The Acidity of the Revolutionaries!
Slash turned around to face Mikoto. Slash's entire body was still dripping with acid from his last attack. Mikoto was stuck. A man whose entire body could burn him from the slightest amount of physical contact. How was he supposed to win? There are no swords lying about for him to pick up and attack and if he did how would he used it? There was only one thing that he could. Mikoto took another deep breath as he charged.
Slash lifted his arm up and pointed his palm out at Mikoto. Another serpent composed of acid stretched from it, except this serpent was composed of green acid. An acid that Slash had previously used to burn through the stone walls of the Marine base. The serpent spiraled over and was surging towards Mikoto. Mikoto stopped in his track and made a quick 180 and began to dash away from the persistent snake.
The coyote human hybrid quickly dashed behind another door, slamming the door close behind him, but he didn't stop at he continued to run away from the door, desperate to put as much distance between himself and the deadly burning liquid that chased him. The acid serpent ran headfirst into the door, burning a bright green hole into it briefly before it burst through the door and sailed into the room. Mikoto dodged to the left. The acid serpent didn't turn to face him, though, it continued on a straight line straight into the computers in the front of the room.
Mikoto stayed crouched against the wall, breathing heavily. The acid didn't he follow him into the corner it just continued straight onwards. He was missing something about this acid. But he didn't want to risk his life to figure out what it was, he'd rather get the jump on Slash while he thought he was dead.
Slash's life filled the room, "I know you are not dead. So don't even try to pretend. My acid serpent is deadly you are lucky that you dodged it. I bet that you are wondering how it missed, aren't you?"
"Yeah," said Mikoto from his spot in the corner, refusing to move in a strange belief that the corner repelled acid.
"There you are!" shouted Slash as he pumped his hand forward in the direction that Mikoto's voice came from. Another deadly stream of acid burst from Slash's hand. The green river splashed into and through the wall, burning a hole into it, as it cascaded onto the over side. Mikoto dove to the side avoiding it again. Mikoto turned around as he saw the acid make a wide turn and reposition itself surging towards him. Mikoto ducked down and smirked as the acid sailed above him by pure luck.
Mikoto quickly scrambled to the side of the room. He was missing something. Acid must've down something to redirect its angle that time. It only seemed to follow him under certain circumstances. Mikoto looked around. Slash was on the other side of the wall, thankfully that was separating them for the time being. Mikoto took a quick whiff of his surroundings, he was trying to pinpoint Slash, but the smell of acid and melting metal seemed to be overpowering any other scent. He remembered Acid's scent from their first meeting, he reeked of barbecue sauce…not that there is anything wrong with that compared to what some other people smell like barbecue sauce was a welcomed scent.
"What's the matter doggy?" mocked Slash as he looked over at the wall and through the two holes his acid had burned into them. He was trying to find Mikoto. "Having trouble beating a Revolutionary?"
Mikoto breathed heavily with his back to the wall and a homicidal acid man on the other side of it, he was starting to feel like he was out of options. He probably was. A Zoan-Type Devil Fruit bestows improved power, speed, and stamina, among other useful amenities like claws and fangs, but none of that does him any good if Slash just erupted with another blast of acid.
Mikoto scoured his mind for anything that could be useful at this point. Any acid-proof substances. But he couldn't think of anything…his thoughts kept drifting back to his lunch. He thought about sneaking a bit or two while Slash was playing the snake trying to hunt the mouse down through the fields, but somehow he doubted that would save him.
"I don't have all day!" shouted Slash as he erupted another stream of acid that hosed a door down into nothing, but a small billow of steam. "Didn't you hear the boss? Three Shichibukai's are on the way here! They are going to come here and take you down! I'm doing you a favor, if I kill you, you won't have to rot in jail with the rest of your pathetic friends."
