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Everyone waited as the current started to push them towards their destination, the ship broke through a wall of fog before a giant red mountain blocked their path.

On its own, the ship started to correct its path towards a large opening in the mountain face, " Alright let's get this done with." Stepping onto the dragon figurehead Hiko sat down and started to gather water at the front of the ship.

As they got closer to the mountain channel the water around the front of the ship took shape, the front tapered into a point as the back flared out. With a little more effort Hiko made the water spin, he had effectively made a drill to help their passage. He didn't know-how larger ship could get into the grand line as even his ship was cutting it close, everyone held their breath as the ship started to rise with the water.

Tashigi winced as the high pitched noise of stone being cut through seemed louder after bouncing off the high walls, Hiko had to fight the water as it tried to give against the rock.

The angle of the ship sharply increase as the ship was launched into the sky, Nami, Nojiko, and Alvida screamed out in delight as Tashigi held onto the main mast closing her eyes. Their time in the air came to an end as they landed on the opposite water ramp their landing cushioned by the water, sighing Hiko let the water drill fall apart just as Nami hugged him from behind.

" That was great we should do it again, " Hiko pulled her around to his front kissing her deeply. Not refuting the kiss Nami wrapped her arms and legs around Hiko as their tounges battled, their make-out session was interrupted by Tashigi who cough to get their attention. Nami smiled as she winked at Tashigi, " There's no need for jealousy, if you want I can put you in the rotation. I do have to warn you that it might be hard giving him up after you've had him. "

Tashigi face became bright red as steam started to rise from her head, ' It's Nen, Nami really got to her. ' Hiko stood up making Nami get off his lap as he walked over to Tashigi placing his hand on her head using his healing hands, " Don't feel forced to do anything you don't want to. " Tashigi face lost most of its blush as her mind and Nen started to calm down her eyes growing hazy, stopping after a few minutes Hiko clapped his hands.

" Okay, Nami you uploaded the information from the map I gave you. " Nami nodded summoning her traveler's map, " We're heading straight for Whisky Peak, you said there was some sort of princess that would help you. " Hiko nodded, " The princess of Alabasta Nefertari Vivi, she entered a secret organization called Baroque Works to spy on them. She found out their leader's name and that he's behind the rebellion in her kingdom.

Once we offer our help, I can take down the leader Crocodile and become one of the seven warlords. " Alvida smiled, " I know master can do it. " Hiko grinned, " Thank you Alvida, also I'm started a new project so I'm going to miss dinner. " Running back down to his workshop Hiko got to work, after forming several bars of large-high-quality iron Hiko put them back in the furnace before he added a dark grey power on top. It was a mixture of graphite and coal, what he would try and attempt to do was create a large blade made out of folded steel.

When the iron was hot he quickly dunked them in water before he started to hammer, Hiko would flatten the ingot before dusting it with the graphite coal mixture and folding it in on itself.

Repeating this one hundred times Hiko had to reheat his first ingot giving him time to work on the next ingot, every now and then sparks would fly from the ingot as he hammered which was good as that was a sign that impurities were being removed. When he had folded each ingot a total of 1000 times each Hiko finally moved on to making the sword, bringing out all three ingots each the size of his head he started to fuse them together.

As he shaped the sword Hiko would heat treat the metal with his Levitan flames that were hotter than the one in the forge. Hiko didn't know how much time had passed but Hiko dipped his finished sword into the water to cool it down.

Looking at the blade Hiko realized it wasn't much of a blade, the one-meter blade was a flat, thin rectangle without sharp edges. The sword was heavy Hiko put it around 150 pounds, walking over to the already made hilt Hiko quickly attached it. The handle was simple made out of white fur and red leather, the sword altogether had a very tribal look. Taking a few practice swings Hiko found that his vibrations channeled easily through the sword, ' This will do for now. '

Storing the sword in his inventory Hiko was about to leave when a voice entered his head, [ Hiko we're here, there's a bunch of people greeting us but their Nen is sinister. ] Shocked by what Nami's said Hiko took a while to respond, [ Just play along they'll try to get us drunk but we all should be able to tolerate it. I need some practice so I'll handle it on my own. ] Grinning Hiko's hands twitched, ' I can't wait to try out my new toy. '