"What fruit did you eat?" asked Roger as he sat in a chair, and in front of him was Ling, who recovered 80%. At this moment, he was doing handstand pushups using his fingers, coating them on and off with haki.
"The perfect control devil fruit, it gives me one hundred percent control over my body."
"That fruit seems interesting, it theoretically means you can master haki to the ultimate level since you can control every part of your body," said Rayleigh as he was swinging a dumbbell the size of an elephant with one hand.
Gaban was sharpening his axes, while Roger was just enjoying the sun in the sky. The other crew members were either training or doing tasks assigned by Gaban. Finishing his set, Ling began to stretch his muscles.
Flipping up, Ling clenched his fist and coated it in haki, making it jet black. He began to shadow box some of his old enemies from his past life, using most of his fighting styles to flow like a water stream.
Roger, Gaban, and Rayleigh were in shock as they saw many styles in one sequence. "Did...you learn all those fighting styles by yourself?" asked Rayleigh as he dropped the dumbbell and walked towards Ling.
Calming his breathing, Ling smiled, "Yes, I invented these fighting styles. Would you like to learn?"
Rayleigh was skeptical but nodded, "That kicking one was quite efficient, what is it called?"
"Taekwondo is a style that only uses legs and sometimes fists, but 90% legs," said Ling as he triple kicked into the air and landed in front of Rayleigh. "If you want to learn, you have to teach me that eye thingy as well."
"Observation haki? Fine, we can compromise."
Roger and Gaban watched as Ling taught Rayleigh how to use his kicks as weapons, aiming for the legs, knees, stomach, ribs, spine, face, neck...
As Rayleigh told him how to gain observation haki, Ling nodded and put on a blindfold and began sparring with Rayleigh using only their legs, no haki to coat them. Dodging a roundhouse kick by Rayleigh, Ling only realized he had to dodge when the wind hit his face from the kick.
Being taller and older than Ling, he had length and experience, while Ling only had physical and a bit more speed.
Landing an axe kick on Ling's shoulder, Ling frontflipped to minimize the damage, but in the middle of the front flip, Rayleigh performed a jumping sidekick, hitting Ling as he skidded across the deck.
Catching himself in the air, he landed on his feet and touched his side that was still steaming from the kick. "My bad, I didn't mean to kick you that hard, I was just too engrossed in the fighting."
Taking off the blindfold, Ling closed his eyes and began to trust his senses, feeling the wind against his face, and the smell of Rayleigh. he ducked as a roundhouse kick went flying above him.
Seeing a faint outline in front of him, Ling began to laugh as the figure began to slowly come into detail. Barely dodging a leg kick, Ling front kicked Rayleigh's chest, not expecting an attack so soon, he tried to move out of the way.
It was too late, as the heavy front kick sent him flying onto the deck of the ship. Feeling his chest, he barely protected with haki, he breathed out a sigh of relief. "You cheated!" yelled Ling as he stood in front of Rayleigh, who was dusting him self off.
Rayleigh had no answer or explanation, so he just kicked Ling again. This time, he began using haki to coat his legs. Clashing legs with haki, the pressure began to crack the ground they stepped on.
Hearing some commotion, Roger and Gaban, as well as the other crew members, came outside to see what was going on, only to see Ling and Rayleigh with a smile on their faces attempting to take each other's head off using their kicks.
Ducking under the roundhouse, Rayleigh tried to sweep Ling's other leg, but he didn't expect Ling to jump up with his remaining leg and kick with it. Catching him off-guard, Rayleigh blocked the kick towards his face with haki on his forearms.
Skidding back, Ling didn't let up, and Tornado kicked, aiming towards Rayleigh's unprotected ribs. The kick landed as everyone heard some ribs crack, grunting, Rayleigh dropped his arms and caught Ling's kick.
Clamping it between his armpit, as he pulled Ling in and headbutted Ling's nose, which broke. Letting go and backing up, Rayleigh held his ribs as Ling held his nose, looking at each other with a glare.
Gaban was about to step in, but Roger held him back and said, "Let's see how much Ling has improved."
