Adventure on the island of Steam

[RK]

Kaiser was on his back on the deck of the Bedrock. He was Relaxing for the first time in days. He hasn't been fully healed since he had his fight with Jonathan Hive. He looked up at the sky, the clouds floated gently above the ship. They looked like stray cotton candy on a distant sea. Kaiser sat up and yawned. He looked around for his crew. Standing up he walked over to the front of the ship. He looked out to the sea. The swaying water and the calm breeze was so soothing after so much violence. Kaiser just hoped the next island wouldn't be anything like the last two.

There it was, Nuovo Romano, in the distance. It sat low on the water, like a rock. Kaiser saw something odd about it. part of the island was forest, while the other half was Tech. It was an island among islands. "Alright guys the next island is up ahead, try not to cause a commotion." Kaiser walked towards the main room of the ship. "For now, we eat!" Kaiser opened up the door of the kitchen. "Cook us up some grub Genshi!" Today was going to be a good day.[/size] As Kaiser ate his grub he looked around at his crew. Sora, his first mate, a shame he had to miss out on all the adventure. Genshi, the Cook and Devil Fruit user. Nashara, the Musician and claw user and Lily, the doctor, who not only packs a wicked punch, but has saved Kaisers life three times now. Kaiser sat back in his chair, the squeaks irritated him. they needed new furniture too. Kaiser dreamed of a beautiful ship, one with high flying sail and flags, with cannons and weapons to rival the best pirates, he knew he wanted it.

Kaiser stood up and placed his hands on the table, he had adventure in his eyes. "Alright men, the bedrock has served us well these past few days, but now it is time to say Bon Voyage to our vessel." Kaiser looked at his friends, he didn't know what else to say to them. He sat down, feeling a little tired. He was then rejuvenated when he heard whistles and people, they were getting closer to the island. Kaiser stepped outside, he stood on the bow of the ship, looking out to the island of Steam.

Kaiser Reenters the Kitchen, his crew is all still sitting at the table. Kaiser looks over to Sora, his First mate, who is also an Inventor. "So Sora, were going to be needing a new ship, and you've got the brains we need, what did you have in mind?" Kaiser looked Sora dead in the eyes, this was actually important.

[Harusame]

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[STYLE=margin-right: 33px; text-align: center; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 25px; text-transform: uppercase; color: #8FB3B4;]KEEP YOUR HOPES UP HIGH[/style][STYLE=float: right; width: 250px; text-align: center; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 25px; text-transform: lowercase; font-style: italic; color: #F2F9F9; line-height: 17px; background-color: #043233; border-top: 1px dotted #043233; border-left: 1px solid #043233; border-bottom: 1px dotted #043233; padding-right: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 20px; border-top-left-radius: 20px; margin-top: 118px; margin-bottom: -147px; margin-right: -118px; -webkit-transform: rotate(90deg); -o-transform: rotate(90deg); -moz-transform: rotate(90deg);]AND YOUR HEAD DOWN LOW[/style][STYLE=float: left; background-color: #FFFFFF; border-top: 3px solid #043233; border-left: 3px solid #043233; padding: 10px; font-family: arial; font-size: 11px; color: #031D1E; text-align: justify; margin-top: -3px; margin-bottom: 0px; width: 345px; line-height: 12px;][STYLE=float: right; padding-left: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px;][/style] Sora was a little bit pissed off of Kaiser. He wasn't woken up for the intense battle that involved new crew mates and blowing mountains up. That sucked. Sora had only beaten up a few weaklings on a island and grabbed two strangers to go. Sora woke up groggily. His eyes were half shut and his breath stank of marshmallows. He sniffled because his nose was stuffed, as it always was when he woke up. He had his messed white hair and dirty pajamas. Sora got up from his bed and walked into the bathroom and freshened up. When he took a shower and brushed his teeth and fixed his hair, he went into his room to change. Today he wore a black log sleeved shirt and a white long sleeved hoodie. His choker was on his neck as usual, it felt normal to him now. He had a silver belt and white trousers, the bottom of his trouser being covered by blue boots.image Sora stuffed a blue parchment from his desk into his coat and made his way to the kitchen. All of the new members of the crew were there and the old ones, Genshi, Lily and Nashara. Sora sat down and eventually Kaiser walked in sitting comfortably on the chair. His face looked as if he wandered off somewhere then he announced that Bedrock was going to be replaced. He walked out of the room. Sora sat there and smiled. He liked Bedrock but it held memories of hardship and loss. He finally had a reason to change it. Kaiser walked back in and looked Sora in the eye. "So Sora, were going to be needing a new ship, and you've got the brains we need, what did you have in mind?" Sora smiled. "I don't know how Cap'n but I had the same idea." Sora pulled out the blue parchment. He had worked on it for the past few days as they sailed to Nuovo. Sora put his two palms on it and spread it out so the whole crew could see. "I call it 'Slayer-Shark'. We can change the name if you guys don't like it later but this is it.' Sora pointed at the head of the ship. "I’m going to take that off Bedrock and attach it to Slayer-Shark." Then he pointed to the sides of the ship. "On each side we can have four cannons. No worries, I know how make em." Sora shifted his hand to the bottom of the ship at the back. On the paper, two motors were shown. "I was also thinking we could make the ship half submarine. These motors shall run when eh go underwater. We can make some glass cover us as we go down. I still haven't gotten all the parts down but this is basic. Also, we are going to need shipwright." Sora darted his eyes to Kaiser, I mean right away. I want to make this sooo bad!" Sora looked at everyone around him. "Any questions? Objections?"[/style][STYLE=padding: 10px; letter-spacing: 1px; text-transform: lowercase; font-family: arial; font-size: 10px; color: #031D1E; text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; width: 345px;]made by kiwii at btn & ote![/style]

