Flamingo Isle: The Vacation at the Beach; Dark Isle goes on 'vacation' ((Open to all))

Karasu is seen handling the submarine under the ocean, a few buttons are being pressed and levers pulled to force the submarine to reach the top. Clicking a few switches the lights turned on and the hatch opened up. Karasu walked over to Erica, whom he had been helping feel better for the last month. Erica was still injured, so he helped her by giving her the daily medicine she needed and giving her proper stretching exercises (mostly walking) to help her bones move while they are recuperating. It had been a month since they were underwater. Grace specifically told Karasu to not feed her pancakes, so he had to refrain from cooking pancakes.. which was hard for him. He gave her vegetables and meat, and paid close attention to the pyramid with foods on it that Grace had given Karasu and forced him to have as a poster on his wall. He knocked on Red's door, trying to wake her up. Karasu was 80% of the time on the steering wheel.. which gave Red and his daughter Erica to spend time together.

Karasu went inside Erica's room and nudged her to wake her up.. since it was easy for someone to lose their sleeping schedule when trapped by darkness for a month. Their only light was the light of the submarine. He surfaced on the 27th port on Flamingo Isle.. just like he asked his crewmates to enter. Karasu then walked outside, while giving Erica some time to walk out of her room. He looked at the beach itself, which had almost pure white sand.. there didn't seem to be any glass shards or old roots. The ocean was almost like glass, where the roots on the bottom of the ocean could be seen very easily.. Karasu could also see a variety of fishes moving around. Karasu then looked at the island in front of him. There was a giant mountain in the middle with a rocky peak.. Karasu could even see a few figures flying around. although it could've been his imagination (he knew it wasn't). Karasu left the hatch open to let Erica walk up the stairs.

"We'll leave your mom to get ready, I think Grace left a bathing suit for you in the room.. remember, try to have fun today alright? I'll have to show you something in the island later.. but for now, I want you to enjoy yourself." Karasu now made it noticeable that he had a bag on his left hand, along with his pistols around his waist (as usual) and his normal looking gloves. Karasu had some black trunks inside the bag, with a white string on the top to hold the trunk around his waist, and a DIA flag signal on the left thich area of the trunk.. it was supposed to scare anyone away from trying to do bother him or his little daughter. Not to mention it would be noticeable to see a DIA flag burned into the back of Karasu's neck, between the shoulder blades. The trunks had some water-proof holsters to keep guns inside without getting wet. His gloves are kept with plastic around them to keep them from getting wet (the plastic is almost completely see-through, so it's hard to see them). He still kept the diamond jewel on his left ear, it was a small part of him that still missed being a shichibukai.. of course, he wouldn't tell anyone that. He needed to find the puppeteer.. although he would take awhile to find the man responsible for the worst day of his life.. and possible his lifetime. He walked out of the ship with his usual attire of a black cloak, pants, and shoes along with four noticeable pistols around his waist. His cheek had a noticeable scar on the left side, it looked like a human had done it.. or a small beast with long nails. Three open scars could be seen on his cheek next to each other. He turned around to wait for his daughter to get off the ship, he thought this day would be special for Erica.. and he will do everything possible to make that thought happen.

Erica rubbed the sleep out of her eyes and slowly got up, last month was a long month with lots of practicing in learning to walk better again, she gone through a lot but it were also great time spending some of the time with her daddy, she stretched out here arms as she got to sit on the edge of the bed yawning once again she looked around her ''good morning papa did you sleep well'' she said with a soft voice as she then turned to her bed, she placed the pink bunny plushie on her pillow and petted it on the top of its head, then she saw the squirrel walking up to her and she petted and stroked it, she had actually less trouble talking to the animal now, mere thoughts would be understood by the little fellow, this was the cause off her getting better skills in her fruit, and of the bond between her and her squirrel friend.

