Before I start the chapter, I'm going to list who has Conqueror's Haki on each side, and how many opponents they can take out with it. Assume that after training with Nami, Luffy's has become stronger since Fishmen Island. I'm also changing the name of Dragon's devil fruit from Wind-Wind to Gale-Gale. Enjoy!
Brotherhood
Hancock: 60,000
Nami: 60,000
Luffy: Previously 50,000, Currently 70,000
Rayleigh: 65,000
Christina: 70,000
Aaron: 90,000
Shanks: 100,000
Dragon: 200,000
Order
Arlong: 60,000
Mihawk: 80,000
Akainu: 90,000
Ryokugyu: 200,000
Songs
Luffy's Haki vs Nami: Luffy vs Ratchet Round 1 (One Piece OST)
Dragon's Past: Yasha's Theme (Asura's Wrath OST)
Christina's Reveal: Sakusenkaishi Osowareru Mura (One Piece OST)
Arlong Appears: Dark Future (Fairy Tail OST)
Arlong's Abilities: Huge Dragon on the Move (Fairy Tail OST)
Templars Appear: The Evolving Falcon [Kurosaki's Theme] (Yugioh Arc-V OST)
Hancock had already left the island the night before, so there wasn't anyone to say goodbye to. We thanked the people who had helped us and got back on the ship, dragging Sanji and Brook along with us, who kept yelling about leaving them there. We set sail shortly after.
"Where should we head to next? We've already restocked here, so we're good to go." Nami said, laying down on her lounge chair and looking at the choices for the next three islands. Christina walked up to her.
"Head to this one next. The town is peaceful, but there are some Templar agents stationed there. It's called Evergia, it's a cross between a beach island and a colonial stone city." she said as she pointed to the log pose that wasn't the most dangerous, but also not the most peaceful.
"Alright then. Set sail, Franky. Luffy!"
"Yeah?" he asked, walking out of the kitchen, eating a large piece of meat.
"You're going to train me to use Conqueror's Haki."
"I thought I told you that you can't learn it?" Luffy said, tilting his head to the side.
"That doesn't mean we can't try."
"...Fine." He walked over to her, and she stood opposite of him.
"I suppose that we should see just how much Conqueror's you can take to measure how strong your own is."
"Fine. Do it." she told him. Luffy took a deep breath and then suddenly unleashed a wave of haki towards her. Her hair blew around a bit, but she was unaffected.
"You're holding back." she told him, her hand on her hip.
"Of course. I told you I have to use it at various levels to see how much you can take." He increased the power, blasting it at Nami again. This time, she closed one of her eyes shut. Chopper and Brook suddenly collapsed.
"This is the same level I was at during Fishmen Island. This amount can take out 50,000 opponents." But Nami still stood her ground. Once again, Luffy upped the power up.
"This is my max. 70,000 opponents." he said in a serious tone. At this point, Nami had to shield herself with both arms, and even then, began crying out, because Luffy's haki threatened to send her flying. Robin, Usopp, and Franky had all fallen to their knees, trying to stay conscious. Sanji and Zoro began to hold onto something nearby for support, as even they were beginning to get affected. Of course, Christina and I were fine. Luffy stopped, and walked over to Nami to help her up.
"Are you alright?" he asked her.
"Yes, I should be fine. I should have expected that I'm not as strong as you."
"Don't worry about measuring up to the rest of us, Nami. Your strength is your own."
"Yeah." she smiled at him.
"Are the rest of you okay?" Luffy asked the others who were affected by his haki.
"Y-Yes, we'll be alright." Robin answered for them. Luffy looked back at Nami.
"So since 50,000 wasn't enough, and 70,000 was too much, I'd say your haki is probably able to take out 60,000 opponents, Nami."
"That's almost unbelievable. All of this haki that I have inside me." she sighed, sitting down. She looked over at me.
"How many can the others take out?" she asked. Everyone sat down to listen.
"Hancock and Rayleigh are the same as you, 60,000. Luffy and Christina are both 70,000."
"Mm. And you mentioned that you were 90,000 right?" she asked.
