Supreme Swordsman Zoro

Blackbeard looked up as the knock-up stream started to shoot the ship into the air, his crew was holding on the ship for their dear life as the impact was quite hard on the ship, Blackbeard laughed as he used his devil fruit powers to nail himself to the ship then he said:

"This is good for us, even though I have to delay the plan it doesn't matter, sky island is different from our normal sailing places, it should have some good stuff on it Zehahahahah."

In Marineford a meet up between the top marines of the current decade was created, a man who wore the fleet admiral outfit along with a cap with a seagull on it, he had thin black-rimmed glasses on his face and a big beard, he was Sengoku the current fleet admiral!

A man who wore a red suit with a tall and buff physique was staying a few chairs away from him at the table, Garp was there as well picking his nose, Borsalino or also known as Kizaru was there as well, a new man with bushy black hair a tired expression on his face and a blue-white suit, he had a sleeping mask on in his hands and his expression looked like he just woke up, his skin was tanned and fair.

"Arara, what's with this emergency meet-up fleet admiral-dono?"

The fleet Admiral Sengoku smiled as he looked over at Kuzan then said:

"Aokiji, we are between friends here, you don't have to call me so formerly."

Kuzan or also known as Aokiji the moniker of his rank as an admiral of the marines shook his head and said:

"What a pain, Sengoku you just woke me up and I had a great dream."

Sakazuki or also known as Akainu snorted and he said:

"Did that dream contain me as well, Kuzan?"

Kuzan shook his head as he said:

"No Sakazuki as I said it was a great dream."

Garp started laughing at their interactions and he even slapped the table a few times, an old woman who stood near him patted him on the back and said:

"Garp, what are even doing here these days, shouldn't we let the youngsters take over?"

Garp shook his head at the woman then said:

"Tsuru what happened to your conviction?"

Tsuru vice-admiral of the marines shook her head as she looked at her hands which were trembling, since the accident that happened a year ago she couldn't perform her services as she could before, she was almost ready to retire. Garp's eyes shadowed as he remembered the incident then he scratched the back of his head and took a rice cracker from the bowl on the table.

They were the greatest fighting match up of the marine's all of the great fighters of the marines were currently located here Sengoku cleared his throat as he said:

"As you know Borsalino failed to retrieve the slave of those world nobles and they are quite mad at us now, they said that they would cut our funding."

Sakazuki snorted and he said:

"What useless world nobles, we do all the dirty work for them, hmph."

Sengoku shook his head, fortunately, Marineford was soundproofed and spy proofed against the world noble's, or else Sakazuki's comments would bring them great trouble on their heads. Garp and Sakazuki were on the same page here, the only thing they agreed on, the world nobles being useless.

Even though Sakazuki respected Garp a lot because of his prowess and his ability to capture the pirate king he still hated him due to his soft approach to pirates and how he dealt with them.

Borsalino shook his head and said:

"Those world nobles are quite scary when it comes to financial things but without us, they couldn't do anything, either way, it's a symbiotic relationship, even though they do things that we are supposed to prevent..."

Sengoku himself didn't like the world nobles but the upper echelons of the marines never gave him a time of the day, even though his position was high that was in the fighting department, there were giant webs created between the countries controlled by the world nobles, and they had their fighting force as well which not much was known about...

The chiper phol while controlled by the world nobles it was still a marine organization. Sengoku narrowed his eyes as his den-den mushi rang and a report came in:

"Hmm? why would you report this to me? Do you think I have time to care what Demon Blade Zoro is doing? hmm, what did you say? you have spotted Nico Robin on his ship? This is a problem then....."

Sengoku shook his head as he looked at his colleagues, it was time for a change of plans he looked around and he asked Kuzan:

"You remember the little girl from back then Kuzan."

A flicker appeared in Kuzan's eyes something that none of them caught, besides Garp then he said:

"Of course I remember, Nico Robin, why do you ask?"

Sengoku scratched his beard as he thought a bit about what he should do then said:

"CP9 is working undercover at Water 7, however, I'm not sure if they can handle Demon Blade and his crew by themselves, even our best fighter Rob Lucci would have great trouble with him, even though his devil fruit is strong as a zoan and he knows all of the Rokushiki techniques perfectly, Demon Blade is a new world level swordsman, he knows Haki and his swordsmanship level is very high, he is getting closer and closer to the peak of vice-admiral level every day, maybe he could even fight a newly promoted admiral to a standstill."

Kuzan looked at Sengoku with narrowed eyes as he asked:

"So what you mean is?"

Sengoku nodded his head and he said:

"You will travel to Water 7 to assist CP9 in capturing Nico Robin if you can capture Demon Blade and his crewmates as well the better, however, your prime objective will be getting your hands on Nico Robin. The higher-ups don't want a mistake as you did back then Kuzan if you fail now I don't think I can save you again..."

Kuzan narrowed his eyes, the Gorosei kind of hated his guts for letting Nico Robin go the first time, with his battle prowess he guessed his bounty would be amongst the highest with the yonkou, Kuzan shook his head, he liked his current lifestyle but he couldn't condemn Nico Robin for what she did, it was against his justice, he will try his best to capture her but if something intervened, it wasn't his fault then.

