Serious: The Adventures of the Cutting Edge Pirates Chapter 3 "The Enemies we make"

[[At sea]]
[[The Elizabeth]]

The ship moved majestically on water, as if it was born to sail, as the ship lumbered, the clear blue skies and the gentle breeze were welcomed additions to an already glorious day. At the front, the dreadlocked captain of his ship, sat against his mast watching the sea and the sky ahead "How invigorating.... its good to be a pirate today.... dont you agree Mister Miguel??" He was talking to the ships doctor, who he assumed was on deck, he smiled as he turned his head back to see if the good doctor was here.

[[Chart town]]

The town was busy, well, this was chart town, it was always busy, busy market place, busy artists, busy mappers who come to make their signature on the big world. But this place was also a town with rife piracy. There seemed to be heavy thick anxiety in the air, since a powerful pirate group had made its way here. Or so the locals believed. At a bar in town there was a commotion which only made things worse. The man stood looking down on the other man who had accidently spilt a drink on his clothes, he was pointing a pistol at the man on the floor "DO YOU KNOW WHO THE FUCK WE ARE?!!" He pointed to the mark tattooed on his chest as the other man looked in fear, these were the powerful new pirate groups members. The man then fired the pistol , killing the man on the floor before walking out "Let this be a lesson, no one messes with us... you got THAT?!!!"

- Miguel -

Miguel woke-up that morning early as usual, running around the ship hundreds of times before jogging in place and continuing the run. Today was a special day, since today Miguel had invited Nika to come with him to his morning workouts, his endurance increasing with every passing morning. When the miles were made, Miguel allways finished with his body giving out on him, pushing it to the outermost limit every day. Once he fell to his knees, he slowly forced himself up to stretch the muscles, squeezing the acids his body must've stored in his muscles after that long run. After the stretching he forced himself to work on his upper body, doing a few hundred push-ups to end the morning.

Finishing all sweaty he ran and jumped into the ocean, letting nature do its usual course. The cold, almost freezing, morning waters are what stiffened his muscles, or rather numbed them, to the point where he could willingly climb back on board. Once he finished, he moved the man he put on the steering wheel and continued to steer the ship. Miguel had NO idea how to steer, but he imagined it was just trying to keep the boat straight, which he was barely able to do.

Hours go by and the captain asks Miguel about the day.

"Today does seem invigorating, even the morning waters were not as cold as usual. It's like the sun itself is inviting us."

Nite

As the man with a gun made his way outside, A man sole man walked in his direction, heading straight to the bar where he heard the gun shot. Since he was near, he could literally walk to the situation at hand. He stopped only a few feet away from the man that had walked out of the bar, as he swung open the door Nite could see the dead body inside the bar, and the man screaming out that he should be feared. it didn't take long for Nite to put two and two together.

He walked towards a near marine, whom was shaking while looking at the mans tattoo. Nite grabbed his cutlass sword, a normal weapon among the marines, and walked towards the pirate. Without saying a word he swung the sword, having a blue like razor wind shoot out of it, cutting through one of the mans legs. As he bleed Nite heated the sword with a fire nearby and burned his wound shut, with no morphine he had to endure the pain, frankly Nite didn't care how much pain he was in. As the man screamed in pain, Nite dragged his body to an unknown direction, a rather big building about a mile away. It was the marine headquarters Nite had been made in charge off, temporarily of course. He was getting ready to question the man about the words he used, whoever he was or whoever he was working for.. he was courageous enough to start trouble in his town, which meant he must have a reason to have so much courage.

"I guess today will be interesting after all..." (Nite's thoughts)

[[Chart town near the bar ]]

The pirate screamed in agony as Nite cut him, and patched his wound. As he laid on the ground he yelled at Nite "DO YOU KNOW WHO THE FUCK WE ARE MARINE!!! MY BOSS WONT FORGIVE YOU FOR THIS!!!!!" The pirate was simply throwing empty threats, everyone knew no one cared about some lowly grunt, but still, the pirate wanted to live.


[[At an undisclosed location in Chart town]]

A meeting was going on, a very quiet meeting, one involving the admission of new members to this fast rising crew. A pale looking man was on the screen watcching and then he asked "well Kerico? huff huff..... Can we count on them?" The man called Kerico had a small tattoo on his cheek and gypsy clothing, he then spoke "they are famous in the North Blue Captain...., trust me, i think they are pretty decent...." The pale man on the screen then coughed before saying "Fine, put them in charge of 90-100... lets see how they do... welcome Grisham brothers, do not fail me....." The screen went blank as the lights came on, revealing a few people, including a man with a pirate coat and a huge cutlass along with a cannon on his back, with multiple scars and another shorter man who carried a long sword, he had no scars on his body and had long blonde hair. The two of them looked nervous as hell.


