Chapter 33: The Continuous Struggle! Push through Mihawk and Kizaru!

Colour Spread: Episode Of Ellix Plus 1-The background shows the cavern in which the Poneglyph lays. Surrounding the edge are the Strawhat crew minus Ellix, with two shadowy figures looming over them. In the centre shows Ellix and Eri, Ellix is using Dream Dream Tension Shot whilst Eri slashes with her bisento, both narrowly missing.

I ran through the crowds of Marines, desperately trying to locate Luffy once again. 'Guess I'll never find out about my family...' I began to think of that as a regret, but then I shook my head. 'No, I have to be like Marcus.'

I heard the unmistakable slashing sound of Dracule Mihawk's black blade. 'Please don't tell me Luffy's-' I was cut off as none other then my captain rolled to my feet. "Luffy! Are you okay!?"

"U-Uuugh! He cut me!" Luffy groaned, before we both jumped away to avoid a plunging stab from Mihawk!

"Out of the way, Strawhat! We'll stop him for you!" Two okamas yelled as they ran in front of us,

'They must be with Iva.' I thought.

"Hawkeye! Do you remember us!?" One shouted.

"We once faced you in battle, but we are Newkamas now, far stronger then we once were!" The other declared.

Before they could move any further, Mihawk dashed past them, cutting them up at the same time! "I do not recall the face...of every insect I crush."

"You! Gum Gum Jet..." Luffy began to throw his arms forward. "...Baz-!" Suddenly he redirected his attack into the ground, panting heavily. "Huff...that was close! Just now...If I'd stretched my arm out, it would've been sliced off!"

'Luffy's starting to use Observation Haki as well?' I thought in amazement.

"You seem...unusually calm..." Mihawk commented.

Another vision flashed through my mind, and me and my captain ducked as Mihawk slashed, cutting off an enormous glacier miles behind us! As we dodged another slash, I was aware of a sandstorm close to us.

'What the hell is a sandstorm doing here!?' I thought. '...Wait...don't tell me it's him!'

"What now, hm?" Mihawk asked as he continued to slash at us, forcing us back. "You are moving further and further from your brother!"

"Damnit!" Luffy cursed, before looking upward, and stretching his arms to grab onto something. "Gum Gum...Jet Substitute!" He pulled someone down and watched as they got slashed in half, at first I was horrified, but then I realised who it was.

"Buggy!" I shouted in anger.

"What the hell was that for!?" He roared. "And Rokushiki! Why are you here!?"

"You jerk!" I pulled on his face as hard as I could. "I'm still pissed at what you did to Orange Town!"

"What? It was him that cut you, not me!" Luffy reasoned as he grabbed him again. "Gum Gum Substitute!" He tossed the clown at the swordsman, getting him cut up.

"Stop doing that alreadyyyyyyyy!" The baka screamed as he rearranged himself. "Unforgivable!" He then seemed to notice who was in front of him. "You...Your 'Hawkeye', right!? Take this! Special Muggy Ball! That'll blast you away!"

He shot a tiny bomb from his shoe, but Mihawk bounced it back with his sword, resulting in a huge explosion. Taking the chance me and my captain ran past the black blade. "Arigatou Buggy! I'll never forget you!"

"Why the hell is he here!?" I thought aloud madly.

"Oh, he promised to help me find Ace in Impel Down, so I helped him out." Luffy explained.

"You WHAT!?" I don't know what I was shocked most about. The fact Luffy had let Buggy escape, the fact he went to Impel Down, or the fact he got out of Impel Down! 'Guess that explains why Crocodile's here, Luffy being Luffy probably caused a mass breakout!'

"Hey, who's that old guy?" I looked back from my captains remark and saw none other then-

"Flower Sword Vista." I said. "I can't remember which Division he leads, but he's a famous swordsman!"

"Move it!" Luffy yelled as he punched a Marine, whilst I stabbed another with Shigan. We looked forward to see that preparations were being made!

'Already!?' I thought. 'Usually it takes longer!'

"They're really gonna execute Ace ahead of schedule!" Luffy gasped.

"Nani!? Then we have to hurry!" I stated.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAACEEEEEEEEEEE!" Luffy boomed as we ran as fast as possible.

I began to hear noises behind me, I looked back to see something I didn't want to see again. "Luffy!" I grabbed my captains shoulder and turned him around.

