Azumi Kael, road to victory. Little garden ark (to the Jurassic period)

Fei ran in a straight motion, her arm was killing her, but at least this was similar training to back home, so nothing new. As Fei ran trying to keep up with Azumi, she realised she was severely lacking in one thing. Consistent non stop speed. She had less stamina then she first realized. How could this be? As Fei ran she began to realise the flaw in the fundamentals of her style. It involved great reflex speed, but never this type of running and stamina. Fei needed to try and incorporate this new principle into her own style. Fei began dashing faster, this time, slipping and sliding past trees. This was now incorporating long distance running with Taihenjutsu.

Azumi was facing a challenge of her own, man, running on sand is difficult... you dont notice it when you run on dirt of pavement but kicking the ground properly is pretty hard, whats Fei doing that Im not? her feet dug in to the sand when she stepped, and shifted her body in a way that was slowing her down, was Fei using different footwork? or were her feet just moving that much faster than hers? Despite these thoughts she wasn't bothered, in fact she was happy to be training with another person, how many months, no, years had it been since she ran with instead of at or from someone? "this sand isnt any good..." she said trying to keep pace "oh well" pushing off the sand Azumi started to run oddly, kicking off a tree to another tree, bouncing and darting till she was keeping pace with Fei again, running with parkour. Leave it to Azumi to find a simple but physically exhausting solution to a very common problem.

Fei yelled as she slid across the ground and ran feverously "HOW MUCH LONGER... huff ... DO WE...huff.... HAVE TO GO?!!!!!" Fei was dashing and leapt over a horizontal log which was in front of her. Fei landed and immediately grabbed hold of a branch nearby and used it as leverage to vault herself further along.

Azumi looked behind her, she was sweating but seemed happy "hmm? are you tired? we can stop when ever, I just got exited because I havent been running in a while" she said between pants of breath, her powerful muscles proving formidable as they kicked her forward, she didnt own the skills Fei did, not by a long shot but her body had been pushed, and trained day in and day out for nearly seventeen years, there was no doubt that if Fei wanted, she could beat this girl, easily, but Azumi hadn't realized that though endless, painful training she had honed her body in to a testament of human beings undeniable potential to surpass their genetic limitations. She skid to a halt though the sand, burring her feet in the ground in the process, her hands on her knees, gasping a bit, runners high overtaking her "hehe, when I was a kid I had to do like, fifty laps around the island a day for each meal" she said catching her breath

Fei again sighed as she pushed herself to trudge foward "50 laps? You really arent human are you?" Fei was about to keel over before holding on to a tree. Fei at this point cursed her weakness, back home on Xing Shi she was considered a prodigy. Her martial art made her stronger than anyone. Yet, on the day she lost to Avis Ridley, on that wretched day she was exiled from Xing Shi by the marines. She knew in her heart she was lacking. Fei huffed and grit her teeth. Who the fuck did these people think she was? Fei knew who she was , she was Fei Wu Shang. She was the one who defeated many kenpo masters on dojo island. She was the one who defeated her father, a powerful man and ascended to the throne. There was no way in hell she was going to be looked down on. NOt ever again. Fei looked to Azumi "Ill run.... the whole 50 laps..... let us continue!!!!!" Fei began trudging with her feet, feeling her shoulder pain and her toes aching.

The man grunted and pulled the nets filled with fish and other sea animals back to the beach and towards the ship, having wasted no time after landing on Little Garden to find food for his captain and himself. He had thought of venturing into the dense forest and greenery but that would just leave his captain defenseless since she was still recovering from all of the substantial injuries she had received back in Arabasta. It still made his blood boil but kept that off his mind as he boarded the ship and threw the two full nets over, landing with a hard thud on deck before picking them up again and going to put the fish in storage. He only left some out for the cooking and while everything was set he went into the captain's quarters to see if his captain was awake.

"Hey, Delia?" he called out carefully while slowly opening the door and entering, a frown etching his features as he noticed the scene before him. Delia Clearwater Bardos, also known as "Crimson Snow" was was right now trying to fight off of getting worse and eventually falling into a coma. There was so little that could provoke that and yet she kept on being strong, almost all of her body being wrapped in bandages safe for her face and parts of her legs. Her tomboy short hair was wet with perspiration and the captain's breathing was coming out in puffs. This just made the man grimace and go over to her still body while running a hand softly through her hair.

"We'll find someone to help you soon enough, in the meantime you'll eat and rest," he said with a serious and worried tone before pulling away and going into the kitchen so he could start preparing a big meal.

~o~

Sophie yawned and gritted her teeth as she grunted and tore off a piece of meat from the leg she was holding with her mouth and chewed loudly. She blinked and heard a low growl beside her before smirking and throwing another piece of meat into the air, only for the big feline to swiftly catch it in its jaw and started to chew vigorously.

It had been a while since she left the new world, Punk Hazard to be precise, and she had never imagined that Paws would follow her back across. It didn't really matter to her but having a hunting companion made it easier for her to gather up food before she left. It had been the big white owl with the message from her husband that made her come back or if not she would've stayed there longer to train. "Damn girl going off and getting herself in trouble," she muttered while gulping down her meat and looking back at the cat. "I wonder if you had any trouble worrying about family and stuff like that," she said with a smirk then chuckle as the cat just tilted its head before she took a swig of her last bottle of brandy.

Fei was almost done with her running and other workouts for the week. She had trained rigorously along side Azumi when Azumi wasn't busy with her dinosaur fights. She had toned her body, but not extremely, this wasnt the sort of thing you could accomplish over the matter of mere weeks. Fei continued punching the tree and now able to do it more swiftly. Her stamina was steadily getting better as she had adapted to her training mode more fluidly. Fei finally sat down to medidate , she wasnt far from her promised duel with the big guy. Fei was now visualize her opponent clearly. His movements, his style, she was imagining her battle and what she was going to do next.

[[Near Clearwaters ship]]

A small ship made way along side the vessel of Captain Clearwater. There were two men, both with Anubis pirate marks on their back. One of them yelled "Permission to come aboard?!! Is this captain Clearwaters ship?"

