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 Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 9:09 am
Takehiko Naoki had more or less escaped Clockwork Island through sheer luck, it had been that the thing that had kept him away from the tower for such a long time; this being the stair slide contraption, was also what aided him in his escape. Now he had taken to the next village, he had frequented Ridus village many a time during his life in Clockwork Island, mostly to listen to the stories at the bar from visiting pirates, the lack of Marines in this vicinity was something Naoki was welcome of and is what really brought him back here for that odd visit. But today was not a social visit, Naoki was being followed. He wasn't sure if it was man or animal, but he was sure it was ruthless.
1/4 - Hunting the Prey.
Naoki decided that staying in the village was a bad idea, if he stayed there for too long, the villagers could be in trouble. He left the village and walked into the outskirts of the forest and quickly knelt down into the undergrowth. Naoki sat in wait, but to see no man leave the village through the gates, he was about to get up when he heard a dull thump from above, Naoki lifted his head to see a hunched man crouching on the wall of the village, a pair of large claw-like gloves attached to his wrists, they were stuck in the stone, keeping him in balance. This man was looking for Naoki, it was obvious, he wasn't sure why exactly, perhaps it had something to do with his expensive possessions. It didn't matter, Naoki had to shake off this man.
2/4
Naoki couldn't take his eyes off this man, he seemed to have the instincts of an animal. He saw him sniff around, he was tracking Naoki's scent, was he really worth all of this? He wasn't aware his clothes were worth this much, Naoki had no bounty thta he was aware of; surely escaping Clockwork Tower unharmed was not such a feat that it meant he would be pursued by bounty hunters? Naoki couldn't wait any longer, if he was to stay then he would eventually get caught. He took two quills out from his bag and started to walk down the path, his knee's in a crouching position to make sure he wasn't seen. But that didn't work.
3/4
As soon as Naoki got moving, he heard a loud crashing sound. The animal-man was jumping from tree to tree, Naoki sprung up and made a break for it. He needed to get back to his boat, if he was there he could probably avoid the man until he decided to return when he was stronger. He was amazed by the speed of the man as Naoki continued to hear the crashing sounds of tree's being destroyed. This was an even worse predicament than at Clockwork Tower, Naoki was starting to wish that he had stayed back at the village and then ran out in a frenzy during the night when he was sure the man was gone. It wasn't long until Naoki had run out of breath and he was stuck in the worst possible place, an open clearing. He took a few deep breaths and believed he was safe.
4/4 - Complete.
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Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 10:35 am
Naoki fell flat onto the floor, he was out of breath, he was sure that he had outran the animal-man, but he had to be vigilant, this man had been tracking him for some time. If anything, Naoki was in the worst possible spot he could have placed himself in, tired out from the running Naoki fell back into a lying down position. His eyes closed and his breathing quick, but his hearing sharp, which worked out incredibly well as it wasn't too long until he heard the crashing begin again. Naoki shot up back into a sitting position, he wasn't sure if his mind was playing tricks on him. They weren't, he soon saw a large shadow from above coming closer at an extreme speed, Naoki didn't have time to get up, but he quickly performed a forward dodge roll to avoid the aerial attack.
1/5 - Crouching Strike
Naoki flipped over from the dodge roll into a crouching position, his knee's bent and poised to see if it was who he thought it would be, Naoki didn't have time enough to do this as he saw that the animal man had already recovered and was striking to attack him again. "Wha?? Jesus!" Naoki shouted out, leaping into the air slightly so the animal man flew straight under him. Naoki leapt about trying to get away from the man. He soon found himself backed up into a corner, by a tree. "Wait, wait wait! Who are you? Why are you attacking me?" Naoki asked, pushing his arms out, signalling the man to stop, which he did.
2/5
The animal like man stood up and cracked his shoulders and neck, then moved onto his knuckles. He made no actual vocal speech that Naoki could tell of except for what appeared to sound like a grunt, it was obvious to Naoki that he wasn't going to be saying anything of any particular importance. "Fine if you are going to be like that" Naoki said, sweeping his hair backwards, he saw a tattoo on the side of the mans arm, it said Needles, Naoki smiled "Alright then...Needles, prepare to meet your match" Naoki muttered. He looked slowly to the right, only moving his head. He thought that this might have distracted the man long enough. But it didn't.
