Enter the Pimp's Plaza!

Let the Rounds Begin!

Hiro-Shu and Zesiro were still lost as Mikoto bolted out of the door. His coyote legs giving him such an increase in speed it would've been pointless to follow him. Zesiro huffed and sat down. "I wonder what happened to Sage."

"Who knows," replied Hiro-Shu as he sat down. The man still strung across his back.

"He's a weird one, probably wouldn't have answered us even if we could've asked him," said Zesiro, "he still hasn't given us a very good reason for abolishing the crew."

Hiro-Shu nodded in agreement.

"I hope he doesn't get himself into too much trouble," said Zesiro, he sighed, "like that's going to happen."

"Who's that on your back?" questioned Corra finally peeping into their conversation.

Hiro-Shu turned his attention to the man and shrugged, "is David here?"

"He left," she said, "after he released some pink powder, the rest of my memories are kind of a blur that is until I woke up and saw Mikoto."

"What did you think of our captain?" asked Zesiro chuckling.

"Ah," said Corra blushing slightly, "he seems…eccentric."

"Ha!" bellowed Zesiro, "what a freak! Two minutes in with this girl and she already knows him!" Hiro-Shu added a small chuckle. "He's a good guy, though, his eccentricity is just a trait of his."

"Finally, that dog left," said David re-entering the room, "I'm not to happy about you two being back…" he said glaring at Zesiro, "but I'll take you guys over him any day…another guinea pig for me! Ah…I mean another specimen, of course that is to say patient…" David let loose a small nervous laugh. "I'm only thirteen! I get my words mixed up!"

"Hey, he took care of Sage and Corra with no problem," said Zesiro, "maybe he can help this man out. He's pretty badly beaten."

"Excuse me, shark face," said David, "this is a doctor's job, not a killer's…" he directed Hiro-Shu to drop the man off on the table. He propped himself and jumped up to the table and examined him, "this man has suffered a lot trauma probably in a recent skirmish with an extremely powerful opposing force."

"What?" questioned Corra.

"He got beat up," repeated Zesiro.

"In laymen's terms," said David. "I'll have to operate immediately!" He reached over and grabbed a large scalpel. "Restrain him!"

"I'm pretty sure he's unconscious," said Zesiro, "are restraint's necessary?"

"They are always necessary!" shouted David, "RESTRAIN HIM!" He quickly dug his scalpel into Enma's chest, Enma was so far out he couldn't even respond with a grunt.

(-With Sage-)

Sage's eyes fluttered open. She looked around and immediately felt her arms and legs being restrained. She looked down, still in her own clothing, but tied to a chair with a lot of rope. Finally there was some handcuffs holding her hands together, that seems pointless and stupid as her arms were restrained.

"I can't move," said Sage.

"Kya ha ha ha!" said a man as he entered the room, his purple fur coat floated elegantly to his legs. He had a large feathered hat on his head and his hands were covered in a ridiculous number of rings. "That's right missy!" He pushed his black shades beneath his eyes to look at her, "you are going to sell for quite the buck."

"Where I am? Untie me this instant!" shouted Sage, "wait…sell?"

"Of course," said the man, "I am the number one slave trader in the special field of females. I promise my customer one hundred percent satisfaction guaranteed!"

Sage spat her tongue at him, "you cruel little…" Sage searched her mind for a lady-like word and when she came up with nothing she resorted to the unlady-like word, "bastard!"

"I am no bastard! I am a pimp!" shouted the man, "Snazzington T. Pimp, better known as the 'Purple Pimp'!"

"You say that like being a pimp is better!" shouted Sage.

"That mouth of yours is probably going to lower your value…maybe I should just remove it?" asked Pimp.

Sage slammed her mouth shut.

"Good, already obedient," said Pimp, "maybe I can squeeze a couple ten thousand belies out of you…"

Sage twisted her face into a face of disgust. She would explode his head right here and now, but she didn't want to get her clothing ruined. Just give him a few more feet.

"By now, 'Plant' Sage," said Pimp, "you are probably thinking about popping my head with your Devil Fruit powers, right?" Sage ignored him, "well, here's the thing, I know all about you. Your wanted poster has a few facts about you including your Osu-Osu no mi powers. Those handcuffs are made of Kairoseki…Sea Prism Stone, if you prefer, anyways, they completely cancel out all Devil Fruit powers."

Sage shook her head, there was no such thing, at least in the East Blue. Something like that could exist in the Grand Line she supposed, but not in the East Blue. She just needed to concentrate and shut this pimp up. "Pop goes the weasel!" thought Sage as she focused her powers at his head. Nothing happened. She tried again with the same result. Again and again no matter how hard she tried the effects were always the same.

"See," said Pimp, "I'm used to trading humans I know about tricks that humans will use to try to escape…you are by no means different or special to me. You are nothing more then a pretty face that will soon be turned into some money. Have fun," He said as he left waving at Sage.

Sage spat onto the floor. "Freak," she muttered. She knew she was in no place to argue…no powers…no means of movement…no friends. She sighed. Maybe it was high time to quit struggling, she lost her mother and her crew. She seemed so small in comparison to that.

(-With Mikoto-)

"Dock! Dock! Dock!" shouted Mikoto charging through the streets of the dock glancing at the huge ships that loomed in front of him, "Pimp! Dock! Ship!" He glanced furtively from side to side he was lost. He didn't know what a pimp's ship looked like. He was expecting a giant ship that had the words 'Pimp' on the side, but no such luck.

He overheard some men talking about the news, "did you hear about the Yonkou attacking Marine Base E 2…rumor has it he already sunk E 3 and E 1. He's establishing his base in the East Blue, what a terrorist!"

