Serious: Croix d'Acier Pirates, Chapter 1: Face Collage!

Greim was looking around when he saw someone waving at him from a distance, it was Emrick. Greim rose his hand, showing him his palm in a sign of saying "wait", cause he knew that his blood was probably burning as much as Greim's was... and that was saying a lot, because this was Greim's homeland. The love he had for this place... his memories, even when the place was constantly attacked by bandits, had made a strong bond to it.

His dead father...

It was just another symbol of how this town would decay and be corrupted by the worms of a malevolent orchid. It was just a fury in its citizens blood. Suddenly, a veil of drizzle fell from the sky... it stunned the citizens, who had been in a trance because of their situation. The water on their faces as they looked up to the sky was like a signal, suddenly all of them started raising their arms and shouting, yelling, roaring... raging out. It was marvelous for Greim to see such a power... the power that people had. The ones that were closer to the City Hall started to attack the functionaries that contained them.

But somehow, the Major managed to shout over all of them. "STOP IT, SHOOT!" The functionaries that were containing the masses, pointed their rifles at the citizens and suddenly shot. The bullets flew straight into the bodies of some of the people.

"SCREW THE PLAN!" -Greim screamed as he jumped down the building and ran at Soru speeds, he drew both of his swords and he cut the legs of the functionaries that crossed his way.

"YOUR A DEAD MAN!" Came from the building Emrick was on, all of the sudden a barrage of molten bullets peppered the functionaries infront of the citizens, then a perturbed Emrick created molten metal under himself and moved it forward, carrying him to a roof next to the town hall.

"You Bastard!"

Emrick slammed his palms onto the roof; creating a wave of molten metal, heading right for the balcony.

Alexis groaned and headed to the building, knocking people over. "LEAVE, PEOPLE LEAVE!" she kicked a random functionary in his face. "YOU BASTARDS!" she screamed and went towards the balcony where the main bastard was. He was getting his ass kicked today. By her and the guys. Ohhh yeahhh. She continued to electrocute random police men and people that tried to stop her.

It was very liberating to suddenly be fighting the bad guys, the people that were submitting his island to such distress and humilliation. Greim saw some of the man that had been shot alive, and others were picking them up, to safety. The ruckus they had started to cause had liberated the people from their mind slumber and allowed them to run for their lives, picking up their childrean and carrying them away, helping the sick and the wounded. Greim saw three guns pointed at him, he ran at Soru speeds at the first one and stood in front of him, slashing him from the side and changing his direction as he shot, when he broke to the pain. The shot from his bullet hit the other one in the middle of the forehead and the last one just dropped his gun and started to run away. The guy that had been slash was on the floor now, covering the wound in his side.

Some men that had been scared in the masses were know fighting against the functionaries that surrounded them, hitting them in the face. It looked like a terrible civil war. Some of them had guns, some of them used brute force. The swordsman ran towards the functionaries that stood behind the balcony, and at the same time, the Major ran in and closed the doors and blinds behind him. The wave of molten metal hit the glass and started to burn stuff in the balcony. The functionaries behind the balcony seemed to be stronger than the rest, one of them had sprinted back into the building and the other hour dodged the spray of molten metal.

Enrick formed the molten metal again under him and brought him down to the ground. He then ran towards the four functionaries.

"You will pay for this!"

He jumped and slammed his right fist onto the ground, sharp spikes of molten metal erupted from the ground, first in front of him, but then spread towards the Functionaries.

A man ran towards Alexis and tried to hit her, she dodged and grabbed his fist, sending electricity to him, electrocuting him. She watched him fall to the ground dead. She didn't feel sad about killing people, even if she wasn't that used to this side of life, full of action, fights and death, she knew there would be lots of it, considering she was planning to become a pirate anyway. Like seriously, had she just killed around four men? She thought about the families of those men, of course, but she also thought about how unfair they were being to the villagers and also how tyrannical they were being. But their deaths hadn't been that bad, she had, what, killed them in around thirty seconds each? A fast death, free of pain, well, most of the pain. Had Alexis wanted to make them suffer, she would have tortured them until they begged her to kill them. But she didn't, because she knew that the ones who needed to be tortured weren't here, they were up in the balcony.

