Hello people, I know I was supposed to upload this in December, but I kind of went on an unplanned last minute trip to NYC for the Christmas holidays and stayed there until the 4th of January and then school started for me right after. But this took much more time to write and I do hope you guys enjoy the chapter. So, I'm sorry for sending you a late chapter (like always)...

Enter Hell

"Hey shithead!" yelled a man with glasses and a scar on his right cheek to a young, lone, blonde bartender "Bring some more sake!" The bartender blinked and wiped off the sweat from his forehead. His arms were heavy as he had been working tirelessly for weeks and had gone through sleepless nights. Not only was he tired but he was also moving very slowly and in a lot of pain. Pain that should not be there.

He got a few bottles and put them on a table. The last bottle he had in his hand, he poured it into the empty glasses that were already on the table.

"That a sea stone cuff?" one man asked

"Yessir. Lil shit got one of em devil fruits." Everyone in the room had their eyes towards the bartender.

"That pile of shit?" asks another "What's his powers?"

"It's useless. It's just blue fire. And it's not even hot."

Men around that table had laughed and started mocking the young boy bartender. He was used to this life. There was nothing that he couldn't handle anymore. He had been a slave since he could remember. He hated this lifestyle. But he was alive. He didn't complain. By now, he was so used to it that it didn't even matter.

This day was quite normal. He was working day and night to make sure the customers got what they wanted. He did not know that after this day, his life would change quite a lot.

Before the group of eight had even left the Moby Dick, Whitebeard wanted to have a few words with them. In his room currently was Reyna as she had explained the situation to the Captain.

After hearing what had happened, the elder pirate looked at her and said to get the young trio, Thatch, and Mika as well as his second in commands. He understood that this mission was very important and needed all the care in the world. His strongest sons and daughters were being sent off for a dangerous mission that could result in war with another Emperor of the New World.

Finding the trio was not difficult at all. It was past noon so they would be done with their chores and would have eaten lunch. And that meant that they would be training with someone. And sure enough, the trio were at the training grounds, sparring with one another.

The entire crew knew that Luffy was the strongest of the three because of the creativity if his devil fruit along with his fighting style and use of Haki. Other than that, outsiders wouldn't be able to tell who was stronger out of the three. All of them would push each other to the limits.

Reyna was walking towards the boys when Jones had stopped her. "Oh so now that you're a division commander you're too cool to not train anymore?"

"Oh please. This student has surpassed her master." she said with a smirk on her face, knowing full well that wasn't true.

In a blink of an eye, Jones took out his sword and placed it at her neck, with no intention of actually harming her. However, the attack was blocked as Reyna took out her sword and stared at her teacher. "Too slow." Jones said as he sheathed his sword. After spending hours daily training with Jones to become a swordsman to keep her deceased brothers sword, she knew full well what that meant. She was still slower than the man who was known as Roger's Demon.

"You're training with me. Tomorrow. First thing in the morning."

"Can't. Oyaji wants to see you." Jones took his leave from the training grounds and went to Whitebeard's room.

"Oh and if you see Marco tell him that Pops wants to see him too."

"He's in the kitchen" he says as he stretched and made his way out.

Now that she got one down, she went to the boys who had just finished their training. Usually they would be bound for a bath but she told them that Pops wanted to talk to them urgently and they got up and ran to the room where Whitebeard was in.

She went into the kitchen and saw Mika sitting with Marco. Both were eating a sandwich and drinking some coffee. Reyna did not want to interrupt the two as they were on break from their duties but she had to interrupt. She walked by the two and said that Oyaji needed to see them so they got up and said that they would go and get Thatch because they knew if the two of them were being called, so was he. She went back to Whitebeard's room and told them that they were waiting on Thatch, Marco and Mika, however the wait wasn't long. It took only a few minutes for everyone to gather in the room.

All of them were wondering why they were called and Whitebeard told Reyna o explain the whole situation. By the time she had finished her explanation that a few members of her division have gone missing and explained what the island was like, Whitebeard had looked at the group and said that this was Kaido's territory. This instantly got a reaction out of Jones and Marco. Getting a reaction was really rare out of Marco but when he did react to something, it was always something serious. And since Kaido was mentioned, Marco had raised an eyebrow. "So this means we have to be stealthy at all times." he stated, looking right at Jones

Jones answered "Not necessarily. We can waltz right in and find the crew members."

