Serious: The Hooded Knights complete again

(Ashley)
Turning to Mail Ashley let down her guard and smiled warmly at him.
"Oh new recruit's hu? why didnt you say so hun? Hehhe"

Sharpfang returned to normal as he crawl around Ashley Hissing softly in her hear. Turning her attention to Darnel Ashley said. "Oh Competition Darnel Sama? Hmm sounds like fun! Sorry about that I just get nerves when Giant's Show up out of the blue ever sense Unholy It's hard to trust big people..."

Turning her attention to Izlend for the First time after hearing Darnel introduce him to Mail. Ashley said a bright enthusiasm. "Oooh a new recruit for the Hooded Knights Welcome aboard!"

Hearing someone yell in the distance Sharpfang picked up his head amused. Speaking to darnel & Mail in snake language said "Sssss Did's youss hearss thatss Somoness callingss for the hoodesss knightssss."

Carlos was walking down the same random street where he punched down a thief a minute ago. He could have swore he saw Darnel and the others in a bar before, but now he couldn't find the place for the life of him. He was doing his best not to look back at the crowd of people that were still hanging next to the knocked out thief, so he won't have to face the woman again. He wasn't tactful when it came to informal conversations with women, he was too shy for those stuff. He found it funny that he could face one of the strongest pirate crews in the world but was still terrified when things became intimate. But he tilted his head when he noticed he was getting lost in thought, he had a bar to find!

Walking down the same street for the third time, Carlos heard a feminine voice shouting the name of his crew. He turned his head to see a young girl with curly black hair standing on a chair. 'Perfect, more talking to do...' He thought to himself as he took a deep breath and walked towards her. He took off his hood, letting his wild brown hair go nuts. "Miss, miss!" He called towards the girl, waving his hand to make her calm down. "Calm down please, I'm a member of the Hooded Knights" He said as he reached her, "Lieutenant Carlos Vivo at your service" He said, reaching for a handshake.

He took a moment to examine the girl. She was attractive, no doubt there, and young as well. She wasn't wearing a marine uniform, but he wasn't wearing one either as a part of his vacation, so he couldn't determine who she was by her outfit, he'll just have to find out. "So, what business do you have with the knights?" He asked politely.

"So you're a marine! Excellent, allow me to be the first member to welcome you aboard!" Carlos said, and then immediately regretted it since there was no board to welcome her to. Her strong handshake took him by surprise, since she didn't seem like the formal type, but it was a good surprise.

Now that he had company, he knew he had to find the bar, so he won't show his complete lack of navigation skills right on. He glanced around, looking for the bar he saw before, but there was no sign of it.
"This is kinda awkward but..." He said as he turned his head back to Echo, but before he finished his sentence, he noticed the bar right behind her, unbelievable! "There it is!" He said, failing to maintain his relief. "I mean Darnel is over there, in the bar" He said, pointing at the small bar in which he saw Darnel and the others earlier.

He tried to glance through the window, to see how drunk Darnel and Mail were, but couldn't spot them. He knew Darnel well, and the combination of beer and female company could end up in a serious law prosecutions if he wasn't careful enough. The only constant in Darnel's behavior was his approach to women. He usually managed to keep it in, but he probably had plenty of beer by now. And so, before he entered the bar, Carlos turned to face Echo once again. "Listen..." He said, trying to find the best words for the job. "Captain Darnel probably had a few alcohol servings by now, and I don't want you to prejudge him or anything, but he can be quite a womanizer even when he is sober, so try not to lose any clothing or show anything special before we see how drunk he really is ok?" He said, holding the blush away from his cheeks. 'Great way to welcome her to the crew idiot... FIX IT' He thought, mentally punching himself. "But he really is a nice guy, you couldn't ask for a better captain" he added, trying to minimize the damages.

Carlos raised his eyebrows at the sight of the teen marine turning into a young girl, he could never comprehend devil fruit logic that well. "And you'd think that after so much time with Darnel I'll get used to devil fruit powers, go figure..." Carlos mumbled. 'Do they even let 7 year olds into bars thee days?' He thought as he examined Echo once again, this time out of simple curiosity. "Ladies first... I mean girls firs.... women firs... Yea we should enter now" He said, confusing himself in the attempt to make a clumsy joke. He gestured to the entrance, inviting Echo to get in. He'll have to find Darnel inside the bar, but it shouldn't be that difficult, after all, he was hanging with a 15 year old cyborg and a Kuja amazon with a giant snake curling around her.

