Serious: Black Clover Bastards: The Three Psychopaths, One Strategist & Four Marines

[Docile]

South Blue, Harpoon Island



Using his saw to cut through the wooden planks after measuring really took its toll on Lero's feet. In his younger years of course, now they'd built up a natrual resilience to it after the years of doing it. Reaching the end of his sawing Lero dropped the saw and slid it to the side. Heading back over the the chasis of his project he begun to place the planks of wood on to the chasis by slipping his foot beneath them then kicking them into the air and on to his shoulder where he would hold them in place with his neck & shoulder by raising his stubs.

Once he would reach the chasis, Lero placed the plank down & begun hammering away with his heel. Like his toes, they too had built up a resilience to the years of building ships. Smiling to himself as he watched another plank bring his creation to life just a little more, he smirked. Soon they would be able to sail the seas in a ship of their very own crafted by their very own captain and his two very own. Feet.

In the streets of the town they were bustling with citizens poking around for the best deals on food and whatever other essentials they were eyeballing. Doing their very best to avoid getting in trouble with the guards.



Chomping on a cigar in his teeth and peering out on the window sill of his tower Icarus Clown the resident riddling brawler of Dake's crew watched as the many people below wandered back 'n' forth like ants. Inhaling as he crouched and felt the sun's warm glow shine over him, Icarus finished his cigar and cast it aside allowing it to plummet to the ground below. Standing up and feeling the light breeze but no fear of falling from such a small perch, the clown known as Icarus sniffed the air. Giggling out loud a terrifyingly horrible sound echoed throughout his section of the town.

Through all the streets he could be heard. His gun men even stood with shivers leading down their spines. Looking towards their leader they muttered amongst themselves.

"He's at it again."

"Whata to do but die today, at a minute or two to two." Icarus questioned to himself wandering other than straying from death for another day, just what should he do. Indecisive as his operations throughout Grape Town were well underway he flipping into the air and dropped from the peak of his tower to the bottom.

Landing in a bail of hail he hopped out and brushed himself down. Lifting his hat from the bail he re positioned it back on his head. Noticing the strange look he gathered from a woman in the street he turned to look at her and quickly approached. Everyone knew what was going to happen and started to bite their lips hoping he'd show mercy today.

Sadly he was all out.

"See something strange doya?!" he asked getting right in the woman's face. Shaking her head in terror as her eyes screamed Icarus delivered a crushing blow to her stomach and a knee to her face breaking her nose and fracturing her skull. Standing over her gazing down with fury, Icarus noticed people attempting to rush in to help her and raised a hand.

"NO BODY HELP HER! DO AND YOU'LL SEE JUST WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!"

Closing his eyes and brushing his hair back, Icarus sighed and smiled before hoping over the ladies body and begun to whistle a jaunty tune. As for the woman who lay on the floor bleeding she could cry for help all she liked but the pirates with rifles wouldn't allow it, they wouldn't kill her but just let her suffer and anyone who offered to help her could join her in the suffering with a nice ball of lead burning its way through them.




Standing in front of a series of crying people from the elderly to the youngest of young who seemed to be a girl at the age of 7 the leader of Rachbakk 13 Faye Kageyasu stood in front of them with his men either side of him. Swinging his cane in his hand he stamped it down after observing the men & women at the harbor.

"Look, I know you all want to dock here so you can get some supplies, but I simply cannot allow you to do such a thing. The fee is 10,000,000 Beli per head and since there's 9 of you that simply means 90,000,000 beli for the lot of you. Now I've got to make a living too you understand, so its 90,000,000 or you'll have to try your chances at sea."

Stepping back he head a few more tears as the elderly man's wife broke out into tears. Feeling the slightest glimmer of sadness in his heart, Faye turned around and sighed.

"Although, I could offer you an alternative if you like."

"Yes, yes please, anything." the elderly man begged realizing this man may have a heart after all.

"Well how much money do you have?"

"65,000,000 Beli, but most of that is to get the ship repaired. We can't sail on it any longer, its in serious need of repair."

"Right, well I can always" removing his sword from the cane and allowing it to glint in the beautiful sun, Faye continued. "Lower the price for you so you only have to pay, oh I don't know, lets just say, 30,000,000 beli. It'll just be a quick slice 'n' dice a bit of blood and maybe a loss of companion ship and family bonds, but you'll have so much more money to spend on yourself. Just think of it!"

Faye said with a worryingly large grin reaching from ear to ear as he stared directly into the faces of the men, women & child. Standing up and in a croaky voice the old man replied.

"I'd rather die than let you touch them."

"Well you asked for it." Faye replied as he drew his sword quickly across the frail old man's waist and sheathed his blade. Bending down to snatch up the wad of beli he'd dropped, Faye turned and started to walk away with blood splattered over his midriff counting the money. The old man's family cried more so rushing to his side as blood spurted from his waist like a fountain. Pressing their hands over his wound to try and stop it, this proved useless.

Signalling to the guards who still stood at the harbor armed with rifles, Faye shouted.

"Execution!" in an increasingly high pitch tone.




The sounds of gunfire at the harbor caught Bodi's attention briefly. Looking towards the right and out of the window he rolled his eyes. Sounded like Faye was up to his usual tricks of executing people who just didn't have the money. What a prick, he thought to himself. Getting to his feet in his black tank top & pair of pinstripe trousers, Mr Bodi lit a cigarette and placed it in between his lips. Lighting it with the lighter he'd taken from the last marine he'd come across he inhaled.

