(Serious) The Gibus Pirates: The Family Business

Montgomery clapped his hands at the speech and smiled. He was happy to see they had come up with a plan.

"Its nice to see you boys have a plan and I'd like to say I'll gladly offer you my help if need be to go through with your plans."

((Ok, I noticed that I messed up a prior timeskip when Terry was taken to the dungeon so here is where I fix it. Everything that happened to Terry ever since he woke up in prison happened in the morning, one day after the events of the thread so far. Now, I'm going to make a timeskip only for Al Montgomery and Lance, to get all of us to the same time. We're now in the morning after the day the Garuda Brothers arrived at the island, and all events will happen simultaneously from now on. Sorry for the complicated skip, I just needed to fix my prior mistake))

It was an early hour, the sun was still struggling to go over the horizon, and the Oasis Tavern was boiling with excitement. An hour after Al's and Kim's conversation the tavern was filled with Oasis Survivors who were willing to help take down the tyrant Garuda Brothers, forming a force of over 50 men, each armed with either a weapon or an ability. The men, who were now referred to as the Survivors' Army, including Lance Montgomery and Al, were gathering outside the Tavern, near the sand dune, where Kim was about to lay down the battle plan that him and Al formed as the leaders of the force. "This is it, Right now the Two-Faced Pirates are either sleeping next to the palace, or scattered around the bazaar. Either way, they are tired, giving us an edge" Kim explained. "We're going to divide into three groups. Group A will hold the bazaar and stop the scattered pirates from retreating to the palace area. Group B will hold down the Palace area and stop any pirates from getting in it, while Group C will storm the palace itself, facing the Garuda Brothers and their higher ranks" Kim explained. Al, Kim, Montgomery and Lance were all in group C. "I want you all to be as strong and willing as possible, for the sake of Krooka Island and it's people" Kim shouted, causing a wave of applause. Al kept silent as he stood next to Kim. It was his big day, he managed to get a large force to help him in his first goal: Take Down his brothers. He loaded and cocked his long shotgun, and fastened his old Gibus hat on his head. He then picked at a pocket watch he had strapped to his waists, it was almost time to attack.

"You're lying..." Jekyll hissed. he had no way of actually knowing it, but he hoped that Terry would really know where Jon was hiding. He reached for his robe pocket and pulled out a set of keys, before opening the cell that held the remaining prisoner who was cuffed by seastone. "You see? This guy lied to me about not eating a devil fruit, but as you can see by the effect of seastone on him, he clearly did" Jekyll explained, not noticing the effect the seastone had on Terry, he was quite dumb. "Now, you are about to see what happens to people who lie to me" Jekyll said before pulling his hand out of his pocket and fastening it around the prisoner's neck. The weakened prisoner could only twitch in place as life left his body, until he finally choked to death a minute later. Jekyll then turned to Terry, satisfied by his recent kill. "This is what happens to people who lie to me, and especially devil fruit users who walk around MY island!" Jekyll shouted at Terry's face, showering him with spit once more. "Now tell me what you know before I get REALLY angry".

Lance was preparing himself for the upcoming attack. The swordsman had both his swords sheathed at their sheaths and he calmed down before the time of the attack would come. He would have to control himself... If he did not, he could cause trouble to his allies. Apparently, Lance wanted to rush into the city so that he would search for the brothers and take them down in order to search for Victor. However, he knew that if he did so, he would cause trouble to the whole plan. As a result, after calming down, he waited for the rest of his allies to be prepared so that they would rush towards the city and take down the Garuda Brothers. An epic battle was about to start.

Terry watched as the huge guy killed the devil fruit user. Terry didnt bother looking away, but he really was not about to sell people out to appease this guy. He didnt even know who this person was, so it made sense to terry not to try to save someone who couldnt be saved. He would try to at least keep the nice lady and the nice man alive , even if he had to die doing so. "Why dont you stop talking... and kill me already, cause i dont know who the fuck your talking about!!!!!!"

With knowledge of a soon to be fight Montgomery chose this time to make some notes in a note book of his upon events in the world. He felt these would help him with information to give a few other people who paid him enough money. He could even use the information to gauge things that would wind up happening in the world. As he wrote it down he noticed the man in the gibus checking the time on his pocket watch.

He noticed the time on the watch and noted it down in his note book. He liked to keep every little detail as he felt it would perhaps help him later if he ever needed to refer to it later on. As he finished writing he pocketed his note book and raised himself to his feet grabbing his cane.
He looked around at all others around him trying to gauge how they were feeling about the upcoming incident.

From what he had heard he was in group C along with the Gibus wearing man and a few others he had heard his job would be to storm the palace itself and face the Garuda Brothers and their higher ranks. He was certain he could do such a thing and not worried. With his trusty cane in hand he felt he could accomplish anything as it aided him with range and height which were two things needed in a fight.

