Seaside System - Chapter 6.2 (Patreon)

"This is amazing!" Kaden whooped in joy ten minutes later as he soared through the sky.

Dragons did not fly like a mere bird flapping their wings.

Dragons created clouds and ran through the sky as they pleased as if it were their garden to play in.

Orange clouds glinted around his clawed hands and feet as he tore through the sky, soaring higher and higher until he broke through the clouds themselves and hung there staring up at the giant, bright moon that shone down upon him.

It had taken a few minutes and a few tries to generate the flame clouds, but after he did, it was almost like second nature to him.

His heart thundered in his currently scaled chest and a whooping laughter left Kaden's throat. There was lightness to him he hadn't felt since he ended up in this world.

No…he'd never felt a lightness like this before.

"I get it now Luffy, I understand what you were on about all those times," a giggle left Kaden's maw filled with razor sharp teeth, "This is freedom isn't it? To have nothing chaining you down, to be able to go and do whatever you want. This is what you've always been about huh?"

All his life he'd been chained down. As an unloved orphan with nobody who cared for him. As a struggling orphan working multiple part time jobs and attending school to make something of himself. Then the oppressive weight he felt over himself the last few months after he ended up here and was practically jumping at shadows expecting monster pirates to burs tout of the woodwork and tear him apart, which only got worse when he found out the true origin of how he ended up here, where he felt like the whole world was against him somehow

With this power though, he had broken his chains and all that tethered him down was now gone.

He could go anywhere he wanted now.

Do anything he wanted.

"…Mostly." Kaden grimaced. Even with this fruit it wasn't like he could fly off to Wano right now and stick it to Kaido and free all those poor people like Tama from the oppression they suffered under through Orochi's inept pathetic rule.

That disgusting freak.

"I could kill him pretty easily, he's trash…." Kaden mused, "One Blast Breath and he's gone for sure."

And if he remembered right, that buck toothed freaks fruit was based on a pineapple. Get in, snipe him in the face with a Blast Breath with a pineapple on hand and then fly away after getting his fruit.

It wouldn't do anything much for the people of Wano, but Yamato would refuse to be Shogun for sure still and then maybe somebody who actually cared about the people would come to power?

Kaden shook his head, "No, no that'd probably get me on Kaido's shit list," he snorted, if he got caught he was fucked, he was already gonna be a public enemy with marines, "It's a nice thought though, besides I I've not even tried out the Blast Breath yet."

He cast a look above him, hanging onto the very sky itself between glittering orange clouds, before a grin formed over his large crimson red maw and he opened it wide, "BLAST BREATH!" he roared out with all his might.

A tiny puff of black smoke puffed into existence before fizzling away.

Kaden nodded, "Pretty impressive if I do say so myself!" he beamed at the pathetic little display.

After all, it was better than nothing.

If nothing else, he wanted to get the Blast Breath down before he moved on from Punk Hazard.

It would be perfect for taking out Smiley.

He originally just planned on throwing a few sticks of dynamite in, blowing the huge slime up and high tailing it out of the blast range when it exploded.

Now he could just Blast Breath from above, take it the fuck out and keep safe away from the blast range and with how decrepit the island was, he would definitely have the closest apples to where Smiley was and the fruit should reincarnate in one of his apples.

Granted, there were other things to work on. Like the azure dragon fruit allowed the user to generate lightning wind and even ice attacks according to one of the games, not just fire. But the fire one was what he needed most right now.

Now to try again!

"BLAST BREATH!" Kaden roared, mouth opening wide and unleashing….another tiny puff of black smoke.

He was totally on the right path.

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The next morning, Kaden awoke with a content sigh, eyes blinking open slowly he stared up at the ceiling of the alcove he had camped out in.

"Oh yeah…" he groaned, rolling over and snuggling into his bed for moment, "That was probably the best sleep I ever had."

His bed through the night?

None other than the soft, jiggly, luscious, snuggly, bouncy doughy vibrant orange flame cloud floating a few feet above the ground that he could produce now thanks to his shiny new devil fruit powers.

Flat out, his devil fruit was the best devil fruit in the history of ever, from this ability alone.

'Hmm?' he noticed something as well as he rolled over. He felt no pain at all. Sitting up, Kaden yawned as he felt across his body and stretched out a bit.

But…nope.

No pain at all.

Even without regeneration the recovery ability zoan users had was nothing to sneeze at, at all huh?

Smacking his lips, Kaden reached over to the large sack carrying all his possessions and pulled out a bottle of water.

He took a deep drink of it, before frowning as his stomach rumbled.

Loudly.

So loudly in fact it echoed audibly and sounded almost like a lion or some other big cat growling out loud.

…His stomach had never rumbled like that before, ever. Not in his last body, and not in this other either.

He was so god damn hungry he could eat a fucking Big Mom right now. not sexually though, because she was fucking ugly as sin.

But yeah he'd never felt this hungry before.

'Because of my devil fruit maybe?' he mused. He was in human form right now, but that didn't change that he could shift into a giant dragon with a single thought.

