Author notes:

Chapter 1: rewritten and beta'd by Kurapikababu.

Chapter 2: rewritten.

Chapter 3: small mistakes corrected.

Chapter 4: posted again and beta`d by Gerbilfriend

Chapter 5: written and beta`d by gabrielsangel23 and Gerbilfriend

Chapter 6: written, beta`d by Gerbilfriend.

Chapter 7: written, beta`d by Gerbilfriend

Chapter 8: written, beta`d by Gerbilfriend

Chapter 9: written, beta`d by Gerbilfriend

Chapter 10: written, beta`d by Gerbilfriend

Chapter 11: written and here, beta`d by Gerbilfriend

Chapter 12: :/

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I don't own one piece!

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This chapter was beta'd by Gerbilfriend. As usual she is an awesome help, correcting my grammar and making it all clearer for your enjoyment. She wrote a Marine!Lina omake in the end, check it out XD.

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Warnings:

English is my fourth language. The story will include thoughts about suicide, self-harm, and Ace self-worth issues.

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Thanks to all of you that followed, favorite and especially reviewed. You are seriously amazingly amazing, all my love.

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GreenDrkness

Thank you for your review. Lina had bloomed :).

If you are interested in my notes at the end, I tell a bit about it.

I couldn't imagine the story working without these confrontations. I am glad you think like me.

Hope you continue enjoying yourself. Waiting to hear your thoughts.

Friendly advice: read until the end ;).

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Guest-chan (anon-chan) or My mile long reviewer YMLR XD

Thank you for your encouragement. Yup, the half review made me laugh, I was huh, something feel missing.

Lina has her moments, poor Law. LOL

Fate has always been scheming, I liked, and if it fits I am going to use it, not even going to ask permission (shishishi). XD

The fun part about Lina that she doesn't seem to realize that she is taking charge and being a leader, her view of herself is quite different of how others see her.

The confrontation were not easy to write but were important, very happy to hear you liked them (Squard made me mad too), and especially the 'outmaneuvered' bit.

This chapter is quite important one, I am expecting a loooooooooonnnnnnnnggg review, ;)

And there is Marine!Lina omake written by my beta in the end, check it out.

Friendly advice: read until the end ;).

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miaandB

Thank you for your review. It make me blush hearing you love everything about my fic, thank you. The Law part was fun to write, in the future we will see more of him.

Hope you continue enjoying yourself. Waiting to hear your thoughts about the new chapter.

Friendly advice: read until the end ;).

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MisfitMadhatter

Thank you for your review. I am excited too, to see what your thoughts are about what would happen in the next few chapters.

Hope you enjoy the new chapter. Waiting to hear your thoughts about the chapter.

Friendly advice: read until the end ;).

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Lizziecats

Thank you for your review and encouragement.

The whole scene between Whitebeard and Lina was tricky to write, I wanted to give the aura of a fight by words, a reflection of the soul. I am happy I was able to do it.

No spoilers, but things would be more fun in this story.

I love Marco and Lina's interaction, don't know when but there would be more, especially after this chapter, you would know after you read.

About Shanks and co… well .. hmmm. Not telling XD.

Hope you enjoy the new chapter. Waiting to hear your thoughts about it, it is an important one.

Friendly advice: read until the end ;).

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OTrizy

Thank you for your review. Abandoning Vibes? Nope, not going to happen.

Really appreciate you thinking of and thanking my betas, they do great job, in this chapter there is Marine!Lina omake written by my beta Gerbilfriend, check it out and tell us your thoughts.

Hope you enjoy the new chapter. Waiting to hear your thoughts about it.

Friendly advice: read until the end ;).

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HikarinDevil (Anonymous)

Of course I answer your reviews, you are my dear reader. I appreciate your feedback :).

I am happy to tell you that now I have 4 posted fics, check out the new one and tell me what you think. ;)

Feel free to ask about anything, no need to be shy, I may not answer (spoilers!) but I love to hear anything you have to say.

About pairings I am not sure how far I am taking this fic, so no right now. And it would never be the focus of the story.

Hope you enjoy the new chapter. Waiting to hear your thoughts about it.

Friendly advice: read until the end ;).

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Sara

Thank you for your review. No problem.

I am not sure about this fic, you weren't the only one to ask, so I wrote a lonnnnng note in the end. The fic would at least go after the war, how far not sure yet.

"cuz there's no doubting the will of the D?" of course there on doubting the will of D, how dare you even consider such thing... Shishishih.

headcannons of Ace loving to ramble about his beloved sibling are awesome, I love them too, so I hope you enjoy this chapter and the bit of rambling.

Shanks and the Whitebeard pirates would have some more interaction with Lina, I am not telling you anymore, keeping you in your toes.

Hope you enjoy the new chapter. Waiting to hear your thoughts about it.

Friendly advice: read until the end ;).

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NightsBlackRose13 (yo-yo , what's up yoi!) XD

YO!

I am not sure yet, so I can't give a real estimation. When I know I would let you know, but do read my notes, I babble and ramble about the story.

Red puppy, BHABHA, good one, as Marcy said assuming is the mother of all f**kups.

Obaa-san, I think Luffy may call her that before Marco, because she fret and worry, loved imaging it, Marco is going to get the lashing of his life in the future, you think he is suffering now, oh, boy… read this chapter to see what I mean.

"form an alliance they said, it'll be fun they said".. Cracked me up, Oh, all I am going to say is poor poor Law.

Shanks and Whitebeard, it's going to be fun.

Hope you enjoy the new chapter. Waiting to hear your thoughts about it. Seriously, looking forward to read your thoughts, and don't forget to check out the Marine!Lina omake in the end.

Friendly advice: read until the end ;).

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KurohoshiX

Wow thank you, I am truly happy you found my fic that good and you are enjoying it, I try very hard to be true to the characters and to the atmosphere. Humor is truly hard to write, I am told that I have a wicked sense of humor but transmitting it to written words is hard.

