"Talking"
"Attacks"
'Thinking'
"YELLING/SCREAMING"
"author notes"
STRESSED WORDS
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"Franky! Robin! Brook!" screamed Luffy, in a combination of misery and pure rage. The admiral Kizaru, simply stood there, his face a slight frown.
"Hhhhhuuuu, I think I told you to suuurreeennder straw hat."(A,N:honestly, I cannot write this guy when he's talking) the admiral said with that stuck-out-lip look.
Pointing his finger at Luffy, a four pointed star formed, signifying one of his laser attacks. "Now just give up okaaaaay?"
"I'll kill you! I'LL KILL YOOOUUUU!" he threw back his arm, it stretching fifty feet behind him. He suddenly began steaming, and his arm turned black, before it burst into flame. "Second Gear-Armament . . . Gum Gum: FIRE FIST!"
His arm launched forward, only for Kizaru to seemingly turn into hundreds of spheres of light, move out the way, and reassemble behind Luffy. "I guess not eeehhhhh." He prepared to fire and . . .
. . . The sound of something getting sliced echoed through the air, and the light from Kizaru's finger faded, before he fell to the ground, the back of his head and a portion of his neck gone. "A true warrior never lets down his guard and is always aware of his surroundings," Zoro was behind him, wado dripping blood.
"Zoro! Y-y-you're alive!" Luffy shot forward and pulled the swordsman into a hug for a minute, crying.
"Yeah, me and chief pervert over there," he replied, a miserable look on his face.
"S-s-shut-up moss head!" Sanji screamed at the green haired swordsman between sobs. "If I had just been stronger, I could of saved him!" he was standing over Robin and Nami's bodies.
Luffy looked down at his hands. 'Today, I killed, for the first time! Well, at least first time on purpose. But, they wouldn't stay down! They just kept coming on and on and on! But . . . I don't like this feeling! Killing and innocent man, even a soldier out to kill me . . .
"Come on, we need to get out of here. Who do we know is dead, and who might be alive?" questioned Zoro. "So far I have seen Chopper, Franky, Brook, Robin, and Nami. That leaves us and Usopp." Said Zoro, who was putting on a brave face, despite looking like he was about to burst into tears.
"Then let's go find him!" Luffy practically roared, desperate to find anyone who might be alive. He shot of like a rocket, feet blurring together as he searched over the battle field.
Luffy could only tell himself it wasn't his fault they were dead. Come on! How could anyone fight a triple buster call, lead by two admirals? That came out to thirty vice admirals, several hundred captains, and at least thirty thousand normal marines! That was over a third of the marine's side of Marineford war! Who could win against that?
… Whitebeard, that's who could win! Why? He had an armada! But Luffy had insisted on quality over quantity, so hear they were. Whitebeard? He had BOTH. That's why! He reached the edge of a cliff, and looked out at the wreckage of the ships. He had tricked them into firing on each other by jumping from one to another until all but six sunk. Then they had fired onto the island, killing their own troops! Absolute justice his backside! Why kill hundreds, no thousands of his own men just to get 9 pirates! To satisfy a vow to let "neither get away" by Akainu, that's what!
He jumped down to the beach bellow. Looking out at the one retreating ship, the one his gear third attacks didn't destroy; he narrowed his eyes and whispered, "I'll make the world government pay. I'll tear it down and let my dad build something else! I'll rip that son of . . .
"Uffy . . . et . . . off . . . hi . . . knose!" Luffy looked down, jumped up, shot his hands three feet into the sand, ripped the still alive (though just barly) Usopp out of where he was buried when an explosion took place a little to close and put him in a hug that nearly finished him off, and did knock him out.
(Later that night)
"Hey, he's waking up!" Zoro's voice rang clearly through the cool night air. Usopp groaned and gripped his head. "Ow! What happened? Did an elephant step on my head or something?"
He looked around and found that he was lying in a sleeping bag around a fire. It looked like wood from the battle ships they were burning. They were in some sort of cave. Then, something was trying to crush him! He panicked for a moment, before he realized it was Luffy. "Thank goodness you're awake! I was scared I'd lost you to!" he sobbed.
