Emperors War

"All the grueling training, sacrifice, pain, and struggle was worth it. To see him grow to this extent makes me proud. Two years ago, it would have been impossible for me to foresee his growth to this level so quickly. His smooth moves, his ability to adapt, his precision and thought process, I really put a lot of effort into him and can"t describe him as anything less than perfect."

Vance who was still injured was patting himself on the back. He was ready to cry out to the world "This is the disciple I trained", the remaining two brothers could see the self-satisfied and pleased look Vance had as his eyes followed along with Aker"s movements from one wall to the other.

Just as Vance felt he had reached the peak of peac.o.c.king, he watched in utter embarra.s.sment as after Aker performed an impossible move from one wall to the other which sent a confused s...o...b.. Bobby"s head into the air, Aker majestically and flawlessly slammed into the wall.

The loud bang that Aker made when his body splattered was only overshadowed by his slow slide down the wall. Slowly his whole body slid from several meters high in the most ungraceful and ridiculous way possible until finally coming to a rest on his behind.

The sight of s...o...b.. Bobby"s head in the air staring down confusedly at Aker who was fully planted into the wall added to the circus atmosphere. Vance who saw Aker fail the landing perfectly could only think to himself "he is doing this to me on purpose".

For Big Brother and Shorty if it had been someone else instead of their two brothers that had just been cut down, they would have been ridiculing and mocking Aker for his superior fail.

Aker who slid down the wall and fell back on his b.u.t.t, stood up and looked back at Vance who was shaking his head and looking away not daring to make eye contact. No matter how amazing your move, if you don"t stick the end it looks laughable.

Aker who didn"t understand why Vance wouldn"t look at him thought back to the series of events and after reviewing his actions felt more than pleased. As merely a Body Conditioning magic fighter he had managed to take out two Source Core Metal fighters. Most people watching the fight wouldn"t believe what they saw much less someone who heard about it second hand. Aker reviewed his plan and it worked out perfectly, the only slip up was he used to much force when he kicked off from the last wall and he thought there would be more resistance when taking a head which caused him to forcefully greet the wall.

All in all, Aker was pretty delighted with himself and as he looked to Vance he was waiting for conformation of his amazing feat. All Vance had to do was tell him "Good job" or "You saved me", even a "Not bad" would work for Aker. Antic.i.p.ation was welling in his eyes as he looked at Vance who suddenly seemed to be staring into the abyss not wanting to acknowledge Aker"s great job and then embarra.s.sing wall slam.

While Aker and Vance were playing this game of "pat me on the back" and "I"m embarra.s.sed for the both of us" Big Brother and Shorty were fuming, their anger was overwhelming them, Shorty was even visible shaking; he could barely contain his thoughts. He wanted nothing more than to go over and rip Aker to pieces, limb by limb.

"You two dare to kill my brothers and then act as if the two of us don"t exist?....." Shorty who had been watching the two couldn"t take it anymore, his voice contained his rage and his desire for carnage and blood. Short of him ripping the two of them up and offering them to his two fallen brothers he would never be able to live a day without regret again.

"You are proud of yourself that you can sneak attack my fourth brother and kill my third brother who lost his mind? Shouldn"t you be on your knees begging for forgiveness already? If you bow before my brothers, cut off your arm and plead for his mercy I won"t torture you and give you a quick death. If not, I will capture you alive, I will peel your skin, cut out your eyes, and remove your limbs one by one and I can guarantee you will not die. I will only leave your tongue so you can hear the sound of your own screams."

Shorty had no intentions of letting of this brat no matter what. Even if he begged for forgiveness to his slain brothers he would torture and torment this brat for years.

"Are you an idiot?" Aker who listened to Shorty talk about begging for forgiveness and removing his arm couldn"t believe what he was hearing "Does that actually work? Has anyone ever killed someone and then been threatened and went oh no what was I thinking let me cut off my arm, beg for forgiveness and please, please kill me, hurry I don"t want to maybe face torture if you can somehow figure out how to defeat me?"

