Chapter 118

A/N Where is everyone?

- Cyclone, trapped in the Highland Forest

- Collector, approaching Nroc

- Dubois, Bambous, Wilmot, on route to Joy Boy's Kingdom

- Ju Peter and Co, Wretched Woods

- Tore, Bed rest on Okino Island

Who knows what about The Mainland?

- Cyclone, Life force and its true source, Mystery of the Highland Forest, rough information on most factions.

- Collector, Life force and its true source, rough information on most factions.

- Dubois and co, Life force and its true source, intel on every faction (through Bambous and Wilmot), Val's plans, Ae'zeon's plans, Dubois's curse.

- Ju Peter,and Co, Life force, Dubois's curse, Lords of the land

- Elders, Life force and its true source, Dubois's curse.

- Tore, Dubois's curse.

Unknown Location (Present day)

Nagashima groaned as he woke up and looked around slowly. It was cold, and leaked water from the rocky ceiling. Far off in the distance, Nagashima could see blue. Daylight? It didn't matter, sea stone bars seperated Nagashima and freedom.

Nagashima got up slowly, he was free to move as he pleased in the dark room.

"Where in the hell am I?" Nagashima asked himself as a shadow appeared at the entrance in the distance.

Nagashima tried desperately to form a portal out of the cell but couldn't.

"This damn sea stone!! Come on!" Nagashima said as the figure got closer and closer. Nagashima breathed heavier and heavier as the figure was revealed to be Cyclone.

Cyclone stared at Nagashima the entire time, even as he walked in and closed the door behind him.

"Wh-Where am I? Huh?" Nagashima asked.

Cyclone continued to stare before holding up two fingers as candles lit up around Nagashima's cage.

Cyclone continued staring at Nagashima.

"900 years..." Cyclone said.

Nagashima was completely confused.

"H-Huh? 9-900 years what?" Nagashima said.

"I've been chasing you for 900 years... and I finally have you right where I want you. Where it all started." Cyclone said.

Nagashima rolled his eyes, annoyed, and wanting to leave.

"Wh-Where it all started? Huh? Wh-What you want autograph or something?" Nagashima nervously asked.

Cyclone was silent.

"You've grown rather arrogant in these 900 years... Burusu." Cyclone said.

Nagashima's eyes shot open.

"Wait... who?" Nagashima asked.

"You are who Burusu has come back as... you have to be. It's the only reason that fruit chose you." Cyclone said.

"L-Look man I just ate a random fruit and got lucky! I-I-I-I don't even know who this Burusu guy is! I swear I don't know anything." Nagashima said.

Cyclone stared at Nagashima's chest area.

"It's not about what you know.. it's about what you have." Cyclone said.

"Wh-What I have?" Nagashima asked.

"You have no rights to those cosmic powers. You're right, you ate a fruit and got lucky. You never did anything yourself to deserve it." Cyclone said.

Nagashima started to get tense.

"I remember when power was obtained through hard work and dedication, a time where the weak were weak and the strong were strong..." Cyclone said, clenching his fist.

"Burusu's power on that island... all those years ago... and Joy Boy's damn abilities... INSPIRED CENTURIES OF UNDESERVING POWER USERS!!!!" Cyclone yelled, raising his hand.

"W-WAIT! STOP!" Nagashima pleaded, "I-I'll... I'LL JOIN YOU!!! I'LL HELP YOU FIGHT AGAINST THEM WITH THIS POWER!"

Cyclone smirked.

"Oh, I believe it...You sound just like them... back then. Before they betrayed him." Cyclone said to Nagashima's confusion.

"Then please..." Nagashima begged, "Let me go..."

Cyclone just stared.

"You've returned to haunt me just like the others Burusu... and just like all those years ago... you'll be the first to go." Cyclone said, "The fruit will regrow and that power will finally be mine."

Nagashima could hardly breathe, he was terrified.

Nagashima's life flashed before his eyes. The real reason he put his trust in Kraken revealed.

Nagashima stood at the edge of the warf with tears running down his face. Nagashima looked at the picture of the family he had to leave behind. Nagashima prepared to dive into the water, knowing he wouldn't be able to get back out due to his new abilities, but someone caught him.

"H-Huh?! Let me go you bastard! Let me die in peace!" Nagashima yelled.

Kraken pulled the businessman onto the warf.

"Why would I let you die? You've got a gift..! Whether you realize it or not.. guess what? I wanted to kill myself too at a time...I can guarantee you it gets better...you just have to keep fighting. No matter what." Kraken said.

"Keep fighting for what? My family is gone... and who the hell are you supposed to be?!" Nagashima asked.

Kraken smiled.

"My name is Kraken." Kraken said with a smile as Lionel, Amaiya, and Okua walked up behind him.

Nagashima smiled to himself slightly, as tears softly fell.

PEWWWWWWW!!! SPLAT!!!!!

Cyclone blasted a hole through Nagashima's chest as the businessman was blasted against the back wall of the cell. Blood shot out his back and all over the wall, and all over the cell. Nagashima slumped over and fell on the side of his face. Cyclone stared at Nagashima's corpse as he looked over to the side.

A small pot containing a freshly grown apple rest in the room. Cyclone walked over to the apple as it slowly began to transform. The fruit turned black with small white spots and "galaxy's" all over it. Cyclone picked the cosmo-cosmo fruit and put it in a bag, then unlocked the door to Nagashima's cell and walked in.

