" Thunder dragon Roar!" Bankotsu opened his mouth and fired a single beam of white noise out of his mouth.
" A laser?" Markus dodged out of the way, and as the beam passed by his head, his ears were assaulted by a loud screeching noise.
" Heh!" Bankotsu smirked and turned his head towards Markus and the beam from his mouth followed.
With the beam changing directions, Markus was forced to run. ' What the hell? It changed directions?' Markus jumped into the air, high over the beam's trajectory, using moonwalk.
*Swip!
Then using the high-speed technique, Soru, Markus closed the distance between himself and Bankotsu and slammed his fist into the man's chin, knocking his head upwards.
Bankotsu's head snapped upwards violently, stopping his breath attack from continuing. Markus landed two solid blows to Bankotsu's chest.
Bankotsu twirled his Halberd forwards to defend himself, and jumped away from Markus, getting distance. Immediately he swung his Halberd at Markus sending out a large sound wave in a horizontal pattern.
The wave surged towards Markus, like a gust of wind, but so much worse.
Once again, Markus kicked his leg out, using his tempest kick to halt the movement of the wave and causing it to explode before hitting its target.
' Damn, that kick of his is throwing my waves off completely. And those punches of his are heavy. It's clear, he wants to force this close range. Seems I might not have much of a choice.' Bankotsu feeling that keeping at a range wasn't going to work for him anymore, dashed forward, surprising Markus.
" He's rushing me?" Markus was surprised by the sudden shift in tactics from the pirate, but he wasn't too displeased. Markus planted his feet as Bankotsu closed the distance.
Bankotsu, covered his blade in a sound bubble and slammed the blade down.
Markus seeing the attack coming, dodge it, and as the blade hit the ground, Markus punched Bankotsu in his stomach, knocking the man backwards, blade and all.
' Damn it. He's anticipating the movement of my Halberd.' " In that case." Bankotsu tightened his grip around his massive blade Rairyu, and covered it in haki.
' Something big is coming!' Markus remarked.
" Dragon Hammer!" Bankotsu swung his massive Halberd forward and roaring torrent of sound erupted from his blade. It ripped apart the very earth itself, not like a bursting wave as it was before, but instead like waves of enormous sharp blades, similar to Manten's strongest attack the wind scar.
The attack covered every single inch of a widespread area.
Markus tried jumping into the air to avoid the attack, but even that didn't work as Bankotsu's hurricane of sound followed him.
" Trying to get away? Sorry, but my Sound can go wherever I want it to go. That means no matter what you do, this is gonna hit!" Bankotsu exclaimed.
Markus continued trying to dodge Bankotsu's attack, but no matter where he went or what he did, the wave stayed right on him.
' Damn! I can't avoid this! Here it comes!'
Markus saw the world slow down around him as the attack came just inches from his face.
" Trying to get away? Sorry, but my sound can go wherever I want it to go. That means no matter what you do, this is gonna hit!" Bankotsu exclaimed.
' Huh?' Markus was having a strange moment of Deja vu as Bankotsu repeated what he had said moments ago. ' What? The attack hasn't hit me?' " What was that?" Markus asked himself. He was sure he had seen the attack swallow him up completely. " Questions for later." Markus murmured. " If dodging isn't going to work then I need to try and divert it. Markus dived back down towards the ground and then jumped back into the air, the attack hit the ground, for a moment, and then continued after Markus all while Bankotsu watched and laughed.
' Jack ass.' Markus changed his course in the air and rushed straight for Bankotsu. " How about a taste of your own medicine?" Markus shouted. He rushed right past Bankotsu.
But Bankotsu didn't seem to really care at all.
Markus watched as the wave of sound smashed right through Bankotsu, while he laughed. " What did I expect?" Markus asked himself. ' He's made of sound, of course he could just phase right through it.' " Damn it. Here it comes!" Markus cursed. He turned and kept on running away. " I need to find something to take cover. But those waves are gonna tear these buildings into pieces." Markus started dodging and weaving between the buildings surrounding the field, but each one was quickly and very easily crushed and blown into the wind by Bankotsu's attack.
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The entire battlefield was quickly alerted to the destruction heading their way. The speed at which the torrent was moving and the devastation it left behind was hard to miss.
" What the hell is that?" Vyper wondered.
He and Norin were still fighting against each other. He was covered in claw marks from head to tail, and Norin was in no better shape.
She had a huge gash above her left hip which was bleeding heavily.
" That doesn't sound good." She muttered.
" Out of the way!" Markus shouted. He dashed past Vyper and pushed Norin out of the way of the coming attack and kept on running himself.
Norin rolled out of the way just in time as the large sound torrent rushed past her and continued chasing Markus.
" Damn it! This thing is persistent." Markus cursed. Suddenly the ground in front of him rose upwards and blocked his path. " Oh no!" Markus shouted.
" HA! Gotcha!" Bankotsu exclaimed. Seeing that Markus had nowhere else to go, Bankotsu was sure that his attack was going to hit.
" HAAAAAA!!!" A surge of lightning rushed past Markus and slammed into the rampant sound waves.
" What the hell?!" Bankotsu cursed. " Nothing's ever stopped that attack before.
The sound of thunder roared to life as it continued to smash against the wall of lightning, until finally the rampant wave of sound came to an end.
" Hey, now. That attack... Wasn't half bad." Stepping out of the lightning was Goenma. Blood was dripping down from his face, all the way down to his chest. His torso and his arms were covered in many deep cuts.
