An Ulterior Motive: A New Face Behind a Mask ((Closed))

[[Karasu vs Lindo]]

Lindo laughed as he flickered his arm "STRING PIECES!!!!" He fired some thing from his hand, both like bullets clashed in mid air with the cannon bullet from Karasu. Lindo grinned as he then moved his arm "you know something Mr Crow... i think you need an education, you seem so upset, heheeh, lets see if my friends cant cheer you up....STRING PUPPET THEATRE!!!!" One by one, all the dead bodies that karasu had just slain rose, they got up and moved towards Karasu surrounding him and trying to grab at him. Lindo was laughing in the corner "tick tock Mr Crow, your running out of time it seems, hehahahahaha"

[[Meritas brothers vs Dagon]]

Jab Meritas stood steady in front of his brother his swords outright as he looked around "Not very certain are you.. having to resort to sneaking around... its nice to know that even the fish know when they are about to get beaten...." Jod stood behind his brother facing him looking around "I dont see him Jab..... where did he goo?" Jab then spinned his eyes looking around the room "Your job is to power him down... ill find the little fishy..." Jab then twirled his blade ready to slice at the moment Dagon appeared, the brothers both stayed close together.

The Ultimate Dragon's Destruction Bomb had, although soft clay wasnt to be ruptured, blown a whole into it, which was starting to cave in as soon as Santo made it. Clay from the other areas was by now at Santo's position, so if he didn't find a way to get out of there, he would be a dead man.

At the same time, Daiki had gone into the clay that surrounded a point in the room, but which wasn't very close to Santo. It was impossible that he knew he was there. As the path Santo had made through the soft clay was pointing towards the outside of the room, Daiki decided to full the hall with Clay Walls, one after another in both directions, these being as hard as steel. This way if Santo got out he would be incredibly disoriented. Especially because if a wall of clay was broken, although humongous strenght and precision would be needed, another one would be waiting behind.

Karasu saw his bullet collide with an invisible force and stop on its track, Karasu was surprised. Whatever power the opponent had, it was strong. Then it became evident that Karasu was in trouble when all of the bodies that Karasu killed started moving. There were a lot of bodies. The ones that were shot got right back up to their feet, like nothing had happened to them in the first place. This was like a scene from a zombie book. Karasu's eyes widened in terror, the men had come back to life. In a hurry Karasu ran to the edge of the room, where the bodies weren't piled, and put himself in a corner facing the undead creatures. In an instant they all started to run towards Karasu with zero emotion in their eyes. Karasu put himself in a feeble position and had his vulture cross his wings so he could protect Karasu like an egg shell. Out of the vulture Karasu's voice could be heard,
 
"S-Stay away from me! I can't fight zombies!!" Tears fell from Karasu's eyes, while they were closed, and fell to the ground underneath him. The sound of drops echoed in the silent room. Although there wasn't an opening to see the tears fall to the ground, there was definitely a break in Karasu's voice when he yelled to the crowd. Karasu was unmistakenly crying. The bodies attempted to grab and attack the vulture, but the steel hard skin stopped the attacks the best it could. Karasu was trapped in the wings, and wasn't moving.

While the two crews battled a ship had been approaching, though slowly as not to draw much attention. A man stood at the helm, shackled by his ankle to the area as he steered the vessel. A man stood at the bow of the ship, polishing a gun, he looked at the situation at hand and sighed. "Karasu is having issues here? Must be losing his touch a bit." He said with a chuckle before handing off the gun to another man in shackles "Load it." The mans voice carried authority while the shackled man scrambled to do so. "If it's not within my hand in the next twenty seconds, you'll be having it shoved down your throat." this caused the shackled man to hurriedly place in the last three bullets and hand it over to his master "Lord Nakamura, here." the man said as he handed the gun over. Doku took the gun and aimed down the sights towards the battle going on between two men and a fishman. Realizing something Doku holstered the gun "One of them has be working with Karasu, an explosion would cause damage to both parties."

As the boat got close Doku effectively leaped to the other side. He didn't know who was who so he was going to assume it were the two who were together and attack them. Unloading his explosives rounds and placing them in a pouch. He formed nine normal rounds and filled loaded them into his gun. Taking aim at the brothers he fired three shots at them, hoping to distract them from countering his fishy ally.

