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((Auuuuu hello dear uvu it's just great to hear from you all again <3))

((Really happy to see you are back here biggrin since your back I think you could be a lot of help here in this arc,

I will let you have Brook for right now! we will pretend he was with the crew this whole time and not captured with the others, nd later on u can have robin for a while if you would like, I could use some one being her for something I have planned for the end lol ))

Yokuta walked up to both Luffy and Andell and picks them both up carrying them like sacks of luggage under his arms carrying them back over to the group, keeping them turned from the gem.

"Thanks Yokuta, now if you two loons would keep your head out of the clouds we can getta move on." Skarner said, irritated at the two of them, Andell was already enough to drive him up a wall but now there was two of them and it was starting to sink in.

As they began to walk deeper into the large open cavern some clicks could be heard, ahead one could just barely make out the shape of a cawchap's head sticking out from one of the stalagmites, quickly pulling it's head back behind the stone.
Another cawchap would be spotted just within the light running from behind one rock to another, a clicking sound baing made as it did, the sound almost sounding like a eerie laugh.

Hadlar was looking around, the clicks echoing through the cave made him all the more cautious, his yellow eyes shifting around he eventually spoke up "We are being watched, the Cawchap now we are in here" He looked up, the roof of the cave was pitch black, only the light on the walls and the light from the stones on the ground level where lighting the cave

Skarner looked up at the roof of the cave seeing that Hadlar was "Wasn't the ceiling light up with those star stones earlier?" He asked the lizardman as he crossed his arms across his chest.

"That's just what I was thinking." Hadlar said back, his voice slightly lowered, his reptilian brown creasing a bit, appearing more serious as he continued to gaze into the darkness.

" 'old on oi got this." He said sharing the same thought as Hadlar had as to why the upper half of the cave was darkened. He pulled a large barreled pistol from the opposite hip of where he was keeping his normal pistol, slipping a large round into the chamber he launched a flare at the ceiling, it flew up lighting a large portion of the cave.
Looking out some cawchaps could be seen reviled from the shadows but that was not the worst of it, the reason the ceiling had been darkened was reviled as well. Hundreds of Cawchap where crawling around on the stone ceiling, their bodies had been blocking off the light, all of their attention was turned to the group below.

Almost instantly they began clicking as well, chatting amongst themselves knowing they where exposed now, their ambush was not going to work so they began to drop to the cave floor one by one, thousands of them ready to kill.

The blonde chef's eyes widened as he watched the gun's flare rise into the darkness of the cave, revealing the thousand of creatures high above the group. Before he could react they started to fall to the floor all around them, "Its amazing that these things could come up with this kind of ambush!" He said to no one in particular, "Hadlar, is there any easy way to beat these things?" Sanji asked, turning a quick glance toward the reptile.

Luffy squirmed out of Yokuta's grip and prepared to fight, not at all surprised by the amount of creatures that lived in the cave.
"At the entrance to the cave, we had to use force to beat them," Luffy pointed out to Sanji before Hadlar had a chance to answer. "Nat's sword didn't hurt them, so what I mean is, PUMMEL 'em!" Luffy slid into a fighting stance, eyed the monster nearest him, then jumped into the air. His fist seemed to have its own force of gravity as it came crashing down into the temple-area of the beast's head, slamming the entire creature hard into the ground. Rubble littered the air from the explosion of Luffy's attack.
The captain jumped back quickly, dodging the teeth of another cawchap. He glared at the monster, summoning the energy from his Haki. It didn't work, and in the time he had wasted trying to use his energy, the monster took the opportunity to rapidly turn its body and swing its bladed tail at Luffy, sending the captain right off his feet and straight into the hard, glowing cave wall.
"Sanji!" Luffy called out, beginning to sit up. "They're immune to Haki! Don't use it!!"

Skarner stepped back centering himself more in the group, his eyes shooting over to where luffy had been attacked quickly making a call to the muscle of his team "Yokuta get those bastards off Straw 'at and hold the perimeter, don't let them close to us" Skarner ordered the large man.

The silent man nodded walking past luffy he reached out and slammed his fist into an oncoming cawchap with all his might, keeping the insectoid beast off Luffy and making a B-line for the front of the group where the majority of the cawchaps where approaching from.