[northern]

Genshi was in the kitchen, struggling to find the perfect size to slice the meat. He didn't want to make them too thin, or too thick. Too thin would deprive his allies of their required nutrients, and too thick a slice would waste supplies. He soon found the perfect size and began to metaphorically jump for joy. Genshi was rather adept with kitchen knives, he began to consider using some type of knife as a secondary weapon...but thoughts of future weapons would come later, right now, he needed to make small portions of food filled with vitamins. Using the slices of meat, Genshi made sandwiches, with whole grain bread, mustard and a special blend of vegetables and spices. He made about seven sandwiches, should someone want seconds. A nice tall pitcher of fresh squeezed lemonade was added on the table, along with five tall glasses.

"Food's ready. Come and get it." he shouted, the second sentence being rather incomprehensible, due to his mouth being filled with his glorious sandwich. It tasted good.

Kaiser and Sora entered the kitchen, and Sora laid out a large blue paper. The paper had a drawing of a ship on it, and from what Kaiser was saying, it might've been the new design for their ship. Genshi looked at the drawing, awe struck, It looked incredible. Along with their terrifying pirate flag, and their repertoire of fighting skills, they could be a force to be reckoned with. Genshi put his sandwich down and took a sip of his lemonade.

"I have a question. How will the kitchen look? Anything extraordinary? Anything special? Anything i, particular I should know about?" he asked, honestly concerned. If the kitchen had problems, Genshi would have problems keeping the crew well fed and healthy.

The kitchen was the most important room in the ship. Without it, a cook's skill would be squandered and underutilized. An underutilized chef would make meals that were below par. Genshi refused to cook sub par meals. This was his crew's life he was handling. That sudden though filled Genshi's stomach with butterflies, he held the life of his allies in his hands. He sat down and took a long sip of lemonade, trying to calm himself.

"So uh...How're you enjoying the food? Better than eating marshmallows 24 7 right?" He joked, nudging Sora with his elbow, and letting out a short chuckle.

[dantetakai]

Lily sat there, lying in the bed she had been given by her captain; she had spent a few hours after the battle patching herself and her new crew up. She hadn’t talked at all during it, which was odd even for her. She had skipped dinner that night and went to bed. And her dreams were fitful at best. She dreamed of twisted timelines and what could have been. She dreamed of her family, she dreamed of the pain she felt, but mostly, she dreamed of how much she just wanted to be held by her father and told she did a good job.

She sat there. Laying in the fetal position. The room around her was a mess, she just played there, for hours, until the next day when she woke up and walked to the bath room and stared at her arm, the bandages that covered the cuts caused by the metal of her gauntlet, which she had fixed. She hated herself right now. She felt like she had failed somehow. Somehow she had failed, and it drove her to insanity. She left the bathroom and walked to the table, eating the breakfast provided, it was… bland… didn’t taste as good as it should, she thought maybe she just wasnt that hungry, she barely finished her sandwich. she stayed quiet as her captain and Sora talked.

After they had talked she went out to the top of the ship, still in her pajamas. She stared at the island they approached, but she didn’t actually see it. She was day dreaming of the place where she had grown up. The place she had developed her skills and where she first learned what a party was. She sighed and stood there day dreaming.

[suigetsu]

The ocean was the same as always, but the place that Suigetsu became newly acquainted with was not the same as his previous home. He still got the strange stares, the gasps, the laughter, the name calling, and little respect. He towered over the civilians of Nuovo Romana and was easy to pick out. After all he was a six armed fishmen with an orange mohawk. Suigetsu did not fit in with anyone there so he kept to himself at the shore of the island. He gazed out to the horizon and his feet dangled into the waves that crashed so gently upon the beach. His piracy life was short but all ready rough. No money no friends but plenty of people who wouldn't mind seeing him die just due to his appearance.

His life was simple right now though. Roaming from one island to the next and training his combat skills to peak form from practicing underwater combat to do tricks that involved timing. Suigetsu stood from the sandy beach and headed in towards a forest area that was near the shoreline. His mind was centered on training at the moment. He picked up 6 large melon like fruits that were on the ground. He hurled them high into the sky at once. He quickly grabbed 4 swords and two pistols. His two pistols were grabbed by his upper right and left hands.

