Fish man in the Moutain (Loshi, Nash)

[RK]

After a few days of sailing, the island of Shivre Mountain. This island was famous for it amazing hot springs, which have healing capabilities. He looked at Sora and Genshi and nodded, this was a time to rest. They docked at the port and jumped out. "Where are the hot springs? This is just a town..." Kaiser said with a disappointed look. A passing man heard Kaiser and responded "The Hot springs? Their farther up the mountain just a 10 minute walk." Kaiser was exhausted, and now he had to walk?! What was this a marathon?! He started dragging his feet up the mountain.

Kaiser had reached the Hot spring after about 20 minutes, due to his slow pace. He saw many people relaxing in the hot, steaming, water. Kaiser didn't even bother to take his shirt off he just stepped in. An immense feeling rushed through his body, he felt his muscles weaken and loosen. He felt like a jellyfish. He sat there in ecstasy. When he soon remembered they were here to find a doctor as well.

He got up from the springs. He wobbled a little. Kaiser then took the water from his clothes, drying them. Walking down the side of the mountain he noticed a group of men running up the other side of the mountain. They were carrying a large bag each. Kaiser rushed down to the scene of the crime to find that a store had been robbed. There was a large group of people standing around where a store clerk had been beaten severely. Kaiser was getting sick, so he went off to find Sora and Genshi.

On his way through town he stumbled across the town market. He looked over to see a young girl dressed in extravagant clothing, like she was going to a party. She was being harassed by a group of Marines. "Hey what do you think you are doing to this girl, and on top of that a citizen was just attacked why aren't you helping him?!"

[nash]

Nashara slowly crawled out of the shipwreck, still gripping her rum bottle tightly in her grasp. With squinted, lazy eyes she slowly glanced around in hopes of getting a grasp of what happened and what was going on. She peered around in confusion, then she took a look at her bottle, almost full of rum, still. She rubbed her eyes and looked around again. She took a few steps, then stomped the ground a few times. It didn't feel like wood.
Her eyes suddenly opened wide.
"Holy-!! This is... not the ship! It's solid ground! KYAHAHAHA!'
She let out a somewhat crazed-sounding laughter, then stopped to look around again. She spotted a city, within walking distance from her location. After checking she had everything she needed - everything she had - namely, her claws, her guitar, cigarettes and her bottle of rum, she took one last look at the wrecked ship. She bowed at it and strummed her guitar one last time.
"Sorry guys. I'll be leaving you, now. But.. we'll meet again, one day. For certain." She then turned away and hastily began her walk towards the city, with tears slowly rolling down her cheeks.

* * *

By the time she reached the city, hunger and exhaustion prevailed over the relief and excitement of her aimless drifting finally being over and the fact that now her chances of survival had gone up drastically. Though she wasn't saved yet. As her footsteps became heavier and slower, she was sweating and breathing heavily. Her stomach rumbled. It's been some days since she last had a meal. She took a large swig from her bottle, to numb the emptiness in her stomach.
Though dirty, the color of her clothes still made her stand out as she walked the streets. Stinking of sweat, booze and cigarettes, she dragged her heavy boots across the street, uncaring of the shocked, disgusted and confused looks the people she passed gave her, all the while singing to herself quietly under her heavy breath.
She had no money on her or anything else of value that she'd be willing to part with. She left it all on the ship. It belonged to the crew. Still, hungry as she was, she didn't want pity. She said nothing. She kept singing to herself. She took another large swig from her bottle. Her vision was lightly hazed and her eyes wandered across her surroundings. She was rather confused. She didn't want to ask to be given food for free, yet she had no money to pay for any. She decided it was best to find a crowded spot and start playing. She could probably earn enough for a meal by performing on the street.

As she reached the marketplace, she found it hard to not drool at the sight of... whatever food she could lay eyes upon. But something else caught her attention.
"Hey what do you think you are doing to this girl?" she heard a male voice ask somewhere not too far from her. There was some kind of commotion in that direction. She quickly turned towards the direction where the voice came from.
"What am I even doing, I don't have to get inv-" her thoughts were interrupted as she saw a group of marines. She couldn't see what exactly they were doing, nor could she see the person who shouted at them. But she saw marines and apparently they were harassing a girl. It was enough.
Her eyes narrowed and she gritted her teeth. They didn't notice her yet. Nor was she infamous enough that they'd immediately chase her. But it was quite obvious that she was a pirate. But more importantly... this was the first time she met with marines after her crewmates have been killed.

She stopped singing. She forgot how hungry and tired she was. She lifted the bottle up to her lips and chugged down the rest of her rum, completely emptying the bottle.
"This is the peak of stupid, I know..." she whispered to herself.
"But it's been a while since I played for someone other than myself... so let's rock!"
She jumped on top of some boxes nearby and swung her guitar from her back to her front. She stomped her heavy boot onto the box she was standing on and lunged the empty bottle at the group of marines. It hit one of them in the back and he quickly turned, to see her grinning at him, holding the neck of her guitar with one hand, her other hand raised straight up, holding her pick. In one motion, she brought her hand down and hit the strings with the pick. The sound was pleasant at first. Everyone turned to see the source of it. But it slowly became more and more unpleasant, sharp and distorted.

