Fortuna.
It was a supply island that the Red Beard Pirates. In the Stretch of Sea Known as the New World. Azar had been with Red Beard for nearly 3 years. He'd already known him 4. And ever since he'd found out about him and his power he wanted to beat him. Take over his position as an Emperor and become a notorious and famed pirate.
But after countless fights against him to try and prove himself. He got the advantage in a single one. And he was accepted onto his crew. And over time he rose to replace the Second Division Commander position that had once been occupied by a man named Arthur. The spot had been left empty for years after he was gone.
And taking up that position, he was given the protection and control over a fundamental island. Fortuna. It was filled with individuals and civilians that cared for the island as a supply depot. Everyone on the island was at one point or another under the threat by other pirates in the Mysterious New World, but Red Beard protected them, and in turn they chose to help supply and care for his fleet.
Azar became wildly popular on the Island. Him and his Crew, The Roaring Pirates, were always there for the people of the Island. Helping with Shipments, fending off any attacks (despite how idiotic of a decision that would be)
But all this changed one day when one of the common shipment officers by the name of Deli found something strange. An odd fruit that was warped and curved. Unbeknownst to him to be a Devil Fruit but feeling the strange cool and hollow feel to it made them want to tell Azar about it.
Azar was confused by it. He knew that it was obviously a Devil Fruit. He kept it secure on the Island, and went to Red Beard for Advice on what to do with it.
But after Red Beard had told him to possibly give it to one of his crewmates or sell it for a handsome amount of Berry, Vane approached him, curious of what it might be. And after being described, Vane knew that it was the fruit he had been searching for, longing for, for decades. He had researched the Herbarum of Devil Fruits, his eyes set on that specific one.
Then, when Azar was off on one of his typical adventures after his First Mate had told him about an island where everything was edible, Vane invaded the island. Initially it wasn't hostile, but after he had been caught eating it. It was a bloodbath. Bodies rendered to nothing. He alone literally destroyed the island. The biggest attack on a Red Beard territory in years.
Ever since, Azar's been after him like a bloodhound.
"Haff…Haff…Haff…" Azar Panted hard, the city around utterly destroyed down to rubble, smoke and dust rising into the air in thick clouds of smog mixed from the loose fires caused by Azar.
The Darkness that had been in a sea across the street was no more, Absorbed back into Vane. "Zeha. Alright Azar! C'mon!" He screamed with that wild toothy grin on his face
"Ebony Razor!" Vane shot up two fingers, the blackness oozing from them as a blade like shape shot from his fingertips! "Pop Flare!" Azar lurched to the side, the Razor passing by him!
Another Swipe, And Vane destroyed the flaming ball of fire! Azar was on the move! Rocketing forwards! Two mounds of fire growing in his hands, blades growing from the edge before spinning around! "Hikaiten!"
"Ebony Spires!" Two spears of Dark grew into his palms, before being thrown and pierced into the spinning fire and absorbing them into an explosion of inky black!
Again and again, Vane swipped his hands through the air! Tossing Razor after Razor that Azar couldn't dodge! These blades of darkness didn't cut, but ate away what they came in contact with, if it wasn't for Azars strong hardening body the injuries would be far more grievous than they were!
Swipe! Finally Azar was able to dodge out of the way in mid air! The large blade of black shot through the air and off into the horizon before slicing cleanly through one of the mountains and launching its sheared half up into the air a dozen meters up!
Azar rolled onto the ground and into rubble, a trail of fire leading to where he was only for a moment later a giant monster of fire to erupt! Long arms like a gorilla, a sharp tooth maw with long fiery hair that waved through the air!
"Divine Conflagration! Kojin!" Two more arms formed from his back and from his shoulders! The temperature raising through the air! "Shit!" Insidio groaned, rising her hand to block the heat despite being a 20 meters away
"Zehaha! Look at that! A god of fire in the Flesh!" Vane had a wild deranged smile on his face, the black left un illuminated.
"Corona Nova!" Azar exploded a cloud of fire outwards! Staggering Back as he leapt and clawed across the ground, the back two hands on his back firing off a barrage of fire bolts!
A few were smacked out of the way! Vane leaping from the rest! "Ebony Monarch!" Shooting his hands up, he shot out dozens of the Razors! All impacting and slicing across Azars skin causing a roar of fire to be released! He was lucky that his large frame caused the damage to be mitigated, the darkness nullifying his logia form and injuring his true body that wasn't tangible anywhere within!
Sliding to a stop, the ground scorched in deep trenches from where he'd just been, Azars mouth opened wide, a flicker ignited like a stoves pilot light, before exploding into a larger flame! "Scuti!"
Slamming forward the blaze launched forward! Faster than lightning the attack sped forwards! It burned a deep scorched trench as it moved! Vanes face lit up both from joy and the light! His hands rose in front of them…funnels of black swirling out in front of him, the elemental force exploding against him! The fire scorched the earth around! Denting and melting the ground just in front of Vane…
"Soliloquy–...Of Darkness!" Tensing his body hard, he shoved his body and arms forward! Exploding the Darkness out! Absorbing all of the flames and then a moment later expanding through the air in black veil of webby black!
The Second it hit Azar it depowered him completely! Knocking him out of the powerful form he was in and was left on the ground face down with dozens of cuts around his body…
"Haff..Ha Zehaha." Sweat coated Vanes face from the heat. Slowly walking to him his hands stopped leaking elemental power. "It was fun Azar…But it's over now…"
Vane Leaned forward, hand opened to grab when the black haired man flipped onto his back! His hand raised like a finger gun, a small ball of concentrated red fire floating centimeters ahead! "Roaring Flare!"
Azar's hand was less that a foot away from Vanes face as the sphere shot out and slammed into vane! Erupting out behind him in a giant pillar! In the time between Vane stumbled back and looked back up, Azar was standing 5 meters from him.
"Heh…" Vane shook his head. 'He must've protected himself…' Sharped thought as the others looked on. "If this is how you wanna end it…"
Vane slowly raised his hands. Turning them black and rubbing them together, slowly pulling them apart, one hand forward and the other pulling the blackness back into a large sharp shape like "Revenant"
A flame grew behind Azar like a rising sun, growing large and concentrated almost like a star. Small tendrils of flames like that of solar flares slowly moved forward while Azar raised his hands up, putting one over the other…
"Divine Conflagration…Sonne." The tendrils formed into a hyperdense sphere of fire the size of his palm. All the colors of flames mixed within the bright golden white.
There was no word that was spoken between the two. Only silence and the fluctuating air from the heat as the two breathed then–
They Released their attacks. The collision could be seen from the furthest ring. And reached a kilometer into the air…
This Event would kick start a chain of events the like never seen before.