Fated Reunion
The next chapter is up guys. First let me thank the three people who actually reviewed the last chapter of the story. It was much appreciated. I hope the rest of you could review as well.
The sector currently under attack by Kisara D Elektra of the Knights of D and only female of the Knights was being decimated by Elektra. Using her devil fruit powers she summoned several large plant monsters that attacked all enemies in sight. Each of these monsters was the size of a building and were big enough to stomp, swat and knock away enemies with ease. The marines and government officials couldn't really do much against these monsters for the sheer size and power of just one is enough to defeat them. And right now they were being attacked by several. Each plant monster was knocking away marines with ease and occasionally some of them would snatch up a few enemies individually and crush them in their vine like hands to instill fear in the enemies. And it work, it's bad enough to see all your comrades get trampled over by a giant plant monster but too see them get snatched and killed mercilessly was even worse. Reinforcements were not here yet because of the sheer suddenness of the all out attack on the Holy Land and it didn't look like reinforcements would be arriving anytime soon. Of course even if they did, the sheer power of the invaders meant that it still wouldn't change a thing. Sending an army to take on such monsters would surely result in failure and ultimately death. No matter how they could look at it, they were doomed.
"How does it feel?" said Elektra to a random marine.
The marine in question turned to look at Elektra who was standing in front of him. He had both confusion and fear on his face, confusion due to the question and fear due to the knowledge of how overwhelming powerful the female fighter was.
"W – Wh – what do you mean?" asked the random marine.
"I meant what I asked, how does it feel?" asked Elektra to the random marine again.
The marine looked confused and fearful again and Elektra decided to explain the question.
"I meant how does it feel to be helpless? Before my power you all could do nothing but run and scramble in fear." said Elektra.
She then closed her eyes as if contemplating something or reminiscing and event from the past.
"This is how all the slaves that the Tenryuubito took feel. Helpless and fearful, like there is no hope and absolutely nothing can be done. That is what they do, ruin and even destroy lives for their own personal amusement without a care in the world. And the slaves suffer so much because of it. It really makes me sick to the stomach," said Elektra with her eyes closed.
Then she opened it and haki began flaring violently from her as if saying touch and you'll be burned. The marine that Elektra was talking to felt as if death was open him. He began sweating heavily and breathing hard from the intensity of the haki that Elektra was putting out.
"And you help them, you support them. You people help them capture slaves just so that they could have their lives ruined and destroyed by the Tenryuubito. Marines, you all let it happen and punish those for standing up to themselves," said Elektra her eyes glaring at the marine with anger and hate and her haki still oozing out of her.
The marine in question looked like he wanted to run or die but was paralyzed due to Elektra's haki. Nonetheless he was able to will himself to at least stay defiant to the end. He was a marine and had his pride.
"S-S-So what," said the same marine.
"What?" asked Elektra in surprise and anger. Did the marines really think of the Tenryuubito as that high? Those cruel scumbags. More importantly did this marine not understand the situation he was currenly in?
"Those slaves are the property of the Tenryuubito. So if they escape, then we'll pursue them and return them to their rightful masters. All in the name of justice," said the marine.
Elektra had her eyes shadowed.
"Justice," said Elektra as if the word was Kisara.
"Taking slaves, and robbing them of their freedom, so that's justice." said Elektra.
Another marine saw her and tried to shoot her in order to get a free shot. He figured that since she was the one controlling all the huge plant monsters, then if she dies, the monsters will stop attack.
"Die"shouted the same marine who shot several bullets at her.
Unfortunately the marine learned why Elektra was chosen to be a member of the Knights of D. Several vines emerged from her body at lightning speed and several of them formed circular patterns that blocked each bullet. To the marine's utter horror, he saw that all the shots fired were stopped and even more shocking, the bullets were clearly visible and seen being held by the vines. Elektra herself didn't appear to have done anything, no hand motions, she didn't even turn to face the marine who shot her.
"Taking them away from their friends and family, that's justice," said Elektra who's voiced was as cold as ice.