The sun felt nice over his body. He knew he looked grotesque in appearance, but he preferred to look this way so people know he was coming. Heading down the stairs of his tower, Bodi slipped on a pair of black loafers and a black blazer. Stepping into the streets he pulled out a pair of aviators and started walking. People seemed to pull away in horror of him and cover their mouths as well as their children's. Staring never was a nice thing to do even if the bastard had just murdered your husband last week for jumping in front of you.

Making his way to Spinner's Folly courtyard, Bodi was going to witness the execution of the men who'd tried to overthrow him with their nefarious gunpowder plot. Arriving within no time due to everyone moving aside when they caught sight of Bodi, he stepped in through the doors and quickly towards the front. Catching sight of the large podium where the three men stood with ropes around their necks Bodi stepped on to the platform and walked up to the front.

"Each of these men stand guilty for the crime of attempting to over throw me. Well take this as a warning."

Placing a hand on the first man's shoulder Bodi striped his flesh away leaving nothing but a man naked exposing all of his inner body. Removing the cigarette from his mouth, Bodi pressed the cigarette into the first man's heart burning it in such a way the man's face turned purple and seconds later puke came gushing from his lips. He couldn't scream as his mouth just couldn't find the right sound. Leaving a nasty black mark over his heart and seeing his organs quicken in pace made a few members of the audience sick to their stomachs.

Stepping on to the next man, who was already shaking his head begging for forgiveness, Bodi continued to speak.

"Don't bother begging for forgiveness, if you were really sorry, you wouldn't have done such a thing in the first place, but you did and so you must pay and be made an example of."

Stripping the second man of the flesh coating his torso, Bodi then allowed the audience to watch as he removed the man's lungs from his body. Merely vanishing from sight, the second man was left missing a chunk of his anatomy. Watching him gasp for breath and struggle ass his face changed different colours, Bodi grinned and placed the flesh back over his torso. Struggling to breath still the second man fell limp in the noose. Placing a hand on the third man, Bodi placed a hand over his neck.

"And you, I thought we were friends. But it seems I was wrong. You deserve everything you get."

Removing his cigarette from his mouth Bodi placed it into the third man's eye and stepped back towards the executioner.

"Let these three men, be examples of what should happen to you if any of you cross me!" Bodi announced out loud hoping everyone who saw this would get the message. Pulling the level the executioner watched as all three bodies fell dangling limpy their necks broken, spirits shattered and lives ended.

These were the three men that the Black Clover Bastards were here to take down and the last one would be a challenge for Lero and Lero alone.

[Anarchy]

Xio found himself in the Rachbakk 13. His hands behind his head, Xio dragged his feet across the ground as he made his way around. He needed to figure out a plan to take out this Faye person, and so far he had no ideas, not even where his target was at.

Continuing to stroll through the area aimlessly, he heard the sounds of gunshots. Thinking he heard it above, Xio looked up to see a marksman. "Must be Faye's work, or at least someone who works for them. If not, there's no doubt they'll be there." Xio thought. Changing his direction, Xio headed towards the direction of the other gunshots.

Arriving at the scene, he found himself staring at a dead family. And walking away from the bodies was the Faye Kageyasu. Xio bit his tongue. He was so tempted to attack her/him. Kinda looked more like a guy in person. Xio might be lazy, but he still had a sense of justice. He wanted to slice this cold hearted bastard.

However, he kept his composure and appeared as if he was ignoring it. He did keep an eye on the villain. Xio was going to follow him. It was going to be a pain, keeping his distance and stealthily following him. There was no chance of him attacking now. He already saw a marksman high above, and he heard multiple shots so there were definitely more men. So scratch that idea. His plan now was to find Faye in a private area or wherever attacking was reasonable.

[FroYo]

Finally.

Matt had been walking for quite some time and he finally was able to find Grape Town. It was pretty crowded and nothing seemed out of place, the only thing which struck Matt as weird was the woman who was on the floor. Did she trip? Matt decided to go help her up, after that he needed to start his search for Clown. He approached the woman and bent down while offering a hand.

"Are you alright, Mad-"

Wow, her nose was totally out of place. If she did fall then she must've of fell from a high distance or something. Why didn't anyone help our earlier, what was up with this town?

[bunbunny]

Umi had not expected that the first thing she'd see when reaching her targets location was an execution. And a gruesome one at that.

She watched in silence as the men on stage got brutally tortured in ways she didn't even think was possible. It was evident that her target had some kind of devil fruit. If he didn't how was he able to just make the men's skin and lungs disappear just like that?

One thing she knew for sure was that when she confronted him she couldn't let him touch her.

He looked much more terrifying in real life too. Even though he was more smartly dressed right now rather than on his bounty poster he still looked very intimidating and bizarre. She was glad she was standing in the back so she didn't have to see the scene up close. However she could still see the acts that were being committed on the podium and cringed when she observed a man get a cigarette placed in his eye.

She had to look away when the lever was pulled.

Cautiously looking back at her target again she observed him standing there looking like he owned the place, which he kinda did but anyways. She had to stop this, but she had to do it quickly before any more lives became lost to this brutality.

[Docile]

Hammering away at a few more planks with his foot holding the hammer between hi toes and his other leg's knee holding the plank in place, Lero finished the outer layer of the ship and headed back over to the supplies. Uncovering a large sheet he smiled. There before him was just what he'd been looking for.

Smooth light weight steel.

This would be perfect for his ship. Not only strong but lightweight. It would allow him to move at speed and offer a strong defensive form from cannons and various other attacks, especially with a wooden layering behind it.

