Chapter One.

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The Marine base was busy like usual as enlisted men raced back and fourth, while Officers enjoyed a cup of tea and continued to bark orders at anyone who was below them. The sun above rained warm sun rays down upon the hard working Marines and the town's locals as they continued their daily routines. The calm ocean waves crashed upon the sandy shores of the island and everything was peaceful.

"I really hate this part of the job" A voice complained loudly from the upper stair case of the base as a young faced eighteen year old bounty hunter was lazily making his way towards the base's top floor. His foot steps echoed lowly throughout the circular stair case hall as his hands annoyingly tapped the railing that kept him from falling off a she leaned against it.

The bounty hunter had light tanned skin, his light brown eyes curiously examining the palace before him, he had short chocolate brown hair hidden by a brown wide rimmed hat, and a brown goatee. He wore a pair of dirt stained boots that echoed with every step lowly, with black field pants, and he wore a brown belt with padded overalls which securely contained multiple pouches on them with two hunting knives holstered on the side. He wore a white tank top with gray strips across it, a pair of sunglasses hung from his collar, and he had a pair of brown gloves hanging from his pocket.

"Ryker, it's an unfortunate pleasure to see you again" The Master Chief Petty Officer that stood guard at the top of the stairs snarled at the bounty hunter as he rested his rifle casually over his shoulder. The man was muscular and had messy blonde hair, on his left cheek he had a long scar, and wore the standard uniform for an enlisted soldier with his shoulder insignia.

"Master Chief Petty Officer. Lanes, it's a pleasure to see that ugly scar covered face of your's" Ryker said with a sly grin as the Marine simply opened the door for him and playfully slapped the back of the bounty hunter's head. Ryker shot the Marine a smirk before he disappeared into the office.

The room was small as it was the lobby before the base's Commanding Officer's quarters. The lobby was empty as the desk wasn't being occupied at the time and no one had a scheduled meeting with the, Rear Admiral. Approaching, the large oak doors Ryker knocked upon the doors three times loudly before a loud booming voice answered back.

"Come on!"

Ryker sighed heavily upon hearing the voice.

The Rear Admiral and him, didn't exactly get along most of the time.

Ryker entered the room casually as he was greeted by a beam of sunlight that entered from a large window behind the large wooden desk at the end of the room. The room was decorated with pictures of the Rear Admiral's past years in the Marines and had many books scattered across the room. The Rear Admiral was a large man who was very muscular, he was slowly aging as his once black hair was a light gray. His blue eyes didn't even bother to look up at Ryker, his skin was wrinkly, and he had a scar running from his right eye down his nose and to his left ear.

The man was a legend for his career as a Marine.

Rear Admiral. Broshi!

"What do you want, Ryker?" Broshi grumbled lowly as he was signing a stack of paper work.

"It's a pleasure to see you to, Rear Admiral" Ryker sighed heavily as it was a never kind greeting waiting for him at the door, but the usual question of why he was there.

"Stop playing around, I'm busy."

Ryker sighed loudly before speaking again, "I just handed over a few bounties to your men and I'm here to collect the bounties."

Ryker slid over three wanted posters. They weren't his usual high ranking pirates, but they weren't exactly weaklings.

"Not impressed" Broshi stated lowly as he crumbled up the wanted posters and threw it over his shoulder.

"You still have to pay me!" Ryker cried out as the Rear Admiral would always refuse to pay him whenever he wasn't impressed.

"Fine, fine. Don't get your panties in a bunch... Hmmmm panties" Broshi giggled softly as he slid open the box below his desk where he kept all of the payments for bounty hunters who brought in criminals.

Suddenly, the doors swung open and swaggering their way into the room were three uniformed Marines all of them officers. The first Marine was obviously the higher ranking one of the trio as Ryker recognized him as, Commodore. Roku. The Marine Officer was muscular like his commanding officer, he wore a gray suit with a yellow tie under his Marine jacket, his jet black hair was done into a ponytail that he called "manly" and he had a thick mustache. Ryker and Roku got along, they didn't talk much but he didn't have a problem with him.

The two men behind him were Commander. Pong, a tall and slim man who was very handy with the katana that hung from his belt. His katana was said to be cursed and only a true samurai could wield it, many pirates had fallen to it.

Beside Pong was Lieutenant. Gor, a large muscular figure who resembled a gorilla of some sort. His was covered in brown well groomed hair and wore a dark brown suit under his Marine Jacket. It was said his fist could sink a battleship!

"Oh, Roku it's nice to see that you're back!" Broshi called out happily as he slid the box back under his desk, completely forgetting about Ryker.

"My money!" Ryker called out angrily as he hated when the Rear Admiral did this to him.

"Fine, fine" Broshi sighed loudly as he hated dealing with bounty hunters, especially with Ryker.

Roku turned to face Ryker with a weak smile as he jokingly apologized for his commanding officer's behavior. Ryker never really had to many conversations with Roku, but from what he had heard from Lanes was that he was determined to become Fleet Admiral one day. Pong and Gor were his loyal men who carried out every order he gave and it was just an example of how much of a true leader he was.

"So, I saw those pirates you handed in. Nice work!" Roku said with a soft chuckle as he admired Ryker's quick work of the criminals who had docked at the local port.

"Thanks, I try my best to have them all pretty for their day view at prison" Ryker said jokingly as Roku chuckled at his joke and Gor began to laugh widely, but Pong simply stood there with no emotion express on his face.

"You use dials too fight, correct?" Roku asked curiously as Broshi was slowly counting the money to make sur ehe didn't make any mistakes, his vision being very poor and the occasional slip up happening when he would count. "May I see one?"

"Sure" Ryker said happily as he pulled out a Impact Dial and handed it over to Roku.

"Wow, those things are super rare! How did you get your hands on so many!" Gor cried out acting like a child as he scanned the collection of dials that Ryker had stored within his belt and overall pouches.

"My Grandfather was a treasure hunter and found a whole chest of them years ago in a sunken ship. There are many legends saying these were tools of an ancient human race and other legends that they're from a island high in the sky" Ryker explained proudly as he had always been very proud of his Grandfather's past and his dial collection. Roku examined the dial carefully as he could see there were many scars on it from past battles.

"Be carefully with that one. It's an impact dial, it stores kinetic energy and then allows you to release it as an attack, but recently I used to it stop a baby sea king from attacking" Ryker explained as even though the sea king was a baby its claw was strong enough to kill a normal human being with one easy strike. The dial could be very useful in battle, but also very dangerous for him to carry around. "I'm planning on releasing the energy in the woods after this, because it's to dangerous to carry around."

"I see" Roku stated with a grin as Pong nodded and Gor continued to drool over the rare dial that the Commodore was holding tightly.

Suddenly, Roku's arm shot upwards and was firmly aiming towards Broshi. The dial released a low humming sound before a loud popping sound ripped through the air. Broshi didn't even have time to blink as the dial released the powerful attack point blank into his face. The window behind Broshi shattered and hsi desk was ripped apart at, turning it into chunks of shrapnel. Broshi gasped for air as pain surged through his body and the wall behind him was ripped down. The lifeless body of the Rear Admiral flew out of the gaping hole and began to drop towards the base's grounds below.

"W-Wh-" Ryker tried to speak but nothing escaped his lips.

What was going on!