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[Three Weeks Later]
BOOM!
A grand spectacle broke out as cracks formed in the air while crimson currents surged on the receiving end.
A huge shockwave raged on and shattered apart the red barrage of energy as the ground warped in return.
First, it was ripped apart, followed by exploding into innumerable pieces.
"Damn, that hurts!"
A young voice resounded as a body stepped out from a huge cluster of debris formed by a collapsed hill.
The young man had black hair with red streaks running down the left side.
Sharp, red pupils gazed at the ginormous pirate casually standing a few tens of meters away.
"You really don't like pulling your punches, Newgate-san."
"Gurarara," The giant man laughed. "What's the problem, kid? Your body recovers pretty fast."
Even though he said it rather offhandedly, Whitebeard was quite surprised.
He had been humouring Damien's crazed thirst for fast growth by giving him a daily dose of bone-rattling earthquakes.
If only he knew that Damien was trying to further increase his anatomy and devil fruit mastery by taking the brunt of a natural disaster.
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Dusting off his shoulders, the bold pirate shot forth without much care from the damage from before.
*Vvoosh!*
The air whistled as Damien appeared right before the towering Whitebeard.
"Heh, let's see you stand up from this one, kid!"
*Purrup*
A glowing white orb bubbled around the infamous pirate's left fist.
Damien did not waver; wrapping his Haki-clad fist that began to boil with volatile crimson energy.
The attacks collided.
BOOM!
"Ugh!" Damien gritted his teeth as he felt his entire left arm go numb as if thousands of needles were drilling into his very bones.
The energy from his hand sprinted forth endless currents of pulverizing energy as they swamped towards the overpowering Whitebeard.
Newgate grinned slightly as his fist slowly began to shift ahead, pushing back Damien's emblazing attack.
Boom!
Another explosion followed as the young pirate was shot into another faraway hill, effectively drilling right in.
"..."
A dull silence arrived as the restless air began to calm down in the wake of the recent clash.
Newgate looked down at his fist and squinted his eyes in interest.
"You're copying Haki Emission with your powers," he smirked. "It stings, kid!"
*Rumble*
Soon the huge pile of destroyed earth trembled as a body slowly stood up, clawing its way out.
Damien's arm was bleeding, his forearm broken; a bone visibly protruding out.
*Crunch*
The young man pushed the bone back into place, eliciting a dull groan.
Yet the pained expression was washed away, replaced with a wry smile.
"You're not even using any Haki, my power is really nothing worth mentioning."
"Gurarara! Don't sell yourself short," Whitebeard said, walking toward Damien. "You did well to trim my nails."
Damien rolled his eyes.
The two pirates had become more natural in their interactions with each other; Damien appreciated the future Emperor's help in training while Whitebeard was impressed by the rookie pirate's perseverance.
Damien's routine was: wake up, eat, guide Aurora for a few hours while practicing Observation Haki, eat, train his fruit and Armament Haki with Whitebeard, eat, train in combat with some senior Fishmen who had welcomed him after freeing their people, eat, sleep, and repeat.
A schedule that would leave most with broken spirits and shivered timbers, yet to Damien, it was just another day.
'Yet even now I stand little to no chance against the real monsters of this world.'
That is the thought that drove him to continuously claw at every opportunity to get stronger, subconsciously warding away all other shackles.
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[A While Later]
Damien had collected himself and left for an area Northeast of Fishman Island.
Just yesterday some mermaids had come to give him an invitation from Neptune to come there.
'Sibyl, bring up my stats,' he said while making his way to the location.
[Coming right up.]
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[Einar D. Damien]
[Age: 16 years, 4 months, 11 days]
[Height: 10' 4"] (3.15 m)
[Status: Tired, Injured]
[Strength: Middle Tier Yonko Commander ↑]
[Devil Fruit: Pulverize-Pulverize Fruit (Intermediate Mastery) ↑]
[Fruit Rating: 6.5 Stars]
[Seastone Resistance: 69.7% ↑]
[Skills: Lightning Recovery, Mighty Vitality, Evolable Anatomy, Voice of All Living Things, Will of D., Rokushiki]
[Haki: Observation Haki (Intermediate Mastery), Armament Haki (Intermediate Mastery) ↑, Conqueror's Haki (Initial Mastery) ↑]
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"Even after all that beating my Anatomy isn't ready to evolve," Damien said out loud with some uncertainty.
