A Tyrannical Ruler

**Date Started:** November, 27th 2021
**Date Completed:** November, 28th 2021
**Previous Role-Play:**
**Users Involved:** User:LuffyQX, User:MajiPog
**Setting:** New World, Rocky Ledge
**Characters Involved**: Quincy, Yasu Ryū, Todd Baifong, Lucy, Jackson Van de, King Bertholdt III

## A Long Awaited Venture

Yasu wakes up from his nap abruptly, caused by waves hitting she shil repeatedly, slamming against the ship wall "fuck! What the hell Q? Who's driving this thing!?" He yells, banging on the top of the roof, or the ground for Quincy. Yasu rubs his head and walks to the deck where he sees Q just barley, his body enveloped by mist "what's with the mist? Don't tell me there's another freakshow with a devil fruit" he says impatiently.

Quincy looks back at Yasu confused and a tad bit worried at the same time. He grabs his suit and straightens it and then fluffs his flower before saying this "Yasu, we are in somewhat of a odd predicament as of right now. It appears we have wondered into somewhat of a tropical storm while rolling into a thick layer of fog at the same time."

"Maybe you should make a deal with the fog" Yasu says sarcastically. "What the hell are we going to do about that, go for the nearest island?" He asks as he fixes his bed head.

Quincy turns back and walks into the Yasu's quarters and then bonks him on the head. "Of course, we are going to the nearest Island, have you even looked outside?! The rain is pelting the ship harder than anything I've ever seen?! The closet island appears to be a Winter Island going by the name of Rocky Ledge" says Quincy.

"Well tell whoever is driving this joint to hurry up, if we don't get to that ledgy place soon this storm is going to kill us!" he says Impatiently.

"Yasu we are going as fast as we can, give me ten seconds for the love of god bro" Quincy says. Quincy walks out of Yasu's quarters and walks up to the helm to confront Todd Baifong. "Todd how long till we get to 'Rocky Ledge'?!" says Quincy. Todd slowly moves his head due to the wind and then eventually looks over at Quincy and says "We are almost there I can barely see a opening through the fog actually!" Quincy quickly jolts his head overpowering the wind to see a small gap opening up through the fog to reveal a small portion of the island. "Yasu! Get your ass over here!" yells Quincy.

Yasu walks up to the deck once again and gaze's onto the islands size "You didn't tell me it was that big!? That thing rivals the old mary in size!" He says. The mountains on the ledge of the island pierce the clouds, accompanied by a large castle surround by spikes and mountains the size of entire ships. As Yasu and Quincy get closer to the island the size becomes much more menacing. "This island is huge, how do we even doc?" He asks nervously.

Soon after that the fog began to fade as they entered the vacinity of the island. "What the fuck!? Where did the fog go, did it just fade away!?" questions Quincy. Todd looks around puzzled "Where did it go?!" All of the sudden the rain stopped square in it's tracks aswell. Quincy grabbed his chin and thought to himself "It's as if the rain and fog was guarding the island somehow." The entire crew of the ship is staring blankly at the sheer gurth and size of the mountains. One of the crewmates then pointed out on the side of the island there laid a humble dock and a small port town. Todd looked over at it and then turned the ships helm and steered the ship towards the quaint port town.

Yasu runs up to the deck and leans over, looking up at the island once again curiously "This place is just what we need, I'm sure there's plenty of supplies up there" he says while examining the dock they are about to arrive at. Yasu points at Quincy "listen up everyone, as the captain's brother I claim any and all devil fruits you find upon your journey" he yells, laughing to himself while mocking Quincy.

Quincy side-eyes Yasu and then mocks Yasu by saying "We'll we are almost there so get your devil fruit baggy ready mr devil fruit metal detector." Quincy laughs to himself as they slowly get ready to dock at the island. "Todd! You ready to dock or do you need us to do anything? says Quincy. Todd looks down at Quincy for a moment before saying "We are going in for a clean docking on the north-most dock so get ready to pack up the ship and get ready to get off" Quincy then looks at Todd and then nods, before saying "Hey everyone, me todd and Yasu are going off for a bit. Can you guard the ship while we go get some supplies, we should'nt be long" Quincy assures.

