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One Piece: Система питания
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Джейсон, студент колледжа, которому наскучила повседневная
жизнь и который ищет перемен, наконец получает то, что хочет.
После того, как Джейсон возвращается домой после колледжа, на его
ноутбуке появляется странный опрос, и он с любопытством отвечает
на вопросы, которые навсегда изменят его жизнь!
Родители получили серьезное предупреждение
Undying Will!
Rein walked through the streets swiftly, but he didn't know the location
of the Rosefett residents. All he could do was ask a few people around
him. Most would keep their distance when they saw him walking down
the street. Rein sighed and saw a middle-aged man outside next to his
food stand.
"Yo, old man, Could you tell me the location of the Rosefett Residence? I
can slide you a few belies if you can tell me." Rein didn't want to ask the
bartender about the Rosefett family. He felt like he asked him enough, so
he decided to take his chances with someone on the street.
"I'm only 32, how in the hell am I old!?" The man was suddenly angered
after being called old.
"Oh, well anyway, could you tell me or not?"
"Damn! Of course, if you can slide me a few belies like you said then I
would be more than happy to tell you." The man shook his head looking
at Rein who completely ignored his question. Rein gave the man a few
belies and he began to speak.
Apparently, it was a huge mansion in the city near the C-gate, while the
Malone residence was near the D-gate. So, the RoseFett family residence
was located near the C-gate, the man gave him great detail of the
location.
"Hmm, Why do you want to know the location so badly, are you a
business partner with them of something?" The man felt like this was the
only reason anyone would look for them. I mean, who would dare to
start trouble with them.
"Yes, we are business partners, thanks for the help!" Rein walked off after
saying his last bit of words.
"Jeez, people these days are getting weirder and weirder." The middle-
aged man shook his head and put the belies into a big bag of money, it
looked like he was saving up.
This city was pretty big, so it would take Rein about twenty to thirty
minutes to reach the C gate. While he was walking, he spotted two
familiar figures coming out of a shop. This was obviously Kuina and
Nojiko who were in the middle of shopping.
Rein called out to them and they both turned to him right after. "Oh,
Rein, did you finish up on what you were doing?" Nojiko asked and said.
"No, there is still a part two to what I need to do. A buddy of mine was
captured because of the last job we did. Now he is being framed by some
noble and some corrupted marines."
"What? Wait, are you going to go look for them for trouble to get this
guy?" Kuina's eyes grew wide, there was excitement in them, she was
clearly looking for trouble herself.
"Haha, that's right, it's a good thing I spotted you guys on my way there.
It's best you get what you need fast because things are about to get really
bad." Rein was about to cause a ruckus, it wasn't going to be good for
them if they stayed on this island.
"Oh, yeah! This is my kinda fight, let's go together!" Kuina smiled and
gripped her sword that was sheathed to her side.
"For sure, but Nojiko might need you, so?"
"It's okay, I will be going to two more stores then I'll head back to the
ship immediately." Nojiko didn't have the strength to protect herself yet
so she would easily become a simple target for anyone.
At that moment, marines could be seen running down the street, they ran
right pass everyone. They were heading toward the A-gate, it was
obvious what they were going there to do. "Nojiko, here are some extra
belies, go buy some Denden Mushis, we'll need two of them!" Rein
handed some more money to Nojiko to buy some DenDen Mushi, they
were quite expensive.
"Okay, I'll hop right on it!" Nojiko left right after and all that remained
was Kuina and Rein. Rein had no problem taking Kuina, she needed the
experience and she was apart of his crew now. She was going to face this
situation sooner or later, so why not sooner?
"Let's go!" Rein could only hope Erica was on her guard when those
marines attacked. He was confident in her ability so there was no need to
worry for her, but Nami was a different story.
Rein and Kuina rushed off to the C-block near the C-gate.
Back on the sea where the destroyed and burning ships were, several men
appeared on the surface of the water. "Damn, our ships were completely
wiped out by that fireball, what the hell was that!?" This man was Kled
who commanded the last attack on Rein's ship.
"Ah, sir, you're alive, what a relief!" Another man swam over to Kled, this
was Richard the one who warned him about attacking them. He wanted
to call Neegan for help but Kled didn't listen.
"Of course, I'm alive, let's get to shore and warn the rest, I sent out a
message to the marines before the DenDen Mushi died." They both
nodded and began to swim back to shore with some other marines that
had survived Rein and Erica's attack.
However, at this time there was something else going on.
Rosefett Residence
Pow!
Slap!
"Pfft!" Vindicate, who just received a punch in the stomach and slap to
the face, spat out blood. He had suffered being beaten for nearly twenty
hours, it was surprising that he was still alive at this point, but he
wouldn't bend no matter what!
"Tell us what you did with the magical fruit or we'll give you another
beating!" The Two muscular men lavished beating this fool. They were
true sadists that love this type of job the most, it had been a while since
they had done this and they savored every bit of it.
"Hehe, piss off, I don't know what you're talking about and if I did, I
wouldn't tell you two clowns anything, dance for me clown boys,
hahaha!" Vindicate laughed with a pitful face filled with blood.
"Son of a bitch!" Vindicate hit their soft spots as they were both named
Dōkeshi and Kuronī which meant Clownman and clowny in Japanese.
This really pissed them off badly. Coldness flashed in their eyes and so
did killing intent!
Author Note: Dōkeshi = Clownman Kuronī = Clowny
"Hold it right there guys!" At that time a man dressed in a Burgundy suit
with a flower sticking out came in. He had black hair and black eyes, he
had a cold grin on his face, he may look handsome but he was a pretty
evil and corrupted fellow.
This was Marth Rosefett!
"Mister.. what was it? Vindicate? Whatever, I suggest you talk, what do
you say?" Marth smiled awaiting Vindicate's answer.
"How many times do I have to tell you, I don't know anything about a
Fruit! All we did was take down some pirates and nothing more, are you
crazy!?" Vindicate was annoyed with this guy's smug smile, he really
wished to punch this spoiled brat with all his remaining strength.
"Crazy!?" Marth almost lost his sanity hearing Vindicate speak to him like
that, but if you ask me, I think that had long been lost!
"Hahaha! Since you won't talk, then I got something that'll jog that
memory of yours!" Marth's face turned sinister and he clapped his hands.
Once he did that, a man came in with seven children who were shivering
in fear.
"Looks like the real fun's about to begin!" Dōkeshi laughed with joy, he
couldn't wait to see Vindicate's reaction, yes, that would make him feel
really good~~!
"What are you doing!? Don't go too far Marth, you spoiled piece of shit!"
Vindicate cursed Marth in a vile manner with no restraint.
"How dare you speak to me like that, do you want to DIE!?" Marth almost
vomited blood, he couldn't take being insulted. Who actually dared to
ever talk to him like that? Not even his dad spoke to him like nor did he
even hit him once, but some lowly commoner was talking down to him!
Ridiculous!
"If after this you don't talk, I'll chop you into a thousand pieces, then I'll
hunt your friends down!" Marth gritted his teeth and looked at the little
kids.
"Bring the little girl over in the dirty white worn-out dress!" The man
who brought them in nodded and dragged her over.
"No! Please, I wanna go home, where is my mommy?" The little girl had
tears in her eyes, she and the rest of the kids here were the remaining
survivors of that village. Vindicate went to investigate.
"Come here you little shit!" Marth forcefully pulled the girl's arm which
caused her pain.
"Ah!"
"Now, listen to me, one last time, tell me or else!" Marth pulled out a
pistol and aimed it at the kid's head while looking at Vindicate with the
widest smile ever!
"You've really gone off the deep end!" Vindicate was startled seeing what
this guy's means of getting information.
"I really don't know man, please, don't do this!" Vindicate started to beg
but this made Dōkeshi and Kuronī so happy that they almost came in
their pants, they simply loved this look the most!
"Yes, beg more, hahaha!" Kuronī couldn't hold it in and drooled, he felt a
wave of delight running through his body.
"You don't know, huh?" Marth sighed then smiled after.
Bang!
Marth shot his gun but not at the girl in his grip but at a random boy
standing with the other kids!
"Ah!"
"Mommy!"
"No, Peter!"
The other kids screamed out in total fear, the little boy dropped dead
instantly, he didn't even know that he died!
"You're Crazy!" Vindicate's eyes turned bloodshot seeing the dead kid
lying on the floor, this guy was completely evil, without the hope of
redemption.
"Crazy!? Didn't I tell you not to call me that!"
Bang!
Another shot was fired and another kid dropped dead, it was a little girl
this time. The barrel bullet went right through her head, she died
completely!
"Pfft!"
Vindicate coughed up blood from anger!
Some of the kids lost consciousness from the bloody scene while some
peed themselves in dread.
They couldn't even cry tears anymore.
"Now, it's this little girl's turn!" Marth smiled sinisterly and cocked the
pistol, ready to fire.
Suddenly, the door of the room was kicked open!
"What the hell is going here!?" This was Rein and Kuina who had just
arrived. They fought their way through the mansion of guards. Rein
looked at the dead kids on the floor in shock, Kuina was even more
shocked, her eyes lost their light for an instant before they came back.
Rein looked over at the Vindicate who wasn't even looking at him. No, he
was staring at Marth and the little girl he had as a hostage with
bloodshot eyes and a beaten face.
"Who the fuck are you!? Trash these days have the nerve to break into
other people's houses!?" Kuronī looked at Rein and Erica like they were
dead people, no, he would torture them first and slowly killed them!
"Who did that to those kids?" Kuina drew her sword, she was outraged at
the moment, she wanted to kill for some reason now.
"You peasants, you actually broke into my noble home! Are you sick of
living!?" Marth pointed his gun at Kuina and shot!
Bang!
However, the bullet was blocked by Kuina, and she then rushed Marth to
take him out.
"Oh, don't do that, remember, I still have this little kid here so you better
not move or else, hehe!" Kuina stopped in her tracks, when suddenly she
was attacked from behind but she easily deflected it.
"Not a bad woman, I'll enjoy capturing you for a good torture session!
Oh, how I love women the most when it comes to that, their screams are
the best!" Kuronī licked his sword and spoke with a lecherous smile.
"Ew, garbage like you shouldn't be qualified to live in this world!" Kuina
spoke no more and engaged the man in a sword fight.
At this time, Dōkeshi looked at Rein who was staring at the little dead
kids. "Fool! Don't be distracted, go die you dumbass!" Dōkeshi grabbed an
axe that was on the wall nearby. This was a weapon they used for torture
by cutting people's limbs off slowly.
However, Rein shot a fireblast at Dōkeshi who wasn't expecting
something like this. Dōkeshi jumped out of the way with a satisfied smile
and looked toward Rein. Sadly, Rein wasn't standing there anymore.
"What!?" Suddenly, the man pierced through the chest!
"AH!" He was lifted off the ground from the piercing weapon, it was
Rein's bone wings that pierced him. Dōkeshi's body was set ablaze, he
screamed hysterically until his voice was no more.
⭑Congratulations Rein, you've killed Dōkeshi the Torturer, you've
received: 10,000 System Points!
Kuronī turned around after hearing his brother scream.
"Brother!"
He wanted to turn to help but he was kicked in the face and sent flying
upside down through the wall. Kuronī fainted from the powerful impact
and wasn't waking up anytime soon. "Always keep your eye on the
opponent or you'll be killed before you know it!"
Vindicate came out of his daze and looked at the Rein's figure. He didn't
say anything, he was feeling really down right now. He couldn't
recognize Rein anyway with the outfit he was wearing.
Suddenly more bodyguards stormed the room, it was about twenty of
them. They were carrying weapons such as sword, pistol, and spears.
They cut off all means of escape and were ready to attack upon the young
master's orders.
"You pieces of shit actually attack my dogs and even killed one of them,
I'll kill you all by starting with this little girl! HAHAHA!"
Rein face changed and so did Kuina's!
"No! Don't" Vindicate hollered.
Marth smiled coldly and cocked his pistol back! Rein was about to make
his move but suddenly!
"Noooo!"
A strange phenomenon took place, the environment changed color as the
wind was kicked up out of nowhere. The sound of buzzing could be heard
throughout the room. Then, people started fainted one at a time!
Rein was shocked!
Kuina grabbed her head, she felt a headache. All the men in the room
and in the mansion fainted on the spot. The little girl being held hostage
also fainted, including the kids that were still awake.
Conqueror Haki!
Vindicate had released and awakened Conquerors Haki!
Marth looked at all the fainted people with a stunned expression, he was
still awake which indicated that he had a strong will. Rein didn't need to
think and made his move to attack Marth. Rein kneed Marth in the
stomach which almost made him shit his pants.
Marth slammed hard into the wall and screamed. He began to roll around
in pain, Rein didn't use much force, but if he did, he would have broken
all of his bones.
"Y-You DaRE!" Kuina stood up while holding her head and cut Vindicate
loose. Vindicate picked up an axe from the ground and walked towards
Rein and Marth.
"This trash can't be allowed to live!" Rein didn't stop him.
"Do you know who I am, I am the Rosefett families young ma.." He didn't
get to finish when his head was decapitated from his body. Kuina backed
away with a grossed-out expression on her face and went over to the
fainted kids.
"I don't know who you are, but thanks." Vindicate was breathing roughly
and sat down.
"We know each other, take a look for yourself." Rein removed his helmet
to reveal his face.
"Gasp! It's you!" Vindicate's eyes grew as wide as they could since they
were swollen.
"Yup, now do you understand the corruption of the marines and nobles?
They set you up and was going to kill you and even killed these innocent
children." Vindicate couldn't say anything, he would be deemed a
criminal now, he didn't hesitate to kill this noble for his actions.
"We're both wanted people, so all we can be now is pirates, do you want
to join my crew?" This man had just unlocked Conqueror Haki, this guy
was a golden member for his crew, he had to have him.
"A pirates, this..." Vindicate couldn't believe it, he would really have to be
a pirate. What choice did he have, he had also worked with Rein and
Erica before so all he could do was agree, there were no more options.
"Haha, welcome to the crew, Vindicate!" Rein stuck his hand out toward
Vindicate and helped him up.
"What are we going to do about those kids?" Vindicate was worried about
the kids the most right now.
"We'll have that bartender take care of them, I'm sure he would do it."
Rein said. He couldn't take kids with him, he wasn't a baby sitter. He was
going to kill the noble himself if he didn't, Rein was too late to save the
kids, how sad.
"We better leave, the marines are probably attacking my ship by now,
let's get out of here and take these kids to the bar." Everyone nodded and
Rein grabbed the dead kids and living ones and put them inside his
storage.
The Marine's Assault!
The three immediately left the room, Kuina had to hold Vindicate up a
bit since he was limping and slow. They were in the basement of the
mansion, so they had to go up quite a lot of steps to get out of here. They
soon made it to the main hall, reaching a huge door where the stairs to
the upstairs part of the mansion were and the entrance of the mansion.
Rein had to beat up some guard to make him tell him the location where
they held the prisoner or he was going to cut his D*** off! He was
instantly shaken and told them where they could find the prisoners
before he was knocked out.
Once they were in the main entrance room, they saw several knocked out
people. "Wow, you guys knocked out all these people?" Vindicate asked
in surprise. Rein looked a vindicate for a second and thought 'I think that
might have been you!'
"Of course, with my skills who could go against me, I mean us, hehe!"
Kuina cunningly said.
"With just you, I really doubt you could have such skills, have you seen
that Erina chick?" Vindicate flamed Kuina on the spot.
"Why you! Do you want me to drop you off here!?" Kuina's mouth
twitched after hearing Vindicate talk about her skills.
"A joke! Relax woman." Vindicate hurriedly spoke. Kuina laughed and the
group left the mansion with no problems. However, they were being
watched from afar by a shadowy figure but as the Author, I can say that
this guy was the battle butler from before.
He had seen everything that had taken place, he knew that Marth was
dead which was going to be a big problem soon. The battle butler didn't
attack, he knew his limits, he wasn't sure if he could beat these three by
himself.
The battle butler pulled out DenDen Mushi and started chatting. "Neegan,
the targets are heading through the city, don't let these guys escape,
they've killed the young master!"
"He's dead!?" Neegan face wasn't so well, this was going to be too
troublesome later on. "Damn criminals, I'll capture them if it is the last
thing I do!" Neegan's facial expression could be seen from the change in
the DenDen Mushi's face.
"Good! Make sure you capture them and if you can't, just kill them!" The
butler spoke no more and hung up.
"Fuck! How am I going to explain this to the family hierarchy when they
come back?" The butler expressed his worries with shaky hands.
At this time, Rein and company continued through the city. Rein gave
Vindicate his old mask to hide his face since he was wanted. Vindicate
was very weak right now, with the fact that he was beaten so badly and
he had vomited quite the amount of blood.
Things were looking up for them, this could be an easy run back to their
ship, but..!
"Tekkai Sai!"
Suddenly a silhouette appeared out of the air and smashed toward Rein.
Rein couldn't move or Vindicate, and Kuina who was helping Vindicate
would suffer some losses. He could only block the attack, he used his
forearm to connect with the silhouette fist!
Crunch!
The ground underneath Rein's feet collapsed and formed a crater. The
people screamed in shock and moved away as fast as they could. Kuina
didn't need to think and jumped back with Vindicate. Rein looked at the
figure, he was a marine from what Rein could tell.
Rein pushed the man back and countered with a kick. The man blocked it
with his other arm but his arm was nearly broken from just blocking.
"Ugh!" The man jumped back and looked at Rein cautiously.
"Amazing, you were able to block my attack with raw strength alone,
congratulations!" He rubbed his arm after the kick, how could a kick be
that strong with brute strength alone? The man before him was only
about 5,8 or 5,9 in height, while he himself was 6,5!
"Interesting, you're not a simple pirate, if you turn yourself in I can lower
your punishment a bit. But if you don't, then don't even think about
leaving here!" The man was Commander Neegan who captured and
helped frame Vindicate.
"Haha! Yeah, that ain't gonna happen, buddy!" Rein shook his head, what
idiot would surrender like this?
"What a pity, then I'll have to bring you in as a corpse, maybe a
promotion would be within my grasp."
"Soru!" Neegan sped up and rushed Rein, he was targeting Rein's head, he
planned to crush it on the spot. Too bad he was against Rein and such
tricks wouldn't work on him, he was easily perceived.
Boom!
Neegan's punch was blocked!
"What!? Impossible! You can still see me while I'm moving that fast!?"
Neegan was shocked, wasn't this just some beginner pirates? How could
he block his move and perceive him?
"This level of Soru is too low, you're just a turtle in my eyes." Rein began
to put force on Neegan's hand, crushing it slowly!
"Arg! Let me go you evil thing!" Rein did as he asked and let go, but
Neegan was hit with a palm in the chest and sent flying.
"AH!" Neegan screamed as he crashed through a building.
"Oh my god, he just knocked Commander Neegan away like a broken
wooden puppet!" Some teenage boys looked on in awe, they quite
enjoyed the show, they were kids so. The adult didn't like this one bit
though.
"Even the Commander was not his match, this is going to get back really
soon!"
"This fight is so amazing, I couldn't see Neegan at all but that guy with
the red eyes caught him out of the void like it was nothing!" Many people
ranted on and on but Rein couldn't be bothered to listen to them, he
needed to leave quickly!
"Vindicate and Kuina, get going to the ship!" Kuina nodded and carried
Vindicate's arm over her neck as they walked on. However, Neegan burst
out of the rubble, he was coughing up blood from Rain's last attack.
Suddenly, more marines appeared on the scene due to the huge ruckus,
they were armed with rifles and swords, these guys weren't joking as they
didn't carry pistols anymore. "Hold it right there, surrender and no one
gets hurt!" The man leading was Richard, Kled was busy fighting near the
docks against Erica which was rough on them.
Rein would be okay against these weapons but Vindicate and Kuina
couldn't escape this barrage of bullets raining down on them. And the
minutes he made a move that was out of place, they would fire.
Neegan came out, he was still holding his chest. His clothes had blood on
them, he was sure he had broken rib or something. "You son of a bitch,
you broke one of my ribs, you piece of shit!" Neegan's face distorted from
anger.
"Haha! That is a lot of profanity, you should get your mouth checked out
later and not just that rib of yours!" Many people around wanted to laugh
but held their laugher, they feared that Neegan may get even madder.
However, Neegan's face was getting Darker and Darker, he had lost all
face in front of everyone and his men.
"Kill these damn bastards! Shoot them!" Neegan was sure he couldn't beat
Rein, he wanted him dead instead. Richard sighed and all the marines
took aim!
"Infinite Shadows!" Suddenly Shadows rushed out of Rein's body and
covered everywhere, blocking out the light.
The whole area turned into darkness!
"AH! I can't see!"
"How did it get dark so suddenly!?"
No one could see anything but Rein could, it was his technique after all.
Wings sprouted from his back and he grabbed Vindicate and Kuina and
flew off. Carrying people was a pain, so he didn't do it since they would
weigh him down.
After a while, Rein was out of the zone and arrived near Gate A! There
was a shoot out and the sound of scorching fire shooting out. "This chick
is a witch for sure, she is using black fire, several of our men were burned
to death already!" A marine soldier complained to Kled who was standing
nearby.
"Stop your complaining, we've just called for back up but for some
reason, we got no response! What in the hell are they doing!?" Kled had
long since asked for assistance but no picked up and no more forces
came, this was not something he could handle.
Suddenly, they saw a shadow cast over them in the sky, they looked up
only to see someone with wings on their back carrying two people.
"W-What t-the hell!" Shock was written on everyone's face, it was the east
blue so devil fruits weren't that known here.
Rein landed on his ship and dropped everyone off. His wings were quite
tired from carrying two people, he didn't carry heavy things when he
took flight but they were heavy on his wings. "How is everything so far,
is there any bad damage?
"Phew, you're back and no, there is no heavy damage, Erica has staved
off these guys for a while" Nami sighed in relief when Rein returned, her
sister Nojiko returned just on time. Erica came over after launching a
fireball toward the area the marines were coming from.
"Good, then this means we can leave now?" Erica looked over at
Vindicate "Gasp, it's you, you look like someone beat the hell out of you!"
Vindicate didn't say anything, he clearly got the living sh** beat out of
him.
"Help him, you guys loop around the island near the D gate, I'll meet you
guys there!" Rein said no more and flew off.
"Wait, what?" Erica tried to say something but Rein flew off in a hurry.
"Okay, let's head around to the D-gate!" Nami immediately began to steer
the ship away.
At this time, Rein was heading to a familiar place, it was the bounty
guild. Ten minutes later, he landed in front of the place, shocking
everyone around.
"Shit, did that guy just come from the sky?"
"Oh my god, he's a fallen angel, he had black wings on his back!"
"A Demon, a Demon Ninja!"
Many people moved away from the Bounty Guild when they saw Rein
enter the place. Once Rein entered, all eyes were on him again but
everyone nodded with respect instead. They already knew what he had
done that fast!
"You're back so soon?" The bartender was a little stunned.
"We need to talk for a bit." The bartender and Rein went to the back.
Rein wasted no time and took out the fainted and dead kids.
"Oh my goodness!" The bartender was shocked, who were these kids and
where did they come from? They're frigging dead kids, man!
"These kids were the kids from that village, the noble used them as
hostages to lure in Vindicate. He killed these two, so I want you to raise
them or find a good home for them."
"Take these kids and get them a burial, it is all we can do for them." Rein
sighed and said.
"I don't know about this, this isn't something anyone can do, taking care
of kids and this many at that. I have a job to do here, so I can't watch
kids all day, you know?" The bartender shook his head, how could he
watch kids at this time?
"Here, I don't have time, so take this money and watch over them! Have
them work for you or something, find a home for them or something, do
something!" Rein handed him the money and turned in Nitrogen and
exited the room. He knew how it felt to be parentless so he understood
how these kids were going to feel.
The bartender sighed and whispered "sure thing." He thought Rein was
some sort of ninja so he didn't question his ability to disappear. At this
time, Rein appeared on a building, he could see several marines running
through the city. They had this city on lockdown, no one in and no one
out.
Rein continued towards the D-gate, he couldn't get any information on
Myriad Island but it was okay, he gained a new crewmate and found out
about a conspiracy. After some time, he arrived at the D-gate, it was
heavily guarded by Marines but Rein could fly so what was there to
worry about?
He flew off into the forest and near the dock, waiting for his crew to
come. Sure enough, they could be seen coming around the corner of the
island and towards him. Rein didn't wait for them to get close and flew
towards them and landed on the ship.
"Nice, now we can leave this place, right?" Erica asked
"Yup, our next destination is an island called Myriad Island!" Nami
scratched her head, she had never heard of such a place before. Rein
understood her confusion and pulled out a map and handed it to her.
"Here, the island is located at the edge of the calm belt, do you see it?"
Nami looked at the map closely.
"Nice, I can add this to my map creation of the east blue, this is great!"
Nami smiled and continued to look at the map. She knew the location of
this place after inspecting it. She turned the map over and saw another
map with X's in certain places.
"Could this mean what I think this means?" Nami eyes grew wide and
sparkly then she looked at Rein.
"Hehe, oh yeah, it is exactly what you're thinking!" Rein face showed a
greedy grin and so did Nami!
"You two, can you not just think about money all the time, jeez!" Nojiko
had the urge to punch both of them. Birds of a feather flock together!
"Ouch, be careful Nomiko, goodness!" At this time, Nojiko was applying
some medicine to Vindicate's face to heal his wound but it hurt and
burned a bit.
"It's Nojiko, Not Nomiko!" Nojiko put pressure on his face, he called her
the wrong name 3 times already, was he doing it on purpose?
"Ahhh! My mistake!" Vindicate jumped in pain, it hurt so much.
"I need some serious sleep, I'm too tired!" Vindicate was exhausted, he
had taken a beating for a long time so this made sense.
"Take him to his room Kuina, you carried him here so it's only nice to
take him to his new room." Nojiko grinned and looked at Kuina who was
wiping her sword with a cloth
"Yeah sure, let's go Vin!" Vindicate said nothing and followed her.
"So, this Myriad island, is it as good as you say it is?" Nojiko asked
"Oh yeah, it has a lot of treasure that we'll need to have." Nami cut in
before Rein could speak. "It doesn't matter, we need to go there no matter
what!" Nami looked like she wanted to dance while steering the ship.
Erica just sat at a table on the deck eating a chocolate sundae, she had
become pretty addicted to them. Rein could only imagine when he made
his island and knowing some parts were made out of desserts, would he
see her again after that?
"We'll know when we get there, but I'm sure there are some pretty good
riches there, so off we go!" He was sure there was something good there
with the fact that he had a mission to do there. The system wouldn't lead
him on a wild goose chase.
"Myriad Island, here we come!"
Notes
Happy Reading and Enjoy! :D
Bounty Established!
Rein's crew continued to set sail towards Myriad Island, at this time, a
day and a half had already passed. Everyone woke up, ate breakfast and
did the usual morning routine. The ships sat in place during the night
while everyone was asleep.
Rein was in the Mess Hall eating and talking to Vindicate alone. "I have a
few questions for you that never asked you about, like how old you are
for starters?" They were both eating lunch so Rein found that this was the
perfect time to ask a few things.
"I'm nineteen right now, I just turned nineteen a month ago. What about
yourself, how old are you right now?" Vindicate asked
"Sixteen, I'll be seventeen next year." Vindicate nodded but he was a little
surprised about Rein age because of how strong he was for it.
"Back at the mansion, do you realize what you did back there?" This was
one of the main reasons he wanted to talk to Vindicate.
"Uh, not really, but he had to die, I had to do it." Vindicate thought he
was talking about him killing Marth.
"Not that, the phenomenon where people started fainting all of a sudden,
you must have noticed it at that time." Vindicate started to recall the
incident from yesterday, he did notice the people suddenly fainting
around him but was too stressed to care or think much of it.
"Yes, I do remember, what about it, I mean, how did they suddenly faint
out of nowhere?" Now that it was brought to his attention, he wanted to
know.
"Hehe, before that, let me explain something to you. There are three
main techniques that people need to know to survive in this world of
strong people. This is mainly for those very powerful places in the world
which we'll be heading to in the future." Vindicate nodded and listened
closely as he ate his sandwich.
Rein started to relay Haki to Vindicate and its capabilities. He told him
about the rarest Haki that most never unlocked. Of course, Rein told him
that he unlocked the one that most never unlocked in their lives.
"So it was like that, huh? I never would have thought that I had
awakened something so good." Vindicate put his hand on his chin in a
thoughtful manner. "Well, it is best if I learn to use it as freely as possible
but I don't know how I did it." Rein understood this much, he was
unaware of it himself but he was sure he would figure it out later.
"This makes sense, but until then, you may want to start training some
other time then." Rein remembered something and said "Speaking of
which, what is your full name to begin with, it must be more to it than
that."
"My full name? Hehe, my dad always told me that it wasn't safe to tell
people my full name." Vindicate had never spoken his full name to
anyone, so no one knew it.
"We're crewmates now, so it's okay to tell us a few things about each
other, don't worry, I won't tell anyone unless you want me to."
Vindicate nodded "My full name is Rigor D. Vindicate" Rein's mouth
opened slightly for a second before he smiled. He really hit the jackpot
with this guy!
"Okay, cool! Let's finish eating, we'll talk about training at a much later
time."Vindicate noticed the change in Rein face for second but didn't
think much about it and continued to eat.
Ship Deck.
"This pirate flag has to be the one, it looks amazing!" Kuina held the flag
up and showed everyone her work.
"Wow, it's so intimidating, this will make anyone who sees run on the
spot, the flag is a must!" Nami liked the flag a lot and couldn't agree more
to it become their jolly roger.
"Wow, it is good, I think we should use it as our jolly roger, just make
sure to show Rein before then." Erica nodded in satisfaction.
"Yeah, just wait until he is done eating, then we'll work something out."
Nojiko was doing some workouts like Erica had instructed her to do. She
had started her training session by punching and kicking 200 times a day.
"So, Nojiko, you said you didn't like weapons, right?" Erica asked for
assurance.
"No weapons, but if I were to use a weapon, it would have to be
gauntlets. I would prefer to punch rather than using "cough cough"
toothpicks." Kuina turned around and frowned at Nojiko.
"Hmph! Just so you know, gloves are no match for powerful swords, what
can glove fists do? Haha!" Kuina believed in the sword and that it was the
ultimate weapon for combat, nothing could match it, definitely not a fist
weapon.
"Once I get stronger, I'll show you what they can do if I get my hands-on
two." Nojiko smiled, she was confident that if she trained long and hard
enough, then she could get stronger just like how her cooking improved
over the years.
"Ha! We'll see!" Kuina smiled and lifted the flag up for all to see. She took
great pride in her artistic skills she had learned from her dad. The Flag
was all black with an eclipsed sun on it. The moon that eclipsed the sun
had a skull on it with a red light beaming behind it from the eclipse light.
Author Note: The Jolly Roger is the cover of this novel. :D
"Nami, how long until we reach this Myriad island?" Erica was wearing a
black sundress this time around like she was on a vacation.
"We should reach there within an hour's time, I can't wait, all that
treasure is calling our names!" Beli Dollar signs appeared in Nami's eyes
which caused Nojiko to sigh a bit but she still smiled, she was used to
this.
Marine Base In The East Blue.
A man sat at his desk working, he would sigh every now and then.
"Finally done, it's a good thing that nothing big has happened in the East
blue so far." This was a Rear admiral by the name Axor. He was stationed
here with another Rear admiral since there were two Rear admirals
station in each sea.
Just when he was about to stand and stretch, a marine rushed in.
"Reporting sir!"
The man bowed and put a 5 to 10 page report on Axor's desk. Axor
looked on the with surprise, he saw a number of pages and he frowned
deeply. "What is this, why in the world is there so many pages of it, did
some bad happen?
"Yes, the report will tell you about everything that has been going on."
Rear Admirals, even though they were stationed here, never made a
move, and would usually send others to do the job. Things had been
looking up since Smoker was stationed in Logue Town, so no pirates
could pass and would always get caught by him.
Axor skimmed through the report and his face scrunched. This was
definitely when he saw the assassination of a noble. Yes, most of this
report was on Rein, who had caused problems for the marines. Nezumi's
report was inputted in here as well, he finally managed to get free and
contact other marines.
"What in the hell is going on here!? He was a pirate hunter at first, then
came in contact with Nezumi who said he terrorized a village on this
island. He also killed many marines and even killed a noble!" Axor was
close to smashing the desk into pieces seeing this report. There was so
much stuff in here that it could barely fit on the pages!
"Do we have a picture of this guy?" Axor was clearly angered to the
extreme!
"A-ah yes, sir, it at the back of the report!" The marine was very nervous
and spoke quickly. Axor checked the back and saw the picture of the guy
who caused so much trouble.
"What is this, is this man from Wano?" Axor whispered to himself. "Put
up a bounty for him, according to this report, the name people gave him
was Rain Man!" Axor saw three other pictures as well. On every one of
the pictures was a report about each of the individuals.
"Goodness! What the fuck is happening in the East Blue!?" Axor couldn't
hold it in no more and smashed his desk!
"Ah!" The marine soldier backed away in fear and shock!
Axor was pissed to the extreme, it was a woman who could shoot black
flames from her hands! They described that bullet and swords didn't work
on her. For axor, this brought back some terrible memories two years ago
about another certain person who had a similar ability!
"A Damn Devil Fruit User! Do these damn fruit spawn like cabbage in the
East Blue!?" Why did the pirates of all people have to be so fortunate to
get such power? "She is no infernal fist or anything, she is a witch, put
her down as an Infernal Witch!"
"Y-yes!" The marine soldier said nervously
Axor looked at the other reports, it was Vindicate's and Kuina's. Not
much was known about Kuina, so he didn't put a bounty on her head, she
was just seen with Rein so there wasn't much to go on. However,
Vindicate slaughtered a whole village and killed quite the amount of
marines. He was also part of the assassination of the nobleman. The
Bulter surprisingly didn't report Kuina who was also present at that time
to the marines.
"These pirates cannot stay, we'll have to capture them at some point! Tell
Captain Smoker to keep an extra lookout for these pirates, they'll be
heading to the grand line at some point!" Axer said, "Also, bring me a
new desk, I'm sure we have plenty of backups." This wasn't the first time
he destroyed his desk, he did so many times when Ace was active in the
east blue.
"Yes!" The marine soldier wiped the sweat from his forehead and nodded.
"You're dismissed!" Axor waved his hand and the soldier left. "Damn
pirates, all of you won't survive and will be hunted for the rest of your
lives!"
Thus their bounties were set!
Rein= ฿50,000,000 =Wanted Poster-Rain Man
Erica= ฿25,000,000 = Wanted Poster-Inferno Witch Erica
Vindicate= ฿32,000,000 = Wanted Poster-Vindicate The Merciless
Rein's ship.
Rein was just getting finished with his evaluation of the new jolly roger
flag. He approved of it almost immediately, it was now time to think of a
name. "I think we should name the crew the Black Sun pirates!" Kuina
folded her arms and nodded seriously.
"No, that doesn't sound right, it is an eclipse, so should it be related to
something like that?" Nami who was maneuvering the ship turned and
chimed in. Why would anyone name something that was completely
unrelated to the logo it represented?
