Author's Note: Took about a week break/hiatus, whatever you want to call it, and now I'm back. And for everyone who reads this every time a new chapter is up, get happy cause this chapter is about TWICE as long and the normal ones and hopefully the next one will be up sometime early next week. (HOPEFULLY) Thanks for reading again, I hope you are all enjoying it.

"I suspect you wish for our.... talents?" Jasmine spoke again.

"I requirer a dispatch.... 4 shood du."

~Z~X~

Zaven looked at Jasmine, "So what is it this time? And is it urgent?"

Jasmine nodded her head, "Master Wolfgang has asked you two, along with Boochiga Polio and Mary.... to KILL Roronoa Zeke."

~Z~X~Z~X~Z~X~Z~X~

Episode 12: "The 4 Hired"

~Z~X~Z~X~Z~X~Z~X~

*HHHHHUUUURRRRRRRRLLLLLLLL!!*

'IT' went flying out of the steady moving boat, falling down to the GROUND below. Zaven, Giggy, and the bald girl Canery were hovering over a large island inside a small wooden boat about the size of a life boat, heading for a certain designation. ".....Ugh~.... Why~can~'t~Jasmi~ne~jus~t~tele~port~us~to~the~loc~ation~....nnnnnn..." Zaven had his hands behind his head, "What? What are you talking about? Jasmine doesn't teleport, she astral-projects. You know that, no one knows where her REAL body is except Lord Wolfgang."

".........Oh-" *BBBBBBLLLLLAAAAAAAAAA!!!!*

Zaven shook his head, ("What's wrong with him? And what's with that question?... So odd. He knows we use Canery's power of levitation to travel fast. We've NEVER used Jasmine s power to do so. Hmm....") Zaven was growing suspicious of that question, ("...Something s up with him....")

"We're here." Canery said, so meek and quite, almost like she was still in that hypnotic-like trance from earlier. Zaven looked down, "Here? You sure?"

"Yes, Suros has found there location and current trajectory. They will come pass or through this area in about 20 minutes."

"Well, let s go Gig."

"......I~real~ly~don~think~I~can~...."

"Ugh, don't be so pathetic, let's go!" Zaven picked up Giggy and jumped out of the boat, flying downward to the ground below. It was about a 20 feet fall, but Zaven landed on the ground with ease. "Gr~eat~....... can~you~let~me~down~now~....?"

"Tch, you're being more troublesome than you're worth." He dropped Giggy down and he ran off..... you could hear what he was obviously doing...

*HHHHHHHHHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!*...... "Uhhhh~hhhh~hhhh..... dam~n~it...."

Zaven rolled his eyes. As he looked up, he saw Canery leaving as the boat lifted high into the air and jetted off back to Wolfgang's ship.

"YOU'RE LATE!!!"

Zaven looked toward the angry figure speaking to him so rudely. HIs face never changeing from his almost always bored look.

"Oh, Chiga, you're on this one too? I guess me and Giggy are here because Lord Wolfgang thinks you CAN'T handle this on your own."

"RRRRR......!!" Boochiga Polio tightened and flexed his whole body in anger, "IT'S BOOCHIGA TOO YOU YA BASTARD! Only family and lovers can call me Chiga, and thank GOD YOU'LL NEVER BE EITHER ONE!!!"

"That's not very nice to Boo, Zaven." Mary protested next to him whinely.

Zaven smirked, "I guess YOU can call him Chiga, CAN'T YOU Mary?"

This made Boochiga madder, "SHUT UP YOU SHITLESS BASTARD!!!!"

Mary tilted her head curiously, ".....But me and Boochiga aren't related......???"

Zaven only chucked lightly to himself, "So, guess you two go here by Malice correct?"

"What, now that you've had a little bit of "FUN" you're so serious?" Boochiga spat.

"Yes, you got a problem with that?" Their eyes locked, ready to tear each other apart.

*!!!!!!*

After awhile of silence, Boochiga finally let it go, "....Huh. Yeah, we came by Malice."

"Thought so.... Man, I wanted to see him. There was something I had to talk about with him."

