The Path To The Top

2 years later

In the middle of a forest there are three children, stretching in silence until the voice of one of the children is heard by the other two

Allana: "phew, so? are you ready?"

The person who said this was a 1.10cm girl, with long blonde hair that reaches the end of her back.

Mirage: "I am... and you Dami?"

Said a 1.18cm boy, with the appearance of a wolf (or better known as mink ) with a light gray coat and dark spots, blood red eyes and white hair

Damian:"*yawn* I thought you guys would never finish... *yawn* so let's go"

Another boy responded, with black hair with white dots, green eyes with a brown center and four arms with the extra pair located above the normal arms, a pair of horns (so young and already armed) and a height of 1.80cm at just 5 years old

With everyone prepared, the three separated and each went to a corner and began to concentrate and then the three spoke in sync.

Dami/Mira/ALL:"1! 2! -"

Mother:"pihihihihi, brats! I found you"

The person who made this scream was Mother Irene, a 120-year-old old woman, with gray hair and caramel eyes... However, this is not her only appearance, as a zoan user, she has an animal transformation, which in her case is a 190cm bat, completely black, with bright red eyes and large ears.

Mother Irene said this while she was in the air, she then descended in the middle of the three and upon reaching the ground, she returned to her human form and spoke again

Mother:"Come here, I have good news for you kids, pihihihihi"

The three of them, upon hearing this, went close to the Mother and spoke while they were in a cold sweat.

Damian: "What happened, Mother?"

'since when was she watching?'

Mirage: "it's Mother, what are the good ones?"

'How did we not notice her?'

Allana: "How are you, mother?"

'I don't know why, but every time we meet her, it sends a chill down my spine'

Seeing the reaction of the three, Mother Irene is a little confused, but ignores it and continues talking excitedly

Mother: "I'm fine, little Allana, pihihihihi, but continuing, the news is...!!"

Dami/All/Mira: "yeah..."

After a dramatic moment, the Mother speaks excitedly

Mother: "pihihihihi, you guys are getting adopted!!!!"

Dami/All/Mira: "what?!!"

Mother: "What did you think? Cool, right?"

After a few minutes of reflection, Damian responded first

Damian:"well... That's cool and all, but I think we're going to refuse the adoption, right guys?"

Allana: "yes, I don't want to be adopted, after all being adopted will be a pain and will delay our plans"

Mirage: "true"

Hearing this, the Mother gives a big smile and says

Mother: "how beautiful..."

Unlike her smile, the Mother's voice sounded somewhat irritated.

Mother:"but I don't think you understand, this is not a choice, It's an 'order: sleep'"

Unlike the angry voice from a second ago, the moment she spoke the last part, her voice became a melodic tone and the children who were listening to the mother began to get heavy-eyed and spoke their last words, before falling down. unconscious

Damian: "tiredness... strange..."

Mirage: "what... sleep..."

Allana: "what... what..."

Hours later

Damian wakes up dazed, in a place he doesn't know and it's dark, so dark that he can't see anything and when he tries to get up, he hits his head on the ceiling of that place and says

Damian: "oh... Where am I?... wait..."

After hitting his head, Damian remembers what happened and starts to feel his surroundings and realizes that he was inside some kind of metal box, after which he becomes irritated when he remembers what Mother did, he shouted as he hit the metal wall

Damian:"FUCK!!"

After the blow, Damian was going to sit down to calm down, but when he was going to take his hand off the wall, he noticed a glow that wasn't there before... he made a hole in the wall, seeing this he gives a smile and says

Damian:"tcharara, these idiots"

Seeing that the people who put him in this cell underestimated him, Damian begins to enlarge the hole to a level where his body could pass through.

Leaving his cell, he saw that a large ship was inside and that there were several other cells around it and seeing the number of cells, Damian looks tired as he spoke.

Damian:"it's going to be a pain to find those two"

So Damian's hunt for his two friends begins, meanwhile...

Inside a dark cell (again...)

Mirage, who was sleeping (just like a baby) was woken up by a loud sound and a familiar scream, when he woke up he realized the strangeness of the place he was in, without light, small and metallic, after a few minutes to remember everything he was in. it happened before he woke up, he got pissed, and when he was going to try to break the wall, he couldn't even dent the wall and when he was going to try to use the electro, he heard the bang again, but this time without the scream, just a voice between calm and tired

Damian:"Mirag... Sorry, wrong person"

Upon hearing this voice, Mirage recognized it, it was Damian, so Mirage knocked on the cell wall and called Damian

Mirage:"here! Damian!"

