thusleclut: You literally made me afraid for a second there. The story 'The Morning Sun Will Rise!' is out there. It's not deleted. And if you are having trouble finding it, then you can always opt for other websites like ao3 or Wattpad to read the story. I go by the same name there even.

kingmanaena: Here you go then!


Warning: This story was made when the Whitebeard vs Spades War didn't happen. In short, Ace was left to the Whitebeards and Luffy's powers weren't shown to anyone except of some small mishaps like them witnessing Luffy not getting wet when in water accidentally. Yeah, that's all I think.


Chapter 2


When the hijacked battleship got struck in ice, they started to plan what to do next. Sabo tells them that they have to push the ship backwards, which they could easily do with the sea kings. Then a den den mushi rings up cutting the tension in the air.

"Calling all ships and all troops! Objective Tottz! Change formation and prepare for general strategy 3! Preparations are to be executed flawlessly. Once they are made, we will execute Ace before the scheduled time!"

"WE HAVE GOTTA HURRY!" Everyone shouts and Sabo fetches his den den mushi and calls up Dragon to inform the news. As soon as Dragon picks up, the ship goes upside down and the den den mushi almost slips from his hands.

The ship does a flip in the sky and start falling off the cliff. The next thing Sabo knows is that they are falling from the sky and Luffy is by his side, holding his hand tightly. The wind pressure from falling doesn't affect much and he sees Luffy scrunching his eyes in concentration after all neither the winds ever go downward, nor Luffy has tried it before.

He barely manages to keep control on weather, and the winds, when his emotions runs out of control. Like right now, how the dark clouds have clouded the sky. Sabo manages to tell the Marine's dirty plans to Dragon in the air, while the escapees continues to scream.

The wind makes the falling not too hurtful, but the height and fear sure clutches everybody's heart. They keep yelling and pointing each other to pin point their fault, and Sabo gains a tick mark at their stupid behavior.

"Shut the hell up!" Sabo yells. "Let Lu concentrate otherwise you will be smashed to death!"

That does affect everybody as they try to be quiet and feel that the wind is not touching them, but it is making a slope for them. But still the ice below haunts them, waiting for their deaths.

Luckily the ship falls in the ocean and breaks in two. Jimbei dives below to fetch the fruit users who have fallen in the ocean.

"LUFFY!" Ace yells at his brothers. "SABO!"

"ACEE!" The two brothers shout in glee at finally finding their brother. "We finally found you!" Luffy waves his hands enthusiastically and Sabo gives a huge grin, but a frown quickly finds his face.

The marines are a bit startled by seeing Crocodile, Jimbei, Ivankov of the Revolutionary Army and the escaped convicts from Impel down.

"We are here to save you!" The brothers yell as they catch their breath and take battle stances.

"Garp! Are they another members of your family?!" Sengoku yelled at his best friend, who was grinning like no tomorrow.

"Bwahaha!' Garp snorted. "Now I am certain Ace won't die today!" Garp pats the back of Ace, who is bewildered. He didn't wish his brothers to show up, but he knew they won't leave him behind to die. He sniffles the snot which threatened to escape.

Crocodile vanished into a cloud of sand and suddenly Luffy and Sabo were gone too as an explosion of dust appeared behind Whitebeard. Crocodile went flying away from Luffy straight to Sabo who slammed the ex-Warlord to the deck with his Seastone coated pipe held to his neck.

"Now, now, Crocodile, let's not make any rash decisions that'll make you lose your head." The venom in Sabo's tone sent a shiver down every nearby pirates and marines in the vicinity. Blood lust seeped steadily into the air surrounding the Second in command of the Revolutionary Army and apparently Crocodile realized it was a fight he wouldn't win because he held up his hands and vanished again into a cloud of sand.

"You brats..." Whitebeard grins widens as he sees Cyra, aka, Luffy and a blonde brat, whose voice he recognizes as Cyane, very well. "Are you brats here to save your brother?"

That got a glare from the two.

"Why would we come here then?" Sabo rolls his eyes in disbelief. His patience is already running low, from seeing Ace tied to the shackles on his knees, like a cattle waiting to be slaughtered.

He is even pissed off that the darkness which he could clearly feel from Ace, is returning back to him. That angry, self hating Ace had gone, but right now it was there. And he is pissed off for the fact that they aren't with him, to console him. They should be there to eradicate that darkness, that self doubt forever.

