Raven D. Sora

Raven D. Sora (レーブン・ディー・ソーラー, Rēbun Dī Sora) is a former captain that lost his crew many years ago. He currently scours the on his own, searching for. He has joined with the marines as one of the Shichibukai in order to have his Bounty negated to continue his adventures for One Piece.

Childhood
Sora had lived in a average family household with family members with no particular fighting abilities. His family had lived in an island somewhere in the. His mother worked as a nurse in the town hospital and his father had worked as a construction builder. The town had been attacked by a rather large pirate crew, laying waste to the place and seeking out the town treasury. In the process of the Pirate's raid they had kept the Mayor captive and slaughtered many innocent hostages. They looted houses and kidnapped people, no one could defend themselves. Hundreds of pirates in grounds had rushed down the streets of the town, taking whatever they wanted and killing on sight. There was nothing the town could do, everyone in the town was absolutely helpless to this attack. The local police force were all killed first as they had attempted to fight bravely against the pirates, only ending up in defeat. They had alerted the by transponder snail to help protect the town.

The Marines that had arrived to the town to help fight against the pirates had slaughtered many innocent people in the crossfires, explosions by cannonball and shooting on reaction. They all had seemed rather inexperienced which could explain to the poor aim of some of the marines. The marines that had come to this town had shot at crowds of innocents and pirates mixed together on command of a captain leveled marine. From their ships they had destroyed much property and lives using cannon fire. The marines had made almost as much damage as the pirates had leaving both sides with many deaths. Both of his parents had hidden him in the cellar of their house for until the battle had ended. All Sora could hear was the sound of screams, explosions and gunshots in the distance. His parents had went outside to look for a safe route for them to bring Sora, so they could escape the island before their house completely gets destroyed with them under it. They had never returned under the cellar, and Sora only waited for the sounds of the screaming to end.

Once the sounds of the fighting had ended, Sora had slowly exited the cellar only to find his parents laying dead on the ground in front of the doorstep, both killed by the gunshots of being caught in the crossfire between the marines and the pirates. He had become traumatized at the death of his family and had seen the destruction both sides had caused. The town was left in ashes and dead bodies. The crying of mournful survivors, including Sora had been heard throughout the town. The marines had refused to rebuild or pay for the damages, with the excuse of that they should have been thankful that the marines protected them. So the surviving members of the town had to pitch in to rebuild it.

About 2 years later the town had still been in the rebuilding process. Sora had been taken in by an orphanage that had been built a few months after the destruction of the town. Before that, Sora had to live alone in his home living off of the little supplies left there. Life was tough for everyone in that town ever since that fateful day where the ashes of the cannon fire had covered the sky. Sora had decided to dedicate his purpose to stopping the conflict between the pirates and marines, so that none may have to live with the terror and destruction he had to live through.

He had set sail at the age of 10 with a small stolen ship he had taken from the rebuilt harbor. It was a small boat left on the harbor of the town that had been owned by an old man who owned a shop for boats. He had recklessly sailed in the west blue where he had adventured to other islands to find someone to train him. There in the middle of the ocean he was picked up by a group of pirates, unwilling to stay Sora had demanded they drop him off on the nearest island. They had first required for Sora to wash their ship, he had done this with many complaints, he had not stopped complaining for days. The pirate crew at felt bad for Sora, for he was only a child so they had demanded that they drop him off the ship to the captain. The captain did not seem mean at all, although he did seem dissapointed at the unclean ship. Sora had promised to clean it in return for him being dropped off, as by promise Sora did his work. These pirates did not seem that dangerous, they had respected his choice and dropped him off.

Going into the town of the random island he had been dropped off at, he has asked all around where he could find a teacher for combat. People in the village had treated him like a joke, not giving him straight answers or even telling him to leave. After a few days of searching, Sora was stuck on the streets living off of the food he had found in trashcans. During a rainy day, one man had walked up to Sora who had been sitting alone in the street and had asked him,"Why are you looking for a master?" Sora had wished to become stronger for the only reason being is that he wants to be able to stop the fighting once and for all between pirates and the marines. The man had smiled, and told Sora who he was.

Sora had just met a master of martial arts, knowing at least five different ones but had only taught him two of them. He had only taught him two because he had felt that knowing too many styles could disrupt his mastery over each, but at the same time he wanted Sora to create a special style that fits to his preference using two of them. Muay Thai and Taekwondo had been taught to him and had been training under that master for eight years until he decided to leave the island to set sail once again determined to find One Piece and end the Pirate Age. He believes if he finds it, it will end the fighting between the pirates and the marines and save the potential deaths of more innocent ones in the middle of this fight as well as the deaths of both sides.

John
Sora had adventured the West Blue in search of his crew, and his first stop was at a smaller island populated by a town with a decently large population. The town was best known for their shipwrights so Sora had went to the work site to attempt to find his first crew mate. There he had met a less than average shipwright who's determination far exceeded his skill, his name was John. Sora was determined to have him join his crew to only meet rejection. There had been a pirate crew spotted at the shore of the island, and the whole town was in panic. John determined to stop the pirates from reaching the work area of the shipwrights had gone alone to fight the pirates only ending up in Sora assisting him and defeating the invading pirates. In thanks, the shipwrights had all chipped together to build Sora a well enough ship to ride the seas. Sora had convinced John to join his crew by the end as to be the crew's shipwright and the crew's first member other than Sora. His weapon was metal gauntlets and fought using his powerful brute force against enemies.

Alyssa
Sailing across the West Blue, Sora and John had searched for other crew members, but was attacked by a marine ship under the lead of Captain Layton. They had fought against the Marine ship and managed to make sure the ship had gotten minor damage from cannon fire using evasive maneuvers under John's control. Sora and Layton had fought each other with both of them knowing a considerable amount of fighting skills. Although Layton's power exceeded Sora's, Sora had superior speed making the fight quite even. Sora had ended the fight with a swift elbow strike aimed at the solar plexus. Then proceeded to Spinning jump kick Layton across the face knocking him unconscious. Searching through the marine ship Sora had found a pirate prisoner who called herself Alyssa. Alyssa had explained to Sora that she was a pirate and they had captured her after her ship blew up by cannon fire. Alyssa offered to join their crew if Sora had let her go, Sora had happily accepted and broke her chains off. Alyssa used two swords simultaneously in her style. Alyssa had joined the crew and became the second member of the crew as a warrior mostly.

