6 Training and justice

—Time skip two months.—

It has been a while and Carter and his little group have joined the latest marine trainee unit. Carter was actually quite shocked as there was actually a name that would be pretty big in the future.

Future rear admiral and member of SWORD: Kujaku. She is the granddaughter of vice admiral Tsuru. A nice but brutal young woman with a problem with not hiding her blatant sadism. Has not yet eaten the Muchi Muchi no mi and Carter hopes she doesn't while he is anywhere near her as he doesn't not want to be tamed by the whip whip fruit. Current age: 16. She gets along with Tari very well.

There were also two names Carter had never heard before.

Timid but kind: Liz. A shy but very nice girl that will always help anyone in need. No devil fruit but an absolute beast when it comes to durability. She also enjoys sweets on a level that Carter personally thought could rival Big mom.

And the big brother of the unit: Onyx. He is a very loyal and kind person that always tries to help his friends. He has eaten the Tori Tori no mi model: Raven. Current age: 16

Another thing that happened was that Carter told Yuta and Michael the names of their fruits. It had taken some explaining about memorizing a devil fruit encyclopedia when he was younger when in reality he just used his devil fruit identification skill.

Yuta had eaten the Kiri Kiri no mi, the Fog Fog fruit. It allowed her to create, control and become fog. Good for stealth missions and infiltration. She learned that she could also change the density of her fog and even the temperature, she could make it cold enough that it was like walking through liquid ice or hoe enough to steam you alive.

Michael had eaten the Abura Abura no mi, the Oil Oil fruit. It allowed him to create control and become crude oil, something he learned by accident while on Garp's ship was that he could also Ignite it at will. I wont get into how exactly we found that out but i will say that Garp needed to grow new facial hair.

–Carter POV–

I was awoken from my dreams that morning by a feather tickling my nose. Onyx did this a lot.

"Alright Onyx, im up." I said, clearing the sleep from my eyes.

"Good! I was afraid I needed to start pecking you." he teased with a smile.

I sat up and saw that he had also woken up Michael. Our cabin on the marine training island was a lively place. When we weren't training we were having fun. The girls had their own cabin but they usually came back to ours after training because there was more room.

I pulled myself from my bed and got my training clothes on. Our unit's schedule was packed. We woke up, we got breakfast and trained for five hours on whatever our teacher wanted us to. Then we got lunch and a few hours of freetime then back to training. Then we get two hours of free time before we sleep.

Before we left I rested a hand on the incubating egg on my nightstand. I could feel the baby dragon inside it growing stronger and stronger each day. Pretty soon I'll have a fire breathing companion with me.

Michael, Onyx, and I left our cabin and found the female half of our unit. Tari and Kujaku were talking about ways to punish pirates they caught and believe me when I tell you that that shit will give you nightmares. While Yuta was peacefully enjoying her breakfast of fruit and eggs while pretending her two roommates were not planning what were in essence, murders. And Liz was reading a book in silence.

"Morning guys." I said as I sat down they all threw me a quick greeting.

We ate in silence for a few minutes before we began to discuss today's training. Onyx was a swordsman like Tari and I. Onyx wields a cutlass and is damn fast with it. Before we had finished our discussion we were interrupted. "Well I'm glad to see you all so interested in Training!" a gruff and eccentric voice called from behind us.

We turned around to see a marine in a purple suit over which he wore an admiral's coat. A mechanical prosthetic replaced his right hand "Zephyr-sensei!" was our collective response.

Former admiral: Black arm Zephyr. One of the strongest marines in the last 50 years. He became an admiral with nothing but his own strength and haki, he even refused to eat a devil fruit that was offered to him by the Gorosei! He is currently 65 years old and a few months ago he suffered the tragedy of all the other cadet units being wiped out while under his care and lost his arm.

He will gain his seastone forged Battle Smasher in five years. Leave the marines two years later when Edward Weevil, the pirate that had maimed him became one of the seven warlords of the sea. He would be killed by Kizaru two years after that, but now that I'm here I decided to do everything in my power to change that.

The cheerful old man sat down with his food to eat with us, as he often did. "If you're all that curious I'll tell you. Today we will be doing mostly combat training." he said as he stuffed an egg in his mouth.

Zephyr was one of the few remaining marines that still valued true justice and protection of innocent people over all else. After the massacre of the other trainees he became very protective of his remaining students, that included us. I'll say with how close our unit got to him he most definitely considered us his grandkids. He always came to eat with us every morning and he was always there to help when we needed help.

"Today we will all be training our specialties. Your combat styles, devil fruit and haki." he informed us before turning to me. "Lets keep trying to awaken your conqueror's haki Carter, I know you've got it! You've already got armament and observation and you've made leaps in improvement on both of them in just these two months!"

He was right but I didn't tell him that it was just because I had the system. Ever since I had arrived on the island the system had given me a daily task.

[daily task: perform 100 push ups, 100 sit ups, 100 squats, and a 10 kilometer run. Reward: .1 skill points]

I had poured every last one of the reward points into my haki including the two I had remaining from my previous tasks. My haki was now up to 8.3 and my constitution had skyrocketed because of the physical training the task supplied, it jumped up to 17.2. Although something kept bothering me about the task itself.

