The Three Shichibukai!
The End of the Acid Man!
"Such a boring day," said a man as he was stretched out aboard his fine pirate ship. He was well into his upper-thirties and almost forty. He was dressed in an all white suit but he had a black cloak wrapped around him protecting him from the sun. He was 6" 6' tall. He had an accursed smile spread across his thin lips that he couldn't even hide as he sailed towards the Marine Base.
His ship was quite large, probably big enough to house 100 people comfortably, but he was its only passenger. The outside of the ship's railings were decorated with white bleached skulls. That was his signature. His flag was simple in design it had one large skull in the center but over 100 smaller skulls surrounding it. Originally he had planned on the skulls surrounding it the large skull to represent the number of people had killed, but he ran out of room around 123rd.
He smiled grimly as he opened his eyes as he remembered him killing each and every one of them. Why? Simple. They had all deserved to die. They had all lived shameful lives that were fit for this beautiful planet, everyone did. Well, everyone except for him. He was the sole human that treated this planet as what it was, a beautiful killing ground.
His name was 'Reaper' Trevor.
(-On the second ship-)
" Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So-La-Ti-Do " sung a beautiful woman on the second ship as she exercised her lungs. She walked among the ships her fellow shipmates all scurrying about her as they watched her strut about the ship her brown ponytail swishing from side-to-side. She was only 5" 7' almost a whole foot shorter then the other Shichibukai.
Her eyes focused solely on the base ahead of her. She ignored her fellow shipmates that busied themselves as they bolted around the ship with food and water and cough medicine so she could keep her pristine singing voice at this level. She ignored them all. Once she found her family she'd retire from this Shichibukai business with them and leave these fools behind. She had no desire to retire with these fools, none of them interested her nor did any of them mean as much as her family did.
Did they really need to know this that she planned on leaving them the instant her family came to light? It would probably make them feel better, but she had no desire to make them feel better. She was only interested in her and her family. These so-called pirates were only a stepping stone to achieve what she truly wanted.
She was 'The Siren' Melanie.
(-On the third and final ship-)
"Top of the morning to ya, lassie!" shouted a young girl as she jumped up and down all over the ship waving and partying with the rest of the crew. A new assignment to go take down a couple of pirates that were causing a ruckus down at the new Marine Base. Nothing seemed like a finer day to her. Especially considering the fact that right now, she was roaring drunk. She had probably just gone through a couple barrels of ale and was searching the ship for a third one.
On her head sat a large green top hat. She wore a black shirt with a large green four leaf-clover in the center with the word 'LUCKY' written across it. She had on a pair of green shorts as she danced about the ship singing her own praises in front of her crew, most of who joined in with her drunken merriment. A few of them stood back and simply watched their beloved captain and Shichibukai make a complete fool of herself in front of them.
The girl's ambitions were way less focused then the other two. She was as happy as can be as long as she had ale, friends, and somebody to fight. Right now heading to the Marine Base she was probably as happy as she could ever possibly be. She quickly ran out to the end of the ship and stood with one foot outstretched onto the pole as she hollered over the sea in some delirious drunken language.
This young woman was 'Lucky Lin'.
Combined these three Shichibukai's inactive bounties exceeded 500 million.
(-With Mikoto and Slash-)
"It makes absolutely no point in letting the Marines find out about our little raid," said Slash, "it only makes sense for a pirate like yourself to be blamed for this…you guys hate the Marines, we hate the Marines…why don't you just take one for the team?" A small drop of Slash's acid dripped onto the floor burning a small hole into the tiled floor.
"Because!" bragged Mikoto, "I'm a pirate! More importantly I'm the captain of the Infinity Pirates! The next big pirate crew! Just you wait and see!" Mikoto jumped up as a blast of acid whizzed beneath his feet. Slash was looking more and more annoyed as the fight dragged on either due to the fact that his plan was falling through or the fact that he spent more time with Mikoto then he would like.
"You are actually bragging about that," complained Slash, "you are bragging about being a ruffian that pillages towns full of good people? Then kill those good people? Not to mention what your kind does to the good and innocent women of those towns…I'm disgusted with you!" Slash turned around and sent another violent wave of crimson acid exploding onto the scene enveloping most of the room in burning deadly liquid.
Mikoto quickly leapt to the side. His impressive coyote-like legs in his hybrid form only aided him making the long leap out of the way of Slash's insanely powerful blast. Mikoto spared a glimpse behind him at the destruction left in the wake. The entire middle of the room had been hallowed out by the blast, leaving a smooth almost slide-like construct in the center that seemed to go on forever.
"I should warn you," explained Slash, "my crimson acid is extremely deadly." Slash dangled his newly crimson-colored fingers out in the opening. "Unlike my blue or even my green acid this acid continues to burn. It leaves a thin layer of itself on whatever it touches continually burning it to oblivion. Even if only a drop landed on your arm it will burn that entire arm off."
The fight was dragging on. It wasn't so bad for Slash who had been walking and shooting throughout the entire match. His breath remained the same level, controlled, and calm breathing it would be if he had just woken from a deep slumber. Mikoto, on the other hand, had been running about the room, clinging to ceilings, and jumping about. His breathing had already become haggard and sharp. This factor only budged the chances of Slash winning even higher.
Mikoto blurred past Slash out of the room, only further exhausting his body, but Mikoto knew that in an enclosed space like that the chance of him dodging another blast of acid was slim. He needed more room if he was going to win. Mikoto looked frantically about trying to see if any of these doors lead outside. If he could just escape outside into the nice relaxing fresh air and open space he would be able to increase the chances of him winning or at least escaping alive.