Yasu jumps off the ship, barely grabbing into the dock but pulling himself up "Come on, adventure waits for no one, Q!" He urges, waiting for him to get off the boat. Yasu begins walking around the small grove of trees, searching for devil fruits every chance he gets "You never elaborated on how you found yours, care to tell me a little?" Yasu asks Q.

Quincy jumps off of the boat with Todd following him shortly after "How I got my fruit? Remember that day you went off to work to support us and you came back to see me with devil fruit powers? Well I was playing outside carelessly until I tripped on the root of one of our trees specfically the one closet to the door. Whenever I opened my eyes after bracing for the fall I noticed I had knocked this strange grey fruit off the tree. Me being 7 or 9 at the same and being very hungry decided it was best to eat it. Little did I know it was one of those mystical devil fruits told about in bed time stories" Quincy elaborates. Quincy and Todd both then strint up towards Yasu trying to catch up.

"Lucky!! I hope my devil fruit is a powerful one. Who knows, maybe I'll luck out and find one of the logias" he says, continuing to hike up the island. Yasu hears clanking and talking nearby "There must be a village nearby. You go infront of me, i only have this pocket knife and lighter" he says to Quincy

Quincy rolls his eyes and steps infront of Yasu, "We really do need to get you a sword or a gun or even a devil fruit, anything to defend yourself" says Quincy. As they are walking up this steep hill they see a village right infront of them, the village has a entrace with the words "Pirate's Grove" plastered on a giant sign. Quincy then stops in his tracks and turns around "We are here for nothing but supplies and maybe a few luxuries but nothing crazy. Got it!?" orders Quincy.

"Got it" Yasu says as he continues on to eat an apple he is pretending to be a devil fruit.

Quincy, Todd, and Yasu walk into the quaint village and see around 5 houses and bussling tavern. "Let's go to that tavern and gather information on where there could potentially be some materials" says Quincy. The three of them walk up to the tavern to see a western systeled door much resembelling that of a salooon. Quincy and the other two walk up to the bar and look at the bartender in the eyes. "Hello sir, we are here for some basic supplies do you know where here we could get that?" says Quincy. The bartender looks at them blankly before finnaly saying "Oh yes, I do but first would you be interested in a drink or two?" The three look at each other and sigh a little bit "Sir, we really shouldnt we have to get back to our sh--" "Ah! Well come on it's just one small drink!" Finnaly they let out a sigh before hesitently agreeing. "Fine one drink, but only if you can show us where the supplies are. Got it!" demands Quincy.

## A few Drinks

Quincy looks over to see Yasu getting an entire glass of Sake, "Think you can refrain from getting Alchol Poisoning?" says Quincy. Quincy then walks over to a table silently only getting a bowl of sake.

"Screw one at a time, I'm taking it with me" Says Yasu, picking up the glass and walking with Quincy. "Think we can trust these guys? They seem shady..." Yasu then drinks his glass of sake.

Quincy looks over at Yasu, and then looks at Todd who got about the same amount as himself. "Todd over here we need to talk about something." yells out Quincy. Todd stumbles over quickly to sit at the third chair on the three chair table. Quincy puts both his hands on the table and connects his hands and then rests his chin on the small table he created. He then looks at Yasu and Todd and says quietly "Hey guys, I want you to keep your guard up here and try to limit yourself to around 2 bowls or 1 glass of Sake. This place is really shady and I'm getting really bad vibes."

"What do you think ive been doing this entire time?" He asks sarcastically "Don't worry about it, we got this. They wouldn't bother with us, we're just passing through"

Quincy takes his arms off the table and turns towards Yasu "Fair enough, but dont you think it's still best to be cautious" questions Quincy.

"I suppose" Yasu replies "Can we get going? The supplies wont get themselves" he says, encouraging Quincy to hurry along with everything.

Quincy glances over and says this "No, no I've got a bad feeling about all of this... Something doesnt seem right, it seems too perfect for us to find this place that will give us supplies for a few drinks. Cant you see where I'm going with this."

