Dr. Heart Stealer
Ch16: A Fight To The Death, Kazue and Jake Against Keith
"Can I be of assistance?" She asked her brother. He looked over to her shocked to see her not stuck in a wall of goo, as did Keith.
"H-how did you get out?" Both of them asked. Kazue simply jabbed her thumb in Law's direction.
"So can we get this battle started now?"
Jake shook his head and looked back to Keith. A look of determination washed over his face, Keith's face did the same thing.
"No way, Harmony. I got this. My pride is at stake." Jake said, with me behind him and raising an eyebrow. I tapped his shoulder, and when he looked back I punched his face. A few snickers came from Keith's direction, and I shot a glare over that way. I looked back to Jake and smiled.
"Well, let me see. First off, since when have you had pride? And second of all, I don't give a flying fuck that you don't want me to help you, I need to brutally murder this guy. You know, for trapping me in a wall of sickness, harming his own village that I promised to save, making Traffy sick, the list goes on, but I really want to kick his ass right now." I told him seriously. I pulled out my gun from my bra. Well I tried to, but sadly I noticed that I wasn't armed like I was when I entered that goddamn forest. Keith whipped out my pistol from behind his back.
"You seem to be missing something. If you want your gun back come and get it, my wife." Keith said playfully with a smirk. I glared holes into his body and Jake looked from one of us to the other.
"Give me back my baby. If you so much as put a scratch on her, I will kill you slowly and painfully... well more so than I was planning to originally." I cracked my knuckles and popped my back. I lowered in to a fighting stance. I turned my head to look at my brother, as Keith laughed at my threat. "Let me see your scythe." My voice was sturdy and pissed off. Jake looked at me his eyes wide.
"Hell no! Go get your own weapon!" he shouted angrily. I glowered at him, he didn't waver.
"Jake, I'm going to give it back in like thirty seconds. Just let me see it!" I yelled at him. He looked unsure but finally gave in to my begging. He handed me his scythe, it was black and glowed a light blue, the blade was serrated and the sharpness was genuine. The handle was black and made from what seemed to be treasure Tree Adam, I think it was stained black. I put my hand right above the tip of it and slowly moved my hand downwards.
"Perfect Copy." I said. Another scythe, looking the exact same, appeared floating in front of me. I grasped my illusion with my left hand, the one not being used to hold Jake's scythe, and handed Jake his back. My brother gaped at the weapon I just created, as did Keith.
"How did you do that?!" Jake and Keith asked at the same time. Then in sync they turned their heads to glare at each other before returning their looks to me.
"Um... may I just say that you two are more in sync than me and him." I said and pointed to Jake, "Do you like the scythe? I don't know if it'll work, but I've been practicing solid illusions. See?" I asked happily. Both me and Jake smirked. We turned back to our enemy.
I charged at the man of sickness and he carelessly moved to the side. I didn't mean to let him, but I was never trained with a scythe. I turned around using the momentum of the movement to strike him with the blade of the scythe. He spun out of the way, like he was dancing. Jake ran at Keith from behind and Keith jumped over him with a spin as he did so. He landed on both feet and formed him hand into a pale green goo. He walked up to Jake and tried to slap him, but Jake blocked the sicking goo with his scythe. The goo engulfed his scythe and traveled down the handle, slowly making it's way to Jake's hands. Jake dropped his scythe in favor of not getting sick. He kicked his foot out and knocked Kazue's gun out of his hands. Keith smirked at Jake's out stretched foot. With both hands he grabbed Jake's foot and allowed his hands to morph into the pale green goo that covered the walls. Jake let out a scream of pain. Once again there was a burning sensation. He tried to hop backwards to get the man to let go of his leg, but his hold was true. Jake ended up falling on the ground leg still in the air, being held up with the green goo.
"What the hell is that?!" Jake asked with a yelp. His leg felt like it was slowly turning to embers.
"Nothing much, just a sickness I created. Being a sick-sick man I can create any kind of sickness I want. Now it was a little harder for you and my wife, you see, you were immune to my main line of attack. My Typhoid fever did nothing to you two, I was quite surprised when I saw a healthy person wander into the village. Even more so when you came along." He said. "But my new sickness has no name, call it what you will. what it does is slowly burn your skin, and leaves your eyes so puffy they close. There are other side effects, but I have had yet to have a proper human to test it out on. I think that you will do nicely." He smirked evilly and the goo slowly made it's way up his leg, and only moments later it made it's way to his chest. Jake was breathing heavily and thrashing about, trying to get it off of himself. His eyes slowly became to swollen to keep open, and small tears dripped out of them. Proof of the pain he was feeling.
A gunshot was heard.