"Yeah, we have no means to stand up to his power," said another man, "he has already took over Syrup Village, Hima Village, and Arost Island…he may come here next."

Mikoto stopped cold in his tracks. "Arost?" He walked over to the men, "did you say Arost Island?"

"Aye," said the man, "He's scouting out from some talent in this sea. He actually established a new pirate crew to guard that town. The captain of that crew has a thirty-five million belie bounty and its been going up ever since he joined forces with that Yonkou."

"Okay," said Mikoto, things just weren't going his way lately. Saving Sage comes first, though, Melanie and Xavier can hold off without him for awhile.

He was about to go back to scanning the ships, but he had an idea. "Hey, either one of you two seen a pimp come by here?"

"A what?" said the men.

"A pimp," said Mikoto, "I think he's after a friend of mine and I want to help her before they catch her."

"I think I saw one of them try to jog my memory," said the first man with a grin on his face, "try descriptions, name, and maybe give me some money."

"I don't know I've never seen him before, I think his name was Snazzington Pimp or something," said Mikoto.

"Snazzington Pimp? The Purple Pimp?" said the man, "Oh, yeah, I saw him. He's my captain." He threw a punch out at Mikoto catching the coyote off guard and sending him flying. "Looks like the captain is going to be able to sell a man off as well as a female."

Mikoto struggled back to his feet. He wasn't paying attention to the men before, the one that punched him was pretty well-built standard size with a large bushy beard. On his hands though were brass knuckles. The other one was smaller, height-wise, if you went by width he was huge compared to the other man. He was twisting a gun in his right hand.

Mikoto stood up his target selected, the man with the gun had to go down first, a bruise or two is nothing compared to a bullet wound. Boy, did he learn that lesson already. He morphed into his half-coyote form.

"He's a Zoan!" shouted the small fat man.

"Not just any Zoan! He's the 'Kid Coyote'!" shouted the man with the brass knuckles. "What are you waiting for? Shoot him!"

The fat man fumbled with the gun for a while and fired. Mikoto easily dodged his clumsy shot and was soon right up under him. "Wolf Cutter!" Mikoto dragged his claw against the ground briefly before bringing it up followed by debris straight up into the man's gut. The man doubled over and fell onto the floor, Mikoto grabbed the gun and chucked it into the sea. The other man launched a punch into Mikoto sending him backwards a bit.

"John?" said the man, "you okay, buddy?"

"He's not," said Mikoto, "and neither are you!" Mikoto dug his claws into the man's shoulders. "Claw Cleave!" Mikoto rolled onto his back lifting the man up off of the ground and on top of him. Mikoto brought his legs up in between them and tore the man's skin from the man's torso to his pelvis. Mikoto then let the man roll simply off of him and onto the ground.

"Now, I know you guys are still breathing," said Mikoto, "so, which one of you wants to help me?"

The first man to go down, John, quickly spoke up, "it's a big purple ship! Its got fur covered handrails and has numerous gems decorating it! You can't miss it!"

"Thanks," said Mikoto as he started to head off towards the docks again, "your assistance is much obliged."

Mikoto found the ship quickly with the new description it would've been impossible to miss. Mikoto jumped up on to the boat and braced himself against the railing. The entire crew noticed him and drew pistols and cutlasses.

"Heh, it always comes down to guns and swords with pirates, don't it?" chuckled Mikoto as he morphed into his lightweight and faster coyote form. He rushed through the crowd, Mikoto ran straight into one of the pirates toppling him over with his momentum. The man smashed into the railing and fell overboard making a large splash in the water.

The other men aimed with their pistols and fired. The gun shots echoed on the boat as they drove themselves into fellow crewmember and the floor boards as Mikoto ran about dodging their bullets and chomping down on the crew members he could get close enough to.

One by one the men started to grab their legs and they were soon knocked over board by the coyote. The men made a loud splash as their bodies collided with the water. Mikoto chuckled as soon he was the last man standing on top of the boat. Time to go down another floor.

(-With Hiro-Shu and Zesiro-)

"I still can't believe that mutt left us," said Zesiro fuming over their captain.

"Deal with it, shark face," said David from the next room over, "I'm trying to work over here." The sound of sawing and cutting coming from the room.

"There's no place like home," muttered Corra from a corner, "there's no place like home." Hiro-Shu was hunched over next to her trying to comfort her.

"Huh," said David stopping the cutting, "that's not normal."

"What's not?" asked Zesiro.

"Let me check again," said David he started to cut again. "Yeah, its doing what I think its doing, come in here!"

Zesiro entered first, followed by Hiro-Shu, and finally Corra came in last huddled over, ready to bolt on the notice.

"You cut his leg open!" shouted Zesiro, "nothing's wrong with his leg! He was just unconscious!"

"I know, I figured I'd take one of tendons as a souvenir, but watch!" said David. He took out a much larger scalpel then he had originally and started cutting into Enma's bone. When he had cut all the way through he backed up.

"A souvenir?" said Zesiro, "you are one twisted little kid."

"WATCH!" shouted David.

Zesiro returned his attention to Enma's leg to see what David was talking about. The bone was healing. It was reattaching itself to its other half. "That is freaky."

"Coming from a Fishman," said David.

"In a mad doctor's office!" replied Zesiro sharply.

Enma coughed briefly, "Alice."

The White Devil Dreams of Alice!

Mikoto versus the Drunken Swordsman!

Thanks to everyone who read this and reviewed last time (a total of eight) I was hoping for more then ten, oh, well. Anyways, yeah, you have seen David's and Corra's back-story so it is only fitting if Enma gets his turn in the spotlight! Don't worry Kira will, too! I already have her whole entrance planned out. Also I'm surprised nobody seems to be mentioning what happened to Sage or what happened to Ridley! You are all heartless!