Chapter 10
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Jonah was stomping the mossy shore aggressively. "GIVE ME BACK MY CAPTAIN YOU DAMN PLANT!!!" Jonah yells as he continues to stomp at the grass. "If your captain fell in there, then he's dead." A man's voice says from the edge of the forest, causing Jonah to quickly snap his head in the man's direction and there stood the man wearing the white pirate suit. "Oh yeah and what the hell do you know?" Jonah says with anger as he then gets in his knees and begins punching the moss. "You'll never break them, those vines are from the mother tree, they're like solid stone." The man says with a bland voice but his eyes soon widen with shock as Jonah pierces a small piece of the moss. Jonah then looks up at the man slowly. "You were saying?" Jonah says with a smirk as he then continues to punch the moss.
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"Who… are you?" The man asks with a curious face. "I'm Jonah…" he says as he continues to punish the moss. "… and my captain was swallowed by this island!" Jonah exclaims as his punches begin to become harsher. "Who is your captain?" The man asks. Jonah stops punching the moss and looks up at the man. "You sure are asking a lot of damn questions. I got some for you… who the hell are you and why are you here on Fruit Island?" Jonah says with a suspicious face. The man squints his eyes as he stares at Jonah then he takes off his pirate hat to reveal short blue hair. "Everyone calls me Trick and I am here for this…" he says as he brings his left hand to the level of his eyes as it was engulfed in flames. "… and I've gotten that so I'm leaving now… good luck finding your shitty captain." Trick says as he begins to walk past Jonah.
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Jonah grabs his shoulder with an intense grip. "If you know where he is… I swear to god I'll beat it out of you." Jonah says with an intense stare. Trick's eyes widen slightly but they soon return to normal as he shrugs Jonah's hand off of his shoulder. Trick's left arm catches on fire again as he stares at Jonah with a bland stare. "You'll… do what?" Trick says as he begins to smirk and the flames on his arm begin to intensify. Jonah steps back slightly and gets into a fighting stance. "What? Do you think I haven't fought someone like you before?" Jonah says with a smirk as he begins to pull out two silver colored brass Knuckles and puts them on his fists. "You're gonna tell me where my captain is." Jonah says with sweat coming down his face.
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Erick stood in front of the wooden woman with wide eyes and a face filled with shock. "I have been waiting so long for you Captain Erick." She says in an elegant and soft voice. Erick stared at her with a wide face. "I know you're a little confused but listen to me Erick… I have waited one hundred years for you and now that you are amongst me the time for the new age of pathfinders is here… Do not waver Captain Erick… for you are strong." The woman says as a bright light begins to shine, blinding Erick in the process. Erick covers his face to shield his eyes from the light but as he did this his vision began to fade and his body began to grow heavy. "Who… who are you?" Erick says faintly and right before his vision completely faded the woman spoke to him softly. "I am The mother tree of Estoria." She says as Erick loses consciousness.
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Trick had flames burning on his left arm. Ready to attack Jonah and Jonah was sweating but was still in a fighting stance with his brass knuckles. "You wanna die then come on!" Trick exclaims but as he stepped forward Erick flew out of the moss beneath them and then landed back onto the moss, unconscious. Jonah snapped his head to Erick in shock as he then ran over to him quickly. "It's pretty dumb to turn your back on an enemy… This your captain?" Trick asks with a curious face as he walks up behind Jonah. "Yeah…" Jonah says with a serious tone. "What is he dead or something?" Trick asks with a slight smirk. "No… I think he's eaten a berry." Jonah says with a straight face causing Trick's eyes to widen a bit.
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"And how would you know that?" Trick asks with a confused face. "You ask too many damn questions Pirate!" Jonah says as both of them begin to but heads in anger but as they were doing this Erick sat up slowly while holding his head. "Uggh… what happened?" Erick says as he groans in pain. "That moss took you under and then spit you back out, you alright?" Jonah says as he stands up and Erick does the same. "Yeah, I feel fine… my head hurts a little but that's about it. Who is he?" Erick asks with a confused face. "Nobody, I was just about to kick his ass." Jonah says with a smirk. Erick looks at Jonah with a puzzled face. "You were?" Erick asks, causing trick to chuckle and Jonah to make an annoyed face.