"What do you think they would do turn us i-" Yasu is interrupted abruptly. All of the sudden a loud clasp erupted out of the tavern doors. Yasu looked back to see, a young boy with blonde hair who looked to be his late teens. He had barged in and said this "Everyone you were right they were pirates!"

Everyone in the rooom erupted in a loud laughter masked with sinister intentions. Everyone pushed out of their chairs revealing brass knuckles swords knives anything of the sort. They started to walk towards the chuckling under their breath. "Boys!! We'll be eaten good tonight!!" yelled out one of them. Quincy was the first to stand up, he pushed out of the chair and put his hand on the sheath of his sword. "Goddammit!! I told you guys!!" he yelled out.

Yasu stood up and kicked one of the goons coming at him, knocking him out. Yasu removed to brass knuckles from the mans hands and put them on "We got to get out of here!" He tells Quincy while dodging some attacks. Yasu abruptly trips on the man he knocked unconcious, leaving him easy pickings for the villagers "You've got to be shitting me!" He says as he falls into the floor, scrambling to get up.

Todd pushed off the chair but tripped on Yasu's glass of sake and fell to the floor right next to Yusa. Quincy noticed this and looked over at them, "Shit!" he yelled out worringly. Three random villagers were walking towards Todd and Yusa with vile smiles spread across their face. Right before they got to them, Quincy intercepted and pulled out his sword for the first time in a long time. Quincy began to focus on his breathing before he let out a attack he likes to call The Salemander Cut, he cut all three of the men down with one attack, leaving them barely alive. "God! What i-is going on, I can barely breath" Quincy thought to himself. He slowly resheathed his blade which is taking him several seconds due to how tired he has become.

Yasu stands up and wipes off his clothes while punching a few more villagers "Thanks for the help, i appreciate it" he says as he punches a villager repeatedly, almost killing him. Yasu grabs Todd's arm and pulls him up "we don't need someone dying today" he says as he runs off to fight the bartender.

All of the sudden Quincy began to get very light headed and winded. He began to stumble on his steps before finnaly collpasing to the floor. Quincy looked up to his sake bowl empty, "God I must of got distracted and drank some.." Quincy said.

All of the sudden Todd lost his footing on Quincy's body and fell to the floor. Once that happend he couldnt move it was as if he was in a state of temporary paralysis.

Right before Yasu can land a punch on the bartender he receives one from another villager, sending him flying into Quincy, causing both to make a loud "OOF!" sound. "shit! Why can't i move? Did those assholes poison us!?" Yasu thinks to himself as the villagers come to retrieve their bodies.

The villagers began to laugh at them as they watch them struggle, one of them walked up to quincy and grabbed his hair and pulled his head up. "Hey you! You're gonna make us all very happy with those sweet deluctable bountys on your heads." Quincy couldnt even move his mouth in order to correct him either. The Villager looked behind him and signaled with a wave of his hand for his buddies to come over here. They grabbed us and swung us over their shoulders. They carried us out of the tavern and threw us into a horse drawn wagon. The frigid air collided with us as the villagers hoped in the front of the wagon and waited for the horses to start to drag them to the castle. Only three of the around twenty five villagers came along due to the fact the wagon was very small and could only fit them.

Eventually the wagon was close to the tip of the highest peak known only as The King's Peak. The villagers turned around again and smiled that vile smile of theirs and looked at each other before chuckling. Soon after that they arrived at the grand castle the one that piereces even the clouds. Once they arrived the giant wooden door fell down to reveal a grand hall with the throne room sitting a top a small ledge. The villagers hoped out and bowed before the king.

One of the villagers spoke up by saying "We are truly honored to be in your presence sire, we have brought you three pirates we believe to have bounties" The king looked at them in disgust and then said "Very well... Go a long now..." The villagers looked at each other in fear and then the same one spoke up again by saying "Sire, I believe you distrinctly said that if you bring you pirates we get food! Sire, please! WE have gone without food for months now, we have been surviving off berries and fruits, nothing more nothing less. Sire I demand you give US food right now..."

The king looked at them in hatred and disgust, he then looked at his head knight Jackson Van de. The knight knodded before walking behind them. The villagers fell to their backs and begged for their lives. The knight simply took this as a sign of weakness. The knight lifted his huge blade above head before slamming it down on the one who spoke up. His body exploded in a gory mess of blood. The other villagers scammpered off the floor and ran out of the castle.