"Yeah, well you should have been on time." Boochiga barked, but not loudly as to proclaim a fight.

"Yeah! And you know you're late if Malice has come and gone! He is a BLUE-WHALE fish man. Big as a giant if not bigger and SOOO slow on land."

"Yeah, I know that Mary, I'm not new."

".....Are you sure???"

"............Ugh. Boochiga, did Malice give you a Den-den Mushi for when this is all over?"

Boochiga looked as serious as he had ever been just then, ".... Yeah...." He held out a small black Den-den mushi.

Zaven's eyes widen, "Is that.....!?"

"......Yup, THE Black Den-den Mushi, it's either our way off this rock.... or a last resort."

This black den-den mushi is a signaler. Like the gold baby den-den mushi for the Buster Call, Wolfgang had developed this den-den mushi for when activated, his follower, Arcus, a giant who ate the washi washi (Eagle) no mi, would fly over the designated area and drop a bomb that another of Wolfgang's crew had invented, causing a mass explosion and killing all in that area. If any surviving members of Wolfgang's crew was in the area, they had 1 minute to ascend into the air and land on Arcus's back before he would deploy the bomb. This tactic had only been used once before, and if Wolfgang has issued it to Boochiga and the rest this day, it was because Wolfgang was not going to tolerate ANY kind of failure.

"He truly wants this Zeke guy dead huh? Why so harshly?"

"Jasmine said because he's the son of Roronoa Zoro and like him at this age, he has ermines untapped potential, and if someone, ANYone, got a hold of this kid, they could be another step closer in destroying all his enemies."

Mary began to whine again, "Are we even sure if he's coming this way? He could just sail around."

"No," Boochiga answered, "Jasmine said that Suros HIMSELF found Roronoa Zeke's location to be here, on Banura Island. And you know he can't sail around!"

Also known as Blockade Island, a large rock and canyon wasteland with few population but is the SECOND biggest island in the world (the Red Line does not count as an Island, to me anyways). It is so wide, that it's tips reach from calm belt to clam belt in the Grand World of the Grand Line. It took Luffy and his crew 21 months from where he left his home village to get to here. The only way past here besides going through the calm belts is walking the entire island, there is no body of water that shoots through the island all the way except a small stream about 4 feet wide. An old man at the mouth of the stream makes a living by guiding the ships of passing pirates through the stream. However, he does not allow for some reason, the pirates to accompany the ship as the takes it through. No one knows how he does it, but by the time you arrive on the other side of the island, he's there with your boat.... IF you can get to the other side. Some wind up lost on this remote island.... for the rest of their days.

"Hmmm..." Zaven looked ahead of him, there was nothing there.... yet.

"Huh??" Boochiga noticed it too. Something, someONE big was coming.... but they weren t sure who it was, and what it meant.

~Z~X~

"............What the hell is this???"

Zeke, Frank, and Rika stopped their trek across the island when they became shadowed from the desolate sunlight by strange figures on top of large rock pillars. "....What!? This is the guy!? He's so weak looking!"

"Tch, Boochiga, you should know not to judge by appearance alone..... For people OTHER than YOURSELF anyways."

"WHAT WAS THAT BASTARD!?"

"Knock it off you guys, we need to focus on Roronoa!!!.....Um, excuse me... Which one of you guys is Zeke?"

"It's Zeke you dumbass!"

"...Uhuhuhu.. Oops."

"Geez! You're so stupid Mary!"

Zeke couldn't make heads or tails of the situation, ".....Who are you guys? And I REPEAT, WHAT THE HELL IS THIS???"

Boochiga smiled a smug smile, "...We're here to KILL you Roronoa. In the name of Lord WOLFGANG."

Zeke's eyes widened seriously, "..... Frank, get Rika out of here. Run, and don't look back," he never took his eyes off the 3 on top of the rock pillars, ".... I'LL handle this."

Frank only nodded and swiftly knocked Rika unconscious (he knew by now that that was much easier than putting up with her mouth and flailing to be let go).

