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The gunslinger part 1

The ship was sailing on the open ocean. It is only two occupants where relaxing on deck since it was not really that much to do. Tom was lying against the railing looking half-asleep and Erik was standing at the front of the ship looking into the ocean. Tom got a thoughtful look on his face and said "Hey captain!" Erik turned and looked at his first mate. "Hmm?" "I was just wondering. Those moves that you did back there, what was that? It wasn't your powers that much I can tell, but I haven't seen anything like it before." Tom said. "Well it's called Rokushiki or the six powers. It was something I learned when I was part of the world government." Erik answered. Tom looked at him in surprise. "You were part of the world government? Then why are you a pirate?" he wondered. "Don't mistake me. I despise the world government. The only reason I joined up with them was to learn how to fight and survive as well as learn as much as I could about how they worked." Erik explained. "And when did you join up with them?" Tom asked getting interested in the topic. "I joined up when I was about 10." Erik answered him. "And how old are you now and how long is it since you left?" Tom asked. "I'm twenty one and I left them about 3 months ago." Tom nodded and was about to go back to sleep when he remembered something Erik had said. "Wait you said it was called the six powers, that means that there are six types of techniques right? You didn't use all of them in our battle. If I remember correctly, you only used three of them. You used that speed technique soru, that sky jumping technique geppo I think it was called and you used tekkai, which allowed you to toughen your body so you could better withstand being hit. What are the other three?"

Erik went away from the railing and positioned himself in the middle of the front deck. "I could tell you, but I would be easier if I showed you." Erik looked at tom for a moment to see if he was paying attention before he started speaking again. "The first or the fourth, rokushiki technique depending on the way you see it that I'll show you are the rankyaku." He looked out at the ocean before he kicked hard in front of him while shouting "RANKYAKU". A blade on compressed air was shot away from the him and out in the ocean before it dissipated. Tom looked in wonder at what happened but did not ask, as he was sure he would get an explanation. Erik lowered his leg, turned to him and started explaining. "Rankyaku is a move where you kick the air in front of you and send away a blade like wave of air that can cut your enemy. It's a good alternative for me as i usually rely on close combat and could help me catch the enemy off guard." Tom huffed. "Doubt it be much of use against me though. What's next?" "For the next one I'm gonna need your help", Erik said. Tom looked at him questioningly before he shrugged and stood up. "Sure what do you need me to do?" "I need you to try and hit me", Erik said in an even tone. Tom gave him a skeptical look before he said "Okay, though I better not find you on the ground coughing up blood. Erik just chuckled and waited for Tom to strike. Tom hesitated for a moment before he charged and aimed a fist straight at his captain's stomach. Erik just smiled and muttered "KAMIE." Just as tom was about to hit him his body twisted and avoided his punch. Tom watched in surprise before he punched again but the same happened. He continued punching but Erik just swayed from side to side dodging all of his strikes. Then suddenly Erik raised his hand, which caused Tom to stop attacking. "This technique is called Kamie and makes the body go limp in order to dodge attacks. It's like trying to hit a paper or a leaf. It just moves out of the way of your fist. It's quite effective", Erik said as he lowered his hand. Tom huffed. "And annoying. So, what's the last one?" "For the last one I'm gonna need a target so if you wait here I'll go and get something to hit from the store room." Erik said as he turned and went indoors.

He came out with a wooden plank which he gave to Tom and told him to hold it up with the flat side turned towards him. Tom did as he was told and waited for Erik to continue. Erik raised his fist with his index finger straight. "SHIGAN!" he called out and quickly punched forward, the index finger going through the plank and leaving a finger sized hole when he removed his finger. "The last technique is called shigan and makes your finger shoot forward like a bullet. Personally I think this is the least usable of the techniques and is therefore the one I'm the least proficient at." Tom was impressed with the moves that he was shown, but he was still confused about something. "If you knew all six of them then why didn't you use them, I mean all of these techniques is quite useful so I don't see a reason not to use them." "The answer is quite simple. I don't think rankyaku would be very useful since I can't cut steel with it. If I used shigan on you then I would only break my finger and for kamie I'm only able to use it proficiently when focusing and if I only focus on dodging then I won't be able to make any counter attack. Those three are also the techniques that I'm worst at so I don't really use them much in general." Tom nodded and turned to look out at sea again. "On a different matter captain, we seem to reach land soon", he said as he spotted an island off in the distance. Erik looked in the same direction as Tom. "Yes that must be Camara Island. We can stop here and see if we can't find any recruit able people", He said as they approached the island. The island was Larger than the last one, but it was just as green as was most of the islands around. This island had two large hills on each side and what looked like a village by the sea in the middle.