[Barius and Delia]

Just as he was done with preparing the fish and crawfish for the soup he was making his captain Barius blinked and looked up when he heard voices near the ship. He quickly let down the utensils and stormed out of the kitchen, taking his sword and having it ready as he carefully went and looked over the edge of the ship. His eyes widened when he noticed the familiar marks on the pirates' backs and sighed in relief as he nodded.

"Permission granted! This is captain Clearwater's ship!" he answered back loudly so the other's could hear and led down the rope ladder so he wouldn't have to open the entrance. "I suggest you keep your voices down when up here, the captain...is in very critical condition," he said in a serious but firm tone as he waited for the other's to come up.

[Sophie]

The woman yawned and blinked as she noticed her half empty bottle of brandy and shrugged, putting it away after giving some to Paws and then catching some breeze that made her small vessel faster. "At this rate we'll be there tomorrow Paws, so don't eat all of the provisions yet...we'll have plenty in Little Garden though and we can make use of the time training and taking care of my little sister," Sophie said with a smirk while the feline just growled playfully.

Durring the week she had been training with Fei Azumi had engaged in two fights with dinosaurs

-flashback 1-

Azumi had fought, trained, recovered, fought, trained, recovered and been injured so many times already just on this island alone, she had killed to eat and fought to live, fled from those she wasn’t ready to face and faced those she could, she was already beginning to live like a Jurassic predator, and her body was growing stronger to match the demand. This was real training, more real than any dojo or gym or arena shed ever been to, the purest fighting in nature, the first ever tournament of survival suited her perfectly. Having learned to eat, sleep, and heal her injuries while staying alert and ever vigilant shed also been watching the dinosar’s battles from afar, studying their techniques and battles, she understood the jurrasic martial art of nature now a bit better, and was in a field practicing dashing as the dinosaurs did, explosively and suddenly. It was while doing this that Azumi would have her first decisively won victory.
In dashing around, carefully trying out ground kicking techniques for the first time Azumi was reminded of her first training in the kungfu principle of fa jin, or explosive force, though it was ground kicking the dashing involved her entire body, stringing muscular tension down her anatomy to cause a spike of force at the feet, the result was quite impressive, her acceleration to her top running speed was becoming easier and easier, and much more rapid with each attempt. Being no stranger to explosive force she was taking to the jurrasic ground kicking techniques naturaly. Her movements were somewhat similar to the Ornithomimosaurs she had fought a couple days ago, an “Ornithomimosaurs kata” was slowly developing mimicking its dashing style.
In the midst of her training Azumi tripped over something and stumbled a bit, she turned around to look at what shed fallen over “uh-oh… that’s a nest” she said as a new creature roared down at her, slightly larger than the Ornithomimosaurs, also bipedal with smaller arms and a very large, thick dome shaped scull on its head, the largest of its species, the first pre-historic ram, Pachycephalosaurus was aggravated with her. Jumping back quickly the creature charged forward, at a slightly slower speed than the last but it was attacking head on, literally! Aiming to crush her ribs with its ten inch thick scull. In those fleeing seconds Azumi did it, a true jurrasic dash, she felt her body become lighter as it zoomed away from the oncoming attack, she wasn’t even sure what had happened as she landed a distance from the tree the creature’s head had collided with. Her eyes widened, her hands up to shoulder level. “huh, so that’s how its done…” While the beast was recovering from being stunned from the tree, Azumi waited no time and dashed closer to it launching an explosive volley of strikes, strait right punch, sweeping left knee, left high kick, series of jabs, all directed to the beast’s side, pushing it back and finally over a distance away, laid out and defeated.
Standing over it Azumi felt a bit of regret over attacking such a weaker opponent, “hmm, I guess I can eat something else tonight, sorry about the nest” she said simply, leaping away, enjoying the luxury of actually being able to spare an opponent for the first time on the island of carnage. “I didn’t get hit at all… time to find a new opponent” she said jumping away in to the trees.

