Age of Peace
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The problem regarding chapter 10 and 13 has been corrected, again. This was due to me choosing to make Sabo the leader of the Knights. I had to take down certain chapters and as a result uploaded "Two Princesses Hearts" twice by accident.
The Straw Hats were walking around Ryuuga Kingdom with Vivi, the Neptune siblings and Keimi, Hachii and Pappug. Right now they were just walking around the kingdom trying to enjoy themselves. For Shirahoshi it was a much needed break from her depression after finding out about Luffy and even though it didn't take her completely out of her sorrow, it did ease the pain in her heart. The Neptune brothers accompanied them since it was courteous to accompany the ones who saved their kingdom as well as protect Shirahoshi as her older brothers even though it probably wouldn't do much good given the description of the enemy. Keimi, Hachi and Pappug chose to accompany them since they were all friends and Keimi got the day off to spend with them. In fact, Madame Shirley actually invited her and her friends over to the Mermaid Café later. However all of their minds were on something else entirely.
Flashback
The Straw Hats, the Neptune siblings, the two ministers and the three civilians all stood in front of the scene of an extremely brutal murder. No murder was an understatement, massacre was the more appropriate word. All of them stood in front of the scene of an extremely brutal massacre. And the ones brutally murdered were all fishmen. But these weren't normal fishmen, these were all notorious fishmen pirates. Specifically what they all saw before their eyes were the mutilated corpses of the Arlong and New Fishman Pirates.
"This is the Arlong and New Fishman Pirates," said Neptune.
"You're right, and it's a gruesome murder to say the least," said Fukaboshi.
"Arlong-san," said Hachi sadly at seeing his former captain dead.
It was true that Hachi did not agree with many of Arlong's actions and regretted a lot of them especially those regarding Nami but he by no means hated his former captain. Despite Arlong's terrible actions towards humans he was a benevolent captain who cared about his crew along with his people. With the exception of Nami, he treated all his crewmates very well and was a great captain to all of them.
"So this guy is Arlong, the one who took over Nami's hometown," said Franky.
"Yeah, this shithead is the one who put Nami-san through such unbearable suffering. Bastard, serves him right," said Sanji angrily not caring the slightest and actually glad that the fishman was dead.
"Speaking of which, how you're taking this Nami?" asked Zoro.
Nami took the time to look at Arlong's horribly mutilated corpse. Despite being freed from her past, she did not forget about it, nor the terrible cruelty that him and his crew subjected her and the others. She remembered how he mercilessly killed her mother because she wanted to protect her and her sister. She remembered all the pain that Arlong put her through for eight years of her life, making her draw map after map until her hands bled, giving her little to no food and not caring that she was starving, even beating her at times when she failed to complete a map or took breaks to lament on her deceased mother or Nojiko. She further remembered the promise he made to her where he would release her from servitude along with Cocoyashi Village from his rule if she was able to collect one hundred million belli and buy back the village. She finally remembered how he selfishly broke his end of the bargain and enjoyed every bit of her cries of suffering. That same man was now right in front of her dead.
She should feel happy for his death, happy that the one who put her and her village through so much terrible misery was dead, happy that her mother was avenged. However she felt none of that, instead she felt a strange emptiness. There was no joy, nothing, just emptiness. She knew why, part of the reason was because Arlong was already defeated and her hometown already freed so there was really no reason to really his death. But that wasn't the main reason, the main reason was none other than the one who defeated him in the first place, the one who freed her from her past was now gone, gone to become part of a crusade much worse than Arlong's. Luffy's departure and joining the powerful revolutionary army took away any real joy she had. Losing the man she loved was a huge blow to her heart.
"Nami-san," called out Sanji breaking her out of her thoughts.
"Uh, what is it Sanji-kun?" asked Nami.
"Are you alright Nami-san?" asked Sanji legitimately concerned for his female crewmate.
"Uh, yeah I'm fine, don't worry about me," replied Nami.
Sanji didn't really believe her but decided to leave it at that. Nami was obviously experiencing a lot of emotions right now but he was willing to do the right thing as a crewmate and leave her to her thoughts. If she wanted to talk, she would and he would listen, the same with the others.
Nami wasn't the only one who had mixed feelings on the gruesome scene. The Neptune family also did not know how to react to the scene in front of them. Amongst everyone on Fishman Island, the Neptune family were the ones most heavily affected by his actions. Because of Hody's intense hatred for humans, Neptune lost a wife and Shirahoshi, Fukaboshi, Ryuboshi and Manoboshi lost a mother.
