Under the shadow of a tree, their leaned back a tall figure who slowly tapped the black shining shoes of his, in the low moving grass. Each time he swirled the cane in his hand, the brown colour of it litted up as it passes through the small area the sun shone the trunk of the tree. His blue navy pants shook as he continues his movements under the black hat of his, the figure smiled freely as he fully embraces the low moving of the winds.
Such person was the one and only laffitte. However, was what was different about him was that he no longer wore a white under shirt but this time he had a black long sleeve button front shirt which had many white cross designs. Having on such a shirt completely matched the other black attire he had on.
" Two years past and it seems you not have changed at all," a shadow came from the dark with his eyes glowing a blood red colour.
Laffitte who had his head down, stopped the tapping of his feet has he slowly turned his head. A shrap horizontal clear light flashed across his eyes as he faintly glimpsed on who is approaching him.
" The look on your face has become more distorted and heavy," Laffitte did not answer back directly but also spoke his thoughts openly.
Hearing Laffitte response, the shadow smile widely as he stepped out of the dark. His black pants had many ripped areas on it, on his shoes a few drops of blood which slid down from its side onto the ground. His right hand which moved forward as he walked, had many horrible scars wheich were very evident on his pale hand. The earring at his ears twinkled a little as it made a small motion. This was Guzen.
But as Laffitte, Guzen has also changed his his entire he little he no longer wore a white and red shirt. But this time he had on a slim black shirt which had a patched square pattern which was in a dark grey colour. Such style ran all the way over the the long left hand sleeve, as for thr right side of the shirt, its whole length was longer than the left side.
It was in a black mesh fabric and for the the sleeve there was none but the shoulder was in a dark leather type material which had a ripped frame exposing his scarred hand. The neck of the shirt was also in a leather fabric which tightly extended up and around to his chin area. There was also a few button not in the middle but the right hand side which went right down in the uncentered leather line and at the tip of the two collars, there embedded a two short chains. He height was no longer 6'7" but a 7 foot flat.
Laffitte who calmly rested back on the trunk of the tree, waiting for Guzen response eyes flickered with with a haze of light. He stopped the swinging of his cane, flashed it over in his left hand. Then made a acute angle format with it hand and parried the incoming attack.
"Is this is the way to greet your fellow crewmate after two years?" Laffitte's hat moderately blew as he held up his head entirely. Turned it to his deep left side, then moved his shrap squinted his to the extreme left of him .
Right at the near side back of him, their a dark shadow was who was in the air in a low crunch like way. His eyes glimmed with a pure red colour has he held the edgy point of the dagger which aimed at Laffitte's throat stopped by the cane he lifted up.
"Hehehee...," Guzen chuckled when he was his sneak attack stopped by Laffitte. He who was original a few metres away from Laffitte appeared right near Laffitte neck in a blink of an eye like that. The speed of his movements were too fast and the way he moved was as silent as the foot of time. Totally unexpected and unanticipated.
" You don't seems to have grown much, so I'm just testing you, after all, we don't need waste on our ship," he continued as he talked in a innocent insulting manner.
" I see," Laffitte nodded in total understanding.
" I must also see if you are up to standard as well," Laffitte sneered as his eyes flickered with a ray of red. He moved the hand which had the cane in, carried behind him and hurled the cane over the right hand. He went in a low posture, turn around then slashed at Guzen. Guzen who has already disappeared away from near the tree, flipped over Laffitte in a walk like motion.
Guzen gripped the knife as he cut across sky, three pale red energies ducked onto Laffitte back as it took the appearance of a creature scratch mark. Laffitte whose hand was still gliding along the air felt the sensed the incoming danger but still smiled brightly. His whole figure then lost its humanoid structure as it turned into a weird wavy paper form.
Guzen eyes slightly shrank as he saw this, his beast claw like attack passed through the Laffitte's body which had away in the surrounding. As soon as he was finished with his flip, he landed softly on the ground, his left leg extended out as he bodied the whole weight on the bent in right leg.
He inverted the blade in a downwards postion as he drew back the knife, the a thicken black coating armed his hand. Such compressed black mass went unto his knife in a interwined format as it went onto his gritty knife. Guzen eyes flashed with a shrap glow of red hue, he flung his hand forward and each time it moved, ripples of black residue energy are left in the trembled air.
Laffitte who appeared at the front of Guzen slammed down his cane to the ascended knife. His cane which was wrapped with a somewhat thicken black covering, lightly whistled through the air as it met the enemy's weapon. Then in the ground, the shadows of both individual's weapons clashed.
boom..
The air around them solidified as ripples of black energy blast in the surroundings. The ground under there feet cracked then sank as the unsettled winds chaotically went out. The grass, the trees, the short shrubs received an instant slap of the wind causing them all to sway in one direction.
"It seems you grew a bunch, " Guzen smiled crazily as his black hair becomes more disorientated in the winds.
"Your growth is not bad," Laffitte smiled as he gave is response.
Guzen lightly chuckled, as Laffitte smiled brightly, noone talked after, but made their power do the talking. The ground continue crack in a deformed spider web way, as the power clash spreads through the area. The trees were repeatedly bent in a extreme format as the winds spread, the small creatures which were on the grass. Continues to hold onto them as the winds crash throughout the area.
Looking around Guzen brow wrinkled slightly, then he dispersed his senses, when he felt noone around he backed away from Laffitte.
"It look like the captain is not here yet, Guzen flashed out in the distance as he talked in a somewhat sad tone.
"Well of course not, the captain must be the last to make his entrance," Laffiite withdrew his cane then looked on the retreated Guzen with his constant smiling face. The ground stopped to break and the winds calmed down, with their little testing over these repeated things would stop.
Guzen didn't reply, but throw his hands behind his head, right through the entire training period. They have scene many constant lightning falling from the sky, and the island's earth has never stopped trembling. With so many shocking electric flints blasted from the sky, their scalp has become a little numb. The training that Joshua went through, they did not dare to think of it, because it must be horrifying.
Then right then and there, the whole surrounding became pitch black and red, everything was at still as the icey cold winds passed by. Laffitte and Guzen expression changed dramatically as they felt this.