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Chapter 7 - A bounty and bounty hunters

Voice 1 : So Rosward lab rat was planning to escape all along .

Voice 2 : so do we ask that person for guidance he may become an obstacle to the success of our plans in the near future if we left him unchecked .

Voice 3 : his power is really weird could you perhaps ask Vegapunk for explanation he was the one who created it after all .

Voice 4 : i will try to reach him but he maybe engrossed in some weird experiment as always .

Voice 2 : it didn't only give him some enhanced vision as i can tell you also sensed him when he looked our way as if he was able to see us even though these walls .

Voice 1 : if he saw that person or that thing then the whole situation become even more complicated he must be eliminated at once .

Voice 3 : he was even able to use conqueror's haki that's one more reason why he must be eliminated .

Voice 4 : that Rosward will want him back alive as losing him mean losing his increased authority .

Voice 2 : it's better that if he die without us interfering but pay Rosward pleas no mind his ambitions were already began to illude him he now wants to join the gorosei what a fool dream .

Voice 3 : still that weird boy ability to keep conjuring blood and even increase its circulation still bothering me it isn't mentioned as a trait in any of the known races the moa moa no mi might have a hand in increasing his blood circulation but even with such an ability he would only have died sooner but he wasn't able to stay alive but become stronger as well how weird .

Voice 1,2,4 : you are right .

Voice 2 : maybe a Lunarian or a Buccaneer

Voice 4 : his parents were 100 percent normal human and we have already personally witnessed both of those races demise so it just isn't possible .

Brip~ Brip~ Brip~ Brip~ Brip~ Brip~ Brip ~Brip ~ gatcha

Voice 5 : Ryuu.D.Solar that's the only reason for you to act , i don't want any incident like this one ever happening again let it rest with him .

Voice 1,2,3,4 : we are sorry for the carelessness and as always your wishes are our commands

gatcha ~

Voice 4 : do we know where is he heading ?

Voice 2 : i believe that he is going to cross the Red Line and he maybe heading towards the Florian Triangle we will get a report of his movements soon enough .

Voice 3 : should we print a wanted poster of him it might help us to find him quickly .

Voice 1 : we will do this only as a last resort as an incident like this will only spread more chaos and panic in the world .

Voice 2 : what about the marine admiral that had been summoned should we use him to search for the kid as well .

Voice 1 : who is the one coming .

Voice 2 : i believe it's Aokiji

Voice 3 : he isn't the most suitable for this kind of job but he will do .

Voice 4 : dispatching some CP0 agents to the nearby islands will yield fast results those kind of missions are after all their speciality .

Voice 2,1 : you are right .

Voice 3 : i still think that we should start printing his wanted poster just in case our calculations of his whereabouts were wrong and we could just say that he's a pirate or a thief of some kind .

Voice 1,2,4 : your thoughts aren't baseless but it will only delay his inevitable outcome .

(Scene change)

A small kid with a slave collar around 8 or 9 years old was in his shack looking at his dad with a happy smile as he said : dad , we are saved we are saved i just saw Nika he was flying and had a white hair .

Sure sure son hurry up and go to sleep so you can leave with Nika when he comes back to save us .

Dad i really saw him the warrior of liberation i heard some explosions and then he was flying just above our heads just now he will most certainly rescue us and will be able to save mother as well you said she was ill the last time you saw her he will be able to save her for sure .

His dad didn't answer him just looked outside the window muttering : the great warrior of liberation does he even exist .

(Scene change)

I was now in my normal human form floating on a piece of wood that i enlarged enough to allow me to float on the water i was beginning to wonder if i can even reach my destination as a few hours of my departure it was night already so i stopped using Geppo and landed on this piece of wood to check if i was still going in the right direction as i was afraid that the dark night is now missing with my sense of direction or if i already went off course so a little rest won't be a problem right , i have already crossed the mountainous Red Line and if i remembered correctly i can either enter the Grand Line by crossing the Reverse Mountain or by flying over the Knock Up Stream but the problem is i can't even tell where am i .

But luckily or unluckily i began to feel some movements in the currents below me and i activated clairvoyance a few milliseconds later i was already pulling the curtains that my parents bodies currently reside in and appeared on the sky with Geppo i finally figured my location i am currently at the edges of the Calm Belt as the water was still and there were a lack of wind not to mention a two huge sea kings now taking turns in destroying the tool i'm using to sail i guess no rest for me tonight huh i wanted to leave them be but a growl from my stomach declared war on those two sea kings .

