One Huge Bird! Beginning of the Journey

[Tay]

It had been about three days since Tayzo set sail from Karate Island, in order to pursue his dream of traveling the world. In order to go on this voyage, Tayzo had to leave everything about becoming a marine behind, and that even included his parents. They wouldn't find out about his choice until another year, but even with it so far off, Tayzo still felt as if he should go back now, so that he wouldn't disappoint his family. "No", he said. "I can't second guess my choices. It is time for me to decide my own destiny". Unbeknownst to him though, his father had come home almost a year early, and had learned the truth about his kid. He was now on his way to bring Tayzo home, whatever the cost.

He continued to sail his small boat through the waters. Up ahead he could make out the view of an island in the distance, and what looked like a huge tree sticking up from the island and reaching to the heavens. "Finally, three days and all I've seen is water!" He picked up an ore and rowed faster until he reached the shore, which was really just a bunch of huge rocks. He had to slow down or he would've wrecked himself. After tying his boat down, he climbed up the rocks and stared up into the bright sun, trying to see how high that huge tree reached, but he couldn't. "You don't see trees that huge ever-" Tayzo was abruptly cut off as he felt claws grip onto his shoulders, and he was hoisted into the air in one swift motion.

"What the heck?!" Tayzo almost cried out as the claws dug deeper into his shoulders. He turned his head, and was able to make out a huge colorful bird, and the claws turned out to be talons instead. The bird was flying higher and higher up, close to the huge tree. It must have a nest here meaning... "You're trying to eat me!!" Tayzo's instincts kicked in, and he swung his leg up over his head, kicking the bird right in the beak. The bird was caught off guard, and with a loud squawk, it dropped Tayzo mid-air. He went free falling toward the ground. He brought out his bladed tonfas from their sheathes on his sides. He shoved them both into the tree, cutting right through it, slowing down his fall. He hung on as he reached the ground, then pulled his weapons out of the tree and made a run for it. "This place, it must be Torino Kingdom! I read about this place in my studies. The birds here...they rule the humans! Gotta get outta here!" He dashed toward the rocky shores, his adrenaline pumping him with excitement. He was almost tempted to turn around and fight the bird, but he didn't. He burst from the trees and saw his boat. He stopped for a second. "Wow that bird brought me pretty far in." He shook his curiosity off, which was something always pricking him as he loved to learn, and continued down the rocky shore.

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Meanwhile, another pirate, whose name was Mamoru Masaru, was sailing the seas. He was on a very small boat that had space only for three people at the most, unless they were extremely huge in which case the boat cannot store him or her. Luckily for this pirate, he was only five feet five inches and had loads of space to sit and stretch his legs and contain his belongings in it at the same time. The boy was separated from his family, who were all fellow pirates. Being as adventurous as he was, he wanted to explore the world on his own while looking for his loved ones. A slightly younger version of the boy would have headed out to the Grandline on the small boat but he learned a few lessons in his past couple of years and thus was mature enough to decide that he needed a ship and a crew. He wasn't dumb enough to go out there with no purpose. He had his fair share of reasons, one being going further than his father did in his days, two was to find his father and twin sister (who were together) and make sure they were alright and the third reason was to honor his mother (who was buried under the sea), by being in the sea, always. An equally important goal of his was to find his elder brother and see what he was up to. After all, he was the reason the young pirate got separated from the rest of the family in the first place. He was chasing his brother who was trying to escape and he got washed away in the process. He had no idea that his twin sister panicked the morning after his departure and caused more havoc but he would learn of it eventually.

Masaru had no interest in visiting the islands. He just wanted to be in the sea, where his mother was buried and where he was content. However, he needed a crew and most pirates, unlike Masaru, were not dumb enough to travel on their own. This gave him a reason to visit the islands. He had to gather a basic crew before he set sail to the Grandline. He himself was primarily a combatant, he used a specialized combat knife to fight. The boy could fight a swordsman of his level only with his knife. It looks as if he uses his knife as a weapon to show off but it is in fact his main weapon. Masaru was a horrible, horrible cook. He could cook but nobody else liked the dishes he made. They were usually burnt and sometimes even raw, not even cooked properly. However, he refuses to accept that he is a horrible cook. Despite of this, he was considerate enough to know that he needed a cook who can cook something the rest of his yet-to-form crew can eat and so, he needed a cook. The other things his crew needed were an inventor, a shipwright, more combatants and whatnot.