"That's right!" Luffy gives his D grin.

"It's not one of your small missions," Whitebeard side eyes them, which directly pisses them off. "It's war!"

"Old man," Sabo gives a very, very sweet smile. "We know what we are doing and getting into."

"It doesn't matter if I have to use my powers in front of the whole world. I'll do it." Luffy takes the position of gear second and Sabo's hand tightens over his pipe. "I don't care, we'll save Ace."

Whitebeard raises his eyebrows at the statement. He knows the brat is full of secrets and he is just about to give those up in favor to save his brother. He grins at that. He likes them more now.

"Very well, don't get in my way, brat!" Whitebeard grinned.

"We'll do this however we damn well want!" Sabo gave a feral growl.

"We'll be saving Ace ourselves!" Luffy's face made a feral grin.

The people, the pirates and marines alike stare at shock at the two brats who are competing with Whitebeard himself. How the heck are the brats talking so casually with Whitebeard?! What's with their confidence?! Why the hell wasn't Whitebeard crushing them, but rather smiling?

Before heading towards the platform, the brothers told Whitebeard about the freaking disgusting cheap method of marines of executing Ace before time.

Whitebeard looked at the little brat, who had grown a lot since he had seen the crying boy in hands of Ace. The little boy had power overflowing from his little body, barely able to hold it down. Whitebeard have lived long enough and sailed on the unpredictable dangerous seas for more than half a century. But he understood why the little brat made him question certain things.

He had sailed the seas and had known how the sea would favor some individuals, how it will respect each and every command of certain people. But they were merrily same myths in his times. Not even Roger was spared from the merciless storms some times. But the kid was storm itself.

The way the waves were startlingly calm near Moby Dick while they were treacherous in other parts of Marineford supplied him with the answer which he had always looked for. Why had the brat felt like ocean? Now the answer was clear. As unpredictable the ocean was, so was the little straw hat. And it all clicked now. Being the true son of sea was the only answer which his brain supplied him at the moment.


Sabo and Luffy jumped in the battle and Sabo watched Luffy's back every time for any oncoming attacks, as Luffy did likewise. They charge with their fists and pipe against the marines. They were not even away from the Moby dick, when an asshole of an Admiral, Kizaru decided to show up. Kizaru was manifesting his light attack, making Sabo clench his teeth. If they got hit by that, it would be a pain in the ass but he won't let him.

"If we don't capture you, the Tenryuubito will never let us hear the end of it, you know, Straw hat Luffy." Kizaru spoke in a bored voice as he kicked off a light beam.

"As if I'll let you!" Sabo scoffed and coated his pipe with haki, ready to defend Luffy, who was just charging ahead, without the care of Kizaru present there. That was when he understood why, when Ivankov used his 'Death Wink' to deviate the attack.

But the next they know, is Kuma appearing in front of them. That would have relaxed them a bit, only if he wouldn't have manifested the laser beam from his mouth.

"Bear-Ossan!" Luffy grinned, but they don't have much time. Kuma must be working still as a spy, so they need to get off there. Luckily, Ivankov again appeared to tackle Kuma and gave his 'Rolling Aesthetic'. Sabo held Luffy's hand and ran forward. They can't waste any time. They need to pull Ace out of there.

One by one, marines appeared in their path, but this time it was Captain Hina, The Black Cage, who used her powers and was about to trap them. But Luffy used his second gear and Sabo used his speed to ignore the woman and ran ahead.

Then a Vice-Admiral appears in front of them, Sabo used his Dragon-Claw attack to crush the skull of the poor man, who screamed clutching his head making him drop on the floor and not move. Oops, he overdid it. But that doesn't matter to him.

Moriah got amazed by the strength of Luffy as well as the one beside him, Sabo. He makes zombies out of the dead marines. Meanwhile on other side, Luffy gets cut by a sword, due to his recklessness and Sabo curses the marine.

"Don't you dare hurt my brother!" Sabo yelled and banged his pipe on the Marine's head, splitting his head into two. The Marine's cowered in fear from Sabo due to his brutality. Sabo would never fight for himself, even of someone would threaten to kill him or spit on him. But if you touched one of his brothers with a bad motive, don't think you will stay alive to see another day.

Luffy's arms starts to bleed but he doesn't care and keep on punching the marines here and there. [A/n: His blood isn't golden here!] The waves rage violently and thunder cackles in the battlefield and on the battleship, destroying many of them. A large wave towers above Marineford, which Admiral Kuzan hurries to freeze.

