Serious: Clockwork Pirates: Clockwork's Revival

Setting foot upon ground once again felt nice, the feeling of something solid and strong. A gentle gust of wind blew and pollen was lifted into the air and sent breezing past the many new faces to Hedge Drop island. As the new arrivals lowered their anchor and departed their ship. The pirates were a cheery bunch and newly bandaged up and stitched together all curtsey of a travelling doctor who had offered his services to them. Standing looking down into his hand in front of the pirate ship he'd just departed stood a man with a bowler hat who'd just stitched together the crew of the Mutilation Pirates. He had been happy he hadn't gotten on the wrong side of their Captain. Seeing him walk away into the distance of the town he smiled and headed his own way into town.

Hedge Drop Island was a beautiful island with Hedges acting like walls which were all around the entire town and docks whilst in the distance long stretches of green fields lay. The people were cheery even the weather was beautiful right now with the sun shining down and little to no breeze. There was a shipyard in the East and a prison in the West and up in the North was a hospital. For the past few weeks gone by thoughts of starting his own crew had entered the man with the bowler hat's thoughts and now here he was with a final decision fully formed in his mind.

Looking forward into town he thought about heading to the hospital and picking up some medical supplies since his own had ran low after all the stitching up and bandaging he had to do to help this last crew survive. He felt good that he had helped them but also at the same time felt bad for them as he knew their Captain was going to die. He had discussed it with the Captain but refused to tell his crew. The man with the bowler hat looked right and had heard about a shipyard going down there. Would be the perfect place to go an pick up a ship for his crew he thought then looked left and figured if he wanted a strong crew what better place to look than in a prison full of criminals who already have bounties. He couldn't quite make up his mind.

The man could no longer see the Mutilation pirates in the distance and wondered what their Captain had done when he first started out, he didn't know but he really wanted to. As the man raised his head and stopped looking at the item in his hand his hazel eyes were illuminated and their true colour shone through.

Introduction Box
Lyceum Tate
Doctor
0 Beli

Lyceum began walking straight on following in the footsteps of the mutilation pirates as he followed in their foot steps he saw they had headed into a bar on the left and instead of joining due to allot of invitations he headed off to the right and towards the hospital to collect some new supplies. Lyceum's mind was made up. He was going to become a pirate Captain and this is where his story of becoming a pirate would begin. He wouldn't let anyone stand in his way or put him down. He had to learn to fight and become stronger. But that would come along the way. Long after he took his first few steps as a pirate.

A young woman was walking through the center of town. She had pale white skin and dark purplish-blue hair that was tied back in a calf-length ponytail. Her soft brown eyes were looking around with interest at the surrounding stores. The girl was dressed in a short, black tank top that left her waist bare. She also wore jean shorts with a black belt through the short's loops. On her hands she wore fingerless gloves and on her feet were a pair of boots that almost reached her knees.

Introduction Box
'Crimson Assassin' Rose Moore
Navigator
3,000,000 Beli

Rose caught sight of a couple of men watching her and she picked up her pace. There were only two possible explanations, in her mind, if someone was looking at her. Number one: They had somehow seen through her change of wardrobe and hairstyle and recognized her from her wanted poster. Or two: They were checking her out; which, to her, was almost as distasteful of an outcome as the first.

She really wished there had been some other option to hide herself. However, the new clothing had had a double effect. It had not only changed her appearance, but it had helped to keep people from thinking of her as anything but a cute girl. Or a slut, she reminded herself. That was the most aggravating part of the whole mess. Some morons thought they could take advantage of her.

Her right hand opened, but not fully, and then it closed, also not fully, as if she was trying to grasp something that wasn't there. Even though she did not yet know how to use the weapon, Rose still felt weird without her sword. Unfortunately, carrying a deadly weapon didn't do much for her desired image of a "weak" and "helpless" female, so she had chosen to leave it behind on her ship.

Not that she needed the sword to defend herself. So long as she had her legs, Rose was never unarmed. It wasn't a lesson she had to teach often, but the occasional street punk had tried to have his way with her. A part of her wondered if the last guy had ever found all of his teeth.

Rose paused outside of a restaurant. It wasn't a fancy place, but it looked clean. Still, she should be careful not to stop everywhere she went. If even one person recognized her, her whole cover would be blown. No, she couldn't risk it. It was too...Rose's stomach growled and all the rest of her arguments went out the window.

So she went inside and headed to the front counter to order.

Introduction Box
Gill
Sniper
Bounty 0

Gill was walking into a human town on some strange island. He had no idea where he was for a strong storm had gotten him lost at sea, and washed up on the shores of this place. Not only was he hopelessly lost Gill was hungry also. The people of the island looked at Gill some with curiousity and others with fear. Gill just mummed to himself cursing humans for their mistreatment of fishmen. He walked into a bar ordering some clams.

"No no sorry sir but we can't serve you that" The owner said.

"I have money." gill said pulling out some beli.

"No I mean we don't serve your kind here. Nothing against you fishmen, but your kind just freaks out the customers."

Gill grabbed the man by his shirt lifting him in the air with his fishman strength "You bastard. You were willing to let me starve because your prejudice. You humans are lower than I thought." He dropped the man down, and got off the stool. Gill left the bar in order to find some food. His stomach was growling and he was getting weaker by each growing moment.