(OOC: Sorry if the post isn't to well. I've been out of it for awhile and yeah. So again apologies if I screwed up anything)

Dagon took advantage of the situation. He shifted behind the smarter of the brothers and to slash him. At this range, he couldn't block Dagon, though he could perhaps dodge if he realized the situation fast enough. But attacking that brother wasn't his goal. He took his knife's ignition oil from it sheathe, though it wouldn't be obvious that that is what it was, and dumped nearly his entire supply on the stupid brother, a good 3/4 of a gallon. He intended to mke the brother confused for one, but the oil he was now coated with was made from the fat in seakings and seacows, as well as large amounts of human greasing fats and even a small amount of coal-based oil. It also had the amplifyers of tree sap and liquid magnesium in it for easy ignition. If the stupid brother was unlucky, he'd set him self on fire. But if he wasn't unlucky, the oil would do nothing to him whatsoever as of yet. That was his strategy. He stuck out his tongue at the smart brother.

Judo Stream

He launched his blood bullet through his tongue while mid-attack from behind point blank. Likely, the brother would be hit. Even though he was aiming for the mans vertebrae to paralyze him, it could easily hit several arteries as well as several non-lethal areas if the man moved quickly. At this range, even thought his brother could see Dagon, the stupid brother couldn't protect his smarter brother at this range. At best he could attack Dagon frim behind, and even though there would be a good chance of him succeeding, Dagon could take a hit... And it seemed that an ally had come to his aid.

All the sudden the charred wood beneath him that he had burned with so many bodies had now broken. Just after his attack, the floor collapsed from the three of them being in such a small area when the floor was so badly burned. Luckily for Dagon, he could still float.

Santo backed up, his mind racking with a possible way to save himself. Santo backed up trying to avoid the wall of clay. Then he realized, Daiki didn't cover the floor in clay and if he did Santo was too disoriented by fear and worry of the clay wall enclosing him towards to corner of the room to notice. So Santo grabbed one of his small katanas he keeps on him and jabbed it through the floor using a simple nameless slash to open up the floor. Santo then used his lasso to go up onto the deck above where Daiki was. Santo assumed Daiki was still in the room and hadn't moved, so Santo closed his eyes and focused. Santo took a deep breath as his biceps bulged and he grabbed Crusher. "Ultimate Dragon's Destruction Bomb!" He jabbed the tip of Crusher into the floor above the room filled with clay and shot the attack through, but it didn't end there. Santo kept shooting Destruction Bomb attacks into the room, to destroy and maybe even damage Daiki he just kept shooting them hoping that the ceiling would collapse down on Daiki.

[[Lindo vs Karasu]]

Lindos face turned into disgust as Karasu hid. He grumbled as he moved his fingers letting his puppets move to encircle and claw at his defences. "PATHETIC, i am so disappointed man, what the fuck, i was looking foward to fighting you , i was looking forward to get high while fighting you to the death!!! and now you pull this shit? Damnit, fine, ill kill you, and send your corpse to my boss." Lindo then felt an explosion somewhere in the ship, who was that? Was that person going to cause damage, not that it mattered except the fact that Lindo wasnt done,he wasnt satisfied , he wanted a better fight, he wanted a battle with the best, it was all he longed for, to fight to the death till there is only one standing.

[[Meritas bros vs Dagon and Doku]]
Jab and Job both switched immediately , Jab gave the signal, the bullets from Doku took Jab by surprised but Jod who is much more simpler simply reacted to the noise of gun fire transforming his arm into marble and blocking the bullets . Jab on the other hand now had full view of Dagon before Dagon switched behind him blocking him, however Jab was not able to stop Dagon from pouring some strange looking liquid on Jod . Jab immediately widened his eyes as he kept dagon at bay "What did you put on my brother you fish scum!!" AS he asked the blood bullet caim and like before Jab used his blunt weapon to block the attack however as Jod stepped back he had caught on fire from the flame and as the floor broke all of them fell into the next level of the ship, where jod reacted to the flame engulfing his leg by turning into marble and trying to shake it off. Jab also recovered his footing as luckily the second level was steel platforms , no water just as yet. Jab stood steady with both Doku and Dagon in view "JOD go and put the fire out!!!" Jod responded by running in a straight line, his body transformed into marble as he ran, the fire not damaging him as quickly but it was significant still and spreading. Jod was now looking for water. Jab grimaced and snarled at Dagon "You'll pay for that, im gonna have fried leech fishman for dinner you fucking bastard!!"

Dagon, floating above him, laughed loudly. When the devil fruit user was out of ear shot, he spoke.

