What if: Mele died before escaping from the Human Auctioning House?

They were all escaping from the events that had just come to be.

She along with a guy named Dominic helped her along with destroying the dreaded auction house of Sabaody Archipelago. She herself couldn't believe that she had actually successfully finished off the building for good, and she was actually being helped.

She continued to keep running her pace while running, bubbles floating aimlessly around her. Then her partner stopped to a sudden halt.

"Why'd you stop?!" she asked fiercely, fear coating the sound of her voice.

Dominic looked glumly to the ground, "Have you thought about those pirates that were helping us?" he whimpered. "After we saved their comrade they promised to help us and then they went off to the Tennryubito's...but I started thinking what would happen if they didn't take down any and an admiral was sent or-" he was cut off by Mele.

"Don't look down on them!" she shouted "First thing is they even bothered to help us at the risk of their lives! No one would just gamble their lives away like that! Almost every person in history has not done something so life risking for mere entertainment, even if they did they'd know the consequences of death!"

Dominic had a silent smile on his face. "Maybe... perhaps you're right, no one would do something and not be able to not do something." he said quietly looking at her for a quick second and then looked back up.

They continued their pace of running yet again and met with the group of pirates known as the 'Pantless Pirates'.

Their crew was small yet they were often underestimated. Mele could see right off the bat a rookie was in a crew, and with a high bounty. She was reminded of Domi who was also a rookie. She was surprised when the rookie's eyes widened along with the captain's.

"Vani... Paty... What's wrong?" asked a girl with long blonde hair.

"Someone strong is coming..." the girl named Vani had nervously said.

The captain shook her head and then turned around very quickly "We need to get out of here as quickly as we can or-" she was interrupted when a sudden explosion happened in front of them.

Vani let out a scream of fear when her leg was gripped by a sudden hot motion. Her leg turned to water and as a reaction the water turned to steam. She made a slapping motion and water hit the source of the heat.

She ran and flew somewhere behind them, she was gasping whispers of "No not him!" and "Why him, why him!?" Mele could see tears running down the younger girl's face; she must have obviously had some bad encounters with this man.

Then she saw Paty giving orders to a bluenette, she could clearly hear her telling the girl to run out the premises and find a safe enough escape route.

While she was not paying attention to her surroundings a fire ball was launched towards her, and when she took notice to it, it was going to be too late. But then a guy with bandages helped her and kicked out the fireball, of course he got burnt and Vani had to go over and pour water on his leg.

Mele looked at Vani closely; her tears were already dried and she seemed like she was ready to fight.

"Hey Vani..." Mele whispered "Why where you acting like that earlier?" She looked towards the now foggy area in front of them.

Vani's eyes flickered with sadness and then she took a deep breath. "That's because he is no normal man..." she said quietly "He was one of the three admirals and now he is the Fleet Admiral…it's him…Akainu."

Mele's eyes widened in fear and shock, she never expected him of all people to be here, and especially since the War of Marineford happened the Marines have been on high watch, so why would they send their strongest person just for the Tennryubitos?

"W-what, are you serious?!" Mele cried out as she looked at the clearing steam. Her heart felt like it dropped to her stomach. Then when the steam cleared her eyes couldn't even believe themselves anymore.

There he was with his fierce and harsh scowl planted onto his face. He carefully glanced around the area, and towards the band what he assumed were the pirates that attacked the Tennryubitos.

"How pitiful… that people like you are pirates." He then glared toward Vani "Especially you, attacking your own kin. I have to make sure not to kill you, since you're a special case."

Mele looked at him confused, until she deciphered the message. Vanice is a Tennryubito. She looked towards the girl who looked like she lost the color of her body; she could only guess she had no choice but to run away and live a life that wasn't related to being the highest class noble. Yet she couldn't shake off the feeling of hatred for the girl. She just hated this feeling, this feeling of anger, suffering and pure malice.

Akainu laughed at Mele and then looked at Vani and went towards her. Vani backed up until she collided with a tree, "No please! I don't want to go back to the hell hole!" Vani shrieked on the top of her lungs, and tears dropping down her cheeks. Then the girl's eyes went blank for a while.

"Fine… just take me and leave the others alone!" She finally said "Just take me back to Mariejois, and leave them be…"

Akainu let out a short but excited laugh. "I'm sorry but no." he said simply "I can't let people who don't follow absolute justice live."

Vani looked at the man with disbelief, then she tried to fly upwards but this was proven to be futile when Akainu grabbed her arm harshly. "Too late girl, you're going back at the expense of your friend's lives."

