.....
on the road towards Apis house...
"so did you find them Eric?" after Eric traveled quite far, someone with marine uniform addresed him from the roadside.
Eric clicked his tongue in displeasure, he didn't answered the marine, he just passed him by and continue to walk.
"ERIC! stop right there!" yelled the marine, then he continued, "admiral Nelson hired you! so you need to listen to our order!"
Eric paused on his track, he turned his head around and glared at the marine menacingly. the marine glared back without fear.
"did you find out where the little girl is?! answer me!" the marine said arrogantly. Eric still kept his silent, he spat on the ground and turned around without carring the marine any further.
seeing his attitude, the marine took out his ko-denden mushi, the smaller version of a regular denden mushi, he dialed his superior on the 3rd battleship mooring not far from the Warship Island coastline.
as for why they were here, the answers were quite complicated, after admiral Nelson of 8th branch marine base gave them a pursuit order, 1st, 2nd and 3rd battleship broke out from the connecting Crane's Wing Formation a couple days before.
as 3 ships sailed in pursuit, suddenly a storm engulfed all of the ships, the storms raging made their journey almost impossible! when the strorm finaly passed, only the 3rd battleship remained with tattered body, the 2 other battleships unfortunately succumbed into the might of mother nature.
the 3rd battleship captain ordered his men to continue the pursuit only to find out they had no direction to go, that was the moment when the crew found the stranded Eric on a piece of wood in the middle of the sea.
thinking Eric was one of their allies, they saved him and demanding his cooperation regarding the little girl whereabouts. facing with no choice, Eric told them about Warship Island.
Eric had no choice, he doesn't have any means of transportation at the time, so he lead the 3rd battleship towards the Warship Island. Eric thought were simple, even if Nelson coming, he believed he could get to the girl first before the marine and dig out any secret the girl has with any means necessary.
the marine on the roadside finished reporting Eric and his suspicious behavior, when he saw Eric nonchalant back, he couldn't help but snorted, "filthy mercenary, if it wasn't for admiral Nelson mercy, how could an okama like you had the chance?!"
the marine turned around to head back towards the ship only failed to noticed Eric brandishing his claw several distance away from him.
"kama kama no kamaitachi!" eric exclaimed softly as he swung his long claw down!
"huh?" noticing something coming from behind, the marine looked back only to see a semi transparent blade made of wind approached him in an instant!
'Slaaash...!'
'drip, drip, drip..."
the blood dripping out of his back caused by the wound which suddenly appeared on it! the poor man staggered as he still in disbelief of what Eric had done to him.
'thud!'
the marine lifeless body fell down with a thud, Eric glanced at him in disdain and continue his travel while he mumbled peevedly, "okama huh? bastard!"
〜〜〜〜〜
8th Branch Marine Base...
"thats the report admiral..." said one officer towards the gluton Admiral Nelson.
Nelson still enjoying his meal without care, in the middle of his meal, he pointed forward,
"nom* nom*, set course! crunch* nom* the destination, nom* Warship Island!!!" he exclaimed loudly.
"AYE! AYE SIR!" answered the marines inside his quarter.
and so the huge fleet of floating 8th branch marine base moved towards the Warship Island.
〜〜〜〜〜
"sensei where are you going?" apis asked Rei while she held a ninja scroll.
"i'm going for a while, just follow the scroll's instruction." replied Rei before vanishing from the cave which grandpa Ryu lived in.
after Apis kneaded her chakra, Rei suggested her to train in grandpa Ryu's cave, Rei could feel the nature chakra over here was more abundant than any other place. even though Apis couldn't absorb nature's chakra, the environments itself could help Apis tremendously when she kneaded her chakra.
as for the scroll Rei mentioned before, right after the last system notification came, he got x2 master packs and he got 2 things after opening it. the first one is basic taijutsu movements set for novice ninja, it could help ninja initiative train their body, and the second one was chakra gathering scroll which literary contained the technique for kneading chakra more efficiently.
the later scroll gave Rei a tremendous help for Apis training. after all, Rei has the body which automatically absorbs chakra from his surrounding and he doesn't need any technique to help him knead his own chakra. because of it he didn't know any chakra gathering technique, and also because the system never gave him such technique before.
as for the x1 disciple pack he got when accepting Apis as his diciple? it was only standard black uniform usualy used by ninja, it was useless as Rei didn't want Apis to become a full fledged ninja.
after Rei vanished, Apis began to read the scrolls earnestly while accompanied by the old dragon which has huge curiosity towards the scrolls.