"For what? That's a lot of risk?" Mika said

"Marco's right on this. We keep this to stealth. If in fact my division members are alive, we have to keep as quiet as possible and attract less attention to ourselves." said Reyna

"There is no point in starting a war with another Yonko. It's not worth the amount of losses on both sides as well as risking a possible power struggle afterwards yoi."

Whitebeard and the boys just listened on. Jones and Marco both knew what they were doing so if Whitebeard could come up with a compromise between the two.

"Hold up though. There's myself, you, the kids, Thatch, Mika and Reyna. We can let Luffy and the girls look for them while the rest of us just attract as much attention as possible. Yes that means war but then again we can handle it. As long as the ship is out of Kaido's territory and into our seas, we have an advantage."

"Or we can let Mika run around the entire island to find the missing crew members. She does have that speed devil fruit. We can attract everyone and let her do the findings?" said Thatch.

Before more time was lost, "We'll do this." said Whitebeard and everyone's attention was to the elder man "go in as quiet and attract little to no attention as possible. If anything goes wrong, you are allowed to go and fight. The ship shall move on into our territory so in case of a fight breaking out, it favours us."

"This island has 3 parts like Reyna said. The Marine base, the area where Kaido has a fort, and the middle land. Make plans accordingly. I do suggest that you guys break up and go look." Everyone had agreed with Whitebeard and were fine with the plans. Once they left the ship and sailed towards the island, the Moby Dick was going off towards their territory so that in case a war did break out, they would be prepared for war that was most likely bound to happen due to the people going.

"A young four year old should not be doing this line of work." said a man who was sitting behind a desk, whose face was not visible as he did not want to be seen.

"But my Lord, he's apart of that Davy family. Surely he's perfect for that." said another man who was sitting beside the boy

"Davy family or not, he's too young."

"With all due respect, why don't we put him to a test."

"Fine. Take him to one of your missions. If he fails to kill the target, kill him and complete your objective."

"Yes my Lord."

Time had passed and the boy was once again sitting in front of the man whose face could not be seen "So not only did you kill the target but you also killed my top killer. We'll use you well."

*Marco and Luffy*

It wasn't any surprise when Marco had said that he and Luffy would go check one part of the island out. Marco was a very proud older brother. Ever since Luffy was told that he had a curse, he had worked a lot to control that. That blood lust was now almost non existent. It only came out when family was involved, which Jones said was fine.

Not only that, but the progress that Luffy was showing ever since he had come back from his trip was great. At the age of 13 he was a good Haki user whose Haki was as strong as a commanders. His ability to use his devil fruit powers and be creative with it to make more advantages for him was something that Marco found quite surprising. He was becoming quite smart and was learning on how to be a good captain for his crew. But he was still that idiot Luffy that he was. Never serious until it mattered and always curious and carefree.

Covering one half of this Dead Land wasn't pleasant. There were many broken down and burning houses. The atmosphere of the island was itself dangerous. Dark clouds mixed in with a red sky due to a large volcano. It was either bound to erupt or it was active yet asleep. The people on this side were all poor, many were living on the streets and there were many dead bodies on the street as well. There was nothing that could have been done to save these people. Marco was used to this scene however his youngest brother clearly was not. He was getting anxious. Luffy always wanted to help others out but he couldn't. And this could potentially be a problem.

"Luffy yoi, I know you want to help them, but right now we can't."

"I know. But I can't help it."

"Neither can I, but we have to protect the crew." he looked at the saddened younger brother of his. "Okay here's what, if anything goes down and we get the signal to go all out, we'll help these guys okay?"

Luffy's eyes lit up "Yosh!" he exclaimed and found motivation.

Walking through the broken down village like town, the two of them were trying to find some sort of clues for the missing crew members. But of course they found nothing here. This half of Dead Land was good for nothing. However, they did notice that this place had many slaves. And for an unknown reason, he seemed to have been recalling his past as they were walking. Maybe it was a sign. And maybe Jones was right. Run free on this island. Since he was against that, he was going to keep his word. No matter what the cost was.

