Chapter 29: Water 7 Battle Part 1
Yukino and Kagura were on their way to the 2nd Galley-La Headquarters to find the others.
"Let's hope the others are awake now,"
"No doubt that they are, especially with this navy invasion,"
Laxus and his team went found some citizens informing them about the situation. The citizens went to tell other people and decided to go to the center of Water 7 where they can hide for the time being.
"Such a stink that we don't get to have any fun," Evergreen groaned in annoyance.
"Yeah! I wanna show the Navy the power of the Thunder Legion, haha!" Bickslow added sticking out his tongue. "Am I right my babies!"
"Right! Right!" The dolls said all together.
Freed was calm though he was a little disappointed. "Yes, but Laxus gave us orders."
Laxus stopped for a moment. "You guys..." His team paused for a moment. "Don't worry we'll get some action as soon as we get the citizens safely hidden."
That lift the spirits of his teammates. "YEAH!"
At Sabaody Archipelago
The Fake Strawhats spread terror throughout the island, convincing every citizen that they were the real deal, the people fell for their lie, doing what they needed to stay alive.
The big fakers were at area 31.
"Captain I heard this where that escaped pirate slave got blown up," Fake Franky pointed out.
"Yeah, stupid enough to get caught by the Celestial Dragons and get blown trying to escape!" Fake Luffy laughed coldly. "Stupid bastard was going on "My son, wife, I wanna go home" Ha ha ha!"
Fake Nami smirked cruelly. "Yeah, such a stupid fool, thinking that he could escape."
"I can't blame the escaped pirate though," Fake Sogeking chuckled amusingly. "I mean I wouldn't want to be enslaved by those noble bastards, but he had to be stupid and get himself blown up."
Akame was peeking from between two buildings. "Hmm, so those people claim they're the straw hat pirates." She thought, holding a flier. "They're recruiting new members for their journey into the New World." She knew she must keep an eye out for them in case they cause any trouble.
In 70-79
A hotel town.
Fake Sanji and Zoro arrived there. "So this is the place we'll be staying at."
"Good, as long as we get good food and a nice place to stay." The fake Zoro said feeling hungry. "With our reputation, we can easily stay there without any problems."
Leone was wearing a black robe with a hood that kept her face hidden. "So, these fat asses think they can keep this shenanigan, in due time all of your crap will come back to bite you." She thought in disgust. "It kills me, though, but I need to hold back otherwise I'll draw unwanted attention."
At area 13
Shakky's Rip-off Bar
Chelsea finally arrived there. "Looks like I got here, though getting through here was tougher than I thought."
Half-hour earlier
Chelsea arrives at Sabaody's Shipping area.
Luckily no one was around.
"Where is everybody?" She thought.
She saw a tall man wearing a fishmonger outfit. "Excuse me." She waved getting the man's attention.
"Huh, oh young lady, how can I help you?" The fishmonger asked.
"I need a place to stay, but I'm little trouble so do you know of any place I could stay hidden for a while?" Chelsea replied.
The fishmonger thought and got an idea. "Take this..." He handed her a map of the island, he took out a pen, marked on area 13, you need to get grovel 1 then pass through the pirate lawless area, once you see grovel 12, you'll be closer to 13, be cautious, more pirates are roaming around those areas."
Chelsea took out her robe and did her best to avoid attention. "I made it through, though I had to pass countless pirates that were looking at me, like a lion ready to pounce its prey."
She could tell that some of these pirates wanted to have some fun, the kind that perverted men would want.
Present
Chelsea approached the door
Cana was inside drinking some boozes. "Gulp... Gulp..." She took fast sips she was drunk. "Man, it's quite boring lately."
Juvia was looking at a newspaper that showed Gray. "My darling!" She squealed with delight. "Even though you're wanted by the navy, Juvia will still love you!" Then a dark glare appeared on her face as she looked at the page of her crush standing by Miyaka. "That little skank, a love rival besides Lucy!"
Knock knock
"Who is that?" A fish rider wondered as he got up from his seat and walked towards the door. "Who are you miss?"
