From Bad to Worse!
The Doctor's make a House Call!
"I'm surprised you are back up after my last hit," said Hiro-Shu as he prepared to exchange a few more punches with Ulysses despite his worn down strength.
"You shouldn't be," said Ulysses as he wiped some of the water off his shoulder. "I'm really not going to go down after a few exchanges with you, especially not when you are finally fighting at your best!" Ulysses charged at Hiro-Shu and launched a quick fist straight into him. Hiro-Shu stumbled back from the blow, Ulysses didn't give him enough time to recover before he threw another punch at Hiro-Shu injuring him further.
"Crap," said Hiro-Shu, "I really don't have many options left…Forger's Flame…" Another blow from Ulysses stopped Hiro-Shu's attack mid-blast.
"The same attacks over and over again," said Ulysses, "no originality…or strength for that matter." He twisted around, "Diamond Destruction!" He unraveled himself, sending his fist spinning into Hiro-Shu's chest knocking the wind straight out of him.
"Now…for the finishing blow," said Ulysses preparing his fist for another attack. He pulled his arm all the way back behind for the wind-up. "Diamond! Destruction!" He lurched forward, but his arm stayed behind him. His fist was wound carefully up in a long iron chain. Despite his bewilderment he followed the chain to the end. He spotted a little eight-year-old boy sitting on the nearby boat with the other end of the chain tied up to the mast of the ship.
"I appreciate you givin' me more business and all, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to stop you there," said David as he untied his chain and pulled it off of the Ulysses' arm.
"Nice to meet ya," said Ulysses, "Name's Ulysses and as you can see I'm in the middle of things."
"Good," said David, "Its always polite to give your name to your opponent." David didn't say anything else after that.
"What's your name then?" asked Ulysses.
"My name?" David tapped his chin with his finger. "Doesn't matter," he replied with a shrug. "What does matter is the girl standing a few feet away on your left."
Ulysses turned his head to see a young girl in a purple one shoulder shirt. She had a slingshot with a small pebble loaded into it aimed at him. "Who are you?"
"The name's Corra," said Corra, "I ate the Tsuchi-Tsuchi no mi (Earth-Earth Fruit). Pleased to meet you." She fired the pebble from her slingshot at him. Ulysses paid it no mind and turned his attention back to David. A large head-sized boulder came crashing into his head as the result.
"What?" shouted Ulysses as he turned his attention to the girl again to see where the boulder came from.
"She said she ate the Tsuchi-Tsuchi no mi, didn't she?" asked David. "The Tsuchi-Tsuchi no mi allows the user to control, create, and become earth, a Logia-Type Devil Fruit. With it she can also drastically change the size of any projectiles she shoots from her slingshot. A pebble becomes a head-sized boulder for example."
"You are so afraid to fight me you are going to use a girl who manipulates Earth to do it instead?" laughed Ulysses, "how pathetic." He turned his attention to Hiro-Shu, "stay put. I'll be done in a few minutes."
"Afraid we can't give you a few minutes of our time," said David as he started to spin the chain around, "when you are a doctor minutes save lives. So, I'm afraid you'll be beaten very quickly."
"Me? Beaten?" said Ulysses, "I'd like to see you try!"
"Not try," said Corra as she loaded another pebble into her slingshot, "we will beat you." She fired it out this time the pebble didn't grow it instead became a long lean narrow needle flying at high speeds at Ulysses. Ulysses swatted it away using his iron gauntlet.
"Come on…the last one caught me off a guard," said Ulysses, "I won't let that happen a second time. Ordinarily I find it insulting to beat the crap out of women and children, where's the fun in it? But I guess I'll make an exception for you too."
Corra gritted her teeth upset that her shot had no effect, David on the other hand appeared to be more upset.
"Child?" asked David, "did you just refer to me as a child! I'll have you know I'm David H. Dreems! The best thirteen year-old doctor the world has ever known! Not only that, but like our friend over there I ate an akuma no mi as well!"
"Really?" said Ulysses, "things are getting interesting! Why don't you both come at me at the same time? Use the power you guys purchased with your ability to swim! Quite a fair trade!"
"First off, let me give you the rundown of my powers," said David, "I mean I want this fight to last as long as possible…I want to see you in pain for awhile at least. So, I'll you a handicap to make this fight more interesting. I ate the Nemu-Nemu no mi (Sleep-Sleep Fruit). I produce pink powder and with it I can force anyone into a coma-like stupor."
"Nice," said Ulysses prepping himself for another attack from the two doctors, "come on, I think its naptime for you."
"I'm thirteen!" shouted David, "Nightmare Stream!" A long river of pink dust flowed from David's hand and towards Ulysses. He stood still and welcomed the dust as it collided with his body and flowed upwards into his nostrils. "Yes! I thought I'd be in trouble as I already used half of my powder up, but it looks like he'll be asleep before I know it!"
Corra took careful aim with her slingshot and lined it up with Ulysses. "Go!" she shouted as she fired another pebble out at him. This time it manipulated itself into a spinning flat disk that was aimed straight for Ulysses' head. It conked him good upside the head, but he still didn't seem fazed.
Ulysses yawned. "That it?" he mocked, "can't you do anything right? If you would've sharpened it down to an edge you could've taken my head off. So why didn't you? Too weak to do it? Too pathetic? Or do you really value human life so much that you can't stand taking it? I've fought a million people like you…and I've killed every single one of them!"
Corra fell to the ground. "I…I…I can do it!" she said, "I…I can kill…if I have to…" she started to cry.
