Aiming for the top with the magnetic fruit in One Piece

Vlad and Enel stayed on the island for 2 full days before leaving. Vlad bought some time, and looked at the latest news on the sea.

"Whitebeard and Shiki the Golden Lion have a conflict! The result of the fight is unknown!!"

"The Golden Lion Pirates are the strongest pirate group?"

"Roger and Garp have another fight. Roger's pirates escape again!"

"Big Mom and Kaido in an alliance?" 

"Another new supernova appears? The Sand Lodge!"

Several eye-catching titles caught Vlad's attention, especially the news about Roger, Whitebeard, and Shiki. These 3 were undoubtedly the most popular figures among the pirates. As for Big Mom and Kaido, those 2 were still not at the level of the other three.

If Vlad had to choose who was the most dangerous between Roger, Whitebeard, and Shiki, the answer was very clear.

Shiki's group, the Golden Lion, was undoubtedly the dangerous one. Compared to the other two, Shiki was much more active at sea making him the most dangerous. Whitebeard on one hand was still searching for children at sea, simply put, the Whitebeard Pirates are currently a one-man army. 

On the other hand, Roger, while still very active at sea, spends his time adventuring, unlike Shiki, Roger has no interest in territories or such.

In short, Shiki is only getting more dangerous due to his constant activity, growing in numbers and power every day.

"Hmm it seems that Crocodile has also come to light, maybe I should try recruiting him."

Vlad was amused by the idea of ​​having 2 lodges in his group.

"Brother Vlad, where shall we go now?"

Enel, lazily eating an apple, was lying down resting after training.

"You'll find out soon enough, just keep training." Vlad just took out a paddle and started lifting weights not far from Enel.

"There he goes acting mysterious as always, how annoying." Enel just sighed and continued on his way.

Vlad was silently exercising, inside his mind, a slim figure with an afro appeared making him smile.

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On a ship floating in the Grand Line, the Gecko Pirates were laughing and talking. One of them asked a question that caught everyone's attention.

"Captain, was that Vlad really strong or not? Not everyone could beat you in a duel like that?" A bald pirate asked Moria who was sitting down.

"Hmph, I would have beaten him if it weren't for his strange ability that pushed me, I am superior in strength." 

Moria, who had left Banaro Island two days ago with his crew, was looking at the news in the newspaper as he spoke. Remembering Vlad and reading the news, he became excited.

"Kishishishi, guys! We must do something big too! Let's show the world that the Gecko Pirates are strong!"

"YES, CAPTAIN!" The crew shouted in unison and everyone continued to laugh together.

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A flying boat was flying in the vicinity of a thick fog, silence filled the entire space, apart from the fog nothing else could be seen.

Vlad and Enel, both were feeling the chilling atmosphere, the fog did not let them see very far, Vlad had to activate his haki and wave reading to guide himself.

Vlad intended to take Brook, but for that he had to find him in this fog. In One Piece one of the strangest and most difficult powers to deal with are the powers related to the soul, Big mom is one of the possessors of such a fruit, she possesses the soul fruit allowing her to create living beings called Homies capable of launching Fire and Lightning.

Brook is one of the few who possesses a power related to souls, Brook's yomi yomi fruit is a very mysterious fruit but no one has ever polished the powers of the fruit to show its full potential, Vlad needed something like that in his group, besides Brook was one of his favorite characters ...

Just when Vlad and Enel were already getting anxious for not finding anything, Vlad captured something with his Haki, quickly moving the ship in that direction.

In Vlad and Enel's view, a ghost ship was surrounded by fog on all sides, on it a skeleton was staring at the ground in silence.

Enel shuddered a little, but quickly recovered, putting on his usual cold look, he knew that Vlad thought before acting, if they got here it was because of some plan of his, he trusted him.

Vlad moved the ship closer and closer and both could see each other better, a skeleton with Afro was watching them.

"Hello?" Vlad greeted while analyzing his favorite skeleton.

Brook looked the same as his first appearance in the anime, a dark suit with a top hat and cane. Brook remained silent without saying anything and turned around.

Vlad: ...

Noticing Brook ignoring him, he appeared right next to him.

"Don't you know you should return greetings out of politeness?" Vlad appearing next to Brook made the latter freak out and scream.

"AAAAAAAA" Brook screamed in panic and looked back at Vlad while shaking.

"Are you real? Are you talking to me?" Brook who was on the ground still had his jaw open.

Vlad found this comical since usually, it was Brook who scared people.

"Of course I'm real, I'm talking to you obviously, do you think you're Travis Bickle? Get up man" Vlad helped Brook up by extending his hand.

Brook grabbed Vlad's hand, he could feel that it was a real physical hand.

"You're really real! Forgive me for my rude behavior, being alone in this fog for so long made me think my eyes were seeing hallucinations... Just kidding, I have no eyes because I'm a skeleton, Yohohoho" Brook who had seen someone after so long was very animated

Enel who also arrived at the ship was surprised to see the skeleton speak. He pointed at Brook and asked directly.

"You, are you dead or are you alive?" Enel very shamelessly approached to touch Brook's body as if he were a phenomenon.

"My name is Brook, and yes I am dead, but I'm also alive Yohohoho"

Vlad was infected by Brook's laughter and began to laugh.

"Haha Brook my name is Vlad and this is Enel, that's an effect of a devil fruit right?" 

Brook was a little surprised that there was no need to explain and nodded, explaining his story to both.

"So that's what happened, then why don't you join us? We just formed a pirate group and it turns out we need people." Vlad extended his hand again, shocking Brook.

Enel nodded on the other side, empathizing with Brook when he heard how he was alone for so long, and he seemed like someone who was having fun, and he had no objections to Vlad's invitation.

Brook who heard Vlad's words looked at him and a large amount of tears began to fall from his empty sockets.

 Enel who saw this wondered how a skeleton could produce tears...

"May I know the name of the pirate group?!" Shaking Brook's hand, Vlad smiled and said.

"Transcendental Pirates." Vlad stated the title of the group that would completely change the world in the future.

"Well, Captain Vlad, from now on I am a member of the Transcendental Pirates, it is an honor!"

After the three of them got back on the boat, they were flying away a few meters above the sea, now with a new member, the boat felt more lively.

Just as everyone was rejoicing, Vlad who had his Observation Haki active suddenly shuddered and dropped his lollipop from his mouth. In his field of vision, he could see a huge black shadow below them.

Focusing his Observation Haki on the sea, he quickly analyzed the situation.

"This must be a joke... Enel, Brook! Quickly hold on tight and be ready for battle."

Enel and Brook heard this but before they could ask what was happening, a giant shadow rose from the sea, and it kept growing larger and larger, reaching an astonishing height of 45 kilometers high.

"WROOOOOOOO" a roar that shook everyone's souls arose from the silent Florian Triangle .