The Skuttlebutt knifed through the water, making its way inland, using one of the many waterways that cut up the island. The sounds of battle echoed across Cactus Island, metal clanking, explosions erupting. Then, suddenly a strange sound rung in Bazil’s ears, Puru Puru, Puru Puru reaching into his pocket, the pirate pulled out the noisy snail and tossed it to Yasuke. “Take care of this.” He ordered, his eyes fixated on the looming battle ahead of them.

Yasuke caught the snail and quickly answered, however all he heard was intermittent static, “Young Lord, there seems to be a proble-..” The samurai started before being cut of by Jackal as the Black Baron pulled up alongside of Bazil’s vessel. Being a few feet away he garnered the kingslayer’s attention and explained that for some reason the snail transponders were not working. As they approached the fork in the river, Bazil’s attention never once wavered from the path on the right, the hair on his neck stood on end as his blood began to boil, his fingers began to twitch, and his devilish smile stretched from ear to ear. So much so that he failed to notice the black baron beginning to pull over, “Young Lord!” The samurai shouted, “Shall we pull over with them?” Without so much as a glance, Bazil waved his hand to signal Ezekiel to follow suit, dropping anchor a few meters down shore from the Baron.

After the ship came to a halt and was firmly anchored, Bazil and co made their way to the ground and towards Jackal and his crew, who could be seen getting ready to disembark their own ship. After the minkman shouted to Bazil, he mumbled something towards Sinbad, who obviously disagreed with whatever his captain had told him. Once Jackal’s paws were on the sandy ground, he looked in Wyld Stallyns direction, the trio already approaching the mink.

Jackal had learned how to talk with the Red Devil, making suggestions and comments, allowing him to feel as though he himself had made the decision. The mink was smart, “Ezekiel, stay here with the ship.” He ordered, though the prophet didn’t need much convincing to avoid the upcoming battle.

“As thou command, thy lord.” Ezekiel responded, placing his right arm over his stomach and bowing, the prophet then returned to the Skuttlebutt and let out a deep sigh once he was on board and out of ear shot, “Sheww, dodged a bullet there.” He said, speaking in normal tongue and wiping the sweat from his brow.

“I should probably stay with the ship to, huh? Ya know, just in case, right?” Yasuke said as he slowly stepped backwards towards the ship, hoping to also be excluded from the fight.

“Nahh, your fatass is coming, so let’s go.” Bazil responded coldly, clearly itching to take part in the action. Tears flowed from Yasuke’s eyes as he grumbled about the situation his captain was about to put them in, begrudgingly following the red haired pirate and the minkman as they began to track the Red Fox known as Soju.

As the group entered the forest, Jackal led in the front with Yasuke close behind him, who had heard what the mink said and responded. “Not everyone wants to be alone, and there’s no place lonelier than the top.” The samurai mumbled to Jackal, dried tear lines running down his dark skin. “Isn’t that right, young lord?” Yasuke asked Bazil, clearly trying to draw a connection between the two. However, he was met with no response, “Young Lord…?” He repeated, spinning around to realize the Kingslayer was no longer with the group.

Instead having slipped off and hurried ahead, breaking the tree line before the others and obtaining visual contact on Soju, who was now only twenty two meters from Bazil’s position, who was located above them on the high ground. Roughly eighteen meters higher than Soju and Mercer, the Red Devil turned his right arm into a bazooka and pumped off three rockets that sailed over the supernovas head and towards Diana’s forces on the other side of them. Quickly changing his arm back to normal, the pirate cupped his hands around his mouth to magnify his voice and took a deep breath, “EH YOO! RED HAIRED FOX FUCK!” Bazil yelled towards Soju, however as soon as he finished his sentence, Bazil was tackled from behind, sending him to ground.

“Young Lord!” Yasuke sobbed, “WHY?!” Tears streamed down the samurai’s face as he did his best to hold down the Red Devil until the others could arrive, however Bazil broke free and returned to his feet.

“The fuck fatass?!” Bazil shouted angrily, “Im trying to get that fox bastards attention, he’s not the only one who’s a fuckin king around here!” He yelled shaking his fist at the samurai.

“Yo..You don’t fire live rounds at a supernova!” The samurai bawled at the pirate, he turned towards the Red Fox Soju, quickly dropping to his knees and placing his forehead to the ground. “PLEASE FORGIVE MY YOUNG LORD! HE DOESN’T HAVE THE BEST OF MANNERS!” Yasuke pleaded to the supernova, his voice nervous and cracking with fear. “HE’S EXTREMELY SORRY!”

“Tch, the fuck I am..” Bazil grumbled, crossing his arms and turning away from the samurai like a child pouting. Suddenly, Yasukes large arm shot up and dragged Bazil down by his coat, forcing him to ground, “Hey, the fu-…!” He shouted as his butt hit the dusty cliff ledge.