They looked at me who was still standing in the sky then dived back to the sea i was wondering what were they doing and focused on them with clairvoyance the creature like snake was curling around itself and the big fish like was even going deeper in the water but what exactly are they trying to accomplish the one who came first was the snake like i saw him opening his mouth a few times in the deep water then fired himself at me like a projectile weapon .

Unluckily for him his speed wasn't fast enough i clenched my fist and increased my strength by 30 and then punched the sea monster incoming in the head and it just blasted his whole head off as a result from the sheer force and let's not forget about the impact of such a powerful shockwave the rest of its body fell heavily in the water but luckily it floated back to the surface and now for the second enemy i looked at it with clairvoyance but didn't see it i enhanced my clairvoyance bye a margin of 20 and it was still going down was it now escaping .

Then the fish turned around and looked up and i had the illusion of seeing its red eyes glowing then it began to increase its speed while it was ascending so it wanted to use its momentum to attack me in the air a fish like monster trying to fly the sea was really filled with wonders it began to come closer and closer then as if it noticed something wasn't right it turned around and escaped in a hurry oh did it saw its partner fate then choose to escape a pity really i was already craving the taste of some meat i guess the other one will do i looked at my almost shredded to pieces boat it is only an enlarged wooden piece but still was doing its job i pulled that creature up and landed on a new piece of wood that i enlarged and began to gather some of the broken wood parts to start a fire .

I used my multiply power to increase my hand speed and after i began to feel some heat i began to build a simple stove and lit it on fire but roasting it without burning it too much was the harder part than but i managed somehow and i finally got to have some real food i was rapidly devouring the sea king but i was beginning to get some stomachache then i began to feel heavy as if my whole body is being forced to shut down a poisoned sea king meat but it won't matter i multiplied my healing by 40 and the symptoms disappeared other than some weird tastes of overcooked meat (burned) it was a great meal i burped after having the first proper meal that consist of only meat .

I'm already feeling as if all this was just a dream a few hours ago i was still imprisoned in that cursed lab now i'm in the sea allowed to roam freely in it not allowed but i don't need anyone permission to enjoy the rest of my life i'm free i'm really really free i found a few hot tears raining down on my cheeks i'm happy so why i'm crying but it's gave me a great feeling of relief and eased a few cracks in my ached heart i looked at the curtains that covered and hold my parents bodies and said : soon you two will finally rest i hugged the curtains and rested next to in a semi state of half asleep half awake like as i can't risk falling in the water due to some sea kings attack .

I rested until the dawn of the new day i then woke up with a smile plastered all over my face i'm finally out of the Calm Belt i can tell from the crazy amount of wind now blowing i guess i was really only at the edges of the Calm Belt and it was still that dangerous how about venturing more inside then wouldn't i drown instantly i can already see the Red Line i guess i'm flying for the rest of the journey it was fun to set sail even though only for a few hours and on a floating wood board is that why pirates like the sea so much i'm beginning to feel the same too let's continue our journey the same way after passing the Red Line i hopped and transformed into my hybrid form as the wind pressure would require me to use constant healing and i prefer to increase my speed as i don't want to spend the night in some unknown circumstances like yesterday .

The Red Line Reverse Mountain is an obstacle to many pirates and quite the hurdle for merchants and passengers too as it put them on a very close distance to the claws of some notorious pirates but all these doesn't concern me i'm flying over it you see so all these problem are nullified .

I don't know what to say after i crossed as i don't know about the other seas but the East Blue Sea had a nice feeling to it but now in the Grand Line i feel something different a mix between the people dreams that died in the first half of the Grand Line or as these people become accustomed to call it Paradise as compared to the other half of the Grand Line that was called The New World and from which comes the second element in the mix the other half that i felt belong to those stronger pirates that are determined to see their dreams through even if that cost them their life they're willing to hand it over on their own accordance later maybe they will be able to still feel that way after passing to the New World or they will just choose to return to their own Paradise like the ones before them who knows .

From a few quick observations on the ships downwards i can already tell some of my current journey shortcomings the first and most important would be that i don't have a crucial item most certainly needed for navigating more clearly into the Grand Line a Log Pose a special kind of compass that work on finding and pointing towards the most nearest island by capturing its magnetic field signal a crucial tool on most of the ships down there if i had i would have already sprinted in the way of Sabondy Archipelago let's just ask about directions and if some have a spare long pose that would be great a big merchant ship or at least that's what i thought from the other ships that followed it all holding cargos they were already on my clairvoyance range and even without clairvoyance i can notice them but there were one problem they had a marine ship in the front acting as a deterrence to any pirates attacks .

