Azar slammed into the ground with a fiery explosion! Blaze and Embers spilling into the air around as the shockwave vaporized the bugs nearby! "I always wondered what counts as bugs…Are maggots bugs? They become flies right…" He scratched his head. "Are worms?"
He leapt over a jumping spider that shuttered after him at supersonic speeds only for his hand made of fire to explode through it and the babies inside it! "Spiders aren't bugs…their arachnids."
A voice called from behind him. "Worms can be bugs. Maggots are sometimes called 'worms' but if you're referring to worms in the Soil. Those are invertebrates." Azar turned around. Putting his hand on his hip and resting his leg "Oh well thanks for that. Was curious."
The man was lanky and tall at over 7 ft. His shoulders were narrow and slopped down, he wore a very tightly worn robe on his torso in a deep black that made it almost look like a dress jacket. The sleeves extremely loose and flowing.
The Man also had a very slender face and eyes that narrowed. A small pair of spectacles sat on his slim nose, with a curling thin mustache curled beneath his nose.
Azar how ever gave no attention to the man as he turned gazed away to lift his hand and shoot a casual fireball to the man. Only for the man swiping his hand up through the air causing it to explode harmlessly! The Mans sleeves fell down to his elbow, exposing his arm. It was filled with holes and pores across its surface.They were deep concaves that Azar could swear he saw were squirming with something beneath his skin
Shifting his position into a more ready one, Azar cocked an eye as he saw Bugs of all variety begin to swarm around him, only to stop near the man. "Well, I guess you must be Booker?"
"Who knew I pirate recruiter could be such a freak!" Azar jeered. Causing the man to narrow his eyes and swat his arm through the air to rest at his side.
"Yes, I am Booker. Some have come to give me the Comedic name of 'The Book Worm' for my attention to logs and details in my Dealings. Its why people come to me above all the other scouts of the world. I'm timely, my observations are acute, and I can find any kind of person."
"I however prefer…The Wyrm" He shot his hands out to the side letting his sleeves fall to their lowest point, the wriggling and writhing beneath his skin increasing as large wasps began find their way out and swarm towards Azar in a hail faster than a bullet!
Azar leapt to the side, there were large openings in the swarm of insects much like any other bug swarm, fire from his feet propelled him between 'The Wyrm? And he controls bugs?! That makes no sense…' Azar thought, sliding to a stop with his hands outstretched to belch a cloud of red fire from his mouth!
The Hive Hive Fruit. A Special Paramecia. Though there has been debate on what exactly class the fruit was, it did not fit exactly in any normal category.
The Fruit allows the user to become a living conduit for insects. Being able to control their every move either directly, or give them orders. As well as allowing them to nest and grow within the user.
With a flick of Bookers hands as he leapt backwards, a large Scarab Beetle rocketed forward! It was a unique species just to the island known for one thing! Catching the Scarab by its large appendages in the front, stopping it like a rhino, a audible gurgle came from the gullet of the beetle!
A second later at over 10,000 PSI, the beetle spat a stream of potent acid! Thankfully, Azar's logia allowed it to harmlessly pass through him, only to meet a large boulder behind him and melt it away in a concave shape!
With a downward punch, Azar pierced through the Exoskeleton, and exploded the inside of it, causing it to rupture in a large char around it!
A Bug that had literal drills for arms in biomechanical fashion, flies that exploded like nitroglycerin, Scorpion Flies that shot out fire that was useless against The Flame Human.
"Deep Hive!" Booker shouted as he skid backwards and tore open his robe to expose– His abdomen! From where his diaphragm would start to his pelvic bone, his torso was deep and almost hollow if not for the chunks of flesh with hive like structures within them!
But they weren't currently hollow however…Breaching from the Torso, first ribbon worms the size of snakes wriggled out before spitting their ribbons into the ground, powered by the direct control of Booker, the white vein like ribbons dug deep into the ground before exploding chunks of the earth to reach for azar!
Azar summoned two flame knives that sliced through the multiple ribbons protruding from the ground!
The Hive Hive fruit also allowed total control of any animal that was 'infected' by him or was stored inside of him. Insect or otherwise.
Next was a quad of Giant Crane flies with thorny legs that stomped into the ground! Their large proboscis Attempting to impale Azar while finally another Insect left the cavity! Two Tailless Whip Scorpions! But instead of being the harmless creatures normally seen, these were adapted to be predators! Two of its legs had snapping claws like crabs along with their large mandibles!
"Grah! Enough!" Azar said as he charged up a large amount of fire before letting it explode all around him! Disintegrating all of the insects around him!
"God. You are disgusting! And I don't even mind bugs!" Azar snapped as he watched a haze surround the body of Booker, along with the quickly burning gnat swarm around him.
"Now. Tell me where Vane is!" He said as he began to walk forward. Only to notice something strange…the body in front of him that was cowering away, was almost translucent with cracks all around it…Like a cocoon!
A slight shiver went down his spine as he leapt out of the way! A gigantic Centipede slamming into the ground and cratering it!
As the dust settled and the insect began to retract, he saw what came from the cocoon!
Booker was different now. He was half a dozen feet taller, and now had Chitin in bright yellow with black patterns like a wasp coating his humanoid body. His face also in the shape of a wasp with large compound eyes. His arms in the back were like that of a spiders that were curled almost like wings, as on the small of his back were two large centipedes that wriggled around, and between his digitigrade hairy fly like legs was a tail like abdomen that moved like a cats.
This was what kept the identification of the Hive Hive fruit being so nebulous. Anything that he had infected, and had nested inside his Hive, insect or otherwise. He could then take parts of and use them to transform into a new form.
There was a reason why Booker had a Bounty of 500,000,000.