"I'd like to see a Shichibukai try to take Hiro-Shu or Zesiro down," shouted Mikoto as he dove to the side. Another blast of acid came spouting from Slash's hand as it burned the wall down again. "I bet they already took down the rest of your crew. Zenmaru…" Mikoto dove avoiding another blast of acid, "Henry…" Mikoto escaped another blast of acid, "I'd bet even Renvont is crying in a corner after a run-in with my crew." Mikoto knew that two of them were already out of commission, though what happened to Zenmaru was still unknown.
Slash wandered over to the room. He peered over into the room. "Leg Whip!" Mikoto jumped up and brought his straight up and back down into Slash's neck. Slash toppled over into the room as Mikoto dashed out of there. Slash got up and stretched his shoulders as he looked down the hallway at Mikoto's disappearing figure.
"Sneak attack, really?" said Slash, "I guess it makes sense. If you do anything else, I'll just take you down with another acid burst. I'll just be more careful from here on out." Acid began leaking from his hand and onto the ground. "Acid Serpent!" shouted Slash. A long blast of acid stretched from his hand and down the hallway. Mikoto turned to the side and disappeared into another room. The acid turned to the side and burnt into the room.
Slash walked calmly down the hallway. Acid completely coating his skin protecting him from any possible sneak attack. "Mikoto? You alive? Or are you a dead doggy? Hmm…" Slash reached for one of the doors, but quickly having second thoughts outstretched one of his acid-coated arms. The acid soon began to gradually cover itself again and again until it form a large bulbous needle, like those seen on a scorpion's tail. "Acid Scorpion." The bulbous needle shot out of his hand and into the door, burning a fist size hole into it and knocking it down from the force. Slash walked in. The room was empty besides the couple of burn marks his acid had already caused. Slash chuckled to himself quietly as he left the room.
The sound of furious footwork sounded behind him. Slash pivoted in place sending another Acid Scorpion outstretching itself and burning into the wall again. Slash breathed heavily as he looked at the ruined wall, no human remains of any sort. Mikoto was still alive and he was still out there. Slash turned his head around in search of the fleet footed coyote, but couldn't see anything asides from the empty hallway.
"You can't hide from me," said Slash, "I'm professionally trained. And what are you? A pathetic hybrid? Asides from that Devil Fruit, boy, what other talents do you have?"
"I'm pretty darn good at riddles," said Mikoto peeking his head out of one of the rooms. Slash turned his scorpion's tail down the hallway and fired. The tail burned across the wall aiming at Mikoto's head, but Mikoto quickly recoiled back into the room just in the nick of time.
"Talented at riddles are you?" said Slash as he calmly walked down the room towards the room he saw Mikoto's head poke out of, "I've collected a few throughout my journey. Want to hear them?"
"Sure," said Mikoto. He didn't peek out of the room this time, but remained within it and out of Slash's sight.
Slash was on the edge door way, his green acid dripping from his hand. "I believe it was 'Weight in my belly, trees on my back, nails in my ribs, feet I do lack'… any ideas!" shouted Slash as he burst into the room and shot acid in a straight line through it burning another hole into the wall. Slash looked into the room, but found nothing. He turned to his side and noticed a small door to the side. Slash smirked to himself as he walked over to the door, another pirate captain dies at the hands of a Revolutionary. If only he could collect the bounty money, he would be rich. He pressed his hand against the door. "ACID CURTAIN!" A large wave of acid exploded from Slash's hand engulfing the door as well as some of the wall next to it.
Slash brought his hand down and smiled at his handiwork. If Mikoto was in there, there would be absolutely no way to tell now. The room was completely destroyed. Nothing laid there any more, no door, no hinges, no wall. It was as if the closet never existed, but instead had a crude opening to the room next door. Slash smiled. The acid coating his skin disappeared back into his pores, disappearing back where it came. "He was hardly worth 25 million belies."
"It's a ship!" shouted Mikoto. He was apparently hiding up in the ceiling sitting on the protruding pipes of the Marine Base to balance himself up there. Then using one of the pipes to swing, he swung with his legs outstretched and sent both of his feet slamming into Slash's back sending him tumbling forward into the acidic marsh he had just created. "Oh, crap!" shouted Mikoto as he rushed over to the acidic marsh where Slash was just thrown into. "You're an acid man so you can't die from acid, right?"
