The Vanquisher's Departure

[deciduous]

Deep freeze, one of the districts of Ice Nine, is the coldest area of North Blue. Temperatures drop to negative fifty degrees Fahrenheit in plain summer. There is a constant breeze, which never goes slower than 15 knots. There are no plants or shrubs, its inhabitants are in the hundred’s or less. There is an underground marine ice prison. Many dangerous criminals are held there, the most violent ones are sentenced to death by freezing, one of the most torturous ways to die. The cold weather first brushes upon your skin, laying a kiss of death, then your body begins to shiver uncontrollably, you begin to breathe heavily, and the hairs on your skins slowly thaw. Soon you can’t feel your extremities, and eventually you are struck with a sudden feel of warmth, hypothermia. Countless pirates have met their end on the miserable prison of Deep freeze, including the parents of one of the inhabitants of Deep freeze, Sylaar. He was known to the townspeople as Sylaar the Vanquisher. His parents were notorious pirates, whom were captured and sentenced to death in the prison of Deep freeze. Sylar watched as they were frozen to death, leaving him with a hateful grudge against marines. Sylar spent his childhood barely surviving on his own in the cold and harsh lands. One night when he was on the verge of death due to the cold weather and lack of food, he desperately burrowed through a garbage can in hopes of finding clothing and food. He found an odd fruit, and didn’t hesitate to eat it. Next thing he knew, he no longer felt the extreme cold on his body, he didn’t feel hunger or thirst, and he could no longer feel his own heartbeat. Sylaar had, unknowingly, eaten the Necro Necro no mi. A devil’s fruit which turns whomever ingests it into the living dead, their organs and all other body functions cease to function, but they can still live eternally without them. Sylaar spent most of his adolescence in solitude, the few other inhabitants of Ice Nine, kept their distance from Sylaar; they detested his weird mannerisms and his zombie-like appearance. Most were frightened by his looks. Sylaar turned to the wilderness after being rejected by the townspeople, for the next several years he honed his fighting and devil fruit’s ability. When he was an adult he returned to the town, and after an encounter with a group of pirates, which had escaped from the ice nine prison, the villagers gave him the nickname “The Vanquisher.” Sylaar fought many pirates over the next few years, it was the only thing he could do in an island infested with marines, but he actually admired the pirates whom he fought more than the marines whom controlled the island. Deep inside, he wanted to slay them all, but he knew he wasn’t strong enough, so he stole and picked fights with pirates, who where hated in this land. Eventually Sylaar became obsessed with the idea of being an infamous pirate. He never had any goals in life; he had been living all this time, just to live. But for this first time in his life, Sylaar had a goal. He wanted to be known for his fighting abilities, he wanted to be known and feared by the rest of the world, he wanted to become a pirate and crush anyone who stood in his way, whether it would be marines, civilians or other pirates.


Sylaar was determined to live on as a pirate, but he knew he must get off this marine infested island as quickly as possible, and find a crew with similar interests. So, he formulated a plot to do so. He had no money, no ship, and no carpentry skills, so he would have to commandeer some type of small ship or row boat. Sylaar planned to head to Snow town in Ice nine, a town with a school, and lots of elderly folk. There he would take hostage several children and entrap them within the school, when a marine arrives he would demand a rowboat in exchange for the hostages. When the rowboat was brought, he would take one hostage with him all the way to the shoreline of the island, demand all marines to back off 200 yards release the hostage and sail off into the distance before any marines could catch him. So without much ado, Sylaar begins his walk from deep freeze to snow town. It’s about a 10 mile walk. While trotting along the slippery roads of Ice Nine, he notices a large shadowy figure lurking over a dry pine tree. Sylaar approaches it carefully, until he can see the outline of a giant polar bear, the polar bear roars loudly and stands on its 2 hind feet, as if letting Sylaar know that this is his territory. Sylaar has no choice but to engage in combat, because the bear is standing between him and his path to Snow town. Sylaar withdrew his two swords and stood his ground, waiting for the polar bear to make its move.

[oblivion]

The polar bear is wandering around the freezing wilderness of Deep Freeze, he spots a person walking. Seeing a mysterious person walking made him wonder if that person had escaped from one of the pirate prisons. Rocky decided to walk toward the mysterious person and check out who it is. As he approaches the mysterious person he notices that it is a guy. However, this person is no ordinary guy; he looks like an ugly deformed zombie. Now Rocky starts to wonder what this mummified looking thing is. Also, the scent coming from this hideous thing is so horrible that it made Rocky cover his nose in the ice and his eyes started to get watery. Though Rocky did not stay covered for a long time because the man continue to approach him, so he started to back away. However, as he started to move back he notices that the man is following him. Even though he cannot withstand much of the smell, he decides to hold his ground and fight him back, after all this is his territory.

