Right and wrong is subjective, isn't it? In that case, it'd rather be wrong as many times as it takes to achieve my ideal of freedom.

The final days before the Ball, Jackal really just wanted to clear his mind about anything to do with Mafia life, Kingpins, the Underworld or his elaborate plans, for now, he'd just be in the newly constructed theater room, listening to the orchestra play several pieces from Chopin's catalog. Meanwhile on the deck, Sinbad had invited a few of the gals from the Second District over, to have a little party in his room. The key crew members room's were as big as aboard a luxury cabin on a cruise-liner, so the plan was, gather up the Bandits, grab a few drinks for the pantry and kick a celebration for the boys before the war ahead. However, as the final girl stepped on board, the familiar face of the criminal who'd vandalized the ship rang alarms in the Navigator's head.

Squinting his eyes, from the time the woman arrived, Sinbad had his dagger drawn.

"Not this... Look. Captain likes odd-ball women like yourself. Before he starts to get attached to you... I'd like you to leave at this moment. DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG IT TOOK TO GET THAT SPRAY PAINT OFF!?" Sinbad stated, calmly at first but then slowly  descending into the darkness that was the bubbling anger in his heart. Whistling, a bunch of the Bandits that we're going below the deck, circled backwards, hands rested above their pistols and swords, ready to garner revenge on the woman. However, a few of the Bandits rushed off to Jackal's space in the theater to inform him of the tiny sized intruder.

After about five minutes, they'd arrived to the Captain's position, hopping up from his seat, he'd scale the staircase from the bottom of the seating arrangement, entering into the hallway once again, making his way towards the deck, upon arrival, he'd see Sinbad with his weapon drawn, and a few of his grunts laying on the ground unconscious. The audience in attendance for the throw-down would've been the women from the Second District, the Bandits who'd felt in-different towards Fibi and those who just wanted to watch a good squabble. The entire air of the deck changed once the Boss arrived.

"Shishishi... Looks like you lot are having fun. Can I join in?" Jackal stated, expanding his arms out widely.

Sighing, Sinbad would sheath his dagger, and resume his festivities for the evening. "Capt's here now. Pack it up boys." Sinbad announced. "Oi. Fishwoman. I don't know Capt's stance on you but hanging around us is bad news. We're in the middle of a gang war, I don't mean to sound rude but you should mind your business when it comes to us. Jack's a softy for females usually but we've already lost-" Sinbad's statement was interrupted from a sharp look from the Bandit King.

"Relax. It's not that serious. Shishishi..." Jackal stated, running into a chuckle.

Exiting to underneath the deck, "Sin's been on edge lately. Forgive him. What seems to be the cause for the visit Fibi? You could've called me and let me know you we're coming over. I would've hanged around the deck. Besides, generally, my ship's stuck flying in the skies." Jackal concluded.

Right and wrong is subjective, isn't it? In that case, it'd rather be wrong as many times as it takes to achieve my ideal of freedom.

"Who doesn't have a Den Den in these times..." Jackal thought to himself. "Peculiar. Though, that wouldn't be the strangest thing about this Scaly Mink so far." Jackal concluded the thought. "Shishishi... Going around tagging ships sounds like fun. I have no skill for anything of the artistic nature. Once you don't mind if I watch, then let's get going." Jackal stated, walking over to Fibi and grabbing the nape of her collar. In one motion, Jackal would've blasted into mid-air using his Bomu Bomu Fruit, until the duo was about fifty meters into the air with a single charge, focusing the core of the explosion underneath his dog like appendages that biologically served as his feet by the human texts.

At this height, Jackal and Fibi had an avian's eye view of the Nil District Port, and as they began to loose height, Jackal used a second charge to land them onto the dockside. The force of them decompressing was from gravity was alleviated by intermediate charges in between the decline til the landing, once they'd land, Jackal would blast off into the air once again, until Fibi found a ship that'd peaked her interest. Grinning, "Tell me more about yourself short-stuff. Why's a girl capable of fighting off my Bandits hanging around in Baltigo tagging pirate ships?" Jackal inquired. Finally, a vessel keen to the street artist eyes would've come into view, to which, Jackal would've responded by landing ten minutes walking distance from the vessel.

