Zesiro on Assault!

"Twin Thresher! Shark Wave!" commanded Zesiro as he whipped his two arms forward and brought the swords around. The blades cut into the air and sent two flying slashes soaring at Rosa. Rosa jumped out of the way and to the side, she felt the air being pushed by the slash blew by her with incredible power. She spun temporarily as she lifted her head she found Zesiro charging in at her.

Zesiro charged forward and crouched lower than Rosa. Rosa looked down at him. "Cascading Cuts!" Zesiro stood up, straightening out his legs and unleashing a series of sharp cuts upwards at Rosa. Rosa brought her blade down and felt every single and separate slash from Zesiro's blade shudder into her blade and force her back. Rosa felt her feet lift off of the ground from the strength of Zesiro's swing. He grunted as he moved forward slamming his shoulder into Rosa's body and knocking her further back, with a quick rotation Zesiro brought his sword back around and at Rosa's unguarded gut. Rosa quickly brought her own arm free and down into his arm, knocking it away.

Rosa paused as she looked at Zesiro. His right arm had been knocked aside and his left arm still hadn't moved in enough to protect his body...against anyone else she would drive her sword forward and gouge out his guts...but it was Zesiro...she hesitated looking at Zesiro and she hesitated too long. Zesiro brought his left arm forward and smashed his sword handle towards Rosa's head. Rosa instinctively jerked her head back. Her head was floating in the clouds as she looked at him, she wondered for a bit about why she had moved her head back, she didn't see the blade coming at her...her head just moved on its own.

Zesiro paused and drew his swords back to his side. He sheathed them both and took a step back away from Rosa. He didn't know if he should be thrilled or upset at the fact that Rosa held back and didn't use that thrust technique. If she had he would've been wounded, but it wouldn't have meant the end of the fight. He wasn't about to quit just because of a minor wound like that and he definitely wasn't going to die from it. He looked up at Rosa, who seemed a little bit worried. Zesiro breathed heavily and sighed. He lowered his body and grabbed hold of his blade, but he didn't unsheath it.

Zesiro hovered for a second as he contemplated his sword. He had grown accustomed to the two sword-style, but he never noticed one of the biggest differences between one and two sword-style. One sword-style had a bigger emphasis on technique. There was a lot more people who practiced it, so a lot more techniques had been born from it. Some of those techniques were transferred into two sword-style, but the lack of people who practiced it translated into a lack of interest. While two sword-style was truly a cornerstone on power, speed, and had its own pool of techniques, the one sword-style has a larger pool. Even for Zesiro someone whose specialty is two sword-style should regress to it every so often even if it was simply to gain a new-found appreciation for it.

"Issen," said Zesiro as he took up the famous stance. It was meant for a quick draw and slash. To unsheathe, slash and then re-sheathe. It wasn't popular in the two sword-style due to the problem of drawing two blades and launching a slash with two blades and then hurriedly re-sheathing two blades was more work then it should be, but Zesiro had temporarily regressed to one sword-style.

It also made sense for him. He had originally intended on this fight being somewhat of a warm-up...a practice match. He had been fighting with only one sword for awhile now, so he was hoping that a fight with Rosa would allow him to get back in the swing of using two swords, but his replacement sword just wasn't right. It was a decent enough blade, but it was still not a sword he was used to. The weight of it, the size, its sharpness. They were all foreign to him. He still couldn't bring out his full-power with it. He needed his old sword back. However, that wasn't going to happen any time soon.

Rosa stayed put a few feet away as she tried to make sense of what was happening. Seeing Zesiro's open body in front of her and letting that chance slip away confused her. She hesitated staring at Zesiro as he prepared for another furious exchange, one that Rosa doubted she could be a part of. She just didn't have the feeling that compelled her to fight this time, she wanted to just go back to the locker room, open a book and read...maybe write a little bit. That was her goal.

She had very little desire in becoming the champion of the URA or for that matter becoming a powerful warrior. Her dream was to be able to write books that anyone would want to read. A part of her wanted to go out on this journey to find material for it, but so far she hadn't found anything. The shelves were stocked with stories of brave woman bounty hunters. It was hard to stand out in such a business if you wrote about the same thing as everyone else. She sighed.

