"Another one" Melissa would say, the clunking of the empty bottle upon the bar would echo in the smoky tavern. With the empty bottle in one hand and a cigarette in another, the girl would place the tip of her fag to her mouth, taking in a long draw, watching the head burn a crimson orange colour, pulling back in time with her breath. Removing the fag from her mouth, she would exhale gently, the smoke would flow from her mouth in wisps. Soon the beer would slide towards her, replacing the empty bottle with a full one. She hated beer, yet it seemed to be that she was in the mood for that kind of drink. The young woman would drain some of the bitter liquid before sighing. Her mind would simply drift to the memory of the broken boy in the bed, the one whom had turned her in, who had essentially washed his hands of her. She had attempted to return, but he had been moved, whether by marines or rev who knew? but in all honesty, Coniko could be dead for all Melissa knew.

The ash would fall from her cigarette, hitting the table and dispersing, she would drain her beer as tears silently fell. Someone be moving behind her, a group or so would now stand, positive that they knew her. "Hey girl, your that pirate right? The one who smashed up that marine girls face. Outside the briss hospital a couple days ago, yer poster started appearing around the place since den. Nice bounty on yer pretty head," one of them would say with a cackle.

Melissa would give a gentle sigh as the ruffian finished speaking. The young girl would use her hand to wipe away the tears that slowly streaked down her face. "You can leave me alone now" she would say gently. Her hand waved to the bar man for another, yet he would remain rooted to his spot, frozen in fear from the ruffians whom now looked rather menacing. Swords and clubs were drawn, yet the girl would look at the bar man. "I want another drink" Melissa would say, her voice tired and drained. Yet again the barman would only shake in fear. "Come on girly, you can come with us now, or you can come with us after we beat da shit out of ya" the largest of the ruffians would say. His allies would simply giggle and laugh in their own menacing ways.

A hand would grasp upon her shoulder, Melissa would turn to face the square nosed woman. "Oh girly, you must not get much action if your this cold, BRRRR" the woman said as her hand clenched harder on Melissa's arm. "COME ON BITCH, YER THE WOMAN WE BEEN LOOKING FOR" the woman would say as she pulled Melissa from the bench. Again the others laughed, yet the Yuki Yuki No Mi user would not activated her powers, it was as if she had given up. She was dragged outside, and pulled down towards the docks. The young girl would be pushed on to the deck of a ship. "About time, i couldn't think of how i was going to travel" Melissa would say as she stood up. "Your Melissa Devaroux, Queen of this shit hole, well we work for an old friend of yours whose soooo looking forward to meeting you, heading out to flare island as we speak hun. "Friend? Can't say I have too many scattered around uggo" Said The devil fruit user. Tymera will be so sad you don't remember her" Melissa's mouth curved into a semi smile, so that giantess was still alive "I'm going to be taking your ship now, ok ass holes" The snow queen would say with a gentle smile.

"Awww, you think you can stop us bitch" the largest and most likely the captain of this band of misfits would say, while at the same time he would strike out, his large palm coming down with the intent on striking the female. Going by body size, the large man should have knocked the little girl out, but this was not the case. Melissa's small hand would come up, resting in mid air, meeting the swing, and the large mans hand would be stopped. "Come on now, that all you got?" Melissa would ask, she would then move her free hand to the chest of the man. A powerful strike to this area would not only knock the man from his feet, it would eject him through the air and of the ship. Weapons would be drawn by the other crew members, yet each swing would phase through the snow user. The Yuki Yuki No Mi wielder would simply summon forth balls of snow to push the other ruffians from her boat. One after one they would be pushed from her view and in to the water.

With boat in her possession and the ruffians all but dealt with, Melissa would look to the vessel which seemed able to hold roughly eight people and required atleast three to sail. Thankfully though fate would be upon her side as three of her people finally came rushing down with guns ready to deal with the ruffians. Of course they knew they did not need to worry about the Snow queen. Soon enough though the three slum fighters along with the Queen of the slums, the Yuki Yuki No Mi user herself would be sailing to Flare Island, where Melissa would be able to meet up with an old friend, Tymera's name was growing in the world, her bounty exceeded Melissa's and her reputation was far from likable, she was murderous, she killed and asked questions later in most cases and didn't even care about who or what was in her way. If she was reaching out to Melissa it certainly wasn't just for a friendly chat, that much was for sure.

