The Captain of the Fur Pirates

Percy arrived at the capital to see that the streets were empty.

[I guess the guards warned everyone to stay indoors] Percy thought as he looked to the distance to see Gabba running in his zoan form. On his shoulders was what a lady whispering in his ear, [so that must be Zyn] Percy thought as two people were chasing the couple.

As Gabba entered the capital square, men and women started to follow behind him as he was sprinting towards the castle wall.

[And that must be the remaining rebels] Percy observed as thousands of people were clogging the streets following the large dinosaur.

Commodore Eli and Good Price were trailing behind with the rest of the marines following them. They started to run ahead and try to break up the mob, but was getting overwhelmed by the sheer amount of people.

[Let's see how they handle the situation] Percy then started to fade into the shadows and observe them closely. How they handle this will and if they can capture Gabba will determine who gets his recommendation.

Gabba arrived at the castle's gate where he was met with the king's royal guards who were trying to stop the rampaging dinosaur. It was no use, the rebel leader swiped his tail and the guard's formation was immediately broken. He did not look back as the citizens who were following Gabba started to beat the guards.

Before Gabba could reach the castle entrance, the door swung wide open and a skinny man walked outside followed by a large man with a hide jacket. He was around 13' tall and had a wide grin on his face.

"You must be Gabba, correct?" the man said as he walked down the stairway. "My name is Dio and I come on the behest of Lord Kaidou to recruit you to join the Beast pirates."

There was silence as Dio stared at Gabba, "Lord Kaidou values rare zoan fruit users and he will surely take an interest in you."

"No." Gabba said as he shook his head, "I am meant to be king, not someone's b*tch."

Dio frowned as Gabba finished talking, "this isn't a suggestion, boy. You either join us willingly, or we make you."

"Now hold on!" Zyn said as she jumped off of Gabba's shoulder. "What is Kaidou doing here and how did you know?"

"And who are you?" Dio said with a wide grin on his face, "I don't recall meeting you before."

"CP-2" Zyn said as she glared at Dio, "this is a world government mission and you're not to interfere, I don't care if Kaidou ordered it himself or not."

The captain of the Fur pirates finally frowned while looking at the woman, "I'm having a conversation between men, why don't you meet me in my cabin later and then we'll talk"

Dio turned his head towards Gabba again, "as I was saying, join us. The world is much bigger than this small island."

"It may be. But it'll be my island" Gabba said once again refusing to join.

*sigh* "I guess I got to do this the hard way" Dio started to shift into a large yak.

"Humph, a common zoan. Who do you think you are?" Gabba started before a large horn almost pierced his body. The rebel barely avoided the attack before he was kicked in the shin with Dio's hoof. Gabba screamed in pain and tried to bite Dio, but his teeth couldn't penetrate past the fur on Dio's back.

"Why is your fur black?" Gabba asked as he took a couple steps back.

"As I said boy, the world is much bigger than you think" Dio then transformed into his hybrid form where he coated his fist with armament haki and punched Gabba in the stomach. Gabba fell on the ground breathing heavily.

"Don't worry" Dio said as he crouched down looking at Gabba, "soon, you'll be able to do that as well."

"Perhaps, perhaps not" a voice from behind Dio said. The pirate captain instantly whipped around to see a man wearing a marine's uniform.

"Vice admiral" Dio said as he peered at the rank insignia on his jacket.

"And what does a pirate that knows haki doing all the way out in the South Blue?" Percy said as black smoke started to flow out of his body.

"You'll never know" Dio said standing up and taking a defensive position.

"Eli, Good Price; secure Gabba and disperse the riots in the capital. It's time to end this once and for all."

"Yes sir" both of them said as they started to follow the vice admiral's instructions.

"Wait!" Zyn said as the commodores started to walk towards to still crouching rebel leader, "we had a deal Percy."

"Plans change Zyn. I don't have time to worry about your interests when there is someone as dangerous as this man" Percy pointed at Dio "here."

"It does not matter!" Zyn said as she tried to convince Percy, "you'll never get the tape from us, if you do this."

That made Percy pause for a second, Zyn thought her words had gotten through when she heard him speak again,

"if she keeps talking, arrest her on grounds of colluding with pirates or rebels, one of the two."

"Yes sir" Eli and Good Price said as they had smiles on their faces.

Zyn was stunned, she did not expect things to escalate to this degree. She turned around and left, but not before saying to Percy,

"don't regret your decision. My teacher Gulp is near and you will have to explain this to him." and then she left using soru.

Gabba was baffled, he thought that he and Zyn were meant to be together forever. The fact that she abandoned him when he most needed her crushed his spirit and he seemed to have deflated on the spot. The commodores noticed this and quickly put sea stone cuffs on his wrists and waited for further instructions.

"hand him over to the commanders for now, I need you to go inside the castle and report to me what's happening." They both nodded and did what the vice admiral asked.

"Hey, how long are you going to ignore me?" Dio questioned as black lines were starting to form on his forehead.

"Don't be so quick to your death, pirate" Percy said as he tried to figure out what's he missing.

[I seemed to have forgotten something] Percy thought before he noticed that Dio was sending a kick to his face.

Percy dodged and brought darkness to his hand

[kurouzu] he thought as he grabbed Dio's leg as it was passing him by. Dio instantly noticed that something was wrong when his transformation started to disappear. He was losing all of his strength and he looked at Percy in horror as the vice admiral was still holding on to him.

"How does it feel?" Percy asked with a smirk on his face, "to not be able to do anything?" He then preceded to slam Dio into the ground before having the darkness surround him.

[Dark cage] Percy thought as he formed a wall of darkness around where Dio was gasping for air. He then used dark spears to pierce the pirate captain. Finally, after 5 or 6 times of thrusting spears into him, he heard a body fall to the ground.

Percy checked to see if he was breathing, Dio's breadth was so light that he thought for a second he killed another pirate.

"Handcuffs!" Percy shouted and several marines appeared with the same sea stone handcuffs. They then placed it on the unconscious Dio where they set to pull him away from the vice admiral.

[Now that that's taken care of] Percy thought as he stared at the castle, let's see what's going on inside.

As Percy was walking inside, Zyn who was far away looked at the vice admiral in horror.

[I thought he was strong, but not that strong] she thought as she couldn't believe that a pirate who was selected by Kaidou to be overpowered that quickly. [I need to report this to Gulp, we need to reevaluate what to do with Percy]. As she thought that, she picked up her den den mushi to call her teacher.

In another part of town, standing on the roof of a building stood Parisse and Campbell.

"Well," Parisse said as she put down the telescope, "he's way stronger than we initially thought."

"Agreed, it seems he is a vice admiral because of his power, not because of his connections as we thought. Looks like the marines got themselves a little monster in the making" Campbell said as he felt a shiver run down his back.

"That Dio didn't even stop Percy from advancing though, he couldn't even delay him for a minute."

"I hope that the distraction gave enough time for us to extract the tape from the king though. Percy's commodores have already rushed in there, it'll be tight" Campbell commented as he thought about their next actions. "Should we call Percy to back off?"

"No" Parisse said as she too looked at the castle, "the straws have already been drawn, what's done is done. We can only do what we can. Call our people inside, tell them they got 2 minutes tops before they need to leave."

Campbell nodded before picking up his den den mushi to relay the orders,

"and emphasize," Parisse said as her voice deepened, "that there can be no mistakes."