Mission 50:Pirate's market

[flame08]

(Lily, that is way to obvious , just in case u were thinking of putting the sword there, its well hidden not horribly hidden)

Syph turned through the rubble collecting the swords that had been flung around the room. A sword seller's life was destined upon the swords he had in his shop. She wouldn't let Jack just ruin it for him, there had been many a time when her own business had died out and she had to restart from scratch, she could sympathize with the owner at the least.

A small tap at the shoulder came in the form of the female bounty hunter from earlier. She asked about Jack, and what not (I'm to lazy to quote mimic). Syph turned her head slightly to show that she noted the question. She sighed for Jack and gave her answer "Unfortunately, he doesn't have much promise when it comes to being subtle. I don't think I've ever seen him not being even slightly brash. Thats just the way he is, I've tried to change that but . . . as you can see its not working too well."

She went back to what she was doing, a pile of swords slowly built of behind her. Some with sheaths on others without sheaths. Syph continued to gather the swords and place them in the center of the room. Finally done, she decided to exact a small fee, just one sword, it wouldn't kill him but she had done quite a bit of work. She took to looking through the sheathed swords in the pile keeping an eye on the others in the room.

(NOTE: the sword you guys are looking for isn't in my pile, these are the swords on display.)

[White Mimic]

“….watch what you say I can hear anything around here ya dumb broad…”

"Oh my, how very rude." She replied casually. Victoria wasn't much for dealing with men like Jack, but more help was a good thing in this case. Even if it was as irrational as this.

"Unfortunately, he doesn't have much promise when it comes to being subtle. I don't think I've ever seen him not being even slightly brash. Thats just the way he is, I've tried to change that but . . . as you can see its not working too well."

Victoria watched as the girl assembled all of the swords that had been scattered by the destruction into a small pile. She crouched down to take a look at them. They were all standards, nothing of any particular interest to anybody, except perhaps a swordsman too cheap to replace his own sword with one of greater quality. She also noticed the girl had taken one for herself and sighed. "That's too bad. It isn't in here." She stood up and looked about, twirling her glasses around on her finger, whistling a bit as she walked back to the hole, disappearing behind the shelves to investigate a different aisle of inventory. "Try not to cause too much trouble."

"WHAT'S GOING ON BACK HERE?" yelled the shopkeep upon realizing the damage that had been wrought by Jack's actions. "What are you doing back here?! Where's that woman?! Did she do this?!" It was a good thing she had left when she did, because she was no where in sight at the man's accusations. Seeing the hole in the wall, and the rubble inside the building, it was clear someone had busted in. "It was you wasn't it!" He pointed accusingly at Jack and Syph, drawing his own sword.

You'd think a shopkeep wouldn't use one, but he was a pirate and he was running a sword shop. He ran towards the pirates, prepared to attack them with all he had.

[lily]

(I'm surprised the shopkeeper didn't notice Shinjiro standing there either >.> but whatever....i'll have to do what I can with what i've got)

Shinjiro watched as the woman moved herself behind a shelf as the shopkeeper came out yelling "WHAT'S GOING ON BACK HERE?" he looked around frantically "What are you doing back here?! Where's that woman?! Did she do this?!" Shinjiro looked over to where the woman moved away. He wasn't trying to hide that he was looking in that direction it was actually quite noticable. He quickly turned back to the shopkeeper who pointed at Jack and Syph

"It was you wasn't it!" he said drawing a sword and attacking. "Hmph" said Shinjiro drawing his regular katana and leaping off of one foot and intercepting the shopkeepers sword.
"You know" he said with a neutral face "You shouldn't accuse people of things without knowing the facts" he turned back to Jack and Syph "Don't think i'm protecting you on purpose. I don't like the way this guy does things." Shinjiro was displaying impressive strength by holding back the man's two handed slash with one arm without any effort.

[BEX]

(OOC: I was supposed to pass out a post ago Lils thank you. To atone for my error I will remain immobile for the next post as well. I’m not necessarily setting myself up to get the sword. I’ll leave that up to the roleplaying instincts of everyone here. Based on how the thread goes decide which character finds and manages to hold onto it so we can go from there.)


"It was YOU wasn’t it?!" came the incredulous shout from somewhere behind the scruffy haired, tattooed kid that had his eyes closed as if he were in deep thought or concentration,

“Hm?” was Jack’s only response when suddenly the pirate shopkeeper assailed both him and Syph with a two handed slash.

