Not long after leaving the boy's side did Reina realize she didn't have a flash light.He sat there with an air of wonder as the girl shamelessly strode past him and climbed up the same shaft she had initially jumped into. The boy on the otherhand quickly hit the den den again under the cover of darkness, looking up at the marine in awe. " Did you really try to make a cool exit without a flashlight"? Reina's cheeks were slightly flushed, her heart was beating too fast and she was too embarrassed to make a rebuttal.

Right as the street lamps were being lit, she quickly threw the manhole cover up and sprinted to a nearby alleyway. Without the boy she didn't really need worry about another body. Thus she could hide out on her own and move without worry. She chose a spot not too far from the manhole and hid inside an abandoned house. Outside she could hear the occasional marine,but the constant thumping of their feet started to die as night fell and darkness blanketed the slums. Off in the distance she turned to see the city and all its glory, with a giant casino in the distance as it lit up the night sky. In many ways the light pollution from the inner city was enough to eliminate much of the need for dedicated street lamps in the slums, lest you wanted to read after sun down.

Just as she was about to doze off she heard a crash in the room adjacent to hers. The sound of footsteps filled the building, taking her from zero to one hundred real fast. She threw herself up and lunged forward, pressing her ear against the wall. There was no need for haki because these guys were rowdy and too obvious to marines. She slowly opened her door and peeked around the immediate area, it was a long hallway. Down to right she could here a closet door being ripped off its hinges. To her left was the stairway leading to the first floor, where a bunch of vulgar men were jeering at her. " C'mon poppet. we jus wanna play"! Even from the second story she could hear him licking his lips. Without a second thought she lied low and crept up slowly toward the right to find a man urinating in the corner. Without so much as a sprinkle of hesistation she covered the man's mouth and stuck Old reliable up his spine and into his ribcage. He struggled for a second, or perhaps convulsed for a moment before his eyes rolled up side his head. Reina pulled the blade out as easily as a hot knife through butter and slashed the air to clean the sword of his blood.

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Just as Reina finished dealing with one thug, another came started walking up the stairs. Reina quickly sawed his head off using old reliable, feeling the vibrations of the sword it grinded against the corpse's spine. Just as the next man was able to scream for help she grabbed the head by its hair and ripped it from its shoulders. She tossed the head to the man who caught the head out of reflex, but he didn't know what to say. He was paralyzed with fear, jaw dropped and awestruck as she drove Old reliable up his stomach. And ran it to his head, where she once again pulled it out with each and whipped her blade to clean it. The second corpse made a thud, causing a commotion from below while the head slowly rolled down the stairs. " Eyy vinny! Leave some for the---rest---of---us".

With that a blood soaked Reina leaped from the top of the staircase and chained the jump with another against the wall. The first man below her caught the full brunt of her blade. She drove it through his ribcage and continued her rampage.Three more men were in the room, 2 bailed. The remaining guy tried pulling a revolver out, but was stopped when Reina picked her previous victim's corpse up and threw it at him before he could cock the gun. He stumbled for a second trying, dropped his gun and tried to draw his sword. On to find his forearm dangling from a sliver of meat. He tried to scream,but nothing would come out. His eyes widened and mouth gaped as she plunged the sword into his gullet, and ripped it from his stomach to spill his entrails.

From the outside she heard more men yelling at her, calling her all sorts of slurs as they tossed flaming molotovs into the house. Without a second thought she crashed into the backdoor and sprinted from the blaze. Everywhere she could see more enemies closing in. Two packs of men formed tried cornering her in an alley way,but she was able to use a nearby trash can to vault over a nearby fence and into the street. Over said fence came a big burly man wielding a familiar spiked club. " He charged at her shouting, This is for brother reinhardt"! Reina smirked and lunged to the side as he swung over head, not able to fully handle its weight. She ran past him after swiping his gullet with her blade, making his guts spill to the ground. " You're not nearly as fast as that punk from the warehouse, rainhert"? Without a second thought she continued to run away to keep the her pursuers from surrounding her.