"Distortion!"
The sound turned painful. More and more people started covering their ears in an attempt to block it out. Some fell to their knees, some screamed in pain and others were struggling to keep their balance. She left one last note ringing sharply in the air before swinging her guitar to her back again, to quickly take advantage of the confusion and distraction she's caused.
She crouched at the edge of the box she's been standing on, with her hands hanging loose in front of her and started humming. She then launched herself forward, leaping straight on top of a marine who was still clutching his head and stumbling to stay on his feet. Quickly, she punched and pushed her way through them, not bothering to actually fight while they were dazed, until she finally spotted a girl in extravagant clothing. She was on her knees and pressing her palms tightly over her ears.

"Yeah, sorry about that, kid..." said Nashara as she grabbed the girl around her waist and quickly made a run for it... but it was a short dash. After only a few steps she crashed straight into something. Someone. She bounced after the impact and landed on her back, letting go of the girl she was carrying. Groaning and shaking her head she quickly jumped onto her feet into a crouching position and squinted her eyes to focus her hazy vision and take a quick look what it was she crashed into. Her jaw dropped and she fell right back down on her ass as she saw a muscular tiger shark fishman standing in front of her. She stopped humming and simply stared up at him in surprise... and fear. She's never even seen a fishman before, much less met one like this, face to face. She's only heard stories about their strength, ruthlessness and... hatred for humans.
"Oh no... No no no no... This is... -NOT-... Happening...!"

[dantetakai]

Lily had been on this island for three weeks. helping and throwing a ton of parties. She had had so much fun throwing them she didn’t mind having to sometimes hold off marines who were drunk. She was used to it, being a former marine. She had seen them at their worst. Like when they had celebrated winning the war. She had to admit even then the party was out of her hands. But this island was a great party island! She had had so much fun already, her skirt was lifted during her thoughts and she swung around and saw it was a group of marines. There cheeks flush with rum. They surrounded her and she tried to talk her way out of trouble but it wasn’t working.

That’s when two things happened, one, someone spoke out for the marines to stop, and then a ear splitting noise hit her ears. She was disoriented for s split second as someone grabbed her and ran off. Lily looked up at the person and smiled. It was another girl. Like her. YAY! She smiled nd let her self be carried till they ran into some on. She looked up. Confused “why did we stop?” she looked at the tiger fish man. “ WHOA! HES A FISHMAN!” she wiggled free of the girls grip. “ wow! He looks so cool! Like hes ready for a costume party!”

[northern]

Genshi had spent the better part of the last few days in a sore state of pain. His ribs were still hurting. He had learned that the next island on their journey would have hot springs, and the thought alone made him dreadfully impatient. Once they had arrived, Genshi followed Kaiser to the town and up the mountain, holding his torso and grunting sloftly with every step. Once they arrived to the springs, Genshi quickly threw off his clothes and stepped in. He undid his ponytail and began to lose himself, feeling his muscles relax and the hot water massaging his insides. When Kaiser began to leave, Genshi simply waved.

"I'll stay here for a while... I'll catch up...later." He muttered, that mutter becoming a mumble as he slowly. Fell asleep.

A few minutes later, Genshi awoke to a distant screech, probably of sime instrument and the sound of grunting and heavy breathing. The source of the grunting noise was a rather large and hairy man, staring at the cook.

"I-i'm a guy." Genshi squeaked, slowly trying to exit the hot spring, finding difficulty with his relaxed muscles.

"I don't mind... Hehehehehe." said the man, wrapping his arm around the incredibly frightened Genshi. He now regretted having long hair. Scratch that, having long hair was worth whatever trouble he would get himself into.

The heavyset hairy man soon began to fall asleep, Genshi still in the mans' caresse. He tried to escape, but that simply made the man growl. Genshi began to wonder what Captain Kaiser was up to.

[RK]

Kaiser was yelling at the drunken marine for laying hands on the young girl in front of him when suddenly a loud screech boomed across the block. He put his hands to his ears in eternal agony, that dreadful noise. He fought through it and saw that it had stopped standing up he noticed another girl carry the harassment victim away from the scene only to bump into Kaiser falling down to the ground. Kaiser looked at the heroic girl who saved the victim, she had a guitar strapped to her back. Her dark pink hair laying at her neck. In fact both of these women had pink hair, was it a fad on this island, or were humans really as crazy all the racists told him. He then looked at the victim, she was wearing all pink completely, her flamboyant outfit was something Kaiser couldn't take his dumb eyes off of. The hero however looked more like a punk rock star than a mild mannered girl. Kaiser watched as the hero's head rose, and their gazes locked. While her face flooded with fear, Kaisers was a mix of dopiness and excitement, which made him look pretty stupid.

"Hello there, are you alright, you're not hurt are you?" Kaiser asked the basic questions to anyone who had just been in a perilous situation. She then regained her wits. “WHOA! HES A FISHMAN!” as the girl wriggled from the rockers grasp, she stood up and admired Kaiser, an action which made him blush a little. “Wow! He looks so cool! Like hes ready for a costume party!” Kaiser had just met another lucky soul who didn't hate Fish men, how fortunate. "Yeah i guess i do look like someone in a costume, and i am pretty cool." Kaiser looked at the cheery girl with a smile. "My name is Kaiser spine, Pirate Captain. Whats your name?" Kaiser then turned his attention to the Punk rocker hero girl still in shock on the ground. "Whats your name then, don't worry i don't bite." Kaiser reached out his hand to the girl and lifted her up.

