A desert island that is nothing but heat and sand and resembles the Kingdom of Alabasta. The days are very hot and the nights are extremely cold.
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2017 10:51 pm
Finally arriving at his destination. He was told by a friend that if he wanted to train alone that there was a island in the west blue that was just bare and dry. venturing to this place, Simba docked his lone man ship on the north coast of the island as he traveled to the center of the island through the sands. Once he thought himself far enough, all he could see around him was sand and he finally sat his giant bag down that was full of food and water along with other things needed to spend a few days here. Taking off his marine uniform, he followed by taking off his pants next. As he stood in the heat with nothing on but his boxers, he quickly slipped on his Muay Thai training shorts, he didn't put on anything else for his upper torso though. Since it was still the middle of the day, Simba could train in the heat and then once night fell he could train in the cold as well. During the early morning his plan was to sleep. The Marines training was going to be a tough one and if he wasn't bothered by anyone. As the sun blazed down upon the sands, Simba trained and trained his Muay Thai focusing on past enemies he has defeated and those he was not able to defeat as if he was shadow fighting.
As the night started to loom upon the island, Simba noticed the ground change as well. He figured that it was just the win but the sand was leveled different now as if something was pushing it up from below. The Muay Thai specialist didn't pay it much mind though since he heard there wouldn't be any problems on this island since nothing existed here. Grabbing a town from his bag, he wiped the sweat from his face as he began to clean his upper torso as well since he had been out in the sun practicing for hours. Once the sun started to set he realized something was moving through the sand in the distance. "Hmm?'. He turned his attention away for a moment to see if it would move again and he noticed that it tried to get closer to his little camp site. "So there is something here after all.." he sighed as he reached into his bag, pulling out new bandages. He re-wrapped his arms, hands and feet preparing himself for a fight. Once the sun had completely set, the ominous wind blew about allowing whispers to travel. Standing up he felt the gold breeze crashing against his skin but for some reason he didn't feel cold at all. Not knowing that his body was now made of lightning, it was honestly hard for him to even get cold in the first place.
Continuing his training, Simba waited until the bump in the sand got closer, acting like he didn't know it was there. Once the bump in the sand was close enough, Simba darted for it and jumped into the air right above it. "GOT CHA!!!!" he shouted diving down upon the bump of sand with a powerful downward elbow strike. Simba felt his elbow hit something hard. "What?" he questioned. Suddenly the sand under him started to rise, his head started to swivel but before he could react the sand from below exploded upwards sending Simba flying backwards up into the air. Safely landing on the sand back near his camp site, the creature revealed itself. "..well that's a giant mother ********> he said as he took in the sight of a giant sand crap ready to brawl and eat some dinner. Since Simba knew there was no way to out run this thing he just got into a fighting stance and grinned. "Looks like only one of us is eating the other for dinner!!!! BRING IT ON SANDY!!!" He shouted.
The Sand crab lifted it's giant claw into the air and attempted to slap it down upon Simba. Quickly rolling to the right, he dodged the attack but he was caught in the explosion of sand from that impact. As he was sent tumbling, he attempted to regain his balance until he looked as he was spinning an noticed the giant sand crab skittering across the sand. Once back on his feet the crap was already upon him attempting to catch Simba between one of his claws. Jumping from the sand, Simba's feet left the ground as he jumped over the clamping claw, if he was second to late he would have been crushed. Sadly for Simba he couldn't move in the air and the crabs reflexes were on a whole different level. Reacting with its other claw, it swung in a line heading right towards Simba, all he could do was block as best as he could. Once the bare claw collide with his guard his body was sent flying back with so much force that his guard broke almost instantly. Flying across the sand Simba found it hard to move, the pain was something else and who would have thought that a crab would have such fast reflexes.
Getting up as fast as he could from the sand, The grab had shot out its claw attempting to grab Simba yet again. Sadly Simba was still in to much pain to really do anything to protect himself so he was snatched up by the crab. Simba had his hands pushing on each side of the inside of the claw to try and keep himself from being crushed to death. The night sky and ominous winds were the only things that existed here at this time. If the blue haired wonder didn't do something soon he was going to get clamped into two pieces. "I WON'T DIE HERE!!!!" he shouted as he attempted to push against the claws from each side. The Sand crab that stood about fifteen feet tall started to apply more force which almost caused Simba's arms to snap back and give way. "No....." he struggled to keep the claws at bay but he didn't know what he could do anymore. His strength started to fade while the crabs grip got stronger. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" he shouted as he pushed back with every ounce of energy he had left, the claw started to open and Simba could free himself if he could just get it open a little more but his arms were starting to give out, his bones started to strain and he finally knew it was over. Simba's life started to flash before his eyes while the claw started to get tighter around him and his arms were having trouble holding back them back anymore.