As he was short of food supplies, he decided to visit an island to hunt down some food. He heard rumors that the island he was about to visit had many birds of different kinds. Even though he preferred seafood, he was out of methods to get anything out of the sea. Masaru considered training a bird here to catch fish for him. With hopeful thoughts, he approached the Kingdom of Torino on his small boat. Little did he know of the pirate cook being chased out of the island by a huge bird. From a distance, if he looked, Tayzo could see Masaru coming towards the island, his sail set high. The sail had his jolly roger printed on it. Unlike most jolly rogers, this one did not have a skull. It just had three big red vertical lines next to each other imprinted on it. Masaru stood on the edge of the boat, in a proud stance as he finally saw the island. Eventually, the boat reached the island and Masaru stepped off the boat and began stretching. The clueless pirate was astounded to see a giant bird chasing down another person, who was running toward him, or more, the shore. The pirate who just arrived at the island yelled to the pirate who was running towards him while gesturing with his hands, "Shoo-shoo you idiot! You'll drive him towards me!!" The boy didn't seem to hear him as he approached closer and Masaru could now see the huge, huge colorful bird clearly as ever. The bird slowly opened its mouth. Was it about to dive at him and eat him up? Or was it about to make the loudest noise he ever heard? Only time will tell. Well, it did. The bird moved its tongue and vibrated it rapidly while screeching, or so it seemed. He was definitely not expecting what came next, and the other boy probably wasn't either. The Masaru was sent away and just left speechless with his jaw dropped to the floor as the bird frantically yelled its head off as loud as it could, "MOOOOOOOOOOO!!"

[Tay]

Tayzo burst from the trees, and with him, was the huge bird. He continued down the shore, laughing hysterically with excitement, not even realizing there was another boat that had just pulled up. Tayzo heard a protesting voice and looked up, seeing the green haired person waving his hands as if telling him to shoo. Tayzo continued toward him and his own boat, jumping down the rocks. Now closer, he could hear the boy and what he was saying, but by now he was too close to his boat to care. But then, his trademark mischievous smile boarded onto his face. Instead of jumping onto his own boat, he got on the other guy's boat, ignoring the protest from him once more. He figured if he got on his own boat, then the bird would only destroy it trying to get to him.

As soon as he got on the boat and turned around, and saw the bird opening his large beak. Tayzo was sure it was about to swallow them both whole along with the boat, but to his surprise it let out the weirdest sound he had ever heard from a bird. Tayzo fell over on the deck, laughing even more than before, while the newcomer just stared at the bird with his mouth wide open. When the bird finished bellowing, numerous trees began to shake further inland, causing the rocky shore to even rumble. Tayzo stopped laughing and got up, looking toward the sky. What he saw made him shiver with fear as numerous birds, about the same size as the one in front of them, flew up into the air and toward them. "Uh Oh...." Tayzo whispered to the boy. "Okay, straight to the point. It looks like we have two options. Run or fight. Running would be futile though, since they can fly. So we actually have one option." Tayzo chuckled despite his fear, trapping the newcomer in the situation with him. But then his conscience started to get the better of him, knowing that if this guy got hurt or killed, it would be Tayzo's fault, since he had brought this bird here. "Ok nevermind, you just get away." Tayzo said and hopped off the guy's vessel. He looked up toward the birds in the sky and sighed. "Ok 17 years of martial arts training, lets see if Shimo was right about you saving my life one day." and with that, he charged.