Alexis started running and focused lightning on her knuckles and feet, punching and kicking functionaries that got in her way to the balcony. She knew this was going to be hard, and time consuming, but she needed to do this for Greim. It would show her loyalty and her power, and that was exactly what Alexis wanted. She would get a scratch or two, apart from the ones she already had, but it all would be worth it. And Alexis was certain that she wouldn't die this day. "COME GET ME BASTARDS" she yelled, taunting her opponents.

[Introduction Box]
The Faceless Gang
Mane Mane no Mi users
Pirates

The four functionaries below the balcony jumped simultaneously as the spike shot up from the ground. The molten metal seemed deadly as it boiled on the ground. Then the four separated. Three of them seemed to be really agile, one of them extremely, and he moved towards Alexis.

[Introduction Box]
Name: Tru Heist
Ability: Nail Life Return + Muscle flexibility + haste

"I AM A SHE!" -she screamed. The man had touched her face and showed a woman face. She seemed to be incredibly light on her feet. She originally was an acrobat and she spun as she ran towards Alexis. She had instantly gotten really close and attempted to slash through Alexis' face, only using her nails, and then she wrung away from her very quickly, as if she had never been there. All of that happened in hardly a couple of seconds.


[Introduction Box]
Name: John Stark
Ability: Chain Action (like rope action but with chains)

John Stark let two chains fall out of the pockets of his jacket, he started to swing around. He pulled them and started to make them seem as if they could dance in the air. These had blades attached to the points.

"You shall not be forgiven." - The three attackers, Greim, Alexis and Emrick had reached close to the balcony and Greim was pointing both of his swords at John, with his chains flying around. Suddenly the chains flew through the air and they were immediately stopped by Greim and his swords. He panted, as he hadn't expected the chains to move so fast. - "It seems like it's gonna be an interesting fight."

[Introduction box]
Names: Thrung and Rudolph Mindra
Ability: Chemicals and Sword motion

When the two men that were left touched their faces. One of them was very short and the other really tall and thick. The first one, Rudolph, climbed on Thrung's shoulders and he seemed to just cling on there.

"You wont be able to beat our tag team." - Thrung had picked up a sample of the molten steel in a test tube and given it Rudolph. -"Especially now that we know your secret."

He smiled and he hurled flasks full of acid at Emrick. He had a very big bag on his back, which was almost his size.

Emrick brought his arms over his shoulders and swung them across to his sides, molten metal erupting from the ground up into the air, solidifying into a barrier. After, he stepped back a few feet and ran from to the right in a circular motion aiming his hands towards the duo, unleashing barrages of molten metal Bullets

Alexis dodged the woman/man/stuff/thingy's hand which seemed really weird and had long nails. Alexis tried to think of a way to attack the woman, however since she lacked a weapon she wasn't sure how she would be able to achieve that. She sighed and looked around, trying to find something that could be useful for such an occasion. Alexis then realized that she was able to manipulate and create lightning (electricity), which would mean that the hardships she had been through were completely pointless. She grinned and pointed at the woman/man/stuff/thingy and said "YOU'RE GOING DOWN BEACH!" She then proceeded to throw a lightning strike at her/him/it.

Tru performed multiple pirouettes to get out of the way of the lightning strike. She then grew her nails to a point in which they were disgustinly gigantic. She jumped and seemed to spin in her place as she fell and two groups of airslashes flew towards Alexis. The nails apparently were able to cut through air itself and produce windblades.

"Just see who you just call a bitch!"- she screamed and took a fighting stance, waiting for her opponent to respond.- "I must say you are good though, Hoe!"

The metal barrier had been directly hit by the flasks full of acid. It had almost immediately dissolved below it... How deadly was this acid? The metallic barrier had been corroded away and was left melted. The barrage of bullets that flew towards them was blown out by the whirlwind caused by airslashed that Thrung produced with his swords.

"What to do with you...???" - he then took out a syringe full of bromine. It was a big, crystal syringe. Rudolph directed Thrung to move towards Emrick and perform a series of airslashes. The man then calculated a place where he though Emrick would have to move to evade the Airslashes and threw the bromine. It would sure cause a caustic cloud as soon as it hit either its target or the ground.

John Stark moved the chains through the airs as if they were wind serpents. The chains were narrowly blocked by slashed from Greim's swords, and they pushed him back, little by little. "Cheetah rampage slash!" - the swordsman kneeled down and went through the chains, avoiding their deadly pathway. He then slashed to attempt to cut John in half. The guy didn't move back, but attempted to pull his chains back as he jumped, avoiding the cut.
The chains flew dangerously towards Greim, he gasped and performed a spinning slash that blocked one of the on-coming chains, but not the other end, which made a cut in his left arm. But it was quickly drawn back to its user.

