Space King

**Prelude**

In a town between two mountains, three rivers, and five continents, a child was born. He grew up used to the mountain scenery. He was taught to be a witty, resourceful child. He grew up fishing and hunting bare-handed. If he ever managed to catch a high-quality fish or animal, his parents would give him a prize, whatever they found that day.

On Lobdet's seventh year of life, his parents gave him a glowing rock. They said that eating it would make him stronger. Since he had no reason to mistrust his parents, he ate it. It was a rock, so Lobdet was prepared to bite into hardness but was surprised to find that his teeth sunk into the rock quite smoothly. The taste was like nothing he ever tasted before, but not unpleasant. He proceeded to eat the entire rock. After he had finished eating the rock, he felt a flourishing feeling spread across his body, an enveloping warmth.

Yet Lobdet felt like he had lost something he once had...

**Chapter 1**

After Lobdet ate the Gravity fruit, he trained with it for five years. After five years, he left his small village to explore the world and find an occupation he wanted to do.

**Present**

Lobdet - 15 years old, awakened Gravity (see: https://blox-fruits.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000000323396 ), wears a black cloak with a hood he never puts on and a vivid red hat

Lobdet came to a town. When he arrived, he was warmly welcomed by the port master of the town. The port master was jovial in his greeting, but when Lobdet looked back at him, his face seemed to have fallen into a mixture of despair and sadness.

Lobdet came across many miserable-looking citizens who, upon seeing a visitor, immediately faked happy expressions and hurried away. When Lobdet finally got a chance to corner one of the citizens, he found out that the town was full of pirates.

Seeing as this town was a small island surrounded by a vast expanse of ocean water, it wasn't hard to find out where the pirates came from. Lobdet asked the citizen he had cornered, "Where are the pirates? This town seems pretty peaceful at the moment."

"Oh, they live in a large cave up there in that mountain," the townsman replied. Lobdet indeed saw a large mountain that he hadn't noticed before.

"If they don't come down to bother you, why are you guys so miserable?"

"They do come down; this is the only day of the year when they retreat to the cave. We don't know what they do up there because everyone who's gone has never come back down, but we're happy that they don't come down because every time they do, they cause a lot of trouble and kill a lot of people."

"Ooh, I want to go mess with them now," Lobdet said, excited.

"If you're strong enough, then I guess you can go, but just be safe. Around eleven travellers have gone up there in hopes of helping us, but none of them have come back down."

"Did any of them have Blox Fruits?"

The villager gasped. "You mean those legendary fruits that give you special powers to go against nature?"

"Yep."

"No, I don't think any of them did."

"Okay, well this will be easy."

"You should go tell our town mayor before going."

"Why?"

"Why not?"

"Oh, alright."

Lobdet followed the villager to the town hall. Lobdet proceeded to go into the town hall. The villager led him to the mayor's office. When Lobdet entered, the mayor jumped, or at least, as much as one can jump when they're sitting in a chair in front of a large cherry desk.

"What are you here for, traveller?" The mayor asked.

"To clear out the pirates up in the cave, of course," Lobdet replied.

"That's a hard task."

"Oh, I don't mind. I've been pretty bored out at sea these days."

"Alright, I'll leave the job of exterminating the pirates to you," the mayor said.

Now that he had permission, Lobdet changed the direction of gravity on his body to face the mountain. Lobdet zoomed straight to the mountain, stopping right before he would have crashed into it. Lobdet quickly located a cave on the mountain wall and thought for a dramatic entrance...

**Chapter 2**

Lobdet couldn't think of a dramatic entry, so he just casually walked into the cave full of pirates. It took a while for the pirates to notice him, since they were discussing something over a table with something spread over it. After about two minutes, the pirates finally realized that Lobdet was there.

"Who are you?" The captain asked.

"Funny thing, I was going to ask you that too."

"Answer me!" The captain shouted. His crew members brandished their weapons.

"Why should I? It's not like you can kill me. Do you want to try?"

