Gustahn growled at her, not in anger but more so resembling that of a beast keeping his distance Gustahn extended his right arm holding his blade behind him and then with a powerful movement of swinging his blade sent a flying slash heading straight towards her, Perila who had a rough introduction to this type of attack was well prepared for Gustahn to have it as well considering his new strength, yet still all she could do was put her blade forward as she blocked it. the flying slash was so powerful that even though she blocked it Perila found herself being forcibly moved as she had to press down on the ground to stay on her feet as she kept moving back from three, five, seven feet past allies and enemies alike as her being grounded kicked up the sand causing a sand cloud to form as she was being moved, Perila then tightened her arm muscle's before swinging her blade upwards re-directing the flying slash attack towards the air while being surrounded by the sand cloud.
- Gustahn's flying slash attack:
Perila immediately dashed out of the sand cloud heading straight towards Gustahn at max speed and then thrust her blade forward intending to pierce him which he blocked with the side of his blade, he then spun around backwards and then used a quick step to lunge the small distance forward with a leap as he tried to slash her straight down the middle, but Perila had used the sharp edge of her own katana to block his strike.
Perila then flapped her wings while doing a front flip over Gustahn as he went with a swing from his right to the left and slashed him across his back making him emanate a grunting sound before he turned around and used his right leg and kicked her right into her stomach as she landed pushing her back a few feet, he then performed another quick step and slashed her just right above her stomach diagonally now making Perila grunt in pain, he attempted to swing again horizontally but Perila used her left leg kicking him in his lower left leg throwing off his balance as she immediately jumped back as he swung downwards into the sand, Perila seeing a chance didn't hesitate as she extended her arm with smoke and thrust her haki enchanted blade straight at the same cut Mashyuu had left on Gustahn body cutting even deeper into his flesh that made him cough up blood and then retracted her arm, and for just a moment she could see his black eyes flicker back to white before his eyes went black again as Gustahn let out an audible pained animalistic growl.
Proan view
Proan who had taken the eight-man to aid him for a quick sweep of releasing all the prisoners kept in captivity had gone successfully as he and his eight-men now found themselves at the lowest holding cell where all the tough prisoners were held and released them, now with everyone free they didn't hesitate to say farewell for the guard as their kindness only went so far and they feared the possibility of being recaptured and punished for this escape. Proan didn't care though, he kept up the promise he made with Perila AKA "Violet Streak" as he loved to call her instead.
Now that his real promise was out of the way it was time for him to do what he always wanted to do for a long time and that was to explode the ship to high hell. Proan before he became a guard was actually a worker for a company that contributed explosives to the marine forces all over the world, but unfortunately the place of his work had been raided by Gustahn and his crew nearly two and a half years ago and he was stuck working for him as a lowly guardsman every since despite his knowledge of explosives and how to build them. With the rebellion however unlike the rest he didn't just see the opportunity to escape, but the prime chance to get a little payback for Gustahn underestimating his potential despite being a member of his party by force longer than most and willingly before he left, although he had confidence in Violet Streak, he didn't know if she could defeat the captain so at least this way, either way, his might would be severely crippled compared to before.
Proan began to head towards the room where the cannon balls were stored that were hollowed out and filled to the brim with gunpowder with an easy to lite fuse, most didn't attack Gustahn as his force was massive even before coming to the mysterious island of Jordsand allowing the cannonballs to gather up dust as he prefered to subject the few who opposed him into his force rather than straight out kill them. After fifteen minutes he made it to the room with a cart to haul the large black mass's around the ship after putting a large can of gasoline on the cart as well and a pack of matches in his pocket.
With great difficulty, Proan made his way back to the bottom of the ship and then proceeding with even more great difficulty take out the cannonballs one by one simply dropping them onto the floor not to close to his own feet just to get them out of the cart, now with the hard part done he smiled with great pleasure as he started to pour gasoline all over the cannon balls and then begun to make a very thin trail as he worked his way back up to the deck of the ship with the gasoline, throwing the can down the ship he then took out the matches and easily lit one and dropped it to the beginning of the thin trail he made admiring his work, but he didn't linger too long before getting off the ship himself as he wanted to watch Gustahn's ship burn from a more discreet and safe location.
Back to Perila
Gustahn despite now heavily injured still moved as quick as he did as he dashed towards her before Perila landed her blow albeit now there was blood gushing from his hip wound, whatever mysterious powers the blade had it seemed to control his mind allowing the natural limiters of the human brain to be altered, but he was still flesh and blood and one could only take so much until their body would begin to break down on them.
As Gustahn rushed her Perila once again tried to aim for his hip wound by extending her arm with smoke, but Gustahn curled his arms over to that side as he used the sharp edge of his own blade to block hers as he continued to run causing sparks to fly about as their blades screeched against one another, once he was close enough Perila could see his muscles visibly tighten for attack that made him cough up a lot of blood but nonetheless he completed the motion as he let down a powerful swing that despite Perila blocked forced her down to one knee as the sand around them lifted into the air by the sheer force of the swing that made the blade Perila had been using crack at the very force.
- Gustahns crazed downward swing:
As Gustahn kept pressing down the blade Perila was cracking even more under the pressure, realizing her blade wouldn't hold out on its own she surrounded it in thick smoke to protect it from further damage, however despite doing that Perila let go but it was a diversion as she immediately rolled forward to the side of his hip wound and closed her hand forming a mini spear and thrust it straight into his wound, Gustahn's eyes flicked from black to white repeatedly as his eyes moved to look towards Perila as he kept a tight grip on his blade with blood flowing from his mouth before he opened it to speak, "
F...uck you!!" he would spit out before Perila took her hand back out and thrust it back in this time twisting her hand around making him scream out as he chocked on his own blood before pulling her hand back out.
Gustahn stood for a couple of seconds before stumbling back a few steps and falling onto his back with raspy breathing, poised to end it, but suddenly a massive explosion happened that made her nearly deaf as she turned around to look where it came from only to find Gustahn's ship blowing up and being left in flames.
- Gustahn's burning ship:
Suddenly the world around her went black around her and from behind she felt malicious intent, in response to the feeling of such evil Perila suddenly turned around only to get stabbed in the stomach by the very tip of Gustahn's blade as he held it in his hand while looking her in the eyes as the light was fading from them, Perila coughed up a bit of blood while at the same time Gustahn's grip let go of his blade and it fell down. Perila stepped back a few holding the wound as blood lightly flowed from it, the battle was still raging all around her but the rebels outnumbered Gustahn's remaining forces five to one and without their captain and a ship to leave their island there wasn't much for them to continue fighting for very long, Perila did her job anyway and it was time to leave but she wasn't leaving empty-handed as she felt some pride even in all the chaos she orchestrated albeit not all the way, looking around the prize was obviously Gustahn's blade but looking at it's demonic state Perila didn't want to touch it yet she understood that it had some mysterious energy to it.
Despite her troubles on it she slowly bent over taking the blade into her hand but just as she did so the blade begun to crack in appearance and then shattered as it became an entirely different blade replacing the dark purple color with red and the sheath becoming a tiger like design as if before was all an illusion, with the blade in her hand Perila started to rapidly flap her wings and started to airlift with a smile that she finally done something on her own terms and found herself ready to return to the Phantom Raiders pirate ship where Mashyuu and Tyrian were waiting for her.
- Gustahn's blade upon Perila taking it into her hand:
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