Erica was in a good mood, especially because she was going outside again, she was even humming a tune and slowly got ready to change, but then karasu mentioned a bathing suite, which would mean that she wouldn't wear pants, to cover her scars on her knees, or a shirt to cover the scars on her arms, she felt really uncomfortable about them, since it reminded her of al the pain she had been through in her past, slowly and sadly she managed to find a bathing suit, it was a pink bathing suit with thin straps, but it seemed like it was her size, she got dressed and then nicely put her pyjama on the bed she walked to the bathroom to refresh herself and saw herself in the mirror, she felt very uncomfortable with her being in scars but knew that the pain was over now, she quickly threw some water in her face and combed her hair which had grown a lot, she began getting curles, and she started feeling like a real girl, she had the happiest moments of her life so far, her squirrel rode with her on her shoulder as she slowly walked up the stairs, blinded by the light that she hadn't seen in a while, wondering what was going to happen on this day that would hopefully be a great one.

Karasu waited for Erica to leave the submarine. He was wondering if she was still sleeping, but then he remembered that she responded to him.. she asked him if he had slept well. Of course Karasu didn't answer her, since he was more focused on leaving the submarine and seeing daylight... he was also focused on seeing his daughter in a bathing suit, like a normal girl her age. When he saw Erica he barely recognized her from a few months ago. Her hair had grown a little and it started curling, she was starting to have beautiful hair. She also combed it, which was something Karasu was very surprised upon seeing. He liked seeing her like this, it made him feel like she was happy. She seemed to be a little dazed by the light. The squirrel she had caught before on Karasu's island found itself on her shoulder, something that Erica didn't seem to mind.

When she got out Karasu decided to answer her question. "You asked if I am happy, the answer is depending on whether or not you are happy", Karasu smiled when he said this. He jumped out of the submarine and held out his arms for Erica to jump; he'd catch her. Right after the jump Karasu looked at the jungle just behind the sand. The beaches were covered in straw huts that practically separated the beach from the jungle right behind the walls of each hut. There were plenty of ways to reach the forest, like walking between the cramped halls between each pair of huts (some bigger then others) but there seemed to be a silent non-spoken rule that made it almost forbidden. People were seen walking to and from the beach, all of them in bikini's, trunks, or bathing suits. Karasu got some attention just by walking into the beach, some people recognized him from the wanted posters.. while others just felt it weird that a man had just arrived on a submarine with a little girl (like they didn't just come out of a submarine). Karasu got some attention from other females, most of them walked through him and gawked at his manly features.. but Karasu didn't really care. In fact, Karasu looked back at them with a deadly stare (the kind he usually gave to people before he killed them), which made them stop looking at him almost instantly.

He turned back to Erica with a smile then walked in the direction of the male changing room. Karasu could've done it inside the ship, but he would rather breath fresh air and experience sunlight while he was changing. He walked inside a small wooden room, with the top made of many straws, then looked at Erica, "Wait out here ok? I have to change my clothes to fit this occasion.. My cloak, pants, and shoes are not the best things to have when you are going swimming." Karasu closed the door slowly. When the door closed he quickly started changing, he was quickly becoming an over protective father.. but who could blame him? He was currently among the most wanted pirates in the world. Karasu's vulture flew out of the submarine and landed on the roof of the small room, looking at Erica. Steel asked her, "You're the princess of Dark Isle, y'know.. are you feeling better? I saw how hurt you were back then y'know."

The young erica slowly walked outside, kinda ashamed that her scars could be seen by others, how would others react to this and would everyone stare at her, she slowly walked up sairs, waiting for her eyes to adjust to the sun, it was so bright, and it took her a while to adjust to it. she then saw karasu who answered her question, which made her smile, she felt so happy from the inside to hear those kind words, she wondered if she deserved those but she was too happy and forgot about that soon after. When Karasu jumped off the ship and hold out his hand to catch her she hesitated, she was afraid to jump but knew her daddy would catch her, slowly she prepared and jumped into karasu's arms.

When her daddy had catched her and put her on the ground she smiled, and she hold his arm when they walked over the beach, she could hear people talking about the two off them, which made her feel really uncomfortable, she could see her daddy staring back, at them, maybe they hurt her daddy too she thought. she could hear the people say things like '' That man Is Karasu, the ex shicibuckai, did he abduct that kid, look at her wounds he might be hurting her'' and ''oh the poor thing we must safe her'' then someone else said ''but she looks rather happy we shouldn't jump to conclusions''while others neglected that, lots of people where talking about them and Erica didnt like it at all.