He unsheathed his bladed tonfas, the osbidian darkness glowing in the sunlight. With a soaring leap and an upward swing, he brought down the 1st bird that had been following them, using his jumping slice technique. He continued upward, jumping off the body of the falling bird to stay in the air, and then he swung his long legs out, kicking a few more of the nearby birds, but that was where he messed up, as another grabbed one of his legs in its large beak and clamped down hard. "Augh! Stupid bird" Tayzo winced at the pain, but brought his other leg up, pushing it against the face of the huge bird, until he could yank his other leg free. He went free falling toward the ground for the second time today, but this time the huge tree wasn't anywhere near enough to shove his tonfas into to slow down his fall. Unless he somehow miraculously survived hitting huge rocks headfirst with full momentum from falling, he knew that his short journey was already coming to end.

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As the other pirate got into his boat, Masaru was about to push him out of the boat but to his surprise, the bird did the job by making a priceless screech that made him fall over the deck in laughter. Masaru then got on the boat and prepared to row away, disregarding the fact that the birds can fly and can chase him down. Since the spotlight was seemingly on the other boy, Masaru could sneak away. He surreptitiously grabbed the other boat with one of his hands, the blue-haired boy's boat and rowed away with his other hand. He left the boy to whisper to himself. Regardless of his efforts, one of the large birds noticed him fleeing and chased to him. The bird flew faster than he could row and thus he was caught easily. Desperately, Masaru tried to shoo the bird away using the oar in his free hand. His other hand was grabbing the second boat and so he was stuck with only one hand; his left hand. However, as a second bird came to the scene, he was left with no choice but to let go of the boat he was stealing. He used his right hand now to grab the second oar and attempt to scare off the second bird. His efforts were fruitless as the birds grabbed his oars with their sharp talons. Being as foolish as he was, he grabbed on to the oars and unwisely let the birds carry him to land. Fortunately for him, the birds flew low to the ground and were dumber than him. As soon as he saw land beneath his feet, he let go of the oars and safely touched the ground where he stood firm, not knowing what to do. The boats were gone and they were both stuck in an island filled with gargantuan birds.

Just as he landed, he saw the other boy free falling from a good height. He figured that he couldn't risk letting this boy die. If he did die, Masaru would be the only target left for the birds! He needed the pirate to stay alive long enough to serve as a distraction for his own escape or he needed to fight the birds alongside the pirate. Either way, he needed him alive. Masaru quickly jumped to the spot where the boy was about to land. He promptly caught the blue-haired pirate on his shoulder and put him on the ground. "I uh.. lost your boat. We're sort of uh, stuck here for a while. So.. What's your name?" He gawkily attempted to make a conversation in the inappropriate moment he was stuck in.

As soon as he said this, he looked up to see a wave of birds diving towards them. They weren't left with many choices but to fight them until they surrender or somehow make and execute an escape plan while hiding from them. They were loads and loads of birds. Fighting them could take days. The kingdom was ruled by birds. Hiding from them could be a very difficult task. Masaru, for what it was worth, drew his sword, or more, his specialized combat knife. He prepared to face the coming wave."We're so damn screwed."

[Tay]

Tayzo was completely calm as he fell, pissed at the fact he was about to die, but calm. He closed his eyes and thought about everything he was going to leave unsolved when he died. He would have let down his parents and proved them right that he should of been a marine, all at once, not to mention leaving his goal of seeing the world unfulfilled. Suddenly, the wind from his fall stopped. He felt himself being held and opened his eyes. He looked down and saw the green haired boy from earlier. Tayzo looked toward the water and saw the two boats, but no green haired boy. "What the...You tried to steal my boat!" Tayzo said, knowing he should be grateful for the fact that the boy came back for him. The green haired guy apologized in an awkward manner and then moved on to bigger things.

"Call me Tayzo. Tayzo Wills" He said as the guy asked him his name in the worst of moments. "Whatever your name is, tell me after we defeat these birds, cause I have an idea". He set his eyes on the smallest bird of the two dozen. "We can't defeat them all, cause of the numbers gain, but all creatures love their babies. Follow my lead bro" Tayzo said and charged stupidly for the second time today. The smallest bird was behind the entire bunch, obviously they were keeping it safe, but letting it experience his first fight with humans. Tayzo sheathed his tonfas, causing confusion among the ranks of the birds. He jumped and punched the lowest bird, then grabbed its huge wing and pulled himself atop. Tayzo didn't look back to see if the other boy had did the same. He slapped the bird on its back, making it squawk and fly around crazily. "Woah there Flappy! Onward to the little birdy!" The huge bird he was on flapped angrily at its new name and flew deeper into its allies, and Tayzo had to dodge numerous pecking beaks, some of which hit the bird he was riding. He swung his fists until he lost count of how many hits he had landed, but then he went haywire with panic when the huge bird flung him off its back and into the air.

