Mission 97:300? That's easy.. (Mimic/Invite only)

[lily]

The sun was shining on the beautiful summer day in the West Blue. Not many people usually used Stetson Island as a vacation spot but if they did..today was definately the day to do it. However, It was a day of much activity on Stetson Island.They had recently heard of a threat that a pirate was attempting on the island so that's all that was on everyone's minds for the day.

Different people took the information differently. Some people decided to stay inside and hide until the problem was resolved while others decided to go about their daily business. Out of these people who went about their daily business Victor was among them. He had entered Stetson Island in a different outfit rather than the one he usually dressed in. To blend in to the community he had decided to dress as a "cowboy" hoping he wouldn't seem suspicious traveling with his horse as he planned to capture the bounty head as quickly as possible.

It was as he was walking past a bar that he heard panicked voices and saw someone come running out screaming in terror. Pausing he looked up at Adeodatus who looked back at him and then nudged him to go inside to check it out. "Adeo. Be ready in case we need to get away." He pulled out his pistol from his pocket and began to enter the bar.

To his surprise there were 3 armed men in the bar who were pointing at their respective weapons at the bar keeper. The strangest thing about them was that they had numbers written in big, red letters on the backs of their shirts. Quickly moving under a table so that they wouldn't notice him he quietly listened to their conversation with the bar man.


"Oi! Give us all the money you have!" said the tallest one of the three who had the number 295 on the back of his shirt. "Yeah.." Snickered one of them who had the number 298 on the back of his shirt. The last one who had a 296 on his shirt stood silently but seemed to be less enthusiastic about the whole thing. The man working the bar seemed to be too shocked to be able to move.

Victor however could move. Quickly placing one foot on the wooden floor he switched his pistol from his right hand to his left and placed his open right palm against the ground. Barely audibly saying "Ashi Suitoru.." he "absorbed" the whole floor. Before shooting out two bridges of wood and quickly attaching them to the feet of 298 and swinging his arms to the left.

"What the-.." was all 298 was able to say before being swung into the other two and sent flying into a wall. "Everyone get out now!" shouted Victor as he stood up knocking over the table which caused everyone to run out of the bar. Victor stood there as he waited for the men to recover with his pistol trained on the spot they had just hit in the wall. "It looks like..it's not your lucky day~" he said to the men with a chuckle.

(OOC:Alright so basically here's how I thought this mission would go...there are 300 men with numbers on their backs which correspond with how strong they are 300 being the weakest while 1 being the strongest besides the 16 mil bounty and they are scattered all around the city. We're basically going around dispatching all of them until the 16 mil head pops up which we'll need to have someone else play...If you don't like this feel free to tell me and we can think of a new plot. )

[White Mimic]

16 million was pocket change. Everything out here in the Blues was just pocket change. For god's sake, Victoria recieved bigger commisions than that when she was an architect. The sooner she caught up with that scumbag, the sooner she wouldn't have to deal with this kind of riff-raff any more. The sun beat down on her pale skin and her monochromatic saloon dress, not what she usually wore, but hey, when in Stetson Town, yada yada yada.

The wardrobe she had chosen would've crippled many people in this sort of heat, but it didn't bother her all that much. It only provided annoyance that could easily be shut out. The wooden walkways of the town were only a few feet away from Victoria's own position, sitting silently on the edge of the seemingy empty part of town. Supposedly this bounty head had come into contact with that man: the elusive Escape Artist Pirate Dewgan Darcie, the captain that was able to escape from any trap, cell, everything. It wasn't a very substantial lead at all, but completely losing the trail of pursuit she had set up, it would be the ultimate defeat for Victoria, who had promised herself to shove him down into the very depths of hell for what he did. Impel Down wouldn't be enough for him, for he could very well escape before he arrived, the only way to deal with him would be to bring him to hell herself.

The wood of the walkways creaked with every step, the city seemed to get a little denser and more populated further down the road. Taking a turn around the corner, Victoria was just able to see the patrons of a bar running out in fear of something. She made her way over to the window, peering into the dark bar, making out only a few figures but couldn't see what they were doing. Approaching the saloon door for a better view, she saw two men fighting three other men. Just a local ruckus, probably, they were all wearing the clothing of the island. Without any enforcement in sight, she chose to interpret the situation as a need for her vigilante.

