War #5

Asther moved into the buildings as he looked towards the vivre card in his hand, following the direction it led to. His body was covered in sweat, while his breathing could be heard outside.

His stamina had long reached its limits.

'Kaido, I am trusting you on this. Don't you dare betray my trust?'

Asther knew Kaido and he was a fighter, and wouldn't play dirty but that never meant that he won't betray him. And, if he remembered properly, kaido had high ambitions, and playing dirty wouldn't be unexpected.

Asther thought while flying towards the vault of Devil fruits. He held a handgun, along with his katana on another hand.

His belt was tucked with grenades and some explosives. He didn't trust his fighting abilities to come with just a Katana.

***

"Gosh...That was a hard one, That was quite the brute strength you got."

Mera moved out of the tree while shrugging his shoulder. He had just been hit by a club and landed on the tree. His shoulder vividly turned red, although not bleeding.

"Ufff... Flame canons."

Mera summoned massive balls of fire and hurled them toward Kaido. It produced a burning crispy sound and moved swiftly and rapidly speed toward him.

Kaido swung his club, hitting the flame cannon balls but as he hit the balls, a burst of explosion produced that pushed him a few steps back while repelling his club.

*Burn...Grr...*

The balls of flames started to drop in various places, and kaido thought it better to dodge them. Mini explosions sparked the battlefield, while another wave of flame balls followed.

"You are not trying hard enough! Or you want him to rob the devil fruits."

Kaido analyzed his way of fighting, and it sure didn't look like he was putting much of a fight. He seemed to be focusing on keeping Kaido at bay rather than attempting to defeat him.

"Maybe! There are some monsters that might be coming soon."

The marines won't be able to hold off the monsters present on the battlefield if they tried hard enough to get away and the first one to die would be the one guarding the devil fruits.

He was nowhere near powerful enough to last for a couple of seconds against those monsters in human skin.

He was no fool, they won't be kind enough to spare him even if he let them pass. They were members of Rocks pirates after all.

Kaido's brows twitched, as he noticed him not putting enough in battle and most of all getting wary of someone else while fighting him.

"I will kill you before they reach here, Don't underestimate me, Worororo!"

Kaido suddenly raised his speed and moved in swift rapid motion. Dodged around a dozen flame balls and swung his Club as he reached him in a couple of seconds.

"Crap! Flame wave."

He charged his hand with flames and it clashed against Kaido. He emitted a massive amount of flames as his hands pressed against the club and repelled the club, countering the full swing.

"Not enough!"

Mera cockily replied, as he charged his fist and attacked kaido's body. A blazing fist barrage landed on Kaido's body, as it left him defenceless.

"Annoying!"

A punch covered in armament Haki slammed against his face, altering his facial structure the next second.

*Swosh...!"

Mera was flown towards a massive boulder, but just before the moment of impact. he elementalized; managing to limit the damage. He wiped his cheeks while blood leaked from within the jaws.

"Flame bullets."

He charged his hands with flames and released a barrage of bullets toward Kaido. Kaido dodged it swiftly with little movements and again moved towards him.

"Flame dash!"

He charges his feet on flames and burst toward Kaido. Kaido jumped as swung his club horizontally, aiming to hit his head.

But before Kaido could land a hit, a huge wave of flames consumed his body and sent him flying away from the force. Kaido's blazing body landed a few meters away but got up in an instant.

"I need to get serious, Or you will kill me before others."

Kaido's body was engulfed in flames as he stood there looking at him with an expression that filled him with amusement.

"This flames won't do, try better."

Kaido shook his body, Stopping the Flames as a whole.

Mera had half of his body brewing with flames, while he slowly moved towards Kaido.

"Flame judgment."

"Bring it on, Worororo!"

***

Asther was standing Infront of a vault, made of thick steel, at least some inches thick.

*Baam...Ting...Ting ...!*

Asther shot a couple of bullets but not even a dent. This was one tough vault to crack. Ony, tingling sound, with sparks from the impact.

'I still have grenades with me, a couple of more explosives. If that can't do it then I am out of options.'

Asther started to set the explosives on the steel vault one after the other, covering the metallic body with gunpowder.

He plucked the plug on the grenade and tossed it into the vault while moving in the opposite direction.

"Don't disappoint me, Explosion."

*Baam...Boom...Bamm...Bzzz...Ting...*

A massive explosion engulfed the room, as Ather walked out of the room. The explosion destroyed half of the building along with the roof of the building.

Parts of the building crashed scattered pieces all around the area.

"Uff smoke."

The room of engulfed in smoke and Asther walked in the smoky room while swinging his hand to and fro, blowing the smoke away. Half of the building had already collapsed, with fire spreading around the vicinity.

"Aah, It's in pieces, should I be happy that the devil fruits are safe."

Before Asther was a vault filled with Devil fruits, Whose entrance had been blown off, and covered with parts of buildings.

The black smoke left a nasty smell, and although used to smoking the smell was rather unbearable. He covered his nose with his sleeves while tossing the bricks and other materials on top of the vault.

Around two dozens of Devil, fruits were before Asther's eyes, waiting to get eaten.

'I should load it on the Mat, and fly away along Kaido. It's still unsafe to move without a bodyguard although Kaido isn't any safe option he won't kill me or cross me since Rocks is still alive.'

Asther started to load the devil fruits on the Mat at rapid speed. He knew it was a matter of time before others reach here, and there was a chance that others noticed the explosion.

He loaded the Devil fruits within a minute, without wasting time identifying them. Every devil fruit was unique and special.

'This is taken care of, Rest is up to kaido.'

Asther looked at the Mat loaded with Devil fruit with a smile, that was an amusing feeling.

*Crack...Crackle...*

Sounds of cracking appeared from the ground and in another second. A feeling of ground disappearing and no footing reached Asther but before he could react, the ground collapsed and Asther fell into a massive hole.

"Huh!"

A piece of metal pierced one of his hands, as he started to fall through the hole.

'I won't survive the fall, Need to call the mat.'

Another Piece of a boulder, as big as his head hit him on the forehead And cracked a part of his forehead. Blood started pouring out while he fell even deeper, It was too deep, Maybe some kilometres deep.

'Damm it! Is this the end? Pathetic.'

Suddenly the image of hell from before flashed on his head, and instantly his soul trembled along with his body cells in fear.

"Like hell, I'm returning to hell, not even in a dream!"

Asther yelled as he plucked the metal rod out of his shoulder and threw it away.

He could vividly see the ground appear and he knew he would die if landed with such speed that even his body won't be recognized.

"Gravity control: Zero Gravity."

Suddenly the gravity acting on his body turned to zero, his speed stopped and the speed of his fall slowed down.

He had a light fall on the ground, after the boulder, saving him from getting crushed.

His body was pressed on a boulder while blood gushed out, he was about to lose consciousness.

He mustered his strength and sat upright while leaning on the boulder.

Asther tore his cloth and wrapped it around the shoulder wound tightly, the wound throbbed producing a high amount of pain, It would be unbearable for normal six years old.

He wrapped the rest of his clothes around his forehead, attempting to stop blood leakage.

'Where did I even land?'

Asther looked around but as his eyes looked around the room he walked inside. His expression changed, with surprise, fear, and glitter of excitement. This was completely unexpected, and this was one hell of a surprise to not care about it.

"World Government had it going on so long before, This is exciting and scary, Hehehehe Hehehehe Hehehehe."