7 Years

- 7 years later -

*ROAR*

In the midst of a dense forest, a reptilian looking creature, three times the size of a large elephant, with two legs and two arms and a long-spiked tail, was roaring ferociously. Its massive legs shook the ground with each step it took.

The creature's eyes squinted dangerously at the sight of two humans, a few feet away, in front of it. The creature brandished its claws ready to tear apart the two humans.

"Hahaha, this dumb creature really thinks it can take us on."

Standing at 6' 4" tall, the human who spoke was a fair looking man exuding an extremely aggressive and unrestrained aura around him. He has short, curly, light brown hair, worn in a spiky style. He has a wide radiant face, a well-informed nose, chiseled cheeks, and a wide grin adorning his face. His dark amber eyes are round, trailed by tapered eyebrows. A particular notable feature is his faint scar on his right cheek. Their incredibly muscular body moves with an explosive energy, ready to burst out. This fierce man is Ray Angelo.

*Sigh*

"After exterminating the other wild beasts, I would have assumed the beast to run away but I guess it really is dumb."

The other person, next to Ray, who also mocked the creature is Zeke. Zeke stands tall at 6' 3", an inch shorter than Ray, is slight tanned emanating a relaxed impression. He has long, straight, silver hair, which is cropped revealing a lean, charming face. His pale purple eyes are prominent, accompanied with angular eyebrows, defined cheekbones and thin lips. There was a small burn scar planted on his right shoulder. He is standing with a lean, toned body, brimming with powerful strength.

Hearing the two humans muttering something with a mocking face, the wild beast assumed it was making fun of it. Without wasting any second, it pushed forwards with its strong legs, propelling its colossal body with immense speed. It reached Ray and Zeke in a blink of an eye and swiped its claws towards Ray as he was a bit closer to it than Zeke.

"Ohh..." Zeke smirked at the incoming attack.

The claws were inching closer and closer, ready to tear his face off. Before it could touch his face, Ray abruptly disappeared from his spot. The claws missed its target and swiped at thin air. The wild beast, disgruntled at missing its strike at the wild human, looked left and right and could not find where Ray disappeared off to. The wild beast turned its attention towards Zeke with great anger.

"What are you looking at, ugly?" Zeke outraged the wild beast.

"Hahahaha! Any more of that and you're going to make it explode with anger, Zeke." Ray laughed with excitement, floating in the air above the wild beast. The wild beast looked up and saw its prey above it.

"Just destroy the beast already, dumbass!"

"Alright alright, I'll stop delaying. Time to knock this fucker out!"

Ray dropped down with rapid speed with his right leg lifted up. As he got closer to the wild beast, his right leg suddenly coated with a black substance, the black substance which would be none other than Armament Haki, kicked straight on to the beast's face. The beast with its humongous body saw the rapidly incoming leg and tried to dodge the attack but it was too slow.

*Boom*

The attack connected and smashed the beast's face on to the ground, creating a mini-shockwave and cracks around the beast. The beast never stood a chance. It didn't even have a chance to retaliate.

"Maan, it is so satisfying using Haki to demolish opponents. It's everything I dreamt of."

"It is indeed wonderful, but you have to make sure to properly finish off an enemy to avoid any unnecessary troubles." Zeke cautioned Ray.

"Yeah yeah, I'll make sure to finish them off next time."

Zeke pointed his finger at the unconscious beast and slightly curved it up. A moderately sized purple crystal popped up from the ground and pierced the beast's skull, splashing blood making it a menacing sight.

"You are sometimes scary, you fucker."

Zeke smiled at his comment, "Well, someone has to be scary instead of being a stupid fighting dumbass."

"Hahaha, it's more fun my way."

In these 7 years, the two best friends have trained insufferably day and night, improving their strength by leaps, and bound. At first, they made a shabby shelter and made a schedule for training their Devil Fruit powers and awakening of their Haki.

After awakening their Haki, it seemed that Ray was more capable with Armament Haki and Zeke was more accomplished with Observation Haki. Needless to say, they have both awakened the two types of Haki. As for the third type, time will tell.

They found a lot of wild beasts roaming about in the forest and treated them as training partners to hone their experience in battle. The main intention was get used to killing the beasts. Occasionally, they fought each other to analyze their weaknesses and they came out better each time they battled.

Their strength has become at least comparable to a Vice-Admiral. After years of training and fighting each other, they both have become battle honed and are finally ready to embark to cause chaos in the sea.

"It's about time, Ray." Zeke said with anticipation.

"Are we finally going to fucking LEAVE?!" Ray asked with excitement.

"Yeah, we should be strong enough to keep our lives intact."

"FUCKING FINALLY!! WOOOHOOOO!" Ray jumped and shouted with joy. Zeke smiled at his joyous friend and thought, 'It has been a long time, we don't even know what year it i-'

His train of thought was interrupted when suddenly Ray picked him up from his collar and flew away from the island at an unknown direction.

"You bastard! At least give me a heads up." Zeke irritated with Ray picking him up.