Or a human-dragon hybrid.

It was honestly surprising how easy it was for him to shift between the forms. It definitely shouldn't have been that easy though.

Which led more credence to his theory of him inheriting the skills and ability of Kaido, at least to a degree.

'Too bad this island is pretty much dead right now, nothing to eat here unless I raid Caesar's lab.' he mused.

And he'd really rather leave that fool alone for the moment.

There was really nothing for him to eat around here then. Besides his apples, but he wasn't touching them right now.

He needed them for Smiley.

Kaden sighed and nodded to himself, "I may as well go do it now I suppose." he mused. The quicker he did it, the better and faster he would be able to fly off and get some grub.

It wasn't like there was much to see around Punk Hazard anyway, it became infinitely more interesting after Aokiji and Akainu had a bitch slap contest and turned it into a magma tundra hellholle.

Oh and Monet turned up.

She was really the best thing about that arc.

Well her and Tashigi. Man did Tashigi get thicc later.

Shaking his head, Kaden jumped off of the flame cloud and with a wave of his hand it dissipated away into nothingness.

Something cool he'd found, was that just like Kaido he could use his powers outside of his beast zoan forms. Albeit, weaker than they would be in those forms, but still handy.

He put his bottle of water back in his sack, and made sure the apples were at the top of it before closing the sack and focusing.

His bright blue eyes shifted into a searing glowing yellow gold as his body rippled and grew, crimson scales replacing his skin, his spiky blonde hair growing in length massively and huge horns erupting from his skull as he shifted into his full on dragon form.

Swinging his tail around, he scooped up his stack of belongings before taking to the sky and heading towards his destination, back over on the first half of the island.

He'd noticed it from the second he landed on the island.

Felt it even.

He'd just been ignoring it first until he was ready.

The hugely threatening presence of Smiley. And how could it not be? Smiley was literally a bio weapon of mass destruction given life through a devil fruit.

It didn't do anything unless ordered by Caesar, but that didn't mean he wanted to be anywhere hear the toxic slime axolotl until he was ready to deal with it.

Before long, he arrived at his destination, hovering in the sky atop glowing flame clouds above a huge warehouse building.

The only building still in tact from the ruins left of Vegapunks old laboratory in fact. Honestly, it was very conspicuous..

Which made sense with Caesar being Caesar and all that. He was a picture perfect example of great intelligence not at all meaning wisdom.

Basically, for all his smarty pantsness, he was an utter moron.

Still not somebody he wanted to deal with right now though, especially when he could barely use any armament haki at all.

That gas gas logia fruit of his was no joke at all.

Kaden opened his crimson scaled mouth open wide, and flames began pooling and condensing in his throat-

Before he roared and unleashed his attack, "Blast Breath!" he declared as a massive blazing corona of pure heat erupted from his mouth in the form of a giant blazing conical blast of pure destruction.

The massive corona of destruction slammed into and through the warehouse as if it were made of paper mache and a moment later, erupted in a cataclysmic explosion.

Which was Kaden's que to get the heck out of dodge.

Swerving around like a majestic serpent swimming through the sky and totally not like a big noodly worm flopping around stupidly, Kaden tore his claws through the air and dashed high into the sky, just as a massive explosion erupted from the warehouse expanding to almost gargantuan proportion in both height and width and shaking the very foundations of Punk Hazard.

Straight up and up Kano went until he hit the clouds and once more burst out of the other side of them thousands of feet in the air and far away from Caesar's ability to detect him.

"He's probably shitting himself right now." Kaden snickered.

Get fucked stupid evil clown.

Shaking his head in amusement, Kaden brought his tail around, dangling his sack in front of his face and opened it by poking one of his huge claws in the opening and peering inside.

And a wide massive green spread across his crimson scaled maw at what he saw.

Twelve apples sat at the top of the contents of the bag. Eleven of them were normal fresh red and juicy apples.

The twelfth and last though, was a dark blue, almost purple, with raised rigid swirling spots across its form almost like clouds in shape in a way.

"Yes!" he cheered. He'd more or less known it would work, because he was literally stealing this idea from Caesar himself.

But that didn't mean he wasn't excited as all hell for his plans to come into fruition like this.

God the last two days had just been crazy for him. Going from a down on his luck petty officer in training, to a Commander, now traitorous commander, with just over three hundred and thirty million beri to his name, slaughtered near a hundred marines, defeated and killed a Vice Admiral in one on one combat, claimed said Vice Admiral's devil fruit that got him that rank, eaten one of the strongest devil fruits in existence and now had just gotten his hands on another!

Everything was coming up Kaden D. Freeman right now!

"…Where should I go from here though I wonder?" he mused as he created a large flame cloud and shifted back into human form and sat atop it, while reaching in to grab one of the eleven non devil fruit apples and crunching down happily on it.

Eleven apples wouldn't satisfy his new hunger at all, but it would tide him by until he decided where to go from here at least.