Serious: Mrs. Bass what are you doing down there? The Steel Village Meets the Bass Family; Meeting of Friends

[Holy & Luke Vrs Arashi]
Seeing Luke Appear and use Arashi Electricity agasint him.New Holy Immideatly dropped his weapon's to avoid the shock.

Speaking plainly New Holy Spoke. "Luke I thank thee.... And as or you Cloud shit head. You and your crew will never break our bonds of Friendship. Now suffer the consequences..."

Dureing his little speak New Holy Hand been oozing Molten tungsten under his feet into the earth below. New Holy uses.

"Pillar Of Death!" The Hot Ass Molten Tungsten Blasted up from Under Arashi In the form On a 20 foot long by 6 foot wide pillar of Pure Molten Tungsten. Attempting to Melt the CLoud Bastard Alive.

- Karasu -

"To have sacrificed his own comrade for his gain.. What kind of crew is this." Once he heard the conversation with the two he could only assume something bad was going to happen. Kyodaina took the giants body and threw it at Karasu putting his own type of huge tornado to surround his body.. this was a lot like the old technique they tried to use, but this time it involved the mans entire being put into it, the explosion had to be much more severe and powerful. Putting into careful calculation, it would be enough to end Karasu easily. Taking out both his pistols Karasu ended up making a second plan for the wind user, Kyodaina had left the area and turned his back on the battle to flee from the range of the blast.

"Alright, Let's see if this will make the soul inside the giant rest in peace.. Steel, get prepared to cover me with your wings, preferably make me land on earth rather then water.." Karasu already had a hunch this was going to hurt. Karasu put both of his pistols on his belt and moved his hands, making two pistols pop out of his gloves into his palm.

"Tornado.. Shot.." Karasu shot four powerful bullets four times as powerful as before. The tornado created seemed to have gotten bigger and much more rapid in spinning, but rather then focusing directly at the body Karasu added a curve to the tornado shot, breaking straight through the weakness of every tornado and hurricane.. the eye. Breaking through from bellow the bullets captured the bomb mans body parts and moved them towards the sky.

Karasu took this opportunity to try and fly away with his vulture, but it was to late. The distance was increased, but not enough to remain unharmed. a huge bang was heard, and suddenly a huge impact hit them harder then the old explosion. Steel took most of the impact covering Karasu with its wings, then it flew into shore like a meteor hitting the ground and causing a small crater. Karasu inched out of the Vultures grasp as he stumbled to get up, the vulture was knocked unconscious and he was left without a comrade to assist him in aerial combat. He dropped off the vulture where he had left Arcadia, and walked back into the battle. His fist clenched, he couldn't have done anything to prevent his comrade being knocked unconscious, no matter which way he looked at it. As he looked at his body he realized his left arm wasn't moving properly.. he couldn't feel the capability he usually did to summon multiple bullets at once, it felt.. average at triggering. His left arm now had damaged nerves, and worse.. it was in the middle of a battle between him and someone that was in the skies.

Karasu moved towards the shore, with both pistols in his arms, shadow and darkness were his pistols made only for power. His eyes were maintained closed, so he knew his Vulture companion was still alive. There was no time to rest, but he knew he needed to rest his body as much as possible.. since the battle had not finished. The opponent had admitted to having the ability to feel the bullets moving through the wind, this would make his fight much harder. Karasu could only wait on land, as his opponent would eventually arrive and cause yet another uproar in the battle. Without his vulture, Karasu could not even attempt to battle on the ocean.. especially against an opponent that could fly.

"Kyodaina.. your skills are much stronger then i thought they would be.." His posture was tall, but now 5 of his ribs were broken.. and whats worse, he was trying not to puke out blood. It might not have seemed like it at first, but he was definitely weakened by the battle, if it were not for Steel.. he would have died.

- Alphonse -

The man easily melted Alphonse's attacks, he had to improvise with a stronger technique. Once the man made orbs of lightning come from the sky he had no choice but to try and protect himself since Benjamin was already protecting Kiba. Alphonse put a steel wall in front of him, thick in metal and made it levitate to counter most of the attacks. If he was shocked by any of them in his metal state he would most likely loose as he was.

"If you think I'm going to sit back and do nothing.. you have another thing coming.." In an instant Alphonse threw the giant sword at the lightning man. having super strength the sword came at him at extraordinary speeds, the sheer massive force of the attack would be more then enough to penetrate through even the biggest of giants.

Sangjo leaped back from the explosion created from the two orbs. Then used is guitar from the raining ords. Its wooden properties protected sangjo from harm. His precious guitar soon burst into flames. Sangjo lost his treasured instrument. He threw it down. Even though he lost it the guitar served its purpose as a shield. Sangjo was now in range. He let a loud yell louder than he ever had before. Without the harming of his nakama, Sangjo was free to let go. The sound of his voice was so loud it broke the sound barrier releasing a shockwave from his mouth toward Kaminari "LEAVE MY FRIENDS ALONE!!!" Sangjo aimed the shockwave so it would send the pirate straight toward al's sword.

All of the sudden, from within the dust; a massive barrage of drilling tornadoes shot down. However almost all of them would take a trajectory that wouldn't hit Karasu. Soon it became apparent that the attacks weren't aimed for Karasu at all. Little by little the ground behind Karasu was being destroyed. Soon the entire area the gunslinger was standing on began to sink into the ocean. With drilling tornadoes cutting into the ground and threatening to hit him, how would Karasu defend?