At his arrival in town Lyceum was ready to begin his journey into pirate-hood but he had no idea how. Gathering a crew first off was probably a good idea but he had no idea how to do such a thing especially without a ship. So maybe getting a ship was the first thing to do. Oh he really didn't know and was so confused.

He wondered what the Mutilation Pirates had done, but to be honest with himself it looked like they had just took on a bunch of their friends. He sighed and dipped his head shaking it as he tried thinking. He raised his head to begin walking somewhere hoping his legs would take him the right place but instead they took him nowhere.

He noticed a woman walk down the street along with some perverted older men who walked past himself the men all seemed to be gazing at the woman who wore pretty skimpy clothing. She looked very pretty and sexy but Lyceum knew he wouldn't stand a chance with a woman like that and rolled his eyes.

As the woman looked at himself he gulped and his face turned red, he was unsure if she was looking at himself or the perverted men stood near him. Either way he felt idiotic and walked away from the men as they all began to talk about her curves. Lyceum noticed a disgruntled fishman walking out of bar who seemed to be cursing about something. He looked funny as he was oddly smaller than most fishmen and Lyceum could see he was angry and didn't want to get on his bad side.

"I think I'll just go to the hospital to pick up some supplies." Lyceum muttered to himself as he made his way to the hospital. As he entered through the doors he looked at the receptionist who asked him.

"What you doing here?"

Lyceum coughed before saying to the woman.

"I'm starting my intern ship here today. Where are the changing rooms?"

The receptionist raised an eyebrow and looked down at her clipboard then looked back at Lyceum again.

"Alright sweety there just down that corridor the round to the left and you'll see them. Have fun on your first day."

"Yeah. Thanks I'll try." Lyceum replied as he walked away following her directions then took a deep breath. Well that had been nerve racking he thought to himself. As he walked towards the changing rooms he looked out for signs to the storage room and headed towards it.

He found it after a few minutes tucked away in a corner then opened the door and stepped inside to find another medical intern hiding in it.

"Errrr....hi"

"Hi" Lyceum replied then shook his head and said to the intern. "Don't worry kid you'll get the hang of it."

Lyceum knelt down and filled his bag with a bunch of supplies then stood back up and patted the guy on the shoulder and left. As he headed back out through the door the receptionist caught sight of him and asked.

"Hey Boy ain't you supposed to be learning today? Where you think your going?"

"Oh, hey yeah. Thing about that is...........I forgot my scrubs, they want me to go back home and get them."

The receptionist rolled her eyes and began checking something else leaving a long pause before she looked back up at him and blurted out.

"GO ON THEN BOY! DON'T KEEP US AL WAITIN"

Lyceum nodded and left through the doors with a bag full of syringes, pills, pumps and various other items. As he was proud after his first theft he looked around and couldn't see anyone in the street. He noticed even the pervy men had gone. He felt his stomach growl and looked about for a restaurant to notice there was only one and he headed inside.

As he walked in he found the woman who'd walked in here earlier still queuing and he gulped. An elderly waiter arrived with spectacles and thin white hair on top with a crumpled suit on and dark red tie & waistcoat.

He readjusted his glasses and looked at the queuing customers and asked.

"Table for two? Would you like flowers placed on the table? Maybe some candle light?"

Lyceum looked at the old man embarrassed and turned red, he hadn't expected this and froze up unsure of what to say.

Outside in the streets the mutilation pirates were being thrown out of a pub by a large muscular land lord. The Mutilation Pirates slowly got up and dusted themselves off. As they noticed a small fishman walking about the Captain grinned and shouted to him.

"HEY FISHMAN, YOU BEEN THROWN OUT OF A PUB TOO? COME JOIN US WE'RE HEADING TO THE PARK WITH THIS BARREL OF SAKE, THIS ONE OF RUM AND THIS ONE OF GOD KNOWS WHAT. COME JOIN US, DRINK."

The other drunk members nodded in agreement especially the 2 injured fishmen of the crew and they all let out a loud cheer hoping he'd join them.

A Marine walked up to them with a rifle in hand and looked at the Pirates outside.

"I'll have to ask you all to leave if you continue with that noise."

"Ah piss off." the fishmen shouted as they started throwing clams at the Marine. The Marine tried shielding his face and looked at the Pirates then replied to them a little annoyed but mostly scared.

"a-a-a-a-alright. I'll leave you alone this time but next time." The Marine shamefully turned his back and walked away in fear whilst hearing the Mutilation Pirates behind him start talking about what a spineless Marine he was.

Rose was frustrated. As it turned out, this restaurant was a little bit fancier than she had expected. They even had waiters who were showing the customers to their seats. So she had hung back, trying to decide whether she should stay or pull out while she still had the chance. She was so hungry, but this became riskier the more she had to interact with the waiter...

Rose was so distracted by her own thoughts that she almost didn't hear what the waiter had asked.

"Huh?" Rose asked, momentarily stunned. She glanced over her shoulder, certain that the waiter must have been talking to someone else. However, there was only one other person there: A young man who she had seen out on the street. A second later, her frozen brain rebooted and she realized what was going on. "Oh. No, no, I'm by myself," she corrected him. Her face turned red at the implications behind what he had just asked, not to mention the fact that she had come here alone. "I-uh...well, I actually have something I need to do. Bye."

