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Pudding was a proud man, he worked his way up the ranks of the marines with one-hundred percent conviction into the belief of justice that was preached during his youth and training.
So now as a Commandor the first thing he wanted to do was get rid of any notorious or any pirates growing in notoriety that was in his area.
On his way to go arrest or kill the famous Arlong pirates they we're diverted when a giant beam split the sea apart. He followed the beam and saw that it was coming from a small island.
Curious but cautious he flagged his crew to approach while obtaining information on what island was in the vicinity.
Juko island was shipyard island where people either scrapped there boat or needed a quick fix to there ship so they wouldn't sink.
When he neared the island he saw the debris and the lone damaged pirate ship, along with parts of the island clearly missing as the sea water started to fill the void.
He was confused when saw groups of injured people kneeled together looking at a lone brown skinned young boy, who was the only one who looked clean and uninjured along with a injured blue haired fat boy.
Confused but deciding to remain indifferent until it was confirmed that no one was armed he made his announcement to the inhabitants, watching as the group obeyed and later down there arms.
Smirking he ordered the ship forward towards the island, glancing back he locked eyes with a yellow haird man covered in a white cloak.
This was the real reason how they became so strong, with his help they wouldn't be able to fight any of those ridiculously strong pirates but as long as they had him…
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Kazuki bounced on his toes and stretched his body around before letting out a loud yawn as he watched the marines start to dock there ship while still aiming at everyone on the island.
He wasn't sure if he was being arrogant but he wasn't worried at all about the large number that he saw crowed on the enormous ship, he roughly guessed there was about two hundred soldiers on the ship.
All the fights he had since coming back, have been majorly disappointing, and none of the pirates used any strange abilities since he arrived on the island either, so not seeing a devil bummed him out.
Rufus was a fun fight but it was way too one sided for him to truly push himself towards his limit, all he used was physical strength so far.
Kazuki walked away from the group with Peinto trailing behind him trying to catch up, he made his way towards the now descending Marines.
"K-Kazuki wait let's talk about this first." Peinto said as he watched the Marines form a straight line across from them, guns and cannons aimed there way.
He heard the pirates behind him yelling that they were giving up, which caused him to turn around in anger about to just say fuck it and kill them.
(Bang)
Suddenly wind rushed passed through him as a blur rocketed from behind, it flew towards a lone pirate who soon got engulfed in flames as the the blur exploded on contact.
Peinto turn back around to see Kazuki looking at him but continued walking further ahead of him with his arm extended, beyond him he could see a smoking canon with a shocked marine behind him.
"That's so cool, your a devil huh? Want to join my crew Gahehe." Kazuki said with a laugh as he watched the ball pass through Peinto.
The marine who had accidentally fired the cannon ball was sweating but continue too stay aiming at the walking Kazuki as he fired again.
But every ball was diverted aside, it looked like Kazuki stopped them then tossed it behind like trash.
"Keep firing, the child is a devil clearly if he could do that at his age, let's see what else he can do." Puddings loud voice rung out behind the line of marines who aimed at the walking Kazuki.
(Boom)(Boom)
Each and every canon ball was tossed aside as Kazuki stopped in his walk and made a show out throwing the balls and letting the bullets pass by him as it all went to the group of pirates behind him.
The three captains quickly jumped forward ahead of the group at the incoming hail.
Lincole threw his hand out suddenly causing some shots and bullets to disappear and reappear higher up in the air, he then clinched his fist causing them to exploded in a ball of fire.
Brattle not having a fruit ability cultivated his strength to it's limits so he went and grabbed large rocks that were around him to shield and throw at the gunfire.
Throwing them accurately at the bullets and canon balls aimed at him, caused explosions blaze around him in flames that singed him, slightly injured he was barely able stop the hail of fire thrown his way.
Jasper stood still with his arms spread and eyes glowing purple, his veins popped on his forehead and arms as the gunfire and canons fire neared him they started to slow down in speed til frozen in front of him.
