Chapter 37: Ace's Death...Ellix's Fury!
Colour Spread: Siblings-The left side of the picture shows Luffy, Ace, Ellix and Eri as children. Ace is whacking Luffy over the head for being a baka, whilst Eri rubs her temple in annoyance, Ellix is sitying by idly, playing with his SRE box. The right side of the picture shows Marineford, where all of them are fighting brutally.
"THEY GOT ACE!"
I just stared in horror at Ace and his wound, how could this happen after all we'd been through!?
"STOP AKAINU!" Shots were fired at him, but he continued to walk towards us. "It's no use! We can't stop him!"
"It looks like your still alive..." Akainu said bitterly, as he pulled back his fist once again.
"Stop!" Luffy screamed.
"No more!" Jimbei yelled, blocking the punch with his own palm.
"Stop wasting my time, Jimbei." Akainu threatened. "Your a former Shichibukai, you should know my strength..."
"Even if it costs me my body, I'll hold you back as long as I can! My life has no value to begin with!" The fishman declared.
"It looks like I'll need to punish you for high treason!" Akainu shouted, but then Vista and Marco attacked him as well! Pushing him away.
Ace collapsed into Luffy's arms, a gaping, smoldering hole in his chest. 'No...goddamnit NO!' I pulled myself up.
"I...I'm sorry...Luffy..." Ace coughed.
Luffy looked at his hand, covered in his brothers blood. "Ace! Hurry, we've got to get you help!"
"Sorry I couldn't let you save me...hah...I'm sorry...hah..."
"Ace..." I breathed.
"What the hell are you talking about!?" Luffy shouted. "Somebody help him! Please save Ace!" He looked at the pirates surrounding us.
"Doctor, hurry! Please treat him!" One yelled.
"Right!" A man with a medical kit replied.
"It's too late..." Ace said. "Hah...I can tell that my life is coming to an end...hah...he burned up my insides...I'm done for...so...listen, Luffy..."
"What are you talking about!? Ace, are you dying!?" Luffy panicked. "You promised! You promised you wouldn't die! Isn't that what you said, Ace!?"
"Yeah..." He admitted. "If it weren't for the Sabo incident and a troublesome brother like you, I probably would not have wanted to live..."
'Sabo?' I thought, before growing sadder. 'What am doing? Listening to a conversation between brothers? I'm terrible...but...I need to! I don't know why...but I need to listen to Ace!'
"Everybody would say that...I can't blame them..." He said, deep in thought. "...Oh, yeah...if you ever happen to come across Dadan...could you tell her goodbye for me...? It's weird...Now that I'm about to die...I feel like I miss that idiot..."
'Dadan...I don't know any of these people...why am I even thinking?'
"I...only have...one regret..." Ace whispered. "That I couldn't see you achieve your dream...but I'm sure...you'll do it...your my brother after all..."
Tears began flowing down my face, I realised in that moment how little I knew Ace, and I hated myself so much for it. I didn't deserve to be here, to hear his dying words, only Luffy...or even her...
"Just like...we swore before..." Ace breathed.
"NO! YOU LIAR!" Luffy screamed, refusing to accept the truth.
"Hah...hah...it's not a lie..." He smiled. "The thing I really wanted...wasn't fame or anything...what I really wanted...was to know...that it was okay for me to be born..."
He coughed. "I can't...talk for much longer...Luffy...Ellix...What I'm about to tell you...please tell to everyone else..."
"...Old man! Everyone! And you...Luffy. Even though I've been good for nothing my whole life, even though I have the blood of a demon within me...you still cared about me..."
"...Thank you, for loving me!"
Tears ran down all of our faces, but as he slipped from Luffy's grip, a smile faded onto his face, and he fell to the ground, dying happy.
"...Ace..." Luffy sobbed.
"Why...?" I asked myself.
Luffy's sobs slowly grew louder, until he tilted his head back and cried in despair for his brother, and I joined in, crying with all my heart and sobbing more then I'd ever had in my life, for Portgas D. Ace.
"ACE!" Everybody around us screamed in sadness.
