One Piece:The Second Race![Owned: Hotaru987/Co-owned: Blu-Dawn]started/accepting

[Esplin 9466 Primary]

"If you think that was cool, just wait. That was nothing compared to what I can do when I'm on the ocean." Saya said proudly. "But besides that. If you're gonna start cheating on what's his face." Saya started, she had not bothered to ask Daichi's name. "Then I wouldn't recommend it." Saya stood up and walked over to the table with all of the people. "Look. I don't know who you people are, but me and my friends are trying to have a conversation." She removed Raitou from it's sheath. "So if you don't shut up and eat...." Raitou turned in to a lion and let out a loud roar. "...I can't guarantee your safety." Saya grinned. "If you interrupt me again with you useless arguing. Every one of you will be sorry you ever came in here today."

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After a few minutes of flying Arashi let Daichi fall to the ground and then landed himself. Daichi had been dropped from too high up and grabbed one of the trees as he fell. "What the hell, bastard!!"

[.:Blu:.]

"Humph, we will not be intimidated by people like you. You think you can just tell others to do just by threatning them? Well, I'm sorry, but that won't happen today." a member of the Morgrand stated. "Are you insane, that lion'll eat us alive! Don't try to be brave!" a person from the Syrius exclaimed in fear. Suddenly, Dan stepped in front of Saya and Raitou with his hands placed inside his pockets. "I'm afraid you're causing quite a disturbance.... I suggest you leave now before I have to take care of you personally...." Dan said as he eyed her intently. "There's one thing in this world I truly hate, and that is people who think they can force others to do something by threatning them. Now I suggest you leave...." Dan warned. Muri then ran out from the kitchen. "H-Hey! I'm sorry but you have to leave now!" Muri exclaimed as well. Jack then lightly sat up. "(Humph, is there going to be a problem?....)" Jack thought to himself. Yura also calmly stood there to protect the two families

 

-Meanwhile-

 

After the long pause, John gave another smile. "Alright, I'll be sure to do that Mr. Black, take care." John said with a friendly wave goodbye. "Wow, your old man is still intimidating as ever, hehe. I remember when we used to train with him, and my dad of course.... But that's ancient history now...." John said with a hint of sadness in his voice as he remembered his father and George. "So anyways, what have you been doing lately Mave? Hmm, I was going to ask if you want to accompany me to go see George's grave.... So how about it? You wanna go?" Joh asked.

[Li††le Mons†er]

Eureka giggled. "It does not only let me change from a man to a woman." Suddenly his nose grew long and pointy then his hears grew big and droopy. "I can change any physical feature about me." Eureka looked around himself when Toni said that he had no supplies for healing. "I must have left my case on the boat!" He suddenly rand towards the ship to fetch his belongings he had forgotten. When he returned he had a brief case in his hands. "There we go." Eureka had the ability to heal without his medical supplies but he like to keep them handy. Plus, He did not like to reveal to much about himself. Pandora looked at Eureka as he altered his body. He found this kind of intriguing. However he would not say it aloud. Pandora gave Toni a smile to show that he didn't mind what she said, after all. He turned his head towards Vincent. "Sorry, I cannot leave until Captain K says that he agrees with this plan." He said in an apologetic tone.

[Hotaru987]

Crystal hopped up and stood in front of Saya. " Ok, ok no need to gang up. I apologize for Saya, it was quite rude of her to threaten your costomers. I left the money for our food on the table. It should be more than enough to cover everything." She smiled, "Goodbye, and good luck." She then grabbed Saya and Otsumi and left the restaurant. "Man, that was a close one. Althoug I did wanna see how that was going to play out...But Oh well. Guess it wasn't for me too see. So, why don't I show you the ship?" It was then Otsumi cleared her throat catching Crystal's attention. "I think it's time for us to part now. I can't thank you enough for all of your help. If you guys are ever making your way back stop by. I'd very mush like to see you guys again." Crystal smiled, "Of course. Well then....See you later Otsumi." They hugged, and Otsumi nodded towards Saya before leaving.

 

Sana came too only after Yura left and was out a few minutes later with the rest of the dishes. She had missed what had happened but with the tension in the air it was obvious she missed something. "Um...Ok..This is knife cutting tension...."

 

ooc: Of course I'll help. Who do you want me to control?