Hoisting it towards the ship's hull and wooden inner layer, Lero lifted it up and pressed it against the inner layer of wood. Smiling to himself, Lero positioned it to lean against it before heading off to gain the necessary tools to make this dream a reality.

Taking on a nice navy hue to the steel, Lero grinned feeling this Hare would scream 'We are the Navy, we should be feared.'

Placing a nail between his toe, Lero tightly gripped it and swung his foot into the steel. Pinning it through the steel into the wood he let go and swung his heel towards it, Lero was going to hammer everyone of these bastards into place.




Looking up towards this man who was offering her help, she struggled to look through teared up eyes and blood which seemed to drip down towards her eyes. She could hear his voice and felt his presence.

She desperately wanted to take his help, but she could't risk bringing pain to another person. As the gun men took aim on Matt Summers the woman batted his hand away.

Coughing blood over lips and down her cheeks she replied in a croaky pained tone.

"Leave me. I'm fine . . . Jusst go!"

She couldn't bring death unto someone and rolled on to her side, her head still throbbing, she couldn't get to her feet. Dragging her aching body to the side of the road, what she didn't know was that the punch had been strong enough to burst a few rather important blood vessels in her brain and slightly fracture her skull alongside the breaking of the nose.

Filling up her skull right now, making her just a little more woozy, was the crimson scourge known as blood.

Citizens watched as Matt was told to leave. As the woman attempted to escape him a young child walked up to Matt. Staring at him through big blue innocent eyes, he found it strange how he wanted to help the woman. Staring straight at him really curious and questioning just what was happening, the little boy spoke.

"Your not from around here are you?"




Lighting another cigarette and popping it into his mouth, Bodi took a few steps towards the front of the podium to speak again.

"Take this as a warning. Anyone who dares oppose me can find themselves on this very stand too suffering at these very hands that caused the agony before you. Now fuck off and have a great day!"

Jumping down from the stage and beginning to walk through the crowds they parted like the red sea. Terrified of what they had just seen, knew of him and saw of Bodi, the crowd's weren't going to cross him. EVER!

Making his way through the courtyard's exit he caught sight of a rather strange looking woman with large breasts and tribal markings scattered over her body, she only stood out because of the numerous markings though.

Allowing a passing through to shoot through his mind, he smirked before he turned to look towards the exit and towards his tower. Signalling towards one of his gun men standing at the gate Bodi whispered into his ear and pointed towards Umi.

Nodding in response the gun man allowed Bodi to leave the courtyard. Heading back towards the tower, Bodi stopped and took a turn to the left heading down some stairs in a darkened alleyway.

Hammering on the door he stepped inside and slammed the door behind him. Just above the stairs read a sign.

Lazlo's Lucky Ladies




Walking from the harbor into the town center, and past Xio without the slightest glimmer of attention payed to him, the man with long glorious hair, a cane sword & a beeping sound approached a stall and looked over a few fruits. Sniffing at them and placing them back he pointed his cane towards the stall owner.

"I want one of each fruit and two melons delivered to my tower."

Nodding the stall owner quickly got to work on sending them to the tower via courier. Strolling from the stall down an alleyway, the man with the cane sword and glorious hair. As he wandered into the alleyway, the man paused reaching into his pocket for a small plastic bag. Shaking it as a white powder shook in it, the man poured it gently out over his hand.

Lowering his nose to his hand, the man quickly begun to snort it up his nose as he now stood in an alleyway from prying eyes. It wasn't that this substance was illegal, but more the fact, that he didn't want people knowing his secret as to why he was twenty four seven totally cranked and psychotic.

He loved this shit dearly with every ounce of his still beating heart and always would.

Leaning back as the drug entered his nostrils, the man made a sound of relief and dropped the empty bag to the floor. Falling forwards on to his knees, the man dropped his sword as his pupils expanded and a smile stretched from ear to ear. Heart pounding like a horny bunny in heat, the man with glorious hair begin to slowly chuckle in a low hum.

[Anarchy]

Xio watched as the man walked past him.. He had some nice hair, no wonder he mistook him as a lady. Stopping, Xio waited for him to get some distance, then he turned to follow. Xio continued stalking his prey, as h watched him takes some fruit and now headed away. Xio followed him as he headed into an alley. It seemed he had cornered his prey finally, but the hunter might end up being the hunted.

It was practically vacant, the areas, so Xio rested his back on the wall and began peeking at the man. So he was a drug addict. The man began snorting whatever the drug was, all Xio saw was some powder and an insane lunatic.

This was a difficult choice... Continue watching or make his move? Lero's words echoed in his mind, he knew he couldn't make any rash decisions that would raise an alarm. It seemed like it was the two of them, but there could be some marksman, staring at Xio as he thought. Maybe the drug made the man stronger? Maybe Xio couldn't even handle him??

Waiting patiently, Xio awaited any actions from the man. If he ended up looking pathetic and high, Xio would prepare to pounce. Ya never know what could happen... So Xio tried to play it safe by resting his back on the wall and just waiting.

[bunbunny]

A thought flashed across Umi's mind as the bizarre man jumped down from the podium and the crowd started to part. She wanted to stay right where she was and block his path but quickly erased the thought since it wouldn't be wise to cause a stir this early in the mission. She also kinda wanted to avoid having her lungs plucked out by him so she simply followed the rest of the crowd and stepped aside along them.

Observing him as he walked she noticed him casting a glance at her and felt her body stiffen up. Had he figured out she was a marine? Already? Was it that obvious?

