“Not even a goodbye?” Iron Horn jested. “How heartless.” He covered his arms and legs in Armament Haki. “Von Shadow, our plan is to hold Cloven Iron off long enough for the others to escape with my people. Should he still be alive after this battle, blow up Minos.” Iron Horn squinted his eyes and he readied his shield.

Eric let out a low laugh. Iron Horn raised an eyebrow in confusion.

“Er, why are you laughing? It’s sort of creepy.”

“Because…” Eric exploded into his shadowy form, his burning red eyes staring into the King’s soul. “I was planning to wipe this island off the map when I rescued the slaves”

“Glad to see that we’re on the same page!” Iron Horn said with a grin, “Dying is the day worth living for!” Iron Horn let out a battle cry and ran at the King; his shield raised and coated in Haki to avoid any melting injury.

“It’s amusing how you think just the two of you can fight me and my entire island,” Cloven Iron said kicking the stone railing off the royal box. “The both of you will share the same fate as my absolute waste of sperm.”

“That so?” Eric said with an unsettling grin. “I would love to see you try.”

Iron Horn used the Quick Claw technique to race up the arena walls and leaped up to Cloven Iron. He then slammed his Armament Haki blade into Cloven Iron, but the King simply blocked the attack with his double-bladed sword. Conqueror’s Haki clashed and shook the arena, before Cloven Iron pushed his banished son back.

Iron Horn hit the glass floor and rolled to his feet. Undeterred, Iron Horn slammed his two fists into the ground before throwing a huge block of glass at Cloven Iron, distracting him and setting up Eric to attack.

The Shadow Man had vanished from the arena when the banished prince attacked, but reappeared in the shadows of the royal box, his signature scythe in hand, and an increasing grin on his face. Covering the shadow weapon in Armament Haki, Eric slashed at the king’s back… only for Cloven Iron to block the attack. Eric’s eyes widened before the King blasted the Shadow Man with a glob of magma. Erecting a shadow wall to defend against the attack, Eric retreated back into the shadows.

“Your feeble attempts are quite amusing,” Cloven Iron mocked as Eric rose from his sons shadow.

Iron Horn put up his hidden blade and got out his staff. With the click of a button the staff turned into an axe to he quickly coated the weapon in Armament Haki. “We need a strategy,” Iron Horn grumbled to Eric. “So, how about we hit him hard and fast. Or just fast given that he probably won’t be able to see us coming.”

“Fast and Hard is easier said than done, he foresaw my attack from behind,” Eric whispered back as the king dropped to the arena floor. “I think he may have some strong Observation Haki.”

“Get ready, Von Shadow!” Iron Horn raised up his shield, he then used the Quick Claw technique and ran towards the Minotaur King.

Eric drew his sword and Naginata from his body, charging behind the minotaur prince.

“YAH!” Iron Horn swung his blade, only for the King to block it. Iron Horn then bashed Cloven Iron with his shield and tried to slice his chest with his axe.

But with Observation Haki on his side, Cloven Iron was able to dash away from the attacks and leap into the stands of the arena. The arena was barren and only the three warriors were left: the citizens had fled, and any remaining guards were facing Sombra and the others.

Cloven Iron lifted his hand as magma dripped from his arms. “Great Eruption!” King Iron roared, launching a fist of pure magma at his opponents. Iron Horn blocked the magma, but the King didn’t let up, and the shield began to warm ominously.
“This is problematic,” Eric said, feeling the heat of the attack. “The Magma-Magma Fruit is one of the stronger Logia types.”

“Indeed,” Iron Horn agreed, flipping his axe around. “But now, we must work together. I’m sure we can use hit and run tactics on him.”

Eric stabbed his Naginata into the ground before pulling his gun from his coat and aiming it away from the Minotaur King. “True.” Eric said, sending a shadow bullet through the air. “But there are other ways to defeat a Logia Type”

The bullet curved in the air, heading towards Cloven Iron. Too focused on his son to heed his Observation Haki, Cloven Iron was caught off guard as the bullet embedded itself in his right eye. Cloven let out a yell of agony, seething at the pair.

“Now would be a good time to give yourself some extra armor,” Eric said putting his gun away and pulling his Naginata from the ground.

Iron Horn nodded and turned his skin to iron. The banished prince slammed his fists together making a metal sound that made Cloven Iron wince. Using the Quick Claw technique, Iron Horn bashed his father in the ribs before darting away, wincing at the pain in his hand. Punching his father was like punching magma itself.

Angered, King Iron launched another glob of Magma at his son, however Eric stepped in and absorbed the magma into his shadow. Though he stopped the attack, Eric grimaced in pain, his hand becoming pink and charred from burn damage.

Cloven Iron turned his hands to magma. “You and your pathetic friend will pay for your defiance!” Cloven Iron said as his magma grew hotter. “Your melted flesh will become the ground beneath my feet!”

