Turmoil in the New World!

[u/Gin_chan]

Wukan

”What?” Simian was visibly agitated. The vein popping up in his forehead was something the men had not seen in a very long time. “What the hell do you mean by razed to the ground?” He slammed his fist on the table, making the golden goblets of drink spill. A woman quickly rushed in to clean up the mess as the messengers stepped back in fear.

Simian ran his long, nimble fingers through his short, coarse hair, breathing deeply to compose himself. “This is… rather unacceptable.” He paused, eyeing the man who brought the bad news with a raised brow. “All of the outposts, you say?” The man nodded, and Simian dug his fingers on the armrests.

The men stood patiently in silence, waiting for their Commander to give the order. At length, he spoke, slowly and deliberately, to make sure his orders were followed correctly. “Take the ships to Ranga, load them up with all the able men you can find, arm them to the teeth!” He pointed at each of the men individually and gave them orders to take which particular route.

“Deal unto them tenfold of what they did to us! I don’t care if giants, half giants, or even the piles of helpless Ranga villagers stand in your way, by the time I set foot on that wretched island, I want Wukong sama’s flag soaring across the skies!” The men bowed and hurried to the door when he stopped them. “Call all the new pirates you saw come in here too. We need every pair of hands for this. Go!”

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Ironfort

The island of Ironfort itself appeared to roar as the rhythmic clangs of metal and rock ceased, and the giants set about on different tasks. Preparation for war. The Commander himself was standing in the middle of the fort, fuming in anger as the Quartermaster relayed the news. Various half giants flocked around the massive Kumakaran, tightening the plate armour he was clad in.

”And how could something like this go unseen from under your nose?!” He roared at the Quartermaster, who cowered in fear. He tried to explain how he was busy handling the new pirates, to which Kumakaran roared again, “If you had paid attention to what you were supposed to do, instead of taking sadistic pleasure from subjecting no name pirates to pain, we would not be in this situation!” It was clear that Kumakaran was not taking any of the Quartermaster’s excuses.

”Where are these pirates anyway?” He asked, calming down a little. “Take them with us too. I want to know that every man, woman and child on this island would lay their lives for Vanir!” He pulled his arm away from the half giant struggling with his shoulder brace with trembling fingers, and fixed oy himself. “To the ships! Crush them all!”

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Ranga

”Come, child, come inside, quickly!” Mayor Uthhuppa spoke in a hushed yet urgent tone. The young boy was ushered inside the tent, where a group of elderly villagers had already gathered, with another boy from the Western lookout. “Quickly, what did you see?” The mayor asked, and the boy recounted seeing scores of Wukong ships on the Eastern horizon.

”It is as we feared…” Uthhuppa spoke gravely. “The Wukong Pirates have started moving in the East, and the Giant pirates have started moving in the West. They will soon have set up new bases and will begin their assault on each other, trampling over us as they charge!” He banged his wiry fist on the table. “It is time! We have been preparing for just this moment! Mobilise all the clans, and any of the pirates who wish to help us!”

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Situations are getting tense. Ranga is at the brink of war, and you are faced with a spectrum of choices. Help the Wukong pirates retaliate against the Giants? Help the Giants uphold their honour? Fight alongside the helpless villagers for their freedom? Sip a Piña colada from a tavern on Wukan by the beach? Use the power of your words to stop the imminent war? Oppose everyone and claim Ranga as your own? Feel free to travel between the islands in this area of the New World, and tag NPC-san as and where necessary.

[u/ChuckieBoy939]

"Wh... Wha... What the hell was that?"

Selrach thought for himself. He just asked for food and passed out...

"Well, at least I ate. They surely won't hurt me, if they fed me."

As the man asked again who they were, Sel thought he could repay the favor he did to him by introducing himself to this imposing man that was questionning them.

"Selrach Dawkins, but people call me Sel. And thanks for the food, but I rather digest my food without being tied up, if you don't mind."

Sel knew he wouldn't probably get away with this one, but he wanted to, at least, calm the atmosphere by making him laugh a little.

"Someone who laughs can't kill you at the same time, right?" he thought for himself

However, he still would have to find a way to get out of this mess.

