Hey and thank you to all my reader's, at the end of this chapter I'll put a list of The Dark Death Pirates and the positions of the Living Tree's.
Chapter 23: Paths to Destiny
Stein Madro was a claim man, but at the moment the quit nature of Jeremiah Cross,was getting on his nerves. He was wishing to him self for something to happen when the door opened.
" Captain, the man Black Crow sent is here." said Tofca as he walk back out of the room. Turning to Cross Stein signaled to the man.
"Would you like to meet my newest crewmate Cross?"
Cross nodded his head and stood up. "Yes"
Leaving the room and heading down to the spot where Sinner's Judgment was docked. There in front of the boat stood a giant man.
He was at least nine feet in height, with gelled back dark blue hair that went to his shoulders. He was a muscular man, wearing an torn up black marine uniform. The man's eyes were closed, making some weaker people think he was asleep standing up.
Looking around the area, Stein could only see three of his crew. Kie or Ring Master was smiling behind his half mask as he leaned against a tree twirling his cane. Ashton sat on the railing of the ship eyeballing the giant man as he just stood there.
Then there was his green skinned doctor, standing with his arms cross close to the new man. Madro walked up to the man.
"Show me your palm."
The big man opened one eye, and held up his right hand palm facing Stein. There on his palm was a tattoo of a seven. Madro smirked.
"So your Gavel Don man number seven of Black Crows follower's , eh?"
" Yes and you must be The Nemesis Stein Madro, but who is that weak looking man beside you?"
All Cross did to resound to that comment was adjust his glasses, but then Gavel grabbed his chest in pain.
" What the-" mumbled Gavel as he pulled his hand away and looked at it. His palm was soaked in blood. Don then felt something on his shoulder and his eye's actually widened see the white hair man on his shoulder.
Cross shifted his head slightly and Gavel saw the black cross symbol died in his hair.
"Y-your Jeremiah Cross, he man who's bounty is only a stone's throw always from our leader." said Gavel Don.
Stein started to clap "Oh great show! Loved it I give it an A-, great acting bad ending."
Gavel eyed Stein " You're a crazy old fool Madro."
"Why thank you, now from here on out you will call me your leader not Black Crow!"
"B-but-"
"NO buts I'm not shore if Crow told you but once you join my crew-" Stein's face grew even more sadistic "- the only way to leave is by death."
Gavel Don started to sweat a little bit. What kind of man did Black Crow send him to.
Stein turned around and looked at the three members of his crew that were out.
" Boy's! Send out the invites and then get ready!"
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Endo was lost, he entered a building five minutes ago and ran threw the hall's. The only problem with that was…..well se sucked with directions.
" Now if I were my crew where would I be….. The kitchen…no….. in bed…..no…….crow's nest……no….the boat…..yes that's were they are." looking around " Now where's the boat?"
" You don't need to know that…. And it seems my test is last."
Turning around Endo saw a man standing at the opposite end of the hallway. The man had black hair, and eye's.
Also covering the rest of his body was a giant red trench coat, who's collar went up past his mouth. Strapped to his back were to giant battle axe's.
" I'm Ira the Wrath the final sin, prepare to die!"
Grabbing the two axe's Ira charged, and brought his axe's down were Endo was standing. The teen leaped away narrowly avoiding the axe's.
Charging Endo again, Ira brought the axe's down for a second time.
"Uddo Uddo Guard!" Two wooden shields formed themselves onto Endo's arms blocking the axe's slightly.
Ira growled and took one of his axe's out of the wooden shields, and leaving the other to keep the wooden teen in place.
Swinging the axe around he nailed Endo with a powerful hit, making the teen fly into a wooden wall. But instead on hitting it hard, Endo disappeared into it.
" What the!?" yelled Ira
" Awesome! This is soooooo cool!" celebrated Endo as his head formed out of the wood.
"Wha-what- what are you?" asked Ira
" Logia Devil Fruit user." said Endo as he threw a punch. But instead of a regular hook, a giant wooden arm came out of the wood and nailed Ira's hole body.
" What's this?" mumbled Endo as he flexed the giant wooden arm. Then a goofy smile appeared on his face. Pulling his head into the wall he focused and steeped out. Breaking the roof off the house, Endo opened his eyes.
The muti colored teen now stood about 20 feet tall and made out of pure wood. He looked down and saw the form of Ira looking up at him.
