Do you need a monster?

[shenta]

Right after he had managed to slice the flying kick attack in two he watched as the giant swung her club or bladed thing towards the captain but he was very fast but luckily ryu was able to keep up with his movements. The marine captain slaver would move quickly over to the wall as he grabbed a saber that had a sash to it. The captain remarked about handing him his ass if they could but he would destroy them and put Ryu's swords where they belonged. Ryu just laughed at that remark cause this captain must be insane if he thought he was gonna be able to take his blades away from yet again. 

" Where they belong you say, i hate to break it to you but they are where they belong and im not gonna allow you to take my swords away from me again." 

just then he heard the giant call his name, she told him that they was gonna try to end this and that she was gonna attack so try not to get hit. With that the giant woman rushed towards the slaver but he managed to dodge her and she ran right into the wooden wall which managed to shake the whole ship. She then turned around and charged the slaver guy once more but this time ryu could tell she learned from her first attack and calculated what she was gonna do next.

Ryu could also tell that she was either trying to end it her self or give ryu enough time to try and smash the slaver so pulling out both swords from there sheath he bent his knees as he focused his energy and strength that he would use to put all of it into a single devastating attack. Once he had gathered up his power Ryu ran towards the captain slaver and as he got close enough ryu spun around quickly as he formed a black twister that caught the captain up inside of it. " Two sword style Black viper twister." Ryu would say as he placed his swords back into there sheaths and the twister behind him was continuing to spin around, the twister slashed and cut any one inside of the twister. 

It was tall enough that it reached all the way up to the out side of the ship where deck was and as it vanished he watched as the captain slammed down onto the ground, his eyes rolled back into his head and foam was coming out of his mouth. He was badder ed and bruised as he lay there knocked out. Ryu was not gonna take any risks so he grabbed some rope from a near by barrel and tied the slaver up. Ryu looked at the giant woman and smiled. " It looks like we won miss giant, lets just hope that we wont have any more hassle" Ryu said as he sat down on the ground as he took a breather, this has been going on for a while now he had not really had time to take a break.    

[dazbreaker]

Khali had never fought this hard save against her old Master Yamato. The Captain was exceptionally fast despite all the damage he had allowed himself to take. If it wasn’t for Ryu he would have been far too much for her. He had already been too much for her.

As she kept him busy dodging her swings, he aimed to continue wearing her down with small slashes and accurate strikes. They didn’t hurt, but soon she would have to seriously worry about blood loss. She couldn’t keep this up.

Thankfully, Khali committed so much to her attack that when she saw Ryu closing in, her feint took the captain completely by surprise. She swung her Otome horizontally with extreme force, and the Captain looked to sweep past it for a counter strike. But instead of following through, she exchanged hands mid swing, twisting into the swing and rolling out of the way.

The Captain didn’t have time to dodge, having already commited to his counter strike. He howled in anger as he was caught up in an incredible attack from Ryu. His sword slash generating a tornado of black wind that cut and slashed at the Captain, tearing at him like dozens of strikes from all directions.

“Beautiful..” Khali stated, watching the attack with a small amount of awe. Yamato had done something like that during her training to demonstrate his technique, and Khali wished deeply to reach that level of skill.

“Indeed Tiger Swordsman.” Khali fell into a cross legged sitting position, leaning on her Otome, finally allowing herself to take a breath. She looked down at the captain. She then reached down and used the sash on his sword to tie up his hands and legs behind his back. “Thank you Mr Swordsman. I would be dead without you.” She bowed her head to him out of respect. “I think when I am healed I would like to spar with you.” She scratched her chest, where the device from before had been implanted. The injury was catching up with her. “My master dressed like you. Fought like you. He said he comes from a land called Wano. Are you also from there?” She asked bluntly. She wasn’t for tact or subtlety.

“Ahoy! You two down there!” Came a voice from above. It looked like the woman Ryu had saved in the fighting pit, surrounded by other prisoners that had been released. “Are you ok? The ship is sinking! We found a ship docked with this one. But we have to hurry!”

