Predators and the Prey!
The True Hunt of Bloodlust!
"I'm looking for the Kid Coyote!" shouted Trevor as he exploded into the bar. An entire group of bounty hunters and pirates looked at him. None of them even seemed to care about it. They all had the same disinterested and kind of annoyed look on their face as they all glared at the intruder, most of them with a mug of beer in their hands. All of them laughed for a brief moment before returning to their beers and food that they had ordered. Trevor's face contorted into something of anger. Trevor approached the nearest pirate. He placed his open palm onto the back of the pirate's head. With one almighty oomph Trevor brought the pirate's head downwards and forwards straight into the table, splintering it into thousands of pieces.
Trevor smiled as he pulled the pirate's head out of the table. Small wooden splinters were sticking out of his head. Finally, with a smile, Trevor brought his hand all the way around bringing it slicing straight through the pirate's neck sending his head tumbling to the ground. Trevor looked down at the head and picked it up, checking it out as he bounced it about between his hands. With a final flourish Trevor tossed it to one of the nearby men who was shaking in his seat. Trevor clapped his two hands together and rubbed them together, smearing the dead pirate's blood about. "Anyone has any information that may put into a better mood?"
The bar immediately erupted into a conversation. Several pirates and bounty hunters shouting at the top of their lungs trying to prove themselves the better of the group. Trevor laughed loudly as he started to point at the people rushing to help him. "Let's see...um...eenie, meenie, minie, mo!" shouted Trevor as he ended up on one of the bounty hunters. "Have you seen my little prey?"
"Yes!" he shouted as he began to pour out all of the information he knew as quickly as he could, "he came in here a little while ago and attacked some of us, but after a little bit of a ruckus. He got shot by a fellow bounty hunter! He left a little while ago to go to his ship! I left when the original ruckus broke out, but I came back in time to see him leave! He was heading to the East Harbor! I swear!"
"Thank you for that bit of information, I will allow you to die for the greater good...my good," whispered Trevor into the bounty hunter's ear. The bounty hunter tried to react, he unsheathed his sword and brought it near Trevor's head. Trevor brought his all five of his fingers into the bounty hunter's head all of them splayed out as far as they could be, leaving five different holes in his target's head.` The bounty hunter fell to the ground without making any extra movements. Trevor smiled as he brought his foot over and into the bounty hunter's head. "Another ruined skull...tsk, tsk, tsk. I have got to learn how to hold back."
Trevor brought his other hand back and into the chest of an invading pirate, who was about to lash out and attack him. Trevor smirked as he ripped his hand free from the man's rib cage. "Pathetic," said Trevor as she stood up. He looked over his shoulder at the hundreds of pirates and bounty hunters who had gathered around him, "don't worry. I didn't come here to kill you...just get some information on my target." Trevor stopped talking for a second as he began to think. He was beginning to realize something...as it currently stood he took out a dozen Marine soldiers and a Shichibukai along with her crew. His return to the Marine Base wasn't going to be exactly filled with hearty laughter, especially if he only brought back one pirate...one pirate who just landed on the Grand Line. Not really the grand apology he needed and as scary as he was, he didn't want to tick off the entire World Government
He looked out at the other Bounty Hunters and pirates who were quivering fear. All of them knew that if they ran at least half of them would be on the ground covered in blood. Trevor smirked. "Any person that brings me the head of a pirate worth more then 30 million belies will get off of this island alive...also whoever brings me the head of any Infinity Pirates will get the same benefit. Everyone else will die." He was about to turn and leave when a small problem occurred to him, he shrugged it off. It was nothing a small lie couldn't fix. "Also anyone who thinks about leaving should be aware that I have plenty of men off of the course with large cannons. Anyone who leaves before I leave, dies." Trevor made his hand into the shape of a gun and made a quiet boom sound as he left the bar. There were absolutely no ships waiting off of the coast to shoot down the ships, but they needed a better incentive to stay.
All of the pirates and bounty hunters shared a similar look of disbelief. Their eyes darted to one another as if they thought the other people in the bar had any better ideas of what just happened and what they had signed up for. There was a quiet murmur as they began to discuss between them what they were going to do. Surely they couldn't trust that mad man, could they? He sauntered in killed a random pirate, killed a bounty hunter who helped him out, and then expected people to aid him! What were they insane? There was a loud blood curdling scream in the room as another head flew off of the shoulders of a pirate.
A Bounty Hunter stood still with a bloodied sword fully extended over the decapitated body of a pirate. The dead pirate was 'Rosewood' James...a pirate with a bounty of 32 million. The Bounty Hunter smiled as he tossed the head into the crowd. "We either die running away from the mad man or we do what he wants and get the job done," he said with a thick Scottish accent. He brought the sword up and onto his shoulders. "Anyone who wants that head can have it...I'm going after the Infinity Pirates." The bounty hunter reasoned that since Trevor specifically asked for one of them, he must have some sort of score to settle with them...probably have a higher chance of getting away alive if he gave him one of their heads. He knew he had no chance against Trevor, he recognized Haki when he saw it. Colors of Arm, he may have been able to handle, but Colors of Observation was out of his league still. He had tried to learn Haki once, but he couldn't. His only hope was for the head of one of those pirates.