Kaiser looked back to the Marines in the square, drunk off their sorry asses. Kaiser walked towards them. The three marines pulled out swords and readied for combat, though they were still very drunk. Kaiser looked for a water source, and saw a barrel of hot spring water. He brought it to his arms and let it rest there like water gauntlets, it was still warm and felt very good on his skin. He didn't find it necessary to move, he could easily take them out from this distance, but this water from the hot springs had him under a spell. He forcibly broke the hot springs "spell" on him and readied for battle. "Fish man Karate: Water cut!" Throwing the water from his left arm it detached from his forearm and started spinning into a rotary crescent blade. The marines, too drunk to think properly, took a direct hit. Two of them were dead but one survived, and started charging at Kaiser. The marine jumped into the air and swung his word down onto Kaiser. Kaiser however grabbed the sword in his left hand and threw it aside then held the marine with his right hand. He brang the water on his right arm up to his fist and started swirling it around. He switched hands he was holding the marine with slowly, then delivered a solid punch of spinning water to his face, launching him into a carriage of cabbages.

Kaiser looked at his hand it was cut down the palm from catching the sword, he didn't quite expect to come out unharmed from this, even if they were drunk. "Oi anyone here know how to treat a wound? Got this big ol' cut on my hand." Kaiser hoped this wouldn't turn out like it did in the frost kingdom, but this battle didn't nearly kill him so he assumed he'd be fine, he still however, couldn't just walk around with a gash on his left hand.

[nash]

"Whats your name then, don't worry i don't bite." said the fishman as he reached for Nashara's hand and lifted her up, finally breaking her fear induced daze. Her legs were wobbly and she staggered a little to keep her balance, taking a few steps backwards, increasing her distance with the fishman. She closed her eyes for a brief moment as she violently shook her head in an attempt to clear that light drunken haze from her vision and slapped herself twice with both hands.
"Nashara Halley, the Singing Tigress! And drop your nice guy act, fishman! I know what your kind does with humans!" she shouted in an agressive tone as she pointed at Kaiser with her right hand, index finger extended. Words born of ignorance and misinformation, but that was all she ever knew about fishmen. She glared at him, but he averted his attention away from her and towards the group of marines. She kept her guard up and observed carefully his every movement.

The marines were already charging at him with swords drawn. She had thought of running off while he was busy, but curiosity got the better of her as she saw the fishman bring water from a barrel to his hands. She squinted her eyes as she tried to figure out how he was doing that. On the other hand, what did it matter? It was just water, no matter how you looked at it. What was he thinking of doing with water?
"Fish man Karate: Water cut!" he shouted, interrupting Nashara's line of thought.
He swung his arm, throwing the water at the marines. The water took shape of a spinning crescent blade and - to Nashara's shock - actually cut the marines.
She opened her eyes wide in surprise. She was seriously starting to regret getting involved in this whole situation.
"Oi anyone here know how to treat a wound? Got this big ol' cut on my hand." he asked after he had dealt with the last of the marines. Nashara shook her head again to regain her composure and crouched. As soon as her hands were at the height of her boots, she grabbed her claws. If she had any chance at all to get out of this alive, she had to strike now, she thought. Still crouching, her leg muscles tensed up.
"Tiger..." she started as she was about to lunge at him, but instead just groaned, her legs shaking. She fell to her knees and just remained sitting in that position, grabbing her stomach with her right hand. Her stomach rumbled very audibly.
"Damn... Damn... too hungry... can't fight..." she complained to herself as she held her stomach and lowered her head. She clawed at the ground once with each claw, leaving two sets of three claw marks crossing at the middle, then groaned again.
"I'm gonna die... I'm so dead... of course this had to happen after I thought I was finally saved..." she whined, almost crying as she sheathed her claws back to her boots again. She pulled a cigarette from the inside pocket of her jacket and put it between her lips. She then lit it up and took a slow drag from it, closing her eyes as she slowly exhaled the smoke, then pulled the guitar to her front.

She looked at the girl in pink, half hoping that she'd do something, though not expecting much. On the other hand, she wanted to tell her to escape, but instead said nothing. She then turned back to the fishman, looking at him half in anger, half in desperation. She was too exhausted, tired of seeing her life come crashing down every time she thought things were finally getting better.
"I won't fight you. I can't. I give up. I hate this..." she sighed and lowered her head, closing her eyes as she strummed her guitar. She played a rather heavy, yet sad riff. There was emotion in the sound as if it resonated in sadness.
She sang to the tune with a slightly rough voice, still holding the cigarette in her mouth.

"~No one but me can save myself, but it's too late.
Now I can't think, think why I should even try.
Yesterday seems as though it never existed.
Death Greets me warm, now I will just say good-bye...~"

[dantetakai]

So much had happened since she had been attacked and saved. She had met a fishy man. Who she thought looked AWESOME! But she kept that to herself. He looked so cuddly! She was tempted to hug him and cuddle him. But she could as he was attacked by the very marines she had been attacked by. As he used his fish man karate. (At this point lily had actually squealed) she had never seen something g so cool before.

“WHOA! That was the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen! Do it again!”