"That does sound right, I think we should be called the Eclipse pirates or
something like that." Erica agreed with Nami on this one, it made sense
to name it as so.
"Hmm, I guess you guys are right." Kuina shrugged, it did make sense.
"Okay, we'll be called The Eclipse Pirates, I like it!" Rein answer had
decided the matter right away, they were now officially pirates!
Suddenly, a notification went off in Rein's head.
[Ding! Pirates Crew established!]
[Ding! Congratulations, your crew has been created, Receiving Reward:
25,000 System Points!
[Would you like to view your crew's strength level? Yes/No]
Rein hit yes, and their names all popped up on a screen. Rein decided to
test it out and clicked Nojiko's name.
⋆Nojiko
Affiliation: Eclipse Pirates
Will: ★★✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰
Combat Strength: ★✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰
Luck: ★★★★★★★★✰✰
Overall Rating: 5.6 ★'s
"Wow, this is an amazing device to have, I can monitor their
capabilities!" Rein also noticed Nojiko's Luck, which was insanely high!
Rein also recalled that there was an eye ability that would allow him to
check out an individual status like this.
[Ding! Bounty has been established!]
⋆Congratulations, you're a wanted man, you've received: Silver Lottery
Token!
⋆Congratulations, you're a wanted man, you've received: (Silver) Devil
Fruit Token!
"Oh, so I have a bounty now, I wonder how much that put on me?" Rein
grinned and looked at his rewards. Before he could say anything,
everyone spoke in awe.
"Amazing! This island must be at least five times bigger than Castleford
Island!" Erica was elated seeing the beautiful terrain of the island and
judging from the map, it had several different types. One could see the
huge volcano on the island and places where huge snow-covered
mountains were.
Everyone started to talk enthusiastically about the island, even Vindicate
was amazed, he had spent all his life on Shipford Island so this was new
to him. "I can't tell which part of the island this is but once we land on it,
this map should give me a clue." Nami looked at the map to try and
figure out what part they were heading to by looking back and forth at
the map and island.
"Haha, don't give yourself a headache, let's just dock the ship and figure
things out from there." Nojiko saw Nami constantly moving her head up
and down at the map and the island.
"Ah, I guess we'll just have to dock then." Nami agreed, she was starting
to feel a bit dizzy from moving her so much.
"It appears to be a desert terrain, I can see several of cactuses on the
island where we'll be docking." Rein was sure that one of the X's was
located in desert terrain so this made him a bit happy.
"This must be the West part of the island if I had to make a guess." Nami
had looked at the map for some time on her way here to study it, she
basically knew everything about it. She couldn't see too far but once Rein
said that it was a desert terrain, she was sure it was the west part of the
island.
Within ten minutes, they docked the ship and walked off. "Nami, what
can you get from this, is there anything familiar on the map that you're
getting from this?" Rein scanned the desert, people like him weren't fazed
by the heat, nor was Erica, but everyone else would have some trouble
without water.
"The X is actually pretty close!" Nami jumped in excitement. "It's close but
yet far, this is going to be a tiring walk but for the treasure, hehe, it's
worth it." Nami grinned and pointed in the direction they should walk.
"Alright, let's go!" Vindicate nodded while Rein put the ship into his
storage.
"Say what now!?" Vindicate was stunned seeing the ship disappear.
"Yeah, I was just like that when he did that, I think it's one of his
abilities, don't mind it." Kuina laughed and shook her head.
However, they didn't know that they were being watched from afar by a
spyglass.
"Tsk, more pirates, pirates are arriving on this island a lot, we've already
caught two crews, looks like this will be our 3rd!" Said the marine soldier
with the spyglass. They had a little set up here with some tents around.
"We'll watch them for now, let's see what they want to do."
"Yes, Captain Copper!" The marines saluted and the group watched Rein's
group closely as they advanced through the desert.
Picture Puzzles!
Rein and his crew continued to walk through the desert with thirst taking
them over. Fortunately, Nojiko had bought freshwater from Bulwark City,
so she was able to distribute some water to everyone. Rein and Erica took
some water despite not really craving it.
"Phew, that is refreshing, goodness! I'm not used to any of these
conditions." Vindicate gulped the water down almost instantly.
"Don't speak for yourself, my village maybe a nice sunny place but this
part of the island is truly harsh." Nami was sweating bullets, which made
the bra she was wearing under her shirt visible for all to see.
"Yeah, I can also see your pink bra, not bad." Vindicate said casually, he
nodded with his hand on his chin thoughtfully.
"Y-You! Don't look!" Nami tried to cover herself but there was no point in
trying, she would eventually have to drop those arms soon.
"Wow, I can't believe Nami would wear such a sexy bra, my gosh!" Kuina
cut in and teased, she eyeballed her on purpose wanting to make her feel
more embarrassed.
Rein looked over and tossed Nami a towel to cover her chest area. "You
can wipe your sweat with that and cover yourself afterward." It was too
bad he didn't have the weather fruit, because if he did he would have
made it rain for sure.
"Ah, thanks!" Nami smiled and wiped herself and covered up.
"Darn, Rein, you're no fun!" Kuina wanted to mess with her more but
Rein rained all over that.
"Hehe, I got to enjoy an eyeful too, so it's all good!" Rein chuckled and
kept walking. Nami's mouth twitched after hearing Rein's comment.
Kuina also chuckled and looked at Nami who had a weird smile on her
face. Nami wanted to bonk Rein over the head but he was moving faster
away from her on purpose!
"Run while you can!" Nami whispered under her breath.
"Erica, you're not sweating one bit, neither are you Rein, what is that all
about?" Nojiko looked at Erica and Rein who were speed walking like
these conditions were nothing.
"It's because of our Devil fruit abilities that we don't sweat in the type of
weather, in fact, this weather doesn't faze us one bit." Erica didn't hide
anything and told why they were doing so well. Everyone was confused,
what was a Devil Fruit?
"Oh, haha, I'll tell you more about Devil fruits later, I forgot you guys
don't know much about those things." Erica scratched her head and
turned around.
"This Devil fruit sounds evil." Vindicate whispered to himself, but his
voice didn't go unnoticed by Rein and Erica who only smiled and
continued walking. It seemed they had a lot of explaining to do when
they had the time.
After about twenty more minutes of walking, they saw huge silhouettes
in the distance. With Rein's eyesight, he was easily able to see what they
were. They were huge pyramids, to be exact, there were a total of three
of them.
"Goodness, they must be about 150 feet tall, they're massive!" Rein was
astonished, were the pyramids in his world even that big, he thinks not.
Hearing what Rein said, they all looked at him seeking an explanation.
"What do you see, I can only see a small dot in the distance." Erica
squinted her eyes and tried her best to see further but couldn't see
anything. Rein's Zoan type devil fruit had really improved his eyesight by
many folds.
"Pyramids, like really huge pyramids!" Everyone gasped and felt
delighted, this was especially so for Nami. Pyramids meant treasure for
sure, it was in all sorts of books she had read in the past. Everyone else
had heard of Pyramids but had never seen them. Everyone was eager to
check it out as soon as possible.
"Hmm, do you ever get that feeling that you're being watched?" Vindicate
was having a terrible feeling he had felt for a while now but didn't think
much about it. But now, it felt stronger than ever, were they being
watched from somewhere?
"Watch?" Kuina looked around cautiously.
"Don't look around to alert them that we know about their presence.
Besides, it's only a feeling, I'm not sure if we're being watched or not!"
Vindicate said quickly, he was always sensitive to stares or when he was
being watched.
"Damn, remind me to knock out a few horses and take them away next
time, jeez!" Vindicate complained, he'd never walk so much in his life. He
changed the subject unknowingly quick!
"Pfft! Relax, we're almost there anyway, so there is no need to worry." If
Nojiko could take it then Vindicate could, was she tougher than him?
Vindicate stopped talking, he didn't want to be defeated in perseverance
against a person with virtual no fighting power.
Over time, they eventually made it to the pyramids, they looked at the
towering pyramids in awe. Rein thought about what Vindicate said about
being watched so he was very cautious, he shot out his Observation Haki
but saw nothing. The people were either extremely far away or there was
no one at all.
"Look, there is a stairway that leads into each pyramid. Do we split up or
go into one pyramid at a time together?" Kuina didn't think it would be a
good idea to split up at this point or they'd get lost for sure.
"We won't split for this one, it's best we go together for now." Rein said.
Everyone had no problem with this and agreed to start with the middle
pyramid. The group began to ascend the stairs, it was a good thing it
wasn't so high as compared to the actual size of the pyramid.
Once they were at the top, they were met with stone entrance doors. Rein
pushed against the door and they slowly started to open up. Once they
were open, it revealed complete darkness inside, no one could see
anything inside.
Rein formed fire on his hand, thus lighting the hallway up. "Look, there
are torches on each wall, we can light them up to brighten our path."
Nami spotted the torches on handls on each wall immediately when the
room was lit.
Erica hopped right on it and started lighting up the torches with her fire.
"This power is just too strange, black fire doesn't make sense at all."
Vindicate shook his head, what kind of force was this, it was something
not of this world to him.
Nami grabbed one of the torches and followed closely behind Erica, who
was lighting the torches on the wall as she advanced. They kept walking
down the long and wide hall that almost seemed endless. "I wonder how
many calories I burned on this walk, this hallway almost seems like it
will last for eternity!" Vindicate touched his stomach, how much weight
did he lose?
"Hahaha! Just keep walking!" Rein could only laugh, but he was right,
this hall was long as he**! Just when Erica was about to complain as
well, they came across a large room that was completely dark.
"Light it up!" Rein and Erica didn't hesitate and shot fire in the darkroom.
The room was lit up like the 4th of July and all was revealed.
Suddenly, the room strangely lit up with light by itself right after what
they did. The fire they had used was extinguished by some unknown
means but the room was bright now so it didn't matter how it happened.
"What is that?" Nojiko pointed to a wall nearby.
"It appears to be some strange symbols!" Erica made a guess.
"Hmm, it looks like a puzzle to me, maybe we have to solve it?" Kuina
had seen something like this before in some scroll her dad had.
"It really does look like a puzzle, but how do we solve it?" Right after
Rein said that, the platform near the puzzle began to glow blue. On the
platform, a number appeared, which was number two.
"Uh! What does this all mean?" Vindicate, like everyone else was just
staring at the blue platform with surprise.
"I don't know, but I'll go check it out." Erica volunteered to go first.
"Wait, it might be dangerous!" Rein stopped her, he didn't know what this
meant. This was something that wasn't in the series so he was clueless at
the moment.
"Rein, it's okay, I won't be taken down so easily, I've been with you all
these years and have learned a lot." Erica was very touched and spoke
gently to persuade him. Rein played with his eyebrows and looked at the
Platform again.
"Sigh, okay, but the minute it looks dangerous, get out of there." Erica
nodded softly with a smile and walked up to the platform. Once she
stepped on the platform, the number turned into the number one.
"Oh, the number change beneath her, it must mean the number of people
that stepped on the platform."
"Does anyone else want to head up there with her?" Rein asked, just
when he was about to step forward, Nojiko volunteered to go up. Rein
allowed Nojiko to go and the number two disappeared the minute she
stepped on the platform.
Suddenly, the platform flashed with a brighter blue light and a barrier
appeared around the platform! "What the... we can't leave the platform!"
Right as Erica said that, some sort of small pillar came from the ground.
On the small machine was some sort of puzzle, it appeared that they
would have to solve it to be freed. As soon as the puzzle appeared, a
timer appeared as well, they were apparently being timed on this!
Smash!
Rein formed a flaming sword and slammed hard on the barrier but
nothing happened. No matter what Rein and Vindicate did, they couldn't
break the barrier. Nojiko and Erica focused on the puzzle they had to
solve or else, who knows what would happen?
But once they looked at the puzzle, they almost fell to the ground. "What
is this, it's a frigging picture puzzle!" The picture was a picture of some
sort of Blue cat with green eyes. Wasn't this easy to solve? However,
Erica was too slow, so Nokjiko took over to put it together. There was
one piece of the puzzle off to the side to be put in after all the other
pieces were put in place.
After six minutes, Nojiko put the picture puzzle together after Erica
wasted 2 minutes failing. The timer only gave them ten minutes to
complete the puzzle. Suddenly, the barrier flashed green and some words
appeared on the ceiling in big green letters.
Congratulations, you've completed the puzzle successfully!
Transferring to Spring Valley!
"What!?" Everyone looked at the words in surprise, who was getting
transferred? The barrier began to blink green and suddenly, Nojiko and
Erica were warped away!
"What is going on?" Nami's eyes dilated.
Rein calmed down. "I think they were transferred to a special place in the
pyramids, perhaps. Maybe solving the puzzle has something to do with it.
The place was called spring valley which sounds pretty good." Rein was
only speculating, he wasn't sure at all.
Afterward, the platform turned blue again and the number 2 popped up
on the platform again. "Do we send someone else again? Maybe if we
solve it, we'll be able to transfer to where Nami and Erica are." Vindicate
suggestion seemed more realistic, so everyone agreed with this.
Vindicate walked up to the platform and so did Nami. Rein had noticed
that Vindicate had a terrible sense of direction just like Zoro so it was
best for Nami to be with him. The picture that appeared next was much
harder!
"Is this for real, why is it so much more of a challenge than Erica and
Nojiko's puzzle?" Vindicate protested, he didn't even know what kind of
animal it was. The animal was actually a Chimera, but who would know
of such a creature?
Beads of sweat appeared on Nami's forehead. "What is this animal, I've
never seen anything like it!" Nami punched the puzzle in anger, she felt
cheated. Rein looked at the puzzle and knew exactly what it was.
"It's a mythical creature known as a chimera, it's understandable that you
don't know about it. The goat part goes on the back, while it has a lion
head with a tail of a snake." Nami and Vindicate listen, what an
intimidating creature, its whole body was a weapon, not to mention how
fierce it looked.
Both Nami and Vinidcate tried to put the puzzle together as best as they
could. Rein could only sigh looking at the two struggle. Maybe Nojiko's
luck played a big role in her getting something so easy to solve.
Time ran out and the puzzle wasn't solved! They had failed!
The barrier began to glow a Red color which signified their failure. Like
last time, more words appeared on the ceiling of the room. The barrier
began to blink red quickly.
Too bad! You've failed to form the puzzle!
Transferring to Dread Forest!
"Gasp!"
"Oh no!"
Nami gasped in horror while Vindicate smiled bitterly, then suddenly,
Poof!
Kuina was silent as she watched everyone disappear through this
platform, she was a bit worried getting on this thing. The platform
returned to its previous color, which was blue, and the number two
appeared again.
"A-Are we going to head up there as well?" Kuina was a little afraid of the
unknown, she wasn't so sure about this platform.
"We have to, this could lead us to somewhere important." Rein had no
choice at this point, once Erica and Nojiko warped away, his choices
were taken away. Kuina scratched her head while looking at the
platform. After a bit of time, they both ascended the platform.
Like usual, a barrier formed around the platform and a puzzle came up.
Rein was easily able to understand what type of animal it was, it was a
lion's head. "I got this, there's no need to worry about anything at all."
Rein started to move the piece around to solve it while Kuina only
watched intensively.
And just like that, Rein solved it.
Congratulations, you've completed the puzzle successfully!
Transferring to the Jungle of Infestation!
"Infestation!" Rein face changed a bit, what did this mean? Kuina didn't
like the word infestation at all, it reminded her of bugs which she hated!
With a green light, both ported away in an instant.
Dread Forest.
At this time, Nami and Vindicate are walking through a gloomy and
slightly foggy forest. "Damn, this place is giving me the creeps!" Vindicate
looked around but couldn't figure out where they were.
"Stay close, don't run off, who knows what could be in this forest!" Nami
was very scared right now, it was no telling what was here and how they
could get out. As they were walking, they came across a field of
pumpkins.
"Ah, pumpkins, this place is definitely haunted or something." Nami's
eyes were wide, her expression looked grave seeing the field of
pumpkins.
"Dang, will we be forced to eat pumpkins for the rest of our lives!"
Vindicate picked up a pumpkin, this particular pumpkin, like some that
were present, was carved like the typical Halloween pumpkin.
Nami knocked the pumpkin out of Vindicate's hands and said "Don't pick
it up, you might get cursed or something! Those things aren't supposed to
be carved, someone carved them!" Nami looked around cautiously but
saw nothing but fog and eerie dead trees.
"If anything shows itself, I'll just have to shoot it down, that's all."
Vindicate also looked around but saw the same thing. Looking around, he
noticed another pumpkin but this pumpkin was black with a strange
stem, it had some swirls on it as well. This was no ordinary pumpkin
from what he could see.
"W-where are you going?" Nami asked as she followed behind him.
Vindicate stopped and picked up the black pumpkin.
"This pumpkin, doesn't it look weird, why is it this color with these
strange designs on it?" Vindicate analyzed the pumpkin. He also noticed
that the stem was completely different from the average pumpkin.
Nami looked at the pumpkin and said, "Hmm, it does look strange, the
color is unnatural, it may have rotten over time or something." This was a
good assumption that anyone would conclude, but to the trained eye and
the experienced people of the world, they would know that this was a
Devil Fruit!
"Hmm, I'll hold onto it for now, it would have a terrible smell if it was
rotten." Vindicate put it into a bag that was strapped to his side along
with his pistol.
"Sigh, Okay, let's search for a way out of here, fast!" Nami was anxious to
leave this dreadful forest, it truly lived up to its name. However, they
soon heard screeches of horror approaching them from afar.
"Ah! What was that!?" Nami was shocked and hid behind Vindicate. He
pulled out his pistols and took aim at the place he heard the screeches.
A fight was bound to break out.
Trial of Power Part 1!
Spring Valley.
At this time both Erica and Nojiko are walking through a windy, grassy
valley. This place was so calm that someone would just want to lay on
the ground and relax and sleep. There has been no strange activity so far,
but this place was strange since it was devoid of life.
"So this is spring valley. It's a pretty nice place, I wouldn't even living
here if there were signs of life around here." Nojiko loved peace but in a
world of criminals, crooked marines, and pirates, stuff like this didn't
exist.
"It does seem peaceful but we were transferred here by that platform,
don't let your guard down." Erica wasn't buying it one bit, this place may
seem peaceful but it must be more to it than just silence.
"Right!" Nojiko nodded, this place was still a transfer place. "Where is the
way out, we can't stay here forever? They could only see endless plains
and nothing more, there weren't even any trees to be seen around here.
"I don't know." Erica said, "If my guess is correct, then this place might be
a trial of some sort." Honestly, Erica couldn't be any more correct, this
was indeed a trial they had to pass in order to win a prize.
"A trial? To get what exactly?" Nojiko somewhat believed what Erica
said. The room sent them to a random place that wasn't on Myriad Island,
so where was this?
"Hehe, I don't know that either?" Erica wasn't that informed on the map
that Rein had but Nami and Rein somewhat knew what they needed.
Suddenly, they heard a voice.
[The battle will commence in 30 seconds!]
[Wave 1! First Wave out of Five!]
"Huh!" Erica's face changed a bit, a wave! Nojiko didn't like the sound of
a wave, a wave of what?
"Nojiko, do you still think it's peaceful now?" Erica looked around
seriously.
"Not Even!" Nojiko put up her guard, she had a little bit of training but it
was not nearly enough.
[Wave 1 commencing!]
Suddenly, the ground around them shook, and the earth exploded open
sending rocks and pebbles everywhere. Multiple grey figures emerged
from the ground. They were slightly taller than the average human.
[50/50 Clay Golems!]
"Golems! What are Golems?" Nojiko looked at the army of grey figures,
she was stunned seeing their appearance. The Golems were around 6,0 in
height each. They had one glowing red eye on their heads like a cyclops.
Their figures were plain grey humanoids with no notable feature besides
their one bright red eye that beamed a red glow.
"I don't know either, I've never heard of a Golem before." Erica clenched
her fist. These things were clearly hostile. Suddenly, they began to rush
Erica and Nojiko by forming a sharp piercing weapon on their hands for
impaling.
"Nojiko, I know you don't like weapons like pistol, swords, and spear but
you're going to need to use one at least this once!" Erica reached into her
storage ring and tossed Nojiko a spear and a 1700's looking barrel pistol.
Nojiko caught the pistol, she had no choice at this point, she wasn't much
of a combatant.
"Neppa~!" Erica punched as fire shot out and consumed the group of
rushing Golems! The area was set ablaze. Most of the Golems were
reduced to nothing by the attack.
[23 out of 50 Clay Golems Remaining!]
The announcement suddenly said. At that moment, several Clay Golems
rushed out of the flames, many had died from the last attack but there
were still more.
Bang!
Bang!
Nojiko shot her Gun at the approaching Golems, but they would only
heal from her attacks.
"What!? Gunfire isn't working on them at all!" Nojiko started to feel a
headache seeing the Golem regenerate. A golem was soon upon her with
its speed.
"Watch Out!" Erica yelled out! The Golem swung its sharp spear-like arm
towards Nojiko. Nojiko tumbled over to dodge the attack, then she shot
another bullet at the Golem. She knew this would be useless, but she did
so anyway, however, this time she shot one at its big red eye!
Crack!
It sounded like glass breaking as the eye on the Golem was destroyed.
Afterward, it melted like icecream and turned into regular Clay.
"Gasp! The eyes are its weak point, it was so frigging obvious!" Nojiko
smacked her forehead, how could she have been so oblivious to that
obvious fact? Erica laughed and began to blast the rest of the Golems into
nothingness.
[Congrats, you've completed the First Wave!]
[Next Wave starts in one minute!]
"Wow, that's no time at all to recuperate, but it's okay, we defeated them
so fast with no effort." Nojiko gloated but all the work was done by Erica!
"How fun, what will the next things be?" Erica smiled with anticipation.
Dread Forest.
Before the creature could appear before Nami and Vindicate, they heard
an announcement.
[The battle will commence in 15 seconds!]
[Wave 1! First Wave out of Five!]
"What the..." Vindicate was speechless, was this some sort of test?
"A wave!? A wave of what?" Nami clenched her teeth, she didn't like
where this was going!
[Wave 1 commencing!]
As soon as that was said, a terrible smell permeating the air, it smelled
rotten! Nami held her mouth to prevent herself from vomiting, she also
held her nose. Vindicate scrunched his face from the smell and backed
away.
[100/100 Flesh-Eating Zombies!]
Hearing the last announcement being made, Nami almost fainted in
terror. Vindicate face turned a bit unsightly, who didn't know about the
tales of undead creatures like these in books or stories? The Zombies
came from the forest with their deformed and rotten appearances,
eyeballs hanging from their socket and exposed rib cages!
Nami's teeth could be heard chattering and suddenly, her knees felt weak,
she had never been this scared before in her life! "What are you doing!? If
you sit there like that, they're going to rip you apart and feast on your
flesh!" Vindicate turned to see Nami in shock as she looked at the slowly
approaching Zombies.
"I-I c-can't stand." She was too stricken with fear to move. Vindicate
grabbed her arm and helped her up.
"They're slow, so we have the advantage. Aim for the head and we should
be able to take them out with ease." Vindicate handed one of his pistols
to Nami along with some ammo. "See, this is why you need to be strong
like Rein said or things like this would occur where you can't fight back,
at least believe you cant." Vindicate said no more and began to shoot the
Zombies that were approaching in their heads.
Nami aimed with shaky hands and steeled herself.
Bang!
Bang!
Several shots could be heard from her and Vindicate. Vindicate's aim was
really good, so every shot was a headshot that took them down with
every blow. Nami, however, wasn't so good and would hit them on the
body, this did nothing to them.
"We'll soon run out of bullets, I don't want to waste anymore." Vindicate
wanted to save his bullets for some other time so he opted for close
combat.
"Soru!" Vindicate used Soru which would surprise Rein but there was a
reason he knew this combat style. His father was an Ex-Marine and he
taught Vindicate many things to defend himself before he died a while
back. It was safe to say that he wasn't new to any of the Rokushiki styles
at all, he knew 3 out of the 6!
"Tekkai Zangai!" Vindicate crushed many Zombies with his fist, they were
way to slow to catch him. Nami had a decent amount of ammo, but they
were closing in on her!
"EEk!" Nami shot many of them in a panic, she missed her shot a lot.
"UHHHhh!" The Zombies Groaned as they closed in on Nami.
"Give them the runaround, they can't catch you!" Vindicate hurriedly to
speak to Nami. She snapped out her stupor and ran farther away to load
and take aim. She focused this time and manage to actually kill one with
a headshot.
"I-I Did it!" Nami was quite happy but that was just one, there were about
60 left to kill!
"Nice! But there's still an army left of them to kill, don't celebrate just
yet!" Vindicate said as he smashed one of the Zombie's skulls.
This continued for the next thirty minutes. Nami would just run around
them and kill as much as she could. She was extremely relieved after
knowing how dumb and slow they were. Eventually, the Zombies were
no more, the smell got worse for some reason after they were defeated.
[Congrats, you've completed the First Wave!]
[Next Wave starts in three minutes!]
"Damn, they don't even give you time to really rest!" Vindicate and Nami
were tired, this was especially the case for Nami. Vindicate could go on
for much longer but killing zombies would soon weigh on him. It was
obvious that the rounds or waves were going to get harder over time.
"I need more bullets. I'm almost out." Nami spent most of her time trying
to avoid the zombies rather than killing them. She left them to Vindicate
to deal with after she had distracted them until he was done killing the
ones he was fighting.
Vindicate gave her a few more bullets to use, she just put them in the
pouch on her waist her sister gave her. Nojiko got this pouch bag from
Bulwark city when she was there, Nojiko was a quick shopper.
After 3 minutes of relaxation, they heard another announcement.
[Wave 2! Two out of Five Waves!]
"What will it be this time?" Vindicate looked around cautiously. Nami's
forehead was filled with sweat, she knew that the creatures should be
stronger than the last ones.
[75/75 Skeleton Soldiers!]
Suddenly, they heard the sound of bones clanking together through the
Forest. What emerged was Skeleton soldiers with different weapons in
their hands. Some had a sword, spear, Bow and arrow, and axes. Their
eyes exuded a cold red glow devoid of life and emotion, they were only
here to kill!
"B-b-bone soldiers!" Nami looked at the intimidating soldiers in surprise.
Their speed was much faster than the zombies, they were speed walking
to get to Nami and Vindicate.
Zink!
Suddenly, an arrow came flying pass Nami!
"Ah!" Nami's heart jumped, it was so close to piercing her in the face. She
was fortunate that this skeleton wasn't so good or she would have
dropped dead with that arrow to the face.
"Careful! Those archers are sitting back in the forest. I'll kill them first!"
Vindicate rushed passed the close combatant skeletons to kill the archer
skeletons that were sitting in the forest attacking from afar.
Nami started to shoot the skeletons in the head as she did with the
Zombies but it took two hits to the head to take them down. "Darn, they
don't die instantly like the zombies and they're much faster, how
annoying!" The skeletons were also armed, so you would be killed in a
single blow if you were hit in your vitals by them.
Vindicate was taking down the archers as fast as he could, there were
only ten of them but five spearmen were guarding them, were they
intelligent?! Vindicate didn't engage them in a close fight and only shot
the five to death before they could attack him.
"Yeah, die again, and I dare you to come back!" After finishing them, he
easily defeated the annoying archer skeleton who could fight from long
range. Vindicate then looked towards Nami who was being sieged by
Skeleton swordsman and axemen, there were a few spearmen as well.
Nami couldn't fight this many so she stopped shooting and made run for
it. "Forget this, I'll definitely die if I sit here! Where did he go, how could
he just leave me here? Why didn't he just take me with him?" Nami was
just talking out of fear, she knew what Vindicate really went to do but
was too scared to think positive right now.
The skeletons had infinite stamina, they could play this cat and mouse
game all day. They were also speed walking so the target would
eventually get tired and after that, it was death! Vindicate slammed down
into the horde of skeletons and blew them in different directions.
Nami turned around after hearing the booming sound and found that
many skeletons had been scattered about. Nami loaded the gun in her
hands and ran over after she had noticed that Vindicate had returned.
Vindicate quickly destroyed several skeletons by aiming for the head, he
kicked and punched while Nami shot them from afar.
Vindicate just tossed Nami his other pistol. He preferred to shoot rather
than fight up close but at this moment, he didn't have much ammo to
spare with so many enemies. It took them thirty-five minutes to
completely wipe out the skeletons. Vindicate was almost tagged by a
Spearman skeleton with its long-range but he dodged and put it down.
"Jeez, I'm starting to get a bit tired now but I should be able to take on
another round or so." Vindicate was breathing quickly from exhaustion.
They had finally managed to defeat the skeleton army.
[Congrats, you've completed the Second Wave!]
[Next Wave starts in Five minutes!]
Vindicate sat down where he stood, he needed all the energy he could
spare. Nami walked over, bones were scattered everywhere along with
several weapons from the skeletons. "Not much ammo left, what will we
do? There are three more rounds left before we can leave this place."
Nami sighed seeing Vindicate tiring position, this wasn't looking so good
so far.
"Damn, I swear we better get a good prize for this or else, I'll have to find
the one responsible for this trial and there will be some hell to spend!"
They were risking their lives doing these crazy wave games, if they didn't
get anything for success then that would make anyone made.
Nami nodded and sat down as well. "They better give us some treasure or
something worth a lot for this crazy fiesta." The two stayed silent for the
next five minutes to even save their breath.
[Wave 3! Three out of Five Waves!]
Nami clenched the gun and looked around, then...
[25/25 Ghouls!]
"Ghouls!" VIndicate was surprised. Ghouls were more vicious, smarter,
and faster than the low ranking version of themselves, the Zombie.
"Oh, this isn't going to be good!" At those words, many figures appeared
out of the forest. They looked at Vindicate and Nami with drooling
mouths, and they all grinned evilly seeing fresh prey! Nami felt many
chills run down her back seeing their sinister appearances and ugly
smiles, they were definitely intelligent!
"Prepare, we may have run to cover to fight these guys!" Vindicates face
turned grave.
Notes
Sorry, maybe some grammar issues here.
Trial of Power Part 2!
Spring Valley.
Erica and Nojiko were just getting done defeating a horde of Mud golems.
They were bigger and much wider than the Clay Golems. They also had
one eye, but it exuded a green glow instead of red. Nojiko would target
the eyes but the mud golem had the ability to move its eye around so it
was hard to target.
Fortunately, she had Erica who could just burned them into nothingness.
It took a bit more effort to burn these guys since it seemed they could
absorb damage similar to the devil fruit Erica once had. Erica had
instantly thought about her old ability when fighting these things and
knew that they could absorb damage to a certain degree. Nevertheless,
she still managed to wipe them out, all twenty-five of them!
[The battle will commence in three minutes!]
Erica sat down, it was clear that she was tired. She burned stamina when
using her power, there was freelo when you had great power. What was
fortunate was that Erica had a storage ring that had things she could take
to restore her energy. If Vindicate found out about this item he would
definitely want one ASAP.
"Three minutes, it should be enough to restore me to full, I wonder what
the next Golem type will be?" Erica noticed that these Golem things were
related to elements of the earth, the quality of there defense would
become greater and stronger.
"Goodness! Don't hope for crazy things, let's just hope they get weaker so
we can get out of here!" Nojiko thought Erica was some sort of battle
maniac or something, she always seemed eager to fight when she could.
"Don't you know? Through fighting do I gain power, this is why it must
be done!" Erica smiled and drunk some liquid that restored her energy.
Nojiko sighed and also drunk the liquid to restore her energy for the next
fight.
[Wave 3! Third Wave out of Five!]
Time was up and the announcement was made public.
[10/10 Stone Golems!]
"Stone!" Nojiko frowned, stone was not easy to get through. The defense
compared to mud and clay was completely different.
"Looks like it's getting tougher for real now." Erica grinned and stood up,
she punched her hands as black flames emerged from them.
Suddenly, the ground shook again, and a huge sand brownstone arm
came out of the ground. It pulled itself up and emerged on the surface. It
was followed by nine other figures of the same species.
"HommMMM!"
The Golems let off a loud humming sound that was deafening. Erica and
Nojiko covered their ears, their hums shook the land around them.
"My ears!!" Nojiko felt like her ears were going to burst. Erica shot some
fire at the Golems to shut them up and it worked! They looked at the
puny figures before them, it was just a target for them to destroy in their
little minds.
The Golems all took a step towards Erica and Nojiko, and the earth shook
with each first step. Keep in mind that these things are around forty to
forty-five feet tall each. They all had one Yellow eyeball crystal on their
heads, it was much sturdier than the previous Golems.
The good thing was that they were slow compared to the previous
Golems. That was their only flaw compared to the previous Golems. Erica
tried her old trick and used a fire attack on one of them but it only
flinched for a bit before continuing.
"Ineffective?" Erica was a bit surprised but it was made out rock so it
wasn't going to be easy to take down. But she looked again and noticed
that it had indeed taken damage and was melted in the place she aimed
at. Erica's flames were hotter than the average flame so these Golem
would have trouble against her. The only reason it kept going was
because it didn't feel pain but it could have its moments impaired when
hit.
Erica saw the big yellow eye of the Golem and decided that this was
going to be her target from now on. She would aim for the heads to
destroy the strange eyeball crystal thing on their faces. Erica used Geppo
to walk through air towards one of the Golem head.
The Golem swung its towering arm but Erica hurriedly to dodge as a
huge gust of wind blew her hair into the wind from the swing. She didn't
need to dodge because of her being a logia but Rein had told her to
always keep dodging in mind since she would be doing a lot of that in
the future.
"Burn!" Erica shot a huge flamethrower at he Golem face, it stopped in
place as its head began to melt. The yellow crystal on its face went dim,
and it began to fall over hitting one of the other golems on it fall. The
other Golem was knocked over along with 2 other Golem standing
nearby, it looked like dominos.
Erica hurriedly to attack the eyes of the fallen Golems that had fell, she
attacked the yellow eyes with maximum focus of attack. Erica wasn't
suffering from body fatigue but mental fatigue, she was fighting some
pretty strong beings.
With four Golems down, there were only 6 left. The Stone Golems
seemed to understand something and their eyes flashed Brighter yellow
that was almost blinding. They all stomp on the ground at once, causing
a terrible earthquake and earth shock waves to kick up like nautilus from
league of legends.
"Take cover!" Erica was shocked. Nojiko's face changed and she ran off,
but what cover was there? It was nothing but grassy plains here! Nothing
could be done and Nojiko was sent packing like a foreigner with an
expired passport!
Author Note: Lol not offense to anyone who was kicked out of
somewhere due to this. xD
"Ahhhh!" Nojiko was sent flying far away, Erica wanted to save her but it
was too late! Nojiko slammed into the grassy ground and fainted on the
spot.
"No!" Erica's eyes dilated, it was unknown to her if Nojiko was alive or
not. Erica glared at the Golems menacingly.
"You've forced me to use my Ultimate attack!" Erica swiped her hand
through the air and the ground beneath her turned in black flames. The
fire spread far then she absorbed it into her body and it came through her
hands afterward.
This was just like Ace's final attack against Blackbeard.
"Honō no jotei!" Erica launched her attack causing terrible shockwave
and the temperature to rise sky-high around this particular area. A big
black sphere could be seen covering the area with an unknown height.
Two words could describe the Golem's situation, it was Total Elimination!
