[IC] One Piece: The Journey of a Thousand Miles

[jynmi88]

Rainer
Rainer, beginning to look a bit pale, nodded. His leg was still bleeding. The wound didn't look fatal as there wasn't a fountain of blood drenching everyone nearby, but it did look like it would need to be treated, and soon.

"Right." Rainer said, swallowing a lump in his throat. A Legion pirate, as if noticing his weakness, began moving towards him, sword drawn and thrust forwards with the intent of piercing the man's chest. Sure, his heart would've been ideal, but it had gotten to the point where the crew of the Legion pirates would've been happy doing any damage at all. The more blood they could draw the better.

"Seriously" Rainer moved forward, making sure to put all his weight on the leg that wasn't damaged and parried the amateur blow. "What's up with you guys? There rabbits underneath those masks? How could there be so many?" The Legion pirate's sword flew out of his hand. Before the man could react the fishman continued forwards, slamming his sheathed sword into the man's chest, hard enough to break ribs and sending him flying across the platform they were sharing.

The swordsman turned to the tiny woman in red and gave her a nod. "There's little doubt you're right in that area, but where exactly is the captain? So far all we've seen are grunts. There don't seem to be any officers or any form of hierarchy aside from the numbers on their masks!"

@Shiyonichi
"I'm here!" Mr. 3 shouted. "All you have to do is come and get me." It was easier said than done as dozens of the Legion members swarmed towards Red-Eyes. The majority of them were carrying improvised weapons such as boards or chains, but a few in there had swords.

As the enemy pirates with melee weapons swarmed towards Red-Eyes apparently intent on taking them out, nearly silent creaks could be heard from above the fray. Tiny platforms were lowered, no bigger than the size of an average door, and the dangerous ends of rifles pointed downwards towards the fray.

"What the hell!" ABbygail muttered, looking up at the guns, between dodges and slashes. "These guys aren't playing around, any more? Were they holding back for some reason?" As if to answer her question, without a coherent reply, the guns opened fire, with most of the shots aimed towards the swordswoman as she seemed to be the one sending the most Legion pirates to a bloody afterlife!

"Damn it!" Abbygail shouted, as she shot off from the ground like a spring. "Keep your balls of my maybe baby!" Before any of the riflemen could change their targets, Abbygail reached the nearest platform and cut the man from shoulder to hip, and with a might kick, sent both halves plummeting to the ground below. The purple haired woman didn't waste time watching to see the body parts splatter on the ground, she was already shooting off to the closet platform for another kill.

***
"Crap! Crap! Crap!" Mr. 3 wheezed as he spun on his hill and began hurrying down the nearest door. "This is bad! This bad!" He put his hands over where his mouth would be and began calling. "Scrub it! Scrub everything! Everyone that's not busy getting banged up, grab a torch and begin lighting the fuses. Don't worry about the whole going in order thing. Just blast it all up." The man shoved several legion pirates who had become confused and disoriented to reach into one of the secret compartments, where he found a torch waiting. He quickly lit it up and shoved it to the nearest pirate. "Take this to blast room C, and blow it up." He shoved the man forwards before continuing on, yelling his orders again, and again.

"Got to sink the life boat. Sink the life boat!" Mr. Three shouted after getting everyone he needed a torch. "Got to sink the lifeboat!"

@KillBox
"Up to no good?" The pirate winced as pain flooded his body. "We're pirates. That's literally our default state." He winced again as moving caused his injuries to seem a thousand times worst than what they were. "So i'd assume us being up to no good was obvious." He took in a deep breath, and would've spit, but remembering the masked swallowed instead. "Oh that's gross." There would've been more but a massive explosion, unlike anything that had gone on prior eructed, making the whole ship quake.

"Well there." The man laughed as another huge blast of gunpowder causes the south most part of the ship to fly of in a barrage of debris. "There you go! If that doesn't explain then maybe you should stick around to see what'll happen from here."