That’s when she noticed the girl near her, the one who had saved her the first time. She looked pale and ill. Like she had been stuck at sea for a week. And that’s when she collapsed and Lilly ran toward her. She shushed her half way through the song and lifted her like she was nothing more than sack of potato, due to her kamyuja strength. “Sorry mister tiger man. I have to save her first. It’s part of being a doctor. Hehe.’

She rushed her to a room in a small bar and pulled out the necessary temporary equipment to keep her alive. She then ordered water and food and mushed up the food till it was soft and she helped the poor girl drink water very slowly. Giving her empty stomach time to slowly stretch so it didn’t hurt her when she ate. She had to improvise a needle and IV and hooked it to the water barrel. A small trickle. Enough just to get it into her body gently and easy without hurting her. She handed the barrel to the fish man. “Hold this u please. Be careful okay?”

Then from there she reached into her bag and pulled out a little flower and ut it by the girl and smiled. “that’s the best I could do for you for now. If I had proper equipment id be able to do more. But for now just rest okay?” She said and she grabbed a needle from her bag and a thread and cleaned his wound with water and stitched him up. “There ya go! All fixed up.”

[northern]

The hot water from the hot tub soothed Genshi's muscles rather effectivly, unfortunately, he couldn't really relax with the heavyset man sitting so close to him and breathing heavily. The cook needed to get away, and regroup with his crew as soon as possible. And whats-his-name here was getting in the way of that.

"I have to go now, sooooo... Yeah." Said Genshi, as he turned around and stepped out of the spring, grabbing his clothes as well as his swords.

"I never said you could leave." replied the large man, standing up and raising his fists.

The man threw a punch, hitting Genshis' back, Genshi dropped his his things in the process. It appears that the hot water didn't affect this guys' skills in any way. Genshi turned around as the man threw a second punch, aimed for the ribs. The younger Genshi easily ducked under it and threw a series of punches of his own, hitting the torse several times and finished with a strong shot aimed for the jaw. The man fell backwards and landed back first into the hot spring. Genshi shuddered whilst looking down at the mans'...figure. He quickly put his clothes on and tied his hair back into ponytail, as he made his way down the mountain, back to the town. He felt surprisingly refreshed, feeling his ribs he noticed that the pain was almost gone. He had to tell captain Kaiser about it. On his was down, he found a few stores, and decided that now would be a great time to purchase supplies. He reached into his pocket and found he had few berris with him, but surely he could make that work. With that money, he purchased some bread, meat and some vegetables. He took this food and placed them in a large bag the store had given him, and with sonme effort he began to leave it. His crew was still small so there was no need to wasted money on an abundant feast. Once he found Kaiser, he ran up to him and patted him on the back.

"You have got to try those hot springs captain Kaiser, they are a miracle." He went on and on before he noticed the cut on the fishmans' hand.

"Ouch, you should get that checked out. Anywho, I have purchased some food and I'll be returning to the ship to put them away. I'll catch up later, okay?" That was the last thing he had said before he began walking to the ship.

[RK]

Kaiser was lead to a nearby restaurant where he helped Lily heal Nashara. "I didn't know you were a doctor?" Kaiser watched as the party animal Lily was treating Nashara like a pro. This girl, both of them would be invaluable assets to his crew. “Hold this please. Be careful okay?” Kaiser then was handed a barrel and was told to hold it up. Kaiser held the barrel but almost dropped it when the wood touched they open flesh on his hand.

Kaiser was happy to help but there's nothing like wood on flesh. He looked out the window, marines were investigating the situation. He just hoped that they would be able to rest in peace and not have to deal with the marines. A smile was brought across Kaisers face when he saw Genshi walk into the restaurant.

Genshi was carrying a large sack on his back. Probably full of food. Kaiser then looked back to Nashara who seemed to be healing up quite well. "So Nashara, think you're gonna strum that guitar anytime soon?" Kaiser laughed and looked back to Genshi. "You have got to try those hot springs captain Kaiser, they are a miracle." "I have, they really are great aren't they?" Kaiser noticed Genshi had been fixated on the cut that still adorned Kaisers left hand.

"Ouch, you should get that checked out. Anywho, I have purchased some food and I'll be returning to the ship to put them away. I'll catch up later, okay?" Kaiser nodded and watched Genshi walk out the door and back to the Ship. Walking in only a few moments after was a man in all white.

"Im looking for the man that assaulted and murdered, 3 of my men, reports say he was a Fish man" Kaiser was busted. This man was obviously more than a match for Kaiser. He kept his head low, and didn't say a word. It however was not hard to spot a fish man among humans.

"Well hello there, you wouldn't happen to know anything about the attack would you?" The man asked Kaiser. Trying to play dumb Kaiser lied to the Marine. "No...i don't have a clue about what you are talking about." The Marine gripped Kaiser by the throat, holding a blade to his throat. "Do i look like a fool to you, you attacked my soldiers, and you must pay blood price. Either i kill you here or we can duel honorably."

Kaiser didn't want to be executed so he chose the duel. He was led outside and was standing a few yards away from the Marine. "My name is Walter Blitz, Commander of the Shivre mountain Naval base!" Kaiser didn't have time to play ice breakers with this man but at least it would delay the fight. "My name is Kaiser Spine, Captain of the Maelstrom pirates!" Walter laughed, the captain of some no name crew was going to take him out, not likely. Kaiser found that there were no water barrels around for him to use his fish man Karate, and the sea was too far away. Kaiser had to just rely on his own brute strength.

