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One Piece: The Journey of a Thousand Miles

@Crimson Lion@grandia20
"What's this now?" The old man's face broke into a scowl. "How's your?" He would've said more, but paused as understanding slowly came to him. He was moving, that was true enough, as there was no way the figure in front of him could've kept him from doing so while in his prime, but it was so slowly it didn't do him any good. "Grrr." He growled, bracing himself for what he knew was going to happen next.

@Noodles
"Damn." The short man with the pistols muttered just after the ringing in his ears died down. "Those were some explosions. Hope that little lunatic doesn't sink the ship with stunts like that." He didn't wait for an answer, but instead, relaxed his body, and burst out of the smoke, making a Bee line for the young woman. "Better do this up close, or we'll all end up sinking to the bottom of the sea." He readied his pistols, intent on shooting Janet point blank in face when he got to her, which wouldn't take long at all. Despite the shortness of his legs, he moved with an unnatural speed.

@grandia20
"Don't let her get away!" The woman snapped, slapping her partner on the back, hard!
"I'm not." The man shouted, turning away from his shot, and shoving the female marine harshly to the side. "If you'll just give me a chance to aim so I can take her out before she gets to the ship. Now, let me work woman, and keep your hands to yourself. Geez. I don't want to have to go through another HR thing with you again."
"Fine. Fine. Whatever." The woman sighed, folding her arms over her chest, and leaning back. "Just hurry up."
"I'm hurrying." The man said, getting into position. "Don't you see me hurrying. Now hold on and let me just look through here."

@Shiyonichi
For a moment, the man paused before throwing his head back and laughing. "You're a pirate, and scum." He raised his sword up over his head, while moving the open palm in front of him. "Who cares what you think." He began to move to slash at the woman, but paused at a strange sound.
"Ahhhhhh!"
Despite the obvious fear in the sound, which didn't belong there, he had no doubt it was Kir. "Kir?" He mumbled, looking around. The sound was getting louder, closer. "Please tell me, you're not..."
Before he was able to finish, a flash of white light broke through the ceiling above them, right besides the hole made a few seconds ago. The white face with red eyes appeared again, but this time, there was no furry in its face. Only fear, and confusion. He didn't stop to say hello, but instead continued on his way, smashing through the floor, and continuing long after.

"Hello!" Abbygail, shouted as she fell after the man. "Don't go anywhere, I'll be right back."

"Uh." The long armed swordsman paused for a moment, mouth hanging open as if his jaw was broken. Then he remembered where he was, gritted his teeth, and made a swipe at Red-Eyes long, and slender white neck.

Bleach: Neon Prodigy Genesis

@Crimson Lion
"Thanks" Risiru said with a slight bow before Takuya finished his series of attack with a half circled wall of ice. "But unfortunately he's not very good with wide range attacks, at least not at the moment." She laughed, scratching the back of her head. One of the strange hollow creatures took that as a sign her guard was done and she'd be an easy target. It raced towards her like a bullet, jumping over the corpses of its fallen kin, and lunged directly at the blue haired woman. It never reached her though. Instead it found itself in a giant's hand, and then slammed into steel, which bent under the force like clay. Then things went blissfully silent.
"But there's hardly a better opponent when it comes to one on one." She grinned, turning her head to look at the large grey giant, whose arm was shoulder deep into the wall.

@Red Mage
Understanding comes to the hollow far too late. It's confidence in it's attack caused it to pause, to savor the moment, but there wasn't any blood. None. What should've been a geyser of red didn't exist anywhere. Panicking it looked around for a second, which was a second far too long when a fight for life was concerned. One moment things were as calm as a choatic battle could be and the next yellow light, blinding yellow light. It was the kind of light whose brightness caused a momentarily shortage of understanding, and then it turned into an actual physical restraint that kept the thing glued to the ground. Rage boiled out of its lips as it made a cawing sound, trying to force its way out of the light and at the target.

"Hmm?" Nemuri said, tilting her head to the side as she looked at something on the wall. "Hold on, just a second here." Her hands disappeared into her pockets and reappeared, each holding a strange looking tool.

