The Shichibukai Brawl!

The Dirty Work!

"I'm going to kill you!" screamed Melanie as she drove her sword forward. Her mind clouded with rage as she made multiple thrusts and swings with her blade at Trevor, who could easily see and outperform each and every movement from her blade. He was perfectly predicting the exact speed, timing, and placement of each of her attacks.

Trevor brought his hand down upon Melanie. She swung her blade around and blocked the downwards thrusting arm. Melanie pushed him off and sent him tumbling backwards, he spun about leaving his back wide open to Melanie. Melanie didn't want to waste a moment she drove inwards with her sword driving the sword in deep at him. Trevor's body simply dodged to the side. With Haki he was able to dodge the blow without even looking at the attacker.

Trevor spun about and backhanded Melanie. Melanie grunted as she brought her sword forward again, performing multiple thrusts with her blade. Just because Trevor could predict her blows didn't mean he could dodge them all. Multiple strikes would be her best bet at this point. Even so it didn't seem to be so much of a good bet as Trevor was still perfectly dodging the blows with his expert use of Haki. Trevor opened his hand up and struck inwards with all five of his fingers outstretched they were all super hardened to the point of steel and they formed a perfect blade.

Melanie deflected it bringing the back of her blade into Trevor's hand sending it bouncing off of it and to the side. Her eyes glared as she drove in again, her sword caught the light of the sun as she brought it around and at Trevor. Trevor brought his two hands together clamping the flat sides of the blade still. He held it there for a second and just smiled looking at Melanie's face, which was currently showing an emotion between anger and annoyance. Trevor tossed the sword to his side with his two hands and brought his knee upwards aiming it at Melanie's gut.

Melanie used the momentum from Trevor pushing her blade away to roll to the side and avoid the knee strike to her gut. When she rolled to the side, she yanked on her sword freeing it from Trevor's incredible grip. Once she broke free from Trevor's grip, she drove forward with her sword intending to skewer Trevor in the chest. Trevor backed away causing the sword strike to become shallow. Trevor laughed, "come on. Aren't you going to try? I'm growing bored with fighting you...actually you are putting up a much better fight then the rest of your family."

"SHUT UP!" shouted Melanie as she charged forward, rapidly flailing her sword about. She threw away all of her swordsmanship training and just flailed wildly, her mind reading back, feeling the sword swing about in her hand. She knew where to bring the sword down to and which way to bring it back up in order to maximize its range and speed. Even flailing around wildly her mind was still perfectly thinking about the motions that went through with her arms. With those thoughts still present in her mind, Trevor was reading those miniscule thoughts and was perfectly dodging each and every strike.

"I just love telling the stories about my conquests," stated Trevor, "especially the conquests I obtained when I became a Shichibukai." Trevor dodged another sweeping slash from Melanie's sword. He watched the blade dash in front of him. "One of my conditions for joining the Shichibukai was that once a year I get to go into a jail of my choice and commit mass murder. Every inmate on death row is killed by these hands." Trevor brought his two hands up, which were still coated in the blood of Melanie's crew.

"Yeah, right!" shouted Melanie as she brought her sword around and at Trevor, "like I'd believe the Marines would agree to such a ridiculous demand! They may be monsters, but they still need to do public executions to make the people feel safe!" Melanie swiftly moved into an opening on Trevor's side and brought her sword around aiming for Trevor's shoulder. Trevor rather then dodge, brought his entire body forward and brought two of his fingers forward and into Melanie's side. The two fingers dug into her body and forced her backwards, stopping her swipe in its tracks.

"Funny," laughed Trevor, "they agreed to it. Other then that requirement we had some other negotiations going on. If I became a Shichibukai I promised I wouldn't murder everyone in the Marine Base. Took a couple minutes...and Marines to convince them I could. I murdered your parents after that in case you couldn't keep track." Melanie grimaced. Trevor simply mentioned that because he wanted to keep bringing it up and torturing her with it.

Melanie shook her head, "I heard that you became a Shichibukai and the deal was that you got to be in control of the Underground Rally Arena. On top of that the Marines promised that they wouldn't eliminate it and destroy it. They allowed you to keep it open in exchange for becoming a Shichibukai!" shouted Melanie calling Trevor's bluff. She jumped into the air and brought her sword downwards aimed at Trevor's head. Trevor dodged backwards and let Melanie and her sword fall down right in front of him, piercing the ground there.

"No, no, no...that's just the propaganda," stated Trevor with a cruel smile. "The Underground Rally Arena was more of a benefit for them. I mean, even Marines love a good show of blood." Trevor laughed loudly, his voice echoing. "They basically thanked me for including that in my list of demands. Of course, they never stated that out loud. After all if that got out to the local public...then what? They would learn the true nature of all of their local watchmen...all about their dark natures." Melanie brought the sword straight up to Trevor's neck, but quickly withdrew. Her ears were pounding again...the damn musical pirate had down a number on her. She was starting to lose focus during this fight, her ears were still pounding and now the pain were throwing her off of her game. Her balance was shot.

Trevor walked up, noticing this momentary lapse in skill. He was grinning widely as he approached her. He brought his hand up and was about to put it on Melanie's shoulder, Melanie tried to spin away, but due to her terrible balance she collapsed to the ground and onto the ground. She grunted as she tried to bring herself back to her feet, but couldn't. Her body was still stuck on the ground, her ears were pounding, the world began to spin as she stared at the ground. Trevor was laughing as he looked down, "ke he he he he he! Maybe if you begged me for you life, like your parents did, I may just let you live...of course, I didn't give your parents the same offer, but as a fellow Shichibukai I feel a bit of camaraderie between us. What do you say?"