Nervously Umi looked around at the various gunmen around the courtyard and felt her palms starting to get sweaty. She could deal with gunmen but these were in worrying amounts and it would be near impossible to fight them all off at once. Not to mention that the havoc the fight would cause would only draw more gunmen near and that man would probably rip her skin off.

Shuddering at the thought Umi observed her target leave and disappear down the street and thought about tailing him for a while but realized her best option was probably to lay low for a while and return to her mission a bit later. Just leave it to look like nothing suspicious was going on. Maybe she could just blend with the crowd and pretend to go and shop or something like that.

Either way she was slowly but surely making her way towards the exit from the courtyard.

[FroYo]

"H-hey wait! You need serious medical attention!" Matt called out to the women as she crawled away from him.

She said she was fine but she wasn't looking fine at all, she looked like a bloody mess. Matt was then being told to leave by others, what was going on in this town? No one attempted to help and injured citizen and those who did were told to leave? Strange, very strange. A young boy approached Matt while he thought to himself, Matt noticed this and looked over to the kid.

"Yeah, I'm a tourist. I was thinking about staying here for a few days and look around." he replied to the kid's question.

He hated lying but he had to for the sake of the mission, maybe this child could tell him what was going on around here.

[Docile]

Looking over the marvel that was beginning to look more like a ship with metal plating on the right side, Lero smiled. It was coming together and looking beautiful. Moving on to the left side next he would make sure to use the same force he had done when hammering in the nails on the right.

Placing the first sheet against the wooden inner layering, Lero created a clamp which held it in place. Slamming the nails into place quickly and hammering them in with his heel, Lero could feel pain on his heel but ignored it. This would be but a minor flesh wound.

Stepping back as the first sheet was placed on, Lero grinned and waited for a while taking a quick breather. Making his way over to the supplies the ship had left for them, Lero plucked out a bottle of water. Crushing the lid with his teeth and spitting it out, he drunk the entire bottle in one go.

Tossing it aside he turned to face the steaming hare in all of its soon to be glory.



As Matt lied to the child he stared on at him with large open eyes and a creepy expression that didn't seem to give off anything.

"You shouldn't help people in the streets who're hurt. If you do, you'll be hurt." the little boy pointed up towards one of the gun men pointing him out to Matt.

Holding his rifle aimed perfectly on Matt the gun man remained still. He knew he'd been seen but that didn't matter. He would be in the right.

Offering his hand to the strange like Noah had been taught to and knowing full well he'd be safe with the gun men about he spoke.

"I'm Noah. Its nice to meet you sir. I can guide you around town if you like. My mum pushes me to be a tour guide anyway since we don't earn enough money with both her & dad working."

Waiting for the man's response, Noah hoped he would say yes to his offer of being a tour guide. He really needed the money.




Crowds either side of Umi moved quicker wanting to get out of the courtyard as quick as possible due to the death's just viewed and out of fear of the guards who worked under such a psychopathic killer. The occasional words about Mr Bodi were mentioned before the crowd were gone. No longer in the courtyard or the street but far down the other ends of the streets and entering the towns or vanished down alleyways.

Now only Umi was left with Lazlo's Lucky Ladies sitting in front of her down some stairs and streets stretching out either side of her. It was her choice where she went. But sitting in the bar at the bar with a smile on his face was Bodi.

"So Hiro how much would you pay me?"

"Probably about 5,000 Beli"

"Sorry what was that? i just thought I heard you say. Five. Thousand!"

Placing a hand around his neck and squeezing his windpipe, Bodi had some utterly amazing skills when it came to talking to people.

"Fifteen! Fifteen!" the bar keep struggled to scream.

"Thousand..?" Bodi questioned.

"Million!" the barkeep squealed. Letting go of his neck and dropping the barkeep onto the bar itself where he caught himself and tried to capture his breath, he looked at Bodi through watery eyes.

"Its always lovely doing business with you Hiro. I'll get you what I promised, just make sure you give me the agreed upon fee for my services."




Standing up slowly and closing his eyes the man with glorious hair inhaled deeply. Filling his lungs he opened up his arms to the sides allowing his body it fill itself with oxygen. It felt so good entering his body.

Turning around to face Xio the man smiled and withdrew his sword.

"Y'know this is a funny situation we find ourselves in here. Your following me for some reason unbeknownst to me, but I'm going to go ahead and guess its because your some bounty hunter or something stupid like that after my head so you can collect on my bounty, but you've made a critical error here my friend."

Clicking his fingers both exits to the alleyway were sealed shut.

On the edges of every alley in the Rachbakk section there were large steel doors which were always unlocked and open until an order was given. This was just safety measure one of Faye Kageyasu's.

He'd been hunted more than enough times as it is and had grown slightly paranoid about it. The doors on either side of the alleyway reached up to a full 20 feet in height and atop the walls of the alleyway were gun men. Taking aim on Xio each of them pulled back the hammer on their rifles.

Turns out these gun men always kept an eye on their leader where ever he went as he was the biggest priority. Looking towards Xio the man with the cane sword & glorious hair which hung down so far directed his sword at Xio.

"Now you have a choice. Either die here and now or go with a few friends of mine." smiling with a grin that showed off his pearly whites, he waited for an answer ready to strike if he needed to do so.

[Anarchy]

Well this wasn't good. Xio only planned to watch to see if he could find a weakness. The only thing he did was put himself in a bad spot. It was just the two of them, and more than likely his target was stronger than he was... The hunter became the hunted.

