In North Blue, Templars haven't infiltrated in the Marines as much as the other seas, there were two reasons for this. The First reason was they had the mutual agreement with Rear Admiral, the Second one is Isi also wasn't sure, all she said, Lord Aquilo didn't want to be under Marine command and took his men with him everywhere, thus mostly they didn't join the Marine ranks. I can relate to that, I also wouldn't want to work for those arrogant Noble bastards.
Rear Admiral Spirittale would support Templars and turn the blind eye out of their minor crimes in exchange of things she wanted. Building a perfect symmetrical house for example or buying vast lands behind her house and behind marine base to close her view. But after she fell in love with me, all the order crumbles instantly. North Blue stirred up, in the single night.
In the single night, all North Blue Templars have taken down. Most of the members were known by Isi in case if they were aimed by Marine, she could prevent them, or promoted higher ranks by her, in the request of the Lord Aquilos. In this single night, Isi made phone calls all over the North Blue and ordered an arrest to names known as Templars.
But Templars were not just inside the Marine Base, there were Templar Vice Admirals and some high ranking World Government agents. As I learned from Isi, she once heard, even one of the admirals might be their member or helper. This one wasn't clear though. Crow told me about Admirals in Original Series, from my understanding, most of them even with their own Justice, they weren't the type to put anything else to the front of the World Government. My guess would be, some World Noble with great influence had a deal with Templars, was pushing Admirals to do their deeds.
To prevent this high ranked men to step in, I had to stop Lord Aquilos. If he allowed to let Templars in Marine Headquarter know this, they would take Isi down instead and all plan would fail. So, when Isi was dealing with those, I made my way to the warehouse belong to the Templars, I was first taken. Isi has been in this warehouse many times. When I first come, I noticed all the containers are neatly placed and felt something was fishy. After Isi told me she was visiting the warehouse, it dawned on me.
She knew the back door of the warehouse opening from a container placed behind the warehouse also there were hidden underground sewer system, opened from one other container. If I want to stop them from running, I have to stop their exit. So, my first move was the block Backdoor. I chained the secret door inside the container. Then the sewer system. I find my way from the other side of the sewer system to the warehouse and I create a wall inside the sewer system. Then I climbed inside from the secret trap door, placed under the carpet.
When I climbed up to the warehouse, Aquilo and other were having a meeting. My name come up a few times too. But they were mostly talking about battle about Whitebeard and Marine. They had too much inside information and they knew too much about secret operations Marine has planned. This might help me to save Anne, in the coming days.
"What do you think? Can, becoming a Shichibukai is Blackbeard's real aim? He had more privilege under Whitebeard. I think there is more to it." one of the Knights said.
"Maybe he didn't think he would be targeted by Whitebeard after whatever his reason to leave the crew. He couldn't take the pursuit anymore and decided to team up with Marine forces?" another suggested.
"Becoming a Shichibukai doesn't give you a protection against other pirates. This may very well intimidate to regular pirates, but as Monkey D. Luffy shown twice, taken down the Shichibukai isn't that hard to achieve."
"Right. That trouble kid gives me goosebumps. He is hard to control. What is Lord thinking about him? If we let him get stronger, we may fall into a hard situation."
"Monkey D. Luffy is easy to deal with. What worries me is that so-called Ninja Madara. There is a feeling, I can't put my finger on it. He just shows up most critical moments to aid to the crew." finally Lord Aquilo spoke.
I crouched behind containers and find a place to observe surrounding. There was a total of 5 people. One was Aquilo, one was sane Priest, the other 3 were Knights. At the entrance, there were another 3 mindless Priests waiting at guard.
I put the Glasses of Confucious and whispered "Ring." All of the Templars were wearing Storage Rings, doesn't matter their rank. Looking for the ring to see through the walls and containers to see if there were any hidden guards. Turns out I am too paranoid. I still had a bad feeling so I went into Crow's Nature Chakra State and started to feel surrounding. There were traps placed all over the warehouse, in case of running away, they could take the warehouse down. This was a very modern layout.
I checked triggers and they all placed near the exits. Probably when they left the warehouse, they would just click the trigger to take the warehouse down. I made the triggers move inside the wall and got near the Templars quietly. I was worried about Aquilos would know Observation Haki and would find me, but still, I had no other way but hid my presence and walk slowly. I was planning my entrance. I had to take as many I could in the first move to ease the operation. I create 2 clones and made the hand Seals.
"Earth Style, Great Earth Oven!"
"Fire Style, Dragon God's Fury!"
"Wind Style, Zephyr's Air Blast"
It was a 3 element combo attack. Great Earth Oven was dome type Earth Oven only one side open. Open side was on my side and I made the biggest Fire Jutsu I knew, Dragon God's Fury, where I shot fire from my mouth 5 seconds. It was blazing hellish fire. Lastly, Zephyr's Air Blast was Wind attack takes 3 seconds, strong enough to tear a palace down. When it combined with fire, they blasted like a volcano.
This attack took all of them down except Aquilo, was covered with black membrane and sitting there like it was not his problem. What is wrong with this guys? How can there be someone with Armament Haki in North Blue? Not the normal one, Koka on top of it. Isn't this the hardest part of the haki? He covered all his body with Koka.
"They must be executives placed in 4 blue. It is weird though, we haven't seen one in West Blue," said Crow.
Do you think we missed one?
"No, not like that. You interrogate most of them. At least one would mention if there were any."
Right! How should I deal with this guy? He is indestructible.
"Right. Well, Armament Haki would deplete and tire body, when overusing. He is covering him all body, so, all you have to do keep attacking and he will slowly deplete all his haki."
So, that is how it is. I canceled the clone made Earth Style and attacked with the wind-fire combo. I was depleting my chakra while he was still sitting there like nothing happened. After the first attack, mindless guards come closer but they stopped by Aquilo. They would die if they come so, this was the best decision.
After 5 minutes, I consume all my Chakra and he run out his Haki and stood up for the first time. "Hitomi, I knew you would come. Just didn't know you would come from the back door. How did you find that out? Your god gave you some good items? By the way, whose lap dog are you?" asked with a smile.
"I am Lord Crow's Champion. It is time to end you." I said with fired up expression, laughing inside.
"Nice one, brother!" Crow raised his imaginary thumbs to me.
"Lord Crow. Hmm, never heard of him. Must be one of the useless gods. Doesn't matter anyway. I will kill you now!" Aquilo said and attacked me with a punch. He was so fast, almost created afterimage behind him. I sidestepped and take Very Good Sword from the warehouse. I had no chakra but I still had Zhengi. Unfortunately, Nature Chakra State wasn't last too much, otherwise, I could use Karasu Tsubasa Mai at it finest.
I entered the state of Sword-Man Unite and swing my sword with Sword Ki. His punch hit my sword and both bounced back. "Strong Sword Ki," he said laughing. "I can't win without my ace in the hole, it seems."
He turned into a big man-bug something, his tail was dripping purple liquid...