More vines emerged from her body and slowly made their way to the marine who shot her.
"Stop, stop don't come any closer" cried the marine who kept on shooting at the vines.
Unfortunately the marines shots were not working as he continued to watch the vines slowly make their way towards him like an army of snakes ready to kill a large prey.
"Stop it, it stop, don't come any closer," the marine cried even more to the point that tears were beginning to form in his eyes.
When he saw that the vines were too close he attempted to run away but the vines which were moving slowly suddenly shot out at blazing speed and wrapped themselves around the marine. The marine in question was now being held in the air by the veins which were around his arms legs body and neck. He could do absolutely nothing the way he was now.
"Putting them in chains," said Elektra whose eyes were still shadowed.
Then she looked and her eyes were blazing in fury.
"That's justice," said Elektra.
With that the vines which held the marines suddenly literally ripped the bonded marine's arms, legs and head straight off his body. The other marines and government officials present could only watch in horror as all that was left of the marine was a body without arms legs and a head completely covered in blood. It was a brutal and gruesome sight.
"Monster," cried another marine present who shot several times at her.
The bullets of this marine were once again intercepted this time by the large vine hand of one of her plant monsters which held its hand in front of her blocking her attack. It then used the same hand to swat the foolish marine and several others away.
"What is she?" asked another marine.
"Is she invincible?" asked another marine.
"What a monster," commented another marine.
"How do we stop her?" asked another marine.
The plants monsters were about to massacre the marines present when suddenly a large amount of magma came out of nowhere and instantly all plant monsters that were in the pathway of the incoming magma immediately caught fire and started to burn away. The marines who were about to be killed where shocked. First they expected to be dead about now and second they didn't know where the magma came from. However that was revealed when the magma began to take the shape of a man, specifically the head of the marines, fleet admiral Akainu.
The marines and government officials who saw Akainu were shocked at first by his presence by then went from shocked to happy.
"It's fleet admiral Akainu," said one marine.
"We're saved," said another marine present.
"We have a fighting chance now," said another marine.
While the marines and government officials present were now excited and had a severe moral boost from the presence of the fleet admiral, two people among them were not happy. The first was Elektra. She knew that despite her strength, Akainu was still overwhelming strong and extremely powerful enough to certainly kill her.
"Akainu," she said with her voice full of frustration as she looked at the towering admiral.
The second person not happy was none other than the fleet admiral himself. Him being the fleet admiral meant that he held a tremendous responsibility to uphold the absolute justice of the world government and to protect it from evil. This was a task he took very seriously even going as far as to fight a fellow marine admiral for the position. And he took his responsibility very seriously showing absolutely no tolerance to anyone who threatens the justice of the world. And now that justice is being threatened more than ever before, far more than during the war two years ago. For this threat to justice now attacked the very heart itself, the center of the world government.
"You revolutionaries are quite something, being so bold as to attack Mariejois directly. I knew Dragon wanted to overthrow the world government but I didn't think even he would do something like this," said Akainu his voice as stern as ever.
"Well it shouldn't really surprise you when you think about it. Anyone willing to start a movement like this is bold enough to try this at some point," said Elektra her voice equally as stern.
"That's certainly true but still this is too soon. The revolutionaries weren't really that active. They did become more active after the War of the Best but still to think they'd do something so drastic so soon. My blood froze when I found out that Mariejois was under attack," said Akainu.
"Well look at his son Luffy-kun. He did invade all three world government facilities and went straight into a big war. So it shouldn't be so surprising that Lord Dragon would make a move like this," said Elektra.
"I made a huge mistake when I let him leave the war alive. A mistake I regret to this day. But the time will come when I'll remove the horrible seed of Dragon from this world. But for now I'll focus on removing you and your villainous nakama," said Akainu with both his fists turning to magma.
"You could try, fleet admiral," said Elektra when vines coming from her hands.
At another part of the Holy City.
"It is done father. I killed Kuma," said Luffy.
"I see," replied Dragon.