“Pl-…ease, young lord, I don’t wanna die!” Yasuke pleaded sniveling, clearly un happy with the way the situation was unfolding.

Standing up once more, the pirate looked down at Soju, their matching red hair blowing in the gentle breeze. Bazil seeped out his immense willpower, the air began to get heavy as if the density itself had increased, “So, I heard you wanna be the fuckin king.”

This battleground that lay ahead may be the most dangerous place that Gil had been in his life. He didn't like walking in blind. Apparently Diana's base was in Whiskey Peak, or at least that was what he had been told by the scouts. From the first report, it had seemed like the bandit grunts had done well with their reconnaissance in locating Diana. Gil wanted to be sure though, he didn't have as much experience dealing with some of these bandits but some of them did seem a little air-headded. "So Diana's base is in Whiskey Peak?" He was standing on deck of the Baron while Sinbad slowly and masterfully navigated their way around the river. "Yeah!" A bandit from the scout team replied. "How did you come across this information? Did you see her or maybe hear one of her men talk?" "Uhh." One bandit looked to another. "Well we didn't want to get close to the town. But we heard those invading pirates yelling about going to Whiskey Peak so that must be where she is, right?" "It's the only town on the island too." The two bandits reaffirmed each other with a decisive nod. Gil took a deep breath. So there wasn't really anything that guaranteed where she was at all.

His brow creased. He had to do something to improve their chances. He decided to do some forward scouting. Diving into the water, he swam ahead of the ships while remaining underwater. He went around each bend and checked out the way ahead before moving on. Going round a corner, he noticed a glint of metal sparkle up on the ridge of the mountain. Turning back to the Baron, Gil quickly jumped on deck and informed Sinbad, telling him to slow down and give him time to check it out. Jumping back into the water, Gil would slowly pull as much water against his body as he could hold in his Pisces Paladin kata and began scaling the sheer mountain beside the boat. He kept close to the cliff face, planting his fingers and toes against the rock and using small spurts of spray to propel him like a rocket powered spider. He was aiming to investigate while remaining hidden by himself.

Upon reaching the top, he peered over at where he last saw the glint. A lone figure trekking around the back routes. A hairy bull mink stomped it's way around the cliff edge, looking out into the valley below. The glint that he had spotted must have come from the massive steel battle axe strapped to his back. Observing for a minute, it was clear that this was some sort of sentry, watching for anyone that would come through the back routes of the island like they were. He didn't seem to have any marine affiliated apparel, so this would make him one of Diana's men. It seemed a bit overcautious to have someone up in these mountains if their base was situated in Whiskey Peak. Especially when she should have knowledge about the impending invasion by Soju.

Gil decided on apprehending him. If he could take someone captive, then they could possibly get some information from him. He waited until the mink was walking away from him and he crept up behind it. He would get to within ten metres when an unexpected shrill voice would ring out. "Oi there's a cheeky beggar comin' up behind ya, love!" Gil froze for a second, as his mind processed that the voice had in fact come from a little face that appeared on the wooden base of the battle axe, between the two blades. It twitched too and fro as if it had come alive. As the alert rung out, the bull mink turned to face Gil. It snorted, hot air passing out it's massive snout and little black eyes narrowed on the intruder.

Damn, he had lost the element of surprise. But it wasn't like he could give up now that he had been spotted. He had to stop him from reporting back to his boss at the very least. Gil thrusted his right arm, sending out a tentacle of water with he head of a moray, aiming to chomp onto and hold the mink down. With one swift move the bull stepped forward and drew the squealing axe and sliced straight through the shaped water.

The water splashed back and lost it's shape for a second, before Gil pushed again, this time attempting to rush the water all over the axe in and the bull in an attempt to submerge him. The bull stepped forward once more, half mooing half roaring and swinging his axe around in a circular fashion, dragging Gil off his feet with overwhelming strength and throwing him off the cliff.

Disappearing over the edge of the cliff, Gil tumbled head over heels while withdrawing his water to his body. That beast was strong, with a visage like a minotaur. Releasing spurts of water from his limbs, he reoriented himself midair and dashed back up to the lip of the cliff. It was time to change tact, he couldn't challenge that thing's strength head on.

Gil thrusted again, sending out an eel at it's maximum size, he put his full power into this attack. However he was aiming at the earth that made up the edge of the cliff, smashing it up and out at the bull before continuing to climb into the sky above the bull. This destroyed the side of the cliff and created a spray of dirt, masking Gil's ascent. "Wa's he doin now, that cheeky so an' so?" The axe squarked. When the bull cleared his eyes of the dirt, he would see a green fishman sailing overhead.

