Fleet Admiral is recruiting

Izan was in the midst of darkness, he could barely see through his hazy eyes. It felt like Izan was moving forward while trembling as more and more swift colours shot towards him.

One clash after the other, it felt like Izan had to go through this for hours, days, weeks, months, millions of clashes… Izan felt like that he could barely continue moving forward, he could barely see, the world had lost its colours and the only thing he could see were figures attacking him.

Izan had lost what he was made out of, his emotions had stagnated, he couldn't feel his body any longer, the only thing Izan knew was that he needed to move forward. Because if he stopped now, everything would be for nothing and he would lose the one thing he cared for…

After having been attacked and injured millions of times, Izan had lost the sensation of pain. Sadly enough, it wasn't the only thing Izan had lost, Izan had lost his mind…

Izan was like a machine, a machine that only knew how to walk forward and kill everything in his path…

"Guargh!" Izan roared in a deep voice as he hastily stood up from the bed with sweat covering his entire body. His body was trembling in horror, the more he tried to remember, the more he forgot about the nightmare he had been through.

"Husband?!" Hancock woke up from the sudden roar of Izan. She could see Izan trembling, his eyes were widened and sweat covering his body. Hancock hastily stood up and embraced Izan, Hancock didn't know why, but she felt that Izan needed a hug to calm down.

And accurately her thoughts were, Izan managed to slowly calm down as he was hugging Hancock tightly. As Izan was calming himself down, his thoughts were getting clearer, his eyes squinted slightly 'I can't remember what it was, but one thing I am sure of, I won't let anything similar to that happen again…'

There was a feeling Izan hadn't felt before, it was a feeling that he couldn't even remember. What Izan felt was fear… The nightmare Izan went through could only be seen as something filled with horror, something no person could go through without losing their minds…

The door opened hastily, and a figure rushed. Jiutian rushed the moment she heard the scream, cold sweat was running down Jiutian's back as she couldn't help but to tremble. Through the soul binding between them, Jiutian was able to also feel what Izan felt. The sensation of such horror made her cold sweat and her heart was beating swiftly.

"Izan!" Jiutian did only say his name, but her expression said more than a thousand words. Jiutian was worried, she was genuinely worried for Izan as there had been a long time since she had felt something similar… It was back when she was captured that she felt the same feelings as what she had felt now through Izan. It was horrifying to say the least.

Izan smiled and shook his head slightly. "Don't worry, I am fine. It was just a nightmare that managed to scare me, haha." Izan laughed weakly as he glanced down and saw both himself and Hancock naked in front of Jiutian.

Hancock seemingly didn't mind that Jiutian entered at all, the only one she cared for was Izan.

Jiutian sighed in relief, she knew that it did also scare Izan, yet Izan seemed to have understood how to act and didn't want others to worry for himself as of now. Even Jiutian didn't want to let some matters out, as it would be very early, as there was still a long path left until they would arrive at the Real Universe. Now the only thing Jiutian should try to focus on was to grow stronger with Izan till the time is right.

Jiutian nodded, turning around and walked away. "We are going to drop downwards after breakfast. Do wear some clothes before coming up." Jiutian's figure was nowhere to be seen after she had finished speaking.

Izan nodded, he lowered his head slightly and kissed Hancock's forehead. "Thank you Hancock, your hug helped me a lot…" Izan kissed her forehead once again as he hugged Hancock tightly before the two of them left each other's embrace.

"I will be with you at all times, if you ever need a hug, my embrace will always be open for you." Hancock smiled brightly. Hancock did somehow enjoy the feeling of that she could also take care of Izan and not only the other way around.

Hancock and Izan dressed themselves and went out of the bedroom. The six of them gathered together for a silent breakfast. It was clear that everyone had heard Izan's scream, yet they were confused as they didn't see anything wrong with Izan.

Izan sighed as he explained to them that it was only a nightmare and nothing more. Even if the others didn't believe it to be that simple, they didn't say anything as they knew that Izan would tell them if it was important.

After they had eaten breakfast, they went outside to the deck, but the moment they did so, they were surprised as they saw a thin membrane around Defying.

"It will be our protection against the water and the pressure for when we dive deep down." Jiutian explained as she motioned her hand which made half a dozen sunchairs in different colours appear with tables and drinks on it.

Defying slowly submerged and it travelled downwards…

Marineford, Navy Headquarters.

Aokiji, Akainu and Kizaru were sitting around a table with calm expressions on their faces. They had several documents in front of them, a smile crept up on Akainu's face.

He slapped the table without using any force. "This will be just the beginning…!" Akainu wanted to stand up, but he calmed himself down. Because the documents they were reading about was about promising people that has accepted to join the Navy because the "pirates" had gone too far. "This time the Heavenly Pirates did more good for us than bad…!" A grin appeared on Akainu's face as he glared at the five documents in front of him.

"Th-is ti-me, we wi-ll be aggr-essive aga-inst the pir-ates in the New Wo-rld." Kizaru did also smile as he thought of his own plans for what he personally would start on.

Aokiji glanced between Kizaru and Akainu. "From what we have already planned, Akainu will be the new Fleet Admiral and we will be recruiting these five people will be additional to the rank of Admiral." Aokiji voice was calm, yet there was a tinge of hatred in it. He hated Izan, Izan was someone that had caused so much harm to the entire world.

"With this, we will create a perfect base in the New World and venture against those scums of the seas…!" Akainu smiled that even his teeth appeared, he couldn't help himself but to laugh out loudly.

"The Era of the Pirates will end when we let their blood colour the sea red!" Akainu was happy about getting five new people with the strength of an Admiral, and it wasn't enough with that, their teacher, Zephyr did also return for the reason to kill the pirates.

"With this, the strength of the Navy will have eight people with the strength of an Admiral. And, if Kizaru is successful with his own work, there will be countless more strong recruits that can be as strong as us Admirals." Aokiji started smiling as he knew their strength had boosted a lot through the loss of the war.

Whenever the Justice of the world faced danger, danger enough to threaten the entire world, there would always be hidden monsters that would awake and stop the threat together. When Gol D. Roger was running amok with Whitebeard and Shiki. Garp, Sengoku and Zephyr were their opponents.

Now that the Heavenly Pirates had caused chaos, there had been lots of people joining the Navy to uphold the Justice.

Kizaru glanced at Akainu and Aokiji before he started speaking. "I wa-nt Smo-ker… He has pote-nial to be as stro-ng as an Admi-ral."

Akainu nodded without much thought. "I will send him to your laboratory in the New World. We will be needing the strength of anything we can get." Akainu didn't want to do the same mistake as Sengoku and the previous Fleet Admirals to only allow only three Admirals at a time. What Akainu wanted to do was to get as many Admirals they would need to cover the sea in the pirates' blood.

It was finally the time for the Navy to start uprooting the pirates in the New World and finally put an end to this Era of Pirates. Akainu, Aokiji and Kizaru wouldn't stop until all the Emperors are dead…!