"Of course we already knew he was dead. We felt his presence disappear so we knew you killed him. You telling us only confirms what we already knew," said Sabo in his usual calculating voice.
"You knew he was dead. Observation haki doesn't work well on him and I had trouble using it on him when I was close to him. You two could actually sense he died from this far away," said Luffy in shock.
"You are still young Luffy. You only just awakened the power of D and despite you having mastered it faster than anyone in history, you are still fairly inexperienced at using it compared to the other Knights of D. And myself and Sabo are the strongest D's currently alive so sensing Kuma may not have been easy for you due to his Pacifista modifications. But we could do it easily," said Dragon.
"I guess I really have a lot to learn about this power for me to be like you," said Luffy.
"You have mastered it faster than both myself and Sabo. But in addition to us have far more experience with it, we are also both more experienced fighters than you are. You may have gained great power quickly but the price was that you lost experience something both Sabo and myself have in volumes. But don't worry, this invasion is also a great experience for you. By the time we have completed this invasion, you would be much stronger," said Dragon.
"Okay father," said Luffy.
"But I assume that you got to close the doors with Kuma and come to terms with him," said Dragon.
Luffy looked down for a second.
"Yes I have," replied Luffy.
"And you got to say what you wanted to say to him despite him not being able to listen," said Dragon.
"Yes" replied Luffy.
"Well then from that I'm pretty sure you have put Kuma behind you. I did a long time ago and I hope that you have too," said Dragon.
"I did father," said Luffy.
"Good" commented Dragon on hearing that Luffy put Kuma behind him for good and can move on to bigger and better things.
"Pardon my interruptions Lord Dragon but it appears we have some company," said Sabo his face expressionless as usual.
Dragon had a smile on his face as if amused by the so called company that Sabo mentioned.
"Indeed we do. This should be interesting," said Dragon who was not the least bit fazed by the presence and even appeared amused like the presence was more a source of entertainment rather than a legitimate threat.
"Father, Sabo, what are you two talking about? Who are you two sensing. I haven't felt anything yet," asked a confused Luffy.
"You'll sense him soon enough Luffy. And even if you don't he'll be here in a flash," said Sabo who like Dragon wasn't fazed at all by the presence he felt.
"Who are you, wait a minute, I feel him, this guy, I know who he is, he's" said Luffy before a huge explosion occurred at him forcing him to jump away.
It was then that Luffy understood by what Sabo meant when he said that the guy would be here in a flash. For infront of him stood one of the most powerful marines in the world, the user of the light light fruit, the dreaded admiral Kizaru.
"Oh so you three are the enemies, but I really didn't expect Straw Hat to be here," said Kizaru in his usual bored and slurred voice.
"Bastard, it's you," said Luffy his face full of rage remembering how this guy tried to kill him and his crew at Sabody Archipelago and stop him from saving Ace back at Marineford.
"Well this is something Straw Hat. I didn't expect you to be one of the revolutionary invaders. But it looks like you just lost two of them, one of them being your father, said Kizaru.
Luffy turned to look at the sight of the explosion and notice he couldn't see his father or Sabo.
"Father, Sabo," Luffy shouted.
"Well it looks like this is a repeat of Sabody Archipelago two years ago. Except instead of it being your nakama its revolutionaries," said Kizaru who appeared behind him in a flash of light.
He then lifted his leg up ready to launch a kick at the speed of light at Luffy. Luffy then turned around to look at the marine admiral his face showing no fear.
"That attack wouldn't work on me," said Luffy his face showing that he wasn't lying.
"Oh and why's that?" said Kizaru who was genuially curious but the tone which he said it in made it sound as if he wasn't serious and more like he was mocking Luffy.
"Why?" said Luffy.
"Well it's simple, your attack didn't work on my father and Sabo," said Luffy.
Hearing that his initial attack failed he brought down his leg. Of course he should have expected that. To take down two of the strongest fighter's in the revolutionary army and even the world with one attack was downright impossible even for someone like Kizaru. And if he did succeed somehow, he would say that it was too easy and that they were up to something.
