Disguises

After a short walk Fabian led Ori and the others back to the dining room at the back of his little antique shop. Whilst they were all sat down round the table, Fabian was boiling the kettle for some tea.

"So why exactly are you all so determined to visit Enies Lobby? Most pirates try and stay as far away from the Judicial Island as physically possible, but you maniacs are actually trying to sneak in…"

No one replied immediately as the information was highly sensitive. Ori looked at Shaya as if to confirm that the old man was worth trusting. Shaya knew exactly what his gaze meant and nodded gently saying it's ok to trust him. Ori trusted Shaya's judgement implicitly, so once she gave the confirmation he turned back to Fabian and said.

"Queen Otohime of Fishman Island will be visiting Mary Geoise in the not so distant future…"

Ori explained everything from Silk's identity, to Fishman Island's plan to eventually be able to live on land without fear of being hunted, to their plan to protect her on her journey.

After hearing everything they had to say Fabian couldn't help but chuckle to himself.

"Pirates acting as body guards, now that's not something you hear about every day. You Heavenly Demon Pirates aren't actually as scary as the papers made you out to be."

Ori shrugged indifferently as he replied.

"You shouldn't believe everything you read in the papers."

"I guess you're right haha. Now then, let's get down to business shall we. Do you have any idea what you wish your disguises to look like?"

Hearing his question everyone couldn't hide their surprise. Shaya was the first to respond as she asked.

"You mean we get to choose what we look like?"

"Haha you already know my devil fruit is the illusion fruit. By using my fruit on you, I can make you look however I wish and unless you've trained your observation haki to the peak, you can forget about seeing through my illusions. The people who've reached such a level can be counted on 2 hands and the chance of you running in to one of them on Enies Lobby are slim to none."

Ori didn't doubt his words as he'd read the description of the illusion fruit when he was flicking through his father's books when he was younger. It's said that when the user can turn an illusion into reality they would have officially awakened and when the user can change the aura of the illusions they have virtually mastered their devil fruit. At that level it'd become almost impossible to see through their illusions.

Ori couldn't help but smile at how lucky they were to have a contact who like Fabian who could create illusions so powerful that it was almost impossible to see through.

"I know exactly how I wish to look…"

After hearing Ori's ideal look Fabian nodded as he put a hand on his head. As he removed his hand from Ori's head, he smiled and nodded to Orion.

"Ok done."

Ori looked at him suspiciously as he said.

"What do you mean done, I don't feel any different."

Ori looked around and saw the surprised faces of Roman and the others. Fabian let out a chuckle as he replied.

"If you at your level were able to feel a difference it wouldn't be much of an illusion now would it."

As he said that he picked up the full body mirror on the other side of the room and brought it over.

When Ori finally got to see his new look even he couldn't help but be shocked at how realistic it was. Even though he didn't feel any different he looked like a completely new person.

He was now a tall light skinned man with grey eyes and long wavy brown hair tied in a long ponytail, long bangs that hung over the left side of his face and had a thin layer of facial hair around his mouth and cheeks. He was dressed in a black samurai outfit with a white haori over the top, a pink flowered lady's kimono draped over his shoulders and a sugegasa straw hat.

As he looked at his new look in the mirror he couldn't help but smile as his mind wandered.

[I guess you could say this is me paying a tribute to my favourite dual wielding swordsman in anime from my last life.]

He turned around and faced the others with a smile as he declared.

"For the duration of the operation my name is Kyoraku Shunsui, a wondering samurai originally from Wano."

Seeing his instant transformation Roman and the others also wanted to try but when asked they didn't have any ideas that sprang to mind so Ori helped them out.

Roman was now dressed in a full body outfit with even his face fully covered by a metal helmet that made his eyes glow yellow. He was wearing a skin tight black and white one piece outfit with a chest plate on top of that which only covered the top half of his chest. On top of that was a long white jacket that reached his calves which had metal shoulder plates sticking out. He looked extremely mysterious and domineering.

Shaya was now a relatively petite woman with grey eyes and black hair. Her hair is worn short with 2 long braids bound in white cloth and a large golden ring attached to the end of each braid. She was dressed in a black samurai outfit similar to Ori's but more snug. Like Ori she was also wearing a white haori on top but hers was sleeveless and she had a yellow sash tied round her waist.

Silk was now a large tank like white human with wild black hair tied back with a red headband. He was dressed in a white karate gi with the sleeves torn off a black martial arts belt and bare feet.

Despite being asleep Sabo was transformed into buff teenager with long spiky black hair. He was dressed in an orange martial artists gi and a navy blue t-shirt underneath. The pipe originally strapped to his back was now an orange staff.

Seeing their new looks Ori nodded out of satisfaction.

"Roman you're new name's Incursio, the mysterious armoured spearman. Shaya you're Sui Feng, a former ninja assassin from Wano. Silk you're name's Ryu, the wandering martial artist. And Sabo's new name is Goku."

Seeing how easy it was to come up with looks and identities for each of his crewmates surprised Fabian, but he didn't think much of it and just chalked it up to the imagination of a teenager.

After everyone had been finished Shaya turned back to Fabian and asked.

"Uncle, how long will these illusions last and will they come undone if we get injured?"

"Haha come undone because of an injury? Haha what kind of amateur do you take me for?! They'll stay up as long as I'm alive, the only way to remove them is for either me as the caster or you as the target to remove it personally. If neither of us remove it, it'll stay up even after your death!"

Ori didn't doubt what he said as he had read just how effective the illusion fruit could be once mastered.

"So how do we remove it after we're finished?!"

"If you use your observation haki you should be able to sense my aura inside you. To remove the illusion all you have to do is channel your own aura inside to get rid of mine. As long as you can use armament haki, even if it's only to an elementary level getting rid of the illusion is pretty simple."

They all used their observation haki to locate Fabian's aura inside them. The thing that surprised Ori was that it was almost undetectable, if Fabian hadn't said anything Ori could've easily missed it.

Fabian looked at the rookies with a smile as he said.

"Ok, ok, enough of that. Time for you kids to get going! I'm rooting for you guys from now on so don't let me down."

Shaya dived into the old man's embrace as she said emotionally.

"Take care of yourself. We'll come back and visit in the future."

"I'll be here waiting!"

He then saw the group out and watched as they disappeared into the distance. After confirming they had disappeared he let out a sigh as he said.

"You can come out now!"