After hitting him with all she had Mashyuu had stumbled back a few feet and spit out clear liquid and then gave her a look and a low growl of anger as he said he was ready and that he wouldn't be holding back either, good Perila though. Mashyuu slid into a boxing stance and told her to start whenever she was ready, Perila then dashed forward going in for a straight punch but just before she reached him she turned her whole body to smoke around him as she slipped past him and then reformed herself as she faced his back, rather or not he took any action to her she would immediately duck if he caught onto her and would follow up with a low sweeping kick to knock him off his face in which she would proceed with a double palm open hand thrust towards his mid-section, if none of this proved useful against him she would jump back a few feet if he hadn't made any action towards her himself.

The moment Perila hit him Mashyuu to her surprise erupted into a fit of chuckling before turning to face her as he lifted a brow, he made it abundantly clear that she wasn't able to bring him to the brink of death with her amount of strength yet which obviously frustrated her as even though she had gotten stronger she was still rather weak compared to others like Mashyuu and Tyrian, with this new realization that Perila wasn't strong enough to force a life or death situation it was clear they needed a new method of training Mashyuu in haki, after some thought it seemed Mashyuu had an idea stating that Perila should just try hitting him in her smoke form since any raw physical attack she did was practically useless on him which again frustrated her to no end but accepted that although she had struck him he was practically unfazed.

Mashyuu sighed and took a few steps away and stated that perhaps he shouldn't try to hurt her and instead put on the scabbard of his weapon and slid it back on locking it back in place before he was ready once again, Perila got into a basic fighting stance as she wasn't adapted to using her own body but rather her blade as an extension of it making her stance awkward, but nonetheless she was determined to pay back Mashyuu for helping her out. After a few moments, Mashyuu Lunged forward as he used his wings to send himself him into a spin as his cane thrust forward Perila turned her whole upper body to smoke letting his cane pass through as well as Mashyuu, but then he wasn't finished as when he landed he spun back around and went for a high to low sweep but Perila extended her leg by using smoke and despite not turning around kicked his sheathed blade causing him to move back a few feet before returning back to her natural human form.

Not moving from her position Perila turned around and immediately lashed out her left leg extending it with smoke like a long whip towards Mashyuu aiming for his left side, rather or not he took action wouldn't matter as right before it hit she would turn her whole leg into smoke causing it to surround Mashyuu as she lifted her leg up in its smoke form and reformed nothing but her feet while hardening the heel of it with haki as she would send it crashing down aiming for Mashyuu forehead.

Just as Perila's heel was about to make an impact with his forehead Mashyuu noticed in time to allow himself to drop to one knee and use both hands to brace for the force of Perila's attack, she didn't know how this was going to go as Mashyuu was already quite a deal stronger as he already displayed making her think this was a more strenuous task then she originally thought it to be, but her fears of not being able to teach Mashyuu were quickly put the rest as when her foot reached his cane it was a physical touch meaning he had already figured out how to use haki. Mashyuu deflected the kick to mere nothingness after it made an impact as he lifted himself into the air by spreading his wings, he then spins mid-air escaping Perila's smoke that had surrounded him, she didn't know what his next move was before she suddenly found herself in the center of it as he got super close to her while lifting his weapon up her body with a heavy hand as he said "Sky" while his whole body lifted to the point his knees were equal length to her shoulder, whatever this was Perila was too slow to avoid it so she placed her haki on the arm that his cane seemed to be connected to in brace for his attack as he finished his speaking with "Fall!" as he brought the covered blade down on Perila's shoulder with such force despite the haki protecting it she felt as if it had fractured under the weight of his power as she felt it slightly dislocate from it's fixed position.