[[Billy Grisham "The Big twin"]]
[[40,000,000 beli]]
[[Grisham Brothers pirates]]

[[Bittle Grisham "The clever twin"]]
[[40,000,000 beli]]
[[Grisham brothers pirates]]

Bittle then stood up to bow, Billy followed "We thank the crew for accepting us.. we will not let you down Mr Kerico...." Bittle knew this was a gamble, but this was the quickest and best way to reach the New World, once they were in they were gonna climb ranks and head for the top. Kerico stood up "Yeah well.. dont give the captain a reason to dislike me now boys.. we all have high hopes for you..." Kerico and the others were leaving as the grishams fell back into their seats. Billy then spoke "I dont like this Bittle..... these guys are all huge in the Grandline..." Bittle snorted "Thats why this will work Billy, keep your eyes on the god damn prize....."

[[Off the port of Chart town]]

The Elizabeth was enclosing the island as Jack yelled "LAND AHOY MATEYS!!!!" He was trying to wake people uo and ran along the ship, he was excited, this was his second trip to Chart town after all. He then yelled "Who wants to come to shore with me?!!!!"

- Miguel -

Miguel immediately raised his hand, after he parked the ship horribly on the shore. most of the men on board had to re arrange the positioning of the ship before allowing Miguel to leave. They put rope and dropped anchor right on the docks, allowing the ship to stay in a rather professional looking position.

Miguel jumped off the ship, after receiving a running start, only to land on the soft beach sands. He was finally able to walk around and have fun without the same view of the vast ocean, and the wooden floors he was constantly walking on. It was exciting for Miguel that they had finally landed on the beach, and it was even better to know that he could explore. He loved eating pasta from the cook, so he was satisfied and not worrying about eating anything on the island, his only worries was the wine he wasn't getting. Miguel wanted to taste the delicate taste of red wine.

He jumped on the ocean, landing short of a distance from the captain.

"I'll go with you captain! I'll make sure to dri- I mean inspect the wine on this island!"

Nite

Nite had arrived on the marines base, ignoring the mans threats.. as it seemed the man was quite full of himself. Nite threw the man inside a cell, walking towards the other marines to discuss the proper torturing methods for information. Nite's method involved constant lack of oxygen on his opponents part, without oxygen heading towards his head, he'd most likely be unable to think of much of anything other then the ways of him escaping. Of course Nite would allow the marines to do the dirty work, something told Nite this man was but a small fry.. but he might have some important information.

Nite and the marines were openly discussing their torturing methods close to the cell of the pirate, they were literally discussing torturing ideas so the pirate could hear them. One of the marines suggested cutting off another leg to prevent him from running, another discussed shoving raw fish guts in his mouth while they punched his stomach (forcing him to swallow), the oldest marine asked if they could simply put glass in his mouth and punch him continuously (leave it to the old people to think of the oldest ideas). Nothing was decided yet, but a lot of good ideas were being thrown around.

"Don't worry pirate, we'll be with you soon enough.."

[[On the Elizabeth]]

Jack laughed at Miguesl exubrance, it was nice to have such a diverse and fun person on his crew. It looked liked the rest wasnt interested, well it didnt matter, this was the last stop before the grandline, they were going to have to make some money here before leaving.Jack then waved to the crew hands "Look after things while im gone..." They all responded with a emphatic yes or grunts of yes. Jack walked along and jumped off the side of the ship onto the wooden platform at the docks. Jack noticed something, alot of ships with a flag with the rising sun was docked here. What could that mean?

[[Marine base]]

the pirate was scared to death , so much so that once all these marines were discussing how to torture him, he immediately gave in. "OK OK!!! FOR GODS SAKE!!! ILL TELL YOU WHAT I KNOW!!!! PLEASE, WE ARENT EVEN ALLOWED TO SPEAK THE CREWS NAME!!! I CAN ONLY TELL YOU SOME THINGS PLEASE!!!!"

- Miguel -

Miguel looked around the docs at the direction the captain was looking at, it seemed like the ships flags were mostly the same.. a rising sun. Something about the ships gave Miguel a bad feeling in the pit of his stomach. Then again, it might've been the hot sun roaming above their heads. Miguel walked a little further to look ahead, the town seemed a bit busy, so everything looked ok.. however all the ships with the flags could never be a good thing, whatever they were doing there.. it was obvious with their numbers that they probably owned the place.

Suddenly, another worry swept across Miguels mind.

"Captain, are we going to find some win- I mean food for the ship?"

- Nite -

Nite walked over to the cell of the prisoner, staying far out of his reach while waiting for an explanation. Some other marines started to gather around the prison cell, waiting for a responce. The older marine seemed to be the first to want to get the obvious question across.

"Alright pirate, tell all of us what you know.. we'll only hold you accountable for murder if you do, that's not even enough for Impel down"

Nite nodded, he was in the front of the mob of marines, he was crossing his arms. Of course, he was waiting for enough answers.. and he was planning to squeeze every bit of information out of the pirate, till he has nothing left but his childhood memories to talk about.