The Minotaur King slammed his hands into the ground, Immediately, Eric and Iron Horn felt the heat beneath their feet and saw the glass ground glow red.

Iron Horn cursed as he tucked and rolled from the glass ground, somersaulting into the arena stands for dear life.

Eric formed three set of wings on his back, and took to the skies before firing a large tendril to lift the Minotaur Prince from the stands.

“EXPLODING VOLCANO!” Cloven shouted, and the floor exploded in a mountain of magma. The King's magma covered the entire arena, Iron horn looking on in slight horror as he hung from Eric’s tendril.

“Thanks…” Iron Horn mumbled.

“That attack had a massive attack range,” Eric said, wincing as his hand stung. “His attacks are stronger than I anticipated, I felt the burn through my shadows”

“Any weaknesses?” Iron Horn asked.

“Water,” Eric said plainly. “If we can get him in the water when he’s in his magma form he’ll be nothing but a statue.”

“Roger that, but first we need a bucket, where can…” Iron Horn looked over to a restaurant called the Bucket Heat with a huge metal bucket. He smiled. “Oh, yeah. It’s all coming together.”

“That won’t be enough,” Eric claimed, dodging a magma ball fired from the King. “We need to drown him.”

“It can stall him, though,” Iron Horn split his shield apart, turning it into a crossbow before taking out some bolts enchanted with magic. “Take this you neglectful bastard!” Iron Horn shot a crossbow bolt.

Cloven Iron blocked the bolt with his arm… which suddenly froze. Cloven paused, melting the ice around his arm with a glower.

“We need cover,” Eric said, racing into the city. “We’re sitting ducks in the air”

“Any ideas?” Iron Horn asked.

Eric released the minotaur before planting his feet on the ground next to him. “Not a lot.” Eric shifted his gaze to his sword. “My sword has some abilities stored inside.”

“What kind of abilities?” Iron Horn readied his crossbow and quickly sought cover behind the Golden Axel.

“I can turn whatever I cut into gold, but I only got one or two uses left,” Eric explained. “I can also use the shapeshifting ability of a changeling, but I’ve only got one use left. And I have enough Dark Magic in this blade for one spell but I’d rather save that for an emergency.”

“Well that’s maddeningly unhelpful.” Iron Horn grumbled, “The best we can do is stall him. If we get close we get burnt. Hmph, the best I can do if things go to shit is use the Quick Claw technique and pummel him at close range. Get my licks in before either going unconscious, or die from shock.”

“His Observation Haki would sense you before you had a chance to get close,” Eric claimed, pulling the minotaur back from the oncoming King.

“Hmph,” Iron Horn reverted his crossbow back to a shield. “Eric, can you check to see if the citizens are gone?”

“Afraid I can't. I need to focus on the shadows of this city to keep an eye on your hot-headed father, but from what I can tell, most are out of the danger zone”

“Good.” Iron Horn coated parts of his body in Armament Haki. “We need to get a hit in, just one good hit on my father.”

Without warning Eric and Iron began to feel hot as sweat dripped from their heads, Eric and Iron Horn looked back and found their path blocked by magma flooding the streets. The two turn to run the other way only to find their path blocked by more magma.

“Your father is flooding the city!” Eric shouted in anger.

“We need to stop him!” Iron Horn’s body solidified into iron, he clapped his hands together, making a loud echoing clang that blew the magma away. “We need to find him and beat him! You said you have a transformation, right? Because I have one other than this.”

“I’m usually left exhausted after using them,” Eric said, jumping up to the rooftops.

“Same for me, I can last only three hours in this state, but…!” Iron Horn clenched his fists and his whole body began to change. It became a silver color and a symbol of a Devil Fruit was placed onto his body as he infused the form with Armament Haki. He grew taller and his Armament Haki changed to silver. “Iron-Iron, Un-shattered Will!”

Without warning, the magma began to feel hotter.

“Hellhound!” Cloven Iron shouted as a beam of magma hit Eric in the right side of his torso.

Eric let out a scream as he struggled to stay on his feet. “Damn you….” Eric seethed, clenching his side.

“Eric, stay back,” Iron Horn claimed. “You need to run. A burn like that can cause serious damage to you. However, a Minotaur like me will have to take more punishment to be out for the count!” Iron Horn used the Quick Claw technique and sprinted towards Cloven Iron.

Cloven Iron shot magma fists at Iron Horn but the quick hunk of metal evaded the attacks as he approached the King rapidly. Iron Horn punched the ground with enough force to make a crater, causing King Iron to lose his balance.

“Steel Fist!” Iron Horn sent an Armament Haki powered punch into King Iron’s gut, eliciting a crunching sound.

King Iron took one step back before glaring down at Iron Horn.