@BladeSS4
Several rapid shots fired from the red haired shinigami's zanpakuto and several white faces disappeared in order. "Strange." The shigiami blinked, pushing his glasses up the bridge of his nose, and moving towards the hollows. "Don't you think?" He walked passed the scythe wielding, possibly fanatic, and knelt by one of the corpses around him. "How come these things are piling up instead of being purified and disappearing?" He said, watching Bakuto for an answering

@Yorutenchi
The hollow let out a screech as it's target approached her. It's body tensed with the certainty it would manage the kill this time, and then it knew nothing. It felt nothing. Time and being ceased the cascade which it had known since birth. The world went black, but not just any kind of black. It was the darkness that swallowed up thoughts and light like a fat man at an all you can eat buffet. Before it even came to understand it was dead, it's various pieces fell to the ground with, hard, surprising loud wet thuds.

"Ah!" Nemuri shouted in excitement. "I think I figured out the problem here. One second, and watch your eyes. Don't want everyone to go blind for a second." There was a loud click, and the lights just above them, the ones over the entrance flickered to life. Then the ones next to them like a row of dominoes that were on fire, lighting up the gigantic, dark room as they went.

@Champion
A few of the hollows managed to understand that what the man in the air was doing was actually something to consider a threat, but not many, and by the time they realized what was going to happen, it was far too late. By that point all they could manage to do was start to dodge, but that was it, start. Most couldn't make it more than an inch away from where they started before the attack hit, and they burst into flames, screaming.

While the last of the hollow things were screaming, the lights made its way to the end of the room, revealing a large, mess of machinery that appeared to belong in an HR Giger work. The main point of the machine was a circular metallic bulbous piece, suspended a few yards off the ground, with steel wires surrounding it. Lights flickered from the various buttons and screens on the mammoth machine's front. Beneath it were several glass tubes, filled with smoke.

As they watched, one of the glass doors slit open, and three brown, eggish objects fell out, onto a pile of empty husks. While they continued watching, several familiar purple, bony hands reached out of the pile and began pulling themselves up out of the mound.

"Damn thing is on the fritz" again, Nemuri sighed.

One Piece: The Journey of a Thousand Miles

@Drunk Uncle Bob

My Hider

Name: Ryuteki Kangen

Alias: Kushiro Takemono

Age: ???/26

Position: Musician

Bounty: 50 mil

Appearance:

the dude

Personality: Music Loving, Always drinks, Will fight you over a children's card game, PTSD AF

Tragic Backstory

Ryuteki was from the Kangen family which serves the world government having controlled a small island. They were a music loving people and even though they were technically royals they still had to work for a living. The monarch didn't actually hold much power other than representing the country in the world arena. So they by trade were instrument makers. He learned to whittle flutes, make drums and carve stringed instruments. But being a foolish boy he dreamed of glory and was drawn to the battlefield despite his feeble constitution. He trained in a strange martial art from another country that worked with using the enemy's energy against them.

At 18 he joined the Marines as a hopeful young recruit. His name thankfully didn't give him any special permission and he rose through the ranks to become a captain at the young age of 20. From there he fought pirates and gained some renown. He visited home often and had a good relationship with his mother and father and younger sister. Believing his path to be the righteous one he wavered not in his daily duties and necessities. He would play the pipe aboard the ship to raise the moral of the sailors and strike fear into the hearts of wrongdoers. At least this is how it was for a mere 2 years.

When he was 22 he came across a strange incident. A ferocious pirate who looked like a panda had erupted on the scene doing incredibly cruel deeds. He was the most recent in a string of horrible criminals coming out of the woodwork lately and it seemed a strange pattern. Suddenly someone would suddenly crack and go on a criminal spree even if they had no real inkling of it before. He was dispatched to take care of this. The beast fought horribly not caring what injuries it took along the way. But after a long hard battle he eventually was captured and taken aboard. The beast was a hulking mass of muscle and instincts but now it was just a chained animal. It had refused all medical treatment and merely spit at anyone who went to question it. At least until Ryuteki went to talk with him. The battle had been a hard one but somehow Ryuteki got away without a scratch and managed to land several impressive blows onto the beast. Expecting to only be spit at like his subordinates he was taken aback greatly when the beast suddenly became very candid. Not only could it speak it could speak eloquently.