"I – I – I – I can't believe it, he's dead," said Ryuboshi.
"But still for some reason, this just doesn't seem right. Despite everything that he's done to us and our kingdom, this just seems so, so …" said Manoboshi unable to express the words.
"I know I feel the same way. He killed our mother and tried to destroy our kingdom. Despite this he was nothing but an old man who had nothing but hatred. Even if he did deserve it for what he has done, in his current state, killing him just seems so, so …" Fukaboshi trailed off who also could not find words.
Despite what the feelings of King Neptune and his sons were, the one who had the most feelings about the situation was Shirahoshi. Shirahoshi unlike her family knew about Hody being her mother's true killer, yet she kept this knowledge to herself for 10 years all for the sake of keeping the promise she made to her mother. For ten years she suffered by herself in that lonely tower keeping the identity her mother's true killer all to herself with nothing but the promise she made with her mother giving her strength. Hody later attempted to take over her kingdom and kill her father and brothers along with many of her people. Furthermore Hody tried to destroy everything her mother stood for and dreamt about.
By all means she had every right to be glad for his death. But she didn't, why, she never hated Hody for killing her mother as she promised Otohime that she wouldn't hate her mother's murderer. So she couldn't really find herself feeling any kind of joy over his death, especially now that he was an old man who could do nothing against her kingdom. Yet for Shirahoshi the situation was the same as Nami's. Luffy was the one who saved her kingdom and freed her from her past and his decision hurt her deeply. Even if she did feel any kind of joy over Hody's death, Luffy's choice overshadowed it completely. While Vivi's presence along with the Straw Hats did make things better for her, it still didn't completely ease her suffering.
"But I wonder who did this and why?" asked the Minister of the Right.
"It's probably one of the citizens of the island who bears a grudge against Hody for trying to take over Ryuuga Kingdom. I honestly cannot say that I blame them despite Hody's and his men's current condition," said Manoboshi.
"But how would they know it's him? We never announced it to the island that Hody and his crew became very old due to energy steroid overdose," asked Ryuboshi.
"Well despite their current old age, you could still pretty much tell it's them. Also with the way they keep going on and on about humans deserving death and fishmen being the superior species and whatever, that is pretty much a giveaway," said the Minister of the Left.
"But that doesn't explain why Arlong and his men are dead as well. They never attempted any harm on Fishman Island and never harmed any fishmen. So why would they kill him as well?" said Neptune.
"Not to mention Arlong-san and the others were suppose to have been locked up in Impel Down," noted Hachi.
"Maybe Arlong escaped when Luffy-san broke into Impel Down two years ago," said Brook joining the conversation.
"I think I know who the culprit is," said Zoro.
Everyone turned to Zoro for his input.
"It's the Knight of D," said Zoro.
"Wait that powerful revolutionary that is coming here for Shirahoshi," said Neptune in a surprised voice.
"But why would he kill Hody, Arlong-san and their crews?" asked Hachi.
"Maybe it's to send a message to us. Or perhaps to scare Shirahoshi," offered Zoro.
"It would explain a few things," said Robin.
Robin's words got everyone's attention wanting to know what she deduced from all this.
"The revolutionary army is taking pirates as slaves. And after the successful conquering of Mariejois there was practically nothing stopping the revolutionary army from raiding Impel Down and enslaving all the inmates. And given Arlong and his men were in Impel Down, they would have been captured by the army," explained Robin.
"Perhaps the Knight brought Arlong and his crew to Fishman Island and then killed them along with Hody and his crew," deduced Robin.
"That does make sense. All of them haven't been dead for very long which meant that the Knight forced Arlong and his men to come to Fishman Island alive before killing him and Hody," said Chopper.
"If I tell you that Knight is really sick," said Sanji disgust.
"No kidding, even if he wanted to capture Shirahoshi, that's still no reason to kill Arlong and Hody as brutally as he did, even though they both deserved it," said Ussop.
"Still at least we know that the Knight is already on Fishman Island and probably ready to make his move on Shirahoshi," stated Nami.
"That's true so we'll have to keep our guard up, and stay with the mermaid princess all the time," said Franky.
The three princes nodded intent on protecting their little sister at all costs.
Flashback End.
The brutality of the murders along with the knowledge that an overwhelmingly powerful foe was on this island ready to capture Shirahoshi had the Straw Hats and the three princes on edge. Despite their supposedly relaxed appearance and demeanor, they were ready for whenever the mysterious Knight made his move on their friend.