Group A left the other two groups when the time for the invasion came. They rushed through the desert and stormed the bazaar like wild fire, with the sounds of battle almost immediately rising from the scene. Meanwhile, camels were brought out of the small village, each equipped for riding. "Mount the camels, they'll get us to the palace area faster" Kim ordered, and the Survivors started climbing the camels, including Al. Naturally, Lance didn't receive a camel, for he could fly faster, but Montgomery didn't get one either. "Unfortunately we're missing one camel, so you'll be going with me" Kim said and invited Montgomery to climb aboard his own camel.

As the forces of Groups B and C prepared for take off, an explosion rose from the bazaar. "It's our que! Group A managed to take their places!" The old man shouted. "Let's go!" Kim shouted in response and ordered his camel to start running. Al ordered his camel to follow, and even though he wasn't sued to riding, he managed to hang on. "Today we take down the Garuda Brothers!" Al shouted, making a wave of battle cries rise form the forces. As the two groups reached the main city, they were welcomed by a wave of armed goons. Unlike the Eastern side of Krooka Island, the Western side consisted of an oasis, filled with quality houses and plants. The Two-Faced pirates lived in this area. "Group B! Take them all down! Leave no one standing! Don't let any of them reach to palace, Group C, storm forward, we need to get to the palace before the brothers leave it!" Al and Kim shouted simultaneously. Group B, that consisted of about 20 members, charged forward, clashing with the goons. Group C, which included Kim and Montgomery, the old man, Lance, Al, a large pirate named Jon boulder and three of his crew members, had a wave of goons to go through before they could reach the palace, that was now in sight.

Jekyll's face twisted in anger, his hands shook with rage. He raised them to try and choke Terry as well, but a goon blasted into the cell block before he had a chance. "Captain Jekyll! We're under attack! The bazaar is being attacked! The Prime City is being attacked! They're trying to invade the palace!" The goon shouted. He dropped to the floor and breathed heavily, clearly exhausted from running to deliver the news. Jekyll turned to shout at the goon. "Send Shen and Mis Amanda to Prime City!" Jekyll shouted. "They're on their way captain" The goon answered. "What about Hyde?" Jekyll asked. "He's sleeping sir! The guards are too scared to wake him up!" The guard answered. "You're all useless Damn it!" Jekyll shouted and rushed out of the room, with the guard following him. Luckily, they forgot to lock Terry's cell, leaving it wide open.

"Come on, Roze! It's time to kick some ass!" Lance said with an evil look on his face, as his group departed and started moving towards the place of the Garuda Brothers in order to take them down. Lance could not actually understand deep inside him how he got himself into that situation. That was a conflict between brothers... He had no room to enter in it. However, on the other side, as long as that conflict had to do with his own interests, he had no other option but to enter, something that he did.

"The rebels are coming! Use everything you have!" the goons were saying, as Lance and the others were about to attack. Lance looked at them with an evil face. Roze swiftly started flying upwards and Lance pointed with both swords towards them. Without wasting a single second, the man started stabbing the air, creating air bullets which were raining down on the goons. Many goons screamed in pain as the air bullets were shot through their bodies. Some bullets were hitting the heads of a few goons and some others vital body parts like their hearts. A few of them were lucky enough to get hit only at body parts of no importance and some others were so wicked to the point that they shielded themselves with the corpses of their fellow comrades. Nonetheless, one thing was going on. Lance was attacking them from above and looked down on them, while saying "Eagle Rain...". Lance was going all-out from the start. The faster he defeated the brothers, the faster he could get some information about Victor.

Terry sighed in relief, he didnt like being hit too much, it made it harder for him to supress the inner rage he had. He then saw the cell wide open for him, in their haste the pirates must have forgotten to lock him up. Terry then trudged to the front of the cell and walked out, he saw a storage room nearby and realised that is where they must have kept confiscated equipment. And sure enough, his chainsword was there, along with his gloves and his trenchcoat. He looked through his trenchcoat and found his notebook inside. Terry sighed with relief as he got up. When he turned around, he saw the girl again, it was his dead wife. He smiled as he walked through her "Sorry .... im so sorry.... but i cant meet you yet...... it seems , there is a evil man here...... i need to repent....." The girl simply smiled as tears fell "I love you...." She dissappeared as Terry walked out, he knew what he needed to do.

With the attack begun Montgomery smiled and followed the other people in his group at his own leisure. he followed along behind the rest slowly but quick enough to keep up with them. He whistled as he followed them and watched as a team of goons got in their way. Looking at the goons and Lance attack the goons Montgomery grinned as some goons came at him. Looking at Kim Montgomery smiled and as the goons charged at him he ducked down swinging his cane quickly at their ankles. As the 1st goon tripped and hit the ground he spun around and gripped the tip of his cane and stabbed it down into the back of the goon's neck hard.

