Chapter 16 - Pirates vs Marines

(Third Person Pov),

Calvin was exchanging blows with Captain Brody. He was using a combination of martial arts and Rokushiki techniques to attack him while Brody used his sword techniques.

"One Sword Style!" Brody held his sword with both hands while pointing its edge at Calvin in a position ready to use a thrust attack.

"Wind Cut!" He lunged at him with a strong force and a rush of air following him while aiming his sword at his heart.

"Tekkai!" Calvin flexed his muscles as hard as he can to harden his body using Tekkai while holding both his arms crossed in front of him to stop the attack.

"*CLANG*-Aarghh!" He managed to stop the attack but still got hurt then he immediately used Soru to teleport to Brody side.

"Shit!" Brody couldn't see through Calvin's speed and had to back away quickly.

"Shigan!" Though he managed to react quickly he still got injured in his left shoulder. Calvin then quickly took the opportunity since he was unbalanced and grabbed him by the collar and used his leg and shoulder to lift him up and slammed him down on the ground.

Then he pinned his head on the ground using his feet and pulled his right armed with both his hands.

"Aaaaaarrrrghhhh! SON OF BITCH!!" Brody screamed in pain as Calvin tried Break his arm.

"CAPTAIN BRODY!!!" When his men saw him in that situation they quickly went charging at Calvin and shooting him with their guns.

"*GUNSHOT*-*GUNSHOT*-*GUNSHOT*-*GUNSHOT*" since he wasn't paying attention to them, they managed to injure him with some bullets, and he immediately used Soru to dodge the other ones.

He got hit by two bullets one in his left shoulder and the other one in his left thigh and started bleeding.

"Damn it! I let my guard down!" he quickly used Shigan to finish the attackers and looked back at Brody who was already up.

"Didn't except you to use something like that..." Brody stated while holding his arm in pain "What a bold move" he lifted his sword again and prepared his next attack.

"Next time you'll lose your arm" Calvin confidently declared while keeping eye contact with him.

"*BOOOM*-BOOOM*!!" there was loud explosions coming from the direction where Ashen and Asahori were fighting.

"Looks like he is going all out" Calvin glanced at him for a second then focused his attention back to his opponent.

"You should be worrying more about yourself" Brody said to him.

"Who said I'm worrying about him?"

Somewhere on the battlefield,

Seth Williams was facing Captain Suzuki. They both have been exchanging sword attacks for the past 15 minutes.

"…Your swordsmanship is astounding… but you have to do more if you hope to defeat me!" Suzuki said to Seth while holding their swords against each other while trying push each other back.

"Don't be cocky!" their clash finished with a stalemate and they both jumped back.

"I'll show you why they call me 'Silver Rain'!" Seth proceeded to jump above him and came down at high-speed, aiming his sword at his head with his arm full stretched in front of him, and then when he got close enough to him, he started thrusting his weapon from different angles at him with an incredible speed that his attacks left an after image.

The attacks came down like a rain on him with an incredible speed that even a master swordman like him wasn't able to defend against all of them.

"*CLANG*-CLANG*-*CLANG*-CLANG*" even though he was able to deflect a lot of the them, he still got cut and injured all over his body.

"Huff…Huff…How about that?!!" Seth said with a smirk in his face, he also looked tired since the last attack consumed a lot of his stamina.

Suzuki was standing in his place covered in blood, but he didn't look defeated.

"Not bad, but it looks like you can't use it constantly!" Suzuki lunged at him and slashed him down. Seth sidestepped and managed to avoid a fatal attack but got a wide cut from his left shoulder to his triceps.

"FUCK!!" He cursed out loud and held his shoulder from pain.

"This is it for you!" Suzuki was ready to strike him down, but he didn't expect Seth to pull out his pistol out of nowhere and shoot him.

"*GUNSHOT*-*GUNSHOT*" The first bullet managed to hit his lower left abdomen but he managed to dodge the second one.

"Fucking pirates!" He had an angry look while looking down at his bullet wound.

"Did you think we're having some honorable duel?" Seth said to him in a mocking tone of voice.

"COUGH-COUGH-Damn it!" They both kept eye contact for a second, and then they charged at each other again.

On the opposite side of the battlefield,

Captain Merumi and his men were surrounding Aela and her crew.

"Huff-Huff…this is bad!" Aela was panting heavily while covered in wounds. She was cornered with her crew by Merumi and was outnumbered.

"Big sister what should we do?" her crew members looked at her in worry.

"I'm thinking of a plan" she replied while observing the situation.

"You should harry up! We can't hold them off forever!"

(First Person Pov),

I was flying in the air using Geppo and using Shigan while turning my fingertips into fire and shooting bullets made of compressed flame from them.

Asahori was deflecting them and counter attacking using his Spear techniques to send fast attacks from different angles while keeping his distance and taking advantage of his spear length.

His fighting style was more fast paced and built on speed, quick reflexes and surprise attacks.

The moment I landed on the ground he came charging at me.

He sent a sturdy and fast attack followed by dozens of fast thrusts from different angles to my direction. I used Tekkai to harden my body, but the speed and strength of his attacks along with his mastery of spear still managed to leave a few cuts in me.

I also can't beat him in speed using Soru since he can use it more efficiently than me.

"If I can't match your speed, I will beat you in strength!" I stated then I backed away to prepare my next attack.

"It's useless, not matter how many tricks you try pull off!" He said to me, then he held his spear in front of him and got ready for his next move.

"I will stop you today!" He declared, then he changed his stance and held his spear with both hands while pointing its sharp head at my direction "JUSTICE WILL PREVAIL!"

"DAI ENKAI!" I started creating a large, spiraling fire centered in my location and amassing it around me, then I focused all of it into my right hand.

"ENTEI!" I turned my flames into a gigantic fireball resembling the sun. The moment he saw it, he was frightened at its sight and froze in his place.

"…" He was openmouthed and looking at me with shock "What a terrifying power you have!" the whole battlefield got alarmed and stopped the fight while observing us in awe.

(Third Person Pov)

"W-What in the world is that?" one of the marines said in fright.

"Demon of The Sea, the rumors didn't exaggerate about him" Seth was also observing Ashen in interest.

"I guess I won't stand a chance if I fight him now" Aela stopped to see the fight for a second.

"CAPTAIN… AMAZING!!" Ken was still out of the battlefield keeping watch on the stranger girl like his captain ordered him to do without participating in the battle.

"Your captain is a monster" the girl said while watching in awe.

"…"

"Shit! ASAHORI!" Brody shouted at Asahori's direction as he tried to rush to his rescue, but he was stopped by Calvin.

"You should be worrying more about yourself" Calvin said to him.

"Damn it!"

(First Person Pov),

Once I gathered enough power, I hurled the gigantic fireball at Asahori with all my might and smashed him down with it. He tried to defend himself and back away from it, but it was useless since he reacted to slow from the shock.

"HHAAAAAAA!!" I kept pressing the ball down with everything I have which created massive heat shockwaves and explosions that damaged all the area around us, killing some people and injured others along the way.

when I pressed the fireball enough, it suddenly created a gigantic explosion that left a massive hole on the area and destroyed half of the ships near the port and set them on fire.

Asahori was nowhere to be found as he melted from the heat and all its left of him is his charred body.

"Huff… Huff…You are right, what a terrifying power I have!"