It was a good thing Nojiko was quite far away or she would have been
caught up in this explosion. The attack finally settled down and Erica was
gasping from using such an attack, it consumed a lot of stamina using
attack like that.
[Congrats, you've completed the Third Wave!]
[Next Wave starts in Thirty minutes!]
Erica heard the announcement and ran over to the Nojiko to check her
condition.
Dread Forest.
Vindicate and Nami are currently on the run right now. Unlike the rest of
the Creatures from the last wave, these things were quite fast and agile.
Nami was just too slow, this forced Vindicate to grab her and run off with
her in tow. Vindicate manage to kill three of them before he ran away
but he had to cater to Nami or she was going to be ripped apart.
Bang!
Bang!
Nami shot at the creature as she was being carried away but she couldn't
land a single shot, she was far off. Vindicate continued to run through the
foggy forest with a grave expression on, he could fight these things but
Nami was in the way.
"I need to put you in a safe place in order for me to fight these things off."
Fortune seemed to be on their side as a cave appeared in the distance.
Vindicate didn't need to think and ran straight for it with no hesitation.
This seemed like a bad idea but it was his best bet at the moment.
Vindicate told her to hide inside while he dealt with the rest.
Nami was Reluctant to leave, but he insisted, they were crewmates after
all and would be together for a very long time to come. "Be careful, I'll
peek out everyone now and then to shoot one if I can." Vindicate didn't
get to reply before a Ghoul was upon them. Vindicate took one of Nami's
pistols and turned to shoot the Ghoul that pounced at him.
Bang!
Even with the shot to the head, it kept coming, it didn't die! Seeing this,
Vindicate tightened his hand muscles and shot a palm at the Ghouls face.
The ghoul's face was run through by Vindicate strike, and it died,
however, it managed to claw Vindicate's arm.
"Ah! Are you okay!?" Nami wanted to pull out some bandages but there
was time for that.
"Go! Head into the cave, I'll finish the rest here!" Vindicate didn't turn
around as he shot several shots at the approaching Ghouls. He had some
sort of quickdraw technique where he could load fast after running out of
ammo.
Nami clenched her fist, she was now ever so determined to become
stronger! Afterward, she ran into the cave to avoid the ghouls. While she
was in the cave, she could hear many shots being fired and screeches
from the Ghouls.
Nami walked deeper into the cave slowly with her head down, she was
biting her lower lips. Bellemare died because she was too young and
weak, her village was bully because she was too weak, was she going to
stay like this until there was nothing left!?
Suddenly, she saw a white light, Nami looked up and saw a fountain of
crystal clear water. "What is this water, it's so sparkly and clear." Nami
felt a sense of calmness next to this water, it sort of gave off this feeling
of peace.
Nami reached her hands into the water and played with it, she really
wanted to take a bath after being around these nasty creatures. Suddenly,
she heard a screech behind her, what else could it be other than a Ghoul.
It smirked with green drool running down its lips when it spotted Nami,
it had discovered easy prey! The thing had discovered her running into
the cave and knew she was an easy picking. Nami's face changed
dramatically seeing the Ghoul, it didn't waste any time and rushed Nami.
It jumped through the air towards Nami ready to kill.
"Ah~~!" Nami fell over into the fountain and the water splashed
everywhere, the ghoul was also hit with water when she fell into the
fountain.
Tsss~!
A sizzling sound could be heard coming from the Ghoul and it screeched,
it rolled over on the ground in pain. Nami stood up and saw that steam
was coming from the ghoul's body. "Could it be the water's effects, what
kind of water is this?" She didn't worry about it too much and got more
water from the fountain and threw in on the Ghoul.
"AhrgGGGg!" The Ghoul gave it last scream before it melted into
nothingness. Nami smiled deeply, it was so wide that it looked like it was
reaching her ears. After thinking a bit, she dipped her Gun into the water
and ran towards the cave entrance.
Vindicate was engaging the laster 12 Ghouls but he had several cuts and
gashes on him. Nami focused and shot at one of the Ghouls, it landed on
the side of the ghoul which was technically not a weak point at all for
this creature. However, just like the Ghoul in the cave, it dropped to the
floor and slowly withered away.
"What? How?" Vindicate was stunned seeing the Ghoul get one-shotted.
Nami shot two more, it didn't have to be a headshot, all she needed to do
was hit them and they were done for. The Ghouls all recognized the
threat of Nami and rushed her. Nami shot more bullets but they dodged
them so she turned and ran into the cave.
Vindicate ran after them, as Nami was running away, she loaded her last
six bullets in the revolver like pistol. These didn't have the effects of that
special water, so she needed to add the effects. The Ghouls were right
behind her so Nami dived into the fountain before she was clawed by a
Ghoul.
Splash!!
The water shot out everywhere and the Ghouls that were close screamed
in horror from the water touching their skin. The ones hit with the water
screamed and screamed until they were no more, there were now only
four Ghouls left. The last four seemed to understand what was going on
and turned to run away, but they were met with Vindicate.
Nami flexed her pistol and shot off two shots towards each ghoul, hitting
them in the back directly. Her aim was strangely good, it must be the
adrenaline in the heat of the moment like most humans have at some
point.
There were two left and Vindicate was more than enough to finish them
off.
[Congrats, you've completed the Third Wave!]
[Next Wave starts in Thirty minutes!]
"We did it, and we have more time than usual, like much more time!"
Vindicate was too tired of talking anymore and sat down with complete
exhaustion.
"Hahaha! That was crazy, but we did it, of course, you did the most!"
Nami smiled and said.
"Hehe, so does that mean I get the biggest cut of the treasure!" Vindicate
grinned and said.
"D-Don't go too far now!" Nami's mouth twitched, but Vindicate knew she
would say something along these lines. He already had her calling card,
she and Rein were some of the greediest people, he only smiled and
shake his head, staying silent.
Nami breathed a sigh and said. "This water, have you noticed what it
does, it was burning them and killed them on the spot!" This may be
good against the other creepy creatures soon to come and she had to let
it be known.
"This water was the cause of you one-shotting those Ghouls?" Vindicate
looked over at the Fountain that Nami was standing next to, he wanted to
ask sooner about it but was too tired to ask. Nami nodded excitedly and
walked over to him to bandage him up.
"I think we can use it on the other creatures once they spawn. This must
be related to purifying them of some sort." Nami speculated.
"So, this water is like some sort of Holy Water or something?" Vindicate
was dead on, this was indeed Holy Water but he wasn't sure, he was just
guessing.
"I believe so, we have time to prepare for the next round. How many
bullets do you have?"
"I have.." Vindicate pulled out a pouch and counted his bullets. "I have a
total of 25 bullets left, I left the rest on the ship because I didn't think I
would need that much with me believe that this was only a treasure hunt
and all." This was completely out of his expectation, so how could he
know about being put into some crazy wave trial.
After patching him up, Vindicate relaxed for 20 minutes without doing
anything while Nami prepared. She loaded the guns and filled her empty
water bottle up with this Purification water. Vindicate stood up at the 29-
minute mark and stretched a bit, readying up for the next wave.
Another announcement went off.
[Wave 4! Fourth Wave out of Five!]
"What will it be this time?" Nami gripped the gun tightly while Vindicate
silently listened.
[Wave 4 commencing!]
[3/3 Evil Wraiths!]
Trial Of Power Part 3!
Nami and Vindicate fought off the Wraiths, this wasn't so easy. They
manage to take two of them down with the Purification water, killing one
instantly and weakening one severely. Bullets, swords, and any normal
weapons were useless against them. Of course, if you had Haki then
hitting them wouldn't be a problem but none of them knew this
technique.
The crippled Wraith was slowed from its injuries which allowed Nami to
finish it off as Vindicate fought the 3rd Wraith. This Wraith wasn't stupid,
it saw how its teammates were killed and did things more cautiously.
Its eyes flashed red and a laser shot out of them!
Bzz!!
"Not good!" Vindicate moved away to dodge, but he was too slow, and he
was lasered in his low side! He was still quite exhausted, he would need
to do more training in the future. Vindicate could be deemed as one of
the strongest in the four seas for sure, but exhaustion and damage from
the Ghouls were wearing on him!
"Ahgg!" Vindicate's eyes went wide from shock, he fell to the ground
holding his lower side.
"Halalala!" The Wraith seemed to be laughing at Vindicate's defeat, its
black-hole eyes returned to black holes after the laser was shot. It grinned
evilly, it recognized Vindicate's power but not Nami who it saw as weak.
Nami bit her teeth and shot at the wraith who was still caught up in
victory, but he noticed and it missed. Vindicate seemed to have fainted
from the trauma, he wasn't looking so good! It was similar to how
Hawkins was lasered by Kizaru at Sabaody Archipelago.
"No!" Nami was a bit panicked seeing the current situation but knew she
had to plan something. The Wraith shot another laser but Nami ran
around to dodge them.
"Halalala!" The wraith laughed seeing the ant run for its life. Nami's
pistols fell as she ran, she looked surprised when she dropped it as she
moved away from the fountain. The wraith saw an opportunity to kill
this person outright and rushed her.
Nami was pinned at a dead end with no way out, it looked hopeless! The
Wraith brandished it blade-like claw and drew in for the kill. It stabbed
towards Nami, its target was her heart, it was going for the sure kill.
Blood splashed about when she was impaled and wraith laughed loudly.
It claws even went through the rock behind her!
However, once it looked at Nami, it noticed that she was still alive. The
Wraith was stunned, how could she live from being stabbed in the heart?
It checked a saw that the place it stabbed was her upper shoulder, she
had moved just on time.
"Haha, just as planned!" Nami threw the bottle of Purification water on
the wraith. That's right, she drew it in on purpose. She dropped her gun
on purpose, she acted scare on purpose, well, she really was scared. Nami
knew it would continue to shoot lasers if she didn't drop her gun or move
away from the fountain, so she took the risk.
SSsss!
"HOOOOAAA!" The Wraith howl an unworldly screech, it had been
fooled by an ant with no strength! The Wraith began to melt away, with
complete grievance, trick by some lowly weakly, how pitiful!
[Congrats, you've completed the Fourth Wave!]
[Next Wave starts in an hour!]
*pant pant* Nami was breathing roughly, that was to close for comfort!
Her shoulder was bleeding pretty badly, she didn't have many bandages
left. Nami got up and ran over to Vindicate who had a hole in his side,
his condition was much worse.
"The rewards better be worth it!" Nami was quite angry, she used her last
bandages on him since his condition was way worse and she was a caring
person like that. She applied antibiotics and many other things to better
his condition.
She couldn't carry him, so she could only drag him deeper into the cave.
The next round was the last, she was worried about the final creature. "I
better fill up my water bottle with some more of that water, it's my best
bet." Nami laid Vindicate in a secluded part of the cave, she was about to
walk away but she came back and grabbed Vindicate's empty bottle as
well to fill.
Nami could only hope he didn't die from his wounds, she also hoped that
he wasn't in a coma.
Spring Valley.
Erica was currently engaged in battle against two Golems, she had killed
one out of the three. The type of Golems she was fighting now were steel
Golems. They could remind anyone of a giant Registeel of some sort.
They were surprisingly quick for their size and hard to take down, Erica
led them far away from Nojiko who was fainted in a safe place.
These Golem had one eye as well, but it was green, it could also fire a
cannon laser. It took time to charge but once it was let loose it would be
terrifying. As she was running away from the Golems who were around
35 feet tall, she saw something in the distance.
"What is that?" Erica said to herself, she didn't think much and ran to it.
What she was greeted with was a platform that was on the grass. In the
middle was a strange weapon, it looked like some high tech from the
future.
Erica grabbed the gun, it was red and light gray. The features were just
like that of the incinerator from Halo 4! The Golem moved in quick!
Erica clicked the button on the side of the launcher and the number two
popped up. She instantly believed that this was the ammunition, like the
common sense she had, she took aim and pulled the trigger.
The scenery in the area changed in bright red as the red laser was shot
from the launcher. It was a red Laser similar to Cero from bleach.
BOoM!
The area shook as shockwave rippled out, the Golem next to the Golem
that was hit stumbled a bit. Winds kicked up causing Erica to cover her
face from them.
"HMMMM!" The Golem gave a cry once it was hit by the beam, it went
crashing down instantly! There was now only one Golem left, these trials
had things like this to help them defeat really hard opponents but they
were very limited use only. The purification water required you to
actually hit the target with it to do anything while this weapon only gave
you two shots and you would have to hit it.
"Yeah!" Erica jumped up in triumph but it wasn't over yet, the other
Golem began to charge up a laser to destroy the platform and Erica. She
couldn't one-shot a steel Golem like she did a Stone, Mud, and Clay
Golems. The durability of a steel Golem was much beyond all others
before it.
"Oh, Shit!" Erica could only move away as fast as she could. She wouldn't
be hurt by the laser, but the weapon would surely be destroyed, it still
had one shot left on it.
BZZZ!
With that, a yellow cannon was fired by the Steel Golem, the light was
brighter than the sun according to Erica. A deafening explosion could be
seen, Erica was blown away by these terrible shockwaves as so was the
weapon in her hand. What was left was a huge crater where the platform
once was, these golems were much smarter than the once before it.
Once everything calmed down, all there was left was dust from dirt and
many rock and pebbles. The Golem stood in place waiting to see the
results of everything and if it killed its initial target. The golem couldn't
fire any more lasers since it had to charge up more energy to use another
one.
Erica emerged from the rubble and looked at the Golem secretly through
the dust clouds. She intended to save the last shot of the cannon for the
last creature. Erica sighed, she may have to work on her stamina, or she
might face some problems in the future.
"Okay, I'll charge up one last attack to take it down, it took a little
damage from the cannon when I hit the other Golem." Erica put her hand
together and formed a triangle shape with her hands like a Tri-beam.
"Secular Fire!" This attack was also similar to Portgas D. Ace's Crossfire
attack where he would form his index finger into a cross. Erica spoke in a
low voice but the scorching sound was noticeable, the Golem put up its
arm to guard its head from the triangular attack.
The land was set ablaze at this point, the land will probably never be the
same again after today's fight. Erica moved toward the Golem using
Geppo, she aimed for its Eye since it was their weakness of all places.
The Golem was blindsided by the black fire that it was guarding against.
The Golem had some good resistance to fire, this was also because the
temperatures on Erica's flames had weakened due to her loss in stamina.
Erica landed on the Golems head, she turned into fire and rammed
directly into the golem's eye at full force! The Golem's head was covered
in fire, that turned from black to blue, the eyeglass cracked, and then it
exploded. Erica silhouette passed through the Golem's head as she
slammed in the ground in a messy meteor-like fashion.
The Golem fell soon after, the battle with the Golem had finally ended.
[Congrats, you've completed the Fourth Wave!]
[Next Wave starts in an hour!]
*Pant Pant*
"Great, this is good!" Erica laid on the ground in a star-shaped way
panting with a smile on her face. Once she lost all her stamina she could
no longer retain her intangibility from basic attacks.
Honestly, she just wanted to fall asleep right now, a bed was all she could
think of. Erica even started hallucinating about sheep jumping over a
fence. She steeled her will and sat up, she needed to find that cannon to
use on the last creature in the last wave.
Erica searched but couldn't find it in the rubble anywhere, she was
currently not in her logia form. She couldn't even go into it, she was
drained of energy with no more medicines to help her recover.
"Where is it, I know it was around here somewhere, why can't I find it?"
Erica started to worry, she knows for sure that the weapon wasn't
destroyed. Suddenly, a limping figure slowly made its way over, it could
be no one else other than Nojiko.
"We have one more round left, then we can leave this place." Nojiko had
a weird smile on her face as she walked over.
"Yes, I'm so exhausted right now that I don't even think I can conjure a
fire the size of a nail." Erica smiled bitterly, she had nothing left.
"T-then how are we going to beat the last wave?" Nojiko's forehead
suddenly filled with beads of sweat, this wasn't good news at all.
"There is a weapon around here that can be used on the final creature to
put it down but I can't find it through this rubble." Nojiko's spirit rose,
there was hope, all she had to do was find this weapon and everything
was settled.
They both did the best they could to find the weapon. Time passed as
they both searched through the rocks in search of it. "This is bad, we
have only three minutes left before the next wave starts!" Nojiko heard
the announcement and stated her worries.
"Damn! It'll be pretty messed up if it appeared after we died! Hahaha!"
Erica laughed at the crazy thought of that, that would indeed be pretty
fu**ed up!
"D-don't s-say crazy things, Erica!" Erica's words scared Nojiko, why was
she talking like it was hopeless!?
"Hehe, Sorry, let's keep looking until the very end." Erica didn't want to
scare anyone, she hadn't given up yet, she was still breathing. Three
minutes was nothing and passed really fast and then...
[Wave 5 Final Wave! Fifth out of Five Waves!]
Nojiko gulped and listened while Erica paused and went silent.
[1/1 Diamond Golem!]
Dread Forest.
Time had passed for Nami and Vindicate to, she had managed to help
him get a bit better. Vindicate was at least was breathing normally now,
but she and he were not in a good position. She left the cave and left him
inside to not cause the creature to aggro him.
Suddenly.
[Wave 5! Final Wave! Fifth out of Five Waves!]
Nami gripped her pistol and looked around listening.
[1/1 Elemental Lich!]
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Spring Valley.
Suddenly the ground shook and a sparkly fist Diamond fist came from the
ground! The creature easily with no effort pulled itself up. The stature
was shorter than most of the previous Golems, it was exactly 20 feet tall.
The Golem had a full Diamond body with one Purple eye on its face. The
Golem may be shorter than the rest, but it was faster, smarter and
stronger.
"I-It shorter than most of the others but.." Nojiko knew that the size didn't
matter, it was made out of diamond and smaller so it surely faster.
"This isn't going to be good, I'll distract it while you continue to look for
the cannon!" Nojiko didn't say anything and started searching more
frantically. The Golem scanned the area and noticed Erica and Nojiko
and its eye shined brightly.
Erica could use a few Rokushiki Techniques to fight, but she wouldn't last
long as she was now. Erica ran away in a different direction while yelling
to get its attention. The Golem did what she was hoping for and focused
its attention on her, then it started running towards her.
"Gasp!" Erica a bit surprised, it could move that fast!? Now she was
worried if they were to find the cannon, could they even hit this thing?
Before she knew it, the Golem was already upon her and struck out at
her.
"Hmph!" Erica wasn't a herbivore and clashed with the Golem fist.
However, Erica was knocked back, she was no longer intangible, so she
was just a regular person. Her strength was good, but she was way too
exhausted to fight anymore. Her fire would be completely ineffective
against diamond anyway, it may even render her fire body ineffective.
We're talking about a jewel that sat in fire and magma to get to its state
along with pressure, so this would make sense. Erica only knew four
Rokushiki Techniques which were Kami-E, Soru, Shigan, and Geppo, she
didn't know any of the other techniques yet. Rein didn't tell her about
Tekkai, but he told her that there six Rokushiki Techniques in total.
The Golem didn't stop there and pounced toward Erica again for another
punch. Erica used Kami-E to dodge, she then pressed the Golems hand
downward, sending a pistol finger at it face. The Golem was fast and put
its hand over it face to guard. The Golem was pushed back slightly but it
recovered very quickly.
"Damnit!" Erica was frustrated. The Golem kicked off the ground for
maximum speed raring to attack again. Erica used Kami-E to dodge, she
kept dodging the Golems assault, but she was eventually punched in the
stomach and sent flying!
"Urg!" Erica shot into the air like a torpedo and landed ground with a
thud. Erica struggled to get up but before she could get up, she was
kicked in the side and sent flying again! Nojiko stopped to see what was
going on and it wasn't looking so good!
"Damnit! Where the hell is this weapon!?" In a rage, Nojiko kicked a rock.
"Ah! Damn that hurts!" Nojiko rubbed her foot, but then she saw red
gleam next to the rock she kicked away. Nojiko's eye grew wide from joy,
and she quickly moved the rock away to reveal what she had been
looking for this whole time.
"So, this is the weapon, it a little flashy isn't it?" Nojiko noticed the one
on the weapon. "Must be the ammunition, this is what she meant by one
shot, one kill!" Nojiko held the launcher up over her shoulder. She looked
at the Erica and the Diamond Golem's fight which was causing a stir.
Suddenly, the Golem was kicked away and slammed into the ground.
After two seconds it sat up and stood up like some sort of robot. For Erica
to kick a Diamond Golem away of this size was a pretty good feat, but
she had nothing left now.
"A-Am I actually going to die?" Erica refused to believe it, was this the
end after she had come so far with him? "No, it isn't over yet, I'm not
dead yet!" Suddenly, she could see Nojiko waving in the distance, she
easily spotted the weapon over her shoulders.
"She found it!" Erica was relieved right away and a plan formulated in
her mind soon after. She sent sign language to Nojiko hoping she would
understand but Nojiko looked confused, she obviously didn't understand.
"I'll run to you while you charge it up, I'll lure the golem in!" Nojiko
nodded with a grinned. At this time, the Golem was already in the air
jumping toward Erica. Erica ran as the Golem slammed into her recent
position, then began to chase her, she soon started running toward
Nojiko. You could already guess what the plan was, it was just that
simple.
The Golem was gaining on Erica as Nojiko had her hand on the trigger.
Soon, they were right in front of Nojiko!
"NOW!" Erica jumped out of the way and Nojiko fired the weapon.
Bzz!
With a flash of red light, the golem was hit at point-blank while Nojiko
was blown back a few feet. The laser flew off into the air and exploded
causing Nojiko and Erica to hold their ears. Their hair was blown into the
wind at that.
Once all had settled, they looked up at the Golem who was standing still,
it had taken a step! "No! It isn't dead yet!?" Erica's face turned grave,
but… It stopped and started falling apart until it was reduced to diamond
dust!
[Congratulations, you've completed the Trial Of Power!]
Erica was still a bit shocked at the Golem defeat and the announcement.
Nojiko had tears of joy, she thought Erica was going to die. Erica's face
was swollen in many places, she had a lot of damage to her side as well.
Suddenly, a platform rose from the ground with three doors on it. They
literally had the number one to three on them to pick from. The rooms
also said the prize room on them, it was the way out!
Nojiko looked over at Erica but...
*Snore Snore*
"She fell asleep!"
Dread Forest.
Nami was currently running through the forest panting as a thunderbolt
struck where she was before she ran out of the spot. What was trailing
her was a black-robed Skeleton with a crown on its head, it had golden
bright pupil lights coming from its eyes.
It was the Elemental Lich!
The lich was intelligent and used many means to catch her, it created an
ice wall to block her off, but she would hurry to go around it before it
completely formed. The Lich could use Fire, Ice, and Lightning!
Nami knew that it would require a bit more purification water to take it
down. The minutes she saw the Lich spawn she made a run for it. This
wasn't something she could get close to with ease. Nami had an idea, but
she wasn't sure it would work.
As she was running, she picked up some rocks and threw them at the
Lich. The Lich didn't budge and let the rocks hit him as they did nothing.
"You dumb bag of bones, you aren't nothing to me, you can't even beat
little old me!" Nami smiled and scorned, but she was scared talking trash
to something so powerful, was she really that eager to die?
The Lich's eyes flashed, it clearly understood what she was saying and
shot a big fireball towards Nami.
"EEK!" Nami ducked and dodged and kept running. She changed her
purification bullet out with regular non-purified bullets.
"Take this you bone head!"
Bang!
Bang!
Nami shot at the lich, her target was its body but once the bullet hit it,
they had no effect at all. The Lich eyes showed contempt and it stomped
the ground, freezing it over. Nami ran off the minute she shot, but she
slipped on the ice and hit her head on it.
"AH!" Nami forehead hit the ground directly. Blood was clearly visible on
her forehead from the fall, she couldn't stay laying here or else.
"HAHAHAHA!" An eerie laugh came over which gave here the chills, she
didn't look behind her and kept running. Nami dodged behind a tree
before a fireball could set her ablaze, too close! She then switched her
Bullet back out to the purified one to use. Yes, her goal was to make the
Lich believe that all her attacks were useless.
Nami popped out, she focused and shot at the Lich, it allowed her to
focus and shoot at it believing that was in vain. It wanted to let this
human know what true despair was before it died. With the Lich allowing
her so much time to focus, her shot was quite accurate, the target was its
head.
The bullet nailed its target, the Lich didn't expect much from this attack
but it was effective!
"AHHRRRR!"
The Lich roared it pain, it held its head in shock! It was able to hurt me,
it thought!? But the attacks before didn't work on him, how was it
possible now? Nami took this time to shoot it again and this time, it was
in the chest.
The Lich Roared again and a cold chill shot out of it, freezing everything
around it. Nami turned to run but was Frozen Solid! The lich's eye turned
from Gold to red which displayed its anger, it knew what she had done
now. It figured out that this was only a trick to lower its guard, it wanted
this lowly being dead!
"HEheeheh!" The lich was wounded but chuckled victoriously, it began to
charge of a powerful fireball in one hand and Lightning in the other. Just
when all looked lost for Nami, a Silhouette fired three quick shots into
the back of the Lich!
"Ahhggg!"
With that, the Lightning and fire in its hand went out of control and shot
off into different directions. This was clearly Vindicate's doing, he didn't
stop there and moved towards the Lich and slammed a glass jar of
Purification water over its head.
Sadly, he attacked as the Lich was releasing its electrical charge and was
electrocuted. Vindicate was blown away by the blast into the forest
somewhere. The lich wasn't so fortunate itself as it began to screech and
melt slowly away. It had no clue that there was another one hiding in the
shadows, it would have known if there was another if this woman had
died. Some strange force would have alerted it that there was another.
[Congratulations, you've completed the Trial Of Power!]
The Lich had finally melted away, leaving only a Key behind. Upon its
death a huge gate appeared out of nowhere, it just stood there waiting to
be walked through. Vindicate limped out of the forest holding his side as
the ice on Nami began to melt. This was because of the purification water
she had on her, the ice that was used by the Lich wasn't so pure at all.
After the Ice thawed, Nami dropped to the ground shaking from the ice-
cold.
"It's over, the creature has been defeated!" Vindicate breathed a long sigh
of relief, this was the hardest battle he had ever experienced. Nami sat up
slowly, she was pale from the cold and could only shiver, she couldn't
even talk.
Vindicate walked over and assisted her up, he looked at the door that
appeared. Vindicate saw a gleam coming from the ground where the lich
died. "What is that and when did that get there?" Vindicate helped Nami
as they walked over to the key that was on the ground. Nami found the
strength in herself and picked it up.
"Let's go through this door, but I don't see any keyholes on it?" Vindicate
looked confused so he and Nami walked over to it and pushed the door
and it opened! It was just darkness inside, so they were reluctant to go
inside of it. However, they would rather be anywhere than in this crazy
forest anymore. However, Vindicate strangely like this type of forest the
most, its eerieness wasn't so bad to him.
After they walked through the door, the scenery change completely, it
had turned into a land filled with Gold coins, treasure, jewels and some
chest that had yet to be opened, what a reward!, Nami somehow returned
to full energy as she gasped in shock!
"OH MY GOSH!!" Nami was elated as her eyes turned to belies, she didn't
know where to start, she was sad that she couldn't take it all. Nami could
only take what she could carry, they saw another door up ahead that said
exit on it. The door they had come through before had disappeared
entirely.
"I'll go collect some treasure, you should do the same!" Nami ran off
before Vindicate could reply, he had expected this so he wasn't surprised.
Looking at the land of treasure, he saw many treasure chests that caught
his attention.
"Let's open them up and see what really inside, it must be good if it's in a
chest." Vindicate tried to pry it open. Meanwhile, Nami had found a cart
somewhere and was throwing all types of jewels and treasure into it, she
had the biggest smile on her face, this was a paradise to her.
"Haha, the reward was surely worth it!" It was all worth it to her. With
this, they could get a bigger ship which was something she wanted her
crew to have. The ship wasn't the biggest or the sturdiest and she knew it
even needed repairs. Nami was completely unaware that Rein had
enough money for a new ship but the more the merrier, I guess.
This was also okay because it could be used as an investment when Rein
made a new island. This money could be dumped into the economy.
However, as she was walking, something caught her attention, it was a
golden chest.
Nami stopped next to it and tried to open it, well, it was easy to open
since it wasn't locked.
When she opened it, it revealed a Blue, Green, Red, Yellow, and Purple
Staff! It had rainbow features to it, it had a luxurious look to it that
earned Nami love instantly.
There were five empty slots at the top of the staff. "It's so beautiful, I
wonder what it can do?" Nami picked it up, and a voice could be heard in
her head.
[Do you wish to contract this Elemental Staff?]
"Huh?" Nami looked around in surprise but saw no one but Vindicate
some ways away.
"Yes, I would!" Nami answered and suddenly, the Staff glowed a Rainbow
brilliance that was blinding. Vindicate was easily able to notice the
rainbow light but when he looked over he had to cover his eyes.
The light died down and Vindicate ran over, he never managed to open
that chest! "What is going on, what happened?" Vindicate asked.
Information began to flood into her mind, and she instantly knew what
was needed to use this marvelous staff.
Element Stones!
The Exit!
Time was different in these trial so no one knew how much time truly
passed while they were inside. After Nami and Vindicate filled two carts
up full of treasure, they decided to leave. Nami was very reluctant but
they both were getting hungry. Vindicate kept a few chests to open later,
it was no way he could leave them here.
Vindicate pushed one cart while Nami pushed the other. They walked to
the exit door, and Vindicate opened it as they walked through it. Once
they walked through, everything changed again. They were now in a
square room with no doors to be seen in it. They wanted to turn around
but the door they came through had disappeared.
"Where is this, why aren't there any more ways out?" Nami looked
around, then she looked up and noticed that there was a door up above.
The room was like a long rectangle with the door just sitting on a wall
that was too high for them to reach unless they could fly.
"The door is so high, how can we possibly reach that?" Vindicate was
annoyed, there were just too many doors. However, this was the last door
and truly the way out if they made it through it.
*Gumble Gumble*
"I'm so hungry, are we actually going to starve to death with all this
treasure on us? And my...I mean our treasure!" Nami was so depressed
right now. If they manage to make it up to the door, was it even possible
to take all this treasure with them?
If Vindicate had Geppo then he could make it out but he wasn't even
aware of Geppo. He was taught Soru, Tekkai, and Kami-e by his father.
This was for balance, one for speed, one for defense/offense, and one for
dodging. This is why his dad had taught him these moves, while he didn't
teach or tell him about the other three.
"Sigh, we need to get out of here somehow, or we'll starve to death. Let
me tell you, that is one of the worse ways to go out!" They had to come
up with something or else. "Maybe we can use the gold belies to help us
get up and leave all else behind?"
"Absolutely not!" Nami immediately decline, she risked her life for these
treasures! There was no way she was leaving this all here after so much
effort, it would have been all for nothing. Vindicate expected this so he
didn't even know why he suggested it.
"What about that black fruit on you, maybe we can eat some of that to
hold us up for a bit. I just hope... that it isn't rotten." Nami just recalled
the fruit he had in the big pouch strapped to his side.
"Oh, yeah!" Vindicate opened the pouch and took the fruit out. He
honestly found this fruit unique and wanted to hold onto it but they were
a desperate spot now. The Black Pumpkin fruit was revealed, it gave off a
black and red aura for a second.
"This fruit seems a bit creepy, doesn't it?" Nami looked at the fruit's
features and knew that this fruit was strange.
"Okay, I'll eat it first to test the waters, then you can take some afterward
once I confirm." Vindicate looked at Nami to see if she would agree.
Nami didn't seem to have a problem with that and nodded.
"Also, take care of that arm of yours, it's still bleeding from your early
battle." Vindicate noticed Nami's bloody arm which she seemed to have
forgotten about herself.
"Ah, right!" Nami was driven by greed and forgot that she was wounded,
if she didn't treat it soon then it would get infected. Vindicate took a
piece of the fruit which was surprisingly easy to rip through compared to
the usual hard pumpkins.
"I hope this thing ain't rotten!" Vindicate put it into his mouth and
swallowed it instantly. One would think you could avoid the taste of
something if you flat out swallowed it but that wasn't the case for this
fruit.
"Blargg! This fruit taste like complete trash, is that drywall I taste!?"
Vindicate was making gag reflexes, this was the worst fruit he had ever
tasted and he loved pumpkin pie. "That doesn't taste like any pumpkin
I've ever had, not even rotten ones taste like that!" Vindicate tossed the
fruit aside to the ground but some change occurred that Nami saw
instantly!
"Vindicate! Your hands!"
"My hands!" VIndicate looked at his hands in shock!
Trial Treasury Erica and Nojiko
Nojiko had to carry Erica through one of the doors out of the three. Like
Vindicate and Nami, they came across a treasury, but it wasn't nearly that
much compared to Nami and Vindicate's encounter. Nojiko was stunned
in place, while Erica was still asleep from before. Nojiko could only
imagine if her sister had seen this place and how her reaction would be.
Nojiko laid Erica down for her to continue sleeping while she took Erica
storage ring to fill it up. The storage ring had a limit on it as well, so she
couldn't take everything like she hoped to. She noticed may chest in the
room but couldn't open them.
Nojiko tired to open another chest and it opened with ease. "Huh? They
looked nice, but I don't like weapons like these." When she opened the
chest, it revealed two gold-black pistols, they had strange design on.
"Where's the trigger on them, how can anyone use them without that?"
Nojiko saw that there was no trigger when she picked them up. They
looked like Lucian's pistols from league of legends but black and gold
instead.
"Hmm, maybe Vindicate will like them, I'll just save them for him
instead." Nojiko put them back into the chest and threw the chest into the
storage ring. Sadly, Vindicate and Nami were the only ones in the crew
that weren't aware of the storage ring.
Time went by and Erica finally woke up after sleeping for nearly two
hours. She was still tired but she woke up because of the danger she had
faced earlier, so she was still in cautious mode. "Where is this, oh my
gosh, what is this place!?" Erica stood up in surprise seeing the land of
gold and treasure.
"This place is where our reward is, we can take any treasure we want.
After we're done we can go through that door over there." Nojiko pointed
to the exit door up ahead and said.
"Nice! All our effort wasn't for naught, let clean up!" Erica looked at her
finger and found that her storage ring wasn't there.
"I have it, I've loaded it up to the limit already, so we should probably
leave." Nojiko walked around this place as if she was shopping, she
picked up many things and put them into the storage. She was also
waiting for Erica to wake in order to leave.
"Oh, okay." Erica shrugged, she wasn't a greedy person anyway and was
only going to take as much as she could for Rein, who she knows, would
want them. The two approached the exit and opened it up to leave. They
were greeted by the same room just like Nami and Vindicate.
"I am having some serious back problem right now, I think my back in
swollen from that fight with that Golem!" Erica complained as she felt
her back, she looked around the room and saw no doors. However,
Nojiko saw a door up above them in the same fashion that Nami had
discovered it.
"What a strange place to put a door, do they want normal people to be
trapped in this place?" Nojiko wondered which idiot made this room, it
was clearly here to trap people that wanted to leave with the prize gold.
"They can try, but that will all fail in the end!" Erica grabbed Nojiko out
of nowhere which startled her. She simply used Geppo to reach the door
and pass through it. Once they walked through the door, they spawned
on a platform in some room.
