Here is chapter 37! I hope that you enjoy it, I really did like writing this one. Anyways, now we're really close to the end of the story, and I feel so strange because of that. Anyways, onwards with the story!
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Luffy's POV:
I caught a glimpse of the other two men inside the room just staring at me as i launched myself at Blackbeard, completely uncaring about what I was doing. I felt another light wave of anger go through me due to how they had just classified me to be everything but a danger, and instead just be a nuisance that now had no value to their plans. I would prove them wrong right now.
I soon was very close to Blackbeard, and then I made sure to attack him with my silver dagger while I got hold of my gun. I managed to made a very small cut on his face, but he soon had blocked my attack and forced me to jump backwards to avoid his next attack.
"I had forgotten just how much of a nuisance you are..." Blackbeard then muttered as he cleaned the blood that slowly dripped out of the cut that I had made on his cheek.
I grinned "I am not the same one that I was all of those years ago" I quickly replied, with a grin on my face.
"Zehahaha! We'll see that!" Blackbeard then said, before he ran towards me with a sword prepared to attack me.
I blocked his attack with my dagger and then shot at him with my gun, completing perfectly one of the many hunter fighting techniques that I had learnt to perfection. He managed to dodge my shot and soon we were both attacking each other lethally and quickly, receiving some damage occasionally but dodging each other's attacks most of the time. A few minutes passed with us fighting and the other two people in the room doing nothing, and while I was quite damaged due to the tests that I had had to go through to get here I knew that I had enough energy to maintain this rhythm of fighting for some more time. However I soon sensed that Blackbeard, even though in a perfect physical form, or almost in one due to my attacks, was in a hurry to end this fight. Why was that hurry caused? He had nothing to fear from fighting me and it was not like I had any reinforcements coming. In fact, he was the one with two allies around him.
I dodged another attack made by him and then attacked him myself with my dagger, managing to make a cut, that was slightly deeper than the other one. Before I could avoid his next attack and with a surprising speed, he lifted his left leg and kicked me very hard with it, making me go flying towards the wall behind me and crash into it, soon falling onto the floor.
"You worthless bug" he then said with clear anger. "I cannot afford to lose more time with you here. I have to continue with my plan. You alone will not manage to defeat me, and even less in that state" He then added as another kick landed on me as I tried to get up.
I fell onto the floor again, this time coughing blood. I tried to get up again, but the same thing was repeated, causing me to cough more blood.
"You even continue trying to defeat me!" He then said, amused. "I will now show you how useless it has been for you to come here, worthless humanised vampire" Blackbeard then said as he kicked me again, this time sending me in another direction and making me crash into another wall, that this time was closer to where the portal to the other world would surely open itself.
By the time that I opened my eyes he was right in front me, stopping for a moment to look at me as I tried to get up but soon taking another step towards me, grabbing me by the torn and heavy cloak that I now wore and lifting me from the ground. I glared at him as he did this and struggled to break free from his grasp, but didn't manage anything.
"And you still try to defeat me even if your current state. How impressive, chosen one" Blackbeard then said. "I don't have time to play with you though, since I have other things in mind" He then added.
"You won't manage to complete your plan!" I shouted at him.
"Zehahaha! You don't seem to understand..." Blackbeard then started saying with a very loud laugh "You don't seem to understand that I am already managing to do what I want. My plan continues being as strong as ever!" He then said. "Zehahaha!" .
I growled and continued glaring at him and continuing to break free, when I was suddenly thrown by him to the floor. I coughed up more blood, and the next thing that I knew was that he was grabbing the bag, originally from Ace, where the two cups had been in since Ace and I had managed to get them. "No! Don't you dare to touch those!" I shouted at him as I moved, trying to stop him from getting the bag.
He punched me in the face, making me shut up, and got the bag that I had been so desperate to protect. He opened it, and saw the two cups in it and one of the halves of the medallion.
"I wonder where the other one is..." He then started saying as he kicked me very strongly in the stomach, something that made me cough even more blood, to be moved slightly to one side and to fall on my back with nearly no strength to get up. He then grabbed me by the neck with one hand and lifted me up again. His other hand just grabbed the front part of my cloak, that already was quite torn and damaged, and just tore it apart, making the cloak that I had wore for such a long time fall to the floor and the half of the medallion that I had wore since I was a kid be revealed.
As soon as he saw it he grinned maniacally. "So here it is!" He said, with a sadistically happy tone of voice. He then threw me with quite a lot of strength to the floor, making me bounce once and to be damaged even more. "Thank you for this, humanized vampire" He then said, with mock pity. He then turned around and just when he was about to start walking to the centre of the room, where there where to pedestals and other things that were destined without a doubt to opening the portal to the other world, the vice-admiral that was present in the room started talking.
