Elites Clash
The next chapter of One Piece Final Holy War. Please review as usual. The people who posted reviews seem quite excited so here you go.
"It's been two years son of Dragon," said Akainu to Luffy.
Luffy looked at the fleet admiral with absolute hate in his eyes. This man killed his brother, this man took his brother away from him. Despite Luffy hating the world government as a whole, if there was one member of it that he hated more than anyone else with the exception of the World Nobles, it would undisputedly be Akainu. His murder of Ace, his extremist absolute justice, everything about this man Luffy hated with a passion.
"It's you, you bastard," said Luffy rage evident in his voice.
"It's me alright and I have come to kill you since you escaped me two years ago," said Akainu his face serious but you could tell he was equally murderous.
"I wasn't able to kill you two years ago but I would certainly kill you now, just like I did that scum Portgas D Ace, son of the Pirate King Gol Roger," said Akainu.
Hearing the powerful fleet admiral mentioned Ace's name made him even more enraged that he was previously. This man killed his brother and he has the nerve to just gloat about it in front of him. To Luffy that was unforgivable.
"Don't you dare mention Ace's name you bastard. You don't have the right to even speak his name," shouted Luffy.
"I'll talk about that trash all I want son of Dragon," said Akainu who could tell that he was getting under Luffy's skin.
Luffy meanwhile had his eyes shadowed.
"Trash," he said taking a step towards Akainu.
"Trash," he said taking another step towards Akainu.
Then he looked at the powerful fleet admiral, his eyes no longer shadowed by his air. His eyes were clearly filled with absolute rage.
"You don't have the right to call him that," shouted Luffy who disappeared out of sight and reappeared before Akainu kicking him in the face and sending into a building and destroying it completely.
Akainu himself was buried under rubble however was unscathed from Luffy's attack despite the power of Luffy's attack. He unburied himself easily from the rubble and began walking towards Luffy. A closer look revealed that his lip was bleeding from Luffy's attack but he was otherwise uninjured by Luffy's attack.
"It'll take a lot more than that to defeat me son of Dragon," said Akainu.
"Damn right I've got a lot more where that came from," said Luffy who was ready to continue attacking.
"You keep talking as if I wasn't here fleet admiral," said Dragon.
Akainu then turned his attention to the voice he just heard.
"Dragon," said Akainu with a serious look. While Akainu did not take Luffy as a big threat to him, Dragon was a completely different story. Dragon was the leader of a group that threatened to overthrow the world's justice. And right now he was succeeding. More importantly Akainu was a very experienced marine able to gauge the threat level an enemy possessed fairly accurately. And he could tell that Dragon was strong, overwhelming strong, much too strong for even him.
"You keep saying son of Dragon, yet here I am standing right in front of you," said Dragon his usual sinister grin never leaving him.
"I knew you were here. I saw you when I first arrived. In fact when I saw the tornadoes and got a report that all the intruders where wearing green cloaks similar to your own, I knew that the enemies were revolutionaries," said Akainu.
"Also the fact that they attacked Mariejois so boldly means that those revolutionaries are your strongest soldiers, your elites. I doubt you were a man who would allow weaklings to take part in your invasion. Besides I already met one of them," said Akainu.
"You met one of them," said a new voice.
Akainu turned to look at the new voice and saw that the figure the new voice belonged to had long golden hair. Despite his pretty boy features Akainu could tell he was extremely powerful on par if not greater than a marine admiral's. He was someone Akainu had to be extremely weary for that young man was certainly powerful enough to defeat him.
"Yes I did, and who might you be. You already know who I am yet I don't know who you are. Though it's obvious you're an elite revolutionary," said Akainu.
"Outlook D Sabo of the revolutionary army," replied Sabo.
"D I see, so that explains how you're so strong. All the Ds are strong and give us a lot of trouble. So it's not surprising that you would team up with Dragon," said Akainu.
"There are plenty out there who would seek the destruction of the world government, not just the Ds. But anyway back to the original question. Which one of us did you meet?" asked Sabo.
"Does it really matter Sabo?" asked Dragon.
"No it doesn't my lord. But I am still curious and as the leader of the Knights of D I do have a responsibility to the others. So I would naturally be curious," said Sabo.