Gil then dumped water, funneling it down on one side of the bull. It came raining down like a waterfall. The massive pressure swept the bull of it's feet and pulled it toward the cliff that had just been taken out. Had he been able to grip onto the ground then he would have been able to use his strength to hold on. But no one would be able to predict the massive amount of water that would seemingly appear out of nowhere. The bull growled in frustration as he found himself being swept off the mountain.

"Leme attem!" The axe squealed, and it's wielder obliged. With one powerful overarm, he would send the axe spinning at Gil. With only a small window to react, Gil twisted to the side, pushing out water that shaped into a shield, attempting to deflect the blow. But the bull's strength was too much, the cleaving axe's trajectory was changed away from a fatal hit, but Gil's own strength wasn't enough to block it completely. He took a slash to his side a few inches deep. The axe cackled as it drew blood.

"You're coming with me." Gil landed on the ground and picked up the axe. "Nooo don't touch me ya filthy bastard!". Gil turned back toward the boat and heard the bull splash into the water below. He would jump off the mountain and follow the bull into the water. It was scrabbling as it sunk, attempting to fight it's way to the surface. Gil joined him. Now the tables had turned. The fishman was in his domain. He gripped the water with his toes, sending out threads of razor sharp condensed water to entrap him. The bull was tied up like a mummy, the threads biting into his skin as he struggled. They were of equal strength and he did manage to fight off some of the water wires, but he was taking a toll when it bit deep into his skin. After a few minutes of fighting without air, the bull slowed and stopped, losing consciousness. Gil had to admire its fighting spirit, the river had run red with his blood.

Gil brought the axe and bull aboard the baron, securing them both in chains. He would inform the crew about the bull's monstrous strength as a warning. They definitely didn't want this thing to break loose. "We may be able to get some information out of these two. The mink doesn't talk much, but for some reason this axe is alive and seems all too keen on speaking." "I'm not gonna tell you nuffin!" Gil would let Jackal decide whether he wanted to use them or not. Gil then spent the rest of the time he had before landing on patching himself up as best he could, sewing together his flesh.

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Pulling up to land, Gil followed Jackal out, staying a little behind and remaining hidden. So apparently just ahead was the man he had seen on the projector screen in Nanohana. His face had been all over Sandy Island up until this, calling for pirates to step up. Gil appreciated just how dangerous this situation could be. Needless to say, he was appalled to see Bazil's brazen action. Gil had to forcefully bite his tongue so that he would not utter some variant of 'I told you so'. "I think we should consider removing his head. He obviously intends to endanger us all." Gil advised Jackal, not bothering to keep his volume low enough so that Bazil wouldn't hear it.

skills: pisces paladin, danker domain, anemone assault
npc: bull mink (Diana) - secondary strength, tert everything else
battle axe homie - non-pri everything

Cetus Neptune

The Kapitän Kommandant Arrival

The boat tilted a bit as 4 figures practically jump out the water unto the ship. With heavy thud one of them collapse to the ground, and was help up again by the other 3 figures that was with him.

If you seen his face before or seen his massive body you would be able to make it out as Oceanus. But to those who never seen him or met him he would seen like a stranger.

As he stood back up with the help of the fish man who practically help carried him back to this location. He glance around the area carefully more of the surrounding water then the crew. He had remember seeing this island fill with either Fish man or mink.

Now to see the island nearly laid in rubble, and no fish man within the water was weird. It was very weird to make matters even worst the fact that current events had already taken place thus far was funny.

A loud cry from Oceanus lips erupted as he begin to cry out in pain. After about 5 seconds the whining stop, and Oceanus raise his head as he stare at Zeed, and his crew members.

He had said,"Yall standing around with yall finger up ya ass. Soldat Kob bring me the all the Den Den Mushi, and prepare the cannons at once! oh, and bring me something for my leg."

The Soldat Kob wasn't able to react to Nia which was lucky for her. Because he wasn't gonna left her slide with the comments, and insults she had just toss at him. He quickly hold his tongue, and made his way back down stairs to fetch the items his superiors he had requested.

If you look carefully now you could see that one of Oceanus leg was gone, and was bandage up. You could see the wound had just start to open up again, and the bandage was wet so it was time for a new one. That why Oceanus had send Kob to retrieve some stuff to fix him up.

The leg that was cut was his left one, and it was cut up until the point of the patella. The pirate who did this to him was nice enough to leave just a bit of his leg left for him to used.

After a few minutes Kob had return, and Oceanus had grab only the Speaker Den Den Mushi for the ship. Clearing his voice he had said,"Just a few days ago I came to this island, and was asked to join Super Nova Diana. My reply was NO in fact it was accompany with an attack for her wasting my time. The response was everything went black, and I lost my leg. I never felt so weak so low until that very moment.

So on today on this night I will crush everything on that island. No one is friend everyone is foe as I decree it! Everyone must die for the sake of my lost leg!" After about 5 seconds he had return the Speaker Den Den Mushi back to Kob, and stare at Nia, Zeed, and the other people present on the ship.