Still blushing, she turned to leave the restaurant. As she did, she noticed Lyceum's red face and she grimaced and mouthed the word "sorry" before slipping around him and heading out the door.

As soon as she had stepped out of sight of the door, Rose breathed a sigh of relief. It hadn't been her most graceful exit, but it would have to do. And she still hadn't gotten anything to eat. Well, at least she had some food on her ship. That would have to do for now.

Gill just gave the middle finger to the pirates who offered him a drink. He didn't want to associated with humans even they have fishmen in their crew. Even though these humans seemed to be nice Gill not stomach partying with them. He kept walking despite being so hungry. These humans would just look down upon him mocking him from behind his back. He didn't need their pity. Gill didn't need anybody. Then he smelled something good....

Seeing the woman in front of himself excuse herself feeling embarrassed Lyceum saw her turn red and leave through the door. As she left and saw her mouth the word sorry to him he felt bad for her. He wanted to grab her hand and say yes a table for two then treat her to a meal she had wanted but felt so awkward he just let her pass and as the waiter looked at Lyceum and repeated table for two again he looked behind him to see no one there except the girl exiting.

"Urm.......no table for one. I'm the only one here."

The waiter readjusted his glasses and nodded.

"Right this way then sir."

The waiter led Lyceum to a small table with two chairs at the edge of the restaurant he felt lonely sitting there especially due to the flower in the middle of the table. As he sat down and looked around the restaurant he kept a close eye on some other people. He watched people begin their meals and smiled then opened the menu to order some noodles and a drink of grog. As he ordered he looked out through the window he was sat by to see the Mutilation Pirates. He grinned they looked like they were getting on just fine after his handiwork on them.

He had thought them a few things about medicine and in return they had taught him a few things about thievery and being a Pirate. As he sat there with his bag Lyceum stuffed it beneath the table and waited for his order.

Mutilation Pirates

Sitting outside and being sworn at by the dwarf fishman they shrugged it off and muttered amongst themselves about how he was too proud. Even the fishmen agreed but they understood what it was like to be a fishman. As the Mutilation Pirates were about to make their way to the park they noticed a young lady and a few winked at her including the fishmen before the Captain turned around to them and in response shouted.

"I know your Pirates lads but show the pretty lady some respect goddamnit!" He turned back and looked at the woman.

"Excuse me miss but would you like to join me and me men for some drinking in the park. They won't let us in to any pubs in this area and we don't quite know what else to do. So will you join us?"

Docks

Pulling into the docks at this moment was a Marine Vessel, it wasn't large but small and the men aboard it where known as members of the Iron Heart Marines. Upon the side of the ship was imprinted a motto which read. "We slice along the waves cutting down all those who oppose us"

Standing on the figure head of the ship which just so happened to be a chrome coloured heart was the Captain of this Marine ship. She stood at 6ft tall very thin olive skin slightly pointy nose brown eyes long straight black hair which reached the small of her back and flawlessly smooth and beautiful skin. She wore little denim shorts black tights and high heels with a steel and thin point which was extremely sharp and a tight grey t-shirt. Her breasts were shown through the top well and made to look bigger by the small shirt her belly button was on display and she had black suspenders connected to her shorts. On top of all of that she wore a long Marine coat which barely reached the floor.

Tucked into the back of her pants that no one could see was a long silver pearl handled revolver with no bullets, not that she needed any. Looking down over the docks she smiled showing her pearly white teeth.

It was Pirate hunting time.

Once again, Rose was caught off guard, though this time was not a case of mistaken identity. No, now it was just some pirates who wanted to flirt with her. Or rob her. Either way, it wasn't going to happen. Now, in most cases she would have just straight out refused and walked away. She wasn't the kind of person to go running off with strangers. However, this was a special case. She didn't just say "No" to pirates. She gave them a different kind of treatment.

"Oh, I don't think you want to do that," Rose said sweetly, a smile on her face. "I mean, if I were just some random dimwit off of the street, it might not be a problem. You might trick me into following you wherever you wanted before mugging me, but that's not going to happen here." Her eyes hardened and she lowered herself just slightly so that she could move at any given moment. "Why would I lower myself to hang out with people like you? After all, I'm a bounty hunter."

It was then that she made her move. Hoping that her sudden revelation would momentarily stun the pirates, Rose sprang forward. While still in mid-air, she unleashed a flurry of kicks at the crew.

"Shard Scatter!"

Gill was about to depart from the island into the ocean at the docks. There were fish and other creatures of the deep he could eat. He hoped he could find some lobster. Gill dived into the water. After eating some fish, an eel, and some clams, Gill looked up to see the marine vessel pull into harbor above him. He swam for cover in behind a coral creeping his head out a bit. Damn this is just what I need marines. This bastards are probably after those pirates I saw earlier. There were some fishmen on that crew. They will be slaughtered. Gill couldn't let his brothers get harmed into the process....

Minutes later noodles and the grog was placed on Lyceum's table and he took a great big whiff of it in and grinned. He dug into his noodles and got a good mouthful of them. They were hot but delicious, as he gobbled them up he looked outside to see the mutilation pirates being attacked by the girl who'd been in front of him in the queue to get in here. Lyceum's eyes widened as he saw her attacking them. He felt bad seeing a crew he'd just patched up get hurt and as they were attacked what shocked him even more was the girl he'd stood a few feet from a few seconds ago.