The smoke cleared showing Dragon this time not smiling. He didn't appear mad or concerned. He just looked bored. As if Kizaru's attack was so weak that it bored him to death and that he stopped smiling due to boredom.
"Oh so I see that my attack didn't work. But from what I could tell it never hit you in the first place," said Kizaru.
"So what exactly did I hit?" asked Kizaru.
When the dust settled it was revealed that indeed something intercepted Kizaru's attack at Dragon. And that something was revealed to someone. However this someone's entire body was being shielded by dragon wings. The wings moved out of the way revealing Sabo in his human form but with dragon wings sprouting from his back.
"Oh so that's what I hit, a dragon," said Kizaru.
"It's interesting that Monkey D Dragon was protected by none other than a dragon," said Kizaru looking at Sabo who now had his wings behind his back.
"A mythical zoan fruit. A devil fruit even rarer than a logia. And very powerful. I only saw two in my life, Sengoku and the first division captain of the Whitebeard Pirates Marco the phoenix. And now I've seen a third. I must be lucky," said Kizaru.
"Lucky, no admiral Kizaru. You are far from lucky. You are actually the unluckiest person in the world. Do you know why?" asked Sabo.
"Why don't you tell me," said Kizaru in his typical bored voice who answered Sabo's question with a question of his own.
"It's because no enemy who has seen my power has lived to tell the tale. And I have no intention of making you the first," said Sabo who had a dangerous look on his face and enormous haki coming from him.
"This is insane. I knew Sabo was strong being the leader of the Knights of D and all but this is insane. His haki is greater than anything I ever felt before. I can't believe he was so strong," said Luffy who was amazed at the sheer intensity of Sabo's conqueror's haki.
""Now do you understand Luffy," asked Dragon.
Luffy then turned from looking at Sabo to looking at his father.
"What?" asked Luffy looking at Dragon.
"Now do you understand why Sabo is leader of the Knights of D? It is because he is the strongest, my greatest subordinate, Outlook D Sabo of the Knights of D," said Dragon who had pride in his voice.
Luffy looked from his father to Sabo, then he looked at Kizaru. Kizaru appeared unfazed by Sabo's enormous power. Luffy knew that Kizaru was incredibly powerful since he was a marine admiral. Furthermore Luffy witnessed his power first hand both at Sabody Archipelago and at Marineford so Luffy could definitely attest to his abilities. Despite this Luffy was surprised by how much Kizaru's was not bothered by Sabo's power. He knew that the admiral would not be intimidated by anything but Kizaru wasn't even showing any reaction. No fear, no excitement, just that usual blank expression on his face. Luffy had to admit, that look was intimidating in it's own right, especially when he had that look plastered on his face in front of someone as powerful as Sabo.
Back to where Elektra and Akainu were, while it was true that Elektra was holding her own, it was clear she was being pushed back and on the defensive. She was the strongest woman in the world and one of the Knights of D who has the power of D. But it was clear that even with that power, she was losing to Akainu. Akainu was feared and respected because of his strength and brutality. And he did not disappoint at all. From the moment the battle started Elektra knew that she would be in the fight of her life for Akainu was undoubtedly the strongest enemy she faced as of yet. And it was true for as soon as the battle between the two started, Akainu established himself as the superior force immediately putting Elektra on the defensive. She knew she was strong but it was clear that she had a disadvantage against Akainu due to his devil fruit. Her plant powers could take a lot of fire but if there was anything that could burn them to a crisp, it was a volcano, and Akainu was literally a human volcano.
Elektra jumped back parts of her skin was scorched with burn marks.
"That attack would have instantly killed any other person but yet not only did you survive but it barely hurt you," said Akainu.
"It's because of the power of D. I have great mastery over it. Despite the fact that you have the advantage, don't expect this fight to be easy for you fleet admiral Akainu" said Elektra who was breathing hard.
"That power is indeed great. The fact that it can make someone fight on par with an admiral is incredible. And to think that there are several people here with that power is a scary thought indeed. Especially considering that they are all our enemies," said Akainu.
