11 Chapter 11

[3 weeks later]

On the deck of a Marine battleship you can see a young boy trying to catch his breath and a man wearing a Marine coat watching the boy. Sage: \"(Huff)...(Huff) finally I managed to reach the beginner stage in Soro and Tekkai. Man that was way harder than I expected it to be.\" Bogard: \" Well what did you expect. You thought it was gonna be easy.

Sage: \" No, it's that I was able to make a lot more progress in the first week training Rokushiki, but after that it took me 2 weeks to reach the beginner stage in Soro and Tekkai.\" Bogard: \" It's not because you were slower Sage, but because in that first week you weren't wearing seastone cuffs and your right arm. In that first week you were spending pretty much every second of the day training Rokushiki, but after you put on the seastone cuffs it slowed down. Now do you know why that happened? \"

Sage: \" Yeah it's because seastone is a devil fruit user weakness. It causes to be unable to use their devil fruit powers and become extremely weak.\" Bogard: \" Yes exactly because you were weren't wearing seastone cuffs in the first week of you training Rokushiki. It allowed you to use it more often meaning you were able to train it more, but after you put on those cuffs you became much weaker naturally reducing how much your body could actually wake from constant usage of Rokushiki and because of that it reduced how much time you spent using Rokushiki.\"

Bogard: \" The fact that Garp also made you spend your afternoons training your observation haki meant that even though you spent a lot of time and effort training your Rokushiki.It wasn't as much time you spent training in your first week. Either way you still managed in less than 2 months to reach the beginner level in 2 of the six powers. You shouldn't be complaining so much.\" Sage: \" Yeah everything you said is true, but still I can't help it.\"

Bogard sighs seeing Sage being disappointed reaching the beginner stage in Soro and Tekkai in 4 weeks and just says, \" Sage go and wash yourself. We'll be arriving to Marine Fort in a hour and a half, so go and prepare yourself.\" Sage: \" Alright then uncle Bogard. I'll see you later.\" Sage then runs off into the his main cabin of the ship and walks into the bathing room. After half an hour he finishes and dresses himself and walks out of the main cabin.

A Marine soldier then walks up to him and informs him that his grandfather is looks for him. Sage: \" Oh alright then, but where is he.\" Marine 1: \" He's at the front of the deck right now.\" Sage: \" Oh alright then thanks for informing me goodbye.\" After bidding his farewells to the Marine soldier he walks to the front of the deck to see what his grandfather wants with him. Once he gets there you can see a tall man with a broad muscular frame sitting on the figurehead of the ship wearing a dog hat.

Sage: \" Oi gramps a marine soldier told me you wanted to see me, so what do want.\" Garp hearing his grandson behind him stands up onto his feet and turns to face him. Garp: \" Bwhahah Bogard told me that you reached the beginner level in Soro and Tekkai this morning.\" Sage: \" Yeah I did\" Garp hearing his grandson say it then jumps off the figurehead and looks at his grandson. Garp looks Sage in the eyes and then rushes him out of nowhere.

Sage seeing his grandfather rush at him isn't even surprised since he's been doing this ever since he started to train his observation haki rushes to meet him head on as well. They both throw a punch towards each other and their punches clash. Even though Sage can't hold a candle to Garp when he fights seriously. He can handle him as long as Garp doesn't use the full brunt of his strength. Sage can handle about 10% of Garps strength using his full power, but that's not including Garp or Sage using Rokushiki. It's both of them just using pure muscular power.

After their fist clash the force of their fist send shock waves they both jump back a few meters before going at each other again except this time sending in more than just punches, but also kicks. After fighting for a minute straight against Garp using all the power he has in his body. Sage uses Soro and because he used it so suddenly he managed to land a hit on his face making Garp send out a fist of his own except with a little more powers which sent Sage flying backwards and rolling on the ground until his back hit a wall.

Sage then stands up a little wobbly, but manages to regain his balance after a few seconds. Sage looks at his grandpa and says, \" Oi you stupid geezer why did you use so much strength in that punchand why did you aim it right at my face.\" Sage asks with a bit a bit of anger in his tone looking at Garp for a good answer. Garp seeing this doesn't even care and begins to laugh. Sage seeing his grandfather not answering his question, but laughing instead grabs a random broom that was on the floor and throws it at Garp who dodges it while laughing.