"Heh, I like your ego. Too bad it will be wasted! Kill him!" The captain cried.

"Come on, we've been talking for less than a minute. I want to know you guys more." When the pirates didn't stop charging at him, Lobdet sighed. "I didn't want to do this, but it seems like I will have to."

Lobdet crushed all of the enemy pirates except for the captain with his ability to control gravity.

"So. Now are you willing to talk?"

The captain did not answer. He was still shocked at how Lobdet managed to massacre his men with half a flick of a finger.

"Answer me when I ask you something," Lobdet said in a dangerous voice.

"I-I what do you w-want to know?" The captain asked, trembling.

"Where your ship is."

"I-It's down by the harbor, you know, where the p-port master is."

"Lies! Are you an idiot? Where do you think I landed here, Bob's house?!"

"T-There isn't a-anyone here named Bob," the captain said.

"Do you think you're in a position to be smart with me?" Lobdet used the dangerous tone again.

"Alright, alright! M-my ship is behind this mountain, between two gigantic rocks."

"Oh, okay thanks!" And without a further word, Lobdet used his gravitational force to smash the captain to a wall, killing him with one hit. Lobdet zoomed back to the city hall. He went into the mayor's office. The mayor seemed really surprised at how Lobdet returned unscathed.

"Wow, I never imagined you to be able to come back out of there!"

"Oh, it was nothing. To be honest they weren't all that strong."

"How could you say that? Ten of our bravest men disappeared in that cave!"

"Huh, okay. Anyways, since my job here is over, I might as well get going."

"Wait! You did us a great service, you should at least get some kind of reward!"

"Oooh, a reward?" Lobdet's eyes immediately lit up.

"Here, three hundred beli and... these 5 glowy thingies. I don't personally know what they do, but I guess you can have them."

Lobdet recognized the glowy thingies as experience orbs. If one knew how to use it, they would be able to level up a bit. Every time someone levels up, they'll be able to upgrade one of their aspects of their choice. Five was a lot for Lobdet, so he took it with good grace.

"Thank you!" Lobdet said before leaving the mayor's office. "Alright... Where did that guy say his ship was? Oh yeah, behind the mountain."

Lobdet flew to the other side of the mountain and found a gigantic ship awaiting his arrival. He took the ship and sailed it away.

**Chapter 3**

Lobdet arrived at a kingdom two weeks after his departure from the small town island. When Lobdet docked, everyone was running away from him, screaming. He couldn't quite make out what they were saying, but it sounded a lot like, "Pirates!"

He didn't understand why they were calling him a pirate, but he took it in his stride. The fear from others as he arrived made him feel powerful, made him feel official, like he actually had a place in the world. Lobdet walked around the town and tried to find out why he was being mistaken for a pirate, but no one seemed willing to talk to him.

Finally, he was confronted by a squad of warriors.

"Leave, pirate! You have no place here!"

"Who, me?"

"Who else would we be talking to? Scram!"

"May I ask why everyone's calling me a pirate?"

"Stop playing games! You know full well that you docked on our port on a pirate ship!"

"Oh, I forgot about that. My bad."

"Leave our kingdom at once!"

"Why? I need new clothes and some groceries."

"WE DO NOT FEED AND CLOTHE OUR ENEMIES! LEAVE OR DIE OR GET TORTURED! Your choice."

"Is there a 'turn myself in' option?"

"Uh, yes, but why would you turn yourself in?"

"Why not?"

"Becau- There's no point. Put these on and follow us," the leader of the squad said, handing Lobdet a pair of handcuffs.

"Wait! These handcuffs don't work on me. I'm a fruit user, you see."

"You jest! Actually, you might not be. I've been a guard for fifty years, I was bound to meet a fruit user once in my life."

"Yeah, so, uh, can you get me some sea prism handcuffs?"

"You need to prove your power first. We're low on those things, you see."