It seemed the gap between strength would only grow, that simply meant he needed to try harder and get beat up some more.
He then turned to another string of text.
"Conqueror's Haki…"
Something one could not train, rather it would grow with one's own mental status and overall strength.
"Sibyl, based on my memories, who would be a rival in strength?" Damien asked.
The reply came fast: [At your current strength, you could go equally against the likes of Smoothie or Jozu.]
But there was one thing Damien was able to gauge after the three-week timeskip.
"Show me Whitebeard's current profile."
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[Edward Newgate]
[Age: 32 years, 2 months, 19 days]
[Height: 21' 10"] (6.66 m)
[Status: Thriving]
[Devil Fruit: Tremor Tremor Fruit (???)]
[Fruit Rating: 7 Stars (Ultimate-Class Fruit)]
[Haki: Observation Haki (???), Armament Haki (Advanced Mastery), Conqueror's Haki (???)]
[Strength: Within Yonko Stage]
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Without a doubt, the readings were missing in detail. Such imprecise results were credited to Damien's weak Observation Haki and strength.
"Garp's exchange with Whitebeard was the only reason I could gauge the Armament Haki, I still need a lot of training," Damien sighed as he reached his destination.
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He saw a ginormous merman not too far, simply gazing into the distance.
"You called me to the Sea Forest, Neptune," Damien said as he landed by the Knight's side.
The Fishman hummed towards the young pirate; "The mermaids have shown you around the island, all but this place."
He then turned his eyes to the wasteland surrounded by giant trees.
An enormous ship sat on the far horizon – Noah!
"This is the Sea Forest, the final area you have yet to see."
Perhaps it was Neptune showing his goodwill to Damien, or maybe it was something else, but naturally, Damien wouldn't mind since Fishman Island was a special place.
"Come with me-jamon."
The two went through the rather well-lit area that was littered with destroyed ships and debris, a result of being at the bottom of the sea floor.
"Hmm?" Damien squinted his eyes as he felt a foreign voice from afar.
Something, someone, was calling to him.
He made his way over to the cove, within a depression surrounded by a ring of rocks.
At the very center stood a large, blue cube-shaped stone, carved with ancient words and symbols.
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"Poneglyphs," Neptune came as well as he said, "It's the ancient script that has sat here for centuries now-jamon."
[Image of the Poneglyph (in Discord)]
Damien nodded, not exactly surprised by the stele.
His eyes soon drifted to the side where an equally large stone sat.
The only difference was that it was deep-red in colour.
'That is…!' Damien unconsciously gulped as he saw the Poneglyph.
'One of the Road Poneglyphs!'
The combined locations detailed by all four Road Poneglyphs allow one to locate Laugh Tale, therefore, becoming the King of the Pirates!
Damien recalled that this stele was eventually lost a few years after Roger read its contents, quite a suspicious outcome.
[Image of the Road Poneglyph (in Discord)]
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Damien sighed, he could not read the stone, not yet anyway.
He then fixed his eyes back on the Blue Stone.
It was the stone that called out to him.
The one that pulled him here.
"An apology… Joyboy," Damien muttered as the whispers echoed in his ears.
"Y-You can read it!?" Neptune yelped from the side.
Damien slowly shook his head.
"This Poneglyph was written by someone consciously, not simply to detail knowledge or lost history, but carved with quite a lot of emotion," Damien explained.
{Forgive me…}
A distant yet tired voice that left the young pirate solemn.
"I can hear the ancient voice, in whispers, but it's there."
Neptune was breathing heavily.
While the giant merman was lost in thought, Damien reached out to the stone.
There was something else there, he could feel it.
*Fwoo!*
An orb of white energy soon shot out from the core of the Poneglyph towards Damien.
The young pirate grabbed the ball of energy and analyzed it.
It was some sort of glowing orb...
Upon inspection, the ball was an odd thing, it was neither cold nor hot.