He talked for hours with Ryuteki in a quid pro quo format confessing to every horrible deed he ever did and only asked Ryuteki for strange personal questions such as what his rank was, his birthday, if he had siblings, their names ect. By the end of this conversation which lasted hours the beast looked worse for wear and they were near docking. Getting up Ryuteki was going to go make his report with the full list of confessions and his own signature on them when suddenly everything went black. In a daze he opens his eyes to see....himself....getting up off the floor and brushing himself off.

"What?" Ryuteki said in a hoarse deep voice that was not his own. That was all he could get out before hacking up an impressive amount of blood and being rendered speechless by the pain the wracked his body.

"Oh this?" ryuteki's body said with that same eloquence the beast had spoke with. "Its my power. I can switch bodies with whoever I want. I took that nice meat sack out for a spin. I made sure to take some heavy wounds that are probably infected now so you won't have much time to enjoy it but the Minks were a fun ride. God this body is so ...weak. How did you even manage to wound me with this...flimsy build?" He watched in horror as his own body inspects itself and shows signs of disgust. "Oh well." It shrugged. "Its not like I will stay in this body for long. After I give my report I think I will go home, kill your family, set your house ablaze and switch bodies with someone as it collapses on top of me. I think that sounds a good plan how about you?"

Ryuteki tries to protest but its taking everything he has to stay coinscious. This couldn't be happening. This had to be a dream or an illusion or something! The last thing he remembered was his body laughing its way out of the room and then him being hoisted up to a platform. His hands were bound behind him and a rope was placed around his neck. Having not even the strength to fight it his knees began to sink. However he didn't see his own face in the crowd.

"Where is the accuser? Captain ryuteki?" "Seems he left early to be with his family. He left his testimony and he has been gone for several months. Seems its his sister's birthday tomorrow." "Good for him. He had a big smile on his face." The banter between the marines make it to his ears. They seemed, even in this state, to be more sensitive than his own human ears. A rage and fire burns in him and a strength ripples through him. The floor beneath him is dropped and he falls to what would be his death. With a fervor surpising to even him his new strong arms rip through the chains holding him and he breaks the rope before he reaches the end of it. Landing now and only half awake he bolts faster than he had ever ran before. The whole night his new legs took him to his ancestral home.

Scents of home filled his nostrils and tears nearly welled into him as he smelled blood along with it. He burst into the central ball room to find something horrific. His mother and father lay dead in a pool of blood and his own body standing there. Rage and hatred took over and he slammed his own body against the wall and dug into it with his claws. A killer instinct he never had before guided him as he ripped through his own flesh.

"Why...?" He hears his own weak voice one last time. "Brother why...?" Shivers shot through him like lighting as he heard a sweet but hideous laughter behind him. Whipping around his eyes fall upon his sister...but it wasn't his sister. Her facial expression and mannerisms didn't match her at all. Her tone of voice and the way her devilish eyes were like ice gave it away.

"Oh dear. You see I thought you would do something stupid like that. I saw you bursting through the gates and made preparations. Wow though. Killing your own little sister has got to be just the highlight of my night. And you killed your own body. You can't even get that back now."

The emptiness and horror that set in upon him during the revelation of what had happened simply surpassed what his soul could endure. He could hear this madman speak in his sweet sister's voice but nothing sunk in. It couldn't. He was a sponge too full to absorb any more pain. A paralyzing rigor froze him in place.

"no...no..no...no...no" was all he could mutter.

"No? No I'm afraid its yes. Yes indeed. And unless you plan on ripping your little sister's lovely little body to bits I think I will take my leave." She winks at him once and pushes over a lantern which ignites nearby curtains which then spread to the rest of the house in moments. As the ceiling cave in and he is still unable to bring himself to move in this nightmare he spots the full moon.

