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Don and Himá were walking down the wooden harbor of Arton, they both had light scuff marks on their face but no real damage had been done to them. "I just received word that Grey beard has found and eaten the mountain berry." Himá says with a straight face. "And Kalan?" Don asks with a straight face as they were still walking. "She escaped with minor injuries but is still tracking Grey beard as we speak." Himá replied. Don chuckled slightly. "Foolish girl." Don says with a smirk. "Would you like to join her in that process Captain?" Himá asks him. "We won't have to, I know exactly where he is going." Don says with a wide smile now. "If I may ask… where?" She asks with a curious face. "Home." Don says as they reach the ship and before stepping on Don looked back at the city of Arton with a straight face but what he had saw was destruction. Multiple buildings were leveled and Kuma and his Crew were layed out with major injuries on their bodies.
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Don and Himá both step on the ship with their men and as they set sail Don stared at Kuma with a straight face. 'At best he's known that kid for a day… so why would he risk all this for one Pathfinder?' Don asks himself as the ship began to set sail. "Himá?" Don says suddenly causing Himá to look at him with curiosity. "Yes Captain?" She says back to him. "What did you think of those men back there?" Don asks with a curious face. Himá looks forward and ponders his question for a bit. "Every move they made was calculated and at first it was hard to beat them…" she says with a straight face. "But?" Don says, raising one eyebrow. "But their lack of raw combat power made it easier to control the fight." Himá says as she looks down, unimpressed by her words.
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"You seem upset about something." Don says with a slight smirk. "It's just…" Himá says as she then bites the bottom of her lip with anger. "…if those men were a few years younger… I don't know what the outcome would have been." Himá says with a straight face. "And that infuriates me." She says with a face of no emotion. "Save that anger for Grey beard, if it is true that he has the Mountain berry then we'll need all the help we can get." Don says as he looks toward the sea. "We know where he's going so alert the government and have them evacuate the Capital." He says with a stern voice causing Himá to quickly follow his orders. 'What are you planning Son?' Don thinks to himself as he looks out to the sea with a determined look.
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The Black Pearl was coasting along the sea slowly. "Can we speed this thing up already, Grey beard could already be at the Capital." Trick says as he throws his head back with an annoyed tone. Jonah was staring at the map intensely, without responding to trick. "Jonah?" Erick calls to him with a curious face. Jonah was still focused on the map as Trick hopped up from the floor and walked over to Jonah, now face to face with him. "Our Captain is speaking to you!" Trick says with a slightly aggressive tone. Jonah looks up at him with a straight face. "We're passing through the Sea Giant kingdom, I can turn us around but we'd be two or three days behind schedule." Jonah says as he looks at Erick. Erick and trick's eyes slightly widen as they hear Jonah say this.
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Erick's face soon changes as he begins to smile. "Nah, let's just keep moving forward." Erick says with a smile. Trick's eyes widen even more as he heard his captains decision. "Hey let's think about this really quick. We have a small ship and three Pathfinders, these things are known to have a mean temper too." Trick says with a face of worry. Erick chuckles and then began laughing loudly, causing Trick to look at him with a confused face. "Did I say something funny?" He says with a baffled face. "You… you said they had a temper…" Erick said as he kept laughing. "Yeah so?" Trick says back to him. Erick slowly began to stop laughing and finally stood upright. "It's just, the one I beat up the other day didn't seem so mean to me." Erick says with a smile. Trick looks at Jonah who was nodding his head and smirking, causing his eyes to widen with shock.
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"So like I said, we should keep moving forward." Erick says as Jonah then walks off to speed the ship up. 'Is he saying that he fought a sea giant without a berry?' Trick thought to himself with a shocked face. The ship began to slow down, almost to a stop. "Hey Jonah what's going on?" Erick asks him with a curious face. Jonah walks up to both of them with a straight face. "I've lost control of the ship for some reason, it won't move forward at all." Jonah says. Erick walks to the edge of the Black Pearl and looks down into the sea. "Guys, I think I found the problem." Erick says, causing them to walk over and look at what he was seeing. Jonah's eyes widen while Erick had a smile on his face. "Are those… fingers?" Trick asks with a confused face.
