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Meeting Ends
On a Marine Vessel in the middle of the ocean, soldiers gathered around a cuffed prisoner who'd they'd chosen to place on the deck of the ship. They were all equipped with all kinds of weapons, each having some sort of seastone embedded into them in some way shape or form. The woman looked up to the surrounding Marine soldiers with a grin, before looking past them to the man that stood at the very from hull of the ship.

"Just sit there, idly." The Marine stated arms folded as he looked across the waves. "It was a hassle, capturing you, Azelea Iggy worth at least 300,000,000. You will soon be at your new home of Impel Down were the rest of you filthy criminal lays." Turning around, his decorated Marine jacket that hung over his shoulder flew in the wind as he faced the guarded woman. Pushing his glasses up on his face, he dropped his arms down to his side and began to approach her.

Marine soldiers stepping aside, the man squatted in front of Iggy's grinning face. "I see you still have that devious grin on your face. Show us those feathers, or are those seastone handcuffs draining your stamina too much for you to be able to utilize your devil fruit? Either way, you'll remain here for just a short while longer." Standing to his feet, he turned back and returned to his former location.

"You should thank me for allowing you to enjoy this breeze, seeing as to how it'll be your last time seeing the light of day." Fixing his collar, he straightened his coat on his back.

Still grinning, Iggy couldn't help but shake her head. "Are you monologuing?" She asked, "And it seems after all these years, your information is still incorrect. These seastone cuffs aren't draining anything." She snarled back at the Marine in charge. "Klaus, was it? You've severely misjudg-"

THUD. Before Iggy could complete her sentence, her jaw was met with the opposing end of a rifle which literally knocked blood from her mouth. Looking up, her eyes laid upon the unnamed Marine that had been bold enough to strike her in the face.

"You dare strike me, fodder?" Iggy asked almost in a barking manner. "If these cuffs come off, I'll enjoy killing you!" Again, she was struck in the jaw by the Marine once again.

"Refrain from damaging her, please. Vice-Admiral Eldric has not given us orders to do so and I like to keep him happy when possible." Klaus claimed, continuing to look across the sea while ordering his men.

Meanwhile, not too far away from the vessel, something or rather someone had been swimming at a relatively high speed. As they moved through the water, they left behind a stream like a tornado fired from a warship. There was a sudden burst under the sea, creating a dent in the waters which made the ship lean forward everso slightly.

Gripping hold of the ship's railing, Klaus looked to his left and right. "What was that?" He asked, looking to Iggy under the impression that this was her doing, but it was not. She sat guarded by his soldiers and hadn't moved one bit cause if she did, she'd have been met by a bombardment of bullets. So just who the hell was it? Who was the cause?

"Men, watch her! I need to investigate!" Klaus shouted, leaping from the hull of the ship beginning transforming in mid-air as he did. His human body slightly shrunk and widened, before his feet changed into a set of claws and his arms changed into wings. His face extended into a beak making up his full transformation. Klaus was the eater the Anicent Zoan devil fruit: Ryu Ryu no Mi, Model: Pteranodon. Taking to the skies, he began a patrol over the seas in search of the cause of the sudden sea roar.

Flying around for about five minutes total, Klaus returned to the railing of the ship attaching his claws to it firmly. "Excuse me if I startled you, men. I was unable to find the source of whatever it is that happened. Please, remain on high alert, we are in hostile territory and I would like not to wake up the Vice-Admiral. And do n-"

Before he could finish his sentence, a wave of water towered the ship. It shadowed the ship like a night-filled sky, but it was still mid-day. Slowly falling over the vessel it sought to wash anyone who remained on the outside away and swallow them under the sea.

Turning around, Klaus took the skies in attempts to avoid the wave. "My weakness!" He shouted, facing the wave of seawater head-on. Coating his wings in busoshoku haki, Klaus flapped them created a violent force of wind which somehow managed to counter the wave and blow it back. Looking back to the Marine's that guarded Iggy, he was surprised that each of them had been missing besides one which laid on the ground unconscious. "Guys!"

"It is rude to yell while someone is sleeping, is it not?" A feminine voice not belonging to Iggy asked, walking from around the corner placing the glove back onto her hand. Water simply slid down her body as though it were coated in a layer of grease because it was in order to keep her clothes dry. It was evident the woman had just come from taking some sort of recreational swim.

"You! I k-know you!" Glassing sliding down his beak, he tilted his head back to place them back up on his face. "B-B-BBuster D. Amaka!"