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Trick stared at Erick while he was smiling and as Jonah was yelling at him. 'This captain is just a kid, no older than eighteen for sure… if this Jonah guy is right, then he's at least as physically strong as me. On top of not knowing his berry power, it would be stupid to pick a fight right now.' Trick thinks to himself. "So you're this losers captain? What's your name kid?" Trick asks with a smirk. Erick looks at him with a sharp glance, causing Tricks eyes to widen a bit. "What did you say about my navigator?" Erick says with a cold stare. Trick then smirks. "What you wanna fight or something?" He says with a smile as his arm begins to burn with flames. Erick smirks slightly. "Jonah… step back for a second." Erick says as steam begins to flow out of his body, causing both Erick's and Trick's face to widen with shock.
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'This kid can use Aura?! Who the hell is this guy?' Trick says to himself as the flames in his arm begin to grow hotter but just as Erick's smile begin to grow, a small knife flies at Erick's head and he barely dodges it, causing him to lose concentration on his technique. All three of them turned and saw Gena with fifty other men behind her, she had four small knives in between the knuckles of her hands. "Men are so dumb, always fighting over petty matters." She says with a smirk. "We weren't fighting!" Erick yells in frustration. "Yeah… we were… training. So stop with your sexism bullshit!" Trick yells, causing Jonah to chuckle. "Hey don't forget… we're still gonna finish this later." Trick says with a smirk. "Sure thing." Erick says as they both look back at Gena.
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Jonah tackles Trick to the ground, causing trick to look at him with a face of rage but trick looks behind Jonah and sees that the tree he was originally behind was completely destroyed. Trick looks behind them and there was chopper with his right fist pointing at them. "Found you Rookie!" He yells at Erick. Erick looks at both of their enemies profusely and then closes his eyes. "Hey, what the hell are you doing?" Trick yells at Erick as he did that. "Be quiet." Jonah says with a bland face, causing Trick's eyes to widen a bit. "Don't worry about him, let's focus on the enemy… Erick will join us soon." Jonah says with a smile. "What the hell are we supposed to do while he sleeps, huh?!" Trick exclaims in an aggravated tone. "Looks like we're gonna fight, have you not been paying attention?" Jonah says with a smile, causing Trick to make an annoyed face.
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"Don't bicker before you lose… it makes victory sweeter for the enemy." Gena says as she lifts her right hand and multiple versions of swords appear from behind her. "Why are you two even following us? Your captains must be fans of my Captain huh?" Jonah says asks aloud. "I don't make the calls, if it were up to me, you and your captain wouldn't even be important enough to chase." Chopper says back with a smirk. "So you're just some sort of lapdog for Thorne? Ha! And you call yourself a Vice Captain." Jonah says, causing choppers face to fill with rage as he then puts out his hand with the palm of his hand facing Jonah. "You got a pretty big mouth on you… TIME TO SHUT YOU UP!!!" Chopper yells as he closes his hand with a wide smile on his face.
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Jonah's eyes widen as the jaw of a shark appears behind Jonah, engulfing him in its teeth. The teeth then begin to close quickly but Trick sprinted toward Chopper with fire engulfed in his fist. "Flame Berry: Flame fist!" He says as he punches Chopper in the stomach, sliding him backwards a few feet. The jaws around Jonah disappear as Chopper was recovering. "So you're protecting the Rookie now huh?" Chopper asks as he wipes spit away from the corner of his mouth. "I do what the hell I want, I just don't like your tone right now… Chopper." Trick says with a smirk. "You should be glad I left, that is the only reason you're a Vice Captain, isn't it?" Trick asks causing chopper to pull a long machete from his belt and swing it at Trick with rage. "You shut your damn mouth!!" Chopper yells as he cuts Trick on his arm, causing Trick to back up slightly. "I must've struck a nerve or something?" Trick asks as the fire on his arm begins to grow in size.
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"I gotta help Trick and fast." Jonah says but as he takes a step forward a sword stabs into the ground in front of him and as he looked over he saw Gena standing there with a smile and at least ten blades floating behind her. "Don't tell me you forgot about me?" She says with a smirk. Jonah then completely turns to her and takes a deep breath. As he opens his eyes he turns his gaze to Erick whose body began smoking from his skin. "I think I can spare you a few minutes Captain." Jonah says with a straight face. "Are you talking to your Captain while he's sleeping? So pathetic." Gena says as she waves her hand at Erick causing one of her swords to fly at him with blazing speed.
