Leaving Karakuri Island

Another 2 weeks passed and it was finally time for Nyx and Mihawk to leave and continue their adventure.

In this past month, Nyx has helped Vegapunk with a multitude of experiments that needed certain vectors to be manipulated and Nyx himself has learned a multitude of new applications of how to use his power so that he can grow on his own.

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Mihawk could be seen walking in the white hallway, his body seemed slightly bigger as his double-edged black/red sword was hanging on his back, and his attire was that of what he normally wore in the anime, burgundy trench coat/pants, shirtless, with a hat.

'I was getting tired of the simple white dress shirt and black dress pants, might as well try something new. Luckily Nyx brought this from the estate before we left, it seemed to be an antique or something.' Mihawk thought as he took a right down the hallway and stopped in front of a certain double metal door with the words,' TRAINING ROOM' above it.

'We haven't seen each other for a month, I wonder how much Nyx got stronger by.'

Once Mihawk got into a close enough proximity, the metal doors slid open and Mihawk stepped inside.

Once he did, he coldly gazed around the facility before locking onto the familiar aura but his eye's couldn't help but widen.

"Nyx?"

Over 200 feet away, Nyx and Vegapunk were in the center of the training room discussing.

But Mihawk couldn't help but gape at the spiky white-haired, fair-skinned man, who was in a navy black high-necked jacket and matching trousers with a black blindfold.

'I-Is that Nyx? No... It's definitely Nyx, but why did his whole appearance change?' Mihawk continued to weirdly stare at Nyx who seemed to have immediately noticed his presence and walked toward him with a smirk, while Vegapunk followed behind.

When noticing that walking to the entrance would take a few seconds, Nyx chose to simply tap his right foot onto the ground.

Tap!

Nyx burst from his previous spot as he instantly appeared in front of Mihawk.

'This speed... that's much faster than his base speed, don't tell me he got that much stronger?' Mihawk thought with narrowed eyes as he stared at Nyx.

"Haha, look who made it, it's been a while little Hawk!" Nyx smiled as he put his arms around Mihawk's shoulders who simply had his arms crossed and ignored his antics.

"How'd you get so strong?" Mihawk suddenly questioned.

"So cold little Hawk! But as for your question, if we're talking about power, I didn't get much stronger. I simply assimilated into my hybrid form, so I'm always at full strength basically." Nyx chuckled at Mihawk's cold behavior as he explained.

"Then what happened to your appearance?"

"Oh, my appearance? Well long story short, I was experimenting with my passive barrier and was blocking UV rays lights which in turn didn't allow my body to produce melanin. But since I was assimilating with my hybrid form at that time, it had some weird reaction and permanently changed my appearance because my hybrid form was also slowly altering my appearance." Nyx shrugged as he quickly explained.

Mihawk simply nodded in understanding before looking toward Vegapunk who finally made it to the entrance behind Nyx.

"Hello their Mihawk." Vegapunk greeted as he walked past them to leave.

Mihawk simply nodded.

"I'll meet you guys outside in a few minutes to send you off!" Vegapunk exclaimed as he walked away down the hallway and disappeared from their view.

"What's with the blindfold?" Mihawk questioned with a raised brow.

"Jeez, so many questions. I'll tell you later, now let's go outside to our ship." Nyx lightly tapped Mihawk's back as he left the training room.

"Oh and nice outfit!" Nyx remarked as he went down the hallway and Mihawk calmly followed after.

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After a few minutes Nyx, Mihawk, Vegapunk and P-17 were out in the snowy atmosphere.

They were currently at the icy shore of the island, as they said their goodbyes.

"I see, so we're going to use this small ship because it's less conspicuous?" Nyx questioned as he stared at a small boat, that was practically a canoe.

It looked similar to Mihawk's one-chair ship from the anime but this time, the chairs were on both sides of the ship, pointing in opposite directions.

"Yeah, I was the one who asked Vegapunk to make this design, even if we were to get shot at, you could simply fly us out there in your dragon form." Mihawk explained.

"Sure I don't care much, but what about the stuff we brought from the estate?" Nyx questioned.

