[World Event] Bearing a Bear's Ways

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The mumbling insults from the long-haired thumbtack did not faze the human lizard. Silver rolled his eyes at the childish jabs made about the death fog that was his breath. A wild beast does not feel shame over the stink of rot he brings.

Later, when his tail pierced through a figure of pure lightning, he smirked and whipped the appendage back, retreating to the roof of a three-storey residence. "Hah! Now you're talking! I always wanted to show the world how fucking useless logia powers are."

The cocky warlord spread his wings wide. The sun on his back silhouetted the theatrical pose by wrapping him with holy beams. "Allow me to introduce you to something we call... haki!" As he closed his fists, a red tint started to outline his shaded frame. [Haki - Busoshoku] [Haki - Kenbunshoku]

The display of grandeur might have been more potent had the half-dino not been made to eat his words just a moment after. Sweat rolled down his brows, and his jaw dropped only slightly as marines and pirates alike dropped to the ground like flies in the winter cold. [ Haki - Haoshoku ]

3 years ago...

Blood dripped and tainted the tidy floors of a spacious office. The hooded figure from whom the filth seemed to be leaking stood before a quiet naval officer, waiting to be questioned.

"Uncuff him."

An ageing marine with purple hair and a mortal cough acted upon the seated officer's instructions, retrieving the cuffs before returning to his vigil by the oaken door.

The long golden frills hanging from his jacket cuffs swept the desktop as the blonde marine officer leaned forward. "You've got some big balls on you, pirate. The wind had whispered to me how Behemoth had left you for dead after kicking you out of his crew. Would I be a fool to hope you're turning yourself in?"

The mysterious visitor unveiled a head full of flowing red hair by removing the hood. He firmly planted a gory object on the mahogany office desk, staining it with the blood that leaked from its bottom. The sudden movement prompted the purple-haired guard to place a hand on the hilt of his katana.

The marine officer straightened an inch in mild astonishment. "That's... how did you manage to kill him?" The official pinched one end of his rope like moustache and brushed it while inspecting the chopped head of a bigshot from Behemoth's crew.

The redhead answered with a strained smirk. "That's not important. The important question, Fleet Admiral Ginsai, is 'Why am I here?'"

The Fleet Admiral stretched and yawned in his seat, two pearly rows of whites revealing themselves between his chapped lips. "You could use a bit of adjustment in your attitude after you went and dirtied my office just to be dramatic." The marine sighed and chuckled. "Fine, go on. Why are you here?"

The uninvited visitor advanced one step, a short unsheathing sound following behind him from the guard. "I'm here to become a shichibukai."

Present Day...

"Who am I?" The dinosaur human dropped off the edge of the building and landed on light feet. The aura released from the lightning human weighed down on him like a ten-ton boulder, slowing his every step. Despite the overwhelming intimidation, his resolve was unbroken. The burning crimson gaze pierced into his opponent as he answered.

"I'm the man who will kill the strongest creature in the world. I'm the man who will beat Behemoth. I'll follow whatever means to reach that end. If being the government's mad dog gets me there faster, then that's what I'll be."

Silver's skin turned grey and scaly, his mouth growing into a short snout with small fangs and his eyeslits thinning even more. He charged forward with his claws poised to swipe at either one of his two opponents (whoever would reach striking distance first). A crack of thunder halted him in his steps, drawing a low animalistic cry from the dinosaur-hybrid. [MT - 45 Million Volt Hino: HIT]  A small fountain of blood sprayed from his foot from where the blade had stabbed into it. The spray contributed to the artwork of bloodstains already decorating his navy blue trousers.

The momentary trauma impaired his haki, slowing his reaction to the impalement that followed. [LT - Impale: HIT] Silver fell backwards in his attempt to escape severe goring, managing to get away with only a shallow cut on his brow.

Beads of spit flew out as he growled at the lightning-man, his temper swiftly approaching that of a cornered animal's. "You sparkly imp! Don't think I'll let you walk all over me just because you ate a logia fruit and have Conqueror's Haki. You've barely learned to use either of them. I've fought--"

Before he could deliver his commentary, a crinkling slash flew towards him. He spun on one foot to allow it to pass to his right, but he failed to accurately scope the harmfulness of the sparks flickering around the shockwave. [LT - Luna's Kiss: GRAZING HIT] His fingertips convulsed unnaturally as he conducted the electric charge into the ground. The brief stun made him an easy victim of the shrapnel cycled up by the air slash. [UT: HIT]

"GAAAHHHHHHH!" The red-haired electrified half-beast bellowed in frustration. He kicked a few pebbles on the ground with his bleeding foot, cringing slightly upon this careless and painful action.

"My turn!"

Silver's grey flesh morphed again, turning orange as his back curved forward and his snout elongated further. He bloated and grew into the frightful dinosaur form which had earned him the "Iron Beast" moniker.

With a frenzied roar loud enough to tear most eardrums, he stampeded towards the lightning human. The dino-berserker trampled every pirate and marine grunt who failed to get out of his way, leaving them in a flattened heap of blood, guts, and bone.

His speed was barely affected by his twenty-ton weight and building-sized frame, his adrenaline and rage fuelling his swiftness.

His clamp-like jaws parted wide as he lowered his head and twisted it sideways so that his right cheek was parallel to the ground. Still charging around, he chomped furiously and repeatedly, mowing down the survivors of his trashing. The very first two targets of his rampage would be the shock therapist and the sugar daddy. [AoE - Mezawari Mower (Castor and Brood)]

If he were to successfully pincer them between fangs blackened with busoshoku, the force of the bite would likely pierce through skin, muscle, bone, and organs with ease and puncture their bodies severely.

When he would see the glittering elephantine construct steamrolling towards him, he would eject victims of his chewing towards any who were still standing. [UT (Castor and Brood)]

He headbutted the jewel elephant to halt its charge, shattering some of its forehead into powdered dust with a distinctively sweet smell. Before he could swing his tail around to whip the crystalline creature, its trunk wrapped around his jaw and shoved him into the ground. The impact was not nearly as powerful as he expected, but the short arrest served its purpose when the gargantuan lizard accidentally inhaled a plume of the sweet, powdery substance. [LT - NEOTĒMU SHINSEIJI: HIT] He coughed and heaved in the bestial voice of his dinosaur form, writhing wildly until he had escaped the clutch of the elephant's trunk.

Even while suffocating from the microbial sugary poison, his awareness did not fail him when the elephant raised its trunk for a second strike. As the flexible, translucent hammer fell upon him, the ceratosaurus dove forward with his bloody fangs parted wide and bit into the sugar monster's face, shattering its fifth appendage into a million pieces. [LT - KISHIRITŌRUMIRĀ: MISS] [UT - SUGAR BULLET: HIT] The crystals lingering in the air acted like a prism, painting a faint rainbow on a canvas of dust and smoke.

Silver grunted and panted, falling once before lifting himself to his feet. He coughed out a cloud of sparkling mist, his crazed glare slowly sweeping from the white-haired pirate to the lightning human. "Who the hell are you two?"

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