Chapter 2: Set Sail! The Beatroot is ours! [Private Job]

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OOC: This is continuing directly after the end of our first task there is no time lap between the two of them. For this task to be approved we need to have at least 250 words per post and the thread has to last at least 9 posts.

Fujin arrived at the windmill in a matter of seconds, there he walked inside and removed a few bricks from the wall taking out a large black roll of fabric that was the size of him which he tied him to him using a rope. He then walked outside and laid back in a pile of hay as he waited for the rest of his crew to arrive.
Claire was the first one to arrive at the windmill, flying at an incredible speed Fujin found Claire flying in through the entrance of the windmill and would have slammed into the wall if Fujin hadn't ran over and caught her before laid her on the ground, sitting her up next to the wall and then returning to the pile of hay he was sitting on, ''I have might broke some of my bones.'' She told him as she slid from the wall, as a black cat she had been carrying meows after her. Hunter was second to arrive and he fell backwards onto the grass once he had made it outside the windmill and saw him, letting out a loud exhale. "Hope I'm not late. Felt like I had to keep those seagulls busy for a while. Think I did a bang up job really." Fujin gave Hunter a thumbs response to his statement.
The girl who sat across from in in the tavern and helped them fight was the last to arrived breathing heavily she collapsed on her hands and knees, and bent her head then a moment later, adjusting her skirt, she stood up. "Dr. Saori Satou at your service"
"Fix Claire....." Fujin said as Saori continued speaking similar to a child trying to get their parents attention to them when they were in conversation. Fujin watched Saori moving towards Claire. "You look the closest to death" She said, smiling wickedly, "need any help?" Realising he wasn't heard annoyed him but he wasn't going to make a commotion out of it as he was getting what he wanted to be down looking as a blur to the offers he stood up swiftly in a single movement "YOSH!" he said getting the attention of his crew "Once Saori-san has fixed up Claire-neko-san we are going to steal ourselves BeatRoot and sail on the big salty puddle past the horizon." He snickered before giving them all a mischievous smile "So who wants to know how we are going to blow this popsicle stand?"

When Saori arrived at the windmill, Hunter waved to her, glad to see that she had gotten back to the windmill without being damaged for the most part. While he was still certain that she wouldn't have needed much help from him to deal with those Marines, given her powers she showed earlier, he still felt that it was better for her to go on ahead. After she went into the windmill to help with the girl named Claire, he sat up and raised his hand at Fujin. "I'm infinitely curious to how we're going to get off this island, so please, do tell." Hunter didn't really doubt that this newly created crew could get off this island, but stealing a ship that, if he heard correctly, is being held by Marines, was going to be a challenge and a half. Considering the fact that they brought a pretty good amount of attention to themselves, especially from the use of Devil Fruits among them, the Marines probably were sending more than just a few Squads to deal with the situation. Deciding that maybe getting a better look at the land would be helpful, Hunter got up off the ground and began to look intently at the Windmill, putting his bag by the entrance. "Hey, Captain, you wouldn't happen to know if there's a way to climb up this windmill would you? If there is, and if you wanted, I could use my scope and get a bird's eye view and maybe come up with some ideas. That's up to you though, but a little reconnaissance never hurt."

''Need any help?'' Saori asked.Claire nodded her head as a yes.Claire's eyes was all teary because of her week.Her pirate idol and the person she loved the most,Shillie was sacrificed herself for Claire.That damn pirates whose killed Shillie reported Claire to the marines,in disguise of normal citizens.Since then,marines was searching for Claire,destroyed her escape plans.Also,the worst thing happened to her this week,she learned her parents' still going factory was closed,and after then,same pirate crew stole her luck charm that given by her mother just before her disappear from the island after her dad's death.But the best thing happened this week to Claire,was joining the Infinite Horizon Pirates.Claire was eager to find that pirate crew that maked life hell for Claire,get revenge and take her charm back.While after Saori finished bandaging Claire and healing hear wounds,Claire silently thanked Saori.But suddenly,because of remembering her awful week,Claire got over-emotional,and hugged her.Even not a second after,she started crying.She suddenly started to say thank you over and over while crying.After a few seconds,she realized what she is doing and blushed.She stopped crying and started to apologize from Saori.''I-i'm s-so sorry Saori...I've had the worst week of my life and,just remembered it and i got over-emotional.S-sorry again.I didn't meaned to do that to you.Sorry.Claire was blushed like a tomato because of her shame.Afterwards, Claire noticed the big roll of black fabric."So who wants to know how we are going to blow this popsicle stand?"said Fujin,Claire replied to him as ''Me,but is this fabric roll is a part of the plan?''.As she said this,Pech accidentally rolls the black fabric over the Fujin while playing with it.

Saori walked up to hunter, and tapped his arm. "Thank you for giving me enough time to get away, one day I will do the same for you." Tuning out the talking going on around her, Saori grabbed some branches scattered around the windmills and sat down next Claire. after giving her a quick cursory glance, she started to pull out her stash of herbs. She bent her head down as she started healing her, not wanting to deal with her tears. "It's probably just the pain" she though to herself. she cussed under her breath as she quickly made a compress of herbs and a cast to set her broken bones. Her injuries weren't life threatening, but they would hurt like crazy until She could get her hands of some painkillers and sake. She looked up at Claire. "This is the best I can do, once we get some bandages and a few hours to kill I'll set you up properly." Suddenly Claire threw her arms around Saori, and hugged her. Saori jerked backwards, trying to break free from the hug but Claire was just too strong. Hands at her sides, she stood, ignoring the tears and waiting for Claire to free her from the hug. "There There" Saori said unconvincingly. Eventually Claire finally let her go. Claire turned bright red, and started to apologize. Turning her back to the girl, Saori murmured a quiet "its ok" before walking closer to where the guys were talking. all she heard was Fujin saying "So who wants to know how we are going to blow this popsicle stand?" "I wouldnt mind knowing" she said, eyeing the cat absentmindedly.