It had no weight.
It almost felt like it did not even exist!
A description soon surfaced in his mind, bringing clarity.
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[Memory Shard (1 of 3)]
[Collect all three shards to unlock the message left behind by the original System User.]
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'Huh?'
A voice soon erupted in Damien's mind, it was Sibyl.
[Damien, this seems to be a piece of the key to my locked data.]
Damien thought over the information he had just gotten.
Soon the white energy was absorbed into the red-eyed youth's hand and disappeared like such.
Such a scene left him thinking.
'I guess I'll find them eventually, I wonder if the original user had ties with Joyboy in some way…,' Damien thought.
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Meanwhile, Neptune woke up from his daze and did not comment on the memory shard, as if it was invisible.
"Damien-kun, I guess this wraps up the tour-jamon," he muttered, still shaken about the stele's words.
Neptune then reached into his pocket and took out a sheet of paper.
It looked comically tiny in his hands but it was only slightly too small in Damien's.
"This came in recently, it's dated 15 days ago but news takes time to reach down here-jamon."
Damien eyed the newspaper and scoffed.
"A band of pirates headed by the Sin Incarnate besieged the World Nobles at Sabaody Archipelago. All pirates besides Einar D. Damien were apprehended."
Neptune nodded at Damien's annoyance, "The Government is very keen on keeping things as much in control as they can-jamon."
Damien nodded with a slight sigh, "No news on the four dead Dragons, they even erased all mention of Newgate-san or any words on the Rocks Pirates."
Though his eyes fell upon a string of words, "The World News Agency."
Neptune scratched his glorious orange beard and chimed in a few thoughts of his own:
"It is the news agency under full control of the World Government, it's one of their greatest tools-jamon."
'No wonder the Government had no trouble erasing the Rocks Pirates from history,' Damien surmised.
A disdainful smile soon appeared on Damien's face.
'The government wants to bastardize history? I can't let that happen. Rather it's best to take it into my hands!'
Damien pondered for a second.
He inputted the parameters and said: 'Sibyl, ready the task, codename 'Nexus' with a due date of 1486,' he ordered.
[Got it.]
Following that, he inputted a few parameters.
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[Operation Nexus]
[Find World News Agency Main Base – ❌]
[Find Replacement President – ❌]
[Bring the Replacement Under Control – ❌]
[Have the Agency exit the World Government's Grasp – ❌]
[Time Limit – 1486]
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A wise man once said, "Whoever controls the media, controls the mind."
Damien didn't exactly care much about what the commoners of the world thought of him, rather it was a tool that would greatly serve his purpose in controlling, or at least, somewhat slowing the Government down.
In the current era, the World Government could do just about anything and get away with it. Much like how later on Morgans was able to drive the world in certain wavelengths by his reports.
Damien wanted such power too.
Naturally, allowing the soon-to-come God Valley Incident to drain away in forgetfulness was rather unsightly as well.
Beyond that, a fitting President could also do great in sending information.
*Plop*
A small sheet of paper then fell out from the newspaper and onto the sea floor, interrupting Damien's train of thought.
He looked below and gave a small smile.
Naturally, it was a bounty.
-----< WANTED >-----
< EINAR⋅D⋅DAMIEN >
< 'Sin Incarnate' >
< 𝔅 300,000,000 - >
< DEAD or ALIVE >
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"The number doubled, most likely the pissed-off Nobles trying to hunt me down for my 'sins'."
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[Nearby]
"So, you're leaving now?" the distant yet soft voice resounded from the cave.
It was a large clearing made within one of the large coral hills in the outer parts of Fishman Island. The area where Damien and Aurora were training.
"Mhm," he answered. "Your devil fruit goes a little too well with Observation Haki, it's quite impressive."
Damien was talking while glancing at a screen within his mind.
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[Amethyst Aurora]
[Age: 17 years, 1 months, 26 days]
[Height: 7' 4"]
[Status: Healthy]
[Devil Fruit: Aether-Aether Fruit (Intermediate Mastery)]
[Fruit Rating: 6.5 Stars]
[Haki: Observation Haki (Initial Mastery)]
[Strength: Yonko Crew Pirate]
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"To think the stowaway I picked up was a princess," Damien teased. "Now I feel like a main character now."