Quickly, he tried to think of what he could do. Xio had several options:


-Have a duel with the man
There was nowhere to run or hide. He would could confront the man and take him on. Buuut he had about 30,000,000 on his head. Xio hadn't collected half that. If the bounty was accurate, the chance of Xio winning was very slim.

-"Go with his friends"
Not understanding the man's statement, Xio could go with it depending on how it sounded. Then again it could be a trap.

-Use the snail phone and stall
He could request back-up. Xio fully knew Lero was stronger than him, and the others more than likely were stronger than him too... The only problem with this choice was the fact he would give up his cover as a marine... possibly he could get it out when the man wasn't paying attention? But when would that opportunity come?


"Well it depends what you mean by go with your friends."

Placing his hand on his hilt, Xio stared at Faye with a blank expression. He did not grip the hilt in a malicious or defensive way, it was quite casual. He knew he might have to attack or defend himself at any moment, so he tried to prepare mentally. He wasn't ready for this.

[bunbunny]

Getting pushed around by the crowd and pushed out from the courtyard onto the streets quickly squeezing her way out and into an alley and sighing before looking around. Man she had never been pushed around that much by a crowd before and nonetheless let herself get pushed around that much before.

And now she was standing in front of a sign and some stairs. Lazlo's Lucky Ladies huh? Was this one of those bingo clubs she had read about? For old ladies who wanted to hang out and share gossip? She had never seen one before, much less been inside of one. How exciting!

Well since she probably was better off looking for her target a bit later when he had hopefully forgot about her existence. Maybe she could also better find out what was going on around these parts and get more information about her target from one of the ladies. It would also be nice to hang around with people that had about the same hearing capabilities that she did.

So with a bounce in her step she made her way down the stairs swiftly, thinking that maybe she could learn knitting as well while making new acquaintances and play some bingo, even though she was probably a bit younger than the rest of the crowd would be.

Stepping in through the door Umi first looked around with glee for kind old ladies playing bingo but was met with other, much less satisfying sights instead. Such as no old ladies and her target sitting in the bar with a teary eyed man in front of him. Then it hit her.

This wasn't a bingo club.

[FroYo]

"I'll be hurt...?"

Matt looked towards the direction the kid was pointing at and was quite surprised so to see a man with a rifle perfectly aimed at him. Just for attempting to help an injured woman he was about to get shot? How.. weird. He looked back towards the boy as he introduced himself as Noah, Noah aspired to be a tourist and it looked like he wanted to show Matt around the town. It'd be good practice and Matt needed to looked around sooo, eh, why not?

"Sure Noah. Where are we going first?" he replied with a smile.

[Docile]

Finishing hammering into place each of the steel panels on both sides now Lero climbed on to the ship and looked over the innards of the ship. Looking over it he smiled. It made him happy to see his work paying off.

Grabbing his trusty hammer and some more supplies, Lero started to hammer away at the rooms inside the ship. They would be just as important as the rest of the ship and need allot of work. Measuring the size of the wood & the rooms, Lero started to calculate numbers all throughout his head.




Smiling back at the man who agreed to the tour. Noah placed his hands in his pockets and led Matt down the path towards a large stone statue. The statue appeared to look like Icarus.

"Our first stop is the statue of this town's savior. His name is Icarus Clown and his rule is law. He may harm his citizens like the woman you just saw, but he does it in an attempt to send out fear to anyone who would dare attack." Pausing his monotone speech, Noah looked at his feet as if trying to remember his next line. Raising his head back up and looking at Matt Noah continued.

"Uh, oh yea. He thinks that anyone who sees him harm his own citizens will realize how little hesitance he will show towards harming them."

Moving onwards towards the church, Noah appeared to be struggling to remember facts. As he continued walking he turned to look at Matt.

"Sorry if I don't seem all that interested in what I'm saying, there's so much to remember, and the men with guns around here make me feel so unnerved."




Turning to look towards the door and the lady who'd just entered Bodi smiled. Looking back towards Hiro he muttered.

"She's at the door, now ain't she something."

Turning his head to look, Hiro turned back to Bodi and nodded.

"Wow."

Niku Niku: Siamese Strap

Raising a hand, Bodi formed flesh over his palm and from this a string of skin shot towards Umi. Attempting to stick to her right side the skin if it came into contact with her would attach itself and make it as if she were a Siamese twin connected to Bodi and then he'd absorb the skin pulling her closer to him making the string shorter.

"Get that money ready." Bodi muttered to Hiro.




clicking his fingers at the meme mention of going with his friends, the man with the cane sword and glorious hair watched two of the guards on the rooftops jump down either side of Xio. Towering over Xio by at least 2 extra feet, these gun men landed with a great thud.

"Weeeell, you can go with these fine gentlemen ooooor they can blow you away with their rifles and just to let you know, their quite the shot and their rifles are custom design by moi. Gives off a shotgun blast that reaches at least a range of 50 feet."

Pointing their rifles at Xio the gun men waited for his answer. Wearing thick forms of body armor over their body and thick grey helmets with visors, the gun men held their weapons with incredible strength and maintained a worryingly strong stance.

"Well what'll it be? If you choose to go with them, drop your sword, if not try your luck, but don't count on getting far, there are 8 gun men on the roof too."

Leaning back and bursting into a maniacal laughter, the man's crude horrifying screech echoed down the alleyway and throughout his streets sending shivers down the citizen's spines.

