The pitter patter of soldier's feet as they marched forward could be heard through the halls, one leader in front pressing ever forward while the others follow like sheep from behind. In essence, that was how the whole of marine chain of command could be described and no one was spared from that type of system.

Beatrice who had turned towards the left into the hallway meant eye to eye with the leader leading the pack, in the eyes of said system she was his superior officer so he immediately bowed to show respect, despite the gesture however she noticed a fire in his eye that she easily recognized as one who didn't agree of a fish men in the marine's, and certainly not one with more authority than him. She didn't say a word and simply nodded in response while walking past him letting everyone continue peacefully.

She quickly brushed off the experience as she headed towards the briefing room which would be held in her superior's officer room, everyone had a superior officer to them unless they were the fleet admiral and not even a Commodore nor an Admiral was excused from that truth and certainly not even Beatrice as she was now heading to her superior officer to receive her next orders. When she arrived at the edge of the hall she was meant with two large double doors in a low lit well designed hall furnished with lavished pottery, one on the left reading Admiral Bake and the other Rear Admiral Spun, both officers of the force exceeding her own rank but today she would only have to deal with Spun.

Door's leading to Admiral Bake and Rear Admiral Spun offices:

Rear Admiral Spun room:

Rear Admiral Spun:

A light tap reached Beatrice ears coming from the direction of the door causing her to glance from the side at it, "That must be him. Enter!" At Rear Admiral Spun command the door opened, Beatrice was pleasantly surprised to see not a human nor a fish men but a mink with white and black strips similar to that of a white tiger simmering through the door and into the office. "Captain Renoro, I trust you're travel here went smoothly?" Rear Admiral spun said as his hands folded upon each other as he store at him with an intense yet softened gaze, once their light talk had settled and ran it's course Admiral Spun would sit up in his chair as he moved his left hand towards Beatrice.

"Allow me to introduce you to Beatrice Yaeger, a capable marine literally born from the sea, as Commodore her authority exceeds yours so you're be following her lead. Now on to the matter at hand, as you are aware of Lulusia Kingdom has had a boom of activity minus the addition to our own forces, although we have power we can not stop activity from pouring in so needless to say all types of scum rather they be pirates or petty thieves are gathering on the island. It just so happens that one of these groups have somehow manged to get their hands on the treasure of the sea, a Devil fruit, I don't know how they got it and I don't care. You're task is to retrieve that fruit I'm I understood?"

"Yes sir, loud and clear...~" Beatrice answered back with a tone that sounded somewhat detached from the situation, once Captain Renoro had responded the Rear Admiral gave one final sentence, "Commodore Beatrice, I expect you to procure the fruit and return with my Captain in good health. Dismissed" Beatrice displayed a toothy smile, "You have my word Rear Admiral....~"

Once they were out of the office and closed the door Beatrice would turn to Captain Renoro, "Well then what do we have here..~?" Beatrice said before beginning to expect Renoro from all around inspecting his tail and other features, she even went under his arms lifting them up to investigate his underarms before ending up right in front of him, "Mhm...~ You're definitely a real mink...~" Beatrice said with a toothy smile.

"Well than Renoro~ What makes a mink join the marine's~?" If he didn't answer she wouldn't bother to pray any further and instead tell him he was being rather secretive in a playful manner before dropping dropping the conversation, if he did share with her she would gladly share back that she was looking for someone really important to her. After their light chat was done Beatrice would straighten herself up and put her left hand on the hilt of her sword, "With introductions out of the way~ Let's go patrol the area, it's still day light so the guarantee of finding something is low but we might be able to make some new connections with the people~ That is....if they could stand how we look ufufufu~" Beatrice laughed as she continued to walk towards the exit of the building to get onto the main street in a childlike carefree manner

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Beatrice walked with a light bounce to her step, her carefree manner a heavy contrast to her appearance as she walked outside with a toothy smile. "Hmmmm...~" Beatrice hummed to herself as she thought about Renoro words, "A marine your whole life huh...~?" She turned to face her partner, "That type of dedication...I don't dislike it~"

She pushed the door out of the base open, blinding sunlight immediately blinded her for a moment the causing her to close her eyes for a moment as her eyes even after years of working on the surface hadn't quite adjusted to the degree of light. When her eyes finally readjusted she was meant with the sight of Lulusia's Kingdom moving about, some inspecting food that they would like to purchase, others advertising their own product and groups of people simply chatting among themselves, but what caught her eye the most was that nearly have the people on the street were working on paper lanterns as they glued the pieces together.