Tayzo was prepared for another free fall, but barely three seconds he landed on the back of another bird, one who was barely holding his weight up in the air. It flapped frantically and Tayzo realized it was the little bird he had set his eyes on. "Haha thanks Flappy!" Tayzo teased the huge bird and pushed down with his weight on the back of the smaller bird he was on. It squawked with fear and they both went flying toward the ground. As they got closer, Tayzo let up on his weight, then jumped off the bird, but grabbing its leg so it couldn't go anywhere. He reeled it in by the leg and hugged around its body, ensuring it would go nowhere. The huger birds floated in the air, all frozen in panic, not knowing what to do for the little guy. "Let US go and you can have your young back" Tayzo said, emphasizing on the US part as he looked around for the green haired boy that saved his life, but then his stomach growled with hunger. "Hmm, I wonder if that guy has a hot plate or something on his vessel. I could cook up this birdy real quick in some curry over the rice I left on my boat." Tayzo said laughing, making the huge birds freak out in the air, but then he shut his mouth quick, realizing he just spoke aloud about the fact that he can cook, which he didn't like to expose to others.

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Masaru was not so fortunate this time as his new ally of sorts had charged forward, leaving him behind to face the coming birds on his own. Now, he couldn't charge forward, it was too late for that. The enormous birds were closing in on him and he couldn't possibly run to the other side without being caught by the beaks or talons of the colorful birds above. Even though he didn't believe that he could possibly survive the attacks coming at him, he stood firm and regained composure within seconds. The boy knew that he had to get used to these kinds of situations but he never expected a huge flock colorful flying cows, so to speak, charging at him. Tayzo, had charged into the flock and punched loads of birds on his way in. He had punched loads. Out of around a dozen coming at Masaru, over half were injured.

Taking advantage of the situation, Masaru acted quickly. The first bird that dived at him made the worst mistake of its life. As soon as its beak reached within the somewhat short boy's range, he hit the bird's hard beak with his specialized combat knife. He swung really hard. His knife was no ordinary knife. Upon close inspection, it can be noticed that his knife did not recoil. The metal part of the knife was basically an alloy containing plutonium, uranium and osmium. The handle was made of lead and covered in hard rubber. The knife had a name; Kaminari which is Japanese for Thunder. Even the glove he wore on his right hand had properties that helped him resist the recoil. The glove too had a name. It was called the Teikō which is Japanese for Resistance. As the Kaminari hit the beak of the bird with immense force and the momentum of the swing, the hard beak cracked and the bird came to a halt in shock and yelled very, very loudly. This one seemed to have said, "****! That one hurt!!" However, it sounded more like "MoOoOoOo"

It yelled very loudly. Most of the birds around the bird who screeched (including the said bird itself) fell to the ground, dazed by the loudness of the sound but the birds in front of him, around Tayzo, were unaffected. Masaru struggled to not fall down himself but failed to do so as he fell on one knee, got up and then fell on the other. He limped towards the scene in front of him, covering his years in pain. He was generally an idiotic person but he managed to figured out their weakness; loud noises. If he, as a human managed to tolerate (with difficulty), the screech of the bird and the birds around it couldn't do the same, there's something there. That wasn't the only thing that gave the weakness away. Birds generally do not moo but these birds here do. There must be an explanation for that and Masaru assumed that someone must have brought a cow in the island and the birds, who listened intensively must have adopted the language. One more thing was how the first bird managed to call out an entire flock from the jungle with a single call. He also took the fact that the birds looked sort of stupid and presumed correctly that they were. The birds who abducted him from the boats flew low to the ground and grabbed to the oars assuming he would hold on (which he dumbly did, being as stupid as he was himself). The behavior suited the birds. Masaru had it all figured out now. He tried to lift one of the birds from the ground but to no avail as they were too heavy. Little did Masaru know that the birds were more cunning than he thought they were. Even though the loud noise did knock most of them out, two of them were fine. They were too far to be affected but fell down to the ground and played dead. They were both around seven feet in front of him.