Meanwhile at Dawn Island's Marine Branch Building...

Noir was sitting in a dark cell. His eye closed, he recalled the moment of his arrest, as well as the events leading up to it. The cocky Marine captain. The captain's crew cheering him on. He and Noir stood back to back, took ten steps, they turned, and BANG!... Suddenly the Marine crew stopped cheering, stopped rooting for their captain to win the duel. They all began to draw their weapons. One of them rushed him with a club. The Marine took a swing at Noir's head and... darkness.

Noir's eye shot open as the door outside of his cell did the same. Noir eyed the Marine entering the room warily, but then got up from his seat and approached the bars of his cell. Noir put on a wide grin and asked "Any chance you'd consider releasing me? Perhaps I could offer you a few hundred beli?" Noir tried to sound as sincere as possible while he spoke, but the guard was having none of it. "We already have all of your money, idiot, so you can't offer me anything." Noir's grin left his face, changing to a more annoyed expression in response to the guard's comment. "Fine, then you can give it back to me. Consider it a payment for me not to kill you when I get out of here!" The guard sneered mockingly at Noir, leaning towards the bars of the cell. "The only way you'll be getting out of here is when we tie you to the post outside and turn our rifles on you!" Noir backed away from the bars, returning to his seat in the back of his cell with a grin. "Like I said... when I get out of here."

OOC: Sorry for the wait i was seeing if Arc was going to post

As Fujin waited for his replies from his crew he watched what they were doing "This is the best I can do, once we get some bandages and a few hours to kill I'll set you up properly." Saori said to Claire who suddenly threw her arms around Saori and hugged her. Saori jerked backwards, trying to break free from the hug, with her hands at her sides, she stood, ignoring the tears and waiting for Claire to free her from the hug. "There There" Saori said unconvincingly This caused Fujin to scowel thinking she was bung rather heartless towards Claire. Eventually Claire finally let her Saori, Claire's face then turned bright red, and started to apologize ''I-i'm s-so sorry Saori...I've had the worst week of my life and, just remembered it and i got over-emotional. S-sorry again. I didn't meaned to do that to you. Sorry." Turning her back to the girl, Saori murmured something before walking closer to where the guys were talking. It was then he heard his answers to his eailer question "I wouldnt mind knowing" Saori stated, ''Me,but is this fabric roll is a part of the plan?'' Claire replied to him, as she asked this, her black cat unknowingly tried to roll the black fabric over Fujin while it wasplaying with it. Hunter on the other hand sat up and raised his hand at Fujin. "I'm infinitely curious to how we're going to get off this island, so please, do tell." Fujin then watched Hunter get up off the ground and began to look intently at the Windmill, putting his bag by the entrance. "Hey, Captain, you wouldn't happen to know if there's a way to climb up this windmill would you? If there is, and if you wanted, I could use my scope and get a bird's eye view and maybe come up with some ideas. That's up to you though, but a little reconnaissance never hurt." Fujin then sprinted out of windmill preforming a lap around the village and the docks before arriving back to his crew, to them it would have seen like he was only gone for about a minute and a half "There are fifty seagulls in the town and at the dock but I didn't go near their branch so I don't know how many are in there.......if you need any more reconnaissance there is a ladder out side of the here..." Fujin took a deep breath "So, as far as we know of there are 100 birds looking for us altogether at the boat bed and village, they also have the BeatRoot under watch," Fujin explained as he passed around a picture of the ship so the crew would know what the ship looked liked "So that how we leave...but I heard there is a pirate at the Marines nest.....I want to bust him out......so we are going to banana split into halves. Hunter-kun, Saori-san, you guys go get me BeatRoot. Neko-Claire-san and I are going to the nest....got it?"

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Meanwhile at Dawn Island's Marine Branch Building...

The marines that stood guard over Noir's cell swapped out with another pair as their shifts were done.
Guard1: "Hey did you here what happened down in the village a while ago?"
Guard2: "You mean that bunch of kids claiming they were a bunch of pirates as they defended the village from mountain bandits. To the point where they killed or almost killed them?"
Guard1: "Yea that."
Guard2: "Of course I heard of that. Now because of those punks we have a hundred men out there looking for them."
Guard1: "Too bad they claimed to be pirates if they didn't say anything they would probably be sent home with a slap on the wrist, a pat on the back and be praised as town heroes."
Guard2: "Well it sucks to be them, but the less pirate scum out there the better if you aske me regardless the age."