"It's hard to actually believe that someone so powerful is on this island. I mean I understand that people would come after Shirahoshi for her power, but it's still hard to believe that there is someone so strong on this island as we speak," said Fukaboshi.
"We know but that's just how it is. And we don't know when or where he'll strike so we better stick to her at all times," said Sanji.
"So how will we know when he strikes? We don't even know what he looks like," asked Fukaboshi.
"The Knights of D all wear black revolutionary clothes with a long dark green cloak. The cloak is their most distinguishing feature. If we find anyone wearing it, then that person is the Knight," replied Robin.
"Also if the Knight is as powerful as they are, then they undoubtedly have extremely powerful haki. So the cook and I can sense any strong presences nearby. Even if neither of us can see him, we'll still know where he is if he gets close enough," said Zoro.
"Normally I'd never say this but for once I'm actually thankful for those shitty okamas constantly coming after me. It meant that I could sense haki signatures easily all the time. So I should know when he decides to attack," said Sanji actually grateful for once because of his time in hell.
"That's great news," said Fukaboshi.
"Speaking of which Fukaboshi I noticed that we haven't seen any humans on Fishman Island at all. I know before Hody was capturing human pirates and making them slaves but we beat him and his gang so there should be more humans here," said Usopp.
"There was in fact there were a lot but then that changed later," said Fukaboshi.
"What happened?" asked Brook.
"Well you see after you all defeated Hody, pirates began coming back to Fishman Island. Of course they didn't try to do anything too big since this island was protected by Big Mom. Occasional robberies and incidents took place but nothing that the soldiers couldn't handle. All the pirates feared that if they did try anything against us, it would incite Big Mom's wrath. But that changed after Big Moms death," said Fukaboshi.
"Big Mom was the protector of Fishman Island. Even though she may have not cared about us and only caring about her sweats, as one of the Yonko her name alone commands respect and such this island was protected by her name. But upon her death, Fishman Island lost that protection," said Fukaboshi.
"All the nightmarish times that happened after Whitebeard's death and before taking Big Mom's protection happened again. Human pirates once again began wrecking havoc and even kidnapping mermaids and occasionally fishmen. The time though extremely brief was really a trying time for us," said Fukaboshi with his eyes closed.
"Fishmen Island was already pretty weak from Hody's attempted take over. So it was much harder for us to protect ourselves from all the human pirates since we already took so much damage from Hody's gang. At least when Whitebeard died, we weren't really suffering from a civil war so we could have defended ourselves from pirates temporarily before taking Big Mom's protection," said Keimi sadly.
The Straw Hats listened intently as they recalled what happened to Fishman Island after Big Mom's death at as they found at recently, Luffy's hands.
"But luckily it didn't shake the people's faith in humanity. Despite the recent increase in pirate attacks, the people of this kingdom still have great faith that they could coexist with humans. Your actions here have really made a big impression on the people such that even with everything that has happened, they still hold great faith in humans, particularly you all," said Fukaboshi.
"I'm glad that all the pirate attacks haven't affected them in that regard," said Nami with a smile.
Shirahoshi herself smiled proudly at the strength of her people.
"Anyway your actions were only part of the reason for everyone still holding onto the belief in humans. The other reason was that the problems the pirates were creating effectively ceased almost immediately after the begun. And I think you know why," said Fukaboshi.
"The revolutionary army's invasion of Mariejois," said Vivi.
"Correct. The terrifying conquering of Mariejois instantly stopped all pirate kidnappings of mermaids and any other havoc they created," stated Fukaboshi.
"You see when pirates kidnap our kind, they usually sell them to nobles of great wealth and power in the world above ground, particularly the Tenryuubito. But all those nobles are still part of the world government. Also the Tenryuubito were the main purchases of fishman slaves. And since all of them were killed during the invasion along with the world government itself overthrown, then there was no one that the pirates could really sell slaves to," said Fukaboshi.
"I see, so it's pointless for pirates to kidnap fishmen since the main ones who really buy them were killed during the invasion," said Usopp.
"That's right and for that reason, all kidnappings of fishmen and merfolk stopped immediately," said Fukaboshi.
"Not to mention that those few merfolk who were captured and made slaves to the Tenryuubito were returned back to the island after the invasion," said Manoboshi.
"I thought that those revolutionaries would have made them slaves as well," said Franky.
"No that's not the case. According to Doflamingo, the revolutionary army only takes pirates as slaves. They don't harm civilians and given that we didn't see any civilians as slaves back on the Kaien Kingdom slave camp, we could assume that he was telling the truth," said Robin.
