24 Chapter 24 - Blackbeard.
(A/N: Hello everyone! Sorry for the later than usual upload, I was a little busy yesterday and couldn't write the whole chapter. I'll be returning to my job tomorrow, so I'll probably not be able to upload every day, but I'll try my best, but sorry in advance if I end up missing a day or two in the week. BTW, Cain's hybrid dragon form is now the same as Kaido's. I've heard your complaints loud and clear that he looks more like a bug than a dragon, and that's true LOL. So when Kaido's hybrid form is revealed, you'll know how Cain's one looks like. Thank you for the support and for reading. God bless you all!!!!)
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After we were all done eating, I went to my room and started going through my phone. I download Clash of Clans and connected to my old account. My XxD35tr0y3rxX account... I was a bit of a tryhard and thought that this name was cool at the time, alright? At least this village was a maxed out town hall 12 account.
As I logged onto my account, I noticed that there was a new town hall available and thought, 'Since when the fuck is there a new town hall?', but I quickly got the answer as I searched online and saw that it came a little bit after my death.
Call me a cheater or whatever, but I gave myself a few hundred thousand gems with my abilities just to have a fully maxed village. I wanted to crush every single one of these bitches that were on the leaderboards and show who's boss.
I then proceeded to 3 star every single attack that I made, and after about 5 hours of nonstop attacking, I had climbed on the top 100 global.
"That should be good enough for now." I said as I closed my Clash of Clans app.
You might be wondering, "Well Cain, how can you play a game and use the internet from your past life if God said that you can't intervene in any way with your original Earth?", and that's a completely valid point.
The answer is that this is just a clone of everything. The internet that I use has everything that the original internet has, but it's not that one. It's basically an internet sandbox, a VERY good sandbox. No matter what I do in my internet, it will not affect the original. Me climbing to the top 100 on Clash of Clans is only on my game, not to the rest of the people back on my universe. To them my account is still an abandoned maxed town hall 12 village. But even though that's the case, it's still fun to play the game and destroy those guys' villages. Now go back to reading about my life...
It was now close to 9pm, so I went outside to the deck to see some of the stars. This world has no light pollution at all so the night sky was as starry as it can possibly get.
I also saw Mihawk and Robin doing the same while sitting in some chairs. It seemed that their romance was starting to bloom...
Without bothering them, I went to the ship's front and sat on top of the dragon head that the ship had.
'This is relaxing as hell...' I thought while staring at the sky. I ended up thinking about whether there were other lifeforms out there in this universe, and Rhea quickly replied.
{There are a total of 238 intelligent lifeforms in this universe excluding the ones from this planet and the Kaijus.}
"The fuck?! I thought that there would be at least one, but 238 is insane. Actually, considering the size of this universe it really isn't... As long as they don't disturb my life, I don't care whether they exist or not to be honest." I couldn't help but say out loud. Who would've thought that there would actually be so many aliens in One Piece...
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After about 30 minutes of looking at the sky and thinking about some stuff, I decided to head back to my room and just sleep the night out because I didn't want to wait that long for a new day to come. I could just manipulate time, but sleeping was better.
As I undressed myself while only leaving my underwear on, I went to my bed and made my room cold. Sleeping under the blanket in a pitch dark, cold room as one of the best feelings in the world...
'Good night, Rhea.'
{Good night, Cain. Sweet dreams.}
And BAM, I instantly fell in sleep. Honestly, I didn't know how I did this but I discovered this superpower when I was about 9. The power to instantaneously fall asleep if was under the right conditions and they were: a completely dark room, only wearing my underwear, and being tucked inside the blanket with my room being very cold. Worked like a charm every time...
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About 10 hours later, I woke up feeling refreshed and filled with energy as always. I did my classic stretch in bed and gave a good morning to Rhea.
Right now it was 7:30am, so about 30 minutes before we reach Blackbeard's ship and begin our attack. I really wanted to annihilate this gigantic pussy, but I would only beat him enough to make him surrender and the rest would be Whitebeard's duty.