"Oi, oi!" Masaru yelled loudly, talking to Tayzo as he looked over his shoulder at the boats slowly drifting away. He did take notice of Tayzo's words that implied that he could cook. He needed a crew and a cook was an essential part of one. Up until now he had intended to make his way out of the island, regardless of what the birds make of Tayzo or what he makes of them. He wanted out but now that he learned of this, he was interested in asking him to join a crew which he was trying to build. "Our supplies are in the boats. They are drifting away. Make the baby bird yell loudly, it'll stun those cows! We might lose our boats so I think we should keep the baby and the other dead birds as emergency f-" The two birds who were playing dead lost it at this point. They charged at Masaru from both sides and hooked him with their large wings and clawed at him with their talons, taking him away to the skies as he yelled "ood supplieeeesss!~"

Or did they? Nope. They didn't. They were injured and so were their wings. Turns out Tayzo punched them both before. The birds lifted Masaru a good five feet up in the air before falling flat on the ground, landing the boy on his bum and both birds on their faces. "...Ow."

[Tay]

Tayzo held the baby bird tightly and watched as most of the other birds begin to fall from the sky, stunned and unconscious. Tayzo looked at the green haired boy and smirked. "Wow, that was pretty co-" He was cut off as two birds jumped up and grabbed the boy but then they crumpled and fell back to the ground, with a faceplant. Tayzo laughed and held his fist, remembering hitting those two in their wings. The last few of the birds in the air stood frozen in fear as their numbers had now dwindled. Tayzo nodded at the green haired boy's idea and slapped the wing of the baby bird. "Sorry little bro" The bird shrieked with an eeriely loud noise and the other birds in the air used their wings to cover their ears which disabled their flying and they fell toward the ground, faceplanting like the others. "Ha, it worked." He let go of the baby bird and it flew away into the trees out of fear, leaving the older birds behind and unconscious on the ground.

Tayzo got up and walked over to the guy, helping him up. "So, it looks like we won" He said, smiling his mischievious smille. He dashed away from the boy and dived into the water from the rocks. The boats had drifted a good distance away, so it took Tayzo a good 3 minutes of swimming to get to them. He climbed aboard the green haired boys vessel and then grabbed his smaller boat, tieing the rope he had on it to the other guy's boat. He looked toward the shore and watched the green haired boy waving both arms at him. Tayzo was tempted to leave him on the island, stranded, for trying to steal his boat before, but once again his conscience punched him in the gut and within a few minutes he had drifted the two boats back to the shore, where the birds still lay stunned and unconscious. "You're lucky you saved my life...twice" Tayzo spoke with his lips poked out to the side. "Lets grab two of these huge birds and Ill cook em up while we get out of here before they wake u-" Tayzo slapped himself in the face, realizing he had just exposed his cooking skills once again. He tried to act like it didn't happen and grabbed one of the birds, hoisting it up on his shoulder and dashing back to the ships. He stopped abruptly, almost dropping the bird, when he saw the mid-sized marine vessel approaching the shores of the Kingdom of Torino.

"Th-That's his boat...Dad?" Tayzo manged to choke out as his father docked his ship among the rocks and jumped toward him. "TAYZO, GET ON BOARD NOW, I WON'T TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER"His dad spoke. Tayzo stood dumbfounded, shocked that his dad was here, when he wasn't even suspposed to find out about Tayzo's departure for a whole nother year, and also because his dad had got right to the point, no questions asked. "I-I can't do that. No" Tayzo found his voice but then immediately regretted finding it as his dad began to turn red with fury. "You are not a pirate, you were suspposed to be a marine like me and your mother. This activity you were trying to get away with by sneaking away before me and your mother got back has backfired on you for a reason. NOW GET ON BOARD" He said, clenching his fist as if he was about to attack Tayzo. "Or I will arrest you myself for piracy." He said that dangerously calm, as if he really meant it. Tayzo stood there, shaken with fear, but then he reached toward his waist and unsheathed his bladed tonfas, getting into his stance. "Well then, you're just going to have to arrest me, if you can." He challenged his father, and then charged for the third time today where the odds were against him, but this time, the enemy charged as well and he and his father clashed. Blade to hard fist.