Kazue stood behind Keith, her pistol risen and pointed at his right shoulder. She was slowly moving her gun to point at his other shoulder, and she shot again. The goo went back to Keith's hands, and he threw Jake's leg aside. Jake was now lying on the ground clutching his leg, and howling in obvious pain. I glared at Keith as he laughed at me. During his laughing he flinched from pain.
"Aren't you funny, it's yet another reason why you are fit to be my wife. You are brave, even though you know you have already lost to me! Keep trying to look strong, but inside you are cowering in so much fear you want to die right now. Am I right?" He laughed, my glare intensified. He was almost right, I was trying my best to look strong, and on the inside I was cowering in fear. But he is wrong when he said I had already lost, that I was dying inside, or the worst one yet: fit to be his wife. A stupid, arrogant person like him is no way deserving of my amazingness. I looked over to his bullet wound, it was scabbed over already. My eyes widened in shock, and Keith began to laugh again, a flinch was still obvious as he did so.
"What did you really think that there wasn't a sickness that made a person heal faster? Sure there are some minor side-affects, but nothing major." He laughed, this time there was no flinch and I was scared. If he could do that, he could easily find a sickness to kill me on the spot! I shook my head, my eyes clenched shut. I was letting fear control me. I don't like fear, fear is a weakness, I hate weakness. It makes me feel useless and vulnerable. I opened my eyes and took a firm grip of my gun. I began to shoot blindly. This was not good, despite the tiny amount of self confidence I had just regained, I was still frightened. And when I get frightened I can't do shit. Then I heard a shout from somewhere in front of me. I knew it wasn't Keith, because the voice sounded like Jake. And if there was a sickness that could allow you to copy someones voice, I would no doubt attempt to wipe it out, for the sake of my own sanity.
"Hey! Stop shooting at me! You idiot, I can't move!" Jake screamed. I slowly opened my eyes and looked at him. I mumbled a sorry. My eyes flicked to the side, and I moved over to my left to dodge a string of green goo directed at me. I slid my feet from left to right, then right to left as if I was dancing with the strings of sickness shooting pass me. I was moving backwards away from my attacker and towards the wall. Not good. I fell down into a monkey roll towards my attacker as two lines of sickness went over my head where my sides had been. I came up from my roll and aimed my gun at his chest. I fired a bullet straight forward. He obviously saw it coming and moved to the side, it only scratched him. He heaved a sigh when I charged at him.
"You truly are too predictable." Keith sighed. I laughed and stopped moving. I looked him in the eyes and smirked.
"If you say so. Shall we see how you handle a trick of the light?" I asked, a full on smirk plastered on my face. He froze and looked at me. Then he smirked as well.
"Oh? How can an illusion be helpful in a fight to the death? I am sure that you know that a mere illusion won't hurt me." He threw his head back and laughed. I glared at his laughing form.
"Well giving up is for stupid blondes. I happen to be a smart blonde, thank you!" I said back to him. I closed my eyes and focused on my target. My bi-colored eyes shot open and I shot Keith up the arms and up his legs, temporarily handicapping him.
"Frozen Fire!" I yelled as the scene of an ice cave appeared around everyone. , Jake, and Keith were shivering. With a smirk I brought both of my hands above my head, and then threw them down to my sides with such force I had to bend my knees, so I wouldn't fall to my knees. A cry of pain was let out in front of me. I looked to were Keith was, scabs littered his arms, but they obviously hadn't completely healed if the blood-curdling scream was anything to go by. He looked into my eyes, pain was shown as clear as a summer day, betrayal was being yelled at in my face, and many other emotions ran wild in his deep brown eyes.
"You betraying bitch!" He shrieked. I willed myself not to look away from his eyes. I contorted the illusion to a beach. It was littered with rocks and crabs, seashells were placed along the seashore, the florescent sun was the brightest thing ever to be seen. Keith looked around in awe.
"Look while you can Keith, because your dreams will become your worst nightmares!" I grinned an evil grin. I put my hands together and looked up to the sky. Then I put them to the sky. A darkness seemed to engulf the sun and happiness it spread, the ocean waves beat against the shore ruthlessly, the once small puffy clouds that floated over head became black with disrepair. I threw my left hand down to my side. A large wave rose from the dark depths of the water and dashed to reach Keith, then the wave crashed down on him. That was going to suck for two reasons, one: he is a devils fruit user, and two: the speed of the crashing wave had to have made the small water droplets seem like miniature daggers. But to my misery my fake wave turned a bright green. It was only seconds later that the whole area became green with sickness. The green stain was traveling up my arm now.