Paty was angered at the fact that Akainu had threatened her nakama and was forcing one of her to go back to what the girl described as hell. She couldn't allow this to happen.

Lian watched in horror as her captain stood up and grabbed her guitar. The guitar's mechanics whirring and howling as it released bullets at a high speed.

Akainu noticed this and jumped up from his current location. "At first I thought they were your average lead bullets, until I used my haki to know they were sea-stone coated bullets." He said "If I was weaker then maybe perhaps I would have died faster, but I'm in no means weak."

Paty gritted her teeth as she gripped her guitar; she wasn't going to lose her comrades so easily. She was surprised at the next moves of her friends they suddenly started to attack Akainu.

Of course Akainu was at a different level than them so they were flicked off like fleas, but they still continued to attack him.

Mele watched as one by one as each person was trying until they were breathless. She saw the raw hatred in Vani's eyes and the determination in her friend's eyes. She was amazed that even though the younger girl's bloodlines were wretched, they still had faith and her and still loved her as a friend.

Vani had enough, she bit the man's arm and flew up; water splashing onto the lava man. She then flew towards Domi and Mele. She made a small smile towards Domi. "Even though you barely even know me you still tried to fight against him?" she asked.

Domi gave a thumbs up and a smile "Of course, you're my friend now aren't you, and besides your friends were really amazing back there so I just had to do something about it."

Unknown to them, Paty was being targeted by the lava man. Mele was the one who noticed this and yelled out to Paty. "PATY HE'S HEADING RIGHT TOWARDS YOU!" she yelled as loud as she could, and gave a sigh of relief when the brunette dodged the punch that was headed towards her. She looked around for Akainu but he was nowhere to be found.

"Where'd he…" She stopped when she felt a massive amount of heat on her abdomen, and then saw the shocked face of Vani.

The whole world was spinning for Mele. The pain and heat was so strong she thought she would melt; it wasn't until Akainu released his arm from Mele's body and gave a sneer grin.

"This is what happens when you mess with the Marines." He scoffed "Maybe you should have just come with me instead of watching your friend slowly suffer."

Vani and Paty ran towards Mele, who was coughing out blood. "Mele…" Paty said with tears in her eyes "Despite not getting to know you and not getting to travel to seas as nakama…I just want you to know that it's almost as if we've known each other since the beginning." She grabbed Mele's hand and felt as it slowly got colder by the second.

Everyone in the crew approached Mele, nearly all of them having tears in their eyes or looking away so no one would see them cry.

"You are the history…" Mele stuttered "…that will change the future and what it is to come."

"Mele… you are always a beloved Pantless Pirate." Paty hiccupped "Always, because you are our friend and friends are forever together."

Mele gave a small smile, and closed her eyes forever.

One Year Later

Allison wondered where the crew was going, since it hadn't been a long time that she had joined the crew. But they seemed extremely lethargic. Well most of the older crew members were extremely depressed. It was only six months since she joined and since they reunited last week from training at Castle Garden for the rest of the five months. She already noticed major differences in the crew by appearance and behavior.

Sara looked up ahead "Hey guys, we're approaching Kitts Island!" she yelled loudly from the crow's nest.

Allison was extremely confused at the point; she thought they were heading towards Sabaody. "Hey, I thought we were heading towards Sabaody." Allison asked. She was given a few 'Yeah why aren't we at Sabaody' from half of the entire crew.

Vani flew down from the crow's nest. "Oi, we're just making a small stop for this island since some of us have something important to do." She said sharply, flicking her blonde bangs out of the way "Right Captain?"

Paty walked out of the music room with her hoodie covering her head… "Y-yeah I guess…" She said quietly.

They soon approached the island and the crewmates that had been in the crew the longest had left the ship.

Allison followed the crew secretly, but she was surprised that instead of heading towards the shop they headed towards a hill where a small church was located.

She watched as they approached a rather large grave with bright flowers put neatly around it. The large words craved on it read "Mele: A brave friend and pirate."

Allison didn't notice that Sara snuck behind her. "What are you doing here?" She asked. Allison jumped in surprise. "I just wanted to know where you guys headed…" Allison mumbled.

"Just staying for a while to say hello." Sara said "We are heading towards New World, so it might be possible we might never come back here again."

"Was she in your crew?" Ali asked. "Yeah, she left us in Sabaody a year ago… we just thought we should pay our respects to her."

Allison walked down to grave marker. She touched the grave, and she thought for a minute she heard someone say "Hello."