G-7 Versus The Bandoliers

[Guest]

It had been a week since the escapades of the Marine Division G-7 in Barbarosa, the trio had been given a rest period to allow their wounds to recover as a newmission was already awaiting them but before they had their post and pre-mission meeting with their commanding officer, Commodore Roger Harris Hayward. Akira wanted to have a small toast between the trio in his office or in other terms ... a tea party.

Manoeuvring around his office the Captain still felt some tenderness in his ribs and his nose had been broken and still hadn't time to fully recover but Akira would fight through it he was a tough man. Sitting himself cross-legged on a cushion placed on his floor by what he considered his 'Desk' which in reality was a coffee table that could fit four people at an absolute maximum.

In the center of the table, a pot of tea sat with two cups placed parallel to one another along with a jug of milk and pot of sugar with a teaspoon sticking out of the top of it. Besides were Colton and Alexis would sit were the bounty posters of their recent opponents in Barbarosa, Commodore Mustang Briar for Colton his bounty image displaying him with a smug grin and shades concealing hs eyes, with a 32,000,000 Bounty on it.

For Alexis, there sat the bounty poster of one Sergeant Baris his severely wounded eye covered by a bandage and his iron wool hair lazily swept to the right hand side with a Bounty of 15,000,000 Bounty on it. Taking a slurp of his tea, Akira was interrupted by a knock on the door neatly placing his tea back down onto the desk on a placemat as he called for the person to enter.

[Docile]

Sitting opposite Alexis in Captain Miyazaki's office Colton looked at the tea in his cup with glazed over eyes then towards the pot of sugar. Just as expected it was on the other side of the table besides Alexis. Of course it was. Sniffing at the tea Colton took his tea spoon and sipped on it before pulling a face. Needed sugar.

Generating ash from his hand Colton swerved between the cups and tea pot on the coffee table and finally over Alexis's cup of tea towards the sugar pot. Wrapping the ash around it he quickly brought the pot over towards himself.

Dipping his tea spoon into the sugar pot he watched as a few drops of tea turned the sugar a brown colour and when he removed his tea spoon watched as the sugar stuck to his spoon. Shrugging he lifted the pot and just poured a small amount in before tossing it back to the table.

Stirring it in with his tea spoon, Colton took a few moments before he finally tossed the spoon aside and took a swig.

Took a few seconds to register before his taste buds which were as lazy as him.

"So is this going to become a regular thing after a mission Captain?" Colton asked as he took another swig taking his drink down to half way and sending alarm bells into his brain because of how hot it was.

"Cause I could really get used to this." he continued. When the door was banged up he turned to look before realizing he didn't much care who it was just wanted some more tea.

Turning to look at the tea pot he thought about topping his cup up.

[Vaetric]

Her bites were healed, the shanking Baris gave her did too, she was u and ready to fight! And what was she doing? Drinking bloody tea. She took a sip, she had already piled enough sugar into it, she guessed. Taking a sip, she winced as she realised she’d forgotten to blow on it. She swallowed it, scalding her tongue and a bit of her neck, causing her to go a bit red faced, though she wouldn’t make such a commotion to give Colton the satisfaction. She placed down her cup only to notice Colton’s ashy-thing swirling above her tea. “Bozz owf!” She complained, slapping away the ash, only for some of it to fall into her tea.
 
She went to fish it out, but it was still hot. “Fok!” She yelled, blowing on her finger, and giving Colton the evil eye as her sugar floated away into his clutches, though she turned to see who was knocking at the door.

[Guest]

Walking in through the door, the newly promoted Rear Admiral Hayward made his way into the room shrugging his shoulders as he nodded to all of the marines in the room before sitting down cross legged on the floor next to Akira. 'Congratulations on the promotion, Roger" said Akira as he sipped from his tea and rested the cup against the saucer. Hayward simply nodded without a smile he disliked taking compliments and congratulations in fact he hated them. In response to Colton's question he smiled "If I had my way we'd have these daily but Mr Rear Admiral Over here wouldn't be best pleased" joked Akira before tapping his arm with a playful nudge much to Hayward's distain.