Walter dashed in with incredible speed. Cutting Kaiser across the chest. Kaiser ran over to Walter and delivered a punch to his gut. Walter however was hardly damaged. Another slash was brought down on Kaiser, knocking him down. "See you are no match for me!" said Walter as he jumped into the air, and launched a thin air slash at Kaiser, piercing his back, luckily however not hitting any organs. Kaiser just laid there and pretended to be dead. Walter and his men walked off, satisfied. Kaiser however was in more pain than his fight with John and Jack. The worse part was, he had only taken 3 hits. Kaiser needed to become stronger, he needed a way to defend against that sword, and he knew just how he was going to do it...

[nash]

"So Nashara, think you're gonna strum that guitar anytime soon?" laughed the fishman, but it didn't sound like a laughter with evil intent.
Nashara didn't reply, however as she was being fed by the girl who revealed herself to be a doctor. Nashara didn't want this, all this pity. But she was too exhausted and most of all, far too hungry and she instinctively swallowed the food, regardless of wether she wanted to accept it or not. Still, appearing this weak... this felt so humiliating to her.

Still, it seemed she was actually going to live, now. At least until the point when a marine burst through the door. Nashara opened her eyes wide in surprise. Of course, she knew she was in trouble here. After all, she was the one who meddled in the marines' business first. Then she'd be an accomplice of the fishman who killed them and-. That wasn't it. While the marine was indeed looking for whomever killed his men, it would appear that only the fishman was blamed. Nashara was of course relieved after the marine took the fishman out for a duel. Nashara took the little flower the doctor girl put beside her. She held it between thumb and index finger and spun it slowly, staring at it, humming a tune to herself. Something was bothering her. Even though she still felt uncomfortable around a fishman, he didn't quite act completely the way she thought. After all, he did help her and made no attempts to kill anyone but the marines that attacked. He didn't even shift blame from himself. He seemed... friendly, even.

She suddenly slapped herself on the forehead, her pink leather glove muffling the slapping sound as a thought occurred to her.
'The hell am I doing? I told myself I would only judge people on their actions, regardless of race, job... not all fishmen can be as bad as the stories tell! Stay on your toes, Nash, but give him a chance.' she told herself inside her head. She groaned a little as she ripped the IV needle from her skin and stood up. Her legs were wobbly at first and she nearly fell, but quickly got a grip and balanced herself. She was still far from peak condition, but she already felt well enough to move around freely. Just the feeling of a full stomach made her feel better. Alive.

"I'll be back to repay you for the help." she said to the doctor girl as she ran out, intended to help the fishman fight the marines. But all she soon found was the wounded fishman. Apparently he lost badly to the marine, but he was alive.
"Tch, I thought fishmen were stronger..." she muttered to herself under her breath as she took her headwrap and pressed it against the wound that was bleeding most and dragged him back into the bar where the doctor was. She struggled a bit to drag the heavy fishman, but managed.
"I'm no doctor, or fishman expert, but I'd say this is not a good thing." she said to the doctor girl as she pulled the bleeding Kaiser inside.
Nashara stepped aside. She hardly knew anything about medicine and decided it was best to just leave it to those who do. She took her bloodstained rag and folded it together and wrapped it back around her head, ignoring the fact that it was all bloody. She crouched next to a wall and leaned against it as she lit up a cigarette and took a drag and closed her eyes while she slowly exhaled the smoke.
"Don't take it wrong, I'm not dropping my guard around you yet. But I owe you two for saving my life and I don't like being indebted to anyone. Especially since I was the one who got in the marines' way in the first place... it's a fight I started. So I'll finish it, too." she said as she took her guitar and started playing a soft, calm tune.
"So you're a captain?" she asked the fishman, "that guy who showed up earlier called you captain... uh, something."

She sang no lyrics, but instead just hummed along to the tune as she kept her focus on her surroundings, just in case they got any more unexpected visitors.

[dantetakai]

Lily was shocked to see the girl standing already; she had seen the fish man who had killed the marines step out for a battle with a strong man who was a marine. She had seen him be horribly injured and before she could rush out the girl had dragged him inside and Lily went to work saving his life. The wounds were deep; she had to hurry to save this man’s life, using rubbing alcohol that she had gotten from the bar below them. She pours the bottle into his wounds and winced knowing it was hurting him, she used her hand to push down on the wounds causing him more pain. But she couldn’t mind that now.

She grabbed a tool from her medic pack and held it with her teeth as she fished in her bag for a candle and grabbing the girl’s cigarette she managed to get the candle lit, thanks to it being a very flammable material. She took the tool from, her mouth and pours rubbing alcohol on it, then set the tool on fire with the candle flame and let it grow very, very hot. She then blew out the fire and placed the tool in the wounds sealing the cut blood vessels. She had to hurry. He may be strong but that worked against his time, as his strong heart was pushing blood out faster then she could stop it. But she managed too. She finally sealed up each wound and sowed it shut. She then sat there covered in his blood. She sighed. She had to hurry the job and had probably caused more pain then he could stand. She just hoped fish man bodies healed like human bodies.