Hunter gave a small smile to Saori after she thanked him for earlier. "Don't mention it. We're crewmates now, so us looking out for each other should be common courtesy. But I'm glad you've got my back, cause I've got a feeling you'll hold to your word." After his reply to Saori, Hunter turned in time to see Fujin break out into a run that would only take him a minute or so to get back from making a lap around the village after he talked about reconnaissance. He listened to Fujin talk about the numbers they were dealing with, and his earlier suspicion was pretty much proven. He had a feeling the Marines would break out as many officers as they felt were necessary, and apparently for them, that meant around a hundred or so of the buggers. "I suppose it's rather gratifying that the locals feel we deserve this much of a heated response. No kill like overkill, I guess." When Fujin passed around the picture of the BeatRoot, Hunter remembered seeing the ship whenever he had arrived at port with the traders not too long ago. "Ah, so that was the BeatRoot. I never would have guessed that ship was going be our future vessel." Once he had passed the picture along, and Fujin had told them that him and Saori would be acquiring the ship for the crew, he quickly went and found the ladder mentioned by Fujin and used it to climb to the top of the windmill. Getting to a comfortable position, he brought the scope of the Quadruple M to his right eye, lowering his reading glasses. He looked around much of the village, seeing many of the numbers that Fujin no doubt spotted himself, and then moved on to the docks. He first spotted the BeatRoot, seeing many Marines keeping a patrol near it, and then looked for the ship he arrived in, seeing that it was a mere three ships to the  right of the BeatRoot. Perhaps this could be used to their advantage in some way... Descending from the top of the windmill, Hunter returned to where the group was talking. "I saw what you meant about the patrols around the ship and the numbers around town. As long as we try to avoid a loud bloodbath, we should all be able to get to where we need to go... Hopefully. I may have a way onto the BeatRoot as long as me and Saori can get to the port, and deal with whatever resistance we may get when we're there, which Saori shouldn't mind, given her apparent vendetta against the Marines from what she said to them before she left to get here, but what do you want us to do when we have it? Bring it close to the nest, or hold it in the port until you get there with the other pirate? Or do you have your own scheme, Fujin?"

After embrassing herself in front of Saori,Claire was still embrassed and was scolding herself for being over-emotional suddenly.After she seed Pech rolled the fabric over Fujin,Claire picked up Pech and sitted in a corner with Pech,and she started to question her place in this crew as she was petting Pech.Every other people in this crew was had good reasons to be in this crew,and all of them wanted to fight to become number one and a legendary pirate crew.Meanwhile,Claire only wanted to use the crew's ship to reach her destination and avoid the marines.Claire even didn't know her destination,she was only managed to steal some treasure from Shillie's ship and considered to live her life with that amount of beli and wanted to live on a island that she can live in peacefully,only by herself.She suddenly felt over guilty,and she was guilty.She knew that she was going to face with the pirates that messing with Claire over a week,but she thinked at least she haved a chance.Marines was searching for Claire for 2 days,and they knew she was on this island,considering they was the ones that wrecked Claire's boat and made her hit here.She changed her plan,she was going to help Infinite Horizon Pirates,as Fujin named,and was going to escape from this island by herself and was not going to use them.Considering she wasn't technically from this crew.She didn't noticed the boys were talking.Hunter and Fujin shared their plans,and Fujin showed everyone the picture of the BeatRoot.And the chaos and fear striked to the Claire's body,when Fujin matched the parts of the tasks.He said they were going to the marines' nest.Since Claire was a wanted,it was dangerous for her and she haved a chance of getting caught.But she taked a deep breath,and trusted Fujin for this task.She was going to help this crew no matter what,and make them achieve their goal,since it was too late to achieve hers because of all marines and the unknown pirate crew that messes with her and Claire always mentions to herself.''Okay,were matched now,i guess.Good luck to you guys.'' and she makes a thumbs up to Hunter and Saori.

Hunter smiled at Saori, "Don't mention it. We're crewmates now, so us looking out for each other should be common courtesy. But I'm glad you've got my back, cause I've got a feeling you'll hold to your word."Saori nodded at him. "Dont worry, I'm not the type to break promises."Suddenly Fujin ran off, leaving a trail of dust in his wake. Before Saori could even wonder at how fast he could run, he returned. Saori listened intently as he rattled off some troop numbers and strategies. When he was finally done, Saori smiled. Finally some marine to attack. While disappointed she couldn't break into the base, she couldn't be bothered to protest. As hunter climbed up the windmill Saori walked over to Claire, and handed her a large red leaf. "Here, its a pain killer in case you get even more beat up." Saori eyed her makeshift cast "also, make sure you don't put too much pressure on your arm, that could cause your broken bone to get worse.""Good luck you guys" she said, walking back towards Hunter, who had climbed down from the windmill. He was busy talking with fujin. "I saw what you meant about the patrols around the ship and the numbers around town. As long as we try to avoid a loud bloodbath, we should all be able to get to where we need to go... Hopefully. I may have a way onto the BeatRoot as long as me and Saori can get to the port, and deal with whatever resistance we may get when we're there, which Saori shouldn't mind, given her apparent vendetta against the Marines from what she said to them before she left to get here, but what do you want us to do when we have it? Bring it close to the nest, or hold it in the port until you get there with the other pirate? Or do you have your own scheme, Fujin?"
Claire turned to Hunter and Saori and shot them a thumbs up before going off with Fujin. Saori waved at them before turning to Hunter. "So, have any ideas on how to get to the beetroot?" Saori eyed him curiously. "You might be able to swim onto it while I try taking out the marines, but I don't know if I could take them all out."

Back at the Marine Branch Building...

As Noir pretended to nap, he listened in on the conversation his jailers were having. Pirates, eh? he thought. Maybe they'll drop by and pay me a visit. Noir was getting quite bored waiting around in this cell. He had been arrested before, but he'd never waited around so long before attempting to escape. Security here is tight... he thought. Just as Noir finished his thought, one of the guards exited the room and the other approached the bars of his cell. "Comfortable in there, pirate?" he asked mockingly. Noir smiled sarcastically and replied, "Well, I've had worse, but I can't say I won't be happy to leave this place." The guard's mocking expression turned to one of anger. "I'm getting really tired of your misguided thoughts of escape. The only way you're leaving that cell is when we take you to be executed!" Then, the guard chuckled, a vile grin appearing on his face. "But in case you still want to get out, your execution won't be that long from now." And with that, the guard returned to his post. Noir maintained his arrogant grin throughout the whole of the guard's speech, and kept it up until the guard had turned his attention away from him. This isn't looking good... I need to come up with something soon... The time of his execution was fast approaching. It looked as though he might need those pirates to pay a visit after all.