The next few ran at him as he saw in the reflection of his monocle, looking at him he raised his cane and linked his right arm over it as his cane reached behind his neck and behind the goon's neck he wrapped his left around the front of the goon's neck and then around the other end of his cane and squeezed the goons neck as he began pulling his arm and cane closer together.

The goon passed out and Montgomery dropped him to the ground before turning around and seeing another goon charging at him with a sword drawn Montgomery noticed the sword thrusting towards his torso and instead of cowardly fleeing he went towards it and used his cane to push the sword up and circled it. On the way down he brought the tip back up quickly to hit the goon in the chain and as he was smacked in the chin he bit the tip of his tongue off and felt a strong kick to the chest which Montgomery had delivered. Seeing another goon coming for him Montgomery spun around building up momentum and as the goon got closer he smacked the goon around the face as hard as he could manage knocking him towards Kim.

"Kim watch out for the incoming goon."

As the attack unfolded, the units of goons were no match for the attacking forces, who slowly penetrated their defenses and closed in on their destinations. With Lance showering the goons with attacks form above, killing them by the dozens, and Montgomery taking down those who got too close to his liking, Group C was doing great. 6 goons were incapacitated by a giant ball of spider web that Kim shot at them, cocooning them all in a large mass of sticky threads. Another platoon of goons was almost frozen in place as they were hit by a purple beam fired at them from Al's finger, before they were shot dead by two accurate shotgun blasts. Al kept a cold expression throughout the fight, he knew very well that this was only the beginning.

"Group C! Storm forward! Through the gates to Prime Palace!" Kim shouted over the sounds of battle as he punched another goon, sending him to the ground with ease. "No turning back!". Then, large buckets of boiling oil were raised over the walls of the palace. The buckets were carried by many goons, and were large enough to flood the entire group with the dangerous liquid. Al noticed the shadow of the buckets hiding the entire group, before looking up and spotting them. It seemed to late, and the boiling ooze started pouring down from the top of the high wall, but Al raised his hands up and a concentrated purple light started gathering between them. "Noro Noro Super Blast!" Al shouted, before firing a wide beam of purple noroma particles at the ooze. The beam was huge, easily hitting all buckets and the goons who carried them, slowing them all down to a halt. As the shocked members of Group C looked up, Al opened his mouth. "It'll only hold them for 30 seconds! Rush into the palace yard!" He shouted, pointing at the gates of the wall.

"Hell yeah!" Jon shouted and slashed with his buster sword, slashing the wall's gate open. Behind the door, something worse than goons awaited the forces. Surprisingly, the Garuda brothers used the palace yard for something special: It was Hyde's gator farm. The yard was filled with human-sized Bananawani's still young but dangerous. The green monsters noticed the intruders and rushed forward, aiming to devour any invader who wasn't ready to defend himself.

Inside the palace, Jekyll rushed through the corridors with a frown on his face. He wasn't happy about this at all. Not only were those intruders ruining his island, but they were also going to take away his beauty sleep, and Jekyll got really angry without his beauty sleep. "Get out of my face and get out!" He shouted at a bunch of goons who stood int he corridor, slapping one of them to the ground. The goons nodded in fear and rushed out. After a minute of walking, Jekyll stopped in front of a large wooden door. Her knocked on it, and a powerful grunt rose from the other end. "Whoever did this is dead!" Hyde shouted from the other end of the door, storming out of his king-sized bed and opening the door with a violent swing. "Get up you idiot, we're under attack" Jekyll said before turning around and leaving Hyde on his own.

Terry heard commotion from outside, he stood in ready as soon as he reached a corridor which seemed like was heading to the entrance of this place somehow. Terry then looked out of a corner and saw Hyde with his back to him. It seemed the other guy was pissed off about something and had left Hyde by himself. Terry walked out with his chainsword and dashed towards Hyde, he was looking to behead this guy before he could even turn around.

(( Just to let you guys know, I'm putting this thread on hold until Max comes back, so please be patient. I'm not giving up on the crew, we're just taking a short break))

"Hell yeah!" Lance shouted and laughed madly as he looked at the goons bleed and getting cut after they were attacked by him with his Eagle Rain technique. "This is what you deserve, you filthy bastards!" Lance commented before he stopped at the moment he realized that all of the goons he had just attacked were taken down. He had done an amazing job against those goons once again... Although nobody had yet to admit it, the job he did during the attack against the Garuda brothers was one of great importance.

