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-Tanakami felt the shadow move out of the zombie, it grabbing Beli from the marine corpses and a few more from a stash before returning to her and slipping it into her ‘pocket’ by which was between her breasts in her shirt. She resumed rowing and for each day her crew would not find her, the closer she’d get to her next destination.
The time it would take her to get to where she would hit a place to land was around 35 days. She’d find her way through the east blue since any reasonable person would sail around the edge. As she cut through the middle, the slight drift made her go north a bit. She was low on supplies, a few pieces of salted meat left and still a generous supply alcohol in her barrel. She had rationed the best she could and saw a dot in the distance. She rowed her way to the dot, her arms numb from soreness but she wanted to get there fast.
As she approached, she simply saw a giant boat. She rows closer and finds boats parked outside of the boat. She was very confused but kept getting closer to it anyways. By this time, her scabs were gone and mostly scars remained where they had kept chipping. She unwrapped herself so she didn’t look odd as she went her way. She docked, her dinghy tiny compared to the ships, and went on board. She looked at the entrance a little wary and cocked her head. She’d thought she heard of this place but was told it didn’t exist. She walked towards the door and one of the waiters greeted her, “WELCOME~!”
She was a little taken aback but she took a deep breath and said, “Thank you.”
He had her seated and luckily she had the money of the dead marines on her instead of in her ship. She looked around in the room and saw mostly marines. This made her nervous but she just smiled and waited as she looked at the menu.-
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-The zombie looked at him and said, “I am not supposed to tell but I do have my free will. She’s headed for logue town on the opposite side of the East Blue. She wants to get to the grand line. I don’t know why. She just said to tell you that the crew shall remain of the shadows, but she has to go do something and doesn’t want you or Silver hurt.” The zombie sounded sincere hoping the soul would be dismissed soon, the body was starting to smell.
Tanakami rowed herself completely out of human visible sight. She cut straight out into the ocean and was headed for her destination with some slight drifting problems.-
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-The marine zombie did not move as Seth ran by the first time. He turned to where he went and waited until Seth came to him. This was the most awkward time for the soul as a small piece of flesh had rotted just enough to fall off. He smiled a bit and said, “She left. She didn’t want either of you two getting hurt so she took off.”
Tanakami had been rowing quiet the distance and fast, the few little breaks in her scabs wouldn’t stop her as they weren’t so severe anymore. She started heading straight out into the east blue, rowing until her arms hurt then would stop and rest, floating further out. When her arms felt better she’d row again and do the same until she’d get to the next place.-
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-Tanakami watched Seth run out past with Silver in hand. They would be alright now but thoughts kept swirling in her head. This was her fault. She took them out there and they all got severely hurt. She placed a soul into a zombie and spoke to it as to leave a message. She also gave it a command to return to her when they had spoken back to it. She lowered a dinghy and hopped into it in the water and made sure to have the paddles in it. She gathered a few more supplies and put them down before she loosed herself from the boat. She took the paddle despite the crackings and began rowing out into the east blue once more. She had a feeling they would try to follow but for now, this was the best solution she could think of. In the meantime, the zombie waited for the crew to eventually return.-
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-Tanakami just sort of sipped at it as he helped her drink it. She knew it was for the better but as it stood then, she wasn’t liking it. It would help, this was going to be assured. It took them nearly an entire day to get back to Silver’s home but when the ship made it, it parked. The zombie’s shadow was then sucked back to Tanakami when they were there and she forced herself to get up, despite now being wrapped at this time, there was crackling as some still there scabs broke and bled very little. She looked at Seth and said, “Take Silver to shore… I will make my way on my own.” She started walking her way up to the top deck, smiling when the air hit her face. She took a deep breath and sighed openly. The crew would be okay, they could get help now.-
