Icarus sat upon Tony's shoulder as they approached the western post. His destination was clear to all black market dealers, pirates bay.
"From here to Dio Island, 20 gold coins of 5 large gemstones". A pirate yelled as, as his ship was being loaded.
"Will 50 gold coins and 10 gemstones help me get farther than Dio Island?". Icarus who's face was concealed in a large cloak, which also helped hide Tony's true nature.
His other two creations were carefully covered in cloaks too.
"Heyy, heyy. How about an extra 10 pieces for your friends there". The pirates greedily said to the alchemist.
"Don't push it". Icarus shouted from below as the pirate grunted.
Tony climbed the steps and headed up to the ship.
Something quick grabs Icarus from Tony's shoulder and slams him into the ground.
"TONY!!!". Icarus screamed out as Tony liquidised and slammed the attacker into the wall.
"Arhhggghh"
Merlin jumped off pearl and sliced Tony's head clean off.
"How did anyone get here this fast?". Icarus exclaimed in fear.
"We have our methods, a little something called shadow swimming". Aki said as he cracked his knuckles.
"Now let's verify this, shall we." Aki pulled out the wanted poster and placed it by Icarus head.
"It's an exact match who would've thought". Aki said sarcastically as he begins raining Icarus with punches.
Icarus touches the sand and covers it into a glass blade, stabbing Aki on the side with it.
"AH!". Aki yelled out as he pulled out the glass.
Icarus cleaned his bloody nose and soon realised it had been broken.
"Esther… Marcus..Tony, kill them. Protect me and kill them all". Icarus said as he cracked his nose into place. He moaned in pain as blood trickled down from it.
Tony who had reformed his head, used his left hand which became semisolid and crushed Aki unto the pirates ship.
"Set sail NOW!!!!". The pirate yelled to his men as they hurriedly pulled up their anchor.
Tony's right hard becomes a solid blade as he lowered it for a stab.
BANG!!!
Lee shot the bladed fist with his sniper rifle.
BANG! BANG!
Lee continued to fire and the hand cracked and broke apart.
Esther widened herself and covered Lee as she attempted to suffocate him.
"Gunslinger, don't you die here!!!". Merlin shouted as he exchanged blows with the homunculi, Marcus.
"Tony, get me out of here!". Icarus screamed out as he staggered while running away from the battle.
Tony morphed into liquid form and went after it's master, leaving behind Aki, as he fell to the floor.
Aki coughed several times as he tried to catch his breath and looked in Icarus's direction.
"Faust!!! I'll kill you!". Aki screamed at the top of his voice as he propelled himself forward with raw power.
His fist was aimed at Faust's head as he sped towards him. The Homunculi reformed in front of it's master, attempting to protect him.
A reddish glow appeared around Aki's right fist as he shot like a bullet.
His fist slammed into the creature, the crimson energy transferred into the Homunculi as it began to bubble up, mana and spiritual essence began to escape from the creature as it popped like a balloon.
It's flesh spilling around the shore.
"That's… that's impossible." Icarus mumbled.
The reddish glow dissipated.
"I guess it isn't". Aki said with a sharp grin and struck a blow on Faust. Then another, then another.
The face of the dark alchemist began to swell from the continuous strikes.
"Waaeett… puh..leash..". Icarus said as he struggled to speak.
"This is for what you did in Zo and every other place you sick bastard." Aki said as he continued to rain down punches.
Awia used her divine light to blast the Homunculi from the gunslinger. Finally he began to breathe.
"What is he doing?". Awia said as she looked at Aki brutalize Faust.
"He's going to kill him!". Awia shouted at Lee.
"That's not exactly a bad thing, Priestess." Lee replied her as he got on his feet.
"It's a bad thing for him." Awia said as she pushed Lee to stop Aki from what he was about to do.
"Hey, BOSS!!." Lee shouted as he ran in Aki's direction.
A reddish energy appeared behind Aki as it tore open space itself, like torn fabric it had edges and on its upper edges a large hand appeared.
A large man forced himself unto the shore from the portal. He was covered in a red and white cloak.