The fruits came down fast he shot two fruits quickly to start off and positioned himself below three of the fruits. He sliced one fruit that feel towards his face creating a splatter of juices on his sword. It was a refreshing splatter. The other two fruits were stabbed by his swords as they fell towards his hip. The last fruit came down and Suigetsu tossed his sword at the fruit. The fruit was punctured by the sword and the sword the stabbed into a tree. Suigetsu walked over took his sword and put the fruit back on the ground. He could smell something delicious and it was coming from the shore.

He ran straight towards the smell hoping to find a fine dinning surprise for him at the beach but once he approached the shore he did not see a table with food laying out for him. However he saw a ship in the distance. If only there was a way to get that ships food into his belly. His mouth started to drip blue venom due to his hunger. Suigetsu was now focused on something that he has loved. Eating.

[nash]

For the whole night, Nashara just tossed and turned nervously, rather than sleeping. Her wounds, though patched up by Lily, were still painful and itchy. The other reason was being on the same ship with these people. Even though she was now quite sure they didn't plan on hurting her either way, it still felt uncomfortable. And then there was Sora, who she hadn't met before. And she didn't feel all that at ease being on the same ship with people she hadn't met before. So rather than sleeping, she stepped out on the deck with a blanket across her back and softly played her guitar instead through the night.
Nashara didn't bother changing clothes. She liked her clothes and felt comfortable in them. At the announcment of breakfast, she quite eagerly rushed to the kitchen. She was starving. All that fighting and nervousness made her hungry. Really hungry. As she sat around the table with everyone, she first eyed the rest for a bit, somewhat suspiciously - mainly Sora, as she didn't know him at all. Looking first at her sandwich, she then looked at Genshi who prepared it, then at the spare sandwiches. First she grabbed her own and with her other hand reached for a second one and began stuffing them down like she hadn't been eating for weeks. Which was almost true, at least before her landing at Shivre Mountain. After eating she chugged down the lemonade and slowly walked to the fridge to grab a beer.
When she got back to the table, with an unlit cigarette between her teeth, there was a blue parchment spread across the table, after closer inspection, a blueprint of a ship. Standing slightly back she peeked at it and followed the conversation. It's not like she knew much about building ships, but ideas weren't all that complicated. But seeing as she had nothing to add, she rather kept quiet.

After that, she gave another glance at Genshi and nodded at him with a brief: "Thanks for the food." Then, being the only one smoking she thought she'd rather not smoke inside a room where people eat and slowly walked out to the deck. She looked at the island in the distance, slowly growing larger. It was an odd looking island. And it didn't feel... natural, which made it intriguing. The mechanized part looked rather fascinating once it was distinguishable and Nashara was wondering what it'll feel like to walk the streets.
With the cigarette lit and smoke slowly rising out of her mouth, her foot tapped the wooden floor and she strummed her guitar to her favorite song.

"~With a hii hii hoo and a hii hii hey!
We're hoisting the flag to be free
We will steal the show, tiger stripes go
We are tigers of the sea

Don't try to run, it's all said and done
There's adventure in sight
And the treasures we'll find, I'm sure you don't mind
We are taking it all tonight

Just walk away we will conquer it all
Pirates will stand and the losers will fall~"

[RK]

"I call it 'Slayer-Shark'. We can change the name if you guys don't like it later but this is it." Kaiser looked at the blue prints in awe. This spectacular looking ship could be his! "I’m going to take that off Bedrock and attach it to Slayer-Shark." Sora then pointed to the sides of the ship. "On each side we can have four cannons. No worries, I know how make em." Kaiser laughed a little. "Uzahahaha, That's excellent Sora." Sora started to speak again, Kaiser could see the fire in his eyes, he was ready. "I was also thinking we could make the ship half submarine. These motors shall run when we go underwater. We can make some glass cover us as we go down. I still haven't gotten all the parts down but this is basic. Also, we are going to need shipwright." Kaiser raised an eyebrow, he was expecting something great but this was above his expectations. "Sweet, that will be perfect for the plans i have!" Kaiser looked at his sandwich, inhaling the delicious smells, The food itself wasn't too fancy but Kaiser didn't look for outer appeal in food. As he took his first bite, the flavors slowly crept up on him and slapped him in the face. As he scarfed down his Sandwich he grabbed another and kept looking at the blue prints. His new ship, beta version.

Kaiser looked at the lemonade on the table, looked good. He took a large amount of the drink out of the pitcher with his Fishman Karate, and put it in his mouth. Heavenly. Kaiser looked out the door, it was open. The island was really close now. "Alright guys were at the island, lets go adventuring!" Kaiser looked at his crew. then something hit him like a brick. They had no money. Kaiser went into his pockets, he found half of a beri coin, how the hell did even there? He put the half coin in his pocket and went out to dock the ship. "Sora, Genshi, come help me dock the ship!"

The city was tinted with the Brass of the network of pipes running all throughout the city. The sounds of escaping steam filled his ears, the smells of tobacco, pastries and cologne all went through his nose. The sounds of men and women, children playing in the streets with toy guns, people bartering with local merchants. Kaiser also noticed that the town was filled with tinkerers and inventors. There had to be a shipwright here. "Alright guys lets split up and have some fun, we'll meet back here in 2 hours."