Seeing the group storming forward, Lance understood that it was about time for himself to storm forward, as well. He sheathed his swords back at their sheaths and he grabbed Roze's head. He moved his head towards Roze's ear and he spoke to his pet "Okay, Roze. Let's go!". Seconds afterwards, the eagle did what Lance said. It opened its wings widely and it started flying forward with great speed, reaching the rest of the group.

While approaching, Roze took a shocked face. Apparently, the eagle's great vision allowed it to see things from great distance and what it saw was something terrifying. The group with the powerful combatants, who were rebelling in order to take down the Garuda brothers, was approaching a place with some terrifying creatures. They were rushing into a garden of Bananawanis, big sized alligators with great strength. Those were some powerful creatures and one thing was for certain. The group would have to give its best in order to ensure victory against those creatures.

"Why are you stopping, Roze?" Lance said with a surprised face as he could not understand why his pet would stop moving. However, he focused his vision and he also caught a glimpse of the creatures. "I see..." Lance continued. "You are afraid of the Bananawanis. There is no need to worry, Roze. We are taking down each single one of them! Storm forward, my friend! We will show them what we are capable of doing together, before finding the necessary information to slay Victor once and for all!" Lance continued and finished as both him and Roze started moving towards the garden of the Bananawanis.

One minute later, the two of them had reached the garden. Lance smirked and he unsheathed both his swords. He placed them horizontally and he said "Eagle Sweep!" as he moved towards a Bananawani with Roze's help and sliced it during his sweep, causing a big wound on its body and making it fall down, unconscious due to the damage it received. Lance was about to go all-out against the terrifying creatures.

Seeing the buckets of oil getting poured down over the edge Montgomery gulped then the next thing he saw was a wide brightly coloured beam cover them and the men and buckets slowed right down. All of it was barely moving. Montgomery wasn't quite sure what had just happened but guessed it was something to do with a devil fruit and heard Al the man with the Gibus call out to run inside. Montgomery followed this order and happily charged inside the palace. Even though it was filled with gators it was better than getting oil over his nice attire.

As he arrive on the other side after crossing the threshold Montgomery twirled his cane in his hands as he came face to face with one of the many gators and he grinned. He hadn't quite expected to come face to face with one. With his cane spinning in his hand and a gator looking down his nose at him, he simply felt it was time for him to scare the creature off, if it was possible. With cane in hand Montgomery swing it downwards at the gator's mouth as hard as he could manage in an attempt to ward the foul gator off.

"Don't let them in the yard! After them!" A goon shouted behind the group and triggered a chase. As dozens of goons rushed after the group, Al spread the fingers of his right hand and began counting, looking back nervously. '5...4...4...2...1...' He thought as he bent each finger respectively. As his countdown reached zero, the boiling oil drums that were until now suspended in midair began falling, blocking the entrance to the yard and showering the goons with boiling oil. Al flashed a malicious grin as screams of pain rose from the other side of the gate, the group was now isolated.

But Al's grin couldn't last for long, as the yard itself was one big deathtrap. Dozens of Bananawanis swarmed the yard, all of them bloodthirsty and dangerous. Fortunately, Al's group was more than capable of dealing with this unexpected threat. With Lance taking out one of the alligators, Montgomery keeping another at bay, Jon Boulder and his gang storming at the monsters and Kim trapping a pair of the alligators against a wall with his webs, all Al had to do was blast a Bananawani that stormed at him with one of his purple rays to freeze his attack.

[Meanwhile, in the palace]

Hyde didn't notice Terry sneaking behind him, but he wasn't alone. As Terry's blade approached Hyde's throat, a dense ball of what seemed to be pitch black ink was shot at the blade, stopping it in its tracks. "Attacking from behind is a pretty dirty act don't you think" A voice called from above as a what appeared to be a humanoid monster with tentacles attached to where his hair should be dropped down form the floor above. It was Shen, Hyde's second in command, who was also a squid fishman and even uglier than Hyde himself.

"Would you look at that!" Hyde shouted, his metallic teeth flashing. "That idiot brother of mine can't even keep his prisoners at bay" Hyde said. "Who're you calling an idiot you idiot?!" Jekyll shouted from a flight of stairs, coming down with an attractive red haired woman armed with a pair of swords, His own second in command Amanda. "You you idiot, only an idiot can let his prisoner loose in the palace!" Hyde shouted, showering the surrounding with spit, but as he did, a cry of a slain Bananawani was heard from outside. "MY BABIES!" Hyde shouted, looking outside a window with an angry look. To his horror, his precious Bananawanis were being attacked by the intruders. "Those bastards! I'll spare none of them! Come Shen!" Hyde shouted as he punched the wall, creating a hole in the second floor. Shen followed silently, obeying his superior. "Go with them Mis Amanda, make sure the idiot doesn't destroy my palace" Jekyll ordered his beautiful first mate. "I'll stay here and fix my mistake..." Jekyll said, eyeing Terry with a taunting glare.

