Chapter 165: Ice vs Smoke
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Chapter 165: Ice vs Smoke
"Right, we are in a hurry. So anyways…let us borrow your ship." She straight up told Smoker.
"I'm not giving you anything without a fight." Smoker's eyes moved between Vivi and Marco, not wanting to take his attention off any of them.
She noticed this and decided to say something.
"You don't have to worry about Marco, he is only here for moral support. I will be your opponent."
"I am?" Marco looked confused.
"You want to fight us alone?!, you are getting too arrogant!" Cried Tashigi.
Vivi moved from her spot and appeared behind Tashigi. As she was about to take her sword out, Vivi placed one hand on the sword hilt preventing her from drawing it out, and the other hand on Tashigi's neck, grasping it hard and making her grunt in pain.
"Tashigi!" Smoker looked at his subordinate with worry in his eyes but did not dare to make a move while Vivi was grabbing her neck like that.
Vivi's index finger turned into a thin ice blade and placed it against Tashigis neck, drawing a bit of blood.
"Uggg!" The marine was unable to speak or move from her position.
"Let her go!" Demanded Smoker.
Vivi got closer to Tashigi's ear and whispered.
"I hope you realize how close you were to dying today…"
She then threw her back, towards the cabin of the ship.
"Captain!" All the Marines in the area went to her aid.
"I'm fine…" She stood up with their help and held one hand to her neck while looking at Vivi with some fear now.
Vivi ignored her and looked at Marco instead.
"Mister Marco, since we have already chosen this wonderful ship…we don't need the rest, could you sink them?" She asked casually.
"What?!" Smoker shouted.
"You said he was here for moral support!" Said Tashigi.
Vivi looked at her with a smile. "He is…I would feel soo much better if those other ships were not there to get in the way when we leave."
Marco giggled.
"I'll see what I can do."
He transformed completely into a phoenix and flew away.
Moments later they started to hear screams and explosions.
"Well…" Her attention went back to Smoker. "You wanted to fight. Then show me if you are worthy of your rank then."
Smoker clenched his teeth at the provocation.
He then rushed forward towards Vivi and turned his right arm into smoke before making a punching motion.
The giant smoke fist turned solid before impact, crushing Vivi and turning her into a pool of water.
"What?!" He was surprised for a second but then he made use of his observation haki to detect her presence.
'Beneath the deck!'
"Take this!" He slammed his foot against the wooden planks breaking them immediately but he then felt a strong pain in his foot and jumped back.
He looked down and saw that his foot was bleeding and there was a hole in his sole.
"You should be more careful and not blindly check with your own limbs." Vivi jumped out of the hole while carrying a transparent sword in her right hand.
"Where did you get that sword from?" Asked Tashigi, who was observing the fight with total focus.
"I made it. It's one of my creations, the model V: Ice Blade. I used a small version of this one to cut your neck before." Explained Vivi before letting the sword turn back into a much bigger mass of water.
Smoker's eyes were on the blade.
'She did not apply haki to that sword but it still managed to hurt me with it...how?'
"Because the sword is part of me and not metal" Vivi answered his unasked question.
The ice blade turned into a floating mass of water.
"Part of you...I see." He understood. Logias can only be damaged by haki and elemental attacks and that weapon was still made of water, no matter what shape it took.
"Looks like you have improved a lot in the last two years. There are no reports of you being able to do something like that."
"There will be now, I guess...but lets not waste more time. There is someone we need to rescue so I need to finish this quickly, sorry."
The water then reformed into something different. A long gun with two big barrels.
"Model III…"
She used her improved soru to rush forward until she was in front of Smoker.
"Shit!" Smoker created a solid block of smoke in front of him as protection.
"Shotgun!"
The ice pellets came out of the barrels and went through his improvised protection before impacting the Vice-Admiral on his chest, creating many small wounds where blood started to pour as he fell on his back.
"Vice-Admiral!" Tashigi forgot about her safety and went to his side.
Smoker was covered in blood all around his chest and a bit was coming from his mouth.
"Sir!, you cant die!." Tashigi looked back at Vivi with teary eyes. "You bastard!"
Vivi rolled her eyes.
"Don't be so melodramatic. I avoided his vital organs, he will be fine as long as he is attended by a doctor…but before that…"
She looked at the squad of marines who were still on board, looking at her with pure anger.
"Smoker gets some leniency for our past history but you guys don't...get off the ship…or die, is your choice. "
The one that looked to be the highest rank among them stepped forward while trembling a bit.
"I-I will fight!...and-"
"Get off the ship right now!" Shouted Smoker before having to stop to cough blood.
"Sir!, don't speak." Tashigi looked at the men. "We lost for now…your Vice-Admiral gave you an order. Abandon the ship right now!. There is no point in dying here."
"Listen to your superiors and stop being so dramatic…we are just borrowing this ship for a bit." Said Vivi.
The Marines decided to listen and jumped into the waters before swimming to the island.
Marco then landed on the deck.
"Jobs done. There is only that Admiral ship where Ace is…" He looked at the bleeding Vice-Admiral.
"Does someone need medical attention?"
"Oh, right! you were a doctor too." Realized Vivi.
"Go help that guy while I check how my Captain and the rest are doing."
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