"*Kneel.*"

Lobdet pointed his finger down and the entire squad was crushed to the ground. They could barely maintain a kneeling position. "*Release.*" The pressure on the soldiers was removed. The soldiers gasped for breath.

"I think I displayed my power."

"Yes," — the leader gasped for breath — "you certainly — *hup* — have."

"Great! Now, where are those sea prism handcuffs?"

"Here — *hup* — you go," the leader handed the handcuffs over. When Lobdet accepted it, he nearly collapsed to the ground. He struggled a bit, but managed to keep his composure. The handcuffs glowed, rather like how stuff glow on the seabed when the sun shines through the water. The turquoise handcuffs slid smoothly onto Lobdet's wrists.

"You good?" the leader asked.

"Yes," Lobdet replied, panting.

"Alright, off to the interrogation room we go."

The squad surrounded Lobdet and guided him to a stone brick building — if it could be called a building — and pushed him inside.

"We'll call the king," the leader said. Lobdet waited for around half an hour. Finally, someone came into the small building.

"His Majesty is about to arrive. Please show your utmost respect to our esteemed king," a mousy-haired soldier said, glaring at Lobdet with a look of the truest loathing one could imagine.

The soldier backed out of the door and shut it behind him.

**Chapter 4**

An ill-looking man wearing a shiny, golden crown adorned with several jewels entered the interrogation room. His red robe trailed on the ground, leaving a clear path through the dust.

"You are a power user?" the king inquired.

"Yep."

"Where did you get your fruit from?"

"My parents."

"Where did your parents get it from?" A greedy expression crept up the king's complexion.

"Good question."

"Answer it!" the king commanded.

"I would, if I could."

"And what do you mean by that?" the king's face reddened in anger.

"Isn't it obvious? I don't know where my parents got my fruit."

"LIES! I know that you know! Into the torturing chamber you go!" The king pulled an old, rusty lever. Lobdet fell into a prison cell in a dungeon. He heard footsteps echoing from the set of spiral staircases leading to the exit of the dungeon. Lobdet tried to get up but couldn't. He fell butt-first back onto the cell floor. He looked behind him and saw that the chain of his handcuffs was caught on a rusty hook protruding from the wall. Lobdet had an idea — he could use the hook to break the chain!

But then Lobdet suddenly remembered what the leader of the squad of soldiers had said. The sea prism handcuffs were too valuable. Oh well, he just had to think up another idea.

Lobdet decided to get the chain off of the hook before he did anything else. The footsteps were becoming ever so louder. The timer was ticking. Lobdet could feel his heart pounding against his chest as he tried to untangle the chain.

Finally, the chain came off. Lobdet used whatever gravitational power he could muster to thin his wrists. When his wrists were small enough, he slid them out of the handcuffs.

Immediately, Lobdet felt his power rushing back into his body. Just in time, too.

"Here you are, villainous pirate! Now tell me where your parents got the fruit, or else you shall suffer the consequences!"

"I refuse."

"Hah?" A look of confusion replaced the king's look of triumph. "Now see here, young man. If you don't tell me where your parents got the fruit, then you will be tortured until you spill the beans!"

"I don't remember agreeing with that." Lobdet used his power to force the bars apart, giving him ample space to walk through them. Lobdet swiftly walked past the king and climbed the stairs.

When Lobdet reached the top, he found himself inside the interrogation room. He saw the leader of the squadron of warriors, badly injured, sitting in the interrogee chair.

"What happened to you?"

"Ugh," — a bubble of blood grew in his mouth and burst — "run."

"Not until you tell me what happened to you."

"They — *huff* — caught me and — *huff* — beat me up, calling me a traitor."

"Who?"

"My soldiers! The ones *I* command!" The leader coughed and spat blood.

"Oh, they've got it coming to them," Lobdet said, cracking his knuckles.

"Don't!"

"Eh, I've already made enemies with the king, I don't really care what happens to this kingdom anymore."

"What... is... your fruit?"

"Gravity, awakened."

"Bet!" The injuries on the leader's body immediately healed.