"Acid Scorpion!" A large crimson spike soared through the air. Mikoto reacted on instinct throwing himself to the ground only to have the crimson acid burn through the air above him not stopping for an instant to even try to splash the poor defenseless coyote. "Acid Serpent!" A large crimson stream of acid poured out of Slash's hand and shot forward at Mikoto. Mikoto dodged to the side, which of course only made Slash's serpent dodge to the same side.
The serpent seemed to be in tune to each of Mikoto's moves. Slash was almost estimating which way Mikoto would turn down a hall and which rooms Mikoto would duck into. This serpent wasn't relenting the chase. If Mikoto shut a door behind him to block the serpent out, the serpent would burn its way through it and continue with the chase. It did the same with wood, stone, and even the machines left in the emptied out Marine's rooms.
Mikoto quickly found him where he was before. Near the stairs where he first heard Jugo and Slash chatting. The burnt metal door in front of him was all the proof he needed. Mikoto was panicking. Slash and his serpent were on his heels. Going down the stairs was out of the question. It would box him in way too much. A single burst of acid could destroy the entire staircase and whoever was unfortunately on it. Dodging in and out of rooms haven't been helping him out lately so why should Mikoto continue with that? He was running out of options. Finally Mikoto saw a little bit of light.
The crimson serpent slinked out in front of Slash. Crashing in and out of the rooms in front of them again and again. Slash inspected each room and the ceilings of each room to be sure that the coyote wasn't hiding in wait trying to get in a sneak attack. Due to the high density of acid that the crimson acid required in order to be formed Slash couldn't coat himself with it again, not to mention that it seemed to hurt Slash as well. His Devil Fruit only made him resistant to a certain level of acid, not completely immune. It reminded him of the person who ate a poison-type Devil Fruit. While they wouldn't get poisoned, they would get an extreme case of diarrhea instead.
Slash stopped in his tracks. Something was wrong. He had just turned the corner of the hallway and he didn't see a coyote trying to run into a room and hide nor did he see one running down the hallway in an all too desperate attempt to escape. Slash's eyes darted around the room…Slash didn't recall the sound of a door opening or closing. He sent the crimson serpent outwards crashing into the walls separating the hallway from the rooms until they were no more. Slash patiently looked from one side of the room to the next trying to find where his target disappeared into.
Suddenly, above his head Slash heard the sound of a frantic footstep. Slash pointed upwards and his crimson snake exploded into the ceiling burning a hole big enough for Slash to hoist himself up into. Slash immediately found himself outside. The cool mountain air and the cool sea air simultaneously assaulting his skin. Despite the fact that Slash preferred warm days to this cold wind, he was happy. Sitting a few feet away munching on a sandwich was his target, the dimwitted coyote.
"I'm sorry. Am I interrupting your lunch," asked Slash in a slightly annoyed tone. His opponent has been treating him such little respect, it was beginning to get under his skin.
"Ifs orkay," mumbled Mikoto, talking with his mouth full. He quickly wrapped his sandwich back up in its paper towel and tucked it away into his makeshift lunchbox. "I was only eating it while I waited for you."
"Waiting for me?" asked Slash, befuddled, "have you finally accepted your fate?" The large crimson serpent slinking behind Slash seemed almost to smile at the fact its prey had given in.
"My fate?" questioned Mikoto. "I don't really personally believe in that stuff. I'm going to beat the crap out of you because I want to, not because fate is telling me to."
"BEAT ME?" responded Slash. "BEAT ME! Who has been running away from whom this entire fight? And now you expect me to believe that you can and I quote 'beat the crap out of me?' You are a fool."
"Looks like you are about to be beat by a fool," said Mikoto as he morphed into his beast form. Soon coyote stood in front of Slash, its cocky grin showing off its impressive razor sharp teeth.
"There is no cure for foolishness," quoted Slash as he opened his arm up. Quickly another crimson snake slinked out behind Slash and began to spiral about him with the other one. "I guess I'll be doing the world a favor by taking you out. Acid Orochi." Soon another ten (at least) crimson snakes billowed out of Slash's body. All of them were went flying at Mikoto, each serpent's mouth wide open as they swarmed Mikoto.
Mikoto dashed forward. His coyote legs carrying him forward with impressive speed and precision that only a true predator could've developed. He quickly swerved to the side avoiding the first few snakes. They quickly turned around and attempted to chase him. Mikoto dodged another burst of snakes by jumping into the air above them. They collided into the ones that were following Mikoto into the heart of jungle of snakes. Mikoto landed safely outside of the acid snake pit, but that didn't stop Slash from redirecting the remaining snakes out of their way and at him.
Mikoto ducked and dodged, narrowly avoiding snake after snake sending each of them careening into another, almost exploding on contact with each other. Finally Mikoto grew close to Slash. "Mikoto's Three Form Combo!" Mikoto leapt forward driving each of his teeth into Slash's flesh. Then Mikoto swerved about, tossing Slash into the air using his mouth. Slash soared into the air. His acidic snakes were all writhing about confused on where to go since their commander was dazed from Mikoto's previous attack. Mikoto transformed into his hybrid form and leapt from his position into the air.
Mikoto met Slash in the air. Mikoto quickly fired multiple punches, using his improved animalistic muscles to fire multiple punches faster. Slash's entire body was hit again and again from this move. Finally Mikoto morphed into his human and spun around launching a single devastating kick to Slash's back sending him falling back to the ground beneath them. Only when Slash collided with the floor did he finally fall unconscious.
The Infinity Pirate's Great Escape!
Yes, yes, I did change the title. I was getting ahead of myself and the title change was absolutely necessary for me not to feel like an idiot…Anyways, since I introduced three new OCs I'll have to introduce them and do a disclaimer for them. First off, 'Reaper' Trevor (in case you guys are wondering I did mention him previously in this story) is mine, 'The Siren' Melanie isLabrinyth Designer's work, and 'Lucky Lin' is…Flamegurlstrikesagain's work.