Emrick watched the duo perform, watched his metal barrier dissolve. Emrick ran diagonally then switched directions, now moving the opposite way. He saw the flask in mid air towards where he was going but swiped his arm infront I him, a wave of molten metal cascading up to catch the flask from going past. While he was behind the metal a metal snake coiled off his leg and slithered away from the battle.

"You two are pretty good, too bad I'm better."

Emrick again slammed his fist onto the ground, this time metal formed under him an shot him up into the air, he again pointed his hands at them from the air and shot a barrage of bullets with his right, the left however made a cannon ball sized ball of metal.

"Lets see you cut this!"

With a boom the cannon ball shot forward towards the two with the speed of a regular cannon ball.

Alexis scowled as the person called her a hoe. Actually, she was already disgusted by her nails, Alexis couldn't seem to understand how someone would even consider that attractive. Well, the probability of someone finding her opponent attractive was low, but not none. Alexis hated the fact that the woman man thingy dodged her lightning and proceeded to use her nails as a sort of weapon. It seemed to have created windblades, and Alexis had to do a backflip and some pirouettes to be able to dodge them. They did, though, cause small cuts on her body. But nothing too serious. She did have the wound from the lancer's fight, but she was fine in overall.

Alexis grinned and threw 4 lightning strikes at the woman, all from different directions. "Wish I could say the same about you, bitch" she yelled back and focused lightning on her fist, starting to run towards her opponent.

[reviving thread]
[ Brace yourselves , long post incoming ]
[ Introducing Tom Ravenblack ]

A mysterious figure walked through the empty outskirts of the town.  Dressed in a black coat and a matching fedora hat , the person moved towards the town square at a casual pace. He was surprised by the absence of traders and townsfolk as he passed numerous empty houses and shops. He heard shouting and what seemed to be sounds of battle in the distance. Regardless , he maintained his pace and continued observing the abandoned buildings. He soon reached a forest area which clearly showed signs of combat. There was blood splattered everywhere and the ground had been sliced at certain places. In the midst of the battleground laid a corpse with a shocked look on his face , clutching a den den mushi. Ravenblack examined the corpse and confirmed his suspicions. The person had been posioned. Being unable to find any sort of identification on the body , Ravenblack hurried towards the main square. As he went closer , the sounds of battle grew louder and clashing of swords and gunfire could be heard in the distance. Soon he noticed a trio of guards jogging towards him. They seemed to be wearing official police uniforms but didn't resemble law enforcers in any other way. The one who seemed to be the leader of the gang drew his blade and pointed it towards Ravenblack. '' This ain't no business of yours. Get lost! ''  Tom ignored the angry looking man and continued his pace. Without a second warning , the guard lifted his blade and ran at him with a hoarse battle cry. The guard drove his blade diagonally towards the left , aiming for Tom's neck.
Tom drew his long Nodachi katana which he had been carrying hoisted on his shoulder and brought it towards the right to parry the guard's slash. As their swords clashed , Tom quickly side stepped , shifted his weight and pushed the guard's blade into the floor. As the guard's blade struck the ground , Tom swung his blade upwards in a wide arc , decapitating the assailant. The guard's companions drew their rifles and stepped away from Ravenblack in fear. He slowly turned to face them and held his hand up , palm facing the ground as he uttered : '' Room . '' A small transparent circle appeared in his palm and soon afterwards expanded rapidly until it formed a huge transparent hemisphere which covered both Tom and the remaining two guards. Ravenblack lifted his sword and swung it horizontally sideways. Just a moment later , the guards' bodies split , sliced at waist height... The guards screamed in agony as their torsos fell to the ground. Most perturbatory though , there was no blood at all! Their lower bodies managed a couple of shaky steps before finally collapsing. The guards clawed at the ground , trying to drag themselves to safety. Tom noticed shocked faces staring from windows , gasping in terror. Distracted by the bystanders , Tom hadn't noticed that one of the guards' torsos managed to get hold of his gun. The torso rolled onto his back and took aim. Tom looked over his shoulder and quickly reacted to the threat. As the guard revved his rifle , Tom lifted his hand into the air , index finger and thumb pointing upwards. When he heard the gunfire , he made a switching motion with his fingers and exclaimed: '' Shambles! '' . What happened next made all the nearby bystanders cower in fear , overcome by awe. Instead of a deadly round , a leaf fluttered out of the rifle and glided in the air before harmlessly falling to the ground. Most of the bystanders , including the guards were too distracted to notice that a nearby oak tree had been struck by the bullet which was aimed at Ravenblack. Tom turned with a grin on his face and lifted his katana high into the air , facing the armed torso. As the guard's torso attempted to drag itself to safety , Tom swung his blade downwards , splitting the torso and a nearby bench in half. He noticed that the other guard ( or rather what was left of him ) had fallen unconscious from shock. He sheathed his weapon and the transparent hemisphere soon dissipated. He hoisted his katana over his shoulder and continued his pace. He walked through two city blocks until he was able to see the actual battle take place. There was a huge number of goverment officials and police officers who seemed to be fighting three mysterious figures. One was clearly a swordsman , he moved fast and fluently as he cut down his assailants. The other resembled a woman who appeared to have a long gash running down her back. She was charging through the crowd , electrocuting random enemies. The last one was quite interesting. He seemed to be producing a strange liquid which he weaved and shaped as he wanted. He struck his attackers with a variety of attacks based on his liquid. As he entered the square , Ravenblack immediately caught the attention of many nearby guards. A couple of dozen officers charged at him , brandishing their weapons and emmiting various battle cries. As they came close , Tom lifted his hand into the air and muttered: '' Room. '' Soon afterwards, a large hemisphere soared over his assailants. They ignored it and kept charging... Tom drew his blade and swung multiple times in the direction of his attackers.
Just a moment later , the entire rioting force was cut up as if an invisible steel net passed through them. Random limbs and body parts flew through the air and littered the ground as the air filled with desperate screams and howls. What used to be a menacing horde of assailants turned into a huge moaning mass of incapacitated bodies in a matter of seconds. A bloodless massacre indeed... Ravenblack sheathed his blade and jogged through the bulk of crippled guards towards the center of the square. He cleared his throat and shouted in the direction of the fearsome trio: '' Oi guys!!! Mind if I join the party?... ''

