Serious: The Greatest goal, one last obstacle before the new world In Alabasta ((ENd and Closed))

Todd's reflexes and speed kick in, and he begins shaking around rapidly, and into various directions, so the aerial assault would be neutralized. With Zero's high speed, he wasn't able to also leave the spot so, once the man attempts to kick down Todd, he extents his left hand calmly "God's Hand .." to counter the blow. He only manages to stop the attack, despite this move's power of redirecting the force to the user. "Impressive .." he then attempts to impale Zero, firing off a Shigan; Ouren at a point-blank distance.

"Dammit, we can't get in there! It's way too dangerous!" a marine captain aboard one of the rescue ships shouted as he watched the scene through a telescope. "What about the injured captain? We can't just leave them!" His helmsman shouted. "It can't be helped, I can't risk my own crew for such a cause" the marine captain answered. "SIR! We have a man washed over! It's a marine!" A crew member shouted. "Pull him up! We might be able to help after all!". Two marine officers then pulled a man in a marine uniform out of the sea water and aboard the deck. He was soaked to the bone, and had a pair of hook swords held tight in his hands, with blood dripping form them. "Hand over the wheel!" Carlos shouted as he got up, not even taking a second to recover. "Stand down comrade! You're hurt and it's way too dangerous to get in there now, there are fishmen under the command of Anubis himself circling the shore!". Carlos rushed for the wheel and pushed the helmsman aside before turning the wheel, bringing the rescue ship into a sharp turn. "I have direct orders from Rear Admiral Warshack! If you have anything to say..." Carlos said before tossing a den den mushi snail towards the captain. "Tell him to him while I'll fetch my crew out of the warzone" He said with a cold tone, he got tired of this battle.

After pointing the ship to the shore, Carlos yanked the engine lever, making the ship accelerate towards the battlefield. "Ask him where he wants us to meet him while you're at it!" Carlos shouted back at the captain, who's face turned white with fear. "Hello, this is Captain Steelson, I have a helmsman hijacking my ship saying he got orders from you sir?" The captain called to the Den den Mushi. The sea bellow the ship was raging as a gigantic fishman that swam along the shore caused various waves to rise at random directions, but sailing in such conditions was an easy task for Carlos. While he steered the ship to shore, dodging various waves and cannon fire, Carlos tried and scout for any of his crew members that needed salvation.

"Roger that Anubis-sama" Clyde whispered into his Den Den Mushi. He then threw the random marine he held in his grip down to a pile of about 15 marine officers who were incapacitated by him. Securing the shore for Anubis proved to be the ideal task for Clyde's division: With Kelp causing waves and scaring the rescue ships away, and Ran and Ro swimming loose around the ring of rescue ships and attacking randomly. Following Anubis' order, Clyde quickly boarded the Grim Death. At first he didn't see anything unusual, but then he heard the sound of metal chains being dragged around below deck. He took a position in front of the stairs that led below deck and raised his voice. "Whoever you might be, come out now and you'll be spared. Make me come down there and you won't get to see light again" he chanted.

Payne then pushed against the sand wall with his scythe, the sheer force sent him flying down towards the floor. With spikes on the ground, the impact would for sure kill him. Payne then created a small dome of fire to surround his entire body to break the impact of his fall. Payne was aware of Anubis's trickery. He held his ground and watched as Anubis sent off small grains of sand. Although this attack wouldn't fair to well against Payne if it wasn't a large amount of sand. Derge Jr would surely get hit with the worse effects of the attack. Payne was entirely to far from Derge Jr to protect him from the attack. He'd have to sit in wait. Payne, floating about 10 feet off the ground. Began bracing him self. Ready to shoot fire out of any part of his body that was necessary.

"..What are you up to Anubis?"

Near Zero and Todd

Zero kicked off his opponents hand that he used to block his attack and spun around once in the air. He then, with the opposite leg. Kicked straight forward. Sending off a blast of air in the shape of a foot. The damage of the attack would be of some one flinging a small boulder out of a catapult.