"Hmmmm...~" Beatrice hummed again as she walked up to the small group of people holding the paper lanterns in their hand, immediately once she caught their eye they flinched and tried to back up out of fear. "No need to be alarmed humans... I just have a question, why are so many making paper lanterns~?" For a moment the group looked at each other before seemingly walking away ignoring her question, although it happened sometimes to her it was still quite the disheartening scene. Suddenly however she felt a small tap on her leg from behind, when she turned around she was meant with a young human boy, his eyes shone like the deep blue sea while his hair was a deep shade of brown while his clothing was almost if not near identical to her own.

Little Boy:

Keeping to her word Beatrice along with the assistance of Captain Renoro continued to patrol the Common Grounds, her toothy smile and gleeful steps a heavy contrast to the thoughts of the possible whereabouts of her father and the fact that she was stationed so far away from the lead she had spent months just to achieve, the mere thought that her lead would be a dead end by the time she was allowed to follow it angered her yet she kept a composed smile and continued her gleeful skipping as if nothing in the world bothered her.

Meanwhile as time dwindled down the people of Lulusia became more exhilarated for their five year traditional event, everywhere one turned you could hear the converse of people talking about what they had accomplished since the last celebration, what they planned to accomplish before the next one. With the celebration close at hands the stalls filled with variety meats and fruits from different islands had their hands full as people waited in long lines in order to fill their stomach, the tantalizing smell of fresh cooked meat slathered with butter and a type of barbecue sauce was what hit Beatrice nose the hardest.

The smell was so alluring she began to slow down before coming to a stop and looking towards the stalls way, "Renoro...~ I'm hungry...let's get a bite to eat...~" Beatrice made her way to the stall with the alluring smell and began waiting in line, she had stood there for a few moments standing behind a mother and her two children that held her hands as they asked her about the history of Lulusia Kingdom, but it wouldn't be long before one of the children noticed her presence and suddenly became scared hiding behind the clothing of their mother, alarmed the mother looked behind as well only to witness Beatrice toothy smile as she waved a hello, the mother let out a small shriek before she grabbed her two children and ran off.

Naturally as the other customers heard the shriek they became curious only to witness Beatrice toothy smile but yet some of them didn't run as they looked confused by Beatrice's marine attire and the usual coat of justice that told people she wasn't just some marine upstart, rather it be out of respect or confusion the people began moving into two lines allowing her direct access to the stall, despite her earlier mood these did cheer her up a bit and she gave the people a bow as a thank you before she skipped up to the front to place her order, "Six orders of you're finest meat please!" She said eagerly as the smell was permeating her whole body causing her hunger to elevate even more

"Coming right up!" The stall owner said as he began Beatrice order, she bounced from foot to foot at the thought of how soft the meat would be combined with the taste of the slathered barbecue sauce. But as she waited she could hear a small group of people conversing among themselves, the topic of their conversation being that their was an illegal fighting tournament being held deep in the alleys and if you could win at least three matches the pay would be quite the large sum, the voices seemed excited before they began to walk down the alleyway.

Beatrice hummed to herself, "Interesting...Hey stall owner can you please hold our order for us..~" She said as she put the money for the food on the table as well as a tip equal to at least half of the meals cost. "Hey Renoro...~ Looks like we got some work to do..~" Beatrice uttered before walking down the alleyway with her usual gleeful skips


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Total WC: 2,283

Beatrice walked up to the entrance of the alleyway, she could hear the sound of Renoro ravishing the food she had just ordered from behind but her gaze was focused further down the alleyway, about three meters in she could spot the group that had entered it before them just recently heading further down as they shifted towards what she could only assume was a left turn. Soon she felt the slight vibration of the earth as Renoro seemingly finished his meal and was now behind her, "Glad you're no longer hungry..let's go..~" Beatrice said as she made her way down the alleyway, but unlike during the entirety of their patrol Beatrice wasn't skipping, she was definitely walking but her movements were nearly silent in contrast to her skipping earlier.