-Flashback two-

After defeating the hard headed dinosaur so easily Azumi desired a greater challenge, it had been on her mind to pick a fight with a Pterodactyl for some time now, but shed been unsure of how to do it best. Watching a lone winged dinosaur pass overhead Azumi chose a very simple approach, kicking up a good solid baseball sized rock she simply wound up and threw it upwards, using the powerful force of her arms to launch it a great distance in to the air toward the Pterodactyl overhead. Though the stone was headed for it, the creature simply veered ever so slightly, the rock missing it entirely, Azumi thought it was going to leave when suddenly it turned back around, gathering speed, before she could think to dash aside the creatures powerful talons grasped her forearms and she was lifted off her feet! Unable to see the ground Azumi wasn’t sure how high up she was when suddenly thick tree branches struck the back of her head and shoulders, sending powerful surges of pain through her before she finally began to fall, her body smashing against branches and sticks for a freefalling distance, splintered wood breaking over her body rapidly, with all the force of being stomped on by a large group of people. In the pain and haze of falling Azumi grabed ahold of one of the branches and stopped short of a fall in to jagged rocks, gasping and bleeding over one of her eyes. She sputtered and tried to get her bearings damn… flying sure is a fantastic ability, to high up for me to strike, and it can perform attacks like this, how can I begin to fight that? The creature wasn’t far away now, it dove down after here, mouth open, Azumi reacted quickly now, sweeping under the branch to jump off a safe distance from the rocks, where was she now? Stupid bird. She didn’t have to look long however because the creature was already circling overhead again. “Alright, lets go!” As to came downward Azumis leg rose up to her chest, an upward kick bit with a single beat of its wings the creature flew just out or range jumping? As it passed her the dinosaur lowered its claws sweeping across her back digging in to her, knocked forward with agony as the creature flew back Azumi instinctively launched a hook as she fell but again the creature bated its wings and was once again an inch away for a smaller dinosaur it sure has some strong little talons… I guess the only way to fight it is counter attack for now, if only I could get to its level Turning on the breeze again Azumi had to stomp down hard to recover her footing in time, in a fleeting moment Azumi leapt as high as her legs could carry her, finally above the creature, knowing it couldn’t veer like before. As she fell Azumi extended her leg to drop kick the creatures spine, but it performed an areal maneuver again! Tucking its wings in it barrel rolled over to the side of her kick, then opening its wings knocked her off course and granted on to her wrist with its talons, throwing her in to a tree trunk face first as it flew by.
Azumi was just about seeing stars now, an impact like that had been enough to cause her brain to shake inside her scull. She felt herself skid down the tree a ways and finally slump against the ground. The pre-historic flying beast circled overhead like a vulture, as if waiting for a ten count. After a few minutes of stun silence Azumi punched against the tree, jolting her backward to her feet, her head was bleeding over her face now, a red portative to the rage mounting within her. “Fucking bird… alright, I getcha, this time Ill come to you!” Taking a few steps back Azumi took off in to a run and leapt in to the tree grabbing on to a branch and hooking herself up on to it, closer to the creature, then leaping full on at it, aiming to catch it in her arms. A futile effort though it was, as the creature had only to shift its flight slightly to move out of harms way, as it inched left Azumi smiled gotcha now as the creature veered left Azumi extended her arm and grabbed a branch to her side, pulling herself toward it she was able to jump directly in to its way the creature never saw the uppercut to the stomach coming. Finnaly knocked out of the sky it fell flailing and screeching in the air as Azumi landed nearby as I expected, fast but britle she thought while charging forward tward it, but as it recovered to its feet it swept its wing in to her path and knocked her back, a deep red mar across her eyeline, blinded temporarily from the shock she was unable to prevent the beast from taking to the air again, when she opened her eyes she saw it flying away erratically “oh no you don’t!” she bursted, enraged from being knocked around so many times she bounded up to a branch, swinging to another then jumping off it with superior gymnastic skill, summersaulting the creature tried to fly to the side of her fall but she broke the summersault in time to land a rotating axe kick to its head, grounding it for good, all the force of the rotation, the fall, the swing of her leg and her bodies weight and muscle colliding with the fragile scull..
Azumi landed with a louder thud than her opponent did, next time shed look where she was jumping, the floor was more solid than it felt under her feet. Going hazy a bit Azumi stumbled over to the defeated dinosaur “pssht… down in two hits, pathetic….” She said, in spite of the fact that such a tiny creature had nearly knocked her unconscious and had dished out the worst beating yet. “I bet this tastes like chicken” she said to herself, suddenly laughing rather hysterically at her own joke, totally punch drunk. “heheh… chicken” stumbling back to her camp dragging the two dinosaurs shed fought and beaten that day Azumi pulled off her dirty cloths and bandages and fell in to the waterfall pool, the cold water stinging her injuries slightly, but washing the blood, twigs, leaves, tree bark, dirt, and sweat off her battered body, her adrenal flow slowing her bleeding to a trickle, thowing her head back and panting Azumi felt her head, the actual cut was rather small, it had only bled a lot. The rest of her injures were quite minor accept for the talon marks on her back, those had been pretty painful. Azumi was glad she had braught a fist aide kit, even if she didn’t really know how to use it. Slumping very gingerly back against a stone on the edge of the pool Azumi caught her breath and let the cold water ease some of the swelling on the areas the tree branches had struck her, the dead dinosaurs of the day, winged and hard headed were in a pile by the campfire.
She didn’t feel to bad really, just exhausted from another day in the Jurassic period. “this is pretty difficult….” She said after a while “Ive never had training like this before, suddenly after being dropped by a Pterodactyl, bitten by a saber-toothed tiger, clawed, cut, tail whipped and knocked senseless by dinosaurs I don’t even know the names of the punch of a weigh time fighter dosen’t quite seem as scary… hmhmhmh… I hope my back dosent need stiches… that would be a pain for later fights, especially if they got re-opened… ah crap Im actualy saying all this stuff instead of thinking it… my brains must be rattled” she got out of the water and checked her pupils in the pool “hmm… no, same size, no concussion” Any other woman in the world would have been a bit reserved when it came to bathing outdoors but as a figher Azumi both didn’t know better and didn’t care, finnaly she examined her injures, nothing to major at all accept some gauze on her back, dressed again and with freshly dressed injuries Azumi decided to set to work on the dinosaurs, at leist there would be plenty to eat, and enough left over to keep predators from the camp for a couple nights at least.

[[Clearwaters ship]]
The pirates tip toed onto the ship, trying to make sure they didn't disturb Clearwater in her cabin. The pirate then spoke to Barius "We have received a call from Commander Best, he has received express word from Anubis sama that you and Miss Clearwater are to be assisted in any way possible... Please dock on the island, we have provisions and medicine should you need it..."

[[Feis Camp]]
Fei Wu Shang got up and went back to the tree to work on her punches, the tree seemed to have dented. This training was already paying off. Fei admired Azumis ability, she had fought dinosaurs and had become even more stronger than she could have imagined. Fei had to respect that power. But, Fei could not follow her style. Fei knew her styles weakness, it was that her body was not honed. But over this time she had grown, she had run, and trained her body to the brim. Instant results werent going to happen yet, but she intended to continue this training. She also had that duel to think off, in about a few days or so.

[Barius and Delia]

"The only thing we need right now is a doctor that can help her with the more...serious wounds on her body that I couldn't tend to. She is already bandaged and materials aren't the matter since we had supplied the ship just before the Arabasta incident," he explained to the pirate as he took a deep breath and opened the door to the captain's quarters so they could take a look. "And right now...she is in too critical condition to be moved right now. It would be dangerous," he explained while frowning at the sight of his captain.

He then turned to the two and sighed. "Is there any way to bring a doctor back here? If she recovers even the tiniest bit more she'd be able to be moved if needed so she can get tended. I just want her to get well...I...I can't lose her," he said with an almost pleading tone as he tried to keep his composure. He was not going to start showing weakness in front of people, it wasn't good for the captain's right hand man.

