A/N: One Piece and Fall Out Boys song Phoenix do not belong to me.

It was a bright, sunny day when Luna was dragged up the steps leading to her death, and wasn't that just some sort of symbolism to show how twisted her life is. It only made sense really, because Luna had always been an odd one according to everyone else. Everyone had always made sure to tell her what a 'weirdo' 'freak' she was as if it was possible that she forgot; everyone except her family.

The family she had gained in childhood was just as odd as her, in their own way, and they embraced all of her. "That Luna, she's a weird one," everyone always said. Her brothers taught her to take pride in being different. In the words of her little brother, "If everyone was the same it would be so boring. That's like if you're only allowed to eat one type of food for your whole life and other people have different food but you can only eat your kind! I want lots of different food!" God, she loved him, he was pretty odd himself.

Her thoughts kept jumping around unable to stay on one topic. It only made sense, she was about to die after all.

Her family. She would never see them again. She would never be there stop her idiot brothers from rushing into trouble again. Her eyes were watering but she held back the tears. She promised herself she wouldn't cry. Like hell she would let them see her cry.

She could see the bright sun coming from the doorway at the top of the stairs. She had always loved stormy weather and she hated sunny, happy days. It only made sense really, that it would be sunny the day she died. 'Symbolism's a bitch,' she thought with a small twist of her lips.

Night time and dark, cloudy or rainy days were her idea of paradise. People often talked about how sad and depressed dark and rain made them but she never understood that. It had always made her feel happy and safe in such a calm, good mood. Sunny days, though, she could do without. Her brothers always joked that she must be allergic to the sun since it seemed to drain the life from her, she hated it. It was always too bright, sometimes too hot, and did she mention too bright? Which meant soon when she dies, her afterlife will be bright, sunny days forever. It only made sense really.

She didn't expect anyone to be here to see her die and it was better that way. If her brothers found out, knowing them, they would probably go crazy and actually try to crash Marineford to save her. She wanted them safe. That was why she was here in the first place after all but they probably wouldn't find out until it was over. It was better that way, even if she did want to see them one last time.

Oh, she had no doubt that the Marines had probably been broadcasting her capture and upcoming execution in the paper but her younger brother had never been one to read papers or even listen to any news. In fact, even if you told him news it would be a toss up if he was actually listening. He just didn't care about that stuff.

Her older brother, of course being more mature, would read the paper from time to time for information but she also knew that he was still out away from his crew searching for information and because of that, he likely wouldn't be reading or catching up on any unnecessary news.

The guards on both her sides were now pushing her towards the doorway to the outside. She tried to control her shaking. She would never show weakness to an enemy. Shake it off, hide it, control it. 'Fake it till you make it' was practically her life's motto. So she took a deep breath silently to calm her nerves and straightened her shoulders as she breathed out slowly.

Her long blue hair was loose around her reaching to her waist. Her eyes were just as bright blue as her hair and her long bright blue hair was untamable and always seemed to carry a personality of its own. Some days it would curl up into tight curls hanging all down her back and nothing could straighten them. Other days it would be wavy or straight and she had given up trying to control it. It seemed to change its style with the weather and today it was curled hanging down her back and her bangs hung above her eyes. She was quite short compared to most people around her at about five foot (but she denied it extensively).

The man that she had deemed as uncle, to his immense surprise, used to say that she was like the embodiment of the sea itself, dangerous and beautiful. She flat out called him crazy. Her brothers were crazy strong and usually punched their way into and out of trouble without any problem. She wasn't nearly as dangerous as them but he had just smiled and told her that jumping into a fight with brute force and winning wasn't the only way to win and usually the opponent you never see coming is the most dangerous. She knew she wasn't as strong as them and she was fairly weak in comparison but she wouldn't let the Marines see her acting that way.