Before he could make a move to deal harshly with the man’s egregious mistake of attacking someone like, the man whom Jack hadn’t taken a disliking to earlier intercepting the strike with what appeared to be a katana. The man exhibited superior strength to the shopkeeper’s as he staved off the man’s passionate attack as if it were child’s play,

“Don’t think I’m protecting you on purpose…” the man warned with a statement that seemed to be directed at both Syph AND Jack,

“…I don’t like the way this guy does things” he explained.

With a disapproving snort Jack gave Syph a look that expressed his increasing dislike for the man’s overconfidence; he didn’t give a d*mn about the man OR his likes and dislikes. In fact the only reason that everyone in the store hadn’t been slaughtered was Jack didn’t really have a useable blade at the moment and with out of control powers he would have to rely on Syph’s help. Something he hated immensely.

“Screw you moron-” Jack began to answer when suddenly the sound waves generated by the sudden outburst of noise revealed the unfamiliar tingle of an impressive metal; it was so impressive even a buffoon like Jack could tell it was unique from the weapons that lay strewn about the store after his assault of the place. It had to be the Graded Sword that he was looking for, Kanenori. A toothy grin filled his face just was his eyes lost focus and he plummeted to the ground by Syph’s feet helplessly with a small amount of drool leaking from his mouth. Once again he had overestimated his power and misjudged the limit of his body,

“S-S-Syph…he-he-help” he murmured weakly while lifting his index finger towards a what seemed to be a hollow portion of the floor; that’s where he had heard the odd tingle of metal. He hoped Syph would get the message, but he had his doubts as finally his body became completely dead-weight.

[flame08]

Syph with a newly obtained sword in hand turned to see the shopkeep draw his weapon. With a scream he charged at her and Jack, she drew the sword she had just obtained. It would be a good test of ability of the sword. Then the man from earlier appeared, simply grabbing the sword he held the shopkeep at bay. Nothing to amazing but he was touching the blade so it had some interest. She took her attention off him when a stare from Jack caught her interest. He was rather annoyed, probably not so much at the shopkeep as at the man who was stopping him from attacking the shopkeep.

She turned to check on Jack as he started to swear . . . he was very pissed and then a small sound wave crashed out of him as he collapsed on the ground. She feared that this might happen, but it was too late. More importantly he was pointing at the ground not a few meters away, asking her to help. He must have found it . .. . She dropped the newly obtained sword into his hand saying "You may want to use this for the time being."

She charged forward rolling onto the ground and landing on a piece of wood that sounded hollow. She crouched on top in silence allowing herself to regain her balance. She cursed at her rush in the direction, now they were all alerted to Jack's findings.
Using her powers, the wood contracted below her feet and she fell into a small hole. Her legs hit the ground below (only 1/2 a foot below to be exact). She kicked whatever was between her legs to one side of the hole as so it wouldn't be seen.

Her hand moved to her sword hilt, she sighed slightly and prepared for any . . . unnecessary movements by enemy parties.

[White Mimic]

The older man kept pressing against the one sword as hard as he could, flailing about comically as he did so. "What is this?" He grunted harshly, still trying to complete his swing against the unmoving defense of the other swordsman he didn't see behind the other two. "I don't even,". He pulled away from the man, jumping backwards.

He pointed accusingly at all the pirates. "Vandals! Delinquints! That's what you all are." He flailed around again, panicking all over his inventory. "Look at what you did! If anything is damaged, so help me you are paying for this, way or another." He took his sword up again and held it menacingly across his face. "Itouryuu: Kakuheki Torihazusu!" He lunged towards the pirates down the alley, keeping the sword in line with his face.

Victoria was watching through the shelves as she searched for the sword she needed. Her final judgement on these pirates would inevitably count on this occurence as a factor. The shopkeeper was still a pirate, so she did to some extent want him to learn a lesson, but he was only trying to protect his livelyhood.

'Let's see what you are going do, pirates.' She continued searching through the shelves, but was paying close attention to the fight.

[BEX]

From his spot on the ground, Jack heard everything that happened around with annoying accuracy due to the powers granted to him by his fruit; the same fruit that bound him motionless to the ground when he was only moments from acquiring the sword. He heard as the shopkeeper struggled against the man and he heard as Syph stumbled upon his discovery after she had left him with a sword in his hands. He wanted to beat the girl’s head in for not realizing that his body wasn’t able to move so giving him a weapon would be absolutely meaningless if were to be attacked.

“Stupid girl…” Jack fumed mentally since his mouth wouldn’t react to any of the commands that his mind was giving his lips.