"Let's go through that hallway, that seemed to be the way out!" Nojiko
pointed to the pathway and immediately both ran to it to leave. The hall
was already lit for some reason, so they didn't need to do anything.
They walked for about ten minutes until they came to another room that
was completely lit up. They saw a long stairway in the room that led
upward. Erica took the spyglass out from her storage ring and looked at
the top of the flight of stairs.
Once she looked, she saw two figures at the top of the stairs.
Rein and Kuina!
"Gasp! Kuina and Rein are at the top of the stairs, let's go meet with
them!" Erica said excitedly.
"Really? Where is Vindicate and Nami?" They were the first to pass
through the platform but Rein and Kuina were the first to pass the trials
and make it here. So where were Vindicate and Nami, did something bad
happen, Nojiko was starting to get worried.
"I don't...know." Erica said slowly "Vindicate is a capable guy, maybe
they're safe." Erica hoped they were. If the trial was just as hard as hers
then she wasn't so sure. They could be...
"Let's go talk to Rein and Kuina about it to see what we can do about
them." Nojiko agreed, there was no other way at this point. There must
be at least 100 stairs to climb in order to reach the top of this platform.
"Fuck! Who made this trial and place, I want to beat them so badly!"
Nojiko was annoyed with the idiots who made this trial, why were they
making things so difficult!? Rein had already discovered Erica and Nojiko
the minute they appeared in this room.
Once they made it to the top, they were greeted by Rein. "Nice! You guys
made it through the trials...alive!" Rein looked Erica who didn't look so
good and tossed her some medicine.
"Thanks, it was some serious hell, we found some creatures called
Golems." Rein knew of Golems from video games.
"Golems in this place, now that pretty interesting." Rein said, "They could
be from the Void century so that would make sense." Rein speculated that
this was the case, there was no way it could be anything else.
"Void Century? What is that?" Kuina walked over, she had some strange
goo on her shirt that Nojiko caught sight of right when she walked over.
"I'll explain that some other time, you might want to get that bug Goo or
blood off your shirt." Rein chuckled from the memories of their trial.
"I told you, It won't come off, Hmph!" Kuina was mad that she couldn't
get it off, but Rein made sure to rub it in.
B-Bug Goo and blood?" Nojiko's face changed a bit and so did Erica's.
Rein began to relay his trial. They had to fight swarms of bugs in the
thousands at first while some were deadly poisonous. They had to fight a
big Red firebug that could shoot fire and was totally fire resistant. Kuina
had to run most of the time from the swarms that would appear, Rein
and Kuina had to fight ten waves!
He told them about the slimy tentacle bug monster that caught Kuina
which made him laugh. Just when he wanted to say more, he was nearly
slashed by Kuina who had a cherry red face.
"Shut up, Rein! Don't say anymore or I'll chop you into ten thousand
pieces!" Nojiko and Erica seemed to understand that something
embarrassing happened and chuckled a bit but didn't pry about it.
"Hehe, Well, I ran into a big treasury, I wanted to take the whole thing
but once I took to much, we were booted out!" Rein recalled the scene of
himself sucking the place clean but was warped out by some strange
force.
Nojiko's mouth twitched, greedy to the point where the treasury couldn't
tolerate him, how sad! Erica laughed and was glad that the storage ring
had a limit or she probably would have been kicked to the curb just like
him.
"We're worried about Vindicate and Nami." Erica said
"No worries, they're alive, take a look over there. " Rein pointed to the
wall that showed everyone pictures on it. Erica and Nojiko were
dumbfounded seeing the pictures, they could see a green light under
everyone's picture. This indicated that they were alive and well, so all
was well.
Nojiko sighed in relief.
"Oh Yeah, once I got up here I obtained this." Rein took out an emblem of
some sort that had Lion's head on it just like the one on the map.
"What is it for?" Erica looked at it and Rein handed it over to her to see.
At that moment, Rein sensed two more people enter the room.
Nami and Vindicate!
"Well, Nami and Vindicate are here, they just have to climb the stairs."
Rein said casually.
"They're here, do we go meet them?" Erica wanted to greet them but was
stopped by Rein as he said they can come up here with no problem. After
twenty minutes of waiting, both Nami and Vindicate made it up the
stairs.
"Which dumbass made these damn stairs!?" Vindicate stomped his foot
and said in annoyance. Once they made up the stairs, they looked ahead
and saw their crew waiting for them and felt relieved.
"Nami!" Nojiko ran over and Hugged Nami.
"Ouch!" Nami felt the pain from her arm when she was hugged.
"Oh, sorry! Nojiko backed away and saw the wound on her arm. "We
need a medic or something for both of them." Vindicate didn't look so
back, he was healing pretty fast for some reason, maybe it was because of
that Devil Fruit he ate.
Rein came over and applied some special medicine to her wounds and
bandaged her up. Vindicate said he was okay and didn't need any
medical attention. The exit was right ahead, the trial had been finished
but before that, they heard a voice around them.
"Finally, everyone is here, this great deity had been waiting for everyone
to group together!" This person's voice appeared out of nowhere, it had
feminine vibe to it so Rein deducted that it was a female.
"Show yourself and stop hiding!" Vindicate looked around cautiously.
"Calm down, this god will show itself, hmph!" A silhouette jumped out
and appeared in from of everyone.
"What the heck!" Rein said
"Oh, I worried for a little bit but it was just some overgrown furball,
haha!' Vindicate laughed with tears in his eyes, it called itself a god!
What a Joke!
"You dare! You lowly mortals!" What appeared was familiar to Erica and
Nojiko!
"Guys, it's the Cat from the picture Puzzle!" That's right, it was the cat
from the picture puzzle. It had blue fur and green eyes, it also had black
stripes on its back.
What did this mean?
Jokes & Laughs
The Strange Cat grinned after hearing what Nojiko said, its face was
already stuck smiling so it was even more creepier. The cat had been
watching everyone's trial from start to finish, it was watching them
before it begun. The cat's grin was very wide to the point where it
seemed that its lower face could be opened up, it revealed sharp
triangular teeth. It looked at both Nojiko and Erica with interest, they
were the ones that solved its face on a puzzle, after all, but it was more to
it than just that.
Rein couldn't help but recall what type of creature it was, it was a
legendary creature. "Oh my goodness, it's a Cheshire Cat, how is this
possible!?" Rein had seen this type of creature from Alice and
wonderland but it had appeared here in the one-piece world. The cat was
about the size of a hippo for some reason.
"You two, you two are worthy to be chosen as one of my masters!" The
Cheshire Cat looked deeply Erica and Nojiko, it was mainly looking at
Nojiko with interest.
"W-What? The two of us?" Erica was a bit surprised, she did recall the
puzzle but what did that stand for. Nojiko was just as surprised but
remained silent.
"Ah! It's such a cute fluffy cat, how about you come serve me, we can
make travel the world together!" Nami looked at the cat and blushed
from its cuteness.
"You? Nah, you're too greedy for my taste! The Ninja is too secluded and
ambitious for power, the Gunman is confused about which path is right,
the swordswoman has to much doubt in her heart, which leaves these
two amazing people here." The cat smiled deeply again as it stared at
Nojiko and Erica.
"What!?" Everyone except Erica and Nojiko yelled out in surprise, did this
thing just tell us our flaws.
"C-Confused? W-who the hell is confused?" Blacklines appeared on
Vindicate forehead, who did this cat thing think it was to tell him his
flaws.
"Checheche!" The cat laughed but didn't say anything.
"I-I do have some doubts." Kuina felt dispirited hearing those words
because they were so true, she had many doubts about her improvement
but still tried. Rein didn't say anything and only listen to what the cat
was saying, was he really like that?
"Why are we qualified to be your master or something like that?" Nojiko
asked curiously.
"Erica does what she does selflessly, she is truly a good-hearted person
who fights for a certain someone." The cat looked at Rein from the side of
its eye then it looked at Nojiko. "You are also the same but you also have
very good luck, the highest I've seen in thousands of years."
Nojiko didn't say anything, she didn't know what her fortunate was or
what it meant. "Then what do we have to do to win this match to be your
master?" Erica asked bluntly, she actually liked this cat unique look.
"Hehe, simple, all you need to do is tell me a funny joke! I haven't had a
good laugh in so long that it's killer just living in this pyramid doing
nothing."
'What the hell? Did this cat have some type of King Kai vibe to it?' Rein
had many thoughts looking at the cat, it was a good thing to have as a
servant, he had to say. Why it was looking for a master, he didn't bother
to ask.
"A joke? So if one of them tells a joke, you'll end up joining our crew?"
Vindicate sneered looking at this annoying cat.
Dared to call him confused!
"Checheche! Not only are you confused about your path, you're literally
confused about your path!" Ouch! The cat was now talking about his
sense of direction, what a burn! Nami covered her mouth as her eye
bulged out of her face, she tried to stop herself from laughing out loud!
"You little shit!" Vindicate pulled out his gun and fired at the cat, he only
shot at the ground to scare him.
"AH!" The cat jumped away in fright and went invisible when it leaped
away.
"Guhaha! Did you see that? The poor excuse for a deity ran away, wait,
how did it go invisible like that?" Vindicate stopped laughing but was
soon tripped off his feet by the invisible Cheshire Cat.
"Uhg!"
"Hmph! Now, where was I again, yes, talking to my beautiful sisters over
here!" The Cat's huge figure teleported back to where it was and began to
talk like nothing had happened.
"That little...!" It was clear that if this cat did join the crew, it wouldn't
have such a good relationship with Vindicate. Oh, how funny this
journey was going be! Rein didn't mind the cat joining one bit, he always
was fascinated by the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland.
"Stop it, let's see what happens for now." Nami helped Vindicate up and
said in a low voice. Vindicate looked at Rein and he gave him the green
light that it was okay.
"Just you wait you little kitten!" Vindicate whispered to himself. Kuina
chuckled softly seeing Vin's irritated face.
"Why would you want any of us as your master, it doesn't make any
sense." Nojiko had to a conclusive answer from this cat, why would it
need a master?
"Checheche! It boring sitting in the pyramid, it can make one a little
crazy. In fact, all of us are a little crazy on this Island, even myself."
Nojiko and Erica, along with everyone else were speechless.
"With a mouth like yours, I would go crazy too!" Vindicate said under his
breath. The cat had good hearing but ignored Vindicate. It had plenty of
time to play pranks on him later for revenge.
"Ah, okay then, let's start, you both get two jokes each!" The Cat said
bluntly.
Nojiko and Erica talked for a bit and soon agreed to let Erica go first.
Erica: Ahem! Here I go!
Erica: Why do cats always get their way?
Cheshire Cat: Hmm, I don't know, why?
Erica: Because they're purr-suasive!
"Pfft! Hahahaha!" Nami and Kuina broke out into wild laughter while
Rein and Vindicate were struck silent. Rein didn't know she could tell
jokes, where did she learn to tell jokes?
Cheshire Cat: Haha, that was a good one but not enough to really purr-
suade me!
The Cat countered back, which made Rein smirk a bit, this cat really
liked jokes, huh?
Erica: Okay, I got another one!
Erica: What do cats love to do in the morning? "Giggle giggle"
Erica started to crack giggles from here own questioned joke.
Cheshire Cat: Uh, I don't know, what do they do?
Erica had tears in her eyes and said in a cracking voice.
Erica: They like to read the mewspaper!
"Pfft!" Everyone including Rein started laughing wildly, that was a good
one. The cat even started to laugh hearing the joke!
"Haha, that's a good one!" Vindicate laughed heartily.
"When were you so good at telling jokes, Bahaha!" Rein shook his and
stopped his laughter.
Cheshire Cat: Very good, great, you're next!
The Cheshire Cat looked at Nojiko, she walked forward while Erica walk
back, wiping her eyes.
Nojiko: What do you call a cat that tells jokes?
Cheshire Cat: Don't know, what do they call them?
Nojiko: Just kitten!
Cheshire Cat: What!? Checheche!
Nami and Kuina were holding their stomachs at this point, if this kept up,
they might have a heart attack! "When have I laughed so hard at jokes
before, these two are pretty good at entertainment, Guhahaha!" Vindicate
wiped his eyes in a fit of laughter.
Cheshire Cat: Phew, Okay, the next one! These cat jokes are killing me,
why do you guys have to do me like that?
Nojiko: Miss cat, you like games, don't you?
Cheshire Cat: Yes, I do!
Nojiko: Then here this one out. Why can't cats play poker in the jungle?
Cheshire Cat: Oh, and why can't they, there's plenty of jungle on this
island.
Nojiko: Because.... There are too many cheetahs, hahaha!
Rein eyes grew watery from surprise, he couldn't hold this one in and
started laughing from her joke. This included everyone and the Cheshire
Cat, it was too good, the timing and all.
Cheshire Cat: I-I... s-sorry Erica, but this woman is the one, she is the
one! Checheche!
The cat had watery Green eyes, it had laughed too much from Nojiko
jokes, from both to be exact. The Cat shrunk in size to the size of a
normal cat and pulled out a book. The cat floated in air as it ran through
the book before it pulled a sheet of paper out of the book.
Rein looked closely at the book, the title on it said "The Book of Eternity."
The book was green-blue so it stuck out like a sore thumb amongst most
books. The Cheshire Cat sat on the book as he floated over toward
Nojiko.
"Here is the contract, be sure to check it out." Nojiko took the sheet of
paper and read through it. She showed everyone else the contract, mainly
Rein to see if there were no tricks or exploits involved.
The crew whispered amongst themselves.
"It checks out well, all should be well."
"I have no problem with it"
"Yeah, Looks good to me."
With that, Nojiko signed and a light shot into her head once she was
done sighing it.
"Well, it looks like we'll be together to the end, Checheche!"
Vindicate sneered "Yeah, you can be our crew's mascot, this seems more
suitable for you, Guhahaha!" Suddenly, a dirty smelly sock shot into
Vindicate's mouth.
"Pfft! Blargg! Whose dirty sock is this!?" Vindicate looked angrily at the
Cat but it still retained its same grinning face, which was stuck this way.
The cat didn't say anything and turned into a fluffy purple scarf the same
color as Nojiko's hair, and wrapped around Nojiko's neck.
"Wah, so warm, I love it!" Nojiko's mind was also filled with some
information that the Cheshire cat had given here, she knew what the cat
was just from that. Suddenly, the Area twisted around them and everyone
was warped out of the Pyramid.
They all appeared in front of the pyramid before they had walked up the
stairs. Nojiko had gained a contracted beast, so she gained a lot here.
Rein had innate strengthening just like Luffy and most of the will of D
family.
His stat would go up by themselves through battle and learning from
their fights. This was the case for Rein, so he also gained a lot here. Luffy
also gained strength through fighting, Luffy's technique wasn't as good as
Lucci but his stats were pretty decent, mainly his will which played a big
role in Lucci's defeat.
Like all trials, each one had one devil Fruit in it and Rein had one. It was
a Paramecia Class Devil fruit that allowed one to control swarms of bugs.
You could also have the bugs spy one someone or even attack them with
poison, you could also heighten the potency of your bug's poison but you
would need some poison for that to enhance them.
It was the ability to control and manipulate bugs, which Rein didn't want
to sell. This fruit was too good to pass up. "I'll save it for someone else in
the future, I can't sell something like this to the system." Nojiko was no
different, she found a strange fruit in the treasury as well and just tossed
it into the storage ring, it was unknown what type of fruit it was.
At this time, the crew sat near the pyramid with large umbrellas over
them to block the intense sun. Nami was looking at the map while Kuina
was sanitizing her wounded arm, which needed to be treated fast.
"What do got so far, Nami?" Rein asked
"We're very fortunate, a forest is nearby and the heat shouldn't be so bad
there. It just this lion on the map pyramid, I still don't know what it
means." Erica took out the emblem and showed Nami and told Nami all
about it.
"So it was like that. Does that mean we'll have to go through more trials
to get the other pendants?" Nami would rather not do that again if she
could avoid it, that place was a nightmare that was made into a reality
and too close to death!
"No, it won't be any trial you guys will have to go through. The lion
Pendant is the hardest to get. That's why it has been there since who
knows when. Oh, and it's an insignia, not an emblem or pendant!" The
Cheshire Cat spoke up to inform them, it still stayed in its scarf form
around Nojiko's neck.
"Oh, so there will be no more trial then, sounds good to me. If this is the
case, we should head to the North to get the Goat insignia then the south
has a Snake insignia I'm guessing from this map." Rein had decided. But
what they didn't know was that the Snake insignia was already taken by
the Flagstar pirates who fled to the North.
"This could work, a little snow to cool us down from the scorching hot
desert, so it's good to me." Kuina nodded as she just got done patching
Nami up.
"Oh, right, I got a little gift for you Vindicate, check it out! Erica, could
you give him the chest I showed you earlier to him." Erica smiled and
nodded, she looked through the storage ring and pulled out the chest.
"Hoho, I love gifts!" Vindicate was curious.
"Checheche! What a loser!" Vindicate glared at the scarfed shaped cat, his
eye glinted for second but he decided to ignore the cat. Erica opened the
chest for all to see, it was the pair of guns she found in the treasury.
"What the hell!?" Rein was shocked seeing the familiar pistol, he knew
good a well what these pistols looked like! "This can't be a coincidence,
this is just crazy now!" How was this possible, it didn't even have a
trigger like Lucian's Guns.
"Wow, these look amazing, but where is the trigger?" Vindicate took the
Chest with a smile and scanned the weapons and saw no trigger.
"Checheche! A confused person like you who doesn't know his true path
could never shoot these relic pistols!" The Cheshire Cat cut in, it seemed
that one would need to meet certain qualifications to shoot these guns.
Rein shook his head, these were indeed just like Lucian's pistols, you
would require faith and belief to shoot these, a confused and unsure
person couldn't do it.
"What does a creepy cat like you know?" Vindicate glared at the cat who
had taken form, it sat on Nojiko's head in a kitten form. Nojiko didn't feel
it since it could control its weight, its weight was nonexistent on her
head.
"He's right, you would need to believe and have a clear mind when
shooting these things!" Rein spoke up and assured the Cat was right. He
knew all but too well about these weapons, but how did they end up in
the one-piece world?
"A-A clear mind." Vindicate seemed to be thinking, he understood what it
meant and he didn't have a clear mind, yet.
"Checheche! The ninja leader may be ambitious and secluded, but he
understands most things here!" The Cheshire Cat nodded and closed its
eyes.
"Sigh, I see! I still have things to work on! Thank you, Nojiko!" Vindicate
took the big guns and strapped them to his waist with the other two
pistols.
"Hehe, No problem!" Nojiko smiled and said.
"Hmph, Loser!" The Cheshire cat was indeed female as everyone expected
but it loved making fun of Vindicate. Vindicate's mouth twitched, but he
decided to ignore the cat's words.
"Okay, you guys apparently got a lot of treasure, so we'll sort that out
later but for now, let's head north!" Rein pointed in the northern
direction until...
"That's east!" Nami chimed in with a chuckle.
"Uh, I knew that, I was just testing you guys out." Rein nodded seriously
and said. Of course, they knew he was lying.
"Yeah, sure!" Everyone got up and followed Nami.
Marine Campsite
"Reporting Sir! The pirates came out of the pyramid after a week!" The
man was pretty shocked by his own words.
"What? They came out alive, every pirate that went into that pyramid
never came out!" Captain Copper was just as surprised, he wasn't sure
what was in there but any pirate or marine that set foot in there never
came out!
"I want you to gather information on those pirates. I want to see what
kind of pirates they are!" Captain copper turned back around and started
eating.
"Yes, Sir, will do!" The marines left the large tent in a hurry.
"So, pirates that can survive that hellish pyramid? I wonder who they
might be?" Captain Copper shook his head and continued to eat.
Surprise Attack and
Transformation!
Myriad Island Frost Moutain.
"Swoosh!"
A Cold wind came from the Giant Yeti's mouth, anyone close by were
either blown away or frozen on the spot! "Damn, this thing isn't showing
any signs of fatigue, we've sent people here every day for the past month
to weaken it!" Captain Red bull couldn't understand why it was still
fighting so well, it had a wound on its legs so it resorted to using its
abilities rather than fighting up close.
"When is Miguel going to show up with that poison he said he had?"
RedBull and Captain Miguel decided to use underhanded means to take
this thing down, its ice abilities were too overbearing in this weather
condition. Red bull could take the cold when in his Zoan form but this
weather would heighten the effects of its ice ability, so he would end
frozen solid.
Suddenly the ground shook, the Yeti stomped the ground which made
some people lose their footing.
"Oh, shit! Sir, we need to run, that yeti just caused an avalanche!"
Everything was silent for a bit then they suddenly heard some rumbling
coming from Mt. Frost!
"Avalanche!"
"Run for your life!"
Red face changed and he turned to run away from the sea of snow!
"Yehahaha!" The Yeti gave a joyous laugh seeing everyone run in fear,
but the question is, could they outrun an avalanche?
"NOOoo!"
"Someone help me!"
"Save me!"
Many people screamed but the avalanche sounded like thunder coming
down on everyone, their screams could barely be heard. Red Bull couldn't
escape either, he had no choice but to change into his RedBull Form to
survive this.
The wind was all that could be heard once the avalanche had stopped.
There was no one left, but one guy who burst out of the snow.
Captain RedBull.
"Damn, another failure but with an Avalanche!!" Hot Steam came out of
his nose, he was currently a huge Red Bull. Red Bull Grounded his teeth
and left to report what had happened here.
Eclipse Pirates.
Rein and his crew had finally left the desert to a Jungle nearby, they had
to stop and take a water break every so often for Nami, Kuina, and
Nojiko. "Phew, we're finally out of that harsh desert, I don't want to go
back into a desert for a long time." Nojiko wasn't too fond of the desert
but what would she think if she knew that Rein wanted to go to Alabasta,
which was all desert.
Everyone nodded silently to that as they continued to walk. "Speaking of
this place, are there any native of this island? I haven't seen a single
animal or person since we've been on this island except this freaky cat."
Vindicate looked at the cat that was laying on Nojiko's head knowingly.
The Cat opened one of its eyes and peaked at Vindicate but didn't say
anything.
"Every island once had native living on it, the question is, where did they
go?" Kuina seemed to know a bit and spoke her thoughts.
"I guess we'll soon find out, but let's get to the North." Rein honestly
didn't care about any natives, he just wanted to collect those insignias on
the map display. Nami looked over at Vindicate and gave him a nod.
Vindicate hesitated and stopped. "I have something to quickly announce!"
Everyone stopped and turned to Vindicate. "What is it, did you forget
something?" Nojiko asked.
"No, me and Nami found a strange fruit in the trial we went into. Once
we finished the trial, we were stuck in some strange box room with the
door far above us. So, there was no way out and we were starving at that
point, so I consumed the strange black pumpkin we found." Vindicate
took a deep breath and said.
"Oh! So did this fruit have strange swirls on it?" Rein asked seriously
Vindicate slowly nodded "It also tasted like drywall, it didn't taste like
any pumpkin I've ever had but it was special, you know?"
"Hahaha! You found a Devil Fruit so you should have its power now,
show us!" Erica looked excited to see what his new ability was. Nami had
already seen it but everyone else just watched him with expectation.
"Here I go!" With those words, he began to transform, right away Rein
could tell it was a Zoan of some sort. Vindicate's clothes began to change
into a Shadowy cloaked Robe, his head had changed as well to a
Pumpkin that exuded Bright orange light from its Halloween carved face!
"Oh my Gosh!" Everyone was shocked! Rein stared in amazement, this
was definitely a Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit!
"It's so scary, what were your trials like!?" Kuina couldn't keep her eyes
off Vindicate figure before her.
"I can also do this." As soon as Vindicate words dropped he turned into a
swarm of Shadowy Crows and flew around the group!
"Amazing!" Erica's eyes turned into sparkles, he clearly had the ability to
fly which was something she wanted most. She didn't like to rely on
Geppo just to fly and wanted to fly without exuding so much effort to do
so.
The crows gathered together and formed Vindicate. "The Devil Fruit
should have given you information on the fruit, so what is it called?"
Rein asked, but he had an idea about what the fruit was called.
"It's called the Human-Human Fruit, Model: Jack O' Lantern!" Rein
nodded, it was just as he thought but he didn't know what more
capabilities it could do. Vindicate would find out more about the fruit as
he train it.
"Nice! You really hit the "Jack" pot this time, hehe, get it?" Kuina looked
around but no one laughed, all they could hear were crickets.
"Okay then, just me." Kuina shrugged and left it at that.
"Speaking of which, I found a fruit in the treasury as.." Before Nojiko
could finish, Rein interrupted.
"Take cover!" Everyone looked confused and couldn't react on time. Erica
already had her Logia Body activated. Suddenly, a swarmed of arrows
came raining down on them out of the Jungle! Erica put a firewall
around Nami and Kuina to block the arrows. The arrows had no effect on
Vindicate and Rein, Vindicate could just heal himself swiftly if he got
hurt while in his Zoan form.
"Nojiko!" However, an arrow struck out at her but a barrier was formed
around her, it was the Cheshire Cat! In no time, the hail of arrow came to
a halt, and multiple figures walked out of the forest.
"Look, Captain! The demon is there before us, we need to purge this evil,
it and its Followers!" The women that appeared had a short bob cut with
black hair. The woman had makeup on her face with a black dress and
umbrella that had a symbol of a heart being pierced by a heart tipped
arrow.
"My heavens, what is he!?" Other women began to appear and looked at
Vindicate in horror, they thought he was a demon.
"We may be pirates but we have morals, this evil creature can't be
allowed to live amongst the living, we have to kill it!" Suddenly, another
woman walked out of the jungle, she had black stockings on with pink
hearts all over them.
This woman also wore a black dress, but it had several heart symbols on
it. The woman had long pink and violet hair mixed together with a
church tea party hat on, she also had one pink eye and one purple eye,
she had tan skin and was quite the beauty!
"Who are you people and why did you just attack us so randomly!?" Nami
pointed to the woman who was flaunting her exotic features and was
enraged immediately.
"Hmph! Shouldn't you introduce yourselves first, it common curiosity."
The woman folded her arms and said.
"Ah yes, my name.." Before Nami could finish, she was interrupted by the
woman.
"My name is Hera, the Captain of the HeartSeeker Pirates!"
Nami shook, she felt the urge to run up to this woman and beat her!
Didn't she want me to introduce myself first!? "Hold it there Nami, calm
down or you'll end up popping a vain in your head or something." Kuina
held Nami back who was clearly pushed to the edge by this woman's
rudeness.
"What do you want, he isn't demon you morons!" Nami pointed to Hera
who was exuding arrogance with her head looking upward as if she was
looking down and everyone here!
"What is with his appearance then, can't you explain that?" The bob cut
woman looked at Nami with disdain, she felt like this woman was trying
cover for the pumpkin head demon.
"It's a devil Fruit ability and not a demon, have you heard of fruits that
grant people abilities?" Rein was silent at first and wanted to see where
this would amount to.
"Devil Fruit, it's pretty much a demon, isn't it?" Hera looked at Rein and
questioned. These people were clearly not very knowledgable about devil
fruits which made sense.
Rein sighed and looked around. "Listen, everyone, I'm going to explain to
you about the Devil fruit abilities and classes." Hera was interested in
these devil fruits he was talking about and ordered her crew which was
nothing but women to stand down. Nami and the rest of his crew were
also interested.
"First, there is Paramecia Class, these type of devil fruits either give the
user the ability to Manipulated the environment, affect their bodies, or/
and allows you to produce substance from it. So this ability doesn't give
you the ability to turn into an animal or become a natural element. Some
are capable of different transformations but not to animals or creatures,
like my buddy here. Some are capable of producing substances, like
poison for example. Paramecia is the most common Class fruit amongst
the three types, including the subclasses." Rein looked around at
everyone and could see that everyone was listening closely.
"Second, There is the Logia Class that allows the user to control,
manipulate and become the naturally occurring element, for example, Ice
or Fire as you seen with Erica here. However, her fire is a bit special
compared to regular fire." Rein began to relay that the Logia is the
strongest type and rarest type beside the subclasses he mentioned earlier
that went under the Zoan class.
Of course, he explained everything about the Zoan Class and the
subclasses such as the ancient and Mythical types. Rein also clarified that
Vindicate had the rarest type of Devil Fruit, the mythical type which was
insanely hard to find. Logia class fruits were hard to find as well while
the powerful force of nature types was the hardest. Smoke was a force of
nature but not on the high scale like Magma or lightning.
Rein had seen it on his system, it was a Devil Fruit called the Drip-Drip
fruit which was the sound of water dripping. It was Logia water type
Devil fruit which he was surprised to see on the system. After his
explanation, some people were shocked while some were in deep
thought, what power!
"So, he was a human this whole time?" Hera looked at Vindicate who had
yet to turn back into his human form.
"Of course! Vindicate, you can turn back to your normal self now." With
that, Vindicate reverted back to himself.
"Aw! I liked him better when he was a pumpkin head!" The Cheshire Cat
booed seeing Vindicate returned to himself.
"Gasp!" Seeing Vindicate turn back to himself, everyone from the
Heatseeker pirates nodded as to understand. However, Hera gasped as
her eyes turned into heart seeing Vindicate, she was in love!
"Ah! He's so cool and Handsome looking!" Hera rush over to Vindicate
and held his hands. "I think we should get married here and now!" Rein
and his crew were dumbfounded seeing her change in personality, she
seemed so serious not too long ago.
"Ugh! This woman's taste worries me!" The Cheshire Cat laughed silently.
"Wow, lady, I ain't marrying no one right now, I have so much to do in
this life before settling!" Vindicate took his hands back and took a step
back.
"You heard him, scram out!" Nami took this time to make this annoying
woman feel bad.
"Okay, okay, I understand, I can wait then our love will come in fruition!
Just be careful of ugly girls like that short-haired orange head over there,
it's a pitiful sight! uh-hahaha!" Hera turned and looked at Nami and gave
a smug laughter, she looked at Nami with contempt!
Y-you bi.." She didn't get to finish!
"Language! Don't say it Nami!" Nojiko interrupted her before she could
spew profanity. Nami really wished she could beat this woman now, she
was rude and even called her ugly, she was nearly angered half to death.
"Okay, Okay, since everything has been cleared up, we'll continue on our
journey to the north." Rein shook his head, there were too many weirdos
in this world for him.
"No! She should pay us some belies for attacking us with a swarm of
arrows, our lives were hanging in the balance!" Nami wanted
compensation from this lady, she wasn't going to let this annoying
woman off so easily!
"Hmm, I guess that makes sense. Lara, come give this poor woman some
belies, judging from her style, she must be a poor miserable thing, please
help her!" Hearing her Captain orders, Lara took out 30,000 Belies and
gave them to Nami.
Nami almost vomited blood hearing Hera's speech about being a poor
existence.
"Lady, if you're going to talk like that then I'll have to ask you to leave.
This isn't the way you talk to people after you've attacked them." Rein
didn't like disrespectful people like this, she attacked them first out of the
blue, so it would make sense for her compensate them something. Back in
his world, he would surely sue this woman for that attack.
Hearing what Rein said, Hera looked at Vindicate and saw that he was
glaring at her. "Ah! A joke, I was kidding, can't you guys take a joke in
your lives." Hera laughed and smiled faintly and decided to give Nami
fifty thousand belies as compensation.
"Hmph!" Nami took the money and walked away gritting her teeth.
"Well, thank you, we'll be leaving now!" Once Rein said that everyone
started to walk off towards the north.
"Wait, you said the north, right? Me and my crew and are heading there
so we'll join you!" Hera ran over and walked next to Vindicate who had
an indifferent expression on his face.
"What? No way!" Nami was against the idea. Rein thought about it for
and bit and looked at Vindicate, Rein grinned under his helmet and
agreed to let her and her crew join in.
"What!? Are you serious!?" Nami looked at Rein then Hera who had a
smug smile on her face.
"Nami, it isn't a big deal so let it be." Nojiko didn't see a problem with it
nor did anyone else in the crew. Honestly, they were no threat to Rein
and the rest of his crew, Okay maybe Nojiko and Nami but what does
that stand for.
"Alright, let's go, my love, and my crew, to the north we go!" Hera said
excitedly as she grabbed Vidnciate's arm!
"Ugh!" Vindicate groaned as Kuina and Nojiko chuckled. Nami just didn't
like her and that was it while Erica only shook her head with a smile.
Rein clearly did this on purpose for Vindicate who was too serious,
maybe he'll find love in this.
Frost Mountain!
Rein, his crew, and the HeartSeeker pirates rested for the night until
morning. Before leaving they ate breakfast thanks to the chefs of their
respective crews working together to make everyone something to eat.
While Nojiko and their chef who was named lily was making food,
everyone talked to each other. The HeartSeeker Pirates went on to tell
them that they're originally from the West Blue and came here two weeks
ago for treasure hunting. Rein was a bit surprised and wondered how
they got from the West Blue to the East Blue, but didn't bother to ask.
Strangely, this crew had two snipers on it, they were both twins. They
were named Rose and Daisy, Rein could see what their parents did when
they named them as such.
Rose and had Scarlet red short hair while her sister was a blonde, they
carried long crossbows on their backs at all times. Judging from how the
crossbows looked, they could shoot three to five arrows at a time if they
wanted to.
They were all from the West Blue like Rein's Crew was all from here, the
East Blue. Their crew also had a navigator who was named Sasha. The
girl was only fifteen but became a pirate at such a young age, Rein was
only 16 which and was a year apart from her so he didn't judge her for
her decision.
For Rein, he was bound to turn into a pirate because of Luffy and Ace. If
he by chance became a marine, he would ensure that Ace wasn't caught
in the first place to prevent this war. But as of now, he had to let it
happen, he had to let Luffy know that his strength wouldn't be enough,
he had to let Ace know that a short temper and terrible impulses could
land him in the grave.
Yes, Ace would understand after the war that his terrible decision caused
so many to die and that he himself wasn't strong enough. Rein couldn't
knock them, he wasn't that powerful either, he spend most of his years
training his devil fruit and some of his stats, rather than his techniques.
But other than that, he slept a lot for the most part.
However, Luffy and Ace were much stronger than the show before
leaving the island. Rein didn't go easy on Luffy and showed him Soru but
didn't teach him it. Luffy was able to Unlocked Gear 2nd at the age of
fifteen. The reason Rein did this was because he would defeat some of the
bosses Luffy would fight on his journey in order for him to reach and
learn such a state of power. Thus, taking away some of Luffy's battle and
learning experiences.
Rein would ignore places like Thriller Bark for Luffy so he could fight
Moria and get brook as his crew member. He didn't want to interfere in
his brother's progress to such a degree, he wouldn't goto drum island as
well. There were several islands on the grand line that he wanted to
check out anyway. Rein would soon have to fight CP9, Crocodile, and
some more people, maybe even an Admiral but hopefully not!
Rein had also contemplated many times about other things, he wanted to
change his Nitrogen Fruit out for a more Destructive Logia Devil Fruit.
What came to mind was the Rumble Fruit, he would have to make a trip
to Skypiea and rob Enel of his ability once he reached near Water 7.
Of course, he wouldn't be able to fuse them without a Fusion card so it
would cost him Skill Points to Eat the fruit which would be 25 Skill
points as of now. Rein probably would have eaten the weather fruit by
then, so it would 50 Skill Points.
