Me: This is the 9th chappie and i remembered that I forgot the disclaimer in the last chapter. So sorry! But you know I don't own anything but Mirim anyways.

Disclaimer: Mirim is the only one I own!

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Ace was on his hands and knees coughing up blood and trembling with pain as his body ached all over. He had just found Blackbeard, he had just begun to fight and it showed that with his newly acquired Devil Fruit powers that Blackbeard was stronger than ever before, maybe even stronger than Ace.

"Everything is useless before darkness. Even that strength of yours, however it would be a shame to waste that power. ACE, BECOME MY NAKAMA!" Blackbeard yelled triumphantly.

'It's hard to move… I have to use 'that'.' Ace thought and smirked at Blackbeard as he slowly got to his feet.

"Yielding my power to you forfeits the point of being born human… If I did, Mirim would make me regret it… And I don't live with regrets. You got that idiot?!"

"How long can you keep living like that in this world… It's a shame Ace. DIE BY THE DARKNESS!" Blackbeard yelled and a huge amount of black smoke emerged from him.

"Dai-enkai! Entei!" Ace roared as fire spiraled around him on the ground and then spiraled up and around him before shaping into a great fireball almost the same size as a small mountain over Ace.

"Zehahaha! The sun or the darkness? There can only be one winner!" Blackbeard laughed maliciously.

"I will make Whitebeard… the king." Ace smiled and charged forward, his Entei clashing with Blackbeard's darkness creating a huge explosion on the island and then… darkness. The only thing left untouched on the island was Ace's orange hat, turned upside down.

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Mirim was slacking off on deck with a bottle of ale as she thought about the changes she had done on Soul Slayer, her scythe. She had attached a five meter long chain on its hilt so she wouldn't have much of a problem if it was knocked out of her hands. She was just lying on a sun lounger enjoying the sun smiling upon her. It's been a long time since she could just relax like this and it felt good. For a whole month she and Ace had searched for Blackbeard without stop and now that she was back it felt good to relax. Lazily she moved her hand back and forth in the air and soap water came out of the bucket beside her and landed on deck before moving back and forth like it had a mind of its own.

It was her and Ace's turn to clean the deck on Moby Dick but since he was gone she did it by herself seeing as she didn't feel like asking anyone else in her division to help her so as she lazed around in the sun, she manipulated the water to wash the deck by itself. As she was scanning the wanted posters she had picked up in the last town they had docked in someone blocked out the sun. She lifted her gaze lazily and saw Marco.

"Marco-nii. You're blocking the sun." she said annoyed and he rolled his eyes.

"Well sorry princess. May I ask what you're doing?" he said sarcastically.

"I'm relaxing in the sun while cleaning the deck and reading these wanted posters, duh. What about you?" He rolled his eyes and sat down beside her scanning one of the posters.

"Did you find out anything?" he asked as she sat up.

"Nothing except a tip about Blackbeard being in the West." She sighed. "I wanted to go with the Commander but papa only gave me one month… This sucks!" she whined childishly making Marco chuckle before he ruffled her hair.

"Don't worry. Ace will return soon with Blackbeard's head and everything will be like before." He stood up and walked away. 'Glaring' after him she laid down again and continued her lazy hand movements bending the water to her will. She reached out towards her bottle when the sound of glass cracking echoed. She turned and saw her bottle exploding into thousands of bits. Sitting up sharply she stared at the shards with a worried expression. Jozu who had been out not too far from her ran over.

"What happened?" he asked.

"The bottle just… shattered on its own…" she said with an uneasy expression. 'I've got a bad feeling… Commander, you better be safe.' Like Luffy she also had a Bibli-card. Her piece of paper was connected to Ace's, just like Luffy's seeing as Ace was her commander. She barged into her room and opened the drawer on her night table and took out the paper. It was still whole and untouched making her sigh in relief. She put it in the pocket of her pants and walked out the room. But she had let it go too soon. Once she had let go of it, the edges began to crumble.

"Hey Jozu-nii. Do you know who these pirates are? They burned down the World Governments flag." Mirim grinned as she handed the third division commander the wanted posters as she sat down to continue cleaning the deck.

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"Mirim-dono! Emergency meeting now!" A pirate from the second division barged into Mirims room.

"Now? Alright." A pale looking Mirim said and walked out. "Mirim-dono?" the pirate watched her walk away.

--

Mirim walked into Whitebeards quarters and noticed that Marco, Jozu and John, Vice-Commander of the fourth division was already there. She walked over to stand beside Marco.

"You're late." He whispered.

"Sorry." He then noticed how pale she was, her slightly labored breathing and her dazed tired eyes.

"Are you alright?" She nodded.

"We have a problem." Whitebeard said and scanned all of them. "Ace has found Blackbeard."

"Isn't that a good thing?" Mirim questioned tiredly. Whitebeard glanced at her sadly. She didn't look good and this would definitely not help.

"He fought Blackbeard and lost."

"What?!" Marco yelled. Jozu looked equally shocked. "The marines have him. He will be executed in three days."

"You can't be serious! I just checked the fucking Bibli-card yesterday!" Mirim shouted and rummaged her pocket fishing it up.

"See! It's-" she gasped. Half of the paper was already gone and it was still burning slightly on the edges. They all turned back to Whitebeard and saw him put Ace's ruffled orange hat on top of the table making the four commanders and vice-commanders gasp.

"He lost… We have three days to get to the marine HQ and plan this attack. This means WAR!" Whitebeard all but shouted the last part and slammed his fist on the table making it crack.

'Commander… This ain't true! You're one of the strongest on this ship! Like hell you would lose to Blackbeard! This ain't… This ain't-' Mirims eyes rolled back and she fell to the floor forcing the men out of their discussion.

"Mirim!" Marco yelled and kneeled besides her putting his hand against her forehead but quickly retracted it.

"She's burning up!" he exclaimed.

"Take her to her room! And get the doctor!" Whitebeard boomed.

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"She's gotten a nasty cold captain. Combine that with exhaustion, stress and a fierce fever and you get a bedridden Vice-Commander. The news that her commander was captured and sentenced to death wasn't something she needed now." The doctor said as he walked out of Mirims room.

"For how long?" The doctor shrugged.

"Honestly, she should stay for at least a week."

"We don't have a week." Whitebeard groaned.

"You'll just have to fight this war without her Whitebeard. You have no other choice, if she doesn't, by a miracle; get better in a few days she will stay in bed." The doctor left his captain in the hallway alone. Whitebeard walked in after a few moments, seeing Mirim's flushed face as she breathed heavily. He put Ace's hat down on her nigh table before walking out again.

"… Shit."


Dai-enkai – Great Blaze Commandment

Entei – Flame Emperor