"Che like we can believe a word any of those guys say. They lied to you for two years when you were with them for heaven's sake," said Franky.
"I know, but there really weren't any civilian slaves on Kaien Kingdom, only pirate ones. And they did release all the fishmen slaves on Mariejois so it does appear at least in that regard that the revolutionary army was truthful," replied Robin.
Franky didn't reply since Robin had him. Despite their brutality towards pirates and enemies of the army, they were neutral towards civilians as they hadn't harmed any of them on Kaien Kingdom. And if they did release all the fishman slaves on Mariejois then they really were sincere in not touching civilians. Despite their actions, they were sincere in that regard.
"The slaves initially hailed the revolutionary army as heroes for freeing them, but that stopped when they realized the magnitude of the destruction they created. What happened at Mariejois was nothing short of a massacre. Anyone that even had the slightest affiliation to the world government was mercilessly killed. Even the top fighters the admirals along with the untouchable Tenryuubito were not spared. That fact that this happened even to admirals and the Tenryuubtio inspired far more fear than praise from the slaves. And it is this fear that really stopped all pirate activity on Fishman Island," said Fukaboshi.
"The world government is the most powerful organization in the world. They not only have extremely powerful fighters such as the admirals but they are also the most influential organization in the world. The fact that it was completely destroyed in just one day is something that has made the entire world, especially pirates fear the revolutionary army. If they were so bold enough as to launch a full scale invasion at the center of the world government then for them to take down a few pirates would be simple. For that reason pirates are attempting to avoid any activity that would gain the attention of the army. And slavery is certainly such an activity," said Fukaboshi.
"So the pirates stopped causing trouble on the island because they are afraid of the revolutionary army," surmised Zoro.
"Yes that's the bottom line," said Fukaboshi.
"Also another contributing factor is that piracy has decreased rapidly around the entire world. We assumed that the revolutionary army had something to do with it. At first we all thought that pirate activity plummeted so much because they are all afraid of the revolutionary army but now we know that the army themselves removed pirates from the seas," said Fukaboshi.
"Removed them and put them to work on slave camps on revolutionary bases," said Nami.
"There has been no pirate incidents ever since the revolutionary army took over mainly because there are no pirates to cause any incidents to begin with. That and the few pirates that do come to Fishman Island are far too fearful of the revolutionary army to even attempt anything. This has resulted in a peace that has been absolutely unheard of on Fishman Island. Even under Whitebeard's and Big Mom's protection, Fishman Island has never been so peaceful. There was still occasional pirate incidents but we were never as incident free as we are now," said Fukaboshi.
"Straw Hats, I don't know if you would like to hear this but you should," said Fukaboshi who now had a serious look on his face.
The Straw Hats made sure to give their full attention to Fukaboshi since whatever he was about to say was extremely important.
"The world is now heading towards a new era. An era whereby there is almost total peace. The revolutionary army's actions has almost completely ended the age of piracy. Piracy is now in its absolute lowest in history and people are enjoying peace that they have perhaps never ever known. Despite the extreme actions of the revolutionary army, they have done in just a few days what the world government was trying to do ever since its founding. They have brought order and stability to the world," said Fukaboshi.
Each of the Straw Hats were silent after hearing what Fukaboshi said. Now that he brought it to their attention, they were now really contemplating the actions of the revolutionary army and realized that he was right. Despite the extreme and brutal nature of the army, they did just what he said. The age of piracy was almost at an end. Whether they liked it or not, pirates were a major source of problems in the world. What happened to Nami and the actions of the New Fishman Pirates was proof of that. It was a reminder that pirates generally caused pain and misery around the world. The revolutionary army pretty much put a stop to all of that. Even though their methods were ruthless and extreme, they did solve the problems many people around the world faced regarding pirates. What happened to Nami along with looting, plundering, slave kidnappings and more are all unlikely to ever happen to anyone due to the fearsome actions of the revolutionary army. Like it or not, whether you agree with their actions or not, they achieved what the world government failed, they brought the world true peace.
"It's ironic really. Years ago the pirate king Gold Roger started the great age of piracy which brought many of the pirates to the seas and thus created many of the problems Fishman Island and many other places faced. With Whitebeard's death the world became much more chaotic due to the changes that his death brought about. Yet everything that Roger's and Whitebeard's deaths brought about came to an end by Dragon," said Fukaboshi.