A large man had walked into the bar that the young blonde boy was working in. He had asked for a few drinks for himself and for a meal. The young man had asked if the man had any money and the elder man had given him a pouch and told him to keep it. He could tell that the young boy was in distress. However, he didn't say anything as he gave the pouch away.

After hiding the pouch in his pocket, the boy went into the kitchen to tell the chef that he had an order to cook. And within a few minutes, the young boy had returned to the man with the drinks and food. The large man said thanks and dove into his meal. However, he was keeping an eye on the boy. As the boy returned to the front of the bar at the table, the man with glasses had confronted him and asked for the pouch that he was given. The boy did not say anything until the man grabbed the boy over the counter and threw him as hard and far as he could. The pouch had come out of his pants and the man got an empty alcohol bottle and started to beat the young boy with it. Until eventually the bottle broke and the boy was left injured.

He made not a single sound. To everyone at the bar, this was something that they were used to seeing. However, for the man who had given the boy the pouch, he had hated this sight. After the boy had gotten up and cleaned up the mess, the man walked towards the boy and said "I'll give you freedom. But at a cost."

The boy looked at the man with disinterest. He did not want to be sold again. Many people had told him that and not once did he believe it. He was about to say no until he felt a huge weight on his body was gone. He started regaining his strength out of nowhere. He didn't understand why. Until he heard an object hit the ground. "Do you want to be my son?"

*Ace and Thatch*

The second and fourth division commanders were searching the Marine base. They had a lot of ground to cover so they knew they had to be quick, silent and thorough. Ace and Thatch weren't necessarily the quiet ones on the ship due to their pranks, but when it mattered, the two of them made a very silent and deadly duo.

The entered through the back doors by killing a few guards and hid the bodies while taking their uniform to blend in. Ace hated wearing shirts ever since he was a child but once he got the Whitebeard jolly roger on his back, he never wore a shirt. Even in cold weather's he never wore anything due to the mera-mera no mi keeping him warm at all times. Thatch also had a Whitebeard jolly Roger tattoo but that was on his arm. It was the first time Ace had seen the tattoo as the two had changed into Marine uniforms. It was a lot more detailed than what was normally found on the crew. And he had the original design. The hindu Swastika with the face of Whitebeard and coveted moustache. Not only that, but Thatch had an arm sleeve tattoo and around the arm was symbols of peace from many world religions. There was also a bird that was blue and was on top of a green book. He didn't know about the green book, but the blue bird could have been Marco.

The two were walking through the many floors of the Marine base. Clearing each room, reading any information they could find and most of the stuff they did find was useless.

"These guys really don't give a shit." said Thatch

"It's making our lives easier."

"Yepp. But I do have a bad feeling about this place."

"I feel it too."

"There's a few strong ones here. Let's try not to attract their attention."

"Aw come on, let's destroy this place. Not even the Navy will care."

"It's not the Navy we care about."

"I know but still. What's he gonna do? We got Pops, Marco and Dee-chan. We're good."

"If only it were that easy Ace." he chuckled

"If only." replied Ace with a sigh as the two continued their way towards through the base.

As they walked through, the two tried to look for any sort of clues that could help them find something about the missing crew mates. However, as expected, they could not find anything. However, the two of them did not want to give up.

As they were searching for the crew members to no avail as they went through the whole base unnoticed because the Marines were too busy doing other things. They found out that they were involved in the slave trade for the civilians of the island. Them, along with Kaido have been dealing with slaves. Taking the woman as sex workers and the men doing the dirty work. Only the strong were allowed to be pirates and were forcefully given devil fruits. This got the two of them mad but they couldn't do anything for now. Right now they had to focus on finding their crew members.

A few short years had passed and this young boy was a renown killer. He was a murderer. And a good one too. Truly the assassin blood in him was live. But there was also something else. A massive bloodlust. A scary thing to witness. Even the most fearsome of people shook their boots when they saw the sight of a devil rampaging and killing everything in sight.

It was only a matter of time before he was hunted down by the very organization that took him in. Once you rival the Davy family in being known as one of the gods of the Underworld, fights were bound to break out. And he didn't want to hurt his family. So he escaped.

He ran and ran until he eventually passed out from exhaustion. Until he woke up with another set of chains on him. This time, he was unable to escape. He could not take off the cuffs hat were placed around him.

