CHAPTER 51
DEATH HQ (MARINEFORD)
Robin rest in her room looking up at the ceiling. She was thinking about everything that's been going on these past couple of days.
She stood up and walked over to a window to look down at the DEATH members who were hard at work.
She looked over at the DEATH generals Lucci and Crocodile talking and Doflamingo was drinking a coffee, sitting with his feet in the air. Kaku was speaking with a member and Kuro sat, reading a book.
"This all feels like a dream… some of our biggest enemies are sitting right outside this building that I'm in… the archeologist of the Straw Hat Pirates, but they aren't attacking me. In a marine HQ building, but I'm not a prisoner… in fact… I'm more like royalty considering I'm the boss's daug-." Robin stopped thinking.
Robin hurried and walked away from the window and sat in her bed, falling back and stared at the ceiling.
"He actually expects me to mingle with these people? After everything we've been through? I don't care if my time here feels like a million years it's only really just for today… he's already promised I can go back to my friends so… but… after that… what then? We can't just, or Luffy can't just, let Psycho go off free. That Naruto kid… he wouldn't let Psycho run off either." Robin thought to herself, "He's so strong… they all are… I shouldn't be saying this but… I feel like… we'll never be able to beat them."
DEATH HQ (PSYCHO'S OFFICE)
Up in Psycho's office, he was checking over reports and newspapers to see if anything of use came up. Psycho picked up a newspaper that read: "SUMMIT WAR PART 2! WHO IS THE MAN IN THE CLOUDS!?"
Psycho at the paper. Psycho's appearance could barely be made out, only scratches, blood, some parts of his body and hair were visible. The important thing to note.. is Psycho's sharingan being clearly visible.
Psycho smirked.
"The papers must have reached Alabasta by now.. which means they've reached the shinobi world as well.." Psycho said, "I trust those two have gotten the message."
Psycho kept going through papers until he came across a very interesting one. He picked it up and read it closely.
"TERROR ON APPLEGROVE ISLAND IN THE NORTH BLUE! A YOUNG MAN WAS SEEN BEATING A MAN, THAT APPEARED TO BE A BANDIT, INSIDE A BAR! THE MAN'S FRIENDS CAME IN TO HELP BUT WHERE OVERWHELMED BY A YELLOW FIRE BALL THAT CONSUMED THE ENTIRE BAR. THERE WERE NO SURVIVORS. MORE ON THIS AS IT DEVELOPS! Morgans."
Psycho glared at the picture of the perpetrator for a good second, grabbing a transponder snail.
"Cyclone. Oi, Cyclone." A snail with Psycho's features said.
Cyclone stared at the snail.
"Come up to the office. We have a problem." Psycho said.
Cyclone put the transponder snail in his pocket and pressed two fingers to his head, instantaneously he was zapped to Psycho's office.
"What's the problem?" Cyclone asked.
Psycho handed the newspaper to him.
"That boy killed a few DEATH members in the North Blue… with a yellow fire ball at that." Psycho said.
Cyclone read the paper.
"You know what that means don't you?" Psycho asked.
Cyclone closed his eyes.
"You taught it to him nen too?" Psycho asked.
Cyclone looked up.
"I did. I taught it to him before I left those lands. He must have gotten into an altercation while searching for me." Cyclone said.
Psycho shook his head.
"Well we can't have him murdering all of our members.. find him and put a stop to this. If he doesn't cooperate you'll have to kill him. I don't care what your relationship with him is." Psycho said.
Cyclone looked down at his hands and they shook. Cyclone smiled.
"Of course." Cyclone said, walking out of Psycho's office.
TWIN SNAKES BAR, APPLEGROVE ISLAND (NORTH BLUE) A FEW DAYS AGO
BOOM! SHATTER!
A bandit was thrown into a collection of tables and glass. He looked back to see a figure walking towards him.
"Get away from me you demon! I don't have anything to do with the man you're looking for!" The bandit said.
The young man came out the shadows. He wore a white t shirt with an un-zipped black jacket and yellow inside coloring.
He wore black sweats with black and yellow shoes. He had thick black eyebrows and a spade tattoo with a k above it located on his cheek. His hair was tall, thick, and spiky.