Rynn
Many troubles had occurred attempting to sail across the sea, the crew was desperately lost and could not make it out of the West blue let alone to an island. They had sailed to a random island that seemed to have a really well built harbor. When they reached the island they decided they need to find a navigator for the crew so they had asked around town where they could find one. The directions handed out by the citizens of the town led us to go around in circles until we found the weather station of the town where they had broadcasted weather by transponder snail to the whole town every day. Sora had entered the place asking where he could find a navigator, they had much trouble finding one until the leader of the weather station had confronted them, her name was Rynn. Rynn had told them to turn back and never come back, go to another island and leave forever. Sora was determined to get a navigator, Rynn needed to find a solution so she had told them if Sora had defeated her in battle, she would happily become their navigator. Sora happily accepted this dual and they had begun fighting, punches clashing in the air. As Rynn threw a kick Sora had stepped to the side and countered with a faster kick knocking back Rynn. Rynn was defeated and had been impressed with his skill and decided to put a little of her own faith into their crew to navigate their ship's path for them. Rynn was the third crew member to join and had specialized in fist to fist combat.

Luke
The crew had grown hungry, they had no supplies left for food so they had decided to go find a restaurant before leaving the island they had met Rynn at. Rynn had showed the way to a cheap, but great restaurant that she had known of. Sora had gotten the idea of finding a cook at the restaurant, and was determined to find one. He first decided to eat down the meal with the rest of the crew. Sora had gone around asking chefs and cooks around the area, only to be kicked out of the cooking area by the head-chef who had no interest in pirates being in the restaurant. There was one disturbance with the man going around sniffing food saying that he could hear the sound of food, everyone thought he was a freak. He was promptly kicked out of the restaurant only for Sora to confront him asking if he were a cook. The man had greeted Sora and told him his name was Luke and that he wasn't a cook, but a musician. He said that he had the divine power to hear the music in foods and inanimate objects and could see the aura of people. Sora had thought he was just crazy, but had asked him to join their crew as their musician. Luke accepted it and became their fourth crew member. Luke had much later realized that the ability to see the auras of others was his early development of Kenbunshoku Haki, only that he never had the time to train it to what he wanted it to be.

Prior to New World
At the age of 19 he had entered the Grand line along with his crew and had Started their adventure. About a month or two after entering the grand line their ship was attacked by several marine ships with powerful officials on each of them, resulting in the complete defeat of their crew and destruction of their ship.

As the marines had surrounded Sora, anticipating to arrest him, Sora had just lied there on his knees staring down at the floor with tears rushing out of his eyes. The marine officers had let out a loud scream as they all charged to get Sora. Sora, barely conscious had noticed the marines rushing in, quick flash backs to the few moments ago of his crew being decimated had rushed through his head. Sora had let out an incredibly loud and long burst,"No!" Following his emotional scream, a force knocking out all of the surrounding Marines. Sora had crawled off the ship, diving right into the ocean in an attempt to escape.

He had escaped barely by floating on top of a piece of wood, traumatized and barely conscious he floated on the piece of wood to the next island, still unknown to the status of his crew mates. As he reached the island, he had fell into a period of depression, of the loss of his crew and the remembrance of his lack of ability to protect anyone from his childhood. Sora had lost the motivation to be a pirate any longer.

During the period of depression, Sora had developed signs of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) by having re-occurring visions of his crew being defeated as well as old childhood memories of his hometown left in ashes. As he was on the shore he was surprised by the inhabitants of the island that happened to be a tribe of people, with a barely developed civilization. They had attacked him at sight because he was an outsider, the trauma from the earlier events that had happened to Sora had caused him to awaken his Haki. The newly awakened Haki, though not realizing how to use it at will, he had defeated his enemies and fled more closer into the forest that populated the island. In this island he had trained his newly awakened Haki while still battling his emotional pain.

Sora had accidentally found the village of the tribal members that had attacked him, upon entering the area he was immediately seized by many of the members of the tribe. He had been captured by the village and was kept prisoner there. The leader of the tribe had confronted Sora, he confidently asked Sora," You have hurt my men in combat, meaning you are skilled, right?." He paused and he had given Sora a sharp look and told him," If you wish to leave safely from our village, you must defeat some of our tribe's most skilled killers." Sora had stood up from inside his prison, still depressed and emotionally distraught Sora had accepted this challenge. Three short warriors, in full armor and all holding broad axes had stood in front of Sora. All three of them were charging at full strength, he had countered by disarming one of the warriors, and had countered with a elbow strike to the back of the neck. Sora had used the hilt of the broad axe to knock out one of the other warriors, and proceeded to side kicking the last warrior square in the face. As per request, the village leader had let Sora go free from the village, but had told him never to return.

Sora stopped the leader for a moment and had asked him," What is that fruit doing up in that tower?" The village leader had replied," That over there is the tribal treasure, we had found this odd fruit growing in the forest, we believed it was the work of a god." Sora quickly asked the leader," What would it take for me to obtain said fruit," The leader looked at Sora with a look of annoyance and replied," You would have to defeat me in combat for one to gain that fruit, I am the strongest one in the entire village." Sora had challenged the village leader to combat, the leader had arrogantly chuckled and agreed to this fight. As they began their fight, the members of the village formed a large crowd around the fight as each fighter exchanged fists and kicks. The leader kicked Sora in the chest, with Sora responding with a barrage of elbow strikes and spinning kicks. The two fighters had seemed to fight equally. The leader had gained the upper hand in the fight with his higher endurance, but Sora had been more superior when it came to speed. As Sora fell to the ground, he desperately needed to find a way to gain the upper hand, and he had remembered what had happened when he got attacked by tribe members earlier. He couldn't focus with his mind clouded with his emotions, and attempted to preform a meditation technique that had been once taught to him from his old teacher. This move helps Sora gain a calm mind, and allowed him to focus on his arm which had finally turned a solid black color. Sora needed to rush this as it may not last that long and delivered one final blow to the village leader, knocking him out with a powerful punch. Sora had taken the fruit and left the village, he knew the risks to eating a fruit and the implied weaknesses then proceeded to eating the fruit.