There was only one thing which shocked him just that bit more and that was when glass shattered and in came the shards of glass from the window along with one of the crew mates who landed on Lyceum's table face first in his noddles.

Lyceum leapt up from his seat and jumped backwards out of shock and climbed out through the window. He looked at the Mutilation Pirates who had been in the recovery process and then at the woman who'd beaten them up and Lyceum was in surprise. For one he couldn't believe she had done such a thing and for two he wanted to asked her why she'd done such a thing.

He wasn't so bothered as to feeling sorry for the guys but was mainly a little curious he had to admit though they most likely had it coming since they were quite perverted guys. Lyceum grabbed his bag from under the unconscious Mutilation Pirate and approached the woman pulling his bag on.

"Excuse me miss. Can I ask you a question?"

Lyceum said as he looked at her feeling a little worried about what she could do to him and may even do to him.

Docks

As the Marine ship's anchor dropped it was headed straight for Gill, it wasn't on purpose but merely by accident and the woman & Marine Captain of the Iron Heart Marines Silvia Leapt from the bow of her ship and landed on the ground perfectly. As she landed she could already see from the docks straight into the middle of town due to it being a straight street. She saw a woman kick the Mutilation Pirates through a window and beat them up. She was proud to be seeing such things happening in a town but felt a little upset that she followed the Marine code with such strictness and a passion for the rules.

The woman who had kicked them would have to pay for repairs to the shop window. As she walked away from her ship leaving her most trustworthy Officer aboard the ship in charge she approached the unconscious Marines and pulled out a little book she'd compiled of bounties from all around the seas. She looked down at each Pirate and ticked each one off of her list. All of the Mutilation Pirates were here from Captain Horus to Deckhand Juniper.

Reaching into her pocket she removed a small Den Den Mushi and called her ship to get some recruits to pick up the bodies and place them in hand cuffs so later she could hand them over to Impel Down personally.

As she turned around to thank the woman on her fantastic work capturing the Mutilation Pirates she saw a young man standing beside her and saw something shocking. Looking at the girl's face she looked familiar.

She pulled her book back out and began flicking through it quickly searching for her face unsure if she had seen her before or not.

Iron Heart Marine Ship

Silvia's top Marine Officer left aboard the ship was a short man with thick muscular arms and a shaven head. He had a goatee and tattoos over his arms followed by the classic Marine attire only much smaller due to his small size. He walked to the front of the ship and as he stood on deck he clenched his fists with his knuckle dusters on he removed his shirt to show his thick small squished together 8 pack and began shadow boxing as the sun shone down over his small muscular body.

(Just remember one thing, antler. If that Marine woman does recognize Rose, it will not be an easy feat since the only picture they have of Rose is one of the back of her head. She has changed her hair style since then, but not the color of her hair. Plus a bit of her sword was in the photo, but that'll be explained further in my post.)

Rose was a bit shocked. She hadn't been expecting for these pirates to be much of a threat, but when she was able to take them out in one attack...that was just crazy. Perhaps she should just count herself lucky that they weren't a threat. If they had had any real skill, she might have been in trouble, or worse: exposed for who she really was. She was just glad she hadn't brought her sword with her. It was the most recognizable thing out of the wanted poster, though even at that, only half of its hilt was visible in the picture.

When Lyceum came over and spoke to her, she did not immediately react, thinking that he must be talking to someone else. However, after a few seconds, her brain registered that he wasn't moving and that it must be her that he was trying to speak to.

"Go ahead," she replied, though her tone wasn't particularly inviting. Then she caught sight of a Marine out of the corner of her eye. Not wanting to make a scene, she casually turned her back on the Marine, fully facing Lyceum. She crossed her arms in front of her and frowned at the young man, doing her best to look impatient. "But make it quick, I've got other things to do."

Gill quickly swam out of the way of the anchor which almost crushes him. He swam up to give the marines a piece of his mind. Then he saw that the pirates were in trouble including his fishmen brothers. Gill dived deeper below in the ocean, and grabbed the anchor they almost dropped on him. He grabbed the anchor and leaped unto the docks. Gill swung the anchor toward the muscle man on the marine ship "You bastards you almost killed me! Lets see you how you like."

As Lyceum looked at the woman turn herself around he wondered what she was doing it for and tilted his head in curiosity as she said how she was in a hurry. He nodded to her and felt he should maybe ask her about joining his crew since she had obviously proven herself to be strong even if she had just beaten up a bunch of injured Pirates and not ones who were fully capable of fighting to their fullest. She was still a stronger and more experienced fighter than himself.

"Urm what you just did there. That was........well it was pretty......awesome. I wanted to ask if....urm........would you mind perhaps joining my crew? I've only just started looking for people and I would really like you to be in my crew. If you want that is. So....would you like to perhaps join me?" Lyceum looked up at the woman thoughtfully hoping she'd say yes but really didn't know.

Silvia found a bounty poster in her little book of a woman called Rose "Crimson Assassin" Moore with a bounty of 3,000,000 for killing all of the people in a town. Silvia looked at the woman who now had her back facing to her and bit her lip. The quick glance she had at the woman made her think, she didn't know as their hair was very different but it was possible for a person to change her hair over time.

