148 Frozen dress!

With a quick twist, I leapt into the clearing, the heavy thicket of trees shifting into my background. Already my Haki bubbled through me. A layer of faint black colouring my arms as a swift image of the situation entered my mind.

Marco looked, his expression slightly easing up as he proceeded to land beside me. The beach had been torn apart by their brief skirmish, icy pillars jutted out of the loose sand while a black glass like material dotted the ground.

My dagger slipped into my hands as I glared at my enemies. Sakazuki and Kuzan had frozen for a moment when they saw me enter the scene but quickly recovered.

"The ice queen is mine." I called out sharply before [Shunpo'ing] in front of Kuzan. My dagger shot at his neck at a breathtaking speed, all the momentum of my swift movement behind the blow.

With a swerve he bent backwards, dodging the tip of the sharp weapon before splaying his hands forward with a makeshift ice sword aimed at my torso.

My right foot stomped, cancelling the momentum that had been built before my entire back twitched to the side. The dagger that had shot towards him stretched taut before curving around to assault his neck.

He twitched as he received my blow with his hands, instantly I felt a fearful chill shoot up my arm.

"[ICE TIME]" he called out callously as the ice began to spread his hands already chopping down at the block of ice that was my arm.

Enduring the sting of the frost, I swung forward, Haki colouring the icy construct as well as it shot forward like a brutal mace towards the Vice Admiral's face.

The Vice Admiral twitched as his expressions fell. He was the least durable of the three Vice Admirals; if he were hit with the blunt force of the blow, he would take some serious damage!

With a small 'caw', he moved backwards ice forming around him the shape of a pseudo pheasant that covered his body.

"[ICE BLOCK: PHEASENT BEAK]" he called out, though the construct looked more pigeon then pheasant.

My punch connected almost instantly as a spider web of cracks made their appearance known on their surface.

With a growl, I clenched my fist; the ice that covered it began to crack as a layer of steam slowly shot through the cracks.

With my devil fruit, I had manually increased my body's temperature, both to deal with the icy temperature on the beach and to combat the Vice Admiral's bad habit of freezing anyone that he was fighting against.

The red tinge of my skin only increased his worry as he twitched backwards again.

"[ICE BLOCK: PARTISAN]!" he roared aloud as a small arsenal of frozen spears appeared behind him shooting at me with glinting tips.

With a sneer I advanced, my dagger quickly shattering any icy shrapnel that made its way towards me.

I was at my optimal, and now I would even be able to link Steps!

(A/N steps= activation of Shunpo)

With a swift whoosh I was behind the frost man, my dagger aimed at the nape of his neck.

Ice shot out of the man's back as he fell forward, and there too he was met with my presence.

It seemed the half-baked plan that I had come up with to deal with the chilly weather had in fact elevated my overall performance!

My arm shot forward from the right as my left hand went for the stab.

Kuzan could do nothing now, his momentum carrying him into my lethal strike. He twitched as an ice cube formed before his face, which he used to twist away from my dagger.

With a grim order, the muscles on my right hand expanded. With a tiny explosion of movement, I had grabbed onto the man's hand, and though he was taller than I was, it still did not stop me from pulling him off his feet.

"[OPEN HAND: YOSO]!" I barked as the man twisted around, his hand instantly breaking before the sound of his ribs shattering echoed into my ear.

This was the first time I had used this move with all the intention of killing my opponent and it really showed. While I had tested this on the ship, there had been no injuries to anyone, now however, the only reason I had been able to pull off the attack was due to the state that my body was in.

Instantly, my form reminded me of something, a certain bowl cut man in tights to be precise.

Suddenly, the weight in my hand disappeared, the momentum that I had been swinging around immediately retarding into my standing form.

With heavy steps, I pattered forward, me feet leaving indents into the ground below.

I could not believe it! Someone had managed to even out speed the reactions that my body offered me, even when I had effectively cut a majority of my nervous system out of the reactionary procedure!

In front of me a grizzled man stood, judging by the coat that was on him, he was a Vice Admiral. His eyes glanced at me seriously as he took the slumped iceman in his arms in a princess carry.

"Humph!" he sniffed out as he slowly set the man down.

"Boy, where did your strength come from?

Kuzan, help Sakazuki deal with Marco, we need to get out of here quickly." he rumbled. While the first part of his statement forced me to revaluate him clueing me in on the fact that he had been watching me for a period of time that would allow him to profile my strength, the latter forced me to truly worry.

Marco had barely been holding on before I came in, and with how far away Angella was he might not be able to hold on for too long.

With a deep sigh, I looked at the man before me. My eyes immediately sharpened as I slowly eased out my Conqueror's Haki.

It was time to go for broke!