Suddenly...Simba's blue tattoo's started to glow but the light was weak..but after a few seconds the tattoos started to get brighter and brighter. His strength appeared to be returning but that wasn't the case. Something inside Simba started to awaken, his Tattoos started to glow so bright that they would normally blind anyone looking. The powerful force within Simba came forth!!! "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" he screamed while lightning erupted from his body causing the sand crabs claw to to feel an enormous amount of pain. With the normal effects of lightning, the claw became paralyzed as well which allowed Simba to push open the claw with ease and drop down into the sand below as the sand crab backed away letting out a scream in pain. Lightning began to surge through the area since the awakened power coming from Simba wasn't fully under his control. The mass amount of power had seemed to pushed Simba into a state of survival. Slow making his way back to his feet, the arcs of lightning coming from his body struck the sand around him causing minor explosions. His tattoos surged with lightning while his eyes appeared bright blue only with lightning surging form them as well. He lowed his arms down and once he turned his open palms into fist his lightning surged out for a second as if he had powered up letting the sand crab know that round two was about to start. From the distance those coming near the island during the night would be able to see the arcs of lightning pouring upward into the sky.
Apparently getting to South Blue was going to be a tad harder than she had first assumed. Despite having set a course for that specific ocean, it was because of that hellish island she'd been blown that she was now lost or more accurately misplaced. The Maw had seemed to have not let her out in the same place from which she came in. It was absolutely impossible phenomenon but between fighting some kind of spectral monster and between the direction of magnetic north and the stars now indicating that she was in West Blue, that place defied learned reason. As her tiny one woman ship moved along Vittoria couldn't help but write down the details of that misadventure in her research journal, though she wouldn't be sharing such things with anyone for quite some time. After all most in the archaeological field would deem her insane. Not that it would particularly bother her in an emotional way but it would hamper her goals. Such a thing was to be avoided if possible. At any rate the fruit she consumed was in retrospect probably a devil fruit, so the proof would be at hand eventually. Well as soon as she figured what hers actually did. Off in the distance flashes from lightning arcs lit up the sky on what seemed to be a smallish island. Weird, there isn't a cloud in the sky and yet there's lightning... it's probably not natural. Normally this marine would have avoided such a thing but all those lightning arcs generated a lot of heat and changed the local weather patterns such that the wind fiercely and suddenly changed directions. With little navigational skills she was pretty much helpless but to be carried with the wind towards the Island.
Jumping out of her boat in the shallows of the beach she quickly dragged it ashore only to see that another's sole person vessel was also here. How strange, such an occurrence was. Grabbing her parasol from the boat she gingerly popped it open to protect her hair from any rain that might occur during this most unnatural storm of lightning, before following the footsteps in the sand. The lightning obviously wasn't a phenomenon caused by nature at this point, and somebody else was here. Perhaps somebody who had consumed the devil's fruit was also present on this island. Detailing on the vessel beside her own had indicated that it was a marine's but the question now was who's or perhaps whether or not it was stolen. She'd be on her guard while approaching this other person but hopefully there wouldn't be trouble. After all that had happened already she was pretty tired. The gentle rays of beautiful moon light were mostly filtered out by the pink parasol she carried. Despite the cool temperatures of the desert night with knee high boots, pants, and a cropped long sleeve jacket things still felt pretty warm around there. The intensity of the lightning also seemingly grew as she moved towards the source. After cresting a small dune she spotted him, a man she had probably seen once or twice before around the base. It was somewhat hard to tell since in between flashes of light he was obscured. Samba.... Senma.... no those aren't right...sinma? Whatever it doesn't really matter that much. Who needs to know an adonis' name anyway. What's important is whether or not he can be utilized for personal gain or pleasure... to that end I suppose this might be a good time to start playing one of my games.
