14 Easy Come Easy Go
"Ha, ha, ha" As the dust and electricity clears, Gilgamesh stands facing the three tigers while short of breath. Seeing the three tigers staring him down Gilgamesh can't help but smirk.
"Come on you bastards!" Gilgamesh charges recklessly towards the tigers with his hands towards his sides.
"Raaaaghaa!" The tires roar fiercely before two of them flank his side and all three maul towards him in a combination assault.
"5 Million Volt Shigan Blitz!" All ten of his fingers clad with lightning pierces towards the middle tiger.
The tiger's massive paws swipe towards his body and he doesn't even flinch. Gilgamesh smirks while the claws move right through him, shocking the Tigers in the process.
Gilgamesh's ten fingers make contact with the Tiger but is unable to penetrate its steel-like fur. Feeling pain in his fingers from the rebound, Gilgamesh bites his teeth and fully elemetalizes them and allows pure lightning to seep through the Tiger's bones.
"Ahhhraaaah!" a fierce current passes through the Tiger's body and causes its muscles to spasm. The other two tigers continue to swipe, but fail to hit.
Feeling his stamina dropping at a rapid pace Gilgamesh transforms into a bolt of lightning and zaps into the air. "Plan B then."
The Tigers look at Gilgamesh above their heads and roar as he holds out his right arm. An electric current runs along his entire body, turning all the rings on his body except the one on his waist to liquid metal. Without the weight on his body Gilgamesh feels completely free for the first time in a while. The molten metal gathers above his right hand and elongates into a spear.
The metal rapidly cools and Gilgamesh looks coldly at a tiger while slowly falling. "Enkidu now! The spear of god!" Lightning begins arcing from the spear as he forms an electromagnetic field around it, using all his power to keep it in place for but a moment.
"Gungnir!" When the spear leaves his hand only a blur can be seen followed by a series of seven explosions in rapid succession as the sound barrier is shattered.
Because the spear is naturally slower than lightning the tigers easily dodge jumping to the side, but as the spear hits the ground it doesn't even leave a dent in the red stone below but immediately shatters into shrapnel. Despite having abnormal instinct, the Tigers are unable to dodge the metal pieces from sinking into the bodies.
Hearing the explosion Enkidu covers her ears. Because she is inside the blast radius shrapnel reaches her body but it's harmlessly absorbed into the swamp.
Gilgamesh lands in the middle of the Tigers with a smile. Looking at the tigers covered in bloody wounds still stalking closer to him Gilgamesh can't help but shake his head.
"You are truly more powerful than me, but my range of abilities make it impossible for you to win." Seeing the Tigers move closer Gilgamesh frowns. "Fools, it's already checkmate."
Raising his hands he controls all the metal shards trapped in their bodies and completely shred their insides like a blender. The tigers shake for a moment before falling to the ground dead.
"No matter how tough your fur and hide is, your insides are still soft and squishy." As he finishes speaking he collapses onto his butt.
"Haaa haaaaa, Water Enkidu water!" Falling onto his back he begins to pant.
"Coming!" Enkidu rushes over and pulls a barrel of water from her body. "The air is so thin, It's hard to breathe!"
Rising to his feet he begins to chug water madly. After a few seconds, he finishes and takes a huge breath. "Enkidu, new plan. I just used my full range EM detection and this forest is full of EM signatures. Your birthday is soon and we will be the same age, so you can learn to fight too. For the rest of the year, we will train on the red line. Because the oxygen is thin our bodies will become more efficient and our stamina will increase faster."
After finally testing his combat abilities for the first time Gilgamesh can feel this is what he needs right now. "Blindly practicing won't help us improve. Let's eat these tigers and start teaching you to fight."
"Yea yea! Ok! Finally" Enkidu jumps around excitedly at the thought of being able to help out more. Looking at the huge tigers she can't help but drool.
Staring at the tiger fur Gilgamesh rubs his chin and a smile forms on his face. Holing out his palm all the metal scraps from the spear begin gathering above his hand. Squeezing his fingers the metal compresses into one basketball-sized lump.
"Enkidu go and absorb the dingy into your body and I'll prepare the food." As his voice falls lighting shoots up from his palm and superheats the ball.
Enkidu nods before running to absorb the boat. "Hmmm hmmm." Turning her entire body into a swamp she covers the entire boat and slowly absorbs it.
After shaping the metal he forms a total of 400 fingernail size razor disc. Waving his fingers he begins using the blades to skin the tigers by cutting at their wounds.
Twenty minutes later Enkidu is finished and watches Gilgamesh work. After peeling off all the hides he transforms the blades into a metal rack. Using some water he cleans all the dirt, blood, and skin off the hides and hangs them to dry.