"Whoa! Luffy! What are you talking about?" he asked.
"He means that you, me and hypnotist eyebrow over there are the only ones left." Answered Zoro.
"WHAT! You mean . . . everyone? Were all that's left? Franky, Nami, Robin, Chopper, brook? All . . . God no! They can't be . . ."
". . . They're dead." Finished Sanji, who was sitting in the corner of the cave looking like he was traumatized. Which considering what had happened to them that day, he probably was.
After Usopp recovered from his shock, he looked to Luffy and asked. "So captain, what now?"
Luffy looked at his surviving friends, and frowned. "I didn't want to say this until you were all awake, but were putting the hunt for One Piece on hold."
Their eyes shot wide hearing this, and they stared at Luffy in shock. "WHAT!?"
We are going to . . . make the world government pay for this!" he continued. "The world government makes itself look like the good guys, but do you think that's what they are to the people of Ohara? No! those people were slaughtered, because less the one twentieth of the population of that island wanted to know more about history, and the government has some big bad dirty secret back then, so what happens? They say, you're trying to revive a super weapon and destroy the world. Kill EVERYONE! Only Robin got away! And then there's the whole, one of your parents was evil, execute the one year old for being related to him!, thing! They say anyone who isn't with the world government is evil!"
"What I'm saying is . . . I'm going to Baltigo! I'm going to join my father and I'm not going to hunt for one piece until he's one that war of his!"He looked at his surviving crew and said. "If you want to go our separate ways, I understand, but . . .
"Shut up and let's go." Said Usopp.
"When I lost to Mihawk, I decided I'd follow you to hell if necessary, I'm going." Zoro smirked
"Yah, and chances are the revolutionary's are all eating slop, so I'll go whip there cooks into shape." Sanji said with a look of new propose (I've got 10 bucks that says he's thinking of Sabo's partner from Dressrosa).
Luffy stairs for a minute, before he falls to his knees and begins to cry. "Thank you."
They remain in those positions for a few minutes, before Sanji sighs and says. "We better get some sleep. We need to find a way to refloat the sunny, luckily that hull in the hull's only about two feet round, and then get the water out. So let's sleep."
(The next day)
They were currently working on repairing the hole in Sunny's side, and cursing not seeing Kizaru's attack until it was too late. They had managed to pull their ship on shore and drained the water out, although there was still a foot or so of water still in the bottom.
"Hey, Usopp, you sure that we should be using this glue instead of nails?" asked Zoro.
"Yes, the hull is made out of Adams wood, so nails would break before the cannon balls got through, so unless we have time to take out the whole board and replace it, than we use the glue Franky made for such emergencies to patch it," answered the long-nosed sniper.
"Ok, got it," Sanji called from where he was getting the emergency repairs wood supply.
"Uh, guys, we have a problem." Luffy roared from about a hundred feet down the beach.
"What could top yesterday!" Zoro asked.
"Akainu."
"Akainu?"
"Akainu."
". . . Damn."
"Yah, let's get out of here, fast." Usopp said shivering in fear.
"We can't, we haven't totally sealed the hole!" Sanji yelled.
"Ok, I'll distract him! You guys just get away!" Luffy yelled as he ran towards the incoming marine ship.
(at the ship)
Now, the "Righteous Pyre" wasn't much different from most navy ships in design. It had the same number of sails, same body, and the same symbol on the flag. But, it also had some notable differences. First of all, behind the navy symbol on the flag (as in part of the flag, not actually behind the flag) was a torch, with blood red flames. The paint on the hull of the ship was also a volcanic red in place of the usual green, blue. And finally, it had a large dog, the same kind that was used to hunt escaped criminals, was used for the figure head.
In sort, it stuck out like a ruby in a bucket of emeralds when sailing in a fleet.
This was the personal ship of a fleet admiral. Designed and captained by Akainu. And it was on this small, unnamed, island that until yesterday had only goats and wild dogs as inhabitants.
"Stay back. This is between me and Straw Hat!" the Admiral roared to his crew of several hundred, before turning to the island. 'Straw Hat, at last you will be punished for your sins!"