Reaching into his pocket and pulling out a dossier, Hayward coughed as he began to brief them. "We made the two bastards squeak after we introduced them to shock therapy, turns out Bosco had contacts with another group known as The Bandoliers, they're weapon merchants. Cept they dont sell their own weapons their stolen marine property we need you to retrieve any weaponry as well as detain the trio known as The Bandoliers"

Opening the Dossier , Hayward passed the bounty posters around the table.

Clement Augustine:

Garret Cooper:

Wylla Norton:

[Docile]

Rolling his eyes as Alexis burnt her fingers trying to reach into her tea Colton turned his attention to Hayward and noticed as he sat down beside Akira. He smirked at Akira's response to the tea. Shame, he really enjoyed the tea, his captain really had a knack for making this stuff.

Watching as Hayward removed another folder and started to brief them Colton saw bounty posters and as his eyes scanned over them and took their name on board he nodded.

"How're these guys connected to Bosco?" he asked curiously.

As his eyes fell on the old geezer with the horse Colton attempted to figure out the strength this guy would hold and shot Alexis a stare.

"How much do you want to bet this old geezer's got a devil fruit?" he asked hoping she'd take some of this action and that Akira would join in too.

[Vaetric]

Alexis waved her fingers around and blew on them once more. “Wot?” She asked Colton, returning his stare, before looking at the bounty hunters. “Knowin’ our look ‘e probable IS tha’ ‘orse.” She shrugged, before turning to the other two bounty posters. “Eeer… Ya’ take that une, she’s got guns.” Alexis said, pointing at the twin-pistoled lady.  “N’ tha’ oth-” Alexis began before suddenly bursting out into laughter. “Look at tha’ gimp! ‘E LOOKS LOIK A BLIND GOAT!” She chortled, pointing at Clement’s bounty poster. Well, this was going to be a fun assignment, isn’t it?

[Guest]

Taking a slurp of his tea, and grasping the cup firmly in his hand refusing to use the handle the Rear Admiral barely even moved as the scalding cup made contact with Haywards skin that was as tough, rough and dry as a Rhinos. "The Bandoliers supplied them with their weaponry, guns, knives, cannons you name it they;ve got it." said Hayward in between sips of his tea. Nodding as Akira digested this information he outstretched his arms and yawned so loud that half of Dwindler's Grove could hear, "What's the combat report on them Roger?"

Casting Akira a cold deathly stare at the meer mention of his first name Rear Admiral Hayward shifted in his seat, "Clementine is a Scale Fruit User, Cooper is a Mountain Fruit user and Wylla has a Scorpion Fruit. They're incredibly dangerous, they're based in the West Blue on an island known as Wyatt's Reach. Anymore Questions before I leave?" asked the commanding officer as he looked around the room.

[Docile]

Hearing Alexis's comment on Clement who she said looked blind Colton rolled his eyes, turning to look at Hayward he listened to Akira & him converse and noticed the discomfort in Hayward at the name Roger.

Nodding he tucked that little piece of information away for later. Hearing the words Hayward said about the crew being fruit users all of them Colton nodded.

Scale Fruit, Mountain Fruit & Scorpion Fruit. Interesting choices, although he had to admit he couldn't quite picture what a scale fruit user might entail. Did it give them the scales of a snake or a fish or did it let them create them or what?

He'd find out soon enough, just hopefully this guy would be easier to beat than Bosco was.

"We'll handle them Roger." Colton said as he placed his feet on the table and leant back yawning.

[Vaetric]

"Wot." Alexis said flatly, they were going up against three-THREE-devil fruit users? Welp, she'd probably get screwed over so hard in this assignment, and therefore she isn't going to look forward to it, not one bit. Not even a little bit. In fact, what was it again? One of them could create mountains or something? And scales? BLoody scales? What's he going to do, weigh up Colton and Alexis to see which one's heavier? Worst. Fruit. Ever.

And then there's that third one, eeeh... Some scorp-something fruit? What'd that make her do? Must make her be able to do something, but she hadn't heard that word before. Maybe she could find out later... When she's actually using it on her. Knowing her luck, she was going to have to fight one of these one-on-one, and they probably had a looooad of guns, which includes a loooot of injuries that could've been avoided in close-combat, peeerfect.

Foking cheaters.

"Yeh." Alexis agreed with Colton, though made sure her voice didn't sound as unsure as she was.

