Disclaimer: I don't own One Piece. Eiichiro Oda is the rightful owner.

Author's Note: This is my first try on making a One Piece fanfiction. I hope you will enjoy reading it.


Chapter 1: Into The Past.

The sky was smoking black.

The sea was bloody red.

It was a despairing scene of hell.

It was finally over.

The long lasting war finally came to an end.

It was the resistance's victory.

They finished what their predecessors unable to finish.

They overcame what those before them unable to overcome.

They won against the devils.

And it was a meaningless victory.

The world was left in ruins.

The resistance was down to their last three.

Among the ruins were the smoldering corpses of their fallen comrades, the countless unrecognizable bodies that fallen victim to the madness.

No words could truly describe the horror that they went through to reach this point.

The war took their everything. Their childhood, their family, their comrades, and their dreams.

It just the three of them now that were left standing in a dark world with nothing to offer anymore. Not adventure. Not hope. Not even life or future.

Their struggles in the war against the devils to avenge their fallen comrades all seemed to be meaningless now.

All the battles that they fought in order to survive… All the scars that they obtained… All the blood that they shed…

To what end?

What was it that they were fighting for?

It just wasn't worth it in the end.

They fought for what they thought was right.

They fought to create a better future for those who will come after them.

They fought so that the next generation would never undergo what they went through.

They never fought to create an end to the world.

They never expected the war with the devils will go on for so long that it became the catalysis for the apocalypse that brought death to all kind of living beings, leaving only the three of them alive.

A young man in his early twenties stood silently on the wasteland. His short raven-colored hair blowing messily in the wind. His charcoal eyes sharply taking in his surrounding.

Monkey D. Ace.

Leader of the resistance.

Standing on his left was another young man in his early twenties with spiky similar colored hair and grey eyes with dark bags under them while on his right stood a young woman about the same age as them with short messy red hair and red colored eyes with no eyebrows.

Trafalgar D. Water Corazon and Eustass Emma.

The resistance's two main generals.

His brother and sister in everything but blood.

"So, this is it." Ace smiled warmly to his brother and sister.

"What are we going to do now?" Corazon asked quietly.

"We are going to stay together, right?" Emma asked desperately.

Ace shook his head. "No, there is nothing left for us here."

All three of them stood in silence again for a few seconds.

"The will of D burn through the passage of time and space. Let our name be heard and we shall create a storm once more." Ace said in recertifying manners. Then, he started writing on the charred ground with symbols that the other two didn't understand while muttering in another language.

"What? What are you doing, Ace?"

But the young man just ignored her, choosing to focus on what he was doing until it was finished. When he finished whatever that he was doing, he turned to his brother and sister and embraced both of them.

"Thank you for everything. I love you both more than anyone else. I trust you both more than anyone else. So, I will entrust the past, the present, and the future of everyone and the world to the both of you too."

"What? What do you mean by that?" Corazon asked warily.

Ace just smiled. "This is a second chance at life in a new place and time for the both of you."

"Then, you come too. We will continue together. The three of us. There is no meaning to a second chance if it is not the three of us there." Corazon said tiredly.

Ace shook his head again. "No. I am sorry but I won't be able to come."

"WHY?! YOU DESERVE A SECOND CHANCE TOO, ACE!" Emma outburst.

A few seconds after her outburst, Ace's hair started to turn into the color of white and he started to look older by the second. They understood immediately without a word. Whatever Ace was doing took a toll on his life. Even though he was a D, he won't be able to make it.

Every technique had a consequence.

The greater the technique was, the greater the consequence was.

Ace was going to sacrifice his own life to ensure a new life for Corazon and Emma.

"I am always with you. We are a family, always and forever." Ace said with a soft smile.

Family is home.

A place where you can return to.

Home is where the heart is.

"You are always like this! So childish! So reckless! So Selfish! I hate you!" Emma shouted with a sob.

"Yeah, I love you too, Emma." Ace said while tightening his embrace.

"I hope we all will meet again in the next life."

"Stupid! Of course, we will!"

"But what about our promise?" Corazon asked heartily

"My dad once told me that the sky wasn't always black and the ocean wasn't always red. Both of them were once the color of blue. He said that he was once the freest man in that ocean."

"Really?"

"Yeah."

"Then, one day, let's return it to how it once was. Let's go and see the blue ocean together. The three of us can become the freest people too."

"It is a promise then."

"Sorry, Cora, Emma. It seems that I won't be able to fulfill that promise we made. Both of you, please see the blue ocean for me too."

Corazon and Emma's body started to glow white.

"This is a farewell, then. I don't know where it will take you but it will surely be a better place and time than here and now."

"We love you. We do."

"I do love you both too."

Unspeakable tears.

They were warriors. Warriors didn't cry.

Ace smiled one last time and let go.

And in a flash moment, Corazon remembered what his father once said to him.

"There is no such thing as despair in this world. A merciful hand will always reach out."

Then, Corazon and Emma disappeared without a trace.

The last man standing on earth fell to the ground.

His body was lifeless.

Monkey D. Ace, the leader and last of the resistance, was dead.

Trafalgar D. Water Corazon and Eustass Emma, the resistance's two main generals, traveled back to an unknown place and an unknown time for a new adventure, hope, life, and dream.

Unknowingly followed by the last one of the devils.


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