Chapter 2: Skypea

I tried to stand up. It was difficult at first, but I soon got the hang of it. I looked down at my hands. I was, thankfully not a baby. Unfortunately I was also not a teenager or adult. I was looking down at the hands and body of roughly a 2 year old.

I was standing on a blackened but cool patch of soil around the tree where the thunder struck. Suddenly I was so hungry and attracted to the devil fruit that was lying on the floor. I knew it must be a thunder type devil fruit, but i did not know whether it was a Paramecia, Logia or Zoan.

I took the devil fruit and ate it. Surprisingly, instead of the disgusting taste, it was just tasteless to me. Most probably due to my fae nature. I immediately somehow understood that I ate the Logia fruit Goro Goro no mi. But unfortunately due to my fae nature, I had no ability to elementalize myself. But I could manipulate natural lightning and any lightning I created is not dependent on my magical energy. I instinctively had full control and mastery of my lightning powers.

The lightning of my attribute and the goro goro no mi combined together to form a qualitative change turning the lightning from simple blue lightning to purple lightning.

Suddenly I heard sound of footfalls. I was so startled that I instinctively crouched down as I saw Gan Fall and his priests and hissed at them as they started to ask me something in an unfamiliar language.

Third POV:

When Gan heard a huge thunder strike that was so loud that it bled his subordinates' and his own ears, He immediately knew there was something abnormal about it. They hastened to the place where the lightning struck only to see a young two year old child with ethereal grace and a wild animalistic beauty and wild platinum hair looking warily at them with a feral look in his gold rimmed purple eyes.

Gan Fall: "Whose child is this? Where did he come from?"

Before anyone could answer, his question alarmed the child and he began to hiss at Gan Fall threateningly, revealing his elongate canines and his inhuman nature. lightning appeared around his body spilling over into the ground.

Stunned at the sight, some of the priests immediately raised their weapons which caused the lightning to immediately pounce onto their spears and shock them unconscious.

Gan Fall immediately tried to calm the others and the child by raising his hands.

"Everyone calm down. It is a child. Put down your weapons" he said.

Turning to child he tried to cal him down with actions and tried to slowly move towards him non-threateningly. He pointed at himself to the child and said "Gan Fall". By the time, the animalistic look has faded from his eyes to something incomprehensible. The child slowly stood up and pointed at himself and said "Noah". Boom! The thunder struck from the storm that creeped upon them unknowingly during their encounter. Thick rolling clouds and heavy winds began as Gan Fall concluded the encounter by taking in the fae child as his apprentice after making sure that his parents were nowhere to be found.

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7 years later.

God's Shrine. Upper Yard, Skypea.

During the years since Gan Fall accepted an apprentice, He confirmed that his apprentice was not human. His ethereal grace was reflected in his movements and the way he fought. He managed to pickup the written and spoken language in 3 months. He was naturally as 2 times strong and 3 times faster than an adult human when he was 6 years old and has gotten only stronger and faster since then. He had an enhanced healing and heightened senses.

Despite the fact that most of Skypeans preferred spears and pole arms, He took up the hammer and made himself a katana after hammering away at the anvil for 6 months, till he was satisfied.

He had an even more abnormal talent in forging and began to make different types of weapons for the priests and berets when they mad requests of him.

He preffered to be in the wild of the upper yard rather than the island clouds where the skypeans gathered. He even managed to befriend the Master Of The Sky. Atleast not enough for it to not attack him only.

Gan Fall sighed. He knew Noah had no interest in becoming a God like him. He preferred to be true to his nature. wandering and wild, like the storm itself.

Beside even if he become a God, He would not be a loved one. Skypeans hated everyone that looks different from them. An example of it would be Enel, whom he recently managed to rescue from being almost beaten alive. Shandorians avoided him due to fear of his abilities after one simple encounter with him and since then went out of their ways to avoid him, despite their brave nature. They even gave him an epithet...

Storm~Bringer.

Gan Fall sighed again. He only hoped that Noah could find his own happiness somehow.

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An year later.

First POV.

Noah Storm~Bringer: 10 years old

It has been 8 years since I reincarnated in Skypea. I had no idea what to do now. I have completely mastered my lightning powers. The fact that I ate the lightning devil fruit also affected my secondary form. Due to the fact that this world allows the existence of mythical creatures through devil fruit, I got the ability to shift into a Thunderbird.

The shape-shifting also became independent of reliance on magical energy. That is I could shift as easily as if I ate a Thunderbird mythical zoan fruit. the difference was that, if i had eaten the mythical zoan, I would not have the ability to use the abilities of Thunderbird in human form such as manipulating natural lightning and gathering storm. Though the fact remained that I could not maintain a demi-animal form.

I also achieved the boundary of a swordsman. But since I had no one to teach me, all I could do was build a solid foundation.

My forging has achieved the best it can reach in this world without resorting to precious materials such as seastone and other rarer metals. The best I can make with the availble materials is of the level of a Ryo Wazamono sword, which I am currently using.

I sighed thinking what next to do. Suddenly I remembered that I had recieved an abyss auction card.

As soon as I thought about it, A metallic card appeared in my hand. It said Abyss Auction in a bold and stylized manner in one side and the number 5 on the other side. As soon as I thought about using it, the metallic card began shape shifting into a laptop with the symbol AA on its back.

I opened it and began surfing through the goods they offered.

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3 hours later.

I was very disturbed by the fact that they sold slaves in such an impassionate way. Like people are some objects... I quickly removed it from my sight and began to search for other goods. Though all these required vast amount of gold, gold was one of the last things I lack seeing that I have found the golden city and re-purposed some of their fallen gold pillars.

At last I bought the following.

1. Random World Transport Orb: Transport you into a random world by opening a space-time crack. only one pass.

2. One Piece Home World Transport Orb: (available only for customers in one piece world) Transport you into your home world by opening a space-time crack. only one pass.

3. Sasaki Kojiro Complete Swordsman Manual: Complete manual of Sasaki Kojiro swordsmanship technique Tsubame Gaeshi. (please note that each swordsman has a different path and the power of Tsubame Gaeshi depends on the understanding of the sword of each sword user.)

4. Two space ring of 10 cubic meter space each.

5. Different types of metals from different worlds. Including Vibranium, Adamantium, Brightsteel and other various mundane metals that are difficult to find in One Piece world.

All these things finally wiped out my entire cache of re-purposed gold. I would need to re-purpose some more.

As soon as I turned off the laptop, It turned back into card form. On its back it now showed the number 4 and below it a count down of 10 years. I was so surprised by the countdown I almost pinched of my hair in frustration.

I sighed again and began to read through the sword manual after storing away the rest of the items in my spatial ring.