[Guest]

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Akira found a great comfort in being on a boat with just himself and his two proteges, to be totally honest the captain wouldn't of minded staying on the boat and living out the rest of his days but of course he knew that was never an option. Running his dry cracked hands thats had shown the effects of two decades worth of swordsmanship through his hair Akira turned to his G-7 underlings as he rested his hat down on top of his head. The Boat was fast approaching Wyatts Reach and as of yet the Captain was failing to come up with a strategy that was at least somewhat viable in their situation.

Wyatts Reach was full of rednecks and outlaws and if 25 years of naval service had taught the marine anything it was that, Outlaws and Rednecks hated Marines....a lot. Approaching the shoreline Akira hopped of and onto the harbour as he docked the ship , looking up to the side of the smallish ship towards Alexis and Colton "Prepare for a hostile reception, were not exactly on good terms with these types of people." Walking into the island that was seperated from the garden with a large metal gate that read 'WYATTS REACH' in carefully crafted golden letters on top of the spiked fence.

Walking Akira smiled to the sound of piano's and fiddles as a number of buskers performed in the streets with the smile on their face and a jig in their feet. Pushing the gate open Akira stepped in as the door creaked open loudly snatching the attention from the musical festivities to the trio silence soon emerged as the musicians stopped the people ran to their homes or any other local establishments and in a matter of seconds what seemed to be a lively and quaint island had turned into nothing short of a ghost town just simply based on the emergence of marines to the island.

"...Do I really smell that bad?" questioned Akira to Colton and Alexis with a dry smile.

[Docile]

Aboard the boat strumming his acoustic, Colton yawned and run a hand down his face. He needed to catch up his 36 hours. It had been. Strumming the strings again he found himself drifting off into sleep and dropping the guitar which woke him up.


Realizing he was far too tired to play he placed it up against the side and lay down to relax. Placing arms behind his head he heard Akira's voice break into life. Mentioning be careful of the territory they were entering he nodded and closed his eyes.

The waves of the ship however wouldn't rock him to sleep but roll him into the walls and various other uncomfortable positions to keep him from sleep. With the ship docked and Colton noticing the sudden absence of sound he poked his head towards the harbor to see Alexis & Akira already overboard and wandering the island.

Serpent Shed

Reforming beside the two of them Colton raised a hand yawning and noticed how bare the streets were. It was never normally like this, not anywhere they went. This was rather peculiar.

Something about their marine presence must've set them off. Hearing Akira's question about his hygiene, Colton shrugged and continued walking down the street with his hands in his pockets.

[Vaetric]

Well, she wanted to do nothing more than sleep but then again no one wanted to end up halfway to the grand line in sea king territory. Alexis held onto the wheel with one hand, occasionally making a hard left or hard right to screw with a certain someone who COULD sleep. She peered at Colton trying to play that guitar of his, but he looked like he could do with a sleep instead.
 
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WELL TOO FAWKING BAD.
 
She was about to turn a hard right again but a sea wave did the job for her, though she didn’t quite like the bonus effect of her losing balance and nearly falling overboard. She sighed, his discomfort won’t be of her doing today, it seemed.
 
The island soon came into view, nuh-uh. Not her job to dock a ship. She went off to the front of the thing as Akira did it instead, before jumping off of the boat. “Finally!” She said, it felt like she was stuck on the thing for ever. She looked around, before hearing the sounds of musical whatevers, there was nothing of the sort from the sewers, and the sound was quite peculiar, nothing like Colton’s scratching-thing. “O’relly?” She asked Akira, as they walked into the town. Well, his information seemed to be correct, since the place just… Went.
 
“Er, I wuldn’ know.” she replied, looking around for anybody that might still be around. She was a bit confused, were the marines some kind of bad omen?  “Wh’ere did them fokwits go for?” She muttered to herself.

[Guest]

Placing his hands on his hips Akira began walking as he paced he caught a glimpse of a young boy peering through the curtains at the trio with a look of wonder and awe and most importantly excitement before he was quickly yanked from the viewing most likely his mother.

"What in god's gracious name doya think you're doin' Tobias?"

"But Ma'! they're so cool, look at their uniforms. I wanna be one of em'!"

