Chapter 3 - official formation

"So, that was something." Shadow said as they exited the portal and stepped out before the palace gates.

"Yeah, it was. I wasn't expecting to confront admiral level people on my first visit to outside world, nor was I expecting to make friends so soon. Also those girls were from Amazon tribe apparently, they are known for their battle prowess and instinctive use of haki. They are interesting."

"Yes they are, however I am more interested about the fact that you got acquainted with the Dark King."

"Yeah, he is a very strong man. I only had a glimpse of his fight with that magma user but the clash of their energies was chilling to sense. It was a chill which filled me with anticipation to fight. But I know my limits so I decided that safeguarding the girls will be a better option. Though it would have been interesting to go ahead and find how I stand against them."

"It's good that you are already forming alliances, we will need allies for our conquest. As for your strength level I will say you can give a captain level marine a even battle but if you actually went for kill I think you can take out a rear admiral while suffering great injuries."

"Yeah, you are right. Having a whole population of haki users as allies is useful, though we haven't officially allied ourselves. We would have to hold a meeting with the Amazons someday and explain them our goals. Till then it's too soon to consider us allied. Also I think you are overestimating me, Rear admirals are only a little bit weaker than Vice admirals and I think the strength I saw from that vice admiral today. He would have destroyed me."

"Thats because he isn't a regular vice admiral Zeon, he is known by his epithet of Red Hound of Marines/ Akainu. He is on his way to become an Admiral. Also I have heard that Amazon women are honest and they never forget the ones who helped them in their need. Not to mention since one of their previous empress herself said that she will be forever grateful to you. Then I think we have pretty much acquired some allies."

'Not to mention that young girl, she was no normal girl. She had a lot of potential inside her, it's clear that she has the royal blood in her. She will probably be the next empress of Amazon lily. Also she seemed very attached to you king. In future when she sorts those feelings out she could even find out that she is infatuated to you and has fallen in love with you. And if the legends are true Amazon women are very passionate lovers. In fact many of the empresses have died because they were unable to cope up with the feeling of being separated from the one they love. I think we have got this alliance in the bag king, kukuku.. Kukukuku it will be interesting.'

Shadow monologued in thoughts.

"-Are you listening?"

"Sorry Zeon I was pondering something, what is it?"

"I was asking that you talked about an empress, was that old woman a previous empress or something?"

"Yes, she was one of the previous empress of Amazon lily though she exiled herself for some reason and left her daughter to rule. Unfortunately few years ago the empress died from a heart attack. From then the throne has been empty though I think, you may have helped them in gaining their new empress."

"Really, oh so you mean to say that Hancock is -"

"Yes she is, at least I think she is, I could sense the latent potential she had. It was amazing."

"I see, my first trip outside and I make a friend who is a fellow ruler. This is good it will certainly make things easier as Hancock too has hatred for those celestial Dragons."

"Correct -"

Suddenly they heard a commotion and heard that it was coming from the throne room where they were heading.

"Did you dump the slaves there?"

"Yes, my king."

"I thought I told you to... You know what never mind in this situation, I have to take the role of the King."

They reached the throne room but shadow stopped him and said,

"I think we should directly go to the throne, my king."

Zeon nodded and they stepped in Shadow's portal.

Inside the Throne room

A lot of people are standing in the large throne room and most of them are looking around in awe, most of them are women, fishwomen, mermaids and children and rest are men, fishmen and mermen.

Adults were wary of their surroundings this palace looked like it belonged to someone wealthy, maybe they were in celestial dragon's possession.

They saw that in front of them were stairs above which was a golden throne above which was a statue of a golden lion.

Around it were many dragon statues imbedded in to the walls and pillars.

Large purple flags hund around them with a Red Dragon's face with gold outlines drawn on the flags.

On the top of the stairs and beside the throne stood a woman and beside her stood some teenagers and a young girl.

Remembering that they were all knocked out by a hooded figure and brought here made them wary, but they also didn't have any bindings on themselves that gave them a bit relief. So they decided to confront the woman about their situation.

One man came forward gathering courage and said loudly, "Who are you and where have you brought us? Are you celestial Dragons."