Skills:

Right and wrong is subjective, isn't it? In that case, it'd rather be wrong as many times as it takes to achieve my ideal of freedom.

The childish glee that oozed from Fibi's demeanor and voicebox as they'd soared through the skies, at first, genuinely caught him off guard. What kind of life had someone have to live where the concept of being dragged into the heaven's abruptly would be met with pure unsaturated glee. Most people usually pass-out or relieve themselves of bodily fluids, and in more recent times, literally fight the Mink to be returned to land but not this lass, she was prime and ready for more movement, as if, Jackal himself was nothing more than a mere amusement park ride in her life.

"That's a pretty loaded question. Where do I even start?" Jackal pondered after Fibi's rebuttal to his own investigative nature, with a question of her own. As the duo scaled through the East Docking area, looking for their next tag, he'd answer the barrage of questions backwards, finishing with what he'd like to see as a final thought. "I guess my kind aren't as common as I thought. I'm a Mink. We're a race of animals with human like traits. I guess, if I had to explain it generally. Feels like a long time since I've told anyone this but I'm actually, half-half. Though we have humanoid biology, generally, our animal traits are dominant. In my case, my mother's side of the family had interbred with Lesser Minks, so I came out as a 'failure' as many of my Tribe would state in my youth." Jackal explained.

"It was pretty odd too since when I was born in my moms litter, I was more Mink than anything else so I'm told. I grew into my human like features and all of the resentment that came with it. I don't remember much about Zou, which is where I'm from but from what I do recall, it's a beautiful place. I was abducted as a slave and haven't been back since." Jackal continued on. It'd be at this point the Mink would've rattled his brain trying to find an image of what he'd truly like to see actualized through the Fishman's Art.

"An Elephant." Jackal blurted out, as random as that sounded. "Between you and me, Zou's hoisted on the back of an ancient Elephant Beast named Zunisha." Jackal stated. "We'd often ride the lifts off her body into the water, and go swimming for hours on end. Shishishishi... I was a pretty decent swimmer too. After eating this 'curse' of mine... I'd sink in seconds now." Jackal concluded. "Now you have my answer, let's see your brush in action." Jackal stated, shinning his canine like teeth at the woman in approval.

Right and wrong is subjective, isn't it? In that case, it'd rather be wrong as many times as it takes to achieve my ideal of freedom.

It'd been odd experience for the feline, this was the first time since Gilbard that Jackal had went down memory lane about his time on Zou, watching Fibi get excited of his tales brought even more relief, the constant fear of being judge from formally being a slave still hung over the now very free and established Pirate Captain. Finally, after ways of walking, Fibi had finally found her target, it was a colossal tanker, much larger than his own flying Brig, and the constant repetition of lion head figures to cover the canons mouths, indicated to Jackal that ship had to belong to someone of interest. As Fibi scuttled off, it wouldn't take long before the crew aboard of the vessel took notice of the Bandit King's present, and a squawk from an alarmed grunt sent the ship into full alert.

"Your the B-B-B-Bandit King! Do you know how much beli's on your head!? Why the hell are you walking around gawking at our ship!?" one of the men shouted stunned.

With one massive leap, Jackal flipped, landing on the deck of the Full Rigged. "Even criminals need fresh air every now and again. Shishishi... You're flying a pirate banner yourself in this dock, whose really the bold one?" Jackal inquired.

"You dare to step foot on my vessel, Mink-boy." a voice echoed from below the deck, garnering strength as the massive man's face came into focus.

Nemesis:

Standing at almost ten feet in height, the bandaged male concealed his identity beneath silver wrapping, almost giving the man's appearance a cyborg theme.

"I was just coming over for a friendly chat really. Maybe a game or two. I have some time to kill these days." Jackal retorted smugly.

