Chapter 35: Give Up your Dreams, Ellix! Ellix vs. Dalmation!

Colour Spread: Jolly Rogers-The Strawhat's personal Jolly Roger's take the stage. Luffy's is red as it pumps its two lower crossbones, Zoro's is swinging its side swords, Nami's is holding the Perfect Clima-Tact. Usopp's is disguised as Sogeking, Sanji's is set ablaze in rage, Chopper's is concocting chemicals, Robin's is reading, Franky's is using Strong Right, and Brook's is unsheathing its cane. Elliot's (A basic one with his hair and a blue scarf around it's lower jaw) is activating Daydream, whilst Eri's (a basic one with the north-east to south-west bone being a bo staff wearing an army style bandanna) is connecting its bisento.

"Are you sure your alright, Luffy?"

"I'll be fine as long as we save Ace, Ellix!"

We both pressed forward, attacking anything in our way to get to the execution stand, when it sounded like some kind of uproar was happening. 'Huh? What's all the commotio-'

My thoughts were interrupted as the younger Oars grabbed a new Whitebeard ship and pulled it straight through the hole, allowing all the crew in. 'Woah! I didn't even know you could do that! Looks like Whitebeard came to this fight strategically prepared.'

"Heeeeey! Elliiiiix!"

"Huh? Catherine?" I thought aloud, looking forward to indeed see her.

"Eh? Who's that?" Luffy asked, squinting to see her.

"That's another friend of mine, Catherine." I told him.

"Man Ellix, you make a lot of weird friends." He commented.

'Says you!'

As we ran to her Catherine ran alongside us, along with five other girls. The oldest had long red hair and contrasting purple eyes, the shy looking one had long black hair and red eyes like the previous, the one with a worryingly seductive look had blue hair tied into a bun with matching eyes, the next one had blonde shoulder length hair and sapphire blue eyes similar to mine, and the youngest had white short hair with red streaks in it and red eyes like the oldest.

"Who are these five?" I whispered to her.

"My sisters." Catherine stated plainly.

"Five of them!?" I facefaulted.

"We can all hear you, there's no point in whispering." The oldest said, before punching a guy with a Haki fist. "My name is Momo, you must be Ellix. Now we've got that out of the way."

"Hey Catherine, you didn't tell me your new friend was so cute." The blue hair one smiled creepily. "My name is Matsuki, it's VERY nice to meet you."

'If Nami were here she'd kill her.'

"This is Hitori." Catherine introduced the black haired one, who avoided my eye contact. "She's a little shy."

'No kidding.'

"I'm Kristal." The blonde added. "Please forgive my sisters in the current context."

"And I'm Dermari." The youngest finished. "So you guys are really gonna save Ace?"

"Of course we will!" Luffy shouted. "I won't let Ace die!"

So now with our increased numbers the execution platform seemed close in sight. "Huff...Ace...Huff..." Luffy was running out of energy too quickly...

Suddenly two figures appeared in front of us! One slashed Luffy whilst I had to dodge a Shigan from another. As Luffy fell flat on his face he did a handstand and spun his legs around to try and kick them, but they simply dashed out of the way again.

"Crap! Vice-Admirals!" Momo cursed before ducking from an attack.

"Fan out so they can't hit us all at once!" Kristal said, so that's what we did.

But I stopped as I heard the familiar sound of Geppo, before realising that Momonga was about to drop onto Luffy! "Luffy!" I dashed forward and grabbed him just as Momonga fell, barely avoiding the attack.

"Th-Thanks Ellix." Luffy coughed. "G-Gear...Second." He once more pumped his legs.

'He's seriously overusing that!'

"Shigan!" A black and white blur dashed forward and stabbed Luffy, obviously with Haki as he coughed up blood and was thrown back.

"Dalmation you bastard!" I shouted at the Vice-Admiral.

"Shigan!" He aimed for me next, but I quickly rolled out of the way, only to get sent flying by an explosion behind me.

'What was that!? Kizaru!? Pacifista's!? I don't even know anymore!' I thought before landing. I looked behind me just to see Luffy get kicked back by Kizaru, and for Whitebeard to catch him. 'Luffy...'

I gritted my teeth and dashed above Dalmation. "Rankyaku Gaichou!" I launched the steel slicing bird at him, and he grabbed onto it, his legs threatening to buckle from the force, seizing the oppurtunity I dashed past him. 'I need to get to Ace! For Luffy's sake!'

"So that's your plan!" I heard Dalmation say, before he dashed in front of me! "Rankyaku!"

"Tekkai!" I blocked with my hardened leg, though it did push me back a bit.

"Shigan Oren!"

"Kami-E!"

I leaned out of the way of his rapidly stabbing finger before jumping back. 'I'm just moving backwards!'

"Is this all you are capable of, Nightmare!?" Dalmation shouted before dashing in front of me, I narrowly dodged a Shigan. "Aren't you the one always bragging that you will become the world's strongest Rokushiki Master? Don't make me laugh! If you can't even defeat me, what makes you think you can claim that title!?"

"...I don't-" I grabbed his arm and shoulder threw him into the ground at Soru speed. "-Give a crap about my dreams anymore! I gave up my ambitions the moment I came here! And it'll be selfish for me to die thinking of regrets! That's something Marcus taught me! I WILL DIE AMBITIONLESS AND HAPPY! YOU HEAR ME!?"

"You little-" He growled.

