High Pressure!

Sage's Strength!

Sage avoided the water's edge, but she kept her eyes trained on Dai Mungi. "I see a lot of water around here. Planning on fixing your fight with my captain, huh? I don't really much care for trash like you."

"Yeah," said Dai Mungi, "I flooded the area. Figured a Devil Fruit user like Mikoto would take one step into it and lose all of their advantages. He would've been easy pickings, but why are you here in his stead? Is he a chicken…" Dai Mungi leaned forward and spilled his lunch into the water.

"No," said Sage, "I'm your opponent. Mikoto doesn't have time to mess with you. Besides I want you to pay for making him lie to me."

"Lie to you? About what?" asked Dai Mungi wiping his mouth clean. The smell of already devoured lunch was filling the room and it made him want to gag.

"Mikoto never killed anyone," shouted Sage, "I know him too well! You said that to make me think terrible things about him! Where when I questioned him I automatically assume the worse! That was a dirty trick!"

Dai Mungi was about to move forward when the entire world was flipped upside. He slipped again and fell into the water soiled with his lunch. He murmured something as he stood up again. "What are you doing?"

"I can change the air pressure freely! Anything within a fifteen foot radius of me can be altered," said Sage. "When the air pressure is rapidly changed within the ear or another body part of a person, strange effects occur. Like a lost of balance or nausea."

"Why you!" shouted Dai Mungi as he brought his long wooden staff back out in front of him, "I will kill you!" He thrust his spear forward. It was only three feet long and as such it couldn't cover the five foot distance between him and Sage, but then it grew! The three foot spear shot forward growing up to seven feet long and it pierced Sage's right shoulder.

Sage gritted her teeth, but didn't move from her spot. Dai Mungi quickly went into a kneeling stance. His leg suddenly had a roaring pain in it, like it was about to burst. Dai Mungi looked up and Sage's smile. This was her doing, so the cure to this pain was simple. Kill her.

"Control air pressure, huh?" said Dai Mungi, "interesting ability. I can control any dead wood within my grasp." The hand holding onto the staff tightened and his knuckles turned white. "That's how my staff grew and that's how you will die!"

Sage gasped as the part of the spear that was already in his convulsed and grew large needles from it piercing her shoulder and popping out of her skin. Dai Mungi pulled the spear forward ripping it clean out of her shoulder and causing her to stumble forward. She gasped as she grasped her shoulder and felt the warm blood oozing out.

"You will not make Mikoto seem like the bad guy!" said Sage as she glared down the long wooden staff at Dai Mungi. She had a few more tricks up her sleeve. Manipulate the air pressure in a person's head ever so slightly to…

Dai Mungi's face went blank for a moment, "huh! Where am I? What am I doing here?" He looked around him and saw the water and a young girl and…puke, yuck! "Argh, how much have I had to drink?"

"More then you deserve," said Sage she manipulated the pressure in his ear canal once more causing vertigo. Dai Mungi lost his balance and fell into the pool of his own puke again.

"Argh! Whose puke is this?" shouted Dai Mungi struggling to get up, his memory completely wiped from Sage's Osu-Osu no mi powers.

"When a large amount of pressure is applied and then relieved from the brain," stated Sage, "it can wipe a person's memory of the past couple of minutes completely clean. When pressure is applied to the stomach it can result in a feeling of nausea. Finally, when pressure is applied directly onto someone's skin, the brain mistakes the pressure for…"

Dai Mungi wondered what it was when all of a sudden his skin felt weird. He felt as if thousands of bugs were crawling all over his skin and up to his head. His eyes glanced down to see his body, bug-free.

"a similar sensation as thousands of bugs crawling around the human body," finished Sage. She was running out of tricks, she had dealt very little actual damage to Dai Mungi and so far he had nearly ripped her shoulder out. A sudden and vast increase in a person's head could result in an explosion…no, she refused to kill. That may be her only option of attack, but she wasn't going to use it.

Dai Mungi brought his spear back up and above his head. The tip of the spear was previously just a fine point made for jabbing, but it soon swelled with the powers of Dai Mungi's vessel. The point increased in size until the spear was a hammer. "Now time to crush you like a bug!" Dai Mungi brought his hammer down right on top of Sage. He laughed as he saw her blood gushing out from beneath the hammer. "I killed you! I killed you! You should've sent Mikoto up to fight me, then you'd still be alive." Dai Mungi's gloating would've continued if it wasn't for the purple unicorn standing next to him.

"When pressure is applied," started Sage as she came out from behind the hammer, "to a certain area of the brain that controls visual reception one can hallucinate and believe that they killed someone when really they dodged the attack."

Dai Mungi cursed. He brought his hammer to his side and it shrunk back down to its original spear form. He touched the ground and a large pillar of wood appeared next to him. "Unlike you I've got several more tricks to kill you with! I will not fall for another one of your tricks!" He touched the pillar. "Go, Wooden Arrow Barrage!" The pillar sprouted needles on the side closest to Sage. Then the needles sprang from their position all aimed at Sage.

Sage grunted as she dove for the ground to dodge the vast quantities of needles. The only problem was there were too many needles and they were covering too wide a distance. Several needles dug into Sage's body causing her to bleed out as she hit the ground. Sage struggled to get back up. Her shoulder was nearly gone, her body was now a pincushion, her only remaining option was to…kill him.

"No!" thought Sage, "A life is a life. Even if it is one as despicable as his." She stood up and tried to think of any remaining attacks she had. Just something to stop him from killing her. She had nothing left…it was either her or him…but…she couldn't…she couldn't kill a man. Her arms went limp at her sides. She stood still. She had no option. She was too weakened to run, she didn't have the ability to attack like Zesiro, and she didn't have the mentality to kill.