3/5
The quick turn of head did nothing, but hinder Naoki. Needles was not that stupid, he had the instincts of an animal. He wouldn't be tricked by something like that. When Naoki turned back around, he found Needles sprinting towards him "Crap!" he shouted out, making another jump he held onto a nearby branch which meant Naoki was now hanging about six feet higher than before. He pulled himself up so that he was sitting on the branch, this was only for a short while as he soon felt the tree shake, looking down to see Needles' claw gauntlets stuck in the tree and tearing through it. He was taking Naoki back to ground level.
4/5
Naoki didn't know what to do, there was next to nothing that he could do. Needles was ruthless, he didn't even have any reason to why he was being attacked. He looked down to see Needles still pulling his claws through the tree, his attention was averted, now was the time to strike. Naoki bent his knee's and jumped off the branch, aiming for Needle's back. It would have worked out if Needles hadn't heard him, in response to being seen, Naoki used the Joker Illusion technique, he saw Needles blink and wonder where Naoki had disappeared to, only to soon see a pair of boots stuck to his face. Naoki kicked off Needles' face and jumped backwards. Naoki took this as his moment to leave, and fled.
5/5 - Complete
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Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 1:34 pm
Taro went walking around for his daily patrol in a nearby village even though he really didn't want to after just training with Aokiji. "Aww, man. Why do I always get the grunt work?" He walked over to the front of a building and sat down resting his eyes to take a quick nap. Minutes later, someone kicked him and woke him up. "Ugh! What is it?" He looked up at the man that kicked him and looked around noticing the man had numerous people standing around Taro that didn't look pleased.
Drunken Fist (Suiken)
1/4
"Your Taro D. Willts?" The man asked and Taro yawned while replying back. "Yah." He said in a mildly lazy tone and the man gave him a glare. "You took out our captian a while back and now it's time that you paid." Taro leaned to teh side scratching his head. "Im too tired to fight you right now. How bout later?" The man then pulled out his sword and swung it down at Taro aiming for his neck and in the blink of an eye, Taro kicked the blade out of the man's hand and spun to a standing position and looked him in the eye. "Huu~ Now I have to take you in for assaulting an official."
Drunken Fist (Suiken)
2/4
Taro punched the man in the face with two of his fingers bending out slightly and knocked him down with a bloody nose and looked around at the rest of them. "Hey! I'll overlook this if you leave now. Okay?" One by one, the men in the croud began pulling out their weapons and giving Taro looks of rage with bloodlust in them and he took another breath. "Oh. Guess that's not an option then huh?" He extended one leg out holding his hands infront of himself and wobbled around a little with his usual dazed expression on his face.
Drunken Fist (Suiken)
3/4
"YAHH!!~" Suddenly three men charged Taro with cutlass' and he stood there still wobbling around and two of them slashed their weapons at him from different angles and he simply leaned his upper body back 45 degrees evading both of the blades then came forward again punching them both in the face with the back of his hands and knocking them back. The third man came from the side and slashed at Taro again and he ducked while spinning evading this attack also and kicked the man in the face and looked at the croud taking his position again. "Oh, did I mention Im trained in the art of Suiken?"
Drunken Fist (Suiken)
4/4
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Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 3:22 pm
As Taro stood there maintaining his Suiken fighting stance, the crew stood there motionless taking second thoughts about what they were doing until a voice shouted out. "COME ON!! There's only one of him and a hundred of us!! Take him!!" The men shouted in a thunderous roar and all charged at Taro at once wielding their swords and guns and boxing gloves and other types of weapons. "Why do you always have to do it the hard way?" Taro asked softly not that any of them were listening.
Drunken Rage
1/4
Taro jumped into action leaning to his sides to evade the first round of attacks and countered them all with various types of punches and kicks to the men's faces. While attacking he was moving closer into the center of the cround and began to let lose a fury of attacks consisting of maily punches and types of spinning fist attacks knocking back many of the men around him but every time he did, two more took their place and the small area began to fill up realtively quickly making it difficult for Taro to make any types of attacks.
