Assault on the Ship!
The large orange lump had just leapt out of the darkness. McIntyre had been taken down in an instant, he let loose a loud scream. Rosa twisted about in her spot and tripped over her own feet as she watched McIntyre pass out beneath the tiger's large paws. McIntyre's head had been smashed onto the ground and was swollen from the force of the tiger's weight. The tiger stepped off of McIntyre and walked a few feet away from it, before turning its attention down to Rosa. It let loose a slight growl as it headed down the path towards her.
Rosa was backed up into a corner as she stared down the path at the hulking beast that had just pounced onto McIntyre, knocking the pirate out. She was frozen as the beast grew closer and closer to her. "Lily!" shouted Rosa as she leapt forward wrapping her arms around the large tiger. "I was looking all over for you! I'm so thankful that I've found you...er, you found me!" The tiger smiled and brought its tongue out and licked Rosa. "I'm sorry I didn't find you sooner, I got caught up with my new friends and..." Rosa twisted her head back down the path, "we got to get down to the docks. Mind if I ride ya?"
The tiger slumped its shoulders down and offered Rosa ride. Rosa leapt on. The tiger quickly twisted about and dashed off down the path. Its heavy paws slamming against the rocky path as the two bolted down the path. Bounty hunter leapt out of the way avoiding the crazed woman on the tiger, who just moments ago was having a mental breakdown because it was dark. Rosa leaned forward, anxious to beat Trevor to the ship. They needed her help, badly.
(-near the ship-)
"Are you sure this is the ship?" asked a large man dressed in a camouflage vest and pants as he walked out on the sand standing in front of another small group of pirates or bounty hunters. The rest of the group nodded. "Supah." He turned around and faced the rest of the crew, "you guys got the cannon you were 'asked' to return?" he asked as he examined his crew. They all nodded. A large cannon was produced from behind them as they dragged it onto the sandy beach. The man removed his pitch-black shades as he looked at the weapon. "But you know my family motto, don't ya boys?"
The rest of the bounty hunters lifted their hats up into the air and shouted, "return all favors halved! And return all pain doubled! That is the motto of Jacques Rouge!" The man nodded as he returned his attention to the ship. The bounty hunters began to pull more cannons up behind him as they prepared to shoot. The man smirked as he gave the final command to fire.
(-on the ship-)
Enma had just finished strapping Mikoto down to the bed. Mikoto wasn't exactly being a good patient and the last thing he wanted was for the wound to open again. Any good doctor would've done the same. It would only be by Lucifer's luck that the kid would make it through without dying, especially seeing as how he kept wanting to get up and go find Ridley and Zesiro. Enma went back up onto the deck, where Sage was waiting patiently for someone else to return.
He didn't know if she was just trying to stage a silent protest against him for kicking Rosa off of the ship or something else entirely. The day was pretty much uneventful for him, asides from the 'accident' with the cannon, but now they were back to square one with all the quiet and serene sounds. They were also leaving the next morning, so there would be very little of interest, but when the captain is aiming to be the next pirate king time is of the essence. He was about to sit down and relax next to Sage when the sound of the cannon fire rang through the air. Sage leapt up from her seat and shared a look of worry with Enma.
The cannonball came crashing into the side of the ship, blowing a hole into it. Enma grimaced as he heard the wood splinter from the force of the shot. "Let's go!" commanded Enma as he leapt down the side of the ship and charged off in the direction of the cannon shot. Sage stepped forward a bit, but paused with a second thought as she looked back and contemplated about the ship and whether charging off was the right idea. She grudgingly set off after Enma, they needed to stop the cannon fire before they worried about the ship.
Enma arrived at the place pretty quickly. The group of bounty hunters had no interest in being cheap bastards and taking them on from a distance. The man dressed in the camouflage vest and pants approached Enma first. Enma had to crank his neck upwards to stare the man in the eyes, "I head you took down some of my men with a cannon and a cheap trick. I'm just here to return the pain..." began the man he slowly cranked his arm around his ear, the rest of the crew suddenly yelled, "doubled!" The man smiled as he brought his head back over into Enma's face.
Enma smiled, "I'd really appreciate it if..." began Enma as he leaned backwards, once he got a good distance back he brought his iron hard skull forward smashing it into the man's face, "if you'd get out of my face." The man stumbled backwards and collapsed into the sand. "There!" stated Enma as he crouched down onto the sand, "now I can finally look you in the face without tiring out my neck."
Jacques grumbled as he stood back up. He stared Enma in the eyes. He let loose a mean growl. When he did so his glasses, which were obviously loosened and broken up from Enma's headbutt, fell off of his face and onto the floor. Jacques stared at his broken glasses and returned his glare back to Enma, "those were my favorite glasses, punk!" The man leaned back and fired one punch at Enma. Enma grunted as the punch pushed him back. The man definitely wasn't a light-weight. Enma hand quickly turned into a white ivory bone as he brought the fist right back and into the Jacques's face. Jacques was knocked backwards from the incredible strength and hardness of Enma's fist.