Aker asked the question, his eyes didn"t wonder as he focused on Shorty, his voice serious, his body was indicating that he was looking for an answer. He looked to the other remaining brother of the Nefarious Four and then to Vance whose shoulders were bouncing up and down. Vance was making "hmppp" "hmppp" sounds as he animatedly held in his laughter.

"They are idiots, they really are stupid...hahahahahahaha...to think he would throw out some idiotic cliché line....hahhahahaha....." As Vance spoke his words echoed out, his playful laughter lightened the mood of both Aker and himself. Hearing Aker"s words how could he not play along.

"we already established that they were idiots before you got here, I had just underestimated their idiocy. They had acknowledged it earlier and became the Idiotic Four but they are already going to have to change their name again to the Idiotic Two." Vance who couldn"t help but laugh as he spoke was again enamored with his young disciple.

This was the way Aker was. One minute he was performing an action that made a person gasp for breath in wonder and amazement and the next he was slamming into a wall and falling on his b.u.t.t. After Shorty"s slaughter filled threat of death and torture he was met with a simple line of "does that actually work?" Vance couldn"t believe that someone would actually ask the question that everyone would think in this scenario but was too afraid to ask. The best part was if Vance didn"t know Aker better, he would have believed that Aker was asking because he was genuinly curious and didn"t know, he played the part as though he had been studying his whole life for this moment, he couldn"t have been more serious when he asked.

Shorty who wasn"t expecting to be called an idiot and then challenged was flabbergasted at the moment. He simply didn"t know how to respond to the brat that called him out. In fact, that threat has never worked, not a single time, however it has always caused the receiving party to shiver in fear and trepidation. Never once has it not caused a panic and frightened victim so to Aker"s clear taunt and question Shorty"s intent for slaughter waned and was replaced by a face full of puzzlement.

Big Brother witnessing Shorty being bamboozled shook his head internally and thought to himself "no wonder they would call us idiots, when you talk big like that and then lose all momentum over an obvious joke."

In order to recover the situation Big Brother called out "Go attack the brat, I"ll keep the other one busy. Hurry up and kill him, I don"t know how long I can restrain him. Once the brat"s dead we"ll leave..." Big Brother had worked out the plan. With Aker"s strength he wouldn"t be able to defend himself and would die at the hands of Shorty in just a couple of seconds. They would immediately tuck tail and run and someday come back to claim the life of Vance with interest.

"What about that other one, we can"t simply let him live after the two of them worked together to kill third and fourth brother." Shorty sneered as he spoke, he wasn"t ready to leave the two alive. He had already committed the two of them to death in his mind. He would never be able to forgive himself if he didn"t lay the heads of these two in front of his brothers.

"Shut up! We already lost the two of them because you convinced us three to attack this d.a.m.n ship. Now you want all of us to leave our heads here for them. Can"t you see that he"s been over in the corner recovering this entire time. Four of us weren"t strong enough to take him down, how long do you think I can keep him busy after he"s managed to heal up some? You think the two of us are strong enough? Maybe we should change our name to the Idiotic Two if you think that way, just kill the brat and we will plan our revenge for the future."

Vance who watched the two interact started laughing so hard it hurt his side where he had been stabbed. To think one of them actually referred to themselves as the Idiotic Two.....bwwaahahahhahaha.....

For Vance as soon as Aker managed to kill the first of the Nefarious Four pirates, they no longer posed any risk. It was through the combined strength of the four of them that they were able to suppress Vance. Now that there were only two of them, their attacks had stopped so since Vance has had a chance to catch his breath, laugh and recover. This was a drastic change for Vance as just a few moments ago he was telling Cap to have the pa.s.sengers abandon ship and he was trying to figure out how to take at least one of these b.a.s.t.a.r.ds with him.
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Shorty who took in his Big Brother"s words had an "ah ha" moment wherein he suddenly realized that he had also allowed his anger to cloud his judgement. Of course, there was no way for the two of them to defeat Vance, by killing the boy they would at least be able to live with themselves until they could fulfill their revenge on Vance as well.