Then nothing, there were no more tornadoes; they all just stopped. The pause in the barrage allowed for the dust to finally settle. An eerie high pitched noise was as the attack was revealed. Multiple spinning horizontal blades spun at super high speeds. They were so sharp and fast they literally cut through the rest of the air; causing the sound. Kaze threw the attack at Karasu. If the attack hit, it would explode slicing everything in it's blast radius at molecular level. If he had any hope of surviving his best bet would be to push the attack away far enough that he would avoid the blast radius.

[Introduction Box]
Name: Desais Mizuki
Rank: First Division Commander -Steel Village Pirates
Bounty: ???
Df: Calcium

The first division commander, Desais Mizuki, suddenly entered in front of Karasu. a large amount of a hardened structure appeared all over Desais's body. It appeared to look like a white glistening armor, but closer appearance revealed it to be an extremely thick layer of a bone density. It made Desais look as though he was a white paladin. With both swords raised, Desais readies a block of Kaze's attack. (Brother I shall grow stronger and someday stop your madness that you have begun) Desais thought as the attack hit and the air around him seemed to shatter.

Karasu was prepared to use his last resort technique, but a man appeared in front of him and blocked the better of the technique. Karasu was prepared to try and end this, however now that there was a man strong enough to hold his own he didn't have to try as hard. In his eyes Karasu thought he would have to eventually use the technique, but thank god he didn't have to expose it that day.

"Nice timing, but next time could you have appeared sooner?" The winds appeared to have gotten the knight in front of Karasu for the most part. He didn't have to continue anymore, the guy had armor and it was obvious the wind guy was more blow then power. He appeared in the middle of the attack, showing he was fast enough to handle himself, the wind guy was up for a surprise. Taking the opportunity to leave Karasu whispered one final say before he left the area. "Tell Iken I took care of one of the guys attacking the steel, but it doesn't make us even. Also, just to make things clear, I don't owe you anything personally, so if we ever meet in the battlefield, it'll be without holding back.. good luck White Knight, you may be his best match yet."

In that instant Karasu disappeared, grabbing his vulture and Arcadia in Soru speeds, Moving around his opponent Karasu managed to make his ears home in on an object he heard briefly.. or was it a dream. Continuing his Soru run he found a Giant ship from which he never saw before, an excellent place to find what Karasu needed.. maybe a smaller ship. He jumped using his speed and shot a tornado shot, creating a hole big enough for Karasu to fit through without letting too much water in.

Making it in deck Karasu looked around the ship, he could see multiple submarines located around the area. "... Why have so many submarines, if there's only 5 of them." Karasu moved around, and found a particular one that was in Black.. needless to say that was Karasus favorite color, his clothing was drenched in that. Carrying his vulture and Arcadia he dumped them on the ship and read a book placed on the desk of the sub.

Submarine steering: for Dummies

Karasu would easily learn how to use the sub in a manner of minutes, he was a shipwright after all. He arranged a few things on the controls to make it easier to steer for him, ultimately it ended up like a steering wheel for a ship. Once Karasu finished and got everything prepared he left the sub and sat on the top, crossing his legs as he readied his pistol; his smirk growing ever bigger as he found a way to take revenge for his fallen ship.

"An eye for an eye my friends.. an eye for an eye.." In an instant Karasu loaded his Pistols with explosive ammo and shot wildly throughout the floors leaving holes every feet concentrated in one area, explosions could be heard around the ship. Immediately to finish the job Karasu fired a Solid bullet, causing a big area of the wood the bullet hit to disperse, ultimately all the holes lead the ship to sink almost instantly. Karasu went back in the sub taking his time and shut the lid on the top. He whistled as he left with the submarine under the ship that was slowly sinking, the bottom was practically gone.. but the sheer size of the ship gave it a few minutes before the sinking would actually begin. Leaving the area with a smirk Karasu put his hands on the den den mushi next to him, now he would have to find the instructions on making this thing go on a private channel.. the one for DIA.

The sub continued towards the horizon, without a ship for them to escape to, the pirates could only leave through the narrow window of defeating the Steel village pirates. Something Karasu could not see happening. "Heh.. that knights not bad at his speed, I wonder if he would've helped me if he knew I was a Shichibukai.. probably not.." Karasu left the scene with a smirk on his face, smiling at the question in his head.

[Kaminari]

The lighting user formed a flowing current of electricity to surge around his hand. Using it he karate chopped the blade cutting it down the middle. The electrical current began melting the sword, however he didn't expect the shockwave. In an instant the tables turned. The powerful blast of energy accelerated the sword to the point he couldn't cut it without taking damage. His hand flew off after the metal sliced through it. Blood spurted out and down onto the ground. With horror on his face Kaminari began to scream. He clutched his right stub with his left hand.

"You bastards, you're all going to pay!"

The angrier the man got, the darker the clouds became. They grew as electrical energy formed within them. Soon lighting began to fall down more and more. The louder the man screamed the louder the thunder was that the massive lightning bolts produced. Raising his arms in the air, Kaminari fueled the clouds with the endless energy he could produce. Then it happened, his ultimate technique. Lighting began to rain down on the island. Lightning bolts literally began falling like rain drops. Thousands of bolts of lighting rained down on the island. If this didn't stop soon, the island climate would be changed for a long time to come.