Garp: \"Bwhahahaha Sage you have become much stronger since you've left Dawn island. Before a punch of that strength would have knocked you out cold for at least an hour, but now it just makes you bit wobbly for a little while. Just what I would expect from my grandson Bwhahahaha.\" Even though he knows what his grandfather is speaking the truth he knows that he hit him that hard because he managed to land a hit on his face.

Sage knows that if you were to compare the him of today to the one that was just leaving Dawn island the difference would be way to huge. Before he left Dawn island he couldn't face Garp using more then 2% of his muscular strength while he used everything he had even his devil fruit powers. Now though he could make him use 10% of his power while he using most of his power. If he were to use everything he had including his devil fruit powers he could probably just match 20% of Garp's power, but only for a little bit since he isn't used to using his devil fruit and Rokushiki at the same time.

He hasn't practiced using his devil fruit all that much since Garp hasn't allowed him to take off the cuffs without his permission. He took them off to face Garp, but even like that at best he could face Garp at 15% and fight evenly for a while before he lost because of him running out of stamina. Garp: \"Alright then brat now I wanted to tell you that after we dock at the port we will be going to see Sengoku and introduce you to him alright.\" Sage \" Alright but who's this Sengoku guy.\"

Garp: \" He's the Fleet Admiral.\" Garp just says like it's no big deal at all. Sage doesn't care either since he has never been one to care about ranks or titles all that much. He the same as Garp in this sense. He doesn't care who you are at all. You make him mad then he'll make you par. If you become someone he cares about then he will gladly give his life to save yours. Both Sage and Garp are a lot alike, but they never really like to admit it for some reason,

Sage: \" Alright then how much longer until we reach the port then\" Garp: \" Hmm I don't know, Hey Bogard how much longer before we arrive\" Bogard: \" In about a hour or less we will arrive at Marine Fort.\" Sage: \" Alright then\" Sage then puts back on his seastone cuffs. Before he left Sage asks Garp about getting a ring made out of seastone since wearing cuffs isn't kinda weird and might make people misunderstand some things.

Garp: \" Yeah I planned on asking for a ring made out of seastone after we arrived to Marine Fort.\" Hearing his reply Sage nods and walks into his cabin to get some shut eye before arriving to Marine Fort.

An hour later Sage wakes up when Garp was about to hit him, but missed since Sage woke up from his instincts feeling an attack coming at him and dodged it. Sage: \" Oi you old geezer what was that for\" Sage ask with annoyance in his voice from being forced to wake up. Garp: \" You wouldn't wake up even after I yelled in your ear, so I had to change up my tactics. Either way come on let's go.\" Sage just having woken up hadn't realized that they had arrived to Marine Fort yet.

Sage walks out of his cabin to see a large-fortress like building that bore a sign which contains the kanji for (Marines) with the MArines symbol between them. On top of this structure is a large, multi-story tower with mountains at each corner of the structure that each have a small building on top carrying the Marine flag. Sage: \" Wow this place looks awesome gramps.\" Garp smiles hearing his grandson talk about how amazing Marine fort is.

Garp: \" I know now come on let's head to the main building. That's where Sengoku should be right now probably doing paperwork or something.\" Sage: \" Alright then, but gramps is Sengoku stronger than you?\" Sage ask Garo who just scoffs, \" Ha as if Sage do you really think that your Grandpa would be weaker than the Fleet Admiral.\" Sage: \" Well yeah isn't that why he has the highest rank in the Marines.\" Bogard: \" Haha Sage Garp is stronger than the Fleet Admiral Sengoku, but not by much. You're not wrong in thinking the higher the rank the stronger the person is, but not everyone achieved their rank by becoming stronger. Most achieve their rank based on their achievements while others use dirty means\"

Sage: \" Oh alright then, so it's not all about being strong then, but based on everything like your intelligence, ability to adapt to any situation, and more right.\" Bogard: \" Yup but it's mostly about how strong you are and the achievement you get that determine your rank.\" Garp hearing this conversation just sticks his finger up his nose and starts to pick at it. Garp: \" Yeah yeah now come on Sage let's go meet with Sengoku.\"

Sage: \" Alright then Gramps bye uncle Bogard I'll see you later.\" Bogard: \" Alright then Sage see you later.\" With that Garp and Sage start to walk towards the main building which isn't all that hard to find since it's the biggest building on the island.