[Back Outside]

"MY BABIESSSSSS!" A shout was heard as the wall of the second floor exploded, showering the yard with debris. Outside of the hole, a gigantic figure appeared, wearing a full battle armor. Hyde dropped down to the ground, with his fishman assistant dropping right next to him. Finally seeing one of his brothers, Al's expression changed to that of rage. "It's about time one of you showed up" Al said, raising his shotgun and aiming it at Hyde. "You dare aim a weapon at ME?! And hurt my precious babies?! I'll devour you you bastard!" Hyde shouted, making Al grin after hearing the literal insult. He produced a beasty roar, making the Bananawanis raise their heads. apparently, he could communicate with them.

The Bananawanis entered a frenzy after hearing Hyde's roar, attacking with more strength and ferocity than before. The two alligators Kim incapacitated freed themselves with brute force and were now storming towards him. The one Al stopped was now storming Jon, and the one Montgomery was fighting joined him. Hyde then stormed towards Al who taunted him, not even fearing his shotgun. Shen and Amanda, who dropped down as well, joined the fray. Amanda rushed towards Lance and drew her pair of short swords, attempting a swift slash to quickly incapacitate him. Shen approached Montgomery, the only person who wasn't already fighting. He snapped his head back before shooting another ball of condensed ink out of his mouth, aiming to blow Montgomery away.

"Hm?" Lance said as he raised the swords he had been carrying and used them to block the swift slashes from the short swords by placing them horizontally right in front of him. The two swords collided, releasing a strange, high pitched sound that would probably hurt the ears of the people that listened to it and were not swordsmen. However, in Lance's ears, it sounded like something different. For Lance, the sound was the trigger that started the battle between himself and Amanda and that was exciting him. Lance started getting excited over the fact that he was about to face a sword wielding opponent, although he could not know how much he would get to enjoy the battle and for how long Amanda would be able to stand. Apparently, Lance did not know that the woman was the First Mate of one of the two pirates and so he had no idea about her possible potential. He would have to learn by himself with the flow of the battle.

As soon as the sound of the colliding swords was heard, Roze started flapping his wings and he moved backwards, to a higher point at the sky that did not have a great distance from the ground. In fact, with a high jump, Amanda would definitely be able to reach them. While standing at that spot, Lance took a serious looking face and he raised his right sword, pointing with it towards Amanda. He took a serious looking face and he looked at her with a strange look, a look that a noble would take while looking at his slave while lying down on the ground and begging for help. He opened his mouth and spoke his words "I see you are quite strange... You are not like those thugs I slayed before... Let's see what you have.". Then, he said "Eagle Wrath!" and he swung the sword very fast, releasing an air blade that headed towards Amanda's direction. The battle from Lance's side had also started...

Amanda was no amateur, but even a skilled swordswoman as her never seen anything like Lance before. He was only a half man, with his other half allowing him to fly. To most swordsmen, this fight would have been impossible, but as a first mate of the Two-Faced pirates, Amanda had tricks up her sleeves. "I have more than you can imagine freak" Amanda said with a soft, almost tempting voice. She crossed her swords in front of her in an X-shape, and by performing a perfectly timed slash, managed to break Lance's air blade apart before it damaged her, making the wind blow dust around her. "I am Mis Amanda "Bloody Blond" Kurve, the second in command to the great Jekyll Garuda!" She said, her bloody red hair blowing in the resulting gust.

After announcing her name, Amanda leaped towards Lance, moving as fast and as gracefully as a gymnast, and ten times as beautiful. She held her swords in front of her, with the tips pointing towards Lance, aiming to land a double stab on him before he could fly out of her reach. The weird thing was that even though Amanda carried a pair of swords, it didn't seem like Nitoryu was her specialty.

Finally facing his brother, all the rage that Al built during the years that passed ever since his father died rose to the surface. "You don't even know who I am do you?!" Al shouted at Hyde, who was grinning and baring his metallic interlocking teeth. "I don't know any filthy cowards, so no" He answered. He then suddenly rushed at Al, moving with surprising speed considering his round features. In return, Al aimed his shotgun at Hyde and fired, only to watch as the slugs repelled off of Hyde's body armor. Hyde aimed his large fist at Al, but Al was quicker than him and managed to dodge and step away. "You'll need way more power to scrape my armor Blehehehehe" Hyde laughed maliciously.