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Vincent nodded not at all bothered. "I understand so don't worry." He said still watching Eureka goofing off. Toni giggled at Eureka finding him funny. Hopefully K Wouldn't get too annoyed because she was an energetic person, and it was easily obvious so was he. "You're funny, don't you think so Pandora?" She asked trying to get him to talk.

[.:Blu:.]

[spoiler=OOC:]Well you can control any of them and give them names if you want so you don't need to post the young man from the Morgrand family XD.

 

 

 

"Umm, sorry for that interruption, please enjoy your meal!" Muri said as the group disperse. "You should go into the kitchen Sana...." Yura said as he walked past her. "Whew, good thing I didn't need to- Whoa!" Dan was surprised by the two young ladies from before grabbing onto his arms. "That was so brave of you Waiter!" Lisa, the young lady from the Syrius family said. "Would you like to go on a date with me Waiter? You don't want to go with that Ogre now do you?" Kari, the young lady from the Morgrand responded. "(..... Someone help me....) Huh, I think the people in the kitchen need me.... See ya...." Dan quickly ran into the kitchen. "Jeez.... I got out of there alive...." Dan said. "Humph, well now I can finally eat...." Baron, the old man of the Morgrand took a bite of the steak. "Hmm...." His eyes began to shine. "Why, I feel, so giddy...." Baron said. "(Huh? It's working!)" Jack thought to himself from afar.

[Li††le Mons†er]

"Yeah, He is rather humorous." Pandora said. Eureka then returned to normal. He looked at K. Eureka could tell that he was a serious person from the way he acted previously. Suddenly Eureka's head grew gigantic and he had a serious look on his face. "Enough laughing." He said to Toni joking around. He ment no disrespect just thought he might get a laugh out of K. Pandora turned his head to look at where they would be walking through if Captain K aproved of the plan. Eureka kept morphing his body into odd mixtures hoping to make Toni laugh more. He never had an audience before so this was making him feel really good. after a while he turned back into his normal form and waited for K to lead them.

[Esplin 9466 Primary]

"Whatever." Saya grabbed Raitou and turned it back in to a sword and followed Crystal. "Sorry. I just hate it when people act like that. I guess I could have handled that bedder myself though." Saya said when they where away from the restaurant. "So, you're not part of the crew?" Saya asked when Otsumi said she was leaving. "So I guess that means it's me, crystal and that other dude..... what's his name? Daichi right?" Saya said counting the crew members. "Speaking of Daichi. I hope he's strong, I noticed that other guy, Arashi, had a legendary zoan type devil fruit. He won't be easy to beat."

 

 

(I don't feel like posting the fight for Arashi & Daichi, so I'll just post the end of it later on.)

[namelessk]

Kadyr stood there and listened to the arrangements of how the teams would go. Frankly, he didn't really care how the arrangements of the team was, but he did agree on how Nova and Vincent made them. They would need a Djinn member on each team to be able to recognize the missing crew members, and Kadyr agreed with this. The idea of having a non-Devil Fruit user on each team was also good because the team would be screwed if all of its members were Devil Fruit user's, and the cannibals somehow had Seastone and used it on them. Overall, Kadyr liked the plans, but he just didn't care much about them at the moment because he wanted to hurry and save the members.

 

As the teams began heading out, he noticed that Pandora had not moved yet. "You may go Pandora. Your team is leaving you." Kadyr said. He knew of Pandora's loyalty to him, and he knew that those were the words he had been looking for. He knew that Pandora wouldn't have moved until he had told him so. Then, he began going down his own path into the jungle. "Let's go." Kadyr said, and began his team's journey into the jungle. He didn't mind Eureka's trying to be silly to make Toni laugh. That didn't really bother him much. However, they would need to be as quiet as possible once they got far into the jungle. He didn't want them getting ambushed because they were too loud. "You two are going to have to be a little quieter. We don't want to be found and ambushed." Kadyr said to the two of them as he walked.

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Trace was growing nervous as the attacks continued to barrage him. He was slightly losing his calm and cool composure. He was disadvantaged with all of this sand around. He had to do something, or he would end up having to change into his full Zoan beast form. He heard the movement of something through the air and turned around to look, only to see spikes of sand heading towards him. "Ugh. He doesn't quit." he muttered as he flew a little higher into the air. He then flapped his wings outwards towards the spikes, and air blade were released from them. He could use Rankyaku with his wings?! He must have mastered it to a great level to be able to do so. The air blades shifted slightly and became wings which cut through the spikes and continued, crashing into the ground and exploding with a blast of air. Trace then looked out of the corner of his eye to see the hands swatting towards him.