"You'll work for me now boy." he said

A few other years had passed and he became a bartender for a bar only for pirates. He was never given any sort of freedom throughout his life. However, as he would soon find out, things would change as two pirates had walked into a bar. One wore a straw hat and the other wore glasses. Both carried a sword and pistol. They called the bartender over to ask for some drinks and paid him extra.

Taking the money, he immediately handed it over to the owner that forced him to work at the bar for the past few years. As he handed the money, he was hit by the owner and was beaten for no reason. After witnessing this incident happen, the two pirates called the boy over once more and the one with the straw hat smiled. He looked at the boy and said "Wanna run free and change the whole world with the two of us?"

The boy did not know how to react until he too heard a large clank on the ground. He looked at the two men and smiled with pure black eyes as a bit of his blood had reached his nose and at the top of his lip. "Run like a wild animal." said the man

*Jones and Mika*

The couple were casually walking the other half of Dead Land. This part was run by pirates. And it was easily giving off a very strong aura. The people here were not weak. However, they were still weaker than the two people walking. Although Mika wasn't really a fighter, ever since Jones came to the ship, she started training with him whenever she got the chance. Which was often due to the Whitebeard Pirates not getting into any fights as everyone was scared of them and each pirate was a capable fighter. They needed strong opponents to actually be harmed.

Mika had now become a capable swordswoman, although she wasn't amazing with the sword to attract the attention of a man like Dracule Mihawk. But she was good. She also was taught how to use a pistol which was useful for certain situations. Jones took in Reyna and Mika as his students and they were taught how to fight with his style. Holding the katana backwards, as in the blade being behind him instead of in front. It was a quick unsheathe style as well as effective against many opponents, but in a 1 on 1 fight would very good due to the flexibility you have with your hand movements. Reyna was a good archer so she had amazing posture and steady hands, Mika was the ship's head doctor. She too had steady hands. Holding tools to cut or stab wasn't new to her.

They were ready for anything. Even though Mikaella was a capable fighter and could easily defend herself without any trouble, she was however, Jones' girlfriend. Of course that meant that Jones would make sure not a single thing would go near her in terms of a fight. He was still as strong as he was back when he was apart of the Roger Pirates. He just got older and less reckless.

Jones however, had no intention of finding these crew members. Instead, what he was trying to understand is why some of the places belonged to another pirate crew besides Kaido. Because the intel said that there was a fort that belonged to Kaido, yet this half of Dead Land was filled with many oher pirates. There had to be a certain reason for that. However, he did know one things. And that was that the missing crew members were not on the island. Either they died or something else had happened. So he told Mika what he had thought and she disagreed with his opinion but then she believed in him. Jones would know more about these things than anyone else. She just hoped that he was wrong and that the crew members were here and alive.

So they went on a search for information. Trying to ask around, and look for any clues as to what this island really is. Because the two of them had soon noticed that there was a lot more to this place than what it seemed.

Seastone cuffs had hit the ground and the young blonde boy's strength regained. Only he knew what his devil fruit was. His face had instantly regained its normal shape, it was almost like he never went through anything. The large man looked at him with a raised eyebrow when the boy said "Oyaji." to the man's question from earlier.

The large man laughed. He took the last sip of sake that was in his cup and said "Wonderful." and turned around to face the people behind him who had their guns pointed towards him seeing as he just freed a slave without permission or being sold to him. He looked back at the young boy and said "Watch this" with an evil look on his face as he punched the air with one of his hands, causing the air to crack like glass.

*Reyna and Sabo*

The duo of Reyna and Sabo had to deal with the fort. If there was any place where the missing crew members were, it would be here.

"Rey-chan, how do we get in" Sabo had asked, trying to figure out a way to get in the fort without being noticed. She looked at the young boy and then looked back at the fort. There were many pirates around the fort and it was almost impossible for them to enter. The decided to go around back where they thought might have an opening for them to enter.

Going around the pirates and avoiding them completely, they made it to the back of the fort. However, there was another problem. The fort was on a cliff and the back of the fort was the end. But they did find a way to enter. They had to climb up the fort and onto the open window that was at the top. However, climbing would not be much of an issue due to Reyna being an archer. She took a long rope and tied it to an arrow and shot right beside the window. The rope came down and the two had used to rope to climb.