"I see that Longbeard didn't do such a fine job raising you... you turned out to be nothing than a mindless brute" Al noted. Defeating Hyde wouldn't be satisfying enough for Al, he had to make sure Hyde knew exactly who he was facing. "How the hell does a bastard like you know my father?" Hyde asked, drool escaping his mouth as thoughts of devouring Al reached his head. "It's simple" Al noted, before pulling out his pocket watch and opening it so Hyde could see what was written inside it. The ngravings read "Make this world yours" Along with a signature of Longbeard himself. "BLEHEHEHEHE! So you're the missing one! The one who didn't get anything! Alfred was it?!" Hyde laughed. "Jekyll and I wondered when you'll finally show up, you took long enough" Hyde said. "It's Alphonse, but you can call me the king of Krooka Island" Al said, stopping Hyde's laughter. "I highly doubt that..." Hyde said with another malicious grin. Al couldn't see it, but a Bananwani was sneaking behind him, following Hyde's orders.

"Hmph... A pathetic first mate? Interesting... Although, I must say that you are nothing for a Marine Commodore like me." Lance said with a serious look on his face. The man did not move at all. He knew that Roze would do the necessary job to protect him. He simply grabbed his two swords and took his stance, while Roze stopped flapping his wings. As a result, the creature with the abnormal body started falling downwards and moved away from his position, dodging the attack of Amanda.

"So, miss Kurve..." Lance said, with a serious face again. "What about surrendering to the marines? That would be your best option and I vow to my pride as a marine that you will not suffer..." he continued, before he swiftly moved his two swords and launched two air blades towards Amanda, another barrage of the Eagle Wrath attack. Lance was doing something crazy. He was using his former status as a marine in order to cause fear to Amanda and to make her surrender so that he would get a better chance to kill her without having her defend herself. Obviously, a part of the story was truth. Lance used to be a marine Commodore. However, another part of the story was false... He was not a marine anymore, he had no pride as a marine and he abused that to the maximum.

Amanda showed no surprise when Lance easily avoided her attack, her face remained smiling a faint smile. Her attack passed over Lance and Roze and thanks to her jump, Amanda continued flying for a couple of meters before planting her legs on the ground. "So you're a marine? What a typical approach you have sweetie, thinking your rank means even the slightest to me..." Amanda said with a deep, flirtatious voice. She noticed Lance's attack right away, and as before, was not amused. "You're not very original are you? I guess I'll have to take the initiative then..." She purred, flinging her red hair forward.

"Juutoryu: Crimson Wall!" She called, naming her move. Somehow, Amanda was using a style that involved not two, but a total of ten swords! But where were these swords? As Lance's attack closed in, Amanda's red hair elongated, reaching down to the ground. It then magically formed itself into eight separated sharp bundles, forming the appearance of eight monstrous spider legs growing out of Amanda's head. Then, the four front "legs" moved forward, creating a hairy barrier in front of Amanda. Surprisingly, the wall that was made out of simple hair was durable enough to block the air blades without any damage.

"Don't underestimate me, our ranks don't hint even the slightest bit about our powers. Captain Jekyll taught me well, even teaching me the secret arts of Life Return to sharpen my skills! When you're facing me, you're not facing two swords, you're facing ten!" She announced proudly. It was true, Amanda was taught her fighting style by Jekyll himself, and even though she was a powerful fighter, she was easily overshadowed by Jekyll.

"Face your doom BLEHEHEHEHE!" Hyde shouted, laughing hysterically. As he did, the Bananawani that was sneaking behind Al jumped, roaring and opening his mouth to eat Al alive. Unfortunately for the alligator, his last meal would prove to be the one he already ate. Without looking back, Al formed the fingers of his left hand into a makeshift gun and aimed it over his shoulder. "Noro Noro Blast" He said calmly as a blast of purple beam shot out of his index finger and consumed the alligator while he was in midair. "Huh?" Hyde grunted, disappointed that Al was still standing. "This is one of the gifts I received from dad" Al explained proudly, "The Noro Noro No Mi allows me to slow down anything with a simple wave of my finger, and it also allows me to do this" Al said before cocking his shotgun and aiming it at the suspended alligator.

"WHAT?!" Hyde shouted in shock as he watched his half brother aiming a gun at his beloved pet. "Never send your pets to do your own dirty work, Sluggish Slug" Al said coldly, before firing. The slug hit the alligator right as the effect of the blast wore off, blasting him away as blood left his body, along with his life. "MY BABY!" Hyde shouted furiously, veins filling his yellow eyes. "I'LL RIP YOUR HEAD OFF WITH MY TEETH!" Hyde shouted. As he raged, something weird began happening to his body. His bones cracked under his skin, while his shoulders grew wider and larger. His fingernails grew longer, forming claws. His face started elongating while his nose was reduced to two slits in his face. Inside his mouth, sounds of metal being dent could be heard as his metal teeth reformed. Next, his skin started changing it's pattern and color as green scales began to form on it. "You're not the only one who received gifts from dad..." Hyde mumbled angrily as he kept going through his transformation, a zoan transformation.