A little while, Chelsea looked inside the bar, to her surprise, Juvia, and Cana caught her as well. "Chelsea..."
"Juvia, Cana!" The former recon assassin said in surprise. "You two are okay!"
The three girls hugged each other. "Good to see you two!"
"Juvia happy that Chelsea is fine!"
"We heard you got a bounty, congrats so do we," Cana added with a wink.
"Where are Leone and Akame, I read they were here on this island too," Chelsea wondered looking around the bar.
Shakky approached the bar center. "I see we got a customer." She said placing her arm on the bar's counter, as she handed a wanted poster.
Chelsea
Mistress of Disguise
15,000,000 berries
Chelsea was in awe of what she was seeing, her picture showed her holding her Imperial arms and with some make-up items in her fingers. "I didn't want..." She fainted.
"What happened?" Cana wondered in a drunken tone.
Rayleigh was sitting on a building's roof. "Gulp... gulp..." He was drinking some alcohol. "It's almost time, surely Luffy and his friends will arrive soon."
Lying beside him were new wanted posters, he glanced at them with interest. "To think more of these earth land and empire people are making names for themselves this soon, quite the era that this has become, I suppose fate has a way of making the impossible possible."
His thoughts went to the three minks. "I never imagine I would meet minks here on the Grand Line either."
He knew that the mink tribe lives in the New World, but to think that an unusual water tornado or whatever would bring them into the grand line, he heard of anything like that before, not even during the times he was with the Roger Pirates.
On the ocean.
Bimine and her butler were on a waver(one that was in the shape of a swan). "To think we were able to make something like this."
Yamen sat up with a proud smile. "Yes, thanks to someone who claims to have come from Sky Island, shared us some supplies and prints of their kind of boats and items."
Bimine smiled. "Right, I hope that these gifts will be something I can share with the two pirates that saved me from the Celestial Dragon."
Yamen felt uneasy about this task after hearing that detail. "Yes, but m'lady, we'll have to be careful, if the navy spots us we'll get in big trouble."
The mayor's daughter nodded, knowing that situation. "Right, so we'll have to be careful to stay out of sight."
M
Laxus and his team were almost done getting the citizens to safety away from the Shipbuilding Island.
"I think we're almost done."
"Yeah, we still to make sure everyone is out of the area," Freed said looking at the time he borrowed from one of the train organizers. "Time is running out, we need to be out of at noon."
Evergreen had an idea as she grew her fairy wings. "I'll search from the sky from the area to see if there any more people we missed."
"Good idea Evergreen!" Bickslow praised with a huge smile.
"Come on, we can continue searching with my nose," Laxus gestured to the others to follow him.
"Right!" Bickslow raised his arm all fired up.
"Follow Laxus!" Freed cheered.
The sea train finally arrived at the shift station.
T Bone assembled all the navy soldiers and the Cipher Pol.
"Listen up!"
"Sir!"
"Shu, you are with me, other navy soldiers will assist us in the fight, you see any one of these people, arrest them on site, if they resist then fight!" T Bone stated.
"Yes sir!"
"Even though, the battle will be violent, don't hurt yourselves please!" T Bone said in a weepy tone while wiping his eyes with a handkerchief.
The navy soldiers' sweatdropped at this display. "Uhh...yes sir."
She groaned. "Geez, such sobby weird-o."
"Alright..." A cipher pol said, the one that was wearing the tiger mask. "As for me, I will take our agents to search the city, if any citizens we see, we'll question them, however, if they don't cooperate, then we shall execute them." A tone sounded dark from the agent, more like evil.
"Move out!" T Bone commanded.
The Cipher pole agent along with his team went towards the city, leaping over some buildings, close to the location where the Thunder Legion was.
The agent with the tiger mask looked around cautiously. "Haley, Bonz, and Shido, you four search the east of the area, I'll take the west."
"Right sir!"
A small little girl, wearing a pink pajama shirt and cat slippers was walking around. "Mommy..." She whimpered in a frightening tone.