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'It's too fast, I'm not gonna get to Erick in time!' Jonah thinks to himself as worry began to flood his face but as the sword reached Erick, he caught it with his eyes closed and then dropped the blade. Gena's eyes widen with shock but she composed herself quickly. "Whatever, once we take out you two then that rookie will be easy." She says with a smile as she then turns her gaze back to Jonah. "I wouldn't be so sure about that." Jonah says with a smirk as he then begins sprinting towards Gena. She reels back and swipes her hand in Jonah's direction, causing all of her blades to fly at Jonah, except for one, which she grabbed from the air and ran at Jonah. Jonah dodges all of the flying swords barely but was met by Gena wielding a katana. As the blade of the katana and the brass knuckles on Jonah's fists clash, they stared at each other intensely.
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Trick and Chopper were both exchanging blows as chopper was swinging at him with his Machete and Trick was using the powers of the flame berry he had just acquired. Chopper steps back and then points his palm at Trick and with a smirk he closes his hand. "Munch Berry: Hippo" chopper says and as Trick looked up he saw that he was engulfed in the skeletal jaws of a hippopotamus. The jaw then closes and although Trick moved out of the way, the jaw was too large and still opened a large womb on the arm he had engulfed in flames. The flames on his arm began to dissipate as sweat ran down his face. 'Dammit, he scraped me but it still left a huge wound and on top of that he cut the only arm I can control the flame berry with." Trick thinks to himself. "Don't tell me that was it?" Chopper asks sarcastically. Trick smirks and then pulls one of his pirate swords from his waist. "Me and you both know… I don't need a berry to beat you." Trick says to him.
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Don was wearing a white uniform with fifteen gold pendants on it And a tag that said Captain Don as he stood at the top of the steps leading down to the city, there were at least five hundred of them. He stared at the sky as he held Erick's bounty poster in his hand. "Today's such a beautiful day… don't ya think, Himá?" He asks with a smile on his face as a girl with white glossy hair and bright blue eyes walks up beside him. She was wearing a white uniform as well but she only had five gold pendants on her suit with a tag that said 'Vice Captain Himá'. "It depends on what your activities are, sir." Himá says in a soft tone. Don begins to chuckle boisterously as he held his stomach. "Are we going to pay the rookie a visit sir?" Himá asks curiously. "I think we might!" Don exclaims with a boisterous smile.
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Don and Himá simultaneously jump off of the stair cases and they land at the bottom with complete grace. "If I may ask… what is your interest in this boy?" Himá asks as she looks at Don. Don smiles widely. "Do you know Captain Kekela?" Don asks her, causing her eyes to widen slightly. "Although this isn't the same Kekela, this rookie beat him in an hour… I just wanna check it out, that's all." Don says with a smirk on his face. "Do you think… he can beat me?" Himá asks with a curious face. Don looks at her and then smiles widely. "Of course not Himá!" Don exclaims causing Himá's eyes to slightly light up. "I trained you myself and you're like a daughter of mine… he would lose in an instant." He says with a wide smile as they begin walking to the harbor of North Estoria.
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Chopper and Trick clash there blades, causing sparks to fly around them. "That blood loss looks bad Trick but if you slow down… I'll kill you!" Chopper exclaims with a wide grin. 'Damn, this blood loss is not good and I'm fighting one of the best hand to hand fighters in East Estoria. Whatever you're doing, it better be worth it!' Trick thinks to himself as he looks at Erick. Jonah dodged a pair of swords that flew at him but he already had multiple cuts on his body and bruises everywhere. "How much longer can you run?" Gena asks in a mocking tone. "As long as I need to!" Jonah exclaims but as he did this he felt a sudden pain in his ribs, causing him to fall to his knees. "Seems like that's your limit." Gena says with a smirk and as she began to walk towards Jonah her eyes widen at the sound of a chuckle. Gena and chopper both snap their heads to the cloud of smoke funneling around Erick's body as they then hear another. "HEHEHEEEHEHEE".
Chapter end.