The king diverted his attention from the fodder villager and looked at the horse drawn wagon. The horses were going crazy and nuzzled their ways out of the straps holding them to the wagon and ran down the mountain. The king looked at Jackson again and said "Jackson! Go get those assets we cant have them escaping!" Jackson turned the way of the three boys and grabbed them by the collars before throwing their bodies onto the cold hard ground of the grand hall. The king smiled before yelling out "Everyone take them to the cellar so the marines can get here!" Everyone immeditaly responded with "Yes! King Bertholdt!" They all ran up the them and grabbed them before taking them to the cellar. Quincy made sure to observe his surrounding just in case. The knights one arrived at the cellar threw them all in the cellar, which turned out to be their greatest mistake.

## The Tyrannical Ruler

Yasu regains his consciousness in a cell. "Shit.." he says "Wait, the paralysis must have weared off!" He thinks to himself. Yasu stands up and stretches. He the looks down to see Quincy and Todd still on the floor. He shakes Quincy awake abruptly "Wake up, we need to get out of here!"

Quincy is jolted awake by Yasu talking to him, "Sh-shit, yeah we do need to get out of here. Were even are we?!" Quincy questions. "Whatever it doesnt matter right now, we need to focus on getting out" he says. Quincy then pushes himself off the ground and strectches his body before looking for Todd, he then finnaly see's Todd in the corner completely passed out. Quincy strolled over to him and grabbed his shoulder before lightly jolting him awake.

"Hu-Huh what, when" says Todd in a confused manor. Once Todd was awake Quincy let out a sigh of pure relief, he then helped Todd up before saying under his breath "God, I should've put those fucking villagers under a contract."

"Q, you're a genius" Yasu walks up to the prison cell bars "I always took that little blue flame trick for granted, i definitely *won't* do that again" He says smiling, waiting for Quincy to attempt burning the bars

Quincy is a bit apprehensive at first but eventually give in to the persuasion of Yasu. Quincy walks up to the door and puts his hands on the bars, he starts thinking to himself for a second before his flames ignited into a blue wall of flames. The resulting heat burned Quincys hands yet again, Quincy was blown back and smoke filled the room they could barely see what was going on. Once the smoke cleared the entire area in which the bars used to bar was incinerated. Quincy looked at his hands and thought to himself "Wow, maybe this devil fruit isnt so bad."

Yasu shreds a single tear "He's grown so much, I gotta cath up to him.." he thinks to himself. Yasu pats Quincy on the back "Good job, i knew it woud work" he says as he walks out of the cell.

Quincy looks back at Todd and says "Bro, we haft to get going, do you want to die?!" Todd smiles a little before getting up and following Quincy. Quincy srints towards Yasu before slowing down to match his pace. Soon Quincy spoke up after namelessly following Yasu, "Hey do you know where we are actually going!?"

"Nope!" He says as he continues to run into random hallways and doors "if we don't know the way, the best thing to do is make our own map" he says, grinning down at Quincy

Quincy rolls his eyes at the thought, as they are walking down the hall they hear a giant footstep. Everyone is set a-back by this and Todd is a little bit scared, Quincy puts his hand on Todd's shoulder, "Hey bro.. It will be alright, Im right here." Quincy assures. The giant footsteps grew closer and closer, and Quincy could feel the tremors on the floor. "What the fuck could that even be?!" Quincy thinks to himself.

Yasu walks towards the sound without a second thought "Run, and find that bastard that locked us down here. I'll hold whatever that thing is long enough for you to escape" he says, sliding on his brass knuckles "did i stutter? Go!" He orders

Quincy smiles to himself before agreeing and taking Todd's hand and running backwards towards the cells, marking a sharp right right before they got to the cells.

Yasu runs down the hallway, the loud noise getting louder with every passing second. "Come on, show yourself you bastard..." he says quietly while keeping his gaurd up.

A knight wearing dark armor Walks out from the corner, causing Yasu to stop abruptly "Who the hell are you? And why have you trapped us here!?" Yasu asks, demanding an answer "that information is useless to a dead man" replies the knight as he points his sword at Yasu.