Just then three of the CP agents spotted the little girl. "You there!" Haley said, who was wearing the porcelain mask, the voice was female too.
"Looks like a little girl is lost," The agent wearing the creepy clown mask, the voice was male. "You want to find your mother?"
"Y-yes sir," The girl answered still frightened.
"We'll help you find your mother," The agent wearing the old man's mask, the girl was a little happy. "But you must answer a question first."
"Huh?" The girl wondered in confusion.
"Did you see any of these wanted criminals around?" Haley asked showing the wanted posters of Natsu and his friends during the Pucci incident.
The girl looked at the posters, knowing that those four people were so nice, she shook her head.
That wasn't the answer that CP wanted to hear, so they started to get impatient. "Tell me, where'd you last them?" Haley asked, her voice sounding dark.
The girl was getting more scared than ever, tears were starting to form in her eyes. "Stop that weepy eyeing crap, and answer my question."
"Sorry, I-I don't know where those four are!" The girl replied almost crying.
"Since you won't refuse to talk, I'll be a force to beat the truth out of you," Haley said, removing her porcelain mask, revealing her face.
Her face had blue lips, her face had pale skin(probably to make-up paint), her hair was blond with two high ponytails, she had a look that had a dark smile. "Or, my team and I could find your mommy then ask her, if she doesn't then she'll pay the price."
"NO!" The little girl screamed. "Please leave my mommy out of this!"
"Come on, this brat is wasting out time, just kill her," Yamada removed his clown mask, revealing a tan skin, with short textured red hair so did his facial hair, on his face with a huge wide creepy grin.
The girl at her limit, ran off crying, but the agent wearing the old man's mask saw this. "Shave." He chanted as he appeared before the girl, which caused her to bump into him and making her fall on her butt.
"Going somewhere," The agent took off his mask, revealing an elder man, old wrinkle like the mask, two ugly scars on both sides of his face, the look on his face was emotionless, a bald head, gray beard, but that changed the moment a malicious look appeared on his face. "Little girls shouldn't run away from the law, you should've known that brat."
He lifts his foot, preparing to kick the girl. "Well now, time to die."
Suddenly a lightning bolt struck between the CP and the little girl.
"What was that?" Shido wondered in surprise.
"A lightning bold, there aren't any thunder clouds," Haley thought looking at the clear sky.
The lightning started to surge, as a man appeared before the old agent. "Threaten a little girl, I must say that's quite over the line, is that how government guys like you operate."
Laxus appeared with his arms crossed his chest, with a cold stare on his face.
"Looks like we found our fun," Bickslow appeared in one of the nearby buildings, he was standing on the roof too. "Isn't that right, babies?"
"Right right!" His souls chanted.
Evergreen walked over to her teammates, with a creepy smile. "Talk about bad boys, you should treat women even little girls some respect."
Freed stared at the three agents. "Let's show these guys, the power of Thunder Legion."
"What the hell?" Shido wondered looking at the strange dolls that talked.
"Thunder Legion, are they a small group of pirates?" Haley wondered to herself.
"You guys have a reason for attacking an innocent girl?" Laxus asked, staring at the old agent guy including the other agents.
"It's the name of absolute justice, those that don't cooperate are...executed," Bonz said with a dark tone.
"That's right, it's also we blade we wield in the name of justice too," Haley added with a wide creepy smile. "Talk about strong men I see."
That was a turnaround, they weren't expecting that, the three male Thunder Region wizards were dumbfounded.
"That's was unexpected," Freed said a little creeped out.
"She must be a male hunter," Bickslow added in a whispering tone.
Laxus didn't say a word.
Evergreen gritted her teeth. "Sorry girl, but these men are my friends, they have more important things to do than waste their time with a freaky make-up girl."
That struck a nerve, Haley was infuriated. "You old woman, you shall pay for that with your blood!"
"Old...woman..." Evergreen groaned as her body shook in anger. "I'll make you show you the power of my fairy magic!"
