Slayers and Ruby

[Mr. Moon]

Eric #6 

When Ruby dodged his Iron Wall technique, Eric slightly grinned. That girl was really quick on her feet, probably quicker than him, so to take her down, he had two possibilities, first one was throwing punches on her until she´ll wear out and slow down enough for him to connect one of his techniques and the second one was to simply slow her down himself. At first, he was thinking about the first as it wouldn´t need so much planning, but when she tried to take him with front kicks while barefooted, he couldn´t resist such opportunity.

So instead of chasing her down or trying to defend against her attack, he simply stopped on the spot, hardening his muscles beyond the level of iron and leaving the laws of physic to do the job for him (Indestructible).

“Who am I?”
Eric smirked to her question.

“Eric Irongate, First Slayer and leader of the Slayers pirates and for the record”
His grin became even wider than before.

“This is how you should throw a kick”
“Indestructible: Bone Crushing Kick!”
Hardening is body once again, this time Eric didn´t stop on the place but instead unleashed powerful middle kick aimed on her torso. This time, he wasn´t trying to suppress his own power, meaning, that if she´ll dodge, his shin will probably break the main mast in half.

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To keep down Anya who herself boasted inhuman levels of strength despite her somehow delicate appearance, her whole squad had to join the forces leaving them all completely open for possible counterattack from the guards who looked like they wanted to blow up the whole ship rather than leaving it in hands of pirates. One of them, the guy who previously fought her took the chance and pulled gun on her only to be swiftly cut down by Michael who abandoned his own two enemies and “Steped” towards them to protect Anya and others.

“What´s wrong with these guys are they nuts?”
He asked as he swiftly parried surprise attack from the other two.

“Hey sergeant, there is some weird...”

Felix couldn´t finish his sentence as suddenly he and Harry were thrown from the lower deck back on the upper one. The mystery of their sudden appearance was revealed soon after as a short and bald man dressed in Kung-fu uniform climbed the stairs to them. If anything, he didn´t look really happy as he was rolling up his sleeves.

“You dimwits, do you have any idea what ship are you trying to plunder?”
He asked angrily.

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{Indestructible}
Eric´s own makeshift version of Tekkai technique from Rokushiki, which he developed after witnessing the real thing in his fight against CP agent. It allows him to harden his body to the (or beyond) the level of iron in exchange for his mobility. It can be mainly used to nullify damage taken from incoming attack, or as surprise counter against enemy who is fighting barehanded.

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{Indestructible: Bone Crushing Kick}
After hardening his body beyond the level of steel, while maintaining his mobility, Eric will unleash powerful roundhouse kick against his opponent. Given his extraordinary level of strength combined with the fact that his leg is as hard as an forget steel during the impact this technique has indeed enough strength to crush the bones of regular person and sending them flying with single hit.

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{Step}

Description:- Michael´s own makeshift version of the Soru technique from Rokushiki. By pushing his inhuman swiftness to the extremes for a short period of time, he can kick the ground more than ten times in the blink of eye which gives him an ability to move with such speed, that he become practically invisible to those incapable of tracking high speed movement, making him seem to disappear and reappear moment later on different place.

[odango]

HUNTRESS PIRATE CHRONICLES
I - VI

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S L A Y E R S  A N D  R U B Y

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The smell of burnt wood was everywhere. The sunny background had turned to a hazy smoke and ash was in the air. The vessel was being doused in water as much as it was possible by the sailors. It seemed that the flames were receding and they were escaping eminent death via explosion. Now all they had to do was not set the ship on fire.

Ruby didn’t expect the guy to harden like some metal sculpture. Who even did that? She assumed he was heavy but the flame haired pirate didn’t think her foot would hit something that hard. The blow was quite hard. The man didn’t even flinch. All she could do was budge the humanoid creature a bit. It was like fighting a mountain.

”A pirate captain?” her eyes widened a bit. So the man in front of her had enough influence to have his own pirate crew… all the people – even the fire throwing flying broad – were under his command. A thought occurred that maybe he was just a lot stronger than her…

The brown eyed girl hesitated and so she couldn’t completely dodge the kick. She moved to dodge but a little late so the woman pulled her elbows down and guarded her core from a part of the blow she’d take as the kick caught up to her. It was like getting hit by a very long canon ball and only because of her movement in the same direction did Ruby not break her bones. Instead, the girl was sent flying off the deck and overboard – to disappear from view. The main mast also received significant damage and finally began to lean over as it broke in half. Screams of the crew to watch out were heard as the big pole of wood was falling.

”That’s it!” the captain of the merchant ship – a man with many layers of expensive clothing and jewelry – had pointed one of the cannons closest to the fight at Eric and lighted the fuse. ”Get off my ship, pirate! The likes of you are not welcome here!” and he fired right at Eric’s torso from a very, very close range. It was point-blank.

Meanwhile, Ruby had managed to reach for one of the ropes originally holding one of the masts as she fell into the drink. She still hit the water, but the girl would pull herself up the rope with her weapons still on her fingers.

”Damn, that was hard. I just want my money and my boots. Those jerks.”