@grandia20
For a moment the legion pirate paused, not expecting to see the man regain consciousness so quickly. However the uncertainty vanished when the ship shook like a tree in a hurricane. Before either could react thick smoke began filing the halls. "I can guarantee death too!" The man lunged forwards with the last of his strength, not bothering to dodge the spear's dangerous point. It went straight through him but the man didn't seem to mind. He laughed as he wrapped his limbs around the Kyy's body, trying to hold him in place till either the smoke or fire got to them.

@Noodles@Crimson Lion
"No." One of the dying pirates called towards the woman. from the ground. "Don't leave." He gasped. "Stay here and wait awhile." His hand clutched at the blood pouring from a wound in his chest. "We've got something nice to show you. There's a surprise waiting for everyone on here." He was grinning behind the mask, despite the pain. It was easy to tell by the sound of his voice.
Then, the world beneath them shook, and smoke seeped through the boards of the boat like black sea rising upwards. "Well at least you didn't have to wait long." The Legion pirate laughed.

[grandia20]

In a last ditch effort to stop the man, he stopped him with his fruit but not before he could wrap his limbs around him. "Damn... It won't stop me but it's definitely going to slow me down..." He started coughing as he inhaled the smoke before getting an idea. He stops holding the man with his fruit and instead focuses on his free hand with the spear that wasn't in the legion pirate. He starts spinning it, creating a vacuum of sorts to hold the smoke at bay as he slowly works his way through the ship with the man on him. He may have been saving the man too depending on where his spear struck but he didn't care. Better to live to fight another day.

[Shiyonichi]

Musashi held back a cruse as she grabbed an Legion Pirate and used him as a shield for the bullets the men fired. Now they were using rifle, great that was going to be a pain to deal with, though luckily the purple haired girl took care of them for her, but maybe baby? What a strange person. Though she had to admit that Abbygail was quite strong. Musashi's thoughts were interrupted by a large blast and the larger voice of Mr.3 shouting to sink the lifeboats. The Albino sighed, these guys are sore losers. She shouted the opposite to the Kama wielding woman.

"Hey we should secure a lifeboat!"

[Noodles]

Janet

"Really, you guys annoy me to no end..." Janet sent her spear straight down the dying pirate to shut him up amdist the rising smoke. "I don't know what the smoke would do to us, but we'd better get back to the deck, a smokescreen is a pain in the ass to deal with." Janet walked up the stairs leading to the deck, to get a better view of their current situation. Her hands were clutched on the spear, ready for any oncoming enslaught.

[jynmi88]

@Shiyonichi
The Legion pirate froze like a cat after its tailed was grabbed when the tiny woman picked him up like a child. Then his body spasmed, not by his own volition but because he was dead and death rattles were just something dead bodies did before they accepted the fact they weren't doing anything much any more.

Abbygail was midair when the white haired swordswoman called to her that they needed a boat. "Yeah. I know. That's the only reason some of the others are helping, I think." She landed on a platform and quickly dealt with its occupant. Two of the legion pirates turned their attention away from Red-Eyes and aimed at the purple haired girl. She grinned and tossed the weighted end of her chain weapon up and kicked it. In doing so she sent the razor end of weight into the Legion pirate on the right while sending a blade of wind towards the one on her left. "But this boat isn't going anywhere other than down." With that she hoped down to join the swordsman in the fray.

"But..." She paused to deflect a sword before cutting down its wielder. "I'm not sure where there's any. The ones outside that we left behind are all in bad shape. So I don't know how far everyone would get before sinking. I could carry a few, or just you, on my back, back to shore but I'd admit there'd be some lasting guilt for everyone else." She swung a kick, sending a blade of wind that cut down several Legion pirates in an instant.

"Whichever way we're going to go, we better go there fast." Smoke began to pour into the large room at a faster rate.

****
"Life boat!? Life boat!" Mr. 3 shouted as he made his way towards the rear of the ship. "Why did they have to attack from the front?" The smoke was already thick to begin with but now it was nearly impossible to move through. The only thing that captain the pirate from falling dead was the fear the others would get out with the information they had on the Legion pirates.

Finally, at the rear of the ship, the man found the boat, a simple life vessel, devoid of anything but a few days worth of rations. Whoever was in charge was going to get a beating, or would've if he wasn't already dead, because the fool hadn't even put an ax in the boat. "Shit!" It would take too long to sink and the man had no way of knowing how far away the others were.