Making her way a bit closer while being careful to not get too close since it seemed like the lightning coming off the man was rather out of control, Vittoria yelled out him with a voice that sounded somewhat afraid but earnest in the desire to help. "Pardon me but do you need some assistance with that quite large crustacean?" Upon getting closer his tattoos and their glowing appearance became visible. Now that was intriguing, and if she was being honest also rather sexually arousing. Not once in her time in the marines thus far had she seen a male so seemingly physically fit but also at least passably good looking. Keep a hold of yourself Vittoria, remember what your father taught you about being a lady. Kuja like your mother might be filthy sluts that become helplessly attracted to some men but you are above them. You are a human lady of the house Vance. Such behavior is thoroughly unacceptable. When Simba were to look at her he would see that Vittoria was an adult woman of human appearance in her twenties whose height was a tiny five foot three inches. Interestingly she not only had one chocolate colored iris and also a strawberry pink colored one, but her hair was composed of three different colors. Half of it was a rich milk chocolate brown, while the other half was that same strawberry pink except that it had thick bands of a vanilla like white through it as well. As for her body she was obviously fairly skinny though well toned from a marine exercise regimen, an ample bosom, and quite the a** behind her womanly hips. One last detail that he might notice was that upon her jacket was the emblem of the marines situated over her left breast. She probably didn't look all that suited to fighting a giant beast since her rather refined clothing and parasol made her look quite posh but perhaps she knew what she was doing.
Before the second round was about to begin, Simba heard words in the distance trying to reach him, but it was of no use. Simba was currently lost in the awakening of his fruit. His sole focus was staying alive which meant everything else was drowned out at this point. Before the woman would be able to get any closer to Simba or the grab, Simba dashed across the sand so fast that the sand where he previously stood erupted. Simba jumped into the air towards the giant crab with great speed. Lightning surged from his body as he shot his knee out to strike the crab. The force of the attack was huge, this send the crab stumbling back a bit on its crab like legs as they stabbed the sand over and over again. Simba didn't let up on his attacks. He landed back on the sand and dashed across the sandy terrain yet again to bring more pain to the crab monster. Soon enough Simba would just become a blur to who ever was watching since he started to move like lightning all around the creature. The sounds of pain could be heard throughout the night from monster. With the sand crab frying from all the lightning attacks. Simba was high in the sky above the desert. His power erupted in the dark sky. A lightning arc flashed out of sky down towards the crab with Simba inside with both hands above his head and fingers interlocked together making a over head hammer attack on the crab. This attack broke the crabs shell while eletrocuting it from the inside out causing all of its skin to turn black and dry while the opening of the shell was broken up. The dead crab body fell into the sand while Simba landed nearby. The lightning arcs coming from his body started to fade as he fell to his knee's. The boy soon fell over into the sand, passed out from his body over revving itself with its new found power.
No response came from the man with glowing tattoos so he was either quite rude or her high pitched feminine voice was near entirely drowned out the by the chaotic sounds of battle. At the very minimum it was probably just unintelligible to him. However with no acknowledgement from the man it was probably far too dangerous to get any closer than she already was. Watching his power was both enlightening and also intrigued her deeply with wanting to know who this man really was. His ability to call forth lightening by itself was a trait worthy of a supernatural being, she wouldn't commit to saying a god but it was indeed a fearsome force. But even beyond his electrical capability she witnessed his physical strength and speed as well. In the back of her mind she found her kuja physiology to be even more intrigued than her conscious mind was about his power. In the end she lost track of the man as he merged with the lightning while traveling at amazing speeds. Eventually he dealt a finishing blow to the giant sand crab before collapsing to the sand himself. Since the lightning had completely subsided she could definitely assume that it was generated by the man before her, and it was also safe to approach him now since there wouldn't be any more. With the black smoke and awful stench rising from the crab she knew the thing was definitely dead. So upon getting closer there was no need to worry about that thing attacking her or anything. Crouching down she managed to flip Simba onto his back if he wasn't already and then placed her arms under his armpits so that she could grip his shoulders and drag his limp body away from the crab. Taking shelter by a rocky outcropping she set his body down before removing her coat and gently draping it over his large chest. It was probably a poor blanket given his size relative to her own but the nighttime cold didn't really seem to be bothering her all that much right now. Vittoria sat huddled up next to his unconscious body for some time as she tried to use the stars to figure out where she was. Suddenly a grumble came from her stomach as the hunger from her earlier expedition really started to kick in. However she didn't really have much to eat and this place looked barren save for the burnt out crab. Another rumble made her detest being in this situation where wanted to stick around to get in on this guys good side and find out more about his power. As if on pure instinct she felt a tingling in her hand again before the texture of her left gloved suddenly changed to being very smooth and, chocolaty? Giving her fingers a quick wiggle to see she found them bumping up against a hardish surface. Upon raising her hand up to her face she realized that it kind of looked like hard chocolate ice cream. What the hell? I was just thinking about being hungry and my glove changed.... well what about 1,000,000,000 beli? Damn nothing.... so I can't just make things at will then. I guess the only question now is does it taste like ice cream? Taking a tentative bite into her glove her face lit up as it really did taste and feel like ice cream. Quickly but carefully she ate all around her hand, fully consuming the chocolate glove. However it did little to actually placate her stomach since it took more energy to make the glove than she got back from eating it. With nothing else to do she laid down and went back to looking at the stars. Eventually she succumbed to sleep and passed out next to Simba. Even cuddling up next to his warm body while she slept, at least until she awoke due to him waking up and moving around. At which point she'd sleepily ask, "Are you okay?"