Her movements were small yet agile as she followed the group through the alleyway system from behind along with Captain Renoro, the group had made several turns throughout the walk but before long the group stopped at a door right in the middle of an alleyway, the door was completely black and was almost similar to the color of charcoal but what confused Beatrice is the bizarre location of it. The group she had tailed knocked on the door and for a moment their was silence before a mechanism behind the door began to spin and the door slowly opened before the leader of the group looked around before ushering everyone inside before the door resealed itself, Beatrice stood their for a few seconds before turning to Renoro, "It seems we stumbled upon some type of secret meeting, let's get down their and see if it's what we're looking for...~"

Beatrice walked over to the door, she took a deep breath before copying the same knocking pattern she had heard earlier, she waited for a moment and for a second she thought she may have performed it wrong before she heard the familiar turning mechanism in the door before it slowly began to open to give way to a fire torch lit tunnel going downward in what seemed to be a spiral, Beatrice looked at Renoro before grabbing the hilt of her blade and traveling down first with caution.

The tunnel spiraling structure proved annoying as it seemingly spun the victim around giving her a light dizzy feeling, in response Beatrice hummed as she spoke, "How perceptive, it seems this route was chosen to spin the people around as to not figure out another entrance to wherever it leads...~" she said out loud as if she was talking to herself yet knowing full well Captain Renoro was their. It had been a nearly several minutes before the long spiraling tunnel lead to a hallway similarly lit to the tunnel, however at the end of the hallway two guards were towards the right seemingly playing a game of cards as they seemed to be conversing with one another while their weapons of choice seemed to be spears that were standing up in the corner of the opposite side of them, the display caused Beatrice to give a toothy smile before speaking, "Novices, I'll take care of them real fast...~"

Beatrice before stepping into from out of the tunnel swung her hand over her shoulder and unclasped her marine coat of justice letting it drop to the floor, she then looked at Renoro giving him a toothy smile and a thumbs up before she moved out and into the hallway walking at a steady pace as she approached the two guards, one of the guards gaze had loomed over and he had managed to see her out of the corner of his eye, alarmed the guard snapped up out of his seat reaching over the table to grab his spear that also sprung the other guard into action before they presumably moved into a guarding position as they started yelling in a demanding tone, "STOP RIGHT THEIR! PUT YOUR WEAPON UP!"

Beatrice did as the man said and stopped moving while hoisting up her blade in the air, "NOW STEP FORWARD AND TOSS IT IN THE AIR! DON'T MAKE ANY OTHER SUDDEN MOVES EITHER OR WERE KILL YOU!"  The guard threatened, Beatrice couldn't help let out a chuckle as she stepped forward swinging her blade forward, but this time she didn't follow their command as she ran forward in a sprint, one soldier had been occupied with trying to catch her weapon while the one who made the threat stepped forward in a large motion as he tried to pierce Beatrice with his spear, however the guards movement had been entirely too wide and narrow and Beatrice ducked under the fierce thrust causing the guard to miss, with her lowered position Beatrice swung her right leg out in a sweep kick, her cybernetic enchantments proving to be quite sturdy and under the force of her kick the men's flesh yielded before her kick made impact with his bone for a split moment before intense pain shot through the guardsmen leg(2 Strength) while causing him to lose balance.

Just in the nick of time the other guard had managed to catch her sword while the fallen guardsmen spear had dropped in her hand as he was going down, Beatrice being familiar with spears swung it around easily before flicking the staff all the way around hitting the other guardsmen right in the neck causing them to gasp for air before Beatrice changed the direction of the staff flicking them men head straight up with the blunt end knocking them out while they held her sword, the other guard that had been knocked down attempted to get up but Beatrice simply slammed her cybernetic foot against his face knocking him out as well. "Renoro~ It's time to come out..~" Beatrice called for Captain Renoro as she bended down to pick up her blade before setting her sights on the large double door, she then would look at Renoro and point towards the door, "Knock it down please..~"


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Total WC: 3,302

Beatrice eyes widened in surprise as she watched as Captain Renoro seemingly came forward following her order to knock the door down, it was a flash but she recognized the glint of the beginning stage of haki as he slammed a double palm strike into the center of the door causing it to be reduced to splinters knocking down the guardsmen that had rushed to the door upon hearing the two Beatrice knocked out.