"We can simply leave it here with Vegapunk." Mihawk replied.

Nyx nodded before looking to his left.

"It was nice meeting you old man! If you ever need some assistance, just call me, I wouldn't mind helping." Nyx remarked as he tossed a snail toward Vegapunk, who caught it.

"Stealing my snails now?" Vegapunk muttered as noticed his shell design was on it.

Nyx simply ignored him and walked up to P-17 who was in his full form at 25 feet tall.

"Hey big man! I appreciate you helping Mihawk!" Nyx exclaimed as he stared up at P-17 with his hand extended.

Nyx knew P-17 was helping Mihawk get stronger for the majority of their stay, with things such as the capsule that increased Mihawk's physical strength and the training they would do together while Nyx himself was training with Vegapunk.

"Of course, It was also good training for myself." P-17 responded with a smile as he brought his hand down and bumped his fist against Nyx's.

Nyx nodded and started heading back toward the Ship, before looking back one more time toward Vegapunk with a serious expression.

"I've already warned you once, but I suggest you leave this island and relocate." Nyx simply stated before hopping off the icy shore and onto the ship.

Once Mihawk also said his goodbyes, he hopped onto the ship right after Nyx.

They were both on their respective seats, as the ship slowly started to drift deeper and deeper into the sea.

Eventually, the Karakuri island was out of sight and all they could see was the blue water that surrounded them.

They both sat with one leg over the other.

"Alright I'm going to start using my powers, once I figure out the exact direction." Nyx muttered as he pulled out a piece of paper from his pocket, it was a map.

"Hmm, I see." Nyx simply stated as he took out a compass with his opposite hand before putting it away.

Nyx simply pointed his hand forward before a continuous blast of air was sent out.

The ship started to speed up, as it basically skated across the seawater at high speeds.

Eventually, after sufficient speeds, Nyx stopped continuously using air.

"Why'd you stop?" Mihawk questioned as he gazed at the sea.

"I wanna try something new." Nyx mysteriously replied as he took out a lighter from his pocket.

'I got this made by Vegapunk, since creating fire with just air particles is hard, this will make it much easier.' Nyx inwardly thought, as he opened the gold metal lighter and flicked it open.

Clink!

Once Nyx ignited the lighter, he looked at the small red ember of fire with a smirk.

He put his finger right next to it before the fire suddenly disappeared from the lighter and appeared above his finger.

"Add some oxygen." He muttered as he looked at the small ember of fire even though he had a blindfold on.

Suddenly the fire started to grow and grow, once it reached over 10 feet in height and five feet in width, it stopped growing as Nyx started to point it straight ahead of him.

Mihawk curiosuly glanced behind him as he noticed the phenom.

'Such power is practically unlimited with potential.' Mihawk inwardly thought with eyes of admiration as he stared at the fire that slowly changed to a yellowish color.

"Charge the electrons." Nyx continued to mutter to himself as the fire started to crackle with electricity and the color was slowly turning yellow.

"Plasma beam in the flesh! Hold on tight Mihawk!" Nyx exclaimed with a smile as the prominent yellow fire burst out with mighty power.

The ship was practically sent flying into the horizon as Mihawk clenched the chair handles with a crazy laughing Nyx on the other side.

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Eventually, after a few hours, Nyx and Mihawk could see an island but the problem was that they were practically about to crash down onto the docks of the island from the sky.

"Nyx! You idiot! Do something!" Mihawk exclaimed as he tightly clenched the cracking wooden armrest which was about to break.

"Hahaha! Don't worry, trust me!" Nyx exclaimed while laughing in delight as the winds crazily shook his white hair as they were freefalling down from a few thousand feet high.

Mihawk simply held on for dear life and chose to trust Nyx.

As they were approaching the ground...

1,000 feet

600 feet

200 feet

Nyx smirked as the ship suddenly stopped before hitting the water.

"*Sigh*" Mihawk sighed as he stared at the broken armrests before standing up.

"Simply knowing the constant rate of gravity and multiply that by the mass of the boat and everything else on it, then just calculate the amount of gravity needed to slowly lower it. Haha, I am so awesome." Nyx remarked with a confident smile as he slowly lowered the ship onto the water in between the very old wooden dock on the island.