"What do you think you are doing Blackbeard?" He asked with an aggressive and warning tone of voice. "You know very well what you have to do now" He said. "Give me those objects you just recovered and the ones that you had from before. You have to give them to the government, just like you said you would all of that time ago when you did that pact with us" He then finished saying.
Blackbeard laughed as he turned around to face the vice-admiral that now was standing beside the guy with the strange hat and the bear ears in a clearly aggressive stance. "Zehahaha! Did you really think that-" He then started saying as he started running towards the two men. "-I would abandon my plans to fulfil the pact that I had with the government?" He then finished shouting as he kicked the man with a powerful kick that sent him to the other end of the room and attacked the strange man with the hat with his sward, managing to cut him in half.
"Triator!" The vice admiral shouted at Blackbeard as the other man with the strange hat and ears fell dead onto the ground.
Blackbeard laughed again. "Do you think that I care about you?" He then shouted as he made a mortal wound to the vice admiral with his sword.
I stared at the scene without believing my eyes. Blackbeard had killed his... nakama? How could he? I was still lying on the floor with my back facing the roof of the room, trying to get up on my feet to continue fighting Blackbeard but failing to do this and instead just coughing blood every time that I tried to get up.
Soon the vice admiral fell unconscious onto the ground and Blackbeard turned around to face where he had deposited the bag with all of the things that he would need. This included those that he had recovered himself. He took some steps towards it, but stopped when he was a few metres away and instead started walking towards me, chuckling. He soon was right in front of me, grabbing me by the front of the red vest that I always wore and that now was slightly redder due to the blood that I had been coughing up and that was on the floor.
He laughed very loudly again, and threw me against a wall yet again, making me crash against it and fall onto the floor. I tried to get up, but soon I found that I was without any energy right now and that I was too wounded to manage to get up or to do anything else. I just continued glaring at Blackbeard and almost growling at him as he got closer to me again. Once he was in front of me again he spoke again, laughing cruelly at the start.
"What would be better than showing you my victory?" He said then with a cruel and sadistic tone of voice. He then took one step towards me, kicked me in the stomach again, which made me hiss with pain, and grabbed me by the front part of the red vest again.
"You won't manage to complete your plans Blackbeard! You will be defeated and you won't manage to get your hands on that stone!" I shouted then.
"Zehahaha! Oh, you will see how I manage to crush you and everything that you have fought for. You will even see how I kill everyone that you love" He then said in a very sadistic way.
Once he had stopped talking he clutched the part of my red vest that he was grabbing and carrying me with even more tightly and started walking towards the bag where the cups, the medallion and where what he had recovered was at. He got hold of it, and then started walking towards the centre of the room and towards the pedestals that would open the way to that other world. Once that he was right in front of them he dropped me onto the floor, and then opened the bag with all of the things.
"First the cup of light" he said as he got the cup that Ace and I had recovered un that temple where only I had managed to resist the bright light that somehow shone inside it. He then placed in on top of one of the pedestals. "Then the 'stars'" He said as he walked towards the second pedestal. He got hold of some kind of rocks or of circular metal pieces that seemed to have different drawings on them. They were just like what we had seen in that drawing inside the other two temples. He then placed them on top of the second pedestal. "Thirdly the cup of darkness" He then said, as he got hold of the cup that Ace and I had retrieved at the temple that had been in the middle of the desert and as he placed it on top of the last pedestal.
A loud supernatural buzz was heard, and soon the wall directly opposite of the entrance door started shining. I stared at it with surprise and wonder, not believing my eyes. The portal was almost open.
"And finally the medallion given to the two chosen ones" Blackbeard then said as he got hold of the medallion that Ace and I had carried in halves and that now was complete. He walked towards the almost open portal and then placed it at the centre of it.
As soon as he did this an even louder supernatural buzz was heard, and soon the portal started to open itself. A bright bluish light started appearing and growing form the centre of that strange wall, and it didn't stop growing until it was a massive circle the size of many humans on top of another.
"It is done" He then said with a very proud tone of voice and with a sadistic smile on his face. He then turned around and went towards me, soon grabbing me again by the front of my red vest. He then walked towards the portal. "Zehahaha! Victory is mine, and you won't be able to stop me!" He said with a cruel tone of voice. He took a step towards the portal, but stopped suddenly before he entered it. "I will give you a reward for your efforts though, chosen one" He then started saying "I will let you see the other world, the world that your ancestor knew and where he managed to stop me for the first time. I will show you the world where I will achieve my victory" He then said with another laugh, just before he threw me at the portal.
I felt myself being attracted by the portal, or rather my soul being attracted by the portal. It was as if I was being sucked by it. I closed my eyes as I passed the blue portal, and the last thing that I saw was a grinning Blackbeard jumping towards the portal and my body falling onto the cold floor of the room. What had happened?