It was the Logia type fruit called the Kaze Kaze No Mi fruit and he had learned to use it as much as he could while he had trained himself on the island he had stayed on. He had to train off of the wild animals in the island using this new ability of his as well as Haki training. During the training he had to learn to cope with the traumatic experiences that had happened in his life and accept them. He had practiced meditating after he had done training sessions with himself to help gain a more calm mind to try to form this Haki. He had felt like he needed to go to other sources for assistance, but the only people in the island he knew of was the tribe he had thought all hated him. Desperate for a teacher, he had gone to the village and confronted the village leader. The village leader had looked at him with an obvious face of annoyance, but had said politely," What do you need now, outsider?" Sora had realized he had done something terrible to the village, but he had still asked him for a teacher. As Sora explained his situation, the village leader had nodded as if he knew what is was. He then looked at Sora and explained," Ah yes, we have met an outsider like you before, they had come to us with this strange ability to turn parts of their body solid black and the ability to sense auras." The village leader had continued," Perhaps we can train you to learn to cope with your problems, and to learn how to use this new power the village treasure has given you, but as payment you must do chores around the village on your free time," Sora had gladly accepted and thus, he had befriended the once an enemy tribe, they had allowed him to spar with tribe members to further progress his training as well as giving him life advice to dealing with his stress. He still has minor signs of PTSD, but it was controllable, since he had learned to deal with his emotional conflicts, and to keep a calm mind, with most of the assistance being from the village that had taught him much.

Sora had felt like he needed to go adventure to other islands to further close the distance between him and the next step of attempting to be the pirate king. The tribe, out of respect of his strength and determination, they had built him a small ship to sail on in which he had sailed to the next island. The ride to the next island Sora had encountered dangerous, yet controllable situations such as Sea Kings, strong ocean currents and risk of being attacked by marine ship. Reaching the next island he had saved a Shipwright from bandits, in which he was very grateful of. After conversations with Sora the shipwright decided to bet his determination in Sora's goal so he had built him a ship, rather small it was still bigger than the one he took to get to the island. He decided that he could not risk the lives of others anymore and decided to sail alone for the rest of his adventures in the Grand Line, he could not bare to lose any more closer friends so he travels the grand line alone now. It was very difficult without a navigator or a ship wright on board, but he made his way to the New World. He currently is still adventuring the new world determined to reach his goal of One Piece

Shichibukai
With the increasingly amount of marine activity along the Grand Line, and parts of the New World, Sora had become far too annoyed with the amount of marines that keep hunting him. Sora realized that he needed to get rid of his bounty, and realized that he had to try to become a Shichibukai. In order to do this, he had to contact the Marine Headquarters, by transponder snail. Sora had requested that they make him one of the Shichibukai for the reason that the marines probably do not want another enemy, especially a devil fruit user. They had acknowledged his dangerousness from the numerous marine ships that had been destroyed. The government did not want to have Sora as an enemy, so they had accepted his request to make him a Shichibukai, which had gotten rid of his bounty and had made him practically safe from the danger of the large amount of marines. Sora naturally only had requested this position to allow him to more safely tread New World waters from the marines.

Sora realizes that there are probably more terrifying enemies out there, such as the, but he knows he will have to train even further to reach up to their level someday. He knows he must one day each of them, in order to become the Pirate King. Becoming safe from the marines had allowed Sora more free time to train himself on islands he lands on in the New World, training almost every aspect to him. From martial arts to Haki and his mastery over his devil fruit powers, he continuously trains them every day.

Although the title of Shichibukai is usually replaced with the phrase of the "Dogs of the Government" Sora has tried his best to ignore being insulted for working for the government. On many battles with pirates where he has been insulted for becoming a Shichibukai, he had learned to deal with the insults and accept his fate as Shichibukai and the hatred it comes with it. Sora does not usually assist the government unless it is required with the job. Entering the group of the "Three Great Powers" Sora has opened him self up to be known by pirates all over the world.

New World Training
Sora needed another teacher, one to help him further his strength. He had realized that he has already gone as far as he could on his own, he needed a new teacher, one to guide him through his martial arts training, and give him insight on his Devil Fruit abilities. Sora had no idea where to begin his search for this, so he started on the first island he could find. No where he asked, would there be a teacher for him, all of them were too inexperienced, weak or dead. He was dissapointed, as he returned to his ship to sail to the next island, he saw a note with an arrow pointing out to the ocean. He easily thought this was a prank, but had said," Well, I've got nothing to lose I guess." He rode his ship towards the direction of the note, but had noticed the note had kept moving forward. Then, Sora had realized that it was actually a. Sora had grinned, and had used his wind abilities to increase the speed of the ship. As the ship cruised across the ocean, large waves of water had started to push the ship backwards. Sea kings that had reached out of the sea jumping at the ship only ended up in Sora blowing them away with wind blasts. Sora was too determined to stop there, he had kept pushing his ship forward until he had spotted an incredibly tiny island at first glance it had looked as if it was far in the distance. Soon, Sora had realized that is wasn't in the distance, but was an incredibly small island and looked as if only a few people could stand on it.

Sora had sailed to the island, and had noticed a swift person jumping up from the island, and landing on the ship. It was an old man, he had looked fragile and sick, Sora doubted this is the person he had been looking for. He had said," Wow, small ship for riding on the New World, I'm surprised you're still alive!" Before Sora could say anything, the old man spoke," You passed my first test, you see I travel island to island and you are one incredibly lucky boy to have been on the same island as me, yes you are." Sora had questioned," Test, Sir?" The old man had swiftly responded," Why yes, a test. I had to test if you are even close to worthy to becoming my student." Sora had scratched his own head and responded," Are there any more tests...?" The old man looked down and back up to me, he had chuckled and had layed down as if it was his own ship. He yawned and said," Why of course, you can't be foolish enough to believe there was only one test, what kind of person do you take me for." Before Sora could do anything again, the old man let out a loud snore, Sora had fell to the ground in shock.

