Chapter 44 Preparations

Paul: " When is the execution date?"

Robin: " Two weeks from now."

Paul nodded his head as he said, " Good, that should be enough time to prepare ourselves."

Robin: " Should I call the others?"

Paul thought about it for a moment, " Hmm no. We are only there to rescue Ace, I do not intend on fighting the admirals one on one yet. We are still not ready to fight them head on. Same as our allies."

Sera: " Then what are we going to do in the meantime. "

Paul: " Hmm we'll find an island and train for a bit. I want to try out something."

Sera: " Alright, sounds good."

Paul: " Let's head out then. By the way Wukong, how did you settle the affairs on the island."

Wukong: " I didn't have much things. All I did was gathered my clothing that I have made myself. After that, I found the looked for the monkey that was King before me and designated him as King again. Although he also wanted to follow me, I told him to stay as our journey would be too dangerous for him."

Paul nodded his head, " I see. Since Robin has caught you up on some things, what do you have to say?"

Wukong: " About the war that we will be going to?"

Paul: " Yes. Even though we are going, I am going to tell you this first hand, we are still not strong enough to face against the celestial dragons as the admirals are still too much for us to handle. We had two encounters with the admirals. Admiral Kizaru who I faced against on Sabaody Archipelago which we barely escaped from. We fought against Aokiji together and can only draw a match with him going easy on us do to innocent bystanders, even when we had the advantage in numbers and elements. Therefore, we must get stronger before we face them. Do you understand?"

Wukong looked at Paul with a serious yet impatient look, " I understand."

Paul: " Plus, you need to learn haki or else you won't stand a chance against them either way."

Wukong: " Haki?"

Paul: " Yes, aren't you already using one of them?"

Wukong: " Huh? What do you mean."

Paul: " Uh, how did you know that we were on the island?"

Wukong: " I sensed you guys... is that a form of haki?"

Everyone looked at him with a dumbfounded expression. This guy that they had was a natural talent.

Paul: " Yes. That is called observation haki. It grants you the ability of a sixth sense and gives the ability to sense something's presence, strength, emotions, and at a high level some of the future. Since you were able to sense us from such a far away and perceived that we had no ill intent, your observation haki must be quite high."

Wukong: " I see."

Paul: " What you need to learn now is armament haki which allows you to empower your strength as well as physically hurt a logia user. It can also be used on weapon allowing it to become even stronger. The advance form will allow you to make it burst out from your palm or weapon, making you damage things without touching them."

Wukong became astounded by the new information that he got. So it seems that he can become much stronger than he is now.

Paul smiled as Wukong was digesting the new information, " Furthermore, we all know how to use it."

Wukong became even more surprised as he got a new outlook on the rest of the crew's strength.

Robin: " We all know how to use it, but some of us have are on a different level then the others. I am the weakest one, but I am not a main combatant here haha."

Paul chuckled, " Well everyone introduce your abilities so that he can work well with us. I ate the dragon dragon : Model Chaos Dragon fruit giving me the ability to turn into a dragon and control of a few natural elements."

Daz: " I ate the supa supa no mi fruit making me a steel bladed human."

Sera: " I ate the Hito Hito no mi: Model Tenshi, making me a angel woman."

Robin: " I ate the hana hana no mi fruit giving me the ability to generate any of my limbs where ever I see."

Vlad: " I ate the batto batto no mi: model Vampire making me a vampire human."

Wukong gained a more understanding of everybody's powers. Just by seeing Sera's devil fruit, he knew not to underestimate anyone of these people. " I ate the hito hito no mi: model Monkey giving me the ability to turn into a monkey."

Paul: " haha like I said before Wukong, welcome to the crew. We may be a small pirate crew for now but we pack a punch no matter who we are up against."

Everyone: " Welcome to the crew!"

Paul laughed as he said, " Let's drink and become strong enough to achieve our goals!"

The crew drink and held a small party while sailing on the sea. They had to increase their strength as much as possible in two weeks to prepare for the upcoming battle.

A day later, the crew landed on a large island that had no human civilization.

Paul: " Let's land here and train here for a bit. Leo take the others and explore the waters around here while training."

Leo: " Osu!"

Paul: " Okay meet back here in a week and half."

Everyone nodded as they went their separate ways on the island.

Paul had his own train of thought. It will be almost impossible to increase his physical ability in such a short time to make a drastic change, so he wanted to develop his abilities. His fire, lightning, wind, wind, and earth ability. He wonders if he can increase their capabilities to a certain degree. For example his fire ability. Just how hot can he increase it? His lighting ability, just how destructive can he increase it? Same as his other abilities. Can he lift the island that he is on? He has so much more he can do. First is fire. If he can make it burn hotter than ordinary fire then will he be on a higher level than Ace's devil fruit? Can he make it take a different shape like what was shown in the Naruto franchise? He wants to test it out.

Paul raised his hands as he generated a fireball. 'condense' Paul's fireball became smaller but did not get weaker. " Now add chakra" Quickly the flame started to fluctuate and go out of control. "Little at a time." The flame began to be fluctuate at a more controlled pace. The red flame started changing colors. The flame slowly changed from the bright red to yellow, and then to bright white. As he started to add more and more chakra the flame didn't change. He wanted to turn the flame into blue or black like the amaterasu like the undying flame in Naruto. However, no matter how much chakra he put in, the color of the flame didn't change color. " Maybe?" Paul then proceeded to gather wind and fuse it to the flames.

'Fwoosh' Immediately, the flames grew in size and started to become uncontrollable. Paul began to control the wind and condensed it with the fire. Now that the fire and wind began to combine. The flame appeared to be the size of large basketball. It's center was ball of bright white with red flames surrounding it. It looked like Paul was holding a miniature sun. " Now to test the fire." For how it looked, it looked like the scorch release from Naruto. Paul tossed the new fire power towards a tree. About just two meters before it touched the tree, it instantly incinerated into ashes. Nodding his head in satisfaction, it was time to move on to the next element.

"Next is lightning" Paul put his hands together and slowly pulled it apart as sparks of lighting came together. A typical lightning strike contain enough power of 300 million volts. Paul does not know if his lightning has reached this power or not. The logia fruit that he stole from Enel in the anime, the maximum voltage that was reached was 200 million volts. Probably the only way to generate this much energy then he will probably have to create a clouds. Paul then generate water and fire in both hands and sent them up in the air. High in the sky, the fire started to evaporate the water at a fast rate. Soon clouds began to form and cover the sky. Flying in the air, Paul closed his eyes as he tried to sense the energy in the clouds. Finally, He opened his eyes as he sensed a charge of lightning in the clouds. Paul pointed at the cloud as he tried to control the lightning. The lightning slowly moved around the clouds as it started to accumulate energy. " Go!" 'boom' A strike of lightning fell from the clouds and down to the island. It had decimated everything as it went to the ground. Everything around 10 meters from where the strike hit the ground was barren.

Paul: "Good! Next."