"WAIT A MINUTE! ZE-!" and Rika fell into Frank's hands, and Frank started to run in the direction they had been headed in already.

"HA!! WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING!?" Boochiga already had the disturbing look of excited blood lust painted on his face. He leapt down in Frank's direction, coming down with a axe hand, "AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

*DOOOOM!!!*

".....Huh???"

Zeke had already removed his four swords and moved swiftly into Boochiga's way, blocking his attack to Frank with the back of his swords. And Frank kept running. Boochiga was surprised at first, but quickly became excited, "Good job kid. Now,...!" He spun out and landed on the ground, as did Zeke, "... Let's see if you can survive even SIX seconds when I do this!!"

Suddenly his muscles got bigger, "Grrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!" His eyes almost went completely milky white, "GrrrrrrrAAAAAHHHH!!!!" Then he dashed at Zeke, "Second.... ONE! HA!!"

*WHAM!*

He plunged his fist into Zeke's stomach, wrenching and twisting as he dug at it deeper. "Ah.... ah...ah...!?!?"

Boochiga only smirked more, "TWO!" He pulled out and hit Zeke again, this time with a tremendous back hand.

*BOOM!*

Zeke went flying to the left, shooting straight towards a rock pillar. Boochiga ran so fast, he appeared in between Zeke and the pillar, and hit him again, "THREE!"

*BAM!*

He upper cutted Zeke, now him flying up to the air. Boochiga only continued his assault, dashing and jumping up the rocks, reaching Zeke's lifeless body hovering up high in the air.

"AaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAHHH!!! FOUR!!! HUAAA!!!"

*BOOM!!*

He now hit him with a shattering axe hand on his skull, creating a small sonic boom.

Zaven rolled his eyes as he watched from the top of a rock pillar, "Ugh.... he's over doing it again."

"Oh hush Za, Boo likes to have fun that's all! And this just means the job will go by faster!" Mary sounded very childish, but still whiny.

(".... All this.... What was the point of Wolfgang asking for FOUR of us for this mission?")

Zaven only huffed, and continued watching Boochiga's onslaught.

As Zeke almost hit the ground from his ferocious fall, Boochiga again appeared near him, "Uh-uh, FIVE!!!" And elbowed him in the ribs, sending him again towards a rock pillar.

"Aaaaaaand SIX!!!!" For his final hit, he used his leg, and kicked him as hard as he could in the stomach, where he started, and Zeke final sailed into a rock pillar, creating a large hole in witch he laid in..... COMPLETELY unmoving.

His swords were scattered all over the place as he had dropped them one by one as he was mercilessly beaten.

Zaven shook his head, (".... Like I said.... He wasn't even worth ONE of us.")

~Z~X~

Frank continued running despite how badly he wanted to look back to see if it was Zeke causing those loud noises.... or his enemies. ".... Hm??" Frank stopped in his tracks, Giggy was in front of him.

"....He~y~..... W~ho~ar~e~you~....? Uggggh...."

Frank started sweating, he wasn't sure what to do now. He was afraid that this man was much stronger than he was. MUCH more....

Giggy's eyes widened and he ran behind a rock again.

"GGGUUUUAAAA!!!!...... F~u~c~k~m~e....."

Frank was unsure what to make of this, but just started running again.

~Z~X~

"..... Huh???"

The crumbled rocks in the hole of the pillar started to move. This gave GREAT attention to Zaven, Mary, and Boochiga.

"No.... NO FUCKING WAY!"

Zeke slowly got out of the rubble, blood coming from the sides of his head, his nose, mouth, ears, scratches and bruises all over his body, more blood coming from those places too. But.... he didn't LOOK hurt. No pain, no fear, not even a flinch or sign of anguish. His eyes were calm, almost casual, close to apathy. He just picked up the sword closest to him and stared back at Boochiga.

"FUCK NO!" Boochiga was going wild, "I NEVER SLACK UP!! NEVER!!!!! I USE FULL FORCE EVERY TIME TO KILL MY TARGETS!!! I DON'T FUCK AROUND!! YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED THE SECOND TIME I HIT YOU!!! NO ONE'S EVER SURIVED A FOURTH HIT!!! NO!!!! FUCK YOU!!!! !!!!!!!!!!"