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Tag: Mr. Moon Cat
Words: 422
Ruby: b90910

[Cat]

Anya #6 

Anya felt the biggest relief in her life, when she saw Michaels action. Tense in her body disappeared and her subordinates had few seconds to calm down.

“Thanks”

Young woman thanked Michael, but then her attention was diverted to the main mast, which was finally broken and was falling only a few meters from them. She used all her strength to free from gasp of her men and wanted to leave the ship. After all, the fire dancer on the ship full of gunpowder was a good idea.

“Sky da...”

Before she took off, she heard Felix yelling something about weird anything. She frowned and handed her staff to her closest subordinate, she made a step towards the lower deck, when Felix with Harry involuntarily landed on the upper deck. She stopped and looked at them, then to the entrance to the lower deck, and saw a strange old man.

Anya made a step back and hid herself in a group of her subordinates.

“Distract him”

She whispered silent order to them. Her subordinates without hesitation took out knives and sprinted to the man. Anya didn’t look what happened after that and waited for a good opportunity to sneak behind him. She had a simple plan for that uneasy situation. When probably last of guardians of this strange ship came out, it was an ideal time to discover what was this ship truly transporting and why all the fuss about it.

[Mr. Moon]

Eric #7 

The kick connected. Even through Eric has feeling that it wasn´t clean hit it was enough to send the red haired lass flying while also damaging the mast enough to actually break it. The huge wooden pole starts falling down, right at the moment, when Eric overhead the captain who already surrendered himself and his crew to him.

“What?”

He turned around just in time to see cannon pointed at him.

“the **** Indestructible!”

Only thanks to his incredibly fast reflexes Eric managed to harden his body just in time, before he was hit by the cannonball. Even so, power of the shot was great enough to lift him in the air, sending him across the beck, right back on their own ship.

It darkened before his eyes and the only thing he heard was annoying whistling noise in both of his ears. Took him a while before he realized that Gabriel is standing above him.

“Eric, hey, Eric are you alive?”
“Hmmmmm”

The captain answered him, while he rose heavily. He was shaken and the quickly coloring bruise on his chest was telling him that he had probably few ribs broken but yes, he was alive.

“What about...”
He didn´ t even finished his sentence as it wasn´t truly necessary. One look on the other ship was enough to answer his question.

“Hmmm, I promised Hana we´ll try to keep as many of them alive as possible”

Eric muttered, but the only answer he got was shrug of Gabriel´s shoulders.

“Well, I guess our lads took it a little bit personally. Someone tried to kill their beloved Slayer from behind after all.”
Eric said nothing, instead he shifted his focus on the other side of enemy´s ship where one elderly looking man in silly uniform was throwing their fighters around with something that looked like gentle touch, while dancing between Michael´s slashes and Sarah´s threads.

“Where did that guy get from?”
Once again Gabriel shrugged his shoulders.

“From bellow the deck, I guess he is hired bodyguard of sort?”
“Pretty strong for bodyguard...”
Gabriel nodded.

“Will you need my help?”

“Maybe, in any case be ready to cover us if the things go awry.”
With that, Eric dashed back towards the merchant´s ship to join the fight.

[odango]

HUNTRESS PIRATE CHRONICLES
I - VII

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S L A Y E R S  A N D  R U B Y

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”Finally!”

The red haired pirate exclaimed after getting back on deck. The situation was in bigger chaos than when she got knocked into the sea. The flames were put out but the mast was broken, the captain of the merchants was pinned down on the ground and all of the other merchants near him were now kneeling and held at gunpoint. She somehow managed to keep out of sight. The main deck was pretty busy because of a different fight going on just a little ways off. It attracted a lot of attention.

”This isn’t a bad thing.” she thought while searching for the man who had kicked her away. He wasn’t visible on the ship she was on. Had he left? No. After a bit of a search she could spot something similar to his description on the enemy ship. A thought occurred to her. It was true that Eric was stronger than her. She still didn’t know how exactly she could beat his ability but, perhaps, there was a way not to die at sea that day after all.

Quickly, the girl dug out her boots and her bag from underneath the fallen main mast. The other two pillars of wood now looked so off and far apart. A couple of ropes still hung from them but barely any sails. The ship was halted.

”I’m pretty sure I had some… come on” Ruby rummaged around in her bag even before putting her shoes back on and, finally, found a small pack of matches. She pulled it out and looked if they were still usable. ”Good!” The woman slid them in her jacket pocket as she had just done with her weapons.

And then, after so much effort, Ruby finally put her shoes back on. The struggle to get them had been one she had never experienced before. It was weird to think about how much she appreciated the times no one fought her to stop her from getting her combat boots.

She got up soon enough and her brown eyes quickly found one of the gunpowder kegs on deck. Shielded by the wreckage from the mast and the fire damage with smoke still in the air, the flame-haired pirate counted herself lucky. The last thing she needed was someone pointing a gun at her back.

