Mikey is lying on the ground unconcious from Claudius's axe kick.
The seats in the colloseum started filling up more and more. Atleast thirty thousand people were watching this fight at the moment.
Claudius came up to Mikey, he wanted to finish him off but didn't have the strenght left to do so with his own fists. That's why he tried to take Mikey's sword away from his hand...but Mikey was griping it tightly? Mikey wasn't unconcious this whole time.
Claudius quickly realizes it and jumps back. Mikey stands up without a struggle and the two stare at eachother.
[Your ship is here]
A spectral Pirate ship suddenly appears about two meters behind Mikey. A spectral Captain's hat appears on Mikey's head too. Mikey points at Claudius and the ship starts shooting from its cannons. Claudius dodges all the cannonballs without an issue, but he is shocked. He is aware that this fight is probably unwinnable for him at this point, he is already running low on stamina and now he has to deal with this ship too.
Five spectral pirates come down from the ship. They're holding pirate sabers and are ready to attack Claudius, or are they? They all come up to Mikey and form a formation around him. Protecting him from all sides.
Claudius speeds up even more and starts attacking the spectral pirates. He is so fast that Mikey's eyes can't keep up with him, even though they are still in the "cat" mode.
Claudius kicks the first spectral pirate away, making it dissapear. The spectral soldiers change their formation, creating a square around Mikey.
I can't keep going like this. Those soldiers aren't strong, however if I keep going like this, I'll run out of stamina before I can reach Mikey. That is what Claudius is thinking at the moment. I'll just have to attack him right away, ignoring those soldiers.
Claudius starts ignoring the spectral pirates and changes his focus to Mikey, he manages to land a few hits on him, but because he had to ignore the soldiers they managed to land a few hits on him aswell. They slashed his left thigh and right arm. This doesn't stop Claudius as he keeps attacking Mikey over and over, but eventually...
[You have activated an ability of the "Ultimate Fighter"]
Mikey strikes back so fast that Claudius has no chance to react, the punch is so strong that it creates a shockwave. Claudius is sent flying into a wall and Mikey comes up to him with his sword.
"Damn it, in the end you managed to defeat me anyway...we'll meet again one day. And I'll have my rematch." Claudius smiles and breathes out his last breath. The Colloseum has completely filled up at this point. Mikey won and the other players who are in the crowd are cheering but at the same time shocked at this crazy display of power.
[All the fights are now over, congratulations to the winners. You will now be teleported back into the overworld with your new ranking assigned to you]
Mikey dissapears and teleports back into his old ship. His eyes go back to normal and his captain hat dissapears. Mikey sits down and summons two spectral pirates, he orders them to put the sails back on the mast. Once they do they dissapear and Mikey starts coming towards the island where Lucy should be. Mikey's ship is even faster than before.
"Claudius... I will not forget that name." Mikey says to himself with a saddened face. The number above his head shows 1. This means that Mikey has proven to be the strongest player right now, although that might not be completely accurate.
A few minutes later and Mikey can see the island very clearly, there's a stone temple in the middle without a single tree in sight.
Mikey then sends a message to Lucy, saying that he will be on the Island within three minutes.
When Mikey is about two hundred blocks away from the island he starts turning his ship left slowly, so that when he approaches the Island he can leave right away. Lucy did claim that she might bring a horde of zombies with her afterall.
When Mikey finally approaches the island he sees Lucy. She is running away from the temple with about fifty zombies chasing her, those zombies are not burning on the daylight for some reason.
They are husks, not your average zombie. Husks are a type of zombies who have clothing over their body, essentially protecting them from the sunlight.
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Lucy approaches Mikey's ship and runs towards him. Mikey wonders just how does she intent to get on the ship, it's pretty high up compared to the island. Mikey slows down the ship. Thanks to his Pirate King attribute he is now able to slow it down or speed it up however he wants.
As Lucy closes up on the ship she quickly pulls out a wooden ladder out of her inventory and climbs the ship with it. Once she gets on the ship, she takes the ladder back in her inventory.
Mikey and Lucy leave the island... Lucy catches her breath. She then comes up to Mikey and they shake hands.
Lucy's appearance is not what Mikey expected. Just by looking at her he can tell that she's quite energetic. She is shorter than Mikey by atleast an entire head. She has grey eyes, the exact same ones as Mikey, light blonde hair and a very feminine figure. Considering her overall appearance, she's as good looking as Mikey, even prettier perhaps. Her rank is 7 at the moment.