Kaiser walked down a brick road. Looking around he saw shops of all types. He walked into one of the local tinkers workshops. He looked into a glass box. Inside was a pair of goggles, and not just any goggles. There was a sign on the side of the box, which listed its features. Night Vision, Infrared, a clock, a compass, magnifying glass. Kaiser was struck with amazement at the Technology of the blue sea. The price however struck him with shock. 1,000,000 beri! Kaiser pulled out the little half of a coin is his pocket and looked at it with annoyance. He put it back in his pocket and was about to leave when the store owner called out to him. He was an old man, with a receding hair line and a thick white mustache. "Excuse me son, but you would happen to be him would you?" Kaiser looked at him with a raised brow, and scratched his head. "Well that all depends, i am a him, but am i the him you want?" The old man looked at Kaiser, "Follow me..." Kaiser watched as the old man opened a small hatch on the far side of the store. Then out of no where an elevator small enough for one person popped up, shocking Kaiser. "Erm, what is that thing old man?" The old man said nothing and started pushing Kaiser into the Elevator. "Their waiting for you boy." Kaiser looked at the old man, who was now ready to pull a lever behind his desk. "WHO THE HELL ARE YOOUUUU-" The old man had pulled the lever and Kaiser shot down under the island. The old man closed the hatch and continued work as usual. Kaiser shot down the shaft and the elevator fell into a pool of water then floated up to the top. He punched the roof of the elevator, and jumped out. Looking a round he saw that the room he was in was a large atrium. Much different from the metallic city above. A man in brown robs approached him. "Hello child, we have been expecting you." Kaiser punched the man away from him, then took a few steps back. "Get the hell away from me!" Kaiser looked at the man again, he looked unharmed. "It is your destiny to save our island!" Kaiser then heard hundreds of people shouting out the word "Destiny" over and over. "What makes you think its my destiny to save the island, and save it from what? This place is a freaking paradise!" The man removed his hood, revealing blue skin, gills, and fins. He was a Fishman. "This place is a paradise for the humans. We however has been forced underground!" Kaiser looked around, everyone was a Fishman. "Wait so that's why my punch didn't hurt you...but wait, why are you all underground and not on the surface?" The Fishman sighed. "The current ruler of the island is one of the most racist men in North Blue!"

"My name is Baxter these are the people i have sheltered from our rulers wrath." Kaiser sat down. This was a lot to take in at once. "So who forced you down here?" The Baxter sat down as well. "We did, one day the guards just started to kill fish folk." Kaiser was so confused. "That doesn't explain why i wasn't shot down though?" Baxter laughed. "It does make sense, it is because you are our savior, it is you who will free us!" Kaiser stood up. "I may not understand just whats going on, but i'll be damned if i let my people be tormented!" Thunderous cheers came from all around, and Kaiser was led to another elevator. Fish men started to pull on ropes to lift him up. He arrived in a dark room. When he saw a bleak bit of light he walked over to it, it was a door. He slowly opened it, it was the old mans shop. he just went in a big circle. Now however was not the time to be confused he had to round up his friends and get to the ruler so he could beat him up! Kaiser just had one question. "Whats the rulers name?" Kaiser heard a voice behind him, it was the old man. "His name...its Desmond." Kaiser nodded and ran out of the store and began to look for his friends, when he arrived at the beach to see a Fishman cutting up fruit. He had to get him out of here before he was shot!

(Were splitting up for now. Go find some adventure, soon i'll tie us all back in for the final fight with the countries leader.

[Harusame]