Luffy's cries finally ended, but I looked at him to see his face frozen in that cry of sorrow. "...Luffy?" I held onto his shoulders and shook him slightly, with no response.
"Luffy!? Luffy! Wake up! Wake up, Luffy!" I screamed at him, but it was no use, he had retreated far into his own mind in order to escape the pain of losing his brother. "Luffy...please...not you too! LUFFY!"
"It's Akainu!" The shout shook me out of my shock as the Admiral charged at us again!
"Your next, Strawhat!" Akainu growled.
"I won't let you take his life!" Marco declared as he blocked with his wing. "Take them both and go, Jimbei! Strawhat's life...is Ace's living will!"
"Got it!" Jimbei nodded as he scooped up Luffy. "Ellix-kun! Come on!" But I didn't move. "Ellix-kun! We must leave NOW!"
Again, I didn't move. Like a broken clock hand, my gaze click, click, clicked towards Akainu. This one man had killed the man that so many people had loved, so many people had come to save! And he had hurt my captain in an unimaginable way. I had never felt so much hatred for one man in my entire life!
"...A...A..." I gritted my face into one of pure loathing. "AKAINUUUUUU!" I jumped towards him and pulled back a fist.
"Hey!" Marco pushed me back. "What the hell are you doing! You need to get out of here!"
"Shut up!" I roared. "I want to break him into pieces! Get off of me!"
"Just calm down for a second!" Marco tried to reason, but I was too angry to even care. "There's no way you can fight him! You'll die! Is that what Ace would have wanted!?"
"I don't care!" I screamed as I gained a dark aura. "I want him to rot in a hospital! And I said...GET OFF OF ME!" I jumped skyward out of his grip. "Shigan Akai Hatsu Dangan!" I shot thousands of air bullets at the Admiral, which simply passed through him.
"Somebody calm him down!" Someone shouted, I didn't care who.
I landed and dashed in front of Akainu, placing both my fists in front of him. "Rokuogan!" The powerful blast blew his top half clean off, but it also threw me back, coughing up blood with my arms in an agonizing amount of pain. 'I haven't recovered!'
The magma that was previously Akainu's upper body slowly joined its body and reformed into the evil mans chest, arms and head. "I don't have time to deal with any of you." He snarled. "My target is Strawhat!" He began walking towards me.
I picked my bleeding self off of the ground and glared at him, he wanted to get to Luffy!? Didn't give a crap about me, huh!? I wasn't going to let him get to my captain, not ever!
"I won't let you..." I spat. "I will not stop...until I have torn you limb from limb..." The dark aura grew larger. "Luffy...is Ace's will! I will...not let you get within 10 feet of him! I WILL KILL EVERYONE HERE BEFORE I LET THAT HAPPEN!"
The dark aura exploded skyward, surrounding me in a twister of darkness. "Nani!? What the hell's going on!?" Somebody shouted.
"RAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUGGGGGHHHHH!" I roared, as, without my permission, the darkness in me exploded.
"Aaaaaarrrggghhh!" I screamed, clutching my head in pain. All of my hair fell out, as purple tinted spikes exploded out of my skull to replace it. My arms spasmed violently before exploding into two bursts of shadows, that formed into long arms and claws.
My legs cracked as they were forced together, before being set alight and morphing into a jagged, ghostly tail, pinned to the ground. My teeth cracked fiercely before finally shattering to make way for new pointed ones. And finally, redness fell over my eyes like blood, before setting into a fierce expression of manic glee.
The darkness around me faded away, as blood dripped from my head and mouth after the change.
...Where was I? So much noise...in fact, who am I? Weird...weirdy weirdy weird...
Huh? Voices? Yeah, those things. All around. Noise too. Yeah, lots of noise. Annoying. Annoying little noises. I should just kill all of them.
What did I remember? So hard to concentrate with those annoying little noises...breathing, knew how to breath. Thinking, yep. Talk? Affirmative. Fight? Yep. That it? Think so, damn annoying noises.
"What is that thing!?" See!? There! Annoying little voice, why can't it's voicebox just be torn out? Or it's mouth stabbed shut with nails? Oh wait! Cake! I remember I like cake!