It seemed that his immobilization was lasting longer than usual which was bad because now the shopkeeper came charging down the alley at the pirates using a legitimate sword technique. Hopefully the man who had interfered would be strong enough to stave off this attack or at least not step backward crushing Jack’s finger in the process. What bothered him most was that he could “feel” the pirate hunter woman not far away so why wasn’t she helping the pirates? The only answer was that she had set them up in the first place in Jack’s mind.

[lily]

"Itouryuu: Kakuheki Torihazusu!" Shinjiro didn't even hesitate to take action when the storekeeper began to charge again. Shinjiro looked behind him and saw Jack Dancer seemingly struggling to get up. "Are you really that pathetic? You exert strength which I can only assume is a devil fruit ability..and you're done?" Shinjiro turned back to the store keeper who was charging with his sword drawn preparing to attack Jack.

"It's even more pathetic that I have to protect you even more." Shinjiro sheathed his sword and took and low crouching position. As soon as the man came within range Shinjiro used the bare palm of one of his hands and with impressive strength used it to repel the blade and the man, sending them both crashing into the opposite wall of the store. With that done Shinjiro turned around and picked up Jack by the back of his shirt. He took the blade that the girl stuck into the ground and put it in his hand.

"I think that this woman could be a problem" he said trying to keep his voice down "I suggest you..we join forces for this occasion" he turned to the little girl "She doesn't look very strong but...the bounty hunter does" he placed Jack on the ground. "Regardless of your decision. I'll be outside" he moved outside of the store through the huge hole in the wall and sat against the store wall facing the hole.

[flame08]

Syph sighed, she was always being underestimated ehh. Well that was what she got for being the way she was, as a young girl she was always being well, underestimated. She checked on Jack again, it wasn't like him to be down for this long, it must be if he stayed up longer he also stayed down longer. What a horrible weakness, she sighed. Putting her hand upon the hilt of the sword below her she contracted it into her hand so it disappeared within her hand. Whether it was the sword Jack was looking for or not, now she had it within her hand. She didn't really want it, but it seemed that she would have to be the carrier for the time being.

Her personal sword, Kitasha, itself a graded sword was now in her other hand. The situation was just deteriorating by the second, if this was some place other than the Pirate's Market then they would surely be surrounded by marines already. She stepped out of the hole and walked toward Jack.

Being extra careful not to cut herself on the contracted sword she put the contracted sword (still in hand) upon the ground. Facing the swords blade tip toward the ground she released it allowing the sword to expand back to normal size. Except for only the hilt was visible above the ground. She had forced it in so deep that she doubted there was anyone in the area who could remove it from its position through brute force alone because of all the friction upon it.

Standing up again she checked her hand, there were a few slight cuts on it, but that was as to be expected of such a highly acclaimed sword. She said to Jack "Either get up, or go and die Jack." Resheathing Kitasha she turned around and sat in front of the hilt in the ground.

[BEX]

Groaning as feeling finally began to return to his body, Jack pushed himself up to an upright sitting position on the ground with a dazed look on his face as he wiped away the dried drool from his cheek,

“Either get up, or go and die, Jack” Syph instructed him much his great chagrin,

“Shaddap, b*tch!” he spat back as he snatched the weapon, the graded sword that he had heard from before.

Now the sword grew to full size once the girl’s contraction fruit ability had lost effect, the weapon expanded to over 6 feet long in length meaning that it was nodachi, rather than a katana making Jack grin even more at his acquisition. Sliding the weapon a bit out of its sheath the pirate saw that it was inscribed with the name Kanenori making him suck in a breath. Forgetting all about the man’s suggestion that they help each other to take down the bounty hunter or even that the shopkeeper was now rising to his feet out of the shattered crates or even that Syph was rushing him onward. This weapon Kanenori was no ordinary Graded Sword, in fact it was one of the 21Ō Wazamono Grade weapons; only one step from a Superior Grade Sword, the likes of which only Gods where rumored to possess.

“Holy Sh*t!” Jck exclaimed as he rose to his feet,

Along with its incredible size came feather light weight and for a moment Jack couldn’t understand it seeing as how he had glanced at the inscription as well as taking note that the weapon’s metal was something unique. Then it struck him that this was one of the special characteristics of the weapon and at that exact moment was when the shopkeeper came bellowing at him to put the sword back; this was indeed the sword he was searching for. With no more than a light flick of his thumb the blade slid completely out of his sheath and catching it by the hilt before it fell to the ground Jack swung in a wide arch towards the shopkeeper cutting through the man’s vertebrae with no resistance, but he overestimated his strength causing the blade to slam into a nearby wall wedging itself there.