[FroYo]

Matt followed Noah as he led him towards a stone statue. For some reason, that statue seemed oddly familiar... wait! He was that clown guy, the person Matt was supposed to track down! Matt tried his best not to seem too surprised and listened to Noah as he talked.

Icarus Clown, from what Noah was saying, he seemed like a complete dick. Matt needed to stop this guy from causing further harm. He continued to follow Noah.

"You're doing pretty good so far, just keep calm and I'm sure you'll be quite the tour guide... also, was Icarus the one who set up these armed guys?"

[bunbunny]

Umi stared at the man and Bodi with a tense expression on her face, she really had no idea what was going to happen next so when it did happen she was prepared for it. She felt highly uncomfortable when she witnessed flesh forming over Bodi's palm and had to force herself not to look away from it.

And boy was she happy she had not looked away. When the string shot towards her Umi reacted immediately and threw herself to the left, crashing into a chair in the process. But it was better than getting hit by that, whatever it was. Kicking the chair away with slight annoyance Umi turned her attention to Bodi again and pulled out her spear.

Now she had to make up a strategy, she couldn't let him touch her so she couldn't get too close but she still had to get within enough distance so that her spear could reach (and possibly impale) him. The man behind the bar was also an issue but it was better than dealing with twenty gunmen. However as much as she wanted to get the mission over with she couldn't just attack blindly, she had to think something up first.

So thus she waited for Bodi's next move while keeping her eyes focused at him and her spear at the ready.

[Anarchy]

Yup. Xio didn't get any information out of the man. So he wasn't going to give him any hints where he was headed, so it was like walking blindfolded. There really wasn't any reasonable choices besides following his orders. Staring at the gunmen, Xio gave up. He was to go with them, still not knowing what would happen or where he was heading. It could be a trap, where Faye heartlessly executes him.. or maybe they were gonna tie him up and torture him. Meh.

Now he also had to drop his sword... that son of a biscuit. Without his nodachi he was screwed at having a chance with combat. Also, he didn't know if Faye was going to return it, there was a good chance he would just throw it away. This mission wasn't turning out well. It appeared to be going smoothly when he followed him, but he was a goner now.

Save me somebody! thought the marine...

"Here's the blade. Now where to go, fine gentlemen?" Xio said sarcastically as he placed the blade on the ground.

[Docile]

Landing on a number Lero started measuring up the planks and using his saw begun to cut through them holding it in place with his toes. Keeping out an ear for his den den mushi, Lero made sure he could hear any reports from his crew if indeed they gave him any. He would need to know of their statuses and current situations. Stopping after cutting up a selection of planks Lero took a five minute breather in which he heard a few loud bangs, clearly the sound of gun fire.

Pausing and wondering just what was going on out there he shook his head and with the sweat that fell the thoughts of the worst for his crew. Returning to the ship, Lero headed back over to it and once again begun to saw through the planks of the Steaming Hare.




As Matt mentioned how he was doing fine and would become a great tour guide one day Noah nodded. As Matt questioned if Icarus had been the one who set up the guards he once again nodded and continued to speak as he led the way further inwards towards the town center which was filthy with wrapping paper from sweets, food, newspaper and various other types of wrapping scattered over the floor.

"Yeh, Icarus set them in place to keep us all safe, well that's the rumour, but apparently they're really there to keep an eye on us. Well thats what dad says anyway."

Walking into the large open street, Noah rushed over towards the large open stage where performers were plying their trade. One man dressed in a colourful jester's outfit seemed to be slinging pies and gaining quite the laughter as his counterpart now stood with a cream stained face. As the jester told another joke before doing a little jig then tossing another pie, Noah laughed along with the crowd.

Looking onwards with eyes full of wonder and keen interest in the performing arts, Noah turned to Matt.

"This is Joker's Red Nose theatre group. They're always doing shows out here to raise the people's spirit. I love this bit because they always keep it new and fresh. " in his heart he wanted to be on the stage alongside them, but in his life time such a thing could never be. Not with his family pressuring him to help bring in more money.

"These guys get their money from donations. Its unbelievable they've lasted this long though and that people have enough money to give these guys some."

Bursting out into laughter as another witty joke rolled off of the joker's tongue and a pie slipped from his hand into the audience it shot towards Matt. Following it with his eyes, Noah wondered along with the rest of the crowd what he'd do. Take a cream pie to the face like a man or deny himself to be part of the comical situation that brightened the spirits of the town's folk.




Watching how the lady moved aside from the shot, Bodi retracted the skin which had stuck to the wall and shook his head.

"This is a skin bar lady and us men love the skin just as much as you ladies do, now don't avoid it, just enjoy it."

Turning around on his stool entirely and facing Umi, Bodi took a step forward.

Niku Niku: Human Cucoon

From Bodi's foot flesh begun to stretch out over the wooden flooring boards, creeping towards the seating, the bar & even the stairs leading to the lower levels, this flesh kept going, climbing up the walls and even covering the door. As a bar maid climbed the stairs with a tray in hand she felt the skin latch on to her foot and climb up & over her pinning her in place within the bar. This did the same for Hiro the bar tender and attempted to latch on to Umi as well. This technique would give Bodi control over the entire environment as well as gross everyone out.

Looking towards Umi with a deviously horrific grin, Bodi took another step forwards whilst screams of barmaids were slowly drowned out by the flesh that enveloped them and filled in the gaps that were their mouths as they screamed for mercy.

"When I want something, I get it, so your going to do as I want, I want you so your going to be mine."




