The bull came charging and barreled over Peter, grabbing onto Jane and running off with his prize. "Who's running off now?!" he yelled to the man who just fumed over saying he wouldn't back off and go.

"You got three seconds to run away" came the voice of the other Scarlett right beside him.

Please. Close range is what I'm good for. Peter drew his cutlass again and told blonde pirate that he'd hold this guy at bay - she was already close to the big guy anyhow. Seems we're on the same thought pattern then.

"Sorry, I'm not a good listener. Let's dance." He pointed his cutlass at the man and prepared to dodge or deflect whatever he had to offer. Just fight to wound and lets get the hell outta here guys... Peter looked closely at the surroundings to see what advantages he could make for himself.

Thriest hadn't been paying much attention to the blonde woman, or her knife. But it seemed luck was on his side, for this massive blade swung out behind him as he ran, knocking the knife aside as it flew for his legs. He heard the clang of steel and looked over his shoulder, seeing the woman. He grit his teeth, held on tighter to Jane, and ran harder, his huge feet thumping hard on the forest floor.
Perhaps he was running off, but capturing Jane took priority over his pride. He yelled to Alexander before he was out of ear shot. "I'll leave them to you! Try not to die before I get back!"

Jane's instincts were like lightening. As soon as she saw his sword hit the blade, she stretched out her arms, catching it. The first time luck had finally turned her way!
Jane, now holding the blade, almost instantly shoved it into the Scarlett's skull, and in and out several times. There was no way he could get her to stop, other than letting go.
"DIE!!!"
She chanted.

He blinked when he saw Jane catch the sword. That could end badly. She was about stab him it looked like, so he grabbed the collar of her shirt, held her out, and slammed the pommel of his sword into her temple, knocking her out cold. He did all this while running from the other two pirates, threw her unconscious body over his shoulder again, and kept running.

Jane panicked when she felt herself being lifted into the air. She had to think something up fast. Really fast. As a last second attack, she threw the knife at his legs, right before the world turned black.

"To bad for you" Alexander said coldly. "You had your chance" He smiled, but again that was all he did, attacking first when both parts knew of eqchoter like this was not how Alexander fought. It was allways esier to defensiv and Then attack while the enemy was paralyzed. "You still have two seconds left" Alexander said and Looked down at the cuttlass. "One" he said soon after. "Well, I almost feel sorry for you" Alexander said when he reached zero, but his tone made it clear that he was anything but sorry. With a little smirk he slowly lifted the walkingstick from the ground and gently tapped the Edge of the pirates cuttglass like he was saying 'en gardè' "well, lets dance" He was determited to keep the hidden blade a secret until he found it nesesary to cut him. In the meantime, the sword-cane was used as a club.

The raven haired man tapped the edge of Peter's cutlass and begun the showdown with the statement of his own, "well, lets dance." Head for the trees for cover during the fight. Fight atop the branches if I can. Shot him if I get the shot. Peter took a step back and held his stance of a swordman. He gave a few strikes at the man, sure that he would dodge or parry them being how he looked and acted. Afterwards he sidestepped and parried when he saw the cane come for him, trying to take careful and fast notice of how the man attacked to try and discover when to get a swipe in on the man.

"Listen. I don't want to kill you..." Peter got in during several steps and slashes of his cutlass at the enemy. "I just want a talk with the girls. There's no need for us to waste our energy on each other. I'm sure you've got bigger fish to fry than me - a pirate you've probably never heard of." He jumped back from the battle as he ended his comment, raising an eyebrow to the man. "What do we have to gain from killing each other, hm?" Peter didn't keep his guard down, he did not expect this man to turn tail and go. He didn't expect him to even answer him. This was worth a shot though, unless the man really had heard of him. Though either way it went they'd be heading the same direction afterwards; toward the other three fighting in this forest.

Thriest groaned as the blade cut his calf. The woman was right, it tore more than it sliced. He certainly wasn't running anywhere like this, which left him only one option. He turned, careful to keep weight off of his injured leg and brandished his massive weapon. No point in letting her get the first strike, so he lunged and swung, wincing at the weight this put on his leg.