Rocky starts to get enraged which turns him from and ordinary polar bear to an over power huge one. His muscles all start to pump, he also has his veins sticking out, his teeth become sharper and bigger, and his whole body transforms into one big snow looking creature. After this transformation happens it is hard for anyone to recognize him. Not just did his body transform but his eyes have red lines and are so overgrown. Once his transformation has been completed, he rushes toward the mysterious mummified looking thing and tries to hit him with his paws.

[deciduous]

Sylaar gazes into the eyes of the polar bear; they’re blazing red with frustration. Sylaar has had previous encounters with these bears, which have been domesticated by the marines of deep freeze, and are combat ready. This polar bear is different than the ones Sylaar has encountered, however. He had never seen one so large before. It stood over 8 feet tall on its hind legs. Its body was thickened with excess blubber; one swing of his powerful arm would decapitate anyone. If Sylaar’s nervous system was functioning, his first instinct would have been to flee from this overbearing beast. But, Sylaar feared nothing and showed no emotions in combat. As Sylaar stared into the Bear’s eyes, he noticed a sort of transformation had begun in the polar bear. His eyes widened, and began to glow red in the reflection of the moonlight, and to Sylaar’s surprise the bear’s body also began to enlarge. Sylaar immediately changed his stance after seeing this, he knew one bite from its vicious fangs, or one swing from its heavy limbs, could easily dismember his own body. He lowered both of his knees and stayed close to the ground, and on his toes. He extended his arms outward, each hand holding a blade. He needed to be agile to avoid any attacks from landing, but also needed to counterattack efficiently and hit the bear’s vitals spots to kill him quickly. As soon as he got ready to engage in combat, the bear began to charge him. The bear moved swiftly through the snow, leaving its large paw-print embedded deeply. It was surprising how such a large creature could move so quickly. But, Sylaar stood his ground regardless; he continued to look into the polar bear’s eyes. When the angry bear got within two yards of Sylaar, Sylaar jumped forward into the air, performing a front flip, and as the bear rushed under him, Sylaar extended his left arm downward aiming to stab the polar bear in the throat.

[oblivion]

Rocky starts to run towards the horrible stinky man. As the gap starts to close between them, Rocky sticks out his right paw with his claws and attempts to swing at the stinky man. However, he never gets his attempt at decapitating Mr. Stinky because he sees that one of the blades is coming toward his throat. In order to avoid this slicing attacking he jumps into the air and over Mr. Stinky landing on the other side. Now he starts to stare at Mr. Stinky with his furious eyes and starts processes about what can he do to kill that bastard.

Looking around Rocky finds a tree right next to Mr. Stinky. He starts to think of maybe cutting down the tree into pieces that he would later be sending toward Stinky. In order to perform this he starts to run at the tree and uses his claws to cut it down to pieces. Afterwards, he uses his paws to start punching the pieces of wood and sends to stinky. Though he does not just stand still and hopes that the wood would hit stinky, he starts to charge Mr. Stinky. Normally he would try to rip the head of his opponent by biting him, but because of the smell he does not want to bite him. As the snow gap closes he jumps into the air and uses both of the claws on each of his hands to try and make an enormous X across the chest of stinky.

[deciduous]

Sylaar was astonished by the bear's athletic ability. It was difficult to grasp how a six-hundred pound polar bear, was capable of jumping over him in order to evade his attacks. The bear's legs muscle must have been even stronger than Sylaar predicted. After Sylaar landed on his feet, he looked up, only two set his eyes on another bewildering sight. The polar bear was striking a tree, apparently it was trying to knock it down over Sylaar, or something along those lines. Sylaar couldn't believe this brutish beast was actually formulating some type of combat strategy. He knew for sure now it must have been a former companion of a marine. Since marines in this island have domesticated these species of bears, and have used them for combat.

Nonetheless, Sylaar quickly regained his composure, but before Sylaar could generate any form of offense, the bear quit mauling the tree and began to charge ferociously towards Sylaar. It was definitely a force to be reckoned with, in terms of brute force at least. As the bear charged forward, its' hind legs buried themselves deep into the thick layer of snow, which covered the land, and when they emerged in order to take the next pounce, an overwhelming amount of snow was propelled into the air behind the bear. That along with its death defying snare, caused Sylaar to consider fleeing, for just a brief moment. But as quickly as it was lost, it was regained, and when the bear attempted to slash at his chest, he lunged his swords into the air as high as possible, and out of the bear's reach. This would allow to move slightly more efficiently. Next, Sylaar performed a double back-flip, by jumping backwards at a slight angle then placing his hands on the snow for support, while thrusting his body backwards as well. Thanks to this he was able to evade the bear's attack. Furthermore, the swords where now falling, and Sylaar reached up and grabbed them both by their hilts, he then lunged forward with each of his swords aiming for the bear's exposed chest, since he was raised on his two hind feet, after missing an attempted maul on Sylaar. Sylaar knew this time he wouldn't be able to jump up and evade the attack, just off his two hind-legs. "GRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAARRRR" SYlaar screamed as his blades were near the flesh of the giant polar boar, making sure that he placed all his force into this attack.

