Chapitre 20: Heart Of A Dragon - 7

In just a few minutes he was back outside of the lab and retreating away from it, making his way towards a large alcove where he'd stashed his sack of belongings before infiltrating his lab.

He landed beside the sack, wincing as his ribs throbbed in pain but ignored it mostly and then reached into his pocket and brought out the fruit.

"Thanks a bunch Vegapunk, Kaido." Kaden grinned, before opening wide and biting down on the throat.

Immediately a disgusting, sour taste assaulted his taste buds. If he had to describe it in words, it tasted like rancid mouldy shit that had been left to fester at the very pit of an ancient sewer for a hundred years, and took in every steaming pile of shit everyone who had ever defecated and flushed their feces down into the depths of that ancient sewer.

That was how fucking disgusting it was.

Face screwed up in utter disgust, Kaden powered through and swallowed, before biting again and again and again until absolutely nothing was left.

As soon as he swallowed it all, he collapsed onto his backside, coughing and spluttering in disgust, grasping at his throat as he tried with all his might to force himself not to vomit.

Yet even as he did, he felt it.

Maybe it was thanks to his burgeoning Observation Haki. Or maybe it was just because he was so weak currently that the difference was absolutely notable from the get go.

But he felt it as a rushing sensation go through him, felt a tremble in his muscles, a lightness in his body and even the pain that was assaulting his entire body faded a bit somehow.

'…I've gotta check this out.' he thought, trembling with excitement as he called upon the status screen to see any differences.

And his jaw dropped.

Name: Kaden D. Freeman

Strength: 400.5/10,000

Endurance: 447.7/10,000

Durability: 449/10,000

Agility: 356/10,000

Hand To Hand Combat: 258/1000

Swordsmanship: 241/1000

Gunmanship: 28/1000

Rokushiki: (4/7)

Haki:

Colour Of Armament: 121/1000

Colour Of Observation: 134/1000

Colour Of The Conqueror: 5/1000

Devils Fruit: (1/2)

Fish Fish Fruit Model: Azure Dragon (Unawakened)

"Holy….shit." Kaden gaped, mind going completely blank.

What even…how? What?

What was he supposed to think here?

Beyond the crazy stat increases and his potential jumping twenty times over, what did it mean by one out of two Devil Fruits?

Did that mean he could eat two?

How?

'That's supposed to be impossible, isn't it that if somebody eats a second devil fruit they explode or something?' Kaden's thoughts raced a mile a minute.

But wait…Blackbeard ate more than one fruit.

There was a lot of theories amongst fans on why he could because Oda hadn't revealed why or how yet. But one of the common ones was that Blackbeard had multiple souls.

And each soul could have a devil fruit of their own.

But they were clearly physically oriented and not locked to the soul as well otherwise it would be impossible to clone a fruit like the one he'd just eaten!

But if it did work like that….did it have something to do with how he ended up here? After all, this wasn't his original body. Two separate souls had been in this body at one point and the devil fruit the first had, was long gone.

Did that give him like an empty slot…or something?

"Does…does that mean I could eat another devil fruit right now as well?" Kaden wondered, gaping stupidly up at the sky.

Like could he eat the Metal Metal fruit he had right now and become a metal logia on top of a dragon. Could he become a massive metal dragon logia?

Or wait, what about Smiley's fruit. What if he killed it and took its fruit? Wouldn't he get regeneration on top of everything he already had now as well? And Kaido's fruit had a lot…

And wait, it was a zoan as well so wouldn't it boost his physical abilities just like the dragon devil fruit just had for him as well?

Kaden's hands came up to quickly and agitatedly rub at his face as his thoughts began to rapidly circle.

"Stop, stop stop!" he smacked his forehead and forced himself to stop thinking so much.

It was crazy, out of this world and opened up so many possibilities. But he shouldn't get a head of himself. He just ate one fruit and hadn't even tried anything with it yet.

On top of that, it was best not to rush into things now. If he could eat a second fruit, he'd need to think seriously on the options available to him and what would be best for him.

"Beyond that though….how do I even use the fruit?" Kaden wondered, cupping his chin. He closed his eyes in thought and tried willing himself to turn into a dragon.

And then laughed, because no way it was that simple.

He opened his eyes and found himself very high in the air, "Eh?" Kaden blinked, and looked down.

He could see where he stood a moment ago over twenty feet below him, and a long serpentine body of crimson red scales alongside it, "EHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH?!?!?!?"

"What what what?!" Kaden panicked, head whipping around to look behind him and yep there it was, a huge, long scaly red boy with a mane of golden blond hair.

How. Why?

It shouldn't have been that easy right? Like, it wasn't easy for-

"No wait, Momo transformed as soon as he ate it, and I didn't." Kaden frowned. Actually, a lot of what Momo did with it didn't make sense. He didn't really train with it at all, but used its abilities by accident sometimes.

Yet when he did try to use it fully the first time, he was able to generate the flame clouds easily. And then managed Kaido's Blast Breath, a strong enough one to nearly take out a literal Admiral in one shot after just a few attempts as well.

And then there was his potential increase. He was expecting a big increase for sure….but not that.

"Is it because of Kaido's lineage factor?" Kaden wondered. The seraphim that inherited the Warlords lineage factor inherited their strength and even their skills.

Did the same apply just from the fact that he had consumed a fruit containing Kaido's lineage factor? Did he inherit some of Kaido's own potential through the fruit as well?

"And why am I red?" Kaden had to wondered, making his way over to a small lake near the alcove and look himself over.

He was utterly massive. He had to be between fifty and sixty feet easily. Not quite Kaido's insane size, but he was only fourteen, his size as a dragon would grow as he did, just like it did with Momo.

His scales were a bright burning crimson red, with a paler red underbelly. A long blowing mane of golden blonde hair akin to a cloud started from his skull and went right to his tail, a pair of shiny jagged multi spiked golden horns erupted from his head.

Golden yellow slitted eyes stared back at him from the waters surface, and Kaden had to admit.

"I look badass." he mused, opening his mouth to check out his new maw of huge razor sharp teeth.

Yet, he was strangely disappointed that he wasn't pink. He'd made cool one liners in advance for the last few months after he'd planned on coming to get this fruit.

Like 'only real men can wear pink' and stuff like that!