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Hikari groaned, her head pulsing. She felt like she'd had just been brutally ripped apart and put back together again. Slowly picking herself up of the floor, Hikari surveyed her surroundings. She was in a small room, which had a bed in the corner, as well as a set of drawers. It looked like a ship's cabin, and Hikari confirmed this by the gentle rising and falling of the whole room. Still feeling a bit hazy, and wondering what the hell happened.

She remember Mist enveloping her... but last time she teleported with him it didn't feel at all that vicious. Hikari opened the door and walked down a corridor, before another door opened, and Tromso walked next to her.

"Hikari!" Tromso exclaimed in relief. "I thought I was going to be alone, I couldn't hear any voices. Just what happened? I feel like I've gone ten rounds with Attacura."

"We were... teleported... as far as I can garner." Hikari said, looking down to the fishman. "To a ship. Other than that, I have no idea."

"I guess we should go up deck then..." Tromso said, causing Hikari to nod. Tromso went up first, climbing up the ladder going up the wall.

Hikari followed him and got on deck, and saw Red who was unconscious against the mast. She quickly looked around the ship, and saw it was likely a caravel, and it was a beautiful ebony colour, smooth and shiny. There were also two upper decks, one at the fore, and the other at the aft. A ship's wheel stood at the fore, and a figure head of what looked like a horse melded from the front.

"Eh... what? Red murmured, reacting to Tromso lightly shaking him.

"Hey, Captain..." Tromso said, before shaking harder.

Red's eyes shot open, and he got to his feet, looking around in panic. "Damn! God..." Red punched the pillar hard; his knuckle splitting open, but Red ignored it. "How could I let this happen? The crew is split in two... and it's all my fault!"

"It's not your fault." Gouki said, appearing from what appeared to be the Captain's quarters, Jenny hanging onto his arm. "If anyone's, it's Mist, god knows why he wanted you lot."

"And why did he want me?"

"What do we do now?" Red asked, stroking his chin. "No, in fact, where are we."

"I repeat: Why did he want me?"

"Be quiet, I'm thinking." Red snapped, before looking to his now half of the crew, and saw they were looking behind him. Red whipped around and saw none other than Ritsu leaning against the wall, looking slightly pale and disorientated.

"Oh, now you look at me." Ritsu said, holding his head.

"What are you doing here?" Gouki asked.

"Hell if I know." Ritsu said. "One moment I'm getting away from Alcatraz, next, a cloak envelops me from outta nowhere. Then I couldn't move, and I felt frozen in place until I woke up just a moment ago."

"I can half understand why Mist would want Dragon Claw members..." Jenny said. "But why Ritsu?"

"Because you get along well."

The groups' eyes turned towards the fore deck, where Mist stood.

"Get along well?" Gouki repeated.

"Yes. You teamed up with him at Skytopia, and he even defeated one of the Vice-Generals."

"Still doesn't explain why I'm here." Ritsu pointed out.

"Six is a good number." Mist said, as if that explained everything.

"Fine, but why did you bring Red, Tromso, and Hikari here?" Gouki asked. "I mean, I'm guessing this is a mission, but why them?"

"You'll need allies in this mission. After all, it's one which will likely take you a long time. Each of you has... abilities which will contribute to it."

"What is this mission then, that Shorai wants us to do?"

"Master." Mist said. "You are to address him as Master, considering you are back with the Kings. But anyway, the mission is really quite simple. There is an organization planning to take control of the whole of the first trail of the Grand Line, which you are on right now. Now, this organization wouldn't have bothered Master, but for the fact the suspected leader of this organization killed a number of your fellow Kings."

"Wait..." Jenny said. "That would mean..."

"Korten." Gouki said, looking darkly at Mist.

"Master didn't exactly say Korten, but as he is the only person to kill more than one King, it can only mean him." Mist suddenly clutched his left cheek in slight pain. "Well, I have to go... that was all I was given by Master. So, investigate Korten, and investigate throughout the islands. I'll see you again when you complete the mission." Mist went to go, when he stopped. "One more thing, any member of this organization is to be eliminated completely. They need to be killed. This includes Korten." Mist teleported himself away, leaving Gouki and Jenny to exclaim glances.

"Who is Korten?" Ritsu asked Gouki.

"Korten? He is a Shichibukai."

"Another one?" Red groaned. "We are not having much like which Shichibukai. Talon gets half-killed by Ryumen, and then Dragon Claw as a whole gets completely beaten by Fudo, and now this 'Korten'? How powerful is he?"

"That's the thing. That's why this is such a damn nuisance." Gouki said. "No one knows. Not even Shorai. The only thing we know is that he killed of three of the Kings. He killed off number 8, number 5, and most worriedly, number 2. I don't know how he did it, but to take down Number 2, he has to have some major skills."

"We don't have to do this though, do we?" Hikari asked. "I mean, it's a mission sure, but you can just say you didn't find anything out and leave it at that."

Gouki let off a bitter laugh. "Oh, that would be good. But Shorai knows all. If we don't follow his orders, we get killed, simple as that. But not just killed, Shorai makes sure any Kings that don't follow orders are made to not exist. This means that anyone other than the Kings related to them are wiped out. That means, if me and Jenny were not to follow orders, all of you would be killed, as well as you Ritsu, everyone else in Dragon Claw wherever the hell they are now, all our families and so on, until we'd be nothing but rumours."

"Oh..." Hikari flushed slightly in embarrassment.

"Well..." Red breathed. "I'm guessing you're going to be leading us. What do we do?" he looked at Gouki.

"That's the thing Red. We are fighting an invisible foe. If it is Korten, we have no idea what he looks like, what he can do, and even if he IS a he. We don't know the branches of the organization, or how big there are or..." Gouki took a breath. "Basically, we are sailing into uncharted water. I have no idea what to do next, Red, not a clue."

(With nowhere to start, and facing an unknown enemy, how will Dragon Claw – or at least the Half of Dragon Claw – proceed?

Next Time: Finding a map – along with supplies – Red makes the decision to head to each island until coming to Saibondy, where he reckons they'll met back with Diego and co. They make their way to Ravna island.

I forgot to mention, but the place where Alcatraz was, is where the lighthouse was in One Piece canon, as in, where Laboon is. This means that was the start of the Grand Line, and from there to the seven separate paths.

See you next time!