26 'To Sabaody Archipelago'
"I admit you are strong enough to be my captain," Apoo said.
"I, Scratchmen Apoo, from today onwards is a member of the Origin Star Pirates." Apoo declared.
"Mn, Welcome to my crew. She is the Vice-captain of the crew, Luna. I will introduce other members when you board the ship."
"If you have any unfinished business, you can finish it and come to the dock." Nuke said.
Nuke also knows as a Pirate, Apoo has to explain and formally disband the pirate crew before coming with him.
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When Nuke and Luna reached the ship, Lyn and Reed were already there. The only remaining is Apoo, who gone to disband the grew.
"Is our Log Pose set?" Nuke asked.
"Yes"
"We will set sail once Apoo comes back." Nuke said and told the crew about the new member he recruited.
If the timing is right, Luffy and his crew will confront Moria in a few days. Blackbeard should have handed Ace to Marines now.
That means, there are only 20 some days remain till the 'War of the Best'. We should first reach sabaody Archipelago and then plan the next course of action.
''War of the Best'... Everyone will know about the Origin Star pirates after the War. Hope father and mother also notice my wanted poster.' Nuke thought.
'I reached the second level in Origin Star technique, I should improve my strength by forming stars in the body. I should also teach everyone Haki so that they can improve their strength quicker.' Nuke thought.
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Apoo came back after a few hours and Nuke introduced him to everyone. As expected within few mins he was able to interact with a crew.
"Captain, I have an external pose with me which I acquired from Marine. And, I heard the Island this Pose leading is the Endpoint of the first half of the Grand Line." Apoo said and gave the eternal pose to Nuke.
"Good... With this, we don't have to travel all the Island by log pose, we can straight away reach the Sabaody." Nuke said.
Nuke and his crew departed from Bone Island and sailed using the Eternal Pose.
"Apoo, Reed, Lyn... From today onwards you guys are going to train in Haki. I and Luna will teach you guys about it." Nuke announced.
From that day, the training began for everyone in the crew. Nuke began to practice and familiarise in his skill 'Star destruction' which he got from reaching the second stage. While other's practiced in Haki.
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Three days passed,
'Boom!'
A figure could be seen crashing into the sea, soon a whirlpool appeared in the sea and Luna got out from the sea without much difficulty.
This three days, Nuke and Luna spared along their way. Nuke's star destruction is beyond his imagination, as it was able to affect and destroy anything in its way.
Luna once again dashed towards Nuke, a small tornado swirled around Luna, like a mini version of it.
It's spiraled around Luna in High speed, capable of disintegrating anything coming near of it.
Nuke smiled and white mist-like energy surrounded Nuke's haki coated hand. The White energy looked beautiful and gave one a mighty feeling, but it's the complete opposite of the appearance.
It's pure destructive energy, knowing nothing but devastating everything in its way. This energy is the Manifestation of Nuke's star power which he formed in his body.
Nuke was able to form two stars in his body easily but after that his progression in forming star energy stoped. He also found out, if he utilizes and exhausts his star energy often, his rate of progress began to improve.
Nuke is currently on the verge of forming his next star mark.
Luna attacked again with her devil fruit powers since fighting with haki bestowed no meaning to her. Even so, her attacks like Windstorm, Gale, Tornado was easily destroyed by Nuke.
'It's the weird energy around him... If not I could have easily outclassed him.' Luna thought and raised her hand, suddenly the tornado swirling around her emanated 'swish' noises and from inside the tornado a wind shaped blades came out.
The wind shaped blades attacked Nuke with much ferocity. It's Luna's new attack Nuke taught, Moreover, Nuke told to smear her haki in her attacks.
It's was very difficult, Luna was only able to cover her attacks with haki to a tiny level which held no meaning. But it could be considered great progress.
Luna once again raised her hand, black ominous clouds began to form around the region.
This is Luna's new attack, which is a lightning strike. Unlike forming a storm, she controlled her powers to form little black clouds and from that, she was able to utilize her power to perform lightning attacks.
The purple lightning attacked Nuke, but he was able to easily block it with his Haki. The power of the attack is low and it's doesn't contain much power.
Luna is just practicing her power, she wasn't able to fully control the black clouds and harness its true powers.
"Captain's strength is strong as expected," Apoo said.
"We should also improve our strength, Yo"
"Yes, but the thing Haki which Captain taught us is very hard, I wasn't even able to sense the spirit thing which Nuke said," Reed said.
"Me too, Captain said it will awaken once we train it regularly," Apoo spoke.
"Luna, you are close to grasping your powers but I think you didn't understand your powers clearly. Next time we encounter a storm, you are going to face it head-on. If possible travel to the core of Storm, you may understand something." Nuke said.
"I think so too. I always lose control when the storm reaches a certain level" Luna nodded her head and said.
"What about you, did you reach the next stage you spoke off?" Luna asked.
"No, I think I need another two or three days, Once I reach it, my powers will improve." Nuke said.