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Odin Kaicho
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2017 7:28 pm
✤✤✤✤✤✤{J U D G E}✤✤✤✤✤✤ Galan Drace||Swordsman x Gladiator|| Pirate || Fruit [---] || 20,000 Str: 5 ||End: 5 ||Spd: 5 ||Acc: 5 ||Int: 5 ||Spi: 0 ╔════════════════════════════════════════════╗
[ How marvelous it all is, the different environments around this Blue in particular. While in his search for allies whom he can entrust his back for the future, Galand found himself on this strange desert island. It couldn’t have been more than a day since his arrival, and already he has encountered all forms of threat and thrills. Ranging from the local wildlife to random passing sandstorms. Regardless of how dire it may all seem to the average individual, to this man, it’s nothing short than an exciting adventure. “What a strange place this is! It was all but tropical on the last island, but here, the climate is so distinctly different. I wonder what causes such-” he starts, but finds himself cut off by a streak of what appeared to be lightning flaring off in the distance. Unable to process this, his head naturally tilts.
“Lightning, here? Truly, this island is a mystery.”
Ever curious to what natural phenomenon could have brought about lightning in this type of environment, Galand heads in the direction of where he noticed the streak. Maybe at a high point he could get a better view of it. His pace picks up from a walk to a well paced jog, and after climbing up a few rock-like structures impeding his progress, the armored man is left staring at an abnormally ridiculous spectacle. A man essentially covered by wild electricity surging about combating a large crab-like creature. Galand’s eyes beneath his helmet widen in disbelief. “Madness! What is going on here…?” he questions. In all his years he had never seen something quite as strange as this, excluding the strange happening back on Minion Island. With his eyes glued on the struggle between the two forces, he fails to notice the woman further off from him watching as well. Although she actually took the initiative to HELP the man fighting the creature--at least verbally.
Soon enough, the sparking man, after all of his screaming, manages to land a decisive blow atop the crab’s head, frying and ending its very unfortunate existence. Galand stares down at the battle’s finale in awe. Some could even say his body is trembling from the excitement and shock. “M-Marvelous!” he exclaims. “Oh?” Eyes move down as he watches the guy previously covered by lightning falling to his knees before dropping out unconscious. Galand places a cuffed hand to his armored chin in thought, wondering if now would be the best time to approach a man who was just giving off rather dangerous abnormalities. Deciding against it, he instead crosses his arms while spying on the woman from before assisting the unconscious man to a safer location. “His accomplice? Interesting.” he states, studying the scene dutifully. Once the two move aside, Galand leaps down the stones one by one until he lands safely in the sand a bit from the fried crab.
A few steps closer, and the smoke from the charred body lifts directly up into the man’s nose. Taking another whiff of it, an armored hand reaches out towards the exposed meaty head of the crab. Without a lick of hesitation, he grabs hold and tears off a piece of the crab’s succulent innards. And just like that, he bites down into it. After lifting his helmet up just a tad of course. “Ah. It’s good. Perfectly cooked!” He takes a few looks left and right before clearing his throat. “W-Well, food shouldn’t go to waste.” he says before lifting up the crab over his head and walking in the direction of the two from earlier. Yet after reaching them, he notices them both sound asleep, and lets out a soft sigh.
“Hmm. Maybe...later then.” he says before splitting the crab in half, placing a piece on the other side of the sleeping man, and walking off to climb the rocks again and watch their resting spot. At the very least, he’d watch over them for now and ask questions later. Placing his back against the nearest stone, Galand crosses his legs and takes a rest himself. ]
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Odin Kaicho
Naomi Tenkou
North Lotus Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2017 10:43 pm
With the blue wonder boy out cold it seemed that he wasn't alone on the island. He was able to feel different electric signatures around him or maybe that was just him dreaming or something. Once Simba started to wake he noticed everything was blurry at first and he looked up to the sky and saw the stars above. Starting to move a little, he felt something near him or on him, he wasn't sure what it was. Leaning his upper torso up from the sand he looked over and heard a woman ask if he was doing ok. "......" Simba then smacked himself rather hard. "Yeah i must be dreaming..." he said as he held his cheek..but he kept looking over and noticing the girl wasn't going anywhere.. "What the hell!!!!" He jumped up rather quick tumbling and falling in the sand in front of him. He found his body was drained of energy and he couldn't really remember what had happened. all he could really remember was almost being crushed by the giant..."WHERE'S THE CRAB!!!" he yelled at he looked around for the crab..but he realized that half the section of the crab was sitting next to him and the strange woman that appeared out of no where. "..did you do that?" he asked her. Even though he didn't stay still and wait for a response, he started eating meat out of the crab as he crawled towards it. He wanted to regain his strength back and figure out what had happened while he was out. Still night fall it seemed, how the hell was this girl just sleeping out here in the cold desert? Was she crazy or something. While he ate he saw the woman's badge... "A marine?? What's a marine like you doing all the way out here?" he asked her while he took a massive bite out of the crab meat chewing with his mouth closed but it was still rather loud, you could tell he was a hungry man.