Khali turned to Ryu and laughed. “Well Mr. Swordsman. Shall we leave so we can spar another day?”

[shenta]

Ryu was happy knowing that the fight was over so he placed his swords back into his sheaths, he could hear the giant saying that his attack was beautiful and then she said something about her master who was named yamato. That named sounded familiar like he had heard it before some how, but what got his attention was that he to was from wano and she asked Ryu if he also was from wano. 

" Wano i have not heard that name is some time. Yes i used to live in wano when i was little, my farther was the shogun but he was killed by the government so me and my mom had to come here to get away from the new world. But atm my goal is to form a pirate group and try to find the one piece and become the pirate king. After i do that i will head back to the new world and take back my rightful place as the Dainimo of my country." 

Just then the two of them heard a person yell out from above them so looking up he noticed that it was that girl which he had saved earlier that day. It would seem that they was close to being back on land which he was very glad for cause he was being tired of being on that ship. Don't get him wrong he loves being at sea cause he is a pirate after all but he just did not like being on this ship that he was kidnapped on.

As they was getting ready to head top side he heard the giant woman ask him if he wanted to have a spar after they had healed up after this fight. " Sure Kali that sounds like it would be fun, you have a deal once where healed i would be happy to spar you." 

[dazbreaker]

With the battle over, it was a simple process to escape.  Most of the Captains clientele had either escaped or been taken prisoner by the prisoners Khali had released earlier.  It seemed enough of the prisoners had been innocent people that those had banded together, keeping the actual criminals in line through threat of good old fashioned violence. 

The group led them to a spare ship docked with the Captains own vessel.  Even Khali was a bit staggered by the sheer mass of the ship as she finally got an external view.  It was the size of a very large cruise ship, and she found herself wondering how it could possibly have remained hidden?

As they made off, Khali spent a few minutes watching their short lived prison ship sinking slowly into the sea.  As she did, someone tended her wounds, but she remained quiet the entire time.  She wasn’t one for unnecessary words.  What a strange and bizarre adventure.  Thinking about it gave her a chuckle.  This Captain and his people could have kept this up for who knows how long.  But capturing the wrong pair of victims had proven to tear everything down around him.  Though what struck Khali the most, was how much he seemed to enjoy the process.  In the last part of their fight, he seemed genuinely delighted.  

Shaking her head and tussling her hair, Khali pushed the thoughts from her mind.  She would likely never understand the man.  Nor did she want to.  So instead, once she was patched up, she found a spot out of the way, and leaned her back against the mast.  She was too big to help much with the small tasks.  Besides, the other prisoners seemed content to allow both Ryu and herself to rest, seeing as they had saved everyone.

A few days pass

Khali found herself on one of Loguetowns beaches, a solitary one where she was sure she would not be disturbed.  All but the deepest of her wounds, the one on her chest, had healed and the half giant was nearly at full health.  She was also very excited, meditating with her legs crossed beneath her in the sand.  Her kanabo Otome was buried deep enough in the sand to stay upright.  Her steel grey eyes were locked on the horizon, the sound and motion of the waves providing her an anchor for her meditations.  

Despite her lax appearance, she was doing tension exercises, warming up for the sparring session to come.  Steam wafted from her skin in the cool air, evidence of her preparations.  She had been looking forward to this duel very much.  To test herself against a Bladesmen like her master, to see how far her skills had grown, to see if she was as much of a child as she had been before.  So she sat, silently observing the waves, body raging for release beneath the calm exterior that she displayed.

[shenta]

The chaos and fighting had finally came to a end as Ryu and Kali was able to escape from the ship along with the other prisoners that had been held there. The sun could be seen setting behind the large ship which they had escaped from and ryu was surprised at how big the ship was for it was at least two times the size of one of the marines destroyer ships so how he was able to hide that ship so well he was not sure. Ryru was not really damaged much but there was some medics who had came over beside him as they was patching up any spot they could see so that it would not get infected. Things was going good at first but as he was looking around he could see some marines start to show up, they was busy gathering up the people who was the jailers and slave traders on the ship, things would turn sour for ryu soon so he decided to get up from where he was sitting as he walked away from the spot.