Nojiko and Lily brought the food over for everyone to eat while Hera
talked to Vindicate with a smile. "Sigh, this is the first time I've seen her
talk to a guy so happily, I just don't understand what so different about
this guy?" Lily sat the food down on the table along with Nojiko and
questioned her captain.
"Chechche! You and me both, sister!" The Cheshire Cat chuckled and
began to eat at the table, it had take a humanoid form but still looked
like a cat.
The Legendary Furry!
"Wow, this Cat is so cute, how much are you selling it for?" Lily's eyes
sparkled seeing the cat, she wanted it so bad. Rose and Daisy were no
different, in fact, they had been staring at it for a while now.
"Sorry, not for sale, it's my partner." Nojiko shook her head, she wasn't
giving this Cat up to anyone, forget that.
"Aw!" Rose, Daisy, and Lily felt sad but what could they do? Everyone ate
happily, this food came from Erica's storage ring where she stored all of
their food. The Storage ring was quite handy that Nami and Nojiko
wanted one. Rein told them that they'll have to wait another time, he
didn't want to spend any more System points for now.
Rein also planned to buy Erica Marco's Devil Fruit, so he could fuse her
Power with that Pheonix ability. She would have a huge spike in power
once that happened but who knew when he would be able to purchase it.
But then a thought suddenly came to Rein, he would need to meet Luffy
in the Future before Luffy Breached impel down. Rein wanted to give
him a special summoning device that would allow Luffy to summon him
to his location once he broke in. Once he was in, he could kill some impel
down prisoners and even steal a few of their Devil fruit, mainly
Magellan!
"Oh yeah, it's wise to plan ahead, I just hope my plans all come into
place." Rein whispered to himself, he didn't eat anything because he
wasn't hungry, surprisingly. The HeartSeeker Pirates wanted to see his
face when he started eating but he never took his helmet off.
Once everyone was done eating, it was time to go. They had covered a lot
of ground yesterday and could already see the snowy tundra up ahead.
They got here pretty quick but didn't enter the North because they were
tired from their trials yesterday.
Erica pulled out some Furry warm coats for Kuina, Nami, and Nojiko to
wear, she wasn't sure if Vindicate needed one but gave him one anyway.
The HeartSeeker pirate already had coats ready for use, so they didn't
need any.
"Let's go!" Rein signaled his crew and the HeartSeekers to follow. After
thirty minutes of walking, they were officially in the Northern part of the
island. It wasn't snowing yet but it was bound to happen soon, it snowed
here often. The snow was thick so seeing leftover foot track wouldn't be a
problem if you wanted to track who they belong to.
"Good, this makes my job easier with no snow pouring down on us."
Nami sighed in relief seeing that it wasn't snowing. This would allow her
to see the map much better then if it was snowing.
"Hmm, I suggest you get the best out of it, this weather is strange. It
snows for two hours and stops for an hour, and in some cases, it's a
blizzard!" Sasha spoke up to let her know that it was best to memorize
the map because a blizzard may be brewing soon. She knew this because
they had been here before, they came here then decided to head to the
south to search for a certain someone.
However, they heard that they were hiding somewhere around the
northern area with no ship to escape. Yes, the were looking from the
Flagstar pirates who took the Snake Insignia from the south ruin. Nami
nodded and looked over the map several times to remember it. After the
group walked for about forty minutes or so, they came across a huge
mountain.
"This mountain is huge, and the amount of snow covering it is insane!"
Kuina looked up at the tall mountain that seemed to have no end to its
height.
"This is it, Rein! This is the Mountain known as Frost Mountain, this
should be where the other thing is!" Nami didn't say the name, she didn't
want to reveal it to the HeartSeeker Pirates.
"Perfect! Let's go up and retrieve it!" Rein said "Erica, can you carry Nami
up while I take Kuina up? As for the rest of you, you guys stay at the foot
of the mountain."
"Wait a minute, we want to go up as well!" Hera walked over, she wanted
to head up the mountain too.
"Oh, and how do you plan to get up there?" Rein said bluntly
"Damnit, forget it!" Hera shook her head, she couldn't get up unless she
climbed, did she want to do that when a snowstorm was brewing? She'd
be looking to die at that point or just suiciding at that point.
"Alrighty then, it's settled, let's go!" Vindicate heart was bleeding, he
wanted to follow but Rein wanted him to stay here.
Erica thought for a moment and put her fist on the mountain. She used
her fire to create a cave for them to take cover from the incoming storm.
"You guys can take cover in here, for now, we'll be back in no time!" Rein
had long since flown up the mountain, Erica grabbed Nami and used
Geppo up the mountain.
"Damn, I really need to learn that move!" Vindicate smiled bitterly as
Erica's figure disappeared from all their sights.
"Captain, did you see that!? That ninja guy sprouted wings on his back
and flew up the mountain!" Hera's mouth twitched when little Sasha
mentioned that, yes, she had seen it and was already dumbfounded by it!
"Did you see that black-haired girl!? She blew a damn hole in the
mountain and Kicked off-air like she was skating!" Hera wanted to bonk
each of them on the head, she had damn eyes, she could see it!
Frost Mountain!
Boom!
Rein and Company made it up the mountain, then a Blizzard suddenly
started. At that moment, Rein and everyone else heard an explosion
going off. "What was that? It sounded like a bomb of some sort!" Nami
was startled when she heard the explosion.
"It's coming from over there, look, I can see some smoke from the
explosion!" Kuina pointed in the direction where she could see the smoke.
Nami could barely see anything through this blizzard, she also had
goggles on with an N-Ferno over her head.
Rein was a bit curious so he and his crew went to check it out. The storm
was harsh but Rein's vision wasn't affected in the least. "Hmm, there
appears to be a fight going on over there between one guy and several
men that appear to be wearing white suits." Despite the snowy storm
being white, he could still tell what type of clothes they were wearing.
"Do you see who they're up against?" Erica asked
"They're fighting some guy....." Rein paused and looked closer "This guy
has White hair, they're all armed with weapons, like guns and swords."
"These people are crazy, why fight in this type of weather?" Nami shook
her head, it was too cold for that type of crap, but they had the nerve to
fight here of all places. "The Cave is just a little further up the mountain,
so we should reach it soon." Nami was referring to the Yeti Cave but they
didn't know something like that was dwelling there.
Suddenly Rein saw something that shocked him. One of the men in white
began to change into a Giant Ship out of nowhere and more men in white
suits began to rush out of it! "What the fuck is that!? That guy turned into
a Giant ship and more men in suits came swarming out of him!" Rein
couldn't keep his eyes off the fight.
"A Ship?" Erica was surprised and tried to see through the storm but
couldn't.
"Rein, are you okay, how can someone turn into a ship?" Kuina looked at
Rein with concern, it sounded crazy to her.
"Forget it, let's head further up the mountain, we can't be bothered with
other people's fights anyhow." Rein turned and walked off as everyone
else followed. They continued to walk up the mountain as Nami tried to
remember the map from earlier.
Nami didn't know the exact location of the cave but it was at the top of
the mountain. "Is it me or is getting colder up here?" Kuina felt like the
temperatures were dropping faster the higher they went which was most
definitely true.
"Reminds me of Mt. Everest!" Rein said
"Where is that at?" Erica asked curiously.
"Somewhere in another place far far away." Rein shook his head and sped
up.
"AH! Oh my gosh, it's a frozen body!" Kuina was shocked, she could see
someone's arm coming out of the snow. Rein looked around and saw
some people's feet sticking out of the snow as well. Rein shot out his
Observation Haki and confirmed that these people had passed, they froze
to death!
"They all Froze to death, how unfortunate." Rein sighed but continued
forwards. Nami and Kuina were freaked out seeing so many dead people.
Erica felt bad for these unfortunate people but what could she do, she
couldn't feel bad forever, she could only keep moving on.
"ROARRR!"
Suddenly the ground shook, as loud roaring sound could be heard from
the cave they spotted up ahead. A giant creature appeared out of the
mouth of the Cave, it had big blue eyes and a body covered in white fur.
From what Rein could see, it looked like some sort of quasi monkey but
not exactly so.
"What is that? Is that a bigfoot of some sort?" Rein analyzed the creature
but couldn't figure it out.
"Whoosh!"
The Yeti sucked in air and blew cold wind toward Rein and everyone
else.
"Oh, shoot! Brace yourselves!" Rein could see the beast sucking in air as it
blew it towards them.
Prelude to Battle!
The wind came in hard and threatened to freeze Nami and Kuina solid.
Rein hurriedly to create an Ice Wall to block the terrible Icy-cold wind.
"Well, it looks like we know that this beast isn't friendly in the least!"
Erica covered her eyes from the wind, she wouldn't be frozen from this
icy gust with her ability.
The Yeti stopped blowing wind and looked in the direction of the people
it had blown at. It believed it was just another group of idiots who came
to seek death. "Watch over these two, let me handle this thing!" Rein step
out from behind the Ice wall.
"I'm gonna have to hurt you a bit, so hang in there big guy!" Rein pulled
the Two Big Shuriken off his back and infused them with a little bit of
Haki.
Shing!
Though no one could see it, veins appeared on both of Rein's arms then
he threw the Shuriken towards the Yeti. The Shurikens turned in a black
blurs as they ripped through the snowstorm, the yeti was alarmed but
couldn't see the shurikens.
Splurt!
"RoOARr!"
The two Shuriken ripped into the Yeti's leg and one of its arm, it roared
in pain and fell on its knees. Rein moved quickly behind the Yeti and
kicked downward on its head, its body fell as it lost consciousness.
[Congratulations, you've defeated the Giant Frost Yeti, you've received:
11,000 System Points!
"Okay, maybe I hurt you a little too much but you'll survive!" Rein
scratched his head then put the Yeti into his storage to heal it up later.
Erica was watching the whole time, she was surprised because she didn't
know Rein could use shurikens! Rein didn't know how, all he did was aim
and throw them, that was all to it. Rein didn't use too much force or he
would have decapitated its arm and leg.
Erica and rest came over, Nami looked at the Cave with excitement but
Kuina wondered where the Giant Beast disappeared to. Strangely, she
didn't ask where it went, Rein and Erica were people that were too
unbelievable to her when it came to ability.
"This Cave, it's the place, let's go and get our Insignia!" Nami was all
smiles under N-Ferno around her head and mouth.
"Okay, let's go!" Rein and rest entered the cave and noticed that it looked
like a frozen tavern of some sort. Icicle hung from the cave ceiling while
some parts of the cave floor were frozen, so they had to be careful not the
fall.
"Look, there are some stairs here that lead downward!" Kuina Spotted
some stairs near two icy pillars. The size of the stair pathway had let
everyone know the Yeti wouldn't be able to fit down the stair path. Once
someone had made it this far, it wouldn't be able to pursue them any
further.
Before walkings down the stairway, everyone had spotted the Yeti's nest.
There was nothing valuable here, just a simple bedding area made out of
branches and straw. After finding that there wasn't anything useful here,
they proceeded down the stair path.
Erica and Nami carried torches this time around so the path was lit and
easy to get through. The downward stair path was quite long, everyone
wondered if it would lead out of the mountain. That would be
troublesome if it did, then all this would have been for nothing.
They were eventually at the end of the stairs and came to a hallway. At
the end of the hall was an entry path, but there lights inside of it. Rein
found that to be strange so he used Observation Haki and sure enough,
there were people here already.
"Careful, there are people who beat us down here somehow!" Nami and
every else face turned serious, they slowly approached and could hear
voices.
"Yes, all we have to do now is climb those long stair and the Goat
insignia will be ours, haha!" The man with several missing teeth laugh in
delight.
"Phew, I bet everyone is looking for us since we have the Snake insignia!
They almost cornered us last time but thanks to your Dig-Dig Fruit
ability, we got away, haha!" The man had a ridiculously long top hat
with several stars on it. The colors he wore were red, white and blue,
similar to Uncle sam from his last world.
He was a middle-aged man with short black hair and a long nose like
Usopp. He was with six other men who wore similar color for clothes.
One of the men carried a black flag and waved it around often, it had
nothing but white stars on it.
When Rein heard about the Snake and Goat Insignia all being here and
once, he was overjoyed. "We managed to dig our way into this mountain
and avoid everyone's pursuit. That damn Dege Malone almost caught us
but it's a good thing we instigated a battle between him and that White-
haired man!"
"Flahahaha!"
Suddenly, Everyone felt a chill against their bodies. "Brrr! Where is that
chill coming from, we're out of the blizzard, so why?"
"Gasp! Sir, we can't move, Our feet have been frozen over!" The flag
holder looked down in shock, how could the ground freeze so quickly?
Was this the storm outside causing all of this?
"Everyone freeze and put your hands up, this is a robbery, hand me all
your shit and no one gets hurt!" Rein walked out and spoke in a
nonchalant manner, he was smiling widely under his helmet like never
before, he always wanted to say that.
"Who the hell are you and how did you get in here!?" One of the men
yelled and pointed a Rein face in a disrespectful manner.
"Who gives a damn about who he is, let just blast him and get out of this
Ice!" The man reached for his pistol on his waist after he was done
talking.
"I said, Freeze!" Suddenly the Ice on the man's foot went up his body and
instantly covered him in ice, he was now a statue with his hand over his
gun.
"W-what the h-hell!?" Did this man just control ice to freeze one of their
comrades? They knew what this meant, he had a Devi fruit power! These
group of pirates were aware of Devil fruits and had quite the amount of
knowledge about them.
"Okay, please take our treasure! Rudy, hand the treasure over to this guy
or we'll be killed!" The Captain commanded one of his subordinates.
"But Captain..." He couldn't finish as he was interrupted.
"Hand it over or he'll freeze you to death!" Captain Laflaga didn't want to
be frozen to death, he could find more treasure at a later date if he didn't
die.
"O-okay!" The man was carrying a bag of treasure and tossed it Rein's
feet. Suddenly, a shadow came over and grabbed the bag before Rein
could.
"Ah, yes, this treasure is perfect, what nice people to give us these
rewards!' It was Nami, she moved pretty quickly that Rein was even
taken a bit off guard. Greedy to the core is what Rein would describe
Nami!
Nice Reward my ass!
This is damned robbery!
Shit! This chick is greedier than this guy!
The Flagstar Pirates all cursed silently, they didn't dare to say it out loud!
"Is what we looking for inside the bag or not?" Erica and Kuina walked
over as Rein asked his question. Nami skimmed through all the treasures
but didn't find the Snake Insignia anywhere amongst it.
"Hehe, trying to get one on me, I know you guys have that Snake
insignia, hand it over or I'll turn you all into ice sculptures!" Rein's eye
flashed red but this was only the helmet's special effects so it looked like
his actual eyes.
"Damnit!" Captain Laflaga gritted his teeth and took the insignia out of
his coat. He tossed it Rein and he caught it with ease. Rein scanned the
insignia and found that it was indeed the real thing. The lion insignia was
Gold, while the Snake Insignia was Bronze.
Erica looked over and saw a similar stairway just like the one they saw in
the trial pyramid. She wasn't the only one to discover it, everyone had
spotted it. "Erica, go grabbed the Insignia for me, I'll watch these clowns
until you get back." Rein stretched and took a seat on a Frozen rock
nearby.
"Geppo!" Erica shoot into the air, you could literally hear sounds from
here movements. She zig-zagged up and down through the air until she
reached the top in a flash. She could have done this in the last trail but
she was too exhausted back then, so she walked up the stairs instead.
Rein waited but she didn't come back until ten minutes later. "I can't get
the Insignia, it seems to be encased in some strange ice that I can't even
melt." Erica had a strange expression on her face, her ability couldn't melt
ice!?
"Something that even you can't melt? I'll go check it out, you three stay
here, I'll figure something out." Rein disappeared from where he stood
which surprised Laflage, he was now certain that he was dealing with
people he couldn't hope to match.
Once Rein arrived at the top, he saw a huge Ice Ball wrapped around the
Goat insignia. The ice was very Blue compared to the clear ice and
slightly light blue ice. This ice was Dark Blue, it was something he had
never seen before.
Rein could visibly see scorch marks on the ground, it was the doing of
Erica who attempted to breach the ice but failed. Rein used the same
method but like Erica, it had failed. He punched and kicked it but there
was still nothing, no even a crack.
"What kind of Ice is this?" Rein face changed, was it was indestructible
ice? For Laflaga to get the Snake Bronze Insignia, it must have been easy
but as they got more Insignias, it got harder like this one.
"System, Can you scan this Ice and tell me about it?" He hoped the system
would listen to him this time around because it usually ignored him over
the years.
[Affirmitive! Scanning....]
"Phew, thank goodness!" Rein sighed in relief.
[Ding! Scan complete!]
[This Ice is called Never-Melt-Ice!]
"What?" Rein immediately thought of pokemon, wasn't that a held item
that boosted Ice attacks in pokemon or something?
"How do I breach it? Could you please tell me?"
[Ding! Use a strong Ice ability to infiltrate it to get what is inside!]
"Ah! This will do!" Rein nodded and turned his hands into liquid Nitrogen
but suddenly, the room shook!
"What the heck was that?" Rein turned around and walked over to looked
to where Erica and the rest were. Erica was engaged in a fight with some
guy with white hair and blue eyes. From what Rein could see, no one
could hurt each other for some reason.
"This guy, he had a Devil Fruit ability, is it mist of something?" Rein
looked at the man, he was able to manipulate mist of some sort. Rein
didn't know that it was actually the ability to manipulate Clouds. None of
them could use Haki so it was a pointless fight against two logia types, if
Erica knew Haki then this guy would be toast!
"I'll finish up here then go help with that problem." Rein ran over to the
Ice Ball and used his ability to infiltrate the never melt ice. The process
was slow, but he manage to get it done with patience. With that, Rein
stored the Silver Goat Insignia into his storage where it was the safest.
"Not bad, you have a pretty powerful ability and you're a beauty! How
about you three ditch your captain and come join my crew? I know how
to treat the ladies, we'll drink and party all day long, just us." This man
was Captain Cloud of the White Cloud Pirates, he was a so-called ladies
type of guy.
"Ew! Who would join a stinky crew like yours!?" Kuina was disgusted
with this man and cursed at him. Erica didn't reply, she didn't need to
answer what she believed to be a stupid question. Nami didn't even look
at him, she was calculating the treasure she just received from Laflaga.
"Aw, you beautiful young ladies are missing out, how unfortunate for you
guys." Cloud sighed and looked at Laflaga who was stuck in place. "You're
really good at playing tricks Laflaga, but did you really think you could
hold onto those important items?" Cloud sneered
"....." Laflaga was silent
"Hehe, okay, young miss, it's time for round two, let's see what you can
do!" Cloud readied himself but suddenly, the wall was blown open behind
him.
"Miahahah! No one invited me to the party, I'm so sad!" Multiple figures
appeared, it was a total of three people.
"You weren't invited, so why are you even here?" Cloud snorted and
looked at the man in disdain.
"You little asshole, you robbed me last time but I'll be sure to crush you
this time!" That's right, this was the Captain of the Berserker pirates,
Baron!
"Robbed? I don't know what you're talking about, don't say things when
you have no proof!" Cloud denied it and shrugged slightly.
"You shameless sack of shit!" Baron wasn't that dumb, he knew how this
guy was! Baron looked over at Erica and the rest. "Are you hitting on
more girls but still got rejected in the end, how pathetic are you, haha!"
Cloud ignored his taunt and glared at Erica, her abilities were good but
their fight would only end in a draw.... unless!
However, he had the Cloud-Cloud fruit so he could do many things to
fight erica while she couldn't fight back. Suddenly, clouds began to form
in the room, they were filling up with water, then it started to rain.
"What?"
Erica was surprised, she now knew what type of fruit it was, it wasn't
mist, it was clouds! However, before anything could happen, Rein came
down and landed near Erica.
"Huh?" Cloud looked at Rein and said "So this is your Captain, why is he
dressed like some ancient ninja, is this a joke? Hahaha!"
Baron was just watching at first but he sensed something different about
this guy.
"This guy is strong, I have to fight him!" Baron said, "Hey you, I want to
fight you, let's do this right now!" It seemed that Baron was a straight
forward and blunt guy. The co-captain of the berserker pirates noticed
that Kuina was a swordsman like himself and felt a spark of fighting
spirit in him rising.
Kuina looked back at him and grinned with a spark of determination,
things were about to get hectic!
Baron Vs Rein!
Baron glared at Rein as his eye pupils flashed red. Rein stare back at him,
he had never seen someone so eager to fight except Ace and Luffy, not
even Sabo was like this. "Hold it right there, Baron! Weren't you fighting
Captain Red Bull not too long ago?"
Cloud had been secretly watching the fight when they clashed, afterward,
he left and was suddenly met with the Flagstar pirates. He chased them
but they were running from the Malone Family, he ran into them and a
conflicted started on who would capture and receive the Insignia.
"Ha! A low tier Bull like him can't match the legendary bull, it was so
weak that it only took one hit for me to bring him down!" Baron sneered
at Cloud then looked back at Rein who just stood in place saying nothing.
"By the way, can you stop it from raining in here, it already damn cold
enough!" Laflaga complained seeing the clouds in the air still pouring out
rain. It was too cold to have water on them, was he insane?
"Deal with it, you slippery squirrel!" Cloud chuckled and looked back at
Rein and his crew. "You guys took down Laflaga and his crew, so I'll
assume that you guys are in possession of the insignia?"
Cloud speculated
"Insignia? What is that, never heard of it." Rein looked around
confusingly and Feigned Ignorance.
Cloud's mouth twitched as he whispered.
"Liar!"
"I have no time for this, I just want to head to the grand line after this!
Erica, you deal with this Cloud guy, make sure to turn up the heat a bit
because it's going to get colder." Erica nodded and looked seriously at
Cloud.
"Little girl, do you think you have what it takes, after I beat you, your
Captain is next!" Cloud's body turned into clouds then he flew toward
Erica as she did the same. The two clashed, with Erica turning up the
heat, Cloud was no match, but Erica made sure to stay away from the
rain, she knew what it could do.
"Now, it you and me, Hisagi, you stand back! I'm going to see what this
guy is made of." Baron grinned and stepped forward. Baron then rushed
quickly to Rein, baring his fist, they crushed towards Rein.
Rein didn't dodge and challenged him as their fist collide, this shook the
area and cracked the ice!
"What!? Impossible, he was able to challenge the Captain's raw strength
head-on!" The two members of his crew were surprised. Cloud looked
back for a moment a was surprised himself, he himself and Baron were
from the South Blue so he knew Baron's strength.
"It's just as I thought, I really do have some good judgment!" Baron
smiled in excitement and began to exude force to push Rein back.
Crack!
Crack
The ground underneath them began to crack even more with two of them
going at it.
"Tekkai Ken!"
Rein took his arm back and swiftly punched Baron in the stomach,
sending him flying much to everyone's surprise. Baron slammed into the
ice wall and it collapsed on him.
"No way, just Impossible!" Hisagi the swordsman of his crew was at a
loss, he had never seen his Captain knocked away before!
Suddenly, Baron burst out of the rubble, he looked at Rein and grinned.
"Good, you're stronger than I thought, this is really good!" Baron had
some strange red aura around his body as his eye pupil turned deep red!
"Uh Oh, this isn't good!" The two crewmen backed away seeing baron's
berserker state. Baron pulled out his Axe and charged toward Rein in a
frenzy.
Rein sensed something strange and move away quickly on to an ice
Pillar. Baron Axe slammed in the last position Rein was in and crushed
the ground. "What is that feeling, he can't be using what I think he's
using."
Baron jumped and attack the pillar Rein was on but he had already
moved away from it. "Stop dodging and let me hit you!" Baron couldn't
catch Rein for the life of himself.
"I gotcha!" With that, baron swung his Axe at Rein. Suddenly, Rein's body
splashed and turned into clear water-like liquid. Rein's body materialized
around and on Baron's body, giving off below zero temperatures.
"Ice Coffin!"
Baron's Body was instantly Frozen to the point where no one could see
his facial expressions! Everyone's face changed greatly due to the drop in
temperatures, Nami and Kuina had already made a run to the exit before
this could happen.
Sadly, Captain Laflaga and his crew were turned into statues, it was
already cold outside and with the fact that Cloud made it rain in here
didn't make it better. Now Rein used Nitrogen to this extent and made
things even more colder.
"H-he can use Ice!? No wonder Laflaga and his crew members from
before were turned in ice sculptures!" Cloud understood right away, this
crew had some dangerous abilities, one that could use strange Black Fire
and one that could use a liquid cold substance. The scary part for Cloud
was that they were both Logia type, which was rare in itself.
Rein stood in place before Baron who had been frozen solid, he was in
his liquid state, he looked like water but he was actually Nitrogen.
Whoosh!
Suddenly, two missile homed in on Rein, he looked up then...
Boom!
The area around Rein exploded and was sent into flames, the cave shook
from the explosion. "I got him, he's dead for sure with those two missile
hitting him at point-blank, haha! Dare to freeze our Captain, he was
looking to die!" The markmen of the Berserker Pirates shot two missiles
at Rein, he had a rifle but decided to use the Missile launcher on his
back.
"Rein!"
"Rein"
Nami and Kuina looked on in Shock, he was directly hit by missiles, they
thought he was seriously wounded or worse, Dead! However, Rein
walked out of the fire with half the side of his body gone, but he began to
regenerate as he walked out!
"What!? He came out unfazed, he even healed his missing side!" The
Sniper was stunned seeing Rein come out unscathed. Cloud shook his
head, of course he would come out unscathed, he had that type of ability.
"Attacking people in the middle of combat, that pretty disrespectful!"
Rein sneered under his helmet.
"Let me show you what happens to people who sneak attack me!" Before
he could initiate an attack, the ice began to crack around Baron, the ice
showed a red luster coming from it.
Crack!
Boom!
Rein back moved back a bit to see what was up.
*Pant Pant*
Baron broke out of the Ice panting, his body was all red as steam was
exuding from it. This reminded Rein of WhiteBeard in his final battle
against Blackbeard. "I didn't know you had an ability like that, It looks
like I'll have to get serious!"
At that moment, Baron's vein began to bulge and pulsate. Erica and
Cloud had completely stopped their fight to watch the interesting fight
between Rein and Baron. Steam formed around Baron, he was giving off
a lot of heat and melted the ice around him.
Suddenly, both his arms expanded outward and so did his upper body, it
looked just like how Frieza looked when he first started to transform.
Baron's body grew bigger, his chest popped the armor he was wearing to
reveal his bare chest.
Judging from his transformation, Rein could tell he was a Devil Fruit
user. He had a humanoid bare chest, with feet has hooves, out of
nowhere a large Axe appeared in his hands. The Axe seemed to have
been created from Red Energy of some sort. His face showed that of a
bull's face, his face exuded red rage stricken eyes.
"Its a Zoan type!" Erica said unconsciously.
"Not just any Zoan type! This is the Mythical type, a Minotaur!" Rein was
pretty surprised about seeing someone with Mythical type devil fruit in
this place of all places.
"Oh, you can tell what type of power it is, most just think I'm regular
bull, haha!" Baron's voice was much deeper this time around. "It seems
that you're that annoying type of ability user just like that Cloud guy's
type of power, it looks like I'll have use that to beat you then!"
With those words, baron move quicker much than before and smash his
Axe towards Rein! Rein could feel it, this was definitely Haki, but how?
Rein dodged and appeared on pillar but Baron was already ready to
attack him again.
This was a mythical type, it was completely different from the rest, it was
faster, stronger, and much more durable. Eating this type would change
someone's power completely, it was very well earned to be in Baron's
hands.
Rein dodge again a sent a kick toward his chest, pushing Baron back
slightly! "Haha, you're too slippery, and you have some good strength in
that little body of yours, but I can do this all day!"
Suddenly, Baron shot a flamethrower out of his mouth! Cloud moved
away, he knew about Baron's strange force to attack people like him.
Cloud was unaware of Haki as of now, so he didn't know what this force
was.
Zzzwoosh!
The area was set ablaze, but most of the ice that Rein let out didn't melt.
It was only the ice that had been there before. "Hehe, I know you're still
there somewhere, come on out buddy, this isn't over!" Rein walked out of
the fire slowly, Erica remained in her same position, she didn't need to
fear this fire.
"Hmm, I guess I'll get a little serious, you're not bad, not bad at all." Rein
could see that if this guy had proper training then he could become a
decent rival in the future. Though his decision-making skills didn't seem
to be the smartest, he nevertheless had good strength.
"Not bad, huh? Then show me what you got!" Baron glared at Rein with
anticipation.
Rein nodded and took off his helmet, he didn't want it to get damaged for
what he was about to do. He could use an even more power Ice attack
like that Chill Fire but his crewmates were around. They would most
certainly be caught in that attack, it was just too cold.
Suddenly, wing sprouted from Rein body, they looked shadowy mist
wings, claws sprouted from his hands as horns came out of his head. One
of Rein eyes turn Aqua blue while the other turned orange, his whole
face was covered by shadowy mist that had long since engulfed it, only
reveal two blue and Orange gleaming eyes.
"What is that transformation!?" Cloud was shocked! What kind of a freak
was this? Why did people like this have to appear, he hated it so much,
just why!?
Even Erica was surprised, she had never seen Rein transform before, what
would she think if she knew that this was only a half transformation?
Nami and Kuina's eyes were glued to Rein, they were lost for words, they
couldn't say anything!
Baron's eyes went wide, he himself went straight for the full-body
transformation instead of a half body. He was a serious person, so he
didn't play around with his foes like most people did in some cases. But
this was the first time he felt pressure, it didn't make sense to him, it was
like something was telling him that he was no match for this guy before
him!
"No! I refuse to believe that, I must fight to improve, I don't chicken out!"
Baron refused to believe he was inferior and slammed his Axe onto
ground with battle intent. He steeled his will, he was no quitter, he
burned with fighting intent!
"Here I go!" Rein voice was slightly distorted, it sound unworldly and
devilish! With a quick leap, he appeared in front of Baron at Extreme
speed. Baron was still looking at where Rein recently was, he just to fast
for him, thus he was kicked in the face and sent flying through the wall.
Baron didn't have Observation Haki, he couldn't see or predicted
anything of this magnitude.
The mountain shook and threatened to collapse on them at this point, it
was just too much rambling going on in this mountain. Cloud's heart fell,
he couldn't process any of Rein's movements, no one could!
Rein wouldn't go full body of this form until he could better control his
instincts in it. Carnivorous Zoans bring out the savagery in people due to
the fruit. This was even worse with Ancient types like the Spinosaurus
and so forth. So one could imagine a Mythical type that was carnivore, it
would
be hard to contain it.
Baron never came out of that hole, the mountain shook again as rock
began to fall from the ceiling. Cloud concluded that baron was defeat in
one hit! Rein didn't need to be here anymore for any reason, so he and
his crew made a run for it, out of this place.
Treasure Tomb!
Rein and his crew ran up the stairs they came from in hurry, the
mountain shook ever so often. Nami was too slow, so she was picked up
by Erica like the first time they met. Far behind them was Cloud, he was
flying up the stairs as fast as he could. It wasn't like anyone who was a
Logia type user would die from a collapsing mountain.
After running up the stairs for an unknown amount of time, they reached
the Yeti Cave. Rein remembered the Yeti they had beaten and let it out of
his storage. He injected the creature with something and put it near its
nest in the cave.
Afterward, they left the cave and headed down the mountain, they had
gotten all three Insignia without much effort. It was unknown if the cave
they just left had collapsed or not but no one cared really.
Once they were down the mountain, they went to the cave and saw that
everyone was drinking hot chocolate around a campfire in the cave Erica
made. "Oh, you guys are back, we were about to leave due to some
tremor we felt earlier." Nojiko walked over after seeing that everyone
was back.
"Yeah, an incident took place while we were up on the mountain, it's a
lot to explain." Kuina gladly took the time to explain what had happened,
she didn't mind if the HeartSeeker Pirates heard it or not.
"So there were crazy and battle-hungry people here as well!" Hearing
what had happened, she couldn't wait to get stronger. Through fighting
does one gain power, you can't just train all day, you have to experience
the fight.
"This Cloud guy sounds way too arrogant, I bet he's all talk and no show."
Vindicate shook his head, there were still people who like the trash talk
while fighting?
"Ha! That guy couldn't handle Erica, he was hitting on us and everything,
but I understand, just looked at me, haha!" Nami put her hand on her
hips and laughed towards the sky.
"I'm looking, but I don't see much, hehe!" Hera took this time to defame
Nami's stuck up moment.
"Coming from someone who can only hide and shoot arrows, what a
coward!" Nami snorted and turned around and rubbed her shoulder like
she was wiping off dirty.
"You!"
"Okay, we're leaving and heading off, you guys are free to do what you
need to do here in the North." Rein interrupted before it got worse, the
two tigers wouldn't give in to one another.
"Huh? Where are you guys going?" Hera looked Vindicate then at Rein
and asked.
"We're leaving the island, you should explore the island more, you may
find some treasure." Rein said. Hera looked at Vindicate again, she
seemed reluctant to part with him. "We'll meet again as long as you make
it to the grand line, stop with that strange looks." Rein laughed to
himself, just how old was this woman?
"Okay, I'll head around the mountain for a bit more to find someone that
we're looking for, and if we can't find him, we'll leave as well." Hera
stood up and looked Vindicate one last time.
"We'll meet again my love, our love will never truly draw us apart!" Hera
smiled widely and signaled her crew that it was time to go. Vindicate
didn't say anything, he already told this woman that he wasn't getting
into any relationship. She seemed to have turned a deaf ear to what he
was saying.
With that, Hera's crew bowed and left to follow their captain.
"Sigh, she doesn't understand the words that are coming out of my
mouth." Vindicate sighed.
"Haha, that's the power of love I guess, it's ignorant to everything, it
doesn't want to hear things it doesn't." Nojiko was here the whole time,
so she knew what had happened.
"Rein, what do you mean, we're leaving this Island?" Nami finally asked.
"That was a lie, it was to get her to leave, we don't want her to follow us
to the real tomb of possible treasure." Everyone was enlightened from
what he said, it made perfect sense. If he didn't say that then she would
have tagged along.
"Okay, let's go! The Blizzard is only getting worse, it might be a bigger
storm coming." Kuina looked outside and couldn't see anything due to the
snowstorm.
"Yeah, I also want to talk to you about Devil Fruits, I want a power as
well." Kuina had wanted to ask this for a while but held back.
"Do you think those Fruits can be found like cabbages?" Nojiko frowned,
it wasn't easy to get these powerful fruits, she believed that Kuina was
asking too much.
"Hehe, it's okay, we'll find something that suits her perfectly, but for now,
we have a job to do. One last job on this island then we'll head off this
Island." Nojiko prepared hot chocolate for everyone personally for them
to drink for the snowstorm.
Everyone traveled through the storm as fast as they could. The storm
didn't affect Rein and Erica obviously, but everyone else felt it. Nami and
Kuina complained about the storm but Rein simply replied saying 'now
do you think the desert is so bad?'
After taking a hot chocolate break, they continued on until they were
eventually out of the Snowstorm north. "This Island has terrible weather,
I can't take this place for much longer, we need a vacation." Kuina and
Nami were relieved to be out of that snowstorm after so many breaks.