"I'll never let you tell him, but water will only make it worse... I learned the hard way as a cook that grease fires explode when they come in contact with water... And he's to stupid to figure it out himself."

Shift

Dagon shifted between the smarter one and the path his brother took.

"Just to make it interesting, I'll give you a waring about my rings. One creates massive vibrations, the other electrocutes. If you are hit directly by it, I doubt you'll be able to recover without a doctor to help you."

Dagon raised his fist, undoing his slash on the ringed hand and holding his knife with some remaining fat and grease on it to help it ignite, though it wasn't visible. Now that the battle was one on one, Dagon had the advantage.

"Where were you born? A warrior's last thoughts should be of their home."

After waiting for whatever reaction he may or may not have to be completed, Dagon pounces in a seemingly wide-open manner that has obvious danger from the upper left and upper right from his claws, his knife, his rings, and the judo stream he was prepared to use out of his claws and if it wasn't avoid, it would be lethal, but the only three ways to avoid would be to go over, under, or back. That was Dagon's plan. If he tried to go over, his float would allow him to immediately defeat the warrior by allowing him to throw him off-board where there was a surplus of water. If he went under, dagon was prepared to use cut from his legs, and would. If he went back, he would simply use float to cover the openings in prediction of a counter attack and use cut for a distance attack.

As Daiki couldnt see throug his clay, he had closed his eyes and once again attempted to use Total Silence. Fortunately, as what he was trying to hear  was enclosed in the room, it was more effective than when he tried to use it to scan the whole ship. He heard an attack that destroyed... the ceiling? And then he heard Santo jump, he could even hear his heavy breath and his effort noises, although they were very subtle. Daiki was left hanging in the air for a second, figuratively. Somehow the guy had gone through his clay and was now on the... deck on top of them??? This was verified when the guy exclaimed the name of the attack he had used before... and Daiki knew what was coming. Daiki expanded the whole clay structure inside the room so it was completely filled and he hardened it purposely and ran out of the room through the door. If he hadn't hardened it, the attacks would've surely smashed him... but he got out in time, and the clay crumbled out of the door of the room.

Daiki panted, he couldnt allow his target to escape. He had already accepted that it was him who had kidnapped Tri-Blade. He held his fist back and pointed directly at the ceiling above him in the hall. "Nendo Nendo no Punch...". This had happened in seconds since the storage room was being bombarded, and  when Daiki jumped on to the deck, pushing himself up with a clay platform, Santo was still there, perhaps still shooting attacks at the room below him. The first thing the First Mate did was hastily creating a Nendo Nendo no Quicksand below Santo, using all the clay from the room below his feet, which came up and broke all the floor below  Santo, taking the quicksand texture and motion, if he was trapped, the more he fought to get out, the more he would drown into it. He also performed a sudden clay burst from himself that threw clay chunks all over the deck, which started expanding and covering the whole floor of the deck below their feet.  Daiki also noticed Dagon fighting with two guys on deck... far way from where he was standing, it was a truly gigantic vessel.

He covered his arms with clay, preparing for anything. But he was careful it didnt get his clothes dirty... it wouldnt since he was a Logia user, and he was very skilled at multi-tasking with his powers.

Santo saw the Nendo Nendo Punch out of the corner of his eyes and jumped back out of his newf found paranoia of Daiki's clay.  Santo noticed the floor below him turning and clay and noticed the ground below him turning into clay.  Santo had nothing and he was slowly descending down into the quicksand that would surely mean his doom.  "Crap!"  Santo on impulse pulled the katana he used to cut a whole in the floor and jabbed it into the ground and then found a way to balance himself on the sword's hilt with 1 foot on the hilt and the other barely hovering over the quicksand.  Santo exhaled a sigh of relief and jumped up using his lasso to get to the next floor of the ship.  "How the hell do I harm this guy?!?!"  Santo muttered to himself.  Santo racked his brain desperately knowing he would not have much time before Daiki was on the offensive once again.  Santo took a deep breath and focused on what he knew about clay and came to a risky resolution.  "I must do this!"  Santo was risking it all here, Santo ran with intense speed across the deck and jumped off towards Daiki using an airblast to launch himself even faster.  Santo's eyes darkened as he remembered the words inscribed in a stone tablet that he found when he excavated Crusher.