I don't believe the navy would hurt a small kid like me but if i'm them i would be suspicious of myself as i'm now returned to my normal human form a 12 almost 13 years old and 1,8 meters tall bare chested only having a blue gown covering my manly parts with quite a proportioned amount of muscles all over my body that will put any middle aged men to shame with a long white unkempt hair and blue eyes with my face now having quite the distinctive features literally landing on their ship from the sky if you won't be suspicious then something must be wrong with your brain i could wait here or change my place and ask someone else but time is already ticking i might be listed as a wanted criminal by the whole world government by now my only chance will be trying to pass through the fishmen island into the New World from there i will choose what to do .

Here goes nothing i began to approach one of the ships that was in the back as silently as possible and then acted as if i collapsed suddenly on the ship's sail and came rolling down on the deck i expected them to come to check on me but to my surprise i heard one of the sailors say something that struck me like lightning why is this slave not wearing his collar was he trying to escape hurry up and collar him .

A ship transporting slaves and other ships holding a large cargos with a marine ship leading it don't tell me am i on a celestial dragon cargo ship how bad my luck can be i let them put on the collar i have a way to escape its binding and might even leave them a big present i gave up resisting and was led to the ship dungeon where i woke up and was greated by the desperate eyes of the other slaves from their damaged clothes and some of the deviance hidden in their eyes i can tell that most of them are pirates but normal people were here as well luckily i didn't need to blend in all of this situation was orchestrated by some pure misfortune and some unexpected help from that cursed mark on my back i will need to remove when i reach my destination .

And believe it or not my luck was finally turning up i was now wearing rags but this isn't the only happy news i learned that the destination of this ship was actually heading to Sabondy Archipelago i looked in the direction of the ship's sail in where i had hiden my parents bodies and muttered just bear with me a little bit .

The next day nothing important happened other than with my Keen senses i heard we are arriving at the Sabondy Archipelago on the day after tomorrow .

I don't feel good leaving the people on this ship enslaved but i wonder if they will be able to survive if i saved them i will do whatever i feel like doing what ever the consequences .

The day of our arrival at the Sabondy finally came as we began to set foot in the bubbled shaped mangroved island i told the enslaved pirates that i was capable of removing their bindings with my only condition is that they lead the normal people to somewhere safe and they laughed at first but after seeing that i'm a devil fruit user they began to reconsider and then they finally agreed and i began to stimulate the best case scenario and the worst case scenario in my mind and figured that i will need to hold those marines off for a few minutes to ensure that the normal people are able to escape for the pirates i hope they can support themselves .

As they docked the ship at the mangrove tree with the number 27 as there is a port here for the unofficial ships like ours to dock in they chained all of us with an elongated chain to contain us all as luckily the celestial dragon ship didn't dock in the same port as us but the marine ship did their mission is to help the celestial dragon in containing us i hope Garp don't get angry on me doing this .

I enlarged my collar by 10 and then i began to hear that cursed countdown as it started to ring so i throw the now almost double my height collar on the marine now empty ship and i kinda underestimated the power of the explosion as the whole port was now on fire with the other ships other the one that the celestial dragon took was now beginning to caught fire as well the whole port was now in chaos and i intend to use this unintentional chaos to my favor i transformed to my hybrid form and destroyed the chains that were binding me and enhanced my strength and speed by 20 and nerve system by 30 as to cope with the increased movement speed and in a single moment i enlarged and detonated one collar after another by enlarging them then throwing them at the sea as they keep causing explosions simultaneously and also diverted the marines soldiers attention all that happened in mere seconds after that i began to break the chains with a flick of my finger as i was afraid if i tried to punch it or crush it a shockwave bubble might be created dooming them instantly .

After that the pirates were escaping ignoring the normal people breaching our deal so i began to cover for the normal people and the marines focused their fire on the pirates a few survived and cursed at me while escaping some were injured to different degrees and some were unfortunate i stood there tanking all the bullets the marines fired at me to make sure that the people behind me was able to escape successfully then i pulled my last stunt i enlarged a bubble to 30 times its original size and then burst it the sound it made was so deafening that their ears began to bleed then they lost conscious i then used Soru and appeared at the sail of the still burning ship and got my parents bodies and began to look for a skilled mortician for my parents after i turned off my transformation and luckily this time the rags was still good .