Things would turn badly soon as he turned around a corner there was some marines pointing there guns towards ryu and beside them was that evil little man that was forcing people to fight on his ship, just the thought of this man caused ryu to want to puke. " Yes that is him officers that there is the pirate from my ship i was telling you about. So dose this even up enough for my unarrest i am a businessman after all and time waits for no one not even slaves." The marines talked it over for a minute but just laughed at the man in his face, ryu knew how the marines operated for he used to be a bounty hunter. " Men take that scum away from me, but do tell the captain that he helped us capture a pirate so please be nice to him. As for this mink...all guns forwards we can not allow this pirate to run free, we have a feeling about this one and if our hunches are right he will one day be a big name among the pirates."



" Im flattered i really am, i do not even have a bounty yet but i must have done something or worth to have you wanting me captured here and now. Tho i have a date to get to and i hate to make people wait on me so how about we end this quickly and go about our days." Ryu would say to the marines, he had his pipe in his mouth has he was biting down on the end to keep it from falling out, his hands was both on his swords as he was ready to fight them off. " Thats enough out of you scum, all men attack now." It would seem that the marines was really wanting a fight so as the marines fired off there guns Ryu would unsheathed his swords as he brought them up and managed to deflect the bullets off the side of his blades.



After he managed to escape from the onslaught of bullets Ryru took his swords and he cut down the marines in front of him, he did not kill them but he cut them deep enough that it caused them to pass out from the sheer pain, turning around he was gonna do the same thing to the one which was on charge but he was a little better in skill wise. The man blocked his sword strike as he grinned. " You are a fool pirate, i am Lieutenant Xing and i shall not be as easy to fight off as these weaklings are." the Marine was not lying cause it seemed that no matter what he did the marine was matching every one of ryu's attacks. 

Ryu would say that this marine was pretty even with ryu but there was one idea that might be able to work, sense the marine was even with him they would be fighting a lot longer then what ryu would want so he needed to try and get some distance and try to attack him with a long range attack. The marine came in at ryu with a kick and ryu could tell that this attack would be strong enough to send him flying so he allowed for the kick to land as it sent ryu flying back. Unfortunately the speed and force that ryu was sent flying back at was to much for a poor wall as he crashed into the side of a building and dust went flying up cause of it. Taking the sword that he had in his hand ryu sheathed it before he would quickly unsheathe it as he watched as the blue bird like energy of compressed wind went flying toward the marine. 

Ryu watched as the marine reached up with his scabbard as he would block the attack but he could tell that the marine was having a hard time keeping it from blowing him away and he could see as the marines feet was skidding across the ground, ryu then took this time to escape from the marine who was still trying to stock ryus attack. 

A FEW DAYS LATER

Ryu was now fully healed and he was standing on the beach as th sun was slowing going down, ryu held a pipe in his mouth as you could see the black ash lite up red with every hit he took from the japanese style long pipe. He looked onwards as he saw the giant woman kali, she was sitting on the sand as she was meditating and getting ready for there spar. Ryu walked over to here has he exhaled some smoke from his mouth with the pipe still there. " I hope your ready for this Kali cause i do not plan on holding any thing back even if we are friends. sha sha sha sha." Ryu would say as he smiled and chuckled as he did not want to hurt any one but he just did not find fighting any fun unless he could fight using all of his strength. 
 

[dazbreaker]

"I would expect nothing less."  Khali said with a sigh as her opponent spoke.  His footsteps were quite, hidden from her senses by the sound of the waves.  He did not surprise her, but she didn't sense him coming either.  Steadily, Khali reached for her weapon.  But instead of grabbing it, she swung her arms up, rolled backwards into a handstand, then fell pushed off flipping to a crouching position.  Her mass kicked up quite a bit of sand.  Khali wasn't fast, but she was flexible, and knew how to use her body despite its size.  Her action was if anything, a warning to Ryu.