It was a tale Aurora shared with him.
A story about a girl who was forced out of her own kingdom, her family killed and betrayed by their very own minister.
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Aurora looked at the tall pirate who had vastly broadened her horizons over the past three weeks.
"I won't forget our deal," she said with a resolute tone. "This is an assurance."
Damien examined the purple-haired bounty hunter.
He then looked down to see her open palm holding a thin piece of plain paper.
Yet every moment, the paper would inch toward the girl like a magnet.
"Your Vivre Card," Damien smirked. "It's akin to putting a tracker on yourself for anyone to hunt you down."
Yet his words failed to invoke anything more than a determined gaze from the girl.
Pocketing the paper, he nodded.
"Good luck. Try not to die, otherwise, it'll cause some troubles for my plans."
Damien left the cave, waving backwards to the girl.
Aurora looked at the slowly shrinking figure, her gaze inexplicable.
Did she sell her soul to the devil for her revenge?
She balled her fists, throwing away loose thoughts.
Her time with Damien taught her some patience.
To bide her time and train in the powers of Haki. For the first time in her life, the path ahead was no longer covered in darkness, rays of hope lightened the way.
Such hope could either make or break a desperate person.
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[By the Edge of Fishman Island]
"Dammit!"
Boom!
A huge explosion echoed through the coral grounds as a black club hammered down.
Blasts of powerful thuds rippled through the terrain as a giant pirate rained down attacks on a smaller one.
"Damien, you bastard!"
"Why is your bounty higher than mine all of a sudden!"
Kaido was throwing a fit of rage as he began to pummel the recently arrived Damien.
The latter was dodging all attacks with his smaller and quicker stature.
"What's wrong Kaido, you can't even land a single hit, no wonder there's an eighty million gap between our bounties!"
Damien fashioned a grin as he shaved through the air, further enraging the beast.
"Raimei Hakke!"
"Fury Road!"
The purple lightning and crimson energy exploded all over the nearby land as waves of shock spread forth.
Cracks formed all over the soil beneath as dust and debris soon remained.
*Bang!* *Bang!*
Two pitch-black bullets fired at the clashing pirates as the air whizzed in their wake.
Damien and Kaido's eyes shone in Observation as the two instantly recoiled by instinct.
"That's enough, the ship was finally fixed and you're already trying to break it apart!"
The annoyed voice came from the unassuming woman with the pistol in her hands.
It was naturally Shakky.
"Tch!" Kaido couldn't unload his irritation anywhere so he simply went to the ship and fell asleep.
Another towering pirate soon arrived on the scene.
"If you want to fight, I'm sure you'll get that chance soon," Whitebeard casually said.
Damien narrowed his eyes, 'The New World… the unconquered sea with endless monsters awaiting, I'm finally there!'
Shakky nodded at her 'companions' and began the ascending protocol to sail up.
"To the New World!"
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[A Few Hours Later]
Traversing through the dark sea took a while, though the ship was repaired to sail, its structural integrity was long lost, and its expiry date was coming soon.
Damien soon saw the ocean end as the ship emerged from the depths.
*Rumble*
The storm alongside the constant thunder was awfully conspicuous.
The rain poured incessantly, while it was snowing in the far East, and hailing further South.
Tempestuous currents carried the ship while the sails creaked in response.
The weather was not the main attraction.
*Purrup*
Whitebeard's right hand soon pulsed with a blue orb as the air inside was long ravaged.
*Click*
Shakky's pistol cocked in a bullet and she let out a cloud of smoke.
*Thunk*
Kaido slammed his mace on the deck of the ship with a wide grin.
*Szzz*
Crimson energy sizzled out from Damien's hand, ready to fight.
A loud voice resounded from the chaotic seas: "You bastards are finally out, I was running out of rice crackers waiting for you!"
Another voice soon followed.
"Garp, this is not the time for your nonsense, these pirates must die here before they can reach Hachinosu!"
The conversation took place at the core of the welcoming party.
Ten large marine warships, bred for battle.
Damien's sharp eyes zoomed in on the two figures standing on side-by-side ships.
