Fred vs Lerna (Part 3)

'GREEN FIELD'

Under Fred's feet, the green light that he could now generate after ingesting the Akuma No Mi began to spread across the ground on a large scale until it covered all the ground between him, Lerna and the surrounding area… an almost instantly everything was covered by a lush tropical jungle full of bushes, trees, tall plants and strange and extremely colourful flowers.

"PUAAJJJJ!! ¡WHAT A STENCH!!!"

Very colorful flowers such as Amorphophallus titanum, Helicodiceros muscivorus, Rafflesia arnoldii, Stapelia grandiflora or Symplocarpus foetidus, which emit a fetid odor not suitable for sensitive noses like those of one or hundreds of snakes

PFFFFF!!!

To hide himself better, in addition to creating a tropical jungle, Fred used his last smoke bomb that he reserved until now for another strategic withdrawal or for a decisive moment like this one

"SHIT!

WHERE'RE YOU HIDING? COWARD!" Lerna yelled looking completely blinded as in the forest.

And seeing that he couldn't see anything even with his snake senses he had no choice but to attack attack in all directions blindly as before

CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!

Part of his heads charged into the jungle to destroy it and Fred with it… while the rest was in position, waiting for Fred's imminent attack from any direction.

'Where's he!? Where's he?!'

Despite not seeing anything up close, all his heads were incredibly focused on seeing if anything was coming towards them. The attack couldn't take long to arrive or else Fred would waste that dense smoke screen, which would dissipate in a short time, like that jungle that he was destroying from top to bottom.

'THERE!'

Finally one of the heads was able to feel a humanoid silhouette and dozens of hydras pounced on it to bite him, only to realize a strange detail after sinking their teeth into him

'This is...

Very hairy... and very easy'

Due to the smoke bomb, Lerna was unable to realize that what had attacked wasn't Fred but an Orangutan that Fred had created inside the jungle

Meanwhile the real Fred was prepared to attack!

"DO YOU THINK I'M AN IDIOT!?"

Although Lerna didn't fall 100% into his trap, many of the snakes that stood guard in that place moved to attack the organtuan and that made things easier for Fred

'The momentum, the intention, forget the physical laws of my old world

Remember with your body what you have experienced this night…' Fred thought as he carefully prepared with a great peace of mind his most powerful attack although dozen hydras were getting dangerously close to him.

SLASSSHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

And finally!

Finally!

For the first time in his life after training hard for years and experiencing it multiple times in the last few minutes!

Finally, with the weight of his life on his shoulders Fred was able to successfully perform a [Flying Slash Attack] at the most decisive moment!

Clash! Clash! Clash! Clash! Clash! Clash!

A powerful energy cut that broke through the multiple layers of flesh that protected Lerna's charred body and wounded him.

Slash!

But unfortunately it was only a superficial wound...

"HAHAHAH!!!"

This miraculous attack of Fred in which he put all his strength and spirit wasn't able to give Lerna the final blow!

'Die…'

Meanwhile the hydra heads and Lerna's spear were about to do what Fred couldn't do

"DIEEEE!!!"

The first to arrive were the snake heads, which cut off practically all his escape points and at the same time...

They finally managed to sink their fangs into their enemy's skin for the second time tonight!

Clash! Clash! Clash!

However, his sharp teeth didn't managed to dig very deep into his skin. Fred at the last moment mobilized his metal-reinforced hair to block the impending attacks at the same time as he performed a complicated evasive maneuver.

As a result, he only received a few scratches on some parts of his body... however, that was all Lerna needed.

"HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!"

Lerna only needed to scratch him lightly for his poison to begin to spread and inevitably rot Fred completely!

Before Fred experienced his poison on his left arm, in which he made a tourniquet and finally, with no other alternative, amputated to prevent the putrefaction from spreading to the whole body, but now...

'I WIN!!!'

The poison was injected into different parts of his body, such as his right arm, legs, torso, and even his right cheek!

There was no way he could perform a tourniquet in time or amputate all the affected parts in time in the midst of this death battle!

And even if he succeeded, he would only lose combat power, leaving himself more vulnerable against him!

Lerna was now completely sure of his own victory!

Just as Fred was also sure of his…

'Delusional idiot…"

Anticipating that Lerna would manage to hurt him, Fred prepared the Seimei Kikan to momentarily stop the blood circulation of the superficial parts of his body to prevent the poison from spreading and then, in less than a second...

Slash! Slash! Slash! Slash! Slash! Slash! Slash!

He commanded the multiple blades attached to his hair to cut the parts affected by the putrefactive poison before circulating his blood again! A risky and painful process that Fred didn't have time to appreciate as a huge, heavy and powerful spear was coming dangerously close to his head!

"AAAAHHHHHHH!!!!"

Despite the pain he felt in his partially mutilated right arm, Fred tightly gripped his sword once more and with a battle cry that matched his pain, hatred and will attacked with all his might the spear that was about to destroy his head.

CLANK!!!!!!

CLANK!!!!