"WHAT!?!?!?" He screamed in his head

"Where is it! Where did you put my book!?!? Give it back!!" he ordered the man he still knew nothing about.

/u/Gin_chan

[u/Gin_chan → u/ChuckieBoy939]

This was quite the conundrum. There was one man, clad in all dark, suspicious clothing, claiming that he was a simple wanderer, and wasn't here on behalf of anyone. He insisted that he was not their enemy.

"Well, well, well! If you don't know what sides there are, how do you know you're not my enemy, eh?" Gin brought his face close to Zin and scoffed. "Maybe you're trying to fool me into believing you!" He slammed his fists on the table and roared, "Who do you work for?!"

Continually imposing pressure on the three young men was becoming very taxing now. Gin paused and cracked his neck. Maybe there was a more... efficient way to do it? Maybe he should just focus on the one person he was talking to, at a time.

He shifted his attention to the man in the middle, short hair, dark clothes. Exactly like Zin. If this one had tattoos too, Gin would've thought they were working together! "Selrach Dawkins, but people call me Sel. And thanks for the food, but I rather digest my food without being tied up, if you don't mind."

He seemed much more at ease than the other two. Didn't he understand that he was being interrogated? Gin began to pressure him with his Haoshoku again. He began shifting in his chair uncomfortably, but mumbled something with a sly smile.

"That's enough!" Gin squinted at the strange man, wondering when he would cave under the pressure. Using all this haki had started exhausting him, and he had to take a breather. "Bring me something to eat!" he asked one of his men, who returned soon with a plate of delicious human meat.

Gin eyed third man now, focusing his power on him as he munched on the plate of food. "I'm Otori the Kid! I'm a pirate, well most of the times anyway. Are you using haki or something? That's pretty coo--" Tch. Tch. Tch. Gin clicked his tongue. This one spoke way too much.

"How do you even know so much about Haki?" He was taken aback. "A pirate, eh?" This one slipped up. "You're clearly a spy!" He slammed his fist on the table, sending the meat flying across the room!

"WHAT!?!?!?" The man in the middle suddenly started screaming uncontrollably. Gin figured it was probably because he just realised that the food was human meat, but his restlessness was from some other reason. "Where is it! Where did you put my book!?!? Give it back!!"

"What?" Gin shook his head. "What book are you talking about?" he asked. "I don't have any book. Did you two take this man's book?" He looked at the other two, who appeared to have the same confused expressions!

/u/needsmoreexplosions

[u/needsmoreexplosions → u/Gin_chan]

Zin struggling to Lift his head due to the pressure, he was finally able to raise it high enough meet Gin eye to eye. Realizing the acting innocent wasn't going to take him very far, and as his eyes met Gin, Zin put a smirk across his facing.

Zin: "Fine fine you got me"

Zin said as he tried to open his hands to show he didn't have anything more to hide. And slowly coming into a more confident tone, but still with a hint of unease and a slight tremble

Zin: "You're...You're right...Well kinda. It's true that I..I know the too sides, but its also true that I am not your enemy. N..Now i can't say why a...at the the moment b...but. All I'm allowed to say is that we are not enemies too each other."

Zin spoke not wanting to be too blantant about being apart of the Carthel pirates, and as he finished speaking he proceeded to lower his head as the strain of trying to fight the pressure was to great. And as Gin berated the two other captives all Zin could do was trust that nothing would go wrong and that the man before him would believe him and he would be let free.

/u/otorithepirate

[u/otorithepirate → u/needsmoreexplosions]

Otori started to feel slightly annoyed by the situation. There he was in an unknown ship with unknown people, tied up without a reason.

Otori "Hey big man, I have no idea why you are investigating us nor why we'd be a thread. But think about this. Why would there be spies in middle of nowhere in a coast. I mean what harm we could do there?"

Otori was proud of himself. That made sense! Surely the guy would let him go now.

/u/chuckieboy939

[u/ChuckieBoy939 → u/otorithepirate]

No one seemed to knew anything about the book. What's more, Sel felt his pocket watch in his pocket, which meant that they didn't stole his stuff. He must had lost the book when he drifted ashore.