Their mighty frames cast a wide net of relief to the thousands of Marines, leaving them in high spirits.
It was a force beyond even a Buster Call!
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"Ten warships headed by ten Vice Admirals," Shakky blew out some more smoke as she casually said. "All under the command of Vice Admiral Garp and Admiral Basara."
Damien smirked in response, his crimson eyes reflecting the upcoming battle, "Quite the welcome to this hellish sea!"
To Be Continued…
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Author's Corner.
That draws an end to the mass release of 20 chapters. Hopefully, they were of decent quality. Thanks for getting all the way up here... and now you wait.
Images: https://discord.gg/aJHHHPvb6q
[2850 words]
For reference, 50 meters = AoT walls.
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"Bwahahaha! Basara-san, It's your time to shine!"
Garp was as lax as ever. He stood on his dog-headed ship while looking towards the bear-headed one.
The man he spoke to, however, was not amused.
He stood around ten feet tall (~3 meters) with short black hair. The marine wore brown Navy attire with a white coat draped over his shoulders, a powerful air surrounding him.
He was perhaps in his late thirties. The scowl on his face was rather unsettling as he turned his gaze to the surrounded pirate ship.
*Thunk*
*Thunk*
*Thunk*
Heavy footsteps echoed through the thick wooden deck of the marine warship. The nearby marines revered the Admiral as he slowly raised his hands as if accepting a prayer.
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"Pit of Despair."
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"..."
A silent yet foreboding moment passed.
*Rumble*
The entire sea began to quiver, growing from a subtle trembling to a distinct rumbling which was growing in intensity.
Even the pirates nearly half a kilometer away felt the shaking as huge volumes of water began to displace.
*Splash!*
Towering bursts of seawater shot into the sky, eclipsing the Navy warships and unveiling something far more terrifying.
Ginormous walls of pure earth, brown in colour, rose out from the ground in a uniform, circular shape. They were 10 meters thick as they extended further and further into the sky.
*Rumble*
The shaking continued for a few seconds, far outshadowing the disastrous weather.
Soon enough, the walls reached their maximum height of 830 meters and entirely encased the battlefield in a circular ring made of thick earth.
[830 m = ~half a mile = Burj Khalifa.]
"!!!"
The sight of the encircling walls nearly 5 kilometers (3.1 mi) from the center alone cast a shadow that would put the fear of death into the souls of most, simultaneously raising Marine morale.
Shakky sighed at the sight.
"The Mountain-Mountain Fruit; a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit with the ability to erect mountains wherever the user pleases."
[Image of Basara the Mountain (in Discord)]
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Damien took a deep breath as he witnessed the power.
"He can even pull earth from below the ocean?"
The woman nodded, "Basara's control over anything mountainous is deeper than the water here... so he can do as he pleases."
The young pirate narrowed his eyes, glancing at the barriers: 'Even though the Admirals outside of Sengoku were forgotten and never mentioned, it would make sense for them to be monsters to be the powerhouses of the Rocks Era.'
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Meanwhile, Whitebeard focussed elsewhere.
"Basara playing with his rocks as always but this weather is also a little too depressing…," he muttered.
The man's eyes were locked onto the hellacious climate that had graced them: snow, sleet, rain, snow, lightning and howling winds.
Suddenly Newgate coiled his hand to the side, the familiar earthquake bubble pulsing like a heart.
A single swing onto the area above.
Boom!
The atmosphere around the fist was spreading with fern-like cracks, resembling glass. They continued their advent, stretching and branching off to the point where nearly 100 meters of the sky was left cracked!
*Shatter*
In a cacophony of crashes, the very air exploded into giant transparent shards, unleashing a powerful blast of white shockwave energy that reached the clouds.
*Gulp* The Marines who were high on the Admiral hype were brought back to reality as they saw the astonishing act.
*Vvoooo*
The entire storm and thunderous welcome were utterly and completely shattered. Bright and warm rays of sunlight soon bathed the entire canyon, gracing its prisoners with better weather compared to the Outer Seas!
Such a sight was as incredible as the walls being erected, yet Basara remained motionless.