"So what in you have a Devil Fruit, I ate one two it's call the Hidai Hidai no mi and watch what it can do!"
Grabbing his two axe's Ira held them out to his side. Endo watched as the two axe's started to grow bigger and bigger. The two axe's stopped growing around the size of Endo.
"How can you carry those things?"
Ira smirked " There special, to me there weigh less but to others there normal."
He swung the two giant axe's at the wooden titan. Endo held out his arms and stopped the weapons, since he was made of wood he didn't feel the blades cutting into his hands.
" Right now my friends should have killed your crew members, just like I'm about to do to you! Si si si si si!" yelled Ira
Titan Endo's eye's flashed a dangerous red, moving quickly he grabbed the handles of the axe's. He lifted them up and brought his foot down on Ira crushing the man to death.
Lifting his foot and seeing the crushed Wrath on his foot. He mumbled gross and flicked him off .
Endo concentrated again and steeped out of the titan of wood, letting the thing fall back into wooden planks and what not.
" Don't put down my crew.."
" Hey kid!" said a voice from his side, Endo turned around to see a deadlocked man standing there.
"What you wanna fight?"
"No."
"Then who are you then?"
" Marine Vice-Admiral 'Mass Claw' James Adorian nice to meet you."
" Marines….!"
"Don't worry I'm not going to arrest you, just want to ask a favor."
"What is it?"
" I need to do something. So if you see a guy with pink hair, and a navy simple on his shirt please help him."
Endo nodded his head and walked away.
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Cross walked around the body's of his subordinates, mumbling to himself.
"A Pity, a pity shuck disregard for life.." he shook his head.
Pulling out his sword he carved an X into his palm, not wincing in pain.
Walking down the row, Cross placed his palm onto a part of each of there body's. Ira's head, Gula's stomach, Luxuria's chest, Acedia's palms, Invidia's left arm, Avaritia's right arm, and Superbia's legs.
" Arise children of demons, ARISE!"
There was a bright glow and then a flash. All Cross did was stand there, with his arms crossed.
After the light cleared, there stood the Seven Sinners alive and well all kneeling in front of Cross.
" Were sorry we failed you Master."
" It's okay my children, now we will begin your training."
The seven nodded, and stood up fallowing Cross. From the tree's 'Mass- Claw' James watched with a frown on his face.
Why is Jeremiah Cross targeting people again?
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A man and his friend were riding in a cart to deliver goods to a town, talking to one another. The first one turned his head to watch the road,
"So how's the family Gor-" just then he felt a warm liquid get splashed onto his face. Turning to look at his friend, he started to freak out and steered the carriage off the road, tipping it over.
Why he freaked out well, the only thing sitting next to him was his friends legs.
" Oh! Why did you freak out? Don't you love the site of blood!" Said a man as he walked over to the driver.
Right there the carriage driver knew he was going to die. The man standing in front of him was freaky.
He had long white hair yet he looked in his twenties, and with a wicked smile. His upper body had no shirt, and his pants were black torn samurai pants.
But what freaked the defenseless man out were his weapons. He had giant guillotine like blades on sword handles in each hand, fused to his back was and even bigger guillotine like blade pointing up.
One of the weapons in his hands was covered in blood. He raised his weapon and brought it down splitting the man in half.
The white haired man grinned even more, licking the blood off the blade.
" Taste like fear, I love fear!" yelled the man into the sky, when a piece of paper fell on his fall.
"Hmmm….. What's this?" taking the paper off his face
Dear, Ryuu the Guillotine
Stein 'The Nemesis' Madro is gathering a 'group' that fits his needs to rule, there will be plenty of 'fun' in the travel's meet in the location at the bottom.
From- Ashton 'The Wolf' Sata
Ryuu read over the short letter again and smirked, shoving the paper into his pocket.
" Look's like I'm moving up in life.." turning to the corpses "…Later boy's!"
With that said still holding his weapons Ryuu bent his knees and jumped….far.
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Sitting on a barrel in a dark ally was a woman in a long black dress, with one side showing a lot of leg. This woman was a girl that men would die to have, she was beautiful. Long black hair, pale porcelain skin, and deep red eye's.
Her lipstick was black with a little red spot on it. Her hands had black gloves covering them, and her shoes were black boots that came to the knee with heels.
A big burly looking guy came strolling down the alleyway, and one of his eyebrows raised when he saw the beautiful woman, he grinned to him self.