Once they got into the room, they had to remain stealthy and hidden from everything and anything. The room was filled with maps and papers, thankfully for the two of them, there wasn't anyone in the room nor in the area they were at. However, as they went through the fort, a lot of the doors were open. The lighting in the fort was dark and that was advantageous for the two as they wore dark clothing and both had hoods to cover their face. There was enough light to see what was in front and behind them, but there wasn't much. They just needed to be careful.

Most of the open doors were not open and only a few of them were open. However, in each room, closed or open, there were "strange" noises coming from them but both of them knew what that had meant. They soon realized that the floor they were on was the brothel area. Both hated slaves but nothing could be done for now. Their focus was to find the missing crew members.

Making their way down checking all of the floors and found no information on anything. They couldn't even find unlocked rooms but every room they passed by, it was locked and they could tell that people were in them.

This had continued until they got to the bottom floor. The only thing that had bothered them was that they did not see anyone in the fort, most people were outside and the ones inside were confined in their rooms.

This floor had only a few room and all of them were open. The two split up and checked every room for any information, and they did find things that could be important for the future but nothing about the missing crew members. Sabo was the one who found the papers that might mean something to them as well. He read the few papers and looked at Reyna "Uh Rey-Chan… I really think you need to look at this."

"What is it Sabo?" she asked as she walked towards him and took the papers from his extended hand. Glancing through and reading thoroughly her eyes had widened. "We need to tell the others and Pops about this."

Neither of them were paying any attention to the door behind them as they heard a deep and raspy voice "And just WHO said you're going to get out of this mess?" a large man wearing only a pair of pants, covered in scars and tattoos and half of his face was burnt.

"Welp, so much for stealth." as he tried to take out his den den mushi "And there goes our communication line." Sabo said as he tried to reach his fellow crew mates but could not get any signal. They were in really big trouble.

Putting the den den mushi back into his pocket, Sabo looked at Reyna and took out a metal object from his pocket. He threw it up in the air and it became a bo staff. "Shall we?" he says with a smirk

Reyna unsheathed her sword "Let's do this."

"Do not get so overconfident you little fuckers. You face the Hammer of Kaido." he says with a dangerous smile as suddenly the room fills with 6 others.

The room was crowded for the two and these guys were a lot stronger than they had expected. Reyna was busy with the large man who had a large hammer as a weapon while Sabo was fighting the bunch. Now, they weren't too strong but the small space and them outnumbering him 6 to 1 wasn't the best thing at this situation.

Right now, Sabo was focused on defense. He wasn't attacking just yet. He was waiting for a good opening. But if that meant being on the defensive side for a while, then so be it.

Reyna and the Hammer were fighting. But even for her, she was being overpowered. This was not looking so good for the two of them. The man was not even using Haki nor his devil fruit yet he was giving Reyna such trouble. It was almost like he was toying with her. There really was nothing that she could do to stop him. At least, only until she got out of this room. Until then, she saw Sabo fight and had an idea. "SABO! HIKEN!"

"You're going to get hit." he replied as he tried defending himself.

"No I won't. Go run right after. We have to get out of this room to stand a fighting chance."

Sabo tried to find other ways out of the room but Reyna was stuck fighting the Hammer. He stopped fighting for a moment and brought his fist back and yelled out "HIKEN" and aimed a punch for the Hammer, but also hitting the 6 people he was fighting. He saw that the 3 of the 6 were burning and were near death while the other three he couldn't find. He got out of the room and say Reyna as well. Instead of the sword in her hands, she was holding her bow. They had to run and get out of this place.

However, they were cut off once more. This time by three animals. One was a tiger, the other a large spider and the third was a large, unknown bird like creature. Then the three once again transformed but it was back into their human form and Sabo had realized that it was the three people that got out of the fire. Behind them, the Hammer made it out without a scratch. But it wasn't the human form of the Hammer. He was a Balrog. A winged demon creature covered with fire. "You're not the only one with tricks, fire user." he said in a deep roaring voice. He made a fist and suddenly a large sword had appeared. He aimed for Sabo but Reyna had blocked the attack with her sword that was now coated in Haki. "Don't think I'm going to let you hurt my little brother." as she now could fight freely.

