The One Piece

Kite should have known better than to have provoked the man, even Venir had scolded him briefly for his choice of words. Part of him wished he had gone about it more strategically with Venir heck part of him wished Venir had scolded him before the fact but now he could feel the sting on his side, the warmth of the freshly spilled blood trickling down his side and soaking into his pants. It hurt like hell, it felt like he got stung by a bee the size of his head but he was fortunate to have had Shamash protect the rest of his body including all his vital spots which was the only thing that was bright about the situation ”bastard’s tough, his spell cut through mine like paper“ he said to himself and he would have went on in though trying to calculate out how he would proceed with this battle but before he could really get the gears running the ring of a small voice screamed out his name. It had seemed that the injury Kite had sustained at the hands of the pirate captain had sparked the fury of Veni. The demon slayer watched as she acted quickly and entered the battle rather than attempting to treat Kite of his wounds. Kite was already taking care of that while she took her attack to the captain. He had his hand a flame and pressed it against the wound, while he didn't feel the heat he did feel the pain of the injury being sealed.

The next thing he knew Venir had called out to Kite which caused him to look up from his sword to see that she had jabbed the captain through with her sword and was waiting for him. Kite pulled his sword out and charged at the captain who was dealing with Veni and so the first thing he did was hold the sword of his shoulder as he would kick the captain back dislodging the sword from the wound. ”Venir, why don't you leave this guy to me While you go find the one piece?“ he would suggest to her looked over his shoulder at her ”I can handle this guy. I'll meet up with you when I'm done then we can get our icecream.“ he said to her. He wasn't trying to tell her what to do or give her orders but he had a score to settle with this guy and with him busy the treasure would be unguarded. Kite clenched his sword tighter and a surge of energy flowed through his body, if Veni could sense it she would feel something off about Kite. ”ready or not pirate. Here I come.“ he declared and charged at the man with a speed neither he or Venir had seen yet and before he could react Kite’s fist was slammed into the captain’s stomach causing him to back away in pain clenching his stomach. “What in blazes did ye do?” The pirate would ask in surprise ”a blaze sounds about right.“ he would ignite his hands in his white fire and charge back in, the captain had his cannon pointed at Kite but when he fired where Kite was the demon slayer was already flanking it and would strike with a solid right hook into the side of the Pirates body. Predicting the pirate would try to brutally strike back Kite would side step to the left avoiding the downward vertical strike and threw a hard left cross catching the last captain in the side of the face causing him to stumble to the side a bit from the strike. ”Where are your
Cannons fire now small fry?“ he asked taunting him again and for his efforts a cannon popped up in front of him aimed for him. “Yarrrigght hot shot. Let's see how hot ye be with with a napalm to yer face.” Hearing that Kite waited for the flames to shoot at him surrounding him with fire and from the captain's position he saw a man burning and turned to walk away figuring the job had been finished. “Serves ye right. Now to take care of the lass.” Surrounded and engulfed by fire Kite grinned ”like I would let that happen.“ the words would make the pirate stop and spin around to see Kite slurping the fire down like pasta until they were gone. “You eat fire?? What are ya.. Some sort of monster?” Kite took a second to dust off the ash from his clothes. ”That's right. I snack on fire so using Napalm wasn't such a wise idea.“ he would pause letting his eyes lock onto his enemy with a glare. ”a monster? Not quite. You can call me a demon instead.“ he would cock his fist back and throw it forward ”Flame demon’s flare fist.“ and shooting out from the his hand would be a large fist made of fire and it would be coming right at the pirate. He would respond by shooting a cannon into the attack causing to to explode before striking but Kite knew he was a quick shot so he was already in the air with flames surrounding him ”Flame demon’s commandment. First.“ a swirling plume of flames struck down on the pirate from above completely catching him in the flames taking full damage. Kite would land behind the captain who was too busy in burning pain to react but Kite was more than happy to. Kite pivoted on his foot and charged towards the back of the pirate ”Flame Demon’s Flamberges“ and in a flash both of Kite’s hands had a sword on them and he slashed across his back and then turned quickly slashing from the left across his belly while slashing down with his right making a cross patterned strike and finished with two strikes crisscrossing in the form of an X across the man's chest. The captain stood still not finished, so neither was Kite. He had no idea how much time he had but he jumped back to grab his sword and continued to fight hacking and slashing at the captain with a flurry of strikes between sword strikes and hand to hand combat nailing him with up to thirty strikes in succession with a final shot with his sword knocking him upside his head crashing him to the ground. The sudden surge of energy would vanish and he would use his sword as a means to prop himself up. ”Take..that..“ he would look at Hare ”Watch the ship I'm gonna find Veni.“ he would say using his sword as a walking stick until he would find where Veni was, holding the so called one piece and Kite couldn't believe what he had been fighting for this whole time.
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Using Shamash like a walking stick,Kite followed the trail of Venir following it to where she had managed to locate the treasure. Along the way Kite had some notion on what to do with the treasure that these pirates were so desperately trying to get. Leaning against the sword with each step he would take he wondered what the treasure actually was. ”Maybe it’s jewels...gold?” that was his greed talking of course. After all this whole mission hasn’t been going as expected but it all would be worth it with this treasure. Kite had only hoped that it had gone smoothly on Veni’s end with little to no problems. Kite had slowly approached the treasure’s location with Venir over top of the trunk that had been the focal point of their mission. Kite couldn’t see the contents of the treasure chest but by how Venir was standing there he was able to gather that it was quite spectacular. ”Hey Venir..what is it?“ he would try to ask her but she must have seen him coming up and turns to face him holding up the one piece and asked him if he thought it was pretty. Kite raised an eyebrow at the question and turned his gaze from the girl to the garment she was holding. ”It’s a fashionable bathing suit...“ he trailed off a bit when he realized what it exactly was. ”A one piece bathing suit...is there anything else in that box?“ he would ask leaning to one side to look to see that the box was seemingly empty. He let out an exasperated sigh which is when Venir mentioned that it changes sizes and asked if she could keep it. Kite couldn’t help but smile at the sparkle in her eyes when she asked the question. ”Well one of us has to keep it and I don’t think that would really fit my style.“ he would say with a smile at her. That is when a thought came to his mind, ”I wonder if the captain knew this was the treasure...ugh I didn’t need that image.” he would say to himself resisting the urge to puke. ”Let’s head back. You can try on your new suit before we get some ice cream.“
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