She watched as the man breathed raggedly. She was pissed inside; as she stood up she took off her bolero top. And laid it on him. She reached down and put on her gauntlets, them fitting like a glove. She sighed deeply and breathed to relax her hands. She had brought this on the man. If he hadn’t saved her he wouldn’t have been hurt. She gave e him some painkillers before leaving the bar. She walked outside and looked around. Her hands stuck inside the gauntlets securely as she walked toward the way the marine had gone. She was a Kuja blooded girl, swords were part of her culture, hell every weapon had been part of her culture, and it had been implemented in her marine training. she headed toward the part of town the marines were in and found them celebrating, which made her kind of want to join in, since it was a party, but she was here to fight, not party.

She walked into the bar they were in, a different bar then she had been in but it looked about the same. She stepped in and the marines looked at her and her gauntlets. She looked up and her naturally bouncy hair looked quite disheveled, like she had been in a fight already. She walked in and found the marine captain, but as she walked toward him one of his subordinates tried to stop her, but she just punched him in the face, shattering his skull and sending him flying. Her gauntlet was now colored red from his blood and she grew angry at them, she stood there as the marines stood up and grabbed their weapons. Three of the youngest marines charged her, but they were quickly dealt with. She had snapped two necks and broken the third man’s chest plate, her Ability to know the human body was also her greatest weapon. As she knew where to hit for quick kills.

I’m here for a blood price. You attacked my protector and for that I can’t forgive you!

She slammed her fists together and stood in a battle stance as some of the older marines recognized her from her days in the marines. They backed away knowing her skill in combat. She stared at the Captain and readied herself. She had fought sword men before…but this man’s skill was above the ones she had fought and right about now she was starting to regret this choice, but she had already killed four marines. She couldn’t back out now.

Well? What are you waiting for?

[northern]

Genshi, who had successfully put the food away in their respective places, was now disboarding the ship. He needed to get back to captain Kaiser and check on that wound. This wouldn't be the case, as the very moment Genshi hopped off the ship, he bumped into a marine who had been eating a chocolate ice cream cone. That is to say, he was eating it, until Genshi's involuntary bump knocked it all over the front of his uniform. This angered the marine.

"Watch where you're going kid! You ruined my uniform. I demand that you pay for your incompetence, right now." the marine angrily ordered.

"But I have no money. Can't we just forgive and forget?" Genshi asked with a smile.

The marine would do no such thing. He unsheathed his saber and pointed it at Genshi's throat. He appeared to be missing a rifle.

"in that case, I'm arresting you for assaulting an officer. You're going away for a long time." answered the marine, swinging his sword in an attempt to slit Genshi's throat.

Genshi quickly jumped back and unsheathed his swords. He had found himself in yet another fight, this was the pirates life. The marine kept swinging his sword, trying to cut the pirate with all his might, but Genshi kept blocking them with his swords. Genshi felt confident that this fight wouldn't last long, but a sudden pain in his chest. his ribs began to ache once more. It seems the hot spring treatment was a temporary solution, the pain would return soon enough. The marine could easily see Genshi's pain, and knew that the tables had turned.

"give up, boy. I have the edge, and continuing this fight will only resolve in a greater sentence." the marine said, laughing a short chuckle.

Genshi fell to one knee. He might not be able to finish this fight. But he won't give up. He lifted himself back to his two feet and held his swords horizontally, parallel to each other. The marine took no time in attacking, a vertical slice attack this time. Once the marine's saber his Genshi's top sword, the cook pushed his sword upwards, followed by a full body spin. With his gained momentum, Genshi thrusted his two swords into the confused Marine's chest. The color red soon began to mix with the ice cream's brown.

"So cold. So very cold." the marine dropped his sword and began to massage his chest.

Genshi sheathed his two swords and grabbed the marine by the collar. He pulled him up until they were face to face.

"Please spare me, I have a wife, and child." the marine began to beg for his life.

Genshi simply dropped him. Not out of kindness, but he felt a sudden pain spasm. He grabbed the marine's saber and threw it into the sea to make sure he wouldn't get double crossed. With that, he left, on his way back to the bar to meet up with his captain. The marine crawled away, hugging his chest and silently praying. Once Genshi returned to the bar, he found his fishman captain laying on the counter, stitched up and all. He slowly walked to him a look of worry appeared on his face. He turned to the guitarist in the corner.

"What happend *grunt*, what happened to him?" Genshi asked, grunting throught the pain in his chest.

[RK]

Kaiser was lying on the counter watching this girl stitch up his wounds. She was quite handy at it too. Though he had been having rushing surges of pain all day this one was the worst. He just lay there motionless as Lily covered his blade wounds. "Dammit, that stupid marine. He wouldn't of laid a finger on me if i could have used my Fish man Karate." Kaiser was going to kick the crap out of that Marine...Commander Walter.

Kaiser's treatment was complete. He felt much better now. Rushing in the door at this time was Genshi. "What happened , what happened to him?" said to Nashara as a look of worry overtook Genshi's face. "Genshi, its alright, Lily patched me up, and you came here at the perfect time." Kaiser sat up and stood in front of Genshi, putting his hands on Genshi's shoulders. "Make me a knight."

Kaiser ignored the expression on Genshi's face. "I need you to make me Clay Armor and a Clay Sword. I know they wont be able to take much dmamge but they'll help." Kaisers plan was that if he couldn't fight Walter with his Karate, he'd fight him on his level. Kaiser has no intention of letting a marine end his journey. Especially not one like Walter Blitz.