Tru's eyes widened as she saw the multiple lightning drawing closer to her. She freaked out... She jumped up incredibly high and performed what seemed to be a pseudo-geppou with not very succesful results. Most of the electricity didnt manage to touch her but one of the lightning caught her and shocked her, pushing her away a couple of meters. Her skin seemed to turn a little bit black because of the burning and her hair stood up. She looked... terrible. She stood up with too much of an effort and raised her arms.

"Okay... you win."- She said as her nails seemed to decrease back to normal size. Then she fell back to the ground as if she had passed out.

At the same time, Emrick's cannonball sized molten metal ball flew directly towards thrung's stomach. Rudolph started to yell to cut it in half and to dash forward, but as he did this, the little bastard jumped off Thrung's back and sprinted away. Thrung, despite this, was using his swords to attempt to slash the cannonball in half, which seemed to work only because of the windblades that were generated, but the barrage of molten bullets dug into his muscles.

"YOU BASTARD RUDOLPH... HOW COULD YOU LEAVE ME TO DIE!?!?"- his skin was scorching red. In a strenght obtained from a kind of berserk that took place because of his frustration. He stood up and got close to Emrick at high speeds as he performed multiple sword slashes that casted a meteor shaped cluster of airblades towards Emrick at close distance.

Rudolph has hiding behind a bush, mixing chemicals. He was putting solids into his test tubes and the reactions that took place made gas and changed the color.

Emricks eyes shot open, his arms instinctively coming together infront of him; his palms over his face as molten metal quickly erupted from his arms covering his vitals and some else of him in armor. But he was too slow and couldn't cover his left and right arms and part of his chest an neck. The attack smashed into him cutting his left arm deeply, slicing the side of his neck slightly and cutting his right arm in places. After the main impact hit his chest where te armor was it made him shoot back into a houses ed windowsill and onto a table infront of a mother and child who had hiden from the officials.

"Eh... Oooow. That-"

Emrick slouched up, bleeding down his arms; his metal chest guard dented heavily.

" was lucky." Emrick cracked his neck slightly and pushed off of the table when he felt quite a bit of pain come from his right leg; he looked down to see a small gash witha piece of glass in it. He reached down and took it in his hand yanking it out with a grunt before putting his finger to the wound the molten metal that came forth burnt it shut. After which he jumped out of the window.