"Correct!" shouted Slash as he swung out using an scythe composed of acid, trying to decapitate Mikoto once again, but Mikoto quickly dodged backwards and watched the scythe glide inches in front of him.
"Phew," said Mikoto, "after all I need to know if I'm correct before I go knocking you out right?"
"If you are correct about what?" asked Slash as he looked Mikoto in the eyes.
"The riddle," said Mikoto with his same dumbfounded look. "The whole 'nails in my ribs, feet I do lack' riddle. The answer is a ship, right?"
Slash sighed, "yes, you are correct. Are you really thinking about a riddle at a time like this?"
"Of course," said Mikoto as he began to stretch his arms, "I mean, fighting is pretty easy, but riddles are a little more complicated. I mean come on with fighting all you need it a gun and a sword. Riddles require a little bit more thought."
"You are going to need more then a gun and a sword to beat me!" shouted Slash as he brought his arm out. The previous green acid that Slash was using for his Acid Sickle began to change colors. "You want to a good riddle? What's going to be burnt to a crisp with a trail of nothing remaining due to deadly chemical burns?"
"I really hope the answer isn't what I think it is," said Mikoto.
"You." The acid on Slash's arm was a brilliant bright crimson.
(-With Ridley, Maria, and Enma-)
"So, this is what your party is like?" said Maria as she marched down the hallway following Enma.
"Not all of them," said Ridley as he watched the psychopathic doctor from behind. The first thing he did when he met Maria was bow down and pray to Lucifer to bless their friendship? Was that a good or a bad thing? Not to mention that now he was walking away from the local doctor's office with a hand-full of medical supplies. "Any idea on where we are going?"
"Seeing as how we are trying to find Mikoto," said Enma as he bent down and examined the bracelets on one of the unconscious Marines, "I say up. A guy with his IQ is bound to head to the place where the strongest person will be." Enma quickly took the man's bracelet off and stuffed it into his pockets, "real bronze. We can sell it in the next town."
"This Mikoto fellow, is he smart or dumb?" said Maria as she watched Enma repeat the same process with a few other Marines, scavenging their bodies for anything that could make a quick buck.
"He's good at riddles and fights," said Enma, "I'll give him that. But when it comes to thinking things through, I wouldn't…" Enma's eyes fell upon the window. He scurried over to it. "The ships!"
"What?" shouted Ridley as he ran over to join Enma, "what about the ships?"
"They are leaving," said Enma, "our ship is still there and so is Slash's, but it looks like Zenmaru's ship is heading off along with the little dinghy I presume belongs to Renvont and another ship is leaving, probably Henry's crew. They are leaving us!"
"Great!" shouted Ridley, "we better round up the rest of the crew and fast."
"Make that super fast," said Enma as he peered out the window at a new ship approaching the island. He had only seen the flag once or twice, but it definitely wasn't a flag that belonged to mediocre pirate. It was the flag of 'Reaper' Trevor, a Shichibukai. Not to mention there was another two ships next to it. One had the flag of 'The Siren', another Shichibukai of legendary proportions. He didn't recognize the third ship or its flag, but if two Shichibukais were coming, why wouldn't there be a third?
The Three Shichibukai!
The Infinity Pirates Great Escape!
The fight between Mikoto and Slash has hit its climax. Chances are its going to ugly from here on out. Not only that but to make matters worse the three ships of the Shichibukai have almost arrived! Not to mention the fact that its been quite a few chapters since I showed Hiro-Shu…anyways, the Reverse Mountain Arc boils down to its last leg! Beware! Also, happy belated Halloween. MWA HA HA HA!
Also, I want people to know I've only recently began combing through the Shichibukai entries, so who is the third Shichibukai? Heck, I don't even know yet! But what is known is that three of the Shichibukai slots have already been occupied. And after the next chapter four of them will be occupied! That only leaves three left! Hurry up and submit them if you are going to.