"Right. Shanks can take out 100,000. And Dragon at his peak can easily take out 200,000 opponents." I said. Everyone was shocked by that.
"...What about Hawkeye?" asked Zoro.
"80,000. He's in between Christina and Myself." I told him. Zoro frowned.
"Any others from the Templars?" asked Luffy.
"Well, I know Akainu can use it, so by that logic, Ryokugyu should have it as well. But I'm not sure how strong each one's is."
"...90,000, same as you." Christina mentioned.
"Who's?" I asked.
"Sakazuki's."
"You know how strong it is?"
"Yeah, I passed by him after getting Evie's clothes. He told me that he had trained his haki since Marineford, and that it can knock out 90,000 opponents." she muttered.
"Hmph. I shouldn't have expected any less. I'd venture a guess that Ryokugyu's is about as strong as Dragon's, given that he's likely at least as powerful as him."
"...A few questions." Luffy told her, making her glance over at them.
"...Ask away."
"Why is Dad so strong?" Luffy asked. Christina closed her eyes.
"Dragon's always had a lot of ambition in his life. Aaron? Want to elaborate?" she looked at me, as did everyone else.
"When Dragon was young, he wanted to surpass Garp, his own father, as a goal. But no one believed he could do it, and they all discouraged him. After all, Garp was a living legend, a Vice-Admiral who participated in many legendary battles, and who had constantly cornered Gold Roger. No one thought that anyone could compare, not even Garp's own child. So Dragon decided to prove them wrong, and train his body to the maximum. He mastered all three forms of haki by the age of 13, even younger than Christina and I were."
"Are you serious?!" they all yelled.
"Dragon found the Gale-Gale Fruit, the logia for wind, and mastered those powers soon afterwards. But it wasn't until after that that Dragon truly became powerful and surpassed Garp."
"What did he do?" asked Sanji.
"That's when he ate his second devil fruit and didn't die from it. He became the first person in the world that possessed two different devil fruits. He had the Gale-Gale Fruit, a logia, and an even more powerful one, the Dragon-Dragon Fruit, a mythical zoan. Dragon then decided to surpass Garp in rank as well, so he joined the Navy, and began as a Vice-Admiral after demonstrating his enormous power. After only 3 months of serving, he had achieved a perfect record, flawlessly completing dangerous and difficult missions. So when a position as an Admiral opened up, Dragon was the first choice, and after passing the exam on the first try, he had achieved the rank of Admiral at only 18 years old, the youngest in history."
"So he's a former admiral?!" screamed Usopp.
"A-At only 18?" Nami stammered. Everyone was in disbelief.
"Yes, but only for a short time." Christina answered. "Dragon served as an Admiral for only 3 years before leaving the Navy. He was fed up with the World Government, and decided to leave, vowing to stop them and create a new system."
"So he formed the Revolutionaries." Robin chimed in.
"Yes." I answered. "And before long, he was sought out by the Brotherhood's former mentor, Roger himself."
"Roger lead the Brotherhood before Dad?" Luffy asked.
"Yep. He was still the mentor when Christina and I joined, too, so we met him and knew him, if only for a short time before Garp captured him and he was executed. So Dragon took over as the Mentor."
"What was he like?" everyone asked.
"Like Luffy, but smarter." we both answered at the same time, making everyone laugh. Everyone except for Luffy, who just pouted.
"In addition, Dragon still has his Admiral Transformation, so he can transform a second time with his Dragon-Dragon Fruit."
"So his alias was-?" Zoro asked.
"Admiral Shiroryuu. The White Dragon."
"So that's it." Nami said. Everything was quiet for a few minutes.
"Did you have any other questions, Luffy?" Christina asked.
"Oh yeah. You mentioned that you passed by Akainu and he told you how strong his Conqueror's Haki is. Why would he bother to tell you that? And more importantly, if you're a top commanding officer of the Revolutionaries, and a Master Assassin as well, wouldn't he try to capture you, first chance he got?" Christina became sad, and looked away.
"I think I'll pass on that one. It's...complicated between the two of us."