Zaven was in awe, ("N-No way.... Boochiga has the power of the kusodikara kusodikara (brute, extrodinary or animal-like strength) no mi. He can make his muscle mass, endurance, stamina, everything about his physical aspects to make him THE STRONGEST man on the planet. He can shatter bones with a slap, kill instantly to blows to the head it s ridiculous!..... No wonder Wolfgang asked for US..... this is actually going to be a challenge.") "Mary... could he have a Devil Fruit power?"

Mary looked scared as she shook her head, "N-n-no..... I can SEE it. His skull is fractured BEYOND normal fatalities. That alone should kill him, but.... he-he's also got broken rips.... a-al-all of them.... I've never seen anything like this....." Mary had a Devil Fruit power that aloud her to see everything on the surface of the body, from each individual hair, to the placement of bones just underneath the skin and muscles. Almost close to X-ray, but that wasn't the only part of her power.

("Damn it!... I HAVE.... It was on a mission for the Master. No matter what, that guy never stopped moving, never ceased attacking. His men BEGGED him to stop and get healed, but he kept fighting, broken bones and all. And he won too.... brutally. Showed no mercy when he was the one that looked like he needed the mercy..... THAT MAN.... Yonkou Bach..... This kid, he's a monster..... just like his FATHER.... ")

"YOU SON OF A BITCH!!!!! AAAAAAARRRRRRHHHHH!!!!!" Boochiga was screaming in uncontrollable anger, his muscles got bigger and he started to sink into the ground. "I'M GOING TO KILL YOU SO HARD YOU FUCKING SHIT!!!!" He started to run as fast as he could at Zeke.

Zaven's eyes widened, "SHIT! BOOCHIGA! DON'T!" Mary gasped, she realized it too. Boochiga was to blinded by fury and anger to notice though.

Zeke held his sword over his head and flipped it to where the blade side was pointing to the sky. He held one hand forward and focused on one specific part of the raging bull ahead of him.

"DDDDDIIIIIEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!"

("THERE!") Zeke moved as fast as Boochiga, despite all his horrid injuries.

"FUCK! BOOCHIGA!!!" Zaven and Mary ran down as fast as possible to stop him. ("How in the hell could he figure THAT out in just six seconds and six hits!??!!?")

*FLICK* *STAB* *SHING*

"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Boochiga screamed devilishly in pain.

Zeke had stabbed, twisted in, and yanked forward against Boochiga's direction his sword into Boochiga's left shoulder muscle, severing most of his left arms nervous system. But more than that, Zeke figured out, that not only could Boochiga increase his power, but he couldn't control that he had to increase everything about his physical stature as well, even his pain receptors in his body. Boochiga laid lifelessly in the hole he made previously by smashing Zeke into the rock.

"....... One down...."

*VVVVOOOMMMM!!!*

The ground started shaking, "Wha-!? What is this!?" Suddenly the ground split and cracked, rock moving all over the place and sinking into deeper into the earth. Zeke jumped and ran to get out of the vicinity. As he reached what looked like a stable safe-zone, rocks started to fall from the sky.

*BOOM* *BOOM* *CRASH* *SMASH* *SHATTER*

Zaven smirked, "Hm, so you managed to get out of that too. You ARE going to be very annoying."

Zeke smiled back, "I'm so glad that I flatter you so much that I'll be a challenge."

Zaven's smiled continued, "I'm sure you can tell by now, I'm a DF user."

"I felt like it, but I wasn't too sure."

"Don't get cocky boy. I have the kowasu kowasu (to break, to demolish, to destroy) no mi. A shatter man you can call me. But I'm sure you've guessed that I can only shatter things that are IDLE."

"I was hopping."