"I suppose it's rather gratifying that the locals feel we deserve this much of a heated response. No kill like overkill, I guess." Fujin heard Hunter comment after he had listed off the numbers of the marines in the village he had spotted and after passed around the picture of the BeatRoot he heard Hunter comment once again. "Ah, so that was the BeatRoot. I never would have guessed that ship was going be our future vessel." Once Fujin had told Hunter where the ladder and returned a few minutes and he assumed that he had climbed to the top of the windmill "I saw what you meant about the patrols around the ship and the numbers around town. As long as we try to avoid a loud bloodbath, we should all be able to get to where we need to go... Hopefully. I may have a way onto the BeatRoot as long as me and Saori can get to the port, and deal with whatever resistance we may get when we're there, which Saori shouldn't mind, given her apparent vendetta against the Marines from what she said to them before she left to get here, but what do you want us to do when we have it? Bring it close to the nest, or hold it in the port until you get there with the other pirate? Or do you have your own scheme, Fujin?" Fujin thought for a minute before grinning "Once you get the BeatRoot don't let a single scratch get on her and give the seagulls hell for as long as you can waiting for us. If you can't wait circle around Dawn and we will meet you at the stink heap." He then let the rest of his crew finish up talking to each other before he spoke up "Yosh! Lets get started..." he said holding out his hand to Claire, realising it would be the only way for her to keep up with him. Once she did take his hand he would sweep her off his feet and carry as he ran to the outside of the marine base hiding in a bush.

"Once you get the BeatRoot don't let a single scratch get on her and give the seagulls hell for as long as you can waiting for us. If you can't wait circle around Dawn and we will meet you at the stink heap." Hunter had to raise an eyebrow at Fujin for a minute before he realized the aforementioned 'stink heap' was probably the large junkyard he had heard about on the island. "Sounds like a plan. The BeatRoot will hopefully be spotless by the time you get to us. Oh and, just as a precautionary warning if Saori agrees with my plan, if you see any large, colorful explosions- well..,"  he stopped for a moment, looking at the sky, " you won't see any blue, or it'll be hard to see cause it's day time, but anyways, if you see any colorful explosions, or hear any that aren't near you, just assume it was me." Once he was done warning Fujin, the captain waited for everyone to finish talking. "Yosh! Lets get started..." With that, Fujin prepared to leave with Claire, so Hunter went and procured his bag, holding both it and the Quadruple M the way he did when he ran to get here. He turned back to Saori as he walked back over to her, taking a quick glance at the way back into the village from the windmill. "So, have any ideas on how to get to the beetroot?" Hunter saw her eye him curiously, which came off to him as if she was trying to figure out what he was and what he was about. "You might be able to swim onto it while I try taking out the marines, but I don't know if I could take them all out." He hummed that idea over. He could indeed swim under it, but he didn't want to risk anything happening to his weapon or his bag while he swum underneath the water. "Good idea, but I think you'll like this plan better." He sat his things down, grabbed a small stick, and began to draw on the ground. He drew four large circles, to represent the four ships in total of the area in which the BeatRoot and the trader ship was, and several small x's around the circle for the BeatRoot, which he adorned with a large B, and doing the same with the trader ship with a T. "I came here from my home of Fireworks Island on a trading ship, which is situated third ship to the right of the BeatRoot. That ship purchases fireworks from us every month or so to sell in the East Blue, however, as I learned from the captain, they never unload the cargo the first day, they give the day to the crew to relax. They're all more than likely at the inn or somewhere else having fun, so that leaves the cargo unprotected. Believe it or not, I spent most of my younger days surrounded by fireworks, so I could rig a good few crates together if we can get to the port and onto the ship to cause a distraction. Then, we jump between the two ships in between the trading ship and the BeatRoot, kill any Marines on board, and then we decide what to do from there. We can either hold the ship there for as long as we can until they get there, or, if we're quiet or quick enough, we could drive the ship out of the port to junkyard." Whilst in his explanation of his plan, he continue to draw on the diagram. He drew a large smoke cloud over the trader ship, drawing lines in between the circles to show them crossing the ships, the x's for the Marines moving to the trading ship, and then a large H and S representing them over the B for the BeatRoot to show them on the boat. "Any thoughts?"

It was like,5 seconds.In 5 seconds,he sweeped Claire from her feet and carried her on his back and rushed to the marine base.Claire was still in shock from the speed of Fujin.Claire shaked her head to pull herself together.After pulling herself together,Claire noticed that they was hiding behind the bushes.There were like 5 marines guarding the entrance.Claire whispered at Fujin ''I'll handle this.'' as she ordered her pet cat,Pech to go the boxes that's near to the guarding marines.No one noticed Pech walking to behind the boxes.Pech pushed the box in bottom and other boxes fell down too.Boxes break down and gunpowder scattered everywhere.''We better move away.'' Claire said and they walked away a little bit,as Claire pulled out a lighter from her bag as marines argue.Claire turned on the lighter and threw it into the gunpowder.A huge fiery explosion occured,and all the marines started to burn and scream in agony.They ran away in fear and pain,trying to put out their fire.''Done.'' Claire said,as she was smiling sadistically.''I've had my revenge.Now let's get in.''.Claire and Fujin entered the base,but a welcoming committee was waiting for them.Leading marine yelled,''IT'S HIM!!!AND HER!!!FIRE!!!'' as they pointed out their shotguns.Claire pulled out her sheath and slammed one marine's head to the wall with quick moves.Then she pulled out her katana and stabbed one marine from the heart and pulled it out as she turned splitted them into 2 fans and spinned around as a whirlwind occurs and strikes into 2 marines,yelling ''WHIRL SLAP!!!''.Marines that striked slams into the wall,choking blood.Claire suddenly rushes near Fujin.''Your turn.''says Claire as more marines come from the back.