[[Terry vs Jekyll in the Palace]]

Terry twirled his chainsword and slid back on his legs. He then viewed the freakshow taking place before him. Well, at least things werent weird or anything. If anything, he felt like the sanest person in this area. Terry then gritted his teeth when he faced Jekyll, he wanted to be able to fight this guy head on. He reved the engine on his chain sword, causing the motor to run and the chainsaw to be activated. The noise of the motor running was met by the sound of Terrys strong dash towards Jekyll, he then threw two nails at Jekyll at the same time "Yeah... you should have killed me when you had the chance!!!"

Seeing the croc he had run into head the other way Montgomery noticed a fishman step into his way and he spun his cane around his hands. He took on a fighting stance whilst trilling the cane attempting to look at the fishman's footing. He hoped that if he could figure out how he was going to fight he would be able to take him down easily.

As a ball of condensed ink shot at him Montgomery felt it smash into the left side of his face. His monocle pushed in and hurt. He grunted as he stumbled backwards. He rolled over and thrust himself back up to his feet and attempted to hit the fishman with the end of his cane. He was aiming to smack the end of his cane down into the fishman's toes so he could launch it back up into his face but his vision was a little impaired due to the ink which was splattered all over his face.

In his right eye he it was stinging due to the ink and his left eye he couldn't see all too well through due to the ink but could roughly seen through it. As his cane smacked down on to something he wiped the ink away from his face and cleaned his monocle quickly so he gained sight in at least one of his eyes.

"Ten? Are you going to take me on with so few swords?" Lance said with a serious look on his face, as the woman used her Life Return in order to make her hair like swords. "Of course, this is an interesting battling style... But keep in mind that the mastery on the art of the sword is not based on how many swords you have. It is based on how you use them." Lance commented and Roze started flying very high on the air to a point where Amanda could not reach him if she simply jumped. He grabbed both his swords and pointed with them towards Amanda. Then, he started stabbing the air constantly, launching mini air slashes towards the woman and he said "Eagle Rain!". Lance was using one of his signature attacks.

"That weapon. So vulgar, so brutal, so mindless and ugly" Jekyll mumbled in pure disgust as Terry fired the chainsaw. "Maybe, but you should have left the island in the first place, at least that way you'd have survived and I could have been in the middle of my beauty spa right now..." Jekyll complained in a whiny tone. Jekyll then decided to stop fooling around and start taking the fight seriously. After all, the sooner this mess will be settled, the sooner Jekyll could get back to his spa. As Terry's nails traveled towards Jekyll, something made Jekyll's flowery robe flail from underneath it. Suddenly, what appeared to be a gigantic feather was shot out of Jekyll's back like a cracking whip, reflecting the nails with the force of metal. The feather was wide and at least 3 meters long, and was protruding out of Jekyll's robe, swinging left and right. "Allow me to demonstrate the power of mightiness, of glory, of perfect beauty!" Jekyll called as more feather protruded from under his robe. Simultaneously, his neck grew a lot longer, and his sharp nose fused with his mouth to form a beak. His arms were withdrawn into his sleeves, only to pop out as two large blue wings, while his feet morphed into those of a bird. "The Tori Tori No Mi allows me to morph into the most amazing animal on the planet! I'm no less than a peacock man! I am Jekyll Garuda, prince of beauty!" He called, his voice turning squickier. To counter Terry's rush, 3 long colorful peacock feather were aimed at him, each sharp and durable as a sword yet elastic like a whip, aiming to stab Terry right through.

Shen didn't even bother to dodge Montgomery's cane flails. The cane smashed against his toe, but Shen didn't show any signs of pain. The cane then shot at his chin with force, but as Montgomery was about to find out, Shen's face and the rest of his contained a very small amount of bones, thanks to his unique race, which made him more resilient to blunt forces as there was not much to break. His face deformed out of sheer power, but soon reformed back into their normal shape, leaving a bruise on Shen's chin. "You foolish human, what do you even have to do int his island?" Shen asked, "You seem normal enough to understand that charging in here is foolish, yet you still did it". He then took his head back, only to shoot out another ball of condensed ink that traveled towards Montgomery's legs, threatening to topple him over.