He lowered his hands causing the projectiles to also lower till they all laid on the ground in front of him.
Kazuki smile widened as he saw the display, "Even more are devils, this is great. I'm so excited!" He yelled out in joy.
Across from him the marines stood stoically having stopped the hail of gunfire when pudding commanded it.
Pudding frowned and looked beside him at the man in white cloak that covered him completely with only yellow spiked hair sticking out the hood obscuring his face from sight.
"Mare go ahead and do it, don't kill them we just need to find out the source of that light." Pudding said to the cloaked figure, who turned to him in silence and stared at him for a minute before nodding their head in confirmation.
The now named Mare spread his fingers wide as they placed their hands on the ground, digging his fingers into the ground.
"Kanjo-kanjo: Ikari Oromo/Emotion: Anger man." Mare's bland voice rang out as a red pulse erupted from there hands that spread outward towards the marine soldiers.
(Clang)
The marine solders stiffened causing them too drop there weapons, their veins bulged around their arms and heads, then as a collective the soldiers suddenly released a screeching scream.
Kazuki stopped walking as he watched a purple outline start to cover the hollering marines who dropped to there knees or back thrashing around animalisticly as they clawed at the ground before abruptly passing out.
The purple glow vanished from the marines bodies a Mare held his hand outward before dropping it and turning around towards Pudding who smirked and nodded at him.
"What the hell?" Kazuki said in confusion as he backed away from the marine group but before he could widen the gap between them he was suddenly grabbed by his neck by someone before being abruptly flung from his spot.
Kazuki flew fast impacting the ground with his back and shoulders as he tried to adjust his position from the powerful throw.
Skidding past the pirate group he managed to change his position, so his feet were digging trenches into the ground but he managed to stop himself from being further pushed back.
But he had to duck fast as a fist suddenly sailed over his head but he wasn't able to stop the next two punches that appeared impacting his stomach, causing him to cough out some blood as he dropped down to his knees.
'W-what the fuck so fast?' Kazuki thought holding his stomach in pain for a moment before rolling away quickly as a purple foot slammed into the ground.
Springing away to gain some distance Kazuki finally got a look at his opponent and was shocked at there appearance before shaking his head as he took on his stance, ready for the next attack.
The creature looked like a man but was extremely skinny, it had purple patchie skin that glowed violet at random parts, he stood hunched over shaking from head to toe with a intense tremor.
It was clothed in red ribbons that wrapped around its whole body except it's faceless bald head.
The creature then disappeared from Kazuki sight causing him to tense before he quickly shifting towards his left.
A arm pierced the air second later almost plunging into his chest if he didn't move as the creature appeared.
'Damn I can barely follow it, that speed is insane, got to go all out full throttle .' Kazuki thought a he clinched his fist before he then disappeared from the creature's sight.
Kazuki reappeared throw a heavy kick at the creature's chest but it crossed its arms to block the blow, the force from the kick threw it back like a cannonball.
It struggled to recover as its feet dragged into the ground leaving a deep trench as it flew some distance away from Kazuki.
Kazuki just growled before shooting forward to the creature who recovered from the kick but it disappeared from sight only to reappear in front of Kazuki, throwing a punch at his chest.
But Kazuki quickly retaliated with his own punch, there fist clashed against each other causing shockwaves and a explosion to surround them as they fought to overwhelm the other.
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Lincole's eyes couldn't keep up track of the battle as two blurs raced around the island causing craters, tremors and shockwaves to blast at random parts of the island.
Him and his remaining crew had to get out of here fast, there was no way they would survive the fight between these two monsters.
Lincole turned towards the other captains to tell them too evacuate only to suddenly receive a sword thrust into his shoulder, causing him to get pinned too the ground behind him as he became immobile.
"AAHH." Lincole hollered out as his body trembled with blood flowing from the embedded sword, a hand then reached out grabbing the handle causing him to looked up and see Peinto glaring at him.
Peinto growled as his hand tightened around the sword, "Your going to die and it's going to be me who did it." He thundered out as he placed his foot on Lincole face.