The new sight that was before them was a large crowd, some had been cheering and others angry as they watched two fighters down below in a circular ring that seemed to be sizing each other up before they attacked. Although they had broken the door down tp get inside they had been about nearly 343 people their and their deafening sound drowned out their entrance into the large space although the cracked splinters of the wooden door had managed to launch itself into the very back of the crowd gathering some of the attention of the back crowd that consisted of at least several people, upon seeing Renoro's marine coat of justice they quickly became afraid as some of them seemed to murmur something before getting up from their seats and seemingly made skittish movements as they headed away, Beatrice noticed their direction and it was directly towards another wooden door.

"Hmmm...I see..~ So this is the fighting arena I heard them mention...judging by that crowd reaction this is definitely an illegal tournament..~ More so than that it seems their are multiple secret entrances to this arena and the entire thing is even enforced with metal walls...fufufufu, this is quite the find. No doubt this arena is flowing with all types of criminals...~" Beatrice said while laughing to herself as she was beginning to get interested.

Beatrice basically hopped to face Renoro directly from his side, a big toothy smile all the while, "So why didn't you tell me...~!" She said excitedly, "When were you gonna spill you can use beginner haki..you must be pretty reliable Captain Renoro...I like that...~" Beatrice grinned from ear to ear, all the while a few of the other guards noticed them from across the arena and were beginning to send reinforcements before they ruined the show, Renoro who was a great deal taller would be able to notice this before Beatrice did.

Although Beatrice hadn't notice this she seemingly turned to face the arena, "Well you can explain it to me later...~ It's time to shut this place down...I'm going to thin out the herd a bit to grab the attention of the real stubborn criminals...things might be dangerous but I'm sure you're be fine...probably...~" Beatrice said tilting her head in a carefree smile, if Renoro was sane enough he might have realized his commanding officer was a bit crazy. "Well off I go...~" Beatrice said before running forward, her body began to spark up with electricity as she leaped over the crowd at a descending arch angle that was nearly ten and a half meters from where she stood, all the while hand her legs starting lighting up as she curled into a ball before a sudden explosive power propelled her forward as she held her blade tightly in her hand, the result was Beatrice was in a rapid spinning motion and as she approached the ground she released all that pent up motion swinging her sword downward with extreme force {3 Strength} as she landed two meters away from the arena, the force of her swing causing even the metal enforced ground to crack in a three meter wide cone that stretched out three meters pass the arena for a total of five meters.

The crowd was silent, they had all fixed their gaze towards Beatrice, some muttered now wondering who the hell she was and why she interrupted the fight but her display of power had kept it to a minimum, Beatrice seemingly put her hand to her mouth as she coughed to clear her throat, "Good evening everyone...~" She said in a loud clear voice with a air headed tone to it, "This arena is restricted as illegal in Lulusia Kingdom, although it is under Lulusia Kingdom it is still within it's territory hereby making this an illegal affair and all of you accomplices making you all criminals...~" Beatrice said plainly, "Therefore if you would all stay where you are as I call in back up to arrest you that would be real nice of you...~ "Beatrice said with a cheerful smile asking nicely before making a surprised face, "Ohhh, I am Beatrice Yaeger, Marine Commodore so please don't make a struggle.. as I wouldn't want to increase you're punishment...~" She said finishing off with a toothy smile.

Their was now complete silence at her response before a large portion of the crowd started to laugh at her while some others begin making their exit, even the fighters that had been on the stage began to laugh at her while she stood their continuing to smile unfazed by the sound of their laughter. Some of the crowd began to yell things like "Get her off the stage!" others yelled, "Kill that fish men already" and some even yelled, "It's only one brat, get the guards", as if on cue five guards began to make their way down and began approaching Beatrice, she turned her head to the approaching five and gave a wider toothy smile, "I see..resistance is it..I guess it can't be helped...~"

Beatrice seemingly rushed at the first guard, as she ran she spun on her pivot while unleashing a wide swing right to the side of their rib causing them to stumble and fall the opposite way, when the person behind him came at her she flipped her sheath around in her hand before leaping up to their height and swinging it downward slightly towards the left whacking them directly on the top of their head knocking them out with a quick strike to their temple while pulling out her blade from it's sheath as she landed only to do a leaping back flip to gain some distance from the guards before landing back on the ground displaying a toothy smile.

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Total WC: 4,351