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Masaru gladly took the boy's hand as he got on his feet. Even though it was a disturbing fall, he tried to pretend that it never happened as he casually listened to what Tayzo had to say. Agreeing that it was a good idea, he attempted to lift one of the birds only to find that it was too heavy for him to lift. He dragged the bird to the boats. The relationship these two had were mutually neutral even though Masaru was more to the neutral side than the other boy was, as Masaru had attempted to ditch him once and professionally considered ditching him a second time before he discovered how easy the birds were to handle. And he was about to do the same a third time while Tayzo only considered ditching him once and turned around and came back for him in the end. As he waited by the boat for Tayzo to approach him, he saw the surprised look on the boy's face. What he said, amused him. "Daddy?!" He said in surprise and looked around, expecting to see his jolly old green-haired, healthy dad smiling and waving at him, only to find that the other boy was talking about his dad, not Masaru's. "Oh, your dad." Masaru rolled his eyes and looked at Tayzo, only to spot the marine symbol on the ship in which the man was coming. He looked shocked himself as he looked at the coming ship in surprise. "No, wait. That's a marine ship, that can't be your.." He looked at the boy with his eyes wide open in shock, "Your dad's a marine?!" He panicked, running in circles in the same spot as his mind went blank. His own father, Mamoru Momoru, was once a legendary pirate who had a huge bounty. He still had the bounty, he was still running from the marines. Maybe this marine was trying to keep Masaru custody to get to Momoru. Maybe it was a plot all along and maybe even Tayzo, the boy next to him was a Marine too, involved in this.

As a last resort, he took out a pair of guns from his pockets, keeping his knife back in. Little did he himself know, these guns were both fake and could not be loaded with anything. The blacksmiths fooled him. However, the guns looked completely real and original from the outside. It could legitimately fool anyone to think it was a real gun. It even made a sound when shot. It had a balloon like mechanism that made the noise each time it was fired. Masaru pointed one gun at Tayzo, backing away as he did. Thinking that he was a Marine. However, the boy didn't even notice as he was too busy staring at his father in astonishment.

Assuming that it was a father-son reuniting surprise, Masaru sneakily backed further and further away. He quietly attempted to make his way to the boat but the father landed now and it was too late for running. If the Marine finds out that Masaru was Momoru's son, he would be done for then and there. Then again, the fact that he was a pirate, was revealed already. He looked on as the Marine focused his attention on his son. As they spoke, the situation became clear. Tayzo was no Marine. He watched as the two clashed. He began to walk towards the Marine ship, in an attempt to take it over at first but soon changed his mind. He needed a cook and this boy had suggested that he was one. He needed to bargain with the boy but he had nothing to offer him, until now. He could offer this boy an aid in fighting his father in turn he could ask the boy to join his crew.

The marine sure looked experienced but Masaru did not expect what he received next. Seeing an opening, the boy went to the back of the marine. He put his guns back in his pocket, drew his combat knife and slashed it at the marine. It did not affect the man one bit. Using a secret technique of sorts, named Kami-e, the man simultaneously managed to dodge all of his attacks and Tayzo's. Masaru, surprised, took a step back and looked at Tayzo over the man's shoulder. He drew both his fake guns and shoved the knife back in his pocket. He pointed both guns at the marine while gesturing with his head to Tayzo, suggesting that they should bail for now. Little did he know that the guns were both fake. He owned a total of five, last time he checked. The remaining ones were back in his boat. "You're not gonna arrest him while you're under my wa-" Masaru tried to sound confident and capable, but was interrupted once again.

"GROOOOOOOOOOOOORGGGHHHHHH!!!!"

