Chapter 3- Rocks Pirate
2 weeks after I came to this island, I saw him.
Standing just 7 feet he looked like a dwarf compared to others around him, after all even I was 6.7 feet and that was when I was just 13 years currently.
But even with his height, he looked anything but ordinary, with Aura that screamed Attention, even sitting in front of him was hard without thinking of the chance of me surviving.
Yes, Surviving, I knew the second I saw him I stood no chance against him, I fought Golden Lion to stand still but that was because he couldn't win against me due to my defense and terrifying Vitality, but he could.
Golden lion was only in his late Twenties and has more years to grow but He Xebec D Rocks have grown to the full height of his strength and in front of me stood a person that stood in the near peak of strength, probably the strongest in the world.
I knew I couldn't win, and If my Observation Haki was providing me with true information then I had a 40% chance of surviving even if I ran will all my might and was able to get into the ocean.
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Xebec D Rocks stood on the platform in the middle of the Island as he declared his desired to have all the strong men in his crew.
As for how he wished to find the strong people among us, he sealed the Island like a literally bird cage-like Doflamingo will do in nearly 5 decades later, with his subordinate who seems to have the "Fruit of Cage/Cage Fruit" the fruit which we will find in the hand of Marine Captain Hina in the future.
According to his rules, every person who wished to live or join his crew as a normal crewmember needs to claim 5 heads to survive and if they wish to join his crew then 100 heads.
If they didn't do any of it, then he will take their head himself.
I don't know how he convinced all the Powerhouses but as soon as his words dropped the Slaughter began.
The pirate Island had 27,824 people currently according to my Observation Haki, and in just 15 minutes it dropped to 250 men's and women's.
The fighting broke out and even with my strength, I was only able to take 89 heads in that 15 minutes.
I couldn't use most of my strength due to the sea being sealed as a possible escape route, so with the strength of a peak Vice- Admiral I wasn't able to display my full power, forget about contending with the Monster like Shiki and others as there were more than 15 people with Strength and Bounty exceeding 1 Billion, and well they didn't kill for heads most of the victim became a patch of blood in the ground.
Going near them was suicide and even showing a bit of weakness in this situation was a death sentence.
Still, I was invited to the Crew as a Cadre by Rocks due to me being a Fishman and my species use in a sea, along with the massive handicap he had given me.
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In the years I was under Xebec D Rocks Flag, I learned many things under them, from different way Haki can be trained and used, Swordsmanship, Body training method, Haki training methods, Books recording the various types of Devil Fruit, and more and when finally, I was able to fight a crew with a bounty of 1 Billion on land, I was invited into the very core of the pirate ship from them.
There was a reason Rocks was one of the strongest and most dangerous Pirates to ever live in this world, he was a monster and as I trained with him I knew how big of a monster he was.
His defense was only a bit weaker than Big mom, his sword technique was above Shiki, his strength was equal to White beards, and all of this combined with his undefeated Haki made him very dangerous.
There is also the fact that he was a Devil Fruit user, but no one knows what the fruit was except a few of us, every time he used his fruit he would kill any observer, of course, that doesn't include his own crew.
Still, I earned my position as a Cadre in the Rocks Pirates, I could probably currently fight and have a decent chance to win against all the other Crew Members except Rocks.
My claws can tear Steels like butter just by itself without any enchantment, my body strength was just below Rocks and Whitebeard but my terrifying stamina made up for it, my Haki was Growing each day and Rocks was probably the only person in this ship who can match it, as for my swordsmanship well I only learned it to know why the swords have realms while other don't. I have a body stronger than swords and nails sharper than them so why would I put my focus on other things.
Another interesting thing is I have learned the "Life Return technique" which is an advanced form of controlling your body.
With it I can control my body, commanding it to do what I wish like making my nails longer as swords, like I said why would I learns swords when my body's nail is stronger and sharper than them.
I am also able to control my hair, my skin color, my height, and most of all my digestive system. The technique controls will increase as time goes by and as I progressed in its training.