[oblivion]

Rocky sees Mr. Stinky throwing his swords in the air, though he does not guess that he is planning to do something with this. Even though he got momentarily distracted by the tossing of the swords, he refocuses back on his target and swings his arm to cut Mr. Stinky. However, Mr. Stinky avoids his attack and then grabs his swords to stab Rocky. Rocky is not able to respond fast enough and ends up getting stabbed on his chest area. Unfortunate for Rocky, he ends up falling and dies here on the cold white ground as he cried out from the temporary pain.

“Huh, said a medium age, tall, dark hair, and tannish marine. He apparently heard the noise that the bear made after being stabbed, but he does not know what this noise is or where it came from. Either way, he picked up his rifle and started to talk toward the noise under the nice snowy cold weather.

As he is walking toward the direction where he last heard the noise, he sees that there is a bump on an area where it is supposed to be plain. As the gap between him and the bump closes he cocks his rifle. Also, another thing that he notices is that this is no snow bump, but one of the polar bears that the marines have personally train. His eyes are bestow with surprise, this is an unbelievable site, “How can someone simply kill one of are highly train bears,” he thinks to himself as he looks around for clues. While looking around the area, he sees that there is a black figure several yards away from him walking toward one of the cities.

He goes toward this mysterious man in order to get a closer look at him. While expecting the man as he approaches him, he sees that this man seems to have some blood on him, is dressed in what he considers some extremely horrific clothes, and has some type of an ugly smell. However, even though the smell is so horrible, he knows that he has to withstand it because he is a marine and is his duty to protect and preserve justice, especially since he considers this mysterious man the led killer in the bear’s death. Lucky for him his approach does not have to be so stealthy since the white snow and area covers him up for the most part. Though this luck did not turn out to be so good for him since he stepped on a piece of wood that made a snapping sound and alerted the mysterious man.

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After piercing the polar bear's flesh with his blades, Sylaar checks his vital signs to certify that he is dead. Once it is confirmed, he sheathes his blood-tipped swords and begins to tread on forward through the deep snow path that leads to Snow Town. After walking for a brief period time he hears an unfamiliar sound behind him and quickly turns around, spotting someone who had been following him.

Sylaar takes a moment to inspect this man, and based on his clothing and weapons, concludes that he was a marine. Sylaar considers drawing out his sword, but sees the man is carrying a fully loaded rifle. So, Sylaar decides to hold off on any aggressions for the time being, he rather get to Snow Town without drawing much attention to himself.

"Who are you and why are you following me?" Sylaar asks the figure standing before him. Sylaar was plotting his next move while waiting for the marine to respond him, at this point his last option was to fight. He would first to try to talk his way out of the situation, if the marine showed aggression he would attempt to flee and loose the marine. If however, all else failed he would charge the marine and unleash his strongest attacks simultaneously, expecting to defeat him as quickly as possible so that he may move on. It all depended on the marine's response.[/font]

[oblivion]

“I don’t think that you should be asking the questions here, but just to let you know I am Petty Officer Larry Kirkland.” He did not like the fact that he gave this stranger his name, but then again he is the type of guy who will show courtesy to other people, as long as those other people are not criminals. However, he does contradict himself this time because he does suspect that this mysterious man killed one of the marine train polar bear and he still told him his name. Either way it does not matter anymore, right now he has to figure out who this man is and why he is out here in the wilderness.

He starts to approach the mysterious man without lowering his rifle since he cannot trust a person who he does not know. As he closes the distance between the both of them, he says, “I have told you my name, now let me hear yours. Also, what in the world are you doing all the way out here by yourself?” Right after he finishes saying this, the wind picks up as well as the snow. This makes it harder for Larry to see around him since it went from a calm snowy weather to a snow storm in just a blink of an eye. This storm causes Larry to lose his balance and fall on the snow, lucky for him this snow is still soft so he did not injure himself.

As he gets up he notices that his rifle is still on the snow, but even though it is brown he cannot seem to find it. He gets back down on both of his knees and starts to move the snow around to look for his rifle as his nose gets watery. Before he continues the search for his rifle, he reaches into his pocket and gets out a handkerchief to cover his mouth and nose. After doing this, he remembers that there is a man whom he was talking to before the snow storm kicked in. When he looks up he notices that the mysterious cannot be seen and starts to wonder what happened to him. For now he forgets about that man and searches for his rifle again. After thirty more seconds of looking for his rifle he finds it. Though he does lose that man but will not give up on looking for him.

He stands up and starts to walk forward just like he was doing before. To say the truth, not just can he not find the man, but he cannot really tell where he is going either, his walk is just being done on pure instincts. He does figure out that maybe he can find the man by getting lucky or by finding the road that leads to Snow Town would also help him. In a way he figures that maybe this man would get on this road to get out of the snow storm since it is the closest road to go through in order to get to one of the towns.