"If you are celestial dragons and have brought us here to make us slaves again, you have another thing coming." a fishman too came forward and said.

"Yeah, we will fight back."

"Yeah, we will."

Many of them started cheering together and started to advance towards the stairs.

But suddenly a strong pressure formed above them all, they felt as if they couldn't breath anymore. A heavy pressure was making them almost suffocate. They all looked up and saw that the woman had a frown on her face. Her hair in 2 thick braids were floating a little. Suddenly a black portal opened up beside her and a boy and the cloaked person who knocked them out came out of it.

"Calm down, Kushina." Zeon said to her while giving her a side glance.

After that the pressure on them disappeared and everyone had a look of relief on their faces.

Zeon turned towards the throne and walked towards it and after reaching it, he sat down on it with his one leg over another and his cheek on his right fist.

"Calm down everyone, we aren't celestial dragons, we are simply humble people who wish to bring the celestial dragons to justice. We were just scouting the so called Holy land to gauge the situation."

"Y-You are revolutionaries, then."

"No, I am not a revolutionary, at least I like to think so then again I do plan to bring a revolution to remove the plague that covers today's world. You can think of me as a ruler of a kingdom who wishes to take down the celestial dragons and rule the world in their place. I have the desire, no the need to destroy the celestial dragons and build my own empire. I plan to make a world free of corruption, injustice, discrimination, etc. And bring true peace to our world not this fake veil of a peace which hides madness and corruption behind it."

Zeon stood up while conveying his thoughts.

" Just like you people have suffered under the cruelty of those tenryubitos, I too have lost my whole clan due to them. They wiped my family out when I was a mere infant. Kushina and shadow were the ones who witnessed the extinction of our clan from their very own eyes. You all must have heard about the destruction of kingdom of Alakitesia."

Hearing that the crowd started murmuring among themselves.

Zeon took a step forward and again spoke,

" Your reactions answer my questions, 7 years ago the legendary sister clans Uzumaki and Uchiha were wiped out by a extinction level buster call. The world govt. took advantage of clan's momentary weakness and attacked the kingdom. As the rulers the 2 clans fought to their last breath so that civilians could be evacuated. But we don't even know their fate now. They self destructed everything to take out as many of the marines they can and to not give out any information. "

" You all must be thinking why am I telling you all this, you must be thinking I am trying to earn your trust or something. Well that would be somewhat true, I am trying to gain your trust but I am not doing all that by lying to you all. I am being completely honest with you all so that you all can be honest to me too about what you want. Till now you all must have gained the idea of what I have in my mind. I am trying to build an empire, I will need people for that. So naturally, I will need people for that. That's why I am trying to convince you all to join me."

One man came forward and said,

" Say we trust the fact you are not like those tenryubitos, you won't make us slaves and will provide us happy lives. But what if even then we refuse, what then will you have us killed? "

" Of course not I have no intention of killing you all, I will only kill when someone is deserving of it. If I wanted you dead I would not have rescued you. I want you all to cooperate with me to bring a new era on our world, I have no intention of forcing you all for it. You must have families that's the reason you are refusing right."

" I am not saying I will seperate you from them if you wish to go back to them it's fine, I will make sure you go to them. If you want I can even bring your families here to start a new life. But if some of you wish to go back are you sure you will be accepted back? You all were slaves to tenryubito or were going to be slaves, you all are marked. It could be possible too that your families have moved on, your spouses could have found someone else."

" I suggest you all take your time and decide what you all individually wish to do."

A young bulky man with long hair and beard came forward and said,

" You know kid, from all your talking I have got it that you are the king here. I have hell everyone here have got the fact that, that woman beside you is strong. But are you strong enough to actually lead us around. I was a pirate before I became a slave, I wanted to have an adventure but those marines killed my crew and sold me, their captain as a slave. I have no one in this world, the only thing that keeps me going is hate for those celestial bastards. So if you want me under you, prove your strength and conviction to us."

"I see. You wish to test my mettle as a King. Fine, I will humour you but are you even in the condition to test me. Maybe you should take a few days to get yourself in your best condition."

