Pirate101 VI- The Wild West
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Chapter 5- Kun Kang Cave
James sat on his bed. He needed to calm down, relax, stop thinking so hard about stopping Moo Manchu. He didn't know whether to trust that evil fiend, if he would actually go to the cave that day, when James wasn't expecting it, or if he would simply keep his word and not go until at least tomorrow. Moo Manchu was most unpredictable in any case, let alone a case as dire as this. James needed to stop him, but how? He couldn't calm down, not when the most powerful black mage of MooShu was after Kun Kang's Eyes of Death. Emma walked up to him and sat down next to him.
"Calm down, Jim," Emma told him. "I'm a little pissed that I didn't get to kill that bastard Kyosuke myself, but oh well. Moo Manchu doesn't fear you, so he's giving you time. That would be how someone like him would think, right? I mean, he's the type that thinks he's better than everyone else, I know that much. Use the time Manchu has given you and rest."
James smiled. Emma could sometimes relax him. This girl was an angry hot-head one minute and a wise preacher the next. She was truly amazing. The red-haired pirate closed his eyes and laid back onto the bed. He took two deep breaths and slowly drifted to sleep.
James woke up to the sound of Emma's voice. Not how James would have liked it, though. Emma was shouting in his ear through a megaphone to get his ass up. Truly peaceful.
"Where the hell did you get that bloody megaphone from?" James asked Emma.
"DOES IT CONCERN YOU?!" Emma replied, through the megaphone of course. "JUST GET IN THE SHOWER AND GET READY TO GO TO KUN KANG CAVE!"
James sighed. "Yeah, yeah. Whatever..."
Emma punched James in the head. "DON'T GIVE ME THAT FUCKING ATTITUDE! SHOWER! IN! NOW!"
James stood up and walked into the shower. He muttered under his breath. "Bitch."
Of course, Emma's hearing was, to say the least, excellent and James had to shower with a black eye and nasty bruises all over his body, not to mention those horrible cuts. James sighed. He had finished his shower and was well aware that he should bandage up as he was losing too much blood. What a drag. This would probably leave a scar or two. No, more likely about thirty scars. Oh well. Better than being in life-threatening conditions. He should be able to fight at the cave today. He had his crew load up the ship while he headed down to see Rooster Cogburn.
"Moo Manchu, huh?" Cogburn asked. "That's pretty dangerous. I'll contact the local navy station to ensure you won't get any interference. Where is this cave?"
"Big Sky," James replied. "North-western side."
Cogburn nodded, sighed and made a decision. "I'll tag along, to help out. I mean, five of your comrades are out of action so I'll join temporarily for now, is that all right with you?"
James smiled. "Sure. The Sheriff of Cooper's Roost Skyway should do nicely as a temporary replacement for one of my fallen crew members, counting Emmett, maybe Alfonso or Gaspard?"
Cogburn chuckled. "Well, I'll get ready. By the way, a white troggy came down here a couple of days before ya came here, any idea who he might be? He was looking for ya."
James' face turned red with embarrassment. How could he forget one of his crew members? "Yeah, he's an old crew member that... err... I kinda forgot existed. His name's Yule Trogg. How did you understand him?"
"One of my deputies can speak Troggish, so yeah, it was kinda convenient. He'll be at the Silver Spur Saloon, as Mr. Peacock was holding out a room for him."
James remembered that one of the rooms in the Silver Spur were being held out for somebody. So, that somebody was obviously Yule Trogg.
James entered the Silver Spur Saloon, where he was greeted by his crew. James greeted them back and then went upstairs to Yule Trogg's room. James knocked on the door. A white troggy opened the door. This troggy wielded a white spear with a fir tree leaf attached to the holding-end of a spear and wore a Santa Claus hat. It was Yule all right. James greeted his old friend in Troggish and had him follow him and the rest of the crew to The Red Falcon. It was time to go to Kun Kang Cave.
James entered the cave, his crew guarding the door. Moo Manchu was standing before him. He turned around. James had already ensured that that Manchu was the only one actually inside the cave. He ordered his companions to take care of those ninja pig guards. Manchu gave him a flask. James used his golden eye to see that the flask contained Kun Kang's potion to give one the Eye of Death, or the Shigan, and nothing else. James smiled and drank the potion. He felt his eyes ache, even the blinded one as the undamaged eye became a full Shigan. He looked into Manchu's eyes. Manchu had the eyes, but they didn't kill James. That's when something snapped inside of James' mind. The right Shigan is used to resist against other people's Shigan, while the left is used for killing people. Due to the fact that James lost his left eye's sight in the fall from Skull Island to Celestia during the battle against The Grim Reaver, he can't kill anyone with his new Shigan, but he can resist against other Shigan with his right eye.
"I just wanted a fair fight against a great warrior like you, Hawkins-san," Moo Manchu explained. "Is that not understandable?"
James smiled. "No, it's very understandable. So, let's get on with it."
Manchu fired a beam of green light at James, but the Red Pirate dodged with a single backflip and charged towards the almost invincible dark wizard. Manchu chuckled and created a wall of green smoke in an attempt to kill James, but James just ran straight through it with no effect and stabbed Manchu in the stomach with Akaken. James saw the bull's widened Eyes of Death as he coughed up blood and dissolved into green smoke, leaving only his clothing behind. Just as James thought he had won, he heard a raspy voice echoing off the walls of the cave.
"You thought you killed me...? Ha!" the voice said. "My mojo can save me from any cause of death by transforming me into green smoke... I, Moo Manchu, am so very alive! I'll admit, you're skills must be great if all you need to resist against my mojo wall is the Shigan of Resistance... there in your right eye. So here's a little reward for managing to stab me in a... would-be vital spot. The Bisons you seek... are in this very skyway... here in Big Sky! My mojo will give you their location... sayonara."
A/N: Sorry for the long wait, I went on holiday, then my computer broke and it was only fixed by the time I got back from my other holiday XD! Well, anyway, I've come up with a new routine. This is the fifth chapter of this installment of my original series, so I will do five chapters of the Part 2 of Nroque18's 'The Dogs of War' (which I am taking over and yes, (s)he has given me full rights of the story and characters) and then do one chapter at a time of each story from there! Sorry for any inconvenience :)