2nd Rise of the Phoenix ஜ Action

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[Fire Luceti! Fire!!!

The forest is burning with flames that reach higher than many of the residents will have ever seen. There's something off in that fire thought, to begin with no animals are trying to escape from it. Another strange thing is the lack of smoke or heat that should accompany such a big fire. Yet the fire is there, as real as everything else, just lacking the normal effects it should have.

For anyone curious enough to check on it they will find they they can walk through the fire without burning or feeling even an inch warmer then before. Unless they come with evil intentions, in which chances are they will at the very least be burned a bit, and the force of the fire will increase as they approach its center. People without evil intentions will be able to waltz through it as if nothing was there, finding animals and vegetation inside the fire totally unharmed, and in what would be the center of the fire, they'll find Ikki, sitting on a rock with his Pandora Box besides him.

Eyes closed as he sits calmly, anyone capable of feeling or being affected even a bit by his Cosmos will probably notice a poke upon approaching and a great concentration in the young man.]

Comments

[justicereigns]

Yes. It goes mostly in one direction... [Realizes how unhelpful this is and tries to think of a better way to explain it.] In my world there's a long strip of land that circle it called the Red Line. That divides the world in half. Then the Grand Line crosses it, dividing the world into quarters. [Draws imaginary circle lines in the air.] The Grand Line is bordered by Calm Belts which no wind and thus make perfect breeding grounds for seakings. So the Grand Line really only goes in one direction: forwards from the "start" at Reverse Mountain. The end would be to reach around to the other side, but it's practically impossible. Only one man's ever done it before and come back alive.

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[Ikki frowns as he listens the explanation, watching the hand moves attentively and picturing it in his mind. Okay, now things make sense, for a moment he had thought his world was flat or with a lot of it being undiscovered yet.]

So this Grand Line has two parts? Since the Red Line circles the whole world...

[Ikki imitates the circles Smoker did before, one hand circling as the Red Line the other as the Grand Line effectively being cut by the first one.]

[justicereigns]

Yes. The Holy City of the World Government: Majories blocks the entrance to the New World for most pirates, but they go through Fishman Island instead. Under the Red line. The New World is the second half.

[uccellodifuoco]

On submarines? Quite advanced those pirates.

So their goal is the end of the Grand Line? What for?

[justicereigns]

Hn. Submarines are rare. Law has one, but most pirates get their ships coated at Sabaody Archipelago... and yes, that is every bit as strange as it sounds.

They're looking for One Piece. Gold Roger's final treasure. Since he was the only man to reach Raftel and come back alive, most people assume he hid it there.

[uccellodifuoco]

[Ikki smirks as Smoker confirms that it's strange even to him. He snorts at the part about someone's final treasure.]

With that name it doesn't sound as a thing worth of all that work. Assuming they are right thinking he left it there, if it was me I would have hidden it at the start of the Grand Line or something like that.

[Basically the last place where they would expect it to be found.]

[justicereigns]

[Grunts softly.] I'm pretty sure his goal wasn't to have the treasure found at all, just to make everyone surge through the Grand Line looking for it.

[uccellodifuoco]

it seems to be working, isn't it? Pirates don't seem to have many brains for falling to something like that.

[justicereigns]

[Laughs.] Pirates are by no means the smartest bunch in the world.