There, lining up at the entrance to Mariejois, were the Pacifistas, led by Sentomaru. "It's those bear guys we saw back at the Sabaoedy Archipelago!" Luffy gasped. "There's so many of them!"

"It's the Shichibukai Bartholomew Kuma!" I heard someone yell.

"How come there's so many of them!?" I heard another shout.

"Those things will be bad news if they catch us!" I thought aloud.

As we plowed through more enemies, it seemed like two more fighters joined us, they both weirdly looked like younger versions of Thom. "Nani? Who are you guys?" Luffy asked.

"Hey! Name's Lucas!" One said, he looked about 14.

"And I'm Aiden!" The other one, about 11, followed up. "You know our big bro Thom, right?"

"So you guys are Thom's brothers!" I gasped.

"Yeah! So we're gonna help you out!" Lucas smiled.

"Arigatou!" I thanked them before piercing another Marine.

"Sonic Slash!" Lucas deployed a high wave frequency that slashed several Marines in front of him. "I ate the Oto Oto no Mi, I'm a sonic human! Frequencys and sonic booms are my speciality!"

"Guard Punch!" Aidan summoned what looked like a suit of armour that eecked a Marine. "And I ate the Gado Gado no Mi, I'm a guard human who can make guards to protect us!"

"In that case, we'll get to the execution stand in no time!" I cheered.

Commands were coming from in front of us and behind us, but the relentless roar of gunfire and explosions garbled the words to my currently non-needed hearing. But time was quickly running out!

"They're gonna get Ace! We gotta hurry!" Luffy shouted.

"Don't get scared now..." I looked up just in time to see Kizaru before me and Luffy got kicked across the face at the speed of light. It felt like my entire head caved in as I was thrown back, but somehow landed against something not made of ice.

"Luffy-kun! Ellix-kun!" A deep voice said.

"Bleeeghh...haaaah...Jimbei!" Luffy gasped, and I looked up to see it was true! The legendary fishman was right there!

"Jimbei! It's an honour to meet you!" I rushed my words before hurriedly bowing.

"It is good to meet you as well, but we have more pressing matters!" He said.

"The Admiral's out...crap!" Luffy cursed.

"He's strong, but hurry!" Jimbei coaxed. "No matter how strong an enemy appears, you expected that from the beginning!"

"Ace's little brother! Have you run out of strength!?" Yet another crossdresser passed us, I think he was with Whitebeard, but I couldn't remember his name.

"Oh! It's the Squad Captains! They have the strength of a hundred men!" Jimbei nodded.

"Good, those bastards can do it." Luffy panted.

I clutched my chest whilst wincing. 'Something's wrong...just panting makes my heart burn badly...it can't be happening already!'

"This is looking bad!" Lucas wheezed as he rejoined us.

"We gotta let them take care of the Admiral!" Aiden coughed.

"But we gotta get to Ace!" Luffy shouted.

"We have to plan this out!" I reasoned with him. "If we charge in recklessly, we'll only-"

Suddenly there was a stabbing sound, a horrible one that echoed across the battlefield. Practically everyone stopped and turned around...

...To see Whitebeard had been stabbed in the chest.

Sorry this chapter's a little late! And so short...but how could you NOT end a chapter on this!? Seriously!

Ellix: Are you gonna do reviews now?

Yes I am!

To shinjojin: Why thank you! Always nice to see a new reviewer!

Ellix: And he complimented my fighting style! Doriririririri!

To TheRealEvanSG: Yeah, without Observation Haki, you'd be dead back at your battle with Kobata!

Ellix: Nani!? Hell no! I could beat that guy without Haki!

To ThiefofStealth: At the moment, its just conspiracies.

Ellix: But don't say conspiracies like that! Now I'm gonna worry about them!

To R.E.W. 4: FIVE reviews for one chapter from one reviewer! *Victory Dance!* And sorry! No spoiler info for you!

Ellix: Hey, I wanna fight him again too! If I live through this war that is...

To XJustified: Why thank you, I love writing fight scenes.

Ellix: Can't you make me more badass.

To HikariLight99: Thank you for the praise!

Ellix: Yay! Your back Hikari-sama!

Once again, thank you for reading, sorry its short but...dat ending! Reviews are always appreciated!

Nakama!