Cyclone picked up Nagashima and slung him over his shoulder. Cyclone began to walk out of the room and down the long passage. As Cyclone walked out of the room and into the light he was revealed to be in the same ruins he fought Burusu in centuries before, except...

Cyclone looked up.

"The Shinobi deserve to know the truth, Muranaka. The elders are gone and so is Imu! That side of the grudge is over. There is no reason that the Shinobi World can't be allowed out of the darkness!" Kraken yelled.

Cyclone remembered what Kraken had said.

"It doesn't matter what you or Dubois tell them... about me, Psycho, or the history of this world. They will never understand." Cyclone said, still looking up at a barrier overhead.

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!

Everything was now hundreds of feet underwater. The volcano, the ruins inside the volcano... even... entire villages from 900 years ago... were all underwater now, resting under Cyclone's barrier. Cyclone looked back at the room he came from and remembered it being the same room he kept Tore hidden... the same room Burusu passed away in.

"When you go digging into history... you better be prepared for what you find.." Cyclone said, teleporting from the ruins.

ELBAF Revolutionary Camp

Shanks lay on a cot with a hot towel on his head, he slowly opened his eyes as he groaned.

"Wh-Where am I? Didn't I?... die?" Shanks wondered, slowly sitting up. Shanks groaned and reached for his side. Bandages. Covering a stab wound. Shanks lowered his eyes. The thing that hurt the most about this wound, was an old friend being the one to give it to him. Shanks looked around and cheered up a little to see his crew laying on beds.

"You spared my crew... Tore... thank you." Shanks said.

Shanks could hear laughter and talking outside and became curious.

"W-Well I do have to thank whoever saved us." Shanks said, giving himself a reason to be nosy.

Shanks slowly turned and got off the cot. Clutching his wound and slowly walking out of the tent into the bright daylight, Shanks squinted and blocked the sun with his hand. Shanks could see revolutionary men and women working around the camp. Prisoners they freed ate, laughed, talked, around fires. Some prisoners were too traumatized to do anything, just sitting with their head in their arms.

"A-A revolutionary camp? On Elbaf?" Shanks asked.

Shanks continued looking around until a familiar laugh interrupted his thoughts.

"S-Saul?!" Shanks yelled towards Saul's back.

Saul turned and smiled.

"SHANKS! You're okay! I thought you died! DERESHISHISHISHISHI!" Saul laughed.

"I-I thought you died! You had a giant hole in your chest..." Shanks said.

Saul was confused.

"Tore must have showed us different illusions! I don't even want to tell you what I thought he did to you! DERESHISHISHISHISHISHI!!" Saul laughed.

Shanks gulped, wondering what Saul was shown.

"OH! Shanks! You have to meet our new friends!" Saul said.

Shanks smiled. Someone obviously had saved them regardless of what happened and they did need to be thanked. Shanks walked around Saul and couldn't believe his eyes.

"Red-Haired Shanks. I do believe this is our first time meeting." A man with long black hair said.

THE MOST WANTED MAN IN THE WORLD: MONKEY D. DRAGON

"Oi, Mr. Red Haired! It's an honor to meet you in the flesh!" Sabo yelled happily.

"Yo." Aokiji said casually.

"AOKIJI BUT YOU WERE RUNNING WITH BLACKBEARD?!" Shanks yelled.

"Woah woah... That was just business.. besides it's not like I got a boss anymore anyway." Aokiji said, Shanks remembering Blackbeard was reportedly killed at the second battle of Marineford.

But it wasn't the revolutionaries and Aokiji that Shank was most in shock about, Shanks stared at a particular group of people just a little ways off, talking to the giant children.

"Um... e-excuse me..but who are they?" Shanks asked, pointing at the people.

Dragon looked back and then turned back around to eat a sandwich.

"Oh! Sorry about that Mr. Shanks, we've been waiting for you to wake up so we could introduce you guys!" Sabo said.

Sabo called over the the people in question.

"This is Red-Haired Shanks! He's a pirate, but he's one of the good one's!" Sabo said.

"AND JUST HOW MANY "GOOD" PIRATES ARE THERE ACTUALLY?!? WE WERE ATTACKED BY GOD KNOWS HOW MANY SHIPS ON OUR WAY HERE!" Ay yelled.

"Raikage calm yourself please... we are the guests here we need to trust what they say." Tsunade said.

"Raku Etsuko! It's an honor to meet you Mr. Hair." Raku said.

RAIKAGE OF VILLAGE HIDDEN IN CLOUDS, AY

STAND IN HOKAGE OF VILLAGE HIDDEN IN THE LEAVES, LADY TSUNADE

HEAD GENERAL OF THE HIDDEN LEAF ARMY, RAKU ETSUKO

"Sh-Shinobi!" Shanks yelped.

Saul and Sabo smiled as Shanks began to smile himself. Dragon smirked to himself and stood up, throwing away his plate.

"Alright, the time for introductions is over. It's time to talk business." Dragon said.

Everyone looked at Dragon.

"Every last one of us has been affected by this "DEATH" Organization and its leader. For some of us we were just collateral and for others it was on a more personal level. Either way we have gathered here today to discuss plans to put an end to this nonsense!!!" Dragon boomed.

"Operation Dawn" begins now!!!" Dragon yelled.