"What th- AAAAAHH!" Yasu screams in pain as his eyes are yanked out by a unknown force, falling to the ground "w-where are my eyes!?" Yasu yells as he feels the space where his eyes once were, now only rectangular holes remain.

"I always take away my foes eyes before execution, that way i can treasure the fear in them... permanently" he says as he lifts up his sword, preparing to strike down Yasu.

"That's it!" Yasu thinks as he rolls under the blow, dodging the knights attack by a longshot. "This guy is slow! That armor must be holding him back, and not just that, but that thing klanks whenever he tries to attack!" He thinks to himself, dodging another attack from the knight

"You little rat, I'll tear you to peices!" The knight yells, aggravated. Unseen by Yasu, but the knight begins moving his finger around in random directions, and Yasu begins to feel more pain, mainly in his chest as a rectangular peice of his flesh is removed, creating a see through hole in his body "I'll torture you until you drop!" He yells as he pulls another piece from Yasu's arm, causing him to scream and fall to the ground.

"You... you're the reason why people like me sail out to see" he says as he pulls himself up. The knight begins to laugh at Yasu's struggle "your determination is astounding, i hope you carry that into your next life" he says as he raises his sword, just as the knight is about to slash Yasu speaks "the reason why people set out to sea is for freedom. It is for certain... no matter how strong the foe is, freedom alwats wins. so, knight, The reason why people travel out to sea is for freedom..." the knight shakes and looks at his hands, armor disappearing, revealing a scrawny old man "did the king.. really!?" The knight yells "but im different, because the reason why i sail... is to defeat scum like you!" He yells, punching the man in his face, ending his life.

Yasu's removed body parts fly back into his body, causing him to take a deep breath "That was a fucking nightmare, how did I manage to take out a devil fruit user?" He asks himself.. he then realizes "Oh shit! The devil fruit has to be here somewhere!" He yells, searching every corner of the hallway but finding nothing, causing him to scream out "WHYYYYYY!"

All of the sudden Yasu feels Quincys presense inside of his body somewhere, "Thank you!" he thinks to himself.

**Like 20 Minutes ago**

Quincy and Todd continute to sprint down the hall away from Yasu, and his fight. "God, please let Yasu be okay, I cant handle another family member betraying me..." As Quincy and Todd are sprinting down the hall they see a giant staircase leading upwards toward the grand hall. Quincy let's go of Todds hand, "Todd, stay down here, I cant handle risking more lives today" Quincy says. Todd nods in agreement as Quincy walks up the grand staircase.

Once Quincy reached the top he saw a giant grand hall, and in the center a raised platform with the king resting a top the throne. It appears he was sleeping before Quincy arrived because he opened his eyes, and pushed off the throne. The King was a giant being twenty eight feet tall, and the throne being a bit bigger. The king had a lengthy brown beard that went from his neck to his chest. He had a crown full of expensive jewels he most likely got from the village. He had a nice royal garb on and a red scarf tied tightly around his neck.

Quincy looked at in disgust because of the fact he had been abusing the towns people for years until they finnaly arrived here. Quincy unsheathed his sword and turned it towards his face to stare in the reflection, Quincy stared at the reflection for a solid 20 Seconds before being brought back into reality by the shouts of the king. "Who the hell do you think you are!? Barging into my castle like this and pulling out a sword on me! Are you some kind of assa- oh wait your that kid those villagers brought in because they thought you had a bounty. Hilarious isn't it? Those villagers thought they cough bribe me out of my food supply and get away with it, so I did the only logical thing, I killed them!! Anyway at this point im just blabbering on and on, lets get to the point shall we?!"

All of the sudden the king took a deep breath and then screamed out "JACKSON!!!!!!!!" countless times, to no avail. Quincy was angry at this point, "He killed those innocent villagers for needing food!" Quincy grasped his Katana harder and harder. "Fine I guess ill just have to do it myself..." the king said in a cocky manor. Soon the king pulled out a giant sword that was twice the size of his entire body, he then gripped the sword and got ready to slam it down onto Quincy.

