13 Advancement

After arriving on Sixis, Jack took in the island. It was tiny for an island, about the size of the island he appeared on when he first got to this world. There was a little forest, lots of rocks, and after using his Haki, he found out there was no wildlife whatsoever. Not even birds. 'It's a damn good thing I already have food.' Jack thought as he glanced around. "The Flame Flame Fruit should be around here somewhere. Not like Devil Fruits go bad." Jack mummbed as he started searching around the island. Walking through the forest while searching in trees and on the ground, Jack had only seen leaves and rocks for the first few hours. It wasn't until the sun started to set, that something orange stood out to him in a tree close to the center of the island. 'IS THAT IT?!!!' Jack thought excitedly before running over at breakneck speed.

Reaching the strange fruit, Jack couldn't contain the meniacal laughter that built up just seeing it. "HAHAHAHA OH FUCK YEAAAAAH!!! Captain Jack is in busniess bitches!!" He roared to the world. He had found it. In his hands was the Flame Flame Fruit. It was a round orange fruit, composed of many flame-shaped components with swirl patterns on each one, and has a swirled stem on the top. 'This is definately the Flame Flame Fruit.' Jack thought before putting it into his inventory. By the time he had found the fruit it was already very late in the day. Jack found a nice little clearing and put his little boat there. It would act as a sort of house for him while he was here.

The next morning Jack woke up bright and early to get a headstart on the day. The first thing he did was take out the Dark Dark Fruit, and without wasting anymore time he took a big bite out of it. He knew from the anime that Devil Fruits all tasted disgusting, but nothing could have prepared him for that. "UGGH!! SON OF A BITCH!!" He screamed, trying to hold it in. It was the most vile thing he had ever had in his mouth. After almost vomiting a few times, the taste finally left his mouth. 'Good thing I took this before breakfast otherwise I'd have to eat again.' He thought, before focusing on the power of darkness and materialized a black orb in his hands. The Darkness formed to his command, and it was actually very easy to do. He also tried out Blackhole on part of the surrounding forrest, and it was so cool to watch the trees and rocks just vanish into darkness. He shot rocks out at certain speeds, and ideas for this kept appearing in his head. "Imagine using this with cannon balls..." He said to himself before moving on to trying a few more moves. After a bit more testing of his new abilities, a thought occured to him. 'Didn't it say that it would try to corrupt me? I don't feel any different.' Jack went through all his memories and he was quite certain he had not changed since eating the fruit. 'Maybe it just takes time?' He thought before deciding he would deal with it when it came up.

Jack practiced for hours with the his new powers over darkness and realized he needed to practice a lot more to be able to fully control the darkness to a masterful level. "Awakening you will not be easy, but I will do it!!" He said, his voice filled with determination. After the day had ended, and the sun had set, Jack felt something inside him change. Using his power was so much easier to use, and he could feel that he had gotten a slight boost to his strength. Deciding he should test things further, he used Blackhole, but this time he felt as though the range had increased by leaps and bounds. He wasn't too sure how far his darkness spread, but it was definately past the boundries of the island. He felt as though his control was easier as well, and he could accurately control what went into his Blackhole or not. 'If I awakened this Devil Fruit, would I be able to use this power anytime I wanted?' He thought, thinking it might be possible, after all the discription did say its power was "infinate". After more hours of training he was exhausted to the point where he couldn't move anymore. Not even bothering to get to his little boat, he collapsed right there in the forrest and went to sleep. That night as he slept, he felt as though something was nudging him to cause chaos and destruction, but at the same time he felt another part of himself act as a shield, preventing the thoughts from entering his mind. The part of his mind that was shielding him, was solid and unbreaking, never wavering from who he was. If he had been concious during this time, he would immediately realize that his Will was so dense that it was protecting him even without him purposely trying to.

The next morning Jack woke up feeling a bit sore. Looking around he remembered he had been too tired to get to his bed, but there was nothing he could do about it now. He thought he felt something last night, but as quickly as it came it vanished. 'I wonder what that was?' Was it my imagination?' Jack asked himself. In the end he couldn't figure it out, and just decided to forget about it. After eating a mountain of food, Jack went back to training. He didn't just focus on his Devil Fruit either. He trained his sword mastery, and even started to train in dual weilding. His style with, sword and pistol was great and would be his main fighting style, but he wanted a few more styles that wouldn't be so easy for people to fight against. Training his gunman abilities was actually fairly easy. He had purchased two beautiful revolvers with quick replaceable cylinders. He had also purchased a few dozen cylinders for them so he could just keep swaping them out until he was empty. Each cylinder held 8 rounds each and could be swapped out in 10 seconds by your average person. Jack had managed to get that time knocked down to .5 seconds when he was standing still, but it took him 2 seconds while moving at his fastest speed. It was still better than anyone else he had heard about, but he had decided he would keep training it until he could get it to 1 second while running. His accuracy with the two pistols was at a level that not many people could be at. He also practiced coating his bullets with his Haki so that it was second nature to him.

