Manten grabbed his fan as quick as he could and swung it at Dalmatian. Dalmatian avoided the wind blast by rushing behind Manten once again.
" How?" Manten asked before Dalmatian kicked him in the face.
Manten went skidding across the dirt face first, getting a mouthful of mud and other materials.
* Cough! cough! Cough!
" I... I.... I'm going to lose..." Manten spoke. " I'm going to lose?! No! No! No! NO! NO! NO! I refuse!" Manten screamed. He grabbed his fan and stood up, albeit shakingly. He turned and faced Dalmatian. He was not going to lose this fight. No matter what he had to do, he was most certainly not going to lose. Not to these two Marines. Not this fight. Not to anyone.
Meanwhile, on the other side of town
Markus continued pushing Janten to the edge, rushing him with a flurry of strikes that Janten struggled to block.
Every punch that Markus threw, Janten tried parrying away with his polearm. Janten was so pressured he couldn't even find a chance to strike back against the man.
' What is going?! I thought he was a patient fighter, keeping his calm to try and learn how an enemy fights. But.... He's attacking with a vigor and a rage that I haven't seen from him before. It's like he's a completely different person from a few minutes ago. What happened?' Janten wondered. He gathered his strength to try and strike back, but once again Markus overwhelmed him with the increasing speed and weight of his punches.
" What's the matter, huh? Feeling the pressure?" Markus asked the man. " Can't fight back? Fool! How do you think the people of this country felt? You should know what it's like to be a victim. To be defenseless. How does it feel to be the victim again?! Hah!" Markus' fist launched past Janten's pole and hit the man square in his jaw, delivering a vicious blow.
Janten was staggered heavily. ' Damn it, his punch is heavier than before. And he's not using haki!'
" I have to admit, you and your brother certainly did shake things up for me at first. Your combo attacks and swapping places was a neat trick. But I caught on. You're the better fighter of the two, but Manten's devil fruit is more destructive. But I'm still stronger than the both of you, and without being able to catch me off-guard, you can't win." Markus told the man.
From the very beginning of the fight, Dalmatian and Markus were immediately put on guard, due to the duo's ability to piggyback off of each other's attacks so flawlessly. However, as the fight carried on, Markus and dalmatian started getting used to the constant switching and the personalities of their opponents.
Janten was more reserved and strategic with how he fought, so Markus needed to think and pay attention. But Manten was impulsive and acted on aggression and attacked directly without any kind of thought to his moves, effectively telegraphing his attacks.
So, naturally, it was only a matter of time before Markus caught on.
" You... I see." Janten muttered. " In that case." Janten twirled his weapon around in their multiple times before bringing it back down. " I can't afford to lose to you. We've come too far to lose now. I'm sure you can understand what that means... What losing means to us." Janten said to Markus.
" To us, victory is more important than anything else in this world. It doesn't matter who we have to trample over to get it." Manten spoke.
" To lose would shame our brothers. It would shame the man who saved us. We can not allow such a thing to happen." Janten muttered.
" To get revenge on the world that discarded us like trash."
" To repay the debt of life that we were given."
" To honor the life of our sister, and to get revenge on her killers, The World Government. To help our brothers achieve their goals and eventually reach our own." The two brothers though separated spoke the same words at the same exact time to their opponents. " We will not be defeated!"
Manten tightened his grip on his massive fan.
Simultaneously, Janten started spinning his Jumonji Yari fast in a circle.
Dalmatian and Markus both stared at their opponents. They knew this next attack would be what would decide the battle.
Dalmatian noticed the whistling of wind growing louder and louder around him, while Markus noticed that Janten's weapon started to crackle with electricity.
" I will crush you with a single swing of my fan."
" I will run you through, with a single stroke of my blade."
" RAAAAAAAAAGH!" Janten and Manten both shouted to the top of their lungs.
Manten swung his giant fan downwards. " WIND SCAR!" A giant wave of wind went rushing forward from Manten's fan.
Dalmatian was surprised to see such a strong attack was still hidden behind the man's sleeves.
" Lightning cutter sword style! Piercing Fang!" Janten shot from his position, thrusting his weapon right at Markus. The combination of spinning and haki, generated electricity that made the sharpness of his blade even sharper.
Dalmatian jumped straight into Manten's attack headfirst. The way he saw it, there was no way for him to avoid the massive wide ranged attack. So, h decided to chance it and went straight ahead with no looking back.
Markus on the other hand, chose neither to advance, nor to retreat from Janten's attack. Instead, he planted his feet and concentrated all of his haki into his fist.
' Haki isn't all about brute force. There are many applications to it. You just need to be mindful enough to recognize when hardness it necessary and when it is necessary to flow. When you let your haki flow and channel it into. Don't press it too hard.'
Markus remembered Bogard's explanation of how Haki worked.
' No time better than the present. I need to give it my all.'
*SHEEN!
Markus channeled his Haki into his arm and waited for the right moment to strike. And there he waited, unlike Dalmatian.
" HAAAA! What an idiot! Jumping right into the wind. Did you think you could take my attack head on?" Manten asked Dalmatian.
" I have no time to waste waiting. Instead, I must rush forward!" Dalmatian exclaimed. He appeared right in front of Manten, bloody and cut up from his attack. But still strong.
[ Ost Luffy's fierce attack]
Dalmatian raised his two fists together and pointed them right at Manten's chest.
Janten grew closer and closer to Markus with each passing second, and he began wondering why the man hadn't even tried to make a move. ' What is he doing? He hasn't budged an inch? Is he crazy?' Janten wondered. " Fine, watch as my spear runs through!"
Markus felt the moment, Janten's spear entered his range and finally he attacked.
" GALAXY IMPACT!" Markus' hard fist struck Janten's spear and, while it wasn't to the effect that Markus was hoping for, the moment the two collided, Janten's spear shattered.
Janten watched in defeat as Markus' fist approached. His whole life up until that moment flashing in front of him, and all he could think, was how sorry he was to have failed his brothers.
" Six King Gun!" Dalmatian shouted.
* DOOM!
A shockwave exploded out of Dalmatian's fist and went straight through Manten's body, damaging him internally.
* CRASH!
Markus' fist crashed into Janten's stomach, shattering his weapon.
Janten was sent flying off of Markus' fist like a cannonball being fired, while at the same time, Manten passed out from the damage that Dalmatian had done to him.
When it was all said and done, the two, Gold and Silver brothers were defeated. Their eyes glazed over as they lay at the feet of the two Marine soldiers!
" HAAAAAAA!"
" HOOOOOO!"
Markus and Dalmatian both gave a long loud shout, raising their fists to the sky, proclaiming their victory over their opponents.
* DOOM!
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And there we go guys; the first bosses are down. I repeat the first bosses are down. By my count, that leaves about 6 more big Bads to take down. Tell me, what did you think about the Gold and Silver brothers? And what about the two older brothers Zohakuten and Bankotsu. Care to gander what their abilities are?
Let me know what you think about it all in the comments below.