"What's this? It seems your illusions come out of your hands. Are they attached to you somehow?" He asked with a smirk. I widened my eyes in shock, even I didn't know that. I began to cough, and my illusion began to waiver. I didn't let it. But instead of my stormy beach, it was transformed into a massive spiders nest. And before you ask, yes I am afraid of spiders. My coughing halted when I saw a black widow, the size of a small u-haul truck, come at Keith from behind.
"Hey, why did you stop coughing? Are you okay?" Keith asked me, I answered with the silence of a statue. With a shake of his head he stood up, but not with out wincing in pain. Although despite the pain he walked over to me and waved a hand in my face. I simply fell to my knees. The spider slowly made its way over to us. I scooted backwards, and Keith gave me a weird look. Then I heard Traffy shouting.
"Kazue-ya! What wrong with you?! It's just a spider!" He shouted, I didn't move an inch as the beast got closer to me. "Are you afraid of spiders?" He asked with a slight laugh, "So pathetic." this time I snapped out of my trance. I looked up to see Keith with a worried expression. Then I realized, he was close enough for me to shoot in the chest, or head, but it was to close to his eyes for me not to be seen. With a deep breath I stood up on shaky legs. My illusion still going haywire. I heard Keith sigh a breath of relief.
"I'm glad that you're okay." He said smiling. "You know I really don't want to fight my wife, although you will need to be punished later." He held out his hand for me to take. I looked into his deep brown eyes, my own feigning guilt. Then again his were faking sympathy. As they say, in Rome you do as Romans do. How is this any different? I slowly put my hand in his. He smiled falsely as I did so. "Good let's go back to the village together." he said,closing his eyes in fake happiness. That was my cue to kill. I brought my gun up to his heart and shot him twice, leaving me with one bullet. He coughed up blood onto my dress and fell backwards.
"You bitch... who would have thought I would have fallen for an idiot like you..." were his last words. I turned around and walked over to Traffy, who had yet to get up from his spot on the ground. I knelled down next to him.
"Come on Traffy, we have to get back to the sub." I gave him a gentle smile before getting back up to help my brother walk. But then half way to my brother, I remembered one of my original purposes of coming here. To look for the people who tried to help the village and went missing. I looked around me and my eyes fell onto a heap of people. I walked over to them, all of them were male, but otherwise shared no similarities. Minutes later they were all waking up. Not much later did they realize that they were in a cave. They began to get up, panicked and frightful.
"Well hello there fellas! I have found you half dead, and have decided to take you back to that little village where you started your journey to kill the man of sickness. And may I just say, too bad I killed him first!" I gloated. I walked over to Jake to help him up, and assist him with walking. Traffy stood up on his shaky legs and followed me. The men I found in the cave followed suit.
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We all arrived at the village, and when they saw us a party began. Sake and traditional food was brought out for enjoyment, at least three months worth of food was already devoured. Villagers were asking the men, who had tried to help them so long ago, how they were brought to defeat by the forest. At that time I stood up.
"I'm sorry to ruin the party and all, but I think you should all know that there was no mystical forest spirit." When I said that the villagers and some of the men I saved widened their eyes, "It was Keith... using his devils fruit abilities as a sick-sick man, he swept everyone on this island with illnesses." I finished and sat back down.
"Oh yeah, speaking of Keith, was he the one who trapped you in that wall?" Jake asked me. I nodded and began to tell him how it happened
~X~Flashback~X~
'I can't wait to meet you... Miss Zepheron' it said, the voice was dark and frighting. It was very low and a hidden evil could be heard seeming to dance in it. I brushed it off as a trick of the wind and shivered, as I walked into the dark and foggy forest. Evil seemed to jump at you each time you moved. Then the voice spoke up for a second time.
'But can you make it through my forest?'
"A good challenge never goes unaccepted." I responded to the voice. There was a low crackling sound.
'Good, I don't get people who like challenges, often.' there was more crackling, like wood being stepped on. I laughed at the voice, and spread out my hands to my sides.
"Okay. But can you handle an illusion in your forest?" I asked the voice, only getting a raven's shriek in response. I let the illusion take over the forest. It was slowly beginning to take form as I walked through the forest. The dark trees that scrapped against my skin, became over grown cherry trees, that cried soft pink tears. A warm breeze swept by me taking my hair and playing with it, before running to leave with the cherry blossoms. I smiled and closed my eyes.
'It looks like you can play with my dark scene... I hate the sun.' it said. I cracked open my eyes, but instead of the sunny area I had made before, I was faced with the gloomy forest slowly eating away at my illusion. My eyes snapped open as I tried to stop the darkness from interfering, but it easily overpowered me. 'Too bad you aren't as fun to play with as I thought you would be.' I stopped in my tracks when I heard footsteps from behind. My head moved to look back into the darkness, only to have my eyes widen at the person smirking behind me. There clad in black was Keith, his smirk never wavering.