"Rankyaku!" I interrupted him with an air wave, launching him away. I panted heavily before coughing forcefully into my hand, more blood leaking out between my teeth. 'No regrets...I'm sorry mum...'

"Ellix-kun!" A voice called.

"Jimbei!" I gasped, hiding my bloody hand.

"You captain and friends need you." Jimbei gestured behind him.

"Ellix-samaaaa!" As I ran to Luffy I spotted Dimo, Tack, Sarah, Roy, Kalamar, Annabel and Thom plus his brothers floating down with floral parachutes. "We are having the arrivingness!"

"Everyone! I'm glad your alright!" I sighed in relief, before reaching Luffy, he looked like he'd reached his absolute limit. "Luffy..."

"Oh no! Wh-What happened to him?" Sarah asked.

"He's gone beyond all his limits." Tack said.

Fatigue caught up with me suddenly and I fell to my knees. "Ellix-sama!" Dimo gasped.

"Hah...hah...guess I've been working on pure adrenaline..." I panted.

Nothing but explosions could be heard, utter chaos. Everything was just mixed in with the fire and death and pain. What was up? What was down? Justice? Evil? I didn't know, it was just more mixed up things that no longer made sense.

"Iva..." We all turned to Luffy as he lay panting on the ground.

"Ah! Your still conscious!" The okama gasped.

"I need...a favour!"

"Catherine!" I turned to Thom as the mentioned girl and her sisters joined us. "Are you all good?"

"Yes, we're fine." She nodded.

"It's all gone to hell further up though." Momo stated. "It'll be difficult to get to Ace."

The sound of groaning could be heard, and I looked forward to see Whitebeard fall to his knees and cough up blood. "Pops!?" Thom, Catherine and their siblings yelled.

'...Guess you came under the same conditions as me, Whitebeard.'

Unfortunately sensing an opportunity, Akainu jumped forward and drove his magma fist into the great pirate. "POPS!" The Whitebeard Pirates next to me quickly ran back into the battle.

"Another shot of tension hormones!?" I looked at Iva upon his outburst. "That's crazy! Your body can't take it!"

"Tension hormones?" I echoed. "Where would you get those?"

"I heard that Ivankov ate the Horu Horu no Mi, making him a hormone human." Specter stated dully.

"During the fight in Impel Down, you were almost killed by Magellan's poison!" Iva continued.

"What!?" I glared at my captain. "Luffy, your pushing yourself too much!"

"Nightmare-boy is right! If this keeps up, you could seriously die!" Iva lectured him.

Luffy stretched his arm out and grabbed onto Iva's collar, panting heavily. "I have to do all I can...if I die, that's fine...let me fight, Iva! If I don't fight now...if I can't save Ace...I'D WANT TO DIE!"

'Damnit Luffy...'

"Right now...give me the strength to fight!"

"Baka!" Iva threw him off. "If I let you die, I'll never be able to face Dragon!"

"Hey!" I coughed a little blood from the shout. "Give me some of those tension hormones as well!"

"You!?" He leaned uncomfortably close with that creepy face of his. "You can't fool me, Nightmare-boy, your body is dying, it's a miracle you've lasted this long! If I give you tension hormones, your heart could tear open!"

"I don't care.." I hissed. "I came here knowing I'd die...so give me and my captain new strength."

He gritted his giant teeth. "...Fine...HAVE IT YOUR WAY!" Needles emerged from both his hands before being plunged into my side.

I always hated needles, and these ones were no exception, but quickly my fatigue completely vanished, being replaced by an incredible amount of strength, and pain.

"Ellix-sama!" I heard Dimo gasped.

'My heart...' It felt like it was pumping at the speed of light, ready to explode.

"UWOOOOOOOOOH!" Luffy roared with incredible strength.

"DAYDREAM!" I shouted, activating the ability as power continued to flow through me, it felt so good!

We all instantly charged forward, beating down anything in our way. "They're still gonna execute Ace!" Luffy yelled.

"Strawhat-boy! Nightmare-boy! If you fall again, you won't get back up! The tension hormones trick your body, neither of you have actually healed!" Iva lectured.

"Then we won't go down!" Luffy shouted.

"We'vegotyourbacksaswell!" Roy cheered.

"How are you still running, Nightmare-boy?" Iva whispered. "That must have torn your heart open!"

"It did." I said. "I'm using my Dream Dream powers to create a 'substitute heart' to back up the damaged original."

"You can do that?"

"Yeah...but once Daydream finishes, I'm as good as dead. I've got five minutes tops."

I FINALLY got this chapter out! I'm really sorry for the wait! I was planning to post this yesterday, but I stayed up really late doing homework and couldn't find the energy, so yeah.

By the way, forgot to mention this last time, do you like my first profile pic? It's a picture of Ellix and his Nightmare form that ThiefofStealth drew. Remember? I told you about it a few chapters ago? I bet you didn't look at it. *Disappointed look*. It's good! I never in a million years thought someone would draw fanart for something I created! Thanks again Thief-chan! Now reviews!

To Thief-chan: Yep, Akainu is one evil bastard. And it looks like your pleas are falling on deaf ears.

To R.E.W. 4: Nope, he's dead as soon as DD is done.

To tHe ultimate demon dragon lord: You seem quick to say that...but it is pretty evident at this point.

To Exile037: There we go, sorry if it seems a little rushed.

To HikariLight99: I hope that too, Hikari. I hope that too.

Anyway, thanks again for waiting patiently. Reviews are always appreciated.

Nakama!