"Complicated? How so?" asked Robin.
"..."
"Just tell them. It's not like you're on his side, anyway." I sighed, looking at her. She took a deep breath and looked Luffy dead in the eyes.
"Sakazuki...is my father…" she announced. Once again, everything was quiet for a few moments. After taking a minute to process the information, the rest of the Straw Hats were bewildered, but Luffy became angry and clenched his fists.
"Luffy, don't even think about it. Make one move and I won't hesitate to kill you." I told him in a menacing tone. He stopped and looked at me to see that I wasn't kidding around. Christina quickly explained her situation to them before Luffy decided to attack her for real.
"I ran away from Marineford, my home, when I was 15 years old, the same as when Aaron traveled with the captain. After seeing how the World Government handles some situations with cover ups and corruption, I decided that I didn't want to be a part of it, and set off to sea by myself to go against the World Government in some way, shape, or form. Along the way, I met Boa Hancock and her sisters and became good friends with them. But not too much later, I had heard that they had been captured by the Celestial Dragons and forced to be slaves. So I set out to Marineford to save them. And as luck would have it, the Sun Pirates were already there raiding the place and saving the slaves. I ran into Aaron by chance, and Fisher Tiger ended up inviting me to join the crew again. Aaron and I stayed with them for three years, until the captain's death and the splitting up of the crew. We left, and I went with him to join the Revolutionaries, and was appointed 3rd in command, just under him and Dragon. And I've been switching back and forth between that and a Master Assassin in the Brotherhood ever since." Luffy had relaxed now, and everyone had gotten over it.
"I-I see...I'm sorry I got so mad all of a sudden." Luffy apologized.
"It's fine, I understand. I never liked my father either. Anyways, we're here. This is Evergia." Christina announced as the ship docked at the port to the stone pavement city. It was a nice and peaceful place.
"There's a beach here!" Nami yelled excitedly.
"It looks tropical too. There's palm trees here." Robin added.
"Let's split up here, then. It's a peaceful town, so go shop around, explore the city, go to the beach, do whatever." I told them all.
"Great!" Luffy yelled. He stretched his arm and flew into the town.
X
One Hour Earlier
"Finally, we're here. It takes too long to get here from Marineford." Arlong complained.
"You could have just traveled here by the ocean, you know. You're made of water…" Hawkins pointed out.
"..." Arlong facepalmed.
"...The Straw Hats aren't here yet. I can't sense them." Akainu mentioned.
"Okay then. Evergia's a nice place. Why don't we go and have some fun while we're waiting. But don't stay together in a huge place, it'll make you look suspicious."
"We've already announced the Order's existence and members to the entire world. As if we weren't already suspicious enough." Kid mumbled.
"Idea." Arlong said.
"What?" Ryokugyu asked.
"Just to make it interesting, why don't we capture each other's targets? Don't go after your own, first come, first serve, and when we have them, we bring them together to the beach, and meet up."
"That sounds like fun. Let's do it then."
X
"...Okay, well I'm bored. I'm going to go get a drink." I said. I was walking with Christina. We found a bar and walked over to it, ordering two flavored cocktails. We turned around, trying to find a place to sit, when someone behind us whistled in a way where they wanted us to notice them. We turned around, and saw none other than Kizaru sitting at one of the tables, drinking a cup of coffee.
"Why don't you two come and sit with me?" he asked politely.
"...We'll pass, thanks." Christina answered, and we slowly turned on our heels, ready to leave, until we noticed Kizaru threateningly pointing his finger towards us, ready to fire a beam of light.
"I insist." We looked at each other before hurrying over to his table and sitting down with him.
"What do you need from us?" I asked.
"Oh, nothing. I just wanted to enjoy a drink with you two before I go off and complete my mission."
"Capturing Sanji and Rayleigh?"
"Mmmm. Rayleigh isn't with you, though."
"No."
"Although I suppose it doesn't matter." And at that moment, everything went black for both myself and Christina. Two light clones of Kizaru had walked up from behind us and knocked us out.