"Oi." She gently pushed the door aside and took a light step into the room. "What's with the commotion in here? You're scaring the populace."

A well placed hand on her neck with a flick sent her hair into the air, as she flaunted her beauty a bit. "Do you want I should intervene?" For a moment, she forgot this wasn't the Grand Line, so she was mostly unknown out here for her bounty work.

[lily]

Number 295 stood up first and said "Oi! Who the hell are you?" pointing a finger at Victor and cocking his pistol and aiming it at Victor as well. 296 simply readied his rifle and aimed it at Victor as well preparing to fire when needed to. 298 snickered and devilishly grinned before saying "You don't know what your messing with we work for Captain Kiyo! The woman with a 16 million beri bounty on her head! I don't even have to bother these other two with kill-..?" It was at that moment Victoria stepped in and said "Oi. What's with the commotion in here? You're scaring the populace." Victor was the first one to turn around he was prepared to shoot but then he noticed it was a lady.

She then said "Do you want me to intervene?" with a flick of her hair Victor could tell how potentially dangerous she was and so he decided to approach her in a friendly manner "Hello Miss~" he said as he turned to face her taking off his hat and bowing before saying "I was just making sure these fine gentlemen didn't hurt anyone is all..apparently the work for the bounty i'm going to be collecting~" 298 was getting irritated by how the two were ignoring him and said "Don't underestimate us!" before charging forward with a dagger in his hand and attempted to stab Victor.

Victor lept back gracefully as the man lunged forward and stuck his leg up in the air. He placed it on the man's forearm and quitely said "Shozuku." before pivoting on his other foot and aiming towards the other two men. 298 was yanked around too because he had been attached to Victor through a bridge that was on his foot. Victor then extended the bridge to max length which smashed into the other two men, sending them crashing into the wall again.

Victor cleared his throat and turned back to the woman saying "As I was saying..it's a pleasure to meet you my name is Victor Claudius~" he paused for a minute before saying "May I have yours?" No matter how hard he tried though..he couldn't shake the feeling he had seen her somewhere before..

[White Mimic]

"As I was saying..it's a pleasure to meet you my name is Victor Claudius~May I have yours?"

Victoria looked at the room, the bridges connected to the thugs, the damage their bodies had done being flung around like that. The tables were a mess now and the walls had been splintered slightly from the force of this young man's attacks. She seemed to ignore the question for a bit as she examined the bridges, running her hands across one of them. "What a beautiful power you have." She glanced back up at the room. "...Ehh." She was a bit disappointed with the work in all honesty. When she herself captured bounties, she tried to do as little damage to her surroundings as possible. Hard work went into making buildings and it was positively disgusting to watch that work go to waste on something as trivial as bounty work.

She got up and started combing her hair with her hand. "Victor Claudius huh? One of those Claudius's by chance?" She had never met a noble in person before, she only had knowledge from other people she had met who had described them as brats. You could never say that to one's face though. "You don't have a bubble, and you're way out here in the West Blue. So if you are or not, I can't take your word for it can I?" Lightly stepping over the tossed over tables and a bit of wall, she examined the bounty-heads supposed underlings, taking a good long look at their numbers. "Whatever the case, it looks like you and I are after the same person." She pulled a bounty poster from her dress and unfurled it to show Victor. It was a side profile shot of the woman she needed to contact, the 16 million bounty head Kiyo Masano. "Which makes us rivals for now. And don't think I ever go easy. As for my name," She smiled and put the poster away flaunting her hair again. "I'm Victoria Thatcher. Pleased to meet you."

[lily]

When Victor saw that the woman was looking around the room he looked a little dissapointed until she ran her hand over one of his bridges and said "What a beautiful power you have." Victor immediately smiled and was about to say something else when she suddenly uttered a dissapointing "...Ehh." to Victor she had a very elegant air to her...something usually found with royalty which intrigued Victor by a lot more than he was usually interested in people generally.

"Victor Claudius huh? One of those Claudius's by chance? You don't have a bubble, and you're way out here in the West Blue. So if you are or not, I can't take your word for it can I?" Victor frowned a little bit and said "You can take my word Miss..the Claudius' are not as arrogant as many World Noble's are." he paused for a moment to think about what to say next when she said "Whatever the case, it looks like you and I are after the same person." and pulled out a wanted poster that had Kiyo on the front of it. Much to Victor's surprise she then said "Which makes us rivals for now. And don't think I ever go easy. As for my name, I'm Victoria Thatcher. Pleased to meet you."