"Go kill your buddy, he's the one who abandoned you!"

White that his slammed both of his fists into the ground, a metal platform shooting out from underneath the man.

Behind the bush however slithering up behind Rudolph was the metal snake, it got close and propelled off the ground towards the tiny man with the intent of coiling around his neck to choke him.

When Emrick talked about his buddy being the one that abandoned him, Thrung opened his eyes wider than a normal person would. He decided to stop fighting, to give up.

"I've obtained my catharsis! I am free now, no more fighting!"- he exclaimed, solemnly.- "SEE YOU IN HELL, RUDOLPH, YOU MOTHERFUCKER!"

Then the molten metal platform shot up and he opened up his arms to receive it on his body. He died like a martyr, screaming in the terrible pain of the heat, scorching into his muscles, his bones, his heart... his brains.

At the same time, Rudolph was smiling madly and giggled to himself queerly while he put all of his mixtures into one big barrel-like vessel. He placed the cap on it, but before he could do anything, the molten metal snake coiled around his neck from behind. The searing pain caused by the choking and the scorching metal was incredibly tremendous. It was as if a guillotine had beheaded him.

Greim paused from his fight a second in his mind, using his Eagle's Grace technique, and he took time to analyze each of the opponents he and his companions were facing. The guy that was facing Emrick... he had a pretty interesting style in which high speeds allowed him to form shaped air blades... Greim, who was very good at learning fast, decided to take this techniques in consideration for the future. He though the same about the acrobatic style used by Tru, although it didnt end up very well for her.

Soon, he came back to his reality and he saw his opponent's chained daggers fly hastily towards him. Greim then engaged Eagle's Grace and focused on the vision of the chain. It was composed of multiple loops of metal, and he focused on using both of his swords to fit right into the metal loops, pulling them backwards to cause great tension on the chains. Doing this with great strenght, his foe was hurled towards him.

"Pain Empire!"- he exclaimed as he spun around and started a quick succession of cuts, spins, slashes, hits, against his opponent. The result was truly devastating, John's vowels were cut out by a direct slash to the belly. Greim didnt feel happy about doing this, he didnt feel proud either, but he walked away, then sprinting into the Main Hall of the town.- "Let's go Emrick!"

" right behind you Greim!" Emrick yelled in response, running up
behind Greim with molten metal circulating over his body, forming metal armor. He silently was wondering jus what their boss could do, if those guys were like this then he must have some power that commands respect...right?

They ran hastily through the halls, looking for a way to get up to the balcony. The linoleum floors and the walls were all dirty, apparently there had been some ruckus inside here too. Many doors were barricaded, locked in with big chunks of wood that seemed to have been ripped from other doors that werent in the place where they were supposed to be anymore. After a little bit of searching, Greim saw a staircase that lead towards the second story. There were multiple bookcases and other furniture laid down on it, in order to block the way up. Someone had also performed a destructing attack to the ceiling just above the staircase, filling the way up with debris.

"Emrick, we need to open a pathway." -Greim said as he performed a quick succession of slashes on the air. He, apparently, was mimicking the technique the Thrung had used before. It seemed like the slashes on the air floated where they where, hovering. Until Greim spun around in a final, devastating slash that hurled the body of shockwaves and airslashes towards the barricaded staircase. It destroyed and blew everything away, liberating the path.

"Let's go!"- Greim sprinted up the staircase, avoiding debris that was left and holes on the stairs. When he got up, he saw that this stairway only laid up to the frontal balcony where the major had been. The major was tied up, writhing on the floor. Greim ran and used his swords to help untie him, but as soon as he was starting to manage it, a guy appeared and raised his finger towards him.

A laser shot straight to him, and Greim's arm wasnt severed just for a few seconds. This one wasn't someone who was faking to be a functionary of the municipality, as almost everyone else, this one had actually been part of the island's government... Greim recognized him from his childhood, when he was much younger and visited Greim's town too.

"Young... Greim Glowheart isnt it???"- he was ready to kill him and Emrick.- "I never thought that it was you who was causing such trouble... a pity that I'm the only one that could recognize you, right?"

Emrick had followed Greim up and was standing across from the man that could shoot, lazers it appeared. Emrick was preparing to have metal climb up between Greim and the man, Emrick took both his daggers out and held them in a backhand style while looking at Greim,"who's that?" Molten metal ha begun Fluctuating around Emerick and the floor