The Soaring Pirates dead! The Starks' heartfelt reunion

The girl continued to sob this time quietly as the man took her to the cliff. She didn't care where he took her, as long as he was in her life once more. She missed him greatly, and it could tell on her face. It was puffy and red, her eyes were in the same state. It was if she hadn't cried in years, which she hadn't. She had stopped crying when she was four, and had cried for her nakama once. This was literally the second time since she has cried in over ten years. Sniffling slightly, the girl listened to the man in front of her. She wondered why he abandoned her, why he said it wasn't her turn yet.

"What isn't my turn, yet? Why wouldn't it be my turn yet?" She had a lot of questions, and wanted answers to all of them. She had grown strong since he had disappeared, due to her having to live alone and couldn't rely on other people. She wanted to tell him what she's been doing for the past four years, that she was trying to live up to his legacy, that she was going to reveal herself as his daughter when she was twenty and continue his work, but this time she would destroy the Marines first instead of being called into a war during their conquering.

She wanted to do so much in his memory, and walk in his footsteps. She wanted to be his real biological daughter instead of thinking of him as her father, which he was. "Why couldn't you send a message saying you were alive, and explain why you couldn't come find me. I've been searching for the past four years ever since news of your death reached my ears. I've been searching for your Devil Fruit, and continue your legacy…. I even took up your last name in secret, so I could reveal it when the time was right to the world…" She said to the man in front of her, with her head lowered. She should've known that he would live, despite being tossed into the sea by the marines.

The girl should have known that the Marines were just blowing out hot air. That they weren't telling the truth about them killing him like all the others. She sniffled slightly as the tears and sobs stopped. She didn't want to look like a little crybaby in front of one of the only men she respected. She respected all of the other members of the crew, and even saw them as parents, but he shined even brighter than all of the others in her eyes. He was the one that took her in when no one wanted her, he taught her how to use haki to defend herself. Gray did so much for her, and she wanted to repay him for everything even if he were dead.

Sora listened to the man that talked in front of him, she got his reasons for staying away for as long as he did, though why couldn't he visit her first and take her with him, with the other kids. Be like the way they use to be, or at the very least help the children grow stronger so they wouldn't die in this world. She didn't know what happened to the other children, she had not heard from them, though she was constantly moving around almost randomly in her search for the Pressure Pressure fruit. The girl did not want to meet the others, they honestly didn't interest her in the least anymore.

Sora wanted a new family, a new nakama to replace the old one. She felt the breeze start up. It felt good, to cool herself off for a bit. The air was salty from the ocean, it was how she liked it. The girl loved the fresh sea air, it was part of the reason why she had a basic raft so a ship did not filter out any of the lovely scent that came from the air around her. The white haired girl thought for a couple minutes. She didn't know what she was going to do now that she knew that he was alive and well. Sora didn't know what she wanted now that she knew that he was alive and well.

There however was one thing she wanted to do, it was spar with him. The last time she did was a month before the war that ended the lives of most of her family. She wanted to know how far she's progressed since the last time she had fought with him. Since then, she had given up using a knife to fight, and had started to use her own version of melee combat. It was partly due to her gaining a devil fruit, but it was worth giving up the knife. She could seriously surprise him with how much she's grown, and her devil fruit powers.

"Gray, can we spar? I want to see how much, I've grown these past four years. I know I will more than likely lose, but I want to see how far I've gone on my own journey," she said. Gone was the little girl that was crying for her father to hold her, gone was the little girl that was bitter about her entire family going off and dying without her. Gone was the girl that wanted to lash out at the world, in her place came a warrior that wanted nothing more than to fight. Even though she still wanted to topple the government, she wanted to do so with a crew of her own making.

The girl wanted to go to war with a family of her own making, she wanted to do the one thing that Gray had never done. She was going to fight Marineford head on and win. Her resolve was ironclad about her new goals. Sora no longer wanted to fight the world government while wanting to die in combat, no… Now she wanted to fight the world government and win. She wanted to win to avenge her family, and to prove to the world that anyone can rise above the titans in the world and indeed win against them if they put all of their willpower into it.

Sora smirked at him while he still hadn't realized that she had taken up his last name. It was a fun game, revealing something shocking while waiting for him to finally realize that she had done so like that. She had been counting the seconds until he said her full name, and at the end of his reprimand of her, she said, "I did say in secret. The World Idiots do not know my connection to you, nor do they know of me being a former Soaring Pirate. I've been waiting to reveal that information, waiting until I'm strong enough to defend myself from anything under a full Admiral. Then by that time, I was planning on having a nakama that could help in taking one of them down."