"I see you are at least a bit skilled and you have good enough reflexes to get out of my nendo quicksands."- Daiki smiled and payed detailed attention to what Santo was about to do. As a very skilled assassin, he was able to analyze his opponents moves to see if they were going into the offensive or defensive, and react quite easily and fastly to whatever came his way. When he saw that Santo took a pause and then started to run, he knew that he was trying to go for the offensive.

Daiki had also observed Santo's weapons. Swords and that lasso... -he had previously thought. They surely were made for short ranged attacks, and he didnt see him attacking from the back or something similar with long ranged attacks. He did display, now that he saw it, quite a haste. But Daiki grinned for the first time in a while, as this fight was becoming very interesting and quite blood burning, and as he understood that the clay he had localized through-out a big extention of the deck would come very handy now. In a few milliseconds, as Santo sprinted towards him and before he could throw himself faster forward with the help of his blast, Daiki was concentrating on all the clay.

He rose both his arms forward and if he was carrying something really carry, lunged them furiously into the sky. "Clay Walls..." -he said as he panted. Abruptly and protecting him from the on-coming Santo, thick walls towered up ten meters into the sky. These were as hard as steel, due to their dense contexture and tight-together structure. A laberynth had formed around Daiki and Santo, and if Daiki's foe didnt stop his move, he would just ran into one of the walls, which would surely hurt.

Daiki took advantage of the surprise that the sudden lift of the walls could have generated and climbed on a little clay platform, he flew up and localized Santo down in the laberynth. He was also a bit worried about the humongous extra weight he had put on the ship, but it seemed to be floating just fine... it was very huge indeed, and the air inside it was keeping it afloat with enough power.

This sword is not an object to be mistreated, it will etch a path to the future, a path either illuminated in light and creation or darkness and destruction, depends on what yon swing the sword for.  You must be in Harmony to use the sword's full power though.  As Santo silently repeated the words on the stone tablet that came with Crusher he repeated 1 single word out loud, "Harmony." Santo used an air blast to boost himself to the side of the clay wall and another air blast to boost himself straight at Daiki like a rocket. Santo tossed his lasso towards Daiki but that wasn't fundamental to the next move.  "Harmony!  Ultimate Dragon's Destruction Bomb!" Santo shot a heavy air blast much stronger than his previous shot blasts at Daiki and everything behind him.

The bodies swarmed the black wings that covered Karasu. Hands continued to claw the defenses of the vulture, which gave it some pain since it continued non-stop along with punches and kicks that never ended. However, the pain was minor, and the vulture could hold out for a very long time. But, this wasn't the plan. As the bodies continued to beat on the vulture a sudden cold air crowded the room, like a bad omen. In the inside of the vulture Karasu was thinking about the man's face, and then it popped up almost immediately. A man with a bounty of 150 million belli, and a psychotic nature to match it. The man was strong, and the information of his devil fruit.. it clicked in Karasu's head. The effects sounded familiar, it had the ability to not only cut through almost anything, but the strings could also 'take over' unconscious or dead bodies. Karasu remembered the effects of the devil fruit were very similar to the effects of the puppeteer... and then it hit Karasu, didn't he name his current move after a puppet show? Karasu thought, and thought, for a few seconds until something snapped in his head. Suddenly the room grew quiet, there wasn't any more sobbing. The crowd hit Karasu, and in an instant there was nothing left but an after image of where he used to be. In an instant the vulture opened its wings and a large variety of Karasu images swarmed the room filled with dead bodies; it was like 40 Karasus were in the room moving straight, pivoting, and continuing to run through the room. When Karasu stopped, after a few seconds, the blades took effect and each of the bodies simultaneously cut themselves in half through the middle of the body, others were vertical cuts. Karasu just cut through an army of dead bodies with the blades of his vulture in soru speeds.

Karasu stopped, without a hint of blood on him, and looked at the mad man with both of his pistols aimed directly at him. "I should thank you, now I know the devil fruit of an enemy of mine. I can narrow my search down by a lot, you can die knowing you served a purpose in your life. I will now give you the satisfaction of dying by my hands." Karasu aimed his pistols, and in an instant five bullets were fired. Two curved from the left and the right trying to collide with the mad man, another was a canon bullet that was purposely delayed so that the two curved bullets could collide with each other before the canon bullet could move through, straight, and attempt to hit the puppeteer. The last two bullets looked like they were aimed at the enemy, but they narrowly missed him (by a hair) then they curved themselves inwards and attempted to sneak attack the enemy from the back. Karasu held perfectly still while doing this combination, the vulture prepared itself for a counter attack.