Drunken Rage
2/4
Before the area became too crouded to make any types of attacks in, he jumped up landing on one of the mens heads and jumped out of the croud to the outer area of their circle and stood there wobbling around. "Who are you fighting over there?" The croud then turned to Taro and rushed him all at once in a stampede of armed pirates. Taro then raised his arms up and yelled. "AAHHHH~!!!" The men stopped to his yell and then he charged them head on but half way to the first one, he tripped and landed on his face.
Drunken Rage
3/4
After landing on his face, he looked up and grunted a little. "Ah~ That hurt. Look what you made me do!" He jumped up to his feet and rushed the croud of pirates letting lose a fury of punches that were so fast, it looked as if he had multiple arms and plowed through most of them knocking them away and out or knocking them into someone else knocking them out and then stopped right before hitting one of the last four and looked at him. "Im ready to take a nap now." And he started to walk away from them.
Drunken Rage
4/4
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Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 3:38 pm
"Were not done with you yet?!" One of the last men standing yelled out and Taro stopped and turned back to him. "Just give up, you lost and Im not in the mood." The four men then charged Taro thinking that they could get him by surprise and on of them ran their cutlass through Taro's stomach thinking that he had killed him for sure but Taro turned his head and took a breath exhaling cold air. "Huff~ Fine fine. Well do it the hard way." He turned back to them pulling the blade out of his icy body and dropped it recovering his body.
Chilled Fist
1/3
"You arn't too strong, huh?" Taro gripped his hands slightly enveloping them in a layer of ice and did the same to his feet and took a fighting position towards the remaining men. "Bring it on I guess." They were shocked to see that he had a devil fruit power but ignored it and charged him anyway. Taro made quick work of them punching and kicking them with his reinforced hands and feet with the ice dealing more damage to them than his normal stikes did and with another effect.
Chilled Fist
2/3
Taro looked down at the man wondering if they would get back up but they were lying on the ground shivering like they were cold and their skin was discolored not from bruses alone. "Oh. Guess the colds too much for you. I would take you in but you not worth my time." He recalled the ice again and scratched the back of his head turning and walkig off finishing his duty of examining the area for any major threats and reported in like nothing happened. He was just glad to get to take a nap, finally.
Chilled Fist
3/3
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Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 1:41 pm
Botenmaru walked from the village to the near-by woods as he walked around he gazed to the trees, seeing small things such as squerils or creatures in the bush. "Ah, quite peaceful. It is just amaizing" he said as he came to a clearing he streched out and sat down. "Now, thime to get down to business" he said to himself. He began listening to the world around him trying to listen to the sounds of the animals. He was not exactly able to hear everything but he could hear things within a fiffty foot area of himself, not perfectly though. He had spent the whole night in woods.
hunting the prey 1/4
Botenmaru began to walk back from the woods to the village as he walked back home he continued to gaze into the trees, seeing small things such as squerils or creatures in the bush. "Ok back to the town" he laughed as he spoke and streched out while he walked. "Now, thime to get down to business" he said to himself. He began listening to the world around him trying to listen to the sounds of the animals. He was not exactly able to hear everything but he could hear things within a fiffty foot area of himself, not perfectly though.
hunting the prey 2/4
He reached the village finding that he had a new sence of insight about the world around him though he still missed the occational detail about someone every now and again. Though he was going for perfection. He wanted to understand and see things normal people could not so that he may be able to dodge things others could never think of. he began to watch people and see how much detain he could notice about any number of people at a time. He was soon able to notice anything he wanted to, though he could only do so for about five people.
hunting the prey 3/4
Bontenmaru soon found that he could now read lips notice people anywhere and never missed even the smallest detail about a person's appearence. He could tell distance from sight or sound and could evenmake distinctions between different sounds picking out what he wanted to hear or ignore. Botenmaru was satisfied with his new ability. He now began to train it to be as instinctive as breathing. He kept his training active and watched everything go by him. He did so, even while sleeping. That part of his trainging was extremely hard to get down but he eventually perfected it.
