Chapter 17

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3 weeks had passed.

For the past three weeks after Andrew ate the Sun-Sun Fruit, he did not stop training it. He put a hold on his template to focus on this more. He only did the daily quest every day and after that, he worked on his Devil Fruit powers.

He could not train his Devil Fruit power in the time chamber as there is no way he could create a sun with its effects inside it.

He will go to the small-scale forest behind his house to train on his Devil Fruit Powers.

Today you can see him meditating as the sun rays fall on him. If anyone would see him right now, they will be mesmerized by his looks. The Sun-rays enhanced his looks exponentially as he absorbed them and maintained a small circle of flames around him.

Andrew slowly opened his eyes.

"In all the three weeks, I was only able to get one skill for my Devil Fruit. Solar Manipulation (Low). Through Solar Manipulation I am able to control the Heat Energy of the Sun and generate flames of varying temperatures based on how I control it. There is still Light Energy, Gravity, Electromagnetism, Nuclear Manipulation, and many more. No one exactly knows what energies the Sun provides. I can't say the same for me. Though I might know many different energies of the sun, I can't say I know them all."

Andrew took a deep breath and released it as a wave of heat came along with it.

"The reason I have not yet used the Devil Fruit Mastery Card is that even after getting Solar Manipulation (Low) it shows none in my status for Devil Fruit Mastery. All I can say is if I get low on all kinds of manipulation of the Sun's energy or some of the important ones will my Devil Fruit Mastery become Low. If I use this maybe I might get all types of Manipulation or only my Solar Manipulation will increase which is why I put this on hold. I don't want to take this risk."

A few minutes later, Gerald arrived using a mountain bike.

"They are moving"

2 weeks before, I found a gang, trafficking drugs and worse girls at the age of 15-20.

I was able to save them without issues, but the problem was they had a big network.

They called themselves the Traders, they are not global but they soon will be. At this rate it won't be more than a year they become global.

This incident opened my eyes that there is not only the Hand, Hydra in this world but there are many more like this.

Since that day I had disrupted The Traders in every way possible, stopping their sources, destroying their bases and injuring every single one in there, and calling the cops to clean up. And the ones they release, at nights I make sure they disappear from the face of the Earth with my night persona. (H1)

The news of this had gone to their top brass and not only that the government, media, and the cops are focusing on this as well. The only way they all react is if you leave a pile of injured bodies or information about this either at the places where it happened or give information in an anonymous way to them.

For this I went in my light persona, I used the pseudonym "Helios", the Greek Sun God, whenever I destroyed their bases, I will let the hostages know my name. I made sure to only injure everyone and safely protect the hostages. I used combinations of Haki and Devil Fruit Powers but made sure the hostages only saw my Devil Fruit power. A few minutes before the cops arrive, I will make sure they all are safe and disappear. The media started to talk about me as well, but not my night persona.

The suit I wore whenever I did this is similar to my other one but it was in dark orange and red color with the symbol of the Sun on my chest with flames of red being directed from each of its sides creating beautiful stripes of red all over the suit and with an H in the middle of the Sun. I also wear a mask and hood to cover my face. And not to forget the Iconic Cape behind me in blue.

Gerald called out to me again.

"Let's go"

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We both were now in the base looking at the screen where the next area that I am going to hit was.

"Zestia, be a dear and hack all the cameras in the surrounding radius of 2 kilometers and show their feeds on the screen."

We began to look at all the camera feeds.

"It's a trap as you said"

"Yes, they have to show they can handle situations like this whenever it arises, only if they do that will they get deals outside of the country. From the things we have pulled for the last few days, many would have been disappointed with what has been going on and terminated their deals and relationships with them. Where you able to find out who were the authorities involved in this?"

"Yes, sir. Five of them are involved in this. 3 are cops and one has a position in the Mayor's office and the last one is the Mayor himself."

"Mayor?"

"Yes, his daughter suffered from a weak heart, The Traders used this as an opportunity to get the Mayor."

"Desperate situations lead to desperate acts," said Gerald.

"Yes, Zestia go through his history and see if he was involved in any other criminal activities"

"What are you planning to do to him?" questioned Gerald.

"He killed a life to save his daughter and now he is letting them do whatever they want, what should I do? Should I let him live because he wanted his daughter to live or should I kill him for all the lives that were taken due to him?"

"He is not involved in any other criminal activities, sir," Gerald who was about to speak heard what Zestia said.

"Well, he is going to prison then, Zestia, release his information when I destroy their base and kill the top brass."

"What about the rest?" Gerald questioned.

"The one who works inside the Mayor's office is the one who introduced the Mayor to the Traders, his name is Rick, he was forced to as they held his family hostage, two of the cops are corrupt ones who were already in cahoots, and the last one…"

"Go on"

"At first he did not accept and they threatened his family. He did not give in to the threats, but they killed his son and kidnapped his wife and daughter, and threatened they will kill them both if he does not do their biddings. Both of them are still in their custody as a hostage for the past two months. His son was 5 years old."

Both Andrew and Gerald had veins popping out of their heads.

"What is the cop's name?"

"David Anderson"

"Find the location of his family, I will move out Gerald,"

As Andrew changed to his outfit and before leaving, he turned to Gerald, "I should be able to destroy the base but if I am held up it is up to you to save them."