 

"Darn it. How do I get him to come out?" he muttered to himself as he flew higher. He was horribly disadvantaged and he knew it. Maybe if he went somewhere where there wasn't sand he would be safe, but there was no where he could go. It was then that he thought of the sea. But, if he fell into the water, he would drown and lose his abilities. However, he could fly, and so he would just have to make sure that he kept himself afloat. Spriggs, on the other hand could not fly, and if Trace got far enough away from the island, Spriggs would not be able to reach him without risking losing his advantage. And so Trace used Soru to move quickly through the air, adding geppou to his soru to rocket himself upwards. He was then seen flying away from the hands, moving towards the sea. "Catch me if you can Spriggs." Trace called out to the sand below him.

[.:Blu:.]

From within the thick brush, a group of people armed with poison arrows and bone axes stood there quietly, watching the two groups with eager eyes. They spoke to each other quietly in a strange language. One of them were creeping enough to lick their lips as they saw the two groups. "Gekikowabaka.... (That one would make good soup....)" one of them spoke quietly to the others. The others responded with a nod of the head. Three more of them arrived with poison-tipped spears. "Ikulapopo.... (Time for hunting....)" another one holding a bow and arrow said. They continued to follow the group without making any actions beside following them quietly, but it was apparent that their motives aren't friendly.

 

-Meanwhile-

 

"HeheheheHAHAHAHA!!!! Please Admiral Trace!!! Do you think I'm that stupid enough to follow you into the water where you can catch me?! HAHAHA!!!! You're the one who needs to catch me not the other way around mind you!!!!" Spriggs knew he had the upper hand as long as he stayed in the sand. Just then, the calm sea breeze grew into a sudden flash of strong wind currents, enough so to push the sea water deeper into the sand. As that happened, it was noticeable that the sand seemed to retraced and parts that hit the sea water became the same color as the clothes worned by Spriggs. Unfortunately for Spriggs, it seems as though Lady Luck is on Trace's side.

[Li††le Mons†er]

Pandora nodded towards Captain K once he was given permission to join up with his selected group. He the turned and walked quickly over to the other members in his group. "Shall we get going then?" He said. He let Vincent take the lead because he seemed to know what he was doing.

 

Eureka became silent once K started to walk. He knew that in certain situations it was required to be quiet. However his face began to alter. His ears grew big again his nose got somewhat bigger. Eureka may have looked funny but this was encase they were being followed he would be able to detect them. The ears enhanced his hearing of course as well as the nose enhancing his scent. He was actually quite the tracker. which came in handy for finding people he got separated with. Eureka heard the Indians in the brush while they walked but he did not say anything yet. He didn't know what they were saying and He didn't want to let on that he knew they were being watched. He then thought of something. He leaned over to K and whispered in his ear. "It may be to late for that. I hear some people." He didn't tell Toni however. Not because he didn't want to but he though it might attract to much attention if he did.

[Allesk]

Nova Ifrit and Kurage made their way through the forest. It started to get harder to walk though cause of the thick brush. However The moment Nova touched the plants in her way they turned to ash. Kurage made sure to keep her steps quiet. Ifrit was trying his hardest but it was quiet apparent that he was struggling. With every twig and stick he stepped on he became slightly frustrated. He knew that they were in foreign territory and being loud was dangerous. "Don't be so nervous. Just try to stay calm. It doesn't matter if you step on a few twigs and make a little bit of noise." Kurage said when she noticed his frustration. She knew that it was bad that he was making noise but he at least needed to have a clear head or else he may create a big scene. Resulting in danger.

[namelessk]

Trace continued to fly towards the sea, despite Spriggs comment. "Actually, yes I think you're stupid enough to do so." Trace said, trying to taunt Spriggs more. He flew even faster, and was now a little more out in the ocean. He would only stopped once he reached a good ways away from the island. "You're not doing very well in catching me." Trace called out behind him. He then turned in mid air and began flapping his wings forward so that he could push himself away and fly backwards. "Come on. This should be incentive." Trace said as he flapped his wings once more and muttered "Rankyaku." From his wings were released the bluish "air blades", but like before, they formed into two sharp wings which sliced forward towards the sand on the beach. Trace stared at the island and saw where the tide was coming in at. He saw how the sand was moving back away from the water and decided to attack that spot, but later. He continued to watch it to make sure he was right.

