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Chapter 97 - repercussions ll

Katahara had arrived at Markland Island, along with all her ships.

Upon arrival, he ordered that they be on high alert, ordered Saber Weapon Platforms to be strategically positioned throughout the island.

I also order the deployment of all Sentinels.

The Sentinel is a one-man, off-road, lightweight, bipedal combat walker, striking a perfect balance between ruggedness and mobility, capable of negotiating terrain that would immobilize heavier battle tanks and armored vehicles, while also being able to take on heavy fire. that would destroy ranks of infantry.

They all had different types of armaments, some had rocket launchers equipped, while others had a heavy cannon, even a large machine gun.

Meanwhile Katahara was in the meeting room, having a meeting with all his trusted men, among them was Ragnar the leader of the Onis.

Ragnar: Killing a high-ranking naval officer... and holding a Yonkō commander prisoner are not the best decisions.

Robin: We've got all men on high alert, we've got ships sailing all over our territory.

Laffitte: According to my information, no kind of attack on our territory has been ordered at the moment, just a little surveillance of the surroundings.

Laxus: The navy will not stand still, because of Sengoku's death….

Reiju: Maybe if they hadn't attacked the escort none of this would have happened...

Laxus: What's done, can't be undone.

Ragnar: It's been 2 weeks since the funeral… if they're planning something, they should have everything ready by now, to launch an attack.

Dabi: We have around more than 30,000 men armed to the teeth, and dozens of defense platforms around the island, bombers ready to be deployed at any moment, even for the navy it will be difficult to get here without losing dozens of ships in the process.

At that precise moment they began to hear explosions.

Taking everyone present by surprise.

*BOOM*

*BOOM*

*BOOM*

Everyone left the place to see where they were being attacked from.

What they saw was a huge island that was floating in the clouds, this island was known as Merveille Island.

Being guided by a ship that appears to be a floating island with tall trees as masts, its base is land. The candles are rectangular and oriental in shape and the largest one has the jolly roger on it. Long oars can be seen in motion on both sides of the ship, The figurehead is a golden lion.

Katahara: I didn't expect that old man to have gone mad.

At that precise moment a huge rumble was heard, Merveille Island colliding with Skypiea Island, which was also found in the sky.

The one who had caused the two islands to collide, was Amahiro the cloud fruit user.

An army of mutated animals began to invade Skypiea, where they found the 13,000 former prisoners and around 6,000: Skydians, starting an all-out war where they developed to hear rumblings, and gunshots all over the sky.

The battle on Skypea was led by Amhiro along with all the former Level 6 prisoners.

But they were attacked by large black rocks heading towards them.

Amahiro was the most affected of all, receiving the attacks.

"Shijajajajajajajaja…. And to think that I have the island of Skypiea right above their heads… having it under my banner will make me invincible."

Starting a bloody battle if equal in Skypiea.

Meanwhile on land, the Sentinels and Saber weapon platforms came out to fire at the ship that looked like a floating island, which was approaching land.

Katahara: Dabi get all the commanders and the main force to Skypiea as fast as possible, I'll take care of it here.

Dabi: As ordered captain, we will prevent them from invading Skypiea.

At that moment Ragnar stood next to Katahara.

Ragnar: To think there is someone stupid enough to attack us like this.

Katahara stopped Laffitte who was the last of the commanders to leave.

Katahara: Laffitte Infiltrate that damned island, and capture two individuals.

As he explained who they should capture, they were all boarding the ships and going up to Skypiea.

All the commanders boarded the balloon ships and headed for the sky, where the war against the mutated animals was taking place.

The moment the ship touched down, dozens of men in suits ran down ready to fight, but were met by gunfire from Germa 66, while hundreds of Oni soldiers charged at them.

Katahara charged into battle alongside Ragnar, slaying all of the invaders within minutes.

Ragnar: This is weird, everyone is too low level to lead the attack...

As more and more invaders kept pouring out from the rock ship.

Katahara then raised her head to look at the battle in the sky, and noticed that the battle intensified even more with the arrival of her commanders, giant flames and magnitude cuts, they could be seen in all directions.

Katahara: That bastard is up there…. Let's get this over with quickly.

Ragnar finished off all the invaders that were on the ship.

Ragnar: Everything here is finished... but it seems that the real battle is being fought upstairs.

Katahara: I'll head upstairs, you take care of imprisoning anyone who's still alive, while you check the ship.

At that moment an entire mountain could be seen falling from the heavens.

Katahara: That damn…

As he charged towards the falling mountain, preparing his Shodai Kitetsu to make his attack.

Katahara: Walls of the Northern Heavens.

Launched powerful slashes, which began to take the form of black walls, which collided with the great mountain, destroying it second by second.

Katahara: That damn… saved me from going to look for him.

As soon as Katahara arrived at Skypea, she could see thousands of animals of all sizes and shapes slaughtered all over the place, causing a river of blood to flow through the place.

Dozens of mutated animals could still be seen being shot down and killed, as well as screams of agony and wailing heard throughout Skypiea.

He also noted that there were not many casualties on the part of his men.

What caught his attention was that there was a man in the middle of a huge crater, with two stab wounds in his chest.

As soon as Katahara approached the man, she realized that he was in charge of monitoring and communicating everything that happened in Skypiea, Amahiro, to whom she entrusted the Kura Kura no Mi (cloud-cloud).

He saw him for a few moments, before approaching, and closing his eyes, which were still open, to then place a fruit on his corpse...

Katahara: Damn…

As he waited for the fruit to change shape, at the moment it changed, Katahara disappeared from the scene.

He got to where all his commanders were, who were surrounding a tall man, that man was, Shiki.

Shiki is a very tall man. Dress in traditional Japanese clothing (Kimono). Around her waist is a gold chain. He has golden hair and on top of his head a part of a ship's rudder that got embedded in him after his battle with Roger.

As for his facial features, aside from an obvious bald spot, he has a dark goatee around the edges of his mouth. His eyebrows are dark and on the left side of his face and around his eye he has purple spots. He is usually seen smoking cigars.

Instead of using conventional prosthetics after cutting off his own legs to escape from Impel Down, he gained his own swords for legs. He is also not very skilled at using swords, and has difficulty steadying his foot or walking when using them.

To his surprise, Shiki had wounds all over his body, but the commanders did not come out unscathed when facing Shiki, they all had shallow cuts.