[[Meritas Brothers vs Dagon and doku]]

Jab was preparing his swords as the fishman jumped towards him, ready to crush him , Jab grinned at the fishman who was placing the same liquid on his blade and pounced at him "You know something you stinking fish, i wont tell you shit!!!" Jab smashed his blunt weapon straight into the fishman while keeping his balance backwards. He was hoping to keep Dagon at bay while Dagon tried to use his float ability against him.
Meanwhile Jod lays on the floor sweating from the fire. "arghh, this fire is annoying!!" Jod then runs to try and find water, but he knew he couldnt swim, he ran into one of the ships kitchens and then walked into the huge freezer.

[[Lindo vs Karasu]]

Lindo laughed as Karasu cut up the bodies and began talking to him."FANTASTIC, at last your taking this seriously!!! Ive been looking foward to seeing that face!!! the crow of death!!! AAHAHAHAHAHA" Lindo moved his hands, the strings covering him as he moved each of his fingers, cutting the bullets, for the cannon bullet he set up a string net to have the explosion happen from a distance which allowed him to notice the curved bullets and the bullets going behind him as he cut them and moved "Your gun play is really top class, ahahahahaha, you will kill the boredom!!!" Lindo threw several string bullets while running along the room , he now had no intention of using puppets anymore in this battle.

Doku watched as the situation unfolded, with a sigh he spoke "Well it seems you have him handled. I'll go after tall, dumb and burning" he said as pulled out his sword hilt and locked a 3 ft long 2 ft wide blade in place. Following Jod into the freezer Doku made sure his blade wouldn't break against anything the idiot would turn into by covering it in his own metal and hardening it. Then however, a thought came to Doku, he seemed to block on instinct reloading his revolver with the explosive rounds he took aim and shot of three shots at Jod in hopes of ending the battle quickly or, if Jod turned into marble, horribly crippling his enemy.

Karasu watched the enemy deflect the canon bullet, which was a very powerful bullet with the strength of a canon, and dodged the four way attack that came his way. Karasu moved his head to the side while the bullet he curved moved smoothly past his head and landed in the wall behind him. The man then started to run around the room shooting string bullets at Karasu. Now this had become a gun slinger's battle. Karasu couldn't see the bullets very well, so dodging became hard. The strings landed around Karasu while he ran through the room. Karasu's vulture closed its wings so he wouldn't get shot. The opponent didn't count on Karasu's acrobatic skills, so when a bullet was fired all Karasu had to do was move his body in a completely different position then the pattern he displayed. With every bullet the string man shot Karasu ducked, jumped, or simply used his hand to cart wheel forward into the battle. But, Karasu didn't fire back a single time while he ran. All Karasu could tell from this man thus far was that he was dangerously in love with fighting, it was an addiction. The man wanted to die in a battle, and he wanted to die epicly. He wasn't the strategic type, at least not to Karasu's level.. he was more of a straight forward attacker. He chose to run around and shoot instead of staying his ground and aiming, he's so built up in energy he wants to use it to become a harder target to hit. Karasu continued running, and made up his mind. It was time for action.

Suddenly Karasu put six bullets in his left pistol, and six other bullets in his right pistol. He aimed his bullets at the enemy, then fired from his left pistol at the floor in front of the string man. Suddenly a smokescreen enveloped the entire room. Karasu shot three smoke bullets in the room, making the sense of sight an almost completely unusable, and worthless, sense. When the smoke took over the room Karasu used his Soru Image to appear as though he was still running through the smoke for one second, before the image disappeared. Several string bullets hit the image before it was gone, making most men believe that Karasu was successfully shot before he disappeared into the smoke. Most people would believe that Karasu was in the floor, or dead, since one of the strings hit the images head. Karasu then slid out of the room, so he wouldn't make as much noise, and left the door leading to the closed room slightly open. If the opponent thought Karasu was dead, then this would be the killing shot. Karasu took all six of his explosive bullets, and shot them within a second without letting the pirate react to Karasu still being alive. The explosive rounds all landed around the string man, and a huge explosion took the entire portion of the ship; the power of the explosive rounds was multiplied thanks to the confined space, six of the explosive rounds hit the floor which meant it was a very big explosion, the damage is also multiplied by the amount of air that machine created before it blew itself up. The machine the mad man used to try and blow up the ship wasn't completely filled yet, which meant it didn't have the power to blow up the ship.. but it did have the power to blow up a confined room and a small portion of the ship, by itself. The door Karasu held blew itself away, and Karasu found himself sliding towards a dead end; the vulture opened its wings and stopped the what could have been a very bad outcome for Karasu. The vulture took most of the damage from the door flying off, and Karasu smiled while a small stream of blood moved itself down his forehead. He felt his left arm dislocated, but.. this was the quickest way to end the battle without losing the money.