“Tch, not enough. Bullet Punch!” Iron Horn sent more attacks towards his father’s way.

However, King Iron bent his logia body to avoid the attacks. It worked but not as effectively as he thought it would, as some attacks landed onto points of his body that weren't completely magma.

Unfortunately, King Iron just shrugged it off and grabbed hold of his son's arm. Magma poured over his arm which began to glow red.

“You may have improved your powers,” Cloven Iron said to his son before his grin widened. “Unfortunately for you, so have I.”

The magma turned pure red and orange as his grip tightened on his son's arm, Iron Horn punched at Cloven Iron in an attempt to free himself, only for his father to grab hold of his son’s fist. Before long Iron Horn started to grunt out in pain.

Eric pulled out his gun and started shooting the Minotaur king, but his bullets passed right through him.

“I will get to you in a moment,” King Iron said as he began to cover more and more of Iron Horn’s body in magma.

Iron Horn swore as he pulled and began to kick Cloven Iron’s body in an attempt to free himself from his father’s grasp.

Unfortunately, his legs got caught in the flowing magma. Iron Horn began to scream as his metal skin drew closer and closer to melting. Eric lashed out and wrapped a tendril around the Minotaur King’s neck. Yet, even then, Cloven Iron refused to let go of his son.

“Don’t bother,” Cloven Horn mocked, covering everything but his head and neck in magma. “This disgrace will join his mother and brother in the same death!”

“Not a chance in Valhalla!” Iron Horn slammed his head against Cloven Iron’s head, he continued to bash his skull into King Iron’s. Amidst his wild hits, Iron Horn then covered his left horn in Armament Haki and stabbed it into King Iron’s bad eye.

The King let out a pained shout and released his son. Seeing his chance, Eric pulled the Iron user from the glowing magma. However, he was breathing heavily as his entire body glowed brightly while parts were even starting to melt. Eric immediately put as much distance as he could between him and the howling King.

“Can you stand, Iron?” Eric asked as the prince noticed shadows wrapping around the Shadow Man’s injury.

“Yeah…” Iron Horn said, breaking his bonds and began to pant. “That was horrifying, but we pulled through, or rather you pulled me.”

“He’s much stronger,” Eric said as the King turned to them. “And I don’t think my Knight Soul could take him like this!”


“I’m assuming that’s a transformation, but you’re right… This battle was lost before it began. Remember what I told you, Von Shadow.” Iron Horn said as he took out his crossbow and tried to shoot.

However, Iron Horn missed as he lost feeling in his arm. Looking down, the prince saw his melting metal skin dripping to the ground with blood mixed in. “Oooh, that doesn’t look good, but I can’t feel it! Meaning that’s a pain for future me to handle.” Iron Horn growled before returning to firing magical crossbow bolts at King Iron.

They were barely fazing the King, however, as he rushed the two down. “It’s a real shame. Your brother was much stronger than you!”

“Well that’s a fucking lie!” Iron Horn countered, taking out his axe and running at the King, all the while staying wary of King Iron’s Devil Fruit.

King Cloven Iron vanished from view before appearing behind the prince and slamming the back of his fist into the prince’s side sending him towards the magma below them.

Thinking quickly, Iron Horn put his hands apart and clapped them together, making a powerful shockwave that sent him airborne. Iron Horn then rolled into a building before regaining his footing, whirling on the King in anger.

“You have the nerve to strike behind my back?”

King Iron snarled and collapsed the building with a lava fist.

Iron Horn looked around for buildings to jump to but found none. The buildings were all burnt to a crisp. “Well shit.”

Iron Horn fell into the magma below as his Carbon Steel body began to melt into his skin. Using Conqueror’s Haki, Iron Horn tried to blow away the magma, but more flooded right back in.

Eric moved quick and grabbed hold of the prince with a shadow tendril before lifting him up on a bridge of shadow.

“His powers are bullshit! I have no way of combating him, and he has the NERVE of telling me I’m weaker than my brother! I would have demolished everyone in that gauntlet and then some!” Iron Horn was visibly angry, puffing out steam from his nostrils. “However… I think I have a plan… You know his magma can be blown away, right? What if we blow away the surrounding area of magma and both of us get one single powerful hit in.” Iron Horn suggested covering some of his unarmored places in Armament Haki.

“Alright,” Eric said before a pair of large reptilian wings came from his back. “I can probably get the Magma to disperse.”

Several more wings sprouted from Eric’s back before several large shadow dragons came forth from Eric’s shadows. The dragons hovered in the air before flapping their wings, drumming up strong winds that blasted the magma away.

As they worked, Iron Horn put up his axe and put his shield to his right hand. The shield then transformed into a gauntlet with spiked gloves.