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I stood in a broken Cliff as I looked at Xebec D Rocks fighting Monkey D Garp and Gol D Roger, it was the battle that shook the world.
Golden lion Shiki along with other cadre seems to have made a deal among themselves and asked for me to participate, which I happily agreed on.
So here we stood doing nothing as Xebec fought his hardest battle yet.
If he won, he will continue to lead us in battle, if he loses then he becomes the loser in the sea, discarded by time.
Like the canon, Xebec lost.
It wasn't a glorious moment, even knowing the outcome I was shocked.
There he was a man stronger and deadly than any being I knew of broken and bleeding waiting for death.
I could have saved him if I really wanted, it would probably be injured due to the 2 monsters around him watching him die, and possibly other cadre betraying me, but I could still survive it.
In this boat, the title undying was given to me not just due to near-perfect defense I cultivated but due to my vitality.
Still, I didn't, I watched as the legend sank in the bottom of the ocean, forever losing his hope of unifying New World and then ruling the world.
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After Xebec D Rocks Flag fell all of us surviving crew member took his treasure and went our own way.
Golden Lion got his boat.
Big mom took his Road Poneglyphs.
Captain John took most of his treasures like gold and diamonds.
Wang Zhi took Xebec prized Sabre.
And I took Rocks Devils fruit or what that cadre believes I took. In secret knowing the result from my knowledge of the canon, I took his research on all the Void Century and the Poneglyphs he had collected, of course, no one alive knows about it.
We all the cadre took all we could with only Whitebeards and some nameless extra taking nothing may be due to guilt or just some type of pride.
Kaido was also unable to take anything due to him just being a crewmember rather than a cadre.
Still, we went our own way, we all were selfish bastards and Rocks knew that when he invited us to join his crew, after all just to join his crew we exchanged heads of the surrounding pirates for it.
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Life went on, even with the fall of Rocks pirate group our individual strength was nothing to scoff about.
Rocks came close to Ruling the whole New World for a reason, if all our crew was united forget about Garp and Roger combo, along with the Navy Reinforcement and CP in the background, the whole world government would be nothing but history.
Rock was strong, and I am not currently talking about his personal strength. It was his charisma, he was born to be a great being.
Even with the method he took, when he was alive no one in the crew, a crew filled with betrayers and thieves dared to question his order, dared to challenge his authority.
Even in the final battle between Garp and Roger against him, if he won then he would probably have ruled the world with his crew behind him. We dared not question his might because not of his strength but his ambition, his charisma, his willpower.
Still, no matter how I boast about him, he lost. And losers in this era is a loser, forever forgotten by history.
I can't find any of the past newspapers describing Rocks Pirate's adventure and their crime, the World Government and the CP are already doing all they can to erase every trace of Xebec D Rocks' existence.
Holding a Bottle of Claws Whisky, the captain's favorite beverage, I drained it in the sea below, giving my thanks and admiration to a person who came so close but failed to achieve the ultimate goal of probably every pirate alive.
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The Remnants of Rocks pirate while we were weaker than our combined force, was nothing to scoff at, and the Navy and CP that tried to chase us learned it the hard way.
With the defeat of Rocks pirate, the new world didn't stabilize, instead, it got rowdier.
I was chased by Garp, for more than a month before I decided he needs to learn a lesson.
Garp the proud man who earned the title of Hero of Navy after defeating my captain, got his chest caved in by me, and I would have probably killed him if Sengoku didn't arrive in time to support him.
I was the top combatant of Rocks Pirate, and Garp was strong but without his boyfriend Roger's help he would have been killed by Xebec easily, so while I had a hard fight against him I won against him in 4 hours-long battle.
With broken bones, Garp laid there, and Sengoku held him in his shoulder as they looked at me, staring them back with the sea and clouds above roaring loudly displaying my emotions.
Still, Sengoku retreated, knowing full well the casualty they will suffer fighting a Fishman(Half) in the sea, while a storm is brewing and their top combatant unable to fight.