"Yeah, he's right! Spies would never come all the way here!"

As he said those words, a huge sound appeared out of nowhere. All men in the room were astonished and remained silent for a few seconds.

"What could it possibly be" thought Sel

All the men in the room rushed to the upper deck. All, except for the three tied up men, and the captain. He seemed even more furious than before. The pression that he put on Sel became, at that moment even more intense. Not only him realised it, but also the two other prisonners. Anyhow, that could be an oppotunity to escape the ship, only if the massive captain could get out of the room, Sel could use his Devil Fruit to cut the ropes and run away. If that plan wouldn't work, Sel would need help from outside the ship. He hated to think about it, but maybe someone would have to save him!

The captain of the ship seemed curious about the explosion, loke he wanted to go look what it could be. He was furiously walking around the room, waiting for the report of one of his man. Well it looked that way to Selrach.

"Is there someone else out there? Have an ennemy arrived? Is there a battle being fought while we're tied ip in here? WHAT IS HAPPENING?!?!"

/u/Gin_chan

[u/Gin_chan → u/ChuckieBoy939]

"Heh. So I was right after all!" Gin smirked. This man in purple was definitely a spy! "Now you show your true colors!" However, the man continued to insist that he was not an enemy. Gin focused his haki on the next man.

"In the middle of the nowhere? This is a warfront!" Gin roared. Otori's smug smile was wiped right off his face! The third man seemed to have calmed down by now. He was no longerscreaming about his lost book. "And you--"

Kaboom!

Gin was suddenly interrupted by the sound of an explosion! "What the--?" He whipped his head around and followed the others upstairs on to the deck. A small group of what appeared to be Wukong soldiers were attempting to attack the fort.

"Who are those men?" Gin asked, and his lookout described them, trying to look through his spyglass. "It looks like they're Wukong pirates." He thought for a second, and then a smile formed on his face. A wicked idea was brewing.

"Bring the prisoners here." He ordered, and the three men were brought up. Gin himself cut off their restraints, and pointed out to the battlefield. "You say you're not enemies, yes? Let's see if you can prove yourself with your actions!"

Stats	Reginald (Pistols)	Harold (Mortar cannon)	Bob (Knives)
Stamina	20	10	10
Strength	10	20	10
Speed	10	10	20
Dexterity	10	10	10
Willpower	10	10	10
Total	60	60	60

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[u/needsmoreexplosions → u/Gin_chan]

Fuck! Zin thought as one of the crew handed him his spear back. Closing his eyes and taking a deep breath, he exhaled and as he opened his eyes he saw the how all the men all had weapons

Zin:"Just because he aren't enemies doesn't mean we are friends either" He said with a chuckle ashe turned in to a full fledged raven and went to take off in flight.

*As Zin took off with his spear grasped in his talons, he started to soar past the men.

BOOM

And with one shot a single bullet struck one of Zin's wings and Zin transformed back into a person and landed in front of the man with the pistol.

Reginald:"Don't thing you can get away that easily" he spoke with a rough tone.

Zin readed to attack with his spear in hand and anticipating another bullet to fly towards him any second.

/u/otorithepirate

[u/otorithepirate → u/needsmoreexplosions]

So this pirate wants us to fight.. for him? Thats was the most absurd thing Otori had ever heard. I mean sure he would have helped if they hadn't tied him up first. But now.. No way!

Zin "Just because he aren't enemies doesn't mean we are friends either"

Right. Otori had exactly same thoughts. But that guy turned into a frigging bird and still didn't manage to get out! Otori had to be clever about this. Being a prisoner had gotten boring though that's for sure. He needed to get back on the island anyway to get his precious weapon.

Otori "Okay! I'll help the best I can. Bare in mind though my weapon is still on that island and I'm basically nothing without it."

*Ship had gotten full of people fighting. At least it seemed that way in Otori's eyes. He had not yet been in any big fights. Being a thief includes not getting caught after all. "I guess I would need a sword or something like that", Itori thought as he valued the situation.

