One Piece - IC

[Black Bob]

Caliber beated his chest once more and flexed his muscles, 'Young man you appear to have some fight in you yet, my punches may not be designed to kill, but very few actually get back up afterward. As for my best... I doubt you'd have any teeth left if I showed you my best.' Caliber started to walk slowly towards the brave pirate, he moved his right arm around and a series of clicking bones sounded out. 'Your name boy, I would have the name of the fish that stood against the shark...'

((Short :/))

[Spuds31]

"T-" Talon started, then he realized he couldn't use his actual name. He thought for a few seconds.

"My name is Kato..." Talon said. He looked straight into the shark-man's eyes, trying to look as tough as he could. He could only barely stand, but the shark-man seemed to respect him nonetheless.

[Pacifista]

Karashou the crow caught the given red scarf in his beak. He was still a little confused at the happenings, but Caliber was definitely a pirate, who seemed to be recruiting. The question Karashou was asking himself is why he didn’t have to go through the process the others were? When Caliber hopped into the ocean, Karashou took to the air, getting out of the way. As he flew, watching the battle, his mind was at work. “He allowed me entry into his crew the moment he saw me...perhaps...he saw my talent! Yes, that’s it, he saw me and decided that, if no one else, he must have me in his crew!” In midair, Karashou puffed out his chest proudly. This Caliber fellow knew a good pirate when he saw one! Karashou had never thought about being a pirate, but he certainly didn’t think coming across loads of gold and rare coins and jewels like a bad idea. “Mr. Caliber! I accept your offer, and shall return shortly!” Shou cried, before flying off. He wasn’t sure if the Fishman would hear him, what with the fighting and all, but he needed his things! Flying off, he probably wouldn’t take a while.

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Janet Fleury’s solo patrol through the streets wasn’t bearing any fruit. With a sigh, she extinguished her lit cigarette and took a seat on an empty crate, taking out the baby Den Den Mushi that seemed to be buzzing for several minutes now. It began speaking to her the moment she opened it, “Captain Janet! We still haven’t heard anything about the three criminals, but Branches 13 and 66 are enroute, and should be arriving within the hour!”

“Good numbers,” Janet thought sarcastically. The Captain of 13th Branch was a particularly brutal fellow and the Commander of the 66th branch was basically a kid. A strong kid, supposedly, but still a kid. “Alright. What are things looking like at the base?” Janet requested.

“Six dead, three times that wounded,” the Marine said. Janet slumped a little: she valued the lives of each of her men; her ‘boys’, she’d call them. Whenever one was killed in the past, she made sure the guy responsible ended up captured. With things looking like they were, Pandi, Ezequiel, and the other guy whose name Janet never heard, were likely to escape.

Tightening her grip on the baby Den Den Mushi, she said, “Very well, keep it up and we’ll try to hold out until reinforcements arrive.” Putting away the communication device, she stood again. Taking a breath, she bolted off, determined now more than ever.

[Gravislayer]

The sharkman really underrestimates him, the time the sharkman passed him, Satanio used the created current in the water to quickly turn around and then to went after the shark again. By whirling his sword again but this time way faster he catapults himself out of the water, nearly 2meters into the air by using his legs in the end too.
In the air he would aim his slash at the shark, hoping that this suprise attack would confuse him and gives Satanio time to win this battle.
The slash which Satanio delivered from the sky was aimed slighty towards the right of the fishman, so that if he would tur around or trying to dodge a little, it would miss, like the strike of a rookie which tries this move the first time but Satanio is no rookie.

When the fishman would dodge, Satanio would grab the shaft of his sword and whirls himself around, directly aside of the fishman but not enough by nearly passing by the fishman, Satanio would try to grab his grills which would lay directly at the sid eof the fishman´s body.
"Anatomy is a fine thing thou HAH" Satanio thinks to himself, while he would use the force of the delivered slash which was converted into the sailing past of the fishman to whirl himself behind the fishman. After that he would grab onto his fin, hoping that the arms of the creature woudnt be that long, so he coudnt reach him and then with his other hand Satanio would smash onto the sensitive nose of the shark.

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Tightening her grip on the baby Den Den Mushi, she said, “Very well, keep it up and we’ll try to hold out until reinforcements arrive.” Putting away the communication device, she stood again. Taking a breath, she bolted off, determined now more than ever.