Derge Sr. scowled at the treacherous Shichibukai. It wasn't enough to leave the World Government, he had to team up with a Yonkou and attack marines too, and even after all that, he had the gall of using one of the weapons the government used to keep prisoners in line; the bladed grass from Impel Down. Derge couldn't think of a better suited name from the plant user than "Scum", as he said it out loud. It was obviously directed at Gael, the one he was glaring at. Even with the sharp bladed grass incoming, the Vice Admiral had a hard time taking his hateful glare off of its target…If looks could kill...

At the last moment, Derge was forced to take his eyes off his foe, for a moment at least. He had a fairly simple way of defending against the grass. Placing his gauntlets back on, the man pulled his arms back. "Jugon Barrage” A flash of fists would be the only thing visible to most, as Derge Sr. launched a flurry of jugon that created small but effective impacts that shattered the grass. Razor sharp debris of the plant scattered all over the area as Derge Sr. beat the plants into oblivion. A small crater was all that was left in the wake of the event. Derge Sr. was visibly panting, his time was about up. However he had little time to catch his breath as the sand began to fall lightly, like snow on a sunny winter day.

"PAYNE GET THE SAND OFF OF YOU, NOW!" Derge Sr. yelled as loud and his lungs would allow. This warning was directed at Payne; however it was also a signal to anyone else covered by the sand. It was imperative that they remove the godforsaken bits of earth before Anubis could act. Derge Sr. has heard from Derge, who watched his battles in Atlantis before going in and attacking; of Anubis' dangerous techniques. There was one where he could make razor sharp blades of sand from the mere molecules floating in the air that would be able to totally blindside his foes. With this much sand, it would be easy to skewer every last person on the battle field without a single one of them knowing what's about to happen. However Derge Sr. knew; he knew very well what the Yonkou was could do, and what his plans likely were.

Using kicking soru to the side, Derge Sr. began to spin incredibly fast. As the wind began wrapping around his body, a small twister formed. Using his geppou technique, Derge flung himself into the oncoming air currents of the twister. What was left of the sand from the spinning, surely came off in the head winds of Derge's little whirlwind. Even the grains in his hair had a hard time holding as the powerful winds blew it away. What remained of the sand was far too small of an amount to do much damage, little lone damage to his hardened skin, which came from his life return abilities. Slowly coming to a stop, as the whirlwind died out, Derge Sr. was ready; ready for battle.

Derge Sr. kicked off the solid ground below him to get a faster start. He then began combining short burst of soru and geppou mid air to keep his speed at its peak. Even with all of his speed, Derge wasn’t sure he would be able to make it in time. He has a purpose, if he didn’t accomplish what he set out to do, Anubis would likely kill everyone on the ground. If Derge could only make it to Anubis and attack before the Yonkou could perform his attack, just maybe Derge could save all of the marines and innocents below. Soaring through the air at blazing speeds, Derge gripped his right gauntlet tightly, keeping his finger on the figurative and literal trigger. With a quick movement of his left arm, Derge Sr. preformed a quick single that no one other than its intended target would notice. Or so the Vice Admiral hoped.

[Izlend]
Izlend could hear the voice of the fishman commander echoing throughout the halls of the ship. Even in the room he was in he could hear it. Luckily for him, it was a pirate ship, and weapons were littered all over the place, in almost every room even. However that didn’t really help when the shackles that bound him before still did so now, well not to the wall, but he still didn’t have full use of his arms. That might actually be the lesser of his problems as the wounds he suffered from his previous fight poured out more blood than he wanted. His daring escape served more to aid the enemy than himself, as he reopened many of the closed wounds.