"Well then..... let's TRY IT!!!!" Zaven held up his hand and shot out was seemed like an invisible blast. Zeke jumped up into the air and aimed his sword at Zaven in a wide slash. "HA! DON'T THINK YOU CAN MOVE TOO MUCH IN MID-AIR MOTION!!" Zaven shot another blast. Zeke spun in the air and moved to dodge the hit. ("Damn! He's very agile!")

Zeke landed, and with his arm stretched across his chest, bending his sword as far back on his opposite side of his hand holding the sword, swung and created a giant Force Strike. Zaven barely managed to duck from it, bending his body backwards, his head almost hitting the ground as his body made a bridge to dodge.

Zaven straightened back up, "Ha! Looks like you can't hit me either kid! Huh?" Zeke wasn't in front of him like before.

"Yeah, guess not." Zaven looked around and saw where Zeke went. He had gone to pick up his other swords. Now all four were back in his position. "I'm not to bad with one sword I guess, but I've gotten very use to 4."

Zaven looked at him in astonishment, ("What the hell is with this kid!? Such strength, adversity, stamina, skill, and he looks like he's got plenty lefts.") Zaven began to be very skeptic and serious, "Unreal. You not feel the obvious wounds or something?"

Zeke blinked blankly then looked at himself, "Oh, this? Huh.... I guess I just don't think about it much. I'm pretty sure I've experienced worse, just guess I'm use to it."

("Ha, just 'use to it' my ass. This is incredible, so much damage and still going.... but everyone has their limit. It won t be too long till his wounds to catch up with him, then he'll break down like that. If I want to execute master's plan, I have to-")

"BOO! BOO!" Mary ran to Boochiga, crying immensely, wailing and sobbing over his fallen body. "BOO! WAKE UP! PLEASE!!!" Then, with tears still in her eyes, she looked at Zeke, her eyes blazing in anger. "YOU! I'M GONNA KILL YOU!!!!" She screeched as she ran towards him- morphing into her true form as she launched at him.

"RRRAAAAAWWWRRRRRR!!!!!!!!"

*SLASH!!*

Zeke was quick to block her oncoming assault, but was unprepared for what she was going to attack with and HOW. This resulted in more scars, as his chest was slashed by the claws of the transformed Mary: eater of the Neko Neko no mi- Model Jaguar.

"*cough!* Ack! ~F-fuck..... *cough*" Zeke coughed up some blood as held him self up with his swords.

Mary looked back as him, ".... You are going to die....." She was no longer whiny, childish, or any to that. Blood was already on her now yellow black-spotter fur, her cat face snarling in anger and pure bloodlust. She was as serious as could be.

For some reason, Zaven panicked, ("Damn it! Now that she's like this.... Zeke can do nothing BUT die....... She's actually deadlier than Boochiga in the right moment. That's why their partners...... among other reasons.")

"RRRAAAAWWRRR!!!" She ran at Zeke again, in her form, claws sharp and dripping with his blood. Zeke collected himself as fast as he could, turning around and positioning his swords.

*CLANK!!*

He made it just in time as now he and Mary were in a locked standoff of blade and claw. Both struggling against each other to break forward and cut the other to pieces. Mary continued growling angrily. ("Damn! I need to get ride of her. I can't take much more fighting. I was SO wrong, I'm hurting a lot. I can feel the blood coming out of me.")

Mary saw it, his mind was on other things. So she went for it. "RRRAAAWWWRRR!!!!" Pushing hard and clawing wildly at him, hoping to get a limb, or his throat. But in her blind anger, she wasn't thinking, if she was swift enough, she could get him, but now, she was basically giving his more advance sword play skills wide openings.

*WHOO* *WHOO* *CUT* *SLICE*

He got two swings in, one across the chest and one more shallow on her stomach, making a sort of T scar or maybe a cross. Mary fell unconscious and hard on to the ground.

Zaven looked un-phased at this, true he was surprised that Mary was defeated so quickly. But not that she was defeated.... and also, because another emotion was keeping him from being in complete aw and anger. But he was the only one.

"MMMMMAAAAARRRRRRRYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

*BOOM!!!*

Zeke went flying again as a small round object hit him fiercely. The impact of the object on his already broken body was crucial and agonizing. This time, however, Zeke did not crash into a pillar, but simply rolled and tossed against the dirt as he flew up against the ground about 100 feet from where he was standing.

"You..... You'll PAY for what you did to Mary! And the fact that you've made me use my Boochiga Ball, makes you all the more dead!"

Boochiga had woken up and came out of the crater, just to see Zeke cut Mary up. And now, Boochiga took out his secret weapon. The Boochiga Ball. A small metal orb attached to a string that was attached to a band on the wrist of his right arm as he could not move his left due to Zeke cutting several of his controlling nerves in that arm. Combined with the pain of a METAL ball thrown with Boochiga's force, it could easily feel like a large bullet piercing through you. The only reason Zeke is still alive is that the groggy Boochiga only hit him with HALF of both the ball and his strength.

"Man.... I'm not gonna survive this am I." Zeke got up, barely, and tried his best to stay conscious and standing.

"uuuhhhhhhhAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!" Boochiga ran to Zeke and slung his arm back and yanked it forward, slinging his "Boochiga Ball" rapidly forward, causing great wind spasms in the air as it came at Zeke full-force.

*WWWWWWW* *BBBOOOOMMM!!!!*

With blood gushing out and massive strain on his body, Zeke jumped out of the way just enough to avoid another hit. However the ball continued, an the impact of it upon the earth created an enormous crater.

Boochiga never stopped, veering right around and slinging his ball back in Zeke's direction.

*WWWWWWWW* *BBBOOOOOMM!!!*

Again Zeke moved, but each extreme movement just put more pain on his body..... soon, VERY SOON, Zeke would without a doubt, fall in DEATH if he didn't end this soon.

Boochiga just continued to swing. Yanking the ball back and forth, jerking it one way or the other just enough to make it have an unpredictable course and swerve to hit Zeke. Swinging it over his head and throwing in Zeke's direction. Gripping it tightly and throwing it as hard as his could like a baseball.

"IT'S INEVITABLE YOU BASTARD!!! I WILL KILL YOU! YOU CAN'T WIN!!!!!" Boochiga threw it again at Zeke who seemed like he had to rest from jumping and dodging the ball.

Then Zeke smirked, "Tch, I'm not too sure about that." He jumped one more time, and the course of the ball could not be changed.

"SSHHIIIIIITTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!" And Zaven was in the way, with not enough time to dodge the crater the ball was about to make.

*BBOOOOOMMMM!!!!!*

Zaven's body went flying into the air, tumbling to the ground.

"DAMN YOU!!!" Boochiga pulled his ball back to get ready for another sling. But Zeke started running toward Boochiga, faster than the ball was retracting.

Zeke came up to Boochiga and swung his sword, but PURPOSEFULLY missed by a few inches. By instinct, Boochiga jumped back, and jerked back his arm.... the only one that he could currently move, the one with the metal ball coming at him was attached too. Making the ball come at him faster.

Zeke jumped up, and Boochiga didn't have enough time to do anything.

*BBAAMM!!!!*

The metal ball hit him right in the throat, knocking him, hopefully permanently, unconscious. A thick circular indent on his throat and his eyes rolled deep in the back of his head.

"...... *Huff*...... Shit!" Zeke collapsed to his knees, dropping his swords and breathing heavily. "I haven't had a fight like that..... since Oden......"

"And..... it's not over....." Zeke's eyes widened, he quickly turned around, and saw Zaven slowly climbing up from the crater, his close tattered and scuffed.

"You're right, ZAVEN. It's NOT over.... but you can drop the act now..... you traitorous bastard."

Zaven's heart stopped, he felt the presence. An EVIL smirk, he could fell it casting a horrible shadow over him. Zeke looked past Zaven and saw someone..... a FOURTH man.

Zaven, to his horror, turned to look too.

Giggy was standing behind him, but he had no look of sickness or pain on his face. Instead, a satanic grin, and a look of excited bloodlust.... MUCH worse looking than Boochiga's was.

To Be Continued.......