With a look of total horror the mother with curlers still in her hair delivered a quick slap to the child's ear that made him cry out in pain before clutching his ear and rubbing it furiously as he tried to soothe the pain.

"Not another word young man. If Governor Cooper found out about this, well I daren't even imagine what he'd do to you. Enough now go check on your sisters, its almost lunch time"

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"Looks like we have an audience" mentioned Akira as he pointed towards all the houses and establishments with their shutters down or curtains drawn it was certain that the presence of Marine Division G-7 wasn't welcomed by the residence of Wyatt's Reach. Noticing a saloon up ahead, it grasped Akira's attention as he began to walk over to it. Above read a sign that was drawn on with paint that read "Buck's Tooth"reading it Akira laughed to himself he enjoyed puns and word play. The bar was like any other smelling of booze, piss,smoke and other bodily fluids.

Upon entrance a thousand eyes turned to daggers as they focused on every step that the marines made, meeting their eyes with a smile straight back at them the captain made his way to the bar before seating himself on a stool and greeting the barman, who by his expression the captain could tell wasn't pleased by who they were or the attitude they'd displayed as of yet.

"A Water please, and whatever these two want" asked Akira politely before sliding the money along the counter towards the barman.

[Docile]

Hearing the sound of faded shouting Colton turned to look lazily towards a window which seemed to have silhouettes dancing behind them. Realizing this was none of his concern and not what he'd come here to deal with, Colton follow his Captain to the bar.

Stepping in his nostrils were filled with a stench most horrific. Piss, sweat, booze & only God knew what else. But he probably preferred not know just like Colton. Pulling a face he followed Akira to the bar and as he mentioned Alexis & himself could have anything they liked he took up a stool comfortably as if he were to be sitting here a while and started the bar tender in the eye.

"I'll take anything to get this stench outta my nostrils."

He meant it too. Looking around the room Colton shuddered. This stench really was bad and he didn't want to bare it any longer than he needed. But if it was the people he could easily clear them out within moments and would happily do so. As a large lumbering man walked past and a vile stench entered Colton's nose he nodded confirming, it was the patrons and not the location as such.

[Vaetric]

Alexis looked around, seemed kinda… Barren, really. It looked all dry despite being next to the FRIGGIN SEA. Might just be the reception, though. She idly look around before noticing a boy talking to his mother or something, she heard a slap and eyed where it came from, the same window, looked like the lady smacked him. “Bet betchy innit?” She muttered to the two, walking on her way. Oh look! The place they were going to seemed to be different from the rest, bit wider. Probably not even a house, maybe a pub or something.
 
They walked through it, and Alexis sniffed, smelt like nothing really.  She noticed something, “…Wot tha’ FOK ARE YOU LOOKIN’AT?!” She burst to the nearest person, she wanted to go give them a smack on the face, but the other two’d probably not want her to do that, and eh… It’d be a hassle, now if she provoked them into attacking HER, then well.. They’d have to help in self-defence, mmmhm. She noticed the others went to the bar, so she followed, ignoring the guy she practically just shouted at. “Wot stanch? PussEY.” She asked Colton. “N’ ah’ll ‘ave sumfin strong.” She said, she didn’t know any alcoholic drinks apart from moonshine from the sewers, and that stuff blew your socks off, and sometimes killed you. So she guessed that anything served here wasn’t as bad. She leaned on the table and placed her chin on her right hand, she’s probably going to have to fight someone strong, wasn’t she today? Probably the gun slinging bitch, bleh.

[Guest]

Nodding, Tobias exited the living room before hopping up the stairs with tears in his eyes. The tears were partially from the pain of the slap as well as the pain of his mother's disapproval of his dream. Rubbing his eyes to remove the tears with his sleeves, creaking open the door to his sisters room he saw Winnie his younger sister playing with her dolls brushing her hair with a comb tilting her head from side to side.

"Ma' says dinner ready"

"m'kay" replied Winnie cheerfully before turning her head around and tutting as she saw the tears in her brothers eyes.

"...Why are you crying again, marines are stupid and baddies" said Winnie with a smug tone knowing it would irk her headstrong younger brother.]

"THEY ARE NOT. YOURE STUPID"

"ARE TOO, YOU'RE STUPID"

"NO YOU ARE. STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID. S-T-U-P-I-D" roared Tobias at the top of his lungs.