This got the Straw Hats thinking again. When Roger uttered his famous line regarding the One Piece just before his death, it inspired many pirates to take to the seas in hopes of finding it and becoming the Pirate King. It started the Golden Age of Piracy and much more pirate incidents took place after that. Roger despite having started a new age brought about a new age of terror. Whitebeard as one of the Yonko was one of the most powerful and influential pirates in the world. His death during the Marineford War brought about massive changes in the world and introduced more chaos into it. He ended the Golden Age of Piracy and began the New Age. But then the greatest of them all finally made his move, Monkey D Dragon. Upon Luffy joining his father, Dragon successfully conquered the world government and became the new ruler of the world. Then he began a fearsome campaign that undid everything that Roger and Whitebeard did and cleansed the world of all the anarchy they introduced. Dragon himself ended Whitebeard's short lived New Age and began the Age of the Revolutionary Army or the Age of Peace.
Even more ironic to those that knew Luffy was that he was the main catalyst for all this. Upon leaving the crew and joining the army, Dragon was prompted to begin the invasion of Maroejois and following that, the conquest of the world using his most powerful subordinates, the Knights of D along with Blackbeard of the Yonko. Interestingly Luffy set out to sea because he was inspired by the Pirate King Gol D Roger and his childhood hero Shanks who himself was Roger's crewmate. He wanted to be just like Roger and Shanks. Then Luffy left the crew and joined the man who put an end to everything Roger and Shanks who were both major influences on him to an end. Even more ironic was that not only did he join this person, but that person was also his very own father. Luffy wanted to be like Roger in his earlier days, now he is like his father. He wanted to be Pirate King in his past, now is a Knight of D under his father. Indeed this was irony at its cruelest.
"This kind of peace isn't right," said Vivi suddenly.
The Straw Hats were brought out of their musings by Vivi's words.
"Peace by fear and terror isn't true peace. It's just false peace. You can't just force people to do what you want and call it peace. True peace can only be achieved through love and understanding," said Vivi.
Vivi had an adamant dislike for people of authority who force their rule on others. King Wapol was a prime example of this who achieved peace by literally taking the doctors of the kingdom and holding the country hostage. Crocodile attempted something similar in Alabasta. Due to her upbringing by her father, Nefatari Cobra the king of Alabasta, she strongly believed that a ruler should be kind and benevolent, something that her father embodied and passed down to her. Dragon was the total opposite, someone who used fear, terror and intimidation to force peace onto others. It was hard to believe that he was actually Luffy's father and even harder for her to believe that Luffy would actually join him.
"Vivi-sama," said Shirahoshi softly.
"I understand where you're coming from but that's just the reality of the world we are in right now. His methods did achieve far more than the marines ever did much more efficiently and in such a short time," said Fukaboshi.
"I know but still," said Vivi.
The group was interrupted by an extremely large hulking figure standing in front of them. Immediately the Straw Hats were on guard knowing just who this was. They made sure that they were all standing directly between the figure and Shirahoshi since that was who the figure's target was. The figure in question was wearing black clothes, had a dark green cloak and his face was concealed by the cloak.
"So you've come at last, Knight of D," said Zoro.
Isonade D Sanbi of the Knights of D stood in front of them ready to accomplish his mission, capture Shirahoshi.
Sanbi of the Knights of D finally confronts the Straw Hats. The battle between the Straw Hats and one of the Knights of D is about to begin.
I am aware that chapter's 10 and 13 are the same. I did make the change at first but then I decided to replace Ren with Sabo as the leader of the Knights. Thus I had to take down all chapters with Ren and replace his name with Sabo. Because the titles of chapter 10 and 13 are so similar, I made a mistake and posted "Two Princess Hearts" twice. That has been fixed and chapter 13 "The Prince and two Princesses" is back so those who you who haven't read can read it now.
So far Hancock hasn't appeared in the story. Vivi and Shirahoshi have appeared during the Invasion of Mariejois Arc and during this Arc but so far Hancock hasn't appeared at all. Don't worry about that, she's going to be one of Luffy's ladies so she'll get her chance. She'll have an entire arc devoted to her so Hancock fans, I haven't forgotten you.
Nami's thoughts regarding Arlongs's death. Nami should be happy that he's dead. He killed her mother, enslaved her and her island for eight years and put Nami through hell as his personal slave. Yet she does not feel that way. She doesn't feel the joy that she should be feeling but is instead feeling a strange emptiness. This is partially due to the fact that Arlong was already defeated and she was already freed. If she was still under his rule, then she would be overjoyed that he was dead. But she wasn't. She already celebrated his defeat when she was freed two years ago, so there was really no reason to celebrate now. But the bigger reason for the emptiness is because of Luffy. Luffy was the one who defeated Arlong and freed her. The one who freed her is no longer with the crew and seeing Arlong reminds her of that fact. How can she be happy seeing Arlong when the one who saved her was no longer with her?