Then Karasu told her to wait while he got changed, she felt kinda uncomfortable with all the people watching her, sh hoped her daddy would return soon, since she knew he would protect her, but she also knew she had to be strong, the squirel she befriended comforted her and she cuddled with him and peted him a bit. Ericalooked around, a bit panicking till she suddenly heard a voice inside her head, this wasn't the squirel not a human, she looked around till she suddenly saw Karasu's bird behing her, she tried to take a step back but then tripped and landed on her bum, then she saw it was a friendly bird, she calmed down a bit and got up she walked to the bird and stroked its neck, she was still not used to being the princess of the dark isle, she kinda didn't believe it '' well I am feeling really good now, its so nice to have daddy around, hes really kind dont you think. you and daddy are really great friends arent you'' she continued as she carefully stroked the vulture's neck, a smile was on the girls face, and she was less woried about the people around her now.

Steel laughed, but it came out as a vulture sound to other people. He stretched out his wings to try to stop the sun from beating on her. The sun was behind Steel, and he could tell Erica's delicate skin might get sunburned. Steel tried to respond to her, while she stroked his neck, "Me and your father respect each other y'know, we're closer to friends then partners. He's very nice, but he seems nicest to you.. I still remember the day we rescued you, the second I saw Karasu's face I knew he was going to take you home with him."

Karasu, while the vulture was outside talking to Erica, was trying to quickly change his clothes. He took off his coat first, then his pants, and then his shoes.. his guns were on the wall of the room hanging. Once he was completely naked he took his trunks, putting his underwear in the same bag along with all of his clothes (he made sure to pack more underwear). Karasu put on his black trunks, with a white stretchy string on the top holding it to his waist line and a DIA flag mark covering the left thigh area. Karasu opened the door, with only his ear ring still on and his trunks, and saw Erica talking to his vulture Steel. Karasu put the bag over his shoulder then looked down at Erica. He didn't mind that his original companion was talking to his daughter, if anything this meant Erica could make another friend. Karasu also saw that Steel was covering her intake on the sun with his wings, which he was confused about.. he never did that to Karasu, no matter the hot whether.

"I am ready for the beach.. you go on ahead Erica, I'll be right behind you. Remember though don't go too deep in the water, the most I want to see you is with water that goes up to your knees alright? I'll be right behind you." Karasu walked towards an abandoned chair and put his bag on there. His gloves and normal pistols were left inside. Only his two electric pistols were left around his waist, with water proof containers (just as a precaution, in case waters affect his guns). Karasu walked towards the waters, probably with Erica, and left his vulture to protect his things.. Steel's legs were clutched on the bag with his claws. Karasu walked into the water, leaving the water up to his shin, then waited for Erica to go into the water.. he didn't know if she'd ever felt beach water, especially one this warm. Karasu smiled at Erica then splashed some water at her. He laughed a little, since this was the first time he has EVER done something like this. His childhood was very different from hers.. but this felt right, he felt like he was a normal father for that moment.

The people were slowly backing away from Erica and Karasu. They noticed the guns around his waist and how he was acting. Some of them were confused, in the bounty poster Karasu looked very different.. a lot more evil. Karasu didn't care about the other people right now, he cared more about his daughter.

Erica was chatting with steel the vulture Karasu had as an parthner, carefully she stroked its neck, as he was talking about his bond with karasu, and how he though karasu liked her which made her smile he also knew that they were going to adopt her the seccond they met her, which was kinda reasuring and nice for her to know, she smiled as she answered '' Thanks, I can see why daddy trusts you so much'' she send through as she smiled, it was starting to get a bit more normal talking to steel, he had great intentions and was a great animal she felt really happy that steel shielded her from the sun, it was true she never had seen so much sun before, and the beach was a bit hot under her bare foots, but she wouldn't complain since they were probably going in the water soon.