"You and the world government have done things to make a lot of people your enemies. So you shouldn't be so surprised that a few of them are extremely strong and have power that the world government could never have," said Elektra.
"You have great power and you are certainly extremely strong. Your power is certainly on par with an admiral's. But it's clear that you're going to lose to me. Surrender now and face absolute justice," said Akainu who you could see had several bruises on him.
"Over my dead body," said Elektra defiant as expected from an amazon woman such as herself.
"Defiant to the very end. Very well. I shall arrange that," said Akainu who jumped far back and raised his arms and a shower of magma attacks came raining down on her. In response to the great volcanic eruption Elektra placed her hand on the ground and several plant monsters and vines emerged from the ground. The plant monsters and vines began doing what they could to protect Elektra from the volcanic eruption shower. The monsters and vines were catching and deflected each molten boulder that was going to harm Elektra in any way. Unfortunately all of them couldn't last very long for as soon as they touched just one of them, they quickly were set on fire and as a result could only stay active for a short time doing what they could before they burned away.
"This is it for you," said Akainu who was covered in magma and coming menacingly towards her but then he stopped.
"Well this is interesting," said Akainu.
"What is?" asked Elektra.
"I didn't expect the revolutionaries to attack so suddenly. But right now there is something even more unexpected than that. And unlike the revolutionaries' sudden attack, this unexpected event is a good one. One that I actually look forward to," said Akainu who noticed a familiar presence.
"What exactly are you talking about?" asked Elektra.
"You shouldn't be so surprised. Not you or any of your invaders. In fact to say I'm surprised is an understatement. I am absolutely shell shocked at this turn of events. Even I would have never foreseen this coming," said Akainu who was at this point ranting.
Elektra continued to look at Akainu as if he was crazy. One minute they were fighting a death match and the next, he was ranting like some crazy guy.
"I never expected that scum to be a member of the revolutionary army. And I certainly never expected him to be apart of this invasion," said Akainu.
"Him" questioned Elektra.
"You shouldn't act all surprised and curious. After all I know that you know about him. The spawn of the revolutionary leader Dragon. Monkey D Luffy," said Akainu finally confirming the so called event.
Hearing that name it made perfect sense why Akainu would think this. In fact anyone except members of the revolutionary army would think the same thing. Not too long ago, the world knew about the Straw Hat's triumphant return in the papers. And now, Luffy has left the Straw Hats and is a member of the revolutionary army.
"I don't know why he is a member of the revolutionary army. But if he's here, then it doesn't matter because he is finally within my reach," said Akainu.
"I can finally end the existence of that dangerous man," said Akainu who began to walk away.
"Wait a minute, where the hell are you going? What about our battle?" said Elektra.
"Consider this your lucky day for you have been spared my wrath. I have some unfinished business with the son of the revolutionary leader," said Akainu.
With those words Akainu lept high into the air in the direction that Luffy was currently in with the full intention of settling the score from two years ago.
Back to the battle between Sabo of the Knights of D and admiral Kizaru, the battle was pretty even though slightly in Sabo's favor. Kizaru's power was extremely destructive by nature and any other foe would have been dead by now. But clearly Outlook D Sabo was not any other foe. Sabo's dragon dragon devil fruit enabled him to have the power of a dragon. That meant he had in addition to increased strength and speed, the power of flight which allowed to keep up with Kizaru. But the greatest asset was none other than the dragon's scale. Dragon scale was a very hard substance which was not easily damaged. Of course it could be damaged and Kizaru certainly had the power to do it. But another factor came into play and that was haki. Arnament haki could increase defense and Sabo possessed exceptionally strong haki which made the dragon scale significantly harder. And if that wasn't enough he had the power of D make his defenses virtually impenetrable. All of Kizaru's attacks that hit did virtually little to no damage. That is of course assuming his attacks did hit. Sabo was extremely fast thanks to the power of D and the power of a dragon. And he also had observation haki enhanced by the power of D which made it such that he could predict the attacks of even the speed of light Kizaru. And unlike Kuma, who was a machine, Kizaru was human so observation haki was in full effect on Kizaru.