As Simba started to wake his movements brought Vittoria out of her sleep as well due to their size difference forcing her body to move. After her question his reply seemed to make her giggle a little as he first decided that he was dreaming before realizing that she was real and jumping straight up off the sand. Gently she retrieved her jacket which had long since slid off of him, covering up the upper end of her corset top since she put it back on. His question of whether or not she moved half of the giant crab, "Mmmm nope, I'm not strong enough for something like that heh heh," she said with smile. Internally however she was chastising Simba for idiotically eating an unevenly fried crab when such meat should only be consumed after it has been properly steamed by at least a regionally renowned chef if not a nationally renowned one. Otherwise it might have well as been seagull s**t, and only peasants ate seagull s**t. Still as a practiced actor such things didn't make it to the surface. His shock at her being a marine surprised her a bit but perhaps that was a field of questions for far later, at any rate she needed to answer him. "It's kind of funny but um, I was passing trough the area you see and your lightning storm well um it kinda changed the weather I think and forced me to the island. I guess I could have just stayed on the beach but I'm from the research division so I felt compelled by duty to investigate the source that frightning light show.... even if it was really scary." On that last bit she said kind of quietly like she didn't want to admit it. Vittoria's hetero-chromatic eyes blinked in astonishment at Simba's ability to put away crab meat even though by all accounts it was basically garbage meat. That was when she noticed that another person had discovered them, that or a haunted statue. She wasn't really sure what was possible anymore after that hellish encounter in that shitty hole in the ground.
"Eep a metal man!" she nearly screamed before jumping to behind Simba as a means of hiding."What does it want?" Simba could probably either feel or hear her quaking behind him in fear. Internally she wasn't really frightened at all but this game was meant to see what kind of man this guy was. Sure he had strength and power but if he didn't have the right kind of personality or mindsets it'd be hard to be manipulate him. However a damsel in distress routine usually revealed the truth of such things. It might also reveal the nature of the strange metal man that had apparently watching them. Internally Vittoria was berating herself for not knowing he was here but then there was little that she could do about that. For now she'd just have to see how all this played out.
✤✤✤✤✤✤{J U D G E}✤✤✤✤✤✤ Galan Drace||Swordsman x Gladiator|| Pirate || Fruit [---] || 20,000 Str: 5 ||End: 5 ||Spd: 5 ||Acc: 5 ||Int: 5 ||Spi: 0 ╔════════════════════════════════════════════╗
[ While Galand rested his head back against some stones in wait for the awakening of the two sleeping people, he failed to stay awake himself. Forgetting where he is, once he can hear the man and woman’s rather rowdy wake up call, he is completely caught off guard and nearly falls off of his rocky perch. “OI! SHUT UP YOU NOISY BRATS! PEOPLE ARE SLEE- Ah? Oh, right, this isn’t home.” he says before taking a better look around at the situation to notice the two wide away and giving him a fearful stare. Or at least, the woman is. The man is busy stuffing his face with the other half of the crab. To this, Galand comically turns his head away and sheds tears. He had hoped that neither of the two would want it, so he could help himself again.
Realistically he could have just been greedy and eaten it, but he couldn’t let the younger people starve! “Dammiiiiiiiit” he cries to himself in a low tone, hands and knees on the ground. After a few moments of self pity, he collects himself and stands back up tall to introduce himself. “Ahem. S-Sorry about the strange display. Just ignore it. Anyways, you two! I have questions regarding that...display, from last night.” As if an entirely different person now, he crosses his arms and glares at the both of them; Simba and Vittoria from his elevated stone, as if some figure head looking down at the inferiors. “I saw your strange display then. That lightning, I mean. What exactly...was that?” he questions sternly, keeping in mind that these two could be incredibly dangerous. For now, he’d play it safe and keep his distance, less he ends up like the poor crab from before. That and, it’d be two on one if he decides to piss them off. Not favorable odds, considering everything he witnessed.