---Marine Division G-7---

"Seems your woman, is more of a man then you are" said the Barman with his arms crossed directing his vision towards Colton which got a roar of laughter from the patrons of the saloon. Attempting to diffuse the situation, Akira let out a roar of laughter before slamming his fist onto the counter in an over the top manner.

"Firstly, good sir this is Alexis she most certainly is a woman but not ours as in she is not ours she is her own. Now I don't believe we've met as of yet, I'm Captain Akira Miyazaki of the naval marines, these two are Naval Recruit Colton Ryker and Alexis Fisher." said the Captain with a smile on his face as he extended the hand towards the barman.

[Docile]

Watching as the dynamics of the situation changed Colton rolled his eyes. He didn't care about the laughter nor the fact that Akira mentioned they were marines in a place that clearly wasn't fond of them, but what did bother him, was that he'd asked for a drink that he wasn't given. He didn't pay much attention to what happened with Alexis and looking behind the bar to catch sight of a green bottle with a black wrapper around it.

On the front was the name Igluu Vine Singer. One of the seven flavors of the Igluu drinks. Smiling Colton started to reach for it with his arm. As his hand continued to reach for the drink his arm quickly became ash. Opening the fridge and wrapping around the bottle, Colton quickly lifted it to the bar and cracked off the lid with his ash powers.

Bringing the drink to his lips, Colton could feel it was a little warm, but the drink itself was still lovely and cool. Enjoying the taste as it went down a treat, Colton placed the bottle back on the bar and looked towards Akira.

"This one's on you right?" he asked curiously hoping he'd meant it when he'd said it earlier. If not though, then he could just pay or drift on out the doors or arrest the whole place for some made up charge and count this as inspecting the evidence. But that was too much effort, he'd just pay the damn price instead. No need to go out of his way and expend so much effort just to get a free drink.

Taking another sip Colton turned and looked over the people in the bar, in a matter of moments he had each of them logged in his brain along with the occasional weak points and those who were more likely to turn and flee with their tail between their legs than stay and fight. But calculating that depending on the alcohol consumed and how many were tipsy & drunk, more would stay and fight than those who'd run. Not that he couldn't handle them with the powers of ash.

[Vaetric]

Alexis wasn’t sure whether to take it as an insult or not, but at least she outclassed the other two in something. Speaking of which, it seemed Colton was more of a bartender than he ever was, she noted as he got himself a drink. “Oi dick’ead are yeh jost gonna kepp talkin’ or actuly do yeh job?” She said, ignoring the captain’s attempt at being friendly with him, whih looked more like some kind of bad comedy act. “’Fort this wos a bar, not ah’ convenshan foor sideshews.” She added, tapping on the bar with her right index finger. This place was the worst one ever, all they did was try to insult people and ignore their orders, so she brought it right back to them.
 
She looked around, stupid hats… Stupid clothes, stupid hair, stupid moustaches and stupid people. Didn’t they have some water on the ship or something? Why did they have to come into here? Information? They could just go into the wilderness and find them. Eh, oh well, at least she got something sort of a compliment out of it.

[Guest]

Crawling up onto the large wooden chair that was much too large for a boy of his age, Tobias clambered onto his knees so that he could be seen above the table that the Monroe family were eating from. Plunging his fork into what seemed a sea of food the young man grinned as he rammed the large amount of food into his mouth. As he chewed his eyes diverted around the room until he noticed a number of picture frames that looked odd , not as he had remembered seeing them. Someone was missing, it was his sister Ginnie.

"Ma' why isn't Ginny in any of the pictures anymore. Where'd she go I miss her"

At the very mention of the name Mrs Monroe's eyes widened as she dropped the Gravy Boat she had in her hands onto the floor sending the liquid splashing onto the woven rug below. The room erupted into silence as the sound of gravy could be heard trickling down his Mother's Lap, breaking the silence the broad shouldered Mr Monroe stood up before tapping his son on the shoulder and in a deep southern tone said "Come out side with me Boy" the word boy was sharp in his throat which meant he was about to get his ass kicked like never before.