"What sins have so many of them committed? Raising a flag! What of the innocent people of that city! You, son of a . . ." a voice echoed in his head. "I can't think of that boy!" He murmured. "Besides, he was killed by . . . that traitor before his ideals changed. His frown deepened, before he saw Luffy standing on the edge of the island, looking at him, a look of loathing clear on his face.
"Don't try to attack him, he's mine." The admiral snarled, before jumping to shore.
The two looked at each other for a second, before the admiral spoke. "So, you survived the ambush, huh?"
"Yah!" the pirate spoke with a grin that quickly vanished. "But you killed my brother, so I have to kick your ass! Gum Gum: jet pistol!"
The rubberman's fist, black coated with Haki, collided with the admiral's jaw, driving him back a few steps.
(A.N. I don't know the name of most of the Akainu's attacks. So I'm not going to include the names. At least until I learn.)
Reeling back his fist, and coating it in magma till it was five feet wide, he shot forward with a punch. Luffy jumped straight up, bending back so that the fist went directly under his back. Completing a clockwise rotation, he sent a Haki coated fist straight down into the back of the admiral's head, causing him to stumble forward.
The admiral turned and began to fire globes of magma at Luffy, who continuously jumped out of the way, before shooting his forward and slamming both fists into the man's chest, sending him skidding back. He recovers quickly, and charged forward, both sent forward a powerful punch, one black with a red undertone, the other glowing with the magma it was formed of, resulting in a shockwave as the two attacks collided.
(A.N. you know that scene in the war when Akainu turns his whole body into magma? I don't know whether to describe that look as heavenly or hellish, it's a bit of both)
The two men stared into each other's eyes for a second, as if in a staring contest ad neither could look away. Suddenly the both shot back, before sending a barrage of blurring punches and meteor inspired magma balls at each other respectfully.
Luffy shot to the side at blurring speed while the admiral shot straight up, before shooting forward and threw brutal punches at each other. The admiral threw the first one, aiming for the pirates face, but a Haki coated arm blocked it. Luffy returned with a hook shot that the admiral's face, which he caught, before pulling Luffy forward and into a punch in the chest.
Luffy exhaled suddenly, winded, ripped his hand free and jumped back, threw another punch at the magma man. Akainu caught the punch only to take a kick in the stomach, sending his staggering back. 'Our Haki keeps cancelling out each others defenses! I may be stronger but he's faster, and his long range attacks can actually get through my defenses! I need to actually land some of my hits!' the admiral thought as he charged forward, shooting a magma wave after magma wave at him. Luffy tried to dodge the attacks, but was soon nailed in the arm, causing him to scream in pain.
The straw hat captain charged forward, ignoring the wound, intent on landing a blow on the admiral, when a massive explosion filed the air. The two fighters froze and looked at the ship which looked like someone had jabbed a spear through the side of it and out the other side. While Luffy looked curious, the admiral looked at the figure that had appeared on the beach.
(A.N honestly, to many author knots hear, anyway one of my OC's is incoming, and this is going to be his only appearance with this look, trust me, his next appearance and you won't recognize him)
The man had long straight greasy black hair that fell past his shoulders and a monocle over his left eye. Those were his good qualities. He had two peg legs that extended from about six inches under his knees, both of which looked like they were heavily reliant on springs, and there was no sign that he had ever had a right arm. The entire left side of his face looked like a wax figure that had been melted then stepped on, with a flap of skin were his right eye once was.
In his left hand, he held an odd weapon, it appeared to be a singular diamond shaped piece of metal and sea prism stone. It was seven feet long a foot and a half wide. Finally the handle was placed in cutch a position that by holding it normally the point was directly in front of his hand. And on his back was what appeared to be a knight's lance with a five foot blade and a three foot handle.
"Tobias "Strongborn"." The admiral snarled.
"It's pronounced with an "I" not an "E" in the middle, idiot! At least remember my name!" the man snarled.
"What are you doing here? Certainly you have no reason to be here!"
"I only want to be remembered after I die, and no matter what I do I can't get that kind of recognition!" he began to walk forward. "So there are two reasons I'm here. One, I used to be a member of the red haired pirates, and the cap liked the boy! Two . . . when was the last time a fleet admiral was killed in a one on one? Get out of here straw boy! The red mongrel is mine, and your crew, or what's left of it needs you!"