"I see," said Dragon accepting Sabo's answer.
"Knights of D. Is that what you call your elite soldiers," asked Akainu.
"It is," confirmed Sabo.
"Anyway the so called Knight of D that I met was a woman. She was very extremely powerful and had plant like powers," said Akainu.
"I see, so you encountered Elektra." said Dragon.
"Did you kill her?" came yet another voice.
Dragon, Sabo and Akainu turned to the new voice and realized it was Luffy. His eyes were burning with hate towards Akainu and his conquerors haki flaring violently. It was very strong but the three men were extremely powerful and veteran fighters and so were completely unaffected.
Akainu looked at Luffy before deciding to taunt Luffy. He then smiled as he prepared to give Luffy an answer.
"Who knows," was all that Akainu said.
Luffy already knew the implications of what Akainu said.
"Maybe she isn't doing well," came out of Akainu's mouth.
Luffy could feel his rage building. This man seemed to just enjoy ruining his life. First he took away his brother and now he took away his nakama Ivy. Despite Luffy not knowing her very well having only known her for a very short time, they both served the same man and fought for the same cause. That made them both nakama and anyone who hurts his nakama would not go away unscathed especially not the one who killed his brother.
"You," Luffy said his conqueror's haki raging violently due to his rage.
"First Ace and now Ivy, I wouldn't let you get anyway do you hear me Akainu. I wouldn't let you get away," said Luffy with rage in his voice.
"Don't get enraged Luffy, this guy is just playing mind games with you," said Dragon smile having left him a while back.
"How could you say that father? He killed Elektra. He deserves to die" shouted Luffy at his father.
"Do you really think Elektra would be defeated so easily," said Dragon.
Luffy went from being enraged to now being confused.
"What? What do you mean father?" asked Luffy.
"Look at him. He barely has a scratch on him," replied Dragon.
Luffy then looked at Akainu and noticed that his father was right. There was barely a scratch on him.
"Akainu is strong but so is Elektra. There is no way that she would be defeated so easily without inflicting a lot more damage than that. Akainu probably only briefly fought her and then came here," said Dragon.
Luffy felt relief wash over him. He didn't interact with any of the Knights of D too much except for Sabo but he was still glad that she was alright. He should have never suspected her. After all she was a Knight of D, a handpicked subordinate of his father chosen to be a member of his ultimate combat force.
"And there is something else as well," said Sabo joining the conversation.
Luffy then turned his gaze from his father to the leader of the Knights of D.
"Elektra's life force is still very strong. It is noticeably lower than usual possibly due to her brief battle with Akainu but she is very much alive and fine right now. It doesn't look like she took much damage despite Akainu's great power. As expected of her," complimented Sabo.
"Akainu was clearly lieing to you about Ivy to make you more enraged and as a result easier for him to defeat. Of course he definitely did encounter Elektra or he wouldn't know about her being female or her abilities," said Sabo who voiced his deductions to Luffy.
Akainu however was not happy about this. He was hoping to get Luffy angry so that he would be sloppier and make more mistakes in battle. While he was confident that he was strong enough to defeat Luffy without resorting to such a tactic, it wasn't wise to take any chances. After all Luffy must be immensely powerful to wear that dark green cloak and be one of Dragon's most powerful fighters. However thanks to Sabo and Dragon telling Luffy, that plan didn't work. However it wouldn't matter because he'll still kill Luffy anyway. Of course there is still rage present in Luffy after all he is the one that killed Luffy's brother.
"I was hoping to make you enraged son of Dragon but it looks like that wouldn't work now. However no matter I would still rid the world of your presence," said Akainu his feathers stern as usual.
A flash of light appeared behind Akainu and the light turned into Kizaru who recovered from Sabo's onslaught.
"You're late Akainu," said Kizaru who was fine but did look a little worse for wear.
Akainu then turned his attention to look at Kizaru who was fine pretty much but did have some cuts and bruises.
"I was held up but what are you doing getting so beat up?" said Akainu annoyed that his strongest fighter had bruises and cuts all over him.
"Oh well that blond guy over there is really scary," said Kizaru in his usual bored voice. There was no evidence in his voice that he got beat up.