The song about Shanks Lameness is gold XD. Took me several tries to get the right feeling.

Hope you think this chapter as awesome, because it is quite important.

Hope you enjoy the new chapter. Waiting to hear your thoughts about it and don't forget to check out the Marine!Lina omake in the end.

Friendly advice: read until the end ;).

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treavellergirl

Thank you for your review, I appreciate you words, I work hard in making the story flow and try to imagine everything going on while writing. Poor poor Marco is going to b even poorer in the future, truly poor him, Lina would not be happy with him. And if anyone can Make Marco's hair change color is the three D's.

Hope you enjoy the new chapter. Waiting to hear your thoughts about it and don't forget to check out the Marine!Lina omake in the end.

Friendly advice: read until the end ;).

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Se7en

Thank you for your review, I hope you enjoy the new chapter and share your thoughts with me.

Friendly advice: read until the end ;).

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Chipmunk

Thank you for your review. Chaos rock's. Lina had just began.

Hope you enjoy the new chapter. Waiting to hear your thoughts about it and don't forget to check out the Marine!Lina omake in the end.

Friendly advice: read until the end ;).

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PoorJasonTodd

Thank you for your review. I am happy you think this fic is fun, that the whole point of it at least in my mind. I try to make everything flow as naturally as I can with as much humor as possible (we need good laugh in our lives), I am not sure I always succeed, it assuring to hear that you think I do.

Hope you enjoy the new chapter. Waiting to hear your thoughts about it and don't forget to check out the Marine!Lina omake in the end.

Friendly advice: read until the end ;).

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laternenfisch

Thank you for your review, glad to see you are enjoying yourself, I hope you enjoy the chaos to come.

Hope you enjoy the new chapter. Waiting to hear your thoughts about it and don't forget to check out the Marine!Lina omake in the end.

Friendly advice: read until the end ;).

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Rodina. ashraf

Thank you for your review.

I thought about Whitebeard asking her, maybe in the future. Meat popsicle are mentioned frequently (ch2, ch4 , I think, Luffy new obsession LOL)

Well, Lina is that awesome, she knows about a lot of things, she doesn't always share, she would reveal about it in the future.

Marco, yeah, poor Marco, weird faces are because of his conversation with Lina (some you saw some not), she make him uncomfortable (I wonder why? shishi), and he is feeling a bit overprotective (He is denying it).

Lina POV would have revealed a lot, you are right, but it easier to write from other characters.

'haters for the evil club', it's official, next step is to recruit members XD.

Hope you enjoy the new chapter. Waiting to hear your thoughts about it and don't forget to check out the Marine!Lina omake in the end.

Friendly advice: read until the end ;).

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Please read notes at the end, if you are interested about the fic and its future (sorry, it is long ^^)

AFTER THE NOTE THERE is A Marine!Lina omake written by my adorable Beta.

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Izo warily eyed the destruction in front of him.

He thought that Marco had gotten the short stick of the deal, but now he was sure it was him.

Simply put, he was in a graveyard.

Where the bodies literally became the tombstones of their own grave.

The bodies were mainly marines but he saw several of his brothers there, now statues.

Dammit, he needed to control his temper.

She was an ally according to Lina, Ace's sister, the girl seemed to know what she was talking about, at least he hoped she was and Oyaji told them to go along with whatever she ordered.

He couldn't help but remember, once again, for the fourth or fifth time in the last hour (Yes it was less than hour since they arrived, shit, it felt like weeks. His body was aching like it was weeks at least), the first time he heard the name Lina, it was quite memorable after all.

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Marco had called a commander's meeting earlier that month and Thatch took control of the matters as per usual. They were all meeting in their small private kitchen on the upper deck, but not all of the commanders were there.

Namur, Atmos, Blenheim and Jiru were on different missions in their territory, Curiel was on the Moby Two helping in some repairs. Marco, the one that called the meeting was yet to appear (Izo wouldn't be surprised if telling Marco where the meeting was being held slipped Thatch's mind and Marco was waiting for them in some other random place, his eyebrows twitching impatiently).

Izo was enjoying a caramel latte with light whipped cream and standing a bit behind him was Thatch, who was preparing quantities of food while having a heated discussion about some plan (another prank?) with Haruta who was sitting facing Thatch, his back to the table, gesturing with his hands to emphasis some point. Beside Haruta was Fossa with cigarette in his mouth, using his spoon to demonstrate some new attack he wanted to try to Blamenco (who was enjoying a pizza, of all things) instead of eating with it.

On the other side of the table, in front of Izo was Jozu who was reading the newspapers with interest and not eating any of the food in front of him. Beside Jozu was Ace who was eating (more like shoveling) like he was at war, only stopping when he had a sudden narcolepsy attack which always lasted only for few seconds, not that he noticed those attacks, he was busy shoveling.

Seeing Ace like this, Izo thought he understood why Ace had frequent short narcolepsy attacks, it was survival instincts, without it he wouldn't breathe between bites (shovels), it was most definitely survival mechanism that his body developed to protect himself.

Vista, Rakuyo, and Kingdew were looking at the scattered wanted posters on the table besides Ace, having a discussion about any new promising rookies that they should keep eyes on or show Oyaji.

Izo was sipping his latte, savouring the flavor (Thatch had mastered the skill of making them exactly to his liking) when he heard Thatch calling Ace's name repeatedly without an answer forthcoming.

Izo looked up to see Ace's figure frozen with his head tilted down, his first thought was that it was another narcolepsy attack, a longer one this time, but watching Ace for few seconds, Izo could not hear Ace snoring and his eyes were not closed, instead he seemed to be stunned. About what?

Ace suddenly opened his mouth and had all the food piled in his mouth fall out like a waterfall (seriously, it was huge amount!), it was not pleasant view, he was glad he had already swallowed the liquid in his mouth, he fought not to have it come back up, Blamenco was not as lucky, Izo heard him choke on mouthful of pizza.

