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Chapter 508 - Howling Destruction

The Scorched, Peeled, and Bloodied face of a man fell to the ground. Smoke rising from the blackened skin of the exposed skull. All that had happened was that the man had said 'Watch it their slick you need to be properly dressed to enter here' 

Black and dirty boots that wrapped around the calf of singed and torn. Baggy ends that were stained with mud, The boots themselves had sharp metal spike studs around the rim. 

"Please! D-D-Don't do anything!" A man behind the counter of the ship chandler. The man in question stood at well under 6 feet. He wore a long trench coat with broadened shoulders that had metal spikes along the top. His hands were in his pockets, a loose spiked belt wrapped limply around his waist. A baggy stained white shirt beneath the open coat.

His face was something to fear. Clean shaven, and chiseled in a slim, thin face. It was covered in black piercings. From rods through his ears, with three rings all along his ridge and one on his lobe. Three rings through his brows, two at the ends and one at the front. A pair of snake bite piercings below his bottom lib, and three solid black rods through his nose. A nose ring through his septum

His eyes were a near purple and silver solid color. They were strange in that they did not hold any Irises, or sclera. The only thing that served as pupils were thin circles amidst a single spiraling pattern along the outside of the eye. If one looked close, they would see that the eyes were indented and not a flush surface. Almost a piece of paper rolled up and slightly pushed out. Like a camera lens. 

His hair was done into a wild and unkempt spike up mess of a hair that was like a fire. It could've seemed like a Faux Hawk, it had shaved sides. But was just a mess that was all across the top. It was bright vibrant orange, held back slightly by a rag. A rag thats supposed to be a bandana, but after everything it didn't look like such 

Supernova

Bartholomew Howl

'Yokeinu - The Burnt Wolf'

Bounty: 507,801,300 

"Ship. Now" He spoke calmly and quietly. A juxtaposition of the utter deafening sound to untrained ears of the explosion the man had just manifested in his hand by virtue of his Boom Boom Fruit. 

"I-I O-o-okay!" The man rose his hands in fear. His fat bulbous body heaving with each fearful breath. But the stuttering caused another sound to come bounding next to Howl. Stomps against the floor as a large dark brown hand slammed into the counter 

"Quit blabbering and slobbering everywhere old man!" The wild and frenzied eyes of the First Mate of The Howl Pirates spoke. They were head and shoulders taller than how. Wearing a patchwork cape with a high collar around their neck and on their shoulders 

They were a…woman? A Man? The features melded into one another that blurred the lines of properly identifying them. But the truth was simply 'yes'. He was missing an arm, which was evident by the scarring around the elbow, but below that was a shimmering crimson red limb as if made from pure cinnabar. Two large scars that spiked outwards from who knows what injury spread across their chest and where any mammaries would be. Gash scars, stitch scars, stab wound scars. All of it was across the individual's body. 

Their second arm was bandaged around the forearm. A quick cursory glance would say that it was nothing more than aesthetic, or habit from so many wounds. Their hand missed the middle knuckle up of a ring finger, the tip of the index, and the entirety of their pinky. But much like the arm, these bones and tendons were replaced by red shimmering material. 

Perhaps the most shocking was the spinal cord made into a belt around her waist. Either that or the disheveled baggy pants, or even yet still, the crimson spike from their leg acting like a peg leg.

But before the man could speak, the scarred individual shot the Red hand out and gripped the man by the throat and pulled him over the counter. He was lifted effortlessly into the air. A manic and wild smile with wide eyes spread across the buzzed head of the crimson arms wielder 

Shiner

Chi Akane 

'The Bloody' 

Bounty: 211,300,000 

"Ugh. Put the poor sop down. He's the only guy in this shit hole that knows shit about dick…" A woman with a bandaged and bound chest walked in behind Howl. THe captain's eyes not even looking over to the 3rd in command. 

She had long black hair that was in an utter rats nest down to the small of her back. She was thin and lithe. Her stomach flat as her bound chest, ribs visible. She had visible eye bags that were 'scratchy'. A comically large hammer that had to weigh over a ton given how the mallet (Which looked like a meat tenderizer mixed with the sharp end of a pick) was almost double her height (Which was already shorter than the captain), with the head being over 2 feet long 

Super Rookie

Telelute Desdemona 

'The Siren'

Bounty: 189,143,900

"Ugh…You're no fun Mona." Akane gave an almost comical and over dramatic sigh as his entire body went slack in disappointment 

"Look, you can take any ship you want! Just please don't fuckin kill me like ya did my brother!" The man with now crack spectacles as he was deftly let go to slam into the ground cowered. 

"Any?" Howl questioned with the tilt of his head ever so slightly. It was as if he never blinked. And honestly he probably rarely did. His eyes cybernetically enhanced like the rest of his body long ago to be beyond superhuman. And only grown beyond that by the man's insatiable want for power and growth. 

The Howl Pirates current ship: The Black Sabath, for lack of a better term, and probably one that the crude pirates would think was apt, was an utter shit hole. 

This was because of the Pirate Crews insatiable, and unavoidable tendency for utter death and destruction 

The Last Island they were on that had any real relevance (Bar the other remaining Islands in Route 7 which they'd characteristically caused nothing but trouble on up until Sabaody) was Tortuga. The Same Island that Ned Low was on only weeks after them. 

‎They destroyed the entire city of the island after having already dealt decisive blows to the underground fighting arena. 

Botan Island, the Island that was a giant glass dome Botanical Greenhouse, had also been utterly shattered when howl exploded a man with a punch at the tail end of their fight causing over 2 dozen kilometers of glass that was inches thick to shatter entirely 

Beckett was an Island where rich nobles that strived to reach the status of Celestial Dragons lived. Segregated into rich and poor. But this bit of politics didn't matter to Howl or his crew, as they and their children were killed as well 

Broken Keel. An Island that was once just a barren field, but was now an island of broken Ships stacked meters high and wide. Entire cities of just ships stacked on ships and attached together. But this was, with some moderate difficulty, taken over and made the first territory of the Howl Pirates 

There was then, in this list of out of order islands, was Howl Island. An island inhabited by giant wolves. Hunters were here, and thought that they could take down the, at the time, small crew. But upon utter annihilation, they captured and tamed a wolf that Akane, affectionately, and fittingly crudely, 'Shitfuck' 

The crews journey was perhaps one of the most destructive that the Grand Line's paradise had seen in many years from some perspectives 

"Let's make this quick, yeah?" Mona said as she sauntered up to the owner, hand on her hip. She then looked to Akane and Howl "Don't wanna keep that whiny shit waiting at that creepy hotel…" The Hotel in question was an expensive and luxury hotel that the crew had forced their way into. And the 'Whiny Shit' was a girl by the name of Lilli, whom Mona destained but was never the less apart of the crew. And in truth, Mona just didn't want to stick around that place longer than she had too

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