"You cheater, you dare to headbutt me?"
Rayleigh had no excuse, so he said, "Let's just end this with one final move, or we might disable one another."
"You cheated, and you dare say that?!" yelled Ling as he released his killing intent.
The clouds began to part as the fish ran away, coating his hand in haki. Ling ran towards Rayleigh and used his strongest attack, "Meteor Cannon!"
Clenching his fist, he coated it in haki and a little bit of conqueror's entanglement, meeting Ling's attack head-on. The ship began to shake and break as the attack sank the floor they were standing on.
Grunting desperately, Rayleigh pushed Ling back two steps, but would Ling allow it to happen again for the third time? A red glint appeared in front of his eyes as his conqueror's haki shone upon the world.
A black lightning surrounded Ling as he finally remembered his focus, his goal in this world. To gain enough strength to protect the ones he loves, and to become the strongest in the world so he will never lose the ones he loves!
The black lightning entwined with his fists as he pushed Rayleigh's attack back. Roger then suddenly came in between the two attacks and used divine departure to dissipate the two attacks, sending both of them flying.
Ling's body was overdrawn as he fell unconscious, while Rayleigh was coughing a little bit of blood out of his mouth. "What were you thinking, Rayleigh?"
"I just wanted to see if I could stimulate his potential, and as you can see, it worked," coughed out Rayleigh.
Roger sighed heavily and went back into his room while Rayleigh and Ling were treated in the medical room.
1 year and a half went by...
"Rayleigh, come out, I want to spar again, I feel like I am getting weaker!" yelled Ling as he looked around the ship.
Gaban came around the corner, unwrapping bandages from his body, jumping in fright from Ling's glint in his eyes, he quickly wrapped himself in bandages, "Haha, Ling, I didn't see you here."
Looking at Gaban, Ling said, "Are you healed already? I can't wait to spar with you again."
Feeling a shiver down his spine, Gaban gulped and said, "I think, um, I am too injured from the last attack you gave me, so I can't spar for the next two months."
Skeptically looking at Gaban, Ling used his observation haki and observed Gaban's body, which was full of vitality, smiling happily. Ling dragged Gaban as he kicked and screamed towards the training ground, made specifically for Ling's training.
The bottom was made of seastone, which never limited Ling one bit. Gaban reluctantly took out his axes, which were quite damaged. Looking at the condition of his weapons, he shed a tear for them and himself.
Flashstepping in front of Gaban, his observation haki couldn't even tell that Ling was in front of him, since he created a new martial arts that hid his presence so well that it was like he was not breathing.
Swinging his axes sideways, Ling jumped over them and swung an axe kick with conqueror's entanglement. As Gaban dodged by sidestepping, he felt his neck tingle from the haki. Seeing that Ling was out of position, he swung his axe front and back, making him unable to dodge.
Coating the exact positions with haki at the moment the axes made contact with his skin, all Gaban heard was scraping of metal, and he jumped back as Ling landed on the ground smiling.
Holding his hand like a knife, he tightened his muscles in his hand so hard that they bulged with veins. "I hope you can handle my knife techniques," said Ling as he coated his knife hand in haki. "Divine Departure!"
Gaban dodged to the side, but some of his hair was cut off. Seeing Ling in front of him slashing down with his knife hand, he swung both of his axes up, coated in haki. Ling began to use internal release, injecting the haki into the two axes.
As soon as Gaban saw this, he kicked Ling's stomach and used the force of the kick to back away. Seeing that the kick only hit a haki stomach, Gaban was annoyed. Every time he would land a hit, Ling's body would instinctively use haki to protect his body part like a symbiote.
Using Shave, Gaban used one of his moves, "Divine Holy Smash!" Chopping both axes with the conqueror's haki entangled down towards Ling's head. Ling, using observation haki, predicted this, but he couldn't dodge since it would be no fun.
Puffing out his chest, he coated it with haki as the two axes landed on Ling's chest. The axes only slightly touched his chest as the conqueror's haki entered Ling's body and began attacking his body.
Ling coughed out a little bit of blood and released his conqueror's haki to counter the haki attacking his body...