O’Tama

When Ian met with Ariel, he didn't get just his questions answered… no he got his hands on something more.

Similar to that time with Kurma, and that lizard in the Florian Triangle, he got some sort of crystalized power source that helps him become stronger.

Ian was already at the peak of the third stage, but even after he woke up and felt the increase in strength he knew he didn't reach the fourth stage. He had only gotten closer to it…

But the most important things he had gotten from this were two things very crucial to him.

Ariel had stressed that before he had gifted them to Ian.

Ian was on the deck of the ship currently. In his hands, a golden flame danced as he looked at it intently.

This was the gift he received from Ariel. He had told him that any type of fire would be extremely harmful against the diávoloi. And since Ian already had lightning, Ariel suggested combining the two of the attacks for a better effect.

His control over the flames came naturally to him. But he was still not at a point where he could combine it with lightning. Whenever he did that, it would explode in his hands.

And from that explosion, Ian knew that if he succeeded at this, his attacks using it would become the strongest move he could deliver.

The other gift was a spear, a double-headed spear more precisely. This weapon was stronger and sharper than any weapon Ian had seen so far. Just thinking about it was making him giddy again.

Ariel mentioned that the spear was gifted to him by the supreme one. Which Ian presumed was his leader and the mysterious voice.

(A/N: The same spear on the cover of the story)

Right now Ian was heading out with his crew to Wano. They had just reached the point where they would have to sail upwards of the waterfall.

Which while impressive in the anime, was even more so in reality.

Ian turned to the side and saw his whole crew on the deck.

The giant Fishmen, Don, started to speak.

"So this is the land of Wano?" he asked in wonderment. He had never been here.

Ian nodded at him.

"Yeah, but we still have to go up this waterfall to reach it." He said.

When they had their fight against the diávoloi, he had already called the rest who were in Wano and told them about his deal with Kaido. Law specifically said that he can do something with that and so he started to change his plans.

Don gave Ian a nod as he suggested.

"Should I go down there and pull it upward?" He asked. He certainly had the strength to do that. Especially after Ian's help, and his increase in power.

Ian was about to suggest flying the ship since he already told Kin'emon that he would locate them once he is in Wano and come to them on his own.

But someone beat him to it…

It was the little girl who was floating near Robin's head.

She manipulated her ability, and then many huge shadowy arms expanded from the front of the ship and latched on to many of the Koi fish who had started to jump through the waterfall.

Since everyone there was pretty strong, they didn't have any trouble staying steady, in fact, most of them found this exciting.

Including Ian who only smiled as he brought Libell's into his arms and started to ruffle her hair as he laughed.

"Big brother, stawp…" Libell squirmed a bit in his arms before she gave up and just nestled into his arms… it was not that she hated it anyway…

"Well, looks like we will be sailing upwards with the help of these Koi fish then," Ian exclaimed.

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When Ian and co finally reached the land of Wano, they ended up on the shore as they all jumped down from the ship.

The ship was then stored, before Ian could do anything else, a commotion was heard nearby and Ian was surprised for a bit.

A giant Baboon and a lion-dog were fighting out nearby.

Soon enough though as the lion-dog was barking, Ian's eyes glowed red.

Then he moved on all of a sudden and vanished.

The next thing that happened was him showing up where he previously was. Only this time he had a sack in his hands which he put on the ground gently.

Squirming could be seen in the sack before finally, a little girl came out.

The first thing she did was yell.

"Please let me go, I didn't do anything!"

This left them all perplexed.

Except for Ian and Elene.

They had watched the anime and had reached this point.

Tama then took a look at her surroundings and landed on Ian. She hurried to warn him about the two beast pirates that were following her, but when she turned around to look at them she saw them fallen on the ground unconscious along with their steeds.

Only then did she turn to look at everybody surrounding her.

She started to panic and shiver in fear when she noticed them all looking at her. Her eyes watered up as she raised her arms in surrender. That's all she could do in this situation.

There were some big guys among them after all. Don… Aokiji… Bert… and even Ian himself.

But Ian smiled at her as he spoke gently.

"Don't worry, we won't hurt you. In fact, I was the one who saved you from those bad guys just now." Ian told her as he kept eye contact with her. Though he didn't move from his place and only lowered his body so that he was closer to her height.

Earlier, he had seen the future vision where they attacked him using rifles, and so he sprang into action and knocked them out, and then he took the sack where she was held. There was no need for any further drama.

"R-Really?" She asks timidly. Hope reflected in her clear violet eyes.

Ian assures her with another nod. The gentle smile never leaving his face.

But then all of a sudden the giant Baboon which was fighting nearby saw the two fallen beast pirates and picked up a nearby sword and attempted to attack Ian.

But it was met by glare from him that made it stop in place in cold sweat.

That's all that Ian did. He just glared at it. But the beast felt that if it had moved another cm it would definitely die. Its instincts were warning it of this.

It let go of the sword and gently sat on the ground as it surrendered to Ian immediately. Soon after the lion-dog also came and sat near it. Its tail wagging from happiness.

Tama who was still nervous a bit took this chance and run at the Baboon before pinching her cheeks and creating a Dango ball.

"Kibi Dango!" She said as she held the Dango ball in her hands.

This shocked them there. They have never seen anything like that.

Meanwhile, Tama went near the Baboon and gave him the Dango to eat. A smile on her face.

But as expected, the beast instead roared at her and was about to hit her as she panicked and yelled. Before she runs and hid on Ian's back.

But Ian decided it was enough of a laugh and glared at the beast.

"Don't worry he won't hurt you. Go ahead and give it to him again." He said as he calmed her down and patted her head.

She looked between him and the Baboon again before taking a brave step and launching the Dango at its mouth.

The beast seeing Ian's glare had no choice but to open its mouth wide and swallow it down.

Seeing that Tama finally smiled and was convinced that Ian was not a bad guy.

"I did it. I finally tamed the savage wild Baboon of the mountains, big brother! Yay!" She yelled at the sky with her arms raised in happiness.

Ian smiled at her along with the rest.

She then remembered to introduce herself and she hurried to speak.

"That's right, I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Otama!" She said.

And so everyone started to introduce themselves to this beautiful eight years old girl.