As soon as the giant sword started flying towards Quincy, he steadied his breathing and got in a fighting position. Once the sword was inches away from contact Quincy cut the entirety of the sword to pieces in the blink of an eye. The kings eye's grew in complete and utter disbelief and shock, "H-how, could you cut my sword that easily!" the king said. "No matter... Im still triple your size and weight" the king said while going down to crush Quincy.

As the fist was falling down to crush Quincy, Quincy really didnt seem to be all that worried. He straigtened out his hand and put his sword perpendicular to his hand, and as soon as the fist was meters above him. He flicked the sword backwards and then used the momentum to slice upwards and cut a clean cut into the kings forearm. The king was so set a-back by this he tripped on his throne and fell straight on his back. The fall knocked the breath out of him and he was struggling to breath. Quincy was not going to let a advantage like this go to waste like that so easily. So he jumped upwards and went down to cut a clean cut onto the Kings chest. Once Quincy was falling on a direct course for the king the king tried to get up but couldnt, the king had accepeted his fate at this point. Quincy let out a valley of strikes, but none of them lethal, the king at this point was unconscious due to loss of blood. Quincy turned around and looked at the body of the king and shook his head "It's scum like you that really make me want to kill you, but that would put me on the same level as you people, and I'm not like that. Life is a gift, a gift that is not given on a whim, I want you to remember that phrase, for the rest of your sorry life." said Quincy. Quincy closed his eyes and slowly sheathed his blade back.

Quincy jumped off of the throne and walked towards the stairs again to meet up with Todd again. Once he got there he saw that Todd had a smile spread across his entire face, but not a one of evil, a one of bliss and happiness. Quincy quickly spead down the stairs to meet up with Todd, once he got to the bottom of the stairs he looked at Todd and said "Hey, whats got you so happy?" Todd's smile faded before he said "So I walked over to see Yasu and how his fight was going and he won his fight just because you knocked out that fat old king over there" Quincy began to smile a little bit before a faint tear fell from his eye. "Oh god, im the one who is saving Yasu now, this is a amazing feeling, an amazing feeling indeed" thought Quincy.

## A Frigid Winter Landscape

"We should get out of here, there's nothing we can use here" he says "not even that knight had anything, his armor disappeared suddenly so we can't even salvage that" he says again, sighing a little.

Quincy nodded in agreement, before grabbing both of their arms and dragging them up the stairs "Here look at this! There is a giant wooden door right over there, also dont mind the body of the king over there, that is besides the point..."

Yasu kicks down the door without a second thought and signals them to follow before beginning to walk down the steep hill "let's hurry, maybe the cook cooked us some lunch" he says, Quincy and Todd following behind him.

Everyone walked out into the frigid and frostbitten landscape, the wind whisteled past out heads and it felt as if we were going to be ragdolled. "What is this climate, did it somehow get worse!?" notioned Quincy.

"I think we underestimated how big this island was.." Says Yasu, looking down and seeing the village as small as his fist "we're going to be walking for a long time, hopefully we find some shelter if the storm moves in" he says, digging his feet into the snow as to not get blown away.

Quincy and todd grasped onto the side of the mountain and slowly slid down the steep walkway going down to a sharp turn going even more downwards. Eventually after a bit of walking they looked back to see they have barely made any movement from the giant wooden door at all. "God, at this rate, we are going to freeze to death by nightfall" said Quincy.

"You keep forgetting you have a literal fire hand" Yasu replies as he continues down the mountain side, trying not to slip on the ice "our only hope right now is staying focused on climbing, don't worry about anything else" he says to the two.

Quincy thinks to himself for a second then slightly nods to himself, he starts shimmying down the side of the mountain even faster than before out speeding both Todd and and Yasu by ten fold. Eventually he was too the turning point and he sat down to take a break and wait for both of them.

While he was sitting down he looked downwards to see the village didnt seem to be getting any largers at all, he then looked at the path and he saw a clear cut off right after this new pathway. "Fuck...." he thought to himself. He then looked to the other side to see there is a divide between the two paths and noticed how we would have to choose which way to go.