"DON'T PITY ME I wouldn't have survived till now if I asked for mercy. Now show me king, do you have what it takes or are you just a brat who says big words. You are a child so I won't ask for much just impress me with your strength and potential and I will swear myself to you but if you fail to impress me I will take over as the king of your country or whatever you own. How is that?"

2 twin swordfish fishmen with a sharp long noses sprouting from their faces standing nearby came forward, they were of inverted colours one was black and white and the other was white and black. They said,

"Wait a minute, why is it that only you will be the one who will challenge the kid we fishmen are the strongest species in the world. We seafolks are the ones who have constantly suffered under the cruelty of you humans despite us wishing to live in peace."

"So we should be the ones getting what he owns so that we can destroy those tenryubitos as going right now to fishman Island will only get us captured in the route. So till then we need a sanctuary for us seafolk. We won't trust you humans as you all are just like the tenryubitos. You would sell us out to save your own skin."

Said the twins respectively.

Hearing that the man got angry, and shouted.

" You bastards fishmen dare compare me to those scums. How dare you? I was thinking after becoming the king I will actually treat you all respectably because it was fisher tiger a fishman who rescued us. But you have shown your true filthy nature right away, huh."

"Y-you dare call us filthy. You- you are just a puny human, a puman."

"Not very smart are you fishman."

A man with goat horns on his head and goat like face came from behind the human. He looked at the fishmen and then at the human and said,

"You know it's pointless to argue so much, do you all really think you are the only ones who wishes to be a king. Many of us have that desire and I am more suited than you at this as unlike you meat heads who are arguing with each other so much, i am actually capable of mental warfare, and I am not just some revenge obsessed fool I have to save some people too."

A huge bull man came forward and said,

" Yeah, if anyone here deserves and needs to be the king, it's Mr. Goaty. Mr. Goaty and I sacrificed ourselves to save our group of half minks. There were children too there. We have left them in a island which would keep them safe but we need the resources to go and reunite with them. We also wish to take revenge against the tenryubito and for that Mr. Goaty has to be a leader as he is the most sensible out of you all."

In a few moments many if them started arguing about who should be the King, while this was happening Zeon had an amused look on his face. Seeing that they all weren't getting anywhere. Zeon stood up and started walking down the stairs.

Everyone saw that and quieted down.

Zeon then said,

"I find it amusing that most of you are dreaming to replace me as the king and fighting amongst yourselves for it. Fine then I have decided, I will fight all of you at once. Devil fruit, fishman karate, elemeto use whatever you want. But first Shadow..."

"Yes, my Lord. I know what to do."

Saying that shadow clapped his hand together and a wave of shadow covered the whole room. People started panicking as suddenly all of them started sinking on the floor fast. And then when they opened their eyes they were in pond like area. With stone and dirt paths in it. In middle of the pond on a stone stood Zeon. And those who wanted to fight were around him fishmen and mermen in water and

Half mink, mink and humans on stones paths.

Zeon looked at them all and raised his one hand and said,

"Come."

"Kid, due to your age I gave you the opportunity to just impress me but now disrespecting me by saying that I would need these losers help in fighting against you. You have crossed the limits. Now I won't show even a shred of mercy."

"Whatever, say what you want now because after defeating you all, I am going to work you to the bone. Now COME."

In an instant every one moved towards Zeon at a fast pace while preparing their attacks. However just as they were about 50 metres around Zeon, he got into a boxing stance and uttered something and smirked.

Just a second later Zeon let his hands drop by his sides and released a breath,

Then one by one everyone who was in the motion of running towards him fell down on the ground except for the human male from earlier and Mr. Goat.

Next they too followed suit however in their minds thoughts were flashing,

'What the fuck happened? What just fucking happened as soon as he smirked and got into his stance i knew he will attack so I tried covering myself in haki. And I was going to cover myself with that too. Then how did I get hurt made sure to cover my vitals first, my stomach was one of the main parts I covered then how did he hit me, did he hit me in the interval between which I thought I would cover my stomach to the time I actually covered it.'

