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Chapter 21: Rage of the Phoenix

"Get through you huh? What a joke! Attack this cocky fool! and slaughter the unconscious girl" Habinari yelled pointing at Marco menacingly from on top of Clove as all of the Snake Head pirates drew their weapons and started running towards Marco.

Marco then willed his blue phoenix wings and flew up into the air, as the pirates of course shot their guns high into the air trying to shoot him down.

"It's not working! Are bullets are just flying through him!" A man yelled before Marco flew down swiftly and kicked him hard in the gut sending him flying into a row of pirates knocking them all down.

Habinari became angrier and angrier as she watched Marco take out the pirates as if they were nothing. Snapping their weapons like tooth picks, Habinari knew that it wouldn't be long before the pirates finally figured out that they were in no ways even close to matching the power that Marco had. This making Habinari sweat as she too realized that the chances of her defeating the legendary Marco the Phoenix was just as slime as theirs.

He may be able to defeat me. But I'm the one who holds that girls life in my hands! Habinari thought to herself as she smiled menacingly at Victoria before yelling down at her giant snake.

"Clove! Stay here! attack whoever trys to follow me up the mountain! If I can't defeat him for the Captain at least I can stall him so he can't help the others!" Habinari yelled causing the snake to hiss as she leaped off the snake and started to run up the mountain.

Damn the witch is getting away with the antidote! I don't have time for these losers. Marco thought to himself while he continued to fight with the multitude of pirates when he suddenly heard a loud gun shot behind him.

"Victoria!" Marco yelled cursing himself for letting someone get behind him like that as he then turned around. His worried expression was then replaced with a grin as he saw Victoria leaning against a tree with her pistol in hand grinning at him.

"I thought you were protecting me?" Victoria said grinning smugly, her voice hoarse from the poison running through her veins. As she leaned heavily against the trunk of the tree due to the fact that her legs were so weak she could barely find the strength to stand.

Marco then felt of surge of relief run through him as he saw the at least she was now standing, though he knew just as well as she did that time was certainly running out and that he had no time to waste anymore on the petty pirates- he needed to go after the antidote and fast.

Victoria seeming to read Marco's mind then willing all the energy she had stopped leaning on the tree and yelled over at him.

"Marco! Do what you must! You can leave these guys to me!" Victoria yelled as she forced her body into a run and started firing at the pirates who actually seemed quite relieved that they had a target other than Marco.

"No! Your too weak! If I leave you hear you will likely to get killed, I won't do it!" Marco yelled down at her not paying attention to his surroundings when suddenly he heard a loud hissing as he was suddenly sent flying by the giant snake into a tree trunk.

"Marco!" Victoria yelled as she shot her pistol into the man in front of her and tried to run over to him, but her legs fell from under her casing her to fall to the group breathing hard as the only thing she could do to keep herself alive was fire her gun at the pirates who just kept charging her.

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"Do you think Marco is going to be ok handling all of them by himself?" Erisa asked Ace as she could only imagine herself having to fight those many opponents at one time.

"He'll be fine. He's been with White Beard since the time of Gold D. Roger, he's stronger than I am." Ace said reassuringly as him and Erisa were now far away from Marco and Victoria on the other part of the island. And the deeper they got into the island the more the trees started to wilt and loose leafs and the air started to get foggy, making the island instead of the green jungle they started in look more like a large cemetery just without the graves.

Erisa and Ace walked in silence for a long time until Ace put his arms out to block Erisa from walking any further and pointed to the distance. As Erisa then striained her eyes to see through the fog she spotted the outline of a man walking towards them.

"Well, well long time no see Erisa." Erisa heard a sickening voice say as she saw none other than Sebastian Dormir walk out of the thick fog as he gave her the same nasty grin that she had remembered from long ago, making her clench her fists in anger.

"So it has been." Erisa said clenching her fists as she tried to keep a calm exterior.

"Just as I expected looks like Habinari failed to separate all of you, though I'm just glad I thought up a plan ahead of time." Sebastian said grinning causing fear to rip through her when she suddenly saw a red aura burning around Ace.

"Ace? Ace!" Erisa called out turning around to see that Ace was fully enveloped in a red aura his brown eyes were now red orbs as he suddenly covered his hands with flames.

"You Bastard! This was suppose to be between me and you! Your a coward!" Erisa cried out, seething with rage. Not caring if Sebastian knew that she had lost her temper.

"I don't think I recall demonstrating my Devil Fruit abilities to you. Let me show you." Sebastain said as his eyes narrowed at Erisa as he gave her a grin.

Next time!: Things get even more intense as Erisa is now forced to fight a possessed Ace to the death and Marco finds himself running out of time to save Victoria, as the sun starts going further down.

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