Cursing under his breath he untied the little boat, and pulled a lever revealing a secret door at the back of the ship. "Well, at least the guys should be able to keep them busy. I'll just set this out to sea for a bit and sink it there, or hell, I might take it all the way back to the mainland and show those damn villagers to tell them about what happened to their damn heroes."

@grandia20
"That's right!" The legion pirate croaked. "Keep going deeper into the ship. The deeper the better. Before you know it, keep it up and you'll find your friends." There was a hidden blade in the mast wrist band. It took a bit of effort but he managed to pull it out before sighing and letting it fall to the floor. "Just keep going down, oaky. Make my death count and it'll be wor... it..."

@Noodles@KillBox@Crimson Lion
From the outside the ship looked like one giant match, with thick pillars of smoke racing towards the sky. It was the worst at the front, where the smoke was so black it could give the user of the yami-yami a run for his money.

[grandia20]

Kyy sighed. "You guys really are idiots... Why throw your life away just to ruin other people's? You could be making a good difference with that kind of determination." As he ran, he spotted a man with a 3 doing something with a lifeboat. "Hey, thanks for the lift!" He sped up, ramming his shoulder hard into the pirate to try pushing him out the door that was opened.

[Noodles]

Janet

Thick smoke, Janet was to blow everything within apart with cannon. But cannons leave behind too much soot, I'll have to use a better explosive: myself. With a few uses of Burst Steps, Janet sent herself up into mid air and crashing down into the thick smoke. She continued adding explosions on her heels to add as much speed on this landing. "Heaven's Lance," Janet's whole body ignited upon the activation of her strongest technique. An enormous fireball comparable to the tavern explosion engulfing the front of the ship, clearing the black smoke away mercilessly.

[Crimson Lion]

Now outside, Rainer could finally see the pillars of smoke and feel the rocking of the boat as it began to swing unsteadily back and forth. 'There's fire everywhere, and worse, there's breaches in the hull. This usually wouldn't be a problem but ...' He then looks to Kyy Janet and Lee. 'I'LL survive easily. But THEY will sink like anchors.' He thought as he looked around looking frantically for something until finally he found it. Extra wood. More specifically, a whole pile of planks and a bucket of naiols to the side of the deck perfect for filling holes. "I-I can do this. I can - Aagh!" He hissed in pain from his leg wound, "I-I gotta do this. Its just a little pain right?" He tried to convince himself as he began to run, once he got to the planks he pushed all the planks into the water and grabbed a handful of nails. "Here goes nothing!!" He yelled jumping off the side of the boat.

Now underwater, with planks floating around him, he began swimming around the boat, looking for holes and began using the planks and nails to cover them up, covering one breach after another. "I can do this. I can save this ship. I'll keep this boat floating IF ITS THE LAST THING I DO!!!!"

[Infinite Cosmos]

His neck muscles flexed ever so slightly. So that what they've been trying to do this whole time. They had realized that the battle itself was a lost cause and switched to taking all of them down with the ship. With the arm that was holding on to the man's jaw, he activated his powers, his hand and fingers all glowing gold, and tore the man's jaw from rest of his skull. "Fuckin mindless pawns. Useless."

Seeing, and quite literally feeling, the explosion, Lee Had to make some quick decisions. He caught a glimpse of the fishman taking planks and nails with him before diving into the sea. Considering the injury, Lee thought he could use some help. Assuming the depth to which the fishman dove to, Lee spotted a pile of broken planks, scattered around the unstable deck. Running forward and grabbing as much as he can, he tossed them into the air, towards the huge plume of black smoke. Further activating his powers, his eyes and limbs now all glowed with light. Jumping high into the air, he began twisting and kicking, acting as a huge fan and drawing the black smoke away from the ship and into the sky. Which twisting, if a wood plank got close enough to him, he would kick it, sending it shooting into the sea like a missile. Anyone caught in the path of these wooden projectiles would be pierced and essentially pinned to the closest solid object. To the fishman in the sea, the projectiles would slow down once it hit the water and approach the repairman at an acceptable pace.