"Now.. for the money." Karasu had his eyes closed, and turned around to walk towards the area he heard the money. He held on to his left shoulder and quickly attempted to pop it back into place; he succeeded, but the pain was unsettling for most people. Karasu actually grinded his teeth. Karasu assumed the man was dead.

Daiki, after spotting Santo, saw him propelling himself up and then directly towards him. Thanks to all of the superior powers that he was prepared, because the lasso came directly his way. He remembered moments like this... they happened all the time when you were an assassin. Objects that were hurled directly at you, the adrenaline rushing through your bloodstream, starting from the adrenal glands close to his kidneys and increasing the rate in which his heart pumped. It was almost amazing to consider that all of that happened in milliseconds.

"Nube de Arcilla!" - Daiki stood on the thick clay wall and shot a huge mass of soft clay that luckily trapped the lasso and kept going, attempting to engulf Santo whole from the top. But Santo's attack was already by, and as Santo seemed to move directly into his Nube de Arcilla due to the movement of his propulsion, the air blast from the Dragon's Destruction Bomb moved dangerously towards Daiki. Daiki threw himself backwards and was just hit partially by the airblast, which blasted him down into the whole between two of the clay walls. If the Nube de Arcilla hit, it would trap Santo inside it and become solid immediately.

Knowing what would happen to him as he fell, Daiki pulled a platform from the two clay walls made of soft clay, which stopped his free fall. He stood quickly, his whole body aching and bruises and some cuts in some parts of his body as he jumped up and flew on a platform towards Santo again, to see if his attack had hit, prepared for anything. Suddenly, an explosion seemed to occur somewhere in the ship and the whole ship shook. Daiki started to worry about Karasu, who was inside the ship.

Santo decided he needed to end this, "Crap not my lasso!"  Santo cut off the part of the lasso that hadn't been submerged into the liquidy surface of the clay.  Santo then fell down to the ground very narrowly avoiding the Nube de Arcilla.  Santo tried to rise from his knees but coughed up some blood.  
"Damn I'm exerting my body too much, body just taken in a little more."  Santo lifted himself up with the aid of Crusher and concetrated, "Harmony!  Ultimate Dragon Destruction Bombs!"  Santo began shooting rapid fire blasts once again at every direction but mostly the direction in which Daiki was, just in case Daiki ran.  Santo fell to his knees once again coughing blood as he grabbed his broken lasso and began to climb overboard.  Santo as he stood on the railing used airblasts, shooting himself off th boat but kept using them and it seemed as if Santo was traveling on air

Dagon was pushed back by the impact of the warrior, but he was too agile with float. He used the force to flip and curl beneath him in an attempt to kick him out of the ship through the large weakening part of the wall. In this position, with his hands on the ground with float active and his foot aimed straight at the mans solarplexis, he could avoid and non-area-of-effect dodge/counter by rolling and floating. If he went for a direct counter, Dagon would take the hit and make impact with the warrior, propelling him off the ship and into the water. Dagon would then go to search for shiny valuables, good ingredients, and the other brother. But first, he'd need to find the noble. He needed his information afterall.

[[Lindo vs Karasu]]

As sson as Karasu shot his smoke bullets at the ground he cracked his knuckles and grinned as a very strong thick string started flying from his fingers, he then pressed "JUMPING SPIDER SHOTT" He vaulted foward to the corners of the walls, avoiding the smoke, and watching Karasu go through his paces, the after image being hit by his string shots, Lindo saw it unfolding before his very eyes, thanks to his spider shot. He watched Karasu walk out of the room and then immediately reanimated one of the body figures with his strings, to simulate him as Karasu used his explosive rounds , Lindo had used the vents already and was in the same area as Karasu as he blew up the room. Lindo sat on a crate which Karasu walked by as he walked past. Lindo grinning "Now now, its not that easy you know.... its never that simple, ahahahahaha your going to show me ALL your skill, not your tricks and smokescreen, show me a more passionate fight Crow of Death, show me more passion and heart, show me more !!!!" Lindos body had been rattled by the blast in the room, so his arm was bleeding, however, having avoided the smokescreen, he didnt get hit by the explosive rounds head on and hence he didnt die.