"There is still a chill around here and frost on some trees, we aren't far
away enough." Vindicate could visibly see frost on trees that came from
the storm. Nami pulled out the map as they walked through the forest.
They had one more place to head to, it was the main place that required
the Insignias.
"Hehe, this place is bound to have some treasure!" Nami looked excited as
she stared at the map, she was ahead of everyone and leading the way.
"Nami, you've gotten plenty of treasure from that trial, stop being so
greedy, we don't need money so much anymore." Nojiko said.
"It not so bad to have a 'Little bit more', is it?" Nami tried to sound
justified. Nojiko mouth twitched but she said nothing more. The tomb
was located in the middle of the island, it took them three hours to reach
this place! They took a food break because everyone was feeling hungry
from all the walking.
"Goodness, we're finally here!" Vindicate was tired of walking, he would
have rather flown here but Rein felt like that would catch someone's
attention. However, on their way out of this place, they'll surely fly out.
Once they were close to the tomb, they entered. Inside the tomb was
ancient pictures and text written on the walls that no one could read.
Rein immediately spotted the platform where he needed to insert the
insignia into.
Rein walked up to the Giant Double door and inserted the insignia inside
of it.
Rumble!
Rumble!
The Insignias form a familiar creature known as the Chimera, he could
also hear a click sound. "The doors have been unlocked, let go!" Rein
pushed the doors opened and it revealed a huge beautiful forest with
rivers and waterfalls. They all walked through the door and it shut
behind them and locked itself!
They had no idea that the door had locked itself because they were
mesmerized by the paradise looking scenery. The trees were so big, they
were too wide and tall, they had never seen trees this big before
"Goodness, does a Giant live here or something, just look at the size of
those trees!" Vindicate looked up and was amazed at the height of them,
they towered over everything. However, Rein felt like he had seen these
types of trees before.
"System, can you tell me what type of tree these are?" Rein asked silently.
[Adam Wood!]
"Just as thought! Guys, this is the legendary wood trees known as Adam
Wood, we need it for a new and durable ship!" Rein was finally excited,
this meant that he didn't need to buy it.
"Adam Wood? What is that?" Everyone looked confused, of course, they
had never heard of it.
"Sigh, it doesn't matter, we need to cut some of these trees down and take
them with us!" Rein said hurriedly "Vindicate, you cut some down while
we search this place a bit more." Vindicate didn't have a problem with
that, he wanted to test his new ability out.
Kuina decided to stay behind to help him cut down some trees, it wasn't
going to be easy cutting Adams wood, it would take some time for that.
The rest roamed the forest and Nojiko finally spoke about the devil fruit
she found within the trial.
"Oh, let me have a look at it." Rein said. Erica searched through the
storage and found it. "It looks like an overgrown lime with scales on it."
Rein looked at the fruit and gave his evaluation.
"System, scan this fruit!"
[Scanning....]
Ryu Ryu No Mi, Model: Tyrannosaurus Rex
"Wow, this is an amazing find!" Rein was surprised, he decided to keep
this Fruit!
This was better than the Insect-Insect Fruit he found in his trial. The bugs
wouldn't even be able to bite through the thick scales and skin of the T-
Rex!
"Is it? What type of power does it have?" Nojiko asked curiously.
"It's an ancient type that'll turn you into a fierce dinosaur." Rein said
plainly
"Oh, I don't want to become a dinosaur, I like cat types better if had to
choose an animal." Nojiko looked at the silent Cheshire cat on her head
that had its eye closed this whole time.
"Over here, guys! Look at this thing, it friggin huge!" Nami called
everyone over in a hurry. Once everyone came over, they saw a huge
blue block with ancient writing on it.
"Poneglyph!" Rein was shocked seeing something like this here of all
places. Judging from the coloration, he concluded that is was merely a
historical type.
"System, can you translate this Poneglyph for me?" After three seconds,
the system said nothing.
Rein saw this coming so he wasn't disappointed.
"Poneglyph? What is that?" Rein felt like he'd been hearing that same
question a little too much!
"Something important that I'll explain some other time. I need to load this
sucker up and take it with us!" Rein couldn't read the Poneglyph
obviously but he knew someone that could. With that, Rein didn't wait
around and immediately put the Poneglyph into his storage.
"Dang, I don't think I'll ever get used to that." Nojiko had a weird smile
on her face.
"Let's continue to look around, there may be some more good treasures
around here ready to be taken!" Rein smiled, these treasures were good
so far, he wasn't disappointed with this hunt at all.
They broke up into groups, Rein went with Nami and Nojiko went with
Erica. Rein walked through the forest then stopped, he needed to see how
big this place was so he flew in the air. He told Nami to wait for a bit
while he checked it out.
Rein looked into the distance and spotted something out of the ordinary
right away. It was a golden light coming from the ground some ways
away, if you played call of duty Zombies then you would know how this
light looked.
Rein went back to the ground where Nami was. "I spotted a glowing
pillar of light some ways away, I'll carry you over so we can check it out."
Nami nodded and he grabbed her and put her into a princess carry to fly
over to the light.
Once they got there, they spotted a big chest that was taller than Rein,
and Vindicate who was the tallest on the ship! "It's so bright, we should
open it asap to see what is inside, there's obviously treasure inside!" Nami
excitedly said with a smile.
Rein didn't say anything and approached the chest, he opened it with
ease since it wasn't locked. There were several items in here that looked
amazing, he saw something that got his attention the minute he opened
the chest.
"Hmm, what is the Purple Ball, it looks important." It looked like a crystal
ball, but it was purple instead.
The Final Treasure!
Nami stood and watched as Rein went through the chest, she was to short
to join him and couldn't fly to get up. He looked at the Crystal ball and
put it into his storage to check later. Rein also saw two small stones, one
was red while the other was yellow. The chest was pretty big but it didn't
have much in it, he spotted a Burgundy carpet with gold design going
through it.
"This chest it big but it doesn't have much to offer besides the Orb, the
carpet, and these two colorful stone." Rein shrugged, he didn't care much,
he felt like he had gained a lot from this place already.
"Huh? Colorful stones? Let me see them!" Nami grew restless after
hearing about some stones. Rein grabbed the stone and tossed them to
her and she caught them.
"Yes, these are what I need!" Nami had always carried that staff on her
back which Rein never bother to ask about. She took the staff off her
back and insert them into their respective colors on the staff.
The staff flashed Red and Yellow once the insertion was complete.
"Let's give it a try!"
"Wait, hold up, you can do that some other time, don't do whatever
you're going to do now!" Rein hurriedly and spoke, he had a bad feeling
about what she was trying to do. Nami halted and chuckled, she was
feeling excited to try this new staff.
With that, he simply tossed the strange carpet into his storage without
looking at it anymore. He was going to properly investigate these items
once they were back on the ship. "Hmm, that carpet, can you bring it
back out, I want to see it." Nami took an interest in the carpet Rein stored
away.
"Uh, sure!" He took it back out and handed it to Nami to inspect. She
unrolled it and blew it out into the air to get rid of dust if there was any.
Nami scratched her head and laid the carpet on the ground and sat on it.
Suddenly, the carpet began to float into the air with Nami on it!
"What the...." Rein scrunched his face.
"It a flying Carpet!" Nami had read fairytales about this but wasn't sure,
she thought it wouldn't work, she was expecting to look very stupid for
what she was doing. Nami was so surprised that her ridiculous theory
was right!
Rein had a dumbfounded smile on his face that seemed stiff, he had seen
some crazy things in one-piece world, but a flying carpet? "It's one piece,
I don't think it isn't possible, who knows what the one piece really is?"
Nami seemed to be able to control it, she was surprisingly not scared like
he was expecting.
"Hehe, hop on, we can use this to fly around instead, it's more
convenient!" Rein hoped on, and thought, what could be next, Genies in
lamps!?
Nami flew the Carpet like she had done it all her life, she seemed to
understand how to move the carpet like her body. Rein wouldn't ask if no
one volunteered to tell, so he didn't ask like he usually never did.
"This carpet is amazing!" Nami said excitedly, she was a year younger
than what she was in the series, so she was liberated from Arlong a bit
early, thus she was a bit more cheerful.
Her hair was blowing into the wind with how fast she was moving the
carpet. Rein had grown used to these types of movements because he
could fly, so he didn't feel sick or scared of heights like he used to be.
Time passed and they continued to fly around in this closed-off place.
This place was big but had its limit, it also had a fake sky which may
have been painted on, who knows for sure? Rein and Nami had even
passed Erica and Nojiko a few times but still found nothing.
Nojiko appeared to have wanted to say something but Nami kept flying
carpet without stopping to see what she wanted. Anger could visibly be
seen on Nojiko face from this, at least Rein could see it. Rein wanted to
laugh but held back, what if she saw him doing that, then she would
think he was in on it.
"Is there anything else in this place? Haven't we checked everywhere only
to find nothing else!" Nami felt like there had to be more to it than just
some trees, a block of Ancient text on it, and a treasure chest. Rein
couldn't agree more, his mission was still ongoing so there had to be
more here.
This time when they passed by, they saw Nojiko waving her hands to get
their attention. Nami planned to pass her again but he told her land
down there to see what she wanted. Nami pouted because she felt like
Nojiko might take her new flying carpet, she already had a cool cat.
Once they landed, Nojiko glared at Nami who was whistling and looking
away!
Bonk!
Nojiko fisted Nami over the head!
"Ouch! What was that for?" Nami rubbed her head with tears in her eyes.
"You clearly saw me earlier but you ignored me!" Nojiko then looked at
Rein.
"I didn't see anything, she must have ignored you but I wouldn't ignore
my great friend!" Rein said in a hurry.
"He's right, we didn't see you!" Nami followed up and said.
"Yawn, they're lying, they both saw you but you were mainly ignored by
Nami! Checheche!" The Cheshire Cat suddenly spoke and ratted them
out!
At that moment, it was deadly silent, only the wind could be heard. Rein
looked at the cat who was peeking at him. "Don't be mad great captain, I
just don't want my master to not be fooled, you know?"
The Cat defended itself.
"Sigh, forget it! My cat buddy here discovered a cave nearby. Erica is
already exploring it, she told me to get your attention so you guys can
join us." With that, she led them to the cave and the Cheshire cat was
able to sense.
They were eventually at the cave and walked into it. Nami asked Nojiko
if she could borrow her cat sometime, she clearly wanted it for treasure
hunting.
"No Way!" Nojiko said right away.
"Checheche!" The cat only laughed seeing Nami's desperate face.
"Come on, just a little!" Nami put her hands together in a praying manner
and asked.
"Maybe, we'll have to see," Nojiko said.
"Yes!"
Suddenly, they came into a big cave room, there they saw Erica looking
at something that was on a table in the cave. "Oh, you guys finally came
after you ignored us when we were calling you so much!"
Erica said after seeing the two.
"Nami was just enjoying herself so much that she couldn't land the
carpet." Rein blamed Nami and said.
"Damnit, Rein, you were enjoying yourself too!" Nami looked at Rein and
said.
"Well, it's over, what did you find?" Rein changed the subject and said.
"This, take a look at it. I've never seen anything like this before" Rein
looked at the large table and saw what appeared to be a toy city in a
glass. There was actual water surround the city within the glass display,
it looked so real!
[Explore the Mysteries Of Myriad Island!] [Completed!]
[Handing out Rewards!]
⭑ Congratulations Rein, you've received: 10 Attribute points
⭑ Congratulations Rein, you've received: 15 Skill Points
⭑ Congratulations Rein, you've received: 50,000 System Points
⭑ Congratulations Rein, you've received: System Update Version 1
"Say what now!?" Rein was surprised to see the notification, he had
completed the mission! Just what was this city in a glass for it to
complete his mission?
Rein looked around a saw several flags hanging up with a chimera on
them with the letters MK on them. The Kingdom seemed to view the
Chimera as some sort of special symbol.
Rein walked over to the City in the glass display and picked it up, it
required to hands to pick up or you would end up dropping it or breaking
it on one side due to the uneven weight on one side.
"System, scan this item for me, tell me what it is." Rein said in his head.
[Scanning....]
"Yes, it's actually scanning it!"
[Ding! Myriad Kingdom In a display! Ancient Artifact!]
"What!? Can you tell me more?" Rein was shocked, was this a kingdom
from long ago that had been stored?
[Would you like to update the system? y/n]
"Yes, please update it!" The system seemed to require an update to gain
more info. Suddenly, he heard another notification.
[Update! 4%]
[The previous owner of this Artifact has died, would you like to become
the owner?]
"Gasp! Yes!" Rein answered without thinking.
[Ding! Newly registered owner, Rein!]
Owner: Monkey D. Rein
Inhabitant Count: None
"Can I put people in the display to live in?" If this was really the case then
he truly found a treasure like no other! Not only that, but he could find
people, then he could put them in here to stay until he made his Island in
the New world!
Rein smiled and put the display in his storage for later. Everyone just
watched him, Rein had been standing there smiling and making all types
of faces. "Are you alright, you aren't going crazy on us, are you?" Nami
suddenly said.
"Nope! It's just that we found something good!" Everyone wanted to ask
more but they'll do that once they were back on the sea. Rein looked over
and saw a little treasure chest in a dark corner, it was very hard to notice
in this cave with barely any light.
He casually walked over to the dark corner to get the chest. Rein picked
it up and found that the chest wasn't locked. So, like most people, he
opened it to check it out. Erica and company walked over with torches in
their hands.
Once he opened it, it revealed a Devil Fruit that looked like a pineapple
with blue, red and yellow over it. Rein scanned the fruit and found that it
was the Cat-Cat Fruit, Model: Chimera, it was a myth Type.
"I guess I should have seen this coming, but I'm not a fan of the Chimera."
Honestly, he didn't like the Chimera looks, well, he didn't like the goat on
its back. Thus, he decided to sell the fruit without much thought. The
Fruit sold for 1.5 Million system points, so he gained a lot from the sale.
Everyone was silent, they thought he stored whatever was in the chest,
they didn't see what was in it.
"Okay, let's get out of here! We have nothing left to do on this island."
Rein was satisfied with this hunt and was ready to leave this Island. He
had a total of 2,289,150 System Points, this made him feel even better.
"Okay, we can count our earning on the ship, hehe! By the way, where
are we heading next?" Nami asked.
"LogueTown!"
An hour later or so, they arrived near the exit. There were several cut
down trees in the area as dirt clouds were in the air. This was apparently
from their fall when they were cut down by Vindicate and Kuina.
Once everyone arrived, they shocked and scared from what they were
seeing. They saw a huge Jack O' Lantern with a scythe in its hands
cutting down trees. However, its appearance was different from
Vindicate's appearance back in the forest. The thing looked much more
sinister and creepy, it had black smog around it leaking everywhere.
"I-is it Vindicate?" Nojiko tried to calm down looking to very eerie
creature.
"No!" Rein plainly said.
"WHAT!? Then who is it?" Nami back away in fear, she had her fair share
of creepy things on this Island.
"It was Vindicate who summoned it, he is also controlling it to do his
bidding for him." He knew this wasn't Vindicate but something he
created, this ability was similar to Basil Hawkins ability to control a
Giant Scarecrow. However, it didn't have the drawbacks like Basil's
straw-straw fruit, that if you were to take damage, the summoner or the
one who formed it would suffer damage in the place it was wounded.
Basil used others to take damage instead of himself so he was able to
avoid it most of the time. However, Vindicate's power was a Mythical
Zoan so he wouldn't take damage if his summoned or formed creature got
hurt.
"That thing is so creepy, maybe we should make a rule that he can't
summon or form that thing, ever!" Nojiko and Nami both agreed when
Nojiko suggested it, but how could Rein agree to that?
Rein and company walked over and Kuina and Vindicate were sparring,
Kuina was using a sword and Vindcate was using a Scythe he formed.
Rein's mouth twitched seeing the two fighting instead of cutting trees.
Once they saw Rein they stopped their spar and came over.
"Nice, you're back, we collected some tree and enough wood, I think!"
Vindicate said with a smile.
Then the Giant Jack O' Lantern stopped and flew over towards them.
"Ah!"
"No! Don't call it over!"
Nojiko and Nami were horrified, definitely Nami!
"Don't worry, he won't attack you." Vindicate said, "Oh, did you guys find
anything good out there?"
"Yeah, we found a good amount of things, we can leave now!" Rein didn't
bother to ask them anything, the job of cutting down trees was done.
Erica was already on the case and started putting the tree into her storage
ring, it was almost at its limit and this was a mid-grade ring!
"The door locked itself but we found a platform that'll teleport us out of
here for good!" Kuina sheathed her sword and spoke.
"Oh, where will it teleport us to?" Rein asked.
"There is a map on the Platform so we can choose where to teleport to on
the island," Kuina confirmed.
"Phew, convenient right, now we won't have to do all that walking!"
Vindicate was happy when they discover this place, they found it when
his Iron Maiden was cutting down trees.
"Can you get rid of this thing now, I think it's staring at me!" Nami was
feeling paranoid with this thing hovering around them.
"I think it wants to play with you, how about it?" Vindicate grinned and
called the creature closer! He knew about her experience in the trial and
knew she was slightly traumatized by those monsters.
"AHH! Don't go too far Vindicate!!" Nami hollered.
Moments later, they were at the platform ready to take leave.
"Set it near the shore, so we can just get on our ship and book it!" Rein
wanted to leave as soon as possible, he didn't want to run into some more
conflictive people like that Cloud and Baron guy again.
"Alright, setting it near the shores in the desert area we came from!"
Nami targeted the desert on the map and pushed the button.
Suddenly, the space twisted and everyone on the platform warped away!
Sorting The Treasure!
Frost Mountain.
At this time, Baron and his crew had escaped the collapse of the bottom
cave of Mountain Frost. Surprisingly, they grabbed the Flagstar crew
members and took them out, thus saving them from the collapse.
"They're frozen solid, so we can't get any information out of them,
captain!" The Sniper said. Baron didn't say anything and just heated up
the ice, unthawing them from it.
"Brr! It's cold, I'm gonna freeze to death for sure!" Flagstar and his crew
complained.
"Shut up you useless clown, you'll tell me where the main tomb is for the
insignias or I'll be sure to warm you up nice and good!" Baron was
already pissed from his fight with Rein, so he needed to vent in some
way.
"We can tell you, just relax!" Just when he was about to talk, he was
interrupted by a group of men in white.
"Oh, lookie here, why don't hand him over to me, we've been searching
for him for some time now!" A man with a cigar in his mouth walked out
the snowstorm in a white suit, he was accompanied by two other men.
"Dege, this isn't any of your business, so get lost!" Baron was on edge and
looked at him coldly.
"Hahaha! You seem mad, is it because you got spanked in Mount Frost?"
Dege smiled and said, "Yeah, I heard about it from Cloud not too long
ago, he even said you cried like a wimp!" Dege looked at Baron with
disdain.
Baron slammed his Axe into the snow and charged at Dege, a fight was
bound to break out!
Rein's Ship.
"Yes, look at all the treasure we've collected, we'll be rich for generation
to come!" Nami was mesmerized by the gold.
"You won't live for a generation, you'll be dead by then!" Kuina said
bluntly.
"Hey, hey, don't pour all the gold out on the ship, it might give way, this
ship isn't that strong or big!" Rein hurriedly to speak, this ship wouldn't
be able to hold to much gold. Vindicate could carry things in his body
with his new ability, he was a walking storage, but he couldn't carry
crazy big things.
Erica was just about to pour her gold out as well, but after hearing what
Rein said, she stopped. "Well, I guess we better open some of these chests
then. We're gonna need a bigger boat, but those trees we found should do
the trick." Vindicate began to open some of the chests that he found but
they were hard to open.
"Tsk! These think are hard to open, they don't even come with a key!"
Nojiko struggled but couldn't open the chest no matter what she did.
"Vindicate, get this gold up you left on the ship, do you want to sink us?"
Kuina saw a pile of gold near Vindicate, he seemed to be ignoring it.
"Yeah, after I open up this chest." Vindicate didn't even look at her and
continued to try and pry the chest open.
"Damn! Will I have to capture Mr. 3 to open these damn things?" Rein
scratched his eyebrows and contemplated.
"Fuck it! I'll just chop this thing up to open it!" Vindicate couldn't take it
anymore and formed a scythe.
"Wow, wait a minute, that won't work, what if you destroy the goods
inside!" Nami face changed seeing Vindicate lose his patience.
"Sigh, then how can we get them open, we have no keys, and these chests
are made out of some strong material." Vindicate sighed and put his
scythe away.
"I know somebody, but he is someways away, we'll have to capture him
once we see him." Rein had no choice, he would need to capture Mr. 3
and make him open these chests with wax ability.
"See, there we go, he knows someone that can open these chests, so there
is nothing to worry about." Erica smiled, she was worried herself but
since Rein knew someone that could open them, they could just capture
him later.
"Nami, how long will it take us to get to this Logue town?" Kuina sat in a
chair as she wiped her sword with a cloth.
"Hmm, maybe a day and a half, we should be there after that but for
now, let's sort this treasure out." Nami wasn't worried about how long it
would take to get anywhere, she felt like she was in a little paradise right
now.
Kuina eyebrows knitted but she didn't say anything.
"Yeah, let's sort the treasure out. Erica, you hold the gold and..." Rein
paused for a bit but before he could say anything, Nami spoke.
"What? Why can't I hold the gold, I have good managing skills, no offense
Erica! I'm just saying I have the skills to hold money well!" The ship
became deadly silent, even the Cheshire Cat looked at her like an idiot.
"Hahaha! If we let you hold the money, we might go bankrupt the next
day!" Vindicate laughed with tears in his eyes, what a joke?
"Vindicate, what do you know, my skills in mapping and managing are
amazing!" Nami snorted, but Rein didn't want her to hold the money,
forget that! He agreed with Vindicate somewhat, but she was the
manager of the straw hats so she wasn't that bad but that'll have to wait!
[Update Complete! 100%]
Suddenly, the Update to the system was complete, so Rein checked it out.
While he was at it, he viewed his Status as well.
Status:
Title: Sword Menace,
Name: Monkey D. Rein
Age: 16
|Strength: 215 |Agility: 175 |Will: 95 |Stamina: 146 |Body Fitness: 117
Haki:
|Observation Haki: D |Armament Haki: EE |Conqueror Haki: (Locked)
Rokushiki:
|Soru: C |Geppo: DD |Shigan: C |Kami-E: D-Rank |Tekkai: DD |Rankyaku:
E
|Doriki: 3,500
Combat Arts:
|Swordsmanship: E
Passive Abilities:
|Cold Resistance: C |Heat Resistance: C
Devil Fruit: Demon-Demon Fruit, Model: Balrog (FrigidFire)
|Attribute Points: 13 |Skill Points: 23 |System Points: 2,289,150
Author Note: I'll add the power levels of the one-piece world so you can
understand where Rein stands in power. It will be hard to do because the
warlord can range from very weak to very strong, so it's hard to measure.
He could see that his Armament Haki had broken through thanks to his
fight recently with that Baron guy. Other than that, the only thing that
improved was his stats, but they would continue to improve if he fought
strong opponents and only strong opponents.
Observation Haki had seen some improvement since he used it often.
It had been decided that Erica would hold the money, while the treasure
chest would remain on the ships. Rein looked at the description of the
Display Model he had gotten from the cave.
[True Kingdom Model: The owner can transport living being into and out
of this Model. In a ditch effort to save his Kingdom, he stored it away for
future generations.]
After the money situation was handled, Rein went to his room and pulled
out the True Kingdom Model. He touched it and his body disappeared
and reappeared into the Model Kingdom. This place was surprisingly
sunny inside but no one could see outside once they were in here. The
glass must be special to act as a sky of sorts.
The place looked amazing but obviously vacant of people, the only thing
was the water moving about. "This place is surprisingly beautiful, I can
tell it was a great place to live in the past." That was long ago, but now it
was his to control.
"I will need people to guard my island when I'm away and I will need
citizens, so I guess later I'll have to find some people." This was all he
could do, he needed people then he would dump money into the
economy and make his island a rich place.
Luffy even had a Grand Fleet backing him, so why wouldn't Rein have
one. Every Emperor had a huge force, he would surely need to have one
for his island. If he didn't then it would be raided by pirates or worse, the
other emperors! Rein would probably just ally himself with Ace and Luffy
later anyway, along with Sabo.
"Hehe, I'll have to snag Sugar, she will turn any invading pirates into
toys!" He had a way of dealing with that 'little girl' once he got his hand
on her. Rein continued to explore the huge city, he learned that this place
had a day and night to it.
And there, he saw a huge castle as he flew around, it had tall walls
around it. Rein flew toward the castle and into it. It was just as he
thought, the Kingdom really looked up to the Chimera. There were
several statues of the creature within the castle and even the same type of
flag he saw in the cave.
Rein walked into the throne room and it was, well, a throne sitting high
up. "This place must have been emptied out, my Observation Haki isn't
picking anything up." The place was cleaned out beforehand, so there
was nothing left.
Rein spotted a huge vault that was opened already and saw that there
was nothing inside of it. "Haha, yup, this place was cleaned out by
someone before it was reduced to this state." Rein shook his head and left
the Model Kingdom and appeared back in his room.
Rein walked out of his room and was greeted by Erica. "The ring is at its
limit, I can't fit anything else in here, so I might need another, perhaps."
Erica found it hard to ask this but she needed more room.
Before he could say anything, Nami and Nojiko came over as well. "Yeah,
we would like a ring, no, if it comes in the form of a necklace, that would
be better," Nami said with stars in her eyes.
"I want mine to be a bracelet storage thingy, this is more convenient!"
Nojiko liked bracelet better, apparently.
"Yeah, I'll be sure to give you guys that before we reach Logue town, so
wait until then, peeps! As for Erica, she needs an upgrade now." Erica
was holding most of the gold, well, at least all of the gold they collected
and not his, hehe!
"Perfect! This is not a problem, I can wait!" Nami and Nojiko nodded and
walked back up to the ship's deck.
"Goodness, when you head back to the deck, be sure to let them know
not to recklessly tell anyone about the storage devices." He had to be
sure, he didn't want any stupid trouble because he had high tech space
objects like these. However, these items would surely sell for a lot if
anyone found out about them, but he didn't want that, at least not for a
while.
"Of course, I'll be sure to let them know, we don't need unnecessary
trouble but we're pirates, trouble would come anyway." Erica smiled and
nodded as to understand, she knew Rein was somewhat of a lazy person.
"Give me your ring." Rein said bluntly. Erica handed her ring to him and
he turned to walk in his room.
"Wait here!"
It was easier and cheaper to upgrade a storage device rather than just
buying a new one. It only cost 3000 System Points to do it. Rein had
plenty of points from selling that Chimera Fruit so he was in a decent
spot. Devil fruits on the system just cost too much and the only reason he
was able to buy Rokushiki and Haki so cheap back then was because they
were on sale.
He had just opened the system around that time and a lot of things were
on sale. But now, they were at their full price and cost a lot. With a flash
of light, the ring had upgraded to a high-grade storage ring. He walked
out and handed to Erica, she looked at it, she could sense that there was
far more room in it now from touching it.
"This is the same ring, how did you do it?" Erica asked
"I have a superpower called.... Super upgrade technique!" Rein stuttered
and said. Erica's face twitched then she laughed, she knew he was clearly
lying but didn't bother to ask further.
"Well, I'm coming to the deck with you so I guess I'll just tell Nami and
Nojiko, better to hear it from the horse's mouth." With that, both Erica
and Rein walked to the deck.
Vindicate was playing cards with Kuina, while Nami was counting the
golden coins and jewels. That was going to be impossible to do but she
seemed really good and counting and keeping up with the money count.
Nojiko was standing, the Cheshire cat was hovering in front of her and
talking to her. Nojiko was would punch out under the cat's instruction,
she would show her something from her book every now and then.
Rein was intrigued and walked over to see what was going on.
"Oh, Rein, you came back the deck, I thought you were going to sleep or
something." Nojiko looked over and said. The Cheshire Cat just sat on her
book hovering in the air with that same wide smile on its face.
"Yeah, just wanted to tell you and Nami something, but what are you two
doing over here? What was she showing you from her book?" Rein didn't
sugar coat what he wanted to ask and asked flatly, he usually never asked
anything but that book the Cat had was strange.
"Oh, I asked her if she could show me some strong fist techniques and she
show me something from her book!" Nojiko said happily.
"Oh, and what are they called?" Rein asked right away.
"Hmm, the name is kinda strange but it's called Hasshoken!" Nojiko
smirked and nodded slowly.
"..........." Rein was speechless!
Logue Town!
A day had already passed and everyone rested well. First thing in the
morning, Kuina went to the deck to do her daily training routine with her
sword. Yesterday Rein had talked to her about devil fruits, but she told
him that she had thought about it and decided to not consume one.
Rein was actually relieved to hear this, she could become the strongest
without a fruit. He was going to buy back that Aura fruit he stole a while
back and give it to her, but she said she didn't need a Devil fruit ability.
The ship was now closing in on Logue Town. Rein had already given
Nami and Nojiko the spatial items they wanted. Soon, everyone woke up,
everyone sat around the table and ate breakfast as they talked about
Loguetown.
Rein told them that they would go shopping there before leaving the
place. Logue town had a lot of nice things that were shipped from the
other 3 blues. In the anime, this was where Nami got all her exotic
clothes from. She had more money this time and a storage item, so she
was going to go on a shopping spree once she got there.
Everyone wanted some new clothes and essentials for the ship. Rein
would have to make it into the grand line before he could have a new
ship made. Once everyone was done with breakfast, some of them went
to shower, while others went to the deck as usual.
Over time, everyone came to the deck and relaxed as usual. Nami used
the spyglass and saw that Logue Town was up ahead. "I need some new
clothes for our long trip, we girls all need new clothes!" Nojiko and the
rest talked enthusiastically until they reached the Island.
Nami parked the ship near the island, they weren't going to stay here too
long. "You guys go get what you need, I may or may not leave this ship."
Rein said, "Also be careful, the marines here are known for stopping
pirates from entering the grand line." Hearing Rein's warning, everyone
nodded and got off the ship.
"Erica, you keep a close lookout, there is a captain here that may give
you and Vindicate trouble." With their bounties being quite high within
the East Blue, how could they miss Erica and Vindicate?
They both understood, he had told them already about their bounties
being posted some time ago. With that, everyone left the ship except Rein
who wanted to relax a bit. For one, he had learned something good about
the system.
With the system update, he learned after running through the system that
he could even sell smile devil fruits to it now. So, if he could capture
Ceaser clown or learn how to make these artificial fruits himself, then he
could make some serious money on the system.
Devil fruits were his favorite thing to look at on the system. New Devils
had appeared on the system, they were the highest costing fruit he had
seen beside the Hobby fruit. Fishman Karate never appeared and he
didn't expect it to, it was a race exclusive fighting style.
"Well, I may as well open the Silver tokens I got a while ago." Rein
wanted to wait until he was alone to do this, he could just do it in his
room but with the ship to himself, it was more fun that way."
Rein decided to open the Devil Fruit Token first, he wanted to see what
he'd get.
Note Below:
• The Devil Fruits will be given out randomly so the user may not choose
specifically.
• Due to the Mid-level Silver Token, the Devil Fruit you'll receive will be
fruits that are not being used.
• The higher-grade the token, the higher the chance of getting something
rarer. The percentage ratio of certain classes of Devil fruit is as follows.
• Paramecia 70%
• Zoan 55 %
• Ancient Zoan 40%
• Logia 35%
• Mythical Zoan 15%
Note: This is not out of 100 percent, they're just odds! It can never be 100
percent for any of them.
It basically told him what he read when he first opened a token but that
was a bronze token at that time. The coin appeared in his hand, he tossed
in the air to flip to see what number it would land on from 1 to 3. If it
landed on either of the said numbers then that was the number of fruit he
could get.
If they were useless to him then he would sell them, he wanted to get
Nojiko a Devil fruit but he was going to buy his weather fruit first. The
coin landed and the number appeared on the coin in red as it landed on
the table.
The number two!
"Not bad, the number is pretty good!" Rein couldn't wait to hear what
they would be.
[Ding! Would you like to receive your 2 Devil Fruits?]
[Yes / Later]
It was the same question as last time, but Rein just clicked Yes!
⭑ Congratulations Rein, you've received: Ryu-Ryu No Mi, Model:
Triceratops (Ancient Zoan)
⭑ Congratulations Rein, you've received: Ryu-Ryu No Mi, Model:
Giganotosaurus (Ancient Zoan)
Rein squinted seeing the devil fruits, they weren't any fruits he was going
to give his crew, but they were still quite powerful! "Three Ancient Zoan
type fruits in three days, this is just too good! The Giganotosaurus is
bigger and stronger than the T-Rex!" Even though they weren't what he
wanted, they were still worth keeping.
He recalled that Kaido had quite a lot of people in his crew that had Zoan
type but they were smile fruits. The three all-stars of his crew all had
Ancient type Zoan abilities, this included X-drake and Page One who had
the Spinosaurus fruit.
"My whole island will be protected by my pirate crew, it will be my main
base of operation! I will need some sort of division commanders or
something like that." This group would be separate from his crew and
would spend all of their time on the island instead. Rein could become
one of the 4 emperors like his brother would in the future, maybe Ace
would as well once he took control over Whitebeard's crew.
"The first to go will be Blackbeard or Kaido, but that guy's body is
virtually indestructible." Rein had no clue how he was going to take
something like that down. There had to be some way to beat him, he did
recall the sword from Wano that could hurt him but that was it.
"That's far off into the future, I can think about that later, I guess." Rein
sipped his tea, then proceeded to open his next Token. Rein couldn't take
Robin into his crew since his ultimate goal wasn't to become a pirate
king. If it did take her, it would only be temporary before he introduced
her to Luffy.
Marine Base.
A man sat behind a desk with two cigars in his mouth, his face looked
serious as he filled out some reports. "Is it really that hard to fill out a
few papers of the pirates you've caught recently?" The man was obviously
smoker, he had caught several pirates at this point.
"It is, every time I catch a pirate, I think about the annoying reports I'll
have to fill out afterward! I can't figure out the point of these things!"
Tashigi was the one who asked the question after seeing his serious and
grave face.
"Well, the east blue is pretty peaceful compared to the other blues, so
there's something to be grateful about." Tashigi chuckled, she was just a
mere sergeant, she didn't have to do any of this annoying work.
Just when Captain Smoker was about to reply, a marine ran into the
room.
"Sir, reporting, there are some sighting of another pirate crew entering
Logue town!" The marine said in a hurry.
"Sigh, more pirates! What is the pirate crew called?" Smoker asked
bluntly.
"We don't know the names, but we spotted this person in the group!" The
marine handed the bounty poster to Smoker!
Smoker's face changed a bit, but only for second before reverting back.
Smoker squeezed the bounty poster in his hand. "So, they've finally
shown up! Everyone gather! This won't be easy to handle, we need to
lock this place down!"
Smoker stood up immediately after confirming the poster!
"Captain! Who is on the poster that we would need everyone?" Tashigi
was surprised, it usually only took him alone to take down any pirate
that passed by here.
Smoker tossed her the bounty poster. "Take a look for yourself, I think
you'll understand why we'll be needing everyone here." Smoker took a
big puff of his 2 cigars and said.