Knowing the inevitable income, Tobias began to tremble slightly as he made his way off of the chair and out of the dinner room before turning back to his mother who still remained silent but sucked up her tears as she began to clear up the mess she had caused. With a deep raspy voice he called out for his mother as he was led out to the garden by his father "I'm sorry Ma, Ma. I'm sorry!"

---Marine Division G-7---

Begrudginly , the moustache wearing barkeep slid the money off the counter before sliding two more liqours to Alexis and Akira. At the very sight of alchohol Akira scowled he had a long and bitter past with the stuff and he most certainly didn't intend to consume any such substance now in the present day. Opting to slide the liqour to the right towards Alexis.

"Here, Merry Christmas"

After a few moments of awkward silence, Akira looked towards the barman before coughing after getting a strong whiff of the surrounding odour.

"We're looking for the Bandoliers whaddya know about them?"

Maintaing a stoic face as the barkeep dried a couple of glasses with a towel.

"I dunno whatcha talking about a Barkeep here Sir"

"I bet, tell me now or I take you all down" demanded Akira almost regretfully as he knew he'd probably have to.

"I'd sure as hell like to see you try" said the man as in unison all of the patrons of the saloon stood up and drew some sort of blade or blunt object much to the dismay of Akira.

Looking to his two recruits he nodded, "Colton, right hand side. Alexis Left, I'll do Senor Stachio Over Here"

[Docile]

Hearing the sounds of chairs screeching on the floor Colton and something being removed Colton turned to catch sight of the patrons standing up and withdrawing blades, rolling his eyes Colton sat back and downed his drink. He really wasn't in the mood for a drink, but if these men were so eager to be knocked down a peg he would give them what they wanted.

Slamming his drink down and wiping his mouth Colton heard the words from his Captain about taking one side but didn't much care for his orders. Their goal was to take down these men right? So that's what he'd do.

Serpent Spit III: Barrage

Sending out several large balls of condensed ash, they would bring forth agonizing burns for the enemies as well as the perfect surprise when they struggled breathing. Waiting to see who & what would be left after this barrage, Colton got to his feet.

[Vaetric]

“Wheeey!” Alexis said, giving Akira a playful soft punch on the shoulder for the drink as thanks. Akira seemed to have made the taverns’ occupants angry, since they started to get up, looking around they had quite a few weapons as well, bloody CHEATERS. She downed the rest of her drink(s), nodded at Akira, and got right down to it.
 
She jumped onto the nearest table and then jumped off of that to kick one of the guys in the face, and crashing her elbow down onto another. She bent herself backwards to avoid an incoming mallet, before sucker-punching the guy in the bollocks. He bent over and cried out in pain, to which she took advantage of and pulled him down onto the guys she already felled, kicking him in the head to knock him out. Three down, the rest to go! She looked around for more guys to break.

[Guest]

Unbuckling his belt , Mr Monroe called for his sons to drop his pants exposing his backside for the whipping he'd get, which was how the Monroe's opted to discipline their children. Strict but effective, but not in the case of one Tobias Monroe. Almost begrudginly he exposed his rear as his father wound back his arm before delivering a thunderous rip to the bare ass of his son. With his tears in his eyes Tobias bit his lip not from pain but more in a sense of anger to the ostracising of his sister as his father wound round for another whip, the young boy snapped as he turned around furiously with nothing but four years of pent up anger in his eyes before staring the intimidating frame of his father in the eyes as he roared at the top of his infantile lungs.

"IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW MANY TIMES YOU WHIP I'M NEVER GONNA FORGET HER YOU BASTARD SHE'S STILL YOUR DAUGHTER REGARDLESS OF WHAT SHE'S DONE"

Both Father and son stood there speechless as Tobias began to tremble at first as he thought it was the adrenaline when in reality it was fear as he saw the anger emerge in his father's eyes and his arm swing back for a punch.




A Large proportion of the men were taken down by the incoming ash as they writhed around in agony furiously rubbing at their skin trying to soothe the hot ash as they coughedas the ash alsob made its way into the patron's lungs. The remaining men were dealt with by Alexis through a use of questionable offence that could only be described as "Playing Dirty". Following the lead of his two proteges,Akira delivered a stiff elbow to the nose of the barkeep before ramming his head through the glass back of the bar incapicitatiing him almost immediately.