As she looked over to the other side of the street, Silvia looked into the window to see the reflection and could see Lyceum's back and the woman's face. As she looked she looked at the book again then back at the woman's face in the reflection she realised it was very possible it was her. She closed her book and removed her revolver from her pants.

"Ms Moore, The Crimson Assassin I presume." Silvia called out as she looked at the woman with her revolver about to be loaded.

As he passed a glance at the Marine behind her he noticed how she was looking at a tall Marine woman behind her who was flicking through a book. As she flicked through the book 4 Marines ran around behind her. They were great big brutes muscle bound they looked as if they didn't even have an ounce of flab on their bodies. As they picked up the Mutilation Pirates two at a time one on each shoulder and in some cases 3 or four depending on their size. As they carried them off towards the ship they stopped as they noticed a midget fishman holding their ships anchor.

They dropped the Mutilation Pirate's pained bodies and clenched their fists tightly as they saw the midget fishman throw the anchor at their ship. The anchor tore through the figure head of their ship.

"Oi fishman, piss off! You don't belong here among humans go back to where you came from!"

Shouted the Marines who watched the midget fishman attack with the anchor. As the anchor tore through the figure head of the ship the short muscular Marine aboard didn't expect it and thus was shocked by the arrival of the anchor ripping through the figure head behind him. As ripped through he was lucky enough to be so short that it shot right over him and as the chain followed after rattling along the way as debris of the figure head fell he grabbed the chain of the anchor and stopped it dead.

Fury filled his body at the crime of destroying his beautifully hand crafted ship and the fact that someone had tried killing him or at least injuring him with his own anchor. The Midget Marine pulled the anchor back towards himself via the chain and caught it then leapt up to the remains of the figure head and looked down still clutching the anchor as he looked at the fishman below shouting how he almost killed him.

[Introduction Box]
Shamus "Boulder" Hark
Marine Officer of the Iron Heart Marines

Silvia & Shamus both watched their prey's through eyes which only seemed to say one thing and one thing only and that was.

Your mine!

Time Goes

Sailing aboard the Time Goes slicing through the waves Captain, Doctor and the now new and ready to return to the world of Pirating with a bang Kyren Antler was ready to dock on his first island after his return. As he approached a small island he noticed straight away a Marine ship at the docks and grinned.

He wouldn't mind getting back into some scraps with them he thought to himself. He reached down to his wound from his scraps with the guards of Lunakirk Prison and smiled in memory. His body may have been covered in scars and stitching but it made him smile remembering those days. As the Time Goes got closer he noticed a dwarfish Marine standing atop the broken down figure head of the Marine ship and wondered what was already going down here.

Had some Pirates already started a fight in the town or was this merely some drunken hooligans. He looked to the side and could see the Mutilation Pirate ship and shook his head. "Silly young pirates" he muttered. The Time Goes reached the docks and docked a few ships away from the Marine ship and next to the Mutilation Pirate's ship. As he kicked the winch to release the anchor it shot down into the water below on both sides. Both anchors coloured golden and in the shape of a closed fob watch. With his ship docked and his curiosity firmly set in place Kyren leapt over board down to the docks.

Upon landing he looked out to see a midget fishman surrounded by 4 large brutish Marines and the midget Marine holding the ship's anchor in his hands. As Kyren walked towards the town centre he wondered if any of these Marines would recognise him after his absence but doubted it.

A Massive marine warship was just pulling into the docks it was a massive four masted galleon, proudly drifting in on the waves. Other then its size the only marks that would distinguish it from other naval vessels were two two tell tail signs. Firstly the figurehead was a massive Iron bloodhounds head, secondly Its sails bore the navy crest with a huge metallic paw print. This ship was the KoruInu (BlackDog), The proud Flagship of A well known Navy Vice admiral who had been missing for months The man known as Tekkan Ryouken (Iron hound).

Standing on the deck gazing at the island before him was a tall muscular man with Iron gray hair tied back into a long ponytail that was now flowing in the wind. His piercing green eyes took in the island before him. the man was dressed in a white suite and open purple vest his bare chest proudly displaying the metallic paw-print the identifying mark of his crew. One of his hands rested lazily on the handle of the black steel jutte-blade that hung at his hip. All the while his long white officers coat flapped in the wind behind him. He drew lazily on the long cigar as the marines scurried about the ship performing their various tasks, he seemed in a daze before he felt an odd tingle as the next breeze embraced him and his grin grew wide. He took a lazy gulp from a massive ceramic jug of sake that had been sitting by his side the man lifted it as if it were as light to him as a basketball drinking deeply of the contents as the ship dropped anchor in the harbor he set down the jug with a grin. "Odd At first I thought this would be a restful trip but, now I feel something stirring in my blood I wonder what luck has provided for me this time"

Rose looked at Lyceum skeptically. He didn't seem to be the most eloquent speaker. Not that she was a genius herself, but what kind of offer was this? He was asking her to join a crew, but a crew of what?

A moment later, Rose dismissed it. It hardly mattered what kind of crew it was. She didn't want to go sailing around with someone for no reason anyway. But that was no reason to be rude. She would try to put him straight without snapping at him.

