"Let's see you try, kid," Akainu aimed a punch towards her.

Using the top end of her voulge, she managed to block the attack. Sweeping the bottom end up, she sliced through his magma hand. Knowing full well it wouldn't hurt a logia user, Annagi expected some damage.

"I see that weapon of yours isn't melted yet."

Her eyes widened. Haki doesn't work?

"I have no time to waste with you." He punched again.

Annagi braced for impact, but nothing happened.

Ivankov and Inazuma intercepted the attack, as the scissor man cut the ground, making a wall between them.

"Thanks!" Jinbe picked her up again, this time against her wishes and continued running toward the ship.

"Let me go! I'm going to kill him!" She struggled to break free.

"Ace wouldn't want you to die here," he said wisely, though logic would not be getting through to her. "You're that girl he always talks about, Ann. He always had a stupid smile on his face when he said your name."

"Jinbe, hand over Dragon's son!" Akainu was still on their trail; he became magma and moved his way through the pirates.

"If we can get to the sea, we'll be fine," Jinbe lunged over the ground, hoping to make it into the water. "Damn it! Aokiji froze the sea!"

" I've got you!" Akainu punched a hole through the fishman.

It passed through him, to Luffy. The magma barely grazed Annagi as she was being held to the side. As Jinbe fell, he placed Luffy and Annagi on the frozen sea. "I'm sorry I couldn't save you."

She crawled over to Luffy and gasped at the big burn mark in the shaped of an X on his chest. He can't die too! Ace told me to take care of him!

Akainu walked slowly in their direction. "You're still going to protect him, Jinbe? Even with a hole in your chest? It's a shame I missed, it would have been over if I hit him in the heart."

Rage swelled up within Annagi. Jinbe's labored breathing as he hovered over Luffy was more than she could take. The contempt with which Akainu spoke, made her blood boil.

She stood up facing him, her legs buckling slightly under her own weight. Annagi was at her limit. The young woman didn't know what she could do. Relying on haki wouldn't even injure him, as her last encounter discovered. She could use Observation Haki to stall him, but there would be no one coming to their rescue and there was a chance that avoiding his attacks could damage Jinbe and Luffy. Conqueror's Haki probably wouldn't work either, if he wasn't susceptible to Armament Haki.

Jinbe struggled to get up. Annagi tightened her grip on her weapon, taking a defensive stance. Akainu was getting closer.

A spear of sand encompassed the marine. Crocodile came to their rescue.

"Crocodile!" Jinbe was stunned.

"Sables." A whirlwind of sand surrounded the three. "Someone get them on the ship. You gotta protect the one you want to protect. Don't let them have their way."

As they were falling, they suddenly stopped. Buggy accidentally caught them. He glided away as Akainu rose up.

Annagi saw Ace's friends stand between them and Akainu. She was glad that they loved him as much as he loved them. Buggy flew away, so she couldn't see what happened. He dodged the magma fists that rained from the sky. He's really lucky; he's not even using haki.

A yellow submarine emerged from the ocean. The pirate told Buggy to put them on his ship. His jolly roger wasn't familiar to her.

"Who are you, brat?" Buggy asked.

The man told him that even though they will become enemies at some point, but that even such an undesirable relationship was a relationship and that there was no point for him to die there. He told Buggy that he was a doctor.

Annagi was in awe of Luffy. Ace always spoke of him as a kid brother he'd have to look out for. He was such a good big brother, but there was nothing for him to be worried about. There were so many people, enemies or not, that would willingly endanger themselves for him. He was so much like Ace. She guessed big brothers would always worry about the younger siblings.

Cannons began to fire. They were trying to sink the submarine.

"Hurry! Put them on my ship!"

Suddenly the ground, the sea, the sky shook.

Is this even real? Annagi's mind could not wrap around when she was experiencing. The unending carnage seemed so unfathomable.

A beam headed in their direction, going through Buggy's coat.

"Hurry and put them on my ship!" The pirate captain implored as Buggy heeded his words.

"Catch them Jean Bart!" A huge white bear in an orange jumpsuit ordered.

"Submerge!" The captain commanded.

It didn't seem that the beam marine or Akainu would let them go.

"That's enough!" A young pink haired man screamed, causing everyone to stop. He stood between them and Akainu, tears flowing down. "Let's not fight anymore! We're wasting people's lives! Every soldier has a family waiting for them at home. We've accomplished our goals, but we're still chasing pirates who don't have the will to fight. We just want more! We're giving up soldiers who could survive if we treated them now and we keep multiplying the number of victims. They're all fools!"

His words resonated with Annagi. She saw firsthand the senseless violence caused by the Navy. The pirates were only on the defensive. Was that their justice? More like sadistic bastards craving blood under the guise of justice.

"Who are you, fool?" Akainu was annoyed. Some brat was spouting nonsense. "You're wasting my time! We have no use for a soldier who doesn't believe in justice."

As Akainu moved in to kill this brave little marine, he was stopped by a sword.