When they neared the island they saw a concerning sight. The village that they had seen in the distance and that they had been sailing towards was in ruin. Most of the houses were destroyed and the ones still standing were in bad shape. There were people there, probably villager scavenging through the rubble for things they could salvage. Overall, they were in a bad state. After they had gotten ashore, they went over to one of the villagers. A middle-aged man with brown hair, white shirt and brown pants and asked him what happened. "There was a pirate attack. They came here last night and pillaged the city before they moved on to the other village on the other side", the man said tiredly. Were there anyone to defend the village?" Tom asked while Erik continued to look around and tuned out the conversation once he caught sight of something interesting. Off to the edge of the city were a small crowd blocking the path of a man that was trying to leave and both sides were franticly arguing with each other. He went over to see what was going on.

As he was closing in on the group, he was starting to make out the conversation. "Why won't you let me through?! If it weren't for me they wouldn't be in this situation!" The man yelled frantically at the people before him. The man was fairly tall, maybe an inch shorter than himself. He wore a white shirt with a brown vest on top of it and a belt going from his right shoulder to his left hip. Fastened to the belt were two pistols and lots of ammunition. He had dark blue pants and brown boots, a belt around his hips with the same things fastened to it as the other belt(two pistols and ammunition). His head was cowered with a brown cowboy hat but you could see some brown hair coming out from under it. "There's no way you can defeat all of them they're just too many! Going over there is suicide!" someone in the group yelled back with the others nodding at his words.

"I don't want to disturb your little argument, but may someone tell me what's going on?" Erik said as he reached the group. "This man wants to go over to the other village and fight the entire pirate crew by himself!" A man in a green shirt and black shorts told him. Erik turned to the man in question and asked "and why would you want that? From what I've gathered the only thing you will get from that is an early grave." The man looked back at him with determination in his eyes. "I don't care about the odds! I have to save them, I would never be able to live with myself if I just abandoned them!" Erik looked at him curiously and said "why would you risk your own neck for those two. From what you're wearing I can see that you're not from around here. No one would walk around as heavily armed as you are if they had a permanent place to live." "I came here about 4 days ago. I had been on the ocean for a long time so all the food and water that I had were long since gone. When I reached land I was starved and barely alive. Luckily for me, a young girl saw me and with her family helped me back on my feet. If it hadn't been for them I would have starved to death. Then, two days ago five men came into the restaurant that the family owned and demanded that they served them. When The father refused the men threatened to kill everyone in the building. I tried to tell them off but they just got angry and attacked me, though I managed to take them down without too much trouble. The next day I went out into the woods to hunt and get some food to prepare for when I left the island. I came back and found the village destroyed and when I was told that the father had died fighting the pirates and that the mother and child had been taken hostage I decided that I just had to go save them. I owe them too much to just let them die!" The man almost shouted at the end while his voice wavered. Erik smiled and turned his head to the side. "Did you hear that Tom?!" Erik called out. "Every word captain", Tom answered has he came up. "Good since I've made up my mind", Erik said and turned to the man. "Were gonna help you get your friends back." He announced. The man looked at him in surprise and appreciation. "Really? Thank you! Is it any way for me to pay you back?" "There are two thing you can do for me", Erik said. "First, you can tell me your name." The man looked confused for a moment not expecting the question before he answered. "My name's Wyatt." Erik smiled at him and said. "I'm Erik and the man beside me Is Tom. Now for the other thing I want you to do for me. I want you, to join my crew." Wyatt looked at them in shock. "Wait, you're pirates?!" "Yep, so what do you say?" Erik answered still smiling. Wyatt frowned for a moment before he looked back at Erik full of determination. "If you help me take down the other pirates and rescue my friends then I will gladly join you." Erik's smiled widened. "Great! Then let's go crush some pirates", he said and turned to leave. "Wait there are still too many of them! The three of you would never be able to defeat all of them!" one of the villagers yelled at him. "Erik just smirked. "With all three of us, Taking down a bunch of pirates will be child's play"; he said continuing on his path out of the city. His two subordinates following closely after him.

Authors note:

This chapter was a little difficult for me to write and i hope i didn't bore you too much when i went through the rokushiki techniques.

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KLEB: I am up to date on the one piece manga so i do believe i know what I'm talking about and when I am uncertain about something I always check the wiki or look at video about it to make certain that i get it right. But if you fins something that you or anyone else think i did wrong don't hesitate to tell me about it and if I agree with you then i wil try to have it fixed up as fast as possible.