However there was an upside to the shackles and beaten down look. With the shackles the young man could easily conceal a knife and maybe a pistol. Also if he gave a bit of energy during the initial attack, he might very well take the foe for surprise. That could work as long as the foe got a good look at how damaged he was. That or it could backfire if the foe was especially ruthless. Getting a worse beating than he already has, would only spell certain doom for him. His regularly bright blue eyes were a pale grey signaling he was about at his end. From the exertion and blood loss, the boy didn’t have much more to give. Even so, he decided then and there, he was going to drag however the foe was, with him straight to hell.

With having loaded all the weapons he could carry and conceal the boy began creeping down the halls. He had a small advantage over the foe at this point. Izlend knew where Clyde was, as the boisterous fishman made it clear with his unanswered taunts. As Izlend came closer to the area that the fishman patrolled, he could clearly hear that he was in the next hall way, just a turn away. Shakily, the young marine gripped the pistols in his hands as sweat made them a little more slippery than he would have liked. However at this point it was all or nothing. Izlend leaped into the hallway in front of his foe and unloaded the guns. He took little time to aim as he slid on his side on the wooden floor causing more damage to his skin. Izlend sprayed the direction with bullets hoping to at least get one lucky shot.

Darnel was resting in Nanohana where Clearwater was previous at listening to his den den mushi for any of men to answer. The Rear admiral was begining to worry that he was the last one. Then he heard a message on his den den mushi. The helmsman hijacking orders from me?
It was Carlos!!!! Darnel quickly answered the den den mushi "Yesh sir tell that man to dock in Nanohana beside the grim death. I think I sense Izlend near by. Prepare to board the grim death for a rescue mission." Darnel got up and began walking toward the grim death to save his son.

((OOC: Cob, Clyde didn't go down the stairs and wasn't standing in any corridor, he is still on the main deck, he's just standing in front of the stairs that lead below deck. I'll take it as you shot at Clyde from down the stairs, aiming up at him))

Izeland didn't have such an upper hand over Clyde as he hoped. Concealing metal weapons between metal shackles while walking down metallic corridors was a pretty loud action, and Clyde, who was skilled and smart enough to not just rush in mindlessly, could hear the metal clanks and clings of the weapons brushing against the chains getting closer as Izeland did. He knew that Izeland was coming for him by the sounds echoing around the steel corridors and up the stairs, and had enough time to step aside and prepare for Izeland's move.

He was taken by a slight surprise when the marine unleashed a wave of bullets up the stairs, some of them even grazed the edges of his half transparent tentacles, but since he wasn't standing directly in front of Izeland, the shots didn't leave any significant damage. On the brief moment in which Clyde got to see Izeland, he could see how injured he was. "Don't take me as an airhead, I'll never underestimate the power of a cornered rat" Clyde cold, ignoring the pain of the grazes as much as he could. He prepared to go down the stairs when he heard a shout from one of his crew members. "Captian Clyde! Incoming!" The voice of Kelp, the gigantic blue whale fishman shouted.

After turning to see what Kelp was talking about, Clyde spotted a marine ship blasting towards the shore, breaking through the ring of marine ships that surrounded the area and feared to get closer. "Interception!" Clyde ordered, and Kelp rushed forward, blasting water around while he rushed towards the marine ship.

Carlos was glad to hear the voice of his captain over the den den mushi, it was like a ray of sunlight between mountains of junk. He arrived at Nanohana in no time, with the crew aboard the ship flailing about as he paid no attention to their safety. As he closed in on the grim Death, Carlos noticed a gigantic shade swimming towards his ship with unbelievable speed, blasting waves around it. "I don't care how sick and dizzy you are! Take that thing down! NOW!" Carlos shouted back. The scared crew quickly rushed for the cannons, firing blindly down at the water and hoping to hit Kelp. Unfortunately for them, Kelp was a great swimmer, unlike his size suggested, and changed his direction almost instantly. As a result, the threat of Kelp ramming into the ship was gone, and Kelp himself was safe, but a huge wave formed in his place, traveling towards the rescue ship.