"Andell.. give Yokuta support so 'e don't t get taken by surproise" he sighed, not really wanting to rely on Andell "The rest of ya get out there and kick their asses! Do whot ever you do best! "

"Righty-o boss man - chief - big kahuna !" Andell ran over and stood beside Yokuta "Ready to fight big-guy?" he said, a almost serious look on his face, though a crooked smile shown through showing he was enjoying what was coming.

Yokuta looked down at Andell a smile on his face as well, the two of them where about to cause some major trouble for the cawchap.
Yokuta took his thick winter jacket off throwing it to the ground out of the way, not only did it throw better then an average jacket but it also landed with a clap, the same sound one would get smacking two stones together, the thick jacket was weighted.
Yokuta now standing in a white sleeveless shirt he took his scarf and quickly tied it on his waist like a belt, and tucked his wool cap in between his hip and the scarf

Yokuta took a stance, spreading his feed apart and bending his knees to brace himself similar in style to a sumo wrestler, his started to chance, revealing he had a Devil Fruit same as Andell.
His skin turned to a golden hue, and his arms grew his torso widened and he also increased in height. His head was covered by a golden helmet which covered all but his nose and mouth, two long golden horns curved out from the side of his head and to the front where between there another horn grew out from his forehead.

While the other changes took place a second pair of arms grew from under his upper pair, looking exactly the same as his other arms appeared, they two where covered in a golden exoskeleton armor. Finally a pair of golden plated slid down from the back of his shirt, lifting up they revealed themselves to be the wing guards, showing off two pairs of insect wings.

Yokuta's fruit; Beetle Beettle fruit model: Hercules Beetle.

The giant golden beetle man stood as the front line of protection for the crew as they prepared their attacks and luffy recovered from the attack that had been dealt.

"Ooooo, you guys are in trouble~" andell said to the group of approaching cawchaps.

"Andell, go find somewhere safe to hide right now!" Saberie told the child. Since Yokuta transformed, she supposed now was a good time to go into full Oni Mode. She took the sake pouch off of her belt and spilt it on her club, it stretching and grew spikes, then took a few gulps of it, and the transformation began.

Her jaw jutted out, and two bottom teeth grew long and pointed. Her skin began to darken and turn a dark crimson color, and her hetero-chromia eyes turned bright gold and pupils slit like that of a snakes. Her body cracked and stretched into a far more taller and muscular one to the point that her clothes began to tear a bit. Finally, her hair began to lighten into a pinkish color.

She had transformed into an Oni; a terror of the mountains.
"Let's do this," She grinned.

Andell completely ignored the red head telling him to run, Andell was literally about to have a blast. "One for you, and one for you, and one for you!" he repeated as he lobbed out bombs into the crowd of blood thirsty cawchaps, explosions going off in the crowd knocking them into the air along with debris from the cave floor.

Yokuta smiled, listening to the rubber captain obsess over his fruit power, finding it funny in a way that the captain of their crew was so easily impressed when he had not even seen what yokuta could do.
As the Cawchap approached fast Yokuta swung his arms, four fists flying knocking out multiple at cawchaps at a time, he reaches out grabbing a few of them in his hand, his hard exoskeleton making defending his arms and hands from their struggling he threw them back at the swarm using their own as weapons, aiming them at other cawchap.

Skarner pulled a pistol from his hip, the design of it was unlike the common flintlock pistol seen used by practically anyone in the possession of a gun.
Holding out his arm he started firing at the bests, aiming his shots between the chitin so it would penetrate into their bodies and not be blocked by the hard shell.

He looked over to Luffy who was in awe over Yokuta's fruit power, using Luffy as a sling shot he aims his pistol at the captain, shooting him in the side, the round sinks into his rubber body then shoots back out, Skarner moved out of the way and the bullet flew past him and into a cawchap's chest "Bullseye." he said with a smile

Hadlar moved towards the back of the group, spotting several coming in from behind, in an attempt to flank them, hadlar spun around, whipping his tail out a rankyaku air blade flew from the path his tail traveled in, nailing one with it the others moved around the path quickly or leapt over it.
When one got close enough hadlar pulled his hand back and pushed his clawed fingers forward "Shigan" he stabs forward, his sharp, solid claw breaking through the chitin.

"Nobody let their guard down, not even for a minuet!" Hadlar shouts back two cawchaps circling him like vultures, growling and clicking as they did.