Two years later...

Two years, that’s the same as the time-skip after the Marineford arc, I’ve improved drastically for all I can say, I am no longer an amateur in using my devil fruit’s abilities and I’ve even began developing a style in it which I’ll use as my main method of attack. To cut corners I even used some of Enel’s tricks to make things easier, although I can say I’m going to ditch his style completely. His focused more on the fact he was a God and I’m sure I’m anything but that at this point.

Aokiji’s training proved to be the most strenuous thing I’ve ever done; carrying the ice sphere, attacking nearby pirate ships... all by myself, having to dodge his projectiles which could kill me! That’s the gist of it, but now that I’ve spent two long and difficult years concentrating on becoming stronger... I need to turn back to my main goal:

Reforming the world.

In terms of the story, almost everything happens this year, Doflamingo becomes Shichibukai for example and the one event which I’m not sure of... Arlong’s invasion.

I could just fight him at this point, I’m certain I’m strong enough to take him on and win, even Aokiji is here and Arlong was defeated simply by another Admiral as well, so it would be more like pest control. Then again, isn’t that how marines treat a majority of pirates?

Even if I want to do that, it’s impossible to intervene in any way with Cocoyashi Village and have the straw hats preserved. A lot of Nami’s character and reasons for joining the crew was rooted to Arlong’s invasion of the village and her mother’s death. Is this a necessary evil? Or am I just trivialising this to make it easier?

Unfortunately, it has to come to this, in fact I had avoided involving myself completely with them since I decided to stay in the forest which was on the island for the two years I spent here. That survival training Garp put me through was quite useful now that I think about it. Aokiji insisted that I stay in the village but after a few days of denying it her eventually let it go.

“You’ve made considerable improvements over the past two years.” The scene was similar to our first battle, standing on the beach with ten metres between us. I admit that I battled him around ten times before now and I lost all times, however afterwards he would converse with me about specific things such as him being in the marines and the ‘incident’ which occurred twelve years ago, I suppose I had gotten to know him better. “Show me the fruits of your labour.”

At the end of his sentence, I raised my hands and extended my index fingers towards him, there was a slight change in his expression, one of curiosity, even if it was subtle.

“Kaminari no nagare: Hibana(Flow of thunder: Spark)!” Somewhat bullet-shaped lightning was sent flying towards Aokiji. Despite the unexpectedness, Aokiji still managed to dodge it, and ended up a few feet in front of his original position, behind him small amounts of sand exploded upwards a few inches. He looked behind and returned to me with his usual expression. I repeated my attempt to shoot him and eventually got him to begin running, towards me might I add.

He arrived within a few seconds and raised his leg, instantly bringing it down onto me. In response I split my body into two so that it would miss, transforming my entire body into lightning and sending it up above to the height of Aokiji’s face, only to re-form again.

“Kaminari no nagare: Rakurai(Flow of thunder: Lighting strike)!” I transformed my arm into lightning, it appeared to be jagged sparks and sent it towards Aokiji’s face. Contrary to my thoughts, the attack actually hit! It left a slight bruise on his face and he slid back a bit as well, he didn’t appear to be that affected by it.

“You’re definitely much faster than me and that technique certainly had some punch to it, you’ve made considerable improvements.” Aokiji commented, he however was not admitting defeat but was actually claiming that he was going to up his game. “Ice block: Partisan!”

Hovering around him was four spears made out of ice, he didn’t give much time before he sent them hurling at me. One was sent directly at me, to which I jumped out of the way to avoid, another was yet again sent at me of which I transformed into lightning and went upwards to avoid, at that point I wasn’t going to start chasing him.

“Kaminari no nagare: Varja!” He looked directly above him where a plethora of sparks were hovering, I was not able to see if he dodged, but the sparks shot down and created an electric blue beam which was blinding! It’s similar to Enel’s El Thor move, which it is, the move was powerful and could cause serious amounts of damage, which is why I stole it! Although, I have no idea if it affected Aokiji.