"I was after you two this time." Kizaru smiled, finishing his cup of coffee.
X
I slowly came to, feeling comfortable, as if I was laying on something soft. I blinked a few times, and saw that I was on the sand at the beach. I looked to my left and right and saw everyone else lying down on the sand, still sleeping.
"What happened? All I remember is Kizaru...bastard. There must be more of them on the island. I looked up and saw Arlong standing at the water, not too far away from us. He turned around and looked at me.
"Hey. Have a nice rest?" he smiled evilly. I rubbed my head and stood up, walking over to him.
"How many of you are here?"
"Every one of us."
"Even…"
"Yep. Big Man's here too."
"Damn it."
"Hehe. I don't think that you guys will stand a chance against us. You already saw how Mihawk worked out at Solacia. And Shanks and Dragon, your two trump cards, aren't here with you. And if you try to escape, we'll hunt you down, even on your ship."
"You think you can?" I asked, grinning.
"Maybe not you, but anyone else, no problem, without hesitating. And as for you, Ryokugyu can take care of you easily."
"You wanna bet?"
"Why don't you show me the strength of the Straw Hat Pirates, the new and improved ones that I haven't experienced since my fight with your captain."
"Alright. You asked for it. Haki Healing." I shot a blast of haki into each of them, waking them up. Arlong sighed, and turned to all of them.
"Alright, which one of you wants to die first?" he grinned at them all. They all went on their guard.
"How about me?" Christina stepped forward.
"Really? You want to take me on first? I was going to save you until the end, Christina."
"Too bad." Immediately after she said that, she appeared below him and kicked him in the chin, knocking him back onto the sand.
"You were saying? You thought you could beat all of us?" Arlong stood up again and rubbed his chin.
"I was saying that you never stood a chance." He said, quickly reforming his chin out of water.
"A d-devil fruit?" she asked.
"Right. Do you know why I was picked to be a Warlord? It's not just because I'm a Master Templar. It's because of my powers. I ate the Wave-Wave Fruit, the logia for water. Do you realize what that means?" He looked from Christina to Luffy to Chopper, to Robin, and to Brook.
"Every Devil Fruit user's weakness is water. So with the exceptions of Aaron and the Templars, I can defeat any devil fruit user with little effort. Each member of the Templars has a cross around their neck that acts as their badge of office. It has the power to allow them to swim, even if they're devil fruit users, which all of them are anyways. As for each member's individual strength, I'm ranked as the second strongest Warlord, after Hawkeye."
"Then explain to me why Fujitora isn't a Master Templar and both you and Mihawk are." I told him.
"Fujitora only became an Admiral through the World Government's Military Draft. And that's the only reason why he's a member of the Order. The rest of us were sought out by Ryokugyu and Akainu themselves. Ryokugyu makes it a point that all of the Admirals be members of the Order. You did know that Aokiji was a member too before he left, right?" he asked, grinning.
"Besides, I've been in contact with Ryokugyu long before I joined the Order. Remember Cocoyashi?" Nami gritted her teeth, and without warning, Luffy ran up to him and fired a hardened punch at him. But it was blocked by Arlong's own hand, also hardened in haki. Luffy stepped back, shocked.
"That's right...you didn't know, did you? I've taken quite a step up since you last saw me. Besides my devil fruit, I can use all three types of haki."
"Prove it!" Luffy yelled. "Gum Gum Gatling!" Luffy threw a flurry of punches at the Master Templar. However, Arlong easily dodged every single punch, and after the attack, he hardened his foot and kicked Luffy square in the stomach, sending him flying through the forest.
"Luffy!" Nami yelled.
"Ah, ah, ah!" Arlong stopped her from running to save the rubber man by blasting a wave of Conqueror's Haki at everybody, knocking Brook, Chopper, and Usopp out. Nami turned towards him angry, and blasted her own conqueror's haki at him, catching him off guard. Then she quickly took out her clima-tact and hardened it with Armament Haki.
"Thunderbolt Tempo!" she yelled before blasting an immensely powerful thunder blast down on him. After the dust cleared, Arlong stood injured, blood all over his body. He looked PISSED.