Jacques quickly brought himself back up and sucker punched Enma in the ribs before Enma could say anything else. Enma collapsed onto the ground gasping for air. Jacques quickly turned around to his crew mates. "Looks like we found our first target to take down! Give me my weapons!" The crew quickly nodded and brought up to him two large metal gauntlets that slid seamlessly onto his hands. He clamped two straps around his arms to hold them in place. "You've caused me and my bounty hunting brothers and sisters a lot of trouble with your earlier trick with the cannon, so now I'm gonna cause you a lot of trouble with my trick of punching you in the face!"
"Enma!" shouted Sage as she ran onto the scene interrupting the Jacques' rant. Jacques paused as he turned his head about to see the young lady running up to them. Sage stopped in her tracks as she noticed the large group of men and women gathered around Enma, who was currently on the floor with a large man standing on top of him preparing to knock him out. Sage's two hands formed a small circle without her even thinking about it, "Pressure Ball!" Sage fired a ball of air with incredible pressure forward. The solid ball rammed into Jacques knocking him off of Enma.
Enma jumped up and quickly ran back to the Sage's side. Enma turned around and faced the group while simultaneously producing his long ivory spear. Enma glanced over at Sage, "thanks for coming when you did these guys are kind of annoying. There is a lot of them and they don't seem to really like me." Enma twirled his spear around and lowered it preparing to strike at his opponents. "The big guy back there is also pretty strong..." Enma still felt the pain in his stomach from the man's cheap sucker punch.
"Where is Zesiro and Hiro-Shu when you need them?" groaned Sage as the group of bounty hunters grew closer. She weighed their options and right now her only real option was to use either the pressure ball or make their heads explode and neither one of those two techniques were really designed for multiple opponents. They were made for quick one-on-one wins. It looked like it would up to Enma to take down these numerous pirates.
"Yeah, especially since Zesiro is probably all healed up," muttered Enma, "he could probably remove the bandages and fight now." Enma bit his lip as he looked over at the invading forces. He had to agree with Sage what he wouldn't give for Zesiro's or Hiro-Shu's overwhelming might right now. Neither he nor Sage really possessed the power to take down an entire army. Enma's eyes locked on the man in the camouflage man. He was just getting back up and standing again. Without his dark sunglasses on Enma could easily see his brown eyes which were boiling with rage right now.
"You boys handle the boy...that punk ass girl is all mine!" he stood up and brought his two fists crashing together. "I'm planning to return all the pain you inflicted at me doubled with just one punch!" Jacques laughed as he began to approach Sage. The crew were all wide-eyed as he walked towards Sage.
Sage breathed quietly. They had just played right into their hands. Sage was only going to face one opponent...one who had already taken an absurd amount of damage from her pressure ball. She could finish this off with one or two more attacks. It would be an easy win for them, she just hoped Enma could hold out long enough for her to finish him off. "Okay," said Sage as she gave Enma a small thumbs-up as she stepped forward to meet the man.
"Sage don't do anything stupid," said Enma as he lowered his stance and slowly crept towards his opponent. "Just hold off long enough for me to help you, I'll make as quick of work of these guys as I possibly can." As soon as the last words escaped from Enma's mouth, the opponent' pounced on him. A flurry of swords and blades came crashing down on top of him. Enma brought his spear around and blocked the vicious onslaught of slices. He pushed them off of him and brought his spear around bringing it straight into a man's side, knocking him down onto the ground.
Sage watched Jacques charge at her. Sage brought her two hands together and made a circle once more. "Pressure Ball!" shouted Sag as she let loose another high-powered ball. The ball shot forward through the air at Jacques. Jacques stepped forward and fired a punch with his left hand at the incoming ball. The two collided. "What?" gasped Sage as she watched the the pressure ball disappear without even hindering Jacques' charge. Jacques was wearing a cruel smile as he continued to charge forward.
Sage paused as she watched the guy charge forward, almost instantly closing the distance in between the two of them. Jacques brought his left fist forward once more. Sage was too slow she couldn't dodge or block the attack at all. Jacques' punch smashed into Sage's gut. Sage felt the fist hit and then a second blow rang into her body, almost like an explosion from the fist. Sage was thrown backwards, her entire body was aching from the blow. Sage crumbled onto the ground.
Jacques smirked as he looked at the poor girl who was laying on the ground. "Surprise!" he said as he walked up to her, "what do you think? Was that double the pain of your first attack on me? Or should I try hitting you again?" He turned back around and faced Enma who was standing around with about half of the army gathered around him, either knocked out or unable to stand due to the damage. Enma turned his attention to Jacques about to come over and attack, but he stopped.
"Enma...he's my opponent," said Sage as she came up leaning against one of the cannons, "I'll take him out. You wouldn't even think about taking him on or ...interfering with his fight if it was Zesiro or Hiro-Shu...so, treat me with the same respect you'd treat them."
Sage's High Pressure Situation!
Woo-hoo! Rosa rides off to save the crew from the trouble that's brewing their way, especially seeing as how the only two people left on the ship are Maria and Mikoto. Not to mention that somehow Jacques managed to completely ignore Sage's second Pressure Ball despite the fact that the first one nearly sent him flying.