Yasu and Todd jumped down from the edge onto a pile of snow next to Quincy. "SHIT! Why did i think that was a good idea" Yasu says, brushing snow out of his hair. Yasu notices the divide in the path "which way should we go?" He asks. Todd is in shock as he almost falls off the edge of the pathway, and is in a state of confusion and shock.

Quincy grabs both of them and pulls them in real close and says...

"We should go down the side, that doesnt lead to the village, knowing this place, I assume they set a trap of sorts. So in conclusion I'd say its in our favor to go down the right path..." said Quincy.

"I agree, let's take the right path" Yasu replies as he begins to walk down it "come on, don't want to leave the crew waiting!" He says!

Quincy's eyes grew and he began to think about just how long the crew had been sitting on that boat with little to no food... Quincy quickly sprinted down the right path at uncomprehensible speeds. Eventually he reached the end of the path which branched out into a huge valley of snow and rock, and the snow was as soft as water, it felt as if you would fall through if you stood on it. Quincy thought to himself for a second before jumping over to one of the rocks.

"That little shit thinks he can just show off all the time, I'll show him.." he thinks to himself as he picks up Todd entirely "hang on Todd, we're going home" he says as he begins to sprint down the hill although much slower than Quincy "just a little more... now!" He yells as he jumps off the steep hill, sending him flying over the tree's and boulders at an incredible speed, landing in a lake with a loud splash "shit.. i didn't think that one through" he says as he drags both him and Todd out of the lake and continue to run in Quincy's direction.

Quincy looked upwards and saw Todd and Yasu just sitting there in a lake trying to catch up.. Quincy's face grew into a face of worry..

"Damn... That water must be cold as fuck... Hope they are ok.." Quincy thought.

Quincy plopped down onto a rock waiting for Todd and Yasu, patiently.

Yasu leaps forwards to catch up to Quincy who was a little bit ahead of him on a rock. He landed on the same rock that Quincy happened to be sitting on...

Yasu walked past Quincy, not noticing him "I'll catch up to him soon!" He says to himself as he continues to run down the hill, shaking his head to dry his hair, Todd doing the same "This will all be worth it, a nice warm shower.. I can't wait" he thinks to himself

Quincy looked forward to see Yasu leaping from rock to rock one after another.. Quincy got ready to do the exact same, but right before he could launch off.. Todd of all people leaped out infront of him and started mimicing the movements of Yasu.

Quincy smiled a little bit thinking of how much Todd has grown from this one experience alone. Quincy then quickly started following in Todds wake and quickly out paces him aswell.

Once he reached Todd he grabbed him by the arm and began to drag him a long with himself...

Soon some boulder started to fall from neighboring mountains from the valley they were in..

Yasu continues to jump over the boulders, punching and destroying a particularly big one, clearing everyone's path "Just a little more everyone, we're almost here" he says. Suddenly, a loud boom is heard from behind them all. Yasu jolts back and looks "oh shit, time to speed up, there's a fucking avalanche!" He yells as he picks up the pace, loud cracking noises being heard every time his feet hit a boulder.

Quincy looks back to see a huge monsoon of snow hurdling towards them. Quincy gripped onto Todd's arm tighter and started to speed to up to a degree that is hard to imagine... Soon after that the three boys had made it to the end and the avalanche had added a whole new layer of snow, completely covering up the boulder that they had been jumping off of.

## Reuniting, and a new crew member

Yasu walks into one of the houses and grabs his mouth, attempting to prevent himself from puking "Quincy, get in here. Don't bring Todd" he yells. As Quincy Walks in they voth gaze upon the horrors within, a dead mother Shielding a baby "what do we do? The kids still alive!?" He asks..

Quincy looks in the room slightly sad, but still in his general unphased demeanor, but inside he is heart broken.

"We, cant just leave a helpless baby on this cruel and unrulily island, we have to take him with us, even if it means risking his life... It still means better odds than being here..."

"Of course we're taking him, but what the hell happened here!?" He asks. Yasu examines the mother's body a bit more and a empty yet malicious expression takes over his face "these cuts.. they perfectly match the size and shape of the sword that knight had.." he says. Yasu stands up and punches the house wall, creating a big hole through it "of course it was one of them..." he mutters..