Thach spluttered loudly behind him, looking in dismay at the chewed food piled on top of the edible food (ex-edible food) on the plates and the table.

"Was something bad with food? Was not tasty? Was it not to your liki ..." Thatch trailed off looking even more upset when Ace didn't react at all to his questioning.

"Thatch, did you poison him?" Fossa asked bluntly, looking with suspicion at his food.

"Prank?" asked Kingdew with a raised eyebrow.

Thatch denied it with furious shaking of his head and saying loudly, "food is sacred!"

Haruta called Ace's name, waving his hand in front of Ace's face without any reaction from him.

Vista moved closer to Ace and poked him repeatedly, still nothing.

"Shit, call the nurses, he's having a heart attack." Thatch called suddenly in panic, forgetting he was still holding pans filled with food on his hands and moving them in his panic to get help for Ace, scattering undercooked food around the whole area and almost getting some on him (he would not be amused if anything had gotten on his clothes, or god forbid his hair).

Izo moved intending to poke Thatch or punch him to stop him from hyperventilating even more and making an even bigger mess when Ace suddenly pinched his own cheek hard then blinked looking back at the table in the direction of the scattered posters, Izo was not sure which one brought this reaction from Ace and why?

Ace blinked several times, then tilted his head to Jozu's direction, who was ignoring everything and reading quietly.

"Jozu, would you please punch me."

"HUH," Thatch exclaimed loudly, Izo raised an eyebrow at the serious expression on Ace's face.

Some of the others snorted or snickered, Thatch was already in panic mode, dropping everything in his hands, (Izo's prophecy came true, more mess he was not cleaning it up, no way in hell) and yelling.

"Don't worry, I am gonna..."

Vista and Rakuyo got out of the way just in time, barely avoiding colliding with flying Ace, Jozu didn't hold back and was already back to flipping the newspaper as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened (someone asked him to punch them every day, was he a closet sadist?), reading with intense concentration.

Ace got himself out from the hole in the (now broken) wall (Marco was not going to be amused, nope, he was going to be downright pissed), straightened up, put his hat back on his head, and trailed back to the table, and clutched one the posters, staring at it as if trying to get inside it.

Izo was about to open his mouth to demand what was going on when a big smile bloomed on Ace's face, and he began to laugh jovially, his eyes were suspiciously misty.

"I think you should get the nurse now, Thach," Hurata murmured, his face showing confusion while his mouth was tilted upwards in amusement, Ace's laughter was contagious.

Vista moved closer to Ace and carefully looked at the poster clutched in Ace's hand from over his shoulder.

"Lina D. Monkey, you know her Ace?"

"Damn right I know her, she is my little sister." Ace announced, his whole face brightened, still chuckling.

"Ehh, I thought you only had a brother." Thatch asked, looking less panicky, his body relaxing seeing a laughing Ace but still confused.

Ahh, yes, the commanders all knew about his younger cute, adorable, troublemaker of a little brother, a new rookie from East Blue, with a huge smile. Ace had showed his wanted poster to their father boasting about it in one of their meetings few months ago, Oyaji had even asked Marco to keep an eye on his news.

"Nope, two troublemakers," Ace said, his smile getting bigger if it was possible.

"You seem surprised to find her wanted poster?" Izo remarked about what everyone had forgotten, Ace was stunned out of eating when he saw it.

"I am, I wasn't sure if she would become a pirate."

"Oh?" asked Vista, twirling his mustache.

"I was sure for a while she would became a marine." Ace murmured still smiling, his eyes a bit glazed, as if remembering some distant but fond memory.

"A marine?" Thatch and Hurata yelled simultaneously, their voices showing a distinct surprise colored with underlying disgust.

"Seriously?" intoned Rakuyo.

"Yeah," Ace murmured quietly then added.

"It would have been troublesome to go check on her at a marine base or ship every time I got worried, you know, but I would have done it if only to make sure that those moron marines treated her right, if they weren't ….." Ace trailed off, flames appeared to dance on his shoulders, clearly telling the fate of those poor imaginary ( and very unlucky) marines if they hadn't treated his sister (the princess) to his liking.

"Overprotective brother," snickered Kingdew bringing laughter and snorts all around.

"Dammit right!" Ace announced with big grin, not bothering to deny it, he wore it like a badge of honor, like he wore their Father's jolly Roger on his back and with uncharacteristic gentleness he flattened the wanted poster of his younger sister.

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Ace was definitely delusional. A marine! He was a total dummy. This girl fed on chaos, like her brother fed on meat, maybe worse. A Marine? Impossible. She was bona fide pirate material.

Thatch would have loved to meet her and the other brother (he had basically challenged Oyaji by telling him I will be the future pirate king), they would have been thick as thieves, Lina planning and those two with Haruta trying to create havoc as she envisioned (he wasn't sure if they would succeed but it would be spectacular either way).

Thatch, he always somehow remembered him, it didn't matter what he was thinking of or doing Thatch's shadow was always in the corner of Izo's eyes, but now was not the time, they had come to save Ace, Thatch would have been leading the charge like the moron he was, him and Oars attacking straight ahead…

He was doing it again, now wasn't the time, he scolded himself. He would have time later to reminisce and grieve.

Izo clutched his guns hard in each hand, bringing himself by force to the unpleasant reality in front of him, and began to move carefully between the scattered sculptures searching for his goal.

"Perfume Femur."

He had hardly heard the words before a long slender leg was on him, he was able to block with his guns but he was being pushed back.

His attacker did an impressive backwards cartwheel.

The Pirate Empress was in front of him in all her glory and she was stunningly beautiful, not a speck of dirt or anything out of ordinary in her appearance, like she was just relaxing by the beach, and not responsible for the destruction all around them, her face was showing uninterest in anything, as if nothing mattered to her.

"Perfume Femur."