[[Dagon and Doku vs Meritas bros]]

Jab grunted as he flew into the sea, his consciousness leaving him. His only hope was with his brother now, as he drifted deep into the ocean unable to move from the attacks of the fishman.
Meanwhile Jod was already on fire and turned into marble, however he was just laying down on the floor of the freezer, unable to move. It seemed that Jod had already passed out from the intense heat. The freezer however was connected to a duct that flowed through the ship. As the explosions took place from Karasus area, it shook the ship and made Jod fall into one of these ducts, making Jod disappear from the area unable to do anything.

[[Rabels escape sub room, lowest level]]

Rabel shuddered "Damnit, those explosions... dont tell me they lost? Those fools, i thought they would be able to handle it!!!!" Montes stood by counting his fingers and watching his master get upset. He then turned to the escape sub with all the money and treasure from the slave trade he had done this last month. Montes nervously looked down at his feet, it was too bad, too bad that Lindo wasnt going to fail. Montes knew it in his heart. The Meritas brothers might have failed, but Lindo was different, Lindo had always been different, the man was bred for fighting.

Karasu heard the heartbeat of the man sitting on a crate. Karasu underestimated him, and now he hurt himself in the process of trying to end the battle early. The arm Karasu popped back into place still felt some tingling, but the pain will go away. The real problem was that he felt a little light headed, probably thanks to the explosion that made him slide dozens of meters into a dead end. Karasu then heard what the man said, he wanted a real battle.. and he wanted Karasu to show him everything he had to offer in a battle. That's when Karasu seemed enraged, his mouth showed a sign of disgust towards his opponent, and he wasn't faking it. Karasu quickly hid his expression and showed a more uniform personality.

"You want me to try my best on you?" Karasu eyed the man, noticing his desire for the first time in the battle. Lindo was serious.

"You dare..", Karasu raised his pistols at the enemy with a hint of anger growing in his eyes, "- INSULT ME?!" Karasu shot a bullet in the ground, which seemed normal until it showed a smokescreen that overtook the small area in the hallway that Karasu and Lindo were located. "YOU DARE COMPARE ME TO TRASH LIKE YOU?!" Karasu's foot slammed on the ground and he instantly ran around Lindo, leaving nothing but a crack behind on where his foot stumped. Karasu used Soru to run around the enemy, leaving nothing but images of himself behind. This time the vulture on Karasu's shoulder decided to fly above the enemy, making sure he didn't attempt to escape through the smoke again. Karasu closed his eyes to hone in on the enemy, this time he wasn't going to let him escape.

"I'LL SHOW YOU WHY THE ONLY PEOPLE THAT CAN KILL ME ARE IN THE NEW WORLD!!" He yelled, then Karasu whispered to himself, "Blizzard Bullet Stance.." Suddenly Karasu shot his pistols, and a continuous barrage of bullets seemed to endlessly come out of the guns. Every second about five bullets were fired from each pistol, each one of them freezing everything 1m of the area the bullets hit. Karasu aimed at every square inch around Lindo, and at his body too. The bullets froze the ground, and if they touched any limb of Lindo it would freeze it solid. The barrage continued, almost endlessly, and follow Lindo wherever he went. If Lindo decided to go to the ceiling, where Karasu's vulture was keeping an eye on the situation, the vulture would try to cut through the man the second he saw it, and Karasu would shoot the man's legs with every bullet he could muster within the course of a few seconds. With Lindo in the air it would be easy to hit him, it would also be easy to know where he'd land if he used the string on the wall again.. since all Karasu had to do was aim at the area the string was located and wait an instant to shoot the bullet and hit him right when he landed on the wall/ground. If Lindo tried to escape underground Karasu will shoot all of his bullets, still, but add a curve to them to follow Lindo into the depths of wherever he is landing. It will be hard to dodge in the air with no flying abilities, and it will be even harder to dodge bullets aimed and shot at Lindo and the area around him. If Lindo stood in the area he was at now, or tried to run away from Karasu to get distance, Karasu will follow him and shoot him with the blizzard bullets, which will freeze everything in a 1m radius once they touched a solid object. To make sure the enemy had a hard time living through this without some damage Karasu also curved some of the bullets to slam against each other around the area of Lindo, to try and freeze him unsuspectedly while he was busy dodging all the other bullets that were aimed directly at him.