"You talk like that, yet you always use the same principle!" Amanda answered back as Lance used another barrage of air blades. "Juutoryu: Ascension!" She called. As soon as she did, four of her hair-blades were raised up, before they started rotating in blurring speed, creating a propeller that dragged Amanda into the air. "You don't have as much edge as you think! Juutoryu: Double Crimson Wall!" Amanda shouted as she raced towards Roze and Lance with her helicopter hair. Then, the remaining four hair blades moved to the front, shielding Amanda from the incoming attack. The Eagle Rain was stronger than Amanda expected, but her hair was capable of blocking bullets with help form Life Return, and while some air bullets passed through her shield and reached her, most of the damage was absorbed by her hair. She was undoubtedly a skilled user of her style. As she closed in on Lance, she attempted to ram into his and Roze with her helicopter blades to try and slice them to bits.

Al watched Hyde's transformation with a worried look. His brother was turning into a monster right in front of his eyes. He attempted to shoot him while he transformed, but his armor simply deflected the shots. Hyde got bigger, a lot bigger, reaching 3.5 meters in height and about 2 meters from shoulder to shoulder. His head turned into that of a monstrous reptile, armed with a large set of metallic teeth that clamped down as he opened and closed his long mouth. His skin turned into an armor of green scales and a thick reptilian tale protruded out of his behind. "The Tokage Tokage no mi allows me to turn into a crocodile man, and the strongest man alive! I am Hyde Garuda! The monster of Krooka Island! Face my wrath young brother!" Hyde shouted, his voice becoming monstrous. He then opened his mouth and roared, releasing a powerful roar that echoed through the yard, and through the entire island, reaching the docks. Then, as the echoes stopped, a powerful explosion was heard from the docks, echoing back to the yard as a giant cloud of desert sand rose from the docks. "What have you done?!" Al asked, looking back at the cloud of the explosion. "As a crocodile, I have full control of all the Banawanis in my island, that includes Fluffy" Hyde explained, grinning with a set of metallic crocodile teeth. "You monst~!" Al started saying, but his words were cut off mid sentence as his got blasted with a strike form Hyde's tail, sending him flying against the yard wall.

Back in the docks, the member of group A stood in horror as a huge creature rose from the water. It was a Bananwani, a ginormous Bananwani, the one who carried the Two-Faced Pirates' ship across the grand Line on their voyages. It rose form the water to the docks, easily crushing anything in its path. He was at least 10 meters long, and weighted at least 2 tons, which allowed him to make the rebels and pirates run away from the docks, trying to save their lives. The Bananwani didn't look for food this time, he heard his master's command, and was now heading through the city, crushing anything in its path and heading to the yard.

Terry was already moving , so when he saw the transformation, he didnt really have time to pull back and think about his move. Instead He admired the beauty of the creature that had formed before him. He moved to use his chain sword to block 2 of the feathers feeling their sharpness and flexibility have they hit his chain sword. The 3rd feather however, pierced Terry in the shoulder and sent Terry flying backwards onto the floor. He yelled in pain but pressed his wound to ignore the pain. What was this type of pain to him? Nothing, nothing compared to the pain of his past sins, nothing compared to the pain of his past wounds. Terry got up, holding his chain sword in his left hand , he then started to chuckle slowly "aha... aha ... ahahahhaah.... ahahahaha... a peacock? seriously? Next youll be telling me your brother turns into a freaking pigeon or something...... i have to admit those feathers hurt....." Terry got up, holding nails in his hand, and twirling his chain sword with only his left hand. "But hey...you are supposed to be the prince of beauty right? I knew true beauty once... true happiness.... but it was robbed from me, the BLACKNESS TOOK HER FROM ME!!!!!" Terry stopped for a minute. He had to be careful, otherwise he would lose himself. Terry then looked to Jekyll "So let me be the blackness now.... i will be the one to shatter this delusion of beauty you possess... if you are beauty, i am darkness and all of its evil come to plunder BEAUTY!!!" Terry this time tossed the two nails into the air and used his chain sword to hit the nail. The nail shattered into metal shards and all headed towards Jekyll.

"Cra!!!!!" Roze said as he was attacked by the attack of the woman. Apparently, the bird did not have time to move completely out of the way from Amanda's attack. It flew slightly higher but Amanda's helicopter move still hit him and caused him a considerable amount of damage. However, during his bad luck he got slightly lucky. Despite the fact that he got hit by the woman, he got hit at the talons and so he could still fly by flapping his wings.

"Hang on, Roze!" Lance said with a serious look on his face, while moving the sword on his right hand horizontally in front of him and the sword on his left hand horizontally behind his back. "I am not letting this bitch kill us. Even if I am at this state, my swordsmanship is still as good as before. And trust me... This bitch is going to die for hurting you.". Then, the man attempted to slice the hair of the woman with his swords in order to cut them down and make Amanda fall. He was using a great amount of strength and as a swordsman who could cut through steel, he believed that he could manage to cut off some hair. "Eagle Sweep!" he said and he proceeded to attack. He hoped that his attack would work and that he would succeed in doing what he wanted.