Mikoto Fights Again!

"Shit," mumbled the 'Dark Knight' Shane from the stands. "If it wasn't due to the fact that my earlier opponent was a little bit stronger then expected I would've jumped into the ring and challenged that kid to a fight. See which one of us is stronger!" Shane growled. He relaxed into his seat and accepted his position as a stupid audience member.

"Oh, Shane is stronger no doubt!" chimed in Suzanne as she sat down next to him. "No one is as strong as Shane."

Armani Dove was still in his seat. He hadn't moved from it very often glued to the fights. He had considered this to be an enjoyable experience. He had only counted on seeing a bunch of small fries fight and was almost dreaded coming here, but in this one day he had seen both the 90 million bounty Shane and now the 38 million bounty Mikoto fight. It was a good day after all. His prediction of the world being turned on its axis from this day was definitely going to be true, the question was was Mikoto going to be the one to do it? He would just have to watch and find out.

(-In the front center stands-)

"Captain!" crooned one of the men in the stands. He was dressed in a black trench coat and was hiding most of his body underneath his clothing. He had a hat and a mask on to cover his face. He combined that with gloves and boots to cover any and all extremities. The man was trying to hide anything that connected him to the Marines. While the Marines were strictly forbidden from arresting pirates here, it didn't mean that the pirates were forbidden from holding a grudge against the Marines. "Isn't that..." he was interrupted by the sharp barking of his captain.

"YES!" shouted a young woman who was in the stands beside him. Despite being in a heavily pirate visited area, she was dressed in a Marine uniform. She was a very formal Marine. She had no contraband or even weapon on her, despite being in this lawless area. She had on silver earrings and a silver ribbon tied in her hair. She stared down past the idiots in the audience and at the arena. "That's the kid who is being offered the position of Shichibukai. That's the 'Kid Coyote'...Maybe you'll learn how to get some moxie from him. After all, you are disgrace! Hiding your proud Marine uniform from pirates like these."

There were absolutely no pirates around them. They were all back a couple of seats giving the two Marines at least one seat distance from any pirates. The ones closest to them who actually tried to sit next to the Marines had marks on their faces to prove the Marines' strengths. Heavy swelling on their faces as well as bruises and cuts galore on their bodies, showed the Marine's inhuman strength. None of them even tried to move in closer to her.

"I am increasing inquisitive to see which ruffian amongst this audience will be gallant enough to step into the arena with him," muttered the woman as she looked onwards and into the field. The Longarm was still finishing the introduction and explanation of the next round, but he was almost finished and when he was there was no doubt in her mind that the crowd would burst with eager anticipation to enter the ring against him. However, most of those hands would be due to stupidity or ignorance of the kid's power rather then strength and courage.

Finally the Longarm finished the introduction and as if on cue, the crowd erupted with shouts, 'I'll take him on!' and 'let's see if the future pirate king can take on me' or even 'that punk doesn't look like he's worth 38 million belies!' They all sounded like idiots. The Longarm paused and turned around to Mikoto. Even if Mikoto was being forced to do this it was still his choice who he fought.

Mikoto paused for a second as he looked at them. "Um...I don't really know who to face. They all look pretty weak..." the crowd groaned and severally of them began shouting even louder. Several empty pop cans and bags of popcorn was thrown into the ring. "I know how to decide this!" shouted Mikoto with a genius idea. "Whoever can answer this riddle can fight me!"

Trevor cackled loudly at the proposal of the kid. It was a naïve idea, but he wasn't too upset with it. It was almost like a random lottery without it being quite so random. When Trevor entered he always picked the person he could sense the biggest blood-lust coming from, others always had an auction, whoever paid the most could enter the arena with them. Of course, Mikoto had no interest in fighting a man with insane blood-lust or making money for the Underground Rally Arena, so he understood the ridiculous idea.

"Those who buy my don't use me, those who use me don't know that they do. What am I?" asked Mikoto. The entire audience moaned at the idea. They cam here for a fight not to solve some stupid riddle.

"Is it a coffin?" asked a man as he stepped forward and down the flights of stairs towards Mikoto. The man was taller then most at 6'5". He had dark skin and dark brown eyes. He wore an open jacket that revealed his well-muscled body as well as a gunshot wound just below his heart. He was wearing shorts despite the freezing weather outside. On top of that he had long bushy hair, right now it was tied up, but it still stretched down far past his neck.

"It looks like the man who had answered Mikoto's riddle is Koizuma 'Ko' Fullbrand!" shouted the Longarm introducing the man. "He's famous around these parts as a shipwright and as man who can talk his way out of anything, but he's also a lesser known fighter with some pretty decent wins under his belt here!"

"I don't particularly like doing stuff like this, but I figured it beats working," muttered Ko as he cracked his neck preparing for the fight. "Besides I need the money and according the longarm over there, if I beat you the URA will pay me a sum of money equal to your bounty...38 million belies will keep my unemployed for a pretty nice amount o' time."

"Okay!" shouted the Longarm, "By some miracle Ko managed to answer Mikoto's riddle, he will fight Mikoto! The intense fight will begin as soon as..." The Longarm was shut up as Ko charged forward blasting past him and knocking him down as he charged Mikoto already firing the first punch. The Longarm stood up and shouted, "I was going to say as soon as I exit the arena!"