"I dont want any help in my up coming fight, but i'll need you to keep any other marines off me." After about 20 minutes, Kaiser had a full set of clay battle armor and a large great sword to boot. He stepped outside. The people outside were astonished to see that the fish man who had just been massacred was still walking. As a few of the town folk went to get Walter, Kaiser practiced with his sword. It was sturdy, sharp, well as sharp as you can make a clay sword, it was jagged.

Kaiser wasn't all that encumbered by the armor either. He could still move just as fast as normal. He looked at the people. They were keeping watch on Kaiser, making sure he wouldn't do anything crazy. What was he gonna do blow up the island? Kaiser swung his blade around a little. An action that frightened the civilians.

Kaiser saw Walter walking down the nearby street. Hatred started to swell within him but he kept himself at bay. He didn't have the time to lose his mind. Walter was grinning, chuckling too. Kaiser was about ready to cut him up. Kaiser felt a sharp pain in his wounds. Kaiser left it be and was now face to face with Walter. "Well Well, you're not dead? Bravo Fish, Bravo!" Kaiser pushed the commander away, readying his sword. Walter dashed at Kaiser sword first, but Kaiser intercepted it. Bring his blade around Kaiser got a good hit in on Walters back.

"Don't think i'll go down in less than 5 hits like before, i know my way around a sword." Walter dint listen, and slashed at him, but Kaiser was there again with his sword to deflect it. Walter started to get angry and slashed at a quicker rate this time cutting at Kaisers arm breaking a chunk of his clay armor. Kaiser was backed away and leaped at Walter and slashed his side, gaining the offensive.

Kaiser Slashed numerous times with his great sword which weighed nothing to him. "This is the pain you showed me bastard!" Kaiser jumped back, his arms still hurt. Walter got up, Kaiser could tell he was in some pain but no real damage could be seen. He couldn't lose though, he had to think about his Nakama. Kaiser leaped up and came down on Walter sword first. Walter managed to leap out of the way. He then did something that shocked Kaiser.

Flying at Kaiser was a slash from the very air itself. Kaiser looked at it, as it flew at him he couldnt move mid air, it was surely going to slice him in two. He then had and idea. He threw his sword at the air slash which split it in two, sadly however broke his sword as well. Kaiser felt a weird sensation like there was water ariund...but where he couldn't see any then it hit him like a brick. Kaiser fell to the ground and took his armor off. "My game starts here commander!" Walter was confused. "What are you blabbering on about now Fish?!" Kaiser pointed to the sky, it had just begun to rain.

[nash]

Music was still filling the room, the song slowly going quieter in fading-out fashion. She looked at Genshi through the cloud of smoke that she was slowly exhaling from her mouth. As the fishman answered his question, she merely tilted her head slightly and shrugged in agreement. She quirked her right eyebrow as she silently observed the returning visitor, apparently the fishman's crewmate, cover Kaiser in clay armor. The song was done, with only a few soft ending notes left ringing into silence.
Though curious and even somewhat fascinated as she observed the creation of armor, her expression remained one that would be best described as 'bored'. Throughout the process, which was taking it's time, she played an array of different riffs, as if undecided on what to play. All the while the female guitarist was resting, crouched beside the wall.

Once the armor was done, the fishman stepped outside.
"Tch. Your captain sure seems to be in a hurry to die." she scoffed in a mocking tone and a half grin on her lips as she lit up another cigarette. It wasn't quite meant as an insult, but rather fascinating stupidity. Nashara found it amusing, likable, even. She took a deep drag from it and looked at the ceiling as she exhaled the smoke. With a groan she rose up and tilted her head hard to the left, then right, her neck making cracking sounds as she did so. With her hands at the back of her neck and her chin raised, she calmly strolled out, relaxed. With slow, audible steps she lazily swung her legs to walk, as if to announce her presence. With squinted eyes due to her cigarette smoke she slowly glanced around, until she spotted the fishman and the marine commander. They had already started the fight. Nashara slowly walked closer. With no intention of interfering she crouched at the side with her arms resting over her knees and observed, in accordance to the fishman's wish. She wasn't one to go getting into - in her eyes - unnecessary fights.