"Damn it! Who would have thought that someone like you has haki too! You know Nami, I bet you're thinking that I'm going to take you alive to make you draw charts and maps again. But the situation's changed. With my boss as powerful as he is, I have no need for someone like you anymore. I won't hesitate to kill either you or Luffy!" he yelled.
"NEPTUNE'S FURY!" he yelled before he was engulfed in a pillar of water. When it cleared, Arlong stood cloaked in water, with his eyes glowing aqua. His Templar necklace was now glowing black. He grabbed his Kiribachi from his back and hardened it with haki, turning it completely black. He rushed at Nami before she could even react, and was about to make contact and slash her in half.
"L-LUFFY!" she shrieked in horror.
"RED HAWK!" he yelled, flying out of the forest and slamming his fist into his stomach, sending him flying back into the water.
"DON'T YOU TOUCH HER!" he screamed at him.
"Water Pistol!" Arlong yelled, shooting bullets of water and haki into Luffy's chest, making him cough up blood. He teleported in front of him and formed a bubble around his head, trying to make him drown. He grabbed his throat and lifted him off the ground.
"I told you, YOU CAN'T WIN, STRAW HAT!" he yelled.
"Demon Mode: Phase 2!"
"Moonlight Goddess!" Christina's powers changed her clothes to her moonlight dress and I became cloaked in my Demon Mode, and we both kicked Arlong away from Luffy, making him fall onto the sand and cough up both blood and water. Nami ran to his side.
"Damn you two...FINE! Haki Healing!" All of Arlong's wounds disappeared, and he stood at his full power, stronger than ever. Christina rushed up to him and began to unleash a barrage of finger pistols, all of which he dodged.
"Tempest Kick!" She slashed waves of wind energy towards him with her legs, but he sliced all of them apart, rendering them useless.
"Rokuougan!" she yelled, placing her fists on top of each other, and unleashing a massive burst of energy through his chest. But he grinned at her, having not taken any damage.
"Haki doesn't work on me, Christina." He punched her across the face hard, sending her into a tree. "You see, water is the element of life. So my endurance is much higher than any one of you. When you possess the logia water fruit, not only do normal attacks not work, but neither does haki!"
'That can't be true. Then why did…' Nami thought.
"Arlong, calm down. Remember why we came here." said a voice that was all too familiar to Luffy and I. At that moment, magma formed next to Arlong, and before long, Akainu himself stood in front of everyone. Arlong composed himself and released his powers and sheathed his sword, going back to normal.
"Saka." I said, glaring at him. He looked around at the whole crew nonchalantly.
'So that's him? The one Luffy swore revenge upon?' Nami thought. 'His haki's unbelievable. I can barely breathe just feeling his pressure!'
"Where's the rest of you?" asked Christina.
"Right here." she heard another voice. Everyone looked behind them to see both Kid and Hawkins walk out of the forest and stand near the other two. A flash of lightning occurred, and Mihawk appeared next to all of them. Kizaru did the same, teleporting using his light abilities. Fujitora slowly walked over as well. Crocodile appeared with his sand powers, followed by Kuma. All but one of them was missing.
"...Where's-" I began.
"Miss me?" Ryokugyu teleported in front of all of them, sighing.
"Where were you?" I asked. "You look like you just fought someone."
"That's because I was. I was off slaughtering Blackbeard's armada." Everyone's eyes widened.
"And?" asked Kid. "How did it go?"
"Complete annihilation. It's about time that thorn in our side was removed." he smiled.
"So then Blackbeard is…" Luffy began.
"Dead. I killed him myself. So I'm afraid that there's only three Emperors of the New World right now." Luffy looked down.
"Oh, that's right, you wanted to get revenge on him for capturing Ace. He was the one responsible for the execution and all that? I assure you, that's not the case, Luffy."
"What do you mean?" he asked. I knew where this was going.
"You see, Teach is the type that gets careless. He takes too long with his fights. So when he was fighting Ace, the two of them were getting nowhere, there was no winning or losing side. So he got a bit of help." Ryokugyu smirked.