[[At the docks]]

Jack looks to Miguel and laughs again as he walks into the town "Is your head full of food Mister Miguel, ahhahahahahaah, well, that isnt a bad thing, we should be stuffed to our hearts content for the sakes of our happiness.... but im afraid, food is on hold, we need to get a map of the grandline.... we will be heading to the bountiful seas eventually after all..... this town is perfect for maps and log poses... if only we had a proper navigator aboard the ship......"


[[At the marine base]]

The pirate then spoke in a frail and weakend voice, clearly he was scared and in a lot of pain, and these marines were looking to inflict more pain unless he talked "Ok look.... i.. ii... dont know who exactly the boss is... but i know Divisions 90-100 of our crew are docked here currently.... i ...i... oh god... i joined the crew only last week..... at a warehouse on the other edge of town...... its called Haze tech and ware....... please ... please dont hurt me......"

[[At the warehouse]]

The grisham brothers had already set up shop quite fast and was now in charge of 90-100, these were pretty decent divisions but not fantastical pirates, it was about right, they were all either unknown or hedging at low bounties. Bittle then looked to the man who had brought him news "WHAT?!!!!!" The pirate recoiled nearly in mild fear for the new commanding officer "Well... sir..... the new recruit got caught..... by Nite.... Nite Strider, the freaking ' Paper knight'...." Bittle Grisham cursed the very stars he was born under, the guy who fought in the great Alabasta war, Nite Strider was on this island? No wonder the other higher divisions wanted out, a commodore running around on their turf ruins the set up. Billy Grisham got up , lumbering "Heh, what paper knight bullshit is this? Ill kill him and be done with it!!!" Bittle held his hand up "This is a commodore Billy... we dont go killing marine high command unless we have too... it attracts attention..." The lower pirate then said "Sir... another thing... a boat docked in the port today... its another crew... two scissors crossed on a skull, " Bittles eyes widened the same time Billy did, Billy then roared "THAT FUKIN BRAT IS HERE!!! ILL KILL HIM!!!" Bittle again held his hand up "No Billy... hang on a minute....we can use this to our advantage...... will first start with this order, FIND AND BRING ME JACK LACROIX ALIVE!!!!" A few hundred pirates roared in return as they walked to find Jack Lacroix, a picture of jack was distributed by some of the grishams who had been saving his picture for exactly this day.

Oniyuri stepped onto the upper deck on the ship and stretched as the door slammed behind her. It seemed she had been up a little late.. The whole crew was milling around the ship.. and she even saw Jack and Miguel jump onto the docks... She really had gotten up late... good thing she was prepared for something like this.. Oniyuri took a quick check on her items.. Briefcase.. In her hand.. revolvers on her hips, Wakizashi strapped to her back.. and Bullets also on her hips.. Oniyuri was good to go! Oniyuri followed quickly after Jack and Miguel.. Leaping onto the docks and landing softly..Her hair rising and then falling over he face causing her to brush it to the sides. As Oniyuri caught up to Jack and Miguel she started walking beside them.. Quickly noticing what they had.. Most of the flags were the same.. What was going on in this town? Oniyuri heard Jacks last sentence and a Question popped into her head. "Is that the purpose of this stop sir?" Oniyuri said as she Switched the hand her Briefcase was in.. It was so large.. and Clunky. She needed something smaller and Lighter.. that would be the goal of this trip for her. Oniyuri put her hand into the pouch and rifled around.. She felt she had enough Space in the pouch.. She opened her briefcase and stuffed the contents into the pouch.. Syringes , Vials and finally her dagger.. where would she put that.. Oniyuri shoved her dagger into her boot as she put the briefcase on the ground and continued walking next to Jack and Miguel

[[Jack and his crew]]

Jack nodded to Onis question as he exclaimed "Good to see you up and about in the town first mate Oni.... yes that is the purpose, we need maps, after all we cant just simply sail the grandline and hope for the best can we?" Jack was pretty restless to be back in chart town, the last time he was here, his father was causing havoc. Jack then heard some noise "Whats that?"

- Miguel -

Miguel looked around, the captain had said that their priority was maps.. finding a map to the grand aline seemed to be more important then Miguels special selection of wine. When his eyes gazed around the area, the site of the first mate surprised him, then he remembered an old saying from his parents. He made sure the saying was correct many times over before he spat it out.

"Well, guess I'll take my leave gentlemen.. My parents had told me in the past that when a man and women are together one must never be the third wheel."

Miguel had already started taking his first steps out of the small group, until he heard a step in another direction. He turned around almsot immediately, dazed at the thought of who it could be.

-Nite-

Nite walked out of the tower, ignoring the other marines that were now celebrating their new data collected from the pirate. He threw the cutlass having it jam into the wall of the building, he was going to have a small look around town to make sure everything was alright.. if what the man said was true, then this town was now infested with trouble.. and Nite had to find a way to fumigate it.