Both weapons collided with each other and recoiled upon encountering a similar force, thus damaging even more the already damaged arms of both fighters. So much so that they probably wouldn't be able to use it anymore, or at least not for the rest of the fight

However, there was a clear winner in that match...

Crack! Crash! Clank!

While Lerna's spear only bounced in his hands, Fred's sword fell to the ground losing his maing weapon again!

'Shi…'

As the blood from his right arm fell to the ground, the heads that previously protected Lerna's body and that Fred managed to cut off with his first [Flying Slash Attack] began to regenerate, multiply and spread to restore the biological defensive barrier and offensive battalion

'NOT EVEN IN YOUR DREAMS'

Until now Fred had used the Seimei Kikan to manipulate his hair like multiple tentacles and thus perform many defensive and support actions simultaneously in many directions. Since his concentration was diversified into multiple strands he couldn't reinforce his power at the same time in all of them with the coordination of this neck and body movements and so his hair attacks so far had had little power to cut the scales and bones of his enemy.

But now Fred has changed his tactic! He commanded all his hair to form a single long powerful ponytail reinforced with multiple blades that also formed a single wip-greatsword!

SLAASSSHHHHHH!!!!

Between Seimei Kikan's precise control and the powerful movement of his neck and body, the ponytail became a powerful slashing whip that exceeded the speed of sound and sliced off the heads that were trying to be born from the previously severed neck!

'Incredible...'

Those sequences of actions that happened in little more than a second left Lerna perplexed. For the first time since they started their feud Lerna truly and wholeheartedly felt true respect for Fred. At his young age, Fred had shown an intelligence, skill, grit, perseverance, and power that Lerna had never thought possible. Such was his fascination that was even saddened to kill someone with such talent when he had decided to abandon his ambitions after realizing his flaws...

However... that thought lasted even less than the sequence that captivated him... Fred must and deserved to die

His enemy had been forced to mutilate his own legs and he could no longer escape from him as before.

His sword fell from his hand, his right arm was damaged, so much so that was bent in a rather unnatural position and lacked his left arm

His only available weapon, the sword-wip-ponytail has just been used and he wouldn't have enough strength or time to initiate or parry more attacks.

Fred had nothing left to attack or defend himself with except for the powers of his Akuma No Mi, which weren't lethal enough to kill him and being in the air he couldn't prepare a deep hole filled with a lot of oil or shield-trees

Fred was completely unprotected against his wave or snake heads, the few one that remained who had completely abandoned their defensive mission to kill the unprotected enemy!

Lerna now definitely had won!

If it weren't because...

'WHAT THE?'

Because Fred's left arm, which he had seen amputated and rotten, was now in place and holding a large pistol.

"JACKPOT!!"

PAM! PAM! PAM! PAM! PAM! PAM!

Fred shot several times his precious [Pussydestroyer69] towards the almost exposed body of Lerna!

"NOOOOOOO!!!"

Realizing the great danger that those shots posed some of his heads that were about to attack Fred managed to get into the trajectory of the shots, but succumbed to the power of Stephen's hand-held anti-matter sniper rifle.

Plash!

The special bullets destroyed and pierced the hard heads of hydra that desperately tried to protect their main body from the shots... and some, after some sacrifices managed to stop their advance

Plomp!

However, all those bullets were fired in a perfect straight line.

Clanck! Plash! Clanck! Plash! Clanck! Plash! Clanck! Plash! Clanck!

When a bullet was stopped, the next in line crashed into it to pierce the meat shield that stopped its advance and so on until it impacted the body of the enemy..

"By... a little..." Lerna sighed in relief despite feeling a great pain in his stomach...

A sequence of shots that unfortunately lost a lot of power, didn't hit Lerna vital organs and his constitution and his constitution of Draconian Mitological Zoan Akuma No Mi user mitigated almost all the mortal danger

LERNA SURVIVED ONCE AGAIN!

PLO... plo...

"For a short time Lerna..."

PPLOOSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

Before he could even realize, the bullets that penetrated his interior suddenly transformed into giant trees that pierced his vital organs with their branches and burst him open from the inside out.

"..."

His body had been completely destroyed, his transformation was reversed, and all the severed heads on the ground turned back into his human form.

There was no doubt... Fred had won!

HE HAD FINALLY WON!

"No...

I can't pass out yet..."

However, his battle wasn't over yet... he had to do something about his wounds as soon as possible or he risked bleeding to death

"The…

Same thing again..."

With his hair, Fred grabbed some branches that he found on the ground and using his powers transformed them into captus points. Immediately he stuck them in all the pars that have been amputated from his body and immediately those captus points began to become these body parts, which began to attach to the rest of the body as if they had never been cut in the first place

"Ahhh...it hurts..."

Using his Akuma No Mi's abilities again further aggravated his exhaustion, causing him to fall to the ground against his will.

Even so, he was forced to use his ability gain

Hiiii, hiiii, hiiii!

Part of the ground on which he had fallen turned into a horse and, carrying Fred on his back, he began to gallop towards the cliffs where his submarine perished while his summoner lost consciousness on that island full of corpses

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