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While Kadyr was walking, he suddenly felt Eureka brush up against his ear. He heard him say that he heard some people. Were they being followed already? Maybe it was one of the other teams walking on a path too close to his own. He doubted it though. Without saying a word to Eureka to let him know that he heard, he lifted his right hand from his pocket and held it out. Within his hand, light formed and began glowing brightly. "Cover your eyes. Do the same for Toni." Kadyr whispered back to Eureka as the light continued glowing brighter and brighter. Kadyr knew that Toni would know what he was doing and cover her own eyes if she saw the glowing light in his palm, but she might not be paying attention, so he had Eureka do it for her. He was going to do the same thing that he did to hide his ship whenever he docked it or sailed it. He was going to bend light around them so that they became invisible to the eyes of those who Eureka had heard, if it was someone following them. He waited for a few moments so that Eureka could cover his own eyes as well as Toni's, and then he let the light's glow wash them all. It was incredibly bright as it expanded and covered them. The people watching them would have to cover their eyes because the light was so bright. When they would open their eyes, they would see that Kadyr, Eureka, and Toni were no longer there. They actually were, but they could no longer be seen, however, if they were too loud, they could still be heard. "You can open your eyes now. I made it so that we're now invisible. Don't talk to loud though, because you can still be heard if you do." Kadyr whispered to Eureka.

[Li††le Mons†er]

Eureka leaned back and covered Toni's eye's with one hand. "Captain's orders." He said in a low tone. He then covered his eyes as well. after the flashing light had calmed he uncovered their eyes and looked around. "So they can't see us? Wow you really can do magic." Eureka said. He new it was a devil fruit but somehow this ability to manipulate light made him think of magic rather then anything else. "I think we should go this way." Eureka said before he began to walk in the direction. "I smell something burning." Eureka then thought about Nova and her powers. "Then again.. It could be Captain Nova. But this is a mass quantity of burning it seems rather potent you should even be able to smell it." He wasn't sure of whether or not it was Nova. But he really didn't think it was her.

[.:Blu:.]

"Takabigo.... (What the....)" one of the indians said as he covered his eyes followed by the others after seeing an intense flash of light. When the flash was gone, they re-opened their eyes and tried to find the group they were following, however, it appeared to them as if they were gone. "Gekigekiutaga?.... (Where are they?....)" The indians were extremely confused as they look around the thick canopy to try and spot the group, but their efforts were to no avail. However, the pet jaguar picked up the smell of the group and nudge its head to their direction. The indians knew what this meant and one of them quickly took out a blowgun. The indian fired a poison tipped dart from the blowgun. The dart swirled towards the group with incredible speed. Fortunately for the group, the blow gun only grazed Eureka's hair and not any other part. After a second, the part of Eureka's hair that was hit, began to dissolve.

[Hotaru987]

While Toni was waiting for them to leave she waslaughing at Eureka's different faces and strange mixtures of facial features. She hadn't noticed Pandora leave, but was all ears when her captain said it was time to go. As soon as they were in the forest Toni became quiet, and her footsteps just as quiet. In fact unless you saw her it would be hard to tell she was there. She calmed her breath so even that seemed to match the soundless air. Toni was surrounding picking out certain clues just in case they needed to back tract. It was quite interesting to see her go into, as Riki alls it, "scout mode". Toni was a totally different person. She heard the rustling in the trees but didn't saw anything because she knew the the others had heard it from their body posture. It wasn't long before K was using his devil fruit, but before she could cover her eyes Eureka was already there. "Thanks....I guess..." She whispered seconds before the dart flew by Eureka just barely grazed his hair, which was now dissolving. "What the..."

 

On the opposite side of the island Vincent became alert as Pandora was finally making his way towards them. "Good, let's go then." Was all he said before beginning the trek into the forest.

 

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Crystal smiled at Saya, "Yeah, don't worry my Daichi is a good fighter. He won't lose I have faith in him." She stopped in front of the door to a pub a sly grin on a face. "Hehe, time for me to work my magic. Come on Saya." Crystal opened the door and looked around for a good canidate. However, in the corner was a small hudled up group which aught her interest. She manouvered her way over and once she was able to see properly it was a little game corner. It was the one where the little pebble in under three small, round, wooden cups.

 

The guy behind the table noticed Crystal and smirked. "Hey little girl. Wanna play a game?"