"So admiral Kizaru your fine after that last attack. As expect of a marine admiral. I would have found it strange if so little effort was all it took to take you down," said Sabo who was not at all surprised by Kizaru's quick recovery.
Dragon took some time to study the light admiral.
"Sabo why did you come here instead of continuing your battle with Kizaru?" asked Dragon.
"I was planning to. But I thought that because of Luffy's bad history with Akainu he might make a bad move in his enraged state and that perhaps I should be here," said Sabo in his usual monotone voice and expressionless face.
"I see I guess I could understand that. However Kizaru wouldn't let you attempt to interfere so it was better if you finished him off and came here," said Dragon.
"You're right, my apologies my lord," said Sabo.
"It's fine. However it changes nothing. Luffy is determined to kill Akainu so naturally you would have to defeat Kizaru," said Dragon.
"I understand," replied Sabo.
"Well then now that's that taken care of there are certain matters that I need to attend to. So I'll take my leave. I trust that you two could take care of those two admirals," said Dragon.
"Leave it to me father. I'll kill that bastard Akainu and make him pay for what he did to Ace," said Luffy.
"I shall take out admiral Kizaru lord Dragon," said Sabo.
"Then I leave it to you," said Dragon who began walking away.
"Leave up to you, you make it sound as if you're actually going to win," said Kizaru lazily.
"We will win. That's all there is to it," replied Sabo.
"Don't get too cocky. Both of you may be strong but you both can't beat us. You both cannot overcome justice," replied Akainu.
"It doesn't matter what kind of power you posses. In the end, it pales in comparison to the power of D," said Sabo.
Sabo then went into his human dragon hybrid form. Wind was beginning to pick up around both Luffy and Sabo and their hair and cloaks were blowing due to the wind that was around both of the two Knights. Their haki was also steadily building up.
"Will of D" said both Luffy and Sabo together.
Upon saying those words, Luffy's and Sabo's haki increased exponentially. In fact there was also a small shockwave from the activation of their power. Akainu was surprised by the sudden spike in power of the two while Kizaru having already witnessed it from Sabo was not surprised.
"Oh it appears that Dragon's son also has that power as well. Man this is looking really bad," said Kizaru though his blank expression suggested otherwise.
"So things are even worse than I feared. I knew Dragon son would become a truly dangerous threat if he was not taken out. But now it appears that it is too late. He has become what the world government fears," said Akainu seriously.
"I truly should not have let you get away during the war. You have become too strong and too big a threat to the world government. But now I shall finally take you out," said Akainu.
"Do your worst Akainu. Do your worst but it wouldn't change anything. I'll still avenge my brother's death," said Luffy.
Akainu's hands turned to lava showing that he was ready for battle.
"You can try," said Akainu combatively.
With those words the biggest battle of the invasion of Mariejois begin. Two members of the Knights of D vs the two strongest fighters in the world government.
Luffy disappeared and reappeared before Akainu and launched a fearsome gomu gomu bullet which sent Akainu flying into a building. Immediately Luffy jumped into the air and placed his thump in his mouth causing his hand to become enlarged. He then drove his enlarge hand towards the fallen marine admiral with a gomu gomu giant pistol. Akainu seeing the huge fist immediately formed a huge fist of his own. His arm immediately formed into a giant fist of magma of similar size to Luffy's Gear third hand. Akainu then launched his giant magma fist at Luffy's gear third arm.
"Dai Funka," shouted Akainu as his fisted as about to collide with Luffy's own giant fist.
Luffy seeing this knew he had to do something. A fist of pure magma was something that even he despite his new powers would be very devastating. Knowing that it was too late to stop the collision of the two giant fists, he activated his arnament haki turning his giant fist black so that he could get some protection.
The two mighty fists collided resulting in a shower of magma raining down on the surrounding area. Luffy himself was gritting in pain from the intense heat of Akainu's magma fist. The heat continued to burn at Luffy's haki covered fist and Luffy was feeling the heat. Despite this he knew that he got of lucky. Had he not covered his fist in haki, then Luffy knew that his giant hand would have been burnt clean off and even with haki, it was really thanks to the power of D that his haki was strong enough to take a direct attack from Akainu.
Akainu's magma fist began receding into his regular arm while Luffy's own giant fist shrunk to its regular side. Luffy was fine after Akainu's attack. His arm was burning but he could easily shrug off the pain. Also his hand had very few burn marks which was a good sign showing that his haki could take even Akainu's immensely powerful attacks.