The old man's snot bubble popped and he woke up and yelled," Where in the name of science and all things funny am I?!" The old man looked at me and had calmly said," Oh, right I'm giving out tests to dumb kids." Sora was almost ready to kick him off the ship, but the old man had continued," Ok, alright, on to the second test. For this test you will be showing me your combat skills using only Haki, and pure old martial arts, fight me." Sora and the old man's arms had turned full black and begun fighting each other, Sora's style had been unrecognizable to the old man, but the old man had his own unique style as well. The old man's Haki had seemed to be stronger than Sora's, he was easily being knocked back by the old man's incredible speed and power. Sora had landed a few good blows to the old man only ending up in realizing they were all being blocked using Busoshoku Haki, and sensed by his Kenbunshoku Haki. The old man kicked Sora to the ground and had told him," Alright boy, you passed the second test, even though you got your butt kicked horribly, you do understand the basic techniques of both Haki, although there will be one more test before I can be sure you can be my student."

The old man sat back down and signaled for Sora to sit down in front of him. "The third test, won't require any effort, I will be sensing your aura to see if you are even willing to be stronger." As the old man had meditated while holding Sora's hands, he had nodded as he had clenched his eyes closed. Sora had been meditating too, as he found it a good time to practice his own meditation. This had lasted three hours, Sora's patience was running thin, and had let out an outburst." When will you be finished old man!? I've been hours for you to finish this one test! Are you even a real teacher, because I'm starting to doubt you even are!" The old man had opened his eyes, and responded," You're in luck, I just finished, you mind repeating what you said, I was focusing too much to hear it." Sora's head hit the ground in shock. "You passed the third test, you can be my student if you still wish to." Sora had grinned and nodded, he had accepted his position as student.

The old man had looked at Sora with an impressed look, he had sensed an overwhelming will power in Sora that had resembled a king's. The old man had proceeded to walking towards Sora and had said," When I had sensed your aura, I could feel the awakened, but untrained conquering king's Haki with in you, in other words the Haoshoku Haki had been already used once without you realizing it, boy." Sora had questioned the old man," Haoshoku Haki? Sir?" The old man had told Sora," We will have to train your Haoshoku Haki, if you even want to use it. I bet you're wondering what it even is, well, I'll tell you. Haoshoku Haki is basically using your will power to conquer your enemies' will power and can result in knocking them out or intimidating them severely. If trained far enough, it can even cause disruption to the ground beneath you and be even felt by the strongest of people." Sora had nodded and had wondered if he was even capable of utilizing this kind of Haki.

Sora had asked the old man where he had gained the kind of power that he does now. The old man had explained," Boy, in order to survive in the New World, even an old geezer like me has to be able to hold his own." He then continued to explain," I was trained by my father, although I don't feel like telling who my father was." Sora had accepted the answer even though he was still confused afterwards. Sora had wondered what the enemies are like in the New World, and the old man had gladly accepted that question. The old man had laughed horribly and bursted out," This part is considered hell compared to the grand line, boy." "The enemies here are more terrifyingly stronger than me here, it is sad to say, but it is only the truth. This is why you must put your best effort into this training or else you will just end up dead like anyone else who has challenged the power of the New World," old man had continued and continued on about how the New world is dangerous. Sora had gained alot of insight on the old man's past adventures when he was younger. Sora had spoke calmly," I see, I guess I will have to become ten times as strong as you then old man, in order to become known through out the New World. I don't think titles will let my name be known, rather my strength and determination to finding One Piece will bring me the way." The old man chuckled and all he had to say was," Alright, lets continue then."

During Sora's training with the old man, he had trained his Haki to becoming much more stronger than it could have ever become. His mastery over his Kenbunshoku Haki had dramatically increased as with his Busoshoku Haki mastery. Sora had mixed in the old man's unique fighting style which had involved more open handed attacks with his own style that had combined Taekwondo and Muay Thai. During the training Sora had also created new techniques with his devil fruit power, as well as increased his mastery over it as well. Sora had also trained his Haoshoku Haki to the point that he is able to use it at will. The training had taken five years before Sora had departed his training with the old man, thankful for the training he promised he will return to the old man once he becomes The Pirate King. He had sailed back onto the New World waters to continue his adventures of searching for One Piece, far stronger and skilled than he was prior to meeting the old man.

Personality
Sora is often eccentric with a slight temper. His temper is a result of his eccentricness though he is able to control his anger when something important needs to get done. He likes to be tricky and approach one in a clever way, Sora isn't one to accept defeat so easily, but sometimes goes to pick fights that isn't his. He gets really defensive when one insults his odd eye color. Although he is quite excitable real quickly, he will act calm and serious when the situation needs him to be. He usually becomes arrogant real quickly when he starts getting the upper hand in a battle which could lead to his downfall in fights where the opponant can utilize that against him. As a pirate Sora refuses to attack merchant ships and only takes treasure when another pirate crew attempts to raid his ship and fails. Though most towns he lands on despises him for the pure fact he is a pirate he gets angry but doesn't do anything physical rather a more menacing glance at them. He views the battle between the pirates and the world government as neverending, and won't end until the pirate era is over. He only wants to search for the One piece and become pirate king for the only reason being is to want to end the pirate era and end all of the pointless deaths to people all around the world. Sora had fell into a period of depression after his crew had gotten wiped out completely when attacked by several marine ships. Sora later regains his confidence after developing his Haki and gaining his Devil Fruit power and training them. Though even faster his regained confidence, Sora has yet to show too much of his old eccentric attitude. He has gained more of a serious personality ever since the incident.