The marine wanted to add something but the communication was directly cut off, with a sighs the poor man sits down on his chair inside of the communication room.
"Why does she has to be that impatient" he shakes his head and reminds himself what just happend a minute ago before he tried to call the Captain Janet.
An Admiral called him and told him that a "special delivery" was to hand out for Captain Janet Fleury.
Special delivery......well the marine heared rumors about THAT delivery, a chained monstrum made to crush pirates and which could even hold up to an Admiral when its fully released, even if some rumors seem to be exagerrated, its said that the "monstrum" which is going to come here will be big, evil and probably able to stop the pirates once and for all, as long it doesnt run loose and kills everything else.

Now the man had to run, the ship which would transport the "delivery" would arrive at the harbour now and since Captain Janet woudnt be able to get there he had to deliver it for her, well besides of that he would want to see this monster.
"I hope Janet forgot this" the man mumbles while running towards the harbour.

[Spuds31]

"Well" Talon said, filled with confidence "I still have to grab your fin."

Talon brought out his rifle, his hands shaking. He tried to steady them, but his fear was obvious.

But, Talon caught something out of the corner of his eye. He saw the swordsman flying towards the Shark-man. No! Talon thought.

He took aim with his rifle, at the swordsman. "Weapon Shot!"

[Belwicket]

Kurz had been rolling in pain, biding his time, making them forget about him. When he though he wouldn't be caught, he ran at the sharkman, full speed, aiming a punch for his fin.

[Spuds31]

The bullet narrowly missed the swordsman, but out of the corner of Talon's eye, he could see the Shark-man just standing there. However, both the swordsman and the other rifleman were charging straight towards him.

Talon tried sneaking around. Once the Shark-man repeled both of them, he would charge in to touch his fin.

[Pacifista]

It was several minutes before Janet arrived at her planned destination. A bit of activity at the docks resulted in them being evacuated by all but those daring enough to stay and watch the spectacle: a number of monsters duking it out. Not wanting to attract attention, Janet hopped onto a building which overlooked the dockside, allowing her a good point to watch herself.

The assembly was strange: a Fishman seemed to be fighting among several odd characters, including Mr. Ponytail and Ezequiel, whom had escaped the base not long ago. The Fishman, was holding his own, come to think of it. Janet sighed as she tossed her blunt of a cigarette away: fighting them like this was clearly out of the question. Just two of them alone would give her trouble, let alone what had to be near half a dozen.

Watching the fight for a little while longer, she spotted a familiar face. Talon was in the fray, wearing something other than a Marine uniform. Janet tilted her head, unsure of his intentions. At this point, the whole reason of the fight was outside of her comprehension, but if she watched for a bit, she might get an idea...

===

Floating lazily in the sea, another of the Billion Pirate ships awaited any sort of happenings. Sitting on the upper decks, leaning against the railing was Aran Udai, the First Mate of the Billion Pirates. He wore a white dress shirt, buttoned wrong and wrinkled, under a loose yellow tie. He pushed the hair out of his eyes as he heard a bustle. Turning his head and looking through the railing, he saw a passing ship with white sails, emblazoned with the number ‘66’ and a familiar seagull symbol. “Oh jeez, little chickies found us...” The tall man groaned as he got to his knees. Rotating his neck a full circle, cracking his neck, he stood lolling his head to the side as he brought his war-scythe to bear. He turned and saw that the ship was heading straight by them. Not sure what to make of it, Udai made eye contact with the lookout, who trained an eyeglass on him. Udai chuckled, smiled widely and waved like a small child. Leaning against the railing, he sighed as they continued on. He looked in the direction they were sailing, at the dot in the distance that was Lougetown. Udai wondered if the Captain was getting into any trouble...

[Black Bob]

Caliber was approached from all sides, he was confident but still sure that at least one of the attackers would touch his fin. He prepared himself and cracked his knuckles, '.32 cal, whirpool variation!'

Caliber spun around rapidly his fists would surely repel some attacks, though he was protected in all directions, the top of his head was vulnerable to attack however and would need to protect it soon. The flurry continued though he felt his fin twinge with pain, one had touched his fin while the others would be struck back by the whirpool attack.

It was... Kurz, the new member of the Redcoats, now it was his job to help defend Caliber from the others.

((Sorry if it lacks volume, I am so lost with who is attacking and how they are doing it :S))

[Spuds31]

Talon saw the fist fighter make contact with the Shark-man's fin.

Damn Talon thought. Now he didn't know if he could still get into the crew by touching his fin, but he had to try.

He ran looked around, until he spotted a barrel. Hopefully, it had just what he needed.

He rushed over and knocked it on its side, then sent it rolling towards the Shark-man.

"Look out!" he shouted, then shot right for the barrel, just praying for it to be gunpowder.