Rei traveled quickly towards the island shore, he would occasionally jumping between trees and rock, until 5 minutes later he finaly arrived on the coral reef not far from seaside village, he looked towards the bustling village, after carefully observed that nothing strange happened, he undressed while only keeping his pants on.
Rei took a deep breath as he sees straight towards the sea under the reef. before he jumped down, he first opened the system to find out how Apis were doing,
"system, open disciple live moments." he said quietly.
「Ding!
Disciple : Apis
Status : Healthy
Live Moments : (practicing chakra kneading technique) 」
seeing Apis were doing just fine, Rei turned his focus back towards the seawater below.
"here we go..." he murmured and jumped down towards the seawater.
'Splaash'
the reason Rei dived into the ocean were simply because curiosity, after teaching Apis, Rei found himself with nothing better to do, so he simply decided to find out about the Lost Island whereabouts.
for several times he resurfaces for air and dived back down into the depths, until Rei finaly found a strange shape of rock formation below, when he approached, Rei couldn't help but surprised as the rock shape was resembled those of dragon!
underwater, he observed the rock and touched it only to find out on how smooth the rock felt.
'is this the calcified dragon? the dragonite?' Rei thought about the 'Immortal Elixir' ingredient was the dragon bone or 'dragonite' or so it was called.
Rei continued his underwater exploration and he noticed his surrounding were filled with lots and lots of rocks with dragon-like shape.
after he resurface for air and dived down once again, he saw a peculiar circle flat ground not far from his current spot. he approached the flat ground and noticed it were surrounded by the dragon rocks as if they were having a pilgrimage towards it.
when Rei arrived, he was amazed by what he saw! on the flat ground there was an old circular mural painting rested atop of the seabed. a huge mural depicting about the Lost Island and the dragon painted on it in circular manner.
the most amazing thing about it was, how could a mural painting withstood the passing time and the corrosive seawater around it for such a long time?
Rei didn't need to understand what was written on it, as the painting itself shows him a story, a story about the dragon race called 'Millenium Dragon'.
the Millenium Dragon were called such not because they could live for thousand year, it was called that way because they are a migratory race and would be nesting only for once in a thousand year, and the place where they would nest was in Lost island, which depicted by the mural will resurfaces once in thousand year, and the cycles would repeat until the end of time.
while Rei having a blast exploring the sea, Apis returned home at sunset, she slumped on the table while Bokuden served her a tablefull of food.
seeing the foods, Apis began eating voraciously as if she hadn't eat anything for years, Bokuden were astonished by how much Apis ate, however as a loving grandfather there were no better joy than seeing his granddaughter eating so well.
Apis herself noticed how much she was eating, however she simply couldn't stop as after a day of training she felt so starving! Apis still didn't knew that in fact, due to her practicing chakra, it increase her appetite exponentially!
the simplest explanation was, due to how the chakra was created. it was using inner and physical energies, the physical energy especially used body cells to produce the energy, so it was no surprise if Apis need to increase her callory intake from food.
and thats why, the ninjas in Naruto series eat so much despite having slender figure.
"where is Rei, Apis?" asked Bokuden.
"sensei went somewhere this afternoon, i don't know." Apis answered while eating.
"Apis, are you sure you wants to learn this 'nintsuz' thing?" it was normal for Bokuden to have such concern, after all he only wants the best for her granddaughter wellbeing.
"its okay grandpa, Sensei said that i'm talented, and it won't take me long to master it! and its called 'Ninjutsu', grandpa." she said full of pride.
Bokuden smiled and stroke her head gently, after a while, Apis finished her food. she helped Bokuden to do the dishes and washed up until finaly she fell asleep for the night.
〜〜〜〜〜
at dawn, Rei welcoming a new day at the sandy beach on the other side of seaside village, he sees straight at the sunrise filled with joy and gratitude.