"I do got bigger fish indeed" Alexander said and took a step back himself, pretending to consider the idea. So far the battle had Been nothing but boring, the few slices the pirate had thrown at him wasn't Even hard to parry.And the few strikes Alexander had deliverd himself was not more than a few easy hits with the cane. "But, all pirates needs to be dealth with sooner or later" He said with an evil grin slowly spreading across his face. "Eanough with the warm up! Lets dance for real!" And with that Alexander pulled out the sword, now holding the 'sheat' in one hand and the deadly blade in the other, he jumped forward and swung the sheat at the cutglas while the blade sliced uppwards in a deadly sweap towards the pirates head.

It worked!
Her sword had forced him to halt, but she knew someone as huge as him wouldn't go down without a fight. Before she even had time to retrieve her weapon, the man was already swinging his colossal blade at her. She used her lesser dagger to attempt a parry, only resulting in his brute power wrenching the hooked weapon from her hand.
well shit, now I'm down two weapons. I'll have to get Jane out and run, or he'll chop me in half.
Hangyaku grabbed a fistful of dirt from the ground and charged Jane's captor. She threw the soil at his face and eyes, then leapt to her weapons and sheathed them inside her coat. Then she turned to the man to dive past him, grabbing onto Jane when she came by. If the dirt worked, she'd be able to snatch Jane and slip away. It was a risky plan, but Yaku had no choice. This was her opportunity to make something of herself.

"Enough with the warm up! Lets dance for real!" the raven haired man drew a sword from within the cane and he let out a dual blow toward Peter. He parried the sheath of his sword-cane but he caught a cut to the hand from his real weapon. A trail of blood led down his hand as Peter now let loose a flurry of blows from his own weapon taking in that he now had two weapons to either dodge or parry. Alright, this guy is just blood-thirsty for pirates. How fun... Peter stepped back and drew his pistol, aiming as well as he could for a quick shot.

Peter stepped back as he shot to dodge any reactions from the man's blade and cane saying, "As much fun as you are, I really don't have the time for this." He let off his shot (not a good one mind you) and swirled his sword in the dirt to let off a small and brief cloud of dirt. Covering his spot momentarily for that second he bolted off through some of the trees to try and loose him. He's a fairly well sprinter and better at these games of hide-and-seek. Though something about this guy told Peter he's a very good seeker. Whatever the case may be he had no interest in killing anybody today, even if the man was itching to kill him.

He growled as he wrenched the pirates weapon out of her hand and winced from the pain in his leg. He barely noticed the woman scoop up a fistful of dirt and only had enough time to shut and cover his eyes before it was thrown. Even at that, a bit of dirt got in his left eye, rendering some of his vision blurry. Half his vision was more than enough to figure out the woman's plan. Render him helpless enough to steal Jane back, then run off. He reversed his grip on his weapon and turned slightly, lowering his shoulder and putting more weight on his good foot, as the woman tried to dive past him and grab Jane.
Two could play at this game. As the woman dived past him and Jane, missing only by inches, Thriest swung again. To swing the full length of the blade would take to long, and the woman would be gone. Instead, he was swinging at a quarter arc, but that would be all he needed to drive the massive pommel of his weapon into the small of the woman's back.

"Dirty tri--" Alexander laughed as the pirate drew his gun, but he never got to finish the sentence before a small ball of iron ripped a hole in the top of his hat, cuting of some of the hair as well before it made a simmelar hole on the other side. "That... You shouldn't have done..." Alexander said with a dangerous tone, Jane was suddenly far back in his mind, the only focus in his head now was to torture anything out of they guy who ruiner his preacous hat.

The small cloud of dust didn't affect Alexander much, as allways, the moment his eyes couldn't help anymore his ears took over the Job of locating his target. So he was after the pirate, almost the same moment as the criminal ran into the forrest. Alexander quickly caught up with the pirate, he had to admit, he was fast, but far from fast enough.
As he ran, Alexander drew one of his shorter daggers and threw it after the pray so it stuck into a tree just to the right of the pirate, it was just a warning shot, the next dagger would dig its way into the neck perfectly. And Alexander already had another dagger ready to throw.