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The sandwiches exploded into his mouth with flavor. Sora already liked Genshi, the cook. When Genshi asked Sora if it was better than the marshmallows, he nodded his head rapidly as he chugged down a glass of lemonade. Usually he would have said no but this was delicious. He told Genshi how he would make arrangement's to the kitchen. It would be wonderful so he didn't have to worry. But he also told Genshi he didn't know good supplies for cooking so after they dock, Genshi would have to buy his own supplies. After Sora helped Kaiser and Genshi with docking, he went on his own. Nuovo Romano was like paradise to Sora. The part they docked on had a multitude of inventions and mechanics. Shops lined downed the place, shops filled with technology. The inventors eyes lit up as his mind ticked rapidly. Ideas filled his head, he was inspired. He walked down and admired every shop and store. The place was amazing. He kept walking happily until he noticed something between one of the alleyways. There were about five people sitting suspiciously in the alleyway. Sora looked away quickly before they realized. He still wondered what they were doing so he kept walking and went into the alleyway opposite of the one they were in. He scaled the wall easily due to the rock jutting out. When he got to the top he peeked his head slightly out to hear their conversation. "Man, Boss trusts us allot doesn't he?" said one of the men. "Shut up Sal, Desmond gave us a hard job. Protecting this devil fruit? That is tiresome." Sora's eyes widened at the mention of the cursed fruit. A devil fruit? Those things were very rare and hard to get. If he got it and ate it, he would be stronger than he ever imagined. He looked around and noticed no chests or places the devil fruit could be. Then the wooden plank caught his attention. It seemed to be covering something and Sora was sure it was the devil fruit. Sora immediately got up and jumped off the wall into the alleyway. He landed on one of the thugs heads and the man yelped as he fell. Sora kicked off his head and kicked another guard in the face. He landed on the floor and spun around to see one guard jab at him. Sora let him punch him then grabbed his opponents wrist. He twisted it and the man screamed. Using the guys hand, he swung the body to another guy approaching from behind and he flung the body at him. The man he had kicked in the face and the man he had jumped on both got up at either side of Sora now. He jumped up and kicked them both at once. They fell down with broken noses. One guy was left, a guy who had been watching doing nothing. He seemed very scared at the moment. Sora smiled and said "Boo." As he took a step towards him. The man screamed and ran away. Sora now went to the unguarded plank and removed it. Instead of finding a chest or box, he found stairs. He thought maybe it was a bad idea to go inside but the word Devil Fruit rang in his ears. "Here goes nothing." He said before plunging into darkness. After a while he walked into a room. It was small and seemed to be made out of earth. It seemed empty until he saw, right in the middle, the devil fruit. It lay there on a piece of earth sticking out. Sora was going to get it but something was wrong, this seemed too easy. After waiting for something to happened he decided to risk it and took a step towards it. Immediately lights shown from out of the darkness and something came forward, a robot. "There we go." Sora said. The robot beeped and bopped then spoke in a electronic voice. "Intruder Alert! Must protect Master Desmonds fruit! You shall not live!" Sora smirked, "Well see you bucket of bolts."[/style][STYLE=padding: 10px; letter-spacing: 1px; text-transform: lowercase; font-family: arial; font-size: 10px; color: #031D1E; text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; width: 345px;]made by kiwii at btn & ote![/style]

[northern]

Genshi smiled gleefully as most of his crewmates enjoyed their food, it warmed his heart to see his crew mates so happy with his cooking. Until of course, doctor Lily walked in and ate hers without making as much as a facial expression, strange, considering how loud and dynamic she behaved on the previous island.

"hmm, must be one of those things about girls I just don't understand." he thought to himself.

Genshi helped Kaiser and Sora dock, and nodded at Kaiser's order to split up. With no money on him, he would have to find food an alternative way. He began to wander the streets, looking into shop windows, seeing the tools and cutleries he couldn't afford. He wandered into the forest side of the island and examined the flora and fauna. He hid behind a shrub and watched as a bright blue pig trotted by, a smile spreading on the cook's face. Genshi unsheathed both of his swords and ran out of the shrubs, gathering the attention of his target. However, it was too late, Genshi had stabbed both of his swords into the beast's large round body. Following it's deafening wail, the boar fell to it's side, breathing heavily. Genshi watched as the being's breathing stopped, and it's lifeless body went limp. Genshi dropped his swords and clutched the boar with both arms as he tried to lift it, boy was it ever heavy, maybe he should get help from one of his crew mates. As he turned around, he was met with three other boars, all larger than the one Genshi had killed. Sweat began to drip off his face as he raised his hands in protest, attempting to get them to relax. Then again, animals really were no good at understanding. He picked up his swords, which had only made the blue pigs angrier.

"Hmph, more meat for the crew." he thought, leaping towards the boar family, swords in his hands.

[dantetakai]

Lily stood there. Staring at the city. Fighting back the tears she felt creeping up on her. She slid down the railing till she was sitting on her legs with the knees touching and feet father away from each other. She shuddered and choked back a cry. The tears splashed on the deck of the ship, the only person who could have seen her as she was Nash, the musician of the crew. But she didn’t care; she could keep it in any more as she cried quietly into her arms. She had almost been killed by her father, the one man she had spent years and years trying to get to come back.

Oh so many years she had spent. The reason she loved parties so much was because of that want to bring him back. Every party she had ever made was for him, hidden inside the fun, was the longing that maybe, just maybe, one of the flyers for the party had reached him. And had come and they could be a family again.

She cried out. The pain in her arm reminded her just how much he didn’t even care. It felt like she had just had every ounce of happiness and joy smashed from her heart.

Beside her in her mind’s eye sat her inner self, the evil side of her, who liked the pain she felt normally. But even this... even this betrayal was evil in the evil lily’s eyes. There were something’s that even evil found sacred. She sighed.

“Even I…find what he did to you disturbing. But you must forget him. He has proven to you the worth of all the hard work you’ve put into trying to be the best you could be. He is…he is nothing but a basted that doesn’t deserve to live any more Lily.”

Saying out loud so all around could hear her, not meaning too. “DON’T TALK ABOUT MY FATHER LIKE THAT!”

[suigetsu]

Suigetsu watched the ship as it got closer to the island. They would find no paradise in a place like this. This place is a hell hole meant for the racist people that built this government. All Suigetsu wanted to see was the government to be burnt down to ashes with the leaders left in the burning flames to be reunited together after death in the depths of hell. Suigetsu was slowly becoming rather bitter about those who judged too quickly. His boiling point was lower than usual but his anger was at high. He never had an issue with this before, but he never was this alone.