Tashigi uncrumpled the poster to look at it.
"Gasp!" Tashigi looked at the bounty and gasped deeply, it was Inferno
Witch Erica!
"Sir, it isn't just him, we also spotted Vindicate the merciless!"
"Tsk! It looks like we have a full house of trouble today, it won't be easy!
Now, do you understand why we need everyone?" Smoker shook his head
and began to make preparations.
Tashigi nodded rapidly and continued to look at the bounty poster of
Erica! The marine didn't forget to give the poster of Vindicate to them as
well before being dismissed. "They call her inferno witch, why is it that
they call her that?" Tashigi questioned as she straightened her glasses.
"From what I've heard, she can use strange flames, she is also classified as
a Logia user which makes her an even bigger problem!" Smoker said as
he began to put on his coat.
"Strange flames? What could be so strange about fire? The only thing I
see here that is a problem is the fact that she is a Logia devil fruit user."
Tashigi knew she couldn't match an ability user like this at all, she was
completely outdone.
"The Flames are oddly black, they say that they may even be hotter, but
no one's confirmed that! I'll engage her in battle, you'll have to hold
Vindicate back if you can. If you can't, then just run away and don't
fight." Smoker said nothing more and walked out of his office.
Tashigi sighed, she was just too weak. She then followed after smoker
after looking at Erica's poster for a bit more.
Logue Town.
The crew had broken up into groups, Kuina went with Nojiko, Vindicate
went by himself to check out some clothing stores. Erica went with Nami
to also check out some clothing stores, she and Nami liked to dress up.
The first store they went to didn't have what they wanted. The man tried
to sell them some clothing but Nami found that it would be too hard to
move in any of them. Nami dumped the clothes on the counter and
walked out with Erica, leaving the man stunned in place.
They went to the next store and nearly shopped until they dropped, this
was the kind of place they were looking for. The man in this store was
delighted with their very big purchase, he checked them out with a
strange and wide smile plastered to his face. It took some time to check
out all of their clothes, they nearly bought half the store!
Nojiko and Kuina went to many weapons stores. Nojiko wanted a
gauntlet of some sort but they didn't sell any from what she could see.
They only sold spears, bow and arrows, guns, and swords much to her
dismay.
Kuina didn't see any good swords, so they just opted to buy clothes for
themselves. Kuina didn't spot the sword that Zoro would later find here.
She was oblivious because the sword she had was already so good.
Rein had told them that they could go clothes shopping or whatever, he
didn't need new clothes. They were already good in the food department
but everyone needed basic things like clothes, underwear, and shoes.
However, as Erica and Nami were heading to the next store, they had
been spotted by Smoker! Smoker knew she was a devil fruit user, so he
pulled out his SeaStone tipped jitte to attack her!
Conflicts In Logue Town!
[Congratulations Rein, you've won: Ship Coating!]
[Congratulations Rein, you've won: (Bronze) Training Card!]
[Congratulations Rein, you've won: Plant-Plant Fruit! (Paramecia)]
Rein rubbed his forehead, the items didn't seem bad but there wasn't
much that came out of the Silver Token. "At least I have a system, this is
cheating in itself, so I shouldn't complain about what I get."
The Ship coating would form a bubble-like membrane over the ship for
diving purposes, it would protect the ship from the high pressure of the
depth of the sea. "No need to dive anywhere, I'll just take the normal way
to reach the Grandline." He currently had 7 Devil fruits but he noticed
that missions weren't popping up as often as before.
He was thinking of either heading to the North blue to recruit Law or to
find his own doctor on the way. After thinking about it for a bit, it would
be better to leave Law alone, he would serve to help his brother a lot in
the future. With Law being with him, it wouldn't be so, he'll let some
event happen while he'll change some as well.
Author Note: Lol! I just want to make my own doctor. I already have
characters from the show, so I want to get my own. Sorry if some of you
are disappointed with me not getting Law. It's much more fun to make
people instead. xD
Rein looked at the system store, he had enough to buy the weather fruit
but not enough Skill points.
At this time, it would make sense for Monkey D. Dragon to show up to
make sure Rein made it safely to the grand line. Sadly, he couldn't keep
up with Rein unlike Luffy who was out there and easy to find and track.
Rein even covered up his face, he didn't even know if Rein became a
pirate or not, so how could he show up here in Logue Town?
Rein stretched and started playing solitaire, it was a solo card game like
most know of. Suddenly, he stood up and looked into the distance, he
saw a grey white and black cloud colliding with one another.
"What the.. black and grey clouds?" Rein scratched his eyebrows and
concluded it to be so, he didn't pay any mind to it and continued his
game of solitaire.
Logue Town.
Vindicate bought himself a nice long Black coat with fur around the
collar, it had light armor in it as well.
"I think these boot would look amazing on you, I think you should buy
them." The old man made his suggestion to Vindicate.
"These boots don't look bad, I'll take them!" Vindicate agreed with the old
man's choice. The old man smiled and checked Vindicate's items out.
He was done with this place and decided to head back to the ship.
"Hiyaa!"
Suddenly, a sword stabbed towards him.
Swoosh!
Vindicate jumped out of the way and drew his pistols! "What idiot attacks
people in the middle of the damn street?" Vindicate looked at the woman
that attacked him, it was Tashigi!
Vindicate looked closely at Tashigi, as images of Kuina and Tashigi
rapidly flashed through his mind.
"What in the world? Are you Kuina's crazy twin sister or something?"
Vindicate was stunned due to their similarity, they looked almost alike.
"What? Y-you pirate, I don't have a sister! I'm from the marines and I've
come to take you down! Surrender now and your sentence will be a bit
light, if you don't then expect no mercy!" Tashigi held her sword tightly,
she knew what this guy had done and it wasn't something light.
"Surrender? Sorry, but I don't know what that means, but whatever it
means, I don't think I would like it." Vindicate said
"Then prepare to be taken down!" Out of nowhere, marines began to
surround the area to catch Vindicate.
"Oh, so you've prepared for me, but it won't be good enough my clone
friend! Think Fast!" At that moment, Vindicate guns were coated in
darkness. He fired at the upcoming marines, but what came out was
black lasers that looked like cero! Vindicate was clearly using his devil
fruit for this since his hands looked strange.
Boom!!
Several Marines were blown away by the explosion, he didn't use much
power as to not kill anyone. Orange energy surrounded the dark beams of
light as it blew up near the town square!
"What the hell was that?"
"Run for your life, someone set off a bomb!"
"Those Marines were sent flying when they were trying to surround that
man!"
Many people panicked and made a run for it, they had seen many pirates
come here before. They usually caused a ruckus but not of this
magnitude!
Vindicate looked at Tashigi who was covering her eyes from the wind. He
smiled and jumped on the roof of some building to run away. "You! Don't
run, get back here you asshole, you killed so many people in that village
and you think you can run!?" Tashigi hollered and began to pursue
Vindicate.
"Lady! I don't know what they told you but I didn't kill anyone! I was set
up by some trash noble who thought he could do anything he wanted!"
Vindicate yelled back as he ran.
"You liar, then why are you running!?" Tashigi continued the chase him
alone.
"Because you're crazy and you have a sword! You want to catch me, then
you must be dreaming, you nerdy swordsman!" Vindicate looked back
and sneered.
"You! Who are you calling nerdy!? I'll hit you in that dirty mouth of
yours first, then I'll capture you!" Tashigi was angered, he dared to call
her nerdy, she seemed to have not heard the crazy part.
Vindicate didn't say anything and shot at the ground she was running on.
The attack hit the ground and caused dust to shoot up from the ground
and it to shake! Tashigi was stunned and tried to jump over the ditch but
fell into it and into the dirty rubble!
"You Shameless asshole!" Vindicate could hear her screams in the
distance but only smirked as he continued to run away.
Meanwhile, Kuina and Nojiko were done with their shopping. They were
the first to arrive back on the ship. Kuina bought herself a Japanese fox
mask that she took an instant liking to when she saw it.
She wore it and trained with it while Rein continued to play Solitaire.
Back in Logue Town.
However, another fight was brewing in the town. The location? It was
where the execution of Roger took place.
Erica and Smoker had clashed already but found that their abilities just
canceled each other out.
"Turn yourself in Witch Erica, it'll be easier and no one has to get hurt,
not you, me, and most importantly, these people!"
"Turn myself in? How stupid, no one's turning anything in, you can forget
it! Why do you even bother, you can just ignore me and be on your way."
She didn't think the marines would be on her case to this degree, nor did
she expect a devil fruit user who could use smoke, Rein didn't mention
this!
"I have to capture because you're a pirate!"
"What ridiculous reason!" Erica spoke no more and attacked, she moved
quickly by using Soru. Smoker was surprised, he easily recognized the
technique but didn't care too much. He put up his Jitte to block her kick.
Sadly, she was quite strong so Smoker was blown back by the attack, he,
however, turned into smoke so his recovery was instant. Erica knew he
would recover fast so she kept up her assault and elbowed him in the
stomach!
They both canceled each other's abilities out so they could also hit each
other without Haki.
"Ugh!" Smoker was blown into a building this time under the forceful
elbow. Erica had already told Nami to run after she cleared the Marines
out for her. Fortunately, Smoker had tagged her with the Jitte tip when
she came in for the elbow!
After a little bit, Smoker came out of the rubble in his smoke form.
"Goodness, the Marine Captain is fighting some woman and she knocked
him into a building!"
"Did you see that fire, it was black, that ain't natural!"
"Just stay back or you'll be roasted alive, that stuff is seriously hot!"
"Damn, she's fast, did you see how fast she ran off!?" One old man was
shocked!
Many people stay away and watched from afar but still couldn't help but
gossip seeing this fight. Smoker had always caught anyone he persued so
this was news to them. Smoker nearly bit his cigars off his mouth hearing
the citizen chatter.
Seeing Smoker's fierce gaze on them, they all covered their mouths. Erica
had already run off to the ship, she didn't wait around to continue
fighting.
"Damn Pirate!" Smoker ran off as well to catch her, he couldn't let her get
away.
Moments later, Vindicate spotted Nami running in the same direction as
himself. She weaved through the streets toward the docking area with a
panicked expression. Vindicate went over to her and jumped down in
front of her.
"Ah!" Nami stopped in fright seeing the silhouette come down in front of
her, he was, after all, wearing different clothes.
"Relax, it's just me, Nami!" Vindicate looked up and said quickly as to
prevent her from yelling more.
"Oh!" Nami sighed in relief.
"We have to get Rein and the rest, Erica is fighting some Marine guy who
can turn into smoke!" Nami was a bit scared for Erica, but she knew Erica
could hold her own from the fight she had with Cloud.
"Turn into smoke? How many of these people are we going to
encounter?" Vindicate shook his head.
"Sigh, okay, I'll go back to help her, do you have that Log pose thing Rein
told you to buy on our way here?" Vindicate asked, he recalled that Rein
couldn't stress the importance of it for the grand line.
"Ah, yeah, I forgot." Nami scratched the back of her with a weird smile.
"Well, quickly go buy it from one of these stores. I'll go back to help Erica
with this smoke man you're talking about." He knew from the sound of
this ability, that it must be that Logia class power that Rein had
explained about.
"Okay, I'll meet you on the ship afterward, I hope!" Nami said nervously!
There were plenty of stores that sold Log Pose in this town, it was the
main thing that people needed when they came here.
Nami ran off in the other direction while Vindicate turned back to find
Erica.
However, at this time, Smoker was riding his motorcycle as he raced
down the streets of Logue Town. Erica was pretty fast, so she could even
outrun a Motorcycle in hot pursuit.
"White Blow!"
Smoker shot a Giant white grayish smoke fist from his bike towards the
fleeing Erica. She was pretty fast, so he had to slow her down in some
way.
"Hmph!" Erica turned around and punched the giant fist, her hand was
coated in fire!
BOOOooom!
This time, an explosion took place as a giant sphere of Black fire and
White gray smoke collided! This sent shockwaves throughout the area!
Sadly, many people were caught in this attack, thus Smoker was feeling
very regretful.
Vindicate, who was searching for Erica now knew where she was, it was
so obvious at this point. Many buildings were destroyed and many people
had sadly died from this exchange. Erica sighed but kept running, she
had to defend herself, she couldn't be soft right now.
Rein looked up and was easily able to spot the destruction from afar. He
stood up from his seat and took to the sky to get a better look.
"So, a fight has broken out, and it looks like Erica may be apart of it!"
Rein was expecting this so he wasn't surprised in the least. Erica could
handle herself, she would be wise to run, though. Her abilities were too
dangerous to be used in a town like this.
Rein shook his head, she probably had no choice but to fight back.
Smoker was a persistent person and would continue to chase you until
you were caught.
"Did you find out what those strange winds came form?" Nojiko yelled
from the ship, Rein was pretty high up but soon came back down.
"Yeah, it looks like a fight has broken out, I'll be back, you guys stay here
and wait until then." Kuina wanted to go, so he took her along with him.
With that, they flew into the town, to be exact, the area where the smoke
was coming from.
Once they arrived, they were met with scorched earth and even some
bodies that were charred black.
"Goodness, she definitely went overboard!" Rein frowned, so many dead!
"You! You're also someone on the bounty list, to be exact, it pretty high
up there! But I shouldn't call you a you, or should call you Rain Man!"
Suddenly, Smoker came out of a building holding some citizens of the
town. He had actually given up on trying to capture Erica to save these
people!
"Oh, what good guy you are to save the good people of this town." Rein
complemented
"Completely opposite to what a pirate like you would ever do!" Smoker's
face turned much more serious instantly.
"Well, I was just passing by, but have you seen a girl with really dark
blue hair? Rein paused "Oh, and she uses Blackfire!"
"So, you're in cahoots with that witch, I guess that makes you an even
greater danger!" He didn't get to fully read the report about Erica but if
he did, it clearly said she was in cahoots with him originally.
Smoker was confident, he knew Rein's bounty was the highest in the east
blue but believed he could take him down like the rest. Smoker rushed
Rein and bared his Jitte to attack him, he was going for a crippling strike.
Rein dodged to the side with ease and chopped down on the Jitte and
crushed it into two pieces. He was still weak to Seastone so it was best to
not get touched and definitely hit by it.
"Huh?" Smoker back away and looked at his smashed Jitte with a bit of
surprise.
"Crushing someone else's stuff isn't a good feat, I guess I'll have to take
you down the old fashion way!"
"White Spark!"
Smoker's body turned into smoke as he sent himself flying towards Rein
with the means to force him into submission!
"Oh! You're gonna need about 3 more years before you can truly put up a
good fight, you're just not ready now." Rein reached his hand out and
grabbed Smoker's physical body, he then slammed him into the ground.
"What!?" Tashigi came over and was shocked! Someone was able to touch
Smoker!?
Smoker immediately got up and back away. He stared at Rein with
surprise, then suddenly blood came from his lips and forehead.
Smoker was aware of Haki to some degree and he knew that these were
the only people that could hurt him. Besides the ones that canceled his
Devil fruit out like Erica or Ace, who he had yet to meet, this was the
only case.
Kuina was with him but she was wearing that Japanese Fox mask she
bought from this town. Tashigi ran over beside Smoker with thoughts of
helping him.
"So, it appears that you can use 'that ability' to actually hurt me!" Smoker
wasn't happy about this, there shouldn't be anyone in the East blue with
this type of training.
"I'm just passing by, believe it or not, this was all those nobles fault! Look
closely at who you're working for before you judge others." Rein said "I'm
in a rush, so I can't stay to fight, I got a whole adventure ahead of me!"
"See ya!"
"Wait, don't try to ru.." Before Smoker could finish, the whole area was
shrouded in Darkness!
Once it cleared, Rein and Kuina were already gone!
"Get more marines, we need to lock this island down, no one in or out!"
Smoker's facial expression turned grave!
Notes
What do you think about the rest of his crew just being created
characters that he'll meet on his journey? Happy reading as always! If
you don't understand something, then be sure to ask in the comment
section. :D
Leaving Logue Town!
At this time, Vindicate was running with Erica, who he met after the
explosion. She had been hit by the Seastone tip of Smoker's Jitte but she
still persevered and ran off. She sparred a lot with Ace, Luffy, and Rein
back in the day so her endurance for pain was fairly good.
"Did everyone make it to the ship?" Erica asked as they both ran.
"Not sure, but Nami went back to buy a Log pose, she will head back to
the ship afterward!"
"Dang it! Rein should have seen that explosion, he would easily be able to
spot that kind of stuff, I hope he did!" She could only hope he noticed, it
wouldn't be good if their crewmates were still here.
"Once we get back to the ship, we can come back, we have to group first
before we can do anything." Vindicate sighed, he also hoped Kuina and
Nojiko were not still in the town so they could just leave here.
With that, they continued to run towards the ship.
Meanwhile, Rein was carrying Kuina, he shot out his observation Haki to
see what he could see. "I don't see anyone so far" Rein paused "Wait, isn't
that Nami? Huh! She's in a shop buying a log pose, is she not aware of
what's going on?" Rein felt a need to laugh, this just seemed so funny to
him.
Well, Rein couldn't really perceive her face but he could sense that she
was there. He wasn't at that level of Observation Haki yet. Rein could
also see many people in white and blue, this was obviously more
marines.
The island was the focal point into the grand line, it was sort of like a
line of defense to stop pirates. Thus, there were many more marines here
than anywhere else in the East Blue.
Rein laughed a bit and looked closely, he didn't see any citizens around.
With that, he swept his hands through the air as a clear liquid shot down
towards the unsuspecting Marines.
Once the liquid came into contact, it began to freeze over on them.
"Ah! What is this cold rain, it's freezi.." He couldn't finish and was frozen
solid.
"Take cover! We're under attack!" Some warrant officer hurriedly and
commanded the marines. To bad though, most were frozen while some
were hit with a serious chill. Just like that, he ended the flood of marines
from sieging the area.
"Jeez! That looks cold!" Kuina shook her head looking at the frozen
Marines. Rein landed as soon as Nami walked out of the store.
"Ah!" Name yelped seeing the two shadows appear in front of her.
"Relax, it just me and Kuina, no need to be so edgy." Rein looked at Nami
with a smile under his helmet, but he really wanted to laugh.
"You and Vindicate need to stop coming out of the sky and in front of
people like that!" Nami forehead had a vein on it that seemed to twitch.
Rein ignored her annoyance and said "Where is Vindicate and Erica, have
you seen them anywhere? Nojiko has already made it to the ship." Rein
wanted to leave just as much as anyone else, this Smoker was surely
trying to lock the town down.
"He went to look for Erica, there was an explosion sometime ago, he must
have met her there." Nami also felt the shockwaves from the mini scuffle
that Smoker and Erica had.
"With that explosion, it is likely that he found her.... I hope!"
"You! Don't just hope!" Nami said loudly. Rein yawned and stretched.
"Let's head back to the ship before they try to block our ship's routes out
of here." Rein said bluntly, he knew if Vindicate went to search for her,
he could easily find her with that explosion recently. The two could beat
anyone here, but Vindicate would have some trouble with Smoker with
no Haki.
"Whaaa~! Aren't we going to look for Erica and Vindicate?" Nami eyes
dilated.
"Calm down, they should be on the ship by now, they aren't as weak and
as fragile as you may think. If they aren't there, then we can just go look
for them, it shouldn't be too hard." Nami was silent and nodded.
"Kuina, what is up with that mask, you look strange, haha!" Nami
suddenly changed to topic to Kuina.
"I'm a foxy swordsman, what else, hehe!" Kuina put her hands on her hips
and spun around like some princess!
"Pfft! Don't do that!" Nami suddenly broke out into laughter. Rein was
silent, wasn't she just worried about Vindicate and Erica?
Moments later, he was carrying Kuina while Kuina held onto Nami. This
scene looked a little weird, and if anyone saw it they would believe they
were seeing things.
"Damn! Did you two put on weight while we were on the ship, it feels
like I'm carrying two elephants!" Rein teased and said
"Rein! Don't make me chop you! Don't talk nonsense!" Kuina glared at
Rein
"I haven't gained any weight, if anything, I lost too much of it!" Nami
wanted to punch Rein but was afraid she would fall!
"Mhm, Sure, I guess I can believe you two!" Rein chuckled
"Rein!" Both hollered at the same time
Moments later, they arrived back at the dock where their ship sat afloat
on the sea. Rein looked at the ship and saw that everyone was there!
"Thank the good lord! Everyone is on the ship, so we won't have to
search for them, thus we can leave now!" Rein said happily
Nami and Kuina were happy to hear this as well and felt relieved.
Rein landed on the ship with the two safely.
"Ah, yes, we're home free, let's get out of this place crawling with
marines!" Nami immediately went to the ship's steering wheel to set out.
"We ran into that Smoker guy, so all we could do was run to not cause so
much damage." Erica was the first to speak.
"Understandable, but you sure killed a lot of people back there, huh?"
Rein questioned and said.
"I-I uh..." Erica didn't know what to say, she wasn't trying to kill anyone
but she had no choice but to use more power to stave off Smoker.
"It's okay, but please control it a bit more, we don't want people to get
caught up in dangerous attacks like that. You know how the marines are,
they'll use anything they can to make anyone out to be the bad guy." Rein
shrugged, she had to defend herself but he would love for her to control
the ability a bit better.
"Yes! I will do so next time!" Erica nodded like a chicken pecking grain.
"Oh my, I see you looking smooth with that new outfit, Vindicate!" Rein
noticed the new clothes he was sporting and complemented.
"You know I have to keep it fresh while defeating opponents!" Vindicate
wiped his shoulders and grinned. With that, they set off, it may not have
seemed like it, but they were here for about 2 to 3 hours.
So both Nami and Erica had gone to other stores other than just shopping
for clothes.
Rein sat down and talked to Erica for a bit about a few things before she
got up to handle other things. He thought about Nami's future ability, it
should be related to wind more than anything else.
The first that came to mind was the Wind-Wind Fruit, but he wanted to
give that to Sabo as a Gift when they meet again. Sabo won't be getting
the Flare-Flare fruit this time around, so he would need another ability to
spike his strength.
Rein didn't just spend his time on the ship unlocking his tokens and
playing nothing but solitaire on the ship alone. He also learned more
about the system and his skills. Sadly for him, there was a limit to what
he could invest in skills, the limit was S-Rank then he would be on his
own.
Once it reached the limit of S-Rank, he couldn't use anymore Skill Points
on the S-Rank ability after that. Cp-0 were around high A to Low S in
Rokushiki, so they were quite the threat in that department, at least in
technique. Rein wasn't sure about their stats but they couldn't be weak,
that's for sure.
The only reason Rein wanted the weather fruit was simple, he just
wanted it because of his island he was going to create. Rein wanted to
put a storm around his island sort of like Skull island king kong, so no
one could come to his island for some time.
Many other new things appeared on the system like a weather machine
that could control that type of stuff, so there was no need for it now. He
also discovered why the weather fruit was so cheap, he looked over and
discovered that there was a 75% discount on the fruit!
The sale was ending in three days, it had been going on for a while now.
Rein didn't hesitate any more and bought the fruit right away for
500,000 System Points. He didn't need it, but maybe Nami would like
this type of ability?
"The next place judging from this map should be reverse mountain."
Nami looked at the map, they weren't away from Logue town just yet.
"Yeah, this is our way into the grand line, so this is naturally so." Rein
spoke as he looked ahead, he sensed that something was wrong.
"Hmm, this isn't good, we have trouble!" Vindicate took the spyglass and
could see several marines ship ahead of them. Of course, Rein noticed
this when he looked ahead and was going to warn them, but Vindicate
spoke first.
"Is it Smoker? Who do you see on the ships?" Nami asked.
"Is this Smoker guy smoking two big cigars with white grayish hair, and a
white jacket that exposes his chest?" Vindicate looked through the
spyglass and asked.
"Dang it, he's so annoying!" Erica knew how annoying this guy was, she
could never forget this persistent guy.
"Judging from your words, I'll assume that's him!" Vindicate shook his
head with a smirk on his face. He did this because he spotted that nerdy
Swordsman by his side, she looked even more determined when he first
met her.
"Kuina's crazy twin sister is ahead of us, we better watch out!" Vindicate
laughed and jumped down.
"What are you saying, I don't have a sister, I was the only child!" Kuina
looked over and found it ridiculous, she had to adjust this fox mask
because she could barely see out of it. This was the main reason why she
was so silent when she wore it.
"Take off that mask and you'll see. Once you see this woman, all of you
will agree with what I said." Vindicate didn't say anything more, he
couldn't wait to see everyone's reaction.
What would they think if they knew Rein had a twin brother?
"Prepare for battle, they won't let us off so easily!" Of course, Rein knew
what Vindicate was talking about, but didn't comment on it.
"Alright, let's battle!" Nami looked and said seriously. Nojiko completely
agreed with that.
Rein looked at Nami closely, she raised her arm into the air while
steering the ship's wheel. Once he looked at her, he was surprised
because when the wind blew by her clothes, he saw a tattoo on her upper
arm, it was the letter R!
Erica was the same, she had tattoo letters on her arm that had the name
LARS on it. This meant Victorious life or just Victorious in Scandinavian,
but also stood for Rein, Luffy, Ace, and Sabo!
However, the letter S was X'ed out just like how Ace's tattoo was.
This is what Erica talked to Rein about, she never mentioned Nami's
tattoo, but Rein spotted it himself.
"Just, Wow!" Rein was speechless just thinking about it.
Notes
Enjoy and be sure to comment about something you don't understand.
Happy Reading as always! :D
Battle On The Ice! Part 1
Seeing smoker from afar, everyone readied the cannon on the ship, at
least the one and only cannon they had. Rein looked into the distance, he
could freeze the sea but that would affect his advances, at least slowing
him down. At that time, more marines would have more time to show up.
Then there was fire he could use, but Smoker would probably counter to
cancel it out with his ability.
"I guess I should have just beaten him back in Logue town to make this
journey smooth sailing." It was too late to regret now, all he could do was
prepare for battle.
"These pistols I have can't last with my new ability when I use them to
shoot lasers. I wish I could use these new pistols!" Vindicate's pistols were
just to low in level. If he could use those New guns he got from Nojiko,
then the attack power would be bigger and they could handle the Dark
energy he used.
"How many shots do you have before your pistol can't handle it
anymore?" Rein asked immediately, his ship wasn't well equipped to
handle battles on the sea.
"I have about 7 shots before these old pistols collapse under the dark
light." It was similar to Fijitora's devil fruit, he used his sword to amplify
the use of his ability and Vindicate was doing the same here. Of course, if
he went full Jack O' lantern then he wouldn't need anything to amplify
the power of his attacks.
"Can't you just fire attacks without using... " Before Nojiko could finish
asking her question, they heard many whistles around them.
Boom!
BooM!
Several cannon balls rained out of the sky on their position!
"Forget it!" Rein didn't care and jumped into the water, it quickly began
to freeze over! Tashigi had a spyglass and could see the water freezing
quickly as it approached them.
"AH! The water is freezing, Captain!" Tashigi was startled.
"That's impossible, it's a sunny day out today, no one can freeze water
that fast except him!" Right as he finished speaking, the water around the
9 marine ships was halted by the ice.
"A Devil fruit power that can freeze!" Smoker began to frown now, was it
a Paramecia like the cold-cold fruit? It couldn't be a logia type, it was
already taken by an Admiral. With that, he concluded that Rein had a
Paramecia Cold devil fruit ability, it made sense to think this.
"Looks like he's taking this battle to us! Prepare to leave the ships,
everyone, it's about to be a fight on the ice!" Smoker spoke over the Den
Den Mushi next to him and looked through the spyglass. He could see 4
people approaching them swiftly, it was Vindicate, Rein, Kuina, and
Erica!
An uncountable amount of marine looked reluctant to get on the ice.
Once they jumped onto it, they found that the ice was very durable for
battle. They weren't reluctant any more and all leaped onto the ice, ready
to fight!
When was the last time they had seen some serious action like this? They
had heard how dangerous this group of pirates were, this made their
blood boil for battle!
"Charge! Take these pirates down, don't let one go!" A Junior Lt. Ranked
Marines spoke to boost everyone morales which seemed to have worked.
Suddenly, a black laser shot out, it changed the color of the surrounding
for a brief moment before slamming into a ship!
BooM!
This ship was hit with a frontal attack which caused many marines to fall
off the ship yelling.
"It's him!" Tashigi glared at where the laser came from and saw Vindicate
from earlier! Vindicate looked back at her and winked, he didn't look
long a continued to the next ship.
Tashigi ran over to Vindicate, he was charging at a ship alone.
"Tashigi, be careful, that guy has a strange gun, retreat if it's too
dangerous!" Smoker warned and looked away. Tashigi turned and did a
quick bow before racing off!
"Shoot them! Aim the cannons, Fire!"
Boom!
Boom!
Several cannon threatened Rein's ship! Suddenly, a barrier formed
around the ship, this was the doing of the Cheshire Cat. It had taken a
humanoid form as it stretched and yawned, it just watched the battle.
"A shield? What kind of technology is that?" The marines were surprised.
Meanwhile, several marines were firing at Rein and Erica but they
dodged and sent kick and punches towards many of them, knocking them
away and out. Suddenly, Smoker came down, he slammed toward Erica
with his fist.
Erica blocked it with her forearm then send a kick toward Smoker, but he
hurriedly and turned into Smoke to maneuver around it. That two did a
backflips and back off one another with glaring eyes.
"I hope you understand that I can't let dangerous pirates like you guys go,
this is how justice works!"
Smoker took out a lighter and lit his two cigars back up.
"Justice, you're an idiot, I don't see any justice! Erica, you go forth, I'll
handl..." He couldn't finish when he was interrupted.
"Rein! Can I please fight this guy, this guy really gets on my nerves, so
please let me handle this one!" Rein was surprised and looked over at
Erica who looked serious expression at the moment.
"Hahaha! Sure, you take it from here, be careful not to melt the ice too
much, that's dangerous for the three of us!" Erica nodded and Rein moved
towards another group of marines, he didn't want to use his abilities too
much here as to not show too much.
"Oh? I get on your nerves because you hate people who do the right
thing, while you want to commit crimes?" Smoker's eyes showed
contempt for a moment.
"This is understandable, you think you can kill, rob, and do much more
as you please, but people like me exist so that won't happen!" At that
moment an explosion could be heard again, it was Vindicate blowing
away marines!
"There is no point in explaining anything to you, you're just an Idiot!"
Erica didn't bother to explain anything, he had already made up his mind
about them. They clashed as Black, white, and Gray began to cause
fluctuations in their area.
Meanwhile, Vindicate was destroying a ship, he used his pistols fused
with the black energy to do so. Rein was mainly taking out marines by
freezing them in their tracks. Ice wasn't a destructive ability like fire, but
he wanted to convince them that he could only use ice.
"Damn it, shoot him!" Suddenly, Multiple marines fire at Vindicate with a
flurry of bullets. Vindicate quickly formed a scythe and began to rotate
the scythe quickly to block all the bullets!
"What!?" The Marines were stuck in a dilemma but soon began to load
their pistols and rifles as quickly as they could.
"Rocket! Get the damn Rockets! Blow him up" Suddenly, two tall men
walked out of the ship with rockets in their hands this time, it was just
for Vindicate.
The two tall marines quickly shot the rockets at Vindicate, he wasn't
sticking around to be hit with rockets and used Soru to get out.
Boom!
Boom
The deck of the ship was hit as the marines around were caught in the
attack. Flames sparked, destroying half the deck!
"Ahhh! Help, it burns!" Many marines screamed as they were hit, they
were blown away by this attack. Some were set ablaze while some were
blown into pieces, killing them!
"You idiot, aim for the pirate, not our damn allies!" The Lt. Junior
hollered seeing many marines getting killed by these two idiots.
"But, sir, it's a rocket, how can we not hit any allies when they're this
close?" The man questioned
"Shut up and just kill the pirate!" The Lt. Junior didn't like to be
questioned and ordered his men to find and kill the pirate on the ship.
"Kill me? I think not!" Suddenly, the Lt. Junior was stunned and looked
behind him, he saw Vindicate grinning down at him. The man didn't say
anything but his face was full of sweat, he hurriedly and pulled out his
pistol but was immediately kicked flying off the ship!
"AHHHH!!!" The Lt. Junior screamed hysterically as he was directly
kicked in the face, and sent flying spiraling through the air. His mouth
was bloodied as not only was he sent flying, but his teeth were as well!
"Lieutenant!" Everyone on the ship yelled out seeing their Commanding
officer sent flying like a ragdoll. Suddenly, Vindicate's head turned into a
pumpkin then he crossed his arms over his head!
"His head turned into a pumpkin, what the fuck is he!?"
"What is that orange light?"
"This doesn't look good, retreat!"
The ones with common sense had already begun to flee while the curious
ones questioned! At that moment, Vindicate shot an orange laser out of
his pumpkin smiley mouth, he was done charging it!
All the marines could see was blinding light, it covered the whole area
and even made Smoker and Erica look back to see. Tashigi stopped, she
was originally looking to intercepted Vindicate, the glasses blindsided her
as the light hitting her eyes was much worse because of her glasses. She
had to stop and cover her eyes because of it!
With that, A pillar of orange light engulfed the ship, it was completely no
more! Winds kicked up as some marines were blown away by that alone.
The Ice in this area where the ship once was had now turned into water,
the beam had penetrated through the thick ice!
"What in the world was the orange light?"
"I don't know but the ship was destroyed by it, the ship is completely
gone!"
Many marines who were fighting Rein turned in surprise but were
instantly turned into statues because of it. "Nice! I see he's getting the
hang of that Devil Fruit power already, but he must be getting exhausted
from using it so much." This was also a test to see how well Kuina and
Vindicate could cope, so he didn't do too much.
Rein knew Vindicate wasn't so experienced with his new abilities yet, so
he would probably tire faster when he used it. Vindicate landed on the
ice near a group of marines and began to gun them down right away, but
suddenly!
Shing!
"Huh?" Vindicate quickly formed a scythe and blocked the incoming
danger.
"Nice reflexes, but I got you this time!" Tashigi had formed a sneak
attack, but it failed!
"Nerd girl, do you love me or something, I'm flatter, but you have to get
in line." Vindicate teased and grinned at Tashigi.
"Who would love you, you damn pervert and I'm not a nerd!" Tashigi Said
"Prepare to be taken in and judged for your crimes!" Tashigi swung her
sword with great speed, but Vindicate kept smiling as he parried her
attacks.
Vindicate back away to get some distance.
"I'm not a swordsman or anything, but you're kind of slow, my nerdy
friend." Vindicate smirked and continued "But I know someone who can
teach you a thing or two!" At that moment, a silhouette jumped over
Vindicate as a glint of light was shown.
Tashigi was surprised and quickly put up her guard to block the attack!
Ding!
Shing!
Sparks flew from their clash of Katana's, it was Kuina!
Kuina moved her blade quickly and managed to cut Tashigi on the arm!
"Ugh!" Tashigi eyes went wide, but she continued to persevere through
the rapid strikes before she was able to back off and get a breather.
"It's you, you're the one from that time!' Tashigi remembered the fox
masked woman that was by Rein's side in Logue town.
"Gasp! You really do look like m...." Kuina stopped her words and held up
her Katana! She was currently wearing a fox mask, so no one couldn't
really see how she looked.
