Chapter 16 - Enel beaten into submission

It was a breezy day in the South Skypiea district of Birka. A young man was casually eating a meal at a local restaurant. Even he had to admit that these were some good food, maybe he'll ask for some recipe to send down to his chefs back on his ship.

"Does the meal satisfy you Mr Yale?" The waitress asked, it was not often that the sky people get visitors from the blue sea, and when they do, they treat them like absolute divine beings.

"Sure it does, thank you again for the meal." Yale reached into his pocket and paid for his meal with golden coins, he got up, thanked the staff once more.

Then, the captain made his way outside of the restaurant, met by a crowd of curious Birkan citizens. They all looked at him with admiration and curiosity. Yale enjoyed the stares but he was really after one thing on his sky island visit.

His goal was located in a monastery where a lone man upheld his practices and upheld his godly self-worth

He quickly made his way to said monastery, it was massive, made with a large amount of gold. To the people of the sky, gold was a common luxury. He noticed that the crowd which had followed him throughout his time in Skypie dispersed once he entered the premise of the monastery.

Yale stood in the gigantic front door, he seemed like a dwarf when standing next to the entrance way. He knocked three times and then, nothing but silence.

Suddenly the door swung open, a hint of electrical current surging through the door, possibly to mechanize it.

"Mortal, What brings you to my sky?" A deep commanding voice echoed throughout the massive hall. Yale nodded that the ego of the man was humongous, even a years before destroying his own home land.

"I have come to speak to Enel." Yale said casually, emphasizing the lack of respect for his name. When Enel fought Luffy in his original timeline, the egotistical bastard was so full of himself that it was easy to enrage him.

This was his approach here, probably going to need to fight Enel then beat him until he joins, simple enough right?

"You dare refer to me by my mortal name?" There was tremor in his voice yet he retained his composure. Enel jumped from the balcony which he had been standing on and landed in front of Yale. "Tell me mortal, what do you need to speak to me for?" Yale noted that Enel did not care for his name, by the end of the day, he'll turn that around.

"I came to invite you into my crew. For I know that you will be a great asset in my fighting force." Yale phased around the room, not looking at Enel as he admired the architecture.

Yahahaha!" Enel laughed for a good minute, as his stomach hurts. "I haven't had a good laugh like that in ages." Enel finally stopped laughing and yet the Yale remained unfazed.

"You see my reaction mortal, that is my answer to your outrageous request." Enel proceeded to use his devil fruit powers to create crackles of electricity.

Yale noted that Enel was already proficient with his devil fruit. Enel laid on his side casually eating a bowl of grapes which floated along with the divan.

Yale noted that Enel's appearance did not have much difference, he still had his four drum accessory pierced over his back, his earlobe were still hanging low, and he still had the same smug look on his face.

"I'm sure we can come to an arrangement, here in the sky your reign is supreme, sure, but don't you want to test your limits? In the Blue sea there are literal people who can shake the world, excrete magma, control darkness, even light with their own hands."

"Hmm? A quake person you say? Magma...darkness...light…." Enel sat up, Yale finally reached him. "No no, it does not matter, for I know I am supreme."

"Sure you are." In a blink of an eye, Enel left a trail of electricity behind him, swiftly appearing in front of Yale. They were inches from one another, the godly man was enraged.

"Tell me mortal, what color do you bleed?" Enel must have been insulted by Yale's rhetoric. It was hilarious yet Yale kept a straight face as Enel launched a hundred volt thunder strike.

But something odd happened, to the godly man at least, as his electrical one shot man killer had absolutely no effect on Yale.

"Red, but you'll never get any out of me." Yale had a smile on his face now, having activated his haki in the palm of his hands.

Another round of thunder strike, each one having a higher voltage than the last yet Yale was not affected, the captain even yawned in boredom, as the over reliant logia was using up all his thunder strike techniques without any effect

"What the hell?" For once, the thunder user was shook.

"Tell me your name." Enel finally yielded, for all his years as a self anointed deity, he has never met a man that stood up to his wrath.

"Yale, future ruller of this world!" Yale said it with such ease that Enel smiled.

"King Yale...it's got a ring to it, but I'm sorry to say but you shall die here...in the sky." Enel suddenly expanded into a massive blue beast made of pure lightning.

'100,000,000 Volt Amaru!' The technique was impressive but it was not enough!

"If you lose to me Enel, you join me." Yale's muscle grew sturdier, and space twisted around him momentarily obstructing Enel's view. once the air cleared, it revealed Yale's pitch black figure covered in Armament Haki.

In Yale's mind, he might as well overpower Enel so he would join him. He wondered if it would work?

"I'll never lose to anyone!" Enel's anger brought his massive palm forward which Yale met with a palm strike. It was a clash between lightning and Haki.

Yale's palm went through the arm of lighting, destroying it until his palm connected with Enel forcing him out of his lightning form.

The god was knocked to the farthest wall of his own temple. The shock in his face was evident.

Yale returned to his normal form, approaching Enel. As he got to him, he squatted in front of the thunder user, looking at him with the smile which had become so annoying to Enel.

Enel felt a trickle of liquid flow from his mouth, red substance escaped him. He was bleeding?

Yale just stared at Enel, waiting for his answer. The god thought he was invisible yet Yale just showed him first hand, with only one palm strike, that this was not the case.

For a good minute Enel pondered the new reality which the young man just brought to him. There was a whole world which challenged his godly abilities. Then Enel slowly got up, wiping the blood which escaped from his mouth.

"Fine mortal…I'll join you."

"It's Captain, by the way where are your people?"

"I'm not going to call you…" Yale raised his eyebrows as if to ask 'go on then'

"...fine Captain...I have disciples but they are all weaklings."

"Call them over, I want to meet them." Yale now took the divan of Enel and sat on it. What a power move.

"Fine…" Enel gritted between his teeth, he brought his hand into the sky and launched a thunder strike straight up. This was the signal.

At first it was quiet, but it couldn't have been more than two minutes when rumbling outside the building began.

Suddenly four people emerged through the front door, all of which took a bow before even looking at who they were bowing to.