Although Perila was now in pain coupled with the fact she was exhausted from overextending herself pass her own limit she was happy for Mashyuu as it seemed he had figured out the last piece of a puzzle he didn't know he was looking for, after taking a few minutes to test his new ability he then called out for Harley telling her to check Perila's wounds as he had done quite a bit of damage, Perila too tired to argue or make a fuss simply followed as Harley asked her to follow her to the medical facility on the ship but not before Mashyuu expressed his thanks for her helping him in which she said, "I think thanks goes both ways on this occasion" before leaving with Harley. Within Harley's medical room she checked the stab marks from Mashyuu's daggers, noting that they were only hurled with enough force for the tips to stick in and only stayed lodged into Perila due to the angle at which they entered her and stated that as long as she kept pressure off of them and with a week rest with the addition of standard pain pills her wounds would heal mostly, just as Perila reached to take them she kept her grip tight enough to express that if she showed Mashyuu ill -will that somehow she would pay, Perila nodded but otherwise didn't feel threatened, she was in pain, and tired, and honestly was the one who won Mashyuu over, she wasn't about to let Harley scare her in any way. Perila slowly unscrewed the top for the pain pills and popped three in her mouth and swallowing them with the little saliva already in her mouth and then re-screwed the top back on as she proceeded to relax into her medical bed and fall asleep.

Perila had just woken up in her hospital bed, although she hadn't been so mangled as to warrant such bed rest it was nice to just relax without having to worry about things for a bit and just think about what her plan was going forward in the future, as she thought about her situation in the grand scheme of things she was definitely getting stronger, but as Mashyuu proved just three days ago she was nowhere near as strong as him and Mashyuu wasn't even the strongest person out there. If there were people that existed in the new world that trumped Mashyuu strength by far then Perila also needed to get stronger to handle it, to be able to truly survive in her new environment, but in order to get stronger she needed something to let her know where her strength currently sat in the world, she needed a test of some sort.

The real question was what would be a good way to test her current level of strength and her two newly found abilities? Mashyuu couldn't help her with this as, despite his words he was holding back on her, she needed a real test. Perila sat wondering on her bed for nearly an hour on what would be the appropriate method of testing herself, her gaze shot all around the room until she laid eyes on a newspaper with a randomly wanted bounty placed on it and it finally clicked, the marines. Perila had nearly forgotten she and Mashyuu were both wanted people, if anyone wasn't going to hold back on her it would be them and she wouldn't have to hold back on them either, with marine's she could go all out and even test her new abilities and stretch them to the limit, with this realization she shot out of her medical bed like a bat out of hell putting on all her clothes.

She was determined to test herself but she also wanted to test Mashyuu, it was clear on just how much stronger he was but she wanted to know how much stronger, the only way to figure this out would for them to test themselves together. Now out of bed, Perila dashed for Mashyuu quarters and in her excitement forgotten to knock as she yelped, "Mashyuu, let's go test ourselves by taking on a marine camp! Let's test out the limits of our Strength and our haki's!"


(From here I will be following regular Haki usage as the first part was training for it.)

When Perila burst into his room she was meant with a smile as he called out her name followed by the cutie nickname of baby, Perila didn't really like that as it felt like it diminished her status as a warrior of Skypiea but that wasn't important at the moment, Mashyuu offered her some coffee and then wondered if she had lunch, but it seemed he had a lot more on his mind as well as he switched to a new subject moments later, he began to explain that he had just been going over a plan of attack for a small marine base located here nearby on a forest that was indicated by a red circle on his map.

He continued to explain that he had been watching the camps movements for the last two days and that he discovered that the camp had about twenty marines within it and that from his investigations he had to guess someone was being interrogated inside its walls somewhere, he then got into the design of the camp or miniature base saying their walls were made from trees being essentially like an oversized tree  house. The base itself wasn't too wide being slightly thinner then their own ship in which Perila thought was still quite huge as she had never had a ship before, because of their base size Mashyuu concluded that at least half of the marine's there would be off guard due to having to work shifts to maintain their area, Mashyuu stated the obvious that they would eventually get found out by the snipers on each wall but that also made him say that those people were the ones they had to take out first and afterward they would be able to go berserk on the base site after affirming Perila's goals were to test her limit in which she nodded enthusiastically too.