"Impressive son of Dragon that you could actually match my Dai Funka, but it still wouldn't be enough to defeat me," said Akainu who was in no way intimidated by his attack not working.
Luffy continued to glare at Akainu when a bright glow appeared behind him. Kizaru's was behind him in the air, light began forming in both his hands as he prepared to launch a torrent of light particles at Luffy.
"Yasakani no magatama," said Kizaru as the deadly particles rained down on Luffy one after the other creating a series of large explosions where Luffy was standing.
"Kizaru what the hell do you think you're doing interfering in my fight?" barked Akainu angrily.
"Oh I'm sorry but he let down his guard and he is an enemy. So naturally should a chance to kill him show itself, I would take it," said Kizaru in response to Akainu.
"Fine but remember this is my fight," said Akainu.
Then Akainu noticed something from the explosion. Akainu then smirked.
"Besides don't you have your own opponent," said Akainu.
Kizaru looked confused but then quickly realized what Akainu meant. For his attack was once again block by Sabo who like before used his wings to shield himself from the attack. The attack soon faded away showing that Sabo took no damage from Kizaru's attack.
"Oh great it's you again," said Kizaru lazily.
"You're opponent is me Kizaru," said Sabo his face as calm as ever despite him facing one of the world government's strongest fighters.
"Alright fine," said Kizaru who disappeared and reappeared behind Sabo in a flash and delivered a light speed kick at Sabo who just had time to block the kick. Nonetheless the sheer velocity of the kick sent Sabo crashing into a building.
However Sabo emerged from the wreckage unharmed and with no sign of visible damage. He then disappeared and reappeared infront Kizaru.
He then in his hybrid form jumped infront of Kizaru to deliver a powerful punched to his face. Kizaru blocked easily. Not giving up Sabo attempted a kick which was again blocked by Sabo. Kizaru then went for a light speed kick but Sabo used his own leg to deflect the kick result in the beam from his leg going off in another direction. The melee fight between the continued.
The melee fight ended when Kizaru flashed back and shot a huge blast of light. The huge blast of light was sent towards Sabo who placed both his hands into the shape of cross block and let the attack hit him. The blast created a huge explosion but Sabo himself took very little damage.
"Oh man, it seems I'm in real trouble here," said Kizaru whose tone of voice suggested otherwise.
Sabo didn't say anything as he flew after Kizaru.
Akainu turned himself into magma and they shot after Luffy. Luffy seeing the lava heading towards him quickly began retreating knowing that he couldn't touch the magma. From the magma, several magma fists were shot at Luffy who successfully dodged them all. The lava began to shape into Akainu who took on his human form and then he ran after Luffy delivering a hard knock to his jaw. The hit sent Luffy flying a good distance away.
"Get up son of Dragon, don't make this too easy," said Akainu who was walking menacingly towards Luffy.
"Screw you bastard," said Luffy who sprung towards Akainu.
To big battles have began.
Kizaru vs Sabo and Akainu vs Luffy. Action is really heating up.
Not too much to explain in this chapter since it's mostly action.
Anyway I know most of you want more appearances from the Straw Hat Pirates. Trust me they would be the main characters of this fic. I just need the invasion arc to make the Knights the main antagonists. Nami, Robin and the Straw Hats are the main stars of this fic.
So far Hancock is the only of the women in Luffy's harem to not appear so far in this fic. Nami, Robin, Vivi and Shirahoshi have already appeared. She'll appear. Trust me on that one. In fact I've already know how she's going to appear.
I wouldn't explain what the power of D is until later. Remember in the first have of One Piece, despite the term haki showing up several times especially during the war, it was never explained until Rayleigh did. Likewise someone will explain the power of D.
This fic One Piece Final Holy War is inspired by an extremely popular manga. Shippuden was inspired by Naruto likewise this one is inspired by another popular manga. The current direction that manga is going know is what inspired this fic. I think you can all guess what this manga is since the similarities between the two are obvious. Whether you know or not doesn't affect your understanding or enjoyment of the story. Likewise telling anyone would change anything so feel free to tell.
As usual I hope for reviews.