She span around on one leg in a figure-skating-esque motion, using her other leg trying to kick him, she span more furiously as he was moving backward, trying not to colloid with any statues, using his guns to block her continuous kicks.

Shit, she was not only beautiful but strong and fast.

He needed to...

Shit, shit, what did Lina tell him…

"Luffy…" he choked out, his voice barely audible, he should have yelled, dammit.

The empress froze her leg high in the air in front of him, her face unreadable.

He had full view of her cleavage, he was getting an eyeful of what was the most beautiful cleavage in the world. He wanted to cringe.

She slowly lowered her leg, while looking him up and down, her face frowning.

He cleared his throat and began.

"Luffy ..." to be cut off.

"Salome," she demanded.

A large white snake with red marks on its body sweeped out in front of her, slithering, Izo didn't have time to react before finding coils wrapped around him squeezing ever tighter.

"How dare you! Dressed like this trying to make my darling fall for you."

She was looking at him in anger, her arms crossed below her breasts, emphasising them.

"Like my darling would fall for such obvious trick, you fake women, an ambition."

HUH

What the hell was she going about? Who was he tricking? Darling? A man? Didn't the Kuja hate men? Oh, did she mean a wome...

"Pink and purple kimono with stupid hair and a heap of makeup only makes you disgusting, most definitely not a women..."

That shitty women might be beautiful but she definitely had no class, his hair was in geisha style, and it was perfect and his makeup was top-notch, every part was exactly as it should be (the women was dreary and tawdry).

"... and most definitely not a women of my caliber, this …" she gestured to her breasts, poking them in the process, " is natural and beautiful."

This woman has no shame.

He was a crossdressing man, he was not a woman nor was he trying to be one, he didn't know how many time he explained or kicked someone until they understood. The women in front of him looked at him like he was a cockroach with urgent need of crushing (it wasn't new experience, but somehow it pissed him off more than usual), he had feeling she wouldn't understand (or listen) if he explained, that left him with option number two.

He put some Haki on his hands and guns trying to get free from the ..

"Silence, I am most definitely more beautiful and elegant, the most beautiful in the world, the perfect women for my darling."

Lady, he hadn't said anything and who the hell was her darling anyway? What the hell was this crazy women spouting about.

He took it back, Ace wasn't delusional, this women was.

"Lina told me to find you to help Luffy," he finally said cutting off her nonsensical monologue, really he was ticked off, but he at least should be able to tell Lina truthfully that he tried reasoning with 'natural women' before beating the shit and the snot out of her .

She turned to look at him her face blank once again, then her face changed to an adoring look, no, her posture changed completely. She had become like a snake slithering around happily after getting full.

"Oh, my cute little sister sent you to help my darling Luffy."

She said softly, her eyes were shining, she did look more beautiful now, and she was confusing the shit out of him, her darling was Ace's little brother? What the heck?

The snake around him was moving gently, it had released him and he was free to move again, Izo clutched his guns, still considering if he should shoot this.. .

"Speak up you fake women." She ordered, looking at him from above her nose.

Something had appeared in his face, showing his displeasure because she added snidely.

"Would you like me to call you a man-women then or maybe a miss, missy, girly, sissy, shemale, princess, girlyguy."

She was pissing him off, really, he didn't remember feeling this pissed in a long while.

Don't shoot her, he repeated in his head, she was an ally. Yet he was unable to relax his death grip on his guns.

He took a long breath, trying to get control on his temper, someone had to show some class here, and it definitely wasn't this arrogant egoistic shameful b**ch.

"My name is Izo, I am…"

"Don't care," she told him bluntly, and added, "Just be happy I didn't turn you to stone." looking at him maniacally.

She was as unpleasant as she was beautiful which was a loooooot.

Her face changed again, she looked happily dreaming swaying her body, twirling her hair. She was not normal, she had a screw loose in her head.

"For the sake of my darling Luffy ..."

Maybe two or three screws.

"I am the prefect fiancé, if it is for my darling, I will do anything..."

No, her head was screwed as whole. Fiancé?

"You know that Luffy is a man, right? "

She turned at him, just noticing that he was here listening to her dreamy babbling and announced with look of utter disdain.

"You moron, don't compare my darling to the rest of you useless beasts."

She had her finger pointed at him, like he was the utmost of those beasts, her posture changed again, he hands coming tighter like she was praying.

"He is a god, a special, he is … ohhh," she moaned, he really didn't want to know what she was imagining.

Ace would not be happy when he found out (he couldn't wait to tell him about this), but he would give it to Ace's young brother taming such unpleasant crazy women.

"Idiotic savages like you, will never understand his magnificent … how …. Him..." she was still going on and on.

"You are ... " he began then cut himself, he shouldn't bother, crazy people can't be understood or reasoned with.

He sighed and he really, really had the urge to to rub his head, but stopped himself (He wouldn't ruin his perfect hair because of this crazy person.)

"Now tell me, what I have to do to help my Luffy." She demanded, body straight up, her hand on her hip, glaring at him.

Yes, without doubt, he was the one that got the short end of the stick.

"Give me the details, you better hurry up shemale, My Luffy is waiting."

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"That's the way! Bwahahaha!"

Garp's laughter was getting on his nerves.

Sengoku was sure that he didn't have any nerves remaining, they were as dead as could be, but then he heard the fool utter a word or cackle and he knew he had some left and they were on fire.

The moron was munching on okaki bag.

Crunching the rice crackers loudly and with great joy.

From where on the Four Blues and the Grandline he produced the snack Sengoku didn't know, it was like Garp produced them from thin air.

It was just like the moron to bring snacks to a war, he could hear him cackle in his head telling him those snacks were needed to boost his strength even more, Bwahahaha.

Shit, he was getting distracted again, because of another D, those shitty morons with D in their names only brought trouble, no, heaps of disaster, he was in f**cking one.

He took another long breath, trying to control the remains of his frayed nerves.