It is said that warriors can speak with through combat.  If this action said anything, it was "Do not underestimate me."

"Seeing as this isn't a deathmatch, I thought a challenge would make this interesting."  She pointed beyond Ryu, to a series of stones she had moved.  "I created a ring."  She used boulders bigger than Ryu was, and formed a large circle around them nearly fifty meters across.  She made sure there was plenty of room.  "The goal of this fight.  Is to push your enemy outside the ring."  There was large gaps between the stone, easily twenty to thirty meters.  The act had served to make a good warm up for the fight.

"Use everything you have little warrior."  Her eyes shone for a moment as she reached back, all the tension she had been building being pushed to their limits.  Her skin stretched over thick veins and taught muscle while her hands found a relaxed grip on the handle of her Otome.  "Come at me with every ounce of your soul."

"Heaven in a wildflower,

rainbow wing dances,

Butterfly Slices the Reeds!"

Her haiku chant served to focus her intention into a moment of release, the martial expression of strength and will.  Her body snapped like a rubber band, and with a visceral growl she ripped her Otome through the sand, drawing a massive arc nearly two hundred degrees wide.  The full, brutish force of her trained Half Giant strength carved a trench with the head of her five hundred pound Kanabo, throwing up a veritable tidal wave of sand into the air.  

Khali was simple, but not stupid.  She'd seen Ryu fight.  She could not compete with his speed.  So she had to use her environment, and her natural advantages to overwhelm him.  The massive shower of sand was a start to obscuring his vision.  While it wouldn't win the battle, it would help dictate the pace, and keep him from going on an immediate offense.  That, was her role!

Khali rushed towards the place Ryu had been standing, raising her leg straight up in the air to deliver a brutal axe kick, serving to kick up even more sand.

[shenta]

Ryu grinned to him self as he watched the half giant girl stand up and turned around to face the pirate captain standing before her. The large woman would then explain to Ryu that she has placed some really large boulders around them with some open entrances that was only big enough for them to be pushed out from. She told him that she had a challenge for him which was that to win the fight they would be trying to push the other one out of bounds and though the gateway. Ryu would think about it for a moment as he pulled his pipe out of his mouth as he blew out a large plume of smoke, he had seen her fight before so he knew that she liked using heavy attacks with that large sword of her's. That would mean he would have to use his speed and quickness against her larger and more bulky self, but he would have to watch out to cause of her size and race he would be scared to get fully punched by her. 

" That sounds like a great idea to be." Ryu said to the large half giant, he would then put his pipe back into his kimono as he reached down to his side and pulled out both of his blades as he would not be able to hold back against this woman cause if he did he would surely get him self hurt. With both swords in hand he watched as she did some odd haiku before she brought her sword across the ground bringing up some sand then she suddenly brought her foot up off of the ground and as she did more sand got in to his view but it looked like she was trying to block his view but he had more then just his eyes he uses. Thanks to being a half mink he had senses that a lot of people did not and that was tiger sense so he could tell that was about to bring her leg down on top of him so Ryu stepped back 3 steps then he would reverse the handle in his hand so that the blade was now pointing behind him. 

" Black Viper Twister" Ryu would say as he spun around so quickly that it created a small black twister which rose up into the sky as it would attempt to catch the giant woman in that twister which would hopefully get her into the sky as it sliced cuts into her. Hopefully things worked out cause he thinks that using his speed to try and strike first would ne his ace in the hole against her. 

[dazbreaker]

Khali didn't really expect to hit Ryu with her stomp.  But it did have the added effect of kicking up more sand.  However this worked against Khali as she didn't see Ryu's counter attack coming.  It happened quite fast really.  One moment, her foot was coming down, the next he was gone.  After her stomp buried her foot into the sand, she heard some words.

