14. Water 7

Sitting on his boat, Darren refined his haki as he held back as much haki as he could, barely coating his hand in it. The colour was a light grey as it flickered off and on.

"This is quite hard to do, but if I'm able to master this, my haki will reach the next level".

After an hour of haki training, Darren got up as he got into his new stance he created through the combination of Muay Thai and Fish-Man Karate.

He called this new art Fish-Man Thai, throwing punches and kicks he shadow boxed Aokiji, counter attacking his every move Darren beat him sublimely.

And his last attack, Darren dodged a straight punch to the neck ducking underneath, kicking off the floor twisting, his feet grabbed Aokiji's neck allowing Darren to elbow him in the face breaking his nose.

His next move, Darren then used his body weight to throw him towards floor grabbing his legs before the impact, locking it between his arms, this move shattered Aokiji's legs as the impact of making contact with the ground distorted his face.

"This isn't really a ultimate since I can use this in any situation" Darren thought as he stood there. Darren then put his fist right next to his hip as he punch out creating a small shockwave, he then axe kicked as the boat shook.

'Well I'm getting quite close to it so no need to rush', sitting back down he trained his observation haki, sending it as far as he could Darren kept it until his haki reserves cut short.

"The closest island right now is Water 7, that should be were Rob Lucci is at right now", "I'm not sure if there's anything worth mentioning at Water 7".

What Darren wanted was clues to the one piece, he wondered where to even start from, "watching One Piece, I don't even think Luffy even knew where he was going, he was just fighting from island to island".

Sitting there, Darren thought until his brain started hurting, 'the poneglyphs of Joy Boy must say something', "I'm sure, although I probably don't even know how to read it tho".

A week passed as Darren continued blending his martial art's together, fighting against two shadows Aokiji he held his own.

Whilst fighting he wondered on how to find out the person or people behind that Den Den Mushi, it bugged him, he hated the feeling of being watched without him knowing, so throughout the 8 months he crossed out who he thought it was.

He could only narrow it down to the revolutionary army, but he wasn't sure about that either. 'If it truly is the revolutionary army, they must be trying to recruit me or they were trying to add a public dent to the marine's reputation, which they succeeded.'

"I've know been labelled as a pirate, I didn't even do anything pirate worthy, well apart from killing a celestial bitch", Darren still couldn't reconcile with the fact.

"They would've forced me to join the marines either way, or be a warlord, eitherway I would've been overused like an intern" Darren laughed as he realised he had no choice, they would've labelled him a pirate regardless.

"Pheww" taking off his mask Darren's hair that was in a ponytail swayed, currently he was wearing his new clothes with the mask on so he'd be pretty unrecognisable.

"Should I infiltrate the marines? They have techniques that are worth stealing" Darren said as he fiddled with his mask.

"However if anything about me is questioned I'll die 1000 times over, well that's a bad idea, how the hell did I think of nearly going on a trip of hell like that?!" He was dumbfounded by his own brain.

Sailing about for another week, Darren trained his devil fruit powers as his ultimates became stronger.

He looked up at the sky as he thought of the Ice Island he and Aokiji's ultimates created, "wait since that's a byproduct of my snow powers shouldn't I be able to control it?"

"Logically, I should be able to", he decided to make a trip there after visiting Water 7.

After a gruelling two weeks, he arrived at the furthest island, travelling along the water way towards the City of Water, he got quite a few stares due to his unique clothing, along with him wearing a mask.

Darren looked around, there were a lot of small pieces of land around, with a wall a mile away from where he was.

He took a quick stop, buying a map as he assessed where he was, "I should be in the north of this map", "the Galley-La Headquarters is quite close, they monitor the island so I should behave like a normal civilian for now".

Darren then continued to sail, soon arriving at the city, water was coming out of pipes all around.

"This looks beautiful", looking around he saw people sitting outside restaurants, other ships and boats sailing with tourists on them.

"A train is actually going across the water, thats crazy" Darren although watched it through a screen, seeing the real thing was different.

As he continued to travel through the canals Darren had decided to dock up his boat at Rocky Cape. "I'll also renovate the ship and make it big enough for a bedroom".

After docking his ship, Darren walked around the streets, "all this loot from pirates I got I should exchange for some berries, I'm running low".

Darren arrived in front of a building saying cashing, walking in, he went to the front desk, dropping the bag saying "I'd like to exchange these items for berries", the lady smiled as she was used to these type of customers.

"Ok sir, let me calculate the amount", standing there Darren looked around as he whistled, "sir, by any chance are you a bounty hunter?".

"Uh?, yeah I hunt pirates for a living", "ok then, you total amount is 400,000,000 million berries", "400,000,000?!" Taken aback Darren thought that was in dollars, but he remembered the currency exchange it wouldn't amount to much on earth.

However it was a lot in One Piece, "yes sir, we'll prepare you money right now, "ahh, thank you", after receiving his money he walked out as he went on a shopping spree, he decided to fill out his bedroom closet when it was built on his boat.

Boarding the Sea Train, he travelled around as he boat all sorts of clothes and street food, although he got quite a few stare from Government agents roaming around they tended to ignore him.

"Blueno's Bar, I hope your food is good", sitting down he ordered a big pile of meat and some Cola.

"Hahaha, Super FRANKY is here!" Darren looking at the door wondering who was that loud, seeing a man with spikes blue hair and two women with square-like hairstyles mimicking his actions, Darren bursted out laughing.

"Hahahahaha" Franky looked over, seeing a man wearing mask and odd clothes, he walked over with the two women, "hey mister, who are you laughing at?" Franky's face looked hilarious, Darren stared at him for a second before laughing again.

"Are you laughing at Franky!" The woman to the left said as she pointed at Darren, "no no, I'm not I was just amused at your actions".

As Darren conversed with Franky and the two backup dancers, the surrounding diners were looking at Franky like he killed their mothers, Darren not wanting to be associated with him, decided to shoo them away.

"Sorry if you thought I was laughing, I really wasn't, and my food is here see you" Darren said as he pushed them aside to grab his food.

"Franky never takes loses! Super!" Darren was trying his hardest to keep the laughter in, every time he looked at Franky's face he wanted to laugh.

So with his hands shaking he drinker his Cola "you like Cola?" Franky asked "yes, now please allow me to eat in p-peace", Darren nearly broke out into laughter again, "sure let's go!" Franky and the two women then continued to dance and announce Franky's name around the bar, shouts and insults were hurdled at them.

Darren soon calmed down, eating in peace as he watched Franky leave the bar after buying a ridiculous amount of Cola.