"Grah! Hrah…Hgnng…" Leroy was slammed to the ground as the giant hand began to grow more and more! The captain's face grimaced, gritting his teeth as his brow furrowed, looking up to the beast that was beginning to transform before him. Its face mere inches away from his own. but for a moment, the stoicism and anger fell from his face as he felt… Fear within him how. he was seeing transformed before!
The Spittle from the knob, the beast began to drip across his torso aching, pain could be felt flowing through his body, knocking the fear from him. as his flesh was beginning to be eaten away by this bit that was acidic in nature!
In the back of his mind, there was an itch of fear that was attempting to claw its way from his very soul. attempting to claw its way to the top and make him scream, panic and fear. A voice in the back of his mind told him to run Just give up and run!
It was such a strange sensation. He had seen beast transformations before. But this, there was something otherworldly about it, as if within his very genome, his DNA was telling him that what lied before him was utter death…
"Everyone! Run! Get out! Now!" Diva screamed! She had never expected this. There had only ever been rumors of what the powers of the warden had been. This was a man that had only ever been to the lowest levels. He had only been out in public in his human form! The stories went that those that saw what he turned into, never made it out alive…
"Don't gotta tell-T-Tell ME Twice!" Bonney Literally quivered in his boots as he avoided the slash from when the lizard creatures that had embushed him earlier in the fight. His hands covered in blood from the knife in which he had impaled the beast with. Quinn, Danny and Riff. were all in the middle of Fighting Canto.
Canto had stopped mid attack. Their magical rhymes and rhythms that they produced from their mouth. Ceasing for a moment. It had been the only way for them to have dodged the laser beams that were launched by Riffs Rifle.
They stood at what seemed to be average height And were, by all accounts, and Trojanists with their lengthy hair and feminine face. They wore a black furred leather coat that had chains hanging from it. In one of their hands with a long length of chain that was being used as a whip. Mixed with their rhythm rhythm devil fruit. They could make beats. They had then have specific properties such as unstability and balance. Or sound based attacks That instantly impacted into the opponent. As the fruit did not abide by the speed of sound, but rather affected any within its radius.
Then something strange happened… Canto the secondary vice wooden of the prison looked to the balding man that had held the rifle. And gave an order…
"Riff! Now! Shoot Her Now!" Riff's eyes seemed to glow for a second as the rhythm impacted his ears… He then rose the rifle, hands on the front, loosely, while his finger wrapped around the trigger, aiming through the sights. "Let my aim…Be True…"
He seemed to recite a mantra to study himself in the face of the fear that he, as well, was experiencing from the transformation of the warden.
Then the beam fired. The Three prongs on the end of the rifle glowed and collected into a single stream of Yellow…
Blood Erupted from the side of Diva as she was mid leap towards the Warden! Hand covered in a chemical to boil and burn and corrode the warden…
"Diva!" Mar-Syl Shouted! Eyes shooting in fury to Riff Raff…Who shook in his place, still aiming "Riff!"
"Pop Candle!" He rose his hand into a finger gun! And shot a white hot piece of pyrotechnics into the face of the traitor! Skin boiling and popping and lighting aflame as he released a scream of pain, hand shooting up to his face! "Grahh!"
"And how do we know that we can trust you?" Riff Stood Bound by a scroll and chains from Virigl as he stood before the wardens large black wooden desk. This was almost 3 months ago "Because. I'll tell you everything we need to know… Like how Diva's still alive…"
Riff had made an agreement…Keep a low profile amongst them. And keep tabs on them. As a single resistance cell meant nothing as long as they were still with in its walls. The only condition was that if a break out ever occurred. Riff was to kill Diva by any means necessary.
And if he did. It would constitute freedom.
"Farraday! Cutta!" Quinn took her sword and swipe up against the neck and cheek of Canto! Blood spilling from the much weaker member of the wardenry compared to Virgil, and Utterly dwarfed by Dante!
"Grah! Little shit!" Canto brought their Whip up and slammed it into Quinn! Sending her flying! Slamming and tumbling against Bonney who still experienced sheer delirium only to crash into the ground!
Diva shot through the air, tumbling across the frozen ground. The beam had pierced her lower ribs and split her lung! "Agh! L-Leroy!" She extended a hand! Looking to the captain as Dante…Within mere seconds of all that had occurred, continued to slowly transform! Back hunching, Claws scratching into the pirates torso…Blood leaking "G-Gra!"
Dantes Clothes began to rip…Dark reddish brown fur growing from his body. As if it was blood mixed with mud. Growing into a thick manged coat. Face extending into a muzzle. Leroys hand attempted to scramble upwards but the acid that leaked from fully realized head of a wolf burned his bicep and part of his hand! "Gahhh!"
The Transformation finished. The Shoulders of the beast…Growing two additional heads… "Pirate…You stand before the Might of!" Digging the claws into Leroys pectorals, tossed him into Diva! Cratering the ground!
"Cerberus!!!" The Warden in the full awesome form of power he possessed with the Inu Inu No Mi: Model: Cerberus! Standing over 20 feet tall! Embers oozing from his fiery eyes! Body beginning to glow as flowers bloomed beneath his feet. Flower petals of aconite…
"Leroy…Up! Up! We must go!" As the to scrambled to the feet! The predator that oozed an aura of literal malice from its natural powers…Fear being struck into them all again!
"Diva Are you okay?" Leroy asked. Activating gear 2nd once again!
"Won't be for long!" Dante snarled. Claws lengthening and sharpening! "Hgngh…Ah…Not…If I can say something about it!" Riff said in a wheeze. Raising his rifle with one hand. The body of Canto falling flat in front him. A hole straight through the side of their neck as Riff stood behind
"I can't believe I…Actually…Went through with your dumb fucking plan!" He said. It had been the Aura of Fear and the power of Canto that had influenced him… "But…."
"We'll be able to hold you off!" Hora said as the Barrier of smoke dissipated. His now burnt and signed body full of lashes and gashes bleeding and slowly repairing itself cell by cell. In his hand was the corpse of Virgil!
Dante looked over his furred shoulder with a snarl. But a sound twinged in his ear as he looked back! A laser shot through the air! And with speed as if he'd predicted the incoming attack, utilized his own swiftness to literally dodge the Laser mid movement! Zipping past his head and exploding a hundred meters away into a giant Fire ball!
With a monstrous Leap! Dante slammed his claws into the flesh of Riff! Blood spilling across the snow in a stark red and white!
"Hora! I leave this to you! Hold them off! Leroy, Now!" Diva screamed! Mar-Syl Leapt up into the air! And rocketed to where Danny, Bonney and Quinn were now all at! Wandering aimlessly through the snow
"Shoot Shoot shoot shoot!" Danny 'swore' to herself as she could still feel the effects of delirium in her veins!
"Huh! Their okay! They're catching up with us!" Quinn said, soaked in fear sweat!
"That might not be as good as you think!" Bonney retorted!
Diva sped through the tundra plain in the blink of an eye! Leroy too attempting to leap!
Only for pain to wrack through his lower back! Acid had been spit at him from the warden! Knocking him down in a painful scream!
Diva Stopped, skidding across the ice "Leroy!"
"Hells Penance…" Dante raised a hand, and vines from the ground shot froward through the ice! Cracking and breaking it like hands slinking through the shadows to snatch at the prey in its gaze!
"Gahh!" Leroy was suddenly wrapped in thorns and purple flowers! Gas filling the air as poision filled his body!!