Shirahoshi was so sweet, I wanted to give her the best experience possible, so rather than just flying normally, I took a boat from my deck and sailed just like that. I would give her the whole pirate experience.
"Yay! Let's go!".
We sailed in the clouds. The plan was to reach the red line, then fall back down into the new world sea. But I found something rather unnerving.
As we sailed in the clouds away from the island, not too far away... I saw... a boat. Shirahoshi was in her mermaid form, but shorter, around my size, but a bit bigger, as small as the devil fruit allowed her to become, still somewhat big for this boat. She sat with me, and we both witnessed this anomaly.
That wouldn't be abnormal in the sea; there is always a drunk sailor anywhere, testing his luck. Even in the calm belt, even if a bit weird, it wouldn't be surprising.
But we're in the clouds, the higher sea.
"Veyron, that is...?"
'How...? Without using the elevators, there should not be a way for any ships or vessels to come this high up. The only other way was through the knock-up stream... but then, did they come all the way from the knock-up stream's cloud sea, to this region? That journey would have taken months; besides, they couldn't accurately know where my island is unless...'
The more I thought about it, the angrier I became. Somebody had already figured out a way to reach my islands, and it hadn't been more than a few years since I put them in the skies.
I frowned heavily at the implications and we approached the ship.
To my surprise, I was unable to sense a strong aura. That meant either the ship was empty, or the person on board was unconscious, which wouldn't be surprising, considering they have been in this white world for months on end.
We stopped shorty close to it and look and behold, there was someone inside, slumbering.
"A woman?" Shirahoshi looked at her, then she must have seen my deadpanning self.
'What the hell is she doing here...?' I resisted the urge to slap this woman's ass awake. Of all people, her? I looked at Shirahoshi and felt very blessed; if not for her, I wouldn't have thought of coming back here... and this woman, having infiltrated Rusukaina, would have been very troublesome for me.
'The fact she made it this far means she's been thinking about doing this for a long time...'
"She is someone who is trying to invade Rusukaina illegally, we will take her with us" I said to Shirahoshi, mainly because I want to ask this person some questions.
"Is she asleep?".
"She must... besides, long-time exposure to this pressure and lack of oxygen can render even a strong individual into a dazed state..." I looked around the ship, aside from some food, cigarettes and papers, there was also special equipment that consisted of oxygen cans that were mostly used, with a few still available.
That made me frown even further. Whoever advised her is a scientist of some sort; they know how the sky islands work, and they know I have placed protective layers around mine.
They know way too much.
She was deeply asleep on top of that. I checked up her small jacket, tight enough that her huge breasts looked constricted. There, there was what I expected, a vibrecard.
"There shouldn't exist any log pose that lead to my island, so she can only be following someone and that someone is a spy" I nearly crushed the vibrecard. So much protocol and somehow we still got a spy inside our grounds.
'What to do... I need to go back quickly to see who this spy is, but I can't leave Shirahoshi alone with her here...'
"Veyron-sama, don't worry about me, I'll restrict her if she wakes up!" Shirahoshi puffed out her chest but I sighed.
"Shirahoshi, this woman is very strong you know...? She would even give me some trouble".
"E-Eh?! Really?!"
"Yes..." I sighed and put the vibrecard in my pocket, "It's okay, I can just look for this spy later, in the meantime, let's take her with us".
This upset me a little bit, I wanted to have a normal date and journey with Shirahoshi, but now we have this criminal with us. It doesn't matter, I am going to make sure she answers to EVERYTHING, and who knows, I may have some fun with her too.
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"U-Uhm..."
"Oh, look at that, the princess is awake".
"..."
Her eyelids opened ever so slightly. She looked at the person in front that she couldn't recognise, it was a girl... the most beautiful girl in the world.
"Hello!~".
"... w-where am I...?"
"You have a lot of audacity, you know?".
Finally, she looked at the other person and her senses flared up all at once.
*BOOOOMMMMM!*
*CHAAA!!*
Veyron caught her magma fist with his hand imbued in crimson lightning.
"I'd appreciate if you don't make an scene in front of my fiance, Sakazuki".
"Dracule Veyron! How?! Why?!"
"How?".
"You shouldn't be in the island..." Soon the Admiral realised what she was about to say and shut her mouth, making Veyron frown even further with an angered smile.
"Oh, so your spy even knows that I wasn't supposed to be in Rusukaina. Now I am even more interested to know who this person is... if I had to guess, it is probably someone who works in my lab, correct? Aside from my women, only the personnel in my lab are aware of my schedule. Tell me, what's their name?"
"Why the fuck would I tell you–"
Veyron pinned her to the bottom of the ship, sitting on her belly with a dead smirk.
"It would be in your best interest to cooperate unless you want me to throw you to the sea, Admiral".
"Fuck you".
She spat on his face, very gasped, took the saliva out of his cheek. Even Shirahoshi stared at the woman in shock.