 

Crystal pointed to herself acting naive, "Me? I'm sorry I can't play. I'm no good with games." The guy chuckled. "There's no skill required miss. Only luck. So what do you say? The first one you don't even have to bet." She hesitantly sat down, as the men who was watching chuckled in pity."Ok..." The guy smirked and first showed my where the pebble was. Then he began mixing it up, and unknown to most the guy snuck two more pebbles under the cup, so now each one had one. "Go a head miss. Chose." Crystal thought and picked the left smiling hapily when she found one. "I got it! This is fun!"

 

"See? Now how about we raise the stakes? 100 beris." Keeping up the naive chick act, Crystal nodded forking over the money. "Ok lets go!"

 

Meanwhile, over at the restaurant it seemed that MuriLs idea was working. The two families were getting along just great

 

Meanwhile, over at the restaurant it seemed like Muri's idea was working. The two families were doing great and the hostility between them seemed to be dwindling down. "Haha!! This food is wonderful! I don't remember ever feeling so good!" A very well dressed Syuirs male, whos name was Jaden, boasted the martini in his left hand and a piece of the lamb in is right hand. "For once I agree with you." Takado, another well dress male, of the Morgrands laughed a wide grin on his face as he gulped down the martini before holding it up in the air. "Hey! Can I have another over here!?" So far the Loom Fruit has been doing it's job and from the faces and laughter, it might just be enoug to settle the feud between them. "I guess we an only hope." Sana said watching them from the kitcken before going out to refill the Loom fruit Martinies for the customers. She would've given it to Dan since he was the one in the weitor suit but didn't want those girls out here to bother him. Sana had been ignoring it for the most part because she didn't want to jepordize anything.

 

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[Li††le Mons†er]

Eureka's mouth dropped. He was completely motionless the moment he realized what had happened to his hair. it took him about twenty seconds to compose himself when he then turned around and screamed at the top of his lungs. "YOU REALIZE HOW DELICATE MY HAIR IS!? I DON'T THINK SO!" By this point his face had grown quite large and was turning red. "THAT IS THE GREATEST INSULT! I TAKE THE UTMOST CARE WITH MY HAIR AND YOU JUST DAMAGED IT LIKE IT WAS NOTHING! SHOW YOURSELVES SO I CAN WRING YOUR NECK!" Eureka didn't mind if he was caught by them. He was looking for revenge. He then rand out of the bent light to expose himself but then realized he had no idea where the Indians were. "s***." He said when he realized that he had just put himself in danger.

[namelessk]

Kadyr continued walking, thinking that everything was okay now that they were invisible to the eyes of those watching them. Then all of a sudden, he heard something whiz past, making the trademark 'whoosh' sound which always accompanies something moving quickly through the air. He quickly turned and saw that Eureka was standing there motionless. He wondered what he was doing when suddenly, Eureka began yelling. "Calm down. You'll get us all caught." Kadyr said to him. But this was to no avail as now Eureka had run out of the area where Kadyr had bent light around. Darn it. He'll get us all killed. Kadyr quickly lifted his hand and light began glowing on it. A sphere of light formed around Eureka, keeping him protected within it. Any more attacks that came at him would be seered away by the heat of the light. Kadyr's own body then became light and he disappeared, only to appear from the top of the dome. He landed in front of Eureka and stood there, staring at him. "You shouldn't have run out like that." Kadyr scolded him. Toni would still be unseen, and she knew his powers, so she would know this and would not wonder where Kadyr had gone, at least, he hoped not. He didn't want her to run out as well and get caught.

[.:Blu:.]

The two families laughed together and really seemed to enjoy each other's company. Jack watched from the other table, his mouth formed a smile as he saw the two families. "(Heh, this kinda takes me back.... I'm glad everything worked out....)" Jack thought to himself. Dan changed back into his regular outfit and went outside to the port to stare at the sea, Yura and Yoh were playing rock, paper, scissors, and Muri was outside mingling with the guests. Everything seemed perfect. Happiness filled the air. The Loom Fruit really is a magical fruit. It helped two fueding families become one. Later on after the family left, everybody was gathered at the port to say their goodbyes. "Well, I'm glad everything worked out for you Muri. We'll be taking our leave now...." Dan said with a slight smile. "I can't thank you enough. Everyone of you helped me so much." Muri replied. "Well, I'm just glad those girls didn't make Dan go crazy." Jack said with a grin on his face. "Arrg, shut up Jack!" Dan responded. "..... It's been good....." Yura stated. "Thanks for everyone's help! I'm gonna miss you guys! And Sana, don't forget that we'll battle for the title of World's Best Chef later on!" Yoh exclaimed happily.