Its base was black with yellow tips. His eyes were also a special case. One was a crystal blue and the other was a yellow pupil on a black eyeball. He also carried a fishing rod on his back.
The young man grabbed a newspaper out his pocket and showed the bandit a symbol with what looked like a saw blade inside a red circle, the DEATH symbol, and pointed at the man's jacket, which had the same symbol on the right bosom. The DEATH member looked down at the symbol.
"FINE! I'm a DEATH member alright? But if you think I'm telling you a word about my bosses then you've got the wrong guy, you bastard! AH ha ha ha!" The DEATH member said.
The young man stood straight up and stared down at the man with a cold, dead stare. The DEATH member freaked out.
"AHHH! HE'S A DEMON! GET THE HELL AWAY FROM ME!" The DEATH member said.
The young man cocked his foot back and kicked the DEATH member through the bar wall and out into the village. Civilians looked into the hole in the wall with shock and fear.
The young man slowly set his foot down and turned to the counter. He walked over and sat down. The bartender stared at the man with fright.
"If… Uh… If you want a drink you do have to be the right age!" The bartender said.
The young man slowly looked up at the bartender with his cold eyes.
"AHHHH! I'M SORRY, HERE TAKE A SHOT OF RUM!" The bartender said.
The young man took the shot and drank it. As he did, the doors to the bar burst open and a group of DEATH members smiled and held weapons. One of the members walked over to the young man and pressed his bat against his head, pushing it.
"We heard the boss was getting beaten down by some new punk in town. Was it you, you piece of trash? We'll teach you what happens when you mess with DEATH!" The man cocked his bat back and swung it at full speed.
The DEATH member hit a glass cup into a wall, shattering it, but the young man was no where to be found.
"Where did that fledgling get to?!" The DEATH member asked.
A fire like crackling could be heard so he and the rest of the DEATH members looked behind them to see the young man standing by the door, one hand on fire with a yellow flame and another hand open over it as if he was trying to contain the flame.
The young man stared at the men.
"Ja…jaken…" The young man whispered.
"JAJAKEN!? WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!"
"DEVIL FRUIT!? IT HAS TO BE!"
The DEATH members were scared. A WANTED poster fell off the wall and into the hands of a DEATH member.
WANTED: ONLY DEAD
TAIKAMA NARA
750,000,000 BELI
One of the DEATH members recognized him.
"WAIT TAIKAMA-SAN! I REMEMBER WHO YOU AR.-"
"PAPER!" Taikama yelled.
Taikama blasted a yellow fire ball at the DEATH members and blew up the bar.
Taikama walked out of the destroyed and flaming building unscathed and into the rain. The village people ran as he walked past them.
Taikama looked back as lightning lit his face up and thunder boomed, shaking the island.
SUNFLOWER ISLAND
Kraken stood ten toes with his armament covered arm stretched out towards the sea. He had just blocked a powerful energy beam blasted by Lionel Newgate whom was attempting to kill the unconscious fleet admiral, Sakazuki.
"Kr… Kr… Kraken-san…" Lionel said softly.
Kraken, Luffy slung over his shoulder, receded his armament hardening and slowly looked up at Lionel through his shades. Okua and Jimbei looked towards Lionel with straight faces and Amyia looked at Lionel with concern.
"Are you trying to blast this island to hell? Lionel?" Kraken asked.
Lionel shook his head.
"No! I'm not!" Lionel yelled.
"That was one of your strongest beams of light... that tells me otherwise." Kraken said softly.
Lionel became agitated.
"Okay yeah I fired a beam of light that could've done some serious damage to this place, but so what? You know about my history with him! He… HE!" Lionel stopped and put his head down.
Jimbei looked over at Kraken.
"That one beam would've potentially destroyed this island? Kraken-san blocked it like it was nothing!" Jimbei thought to himself, and then looking back over at Lionel.
"HE KILLED MY OLD MAN!" Lionel yelled.
Everyone stared at the young man with straight faces.
"YOU KNOW IT TOO… DON'T YOU! KRAKEN!" Lionel yelled.
Kraken Tsk'd.