"So you're Lucy, not what I expected to be honest." Mikey says unsure if he really saved Lucy or someone else. "That's a weird thing to say to someone who you just met." Lucy's voice perfectly fits her appearance. Energetic and peaceful. "Anyways, thank you for saving me, if it wasn't for you I probably wouldn't get out of here alive." Lucy says gratefully. "Oh, by the way, your fight at the colloseum was quite something, your opponent was insanely strong too despite his low ranking." She adds. "Thank you for the flattery, there's one thing I want to ask." Mikey says curiously. "What is it?" Lucy asks Mikey. "Tell me please, what's this Island about? Why is there a temple in the middle?" Mikey asks curiously.
"Well... it's a long story, I guess I will tell you what happened from the very beggining." Lucy answers. "So, when I spawned here-"
(BOOM)
Mikey and Lucy turn to the direction of the explosion. It was at the Island. A huge hole was created in the ground by the explosion. Shortly after, a ship which looks like a complete wreck comes out of it and gets on the sea, while being carried by a few muscular husks. The ship, it's filled with husks, two more ships appear behind that one, one of the ships is much larger than the other two. They start chasing after Mikey and Lucy.
"Well damn, no time to talk, we have a company." Mikey says as he speeds up the ship.
"What now?" Lucy asks. "Do you have some kind of a ranged attack?" Mikey asks her. "Yeah, I do actually, but we need to be closer in order for it to work." Lucy says with a worried expression. "By the way, can't you summon that spectral ship again? Like you did in your fight?" She asks.
"I don't think so, it came to me randomly, I can control a few spectral pirates but that's it for now." Mikey answers as he shrugs. "We could try to escape but it seems that their ships are much faster." Mikey says as the two smaller ships close in on them from both left and right.
"I'll steer to the ship to the left and you will hit that ship with your ranged attack, okay?" Mikey asks without waiting for an answer and starts steering to the left side. Lucy prepares her attack, she puts her hands in front of herself, her hair changes to orange and red and she creates a big fireball which goes flying at the ship.
(BOOM)
Her hair changes back to normal and her hands become a little burned. "That was an insane attack." Mikey says. "Is your attribute something like firebending or what?" He asks. "No, I can control all four elements." Lucy says as her hair turns dark blue and she creates a big wave and sends it in the direction of the second smaller ship. The ship is slowed down by the wave. Her hair turns back to normal again and her clothes get soaked.
"What are you?! An avatar?" Mikey asks with a surprised face. "I guess, I received this attribute thanks to something that I ate at the Island." Lucy says. "Ate? Like a food?" Mikey asks, the smaller ship is closing in on them again. "Yeah, it was a strange fruit. But forget that, we have another problem!" Lucy points at the smaller ship. The ship has opened its windows in the underdeck, revealing three cannons which are facing the direction of Mikey's ship.
"Can you create a wind that will stop those cannonballs?" Mikey asks, he then summons two spectral pirates and a spectral cannon.
"I can try, but I can't guarantee anything." Lucy responds.
"That's okay, just do it!" Mikey orders the Pirates to fire the spectral cannon. Before they do he gets in front of the cannon. His eyes change like they did against his fight with Claudius. He jumps at the perfect moment and quite literally starts RIDING on the cannonball which is flying towards the ship.
"What the hell is he doing?" Lucy asks herself as Mikey jumps off the cannonball on the deck of the ship that's filled with husks.
(BOOM)
(BOOM, BOOM, BOOM)
The cannons fire, Lucy's hair changes to white and she creates a strong wind which almost manages to stop the cannonballs. They hit Mikey's ship, but thanks to Lucy's wind, the ship is damaged only lightly by them. Her hair turns back again and a few bruises appear on her face and arms.
Lucy looks at the ship and realizes that Mikey is beating up all of the zombies on it, they are swarming him from all sides but he is defeating all of them before they can do anything.
One of the zombies from the ship fires an arrow at Lucy before Mikey can stop it. The arrow travels at a very high speed, Lucy knows that she can't create a spell fast enough to stop it. She tries to dodge...
Mikey orders one of the spectral pirates to tank the shot for Lucy, and that's exactly what happens. The spectral pirate gets shot and dissapears. Mikey orders the other one to protect Lucy no matter what. Mikey can give these orders by simply thinking about them and sharing his thoughts with his soldiers.
Mikey beats up all of the other zombies at the ship. He then summons another soldier and orders it to steer his ship closer to the zombie ship which Mikey is currently trapped on.
Mikey's ship gets closer and he quickly jumps over. Mikey then goes full speed onward, but the biggest ship suddenly speeds up and gets right behind Mikey's ship.
"We don't have another choice now, are you ready Lucy?" Mikey asks as he hands her his diamond sword.
"Let's go!" Lucy says as the two prepare for an attack from the largest ship. The true fight is only beggining.