Chapter 67 (1/2)
Grandline, Paradise, Water 7
Walking over to the different stores Azul asked the various shopkeepers if they had seen anything out of the ordinary and quickly received the information he had been looking for. After all, down here at the coast where rarely any visitors ended up at, smalltalk and news travelled fast and acurately to starve the various shopkeepers of their boredom.
Apparently a batallion of marines had stomped through the streets, lead by a tall man wearing, wearing a white coat with the kanji's for 'absolute justice' written on its back, while his face was covered in scars accompanied by a curled mustache.
His rugged look had scared a lot of the shopkeepers. That's why they remembered him so vividly.
Furthermore, he had been adressed as vize-admiral, which explained to Azul why they had been able to take the crew down without too much of a struggle.
Thanking the shopkeepers for the information, Azul began his track up into the city, already formulating a plan on how to reach them in time. Though he had the feeling that he may have to break into Impel Down, bringing a light skip into his step at the bubbling excitement.
Soon Azul reached his goal, the marine outpost. Disappointingly the base was rather empty so all he achieved after raiding the place was a lot of shivering and quivering marines that could barely talk in fear, some rather scrunched together information on when they left for Impel Down exactly and to his amus.e.m.e.nt a big white coat with justice written on its back, belonging to the captain that was usually living in this base, seemingly his spare one, going by the clean state it was in.
Wrapping it over his shoulders and hiding his face partially under a hat with 'marines' written on it, Azul pushed of the ground with a boom, arriving at his ship in seconds, which he brought back into the shipyard for safekeeping, earning him a few confused gazes which soon turned into kind smiles when he pelted them with berry notes.
Having made sure his ship was taken care of Azul threw over his borrowed uniform and disappeared into the air, running with billowing flames as if on an invisible street towards Enies Lobby, just above the tracks for the sea train, which he had found out lead directly to said island.
Meanwhile the strawhats and Robin had arrived in Enies Lobby and, under struggles from a rather pissed of Luffy, were lead through the city part of Enies Lobby, straight towards the later part of the island where they would board a marine ship that would take them behind the humongous 'gates of justice' and on direct course to the infamous prison, Impel Down, to be locked away for the rest of their lives. Thus explaining why they were struggling so much, having long reached the conclusion what their fates were to be, should they not escape somehow.
The only ones not struggling were either the scared ones, the injured ones, or those like Robin who was more of a thinker then an actor, and her thoughts had traveled to many possible directions, though the only one that she thought may be crowned by success was if Azul somehow managed to find out what happened and reach them in time...
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While he was running over the ocean's surface, Azul began to plan how he would bail those morons out. Of course he could just crash into the island like a berserker but that would only delay him in catching up to the captives and possibly bring down the full might of the marines on his head, which he simply wasn't strong enough for. Thus he had decided to play ninja and sneak in under the guise of being a marine captain.