Alexander's Endgame!

In a Time of War!

"ATTENTION! I have news for you," shouted the young man with auburn hair as he unsheathed his sword, "I, the greatest warrior of Boyd, Tessa, has come here to end the war between our warring nations."

The eyes of all of the guards quickly became fixated at the figure. They completely forgot about the bomb located within the palace set to go off in a few more moments. Even Alexander was staring at the young and confident man.

"You may ask me how do I plan to do this?" asked Tessa as he brushed the hair out of his eyes, "how do I plan to end this war that plagues us? The answer is simple. I have come to negotiate, the location of the bomb for your complete and utter surrender…you have about five more minutes until the bomb goes off."

"What!" shouted the guards. A large wave of murmur broke through the crowd.

"I knew it! Those bastards from Boyd were behind this!"

"He's nothing more then killer and a terrorist!"

"I say instead of our surrender we give him a bullet to the head!"

The murmurs continued for quite some time. Until Tessa's voice boomed over the courtyard once more. "I understand you are worried about the fact that your king would be understandably upset with you. You are about to give up your kingdom to spare one palace, so let me make this easier for you." Tessa bent down, his figure disappearing behind the castle walls. Moments later he reappeared.

Tessa lifted a young feminine looking boy up and into plain view of all of the guards. "This boy here is a planned negotiating chip of the Marines. He is the illegitimate child of your rapscallion of a king and my blessed queen. Do you really want to follow the lead of such a disgraceful king? The kind that would betray the late queen? I ask you!"

"I didn't know the king even had a son!"

"He's lying! That bastard's lying!"

"Don't hurt the young majesty!"

Alexander kept his eyes trained on Tessa and Sam. Sam looked out of it, he looked drain of all of his energy, and downright tired. He probably couldn't even lift a finger or hear someone tell him to.

Tessa smiled. The crowd was playing into his hands, "Put down your arms this instant, give into my demands, and surrender to the kingdom of Boyd!"

There was a clatter of metal as swords as well as guns were dropped to the ground. The guards all wore the same defeated look on their faces. Alexander still stood strong, his eyes focused on Tessa waiting for the man's next move.

"Great," said Tessa, "we'll send in a ship tomorrow morning to collect your papers. It will be big…a galleon with purple sails. And a white silhouette of a butterfly on the front of the sails. And just to make sure you don't get any bright ideas…" Tessa unsheathed his sword and held the sword tight to Sam's neck, "I think I need to demonstrate my strength and resolve to you, one innocent boy ought to do it."

"Hayate guard Rina!" shouted Alexander as he literally dropped Rina onto the ground and dashed forward to Tessa and Sam.

Tessa plunged his shining sword deep into Sam's chest. He let go of Sam's collar allowing him to plummet to the ground. Alexander surged forward and barely caught Sam before he smashed into the ground, "Do I need to further demonstrate my strength?" said Tessa as he waved his sword about in the air.

"He killed the young majesty!" shouted one of the guards as he lifted his gun up and aimed it at Tessa. He pulled the trigger and sent a small bullet flying through the air at Tessa. Tessa vanished from his spot and reappeared next to the guard who fired the first bullet, his sword plunged into the man's head.

"I don't believe you know what you are up against," said Tessa as he pulled the sword out, "I wield the Sandai Kitetsu I, a legendary sword famous for the massacres it led. When it was first forged its master led a rebellion against the king and won."

"Only to be killed with his own blade a few days later," said Alexander as he set Sam down on the ground and approached Tessa, "every one of its masters had met a gruesome demise. I think you are about to meet yours." Alexander's body quickly became coated in blue metal, small metal studs jutting out of his skin.

"Are you the Marine?" asked Tessa, "are you one of those Marines who don't do anything? When a stranded ship gets assaulted by a pirate ship, all of its inhabitants killed, well, all except for one. The one who plead with the pirates to spare his life, who plead with them to make him their slave, rather then killing him! He was aboard the ship for years, training, killing, working hard, and waiting. Waiting for the Marines to come and save him! They never came! He was left with murderous pirates for years until he lost it, killed several of them and escaped. That was my childhood thanks to you!" Tessa dashed forward his sword swinging wildly at Alexander forcing him back and out of the kingdom's courtyard.