'No, impossible I have perfected covering my vitals with haki at such extent that even someone as fast as light will hit me after I covered my vitals with haki. It's instantaneous. That means he hit me after I covered myself in haki and still knocked me down. J-just what kind of monster is this kid.'

The goat man too was on a similar trail of thoughts,

' This - this is absurd, how can a child be this strong. This is madness. *sigh* Whatever I tried. So this is our new King from now on. Now that I look at him I can see it. With a man like this leading us tenryubito and world govt. are going to be in for a bad time.'

"Now, do you accept defeat and submit to your King?"

"Yes, my lord." Everyone said while struggling to get up.

A old man was standing beside the crowd of people who were spectating and murmuring about the one sided fight.

He was caressing his goatee slowly and looking at Zeon.

'Interesting, so he is the one I was to meet. Hmm, that speed wasn't normal a devil fruit ability was used to achieve that. Is it perhaps related to the slight weight I felt all over me... Oh I see what you did just now, little King. You are really here to shake the world aren't you. Now to test your morals.'

Thinking that the old man walked forward while hunching his back to appear frail, he reached to the front of the crowd and said,

"My King, you have defeated all the fighters who wished to do what they wish and now we are your subjects. But what about your earlier promise of letting free those who desire to go back to their families? Will you still agree to that?"

"Yes you don't have to worry I am a man of my word I wouldn't stop any of you from leaving in fact I will personally escort you back. Just give all the information to Shadow."

'as expected of the one I am to follow.' the old man nodded to himself.

"But I would like to know, have some of you accepted to live here under me if so please raise your hands." Zeon asked calmly.

Surprisingly many of the fishmen, humans, merfolk and minks had raised their hands. Even the 2 stubborn swordfishmen had raised their hands.

" I see, this is good, very good. But I want you all to know something first in my rule any kind of criminal activity will not be tolerated punishments will be so harsh for criminals that their soul will tremble. Racism won't be tolerated. Forget that you are of different species in my empire you all are Aryans of Alvarez empire. We will build our empire soon. Till then we will prepare. I am very glad that the first generation of Aryans are Slaves. You all have suffered the same pain and humiliation by the tenryubitos. You all should be smart enough to know that in the end differences between you all are retarded. You have experienced the same pain, you all have bonded with each other through a cruel and truthful bond of pain, humiliation and hatred for tenryubitos."

" So instead of bickering amongst each other grow together, become strong together, overcome your weaknesses together and then only will we be able destroy them together."

Everyone was silent for a moment but then a little boy from the crowd screamed,

"All Hail the King, all hail the Alvarez."

Hearing that everyone there started chanting,

"All Hail the King, all hail the Alvarez."

"All Hail the King, all hail the Alvarez."

"All Hail the King, all hail the Alvarez."

"All Hail the King, all hail the Alvarez."

"All Hail the King, all hail the Alvarez."

Shadow seeing all this simply smiled internally and thought,

"The wheels of fate has begin accelerating, A war is coming which will destroy the current foundations of the world. The world will soon witness the rise of a new era, the era of the burning light which will burn the veil of darkness and illuminate all, a new era of MEREUM"

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Authors note

Phew I am done, it's been a while huh. This wasn't a major chapter but an important one regardless. Do review about how did i portrayed everything, I think I didn't do too bad.

Also before anyone gets offended by the Aryan word, and says why are you using a word Germans used for mass murder and all. Aryan isn't a German word it's an Indian sanskrit word the oldest language on earth it translates to the nobles. So that's that.

In the next chapter I will introduce the characters whose names I kept under the rug. But you guys free to make guess about where I am leading those characters too. I will give you a hint twin swordfishes, goat, bull, guy with a long mane. I think you will be able to guess what I am planning now ;).

I know the chapter was short this time but I will try to make bigger chapters but right now I am not in a good situation so I can't setup a good mood for my story writing. So bear with me.

Oh yeah, in shadow's dialogue I said era of Mereum = if you have watched hxh you will know that meaning of Mereum is a shining light that illuminates all. I simply used that word here to give Zeon a title. So don't think much of it.

Minernightskinrjb = thanks for wishing me well I recovered well hope you are well too.

See you guys later.