Decaying Seas

3rd POV

Standing across from one another was the now transformed Captain Jack, who had turned his entire body into various blades all the while ripping all but the pants part of his navy uniform off. Across from him one Pythias W. Silvers and the newly freed Aelo Rossland had his guns out ready to fire.

"Yeah this guy's gonna be a problem, ya dig."

Captain Jak hearing this would begin laughing as he tapped his head with one of his bundled arm blades. 

"Yeah, I remember the nice little shinner I gave you, lucky I didn't take an eye bak then but well I guess we all make mistakes."

"However not many of us get a chance to make up for them, so I'll take both this time!"

He shouted as he charged forward with his arms in an x position ready for two consecutive side slashes. 

"Double Steel Slash!"

Captain Jack shouted as he slashed down on both Aelo and Pythias, with Pythias barely dodging what could've been a lethal strike with only a scratch and Aelo losing one of his guns while stepping to the side. Then once the strike was finished, his entire body began to shift, his various blades receding into his body, forming a clear surface except for one large blade that now became his left hand.

Then his right hand started becoming a large shield with a scale-like pattern and the rest of his body started shifting, becoming more fluid and then stiff into place. No longer was he a walking pile of bundle-up blades but now resembled a full-blown Knight.

"Captain Jack Knight-Mode!"

"How do you like this pirate, my Knight-Mode gives me a ton more defense making me impervious to your attacks!"

All the while Pythias, scratched his neck, studying the figure in front of him and Aelo had his gun aimed at his face, looking for a weak point. All the while Captain Jack was laughing with the Marines gulping not knowing what to do, to try and fight alongside the Captain or run away from the two people who fought them without breaking a sweat.

"So if you don't want me to take another eye, then surrender now both of you, and maybe, just maybe I'll be merciful."

While he was talking, Pythias would speak to Aelo, and ask him a question.

"So what'd ya do to piss him off so much?"

Hearing this Aelo would sight and take a moment to answer.

"Technically it was two things, the more serious charge was speaking out against this guy captain, Commodore Ax, ya dig?"

"But well I think this guy's wife was flirting with me, ya dig."

Hearing that, a vein must've popped in Captain Jack's and he began screaming and shouting. His entire body lost this knightly demeanor he had and his two hands transformed into two large axes and spikes appeared all over his body alongside two gigantic straight horns on his head.

"NO, NO, Maria would never do that, she wouldn't, I refuse to believe it!"

"Captain Jack, Beserker-Mode!"

Seeing this Pythias began stretching his hands out, seeing that Jack was no longer as calm as before and no longer in control of his emotions. 

"Whats this guy's Devil Fruit anyway, I thought it was a blade-blade fruit at first but clearly its something else?"

Then Jack charged forward and began hacking and slashing at the two, mostly aiming for Aelo in his blind rage. The two of them however had a calm demeanor and Aelo took this chance to respond to his question.

"I think he ate a weird Logia Fruit, the Steel-Steel Fruit, and transformed himself into a Steel human, or was it paramecia, can't remember ya dig?"

"Either way it turned his entire body into steel he can manipulate, ya dig."

As Pythias took a couple of leaps back, he noticed that Jack was actually only going after Aelo in his blind rage, paying him no mind. Seeing this he smiled and with a quick scratch on his neck, charged forward with his hands out-stretched, using his blind rage to get one good touch in. 

All the while Aelo was starting to panic as his swings kept getting faster and more sharp edges were added to his axe hands. Each one ready and prime to slice and dice him up the moment they get a good strike in. 

Eventually, Pythias stopped running and began looking all over Jack's body, looking for a spot that he could press down on without losing a hand. Then he noticed his foot movements, the simple behavior they went with, and how unlike his hands they were moving wildly but still without much thought put into it, more like moving based on muscle memory. 

So he began touching the ground, creating large holes in it, enough for his feet to fall into, more specifically Jack as he nodded to Aelo and pointed downward, showing him what he was planning. 

Seeing this Aelo smiled and changed direction going for the place where the holes were being made, leading the rampaging Jack toward it.

"WHERE YOU GOING, YA BASTARD, GET SLICED UP ALREADY!"

Just to annoy him more, Aelo took a few potshots at him, not really trying to hurt him but to annoy and anger him. Get him to concentrate all his anger and energy on him and make his feet fall down the holes. 

All the while Pythias formed a few more just in case his plan didn't work and moved to the side, getting ready to pounce on him once he was momentarily disoriented from the fall. Eventually after one strike, Jack's left leg fell into one hole knocking him on his face flat. 

All the while one of his other arms fell into another hole and dug into the ground making it much bigger than before. While he was momentarily disoriented, Pythias lept forward, going for his shoulder and it began to disintegrate and decay. His flesh and bone revealed itself and injured him permanently, he then went for the other shoulder and repeated the process. 

All the confusion of Aelo who couldn't figure out what was going on. 

"I thought you were going to kill him, ya dig?"

Hearing that Pythias began to laugh as he stepped back from the now-waking Captain Jack.

"Ka Ka Ka, KaKaKaKa!"

"I suppose that was the original plan, but well I though about going after this commodore Ax instead, and well it would be good to send a message to him."

"Spread my name a bit you know, well our name if you want to join me?"

He held out his right hand without his pinky ready to shake hands in case Aelo wanted to. Seeing this Aelo took it and shook it with a smile underneath his mask and a glint of excitement in his eyes.

"Well I gotta thank you somehow and well I still wanna get payback on the Navy, but well afterwards I'll decide if I wanna join you permanently ya dig."

With that the first man to join Pythias and his new crew was found and a new short-term goal. Defeat the Commodore Ax and spread their name, spread their infamy across the seas, and rise as a new player in the world.