Zesiro had grown agitated with waiting for her to make the first move and inched closer to Rosa, to put him within cutting distance. With a quick slash of his sword, he brought it flying through the air at Rosa' chest. He was slightly ashamed to admit he twisted the sword and brought the back of the blade at her where he wouldn't cut her. Rosa jumped back, once more on the autopilot dodging she had so prominently displayed in her previous fights. Zesiro took a step forward and thought about slicing her again, but stopped. He didn't want to waste strength with his random slicing and hope that one of them would hit her on pure dumb luck. He moved back and waited for Rosa to remember she was in a fight.

Rosa stood there and she swiveled her head to the side, still daydreaming about her book and adventures. She stood there as she watched the crowd start to roar up again. She paused as she looked out there. "This might be an exciting chapter for a book," thought Rosa. The thought of someone being forced to fight in a tournament against her will to save her friend. The villain was written perfectly as the homicidal Trevor and the exciting climax was only seconds away as two friends dueled in front of a crowd of anxious maniacs. She took a deep breath as she once again pulled her heads out of the clouds and back to the fight.

Now that she thought about it a duel between two friends. Plenty of books had that and in each one it was heated. It wasn't the two people standing about and having a staring contest! No, a fight between friends needed something more. It needed true action. She had set off to gain materials on how to write a good book and they were standing in front of her right now. She had her resolve no! She wouldn't turn a blind eye to it. Now she only had to hope that Zesiro would keep his resolve throughout the rest of the fight. Rosa lowered her body and leapt forward once again using the technique that defeated Simon.

Zesiro was surprised by the sudden attack. Rosa was meekly standing there as if she had lost all will to fight and now she returned with new and improved determination. It was a startling transformation! But he wasn't about to lose that quickly. Zesiro lashed out with his sword matching Rosa's blade. He was impressed enough by the sudden metamorphosis of Rosa's attitude, but the strength she had behind the blade was just as impressive. Zesiro knew that he was stronger than Rosa, but needless to say she swatted his blade away. It must've been due to the leap and the momentum she had gained from that. It didn't give Zesiro any reason to worry as far as rapid-fire attacks were he was still superior. His second hand snaked over to his remaining sword and he drew it with incredible speed and forced Rosa back once more.

Rosa stood very still, carefully examining Zesiro for any weaknesses. The crowd, who had either been lulled to sleep or gotten even louder with complaints due to the lack of action, had found it in them to begin cheering them on once again. Their previous complaints about the lack of action or just their general insults to the two of them disappeared and as replaced with a rousing desire to see the two of them coat the other in blood. Rosa was having a harder time focusing due to this, but nonetheless she didn't want to make a mistake and decided it would be better for her just to take her time.

Zesiro disagreed. Rosa may rely on her intellect, but Zesiro didn't need to. His strength came from his natural instincts. With that advantage, he didn't need to wait. He charged it with both of his swords at the ready. He brought them both down at the same time with two downward thrusts aimed at Rosa. "Shark Chomp!" Rosa pushed herself backwards just in time to watch the two swords plunge into the ground, cutting into the hard stone as if it was butter. Rosa dove forward, taking advantage of the fact that Zesiro's swords were in the ground. Zesiro ripped his blade free from the ground and blocked the charging slash. "Devilfish Finisher!" Zesiro crossed his two blades, forming an X, he lashed out with both of them at the same time slashing a new X in the air and at Rosa. Rosa dodged backwards as soon as her feet touched the ground she leapt forward once more without missing a beat. With her entire body acting like a spring she lashed out with her sword once more.

Zesiro brought his two swords down and blocked the attack, however with Rosa leaping forward from her spot she managed to put a lot more force behind it then Zesiro could handle and blew his guard upwards. Rosa didn't hesitate this time as she took another step inwards and followed her upwards slash with a second downwards chop. Even Zesiro had no chance to back away and completely avoid the blow, the most he could was sway backwards and grit his teeth while Rosa's blade cut into him.

Zesiro jumped back when the attack was done. He had a new wound, a long slash from his shoulder down to his waist thanks to Rosa. He wouldn't say he was lucky that he had avoided getting killed in that moment, but he definitely could've. He wasn't quite sure if Rosa had held back though with that slash in fear of killing him or if she had gone all out trying to kill him. Neither was really a good thing.