Rei was still full of amazements towards the rock formation, it turns out that the calcified dragon under water would emits light albeit dimly at night.
so, Rei spending his time by exploring the surrounding water of Warship Island, he tried to find the boundary where the real Lost Island lays, until he found out how big the Lost Island truly was.
feeling hungry, Rei catched a few seafood from the shore, he lights up the campfire by rubbing two woods together. Rei can't help it, even with his abundance of chakra, he still hasn't got any fire jutsu which he desired at the moment. and also because the ninja suplies doesn't contain any lighter for survival purposes.
thankfully his enhanced physique helped him tremendously, in no times he got the bonfire lights up. if not, he had no choice but to eat the disgusting ninja ration once more.
enjoying his roasted seafood, he saw the sun raising higher and higher. after he finished his meal Rei decided to explore the ruins which happens to be behind him.
walking slowly, Rei witnessed the abandoned building on his surrounding, wild vines creeped out everywhere, he wondered what happened to the village? was the village past related to the Lost Island? after all, the broken ruins has no resemblance at all towards the houses Rei saw at seaside village and the hillside village where Bokuden and Apis resides.
unknown to him, after Apis said her goodbye to Bokuden in the morning, she went towards grandpa Ryu's cave for training.
after only a day of chakra training, Apis was hooked up by her physical improvements brought by it, her 5 senses felt wonderful and her body feels so light she almost think she could fly.
Apis skipped on her way while humming, she didn't notice someone else had followed her since she went out of the village!
"now, now, where are you going little one?." Eric smirked while licking his long claw behind the oblivious Apis.
the innocent little Apis still unaware of the looming crisis she would eventually face!
〜〜〜〜〜
meanwhile at the seaside village...
"VILLAGE CHIEEF!" someone shouted on top of his lung in front of one of the house at seaside village.
seeing no response, the man yelled once more seemed in desperate, "VILLAGE CHIEF! VILLAGE CHIEEF!"
"what are ye shouting about in the morning huh!" the door opened with a fierce muscular old man coming out from the house.
"village chief! there's marine coming!" said the man in trepidation. his face were pale as if seeing a ghost in the morning.
the muscular old man which turned out the seaside village chief, had some questioning expression on his face,
"marines? why are you panicking for? let them be! unless you're criminal." spoke the village chief shrugged off the man's alert.
"they're from the notorious 8th Branch! and they came with full armada, chief!" said the man once again.
hearing the man's word, the old chief paused slightly and fear began to creeped out his wrinkled face.
"are you sure? ARE YOU ABSOLUTELY SURE!" the old chief shaking the man shoulder forcefuly!
the man replied by a nod.
"HIDE THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN QUICKLY BEFORE THEY CAME ASHORE!" the village chief shouted on top of his lung while he ran towards several houses in order to evacuate the residents especialy women and children.
the peaceful village begun panicking while many unwanted guests stepped out from the small boats on the sandy beach.
"gathers everyone in the village, ask them about the little girl! if they don't answer, just kill them!" Nelson voice could be heard coming from the marine officer ko-denden mushi. whom just arrived at the sandy beach of Warship Island.
the marine officer looked at the peaceful seaside village ahead, he smirked and answered Nelsons back,
"affirmative sir."
......
.......
Rei traveled between the ruin with great interest, ever since he transmigrated into this world, he had developed a new hoby, that was to stroll around whenever possible.
everything was fascinating to him, if it was the Rei from earth surely its impossible to traveling around under the sunlight. so, he cherished this moment wholeheartedly.
Rei walks took quite a long time, after he satisfied his curiosity towards the ruins, he finaly decided to returns and check on how far Apis has progressed, his title "the Patron" gave his disciple and descendant an obvious boost when learning ninja techniques.
Rei wouldn't be too surprised if Apis could learn how to walk on water within a month even with his lingering concerns, could devil fruit user walk on water? Rei shook his head as the devil fruit users would be weakened if they body parts "submerged" underwater. the key point here was "if submerged", so Rei thought Apis would do just fine walking on it.
the ruin stretched out as far as his eyes could see. however, right on the midday he felt increasingly bad premonitions about something, as if something bad would happen. and yet, Rei didn't know where the feelings came from. and so, immediately after he cut off his explorations short, and began to walked back towards the seaside village.
