punches while taking advantage of her very flexible body. She will not be found unless she wishes to be found due to the fact that she is very adept to blending in to her surroundings. She has the same weapons made with 2 materials one version is made from a very tough steel, while the other are seastone. She always has antidotes for her poisons on her.