Bounty #4

The other side of the Reverse Mountain also referred to as the Grand Line or Paradise, a battleship was docked near the rocky piece of land where many people stood around with an old man.

Upon reading the newspaper and looking at the bounty poster, Tristan passed it to the others with a look of frustration on her face. "So much for keeping a low profile… it seems like the captain cannot go unnoticed no matter where she goes. However the captain would never do the things mentioned in the second part unless it was a war situation and the enemy was using very lethal methods that could cause great damage to those around her."

Carrot looked at the blurry image and confirmed it. "It is sis Alyssia! Although the image is bad, I can just tell it is her. How did this happen?"

Clifford looked at the newspaper and sighed. "She has either provoked someone she shouldn't of or has been targeted by bad people… or both. It is best that we do not use Electro like she said otherwise we may somehow get caught up with the mess she has created. Who knows what kind of people will try to use the blurry image as an excuse to pursue or report us."

Archie shook his head. "There should not be any issues since we are too far away from that location to be suspected of being her or having any connections to her. It would be best that we remain cautious though."

Crocus looked at the bounty and complimented. "So this is your captain.. such a large bounty so early on is very rare so she needs to be careful, you also need to be able to train hard enough to match your captain and support her in the future."

Tristan looked back at him and asked. "Have you thought about what I have asked before? Are you willing to pass on some of what you know about medicine to me and my team?"

Crocus looked towards the large whale off in the distance that was badly beaten up and then replied. "Fine…. I will make this exception but you will all have to help with treating Laboon. Expect to enter his insides and be exposed to something new.."

He had been treating Laboon for a long time after it had built up many injuries and even set up a small island and house within its body to allow treatments from the inside of its body.

If Tristan wished to learn from him and inherit some of his book collections then she must first help him with his difficult task of keeping the reckless and large whale alive.

Tristan turned to the rest of them and asked. "What about the rest of you? What will you do?"

Carrot replied. "We will join you to explore a bit but I think sis Alyssia would want us to stick to her plans. We cannot stay here for too long and must visit some places and collect more things and explore new islands before we meet up with her again."

Tristan nodded calmly then turned to Crocus. "Then… we have enough manpower at your disposal until we have to leave but some may be busy training or learning some things."

Crocus nodded and turned to walk towards Laboon. "Follow me then."

Tristan and the others had arrived at the other side of the Reverse Mountain and met Crocus and Laboon, upon reading Alyssia's notes left behind, Tristan had been instructed to attempt to learn from him.

He was the ship doctor who travelled to Raftel with Gol D Roger and kept him alive during his last journey after he found out he was dying and did not have long left.

Crocus being able to keep him alive even through the many battles he went through when he was sick proved that he had very high skills as a ship doctor.

Although it took some time to convince him, Tristan was able to gain a chance to improve herself.

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Meanwhile on the Calm Belt, a ship was fleeing at a fast speed while running away from three Sea Kings.

One was of a small size like the one from the East Blue and the other two were of a medium size.

They chased the ship all the way from the second third part of the Calm Belt starting from the fearless small Sea King which then had the other two join afterwards after it could not properly catch up.

The two medium sized Sea Kings joined around the last quarter or fifth of the way and began to cause many problems for the crew splitting their attention for firing at but also to defend the ship.

Upon receiving help the small one became even more fearless and began to attempt to get much closer but was met with cannon fire to push it back much like the others.

Whenever the two medium sized Sea Kings would get close enough to the ship to attack her crew, Alyssia would attack them.

Just like it had happened many times, the crew were now reaching the end of the Calm Belt and one of the Sea Kings was overhead and wished to attack the ship and eat those on board but what happened next was able to cause it high amounts of damage and knock it back.

Alyssia stood on board her ship while others were dealing with the cannon fire and her feet were coated in her Electro after using her Elecko skill, after much practice she could now coat both of her feet whole and not just a small part this time.

Previously she had been using her usual Electro since it was less draining and required less willpower and concentration to use but upon reaching near the end, she needed to send the Sea Kings away.

She moved at a very fast speed through her ship using her Flash Step and launched herself towards the body of the cut up and heavily wounded Sea King that had suffered many slashes and kicks to its body or face.

She dropkicked it with her Elecko and Eight Impact Fist and arrived back on her ship again in a quick flash.

The sound of cracking bones quickly followed after her kick which was followed up with her launching herself back to the ship.

The other Sea King appeared at the other side of then ship about to attack when she disappeared again to its side and attacked the side of its head with the same move.

Not only did bones on its head crack from the impact but the eye that was close to the attack also suffered from the Electro inflicted upon its body so now it was potentially blind in one eye or at least had some permanent minor damage done to the eye.

After arriving back on the ship, she did not slow down but instead continued to move quickly from place to place inflicting fatal wounds on the bodies of the three Sea Kings that had become enraged and unwilling to let go of their targets.

They also had some bullet holes in their bodies from Nica's improved gun modifications to increase the overall penetrative power along with some knife marks on the small one but there were no traces of any knives or daggers on its body or nearby.

As the battle continued, the Jester threw his throwing knives towards the smaller one after learning he could nit pierce the bigger ones.

When he missed a throw or when the throwing knives were able to penetrate the scales and got stuck, he stretched out his hands towards the location of them and said. "Snatch!"

The falling or stuck throwing knives would return back to his hands as if they had never left.

Unlike the previous battle with many Minks against one Sea King, this battle solely relied on Alyssia's power to attack from the ship with no extra assistance from Carrot to allow a combo move to gain more of a deadly attack and finish it in one move.

She had much greater power than before but there were still some limitations to how much power could be used in an attack that would risk the accuracy of each strike.

If she missed then she may end up in the sea and risk leaving her ship open to attacks.

She was just lucky that the Sea Kings did not attack the ship from below otherwise it would of all been over for them all.

Each attack was able to push them back and cause a high level of damage to them but after using Elecko, they suffered even greater wounds from her.

After dealing a death blow to the small Sea King, they had reached the North Blue but the two Sea Kings did not have the intent to give up.

They wished to avenge the death of the small one above all else.

"Fiine then.." Alyssia frowned looking at their last attempts. "Ready the harpoons, fire at all three bodies right away."

Since they chose to continue to chase then they would have to die in this location.

A battle begun to reach its natural conclusion when the many chained harpoons pierced into the bodies of two Sea Kings and one entered into the body of the small one that had already died.

The damage to their bodies was already severe but after being pierced many times, their vitality grew much weaker.

Alyssia stepped onto the chains and found herself between two of the surviving Sea Kings.

She jumped towards one and quickly drop kicked it only to launch her body towards the other with a flash of white lightening.

She ended up dropkicking it but from a higher position than before then returned to the other in an even higher position. 'I think I may name this one rising tower barrage?'

This skill uses climbing abilities along with her kicks to deal high damage and kick herself from one place to another while climbing between two or more large structures, people or creatures.

This was one of the forms or moves within her White Storm Leg Style that she could use.

Many of the bones within the Sea Kings bodies were shattered from the many attacks as she made her way upwards between them and arrived overhead one of them.

A heel came down upon the skull of the already on deaths door Sea King and ended its life before landing on the falling bodies head and flashing above the head of the other Sea King.

As the bodies crashed into the Sea and no longer showing signs of life, Alyssia held on as they crashed down and then flickered across the chains before arriving back on the ship. "Everyone! Today we shall feast upon some high quality food!"

The ship began to pull the three large sea monsters along with it to the next island where they would begin to handle the distribution of the Sea King meat and also the rest of the body parts.