Darnel was happy to finally see sleepy again "Hey fist mate. Where have you been I have special training for you, Carlos. The new hooded Justice is almost complete and I want you to be the first to see it old friend. I know how the lost of the first one affected you. I actually have new ideas for some features I wanted us to look over. Everyone your training will be to make make one new technique three days from now." Darnel didn't noticed the 7 year old girl beside him mostly because they simply overtowered her. It was difficult seeing her when all men were taller than her.

Carlos smiled awkwardly as Echo grew back to her normal form in front of the entire crew, but he let her get along with her formal speech. "Nice start" He whispered after she finished her speech. By blasting Darnel with facts, she pretty much secured herself a respected position, at least for now.

The news of a new ship were both good and bad. It made Carlos happy that he could finally sail again, but replacing the Hooded Justice wasn't easy for him. "That's great news captain, can't wait to see it!" Carlos said with a grin, choosing to let the filled side of the glass to affect him. He set down next to the crew, and signaled the barman for a simple beer, everyone was having a drink so he should too.

He then turned on his stool to watch Echo and Darnel shake hands. "I met her in the street, she seemed quite enthusiastic, obviously a great addition to the crew captain" Carlos said, trying to help Echo out a bit.

Darnel saw surprised seeing a full woman appeared right in front of him. He took her hand in his hand plantung a gentle kiss on hers "Its a pleasure. Welcome to crew. Come on have a drink with us. Pull up a seat." Today was a bit of a turnout almost four new recruits and a their new ship was being built. Darnel was enjoying life. "Hey miss echo please meet my son, Mail." Darnel started calling out for mail so he could meet this marine female. He could use a female companion that wasn't a pirate or half naked all the time.

Everything was so dizzying; giants, lots of people, and now people with strange powers. Was this the result of a devil fruit, that Izlend had been warned about back in basic training? He didn't know what else it could be. Even the captain seemed to have some strange abilities. Why was everyone so strange on this crew? Izlend couldn't wrap his head around it all.

The moment Mail walked in the door Izlend was all over him. He was a metal man, and Izlend hadn't seen anything like it. Izlend began poking and prodding the cyborg. He was by far the most interesting thing in the room, at least to Izlend. Izlends eyes lit up before he spoke to Mail frantically. "You're a mecha-man! How do you work? Why did you get robot parts? Where can I soooommmm..." before he could finish his question he was interrupted by the first-mate of the crew who had a child with him.

Huh she looks to be about the age I really am. Izlend thought to himself. She looked like she was rich, maybe even prim and proper. Well that was despite her clothing, that looked rather baggy. Then in an instant she filled out the clothes rather well. She aged from seven to seventeen. Izlend's eyes widened. She was just like him, well kind of. He was aged from seven to fifteen by a marine doctor. Blinking, while staring at the woman and her powers, Izlend clutched his chest. The painful memories from his transformation all began to flood back into his mind. Since he was aged forward before having lived the time, his body was weakened to literally skin and bones.

Shaking off the memory, Izlend rushed over to the woman joining the crew. The skinny, brown haired, blue eyed teen knocked Darnel away from the girl. He had a bad experience with a ranking officer taking advantage of a female recruit. Crossing his arms, Izlend glared at Darnel for a moment. It was a short moment before Izlend took the same hand Darnel and previously had and shook it. "Nice to meet you. Well someone that's the same age as me, well even though I'm nine...well technically seventeen....uh, yeah...you kind of are around the same age as me either way...Oh yeah...and I'm Izlend Namikaze, it's nice to meet you...like I already said..." Izlend said awkwardly stumbling over his words.

Izlend didn't know what was worse. The fact that he had just blown his introductions to the new girl, or that he had just knocked a high ranking officer out of his way while doing so. Not to mention he did both in front of what appeared to be the entire crew. All Izlend knew to do at this point, was scratch the back of his head.

Mail walked over to Izlend and picked him up...Then proceeded to shake the ever loving piss out of him. Holding him by his shirt Mail spoke "First of all you don't ask me how I got my robotics. Secondly you don't push my father and our captain like that. Third if you break rule one or two again I'll personally tie you to the anchor and make sure it drops into the ocean. Got it?" Mail asked.

Izlend started down Mail, with only anger in his eyes. "Psh like a punk like you could take me. I though you being a metal-man was cool and all, but now I see you're just a punk." Izlend said sticking his tongue out childishly. "So now if you don't want to be strapped to the ship as a figure head, you had better put me down!" Izlend threatened with little to no way to back it up.