It still felt uncomfortable, among all these unknown faces. One of them a fishman, even. And she was lumped together on his side, seeing as the others were marines. Just what kind of situation did she get herself into? But it wasn't time for that sort of thoughts. The fishman was busy fighting and if he lost, Nashara would no doubt be in trouble after that. The doctor girl had apparently already dealt with some marines.
"Hooo... so she fights, too?" Nashara muttered to herself as she peered at the girl's bloodied gauntlets. Smoke rolled out of her mouth with every word. She felt a few raindrops on her hair.
"Hmph, maybe I should get on stage, too..." she grunted as she kept her eyes on a marine, who was slowly sneaking up behind Kaiser. For reasons unknown to Nashara, the fishman was just taking off his clay armor. Nashara, still in crouching position, leaned slightly forward, with her knuckles on the ground as the marine raised his sword to strike. Her leg muscles tensed up and she sprung forward with a quick leap, landing on one leg halfway to the target and immediately jumped one more time with that leg to cover the rest of the distance. She landed in front of the marine with her left leg raised up, deflecting the sword with the claw which was still strapped to the side of her boot. Standing with her left side towards the marine, she turned her head to face him. Her face changed into a lazy expression of annoyance as her gaze met with the marine's.
"...after all, what's a party without music, hmm?" she asked calmly as she stomped her heavy boot back down on the ground, swinging her right leg from the side, kicking him in the stomach with the spikes on her toecap. He groaned and covered his bleeding, punctured abdomen. Another marine quickly took initiative and rushed to attack. As he swung his sword, Nashara jumped backwards to avoid it. Mid-jump, she rapidly brought her knees towards her chest in a crouching position, allowing her to easily reach for her claws, strapped at the sides of her boots. Grabbing the claws, she relaxed her legs, letting the claws slide off her boots and landed in a half crouching position, ready to attack. The marine lunged forward with his sword at chest height, going for a straight stab, but Nashara quickly crossed her claws from both sides, locking the sword in between them, just barely holding the tip of the sword away from her chest.
A grin appeared on her lips and her eyes narrowed for a quick moment, just before spitting the cigarette at him. The cigarette ember hit him right in the eye. As he let go of the sword from the pain and covered his burned eye, the pair of claws quickly engraved a cross into his chest.

Nashara stood at the ready, but not making the first strike for now. She was still feeling hints of the starvation she's been through, though the food she ate was a miracle for the short time that passed. Fully aware that going too crazy or last very long was out of the question - or at least highly unlikely, as well as unhealthy - but intended on sticking through this situation and fight in a more energy-saving style as long as possible. She settled for making sure to keep the marines off the fishman's back for the moment.
"Anyone else want to try meddling in their fight? Try it..." Her right leg began to move, toes on the ground and heavily thumping down the heel in rhythm as if drumming to a song. With a half-smirk, half-smile she started humming, then sang in a fashion that was more a mix between singing and narrating with a rough voice, "~...I rend with boot and claw...~"

The rain has picked up by this time. Her hair was wet and hanging down over the headband rag that was wrapped around her head, covering her forehead. The ends of her hair were just barely reaching slightly under her eyebrows. Locks of hair were hanging at the top of her field of vision, but they wouldn't sting into her eyes.
The blood that had been soaked into the rag from pressing it on Kaiser's wounds was now slowly running out with the water. Light red fluid, a mix of blood and water, was slowly trailing from under the rag, down the right side of her face as well as across her nose, small droplets hanging from the tip before falling. Her left eye was shut tightly, due to her left eyebrow being split by the long vertical scar that branded her face. Hence the drops didn't trail over the eyebrow to the side, but also through the middle of it and into her eye.
The stinging in her eye irritated her. The fact that she had to keep her eye closed because of that irritated her. The rain irritated her. But she did her best to remain calm. Or at least appear calm. Actually getting frustrated from it would be a waste of energy. And it would probably make her do something recklessly stupid in a fight.

Her head was nodding slightly along with her heel. Her knees slightly bent. Her hands hung relaxed beside her, but ready to spring at any moment.

[dantetakai]

Lily’s mind went in to fighting mode, all thoughts stopped as the sky opened up and rain fell. Soaking her dress and hair, but she didn’t care. She duck and dodged weaved her way around opponents. Blocking, breaking, and hurting her opponents as best she could. She counted 130... 140 marines in area. She was glad to have help. She couldn’t survive that-- her thought was broken as a marine trusted at her with a halberd; she grabbed it as she dodged and punched the shaft shattering it. Making a makeshift ax with the weapon she grabbed the marine who had thrusted it at her and buried it in his neck, cutting his head in half.


She let the makeshift ax go and grabbed the broken shaft and spun around stabbing through a marine who was aiming at her with a gun. She stabbed through his chest and palm stuck the shaft and sent it through him into another marine as they both fell. She dodged a large mace as a large man attacked her. She had to dodge his attacks and the other marines as she back pedaled until she hit a wall and the man brought it down as she jumped upward landing on his head as she grabs a fist full of hair and pulled making him move back. she then jumped from his shoulders and as he stumbled back, he looked at the sky due to seeing she was gone, that was until her gauntlet smashed into his face, snapping his neck at an odd angle and bringing him down.

She was excited, not for a good reason, she had been born with the love of fighting inside her already, but her mental instability and her training had brought it out more then in other of her blood line. She smiled and picked up the man’s mace, a heavy thing to most but she carried it like he had. She swung it and took the head of a marine clean off, she then threw it into another marine, killing him as well.

She laughed and laughed as she grabbed another marine by the face and dragger her hand down, the ridged of the gauntlet skinning him and blinding him as he fell screaming. She then grabbed his sword and threw it into the chest of another marine. She then stood as a marines backed up from her in fear. This was a mistake in and of its self as she picked up the mace and smiled. Jumping into the marines swinging like a maniac, she bashed in three skulls before the sword cut into her leg and tripped her up. She recovered quickly. Smashing his groin into dust and standing wounded. She was hurt. But she could keep fight.

As the marines fell more and more wounds showed up. But none she couldn’t live with. She was a doctor after all and knew she had to survive. She did a good job and slowly she drove the marines from her. And she rested for a second. Not long. Just long enough to recover her senses. She ran into an ally and climbs a building hoping for a better view of the battle when she saw a sniper on the next building aiming for the man she had saved. She jumped onto him snapping his neck as the shot missed.