(Recap of last chapter)
"No-one will claim this land. IT'S MINE!!" Mikaro roared as he threw the bottle against the wall, breaking it and ran out of the room in a rage.
"Good luck, whoever you are." Nira spoke of whoever was speeding towards the island.
Back with Ko, he sneezed. "Someone must be talking about me." Ko spoke as he started to get close to shore.
(End Recap)
On the shore of the island several guards who hadn't been getting much sleep lately looked out to the sea to see the morning sun. However on the horizon they could see something speeding in the water, towards their position.
"Hey, you think the navy finally sent someone to take care of Mikaro?" One guard answered.
"Perhaps." One guard answered as he brought out a pair of binoculars to see what was coming. The guards all remembered the day Mikaro, their lord, had found a strange fruit buried in the fields that day. Ever since he ate it, he became more bestial, more tyrant like. Everyone suffered from then on. Mikaro had raised taxes to their highest, causing a-lot of people to go homeless. The once prominent clan of map-makers of this island had been executed on Mikaro's orders. The reason he did this was because he believed they were all plotting against him. He massacred them all himself and left one alive to make maps for him then on.
"That poor girl." The guard spoke as he knew, Mikaro worked her non-stop.
The guard focused the binoculars and saw a small boat coming at them at full speed.
The guard began to panic and brought out a megaphone. "Hey, stop!!"
"What??" A voice yelled from the boat.
"I said stop. Your going to fast!!"
"I still can't hear you." But it was too late the speeding boat crashed up on shore and was now in a wrecked state.
The guards walked slowly towards the wrecked boat and thought the person who was driving it was dead. However the wreck started shifting and a man with white hair popped out. "Wow, not as much damage as I thought."
"Sir how did you survive that?" One guard asked as he helped the man to his feet.
"Survived what?" Ko asked as he stretched.
"The crash that just happened."
"What crash?" Ko asked groggily as he continued to stretch.
All the guards sweatdropped and just decided to drop it. "Sir..."
"First off, I have a name. It's Kodachi Gale and secondly where can I get some food around here?" Ko asked as he fished his cutless out of the wrecked boat.
(Diner in town)
The Guards watched in awe as Ko devoured several bowls of ramen and three roasts in a matter of minutes, they also cried as they knew this would probably deplete their salaries like Mikaro's taxes drained everyone's pockets in town.
Ko looked up from his food and spoke. "You guys want to get in on this?" The wind user offered as he downed another ramen bowl.
The guards all looked at each-other and shrugeed as they sat down and began to eat with who they thought was from the navy.
After Ko had finished he sat back and patted his now full stomach.
One of the braver guards tapped Ko on the shoulder and asked. "Are you here to take care of Mikaro?"
"Does he have any valuables I can take as a reward, say gold, riches, a ship?" Ko asked as he still needed to gather a crew together and a new ship to find his old one.
"Yes." One guard answered.
"Well sure then." Ko spoke as he pulled out his cutless and began to sharpen it with a whetstone he had pulled from his pocket.
(Scene change)
Nira had finally finished the map she had been working on and sat back. She had been working for Mikaro for approximately eight years since he had ordered her family killed off. She hated the man with a passion and would like nothing more then to beat him to death. Sadly however, the only things left to her from her parents, a pair of seastone tipped tonfa blades that had been taken by Mikaro and locked up in his treasure volt and only Mikaro knew the combination to it.
Mikaro had once been a pirate but took over this island after he killed off the mayor. Nira's family were master map makers. One of the main reason's Mikaro had come here. He wanted a map to the grande line and told them to make a map of the world for him. This did not settle well for Nira's famliy and they thought back. In the end, all of Mikaro's crew had died from the conflict except him and all of Nira's family were dead, except her. Mikaro claimed her as his own took her to work for him herself.
She remembered tha day well.
Flashback
Nira's father, Mori had been teaching her how to use a special energy that could be sent over object and form a mental picture in the user's head. Most people had called this a devil fruit ability, but it wasn't. It was simply pure energy manipulation. The main use of it was to make highly detailed maps. The second purpose of this energy was to help the user predict the movements and actions of others.
Nira who had been born blind, had this ability constantly going. It was true, she couldn't distinguish color, but she could make out shapes and auras of people. She would mainly pour energy over objects and it would make out silhouetted shapes in her head which were just as good as sight.
"Very good Nira. Just keep practicing." Nira's father spoke to her as she practiced drawing the map of the house they lived in.
A loud knock was heard at the door and Nira's father went to go answer it. The door was opened and a large man was at the door with several people behind him. Mikaro stood at the door.
Mori invited them in and Mikaro got straight to the point. "I need a map to the grande line and also I need you to make a map of the world for me, post haste." He demanded.