"She's got her opponent," Freed and Bickslow said with sweat drops on their heads.
"You two focus!" Laxus ordered, which the two snapped out of their awkward state.
But before the Lightning dragon slayer could give more orders, a figure dashed towards him with high speed, but due to his high sense of hearing, he was able to use his arm to block it.
"Agent Marth!" Haley called out.
Marth
CP-9 Agent
Power: Six Power Skills
Devil Fruit: Unknown
"To think that you morons would have trouble finding some information," Marth said looking annoyed. "I see have to take care of things here."
"Freed, Bickslow, you take care of the other two agents, I'll handle this one!" Laxus ordered.
"Right!" Freed nodded taking out his rapier.
"Babies, let's brawl!" Bickslow laughed with his tongue sticking out.
"Party party!" His dolls chanted excitedly.
Laxus watched his two teammates start their fight against Haley and Shido, after the four disappeared further away, he turned his gaze to Marth. "I take you're the leader of this agent group."
Marth stared at the lightning wizard. "Yes, I take that you're friends of these four criminals." He showed the posters of Natsu and the others. "Yes, friends of mine, if you want to get to them then you'll have to get through me."
"I see that I shall," Marth said with a dark glare. "I shall show you that my power."
His body began to change, as well as his height, his skin changed into a reptilian, his feet too but with claws, his arms changed as well with claws on each finger, his face had a reptile-like face, but it was different, he had black stripes on his head to his tail.
"What the-" Laxus began to say, wondering what was going on.
"I ate a Zoan type devil fruit, an ancient known as the Dino-Dino Fruit: Velociraptor," Marth explained.
"So, these devil fruits can also give people to transform into animals or extinct creatures," Laxus thought, quite impressed. "Like transformation magic."
Electrical surges were appearing all over Laxus' body like he was ready to brawl. "I admit that power of yours is impressive, but I dealt with tougher opponents than that, so bring it."
Marth let out a reptile roar before he spoke out. "I shall tear you apart limb from limb!"
B
Erza and Nicholas continued their duel.
"Your sword skills are something, Ms. Scarlet," The Vice-Admiral commented, he wasn't breaking a sweat.
Erza wasn't breaking a sweat either. "Yes, I admit you're a worthy opponent indeed. " She held her two katanas tightly.
"I think it's time for me to use another sword skill of mine," He began to spin his sword in a circular way, which created a circle of green light. "Sword Skill: Blade of Circling Light!"
The circular green light then turned into a beam of light wind.
Erza wasn't fazed, instead, she dashed forward then sliced the attack in the blink of an eye, which sliced the light circle in pieces.
"Oh no!" Nicholas exclaimed in disbelief.
"My turn!" Erza charged towards the marine and was about to land a strike at him when he disappeared again. "Not again."
Then she felt a kick on her back, which send her crashing through the roof. "That's what happens when you let your guard down," Nicholas said with a smirk.
However his smirk disappeared when he heard a loud sound coming from within the station, to his shock, Erza emerged out of nowhere and punched the man in the face. "Don't count me out yet!"
Nicholas slide backward as he knelt in hissing in pain. "Tch, that was quite a punch." He rubbed his face. "I underestimated our opponents."
Nicholas stood back up straight, pointing his sword forward while now holding in both hands tightly. "I think it's time we take this duel up a notch."
"Yes, however, I think I'll re-equip into something else," Erza said, as her clothing began to change.
"What the?" Nicholas wondered in confusion.
"Re-Equip: Purgatory Armor!" Her armor changed into black armor with many spiked features, her chest plate was entirely black except for a small arrow-like inward protrusion on both sides near her stomach.
Erza wielded a large black mace that had the same spike-like design as her Purgatory Armor too, mace was larger than Erza herself, she slammed the mace into the roof, creating a big thud, thus making the roof shake violently.
Nicholas was impressed than ever, he felt like he found a worthy opponent. "I shall not hold back, cause I can tell you're a prideful woman."
Erza smiled at the marine's words. "Yes, I would be insulted if you did still too."