Rei didn't know why, he felt right now he needs to headed there immediately. Rei increased his pace in order to calmed down his agitated heart, Rei thought even if his bad premoniton were false, at the very least he would make sure everything was fine by his own eyes.
just like usual, Rei leaped throught trees and rocks in quick pace until,
'baaang....!'
with his enhanced hearing, Rei could heard the sounds of gunfire quite far from his current position! when he determined the source, his countenance turned increasingly grim!
the gunfire sounds came exactly from the seaside village direction! with increasingly bad premontion he felt, Rei raised his pace to the maximum!
on the way over there, Rei could hear several other gunshot! gritted his teeth Rei run like a madman! he took out his Chōkuto from the inventory and just simply cut down everything which happens stood on his way.
〜〜〜〜〜
5 minutes ago...
the seaside village chief watched with grim face as the men residents being gathered at the sandy beach by arrogant armed marines, he had no idea what the marines would get from gathering them up like this.
thankfully he and the other men succesfully hide their women and children somewhere safe albeit sudden. everyone in this water knew what would happen if the notorious bastards from 8th branch took fancy towards their women.
the fierce muscular looking village chief looked towards the marine seemingly in charge of the operation.
he also noticed the grand fleet of 8th branch marine base were mooring at their coastline complete with their cannon ready and aimed at the Island.
"i understand admiral, yes, yes. don't worry." the officer in charge cut off his ko-denden mushi and looked towards the men gathered from seaside village.
armed marines encircled them in the middle as if they were within something like execution ground.
with arrogant expressions the officer in charge sauntered and stoped right in front of the village chief.
"good afternoon, i believe you're the village chief?" the officer spoke while raising his eyebrow.
"yes, what's your noble purposes coming to my humble village, Mr.officer?" nodded the village chief.
the officer smirked and glanced towards the other men, "don't worry chief, our purpose is only one, do you know about the little girl living here? the dragon girl?"
the chief frowned and shook his head slightly, "i believe i don't quite understand your question Mr.officer."
"ah, my bad. around 7 years old, she's blonde, has brown eyes and wore long mustard yellow dress."
hearing his description, the chief still couldn't reckon such girl existed within his village.
"terribly sorry Mr.officer, but i have no recollection of such girl."
the officer squinted his eyes, as he smirked while opened his hands wide.
"is that so? of course you won't know about her, even i can see no girl here, where's your women and children village chief? i don't believe theres only men living in your village right?"
the men gulped, as they saw the armed marines surrounding them rised their riffles towards them.
just when the chief wants to give the officer an explanation, the officer spoke first,
"several days ago, this girl could be seen asking about 'dragon nest' in harbour. i believed such weird little girl would come to your attention?"
the chief seems recalled several days ago when Apis walking around and asking the villagers there about the existence of dragon nest, at that time everyone laughed her off telling her to stop searching as the dragon only exist in legend.
Apis appearance fit the officer description, however, the village chief didn't know about her whereabouts exactly.
noticing his expression, the officer smirked arrogantly, "so, you knew about her."
"i do remembers that little girl, unfortunately i don't know about her wherabouts."
'BANG!'
as soon as the chief voices fell, one of the marine behind the arrogant officer pulled the trigger aimed at the old man chest!
"VILLAGE CHIEEF!"
"CHIEEEF!"
the men villagers couldn't believed of what they saw, they witnessed as the muscular old man fell on his knees and crumbled on the sand with bullet hole on his chest!
the agitated men couldn't help but yelled in desperation, however no ones moved from the spot! as the rest of marines still had them within their aim.
the marine officer shook his head seemingly in pity, clicked his tongue he asked towards the rest of the villagers,
"what a pitty, that was not the answer i wanted," he glanced towards the rest and continued, "....anyone else knew? i would appreciate it, if somebody start talking."
the men jolted in trepidation when they saw the cruel officer sauntered in front of them while asking them one by one, suddenly one of the young man raised his hand while visibly shaken.
"hmm?" the officer noticed him immediately, he smiled while gesturing towards the young men to step forwards.