And then she was surrounded by cutting wind.  The air had a blackness to it, and sliced at her skin as though the whirlwind was full of invisible blades.  For a moment it even threatened to lift her off the ground.  But Khali was very large, carrying a five hundred pound warmace, and her foot was buried in the sand.  So she covered her face, and endured the superficial attacks.  Her skin was thick, her muscles dense and well trained.  A human might have been cut down, but for Khali they were just flesh wounds.  

Just then an idea struck her.  Khali tensed up her leg, and stabbed her mace into the ground.  She then used both the mace as leverage, and kicked off with her buried foot.  The lunge carried her out of the twister, where she rolled back to her feet.  Khali didn't waste time, and didn't give an opening.  Instead she immediately broke into a run straight for Ryu.

Bare handed, she used a style created for her by her master Yamato.  It was similar to his homelands martial arts, but modified with techniques and forms he had once described as "Sumo."  Khali rushed the small man, trying to use her size to counter his speed.  She threw a barrage of open handed palm strikes from a broad legged stance.  If even one hit, it should send him flying quite far.  She wasn't trying to kill, but she was certainly trying to win.

[shenta]

Ryu could hear the thud of the half giant as she stomped her foot into the sand and from the sound of it he could tell that she got her foot stuck in to the sand. This would mean that she sure as hell was not getting lifted up in to the air. That just meant that the good fellow would just have to think of something else to do but at the time being trying to get a large person like that to get pushed back so he would have to come up with a plan to be able to do that. Just then she came flying out of the twister as she did a roll and came back to her feet but she did not rest or try to take a break for she came rushing in towards him thrusting her arms like a sumo wrestler, Ryu would chuckle cause that style of fighting reminded him of his old home in the land of wano. He remembers it like it was just yesterday as he would watch those sumo matches with his farther back at the arena in wano, but now was not the time to be reminiscing about the old days for he needed to keep all his attention on this match in front of him. 

He only had one idea that he could think of to do and that was to hopefully clash her attack with one of the same caliber so he rushed in towards her as well as he started thrusting his swords at the giant woman's hands. " Swan Barrage." He said so for every hand she thrusted he would thrust a sword blade at it and would try doing this for every thrust she sent his way, he had hopes that she would try defending and he could try and push her back though a barrage of attacks. After all she weighed a whole lot more then he did and she had probably thought this was a way to counter ryu speed but what she probably did not expect was for ryu to face her head to head in a clash of attacks. 

[dazbreaker]

Khali was surprised by Ryu's decision to counter her attack with offense instead of defense.  However she trusted her size and power thoroughly.  His tiny swords should not be able to do significant damage to her hands.  Even if he stabbed at her, could he stop the full force of her strikes?  

One after another his sword stabbed at her palms.  Between her size, and the extensive grip training she'd done, and the constant work she did on ships, the skin on those hands was very thick.  His swords stabbed into the flesh, but not enough for a disabling hit.  However, she didn't want to take too much damage here.  

As Khali continued throwing her palm strikes, she changed her strategy.  She purposefully started avoiding his stabs, throwing feints and striking wide to make it appear as though she was running out of steam.  Then she waited.  And when she saw an opportunity, she threw a real palm strike straight at him.  This time, when his sword bit into her palm, she kept going.  The pain was real, but it was nothing to Khali.  His sword pushed through her hand entirely.....but this was what she wanted.

Khali's hand clenched down around Ryu's sword hand with a grip that could crush stone casually.  Then she quickly yanked him through the air, throwing him behind her into the air.  Somehow she knew Ryu wouldn't be thrown out of bounds by that, so she quickly rushed to prepare her next attack.  Her hand definitely hurt, and perhaps she should not have taken such a risk.  But it was too late for that.  Grabbing her Kanabo she rushed to one of the boulders that formed the boundaries.  With a snarl she struck the rock with her weapon, smashing the huge boulder to pieces.  She then turned around to face Ryu wherever he had ended up.  