There was no turning back now, it was Carlos against the wave. He survived worse with the help of the Hooded Justice, but the rescue ship didn't have all the gadgets that the prior ship sported, namely the Squid Cannons. "Take aim!" Carlos shouted, pointing at the wave. The crew was shocked by the unreasonable command, but acted out of fear and aimed the cannons at a single point on the wave. Carlos then yanked the gas lever, making the throttle cry as it reached it's maximum work load, accelerating the ship towards an explosive splat. "FIRE!".

No less than six cannon balls were fired at the wave, all clashing together to form a quaking explosion. The entire ship tilted as a wave of heat blasted through it, with tiny drops of boiling water rained down on the entire crew. The entire event lasted less than 3 seconds, but the result was clear once the screen of steam cleared. The blast tore open a hole in the wave, allowing the fast-moving ship to pass through it just as it formed. "CALLING ALL MARINES! RESCUE SHIP 113 IS HERE FOR COLLECTION!" A loud speaker shouted from the top of the mast.

"Well I'll be damned..." Clyde mumbled as he watched the spectacle occurring before him. He could have swore that the marine ship was doomed once Kelp took action, but somehow it pulled through. He looked down the stairs, though he wasn't able to see Izeland who was lying behind a wall. "I'll deal with you later, I have bigger problems right now..." Clyde said. He then jumped over the ship's railing down to the ocean below, heading for the rescue ship.

Izlend watched as his attacker left, apparently he had better things to do than attack a wounded foe. The boy used this to his advantage, he pulled himself up the stairs. He had to do this on all fours, for he was much to weak to do it up right. Slowly he crept up, he wasn't sure if there was anyone else he would have to get through. Once he reached the top step, he popped his head to look from anyone who was going to try and kill him; he didn't see anyone.

Walking onto the main deck, he tried to straighten himself a little. Izlend looked around the ship and could see the battle with the marines below. This was his chance to get off, to escape. However it didn't seem right to just leave, he had to do something first. Taking off what remained of his pants, Izlend began to shred and unwind them. Soon he had a pile of scrap yarn and no pants. Taking a stick and wrapping a good amount of the yarn around it, Izlend then took a smaller pile and rubbed it until even the threads began to separate. With his pistol, Izlend shot into the material; the sparks created a small fire. With the fire, Izlend lit the material wrapped around the stick to created a torch.

With a mighty heave, Izlend threw the torch at the ship's main flag attempting to burn it and then the ship. However the boy didn't even look to see what happened, for he took off running. Placing his right foot on the railing mid run, he leaped over and towards the marine vessel when it got close enough. The only problem now, was the fact he had just leaped off a rather large ship onto a bit smaller battleship. The fall would certainly hurt.

Darnel caught Izlend with his tail safely dropping him unto the marine ship. He had previous dug underground to get to the docks quick enough to save him. With Izlend safe, Darnel was ready to retreat but he saw that a fishmen was already heading toward Carlos and his ship. Darnel tried desperately to warn his commarde of the impending doom heading toward them "Carlos look out below, its anubis commander clyde." Without a ship they were stuck on that island, and Darnel's condition was only getting worse...

[[Anubis and Gael vs Derge Sr and Payne]]

Anubis set his hands and noticed Derge Sr shouting. So Derge knew of Anubis's attacks then? Anubis then used one of his hands to completely focus on the sand which Derge Sr had just removed. The sand formed slowly and followed Derge Sr behind. Anubis then immediately caused a sand blade on Payne to appear to impale Paynes gut. Anubis looked to Derge Sr as he set up the sand to block Derge Srs view with a large sand wall forming from the sand Derge Sr earlier twisted off. Anubis held steady and made sure he had sand ready at his feet to block anything that came his ways.

[[Best and some other commanders]]

Tanith was still beating down marines as Lucas covered her. Best then heard that the prisoner got away "Shit.... that was a huge mistake on my part... i should have locked him up else where..."

