Chapter 40: Alabasta (2)
Nefertari Cobra, Vivi, and all high ranking members of this kingdom stood in front of a handsome young man.
Cobra couldn't help but frown. This guy wasn't only a Celestial Dragon, he was a famous guy that shocked the whole world. Why did this guy come to his kingdom?
„It's a pleasure to meet you, King Cobra. Oh, Princess Vivi, you are even more beautiful than I thought. I'm happy to meet you, too"
Ezio had many faces. Sometimes he was silly, sometimes he was shameless, at other times he was serious. This time he was like an elegant noble, proud but respectful. Cobra and Vivi liked this attitude, because Celestial Dragons weren't really nice to them. Especially after they refused to go to the Holy Land.
„Young lord, why are you visiting our kingdom?"
Cobra came right to the topic. To tell the truth, this guy wasn't happy with the World Government and their policies. So he wasn't really welcoming towards Ezio.
„You can call me Ezio, and my purpose for visiting your kingdom is to propose you an alliance with my organization"
All the people in the room frowned. Wasn't Alabasta a kingdom that was allied with the World Government? There was no need to propose an alliance. Only King Cobra noticed the hidden meaning behind his sentence. He was an experienced king. After he saw the actions of this young man at Paradise Island and then his arrival at his own kingdom, he knew that this guy had shocking plans.
„We are strangers, and I know to ask for an alliance at this point isn't convincing. You all saw my behavior, the whole world saw it. With the history you had with one of the Shichibukai, I think you can come to a conclusion why I would arrive here. An alliance can't be build between strangers, so I will give you time to think about it. Let me make you a suggestion"
Ezio looked at Cobra who had a thoughtful expression. He smiled and continued.
„One of your men will join my organization. I will train him, he will learn what we want to achieve, and he will help us to achieve it. This person will be the middle man between your kingdom and my organization. He can tell you if it is worth to become one of my allies or not. On the other side, your kingdom will have my full protection, and you don't have to give me something in return. I want to build trust between us, I don't want to suppress you with power or a contract. This is very important, and I need your help if we want to change this world"
After Cobra heard the last sentence, he was shocked. What was this guy planing? If a pirate told you he would change the world, then it wasn't something that would surprise him. This guy was a Celestial Dragon! When these words were said by him, it had a bigger impact.
Koza, who stood behind Cobra, walked towards Ezio.
„Let me join you and see what that organization of yours truly wants to achieve"
Ezio and Cobra were surprised that Koza was so interested in this alliance.
Koza was the leader of the rebellion in the Alabasta arc. Ezio thought that this guy was weak but he was a good leader and people had respect for him. Another thing that was positive about him was that he didn't ate a devil fruit. It was hard to find strong people in this world who didn't have the power of devil fruits. He had too many of them and had problems to find good people that could eat them. When he came to Alabasta, he didn't thought about recruiting this guy, but after he saw him with his own eyes he couldn't help but like this guy.
Koza had his own motivation. He saw how weak he was and that a single pirate could destroy the nation he loved. Koza saw the strength of this young man, and he wanted to see the world and become strong, so no one can harm Alabasta in the future. Ezio was the best opportunity for him to have someone strong that could train him.
„Alright. You will join me. King Cobra, every month, Koza will come to your kingdom and will report you what we are up to. Even I can come over if you have questions"
Now Cobra was confused.
„How can you come here so often? I don't think that a man like you will stay all this time on the Grand Line"
„Let me show you"
After that Walter Benson appeared. This poor man looked skinny and a little bit sick.
After that Cobra, Vivi, Ezio and Benson appeared on Amazon Lily.
Cobra and Vivi looked shocked.
„This is Amazon Lily, it is one of my territories. With the ability of Benson, we can arrive at you kingdom whenever we want. If you have trouble, just give us a call, and I send my strongest people to your aid. Even if it is a Shichibukai, we will defend your kingdom"
After Cobra heard that he was on the famous island that was a dream for all men, he looked a little bit like a pervert.
Ezio looked at the distance and what he saw shocked him.
„Isn't this ship… Isn't this the place were Gild Tesoro lived? What is this ship doing in Amazon Lily… Don't tell me Hancock really stole this huge thing? Damn it, this was only a joke… No wonder Benson is so skinny and sick. Sorry, bro…"
Ezio couldn't think further because he heard an angry voice.
„EEEEEZIO!"
This was Hancocks voice. Ezio was a little bit scared.
„You bastard! Why did we kidnap so many beautiful women? The jail in our ship is full of women, and all of them are beautiful! Even after you send me to kill this Tesoro guy, I had to kidnap two women… and they are beautiful, too! What are you planning, you bastard? I'm gonna' kill you!"
A woman with two fox tails that was surrounded by a purple aura was flying towards them. Ezio was never so scared in his life.
„Benson, bring us back or we will die!"
Bensons reaction was good. He immediately brought them back to Alabasta. Where the four people stood previously was now a huge hole. This hole was the result of Hancocks anger…
Back in Alabasta, Cobra and Vivi looked at Ezio with a strange expression.
