"Do they change us?" Vane pondered as Azar took the opportunity to the take a breather. "Devil Fruits I mean. Or do they simply bring out our true selves. Is it the fruit? Or is it just the person accepting it? Allowing themselves to be true to themselves. A gateway to desire…"
"Fate allows the fruits to fall into the right hands. Always in the hands of who fits…" His eyes shifted back to Azar, locking eyes as a grin spread. "There I go yammering again" His hand shot up and the black tendrils began to be pulled inward like a drain swirling with water!
Azar began to feel a strange pull on his body as he was lifted from the ground and came zipping through the air! "Dark Maelstrom!"
"Ring of Fire!" Azar summoned circlets of fire and tossed them forward, Impacting into Vane and burning his abdomen before his large hand caught him by the neck "Grrah!" Tham! Black Beard slammed Azar into the ground, strain piercing through his neck, quickly the Fire Brand tried to raise his hand and fire off a flare, but nothing came! Even the tensing of muscles and the commanding of his body to fire did nothing!
"Darkness…Is Attraction!" Vane huffed, his grip tightening. "Darkness puts out all …it blots out even the brightest of light…It ceases all like the night stops the day."
'My Devil Fruit, his fruit nullified it?!!' Azar screams internally as he searches his mind for something to do against this, but before he could. Vane slid him across the ground and threw him through another set of buildings!
"People think that Devil Fruits are mere abilities, tools like a sword. But they are not. They are a part of us. Entangled with our very souls. They are only ever as strong as the user's mind is or their body. Who knows how different powers will interact with people and powers…"
"Divine Conflagration…Agni!" Azars voice echoed out as he walked out of the rubble. Each foot step burning and leaving literal flame footprints behind him.
He was different. His hair was alight and was a dazzling golden flame. A cloak of fire made from his fruit wrapped around his neck and flowed down his front to the middle of his chest in a cross shape and flowed down his back in a brilliant orange and leaving his arms exposed. His hands a bright pale violet flame, black in the middle. with flames coming from his forearms red, blue, green, and orange. His feet and calves the same.
"Whoho!" Vane said in an impressed tone. "Haven't seen that form in quite a while! When was the last time? The time you went up against that warlord? Or was it in one of your fights with pops?"
"Last time it was when I put a man with almost a billion in the ground." This really made vane smile "Good man…"
"Black Miasma!" Vane raised his hands and slammed them into the ground, spreading the viscous blackness through the ground and stretching straight forward to Azar!
"Embric Burst!" Azar shifted his lower half into flames from the waist down and a pillar of flames concentrating into a funnel like a thruster and bursting above and towards vane! "Hercules Corona!" Azar exploded his fire out in a wide aura radius! Dazzling colors forming throughout the flames!
"Void!" The Pirate raised both his hands up, the black spreading into swirling tendrils outward, licking and lapping at the flames and pulling them into the abyss of black like a squid wrapping around prey! "Zehahaha!"
He was reveling in this fight, the thrill! "Oh shit! Everyone to high ground!" Dullahan screamed, swatting his hand out, signaling the rest of the crew to take cover, the black spreading all throughout the street!
"Grand Umbra!" The Blackness shot up in spikes, piercing through the buildings wrapping around them crushing all that was around and could reached pulling them down to the dark pool in the streets where they disappeared
"Zehahaha!!!" Vane shot his arms up, swiping them through the air "Kurogai!" Hands of black swiped, punched, and tried to grab at Azar as he zipped in and out of the way of the attacks
"Great Blazing– Pyre!!!" The Second in Command of the Red Beard Pirates shot in mid air, stopping, hands transforming back to their agni form, chest glowing white hot. Glowing bright like a star in the sky!
The flames that erupted from his chest were a hurricane pillar of fire in a concentrated beam! Colors swirling and shooting towards Vane!
"Bring it on, Azar!" Vane opened his hand out white! Letting the beam collide with him and explode! Pushing him deep into the ground and skidding back! "Zehaha!" His laugh echoed out of the noise
"Haha…Ze- haa!" Vane was left standing, flames being licked and absorbed by the surrounding blackness. A burn across his chest that smoldered "Haha…The One Logia to ever exist that doesn't allow the user to transform into it's element. But offers far more in compensation."
His eyes shifted up to Azar, his body covered in cuts and blood. "Ngh…Rah!"
"Still got some spunk in you huh! Just how much longer will we play this game Azar! The more we fight the more fun I have! Don't you agree Azar!"
"Get rid of that shit on the ground so I can face you!" The Flame Man spat
"And wheres the fun in that! How about I show you something better!" He flexed his biceps and pulled them tight to his sides, the black absorbing into him and rising up behind him into a mound of sludge looking darkness "Emissary of the Abyss!"
His arms splayed out to the side while his head tilted back, when suddenly the black exploded out and with it all of the debris that he'd absorbed! Spewing it around the city at tremendous speeds slamming and cratering everything around! Buildings, sky scrappers, quaking the ground! This must've been what caused the destruction on Drumvolc! Giant fissures shot through the ground as the entire city and beyond!