"Rankyaku" A quick, yet powerful blade of air shot from the Vice Admiral's left leg after he kicked forward. It speed towards the wall slicing it in half. This move cost Derge on two it slowed him down and he took the chance the damn thing would regenerate. However it gave as well as it took. The blade kept going after hitting the wall of sand, despite being weaker than before.. Spinning, Derge Sr. dove through the small opening his blade created.

Kicking off the wall, Derge used his Namikaze Flash technique which left the sand wall in even worse shape. However it propelled him at Anubis and in what seemed an instant he was facing the Yonkou still moving at breakneck speeds. Using the momentum he thrust his arm forward triggering the energy he had in his remaining dial.

A powerful explosion of force was released from the tiny object that was latched into the gauntlet the man wore. The steel the held the impact dial in bent back and torn away from the massive amount of force that came with the recoil. It sent the shriveled and elderly look man flying back towards the ground. He no longer had the godsend to protect him, he was done. However that wasn't the only direction the force went, it was also propelled forward and outward at the man's foes.

((guys im going to do a time skip, i hope you dont mind but i have made it go long enough, we will end with the Anubis pirates winning since we have no one left to oppose us))

[[Anubis]]

Anubis hardened the wall again and slammed it against the remaining energy which Derge had expelled, it cut by and was thrown off course by the hardened wall of sand. Anubis huffed as he saw the victory ennclosing him. He spoke into his den den mushi "Calling all forces.... we will be storming the capital... the marines are retreating , i repeat.. the marines are retreating....." Anubis then sat on his sand platform and wiped the sweat off his forehead, at least the battle was over.

[[12 hours later]]

Anubis emerged from the the throne room, no blood , no mess, just himself, walking out of Alabasta throne room. Outisde the throne room stood several Anubis pirates officers including Satoshi . Anubis then spoke "The battle is over... i have taken what i wanted to take..... now we must leave....."

Lucas then spoke "We buried Commander Manus........ Tanith is still too depressed to talk about it... she is at his grave right now......" Anubis didnt say anything to this respect "How about the other commanders.... report to me losses..." Best then took out a clipboard "Commander Clyde is at the ship getting it prepped.....Commander Rikudo is recovering from his injuries and they are quite extensive im afraid could take him a while to recover.... Marines have mostly all fleed and Commander Maxulus is looking over some things at Alabasta..."
Anubis then looked to Satoshi "the rest of you leave..... get ready to depart, we are ALL leaving Alabasta... in capable hands..." Best , Lucas and Alfresco walked out the door, leaving anubis and Satoshi solely behind in the Antechamber. Anubis then grinned "So.. how was your trip..." Satoshi grunted "You came here knowing you would die?" Anubis sighed "this was the best chance... i would never get another oppurtunity like this...." Satoshi then paced towards the window "At what cost? It is not a vassals place to question his lord, but this was insanity.... we lost Manus and lots of other good people today....." Anubis sat on the chair nearby "I know of our losses... but it was necessary....." Satoshi knelt before Anubis "I will not question you Anubis sama..... but i would like to mention that sometimes , more thought needs to be put before action.... it is not a insult , it is what little knowledge i have in my possesion...."

Anubis pondered on Satoshis words and then waved his hand "It will be taken into advisement... im glad you told me this in private and not in front of the others...." Satoshi nodded "Yes... well... we dont need disrest amongst the crew.... i will be returning for the time being...." Anubis then grinned "I heard something from a friend.... that after you defeated the rogue fighter you crossed paths with Todd.... the one who killed Commander Spade...... what did you whisper to him?"

Satoshi kept his mouth shut, as he knew he should. He would not lie to Anubis, but he couldnt tell him the words he had told Todd.

Anubis sighed "Very well...."

