Blades and Bones

Shigoro and Zesiro were still squaring off, dashing around each other in the water, only coming in for a brief second to exchange blows, a vicious crossfire of blows. Zesiro's swords stretched out, arcing through the air and glancing off of his opponent's toughened skin. Shigoro was a tough monster and one that Zesiro would definitely be struggling to take him down. Zesiro whipped his two swords around, bringing them together, clasping them at one point.

Zesiro rushed Shigoro. The two swords forming a single powerful point, but Shigoro didn't worry about it, bringing up a single hand he pushed the current forward and slowed Zesiro down for a brief second before chasing in as well. Shigoro lowered himself down and launched a series of powerful blasting punches, ripping into his opponent's body, tearing apart his opponent's body. Shigoro closed in, firing quick punches and making Shigoro heave his entire body back.

"Flaming Wheel Kick!" Shigoro pivoted about on the heel of his foot, locking it onto his opponent's neck and craning it down with a powerful muscular kick which forced Zesiro even lower. Shigoro surged down upon him. Zesiro rarely had to fight an opponent who was directly above him so this took him by surprise.

Forcing a half-baked technique to form instantaneously was stupid, but Zesiro had no other options at this point. He had to try it. He was in a bad position, both for his own techniques to work, but any martial artist would insist that this was a bad place to be especially this low in the pond. The water pressure would've built up by now increasing their weight, meaning that with Shigoro being above him, additional power would be behind his every blow.

And Shigoro had no intention of hiding this fact. Firing a single downwards punch right at Zesiro, the force of his punch shaped the power, the push of the water was twisted around, forming the front jaw of a massive shark. "One Shark Brick Fist!"

Zesiro rose up kicking off of the ground, trying to use the water's buoyance to the best of his ability, swinging his blades around from the ground and straight up into the air, aiming to slice the beast down the middle with a single surging cut. "Shark-Head Geyser!" Countering Shigoro's downwards blast, Zesiro created his own, one matching it in power and speed. The two beasts twisted themselves around each other, tearing at their shared flesh and ripping them asunder.

Their fierce techniques were increasing in difficulty. They just continuously exchanged blows, both rushing in after their attacks failed, intending to finish off their opponent in the midst of the rush. The two of them came to a sudden climax. Zesiro's blades swept upwards, carving near Shigoro's legs. Meanwhile Shigoro's vicious fists came bearing down on Zesiro. The two exchanged blows, forcing each other back and forth with no clear winner emerging from their exchange.

Zesiro now sunk himself low, sinking beneath Shigoro, causing the Great White Shark Fishman to gloat with glee, "are you finally learning your place?" he mocked as he flew up above him, twisting as he went to build up momentum and cut through the friction. Finally Shigoro slammed himself to a stop, opening a fist and leering down beneath him, Shigoro let loose a toothy smile.

Although what he saw was something terrifying. Zesiro didn't look worried at the fact that he had lost height to Shigoro, if anything the Fishman was just as proud and as brazen as Shigoro was, "Rising Whirlpool!" Zesiro spun around, twisting his entire body and creating a swirling surge of water which shot up free from it watery confines taking everything that was above Zesiro along with it.

Although that didn't include Shigoro, now carefully drifting to the side of Zesiro. The Great White Fishman apparently didn't feel satisfied with his last mockery and kept it up, "had we still been on dry land that technique would've undoubtedly hit me, but in the water. My speed is much, much superior!"

Shigoro launched himself forward at Zesiro, twisting around and bearing his knuckles.

"One Thousand Brick Fist!" Shigoro's fist scorched the water, which surrounded him, closing in on Zesiro in a matter of seconds. Of course, the brave Fishman wasted no time.

Zesiro whipped his entire body around, bringing his swords instantly caving in around Shigoro's punch before it could ever land. "Crab Grab!" Zesiro's blades dug into Shigoro's fist even when the great Fishman martial artist realized what was going on and recoiled his fist away.

Zesiro smiled at the warrior and proudly mocked him back this time, "I'm sorry to break it to you. But if you want to proud of your speed, you may want to speed your entire time as a pirate alongside one of the fastest ones there is." Losing out in a battle of speed was no longer surprising to the swordsman it had happened more than once in all of his spars with Mikoto.

As a result Zesiro had adapted to being the slower one out of the two, he had learned the ways to defeat someone faster than you wasn't to try and match their speed, but rather control where they could go, limit their option and bait attacks. And then make them pay dearly for a single one of their short-comings.

Shigoro was still recoiling, a little bit of blood trailing from his body, which was a clear indicator for Zesiro to follow-up. "Skewering Swordfish!" Zesiro lunged, covering leaps of distances in a short amount of time. Zesiro's twin blades soared forward forcing Shigoro to deflect the two piercing attacks downwards with an open-handed swat. "Barracuda Surf n' Slash!" Zesiro chased down his opponent, making two wide swings, one at Shigoro's feet and the other at his head.