Kuzan nodded at Sengoku and was ready to leave when Sakazuki got up from his chair and shouted at Sengoku:

"Let me go instead of this freeze brain, I would do a better job than him!"

Sengoku shook his head at Sakazuki then said:

"Let me tell you the direct orders that I'm getting right now Sakazuki, I already knew what they would want but I should just give them to you so you can review them by yourself."

A similar snail to the den-den mushi was printing some papers on a nearby desk, Sengoku took the papers and threw them over to Sakazuki, Sakazuki grabbed the papers and looked over them then he burnt them to cinders, a scary expression could be seen on his face:

"Capture Nico Robin alive? Capture her alive? These old farts want to know what happened in the void age don't they?"

Sengoku shook his head as he said:

"Nothing we can do about them, they are the highest order of celestial dragons, patriarchs of the most affluent families, at best we could argue with them, at worst we would go to war, it's not worth it."

Sengoku stood on the fleet admiral position for quite a few tens of years after he took care of Roger with Garp, he realized how the marine's worked and knew that he couldn't do anything if he was honest with himself, he was waiting for Dragon, Garp's son to do something already, he joined the marines as a young lad to do a change in the world, but then he realized that the pirates were only a part of the problem and that the biggest problem makers were untouchable.

Sengoku sighed as he looked at Kuzan leaving the meeting room then he said before he could fully leave:

"Make sure to be thorough Kuzan, as your friend I don't want to be the one who has to capture you."

Kuzan shook his head and said:

"So troublesome, I just want to go back to sleep now *sigh*"

On The Going Merry, things were going well for the straw hat pirates, Zoro and Kuina were training while Kaya and Usopp were planning where to hold their wedding, they decided they didn't want anything big, they should just get to find a licensed priest so they could make their marriage official, maybe they could find one in Water 7?

Kuina looked at Usopp and Kaya then she walked a little bit nearer to Zoro and she asked:

"Zoro when will you give me the ring?"

Zoro looked over at her then said:

"There are quite a few rings down the deck you can get what you want."

Kuina shook her head then she said:

"No no not like that, I don't mean that I want a ring."

Zoro shook his head as in response that he didn't understand then Kuina just stopped pestering him.

Zoro looked over as she trained then scratched the back of his head while muttering:

"What ring, why should I get it to her? Can't she get it herself?"

Luffy was talking to Robin, it was just small talk so they could get to know each other better, Chopper was there too and Robin was entertaining the little guy with her powers making him laugh and roll around the deck.

Sanji came out of the kitchen to serve everyone food when Nami's voice could be heard from the crow's nest:

"Land-ho Water 7 ahead of us!"

On Water 7 a man with a closed shaved goatee who wore a work uniform of the Galley-la company he also wore a black top hat with brown trimmings at the edges, the best ship making company of Water 7 closed his mini den-den mushi, the man had a white skin he was tall and muscular yet also slim at the same time he has shoulder-length wavy black hair that is tied in a ponytail and a pigeon on his left shoulder who suddenly said in a high pitched voice:

"It seems I have some work to do earlier than intended, Nico Robin huh.."

The pigeon shook his head as the man memorized his orders and he called over one of his co-workers, the pigeon said in a merry voice:

"Let's go to Blueno's bar it's on me this time Kaku!"

A man with a square nose who wore a work jacket of the company came forward and he said:

"Should I call Kalifa-san as well?"

The pigeon nodded his head and Kaku's merry eyes hardened for one second as he said:

"One-second Lucci-san, I'm not sure if she wants to come though..."

A few minutes later a blonde-haired woman who wore glasses and a secretary outfit came following Kaku, her body was quite curvy in the right places even though she wasn't very tall. Lucci nodded his head then started to walk towards Blueno's bar

Kalifa narrowed her blue eyes, Lucci would always say something before the mission started, the only time he was this silent would be... If something major was going to happen.

The duo followed Lucci towards Blueno's bar where they met with the owner, Blueno a tall somewhat buff guy with his hair made in such a fashion that he looked like he had horns, he wore a blue shirt white gray pants and he was cleaning some glasses when the trio entered.

Blueno smiled as he said:

"My favorite customers come in, come in." There was no one else in the bar beside the four people

Luffy sneezed then looked over at Ace who was thinking about something and asked:

"Ace what are you thinking about?"

Ace shook his head as he said:

"If we followed his footsteps like before we should have met Blackbeard quite a while ago, I feel like something isn't right, I feel like he escaped us somehow..."

Luffy shook his head and got back to his training he was very close to unlocking Observation but something was blocking his progress, something crucial, something like a life and death fight...

Zoro looked at Ace as he was pondering, at first he wanted to leave and go search for Blackbeard on his own but he knew he wasn't strong enough and stopped this impulse, he didn't want to possibly die at the traitor's hands, he still had too much to live for!

Zoro yawned as they docket at Water 7, this should be the right place where they would get a new ship!

Zoro watched over the city which had canals built in between buildings, it had an interesting design he thought to himself.

Hopefully, nothing wrong or bad would happen while they visited this famous city of the grand line.