59 True Monsters

'It has been a while since I saw the brat, two years... I wonder how he's doing'.

Silvers Rayleigh was a calm man who took life easy at every turn, he leaned down on his boat and followed the vibrecard of the boy whose life he imagined was the dead opposite.

"Go and see how Vey-chan and the girls are doing, I'm worried about them!"

Those were Shakky's words before she kicked his butt away from the bar with a task in hand. He had also received something in a package that hailed from Shanks in the new world, it was his mission to hand the 'item' to Veyron.

'Ever since you appeared in my life, brat... ever since then there is no peace! Sengoku, Garp and a load of old monsters all want to know where you are and the first place they come to is our bar!'

But they don't dare attack, not only was Rayleigh a threat to reckon, but they also didn't dare trigger Dracule Veyron since according to Garp and Kizaru's intel, the boy was 'terrifying'.

Although it was Shakky's request, he wouldn't deny that he was curious about the boy's wellbeing as well.

'But how odd, the vivre card is not taking me towards Rusukaina or Amazon Lily... could it be that he sailed far away? in that case, I'm wasting my time coming here'.

He didn't know if he should keep moving forward or return, but the answer came soon enough.

*RUMBLE!!*

*BOOOOMMMMMM!!!*

!!!

In the distance, far on the horizon, a spectacle of red lightning could be seen flashing in the skies together with an aura that he recognised right away, it changed the whole atmosphere and cleared the sky clouds.

'Conqueror Haki!?'

*BOOOOMMMMMM!!!*

*BOOOOMMMMMM!!!*

Impacts one right after the other in the direction where the vivre card was pointing, they kept changing the tide and creating big waves that crashed against his feeble boat.

His first instinct was to think that Veyron was engaging in a fight against somebody. He rushed faster towards the origin of the shockwaves and soon devised an island on the horizon.

*BOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMM!!!*

An impact, the strongest yet, created a rain of red lightning all over the vicinity, it was then that he saw, to his shock, how half of the island turned into stone.

"What the-".

!!!

And it didn't stop there. The sea itself started turning into stone!

He prepared to jump, alert... but the odd phenomena stopped and what remained was a massive chunk of stone floating on the sea.

*WHOOOOSHHH!!*

He then saw how a tornado of flames engulfed the island, eventually turning into a beam of flames that destroyed everything in its path.

'What the fuck is going on in that island!?'.

The beam of flames headed his way even though he was still a few miles away from there. Rayleigh had to brandish his sword and clash against the pillar of flames, slicing it in two.

*WHOOOSH!*

Even then, he felt the intensity of the attack.

*BAAAAAAANGGGGG!!!*

A massive impact on the island produced an earthquake that he felt in the sea, making even taller waves all around.

Just this brief exchange told him that whoever was fighting on that island, they were crazy strong. But since Veyron was supposed to be there, he couldn't turn around. Gritting his teeth he rushed towards the devastated island.

Upon landing what he found was a catastrophic scenario, gargantuan craters all over, burned forests, not a sign of animal life, and half of the island turned into stone.

"Rayleigh".

!!!

He turned around swiftly only to find the boy, now a young teenager... floating behind him in his casual clothes.

"Veyron? What is going on here!?".

"What? Well, mother and daughters are having a duel to see who is going to become the next Empress of Amazon Lily, look".

Veyron made the two of them float high in the skies and see a location where the centre of the devastation on the island was coming from. There, there were four individuals. Three of them irradiating danger and two of them had Conqueror Haki.

"What about that pillar of flames that reached the skies just now?!"

"That was Marigold".

"The Earthquake that created a tsunami?!"

"That was Sandersonia".

"Half of the island and the sea turned into stone!?"

"It reached the sea? amazing... that was Hancock".

'No way...'

Two years ago they left after being captive in the house of a dastardly world noble for four years, wearing tattered clothes. Two years later, they were shattering islands with their fists and kicks!

He saw them with his very eyes and resisted the urge to have a nosebleed. The four ladies were wearing bikinis but there was something different about two of them, the two that didn't have Conqueror Haki.

Marigold, the woman who now had golden flaming hair, had a humanoid silhouette with a scaled plump body, but one characteristic about her that gained his attention the most was orange flames in the form of an arc, going underneath her arms and towards her back, forming an arc.

"Awakened Zoans!?"

Not only that but it was the same with Sandersonia whose appearance wasn't much different, except that she had a trail of green flames around her back and her hair had turned white. Both of them looked like goddesses of snakes.

...

"Isn't it about time you give up, Mom? you're the most tired out of all of us" Hancock brushed her hair aside, she had already detected somebody had entered the island, but she couldn't care less, since Veyron was nearby, he'd take care of it.

Right now her sole focus was on defeating the woman who so far had resulted to be even tougher than she expected.

Red lightning was sparkling out of the two of them, after undergoing the hellish Conqueror Haki training, they could be said to be equal in the fight of wills.

"You're far too young to underestimate me, Hancock!".

<Perfume Flavours!>

A single one of her kicks produced a wave of conqueror haki that attacked Hancock, her biggest threat. The princess hissed and covered her arms in Armament Haki and Conqueror Haki.

*BOOOOOMMMM!!*

An explosion of red lightning thundered the island, Primrose jumped only to find both of her two snake daughters ready to take her down.

<Perfume Femur!>

The technique was used by the three ladies whose kicks resembled a symphony waltz, kick after kick Primrose viciously held her own against her daughters, using her conqueror Haki while the two struggled to keep up.

*BAAAANGG!*

Sandersonia groaned and blocked the strike with armament haki, but she was still blasted away, losing the fight of wills.

Marigold opened her mouth and purplish poison was released, she then closed her jaw harshly producing sparks and combusting her poison into a potent flaming breath that was released by her and the snakes formed by her hair.

*WHOOOOOSHHH!!*

Rayleigh fixed up his glasses, watching the spectacle of light and destruction that unfolded afterwards in which much to his shock, there was no victor... he just needed to make sure he wasn't dreaming.

"Veyron... are you sure they're fighting to decide the empress of Amazon Lily?".

"Y-Yes, why else would they fight?".

"I see...I think it is better if I leave, I don't want to be involved with you lunatics any further".

"..."

If there was anything he hated was battle maniacs, although they fondly brought memories of his captain, the memories of all the troubles he got them in were also vivid.