And outside, Damian was opening cell by cell, hoping to find one of the two, but with no luck, until he heard someone calling while knocking on the metal wall, then Damian went to him and said

Damian: "Mira?"

Mirage:"I was already thinking that I was going to have to go out alone"

Damian: "ahem, I know and how exactly were you going to get out of there, genius?"

Mirage: "I was going to use the electro on the metal wall... Leave it alone and get me out of here"

Damian: "tcharara, okay, okay, calm down"

Upon listening, Mirage waited until a hand went through the wall, which surprised Mirage, because Damian's hand almost hit him in the face, as soon as his arm came back, leaving a hole, which was soon replaced by Damian's eyes who spoke in a playful voice.

Damian: "I didn't hit you, right? It could be that when I was looking at the other cells, I may or may not have hit some people"

Mirage:"you could have warned me!! I almost died from the fright!"

Damian: "my bad, tcharara "

After the apology, Damian opens the cell Mirage was in and takes him out, who didn't even thank him for the rescue.

Damian: "You're welcome, Mira"

After leaving, Mirage looks around and observes the size of the place they were in.

Damian: "big, right?"

Mirage: "yes... Wait!? Where is the crew of this ship?"

Damian:"Now that you mention it, since I woke up, I've been making a lot of noise and no one has come yet, how strange..."

Mirage: "true, strange..."

Outside the cell area, there is a bunch of pirates with worried faces, because they are in front of a Navy ship, and on that ship, the sailors are preparing to invade the pirate ship.

Back to the cell area with our protagonists

Dami/Mira:"well, but who cares? The important thing is It's them not being here!"

After this conversation, the two focus again

Damian: "ok, enough thinking about what could happen, now we need to focus"

Mirage: "Okay, so what are we going to do?"

Damian:"let's split up, I'll go after the blonde and you'll go after something we can use to get out of here"

After separating, Damian continued to open the cells looking for Allana, meanwhile Mirage went after anything that could be used

After a few minutes of searching without finding anything, Mirage was almost giving up the search, until he came across a door full of locks, he saw this and went straight to trying to break down the door, but with no luck, the wood of the door was very resistant. .

after a while of thinking he had an idea, Mirage instead of trying to destroy the door, He focused on the locks, energizing them until they broke one by one, until the door opened.

revealing some interesting items, from what it looks like that place was a type of weapons warehouse and what most caught Mirage's attention were a pair of twin katanas, they were simple, a completely black handle, a white guard without many details and a scabbard completely black with white drawings and when drawn you can see a simple but sharp blade, 60cm long

After admiring the katanas, he took a second look at the room and noticed many other cool things, the ones that caught his attention the most were some higher quality weapons than the rest and a small chest that Mirage was unable to open, no matter what. which he tried to use to unlock the chest, then After trying for a while, he gave up and started gathering everything he thought was important, like money, weapons and the trunk, then he carried everything and went after his friends

Meanwhile... In (guess what)... ... ... ....

Bingo! A dark place... (once again... oh, the author has no creativity, right?)

Allana wakes up in a cold sweat, scared, she tries to look around but with no luck, nothing, just the dark

She tried call someone, but again, nothing

She was alone, without anyone again, with all this loneliness, Allana lays down in a fetal position crying

And then she heard a loud noise, this sound along with loneliness, made her mind go back to that day and with each impact that is heard, the image of her mother being killed by that man becomes clearer.

Allana was desperate, that image reminded her how weak she is and how alone she was...

"BLONDE!!!"

Upon hearing that scream, that image was replaced by the image of her with Mirage, Damian and Oriana happily

Allana: "Was that scream from Dami?"

Then came the impact noise and was followed by another scream

Damian: "WHERE ARE YOU?, STUPID BLONDE!!"

And hearing this scream, any and all images that could be appearing disappeared, so Allana He got up from the fetal position and started banging on the cell wall.

Allana:"HEY, WHO ARE YOU CALLING AN STUPID? HEY! FOUR-ARMED HORNED!!!!"

Outside, Damian, who was looking for Allana, heard her scream, so he looked relieved to find his friend, but when he understood what she said, his face closed and he ran towards Allana.

Damian upon arriving where Allana was trapped, Damian didn't say anything and went to open the cell, but unlike the way he opened the other cells, he didn't punch to open a hole, this time he grabbed the edge of the cell with all his arms and ripped the wall from the cell as if it were a piece of paper and still with the wall in his hands, Damian looks at Allana with an angry but relieved look

Damian:"seriously, 'four arms' and 'horned'? Haven't you thought of anything better?"

Allana: "Shut up, come on... Where's Mira?"

Damian: "I asked him to look for something that could be useful to us and with the time I spent looking for you, he must have already found something"

Allana: "Looking for? How long have you been looking for me?"