Khali grinned.  Her injured hand was gripping her Kanabo, which was planted in the sand.  Her other hand reached back and grabbed a broken chunk of the boulder.  The rock was like a basketball to her, which meant it was the size of Ryu's torso. 

"Flower Breaks the Wind."  Khali widened her stance, preparing her defensive technique and focusing her mind on the task at hand.  Her right arm then tensed, veins bulging out as she threw that boulder like a cannonball across their beach side arena at Ryu.  She knew he wouldn't let those hit, but she needed time to think, and prepare.  Meanwhile, if he attacked, she would use her defensive technique to deflect his attacks with her Kanabo.  She couldn't focus on attack while doing this, but it might give her a chance to counter him.  

At the same time, she kept hurling rocks, one, two, three, four, five rocks, each one like a small meteor aimed at the Tiger man.

[shenta]

It would seem that countering her offence with his own offence was not working as well as he had hoped for it seemd that this half giant hands was so tough it was like trying to stab in to very tough leather so he was not doing the kind of damage that he was wishing to see but he was not letting this get him down as he slowly was backing away as he thrusted to keep from being hit. Tho it would seem that even tho his attacks was not doing any thing to her the half giant started making her attacks not clash with Ryu and then she started to throw faints with her palm strikes and attacking wide. Ryu made sure to keep a close eye on her and it seemed like she was running out of steam but he had a hard time finding that to be true for being such a large person as she was she should be able to have a lot of stamina for she would need it to carry around not only her own body but that large ass sword of her's as well. 

As she was throwing her palm strikes she ended up throwing her last one so hard that when ryu thrusted his sword at the half giant it went right though her palm but she had other ideas then to just smash ryu but instead she grabbed a hold of ryu arm and then with all her strength would throw him behind her. Ryu could feel the force of her throw as he was having a hard time getting his balance while he was flying though the air, he was lucky that he was able to land with his feet against one of the large boulders then jumped back down on to the ground. Just then he heard a large crashing like sound so looking to his left he saw that the half giant was already 20 feet beside him and he was shocked that as big as she was that she could move so quickly but that would mean that she must have started running towards this direction just as soon as she tossed him. 

The crashing noise that he had heard was that of the large boulder being crushed in to pieces by that odd looking sword which the half giant was always carrying around. That was when she picked up a chunk of the stone and held it in her hand and the size of the boulder was at least the size of his own torso. Thinking quickly ryu sheathed both of his swords and placed them in his sash that was around his midsection and then got down on all fours just like a tiger. It was a good thing he did to cause he watched as she threw those boulders towards him like a cannon ball so using his cat reflexes he was able to get out of the way of the attacks but only barely cause she threw them so hard they came flying at him at great speeds. It seemed that his attacks really had no effect on her so he would probably have to try and have her run out of stamina and strength but would his own stamina manage to hold up for that. 


" Your not bad khali those are some Interesting fighting techniques, they really do remind me a lot of the fighting style they have in the land of Wano over in the new world. Sheshesheshe." ryu would say as he pulled out one of his swords again and stayed about 15 feet away from her so that he could have some time to react when she came at him.   

[dazbreaker]

Khali didn't really expect the thrown boulders to hit Ryu, but she had hoped they would cause him to make a rash attack or put him off balance.  In truth it was becoming clear she couldn't beat him directly, at least not in this situation.  If she wanted a chance, she would have to force him to burn energy and get tired.  

The problem with that was Khali had to keep up an intense pace to do so.  While she had considerable stamina, trying to keep up a constant onslaught was tiring.

"You are quite skilled yourself."  Khali responded.  This was frustrating.  Instead of going on the attack or rushing her, he was entering a defensive, one sword stance.  That was the exact opposite of what Khali wanted!  She wanted him to attack, to wear himself out.  Going on the attack herself was a guaranteed failure.  She could not hit him, and she couldn't catch him.  Ryu could likely keep out of range and use minimal energy.  Khali took a deep breath and sighed.  