Shigoro was a professional, blocking the upper attack with a watery surge while lifting his feet above the lower. With that Shigoro now had an opening to attack with it, pumping his two fists forward Shigoro found two paths. With which he slammed his fists into, knocking the air out of Zesiro's lungs while Shigoro set up a second kick, wheeling around and slamming the heel of his foot into the back of Zesiro's head.

The water gave way Zesiro found it hard to catch himself, prevent himself from falling into the depths unlike on land where there was solid ground for him to latch onto and sturdy himself with, down here he could feel himself beginning an eternal fall. Before Zesiro could steady himself in these uneasy waters Shigoro had already surged down upon him again. Burying his fists into Zesiro's body with an incredible ease.

Shigoro's punches rocked Zesiro down deeper and deeper into depths that would even drown Fishmen. Zesiro tried to break free, but if anything Shigoro's strength just showed him hopeless the fight had become. Shigoro pushed his opponent down, forcing him into the deeper water. Zesiro rolled up, trying to force one of his legs up and into his opponent's abdomen, forcing him apart with all of his strength.

Once they had a few more inches between them Zesiro could get his sword in and slice the guy in two with all of his might in an immediate fashion. He just needed a bit more space. Shigoro let one of his hands free, allowing Zesiro to get the distance necessary, but it gave Shigoro the distance he needed. Shigoro leaned and pummeled Zesiro with a single punch right into his face. Zesiro finally managed to break himself free, firing a powerful swing, but missing by a mile as Shigoro backed off.

"You're a disgrace to your crew!" shouted Shigoro as he immediately dove beneath Zesiro, stopping a few inches beneath him before sending a spiraling kick right up at his opponent, immediately nearly slicing his opponent in two, as his kick jammed itself deeply into his opponent's abdomen. Zesiro tried to keep his lunch down as his opponent's hefty kick slammed into him.

"You're a difficult opponent to take down," shouted Shigoro, "but that is where my praise for you shall end!" Zesiro twisted himself around, aiming to face off against his opponent.

Zesiro twisted his blades around, aiming at his opponent as he loaded his two blades up onto his two shoulders. His eyes locked onto his opponent. Zesiro ripped his two blades free, forcing a blast of water down the line, slicing its way over to Shigoro. But Shigoro was once again too far ahead of him. He dodged backwards, shooting a powerful kick through the air, creating his own shockwaves which destroyed Zesiro's hefty sword slices.

This lead into a charge from Shigoro, a full-frontal blast from the Great White Shark Fishman, the warrior came right at him, launching a powerful spinning kick right at his opponent which was close enough to take the hair off of Zesiro's head, if he had any.

This was a clash of titans beneath the waves. Neither one of them had the choice to back down, their own strong willpower and insane strength would allow them to back off. They just raced right in, completely exchanging blows. Zesiro's strong swords arced through the air, finding their locations cleanly with no worries forcing his blades through the air, continuously trying to push his opponent back.

Then again Shigoro was obviously pushing himself forward, he stepped forward and continuously threw hefty punches, landing powerful blows again and again as he rocked Zesiro back. The two fishmen stuck in mortal combat. There was no telling who would be the first to break although it was definitely beginning to look more and more like Zesiro.

Shigoro's fists were heavy hitting and even when they missed Zesiro by a few inches they still let loose a devastating shockwave, which made him think twice about returning into the midst of their fight. The wild exchange of blows definitely didn't seem to be turning out in favor. Then again what had he been expecting?

Gritting his teeth and throwing his entire body weight behind himself he rushed in once more, angrily glancing his blades off of Shigoro's slick body, all of his intention becoming to slay him with one big move. Shigoro's blades arced through the air right at his opponent, each one of those blades sending off all of their intentions to slay his opponent in one final move.

It only took one punch from Shigoro though to disrupt Zesiro's punch. A simple straight punch which echoed into Zesiro's rib cage, forcing the air out of his gills and making him recoil. Of course, a second blow was closely followed, spinning about and firing a powerful kick right at his opponent, slamming the kick into his opponent's gut and knocking him back.

Shigoro continuously chased in right after him, bringing his two palms together before releasing a powerful blast with his two compressed palms firing off a shockwave which ripped through the water and hammered Zesiro. And Shigoro kept it up, performing multiple pulses again and again to continuous rock his opponent and push him back. Shigoro chased him back firing a quick punch right at his opponent. Shigoro just continued to chase him down, hitting him hard and knocking him around again and again, clearly he wouldn't be dropping this assault for even a second. He just kept kicking his punches into another gear, hammering away at his opponent and throwing Zesiro back.

"I must apologize," Shigoro stated as he dove beneath his opponent, twisting around and looked upwards at his opponent. "I had intended to end this fight as quickly as possible. However, it seemed like you have every intention of dragging this on." Shigoro lowered himself down before immediately throwing an uppercut into Zesiro's body, throwing him out of the water and onto dry land.

"Water Armor," commanded Shigoro as he stepped onto dry land and clapped his hands together, summoning forth a wave which crashed around him coating him in his invulnerable armor.

Speed and Sound