On the Wings of an Angel
Disclaimer(s): All rights belong to the amazingly awesome guy named Oda-sensei. He is a genius and we all love him for what he's given us. The only characters that belong to me are the main guy I make up. And the basic idea of his Devil's Fruit belongs to Poele a Frirefrom . Now, onto the story!
Gabriel was sprinting as fast as he could down the alley, his right hand on the katana sheathed on his back in case he needed to use it. Rain was pounding on the town of Shol on the island of Arasai, a stormy island in the New World. Gabriel was about to leave the island with a pirate crew who had taken up port there when the marines showed up.
Gabriel had been taking short voyages around the area on other pirate ships, occasionally defeating said pirate crew if he found them to be terrible people. But some pirates that he sailed with were fun and carefree people. In those cases, Gabriel just enjoyed his time on the ship and took part in the crew's adventures. This had earned him a 40,000,000 beli bounty.
This time, however, the marines had cut off the crew just before they set sail. Most of the crew had been defeated, but a few of them had escaped from the ship. Gabriel had taken a path on his own, and many marines were on his tail. He hoped the others were okay. This was one of his favorite crews so far. It was relatively small, only about fifteen or twenty people, and they were all very kind and welcomed him into their crew. Recently, he had been planning on joining a crew permanently, and they were prime candidates.
Gabriel took a look over his shoulder, and saw that there were fifty marines chasing him. He swore under his breath. There were less when he had first started running. And they were gaining on him. Just when he was about to activate his Devil's Fruit power and take flight, twenty marines appeared from an alley on his right. Gabriel was forced to go into action.
He quickly jumped, kicking two marines away from him as he drew his katana. He spun in midair, slashing at five more marines. He ducked under two swings from swords, used his Kenbunshoku Haki to predict shots from guns and dodged them, and then slashed at two more marines. However, the fifty marines from before had now caught up, and were all taking aim. Gabriel had very powerful Kenbunshoku Haki and was fast, but he couldn't dodge more than fifty shots all at once. So he relied on his Devil's Fruit.
He jumped in the air, sheathing his katana as he closed his eyes.
"Angel of Prophecy," he said quietly, and two giant wings formed from his back. His clothes slowly turned white as snow and his hair started turning brown and curly.
He flapped his wings once and he had shot in the air. Two more flaps with his wings, and the marines were tiny dots in a very small alley. He then turned and shot toward the middle of the city. As he flew, lightning flashed across the sky, followed almost immediately by a loud clap of thunder. In his Prophecy form, Gabriel's heightened senses picked up a ship about fifty miles from shore in the light from the lightning strike.
Gabriel's Devil's Fruit was the Mythical Zoan Fruit, Mitsu Mitsu no Mi. It allowed him to transform into angels. So far, he had managed to figure out three different forms. The Angel of Prophecies granted him wings that allowed him to fly extremely fast and heightened his senses to a large degree. In his Angel of Prophecies form, his hair become dark brown and curly, his clothes turned white, and the wings which he sprouted were very large and were white.
The Angel of Life gave him healing powers and also allowed him to fly, except without the use of wings. During his Angel of Life form, his hair became shoulder-length, blond, and slightly wavy. His clothes turned pure white, his eyes turned icy blue and slightly glowed, and a golden halo floated above his head.
His third form, the Angel of Death, vastly improved his speed, strength, and reflexes, therefore greatly improving his combat ability. However, he couldn't fly in his Angel of Death form. His hair turned jet black and fell in a ponytail to an inch or two below his shoulders. His clothes turned jet black as well. His eyes turned blood red, though he usually kept them closed in this form, for the powers gave him the ability to feel everything going on to an even higher degree than his Kenbunshoku Haki, and his eyes might deceive him.
He landed on a roof top and reverted back to his human form. His hair was drenched, which made it about the same color as it was before he reverted back to the human form. When it wasn't drenched in water, it was chocolate brown, wavy, and fairly short. His eyes were a deep navy blue. As he looked towards the horizon and another flash of lightning arced across the sky followed by another loud crack of thunder, he wondered how long it would be before the ship docked at the island. He could no longer see it in his human form, but he remembered it had the figure head of a lion and the ship's sails were painted with a Jolly Roger with a straw hat on its skull.
A/N: I know this was really short, but it was just the prologue to introduce my character. The remaining chapters will be much longer. Read and review, please! Also, I do believe in angels, and I don't consider them mythological. But it just fit better in the Mythological subcategory more than any other category of Zoans.