[Arashi]

"Cloud Tower"

A massive tower of steel cloud formed pushing Arashi upwards. He felt the heat coming from the ground and knew he had to avoid it. After the damage he took from his own attack, he knew he had to be more careful. Before he could counter, his comrade made his move. He summoned a lightning storm that threatened all life on the island; this included Arashi.

"Stupid son of a bitch. What the hell are you doing? Goddamned bastard, you're just pathetic sixteen while I'm ten. Your life means nothing! CLOUD FORTRESS"

A massive castle made from steel hard clouds formed around Arashi. The tower he created earlier rose up higher and began spinning. It drew in all of the lightning around Arashi's location protecting him and those around him for the time being. Sharp air currents shot from the clouds. The blades of air shot in all directions, anyone with in the range of the attack was in danger. Holy, Luke, Sangjo, Myra, Kiba, Alphonse, and even Benjamin could be sliced by any one of the blades.

[Kaze]

The wind user was shocked his attack had been just blocked like nothing. It wasn't something that had ever happened before. Lifting up his arms he began firing tornadoes that would cause drilling damage if they hit. Rapidly one after another shot towards the newcomer. It was clear, Kaze had met his match. Someone that his light air attacks couldn't effect.

(New Holy)
Quickly New Holy Used The Molten Tungsten he was forming around his body shooting basket ball sized Molten tugnsten balls off of his body blasting towards the Air cutter directed at him and his Nakama.

New Holy didnt seem to conserned with the Cloud bastard's taunts however he was consentrating on such an extream level he couldnt afford petty insult's.

As The Tungsten basket balls collided with the Air cutter's they exploded in the air sending Shards of Tungsten sharpenl everywhere. Holy couldnt controll his metal cooled down however He hoped Alphonse would do him a favor..

Alphonse used his opportunity to summon another layer of thick wall on top of his own. Looking around Alphonse could see Holy was having some trouble with the cloud pirate, all of them were in deep trouble.. knowing Alphonse could not help with his fight he moved his body, since it was covered in metal, and flew towards holy. Arriving he noticed holy made a technique that required metal shards, after noticing his heroic deed Alphonse tried to help as much as he could.

Moving downwards Alphonse stopped holies shards before they hurt anyone of their Nakama, and floated down to the ground beside the cloud man. Before he continued Alphonse used his Metal controlling powers to move everyone with a metal object away from the area, save Holy and Alphonse.

"Luke, take care of the lightning man.. I'm sure you can kill him in his weakened state, where I cannot. This cloud man will be facing Steels perfect combination, Metal and Liquid metal.. I wouldn't want anything to happen to the people around us." The other people around the battle of the cloud man were moved, at least a few meters away forcefully if they had any metal objects on them. The wall that was hovering over Alphonse covered in metal stayed in the air as he was talking.. it was working like an umbrella in this case.

"Holy, do you think we could work together to kill this man? Or at least till the others are dealt with? I'd rather reduce the casualties done to my nakama." Alphonse created another giant clever sword, made of tungsten, and sharpened it to match its metal. Since the opponent is holding still Alphonse would take his time getting into position, taking up the sword with both hands Alphonse swung downwards horizontally, cutting the cloud the man had created in half. If the man was in the bottom still Alphonse would have cut through him like butter, his sword capable of cutting through steel easily with its weight, kind of metal, and Alphonses strength put into the picture.

The drills came closer and closer to Desais until Desais finally moved at Sub Soru speeds away from the tornadoes. Using his Sub Soru speeds and using Rokushik blasts from his katanas, to distract Kaze of the direction he is going, suddenly appears behind Kaze. With a sudden slash with his sharpened phalanges, Desais sends a slash to the back of Kaze.

Looking over at Alphone New Holy smiled at him. "Of Course my friend... I found a better variation of my old favorite move..."

New Holy used "Molten Tungsten Titian" Creates a Giant Titian of Molten Tungsten around to Gigantic proportions. While continuing to fuel the Layer. The Outside cools into a Hard Tungsten while the inside remains Molten Tungsten. Basically looks like a Tungsten Giant With Molten Steel for a gooey layer on the inside.

However instead of being inside this monster Holy Was standing on the Hard Shoulder Layer of Tungsten on the shoulder of the titian.
Controlling the Giant titian from the outside would give New Holy more move ability. Suddenly in key spots of the Giant the outer layer heated up as 5ft by 10ft molten tungsten spikes where fired at Arashi As the Molten tugesten spikes cooled a series of strange cracks were reviled.

Yelling from ontop of the Titan New Holy SHouted at Alphonse. The Tungsten spikes were forged with cracks separate them into tines tungsten spikes once its within close range.

Suddenly A Molten tungsten blob started to ooze off Holy's body and accumulate over his head.

Alphonse used the opportunity, once the spikes got near the cloud man he took out both his hands and gripped them, as if he had just squished something in his hand. Suddenly the tungsten spike separated into many small metal pieces, separated in the thousands like a small shard bomb. The Spikes waited to be near the opponent to explode all of the metal shards. Of course Alphonse made sure the metal particles wouldn't hurt him or his partner.

