Chapter 28: It Finally Begins! Start the Journey to Marineford!
Colour Spread: 17th Anniversary-The Strawhats are getting ready for the 15th anniversary of One Piece (Read Chapter 756). Post-timeskip Eri's face is shadowed as she grimaces over the selection of dresses, opting for a bright sunshirt and shorts, her table in front of her mirror has a large variety of sweets on it, as well as her bo staff pieces. Post-timeskip Ellix's face is also shadowed, by a large green scarf with extravagant flower designs on it. He is wearing a collared black shirt with cuffs and crisp trousers, his table has a wide variety of hygiene utensils, as well as some cheese strings on a small platter.
With Specter, Roy and Kalamar...
"That should do it." Specter stated with his bland face as he pressed the button, the cores light faded and its gentle hum ceased.
"Great! So uh...now what?" Roy asked with Kalamar on hisback, and the room began to rumble.
"Run as fast as possible." Specter said as he made a break for it.
"Youcould'vewarnedus!" Roy facefaulted as he ran behind him.
With Gundar, Tack, Sarah, Annabel and Dimo...
In the rubble of the tower, an enraged Tack burst free. "What the hell was that!? Who did that!?"
"Tack! Your okay!" Sarah cheered as she glomped him.
"Sarah! I'm glad your safe." Tack nodded.
Next an over-the-top angry Dimo emerged. "ROCKET OF FOOLISHNESS! HOW CRASHNESS HAVE YOU DARE!?"
Annabel pushed herself up next. "What was that!? It brought down the entire tower!"
Gundar then emerged without a scratch. "That surprised me, but at least they know how to treat the elderly well.
"Your sense of generosity is messed up!" Tack and Annabel yelled.
"Wh-What was that anyway?" Sarah asked timidly, the five dug through the rubble until they found a shocking scene.
Lying there was Kobata, bloodied and bruised with several broken bones, lots of missing teeth, and ten distinct bullet-like wounds in his stomach.
"It's Kobata!" Annabel gasped.
"Ellix-sama had the ness of victories!" Dimo cheered.
Gundar fell to his wooden knees and began shuddering. "Hey, are you okay?" Tack asked.
"Thank you kiddo..." Gundar sobbed.
Just then the manhole next to them opened up, and out popped Specter, Roy and Kalamar.
"Roy! Kalamar!" Tack and Sarah gasped.
"Tack! Sarah!" Roy wailed as Kalamar blubbed in joy.
"Specter!" Gundar cheered after wiping away his tears (he had to keep up appearances.).
"Grandpa. I'm so happy." Specter said without emotion.
"TRY SHOWING IT!" Everybody but Dimo and Gundar yelled.
"Where have you two been?" Annabel asked.
"Disabling the fleets core, its power has compltely gone." Specter said.
"Gyohohohoho!" Gundar burst out laughing as he ruffled his grandsons hair. "That's my grandson for you!"
Suddenly the ground shook. "Wh-What was that!?" Sarah squeaked, as large cracks started to appear in the ground.
"No way...looks like my bastard sons impact has done more damage then I thought!" Gundar yelled. "This whole fleets gonna fall apart any second! Everybody run to Ship 1!"
The rest of the group didn't need to be told twice, and they ran as fast as they could towards Ship 1, pursued by the giant cracks.
With Me...
'...Well, this is fun.' I had been stuck in my Dream Dream Cinema for a bit now, as my body REFUSED to get up, not even Dream Dream Puppet was making it move! So I just decided to wait it out.
Then none other then Thom and Catherine were in my view. "Hey! Anybody home!?" Thom called.
"He most likely collapsed from exhaustion." Catherine nodded.
I pulled down my loudspeaker and spoke into it. "Thom! Catherine! I'm glad your okay!"
Obviously they both jumped back in shock. "That's some serious talking in your sleep!" Thom said.
"I ate the Dream Dream Fruit!" I quickly explained to them. "Where's everyone else?"
"We don't know, but the whole fleet is shaking for some reason." Catherine told me.
Speak of the devils, everyone else rushed in...with Gundar carrying a badly beaten Kobata by his hair. "Your all alright!" I cheered.
"He talked in his sleep!" Most of them face-faulted, all except for...
"Ellix-samaaaaa!" Dimo hugged my unconsious body, crying a small waterfall. "My gladness is having the ing of unend to you seeing!"