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There in the water were four fingers holding the side of the Black Pearl. Jonah ran to the other side and saw the same four fingers holding that side of the boat as well and as soon as Jonah realized this, the fingers began to lift the black Pearl out of the water. As all three of them struggled to maintain their balance, beneath them was a massive Sea Giant. With the Black Pearl completely lifted over its head the sea giant began to walk along the water, as if it were taking them somewhere. "Hey what the hell is going on!" Trick exclaims as he tries to keep his balance. "It's a Sea Giant and this one's at least three times as big as the last one we saw!" Jonah exclaims as he held onto the side of the ship.
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"ERICK ARE YOU GONNA SAY ANYTHING!?!" Trick yells with an annoyed tone. "Let's just see where it takes us." Erick says with a nonchalant face. "See where it takes us?! This is a sea Giant we'll-" Trick began to exclaim but was cut off by Erick. "It'll be the perfect time to test our new berries." Erick says with a wide smile, causing Trick's eyes to widen slightly. "Speaking of that, look at what I can do!" Erick says with an ecstatic smile as he lifts his right hand up to his face. Erick's fist and through half of his forearm instantly formed into the metal like substance he had used earlier against Gena. Jonah and Trick both looked at Erick with a face of shock. "I think I'm gonna call it Alt one." Erick says, causing Jonah and Trick to now look at him with baffled looks.
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"Please tell me there's a meaning for that name." Jonah says with a curious look. "Whenever I use it I can feel my body jump to a different level physically but I doubt this is the extent of my power…" Erick says as he looked at his metal arm. "… so, this feels like the first level of altitude this berry has." Erick says with a wide smile. Jonah and trick both looked at him with surprised faces. "That was actually a pretty good reason." Jonah says back to him with a shocked face. "What's that supposed to mean?" Erick asks with an offended face, causing Trick to slightly chuckle. "You don't usually do well and thought out things, that's all." Jonah says with a slight smirk. Erick began to yell but was cut off as the Black Pearl began to hurl toward the ground, causing all three of them to hold onto something.
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The Sea giant places the Black Pearl down rather gently as it then fled back into the sea. All three of them walk to the edge of the Black Pearl to see that they were now on an island that had no trees or sand at all. The island was completely made of desert like stone and at the center of it was a massive mountain. "Where… are we?" Erick asks with a confused face just as Jonah began to pull out the map. "It seems we're on-" Jonah began to say but was cut off by a deep and boisterous voice. "THE LAND OF THE SEA KING!!!" The voice yells, causing all three of them to look forward. They saw dozens of sea giants, about the size of the one that brought them here but in front of all of them were two massive sea giants, both about double the size of the others. The one on the left held a massive stone axe and the one on the right had a stone club.
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Jonah and Tricks eyes widen as they saw this. "Holy crap! Those two are at least fifteen feet tall." Trick says with a worried tone. "YOU!!" The sea giant on the right says as he points directly at Erick. "Me??" Erick says as he points at himself with a confused face. "YES YOU!" The sea giant on the left yells boisterously. "What do you mean me? I didn't do anything… did I?" Erick says as he begins to question his own statement. "YOU REALLY DON'T REMEMBER DO YOU?!?" The sea giant on the left says with a face of defeat. "Uh… no, sorry." Erick says back with an embarrassed face. The sea giant on the left jumps in the air with a face of rage and the begins to come down with his stone hammer, ready to destroy the entire Ship and at the same time the sea giant on the right sprints at the Black Pearl, reeling back his club.