„Well, that was my vice-leader. You know, she is a little bit jealous…"
Ezio was annoyed. He wanted to show his new allies his best side, but Hancock destroyed it in a second…
Chapter 41: Headquarter
Everyone from Ezio's crew was back on the ship. Besides Hina, Nojiko and Koza, the rest of the
'new crew members' were in prison. There were many other people that they had to catch, he didn't searched the people in the New World at this moment. He would get all these people after they would arrive at Sabaody.
„Well, I think our first recruitment was a success?", said Ezio and frowned.
The next mission was to conquer the new headquarter for their organization. Ezio thought long about the place where they should build their headquarter. With his most beloved crew member, Benson, he decided that his headquarter should be at a special place.
The ship stopped in the middle of the sea and Ezio smiled.
„We arrived at our destination"
The crew looked confused.
„Do you know the tale of Jack and the Beanstalk?"
The crew members never heard about this tale. It wasn't their fault, this was a different world.
„Reiju, it's time for you to shine"
Reiju smiled and then activated her devil fruit powers. Under the ship, a huge plant began to grow. Then the plant wrapped around the ship and grew bigger and bigger. The ship, that was on top of the plant, shot up into the sky. After several minutes, the ship arrived at a special place in this world - Skypia.
The crew didn't notice this beautiful land above the clouds. They were still shocked by this huge plant - never underestimate the plant plant fruit. Even Hancock watched at her rival with a frown.
Ezio was truly curious what happened to Skypiea. After he snatched the devil fruit of Eneru, he changed the story of this place. Was Eneru still the God of Skypiea?
In the end he didn't really matter what happened on Sky Island. The important thing was that Ezio would make his headquarter in this place. The Ancient City of Shandora - Ezio wanted to make this old city famous again. Well, it wouldn't become famous because this was a secret headquarter, but it would become the place that would change the whole world. Maybe this city was in ruins now, and he didn't know if Eneru would build his arc in this timeline. In the end it didn't matter, because he stole the ship from this crazy bastard Tesoro, so he had enough gold to build a new city.
Ezio noticed with his observation haki that the people on Skypiea had trouble at this moment. They were attacked by an annoying guy, but this was a good chance to show the citizens of Sky Island that they were good guys.
„The people are attacked by an annoying guy called Bellamy. Stop this guy and save the people. After that you have to bring everyone on this floating island, nobody can leave the island! This is important. Lily, Sid, don't be villains. Smile sometimes and be nice to the people!"
Ezio and Hancock flew away while the rest of the team played the hero and saved the people from this annoying Bellamy.
„What are you planing, Ezio?"
„Sky Island is a beautiful place, but we have to change this place a little bit. This should be the headquarters of the heir of the Blackflame family. Sky Island isn't special enough to represent me"
Ezio grinned. They arrived in front of an old woman. This was the Heaven's Gate.
„You have to pay to enter Sky Island", said the woman unfriendly.
„Old woman, how do people from the Blue Sea usually come up here?"
The woman pointed to the west.
„There is a bridge in this direction that connects Sky Island with the Blue Sea. It is the only way to come up here. Of course, if you can fly than that would change things"
„Thank you, old woman. Leave this place now. You will die if you don't. I think that after today you will lose your job. I'm really sorry about that"
After that the two arrived at the bridge that connected the Heaven to the Blue Sea. It was a bridge that was made out of clouds.
Ezio smiled and then the bridge burned in black fire. It took a while but after that the whole bridge that was formed out of clouds was gone. Nobody could visit this place with a ship anymore - the only way to arrive at Skypiea was to fly.
Ezio wanted to make his headquarter at a place that was far away from the World Government and the Emperors of the four Seas. With Bensons ability, he could bring all his people up here , but other people wouldn't have it so easy. The World Government knew about Sky Island, even Garp found it back then. The thing was that they weren't interested in this piece of land. There were so many islands in this world and these islands weren't as hard to reach as Sky Island. Besides this, there wasn't something that interested the World Government on Skypia. They didn't now that there was a poneglyph. So this land was free from marines and the influence of the World Government. The only problems the citizens had were people from the Blue Sea who would make troubles, but that were mostly pirates. This place was perfect for him.
„I think all people are on the Upper Yard now. Even the old woman listened to us. It's time to make this place into an unique piece of land - a land that is ruled by a Blackflame"
Ezio started to burn the clouds. For the people of Skypiea, these clouds were like the water for the people on the Blue Sea. Everything that surrounded the Upper Yard started to burn in black fire - it was like the Upper Yard was surrounded by a black sea.
All the people from Skypiea that were standing on the Upper Yard looked at this black sea of fire that was surrounding them. They were shocked. It wasn't only them, even Ezio's crew was shocked.
The heavens started to burn - the whole Upper Yard was surrounded by black fire, and this black fire started to burn more and more clouds.
After this day, the sea of clouds surrounding the Upper Yard was called the Burning Heaven.
This was a natural defense for one of the most troublesome organizations the world ever faced.
Every bridge that connected Sky Island with the Blue Sea was burned down, and everyone who wanted to reach this place by flying first had to pass this burning sea.
But in this world, there was no one who would survive this black fire.
You ask why?
Because this fire could burn everything in this world.
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