Garp, not so much.
"Bwahaha! Get ready, you guys!" he roared to the other Vice Admirals.
Though they were of the same rank, it seemed as if they either respected Garp enough or were simply numb to his insolent behaviour.
*Whuuu* Whitebeard twirled his weapon, feeling the tense air spread across the pit.
"The ship is already on its last life, keep the battle away from it," he warned.
Thud!
The wooden deck shook as the twenty-plus-foot-tall pirate lunged forward with a single jump.
His body arched through the sky as he crossed the sea.
*Purrup*
Whilst in the air, Newgate wrapped his weapon in the white bubble that pulsated in impatience.
"Ha!" the pirate grunted as he swiped the weapon across the sky, directing it onto the Marine formation.
A silver tear cut through the atmosphere, giving birth to a shockwave that raged out to the five warships in its way.
*Fwooo!*
The air screeched from the incoming hell, giving way for the attack to meet its target.
BOOM! The entire marine formation shook, though the three warships at the front bore the brunt of the damage.
Thick chasms opened up through the ship that was the size of Ancient Giants, forcing the marines on board into a grave panic. The seas underneath grew chaotic and rampaging, summoning giant tidal waves that enveloped the warships.
"Ahh!"
"Hang on!"
"Eugh!"
Basara stood tall under the raging winds, annoyed by the turn of events, "Don't act so pathetically," he told the soldiers screaming at the five sinking warships.
He then raised his right hand.
*Rumble*
The seas shook once more as huge, blunt spikes of earth shot from the seafloor and pushed the collapsing ships up and out from the water, saving them from sinking; three crumbling ships were easily salvaged without significant casualties.
Yet the true threat, Whitebeard, was still mobile.
"Garp, hold him down!"
The order went out as a silver figure dashed through the sky and rocketed on ahead like a comet.
BOOOM!
A huge explosion rang through the sky, originating from a Haki-clad fist meeting a giant glaive.
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"Let's go too, Kaido!"
Two bursts of air boomed as the young duo of pirates dove onto opposite sides.
While Whitebeard went down the middle, holding down three Marine Warships and the two unique battleships himself, the other available ships began to move in.
*Pop*
Damien Moonwalked through the air as he found himself landing on a warship.
Thud!
The Sin Incarnate's black boots made contact with the enemy ships, all the while alerting the near-thousand marines on board. A grin etched on his face.
"Take down the pirate!"
"For justice!"
"Fire!"
Damien eyed the masses. A sharp red glint passed through his eyes.
The rambunctious marines soon paused as dark-red waves of pulsating energy emanated from the young pirate.
The overwhelming weight and despair overtook many of the marines as their eyes darkened and rolled back into their sockets.
*Thud*
*Thunk*
*Twuck*
Tens, hundreds, and thousands of bodies soon fell to the ground, taking victims from not only the immediate ship but all three other nearby ones.
"T-That was… Conqueror's Haki!"
The marines on Damien's side of the battlefield, though thinned out, still had a few thousand standing.
*Whizz!* Two shadows shot forth towards Damien.
"We must take him down before he reaches the Pirate Island!"
Damien saw the coming shadows and raised a hand that released some ominous red particles.
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"Utter Ruin."
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The crimson energy bubbled into a crimson circle as it exploded forth.
A huge current, nearly ten meters in diameter, shredded apart everything in its wake, drilling through a huge chunk of area.
"Ahh-"
The incoming Rear Admiral Duo was encompassed wholly in the energy. They couldn't even finish their wails before all that remained was a cloud of blood.
*Splatter*
The crimson liquid dyed the wooden floor with a fresh paint of red, eerily reflecting the imminent fate of the others.
Damien wasted no time and tapped on the ship.
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"Shatter."
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The crimson energy spread out and began to encase the entire ship.
Reaching a good ten meters every passing second, slowly but surely endangering the hundreds of marines on board.
A nearby Vice Admiral felt an ominous feeling.
"Abandon ship!"
*Creak*
Boom!
A few lucky marines near the edge were able to jump out, however, the others were not as lucky. The deck under them crumbled to dust as they fell from the height into the bottom of the ship.