Maxulus (Inside the palace)

While Anubis was being informed about the whereabouts of his commanders by Lucas, Maxulus appeared in front of them. Apparently, the man had a sad look on his face, as if something bad had happened to him. He walked towards Anubis' direction, he bowed before his presence and he said "Your information is wrong, Lucas. I went to pay my respects to Manus' grave... That guy... Even if we did not interact a lot in the crew, I still treated him as my friend.". Then, he got up and he moved his hands inside his pockets. He slowly walked towards Anubis, while still keeping the sad look on his face. The scientist tried to put a smile on his face while he was about to speak his next words, but the sad loss of his friend was making it very difficult for him to smile. He said "Anubis-sama... I have the honor to tell you that I claimed the crown in your name... From now on, you are the king of Arabasta." and he grabbed the crown out of his pockets, before handling it to his captain. Then, he turned his back and started walking away, probably to mourn for the loss of Manus.

Salty (At the Arabasta Desert)

Salty opened his eyes. The captain of the Marines' photography department was looking at the sky. He could see the clouds that had taken a slightly brown color. The remnants of the citadel of Anubis were probably responsible for that. What was that event... This battle. He had never been in such a battle before. He had never seen so many strong people clashing each other. It was the first time that he ever got to see so much blood. He had been in many wars before in order to assist the marines, like the Shabondy War and the Enies Lobby War, but he had not seen so much blood. While the pirates marched, they left nothing but blood on their path... And unfortunately for Salty, they also left his own blood behind.

With a worried look on his face about his personal health, the man slowly moved his head around. He could not move it fast at all. He had lost so much blood thanks to that movement that Gael performed that he thought that he would be done any second that happened to pass. His whole body was full of holes. Those spikes had hit him and had taken much of his blood. It was like he was suffering the same fate that the prisoners of the first floor of Impel Down suffered. What did he do to suffer this much? Was it because he was a marine and because he was fighting for justice? Justice... That word was coming to his mind. What was justice, after all? Was the act of Gael, a member of the World Government a choice that would support justice or not? Was his own behavior the behavior of a man that was fighting for justice? And the answer was only one... Definitely not. Salty did not fight for his morals, at all. Instead, he was hiding behind a place all the time, waiting for the chance to strike and before he could do so, he ended up being defeated in the hands of the pirates, while them did not even want to! Salty knew that he had to change... for good.

"If I survive, I swear I'll change... Hmph..." Salty said with a smile on his face and he closed his eyes once more, hoping that the next time he would wake up he would end up in a bed, without any injuries. If he woke up, that is...

Melvin (Enies Lobby - A few days later)

"Sir! Welcome back!" an agent said to Melvin while he stepped inside the tower of justice. The building had been repaired for quite a while. Obviously, it was not as elegant as the previous building was. However, it was good for the work of the World Government agents.
"Shut up." Melvin said and he kicked him, sending him several meters flying. "As if you are happy for my return. I know you are all afraid of me." Melvin commented as he walked. The agents around him were trembling before his presence. Truthfully, Melvin was a quite intimidating guy... In only a few weeks, that guy had managed to sneak into the royal army of Arabasta and pretend to be an innocent soldier... He was a quite dangerous and intelligent guy and the combination of those two things was something freaking for his opposing forces.

While he was walking, he could listen to a few whispers. The simple agents of the World Government who were there were whispering to each other. "It could be because he lost his mission assignment... And not only that, but the mission was an utter fail as the one who called him there at the first place was killed...". "I see..." another agent whispered and Melvin stared at them with an angry look on his face, before walking away.

A few minutes later, Melvin stepped inside his office. He took off his red coat and he placed it behind his chair. Then, he said "Ignorant fools... I never fail in a mission... That guy was doomed to die from the start, in case the original plan failed. It's the nature of CP9 to leave no traces, after all.". Could it be...?!