 

-Meanwhile-

 

"Gakabalatifu!!!! (Kill them!!!!)" one of the indians yelled out as he and the others began throwing poison tipped spears and shooting more arrows and darts. A barrage of spears, arrows, and darts came flying towards them in all directions. More indians came out from the sides and behind the group, creating a complete circle around them. There were at least fifty-something men carrying poison weapons ready to attack all at once. "Tiki Tiki Smash!!!!" a voice yelled out from afar. Just then, a giant toucan flew towards the indians and used its giant wings to smash away the indians and their weapons. A man with black hair then leaped high up into the sky and landed on the anormous toucan. "Hurry up and get on maties 'fore they git up and make us into dinner!!!!" the man yelled out awaiting for them to get on.

 

[spoiler=Mysterious Man & Toucan]

 

 

-Meanwhile-

 

"That idiotic Marine scum thinks I'm going to exit my fortress? What a foolish man.... I'll stay here as long as I want.... Besides, I don't need to capture him, he needs to capture me...." Spriggs said to himself with arrogance shown vibrantly in his tone of voice. The wind currents once again pulled the waves into shore, this time even further. As it collided with the sand, parts of the sand began to changed color to match more of how Spriggs look like. The sand began to retract even further in, but as it retracted, Spriggs body began to show up with his face clearly visible in the sand. But as the waves retracted, Spriggs' face disappeared into the sand once again.

[Hotaru987]

Toni frowned looking at Eureka. If it wasn't for the captain he wouldve gotten them caught, or worst killed. She noticed that her captain was missing but didn't put much thought into it as she was used to his powers. Or at least she likes to think so. Captain K always finds a way to surprise her from time to time. "Captain..." Toni whispered quietly. "Eureka...I think it would be best if we moved now...." She wasn't sure if they could still hear here but she didn't dare speak any louder in fear of giving away her position. Toni had a good idea at where the Indians were. Nothing hardly escapes her sharp eyes, and from the direction Eurek's hair bent from the dark, and the direction the 'wooshing' sound ended, she was almost positive on where the attackers were hiding. Toni grabbed the kunai on the end of her Tetsugen just in case she would need to attack these people. It was then that the Indians began their barrage of attacks but before anyything else could happen a strange guy appeared riding on a giant Toucan telling them to get on, only after her took care of all or most of the indians there. Toni blinked kind of confused before looking around. "Captain? Should we go?"

 

Over with Vincent, the group hadn't met any obsticals as of yet. He was in the lead since Riki was the shortetst of the tree he made him stay in the middle, with Pandora bringin up the rear. It was a pretty tigt line up as well as Vincent didn't want one of them to get lost because to too much space. Unknown to them a pair of brown, red painted eyes were watching them from the tree tops. He made some hand signals still watching the group of three below. From some of the surrounding trees more indians were seen returning the siginals. The plan was in motion.

 

Meanwhile, a particularly large group was overlooking Nova and the other two. There eyes shinned with anticipation and hunger as they reared back their spears, and noched their bows. A large stoic looking Indian held up his hand grunting and order to the others. His old eyes followed the group as his hand dropped down to a brown rops. "Inikalgapa....Popokapila....(Just a bit further....And they will be in range...)" The large indan glanced around seeing all of the others perched in high trees or low bushes. "Kalapo...(We will feast tonight....)"

[namelessk]

Kadyr felt safe within the dome of light that he and Eureka were now in, but he felt more worried for Toni. She was not protected at the moment. He lifted his hand and touched it to the dome, ready to use it in an attack when suddenly, he heard someone shout out "Tiki Tiki Smash" He looked around and saw some of the cannibals knocked away by a giant toucan. He decided to listen to the man since he was offering them help. He didn't trust him much, but since he had helped them, he would follow him for the moment. Even if he did try something, Kadyr could just turn himself and his team members invisible and get away. Kadyr clenched his fist, and the light dome around he and Eureka disappeared. The light around Toni also disappeared as well. He flipped up into the air and landed onto the toucan's back. "Yeah, let's get on." Kadyr said. After landing, his hand began glowing with light again. He was going to turn them invisible once everyone got on. At the moment, all Kadyr cared about was getting to those lost crew members. His decisions at this point were to just speed up his finding those crew members.