I put on my usual clothes and headed for the kitchen after brushing my teeth and cleaning my body with my abilities.
As I reached there, I could see Robin reading the newspaper while drinking some coffee and Mihawk sipping some wine besides her. This guy must be an alcoholic because drinking at this time wasn't normal, but it's his life so who am I to judge?
"Good morning little lovebirds." I greeted them with a chuckle as I made my way to the cabinets to make myself some breakfast.
".....Good morning." Mihawk replied trying to hide his small smile. It seemed that Robin had quickly become his weak spot and was the only one able to crack that poker face of his.
Robin also replied while blushing hard, "Good morning..."
"Have you already eaten or want me make something for you?" I asked them both.
"I'll never say no to your cooking, Captain." Said Robin with a smile on her face.
"Same." Was all that left Mihawk's mouth.
Hearing their answers, I started cooking breakfast for 3 since Issho had already eaten and was outside getting some final practice before we reached the Blackbeard Pirates.
"So Robin, have you already thought of how you will fight Van Augur? Your abilities are very versatile so there are multiple ways that you can use them against him." I started chatting with her as I was cooking.
Robin had eaten the Hana-Hana no Mi, a Paramecia type that allowed her to sprout duplicates of any of her body parts from any surface that was within her range. Truly a fearsome ability if used correctly, and Robin did just that.
"Yes, I have. You'll see it when we arrive there. I even have a countermeasure if everything goes wrong." She replied.
"Good. How about you, Mihawk?"
"I'll use my sword."
"As expected." I muttered while chuckling.
The room then fell into silence as all that could heard was me cooking.
A few short minutes later, I finished everything and set the table up while giving them their food. They both thanked me and started eating.
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After everyone had finished, I said to them while getting up from my seat and getting all the plates on the table, "Go get everything that you need ready, we should be arriving there in about 20 minutes."
They nodded and went to their respective rooms as I cleaned everything with minimal effort due to my powers.
I went outside to check on Issho and saw him sitting there with a chair in front of him. From what I could see, he was trying to test just how far he could control gravity with his newbie mastery.
Looking over his shoulder from afar, I could see that the chair was almost reaching a zero gravity state, but it was not quite there. I thought that he was trying to test his powers on different things with different dimensions and weight because there were fruits, books, papers and pieces of wood around him.
I then approached him and said, "Making progress?"
He just now noticed me because he was extremely focused on his training. His forehead was sweating a lot and it seemed that he was a bit tired.
"I am. I can already negate gravity and increase it by a hundred fold for these things," he said while pointing to everything around him and continued, "but this chair has become a though opponent. I can only make it have 3% of the normal gravity while being able to increase it about 78 fold."
"That's some amazing progress, Issho! You've only had your powers for a day and you already made such advancements. Just don't push yourself too hard, my friend. Remember that slow and steady wins the race! Now go get your things because we'll be arriving at Blackbeard's location soon." I said to him and as I finished, I clapped my hands and his body was energetic once again. A little time-reversal always does the trick...
He noticed this as well and thanked me. I just brushed it off and said for him to got get ready.
I then started looking at the empty horizon, but with my eyesight it wasn't empty at all...
Far away, I could see a gigantic raft like ship with a flag that had 3 skulls and a pair of crossed bones behind them. This raft was made up of gigantic trees possibly wound together. Around the sides of the raft were gunports, a large mast is posted in the middle, bearing the flag of the Blackbeard Pirates and three sails. Another sail is placed at the stern of the raft, behind the main sails. (IMAGE HERE)
"So this is his ship... gotta say that it's definitely unique. Will probably be destroyed though, so R.I.P unique ship." I said as I examined the raft like ship.
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Some 19 minutes later, our ship was already just a few meters away from Blackbeard's one. They had noticed us not long ago, and I could hear them talking from the very beginning.