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Trick jumps down from the Black Pearl, quickly pulling out both of his Swords and dashes at the sea giant running at them. Erick smirks as half of both of his arms instantly were covered by Alt one. Erick jumps toward the sea giant and as he clashes with it, Trick and the other sea giant's weapons also clash, both causing massive gusts of wind to blow from each collision. As each of them were clashing Jonah looked forward and saw a petite and beautiful woman walking past the regular sized sea giants and onto the battle field. "Everyone, calm down please." The woman says softly but everyone that was present heard her, causing them to all stop fighting. The sea giant Erick had clashed with landed beside his partner and Erick landed beside Trick, all four of them bore faces of hostility.
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"May I ask why you have brought these Pathfinders here Nol?" The woman says as she looks at the sea giant holding the axe. "This boy attacked one of the royal family!" Nol exclaims as he pointed at Erick. "Wait a second no I-" Erick began but Jonah into him as he walks up beside Erick. "Yes you did. The first day we set sail, remember?" Jonah says with an annoyed face. "Wait what!?" Trick says with a face of curiosity. "The sea giant you beat up was a royal?" Trick asks with a confused face. "No… well I didn't know that when I hit em!" Erick says back with a face of anger. The woman then steps forward, causing Erick to calm down. "Regardless of your stance child, we have rules and principles here on Sea King Island." The woman says to him in a soft and comforting tone.
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"What kind of rules?" Jonah asks with a suspicious tone in his voice. "Because you are the accused you may choose one of two ways to resolve this crime. You can participate in Hand to hand combat with the Sea king himself or you can participate in a fair trial led by the courts of Sea King island." The woman says to Erick. "We should talk about-" Jonah began to say but Erick cut him off. "Okay then, I'll fight your Sea King!" Erick exclaims, causing all of the sea giants eyes to widen in complete shock. "WAIT NO, THATS NOT WHAT HE MEANT!" Jonah yells in complete panic. "That's exactly what I meant!" Erick says with a wide smile on his face, causing Jonah's body to completely deflate and Trick was chuckling.
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"Very well, Nol and Jon will stay with you while the Sea King prepares for battle, good luck." The woman says as she turns around and begins to walk off. "You sure these guys won't try and kill us before he gets here?" Trick says aloud. "Shut your mouth! I hate your captain with every breath in my body… but My lord killing him will be just as sweet." Jon says as he and Nol begin to laugh boisterously. All three of them look at each other and then nod as Erick began to smirk. "You sure about this Erick?" Trick says with a curious face. "Of course I am, I mean how strong can a Sea Giant be?" Erick says with a smile. "That strong." Jonah says with a worried face, causing Erick and trick to look forward. Erick's eyes widen as he saw what Jonah was pointing at.
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There, standing in front of the regular sized sea giant was a muscular sea giant at least twenty feet tall. He had multiple scars on his body and, unlike any other sea giant, he had horns like a bull on his head. This was the King of all sea giants and self proclaimed 'Sea King of Estoria'. "Jon." The Sea King says in a boisterous tone, causing Jon to lift his Club and give it to his King. As soon as the Sea King touched the Club it began to grow in size and spikes began to protrude from it. "Who has come to face me in a trial of combat?" He asks as he looks at all three of them. "Erick we can still get out of here." Jonah says with a worried face but Erick didn't say a word to him and instead took a step forward.
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The wind was blowing against Erick's slick flannel as he walked forward with a smile on his face. Erick stopped walking about ten feet from The Sea King. "I didn't mean to offend the royals or whatever, so I'm sorry." Erick says with a genuine and serious face. The Sea King looks at him with a bland stare. "My son came to me that day… crying." he says, causing Erick's eyes to widen slightly. "I don't care for your apologies boy." The Sea king says as he lifts his Club above his head. Erick was looking down at the ground with a face of regret. "I feel terrible for what I did, honestly…" Erick says but he then looks up at the Sea King as a smirk crept onto his face. "… but if you think I'd lose a fight to you before I find the North Star then you're insane." Erick says as he activates Alt one on both of his arms and chuckling at the same time.
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