Chapter 3: Free From His Eyes

<5 year timeskip> 

The sun gleamed in the evening sky as it began to disappear behind the rocky mountains, the last sunset I would see on Vice Admiral Garp's ship, following my promotion to Warrant officer. I can now choose a field to specialize in and have my first proper independent role in the Marines, but there is more. 

For however long I will remain as a warrant officer in the Marines, I must choose to either work at a base under any choice of Admiral or to roam the seas as the marine's personal pirate catching unit. I chose the second option in a heartbeat, there was no caging my thirst for blood, and these last five years, the only reason I have survived is the fact that I had directed this thirst towards my sparring sessions with Garp, even now, the most I could do was bruise him slightly.

<Mellissa, pull up my stats>

<Yessir >

Regulus D Newgate

Status: Tired from Training, awoken, ready.

Role: Marine

Rank: Warrant Officer

Body Potential: Whitebeard and beyond

Body completion: 60%

Devil Fruit: Gura Gura no mi, tremor tremor fruit.

Devil Fruit rating: 10/10

Devil Fruit User Ability: 275/500

Devil Fruit Mastery: Average->Strong range

Moves Df: Ground Shatter, Quake, Erupt, Primal Pressure, basic air Shatter, Skull crack wave, Mega Quake, Air Smash, Batter Shatter, Eternal Elimination (combo move)

Haki: Conquerors (Intermediate->Strong), Armament (Intermediate), Observation (Average/Intermediate almost).

Comparison Level: Could take on New World pirates, Yopnko first mate level, and some more

Strength: Insane 

Speed: Strong

Stamina: Strong

Stealth: Average

Stat rankings: Shit, Poor, Mid, Average, Strong, Insane, Steroids, Legendary, Mythical and God.

Techniques/Notable Characteristics: Rokushicki (Geppo)(Soru)(Rankyaku)(Tekkai), Will of D, Weird Laugh, RAPID recovery, RAPID Evolvement, Body Absorption.

<Thanks Mellissa, I appreciate it>

<No problem Regulus>

It's been years since I joined the Marines, I have evolved beyond measure, and I have reached around 17 feet in height, my body feels like it has reached its peak, but I knew it wasn't enough, if I wanted to strengthen my Haki, I would have to get even stronger. 

I left Garp's ship the following morning without uttering goodbye to him or Bogard, I found myself at Headquarters, awaiting my briefing, with around thirty other recruits who had chosen the same option as me. 

"Look here, pay attention, the one who remains standing alone, by the end of this hour, takes command of the ship!" I heard the words rebound off the walls of the structures in Marine Ford and I glanced around at my colleagues with an evil smile, without warning, I erupted, my massive conquerors immediately dispelling the weak from the strong leaving only ten people including me standing out of the thirty, five of these were already dizzy from the Haki. 

I punched hard down toward the ground propelling me into the sky, where I hovered for a moment, I didn't need to kill, just incapacitate.

"Batter Shatter!" 

I punched down into the air below me, cracking it wider than in any of my attacks enveloping the whole area, blasting down into the earth, and creating a crater in the middle of the training grounds, containing the bodies of my now subordinates, when the Commander came back he gaped in surprise at me, seemingly unharmed and completely clean, "Well, there you have it folks, there's your leader." Still, I don't think anyone was conscious enough to hear it.

I watched as the Marines were loaded onto the new warship assigned to me, I made sure they were tended to in the infirmary, I wasn't completely heartless, not yet. I stood on the figurehead of the marine ship as we sailed away, a weird one at that, the figure of a Dragon. This world was strong and I couldn't wait to encounter all kinds of new foes. 

I was surprisingly bored, I had nothing to do but fill in paperwork and train my useless subordinates, there were no people to terrorize, cities to raze, or Islands to buster call like I had hoped for, it was almost void of enjoyment. I guess this was the problem with the new world, I will make a name for myself here, before taking a long vacation to the blues, a trip full of evil.

Our first action came as we approached a new pirate vessel, the ship of the rookie Muscle Pirates, their captain being Bicep Brad the destroyer, with a bounty of B200,000,000, I bared my lips as we got closer, and my face split into a jeer, this was going to be the most fun I've had in a bloody long time...