Wow?

Alexander quickly chased Rayleigh as he crashed into tree after tree and after finally catching up to him.

"Old man Rayleigh are you good?" he said with slight worry in his tone as he didn't want to be the cause of a great man's fall.

"Don't worry kiddo I'm fine, and the fight isn't over yet!" as Rayleigh said that Alexander felt his Observation Haki kick in but only barely predicting the outcome.

He quickly raised his arms and pushed all his strength in both his legs and arms to block the incoming attack. Still, when he saw what the attack looked like, he began to hesitate if he really could prevent the attack as Rayleigh's fist seemed coated in Armament Haki, and it's not the regular kind.

'You old man that granted me these wishes if I die here, I will haunt you for all eternity.' the thought came just before the strike hit him.

*BOOM*

As the punch connected a big shockwave that created a massive crater around them when the dust finally settled, they both standing there with both pained expression for different reasons, but without a doubt, the one that is the worst pain is Alexander. Still, all that pain vanished when Alexander noticed something.

Covering his arms, we're some aura that coated his arms, giving off vibrations and made his arm look a little blurry and unfocused.

'When did this happen? Is this some p#ot ar##r or what?'

He tried punching out in the air, and what happened amazed him when he attempted to punch the thing that coated his arms started violently vibrate, and the punch made a loud boom like if it smashed a barrier and it created a shockwave that cratur a small crater before him.

The aura that coated his arm disappeared after that.

'Vibrations?? Isn't this something that one of Earth Eagle's abilities? Now I have a lot of things to figure out.'

He stopped thinking about it and looked towards Rayleigh to see if he's okay.

"If that punch had landed on me, I think you might have done some damage on me even with my Armament Haki coating my body, and I'm sorry for that last hit I become a little too serious there." Rayleigh said as he stared at Alexander with a weird look.

"Even I don't know what that was, and I'm not even sure how it even manifested." he said sincerely to Rayleigh.

"Well, people might wonder if your Whitebeard's kid as what you did is something that Whitebeard's Devil Fruit allows him to do." Rayleigh said with a little laughter, but he still had a weird look when he looked at Alexander.

"Is there something wrong, Rayleigh?" he couldn't take it that look weirded him out.

"Eh, No, there's nothing you did good kid. Let's go back to the bar before the girls don't worry and start screaming at us, haha." that weird look disappeared, and he started laughing.

"That's right, haha" he ignored it and started laughing a little before grimacing in pain as all the pain finally came back, and he began looking around trying to find someone.

'Where's Variares? I thought he followed me here, but now that I think about it if he was here the whole time, he would have blocked that punch for me.'

'Variares' he thought as to call it, and he got an answer, and it seemed that Variares never followed him, but it had sensed the danger towards its partner but couldn't get there in time even with its speed.

So on there way, Alexander retrieved Variares that wasn't that far away from them, and Rayleigh just stared at it in amazement.

'How can a 5-meter tall giant turn into a small metal scrap?' but he didn't say anything as he had seen weirder things before.

When they finally made it to the bar, they saw Nojiko and Shakky standing there. Nojiko seemed to have a worried look on her face, and Shakky had a calm expression on her face as she knew nothing would happen to Rayleigh and, hopefully, Alexander too.

Nojiko quickly hugged him and started asking him many questions like if he was alright or if he was hurt anywhere, and even if he said he was okay, she didn't seem convinced, so she kept asking the questions.

"Don't worry, the only thing I need is a shower as I'm filthy after all that dust from that last attack, haha, and maybe patching a few small wounds." he said with an annoyed tone as he looked towards Rayleigh.

"Should you say, kid, you destroyed my favorite clothes thanks to all those trees, haha." he retorted back before laughing himself and just went into the bar.

Shakky smiled when she saw Rayleigh laughing before turning to Alexander.

"Thank you, Alex I haven't seen Rayleigh this happy in a long time." she said with gratitude.

"There's no need to thank me; I haven't done anything."

"Maybe not intentionally, but you did something, and I'm grateful well it's getting late why don't you stay with us for the night we have an extra room that you could take."

He looked towards Nojiko and saw that she nodded.

"I would gladly take your offer."

"Well, that settles it, but one thing we have thin walls, so please If you are planning on any 'nightly' activities with your wife, please be a little quiet, haha." she said that before going inside with a small laugh.

When she said that Nojiko got so embarrassed so Alexander thought she would faint for a second.

"Hehe, Well, that's good to know, isn't it?" he said that in a teasing tone, and before he knew it, he got attack by an embarrassed Nojiko that started cutely punching his chest and after some time she stopped and just stayed in his embrace there.

"You know I love you, right?" he said as he gently stroke Nojiko's beautiful long blue hair

"Mhm, you don't have to tell me that I know."

"Well, we should go in before it gets too late, and we miss our 'nightly' activities." he said with a teasing tone again.

"Yea, why don't we hurry back in." she said with a seductive tone.

'She can change so fast.'