"You too Dimo..." I sweatdropped.
"Hey kiddo." Gundar stood over me. "Good job."
"Thanks, but, why'd you bring Kobata?"
"I don't think he deserved the release of death." The ossan shrugged.
"Which is why we brought this guy as well." Annabel said as she dragged a whimpering doctor into my view.
"I agree." I agreed.
"Now make this man slightly better so he can continue to suffer!" Gundar shoved Kobata into the doctors arms.
"R-Right away, Previous Cap-I mean Captain!" He stammered before dashing off.
"Gundar..." I sighed into my loudspeaker. "Kobata...he broke the only Eternal Pose to Marineford...I lost in the end."
There was a pause. "Gyohohohoho!" He suddenly burst out laughing. "Ya don't need to worry about that!" He reached into his pocket and pulled out another Marineford Eternal Pose! "There were actually two! I thought you might break one, so I kept the other!"
"You jerk! You could've told me that!" I yelled into the speaker with shark teeth.
Gundar just chuckled as he pocketed the Pose. "Right then, I'd better get us moving before we all die." He then walked out of my field of vision.
"Um...what did he say?" I said dumbly.
"The impact of your final blow on Kobata is causing the entire fleet to break apart." Tack said as he came into my view.
"It is quite fun to watch." Specter said in his trademark bored tone.
"All those crewmembers on those ships'll be fine, I'll pick 'em up...eventually." Gundar called from a sepearate room.
I then felt Ship 1 lurch, and begin to move. "Ellix-sama! To you I say look!" Dimo dragged me over to the window, and pointed at the other ships, which had all broken apart, and now floated around still in coating, but completely ruined. "You have had the destroying of a whole fleet!"
"...Huh." Was all I said.
xxxSummitxWarxxx
This was it, we were finally on our way to Marineford.
It would take several hours to get there, so we were all preparing. The doctor Annabel had brought along had fixed all our wounds and given us all the a-okay. So I was now taking repetitive naps to restore my strength.
"Nightmare!" I groaned as I woke up to see a heavily bandaged Kobata, unable to move, yelling at me. "You've ruined EVERYTHING! This is all your fault!"
"Shut up." I groaned, as I shuffled away to sit with the others, ignoring his yells.
"E-Ellix..." Sarah mumbled as I looked at her. "Y-You've helped us...a-a lot...so now we'll help you!"
"Yeah! We'regonnabringtheboozetotheparty!" Roy cheered as Kalamar blooped in agreement.
"It's the least we can do." Tack chuckled.
"Screeeeepth!" Even Tempo was in agreement.
"I'm so excited for this." Specter said.
"YOU COULD TRY SHOWING IT!" Almost everyone yelled, smacking him over the head.
"Thanks you guys." I smiled, I then looked at Annabel and remembered why she was fighting, and I became curious. "Hey Annabel? Why do you hate marines so much?"
She looked at me. "Bit personal, dontcha think?"
"S-Sorry!" I replied in a panic. "If you don't want to then-"
"Its fine." She waved it off before sighing. "When I was 8 my older sister who worked at a bar fell in love with a pirate who's crew was visiting our island. Me and him actually along very well and one day he asked us if we would like to join his crew, and, well, we agreed."
"But..." Her eyes fell. "On the day they were supposed to leave I was packing my things after my sister had gone to the ship when there was...an explosion. I-I ran outside and saw that...that the ship was on fire and sinking, next to it was a Marine ship."
She shook her head, as if trying to rid herself of the memories. "By the time I made to the harbor the ship had mostly sunk under the waves. One of my sister's co-worker told me that my big sister was on that ship and was most likely...dead."
"Marine soldiers suddenly scowered the town for any pirates and in a fit of rage I attacked a solider, but he pushed me away into the ground and I fell unconscious. By the time I woke up the Marines had gone. Next thing I know, I'm at my house with the mayor sharing bloody sympathies."
She pulled a ring off of her finger and showed it to me. "She gave this to me that final night...and I set out when I grew old enough as a pirate." She looked like she had just dropped an anvil on herself as she shook her head. "I hat them. I hate them for taking her from me!"
I looked at her for a minute before nodding. "I think I can get where your coming from...I lost someone I really cared about to pirates. To have someone precious to you just suddenly ripped out of your life...it hurts so much. And you just want to let loose all your anger and hatred on the person who took them away from you..." I felt tears in my own eyes.