He had then said,"As you see we got ourselves in quite a pickle. So we gonna need an plan. One that I got! There no need for us to raid the shores that is already done. What we will do is sail for Whiskey Peak which is that mountain over yonder.That is the strong hold of the Super Nova forces from what I gather she have strange powers that allow her to grant things such as the earth crust life, and do a number of weird things. Like some cartoon shit that you would only read about when growing up. None of that is important we will enter into the mouth of the river,and destroy every ship on the way to the mountain.Once there we will depart from the ship leave some forces behind as we attempt to attack the strong hold with the other pirates who came. At any moment we will strike them down at either my command or safe word Grape Fruit."

There was cheers throughout the ship ,and He stop talking for 1 minute awaiting for cheers to stop. Once he was sure everyone was clear on what the plan was he begin to break down in detail who is going to be doing what.

He turn his attention to Nia as he said,"Well..Well.. Well if it ain't little sister. I see ya made it this far. I hope you have something to bring to the table other wise I am going to have ya lock in cell down yonder do I make myself clea-."

He was cut off by Soldat Kob which had earn him a glare the Soldat had said,"Sir! that one over there said she is a doctor she could possibly patch ya up sir before the battle sir."

Oceanus had nodded, and said,"I see is that so little one?"He had turn to glance at the mermaid again. Upon her answering he had said," Very well I guess you can be of some help. Kob did you bring the kit, and plank?" The Soldat nodded his head in approval as he point in the direction of the plank he had brought up with him.

Oceanus had grinned, and turn his head over to Squid like fish man that was holding him up now with the help of the other two fish man which was the Cuttlefish, and Octopus they easy reach the height of 15- 17 feet tall.

He said,"Mac go over there, and bring me the plank it over to me. Nia you will put the plank on my leg after you burn it, and seal the wounded. But before that I will tell ya your assignments. Nia since you new here you are at the point of proving ya self worthy of my time. Your first assignment it is very important with the help of 5 other fishman, and Beki you will secure the water,and scout ahead of the ship. You will search deep, and far, and report back to us by means of Baby Den Den Mushi. Is that understood?"

There was no room for negotiating he had a reason why he wanted her to do that it is because this island is crawling with fish man alike. He didn't want to be surprise attack by his own race. Letting out a sigh he had continue as he said," Once we land arrive near Whiskey Peak you will take command of the vessel, and secure the waters of this island no if and or buts all ships that aren't ours expect for some that you are unable to sink will be sunk is that understood Nia? "

Again he had waited for her to reply then he turn his attention to Zeed had he signal for the grunts to lower him down. He had laid near the rail of the ship which his back against it he had said,"Kapitan Of Enforcement Zeed Tear otherwise known as the World Serpent you are task with command of this vessel until we arrive at mountain. In lames terms we will attack any ships that are along the way, and sink them. By use of Beki, Nia, other Soldats or cannon fire. You are whole entirely responsible for any miss use of resources . Once we have arrive at the mountain me, you, and few other fish man will make there way up to the top where we will attempt to kill all in are way! Of course at the command of my safe word Grape Fruit. Is that understood ?"

He had waited for the human to reply upon his comment he would reply respond correctly. Oceanus wasn't in the happiness of mood. His mind was clearly on setting the record straight no one will cross him or the Mafia so help him god they will feel his wrath!

As Oceanus spoke several fish man had begin to load up the cannons there was a total of 6 cannons, and plenty of cannon for them to use.
As of now the fish man had load up 5 cannons with standard Round Shot Cannon, and one Explosive Shell Cannon Ball just behind the figure head which wasn't in the way of the cannon itself.

More importantly nothing was lit it was loaded but none of the fuels was lit as Oceanus nor did Zeed command it yet. As of now the The Bleeding Maw was just 50 meters away from The Skuttlebutt


As they slowly follow down the river. At this point after the operation Oceanus would retired to the captain quarters otherwise known as the Command Center where Zeed would follow him to because that is how you control the ship. As for Soldat Kob he would pass out 3 Baby Den Den Mushi given one to Oceanus , one to Nia, and the last one too Kapitan Zeed. The Black Den Den Mushi would be given to Oceanus as well. Each Den Den Mushi was like a watch meaning it was made to fit around the wrist for person who is using it.

Everyone had there orders it was now time to put them into effected. Now Beki was within the Command Center otherwise known as the Captain Quarters but he was awoke due to the noise of the Oceanus over the Speaker Den Den Mushi or the noise of the cannon fire in the back ground.Either way he was up, and he knew his master was here.


If any reason if the Speaker Den Den Mushi doesn't work then Oceanus would yell so everyone could heard his orders, and speech. He wanted to be sure everything was carried out without a hitch or an problem

OOC Notes:

Beki:

Oceanus Info:

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