"You were still missing during that battle… the summit war is what they call it… or the war of the best." Lionel said.
Jimbei's eyes widened.
"This kid was at the war of the best?!" Jimbei thought to himself.
"But as we both know… you're alive and well. Which means you know what he did! That trash in Amyia's arms killed countless numbers of my friends and my father!" Lionel yelled.
Kraken continued to let the boy talk.
"Ace… and father Edward… everyone… he's responsible for it." Lionel said, calm.
Jimbei's eyes opened even wider now as he looked at the young man.
"Ace!? Whitebeard!? Ace was his friend and Whitebeard was… his father!?" Jimbei said to himself.
Kraken took a second to process it and then began to speak.
"Lionel." Kraken said.
Lionel looked up, tears in his eyes.
"You're right. I know what Sakazuki has done. But you must look at it like this. You're a pirate. Newgate and Ace were pirates as well. Sakazuki and me, Amyia too are all marines. What other choice did he have? It wasn't personal so don't take it that way. If Sakazuki didn't do what he did to Whitebeard or Ace they would've for sure tried to kill him instead. All that was in his mind was "it's my life or theirs." Do you understand?" Kraken asked.
Lionel stared with confusion and then anger. He looked to the side and closed his eyes tight, his fists balled. After a moment he calmed down.
"I'll play along with him being here, but I can't promise you I won't lash out again. I don't even want to look at his damn face." Lionel said, walking off.
Everyone watched the young man walk off. Kraken sighed and looked back at the others.
"See that wasn't so bad right?" Kraken asked.
Everyone looked at him with straight faces.
"No? Well.. alright then… let's keep moving. Camp is just up ahead." Kraken said.
Kraken, Jimbei, Okua, and Amyia walked a little further until a decent sized camp waited for them.
On the sunny island of Sunflower Island, there were 5 tents. One on the left for medicinal reasons and four on the right, all for the men.
"Hey, there are 5 tents instead of 6 for Amyia-san." Jimbei said.
Amyia walked Sakazuki over to the medical tent and smiled.
"I'm still an active member of the marines so I don't stay here! I just check up on Kraken-san and the others from time to time." Amyia cleared up.
"Monkey D Kraken-san is also not showing his face to the marines as it's not the right time to do so. And the other two here are criminals so it's not wise for us to travel." Okua explained.
"I see, but there has only been Whitebeard's son, where is the other man?" Jimbei asked.
Right as he said this, a portal opened and out popped a man in a black business suit with red button up undershirt, black dress shoes, white spiky hair, orange eyes, and an H pin on his jacket.
He had a cocky and upper class business man attitude and speech pattern.
"Yeah yeah I know it'll be great the best you've ever seen. Heard it before, it's quite popular. Anyway, I've got somewhere to be baby, chow." The man said.
The man clicked off his phone and looked over to see Kraken and the other's.
"Well hey hey! If it isn't my buddies Octopus and the nomad!" The man said.
"Nagashima… it's Kraken." Kraken said agitated.
"And I am not a nomad I'll have you know." Okua said.
NAGASHIMA KINGO
DEVIL FRUIT: COSMO COSMO FRUIT
BOUNTY: ABOUT TO BE REVEALED
"Speaking of which… what did I say about keeping a low profile." Kraken said.
Nagashima froze.
"Who me?" Nagashima asked.
Kraken stared at him.
"I haven't done anything wrong! I left for a few hours and came back what's the problem Kraken?" Nagashima said.
Kraken reached into his bag.
"Well because I found THIS on a store wall on an island not too far from here." Kraken said.
Nagashima looked at his WANTED poster.
"685,000,000 beli… How much even is that? I was worth 100x that or maybe even 10,000x that where I'm from." Nagashima said.
Kraken sighed.
"Well, here, that's a lot of damn money. What did you even do to get it that high so fast?" Kraken asked, "Did you attack anybody with a white outfit and blue scarf?"
Nagashima loosened his tie and looked to the side.
FLASHBACK
Nagashima, a drunken mess, stepped into the street with the army of marines.
"Surrender! And you can go to jail alive!" A marine yelled.
"So you'd take me to jail dead too?" Nagashima asked.