"Wha-?"

"I ate Light fruit, which is an elemental fruit, so I can infinitely heal myself as long as I'm not hit with a move infused with Aura or a fruit's ability."

"Oh, okay. I don't need your help in destroying this kingdom, so you can go rest on my ship."

"Nah, I've got my own."

"Okay, just stay there and go sufficiently far away from this kingdom. Oh yeah, bring my ship there, too, while you're at it."

"Alright." The leader flew away.

Lobdet waited five minutes. At the end of the five minutes, the king coincidentally emerged from the spiral staircase, huffing and puffing.

"You! You tricky" — *huff* — "bastard!"

"Go away." The king was immediately slammed against the wall.

"*Meteor's Arrival.*"

Lobdet heard the sound of distant air whistling. There were two minutes until the meteor would crash. Lobdet changed the direction of gravity on himself and zoomed towards the harbor.

When Lobdet arrived, the meteor was very visible. There was also a distant fleet of five Marine ships on the horizon, though Lobdet did not realize it. "Right, all I need to do is escape from here with the other guy and we'll be free."

Lobdet located the two ships, side by side, and immediately headed towards it. Lobdet zoomed over the sea, leaving ripples on the surface. Finally, Lobdet made it onto the two ships, just in time to hear a gigantic roar behind him as the meteor made contact with the kingdom.

Lobdet found the "other guy" trembling and sweating on the other ship. "What's wrong?" Lobdet asked.

Wordlessly, the "other guy" pointed towards the five Marine ships. On the figurehead of one of them, the unmistakable figure of an admiral was visible against the pure blue sky.

"Oh, f\*\*\*."

### **Chapter 5.**

Wordlessly, the "other guy" pointed towards the five Marine ships. On the figurehead of one of them, the unmistakable figure of an admiral was visible against the pure blue sky.

"Oh, f\*\*\*," Lobdet said, "is what a *loser* would say!"

"Do y-you not realize t-the sit-tuation?"

"Not really. Anyways..." Lobdet summoned a shower of meteors to rain upon the Marine ships.

None of them made it. They all vanished.

"Wha-?"

"That's the power of an admiral."

"Eh, whatever. I'll just smack the other four ships." Lobdet flew towards the Marine fleet. He landed on a ship. Lobdet increased the gravity by tenfold. The ship split and sunk.

Lobdet hopped onto the next ship and did it again. The ship split and sunk. Lobdet repeated this two more times, except he skipped the ship with the admiral on it.

"Yo! Admiral guy!"

"What?"

"Do you not care that I just massacred your men?"

"Not really."

"Why not?"

"They're useless." Without further word, the admiral transformed into a gigantic, green dragon surrounded by an aura of flame.

"Oh, hell nah," said Lobdet.

The dragon opened its mouth and blew fire at Lobdet. Lobdet deflected the fire with his gravity. Lobdet zoomed straight at the dragon, prepared for battle. He repelled the dragon with all his might, but the dragon only fell back by a bit.

Then, Lobdet had an idea. Lobdet created a gigantic gravitational field around the dragon, forcing him into the sea.

However, what Lobdet did not anticipate was that his gravitational field was so strong that even the sea was parted. Therefore, the dragon had no difficulty in coming back up.

"Such petty tricks won't work on me!"

It was an aerial battle now. Lobdet tried to force the dragon around, but the dragon was practically immune to his gravity.

The admiral advanced. Lobdet cowered, inches above the sea, supported only by his gravity. The admiral's mouth opened wide...

"Piercing... CLOTHESLINE!"

The dragon slammed into the sea as much as a dragon can be slammed into a sea. The admiral was untransformed. Up until now, Lobdet hadn't bothered to look at him, but he saw that the man's face was lined with tears.

Lobdet didn't bother to question why, but he supported the man with his gravity until he got to his ship. Now, Lobdet looked at his savior. It was an unkempt young man, who, as unkempt as he was, wore impressive armor.