The girl wasn't stupid as to say what her full name was, she was pretty smart and had been planning most of her moves ahead of time. "Though, I suppose they will realize that I was a Soaring Pirate after that vice admiral reports in on seeing a Supernova attacking you, and you knowing said supernova," she said while planning on showing him her wanted poster after the friendly duel.

She shrugged slightly, it was a little ahead of schedule for her tastes, but it didn't really matter to the girl in the long run. Sora was planning on revealing the information in a few months time anyways, and didn't care a wick about revealing said information. After that she listened closely to what he was saying next. She watched his movements while keeping ready for him. She wondered if he was wondering if she still used knives like she did on the Adventia.

Her style evolved since then, she discontinued the use of knives when she had eaten her fruit. She couldn't use the knives in conjunction with her fruit and so taught herself an improvised form of melee combat that centered around her explosive paramecia. The girl smirked while waiting until he said show him how she was planning on beating the world.

In that instant, she ran towards him. She usually kept her knives in her sleeves making people think that she was simply going to use her body. In the last instant, she would pull them out and slice into the opponent. But that was no longer her style of combat, the style that he was use to from her. Sora hoped that he would be completely surprised at her not taking out the knives in the last instant, helping her to attack him in his surprise. She had gotten faster, stronger, and more durable since her days on the Adventia. The girl did not slack off in her training, not one bit and was at the very least three times as strong as she was on the Adventia.

While she ran at him, she had started to prep one of her techniques. In mid-run Sora launched her right index finger into her right nostril and dug in deeply. The girl dug in for a good booger, slowly the girl pulled it out. It was a huge wad, and it was slightly bloody from the picking. Not that the girl cared in the least about that. She had everything that she needed to perform her doubled petard booger blast.

When the girl got within five meters of the man, she aimed the booger directly at him and said, "Doubled Petard Booger Blast." Flicking it with all of her force towards the man, she continued to run at him. Due to the extra force behind the explosive and bloody booger, it flew faster than what the girl could run. But that wasn't her main attack, no… She was planning on using that as a way to make cover for her to unleash her real attack. The booger was aimed at the man's feet! More specifically around a tenth of a meter in front of the man. The booger would land and explode in front of the man. Whether or not the man would be caught up in the explosion, the girl didn't know.

But what she did know, was that the bomb would throw up a bunch of dust to cover what she was really planning on doing, she was planning on using the dust to jump above him and attempt to kick his face in with a Dynamite Kick. Entering the dust that was created by the booger bomb, she launched herself above the man, and prepared her main attack. Upon falling towards the man, Sora drew back her right leg.

The muscles were prepared to send her foot into the man's face. Finally when the proper amount of strength was saved up for the girl, she launched her leg and foot forward towards the man'd face. While it flew, Sora prepared the explosive kick to explode on contact.

While the kick flew towards the man's face that she was attempting to kick, the girl had primed the explosive-laced kick and declared, "Dynamite Kick." She had gone too far to stop not, the girl wanted to test her mettle against Gray, the strongest man in the world. What she didn't realize that he wasn't the strongest man in the world. That title went to one of the current Yonkou, but she didn't know that. She wanted to see how strong she was, compared to Gray.

As Sora rushed the man that partially raised her, she felt pressure build up and launch her away from him. The force of the pressure sent her over the cliff and towards the ocean below, thinking rapidly the girl decided to test out an idea that she had. Sora sorely hoped that it would work or she'd be dead. Killed by Gray's overpowered ass, it was something the girl wanted to avoid. Bracing herself, and aiming herself at one of the rocks that were perched just above the water, the girl landed on the rock in a crouch before jumping into the air while making an explosion at her feet to propel herself higher. In that single leap, the girl was about to cover 20 meters before starting to fall.

With another burst at her feet she was propelled higher and higher until she got to the top of the cliff which was around a hundred meters high. Panting while clutching her legs, the girl knew that she had damaged herself by doing something that she had never done before. But it was a good first attempt to do what she had done. She hoped to get it to be faster and feel almost like she's teleporting from the ground to mid air.

But the girl knew she was spent, from the damage of Gray's attack to the damage from her test to save her own life. Sora knew without a doubt if she were to continue to fight as she was, she'd no doubt lose anyways. She had a good feel of her own power compared to Gray's now. She was still too weak to do anything to the man. She vowed right then and there never to lose again, until she had beat the man standing in front of her.