Victor 'Bluebeard Yurvel, was a number of things, mostly on the lines of mercenary, former marine, swordsman, and buissness concious brute, but he was unfortunetly, not a man with a map at hand or a keen knowledge of island layouts, and therefore, has been wondering aimlessly around Little Garden, unti his sudden accidental discovery, yet an educated aacident as he assumed that traveling un one straight direction would lead him to the shore eventually, and had found The Clearwater ship.
Victor scratched his bushy beard that caused his namesake and frowned in suprise as he noted; "By the flag design, it's safe to say this is not an Anubis ship. Allied perhaps? Or maybe just incredibly oppurtunistic and also came for some dinosaur meat." though kept quite as he grinned parentaly at Widdles the manticore yawning into conciousness from his long comfortble slumber on the mercenary's shoulder, stroking it's mane softly and whispering kindly; "Sorry to wake you, my lovely litte bundle of fun, but I think daddy has found a ship to go back to the silly man who wanted some dinosaur meat.", to which the diminutive mammal squeaked; "Home time!"
Victor chuckled warmly before returning to his usual serious demeanour and bellowing over to the Clearwater Ship; "Any aboard? I am unfamiliar with your flag, but I know for certain you are not Anubis correct? Any chance of some dealings of a sort?", entirely unaware of who was aboard and their current situation, thinking only of a chance of a ferry back to his current employer.

[Barius and Delia]

"What is it now?!" Barius whispered harshly as he listened to the shouting outside, cursing his luck before looking at the two pirates. "If you guys value your skin still attached to your body I suggest you don't do any sort of funny business while I take care of this," he growled out before dashing to the deck again and peering over it with a frown. "and what kind of dealings is it that you are looking for?" he called out before jumping down and landing with a loud thud on the sand before narrowing his eyes. "And I suggest you keep your voice down, there is sick among this ship that needs to be cared for," he added with a serious tone as he took off his cowboy hat and scratched his head.

[Sophie]

The woman was woken up from her deep slumber by a paw swiping at her shirt, groaning and swatting it away as she rolled her head back forward and yawned as she woke up. "Are we here?" she asked drowsily while wiping her eyes. The feline just growled and looked to where the island was now visible, a smirk appearing on her face as she fixed the sails and went faster. "This is it Paws, it's do or die!" she exclaimed with a laughter that would put anyone else's to shame. She was finally going to meet up with her husband and baby sister.

[[Fei]]

Fei was getting ready. She had her dirtied clothes, but it was clean due to the water and that she had washed them earlier.. She slowly entered under the waterfall completely naked. She wiped herself and all the dirt and sweat from her form. Feeling herself refreshed and purified, only some slight bruises. Nothing serious, just things of the past. She held her fist before her. This fist which had suffered losses and had experienced victories. She was going to evolve. There was all there was to that. She could feel her muscles flexing as she splashed the cold water onto face. She then stood directly under the waterfall to clean herself completely, gasping at how cold the water was. Her hair now wet and she let it cover her face. Her concentration was razor sharp. She left the waterfall and got dressed, drying herself up. She then walked towards the fated area. Where the duel would be.

[[Clearwaters ship]]

The two Anubis pirates then looked concerned "Someone else was here? Barius sama, while we have a duty to protect you and Delia sama, we cannot have intruders on this island who would threaten us.... let us deal with this!!" The two of them walked ahead to protect Barius and see who this new character was. They saw Victor and then began drawing their cutlasses "Who might you be?" the other one then paced "do you know whose island this is?"

