7 Fighting Arlong Pirates

This time Arlong seriously looked at the kid in front of him. Arlong didn't consider the kid as a weakling anymore but a strong opponent as no weakling could deflect a bullet with a sword.

" Who are you kid? Are you the one who defeated my crew?" Arlong asked.

" My name is Mike and yes, I was the one who defeated your crew. And you will be the next, Arlong", Mike replied.

He didn't move his eyes away from Arlong and his 3 officers standing behind him. One of them was a big man who has two sharp fins on his upper arms. He wore a a dark blue gi, a black belt and his hair was tied to a straight ponytail( Name: Kuroobi) . Another was a blue skin, yellow hair muscular man having thick lips. He wore a necklace, a striped blue vest, dark-brown leather pants, and sandals( Name: Chew). The last man was unique. He had 6 arms with suction cubs, has pink colour skin and grey hair styled with five spikes. Mike remembered that his name was Hachi from the anime.

Mike put his right hand on the sword hilt and bent his body with one leg forward. It was a stance where he can attack or defend easily. When he was about to start his attack, he was disturbed by Hachi.

"Captain, can you let me fight this guy?", Hachi ask Arlong.

"Ok Hachi, defeat him and show him the power of fishmans", Arlong replied.

Hachi came up and stood in front of him. He carried six swords with tip curved outwards in his hands. "I use Six Sword Style, you cannot defeat me with your one sword", he mocked Mike.

"It doesn't matter how many swords you used. They will all be useless if they cannot touch me.", Mike mocked back.

Hachi becomes angry after hearing his word. "I will show you the power of the Six Sword Style", he declared. He got into a stance by pointing all his swords in front of him with their tips almost touching each other and shouted " Six Sword Style! Octopus pot stance!" , and rushed towards him at a fast speed.

Mike dodge it by jumping up before the strike reached him. He jumped10 metres in the air and when he reached the top and started falling, he started rotating his body. When Hachi saw that Mike was about to attack him from above, he held all his swords above him and parallel to the ground and rotated them.

"Six Sword Style! Wall of six sword!"

When Mike reached near Hachi his rotation speed became very fast and with the momentum of the spin he drew his sword covered in armament haki and slashed at Hachi.

"One Sword Style! Tornado flash"

The strike was so fast that all the others watching the fight could see was a flash of a stream of light. He landed on the ground in a crouching position behind Hachi. After a second blood sprayed out from Hachi's chest and he falls down on the floor. His swords lay broken beside him.

"It seems like your Six Sword Style is not as powerful as you claim to be, Hachi.", Mike said to the fallen Hachi.

He sensed a projectile flying towards him at a fast speed from his front with his observation haki. He dodged to his right on instinct and before he could find his footing a fist of Arlong was right in front of his chest. He knew that it was too late to dodge so he covers his chest with thick armament haki and received the punch. But Arlong's strength was much greater than him so he flew back from the force of the punch. He flew for a few metres and stoped after hitting a tree. He felt the air knocked out off his chest, he felt dizzy and hard to breath. After breathing heavily for a few seconds he stood up slowly.

"Don't get carried away kid, you are just a little stronger human. You can't defeat us.", Arlong moked him.

Mike looked up and saw Arlong and his two officers in front, looking down on him disdainfully. He realized that he overestimated himself. He was just a beginner when it came to fighting and had no experience fighting strong opponents. He knew that fishman have bodies many times stronger than human and Arlong is among the strongest fishman. He is about ten times stronger than human. In the anime even when a strong guy like Luffy punched him, it did very little damage to him. He knew he needed a plan if he wanted to defeat these monsters.

" I will be defeated and killed if all three of them team up on me. My only chance at winning is to defeat his two subordinates fast and face him one on one.", He decided.

" Kuroobi! Chew! , Go and finish him off. He just took a punch from me head on, he must be seriously injured", Arlong ordered his subordinates.

"Ok captain, we can take care of him easily", the replied and rushed towards Mike together.

Mike saw them running towards him, so he got into a stance with his right hand on the hilt. He decided to first take out the guy with yellow hair and big lips( Chew) as he seem to be the one who shot the projectile at him before. He waited for them to get closer. He dodged many water jet projectiles fired by Chew from his mouth. When they reached 5 metres in front of him he bent his body and sprint towards them. When he reached in front of them he released a strong conqueror haki directed at them and while they were distracted for a moment he aims his sword at Chew's heart and thrust it at a fast speed. The sword tip hit it's mark, it penetrated Chew's chest, his heart and comes out from his back. Mike pulled out the sword and turn towards Kuroobi. He saw him rushing towards him with his elbow in front.

" Human, I will kill you for killing my brother", Kuroobi shouted.

" Fishman karate! Elbow crush!"

But instead of dodging Mike also rushed forward. He coated his chest as well as his sword with armament haki.

Kuroobi was a fishman martial artist. His pride would not allow him to retreat when his opponent did not. He believed that his body is much stronger than his opponent so he could take the attack without dying.

When they reached each other Kuroobi hits Mike in the chest with his fin like elbow. Mike felt his ribs crack from the power of the strike, he felt blood rising at his throat. But he doesn't fall back he slashed his sword at Kuroobi's neck. His sword was much more sharper after coating with armament haki, it cut through his opponent's neck effortlessly. After finishing the strike Mike fell onto his knees.

" How dare you kill my brothers, human? I will make you pay for it with your life."

He heard Arlong shouting and turned his head around. He barely had any time to react when he sensed Arlong sprinting towards him very fast with his saw shaped nose pointed in front like an arrow.

"Shark.....Dart", Arlong shouted.

He barely put his sword in front of him to defend himself when he felt a strong force comming from his sword to his hands. He was forced to take multiple steps backward. His sword would have broken if he had not coated it with armament haki. But he could not cut Arlong nose even with armament haki.

"Shark.....Dart"

"Shark.....Dart"

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"Shark.....Dart"

Arlong attacked him continuously with his nose. Mike barely blocked each attack. He knew that Arlong will get even stronger when he gets more angry or in water. He knew he had to kill him fast but he could barely defend himself. He felt so much pressure from Arlong's attacks that he forget about everything else, all that knew was to defend himself with his sword. As time passed, it got more easier to defend himself. He felt his sword becoming a part of him, he felt that he could cut through anything with his sword. So he bends his body, put his sword back at his waist with his right hand at the hilt. He was ready to cut down Arlong with his fastest sword draw strike.

Arlong felt his opponent improving as time passes, he felt his sword arts improving at a visible rate. He saw him getting into a stance. So he decided he would defeat his opponent with his next attack. He crouched down and pushed himself forward as fast as he could with his nose pointed at front and shouted

""SHARK.....DART"

Mike saw Arlong rushing towards him. He cannot follow him with his eyes so he operated his observation haki to the limit. When he sensed Arlong right in front of him, he bent his body a little to dodge the attack and drew his sword and strike at Arlong with the fastest 'sword draw strike' he had ever done. The sword leave a trail of light as it flashed.

The two of them passed each other and stood with their back facing each other. After a second, a long bone deep wound appeared on Arlong's chest and blood sprayed out from it as he falled down.

A wound also appeared on Mike's shoulder and blood flowed out from it. He doesn't even have the energy to stand anymore and fell down. Before he fell unconscious he heard the sound of a woman shouting.