“Dammit…” he cursed again as he tugged on the blade,

“Syph follow that guy and go get the bounty hunter b*tch…we’ve got company and it ain’t no f*cking welcoming committee” he griped still tugging on the weapon’s hilt.

The shopkeeper lay bleeding on the ground, his head severed in one smooth cut leaving his body spewing a fountain of blood onto the wooden back room floor. If one were to examine the edges of the man’s skin they would fine that the cut had been precise with no rough ridges on the skin caused by an imperfection in the blade’s surface. Truly a perfect sword for a man whose desire it is to cut the seas of the world to his liking.

[White Mimic]

Victoria came back from behind the shelves after seeing Jack had found the sword she wanted. She was wearing her sunglasses again, hiding her rather livid expression. 'One.' She thought to herself, determining who should recieve the sword when she finished her business with it. She had seen what had happened through the shelves of swords and other metal tools and weapons, and she was not in the least bit ammused.

“Syph follow that guy and go get the bounty hunter b*tch…we’ve got company and it ain’t no f*cking welcoming committee”

She had begun to walk back through the hole in the wall when she heard this. Continuing to walk through nonchalantly, she replied a bit sourly. "Already on it. Feel free to do whatever you want. I'll wait outside in the mean time." She walked over to the man who had pushed the shopkeeper back several times in self-defense, leaning against the wall next to him. "And to think I only wanted to buy it." She readjusted th gloves on her hands.

"So," She glanced over to him. "What were YOU going to do with the sword? I mean I'm just curious and if we aren't buying the sword, I have to decide who gets it don't I?" She chuckled a bit at herself. "That it, if you pirates are even willing to let me touch it. I would swear on my honor as a bounty hunter that I have no intention of keeping it for myself, but you guys wouldn't trust me either way would you?"

[lily]

Shinjiro watched as the bloody mess unfolded in which Jack killed the store owner and managed to find the blade. “Syph follow that guy and go get the bounty hunter b*tch…we’ve got company and it ain’t no f*cking welcoming committee” Shinjiro folded his arms and thought "What a self centered brute. He could be a problem later in my travels of the Grand line" he then noticed that the bounty hunter woman was coming over towards him.

"Already on it. Feel free to do whatever you want. I'll wait outside in the mean time." Victoria leaned against the wall next to Shinjiro and Shinjiro raised an eyebrow not looking at her directly but only out of the corner of his eye. "And to think I only wanted to buy it." Shinjiro simply muttered a "Hmph." Victoria then started talking again. "So," she said looking down at Shinjiro "What were YOU going to do with the sword? I mean I'm just curious and if we aren't buying the sword, I have to decide who gets it don't I?" Shinjiro didn't even get a chance to answer as the woman finished her statement by saying "That it, if you pirates are even willing to let me touch it. I would swear on my honor as a bounty hunter that I have no intention of keeping it for myself, but you guys wouldn't trust me either way would you?" He looked the bounty hunter up and down and said "Sounds fair enough, I was planning to use the sword for when the time calls for it" he looked up at her and said "What are you proposing?" he narrowed his eyes a bit "Working together with a bounty hunter doesn't really deter me from my goal..but regardless. If the questions you ask are just from curiosity then I do what you must" he turned his hand back facing forward to see Jack and Syph talking.

[flame08]

(and yet jack this is no such perfect sword, it is only an O Wazamono Grade sword at best, there are still the Saijo O Wazamono Grade Swords )

Syph sighed, it seemed once again that he had forgotten her abilities. She looked at Jack with a critical eye for a second and then turned away. He held no dumb look but she could tell he had no clue about the uses of her ability. She turned to the wall where the sword was stuck. On her turn she spoke quietly so Jack could hear her, knowing that with his abilities at least he would be able to know what she said. In a very quiet voice she said "baaakaa (just an elongated baka)! Have you not figured out the uses of my abilities just yet . . . ohh whatever . . ." Sighing once again she put her hand under where the sword had been wedged in. Controlling her circle of influence she put the circle's circumference right below where the sword was wedged in. Contracting the wall around the sword fell free.

Once it had been released from its position and taken out of the wall's control she let the contraction go. The wall took back its place good as new. Catching the blade as it fell, she placed it back in Jack's hands and walked off.

"This is what we came here for right? We should be done." Syph said.

[BEX]

(OOC: I get that its only O Wazamono, Flame…geez >_>. Ball bustin as usual... Besides having one of the 21 Good Grade Swords ain’t nothing to sneeze at. Zoro made d a mn good use of his so why shouldn’t Jack?)