Damian:"well... If we don't consider the time I was looking for Mira... I think it's been an hour searching, why?"

Allana looked at the floor and said softly

Allana: "I'm sorry... For calling you horny"

Damian, upon hearing the apology, just smiled and patted her on the back and joked

Damian: "look, apparently even a stupid blonde can learn to apologize"

Allana: "I hate you"

Damian: "tcharara, let's go after Mira before he decides to leave alone"

After some minutes walking, they find it a somewhat comical scene

Dami/ALL:"tcharara!/hahahahah!"

the reason the two children are laughing is because of a 1.18 tall Cub carrying with great difficulty (to the point where his legs shake more than a blow from Whitebeard) a bag full of weapons, money and a chest

And Mirage, who saw them laughing, could only say with an embarrassed face

Mirage: "so... Can you... Help me?"

Even after hearing Mirage's request, the two went to help him, but they still continued laughing

After helping (basically Damian picking up the bag and putting it on the ground) Mirage, after that he opened the bag and revealed some weapons, such as: a pair of katanas, a 2 m spear with a feather at the end of it, a heavy shield with the design of a spider and two tonfas made of pure steel

Mirage: "so? What did you think?"

Damian: "I have to admit that I didn't expect there to be so much here"

Allana: "but it makes sense, doesn't it? After all, they must be from the underworld"

Damian: "I never thought I would do this, but well thinking, blonde"

Allana: "fuck you, Dami"

Damian: "tcharara, so how are we going to share the weapons?"

Without even thinking Mirage jumped at an absurd speed in direction the katanas while speaking

Mirage:"These are mine!!"

The two seeing this action from Mirage just gave a small smile and returned to the weapons on the floor, after a while, Damian stood up and spoke

Damian:"well since you didn't like any of them I'll choose them myself"

Allana: "Really? Which one are you going to get?"

Damian:"The spear and the shield!"

So after choosing, the three begin to get ready to go to the exit of that place, but before they even started walking, Damian looks in disbelief at the way Allana was holding the tonfas(as if they were a baton) and says

Damian: "hey blonde"

Allana: "What happened?"

Damian: "Are you sure you're going to hold your weapon like that?"

Allana: "What do you mean?"

Damian: "well, the way you're holding it might be a little ineffective"

Allana: "why?"

Damian: "there is a few reasons, but the main one is that holding it like this you won't have much stability when attacking or being attacked and, the another is that due to the size of your hand, holding it like this you won't be able to use all your strength "

Allana: "so how should I use them, know-it-all?"

Damian: "Lend me one"

As soon as Damian picked up the tonfa, he picks it up by the side handle and with the long part forward and speak

Damian: "this way you have protection for your hand and can cover a larger area, however..."

Damian turns the tonfa in reverse, leaving the smaller part forward

Damian: "I prefer it this way, so besides being better for melee attacks, you still get a good defense, not just for your hand, but for your entire arm and besides, it's harder to get out of your hand if it's right"

You two who heard Damian's talk were surprised by his knowledge about tonfas, so Mirage asks curiously

Mirage: "How do you know that, Professor Damian?"

Damian:'teacher? leave it there'

"well, tonfas are one of my favorite weapons, second only to scythes"

Allana: "so why didn't you take them"

Damian:"That's pretty obvious, that's why even though they're mine favorites, I think it will be better if they stay with you, blonde, since the tonfas are easier to use than the shield that you can't hold because of its weight and the spear is too big for you"

Allana: "I never imagined you would think about others, horned professor"

With some confusion Damian speaks

Damian: "Why the fuck are you calling me professor?"

Mirage:"after this class about how to use a tonfa, there's no way I can't call you teacher"

Damian: "Okay, so is everything ready? Didn't we forget anything?"

Mirage: "I don't think so... Ah! I almost forgot"

When Mirage shouted this, he ran towards a small chest and brought it back to show the rest of the group.

Allana: "What is that chest, Mira?"

Mirage: "I had found it, there in the warehouse, but I didn't have time to open it"

Damian: "do you want for me to open?"

Mirage: "yes"

As soon as the three of them arranged themselves around the trunk, Damian grabbed the lock and ripped it off, then Damian opened the trunk slowly to make drama and as soon as the trunk was opened the three were shocked...

Damian: "tcharara!"

Mirage:"No fucking way!"

Allana: "impossible"

A while later

At the door to exit the cell area

Damian:"this is where our adventure really begins!"

Mirage: "already It was time!"

Allana: "Finally, let's chase our dreams!"

So the three go out the door to be surprised again, in front of their eyes a battlefield

To be continued