Sabo took this opportunity to coat his staff in Haki and go on the offensive. With a combined effort from his devil fruit and his fighting skills, this would really be a test for him as the three men her faced were much stronger and much more experienced than him.

*Ace and Thatch*

The two of them really couldn't find any sort of information on the crew. However, Ace and Thatch could not let up the fact that there were slaves in the basement of this base. They really wanted to free them. And even though this was a bad choice, the two had to. They hated slave owners and the Marines on this island were involved in the slave trade. The information they found was that a lot of the slaves being traded were sex slaves and the others were just ordinary workers.

It was easy for them to get to the basement as they had blended in quite well due to wearing the Marine uniform. However, when they got there, they noticed that there were two very strong auras. And both of them were surrounded with women while the other older and younger women were forced to watch. The two men had their uniform on the ground and due to the different design, Thatch and Ace deducted that these were the Vice Admirals and were in charge. However, they were strong Vice Admirals. But something was off. They did not seem like Vice Admirals and more importantly, while the two were walking through the base, it did not seem like they were Marines at all.

Regardless if they were Marines or not, they were still going to free the sex slaves and try to get them back to their homes, if that were possible.

They waited to attack at the right moment. They did not want any of the slaves to get hurt or killed so they waited out until the Marines were done with the acts they were doing. Which didn't take long as they could hear everything that was going on. And during the whole time this was happening, Thatch and Ace really wanted to kill them. This was a really awkward situation for them but they needed to help out the poor people that were stuck here.

Once the two Vice Admirals got done with what they were doing, they told all of the slaves to go back into their cells and put their clothes back on. Once they did that, the two Whitebeard Pirates came out of hiding. Thatch looked at them with murderous intent and said "Oh boy looks like we get you hang your skulls on our ship." and took out two long daggers that looked like swords but really weren't. Ace just cracked his knuckles and lit his fists on fire. "Let's just burn them after we're done here." The two Whitebeard Pirates charged at their opponents and Thatch cut his man into two while Ace seemed to have punched a hole into his opponent and started to burn him.

Both men went down and the two started celebrating, until something unexpected happened. The man that Thatch had cut fixed himself while the man Ace had punched through and burned got back up, both perfectly fine.

"Don't think this'll be easy for you, Shirohige's pigs." said one "We are th.." and he was cut off by a Haki coated punch from Ace

"I do not care who you are… Do NOT use our father's name like that." said the fire user

"You bastard!" he said, as he picked himself up.

"Looks like we picked up strong ones huh." said the other man "Bane which pig do you want?"

"I'll take the fancy haired one. Guess you're stuck with the fire kid Sandoz."

"Hmm fire, my favorite." Sandoz said as he clenches his fists and suddenly they turned into two large rocks in the shape of boxing gloves. "Rocks can't burn."

"You can cut me all you want boy. I can regrow my limbs at any given time." Bane said to Thatch

The two Whitebeard Pirates looked at one another, they were going to be here for quite some time because these two clearly weren't weak at all.

*Marco and Luffy*

After not finding any information about their crew members, Luffy did notice something was odd about this part of the island and Marco didn't know exactly what he was talking about, so he let Luffy lead this so called investigation. At this situation, there was nothing that Marco could have done. So he just followed his youngest brother until eventually somehow, they got seperated. Marco would not freak out anymore because at all times he could feel Luffy's presence. So he knew he was close and was unharmed. So like any brother would do, he was going to find his youngest sibling. And maybe scold him. But he knew scolding wouldn't work on Luffy anymore.

It didn't take long for Marco to find Luffy as his presence was in one location, not moving. He wasn't worried because he couldn't feel anything or anyone else, it may have just been Luffy realizing that Marco was not behind him anymore. Which was the case as when Marco had gotten to Luffy's spot, he was stopped at a door and looked back at his older brother "Sorry…" he says with a laugh and a hand on top of the straw hat of his.

"It's alright Lu… Anyways, what did you find yoi?" he asked curiously

"I don't really know. But something behind that door seems off."

"Off?"