"KEEP DIGGING" said the human-sized woman, her large spear in hand. Upon Flare Island, Tymera and her entourage stood watching roughly three hundred people stand in line, chains on their feet, linking them together. The clothing of each was dirty and many of them looked malnourished as if they had been doing this for a while. If one were to inspect Flare Island they would notice the terrain of the place had been completely re-arranged. Mounds of dirt littered the island, while some of the earth had been shifted and filled back in, those digging where certainly slave like in appearance. "FASTER" shouted the young woman, slamming the end of the spear in to the ground. This caused a murmur of fear to ripple through the slaves. With her work done the giantess whom looked just slightly bigger than a normal human would retire to the large tent with her enterouge. "It has to be here, the message of the other directed us to this island, to these spots. How can these humans be so fucking pitiful" She said over the prints. "Tymera, are you sure that's what it says? You said yourself, you can't decipher this properly" one of the men said. As that moment the other men around him would take a large step back. The woman, Tymera would look up, a fire in her eyes. "YOU, YOU ARE QUESTIONING ME!" she shouted. In a flash, she jutted the end of her spear forward striking it into the gut of the man who would be sent flying with such force deceptive of the size of the female. "Tie him with the others, he can dig till he drops" she said once more returning to the blueprints. As she scowered her plans, the visitor she had sent for was sailing the ocean, without the people she had sent.

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"So whose Tymera" Drizella asked as they sailed towards Flare Island. Melissa stood at the main mast of the ship. Looking out to the ocean. "Tymera, was my best friend a long time ago. We used to hang out in Ohara together and read at the tree of knowledge" Melissa said with a soft smile. "I know right, Brains and Beauty, The good Lord broke the mold when he made me hun" Mel said flirtatiously winking at Drizella who would give a gentle giggle in reply. "We got a bit obsessed with the secrets of the ponylglyphs, finding out whether these mythical stones where real, all the information we found out was pretty much fluff, nothing even in the world tree proved to us that these were real. Eventually, Tymera decided to go searching on her own, we both promised to get in touch if we found anything, but....I ended up staying in Water 7, seems she might have something, but her reputation on how shes got this, the deaths of civilians, if the marine reports are to be believed, well. its not good" Melissa said as she looked towards the growing island.

It didn't take too long for Melissa and her small ragtag team to dock the boat. "Scout the island but stay hidden, I don't know who or whats working with Tymera, find out all you can about this place okay". Her "crew" nodded in agreement, they would separate heading their own ways while Melissa took the pain path of the island. Flare Island was unique due to its tree's, the coloring of them was orange while the leaves resembled fire, as the wind danced through them, the leaves moved, making it look as though the entire forest was on fire, a rather beautiful appearance when no danger presented itself from the appearance. "Beautiful" Melissa said as she came into a clearing. Beauty no longer in her eyes, what she saw, the emaciated bodies of the workers, the stench that seemed hidden by the sweet sweet pollen of the Flare Tree's. "What...what is this" "You like my work boo boo" a husky yet feminine voice uttered. Melissa turned to the sound, though her eyes did not find what they had expected to see. A tent, small for what a giant should have been in had escaped her vision till now, leaving the tent was none other than Tymera, her appearance unmistakable, her face somewhat similiar to when they where younger, though what shocked Melissa was her size.

Tymera as a child was double the size of Melissa, she could have sat on her and literally smothered her without any regards or even feeling the squirming body of her friend until it was too late. But what stood in front of her was not Tymera, or well it was but...she was smaller, she was roughly Melissa's height and weight but, how...she just..."What....Ty Ty...is that...no who are you?" she asked, confusion evident in her face, her eyes and her voice. Tymera, or the girl who looked and sounded like Tymera would laugh, that same rugged laugh that all but confirmed that she was who she was supposed to be. "Mel Mel, have I changed so much, the infamous Frost Witch doesn't recognise her old friend" The ex-giantess said with obvious delight in surprising her old friend. "I know right, strange, I totally shrunk, got this human sized body now and I AM FEELING FANTASTIC, as a giant I was always being chased cuz i was SOOO HUGE, being easily spotted was a bit of a pain in my now little bottom. But now I'm fabulously pint sized and so fucking adorable, NO MORE SITTING ON YOU ACCIDENTALLY MEL MEL BABY" Tymera laughed loudly, her small form may have quelled but the giantess voice had not. Though she could see by Melissa's face as the Frost Witch's eyes continued to look up and down. "Come on sugar, you used to be smarter than this, how did I get this fabulous body, how did you get your unique gifts I've heard so much about" The female said, a lick of her lips as she did.