He wakes up in an unfamiliar place face first in the dirt. Looking around it appears to be a forest of some kind on the other side of the Island his family ruled....or rather...used too. His wounds seemed just a bit better but still were untreated. This constitution was inhuman. Looking down at his paws with sharp claws and furry skin he noted he seemed inhuman. Stumbling through the forest he comes across a few huts with small boats. He checks the houses one by one only to find them abandoned. He smelled blood and avoided the hut that smelled most like blood. However having no choice he does finally look and sees what he did not want to see. Several dead bodies. Most are that of fishermen. But one was his little sister's body. That nightmare where he looked into his own dying eyes and knowing she was in there. Knowing she suffered at these claws made him collapse to his knees. Vomiting he cried tears that wouldn't come the night before.

Unable to bear being on this hell of an island any further he grabbed a roll of bandage and set sail on one of the fishing boats. Everything was numb and he wasn't able to comprehend everything that had happened the night before. But he knew he was alive. He was alive in a strong body and he was going to find that son of a bitch.

Abilities: Wu Shu martial arts. He is a master of re-directing energy and palm strikes. It also heavily relies on holds and pressure points.

Weapons: Occasionally uses a staff but currently has no specific weapon

Techniques:
Hurricane throw- A simple throw that takes the opponent off balance to displace them or throw them against the ground.

Paw Palm Thrust- He delivers a crushing blow to the opponents torso with his palm to create a shockwave that deals a usually nonlethal but debilitating effect to the opponent.

Chi Lock- By hitting strategic pressure points he can weaken an opponent by numbing part of their body.

@Drunk Uncle Bob

Forgot to ask. Does your character count as a Devil Fruit user? I mean, they're under a devil fruit's effect, or connected with a Devil fruit user, so does that mean he has the same weaknesses as other DF users?

Fairy Tail: The Future is for Fairies!

@Noxxis

She looks great to me! Go ahead and move her over and you can get a post up once we get to Hargeon if you like since that would make the most sense.

Now we have an ice dragon slayer and an ice devil slayer haha, interesting.

@Noxxis

I'm still in. Just have been suffering some writer's block for the last couple of days on account of it being so hot at night I can't focus. @.@

As for the rp, I think that maybe the problem is we're moving at kind of a slow pace. I mean, sure, introductions are great, but only so long as things move along. People join power fantasies to put their characters and powers to the test, I think. I could be wrong though since everything is subjective as far as preferences are concerned @.@

Bleach: Neon Prodigy Genesis

Sorry guys. I was supposed to have a short day today, but they called me in frist thing in the morning, and I spent a full, LONG day there. So I"m out of it. I'm off tomorrow, and other than seeing Avengers, I'm free. So I'll get you guys a post then.

One Piece: The Journey of a Thousand Miles

I'll be posting tomorrow.

Bleach: Neon Prodigy Genesis

Heads up. I'll be posting tomorrow. So if you'd like to put in something in before the next stage of the fight now's the time to do it.

One Piece: The Journey of a Thousand Miles

@Noodles
Paco's bullets hit the on coming spear dead on. Each bullet struck the head, with the intent of causing the explosive to alter course, and once again cause problems for the Swordsman, the one the two had identified as the real threat of the group. However, instead of veering off course like it should've, the projectile's rear end exploded like a moose that ate too much of something a moose's digestive system wasn't designed for and propelled the weapon forwards at a far greater speed than was customarily possible for a human to attain. Normally, someone would've panicked in these circumstance, and Paco did panic, but it was a short lived panic like upon reaching your home and thinking you lost your keys somewhere down the road, only to realize you were fishing around in the wrong pocket.

Once again, he dropped the guns, aimed at the woman's chest and fired two shots. The guns fell from the man's hands, and his fists tensed at his side. For a split second, he somehow seemed larger than before. That was all he had time for before the explosive projectile reached his destination, and detonated.


@Shiyonichi
The blades clashed and the long armed swordsman felt painful vibrations shoot down into his arm, and up into his shoulders like a billion ants had burrowed their way into his skin and trying to stampede their way across his body. Understanding dawned him in an instant. He assumed, wrongly, his strength was far superior to the woman's, but it wasn't, at least not on the level he assumed it to be. Victory wouldn't come as easily as knocking his opponent back and following through with a unrelenting force.