Waiting for an answer, just about immediately after asking his question, Galand turns his head to Vittora. He scans her up and down wearily, not knowing if she’s like the man, with some strange gift. Though, the odds of that would probably be way too low, considering that was the first time he saw such a thing. ]
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Odin Kaicho
Naomi Tenkou
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2017 5:24 pm
"Well someone had to kill it and move it!" he replied. Something that caught him off guard was when the woman said "Your lightning storm" as if Simba had created it.. "My thunder storm? " he questioned. But maybe it was just something he missed while he was here. He did pass out after all so maybe there was a storm during the night or something? While Simba helped himself to a crab leg as well he noticed someone was among them even though the marine woman called him out first. Simba payed him no mind at the moment even though he had yelled at them. "Kids?" Simba took another bite of the meaty crab leg before standing up turning and shouting towards the man "LOOK HERE MAN YOU DON'T HAVE TO -" Simba halted his speech once he got a full description of the person before him and the marine woman. "HOLY s**t ITS KING ARTHUR!!" Simba shouted as he got on his knee's and bowed "I AM NOT WORTHY!!!!!" he pleaded. Even though this was just a joke it seemed completely serious until the man in armor asked a question that reminded him of something the marine woman had just said. Jumping up from the sand Simba pointed a finger back and forth towards the armored man and marine woman. "YOU GUYS KEEP BRING UP THIS LIGHTNING LIKE I HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH IT" he complained not knowing that his tattoos started to glow again while his hand was dosed in lighting but funny how Simba didn't notice since he was complaining and was oblivious to what was really happening.
"Geez you guys just sit around here accusing someone of having -" he stopped as he noticed the glow finally and maybe noticed if the marine woman and Galan were scared at all since Simba had been waving a lightning hand around while pointing at them. "......................................................WHAT!!!! THE!!!!! ********> he roared. The island shook in fear of Simba's voice as he fell backwards into the sand as he exaimined his own hand while it displayed his new found power. Before he could say anything else he remembered back to his fight with the giant lightning stone monster. "...devil fruits really do exist..."
Hearing the metal man call them of brats was of a slight annoyance to say the least. After all she was not only twenty five herself but had graduated from a fine university at the capital before entering into a professional career. In her own opinion she was hardly of an age and status appropriate of being called a brat. He might have sounded like an older man himself but that was still little excuse to call her a brat given the aforementioned qualities. Though part of her supposed that she should take it as compliment that her beauty had held up well enough for her to be mistaken with a child. That was how she was going to need to take it in order to not become pissed at the man so that was how she intended to go about things. Maintaining her otherwise fearful facial expression and body posture she just hung back partially hidden behind Simba's muscular form. His apology of course helped her to maintain her composure and keep up the act though she didn't care for him having the audacity to pose questions to herself. It was also ever so irritating that another had seen the display. Hopefully he hadn't seen her own display of power or else there might be issues. Simba for his part seemed like more of a clown than she'd pegged him for since his fighting skills had seemed rather impressive compared to the standard rabble. However between his focus on the crab, mocking the armored man with a reference to Arthurian lore, and not even being aware of his own powers despite the giant light show earlier in the night he didn't seem terribly smart to her. Than again not everyone could be as smart as she was so perhaps it wasn't right to fault him for that. After all a good pawn didn't need to be intelligent, just capable of being manipulated. Though his wild lightning enhanced movements did present a physical danger to her well being so she made sure to watch them carefully and simply avoid them if any got too close to her body. "Revisiting what I said earlier, I'm pretty sure the lightning you made heated up the air and caused the strong wind that pushed me to this island. Um.. please turn it off though, it's kinda scaring me." As sexually arousing and "cool" as his glowing tattoos were Vittoria had to admit that the man's lack of control was making him so much less appealing. His performance earlier had indicated a level of control far greater than he was now displaying so there was a bit of disappointment involved the degrading of said appeal. "Based on what you did to that crab I'd rather not end up crispy and um well dead..."