When karasu came back and changed, he looked at erica and the vulture, the vulture took ericas mind off things, and made her worry less when karasu was changing, she then waited for her father and he told her to go ahead to the water, but she couldn't go in farther then her knees, which seemed okay with her, she hadn't really been in contact with water before, except for quick showers, she told the squirel to wait with the vulture and so he did, he hid behind the shade of karasus cloack because the warmth was too much for the furry animal,

Erica saw her papa entering the water before her, she slowly followed him, the first step only her ancle was in and the water felt kinda warm, she slowly got inside more and more, and then saw her daddy infront of her, with a smile on his face he splashes water to her, it felt great for the young girl, but she kinda was suprised to by her daddy who splashed water at her, she then thought to do the same, and used her hand to splash some water at her daddy, it didnt come close enough to where karasu was standing so she stepped closer now being in the water till her knees, she didnt want to go farther since karasu told her to not to, and she would listen to him.

She then splashed some more water at karasu, the water felt warm and strange, there were waves that she felt going towards the beach moving past her legs, this was a strange feeling and she was kinda amazed by the moving water, she had a smile from ear to ear as she splashed more water at her father, this was the kind of moments she really had looking forward too, this was intense happynes for her, she felt great and at that moment felt like time should never stop. her smile ended abrubtley and her face became somewhat worried '' p-papa, wont these people hurt us, they all stare at us, is something wrong'' she was kinda worried by the staring people and had been since they came on the island. at first she didn't dare ask, but now she suddenly wanted to, the great water made her feet feel relaxing and she liked the sand between her toes, although it was kinda hard for her to remain ballanced in the water, but for now she could maintain it.

As a boat approached the beach two males sat aboard it. One an obviously older, much better trained of the two, while the other seemed younger and not even close to being half as experienced. The older one was Snake, the Dark Isle teacher for Shigan and the younger was Lancer Spider. A recent graduate of the Dark Isle school. Lancer seemed a bit nervous, glancing at the older man every once in a while whom didn't seem to care. Once they reached shore the older man grabbed the young man by the scruff of his neck due to him being frozen due to the surrounding people and began to drag him to Karasu. Snake dropped the young man and bowed to Karasu "Lord Karasu, I have..News for you."

Once Karasu made his way over Snake would then explain "This young man before you is Lancer Spider from our home. He..Well he graduated in one year and many people on the island think he'd be a better asset to you with your crew rather then on the island." Snake explained. Removing a Den Den a recording appeared "You might wish to keep your daughter from seeing." Snake said. The recording was from Lancer's P.O.V. with him setting up razor wire in the shape of a spider web. Two gun shots were heard though not fired by Lancer but a man he had paid to kill the targets guards. The target had begun to run through the forest and ended up on the spiderweb resting. A small whisper of "got'cha." was heard as Lancer's middle finger twitched causing the web of wire to shoot up and cut into the man effectively ending his life.

As the recording ended Lancer looked at Karasu in hopes of being welcomed into the crew.

Karasu was playing with his daughter. He splashed water at her and she splashed water back at him, he was actually enjoying himself. Her hair was getting a little wet, but everything was fine for Karasu. She tried to stay at the area she was standing so the water wouldn't make it past her knees. Karasu smiled, she did what Karasu asked without him having to nag at her.. was she an Angel? Karasu couldn't help but smile, he heard rumors of parents having trouble controlling their children.. but she wasn't evil, or the type to disobey things that were told for her own good. She was even enjoying herself. Karasu was care-free until she mentioned that the people around them were looking at them. She was worried they would hurt them. Karasu smiled, then talked back to her to try and make her feel better, "Erica, they aren't going to try to hurt you because I am not going to let them, ok?"

Some people found that touching, while others were immediately scared at what he meant.. Karasu would gladly kill someone for the suspicion of trying to hurt his daughter. If men approached her with ill-intention in their eyes they wouldn't make it near 3 feet of her. Karasu was very protective of his daughter, the last thing he would allow is to have someone hurt her.. ever. Soon Karasu heard a voice from behind him, he turned around when he recognized the tone of the voice.. it was Snake, the shady assassin of his island.. and the most trustful when it came to opinions (since he stated facts separated from emotions and morality). Karasu looked at Erica, "I want you to stay here and play in the water alright? I'll be right back."