Victor stared at her for a moment and then laughed a little bit saying "I don't think I can be rivals with such a beautiful lady..." he gently took her hand, got onto one knee, and said "All I can be for you is your protector. You do not need to dirty your hands with such a disgusting chore." he was using all his wit and charm to win her over to his side. Smiling and winking a bit he said "I will take of these 300 warriors and lead you to Kiyo herself...and if needed I will take care of her as well~"

It was at this point that 295 managed to stand up and aimed his pistol at Victoria "You'll never get to Kiyo-sama! DIE!" Victor reacted quickly and created a quadruple layer bridge which would block the bullet. He moved in front of Victoria to protect her and prepared to attack with another bridge.

[White Mimic]

It almost took her by surprise when this Victor character took her hand and... tried to charm her she thought? "All I can be for you is your protector. You do not need to dirty your hands with such a disgusting chore."

"Uhmm... what?"

"I will take of these 300 warriors and lead you to Kiyo herself...and if needed I will take care of her as well~" Definately playing the knight this one. Victoria was used to being hit on, but not quite like this, not even Henry was quite this... chivalrous. "Oooookay. I don't mean to be offensive but I'm not sure I need-"

"You'll never get to Kiyo-sama! DIE!"

"Hmm?" One of the thugs had gotten up and was now aiming a pistol at her, but he wasn't in view for too long when Victor sprang inot action, forming several wall bridges in between them and the man with the gun. He was going to create another bridge when she grabbed him by the shoulder to get his attention. "Stop it. This place is a wreck as it is." Her back of her body quickly disassembled into many different congruent diamond shards of glass. The shards spiralled around through the air, weaving through the bridges right quick, through and around to the target. The shards stabbed through the man's clothes and stapled him to the wall. "Chelmsford." The pieces of her body regenerated as she gave up control of the shards keeping the man on the wall, it wasn't as if she would be aple to do much else with them.

"And as long as he's awake..." Stepping out from behind the bridges, Victoria approached the man, a seduction in her step and hips. Her arm became a glass spike and extended up to the man's neck as she lifted it. "Where is your boss?"

[lily]

"Uhmm... what?" Victor sweatdropped as Victoria seemed immune to his natural charm and charisma...this was really the first woman he ran into who after she learned of his Noble status and getting a feel for his personality who was immediately infatuated. However once he protected her from the bullet he figured she would make him her knight but as he went to attack the man she said "Stop it. This place is a wreck as it is." Victor froze and turned his head towards Victoria who procedded to turn into glass and pin 295 to the wall. He put his hands on his hips and pouted a bit before retracting his bridges back into his body.

295 looked up at Victoria as she held a glass spike to his neck. After hearing what she had to say he knew what his response was going to be "You'll just have to find her. I wouldn't go looking for her if I were you though...even with you two being Devil Fruit users...Kiyo is much stronger." He then procedded to move his head down onto the spike and hoped to bleed out before they could try and get anymore information from him.

Victor was amazed by Victoria's Devil Fruit abilities...they had a sort of elegance that his movements usually had...seemed they had a lot more in common than just name similarities. As soon as he saw the man attempt to kill himself he became deeply saddened...to have such devotion towards someone who probably doesn't even care for her own comrades enough to travel with them..it was depressing. With the man incapicitated Victor said "Ms.Thatcher? There are many others to get information out of...297 to be exact." he knew this number as he hadn't traveled to the island without a purpose.

Although now that the thugs had been defeated the bar keeper came back inside as he had been watching through the window the whole time. "Excuse me! How do you two expect to pay for this damage you've caused?" he seemed impatient as he got a closer look at how much damage Victor and Victoria (about 99% Victor) had caused.

[White Mimic]

"You'll just have to find her. I wouldn't go looking for her if I were you though...even with you two being Devil Fruit users...Kiyo is much stronger."