There was a loud ruckus from the bar as the pirates and bounty hunters alike began to fight each other over the head of the dead pirate, all of them up in arms trying to live. Some of the smarter pirates and bounty hunters acknowledged this and decided to withdraw. Their chances were a lot better at fighting ONE of the Infinity Pirates rather then 50 crazed ruffians. These guys quickly departed in search of the Infinity Pirates, leaving the crazed patrons at the bar battling themselves.
(-on the ship-)
"OW!" shouted Mikoto as Enma sprayed a lot of disinfectant onto the open wound. Enma was meticulously examining and fixing the wound with a large amount of tools at his disposal. He did it in such a haphazard fashion, though that it appeared he didn't have much care or sympathy for his patient/captain. Enma dug into Mikoto's wound with a pair tweezers, this elicited another yelp of pain from Mikoto.
Enma snapped out of his frenzied doctor state and looked over at Mikoto who was still in pain from the bullet, disinfectant, and on top of that the doctor who was digging into him with the tweezers. "Sorry, about this captain," said Enma as he returned to the tending of the wound with his tools. "But we got to make sure the bullet is out of you or else it will be a painful exit for it the next time you get hit and on top of that the vein it shot through will never get healed." Enma yanked the bullet out of Mikoto's shoulder without even telling him to prepare for it, Mikoto grunted as the pain surged through him. "Just feel lucky that it didn't hit anything to important."
"Don't we have anything that might dull the pain, you know make it go away?" asked Mikoto as he fell back to the table. His gaze drifted over to his arm, which was now wide open and gushing more blood. Sadly, according to Enma in order to get the bullet out Enma needed to make the hole bigger so it could fit the tweezers and the bullet in whichever way it comes out, straight forward or, worse case scenario sideways.
Enma paused for a second and let his fingers leave the bullet as he thought about it. "We could've used ice and made the skin numb, but..." said Enma as he returned to his work and with one final yank he pulled the bullet free, "I am already done. No need to worry about it!" Mikoto was on the bed, his hand shot up to his shoulder and grabbed and was holding it tightly. He was glaring sharply over at Enma. He was starting to think that Enma liked hurting him. Enma backed off and stood up. He patted his clothes clean and left the room to attend to the deck.
Enma arrived on the deck and saw both Sage and Rosa sitting together talking. No doubt discussing Mikoto's wounds and the similar. Enma was initially against Rosa coming on board, but Sage seemed to trust her. Mikoto trusted her as well, but Enma didn't really trust Mikoto's judgment. Enma wandered over to the two who were just sitting and talking, not really discussing anything of importance. He sat down across from Rosa and closer to Sage, examining the two beings.
Rosa couldn't help, but feel out of place as Enma looked at her, trying to divulge every inch of information he could from her actions. Finally Rosa spoke to Enma, "is there anything we can help you with?" she asked looking at him questioningly.
"No, its nothing. Its just very uncommon for a Bounty Hunter like yourself to not only to hang out with pirates, but to also befriend them..." Enma paused for a second and then quickly looked at Sage, "she does know we are pirates, right?"Sage nodded. Enma let out a sigh of relief. Enma stared out over the land and thought for a few seconds. "According to Hiro-Shu the Log Pose will probably be set by tomorrow morning. We'll leave for the next island then, probably. We don't want to stay too long on an island full of bounty hunters especially with our captain injured." Enma returned his attention to Rosa.
"Please," stated Enma, "do not take this coldly, but I believe it would be best if you left now." A long ivory white spear appeared in Enma's hands. He didn't particularly wanted to do this, but as a pirate he had a natural distrust for bounty hunters even if Sage did trust her. With Hiro-Shu gone searching for Zesiro and Ridley, Mikoto bed-ridden, Maria knocked out from her day of working, and Sage wasn't that strong if a fight broke out...it would be just between him and Rosa.
Rosa's hands jumped to the hilt of her sword. When she noticed Enma wasn't going to make the first move, she brought her hands up and into the air. "Well, Sage," she said with a friendly smile and a curt, fashionable bow, "it was fun while it lasted. May we meet again in the future." With that Rosa stepped off of the ship and set out towards the city. She heard Sage shout at Enma once she had her feet firmly planted on the ground, but ignored it. Besides she still had to find Lily...she lost her earlier that day when she went to the bar. She should probably try to find her.
Troublesome Hunt!
The Beast on the Prowl!
Whoo-hoo! Another chapter down! And in under week from the last update (six days, but it still counts, right?) Anyways, not much new foresight to provide in this chapter, but I do feel like I should point out Chapter 8 (The one where Zesiro and Renvont first appear). Why? Because someone pointed out during the last chapter that I already mentioned the Underground Rally Arena. Well this is that chapter! Also in this chapter I mention a man called 'Reaper' Trevor. Yeah, that's right! Over 80 chapters since his first mention does he reappear!
Also, and this is just me pointing this out...but if you add together the total reviews from all of my stories I got like 980 of them! So close to the thousandth review mark!