"Oh, yeah," shouted Ko back as he walked back over to the Longarm. "Well, you shouldn't have said 'the intense fight will begin'...as far as I can see it is your fault for not being clear." The Longarm turned around and ignored him. It was an honest mistake, but still that was no excuse. "As an apology let me help you get out of the ring faster!" shouted Ko as he lifted the Longarm up and tossed him out and into the stadium. Ko smiled as he turned back around and towards Mikoto. Earlier today the entire audience was already in a bustling uproar as they talked about the insane antics of the Infinity Pirates, but he may have just showed even them up with his own antic.

"I'm gonna warn you, I'm going to start off serious," shouted Ko as he took his jacket off. "Let's begin with just an observation phase. Jacket: Shield." Ko's jacket hardened and even enlarged a little to become a solid and round shield. "You see, my jacket has had the powers of the Atom-Atom fruit. In other words it size and shape can be changed through the manipulation of its atomic structure. Combine that with my Colors of Armaments Haki and I can even change the density and hardness of my jacket. So, for all intents and purposes this jacket is a real-life shield."

Mikoto ignored him his entire focus was on the fact that Ko mentioned Colors of Armaments Haki. Those words were enough to intrigue him beyond any normal measures. Trevor was the same. Trevor also had Colors of Armaments Haki, so to Mikoto this guy would just be practice. Mikoto morphed into his coyote form and charged off at Ko already moving fact. Ko laughed as he brought his shield around and into position to block. "Wolf Missile!" shouted Mikoto as he morphed back into his hybrid form and fired a single punch at the shield. Mikoto's coyote form was faster then any of Mikoto's other two forms, so by changing into his hybrid form right before the impact he was capable of putting the speed of his beast form and the power of his hybrid form together into one move. And Ko felt the full force of the combination behind his shield.

Ko grunted as he forced backwards on the ground. The force of the kid wasn't like anything he had ever witnessed. It was actually enough to push through his shield, which was as tough as iron. Ko sighed as he brought his shield off to the side. He didn't have the time to just sit back and take in his opponent's strength and find a weakness or create a strategy, the kid was aiming to finish this as fast as possible. Ko would just have to step his powers up to Mikoto's level, "Jacket: Spear!" Ko twisted the jacket around his arm and hardened it once more. This time it was like a gauntlet tightly gripping his arm, but at the end of the gauntlet was an incredibly sharp point capable of piercing skin. Ko charged forward, ready to match his strength to Mikoto's.

Mikoto leaned forward. He was eager to finish this fight up. Mikoto could tell from the one punch along, that Ko's brand of Colors of Armament's Haki was way different from Trevor. It wasn't like it was weaker then Trevor's, just different, maybe it was due to the material of jacket that Ko used as opposed to the fact that Trevor used his own skin, but there was a definite difference. Mikoto wouldn't be able to use this as practice, so he'd just finish it off as quick as possible. Mikoto charged forward.

Ko brought his arm back. He would fire one incredibly powerful punch at Mikoto just as he was entering his space. The speed Mikoto had would be thrown back at him, one finishing blow. Not to mention the spike at the end of Ko's weapon would create a giant sized hole in Mikoto's forehead. He waited until Mikoto was in punching range, which was probably only a few milliseconds and fired. He smiled as he saw his punch pierce Mikoto's head. Then Ko was sent flying off of the arena and down into the pit.

"What the heck?" shouted the crowd as they watched the battle from their seats, "how the hell did Mikoto move like that? I thought Ko pierced his head with his spear thing, but Mikoto suddenly appeared at his open side! Mikoto's arm also disappeared! I didn't know he possessed that power as well as speed!"

Trevor smiled. That was the same technique that pushed him. The afterimage to get close and then the rapid-fire to deal the damage from this distance Trevor couldn't tell how many punches Mikoto fired. His fist was moving too fast, but if Trevor had to guess he would say only 15 from the distance. He smiled. The kid was definitely a great prey. That was it for this fight. Mikoto would probably retire for the rest of they day. He had no obligation to keep fighting for the URA. Trevor only wanted him to fight once anyways, just enough to keep his fighting blade at its sharpest. Duncan or Makada would take over from here.

"What is this?" shouted the Longarm snapping everybody's attention to the ring away from Mikoto. "It looks the fight isn't over yet folks!

The Meeting with the Demon!

Ko is another submitted OC. He was submitted by KotahBlitz!

Before I continue I would like to redirect everybody's attention back to Chapter 1, okay? First thing, I changed the OC submission form and updated it with new crap (romantic interests, clothing, attacks, as well as a couple of stylized forms regarding Marines and rival crews) THEN I added an island submission form. This is mainly because the Grand Line has a lot more varied islands, islands with weird crap happening that I would never think of. Hopefully you reviewers can! As usual if you have already submitted a character there is no need to edit it, this is just for those of you submitting new characters.

Get ready for the next chapter, why? Because if you think that any of these chapters were exciting and heart-racing the next chapter may just be the most exciting in a long while!