Let The Training Arc Begin!!

While flailing in the pathetically shallow water, an incredible idea popped up on my head like a lightbulb. "Damn! I can use this stream to train with my devil fruit!" I cackled maniacally as I trudged through the water to get to dry land. Did I forget to tell you that I had been naked all this time? Well not anymore! I used the fur of the big bad wolf that I killed to make a toga robe that romans used to wear in my old world. It had been a few days sinced I killed it, and since then I had been training my devil fruit bit by bit so I could use it in my daily chores.

A great example would be my talons, my nails were quit sharp when I used them to cut off the big bad wolf's fur, to my surprise. Another thing I have been training was my lightning. I had noticed that if I focused a little bit I can channel little sparks of yellow lightning from my body. I used it to start a fire, it had beat using the old method of rubbing two sticks of dry wood together and using the friction to make a fire. It was faster that way, moreover, my brain had finally managed to process all the heighted senses that I had were overloading my brain during the fight with the wolf. My sense of smell became stupendously detailed, so much to the point that I know exactly what I was smelling when a scent reached my nostrils. Unfortunately, it meant that I could smell everything including biological waste, or namely, shit. I could smell shit from a mile away, I say a mile because that was as far as I could see. My eyesight made me able to see up to two or three times farther away than normal humans could. 

However, one of the greatest physical improvements that I noticed was my animalistic senses. It seems that the animal that I ate had incredibly great insticts, it's as if I could sense something approaching me even without using my sense of smell and hearing. 'It could be my Observation Haki awakening, but I won't know without further investigation' I sat down in lotus position and began trying to recall everything I knew about one piece. This would be my nightly routine after I finished with the day, which would consist of: Waking up, going to the stream to exercise in the water, hunting and gathering, meditating and sleeping. 

Strangely, sleeping became something rather essential while I trained. I'm not sure whether it was the devil fruit's doing, but the more I trained and became stronger. The more I found myself tired on a daily basis. In comparison, before I ate the devil fruit, I used to sleep when the moon was high in the sky and wake up just at the crack of dawn. At the time of my training, I'd sleep just before sunset and wake up a little bit after dawn. Napping slowly became a necessity the more I progressed with my training. The good news was I became more proficient with my devil fruit as time passed by. I could grow the two dragon heads on my shoulders without needing to turn completely into my animal form. Additionally, I could also turn into a dragon faster than I could at the beginning. 

So much progress with my devil fruit, but what about my haki? It gets complicated from here. Remembering what Rayleigh was teaching Luffy during the post-summit war became important. By remembering what Rayleigh said to Luffy while he was training. I somehow managed to grasp what I was supposed to do when I was training my Observation and Armament Haki. Observation was way easier to train compared to Armament Haki. Observation Haki was easier because I was using my beastly instincts as a crutch to sense things. I started off with the annoying insects buzzing around the forest. At first I could only sense the insects, animals and fish within my immediate surroundings like the tent and the stream adjuscent to it. Later on, I would be able to sense as far as three or four miles around me. Almost as twice as far as I could see, this kind of progress could not be said for my Armament Haki. To channel Armament Haki, I needed to feel the spiritual power that resided inside myself and let it flow throughout my body in order to channel the power as Armament. 

Thus the first order of the day was to feel my spiritual power. As much as I would love to say that it was lightwork and it was as easy as taking candy from a One Piece baby. It wasn't, matter of fact I didn't even know where to start. I tried meditating with my senses, trying to sense anything foreign within my body that would hint towards spiritual pressure. No Dice, I tried meditating underwater to see If I could feel anything within my body despite my weakened state. Good news, it worked! Bad news, the duration I sensed it relied on the time I spent underwater meditating; and currently I could only spend about twenty to thirty minutes underwater. After that I would have to get up and grab a fresh breath of air. So it worked, but not as fast as I wanted it to.