Appearance
His muscle is not as visible as it is more compact and doesn't show as a large bulk to his size. he has a rather short height compared to his age at a height of 5'6. He wears a longer black martial artist jacket with a red design outline to it and white pants with black lines down the opposite sides of the pants. He also has fingerless black gloves with small strips of metal slid into the glove part. He doesn't normally change his attire except when it's neccesary due to climate changes which happens often during the grandline and especially the new world. During the colder temperatures he often puts on a more heavier jacket but keeps his same pants, with thin gloves. In hotter temperatures he takes off the jacket and he wears the black undershirt he always keeps under his jacket with the same pants and no gloves. He is well known for the odd natural green color to his eyes that stands out when viewed by others and his allies. His eyes are some-what wide, and gives off a safe feeling to people around him.

Equipment
Sora wears fingerless gloves that have sheets of metal inserted to them to guard the hand. Sora often doesn't wear gloves, but uses them sometimes. Sora also wraps part of his fingers up to his wrist using bandage usually hidden right under the glove.

Abilities
Sora has learned abilities through out his life that increase his effectiveness in combat dramatically. Learning to cope with problems and discovering new powers has allowed him to reach such levels.

Martial Arts
In Sora's preteen to his teenager years he was taught by a human martial arts teacher in Taekwondo and in Muay Thai. Learning the history of the respective martial arts he had gained some insight of the fighting styles in the past. From his childhood he had already a natural talent for his speed and determination, which allowed him to survive his training. During his training his master had him condition his fists from punching trees. He also had Sora train by equipping a 20 kilo vest, with 5 kilo leg weights at the beginning of his training. Using these weights he was told to practice kicking drills as well as jogging for a portion of the day. As he had progressed and learned how to fight and maintain his movement in those weighted vests, he had to have them upgraded gradually as he trained. By the end of his training with his master he had learned to move with a 100 kilo vest and 50 kilo leg weights. From this training he had gained a incredible amount of speed, and strength as well.

Since he had learned two different martial arts, he decided to combine them both into one which allowed him to use the advantages of both martial arts together to form a more deadly art. Although these two martial art styles seem very odd to be grouped together considering their cultural backgrounds being from different places, this is what makes the combination of the style unique and special to Sora. His fighting style uses many hard attacks rather than soft style ones such as using the more damaging parts of the body. Combining the martial arts together allows him to use the knees, elbows and the whole foot from the Muay Thai part, using the deadly parts from the hardest parts of the area causes fatal damage to others. The Taekwondo aspect involves footwork, and leg based techniques in his style. The leg based movement allows Sora to offset opponents to deliver fatal blows using the knee, heel or elbow. Utilizing these parts of the body can be deadly to other people and can kill them rather easily if ones not careful and can intentionally be deadly.

During his martial arts training, Sora had been taught the pressure point system in the body, and how to apply them in combat and outside of combat. This is necessary to know for the Taekwondo aspect of the style, allowing for fatal blows to the most vulnerable of areas to the opponent. To aim at certain pressure points, Sora usually utilizes the front two knuckles of his hand to precisely hit the vulnerable spot. Using Haki allows for even more of a dangerous blow especially to these pressure points, Sora did not memorize every pressure point, but knows some of the more important ones. Sora uses the pressure point system when he wants to take down an enemy fast, or try to land an almost-fatal blow, without any intention to kill either.

Using these styles Sora taught himself to disarm weapon-wielders and to strike fatally when one is thrown off by a trip or when caught off guard. Though after leaving his teacher he still practices his fighting style to master it even further. His signature move using these styles is a spinning kick aimed at the head using his heel and if they had moved back to dodge it, he proceeds with a side kick to the stomach. This move is only an example of his many combinations he had learned to use in combat which has assisted him on multiple occasion. Though he doesn't usually use it a lot in one battle he will always try to fit the combo in battle in that order at least once. Sora wanted to become a teacher to pass down his knowledge of combat to a student when he reaches older age to further continue the knowledge of this unique style, keeping the flame alive.

During Sora's adventured in the New World, he had encountered an old man and after a trial of tests he had accepted Sora as a student. After his training with the old man, he had developed a somewhat new fighting style with his Taekwondo and Muay Thai knowledge that had involved alot more of open handed combat. The open handed combat style had been the old man's unique martial arts style that he himself had developed. There is no name for the martial arts the old man had created, but its influence on Sora's techniques have greatly influenced the danger to fighting him. Along with increasing his martial arts knowledge, Sora's physical strength and speed had been dramatically increased from his training with the old man.

Sora had also developed a basic wind based element incorporated onto his martial arts. Sora had trained his Wind ability to the point where wind is normally used into normal attacks. While as some of his moves are not necessarily used with wind as it is already effective without the extra power to it.

Techniques

 * Spinning Wind Kick: Using the Taekwondo's side of leg-based movements incorporating a slice of wind into a spinning kick allowing for a powerful close range attack as well as a long range air slice. This move is usually aimed at the head, able to cause concussive damage. This move had originally been used by Sora without wind, as a part of his martial arts, but he had combined it with his wind after training his devil fruit abilities. This move turns black when infused with Busoshoku Haki as well as the entire leg.


 * Knee/Elbow Impact Blow: Striking with the elbow or knee as a direct blow, allows for an extra impact of wind causing extra internal damage. Compressed wind that covers the knee or elbow releases in a burst once making contact resulting in extra damage. This move is not normally used at long range because it would be very inconvenient to do it at long range. Sora had defeated many enemies using this technique which can cause great bone damage and to the internal organs. As the elbows and knees turn black using Busoshoku Haki the wind impact infused with it causes the wind to take a black color. This move was created during Sora's understanding of Muay Thai, and their style to use the stronger parts of the body such as the elbows and knees in their combat.


 * Hurricane Pivet: This is an evasive counter move utilizing the pivet in the feet while spinning, using the wind fruit causes a powerful mini-twister around Sora. Using the momentum of evading an attack, this move can catch the enemy off guard and cause them to be stuck by the pull of the twister allowing for a proceeding attack. This move was developed during Sora's training with the tribe group, he had used it to pull enemies in off their momentum by the pull of the twister causing for an available direct hit. This move is nearly unavoidable, once caught in it it requires incredibly great strength and/or Haki to resist it's pull.