As the ship docked. Suigetsu decided to do the opposite of the boat and go out to sea. He swam deep into the ocean. His mind became clear and rested as he swam to the bottom of the ocean. There was a small but lively coral reef. It had many types of sea life. Everything flowed together even when some fish were taken by predators, it was still peaceful. Usually the sea was home to him, but lately he had been losing faith in who he was anymore. Was a true pirate? Is he a swordsman? Could he become a great swordsman pirate like fishmen pirates before him? For now he could not answer these questions. There was hope and confidence in how abilities but nothing definite. One thing was definite though, he needed to train more if he ever wanted to become the next fishmen legendary swordsman. Time to become the predator that he was. He quickly dashed towards the coral reef and unsheathed his 6 swords for a slash all focused on the center of the reef. Once the contact was made the reef was split in half with pieces of the reef floating in the water like broken shards of glass they shined in the light. Many fish came out of the reef. He quickly spotted his favorite underwater snack the delicious sardine. The swarmed in a large group, suigetsu bolted towards the pack of sardines and led head first with his stinger sticking out of his mouth. Four sardine were on the tip of his stinger lifeless and suigetsu brought his stinger back into his mouth and started to eat the sardines.

After his meal, he arose from the sea. He walked back to his other training grounds within the woods. The fruit still layed on the ground. He climbed up a near by tree to get some more unrippened fruits. He threw them up in the air repeatedly until he became tired of the same trick. His slicing of fruits got old. So he decided to try to take a bit of the fruit. However it covered his mouth in a terrible sour flavor. He heard cracking behind him. He pointed his swords to the sounds orgin but could not see anything easily. "What do you want?!? I'm not bothering with your city anymore."

[nash]

Splitting up sounded like a good deal to the musician. It's not that she disliked her crew mates, but everything was just too sudden. She still didn't quite get over losing her old crew - all her friends - and she wasn't all that fast to just trust and befriend people and the fact that they already trusted her as a friend and crew mate was confusing and, in a way irritating her. Having some time to herself and just wander around felt like she could let things sink in. And maybe she wouldn't even have to get into any unnecessary fights this time.
With the ship docked and everyone off on their own business, Nashara looked at the city from the deck. Up close, all that mechanization looked almost intimidating. There was a soft tingling in her hands and feet, something she always felt when she was excited or nervous. This time, she was both.

Cocking her head from side to side a few times to make her neck crack rather loudly, she got ready to get off the ship and head into the streets, but something caught her attention. Soft sobbing reached her ear, followed by a voice loud enough to make the words clear.
“DON’T TALK ABOUT MY FATHER LIKE THAT!”

The voice was a familiar one, but it took a few moments before Nashara could place it. It was a voice that she hadn't hear crying yet. Slowly turning and walking towards the direction of where the voice came from, she confirmed it: it really was Lily, the pink doctor, sitting by the railing of the ship.
Nashara closed her eyes and with a long sigh blew out a large cloud of smoke through her lips.
'Wonderful,' she thought inside her head as she slowly walked closer, her footsteps audible but not too loud and the metal claws softly jingling against the buckles on her boots with every step. 'Why do I get to deal with these things?'
She shook her head and leaned with her lower back against the railing, not too far from Lily. Hands in pockets and head tilted far back so she could look up at the sky, she blew another smoke cloud out of her mouth, before speaking in a rather low voice.
"I don't know what's troubling you, but I know some things can be really damn painful. And crying won't change much."
Nashara kept her gaze up to the sky while she talked. She didn't want to look at people suffering and crying. Because she herself never wanted to be seen by anyone when the pain was too much to bear and she just had to cry and let it out.
"Keep yourself and your brain busy. Music works for me. Sometimes alcohol is better." she grinned a little, but Lily couldn't see, as Nashara was still facing up at the sky. "What happened to that party mood, anyway? Come on, let's have a drink or... do something. Can't leave you here all alone and crying, can I?"

With hands still in her pockets, Nashara pushed herself off the railing to stand up straight and turned to slowly walk away and off the ship, still not looking at the crying girl.
She hummed a gentle, somewhat melancholic tune as she walked slowly enough to let Lily collect herself and catch up.

[RK]

"What do you want?!? I'm not bothering with your city anymore." Kaiser stopped for a moment when he heard the Fishman yell at him. This one had multiple arms, and was a swordsman. Kaiser approached him slowly, hoping his mood would change when he revealed he was a Fishman. Kaiser stepped out of the brush of the wilderness. "Hello, my name is Kaiser Spine, a Pirate captain. You should get off this island now before you get hurt." Kaiser could tell this Fishman didn't want to listen to him. "I'm going to go beat up Desmond, he rules over this island right? You're welcome to join me, if you think you're strong enough." Kaiser ran off back through the brush of the woods. Something caught his eye however. It appeared to be some sort of latch, with a door you'd find on a submarine. He walked over to it and tried to twist off the handle. It was rusted, and moist, and pretty cold. Kaiser gave up and just punched the door in until it broke off its hinges.