"Cocky! But when you're dead it won't matter! Charge!" The marine yelled.
Nagashima tilt his head back.
"Geez he's got a real thing for death doesn't he?" Nagashima asked himself.
Nagashima cocked his fist back and charged a green cosmic ball. When the marines were in range he shot his punch into the air and cosmic energy pushed all the men into the air and burned their skin form the star hot energy.
END OF FLASHBACK
"There might have been one guy like that… or two… damn it, there was a damn army of them. What was I supposed to do let them catch me? That's no fun." Nagashima said.
"Either that or get away quietly. But that's impossible for you. You still have to stop being so reliant on those devil fruit abilities and train your haki more. Okua's always opened to teaching advanced Armament." Kraken said.
Nagashima looked at Okua who waved.
"Look, I don't need to learn anything from King Tut alright? I'll be fine, now excuse me I got another meeting." Nagashima said, creating a portal and jumping into it.
Kraken sighed and walked to the medicine tent.
"How are they?" Kraken asked.
Amyia turned to Kraken and smiled.
"They're doing fine! I'm sure they'll be okay." Amyia said.
Kraken smiled.
"Good."
Amyia became worried.
"Um, Kraken?"
Kraken looked up.
"Yes?"
Amyia looked back down to the men.
"How will you explain your re-appearance to Sakazuki and Smoker? And then…" Amyia stopped.
Kraken stared at Luffy.
"I-I don't know just yet..." Kraken said.
Amyia looked down.
"But that won't be until later! I'm-I'm gonna go get some rest." Kraken said.
Amyia smiled at Kraken as he walked out the tent. He was greeted by Okua.
"Monkey D Kraken-san. I went through the mail and nothing major to report except the Marineford war and Sakura Kingdom battle, but we knew about those already. Only other thing is some nutjob beating up DEATH members at a bar in the North Blue. Said he killed every man in the bar with a yellow flame." Okua said, "Do you think he could be an ally?"
Kraken became serious. Inside the tent, Amyia could hear everything. She was frozen in a cold sweat; she couldn't believe what she was hearing.
"A yellow flame?" Kraken asked, thinking, then sighing.
"Definitely not an ally unfortunately.." Kraken said, shaking his head, "If those "yellow flames" are what I think they are anyway.." Kraken said to himself.
Amyia burst from the tent with a backpack.
"Kraken make sure their towels are changed as soon as they get warm and make sure they get plenty of rest! I'll be back." Amyia said.
Kraken became nervous.
"Hey hey hey, what's wrong?" Kraken asked.
"I've been called to the North Blue." Amyia said, "Marine orders."
"What would they call a Grand Line marine to the North Blue for… wait, you're about to go confront that lunatic aren't you?" Kraken asked.
"Kraken I have to go!" Amyia said.
Kraken stood his ground.
"No! It'll be too dangerous!" Kraken yelled.
"It won't for me! I know what he can do! I can do it better than he can!" Amyia argued.
Kraken gasped.
Amyia stopped and put her head down. She shook. Tears were falling.
"If I don't go stop him right now…" Amyia stopped.
Kraken sweat slightly.
"Everyone in the world is going to die." Amyia said.
GRAND LINE WATERS
On the Thousand Sunny, what was left of the Straw Hat Shinobi: Franky, Usopp, Sanji, Chopper, Brook, Nami, Sasuke, Naruto, Sakura, Kakashi, and newcomer, Law all rode in silence as they appeared at the Red Line.
The group collectively looked up into the clouds.
"Up this mountain… is where the Holy Land is located." Law said.
Naruto smashed his fist into his hand and outstretched it.
"LET'S GO!" Naruto yelled.
ROOM OF AUTHORITY
The five elders were stationed in their office. The youngest with blonde hair sat in a chair as well as a cane wielding elder.
One elder stood in the back with long hair and long beard. The other two elders shared a couch. One with a sword and kimono and the other with a giant handlebar mustache.
They all had their eyes closed and slowly opened them in perfect sync.
"Well…" The youngest elder said.
"Time to get rid of the infiltrators…" The bearded elder said.
The elders continued to stand/sit in their fancy room, waiting for the inevitable.