“One powerful hit, Eric!” Iron Horn jumped down to the ground and sprinted towards King Iron. “Father, if I can even call you that… You are nothing but a manipulative slime bag who cares nothing of others but his own wellbeing. You are the pinnacle of garbage, you banished your child for avenging his wife, killed your own son, and enslaved races that are not your own!”

Cloven Horn tried to blast his son, but the shadow dragons kept blasting his magma away.

Iron Horn slammed his foot onto the ground and covered his whole entire arm in Armament Haki. Making sure that this punch would be the strongest hit he had ever given. All the while, Eric worked to blast as much magma away from the minotaur king as he could.

“And above all else…” Iron Horn pulled back a fist. “...I’ll never forgive you…” Iron Horn appeared before King Iron. “...FOR KILLING MY MOTHER!!!!” Iron Horn slammed his fist into King Iron’s chest.

Cloven Iron smashed into the roof, and Iron Horn grinned as he saw his father’s blood hit the floor.

However, his grin faded when the king stood right back up.

“All that for a single drop of blood?” Cloven Iron asked. “Absolutely pitiful.”

“Eric!” Iron Horn crossed his arms to block.

However, before Eric could try to attack, the King used his Quick Claw technique and appeared in between the two with his hands on both their chests. “Hound Crimson Lotus.”

Eric was fortunately enough to be small enough to drop to the ground immediately. However, Iron Horn did not have that level of mobility and flexibility and was hit with a wave of magma shaped like a fanged dog head. King Iron’s attack bites down on Iron Horn before passing right through him, Iron Horn stood there his metal flesh glowing pure orange as bit by bit his skin melted off.

“Iron!” Eric shouted as the prince fell to his knees.

“...My brothers… Mother, I’ll be seeing you…” Iron Horn then gave a middle finger to his father before he hit the ground.

“Such a shame,” King Iron said, kicking his downed son into the magma below.

Before the prince could meet his fiery demise, a floor of shadow covered the magma, catching Iron Horn and covering him before vanishing into the wall of the only remaining building.

“You could have taken this chance to flee,” the King said, turning to the shadow man, whose hands were on the roof. “And yet you waste it protecting my failure of a son?”

“That isn’t who I am,” Eric said standing up and glaring at the King with eyes that sought his demise. “Besides… now I can destroy this place without hurting the prince.”

“Destroy?” the King asked with a laugh. “You couldn’t even land a single hit on me, how do you plan to destroy all of Minos?”

“Like this.” His shadows rose.

Shadow Soul: Soul of the King

Eric’s form grew an additional five feet. His attire of shadows resembled that of a king in medieval times, with a seven-pointed crowned helmet over his head. His face was hidden behind the shadows of his helmet.

Shadows began to pour from Eric’s very being. Darkness covered the roof before putting a layer of shadow over the magma left behind by King Iron.

“Soul of the King?” Cloven Iron said with a raised eyebrow. “Don’t be ridiculous, creature. All you’ve done is wrap yourself in your shadows.”

Eric said nothing.

The King grew angry. King Iron raised his arm to fire a burst of Magma only for something to grab his shoulder. Turning, the king was met with the sight of a large black knight, which hurled him to the ground.

King Iron quickly recovered as he glared at the silent king. Eric simply walked off the roof as a pair of stairs materialized from the shadows.

“You’re going to die, Cloven Iron,”

“As you said yourself,” Cloven Iron said as his body poured magma. “I would love to see you try”

“Dark Nova...”

Eric lifted his hand as the shadows converged on his palm, a black orb formed in Eric’s hand and grew rapidly.

Not wanting to humor the Shadow Man the Minotaur King fired off another blast of magma. However, a black tendril caught the King’s wrist and yanked it to the right. His magma missed the Shadow Man by a mile.

King Iron ripped the tendril from his wrist, and charged the Shadow Man with a roar.

However, a series of large round shields cut him off. All the while, the shadow orb in Eric’s hand grew to gargantuan size.

Eric curled his fingers, and the sphere condensed into a tiny orb. Dispelling his knights, Eric dropped the small sphere.

Cloven Iron tried to attack, but he couldn’t stop the sphere from touching the ground.

“Island…”

The sphere cracked.

“Destroyer.”

The sphere exploded covering the entire island in a inky darkness.

The explosion subsided, revealing Eric hovering over the ocean on a platform made from shadow.

Eric returned to normal before dropping to all fours, panting heavily. He glared down at the ocean; the King was nowhere to be seen.

“I told you,” Eric wheezed. “You were going to die.”

He looked off into the distance. On the horizon were a number of dots he could assume were the ships that fled Minos. Forming a pair of wings, Eric flew off towards them.

okay people. so this is the final chapter of the Island of Minos Arc. the next chapter will be a filler chapter to make way for Arc 6. and like this time I'm going to complete the Arc before posting chapters.

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