Nephiria
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Post by Nephiria on Feb 15, 2012 0:23:30 GMT -5
Slavers
That one word made her eyes burn as she dropped her backpack upon the deck, her shoulder bag too joining it shortly, the ascent along the side of the ship had made her head spin and reel, it was an impressive display of strength and speed! When he had leapt into the air she had felt, for a moment at least what it was like to fly!
But all those thoughts were behind her as he said that one word! She looked upon the Fishmen and as they began to charge she snapped her fingers, pointing to her Shoulder bag. From the Leather interior a heavy book floated towards her, its cover bound in leather as well and inset with golden filigree in arcane symbols, the tome floated into her left hand and it flipped itself open, its pages turning under their own power.
Her right hand was outstretched towards the charging Fishmen and once more her eyes blazed as she spoke, two simple words, the air between the shark type fishmen and her new, temporary crew mates shimmered slightly in the darkness!
"Aetherin Board"
Its function was remarkably simple, she hoped to invoke the Board between them so that the charging shark men would impact the field of air and feel as though they had just run at full tilt into a wall of stone! Perhaps it was a risk to reveal her Devil fruit powers already and it was going to be tiring, but it was also a good way to halt their charge!
She shot a small grin to the young man who seemed to be captain of this ship and for a very good reason, another small smile was shot to the woman with the Naginata and the fairly monotone expression and voice!
The womans joke though had brought a soft laugh from her lips and had helped to lighten her spirits! But knowing these fishmen were in the employ of a slaver seriously made her mad, she had spent time as a slave herself and knew just how many slavers mistreated their slaves! She knew what it could be like to have all of your freedoms stripped from you!
Her own techniques might have seemed unusual, even to other Devil fruit users but that was part of what made it harder for her opponents to guess what she was going to do next! What trick? What technique? The woman grinned at the Fishmen, this bunch was going to get their butts kicked by a bunch of inferior humans!
This was something the lot of them would never live down!
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Tsukai Xoi
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Post by Tsukai Xoi on Feb 15, 2012 0:49:02 GMT -5
Tsukai slowly watched as they charged, his face was remarkably cold ... even Ira's joke didn't make him crack, though, he glanced at her out of surprise that she even cracked a joke. He almost smiled, but then he heard one of the sharkmen laughing. "YOUR WIDE OPEN HUMAN!!" He snarled and opened his mouth, slamming it down on Tsukai's shoulder as he had indeed been distracted. Slowly Tsukai's head turned as he stared into the sharkmans eyes, he wasn't bleeding ... hell he wasn't even c t by the bite. Instead the sharkmans eyes slowly widened as Tsukai's pupils shrank a moment and suddenly the sharkman dropped over .. .completely and utterly crushed.
He calmly closed his eyes afterward as the sharkman began to foam at the mouth eyes white. "You twerps are not even close to a match for the Haki of Kings ..." He murmured, clenching his fist he flashed forward as he collided with his second sharkman, "Or even Haki in general ... I don't even need to draw my swords or use my techniques for wannabi ..." He grabbed the sharkmans incoming massive fist wit his own smaller and leaner human hand as if it was nothing. "... Insolent ..." There was a sickening crack as he squeezed the sharkmans hand, shattering the bone up to the shoulder with the inhumanly powerful squeeze, as the sharkman screamed in agony. "... Cowards that prey on my fellow Brethren, my fellow slaves."
He hissed, his own eyes quite alike a sharks pupils narrowed and eyes merciless, the sharkman for the first time showed fear. "... I'll show you the same mercy you showed us. I'll show you the mercy you slavers showed us with yuor whips and knives and clubs ..." He hissed, another sickening crack as the sharkman took a kick tot he chest ... breaking every rib in his upper torso, a shcok wave of air flying as he was sent blasting into the ocean like a cannonball .. a coral reef in the distance shattering to bits as the body slammed into it. Slowly his gaze settled on the edge, letting the remaining three charge the three girls knowing they could handle that ... he watched as ten more fishmen climbed up, surrounding him. Slowly he clipped the captains jacket tossing it to a nearby porthole, his eyes closed slowly. "... No mercy."