"I'm sorry but we have no such map and we will not make such a map." Mori said as he got up to let them out.
Mikaro grabbed Mori by the arm and spoke. "That wasn't a request, it was an order." He spoke.
Thats when everything went to hell in a hamster ball.
Nira's father tried to fight back but was killed outright by a pistol bullet to the head. Nira's mother, Irene was actually a seasoned warrior and was able to fight off Mikaro's crew. However she wasn't saved when Mikaro shot a bullet through her heart.
There sat Nira family-less and alone. There stood Mikaro he grinned as he walked over to her and put and put a hand on her shoulder. "You work for me now." He spoke as he picked her up by the neck and went to kill the mayor of this island and claim it for himself.
End Flash back
Nira leaned back in her chair. She wanted to leave but, knowing Mikaro, he would grab her by the neck and throw her back into the room she was constantly confined to. The door was also locked.
She looked around when she saw a small hole a mouse used to get in and out. It was rumored that this light house had tunnels running through it. No better time to check.
Nira grabbed at the hole and began to pull as hard as she could. Old wood gave way and she saw a tunnel just her size that lead somewhere. She crawled through it at a quick pace as Mikaro could come busting in the room she used to be in at any moment. She kept crawling until she came to a dead end. She wouldn't quit here. She would have her freedom. She rammed against the dead end until it gave way, leading her to the treasure vault.
She looked around and she saw sitting in the corned, her mother's tonfa blades that were left to her. she grabbed them and using them like shovels began to dig at the dirt floor of the vault. Mikaro wasn't smart when it came to things like making a steel floor.
After three hours of digging, she was out. the hole let her out right at the front door of the estate and she darted to town, hoping to find someone who could help.
Back at the map room, Mikaro had decided to tell Nira to make a new map for him. Sadly when he unlocked the door and opened it to an empty room. He got mad. "THAT WENCH IS DEAD WHEN I FIND HER!! AND SO IS THAT INTRUDER!!"He roared as he ran down to town, intent on wrecking something and causing havock.
(scene change)
Back at town Ko had agreed to take out this Mikaro tyrant and in exchange he would take any valuables he wanted.
"So why do you want this guy dead in the first place." The former captain asked as he finished sharpening his cutless.
"He's been taxing the town of all it's money and has turned the place into a literal slum. People can't afford food for their families and even we guards barely have any money. We would be greatful if you, sir navy captain would take care of this post haste." The guards implored.
"Navy? I don't work for them, I'm a pirate." Ko explained.
The guard's faces paled and they remained silent with shocked looks on their faces.
"Hey, I'll still do it. Just don't expect anything left after, I'm done." said Ko as he readied himself.
Outside, Nira was running as if her life depended on it. Far behind her, was Mikaro who looked like a humanoid lion and his eyes were blood red.
Nira kept running hard and gained some hope when she saw the twon gate. She started to sprint. Hopefully she would make it. Mikaro was only twelve yards behind her now and was catching up.
Back at the diner Ko had gotten directions to where this Mikaro resided and left to start and finish said man.
Ko opened the gate to the town, only for Nira to run past him. Ko turned his head to se Mikaro charging like a madman, flailing his sword back and forth. Ko reared his fist back and called out. "GaleGale Knocker"
Mikaro was knocked back hard as a tornado covered fist connected with his face and he ended up crashing into a fruit cart. Mikaro pulled himself from the squashed fruit and looked to see who had did that.
"Sorry aout that, just at that speed you would have ran me over." Ko called to the lion man covered in the remains of the fruit cart.
The guards came outside to see the commotion and saw Mikaro standing among the remains of a destroyed fruit cart and Ko standing a few feet from him.
One guard yelled out. "Thats Mikaro. Thats the man we want you to get rid of."
Nira who had been hiding around the corner looked to see that Kodachi really had sent Mikaro down with that punch of his.
Mikaro who had composed himself and was fuming at Ko even after his apology. "Guards. Arrest that man."
Ko blanched at this. "On what charges??"
Mikaro directed his stare towards Ko and roared out. "For assualting the current ruler of this land."
"Dude, you act like a king, when really your just a poser." Ko stated openly.
The guards just stood there and didn't do anything.
"Fine if you won't do anything, then I'll take care of him, myself. Jishi Gatsuga."Mikaro called out as his body changed to a large lion and charged, only to jump in the air and start spinning like a flying buzz-saw-like top that flew straight at Kodachi.
Ko just stood his ground and smiled. "Gale Skin."
The guards and Nira who were watching closed their eyes as they thought Ko would be ripped to shreds by a technique like that. The attack hit, but Ko's body just caved in and turned into air.
Mikaro who was shocked changed back to human form as he watched the body of Kodachi reform itself out of air.