The henchman tapped his head against the spike, trying to cause enough damage to himself that she wouldn't be able to extract anything from him. The spike returned to a normal arm after the man had given himself a few cuts, with the very tip of the spike, nothing too serious. It wasn't Victoria's style to up and kill everything in her way, but she did leave the man on the wall. If he was strong enough, he could dislodge himself eventually and perhaps kill himself with one of the shards, but most likely the marines would pick him up with any of the other henchman that were left in the wake of her ambitions.

"Ms.Thatcher?"

"Hmm?" Her head turned slightly, an attempt at better hearing but mostly to give acknowledgement to the other Bounty Hunter. "There are many others to get information out of...297 to be exact." She looked out towards the door, across the street and scratched her head. "Well, I suppose it shouldn't be too hard to find her then, but it's not as if the rest of her bees won't think of her the same way. The stronger ones probably have higher standards for themselves, with any luck."

Fairly soon, the barkeep returned to the store and began asking too many questions. His face was beginning to flush with color at a supressed rage, tapping his foot angrily at the state of his establishment. "Excuse me! How do you two expect to pay for this damage you've caused?"

Victoria grinned and leaned on the barkeeper slightly, smiling directly at his face. "I didn't do any of this, I'm only responsible for the holes in that wall," She directed his face at the hanging thug then back at her own. "Besides, when I catch their leader, I'll pay you back double what I owe for the wall," She pressed herself a little closer to his body, allowing her... shape to work it's own special powers. "Who knows, I may even pay you back... in other ways..." The last few words were whispered into the man's ears very sweetly and discreetly. She smiled again, tapping the man on his arm playfully. "That's just me though. That one's a noble, he's probably got loads of money to clean up after himself." Her voice became a little more sullen as she referred to Victor.

[lily]

The man listened to what Victoria had to say and was tapping his foot impatiently while doing so "I want money to fix this now! I'm not going to wait until you're done with whatever crazy bounty hunting you two fools are doing!" he crossed his arms impatiently "Who knows, I may even pay you back... in other ways..." the barkeeper took a deep gulp and began to sweat a little bit as Victoria's...assets...began to rub up against him. "I-It's fine.." he said as he backed up a bit "You don't have to pay anything..the damage is minimal.." he said as he looked off into a different direction turning deep red.

"That's just me though. That one's a noble, he's probably got loads of money to clean up after himself." The barkeeper kept his composure when she said this for a brief moment until it actually kicked in. "WORLD NOBLE?!" he exclaimed as he immediately got down onto his knees "I'm sorry sir!" he said in a very feeble sounding tone. Victor looked at him with a confused look on his face before reaching into his pocket taking out a gold coin. He generated a bridge (the size of the coin) out of his other hand and placed it on the floor in front of the man. "That should cover it sir! Sorry for the damage I caused~" he said with a deep bow before turning to Victoria and saying "Well if we're going to find the bounty head...we should get going." he then procedded to exit the bar and walked over to his horse, mounting it.

(OOC:Sorry for the super late post...school is stupid >_>...)

[White Mimic]

((Likewise, only had time to post one thing last time))

"Tch..." Victoria threw her gaze elsewhere. It was absolutely pathetic to watch something like this. Having never encountered a World Noble herself and only hearing rumors pass along the Sea Train, it was her opinion with what she knew that the World Nobles were a massive family of brats and ruthless materialists with no sympathy for those beneath them, with their only redeeming quality being their 'historical value'. With the power and influence they wielded, however, no doubt she would have to behave like this should it have been commanded of her. Bounties were one thing but dealing with an admiral? No thanks, she wasn't comfortable with a match up like that.

"Well if we're going to find the bounty head...we should get going."

"Hold on. Who said anything about working with you?" She followed him out of the bar with her hands on her hips and her head jutting slightly foreward. She wasn't angry, only flustered, the nerve of someone working with her on a bounty this low. "It's only 16 mil, any bounty hunter in the Grand Line can make that much in their sleep. What makes you think that... hang on... you aren't new to this are you?"

If he was, it would make sense. When she started, she started out low and built up to a bounty range she could work with. After and exasperated sigh, she got close to the horse but didn't mount it. "...Alright. Where were we going to go first?"

((Little short. Just a bridge to the next phase of the thread~?))

[shore]

OOC: I shall RP the evil NPCS! MWahahahahahahaha

IC:

"What the craptastic is taking so long?" she asked in a very aggravated tone.