" Hello baby, wanna come back to my place for a little fun!?"
The woman looked him up and down, and removed a glove. She walked over to him, and placed a hand on his face. Then slowly brought hers extremely close to his, and whispered to him.
" I would if you were still alive." she then turned around and let the man fall to the ground.
She heard a crunch under her foot and looked down, to see a piece of paper.
This one said the exact same thing except it was addressed to 'Sarin the Black Widow', she nodded her head, placed her glove back on, then whistled.
Out of the shadows came a five foot tall, ten foot long tarantula (spider). Sarin petted the giant spider then hopped on top of it sitting down.
" Let's go Kumo, looks like someone want's use for there crew."
The giant spider nodded and climbed up the wall on to the roofs.
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" Hey Joe look at this nerdy guy! He doesn't belong in a place like this."
" Yeah your right Jimmy!" said another guy as he dumped a beer onto a smaller guys head.
The guy he dumped the beer on was around nineteen years old. He was a frail looking man, with a bandana tied around his head, and big orange colored glasses over his eyes. The side's of his glasses had metal to his skin so no matter what angle you look you can't see the eyes. He wore a tattered tan coat, and worn out blue jeans with sandals.
" Hey Joe lets get'em."
"Yeah!"
A few minutes later the nerdy looking guy was out on the street with blood trailing from his mouth. The man stood up, and brushed him self off. Taking a rag from his pocket, he whipped the blood from his mouth.
Walking down the street the man waited a few miles before he said something to himself.
" It's troublesome to fight a pointless fight…." he mumbled and then pulled a black box out of his pocket, flicked it open and pressed the button inside.
Boom
The explosion shook the street, people ran in terror, the man in the glasses walked calmly threw the streets.
"…… doesn't mean I wouldn't win."
He skillfully maneuvered threw the crowd and then jumped onto a small boat. He looked around and noticed a note pinned to his door. He tore it off and glanced at it was addressed to 'Bomu Tanat AKA C4'
" Seems like some one want's my talents…"
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Madro stood next to Gavel waiting patiently on a deserted Island, the rest of his crew around him.
" Captain what doing here?" asked Rikishi the giant
" I'm going to sort out the weak…. With a little help from a gift that Black Crow gave me."
Gavel Don turned his head to him with his eye's still closed " You mean your finally going to give it to me?"
"Yes but wait... here comes are guest!" said Stein as he motioned to the dozen ships now docking.
"Kie…. Ring Master, will you two do the honors! Laughed Madro as he motioned for Kie to steep onto a rock that looked over every thing.
The red and black haired man laughed to get all the criminals attention.
" Lady's and Gentleman you have come to join the Dark Death Pirates I am Kie Mealon…"
" …and I Ring Master and we are the Entertainers of the crew!"
" So will you all you please circle around are friend Gavel Don over there….. Don please come into the open!"
Gavel walked out into an open space. Some of the recruits murmured to each other, but they still circled around the man.
" Now ladies and gentleman the leader himself Stein Madro!"
With that Stein walked into the opening carrying a fruit and tossed it to Gavel.
"That is the Aigou Aigou no Mi (Moan Moan Fruit) and your old boss requested I give that to you…..now Tofca, Kie, Ashton, Nama, and Rikishi please come here and join the circle!"
"What why captain?" asked Nama
" If your strong enough then there's no need to worry now in the circle!" yelled Madro
The crew nodded and got into the circle, Stein then looked up at Gavel.
" Chow down"
Gavel Don ate the fruit whole and then swallowed, the blue hair man groaned and grabbed his head. He let off a energy pulse, and a mostly all the circle dropped to there knees. With blank look on there faces mumbling to themselves, that they don't want to fight any more.
Stein looked around and expected what he saw, his already pick crew member's were all standing. He looked at the rest and only saw three standing.
"Aw welcome to the crew!" Stein laughed as he walked over to them. He stood in front of each one, but he made shore with the women that her glove was on.
" Ryuu the Guillotine bounty 415,000,000 million beli welcome."
" Can't wait till we can have that 'fun' you mentioned….Captain." said the white hair man.
Stein moved onto the women in black " Sarin the Black Widow bounty 470,000,000. Glad your beauty can join us…" Stein heard a hiss from behind her and looked to see a giant spider "… That must be you spider Kumo."