 * Swift Claw: Using this move, Sora can incapacitate the enemy for a few seconds. He does this by using the area in between the thumb and the index finger for the attack. This attack is meant to aim straight at the neck, which is the reason why it can incapacitate the enemy. This move was one of Sora's techniques he had learned during his initial Martial arts training, and it does not require the wind fruit to strengthen, but can use Haki to deal even more of a serious blow to the neck. Sora must be careful when using this move because it has the ability to crush the wind pipe if not done properly and kill the enemy.


 * Swift Strike: This is another one of Sora's Taekwondo style moves that requires using the top part of the wrist. Sora can sometimes use this as a technique proceeding after a fake strike, by striking first he instantly raises his wrist up aiming directly on the underside of the jaw area. This move has the chance to break his wrist, but he tries to use Haki usually when he preforms this move. This move can be deadly as if preformed right it will most likely break the opponent's jaw and cause shock damage to the brain.

Devil Fruit
His devil fruit ability, the Kaze Kaze No Mi fruit allows him to manipulate air and be air himself is quite useful to his fighting style. It allows him to change air currents around him at will and change its shape, density and control it for combat. The devil fruit had been discovered on the island Sora had escaped to after his defeat by the Marines. The village had praised it as a treasure, but Sora had won it by challenging the leader of the tribe. He had trained his Devil Fruit while training his Haki on the island and learned several techniques with the fruit. His clever nature allowed him to create useful moves using his devil fruit. His speed can be greatly affected using the air, and the power of the shock waves of the wind can be determined by the amount of wind used and the level in Haki of the user.

Tempest Aura Form: Since the fruit is a type fruit Sora's body is made of wind and one of his forms would be moving the wind in his body at high speed to cause friction, this would result in a luminescence like aura in his body. Impact of his blasts of wind and strikes would result in a dramatic increase of power due to the amount of wind compressed into one area circulating around the body. Since there is an incredibly amount of wind being compressed, Sora's Logia state is compromised allowing for physical non-Haki attacks to make contact. However, attacking him without using Busoshoku Haki would result in being shredded by the incredibly compressed wind moving at high speeds. Most projectiles such as gun bullets and arrows if not Haki infused are most likely able to be deflected in this state. A draw back to this form is that he must keep himself afloat using wind or else he would be shredding the ground under him with the immense movement of wind of his body. In this state Sora only uses the wind that is compressed onto the body for his techniques, this can be considered a draw back and an advantage. The draw back is Sora can run out of wind in this form before his body is able to slowly replenish the wind in that form. The advantage is it allows Sora to utilize much more powerful wind attacks at a much faster rate. He calls this form Tempest Aura. This form as it uses its incredibly compressed wind it replenishes it as the user fights, but the form can only last as long as the user has the stamina for it to maintain since it requires a level of focus put into the form.

Standard Techniques

 * Toppū(突風 Windblast): It focuses wind at the fist and when released it sends a shock wave of wind at the direction released at. When the blast is formed it shows as an orb like presence and will appear larger and more of a solid color the more wind compressed into it. The power of the shock wave depends on the amount of wind concentrated to the attack and level of Haki infused with the air which gives it a black color if infused with Haki. This move had been the first move Sora had created when he had obtained the devil fruit ability. The reason for this is because it is the most simplistic of all of Sora's moves but can still be the most strongest, it can be considered as if a normal blast of condensed wind. Through Sora's training with the devil fruit, this move has been changed. When he first began it was just a push of wind, not capable of any real damage. After his training with the tribal members he was able to use it to the point where it could knock back someone to the ground. After his training in the New World with the old man, Sora was able to use it to the point where it could deal a considerable amount of damage and even more if infused with his Haki.


 * Toppū danmaku(突風弾幕, Windblast Barrage) : Creating and firing multiple wind blasts rapidly one after the other can only be maintained for only a few seconds due to the large amount of energy needed to produce this kind of power. Sora had learned this after his training with the tribe, this allowed him to deal damage in one rapid burst using the moderately powered wind blast. Although after his training with the old man in the New World, being hit by this move directly, although energy consuming would be fatal to almost anything.


 * Kūchū bakuhatsu mahha 1 - 10(空中爆発マッハ1-10, Air Burst Mach 1-10): The Air Burst technique creates a burst of air at the base of the feet and causes a short burst of speed. The intensity of the speed and the burst of air differs from mach one through ten in standard form with mach one being the slowest and mach ten being the fastest. The higher the intensity of the Air Burst requires more energy used. This move had been created right after Sora had realized how to control wind to form a simple wind blast. He had created this move by forming bursts of wind at his feet which he had originally used for to fight wild animals. Later he developed it into a way of travel faster and made different Mach levels for the amount of concentration put into each Air Burst.


 * Kaze Puropera(風プロペラ, Wind Propeller): This move allows the user to propel themselves using wind to fly in the air and allow complete control in the air at average speeds. The movement of the user moves at a constant speed unless influenced by using other move. This move can often be paired up with Air burst to allow for fast movement along the air depending on the mach used. Sora had developed this move during the time after he had finished training with the old village. He had developed this after studying his wind powers further and learning how to utilize flight, by manipulating the currents of the wind to keep his body afloat. After a while learning this technique, he had used this in conjunction with air burst during one of his fights against a Marine captain, allowing for fast air travel which had led to his victory.


 * Kūki shinkū no ōbu(空気真空のオーブ, Air Vacuum Orb): Creates a head-sized orb at the base of the user's hand that creates a vacuum within it, if it is attached to the opponent's head it will deprive them of air and suffocate them to unconsciousness or even to death. This move requires a small but considerable amount of time to create and requires a large amount of focus put into it, the disruptions to the focus put into the orb can cause the orb to break and the vacuum be filled with air rendering it useless. This move is often used when Sora needs to take out an opponent before they realize he's there or if they're paralyzed/movement are disabled somehow. This move has only been used once so far by Sora because of its difficulty to use in actual combat. The only time he had ever actually used this though was when he had fought a pirate captain by sneaking up behind him, then suffocating him to falling unconscious, except Sora did not bring it further than that.