"Thanks, but no thanks," Rose replied airily. "I've got my own life to live. Go find someone else to travel with you. Oh, and a bit of advice. The next time you try to ask someone a question, make sure that you-"

She was cut off by the Marine woman standing behind her. The words of the Marine made her blood run cold. They knew her name. The first bounty poster that Rose had seen hadn't had her name on it, but somehow they had figured it out. Maybe her teacher had seen the poster and come forward...if that were true than it meant he believed she had murdered all of those people. And that hurt worse than being recognized.

Rose hesitated. Then again, maybe she hadn't been recognized. The picture on the bounty poster showed the back of her head, not her face. Oh wait, but then she had turned her back on the Marine. What. An. IDIOT!

Rose quickly plastered a confused smile on her face and turned to face the Marine. She cocked her head to one side, trying to look innocent.

"Crimson...Assassin?" she asked. "What kind of a name is that? Hang on...that does sound familiar..."

Rose reached into her pocket and pulled out a wad of wanted posters. She rifled through them and came up with the one she had on herself. It was the older poster, one that didn't have her actual name on it, just her nickname that the Marines had given her.

"Yeah, I thought I had seen it before," Rose continued. "What, do you think I'm this lady?" She held up the poster she had so that the Marine could see it. Rose's face suddenly lost its smile and she became almost emotionless. She could feel anger welling up inside of her at the injustice that had been done. "I'm a bounty hunter. Pirates? I hate them. Revolutionaries? They disrupt the little bit of peace that is in this world and cause chaos. I would never murder anyone, let alone an entire town. That's just...sick. So don't you DARE insinuate that I am like the person described here."

Gill was surprised the man's strength as he easily caught the anchor something his fishmen strength could do which was supposedly ten times stronger than humans. He ran toward the edge of the docks and jumped into the water pulling the chain with him hoping to drag the marine midget into the water too. Once gill was in the water his strength grew to 20 times underwater. "I'll show you all fishmen strength!!!" Gill sucked up a bunch of water in his gills. He swam underneath the marine ship, and shot a water cannon at the bottom. The attack created a hole in the bottom of the ship, and the water began to get sucked in. Gill continued this attack over and over leaving a total of five holes in the marine ship. Then he swam underneath the docks, and began punching the support beams.

Rose

After the woman told him no Lyceum felt disheartened and stepped back a little stunned and hurt by this blow to his ego. He breathed in heavily and turned to walk away with his hopes shot down. As he walked away he heard some commotion behind him and turned around to see that Rose was now talking to a Marine. He stopped and hid around the corner. He was fearful of this and wasn't sure if he wanted to see what would happen or not.

Silvia looked at Rose and grinned when the woman looked through her pockets for a poster. Silvia grinned and as Rose spoke to her. As she asked if she thought she was the Crimson Assassin Silvia nodded.

"You look just like her, pretty young thing if you don't mind me saying. But too bad for you I'm a real hard ass when it comes to justice." Silvia giggled a little.

As Rose spoke about how she was a bounty hunter and how she thought murdering an entire town of people was sick and disgusting Silvia nodded. Agreeing with Rose but still not believing a word she said.

"Indeed it is sick Ms Moore, but Bounty Hunters do not have bounties and thus. You are no bounty hunter if you are wanted for 3 million Beli."

Silvia placed her slim slender fingers into the holes of her revolver to load it up with something and as she did so she smiled looking at Rose. She didn't want to hurt her but if it called for it she would.

Gill

Feeling the ship he was on shake from side to side Shamus began to lose his footing and leapt from the ship to the docks which suddenly he then also felt shaking and noticed to begin falling a part. Shamus and his 3 large Marine brutes stepped backwards from the docks until they were on solid ground to avoid falling into the waters below.

As Shamus walked further and further from the ship he eventually noticed how the ship's anchor wasn't going to come with him anymore and pulled as much of it towards him and he could before he found the part of the ship it was connected to came flying towards himself.

As it shot at him broken away from the Iron Heart Marine ship he threw a fist into the piece of debris and smashed it into pieces. Now holding the anchor with one hand and a long thick chain coiled at his feet he looked out at the ship sinking and shouted.

"COME ON FISHMAN! COME AT ME YOU FILTHY FISH! FACE ME LIKE A REAL MAN!"

The Marine brutes removed the rifles from their backs and knelt down to take aim. As they did so they awaited for the fishman to show and attempt his luck at taking them down. They watched the docks of the island fall into the water splashing up high into the air. They watched as one of their Marine brutes fell into the water below and saw him struggle to fight through the falling debris of the Iron Hearts ship and the docks. Watching it all crash down over him they were emotionless.

Kyren

Feeling the ground beneath him shake and suddenly begin to sag Kyren quickened his speed into a run and rushed from the docks to the inner island. As he did so he made sure to get himself onto the island safely and as he looked back he saw how the ground had began to dip and the docks had been sunk.

What force could be responsible for this he thought to himself. He hadn't ever thought this kind of thing would've been possible but he had been wrong before and he was wrong again. Looking at the destruction shocked him and he sighed.

As he looked around he saw a midget Marine with coils of thick chain connected to an anchor which was bigger than himself shouting about how a fishman should show himself.

