Please enjoy! This is my new story, it is set when the Whitebeard pirates are taking Luffy into their ship, and are escaping, leaving Ace and Whitebeard alone there, by his orders.
"Get Ace's little brother onto the ship!" A man shouted, picking Luffy up from the ground, and eyeing the wound scaring his chest, magma was plunging into it, and blood was spilling everywhere, Jimbei ran over to him, Ace was dead, Whitebeard was badly injured, Luffy was...Who knows what Luffy's going through? All the Whitebeard pirates were focusing on was getting out of this place, Whitebeard had decided to sacrifice himself for his crew to be able to escape along with Ace's younger brother, so chaos was erupting. Jimbei tightened his grip onto Luffy, as he looked over at Whitebeard one last time before running up onto the last Whitebeard ship remaining. Following him was the remaining of the Pirates that risked their life for Ace.
"Bring the injured in here!" Pirates were running around, trying to start the ship up, fight off Marines, and treat the injured at the same time, Luffy was dragged into the sick bay, barley clinging onto consciousness. Jimbei layed him down on a free bed carefully, and made his way out of the room to give them some privacy in order to treat Luffy and the others.
The place was full of shouts from pirates, saying their last words to Whitebeard and Ace, Marineford was getting smaller and smaller, and the Marines were being held back by Whitebeard, so they set off, tears were in everyone's eyes as they knew the fate that befell their Captain, THEIR Pirate King.
"What are you going to do, Marco?" Jimbei asked, as they stared up at the many stars penetrating the sky.
"I've got no idea." He replied, "I will most likely continue to be a pirate..." His voice trailed off, Jimbei nodded and sighed, things were going to be different without out Whitebeard around, Thats for sure. Jimbei got up and dusted his clothes,
"Well, where is our course set to go?" He asked, a questionable look upon his face, Marco smiled slightly,
"Were set for Sabaody Archipelago." He said, reaching for the door, "It's a random place to be going, but we don't have any other place to go really."
"Yes, Thats true i guess." He turned to Marco, "Thats were we'll part." Marco nodded understandingly.
"Need to get back to fishman island, right?"
"Yeah."
"Men, time for dinner!" The bell sounded through the ship, men in bandages rushed into the room, snatching food from the plates, gobbling the food down with delight,
"Hah, I was really hungry!"
"Uh-huh, me too!"
"Heh."
"Jimbei, you going to eat?"
"Y-yeah sure." Jimbei turned to the doctor, "How is he?"
"Well, excluding the physical wound caused by Akiano, his mind seems to be in a frantic mess," The man paused, "And he had some bad wounds from before, also he seemed to have been poisoned not far in the past." He man looked at Jimbei with a serious face, "He hasn't fully recovered from that, so He's not doing so well."
"I understand."
"Anyway, it's up to his will to live."
"Yeah." Jimbei looked in the direction of the sick bay and sighed, he had to live!
"Marco Sir!" A man ran up to Marco, huffing and puffing, "There's a ship approaching us!"
"Pirate or Marine?"
"Pirate!" The man paused,
"What's it's flag?"
"A skull with a straw hat on!"
"That's Luffy-Kun's ship!" Jimbei said, entering the room. Marco nodded to him,
"Let them on."
"Roger!"
"SERIOUSLY?" Usopp ran around, trying to find a really good hiding place, "WERE GOING ONTO WHITEBEARD'S SHIP?"
"Yeah." Zoro said, Sanji nodded in a approving matter. "We have to find Luffy!"
"B-But, W-well, W-why do W-we have t-to look in t-their s-ship?"
"Because the news report specifically said that Luffy was taken into there ship!" Nami said, pointing to the ship they were approaching.
"Let them on!" a man shouted from the ship, "There allies." Luffy's whole crew stepped onto the ship, looking around for any sign of Luffy, their captain.
"Your looking for Luffy-Kun I presume." Jimbei waked up to them, pointing to a room, "He's in there." They walked up carefully, and Usopp opened the door, gasping when he saw Luffy. Motionless. Foodless. But most impotently, Brotherless. Nami walked over to Luffy quickly, followed by Chopper, who de-attached all the equipment, Zoro and Sanji carefully lifted Luffy up, and they walked out with him, their faces grim.
"We'll be taking him," Zoro paused, "Thanks for helping him."
"Yeah, no problem." Marco smiled, as he patted Luffy on the head slightly, "You gotta live now!" He said, walking back to the crowd of pirates.
"Tell Luffy-Kun that I'll wait for him at Fishman island!" Jimbei said, turning to look at all of Luffy's crew, "So your the crew he's been telling me about," He paused, "You meet his expectations and more!"
"Thanks again~" Usopp wailed out, as the rowboat took them back to their ship, "For helping him I mean!"
"No Prob!"
"Oi, will he be okay Chopper?"
"I-I'm not sure, he needs treatment quickly!" He replied, leaning close to Luffy's chest, "His breathing is slowing down!"
"Hurry Zoro, Sanji!" Nami cried out, tears flowing out of her eyes like rain, "Row faster!"
"We're trying Nami Swan~"
Not very good, I know, but hey, it's a start at least! PLEASE REVIEW! Ace wants you to~~