@Crimson Lion@jynmi88

[Shiyonichi]

Musashi noticed all of the smoke coming from the rear. It would seem they didn't have much time to keep dealing with these morons. Musashi put her blades back into her scabbards before putting her hands on the sword one on the handle one on the mouth of the saya put her leg back she dash forward and drawing the blade slashed forward. Intending to take all of them out in this strike.

"One sword style, Iaido: Eagle flight."

She spun her sword before putting the blade back into the saya with a single movement and an audible click. Musashi said to the the chain master.

"We should get out of here, we don't have time to deal with these suicidal bunch."

[jynmi88]

@Crimson Lion
"Wow." One of the Legion pirates said, among the chaos. "I can't believe it's finally going down."
"I can. It was bound to happen. You flutter around a place as long as we've been here and the people get tired, they start muttering under their breath when they fill your orders, and then boom, there's a group of mercenaries they put on the payroll to take you out."
"Are these guys mercenaries?" The first Legion pirate asked as he shuffled forwards to look over the edge of the ship just in time to see the swordsman swimming around, with clutter in one arm, before stopping at the ship to make some quick repairs. "They're good, but nothing about them seems unified. Also, we've got problems."
"Yeah. I have eyes. I can see the ship on fire. Six months building this damn thing, and a fortune and its all up in smoke."
"It's supposed to do that though, right?"
"Do what?"
"Go up in smoke."
"Well, not ideally of course, but now it has to. We can't let any of them get out alive, because one of them had to wonder around with open eyes." The Legion pirate shook his head in anger.
"So if one of the enemies we're trying to kill were to be fixing the ship then that would be a problem, right?"
"Righ......" The Legion pirate paused and shuffled over to look and see what his other half had seen. "Oh damn it. We've got to put a stop to that."
"I was afraid you were going to say that."
"Hey guys!" The lead legion pirate of the group, said turning back to the small crowd behind him. "We're going to have to take this one out. Any of you guys have guns?" Several men raised their weapons. "Any with ammo, either in your pockets or in the actual weapon?" The raised weapons lowered and the men shook their head. "Well then we're jumping." This was met with groans but none of the Legion pirates hesitated. Each took hold of several bags of sand, tied it to their limbs and pushed jumped off in the general direction of the swordsman who was repairing the hull. They couldn't do much once they hit the water, but maybe they could smack the man with enough force to knock him out, or maybe the long strings attached to them would tangle around the man and force him down with them. They crossed their fingers as they fell.

@KillBox @Noodles
"Damn. This this is taking forever to sink, isn't it?" A Legion pirate shouted as he's feet slammed on the boat, trying by will and flesh to increase the speed in which it rushed towards the bottom of the sea. He was oblivious to the smoke around him, as well as the heat that was pouring off.
"Well we could always go after the enemies." Another pirate said, looking upwards at a bald man.
"Meh. They're way too far down by now. I don't want to die tired."
"Nah." The one looking upwards pointed at the dot that had held his attention. "One's right there!"
"WEll I'll be damned." Smiling behind his masked, the Legion pirate pulled the rifle he had on his back and took aim. He pulled the trigger, but his shot went wide thanks to the sudden vacuum that ripped the gun out of his hand, along with his finger. "The hell is that guy doing?" The Legion pirate squatted down and dug his remaining fingers into the floorboard to keep from flying off.
"The smoke!" The other yelled through the sound of the racing smoke. "He's pulling it away."
"What the hell." The man paused, noticing that in front of him was the woman in red, the one with the spears, that always made a mess. She looked like she was going to do something and he had the feeling he should try and stop her, but before he could make a move, everything went white.

@grandia20
"No. No!" Mr. 3 shouted as the man with the spears rammed his shoulder into his back. He tried to turn around for a counter attack but by then it was too late and he found himself sailing over the ship's railing, into the water below. It was shallow, but not enough to drawn. His head lay just over the surface but that didn't do him any good since his body was paralyzed and he didn't seem able to get his chest moving. He tried anyways but nothing came out. Slowly, he watched the waters around him rise and the bay doors opened up to the rest of the sea.