David remained focused on Ulysses. "That's just not fair."
"What?" said Ulysses, "its not my fault she can't handle criticism."
"Not that!" said David, "I could care less about her ego! I mean its not fair that you are not in pain!"
"What?"
"Its my job to heal wounds, not to heal egos. Until that girl has a broken arm I couldn't care less about her, but you! You just get hit in the head with a plate of solid rock! You should be rolling in pain right now! Where's the entertainment value! I want to see pain!" A wicked smile cracked onto David's face, "and I want to see it now!" He launched a frenzy of wild slashes with his chain at the air.
Ulysses stood there accepting the numerous whip lashes that were aimed at him. He didn't even flinch under the barrage. "Want to me scream in pain? Or would you prefer it if I just flinched?"
"Don't play coy with me!" shouted David as he launched another onslaught of slices with his chain, "I know you can feel it! So show it to me!"
Ulysses chuckled and grabbed onto the chain with one hand. He yanked forward pulling both the chain and the wielder closer to him, "you want pain? Here's your pain!" He fired a punch using his other hand straight at David, when the punch connected David's hand released his chain and he was sent flying. He made contact with the cement. He coughed up blood.
"Now where's my payment?" asked Ulysses, "I gave you the pain you wanted, so I expect to be completely reimbursed…give me what I want!"
"You can expect to be given all the pain you gave him plus interest!" shouted Corra as she fired another pebble at Ulysses. This pebble slowly morphed into drill head and spun straight at Ulysses. He swatted it away with little effort. His eyes widened as he saw another shower of stones flying straight at him. "Did you forget? I can create and control stones. Making multiples copies of one projectiles and firing them all at you simultaneously is a little problem for me."
"I see," said Ulysses he spat to his left, "got anything stronger on you? Or is a rock shower the best you can manage? You ate the Tsuchi-Tsuchi no mi, didn't you? Hit me with your best shot then!" He rubbed his eyes tiredly.
Corra bit her lip taken back by the man's imperviousness. She only focused on this one technique she figured it would be better if she completely mastered this one technique instead of only semi-mastering a lot of techniques. Still, she couldn't let herself become distracted…she had to keep her head up and meet her brother one day! She pulled her slingshot up and took careful aim.
"I ain't letting you fire another weak technique on me!" shouted Ulysses as he charged off at Corra the gems in his gauntlet preparing for a second strike. He was a few feet closer when he was forced to stop cold. Something was tugging at his arm. He looked at his arm only to find the chain he had earlier stolen from David was now wrapped and tied firmly around his fist and the other end instead of being attached to David was now attached to the iron golem he had knocked out earlier.
"Give him what he wants!" shouted David, "hit him with your best shot!"
"Right!" shouted Corra, "eat dirt, jerk!" She released her slingshot firing one single pebble that split up into at least ten separate fist-sized missiles all flying towards Ulysses. He grunted with the impact and was thrown downwards and nearly to the end of the dock.
"Now, allow the mad doctor to takes over!" shouted David he grabbed his chain again and yanked pulling Ulysses closer over to him, "Dreamcatcher!" Ulysses stumbled over to the pint-sized doctor, "and to follow that up, Dreamer's Gateway!" A large cloud of pink powder exploded from David's body enveloping him, Hiro-Shu, and Ulysses with a few puffs getting to Corra. The cloud settled very quickly after that, Hiro-Shu was on the ground sound asleep. Ulysses was still standing but he was barely awake and he was stumbling over himself about to fall over.
"I'll finish this!" shouted Corra, "I'm going to take you out!" She pulled back onto her slingshot and loaded another pebble. "FIRE!" The pebble blasted towards Ulysses changing into a very large watermelon sized projectile. It slammed into Ulysses with enough force to blow him back and into the water. Corra fell to the ground, yawned, and slowly drifted off to sleep.
David stood there for a second and watched Ulysses float back up to the surface asleep. "I won't be much help to the rest of the crew," he said as he was out of his dream powder. His eyes flashed over to Ulysses, "now let's dissect you and see what made you so tough."
(-With Zesiro-)
Ovid smiled. He pulled a match out of his pocket. "I admire the fact that you were able to beat me, but you missed out on one small detail. Whenever our blades clashed they created friction. This friction super heated my alcoholic body and made a cloud of sake that now surrounds you. So, if you add fire to the air around you," he said as he struck the match. "The result is explosive." He tossed the match gingerly over to Zesiro. The flame entered an area and it immediately exploded into flames.
"My secret of eating a Devil Fruit will remain a secret," said Ovid as he walked out to go downstairs, "now to deal with that poor excuse of a captain."
"Really," said a voice, "and here I thought me and you could fight for awhile…leave the captain to do his business and all." Ovid looked at the source of the voice, it was a young man with tattoos of gears and cogs decorating his arm.
The Dangerous Doctor, the White Devil
Well, for those of you who wanted to see the doctors there you go! Corra's Devil Fruit power is the kick-butt Tsuchi-Tsuchi no mi, however, she's not very well versed in the wide abilities it provides her so she's got no real skills with it. David ate the Nemu-Nemu no mi. A Devil Fruit that produces a pink sleeping powder that puts anyone in contact with it asleep (but he only haves a limited amount of it and the stronger the opponent the more it takes). Speaking of Devil Fruit users what happened to the two we know and love, Sage and Mikoto? Find out next time (maybe) on the 'Sage of the Infinity Pirates!'