The call came from the jungle. It was most probably another bird. Maybe the king bird, the leader of the flock. Or more, the herd seeing that they mooed. Either way, it didn't seem like they could stick around for long, unless Tayzo had his eyes set on staying, in which case Masaru would be left with no choice but to stay, seeing as he needed to get Tayzo to join him and he couldn't do so by losing his trust.

[Tay]

As Tayzo clashed he answered the boy's question. "Yea this is my...dad. The proud marine." Tayzo spoke with his teeth clenched. THe thought the green haired boy was about to leave him on the island as soon as he realized he was a marine, but Tayzo wouldn't have blamed him since he did have a Jolly Roger raised. Tayzo studied it and saw that it had no skull on it, but there was no time for that right now. He kicked out his leg toward his dad, but he easily dodged it using the secret technique of Rokushiki, Kami-e. He didn't know all of them, Tayzo knew that for sure, but he knew enough to be able to easily beat Tayzo today. Tayzo had seen him practicing this style numerous times as a child on Karate Island. He had always wanted to learn it, and his dad said that if he joined the marines, he one day would. Tayzo shook his head, clearing the thoughts. "Ill never be a Marine dad, its not the life for me." Tayzo said. "THEN WHAT IS THE LIFE FOR YOU? BEING A SCUM, THIEVING, KILLING, EVIL, PIRATE WITH YOUR PETTY FRIEND HERE, WHO BY THE WAY, JUST ABANDONED YOU?" His dad screamed with anger, pushing his fist harder onto the blade, threatening to break it. "Thats not what being a pirate is about. Its about being free. You shouldn't stereotype it by what you've seen." Tayzo said. "Oh, and that guy. I don't even know him but..." Tayzo smirked as he saw the green haired kid running up behind his dad, slashing his knife. At the same time, Tayzo sheathed his tonfas, entered a Kung-Fu stance, and threw numerous punches and kicks at his father as fast as he could.

The smirk on Tayzo's face dissapeared as soon as he stopped throwing his blows. His dad stood there laughing, not a mark or scratch on him. His Kami-e was too much for them, and he hadn't even used the other two techniques of Rokushiki he knew. Tayzo met eyes with the green-haired boy over his dad's shoulder. They both nodded and realized they had to make an escape. Today would definetly not be the day they defeated the bulky man, as he was much too experienced for the young pirates. Tayzo was about to kick sand in the face of his father, but then a loud bellow made the whole island rumble. All three of them looked toward the trees and from the huge one in the middle, came the biggest bird Tayzo had ever seen. Without hesitating, he quickly ran to the boats. He looked in his own and realized it was too small for a quick escape. He turned and realized the green haired boy was right behind him, and his dad hard on their heels. "Go to your vessel and get it going." Tayzo said, not realizing he had just made the decision to go with the green haired guy. He pulled ahead of his dad and the boy and made it to the rocky shore.

Tayzo scooped up one of the stunned and unconscious huge birds and tossed it on the green haired boy's boat. He looked in his boat, grabbed his supplies, and threw them on the boy's boat, and right in time too, as the huge bird landed right infront of Tayzo, crushing his small boat into pieces. Tayzo fell back onto the sand, shocked, but then got up, realizing he had no time to waste as his dad and the green haired boy caught up. The huge bird flapped its wings once, blasting all three of them with a gust of air, and spiraling upward itself. Tayzo's dad jumped into the air with a battle cry, and then easily poked out his finger with so much force and speed, it punctured the chest of the humongous bird, oddly colored blood splattering out. The bird fell toward the dirt, and Tayzo couldn't help but admire how strong his dad was. He shook away the admiration and jumped onto the green haired boy's boat. "Hope you don't mind if I get away with you" He said, not waiting for an answer. Somehow, the humongous bird flew back up into the air, and slapped one of its wings toward Tayzo's father, knocking him down. The two continued to fight each other while Tayzo and the green haired boy got the boat untied, glad for the distraction. It looked like the marine had finally met his match in the humongous bird, but with the training and experience his dad had, Tayzo knew the fight wouldn't last long. His dad caught his eye as they tried to get away. In that moment, he could clearly make out the thought in his dad's head. We are not finish