Boom.

He didn't flinch, no, he was used to it, the moron had just popped an empty bag of rice crackers.

"Bwahahaha."

He was opening new one, and munching right away.

Sengoku sighed, his shoulders slumped, why was he bothering with moron? Why was he stuck with him to begin with? Why was he here to begin with? Why did he think being a fleet admiral was a good idea? Why?

Sengoku exhaled, rubbing his head violently.

It wasn't the first bag either (that he opened or popped), no, the first bag, Sengoku had in fit of rage snatched it from Garp and filled his own mouth, it did made him feel good for few seconds looking at The Moron's (there was only one Moron in Sengoku's mind) stunned face and enjoying crunching on the crispy rice crackers. Then moron blinked and laughed, and produced another one.

The idiotic moron was treating this war, the unmitigated disaster that was happening in front of them, like a funny show or a game, he was cheering and commenting, every few seconds you would hear him cracking his high pitched laughter and the moron was not even cheering for the right team either.

Shit, like he didn't have enough problems (disasters more like it ) he had to use a lot of force to restrain The Moron from going bat shit crazy when Doflamingo attacked the problem, the one that brought this f**king chaotic disaster (Dammit, why the hell the useless Shichibukai didn't finish her quickly, then again he wasn't sure he would have been able to hold Garp back from beating the shit out of him and anyone getting in his way, including him if anything had happened to her), even Fire Fist had an aura around him that unsettled him. He thought he saw a shadow of flames dancing around him, Sengoku had even took a step back to check on the shackles restraining him, they were still in place.

"Bwah ha ha ha! That's it, show no mercy to scoundrels!" (Who were the scoundrels he was referring too exactly?)

Garp and he were sucked in (Garp was still sucked in, or more accurately he didn't seem to give a f**k).

For few long minutes they all forgot what they were here for, for what purpose they were gathered here, what had begun the war and why was this show happening in front of him.

He was being played like a fiddle, it pained him to say this, but it was the f**king truth, and he knew to solve any problem you had to face it right on.

He was being played, they were all were. Hook, line and snicker, he fell for the act like a new rookie seeing only the one path in front of him, and forgetting he could always turn back, right, left... they pulled him into this narrow path, and he moved forward blindly following the sheep to the slaughter. (He couldn't blame his subordinates when their leader made the same mistake, the worse mistake).

The fact that according to Garp the responsible one might had been on their side if things were a bit different, made matters even more worse, made the pain ache and burn. The humiliation seep deeper, closer to the heart.

But that didn't matter, it would undoubtedly hurt Garp, but none of his grandchildren would be leaving this place alive.

He would personally make sure of it.

One D was more than enough (he was not sure about it sometimes).

It took seeing Whitebeard attacking Sakazuki, taking him out, (several Marines had jumped after him after several minutes, but he yet to see him surface) it was like a cold shower was poured on him or heavy fist (like Garp) knocked the wind and its sails out of him.

He knew what must be done to get things right.

He was going to make everything right again, the water would return to its rightful path. He knew exactly how to get control of this war, how to get the upper hand.

He straightened himself up, he would see it through, his resolve was unshakable.

"Prepare for the execution of Fire Fist," he ordered loudly via the Den Den Mushi for all to hear.

Fire Fist flinched a bit, he didn't think of himself as sadist but he took a bit of pleasure in that reaction.

The bag in Grap's hand slipped from his strong grip, his laughter disappearing with it. (Wasted rice crackers, such pity!)

Sengoku crushed any feeling of pity he felt for his longtime friend, this was a war, and Garp was a marine, Garp was his direct subordinate, he would follow through or Sengoku would beat him up until he did or Garp couldn't move.

Right now, he didn't even care which.

"Garp," he ordered.

The game was on.

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No.

No.

No, no, no, no, no.

Noooooooooooooooo.

Shit.

Shit.

It happened, what she was most afraid of, what she had dreaded. What should she do? What could she do?

The whole act was to distract them from Ace.

To keep their eyes, all their senses on anything, everything... but not on Ace.

She had failed.

It failed, everything was for nothing.

She knew this might happen.

She couldn't think of anything to counter it directly.

Shit.

She should have thought harder.

Marco.

Where?

Lina looked frantically around here.

Dammit, where the F*CK was he?

This was his job, dammit, where was that flying chicken when you needed him?

She told him to keep both eyes on Luffy and Ace, he could fly so he could get to them fast if somehow they were in the spotlight. If anything had gone wrong.

If something just like this had happened.

Dammit, where the heck was he?

She told him that if they decided to execute Ace, to do what must be done, the plan could go to hell, to ashes, to F*...

To leave everything and to fly to Ace. Ace comes first.

She was still looking frantically everywhere, left, right, the sky…

Where, where...

"No," she screamed her voice muffled by the sounds around her, she was running.

She didn't remember beginning, but she was running.

To Ace.

Her mind was blank, like white canvas.

She was far, very far.

She was struggling to think ...

She wouldn't make it. TOO FAR.

She had purposely stayed away because …

WHY?

Luffy, shit, where was Luffy? Where was he?

Luffy.

She finally spotted him, he was running, he was close.

He was almost there.

Yes.

Good, she breathed a sigh of relief, her shaky legs stopping …

Good, Luffy..

She looked at Ace.

No.

No.

He wouldn't make it.

He wouldn't..

The green men with swords were there, two of them, they were moving closer to Ace.

Damn them.

Luffy was almost there, but..

Just few seconds, she had only to buy him only few seconds.

Whitebeard.

Whitebeard could with his powers.

Why hadn't he, that senile old man .. he should be doing something… without her telling..

Lina moved her head around ..

Where was he?

No.

No.

No, no, no, no, no.

Why?

WHY

Shit, F**k, why?

Dammit, he knew Whitebeard could stop the execution. His powers could ...

Damn him.

The fleet admiral.

Go to hell you maniac, shitty rotten stinky pile of ass….