"My master came from that land."  Khali hefted her Kanabo over her shoulder.  The colossal warmace was nothing much to her strength, but it likely weighed eight times what Ryu did.  She itched her nose and cracked her neck.  "You fight like him.  Bushido he called it."  Squatting down low she started tensing her muscles, her left hand gripping the handle of her weapon tightly as it rested over her shoulder.  Her right fist was pressed into the sand, forming a stance something like a Sumo stance, but modified for her fighting style.  

"I do not fight with Bushido."  Her whole body was tense, like a spring spun tight and ready to snap into action.  "For I am not Samurai.  I am a demon.  So I use the Tetsubo no Oni."  All at once she released the built up tension in her body, rushing into a dead sprint straight towards Ryu.  He was only fifteen feet away, which was well within range of her weapon, but she wasn't actually aiming for the swordsman.  She knew he would dodge her body mass, and ran straight past him towards one of the ringside boulders.

Khali swung her mace in an upward arc, smashing the boulder with the strike.  This time, she had a different strategy.  Grabbing a couple dozen chunks of boulder two at a time, she began throwing them straight up into the air.  Her half giant strength sent them hurtling hundreds of feet up into the air, and once done, she rushed at Ryu again.  This time she did aim to attack.  But now there was the distraction of falling rocks.  Khali was willing to risk being struck herself, but maybe it would be enough to keep Ryu off balance?

[shenta]

Ryu knew that going on the defensive was the right thing for him to do as he could see on the Giants face that she did not want him to do that. Ryu thought for a moment and he knew that if he was in her position that he would not want to go on the attack with some one like his self cause there was the speed advantage which would make hitting the person a lot harder and it would be a lot more stamina draining as well. He heard the Giant tell him that he was very skilled as well and ryu could not help but smile when he heard her say that. The woman giant told ryu that her master also came from the Land of wano of the new world and fought just as he did, he called it bushido and she was right the samurai did call it that the way of the sword though body mind and spirit. 

" I can see why i am having such a hard time against you then, it is not often i find some one here on the four blues that has seen a samurai from my home land in the distant land of wano cause we do not often leave from there. " 

Once Ryu spoke he watched as the giant squatted down as she tensed up her body before rushing towards him like a loaded spring.  But as ryu read her movements he could tell that she was not coming for him or even aiming for him but instead the large woman would rush past him and went over to the large pillars of rock and smashed her sword in to them breaking off boulder sized chunks. Ryu was pretty sure he knew what she was going to do with those so he reach down and unsheathed his second sword once again and flipped the blade around so it was pointing behind him. 

Just then he would watch as the giant would start to throw the boulders up in to the sky and ryu wondered why she would do that but then she came rushing towards him once again but this time ryu could tell that the giant had every intention to go on the attack so ryu would suddenly spin around. " Black viper twister" Ryu said as he formed a small black twister but he was not done there cause he learned from last time that just one of his twisters was not enough to stop the giant so he quickly spun around a second time which just added more twist and force behind the attack. His plan was to hopefully use the extra force to left the giant up and to keep the large boulders of stone from smashing him from above. 

Once he had finished that he would quickly toss his second sword down on to the ground as he would take his one sword and thrust it towards the giant as she was in the air hopefully" Swan pistol" The only thing that ryu had to worry about at the moment now was either a counter attack from the giant or the boulders landing on him as he was on the attack.  

[dazbreaker]

When the first twister hit, Khali braced herself and tried to push through.  She was quite heavy, and though her foot wasn't buried, she had forward momentum on her side.  At least until the second twister hit.  Khali growled in response.  The wind kicked up by those sword techniques was brutal, and in a few seconds the giant was being slowly lifted off the ground.

She didn't have time to plant her foot again, and she was busy guarding herself from the cutting bite of the wind.  Fortunately those were all superficial cuts, just skin and flesh.  Once her toes left the ground, she was floating as a target.  With nothing to brace herself with, or ground herself on, she prepared for Ryu's incoming strike.