"See that Jolly. We're the Nemesis Pirate Bounty Hunter Gang. We're pirates who hunt other pirates with the ideal of one day becoming a Royal Shichibukai of the Sea. I'm Nemesis, leader of this crew." the man declared, swinging his hands back and forth horizontally.

"I'm Ears. Also known as the Bandit King." Jackal stated, crossing his right hand along his chest before quickly dipping into a ninety degree bow. "Honestly, we're either going to fight now or afterwards seeing as my associates currently vandalizing your ship. If you opt for another route, it'd play blackjack to clear our score. If I win-" the Mink's sentence was interrupted by sound of five thin ten inch needles flying towards his face at incredible speeds [3].

Intercepting the attack, Jackal simply shifted his head to the right, using his Kenbunshoku Haki to assure they're wasn't any trick attached to the projectiles.

"Your not just some fledgling hunter are you." Jackal inquired grinning broadly.

"No. Three Stars and counting... Mr.Ears." Nemesis retorted.

Right and wrong is subjective, isn't it? In that case, it'd rather be wrong as many times as it takes to achieve my ideal of freedom.

As the Bounty Hunter and Supernova stood eye to eye, Jackal's accomplice climbed aboard the deck, revealing her position to the entire enemy force.

"Shishishi... You've gotta be kidding me." the Bandit King thought to himself sighing.

Grinning menacingly, Nemesis extended his bandages towards Fibi's position in attempts to entangle the Fishwoman, but Jackal used a single leap, jumping into the path of the three snares, which wrapped around his right leg, right wrist, and throat. Coated in Busohoku Haki, the strength of the grip increased by the second, as Nemesis tried to snap Jackal in any possible.

Covering the restrained areas in his own armament, a small scale explosion would've occurred at each of the grappled points, the force of the Mink's explosion being strong enough to free himself from the bandages. Retracting his severed wrapping, more and more of the man's wrapping became undone, revealing specifically crossbows, attached onto gauntlets, which Jackal assumed deployed the needles from earlier.

"You have some interesting toys there..." Jackal stated, scowling at the man's attempt to take out the painter.

"Your reaction time is amazing. Not only was your movement prompt and well positioned, you even devised a counter from my restraints as well. I don't like using this ability since it's unregistered but I ate a Devil's fruit known as the Animate Animate Fruit. Any in animate object I take can mimic the movements and speeds of an living thing. My bandages mimic the movements of a snake. My needles can mimic the descent of an eagle. I've even laced my needles to mimic the poison of a viper. I'm not stronger than you.... but one touch from my needles and that's lights out, Ears." Nemesis explained. "Or maybe I should fire my needles towards your little accomplice." the man stated flailing his tongue outside of his mouth.  

"Shishishishi" Jackal exclaimed, breaking down in laughter. His former serious demeanor seemed to have faded, as something about the man's speech tickled a bone or two in the canines body.

"It's been awhile since I've been able to let loose. Everywhere I've been as of late... I had to hold back in fear of damaging my ship or causing too much of a spectacle. Three Star Hunter huh? I'm going to go all out." Jackal stated. "But first." Jackal stated, resting his hands on Fibi's head, the Mink would wind-up the Fishman in her chibi form, and toss her like a sack of potatoes off the side of the ship into the harbor.  It'd be at that moment, Jackal would burst off at full-speed [5], closing the distance between Nemesis and himself within an instant to contact range.

"When did he!?" Nemesis exclaimed, the motion appearing as nothing more than a blur to the Hunter. Transforming his bandages elastic nature into tougher material, the tips began to spin like that of drills, eight drills in total, all plotting to impale the pirate at various points. With one charge, Jackal detonated his entire body, the explosions torque fried the man's wrappings to nothing more than debris. Vicious information filled third degree burns covered the entire right side of the Hunter's body, causing him to buckle, wheezing in pain, as his breathing became extremely heavy. Though his bandages sucked up the majority of the damage, all of the bones on the right side of his body was broken from the charge.