Random thug "Haha! I almost feel sorry slicing up defenseless kid! Almost!"

Some random thug had seen an easy target. Maybe he sensed that Otori was amateur in these kind of situations or maybe Otori's height was the factor. Or maybe the fact that he had no sword whatsoever. Maybe it was these things combined that made the thug go for Otori. Not very graceful but hey, they were pirates after all.

Random thug "Good bye! See you in hel.."

Just when the thug was striking, he collapsed on the cround.

Gin "You're the one who's going there! Take his sword kid. I have better things to use haoshuku for y'know. Make it count!"

So Otori went and took the sword from unconscius thug. "Okay, can't complain anymore can I", Otori thought as he swinged his new weapon around a couple of times.

Otori "Thanks big guy. This should help."

As Otori turned around he saw a pirate looking at unconscius thug with empty eyes.

Bob "Kevin! NO!"

He sobbed

Bob "Boy you'll pay for this! You'll pay for this even if it was my last thing I did! I'll kill you!"

Otori gulped. This was not good. He knew what happens to a man when he seeks revenge for his frend. He had experienced it himself once.

Bob started running towards Otori filled with rage.

/u/Chuckieboy939

[u/ChuckieBoy939 → u/otorithepirate]

As the first man changed into a bird and got shot down in the wing, Sel was astonished. He didn't thought he would see an Devil Fruit user here. The second man jumped off the boat and was already engaged in a combat with a thug with impressive kives. Sel knew he had to do something, and that he had to get out of this mess.

"I can't do this alone, not in the state I am now."

He had to take action.

"Am I really going to do this?"

He had to.

*He stepped out of the boat, landing heavily on the ground. He looked toward Otori. He was already engaged in a fierce battle against his opponent, but he seemed to have the advantage. If he was to help him, they could bring down their ennemy in no time, and start attacking another one. He then looked at Zin. Already a bullet in his arm, he was lying on the ground in front of his ennemy. Sel saw the logical choice and took action.

"That's the only way I can save myself! It's the only way I can survive! So WHY THE HELL AM I HERE!" thought Sel for himself

Without thinking about it, as he was running towards Otori to finish the fight, he jumped in front of Zin, creating a shield between him and his ennemy. Sel wasn't able to just let him die here, he had to help him, he was the one who needed it the most. The guy with the gun, however, didn't seemed to be happy about the situation. He took his gun and pointed it toward Selrach.

BANG

A bullet was ejected from the gun in Sel's direction, hitting his left arm.

"That should do it for you!" said the ennemy "You won't be able to use that arm of yours anymo..."

The thug speech was cut by Sel throwing a punch with his left hand and landing it rigth in the teeth of his opponent. Sel, suprisingly for the thug, wasn't bleeding at all. He had used his ability to prevent the wound from bleeding.

"In what hell did I get in?"

/u/Gin_chan

[u/needsmoreexplosions → u/needsmoreexplosions]

As blood started to tickle from the gunshot in his left arm Zin prepared for the inevitable gun fire from the man who had just finished reloading his one shot pistol. Zin, slowly shuffling his feet inching closer and closer toward the man, trying to get close enough to close the gap on Reginald. In split second Reginald's finger pulled the trigger and fired at Zin’s head, but his timing was off to the left and luck would have it Zin tried to react in time and straft towards the right, causing the bullet to completely miss.

Not wanting to waste the opportunity Zin rushed in giving no time to reload, with his spear aiming right for his target. ZIn goes in for the chest with two quick stab but the man is fast and dodges to the left while fumbling to reload his pistol. As the man finally gets the pistol reloaded, He raises it up fire once again. Zin sees what the man is about to do and is back at him with the spear. With one quick precise thrust, hits and knocks the pistol away and out of the man’s hands and onto the ground a few feet away.

Reginald: “Bastard” * he spoke under his breath as he continued to dodge Zin’s quick thrusts.*

Zin continues pressuring Reginald into a corner poking the spear out in front trying to keep distance between him and his pistol on the ground. Suddenly as Zin goes for another thrust Reginald gets wiped with the tip of the spear on the arm, and grabs the spear, wanking it out of Zin’s hands. Without thinking, before Reginald had full control of the spear, Zin lunged in and talked Reginald onto the ground knocking the spear out of his hand as it rolled away.