Marines:167/175 Remaining.

Whirl Slap:1/3 Duration,0/4.

Noir continued to sit in his cell, his eye closed. He was getting quite bored now, and he hoped those pirates would show up soon. Whilst he was having this thought, the Marine guarding him approached his cell. "Get up, pirate. I've got orders to escort you to the courtyard for execution." At this, Noir opened his eye to find the guard holding a pair of cuffs through a slot in the door of his cell. "Is it that time already? Shame... I was getting quite comfortable." And with that, Noir walked up to the bars, allowed the guard to cuff him, and was escorted out of the cell block.

A bit later, in the courtyard of the Marine Branch...

Noir was escorted over to a tall wooden post in the center of the courtyard. Once there, they removed his chains and, with swords and pistols trained on him, tied him to the post. Once Noir was situated, one of the Marine soldiers pulled out a scroll and began to read off his crimes. "Pirate, you are charged with the murd-" BOOM! The soldier was interrupted by an explosion that sounded like it was coming from the direction of the entrance. Somewhat in shock, the soldier, clearly of superior rank over the others, began barking out orders. "Everyone, find out where that explosion came from." He then pointed towards a specific grouping of Marines, of which there were thirty. "All of you will remain here and guard the prisoner." After that, he ran off to assist his men in the search for the disturbance. As the commanding officer hurried off, Noir noticed that the man was wearing a holster on his right hip... Dammit! That bastard has my revolver! Noir exclaimed inwardly. Those blasted pirates better get here soon...

(OOC Note: The commanding officer isn't a boss, he's just got my gun. Other than that, he's no better than any other Marine there.)

Saori sighed inwardly when she realized what ths stink heap must be. "Of course, why find a nice field to meet up in, when we could be meeting in a stink heap." Lost in her own complaints,Saori stopped paying attention until she heard hunter mention something about "colorful explosions"a few more words were exchanged, mostly between Hunter and Fujin. Then the white haired boy held a hand to Claire, and soon they were off. "She's going to need a miracle worker by the end of her mission" Saori thought bleakly. Walking over to hunter, she told him of her recently formulated plan. Saori watched as hunter thought her plan over. It was decided against, and Saori watched as hunter outlined his plan. "I came here from my home of Fireworks Island on a trading ship, which is situated third ship to the right of the BeatRoot. That ship purchases fireworks from us every month or so to sell in the East Blue, however, as I learned from the captain, they never unload the cargo the first day, they give the day to the crew to relax. They're all more than likely at the inn or somewhere else having fun, so that leaves the cargo unprotected. Believe it or not, I spent most of my younger days surrounded by fireworks, so I could rig a good few crates together if we can get to the port and onto the ship to cause a distraction. Then, we jump between the two ships in between the trading ship and the BeatRoot, kill any Marines on board, and then we decide what to do from there. We can either hold the ship there for as long as we can until they get there, or, if we're quiet or quick enough, we could drive the ship out of the port to junkyard. She nodded, "yeah that sounds much more viable." She turned and started walking towards the dock. After walking for a while she turned, and looked at hunter. "Are you sure the blast won't harm the Beetroot?" Saori shrugged and said "lets keep walking, we can discuss logistics while we walk.

Fujin saw Claire shake her after he stopped running and hid themselves behind some bushes. There were five marines guarding the entrance to the Marine branch, Fujin was about to leap out and beat them senseless when Claire whispered to Fujin ''I'll handle this.'' He then watched as she ordered the cat to go over to the boxes that's near to the guarding marines. None of the Marines took notice of the cat walking to behind the boxes until it knocked over a box in a stack at the bottom causing the other boxes fall down too. The boxes broke scattering gunpowder everywhere. ''We better move away.'' Claire said to him Fujin nodded in response before crawling back a little bit just as Claire pulled out a lighter from her bag as marines argue blaming each other for knocking over the crates of gunpowder. Fujin watched as Claire turned on the lighter and threw it into the gunpowder causing a fiery explosion and the five marines that were guarding the entrance started to burn and scream in agony, running away trying  to put out their flaming bodies. ''Done.'' Claire said as she smiled sadistically, a bead of sweat went down the side of Fujin's face as he watched this thinking it was a little bit over kill ''I've had my revenge. Now let's get in.''
He sighed as he stood up brushing the dirt off his knees "Yosh! Let's go!" he stated before strolling in through the front doors of the base finding there a party of thirty marines that Fujin assumed were there waiting for them after hearing the explosion. Leading marine stepped forward and seemed to be yelling something. Fujin didn't listen as he pulled down his goggles over his eyes and as soon as he heard the leading marine say the word "FIRE!!!'' as they pointed out their guns at them he watched Claire pulled out her sheath and slammed one marine's head to the wall with a single quick movement following with her pulling out a katana from it and proceeding to stab one marine in the heart, pulled it out as she turned split them into 2 fans and spinning around as a whirlwind occurred striking two marines slamming them into the wall  crashing to the ground with them choking on their own blood.
As Claire rushed back to Fujin it was he was his turn he took a single step forward while cracking his knuckles before reappeared at the front of the group of marines releasing an uncountable onslaught of punches or kicks at the group of marines, to the blind eye Fujin's arms and hands looked as if they were constantly disappearing and reappearing the moment the punch made contact with a marine. He ended up hitting 5 Marines but due to the close quarters given by the hallways they were knocked back into the person behind them taking down a total of ten people marines as he yelled "Zūmu-zūmu no Barrage!" with the last punch he allowed himself to be pulled along by body's momentum sending him flying farther into the group of marines there he used a man's face as a launching pad kicking him into another person sending them both into the ground knocked out as he repeated the process to two other marines disappearing and reappearing at each one taking down another six while saying "Zūmu-zūmu no Ricochet!"Once he landed he could see there were four in front of him and eight behind him. Both groups of Marines ran in the opposite direction of Fujin creaming comments of fear, he waited a moment before he was going to go after the four in front of him and noticed one wanted poster on the wall that had a red X painted over seeing the man they would be freeing "Hey Claire-san, I am going to start a party. You cut the ties around the Cyclops." he then disappeared to those around him running towards the four he had been letting run towards the door at the end of the hall within a few seconds he caught up with them pulled back his fist and punched into the one farthest in the back of four crashing him into the other three and all four of them through the door while saying "Zūmu-zūmu no Bullet!". Fujin had noticed an object had flown into the air after he knocked the four marines through the door, he ran and caught it as he jumped through the now open door.