Fishmen? Here? Kyren thought to himself. He had't ever thought he'd encounter one after Delphi who had joined his crew previous. She must've survived the events of that Tsunami. After all she had been a mermaid. He snapped out of it and felt that this Marine shouting out for a fishman to fight like a man and show himself was rude. He ignored it though since the fishman obviously had strength and more than enough to beat these Marines.

Kyren headed further into town where he saw a Marine Captain he'd seen before. She was new to the Marines and had already accomplished a huge amount whilst Kyren had been in Logue Town working as a doctor he knew of her and her skills. He knew she was an accomplished Marine and how she worked. Passing a glance to the other woman she was talking to he didn't recognise her and shook his head. She was in for some trouble. Kyren didn't know if it was worth stepping in to offer a helping hand though due to these women looking locked in a battle already.

He had come here to create a big stir but the way things where looking now he couldn't do such a thing. There was already so much going on here if he wanted to do something he would need to do some of epic proportions. But what could he do here that wouldn't harm the civilians that would be enough to announce his return to piracy?

Rose's emotionless expression broke. For the first time, legitimate anger flashed in her eyes. Her shoulder shook with the pent-up rage that was threatening to explode outward...but she didn't attack. Her self-control was too great for that. However, she was close to her breaking point.

"I think I told you NOT to compare me to psychotic murderers," Rose hissed, her contempt for the woman before her very much evident. "I don't care if you are a Marine. That is overstepping your bounds. How would you like it if I tried to make it out that you were a bountyhead? I doubt you would be very happy. So shut up and leave me alone." Rose turned her back on the Marine again, this time walking away from her. "I've got better things to do than waste time with idiots."

Every muscle in Rose's body was tense. If that woman so much as tried to attack her, she was going down. There were no two ways about it. Rose had never attacked a Marine before, but neither had a Marine tried to treat her as a criminal and ignore everything she said. Was this how justice worked? Did the Marines just grab whoever happened to look like someone on a poster? In her anger, it took Rose a moment to remember that it really was her in the wanted poster.

Saizo's eyes widened slightly as the docks before him were destroyed. He gave a slight frown as a rather large amount of water now stood before him and the town. Taking another gulp of the sake he gave a bark to proceed closer to the island before anchoring. Once the ship was close enough to shore he picked up another large urn of sake this one sealed and jumped off the side kicking off and just making the safety of the shore. He took a deep gulp of the sake proceeding into the town if there was a fight there he didn't recognize anyone and had no real quarrel with Fish-men but to be sure he wouldn't have his ship being damaged in the fight, reaching into the suit jacket he pulled out a white shelled den-den mushi taking the responder off the top.

"Yes sir Vice admiral Saizo" as the words came from the odd snail the lips moved. "Move the ship back out into open water and patrol around the island I don't want the ship involved in the fighting at what used to be the docks" "Yes sir understood use the den den mushi when you need a pick up." After the brief conversation the vice admiral hung up the snail tucking it back into his jacket as s the KuroInu sailed back to sea. Saizo gave a stretch drawing lazily on his cigar he gulped from the open urn as he headed into the town scanning the people of the island for familiar faces.

Gill leaped up from the debris as the marines were distracted by their fallen friend who fell from the docks. The debris had banged Gill up too(something he should have thought about before hand),but due to his fishmen strength he could take more damage than the average person.
Gill began to spit water bullets from his mouth "Water Machine gun, FISHMAN KARATE!!!!!!" Gill began shooting water toward the other two marine brutes hoping to subdue them.

Rose

"I'm not going to leave you alone Rose because you have a bounty on your head and I'm a Marine. Its my job to take you in." Tilting her wrist as she spoke Silvia aimed her revolver at Rose's stomach.

"Its time you were caught for your crimes Ms Moore"

Silvia placed her feet in a fighting stance and pirouetted as she was facing away from Rose she kicked off from the ground launching herself upwards into the air and flipping over Rose. As she flew over her she pulled the trigger and emptied her revolver of ammunition down towards Rose. She landed behind Rose and once again stabbed her fingers into the revolver loading it up again.

Silvia had a grin on her face and her pony tail hung down her back. With her other hand reaching down her tights she gripped something long hard and steely. As she gripped it Silvia shut her eyes and listened carefully to her surroundings. Kneeling she was closer to the ground and could feel the vibrations.

Gill

As the midget fishman spat out water towards the two brutish Marine they were heavily injured when they found their biceps pierced by the bullets and the other had his heart scrapped. One large Marine fell to the ground clutching his chest dropping his rifle whilst the other one fired a shot towards Gill struggling to aim and as the rifle kicked back he fell backwards. He was simply in too much pain to deal with a proper fight. His muscles were all pierced and he was in agony with the sea water burning inside his wounds.

Shamus used the anchor to block any bullets which came close to himself and looked at Gill through furious eyes.

"So, fishman. You came back for us."

Shamus wrapped the chain around his arms reaching from his left fist to the right fist and a long trail of chain between the anchor and his right fist was left over. He swung the anchor around over his head which was only about 5 ft high and as he did so the anchor was nearly in reach of Gill.

As the anchor picked up such speed he began to spin it at an angle so he could sweep it down towards Gill and still continue to swing it if he missed or not. With superhuman strength and such momentum on the anchor Shamus brought it downwards crashing down into the side of Gill's head and perhaps if lucky his ribs.