"WHY IS HE HERE?!" Shouted Blackbeard. His personality was that of a coward, but sometimes courageous. Stupid, while also very intelligent. He had stayed at Whitebeard's ship for 20 years with only one purpose: acquiring the Yami-Yami no Mi. He was a man of extreme determination and patience while also being extremely power-hungry.
"Shout some more, little Blackbeard... Very soon you will pay for everything that you did." I said quietly to myself.
"ROBIN, ISSHO, MIHAWK, COME TO THE DECK! WE HAVE ARRIVED!" I shouted in the direction of the rooms.
In just a few seconds, all of them came out through the door, ready for battle at any moment. Mihawk was wearing his usual attire that consisted of a wide-brimmed black hat decorated with a large plume, and a long, open black coat with no shirt underneath, with red, flower-patterned sleeves and collar. He wore light purple pants held up by a decorated belt and tucked inside overly large boots.
Issho wore a light-purple yukata held up with a dark purple belt, all underneath a purple cloak. His cane-sword was already in his right hand. He had a couple white bandages wrapped around both of his forearms, with handguards on both hands.
Robin was wearing a purple outfit consisting of a cowboy hat, a cleavage-revealing sleeveless shirt, with a wide, yellow collar covered with black concentric circle motifs, matching pants reaching down to her calves, and purple high-heels. She also had a string of round and yellow ornaments that hung loosely from around her waist.
I smiled at them and said, "Look at you guys all ready for battle! Let's go destroy some dreams, my friends!"
They all nodded and stepped on Blackbeard's ship that was now inches away from ours.
"Teach, I'll give you one chance to surrender yourself now and come with me. The rest will naturally be imprisioned as well." I gave him an ultimatum, either he surrenders now, or goes through hell before being sent over to Whitebeard.
"ZEHAHAHAHAHAHA, The Rising Dragon himself has come for me! What a great honor!" Blackbeard said as he laughed out loud.
"Will you surrender or not?" I quickly replied.
"I don't think I will! ZEHAHAHAHAHA" Blackbeard quickly refused my very kind offer.
"Great! Start the attack." I said to my 3 crewmates behind me.
All of them then jumped on their respective opponents while Robin stayed behind. She wasn't a close-combat fighter and mostly used her wits and devil-fruit abilities to defeat her enemies. That didn't mean that her body wasn't powerful though. Due to being on the run from the Government for 20 years, she became physicaly strong and also extremely agile, so if needed she could still fight without her devil-fruit powers perfectly well.
Staying behind for now seemed to be part of her plan, so I didn't think of it too much.
While the battle had already started for Mihawk and Issho, Van Augur stood a little distance away shooting his rifle at them both, trying to help his crewmates little by little. This was no problem for Mihawk and Issho though, seeing that they were not held back by the bullets coming at them at all.
That's when Robin crossed her arms, making an 'X' shape across her chest. She didn't necessarily have to do this to use her abilities, but it helped her focus.
Very slowly, a pair of hands started to appear next to Van Augur's feet without alerting him. Another hand sprouted on his back, surprisingly not alerting him once again.
When they finished sprouting, the hand that Robin made on his back very slowly moved to a position next to his cheek and extended the indicator finger, poking him directly.
"What the fuck?" Van Augur said as he instantly turned his head to see a hand poking him.
That's when 2 hands grabbed his feet, surprising him once again, and a pair of gigantic arms sprouted from the ship and snatched his rifle from his hands and threw it at Robin. Believe it or not, the entire plan worked flawlessly.
Van Augur was now falling to the ground head first as he lost balance due to the hands that appeared next to his feet and grabbed them.
As he hit the ground, he quickly got up and looked around to see none of the hands or arms that he had seen before. His eyes started darting everywhere attentively, only for them to land on a beautiful woman behind me with her eyes crossed.
He thought that she was the one that did this to him, mostly because his gun was next to her so, case closed...
He started dashing towards her, but then he heard her say,
"I'm sorry."
