The flames from the sword clashes against the nagitana. Sakura undid the middle of her staff and reverse gripped both of them and ra"Awwised them up over her head before slamming them down!
Kale lifted his swords up in parallel to block both of the handles. He the forces them up and cuts them in half! The sudden move made Shima stumble backwards, her pink and green hair waving as she steadied herself again
But Kale was already on the move! Dashing forward with his swords crossed he sliced and then swiped his neck to the side for a near instantaneous three way strike into Sakura's Bug like Chitin.
"Grah! Damnedable….Brat." She grit her teeth. Her usually cheery demeanor slipping from the mask she wore to reveal the true predator that laid beneath it. She then transformed her hand fully and swiped a razor sharp spiked limb forward! Teeth glinting in the light
Clash! Clash! Clash! The Swordsman and the Captain clashed their blades as her strength had been increased by 10x! Allowing her body to take on the proportional strength that a praying mantis would have
This was the benefit of having a Zoan. Normal zoans dont boast supernatural abilities unless their users develop them. This is double edged, the lack of one allows for development, but also still means its missing. Zoans multiply their users base strength to its proportional limit, such as bugs, or mammals being x times stronger than humans or x times their body weight. But even with the strongest of fighters, this is the max strength. Only through additional techniques can one reach their max potential.
"Manti Cutters!" She swiped her hands in front of her quickly to cause air slashes like a Swordsman to form and be thrown at blinding speeds towards the Red Sash first mate.
Kale swiped and batted many of them out of the way before dashing forward! "Mitsuori Kujo-sha!" He gave a quick spin on his feet, building momentum and slamming the three swords into the Zoan users body to send her flying!
Just like his Captain, he sent this Captain flying with enough strength to slam into the side of one of the hulls and cause it to dent meters around!
"Three down and…"
Two to go. "Shock Blur!" Dezzi sped fast past Bellamy with a electrifying impact that caused the Now Lieutenant Commander to pulse and tighten his muscle. He'd taken to using a new Weapon instead of the Cutlass that he used all the way back over a year ago in Arabasta
He now used a hardened Truncheon, which was a long metallic thin club weapon that was like a baseball bat but far slimmer in diameter, yet still flared out at the the top
"Grand Club!" Bellamy spun the Club around in hand and slammed it into the side of Dezzi's face. He was keeping pace well. In fact out pacing. Bellamy had certainly gotten stronger since before. But so had Dezzi!
"Lyn Jolt!" Dezzi focused a bolt of lightning in hand. They knew this was going to take a lot out of them as they fired the streak forward! Impacting into Bellamy and smashing him into the wall, but still not causing the ship's wood to crack. A true testament to just how strong the wood it
Dezzi huffed. If they'd performed that move in any of their other forms, the adrenaline would have allowed them to keep going, but they hadn't had time to pop one of their vials to cause it…
"haff…Hafff haff…" Dezzi focused a electirc pulse into their fist to slam into Bellamy, but Bellamy stumbled back and slammed the Truncheon into Dezzis back with strength that he was certain that one of their bones cracked!
"Marine!" Raven suddenly called out with a malicious grin. Bellamy turned around to see that his Partner, Poniard, was in the clutches of a thousand hands. "Put her down!" Bellamy commanded, weapon in hand and out to the side ready to swing.
"Stand down. Or break every bone in her body…" Raven commanded herself as shebegan to clench her fingers, causing the limbs to tighten and a scream to be released from from Poniards lips
"Stop!" He shot his hand up in a plea. "We'll leave…Just let her go…" Poniard had been with him. Glued at the hip since Louge Town, grown…Close. Incredibly close. More than just partners or friends. Something that was always looked down upon in the marines because it meant that you could become vulnerable to manipulation just like this when both are in the line of duty.
"Marc…Don't!" She struggled out of her lips as she was in the clutches of the Scholars Blooms
Marcus Bellamy Braemar slowly resheathed his weapon behind his back. Raven had a few knicks across her body. Small trails of crimson running down her body and soaking into her clothes. Poniard was a Captain, and she was quick on her way to promotion. But she had the unfortunate part of being the weakest of the three captains onboard.
Ranks in the marines are, simply put, designated by power first and foremost. But there are ways to be strong but have a higher rank than another. Poniard was great at logistics and the political side of the Marines. And this gave her favor in every base she ran. Resulting in her being promoted to captain on leadership skills while not exactly being the strongest of marines in that same rank
Slowly the Arms began to be unraveled from around Poniard…
"Steel Stuck!" She yelled as she reeled around and attempted to thrust her dagger into the shoulder! It impaled into Raven causing the scholar to scream in pain but a moment later her head was twisted to the side brutally as punch from Leroy knocked her clean out.
"Take her and Leave Marine…" Leroy commanded.
Quickly, the Lt. Commander swooped his lover into his arms and leapt into the air and kicked off of it too shoot back to the Warships.
"Captain! The Thruster is Ready!" Callopie shouted at the same moment that Bellamy landed on the Deck of the War ship and pointed at the Ember Blossom. All the cannons pointing—
"FIRE!"
"Ember Smoke Screen!" A huge canister shot out of the side of the ship from the gun deck and exploded into a thick hazy red and orange smoke!
The moment the Cannonball artillery from 10k guns that would've eventually cracked the Hull of the ship–
Revealed nothing. The smoke quickly spread around the water and floated on its surface for over a hundred meters.