"Heh.. not a bad idea Holy, remind me to team up with you more often."

Sangjo saw how Kaminari shot lighting as his beautiful home town. His family was on that island. Sangjo couldn't stand it any longer. He ran off with the speed of soru seeing the guy was distracted with the lightnight bolts. Sangjo then jumped in mid air hoping to get close. If he got close enough Sangjo would attempt to hold the man close to him. Then Sangjo would used use his Otochuningu Otochuningu no Wail technique. The sound waves of this attack from such a close distance would burst Kaminari's very brain. This attack was risky because it put Sangjo right in the line of fire, but his family was worth it. Ami was also on the island and he would sooner turn himself in to the marine then risk her life "I'm sorry love. Looks like I might now marry you after all. I'm going on an vovage a little higher than the grand line."

((OOC: So my post was deleted, therefor I'm going to do a short one to replace it))

The attacks of Holy and Alphonse succeeded in doing more than scratching the massive fortress. Electrified chucks of the metal were sent flying back, while Alphonse took a large dose of the energy running through the walls. The lightning raining down was running through the clouds that formed the fortress.

Sangjo's attack hit the lightning user killing him almost instantly. The shockwaves it created were large, extremely large. It was ever large enough to break the massive mast on the Steel Nation ship. The razor sharp airblade barrier sliced into Desais' hand and arm as his attack dealt a fatal blow to the distracted wind user. However a bolt of lightning hitting the barrier from Kaminari's lightning rain technique zapped both Desais and his foe.

Just as it looked like Sangjo would have his brains splattered on the same rocks as his foe, somethign caught him. Well rather someone. It was Luke; he had used his devil fruit to teleport under Sangjo to catch him. He was saved by the assassin. Iken used his large tungsten sword as a shield. All of the electrical energy instantly absorbed by the electrical dial now attached. Both Alern and Iken were saved as he pulled his fishman nakama out of the water. The longer it was after the man's death the less lightning rained down.

New Holy folded and compresssed His Tungsten titain into a compressed Tungsten ball with Molten Tungsten inside of it. As the Giant tugsten ball headed towards Arashi.

"Tungsten....B...O...M...B!!!!" Once the Tungsten Bomb was within range it smashed into the Massive forteress and them exploded sending a massive wave of Molten Tungsten into the Side of the cloud Forteress melting through.

Then Useing The Massive Blob of Molten Tugenten he had acumluated over head Holy Attempted to Coated the Remaining cloud forteeress in Molten Tugsten which would somewhat melt it but would fuze to the cloud turning the Cloud Forteress into a Tugsten on.

"Alphonse try to compress the forteress useing the new Tungsten. And Smash that little bitch inside!"

Alphonse was completely shocked by the millions of volts sent through his body, the slash had cut through the wall but not completely.. it was much thicker then Alphonse's sword. Once the electricity hit Alphonse his entire body ached with pain, the mere shock was completely delivered around his body, leaving him with remaining electricity in his metal shards. His body could be seen with sparks coming out of it, each of them hurting him only further.

Alphonse dropped to his knees, his eyes completely white, and his skin sending off smoke. His gaze looked up completely at the sky, yet he had no consciousness, and his mouth remained open. He tried to regain some consciousness when he heard Holy's voice.. he had to fight, even if it was for a second. Alphonse took out his hands, and did as the voice said, making the compressed tower with the man inside the tower.. with this he would be trapped by his own technique, seconds after completing his task Alphonse dropped to the ground and went into a very deep sleep.. it would take something huge for him to wake up.

"Heh, so maybe the fortress was the wrong direction for fighting you guys. I mean damn, one mistake and I'm put in this kind of deathly situation. The Steel Village truly plays for keeps. I feel sorry for any enemy that came across your path before today; they truly never stood a chance." Arashi said before pausing. This only seemingly served to bring his destruction closer as the walls closed in. "However, I am not any ordinary foe. I have many ways to fight, and one is just as strong as another." said Arashi condensing all of his clouds into two small forms.

Two swords, one in each hand. Arashi looked up at the collapsing super heated metal; if that touched him he would surly die instantly. With a swing of the sword in his right hand the metal seemed to harden. Then it seemed like all of it was over as the metal slammed down upon him. The only problem, was looks can be deceiving. A blast of electrical energy melted through the tungsten. Arashi, leaped out of the hole and stood upon the heaps of tangled metal that had nearly been his tomb.

Arashi seemed different than before, he began to emit a new air around him. It was like he had just moved to the next level. For him this was great, and would likely improve his position with his crew. However, for the current Steel Villagers that were facing him, it wasn't such a good thing. With great soru level speed, Arashi speed towards Holy. However, at the last second he created a cloud and leaped off of it. Arashi continued creating and leaping in a zig zag like pattern. He moved so quickly and sporadically that even a seasoned warrior trained to fight at and against soru speed would have a hard time keeping up.

It became dizzying to all that stood in the area that the storm predator hunted. At one moment he was in front of Kiba seemingly attacking; however the hit never came. Next he was behind Luke; before the shadow jumper could block, Arashi was gone. Each and every time, the only thing that remained was a cloud platform. It was like the man would never run out of energy. He was able to keep up the speed and technique without one sign of slowing down, ever; little lone any time soon. Any counter attack would merely hit a cloud platform as it would come much too late.