Karasu sighed as he walked out of the waters and into the beach sand. He walked towards the Assassin nicknamed 'Snake' and put on his normal cold expression. Erica wasn't able to see it from her angle since he was directly in front of her. He heard him say that there was a new Assassin, this one came directly from the island.. and had passed all of the classes within a year. Karasu passed them in two years when he was younger, which means this boy showed promise. Karasu saw the trap the teenager set out in the den den mushi. He trapped his target and executed him almost instantly. On top of the strings he used he must know Rokushiki, Karasu was impressed. He looked at Snake, not showing how intrigued he was at the kid he was holding by the collar. He then looked back at Erica to make sure she was alright in the water, then back at Snake.

"He has promise.. graduated within a year you say? Alright, leave him here with me.. you may leave Snake, I need to talk to this kid." Karasu watched Snake leave, he didn't show much of anything other then a nod. Of course, he's the last person to ever question Karasu.. after all, he was the person Karasu had to personally drag into Dark Isle. Karasu looked at Lancer, whom got the nickname spider from the web he created.. no doubt. "Lancer, consider this a personal mission from me.. I need you to hang out in the beach. Just blend in and enjoy yourself, that's an order." Karasu pointed at the people on the waters, he knew Lancer could swim.. since it's not like everyone had a Devil Fruit. he also pointed at the many attractive woman around the area, some of which were young enough for Lancer. Karasu even pointed at the men playing volley ball on one of the countless volleyball courts around the area.

"Choose where you want to go, there's plenty of things to do here.. we'll enjoy ourselves. Just keep an eye out for potential pirates and marines, I don't have to explain to you why." Lancer didn't have a bounty, but he was on his way to getting one just for being in Karasu's crew. It won't be long before they find out about him, or he does something big enough to get recognized.. with these skills it won't take long at all. Karasu looked at the ocean, then back at Lancer (nodding to him). Karasu walked back towards the ocean and splashed some water on her again. "Whoops, that was an accident I swear", Karasu smiled while saying. Of course, he was doing that to be funny with Erica. He was splashed by her a few times already, one of them even wet his hair. A few more splashes from her and Karasu's hair would seem more straight, since the water would make it look heavier.

Erica had a smile on her face as she got wet from the water that karasu splashed in her face, she splashed some back and it was really fun, she really seemed to enjoy it, a life where she could enjoy just basic things like this having fun with her daddy, being in the water and the beach, she enjoyed every single thing of it, the sand she could feel kinda tickling between her little toes, the waves of water slowly moving against her legs, the blue sky that looked so peacefull, but the sun was unusual for her it was so hot. she felt it on her skin, and it felt like it was burning her, but she thought that this was usual for this weather. Her daddy even tried to ease her and told her he would protect her if anyone even wanted to hurt her, which made her feeling a bit more reasured. She answered with a smal ''Thank you papa''

Erica continued playing in the water with her papa till someone arrived, she heard a voice from behind her, and hadn't heard it before, Karasu knew this man and she knew she had nothing to worry, at first she wanted to look back, but she knew she had to trust her papa and leave him with his bussines, her intervering with it would only cause problems. Karasu was a great and strong man that could take care of everything himself, Erica just hoped that she could help him one day. But if she ever could that was something only time could tell, staring at the sea and the waves she felt peacefull and calming at the same time. She could hear people talking but she didn't understand the words, they were a bit too far away from where she stood to hear.