With that Luffy turned and ran to his ship. The admiral tried to stop him but Strongborn just intercepted him with a Haki coated lance. "Sorry, but I want to take you down myself," the pirate snarled.
(With Luffy)
'Who was that guy? He said he was once a red hair, but I don't remember him from Shanks and his crew.' Luffy thought as he ran away. 'I hope he'll be ok though, the magman isn't week, except that time with whitebeard.
Luffy got back to the ship quickly called for them to run.
"Oi, Luffy, did you beat him?" called Zoro.
"No, someone else is fighting him." answered luffy.
"Somebody else?"
"Yah, some guy called "Strongborn" is here."
"Strongborn? Tobias Strongborn." Zoro answered wide eyed.
"Yah" answered Luffy. "You know him?"
"Yes, I'll tell you once we get out of here" Zoro said, as an explosion of pressure came at them from where the two fighters were.
"Well come on then!" you could hear Usopp scream from bellow deck.
"Prepare for a "Coup de Burst!" shouted Sanji over a microphone. BooooooM! The ship took to the sky . . . and the only reason it didn't leave Zoro was that Luffy caught him!
"S***y cook! That wasn't enough warning!" Zoro shouted with shark teeth
"Yes it was moss head! You were just too slow and unprepared . . ."
The ship landed, and Sanji face planted so hard his face got stuck in the lawn. "Who's unprepared now, huh C*** cook?"
"Where'd Luffy go?" Usopp asked.
"Up here!" Luffy's voice sounded out over the ship, from the crown nest. "I'm watching that strong born guy! He's still fighting."
"Who the hell is Strongborn?" asked Sanji.
"He's the second toughest cripple alive, and that's if you count red-hair! He came to fight Mihawk this one time; they decided it was a draw after the third day, when Strongborn landed the first blow. I watched it two years ago. Guy wasn't even winded!" Zoro recited as if it was a trance. "Guys a walking nightmare that fought head on with a vice admiral at 13, that is, until another vice admiral showed up and attached him from behind. Threw a vial of acid at him for good measure from what I heard."
"So the guys that tough huh?" Sanji asked, looking at the crow's nest. "Well, this I have to see!"
(Much later that day)
They were still watching through the telescopes with aw. "He's still fighting with his all." Sanji muttered.
Sometime during the fight he had lost his original weapon and was now using the one he had originally had strapped to his back.
Strong born jumped straight up, above the admiral, lance pointed down at his chest, then flipped around and kicked air ware the red dog of the marines had originally dogged to.
The admiral came from behind with a punch at his exposed back, which he back flipped over, then turning midair, jabbing straight down, the admiral shifted left and punched when the lance buried itself in the ground, but Tobias, balancing by his hands on the handle, matched said pinch with a kick, his metal peg turning a greenish black that seemed to glow with willpower, and the resulting shockwave that created a crater under were they had been standing.
"Why doesn't he catch the lance?" asked Zoro.
"Look at it again, its green, sea prism stone! Solid sea prism stone!" Usopp muttered. "Prolonged contact with a hundred percent pure sea prism stone can prove fatal to a cursed fruit user! Why doesn't he look weaker?"
"Simple. Zoro answered. "He doesn't have one. In fact, he mentioned that he sees them as a weakness. He was actually once offered a cursed fruit that would heal his injuries and allow him to eventually grow back his limbs. He turned it down, said it was a weakness."
"That's crazy!" Usopp screamed. "Why would that be a weakness?"
Now, Luffy spoke. "Marco the phoenix, he took on two admirals, but was almost helpless once he had a pair of cuffs on."
Back at the battle the dust had cleared, and both were starring at each other. Suddenly Akainu launched a wave of magma. But unlike all the other times, Strongborn went into a stance similar to Whitebeards before he did a basic attack, and then swung. With a blast a gap was blasted in the wave, revealing a startled fleet admiral.