In the courtyard of the Marine Branch...

A huge dust cloud arose as something came crashing through the door, the group of twenty eight marines changed their guns targets from the pirate tied up in front of them to the dust cloud because as it cleared there stood a young adult who had a slightly muscular athletic body build, with piercing pale sky blue eyes and naturally spiked snow-white, that was wearing a lime aloha shirt that was covered in a floral pattern, he removed his the pilot goggles he was wearing from his eyes and adjusted them so that they would sit on top of the crimson red bandana he had wrapped around his forehead. The boy walked over to a spot away from the now crashed door and the pirate that was tied up, spinning the that there commanding officer had confiscated of the tied up pirate  when they arrested him around on his finger using the trigger ring as if it was a toy before he stopped and pointed at the Marines "Yo! I am here to take the Cyclops with me, if any of you seagulls say no your going to...well you saw what just happened."

Marines:147/175 Remaining.

Skills Used:
Zūmu-zūmu no Bullet: cool-down: 0/2
Zūmu-zūmu no Barrage: cool-down: 0/3
Zūmu-zūmu no Ricochet: cool-down: 0/3

After the commanding Marine and the majority of the soldiers had exited the courtyard, all Noir could do was wait and hope that the pirates would arrive soon. From his position, centered in the courtyard and faced towards the doors, Noir was able to hear quite the commotion outside. After waiting a few more moments, Noir began to get impatient. He craned his neck around the pole and called out to the men guarding him with a devious smile. "You're hearing all that too, yes? I'm sure if you let me down they'll leave you be..." Noir looked to the faces of the Marines that were guarding him. They weren't going for it. "No takers? Well, alright then. Your funeral..."

Just as Noir finished speaking, he heard the doors in front of him burst open. He turned his head back around to locate the source of the ruckus, only to find... My gun! Indeed, the white haired pirate standing before Noir was twirling his revolver around his finger. He stopped twirling the gun and pointed it at the Marines while calling out to them. "Yo! I am here to take the Cyclops with me, and if any of you seagulls say no, you're going to...well you saw what just happened." Noir became exasperated at the mention of the c-word. "HEY! Who're you calling Cyclops, you bleach blonde jerk?!" Noir let out a sharp grunt, realizing that his anger wasn't helping. "Just... get me down from here, alright? And don't fire that gun! I'm the only one that's allowed to."

"yeah that sounds much more viable." After agreeing with his plan, Saori began to walk back towards the town, towards their destination at the docks. After a while of walking, she turned back to face him. "Are you sure the blast won't harm the Beetroot?" Hunter stopped to think her question over. He would need to set off a decent amount of fireworks to get the attention of the Marines in the area, but was there a chance their distraction would cause damage to the crew's soon-to-be vessel? "Well, our fireworks aren't really known for causing many fires, which is why so many people buy what we export. Well, that, and the quality of course. So, there's not a whole lot of a chance of that happening, and we'll be three ships away, so, if any damage is done, it would be to the trader ship and the one's either side of it." He saw her shrug, and continue walking. "lets keep walking, we can discuss logistics while we walk." Catching up with her pace, walking alongside Saori once caught up, he looked out of the corner of his eye at her. "I hope I didn't come off too standoffish with how I brought up my plan, Saori. I apologize if I did come across that way, and I appreciate you agreeing and not putting up a fight cause it wasn't your plan. Not that you seem like the kind of person to do so from our short period of interaction though." Getting further and further towards their destination, further into the village, it wasn't long till a small patrol of Marines came into sight. There was about 15 poking about in the street, and upon spotting them, Hunter motioned Saori around the corner of the nearest building. "I knew it wouldn't be long till we ran into their ilk." Looking around the corner, he saw that they were about as armed as the group they had dealt with before, in fact, he wouldn't have been surprised if some of the group was a part of the group from earlier. His grip tightening on the Quadruple M, he looked back to Saori, a small grin on his face. "What're you thinking madame? We go around and take a detour, or do we take out every Marine that gets in our way? I'll stick with you whichever you choose. I took control of the last situation and sent you off, so now, I figure it's your turn to call the shots between the two of us."