Stretching out his shoulder blades as Akira carefully stepped over the sprawled out bodies of the local residents of Buck's Tooth. The surrounding area was still desolate as ironically a tumbleweed blew across the dusty road. His attention was soon grabbed as he heard the roar coming from the picket fenced house that the trio had passed when they first went into the bar, with a renewed interest Akira began to walk towards where the sound was emenating from.

"You hear that?" asked Akira to both Alexis and Akira as he pulled off his hat before wiping a bead of sweat from his forehead with his forearm.

[Docile]

Watching as the patrons were quickly dispatched and Akira pinned down the barkeep Colton nodded. "Well that was easy. Job well done I think."

Reaching for another drink with his ash powers Colton cracked off the top. Taking another whiff of the bar, Colton could still smell the horrid remains even over the burning flesh. Shame really. Taking a quick gulp of his new drink the sound of screaming could be heard.

Watching Akira leave the bar Colton turned his attention to the patrons & barkeep.

"I'll stay here then and keep check on our hostages. Don't want them setting off an alarm."

Turning his view to the barkeep and the patrons Colton placed a hand on the bar and spoke out loud.

"Lets be clear here guys. I don't want to hurt you, and you don't want me to hurt you. So lets leave things as they are with you guys down for the count and me happily drinking my beer doing my best to ignore your wretched stench. Otherwise I've got allot more where those burning balls of doom came from."

Taking another sip from his beer and flexing his hand, Colton sat on the stool resting his arm & beer on the bar. All he needed was an excuse. A pretty big excuse, but an excuse non the less.

[Vaetric]

Alexis cracked her knuckles, nope; seemed that that was all on her front, she'd better go and- she saw a table hurtling towards her, seemed one was hiding beneath it. She ducked, the edge skimmed off of her back, giving her a little "hello" to the word pain. "Agh!" She cried out, as the table landed behind her. She bull-charged the guy, only to realise in actual fact; it was a female! Probably one of the waitresses. Or something. They fell to the floor, several scratches v punches to the face later, Alexis got back up and walked over toward the two, swearing and looking at her newly-found scratch marks on her arms and cheek.

She looked around, before realising she already chugged both her drinks, damn. She followed Akira out of the bar. "Owfol eegah tuh foight os." She noted, blinking at the tumbleweed. She heard a shout, and sighed. She supposed it was time to do some investigating for that. "Yup, les' go see wut it wus." She said, jogging off into the direction of the noise.

[Guest]

Launching a barrage of fists into his son for his impudence as he caused his son to curl up into a ball similar to an armadillo as he launched a barrage of expletetives to his young infantile son. Winding his leg back for another punt, before having his arm yanked back by his crying wife begging her husband to stop as he beat Tobias to a pulp. Alexis and Akira were both watching from a small distance away holding his arm out to stop Alexis from moving Akira observed the events unfolding in the Monroe residency. Turning around to see his wife it was clear from the look in his eyes that Mr Monroe had snapped as he pusshed his wife back causing her to fall against the wall.

Turning around to see her with some form of remorse in his eyes, Akira knew this was now the opportune time to intervene. Sigalling for Alexis to move , Akira hopped over the waist high picket fence before calling out to Alexis. "Grab the child" as Mr Monroe turned around he was greeted by the stern and stoic face of one Akira Miyazaki, sidestepping one of the Father's wild swings he grabbed his wrist before hyper extending it past his neck and in essence creating a chin lock with it.

"I believe you need to calm down, Right now and stop making a scene. A Man that strikes a woman or even worse a child is no man at all. Alexis take this Madam as well bring her back to the Saloon, it's not the nicest but it's going to be our base of operations for the time being at least."

With a sudden snap Akira jabbed the large frame of Mr Monroe in the back of the skull with the hilt of Jenny incapicitating him, he began to drag him by the foot across the dusty floor. "Chances are these people most likely know something about these Bandoliers as well."

--Colton---

With an agreed chorus of whimpering "K" the patrons of the bar agreed to the conditions set out by the dreadlocked menance they'd learnt was called Colton. After a few minutes of silence one individual raised his hand attempting to get the attention of one Colton Ryker. "Erm Mister...Sir Can I go pee?" questioned the man with the fear still present in his voice as it cracked slightly half way through speaking.

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