He launched himself forward, sailing through the air, and thruster at the admiral, who shifted two the right, only to be met with a metal beam in the side of the head, sending him flying ahead of Tobias. The pirate captain swung down onto the admiral, slamming into his chest and creating a crater from the force of the blow. He raised his weapon for another swing, but the Fleet admiral sank into the ground with his magma tunneling.
"Where did he go?" Luffy asked in surprise.
"Underground idiot!" shouted the other three.
Strongborn just stood there, facing away from them and put his arm into a position to thrust forward.
Three minutes passed before the fleet admiral returned, but he appeared with a bang. The straw hats could make out what he was saying.
"EARTHS BURNING JUSTICE: VOLCANIC PYRE OF ABSOLUTE JUSTICE!"
The island for hundreds of feet in all directions of where the admiral surfaced seamed to explode in a volcanic eruption. Thousands, maybe millions of gallons of magma shot into the sky, formed into a spiral before all directing themselves towards the captain.
But then Tobias seemed to become surrounded in a sphere of spiraling heat. His shadow split into three separate figures, wrinkled old woman with glowing eyes.
"What's that?" gasped Usopp.
"That's him forcing reality to bend with sheer force of will, same as my Asura technique. Of course, this is notably stronger. He overpowered the world's strongest slash with that." Zoro replied. "It's his . . .
Zoro didn't get to finish, as the captain of the "Strongborn pirates" screamed.
"TRIPLE PRONGED LANCE, PIERCING THE FABRIC OF REALITY: WRATH OF ETERNITY, FATES DESIGN!"
The shadow ladies on the side raised a string above their heads, and the middle one held up a pair of scissors and cut it in half, the lance seamed to split into three separate lances, before thrusting forward so fast that a sonic boom was heard. Instantly everything seemed to explode into a similar blast of energy to the Sunny's Gaon cannon, except it got wider the further away it got. The attack ripped apart everything in its path and left ruts in the ground that were up to twenty feet deep. The color flashes finally faded, and the admiral seemed to have disappeared.
Strongborn stared for a minute, then turned and walked towards the water. Suddenly a submarine surface, with a Jolly Roger painted on the side. It was of a skull with a smug look and for lances crossing behind it, and the word "born strong" on either side. The side opened up and a ramp came out, which the pirate walked up and into the craft. As soon as it was closed again they disappeared back into the water.
The 4/9's of the Straw hats stared at the spot before the ground back on shore erupted.
At first they were nervous that the admiral was preparing to sneak attack or something, but when he appeared, he was hunched over, and when he finally straitened up, looking at the dusk sky, one could see, a hole. In his chest. It looked just like the one . . . in Ace's. he finaly fell to his knees, then onto his face, and didn't move.
"Is it over?" Usopp asked.
"It doesn't matter," Luffy replied. "Just get us out of here!"
And as they sailed away, a single bird flew above the island, finally landing on the one area where there was still grass, and even then, there was some dug up areas. And next to those areas were some stones, which said,
Here lies "Nico Robin." Who wasn't in any way a demon.
Here lies "Cutty "Franky" Flam." Loyal student of the world's greatest shipwright.
Here lies "Chopper." Who was a good friend and a wonderful doctor.
Here lies "Brook." Whose loyalty to his allies was undying.
Here lies "Nami." A greedy little devil, but a wonderful sister and citizen to her home.
These were graves, cut by Zoro from the bedrock of the island.
And as they tried to fall to sleep that night, the only thing the survivors could feel was misery. And they cried themselves into exhaustion, and finally slept a haunted sleep.
"Ok, If you have read my Pokémon fan fiction and aren't wondering why I haven't updated in two months, then I got inspiration for a one piece fanfiction after reading "Once again" by "TheVictor" (honestly, he shouldn't have stopped!) and multiple other time traveler fics and decided to write it, but it didn't want to come out! I finally got this, and I think it's pretty good, although I feel that it is a bad way to end a first chapter.
This story is going to have more than one OC's, and yes it is going to be one of those "straw hat armada" ones. I am also going to say, the amount of attention I get about my chapters helps me greatly when it comes to determination, as if I go two chapters done but no reviews, I feel like it's useless to continue. I haven't attually even started on the next chapter of my Pokémon fanfiction.
Ok, until next time,
Cane-Jian.