"Hey!" One of the Legion pirates said, somewhere behind him "That mans taking off with our escape boat."
"We're supposed to scuttle it, not escape on it."
"Shut up and start firing. Fill it with holes!"
The men didn't argue. They raised their rifles and began unloading towards the boat. Then, the ship shook, harder than before. The force caused several of the men to pitch forwards into the cool ocean waters.
"Damn it. Just get on the boat. Hurry. Before it gets too far." without needing to hear another word the men rushed forwards towards the ship.

@Shiyonichi
Abbygail paused to begin nodding at the woman, but stopped when another Legion pirate tried taking her from behind. She cut him down with enough force to also slice through the man that was coming up behind the first attacker. Both fell to the ground in pieces. "I agree! These guys are absolutely insane. They're not scared of death at all. There's just no individual desire for self preservation. It's like fighting an ant colony or a religious cult!" She cut down another Legion pirate before stepping back to look around. "Which way?" There was a violent rocking coming from their left.

"That was different from anything these guys had before. Which means.." Abbygail turned her body in the direction of the blast, noting that the smoke pouring in from door she was facing, was a lot less then the others. "I'm sure that was from the girl on our side. So I say we go that way." Without waiting for Red-Eye's response she covered her mouth with some cloth and rushed through the doorway.

As much as Abbygail wanted to stay behind the swordsman to make sure she was okay, and look at her thighs, they didn't have that kind of time. She'd just have to hope the girl followed her. Without looking back the purple haired woman slashed her way forwards. "There's light up ahead." She called through her masks. Before long she could see the sky and the sea. She barely managed to stop herself before going over into the ocean.

The ship shook again, with the more familiar explosions. Desperately Abbygail looked around at the water below until she noticed a rather large lifeboat, with a few more Legion pirates on it. "Hey." She yelled with her finger pointed at the ship, assuming her ally was with her and hoping the rest of the people she was with could hear her. "There's a ship down there! Get on if you can!" Just after she spoke another tremor rushed through the ship, drowning out anything else she could've said.

*******
Back on Frozen Saint Island, a Legion pirate, without a mask, smiled at the sinking ship. He was surrounded by the remaining villagers, all of which had mixed reactions on their faces, as if they'd never imagine the Legion pirates coming to an end. They were wrong of course. The Legion pirates couldn't be done in by a simple thing like mass murder and their home base going up in flames. It was a shame the ship had to go down though, they'd had it for so long it was starting to look like there was no use in the contingency plan but they they were. There was only one thing to do, and then he could disappear for awhile and get back to green tooth. He smiled as he looked down on the the people in front of him, unaware of how much smaller they were starting to look.

[Crimson Lion]

As Rainer was finishing boarding up one of the holes, a sudden force latched onto his arm and began dragging him down. “What the hell?” He was surprised to see it was one of those masked pirates, a sandbag tied around his waist. “Hey, what the hell are you doing!! You're gonna drown!” As he said that another weight was applied to his leg. Then his other arm. Then his waist. One by one legion pirates began to dogpile on top of him, dragging them further and further down till they hit the floor. “W-what the hell are you guys doing?” He asked as he turned to one of them expecting some sort of reaction only to see that the man had already drowned. “You guys would waste your lives just to stop me? Why? What are you wasting your lives for?!” He yelled as body's continued to pile onto them.

'Dammit, is this how I'm gonna die? Being buried alive by the corpses of suicidal pirates who were insane enough to blow up their own ship? … I think the worst part is I can breath underwater. So not only am I trapped but I'm not even gonna drown. Fuck.' As he thought this he looked up at the boat, ‘I gotta get out of here, these guys might be fine dying a pointless death but not me!’ He thought as he began to push up on the pile of bodies and sandbags. “GET. OFF. OF. ME!!!”

Although he couldn't see or feel a difference, slowly but surely the body's began to slowly slide off of him.