Stepping forward and crushing Xio's nodachi beneath his foot one of the horribly huge guards shattered the blade. He'd just been that heavy. Standing either side of Xio, the two of them reached for his extraordinarily long arms and lifted him up. Each guard holding one arm. Smiling the man with glorious hair turned his back on Xio and started leading the way towards his tower.

Opening the doors on either side of the alleyway the guards atop the buildings returned to work keeping an eye out for anyone else who might attempt such a thing. Marching ahead the man who'd threatened Xio pointed towards Faye's large tower.

"TO THE TOWER BOYS! ITS TIME WE MAKE ANOTHER EXAMPLE." Grinning with glee the man started to run ahead, the effects of the drugs clearly taking its toll on him as he sprinted ahead with a crazed look on his face and full pupils that screamed OUTMYFUCKIN'WAY!

[bunbunny]

When she saw the flesh beginning to spread itself over the floor and walls from Bodi, Umi felt like she was about to throw up. She regretted not leaping at him when she had the chance before and just taking him down.

Climbing up onto a table in hopes of keeping the flesh away from her Umi looked around a bit panicky and creeped out as the flesh kept spreading, covering everything in the room . Umi almost screamed in horror herself when she saw the barmaid and bartender get covered by it.

This was absolutely horrifying! Worse than any horror story she had ever read!

But she had to get out, she had to take down her target. Trying her best to cut away the flesh that was heading for her Umi felt herself build up a sweat due to that it just wouldn't go away! The more she seemed to cut away more just came in it's place. She knew she couldn't continue doing it for very long.

So she decided to take a gamble.

Hunter Drop

Leaping away from the table she had been standing on and into the air she directed her spear downwards towards Bodi in hopes that she would at least injure him enough so that he'd get distracted and give her an opening to attack again.

[FroYo]

"Ah, right."

Maybe Icarus wasn't that bad after all..? From what Noah was saying, it looked like these armed men were here to protect the civilians... or was it the complete opposite? Matt chased after Noah as the kid rushed towards a stage. Judging from the looks of things, it was some sort of entertainment. Matt nodded as Noah explained that the group was here to raise the town's spirit.

Matt smirked as the man on the stage made a joke. He then closed his eyes in thought, where was Icarus at? How will he defeat him? And more importantly, what is he up to no- Matt was interrupted as some sort of pie hit his face. It caught him unaware and stumbled backwards slightly. He wiped the cream of his face.

"Matt, just relax. You're over thinking things, we'll get to Icarus later... for now.. just relax." he thought to himself as he smirked.

That smirk soon turned into a smile and soon later he burst out laughing. What a fool he was, he got hit square in the face with pie!

[Anarchy]

No... his sword wasn't going to be returned. It wasn't a good blade anyways, he'd need to find himself a new one. If he survived. Watching two giant men pick him up, Xio was scared. It kinda hurt they way they were carrying him, but whatever. That wasn't what he needed to worry about now.

Then, Xio listened to Faye's order. To the tower.. make another..... example?! Xio was about to be executed! Things were going way too wrong. He'd just enter the town, now he is facing death. There was no way of him escaping with the size of the men and Faye next to him. Only way Xio was surviving, is if someone saves him.

Please Black Clover Bastards... Someone save me! Anybody!

[Docile]

Watching as the planks dropped in half and Lero tossed another one on, he felt his muscles begin to ache slightly, powering through it however, he continued to sweat. Wiping the sweat on his brow he felt it drench his foot.

Sighing as he heard the sounds of seagulls swoop over the shipyard, Lero smiled. It spooked him slightly, watching them fly towards the town he caught sight of a crow and raised an eyebrow.

Something about it seemed unusual. But he just couldn't place his finger on it.




Slapping the gentleman in the face the performers held large grins on their face and the audience including little Noah all grinned as it splattered all over him.

As each of them burst into laughter the group all smiled and when they saw Matt wiping it from his face Noah gave a muffled chuckle before apologising.

"Sorry about that. I didn't think we'd get hit if we stood here."

As the jester gestured towards Matt he made a comment.

"And an applause for the gentleman if you would please. Thank you for being such a jolly good sport!" Clapping along with the performers the Jester cast a towel towards him with a great big grin.

"I'll take you away to the next part of our tour now if you like, its a little dangerous though, its full of pick pockets so you might want to be weary." Noah mentioned as his voice changed tone and turned to a much less impressed one.



Watching as the panicked woman started hacking away at the flesh with her spear, Bodi grinned. He found her frantic attacks hilarious. Reaching for a cigarette and popping it into his lips he reached inside his jacket and lit it.

When Umi suddenly leapt towards him with spear in hand attempting to drop on top of him, Bodi rose his right hand and clasped it tightly before twisting his fist.

Nuki Nuki: Cocoon: Tendril

The flesh scattered over the entire bar began twisting quickly in the four corners. Twisting within seconds each was now a pointed tendril. What was worse was when Bodi directed a finger towards Umi who was now dropping down atop him.

All of the fleshy pointed tendrils now with bone in the tendrils keeping them solid shot towards Umi from four directions. Each tendril attempting to knock her aside or pin her to the wall.



Arriving in the tower the two brutes carried Xio up the stairs to a room where in there were a variety of devices on the wooden table and in the dead centre was a large wooden chair with leather straps.

Pushing Xio into the chair the two large men attempted to strap Xio in place. One taking his arms the other took his legs.

Stepping in after they'd been busy, the man who Xio had seen taking drugs stepped over to the table then looked at Xio.