He disappeared suddenly, "... Soru." he murmured in the wind ... and suddenly he appeared beside his coat ... re-clipping it on, as the fishmen stood there a moment looking confused, before all of them suddenly gagged up huge amounts of blood, their eyes turning white, and the sickening sounds of bones shattering coming from all of their chests at once as he adjusted the captains coat ... taking a last step as suddenly they all went flying in separate directions. He had moved so fast for an instant that it had appeared as if he had simply moved rapidly from his original spot back to his coat ... but he had actually landed a kick on each of their chests int hat instant and reappeared by his coat that same second. Slowly he let his eyes focus on the three charging the girls. Arching a brow as suddenly one rammed strait into an invisible blue-tinted wall groaning as he fell backward on his ass, the together two however kept coming while the first was dazed. Tsukai for now sat back and waited patiently, letting them handle it ... his merciless rage sated wit the death of twelve salvers ... as he tossed the one he had taken out first overboard.
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Post by Ira Travis on Feb 15, 2012 1:05:19 GMT -5
Tsukai and the new girl did not seem particularly pleased as they practically snarled at the fishmen, whom were slavers, as it turned out. The woman didn't seem too badly angered, but Tsukai was raging and ranting at them. The blond remained quite and learned a little something about her new Captain - that he had been a slave, and quite obviously that he did not like those that subjected others to the same things that he had suffered. She waged this was reasonable enough, and merely stood alert as he took out a dozen fishmen, though she did wonder if she was really needed at all.
Nevertheless she stood on guard, and before long three fishmen came charging at her and the other woman, though one of them hit some sort of force field and stopped dead. Ira held her naginata in both hands, bracing herself as the one coming at her ran at her with it's mouth open and razor sharp teeth ready to clamp down on her head. Naturally the naginata's handle prevented this, but the shark man managed to chomp it in half, sending it into splinters and managing to latch his teeth into Ira's arm.
Her icy eyes were a tad wide, not from pain, though it hurt, and not over the fact that her precious weapon had been reduced to toothpicks, no. Rather, she was alarmed over the fact that her arm had been engulfed in blue flames, scorching the fishman from the inside, before he could even move away. The flames licked across his face and down his throat, and in all likelihood the flames simply fried his brain, as he immediately released his grasp and slumped to the ground in a pile that smelled suspiciously like roasting fish.
The blue flame had circled the injury, healing it nearly instantly, like there was a protective ward on her body, but the flame remained, crawling along her arm. She shook her hand a little, trying to get it to go out, but it remained, and it was beginning to freak her out a bit since it was casting out blue sparks and such - not quite realizing that it wasn't hurting her just yet.
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Nephiria
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Post by Nephiria on Feb 15, 2012 16:25:25 GMT -5
For a moment the woman trembled, tempted for but a moment to embrace the same sort of lethality the captain of this ship was showing to the Fishman slavers, but it was not her style, she did not like to kill unless she had no other option, perhaps they would choose to give her no option but for the time being her Aetherin Board was keeping the enemies that were attempting to close in on her busy. Even as they pounded away on the Aetherin board she manipulated its orientation so an undamaged piece would always be facing her opponents as she readied her second technique.
It was a bit of a gamble but there were too many of them to keep at bay with the Board, they had already injured... Her eyes snapped open as she caught sight of Ira's body, at first thinking that the young woman had been set alight!
But as she looked closer, changing her stance so as to be ready to run to the girls side and try to keep her safe she could tell that the flame was not something the Fishmen had done! It seemed that the fire was coming from within her but despite Ira's usually neutral appearance the girl looked afraid!
She worked her way closer to Ira, in part to try and keep the Board defending them both although she knew if it kept taking the pounding it was being subjected to then it was bound to fail... And soon!
"Ira, you ate a Devil fruit? What sort?"
Ordinarily it took a great deal of time to master ones new abilities, but if her own skill with her Devil fruit could let her give Ira even the smallest of pointers perhaps they could have a potent new weapon against these Fish men!
Her eyes closed for a moment as the Fishmen swarmed over the deck, the captain of this magnificent ship doing most impressive damage to those that boarded but seemingly unable or unwilling to handle them all, letting the girls show their own skill against their enemies.
But with her eyes closed Nephiria could feel the very night about them, the darkness that she could twist to her will, a small smile spread upon her lips and the pages of her Tome flipped under their own will once again, these new pages that were displayed seemed to be stained an inky black, but Nephiria's eyes opened, and there too a Darkness, deeper than the night about them could be seen.