The Neptune family's thoughts regarding Hody's death. Similar to Nami, the Neptune family should also feel happy for Hody's death. However they already came to terms with Hody's actions. They promised Otohime that they wouldn't hate her killer Hody. But more importantly was Hody and his crew's current state as old men. Hody may have deserved to die but having all their powers stripped from them and reduced to nothing but wrinkled old men with nothing but hate and unable to achieve their ambition is an equally terrible fate. They already promised not to hate them and even if they did, whatever hatred they had for them was satisfied by their current old age. So they really have no reason to hate them. Thus their deaths at Sanbi's hands didn't give them any joy whatsoever.
Shirahoshi's thoughts regarding Hody's death. She is in a similar situation to Nami. She has every right to hate Hody but she doesn't because of the promise she made to her mother and Hody being an old man makes it hard to hate him. But it is different from her brothers who were never really that close to Luffy. Like Nami, Shirahoshi had her land saved by Luffy and freed from her past because of him. So she can't be happy about Hody's death when the one who stopped Hody and saved her chose a path that is even darker than Hody's. Even if Luffy hadn't left the crew she still wouldn't have been happy with Hody's death due to the promise with her mother and it's just not in her character to hate anyone. But Luffy's decision has taken over Shirahoshi's thoughts so much that she just cannot think about anything else, cannot think about hating Hody and cannot think about what he has done. She can only think about Luffy.
The Neptune family informing Fishman Island about Hody becoming old. I don't think that the citizens of Fishman Island know that Hody and the New Fishman Pirates turned into old men. The reason is because to the Neptune family who were the ones most affected by their actions, it just doesn't matter. Regardless of what they had done in the past, they failed in their ambitions. They didn't have anything, not even their own strength since they lost it due to their own actions of taking too many energy steroids. They pretty much threw away their own strength due to hatred and now had no power due to being old men. All they had was hatred. It was so pathetic that Neptune chose to release them since they can't do any harm and the way they have to live now is too pathetic to hate. It is so pitiful that they didn't bother informing the island. Why inform them about some weak pitiful old man ranting about how humans are inferior and deserve death? Not like they can do anything about it so why waste their breath?
Arlong's fate after he was defeated by Luffy. Another piece of information that Oda didn't exactly explain has been revealed, what happened to Arlong after he was defeated. Most times, Oda explains what happens to the villains after they are defeated through side stories. Like he explained how Crocodile was locked up in Impel Down, how Enel chose to go to the moon, how CP9 are now enemies of the world government, how Buggy returned in Lougetown and went to the Grand Line. However Oda never really stated exactly what happened to Arlong. Hachi did say that they were captured by the marines but that was it. Well now we know, he was taken to Impel Down. That is understandable because he is a powerful fishman, was sent to Impel Down before (in Jinbe's flashback about Fisher Tiger) and was infamous due to being part of the Sun Pirates. So Impel Down would certainly be the place he would be sent to.
Raid on Impel Down: The revolutionary army is enslaving all pirates in order to increase their power. And there are plenty of pirates in Impel Down. Impel Down is a maximum security facility that is almost impenetrable. But after the fall of the world government there was practically no one available who could protect Impel Down. Magellan alone cannot do much to the revolutionary army. So after the successful invasion, there was pretty much nothing stopping the revolutionary army from breaking into Impel Down and raiding and enslaving all the pirates enslaved there. Most of the pirates there are weak and perfect for slaves. However there are stronger ones that are too uncontrollable for the revolutionary army and these powerful ones were killed. Arlong was one of them. He is fairly strong and wouldn't listen to "human scum" like the revolutionary army so killing him would have been the best thing. He was then forcefully brought to Fishman Island and killed there by Sanbi.
Categories of pirates slaves: All pirates captured by the revolutionary army and made into slaves can be placed into four categories, slaves from Mariejois, slaves from Impel Down, slaves from Blackbeard's territories and slaves from everywhere else.
Slaves from Mariejois. Pirates from Mariejois were slaves to the Tenryuubito. During the invasion, all slaves were liberated except for pirates. They were taken from Mariejois and placed on revolutionary bases. These pirates slaves from Mariejois, never stopped being slaves. They just changed slave masters. Their slave masters were originally the Tenryuubito, now they are the revolutionary army. This group is the smallest of the four groups of pirate slaves.