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-Tanakami saw them return and Silver being out of it. She saw Seth and heard him try to give her the very odd looking smoothie. She looked at Silver again and weakly raised an arm up, cracking being heard from the scabs she had breaking as she reached. The ship could be felt leaning to the side as the zombie turned the ship around. She tried to grasp the glass but from what he could feel of the grip her hand was outputting, she wouldn’t be able to hold the glass herself. At the same time, she didn’t want to, she wanted Silver to recover first. She whispered in a rasp, “we’re heading back…”-
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-Tanakami had watched everything and her vision was a tad blurry, her forcing herself to stay awake the entire time. She stayed on her side to watch him patch Silver up. This made her smile, slightly but she couldn’t hold it before the pain from her wounds got to her again. She gave a nod to let them know she was still there, she heard the voice but she was just trying to hang in and stay awake. She let her body re-energize and even let her inward shadows spread through her body just to try to help her stay up. She forced herself to sit up when they left, some of the wounds cracking and drizzling out blood. She tried to keep her mental focus so the shadows could aide her movement. She let one shadow out to one of the marine bodies on deck, the shadow getting instructions from what she whispered to the shadow as it went. “Turn the ship around…”-
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-Tanakami looked at them with a slight bit of concern in her eyes. She felt the pain and heard Silver say for Seth to help her instead. She saw the damage on Silver, she knew her own flesh was torn apart from what she had done. She still felt that it was more important for her crew to be whole first. She wheezed out weakly, “her first… Captain’s orders.” She was going to remain firm on this. Her only job was to remain awake, which was getting easier to do as it went on. Her blood was slowly replenishing despite the new rips open. They were clotting quickly and she hadn’t dipped down into a dangerous level, so it made it just work on fixing its own levels.-
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-Tanakami watched them get set up, hearing the words from Silver about making noise. She weakly smiled. She watched Seth get the mattress and help Silver to it. She looked at Seth and heard him say he could read lips. She licked her lips a little, they were a bit dry, and mouthed, “Help Silver first.” She really wanted to be cared for last. If her crew was okay, then she was okay no matter how beat up. It was evident, though, that it hurt for her to move her jaw, some of the wounds from overuse were on her neck from the muscle expansion.
She then tried to move to her side but it hurt, leaving out a hiss. At the same time, she enjoyed it. She forced herself onto her side, revealing blood caked beneath her as the bed tried to stick to some of her flesh. She took a deep ragged breath, which hurt like hell to do, and let it out in a slight cough. Small specks of blood came out from the little bit of blood she accidentally inhaled. She then turned to normal breathing and she weakly voiced, “help her…”-
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-Tanakami was lucky, managing to lay awake and force herself to stay as she was. This helped and hindered as she was refusing with her will to sleep or to die. At the same time, her body had trouble healing. She finally was able to part her teeth a little. Unable to speak still she did leave out a heavy breath, feeling her body start to listen as she curled her fingers into fists. She then lifted her head in the slightest, making it able to turn to the door. She hoped by then what fell was gone and if it was part of her crew, that they were alright.-
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-Tanakami felt herself lifted, it hurt like hell. She wanted to tell him not to and saw him start to struggle and she was taken to her room. She kept trying to speak but no sound came out from her needing to breathe. She felt him place her onto a soft surface. She thinks it was her bed. She laid there and noticed he left. She was forcing herself to stay awake, waiting to see where he’d went. She heard a thud near the door but couldn’t turn her head to see. She stared at the roof and just tried to not slip into the dark, muscles still twitching to a spastic rhythm and only at the slightest of movements.-
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-Tanakami was gently rolled over, pain coursing through her as she was moved onto her back. She hissed out but that was her only sign of being alive aside from breathing. She had so much blood on her from her over exerting her abilities. Her eyes looked at Seth as she was able to see him, some long purple strands of hair brushed across her form from the being moved. Her breathing was ragged, her gums pierced by her own teeth, and just the separated flesh on her arms, legs, and torso. She was a mess but she would eventually recover. She would be incapacitated even until the next town it seemed. The severity of it showed that she’d live if she wasn’t moved. Once the pain from being moved simmered down, she returned to her silent breathing.