"I'm going to make you wish, you'd never been born! Gishishishishi Gishishishishishi"

[bunbunny]

Having her attack interrupted by the tendrils now shooting towards her Umi reacted quickly and almost instinctively swiped down onto one with her spear, hoping to cut the whole thing off. But there were still more of them and she knew she couldn't touch them with her bare skin so just grabbing them was out of the picture.

But did the powers work through fabric? She didn't think so.

So in a way to escape touching the tendrils flesh to flesh Umi tore off her top and used the fabric of it to put between her and the tendril as she heaved herself out of the way from the two other tendrils. She didn't even mind the cold that hit her now exposed chest as long as she avoided making contact with the flesh she was good.

She had never been in such an odd situation before and she knew that as soon as she had beaten this guy and taken his head she would have to find a way out of the flesh covered room after she had helped the poor barmaids and bartender of course.

[FroYo]

"It's nothing. Don't worry about it." Matt replied to Noah as he kindly took the towel and wiped his face.

As he cleaned himself, he wondered how the two new members were doing, he also wanted to get to know them better since they recently joined the crew. Matt handed the towel back to the jester and looked down at Noah as he spoke.

"That'd be nice... also, would you like a ride?" Matt replied as he crouched down to Noah.

He then turned his back to Noah and signaled for him to hop on. He wanted to liven up the tour a bit, plus it'll be good training lifting the kid.

[Anarchy]

Placing Xio's hands on both the man's biceps who held his arms, Xio attempted to push himself upwards, kneeing the man holding his feet right under the chin. If this attack was successful, Xio would push himself back downwards like a pendulum, attempting to knee this man in the nuts. It might be dirty, but his objective was to break free from the two men. And Xio was going to do all he could to do so.

After getting out, obviously he couldn't handle Faye. The longarm would have trouble taking on the two burly men, if they were as strong as they looked. So he would try to flee. Xio still wasn't as fast as Faye, so getting out would be a problem as well. His resistance might not even be effective, but if it was Xio would need to do the only thing he could do. Contact the others.

Now if these two attacks worked, and he managed to get distance between himself and the enemies, Xio would pull his den den mushi from his side, and contact Lero or the other two.

The message would be something like:

"I'm about to get killed and I need help! No time to explain anything just hurry to the Rachbakk 131!"

[Docile]

Hearing something crackling Lero headed towards his work bench and paused. He could hear a voice. A slightly feminine voice. Someone had been captured. Seems the den den mushi had activated itself. And right now Lero was hearing the voice of Faye.

Realizing what this meant as he talked and finally laughed, Lero's eyes widened. Sprinting towards the town he quickly locked up the shipyard after placing up a sign to state they were closed. Making his way into town he just needed now to figure out which location Xio was in.

It seemed he was in trouble and needed a quick rescue.



"Urm yeh ok. If you don't mind." Noah replied as he hopped on to Matt's back. Pointing ahead towards a nasty smelly part of the town, it was clear this was if anything the under privileged.

Noah pointed to a set of stairs nuzzled cosily between two larger buildings with thatched roofs. Just poking out over the stairs was a figure head of a black bull with a ring in its nose and two large white horns.

Three men stood outside smoking and as they looked towards Noah & Matt, Noah looked away avoiding eye contact. His voice took on a much duller tone again clearly showing his disinterest in the tour.

Three kids ran past Matt suspiciously close and as they got past him the three kids stopped at an alleyway laughing to themselves.

"Just down those stairs is an underground fighting ring. Cage fighting, bare knuckle boxing you name it, they do all of it down there. I hear its a crime in on other islands, but Icarus enjoys it, he goes down there to make bets allot and even takes part in the fights sometimes too. Dad says he's a hell of a boxer and doesn't ever back down."

Pointing up ahead to a bar Noah continued.

"That bar up ahead is the Sparrow's Gulp, its a well known pub around this place. If you're looking for someone then that'll be the place. They know everything that happens in this town. Mom says be careful if you ever go in there."



When the spear connected with one tendril it was severed quickly and fell apart. Grunting in pain Mr Bodi spilled out a gallon of blood onto his fleshy floor. The two other talons attempted to push through Umi's top but ultimately failed miserably and would only push like a finger with the bone supporting it.

As for the other one it fortunately for Umi missed as she hit the floor. Bodi's fleshy floor. Peering up in pain Mr Bodi's nose over flowed as blood sprayed down over his feet at the sight of Umi's miraculously gargantuan breasts. He'd never seen a pair such as this before and was seriously reconsidering selling her now.

"Niku Niku: Clamp"

The flesh from the flooring attempted to attach itself to Umi now. Once he had her in his grasp Bodi would forget the payment and instead implore other plans he had for the busty angel.



As Xio's knee slammed into a guard's chin, he simply jolted his head back a little but thanks to the helmet that covered his head, the force was dulled along with his natrual resilience, the man simply tilted his head back forwards and continued locking Xio into place.

Grabbing a pipe and a blow torch powered by dials. Faye smirked. He started heating up the pipe as he approached Xio.

"You really are a fool. I don't know who you are, or what you were doing following me, but I'm pretty sure I'm either going to get it out of you or your going to die. Either way I'll be happy with the result. Gishishishishi Gishishishishishi."

Laughing in his face Faye spun the pipe in the air twirling with expertise before jabbing it downwards into Xio's hand. The heat would make impaling so much easier as well as cause a ton more excruciating pain.

Turning from the view feeling awkward and a little sick by the view the guards who stood by dipped their heads. Whilst Faye seemed sickeningly turned on by the event's unfolding at his own hands.

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