Boin Archipelagos #4

Heracles looked to be really annoyed, he had been on this island for a very long time and learned as much as he could about the plants, bugs and anything else that belongs to it along with the changes that take place.

Had he not known about the islands movements by now then he may have died when the island began to swallow everything on it.

Those lifeforms and Heracles had been able to survive in this kind of environment for a longtime without special abilities and inhuman physical power and endurance but Heracles had become a master of Pop Green and had trained himself while eating the food on the island in measured amounts.

Alyssia bowed apologetically. "I am sorry, my cat could not resist the urge to eat the Ham Fruits. It seems that she got too lost in her gluttony and became too large resulting in the island being triggered. You must be the 'Champion of the Forest' that I have heard rumours about."

Heracles nodded in understanding but after hearing the title given to him,he became bashful and a little proud. "Champion of the forest-un! No problem!"

An idea came to her mind after spending a little time with him and purchasing some of his botany and pop green skills. "Hmm… you wouldn't mind tutoring some of the children I am looking after? They are very weak and have suffered a lot so they need to find a way to become healthier and learn some survival skills that can keep them alive. I believe that you can teach them better than me."

Even if she has the ability to purchase and absorb others knowledge and skills, there are times when practical experiences with the actual master of those skills would be more useful than her own books, explanations and showing them how to do certain things.

Pop Green required learning about each one and their individual uses but also knowing how to fire them towards a target.

If the wrong one was fired then it may have serious consequences and if not fired towards the right location, they could cause serious damage to allies or the general surroundings.

Even if the children cannot learn every single one, they can instead learn how to grow them and focus on a certain type of Pop Green.

That way the ones that do not have talent for shooting or learning about botany can always find other ways of contributing.

Some of them already had some hunting abilities and during the time their bodies had been slowly receiving care while doing the odd chores so their strength had grown a little.

They should be at the level where they should be able to handle something as small as a sling shot.

It would take time to learn the skills herself or put them into a book format so she felt that making use of Heracles who is right in front of her was the better option.

She also had an interest in continuing to stay on the island and honing her survival instincts even further.

Just like the other crew had done so on Green Bit, this ship would have to do the same on Boin Archipelago.

Since she had found a babysitter for the children among her crew, she and Nica went to drag people onto the island to begin their wilderness training.

Not long afterwards, Alyssia found that everyone had settled into their own individual roles.

Liushi was taking up the leading role among those that came from Kano, Jester was using his Devil Fruit to cause confusion and create chances for others who were following him from the captives that remained.

Nica had more opportunities to collect samples of the islands creatures and plant life after they were defeated but also practice her shooting skills with her pistols.

Fatty Li was put through many battles and a difficult training plan so she was gradually able to adapt to the changes in her body.

Among the group that surrounded Heracles, there were also some of the others on board the ship that coveted his botany knowledge or the power of the Pop Green.

However among the many small and skinny children that were dressed in animal one piece clothing, that were gradually improving on the island there was one that showed the most talent with their mastery over the use of a sling shot and Pop Green but favoured the use of one specific Pop Green.

The most talented among the group was a small thirteen year old female with pale white skin, medium length wavy black hair and black eyes with a small and skinny body frame which showed her initial growth during puberty had been halted mostly due to malnutrition and her name was called Baby Nine which showed that she was the ninth child of a family or the ninth child born from her mother or father but it was unknown if she was the ninth child that had been abandoned by them or not since it was not uncommon for them to occasionally keep a child they thought would be useful.

She looked a little similar Baby Five but due to her poor physique, it was difficult to recognise the resemblance too much expect some more obvious traits like her black hair and eyes so she could either be a direct blood relation to her born from the same mother or from someone among the same tribe that shared the same bloodline.

Since Baby Five was around the age of twenty four during the Dressrosa Arc, right now after removing two years from the time skip, another approximate year from the pre time skip and how long it is until the story begins which is still around two thirds of a year until then.. Baby Five should be around twenty to twenty one years old allowing around seven to eight years for a baby six, seven, eight and nine to be born afterwards so it may be possible to actually be her sister.

However when Alyssia had arrived, there were no others with similar traits and similarities to them so it was unknown whether the others had died during childbirth, been abandoned and did not survive or were still somewhere in Kuen Village.

Like Baby Five, she seemed to have high talent for using weapons and projectiles, even during her time on the island, she was able to contribute to the group that lived within the forest and hunt her own food even with her small and weak body.

There was also another small difference between them in personality, after being abandoned Baby Five became desperate to be needed by others but Baby Nine had developed a slightly tsundere personality and that was weak to praise.

Although she much preferred the simple use of the bamboo javelin Pop Green, she did pick up ways to use the others like the human-drake, trampoline and impact wolf combination or the simple devil Pop Green and the restrictive

Given enough time to grasp the others, she would soon be able to increase her attacks and tactics but also her utility.

This made Alyssia further believe that stopping on this island was the correct thing to do, although it did not interest her a great deal… the final Clima-Tact belonging to Nami and Kabuto belonging to Usopp did have some Pop Green modifications to help them extend or grow so it was not worthless.

She was not able to equip everyone with high grade weapons or technology because of the high costs, a lot of research and manpower is needed to produce so many of them and the risks of them leaking outwards resulting in others studying her designs so this was also another alternative route that they can learn to manage themselves.

If someone saw her actions… they would immediately wonder if she was gearing up for a war however no matter how she saw things, war was something that would happen anywhere in the world whether it was within a single island or was on a larger scale involving the Marines and the future battles that the Minks were destined to join in Zou.

She could not escape the connections she had so it was better to be prepared, collect talents around her and build a trustworthy and stable crew that will have her back when trouble comes along.

Although nothing big has happened yet, it may come at anytime unexpectedly, even if she had known the journey of the Straw Hats there were still some missing parts from what was happening in the Grand Line before Luffy enters and then there are the various other routes of the Grand Line that would be changed after the Worst Generation had visited but little had been told about how they brought that change whether it be good or bad.

There is also the two year time skip where there is a lot of missing information and not enough about Shanks' and Whitebeard's territories.

She couldn't help but feel anxious about the many uncertain things that she did not know about, so she had to force herself to study and train relentlessly to better prepare herself.

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Many weeks had been spent on Boin Archipelago and the children had begun to show significant improvements along with the rest of her crew.

The Ramen Waterfall, Spaghetti Grass, Ham Fruits and Chocolate Rocks on the island was sparingly handed out between everyone to improve their bodies further while enduring Alyssia's even harsher training program to match their excess energy gained from what they were eating.

Since some could not handle the urge to eat more, she had to carefully guard that area and distribute it all among them carefully.

To avoid infighting over the food after being caught up in their gluttony, she had also provided the food to one person at a time and watched them eat it all before seeing the next person.

Fixed times were set for the meals and those that had worked harder and were able to burn off the calories faster were able to eat earlier than the others which increased then competition among them.

Whether it was the young, the old or the healthy middle aged people in the group that had already trained their bodies, everyone was able to make great progress in their own way.

Even Jester had taken a liking to the Shuriken and Skull Bomb Pop Green that had more lethal effects upon being thrown by himself.

A harmless seed being thrown among many throwing weapons was always something to be greatly underestimated.