Mission #77 Sake for Winner

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While on Micqueot Zack has heard about some wine being stolen. He asks the storekeeper who said this, he is told that it is about five bandits who are stealing wine from the factories. According to the storekeeper there is a reward being offered for whoever can kill or capture these bandits as well as bring back the stole wine. Normally Zack would not care about somebody else problems,, but since he knows that he will need the money in the long run, he makes it his problem. He ask's the shopkeeper where can he find the people who are offering this reward.

After receiving the information from the shopkeeper, he leaves to go look for the place. It is a small bodega which is run by the wine factories. All they sell here is sake made by the factories on this island. When Zack arrives he tells the cashier that he is here to solve the problem with the bandits. She quickly gets the owner to come out and talk to Zack. According to the owner Zack will be awarded some beli for the capture or killing of the bandits plus bringing the wine back. This interests Zack because he gets to kill some bandits and gets some money in return for doing this. He now sets out and goes to look for the bandits.

According to some of the information that he got from the owner, these bandits are usually in the jungle of the city. Since he got this information, Zack decides to go and check out the jungle to see if he can find them there. While walking through the jungle he notices that there is a fire coming from somewhere, which makes him check it out.

When he gets their he notices that there is some type of camp set up for several people. This makes him think that this camp belongs to the group of the bandits. While looking around he notices that one tent is closed up. Zack takes out his sword and cuts part of the tent to see inside. What he saw inside is one of the bandits sleeping. He drags him out by grabbing one of his feet which wakes up the bandit. Zack tells the bandit to get his weapon out because they are going to fight right now. Zack charges toward the bandit and gets ready to stab him with his sword.

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The bandit, a skinny young man, riddled by a few scars from theft, but largely untrained was certainly caught off guard when he was dragged out of his tent, and told that he was going to fight. He pulled out his switchblade, a mere butterknife compared to the weapon of his enemy, and almost choked on his gulp of fear.

As his enemy drew near, the bandit's short and meaningless life flashed before his eyes. He crouched down, weapon in hand, and let fly with a lunge towards his foe. "Might as well go down with style" he thought to himself.

Unfortunately, the lunge tactic didn't let him dodge or block the stab through his gut, and his attack did little more than a glancing blow across the left shoulder of the man who had now fatally wounded him. He knew his number was up, but as his lifeblood drained from him, he had a feeling that he could at least do something to spite him.

The bandit gathered all the breath left in him, ensuring that the noise would carry across the jungle, and he screamed with an earth piercing voice "BOSS! INTRUDER!" as he collapsed to the ground and blacked out. He would be dead within 60 seconds, unless he recieved premium medical attention.

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When Zack sees that this bandit gets stab so easily he thinks that the men is a waste of life. Not even a baby would lose this fast in a fight, this is what goes through the mind of Zack. Even though the men thinks that the cut on Zack's left shoulder did any damage to him, well than he is wrong. The cut aiming for Zack's shoulder did no damage or anything because Zack is a logia user. Which is what the men saw as he saw that Zack's shoulder got back together after being split by the sword.

When Zack hears the bandit screaming letting his boss know that there is an intruder, makes him smile. He thinks that this is good because now the rest of the bandits might come to his rescue. Also, instead of killing the bandit like he would do with someone else he just leaves him there and goes hide to see if at least another bandit comes to his aid.

Zack climbs to the top of a tree to wait and see what ends up happening. From where he is, he can see anyone coming in from any direction. Now all that Zack has to do is be patient and wait.

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3 bandits ran outside of their tents, weapons at the ready, and their boss, twice the size of a man was reared up to full height. "They may have gotten todd, but god damn it they aren't getting anyone else" he said, with a great amount of anger in his voice. "Hold your ground" the boss said, "We don't stand a chance if we're all running away."

Seeing the approaching figure, the bandits pulled out their weapons, standard rifles, that were kept prepped and ready to fire. On the boss' word of "FIRE!" they all released a volley of shots on their assailant. They felt a collective feeling of being screwed when the bullet holes got covered by glue and the wounds dissolved to nothing.

