Serious : The prologue to Atlantis ((Open to all who are interested in joining the whole site war thread, especially for Gael and James to set up their characters))

A ship had recently docked within the walls of the marine fortress known as Marineford. Admiral Ran Miryan had finally reached the fortress, from a mission to eradicate a pirate threat. She knew of her lateness, but the order to go had been directly given to her when she was still a vice admiral. Her position was rather recent.

Still, she hurried, not wanting to miss the higher ups in the marine staff. She smirked slightly at the thought of having command over her former equals.

Quickly, she arrived in the room, observing the happenings. Clearly, she had missed the vast majority of the meeting. "Greetings." She said, not really expecting any sort of answer, or leaving room for any with her tone. Then with that, she took a comfortable position leaning to the wall, and waited.

Todd receives a call, while waiting outside of the Fleet Admiral's office. "Yes .. indeed .. that is correct .. as you order Sir." He puts the Den Den Mushi back to his pocket and crosses his hands, and smirks. Seems like he just got an interesting order from the Gorousei themselves.

Nishki wasnt watching where he was walking , he had taken a different path out of marineford to where Max and the others were taking.This was a full scale war and they needed to move soon. HIs cape was flowing as he continued walking. He then suddenly saw Admiral Ran, to his utter shock. He bowed in front of Admiral Ran before anything else, he did not look anywhere but to the Admiral for a bit, in respect of her "GOOD EVENING ADMIRAL!!!"

"Vice Admiral Nishki D. Rock .. !" Todd's tough and firm, manly (lol ?) voice is heard, behind Nishki. He has still his hand crossed and has stopped following him. "There's something I need to inform you about .." he then adds, with a calmer and somewhat friendly voice. He then notices Ran and Rei and greets them politely, and looks at Nishki a bit confused.

"Aaah, where to go, where to go... I wonder where Nishki is..."
Talitha tried to make out his smell, or his voice somewhere, but this place was just too loud to make out anyhting.
Where did you go when you needed to get your mission? Normally, Jackson did that kind of thing for her, but he was gone now, so...
"Uh, Mary..."
she cleared her throat. No, that hadn't sounded right.
"Mary! Take the lead, I don't, uh..."
Know where to go anymore.
"I don't feel so well! Most likely didn't get enough, uh, sleep. Yeah."

Nishki was struck out of no where and immediately he recognised this power and this feeling. This could only belong to Rei. He couldnt believe it was her, he didnt she her just now cause all his focus was on Admiral Ran. Nishki then was tapping out "OK OK I GOT IT!!!" Nishki was chuckling as he was being choked because this was exactly how their childhood training time was like. It was always like this. He was the green rookie and Rei looked after him. He remembered all that and considered Talitha his closests of friends.Still, work had got in the way of them meeting.

MAry then heard some noise "Maaam... i think i hear Vice Admiral Nishkis voice....., shall we go?" Mary jogged all the way till she saw Nishki Rei and Admiral Ran and saluted.

Unfazed by what would make almost everyone be at least surprized a bit, Todd walks towards Nik, as if nothing is happening right now, and continues "According to my orders, I am supposed to join your Phoenix Squad till that operation involving all these is over." he then looks at Rei "Thats a .. pretty good tecknique used there." he casually says, as if nothing weird just happened.

Talitha was stopping shortly behind her and looked at her saluting, obviously curious as to why. She looked at the people and her eyes narrowed.
Nishki with two women.... Not too shabby looking either. And they seemed to be... close. Close enough for one of them to chocke him, and him still being able to laugh it off.
"Hello Nishki..."
She said in a tone so friendly it could only mean bad.
"Why don't you introduce us?"
Was she an extremely jealous person? Yes. Had she always been that way? Hmmm... Maybe it was just the stress. She had to admit, being jealous over something that could only be considered domnestic violence if those two actually were together was ridiculous.
But still, she felt the animal side inside her growl loudly at the thought of a woman having her hands on him. Even if it was just his throat.

Miryan raised her eyebrow as Vice Admiral Noyamano literally punched Nishki through the wall. She walked through the hole, crouching through it to see Rei already on Nikshi in the courtyard. She crossed her arms, walking up to the pair, Rei dominating the sudden encounter.

"I see you two know each other." She stated in a sort of amused tone. "I'll leave you to it. Just don't get too rough." The last part was mostly directed at Rei. She turned to walk back to the Nishki shaped hole, as it didn't look like it was going to get serious in any way. She smirked at the pair of fighting vice admirals. Well, not really fighting as much as Nishki getting his rear-end handed to him. Still, they actually had things to do, so she would not wait for long.

Nishki really didnt know how to react to this situation. Talitha had seen him and now he was blushing. His own girlfriend seeing him down like this did not help his thoughts. He then heard Rei ask the question and Talitha asking him as well. Nishki was panting and blushing now because Talitha had seen him "Ummm, hey Tali... this is Rei......she is a vice admiral and ....ughhhh, one of my closest friends... since childhood....iugghhh" In truth if Nishki applied excess force he could throw Rei off or at least stand, but he didnt want to do that, seeing as doing so would surely make Rei more aggravated.

Mary was simply watching and giggling at this moment.

"Why hello there Rei.... It is so nice to meet you."
The tension almost became visible in the air while she said that. Childhood firends, were they? Close, huh?
"Now, if you don't mind, my fiancé seems to be quite out of breath, and willing to stand up."
She didn't know why she had said he was her fiancé. maybe boyfriend didn't sound quite dramatic enough. Boyfriends could cheat you. Fiancés couldn't, or at least weren't likely to.
Still, her voice was so undeniably friendly that it couldn't mean good. Inside, she was burning.The air around her had suddenly turned very, very cold as a nice, friendly, polite smile appeared on her face. Everyone who knew her knew that this was just wrong...
"Of course, if you want to continue you little game, vice admiral, then by all means."