"That's Rokushiki's reason for his second epithet!" Shut up! Too much noise! Can't they see I'm practicing my invisible tuba!?
"His Nightmare half! His original body got destroyed, so that's what he's got left!" Does it! It does it! I need to get rid of them...snuff out the noises...but how? A giant pigeon!? No...that wouldn't work...cut them all down and then build a club out of their body parts! No, too mainstream...
"It doesn't matter! Kill him while he's vulnerable!" Oh, the voices are jumping around me, jumping all aroud! Doo doo doo! Doo doo doo doodoo! Doo doo doo! Doo doo doo doodoo! JUMPING ALL AROUND!
There! A big burst of dark aura! That should be a suitable torn kidney! And hey! Now they were dropping like flies! Or dominoes! I hate dominoes...let's play Uno instead!
"Ah! People are passing out! What kind of Haki was that!?" Shut up, shut up, shut up shut up you little shiiiiiiiiit! I'm so musical!
"Hey! Someone's still awake!" Oh whaaaaaat? Did he cover himself in honey? That bastard!
"It-it was horrible!" Whiny little bitch! Stop complaining! "I-I saw my wife and daughter being burned alive! All of my fears! I was drowning in my friends blood!" Oh boo hoo!
"That Haki is evil!" Hey! You hurt my Haki's feewings!
"That wasn't Haki!" Who was talking noooooow? "I've heard of the Nightmare powers of the Dream Dream Fruit, that was a burst of pure fear!" Is that what what it was was? Was was? What?
"It doesn't matter." Oooooooh! New voice!...I don't like it. "My only concern is Strawhat! Get out of my way!"
Who was that anyway? The Muffin-Man? Wait...yeah...it was that guy there! The red guy! Yeeeesss...
He pissed me off, really pissed me off! Why did he piss me off? I don't know why, but he did! I wanted to hurt him...rip him to shreds! I wanted to kill him! FUCKING KILL HIM! I WANTED TO TEAR HIS SKELETON OUT AND STUFF HIS FLESH INTO HIS BONES!
"You aren't going anywhere..." I hissed.
"What did you say?" Red guy said...no...Akainu! Akainu...kill him...kill Akainu!
"I am going to kill you..." A smirk spread across my face, like red butter as I licked the blood off of my spikes. "And I'm going to have as much fun as possible doing it! Akumumumumu!"
You guys are lucky I was so psyched to write this chapter! So now, Ellix's original body has been destroyed, so now his Nightmare form is all he has left!
By the way, I might not be able to update next week, it's half term for me, and I'll be pretty damn busy, so sorry about that, but if I'm motivated enough, I might get a chapter out!
NE: KILL EVERYTHING!
...Okay...reviews!
R.E.W. 4: It seems you've got your wish.
NE: Why thank you sar! I shall turn his magma body into a soup, and then you can drink it! Have fun with your melting insides!
HikariLight99:...Does this count as good?
NE: I shall shove an ice spear so far up his ass he'll be coughing steam!
Exile037: I've got a candidate here.
NE: You doubt my skills jelly cat!? I shall eat your pets and then vomit them into a pie for your children to eat! And then I shall devour your children! And vomit them up! And feed them to you!
Thief-chan: He's not dead...although is this really good?
NE: This one must be of platinum gold!
Oooooh no! Your not spouting to Thief-chan and Eri-chan!
NE: You've crossed the big purple line! *Deep Breath*
NO! Don't read this next part, Thief-chan!
NE: I SHALL BURN EVERYTHING YOU LOVE TO SMOULDERING ASHES, AND THEN FORCE YOU TO EAT ALL THE ASHES! AND ERI-CHAN! I WILL TAKE YOUR BISENTO AND STICK IT IN-
ENOUGH!
tHe ultimate demon dragon lord: He seems to be doing...great...
NE: I WILL-
WE'VE RUN OUT OF TIME! Thank you for reading! Reviews are nice! Nakama!
NE: GIVE ME YOUR FLESH!