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Odin Kaicho
North Lotus
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2017 6:55 pm
✤✤✤✤✤✤{J U D G E}✤✤✤✤✤✤ Galan Drace||Swordsman x Gladiator|| Pirate || Fruit [---] || 20,000 Str: 5 ||End: 5 ||Spd: 5 ||Acc: 5 ||Int: 5 ||Spi: 0 ╔════════════════════════════════════════════╗
[ Well things definitely started to take a turn for the weird! Galand’s question was fairly well structured. He is in serious mode, and all he needs at this point are answers to his questions so he can move along and study the strange happenings of this island. These two people here fill him with so much curiosity he nearly can’t contain himself. Finally he gets his much needed reply from one of the individuals; the tattooed man. But the response itself throws Galand so far back in a loop his eyes nearly stretch out of his helmet. “KING ARTHUR?!” he is taken aback with his arms pointing straight up in the air above his head in surprise. Never before has anyone addressed him in that manner, but all in all, it wasn’t SO bad. “H-Heh… You think you can catch me off guard with amazing compliments? I-Idiot… I won’t be shaken so easily!” Is what he says, but in the end he’s standing there wiping his gauntlet over the forehead of his helmet as if wiping off sweat, clearly shaken up and fairly happy about the compliment.
Alas, all fun times must come to an end, as Simba replies back sharply about how he has absolutely no idea about anything lightning related, and from the sound of it, he’s not too happy about the accusation. “Eh? Surely you’re aware of the nonsensical display you gave during the battle with the crab?” the armored man questions with his arms flipped upside down as if trying to get the tattooed guy to be reasonable. “I’m willing to bet anyone an island over could have seen the flashes from that light show.” Galand continues, as if his words will somehow spark up some kind of memory in the baffled man. But no dice. Simba just seems to have no idea what they are talking about as he goes on about his innocence...all the while his tattoos start to glow, and his arm starts to spark off similar to the scene from last night, but well, at a much lesser degree now of course. Galand’s attention is immediately subdued now. This is what he is after!
He steps closer, forgetting to keep a bit of distance while Simba is raving on due to his own surprise at his bodies current flashy state. “So I was not hallucinating after all!” he says while the lady chimes in before quickly urging her partner to cease the light show. “Marvelous!” a captivated Galand yells out as he grabs Simba’s hand to examine it, but is quickly toasted. “UWHOOOOOOOOOOBABABABA!” is pretty much the only sound he can make before falling back, lightly toasted and ready to be served on a platter. Smoke lifts from his armor, while he fidgets a bit on the sand. “Ah. I was shocked.” Quickly hopping back up, he leaps backwards to a sliding halt, placing on hand on the sand to slow himself down. Once he’s in the clear, he lifts a hand and points to Vittoria accusingly.
“Oi, you there! Get his powers under control so I can examine him properly!” as if it’s her fault Simba can’t keep his powers in check. Although, one thing does catch his interest. The sparking man says something about a…’devil fruit’? Galand turns his head to Simba seriously now. Did he just say Devil Fruit? Now. NOW things are about to get interesting. ]
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Odin Kaicho
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Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2017 7:26 pm
So... this was the power of a devil fruit? While Simba watched the sparks erupt from his hand, the metal man was in awe. He went to touch the sparks and he ended up just zapping himself. "O s**t!!!" Simba shouted as the man looked like a nice side dish at this point. They both seemed to be worried about his power.. or interesting. "awhile ago, i was lost at sea and found myself on some strange island. When i tired to explore the palace i found there i was attacked by some giant lightning stone monster." he explained while the lightning continued to roar from his hand. His tattoo's slowly began to become darker. The arcs around his hands started to become simple sparks as he clenched his fist subsiding the lightning. "Once i defeated the beast, it dropped some weird looking lightning shaped fruit..i thought it was a devil fruit.. you know those things in story we were told at night.". Slowly making his way back to his feet Simbe dusted himself off and he finally realized that he had become..."SO IM A LIGHTNING MAN!!!!!! OOO ******** YEAH!!!! MY MUAY THAI IS GOING TO BE EVEN STRONGER WITH THIS!!!!!" he said with such excitement he started punching and knee'ing the air as if he was Shadow Muay Thai'ing something.
"Though...i guess i'll need to learn how to control it?" he questioned. "I don't really know much about devil fruits...maybe when we get back to base....ehhh.....what's your name?" he asked the marine girl. He looked back at the mental man and waved him off "i already know who you are your majesty" he said as he turned his attention back the marine woman hoping to get a name.
As if she really had the authority to tell the man to turn off his lightning. Well she kind of did if he was civilian but she was pretty sure that he was a marine so it was unlikely that she outranked him given that she her self possessed the lowest of ranks. "I'm sorry sir but I doubt that I can really tell him to do much of anything. Very very sorry that I can't be of assistance to you."Acting nice sucks... It was a stain against her pride that she was so lowly within the Navy at the moment but it wouldn't last for long if she had anything to say about it. Hmm it seems that metal man is probably of a similar intelligence or lack there of to Blue. I mean who honestly thinks trying to touch electricity is a good idea?