The Boss told the men to stand their ground, however. "He may be strong, and he may have slain Todd..." His eyes darkened, even in the night, a thick shadow could be seen "He may have strange powers that allow him to shake aside conventional attacks, but we're strong men, and we'll stand up to him".

The Men cheered, and drew their weapons, which were significantly more threatening than the weapon that Todd kept near his pillow. The one on the left held up a Katana, the one in the middle pulled out a pair of serrated knives, and the one on the right had a tetsubou. On their guards, they were going to be several times more of a challenge than Todd (who was a beginner at the whole bandit thing anyways) had been.

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Zack in a way is amused about the size of one of the bandits. He does not know that he is the boss of the bandits, but it does look like he is indeed the boss. Seeing that this might be the boss, Zack comes down from the tree where he is on. After coming down from the tree Zack tells the bandits that they have to give up all of the wine that they have stolen. Also, they will end up having there heads separated from their body. Zack says this with a smile on his face.

Right after he finished saying this, Zack pulls out both of his twin swords. Before Zack attacks the bandits he says, "none of you will be able to escape from me and I will not show any type of mercy toward any of you. How can you guys be sure that I will not show mercy, will just to let you guys know I even killed my own mother!"Once Zack has finished saying this, he uses his sword to send some glue through it and shoots it at one of the bandits.

Even though he shoot a bit of glue at one of the bandits, he did not care if it hit him or not. Zack actually prefers that it did not hit him because this means that he will have more of a challenge. Also, this shot of glue is actually just a distraction. What Zack now does is use his Glue Slash, Zack covers both of his swords in hardened glue and then when he goes to cut his opponent by swing his swords, he releases the glue which sends a sharpened attack from the glue.

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The tetsubou user ducked out of the way of the glue shot, the katana user reared his weapon back, and the knife weilder leapt back, preparing a counterassault, but keeping his guard up in case he was a target.

Big Boss reached into his pocket, and pulled out a throwing dart, clenching it in the palm of his hand, he reached back, and threw it towards Zack. "You Hammers like to eat disgusting Devil Fruits... Well have this for dessert!". The bandit's dart hit its target dead on, as his three henchmen lunged forwards.

The kurosaki dart embedded itself deep into the stomach the glue man, as did the knife wounds in his chest, the katana strike that disabled his knees, and the mind shattering tetsubuo attack to his forehead. Any ordinary man would have crumpled to his knees from the amount of pain he had suffered, but Zack was indeed a strong warrior, and had at least the wherewithal to stay standing.

The bandits removed their bloodied melee weapons from the now almost entirely powerless Zack, who would have to rely on his waning but still significant physical strength to fight back.

The bandits were terrified, in all honesty, but Big Boss let out a sigh of relief that his one and only stolen kurosaki dart from a marine captain had done its purpose. It was a sharply barbed dart, and removal would take at least ten seconds, even with the help of a medical professional. "That's for Todd!" one of the men proclaimed." Another looked very cross "Who cares about Todd right now, we've still got a mad dog to fight!".

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Zack does not expect the dart that the bandit boss shoot at him so it ends up hitting him. What Zack does not realize is that the dart is covered with sea-stone. Due to him being careless he ends up getting hit some times since his devil fruit ability is now neutralize. This makes Zack feel a lot of pain on his body, this is something that he has never endured. Though instead of retreating and trying to take out the dart so he can heal himself, Zack decides to stay and fight.

Zack starts to run toward the bandits. As he ran toward them he puts his swords away and takes out both of his pistols. He shoots both of his pistols aiming toward the guy with the katana and the one with serrated knives. Afterwards, Zack puts away both of his pistols and takes out both of his swords once again. As he runs toward them he gets ready to use his X Factor attack, which is an extremely close combat technique in which Zack slashes upwards and then slams the hilt of his blade down into his opponent's skull multiple times before finishing his opponent off with an enormous X across the front of the body of his opponent. This attack is aiming for the other bandit, the one with the tetsubou.