Elsewhere, Azumi, who had little idea Fei was participating in a match was embarking on another of her own no more messing around with the smaller plant eaters, its high time I picked on a real predator, I have one all picked out too, quick and deadly, famous for its agility, the Jurassic pit fighter, the raptor! She knew Fei had already fought several of them, but she was more advanced than Azumi was, or at least had been when both arrived on the island. She didn’t have the kind of bone shattering techniques Fei did, so fighting the natural predator would be much more difficult for a grappler like herself, shed need to pick a fight with a solitary one though, normally they hunted in groups and she wasn’t ready for that. Jumping though the trees was risky, the encounter a week ago with the hunter proved that. Instead Azumi decided to think of a way to have the fight come to her, after watching the dinosaurs very carefully, she came to understand the order of the islands nature, it didn’t take a genius to realize carnivores were attracted to meat, and fortunately Azumi wasn’t one.
Planting meat a distance from the camp Azumi sat in a nearby tree and waited, hours later to her dismay she found that raptors were far from scavengers, of which the Jurassic jungle floor had many uninteresting contenders. This approach was getting her nowhere as well. Finally Azumi decided to find and observe a group of them and divert the attention of a straggler. After about a two days worth of searching she at last accomplished her goal. Fortunately for her it wasn’t long before a nearby battle between dinosaurs diverted the attention of the majority of the raptors in the group she had been watching. This is crazy… a real Jurassic killing machine for the first time, heh, what else is new? If you don’t push yourself youll never get stronger With out overthinking it Azumi leapt skillfully from the tree branch, her legs and arms tucked together and landed crouched on the floor a distance from the raptor, now alone. She got a good look at the creature, is powerful legs, its thick tail, its innumerable dagger like teeth, the hook like claws unlike even that of the tiger, its thick muscles cased in a mesh of scales, natures flexible heavy armor, surprisingly the creature was adorned with feathers, but it was a raptor all the same. Azumi felt her feet hit the round with a resonating thud, her arms outstretched, the time for thought had passed, the time for action already upon them, the raptor had a good look at her now as well, the mammal about its size, with its clawless hands and tail-less torso, its tiny mouth and its exposed skin, far softer than its own body, both thought the exact same thing in that instant, not a word, or a picture, simply a feeling, instinct, the gut feeling to move.
Leaping back a distance, but being sure the creature could still see her Azumi had to lure it away from its friends for now, after a few dashes and turns she decided that she had gone far enough now. Her heels skidding to a halt in a dry, sun soaked clearing she turned again to face the creature, a distance away charging forward, fangs bared, the creature obviously didn’t consider Azumi enugh of a threat to go for its companions, simply a second meal he had no interest in sharing with them. that’s it… nice and slow Ducking downward Azumi lunged in, the beast’s claws extending from its talons, lowering its head as Azumis body moved toward it, braced and ducking in a ground kicking burst of speed. Though it took an instant, the two fighters experienced it as though time had slowed to a crawl, Azumis fist inching toward the creatures jaw, and just when it looked as though the punch connected the creature veered its head sideways in a flash with its powerful neck muscles, Azumis arm rushing past the side of its head in a split second, her eyes widened, it had evaded the attack so skillfully, rocking its body to the side this creature wasn’t a pit fighter at all, it was built for speed and had a larger brain for split second decisions, this creature was more like a boxer. Moving in to exploit Azumis loss of footing the creature flanked to her left before checking in to her with its shoulder, sending her flying off to one side, rolling a distance before popping back on to her feet, in a ready stance, recovering quickly here didn’t do her much though, as when Azumi looked up the creature had jumped toward her, claws up aiming to tear in to her as it landed, lacking time to counter attack Azumi skillfully veered backward, landing she realized all to late.
Out-boxing… I’ve already lost control of the ring! Having fought against boxing before, Azumi was familiar with the idea of out-boxing, much like a raptor the out boxer relied on superior mental strategy, keeping their distance and avoiding staying in close for long, the creature had jumped back before jumping in again, and similarly seemed to be relying on smaller injures to wear its opponent down, Azumi was being lead, kept on the defensive so that her opponent could direct the flow of the fight. It looks brutal and stupid, but this dinosaur has finesse, its calculating… This time Azumi stepped in before the raptor could, but not surprisingly it hoped backwards on its hind legs hissing at her. Pivoting her hip on one foot Azumi arched a swift kick for the Raptor’s head while its footing was still off, but suddenly the creature spun its body allowing its feathered tail to collide strait up against her torso, exploiting a simple spin to both doge and counter attack while Azumi was leaning in to strike. The blow connected solidly and sent Azumi back across the field a far distance from the raptor, which was just the way the raptor wanted it. It hadn’t damaged her much, considering the tail was rather light among dinosaurs but the pain had stunned her long enough to lose control of the ring again, as the creature hopped sideways back and forth keeping its distance and throwing feint strikes with its jaw. Feint’s, counter punching, and footwork… shit this thing really is a boxer, now its even trying to confuse me, make me move first, so he’s a counter puncher and an out boxer; that’s pretty accomplished, I guess there’s only one way to respond. The rapors eyes widened at the stance his food had taken, its arms were held up, close to its body, covering the vital areas it had sought to snag on the neck or chest, it was moving around now with a pattern hed never seen before, its fists flied forward in a few strange jabbing and striking motions unique to humans, it had no word for what it saw, but any fighter would have recognized it, a boxing stance.
Azumi had only boxed a couple of times but thanks to her training she was more than failure with the stance and footwork “hmm? Is this all you can do? If your not coming in, Ill attack” moving in boxing form now Azumi dashed inward, stepping in hard and locking her hips down before delivering a skillful hard-punchers jab at the creature, who weaved to the side as before but recognizing that it could not use the tail whip at its range decided to snap at her neck from her now exposed right side. Azumi’s feet were still firmly planted on the ground this time, enabling her to lean back while retracting her arm in one fluid motion. This time however the beast was persistent, it began to snap vigorously at her again and again, the blade like fangs moving so violently and rapidly. Azumi began to roll her body to the left and right, weaving though the bite attacks and keeping a cool head, following the creature’s rhythm. hmmph, so much for mental strategy, it is a dinosaur after all Finally Azumi let fly a high speed hook to the creature’s advancing scull, landing her first blow to it since the fight began, since it was a left it wasn’t Azumis full power but it was more than enough to send the beast back reeling, shaking its head and sputtering as it slid backward on its feet, it hadn’t even seen the strike, and its instinct was taking over it. Azumi took the advantage, aiming to gain control of the ring and kept on advancing, aiming to land a powerful, ground kick powered uppercut to its chest, but Azumis blow ended up stopping with out any contact, as the pain from the hooked claw digging in to her side was overpowering. The beast had looked down to see her as its head was knocked back and swiped a claw just in time. Azumis eyes widened, as a warrior she didn’t cry out put the pain sent surges of sharp white hot agony down her entire body. Frantic her adrenaline barely managed to overcome the pain long enough to move, her fist raised itself and collided with the bird like hollow bones in its arm, snapping them inside its flesh. The creature cried out and tried to leap back but the hook lke claw only pulled Azumi forward Like hell Im letting you jump back! She knew if the creature was aloud to flee it would rally friends and Azumi would surely be done for. Turning her injured side back she pulled the creature forward on her abdominal muscles and used the leverage to launch a powerful barrage of punches. Lighting quick jabs connecting with the creatures chest then a powerful low hook crashing it to its side, the creature was being knocked around like a tether ball strung by its broken arm. While the creature was stunned Azumi started to roll her body back and forth, till its body swung back and forth with her, than began to launch powerful hooks to either side of it, left right left right, smashing it as hard as she could frantically. Suddenly the claw was dislodged and the pain stunned her long enugh for the creature bit in to her arm in a last ditch effort to survive, the fangs digging in to her, Azumi, fueled only by shear adrenaline and terror flung her arm downward, leading the creatures light, hollow boned body down with it before finally flinging it to the earth with all the force the tired arm could muster. A dust cloud flew around the creature as it landed, then silence. Azumi finally fell to her knees and then in to a ball, gasping and fighting back a scream, her torn and punctured flesh cried out when she would not. “who…” she finally began “who the hell whines when they win… no!” she punched the ground with her good arm and got to her feet “that fighter gave his life, with out so much as a whimper, no way Im gonna cry out now.” She slumped against a tree and tore her tiger skin clothing to make a primitive tunicate for her side and arm. When she was sure the bleeding had stopped she looked it, and was horrified. Dozens of raptors now stood before her, furious with instinct and blood lust.
There was no way to fight this many, she was going to run or die. Suddenly however the distant rumblings returned and through the canopy of the brush it came, the strongest enemy, the Jurassic champion, the t-rex, it’s head poking though the jungle was enough to divert all eyes away from Azumi. At the mere sight of the larger predator the raptors simply fled, not bothering to fight or even challenge the tyrannosaurus for even a second. Frozen in place Azumi witnessed the dinosaur trudge through the area, feeling the power in its every step, watching it pass till it too vanished behind the brush. “that was.. that was him alright, the trex…” she said with a sigh “I need to train more, fight larger dinosaurs, I need far more power if Im ever going to fight one of those…” finally she climbed up the tree she was backed in to carefully slip back to her camp un-noticed. With the first aid kit salvaged from the shipwreck earlier she managed to dress her wounds, though it was her first time giving herself stiches, necessity was a fast teacher. When it was done she whent back for the raptors carcass and fashioned new clothing from it, a scaly armor like outfit with feathers, enough to cover her injuries for now.
She saw that Fei had gone off somewhere, but didn’t think much of it, instead she relaxed and tried to understand all that happened, the fights here were so quick, so dangerous and brutal, it was nothing like karate island, this was real combat over in under a minute but to her it had felt like hours. Azumi began to feel very frustrated with herself “what I need, plain and simple is more power! I need a body that can withstand even more rigorous training!” she knew there were people who could defeat t rexes with single blows, and those who could sustain knives and bullets to the body and not be killed, but she had no idea how such power was possible. Tomarow she would train with her injures, and train harder than ever before, thoughts of the t rex filling her head as she recovered.