"Yeah, that's what I would like to do, but you mentioned someone being interrogated in theirs? That's not good, If we're already going there I think it be best to free their captive, It might be hopeful on my part but maybe if we free them they would be thankful and offer us something in return rather it be supplies or their alliance, can never have too much of that these days."   Mashyuu finished his coffee and dessert and put his attention back on Perila asking if there was anything she likes to do before they set out for the base, Perila thought about it but found she had nothing else to do, "Let's head out, I rather get there before the captive either spill the beans on whatever information their trying to weasel out of him."

With her and Mashyuu intentions clear, she would walk out of his room with her two blades attached to her belt to her right hip as she begun to flap her wings and lift into the air, she would let Mashyuu lead them to the base as she didn't know where it was other than seeing a picture of it on the map. Once Mashyuu lead them their she would confirm for herself the positions of the snipers and then turn back to Mashyuu, "So, what's our plan? I can turn myself into smoke and take out a one or two of the snipers silently, but you need to handle the rest, after that, It will probably turn into an all-out assault on us. So any other idea's on how to approach this?"

Answering her question about their plan of assault Mashyuu's eyes narrowed as he raised a red-gloved finger out towards the base about forty meters out, he pointed out that beyond the tree's that were providing cover one could still see the marine's white uniform standing out on the top which was where the snipers were located, know with her sight locked onto them Mashyuu said he will swing around back and take two of the snipers out while Perila was to turn into smoke and take out the two in the front, afterward they were to meet up near the center of the base and finish their business.

Memorizing the plan into her head Perila then nodded back to Mashyuu that she understood what to do, Mashyuu didn't waste time, meanwhile, Perila covered her blade in thick smoke to conceal it while she herself turned her whole body to smoke. While Mashyuu went around back using the forest to conceal his movements Perila went around the front while stretching herself out a bit more to look more natural, while Mashyuu dealt with the other two snipers Perila let her smokey form ooze upwards on the fortress's walls until she was right underneath the sniper to the left of the wall, right before the sniper was about to shoot Perila lashed out her blade arm at a tilted angle as she slashed the vocal cords of the marine so he couldn't scream as he held his own throat trying to stop the blood, Perila then rose upwards semi-solidifying herself as she manipulated the guy's movements to shoot the other sniper in the skull before letting herself become fully smoke once again.

Now in the air, while maintaining her gaseous smoke form Perila wondered where the target she was going to rescue was placed, recalling what Mashyuu said about using Mantra to find him Perila did just that as the situation was possibly time sensitive, she took a deep breath letting the world blacken around her as she subconsciously drawn out all the noise that was happening at the moment, like candle's being lit in the dark Perila started to see people as silhouettes of themselves while being a color within a five meter radius, she could see Mashyuu who was blue, and then there were all the marines who were red as they were extremely hostile towards Mashyuu presence, but Perila needed to reach further, taking another deep breath she extended the radius of her Mantra to eight meters, ten meters, thirteen mete-! She saw it, a shade of red and yellow surrounded by four red silhouettes as if guarding it, as she didn't see anything else suspicious she had to guess that was the target she was looking for.

when she begun to let her focus go allowing the world's color and sound to return the same spot she had her gaze affixed to was a single tent surrounded by many others, If she hadn't had Mantra she may have had to go through many others to find what she was looking for, this Mantra thing was indeed useful Perila thought to herself. Perila began to make her descent towards the tent, with Mashyuu gathering the brute of their attention it was rather easy for Perila to make her way there when she arrived at the tent she could hear the sound of heavy breathing, the target was possibly hurt but he was alive.

Even more intent on releasing the captive from World Government hands Perila decided to slip through the small cracks of the tent letting herself flow inside, the room slowly became more smokey and the smell of Perila's gaseous form did not seem to go unnoticed as one of the marine's wafted their hand in front of their face as if trying to get rid of the smell but none were any the wiser, as soon as Mashyuu made his next move so would she.