He started walking towards the docs, since he had to make sure there were plenty of ships, or one big ship, with a very fishy flag.. after all, these people had to doc first before going into town. It was only a hunch, but Nite went with it.

Nite reached his destination, after sensing the atmosphere completely change.. the soothing air he was breathing a few moments ago was starting to feel tainted, and hard to breath.. it was never a good sign, much like the war in Alabasta where the air was much more thick. Within minutes Nite had reached his destination, and in the distance he could see three pirates roaming together.. and around them Nite could see the many ships with the same flags.

"The pirate.. he wasn't lying.." (Nite's thoughts)

[[Jack]]

Jack shrugged at Miguels unusual behaviour and then spoke to Oni "Ill be going to a shop to get a map... you go around town or something.. dont forget to get back to the ship after your done." Jack then walked a bit further away from Oni as he had to take a turn, as he walked he noticed alot of men in the area, they were holding clubs, swords and pistols, they were now surrounding the road he had turn into. Jack then exclaimed "Well there gents... can i help ye?" One of the men came forth and snarled "Silence Jacky boy... boss Grisham wants you to come with us... or well gut ya!!" Jack then twitched, Grisham was here? That was bad news, he was hoping to reach the grandline before the grishams, but the plan failed. Jacks hands turned into scissors and he aimed them at the men in the alley "Well then lads.... time to pay the piper his dues and try to capture me"

[[At the warehouse]]

One of the pirates still stationed there then snickered as the other looked at him "What? Whats so funny?" The pirate then said "wont it be hilarious if the sods who caught Jack Lacroix brings him here? I mean the Grishams set up shop in another part of town after sending most of us to that other place" The other pirate snorted "oh shut up Kev, your an idiot you are!! what if you give away the bosses positons, they would have you strung from your feet!!"

- Miguel -

Miguel saw all of the people surrounding them, that must've been the footsteps he heard.. it was amazing how many there were, Miguel had no idea if he would be able to take A QUARTER of them on. He tried to get ready in his fighting position of Taekwondo, getting prepared to defeat as many enemies as possible if they got near.. and as fast as possible. He didn't know if he would survive this, but it seemed like there was no other way around this.

Miguel started jumping in place, shaking his arms to wake them up. He started kicking the air with one leg while the other remained planted, getting himself pumped up with a sugar rush before the fight would start.

"Alright, who wants to end up in a hospital first?"

- Nite -

Nite looked with a blank stare at the enemies surrounding the now recognized as Jack, his hands had turned into scissors which was quite disturbing.. Nite had no idea the enemy would be a devil fruit user. Nite assumed all of the men around Jack were pirates, since they all had weapons.. but rather then stopping them Nite created a single sheet of paper and started writing in letters everything he was seeing, from the pirates looking at Jack to the man he saw kicking the air.. making a small remark about sending people to the hospital.

Nite tried to hide with his back against the wall, looking slightly at the many pirate surrounding the three.. he had to find out information so he could continue to find the real enemies later on.

[[Jack]]

Jack was slicing and dicing his way as the fight raged on, but he was tired and fatigued by non stop having to deal with pirate after pirate. As he saw Miguel fight some distance away, he was motioning towards that side, but he had his back turned, and everyone knew that in a pirate fight, you NEVER turn your back on an enemy. He heard a clicking noise, and turned immediately, his hand was now in cuff, and had turn back to normal. Jack could feel his power lowering as he got down to a knee before cursing "No... it cant be....." The pirate who had cuffed him grinned "Yeah, thats right Jackie boy, a present from the Grishams, they thought you would look nice and dashing for tea this evening...." The pirates began unloading strikes adn hits on the weakened Jack and began tearing him away from the area. AS the pirate left he exclaimed "Kill his crew mates for safe measures!!!! We dont need them snooping!!!" Pirates began charging at Oni and Miguel with swords and bats. Some stood back with pistols, it was madness, and there were only about 150 people here at this moment.

Oniyuri frowned as the group began splitting up again... She stood in the middle of the street watching as Miguel and Jack went in different directions.. First was Jack.. A group surrounded him.. Oniyuri pulled out one of her revolvers and began running forward.. Only to be stopped by a group of people.. It seemed Jack had been defeated quite easily. Or maybe he had a plan.. Oniyuri slid to a stop and quickly glanced at Miguel who had people advancing on him, but it seemed that is what Miguel wanted.. Oniyuri pulled her second revolver from her hip when she saw the amount of people.. so many.. she may need to run after Taking down a few.. In rapid succession Oniyuri fired her revolvers.. She fired 12 times in the General Direction of the enemy.. She couldn't waste any time.. And hopefully now that they were distracted Oniyuri could run! Oniyuri slid her Revolvers back into place and began running down the streets.. Hopefully nobody would be following her. Oniyuri turned into an alley and ducked behind a Bin.. Hopefully Miguel would be running as well. He doesnt stand a chance against that many people.