"Abyssal Tendrils"
The darkness about them seemed to writhe for just a moment as her right hand stretched forth, her palm facing the deck and from the deck long tentacles began to sprout from the wood, thankfully not damaging it but reaching and grasping for the legs of their Fishy foes! It was another reason she had drawn close to Ira, had she cast that from her previous position she could have possibly snared the other woman as well! but something told her their captain at least should be able to avoid the grasping, inky black tentacles she had called forth!
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Post by Tsukai Xoi on Feb 15, 2012 17:06:32 GMT -5
Tsukai glanced over as he watched the flames ignight on his Fire Mates arm ... sighing. "Calm down Ira!" He called, "Your a Phoenix now remember? Take deep breaths and calm your mind ... imagine your body coated in flames, and then slowly imagine yourself turning back to normal ... it will transform you back into your normal human form." He said before he began walking calmly tword the girls as he clicked the jacket on over his throat eyes calm before he watched as darkness suddenly burst forward from the girl as her eyes turned black, "Another Devil Fruit User hmm ..." He arched a brow before he calmly flipped over the incoming attacks and then landing beside the girls as he straitened himself out watching as the three remaining fishmen were bound down he slowly tilted his head. "... Allow me." He murmured simply, before he raised his leg quietly and kicked out, suddenly a crescent moon shaped blast of wind roared forward.
The blade of air flashed forward flying strait into the three fishmen, slapping their bindings and sending them blasting backwards into the nearby reef shattering the stone like plant. He slowly then lowered and placed both feet back onto the deck as he sighed softly and looked back to the girls and gave a sigh, he quickly moved over and nodded to Neph, smiling a bit weakly. "Thank you for the assistance." He then looked to Ira, gently taking her hand, if she had the flames still he would envelope her hand in his Haki, eliminating the effects of her devil fruit to un-ignight her and gently kissed her fingers. "Easy. Its alright." He said simply, words affectionate and calmly, or at least attempting. "After she had calmed and gone back to her normal emotionless shield, he would then lift up a hand and offer it to Neph with a grin. "On a brighter Note ... Interesting Devil Fruit you have there." He gave a soft chuckle before he slammed a foot on the floor three times rapidly, soon the Crew slowly slid back out eying the blood all over the deck from Tsukais kicks.
He sighed, "Clean the place up, and re-align us on course. Im going to take the girls back and have tea ... relax a bit and talk to them maybe." He muttered and bowed to both the girls before he exited smiling at them to follow him before he headed slowly up the stairs, he would go onto the tenth floor, where his room was located he then calmly placed his hands into the door, he shifted his stance a bit ... opening a slot when he reached the door he began to slowly tug and a large chain was exposed, there was the sound of something heavy and massive behind the door moving before he slowly released the chain and opened the door smiling a bit as he entered. He slid in and sat int he large red comfy chair behind the desk, all furniture was bottled down for obvious reasons, his room itself consisted of seven individual rooms, two filled with shelfs with sledges to hold back the magnitude of books and scrolls that filled them.
However the other areas of the room held a large bed, followed by a few very expensive looking paintings, and an odd looking fruit in a glass case on the far wall beside his Desk. When they entered and glanced to the side they would have seen A massive Steel square attached to a chain that went through the door. It was obviously well over 2000 pounds of weight, a security measure likely, to open the door you had to have the immense strength to pull over 2000 pounds of steel away from the door itself. He sat down with a sigh and slowly traced his fingers along the corners of the glass encased fruit, before he got up a moment, setting a pot over what appeared to be a large fireplace that had a steel surrounding so it would ignight the room, to heat up water for tea. He then sat down again with a sigh his eyes on the fruit a moment, it was obviously a Devil fruit of some sort, being a dark grey covered in cyan swirls and designs, the leaves were a bright yellow, and ti was covered in rose like thorns. His gaze rested back to the girls and motioned for them to sit in the the chairs in front of them, all three were like mini versions of his own.