Mihawk simply hopped off the boat and onto the wooden deck as he glanced toward the small village in the distance.

Nyx followed after once he fully lowered it and hopped beside him.

"It seems there is some sort of fight." Mihawk muttered as he saw the rising fire in the distance.

"And quite the powerful ones." Nyx added as they both started to walk down the dock onto the concrete ground.

Crackles of red sparks would occasionally spark in the atmosphere as they walked on the center dusty pathway with old stone buildings around them, people could be seen cowering while peeking through the window.

Once noticing the two individuals traversing toward the fight, they tried to warn them.

"Don't go! It's dangerous." One old man with gray hair muttered from his window.

"Yeah! Luckily one of the pirate crews like to drink here, so their dealing with the intruder." A woman whispered from the small house beside them through the door.

Nyx and Mihawk simply ignored them and after a few minutes of walking, they eventually saw the chaotic scene.

One man was laying on the ground as he exuded fire from his body but he seemed to be critically injured as he lay there bloodied up with a multitude of injuries, surrounded by a group of individuals who seemed to be on the same side.

But there was one individual who stood out though, as he stood in the center of the circle and stood above the bloodied man who was exuding fire.

"Hmm, follow my lead." Nyx muttered before lightly tapping the ground and disappearing from his previous spot as he dashed toward the center of the circle of men.

"*Sigh*" Mihawk just sighed before following after him.

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The red-haired pirate had slightly tattered clothes as he looked down at the bloodied pirate who was laying on the ground while smoking a cigarette.

"You seem quite calm even though your about to die." The red-haired pirate muttered with a calm gaze on the man laying on the ground.

"*Puff* If I'm going to die, I might as well die doing something I like." The man breathed out smoky air as he chuckled.

"The situation could have ended more easier if you hadn't continuously tried to attack me after I stopped you from something as simple as stealing. We could have been friends as fellow red hairs, haha." The red-haired pirate replied with a slight smile at his last words.

"Maybe, but fighting the strong is simply in my nature." The man on the ground smirked as he spoke.

The redhaired man helplessly shook his head.

"I'm about to leave this island and I can't simply leave you to rampage, neither do I want you causing trouble on my captain's ship. The only mercy I can give you is a quick death." The red-haired pirate sighed before bringing his saber up.

"It was a good fight."

The red haired swung his silver saber down at full power toward the man's neck.

Until suddenly two individuals appeared in front of him.

"What?" The red-haired pirate muttered as he noticed his sword couldn't go any further as the white-haired man simply stood in front of the bloodied guy on the ground.

'What type of devil fruit is this?' The red-haired pirate questioned inwardly.

"Shanks!"

It seems the men who were around the circle, converged on Shanks as they stood beside him against the 2 individuals and bloodied guy.

"So your names Shanks?" Nyx questioned with his head tilted curiously.

Shanks simply weirdly stared at the blindfolded individual and swordsman beside him.

"Yes?" Shanks questioningly answered.

"Well this bloodied individual is my fellow crew mate, so I'd appreciate it if you back off." Nyx amicably smiled as his passive barrier didn't allow Shank's sword to go any further.

"That's your crew mate?-"

"Huh? Who the fuck are you?*Cough*" The bloodied man exclaimed as he tried to get up but fell back down after coughing out blood.

"Yeah, he's suffering from brain damage that you gave him, so don't mind him." Nyx remarked while continuously smiling.

"Haha, I see, I apologize for that, but I can't simply let him go, he might cause havoc in this village." Shank's replied with a matching smile as he increased the force of his sword.

"Hmm, Mihawk since you seem so eager to fight if you want you can go ahead." Nyx muttered as he could feel Mihawk's battle spirit to fight a fellow strong swordsman like Shanks.

Mihawk had a slight smile on his face as he heard Nyx's words.

Mihawk then instantly dashed in front of Shank's sword and clashed with him.

Once the pressure was off Nyx's barrier he started to walk to the bloodied man behind him.

"Hmm, now how should I heal you?" Nyx muttered with a smirk as he crouched down in front of him.

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