"A....A devil fruit..." Melissa said softly. "DING DING DING, GIVE THIS GIRL A MEDDLE, SHE'S A KEEPER" Tymera shouted, as her voice raised the slaves around her coward, not used to hearing her shout in a manner that did not mean a whipping. Melissa's eyes caught hold of this, though before she could say anything A man of Tymera's guard came forth. "Tymera, Marine vessels on the horizon, it looks as though they are coming for this place, seems that word of your arrival here has spread" The man said holding his rifle. "OH POOIE, and we still havent found it." "It?" Melissa asked. "Tojo be a dear and bring the sheet" "But..but Tymera are ... "Now me and Melly welly made a dealy wealy, I gotta show her that I found them" Tymera's eyes glistened with triumph. "No...no way...they...they were real?" Melissa uttered, her breath bated. Had she really accomplished it? Or was this one of Tymera's tall tales, well she did not have to wait very long for the large sheet of paper brought out by three men. Unrolling it was a treck and only the first few lines where visible but....there was no mistaken.."M...may I ...read..." "HAHAHAHA OH MELLY NOOOOOOO" Tymera said with a chuckle. "But...why not?" Melissa asked, puzzled. "Because silly, They are for the eyes of my men and I, anyone else is a rival, and you see. I called you here because thats what you are, I wanted to prove that I HAD WON. I found the polyglyphs, I have found THREE OF THEM. Copied them and have them all sitting in my tent, but you see I know there is one here, I read the information and I'M POSITIVE IT DIRECTS ME HERE, and wouldn't you know it the kind people of this land offered to help as soon as I destroyed their entire village" Tymera said with a smile.

Melissa understood that here was no word of a lie in the womans tone, she knew Tymera too well. "You..you destroyed these peoples homes?" "I just said that didn't I, but oh well, with the marines coming, I can't have them blabbing that I have a new smoking body, and of course what I'm looking for, sooooo shall we kill them boys" Tymera said, her tone was casual, as if she had done this many many times before. Melissa was too far away, she ran to move but the sounds of guns erupted through the night sky and each and every slave recieved a bullet for their hardwork. "W....why...." "Because they knew too much, and now...So do you" Tymera said with her signature smile. "Here I thought I was the heartless cow when it came to humping and murdering marines for information, but to kill...to kill innocent people" Melissa said as the squad of Tymeras people surrounded her.

"In this world Melissa, No one is innocent" The giantess laughed as the sound of bullets echoed once more. Though being surrounded in a circular formation ment one thing. The bullets that flew through the unique body of the Yuki Yuki No Mi user did find a target, it just so happened to be the person on the opposite side of her, and with a circle it meant in an instant those men and women whom had sided with Tymera, all but that one who had warned her about the marines fell to the ground, bullets covering her. "Interesting, so you are another one of those" Tymera uttered as she cracked her knuckles. As she shook them out the familiar black aura of Buso haki, one that she had faced against the large Gigantopithecus. She knew full well that her logia form would be unable to shift through attacks clad within that black armament. "I always had an incline it would come down to this" "I always fantasised about grining your bones to dust. I just needed that brain of yours for a while" Tymera said. Melissa would return the smile. "Good, Now I can get something of my chest" "Same melly welly"


With no words left to say, they charged for one another, Melissa's leg collided with the fists of the giant, and the smaller female was thrown back from the power. She skidded expertly across the ground, though Tymera stood unmoved. "Let me tell you a lil summin summin. I ate the Mini Mini No mi, Lets me manipulate my size to teeny weeny or back to my giant form, but in all this, I never lose a single bit of my strength, Giant power in a small suit" Tymera said with glee. "Still got a face like a battered kebab though sweet heart, No fruit can change that" Melissa said, though she was fighting pain, she was pretty strong herself but Tymeras brute strength, it was something that facing head-on would be impossible. Her physical strength would not be here greatest aspect here, but her fruits capability to work in unison. "You made one mistake Tymera. You killed those people, the innocent people of this place and left no one else to protect you" "HAHAHAHA MELLZY YOU JUST GOT BITCH SLAPPED BY A PRO, Baby girl, You should know me. I NEVER USE PROTECTION" she said with a flirtatious giggle.

"Ew" Was all Melissa said as she spread her arms. "With no one else around, I can use my abilities to their fullest. Get ready for the last thing you will ever see" The Yuki Yuki No Mi user uttered as she released millions of snow particles from her body, erupting around the duo encasing a rather large area of 50 meters. At the same time Melissa's snow body began to disperse into the funneling blizzard that obstructed the vision of the tiny giantess. The added effect of this capability was each piece of snow was hardened, compressed to the point that it was most notably resembling that of hailstones, pelting the soft skin of the giant, striking her softer areas, her lips, her chest, her eyes. "GYAAAAAH, SO COLD...AAAGh, Stop it, Agh that HURTS" she would shout over the roar of the blizzard, shielding her eyes to avoid being struck by hail. Though Melissa would not end her assault there, while the intense cold washed over Tymera, forcing the giantess's voice to shake, forcing shivers that she could not control to over take her body. Melissa would reform allowing more snow to push from her body, mingling with the vast blizzard that continued to roar around the area. Ripping through the tent like material, knocking lamps from within over, beginning to start a fire over all the parchment and polyglyph documents.