[Noodles]

Janet

Emerging from the explosion, Janet heard a very familiar voice coming from the side of the ship. She found the view over the side a bit hilarious, a bunch of those stupid pirates bearhugging Rainer. Still, I owe him one, I'd better return this favour. As a person who doesn't like to feel indebted to others, she looked around her to see what she could send against them. Definitely not her spear, piercing attacks are too dangerous, not to mention she doesn't want to lose her only weapon.

"I can use that," Janet pulled a nearby cannon that she had destroyed before boarding the ship. It resembled more of an iron husk than a usable one, but at least it will be more useful than her spear. With one strong push, Janet sent the entire cannon down to scatter the pile of Legion Pirates, adding an explosion to speed up that freefall.

"With that, we're even from now on~" Janet looked around to observe the situation. The Legion Pirates are successful in one thing: to destroy their own ship beyond repair. She doesn't need to be a shipwright to know that the ship would sink at any moment from the increased rumblings of the deck. Its sad to know that they can't pillage their treasures, but it'll be better to start with a smaller boat for now.

"The ship is going to sink thanks to those white masked scums, I can blast off to that boat over there, need a ride?" Janet approached Kyy, offering a hand. She said as if she played no part in damaging the ship. After all, without those pirates, she wouldn't have to blow up here and there. Its all their fault, I have nothing in this.

[grandia20]

Hearing the voices, Kyy turned. It was too risky to try getting the escape vessel alone since he'd be screwed if even a stray bullet hit it. "Damn..." He decided his only choice at this rate was shore so he began rushing back, hoping to come across another of his current allies.

[Shiyonichi]

Musashi didn't need to be told twice about where to go and dropped down on to the boat, which brought up shouts of surprise as the swordswoman landed. She slashed one down to her left before spinning around and drawing her dagger before grabbing it by the blade and throwing it at another, then using her free hand to pick up another legion pirate who was dashing towards her and throwing him into the water. She dspun behind the last one and slashed out his tendons and kicked him off the boat, literally. The swordswoman gave a thumbs up to her comrade signaling that the boat was now clear.

She took her dagger which was buried in the chest of a pirate with a mask in the triple digits. Though that got her wondering who exactly are these people? They all had no sense of self preservation like they said, but what kind of person could make so many people this suicidal, then again how did he find so many people that can't swim? The curious albino took off their masks as well, as taking her dagger back.

[jynmi88]

@Shiyonichi
The first Legion pirate whose mask Musashi removed should have looked familiar as it was the exact same face that greeted Abbygail when she removed the man's mask from earlier. The second pirate's mask held the exact same face. For a moment nothing seemed to be happening, but then, the dead bodies began to decompose. In what should've taken weeks if not months, happened in a matter of seconds as everything that made the bodies broke down till there was nothing but a pulpy mush.

@Shiyonichi@grandia20@Noodles
Abbygail swayed as the ship's movements became more erratic. Somewhere behind her, there was water, lots of it, flooding into the ship like children rushing in to save their favorite candy store from going out of business, or at least looting the good stuff before the doors closed forever. "Damn lunatics!" She muttered, before taking a deep breath. As dire as the situation was, it wasn't one to panic over yet. Her plans was simple. She'd geppo over to the small ship the rest of her group was escaping on and together they'd sail back. Even if there were still Legion pirates to take care of, there couldn't be much.

Two things caused her to pause. The first was the swordsman who was dragged under water, thanks to the Legion pirates suicidal attacks. He was a strong man so she wasn't very worried about him surviving but for some reason the girl with the spears threw down a cannon into the water he was dragged into. That would only make things a lot more difficult. The second, was the smoke drifting over the island they were just at, which wasn't a surprise as the buildings were on fire before they left, but there was a lot more of it now. That in itself was worrying enough, but there was something much worse that caught her attention. Something big was on the island. She narrowed her eyes and put her hand over her face to block out the sun. "Shoot!"

"Hey!" She hollered at the top of her voice over to her alleys. "You guys need to get back to the island, post haste. They're in trouble! Get going and I'll be right behind you once I help the guy in the water out!" Abbygail didn't wait for a reply before jumping head first into the deceptively calm waters below.