A man with a large number 4 on his back just sighed. Their captain had just taken a serious liking to cursing and so far was proving to be miserably bad at it. Not to mention she was still as annoyingly impatient as ever. The goons sent to town hadn't been gone for more than a hour at best. No reason at all to be worried... but here it came anyway. Five, four, three, two, one.... "Send some people to go get them! Like Twenty- NO! Thirty cruddy punks to get em! Heck yeah." the captain called from her room aboard their ship. Number 4 grunted in response and walked off to do as asked.

The captain was a willful and arrogant girl, but she was also strong and he a loyal crew member. He organized the troops and took a quick count. Which wasn't as difficult as it sounds. The crew knew to line up in order so that the last number was the total number of crew on the ship. They always started with the lowest numbers for any jobs anyway. Last number was..... 285. So fifteen of the crew were out terrorizing the town. Well they might as well scare some of the people while they were at it. Number four pointed at 250. "From you down, head into the town and gather up your fellow crewmates. If there are any problems, deal with it. Clear?" They all nodded and scurried off to the boats.

In a matter of moments thirty more men set off across to the city, while the twelve already there prepared an ambush. Fact is, fights are loud, especially fights where bridges and massive reconstruction are taking place. It doesn't take a genius to figure out what is going on and to mention it to someone else. Now the twelve waited for those two hunters, they guessed, to hit the middle of the street. Four of them were on the roofs to shoot, another four on the ground with guns to fire too. The final four were gonna rush in as soon as the bullets stopped to slash up anything trying to crawl off. No one messed with Captain Kiyo and her crew!

OOC: I hope that works for the moment. I have an interesting idea for Kiyo so this'll be fun

[lily]

OOC:This is going to be a short one.

"Hold on. Who said anything about working with you?" Victor smiled and laughed to himself a bit as they walked out of the bar and over to his horse who was waiting patiently for Victor to finish his business which at this point..he had. Mounting him and turning to Victoria he said "Well we're going after the same person..so rather than competing I figured we would be better as a team." he gently nudged Adeo in the sides and he began to trot along slowly. Victoria who was standing next to them seemed flustered to say the least as her posture showed this.

"It's only 16 mil, any bounty hunter in the Grand Line can make that much in their sleep. What makes you think that... hang on... you aren't new to this are you?" Victor nudged Adeo who stopped and turned around to look at Victoria "Well...i've been in Mariejois for most of my life up until this point. I'm waiting on my friend to finish up training before moving to the Grand Line." he scratched his head a bit and smiled weakly before saying "But yes...i'm kinda new at this. You seem experienced though..I could probably handle the bounty myself and i'm guessing you could too, but I'd rather have company with me."

When he turned back to head in a random direction, Victoria said "...Alright. Where were we going to go first?" Victor was moving already and said "I don't really know but..I figur-.." his voice trailed off as he looked around the area noticing several people hiding waiting for something..

[White Mimic]

"I don't really know but..I figur-.."

"...Hmm?" She walked ahead of the horse, looking at the man riding it quizically. "Still thinking it through huh? Well, she's probably somewhere closer to the center of town, but I doubt any criminal would be so bold as to base themselves from the most dense area of any place with Counter-Piracy laws. It might be a good start to begin in the middle and work our way outward based on leads. We'll need a good lead first though-"

She was interrupted when her face shattered out of her head, a large hole all the way to the back replacing it. The entire inside of her skull was a clear glassy material. She stood completely motionless, her body raised an arm to the hole where her face had been and felt the inside for a bit before she shot her arm behind her. The forearm extended into a glass spike which reached through a wooden sign on top of a building. From the angle of the damage that had been inflicted on her, the shot must've come from somewhere over there. Her face had slowly been regenerating as she acted, her mouth was the first to reform completely twisted into an expression of disappointment.

"Leicester..."

Her left eye took form as she turned to face the sign she had run through. There was a short scream of terror (it must have been since she didn't feel herself pierce through any flesh) that got her attention following the shot. "Yes, a lead. That'll work perfectly." The manner in which she had spoke became subtley more sinister, taking on a lascivious quality much darker than when she had addressed the bar owner earlier. She glanced around with her one eye (soon to be two as her face recollected itself) to see the people she had percieved as towns folk were keeping their distance and reaching for weapons. "Hmm. Weak ones aren't worth the time. Do you want to deal with them?"