The Purple Pimp! The Drunken Coyote!

The Poor Chef!

The pimp slapped Sage straight across her face. "Didn't I mention that if you kept on speaking I would remove something to make it impossible? I'll have to arrange that…right after I beat your friend to a pulp."

"Freed?" said Mikoto as he managed to get himself up into a sitting position. He looked across the room and at Sage, "Hey! Hiro-Shu when did you get down here?"

"I'm Sage!" shouted Sage straining to move around even a little bit, "wait. Are you drunk?"

"Drunk?" said Mikoto glazing over the room in his drunken state, "no, no, no! I just had a little too much to drink." He toppled back over onto the floor, "hey, Sage why are you just sitting there?"

"I'm tied up! Can't you see the ropes holding me to the chair!" Sure enough there were multiple ropes holding Sage to the chair at both her arms, legs, and even chest.

"Uh…wuld yus beleve me uf I said yes?" asked Mikoto.

"Not on your life!" shouted Sage straining against the ropes, she sighed. "Beat this weirdo up and set me free, then we can have a talk!"

"Du we hav ta talk? Can't yus jus' cook fer me?" asked Mikoto.

Sage was about to shout something back, but Pimp shoved a rainbow colored sock into her mouth. "Remember what I just said," said Pimp with a chuckle, "don't disobey me! That sock should do until we set up an appointment with that mad little doctor in this town. What was his name again?"

"Who cares," said the woman next to him, shrugging, "as long as he does what we want him to do. Plain and simple."

"Yes," said Pimp, he looked back over to Mikoto, "ah, right, the male. I have absolutely no interest in you. Female slaves sell for so much more, male slaves cost so much to prepare for the females then they barely cover their own expenses. Most males buying a female slave will make do with any female. Females are so much more picky!"

"Yuh, I got a girl on me sheep," said Mikoto, "her name is Sage…she's annuying sumetimes." Sage tried to shout at him, but the sock made it difficult.

"Yeah, she does seem pretty annoying," said Pimp as he cracked his fingers. He pointed his bejeweled hands out at Mikoto and a small laser beam shot out and burned a hole in the floor where Mikoto was originally lying. "Where did that idiot disappear to?"

Mikoto was a few feet away face-to-face with a wall making stupid faces at it and yelling insults, "yus blasted purple pimp! Yu ar nut even purple, yer PINK!"

Pimp cleared his throat, "please direct your insults this way. I'll feel sad if I kill someone who won't even be able to use his dying breath to insult me correctly." He fired another laser beam from his hand and at Mikoto, burning a second much larger hole in the ground.

"Right!" said Mikoto managing to come to a standing position, "yus are…are…YU THROW LIKE A GURL!"

The woman who was keeping watch over Sage started to laugh. Pimp was fuming, however, he stomped his foot down, "do not relate me to the lower species. I am a completely different level from…them," he said with a sneer. He pointed a finger out at the woman, "and you, Pascia, don't encourage him." A laser beam shot out from his finer digging into Pascia's shoulders and drawing blood.

"Hey!" shouted Mikoto standing up, "don't treat your crew like that!" He ran towards Pimp, but he stopped short and vomited onto the floor. "Gross."

"Crew?" said Pimp, "she is not a part of my crew. She is my property…all women are property of stronger men! Something else that is my property is that rug straight from Alabasta, I do not like it when someone else ruins my property!" He raised his hand up and fired a roulette of beams many of them digging into and cutting Mikoto's skin. Mikoto was about to come back with a smart remark, but the Pimp shut it off by a well aimed laser beam straight to his chest throwing him into the ship's wall.

The ship's wall started to fall apart and bury Mikoto beneath wood and nails, Pimp smiled swirled his cane and returned his attention to Sage. "See? When I get mad, I kill people." He lifted Sage's chin to force her to look into his eyes. He stared at her eyes, but for some reason she didn't seem to be afraid of him, she also didn't seem to be crying. She was happy, no. She was confident. "What's the matter? I just buried your only hope of getting out of here in wood!" He ripped the sock out of Sage's mouth. "Speak!"