"In that case, let's finish this!"
M
Lucy, Wendy, and Carla continued their fight against Mio, who transformed into a Jaguar. "I will show the power of the navy!"
"Lucy Punch!" The Celestial wizard proclaimed as she extended her fist forward towards the feline girl.
"Shave!" Mio chanted as she disappeared.
"Not that again," Lucy muttered in annoyance.
Wendy used her sense of high hearing to hear the feline woman. "Look to your right!"
Lucy did so, her opponent was coming right at her. "Lucy Kick!" She kicked the feline girl in the stomach, sending her crashing into a nearby window.
The window was shattered but also the window was destroyed as well. "Got ya!" Lucy said with a thumbs-up pose.
Just then Mio appeared at the hole in the wall where the window was. "That was impressive, however, I'm just getting warmed up." She then giggled for a moment. "That name for your attack sounds like something a child would come up with."
An anime vein appeared on Lucy's head, feeling offended. "I ain't no child you rude little girl!" She snapped comically with shark teeth.
Mio saw her chance. "Tempest Kick!" She swung her leg kicking at very high speeds and strength, sending out sharp compressed blades of wind.
Lucy was taken aback by this move, she wasted no time dodging it barely missing her foot. "That was close." The attack disappeared over the ocean.
"What was that she just did?" Carla wondered.
"I don't know, all she did was kick and blades of wind just appeared out of nowhere," Wendy said, trying to make sense of what the girl did.
"What you say was one of the six powers," Mio answered as she lowered her foot down. "This was one known as Tempest Kick, think of it as a type of martial arts."
"Six powers, does that mean, that disappearing ability you used was one of them too?" Lucy questioned.
Mio giggled. "Yes, that was Shave, it can make my feet move 10 or 20 times faster, but that's not all I can do."
Mio's body began to take a different shape, her jaguar form started to get smaller, her feline cat face changed into a more little human. "Life/Existence Return: Paper Drawing Martial Body."
"What just happened?" Wendy wondered in disbelief.
"What you see is another of the six powers, Paper Drawing Martial Body, it makes my body lighter and less Jaguar, allow me to demonstrate." Mio then disappeared in a flash.
"What'd she go?" Lucy said keeping her guard up now.
"Keep your guards up!" Carla suggested.
Wendy knew that this was the time, she crossed her legs and spread out her arms. "Power of the stout arms that tear heaven..."
"Arms!"
Lucy felt her power increase. "Thanks, Wendy!"
"Vernier!" Wendy felt her speed increase, then she used the spell on Carla. "Thanks, child."
Using her Paper Drawing Martial Arts ability again, she became more feline again. "Shave."
Wendy caught this quickly, as she calmly closed her eyes, listening carefully. "I must use the Aura sensor..." She thought.
M
Marth leaped towards Laxus, trying to bite at the lightning wizard, but due to Laxus' agility, he was able to dodge the CP9 agent in a flash.
"Shave!" The CP9 agent chanted as he disappeared in a blink of an eye.
Laxus was quite impressed by this technique. "Got a hand to him, this speed is something, from I heard his feet is moving faster than a Jet." He shook that thought off. "No, it's different, no magic is used, so he must be using a skill, I doubt it's the cause of his devil fruit power."
"You're right," A voice said as he appeared behind him, managing to bite his left arm.
Laxus hissed in pain, feeling the strong fang of the man's reptilian mouth sink into his flesh, however, the Lightning dragon slayer grinned. "I was waiting for that." He grabbed Marth's reptilian snout and threw him over his shoulder into the ground.
The impact of the throw and being slammed into the ground seemed to do some real damage to the CP9 agent.
"Time for Lightning Dragon's Iron Hammer!" Laxus roared, gathering a large quantity of lightning in his fist, and then punched the ground.
This engulfed the CP9 agent leader in a torrent of lightning and destroyed some nearby buildings along with the ground, as he let out a roar of pain.
Evergreen was fighting against Haley.
"You think you're hot stuff old woman?" The CP9 make-up agent mocked with a shrug.