Alexander tumbled backwards and into the rough wilds. Short grass stretched out all around them. Tessa charged forward forcing Alexander back a few more feet, his sword driving back and forth towards Alexander.

Alexander leaned forward and fired a punch at Tessa's head, "Ferric Fist!" Tessa did a back flip landing him away from Alexander's deadly punch. Tessa quickly recovered onto his own two feet, just in time to see Alexander's next punch come sailing through the air at him. "Sledgehammer Uppercut!" Alexander brought his fist straight straight up at Tessa's jaw. Tessa brought his blade over and blocked the uppercut using the back of his blade.

"Just like all of the Marines," said Tessa, "weak and worthless! Unable to save me from my time of doom and unable to even touch the soon-to-be killer of hundreds!" Tessa lunged forward with his blade extended, he made a quick sweep with his sword forcing Alexander back. "Just admit to your own weaknesses! The Age of the Pirates has weakened the Marines forces, they have been dwindling for a long time, ever since the Whitebeard War! First you lost Sengoku and Garp, then even Kizaru and Akainu died! The Age of the Marines will never come now!" Tessa thrust his blade forward at Alexander, Alexander dodged backwards avoiding the piercing blade's stab.

Tessa drove forward once again, his sword becoming almost a blur. "You told me that all of the Sandai Kitetsu's owners experienced a horrible and tragic death," screamed Tessa as he made another vertical swipe, "a horrible and tragic death seems perfect for me! An end to my horrible and tragic life! A sweet end if you ask me, how much worse could my death be then my life already was?" Tessa swept forward his sword driving right past Alexander, "Answer me that!"

Alexander tried to dodge another startling sweep from Tessa's wicked blade, but all the dodging he had done already had positioned him in a terrible spot. His foot got caught on the stump of a tree and sent him crashing down to the ground. Tessa didn't give him a second to relax as he drove his sword directly down at Alexander. Alexander brought his hand up and in front of him to block the stab.

Alexander's eyes widened as the blade slipped straight into his hand, spilling blood all over him. "What?" shouted Alexander as he recoiled and jumped back, "how did you…? How did you cut me? I'm made of metal."

"Flesh, stone, metal," said Tessa as he wiped the blood off of his blade, "all of it is the same to my Sandai Kitetsu. I can cut you in two quickly, but if I did so, then who would go and deactivate the bomb? You interrupted me before I could tell them the location. That place is about to be a bomb fire, unless you go back there and stop it this instant."

"Yeah, and I should trust you," said Alexander glaring at Tessa.

"I'd actually prefer it if you didn't," said Tessa as he wiped his blade once more, "cause if you don't hundreds of innocent lives will be destroyed because of a Marine. The whole world will see what kind of lazy bastards you really are. It is in the armory, hidden under the floorboards, the smell of gunpowder from the armory covers it up."

Alexander breathed heavily as he looked straight down, taking it all in. He gritted his teeth, "damn you. DAMN YOU!" shouted Alexander as he took off for the palace once more.

Tessa smiled as he watched Alexander disappear on the horizon. He stayed where he was and waited, until a second figure appeared from the nearby woods. Emyre had his hand wrapped around his side, "so did everything go according to plan?"

Tessa nodded, "Pretty much. The warriors from Ghorl have decided to allow the Boyd warship to sail in. They have set their weapons aside and when the Boyd warship sails in for the 'negotiations', hundreds of innocent men will be killed. And it will all appear as if Boyd was the bad guy."

"What about Pura Pupuran?" asked Emyre as he grimaced in pain from his wounds, "she's been captured."

"She has her lines," said Tessa as he sheathed his sword onto his waist, "when she is interrogated she will say Boyd paid her to do her job, murder their soldiers, and plant the bomb. Just as you would've done."

"Heh," said Emyre with a grunt," said Emyre, "so everything went according to plan."

"Almost everything went according to plan," said Tessa, "our plan didn't include you losing."