[Barius and Delia]

The man just nodded and eyed the stranger wearily before looking at the pirates once more. "I will be tending to the miss, I don't need more distractions," he simply said with a sigh before looking at the mercenary and frowned. "Whatever you need I cannot give at this moment. My captain is at the brink of...well I am not even going to go there. She needs intensive care and I must heed to it," and with that he climbed back up to the ship and landed with a soft thud so that it wouldn't disturb his captain.

Barius let out another sigh as he entered the kitchen and placed some soup into a bowl and going back into the captain's quarters. He placed the bowl on the side table and carefully, gently he moved Delia into an almost sitting position so she wouldn't choke on the soup. It made him cringe when she whimpered at the subtle movement, but it was necessary. He picked up the bowl and took some soup into the spoon, blew on it and then carefully fed the girl who gratefully took it all in.

[Sophie]

"FINALLY!" Sophie cried out as she took her things off the small vessel she had and used Flash to get to the edge of the beach, grinning when she noticed her sister's ship and glad she had landed there. Not far behind was her new pet growling and mewling at her paws getting wet from the ocean water and annoyingly shaking them dry before stepping on dry sand. The woman looked around and sighed as she smiled and straightened up before walking towards the ship.

She then stopped and blinked at the scene before her, wondering why two pirates and a mercenary were in front of her sister's ship. She sighed and shook her head before walking up towards them and saluting. "Mighty fine day for sailing now is it?" she said with a grin before smirking. "Dears, before you start something I suggest you take it somewhere away from my little sister's ship," she said with serious mirth before turning to the mercenary and nodding. "I can see by just looking at how you dress what you are, and these guys don't want you here," she said pointing to the pirates.

"Now, instead of causing trouble why don't you take my boat, it has some provisions and you won't have to resupply for a while. All right, now that that's settled why don't we go and see what my husband needs, and to say hello to my kid sis," she said with a laugh before dragging the two pirates and using geppo to get on the ship once more. She then looked over the deck and signaled for her pet and smiled. "Paws, you better keep a lookout for any stray dinos that come over here!" she said and grinned when the cat growled and started pacing around with her tail swishing back and forth.

[[Fei Wu Shang]]

She ducked below the trees and the vines and finally reached the clearing. In a distance Fei could see the volcano which was dormant in a distance. Little Garden was truly a sight to behold. The trees and jungle, mixed with the exotic prehistoric wildlife, made the place almost unreal. Still if Fei felt feelings of grand majesty or awe, she didnt let it show on her face. Instead she took a deep breath as finally there was a noise. Amongst the opposite jungle two trees parted to show the majestic triceratops marching foward towards Fei, the horns being the distinct feature of the creature. However, Fei felt no particular fear towards the creature, however, her feeling of sudden anxiety came as a result of the rider of the creature. It was Tonga, the man emitted a sort of killer aura that could be felt by Fei. He looked serious and ready, as if this sort of fight excited him more than anything else.The big man got off the triceratops and stood steady, he had his bone club latched to his back.If you could call it a club per say. It was certainly shaped like one. Tonga smiled widely "I see you made it, Fei Wu Shang 'The Calm Tempest'" Fei nearly chuckled but decided against it "somebody has gone snooping around bounty posters i suppose..." Tonga shook his head "It wasnt that difficult, you have quite the bounty on your head. It would seem the marines dont really like you running around freely" Fei sighed "Its because of marines that i found myself in this predicament, but enough talk about bounties and what not... if i win, i get my ship out of here yes?" Tonga nodded and then strecthed his arms "If i win however... you will come quietly and reveal your other acquaintance on this island....." Fei gritted her teeth and nodded, she could not drag Azumi into this, that girl was training so hard against dinosaurs, fighting deadly battles every week, it would be wrong of Fei to drag her into a world that she didnt know or even want a part of. Fei held up her palms , and shifted her left foot to the front. Tonga roared as a signal of the beggining of the match. It was very loud and echoed through Little Garden , disrupting birds and smaller animals. Even Fei was taken aback by how loud it was, but this wasnt the time to think of it, since Tonga was charging. For a big man, he could move incredibly fast, it must have been how he shifted his weight around his body. Fei held her palm up and slapped away Tongas first punch. As the shock of his punch being slapped away took over him, Tonga then felt his face being striked even harder punch that lifted the big man off his feet and sliding backwards. Tongas eyes widened in shock. How can such a small girl, produce that amount of power? Tonga stood up "I underestimated you Fei Wu Shang... you are every bit as dangerous as your bounty states you are..." Fei then clicked her tongue in annoyance "Just shut up and defend, the next one is for your stomach!!" Fei was instantly in front of Tonga, but Tonga knew the trick, she had slid across the ground to reach, Tonga had his elbows ready to block Feis punch, but the punch never came. Instead to the surprise of Tonga, it was a full on, driving kick into his gut which sent him spiraling into trees. Fei yelled as the kick was released "Taijutsu bone cracking tech, TIGER DRILL KICK!!!!!!"As Fei landed on her feet "The Wu Shang style shall no longer be uniformed.... as of now.. i declare it formless and ready for evolution of a different kind......" As the tree rustled and fell to the ground, Tonga stood up and cracked his neck "That kick..... was amazing.... i didnt know you even used kicks Fei Wu Shang..." Fei held up her stance, "Alot has changed over the last two weeks... come , let me show you....."