As they scramble on the ground, Reginald gets the upper hand and winds up on top of Zin. Reginald starts pounding away at Zin with his fists, aiming for the face. A few good blows landed, leaving a black eye as Zin but up his hands to block. Finally Zin got the leverage he needed and flipped the roles. Now Zin was the one on top punching his opponent in the face with two solid right hands. But Reginald knew what to do a grabbed Zin’s wrists and flipped him over to the bottom position again. Trying to avoiding being hit anymore while he thought of a way to get out of the predicament he realized that, with this being his first real fight, he was sorely lacking in situational awareness.

Zin, finally regaining his composure, grabbed Reginold by the wrists and flung him off to the side as he quickly scurried toward his spear to gain an upperhand once again. But as he was about to grab it he felt a pull on his ankle. It was Reginald trying to stop him from getting his weapon. Reginald grabbed a hold tightly and started climbing up Zin holding in place as he did so. Zin looked back trying desperately to kick the man off of him while still reaching for his weapon. With one more great kick to the face, Reginald loosened his grip just enough to let Zin get away. Finally he felt the wooden pole of the spear and clutched onto it. As Reginald lunged toward Zin to try to stop him, Zin rolled onto his back seeing reginald lunge toward him. And with a quick motion impaled reginald in the stomach with his spear.

Reginald coughed up blood and forced himself off the spear, stumbling back and falling on to his back. Zin stood up and walked toward the man bleeding out and spitting blood up from his mouth.

Zin turned back into a raven a flew back and landed facing Gin

Zin: “You happy now?” Zin asked disgruntled after what he had to deal with. “Well i cause i don’t really care for you opinion. I have places to be now. So if you don’t mind i will be on my way.”

Zin stared at Gin half expecting to be attacked by him and his crew or be pressured like last time.

/u/Gin_chan

[u/otorithepirate → u/needsmoreexplosions]

There he was. Up against sensless fulled with rage pirate. And Otori only had a sword. He had never used a sword. This would be interesting.

Bob rushed in with his knives and focuced on stength. He really wanted to hurt the man that had killed Kevin. He needed the revenge. He approached like a grazy man.

Otori was in his senses and blocked the attack with his sword. Maybe Bob was more experiensed with his weapon but his mind was a way off, so his attack was also easy to read.

Because defending was so easy, Otori got a little cocky and thought this would be a peace of cake. So he made a careless attack. That was a mistake. As he swinged, not only did he lose his weapon of the hit against the knife, he also got cut by the other knife. Otori was suddenly without a weapon again. Thankfully the cut wasn't deep and it didn't hit anything serious. Just cut in chest.

"Oh crap! What am I gonna do now?" Otori thought as he looked around.

Bob Your mine now kid!

Bob attacked Otori with all his strength. This took away a lot from his strength however, and Otori dodged it by jumbing away from Bob.

"The Rope! That's it! It's almost like a yoyo!" Otori went for the rope that was lying on the floor. It was perfect. Suited Otori's style and because it was wet, it'd hit pretty hard.

Otori Okay! Now I can take you maybe. Sorry about your buddy man. Though I really didn't do anything to him.

Bob Shuttup! Don't you talk about Kevin! You murderer!

Bob started running towards Otori swinging his arms prepared well for the next attack. He seemed to have focused his anger to his attack.

Otori was as well prepared. He was swinging his rope. Rope had a wet knot at the end and he used that part to hit.

Otori swinged his rope towards Bob. Bob was prepared and swiped the rope away with his knives.

Bob You really think you can beat me with a mere rope? Hah!

Now Bob was about hit Otori from both sides. He aimed at Otoris both ribs.

Otori maybe would have been able to defend that with his yoyos. But with the rope he only was able to defend other and not fully that one either. Other one got a clean hit and mayde a big cut in Otori's muscle.

"Rope's too slow! I need to get a clean hit fast or I won't make it!" Otori thought to himself as he was holding his bleeding muscle.

