Mission 44:Junichirou's downfall

[lily]

Kaito was wondering through the desert. He had no clue where he was going or how long it would take him to get there but he needed to get there soon as he was hungry and thirsty. "Geez...I could've eaten a better devil fruit that actually gives me some benefits outside of fighting..." Kaito was hunched over as he walked into over a sand dune. He was seeing mirages constantly so when he see a town in the distance he didn't really believe it. "If only I was one of those flying logias..too bad coal stinks" He thought about some other logia's he'd heard about through the news. 2nd Divison commander of Whitebeards crew had the Mera Mera no Mi and was known as fire fist Ace. "He's lucky.." He collapsed on the ground at this point and while laying in the sand he thought about why he had even came to Zarzara island.

1 day earlier

Kaito like always was walking through a town in the south blue when he heard some pirates talking about zarzara island. "Did you hear?" one of them said to the other "I heard Junichirou of the Fishmen pirates is offering a reward to anyone who can beat him!" Kaito was intrigued so that without warning he sprinted back to his boat and headed to Zarzara Island

Present day
Kaito was laying face down in the sand he didn't have any strength left and thought it would be a bad idea to go back. "I'm not going to give up just yet." he started crawling on the ground towards the town that he could faintly see in the distance

[Farris (Kuro)]

Yuuki normally tended to stay away from deserts, the lack of moisture was so bad for his beautiful skin. However when he heard about Zarzara Island and the pirates there he desided to take a chance. The group might know something about his family and thus he needed to look into it. He knew it would be lily that they would talk without a fight, that was something he had come to expect from most pirates. In this case they were offering a reward if he bested them and to Yuuki, He would take his reward to the form of information.

The queenly Betta cared little for riches at this point, all that mattered was finding his family first then he could work on he coming the most beautiful man on the seas. He wanted to even top the Pirate Empress Boa Hancock, but he had a ways to go before that still.

Truging though the desert, Yuuki was careful to have plenty of provisions, just to be on the safe side. This was fortunate as he came across a collapsed figure in the sand. Kindness was a virtue that the Okama had never lost even during his years as a slave. So the Fishman knelt down and started to feed the young man some of his water.

[deathrouge]

Xun trudged through the desert. He had no idea why he would be here. Xun just heard a rumor of a fishman offering a reward. Now as he was looking at the scenery he wondered why would a fishman even go here. It was in a middle of the desert and don't fishmen live in water? He started to wobble as his vision wavered for a second. The heat was starting to get to him. Staying more then five more minutes in this desert would mean death to him. Xun changed into his dino-bird form. At the moment the only thing he could do was to fly up. It has to be cooler in the sky. His mind told him or maybe it wasn't his head Xun stopped his train of thoughts he was starting to go delusional.

He flew up high where he spotted some clouds. Xun thought about drinking some of the water it had, but flying up to that height would be an endeavor itself. He decided to do it as he picked up the pace of his wings until he was level with the small cloud. Just from flying here he was tired beyond belief. There was little air to push off and even less that he could breath. Xun dove through the cloud before returning to a comfortable flying height. Drinking that water bought him a few minutes at the most. In the distance there was a small town it looked like the only one for miles. He hope that he would make it in time. True that he was flying, but it was slow and sluggish flying.

[lily]

Kaito was still crawling along the ground when his body finally gave out on him. He was lying on the ground for a good five minutes before he started thinking. "I'm a logia user and I'm part cyborg.." His body was starting to heat up as he was lying in the sand. "If I get out of here alive...I'm definately going to make some improvments to my mechanical parts."" Kaito was lying there when he noticed a figure above him. He tried to turn his head so he could see who or what it was but he didn't have the energy to. Instead the shadow flipped him over and put something near his mouth. It was food! Without hesitation Kaito eat the food that the person gave him to eat. After eating and drinking till he was full he looked up at the person that had been so generous to feed him. It was a light blue Fishman with bright red colored hair that wass long and wavy. This person seemed to be an okama which in Kaito's eyes didn't really matter. He stood up and extended his hand. "Hey! my name is Kaito." He looked directly at the fishman "I'm a shipwright pirate and i'm trying to defeat junichirou of the fishmen pirates so I can get the reward" He smiled "So. What brings a fishman such as yourself out into the middle of the desert?" Kaito was a little bit distracted as he said this since he noticed a giant figure in the sky flying overhead.