Erica was moving her hand around in the water fascinating by how it moved through it, she hadn't seen something like this before and was really suprised by it, before she knew it her daddy came back and splashed some more water at her, he smiled and told her it was an acident at she then began to laugh ''haha papa, then this is an accident too'' she said as she used both arms to splash lots of water at Karasu, her smile grew from ear to ear again. but she was enjoying things a little bit too much the seccond time she used both hands to splash some more water at karasu she was caught by the small wave that went to the beach, which caught her and made her land on her bum in the water, she was suprised and was now to somewhat under her shoulders in the water.At first she laughed a bit but when She tried to get up but this was kinda hard, she didn't know what was wrong, she felt as if she lost control over her body and was really suprised in this situation ''papa. whats happening'' she asked as her head slowly went underwater because her body was like an anchor slowly going to a deeper see, she was panicked but hoped her papa would help her.

Lancer finally snapped out of his trance once he saw Karasu's daughter start to go under water slowly. Standing up quickly the young man used soru to run towards the water and wade into it before reaching Karasu's daughter. He pulled her up and put her on her feet in a place where she'd be more stable but still near Karasu. Bending down to the young girls level Lancer spoke "A-are you a-a-alright y-young one?" he asked with a stutter in his voice. Lancer was normally shy but seeing a child nearly go under like that triggered that reaction of his.

Karasu was splashing water with his daughter, which was a very touching moment for him. Suddenly a wave brought her back and made her fall on her bum. The water then started rising slowly, taking away her ability to breathe by surrounding her head with water. Karasu bent down to pick her up but soon saw a man appear next to him, picking up Erica. Karasu's first reaction was to take out one of his pistols and aim the stranger. after picking it up and aiming at the back of the man's head Karasu, very quickly, figured out that it was Lancer Spider. This was important to Karasu, because now he knew that Lancer knew Soru. This was one of the techniques that Lancer knew from the academy. Karasu then witnessed Lancer talking to Erica, probably trying to comfort her from almost drowning.. Karasu put his gun back on his holster. He didn't make it apparent that Lancer had a gun behind his head, so he wouldn't normally know what Karasu was going to do to someone that would try to steal his daughter from him (Karasu assumed it was a kidnapper at first).

Karasu nodded, putting his hand on Lancer's shoulder. "I didn't know you knew Soru.. I'll have to re-check your reports. Thank you for helping my child, but please warn me you are coming next time. Go have your fun now lancer, I can take it from here." Karasu walked to his daughter and held her up. He guessed that was enough ocean water for one lifetime, at least for Erica. At least now he confirmed that Erica was indeed a Devil Fruit user.. he'd have to show her the ability soon.

Meanwhile, a volleyball came zooming past Karasu and aimed at Lancer's face. Several muscular men were on the beach and noticed his Soru technique. The men seemed very strong for normal people.. and by the massive speed the volleyball was traveling it was safe to assume that these men were far from normal. The men shouted at Lancer, despite him not being that far off. "Hey, New-blood, don't show off your skills in front of the ladies.. this is OUR terrain, got it little munchkin?" One of the four men behind him put another volleyball in the air, this time aimed at the back of Karasu's head. The large, dark skinned and VERY muscular man, pushed the volleyball into the air then jumped slamming it with his arm. The volleyball was slammed with his hand, and powered through the sand and water (obviously). Karasu knelt down and watched as the volleyball zoomed past him. Karasu was still holding onto Erica. Karasu smiled at Erica then at Lancer. "Erica, do you want to play volleyball with me and Lancer? It'll be fun."

Karasu already included Lancer on the volleyball battle. So far it was three against five.. in other words, they were outnumbered. Neither Karasu or Lancer had the enemies arm strength, but Karasu didn't care. He just wanted to place the men on their place. They did try to hurt Karasu while he was holding on to Erica.. and that was indirectly effecting him. Karasu was angry, but he wasn't showing it on his face.. he put on a smile that 99% of people would assume is real. He didn't want Erica to see him angry, so he decided to make it into a game.

Erica slowly saw someone appear, and hold her up, her eyes opened again, and she saw a man standing, he asked her if she was allright, he sounded nervous and she got nervous too the only thing she got to answer was ''y-yes thank you'' the moment Karasu appeared next to her and lifted her up she hugged him and wouldnt let him go she allmost started crying, but could resist that ''papa what' was happening why did I feel so strange?, it was so scary she said'' still trembling a bit.