Now Melissa would unleash her third technique, more snow mingling with the blizzard allowing its true intentions to be hidden. This fruit was certainly one to be feared. The capabilities of such a fruit allowed Melissa to literally combine many aspects in one, blending snow with snow, each with a different texture and ability. Her blizzard was created for the sole purpose of hindering her foe, with the small pieces of compact snow in such a vast numerical form whizzing around, the intense cold created by the millions and millions of frozen droplets created cold like sensations rather quickly, while the compact snow was flying at such high speeds that they struck upon the body, generally only being an annoyance but striking soft spots over and over again, especially the eyes could cause blindness for a short period of time, aswell as causing runny noses and teary eyes, hindering the vision was this techniques greatest capability, the bonus? Those wielding the Yuki Yuki No Mi where completely unhindered by such, a unique capability of those whom where bestowed the power of the fruit.

Combining this aspect with her snow body thus allowed her to blend in the snow seamlessly, finding her body with vision? scent? sound, all but impossible with her snow form mingling and dancing in the raging winds of the blizzard. Allowing time for the blizzard to do its job and cause the vision of her foes to be hindered, she would reveal her body, ready to unleash her next assault. This would come in the form of more snow that clung to the body of those within its range, with speed combined with the blizzard raging on her foe would be ensnared before she really knew what was going on, her senses overloaded, her body weighed down by the clinging snow. A combination that could rarely be countered, snow clung to her body over and over again as she screamed curses that not even Melissa would repeat. "You are always, second to me" Melissa shouted over the storm. Though perhaps she had gotten too cocky, for she had forgot one major point. Tymera also had a fruit and her natural form? That of a mother fucking giant. The snow that was suffocation Tymera was pushed aside, breaking the cacoon like formation it had created, it happened rather quickly her growint to her full size, dwarfing the beautiful trees that now hung with snow. The giantess now in her true form released an echoey laugh as she brought her blackened fists up, she dwarfed the snow storm easily, it only seemingly coming to her leg, "STUPID COW, I'll FLATTEN YOU" Tymera shouted as she brought her fists down.

Now Melissa's fourth technique was one of her strongest, and with the vast amount of snow circling around her, it was very easy to bring to creation, all the rapid snow that danced between each other entertwined, condensing and hardening into a shell, layer upon layer to enhance the defensive quality, though this would also effectively cancel the snow storm and only created the sphere to cover a 5 meter radius. The blacnened fists of the Giant struck, Melissa knowing this from the eruption that caused the very earth to shake. The two layers cracked but they had done their job, the shell breaking. Generally it would repair itself though Melissa realized it was un-needed. "FUCKING MARINES" Tymera shouted, she had grown to her full size and could now see how close the vessels where. As she turned she released a horrible scream. "NOOOOOOO, MY COPIES" She screeched and from the cracks in her dome she saw the giantess begin to shrink. Melissa all but an after thought as her greatest work was burning, she had shrunk to enter the tent, a foolish move as part of the dome cracked allowing Melissa clean shot.

Her hands pushed forward, and from them snow once more burst forth, many would be sick of snow by now, but with the ability to manipulate it as she wished, the ability to cause it to dance in ways that no one could imagine, she would never tire of the cold element, in Melissa's way, she crafted a single spear a signature ability of hers one would say and with a motion of her hand, the flying spear of snow fell forward as the woman just about reached her destination. Her hands outstretched as her work went up in flames. "GUH" she uttered as the spear pierced the back of her head. "You should know, never to turn your attention away in a fight. No matter what bitch" Melissa said as she walked forward. Alas it was too late to save any of the work Tymera had done, though Melissa now knew, Polyglyphs were real. She stood, looking to her old friend, the snow spear sticking out of her skull, having penetrated right through to her left eye socket. "Obsession can be ones undoing" Melly uttered, she knew marines where coming thus she would proceed to head back to the boat where her entourage waited. "Anything" one of them asked. "I'll explain all back at home, marines heading this way, we gotta go" she said and soon they would hit the sea, returning home.

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"Sir, this is Captain Nero, We reached Flare Island, but it seems that we werent the only ones looking for Tymera the Butchering Giant, we can confirm her and her factions death, a fire spread through her tent and has destroyed her findings, we can also confirm over 350 dead bodies" the marine uttered over the den den as his men looked around. "Cause of death?" the den dens mysterious voice asked. "Sir, it...it looks like it was the Frost Witch's doing" "WHAT" the den dens vocals said. "We can confirm this, Tymera has a pretty big spear in her head and its melting, evidence of snow litters the ground and there is part of the snow sphere that she has been stated to use. all evidence points to her" "That bitch, what about the islands inhabitants" "All dead sir" "File your report, I want this known, the Frost Witch has executed Tymera The Giant and her faction, in doing so she also murdered an entire islands inhabitants, I want that pirate brought to me dead or alive, shes been a thorn in the marines side for too long now" the mystery voice said. "YES SIR" shouted the marine, the reciever would go dead and now, a new threat arrises for Melissa... Is she up to the challenge?