Chapter 6 : Whitebeard Pirates vs. Buster Call

"Admiral Akainu." Strawberry said through his Den Den Mushi. "There's been a problem with our mission."

"Problem? What kind?" The voice on the other side growled.

"Whitebeard is on this island protecting the kids. It looks they're gonna put up a fight for them."

The line on the other side went quiet. "Continue on with the plan." The voice finally said after a long time.

"I'll head over to Dawn Island myself."


The Vice Admirals and Whitebeard were having a stare down when their ships were finally in range. Atmos had suggested they fire warning shots, but Whitebeard had ordered to cease fire. Ace and Luffy were hiding below deck after much persuasion from the crew.

Ace was nervous, confused, and hopeful at the same time. He was nervous because he didn't want to die. He hasn't made a name for himself yet, he can't die yet! He didn't get to become a pirate and explore the gigantic ocean. He was also confused that the pirates were defending them. Part of him says that this is a trap and the Whitebeard pirates are working with the government, but another part of him says that they actually cared about him, which left him hopeful.

Little Luffy was hiding behind Ace. He felt scared, but he was mostly excited. He wanted to fight with the pirates but nobody would let him. 'Hmmph. They all think I'm weak.' Luffy huffed.


"Hand over the brats Whitebeard. We don't want to fight with you." Vice Admiral Momonga said. All the Vice Admirals knew they didn't stand a chance against Whitebeard's crew, let alone Whitebeard himself.

"There's going to be a fight if you're going to take away my brats." Whitebeard stood up to his full length from his throne, bisento in his right hand.

All the Marine soldiers whimpered and scurried away from the railings.

'Wimps.' Everyone on the Moby Dick thought.

"Everyone that is too weak to fight can just swim back to Marineford!" Vice Admiral Doberman yelled in frustration. The last thing he needed to deal with were cowards.

They gave one last whimper before they straightened out, doing their best I'm-not-scared-of-you look.

All the Vice Admirals had an emergency meeting via Den Den Mushi after Akainu had told them he will come to back them up. They didn't exactly know when he was going to come, but for now, the plan was to fight, stall, fight, stall.

"ATTACK!" Strawberry, Yamakaji, Doberman, Onigumo, and Momonga shouted at the same time.

"RAHHHHHHH!" the marines shouted as they jumped off their vessel onto their enemy's ship.

Clashes of swords and guns being fired could be heard on the other side of the island where the villagers were.


"Wahhhh!" a baby cried.

"Shhh. It's okay. Everything is going to be alright," the baby's mother comforted, mostly to herself.

Earlier, when some of the Whitebeard commanders started running around, telling them to evacuate because of a Buster Call, everybody started running frantically, gathering their belongings, and running to the coast.

The people were sitting on the sand, listening to the ensuing battle with concern. Here the villagers were just sitting on their asses, being protected by pirates while they did nothing. Some of the men were becoming irritated because they weren't fighting for their home like they should be and so they were preparing to fight by gathering anything that could be used as a weapon. They were about to leave to go fight when they saw a Phoenix flying to them. They didn't panic because they all knew that was Marco the Phoenix, one of the guys fighting for them.

"We're going to fight. Don't stop us." one of the villagers said.

"Sorry. Can't allow that. Captain's orders." Marco smiled a little at their bravery. "Oyaji ordered me to get you guys on the ship. He says he has a bad feeling about all of this." Marco pointed at a ship that looked like the Moby Dick but was a lot smaller.

"Take the ship and head to the nearest island. The name of the island is Odayakana. After we're done with this, we'll head to the island ourselves to get our ship back." Marco explained.

"What about our home?!" a women exclaimed.

"They're going to destroy the island. It's not safe."

Everyone quieted at this information. Dawn island for some of them was their home for many generations. Watching it get taken away from Marines, the ones that were suppose to protect them, was a little upsetting. Not to mention pirates are the ones that are saving their asses.

"Are Luffy and Ace okay?" a pretty young women with green hair and a bandana asked.

"Dadan had told me what's really going on and that you're protecting them." the women continued. "I know the safest place for them right now is with you guys so I ask if you can take care of them in my stead." she sighed. "But-if you ever hurt them or turn them in, I will personally hunt you down and kill you." the girl held up her broom to maker her point clear.

Marco sweatdropped at the sudden change.

"Now, now, let's calm down," a man that looked part-chicken said.

After promising the green-haired girl and the woman that claims to be Dadan a thousand times that he would take care of the brats and that they would see them again, he flew off.


Jozu was fighting off Vice Admiral Strawberry. The fight only lasted two minutes after Jozu saw an opening and gave a nice diamond-infused punch to the gut.

Yamakaji was laying unconscious after losing his battle to Marco a while ago.

Doberman was facing off with Thatch until Onigumo decided to surprise attack from behind. Luckily, Kingdew caught this and stopped his attack just in time. Their fight was over when Kingdew broke Onigumo's saber with his bare fist.