And i found one in Grove 42 and also understood why was the island trees numbered in some sort you see in the Sabondy there are 79 Grove every Grove is like a district of some sort and the numbers are to help the people distinguish their way as all the trees in the Sabondy look the same and to also warn weak people not to venture into some dangerous groves i showed him the bodies of my parents and asked if he can sew their skins back and he nodded but asked for a fee of 30 thousand Berries luckily i emptied those slave traders and the marines soldiers pockets i also ordered a big casket and waited until he finished and he came back sweating and it's not from tiredness i can tell he saw the mark on their skins i looked at him and asked if he is done and he nodded and signalled me to follow him and i did and pulled the casket and paid his fees and left still eying him with my clairvoyance but he just sighed and sat there looking at sky i guess not every person in this world wants to do me harm right mom , dad ?

Now i began to look for a good place to bury them in i bought a shovel and found a place meeting my expectations somehow it was at grove 13 a spacious piece of land next to a bar without mentioning the bar it would have been a good resting place and i found the place to my liking so then i went to the bar to ask its owner permission .

I knocked on the door and came a female voice from inside saying the bar is open come come

Thank you miss ?

Shakky the owner of the Shakky's Rip-off Bar but aren't you too young to drink and what is with your clothing style want some orange juice ?

Nice to meet you miss Shakky i'm Ryuu and sorry i didn't come here for a drink i just wanted to ask if you are the owner of this part of land as well .

You can say though what is it that you want to do with that kind of information little Ryuu .

I wanted to ask if it would be possible if i buried someone dear to me in the land around your bar i'm ready to give any amount of money you want .

She lit a cigarette and took a deep breath and said with a faint smile then let's say 50 million berries .

The number pierced my heart like an arrow i know she would ask for a big amount but there isn't any possible way to raise this much money in a short time i will do my best with that i began to unload all the money on me and found that the amount i had was now only around 250 thousand berries i said to her : i'm now owing 49 million and 750 thousand berries you don't mind giving me a few days to get the rest of the money , do you ?

She looked at me and then at the money and was going to answer when a strong and deep male voice told her give him your permission Shakky he look like a decent fellow .

I was already planning on doing so Rayleigh little Ryuu you can bury those who were dear to you in anywhere but the bar .

Thank you miss Shakky and thank you old man Rayleigh you look quite strong for an old man could i ask you for another favor i bowed to both of them .

Oh now you caught my attention what is it that you want to do ?

Could you help me and skin my back ?

Shakky and Rayleigh bewildered : huh ? Huh?

You see i really wanted to get rid of that cursed mark of mine and don't worry i will be fine , with that i showed them the hoof of the soaring dragon mark on my back and as if in tactical understanding they only nodded at me and i then began to look for the best location in the land for my parents final rest place and successfully found a secluded place next to a mangrove tree and start digging without any use of my powers after marking the place i came back to the bar for the final step before the burial i entered and mr . Rayleigh was already waiting for me cause i can't see ms . Shakky anywhere .

Do you want anything for the pain Ryuu ?

Don't worry about me mr Rayleigh i'm more than familiar with pain and it won't hurt for long anyway

He scoffed at my words i guess he thought that i'm only acting tough and asked me to sit down then brandished his sword i didn't see it appearing in his hand then he slashed My back and skinned the mark and the skin cleanly i guess mr . Rayleigh is much stronger than i first thought he was able to appear in the bar without me noticing him even though clairvoyance was on and now his skill with a sword he can't be a normal person .

I felt no pain only a pure sense of relief from finally being liberated soul and body i then used my healing and increased it by 40 and a new clear white skin appeared instantly .

A few tears was pouring from my eyes then i bowed and thanked him and began to hold the casket and the discarded skin and headed to the grave i dug and rested my parents tired bodies in it then put the discarded skin between them now in a hugging position and began to fill in the grave and watered it with water and tears rest well Mom , Dad until we meet again .

I didn't return to the bar i began to walk aimlessly around the island then heard a few small explosions and looked to see a man on a flying fish can fish really fly holding a poster and coming directly at me saying found you you really are only a kid but your age doesn't matter anyway now die .

I wasn't focusing on what he said only at the wanted poster in his hand its content was as followed :

Thecursed investment .

Ryuu.D.Solar .

Wanted Dead !

Affiliated with pirates !

With A picture of my face in my hybrid form with my mask on .

A bounty of 500.000.000 berries !!!!

A bounty on my head i already have a wanted poster with a huge sum of money .

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