'I swear I have seen this before'

[Notice: you are imagining it]

I deadpanned at the system but returned my attention to my food.

A while later we were on the trading field. I had Akuma-ketsujin at my side and my ring was prepped to steal haki. That was another cool thing. I could steal the haki coating off of anything I touched with the ring. I could then use my own opponent's haki against them. Needless to say it was absolutely broken.

Teacher Zephyr stepped forward. "Alright kids, today will be combat training. Tari, Onyx and Carter. You three will work on your swordsmanship feel free to use your devil fruit but make sure you focus on your swords. Liz, and Kujaku, you two work on your hand to hand combat. Michael, and Yuta, you two are with me. We will be training your haki, you can't become too reliant on your devil fruit, Barsolino has made that mistake despite me telling him over and over again to train haki but he never listens. One day that idiot will be defeated by someone and it will be his own fault for being too confident in his speed."

We nodded and split off into groups. I drew Akuma-Ketsujin, as did Tari with Shinso-mizu and Onyx with his cutlass: Orchid.

"Are you ready for this?" Onyx asked with a playful expression.

I nodded " of course we are!" I blasted towards my unit's Big-bro as my top speed, swinging my sword at the same time. Tari also did the same as both our blades met the raven fruit user's.

Onyx paired our striked and threw us off balance. "Not bad but still not good enough!" he declared with a smile. He swung orchid towards Tari and she barely managed to block the strike.

"C'mon Tari! Faster!"

"You want faster?" Tari growled. "How about you go slower!" from her boots a sheet of ice covered the entire area around them.

"Woah!" he shouted as he stumbled and slipped on the icy ground.

Before he fell however, he launched himself into the air and his body shifted. He grew black feathered wings from his back, his hands became talons and his eyes were now surrounded by feathers. He dove bak towards Tari and I took it as an opportunity to strike.

I launched myself toward him and swung my lade at his wing. He managed to twirl away but I still nicked his wing. "Ow!"

We trained like this for a few hours, despite how hard the training was it was alway fun. We had a scoreboard of how many wins each person had in training.

Later on when it was dark outside, our group gathered in our cabin. I was sitting on my bed with my egg in my lap, Tari, Kujaku, Michael and Onyx were playing a game of cards. I wasn't sure what was on the line but Michael was really freaking determined looking. Yuta and Liz were talking about how to get stronger physically.

I sat there and just listened to my unit face fun. Until eventually...

"I win!" Michael declared as he slapped an ace down on the table.

The others all groaned. I chuckled as they all forked over 10,000 Berri. Man, I loved these guys. We were like a family. And that is just what I loved about these guys. We continued to have fun for a while before something very interesting happened.

*shudder, shudder*

My eyes widened and I looked down. My egg had begun moving. "Guys! My egg is gonna hatch!" they immediately jumped over to me.

"Ooh this is so exciting!" Yuta cheered.

"I hope it behaves, I wont tolerate insubordination." Kujaku said ominously.

"Hope it'll be fun." Liz said as she watched the shell with interest.

"I'll go get Zephyr-sensei, I'm sure he would want to see this." Onyx said as he ran out the door and became a raven.

Tari and Michael just watched the oval object in silence.

I'll be honest, I was absolutely pumped! My own dragon! And one made of so many different breeds too!... 'Wait, this guy is part Nightwing right?' I looked out the open window and saw that the moon was full. My face displayed a wide smile.

"Let's go outside guys, I'm sure the little guy doesn't want to emerge into a cramped space like the cabin." I said and we did so. The moment the egg hit the moonlight all of the black scales on the egg turned a shining silver.

A few moments later Onyx and Zephyr-sensei showed up and joined our little circle around the egg.

"Haha! This is a great thing carter! Today we will witness the miracle of life!" Zephyr-sensei declared as he watched the shuddering egg intensely.

We watched as the shell began to form cracks and the claws of the baby dragon peaked through the shell.

"C'mon you can do it little guy!" Yuta said excited to meet the creature.

We watched intently as the little dragon finally broke through the shell. It was a sight to behold. The little creature was a perfect blend of all of its parent species. It had the basic build of a wings of fire dragon, having four legs with its wings. It had the head of a nightwing complete with two teardrop scales behind its eyes, signifying it was a mind reader. It had four wings, one pair much larger from than the other; these traits came from its stormcutter and skywing heritage, with the scales under their wings looking like a night sky. It had a line of sharp, metallic spines going down its back, from its skrill heritage and a blue frill around its neck from its deathsong blood. The small creature also had 3 tails from its triple strike blood with all three being covered in sharp silver spikes and tipped with a scorpion-like tail barb, coming from the razorwhip and sanding genes.

The small creature's eyes locked onto me and it let out a few happy chirps and it crawled over to me.

"What is it?" Michael eyed the little dragon with confusion written on his face.

"It looks like some kind of dragon." Zephyr-sensei said as he approached the small creature that had dozed off in my lap. "But I've never seen anything like it before."

"I don't care what he is, he's mine and that's all that matters" I said as I stroked the dragon's head.

"What are you going to name him?"

I thought for a moment and looked over to Zephyr. "Well, we are going to be upholders of justice right?"

"Indeed you are!" Zephyr declared with a smile.

I looked down at the eyes of the dragon that had been awoken by Zephyr. "Then let's call you... Justice."