Thatch stood victoriously over a comatose Vice Admiral and sheathed his two katanas.

Momonga was looking at his surroundings and his panic started rising. He only took down sixteen crew members but no commanders. All of the commanders were still alive, and they don't even look tired. Especially the ones that took out his fellow subordinates. They looked like they didn't just take down a Vice Admiral.

'This is bad.' he thought. He really did not want to face his superior's rage.

Whitebeard was sitting back at his throne, watching his sons and daughters fight closely. He knew they could handle it, but he couldn't shake off this bad feeling he had.

A few moments later, all the Marines including the Vice Admirals had fallen and only the Whitebeard pirates stood. The commanders dragged the people in their division that were injured into the infirmary.

"Oyaji," Marco came up and was now standing next to his father.

"How are my children?" he asked worriedly.

"Counting all the divisions together, 56 is the total of all the injured. Thankfully, no one died or was critically injured. Mostly small gashes and broken bones," he reported.

"Good," Whitebeard was relieved but he was still bothered by this weird feeling. Marco had caught on to this and asked him.

"You still getting a bad feeling?" Marco asked worriedly.

"Ah. It's probably nothing. Do not make me worry you." Whitebeard said dismissively. Marco gave a quick nod and headed into the infirmary to check up on his siblings.

Marco knew that when his father predicts that something is going to happen, something will happen. Something bad.


Ace and Luffy were sitting in the second division's bedroom, listening to the fight. Surprisingly, Luffy only asked Ace once if he could join the fight. Ace figured it must be fear that is quieting Luffy. After a while, they felt cramped and was about to run out the door when he saw Marco appear before them. He looked a little surprised but he quickly changed to his usual bored-looking face.

"Can we please go out now?" Luffy was trying his best to be polite which honestly scared Ace and Marco a little.

"Not yet. There's a lot of dead bodies out on deck. You don't want to see that."

"It's not our first time seeing that." Ace scoffed. "Anyone died on our side?" Ace was really curious. There were no windows in the room, but he could hear quite clearly the fight.

Smiling that Ace had said 'our side,' he told him that the only ones that died were on the Marine's side.

Luffy's eyes sparkled. "You guys are so cool! Too bad I didn't get to see..." Luffy pouted.

Marco's heart broke when he saw Luffy's sad little pout.

"How about our next fight you get to watch? But that's only if you stay by one of the commaders or Oyaji." Marco offered.

"Really!? Okay, I forgive you."

Marco chuckled and ruffled Luffy's hair to which he responded by giggling. Marco was surprised again when Ace, being the protective brother he is, didn't protest.

"What do you mean 'next time'?"

Marco smiled gently. "Let's go to Oyaji." he said indirectly answering his question.

When they got on deck, they saw that all the Marines were gone and their ships were out of sight.

"We threw all of them on the ships and Oyaji threw their ships somewhere far far away." Thatch smirked playfully. He noticed Ace and Luffy and greeted them before heading to the galley to make dinner.

When Ace and Luffy were standing in front of Whitebeard, he wasted no time to get to the point.

"I know you said you had a promise and that you can't break it but I'd thought I should ask you again. Would you like to join my family and become my sons?" Whitebeard smiled kindly at them.

Ace was too shocked to respond while Luffy wasted no time.

"Of course! Yay I'm finally a pirate!" Luffy jumped up and down in joy while Ace just stared wide-eyed at his soon-to-be-father.

"Why...WHY DO YOU CARE?!" Ace shouted. Everyone turned their attention to the three.

"WHY ARE YOU PROTECTING US AFTER ALL OF THIS!?" Ace was shaking uncontrollably now.

"Ace..." Luffy whispered.

"Ace, we're protecting you because we're your family. That's what family do." Marco came up to Ace and place a hand on his shoulder.

"Why do you still want us after seeing how 'dangerous' we are. Don't you hate us?" Ace said so softly that people could barely hear.

"We're all children of the sea. It doesn't matter what crime you did or did not do. You would still be my family." Whitebeard wiped a stray tear on Ace's face.

After Luffy had finished hugging the shit out of Ace, everyone went about doing their usual things, occasionally giving warm smiles to the new members of their family.

"Are Makino, Dadan, and the others okay?" Luffy said in between bites.

"Yeah, they're heading to Odayakana Island right now along with the other villagers. Oyaji had said that we will be staying at Dawn Island until we receive a message that they got to Odayakana safely." Izo said.

Ace and Luffy nodded, continuing their meal.


I know I said I wouldn't be updating today but my friend kept bothering me to update so here it is! Yay no cliffhanger. Guess who's coming next chapter ... AKAINU! To the person that asked, yes their heritage will be revealed. I'm not good at writing fighting scenes or sappy emotional scenes, so sorry X_X .