"You get to be my bride, the fact you really have the guts to come here like you own the place, has made me more than in love with you. You understand don't you?" He laughed, and as he did his hands morphed into a green goo. I was very disgusted with the slime in his hands. He pointed at me and the slimy emerald goo encased me like a straight jacket. I struggled, but it only gripped me tighter. I was losing oxygen now,and soon there would be no choice but to give in.
"You bastard! Let me go! If you love me set me free, damn it! Ever heard that expression, dimwit!?" I yelled, although my attempt of convincing him was in vain.
"No, no I haven't. And I don't think I will, I like you how you are now. Totally at my mercy, and completely helpless." He said. I continued to struggle, but I ran into the same problem I had earlier.
"Stop it, and let me go!" I screamed, he chuckled at my failed attempts to break free.
"No. come on you and I can go to the cave now, I'm sure that you know about it. It's really my home. I quite like it there, no one in this village or any on this island have the guts to actually come near it. That's another reason I like you. You have guts that stupid men don't." He rambled on about how I was amazing, and how I would really like it in his little cave, sometimes mentioning about how as his bride I would never have to leave his side for 'pirate-scum'. We arrived at the cave in less than five minuets,and I realized after we were half way into the cave that I had been going the wrong way the whole time I was in the forest. When I had snapped out of my thoughts I noted that we were in a large room that had the most bizarre green lights. Not counting that the walls were covered in green goo were producing light there were some other lights around what looked to be a table made of rocks and a rather comfy looking bed.
"This is my home, and now it's yours to. Do you like it?" Keith asked me, I just glared at him. He frowned. "If you don't like it, then you can just look at it from afar." He said. That' s when he threw me against one of the green walls. I thought it was going to be painful, but it wasn't. Instead it was like landing in a warm bath tub. Well not after I got my abilities that is. i tried to open my eyes, but when I tried they felt like they were going to be burnt to a crisp. So I stuck with keeping them closed. Eventually while I was in the wall I drifted off into a peaceful slumber. My dreams revolving around Traffy and the Heart Pirates. The main thing in my dream was the fact I had to take care of Traffy where he got sick. And don't ask why because I don't know either, but I was forced to wear Traffy's hoodie and shoes. Now you might be asking about pants, but Traffy's hoodie was long enough for me to fashion into a shin length dress. Well I was wearing black tights... but I really doubt those count as pants. But then an enemy came and I had to go help fight. Luck for dream me, Bepo was staying behind to help with everyone's wounds. So I had him help Traffy for me, so I could go fight. I was about to come back to the submarine when I collapsed. That's when I woke up and mumbled the most embarrassing thing in my life,'Hm?Master-sama, I thought you were still sick... where's Bepo he was taking care of you for me'. Then he just had to go and smirk at me. 'I'm awake aren't I?' Was the smart question I came up with. I asked him to disregard what I said, but being the annoying person he is, he said no, and teased me at the same time! I was blushing. I got up and ran over to where Keith and Jake were. I began to fight Keith and the battle got underway, me coming out as the winner.
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I ended my story, leaving out my dream of course. Traffy would never let me live that down. The talking once again began after the tension about Keith was cleared by one of the little children in the village.
Traffy looked over to me. I looked back to him and away from Jake, when his stare became to intense.
"What is it Traffy?" I asked. He smirked and dug around in his hoodie before he handed me a piece of paper. It was a wanted poster... of me... the picture was of me holding me gun out in front of me, angled slightly down so you could see me face, my bangs flew off of the right side so you could see both my pink eye and my red eye. I had a bow on my head, and ice behind me. Obviously I was using frozen fire when this picture was taken. Under the picture was the template for an average bounty poster.
WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE
Fuchowa* no Kazue
15,000,000
"Welcome to the crew Kazue-ya." Law said while smirking.
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A/N:Hello again! Did you like her wanted poster? I have been waiting so long to get this up!
*Fuchowa: Disharmony. And for those of you who looked up her name, which means harmony, I find this funny and I hope you do to. I just couldn't find something that fit! I was debating between Discord and something else I don't currently remember. But still I think it's funny her epithet is Harmony the Disharmony. Also, it's time for my random question! What did you think about Kazue's dream of Law? I am super happy right now. I am having writers block with the next chapter, I have it planed out... but I can't think of how to word it. Oh yes, before I forget, I won't be able to post for two weeks after the nineteenth. I will be traveling, and my family that I'm visiting gets mad when I play 'crappy flash games' on their computer, and according to them fanfiction is a crappy flash game that I can play on my phone. So my apologizes readers. Until next time, keep being awesome.