All of the sudden, Arashi was behind Holy. He drove his blade at the large back of the half giant, but nothing happened. A back attack was much to typical, even for a sneak attack. Then he was in front. His cloud blades crackled with electrical energy as he crouched down and sliced a scissor like attack that would surely gut Holy. Again, nothing happened. A blade of charged air shot at Holy from all four cardinal directions ((OOC: North, South, East, and West)). It seemed like the only direction for him to come from was up. With Holy's powers he could easily melt the ground to escape. The only problem was, Arashi was underground. All while he was speeding along the clouds the man was cutting a trench that lead from one member of the Steel Village to the next. Arashi swung his blades upwards as if he was going to slice the half giant in half.

The sword was stopped dead in it's tracks. An object with equal force, that also wasn't effected by the electrical currents moved into it's path. Alern stood next to the rest of the crew on the battlefield. The fishman would probably be somewhat confused as the last thing he would have known, was Iken carrying him quickly. This means the one that stopped the cloud swords was none other than the captain of the Steel Village Pirates; Iken Namikaze.

[Iken Namikaze Versus Arashi Kyūkyoku]

Iken leaped back with, his back contacting with Holy's midsection, pushing both of them back. Arashi also leaped back read to counter. Both men came to a skidding halt; their boost sunk into the mud that was formed because of the heavy rain from earlier. Iken turned his head slightly to the right, looking at Holy.

"Holy, my brother. Go and rest, you don't need to push yourself to this level for me. I know you're at war with yourself, and I promise; I will fix the mess I created soon enough. So please just bare with me for now, retain the you that we all know and love. So for now, just go and rest. Everything is gonna be alright." Iken said to his beloved nakama.

Splashes were heard as both warriors charged towards the other. A loud clank announced the battle had officially started. The force from the two blades colliding caused sparks from friction and shockwave from raw power. Mud splattered the legs of the two as the force from the shockwave made it shoot upwards. The sparks sizzled out as they hit the moist ground. All of this, and just from the first clash.

Arashi aimed to impale Iken in the upper right section of his stomach. However a lightning fast draw blocked the quick attack. For an instant the tip of the cloud blade rested against the edge of Iken's lightning sword. Spinning around, Iken attempted a powerful cleaving slash with his dial equip sword that would sever Arashi's head. The storm user ducked and swiped at Iken's legs with his free blade. Iken quickly leaped up and came back down with a spinning slash with both blades. The hit connected hard, with both of Arashi's swords as he blocked from a squatted position. Powerful shockwaves caused the ground below to split and mushy mud to fly upwards; a deep impact crater was formed.

Arashi heaved Iken into the air with a mighty push. Using Geppou Iken came to a stop about ten feet above his foe. Iken was almost certain he had a slight advantage in this situation, as he hadn't seen Arashi use any air walking technique as of yet. However Iken's theory was out the window in the next instant. Arashi formed a cloud in which he stood on. The cloud moved and carried Arashi wherever he willed it to. This meant any slight advantage Iken had was gone. Even more so, Iken was now at the disadvantage, as he would tire from using Geppou while Arashi didn't exert energy to float on a cloud. Now both men stood on equal ground more or less, as they stood face to face in the sky.

"So dials, and a logia empowered sword? You certainly have a repertoire of surprises, captain of the Steel Village. You are truly one of the few people that can counter my cloud style swordsmanship. For that I first must applaud you, and secondly, kill you." Arashi said in a serious manner.

"Heh, your powers are used for an evil personal gain. Even if it wasn't me there would be someone that would stand-up to you and beat you. As far as killing me, that's just not going to happen. I will stop you, if it's the last thing I do." Iken said steadying his blade.

Iken has seen this guy in action and had clashed blades with him. He knew that he wasn't going to be able to beat Arashi with pure brute force. Iken decided to see how he fared against ranged attacks. With one fast slash, Iken launched a powerful airblade charged with electricity. The blade closed the distance almost instantly. However it was an easy obstacle for Arashi. He simply cut the airblade with his sword with a powerful slash of his own. The end result was the failure of Iken's attack, plus a counter than sent out another charged airblade; only this time it was Iken was had to counter. Iken slid his sword at a slight angle under the trajectory of the airblade. With a powerful lifting force, Iken sent the airblade flying over his head; successfully avoiding the attack.

Next item on the agenda, speed. Iken knew Arashi was fast, but he was going to test just how fast. Using Namikaze flash and Geppou Iken sped at Arashi at blinding speeds. Arashi flailed his blades sending a steady stream of charged airblades. Iken placed his sword in front and plowed through them. With his great speed the Yonkou close the gap before Arashi could do anymore. With his sword in front of him, Iken charged at Arashi trying to cleave him with pure force. The cloud-man blocked with his two blades being pushed backwards. In an instant Iken was behind Arashi, after having used his flash and geppou techniques in quick succession. Iken slashed with his lightning blade at Arashi's back followed by a quick spin in the same direction Arashi turned to block Iken's first attack. With such a small footing to work with, Arashi was barely able to block Iken's back attack. Lunging to the side when he seen Iken's first attack was merely a distraction, he took a nasty gash to the shoulder as well as a shock from the currents running through Iken's blade.