Annagi gasped. She knew him! Well, she knew of him. Ace had told her about the pirate that saved his brother's life, Shanks; one of the Four Emperors in the New World.

Shanks thanked the soldier for risking his life to stop the madness, telling him that his actions have changed the world, for better or worse.

The bear carried both Luffy and Annagi into the submarine. Knowing Shanks had come had lightened her grief. Luffy would be able to escape. She could finally close her eyes. Ace, Luffy is safe now.

As they wheeled Jinbe and Luffy away, Annagi collapsed onto the floor. The adrenaline rush that kept her going dissipated. She closed her eyes, opening them immediately. In the darkness, all she could see was Ace with a hole in his chest. His red blood spilled onto the ground, staining everything. Her eyes opened wide. Not moving from the floor, all she could do was keep her eyes open. No! I don't want to see that! It didn't happen! Tears streamed down her face. Her body convulsed under the strength of her sobs. It didn't happen! You can't be gone! Please wake me up and tell me it was a horrible nightmare!

She felt a sharp pain. One of the doctors gave her some sort of shot. The girl immediately felt drowsy; everything went back.

Trafalgar Law inspected his third patient. She seemed to be a young girl, around Luffy's age of average height and weight, with no distinguishing scars. The girl's face was unfamiliar, not on any wanted posters he had ever seen, nor did he expect such an angelic face to be on one. She didn't seem to be a pirate, and on top of that, she was pregnant. Surprised that she was pregnant at such a young age, he wasn't his job to judge. He didn't know who she was or why she was at Marineford. All he knew was that she was extremely injured.

Annagi's body was covered in bruises. Black, blue, purple, red, and yellow discolorations were raised all over her body. She had several fractures. Law had no idea how she came to have them. The only scenario that would have explained it was that her entire body was crushed by some unknown force as it was being dragged throughout a compressed plane. He knew exactly where her burns came from, though he was surprised that it wasn't worse; facing Akainu with non life threatening burns at the end of it is a feat in itself. She reminded him of Luffy. There was no way she could have moved in her condition, but she did. In fact, she was the only one conscious after Akainu's attack.

Law double checked her restraints. Her hands, legs, and waist were all bound to the bed. When the anesthesia wore off, she would be in excruciating pain. The restraints were there to make sure that she wouldn't be further injured. Increasing the anesthesia, she wouldn't be waking up for a while. That would be for the best; it would allow her body to heal a little.

Two weeks had passed since Marineford. Trafalgar Law and his pirates were taking care of the patients on the bay of the Women's Isle. There loud commotion followed by shaking on the ship.

Annagi's eyes fluttered open. Where am I? She got up to find herself bandaged up, wearing a strange white jumpsuit. She winced as she moved. The anesthesia was wearing off as she came to. Walking out of the room, she saw Luffy. He just busted out of the ship, mumbling Ace's name. She followed him. Ace must be here, I guess. Huh? Ace…is here?

The girl saw Jinbe and the pirate from before. Luffy clutched at the ground repeating Ace's name in pain. "Where's Ace?!"

She wondered the same thing. I went to save him. Luffy saved him. Right? So where is he?

She heard someone say that Ace was dead. No! He's not dead! He's not dead! He's not dead! She didn't know when she started saying it out loud. "He's not dead! He's not dead!"

Luffy was running around, a group of men in white jumpsuits running after him to get him to stop moving. The pirate captain, she heard being called Trafalgar Law said that Luffy was going to die if his wounded opened.

Annagi ran after Ace's brother into the forest, followed by Jinbe. Luffy punched down trees along the way. The amount of sheer strength that he had even in his condition was nothing to overlook. He finally stopped, out of breath. Blood dripped from his mouth and nose, blood seeping out from his bandages, falling to the ground. The smell brought back those horrible memories of the battlefield for her.

"Where am I?" Luffy asked himself out loud. "Maybe it was just a dream."

He started screaming, obviously remembering what Annagi was remembering, their loved one's death. Luffy punched into the cliff, begging those memories to go away. He lifted a giant rock, throwing it at a small mountain.

Annagi watched him silently. She knew that she couldn't do anything. He had to vent. He fell to the ground. Annagi walked up to him. Luffy looked surprised.

I guess he doesn't remember me. She knelt beside him, ignoring the pain as she did so. He turned to her, to which she responded by taking him into her arms.

Jinbe walked up to them. "The war is over. Ace is –"

"Don't say it!" Luffy took the words out of her mouth. She clutched him tightly, bracing for the truth she knew. " I've already pinched myself hard enough to rip my skin. If it was a dream, I would have woken up by now. It's not a dream, is it? Ace is really dead, isn't he?"

Luffy's tears flowed down his face. Annagi really heard those words for the first time out loud. Ace was dead. Ace wasn't coming back. She would never see Ace again.

"Yes, he's dead." Jinbe told them.

Annagi cried in Luffy's arms. Luffy cried in hers. The pain was more than they could bear. It was as if screaming, crying, heaving, and making some audible noise would let out all the pain they left. Neither of the two could see a future for themselves with Ace gone.