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Reina fled into the street only to hear the battlecry of her pursuers. The street was oddly empty. There was no marine presence and the usual vagrants and drunkards were nowhere to be seen. The lame from the first house set ablaze raged in the distance, being fueled by the high winds that night. First thing she thought was to get out of the downwind and started to backtrack toward the crowd. Using the dark alleyways primarily, she hid into the shadows and slowly made her way through the chaos. However no matter how well she tried to hide herself, someone from a rooftop would sound the alarm. Apparently large swaths of the slum were after her. Still being stubborn,she didn't want to exhaust her haki. She was deep in enemy territory and for all she knew, the marines considered her a traitor.

Swiftly she bolted through the slums shadows, moving whenever a chance arose. Well that is until she encountered a rather big fellow blocking her path in the streets. He stood out from the rest with rather massive gullet, whose hairs leading to the crotch were thicker than anywhere else on his stomach. His face was scruffy and pierced with gold rings. The fire danced around them, his its reflection vibrantly displayed through his cheesy glasses. " Be hahaha behahahaha, Big Pa been waiting for you lassy girl", he said lowering his glasses to wink at her. Reina stepped back, turning to see more of his men came crawling out of the wordwork. She grimaced and immediately started to think of an escape plan when out of nowhere he roars as at his men. " What has Big Pa told you pieces of shits when Big Pa bothers to move"? His men in a fashion equivalent to the marines in terms of discipline put their feet together, backs straightened with a hand over their hearts. " Our lives for Big Pa"! Reina stood astonished at their displayed, a bunch of scruffy and skeazy looking fellows were now more disciplined than her own comrades. " You know big guy, that be some discipline you got there", she said panting. " We marines could learn a thing er two from you thugs".

Big pa started laughing at her remark, he teeth glistened in the fire's light. " I resent that little girl. We may not be clean cut but we are more than man enough to have discipline just like you self righteous marines". With that he lifted oversized mallet with one arm over his head. It was around 3 meters long and 2 meters wide, on a pole all to small for the size of the weapon. " Let's see if you can make me use both hands". As he cocked his arm back with the mallet, his men ran for their lives.

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Reina smirked back, slowly drawing Old reliable once more and running her finger along the body of her sword,brandishing its beaten blade. Stained with a crimson tint from his own men,but probably even from her past victims. Her eyes affixed upon his own as the sound of his men fled fleeing the scene began to fade into the background, being drowned out by the roar of the fire blazing around them. " I got a question before we fight mister, Pah. Why exactly are you going out of yer way to fight lil ol me"? Pa lowered his weapon at the question ever so slightly,but never losing the grin upon his countenance. " You saved my own at your own expense. Those kids constantly even cause me trouble in our little organization and many of em got caught. My little boy returned thanks to your act".

The gargantuan man once again lifted his mallet,but this time pointed it straight Reina. " I'm a little peeved at you for hurting my fellas,but we be here to take you back and make you one of mah concubines, whether you accept it or by force. There be no way a woman like you be gettin 'way from me". Reina felt flattered, her nose up in the air at the declaration and a rather competitive smile to match his own. " Aight mister Pa'h, you beat me down and I'll accept yer offer. But if I win, pay your debt to society become my subordinate. And give up yer life of crime"!

He shook his head at the ignorant girl and lunge forward with his mallet over head, slamming it just before her. Reina started by back pedal as he came barreling in on her to keep some distance between them. As the mallet smashed the ground, the earth looked as if it'd rupture. The ground splintered and rubble and debris flew about and headed toward her. Using her sixth sense haki she made note of the biggest rocks and simply avoided them by lunging underneath them. The smaller rocks which weren't car sized boulders, she swatted them or used her arms protect her head as she was battered by small rocks and such. The man lunged at her and retracted his stomach as he took a deep breath. With one fluid motion he threw his stomach at her, throwing his strength and weight at the little girl. With no time to react she activated her color of arms and braced for impact, the blow itself sent her sliding back. She lowered her arms and revealed a devilish grin, " My turn".

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Although the fighters were trying to keep a strong facade up, the smoke from fire was starting to hover about them when the wind began to change in their direction. The moon was slightly becoming obscured and the dancing stars above being enveloped by the cloud of smoke gather around them. She grinned, trying to hold back a cough while gritting her teeth. " Starting to get winded fatty"? Big pa slapped his chest, his man tits jiggling a moment after doing so. " What's wrong little girl? You trying not to cough? We could just make you my bride now and get this over with...these flames, ain't waiting for ya honey". Reina nodded, she didn't need her haki to know the dancing flames around her were in fact becoming fiercer. Its warm embrace slowly cutting off their escape and his men perched on the other side of the flames, looking onto the couple with worried expressions. "c'mon boss we gotta go! Hurry let's go"! His men were indeed loyal to the fat man, for they did not show any concern for themselves. Even the little brat she saved was among them. He beckoned to him frantically, " C'mon big pa! guys said sumting about marines! We gotta go"!