Arashi fell off the cloud a few feet before regaining his footing on another quickly created floating fluff-ball. Finally it seemed like Iken had the edge in at least one field. However, yet again this would be short lived. Creating multiple clouds, Arashi leaped from cloud to cloud at soru speeds. He created cloud footholds midair in an instant. It was just as effective as geppou and slightly less tiring. The advantage again, moved to Arashi.

Lightning flashed in the background as a cool breeze washed the moister in the air over everyone. Thunder boomed an instant later a slightly stronger breeze blew both Iken's and Arashi's air awesomely. This was like the starting bell for the two fighters. Both moving at inhuman speeds the two clashed blades causing shockwaves and sparks to rain down across the entire island. As the storm settled down, the fight picked up.

Arashi pulled back both of his swords, a powerful hit landed upon Iken's blades as he blocked. The force from the hit was incredible, it toppled nearby trees like they were toothpicks. Like an acrobatic master Arashi spun his lower body; he delivered a two footed kick to Iken's stomach that sent him hurtling to the ground. Just before Iken hit, he stabbed his sword into the ground and kicked off the air righting himself. Spinning around with the momentum, Iken cut a chunk of earth from the ground and chucked it at Arashi in one fluid movement. Arashi easily countered the move by slashing the earth. However on the other side was Iken moving at the speed of soru. Iken's fist connected with Arashi's face sending him flying across the island, much like Arashi's first kick.

Layers of soft cloud formed behind Arashi until he came to a gradual stop. The man's face was broken, shattered even. Blood ran down his nose and his lip was badly cut from the sheer force of Iken's punch. As Iken wiped the blood that he has coughed up from his mouth, Arashi wiped away the blood on his face. Both warriors had taken a good amount of damage. Iken's usual smug grin adorned his face, he was having fun. Arashi, never the one to fall behind fashioned himself a smug grin much like Iken's.

Again and again the two clashed with earth shattering results. The battle seemed almost to be at a standstill. However Iken was becoming sluggish and slowing down. He took the blocks a lot harder than he had been before. He was also forced to block, when before he could have dodged. Iken felt cold and clamy, he was even shivering. He couldn't figure out what was wrong or why it was happening, but if this continued, Iken would lose. Iken placed his arms in front of his body and began spinning them. Soon a massive whirlwind made from sharp blades of air was sent at Arashi. The size of the attack was incredible. However, like always, Arashi was able to counter. Copying Iken, Arashi placed his blades in front of him. Two powerful funnels of sharp airblade shot at Iken's directly from the cloud swords without any spinning or effort. This was yet another way Arashi had to spend less energy than Iken. When the three air attacks collided it sent out a shockwave of cool air.

Staying in his stance, Arashi began shooting off many whirlwinds rapid fire. Iken was forced to use flash and geppou to dodge most of the attacks. Slowly, Iken began to slow down more and more. That was until he was no longer able to dodge the whirlwinds. Iken raised his blades blocking the wind attack. It was a heavy hit that drove him back pretty far. Iken began to breath hard; he could even see his own breath at this point. Blinking a couple times, it hit him. Iken figured out why he was slowing down. To little to late. With his full speed still intact, Arashi appeared behind Iken slashing him across the back. Iken lunged forward and used his hard body technique trying to lessen the damage. It helped, at least a little.


Iken spun around using geppou to face his foe once again. Spinning his blades, Iken loosened up his shoulders. He turned his neck, cracking it. The trademark grin also returned. With super quick movements, Iken used the friction against the air while vibrating his sword to light them on fire. Instantly Iken's movements and composure improved greatly. Shaking his head Iken looked to Arashi and spoke.

"Sneaky little bastard, using blizzards so small that I didn't notice the temperature change, until my movements slowed down. Don't worry though, that's not going to work against me anymore! Hades Slash"

Iken launched a flaming, electrically charged airblade at Arashi. The cloud user counted instantly with a cold, electrically charged blade of his own. When the two attacks collided the warm and cold air created a charged funnel of air that spun uncontrollably as the warm air rose and the cold air sank. Pleased with the destruction of his and Iken's creation, Arashi began rapidly creating more of his cooled airblades charged with electricity. Iken had no choice but to counter them, with his opposite attack. Each and every attack created a destructive tornado charged with electrical energy. The island truly wouldn't be able to handle much more battle on such a level.

Iken had let the battle go to far, and he needed to end it no matter what the costs. With flash and geppou once again, Iken charged his foe head on. Arashi playing along also charged head on, like Iken did. As the two came close and close, Iken didn't make a move. Arashi took his chance and thrust his blade at Iken. It was aimed for dead center, just below his chest area. With a slight movement to the right Iken took the blade trying to avoid any vital areas. The cloud blade froze the immediate area as the electricity began to shutdown Iken's nervous system. With both hands Iken raised his tungsten blade. With all of his might Iken brought down the sword upon Arashi. Arashi's look of joy turned to one of horror as he knew what was coming.

"World Class Heaven and Hell Slash"

A massive blade of fiery electrical energy slammed down upon Arashi. The cloud user's attempt to block with his secondary sword failed. In all but an instant the sword and Arashi were cut in half. Arashi was cut diagonally severing his left shoulder down at an angle to his right hip. Blood rained down, followed by the two halves of the man's body. His clouds and swords disappeared from creation. Blood poured from Iken's mouth and the wound in his stomach. Iken had tried to avoid any mortal wounds, but he wasn't a doctor, so there was always a chance he wasn't going to walk away from this one.