"Swan Pistol!"

Khali gritted her teeth as the sword stabbed into her abdomen.  Like a jolt of lightning the pain ignited her reflexes, and her right hand snapped down over Ryu's sword along with his hands.  She grinned, he made a mistake.  In order to attack her directly like this, he had to be up in the air as well given how tall she was.  That meant he couldn't dodge anymore than she could.  

"A strong blow Ryu the swordsman."  As the twister started to die down, Khali's toes sank gentle to the sand.  Ryu was still trapped by her grip, and Khali felt the full extent of her injuries.  Even though superficial, so many small cuts left her body burning and stinging with pain, not to mention blood loss.  Her skin was red, so it hid her bleeding, but she was still bleeding nonetheless.  She had to squat down to one knee, Mighty Grip holding Ryu fast and unbreakable.

"I will respect you with the strongest I have."  She raised her free hand, forming a knife edge as she pointed it to the sky.  Her body tensed, muscles turning to chorded iron as she prepared her greatest attack.

"Demon Sword."  Her body snapped, the tension reaching its limit before being released with terrible speed and force.  "KURENAI!!!"  

Or it should have.  Khali forgot her own boulders, the ones she threw to distract and potentially injure her opponent.  Instead of delivering the powerful overhand chop to the swordsman, she recognized the shadow of a boulder covering them both.  Khali instead transferred her energy into something more akin to a slap, knocking Ryu backwards with considerable force.  He would be hit quite intensely, but it would be better than being crushed by a wayward boulder.

Having performed the attack off balance and suddenly, she didn't have the ability to stabilize herself.  Khali was thrown back by the force of the impacting rock and her slap, rolling uncontrollably out of their impromptu arena with a groan.  She didn't know what happened to Ryu.  Did he get knocked out?  Did she lose?  Either way, it was an amazing fight, and despite how intensely sore she was, after the last few rocks landed she broke the silence with a booming laugh.

[shenta]

Ryu grinned as he watched his twisters manage to actually lift that giant red woman up in to the air, he was glad cause the last time he went and tried this tactic the giant would plant her foot in the sand to stop him but now there she floated in the sky so ryu rushed in on her as he stabbed his sword in to the womans chest area but just then the half giant managed to grab Ryu on the arms trapping him from moving around. He was not sure what he would do next as he watched the woman raise her sword up in to the air looking like she was about to slice him in half. 

Lucky for Ryu tho the half giant forgot about her boulders thats she had just recently tossed up to try and distract him, but Ryu grinned as he never took his mind off those large chunks of rock and this plan also made it so that he was not cut in half so instead of slashing him the giant woman would smash her hand against Ryy body, her hand was bigger then he was so when she hit him it was like being slammed in to by a sea train. The force of the attack sent Ryu flying back as he crashed though one of the boulders there and landed on the out side of the goal area. 

Did he win, did he lose he was not really sure yet all he knew was that his whole body felt like every bone in his body might be broken so he decided to stay laying down for a little bit to make sure. Just then Ryu heard the Giant start to laugh which just caused Ryu to start laughing as well, he was surprised that this giant was able to put up such a awesome fight and he could tell that he was getting much stronger. Tho he was not yet strong enough to think of heading to the grandline but one of these days Ryu would make sure to reach his home land once more and become king of the pirates. 

Ryu still needed a crew but he could tell that the giant probably had other ideas so he would not ask her, so instead he at least made a good ally which hopefully if he ever needed to he would be able to call on her for back up. After a little while of laying there Ryu managed to get back on to his feet as he walked over to the giant. 

" That was a great fight khali and i hope we will see each other again later down the seas path tho for now i must be going for the sea beckons my name to rejoin her. Get those wounds healed up and let us meet again Friend." With that said Ryu would make his way back to the town so he could get some supply's for healing his body and to get a bite to eat and a stiff drink.   

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