Undying Will

At this point he had finally calmed down, and after he had vented his frustrations on a whole school of Yuda he had finally realized where he was meant to be. Angella and Terrick did not have Haki, though the former could awaken it at any moment. They were exempt from this fight, for they would only serve as a hurdle in it.

Sorren could at least provide some form of support seeing as he had his own brand of Conqueror"s Haki, that he could use to empower Lorean"s. With the trio combining their own Haki he was sure that they would be able to match the sheer magnitude of the mighty behemoth that gazed down at them, coiling its torso a little as it attempted to gather the energy to leap at them.

The duo stood on a dilapidated boat, the wood barely holding together against the monstrous pressure. Too scarred even to whine it seemed.

Suddenly with a roar the creature rose to its full height, the moon light from up above briefly clearing the thick b.l.o.o.d.y fog. It shone down on the creature"s head, reflecting off its old scales as it glared down menacingly.

The water around them rose as the boat began to capsize.

With a mighty heave Fawkes yanked his captain to his feet, his expression souring as he looked around before he signaled to Sorren. The trio jumped off the rickety boat, as soon as they did they could not help but grimace for the wooden contraption fell away. Disintegrating as if it were leaves in a mighty wind.

From below the water"s surface they could see a grimacing sea king, almost as soon as the boat disappeared off of its head it ducked inward vanishing from sight. Obviously it had been spooked, the fact that it had delivered its charge also seemed to play a part in its hasty escape.

Fawkes glanced over at his captain soundlessly. He knew that talking would not be able to help, so he glanced at him silently, an inquiring glance in his eyes.

Lorean looked at the humongous serpent before swiftly pushing aside his allies, rotating his body and Sonido-ing out of the way of the monster"s face. For the first time rips appeared alongside his chest, torn apart with the ruthless winds that accompanied the charging maw.

Fawkes glanced over at Sorren before he jumped into the fray, roaring as loud as he could he attempted to jump at the serpent"s head.

Sorren too decided this was the moment to act, unlike his compatriots however he was unable to use any of the six powers . Unwillingly falling at a wave of debris he made up his mind. Flaring up his miniscule aura he roared out loud, buckling his knees for the eventual fall in the process.

As if by a signal a second flare of Haki roared to life, this extremely close to the head of the serpent.

With a quick zoom the creature turned around, glaring b.l.o.o.d.y murder at the person that flew towards it.

With a cacophonic screech, it spat at him. Humongous globules of venom flying at him from the front. The stench alone enough to knock out a lesser man.

Fortunately for him, he knew Observation Haki, and had a very dependable captain. With a swish in the air a dagger lodged itself in the creature"s cheek area, digging deep into the still bleeding tattered muscles.

With a shriek of rage it turned around, and struck. A part of its tail and its wide face on a collision course with Lorean at its center.

With a grunt Lore looked at the oncoming creature an idea in his relatively clear head. With a deep push he reentered a state of extreme focus. The individual details of the creature"s scales visible in his eyes as time slowed down.

Just as the tail seemed to touch at his back he flared his legs. Moon walk carrying him to safety with his feet resting on the hard and st.u.r.dy scales.

Then with another grunt he flared his legs forward, kicking off the ledge with a force that cracked the scales underneath slightly.

He looked over at the grimacing Fawkes as he made his way closer, then he mouthed a few words.

Fawkes stood stock still glaring at his captain helplessness evident in his gaze. He usually accepted and rode with the craziness that Lorean displayed. Not this time!

This idea wasn"t just crazy it was suicidal, but it could work…

With another glance at the outside he grimaced. Then he looked down at Sorren before motioning at the tail that Lorean stood on.

Sorren gaped with naked disbelief before he too sighed.

"He"s getting therapy after this…" he thought to himself as he nodded.

With a flare of his stocky legs he jumped upwards, yanking himself up onto a stray part of the creature"s limbs before running along it.

Fawkes followed his movements shortly with his eyes before he got to work at his end of things.

With a swift grunt he made his way to the end of the serpent"s tail, his muscles bulging with a vigor of energy as he landed on it.

Then, he did something stupid. With Haki coating his entire body he pulled out a dagger, shoving it into the soft end of the tail and running along it, a faint line was created along the muscles as he did.

The creature had been starved for a long while, its muscles long losing their elastic toughness now replaced with a soft and week interior.

Enough Haki could cut it, and thus it did.

At this point the wound was merely a p.r.i.c.k to the colossal creature, so it did not notice. Fawkes could wager that even if it did, it would not have cared, its body was tired starved and its mind was mad. If it couldn"t catch its prey now, it would eat itself, of course that would only happen after all of them died….

With a dull roar he pulled apart the fine muscle and with it came a trail of scales.

Then he tied the tiny scales around the shimmering scales before throwing it over to the opposite side where Sorren ran, a small veil clutched tightly in his hands.

As Sorren looked over he quickly raised his hands, grabbing onto the chipped and almost broken dagger. Then he looked over at the captain, just in time in fact to bear witness to the snake barely swiveling out of the way of its tail.

The captain rampaged on its forehead, tearing at its heavily lidded eyes with his strange movements and dagger empowered with so much Haki that it gleamed with a light similar to that of a O" Wazamono blade.

With a gulp of fear he solidified his gaze. Then with a resolute bellow he stuck the vial"s contents into his open mouth.

Lorean looked around, joy evident in his gaze, along with a healthy dose of fatigue and fear of course.

His first mate glanced at him, and his crew doctor glared at him. Then as one an unreal pressure erupted, the mountain shook and the semi conscious humans around all fell unconscious, a few fell into the water and a few others fell on each other.

The creature looked around, for the first time in its life being subjected to a pressure that it had never felt it could only rage.

Anger appearing in its eyes it widened its maw to an unreal length, almost enough to swallow a building in fact. Then it roared.

And that had been what they had been waiting for. As one the trio jumped, the thin layer of muscle and scales cutting into the creature mouth as the landed around it. Lorean on the other hand jumped right into its mouth, his daggers at the ready as he plunged them into the creature"s inner mouth.

He moved quickly for if he stayed in one area too long he would burn away with the level of venom in the creature"s mouth.

Blood flowed like rivers, as its forked tongue flailed around. With a shriek it moved, still pressured by the insane pressure that the trio emitted together it flailed. The entire creature seemingly on fire.

Its tails moved with a great vigor, a much greater vigor than the one it had displayed when it faced off Lorean alone. All thoughts of conserving energy and hunger had fled its mind, for the first time in that encounter the great Yuda felt a fear of death.

At first the water raged higher and higher as it attempted to move, slowly its limbs heated up. The age old muscles locking up as the creature choked on a mixture of blood, an O" so unhealthy amount of venom and a fatigue that its century old body could not handle.

With a mighty thud the monster finally began to shriek lesser and lesser, a pained whimper in its eyes as the deceptive lids that covered them sought to drown out the faint light of hope from within its eyes.

Slowly the behemoth sunk into the water, two figure right behind its head still holding on for dear life.

Sorren alone seemed to be pulling all the weight as Fawkes for the first time in his life used his body might to stabilize another.

And as the mighty winds began to cease so too the movement of the century old tyrant as its archaic blood finally stopped flowing to all parts of its longer than necessary body.

Then with a final heave the jaw of the creature splintered, and with that the last hopes of life.

From its b.l.o.o.d.y maw a tired captain slowly walked out, as the head plunged into the water below….