The scale of the explosion covered at least a fifty meter radius leaving a gigantic hole in the deck. Hovering in mid-air, as Nemesis body fell several feet below the deck, the force of explosion weakened after the twenty-five meter mark, and though it wasn't enough to leave chasm for the entire range, up to blast pinnacle, no footing could've been found on the deck, and several of the Nemesis Crew died upon impact, it was mass murder in a matter of seconds. The entire boat shook, and smoke formed a plume towards the skies, causing all of those in the dock to gawk in amazement.

Using his explosions to scale to towards the ship's mast, Jackal tried to get an assessment of the situation, no, act of terrorism he'd caused. "Maybe I went a bit too hard on him." Jackal thought to himself. Below the deck, wallowing in pain, Nemesis screeches in agony as his second-in-command, gawks at the sight of her Captain, literally in curiosity. "Don't just stand there you Fishman Brat! Heal me with your medicine!" Nemesis barked. "Say pretty please!" the Fishman demanded pouting, swirling around in circles to keep herself entertained. "Josie! If you don't stop fucking around I won't be able to beat that Supernova! That's an order! Do something about these burns." Nemesis commanded.

Releasing her flesh eating leeches from several containers from the bag at her waist, the leeches began to eat away at the dead flesh that'd accumulate on Nemesis body from the initial explosion. "What's the situation out there? How many of them are they? A Supernova you murmured, he must have at least a thousand men under his guise to leave you like this." Josie exclaimed arrogantly. As the leeches ate the dead skin and flesh off, the Fishman used the slime from her body which seemed to have medicinal properties to restore color to the humongous man's skin.

"It's only him and Fishman brat." Nemesis stated.

Astonished, "My My... and caused this much damage. For now, the smoke from above is covering us. Get back up there and take him out... I'll find the Fishman Brat." Josie explained.

Skills Used:

Right and wrong is subjective, isn't it? In that case, it'd rather be wrong as many times as it takes to achieve my ideal of freedom.

Hanging from the crow's nest, Jackal could've seen Fibi and the alien attacker in the distance seemingly conducting what appeared from their body language at first, a civil conversation. However, that didn't last too long but the Mink Captain didn't have to pander over Fibi this time. From below the deck, shards of the ship came flying towards Jackal, covered in jet black Busoshoku Haki, about hundred in number. Each chunk of debris was as large as the size of a garden pumpkin, however, not as spherical in nature, more so edged.

Rising on the platform of the shattered decked, seemingly houses together like a hive of bee honeycomb, Nemesis now stood before Jackal covered in slime but his burn wounds were slowly diminishing as the adhesive mended together his melting flesh. "Shishishishi... This is new. I've never seen someone survive one my charges from that range in recent times. I guess I'll have to kick it up a notch." Jackal commented.

Panting heavily, "Ha. I'm barely struggling to keep my eyes open and your telling there's more beyond that last attack? You're a danger to this generation Bandit King - Ears. I'll have to eliminate you before you come into your true ability." Nemesis stated.

Lunging from the crow's nest into mid-air, Jackal blasted off to close the distance once again, touching his nose against Nemsis's own. Astonished, the man literally panicked, and used his floating platform to retreat, this time, losing it's bonded stated, and more so, dragging him along for a ride, the objects began to dart off, similar to that of a dragonfly in terms of how his body was being tugged away. "Avoiding close range combat-" Jackal thought to himself, but before he could've countered the man's escape, bits of the debris began to cling to his body, piling on top of him, piece by piece in mere seconds. "Curohohoho... Debris Coffin - Leech Hill!" Nemesis exclaimed. "I can turn the scraps into blood sucking leeches that'll drink your body dry in a matter of minutes." the Bounty Hunter responded. The nest that formed on top of the Bandit King snowballed into a gigantic festering floating chamber of leeches.

Grinning beneath the chaos, the Mink automatically detonated the blood within all of the leeches, causing hailstorms of blood to platter everywhere. Left hovering, using frequent charges to maintain his position, was the Bandit Captain, who was a bit light headed from loosing so much blood. Gathering a mixture of mucus and saliva in his mouth, coupling his lips in the form of pout, the Mink would've blown a spit bubble that'd expand with an ominous hue of gold, the color themed in a metallic base. Popping off the bubble from his mouth, and coating his own right hand in Buso, Jackal fired off the water based bubble towards Nemesis's direction, and before his eyes could've even processed the speed of it's advance, the bubble had begun to suck the man inward. Fighting against the mucky watery feel of the bubble, Nemesis first instinct was to pop the bubble, and free himself from it's clutches.