"A devil-fruit user. By the looks of it, this one can control air and wind."Mikaro thought as he unsheathed the claymore from his back.
The blade looked like a giant dagger and going up the left side of the sword was a blue line.
"Luckily, I had a sword made with a seastone edge added to it." Mikaro thought to himself as the blade shined in the sun.
Mikaro charged again this time in his lion form with the sword in his mouth.
"Jishi Tsurugi Gatsuga." Mikaro did the same attack before except this time the blade in his mouth stuck out and spun with him similar to a blender blade spinning along with him.
Ko dodged to the right of the attack but got cut at his left shoulder and forearm by the sword.
"Sea-stone!!" Kodachi thought as he was shocked that his gale skin was cut.
Blood flowed from the wound and and stained his clothing.
"I thought so. No devil fruit user can fight against sea-stone. Your dead. You won't take this land from me and when I'm done, you'll be another notch under my belt and that sword of your's will be my new trophy." Mikaro spoke as he changed to a humanoid lion and charged with the sword in his hands.
Ko pointed his sword to the wind and spoke. "Chorus of the ten chirping birds."Ko vanished and Mikaro stopped his assault and looked around before his lion ears twitched at the sound of a whistle. He spun around and blocked the sword strike from Ko's cutless before it connected.
"You can't beat me, ya brat."Mikaro spoke confidently as he slashed Ko with his free clawed hand. The affects of the seastone were still active in Ko's wound and he couldn't use his fruit powers.
Mikaro smirked as he kicked Ko's weakened form to the ground. "All devil fruit users are the same. The sea and seastone itself will always be your undoing." Mikaro said as he raised his sword high to end Ko's life.
Nira wished she could do something to help this man but then she remembered that Mikaro's strenghth was from the NekoNeko no mi:model Lion. He was a devil fruit user as well. Nira looked down at her tonfa's and remembered they to were tipped with seastone. That meant Mikaro was just as vulnerable to seastone as the man he was fighting.
Without thinking, Nira ran as fast as her leg's would carry her and got her tonfa's ready. As soon as she got close enough she dugs the seastone tips into Mikaro's back as hard as she could.
Mikaro froze and let out a pained scream. Hre back handed Nira and held his back from the pain he was feeling. His body changed back to that of a normal human being.
"What the heck?? What did you do to me women?" Mikaro yelled as he dropped his sword.
Ko who had recovered a little looked to see that the girl had helped him. He sheathed his sword and summoned small tornadoes around his arms. " GaleGale Battering ram."Ko yelled out as he threw his fists forward and two small tornados collided with Mikaro, sending him flying.
Nira looked up and smiled a true smile now that Mikaro was gone. The guards and town's people who had been watching cheered for Nira and Kodachi. Kodachi smiled and then fainted.
(In town)
Ko had been moved by the guards into a hospital bed and Nira volunteered to watch over him. Outside the clininc Nira and Ko were in, everyone was celebrating at their new freedom from the grasp of that dictator of a lion.
Nira watched Ko stir in his unconcious state. In her mind she wondered why would he help them. If he was a pirate like the guards told her then he must have done this for a reason, like monetary gain. She looked to his sword that laid by his side and picked it up. She ran her fingers over the holes and wondered what purpose they served.
The map-maker then looked to his sleeping form. After pushing some more energy over him she was able to see he had white hair. A man with white hair was quite odd as usually old men only had that hair color after a great deal of aging.
She smiled. If he helped them out like he did, he can't be as horribel as pirates were known to be. She then noticed he had no crew with him. 'Could he be here looking for new crew members.' She thought.
An idea then hit her about joining his crew. Pirates did travel everywhere and got to see many things. If she went with him, she might be able to see everything with here abilities and literally map out the world in her head. A feet no one in her family had. That was a way she could honor her dead parents. To do something both of them thought impossible.
She would ask him if she could join when he awakened.
Far off on another island however in the midst of a battle field stood a tall individual. A man who stood in the remains of what looked a like a large battle that had just taken place. In his hand was a large cleaver like sword and on his face was a blue onmi mask with black horns that stuck out to the side. A dent on the sword glowed like an eye as it's owner surveyed the remains. All of the bodies that laid scattered were the remains of marines who thought they could conquer this man.
The being who the marines tried to defeat was none other then Jax Minuto. 'The demon of the north blue.'
His hair was brown and his brown eyes burned like yellow coals behind his mask. His blue shirt that he wore was stained with blood. His black pants covered in dirt and blood as were his shoes. The grey armor that covered his shirt was covered in blood.
"The Navy will pay for what they did to my family." Jax spoke as he turned and walked off in a random direction.
Phew that was a tough one for me to turn out. Please review. Seriously. Do it. I worked hard on this chapter and I want some feedback.