Quincy slowly walks out of the house to see Todd on the ground with his jaw wide open staring directly at the village. He turns around to see houses on fire and dead villagers everywhere and no sign of any knights anywhere...

Yasu's eyes widen as he runs towards the dock "Quincy, the boat!" He yells at the top of his lungs while running through the bush, punching down rocks and trees in his way.

Quincy bolts past Yasu at speeds not even Yasu's strength could match, he eventually arrived at the dock to see the bodies of all the knights dead on the floor and the crew sitting safely on the edge of the dock staring at the setting sun... They were also holding something interesting in their hands...

Quincy stared at them blankly for a few seconds before being jolted back into reality by the feeling of Todd and Yasu grabbing onto his shoulder.

"Quin-Quincy... whats going on...." he stuttered out of breath...

Yasu tries catching his breath once again "You're going way too fast... slow down" he says, taking breaths after each turn. Yasu gazes upon the countless bodies of the knights "Phew good job everyone!" He says while punching the air, not noticing what the crew members found.

Quincy slowly caught his breath and then looked up and and saw what the crew members found.

"Wha-What the fuck!?!" Quincy stuttered.

"What?" Yasu asks still not seeing what they found due to his his celebration caused Frenzy "What happened?" He asks.

The crew member holding the mystery object slowly gets up and walks towards Yusa with a huge smile spread acorss his entire face. He had hid the item behind his back so it could be a suprise..

"Firstmate Yusa We have a Present for you..."

"Only thing I want right now is food and a hot shower, think it might be that?" He says sarcastically "So, what is it?" He asks..

"Well I think it might be one of those things..."

The man pulled out a devil fruit that was brown with a green stem coming out from the top.

We found it under a tree a few hours ago, we dont know who died to give it to us, but sure enough we found it...

Yasu eyes widen up as he gazes at the fruit. He takes the fruit from the man. He looks at Quincy who gives a nod "let's hope for something powerful then!" He says as he eats the fruit whole without a second thought, smiling after he does. Yasu gazes at everything around him "everything has rectangles on them, barley noticable but they're there for sure" he says "wait a minute..." he pulls his hand in a grabbing motion and a rectangular section of a nearby mountain is yanked out, splashing into the ocean and creating a huge wave, shaking the ship "this was the knights devil fruit!" He yells, laughing as he does!

Everyone in the crew started cheering and laughing at Yasu, happy for getting a good devil fruit!

That is until they realized that is sort of disrespectful to laugh upon all these dead bodies.

They all piled into the ship one by one, until they were all boarded and ready to depart.

Soon they were all drinking and having fun, celebrating the success of Yasu!!!

"Well, i guess that trip wasn't useless afterall" he says, chuckling. "So, who's next in line for a devil fruit now!?" He yells, causing everyone to claim next in line, laughter booming through the ship's hallway Yasu continues on to practice his devil fruit, then hears crying from his bag, remembering the child "oh shit!" He thinks to himself. Yasu opens the bag and sees the child eating his rations "at least your not starving little guy" Yasu then realizes the crew has no idea about this "Everyone, i have a bit of an announcement myself.." he lifts up the baby for everyone to see "Meet our newest member, Isan!"

Quincy then steps forward and says this..

"Woah, Woah, Woah, where do you think your going, I think we should name him Taiyo in honor of someone I used to know..."

"If we're naming him after old friends i think Helix is a much better option" he says. The two begin to fight over possible names when Todd steps up "why don't we name him Crimson?" He proposes "you know what Todd, i agree" he says.

Quincy steps up in agreement and nods suddely, and then looks up to reveal a big smile, the first one we have seen in ages.

One of the crew members then stepped up and said..

"Well, shouldnt we get going the marines should be arriving soon!"

Everything agreed and Todd went up to the Helm and turned out of the doc..

Quincy turned towards the sea and yelled out..

"To Isola Dei Fiori!!"

Everyone then yelled out the exact same thing..

Soon after that they were all going into a unknown future and more literally into the sunset.

That is until one of the crew members mentioned..

"So.. did you guys get any supplies or not?!"

Quincy, Todd, and Yasu all looked at each before they all scream simultaneously..

***"FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"***