He was facing Whitebeard.

She knew why he was called the Buddha now. He should be called the shrewd, skewed, nude golden fukuda….. Curse him!

He was blocking Whitebeard, neither of them were holding back but neither were moving anywhere.

F**CK.

This was a disaster.

What should she do?

She had promised to make the way easier to Luffy, but she was powerless.

She slapped her face, hard.

Think, she ordered herself.

Her heart was beating wildly, so loud that she couldn't hear herself think.

Don't panic, THINK.

Her legs were moving forward again, even thought she would not make it.

She was trying.

Think.

Think.

Do something.

She was moving on autopilot, dodging without thinking moving straight ahead.

She kept going straight, it was the fastest path, straight to Ace.

She was not paying attention to anything, only repeating the word think in her mind, again, again and again.

Think.

Hoping for a miracle, for something, anything to suddenly come to her.

Please, anything, what can you do, who, what… anything.

The men were taking their stance, their swords were held high above Ace's head.

Ace's head was tilted down, he wasn't looking at them, he was giving up…

Huh..

He looked blurry.

Why was Ace blurry?

Did they already...

Why can't she see him clearly anymore …

Everything was blurry, not just Ace, thank the gods.

She didn't seem to be able to see the path in front of her anymore.

She heard whimpering nearby, again and again.

It was really close.

She looked around for the source. Who was close enough that she co...

Oh.

She was the one whimpering and crying.

She couldn't see because of the tears streaming down her face.

Please.

Please not Ace, not Ace.

It was not fair.

Why him?

They lost one brother already, not again.

No way.

Not Ace, not Ace, please not ..

She thought that if she tried she could help, she could make a difference, she was naive, stupid, so stupid.

She probably was only in the way, without her Luffy and Whitebeard might have already saved Ace.

She was so stupid. She made things worse with her plans. She even believed that it might work if she worked hard and believed, it was not enough.

Nothing was enough.

She stumbled, falling down, so stupid.

She was fighting the constriction of encroaching panic in her chest and was losing, bad.

She took this so seriously, it was her brother life on the line, dammit, and yet she still fell short.

She should stand up and open her eyes and at least look up, see him in his last moment.

Her legs were not working, her body was paralyzed.

She owed her big brother at least that.

He wasn't coward, she should at least try not to be.

She silently swallowed the mouthful of bile that had surged up from her throat, or at least tried.

Sorry Ace, I am so sorry.

"Sorry," she whimpered brokenly, she had no power, no tricks, no plans, nothing, nada, she was useless.

"Sorry," she choked.

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"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO."

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The end

We hope you enjoyed this chapter and please let us know what you think :)

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My beta's idea, I take no credit in this folly.

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Oh?

It...

That ..

That voice..

That power..

They were familiar.

She knew it.

It was power she felt before, several times.

Luffy…

It was Luffy, when he got truly enraged, Amazon Lily and Impel Down.

It was Luffy not giving up.

While she already had.

But she shouldn't, not until the last moment.

She should stand up and face everything head on. Luffy was not alone, she said she would stand with him this time, not only follow him, she promised herself.

She stood up hurriedly, rubbing her face, looking up as she moved, searching for her big brother.

She stopped.

She blinked and blinked again.

And again.

HUH

Ace…

Ace was alive.

Not only that.

He was still shackled, but he was alone.

The green men were nowhere to be seen.

HUH, what had she missed when she fell, it was only a second or two.

What.

Luffy was almost there, but he wasn't the one to take them out, or was he?

Oh.

Oh.

Luffy's Conqueror Haki.

Lina smiled through her tears, she had never stopped crying but now they were slowing down.

She was finally able to breath, the heavy force, unlike any she had ever felt, that was pressing on her chest, crushing her had begun to diminish, slowly.

She was so stupid, really, she forgot something so important.

She was panting and gasping, wanting to curb her heart that was beating so rapidly.

Luffy had promised.

Luffy would never give up, unlike her.

Tears surged to her eyes once again and she hung her head, ashamed to realize she wasn't worthy of her brother trust.

Luffy never looked back, he promised to save Ace, and he moved forward, like always.

While she doubted herself and over thought everything, Luffy always trusted her, even when she couldn't muster a bit of faith to trust herself, to show true confidence for a change, he always had and always will.

A distant memory flashed into her mind.

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"What I think about your relationship with Luffy?"

Ace repeated her words, his face scrunched up in confusion, looking at her strangely.

She shouldn't have asked, but it was on her mind a lot and Ace was leaving tomorrow, it was an impulse.

"Well, you both complete each other… hmm.. I am not making much sense, am I?"

Lina only nodded, agreeing with him and not bothering concealing her own confusion.

Ace laughed, rubbing his head sheepishly.

She shouldn't had asked, she should apologize and tell him to forget about it and to have safe and fun journey tomorrow like she intended to when she first came here.

"Well if you think about it ….in terms.. Hmm .. Anchor and Compass .. Yup."

Lina looked at him in even more confusion, her nose scrunched-up and brows furrowed. Anchor and Compass?

"You are the Compass and Luffy's the Anchor." Ace pointed at her as he spoke, a smile crossing his face.

"Because Luffy ate the Gum-Gum fruit and he sinks like an anchor?" Lina tried to understand his logic. But why was she a Compass?

Ace burst laughing, clutching his stomach in the process.

"No, I didn't mean .. that" he said between fits of laughter, his face showing joy.

"Even though that fits him just right." he added, snorting.

"Shanks called him Anchor." Lina explained to him.

Ace nodded, still smiling and explained.

"Luffy is headstrong, he has to do everything his way, and you just find yourself being pulled behind by the currents he produces." he paused, looking at the sky, then back at her.

"But sometimes, mind you not a lot, he feels lost."

Lina looked incredulously at him. Lost? Luffy?

Ace had a knowing smile on his face, he nodded and said.