That made Evergreen twitch violently as an anime vein appeared on her head, Haley continued to mock her. "What's the matter, jealous of my cute face, all the men I fought against fell for my acting." She removed her cape revealing her clothing.
Haley was wearing a hollow tank-top, her lower belly was revealed, she had leggings that matched her tank top and her shoes.
"With this body and look, any man would want a piece of me," Haley said with a wink. "Anyway, let's dance old woman!"
Evergreen has heard of enough of this girl's bragging. "I shall teach you little girl of what happens when ladies think they're better than me."
Wings sprout from her back.
Haley was in awe and her eyes popped out. "She can fly!?"
"I'm the Fairy of beauty, if someone talks about fairies then it's me that includes beauty which leads to being me." She winked with a giggle. "Someone like a snobby girl like you would know the true words of beauty."
Haley hissed in anger, as she took out a pie. "We'll see who is the snobby girl once you get this pie in your face!" She chatted about something and disappeared.
Evergreen was surprised at what just happened. "What the-" She sensed something from behind, using her wings to dodge just as Haley appeared out of nowhere to throw the pie in the female Thunder Legion wizard's face.
The CP9 agent girl missed and the pie fell onto the ground, which revealed a pie wasn't an ordinary one, one filled with acid.
Evergreen was in disbelief of this. "You had acid in that pie?"
Haley giggled like it was no big deal. "So what, all pirates and criminals get what's coming to them, a pie in the face that'll give them a painful reminder," She said in a dark tone. "Which is that pirates or criminals shall answer to justice!"
Evergreen was disgusted at the agent's words, but Haley wasn't finishing. "That also includes to navy soldiers that question our authority, even those that run from battles, can't be nothing more than mere trash and scum, so we execute those run knowing they'll shame the navy and their families."
After being told by Nojiko and her friends about the navy captain Nezumi's actions were one thing, but hearing other craziness from other government guys was outrageous.
"As you probably know lady, pirates keep lurking around and causing havoc on countless people, therefore we do any means necessary to deliver our justice and show them the power of the navy as well as the world government!" Haley proclaimed with an insane look on her face and a big creepy grin. "Even we have to sacrifice our men!"
Evergreen was silent for a moment before she spoke. "Then you're insane."
Haley narrowed her eyes at the response she just heard from her opponent. "Hmm?" She said.
"I agree that criminals that don't show any sign of remorse or regrets of their actions are inhuman, but abandoning your comrades is worse let alone killing them just because they have a different opinion about morality or human nature even far worse!" Evergreen shouted with anger in her eyes. "I learned time and time that loyalty isn't just word, it shows that you can treat others with kindness and respect, fighting for the good humanity is what my friends!"
Haley gritted her teeth as Evergreen continued her speech. "So if you think that being merciless to criminals and tossing your men aside like if they trash makes you or those government guys human then you're sadly mistaken, little girl!"
Haley took out a steel metallic bat. "Big words coming from a criminal." She had a maniacal look on her face. "I shall make you submit to justice!"
Bickslow and his dolls were fighting against Bonz.
"Babies aim and fire!" The dolls aimed their magic beams of energy at the old CP9 agent.
"Ha ha ha," The old agent chuckled uniquely. "Quite the beams your toys are firing, but that won't be enough to take me down."
Bickslow can see that despite the Bonz being an old man, his combat skills even his reflexes were impressive, the way he dodged them with ease was something. "This should be fun, I like a challenge!" He stuck out his tongue with a creepy wide smile. "My babies, show them our Line Formation!"
The five dolls gather in midair.
Bonz was confused about what the man was doing with his toys. "What's this?"
A large vertical crescent-shaped beam that was roughly taller than a human was released towards the old CP9 agent. "Shave!"
Bickslow gritted his teeth. "Damn, where is that old fart?"
In the blink of an eye, Bonz appeared above. "Fist Slammer!" The old man pulled back his arm and extended his fist downward, Bickslow catching a glimpse of this dodged it by jumped backward as the attack barely missed his head and smashed the ground of where he was standing just now.