Then she saw a volleyball zoom past them, she suddenly got afraid as she saw the big men wanting to play against them, how could she, join them, she was small and the others were all big, but daddy said it would be fun, and she knew daddy would protect her, but wouldn't the big people aim for her, she wondered as she closely looked at the people '' okay papa , I have never done that before but I'll try '' she said proudly, she hoped this would go welll they were outnummered and she was only a child, why where they accepthing this, she didn't get it but she knew she had to keep up her daddys expectations.

Lancer seeing the ball fly towards his face instinctively grabbed it stopping any face pain. Looking at the meat heads then back at the ball then to Karasu and his daughter. He dropped the ball...Then proceeded to kick it high into the air, used geppu to catch up to it, and then proceeded to spike the ball the ball in between all the muscle bound idiots before landing. "First point goes to us." he said flashing a smile. The young man viewed this as a mission and decided to treat it as such.

Karasu smiled when his girl agreed to play volleyball. He held her on his arms and walked towards the volleyball court. Lancer lost his cool and used soru to appear on the court of the opponents, where he rose high in the air and spiked the ball towards them. Lancer claimed the first point, but the enemies were still smiling. They all smiled when they saw Karasu walk towards the court with his daughter in his hands. They were going to have bragging rights if they defeated the crew... this was great. Karasu put Erica on the sandy land next to Karasu. His body was wet now from all of the splashing, which was fine with him. His hair was now wet enough to move downwards, like it was naturally straight. Karasu shook his head, forcing the small bits of water to come sprinkling out of his hair. He waited for Lancer to reach them. The enemies spoke to Karasu and Lancer, almost ignoring Erica (mockingly).

"We'll let both of you claim that point.. since we are very nice people, your friend was technically out of bounds when he spiked the ball.. but, we're playing our own form of volleyball. There are no rules regarding how you attack the ball, as long as it reaches our side of the court by going OVER the tent" Karasu smiled, shrugging to what they said. He waited for Lancer to reach them before the match started. The first thing they did was throw the ball into the air, in their court, then spike the ball in bone breaking speeds towards Erica. Karasu snapped his fingers and forced his vulture to appear on the court, he appeared very fast.. since he was near them the entire time. He put his wings around the girl and forced the ball to bounce into the air. Karasu jumped into the air and hit the ball with his palm, a man appeared in front of Karasu shortly after and spiked the ball in Erica's direction. Karasu was hoping lancer would get the ball, if not Karasu's vulture would bounce the ball into the air again. Erica's job, currently, was to hit the ball after Steel popped it into the air very gently. All she had to do was ask Steel to fly into the air, whenever the ball hit steels wing and bounced upwards, and spike it to the enemies court. Lancer could help by intervening ever once in awhile and use geppou whenever he had the chance to spike. Karasu would have to be the one to balance defense.. since he was accustomed to using soru in several ways.

"We're not going to lose very easily.. If I were you guys I'd give up."

Erica was scared, she was a normal kid, or even worse a kid that hadn't exercised at all, and was quite weak, she even felt weak in the water before what would happen if that would happen here, she was kinda scared but knew that she needed to focus, Then she saw a ball coming towards her at insane speeds, she gulped and before she could block it, steel the vulture sat on her shoulders and blocked the bal using his body she was suprised and asked steel using her powers, '' hey friend, are you okay?, didn't that hurt, thank you for helping me'' only the bird could hear this in her mind, she knew how she could score a point, a little evil smile appeared on her face, as she told the squirrel something, the squirel agreed with the plan.

Then the ball came at them again, the ball karasu shot was blocked by a man. When the ball bounced off steel, she asked him to fly, he did, once she was on the heights of the ball. she told the squirrel to go, and she hit the ball towards where one man stood in the right corner. the moment the ball almost was with the man the squirel snuck in the mans pants, and started clawing him, the man tried to hit the squirrel but he managed to dodge the attacks and quickly snuck away out of his pants and off the field, Erica had to laugh a little, as she saw the ball bounce on the enemys field, she had scored them a point, and steel put her on the ground. she send a message to both steel and the squirel ''good job friends'' She could see the men on the other team getting iritated at each other, asking the man who was hindered by the squirel why he didn't catch the ball. Erica hoped she had made her daddy proud.