All of the strength from Iken's body left as soon as his consciousness did. From high up, Iken began to fall. His seemingly lifeless body picked up speed the farther it fell. His swords and spear separated from him during the fall making the whole situation that much more dangerous. Even if Iken could survive the wound from the stab, he certainly wouldn't survive the fall. If none saved him the Yonkou would certainly die. Would this be Iken's last stand?

((OOC: Welp I'm leaving it up to the crew to whether Iken lives or dies))

Kiba was shocked at Arashi's speed as the cloud user skimmed between the Steel Villagers, but before he managed to do anything to stop him, Iken was on the offensive. The battle between Iken and Arashi was stunningly destructive and beautiful at the same time. It seemed as if the combatants were warping nature itself to their bidding. Fights like these reminded Kiba that he had a long way to go in order to become powerful. He could feel his cloak tightening around his body as Zurui got both cold and scared.

Unfortunately, Kiba couldn't help Iken in anyway, the battle was too fast and if he got involved Iken would only have one more life to worry about. In addition, he couldn't keep watching either. The power of Iken and Arashi was so great that the entire island was damaged from their ongoing battle. Lightning blasted randomly and the ground was shaking every time they clashed swords. Every deflected attack was sent against a nearby structure, threatening all the civilians. Kiba decided to try and help as much as possible, cutting burning trees before they crashed on houses and pulling people who were carried by the wind down to the ground.

As the situation turned worse while Iken was on the receiving side of battle, Kiba continued securing civilians in safe houses and sturdy structures, even tying some of the to fences so they wont fly off, hoping the crew would join him instead of watch the battle. Then, the air seemed to heat up dramatically as Iken's swords burst into flames, once again throwing the weather out of balance. Kiba glanced up to check on his captain, only observe the final clash between the two fighters occur: Iken was mortally wounded, Arashi was dead. Drops of blood filled the sky as Arashi's sliced body raced to the ground, with Iken's unconscious one close behind.

"IKEN!" Kiba shouted, with his voice cracking in the powerful wind. "GEPPO!" He shouted and blasted himself to the air, not fearing any lightning or vortex. Only the safety of his captain lied before him. With continuous jumps Kiba closed in on Iken's falling body, allowing his sword to flail by. He managed to catch up to his captain he reached the ground. He grabbed Iken and started slowing down their fall with Geppo as much as his strength allowed him to, turning the fall into a slow landing. Meanwhile, Zurui blasted his long chameleon tongue out of one of the pockets on Kiba's cloak, plucking one of Iken's swords out of the air and securing it, leaving only one sword without care. "WE NEED A DOCTOR!" Kiba shouted to the Steel Villagers while he landed, noticing Iken's serious injury.

Sangjo was saved thanks to Luke even though he had been prepared to die "Thanks Luke. I owe you one." Then before in the sky a monsterous battle between Iken and Arashi. Sangjo was frightened as the two titans fought. Their battle not only dwalfed his own strength but the gods themselves marvel at these warriors' skill. Then just as fast it started the battle ended. Iken was the victor. Sangjo couldn't help but to smile as his captain saved the entire island "Thank god, He did it. This is the man who will become pirate king. I'll make sure of it." Then something horrible happened. Iken was falling at an alarming rate. Sangjo was about to save him until Kiba saved him. He ran toward him looking at Iken passed out. Sangjo had never seen Iken so vulnerable before. It was quite scary to see him like this "Iken....Iken come one now is not the time for sleeping. You got to wake up." Sangjo put his hand on Iken's chest and shook him but he wasn't coming too. "Come on Iken we had worse brawls than this. You got to get up. We got to go home on the Steel Village." Sangjo's eyes began to water "You can't die on me. Not again. I won't let another of friends die because on me. Wake you stupid bastard." The vice captain began to weep for his oldest friend. Sangjo promised he wouldn't let anymore die after the lost of his old crew, and now it seemed that that promise would be broken. "Don't die on me Iken. you much more than mah captain. You were my brother. I can't live without you."

Alphonse could hear the sound of someone crying.. it was Sangjo, his voice was cracking up and even loosing to what appeared to be sadness and despair, something horrible was happening.. and Alphonse was too defeated to be able to move.. but he had to try.

He wasn't a doctor, he couldn't do anything to help Iken, all he could do was battle and defend the steel village. Taking out his hand he was able to witness the electricity still moving through his body.. having metal inside him meant electricity would linger much longer then on a normal person, with his last strength Alphonse moved towards Iken, his body still giving off sparks. Once he reached Ikens body he kneeled down, the pain was still scorching through his muscles and his brain was desperately trying to zone out, but he had to do this first.

"Ugh.. if Iken looses his heartbeat.. use the lightning still etched on my body to shock him back to life.. I'll try to stay conscious so nobody has to touch me for it to work.. the lightning could also close hi wound, but i need to know nothing is wrong with his body inside." Alphonse was no doctor, but being a wonderer meant he knew the basics of medical treatment, but none of them were about such deep penetrations.

Holy Mearly nodded at Iken's words which Reverted Holy back to origional state. Feeling the impact of all the energy he exerted and the wounds he received he felt like passing out. However he wouldnt never dare do such a think when his Steel Brother Iken was fighting on his behalf.