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Post by Ira Travis on Feb 15, 2012 17:32:14 GMT -5
Ira heard the other woman's question loud and clear, but it wasn't really her priority to answer it when her arm was on fire and she couldn't even figure out how to put it out. She glanced around, searching somewhat frantically for a barrel of water or something to douse the flames in, but there was no such luck. It seemed she was doomed to burn to death. A fiery, painful, agonizing death. She was only vaguely aware of what was going on around her, but she eventually heard Tsukai tell her to calm down (not that that in itself really had any effect on her).
Her eyes flicked up long enough to notice that the girl had used some sort of devil fruit ability, but she couldn't really focus on much as she attempted to blow the flames out - which did nothing but make her a little light headed.
Tsukai soon took her hand, effectively putting out the flames that had swallowed her arm. She breathed a somewhat heavy sigh of relief, seeming to overlook the fact that he had kissed her hand since he had put out the flames. As her hand was released she observed it slowly, noticing that there was not so much as a scratch on her in spite of the fact that she had been bitten by one of the shark fishmen. Her heart rate slowly returned to normal and she manged to bring most of herself back into a controlled state, but she seemed a little shook up, nonetheless, and more then a little embarrassed as she was avoiding eye contact even more than usual. Tsukai was talking about tea again, and headed off, but the blond stuck around for a moment longer, picking up the pieces of her naginata, the larger pieces at least, she sighed a little, staring around at the splintered wood that she had taken so long to carve, paint and decorate so carefully and tediously. All her work had gone to waste, but mostly she just felt like maybe she had failed as a blacksmith for having made such an unstable weapon.
For a moment she pondered what she should do about this, before eventually deciding that she was too tired to deal with that right now, even with the candy that Tsukai had given her. She cast a glance towards the other woman and trailed after her Captain, following him apparently to his room. She blinked a little as she entered and spotted the large block of steel with the chains attached. And I thought I was paranoid... she thought, running her fingers slowly through her choppy hair as she did so.
Ira observed the Captain's room curiously, glancing around slowly, watching him as he touched a fruit in a glass case. "Maybe you should have put the Phoenix one in there too," she suggested, although it was obviously too late for that. He gestured for them to sit and she was only too glad to get off of her feet. The teen crossed her arms over her chest, reclining in the chair and sighing softly in relief.
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Nephiria
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Post by Nephiria on Feb 15, 2012 18:00:32 GMT -5
The Captains attacks finishing off the shark fishmen were of course very impressive, but it was Ira that held her attention, her captain had mentioned that she had become a Phoenix! The Phoenix was a legendary Zoan type but it seemed that this lovely young woman was not used to the powers she had been given.
As he gave his crew their orders she couldn't help but study Ira, this withdrawn and quiet girl had been given a powerful gift but she would have to practice with it if she wanted to master the powers of the Devils fruit she had been given.
She followed the captain at the offer of tea! It was going to be interesting sailing with him to the next port but she had to keep an eye out as well, if they met again after they parted they might have become rivals or opponents and she would have to think of at least some way to defeat him!
It was after all the nature of pirates to fight over territory and treasures, but those were thoughts for another time! Her eyes widened again as he opened the door and she beheld the security measures of his bedroom but her eyes narrowed slightly as she looked to the large bed held within, clearing her throat gently as she looked back to the young man who had brought her on board!
"I do hope you aren't hoping to get the four of us in there"
She gave a small laugh at that as she gestured to the bed before taking one of the seats he had indicated and she could not help but lift an eyebrow as Ira spoke about the devil fruit he kept within the glass... Had she eaten a devil fruit by accident!?
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Post by Tsukai Xoi on Feb 15, 2012 18:16:14 GMT -5
Tsukai blinked at the redheads comment, considered it a moment blinking. "I think it only fits three. Thats the mot Ive had in it anyways." He shrugged and yawned, sitting down with a stretch and tossed his captains jacket over the back of it as his gaze focused on Ira and he sighed. "This one is for me once I find the second one Im after. The phoenix that you ate was meant to be sold or given willingly remember?" He sighed before he set each of them a cup and leaned back intertwining his fingers. "Its the Shabi Shabi no Mi ... a Fruit as ancient as the myths of the world itself. The power to control Mother Nature herself ... Storms, tsunamis, lightning, winds ... the strongest Paramecia in the world." he shrugged, "its for my first stomach. When I find the Habi habi no Mi I'll eat them both."