She lifted her eyes up from the ground. They thought they had won but she wouldn't ever give them proof of it. She wouldn't let them see her with her head down. With her eyes up, she hardened her eyes and smirked. Bring it on. Death is the last great adventure of life after all.

Luna had been lead to the execution platform and forced onto her knees with her hands still in cuffs and now hooked to the platform. She had ignored the bastard beside her who had started reading her name and crimes. There were way too many Marines here for just a pirate execution but she supposed it was supposed to be some kind of sign or warning to pirates. She did have a high bounty for a new pirate after all at 350 million.

To be fair, the only reason it was that high was because of the couple of marine places she had torn down but in her defense one of them was an accident and the other was self defense. Her brothers had started or joined great crews but she had joined a crew for convenience that was going her way and they were nice enough but after the first accident when she torn down the Marine headquarters the Marines really started following after her crew. In the end her crew betrayed her by dumping her on an island with a large Marine building stationed in hopes that they'd take her and stop following them.

It wasn't a bad plan for them because in normal circumstances she would never have been able to get off the island seeing as it was crawling with Marines everywhere. But instead of trying to escape the Marines before they spotted her (impossible) she went straight to the source before they knew was there. Thanks to the surprise and confusion she was able to bring down the building and use the mess and confusion to steal a boat and escape the island. Ever since then she had decided it best to travel alone for a bit.

She had been ignoring everyone else but she couldn't help but glance out of the corner of her eye to see her grandpa on her right side sitting down. He usually always had a smile but right now he looked more angry than she had ever seen him. Monkey D. Garp. Yep, the Marine hero was her Grandpa, well, not by blood but that didn't matter.

She knew that despite wanting his granddaughter to be a Marine (or a nice housewife for a Marine, "No way in Hell, stop trying to marry me off!") that he still loved her and it would break his heart to see her killed but he was just as stubborn as the rest of the family and he would feel the need to be here. Luna didn't think that anyone else even knew about her being his granddaughter which is exactly what she wanted.

When she had set out at the same time as Luffy, she had decided to take her name Luna and one or two times she had even let some newspaper 'catch wind' of her whole name which was of course a fake name she spread. Luna didn't want to bring more trouble to her grandpa or bring unwanted attention to herself by spreading her very famous name so she thought it would be in her best interest to keep it hidden.

She wasn't born to Monkey D. Dragon and there would be no official thing linking them so the government would have no way of linking them since very few knew about her. Luna always liked to play it close to the chest, you never know when you might need a surprise move.

She zoned out again as they waited for her execution time. She wondered if her brothers knew by now since they would be broadcasting this. She was doing her best not to think about the fact that she would die soon because damnit she wouldn't cry so her mind jumped from topic to topic to keep her occupied. It wasn't hard because even on the best day she could get distracted so easily.

Then she heard a murmur and snapped her mind back to the present. She looked around using only her eyes and saw everyone staring at the ocean in confusion. The jerk on her left stepped forward in confusion. Senpoku? Sen..who cares? Not her.

"What's going on? Are those..ships!? What is this?" jerk said.

Luna looked toward the water in confusion when she saw ships coming closer by the second.

"Are those pirate ships? How the hell did they get in here? How did they get so close without us knowing!? And who the hell are they? Are they coming for her? She doesn't even have a crew!" Senboku yelled. Senbuku?..Senpaku?..Sinbun?..That sounds like food, now she's hungry. They should at least have like a last desserts thing for people about to die. Wait, he made a good point. Who is that and why are they here?

The murmuring was louder now as everyone watched in suspense when suddenly a ship popped up from below the water! It was..

"Is that..the..Moby Dick!? Why the hell is Whitebeard here!?"

You could clearly tell that Marine's were panicking now as they called for reinforcements. They weren't prepared to take on someone so powerful and you could tell some were hoping they weren't here for war.

"She's just some random pirate. There's no way she knows Whitebeard well enough for him to go to war or we would've know about her, right!?" He turned to her and grabbed the front of her shirt. Luna couldn't help but give a wide crazy smile at the desperation she saw leak in his eyes.