"Hi," Lobdet said.

"Hi."

Lobdet looked at the admiral.

"I guess I'm a pirate now, then."

"Ooh, can I join your crew?"

"Yeah, sure why not."

"What's the name?"

Lobdet took off his red cap to reveal the messy hair underneath it. He examined the red hat.

"Red Cap Pirates, I guess."

"Alright."

A flock of messenger seagulls passed overhead. A newspaper dropped down.

"WHAT?! HOW HAS THE NEWS ALREADY LEAKED?"

"Oh, you were the one who destroyed that kingdom?"

"Yeah."

"Huh, okay. How come you couldn't take care of a measly admiral, then?"

"He was practically immune to my attacks."

"Good for you."

"Well, I guess I should remodel the flag up there." Lobdet pointed at the top of the mast. Suddenly, another thing on the newspaper caught his eyes.

"Wait... 'Space King' Lobdet?... TWO HUNDR- TWO HUNDRED MILLION BOUNTY?!"

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To be continued :)

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### **Chapter 6**

The crew sailed on for a few more weeks during which they were able to know each other better. The guy who had saved Lobdet when he was fighting the dragon admiral was named Doughy and used awakened Dough.

"I was surprised I could defeat him in one move," Doughy said. "I feel like you did actually hurt him."

"Nah, I don't think I did. He seemed perfectly fine after my barrage of gravity attacks," replied Lobdet.

"Well, the Dragon fruit is known for giving its users powerful damage reduction, but even then they should take some damage. Dragons' bruises don't usually appear prominantly on their skin," Shouta informed.

"Really?" asked Lobdet

"Yeah. It's known in both the actual dragon race and the fruit," Shouta said.

"Oh. I feel better now."

"Hold up, y'all. This isn't the time for talking," Doughy called from the top of the mast.

"Holy shi- When the hell did you get up there?!" Shouta yelled.

"Twenty-three minutes, fifty-seven seconds, and seventy-three millisec- This isn't the time! Look at the water!"

The water was dark under the boat and patches of the ocean aside from the boat were practically black. However, some places seemed perfectly fine and had the normal sea-blue color.

"Oh fudge. Oh fudge." Shouta said, evidently terrified.

"What's the problem?" asked Lobdet.

"We entered a Calm Belt!" Doughy shouted.

"Oh. What's wrong with that?"

"This place is full of- Whoa!" Doughy fell off of the mast and onto the deck of the boat.

At this moment, the boat lurched up. It rose higher and higher. Now, it wasn't on the sea. It was on a Sea Emperor. The trio looked over the railing and saw a sight to behold. Five hundred some Sea Emperors rose from the water, roaring.

"And of course, we manage to get here during the Sea Fest." Shouta remarked.

"Screw this, oh, screw this," Doughy said.

"Welp, we're screwed," Lobdet declared, "is what a *loser* would say!"

Without further word, Lobdet ditched all notions of safety and jumped overboard.

"What the hell is he doing..." the two who remained on the boat mumbled.

Suddenly, a gigantic unnatural roaring noise occurred. Lobdet manipulated gravity so thoroughly that he created a tremendous water spout.

"WHAT IN THE SAM HILL ARE YOU THINKING, YOU EFFING IDIOT?!"

"Don't mind me, just stay alive."

"EASY FOR YOU TO SAY!"

The Sea Emperors responded to the water spout with earsplitting din. They tried to escape it, but it was practically impossible. Lobdet then compressed the water into a singularity. Everything was still for a moment. Then the singularity expanded a bit. Slowly, the singularity became a fully-fledged black hole.

"Oh shit. What the effing hell is that man thinking?!"

However, although the black hole sucked everything around the ship into it, the ship remained untouched. When the last of the Sea Emperors were gone, Lobdet chucked the black hole into space, where a stupendously bright explosion could be seen, even with the bright blue sky.

"You... effing... freak..." gasped Shouta. "What... the... hell... were... you... thinking?!"

