Sky Island. Shandora.Ezio stood in front of his new crew members. It took a lot of time to convince those guys, but he had a lot of people who were interested in following him.
Everyone who wanted to leave his organization had to make a deal with the merchant girl. In this deal they would lose all of their memories about this hidden headquarter and Ezio himself.
The biggest surprise was that almost everyone liked the life on his new headquarter. Some of them wanted strength, others admired Ezio"s power. Everyone had their own goal, but in the end, they joined him.
In the world of One Piece was one thing that every resident admired. That was strength.
Ezio showed them a strength that rivaled that of a G.o.d. Alone the Burning h.e.l.l and all of the dragons he created was enough to convince them. After all those kidnapped people saw that, they couldn"t help but admire him. After he told them that everyone of them could leave if they didn"t want to stay with him, they couldn"t help but admire him even more.
Even if the way they arrived at this place was a little bit… strange.
He didn"t want to control anyone of them with the merchant girl. But everyone, even if they stayed, had to make a deal with her. If they would betray or leave his organization, they would lose their memories about everything that had something to do with Ezio. And if they acquired a Devil Fruit power from Ezio, then they would even lose that. That was everything that was included in the deal, so he didn"t restrict their freedom.
He didn"t want to control his people like slaves, but he didn"t want to present the lightning logia to someone who would betray him. Everyone of his new crew members accepted this condition, it wasn"t too surprising for them.
This organization had a huge ambition after all. If the World Government knew about Ezio"s plan, then even his status as Celestial Dragon wouldn"t protect him.
While Ezio was away, the other members of his crew tested the strength and weaknesses of everyone who wanted to join. In the end they were able to decide who would become one of the ten commanders and who would be their deputy.
They all trained in Haki since they arrived on this island and Ezio handed them the Devil Fruit that would suit them the most. There were many surprises for him.
Nojiko for example had a very strong endurance and was becoming strong pretty quickly. There were more of those surprises.
The Celestial Dragon looked to the front where he saw his ten commanders standing in a line. Behind them were their deputy leaders. All the other members that weren"t qualified to become a leader were the future crew members of everyone of those 10 commanders. Some of them worked for the shadow organization.
Those guys were the foundation of his organization. Ezio was satisfied.
"The first commander is the strongest one, while the ninth is the weakest. Hachi is the tenth commander, but he doesn"t count. He is a special commander because he is the only one who didn"t eat a Devil Fruit. Everyone of you got a strong Devil Fruit power from me or you had it even before you joined."
He looked at all of his commanders and smiled.
"Of course, your ranks aren"t set in stone. You can challenge the one who is on the first place every time you want. If you want to become the first commander, then just beat him. This is also true for every other member of my crew and the deputy rank. You want to have a leader position? Then beat your leader in a fair fight."
Ezio saw that he had many ambitious people in his crew. Most of them smiled after he said that - they weren"t happy with their current ranking.
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Ezio"s organization had a lot of potential. He was of course the leader, and Hancook was the vice leader. Even Hancook"s position could be challenged, but n.o.body tried that until now. Ezio noticed that only Reiju was eyeing this position.
His first commander was Henrick Jaydon, his personal servant he had since his childhood. This was the first time he showed himself in front of his crew. He should eat a special Paramecia Fruit, but the time wasn"t right at this moment for him to consume it. His strength was terrifying, but he didn"t had the chance to show his power until now.
His deputy leader was a women named Honey Queen. She was a logia fruit user and a movie character in the One Piece world. She had the potential to be a commander, but his strongest commander besides Hanc.o.c.k was in need of a strong subordinate.
The second commander was Vinsmoke Reiju. With her logia power she could control plants and was called the First Hokage by her boss. Her power didn"t need explanation.
Her deputy leader was none other then servant Judgy and the whole Vinsmoke kingdom.
The third commander was Nojiko. Ezio couldn"t believe that she would make such a huge career, but the reason for that was that she was the only one who had a huge compatibility with the strongest Devil Fruit in this world - the Yami Yami no Mi. So she had the luck to eat it after the merchant girl extracted it from Blackbeards clone.
Her deputy leader was Hina who was furious that she didn"t get a place in the ten commanders. But her power wasn"t strong enough after all those guys ate a devil fruit that was handpicked by Ezio.
The fourth commander Kozuki Hyori. She was in the last chapter Ezio could read before he died and reincarnated into this world. Ezio sneaked into Wano only to get her. She came with him, because he gave her the hope to free her home country and to make her stronger. Ezio gifted her a mythical zoan fruit. At that time the Celestial Devil could escape without effort from Wano and the reason was his almighty sidekick.