"Giving up?" asked Dai Mungi as he made his spear expand back into its previous hammer state, except this time bigger. "No more tricks up your sleeve, I see. Fine! I WILL KILL YOU!" Dai Mungi brought his hammer up and straight back down with Sage directly underneath.

"Man, I bet you are feeling pretty stupid right now," said Enma with both of his hands straight up catching the hammer before it hit Sage. "Don't you just hate it when someone interrupts you just as you are about to kill someone?"

"I hate those bastards," said Dai Mungi as his hammer shrunk down until it was hand-sized. "Who are you, anyways, mister tattoo?"

"Name's Enma," said Enma as he subconsciously rubbed his gear tattoo. "Me and my friend are this girl's nakama. So if you don't mind you have two options. Option one: let us go and live your life, or Option two: spend the rest of eternity in the deepest level of the underworld."

"You and your friend?" asked Sage as she began to look around the area desperate to find who Enma brought with him.

"I choose option two," said Dai Mungi. However both Enma and Sage seemed to be ignoring him to carry out their own conversation.

"Yeah," said Enma, "our good friend, Ridley."

Sage's face fell. "Couldn't you have brought someone…better?"

"I heard that," said Ridley as he appeared from around the corner, "and just so you know no one is better then me. I'm the best."

"I said I choose option two," said Dai Mungi becoming increasingly annoyed due to the fact that the trio was now completely ignoring him.

"Yeah, right, I'm better then you!" shouted Sage, "Zesiro is better then you, Hiro-Shu is better then you, Mikoto is better then you, even Orso, the teddy bear, is better then you!"

"I hope you remember that I beat Orso the teddy bear," shouted Ridley, "I am better then all of those guys you mentioned plus one more!"

"What about me," asked Enma, "I am better then Ridley, too."

"What?" said Ridley, "no newbie is better then me!"

"Newbie?" asked Enma calmly, "I am not afraid to kill you, you know. I have no problems with that."

"I SAID I CHOOSE OPTION TWO!" shouted Dai Mungi. His body toppled over as he slammed his spear into the ground. The spear began to break up and become roots that trailed all the up his body. "First Stage…Goblin Trapper!" Soon he was standing a few feet above the ground with his only means of support being a long wooden staff that drove itself into the ground by.

This caught Enma's attention. "What's going on?" asked Enma as he turned around to face the newly mutated enemy. "Something's different about him."

"See, for you late comers I can normally control any wood my body is in direct contact with," said Dai Mungi, "but this wooden pole beneath me has roots that stretches out in all directions beneath the earth allowing me to be technically in contact with all wood! So say hello to Goblin Trap! Wooden Cage!"

Ten wooden pillars sprang up from the ground encircling the trio. Enma dove to the side and left the circle, but the other two, being much slower and possessing weaker reflexes weren't so lucky, as the ten pillars then closed up to form an inescapable dome.

"Hah! See that small dome there is a trap that only I can use and worse then that due to it being completely sealed off from the real world no air is getting into it," said Dai Mungi, "in a space that big, I can only promise they'll be alive for another ten minutes."

"Okay then," said Enma, "it is clear what I must do." He sat down and crossed his leg. "Great Lord of the Underworld. I ask that you please kindly guide my friends' spirits to a glorious place after their death."

"DON'T PRAY FOR US!" shouted the trapped duo, "BEAT DAI MUNGI UP!"

Enma didn't move from his position he only opened one eye up and looked out, "see where he is standing. He's in a giant pool of water, I can't touch him with where he is right with my full strength and he will most likely parry any of my blows with ease from his location. I won't be able to destroy the dome that you are in with him being able to recreate it. I think this is checkmate."

"That's right!" shouted Dai Mungi, "This is my true power! ALL HAIL THE KING OF THE BANDITS!"

"Fists of Iron! Golem's Fury!" shouted Hiro-Shu as his punch sailed through the air crashing into the small wooden pole keeping Dai Mungi suspended in the air. Dai Mungi lost his grip and was about to fall when he sprouted a second pole into the ground to keep him stable.

Hiro-Shu stood there and looked straight up at Dai Mungi, "sorry, about Mikoto's absence. You know how he can be…he's never there when you need him."

(-With Mikoto-)

Mikoto was lying on the ground without moving. "Man, Sage was definitely mad at me." He turned over onto his side. "All because of what I did…she'll probably kill me when she returns."

He sighed. "For some reason I think I am forgetting something I am supposed to do."

Vessel versus Vessel!

Awakening of the Demon of Wood!

MIKOTO! How forgetful can you be? You are supposed to be helping your nakama out, not NAPPING! Man, how did you ever get to be the main character of this fanfic? Anyways, enough about Mikoto. So, it was a nice little showcase of Sage's power, but sadly she does not have a single actual attack aside from blowing people's heads up (yet, new powers are currently under the way for all my characters!)

Hiro-Shu is going to be squaring off against Dai Mungi. Iron versus wood. Iron seems to have the upper hand due to its indestructibility, but with wood's ability to control and manipulate all other wood around him including traps, maybe the fight might be a dead draw.

Also! Ridley still hasn't had a drop of alcohol! Please donate your (unused) alcohol to the Ridley Alcohol Foundation!

P.S. for those of you who still wish to send in OCs I have added a list to the second Chapter (Chapter 2) in this story including the vacant spots on the crew and vacant spots in the Marines/World Government. So please refer to that from now when submitting a character (I will update it when necessary) (There are no limits on the spots of the OC I left out, example: Marine Captain, Marine Commodore, or rival crews).