 * Kūki torappu(空気トラップ, Air Trap): One move that concentrates wind at one's fist and launches it into the ground. The move is scattered into the ground and travels down the ground in separate small wind bursts. The wind comes out of the ground beneath the opponent's in multiple shots all impacting upon the opponent in many small concentrated hits resulting in damage through the entire body, takes a black color when infused with Haki. This move proves useful for enemies that are too focused onto Sora to notice such trap, it can completely catch the target off guard and do massive damage if a direct shot. This move had been created by Sora's tricky nature allowing him to damage an enemy or easily catch them off guard if they do not notice the attack.


 * Kaze gan(風ガン, Wind Gun): Concentrates air into the tip of the finger and blasts as a precise dense high speed air shot at the opponent, takes a black color when infused with Haki. This can pierce targets due to the amount of wind compressed in one precise shot. This can be compared to firing a gun but offers a very noticeable increase to it's speed. Wind usually spirals onto the finger causing it to further compress and fill up the air in the tip of the finger. This move had been used when Sora had wanted to create a move that resembled a gun shot, but had moved more stronger and faster. This move can be used with both hands at once causing Sora to call it "Dual Wind Gun".


 * Kaze no furasshu(風のフラッシュ, Wind Flash): The wind in finger clashes together in incredibly high speed causing immense friction resulting in a electrical discharge that can be shot out of the finger tips that can cause paralysis on contact or even frying internal organs. This move can be considered one of Sora's more lethal and blindingly fast attacks due to it being actual electricity. This move can unfortunately only be moved in one direction because Sora cannot actually control the electricity, only guide it through the tips of his fingers. This move can be used to hit more than one target, which Sora had shown when he had launched this move at a crowd of pirates, causing many of the pirates to fall.


 * Kūkidoriru(空気ドリル, Air Drill): Air focuses on one point of the hand and spins around the hand as if a drill at high speed. This can be used to shred opponents to pieces if it makes contact making it a very lethal attack, takes a black color when infused with Haki. This can be considered Sora's most dangerous move if it actually makes contact. It's short range does not allow for easy contact, since it is at short range it gives more than enough time for the enemy to block it using Haki or even dodge it. This move usually is most effective when at close range, allowing for Sora to overwhelm his opponent using this drill. Sora would never kill using this move, as easy as it could because Sora hates to kill, he would only emptily threat the enemy with a drill to the neck, or try to knock them out with other sources.


 * Easurasshu(エアスラッシュ, Air Slash): Fires a precise crescent of compressed wind that moves at high speed able to match the strength of even iron, and can even cut through metals with ease and takes a black color when infused with Haki. Sora had developed this move after studying how swordsman fight. After studying this, Sora had created a move that resembles a sword slash allowing for to pierce wide targets, such as boulders. This move compresses the wind far enough to be able to cut steel with only a little amount of resistance.


 * Uindogādo(ウインドガード, Wind Guard): Causes a wind dome rapidly moving, able to deflect projectile attacks or even physical because of the rapid moving air would push or cut anything attempting to enter. This move can only be maintained for 5 seconds and used 10 seconds apart because of the amount of air needed to create this large dome requires too much focus to be maintained for longer. This move can be used in mid-air or on the ground, if on the ground it will create a half dome while in the air, it'll create a full sphere.

Kaze shōkan(風召喚,Wind Summoning)

Tempest Aura Techniques

 * Kūchū bakuhatsu mahha 11 - 20(空中爆発マッハ11-20, Air Burst Mach 11-20): The amount of air for Wind Burst gathers and condenses much faster allowing for to handle higher rates all machs above 10 allow for much higher speed rates making 20 the fastest by far. Sora can't go further than Mach 20 yet for the reason that he can't handle the incredible speed offered by mach 20. Going past it would be going past his ability to comprehend his own speed making fighting with it above 20 quite non useful and quite dangerous for him.


 * Kaze Kyanon(風キャノン, Wind Cannon): Wind condenses much faster at the fist and launches incredibly faster and stronger, but resembles Wind Blast, turns black if infused with Haki. Sora had developed this move while training his Tempest Aura Form, he wanted a stronger version of the Wind Blast, but he could not compress enough wind quick enough until it became inconvenient in combat. Since the Tempest Aura Form is a large amount of condensed wind moving rapidly in the body, it can deposit into the Wind Cannon allowing for fast creation. This does take away from the wind compressed into the Tempest Aura Form, although it does replenish the condensed wind slowly, using it too much could result in loss of the form.


 * Kaze Kyanon danmaku(風キャノン弾幕, Wind Cannon Barrage): This move fires rapid amounts of wind cannons that are being constantly formed and fired. Since the Wind cannon needs an incredibly large amount of wind needed it uses the extra wind condensed into Sora from the Tempest Aura form which results in losing the state after use of this move and a large amount of physical energy to keep up the fast rate. The reason one loses the Tempest Aura Form is because of the loss of the compressed wind and even in some cases part of the body for until the wind replenishes itself at an average rate. This is one of Sora's "finishing" moves as since it uses a lot of his wind, his stamina would fall during use of this move.


 * Urutora-fū no furasshu(ウルトラ風のフラッシュ, Ultra Wind Flash): The immense friction made by the Tempest Aura form can be focused onto the finger to generate even farther amounts of a discharge that launches a larger, more powerful electric strike that can cause more paralysis and higher chance of frying internal organs on impact. The Ultra Wind Flash caused it to fire more spread out due to more of it being created from high friction of the wind, and offers more range to it than the normal Wind Flash technique. This move does not require much wind for use, but since the body is moving already at a rapid rate, if it is focused onto the finger it will create a much larger discharge, capable of taking out crowds with the same power as a normal Wind Flash.


 * Kaze ganmega(風ガンメガ, Wind Gun-Mega): Air concentrates at the finger at a large rate, while air is being deposited from the incredibly high concentrate of wind moving in the body in this form and forms a some-what large ball at the tip of the finger made of condensed wind and can cause large damage when fired, a dramatic increase to the normal wind gun. Allows for massive damage in a precise beam-like attack with incredibly compressed air. This move has the ability to pierce on hit as if hit by a larger bullet, but moves much faster.