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As he watches his comrades fall to the ground, whether dead or unconscious, the Boss' rage ignites. He pulls out his giant Axe from over his shoulder, and at the apex of the X Factor attack, just as Zack is unable to pull the sword out of the Tetsubou weilder, the Axe cuts a huge chunk of Zack's midsection, causing damage which will prove to be fatal within minutes unless the dart is removed, restoring his logia powers, or a doctor of unimaginable repute manages to perform emergency surgery.

The knife weilder, who luckily dodged out of the way of the bullet, looks over to his best friend, the bandit with the Katana. They had been friends for as long as they'd known each other, in the same town together. Tears streamed down his face as he leapt towards the now critically injured Zack, and stabbed into his stomach to where the dart was.

Pushing further, the dart gets embedded deeper and deeper. Removal of the dart alone would be a tremendous risk, and could not be performed without assistance. The Bandits know at this point that they will die, but they hope the mother slaying bastard might die, and something might be set aright. They might get to redeem their lives of crime with their dying will.

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Zack becomes in tremendous pain after he has the dart pushed in further into his stomach. Zack tries to reach inside his stomach and take out the dart, though he is not able to do this. As he is doing this he screams in pain. However, Zack tries to overcome this pain in order to remain in the fight. He sort of overcome the pains but knows that he needs to end this fight quickly because if not he would end up dieing here.

Zack decides to reload one of his pistols and then shoots it at the guy who was crying like a little girl. He hopes that this bullet will be able to kill the guy with the knife because if it does not kill him than he would have to fight him too. He already has to worry about the boss and his giant axe.

At the same time, Zack runs toward the boss. As he runs toward him the boss swings his giant axe at Zack trying to cut him in off. However, Zack is able to dodge this axe attack, though as he dodges this attack he groans in pain which is coming from his stomach. Even though this pain is ever to subdue him a bit he continues to run at the boss hoping to stab him on his stomach and then with his otter sword cut his head.

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The knife weilder goes down, blood and tears streaming from his eyes. His life is finished, and he joins his best friend in the state of extinguished mortality. Big Boss let no emotion out. He merely stood his ground, and held his tremendous arm in the way of Zack's attack. His arm was strong, and it could at least stave off the attacks until the swordsman died of bleeding.

Unfortunately, a stab is awkward to block, and as a result, his midsection was pierced through, and with surprise, he saw the final blow to his kneck split seconds before the head came rolling off. His last thoughts were of resolution, that at the very least he and his men had taught this man a lesson that those he killed could at least cause him pain as well. And they always would, until the day that someone stronger than Zack did the same to him as he had done to them.

"Who knows?" He thought as he finally lost consciousness "Maybe what I did was enough to kill him". The bandit crew had been defeated and annihilated, but not without a fair and balanced fight. They'd had a good run, but it was up now.

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After seeing both of the remaining bandits fall, Zack smiled because he knew that he defeated them. Zack now gets on the ground and gets on his back. What Zack tries to do now, is get out the dart because he knows that if he does not he will die soon. As Zack tries to get out the dart he screams in pain, though he is not able to get the dart out because he passes out.

When Zack wakes up he sees that he is on a bed and the room is completely white. As he sits up he sees that the store owner who told him about the bandits is sitting right in front of him. The owner congrats him on killing the bandits. Zack told the owner that there is no need to thank him, all what he wants is his beli so he can be on his way.

Before Zack asks the owner how much beli he will be receiving, he ask him what happen after he passed out. According to the owner some people that where in the forest heard the gunshots and went toward where the gunshots came from. The people that arrived saw him laying on the ground with the other bandits who were dead. Those people brought him back to the owner since they recognize him as the guy who was hired to kill the bandits. When h got here, Zack received medical attention and has the dart in his stomach taken out. This is how Zack ended up where he is right now.

That is a very gracious thing that those people did for him, this is Zack's respond. Zack now wants his reward for defeating the bandits and returning the wine. The owner now grants Zack with th reward that he promised him. Zack stands up from his bed and picks up the bag of beli that is next to him and walks out. Before leaving, Zack lets thee store owner know that he is lucky that he is not dead now. He will live because he has some other business to take care off and cannot be getting side track.