"What'd he go?" Bonz wondered.
"Up here old man," The old CP9 agent looked up seeing the fairy tail wizard hanging from a cord that was between two buildings. "Sorry, but you missed me, old man."
Bonz just smirked like he wasn't worried. "I admit you got quite Acrobatic skills, I have never seen anyone hang from a cord with their feet like that."
"I ain't no ordinary guy!" Bickslow said with a chuckle. "But I have to admit, you're quite the worthy opponent."
In another area
Freed and Shido met on one of the nearby building's rooftops.
"So, you're allies of Natsu and Gray, are you not?" Shido asked with a dark whisper.
"So what if I am," Freed replied narrowing his eyes towards the agent.
Shido just gave an evil smile. "Then I'll have no choice but to kill you and your friends, anyone that opposes the navy or the government will answer in the name of justice."
Freed was getting provoked. "I'd be damned if I were let that happen, which I won't." He took out his rapier. "Let's start this brawl." He sped towards the agent guy and did multiple slashes.
But not before Shido whispered: Iron Body."
His body became as hard as an iron wall, using the defense power to reduce the damage from Freed's rapier slash attacks.
"Finger Pistol!" He pointed with his index finger and poked the long green-haired wizard in the chest.
"Ah!" Freed yelled in pain as he knelt in pain placing his hand where he was just poked. "What was that?"
"That was Finger Pistol, using this technique I was able to move my finger faster than firing a bullet from a pistol," Shido explained in a dark tone as his glasses shined brightly.
"Wait, that move he used reminds me of-" Freed began to remember the Demon Aquas used a similar move against Esdeath after he along with many other wizards entered the world where Akame and her friends came from. "Could it be, that she learned that move from this Cipher Pole guys?"
"Hey, I'm still here, so stop zoning out!" Shido shouted.
Freed recollected himself and focused on his opponent, however, he knew that he had to get some answers about the Demon Aquas, so he thought of an idea that might be worth it. "Very well, but first I like to ask a question."
Shido was puzzled at this request. "Really, what do I get out of it?"
Freed had to be careful, what he can tell these agents aren't just skilled fighters, but smart, he needs to make sure he doesn't slip up. "Did you have someone named Aquas, my friends and I met someone that used the same technique that you used?"
Shido put his hand under his chin thinking for a moment, until his eyes went wide with realization. "Aquas, so she's still alive I see."
That wasn't what Freed was expecting. "What do you mean?"
An evil smile appeared on Shido's face. "I mean that the girl Aquas is also my lover, or at least she was, she joined Cipher Pol about seven years ago, she and I met around that time too, we eventually hit it off in return I taught some of the Six Power skills."
"A Demon and human as lovers," Freed was a little skeptical about what he was hearing, he never would expect both races to be lovers, not to mention that Cipher Pol isn't very merciful nor has any dignity.
Shido's evil smile then turned upside with a frown that showed anger and hatred. "Then one day she ditched the Cipher Pole, I haven't seen her in almost eight years but I assumed that she only clung on to me so she can use me to teach her our martial arts."
The agent let out a sigh, his frown then was replaced by a malicious smile. "No matter, I will always get another girl." He licked his lips like a predator. "I find that your female friends' such hot numbers including that teammate of yours quite the hot number."
Freed was disgusted, realizing he was referring to Evergreen. "I ain't going to let you lay a finger on them!" He pointed his rapier towards the perverted agent. "I suggest we finish this fight."
"Very well, I shall take this to the next level!" Shido proclaimed with a manically smile.
Suddenly Shido's body began to change, front legs were talon feet, though the rest of the back became the body, tail, and back legs of a lion, the head and wings of an eagle.
Freed was in disbelief, but had a good guess what type it was. "Let me guess, a Devil Fruit?" He guessed.
"That's right, this is the ancient Zoan Type: Griffin-Griffin fruit!" Shido proclaimed spreading out his wings and let out a loud screech.