- Miguel -

Miguel began kicking at every enemy that started going his way, the numbers outnumbering him by the many. The first man came to Miguel swinging his sword, Miguel blocked with his arms, his steel hard skin becoming apparent to the enemy. He then kicked the man at his sides, rupturing his kidneys. Before he even had a chance on commenting on the blood that he'd soon be pissing five men appeared swinging swords around.

Miguel assumed his Muay Thai stance and started moving his arms in the directions of the blades to block them, but there were too many. Cuts could be seen almost instantly around his stomach and chest. There were others around Miguel attacking him, cutting his back as well. If this kept up, Miguel would die.

Within moments Miguel send a straight forward punch, punching one man so hard he flew several feet backwards, knocking out the man and four people behind him. Another man ran towards Miguel and roundhouse kicked him in the face, knocking him out almost instantly. Before Miguel could counter another swordsmen he heard several bangs and sounds of bullets hitting steel, followed by pain on his torso region.. he had been shot with a bullet. Miguel dropped to his knees, checking the damage that had been done. The bullet was now lodged in some unknown area, all Miguel knew was that he would have to check himself later on.. but he did know that the bullet was somewhere in his chest, and since hs is still alive, it must've missed his heart.. yes, it was more to the right.

Miguel stood up, picking up a body of a man and swinging him around fast enough for the people around Miguel to back away, within moments Miguel through the man at the gunners only a few feet away, putting them all on their asses. Miguel quickly ran to them, punching them all out cold with a single swing. Countless other men started surrounding Miguel, and he already knew he had been completely outmatched.. and his captain, from the perspective Miguel was seeing, had already been caught and sent to an unknnown place. Miguel could not follow him, as a horde of people stood in the way. Miguel had no choice, he stood up and immediately ran in the direction Oni had gone, not knowing fully what was about to happen to him or Oni, after all.. no matter how fast Miguel was before, he was now injured.. and odds were it was probably a lung that was caught.

Just as that conclusion hit Miguels mind, blood started spewing out of his mouth, it was now obvious he was in deep trouble.. he'd have to give himself surgical procedures. his lungs had been hurt, and his body casually slowing down to the point of almost normal speed, Oni was a bit ahead, but not too far to have not noticed Miguel's lack of speed.

- Nite -

Nite could not believe the work the crew put into escaping. It was 150 men against 3, and they still fought with everything they could up until the point where a man got captured, and two other pirates ran away. The pirates on their own managed to kill around 10 each, and that was on the spot. One was injured, another captured, and the last seemed to be very eager to run.. must've already seen the outcome before it was too late, much smarter then the one that fought and got injured. What really interested him though, was that the captain was specifically captured.. Nite had no idea still who the bad guy was, but one thing was certain.. these odds were completely against the other crew. Nite watched the outcome, watching to see if there was a point where the pirates would look like good guys.

He took noted, however, of how everyone fought. Jack was a speedy fellow, using his scissors like attached swords, or in ways better then attached swords. The other seemed to have used her pistols before everything else, suggesting that she is either a gunner.. or something else entirely but still uses guns in the beginning. The last one seemed like a normal man, up until the point where he punched a few of those men and knocked them out, he was a martial artist then, with hard skin on his limbs.. but not his torso and abdomen by the looks of it. Nite watched closely the outcome of the battle, eventually he just ran to the top of the building to watch the two pirate run away.. he was honestly debating whether or not he should do something.

"I wonder.. is the enemy, of my enemy, my friend?"(Nite's thoughts)

[[At a undisclosed location]]

Jack awoke groggy and bloody, he had been beaten half to hell and was now in chains, sea stone no doubt. He was now looking up, there was only one window in this cylinder room which was very tall. Jack started coughing as the door opened to reveal the Grishams walking in. Jack then laughed "Why if it isnt big dumbass and little dumbass..." Bittle grit his teeth, "You can joke all you want you little shit, no one will hear you scream from here...."

[[Miguel and Oni]]

The pirates tried chasing down Oni as some of them were hit by her attacks. The others pressured Miguel who was clearly in a bad spot. The pirates then started laughing and surrounding Miguel with a few more. One of them drew his square looking sword "Im Garth 'square blade' ill cut you up and become influential!!!" Garth aimed to slice down Miguel.

Long legs swung back and forth from atop a building as the women with long blond hair watched. Though the day she had ended up collecting a large sack of mostly gold and jewelry. Honestly she had been tired of carrying it around. She noticed as two people seemed to suddenly be cornered, trapped by a lot more. She blinked a few times as before frowning, noticing one was a girl. "hmmm" she said before standing up and stretching "this should be fun" she said noticed one of them pull out a sword. She held up her sack of goodies and tossed it over the edge before watching it drop on one of the pirates and knocking them out before jumping down and landing in front of the two other ones. "hey" she said as she looked at the pirates surrounding them, sounding almost bored as she had her hands in her pockets that where surrounding the other two.