Slaves from Impel Down. Pirates from Impel Down were captured and made into slaves after they raided Impel Down following the successful invasion of Mariejois. Most of the pirates imprisoned here are weak and thus good slaves. However there are some strong ones like the ones in Levels 5 and 6 of Impel Down that are too strong to enslave. These powerful pirates were killed. This is the second smallest of the four groups of pirate slaves.
Slaves from Blackbeard's territories. Blackbeard's territories were revolutionary territory for much longer than the rest of the world. Because of this the revolutionary army had a much easier time capturing pirates slaves here than the rest of the world prior to the invasion. Slave camps existed on Blackbeard's territories for two years while revolutionary bases are only just being erected on the rest of the world. Because of this, the revolutionary bases on Blackbeard's territories are much more developed than the rest of the world and also have more slaves as a result.
Slaves from everywhere else. These are slaves that do not fall into any of the previous three categories. These pirate slaves are pirates that pledged allegiances to the other three deceased Yonko or were just on their territories at the time. As three Yonko are dead, there is nothing stopping the revolutionary army from annexing their territories and making it their own and hence capturing and enslaving the pirates there. Revolutionary bases on the three deceased Yonko's territory are still young and don't have too many slaves but it is steadily increasing.
Sanji's comment about being thankful for the okamas. What he meant is that because they were chasing him all the time, he really got to develop his observation haki. He had to keep his guard up all the time because if he ever slipped up once, then they'll get him. The circumstances of having to keep his guard up all the time forced him to develop observation haki to sense their presences all the time. If he didn't develop his observation haki, then the okamas would have caught him off guard and gave him hell. So it was thanks to them that he really was able to learn how to use observation haki. And as for Zoro, well Mihawk being the world's greatest swordsman wouldn't have let Zoro go without learning both observation and armament haki obviously.
The immediate effect of Big Mom's death. Big Mom was the Yonko who was supposedly protecting Fishman Island. Fishman Island by being her territory received her protection. She did not exactly care about Fishman Island and only cared about her sweats but that did not really change anything. Regardless of whether she cared or not, Fishman Island was still able to carry her symbol and that alone was enough. By using her jolly roger, Fishman Island was protected even if Big Mom herself did nothing. But that changed after Big Mom died. When Luffy killed Big Mom, Fishman Island lost its protection. That meant that all the horrors that Fishman Island had to endure before Whitebeard and Big Mom took over, they had to go through it again, albeit briefly. Kidnapping of mermaids and pirates rampaging happened again. In fact, it was actually worse than before either took over. Before Whitebeard or Big Mom took over, the country was not exactly suffering from a civil war. So at least then Fishman Island was at full strength and can at least defend itself from invading pirates. But Hody's actions however significantly weakened the island's defenses to the point that the only thing protecting them was Big Mom's name. And when she died, they lost that. Because of Hody, Fishman Island was in no position to really protect itself from pirates. That meant that they had virtually no defense against the pirates. The brief period between Big Mom's death and the Invasion of Mariejois was the worst period for Fishman Island. However nothing really bad happened because immediately after Luffy killed Big Mom, the revolutionary army invaded Mariejois.
Peace returning to Fishman Island almost immediately after Big Mom's death. Big Mom's death caused chaos to once again reign over Fishman Island since they lost their only real protection and Hody's rebellion decreased their strength so they had no way of really defending themselves from pirates. But pirates stopped their attacks almost immediately after the revolutionary army successfully conquered Mariejois and the world government. Because they did so almost immediately after Big Mom's death, pirate attacks never really had happened in Ryuuga Kingdom. The time gap was too small if not completely non existant for pirates to have really done any real harm to the citizens of Ryuuga Kingdom. Thus whatever chaos Fishman Island had following Big Mom's death was short lived and ended immediately due to the successful invasion of Mariejois. Thus peace returned as almost as soon as Big Mom died. The reason all the havoc that pirates caused stopped is because of three main reasons, the first being the deaths of the Tenryuubito, the second being the fear instilled by the revolutionary army and the third being the revolutionary army's enslaving pirates.
Deaths of the Tenryuubito stopping slavery: When pirates kidnap fishmen and merfolk, they are usually sold to rich and powerful nobles, chief among them being the Tenryuubito. The thing is, during the Invasion all the Tenryuubito (except for Luffy's mother Cassandra) were killed. That meant that the main buyers of fishmen slaves were killed so there is no one that could really buy them. So its pointless to kidnap fishmen because, who are they going to sell them to. The ones they usually sell them to are all dead so why waste time kidnapping fishmen then.