He sighed as he reached over, grabbing the hot water and pouring it into each of their cups, he added a bit of whiskey to his own and then a teabag for each of them, setting the sugar out for them as he leaned back and sipped his without such thinking a moment curiously. "Formal Introductions ... Im Tsukai Xoi, Captain of he Heavens Eye Fleet. This is Ira my First Mate of the Angels Wing." He smiled a bit, before he took another sip thinking and eying her curiously, "And who are you miss scholar ...? Officially of course." He grinned a bit and gave a soft laugh as he had barely had time to really talk to her before the salvers had hit them. He tilted his head as he thought about it and eyed the girl curiously.
"As well, mind if I ask what Fruit you ate ...? Im trying to get a record of every fruit I see and their odd abilities that they grant." He took out a slim black book, apparently intending to write the name of it down. He also began to quickly write what he had seen it capable of doing thus far, he grinned a bit as he titled his head and placed his palms together after eh had written down all of the details he had seen thus far leaving room for more as he got ready to palce the name of the fruit if and when she said it on the top of the page, curioisly turning his head and watching them both afterward as he waited patiently for an answer, sipping at his tea occasionally.
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Post by Ira Travis on Feb 15, 2012 18:32:15 GMT -5
Ira watched Tsukai and the woman idly, watching as the woman indicated into the bedroom that she had passed coming in, making a comment about hoping he didn't want to fit all of them in there. The teen blinked a bit, slowly glancing to Tsukai, whom responded without skipping a beat. The blond blinked slowly, as if processing this thought, before raising a hand and lightly massaging at her one of her temples. Her future seemed uncertain, at best.
"Yeah, yeah, I heard you the first time," she responded, not really the type to argue and too lazy to bother with it. He soon went on to talk about the fruit that was within the glass case, and she studied it carefully for a few long moments, vaguely recalling what he had written in his journal. She supposed that was the reason why he kept the giant block of steel in front of the door. If the fruit she had eaten was worth what he said it was, then certainly this one must have been worth even more? She seemed unphased with this thought, as money and material belongings didn't really hold any value to her unless it had sentimental value to her - which most things did not. The tea was poured, Tsukai having put whiskey in his. As the sugar was placed out she immediately placed quite a bit in her tea, as clearly she prefered it to taste sweet rather than even a little bitter. She drank a little and listened intently, calmly, neutrally, giving a mere nod of her head as she was introduced. Her eyes sidled to the other female as he asked what devil fruit she had, the blacksmith was more then a little curious about this, due to the fact that she hadn't really been exposed to any before that day.
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Post by Nephiria on Feb 15, 2012 18:54:00 GMT -5
The womans eyes widened as she heard about the properties of the devils fruit encased in glass and although she knew she could not use it she did know that it would fetch a rather impressive price if it were to say... Go missing... Still for the time being it seemed rather unwise to cross this man!
She too enjoyed sweet things and added more than a little sugar to the steaming cup before lifting it to her lips, his curiosity was understandable of course but the properties of her fruit were difficult to explain!
"I am Nephiria Illiam, an archaeologist among other things, my fruit is the Mahou mahou No mi, it's powers too are fairly unique allowing me to develop... Well spells of a sort"
She gave a soft chuckle at that, the 'magic' she used might have been the results of a devils fruit but Tsukai had already seen two of the tricks she could perform! Ira on the other hand had been a little distracted.
"I have to ask though captain Xoi, where did you come across this gorgeous ship? It is a beautiful thing but a bit big for my tastes"
The woman grinned again as she looked to the Captain, mildly curious about what he said regarding a first stomach, how could he have more? It did seem to be a bit of a rude question though so she held her curiosity at bay for the time being!
She grinned as she relaxed into her chair for the time being, enjoying the taste of the tea and the warmth spreading through her, truth be told it had been a little while since she had last had anything to eat, her rations had been a little low and she had been trying to pace herself!
She looked to Ira though, her curiosity still getting the better of her, she couldn't help but wonder how the young woman had come across her Devils fruit, it seemed she had eaten it by accident from what she had overheard passing between her and the captain.
"I take it Ira you didn't mean to eat your Devils fruit? Something tells me though that you will learn to enjoy some of the benefits it gives you"
It was the same for her after all! She had Noshed on her friends fruit without knowing what it was but she was growing to love the abilities it had given her!
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