Johnathan the rather aquatic giant had survive the battle in the dessert without really any injury. In fact in the whole battle not blow was laid upon the powerful creature. Being so large he would have expected it to be different. Now he sat on the ship yet again as it sat in the waters near the island they had just conquered for their captain. Now with this complete the giant expected to head to the New World, as the other two Yonkou were already there from the reports. He was certain Anubis wasn't going to be left behind for long.

[[Anubis and Satoshi]]

Anubis took the crown and nodded his head. He then watched Maxulus walk away. Anubis had no words for these moments, nor did he want to say anything. He could tell the victory was a hard fought one , with losses on both sides of the equator. Anubis then called out to Max "Maxulus i have somethign else to talk to you about..... can you stay? Satoshi... we will be setting sail in a few hours.. i have left this island in capable hands..... i know you have something to do...." Satoshi walked past Anubis "Yes... thank you Anubis sama.... ill try to be back in time...." Satoshi then walked past Max, patting Max's back "Dont despair Max kun.... we need to live... the proof of his existence is us after all... who knows him better than his family right here?" Satoshi then walked off.

[[Enies Lobby]]
The grey haired man who wore sunglasses was back , he had bandages and was nursing his wounds. He walked towards Melvins office "Good morning there... director..." He walked in and sat down on the sofa. "Thanks for the clean up......"

[[Tamuri Morbius "Pirate killer"]]
[[CP9 agent]]

Maxulus (Inside the palace)

Maxulus turned his head towards Anubis as soon as he listened to his words. However, before he could reply, Satoshi came towards him and talked to him. Apparently, he was trying to calm him down for the loss of their comrade. These words were the words that Maxulus needed to hear. Apparently, Satoshi was right... As long as the Anubis Pirates kept going, Manus would always remain alive. They would always remember him as their friend and comrade... As long as the Anubis Pirates still had him in their minds, he would keep living. And one thing was for certain. Manus would never be forgotten... "I see, Satoshi-kun..." Max said and took a small smile on his face. "It's just that I realized that I start losing my friends one by one... And so that makes me sad... But you are right. Haha. Thank you very much." he said to his friend and then he moved his eyes towards Anubis. He took a deep breath and he asked "What do you need me for, Anubis-sama?".

Melvin (Enies Lobby - Melvin's office)

"Hmph... Those were my orders, Morbius... I had no other choice. The plan was clear. If Anubis manages to win the war, after all, we have to eliminate his brother that asked for our assistance instead. The higher ups would definitely not want to have problems with a yonko... If Anubis ever found out that he, and the majority of the royal family were being targeted from the beginning, that would mean a lot of trouble for the World Government... Not to mention that his brother would probably threaten to expose us. It was the only thing I could do..." Melvin said with a serious look on his face. Then, he grabbed a newspaper he had on his office. The front cover was showing the image of Anubis' late brother.

"Breaking news! During the war of Arabasta, one of the Neferiti princes was killed. The Marines are now investigating the case, although there are no traces about who the murderer could be. The marines suspect the Anubis Pirates but the method of the murder does not match the standard methods that pirates use to eliminate their enemies. For more details about the life of prince Neferiti, read the 9th page." Melvin read to Morbius and dropped the newspaper to him so that he could read it. "What do you say?" Melvin asked.

Satoshi walked off and waved goodbye to Max and Anubis, he had other things to deal with. He headed for the docks where his ship was waiting for him. Satoshi was about to shake the world again.

Anubis looked to Max as he returned "Maxulus , you have proven to be wise and fearless.... with the death of Manus Twilla.... i want to bestow upon you the title of Elder... you will now be in charge of all Anubis pirates tactical affairs as well have 1/4 control over the entire crews naval power and strength. You answer to no one other than me in this rank and will have a say in all crew affairs as well. Do you recognise this new rank?"