Her deputy was Perona, the gothic girl they kidnapped from Geko Moria. She was too easy to convince, you only had to give her some cute things.
The fifth commander was Conis, the blonde girl from Sky Island. This was the second surprise, but not for Ezio, more for his crew. He did something that shocked all of them. He gave her the lightning fruit! And why did he do that? He wanted a blonde beauty with angel wings that could throw lightning at her enemies. It was his selfish desire. This was the reason why this pure little girl transformed into a monster.
Her deputy leader was no other then Eneru himself. Since he didn"t get crazy in this timeline, he was a good deputy leader. All of the fighters from Sky Island were under the leadership of Conis and Eneru.
The sixth commander was the Supernova Trafalgar Law. His fruit was a cheat on his own, and he started to like this organization after he saw Ezio"s action in Dressrosa. The funny thing was that he didn"t had a chance against the three girls who ate a logia fruit, and even the Kozuki princess could beat him after she acquired her new power.
His deputy was Baby 5, the newly added wife to Benson"s harem. They were a good team, they were childhood friends after all.
The seventh commander was Jewerly Bonney, and she was angry that her position was so low. She was after all one of his first followers, so she started to train more seriously.
Her deputy was Ain. Both of them had similar abilities, but Ain could manipulate even objects, not only humans. Both of them were a strong team.
The eighth commander was Koza who acquired a mythical zoan thanks to Ezio. He was a good leader and Ezio was satisfied with having him in his team. He was getting stronger every day and had that thing that was called common sense. This was rare in his crew.
His deputy was Alvida, the pirate that was once ugly but now a beauty that could destroy kingdoms. Ezio hoped that Alvida could improve her power in the near future.
The ninth commander was Rebecca from Dressrosa. She had a talent even before she was recruited and could use haki without Ezio"s help. He gave her the third mythical zoan he had. She wasn"t angry at Ezio. The reason was that because of him, she could remember her father who was a toy soldier.
Her deputy was Baccarat, the beauty that worked on Tesoro"s ship. To tell the truth, Baccarat could be one of the commanders with her unreasonable devil fruit power, but Ezio thought she was too stupid to develop the full potential of her power. That wasn"t a problem though, he liked everything else on her. It was hard to hate her after all.
The tenth commander was Hachi, the swordsman of the crew. He didn"t had a deputy at this point in time. They didn"t visit Fish-Man Island and Hachi wanted to recruit some strong fishman for his crew.
Ezio was extremly satisfied. Thanks to his grandfather and the merchant girl, he could acquire devil fruits that could change this world. Now he finally had enough people to play all of his cards.
"The ten commanders will be my main crew and the deputy leaders will travel all around the world to represent us. The task for the deputy leaders is to recruit people everywhere and acquire territories in all parts of the world. You as the deputy leader represent your commander while they kill with me the strong guys in the New World. Reiju"s deputy, servant Judgy, will be responsible for the North Blue for example. We will have a deputy leader in all of the Four Seas, some of you will go to the Grand Line. We, the commanders, are responsible for the New World. The goal is to make us a world wide organization that has arms and eyes everywhere. So we have to recruit a lot of people. But that is a job for the deputy leaders."
All of them nodded.
The ten commanders and their deputy weren"t all of the strong fighters Ezio had in his a.r.s.enal. He had another commander who was in a special position. Her name was Carina, a thief who was once Nami"s friend. She would protect and lead the headquarter all of the time. The reason for that was simple - she acquired the devil fruit that could control gold from Tesoro thanks to the merchant girl. If somebody managed to survive the Burning h.e.l.l, then they had to survive Carina after that. Not only could she control the gold in the City of Shandora, she could control all of the gold from Tesoro"s ship. This devil fruit power was one of the main reasons he chose this city in the sky as his headquarter.
It was a fortress that n.o.body could enter if Ezio didn"t gave the permission.
Of course, there was also the shadow organization that was directly controlled by Ezio.
The leader of this organization was the Almighty One - Benson.
This organization had several leaders, but even Ezio"s main crew didn"t know about the structure of this organization. Amanda D. Lily, the former Samurai Sid, Basil Hawkins, Viola from Dressrosa and the former Baroque Works members were all part of it.
"Your job is to strengthen your haki and learn about your new Devil Fruits. n.o.body of you will take part in the following war. Only Hanc.o.c.k is allowed to follow me. I want to conceal our strength for now. After the war is the time that we show the world what we can achieve. So prepare yourself for our first mission."
It was a long way for Ezio to arrive at this point. Everybody knew who the Celestial Devil was, but n.o.body knew about the monsters he was hiding above the sky.