"Do you know Whitebeard? Why the hell is Whitebeard here?" He shook her a little.

She couldn't stop herself. She laughed loudly, "Nope. I've never met the man."

"That's second commander 'Fire Fist' Ace!," someone shouted.

Luna saw her older brother, Ace, jump onto the railing of the Moby Dick. Behind him stood some other commanders and crew members.

The tension was growing like crazy and the talking had stopped as Ace glared around at the Marines until the jerk who had Luna's shirt finally let go and got ahold of himself long enough to stand straight.

"We weren't prepared for this. If they want war then we will have to oblige. We can't back down from pirates and I don't even see Whitebeard. We have admirals and vice admirals. We can take out these pirates right now!" He started talking to himself but slowly got louder.

Luna was worried now but she couldn't let them see it. She was here being executed because she wanted to keep her brothers safe! Now one of them was jumping right into trouble! What would Ace say if he found out how she got here? He would be Pissed with a capital P.

Luna had been traveling alone and heard a rumor in a land she was visiting about 'Fire Fist' Ace being there somewhere so of course she went looking for him. While asking around without giving reasons why she was looking for him, someone recognized her from my bounty pictures and heard her questions. After talking for a minute he had told her he went by Blackbeard and he was building a crew.

After recognizing her from her high bounty of course he wanted her for his crew since rumor has it she was alone. She declined, saying she didn't think she needed a crew right now but he tried to convince her otherwise by telling her his plans to capture Monkey D. Luffy and hand him over to the government. As a high bounty rookie, Blackbeard was convinced he could trade Luffy to the government for the open spot of Warlord.

She asked if he really thought that would work just for a rookie like Luffy but he informed her that he hasn't been able to catch up with Luffy yet but he also knew Ace was trailing behind him looking to pay him back for a wrong deed and surely capturing the second commander of the Whitebeard pirates would be enough to get his Warlord status. The crazy laugh he let out told her that he wouldn't stop so she challenged him to a fight under the guise of testing him. She told him she wanted to see how strong he was if he wanted her to follow him and he readily agreed.

During that fight is when she realized his terrifying new Devil Fruit power and knew that she wouldn't be able to beat this power in an all out fight until she knew its weakness. More than that though, she knew that Ace and Luffy would both be blindsided as well and would get captured. So she made a deal. He obviously only cared about getting the Warlord position so she told him to take her, her bounty was more than Luffy's anyway and in exchange for leaving them both alone she would go along willingly.

Man, Ace and Luffy would be so mad if they found out how she came to be here but now he was throwing it all away. She could see in his eyes though that he was determined and nothing would stop him. He finally locked eyes with her.

Ace smirked and tilted his hat up, "Hey little sis, I leave you alone for a little while and look at the trouble you get into." Hearing his voice after so long almost made me cry more than almost dying did. She wanted her big brother.

Before anything else could happen a marine on the ground yelled, pointing up to the sky. In the sky, a ship could be seen falling down to the water. How the hell had it got up there!?

Then a figure could be seen at the front of the ship by the figurehead lion. "HEY, LUUUUU! I'm Here To Save You!" The ship somehow landed safely causing a giant wave and Luna could see her younger brother Luffy standing there with a very rare serious expression. "Hey! I'm gonna kick your ass for thinking you can take my sister!" Luffy yelled at the Marines.

The whole place was dead silent until a yell from next to her, "Sister? Garp, this is another one of your troublesome grandchildren and you DIDN'T TELL ANYONE!?"

Garp seemed to have regained his cheerful drive and he guffawed, "You didn't ask!"

He turned to Luna and growled, "Girl, what's your name? Isn't your full nam-"

Luna laughed interrupting him, "Oh yea, no. I spread a rumor about a fake name so that no one would connect me to my real name." She smirked and said, "Hi, my name is Monkey D. Luna. I'd say it's nice to meet you but we both know that would be a lie."