Melanie grunted as she lifted her body up just high enough to spit on Trevor's foot, "I would choose to be ripped apart by the devil himself then beg you to spare my life any day of any year in any era." She glared up at Trevor. She started to smile when Trevor's face went from his stupid Cheshire smile changed to a frown.

"WHY DID YOU SPIT ON MY SHOE!" shouted Trevor as he lifted his foot up and brought it down on top of Melanie's head. "Didn't you freakin' listen to me? I was being nice to you! I was being goddamn nice to you! I was going to let you live, but you still freakin' refused! Why the hell do I even waste my time with punks like..." Trevor's voice was stopped short as his legs were pulled out from underneath him.

Trevor looked behind him at Ridley, who had woken up and grabbed a hold of Trevor's leg. His balance was destroyed when he lifted his leg up into the air, so Ridley could easily pull the one leg he used for standing out from under him and send him to crashing to the ground. Trevor shouted as he stood up, "You too! I mean seriously doesn't anyone have any morals anymore?" Trevor looked down at Ridley and brought his foot up and slammed it into the side of his head.

"A dirty little low bounty rat like you has no right to touch me!" shouted Trevor as he brought his leg back around and kicked Ridley away. "I really don't like you! I should kill you!" Trevor lifted his hand up in the air, preparing to bring it down in a swift killing blow. He began to bring it near Ridley's neck, but stopped short. "Ke...he he he...you...you're Ridley Blackwell, ain't ya?" Ridley looked up at Trevor, bewildered as to why Trevor would even care about his name.

"How's your old man?" asked Trevor as he crouched down to put his face down on eye level with Ridley. "Your father and me go way back...we used to be pretty close friends, comrades actually. I was his first mate and he was my faithful captain. We got along quite well...the rest of the crew didn't like me at all. They considered me to be rather insane. However, Karasu was holding me back...in the end we fought, me and him fought for control of the crew. I won. In the end it was for the best as Karasu took control of the Black Market. The rest of the crew," stated Trevor as he looked at his blood-covered hands as he thought about them, "met a rather unfortunate end, a rather insane man killed them."

"Funny," said Ridley from his spot on the ground, "my father never mentioned you. I don't think he even remembers you, sorry. He's moved on."

Trevor laughed, "ke he he he he he! Good one! Your comedic talents must come from your mother's side. So who was she? Who did that bastard finally settle down with? I bet it was Susan...he always did have a thing for redheads."

Melanie just stared at disbelief as the man who had just tried to kill her was now having a conversation with the bastard that she just beat the crap out of. From the look on the bastard, he was thinking the same thing. Trevor, however, seemed genuinely interested in his old captain's life. He seemed to actually care, despite his previous psychopathic tendencies.

"Ah," said Trevor as he let out a sigh and stood up, "I would love to sit around and talk with you about Karasu, but I got people to kill. Speaking of which, I was busy before I was talking to you, wasn't I?" Trevor spun about and faced Melanie once more. He let out a swift kick to Melanie's face out of the blue, sending her tumbling backwards across the muddy ground. "Now, I'm back on track! Thank god! I hate it when I get distracted."

Melanie spat out some more blood as she looked up and Trevor brought his foot down into her face. "Ke he he he he he! Yeah, this is so much better! I feel so much better now that I am back on track! Back to murdering and hurting...Trevor looked down at Melanie, her eyes were left wide open, but they had stopped moving, her shouting had stopped as well. Trevor wagged his finger in front of her face. Her eyes didn't move to follow it. "Oh, man, she fell unconscious...there goes my fun...she is a very selfish person, ain't she?" Trevor looked back at Ridley, who was still on ground. "I apologize. I would love to stay and chat, but I gotta leave, I got some more killing to do." Trevor got up and turned around. He quickly left, leaving both Ridley and Melanie stretched out on the muddy ship on the beach.

"Why do I have the sickening feeling that he's going after Mikoto?" asked Ridley. He brought his body up to a sitting position, he groaned in pain. He looked over at Melanie and sighed. "I guess that just leaves you and me."

Predators and the Prey!

The True Hunt of Bloodlust!

Okay, yes, this is probably my quickest update since the old days (four days). DO NOT EXPECT THIS AGAIN! I was in a very strong writing mood a couple of days ago and I got through this pretty fast.

Melanie had had several problems. She had several injuries still lasting from her fight from Ridley. Not to mention Trevor really knows how to test someone's patience and that was pretty easy to do once you figure out someone's soft spot. Trevor and Ridley's dad do in fact go way back, he wasn't lying about that (congrats to those of you who guessed). So keep that in mind, it may come up again. You guys just better wish that Mikoto makes his way out of this fight alive. He still has that gun wound in his shoulder, that everybody (but him) is panicking about.

Also I'm only ten chapters away from the 100th chapter! Its time to start the countdown! I hope I can write and plan everything perfectly out to have a big moment occur in the 100th chapter, however, I am not known for my planning things out...so, yeah...fingers crossed (knowing my luck it will occur in chapter 101). Also, if you guys have any questions you want any character to answer just send them in! I might do a small Q & A session in Chapter 100...might...