[[Aboard the Clearwater ship]]

The two pirates looked puzzled as the new person arrived, this time a woman. The two pirates sighed as they stood down "If this person takes the ladies offer and leaves we will not pursue further, due to the current condition of Clearwater sama......" the pirates backed off Victor for a bit.

[Barius, Sophie and Delia]

"He is just looking for a vessel to leave in, and I doubt my husband wants to move this ship with Delia how she is right now," the ex captain said with a chuckle as she took off her coat and hat, carefully opening the door to the captain's quarters and beckoning the two pirates to follow her (I did say she dragged them into the ship -__-). She had a small smile on her face only reserved for her loved ones, especially her dear sister, and placed her things on the side to get closer. "How is she faring Barius?" the woman quietly asked as she placed a hand over his shoulder, feeling him sag and sigh as he looked up with a tired expression.

"She's able to eat and her breathing is stabilized enough that it doesn't hurt her. Her having the ice Devil Fruit is a relief to say the least, makes the burns she suffered all over her body hurt less, and not to mention the broken bones in her hands, right leg, broken ribs...hell, I'm surprised her spine is intact. You should've seen her fight Sophie it was...brutal," he explained with an angered tone as he tried not to punch the first thing he laid eyes on...which was his captain herself.

His wife just sighed and gathered a chair to sit down next to him and leaned back, trying to think about something before blinking and looking back at the two Anubis pirates that were here with them. "Oi, you two. Do you have a doctor at your camp?" she asked with a serious tone as her eyes narrowed slightly. "If you do and have Den Den Mushis then call him here. My sister ain't moving and I doubt you'll leave us, or well her, alone. But she needs medical attention and quickly or Anubis can say goodbye to Delia," she said with a smirk. "I mean come on, how can I leave my sis with someone who doesn't even know how to treat a girl right! I thought a date was supposed to be in a restaurant with pretty lights, not some battlefield fighting for your lives," she deadpanned while chuckling.

Azumi had spent a few hours recovering, all the while turning over in her head the events that had happened after her last fight, sure, the t rex was far from invincible, it wasnt that much bigger than an elephant, its underbelly wasn't altogether that armored, its underbelly was devoid of the harder scales, but its weaknesses ment little to her, she would have to match its strengths. Most forms of competitive fighting had a weight class system, boxing for example had over sixteen weight classes. What weight class, then, would a six ton t rex be in? Azumi was about one hundred twenty five pounds herself, about a featherweight by boxing standards, no ordinary fighter would ever face something that much bigger unarmed, if she fought blow for blow they would be simply, crushed. Azumi, however, could never afford to be ordinary. She knew full well many fighters had accomplished what she planned on, defeating a t rex with bare hands, but Azumi knew that she would have to evolve completely beyond what she was now, more than just once, but several times, and shed have to do it fast.
Azumis body typically felt heavy, lethargic and tired after a fight, but something inside her had begun to change, her understanding had no words or explanation for it but her body was adjusting to the Jurassic lifestyle, fighting every day had honed her body to faster recoveries, thousands of years of evolution had served to make the human body weak and with out natural weapons like claws or fangs, and with out armor like scales or hides. Azumi had been peeling away those layers on this island, nature and fighting arts at war inside her, and the only surveyor was an exceptional existence, one that rejected its place on the food chain.
She was recovering faster, her body felt light, agile, it had begun to recover as soon as the fight had ended. Azumi had caught her breath while jogging back to the camp, recovered her heart rate while cooking the dinosaur meat, and begun replacing her lost blood as soon as shed eaten. With her accelerated recovery Azumis body was soon fully recovered after a few short hours, not a full day as before. Within another two hours she was once again straining at the traces.
Azumi looked at her hands, she had no idea how, and no idea why but they were different, she was already no longer the same girl who set foot first on this island, even if she still did have a long way to go. "how is this posible?... somehow, somehow my power is still rising, my body is recovering faster... if this keeps up..." her hands clenched in to perfect fists "I can beat him!" And just like that Azumi took off in a flash to train more vigorously

[[Fei Wu Shang]]

The battle raged on, Fei was moving fluidly and so far had avoided taking serious physical damage. Fei was now stepping more fluidly, the training was showing drastic results. She waved her fists at her opponent and brings her foot down. She then pulls both her hands back as Tonga got up gingerly to his feet and lumbered towards Fei as Fei then pressed both palms into the man with internal force, it didnt cause any outer damage, but it slammed his insides, rattling his body, Fei then muttered "T Rex Cannon....." Tonga grit his teeth together as he stumbled back, he was coughing out blood, that last strike felt like a bomb went off inside his body, clearly it was a technique combining nerve strikes and power blows. Fei then ran and slid past Tongas attempted strike, she jumped onto Tongas huge body and then another off his head and then dropped down, using the speed and velocity of the drop, she aimed a powerful kick off the top temple of his head, she then proclaimed as the attack struck down "GULLOITINE HEAD SMASH!!!" She then landed on her feet as Tonga stumbled and finally passed out from her attacks. It was clear who the victor was , it was Fei, without a shadow of a doubt. Even Fei was shocked that it had been a one sided victory. She sat down by a nearby tree and meditated on the fight, wondering when tonga would wake up.