"Sorry, Zeke but I'm so fucking excited, so I had to get away from that island." Ray flying with swift speed using the power of his Devil Fruit.

"Don't worry, it's the same for me." Zeke smiled.

"It's a good thing that you can fly using your Devil Fruit." Zeke praised him.

"Yeah, it's so much easier than using Geppo to traverse through the air. This way, I don't have to consume a lot of stamina."

"Let's hope we spot an Island before you run out of stamina. Come to think of it, do you even know which direction you took off at?" Zeke questioned with a raised eyebrow.

"Hehe, I don't."

"This dumbass…"

Ray was still flying with Zeke with nothing at sight. After a considerable amount of time, Zeke finally spotted an Island a bit far away using his Observation Haki.

"I spotted an Island straight ahead of us."

"Finally!! Let's go towards it."

Using a bit more energy, with a short burst Ray sped up, quickly getting closer to the island. After a few seconds, they finally arrived at the vicinity of the island.

The island was noticeably large and looked round in shape with four huge mountains protruding on the edges of the island, resembling that of claws. From above, the island looks like a bear's claw.

"Hmm, I can't remember this Island." Zeke said.

"Me neither. Let's head up and see if we can find anybody." Ray dropped to the ground and let Zeke loose. They then set out to find any hint of civilization.

After a while, they were breezing through in the forest before they heard some noise. Looking towards the source of the noise, they sped up towards the location of the noise.

Getting closer, they could hear sounds of laughing, taunting, and wailing. Putting their guards up, they got closer to the area while concealing their presence to find out what's going on.

"HAHAHAHA! Captain Sose, nobody knows we're here. Let us enjoy to our fullest." A person wearing a normal uniform, consisting of a white, short-sleeved shirt with the Marine emblem, a normal gull with the word "MARINE" underneath it and dark blue trousers. At this point, it was obvious that he was a Marine.

There were about 9 people in the area, surrounding a campfire, with tents at the border. Judging by their outfit, there was one Captain, one Commander, two Lieutenant Commanders, one Lieutenant and four Officers.

The Captain laughed creepily, "Hiuhiu, we couldn't do anything pleasurable back at the base. Now, we can finally indulge ourselves, Hiuhiuhiu! Bring out the women."

"Captain, what about the rest of the Marines back at the ship?" One of the Officers asked in concern.

"I have already told them that we're attending a secret meeting. So, they should be occupied with guarding the other ship from Pirates. Ignore them and bring out the fucking women." Captain Sose ordered the Officer, and his eyes filled with devious lust.

The Officer went inside in one of the tents and brought out three tied up women in tattered clothes out of the tent. The Officer dragged them out and put them out for display in front of the corrupt Marines.

*whistle*

"These slaves are fucking beautiful. I can't wait to fucking touch them." The Marines whistled, spoke with vulgarity and looked at the three beautiful women with lust.

"N-No, p-please let us go." One of the three women, spoke with fear. The other two just cried endlessly as if they succumbed to their fate.

Captain Sose heard them and laughed deviously, "Sure, we will let you go."

"R-Really…?" The women who spoke previously, started being hopeful.

"Yeah, after every single one of us are done with each one of your bodies. HIUHIUHIUHIU!" The Captain doused her hope with despair.

"Let's not waste any time, Captain."

"Yes, Captain. We've been itching for so long."

The Marines excited with lust, was waiting for the Captain to give out the order for them to pounce on to the women. What they didn't know was the appearance of two other people slowly looking at everything unfold.

Back with Ray and Zeke, they witnessed everything.

*Sigh*

"Who would've thought the first sign of humans we encountered were actually the disgusting Marines." Zeke said with disgust and disappointment. Suddenly, he remembered something and looked at Ray with concern.

"Ray, are you okay?" Zeke asked with worry.

His usual face of excitement and aggressiveness was nowhere to be found. Instead it had been replaced with a severe face, oozing out killing intent. His eyes turned cold, and traces of extreme anger and rage filled his eyes.

"Leave them to me!" Ray ignored Zeke's question and spoke with killing intent.

"They're all yours, I got your back." Zeke knowing he can't stop him, let him go.

Before the Captain could give out the orders, all 9 of the Marines felt something crawl up their spine. They could feel that the atmosphere suddenly turned extremely hot making them perspire.

*Rustle rustle*

Ray slowly pushed apart a bush, slight burning the edges of the bush, and walked out. His whole body releasing a sturdy aura of boundless growing heat, increasing the surrounding temperature.

He walked forwards and stopped at a few metres away from the Marines. Seeing how the heat he was causing was slowly starting to affect the women, he called out to Zeke.

"Zeke, please take the women away to safety."

Zeke saw the situation and understood why. He quickly used Soru, vanishing from his original spot and took away the girls in the blink of an eye. The Marines were in stupor and had come to realization what was happening.

"Oii, where the fuck did you take them, trash??" One of the dumb officers questioned Ray, oblivious to their current predicament. The Captain and the rest of high-ranking officers realized the situation they were in, they were in big trouble.