She then smiled before slipping off her shoes and kicking the man who held the sword in the chest, A pair of hand cuffs appearing around his hand on legs as she did. "lets say we make this a bit more even shall we" she said as she started punching a couple pirates, taking out quiet as she would have hand cuffs appear on them the moment she made contact with they're body.

- Miguel -

Miguel opened his eyes when he saw another women with a very weird devil fruit ability. She had the ability to put others bodies into handcuffs just by touching them, which was very amazing. Miguel was stuck on the edge of a building by this time, the pirates had already swarmed around him. He had no idea where Oni was, but he doubted she would be fighting back unless the pirates had lessened their numbers. Miguel witnessed the women doing amazing feats just by fighting the other pirates, kicking them and punching them, putting handcuffs on each of them every time she connected a blow. Miguel was honestly awestruck for those seconds she had appeared and caused damage, but then reality hit him as he looked around the woman.

Pirates were already aiming their guns at her from afar, and worse they were gathering themselves behind her everr step she took on the single direction. Pirates had mustered the courage to stand behind her and swing their swords down. Miguel could not let that happen. She was cute, he had to admit that.. perhaps too cute to have any form of harm come to her. Miguel, for some stupid reason, didn't want her hurt by any of these pirates.

He readied himself and ran between the pirates and the women, running at 60 miles per hour, he put up both of his arms and blocked the four blades that were aimed directly at her, he then made a round house kick to one pirate with enough blunt force to push the other pirates on his side into the ground, the force transferred put them all in a daze.

Miguel started relaxing his arm muscles, putting himself into a Muay Thai stance. He knew he was going to die if this kept up, and the cute womans speed was on the average level.. as well as her reflexes, but her powers seemed to be the only way out. All Miguel knew was that at this very moment, he had to protect her back.. since some of these pirates seemed faster then her and stronger physically, but her powers seemed to close that gap almost instantly. With a mere touch, a man could be defeated. The only problem was, there was no escape from the horde of pirates heading their way.. all of their swords and guns aimed directly at them.

After knocking out the pirate Miguel had a brief moment where he thought anything was possible, the pirates MIGHT be defeated after all. This hope though, was gone the second he saw multiple pistols aimed at the women and Miguel. He smiled, knowing fully well what was about to happen. Miguel didn't care if the women had ran directly into a mob of pirates, he didn't care that the guns were aimed at her and him because of their positions, he only cared about saving the one life he could save.. and that's all. Right before the guns fired Miguel ran in front of her, hugging her to cover himself with her body. In an instant shots were heard and seven bullet wounds could be seen around Miguels back, as well as several others that had mistakenly hit other pirates. None had hit his spine, but most of his ribs were hurt, or broken. Blood was pouring out of him slowly, he had to get to a knee to contain himself. While this happened many more pirates got around them in an instant. Miguel had no possibility of fighting any longer, it all seemed to be over as each of the pirates took out a small pistols and aimed at the woman with beautiful gold hair and a very slim body (Which Miguel had noted already), and the injured man down on one knee. All of the pirates surrounding them (the inner layer they could see) now had pistols, and from this close range.. Miguel doubted even he could dodge them.

The pirates merely pointed, some smiling while others were laughing. It seemed like they were giving Miguel and her their final words before they would pull the trigger.

"Sorry I got you into this mess.. sorry about the hug, I'd rather not be sued for harassment."

- Nite -

Nite sighed, seeing as the pirates were in trouble, but he still had to milk this a bit further. In his mind he had to, no matter what, find out exactly who the good and bad guys were.. from his standards, it was easy to see that one of the groups was outnumbered, he could see one of the men were already injured.. but why would he risk himself for the sake of another random person? It almost seemed like one of those fake fairy tale books Nite had read countless times. Although, in some fairy tales.. the man that took the hit died shortly after. This scenario looked a lot like the books where the man died, all of the pirates surrounding them with their pistols on their heads. Nite was still debating whether or not he should help the pirates, or if they were still strong enough to help themselves.. after all, it seemed like the woman with blonde hair had an unusual ability. Nite did not know if she could move quickly enough to strike the entire thick crowd filled with swords and guns before the ones with guns could pull the trigger, all he knew was that the pirates were outnumbered.. and when an animal is cornered, they usually try to strike.

In Nite's mind, he had no idea how the pirates would react, but he wasn't going to step in and risk his title for saving pirates that weren't worth saving, or saving pirates that could have saved themselves (Since then he would look like an ally or accomplice). Nite stood on the top of the building, watching the small people under him gather.. he wondered if the enemies could say a little more information to try and close some gaps Nite had about the pirates on the island.

His thoughts were in two places, one was the mystery of the pirates on the island, which seemed like a priority at the moment. The other thought was that the pirates surrounded.. might actually be the good guys in all of this. Either that, or the pirates were actually a bunch of angry mob people trying to get back at the pirates for what they did to them. Nite honestly had zero idea, and the hints he heard weren't helping at all.