Karasu almost jumped when he saw his little girl score a point. The squirrel did as she asked and interrupted the other man's focus. From there she scored her point, which made Karasu prouder then he had felt in a very long time. She played volleyball and scored a point against the other gentlemen. They mumbled as they picked up the ball, then whispered to each other while looking at Lancer.. whom they remembered had the strange ability to jump to the skies and continue jumping, he could fly. They looked at a few women then put their hands out, calling for a time out. The five men talked to the hot women in bikini's and nodded in conjunction to them. Suddenly the women ran towards Lancer and picked him up, running away with him while hugging him. They forced his head into their breasts as they ran away. Their mission was to take Lancer out of the game, now it was only Karasu and Erica.

Soon after the dirty trick they each took out a volleyball and threw them into the air. They all spiked the objects at Erica and Karasu, each of the volleyballs had enough power to easily bruise or break the bone of a person that tried to stop it. They were trying to finish them off in one blow, Karasu reacted instinctively to the attack and tried to protect Erica. The vulture closed it's wings, knowing Erica was not fast enough to dodge the techniques. Karasu saw two of the balls hit the vulture's wings and recoiled into the air. Karasu used Soru to appear behind the two balls then made a spinning kick to both of the orbs, forcing the objects to hit the ground (since the men were not ready for them to react to their sudden bombardment of volleyballs. Suddenly one of them picked up one of the volleyballs Karasu kicked in their direction and pushed it over the tent, landing ext to Karasu, whom was on the ground blowing on his burned leg.

"Heh.. 4 to 4, next point wins! It looks like you're unable to continue.. this'll be easy!" In the back a man picked up the volleyball, this man was the biggest of all of them. He threw the ball in the air and hit the ball with such force that flames were coming out of the volleyball. It was aimed directly at Erica, Karasu couldn't help Erica.. but Steel would not let Erica be hurt. Steel didn't answer Erica's question because he was focusing on the game.. he didn't feel pain yet thanks to his steel body.

In all the comotion, someone or something was remained unseen, a little fox like creature had in mean while bind all the shoe laces off the big men together he was sleeping on the beach and was well doing things a fox did, or atleast he did, looking at lady's and then he saw what happend to karasu and the little girl, offcourse he needed to help, he smiled with his mischievous fox smile like he always had when he was done, and then dissapeared again turning invisible, again hiding behind a tent watching at the man looking at the girl who they thought they were going to beat, this was just too funny and this was getting too funny, he smiled and then looked and hoped looking forward to how everything was going to happen.

Erica was suprised as Karasu was tooken out and on the ground ''papa are you okay"'? she asked very worried, very very worried even lancer was away and she was alone, with steel, steel blocked the ball with his body but then erica could see he was really hurt, she catched the ball that bounced away from steels body, she thought she couldnt do it but she wanted to make papa proud she took a step made a small jump and then threw the ball over the net, it allmost touched it, she could see the man laugh at her and her throw which made her sad, when they were about to walk to the ball they fall to the ground hitting their faces seing the ball fall on enemy teretory, when she saw that she laughed a bit before hurrying off to her papa, '' papa papa are you allright, papa'' she said looking at his leg, she then looked at steel, and asked him if he was allright she felt so sorry because they were hurt because they had to protect her.

While erica was crying Kitsune turned into his little girl form, that he met karasu the first time with, he happily walked to erica, and said ''are you allright, you shouldn't cry'' his fox ears and tail were just there and that didnt mather he just cared about erica and the crew.

Erica smiled ''thank you, are you a friend of papa too, you look so young like me'' she said, On what Kitsune replied ''thats a secret'' and then turned into a fox again to cuddle with erica, he raised his paw, and put it on her knee and then rest his head on her knee. Erica patted him and smiled again, kitsunes mission was acomplished he had tricked people and made friends happy nothing more was great.