That's when he felt the worst pain a man could ever feel, a direct kick to the balls. Robin had created a leg on the ship's floor and controlled it to smash his privates with a lot of force. By no fault of his own, he passed out due to the insane pain that he suffered.
Me seeing all of this was shocked. To think that Robin could be so cruel... I unconsciously grabbed my own balls in fear of her doing the same to me and said to her,
"So you're EVIl evil huh."
She just chuckled while covering her mouth.
'Gotta be careful with her... now let's start this humilliation with Blackbeard.' I thought as my eyes once again returned to the tall man in front of me.
Blackbeard, or Marshall D. Teach, was a tall man(344cm, ~11'3''), with a massive build and a round body. He has a big mouth with several broken or missing teeth, a pronounced crooked nose and a very large and hairy chest and torso. Long, thick, woolly black hair falls down the back of his neck, underneath a black bandana, and a small scruffy black beard grows around his jawline. (IMAGE HERE)
Without even saying anything I spawned my sword in my hand and immediately slashed towards his arms in a speed that he could easily match. Even though he was a gigantic bag of human fat, he was agile. He noticed this and caught my sword with his hands.
"ZEHAHAHAHAHA, look's like not even you can match my power Rising Dragon!" He said as he pushed my sword out of my hands, grabbing it for himself.
He quickly spun it around and caught the handle and in a quick motion stabbed me through the heart.
"NO ONE CAN COMPARE TO ME, ZEHAHAHAHAHAHA" He yelled in pride as he saw me coughing blood due to the sword that passed through my heart.
"Fuck, I might actually die here....." I weakly said as Robin rushed to my side with a worried face.
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"...just kidding." I said, removing the sword from my chest imbuing it with Armament Haki.
Blackbeard couldn't react in time to the turn of events and I slashed his fat stomach open. Blood and organs immediately started to appear from the gigantic cut.
'AH SHIT, this is way more disgusting than just killing. Rhea, make 'Perfect Mind' work for cases like this please.' I quickly thought while almost throwing up.
{'Pefect Mind' now makes you unfazed to torture and gruesome scenes.} She replied.
As she finished speaking, I instantly returned to my normal state, completely calm about what was happening in front of me. 'This ability is really useful.... damn.'
I then thought of using one of my newest powers and activated my Geass on both of my eyes and said while looking directly at his.
"Cut your vocal cords."
You could actually feel that my word had become absolute. Whoever I was looking when I said something with my Geass activated, couldn't help but obey what just left my mouth.
Blackbeard immediately got a knife from his pants and stabbed it on his throat, just a little above his trachea.
For 15 seconds, he slowly cut his own vocal cords as he sometimes chocked on the blood. It might be a little too much, but I would heal him so he could talk to Whitebeard normally, this was just for him to suffer more before that.
As he finished that, I deactivated my Geass and he returned to normal. Normal was a bit of an understatement because he knew that he had cut his own vocal cords. He was panicking right now and tried to yell for his crew to help him, but he simply couldn't. The only sound that came from him was the disgusting sound of him chocking and gargling on his own blood. He must have a LOT of adrenaline coursing through his blood because he seemed completely unfazed from the pain that he must be feeling.
He would probably die soon from blood loss because well, he just stabbed his own throat and his abdomen was cut open by yours truly.
When he panickingly turned around to call his crewmates, what he saw left him in a state of complete fear.
Mihawk was just standing there, looking at Blackbeard with his arms crossed and Jesus Burgess on the floor behind him, unconscious.
Issho wasn't different. He was sitting with his eyes closed next to Lafitte who was also knocked out completely with his wings still out.
And lastly, Van Augur was lying on the ground with foam coming out of his mouth with his hands still on his balls. He was also passed out.
Robin who saw the whole scene of me, no, of Blackbeard cutting himself up was a bit frightened and quickly ran to Mihawk's side to check up on him and to get away from the fat mountain that was chocking on blood.