If Lindo was somehow frozen, then Karasu will attempt to shoot him once more with a normal bullet to try and shatter him.

Seeing his opponent fall Doku relaxed, though to him something seemed off. Being on a ship of slaves he knows the looks of them so for him it seemed obvious to be a slaver ship and where there a slaver ship, theres slaver gold. Going down to the lowest levels he heard two men talking "Damnit, those explosions... dont tell me they lost? Those fools, i thought they would be able to handle it!!!!" Doku let a smirk creep across his face. "Troubles, it seems." Doku said as his eyes landed on the escape sub "Ah, I suppose this would be Karasu's target." Doku said as metal began to creep around the sub, avoiding water but covering any exposed part. The metal clinched the sub and began lifting it before shot gunning to the top and outside of the ship and landing on Doku's ship. "You see, my friend Karasu doesn't like being screwed and honestly I don't like exerting energy to deal with these situations." Doku shook his head as bullets begin forming behind him, levitating five hundred in all. "I ask now that you make this easy and simply die." Doku said as the bullets launched forward at the two men, from the sheer number of the bullets if they didn't dodge, horrible maiming or even death was in their future.

Daiki destroyed the whole laberynth structure below his feet in order to dodge Santo's attack and throw him off balance at the same time. As the piece Daiki was standing on fell, he controled it so that he wouldnt be thrown out of it. He used all the other clay to make a giant hand, kind of like an open Nendo Nendo no Punch to pull him back into his direction, the hand went faster than him and was off the boat as well, it enlarged there, when it was past him, and attempted to slap him back into the ship. At the same time Daiki was running towards the edge of the boat.

"Do you think I have gone all out with you?" -he screamed. His wounds had happened mostly due to a mistake he had made more than the incredible skills of his opponenet, he knew this. -"I am still having fun, and you have too many answers."

Daiki glared at a Santo that was about to be hit by his attack. He didnt know if it would work, but he started to raise a mass of clay on top of his head either way.

Santo air boosted himself back onto the ship and glared at Daiki. "You want answers! Is this all you want, some fucking answers. Well if you're asking for Triblade's location, 6 feet under the ground, Derge killed him. All I did was deliver him to Derge, there is no hope to save him because he's dead. If you're looking for Derge's location, well then you got the wrong man, if I knew it I wouldn't even be here." Santo lit a cigar, but just kept it in between his fingers, since he didn't really have a taste for the cigars. "Now if you don't mind, I'm gonna go train, this was just shameful. I'm taking you down Daiki, next time we meet, you will fall to my steel blades. Santo this time, jumped over board and into the water.

[[Lindo vs Karasu]]

"THATS MORE LIKE IT!!!!" Lindo fired his string bullets and set up a grid of strings blocking off the attacks while he remained still in the smoke. He matched each shot, blow for blow,he roared out loud but the sheer accuracy and power of karasus bullets broke through frozen parts of his grid of strings and finally hit him, one in his gut, the other in the chest and the other in the neck. Lindo felt the blood pulsating as he felt himself hit and lying on the floor. The battle was over now, Lindo was defeated, he knew that, for that glorious moment he felt true battle. He lay frozen and unable to move the blood his body now closing down slowly "Hah... excellent.. fantastic, that was the best , the best fight .. you were excellent, crow of death, how many will die for your sake, how many will view you as a hero? How many lives will you take to satisfy your gluttony . your need to spread death... till your the only left......come.. end our battle..... i would gladly die by your hand....."

[[Doku vs Montes]]

Rabel jumped on the spot, how did they find them? What on earth happened? It seemed now they were going to kill him. As he panicked, Montes jumped in front and cut down the bullets , parrying some of them away as he spun his blade. Montes then stepped foward "Im... sorry..." Rabel laughed as the sub was taken out, he could get the sub back since montes was still there, he then let out a sigh of relief. Montes was going to keep him alive. "Yes... Montes, kill them , kill them all, activate the protocol M" Montes immediately injected something into his body, it was  agreen liquid, his muscles began to grow and he began to increase in size, his teeth growing longer as he began snarling, his hair growing longer as he hulked over doku. Montes started breathing heavily, before he swiped his arm at Doku, his arm causing a sudden pressure of air, blasting the radius in which Doku was in. Rabel stood back, "You know about IQ right? the drug used to enhance animals.... well this is Protocol M, a modified version of IQ which enhances human capabilities through steady injections, it makes them fully realize their human body potential, makes them Monsters!!!!"