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As Perila waited for a moment of chaos to make her strike see took notice of the four  men surrounding the sole figure in the center, the man in the front towards the right was clearly top heavy as the upper portion of his body was quite muscular and large in size with veins bulging putting his muscle's into finer definition, but with a glance towards his lower section it was clear that he had no spent too much time in shaping them as well indicted from their rather skinny size and the slight trembling movement as if they were holding something that beginning to be too much, the marine to his left was fairly built and so was the one behind him, it wasn't until Perila looked at the last men that made her think he and the first marine were either brothers or partners, while the first marine was top heavy with skinny legs this one was rather unrefined in his upper body but his lower body was clearly well built, obviously meant for leg power.

Suddenly the sound of gunshots resounded in the base outside, It was all Perila needed to go on strike, taking the time to notice the guards bodies she went for the marine soldier who had serious leg power first, from the bottom of the floor right behind him she rose up while reforming her human figure, she immediately uncovered her blade letting the thick smoke dissipate while at the same time the marine to his left noticed Perila but it was far too late as she took her blade into her hand and with a quick twirl of the handle she performed a horizontal slash  across the back of his leg in his lower hamstring muscle's and slightly elevated her aim so that the tip of her blade would carry over to slash the marine who noticed her across the chest.

She had already taken out one of the four guards and injured another but now that her presence was known to the guards they took action, one guard took out a shotgun and immediately aimed it at Perila's head and fired only to be meant with the surprise that the area of her face he shot was deformed by smoke only to collect itself and reform while at the same time she dashed towards the marine using her left leg to swipe him off his feet causing him to fall, before he got to the ground Perila used the heel of her shoes to pierce it into his chest causing a circular heel shape wound while he flew right outside the tent, the first marine that she had attacked had lost his leg function and couldn't fight but instead he picked up the shotgun that had fell to the floor to catch Perila by suprise while the other  marine guard took out a stick and with a press of a button it extended into a  spear that he attacked her with from the otherside, althought Perila had mastered her unique devil fruit enought to turn into full smoke she could not maintain it forever nor could she switch it off and on mutiple times at a rapid pace, so instead of turning to smoke like usually she used her left wing to cover her while using her willpower to cover it in a hard gleem of haki which caused the shotgun bullet to bounce back killing the marine guard finally while she used her right leg to kick the other marine guard just below his knee to make his leg bend unwillfully and spun around slapping the man with her haki enchanted wing that caused the spear he was holding to slam hard into his face essentially knocking him out with his own tool.

She let herself relax causing her haki to disappear while she faced the final guard, but unlike the others he had already been injured and was not so willing to fight anymore, he simply dropped his weapon and began to run out of the tent at a quick pace, with no guards too disturb her now Perila returned her blade back into it's sheath and looked towards the man who had been quiet, now that she took a closer look the prisoner had markings that she had seen before, now genuinely curious Perila lifted up the bag over their face to meant with the surprise that it was no other then Tyrian the old champion of Gustahn's battle arena although he was knocked out and it seemed he had lost a bit of his muscle mass from the last time she saw him. Perila didn't waste time and immediately cut the rope that was keeping him tied to the chair and then  slapped Tyrian as hard as she could while shouting "Wake up!" causing him to fall off his chair in utter shock, it took a few moments for him to get his bearings but then he finally looked up and said, "....Violet Streak....is that you?" Happy that her friend noticed her Perila spoke, "Yes it's me Tyrian but we don't have a lot of time and need to finish off this base before they call for reinforcements, can you still fight?" Tyrian although still dazed nodded in response to her question, Perila walked over to the man who had fallen who had the spear and kicked it over to Tyrian, "For now you can fight with that, let's get out of here."

Perila walked out of the tent with Tyrian and immediately started flapping her wings for flight, and grabbed both of Tyrian's hands noticing that it was much easier to carry him with the weight loss, she made speedy haste towards the sound of Mashyuu battling with the rest of the marine's and when she arrived she dropped Tyrian onto the ground in which he curled into a ball and landed by impaling the tip of his spear into one of the heads into the marine gathering attention to him while Perila dropped onto the floor next to him covering his back.

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