"As I said it happens rarely, and you wouldn't notice it anyway."

She looked and felt more incredulous hearing that, she was an observant person, she watched her brother like the hawk, he was trouble magnet after all, she was even worried about leaving him sleeping alone right now.

"Because whenever he felt even a bit lost, with Luffy's standards that is a lot, he looked for you." Ace explained to her, the knowing smile on his face turned into a soft one.

"You are his Compass, you give him direction when he is lost."

Lina couldn't fathom the idea, Ace wouldn't lie to her, but it just didn't make sense.

"How?"

"Cause you are there, if you are there then it means it is the right path."

"But I am following him, not the one leading the way." She said countering Ace's point. Luffy never asked for directions, neither literally or metaphorically. He probably didn't know what metaphorically meant and most definitely not how to use it.

"Trust me, I know. You don't need to be in the front to lead."

Ace had that determined look on his face, the one he rarely had and only when he was quite sure about something. She wished he felt like this about his own existence, but instead she asked.

"Anchor?"

"Luffy is an anchor, well, he is our Anchor, because he is something solid for you and me to hold onto."

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She never agreed with Ace's explanation but she had thought about it a lot, trying to see what Ace saw and her conclusion was that she wasn't a Compass. Luffy on the other hand...

Luffy was her Anchor and Compass, both. He was always the beacon of guiding light in her life, and the solid ground that she walked on.

But maybe, just maybe she could be a North Star for today, not only paving the way, but shining oh so brightly.

Luffy had already pointed and was in his own way leading everyone to Ace, but she would light everything else up so brightly that the path would be forgotten for few seconds.

Luffy would never be deterred from the path, but others might, just for few seconds, just enough.

She knew what she had to do.

Luffy would never break his promise and neither would she.

NO regrets.

Not anymore.

Luffy had given her a second chance, she would die before wasting it.

She was the North Star.

She took a long breath, and opened her mouth to scream.

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Damn him, the strawhat brat's scream made him almost lose his footing and fall from where he was standing on top of the flashy bastard Kizaru.

When he heard his voice, captain's Roger face flashed in front of his face.

The annoying brat that brought him only trouble was like the Pirate King, no F**king way. Gyah hah hah! He was the one closer to being the pirate king, not that shitty brat.

Some of marines chasing and attacking them had fainted, of course it was because of how great he was, they shitted themselves seeing how powerful he was. Some of his own poor followers had fainted too, they were probably tired, he knew just the thing to fire them back up.

"Men," he yelled loudly, puffing his chest.

"We went through hell together." he told them, they shouted their agreement, some had tears rolling down their faces, and others called his name repeatedly like mantra, calling him their leader, saviour, the great Buggy-sama (Wahahaha, that was him, Wahahaha).

"Forward, men! Let's give 'em a scare from that hell, we will conquer the world!" He announced in flourish, pointing in his finger at the marines' direction.

They all echoed their agreement, launching themselves on the marines in renewed vigor, where were those Whitebeard followers? Commanders? He didn't see them, not that he cared either way, he was the true leader...Wahah….

Hmmm…

Buggy turned his head, he could swear he heard someone calling his name, he was getting a feeling of deja vu, it wasvery unsettling.

Well, of course they were calling his name, he was the leader, the savior, the hero.

"Wahahahahaha," he laughed jovially.

This what life should be, Buggy was having the time of his life.

"Listen and be in awe! I am the great, invincible pirate! 'The Legendary Buggy'!"

He heard his name again, louder, it came from the center of the battlefield, not from his followers. Weird!

He squinted and tried to focus his eyes and ears.

"Buggyyyyy, ...lll… t….mi…"

Oh.

It was Lina.

She was calling frantically as she ran.

His partner of crime, his future subordinate, maybe he should make her his first mate, an offer she could never refuse.

She was running and screaming and waving her hands, there were several people behind her, following her, were they enemies or friends? Buggy was not sure..

"You go help Lina." He ordered, pointing at people randomly, they all nodded and sprinted to her direction.

Shouts of 'ma'm we are coming' could be heard loudly drowning whatever she was yelling.

She abruptly stopped and Buggy saw her take a long breath before shouting once again, her voice resounding everywhere.

HUH.

She said what?

No way, he misheard, there was something stuck in his ears, yup.

He rubbed his ears frantically, still eyeing her with a feeling of dread blooming in his chest.

Buggy saw her open her mouth again, shouting once more, her voice louder this time, or maybe everything was quieter around them. On a battlefield? He snorted. That was impossible.

He concentrated on the words.

HUHHHH

HUH

HUH, what did she say? No.

No.

No way.

Shit, no, shit.

No.

Just no.

Buggy turned to some of his followers, "Ehh, could you repeat what she said?"

Several of his followers turned to look at him, some as confused as him, some had stars and worshiping looks in their faces, some had their jaws dropping to the ground, some were murmuring about his greatness, his genius, well, he was one.

One blurted out, "Buggy, Kill the Admiral!"

"No, you heard wrong." someone other said.

They all began to argue with each other loudly.

"Boss Lina told us explicitly not to do it."

"Yeah, we have to keep the marines guessing."

"Ahhh..."

"But that what we .."

"Yeah that she sa..."

Buggy ignored them, and titled his head to her direction, she was running again, there were a lot of people following her.

Like a lot.

Mostly marines.

Marines, a lot of Marines were following her.

Too many.

"BUGGY," he heard her clearly this time, he truly wished he hadn't.

He should close his ears, and wave back at her like moron, no better ignore the whole thing.

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"KILL THE ADMIRAL."

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Yup.

That what he thought she said.

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F**king shit.

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Gerbilfriend: This one is both real and Rose's fault (see she is much worse than me)

Well, before you say anything, just know that I was considering finishing this chapter at the "Noooooooooo" (Luffy's yell) for real. I am such good person, right? *laughing evilly while turning on my chair and combing my nonexistent cat*

So seriously, did you see it coming? What did you think? What you liked the most? Does Anchor and Compass make sense now? Come on, I am really curious.