Rosa backed up once more and took her distance. Rosa frowned. She had intended to deliver a powerful slash with her sword. She thought she stepped in deep enough and that it was more then enough to cut him in half, but apparently it wasn't. Rosa took another step forward and felt the sudden strain in her leg. She had been running around a lot and not to mention she had been doing that forward leaping slash she had stolen from McIntyre multiple times now. Not to mention the jam-packed schedule of her fights...her fight against Simon was only two days ago. Her fight with McIntyre was a little over a week. The back-to-back fights were taking their toll on her body. However, a time-out in the middle of the fight definitely wasn't allowed.

The crowd was already starting to get riled up at their momentary break from trying to kill each other. Not to mention it didn't look like Zesiro had any intention to rest up either. It wouldn't do him much good to anyways though, he had a new wound and it needed attention, more attention then he could give it in a fight. He needed to wrap the fight up fast and get to Enma. This meant it had become apparent to both of them. The fight was drawing to its end.

Killing Cuts Between Friends

Urgh, probably one of the longest non-boss guy fights I have ever written. However, it is quickly speeding up and nearing its conclusion. Not to mention it still isn't the semi-finals of the tournament, how much trouble can still be piled onto the crew now? Stay reading and reviewing to find out!

Have you forgotten about your old pirates? Like what they look like or their personality doesn't quite show through, well here is all of your favorite pirates' profiles, but this time it is posted in first person so your favorite crew members will be talking straight to you. (I will providing the first person speech unless one of their creators want to PM me their own.)

Full Name: The name is Mikoto D. Azgard.

Bounty Name: My bounty name is 'Coyote Kid', but some people say 'Kid Coyote' due to the fact they get it mixed up and, really, either one works. I'm currently worth over 30 million!

Devil Fruit/Weapon: My Devil Fruit is the Inu-Inu no Mi; Model Coyote. (Mutt-Mutt Fruit). With it I'm a little bit more awesome since I can transform into coyote or human/coyote hybrid.

Physical Appearance: I'm only five ten when I'm human, so I'm about average. I have short jet-black hair that reaches down to my ears, admittedly its growing longer, not much time to get a hair cut when I'm out pirating. I have emerald green eyes. My favorite shirt is a black one with a red question mark on it, it makes me think of riddles. I wear nice cargo shorts with a lot of pockets. I used to wear shoes, but when you transform into a coyote...shoes just don't work, so I began going shoeless and I feel a lot better.

Hybrid Form-My hair grows a little lighter to become a darker gray with tinges of brown fur at the ends. I grow razor sharp claws on both my hands and feet, they used to tear up my shoes when I ran like that. I also grow a coyote's snout for the top of my mouth and nose. My sense of smell and hearing are both increased in this form.

Animal form-I'm basically a regular coyote when I full transform. Oh, but I keep my clothing on! I'm not allowed to go naked after that one incident back at home...

Personality: I like noise, even though my coyote forms are very sensitive to it, but if you ask me if things are too quiet things are too boring! And even though I was a pirate I was raised right by Xavier and Melanie they always told me to help people out, cause you may need or want their help someday, so I always help people out if I like them. My favorite thing in the world is definitely riddles, I mean how can someone not like them!? I'm told I sometimes do stupid things or promise impossible things for a good riddle, but I personally think a good riddle is worth our ship!

Goals (Or Dreams if you prefer): Nobody thinks my dad was a great pirate and they are true, but I'm nothing like him! I'm going to be King of Pirates just to show them up...and if I collect a few good riddles along the way who is it going to hurt?

Opinions of his fellow crew members:

Ridley: The first pirate to ever join my crew! He's a good guy at heart...at least to me. He can get a little bit out of hand and acts like he is captain, but he isn't that bad in a pinch, I guess it comes from the fact that he has seen a lot of problems growing up due to the fact that his father shot his mom in front of him.

Sage: Sage's cooking is the best! Sage is a good person...even if she does hit me sometimes. I think she is just trying to keep me in line when she hits me...although I don't understand why she feels like hitting me is the answer?

Zesiro: Zesiro a trust-worthy nakama! His strength and smarts make him probably the most reliable guy on the crew! He didn't want t become a pirate and even now he isn't too big of a fan of pirates, but he's coming around.

Hiro-Shu: A faithful guy. He supports you through thick and thin, just not verbally. He definitely wouldn't fail me! AND I SURE AS HECK DON'T THINK HE'S GOING TO DIE!

Enma: He's extremely smart, nice, and he prays to Lucifer. I don't think anything is wrong with that especially not with a good guy like him, right?

Maria: I just met her, but she is soooo COOL! I mean, she is a freakin' cyborg! I wish I was a cyborg...