"*sigh* I have zero ideas for all of this, this is almost infuriating.." (Nite's thoughts)

The women was fighting hard, realizing that she had gotten into more trouble then it might have been worth. She was starting to get her ass kicked, her could feel the hair on the back of her neck stand up as she looked behind her, just catching a glimpse as the man who had gotten shot had blocked an attack that might of killed her if it had made contact. She blinked shocked but had to shake it off quickly as their where still men coming after them. "damn it" she said as she was starting to sweat, drops sliding down her body as she dodge a few attacks and kept knocking down people, pushing them back and causing a domino affect as she did.

She kept fighting though it all, her breath was getting heavy, she was getting a bit beat up, a few cuts on her sides and cheek and red marks from some punches where starting to turn darker but nothing she couldnt handle. She had finished punching one man before she suddenly felt arms wrap around her and hold her close as the sounds of many guns went off. she realized it was the man who had been wounded before that had hugged her, thus protecting her from the spray of bullets. She was wide eyed and shocked, she didnt know what to do. Her eyes looked around, noticing that they where not corned by a circle of guns. She let out a sigh and looked down at the man, who was speaking to her. She blinked for a moment before glaring at him "shut up" She said and looked around "if we make it out of this alive, i wont sue you, but i will wait till you're well, then i'll give you a good slap" she said before giving him a playful look as she sliped off her jacket and held up her fists, taking a defensive stance in front of him now as she glared at the other pirates "bring it, I'll fight you all till my last breath, even if i get filled with bullets, i'll have a good ten seconds to take out at least one more of you" she said confidently as her eyes burned with a fire that couldnt be put out even with the threat of death being shoved in her face. "oh, and by the way, My name is Yomchi, Yomchi Tenso" She said to the wounded man.

(( sorry about spelling mistakes ))

[[Pirates vs Miguel, oni and Yomchi]]

The pirates fell back as the square blade man was defeated in a instant. How were these guys staying alive and fighting back , the woman was also a problem. Some of the pirates stopped laughing and moved back a bit, her powers were very troublesome. One pirate was shouting "DONT BACK OFF, KILL THEM BOTH!!!" Two big pirates with hammers came out, they swung their hammers , first at Yomchi and the other at Miguel, the other pirates didnt want to get hurt so they backed off as these lower commanders came forth.

[[Jack at a undisclosed location]]

Jack groaned as he tasted his own blood. It was Billy who was taking turns punching down his face after all. Bittle stood in a corner laughing "Well, how is that Lacroix?!! You should have known better than to mess with us!!!" Jack smiled as he gritted his teeth "As usual Bittle... you talk great, but its big and brainless here who is beating the hell out of me..." Another punch was thrown by Billy which sent blood spewing out of Jacks mouth. There was a knock on the door and the pirate who knocked whispered something to Bittle when he came in, Bittles eyes widened in anger "WHAT!!!!! I sent over 150 men there, and they are all still struggling with some half dead man and a WOMAN!!!" The pirate then pleaded "The woman is a burglar sir... she is quite famous around here...." Bittle then sighed "Then send about 100 more, that should do it, kill them all and bring me their heads!!!"

- Miguel -

Miguel was too battered up to do anything, he heard the women speaking to him and promised not to sue him. That small comment left a smile to his face, a small one.. but it still showed. Miguel already thought the people around them were going to kill them, and they were in a position of being easy targets to the circle surrounding them. Miguel tried to utter a few words before the moment where he thought the guns would be shot, and both Miguel and Yomchi would be killed.

"Nice to meet you Yomchi, you may call me Miguel.. it was nice knowing you for these seconds before our death.."

Before Miguel could continue the pirates had suddenly turned scared.. for NO reason. It was like a splash of schizophrenia had covered all of the men around them, which made no sense to Miguel. They (Miguel and Yomchi) were literally on the ropes and about to be shot from all directions, and then they get scared of a cripple and a women? This just confused Miguel even further then he usually was. JUST when he was getting accustomed to the world that was new to him, a weird phenomenon like THIS appears. Miguel was not someone to argue though, since they were suddenly scared that gave Miguel and Yomchi some time to spare.. hopefully something would happen or some escape route would show itself. Miguel was in no condition to fight, standing up was a chore of its own, so when the two big guys with hammers appeared Miguel thought of it as a bit of an overkill. However, it was much better then trying to fight the crowd of so many men.

Miguel had no idea where the captain was, but he guessed he must be out somewhere with those pirates.. although what they were doing Miguel had no idea. He tried to stand up, his arm holding his sides.. he guessed he had to do what he had to do, with the bullets inside him he would not be able to fight.. and judging by the cheap guns he was seeing around the pirates hands, the bullets must not have gotten too deep inside his body. This meant Miguel was not in as bad a position as he thought he was, but he was still going to die unless he put himself in a medical facility so he could treat himself. He stood up, and watched both of the hammers head towards him and Yomchi, Miguel had NO power to move too far, and less power to attack the enemies.. but he could still help with one thing, and that was clearing the enemy attacks so Yomchi could defeat them with her amazing powers.