"That sword, it's a good sword! I'm surprised that something so good
could appear here in the East Blue!" Tashigi could recognize a good
sword when she saw it, and this pink Katana was pretty good.
"Well, I'll be off to destroy some marines and marine ships, see ya!"
"You! Are you running away!?" Tashigi yelled at Vindicate.
Vindicate turned around and said bluntly.
"Sure is!" Then he ran off! Kuina wanted to laugh, this guy didn't care
about his image at all.
"Shameless asshole!" Tashigi was angry and stunned, did he know no
shame?
"It's just you and me now, marine!" Kuina held up her Katana, she
preferred two swords since this was her style, but she was picky with the
weapons she wanted to use. Zoro had taken her Katana, this spoke for
itself on how picky she was.
Kuina preferred quality over quantity.
"Then, let's spar a bit!" Tashigi didn't let up either and grew serious, she
hated to be looked down on.
It was the battle of the clones!
Notes
Lol! I almost forgot to release this! Happy Reading!
Battle On The Ice! Part 2 Final!
Everyone had a job in this battle as Rein had explained everyone's goal in
this fight. Kuina was to lay low for a bit because Rein wasn't sure if she
could dodge bullets so easily, so she wasn't as active.
Vindicate's job was to sink some ships to obviously stop the Marines from
persuing them once this was over. Erica's job was originally to sink ships
with Vindicate, but she ended up in a fight with Smoker.
Rein was to freeze and occupy many marines that attacked which he was
doing perfectly. Nojiko just needed to have her little Cat friend use its
barriers to protect the ship from attacks. However, with Erica occupied
with Smoker and Kuina fighting Tashigi, he needed to take some ships
down himself.
Nami was shooting the cannon from the ship every now and then, so this
was a good thing too.
Rein moved through the marines quickly, he would freeze anyone he
passed. To speed things up, he had brought some ships down as well. It
was obvious that reinforcements would arrive to help them soon.
"Rankyaku!" Rein jumped up and kicked outward. Rein released a blue
slash from his leg, then he moved his other leg and flung out more
Rankyakus. The ship was cut into several wooden blocks as it collapsed.
"Gasp! Our ship, they're targeting our ships! Defend our ship, they want
to escape!" These marines weren't the smartest but it obvious what Rein's
crew was plotting.
"Aim for their ship, they want to destroy ours then we'll destroy theirs
first!" This time, another Lt Junior came over, he had seen what
happened to his buddy earlier! The other Lt. Junior was still knocked on
the ice somewhere, it was actually unknown if he was alive or not.
"What scheming pirates, they won't escape, none shall escape! We are
Justice!" The Lt. Junior roared to the crowd of marines. They were all
fired up from his little speech of motivation and readied their weapons.
"To all ship, targets the enemies ship ahead, leave no stone unbroken!"
The Lt. Junior grabbed the DenDen Mushi and commanded all the ships
to attack Rein's ship! They didn't remotely question him and began to
bring several cannons to the deck.
"Damn! Vindicate, take out as many of these ships as you can! Try to stop
them from firing as much as you can!" Rein spoke urgently! Vindicate
face turned serious and he nodded, quickly moving to the next ship!
There were a total of 7 ships left they needed to take down. Rein put his
hands together and slowly formed an Ice Sword. It was thick and baby
blue in color, it was exuding water vapors from it.
"Ready... aim, Fire!" The Junior Lieutenant Pointed towards Rein ship
with his sword as he spoke over the DenDen Mushi. Everyone fired on his
commanded while some ships still weren't prepared to shoot.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Vindicate didn't need to do much, he targeted the cannonballs mid-flight.
He had pretty good accuracy as he shot several Cannonballs down. Rein
moved through the air fast using Geppo, all you could see were little
clouds and the sound of him breaking the sound barrier like Blueno when
he fought Luffy!
All the cannonballs were easily dismissed by Rein and Vindicate efforts,
mainly Rein. "Very smart, but to bad, this primitive attack isn't good
enough!" Rein suddenly sucked in a lot of air and blew it outward
towards the ships.
The marines were surprised originally that their Cannonballs had been
blocked all at once, it was something they had never seen before. Seeing
Rein suddenly speak and blowing air, they were a little confused.
"Why is he blowing air?"
"I hope he doesn't think he take us down like that!"
"What is he plotting, it must be something, we can't underestima..." He
couldn't finish what he wanted to say, he fainted on the spot! Many
marines began to faint simultaneously out of the blue, what was going
on!?
"What have you done you evil Pirate!?" The Lt. Junior screamed and
threw his sword to the side, then he picked up a launcher that was next
to him with a hateful expression. If you haven't guessed it already, then
yes, he used Nitrogen to faint the majority of the marines!
"Die you evil thing!" The Lt. Junior face was ugly from anger!
"Not so fast, Sherlock!" The Lt. junior fired his launcher but just as he did,
it was blown up in his face! Vindicate had shot the rocket with a barrel
bullet that bombed the rocket on the spot! Sadly, the Lt. Junior didn't
even get to scream as he was blown to nothingness!
"Yikes! You know he's dead!" Rein rubbed his helmet and said. Rein was
receiving many points for defeating marines, but not as much per defeat,
but it all added up to something decent.
"It was self-defense, it had to be done, he targeted us with the intent to
kill! It was all I could give!" Vindicate wouldn't be merciful to anyone
trying to kill him, this was the same with Rein in many cases, but it
depended for him to some degree.
For instance, he knew how crocodile and Doflamingo were, he originally
liked these characters so he wouldn't kill them, but beat them instead.
As for people like Blackbeard, he would kill him and rob his Devil fruit to
give to someone. Taking extra damage wasn't something he wanted, but
the fruit could be sold to the system for a lot, and I mean a lot!
With that, Rein and Vindicate proceeded to take down many ships with
ease.
"Hmm, this isn't going as expected, what a pain!" Smoker already took
notice of the terrible situation, this was totally unexpected. He didn't
expect so many marines to be defeated by 2 people, like what?
"Hmph! Looks like your blind justice has only gotten you in trouble!"
Erica kicked out as a fire wave came upon Smoker. Smoker attacked as
well and the attack just canceled each other out, he had taken many hits
from Erica already.
Erica was pretty strong without a devil fruit, she could use Rokushiki
pretty well and could hit hard. This was definitely so with her kicks as
her legs seemed to be the strongest part of her body.
"Kid, being a pirate was your ultimate downfall, now you have to know
your mistake!" Smoker shot a smoke bomb at Erica while she shot a
Firebomb back!
Bang!
Boom!
The attacks collided in the air, they both made sure to launch attacks
away from the ice as much as they could. They were both Devil Fruit
users so falling into the water wasn't something good.
Smoker used this as a diversion to sneak up on Erica but she was also
thinking the same thing! They both Clashed again, but Smoker was
knocked back, just as he was about to slam into the ice, he quickly
recovered.
"I don't know how you got this stong or how you came across such
power, but this only makes me want to take you in even more!" Smoker
wished he had his jitte right about now, this would surely make things a
bit different.
"Then try it!" Erica couldn't bother to answer his questions and attacked
him again.
Meanwhile.....
Shing!
Whoosh!
"So aggressive, it would have been good for someone like you to be a
marine, but you've chosen the dark path!" Tashigi couldn't hold up
against Kuina's onslaught of attacks, she was fast and aggressive.
"I've already chosen that this is the path to true power, it has to be so
with no regrets!" Kuina did a spinning slash that caught Tashigi off guard
as it slashed her clothes and stomach!
"Ugh! Damn it!" Tashigi backed away to recover, but she was met with
another flurry of swift attacks by Kuina. Kuina almost looked like after
images to Tashigi, she understood that she was no match for this woman!
Tashigi blocked as much as she could but this was Kuina!
Ace died to serve to motivate and let Luffy understand that he was weak.
Whitebeard was killed off because he was just too Op, no one was going
to beat him, at least not for a while!
As for Kuina, she died from stairs, damn stairs! She had a lot of potential
that was never found out, it was not telling what she would have
achieved if she had lived. Zoro couldn't match her, so how could Tashigi
stand where she is in talent and skill?
However, Tashigi managed to get a lucky hit in, it was on Kuina fox
mask! With that, the mask was knocked off and revealed her face! Tashigi
fell to the ground holding her stomach where she was slashed, she looked
up after seeing the mask drop to the ice.
"Whaaa~! W-who are you?" Tashigi's eyes dilated, her expression looked
like the world was ending.
"Who am I? Who are you?" Kuina found that question funny, "This match
is over, you should sit there after being defeated, so stay down and
away!" To Kuina, that was her line! How do you have a face nearly
identical to mine?
Kuina picked up the fox mask and put it back on, she ran off elsewhere
while Tashigi stayed where she was in deep thought.
Meanwhile, Vindicate and Rein were wrecking house on the marine
ships. One of the marines soldiers got on the Den Den Mushi to call for
back up but was knocked out soon after. "Damn! That bastard called for
back up, we need to leave, I can use a nap right about now." Vindicate
was feeling exhausted as Rein knew he would.
"This is just about wrapped up, all we need to do now melt the ice and be
on our way." The main goal was the ships in their way, then they could
advance with no problem. Rein sighed, he needed to upgrade his ship
quick, or else!
After destroying the last ship, they heard some screams not too far off!
"Ah! My legs!"
"My arms, I don't think I can hold another gun again!"
"Y-you crazy bitch, you won't get aw..."
Bonk!
The man was knocked over the head and fainted on the spot, he was hit
over the head by the hilt of Kuina's sword! "Goodness, you're crippling
people and stuff, this is too sinister, Kuina!" Vindicate looked at Kuina
with Convictions.
"Don't be a hypocrite, I saw what you did earlier to that man with the
launcher!" Kuina harrumphed and looked at Vindicate with ridicule!
"....." Vindicate was silent.
"Okay, let's wrapped this up and be one our way out of here before more
marines arrive!" It wasn't the time for this, they had to go!
Rein looked over at Erica and Smoker's heated battle, they were
exchanging blows but Erica was faster, she was also better at Technique.
Smoker didn't really stand a chance, and if this battle went on much
longer, he would surely lose.
Vindicate grinned and shot one off at Smoker while he was distracted!
Smoker notice a light from his backside, he turned around but his face
remained unchanged as he was hit directly by the beam.
Boom!
A mini bomb of light shot out as some ice was destroyed in the process!
"Shameless Asshole!!!" Someone hollered from afar, but once they looked
over they could see that it was Tashigi. She was on the ice glaring at
Vindicate like she wanted to chop him up!
"Ah, no! Sorry, my hand slipped!" Vindicate innocently said with a
delightful yet believable smile, it looked like there sparkles were around
him to prove that was telling the truth.
"You damn liar!" Tashigi roared with the injustice of that sneak attack.
"I was standing right here lady, his hand clearly slipped as I am his
witness." Rein nodded with his hand on his chin and agreed that
Vindicate's hand had indeed slipped. Kuina's mouth twitched then it
turned into a smile, she shook her head and chuckled afterward.
"Y-you!" Tashigi pointed at the group, she was speechless with anger, she
was lost for words!
Smoker appeared out of the attack and looked toward Rein and
Company, but suddenly, he was frozen on the spot. He hit the ice as a
popsicle with the same expression on his face, he clearly didn't see this
attack coming.
"Rein! You have to be careful, you just made a mistake and froze that
guy!" Vindicate pointed to Smoker in shock, he was clearly acting shock!
"My bad, I didn't mean to do it, I'll pray for forgiveness for my terrible
mistake!" Rein put his hand on his face and started making sniffling
sound as if he was crying. Tashigi almost fainted from seeing their
obvious fake performance!
"Everyone, let's go, I'll repent later after I'm done being pirate!" Rein
suddenly changed back to normal as they all ran to the ship. There were
so many marines knocked out on the ice.
"That was one crazy battle!" Nami and Nojiko were watching the battle
the whole time, it was like watching a show.
"Yeah, a battle that I wish had never happened." Vindicate was tired and
walked off to his room
"It goes to show you that not even numbers can win a battle in this world
in some cases." Rein said, "Erica, melt the ice now, let's go!" Erica grinned
and looked at Smoker, she then shot fire at the ice all around. With that,
it began to melt at crazy speeds visible to the eye!
Nami shift the wheel of the ship and drifted the ship away. Many marines
began to wake up once they were exposed to the water. Tashigi quickly
went over to Smoker despite her wounds to save him from drowning.
After five minutes, more Marines ships arrived as back up, but Rein and
his crew were already gone.
Notes
xD Forgot about Friday, so here you go! Happy Reading as always!
Reaching The Grand Line!
Rein and company continued safely without being pursued by any
marines. The battle was pretty good and got their blood running fast.
This battle would be similar to the upcoming future battle, the
paramount war, but on a far greater scale.
Rein had gotten around 30 to 40 thousand system Points from that battle,
he had also received a notification after the battle was over.
[Secret Mission!] Declaration as a Pirate! [Completed!}
[Ding! Handing out mission Rewards!]
⭑Congratulations Rein, you've received: 10 Attribute Points!
⭑Congratulations Rein, you've received: 5000 System Points!
⭑Congratulations Rein, you've received: Body Strengthening Pill (Full
body) (x3)
⭑Congratulations Rein, you've received: Bronze Token
The thing he noticed was the Body pills, he had received 3 of them!
"Nice! they're full-body pills which aren't even sold on the system." This
would strengthen the body much faster and it'll help one learn techniques
much quicker.
As of now, they were really close to the Calm Belt, he made sure to tell
Nami to stay away from it. Nami seemed to fear the calm belt very much,
she already knew what lurked in the calm belt and felt dread just
thinking about it.
Vindicate walked back onto the deck with an angry expression.
"Someone took a dump on my bed, it was a huge load on my pillow!"
Vindicate instinctively glared at the Cheshire cat on Nojiko's head.
"Gasp! Shara, did you use the bathroom on Vindicate's pillow?" Nojiko
was stunned, she actually held her laughter in and looked seriously at the
Cat.
"Ah! Sorry, I thought it was a place where I could use the bathroom!" The
Cheshire cat looked surprised as it opened its mouth wide. But if you
looked closely, you could tell that the cat's eyes were laughing like no
tomorrow.
"That's it! I'm going to strangle this cat!"
"Wait! Calm down, I'll have her clean it up!" Nojiko hurridly to speak
before things went too far.
"Sigh, okay, just keep a hold on that annoying thing." Vindicate could
only sigh. Nojiko made the Cheshire Cat clean up the mess soon after.
"Hahaha!! You actually named it Shara, I just can't!" Kuina broke out into
wild laughter with tears in her eyes, she started to beat on the table with
her fist in laughter.
"Hmph! That's the best name for her, what would you name her?" Before
Kuina could answer her question, Rein immediately cut in.
"Okay, you three, I have something to give you guys that I'm sure you'll
need!" With those words, they froze their conversation and looked
towards Rein. He was sitting at the table drinking some juice of some
sort.
"What do you have for us?" Three of them said at the same time.
"Well, it is for later, so I can't give it to you now, but it's coming soon."
Rein wanted to give them the body strengthening pills, but the time
wasn't right. Once they found an island to settle down a bit at, then it
would be the right time.
"Aw, that's so lame!" Nojiko pouted and went back into the ship.
"Nojiko! Make sure that cat cleans all that poop off my bed!" Vindicate
ran after Nojiko to make sure the cat did what she ordered it to do.
"Kuina, do you only want to use one Sword? I thought you were a
double-bladed swordswoman?"
"Originally I'm a single-bladed swordsman but I can use two swords as
well if I can find another good one like this." Rein was surprised, he
originally thought she was duo bladed swordsman!
"Something I didn't catch onto while watching one piece, I see!"
"Huh? What was that?"
"Oh, nothing, just talking to myself!" Rein shook his head and began to
drink his pineapple juice. He looked at the surroundings and found them
familiar.
"This is the spot where that Island will rise next year, that dragon island
of some sort." Rein remembered about some reincarnation of those
dragons from the show. It was where the fat marines by the name of
Nelson Royale would cause trouble for some girl and Luffy's crew to some
degree.
"Luffy will have to go against that guy before coming into the grand line."
Rein nodded and said no more. So far, there were no marines around this
place like it was in the show, but within a year, they will appear here.
Time passed and they spotted another island up ahead, it was Warship
Island!
"Do we make a stop here on this island or keep going?" Nami asked. Rein
had good eyesight and could see some of the natives, they had grave
expressions on their faces from seeing this pirate ship.
"No, we'll head to the grand line, ignore this island." Rein didn't need
anything from this island so what was the point in stopping here?
Nami did just that and ignored the island. Time passed slowly, she didn't
need to always steer the ship but set it for a direction. Nami went to sit
with Erica, they talked about many things and their past experiences.
Nami talked about Bellemere with Erica, she actually opened up about
that!
Rein decided to look over the system a bit, he saw that he could buy a
gravity machine and even become a blacksmith. If he became a
blacksmith, then the proficiency of his sword creation card would
improve.
Sadly, the Gravity machine was just too pricey to buy right now. "When I
do buy it, I'll add it to my island later." Rein also knew that if you entered
the New world, you would be stuck in a dilemma.
You either joined the Yonko or were against them, they controlled that
place with an iron fist. This was another reason why many pirates like
Kid, Hawkins, and other Super Novas formed an alliance to take them
down.
The night was setting in soon but they arrived at Reverse mountain. At
this time, everyone was on the deck for this moment. "What a strange
current, it goes straight upward, that doesn't make any sense!" Kuina
looked at the current with a puzzled expression.
"The current should lead us straight into the Grand Line, this is the way
in without going over the Calm belt!" Nami didn't want to be anywhere
near the calm belt, this was the same for Rein.
"This current looks a little too fast, doesn't it?" Vindicate was a bit
worried about the fast current.
"It's okay, if you fall in, I'll save you but you better hold on tight, this
current is fast!" Rein was feeling excited, his adventure was truly about to
start.
"....." Vindicate was speechless
With that, the ship approached the current and was caught in it almost
immediately. The upstream had several ring gates around it that led
upward.
Erica: Whoa! This is so fun~!
Nojiko: This is amazing!
Vindicate: Crap! I think I'm going to be sick!
Rein: Just like a rollercoaster, this is both scary and fun!
Nami: Yahooo~!
Kuina: I've never enjoyed such a ride like this before!
Rein and Company had no problem getting up the stream, they didn't
have to look out from crashing like Luffy did in the original. Luffy had to
use his body to block them from crashing into the side of the upstream
walls.
Rein had 1 extra Crew member than Luffy upon entering the Grand line.
Rein planned to recruit the rest of his crew in the grand line when he
found some good ones.
"Oh, It's the clouds, this is so fun, I would love to enjoy rides like this
more!" Erica had jumped onto the lookout of the ship and exclaimed
joyously.
"When will it be over!?" Vindicate expression turned green, he was
feeling sickly.
"Not for a bit, so you have to persevere through a bit more!" Rein made
sure to stay away from Vindicate if he threw up or something.
"Are those clouds? We're so high up!" Suddenly, the group broke through
some clouds and flew into the air.
They were now heading downstream and into the grand line!
"Never again, we can never do this again!" Vindicate was on the verge.
"What are you talking about, this is amazing, I would love to do this
again!" Kuina spoke louder than usual, it was raining with dark clouds in
the sky.
"Whoaaaa`~! I second that!" Nojiko said.
"We're so close, it really happening!" Rein smiled and said.
Suddenly, the group broke through another layer of clouds, but they were
far thicker than the last, it was hard to see ahead at this point.
"HOMMMM!"
"Huh? What was that sound just now?" Erica looked into the distance, she
could have sworn she heard something.
"I didn't hear anything," Nojiko said as she looked ahead.
"Oh, shoot!" Rein had just remembered that it was a huge whale waiting
here!
"Prepare to stop the ship as best we're able, it's a giant whale up ahead!"
Rein hurriedly and said. It would be a disaster if he crashed into such a
big thing!
"A whale?" Erica frowned hearing this, was it the terrifying sea king Nami
was talking about?
"HOOOMMMM!"
Another loud sound resounded the area, everyone could hear it clearly
now as they got closer. At that moment, it had appeared before them.
Laboon!
"Crap, the brakes, help me with the brakes!" Nami was scared out of her
wits, everyone rushed over to help except Vindicate and Rein. Vindicate
was feeling too sickly while Rein was waiting to use his power of ice to
avoid the whale.
"Ah! Harder!" The four girls worked hard and pulled onto the brakes,
while Rein quickly created a little slideway that went around the whale.
Rein looked up at Laboon in awe, he was way bigger than a Blue whale
back in his world. He could only imagine that huge elephant that carried
that island of furries on its back!
However, they safely manage to avoid hitting Laboon and causing the
destruction of their ship.
"'Pant Pant' That was close, I thought we were dead!" Nami heaved a sigh
of relief with tears in her eyes. Everyone else was panting and feeling
relieved as well, this whale was super massive!
[Ding! Mission Unlocked!]
Rein wanted to look at the mission, but suddenly!
"HOOoooM!"
Laboon roared and began to shift its body, its whole body started to
reveal itself. Originally he had his head sticking out of the water only,
but now Laboon started to float on the water.
"Fuck! Steer the ship away from him!" Rein was shocked, he was so close
to it that he might get rammed, it was something he feared most right
now. Suddenly, a bubble popped up around the ship, but it was still hit
by Laboon and knocked away.
"Ah!"
"Hold on!"
"Crap, this is horrible!"
They were sent sailing some ways away, but they were safely away from
Laboon Kill Zone! Fortunately, the Cheshire cat put up a bouncy bubble
to protect the ship from damage.
"Pant, is it over?" Erica looked up and said.
"Yeah, we're away from him, so we should be good for now." Rein sighed
in relief, they were at risk of possibly being swallowed, and that was
something he wanted to avoid.
"What in the world, what am I seeing!?" Vindicate stood up and looked at
Laboon. A door was suddenly opened on Laboon's backside and a boat
came out of it!
"There's a door on a whale!? Goodness, I've truly seen it all today!"
Nojiko couldn't believe what she was seeing, how was something like that
even possible?
Rein scratched his eyebrows and looked closely, he could see the person
opening the door, but now he was closing it.
Crocus!
This person came to mind immediately. The door had finally closed, so
he looked towards the boat that came out of Laboon's backside.
What he saw surprised him, but it made him smile happily. There were
two people tied up on the boat, it was Mr. 9 and Miss Wednesday! "The
people on that boat, we'll hold those two has hostages, so capture them!"
"Hostages?" Kuina looked confused, since when had they taken hostages.
"Don't worry, we need them for our first big event in the Grand Line, we
won't hurt them, of course!" Rein grinned and looked back at the system.
Nami thought they could potentially be people she could rob so she was
up for it.
[Mission Unlocked!]
[Corrupted Light: Survive 30 minutes in a battle against ???!]
[Mission Rewards!]
⭑ Glint-Glint Fruit, Model: White Light (Variant Logia)
⭑ ???
⭑ Devil Fruit Token (Gold)
"What? Who? Why does it not show the individual's name!?" Rein was
irritated looking at the mission! This mission didn't tell him who he had
to survive a confrontation with, was it playing with him!?
The moment he entered the Grand Line he received a mission, what did
this mean?
Slam!
Bump!
Suddenly, the two tied up people were brought on board and thrown to
the floor by Vindicate.
"Ouch! Can you be a bit more easy on this prince!?" Mr.9 groaned from
the fall and said. Rein looked over, it was the real Vivi, the actual thing
from the show!
Vivi was younger this time around with the age of 15, she was a year
younger than Luffy and Rein. As of now, she had her hair in the same
manner as the show, it was a ponytail.
"Oh, sorry!" Vindicate shrugged and stepped back.
"Hehe, I have some questions for you guys, for the people who keep
trying to kill a whale!" Rein stretched, he knew this was the reason they
were here to begin with.
Variant Types!
"....." Mr9 turned away with a harumph
"A prince? You're no prince, you look like some homeless wannabe
prince!" Kuina looked at Mr.9 in contempt, he looked like some failed
prince of trash!
"H-how could dare to disrespect this great prince of all?" Mr.9 seemed to
struggle with is words, he wasn't in a good position to trash talk.
"Yeah, I'll ignore you for now." Kuina turned away to wipe her sword.
They looked at Miss Wednesday and saw that she was knocked out this
whole time.
Rein walked over to Mr.9 slowly and chopped him on the neck with his
hand, knocking him out. Soon after, they were both taken to the captain
room on the deck until they were to wake up. Nojiko kept an eye on
them for the meantime, she made sure they were alright while she was at
it.
The ship didn't have an anchor, so to stop them from moving, Rein froze
around the ship to stop its advances. Both Erica and Kuina were training
at the back of the ship, Erica was working on Haki while Kuina was
working on Soru.
Vindicate was trying to get those Pistols that Nojiko gave him to work.
Nami sat at a table with a map, she was drawing new parts on it. Rein
walked over and could see that she was drawing reverse mountain and
the islands they had passed.
Rein told her the names of some of the islands. It could be said that she
had already drawn out the whole east blue at this point. Nami did many
jobs in the east blue when she was working for Arlong, so she explored a
lot of places there.
Rein thought for a moment and bought a Virtual map from the system.
This map was empty and cheap to buy, it could be drawn on to create a
nice 3D image of the places she explored. "Here, take this, it will help
you much better than drawing on paper, this is the high tech stuff."
The item was a device that looked like a circular pad. Once you pushed
the button on top of it, it would reveal an empty map that you would
have to fill out! Nami had a storage device so she could carry many
things with her anywhere.
"T-This.. Where did you get something like this from?" Nami was
surprised to see something so high in tech, but Doflamingo had some
pretty good stuff too.
"I've had it for a while now, it was given to me long ago, but now it's
yours. Use it to create a map of the places you've explored, it much easier
and convenient to use." Rein said. She could easily incorporate the places
she had drawn onto the Virtual Map.
"Thanks, this will help much better than just drawing it!" Nami smiled
and began to migrate her maps to the Virtual Device right away.
With that, Rein decided to check the mission he received, he had seen the
strange Devil Fruit. The fruit was a Variant type like Erica's black Flare-
Flare Fruit. The missions now gave him a choice, he could decline to do
them or accept them. But why would he decline a mission like this?
"Alright, let's check and see what that Variant Glint Fruit can do, it
should be better, I hope!" Rein looked at the 3D project to watch its
capabilities. Needless to say, Rein was quite impressed and happy with
the result of its abilities. The fruit was indeed better than the Yellow light
Glint-Glint Fruit!
This fruit could do everything the Glint-Glint fruit could do, but it didn't
require one to bounce off things to get to a location in a hurry. The Fruit
was sort of like Holy Light, it could heal people's wounds, but not their
sicknesses, they would need to train and practice more with the fruit for
that.
The fruit could also purify things like polluted water or any corrosive
things like poison or rust. Magellan and Ceaser clown would be instantly
countered by this fruit. It could do more in its awakened form but that
was when it was awakened.
"This fruit is a must, it's way too good to pass up!" He'd be really stupid to
just decline this mission, he wasn't sure who he had to fight but it was
clearly someone he couldn't beat! Rein speculated who it could be and he
didn't like it at all!
"Oh, goodness, I hope it isn't him!" Rein frowned just thinking about it.
Suddenly, Nojiko came downstairs from the captain's room.
"The woman has woken up, she is also trash-talking me about letting her
go." Nojiko looked annoyed when saying this. Rein followed her back to
the room and saw that she had indeed awoken.
"Where is that old man, he won't stop us from doing what we have to do!"
Vivi or in this case, Miss Wednesday smiled smugly.
"Yeah, you were probably knock out by him and thrown out like this fake
prince here." Rein took a seat and sat down.
"I am the princess and he is the prince, do you know who we are because
if he did, hehe!" Vivi was acting arrogant but he knew this was an act to
blend in, she was a spy that wanted to infiltrate Mr.0's organization.
"Oh, and who are you? If you're someone so important, I'll be scared and
let you go." Rein sat back with his hands behind his head.
"Hmph! I'm Miss Wednesday and if you don't let me go, it'll only spell
disaster for you pirates!" Miss Wednesday spoke arrogantly again which
made Nojiko smack her over the head.
"Ouch! Y-You!" Miss Wednesday glared at Nojiko and Nojiko glared back,
causing Miss Wednesday to look down and away.
"You must have forgotten who's in control here, maybe we should throw
you to the sharks for a midnight snack!" Nojiko looked at Rein and
winked for him to go along with it.
"Oh, Yes, I saw a few massive sharps swimming around our ship, they
looked hungry." Rein grinned "No one will ever know that you guys were
eaten, they'll never trace it back to us, you'll die without a grave, and in
the worse way!"
"Ah! w-wait, don't kill us! We only wanted to kill the whale to feed the
people on our home island! If you take us back safely, you'll be rewarded
generously!" Miss Wednesday was now scared silly that she nearly
exposed what their organization was.
"Oh, really? Okay, take us to your home island you're talking about, I
love rewards." Rein nodded and untied the two. Mr.9 fell to the ground
and hit his head on the wooden floor and woke up instantly.
"Ah! what's going on? My neck, oh, my neck hurts so much!" Mr.9 woke
up talking nonsense while holding his neck, but he managed to stand up.
Miss Wednesday stood up and began to search her clothes, but found that
what she was looking for wasn't there. "No, My Log pose is missing,
where did it go? We're doomed, we'll never find our way back, it's over!"
Miss Wednesday began to panic seeing that her log pose was missing.
"Oh, are you looking for this?" Rein had taken the log pose from her body
when they were knocked out.
"Gasp! Please, help us get back home!" Both Mr.9 and Miss Wednesday
got on their knees and begged.
"Yes, yes, she is right, we beg you and we'll even give you many gifts
when we get back!" Mr.9 hurriedly and said.
"Of course, we'll help you guys get back, be sure to reward us as you said
or else." Rein said with a smile.
"Huh? Hmm, I guess since they're giving out rewards then it shouldn't be
too bad." Nojiko said thoughtfully.
"Hehe, yes, I expect the rewards to be very generous!" But suddenly,
Nami walked in. Rein looked at her with concern, they were technically
rich as heck right now, what more do you want!?
"Yes, yes, they'll be really generous!" Mr.9 looked up and spoke quickly,
his forehead was very sweaty at this point.
Moments later, they began to set sail to Whisky Peak.
......
Logue Town Marine Base.
Smoker sat behind his desk, he was recently unthawed from the Icy sneak
attack of Rein. His face remained unchanged but his eyes were serious
and full of annoyance. It was clear that Smoker wasn't a very happy
camper right now, everyone present remained quiet in the room seeing
this.
The media took pictures of the fight he had with Erica in the town and
the battle on the ice, which was surely going to become headline news!
Smoker found Rein's report, but just when Smoker was about to read it,
the Den Den Mushi went off!
"Hello! Rear Admiral Axor!" Smoker hurriedly and saluted.
"What happened out there, you had one job and you couldn't stop these
pirates from advancing to the grand line!" Axor wasn't happy about this
but Smoker was sort of a special Captain that he really couldn't
command.
"Sir, I didn't get to read his report because of the sudden flow of pirates
in the past month. It was stated that his crew went missing for about a
week." Smoker couldn't properly check anything, there were just too
many pirates coming to this place all of sudden.
"I was going to tell you that he appeared on Myriad Island, it was
reported by Captain Copper sometime ago. But nope, you appeared to
have already met him and lost to him!" The East Blue was the weakest
sea and the most peaceful, how could this have happened?
"I may have underestimated them a bit, I was... Frozen solid by the
enemy pirate! This pirate is more dangerous than I thought, he has the
ability to freeze things, it is suspected that he has a Paramecia freezing
ability." Smoker said sighing.
"You really didn't read the report, it was reported that he could fly and
could use some sort of Darkness ability! I'm not too sure about the
details, but this came in from Castleford Island!"
Axor had read the report many times and thought he was seeing things,
what type of devil fruit could do all of this? "Ah, I'll be sure to read it
thoroughly, in fact, I was just about to read until you called." Smoker
mumbled with the Cigars in his mouth.
"What was the fatality rate during that battle on the ice?" Axor ignored
Smoker's comment and countered with a question.
"The number isn't good, we have two very injured Lt. Juniors and.... "
Smoker paused and sighed "One dead Lt. junior from the battle, he was
blown away without a body to be found."
"As for the rest, I'll send you the written report on the battle later." It was
too much to explain right now, he would rather write it instead.
"Okay, I'll be waiting for it, but until then, keep taking down any pirate
that stops by Logue Town." Just when Axor was about to hang up,
Smoker stopped him.
"Wait! I have a request!" Smoker said quickly.
"What is it, Captain?" Axor was already mad at this point, this didn't look
good on the marine's part. Smoker's defeat had lost them quite a bit of
face, they wanted to stop the news from spreading but the newspapers
were already released by some unknown source.
"I request to pursue Rain Man and his crew of pirates!" Smoker spoke
firmly about this request, he wanted to take down Rein, Erica and,
Vindicate. Their abilities were far too dangerous, he couldn't allow them
to grow any further.
"Hahaha! I knew you would ask this, but you can't leave Logue town for
now. You are to be station there until next year, that's when you can
leave Logue town as you please!" Axor felt good about himself due to his
prediction, he knew this question was coming.
"..." Smoker remained silent.
"Well, do you understand?" Axor asked laughing.
"I...I understand!" Smoker didn't care too much, it wasn't like he could
beat Rein anyway, he had made a great and sad self discover of that.
"Alright, see you then!" With that, Axor hung the Den Den Mushi up.
"Jeez! That guy is so annoying, I understand that you're upset Captain!"
Tashigi was listening the whole time, this guy seemed a bit too full of
himself.
"It's okay, there are stronger Marines in the grand line and it's ruled by
the World Government. We'll see how far they can go before they're
caught or killed by the big shots in the marines." Smoker lit his two
cigars, he wasn't really bothered by Axor's attitude, he had seen many
high ranked marines like this before.
Rein's ship.
"What is this, the weather keeps changing!" Suddenly, it started to rain,
then eventually it started to snow, it didn't stop there as it became windy!
"What kind of place is this!? This is madness!" Vindicate was stunned.
"The Log pose keeps changing to East then west, it can't make up its
mind!" Nami looked at the Log pose on her risk with shock.
"Oh, shoot! lookout, it a Glacier!" Nojiko pointed to the glacier in shock.
Nami quickly steered the ship around the Glacier before they could crash
into it.
"Haha, you guys must be noobies of the grand line, it fortunate that you
guys are with us!" Miss Wednesday sneered.
Nojiko glared at Miss Wednesday and she quickly looked away.
Suddenly, the island known as Whisky Peak came into view.
"Gasp! We're home!
"ByeBye, Baby!" Mr. 9 and Miss Wednesday jumped into the water and
waved. They then swam away towards the island. Rein had already seen
this coming so he wasn't surprised in the least.
"Hey, you owe us some rewards! Stop them from escaping!" Nami's
greedy self was the first to speak.
"Relax, we're heading to the island anyway, they can't escape, we won't
let them." Rein continued to drink his pineapple juice with no worries.
"Mhm! Let's head to the island right away." Erica wanted to see some of
the islands in the grand line, so she was a bit excited. Everyone nodded
as they continued to Whisky Peak!
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