He turned to Garp practically vibrating with rage, "She's Dragon's daughter? Dragon has a daughter and NO ONE TOLD ME? Those damn D's will be the death of me! Take them all down!" He faced all the marines down below at the end and Luna was left to herself once again.

It was relatively easy to fake being tough in front of jerks like him but on her own she could admit that she was scared for her family. With the Whitebeard pirates and Luffy's crew it seemed the pirates had the advantage since the marines weren't prepared for this. It was supposed to be just another pirate being executed with no one to care about who was being killed. Luna knew that reinforcements would be on the way though and there were admirals and vice admirals there.

She couldn't stand being here ready to die and being forced to watch her family fight for their lives. She would've been mostly alright with dying on her own where no one she knew could see but now that she knew they would be watching it broke her heart because she knew it would hurt them to see it.

Her head was still raised but she had her hair and bangs hanging over her eyes so that no one would see as she closed her eyes to the fighting. She loved watching a good fight normally but not like this. Not when she was about to die and she would have to see the heartbreak and rage on their faces. She didn't want to watch this fight that was so different from all the others so she closed her eyes knowing that her hair would hide her temporary weakness.

She could hear the fighting all over and the shouting back and forth even as she tried to block it out as much as possible. She was doing well with her face blank and eyes shut without anyone knowing. She knew that the jerk next to her had tried to get a rise out of her about the fight but she was doing well and she barely heard him. Until a voice rose so loud above all of the crowd and the fighting.

"LUUUUUUUU!" Luna's eyes snapped open and her head popped up further. She didn't even know when it had started to go down slowly. She spotted Luffy standing tall on the ground and he was so much closer than she expected. He had almost reached the platform. How had he done that and so quickly? Her eyes went wide without her permission. Luffy out of all of them was the one to always smile and grin through everything. He was the one person that you knew didn't have a fake smile either. It was always real but sometimes, rarely, he would get so serious and in that moment was always when she could really see his strength and it always made her feel stronger just by being next to him.

He had that look, more serious than she had ever seen him in his life. Determined, Rage, but no sadness or desperation, not even hope. It was more like he didn't have to hope, because he Knew, he Knew that he would get her out. Her eyes watered once again and again she held them back.

Luffy yelled once again, "Don't you dare give up! You're our sister! We're going to save you no matter what! We won't Ever give up on you so DON'T YOU DARE GIVE UP EITHER. FIGHT BAAAACK!"

Luna's eyes got even wider. How did he always do that? How did he always make everything seem so..simple. Maybe it was. Why wasn't she fighting? How was it that he always reminded her to fight, to be happy, just by being himself. She tilted her head up to the sky. Her idiot brothers. They always made her feel this way. Her eyes watered again but she couldn't stop it this time. It was too far gone and the tears rolled down the sides of her face. She wanted her brothers. She wanted her brothers! Fight..Fight!

She felt a need building up in her throat that she hadn't felt in years. She had suppressed it for so long after Ace begged her not to ever let anyone hear her when they were kids. Only them he had said because the world was a bad place and people would want something from her..either her death, or her ability. He made her promise because he said he would never be able to rest easy unless he knew no one would know about it.

The tears rolled down her face and she vaguely heard the marine next to her say something. Fight! It built in her throat and finally she let it loose, snapping her body forward as far as it would go and distantly felt her wrists pull against the chains where they had been chained to each side at some point. She felt the music rushing through her.

"Put on your war paint!" she sang out in a growl.

Back on the ground she saw Luffy with his wide smile back on his face. "LET'S GO!" he yelled at the marines as he rejoined the fight. She spotted Ace a ways away from Luffy grin up at her as he lit up and attacked once again.

"You are a brick tied to me that's dragging me down," she yanked forward more in her chains.