" Yes it is and he's a great boy…..to me." Sarin laughed to herself as she petted the tarantula. Stein moved onto the boy with the glasses.
" Bomu Tanat or should I call you C4 bounty 310,000,000 glad to have your genius on the crew."
" As long as I get to use my talents." mumbled Bomu
Stein smiled as Ashton ran over to him " Captain, why did all those other people just give up."
Stein signaled to Gavel " The fruit Gavel ate gives him the ability when he talks to a person with a weaker fighting spirit, they lose there's."
" But he hasn't said anything yet?"
" I know when first eaten the eater gives off a pulse and anybody within a mile ratios with a weaker spirit don't want to fight any more. So that means that anybody left standing has an equal or stronger spirit than him!"
" Bt why did you do all this?" questioned Ashton
" Weed out the weak, if any of my crew members don't have the will to fight like that man.." Stein pointed to Gavel Don "… Then they don't deserve to be on my crew. Got it!"
" Yes Captain."
" Good now get your gun, and kill those weaklings."
Ashton nodded and loaded his tommy rifle, Stein turned to Ryuu,
" Ryuu you wanted fun, now have it, help Ashton here kill these weakling's!"
Ryuu smiled wickedly and hefted his giant weapons onto his shoulders " Yes Sir!"
Stein smiled, he was going to like that guy. The Dark Death captain walked smoothly to his ship, when Sarin and Bomu filled in at his sides and the spider Kumo walked behind them.
" Sooo Captain why are you killing the those nobody's?" asked Sarin with a lusty voice
" We need the money each one of those people have a hefty bounty on there heads."
Bomu nodded his head "Smart.."
"Glad you see it my way."
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James was thinking to him self, looking at the new poster's for the Living Tree Pirates when…..
" HELLO MY WAYWARD CAPTAIN!" Yelled Hiro as he struck the nice-guy pose.
James eye twitched " Hiro drop the act no ones in this area."
Hiro got out of his pose and walked coolly over to where James was sitting and sat next to him. Hiro pulled down his mask to reveal his real face. Hiro's face from a girls view was sexy. His face had a long scare going from ear to ear and across the bridge of his nose. Starting from his scar there were two more scars under his eyes. The scars make him a have a crying look.
" How's your injury's?"
" There fine James that Living Tree doctor knows what she's doing, and she's kinda cute." said Hiro
" Good, good Hiro how long has it been?"
" Seven years James, when you where still a captain. You found the criminal Iro the Wander a man with a 480 million bounty on his head laying on the streets near dead, fixed him up and let him go free."
James nodded and said " And Six years since that very criminal changed his identify, and joined under me as payment. Soon after that we became friends."
James the turned to Hiro " Who was it that left you on the street like that?"
" Jeremiah Cross…"
James rubbed his chin "As I though…. Hiro there's something I want to tell you.."
"What is it?"
" Cross is back."
Hiro's eye's widened for a second and then his eyebrows furrowed. He stood up and placed his mask back over the bottom of his face.
"Captain it seems there's work to do."
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" So guy's were to next?" asked Endo as he scanned over his crew.
Kaz raised his hand " The times near that underground race starts...it's something to do."
A question mark appeared over every ones heads. Kaz sighed " It's called the Dead End Race. It's run by pirates for pirates, they say there's quit the amount of money for the prize."
When he said that Endo, Razz, and Siamon slammed there hands down on the table and yelled at the same time " WHERE GOING!" Penny and Shan giggled to them self's at this action.
Kaz raised an eyebrow " Now why with the sudden change?"
Razz answered this one and pointed to Elsa and Mac " They 'ook all our 'eli in cards last night."
Elsa shrugged as she rested her head on Mac's arm " It's not mine or Mel's fault that you guys suck at poker."
Shan, Penny, and Kaz laughed as Endo, Razz, and Siamon hung there heads in shame. But inside they were all ready for there next adventure.
How you guys like that chapter eh! Now let me explain a few things Gavel Don is owned by Rayo not me. How you like the little twist thing I had with Hiro? Do you like the final four (okay five counting the spider) of Stein's crew? And I appogize to Rayo if I portayed Gavel Don wrong.
Ryuu's weapons you might have see before if you watch or read BLEACH, it's the final release of that bald third seat soul reaper who's name I can't remember.
If you have any questions Just read and review!
Next Chapter: Dead End Race: The Sightless and The Beast!