"a fine young man, do you have any information for us? i'll appreciate it if you do. however, if you don't.." his voice trailed off as he motioned the young man to see their lifeless body of the chief.
the young man nodded like a chicken pecking the rice, he answered in stammer, "i, i know about her, her name is Apis, she has grandfather named Bokuden, they lived in hillside village quite far from here."
hearing his explanations, no men villagers rebuke him. after all, their villagers life are more important than unknown little girl.
the officer smiled menacingly, and asked him more, "is that all? anything else? does she mention anything about dragon nest?"
the young man thought for while, and he shook his head indicating the fact he doesn't know more.
the officer tapped his shoulder making the later flinched a little. soon after the young man heard the officer spoke once again,
"very good. now, young man, do you know where's this hillside village?"
the young man nodded.
"then, would you be kindly enough to show us the way towards the hillside village? we're the guests after all." the officer smiled.
"i, i can show you sir. but my fellow villager...?" his voiced trailed off when he saw the officer put his finger up shushing him.
"them? don't worry, now lets go to that hillside village young man." the officer grabed the young man shoulder and forced him to walk side by side.
the young man frequently looked back towards his fellow villagers, noticing his behavior, the officer gestured towards his marines crew.
all of sudden, the marines pulled the trigger towards the defenseless villagers without warning!
'BANG! BANG! BANG!'
"AHH!"
"WHY MARINES? WHY?"
"STOOP! PLEASE SHOW MERCY!"
the sounds of gunfire and the pleading cry of the villagers could be heard loudly on the shore! the young man petrified on the spot as he saw the marines massacred his fellow villager without mercy!
"why? WHY DID YOU DO THIS?" engulfed in pain, the young man yelled towards the smiling marine officer besides.
"they have no value, they don't have any information, so of course they have no value left." the officer shrugged his shoulder nonchalantly, as if he was not talking about the innocent human life.
"now then, lets go!"
'clack'
the officer pulled his gun and pointed it towards the agitated young man, however just when they starts to walk.
'BOOOOM!'
'SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!'
the gunfire stopped abruptly, the officer paused and turned around only to see a glowing Chōkuto slashed towards him!
'slash!'
'thud!'
the young man besides him watched in horror as the officer headless body slumped down while still pointing his gun towards him.
just when he wants to see who was the one who did it, the marines at the beach could be seen no longer pointing their riffle towards the villagers! their face now paled beyond belief as they pointed their riffle aimlessly around, seemingly looking for a target.
after hearing the gunshot, Rei with his maximum speed traveled so fast to reach the seaside village, just right when he arrived, he witnessed in disbelief madness happening over there, the marines which should be protecting civilians now shooting at the innocents nonchalantly!
they shots the riffles wantonly towards the helpless villagers! the adult villagers tried to shield their young one, the young ones could be seen petrified without knowing what to do, the more experienced villagers pulled the person closest to them and ducked down on the sand trying to hide in seemingly helpless situations.
without any words, Rei dashed towards the closest marine and swung his Chōkuto down! the unsuspecting marines were immediately cut in two!
at first the rest of the marines didn't noticed, however when Rei began his slaughter, they starts to panic!
Rei was so helplessly enraged, is this what marines supposedly do? is this how they should act? whats the difference between them and the pirates then?!
without remorse, Rei dashed here and there massacred the marines back! at that moments he didn't realize there was a tint of red appeared on his silvery eyes.
〜〜〜〜〜
8th branch marines mothership.
"sir, you need to watch this." said one of Nelson's officer.
he put the binocular end on Nelsons eye carefuly, Nelson paused his meal when he saw what happened currently on the beach!
"that bastard! man the cannon! aim at him!" Nelson's yelled on top of his lungs, their failure a few days ago still lingering on his mind.
"but sir, we just deployed more additional boats to came ashore!" said the officer once again.
'Pang!'
Nelson slapped away the binocular, he glared menacingly at the officer making him flinched.
"I . SAID. MAN . THE CANNON!"
the officer gulped, he immediately saluted towards him and said,
"AYE SIR!"
"i want him dead!" Nelson gritted his teeth full of hatred.
.......
Você também pode gostar
Comentário de parágrafo
O comentário de parágrafo agora está disponível na Web! Passe o mouse sobre qualquer parágrafo e clique no ícone para adicionar seu comentário.
Além disso, você sempre pode desativá-lo/ativá-lo em Configurações.
Entendi