Damien was about to jump to another ship and yet a shadow appeared behind him.
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"Iron Body: Slam!"
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The opponent's arm thickened as he slammed his fist onto the unsuspecting Damien.
Yet the result wasn't what he expected.
Clang!
Damien's blackened fist clashed with the enemy marine's fist, sending out a burst of shock.
The navy officer saw the smirk on his opponent, hearing a few passing words, "Don't you know Iron Body locks you in place?"
Within a split-second, Damien's finger wrapped with a current of air drilled into the man's shoulder, exploding his rotator cuff.
"Ugh!" a loud groan rang as the marine yelped in pain.
His right arm was no longer functioning from the torn shoulder, sending out copious amounts of blood.
The officer forgot his pain as saw the enemy pirate jump onto another warship.
*Whizz*
He soon reappeared onto another warship utilizing Shave of the Rokushiki, grasping his right shoulder.
"Vice Admiral Hux!"
The marines saluted.
"Be ready, that pirate is aiming at our ships!" Hux warned, tying a cloth over his deltoid.
"..."
An ominous silence arrived as a dark figure appeared in front of the marine, utilizing a familiar technique.
"How did a pirate get a hold of the Rokushiki?!" Hux questioned in surprise as realized Damien had used three of the Six Styles already.
*Click*
*Cock*
*Clank*
Not only dozens of rifles and pistols but also cannons locked on the invader.
Damien gave a small grin as he began to release his power.
Hux saw the pirate's smirk as his Haki began to flare: "No-!"
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"Desolation Zone."
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A powerful and crushing power soon exploded from the young pirate like a volcano. It stemmed from his heart that had gathered a large clump of pulverizing energy.
It spread out in mere moments, encapsulating everything nearby in a complete circle, stretching out over the majority of the warship.
*Vvooo!*
The air within the zone began to bubble and churn as the crushing energy rained down like red raindrops, leaving hell behind for anyone in its way.
The men, the weapons, and the deck began to crumple and shred from being compressed and crippled.
Damien walked on under the carnage, the circular zone moved alongside him. The soldiers closer to the center, in other words, closer to Damien, had long become nothing more than droplets of blood and bits of bone.
The bright sunny sky was completely dulled away, replaced with a crimson cloud.
"..."
The grinding energy soon dissipated, leaving a sole Damien at the very center of the ship. Going from a mix of yellings, groans and grunts to complete silence was truly deafening.
*Creak*
The sails were long gone, just some simple framework remained as it touched the seawater that dispersed his attack.
*Whizz*
Damien's eyes widened as he felt the movement of air behind him, it was the bloodied-up Hux!
Bang!
A dull boom went off from hundreds of meters away, echoing past the turbulent seas.
"Augh!"
Damien saw the Vice Admiral's eyes lose their luster, and a small hole appeared through his head.
The marine fell into a pool of blood with a loud thud.
"Hmm?"
Damien's eyes drifted to the far side and locked onto the figure of a woman with a pistol, blowing the smoke.
Feeling his gaze, the woman gave a wink in return.
However, it seemed something had clicked in her mind as she proceeded to mouth out an order: "Clear the path for the ship to sail to the walls."
That said, Shakky returned to unloading endless mags of bullets at distant marines.
*Bang* *Bang* *Bang*
One hand holding the cigar, one hand pulling the trigger.
Damien no longer waited and jumped into the sky with his Moonwalk and raised a hand.
.
"Utter Ruin."
.
The stream of ravaging red energy once again blazed out and enveloped the ship and its backside where the rudder was located.
Not only was the back half left in dust but the entire navigation of the warship was gone, leaving it impossible to be salvaged.
…
"Damn pirates!"
The voice was that of the Admiral himself.
Basara stood at the bow of his ship as he saw the mission begin to fall apart.
Garp was busy holding down the powerful Newgate aboard a wrecked warship, sending seismic torrents from the core of their clash.
This forced seven Vice Admirals to jump from ship to ship, clearing up the tsunamis and shockwaves to protect their troops.
It seemed that a naval battle against a man of quakes was not the best idea.
.
Whitebeard also saw the battle turn in his favour, yet something was afoot, credit to his alarmed Haki.
