The Will of D. Lives On!

Trevor's hand froze in the air inches away from Mikoto's throat. He couldn't move it. He was frozen as he stared at Mikoto's mouth. Trevor had murdered over one thousand pirates, but not one of them ever smiled. Why would they? Would he smile when he was so close to dying? Was he suicidal? Did he want to die? Did he want Trevor to slice into his neck and add his skull to his collection? Cause Trevor would! He would do it without even a second thought...Trevor brought his hand back up and froze again.

He couldn't. There was no fun! There was no reason for Trevor to kill him! Trevor killed for fun! Killing for the sake of killing was what made Trevor happy! It made him feel alive again! But he couldn't...there was no joy in killing this kid, not while he was happy! He didn't hear Mikoto beg for life, he was missing that moment of ripping away what his opponent wanted. Where was that moment!

Trevor brought his hand up to Mikoto's face and flicked his face, the super sharpened hand sliced into his cheek and drew blood. Mikoto flinched for a second as he felt the blade dig into his face, but he didn't stop smiling. He had had a good run with his crew. He would've enjoyed being the Pirate King, but half the people who wanted to become the Pirate King didn't...more like 99.9 % of the people couldn't. Not every one who wanted to become the Pirate King could. It looked like Mikoto was just going to follow in his father's foot steps for one more step.

Trevor spun around and tossed Mikoto onto the ground. Mikoto gasped as he realized the pressure on his neck was gone, but couldn't recover quick enough as Trevor brought his foot down onto Mikoto's chest burying him further into the sand. "Why won't you cry? Your life isn't worth begging for is that? Beg like the pathetic pup you are!" Trevor pressed down harder with his foot. Mikoto's face remained sturdy as he felt the foot press into his skin. "Come on! Let me enjoy this! Don't you dare steal this kill from me! LET ME ENJOY THIS MOMENT!" Trevor pressed down harder onto Mikoto's chest. Regardless of the new pressure, Mikoto's smile didn't fade.

Mikoto grunted and brought his two claws together onto Trevor's leg. The twin simultaneous strike, forced Trevor's leg up and into the air. Mikoto quickly spun around and swept his leg around on the ground and into Trevor's leg, Trevor's eyes opened wide as he fell to the floor. Mikoto quickly moved backwards separating himself from the insane psychopath. Mikoto was breathing heavily. That was a close one. Mikoto would probably never recover from that. With Trevor's foot smashed into his ribs, his lungs were heavily compressed. His body was slowing down. The pain was still in his arms and legs. He had a few moments before his arm would be at its best for a Rapid Fire. It would be a while till the fight ended and the longer the fight dragged on, the higher the chances that he would lose.

Their two eyes met again as Trevor put his foot down to support him. Trevor was growing madder and madder as this fight was going on. Mikoto was beginning to get under his skin. That damn smile on his face. Even now Trevor couldn't get that stupid image out of his head. That smile was stuck in there, he couldn't get it out no matter how hard he tried. "I'm going to rip your head off," ranted Trevor as he began to run towards Mikoto.

In a comparison of speed, Trevor was basically moving in slow-motion. Mikoto ducked down avoiding a wide-slash from Trevor's head. Mikoto moved to the side and fired a quick and powerful shot into Trevor's side like all of his other punches. Trevor smirked. His Haki still hadn't diminished at all, if anything it might have actually gotten stronger. Trevor's desire to kill Mikoto might've boosted it to insanely new levels. Trevor sharpened his elbow to a new level and brought it downwards aiming for Mikoto's back.

Mikoto swayed backwards avoiding the downwards smash. As soon as Mikoto saw Trevor's falling elbow strike past, Mikoto leaned forward and dashed at him. Mikoto moved forward with a quick punch aimed for Trevor's face. Trevor's head bobbed to the side, Haki was making this incredibly easy. Trevor's foresight surpassed something that all forms of experience and instinct that were possible to obtain. He was starting to see through all of Mikoto's strikes, allowing him to foresee them and beat them down. After dodging the last strike, Trevor didn't pause at all and fired a forward thrust at him with a renewed power.

Mikoto spewed blood from his mouth as he forced backward with the thrust into his chest. Mikoto collapsed onto the ground. Mikoto had four small holes in his chest, each one from one of Trevor's fingers. Trevor's thumb was just too short to drill a hole into him. Mikoto's instinct went off, he quickly morphed into his hybrid form and ran forward avoiding a second downwards thrust from Trevor.

Mikoto was starting to doubt whether or not he would be able to escape especially with the new holes in his chest even though his arm was almost fully recovered. His speed and instincts were the only thing keeping him alive right now. His speed was starting to leave his legs, he would need a few more moments of rest and relaxation for his legs to recover. Trevor wasn't going to allow those moments to come.

Trevor moved in ready to press his advantage. Mikoto moved backward, keeping his eyes trained on Trevor as he charged. Trevor spun around and launched a spinning chop downwards at Mikoto's neck. Mikoto charged forward, still in his coyote-form. Mikoto slipped underneath Trevor's legs and through, he moved through out and over the ground with impressive speed, trying to put more distance in between them. He already knew it was hopeless. With Trevor's Haki, he would already know where he went to hide.

Mikoto paused as he looked back over at Trevor. There was no point in running then. Mikoto morphed back into his hybrid form and turned around to face Trevor. Mikoto leaned forward, placing all of his weight on his front foot. Mikoto's arm was back up to full. Mikoto would simply slip past Trevor's guard. He would move past Trevor's guard, avoid his blows with an after-image, and then land a Rapid fire right onto his side. He would win.