"I can't explain it. I don't know what it is… But it's almost like a cry for help." Marco raised an eyebrow. He looked at his younger brother and he had hoped that the missing crew members were behind that door. Luffy's intuition was never wrong. Whenever he didn't feel right, something bad always happened. However technically, ever since Ace and Sabo joined, trouble always seemed to find the three of them. Wherever they would go, trouble would soon follow, or if there was any sort of trouble anywhere, it was most likely because of the young trio.

Marco looked at Luffy and gave him clear instruction "Stay with me at all times no matter, okay Lu. Otherwise you won't get meat for a week."

That seemed to have caught the attention of the young one "Okay." he said in all seriousness. Luffy needed his meat.

Marco had carefully entered the door and had hoped that there was nothing to worry about.

*Jones and Mika*

"Jones if you're right about this then we have to let the others know as soon as possible." Mika said, concerned as she followed Jones, as they were making their way through the alleys of Dead Land.

"That's the problem… I can't reach them. Our communications have been cut off."

"For how long?" she sounded really concerned about the rest of her family. Everyone she truly cared about might be in imminent danger

"A good while actually. We may even already be too late. I have a very bad feeling about this place."

"But we have to find everyone and get out of here. We need to go tell Pops."

"Yes, yes we do. But first, I need to confirm this. There is no point in warning Pops about something that isn't really real. We need to find out whether if I'm right or not."

"And how do you suppose we do that?"

"Well, that's the easy part. Just follow me and don't say a word. Right now, stealth and speed is what we need."

Mika nodded her head and followed Jones. She did not know where he was going as she did not know the island nor did she remember the directions to everywhere. She just hoped that Jones was right about this. Ever since she got here, she was not feeling too well about the atmosphere of the island. It almost reminded her of her past when she was a sex slave for the group of pirates that pillaged her home island, in her past life.

However, she fought those thoughts away. Right now, she had a job. She had to help Jones confirm his suspicions and find the other crew members that were scattered around the island, trying to look for the missing ones.

Slowly making their way, they soon entered an old building and it was very dark. Mika could not see anything at all. She was on edge as she entered as she could not see Jones nor feel his presence. Suddenly, she felt a hand grab onto her arm and another hand covering her mouth, and for a moment, she felt fear. Until she recognized the touch of the person. It was Jones.

He whispered ever so quietly into her ear "Calm down, it's just me. Hold my hand and do not let go. You can't see in the dark but I can, and if we need to run, I will carry you alright. Just stay as quiet as possible and walk in front of me. I'll guide you through. My hands will be on your hips at all times and I'll tell you if anything is in your way. I promise I will not let anything happen to you." She nodded and then kissed the man on his cheek. She obviously trusted him with her life and she knew he would not let anything happen to her. "This might take long to get through, but just let me guide the way okay." And again, she nodded.

*Marco and Luffy*

Upon entering the building, it was old and empty. however , that did not mean that the two of them could be so relaxed. However, there was a horrid smell that instantly hit the two as they walked in. Marco took out a handkerchief from his shorts that was hanging around and was about to tie it to his face to avoid most of the smell but he saw Luffy who had nothing and tried to cover it with his arm. He made the handkerchief into a mask and put it in Luffy's face. He then remembered that he had a sash on around his waist so he took that off and tied it as a scarf around his face so that he wouldn't get hit with the bad smell that was coming from the building.

Walking through, the light seemed to have been dimming slowly each time until eventually there was no light, but there was a door leading towards downstairs which was also dimly lit. The two went down as they couldn't find anywhere else to go, but this time, Luffy was leading instead of Marco once more, and Marco this time would not leave Luffy out of his sight.

There was something that was attracting Luffy to go downstairs and by the time they got down the flight of stairs, Marco then understood what was giving Luffy this feeling. This place's whole basement was filled with young children. Most of them seemed to be like slaves, while the others were experiments. At least, that's what the labels on top of the cells had said. All of the children started to yell and cry for help.

Marco looked at the children and instantly he knew that he had to help them. All throughout the day, he was having flashbacks of his past and he didn't know why. At least, now he knows what to do. Even though this might cause some trouble for the entire Whitebeard Pirates as a whole, he had to. He knew all too well that being a slave was the worst thing he had to go through in his life. He knew exactly what the kids were feeling.