"I was thinking to get rid of the Sea Emperors," Lobdet responded simply.

A squadron of messenger seagulls flapped overhead. A newspaper dropped onto Lobdet's head.

"What does it say?" Doughy excitedly asked.

"The Blue Angel Pirates murdered a town in cold blood... blah blah blah... Oh look, we're on here. It says... Red Cap Pirates killed Admiral George cruelly... They really want us to look bad, don't they?" Lobdet read. Then, seeing the troubled expression on Doughy's face, he asked, "Are you alright? It is kinda weird that they know that we were the ones who killed the admiral, right?"

"What bothers me isn't that they know that we killed the admiral. It's easy for them to assume that. You never destroyed the last ship, but by the time we were finished with the dragon guy, the ship was gone. What bothers me is that they knew our crew name was the Red Cap Pirates."

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### **Chapter 8**

"Alright. You came here to kill me," Lobdet said, pulling his red cap backwards. "But you have to know what you're up against."

The ground trembled. Dust rose into the air. The mist parted and the sea rushed and crashed. The sky turned dark, and so did Lobdet's originally navy blue jacket. The ground cracked beneath his feet and Lobdet began emitting an ethereal, red glow. His normally semi-short hair flowed white and elongated to shoulder length.

"Time to die."

"Don't get too cocky budd-" began the man with an 8-pack. He never finished his sentence, since Lobdet had already dashed forward and struck him straight through the stomach. Not *in*, but *through*. Lobdet withdrew his fist from the bleeding, gaping hole in where the man's organs used to be. Lobdet swung around with a kick aimed at the man's head. *Crack*. The man's skull fractured while he flew sideways into a building, crashing through the walls and coming out the other side. He skidded on the dusty ground for a few seconds before coming to a halt.

The man struggled upwards, but before he could stand up, Lobdet already dashed above the man and brought down a piercing kick. The man coughed blood. Lobdet, still in the air above the man, sent down a barrage of kicks aimed at the man's head and donut of a torso. Then, Lobdet raised a fist coated with layers upon layers of red Aura and smashed it down onto the bloody mass on the ground.

The force of the punch was so great that the sea, which had just been creeping up the island earlier, was blasted seventy kilometers away, causing calamitous effects that Lobdet never would have dreamed to make.

Lobdet left the corpse on the ground and walked back to his crewmates, his appearance becoming more and more normal with each step. Just as he was about to reach the other two, a newspaper dropped onto his head.

"Wha-?"

Doughy was the quickest to grab the newspaper. "Blah blah blah, a whole bunch of crap nobody cares about. We haven't done that much anyways. Oh, cool your bounty rose to 500 million for massacring that kingdom.

"In short, nothing to be bothered about."

"Lobdet, you really have to give us some chances to defeat the enemies we face, you know," said Shouta saltily.

"I give you plenty of opportunities, I don't know what you're talking about."

"Like when?" Doughy joined in on the conversation.

"Like just now. I gave you guys 3 seconds before I attacked him."

"We need more than that! Oh my rip\_indra! Do you really think 3 seconds is enough warning for us to realize that you're going to start massacring your enemies?" Shouta yelled.

"Yep." Lobdet replied simply.

Someone walked up to them.

"Hi," the person said.

"Hi," everyone replied.

"So. Um. Have you realized that the fog isn't gone yet?"

"Holy \*\*\*\*, you're right!" Doughy said, eager to get rid of the original conversation.

"So what?" Lobdet asked stupidly.

"Well, when you defeat someone, their powers' effects should disappear."

"So you're saying that I didn't pummel that idiot enough?" Lobdet asked, cracking his knuckles as if preparing to pummel the man even more.

"Oh, I don't think *that* man is the person behind the fog," the stranger replied.

"No?" Shouta said.

"No. I am." The stranger transformed into a gigantic, purple beast made of what was clearly venom.

"Okay, fine, I'll let you two deal with him this time," said Lobdet and fell down and slept right on the spot.