Internally she couldn't help but scream at the simplistic nature Blue possessed as he celebrated being a "lightning man." What a foolish name, she thought silently. Although in this narrator's opinion her attempt at creating one billion beli was just as stupid as Simba celebrating his new found otherness. However despite his foolishness, for Vittoria it was actually interesting to hear that he had encountered a similar phenomenon with a mysterious island which harbored strange beasts. This definitely warranted further study, and upon going back to base she would certainly do her best to ferret out information on these most heinous of fruits. Perhaps if this island's location could be pinned downed and visited she'd rocket through the ranks due to the discovery. Such an opportunity could not be wasted. That was for the future though, in the present she needed to keep up with those two men and perhaps get some information out of them. Blue for his part implied that he was a marine so as she had suspected earlier the man wasn't a civilian. "Oh me? I'm chore girl Vittoria Vance, but my friends just call me Vi. What about you Blue? Oh and also you metal man?" she'd wait for them to answer before committing the names to memory so that she could add them to her research journal. After which she'd actually relax her posture a bit and come out from hiding behind Simba.
"When we get back to base I'd love to ask you some questions about that island you mentioned and your powers! I'm sure it'd be fascinating to hear about!" Though she wouldn't be revealing that she too had been to that place it'd be a great help if she could cross reference his trip their with her own. Perhaps she could narrow down a location based on the two experiences. At any rate she still needed to see where this encounter was going.
✤✤✤✤✤✤{J U D G E}✤✤✤✤✤✤ Galan Drace||Swordsman x Gladiator|| Pirate || Fruit [---] || 20,000 Str: 5 ||End: 5 ||Spd: 5 ||Acc: 5 ||Int: 5 ||Spi: 0 ╔════════════════════════════════════════════╗
[ Sadly it would seem that the lightning man’s partner isn’t of much use in the taming department, which would by all accounts make studying the guy one thousand percent dangerous. Way too dangerous for now. “Tch. Even though you two were sleeping together…” he remarks, referring back to how close the two were while sleeping. He figured they must be a some strange couple off in the wilderness for a bit of alone time--with the occasional weather altering battle against aquatic creatures of the desert. Now things are starting to make a lot more sense! Or, maybe not, but it’s a start. Galand listens to Simba’s tale about traveling on the strange island and encountering some otherworldly creature, resulting in him gaining a super power providing fruit. A Devil Fruit as they’ve been so notoriously branded. Interested to hear more about the encounter, he drops back to fall onto his bottom before crossing his legs.
Typically at this point he’d be lost in thought, trying to put two and two together, but there is just so much that isn’t adding up. “So he was lost at sea. Damn it. That means he probably doesn’t know much about the island, or how to get back to it in that case.” With this thought hovering about in his head, he’s able to transition over to the tattooed man’s martial performance, using some kind of practice from a style he calls...Muay Thai. Galand, trying not to seem to out of it, gives an impressed clap. “Ohhh! So you’re a fighter! Not bad!” he praises, because in truth, he IS actually impressed. Most people he’s encountered in the past, before his body was weakened, didn’t have a particular style. Just free lanced their fighting and had no rhythm, but this guy looks to have a bright future. Well that aside, they move on finally to introductions. Something they probably should have handled a lot sooner than this honestly.
“Ah, right. Introduction- AND JUST WHO DO YOU THINK YOU KNOW?!” he rants, denying the King Arthur joke the Simba guy is definitely alluding to. Cheeky b*****d! Galand stands himself up, dusting off some stray sand from his armor. “Well anyways, my name is…” he stops to think long and hard, but realistically his identity should be safe. Knowing the world government, they would have covered up the incident from then… Yeah, and these guys don’t seem so bad. “...Galand. A simple man traveling the seas to learn more about the world.” Is what he tells them anyways. Though there is more to it, it’s not necessarily a lie. In fact, it’s true in all regards. For now. Placing one hand on his back, he holds the other straight out to his side before slowly bowing, and bending the arm across his chest. “It’s a pleasure to make your acquaintance Ms Vittoria. And you as well, Mr…?” he starts, requesting the name of the blue haired guy while lifting his head to stare the man in his eyes.
The one thing he managed to catch is that these two must be Marine related. After carefully paying attention to their words and accessories, he makes the connection finally. Though it doesn’t bother him, Galand does place up his guard. “Hoh… Well now. I’ve gone and gotten myself in a pretty interesting predicament. What a way to start my journey, haha…” ]
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