Big pa stamped his foot, causing the earth to shake and the buildings around him to rattle ever so slightly. His expression soured ever so slightly, even being on the verge of rage. With a furrowed brow and a newly lit fire in his own eyes, he swatted his men with a sweeping gesture of his hand. " What have I told you cubs about getting in between me N my work"?! He roared with a passion, grasping his mallet with both hands with labored breathing. Sweat beading down both fighter's faces, he charged forth bringing his mallet back and extended it as much as possible in the air. "AHHHHH be HAHHAAHAHA come my war goddess"!

Reina maintained her position, focused her thoughts on his advance and sprung forth with all her might. She closed her eyes and held her hilt with both hands and uttered under her breath, " Dragon flight". As he came within a few feet of contact, she lunged to the left as his mallet came from the right, planting one foot on his beer gullet, and leaving an imprint. With her second bound she stepped on his head and over him as his mallet came crashing down behind her. As she flipped forward and over him, she came back down with her blade lightly slicing his outer flesh. The man was tougher than she thought as she flipped back and away from him to create distance between them. His back now painted red by his blood, but the man himself did not even wince at the attack. His expression full of excitement, " Round three, poppet".

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Overhead the duo, no, everyone at the fight did not realize what was happening above head. Under the cover of the smoke, dark clouds started to envelope the sky. These clouds much akin to clouds on the grand line, seemed to spawn out of nowhere as they engulfed any light from the night sky. Even the moon itself was ferociously engulfed by the clouds. The darkness made all the more apparent, as the light of the fire contrasted with the shadows dancing in the background. Reina threw her arms out furiously, activating her color of arms. Big pa laughed with no signs of lost vigor, the two figures clashing in terms of mood. Reina's body was starting to feel slightly heavy and her expression showed it. " Now now girly, that's no expression a war goddess should hav"!

The man charged for, his steps losing all finesse as he once agian swung his mallet down onto her. Reina took a step back from where the shadow enveloped her while once again focusing herself. Although this time she didn't have the same focus as before, she quickly leapt back and then onto his mallet(dragon flight) when it came crashing down. Protected from the force of the weapon with her color of arms, she used her second bound to leap unto the mallet's handle and slashed it furiously(executioner's calling).

The handle splintered as she dove toward his face, planning on plunging her blade into his skull to finish him. Big pa though, his hand moved unusually quick as he swat her mid air. His hand almost wider than her torso as it crashed into her and caused her to whiplash. She flew almost unabated to the side and was only able to gain her footing by driving her sword into the ground. A cloud of dust whipped up as she breathed rather heavily, one hand grasping her side as she tried to regain her composure.

Just as the two were about to continue, rain started to fall from the dark sky. It was a furious torrent which came out of nowhere. " Ahh dance powder. You know what that means poppet"? Reina didn't,but she had heard that name before. " Don't tell me this is artificial rain! Only the royal family can use it". She said, grimacing as she stood to face him. Big pa shook his head and gestured toward his back. "Any minute now your filthy comrades will be coming back. Yer a fugitive because you saved my boy right"?

Reina nodded her head,but she lifted her blade once more. " I'm probably a dead woman one way or the other,but I refuse to work with people who step on others. If'n you owe me a debt, then return it by fighting me to the death". Her eyes fixed on him, mind hazy. Big pa didn't answer her,but rather he turned to began to walk away. It was as if he knew what was coming by instinct. The rain began to die down and familiar lights began to shine in the distance. " I'll buy ya a few minutes poppet. Make sure you run while you still can".

He picked his glasses off the ground and began to walk toward the fast approaching marines. " If'n they don't kill Big Pa, he'll gladly join you poppet. Be hahahaha". Before she could protest his decision, the man who said he wouldn't kill her because of his debt marched into the marine column. His shoulders held back and back erect, as the world came crashing down upon him.

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