All of the sudden a smile spread across Izlend's face. He seen something that may just save him. With the two being so close, Izlend was able to grab anything that Mail had on his body. Grabbing the hilt of Mail's katana, Izlend held the point of it to Mail's chest. "So are you going to let go of me? Izlend said poking the sword into Mail's chest.

As the blade came into contact with Mail's chest the blade broke on contact. A feeling of doom spread as the fires of hell looked to be in Mail's eyes "THAT'S IT! THE KID DIES!" Mail yelled pulling his fist back going to hit Izlend full force in the skull.

"Shockwave Rush!" a voice was heard and Izlend disappeared from his position and reappared to a position a few meters away from Mail, with Ferdinard next to him. Ferdinard was grabbing Izlend from the chest and he was staring towards Mail with a smile on his face. His eyes could not be seen. Apparently, they were hiding behind his sunglasses.

"You two should not be fighting together! You are comrades... Right? Fahahahahahahaha!" Ferdinard said, as he stopped grabbing Izlend and he continued speaking "You should make friends with each other instead of attacking each other! Fahahahahahaha!". Ferdinard had just saved his new comrade and he finally made his appearance and a slight portion of his skills noticeable to the crew...

Ashley didn't like being ignored by Darnel & Izlend. She could forgive Darnel Sama but she couldn't forgive some newbie.

Ashley saw Carlos & Echo arrive. Ashley waved at Carlos
"Hey there buddy how ya doing? Oh whos this?"
Ashley walked up to Echo and extended a friendly handshake.
"Well hello there Echo it's a pleasure to meetcha Im Ashley Hisanyaiba Welcome aboard!"

Sharpfang also hisses his approval.

Suddenly Ashley saw a strange man rush over to Izlend and grab him by the shirt. She did not know Ferdinard or remember him at least but she decided to do nothing. Ashley didnt really care about people who ignore her friend ship.

Darnel was furious to see his two sons fighting. He walked toward Feridard who was holding Izland. He took out his handcuffs and bounded them together by Mail's right arm to Izland's left arm. Now they can beat each other senseless if they wanted or get along like brothers. Either way they were stuck together until they learn how to get along. "I have had it you two. I'm not releasing those cuffs until you two learn how to get along. You two are marines and are suppose to set an example for the citizens of the world. All eyes are on you two to act responsiblity, and I will not allow you to tarnish the name of the hooded knight brats."

Carlos released a rolling laughter as he watched his crew mates get along, they were a funny bunch. "Nice to see you too Ashley" Carlos answered, lifting his glass of beer before gulping down another swig. There were a few people around that Carlos didn't know, but he figured he'll get to know them sooner or later, so there was no point in worrying about it right now. "Ha, tough love it is" Carlos noted when Darnel cuffed Mail and another marine he didn't know together.

He took another swig of beer, it didn't taste so good since he wasn't a bug fan of alcohol, but it was a cold drink and that's all that mattered. "So captain, what are the plans until the ship is done?" Carlos asked, hoping to occupy himself with something other than drinking in a bar or fighting random thieves in the streets.

Ashley walked over to Carlos and patted him on the Shoulder. "Enjopying your vaction Carlos? I dont get to see enough of you these days =("

Ashley quitely snuck up behing Echo with her Huntress instinct's. Her Long Arm's wrapped around Echo's chest as Ashley Hugged her Back and giggled excitedly. "Mohahahah I Gotcha Echo!"

Ashley couldnt help herself she did look like a cute little kid after all.

Sharpfang started to feel a little dizzy from seeing so many people. He has a confused look on his face.
Turning his head towards Mail in snake language he said.
"Ssss Wheresss DIds alls these peoplesss comessss fromsss? Humansss sspopinsss outa the woodss workss."

Izlend didn't know what had happened. One moment, he was about to take a punch, then he was in the arms of someone else, and now; he was handcuffed to the cyborg that had just tried to kill him. This was all so very confusing. Keeping his free hand on his rifle Izlend made a mental note; not to go for the chest. His best beat would most likely be Mail's head; even if it didn't kill him, it'd sure as hell give him a headache.


"Oh this is not going to end well..." Izlend moaned looking at his arm than at Mail's.

Ashley pouted in a joking manner.
"Dang Echo your Hecka slippery hehehe. But I do not give up so easily hehehe!"

Useing Soru Ashley next to the left side of Echo while she used her.

"Hair Blind!" lengthening her blond hair and manipulating Ashley attempted to gently wrap her blond hair around Echo's body. "Oh.... I think I gotcha this time =)."

For some reason Ashley forgot about wha was going on around her Echo reminded her of her little sister back at Amazon Lilly.