Eyes narrowed, He grit his teeth, ignoring the pain as best he could, and putting his shoulder into it, because it wouldn't do any good if he couldn't at least hold his ground. He cracked a smile. It was like ice cubes dropping into a warm drink. "Shigan" he whispered. Then, as quickly as only a swordsman was capable of moving, his other arm lashed out, and his finger pierced itself into the woman's shoulder.

Not letting giving his opponent a chance to react, the man surged forwards, finger pulling itself out of Red-Eye's shoulder, and moving to wrap around her throat.

@Crimson Lion@grandia20
The giant of an old man, at least by human standards soughed at the redhead's words. "Damn pirates, arrogant and stupid in any day and age." His face didn't exactly break into a grim, but the corner of his mouth twisted upwards in the slightest. "Which is fine by me, means I don't have to waste time trying to teach you to know your place." With that his light brown eyes narrowed, as he turned his attention to the covered up man with the barrels.

"Pirates," he muttered as he tensed his arms back, and flung them forwards, creating two blades of air that shot to, and then past the barrels the man had launched, straight for his opponent. Without hesitating, the giant of a marine disappeared out of sight and reappeared directly in front of Kyy. "In the bag, you say?" He didn't wait for a response, but instead brought down his massive firsts, with the intent of taking the smaller's mans arms off at the shoulders.

@grandia20
"Hey!" A familiar voice called in surprise. "Hey, you, lady with her blade in the ship. You get over here this instant, the captain wants to talk with you and your friends."

"Why are you saying that," a woman with pink hair, and sunglasses sighed. "It's not like she's going to believe that. Just pick her off so we could help with the others."

"Ugh." Her partner, with a single shot rifle rolled his eyes. "Don't you think the captain would like some info on this group of sea dogs?"

"Nope." The womans hook her head. "He just wants them dead."

The man shrugged. She had a point. Without another word, he readied his rifle and began following the target.

One Piece: The Journey of a Thousand Miles

@Red Mage@Drunk Uncle Bob@Yorutenchi
Which reminds me, could you guys get with me, Probably Via PM so we can discuss how you all will be introduced into the rp?

One Piece: The Journey of a Thousand Miles

@Red Mage

Alright got my character done.

Astrid Alestorm

Alias: Raconteur of Chronicles

Age: 170

Position: Historian/ledger/book keeper

Bounty: 0

Appearance

Personality: She is first and foremost an observer. Secondly she is a recorder. She being involved in combat but is drawn to it. She will ask several questions when something interests her but mostly she goes off of what she can directly observe. She tends to be overly serious. Her quill and paper never seem to leave her hands as she is always drawing a diagram or scripting a lengthy description of something. She records the history that happens around her as well as inventions and even weather patterns.

Background: TBA.

Abilities: She has an eidetic memory which comes in handy for her writing. She can write with both hands at the same time on two different things. She is a talented artist who is able to recall things from memory with great detail and then draw them flawlessly. She is also a polyglot who can speak numerous languages and can learn a new language in 1-2 weeks depending on its difficulty. She has some martial prowess but physically she is weak proportional to her size. She has a fruit though she keeps it a secret if possible. She has the "shrink-shrink no mi" which allows her to shrink down far smaller than her actual size and of course return to her normal size. It doesn't allow her to become bigger than her original size and her physical strength will be proportional to her new form.

Weapons: She has no real weapons to speak of but she does have a special bag that was infused with an unknown fruit that allows it to store far more items of greater size than it appears to be able to hold (its a bag of holding basically). Though the size inside is still limited it is far far larger than what it appears to be.

Techniques: Avoid and evade is her main tactic. She is good at dodging her opponents and escaping if necessary. She can shrink down with her clothing and what she can carry (but not another person or living material). At her smallest she can shrink down to about the size of a mouse. She is better suited for tactics and reading an opponent.

Other: Just adding this to mention her owl Artemis . Its a normal owl with high intelligence and it is in some ways her familiar. It seems to understand human speech but obviously cannot respond. She can send letters via the owl. He is an important friend.

@Red Mage

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