Kizaru was in the air and launched several particles of light at Sabo. Sabo meanwhile used his wings to cover his body thus protecting himself. He then continued to push the light particles back and quickly advanced towards Kizaru. Kizaru seeing this used his power to move quickly to another location. Unfortunately thanks to Sabo's powerful haki, he knew exactly where Kizaru would go and went to that location before Kizaru even attempted to go. Once he was there, Kizaru only just realized that Sabo was already there when he kicked Kizaru away through several buildings. Immediately Sabo used his dragon claws to send a blade of air to cut Kizaru in half. Luckily Kizaru blinked away and was a safe distance. He had very few injuries. Sabo himself was pretty much unscathed and his shape was similar to Kizaru's. Both Kizaru and himself were fairly unharmed after that little skirmish.
"I can't believe Sabo is so strong. He's going toe to toe with that admiral. It's incredible," said Luffy awed by the power of his leader.
"I expected no less from Sabo. He'll kill Kizaru," said Dragon with a smile on his face.
Looking at how well Sabo was doing keeping up with Kizaru despite his ability to move at the speed of light, Luffy couldn't help but agree. It made perfect sense why he was the leader of the Knights of D and the one who killed Kaido of the four emperors. He was a monster amongst monsters. Even Luffy wasn't sure if he would ever be able to defeat Sabo in battle.
"There is pretty much no one in this world besides myself who could defeat Sabo," said Dragon his smile never leaving him.
Luffy had to admit that was true. As strong as Sabo was, his father was even stronger. The one who trained him and Sabo to fight. The strongest being in the world, Monkey D Dragon. Luffy was proud to call someone as strong as him his father.
Luffy's joy was cut short when he felt a familiar aura. An aura that he hates with a passion. Likewise Sabo and Dragon also felt the presence and they knew for a fact who it was. The three bearers of D all faced in the direction of the presence that was heading towards them. Kizaru also felt it and faced the same direction as everyone else.
"Oh so he's finally here," said Kizaru who didn't sound like a man who was facing a strong enemy.
The figured in question crashed to the ground below with magma emerging all around him. He got to his feet and looked at everyone present but his gaze was fixed on one young man, the reason he came here and the one he wants to kill. Said young man looked into the eyes of the man he hates more than anything. The man who took his older brother away from him.
"Akainu," Luffy said with absolute hate in his voice.
"It's been two years son of Dragon," said Akainu glaring back.
Akainu is finally here and the inevitable battle between the two begins.
Two big battles are next Sabo vs Kizaru and Luffy vs Akainu. Strap into your seats for the story still has a long way to go.
One of the Knights of D Posion D Elektra is given some screen time. Elektra's power comes from plants. She can summon plant monsters from the ground which could decimate the enemy. She also demonstrated the ability to call forth plants from her body such as vines that could be used to block bullets and capture enemies and fight in general.
I understand that the Knights of D are suppose to be overwhelming strong but Akainu is also overwhelmingly strong. He is the fleet admiral for a reason. Also his devil fruit has an advantage over Elektra's since he can burn away Elektra's plants. So had the two continued fighting, Akainu would have won. Of course Elektra would have inflicted some damage to him.
Elektra in this story is the strongest woman in the world even stronger than Big Mam. Of course Big Mam is dead so Elektra is the undisputed strongest female in the world.
Sabo's power. Sabo ate the dragon dragon mythological zoan fruit. It gives him the power of a dragon. So he could turn into a full dragon of human dragon hybrid. He gets increased strength and speed from the fruit. He also gains wings allowing him to fly. But the greatest asset is that as a dragon he is covered in dragon scales. These dragon scales are very hard on their own but when combined with arnament haki and the power of D, it is virtually invincible.
I wanted Kizaru to face Sabo so it would be like the top fighter of the revolutionary army vs the second top fighter of the world government. Akainu is naturally reserved for Luffy.
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