Peinto twisted as painfully as he could yanking the sword out of Lincoles shoulder, causing him to smile in satisfaction when he hollered out louder in pain.
"P-pl-leas-e d-don't do th..." Lincole attempted to plead but was silenced when Peinto raised his sword to thrust it again, aiming at Lincole's forhead.
"Fuck you, just DIE!" Peinto yelled as he thrusted down his sword, but he was suddenly kicked away as a leg impacted his side.
He was thrown far away but he managed to catch himself by stabbing his sword into the ground just some distance from lincole.
"Lincole get us out of here now!" Jasper yelled as he wairly looked at Peinto getting up glaring his way.
Lincole nodded as he struggled to stand up almost falling back down but Brattle came from behind him, helping him stand as jasper jumped backwards to stand beside them seeing Peinto stand up.
"Hurry and get us far away as possible fuck the small fry crew." Jasper yelled out looking at a giant explosion happen not far from them coming from the other battle going on.
"Zūmu-Zūmu: Tōi hoshi/Zoom: Distant star!" Lincole quickly yelled as he thrusted his arm towards the sky, a red glow radiated from his hand before it surrounded the captains into a prism.
The bright glow attracted Pudding and Mera's attention but before they could do anything the red triangle shot into the sky at tremendous speeds becoming a spec in the distance within seconds.
"NO!" Peinto yelled out reaching his arms forward only to watch the glowing red Lincole and the other captains disappear from his sight, he dropped to his knees looking at the sky baffled.
"I-I had him, he was right here." Peinto said in bewilderment, explosions and shockwaves echoed in his ear but he couldn't tear his eyes away from the spot in the sky.
He was then suddenly grabbed as everything around him turn into a blur before quickly finding himself on the pirates only remaining ship.
"Peinto get a hold of yourself, I need you to get this ship ready to sail, we need to get out of here, now!" Kazuki yelled as he set him down, panting out of breath as he glared at the fast approaching purple creature.
He looked rough covered in bruises and blood ran down his face as he held eye one shut, his outfit was destroyed leaving him in just his pants and shoes showing his unnatural muscular body.
"I'll hold him off for a while let me know when your ready to sail then I'll create a distraction, HURRY!" Kazuki yelled before disappearing from Peinto's sight.
Peinto clenched his fist in anger but nodded his head, quickly running around the ship to get it ready to leave.
Pudding grounded his teeth together as he watched this, when Mera used his fruits ability, it required all his marine soldiers to become unconscious in order to bring out the powerful creature.
"Why isn't that boy dead yet Mera stop playing, no one has ever lasted this long, you need to kill that boy now!" Pudding said as he clenched his fist in anger.
Mera was silent, just watching as the battle started to turn into a brawl as Kazuki slugged away at the creature causing it to bleed green blood that splattered around the land.
Pudding was startled when suddenly the marine soldiers woke up yelling out in pain as they clawed at themselfs causing blood to seep from the slash's they made.
"P-pudding." He whipped his head around to look at mera who was swaying clutching there chest as blood seeped through there cloak.
"MERA!" Pudding yelled as he ran to catch Mera who fell into his arms gasping for breath, he looked up to see the boy and the creature still slugging away at each other.
Green and red blood was painted around them as they continued to attack each other uncaring about there injuries.
"KAZUKI ITS READY TO SAIL!" Peinto yelled out in worry. Kazuki hearing the call threw a powerful kick at the creatures exposed stomach causing it to get blown away.
Kazuki disappeared before then reappearing on the pirate ship beside Peinto who winced at the injuries that littered the boys body.
"Sail now, after that I need you to close your eyes when I tell you too. " Kazuki said to which Peinto hurried to nod as he saw a purple salute start to make its way towards them. He quickly got the ship ready to start moving towards any direction to get away from the island.
"Close your eyes now, SOLAR FLARE!" Kazuki yelled as he spread his hands over his face while closing his eyes before a bright white light engulfed everyone's vision.
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To be continued…