Fear the Revolutionary Army inspires stopping pirate attacks. This is arguably one of the main weapons of the revolutionary army, the fear they inspire. Everyone is so afraid of them that they wouldn't do anything that would bring attention to themselves because that would gain the attention of the revolutionary army. Piracy and slavery are both such acts. So pirates don't think about causing any kinds on trouble on Fishman Island not because they are afraid of Neptune's army but because they are afraid of the revolutionary army. And for good reason, the revolutionary army did what no other force has ever been able to do, take down the world government.
Removal of pirates stopping pirates attacks. This is obvious. They can't be any pirate attacks if there are no pirates to begin with. Pirates are being captured rapidly and put to work on revolutionary bases. And the pirates that are not captured are too afraid to do anything stupid. This means that there are not too many pirates visiting Fishman Island at all and those that do come to Fishman Island are not going to try anything because they would be risking the wrath of the revolutionary army. Having said that, it is impossible to make the world completely pirate free. Pirates are always going to be in around in huge numbers, no matter what you do. But the revolutionary army is capturing them at a much faster rate than the world government ever did. And pirates are much more reluctant to become famous because that would bring the revolutionary army after them.
Fishman slaves at Mariejois. Fishman Island was originally under the protection of Whitebeard and Big Mom. All the slaves that were previously on Mariejois were released when Jinbe became a Shichbukai and slavery stopped when Whitebeard declared Fishman Island to be his territory. But between Whitebeard's death and Big Mom's taking over, there was a brief period when Fishman Island didn't have the protection of a Yonko. This small period was a time when some fishman were kidnapped and enslaved. Also there was another small period between Big Mom's death and the Invasion of Mariejois where Fishman Island again didn't have the protection of a Yonko so some fishmen and merfolk were enslaved then. But regardless of that all of them were freed when the revolutionary army invaded Mariejois.
Again I just wanted to mention that the revolutionary army only enslaves pirates, not civilians. By taking pirates as slaves, the revolutionary army is making the world a better place and safer place and people are happier, thus they are more accepting of them as the new rulers of the world. If they start enslaving civilians, it will encourage rebellion and start chaos around the world which is not what the revolutionary army wants.
The order and stability the revolutionary army created. The revolutionary army did what the world government couldn't. They put an end to piracy, slavery and many other problems of the world. The marines were able to reign in and corner pirates but they were never able to really stop them. This was mainly because of the Yonko. Many crews by going under the banner of the Yonko pretty much were able to get away with a lot of crimes. If the marines went after crews affiliated with a Yonko, then it would spark a war with a Yonko. In fact the marines even entering the lands of a Yonko might have started a war. So in the New World, pirates were pretty much immune to the marines and could do what they want when they want without any consequences. The presence of the Yonko made pirates somewhat untouchable for a very long time. However the revolutionary army killed three Yonko and the last is secretly a revolutionary. So the army pretty much destroyed what gave pirates immunity in the first place. That meant that the revolutionary army unlike the world government could really advance into the New World and remove all the pirates there thus making the world safer and better to the people. They brought a new age of peace, even if it's through fear, it's still peace.
Luffys' resemblance of Roger and Dragon. Interestingly despite Luffy being Dragon's son, when he was captain of the Straw Hats, he resembled Dragon's greatest enemy Roger. Prior to the timeskip, Oda made an extra effort to make Luffy resemble Roger. According to many, Luffy was very similar to Roger. Both were idiots, both loved their crew and both made lots of friends and helped people out all the time. Luffy even wore red just like Roger and even wears Roger's straw hat. When Luffy became a Knight, he stopped resembling Roger and resembled his father Dragon. He had the same green cloak as his father and was ruthless like he was. He hated the world government just like his father. Oda's One Piece was meant to portray Luffy as Roger's successor but One Piece Final Holy War portrays him as Dragon's successor.
Dragon ending Roger's legacy. Dragon pretty much destroyed everything that was Roger's legacy. Dragon was the mastermind behind the Marineford War that killed Roger's son Ace. Roger before his death started the Golden Age of Piracy when he uttered his famous words. Dragon who was Roger's greatest enemy ended what Roger started years ago, he ended the great age of piracy. Dragon removed Roger's apprentice Shanks through Blackbeard. Finally Dragon turned Luffy the one who would have succeeded Roger as Pirate King to his own cause as a member of the Knights of D. This shows how much of an enemy Dragon was to Roger and how powerful his influence was. Dragon's power and influence was so great that he continued to destroy everything that Roger had long after his execution.
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