The latch led to an underground sewer system. The stench immediately engulfed Kaiser. As he walked along, he saw a light at the end of the tunnel, at first he thought he was dead. He pinched himself. He wasn't dead to his relief, he was sure the stench had got to him. He walked closer and closer into the light when he started to hear voices. He came to a door. with a small slit in it, which is where the light pierced into the sewer. As he opened the door, Kaiser heard the voices clearer and clearer. He saw stairs and walked up them as that was where the voices were coming from. When he reached the top, there was another door, he could hear the voices now. "Please sir i'll have the money in double next week!" The man sounded like he was in pain, and was in fear for his life. The words he spoke trembled out of his mouth. Kaiser then heard gunfire. "You are to have my money, Tripled, by midnight tomorrow, or that little shop of yours is going to have a little accident..." There was a new voice now. It sounded fearsome, and oddly, was slightly funny sounding. Like he could only speak at one pitch. Kaiser pressed his ear up to where the sound pierced through. Hoping to listen better. He heard another voice now, this was one was even creepier. "Tell me now, what was it you were talking about, this, Protocol Omega?" The voice went back to the first man. "Yes it is my ultimate plan, here are the exact details. Once the Protocol begins, all will kneel at the feet of I, Lord Desmond!" Kaiser stood back in shock, he was listening in on Desmond! This was a golden opportunity to burst through the wall and strike, but Kaiser didn't know how many guards were on the other side. Or even how powerful Desmond himself was, and who was this man he was talking to? Kaiser had to many questions. Kaiser had to go back to the surface and gather his friends, then plan an attack back at the Bedrock.

Kaiser went back the way he came. When he rose back up to the surface, he was greeted by 10 men with guns. "You're Maelstrom Kaiser, Captain of the Maelstrom pirates, bounty of 4,000,000 beri, you are under arrest by King Desmond of Nuovo Romano!" Kaiser still with his hand, on the door to the sewer, looked at the guards with a soul piercing stare. "Why don't you just kill me?" Kaiser said as he brought sewer water up to his arm and started to spin it around. "We are under strict orders to bring you to Lord Desmond!" Kaiser stood up he had enough water. "Ugh, Lord, King, Make up your minds already!" Shutting the hatch Kaiser looked back at the guards. "Fishman Karate: Whirlpool Punch!" The water started to swirl much faster and grew large in size. Kaiser then dashed forward at rapid speeds, and the large whirlpool hit four of the guards head on. He then hit another two as he brought his arm back. The four guards left ran in terror. "Odd, i think i may have gotten, faster? Never mind that now, i need to find Sora and Genshi so they can help me!"

Kaiser ran through the forest, until he heard a large amount of noise, like, boars squealing. It was Genshi, he was fighting Boars. Kaiser assumed he was getting them for food and stepped out into the field of battle. Running up to one of the pigs he gave it a nice sucker punch to the snout. "Hey Genshi, i need your help, I need to go find Sora, i'll give you both a rundown of whats happening when we get to the Castle. Also when you're done here, meet me at the castle!" Kaiser then ran off into the city again. He looked everywhere for Sora, but couldn't find him. He then decided to just head to the Castle, with any luck he would find his own way. Kaiser made his way down the streets. Various gasps and such were heard. Kaiser was used to it by now. As he made his way up the street, he stopped in his tracks, he looked at his hands. He had just gained a revelation. He felt his knees weaken as he fell to the ground. He crawled towards the castle ever so slowly before getting back to his feet. He wanted to speak but the words were lost. He managed to get the words out. "I...I...I HAVE A BOUNTY!" Kaiser darted to the castle now, this news was very exciting for him, even if it took a while to register.

[Harusame]