Miguel stood up and put himself in his Muay Thai stance, with this his fist attacks became stronger by twice as much. Once the two big guys swung their hammers Miguel ran towards them, putting both of his fists forward and clashing with both of the hammers ends, both of his fists remained undented, but the mens hammers made a sudden recoil that would normally disarm a fellow, the recoild would normally be that painful. Miguel made an opening for the women behind him with powers that could easily end this fight with but a single touch.

"Yomchi, THEY'RE WIDE OPEN!!" After that last outbreak of strength the wounds opened further, and more blood came out of them.. it seemed like the recoil from the hammers had only hurt Miguel further on the inside, since the bullets had injured him.

- Nite -

Nite watched the phenomenon unfold, the pirates seemed to have a mild case of schizophrenia, since they were obviously scared of something that wasn't there.. The two people that were surrounded were now identified as Miguel, and Yomchi.. their names were not very familiar to Nite. The situation they were in was not a very good one, when the pirates surrounding them would figure this out it would most likely be over for both of them, Nite was only watching as much as he possibly could to gain as much information as possible.. it seemed like the two that were just defeated had familiar faces to Nite, although why he had no idea.

Nite could only place his hand under his chin, trying to figure out what to do in this situation, so far he was kneeling towards waiting it out.. since obviously there was still information Nite could learn from the fight, he was prepared to drag this on until the very last second the pirates would need him.. since he had already made up his mind that the enemy, of his enemy, could very well be his friend.

Yomchi was ready to turned into a human block of swiss cheese, that was until they suddenly got scared for some reason. she blinked before smirking "yeah thats right, be afread" she said cockily till she noticed the two large men with hammers coming down toward them "well shit" she mubbled under her breath. she put up her arm as she got ready to now be turned into a pancake "this fight is making me hungery" she thought in her head. She gulped and then her eyes widened as she noticed the guy, Miguel, came in front of her and stopped the attack, with just his freaking fists! She blinked as she jaw opened a little in surprise before hearing him yell at her. "oh right" she said and jumped over Miguel, using the skills she had gotten from years of robbing mostly male pirates. She landed next to the men, her hand hitting on in the side as her foot kicked. Both quickly gaining a pretty new pair of steal cuffs around their ankles and wrists, along with a lock-less chastity belt....mostly for a good laugh on her part in case they did die.

Miguel was surprised the men had lost so easily, but at the same time he was relieved. The two men were touched by her bare feet, which shackled them on the spot. Miguel knew she was strong, but the mount of power her Devil fruit had was unbelievable. By the time she had finished her job Miguel started grabbing his sides again, no doubt feeling the pain the shock had given him. He fell on his knees, his forehead hitting the floor. Miguel knew he was in deep trouble, and had no hopes of surviving this on his own. The group of men surrounding them had lost most of their confidence, at least until more men showed up. One hundred men had arrived as reinforcements, making more then 200 men surrounding them.. much more then when they originally started fighting them. It was like Miguel and Yomchi had been fighting in circles, only to end up with more then they started in the end of the complete circulation.. this was deppressing.

Miguel tried to stand up, his legs wobbling. He put his hands on Yomchi's wrists so she could pay attention to him.. the blood on his hands were now tainted on her wrists. His eyes were getting a bit blank.. and hard to see, it was his body wanting to give out on him. He tried to hold on tightly to her wrist, but to yomchi it would feel like a weak child trying to hold her hand.

"Ugh.. Yomchi, that was your name right?.. I need you to leave, I'll hold off these guys as much as I can.. but by the time i finish here, I'll need you to be gone.."

Miguel didn't say he was going to win, he merely said when he was done with the situation, which Miguel knew would be his death. He watched as the men started growing their confidence again, increasing the risk of one of them growing the balls to shoot them while they were cornered.. Miguel continued urging Yomchi.

"Please.. leave me here.. I'll catch up with you after this.."

- Nite -

Nite stayed on the sidelines, witnessing 100 more men pop up from the long distance.. Nite did not know exactly where they came from, but he knew their numbers were only incerasing. Nite still held his ground, watching the men surround the women and the male... but something stroke him as odd about the female, her face seemed oddly familiar. Upon putting her face on a paper, Nite realized her face was the same as a bounty poster he had recently read. She was the thief that was very well known throughout these parts. Now Nite was confused, why in the hell would a thief help a man in need? Nite started to contemplate on whether the two people were actually good people, it seemed like the male was pleading for the female to leave.. he knew he was going to die.

"I see.. so this one is fine with dying for a comrade.. or some stranger that came to help him."