[[Enies Lobby]]

Morbius almost laughed but then held back "Typical ... i guess we come out of it trouble free... at least the government decided to promote a more competent Director for the CP9... at least now hope looks up... i actually came here to ask you something....." Morbius took the paper and put down another sheet of paper on Melvins table "You see..... i had a bit of a .....fight with Todd... you know? My ... bro...ther...." Morbius hated calling Todd his brother, mainly because he hated Todd. Then Morbius continued "So i would like you to keep that out of the field report.... since your director now and all...."

Maxulus (Inside the palace)

"It will be my honor, sir..." Maxulus said and bowed to Anubis in order to thank him for his offer. Apparently, this was something that he really did not expect. To think that he would be promoted to an elder... That was very surprising. However, that was the way Anubis wanted it. As a result, he could do nothing more but to accept the offer. Maxulus was now officially one of the Elders of the Anubis Pirates.

Melvin (Enies Lobby - In his office)

"Normally, I would not accept anything like that... However, your disgust for your brother is logical... I can see why you would want to fight your brother. He used to be a pirate, after all... He is a real snake and like all snakes he has to have his head cut in order to stop being dangerous. Even if he is with the marines, I can still not trust a man who used to be a pirate... And furthermore, you are the strongest member of the CP9 right after me... So, I could not do anything else but to do you the favor. You are the strongest one of the others and so you are the one I trust the most. I have to keep you safe and sound from the superiors." Melvin said to Morbius and he started preparing the report for the superior World Government agents.

"But keep that in mind... I can cover up for you once or twice, but I cannot do that forever, especially if sometimes things get too far. You will have to be careful." Melvin completed.

Anubis then nodded to Max and smiled "Rise... your first assignment is to get us ready to leave Alabasta Max kun...... ill need all the members to be ready to leave.. i think we have been here for too long......" Anubis stood foward at the edge where his crew were all gathered, the place where he could overlook all of Alabasta "There is nothing left holding me in Paradise.... LET US GO TO THE NEW WORLD !!!!!!!!!!" His announcement was met with a roar of approval from the pirates and people below.

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Morbius nodded and stood still "Understood director.... ill make sure to be more mindful of my actions in the future." Morbius knew better than to step around wrongly with Melvin Faust. The man was a enigma and now he was even more influential with the higher ranks. If morbius was to ever reach his ambitions , it would be through Melvin Faust.

Maxulus (Inside the palace)

"I see, Anubis-sama... I will inform the other commanders so that they will prepare themselves... Although I believe that most of them have started preparing themselves already." Maxulus said to Anubis and he got up so that he would go and inform the rest of the Anubis Pirates about their departure from the country of the desert. He started flying away towards the direction of the others in order to inform them one by one as soon as possible and so he left from the palace. And so, the 4th Division Commander rushed to spread the message to the whole fleet. The Anubis Pirates, after so long, would finally set sail for the hell. They would leave the Paradise. They would get to the most dangerous of the seas... To the New World!

It was official. The words of the newest elder made it clear. They were heading for the New World shortly a place that had been dubbed hell. It's been said that the first half of the Grandline was called Paradise compared to the brutal nature of the second half. It didn't really matter to the giant, most of the time during fights he wasn't usually the center of attention anyway. So he could easily go about bashing and smashing without much worry. "Sure is hot here, this damn desert is giving me a bad case of heat rash. The sooner we get out of here the better." mumbled the giant complaining about the current conditions.

Anubis walked towards his ships and saw his crew preparing to leave. It was time to leave Paradise. He had killed all the cabinet members and left only the royal family alive. His brother Hamadi had been mysteriously murdered but that didnt particularly matter to Anubis. He had no love for that brother. At least Cobra, his sister and Mashidi were alive. Mashidi didnt take to Anubis leaving again, but he didnt try to stop Anubis. Anubis had left Alabasta the sole sovereign, the new governing body would simply be stewards of the throne till a time Anubis decided to return. This meant , that the island was under Anubis pirate protection.

Anubis looked to his crew, and then lifted his hand, his flag flowing in the wind from Gimr Death. " Lets go to the New World..."