Suddenly, there was another presence that made its way to the room where the two of them were. Marco looked at the person entering and it was a woman. Wearing all black, showing a pale white face with red eyes, she looked at the two Whitebeard Pirates and said "Although I disagree with keeping young children as slaves, by the order of my Captain, I will have to stop you from freeing them." she looks at Marco with her blood red eyes "I won't harm the kid, but you… Your blood smells nice. I wonder what it'll taste like, Phoenix-san." she said seductively, as she smiles, showing her fangs.

"You're a vampire yoi?" and he looks at Luffy, "Stay back… I'll take her." Luffy nodded in agreement. Marco had waited for the woman to make move, however, he did transform into his half Phoenix form. But instead of making his arms into wings, he put wings on his back, kept his arms normal, and had changed his legs into talons. He also took out his sword that he took with him and she unsheathed her large dagger.

The two had a stare down before the first move was made, Marco could tell that she wasn't weak and could possibly keep up with him, however something else was going on at the same time. His attention wasn't towards Luffy. Luffy for an unknown reason, was slowly getting angrier by the second. He looked around the room and his sense of smell was very strong. This far into whatever was going on, Luffy knew that he was not in control of his body anymore. He turned towards the children and opened his eyes. One young girl that was in a cell had looked at Luffy and what he was pure terror in the girl's eyes. He closed his eyes and when he opened them, he felt a change. He knew what this meant. His eyes had become black.

*Reyna and Sabo*

The two were easily outmatched. Sabo was not able to do anything against the three he was fighting as they were in sync with one another throughout the entire fight. Even with his devil fruit and Haki. those three were still much stronger than him. He knew that they had the experience over him, and by now it was starting to show. Nothing was working and at now seemed that the three weren't even trying anymore. However, Sabo needed to keep them busy so that they wouldn't interfere with Reyna and the Balrog. He knew he had to do something. But his efforts weren't doing much.

He looked towards the division commander but she was much worse. Bleeding profusely, injured in many areas, burnt clothes and body parts, having her flesh show at some parts of her body, this was not looking good for the two of them at all.

However, they could not give up. They had a family to go back to. Reyna had the crew and Sabo had his two brothers. They could not die here. But right now it was a high possibility that they were to die here. But that did not matter for the two of them. If they were going to die, they might as well die fighting.

Sabo was out of ideas, he could not attack because his opponents were one step ahead of him. Not only that, but they were physically stronger than him. He tried defend himself against the 3 on 1 attack but by now he was too tired and hurt. He could not block on time took a hit from the unknown bird like creature as it charged right into his stomach, the man with the spider ability had kicked Sabo right in the face to make him even more groggy, then the man who was a tiger had bit him right in the stomach.

His eyes widened and he felt an immense pain. He felt a few of his ribs break and the bite took a lot of his flesh out. He was still conscious but was bleeding out quickly as he fell to the ground.

At the same time, Reyna was also near death. The Hammer was easily beating her once he turned into a Balrog. She was no match for him in that form. No matter how much she tried, she was still far too weak. Once she saw Sabo drop to the ground, she looked at her brother's sword that was in her hands. She placed a kiss on the blade and pointed it towards the Hammer, as she was now surrounded by the other three men as well.

"Seems like your efforts go to waste." said the Balrog. "That young man died a good death. Fought well and died. Now it shall be your turn." as he raised his sword to strike down Reyna. She knew that she did not have the strength to block it, however, she was still going to try.

She saw the large fire sword come down at full swing. She blinked and time seemed to have slowed down at that very moment. She opened her eyes, her sword was ready to block the initial impact. In her eyes, the sword was coming down very slowly. Her sword was raised but she now accepted death.

Keeping her eyes open but looking at Sabo for an instant, he shouted with all of his might before he went unconscious "REY-CHAN!"

So I added in the backstory of Marco and Jones back when they were younger. I hope you guys will enjoy the little twist I have that will be revealed in the next chapter or so. And I skipped out on the fights purposely this chapter... I know... But the next chapter will be action packed instead of focusing on story building. The enemy characters are made up btw, and so is this island... If anyone wants to take a guess at the twist, let me know in the reviews. And speaking off, feel free to leave a favorite, follow or comment. I really love the feedback and support from all of you. Thank you guys and have a nice day.