I, who also saw that Mihawk and Issho were done, turned to Blackbeard and said, "So, willing to come with us now or would you like to hurt yourself some more?"
He quickly nodded and it seemed that the pain was starting to kick in because he was holding his throat that was like a fountain of blood with as much force as he could while also trying to close his cut abdomen so that his entrails wouldn't leave his body anymore.
"Great. Mihawk and Issho, carry their bodies to our ship and tie them up with some of the ropes that are on the dinner table please (they are ropes that are impossible to escape or cut). Robin, can you please get everything that's on their ship and bring it to our storage room, please? Thank you." I said to my crewmates as I cuffed Blackbeard with some of my special, unbreakable, unpickable, and all around unescapable cuffs that I spawned on my back pocket.
"No problem, Captain." Said Robin as Mihawk and Issho started to pick up the bodies of the unconscious Blackbeard Pirates.
I started to walk back to our ship with Blackbeard to my side, with a completely pale face and cold body. It seemed that he was near death's door.
"Oh, how stupid of me! I forgot that you're almost dying there and at this state, you won't be able to go to Whitebeard's ship. That isn't an issue though, you won't die until I let you die. You will be at this shape for the entire trip to Whitebeard. I hope you think well about what you will say to him, Teach." I said to him as I noticed the condition he was in and made it impossible for him to die or pass out due to blood loss, hunger, dehydration and whatever.
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A few minutes have passed and everyone from the Blackbeard Pirates has been tied up and put on a spare room. This room was just a completely empty space that didn't have anything, not even a toilet.
I distorted time there so that 1 hour out here would be 2 weeks in there. This made it so that they would only suffer more and be forced to do whatever necessities they have in there and maybe eat or drink them to satisfy their hunger and thirst..... disgusting.
Returning to my ship's deck, I saw Mihawk and Issho talking to each other about some things so I entered the conversation.
"Had fun on your fights?"
"My opponent was too weak. It was boring." Mihawk replied with his usual face.
"Mine was the same. Lafitte was too weak for me to improve my mastery of my devil-fruit abilities." Issho said.
"That's a bummer. I'll go call Dave so you can have some fun then." I said to them while returning to the kitchen and calling for Dave as I created a portal to his dimension and stuck my head inside.
"YO DAVE! COME OUT HERE SO YOU CAN TRAIN MIHAWK AND ISSHO." I yelled for him.
"COMING, CAIN!" He shouted back.
I then closed the portal to his dimension and returned to the deck and said that he would be there soon to fight them.
Going back to Blackbeard's ship, I saw Robin there with a LOT of stuff on her 10 arms that she created with her abilities.
"Shit, sorry Robin. I didn't think that they would have so much. Let me help you." I quickly said to her.
"It's alright, Captain." She replied with a face that seemed to be exploding at any moment due to the weight of everything she was carrying.
"HAHAHAHA, look at your face!" I couldn't help but laugh out loud seeing her face that looked exactly like the one you would make when you're constipated.
She shot a glare at me and I instantly shut up. A women's anger is truly frightening...
"Sorry sorry. Now come, let's return to the ship." I apologized and used my gravity control to lessen the weight of everything to 1% of the original.
She smiled and thanked me, noticing what I did but not knowing how I did it. Like Mihawk, she already got used to everything unusual that happened with me around.
After everything was on our storage room, I went back to the deck and saw Mihawk and Issho fiercely fighting against Dave. They should be having some fun...
Robin was a little far away from them, sunbathing in her swimsuit while reading a book.
I then asked Rhea to create a little atomic bomb on Blackbeard's ship and for it to explode in 2 hours. That was enough for us to reach Whitebeard and get away from the explosion.
"I'm excited to see how Whitebeard will react when I bring Blackbeard to his ship, HAHAHAHAHA." I said to myself while making the ship go to Whitebeard's position. We would reach there in about 1 hour and a half so it was enough time for Mihawk and Issho to train a little with Dave and for Robin to get a little tanned...
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CHAPTER 24 END
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