'She just disrespected my Veyron-sama, didn't she?'.
*CHA!*
Neither of them noticed a spark of lightening and flames flicker across the mermaid's eyes. Veyron, for one, was still shocked. He cleaned his cheek and laughed. The next second, Sakazuki's body was flung out of the ship.
"AAHHHH!!" She passed the clouds, screaming for her life, but Veyron wasn't about to let it end like that.
"Sweetheart, l'll be out for a bit, can you wait for me?"
"Have fun, Veyron!~" Shirahoshi waved, a bit nervous, it was her first time she saw him angry, the sky was literally shaking, and there were lightning sparks splattering across the sky.
Veyron jumped off the boat down into the clouds and transformed into a lighting burst that shock the atmosphere.
He caught Sakazuki in a heartbeat, but the latter had been waiting. A fist imbued in armament Haki received him.
*BOOOOMMMM!!*
"Don't underestimate me, Dark Mantle!"
Her fist exploded in a fit of magma that covered the skies. Veyron blocked it with conqueror and flashed behind her falling silhouette with a flash.
*BANG*
A kick to the ribs made her spit blood and shoot in a completely different direction. She burst into flames and flew along the skies, more like gliding.
*CHAA!*
Unable to even go a few metres, Veyron took her by the neck and transformed into a blur, "I'm going to teach you that my patience has limits, Sakazuki".
A few seconds later, they came across a small Island.
*BAAANGG!!*
Admiral Akainu fell like a meteor after getting thrown down like a rag. She gained her footing without problem and got into a fighting stance right away. But the fists didn't come. Instead, she felt an invisible force start to press her body down into the ground.
*CHAA!*
Looking at the sky, she gasped.
One, two, five, ten…
The lightning strikes rained on her like a fluvial catastrophe!
*BOOOMMM!!*
Each time a lightning strike impacted the ground, it didn't just end there, the waves spread across causing destruction. Akainu countered by her own ravage of magma shooting up the skies, tinting the world in crimson.
Veyron slapped those huge balls of magma away while Akainu struggled to dodge the lightning. In less than a few minutes, the whole island was already a barren rock of destruction. Not one to stay defensive, her body turned hot red and she shot into the skies.
"Come down!"
*BOOOOOOMMMMMM!!!*
The explosion was huge to say the least, even Veyron frowned at its destructiveness that cleared the clouds in the sky, increasing the temperature all around the atmosphere to at least a hundred degrees Celsius, which, although annoying, worked in his advantage to produce more lightning without spending much energy.
Akainu could be flashy, but she wasn't very smart, as he knew.
"Hyaaaa!!!"
He heard a scream far away up the skies. Akainu's explosion had cleared the clouds, Shirahoshi was falling down the upper sea. Veyron shot up and caught her and their boat midair.
"Are you okay, Hoshi?"
"I'm perfect now that you're here" she mumbled, sending the lightning god into a stupor.
'So cute!'
"I'm sorry it ended up like this" He apologised for their failed date.
Shirahoshi shook her head and put her fists together, "I want to see Veyron fight!"
"Really?"
"Y-Yes… I want to see my husband fight and win!~".
"Say no more, my princess!"
He levitated Shirahoshi into the sea and focused in the Admiral whose body was reforming in a self-made island of magma. Veyron landed in it, lightning cracking the world and spreading from his feet like nets as he just stood there with his hands in his pockets. With every step, at least a hundred strikes would shake the sea.
The admiral had reformed, but she cracked her teeth upon the display. Of all the logias she had seen, no one had this much compatibility with their element.
'Not only is his fruit awakened, but he has such masterful experience with it... Besides, just looking at the clouds, I can tell he has an advantage over me. There is not a lot of land nearby... should I flee? But would I? Would I flee in front of this damned pirate!?'
The chances of winning were already slim under normal conditions, adding to that the fact she was in a disadvantageous location, made even the stubborn Sakazuki think about retreating.
She looked around, they were back on the lower sea, the water sea... months of effort were already wasted, 'And he also knows there is a spy inside now... it couldn't get any worse'.
"I hope you can keep going for a while, Sakazuki... don't even think about fleeing... do you think you can? I can move faster than you can blink".
"Who is running, bastard?! not me!".
"Good~".
Conqueror Haki and the 4th Will released together alongside the lightning of a God, it was time for her to know who she was antagonising.
Veyron's form was shrouded in lightning until his flesh was not visible and then, he started to get bigger and bigger... and bigger. The world grew dark as the clouds took a black tink, producing even more lightning that travelled like a network, shattering the sea, and travelling along the sea until they touched Veyron's gigantic toes.
A titanic lightning God took over the world, white lightning that shattered space itself with its heat. Akainu smirked, a bit of despair, a bit of respect... she wouldn't lie to herself, her opponent was strong, she knew... but justice still had to be served.
She wasn't going to back down.