Kyren

Walking around the island looking for something he noticed as he walked down from the hospital that a new ship had arrived but it was turning the other way now and the Iron Heart's Marine ship was gone. Seeing someone walking through the town Kyren saw a tall man in a white suit. His hair looked silvery and he noticed a cigar in his mouth.

Kyren gulped and realised he might know just who this man was and if it was then both the woman and fishman would be in trouble. Kyren walked downwards towards the man and kept looking at him to see if it really was who he thought.

It couldn't be could it?

Kyren saw the tall and thin beautiful Marine perform an amazing flip whilst shooting the other woman and land it and he was gob smacked by her skills as he looked towards the fishman he saw him take down 2 large Marines and grinned.

Maybe these two could handle this other Marine. Kyren was then knocked out of his thoughts as he caught his toe on a loose piece of paving. He swore lightly then looked at his toe to see no damage. Looking back at the Marine who'd entered he could see now that he was closer it was the man he'd thought.

It was his rival Saizo, the Marine he'd met all those years ago. The Marine he'd saved from that bladed assassin and who he'd been stabbed by badly. The Marine who'd taken him to the Marine Academy to be treated by their doctor. The Marine who would now be after him. Looking at Saizo he knew he would be a much higher rank but what rank? From the looks Kyren guessed Rear Admiral.

Rose heard it, the sound of the Marine jumping off of the ground. That moron had just signed her own death warrant. Instantly, Rose dove to the side as the bullets rained down on her former position. She hit the ground rolling and flipped back up onto her feet, landing in a crouch. She sprang forward from her new position and dove headfirst through a shop window. The glass shattered and a few stray pieces cut into her skin, but for the moment, Rose ignored them. She glanced around and took in the sight of shop's contents in an instant.

First off, it was a shop that sold books. Secondly, there were two customers and the shop owner huddled behind the checkout counter. Rose leaped over to where the three were hidden and held a finger to her lips while pointing at the shop's back door.

"Hurry up and get out," she ordered quietly. "There is an idiot Marine out there shooting up the place. I'll try to stall her if she comes in here. Go!"

The three nodded their thanks and headed out, but each of them gave Rose a suspicious look. She merely smiled apologetically to each of them and then turned to face the front door, her eyes narrowing. Good, now that the civilians were out of the way, she could handle the Marine. A shop was smaller than a street and staying inside of it would give Rose a definite advantage to counter the gun's longer range.

Gill was hit in side by the anchor causing extreme pain. He coughed up blood easily when the anchor made its impact. Gill fell to the ground "Dang it." Some of his ribs were cracked and no doubt some of his organs were punchured. Gill was unable to fight anymore. He lied on the ground bleeding....

A mechanical buzz pierced the air around the docks as a small raft approached the island from afar. Even though the raft was small, and built only for one person, it had a wave of water gashing behind it and made a noise equal to that of a full sized battleship. On it, a red haired man stood, with a pair of metallic goggles covering his eyes from the blasting wind and his open grey vest flailing in the wind. His right hand was holding what appeared to be a metallic handle protruding out of the raft's motor, and was spinning like a drill from the elbow down. This man was obviously not normal.

Introducing:
Reginald "Red" Jaguar
Shari Shari User
Wandering Shipwright
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As a shipwright, Red could handle sailing, but without any navigation skills he had no idea where he was sailing to. He spent the last three days at sea, and after spotting land he rushed towards it, hoping to find a decent piece of food to calm his furious stomach. After docking his raft, The Gyrotor, who could be spotted from miles away by it's bright racing-red color, Red slung his backpack over his shoulder and rushed out of the docks. "Stupid sea! so boring. I need food!" He shouted out of reflex.

His hunger made him even more impatient than he normally was, and after walking a few meters, he decided to take a faster approach for the sake of his belly. "Shari Shari No Roller!" He called out loud before both his legs deformed and started spinning rapidly, turning into a pair of large wheels. He then blasted forward, racing through the island with incredible speed, carried by his wheels. He was looking for food, but was doing so quite recklessly and stupidly. He was hungry and impatient, which made him go faster than he should have, a fact that was obvious to him when he spotted an anchor-flinging man standing in his way. Realizing he won't be able to stop in time, Red simply shouted "Watch out!", giving the man a couple of seconds to get out of the way before he will be ran over.

Introducing
Hanna Johnson
Doctor
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The sea was calm as a small, wooden boat sailed over it. A young woman sat in it, leaning against the side with her eyes closed, asleep. The woman had no clue her boat was nearing an island, with fighting at the dock. She didn't know about the marine fighting a wounded fishman, nor did she know about the man rushing at full speed towards the marine. Only when the boat was close enough to hear the man shout "WATCH OUT!" did Hanna wake up. She jolted awake, and looked around in confusion. She quickly noticed what was going on, and her hands flew to her mouth in horror. She wasn't even on the island yet, and already she was witnessing a fight. But then she spotted the fishman, lying injured on the ground. She gasped on seeing his wounds, and jumped out of the boat with her medicine kit, rushing to the fishman. She kneeled next to him. "Don't worry, I'll help you," she told him. She opened the kit, grabbed the things she would need, and started patching the fishman up.