After a few weeks of training everything he already knew, he decided to bite the bullet and buy the other four techniques of the Rokushiki manual. He now had all of them at the price of $85,000,000 berries each, making him $340,000,000 berries poorer. He now only had $56,000,000 berries left, although he still had a large portion of the gold and jewels. Moonwalk, Shave, Iron Body, Finger Pistol, Paper Art, and Tempest Kick. (A.N. If you don't like the names, or if I got them wrong, just deal with it.) He would train in them until he was proficent enough, that he could use them at a command. The Iron Body would be the only one he couldn't fully master, as it worked better when someone beat you to toughen your body.

::::Interlude::::

As God watched his entertainment continue to beat himself for his training, one question kept swimming in his thougths. {'What is wrong with him?'} God had been monitoring Jack ever since he came to this world, and for the most part he was extremely ammused. When he watched Jack kill the pirates after leaving his starting island he was surprised that this mortal, who had never killed before could do such things, but just figured he had already come to terms with this world and what he would have to do if he wanted to survive here. God had laughed his metaphorical ass off when he killed the marines and spelled "Justice Served" with their bodies. It was a direct "FUCK YOU" to the face to those who preached what justice actually was. When Jack had consumed his Devil Fruit, God had waited to see how he would react to the all consuming darkness that could even consume a persons personality and warp it depending on certain situations, but to his surprise, nothing happened. Jack was definately the right choice for his entertainment, and God couldn't wait to see what would happen next.

{End of Interlude}

After months of training, Jack felt as though he was ready for the Flame Flame Fruit. Taking it out of his inventory he was excited while at the same time dreading what was to come. He would get more power, but he would have to go through that God awful taste again. "It will be over in a second. It will be over in a second." He repeated to himself, trying to get the courage to take the bite. Finally just going for it he took a big bite of the orange fruit. "Why the Fuck are these things so gross?!!!" He yelled after the horrifying taste left his mouth. It took him a few seconds to finally recover himself and stop dry heaving. It actually tasted worse than the first time, which he didn't think would be possible. Standing still he focused on the raging fire within him, and to his surprise he saw black flames. 'Did both Fruits combine?!!' He thought excitedly. Without wasting a second Jack unleashed a wave of pure fire at a tree. The tree burned until absolutely nothing remained. Jack walked over and noticed that even the roots in the ground were burned to ash as well. Another surprise was that it only burned the tree and nothing else before the flames disipated. He had only been focusing on the tree when he unleashed his flames, but he still thought they would spread. Jack tried just to use one fruit at a time, and it wasn't hard at all to just use darkness or just the orange flames, but it was more natural to use them both at once. He tried using Blackhole with the flames and it consumed everything like usual, but when everything was in his dark space, he could now unleash waves of dark fire, burning everything to ash. When he used Liberation to remove everything from the dark space, piles of ash went everywhere. He tested it out a few more times, and it wouldn't burn anything he didn't want it to. He even put two trees in his dark space and burned one to ash, while leaving the other one completely unharmed. 'I wonder what it's like for living things?' He thought to himself.

When that thought crossed his mind, he froze. "Can I go inside the dark space?" He muttered to himself. It was never something he had ever thought of before, and he didn't know how it would work, but he decided he would try it out. Jack couldn't get himself to be sucked into the darkness, but he did learn something interesting. With the combination of the Flame Flame Fruit he could now become intangable, and move along as a shadow. He could move faster than he ever could even while using Shave. 'I'll bet I could give that light fuck Kizaru a run for his berries!!' He thought excitedly. He couldn't actually move at the speed of light, but Kizaru couldn't fully utilize his Devil Fruit properly becuase it was impossible for the mind to move and process everything around it at the speed of light. As he tried a few more abilities, he eventually created a giant ball of darkfire. It took him awhile to keep it steady, and the power it required was a bit much, but it was managable. The sphere of of darkfire was about 100 feet in diametre, and to anyone but him who looked at it would feel dread. Jack created it becuase he wanted to try something, and to his complete and utter joy it worked. Jack was able to move around in the sphere with just a thought. It wasn't as overpowered as Laws Room Room Fruit, but it was awesome. He couldn't swap places with anything he put inside, but he could crush or restrict everything inside to his very Will. He threw some boulders inside the sphere and ripped them apart with darkfire. "I... I think I just broke the world." Jack said quietly to himself as he let the sphere disipate. 'Although I don't know how it would fare against someone like Shanks or Garp, regular people are fucked.' he thought with a satisfactory smile on his face.

Jack trained for another few months when he felt something inside him change. His flames burned stronger and the amount of power he had before increased. "HOW THE FUCK DID I ALREADY AWAKEN THE FLAME FLAME FRUIT?!!!" Jack shouted to no one in particular. He had only been on Sixis for barley more than a year. Within that year he had used his knowledge from his previous world to try and amplify his flames, and it worked. He could amplify his flames so they could be white or blue, not just the orange flames he saw Ace use in the series. He could turn into a litteral torch and melt through metal in an instant if he wanted to, but he still thought there was much more he needed to learn to Awaken his fruit, but there was no mistaking what this was. "Well.... Time to go and wreck this world!!" Jack said cruely before he walked over to his little boat. He would spend one more night here then set out come day break.