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[STYLE=margin-right: 33px; text-align: center; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 25px; text-transform: uppercase; color: #8FB3B4;]KEEP YOUR HOPES UP HIGH[/style][STYLE=float: right; width: 250px; text-align: center; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 25px; text-transform: lowercase; font-style: italic; color: #F2F9F9; line-height: 17px; background-color: #043233; border-top: 1px dotted #043233; border-left: 1px solid #043233; border-bottom: 1px dotted #043233; padding-right: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 20px; border-top-left-radius: 20px; margin-top: 118px; margin-bottom: -147px; margin-right: -118px; -webkit-transform: rotate(90deg); -o-transform: rotate(90deg); -moz-transform: rotate(90deg);]AND YOUR HEAD DOWN LOW[/style][STYLE=float: left; background-color: #FFFFFF; border-top: 3px solid #043233; border-left: 3px solid #043233; padding: 10px; font-family: arial; font-size: 11px; color: #031D1E; text-align: justify; margin-top: -3px; margin-bottom: 0px; width: 345px; line-height: 12px;][STYLE=float: right; padding-left: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px;][/style]It had been about ten minutes and Sora realized this 'robot' wasn't a full robot but a man in a mech. The mech's hands could pop out and punch Sora in the face. Under it it had a oil slick machine so whenever Sora ran towards him, he would slip. Then there was the flamethrower, that was a problem. The intensity was huge. Sora felt bored falling, getting punched, and almost burning to bits. He was sweaty and on the right side of his abdomen, his jacket was black. The stupid flamethrower had ruined it, and Sora was gonna make that guy pay. "How do you like it? I am beating you to a pulp." Sora gritted his teeth and glared at the man. He felt like a good punch in the mans balls would straighten him out. And there was the devil fruit, he wanted it so bad. Sora ran to the guy but he released oil again and Sora slipped and smashed on the ground. He rolled over as the flamethrower spat flames, missing it by a inch. The ground engulfed in flames. Flames...Oil...Sora's mind ticked and a idea bursted into his mind. A smile spread across his face. "I am gonna kill you!" He had faked his anger. He ran towards the guy again and the oil busted out. This time, Sora bent down so that when the oil came, he wold simply slide towards the guy. That part worked well and he darted towards the sucker. Then as he slid, he picked up oil on his hands. When he got right to the guy he jumped up and put the oil on the guys face. The man spat and nearly fell back. Sora then kicked the flamethrower out of the guys hand and picked it up. He aimed it at the guys face that was shielded with a mask. The man ducked and Sora plan was done. The mech/guy rammed Sora abdomen and Sora flew back slipping on the slick. The flamethrower flew and the man grabbed it in the air and aimed it at Sora. The boy laying on the ground was sure he would die. A flamethrower and a mech was his end. He closed his eyes ready to burn but nothing happened. He opened his eyes and the guy couldn't get the flames to come out. Its broken? Its broken! Sora rolled to the side without oil and ran to the fruit. The man was distracted by the weapon. By the time the man looked at Sora, Sora held the fruit in his hands. "You must not eat that! It will...give you gas!" The boy looked at the guy with a snicker, "Shut up Mech boy." He put the fruit into his mouth. For a moment, he felt like his tongue and throat dried up. Then his a bitter-sweet taste engulfed his taste-buds. But after that, the worst part came, the sit. Sora felt as if he was gagging on dog shit and started holding his neck. "Bleh! What the hells in this shit!" He shouted. A tingling feeling rushed tjrough his veins and he felt like he was changing. When he stood, he realized that he was taller than usual. He looked down at his paws...paws? Sora looked dumbfounded at his paws. What the hell was going on? The guy gasped and looked at Sora. "Inu Inu no Mi: Model Canaan! I am dead!" Sora smirked. He jumped at the now tiny mech and kicked him across the room. The mech flew back and his whole suit broke. The man now laid their with a broken suit and he was unconscious. Sora laughed, a crazy, creepy laugh. "A zoan? I could get used to this!" Sora concentrated and turned back into a human. He walked up the steps after he avoided the oil and came to the surface. He shielded his eyes as the underground made him sensitive to light. Then when he resurfaced he decided he would find the closest friend. He concentrated and imagined himself in Canaan dog form. Immediately he felt the tingle again and was smaller and more petit. He sniffed the air and his nose was engulfed with different sents and one in particular made him bark. He smelled pork and blood. There was a hint of clay and metal involved. That had to be Genshi. He darted out of the alley was and ran towards the sent. People stopped and started as a dog with clothes dashed through the audience. Sora didn't give a damn about them, they never felt how it's like to be a dog. 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[northern]

Genshi was having trouble with the boars, they weren't much stronger than the one he had first killed, but they had the numbers advantage. He was beginning to panic, until he was saved by Kaiser, much to his happiness. Genshi watched as the boars turned tail and ran off, at the sight of two opponents. The pirate sheathed his swords and grabbed the boar he had slaughtered, and tried to lift it again. he wasn't having much luck, but his captain was present, Genshi needed to show his strength. He summoned every ounce of strength in his body, and managed to lift the pig a few inches off the ground, only to drop it moments afterwards, and falling to his knees.

"Dammit, I pulled a hammy." He whined, sitting down and rubbing his leg, feeling a bit embarrassed.

He was ordered to find Sora and to meet him at the castle. Genshi saluted, but slowly lowered his hand. He had been on the island a while, but was there a castle? Did he see a castle? He wanted to admit that he hadn't seen a castle, but after having pulled his hamstring in front of Kaiser, and having called it a 'hammy', he wanted to seem helpful. Genshi slowly ran his fingers through his snow white hair and stood up, checking his leg by walking around a bit. He slapped the boar, thinking that he'll pick it up later...that is to say, he'll try to pick it up later, and hopefully succeed. The scent of the pig seemed to attract animals, as a dog showed up...and it was wearing people clothes.

"I won't tell people how to treat their pets. But this is borderline crazy. It looks like they dressed a human, and just...turned said human into a dog." he said, patting the dog, and realizing that Kaiser had left.

He quickly backpedaled a few feet away, when the dog began to speak, claiming to be Sora. Now that the dog mentioned it, he did look a lot like Sora. Genshi stood up and picked him up, he couldn't comprehend what exactly happened. Probably devil fruit related.

"You could be useful in this form. We need to find a castle, could you sniff it out? If you do, I'll give you a big hunk of meat. Who's a good boy? Who's a good boy? I'm sorry. I never had a dog before and this feeling is pretty incredible. Now find us that castle, and our captain boy." he said, holding Sora under his arm and running off in a random direction.