"I know you are strong, I have trained hard with Zephy-sensei to face you, Veyron!".
The magma cuagulated above the sea, burning it. At this point, there was no island to be seen anymore, just a settlement of magma and scalding rock that sparked with lightning. From afar, it resembled two forces of nature figuring.
"I know you were strong… but you never cease to amaze me".
She discarded he ragged shirt, remaining just in a tight bra and skirt. Sakazuki's hair turned blazing like the sun. Soon, her body was covered in magma until, just like Veyron, she became a huge big-breasted titan of magma.
The Lightning God stared at her, then at her chest, then back at her, and then he sighed.
"Such a bombshell, it is a pity you're so stubborn. I still can't comprehend how THAT Akainu could become THIS. I don't know what's hotter, you or your magma".
"Y-You..." The Admiral faltered at the unexpected remark, "Saying nonsense to me is not going to change anything. Every time we face each other, you're like this, save your filthy remarks for your women. Do you think I could ever be with a pirate!?"
"I also couldn't be with someone so stubborn".
!!!
"Ah, so? then there is nothing to talk about, just fight, kill me or be killed, that's all!".
Akainu began her rampage, she charged forward in that titanic form, but very quickly... very quickly came to know that she had no hope.
Veyron stood still and received the strike.
*BAANGG!*
There was an explosion, and from this, the admiral realised two things.
"AHHHHH!!"
First, lightning hurts, and second, she's powerless to even injure Veyron. The impact produced an explosion. The moment she touched him, her body was shocked by a hundred million volts of energy.
"Do you know, lightning conductivity varies depending on the elements. But that's also subject to how much voltage the electrical current is powered to... right now, a hundred million volts... you should think twice before even touching me".
"I am not giving up just like that!".
The woman was stubborn, alright?
She kept swinging and causing a lot of chaos, hurting herself in the process as Veyron received her strikes head-on, a bit astonished since she had a lot of power, but also disappointed at her recklessness despite being an Admiral.
'She's more powerful than Gion, but Gion can use her head better...'
Against an opponent who didn't know when to give up, there was only one way: Spiritual defeat.
'I will let you know you never had a chance...'
With a brief swing, Sakazuki was blasted away back to her coal island, impacting in a fit of lightning and shrieking on the ground.
"Uhh! Ughh!!"
The discargues didn't end once she released, like last time. Rather, he kept her comfined to her senses as energy coursed through. The magma detached, leaving her bare.
The lightning dissipated around Veyron, giving him once more that lab scientist vibe, only... Youbi's electrified copy remained. He prepared to swing. The flaming beauty answered in kind. She extended her arm, and a huge magma fist was made and then coated with Haki.
If she couldn't win, at the very least, she wouldn't lose.
"You're coming down with me!–"
But there was no hope. Rather than using lightning, Veyron opted to give her a piece of true despair.
Destruction.
A wave of spatially clustered Conqueror Haki shook the world just in its travel. It shattered her magma and Haki as if it were sand; she felt numbing pain and nausea as her body contorted in an odd shape, the wave passed by her, shattering her consciousness as she spat blood before it continued down onwards to the charcoal island. It tore it apart before exploding in spatial might.
*BOOOMMM!!*.
For several seconds, there was just barrages of Conqueror Haki discharges wrecking the world, leaving light that could be seen from the nearby islands. In impel down, the patrols at the surface looked in curiosity at the sudden change of cloud movement.
…
Admiral Akainu, with her body charred and naked, sank into the sea barely holding onto consciousness. She felt like her whole body had been twisted in ways it shouldn't have been, she was swollen all over, feeling almost at the brink of death.
Her strongest strength had been a joke. A pair of arms grabbed her and took her out of the water. She was then placed on the same boat where everything started.
Veyron landed and thanked Shirahoshi for getting to her first.
"We could have talked and skipped the pain, but you don't learn, Sakazuki" Veyron sighed helplessly, looking to the side to see that even Shirahoshi was a bit scared of him after what she witnessed and after seeing the current state the Admiral was in.
She had heard tales about Admirals; she didn't think one of them could end like this, right in front of her very eyes.
The woman didn't say a word; she put her hand on her eyes to cover the shame and cried in silent sobbing.
"…"
"Veyron-sama, you made a girl cry!" Shirahoshi's cheeks puffed. She didn't know how bad Admiral Akainu was, but making a girl cry was still very bad in her books!
"This non-girl! She's a savage beast! Don't think of her as a woman!" Veyron accused, and the admiral cried harder.
"Veyron, stop it!" Shirahoshi embraced the poor Admiral beauty against her chest, how could her fiancé be so tactless!?
"Ugh!" Veyron grimaced, still unable to erase the picture of Akainu slaughtering Ace out of his mind; it didn't matter how much hotter she became; she was still an evil woman.
'If I can't erase you, I will at the very least, re-educate you, Sakazuki!'