Claire was lost in the base,thank god it was empty. ''Pech,let's split up,you go find a way to the that hi-flops that Fujin mentioned about.I'll be okay.'' and winked at Pech.She runned straight,but a blunt and heavy force hitted his head 5 or 6 times.Claire suddenly losed her consciousness and passed out.When she was awake,she was tied with seastones and a marine was wearing her sword.Claire started to cry cause she even cant do a simple mission and her life was a failure.Suddenly,ceiling collapsed into the marine's head.And columns started to break.Explosions was heard and Pech suddenly appeared.''You were supposed to free me not,destroy all the base!But,thank you.'' and Claire petted Pech's head.Claire picked up her sword and ran into the courtyard and ran into hi-flops's back,by sneaking behind the bushes.''Dont worry hi-flops,im gonna get you out of here.'' and she cut hi-flops's chains.Everybody was looking into collapsing marine base in a fear so nobody saw Claire freeing hi-flops.''Thank me later hi-flops.We must shoot these seagulls DOOOOWN.'' Claire creates purple energy waves in her hand and turns them to energy bullets,and shoots them to the marines,making huge explosions occur and send marines flying.And pech jumps into one of marine's head,starting to scratch it,making him to shoot other marines.''Mission,completed!'' says Claire,as she makes a thumbs up to the fujin.

Marines:132/175 Remaining.


Skills Used:
Bad Karma:1/1 Duration,0/5 Cooldown

Hunter pondered her question then finally said "Well, our fireworks aren't really known for causing many fires, which is why so many people buy what we export. Well, that, and the quality of course. So, there's not a whole lot of a chance of that happening, and we'll be three ships away, so, if any damage is done, it would be to the trader ship and the one's either side of it." Saori kept on walking, once hunter caught up he looked at her out of the corner of his eye. "I hope I didn't come off too standoffish with how I brought up my plan, Saori. I apologize if I did come across that way, and I appreciate you agreeing and not putting up a fight cause it wasn't your plan. Not that you seem like the kind of person to do so from our short period of interaction though." Saori looked at him curiously, wondering why he was apologizing. Finally she said "no apology needed, if anything I wish more people were as direct as you." Pausing for a moment she started talking again. "I'm sorry if you thought that I was offended, I just really want to get off this island and resume my studies." She was going to say more but just then a group of marines came into sight. Taking cover behind a building Saori and hunter looked out. Hunter looked back at her, a grin on his face. "What're you thinking madame? We go around and take a detour, or do we take out every Marine that gets in our way? I'll stick with you whichever you choose. I took control of the last situation and sent you off, so now, I figure it's your turn to call the shots between the two of us." Saori smiled upon hearing his words. "Why take the easy way, when we can attack some sea gulls." Saori closed her eyes and made a fist with her left hand. A nearby street lamp started to jerk around. With a loud roar it ripped free, and flew towards the marines heads. Hitting eight of the marines right in the face. They fell and stopped moving. The rest of the marines yelled and reached for their weapons. "Ready to fight?" Saori asked, before moving closer to the marines.

Ora Ora move cool down 0/4
42/50 marines remaining.

"HEY! Who're you calling Cyclops, you bleach blonde jerk?!" Was the first sentence he heard after he had finished talking and his attention to the direction it came from to see it was the pirate from the poster inside One-Eye Noir who let out a sharp grunt before speaking again "Just... get me down from here, alright? And don't fire that gun! I'm the only one that's allowed to." Fujin began to laugh as soon Noir called him a bleach blonde jerk, "You're funny Patches!" He replied not understanding that Nior had just insulted him by calling him a bleach blonde jerk. The marines began to fire at marine after one was brave enough to fire at him, the bullets seemed to move in slow motion as they flew to the air. He dodged the bullets with ease using simple side steps to those around him it would have looked like his imaged blurred slightly, they soon stopped firing and were looking at Fujin with fear "Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Now that was rude...but I guess it's expected being seagulls and all." His attention was then drawn by the sound of chains falling to the ground as he looked towards Noir to see Claire cutting the chains off Noir setting him free just as he planned ''Thank me later hi-flops. We must shoot these seagulls DOOOOWN.'' she said as she creates purple energy waves in her hand and turned them to energy bullets firing them at the marines making a huge explosions sending marines flying. During the chaos caused by the explosions Fujin saw Claire's cat jump onto one of marine's head scratching it causing him to shoot other marines accidently, he then watched Claire as she Fujin a thumbs up while saying ''Mission completed!'' Fujin smirked as he glared at the remaining marines "Not yet Claire-san!" he then proceeded to run disappearing to those around him and reappearing right in front of the remaining Marines with his right legged cocked back and looking as if it was blurred creating a wind tunnel around it before he proceeded to preform a leg sweep causing the remaining marines to be blown up and back into the air "Zūmu-zūmu no Kaze no muchi!". As they fell back down to ground Fujin ran over to Noir and handed him his gun "So you ready to join my crew?" he said with a stupid grin on his face as the falling marines made contact with the dirt again, some of which were getting back up again.

Marines:116/175 Remaining.