That screech was enough to hurt Freed's ears. "Damn that's loud!" He recovered from the sound noise, he pointed his rapier at the eagle-lion hybrid man-monster. "Let's finish this!"
Shido/Griffin picked up a nearby wooden crate and swung up high about 100 feet. "As you can see this form gives me strength as well." He dropped it on directly down, which sped up due to the height.
Freed started to inscribe runes onto himself. "Dark Ecriture: Absolute Shadow!" His upper body soon was covered in dark armor, complete with large shoulder pads and a helmet with a menacing appearance, his hair became slicked back and protrudes from the opening in the helmet.
Due to the Enhanced Strength, he received from his transformation, he was able to rush through the wooden crate without a scratch.
The force of his speed broke the crate into pieces that scattered where he was standing.
Shido was feeling a bit frozen. "Why can't I move?" He wondered, he noticed the body, his monstrous hands, and his tail were shaking in fear. "This can't be, I'm shaking, I never did that." He shook the feeling off, narrowed his eyes down to the Runes wizard.
"Soaring Flaming Sky Dash!" He flew downwards to Freed with incredible speed, soon his body was engulfed in flames.
Freed rushed towards the griffin/human hybrid, together their attacks collided creating a large fiery explosion that damaged a few nearby buildings.
Freed slide back a little but stopped himself.
"Quite the power he's got," He said, feeling a bit off.
Shido was falling in the air, recovering from their colliding. "His attack was as strong as a Fishman, like his body armor looks like it's made of pure iron, a worthy opponent for my taste."
At Pangaea Castle
The Room of Authority.
The Five Elders, Heads of the World Government; Global-Class Nobles
"To think new rookies have appeared in 2nd year after the war of the best,"
The Elder man with a scar on the left side of his face spoke.
"Yes, not to mention from Cocoyashi Village, Vice-Admiral Draco mentioned that a man possesses the power to look into other people's memories," The tall and thin bearded elder man said.
"A pity such a Vice-Admiral like Gray Fullbuster decided to turn against us, but not just the navy but the Celestial Dragon," The bald elder man with large birthmark spots spoke. "Not only that, his partner Miyaka turned against us as well."
"Yes, not only that a marine was taken in for question by these five women," The bald man with glasses said, who was also wearing a white gi. "I believe it was during Sabaody about a month ago, and the marine's name was Lefou, I also heard that there were three minks as well."
"First off, we need to talk about on what the navy's plan, what we learned, Pucci Island is connected to Water 7, no doubt that these new criminals are going to meet there, at least that's what Admiral Kizaru mentioned," The youngest elder blond hair and beard that was the same color. "I believe there are the ones that are on their way to Water 7."
He showed the wanted posters of Erza and her team. "Not only that, I heard T Bone is on his way there, surely they'll engage the enemy by now."
"Though that's not what worries me the most," The bald man with glasses said as the other elders looked at him. "Some of these new rookies were able to defeat a few of our Vice-Admirals, I have a bad feeling that they'll cause more trouble than they already have."
"Good point, if the other pirates in the New World heard of this, who knows what they'll do," The elder man with a left side scar said. "Though we can assure that things will get more chaotic than ever."
"Also these three minks," The tall elder man said, holding out three wanted posters of the three minks. "Aren't creatures like these suppose to be in the New World?"
"Yes, but how they got here is a mystery," The other bald man with birthmark spots said. "We may never know, but what matters is that they're on the Grand Line, Sabaody I heard."
"At any rate, we must bring these criminals in, I have a feeling there is more to them than meets the eye," The bald man with glasses said.
The other elders looked at him in confusion, until the other bald elder spoke. "I admit their power is nothing I have never seen, not to mention the white female cat that turns into a human."
Laxus and his team continued to fight against CP9, Erza and her team were fighting against two marines that are strong, the fight was getting intense, but they wouldn't give in to the navy nor the government agents, they would see to it that they would defeat them, one thing remains is, will they and their friends escape Water 7 before things get more difficult, find out next time.
End of chapter.