[[On Clearwater ship]]
The two pirates calmed down and replied with urgency "Of course, we have a doctor and medical supplies, we will be able to provide any medical assistance you may require, especially if it is for Delia sama!!!! Please follow us!!" They returned and attached a wire to to Clearwaters ship, they began moving both ships to shore.

The more Azumi thought about it, the angrier she was becoming, shed seen Fei take on groups of raptors like it was nothing, and she barely manages to limp away from one, and only from the help of the Jurassic apex predator himself! Deep down Azumi hated her weakness, she had since childhood, she had suffered so long, pushed though limit after limit and yet she still felt the same childish frustration at every turn, the pity the t-rex had given her was as a taunting reminder of her doubts, echoing eternally in her head. Truth be told, Azumis raw physical strength was quite impressive for a fighter of her age and experience, but she suffered from excessive weightlifting syndrom unknowingly, and this began to come to a boil in the form of a much greater desire for extensive, unrealistically harsh training methods, he only issue was that she lacked an inventive enough mind to come up with many. The unmeetable desire for more power that had always been inside her surfaced and within minutes she found herself training harder than before despite her newly stitched injury. Giving little more than a grunt as the threads, clumsily sewn at best, strained painfully against her flesh as her legs beat with unhealthy fervor against the ground, running her hardest, no destination in mind, only a base feeling. Dashing at the trees she came upon one about the width of her waist, likely smaller and began striking it wildly, unlike before she was attacking with true jurrasic ferocity, punch after kick after punch like there was no tomorrow, finally crying out with genuine warriors anguish before leaning her entire body backward and slamming in to the solid yet pliable palm wood with her forehead, striking with all the muscles in her back neck and shoulders, not once but several times, till her forehead bled and leaked out over her eyes, mixing with the sweat, before finally the tree gave way, falling rather anticlimactically with Azumi standing over it, breathing heavily before she grabbed hold of the trunk and with a turn of her back tossed the young ex-palm tree in to the distance, gently crashing against the branches of smaller trees before resting on the ground. Azumi, now quite woozy from what she had just done fell forward on to her face, her eyes still burning with insatiable bravado and shear stubbornness. Finally, slamming her hands against the ground Azumi started to push up against it, falling in to push ups simply because her legs lacked the balance to stand. Time passed quickly as she bruned what little fuel her body would give, though her muscles cried out for her to rest, her mind would overwork them a thousand times before it was satisfied. Leaning backward she began to do a sort of hand stand, pushing up and down still, but with both feet facing strait upward, at this rate the stitches would burst and she would lose valuable blood, but she was to far lost in her fanatical spirit, and cursed with dangerously skewed self discipline to notice or indeed even care. Would she trade her life for the strongest body? Was there ever any doubt?

[[Fei Wu Shang]]

Fei was asking back after all that and was greeted with yelling and trees falling down. It didnt give Fei enough time to process what Tonga had told her, but before her she could clearly see something more terrible happening. Fei ran down to look for Azumi and found her on the ground, doing some sort of hand stand thing. Fei immediately ran towards her and pulled her up by force "ENOUGH AZUMI!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!!!!" Fei was literally stunned by this girls sheer need to destroy herself by doing all this training. Fei had met many types of martial artists before, even those who feel pleasure from training. But for this girl it wasnt just that, training was like breathing, it was like a drug that she was addicted to. This continous need to make herself more powerful, what was this single mindedness going to do to her body at this rate. Fei would hold her till she calmed down.

Azumi saw the ground leave her, but was in such an intoxicated state of what was a strange mixture of euforia and existential crisis that she failed to notice why until her blood covered face was infront of it, Azumi had never before been stopped from her training in her lifetime, it was a complicated experience for her, there had never been an 'enough' before, and she didn't like it. Even as a child training ended only for unconsciousness, the very concept that training might actually be anything bad for her body was outright absurd to her, it was imposible! Her eyes were clearly not focusing correctly, she was beaten severally from the raptor but moreso from her own training that Feis face didnt much come in to focus till after the words had registered in her head she might have said 'doing...? This is what I do! money, revenge, titles, achievements, food, rest, men, ambition, none of those things mater to me! none of them! The only thing that maters is to become stronger!' or that she simply didnt know anything else but instead words didnt come as easily. Instead, they came out difficult to hear, like a drink that had been shaken up "be-cm... stronger!" she had clearly overexerted herself as it appeared steam was rising from her breath but she was far to spent to fight much, with out to much time Azumi collapsed in to unconsciousness. The tree shed thrown a distance away coming in the veiw as she fell downward.

Fei finally heard no noise from Azumi. She looked to Azumis face which confirmed the silly girl was unconcious. Fei pulled Azumi back to the camp and tended to her wounds and restitched all the old wounds. Fei wasnt a master at first aid, but she knew the basics. After all she had been tending to her own wounds all these months. Fei looked to Azumis body and realised that to achieve a strong body, this girl must have sacrificed herself and all her being. It wasnt a easy thing to do, to sacrifice yourself to martial arts completely was something very few were capable of doing. Even Fei wasnt 100% to the Wu Shang style. She had wanted to be pirate queen some day and find One piece. It was a stupid childish notion but one that was hers and hers alone. Fei then lay Azumi down and brought some water to her, Fei didnt know what she should do. Maybe there was something she could do when Azumi woke up.

[Barius, Sophie and Delia]

"Someone has to stay here with the captain if you want the both of us coming along though," the woman said with a more serious tone as she looked back at her husband and nodded. "Wouldn't want someone or something getting on and doing harm to her now would we?" she added while using Flash to get off and land quietly on the sand.