Skills Used:
Zūmu-zūmu no Kaze no muchi: cool-down: 0/4
Zūmu-zūmu no Bullet: cool-down: 2/2
Zūmu-zūmu no Barrage: cool-down: 2/3
Zūmu-zūmu no Ricochet: cool-down: 2/3

Noir stood back and watched the white haired man as he dispensed with the remaining Marines in the courtyard. Once the pirate was finished, he approached Noir and spoke. "So, you ready to join my crew?" Noir snatched his revolver out of the man's hand indignantly. As Noir spoke his reply, he began inspecting his revolver. "Well, you did help me out... got my revolver back..." With a flick of his wrist, Noir opened the cylinder on his revolver, and began inspecting it's condition as well. "Plus you seem pretty strong, and I'm told that strength attracts strength, so I'm sure we'll get to fight plenty of strong people..." Satisfied with the condition of his gun, Noir procured six bullets from his ammo pouch (which the Marines neglected to confiscate) and began loading his gun. "So yeah, I guess I will join your crew. But first, there are some things you need to know about me." With a flourish, Noir closed the pistol's cylinder. He then pointed the gun at a nearby wall, making sure the barrel wasn't bent. "First off, if you haven't noticed, I'm a marksman. That means you shouldn't send me up close, alright?" Noir twirled his gun a few times to get a feel for the gun's weight. He hadn't held it for quite some time, after all. "Secondly, I've got some neat tricks to bring to your crew. See, I ate one of those nasty fruits a few years ago... a devil fruit, I think it's called. Anyway, because of that I basically can't be shot, and I can do some neat things with bullets." After readjusting himself to his gun's weight, Noir twirled it once more and holstered it deftly. "Third, and most importantly, is my name. None of this Patches stuff, and certainl not... ugh... Cyclops. The name's Noir Dulocke, and don't you go forgetting it." Noir adjusted his hat and dusted himself off. "Anyway, as long as you remember that last part, everything will be good. So, now that I've introduced myself, I think it's your turn."

After Fujin and Hi-Flops talked,Claire yelled at fujin:''I'm going to take a look at BeatRoot guys!Good Luck!Good Karma!'' In claire's hands golden aura appears and covers fujin,making him gain more luck (ooc note: strength) then Claire turns her katana into a big fan and rushes in air trough the BeatRoot.In air she sees Hunter and Saori fighting with marines.She sees that near 25 marines was trying to take over beatroot.Other 25 was in the entrance of docks.Claire stopps flying and dashes through the marines guarding dock's entrance.She creates a whirlwind and waits to whirlwind charge itself to grow bigger and stronger.However,some marines gets sucked into whirlwind and flies to the air from the whirlwind.Marines tries to shoot Claire but Claire avoids them and creates a huge gust to throw them into the sea.The remaining marines flees into the Beatroot.BeatRoot starts to move and leave the docks.Claire jumps in the whirlwind and runs to the beatroot alongside with the whirlwind.''Why are you pirates trying to stop us!We are the justice and we do the right thing!'' marine yells at Claire.''You do not do the right thing!You just follow the orders of people who claim themselves as justice!And brainwash you!I dont say every pirate does the right thing,but marines either!You morons dont know what are you doing and some part of pirates are trying to stop this.And we're from that part.''Claire answered harshly at them.But it seemed like this speech ticked them off.They pulled out their shotgun at Claire.''I'll don't let you guys to steal something that Fujin buyed it with his own right.''


Marines:30/50 Remaining at the Docks.


Skills Used:
Bad Karma:1/1 Duration,4/5 Cooldown
Good Karma:0/3 Duration,0/4 Cooldown

"Why take the easy way, when we can attack some sea gulls." Hunter could only chuckle at her reasoning, but he did say he would follow whatever she decided on, so he kept his grin but steeled his eyes to a more focused look. "Well put, madame Saori. I pretty much figured you'd say that, just try not to get shot to kingdom come. I'd hate for you to get hurt when I just started getting attached." While saying this, he watched as Saori clench her fist, and turned to look back around the corner when he heard the sound of metal groaning. He watched as the lamp post ripped free from the ground took out 8 Marines, the rest brandishing their weapons after seeing their compatriots taken out by that no doubt usage of devil fruit power. "Sure know how to cause a little chaos, don'cha?" Turning back to Saori, he saw that she was getting to move closer to the Marines. "Ready to fight?" Putting down his tool bag, he reached inside his jacket and pulled a new magazine out of the opposite side he pulled the first one from earlier, and replacing the empty one with the new clip, putting the empty one in his bag. "I know I am." He let her move closer to the Marines as he kept one eye firmly on the enemy around the corner, his mind envisioning a cone shaped area of effect to fire in to deal with the rest of this group. "I've got something lined up in my head to deal with the rest of this small group, so you can either give me a minute to plan it out in my head and I'll deal with them, or I can plot up this attack and you can charge in and attack them and you can get out of the way or hit the deck whenever I yell. Whichever works for you madame."

Saori started moving forward, preparing to take the rest of the marine down, but paused when she heard hunter start to talk. "I've got something lined up in my head to deal with the rest of this small group, so you can either give me a minute to plan it out in my head and I'll deal with them, or I can plot up this attack and you can charge in and attack them and you can get out of the way or hit the deck whenever I yell. Whichever works for you madame." Saori paused. Trying to decide what she should do. Turning back to hunter she said "I'll take care of these guys." Saori closed her eyes and a bright orb flew out of her hand. It floated towards the nearest marine and latched on to him. There was a loud boom as the orb exploded, getting rid of the rest of the marines. After it exploded Saying this Saori prepared to sprint off. She made her way down to the docks without getting attacked. There she spotted Claire yelling at marines on what Saori assumed was the Beetroot. One of the marines pulled a gun out and aimed at Claire. Saori closed her eyes and stretched her hand towards the girl, trying to sense her aura. All of a sudden a bright purple shield enveloped the girl. The marine shot, but the bullet broke upon impact with the shield. A loud crash reverberated in Saori's head as the shield broke. She ran closer to Claire "What on earth are you doing here?"
23/50 marines remaining
Ora-Ora Shield cool down 0/2
Ora-Ora Pistol cooldown 0/2