The attack went straight through the skin and flesh. Singed down to the bone. Tendons blackened, bone white and exposed from his strong cheeks, half his mouth was gone, exposing his teeth! Even his skull was exposed!
'I must use stitch…I don't have the stamina for Sew…I can survive with this wound for now!' Redbeard thought internally. He needed to focus. His face could only contort on one side.
"Ragh! Hragh! Ah!" Barbossa swipes his Axe through the air! Kuroryu leapt back! Aura disappearing! Only for Barbossa to keep the pressure on! Leaping forward in two quick strides! Orb forming on his fists! A wild haymakers aimed right for the Admirals Head! In a move expert martial arts, Kuroryu braces his back foot, and pushed with his other to counteract the force as he bent his elbow and blocked the attack!
He swiped again! This time using the return stroke of his fist to smack into the face of The Admiral! A Brutal backhanded fist! As he attempted to move, the device from before locked down a single limb!
He couldn't move!
The final attack was the Emperor attempting to land a devastating push kick to the sternum of the Admiral! But the Admiral was just more tactical in his approach!
Thinking quickly. He couldn't utilize his Logia from the point of connection. But he could above it! He could circumvent damage! Turning his shoulder down to the elbow into pure heat! He used his other hand to slice through!
Bisecting his limb, and in a moment regenerating it to full at only the cost of his sleet and glove! A Logia only retains damage if the limb cannot turn into the element in time or is bypassed. But if the body itself is turned, at the cost of energy. It will regrow anything 'Missing' as if the body had not been damaged conventionally
Spreading his arms! He allowed the attack to make contact!
He let the force his him, but tied the leg in a grapple! Plasma Burning his flesh!
"Ragh!" Barbossa screamed! And in a flash he pushed all his weight forward to force the Admiral down! Slamming him into the ground! A massive quake broke the island yet again. Enough force that it shook the very crust!
For only a moment Redbeard lifted his boot to stomp on the Marine! But in that moment of disconnection, Kuroryu used his Logias intangibility to spread into a puddle of plasma! And reappear right when the Foot came down!
By the Redbeard was moving to block. Kuroryu, with plasma oozing off of his body and his aura back on! Hand morphed a multi bladed and edged attack! Rods morphing around like a strange buddle!
"Hametsu No Maebure!" Trailed by lightning, and strange trails of energetic power, the attack flew forward! Black began to spread across Redbeards chest to block, a bubble of aura expanding as if like a cushion!
But- The sheer force and concentration of ability in the attack did not falter! For a moment that same vortex of energy formed between the two! Every single sparse cloud above was dispelled in a single go! All across a thousand mile radius! "Ragh!
The Attack Pierced the bubble! Puncturing and penetrating his chest! Redbeard looming above as blood exploded from his mouth, and ugly grimace on his face! The plasma expoded inside of him ruining his body, disintegrating his internal organ…
And yet…Redbeard did
Not-
Fall!
"You've not got much time left! Why won't you just fall! You're already dead! You haven't even another 10 minutes left!" Kuroryu snarled. A growl to his tone as he pulled the attack back. Revealling that the Emperors Chest was nearly fully destroyed. Ribs gone…With the only thing remaining…
His heart. Beating a thumbing a long as it was suspended in his chest.
'He used Haki to Isolate the damage and protect his spine and heart…All of his Organs are destroyed… Only a singular lung and his heart remains…He needs nothing else.' Redbeard was sacrificing so much to get hits onto the Admiral. Under normal circumstances. It would not take this much to kill a man like him. But like a rabid animal bleeding out, he was throwing everything away for nothing but strength.
The two collided again! Exchanging blows! Kuroryu with a nasty plasma jab to his other bicep! Redbeard with a knee to the liver! Grabbing the admiral by the hair and slamming his face into his knee! The Admiral Retaliating with devastating round house to the Emperors side!
Every attack Redbeard landed resulted in a Devastating amount of Damage received from the Admiral in exchange!!
In a desperate move. As the two were separated, ready to launch back towards each other! Redbeard, with as much as he could must! Summoning all the strength he could spare he gripped his poleaxe with both hands…
Fist gripping. And with so much power. Such strength! It was like everything a person could muster! Lightning Crackled at the blackened blade. Then, a bubble formed! The image of unstable warping air crackled! Then it grew! Again! Again! And again!
It finished at over 50 feet in size! Crackling with immense black lightning! Covered in a glow of red and gold! With all the speed and strength his body allowed in these waning power! He slammed the attack down!
Crashing into The Black Dragon! Cratering the ground! Annihilating the concrete! All across the entire island massive fissures spread! Dust shooting miles into the air! The attack forcing Asashi deeper and deeper into the ground!
It sent the Admiral all the way down! Through the Island! Through the ocean! Through the Planet Crust and down miles and miles past the mantle and straight into the magma bellow! The blow caused volcanos a thousand miles away to erupt!
The downward blow caused a split hundred of meters wide and twice as long all across the sea bed…Ocean raging. Earth quaking at 10! Only beginning to subside after a few seconds…
"Hah…Ha…Hagh…." Sweat soaked Redbeards face. Each breath a wheeze followed. Blood soaking into his beard. Replacing the quicky disappearing red. The whole time his beard had been radiating a flame aura. But started to lessen…All around him. Destroyed and flattened buildings.
Slowly. Redbeard straightened up. Beginning to walk. He limped for but a moment. Body trembling…
Only for a sound to suddenly stop him.
Skin against skin…
A crisp crack of sound
Clap.
Clap
Clap Clap Clap
"Zehahaha…" The sound continued. From an inky black vortex. Footsteps echoed. Muromachi at top of the stairs watching with Narrowed Eyes. He was ready to move in. But now was stopping himself. He was letting Kuroryu handle the threat. But now it seemed yet another came to handle it…
"Grr…" Redbeard looked to the side. Turning to face him.
Blackbeard.
"Zehahahaahaa!" His hands came down to rest on his hips. That wide perfect smile on his face. "You know that ain't gonna hold em for long…All that. And he's still alive. Only thing stopping him is that remaining strength in you keeping him locked down."
His grin widened "Impressive Pa…Real impressive."
"Vane….the My Forsaken Son….Come here to finally finish me off…Now that you're in the Marshals?" Barbossa narrowed. Brow shading across his eyes.
"Finish you off? No…I'm here to start something new! My Era! 30 years I've waited for this…This is my destiny. Forged by my own hand!" Vanes face was a disgusting and deviously sinister sneer
"Cuz I relinquish My Title as Marshal! I've gotten all that I can! All the Info I need!" He spread his arms wide! "I can't believe the Government Never saw it coming! So pompous! So Persumptious and caught in their ways they were blinded by my truth!"
"Zehahaha! And now! I'll devour you! And everything you have! This World will be Mine!" Black smoke, dripping like ink and spreading like spider silk attached to thin air oozed from his hands! Clenched tight!
All around the flattened earth. Black tendrils licked and dragged across the ground! Swirling like Vortex's flat against the air as if like doors. Out stepped, on by one
The New Members Of The Blackbeard Fleet
The Escapees of Imperious Styx…
"Say your final goodbyes…Cuz it'll be your Epitaph!" His eyes wired! Manic in their look but utterly and purely focused on his target! His former father and Captain!