"So, what?" said Sage with confidence in her words, "burying Mikoto doesn't stop him. He's insane…he's strong. He's still alive. And he is still going to kick your butt."

Pimp struck out with his cane slapping her hard with its wooden body, "say that again! I dare you! You are nothing more then my property! You are like the latest fashion! I can pick up a replacement for you at any store!"

"Don't worry. I won't say it again," stated Sage, "he will." She motioned behind Pimp. Pimp turned around to see a coyote standing in front of the rubble with nothing more then a few scrapes and bruises.

"You know what to do," he said towards Pascia. She responded with nothing more then a shrug. He turned back to Mikoto, "you alive? How unfortunate…your suffering is going to continue."

Mikoto growled back at him and bared his fangs. He started to pace and circle Pimp continuing to bar his fangs and even make a few fake lunges at him to each of which Pimp responded to with a fake state of over exaggerated panic. Finally one of Mikoto's lunges turned out to be a real one. Mikoto drove forward and expertly dodged one of Pimp's laser beams. Mikoto drove his fangs into Pimp's flesh and ripped a chunk of flesh off of him. Mikoto spat it out and ran back around to continue his circling.

"This ain't as much fun unless you and I are doing some witty banter, don't you agree?" asked Pimp. His response was a low and subtle growl. "FINE! Have it your way!" he fired another blast of energy at Mikoto. Mikoto dodged backwards and avoided the blow.

Mikoto started to growl once again at his opponent. His pearly whites seemed to be much longer then they had been in their previous transformations, or maybe he just showed more of them. More likely the later as his face was twisted into a seemingly permanent snarl. He made another lunge for Pimp this time he aimed lower and sunk his teeth into Pimp's fur coat and some of the underlying flesh and he started to rip and tear it apart. However, the fur coat was extremely well designed and didn't rip apart. Pimp lifted his cane up and pointed the end up and at Mikoto. A loud gunshot could be heard as the tip of the cane exploded into a light cloud smoke.

Mikoto was thrown backwards from the explosion and landed on the ground with a loud and resounding thud. He brought his body back up and made another loud snarl.

"What's the matter? My coat is made Kratch Sorbet. Quite fine and with industrial strength", said Pimp as he fired another shot from his cane only to smile at Mikoto's reaction, "don't like being shot, do you? Too bad for you then!" He brought his cane back up and made several more shots with it, each one ending up embedded into the floor boards hopeless to catch Mikoto's body at the speed he was moving around at.

Mikoto's coyote form slowly started to shift in size and form as it began to move around at even higher velocities on only its two legs leaving Mikoto in his hybrid form. He drove towards Pimp using his slender legs and increased speed continuing to dodge the barrage of bullets he fired. Mikoto extended his claws and cleaved through Pimp's rough and durable coat with one clean and precise cut.

Pimp stumbled back and poked his fingers through the noticeable gash, "this coat cost me a female and a male slave! And you've gone and torn it! How are you going to pay me back for this?" he asked with an accusing tone and at the half-beast that loomed only a few feet away from him, "no response? Well, then how about with your blood!" He pointed his hands out started shooting another array of laser beams at Mikoto.

Mikoto's body disappeared into nothing but a blur again as he started to rapidly pace around his target. His howls and growls could still be heard, however. With another flash of his speed he dug his right hand with all five of its sharpened claws deep into Pimp's chest. He tore them out with a loud ripping noise letting the crimson blood splash to the floor. Pimp pressed the end of his cane to Mikoto's chest and let another shot loose. Mikoto collapsed onto the ground grasping the hole in his chest, luckily for him they were to close for the bullet to positioned well and it managed only to pass through useless and non-vital organs. But the pain was still present.