[Farris (Kuro)]

As the young man seemed to come around, after some food and water, Yuuki was relieved. "Ahh, I'm glad your awake dear, I was starting to think I was a bit too late." He said kindly before the man introduced himself as Kaito. "Kaito is a strong name. I'm Yuuki." He commented before introducing himself in return. "A shipwright you say? and you intent to fight Junichirou?" Yuuki confirmed more than asked. "I too, need to meet with Junichirou. I'm on a bit of a search you see and He might be able to help me locate the ones I'm looking for." The Queenly Betta explained.

The figure flying over head, cast a unusually large shadow over them which drew the fishman Okama's attention as well. Yuuki looked up and saw the large prehistoric bird. Well, that certainly not something you see everyday... He thought suspecting that the animal wasn't an animal at all but a Devil fruit user. After all, Zarzara wasn't a Prehistoric Island so the likely hood of such an animal being there was slim. "Kaito chan, there is a town not far from here, Do you think you can make it?" Yuuki asked him, in a considerate tone. He wasn't about to leave a person in need if he could help it.

[deathrouge]

Xun was flying in the air with the sands of the desert far beneath him. The temperature here was much cooler than below, but the heat form the sun was still making small distortions in the air. The city was slowly coming closer into view when it began to rotate and twisted. Xun couldn't tell if it was him or the heat until the millions of sensors on his wings singled his brain. His altitude was dropping drastically. He saw two figures in the desert, but he only caught a glimpse before he managed to pull up. A trail of dust followed behind him.

He yelled out "Sorry" before climbing up to a comfortable height. His flying skills were beyond what anyone else with a devil fruit that he might meet. Now he was faltering in his flying. The city was almost right below him. The vision was starting to blacken around the edges. He could see the city in detail now, but he wasn't sure for how much longer. He was falling again into a steep dive. This time he could pull up. Looks like my five minutes are up. He thought that to himself before falling into the town.

[lily]

"A shipwright you say? and you intent to fight Junichirou?" Yuuki confirmed more than asked. "I too, need to meet with Junichirou. I'm on a bit of a search you see and He might be able to help me locate the ones I'm looking for." The Queenly Betta explained." Kaito was drifiting in and out as the Fishman explained why he was in a desert. He was staring at the giant flying creature flying above. His eyes were opened very wide in fear and wonderment. "Awesome.." he muttered under his breath "Kaito chan, there is a town not far from here, Do you think you can make it?" said the fishmen to Kaito who snapped out of his trance at this point. He turned to the fishmen and said "i'll be fine!" he smiled brightly "Although I do appreciate you asking" he stood up and bowed politely at the fishman. At this point a trail of dust from the prehistoric creature kicked up sand in the area that sent Kaito flying about 20 feet forwards. "Sorry!" the figure yelled as it flew upward. Kaito unburied himself from the sand and started running in the direction of the town

[Farris (Kuro)]

Yuuki nodded to Kaito and stood up to set off. The more time he spent out here in the sun the worse it would be for his gorgeous skin. That was of course before the sand was kicked up by the air current of the Zoan user whom apologized. Still it left the queenly Betta coughing and clearing sand and dust from his eyes for a good few minutes. He wasn't the one that was worse off though as he heard the sound of Kaito go flying. After cleaning dust and sand out of his eyes, the Okama annoyed, started to brush dust and sand from his person. Sand and dust were not beautiful and had no place on his body, he thought vainly as he finished cleaning himself off. After a look over his person, he decided that he was decently clean for the moment, then looked over to see Kaito running up from behind him.

This soon changed to running past him towards the town and the Fishman smiled. At least this meant that his new friend was not hurt. The Fishman then started to run after Kaito to not be left behind. He suspected that that wasn't the last they'd seen of their flying friend and that the Zoan was likely their for a similar reason.

[deathrouge]

The landing that Xun made cause a commotion in town. He had fell into the oasis right around the center and would've died too if a kind stranger hadn't rescued him. He awoke and looked at his surroundings. He was in some kind of building and next to him was a little girl.

She looked relieved "Thank goodness your awake Bird-san." The girl looked very happy.

"Thanks, My name is Xun by the way. Where am I?" Xun appreciated the girl taking care of him, but there was still the question of the fish man.

"I found you in the lake in the middle of town, so I pulled you out." Xun was relieved at this. He needed no explanation why she pulled him out. He had his devil fruit for several years now and in the first few he quickly learned the hard way that he couldn't swim.

"I should get going now." Xun said. He felt fine other than a slight throbbing pain on his head. He left the house looking for the fishman. He looked around until he saw a poster. Apparently the guy had a pretty decent bounty. In the background of the poster it showed a flag. The skull was more of a shark, but other than that it was normal. It must be his ship. Xun said to himself.