The moment the bubble pop, a massive explosion [6] occurred in the skies, releasing a light that'd make it appear that this was to be apart of a fireworks show. Instead, once the plume of smoke cleared, from it's center, a single body dropped from the sky and crashed violently on the surface of what remained of the deck. It was Nemesis body, except every bone inside it was broken, and his flesh had been burnt into similar to that of charcoal. The bandages that the man once proudly wore as his signature was stripped away to contorted and barren flesh. Decompressing towards the ship's surface, Nemesis and Jackal's eyes met eye to eye, using his quick explosive charges to descend.  

"W-Why's a pirate as strong as you are still mucking around in Paradise? Does the New World frighten you boy?" Nemesis inquired, using the last of his energy to quell his curiosity before he'd pass onto the next life.

"The New World? As in the next stage beyond Paradise? Shishishi... A lot of things frighten me but that's not one of them. I've learned very quickly... No matter where you are in the World, you'll always meet people stronger than yourself. The key thing to remember is... always have a plan, even if it's made up in that moment." Jackal stated but his sentence lost gusto near the end, the effects of the blood lost from the leeches was beginning to take effect. "You say some interesting things Mink. Word of warning... New World... They'll be Hunters who've risen to Four and Five Star ratings... And they're abilities are like none you've ever seen. In the New World... Everyone's a monster. Devil Fruit abilities are more so common too and even rarer than before since that's the origin of the epidemic. If you ever find yourself in trouble Ears... Tell my master on Dressrosa, Ferrell... that I sent you-" Nemesis declared, his final words absorbed by the Bandit King, as his eyes froze stone cold wide open.

Stooping down to close the man's eyes, "It's Jackal. Helios Jackal. That's my name." Jackal uttered out of respect for the man's strength. Panting louder, Jackal's entire fur coat and body was covered in a thick layer of perspiration. Woozy and hallucinating, Jackal swore he'd seen silhouettes of a figure that resembled his Mother standing before him. Passing out on the deck next to Nemesis, the ship could've sustain the massive gaping hole in it's center, and the damage below caused the vessel to take on water and sink. Snoring, in his sleep talk, "I'll take a break... and then go help Fibi." the Mink announced, yawning in his sleep.

Skills Used:

Right and wrong is subjective, isn't it? In that case, it'd rather be wrong as many times as it takes to achieve my ideal of freedom.

The loud thud of the Captain's body crash landing into wooden flooring below the ship's deck, awoken the Captain from his deep slumber, especially, with how incredibly far the fall was. Keeping his eyes squinted to combat the changes in light intensity, the Mink rolled around back and forth before finally springing to his feet.

"How long was I out?" Jackal mumbled to himself, as his Haki could've no longer picked up on the aura of Nemesis then the last few moments of the fight came flooding into his thoughts. "The New World huh?" Jackal declared out loud, as if anyone was around to hear him. Leaping from beam to beam, the Mink began to climb and launch from pieces of the gaping ship's deck, using his feet and hand claws save the progress of his steep incline. Eventually making it on the deck once more, well, what was left of it.

Hanging over the side of the ship, with Jackal's perception his crewmate and the Nemesis pirate nakama exchanged a series of fast pace blows that even the onlooking audience couldn't keep a track of. It had them so stunned that, they didn't even noticed when the Bandit King had joined their ranks. Between the loud explosions, the collapsing deck and cloud of smoke, the only thing that made sense to them was hopping when need be, to capture the Fish Lady Fibi, and hold her as ransom for his own freedom.

Taking up the role of cheerleader, "Oi. You better not loose Fibi. If you win, I'll treat you to an sea food buffet. My treat." Jackal shouted gleefully.