As Holy watched the Battle process he watched Iken defeat the cloud bastard. Seeing the crew grab Iken and scramble around In Painic. Infuriated Holy. Useing Shadow Soru Holy sped to where Iken was.

Placeing his hands on Iken's stomach. Useing a a low grade metal Holy Produced heat. Caterizing his Stomach wound which would stop the bleeding temporarily. He would still need a doctor but hopefully this bought Iken more time. "Iken you saved me this is the least I can do for you."

Holy fell on his back calasping he was totally spent....

Ami Nereid burst from the water nearby, her chest heaving and her heart racing- but at that very moment, she couldn’t have cared less about herself. She had just watched helplessly as her crewmates had almost been ripped limb from limb, her lover and fiancée had almost lost his life just after the two of them had received his father’s blessing to be married and now, their beloved Captain was fading fast in Sangjo’s grip, dying slowly.
She dragged herself over to them, her tail weak from swimming so fast but her will, strong. Her big violet eyes were now brimming with hot, fresh tears, her face creasing as they started to fall.
“I-Iken-sama?” she whispered breathily, her voice cracking with sorrow. “P-Please don’t go. Please, I owe so much to you too. Y-You accepted m-me on to your crew when n-no-one else would…and i-if it wasn’t for that, I w-would have never found love with Sangjo-kun.”
Ami’s tears were now falling freely and she gripped her Captain’s arm as she started to cry. “It’s just not fair! Iken-sama doesn’t deserve to die! Great gods of the sea, please don’t let him die!”
She dropped her head to Sangjo’s shoulder, as if trying to console her fiancée despite her own growing worry.
Ami watched with wide eyes as Holy suddenly used the last of his power and energy to cure Iken’s stomach wound. “H-Holy…”
Her brows creased with concern for their tough and resilient crew member as he fell to his back but her eyes remained on Iken’s wound, waiting with baited breath to see if he would respond.

Sangjo turned to holy "Damn it holy, I'm not losing you too. Why does this keep happening to me? I'm not losing anybody not ever again." Things just kepting getting worse and worse. Now Ami was here too she shouldn't be seeing this. It would too tramatic to her. Sangjo wrapped his arms around Ami as she laid on ther shoulder trying somehow in someway to comfort her too. This must be hurting her too. "Close your eyes Ami. Don't look." Sangjo then had a flash back in his youngers days back when he was sixteen.

A few years later.....
Sangjo was playing on his paino with the Northern Wind Pirates. They were having their daily parties in midday. There was music, liquor, and plenty of women. An old classic pirate feast. Sangjo was just a musician on an average pirate crew singing bink sake. Then one pirate passed out on the floor. Sangjo stopped his playing to go check on his commarde "Captain, this man he just fell down. I think he is dead!" Captain Broham and the men laughed.

"Get back to playing Sangjo."
"Yeah the party was just getting started."
"The women won't shake their assess without music."

Sangjo just looked at his crew in anger "Our friends just passed out. He might be dead! Don't you care what happens to him." The crew just laughed at Sangjo. For being new to the life of piracy Sangjo was still naive to sea. Captain Broham said "Sangjo ain't nothing wrong with him except one to many pints. He drank himself to sleep. Check his pulse." Sangjo just put his two fingers up to his neck. He felt a faint pulse. It was weak but the man was still alive.

Present...
Sangjo awoke from his flashback. He took off one arm off of and He planted two of his fingers on Iken's neck "He...he's oh my god. He's alive! Iken is still alive! Somebody help me move his body. Grab Holy too. We can take him to the local hospital assuming it hasn't been destoryed." Sangjo kissed Ami's head "Oh god Ami, Captain Iken is still alive.."

"Heh.. guess they won't need my Lightning.. dipped... body...." Alphonse fell to the ground unconscious, being shocked continuously had completely electrocuted his insides. The Lightning was still moving around his body noticeably, it just didn't want to leave.. and so his body continued to suffer through it. The sparks began to move around his back, and through his shoulders, to a normal person this would be painful but to a man with metal shards around his body, this was excruciating and right under getting a limb cut off with salt dipped inside. He felt like his world was dropping, hearing Iken having a pulse meant he was alright.. Alphonse's job was done for the day, and for awhile it meant Alphonse could rest knowing he wasn't needed.

His 350 pound body dropped to the ground, having a kind of loud thud when he rammed into the ground. His eyes closed and his body gave out, his only thought now was a dream. Alphonse did not look heavy, but having metal shards in his body meant he was a lot more heavy then an average person.

His mind almost shut down and went directly into the REM stage of his sleep. His mind had been abused that day long enough, having to endure Pain like it was something it enjoyed (It wasn't).

Jack's eyes slowly began to open as he regained conciseness at the same speed. When he remembered what all had happened however, his eyes shot open like a bullet and he jumped to his feet, his hands gunning towards his swords. But, when he looked around and saw that the fighting looked finished, he eased up. He looked around and still saw people he knew alive, which meant that his side had one. Suddenly, an overwhelming feeling of disgust towards himself entered his mind. You didn't even last two seconds, what the hell is wrong with you? You need to get wayyy stronger if you want to even be taken seriously. This pretty much made up Jack's mind to get stronger for him. But for now, he just needed to know what happened, so he began to look around.