“I think you’ve proved you’ve already reached a high level of strength. Although, what are you planning to do about the forest fire?” I floated down from the air and stared at Aokiji in confusion. There was no fire, I could see no fire, there was only a big crater Aokiji was standing, he dodged. It took me a while to become aware that right next to that crater was a fire.

“THEN DON’T STAND THERE! PUT IT OUT!” While in the end the forest did become quite frozen, I do think the prevention of the fire is more important than that.

“With that done, it’s time we moved onto the next part of your training. This one has more to do with your own self.” I didn’t particularly know that there was a test of self in the marines and considering the marines at G-5 I’m pretty sure that it’s not even that important. Is this something Aokiji is personally doing?

“What am I doing exactly?” I questioned him, he looked off into the distance with the same expression as always.

“I figured that it’s best to do this part on actual mission, so we’re joining a world noble in their expedition to Fishman Island, the reasons are unknown but it’s assumed for personal reasons.” Aokiji explained, he made a gesture for me to follow him off the island.

If I am correct, then this is the situation I think it is, something which I can change! This is when the Celestial Dragon who went to reclaim his slaves got ship-wrecked in Fish-man island! It’s not directly related to anyone in the crew joining and can change a lot of things! I finally have something I can change!

“Oh, is that where the fish-men live? Can I meet them? Oh wait, can I meet the sun-pirate leader, Jinbei?” I can say I got excited, it’s not everyday you see a man and fish hybrid and a character like Jinbei! I think the fan inside of me slightly squealed. This makes the two years of training seem like it had no effect on me at all...

“Oh, I suppose you can. We should leave immediately, we’re heading to Mariejois to board upon the ship and head down to the island, it’s unfortunate you couldn’t get to meet some of villagers, especially Belle-Mere’s daughters.” Aokiji led me onto frozen body of water, he was genuinely a good guy at heart, even if he’s far too lazy to show it. Then again I didn’t want to say it would mess up the future.

“I’m content with meeting fish-men, so it’s no worry.” I reassured him, he looked down at me again.

“You really are a child.” Aokiji commented.

“Wait, what is with that? Anyone can be excited for meeting fish-men, what’s so childish about it?” I argued back at him.

“Perhaps you’re too much of a child to realise it.” He added on.

“I am sure that everyone I’ve met who has been a high-ranking marine officer has called me something...” I grumbled.

“It can’t be that bad.” He seemed doubtful of me, which is possibly because he thinks I’m a child.

“Kizaru called me polite, which isn’t bad. Gramps calls me a brat. Belle-Mere called me humble and didn’t expect it whatsoever! Then there’s you, calling me a child.” I’m sure there’s no fault in any of those things, since a majority of them are true.

“How did you know Belle-Mere was a marine officer?” He inquired. I would probably give up at this point if I didn’t remember the conversation we had two years ago, since it was the only conversation between me and her.

“She seemed interested in the fact there was a girl in the marines and from how she talked to you I just assumed that she had to be a senior officer, I’m not wrong, am I?” He shook his head in response. I guess the amount of information I reveal should be limited, since I do know the future very well...

“Hmm... don’t try to attack the Celestial Dragon.” Aokiji commanded of me, his words shocked me; I’m not that violent of a person!

“I can’t guarantee that, Admiral.” I chuckled, while I did play it off lightly, from reading the manga and watching the anime numerous times, I’m pretty sure I’m serious when I say: I can’t guarantee that.

A/N:

Six times. I rewrote this chapter six times. It’s short and a bit odd at that, but I had written five other ways it could’ve turned out, all the other ones were just pretty terrible.

And I’m dying from the heat. That’s the problem with England, whenever it’s hot it’s too hot, whenever it’s cold it’s too cold. :3

I did spend the time in-between rewriting it developing Maris’ style for her devil fruit. There’s also a few other things I did in-between them:

-Researching if there was a way to prevent Belle-Mere from dying, since trying to stop Arlong was silly in terms of making Nami join the straw hats. All of which didn’t work in the end...

-Turns out a lot of things happen when Maris is NINE! The fish-man island part is just the one thing I found which isn’t going to destroy the straw-hats. :P

-Researched the void century a lot more than I cared about it originally. XD

Welp, the next few chapters shall focus on fish-man island!