" Damn you, lightning bastard." Bankotsu cursed Goenma for stopping his attack.
" Goenma... Thanks for the save." Markus said to the man.
" Don't mention it."
" How did you stop it?" Markus asked.
" Lightning beats sound any day of the weak. My devil fruit was just better than his." Goenma explained. " Can you handle this?" He asked.
" Yeah. The bastards just got a tricky devil fruit to get around. What about you? Where's your opponent?" Markus asked.
* Crash.
As in on call, Zohakuten crashed down next to Bankotsu. He stepped out of the smoke and rubble covered in blood and cuts as well.
" Still kicking unfortunately." Goenma told the man.
" Bankotsu, why are you having trouble with this child?" Zohakuten asked his young brother.
" He's fast." Bankotsu explained. " And his punches are heavy. It's like a tug of war. I corner him, he finds a way out, and then corners me. I thought I had him after that last one, but then your guy got in the way. What was that about?"
Zohakuten grumbled. " He's fast. And that lightning is troublesome. He's a superb foe to fight against."
" Then let's show them our combined attack." Bankotsu told the man.
" Right." Zohakuten nodded in agreement and the two brothers raised their blades to the sky.
Goenma saw this and readied himself for the attack. " Marine, be careful. There's a large amount of energy gathering."
" I feel it too. Something big is coming."
Zohakuten and Bankotsu smashed their blade together. Bankotsu's white sound bubble covered both of their blades and Zohakuten's haki flowed into his own sword, in a way he was unfamiliar with. It looked like his Haki was actually flowing off of the blade.
" Ready yourself, Marine!" Goenma shouted. He covered his blade in haki in a way that was similar to Zohakuten's.
Markus didn't have time to question it. Instead, he covered his arms with haki and focused. " I'm ready."
" That won't be enough. Let it flow. Stop condensing it so hard, and let it flow like a river." Goenma told the young man.
" I'm trying. But it's difficult. It's like fighting against myself." Markus told the man.
Goenma placed his free hand on Markus' back and started feeding his own haki through the man's body.
It was a weird sensation to Markus. " What are you doing?" Markus asked the man.
" Using my haki to help you. We're not gonna survive this attack with my strength alone. Now focus, we have to work together." Goenma told the man.
Markus nodded and started concentrating on the haki flowing into his body. Keeping in check his own haki was hard enough. But the feeling of someone else's haki flowing into him was hard to get used to. It was a foreign feeling. But despite how uncomfortable it was, Markus slowly started feeling changes in his own haki.
His black armed turned a slight shade blacker and this black aura started radiating off of his arm.
" What is this?" Markus asked.
" It's your haki. This is the next stage in armament. I've helped you control your haki, but from here you'll have to regulate it yourself. Now, here they come!" Goenma exclaimed.
Markus and Goenma turned and faced Zohakuten and Goenma.
" Hrrrrg! Moonlight Dragon Flash Bang!" Zohakuten and Bankotsu thrusted their blades forward together and sent out a giant black dragon.
" Rooooooar!" The dragon itself roared to life and headed straight for Markus and Goenma.
Goenma started focusing more on his own haki, and slowly his blue lightning started turning red. " Lightning God Heavenward Halberd!" Goenma threw his sword forward and a large bolt of red lightning, shaped like a halberd shot out towards the combined attack of Zohakuten and Bankotsu.
' No time to doubt. Gotta give it my all. Straight forward!" Markus jumped forward. " Galaxy" He pulled back his fist with all of his might threw it straight into the halberd. " IMPACT!" Markus launched a full-on shockwave from his fist that raced forward like a tornado.
* Doom!
The combined attacks all collided together. The ground itself ripped apart and blew away under the force of the attacks. Black lightning covered the entirety of the island and the people occupying it at the time, came under direct fire of the energy and the lightning produce by the attack.
" That's insane. All that haki being thrown around is ridiculous." Long Horn grumbled.
" What the hell? That power is ridiculous." Atlas grumbled.
Even Jinshi and Terris could feel the battle on the other side of the island could feel the stinging of power in the air.
" It would seem our friends are really, going at it. A shame Black Lion... That they won't be able to get here in time to see what I'm about to do to you." Terris spoke.
" Heh. Heh. I'm sorry, did you say something?" Jinshi was bleeding heavily but was still standing strong. " The battle's just getting started."
" Oh?"
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Back at the mainland.
Markus and Goenma continued their clash with Zohakuten and Bankotsu.
" Keep pushing, Marine. We can't let up." Goenma yelled.
" I know!" Markus exclaimed. Blood trickled from his fist. The pain was unimaginable. He couldn't think of what would happen if he had been hit by the attack itself.
Zohakuten and Bankotsu were struggling just as much as Markus and Goenma.
" Brother!" Bankotsu shouted in pain. The strain from the collision was starting to get to him.
" Hold strong brother. We must win out! I don't need to tell you what losing here means!" Zohakuten exclaimed.
" HAAAAAAA!"
" HOOOOOO!"
Zohakuten and Bankotsu pressed on the thought of losing was even worse to them than anything else. So, no matter what damage was done to their bodies, they couldn't give up.
' I can't give up. Not here. Not now. Kagura... Give me strength. Sister.'
An epic clash between four very strong warriors. Two of them fight for their own goals, while two fight for a similar ambition.
*Doom!
To Be Continued.
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