"...Yeah...guess you do get it..." Annabel smiled slightly. "So...if you don't mind me asking...who did you lose?"
"...A good pirate." Was all I said, and nothing more.
"So, Thom and Catherine, your going to Marineford just to help Ace?" Tack asked.
"Mostly." Thom nodded. "But also because Pops is gonna be there!"
We all froze. The only people who called Whitebeard that are..."YOUR WHITEBEARD'S NAKAMA!?" All of us except Dimo shouted, blowing the two over.
"Yeah." Thom shrugged as if it was normal. "There was an attack on my small town in Sabaoedy, which killed my mother...but then Whitebeard took me and my two bros in!"
"You have brothers?" Tack asked.
"Yeah!" Thom looked like he was gonna go into a painfully long talk.
"I'm also a member of Pops' crew." Catherine thankfully interrupted him. "Me and my five sisters-"
'FIVE!?' I facefaulted as the thought ran through my mind.
"-were orphans from Dressrosa until Pops took us in, we owe him our lives."
"...Dressrosa?" I repeated. Why did that name sound so familiar...?
"Hey, Ellix." Roy spoke up. "I've been thinkin'." I noticed Tack's look of shock. "What's the deal with your Nightmare Form? Are you like a completely different person or something?"
"Nightmare Form?" Annabel echoed. "What's that?"
"Ellix-sama has the transforming of fangs, eyes, spikes, tail and arms of awesomeness!" Dimo vaguely explained, making everyone just stare at him.
"Well...not exactly." I spoke to Roy. "The thing is, I'm still me in my Nightmare Form. It's just...I suppress a lot of things. Anger, hatred, swearing...pervertism. My Nightmare Form just makes them...overpower me. The nightmares themselves change my form, amplifiy those...negative qualities, and boost the power of my attacks."
"...Sooooo its just you on a really bad day?" I facepalmed.
"Hey, kiddo?" I looked over to see Gundar peeking his head out of the door. "C'mere a second, I need your help with something."
I obediently stood up and walked into the room to be met with a red velvet chair in front of a golden steering wheel, a green light flashed 'Auto Pilot', whatever that is.
"Sit down." Gundar offered me a plush chair, I felt like when Oren was about to tell me off and give me a long speech about me derailing my life, but I sat nonetheless.
"Your really determined about saving Fire-Fist, huh?" Gundar sighed.
"Of course!" I nodded. "That's the whole reason I did all this."
He nodded vaguely. "Listen, the doctor's report on ya wasn't totally true...I had to persuade him to give me the real info."
I looked in the corner to see a beaten up doctor. "So?"
Gundar sighed. "The thing is kiddo...you've been putting your body under a lotta stress. Your repetitive use of Rokuogan and powerful Rokushiki moves is severely weakening your bones."
"I'll just drink some milk." I countered.
He shook his head. "I'm not finished. Your repetitive Daydream usage is putting a lot of stress on your brain, its killing off a lotta brain cells."
I stopped for a second at that. "Well...I'm not planning on becoming a scientist."
"And that...what did Tank call it?...'Nightmare Form'...its done some heavy damage to your organs and muscles..."
I was beginning to get worried now. "Stop swerving around the subject Gundar..."
He looked at me. "Your bodies failing, kiddo. Its collapsing in on itself from all the pressure, repetitive fights could cause it to give up."
My eyes widened. "You can't...be..."
He looked me dead in the eye.
"If you partake in this war...your body will collapse...and you will die."
Dun dun duuuuuun! Another cliffhanger! The teams finally going to Marineford, but then THIS news hits Ellix like a bombshell! He can't be with us at the moment as he is...occupied. Review time!
To Thief-chan: Don't worry about it, Ellix isn't that 'cool' anyway. I'm just interested to see how other people see him.
To TheRealEvanSG: He sure does...and don't worry! We're reading!
To HikariLight99: Yep, that's the end of this arc, onto Marineford! And thank you!
To Zusenheim: Thank you! And I've actually completed Story Mode and am doing Battle Coliseum.
To Selias: Check out Ellix vs Hanta for the earliest so far, but if you want Ellix's first written adventure, read One Piece OC Film: Strong World.
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And next time we start the Marineford Arc! See you then!
Nakama!