Pimp took out a small carton of cigarettes and started to smoke, "cigarettes are great things. They can block out some pain, but these cigarettes that are specially made for me and my colleges can completely block out pain. I use a minimal amount, but my 'crew' tend to use more. Ulysses will pack back about a carton or two before a fight, Ovid on the other hand takes none. He blocks out pain in more…common methods."

Mikoto murmured another growl at Pimp. He flashed his teeth. They had turned a bright red color from the numerous bites he had taken out of Pimp. Pimp only smiled at the beast.

"Pascia," said Pimp with an all too confident chuckle, "I don't wish to continue this battle. Take out your gun."

"Yes sir," said Pascia as she reached into her cleavage and pulled out a small black pistol and pointed it at Sage's head.

"Wait! What?" shouted Sage with a loud scream, "this isn't fair! You and Mikoto are supposed to fight over me!"

"I don't fight over women," said Pimp. "I may auction for them and call them trophy wives, but they just aren't worth it. Besides I'm a pirate, he's a pirate, YOU ARE A PIRATE! Fair isn't even in our vocabulary. See, my property over there will take any attack on me as an offense. And if she senses any offense she will blow your girl's pretty little brains out. Understand?"

"Not fair!" shouted Sage. She tried to focus and see if she could summon forth our Devil Fruit powers and pop his head off, but no luck. The chair or maybe one of the handcuffs she had on must have that Kairoseki in them. After a few minutes of straining and some not too lady-like words she resigned herself and gave up. She would be sold to the highest bidder, hopefully he would be nice to her. She didn't count on it, but hopefully. "Well, Mikoto," said Sage, "it looks like we lost this one. You can go now…and thanks."

Her words didn't even register in the half-beast's mind. He charged at Pimp with another flurry of cuts each one raking into the air just above or just in front of the man who was forced to run and dodge the cuts to the best of his ability.

"Mikoto, do you want me to die?" shouted Sage, "stop attacking him! Let me live, goddamn you! I don't want to die with a bullet to the head, strapped to a chair in some pimp's ship! I want to live!"

Her words apparently caught Mikoto's attention as he turned abruptly to her, but his normal friendly (and somewhat stupid) look in his emerald green eyes were gone. They were replaced with something more…animal. A drunken carnivorous animal with only one thing on its mind. Meat. And not baked salmon slathered in a special sauce, but any kind of meat. Cooked chicken, raw beef, or even living human.

He flashed his teeth once more and was about to dive forward when Pimp blasted him with another laser beam, burning a few inches of his fur coat off. "I was serious! Stop attacking me! Or else! Leave her and don't touch anything on your way out."

Mikoto's mind shifted as it refocused on Pimp. He charged forward in a half dog-like, half human-like mad dash towards him. He had just sunk his teeth into Pimp's warm and meaty flesh when a loud and audible gunshot was heard.

The Battle Continues!

The Grave Consequences of Mikoto!

Sorry about the wait. I apologize. The CSpacian organization was experiencing technical difficulties. They have been fixed for the well foreseeable future, in order to make it up to you I will post the next chapter up on Sunday or Monday. Look forward to it.

Huh? What did you say? You said I killed Sage! No, I couldn't have! *Rereads story plan*. Huh…apparently I did kill Sage…a moment of silence to appreciate her…(silence). Moving on! I just want to bring the poll back to attention! The current winner of the poll is…Enma! But for you Kira/David/Corra fans this fight ain't over with yet! You still have another chapter or two to vote!

Back to the actual story! What did you guys think of Mikoto? I thought about it and I realized something. Drunk people tend to rely more on their instincts to help them (hence why fight a lot more, why they drink a lot more, and why they do a lot of stuff), so Mikoto is acting strictly on his animal instincts. Which to basically food.

Also Disclaimer-topia! Pimp and Pascia are both works of the author A. Fox. Kratch Sorbet (the person who made Pimp's coat) was made by the Mysterious Panther.