Her seeing him made her worry that she couldn’t protect her crew, her feeling like a failure of a captain. She was sure there was worse ways to fail but she wanted to protect them. Her muscles in her hands twitched a bit, it almost looking like she was dying and in a sense, she was, but she’d be alright if she either was helped or left to lay there.-
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-Tanakami felt a force as the ship rocked and gripped into the wood as the other users got slammed into a side wall. She heard the one fall over into the water then she released while the boat was still tilted and rushed the rest, knocking two more into the water then grabbing the side rail before she, herself went over. She pulled herself up and used her legs to knock another in. One of them bashed her fingers and tried to make Tanakami fall. She pulled herself up and felt herself losing strength as people were killed.
She pulled up and punched the one that tried to make her fall in the face, it hurt his jaw and knocked it off. It even harmed her knuckles a little. She then turned to the last few and they rushed her. They went hand to hand with her and as she aimed at one, the other two tried to grab her. She pulled so they smashed into each other but the last one was too smart for her.
He jumped back and then used a kinda of smoke like power to try and choke her. She held her breath and rand through it as she started to see the sun barely peek up at the side of the ocean, not enough. She then tried to punch him but they faded in the way. She backed up to where the seastone was embedded in their cabin, the smoke touching it and retracting.
Tanakami smirked then as she slowly released shadows because she was really losing her grip to stay up. She pulled out the gun she had taken and shot him in the chest. She watched them bleed through the chest. She felt her own blood on her and she fell down on the deck. She couldn’t fight anymore but she wanted to help her crew. She pulled her body up but fell again.-
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-Tanakami heard him say to stay behind and saw the damage they were causing. She then braced as their ship knocked into hers. She got flung to the other side and heard the wood crack. She righted herself as a group leaped off to deal with her. The first one shot a sort of beam at her and she ducked and rolled away, a second one fired and she brought her shadow up to protect herself. She then peeked back to her crew to see the fallen mast had incinerated in a mere instant then the embers sucked into one of the people that were still on the ship.
Within that moment of distraction, one of the others that hopped over kicked at her head. She went down and blood came from her forehead as it kissed the wood but she didn’t get knocked out. The zombies ran at the small 10 person group that hopped and a few of them were taken down by the surprise of zombies attacking. One of the remaining members, took out a small package of salt and threw it at the zombies. Half of them got it into their mouths and the shadows returned to Tanakami.
Tanakami righted herself and used her shadow to block another incoming blow as she felt the power instead of storing in her breasts, it went into her muscles. She had never felt it do that before and she felt her muscles extend. She used a very brief break in the onslaught to take the seven shadows of the crew and from her remaining zombies. This gave her definition and tone of muscles on her body.
With an increased speed, she sped at one of the users and jammed her elbow into their gut. They felt the pain but she felt a swift knee come up to her face and break her nose. She growled as she reared back then exerted herself further in rage. She reached her shadow up and took the other living members of the crews shadows and was sure to not touch her own. This caused her body to become larger and much more muscular but also was tearing her flesh a bit from having not done this before.
She ran at the next user and was able to punch her hand through them, one of the 6 remaining throwing sea stone at her but missing as he didn’t know she’d go through them. She was wearing out fast despite this display of power.-
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-Many hours went by until they could no longer see land, the sun was setting in a beautiful array and night soon swallowed the seas. As the moon rose high, all seemed calm and smooth sailing. Tanakami had hung up the bounty papers and was waiting for the others to get done using the medical kit before she would even touch it. Her boots were propped up on her desk in the room she commandeered and she was looking through marine files. She wasn’t getting much information, it was a smaller vessel.
The zombies were continuing to sail the ship out to where they knew of to go, one of them spotting a small ship in the distance. They waited until they noticed the ship was coming towards them and a black flag was sailing with a symbol on it. They yelled out, “ENEMY SHIP!”
The marines started preparing for battle, Tanakami heard the yell and dropped everything and ran on deck. The zombies were preparing cannons and she remembered that this crew probably thinks they are marines because they don’t have a flag up. This could be an advantage and disadvantage. She looked and saw cannon balls start to rain and she stretched her shadow to catch them and throw them back. This hurt her a little but she was not going to let this ship hurt them. The ship seemed the same size and theirs and it looked like the enemy was going to ram into their ship.-