"Strike a match and I'll burn you to the ground,"

"We are the jack-o-lanterns in July, setting fire to the sky,"

"Here it comes, this rising tide, SO COME ON!"

She watched as all the marines on the ground slowly stopped fighting leaving the admirals and a vice admiral staring around in confusion at the men wondering why they stopped. Jerk next to her started yelling at the men to fight but they paid no attention.

"Put on your war paint!," she growled out and all the marines on the ground began to turn and attack their own men. She watched with a crazy eyed smirk as the chaos spread, finding delight in the fight now.

"Cross walks and crossed hearts and hope-to-dies,"

"Silver clouds with grey lining,"

"So we can take the world back from a heart attack," she softened her voice and she eyed the men next to her as she noticed them trying to fight the music. She smirked again, they wouldn't last, she could tell.

"One maniac at a time we will take it back,

"You know time crawls on when you're waiting for the song to start,"

"So dance alone to the beat of your heart," Luna watched as the Admirals started fighting their own men, getting tired of trying to talk sense into them or get around them. The marines were fighting each other as the pirates slashed through. It was chaos and she smiled.

"Hey young blood!"

"Doesn't it feel, like our time is running out?"

"I'm gonna change you, like a remix,"

"Then I'll raise you, like a phoenix,"

Luna felt a wave of power in her words as she sang the last line and watched on the battlefield as the fallen marines with injuries began getting up again to fight their fellow marines.

"Wearing our vintage misery,"
"No, I think it looked a little better on me!,"

"I'm gonna change you, like a remix,"
"Then I'll raise you, like a phoenix,"

With the wave of power the marines close to her realized it came from her. She would have to finish this in a hurry.

"It's her! She's doing something! She's singing, it's doing something! She's got sea stone cuffs on, how is she doing that? Stop her!"

"Put on your war paint!"

"The war is won, before it's begun," her voice softened to caress them. The two executions stopped their swords in mid motion.

"Release the doves, surrender love," another wave of power released and the two swords dropped to the ground. In the background she could hear people yelling.

"The war is won, before it's begun,"

"Release the doves, surrender love," the two next to her dropped to their knees unwittingly. Slowly they brought out keys to her chains. By the time the other marines reached them her cuffs fell and she was up instantly to the edge of the platform.

"HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY young blood!" She let herself fall off the platform and felt the music through her. She waved her hands and used her devil fruit powers. A giant flower raised from the ground and she landed in the center safely.

Luffy and Ace grinned and ran over to her. She wanted to hug them and just let go but she knew this fight wasn't over yet. They all laughed loudly.

She continued her singing as they fought their way out catching sight of Luffy and Ace's crewmates fighting their way back too. Unfortunately the admirals were quick learners and took much less time now to get rid of both pirates and marines.

They barely made it back to the ships and she ran onto Luffy's ship with Luffy and Ace. She looked over and saw Whitebeard step out onto the deck of his ship and as a final hit to the marines he used his tremor tremor power before all pirates pulled out. She was alive and her family was ok.

She turned to her grinning brothers. The three of them laughed long and loud. She couldn't seem to stop as they hugged. Luffy wrapped himself around her whole body as he always tended to do, even before he got his devil fruit powers. She turned to Ace still laughing and he gripped her in a hug so tight she swears her ribs creaked. He stood up straight still hugging her tight and her feet left the floor while he swung her around. With her head in his chest her laughs suddenly became sobs against her will.

She wanted to say something like how stupid it was that she was crying or that she was happy so she shouldn't cry but she didn't get a chance to. Ace knew, just like he always knew. He just hugged her tighter and she broke down and sobbed for everything. Her fingers gripped him tight as she cried out her fear of dying, her even worse fear for her family, her pain from the beating of the guards, but most of all she cried from joy.

Her family had come for her, because to them she was always worth it no matter how defective she was. Her tears felt rejuvenating, like a new beginning and she couldn't help but feel excited to learn where the new adventure would take her.