Of course Jack hated getting help from Syph, but at that moment it wasn’t so bad since it placed the weapon that he had wanted back in his hands. Grinning dumbly back at his reluctant partner-in-crime, the new wielder of the sword swung his new weapon through air again testing its lightness. As crude a swordsman as Dancer was even he experienced the brief moment as euphoria that came with acquiring a weapon of such great caliber. Then a click only audible to Jack from outside the walls towards the front shop snapped the pirate back to reality; there were at least 50 marine soldiers waiting for them on the other side. It seemed that a few of them may actually have been civilians or pirates that were stupidly recruited into doing the government’s bidding,

“Crude” he thought happily.

Although he hated getting interrupted in the middle of something great he turned towards Spyh to find that the bounty hunter woman and the other man were now looking towards the two Dancing Blade pirates. His eyes slanted as he addressed the bounty hunter; after all she would present the biggest problem,

“Yo, bounter hunter. I’m tellin’ ya right now I’m taking me and brand-f*ckin-new weapon and goin’ ta chop down those Marine b*stards” he stated obviously challenging her to make a decision on what she would do with them.

“…if ya plan on stopping us, dontcha think now would be the time?”

His gaze shifted over the man, Shinjiro, if he had remembered correctly. Since the man had defended them against the shopkeeper’s attack albeit it was a needless gesture Jack at least assumed that the man had an interest in fighting whether for honor or pleasure. Furthermore he had heard what the man said about what he would have done with the sword had he attained it; it didn’t seem as if it were such a big priority to the man. At least not something he would kill for.

“What ‘bout you big guy?” Jack queried of the man,

“…care to join in the buffet?” he elaborated referring the Marine’s as nothing more than food.

Of all the people in the room though, he knew that he didn’t have to ask Syphalia. Despite them being polar opposites as well as seemingly inconsolable enemies at times, that girl had saved his a*s already on more than one occasion and Jack suspected she secretly enjoyed battle. Not in the way that he did, but still he would take whatever he could get from the ice princess.

[White Mimic]

"What are you proposing?"

"I'm not proposing anything. I'm only trying to decide who should have the sword since I have no long term need of it." She flaunted her hair again, stepping off the wall to see what was happening inside the store. "In anycase, it seems the other pirates are in for a run for their money. Seeing as how the marines seemed to have arrived." Reaching behind her back, she pulled out a small flare gun and aimed it at the sky.

"Yo, bounter hunter. I’m tellin’ ya right now I’m taking me and brand-f*ckin-new weapon and goin’ ta chop down those Marine b*stards...if ya plan on stopping us, dontcha think now would be the time?”

She fired the flare gun into the air, a bright red sky light hanging above the store. "Like I said. Already on it." The marines had been in the area, Victoria had noticed. In the metallurgy store, she had purchased the flare gun before hand in order to alert the marines to any danger should they be in the vicinity, or should she require assitence. It was a shame she had to wast it on Jack. She twirled her finger around, a thick black band forming around it as she twirled. When she stopped she grabbed the band and handed it to the other pirate. "Put it on. It should mark you as 'untouchable', if you get what I'm saying." She didn't want to give such privlege to a pirate, but at the moment, he was going to have to do for now. The band she gave him was a symbol in the Grand Line as her association with the marines, effectively marking anyone wearing them as a subordinate of hers. If he tried to betray her, she could destroy it at any moment she wanted, leaving him to be fodder for the incoming marines.

Walking into the store, she smiled a little menacingly at Jack. "In all honesty, I really didn't plan on betraying anyone, but you've done your fair share of that haven't you?" It was quite obvious he wasn't going to let her borrow the sword, so if it was a fight he wanted, it was a fight he'd get. "But I suppose there's still a chance for your redemption." She split into several flat shards of glass, weaving through and behind the shelves of the inventory, quickly assembling behind Syph. She quickly grabbed Syph in a disarmament, restricting the movement of her arms while giving her no room to run or kick. "Give me the sword," She drew her arm to Syph's neck, the arm turning into a glass blade and the finger's turning into long, glass spikes, curled inward to rest the tips on her neck. "Or your little girl dies."

Victoria wasn't one to threaten the lives of young people, but pirates were pirates. They all deserved punishment for their crimes against society. Dewgan deserved the worst punishment of all. "The marines will get here soon, so I would suggest making the best decision real quick. Unless you want to deal with them and me all at once?"