Without another word Shorty shot forward, his sword swung at Aker clearly aiming to liberate his head from his body.

Aker who saw this Source Core Metal fighter lunge at him didn"t panic, he had faced countless life and death scenarios. So many times, he fought while suffering from injuries and fatigue, how could this situation make him shrink back.

Aker took his sword and as he had practiced countless times while within the reach of fearsome magic beast stepped forward and ducked under this attack. While ducking he pulled out the knife he keeps in his boot and stabbed down at Shorty"s foot.

Aker wasn"t aiming for a fancy killing attack or even an attack that would permanently immobilize his opponent, he was simply trying to inflict some pain on him.

Shorty who wasn"t expecting Aker to respond so quickly and calmly stopped his movement and momentum so that he could readjust his sword and bring it down on Aker. In the same process of stopping his swinging momentum Shorty brought up his back right leg and thrust his knee forward propelling himself to slam into Aker.

"After I slam my knee through his face, he will be defenseless, at that point I will grab him and take him with us. I"ll torture him until the day we can take this other guys life, he will live every day regretting what he did and begging for death. How dare he question me about whether anyone has actually cut off their own arm and begged for forgiveness! Good...good....I will torture him until he cuts off his own arm and begs for forgiveness."

As Shorty thought of getting even with Aker who not only killed his brothers but even questioned him and called him an idiot, he would torment the brat until he actually cut off his own arm. The smile that crept up on Shorty"s face indicated that he was having nefarious thoughts, which of course fit perfectly with his character.

As Shorty"s knee flew forward Aker slightly leaned to his right and stabbed down the knife into the lone foot still planted on the ground. When Aker had planned on stabbing Shorty"s foot he wasn"t planning on him trying to knee him and only leave one foot for support, it was just supposed to be a quick attack to either draw him back or inflict a little bit of damage.

Shorty having his foot stabbed lost his balance and because his knee was flying forward, he was carried by that momentum. Big Brother had charged at Vance and was attacking him so he had his back turned to Aker and Shorty"s fight.

As Big Brother had just finished up a quick couple of rounds of attacks on Vance, he had taken a step back and was planning his next round. After this round him and Shorty would be leaving. He was sizing up Vance and figuring out the best attack he could launch that would allow them the cleanest escape with the crew.

As Big Brother was sizing up the situation, he heard a loud "Big Brother watch out" but it was already too late. Shorty who had his foot stabbed through and had his momentum carry him forward flew right at Big Brothers back. Before Big Brother had a chance to move or respond he looked down to see the sword sticking out of the front of his chest. His own second brother had run him through from behind.

Big Brother who after looking down at the sword tip sticking out his chest looked back at Shorty whose mouth was open, his body shaking, and a slight stutter could be heard coming from him.

"You really are an idiot" was uttered by Big Brother and would be the last words of one of the most vile and evil people who had lived in the outer edge of the Eastern Universe.

Shorty who was still shivering and muttering turned his head to try and figure out what happened, how had he ended up losing his balance and flying forward, was immediately greeted by a knife to the forehead. Aker who was watching as Shorty stabbed Big Brother was left trying to figure out what happened himself. As far as he knew he had only stabbed Shorty"s foot and then suddenly his Big Brother was calling him an idiot, it really all happened to fast.

Aker without thinking tossed the knife at the head of Shorty whose mind was already gone after he lost his two brothers and then personally took the life of his first brother.

If the Nefarious Four knew that after their death"s word would spread that they died in such a comical way they would never be able to rest in peace.

Aker who had just killed the last of the Nefarious Four looked over at Vance nodding his head while taking a heroic pose and said "Just like I planned." When Mavis hears about this story later if he hears that Aker didn"t brag at the end Aker would be swinging a hammer until Mavis got tired of watching.