"Leave it to me," Gerald said with conviction on his face.

"Only if I am held up which won't happen," smirked Andrew. The roof opened up, and Andrew took to the sky using Geppo and disappeared soon.

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20 minutes Time-Skip.

I was breezing through the sky using Geppo and Soru to quickly reach the location.

"I am close, Gerald, guide me."

"In 200 meters straight, you should see one building, a sniper will be there"

Hearing this I moved faster. I released my Observation Haki to the max.

As I was about to reach the building I sensed the sniper and without stopping soon reached behind him.

The sniper who sensed the air moment quickly turned his back taking the gun in hand.

I caught the gun and burned it and held the throat of the sniper.

"Ple… Please I am just…" before he could continue, I crushed his neck by coating my Hand in Armament Haki.

I then released a flame that consumed him, even his ashes were burnt off.

"There are two more one diagonally left in 400 meters and the other in right 500 meters."

Hearing this I went after the one in 400 meters and once I reached him, I did the same.

As Gerald was guiding me, I soon killed all the seven snipers. If someone asks where the snipers are, they will not find them in any of the buildings.

"We found their location, the cop's family and Rick's family is also held in there. They are all held up in a hotel with the Traders monitoring their activities 24/7. From the way I see it, they were moved here recently."

"Then there is no need for you to go, send the information to the FBI, they can handle this. Call the cops and direct them here to the base I am in and Gerald, make sure nothing happens to them."

"The hotel's server is hacked and I am guiding them in their escape as we are speaking, I don't think the Traders will act in broad daylight, and that too in a hotel. Zestia, the fire alarm."

I heard Gerald giving out commands and also heard him talking and giving out steps on what to do.

All left was now their base. Their base was an abandoned factory. A case was booked due to the diseases it spread from here way back in the 80s and was permanently closed by the Government.

There were close to twenty buildings in this area. In 2000, except for the factory all the shops, parks, houses, and commercial buildings are all opened as they did a thorough checkup of this whole area.

The snipers were all in the buildings that gave them the view of the factory through their scopes.

I was now in the sky above the base which is the factory and released my Observation Haki in all directions. There was a total of 46 excluding the hostages, 32 of them outside the factory building and the rest along with the hostages inside.

Without thinking I landed in the middle of the thugs outside of the factory building in a quick manner. The ground beneath me broke and all the thugs attention turned to me and they began to shoot.

I unleashed my Conqueror's Haki, one by one and all 32 of them dropped to the ground unconscious. I conjured a ball of flames similar to the Cruel Sun of Escanor from Seven Deadly Sins and separated it into 32 miniature balls of flames and controlled them and burnt off either a hand or leg of the unconscious thugs. I am in Helios Persona so I did not kill them, the snipers I killed them because the cops won't bother going to the other buildings to check on them.

The entrance to the factory office is where the hostages were held up and the rest of the Traders goons.

As I slowly started to walk, all of the goons started to shoot with no stop.

I coated my body in Armament Haki and created a shield of flames in front of me.

Many bullets were burnt off due to the high temperature of the flames.

The ground beneath started to melt as I moved forward leaving behind a trail of fire.

When I was close, I changed the shield to 4 spears of flames and controlled them as they attacked the ones who shot at me. I made sure not to kill them as I used the spear to cut off a hand or leg and burnt them when they separated.

They all started to scream due to the pain they felt and collapsed on the ground as they lost consciousness due to the pain.

There was only one left who was acting as a hostage. He had a bomb stuck to himself.

I saw conviction on his face, which shocked me.

'So this was their plan ah? Suicide bomber.'

I disappeared from his sight and was in front of him.

He for a second flinched in fear of what happened and before he could press the button a hand caught his face and he heard the sound of walls breaking and soon saw the sky through the gap.

"Die" was the last word he heard, as I threw him with full force to the sky and a ball of flames following him.

BOOM!!!!!

All the hostages heard the sound of the bomb going off and started to scream. They all held each other in fear thinking this is it.

As I was going down, I heard Gerald in my earpiece, "They are safe."

A smile grew on my face when I heard that.

"You are all safe, you do not need to worry, the cops will be here soon to take you all to safety"

They all heard my voice as I was slowly coming down from the hole I made when I took the bomber to the sky with the sun rays following along.

"If they ask who saved you all, tell them Helios was here"

I then disappeared from their eyesight. In a minute or two, the cops were here and my job was done.

They saw me in the sky and before they could do anything, I flew off using Geppo.

The next day morning, the news talked about the mayor and the two corrupt cops who were arrested due to the evidence that was sent to the FBI anonymously. Rick, the one working in the mayor's office, and David Anderson, the cop who lost his son, were not arrested as they were also victims. Rick lost his job and David got a suspension for a month with half-pay. I also sent them 20,000 dollars each. I also donated half a million dollars to the New York City Police Foundation. There was also a picture of me in the newspaper. I was in the sky with a Deep Orange and Red Color Suit with a hood and mask covering my face and my blue cloak behind me dancing in the air. I have no idea who took the picture.

Now only the leaders of the Traders are left out, who were out of country.

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Author Here!!

H1 – Suggest a name for his Night Persona. It should be a bit dark as he is someone who kills his victims and the said victims are criminals.

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