Trevor smirked as he recognized the stance. He was completely incapable of stopping the blow before, but he was positive this would be the end. Three times using the same blastTrevor would foresee the strike and behead him before Mikoto even landed a single blow on him. He was ready for the moment that they traded blows. For in that instant, he would win.

(-with Ridley and Enma-)

"Why did you untie him?" shouted Enma as he hit Ridley across the head, "he was injured! If I didn't tie him down he would be running around and getting us into more trouble." Enma had just come back along with Sage moment ago. They came onto the ship to notice their one patient gone and replaced with a new one. One they never met before and one who seemed to dislike them from the moment they met her.

"How the heck was I supposed to know?" asked Ridley as he shrugged it off. "There's millions of reasons for Mikoto to be tied up! I can name at least five of them...most of them happen on Friday nights, but still!" Enma, Sage, and Melanie all shared the same look of annoyance. Ridley didn't care as he sat back and continued to check himself over for wounds.

Enma turned his attention over to his new patient. "Anything I can do for you? Seeing as our musician brought you for some reason?" Enma moved forward to check on Melanie's arm which showed signs of cuts, but Melanie jerked it back and out of his reach.

"No," she said as she scooted away from him, "I'm just waiting to get well enough to move and go kill someone. You guys should be feeling happy, I came here to capture you and ship you off to the Marines, but someone else has my full attention now." Melanie flinched as she felt a shot of pain in her legs again. It would be probably awhile until she was back up and ready to go. With every passing moment more of their crew was coming. She didn't want to imagine what these pirates would do as more of them came. Not all pirates are good guys. She didn't want to meet them at all, she just willed her legs would be good enough to leave soon.

"Found Zesiro," announced Hiro-Shu as he walked onto the ship. Zesiro was in tow. He was currently holding Hiro-Shu's shirt to his wound trying to stop the blood flow. Both of their eyes were on Maria who was woken up due to the attack on the ship. She had went back and began working on the ship repairs from the shot of the cannon. She was grumbling as she did so.

Zesiro quickly went down into the infirmary, expecting only to see Enma down there, but instead found the entire crew there. "What's going on down here?" he asked as he walked over and sat down on one of the beds.

Enma moaned as he walked back over and began fixing up Zesiro. "Trouble. Apparently Mikoto went off to fight a Shichibukai...by the way the new girl is a Shichibukai out to kill us. All of these things are thanks to the one and only, Ridley Blackwell." Enma wrapped the bandages around Zesiro's new wounds even tighter as he spoke.

"Good job, Ridley," congratulated Zesiro, "you brought a killer to us and you sent the only person on this crew who could really stand you off to his death. What's next?" Ridley shrugged as he took another swig of an alcoholic beverage. Zesiro waved him off as he focused back on the task at hand, "patch me up quickly, Enma. After that all of you guys can go off and try to get Mikoto back here. I'll stay here with Ridley and Maria keeping an eye on our new friend."

Sage looked up at them and began to think about the option that they were looking into. A killer was coming after them and their first instinct is to go after him. There was a growing worry in her about Mikoto's health now. Still going after another Shichibukai seemed closer to suicide then a rescue mission, besides did Mikoto really need to be rescued after watching everything he did and all the people he took out he should be okay.

The rest of the crew paused and quieted down as they sat around trying to address their next move. Suddenly there was a loud pounding on the deck of the ship, that got all of them rushing to the top of the deck. As soon as they stepped foot on the deck, they were met with a very big predator staring at them. Sage jumped back while Hiro-Shu moved to the front and became coated in iron ready to fight.

"WAIT!" shouted Rosa as she leapt off the beast, "Its just me!" she declared as she walked up to them. After confirmation from Sage and Enma, Hiro-Shu dropped his guard and backed up. "Trevor...Trevor is after you and is trying to kill all of you! He even hired bounty hunters and fellow pirates to take you down!"

"Yeah," explained Zesiro as he looked over at her. He had no idea who she was, but Sage seemed to trust her, so he decided to as well. "Our captain decided to go out after him."

"What?" shouted Rosa as she stepped forward towards them. "How dense is he? This is a Shichibukai that murdered over 200 pirates...all of them with a bounty of more then 50 million! When he was a pirate his active bounty was about 75 million! This is not someone who you can beat through sheer will-power! Even without a Devil Fruit he became known as one of the strongest pirates while he was sailing!"

"I have the highest faith in Mikoto," said Zesiro with confidence. He paused and looked over the other crew mates on the ship, "and I'm convinced that the rest of the crew agrees. He'll win, come back here, and say how happy he is that he defeated a Shichibukai."

"I wanna kill that bastard first," muttered Melanie as she walked past them. She was limping heavily. Ridley and the rest of the crew watched her as she slowly stepped onto the plank going onto the shore. None of the crew moved to stop her as she put her foot down onto the shore.

The Conclusion!

Dead Men Sailing!

The fighting is almost over. Mikoto versus Trevor, the next hit will be the finishing blow. Will Trevor's Colors of Observation Haki allow him to perfectly foresee Mikoto's movements and kill him or will Mikoto's speed and instincts prevail? With both opponents so sure of their own victory, its hard to tell. Just wait for the next chapter to find out!