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Trace stopped flying backwards and just continued to flap his wings to keep himself hovering above the sea. He watched the sand, and noticed that it had the colors of Spriggs' clothes. This was weird to him, but he figured that this was where Spriggs was. What is he planning? He does know that I won't give up right? Trace wasn't sure just what Spriggs was trying to do. He wasn't sure what to do himself. If he went back to the island, Spriggs would have the advantage again. He couldn't think of what to do. He decided to try something. He zoomed off and began flying towards the part of the beach where he had saw the sand retract at. He pointed his finger there, timing it just right. He was waiting till when the sea water hit the sand again, before he murmured "Shiga." From his finger fired off a bullet of air which moved straight towards the spot where he had seen Spriggs' face before. He wasn't sure what effect it would have, but it was worth a try.

[.:Blu:.]

[spoiler=OOC:]I won't be able to post quite as often as I would like to from now on cause my vacation is over and I'm heading back to school, but I will still be posting when I can so just wanted to let you guys know that.

 

 

 

"C'mon maties! We don't have all darn day ye know!" the man exclaimed as he fend off against the indians with his cutlass. "Back! Back! Yer sick cannibals! Hey take this bottle of rum as a memento to remember this day where I spoiled ye plans once again!" the man yelled as he threw a bottle of rum towards the indians. The bottle collided with one of the indians head. "Oops, me bad. Enough of this! Tiki, hurry up and pick 'em up!" the man yelled. The toucan, Tiki, used its wing to push Toni and Eureka onto its back. Tiki then flew up high into the sky, avoiding the incoming attacks of the indians' arrows and spears. "Haha! I saved ye from those cannabalistic landlovers. So, introduction. You with the "K" tattoo on yer forehead? What might be yer name?" the man asked.

 

-Meanwhile-

 

As the lbullet of air collided with the sand, a slight "Ouch" could be heard. Just then, half of Spriggs' body appeared out of the sand. "(Damn it! Has he figured out my secret?! Humph, no matter, as long as he can't put large amounts of salt water onto the beach, then that means his attacks will still mean nothing!)" Spriggs thought to himself as he quickly reformed into the sand again.

[namelessk]

[spoiler=OOC]

Haha Kadyr doesn't have a K tatooed onto his forehead. His face isn't even visible due to the hood always covering his head.

 

 

 

The light within Kadyr's hand continued to glow, but then when he saw that they were too high up to be tracked or followed, he let the light fade away. He looked at the odd man before him, unsure as to who he even was. Then, the man asked him his name. It was odd that he had said he had a K on his head, when it was actually on his coat's hood. "I am K. Captain of the Anomaly Pirates." K said in his quiet voice. Then he added, "Who are you?" He waited for the man to answer, shifting his hands into his pockets as he did. He wasn't sure to trust this man or not, but for now, he would go with giving him a little credit since he had saved them all.

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Trace noticed the sand shaping into Spriggs' body slightly before returning to normal, but before that he had heard a faint sound as his Shigan impacted. "Interesting. Interesting." he said to himself. It seemed as if Spriggs would not come out. He had an idea to get him out, but it would require him to go into his full Zoan fruit form. He didn't like it, but he would have to. He would just have to explain to the Fleet Admiral why he was coming back with his clothes all ripped up. At least his pants and cape would still remain since they had been tailored to fit him even in his transformations. It was just his shirt and vest that would be ripped away. Trace then used Geppou and rocketed himself around in the air before entering a nose dive and heading straight for the sand. The speed with which he was rocketing forward would allow him to easily burrow a good ways down into the sand. He began twirling himself to increase his speed so that he became like a drill when he hit the sand.

[.:Blu:.]

"Hmm, that wasn't yer forehead? Hmm, I thought that coat was apart of yer skin er something...." the man replied in a drunking manner. He then fell face-first onto Tiki. "Ugh.... I don't feel so good.... Guess I had a little too much ter drink.... Anyways, I am Captain Laguna Touca and this here is old 'Ki, short fer Tiki that is, hahaha!" Laguna exclaimed in a drunking voice. "Anyways, {Burp} What be yer business entering into this here hellhole? Surely it's not ter be eat'n by those damn indian cannibals now would it? Listen ter me matey and listen good, if ye ever see a stone statue of a man adorned with feathers and a red gemstone, then you need to run. Run as fast as yer feet will allow without breaking into two got it?" Laguna warned, still in his drunking voice.