Then the girl from before spoke up, "If you're looking for that guy he's at the docks by the canal, but I wouldn't go there." He thanked the girl for the useful bit of information and took off to the docks.

[flame08]

((OOC: Was invited to pop in))

The crash of a young man into the commercial district, alerted many in the Bazaar of Silks and Looms to the appearance of the young man. Especially one particularly well dressed, *cough* man *cough* in what seemed to be a large amount of fairly transparent materials, except in a few key places where the materials covered him completely. On his back lay a pink cloak upon which rested two large swan beaks, though there purpose seemed little more than an ornament. Watching the young man as he spoke with the little girl and then ran off, the *cough*man *cough* was intrigued. Twirling in his newly bought clothes he ran off toward the man calling "HELLOOOO!!! OYYYY WAIT UP -YOO!!!!" Kind of random for most people, but for this man, for Bon Kurei this was normal. Around him, the people of the Bazaar stared incredulously at this man, he definitely brought attention to himself.

Deciding to make a real entrance, he started to run faster catching up to the blonde man before jumping and yelling "DYNAMIC ENT. . . ." bam! Suddenly a brick flew out of the sky slamming him in the side of the face. Falling to the ground he looked in the direction of the brick onto to see a small flash of green disappear behind a building along with a short yell that sounded like "Wrong Show!!" Shaking it off he went into a running jump foot kicking forward yelling "OKAMA ENTRAEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!" His foot smashed into the back of the man's head as he jumped off the head doing a flip and landing in front of the man. He smiled that was a good entry. Turning around he bowed "Hello!!!!"

[Farris (Kuro)]

Yuuki lost sight of Kaito as the entered the town. He thought of looking for him but figured the youth would find him before long. A Fishman was was not an easy opponent to face alone. At that moment he was distracted any how by a rather loud man that spring boarded of the head of a blond man. The man in question was obviously an Okama like himself and it brought a smile to the queenly beta. "Oi, Oi, Okama Aniki sa~n!" The fishman greeted to the swan decorated man with a wave as he approached them.

Aniki was generally used as a means for calling some one an older brother, and from what Yuuki could tell, this man had been an Okama for a far shot longer than he had. That coupled with Yuuki's happen of thinking of all Okama's as brothers the word only seemed appropriate. He was surprized to see an Okama out in the blues though it was an uncommon event, but not an unpleasant one. Yuuki also took a moment to make sure the blond human was alright. Such was the Queenly beta's nature to concider others well being no matter how odd it seemed.

[deathrouge]

From his vantage point he couldn't see anything resembling a river or docks. The girl had already left and he didn't really want to bother her again. She had told him where to find Junichirou, but forgot to tell him exactly where the docks were. The town was quite large full of an assortment of bazaars and markets, but nowhere did Xun see a dock.

He considered asking someone one when a voice cried out, "HELLOOOO!!! OYYYY WAIT UP -YOO!!!!" He turned around to see a foot flying into his face. It caught him on the side with enough force to cause him to fall.

"Hello!!!!" The okama said next. The guy wore something that looked more like a costume then clothes. He got himself up from the ground and brushed himself. Xun greeted him, but with less enthusiasm. The kick to the face added to his already existing head pains. Might as well ask him he thought.

"Hey do you know where the docks in this town are?" He said inquisitively. He hoped to find the Junichirou guy, defeat him soon, and then get off the desert island. From the entrance of the town came a fish-okama. There was something vaguely familiar about him, but Xun couldn't tell what.

[flame08]

Behind him a voice as flamboyant as his own sprung up, as he turned to embrace his fellow okama. "Oi, Oi, Okama Aniki sa~n!" The swan-coated man turned, a smile across his face. "Okama-boy, to find you here, what are you doing here? No matter, let me aid you my friend! YOOO"

The okama before him, wasn't the human ones he normally met, but no matter, an okama was brethren whether human or fishman or whatever else. The world was wide, and okama brethren were few and far between, it would be best to make good times with the ones he did meet. Turning back to the blonde haired man he was inquired with a question.

"Hey do you know where the docks in this town are?" "STOPP!!" Placing one hand on his head he made it look as if he was thinking hard. The other hand made a stop sign in front of the blonde haired man. "You are working with this lovely man next to me are you not? If that is the case, allow me to lead you two there. What a great day when an okama can bring aid to his friends." Pointing toward the docks he yelled "Onwards my friends YOO!!!" He tramped off in the direction of the docks in his own particular fashion.

A merry company he was leading, a human okama (himself), a fishman okama, and a human. Before them none could hold forth he would believe. Turning his head he continued to gaily walk forward "By the way, what are we doing?" . . .