Boom!
The air suddenly exploded as a giant tentacle-like structure made of pure earth shot out from the seafloor toward Whitebeard.
The attack began to morph into a hand that spanned a good 200 meters in width (656 ft). In a simple and crude motion, the limb balled up into a fist, crushing Whitebeard in its palm.
*Fwwm!*
A pristine black colour soon wrapped around the arm, wholly capturing the enemy pirate with dense Haki.
*Splash!*
More and more tendrils of earth continued being birthed from the seafloor, wrapping and crushing their lone prisoner.
Within moments, Whitebeard was entirely covered in a giant mass of earth, resembling a small moon.
"..."
Pebbles and debris floated down from the structure, leaving a silence behind. The nearby area was eclipsed by the ball, spreading its darkness to the edges of the walls.
"T-The Admiral made a move!"
Garp landed on a shaken ship, narrowing his eyes on the locked-up pirate.
*Shiver*
The hair on the Vice Adimiral's arm stood up in instinct, alerting him to the coming chaos.
*Rumble*
The short tranquillity came to an end with a rumbling of the giant earth arm-turned-moon. Dull shakes broke out as increasingly larger bits of stone rained down.
BOOM!
With a single beat, the colossus exploded into a rain of endless bits of earth, revealing the silhouette of the unhurt Whitebeard.
*Creak*
Basara rose from his ship under an identical stone platform in the shape of a rising arm from under the sea.
The Admiral's own arm and half of his body were covered in thick rocks as he glared at the pirate.
"I won't let you harm my troops any further."
Whitebeard returned a grin, "Then protect them!"
He then smashed both his hands towards opposite sides as the cracks spread through the atmosphere.
Basara's mountainous defences were against their greatest foe. Perhaps using the earth to stop a man of earthquakes was not overly efficient.
A giant 200-meter-tall tsunami rose from up ahead and began to rage toward the main battalion of marine Warships.
"Garp!" Basara roared.
*Woosh!*
The charismatic Vice Admiral shot in chase towards the giant wave, his metallic fist ready to pummel it.
…
Boom!
Dull explosions carried on near the other sides of the battlefield.
Kaido had been on a rampage, destroying a couple of ships only to be stopped by a Vice Admiral.
His size was working against him as he had trouble keeping up with the smaller, and more agile master of Rokushiki.
Only with the aid of Shakky was he able to take the marine down.
"I had him!" Kaido roared out.
Yet his roar was left on read, angering him further.
Boom!
Clang!
Bam!
Once again, sending the Hundred-Beast into a frenzy to unload hell upon unsuspecting marines.
…
The clash of Whitebeard and Basara alongside the roaring seas holding down Garp gave way for the tired ship led by Shakky to reach its destination.
"Damien-chan, can you break open a large piece of that mountain?" the woman asked in her usual playful tone.
The pirate in question looked at the ring of earth trapping them in, spanning over 800 meters.
"Define 'a large piece'."
Shakky puffed out some smoke and casually said, "As big as possible."
Damien nodded and jumped into the air and towards the mountain.
*Tap*
His hand touched the earth.
A sound of pixelation broke out as the dull-brown wall began to turn red with a chequered pattern, spreading in all directions.
Not long after, a giant piece of pure earth was dislodged from the wall. It was around a quarter as tall as the barrier, 10 meters deep and 100 meters across.
Shakky smiled at the display, "Perfect~"
She then aimed her beloved pistol at the mountain, much to Damien's confusion.
His eyes zoomed in on the weapon as he saw the bullet to be fired change colour. It went from the usual black to a gray hue, wrapped in some form of inconspicuous energy.
Bang!
The Sin Incarnate traced the bullet's trajectory as it nailed the separated mountain dead in its center.
*Poof*
Damien's jaw almost fell at what followed.
"..."
"The mountain… where'd it go?"
Shakky winked and charmingly replied, "To Marineford, of course~"
To Be Continued...
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Author's Corner.
Damien certainly is not yet strong enough to take the limelight from such a battle, giving it to Whitebeard instead was fun to write up.
Images: https://discord.gg/aJHHHPvb6q
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