"Shouta, rock paper scissors, okay? Best out of three," Doughy said, completely ignoring the stranger.

"Okay," Shouta consented. "One! Two! Three! Rock!"

"Paper!" Doughy shouted. "NO! Bruh, you little annoying runner."

"Oh, you challenging me, huh?" Shouta aggressively asked.

"Yep! You've stayed on our ship for too long, Shouta."

A gigantic battle commenced, but it couldn't be called a battle. For one, both sides seemed to launch powerful attacks at each other, but somehow they missed and rebounded onto the venom man, so by the end of the entire thing, both of the crewmates remained completely unharmed yet the stranger who walked up to them lay on the ground, dissolving in a puddle of his own acid.

Lobdet woke up. "You two satisfied now?"

"No, but just one more person could do," said Doughy.

"And who would that be?" asked Shouta, albeit a bit apprehensively.

"Oh, anyone who tries to mess us up later."

"Oh okay," said Shouta with a relieved sigh.

"Oh, speak of the devil. Someone's coming now." Doughy pointed at a figure approaching them in the distance.

"Don't attack. I have a feeling it's someone who doesn't actually have bad intentions," said Lobdet.

"Fine."

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**Chapter 9**

As the figure in the distance slowly approached, the crew couldn't help but notice that the fog was vanishing abnormally quickly. Doughy noted this but refrained from saying anything in case it caused unnecessary strife.

Finally, the person reached them and the three realized that he was also a pirate. Well, at least he seemed eager to see them and didn't look like a marine.

"Hello!" he said enthusiastically.

"Uh, hi," Lobdet responded.

"Can I join your crew?"

"Yeah, sure, why not."

"Ahem," announced Doughy, trying to get everyone's attention. "I don't think we defeated the right person."

"Yay! We can smack more people!" Lobdet shouted. "Who else can we smack?"

"Someone on this island that we don't know," reasoned Doughy.

"What's your name?" Lobdet asked the newcomer to their crew.

"Me? It's Random."

"Okay, well we know him so obviously it can't be him," said Lobdet.

"Well, a more pressing question is: WHY THE HELL IS YOUR NAME RANDOM?!" Shouta yelled.

"Good question," answered Random.

"Oh yeah, on the topic of finding the person who did the fog, what makes you think that they're not dead?" asked Lobdet.

"The fog disappeared too quickly to be believable to have been the Venom guy's work," said Doughy.

"Assuming that is true, then how do we find the person who caused it?" Shouta contemplated.

"Oh that's easy. We don't need to find them. I'll just blow up this island with another meteor," suggested Lobdet.

"Bruh," said the other three people present.

"Let's go back to our ship first."

When everyone arrived at the dock where their boat used to be, they saw that their boat was not there. Even the water was not to be seen for what seemed like several kilometers.

"Time to walk," announced Lobdet, already starting to tread on the sand towards their ship.

"No!" Doughy shouted, sending a strand of dough to pull Lobdet back. "We don't know what could be hiding in the sand!"

"Fine," consented Lobdet grumpily.

"We could fly over though," Shouta said.

"How are we going to do that? It's not like I can change the direction of gravity on you so that you fly," grunted Lobdet. "Oh wait. I forgot that I *can* do that."

Thereafter proceeded Lobdet to use up tons of energy to move the four people across the sand, only to realize that the water was coming back anyway. When they finally managed to make some distance, they noticed a speck in the water that they knew to be their ship.

Once Lobdet managed to get everyone above the ship, he unceremoniously dropped the other three and floated down himself. When Lobdet reached the ship, he was met with a scene of three extremely angry crewmates who all bombarded him with the same question: "WHAT IN THE SAM HILL WAS THAT FOR?!"

"You guys never set any conditions when you forced me to bring us all here."

"Bruh."

After that slight hiccup in their plans, the crew continued sailing for quite a while, a few weeks or so. They continued sailing until, finally, they found an island that was populated by more than three people. When they arrived, the inhabitants of the islands, the people of a rather large kingdom, all screamed, running away in fear. Clearly, their name had preceded their arrival.