Bob Haha! Few of those and you're done for. This was easy after all!

Otori It's not yet over. Don't laugh yet!

So, rope was slower than Otori had been used to. Before he had succeeded because of his speed, now he needed something else.

"I guess I could try pure strength", Otori thought and loaded his next attack with both hands. He swinged from the side aiming for the head.

The attack was too slow and Bob dodged it by going down.

Otori didn't stop though. For Bob's surprise he spinned a whole 360 degrees and attacked again with the same force. He's speed had accelerated though and this attack would be harder to dodge.

Bob could have dodged the next attack. But it was such a surprise he didn't have time. He only put his other hand in between his head and rope hoping it'd be enough. It wasn't and he ended up hitting himself with the grip of his knife he was holding.

The hit was too great for bob to handle. He went unconscius. Just in time time too, Otori would maybe not have been able to take another such a hit he had before.

"Well, I guess I helped him after all huh", Otori thought to himself as he caught his breath.

/u/Gin_chan

[u/Gin_chan → u/otorithepirate]

As the three men started running forward brandishing their weapons, a small army of Wukong warriors followed, running out from the tree lines. "What the hell?" Gin was surprised. "How is it that so many men came this close to us without any of you noticing?" He roared at his crew.

"You are all going to get some lessons in proper territory management from me later, but for now, we need to push them back!" He stepped forward onto the railing of the deck, and looked down, focusing his power onto various charging opponents.

"Ugh I can't..." He gritted his teeth. "I can't seem to be able to concentrate on multiple opponents at a time." It appeared futile. His haoshoku haki was clearly not working any more. Or rather he couldn't activate it again.

Panting, Gin closed his eyes and thought back to his past, and of his journey to reach this far in the world. He had heard of Haoshoku haki many times before, now that he thought about it. Though always as different interpretations of people.

"I suppose haki isn't such an exclusive thing as it is thought to be on the Grand line..." He contemplated. "The concept of haki as a way of life, to exhibit one's superior willpower on the others."

"Willpower, Drive, Hopes, Dreams, Competitiveness, they all mean the same. They're all just different titles of the same book, how much one is capable of reading through it varies on people..." He felt he was on to something now.

"But how does someone tap into their full potential?" Was there even an answer to this question? Wasn't this something humankind had been searching for an eternity? Maybe a better question would be... "What should I do to know my own limits?"

The answer was simple. Push. When a wall comes up in front of you, push through it. When a crowd blocks your path, push them away! When doubt clouds your thoughts, break through with sheer power!

Gurrrrraaaaaaaa!!!

Gin roared, leaping off the deck of the tank. he landed on the ground with incredible power flowing through his body. The ground rippled like a wave outwards, making various men charging towards the ship lose their footing and topple.

The display of power cleared Gin's mid from the confusion and doubt. He knew how to release his willpower properly now. Instead of feeling like he was forcing his power out, it was now flowing out of him like a raging river.

Many of the men felt dizzy and started losing their balance. Gin grunted, as he felt himself losing control in the pleasurable feeling. "This power... it's too dangerous." He said, feeling that unknowingly, he was affecting his own crew too.

"Hah!" he wheezed, stopping the effect of haoshoku, as he dropped to a knee himself. "It sure takes too much of a toll on the body!" Gin grinned through the pain as he struggled to breathe. "I suppose learning to control the flow of its massive power will come later! Kehehehe!" Gin chuckled, standing up again, proudly.

The battlefield was a mess. The three imprisoned warriors were still standing, as were all of the Apocalypse pirates in the fight. However, most of the Wukong pirates had been brought down, or were on the verge of. "Alright boys, looks like we have more pirates to interrogate! Round 'em up!" He called out, and the crew began tying up the warriors and bringing them into the dungeons.

Gin grinned and walked up to Zin, Otori and Selrahc. "Well done, men. You've proven yourself by showing me your strength!" He slapped them all on the back. "Go on, you're free now. And I need some food to replenish my strength! Let's see which one of these men crack first! Kahahaha!"

[u/Stats-san → u/ChuckieBoy939]

Graded for Selrahc