hunting the prey 4/4
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Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 2:23 pm
Bontenmaru went to a pirate he knew on the island sense he needed more help. He reached the house and knocked on his door thinking 'bout what he would say when the man answered the door. He waited and thought until the man finally answered. "Yeah what do you-...oh hey Bontenmaru, let me guess you want to be trained?" "Ha you know me well, so will you?" he asked "hmm, I suppose I could teach you. Let's go" he said walking to his backyard. Bontenmaru followed "so when do we-" the man hit Bontenmaru in to ribs and broke one or two. "Keep fighting."
nothing to lose 1/6
They continued to train and break each others bones. Bontenmaru took most of the damage. They fought for days taking time to rest and recuperate. "You fight like a demon Trey" he said smiling. "You as well Bontenmaru." they laughed with each other. As they recovered they began to strength train and soon after Bontenmaru continued to get better and better. They talked every now and then about life love and his plans.
They broke many bones and bled pints upon pints of blood, losing more and more each day.
nothing to lose 2/6
They continued to train and break each others bones. Bontenmaru took most of the damage. They fought for days taking time to rest and recuperate. "You fight like a demon Trey" he said smiling. "You as well Bontenmaru." they laughed with each other. As they recovered they began to strength train and soon after Bontenmaru continued to get better and better. They talked every now and then about life love and his plans.
They broke many bones and bled pints upon pints of blood, losing more and more each day.
nothing to lose 3/6
They continued to train and break each others bones. Bontenmaru took most of the damage. They fought for days taking time to rest and recuperate. "You fight like a demon Trey" he said smiling. "You as well Bontenmaru." they laughed with each other. As they recovered they began to strength train and soon after Bontenmaru continued to get better and better. They talked every now and then about life love and his plans.
They broke many bones and bled pints upon pints of blood, losing more and more each day.
nothing to lose 4/6
They continued to train and break each others bones. Bontenmaru took most of the damage. They fought for days taking time to rest and recuperate. "You fight like a demon Trey" he said smiling. "You as well Bontenmaru." they laughed with each other. As they recovered they began to strength train and soon after Bontenmaru continued to get better and better. They talked every now and then about life love and his plans.
They broke many bones and bled pints upon pints of blood, losing more and more each day.
nothing to lose 5/6
Soon enough Bontenmaru was able to complete his training and walked out of the man's house. "Ok well that was a pretty good workout, now too find something else to do" he streched out and walked back to his own house to rest for a while. He was still kinda busted up and bruised so he could use.
nothing to lose 6/6
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Makarov Nylis rolled 1 10-sided dice:
9
Total: 9 (1-10)
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Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 7:24 pm
Bontenmaru went to the river and began to fish.
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Makarov Nylis rolled 2 20-sided dice:
6, 5
Total: 11 (2-40)
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Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 7:25 pm
He fell a nible and pulled it in though it got away.
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Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 7:56 pm
Bontenmaru did not catch the fish and desided to continue to train. He walked up to a near-by tree thinking a suitable target for his attack. He crouched forward and jumped at the target. He repeated this again and again.
1/5 crouching strike
He used the attack enough times and did enough damage to the tree that it collapsed and feel over so he looked to his next target and began to charge at it.
2/5 crouching strike
He had become more used to the attack and slightly more proficeint at it. He tried useing different punches and intime knocked down another tree.
3/5 crouching strike
Botenmaru turned to a new tree and crouched down. He launched at the tree and used a kick. He rapidly flew at the tree and soon destroied it with the attack.
4/5 crouching strike
He was happy with the results so as a finally test he attempted to attack another tree with a miriad of kicks. At the end of his last day of training he was sufficeintly proud of his newly aquired skill.
crouching strike 5/5
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Makarov Nylis rolled 1 10-sided dice:
2
Total: 2 (1-10)
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Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 8:10 pm
Bontenmaru walked up to one of the knocked down trees and ripped off one of the smaller limbs. He spend two days using his carpenter's knife to carve the branch into a decent sword. He spent the rest of the last day fishing.
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