 * Furubodieaburasuto(フルボディエアブラスト, Full Body Air Blast): Releases compressed wind from all over your body covering only a short range, but covers the entire body. This move is exceedingly useful for when Sora is cornered, as it allows for a burst of wind coming from all over his body using the wind of the Tempest Aura form.


 * Furubodieadoriru(フルボディエアドリル, Full Body Air Drill): When boosted by the power of wind burst mach 11-20, spinning the entire body while wind is spinning around it will cause it to be as if one large drill, takes a black color if infused with Haki. This move can be launched from the body to strike one from far away, but requires to be made using this method. This move is inconvenient for launching since it can only move one direction.

Haki
He had awakened his Haki during his adventures in the Grand Line, but before he had reached the New world. He had it forcefully awakened from the trauma of his crew being wiped out by marine ships that had several powerful officers on board it. Reaching an island where he had collapsed on after the near death experience had driven him to awaken his Haki. His first experiance with this Haki was his arm turning mysteriously black into a very hard material. it had first shown to him when he had to defend himself from the inhabitants of the island that had feared the unknown visitor. As a result of the fear they had attacked him and defeated by him after him realizing his Haki ability. He had spent his time alone on the island training his Haki by himself so that he could use it at will. Although he tried his best training his Kenbunshoku Haki more, Busoshoku Haki had came to him much more easier and made its way to being his primary mastery in haki. His Busoshoku Haki became more stronger than his Kenbunshoku Haki had so he still needs to train although he still can use it to a degree. Mastering his Haki had resulted in his regained self-confidence from his period of depression from the loss of his crew. Mastering Haki with a clouded mind of emotional distress, had been overcome with his training with the Tribe, they had given him much advice on how to deal with these emotional problems. Sessions of meditation had also assisted Sora in clearing his mind, which had made controlling his Haki much easier.

Sora's greatest increase to his Haki training had been when he met the old man in the new world, that had fortunately accepted Sora as a student of his. During this training Sora had further mastered his Busoshoku Haki, and dramatically increased his mastery over Kenbunshoku Haki. During the training Sora had learned how to infuse many of his devil fruit attacks with Haki which had resulted in a black color to the wind. The old man had trained Sora using special training methods to develop his Haki further, especially with Sora's Kenbunshoku Haki which had made more of a development than it had Busoshoku Haki.

Busoshoku Haki
He had realized this Haki first when his arm had mysteriously turned solid black before engaging combat with the tribal members of the island he had ended up on. After fleeing into the forest on the island, he began fighting the wild life of the Forest that included Lions, wolves, bears and giant birds that had attacked him during his time in the forest. Refusing to kill them on purpose, he had to still hunt animals to survive on the island. He had also trained this Haki by breaking down trees and punching cliff-sides constantly to progress his training. Most of the Haki training had come from Sora training under the tribe that inhabited the island he had been left on. This Haki had came a little more easier to learn for Sora as he had mastered how to use it at will in a matter of a month or two. He can also utilize this Haki to empower his devil fruit abilities effectiveness. The use of Busoshoku Haki allows Sora to harden the parts of the body he uses in his martial arts to deliver even more vital blows to opponents such as the whole foot, elbow, hand and knee.

Sora is also able to utilize his Busoshoku Haki to imbue it with his wind devil fruit abilities to cause more damage caused by his wind. After infusing his wind with Haki he is able to change it to a more blacker color, resembling the black metal-like appearance when it coats the arm. After training with the village, his wind powers had taken a very light black color showing that not that much Haki is in the wind. Although it wasn't that much, it still considerably and dramatically strengthens the power of the wind. After his training in the with the old man, Sora had greatly trained his Busoshoku Haki. Sora had reached new heights in his training with the old man, and had also learned how to strengthen his wind even further with Haki. Later, the Wind had taken a very dark, black hue to it, making it just that much more lethal than Sora's previous Haki imbued wind, when it had taken a light black color.

Kenbunshoku Haki
Sora had learned to utilize this Haki a little bit after he had learned to control his Busoshoku Haki. This one was rather hard for Sora to master and was tougher for him to utilize it. He had tried his best to train it by sparring with tribal members of the island while blindfolded to further progress his mastery of Kenbunshoku Haki. Another way they had trained this skill was by using blind folds while playing a game of Hide and Seek. Sora's mastery over the Kenbunshoku Haki was halted due to his mind still being clouded from his crew being wiped out. This had more of an impact over his training of Kenbunshoku Haki then it did his Busoshoku Haki because he had recently had nightmares of his crew being wiped out, once again terrifying Sora. In the island Sora learns to accept what has happened and regains his confidence to further develop his mastery over this Haki. The use of this Haki allows Sora to use his devil fruit power to strike enemies from long ranges that he would not normally be able to see them and/or them moving at a speed higher than the human eye can perceive. This allows him to sense others auras which had reminded him of an ability one of his ex-crew members had once.

Haoshoku Haki
Sora had first awakened this Haki without realizing it during the defeat of his crew. Sora had awakened it while still incredibly traumatized over the defeat of his crew, and had needed to stop the marines. Having not awakened this luckily, Sora would have been arrested or even killed on the spot by the surrounding Marines. After a while, Sora had been quite unaware of this ability of his until he had begun his adventures onto the New World. Having met the old man, he had realized Sora had already unknowingly awakened this power when he had been sensing his aura. During his training with the old man, Sora had mastered his Haoshoku Haki, until the point to be able to cause trembles in the ground, and to be able to take out massive crowds of pirates/marines depending on their willpower. Sora had walked onto his ship and accidentally caused damage in the floor boards when he had trained it on his own time during the little time between departing the old man, and the present. Sora is able to control his Haoshoku Haki to precisely attempt to conquer one person in a group even if it is able to take them all out.

Quotes

 * "Busoshoku Haki up, bro"
 * "I'm looking for One Piece or something..."

Trivia

 * The Wind Gun attack and the Wind Gun-Mega attack are based off of the old anime Yu-Yu Hakusho.
 * Like the anime series, Sora has his own distinct laugh: Nuwarahahahahahaha