Speaking of guns, she took one off of an unfortunate pirate (or merchant – she couldn’t really tell or remember) on the ground, who had been cut down by someone. It was a shotgun with a strap and she pulled it over her head to rest on one shoulder. The woman lifted up the keg of gunpowder under her arm and found one of the other mast ropes that were still intact. This happened very quickly and, luckily, the keg wasn’t heavy for someone of her strength. The plan was simple. She couldn’t use this ship so she would use theirs. The woman backed up while tugging on the rope and, as she did, she saw Eric jumping over to the merchant ship. A small smirk curled her lips thinking that she’ll pull one on the guy who just tossed her overboard.

Without further thought, the lady pirate took into a sprint and kicked off the deck with all her might while holding the rope. It was true - she would be able to jump across because of the swing. Ruby was quick and was pretty sure the pirates wouldn’t shoot at a keg of gunpowder so close to them. It was a daring move but it was better than doing nothing. If all went to plan, she could just leave the troublesome pirates on the merchant ship and leave with theirs.

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Tag: Mr. Moon Cat
Words: 618
Ruby: b90910

[Cat]

Anya #7 

Anya used the first opportunity, when her subordinates attacked at that man together for the first time, so he didn’t have the opportunity to get a grasp of the situation and his enemies completely.

She successfully got bellow the deck, but she felt guilty. She left her subordinates with a much stronger opponent and hid behind them, which was the opposite of what she should do. She hoped her captain didn’t notice her actions and Michael would take care of her men.

Young fire dancer hurried and opened one cabin after another. She was searching for something unusual, but she didn’t find anything interesting. Almost all cabins weren’t locked, after all why should they? The only small cabin next to the main cargo of that ship was locked. When she kicked out the doors to that cabin, she was disappointed. There wasn’t anything interesting there too, only a few usual grey rocks and blankets, where probably slept that man, who was terrorizing her men. She was really confused, was all the fuss about the gunpowder?

The truth was, there was a lot of barrels with gunpowder bellow the decks. She smiled and without any other thinking she decided to fulfill orders for her squad and steal what she could. She grabbed one barrel, it wasn’t light but thanks to the training with her captain she was more than strong enough. The only problem was how to deliver it to their ship. Anya sighed and without putting barrel down, she started sprinting, and when she met with the wooden hull of the ship she kicked and made a hole in it.

After the next step, she ended up in free fall to the sea and disoriented after she made the hole bigger by head-on collision of her body and the hull.

“Sky dance”

When she collected herself, she quickly kicked the air to stop her fall and in the next moment she landed on the board of their ship with one barrel of gun powder in her hands.

[Mr. Moon]

Eric #8 

With something that looked like a gentle jump, Eric covered the distance between their two ships and landed back on the enemy´s deck, right at the moment when the bodyguard send last of Anya´s scouts flying, while dodging Michael´s sword at the same time.

Going from landing into full sprint, Eric covered the distance between him and the two fighters with few powerful steps, before “Leaping” once again, right against the martial artist with the clear intend of using his greater mass to simply knock him to the ground. But as it turned out, he underestimated the unknown man´s skills. While still keeping eyes on Michael´s sword, he raised one arm against Eric as if that should be enough to stop the ninety kilos of muscles. Reflexively, rather than consciously, Eric hardened his body with Indestructible mid jump to protect himself from possible counterattack. Second later he was glad he did that as right at the moment his chest touched the slim hand it was like if several dozens of punches hit him at the same time, sending him flying across the deck.

“Eric!”

Cursed Michael, who pushed the bodyguard away with another fast slash of his, to give Eric enough time to get back on his feet.

“Not too shabby.”

Eric grinned as he dashed back to his opponent.

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Meanwhile on the Slayer´s ship, the members of their tactical squad were looking and the red haired girl, who was trying to invade their ship. Usually they would shoot her right away, but the powder keg in her hand made them wary. No one wanted barrel of gun powder to explode straight in their face and so no one dared to shoot at her, with the sole exception of Gabriel. Seeing the red haired girl getting closer to their ship, the suit wearing gentleman swiftly moved his left arm as if he was throwing something against her, releasing stream of compressed air powerful enough to pierce through human flesh and bones. He however wasn´t aiming at but rather few millimeters away from her face so that the resulting attack would destroy her hairstyle at worst. Not that he would share his captain fascination about Hana´s philosophy, but the red haired lass picked his interest. She survived clash with Eric after all and now she was trying to...hijack their ship with just a shotgun and one barrel of gun powder? That was either sign of incredible guts or stupidity and he was determined to find out.

“So, you are on our ship, and now what?”

Gabriel asked right after she landed.

“You don´t have enough firepower to take on all of us and you don´t strike me as a person who would try to blow herself up just to make a point, so what´s the plan?”

The remaining Slayers around thirty men, including Ferrus, four meters tall mountain of muscles armed with big warhammer and revolver slowly turned towards her while switching their rifles and guns for a cutlasses to make as terrifying impression as possible, which was probably little ruined by Anya´s landing on the deck with another keg of gunpowder in her hands.

“Oh Anya!”
Ferrus´s face immediately turned from scary one to friendly smile.

“Did you brought me present?”