He was followed by a smaller figure. Also cloaked in the same colors. The figure appears to be feminine and large chains formed an X around her. The chains appeared to be her means of movement as they rode her up high above the crowd.
The guild paused and looked at the two strangers. They gave off a dangerous presence.
"We'll be taking the alchemist now." the large man said, his voice loud as a speaker.
"I don't think so." Aki said as he grinned as he got upright, his fists still dripping with blood.
He ran towards the large man and swiftly performed a tornado kick with his right leg.
The large man immediately stops him by grabbing his leg and proceeded to break it.
Aki screamed in pain as the large man lifted him towards his face.
His face was twice as large as Aki's and he stared into his eyes. A hint of red appeared in Aki's eyes as he crushed his teeth together.
"You're not ready". The man said as he swung Aki into the sea.
"Boss!!!". Lee screamed out as he fired his pistols at the duo.
A chain runs into Lee's chest. At it's top was a kunai that drove itself out of his back.
She dragged Lee towards her.
"Look at what he surrounded himself with??? The master will not be pleased." The small woman said to the large man.
A large beam of light was fired in the direction of the two attackers but the large man slaps it, redirecting the attack into a nearby stall.
The large man looked at his hand, which had burnt from sending away the attack.
Awia looked from afar, no one had ever redirected a holy light. Fear began to consume her heart.
"Maybe we have to teach them a lesson".
The large man said as he began to walk towards her.
"Get away." Awia screamed out as she sent out multiple rays of divine light, her faith has wavered.
Her attacks did little to harm the large man as he gradually approached her. His bodily rapidly healed as she continued to send her attacks.
He finally had her in his reach.
He raised his fist to crush her as she created a sphere a solid light to protect her. His fist sent the sphere deep into the ground and he began to pummel it.
"Get away from her." Merlin growled as appeared behind the large man, he emerged from his shadow.
"A sneaky one, aren't you". The man said as he turned his head to face his attacker.
His face was visible to The Black Knight. A large fake skinned man with a glowing red eyes. Black and red veins which spread from his eyes, surrounded a large area of his face. He smiled, revealing his teeth.
He had large fangs on both sides of his teeth and a large eye appeared to be on his tongue.
A horrified Merlin sent down his axe in a bloody fury.
The large man shattered it with his left elbow.
He followed with an attack into the warrior's abdomen. His right hand tore into Merlin's body.
He began to spit blood. The man's head was generating soo much heat he melted through the armour during his attack.
He pulled the boy off his arm.
"Let's go." The large man said to the woman as she threw Lee off her chain.
The woman wrapped Icarus and his remaining two Homunculus with her chains as the two cloaked figures began to walk towards the portal.
Aki arrived at the shore, he vomited water and proceeded to stand.
He takes a look around the shore only to find his guild beaten and Awia in fear, as she refused to let down her sphere of light.
"Dammit. Damn you!". Aki screamed out as the same reddish energy began to leak from his entire body.
Awia looked in horror as she remembered what Priestess Noma said to her when she left the church.
"Watch out for that boy, there's something strange about his essence. Something dark". Noma's voice rang in her head.
Aki ran at high speeds towards his opponents.
Building up momentum, he sped towards the large man. Hoping to ram him with his body as he did the dragon.
The large man pulls out his right arm, grabbing Aki's entire torso.
"I told you, you aren't ready". The man whispered to Aki.
Flames erupted from his hands and began to cover the adventurer. Aki screamed in agony as his body burnt with an unusual fire. A hellish fire.
The man drops him and walks into the portal.
The woman follows, as the portal closed, she looked at the burning Aki and said;
"See you soon".
They departed and El Diablo was battered.
Awia put down her sphere and ran towards her comrades. Confusion filled her head as she wondered who to heal first.
She ran towards Merlin and began healing him.
The flames had died down on Aki's skin as he began smoking.
A voice snapped at the back of his mind.
"You can't die on me now boy, we're not even halfway there".
A strange horrid laughter began to cloud his thoughts as his eyes flipped open.
Aki was alive again.