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Did you ever wonder how the story would be with Lina as marine, My beta and I did.

GO DOWN check a Marine!Lina omake (by gerbilfriend)

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Welcome to me babbling about this fic and its future.

I was asked by several about the future of this Fic, and as I was writing the answer, it get long, too long, and well I decided to share my thoughts, experience, worries, and doubts with whoever want to know.

I began writing this fic, well, my first fic ever, as challenge to myself, I wanted to write something and share it, and be a big person to be able to take anything anybody can say about my writing (it wasn't easy some times. I rewrote the three chapters of this fic three times).

When I decided to write, I wanted to write about something that I really wanted to change, the war, it upset me so much (I don't think I have to explain why).

So I wanted to change it, my plan was that this Fic would be only about the war, and some afterward scenes.

I decided on the plot, and for it to work like I wanted, I either needed to make some of the character OOc's or added an OC, I personally didn't like either of those options, but in the end I decided to go with an OC, and that's how Lina was born.

I get a lot of comments in the beginning, telling me, you can't just suddenly add an OC, without backstory, her role in the whole journey, you have to introduce her gradually. But I am stubborn person (I get what they were saying), but continued anyway.

Because in my eyes Lina's presence didn't change much of what happened before, some things changed but nothing major.

Lina began to change and bloom when she got Thor's hammer on her head, the shock of almost losing both Luffy and Ace in Impel down, made her take the first step out of her safe bubble, from her brother shadow (the FIRST chapter). So from here on, Lina began to change (as you saw ^^), so if I were to continue writing this story, the adventures would most definitely be different. Lina has opened the Pandora box inside of her and there is no closing it.

And I find myself thinking about her interaction with this or that character, and what would happen in that arc or the next, and how the strawhat would react to the change in her, and things like that.

I summarized to myself that I have several options:

1. Continue with my original plan, maybe added more scenes after the war than I first intended.

2. Actually continue with this story to future arcs, maybe end this fic after the war and make a sequel (I am not sure about this, I have other fics to focus on.)

3. Added "one shots" about specific scenes that are fun to write, without any chronological order.

I am seriously not sure what to do. It is my first fic, and I become quite attached to Lina. soooo… no idea, I guess I would cross the bridge when I get there.

Thank you for reading, I apologize for babbling too much.

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In which Garp Breaks The Ice (Wall) a Marine!Lina Omake

"LINNAAAA", she felt a shiver running down her back at hearing that familiar voice, she had at least hoped to get out of the East Blue before Gramps had found out she actually joined the marines. She saw her new crew mates turn toward the noise before a hole was blown in the side of the wall around the track scattering debris everywhere. She braced herself for The Hug.

Nope, still couldn't breathe

"Gramps" she whimpered as he released her, Lina fell on her knees gasping. Once she recovered she heard her crewmates whispering to each other in hushed tones.

"Vice admiral Garp?"

"Does she know him?"

"Freakily strong…"

She winced mentally, there went her chance at making her own impression.

"Now where's my granddaughter's captain, I want to have a word with him" he said in his normal tone of voice (ear bursting). Behind him she could see two forms coming through the wall, a plan started forming in her head.

"Gramps who are they?" she asked him hoping to send him off on a different tangent.

"They're my cute new pupils, Coby, Helmeppo come meet my cute little granddaughter" he called. She looked at the two boys, they didn't look like much yet but if they wanted to train with Gramps then they must have some back bone or a death wish.

"Nice to meet you two" she said, "I'm Lina."

"You forgot to say my wonderful granddaughter" he interjected, laughing all out.

She watched their faces turn to an odd sort of awe, she was about to say something when, peruperuperu was heard in the background. Gramps dug through his pockets and pulled out a small denden mushi.

"Senny what is it" he asked, face screwed up in annoyance. "What you need me already, I'm busy talking to my cute granddaughter, she joined the marines" he said gleefully as Lina felt herself blushing.

She tried to tone him out when she saw Coby open his mouth, "yes?" she asked him.

"Um, err" he said as he saw her start tapping her foot and putting her hands on her hips. "Do you have a brother named Luffy?" he asked, as she felt herself become annoyed. "Because Luffy and Garp-sensei are family and you're his granddaughter so-"

"Yes" she said cutting him off. Coby backed off quickly getting the aggravation Lina was exuding, she was at a marine base and Luffy still managed to be everyone's first . Aggravation at Luffy mixed with relief that he was okay.

Gramps had hung up on whoever 'Senny' was she heard his aggravated shout before the receiver slammed down cutting him off, poor guy...

"Coby, Helmeppo it's time to go" he shouted and Lina felt herself sigh in relief, he wasn't going to stick around. He was almost to the hole in the wall when he turned around, "You all better not hurt my cute granddaughter" he shouted, glaring scarily as he punched another hole without looking at the poor wall and his apprentices followed him, leaving her with a lot of whispering marines looking on in confusion and awe. Why had this been a good idea? Now that Garp had found out so would Ace, she didn't want to think of how Ace would react…

Knowing him, he would come knocking (not really, Ace didn't do doors) soon, to make sure that everything was to his satisfaction. How in the four blues she would explain to her new crewmates about her older brother being a pirate? (Ace and subtly didn't mix)

Well, at least she had time to think of something, and she could use Ace as training exercise as to when the train wreck of a twin brother come along to check on her and introduce himself, 'I am Luffy, the future pirate king, shishishi', why she had decided becoming a Marine was a good thing again?

Oh, yes, making a stand for herself, getting out of her brothers safe shadows (she was kidding herself with that), experiencing things for herself, to find her own dream and purpose (she was still looking like she had promised Sabo), because it was easier to turn from marine to pirate, then the opposite, and she could always tell Gramps, that unlike the stupid boys, she gave being a marine a real chance and it just didn't work.

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