 

-Meanwhile-

 

"HeheheHAHAHAHA!!!!! Give up Admiral and go home!!!! You'll never be able to defeat me!!!! Not while you're in my domain!!!!! HAHAHAHA!!!!!" It seemed hopeless by now, even with the waves coming in, Spriggs will just pop out for a second and re-enter the sand once again. However, due to the speed of Trace's swirling, the water of the sea seems to draw in even more and covered half of the sandy beach. "GAHHHH!!!!!" Spriggs yelled in pain as he was forced to jump up out of the sand into the open.

[Esplin 9466 Primary]

"Why do I have a very bad feeling about this?" Saya though to herself as she watched the game continue. Saya noticed the man sneak the two pebbles in to the cups. "That little cheat." Saya was not very familiar with cheating strategies, but this one was not hard to figure out. "Making her win so that she will bid higher, then take all of the stones out so she loses all of her money." Saya glanced over at crystal, she looked like a total Amateur. "Oh boy. This could end bad. Daichi, help me."

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In the forest Daichi, who was in a monkey morph, let out a small sneeze. "Dammit, who's talking about me at a time like this?" He then jumped in to the air just in time to avoid a half dragon Arashi fist and watch it create a small crater in the tree he was standing on. >What where you aiming for?< Daichi taunted as he landed on Arashi's head and the weight forced Arashi's body, which was still off balance from the punch, on to the ground. "I'll kick your ass monkey boy." Arashi flapped his giant wings, almost hitting Daichi. >Monkeys may be small, but they're more agile than any lizard.< Daichi jumped off of Arashi's head as his wings rose him in to the air. "Burn, monkey boy!!" Arashi blew a blast of flames at Daichi. Daichi jumped on to a nearby tree and climbed up as fast as he could. to avoid a continuous barrage of fire attacks. "You're not getting away from me that easily." Arashi beat his wings more and flew up until he caught up to Daichi at a high point on the tree. >So predictable.< Daichi jumped on to Arashi's back and wrapped his tail around Arashi's wings to stop him from flying. >Later!< Daichi wrapped a shirt around Arashi's wings and then jumped on to the branch of a tree.

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While walking through the forest Riki had created three jewels, a Ruby, a Topaz and an Emerald to keep himself entertained. Riki had shaped each jewels in to perfects spheres and he was juggling them in his hands. as he tossed one of the jewels in to the air he kept his eyes on it, as he looked up he caught a glimpse of something moving in the tree. Riki did not think much about what he had seen, however it did keep his attention long enough for him to accidentally throw the emerald in to the bushes. "Oops." Riki walked over to the bush and reached his hand in to grab the stone. Daichi grabbed the stone and pulled his hand out of the bushes, but what he saw was not what he expected. Riki spotted a small spider on the emerald, causing his face to go white in fear. Riki dropped the emerald, yelled, and then backed away quickly. "I hate spiders."

[namelessk]

Trace hit the sand with full force and crashed into it, but he continued to drill and eventually buried himself within it. As soon as he felt himself enter the sand, he began the transformation. His arms grew bigger, forming into the talons of a bird while his whole body grew bigger as well. His shoes slipped off as his feet turned into those of a lion. His head changed as well. His nose and mouth fused and became a beak and his head became covered in feathers, as did his chest, which also grew bigger and more muscular, while his lower body became . It became so muscular that it ripped the vest and shirt which he wore. He was now about 9 feet tall and looked like a full Griffin with pants on. Within the sand, he swiped around, and his wings began flapping quickly. "Rankyaku Storm." he said within the sand. Suddenly, the sand began pulling in, moving towards where Trace had landed within it. It then began spinning into a tornado shape with Trace at the center. The tornado was the same one as before, made up of Rankyaku "air blades". The air blades continued to spin around Trance, but for some reason, it was slowly lifting up into the air over his head. Then, with a mighty roar, the tornado of swirling Rankyaku was lifted up into the air, and all of the sand was thrown into the sea. It was a powerful feat, and it now left Trace slightly tired from doing it. "Now, you've just lost your advantage." Trace said, breathing heavy for a little bit. He shifted into his full half-Griffin, half human form to prevent Spriggs from seeing that form. He flapped up into the air a little and stared down at Spriggs.