@Crimson Lion
Abbygail broke through the water's surface with ease, entering the blue world that existed below the seas. For a moment she paused, unsure of where exactly it was she needed to go before locking her attention on a mass of bodies with a cannon on top. Grimacing, she activated her geppo ability and shot down towards the mess.

The swordsman was down there, pushing against the weight, but it looked like even though he was on the winning end, it was going to take him awhile to get everything off. They didn't have that kind of time. Growling, Abbygail neared the mass, and put her shoulder into the cannon. It took some doing but she managed to push it off. Then, as she wasn't exactly at the point of dying, she removed the scythe from her side and started randomly cutting at the ropes that caught the swordsman up. She didn't bother slowing down when when she came upon a limb, being perfectly fine with slicing right through it.

[Noodles]

Janet

@Shiyonichi@grandia20@jynmi88

Janet grumbled when Kyy ignored her offer just like that, as if he would rather sink with the entire ship than the piggyback ride. She doesn't remember doing anything against her allies. Its just a small tavern, what's with the fuzz about that? The reason why is shown clearly when she saw the purple haired girl having to remove her cannon that she'd sent to Rainer.

She definitely owed the crew an apology for endangering one of her allies' life from her sheer recklessness. To add to the situation, there was a gigantic figure back at the island.

"Shit I'm out of ammo..." Janet snorted. The battle was still far from over. Having no extra spears at the time like this, not to mention she is getting worn out from her explosions. Close combat aren't her forte, and attrition from those pirates have proved so. She looked back to see if her allies or crewmates are okay, but a spark of idea went across her head. "No, I can use that as ammo..." Janet eyed the sinking ship that she was standing on.

"Burst steps," Janet propelled herself up into the air, shouting to everybody still on the ship "BRACE YOURSELVES, HEAVEN'S LANCE!" She sent herself crashing down the side of the ship. The enormous explosion from another use of her strongest technique tore the entire ship deck from the ship hull, sending it flying towards the gigantic figure of the island. Now I've done my proper job as a Sniper, all our grudges will be forgotten with my good work~ With one last burst steps, she sent herself to the lifeboat. She was out of explosions, as she closed her eyes and fell asleep upon landing, "I'm really out of ammo this time, zzz.."

[Crimson Lion]

The weight from the pile of dead bodies began to reduce drastically suddenly as Rainer pushed on the pile. Finally free from his corpse prison, he came face to face with his savior, who from his eyes might as well been god with the lighting from behind her making her look angelic. "Thank you so much, you're my savior!!!" He said with almost tears in his eyes, not caring that almost all of his fishman traits were showing out in the open. Before he could say anything else however, the ship above them blow into the air. "H-how does she even ... I'm gonna have to fix that later." He said with a sigh. He then looked up to see a lifeboat. "Hey Ms Abbygail, I'll be taking you up to them." He said, not waiting for an answer as he grabbed her by the waist and began to swim up to the life boat. As they reached the surface, he saw that the lifeboat had some of their allies in it. "Perfect timing." He said helping Abbygail onto the boat. "So ... do you guys need help getting to shore? I can push you guys." He offered as he was catching his breath.

[grandia20]

Kyy almost fell on his face when Janet suddenly shot them forward. "Now this is a ride!" He laughs, looking towards the towering figure. "Any ideas how to stop that thing?" He asked his allies, looking over at them. Thanks to resting a little, he felt a bit more energetic.

[Infinite Cosmos]

[color=39b54a][/color]Observing the scene from up high, he can see that most of the smoke coming from the ship was cleared now. However, there is now more smoke coming. Its origin seems to be the island. One of the girls that was on the ship previously called out that the people on the island were in trouble.

Looking back down at the ship, Lee noticed something that was quite odd. Some bodies have decomposed. "Thats not right. Thats way too quick... This.. This is either some sort of devil fruit...or something that I do not understand..." Glancing back towards the island during his thought, he spotted something rather large and looming. Pursing his lips and shaking his head slightly, he kicked off in the direction.

As he was essentially gliding towards the island, he began formulating a plan. He readied himself in order to take a defensive stance whether he is intercepted midair or is able to land. After all, he is currently going after an unknown target with unknown powers...

@jynmi88