"It was just a small hitch," said Emyre with a nervous chuckle, "Pura Pupuran lost too. The Marines were just unnaturally tough. I'll do better next time."

"I'm sorry," said Tessa as he flashed his sword out of his sheath, "but our plan was not to return with another person incapable of winning a fight. I do greatly apologize, ally…I didn't want to have to kill you."

"Don't…" said Emyre as he backed up. He brought his two arms up and crossed them, about to ignite them both.

"Sorry," said Tessa, "our plan needs to go off without a hitch. And right now you are that hitch!" Tessa flicked the sword out in an instant, his sword slashed through Emyre's arms, severing them from his body. Emyre fell to the ground, his eyes wide with fear. "I really didn't want to." His sword came through in one fluid motion, separating Emyre's head from his shoulders.

(-On the One Eon, a day later-)

"Urgh," said Rina as her hand crept up to her head. "Why is the room spinning?" Rina looked around the room hazily. Hayate laying next to her bed with a large bone in his mouth. "Hey, there Hayate," said Rina as she patted the bed next to her. Hayate looked up and happily jumped onto the bed.

"So, what has happened?" asked Rina trying to recall the past day's events. "The bomb!" shouted Rina as she sprang up from her bed. She looked down at her clothes. Her outfit was torn and tattered. She grimaced. She would've preferred to be fully dressed, rather then in rags, but no problem. There was a knock on the door. "Come in!" shouted Rina.

"Oh, what do you know, you are up," said Alexander as he walked in. He had a large silver tray in his hands. "Just brought in your medication." He picked up a small cup that contained water and a plate with four pills on it.

"Four pills?" asked Rina as she took them from Alexander, "most medication you only need to take two at a time."

"Yeah," said Alexander, "two of them is for the disease in your body from the obsidian arrows, the other two are for…your mild concussion."

"C-Concussion?" asked Rina as she rubbed her hair, "I don't remember being hit upside the head. I remember being shot at by an crossbow, but no hits to the head."

"Yeah…" said Alexander, "apparently while you were knocked out some guy dropped you."

"What an idiot," said Rina as she took the pills.

"I'm sure he was just preoccupied at the time," said Alexander, "you know saving falling kids or something."

"You don't have to defend everyone," said Rina.

"I feel the need to defend this guy," said Alexander, "he just wasn't think straight. He was too busy focusing on the war."

"Oh, wait! What happened to the bomb!" shouted Rina remembering the bomb.

"They found it," said Alexander. He moved to sit down on the bed as well, but Hayate made a quick growl that sent him shooting back onto his two feet. "Beneath the armory."

"Oh!" shouted Rina, "that's great."

"Speaking of which," said Alexander, "we have a prisoner downstairs. The girl you fought, we are transporting her back to the Marine Base for interrogation."

"You captured her!" shouted Rina shooting up from her bed. Questions about her gypsy ship and Kano's ship began to race through her mind. "I'm going to go down and talk to her this instant!" Rina got up and raced down into the prison beneath the ship.

"Yeah," said Alexander, "ignore the fact that you've been passed out for a few days, the fact that Mark has disappeared, or the fact that our mission was a complete failure. Just race down and talk to the prisoner."

The prison was only one cell. There was only person in there and she was chained up, her purple hair hung limply around her head. She was dressed in a black and white shirt and pants. Her face looked depleted of energy.

"Tell me," said Rina as she approached the cell. She had her chakram in full view of the prisoner, "where is Kano?"

Pura Pupuran lifted her head up with what little energy she had left and smiled, "The New World."


I apologize a hundred times over with the lateness here. I have been battling life lately to get it down by today. College + moving + curing a sunburn takes time and sadly that time came out of everything, including my stories. But don't worry I should be able to get right on track soon.

As you can plainly see these assassins are not to be trifled with. It is almost as if Pura Pupuran was 'supposed' to be captured and interrogated where she can give the Marines false information. Anyways, the job here is done! The Arc is now finished with a new worldwide assassination group having risen through the ranks to annoy the Marines.