Ran found all this quite amusing. Apparently, some vice admirals had a talent at finding girls. Of the jealous kind. Several in fact. However, they were on a bit of a schedule, so they might want to hurry this along. Get the domestic abuse over with.

Ran visibly turned, as if to leave. "Vice admiral Nishki and girlfriends?" She spoke in an inquisitive and somewhat flighty tone. "Are you coming?" She then asked. "You can get the courting done on the ship." She finally added.

Work was done. Talitha huffed, satisfied, and turned around.
All of a sudden, she was in a much better mood.
And maybe a little scared that Nishki might just say they weren't engaged and blow her little lie.
She saluted to amiral Ran, and her smile turned from polite to devious (which was normal) automatically. No touching her Nishki.
"Vice admiral Nishkis real girlfriend, at your service."
Aaah, no matter what was coming, this moment was worth it.

Nishki was sweating now as this heated exchange was ensuing before his eyes. Rei of course with her foot on his head. She had alwas done things like this. Nishki trembled at the thought of getting involved, he then muttered. He was actually thought that while they were talkin about him, why was he on the floor? Under Reis foot? He then stood up, after gently lifting Reis foot off his face. He breathed air again as he stood up "Ummm... Rei... this is Tali...., Tali.i can actually explain and... ohh admiral sama.... ummm one minute please..."

Ran was barely containing her laughter. She smirked again. Nishki, the marine hero stuck between a rock and a hard place in the form of two equally possessive ladies. She had turned back to the feuding couple of Nishki and Rei to watch the situation, but then turned to Talitha again. "Good. Lets get her off his throat then."

She then walked up to Rei, looking up to the taller Vice Admiral grinding Nishki into the courtyard floor. Then, she looked down at Nikz, quite firmly embedded in the ground. All this for a missed greeting? She put her hand on Rei's shoulder. "We don't want him hurt do we?" She questioned, before smiling. An actual genuine smile. Then she, gently, but still forcibly tried to turn around Rei, mainly to get her foot off Nishki's head.

((James, I have an idea for a very simple other Atlantean, and I'll PM you about it... This post will suck, and I'm sorry for it XD.))

Elsewhere, a single ship coasted along, heading towards where the Oro Jackson was said to be. The captain of the ship cared little about the Oro Jackson: he only cared that Marines would be there. He was tired of living, and he just wanted to take out as many Marine scum as he could before he finally expired. His only other friend was elsewhere, doing who-knew-what on an island they knew about. He just... didn't care anymore.

[Presentation Box (Second last one, I swear.)
Gyupaa Hjak, the Scarecrow
Bounty: 5,000,000 for the calculated slaughter of Marines]

"Ne, you wouldn't be talking seriously Anubis-sama?" the young captain said in a lazy manner, a smile adorning her features once more as she got closer to him. For her it was a rarity to smile in front of anybody, but when she was around the yonkou, it felt natural to her...and she liked it. "If you say that the Oro Jackson will be yours and no one else's, then what about me? Don't get me wrong, I love working with you, but even if it's little, I would like to have something for me as well," she said in a light tone, now facing Anubis with a determined expression.

Anubis then thought about this carefully, still, he couldn't deny Delia at this point, not when she was looking at him like that. He then held his hand up "Fine, you can have whatever treasure and you may look in the oro jackson... we could share after all, ahhahaahhaah" Anubis was chuckling quite seriously. He was in a jovial mood mainly because he could smelll it, the scent of discovery.

Delia joined his chuckle with her soft giggles, suddenly grasping his hand with her own on impulse. "Thank you so much Anubis-sama. With this, through me my father will finally be able to witness some of the treasures of Gold D. Roger," she said excited, not taking notice of how close she was from Anubis's face. When she did realize it, her eyes widened and a light blush adorned her cheeks. "I-I'm sorry. I guess I got carried away," she stuttered slightly as she made way of making distance form her and the yonkou.

In the seas
"Weee-hahahahaha, exactly as I told you !" Wally's voice is heard loud from the insides of the ship. He sat on the table in frond of him and laughed once more.
"Hahahahaha, that's bullshit captain, cause that means we were goodie people for effectively nothing !" Dude replies and laughs as well.
"Not really .." Wally responds and, after he takes a large bite off the piece of meat he was having on his plate he resumes "..we still made lots of allies .. plus, that move's sheer "existance" will be enough to cause shock and awe !"
Out to the deck now, Hawks is laying on a chair, looking at the sky, not really talking. He is thinking about, just how many great things he came to see. He wasnt as strong as the other members, hence Zuro at least, and he wasnt that ambitious either yet .. he looks at his dagger, Dude's "gift" to him. "Heart-trembling, right Sasori ? .." he casually says.

The mighty ship Village of Steel broke through the waves heading toward it's target. It's target was the legendary and mysterious city of Atlantic. Despite the fact Iken had just recently fought with and was just about killed by the demon of blood Derge he still sailed towards the goal. Knowing Derge would be taking part in the event, Iken was hoping to get back at his formed nakama by ending his cursed life. Iken gripped the railing of the ship tightly thinking about how the situation could have been much worse if it was anyone, but Derge. "I let them down!" mumbled the captain of the Steel Village crew with a tone of fear of losing more nakama.