However, there was one person who did not go running, a hooded girl who stood alone at the pier.

"Hi, Red Cap Pirates. Can I join your crew?" she asked.

"Why not? But first you have to show what you can do," said Lobdet.

"Behold: my Full Phoenix Form!" A magnificent phoenix erupted from the ground, enveloping the girl in blue-and-yellow flames. The girl transformed into a graceful phoenix.

"This is going to be a really helpful feature; I take it that you can heal any injury?" inquired Shouta.

"Yep! The vast majority of injuries. I can't think of an example of an injury that I can't heal, but there probably are those kinds, I just haven't found any yet."

"That's nice. Welcome to our crew!" said Lobdet. "Right. So we landed here to get some supplies."

"Yeah, no. Not on my watch!"

The figure of a marine admiral came through the quickly receding crowd.

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**Chapter 10**

"Yay! An admiral!" exclaimed Lobdet.

"Who? What? When? Where? WHY THE HELL ARE YOU HAPPY?!" yelled Shouta. "How?"

"Okay. I'm just gonna sit back and let you all do the work," said Lobdet, ignoring Shouta, and without another word, he yanked a chair straight from under the Boat Dealer sitting on the port.

However, before any of them could do anything, the admiral had transformed into a gigantic Tyrannosaurus Rex (yes! I spelled that correctly on my first try!) and charged at Lobdet. As it seemed as though he would be eaten by the admiral, Lobdet said, "*Fuck off*," shooting the T-Rex directly away from him. The admiral shot through tens upon twenties of buildings before finally coming to a stop.

"Okay, you can't blame me for stealing your kill. It was in self-defense," defended Lobdet.

"Oh, alright, fine," conceded Shouta and Doughy.

"This is normal?!" came Violet, who seemed thoroughly shocked by the speed of which the events had just passed.

"Yeah," replied Doughy. "Unfortunately."

"We're going to go see the king of this place," decided Lobdet, turning to Random. "You said you had good aim?"

"Yep," Random said.

"Go snipe all the guards of the palace. I'm speaking to the manager."

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When the crew entered the king's room, they found the man whimpering on the royal red carpet, trying to hide his shamefully massive body with the door of what seemed to be a cabinet.

"Wh-What do y-you want?" asked the king.

"Well," said Lobdet. "I would like you to allow us to stay in this kingdom for a while. In return, we won't waste another soul or another drop of blood."

"Y-Yessir," whimpered the king.

"Alright, that's it. We'll be leaving now."

"W-Wait!"

"Yes?"

"T-That's it? Just let you guys live peacefully in the kingdom for a while? Like, until you leave?"

"Yep. I just want to do a bit of, well, should we say, —— searching —— for a while."

"And it doesn't involve hurting anyone?"

"Nope."

"Alright, well, I'll take your word for it."

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The island was separated into two: a bustling kingdom containing people of every race, and a deserted mesa (try to picture Minecraft for this one). The crew pitched a tent that was much larger on the inside than the outside, and that they had found on their ship. They spent the following night in the tent (which consisted of three floors of kitchens, closets, bedrooms, and lavatories).

When the morning came, Lobdet, surprisingly, took charge of informing the crew of the day's plans.

"Okay, so. For now, however long it takes, we'll be looking for the long-lost Dark Blade. Now, —— don't interrupt!" —— for the other four showed many signs of interrupting —— "I know it's not supposed to exist or something, but I just have that feeling, you know, that it's somewhere here on this island."

"And when did you get this feeling?" asked Shouta.

"Right when we docked. Anyway, the point is, I think we should look for some traces or clues of it on this island. Try questioning some people first. A few of them might know a bit about it. We could piece some of the picture together with their info. Next might be the hardest part of this. We might have to search the whole island for some clues, but we won't have to worry about that until after we finish the first step, okay?"

"Right," chorused the others.