Breaking limbs from the nearby trees Gilgamesh uses them as skewers and roasts the meat with lightning.
"Ok! Let's dig in, we have a lot of training to do." Sitting down he grabs a tiger leg and begins to eat.
Grabbing a big piece of meat Enkidu sits next to Gilgamesh and eats. "Gilgamesh will I become strong like you?"
Glancing at Enkidu for a moment he arranges his thoughts. "I have a lot of theories about Devil Fruits. For Logia there are two types. The first kind is a destructive force of nature like Fire, magma, light, and lightning. These types are best at launching direct attacks at their targets." Biting into a piece of meat he lets his words sink in.
"Then what is my swamp fruit? Can I not attack?" Enkidu frowns as she hears the words.
Gilgamesh shakes his head lightly. "Your Devil Fruit is part of what I classify as the second type of Logia, fields of nature. This includes deserts, icefields, swamps, snow, and darkness. While these types can launch direct attacks their biggest strength is changing the environment around you."
"What do you mean?" Enkidu puts down the meat as her eyes begin to shine.
"Let's take your swamp as an example. You can move freely in your own swamp, but if you spread your swamp around and it's constantly trying to pull things in, you can become the controller of the battlefield. If I were to shoot lightning everywhere it would do me no good, but if you spread swamp everywhere your power would continue to increase." Reaching out he pats Enkidu's head. "There is no weak fruit, just unimaginative people."
Enkidu's eyes get bigger as she grips her fist tightly.
Between the two of them, they could only eat half a tiger. As their bellies bulge, Gilgamesh turns the rest of the meat into jerky and stores it in an empty water barrel inside Enkidu.
"This place is dangerous, and the places we will go will continue to get worse." Gilgamesh stands across from Enkidu. "So from here on out your combat training begins, attack me with everything you have and I will retaliate."
"Ok! Here I come." Enkidu rushes towards Gilgamesh with her hands spread out to her side like an airplane. As she gets within arms reach she throws a haymaker punch with her right hand.
Gilgamesh takes a step closer to her body and slaps forward with his palm, striking her in the chest.
Enkidu's eyes go round as her feet are lifted from the ground and she flies backward like a ragdoll. Collapsing to the ground her body rolls four times before coming to a stop. "Ahhhh ahhhh!" Holding her chest she begins rolling side to side.
"Dead." Gilgamesh smiles while he looks at Enkidu "And If you keep screaming you will attract more tigers, this area is probably filled with them or another large creature."
Enkidu covers her mouth as tears well in the corners of her eyes.
"You are a Logia Devil Fruit user, my palm shouldn't have hurt you. Remember this pain as your mistake and come again." Holding out his hand he waves her forward.
Biting her lips she rises to her feet. Clenching her fist she cocks back her hand and charges forward. "Take this!"
Watching her approach Gilgamesh hold out his right palm. As she gets within striking distance she throws out a right fist. Moving his palm he blocks her hit, but as the fist makes contact it turns to mud and begins seeping through his fingers and absorbing his hand.
Seeing that her plan worked a smug smile appears on Enkidu's face, causing Gilgamesh's roundhouse kick with his left leg to go unnoticed.
His foot makes heavy contact with her waist and she has no idea what hit her. Flying off to the side her mind is blank.
Looking at her on the ground Gilgamesh smiles while she clenches her teeth in pain. "Good! Now you know pain, it's time for me to feel it too. From this point onwards don't use your devil fruit powers and attack with everything you have! Don't hold back! Come Enkidu!"
After waiting all these years a massive grin appears on Gilgamesh's face. Clenching his fist to his sides and lowering his stance he closes his eyes and shuts off all EM sensing, becoming blind to the world.
Rising to her feet Enkidu looks at his strange actions. Walking slowly to his side she swings her right hand back as far as it can go before throwing a huge haymaker at Gilgamesh's face. Seeing that he doesn't even move Enkidu's eyes go wide.
Her fist makes contact with his face and causes a bone crunching noise. The first thing she feels is pain shooting up her arm. Gilgamesh's face warps to the side and he stumbles back a few steps. Not stopping there Enkidu takes a step forward while her other fist swings back. Releasing another huge punch to the other side of his face Gilgamesh feels his world begin to spin.
Reaching out to grab Enkidu he catches nothing but air. With a smile on her face Enkidu circles to the front of Gilgamesh and kicks out with her small foot.
"Uhh!" Feeling the impact to his solar plexus all the air escapes from his lungs. Ignoring the pain he reaches out again but still misses.
Seeing his funny movements Enkidu covers her mouth to stop herself from laughing. She continues to circle around Gilgamesh and sending out thundering blows with her feet because it's a lot less painful.