"Y-You don't mean-" Luffy's face became angry.
"That's right, it's exactly as you think. I showed up and finished the battle myself. With a power like the Dark Dark fruit, I needed to keep a close eye on Teach. So I made a deal with him. I'd let him take the credit for capturing Ace, and let him take Crocodile's position as a Warlord, which at the time was open, since the whole Alabasta thing. He happily accepted. After a while, I invited him to join the Order, but he quickly declined. He said that he didn't want to guide the world, he wanted to send it spiraling into utter chaos. So he took advantage of your Impel Down break in, and showed up unauthorized, recruiting multiple dangerous criminals into his crew, having them become commanders of his fleet. And then he showed up at Marineford again, fighting Whitebeard and killing him, then stealing his Tremor Tremor powers for himself, taking his place as Emperor successively. He hadn't really made any serious movements since then, until after Dressrosa, when some of his men tailed Sabo back to the island of Baltigo. Since Dragon, Sabo, and Christina were gone, with all of you over at Zou, it was the perfect time to strike. But it was also the perfect time for me, since once again, Dragon wasn't around. So I decided to take action and move around to every officer and fleet, destroying them until I reached Teach himself, and easily killed him."
"Wouldn't you want them to tear up the Revolutionaries anyway? We directly oppose the World Government's authority."
"True, but Dragon's not one that you want to make angry, unless I'm around. If he had found out, he would have attacked HQ, and if I was out fighting one of the Emperors, then who would stop him? We wouldn't have stood a chance. But enough about that. I came here for a different reason. Aaron, you of all people should know that I'm not much for subtlety." he smiled at me.
"Well, considering that you announced the entire existence of the Order and all of your targets to the entire world, I'd say that's an accurate statement, yes."
"I'm growing tired of this whole Assassin Templar conflict between all of us. So I want to end it all at once. On Raften, there's a Coliseum that we can fight in. Bring all of your Master Assassins, and meet us there. We'll settle everything then."
"..."
"What? What is it?" he frowned.
"...You had all of us captured and brought here, fought Arlong, and went through a whole speech just to tell us that? You could have just called, you know."
"I told you, I'm not one for subtlety."
"That's not subtlety, that's stupid. You could have spared us the whole expense, and just called us over our Transponder Snail to tell us. You would have kept Arlong's powers a secret too, but now we know."
"Fine. You want to know why I did it this way? It's because it won't matter anyway. You'll all fall. I think that that's already been displayed. Your targets. Do you think Franky can defeat Kuma without using haki? Do you think that Robin can defeat Crocodile all by herself, also without using haki? Can Chopper and Brook take down Hawkins on their own? Can Law and Usopp stop Kid's rampage? Clearly from what happened today, Nami and Jinbei are not strong enough to take on Arlong. From what happened on Solacia, neither Zoro nor Hancock could stand up to Hawkeye. From how Dressrosa went, do you think that Sabo and Christina could take down Fujitora? Can Sanji and Rayleigh stop Kizaru? Are Luffy and Shanks prepared to defeat Akainu? And can you and Dragon defeat me? If I recall correctly, both you and Luffy, using your full powers, could barely defeat a clone of me with only half of my full battle capacity. You know how this is going to end." I gritted my teeth.
"I suppose that's all then. The next time we meet will be the last. Get to Raften whenever you can. Everything is riding on it. Think about it. If everything goes in your favor, all of your dreams will become accomplished. All of the Templars defeated, the One Piece found, becoming the strongest swordsman, mapping the world. I'm looking forward to it." And with that, they left.
X
"Is that right?"
"Yes. Those were his exact words."
"I see. Well then, I guess we'll be there. Why don't you stay in Evergia for now, and we'll all head over. We're not that far away."
"Alright. I'll see you later then, Dragon." I hung up and relaxed on one of the lounge chairs. After about an hour or so, their ships docked next to ours. All of the Master Assassins had shown up, and we sailed out of port, towards Raften, to end everything once and for all.
End.