Luffy shouts his war cry and kicks of another marine and Sabo swears that he will keep an extra eye on Luffy. The marines, the vice admirals and Moriah's zombie army gangs up on the duo brother. Both of the brothers shed blood in the battle, due to some openings but Sabo never leaves the ones, who made Luffy bleed, conscious. But neither could care less about their injuries, but with each drop of their blood, waves rages and at times tsunami summons itself, making Kuzan busy in tackling those.

The clouds roars, the winds throws out some marines which come too close for their liking and lightening falls here and there, making Fleet Admiral grit his teeth in anger.

"This way we will lose the battle. What the heck, Garp?!" A pissed of Sengoku yells at the man, who is laughing at how things are going. How the hell the weather is going crazy?!

"Stay back, Luffy, Sabo!" Ace screamed, after seeing their bloody states. He would never forgive himself. They are getting hurt for him and all the while he is sitting there, being useless. He couldn't let his brothers die for him he wasn't worth the lives already lost let alone his precious little brothers. They are his treasure for all he'd never say it out loud he had to make them leave.

Luffy and Sabo heard what their big brother said but kept on fighting their opponents, which seemed to be appearing incessantly. They needed to ditch them. They needed to reach their stupid, idiot of a big brother, who is hurting himself! Who needs a good hug!

"I shouldn't have to tell you this! You're a pirate just like me! We've both sailed the ocean as our hearts guided us!" Ace shouted specially to Luffy, who was recklessly beating the marines and getting hurt non stop. "I have my own adventure to live! I have my own friends! I don't remember asking you to interfere!" Then he paid attention to Sabo, who got a hit on his head at the instant.

"Why Sabo?! Why?! Why did you come?" Ace shouted desperately. "Don't you care about your cover? About your anonymity?! Why are you throwing everything for me?!"

In the background, in the battlefield, the pirates chant about saving Ace, which is completely ignored by the one to be rescued. His heart have began creating walls all again.

"Weaklings like you... coming to save me? Do you really believe I'm going to forgive you both for that?! That is humiliating! Get out of here, Luffy, Sabo! Why did you come?!" Ace shouted angrily. 'Please, don't let me drag you both into this too! This is my problem, not yours.'

"You promised to not die! What the hell are ya doing even there?!" Luffy shouted in anger. Ace had never seen him this angry, at least not after what happened in Moby Dick.

The winds howled, suppressing all the voices except for Luffy's. The thunder cackled on another battleship and the bitter rage of Luffy got leaked on a poor marine. Luffy's anger was rare to see. And if Luffy's angry on someone, then the nature itself will be angry on that poor bastard. Luffy's anger turned him into a cold and serious person, making everyone who knows him, unnerved. Luffy went still with rage, and that was more terrifying than Ace would like to admit. And right now, he was pissed off, with what he can see for sure.

"Ace don't be an asshole! We are your brothers!" Ace was sure Sabo was rolling his eyes, even if he could not see that. Even if he could only see people getting crushed by his claw shaped finger. Ace bit his lips in misery. He doesn't like seeing his brothers getting hurt. Not at all.

Then, Ace's eyes met that of Sabo, and he could see the dark eyes, filled with anger, but not for him, for the marines. Sabo was full of rage, yet with a calm demeanor as he crushed the marines, and those marines never got up for another fight. Sabo did look calm but held anger that was being unleashed on the enemies. Sabo, unlike him and Luffy, could always think through his anger only to make his enemy's fate worse.

But with Sabo, things could get more dangerous as he was the mixture of both his and Luffy's anger. His anger was similar to Ace in terms of fight, and similar to Luffy in terms of seriousness and calm demeanor. But to add a cherry on top of those, he could still use his high level intelligence through his anger. And right now, Sabo was very, very angry.

Ace gulped. Yep, Sabo was very pissed off and Ace would pity those marines who would be on his receiving end.

On the other side, marines were freaking out for the fact that Luffy and Sabo are also Roger's kid. Sabo fills the accurate description from his height and face, and could easily qualify as Ace's twin but Straw hat Luffy could never. Ace's parents have died when Ace was born. So, there is no way, that Luffy was also Roger's kid.

Jimbei appears in front of the Zombies of Moriah and uses his fishman attacks to make the zombies collapse. This gives a free path for the brothers to move ahead, after defeating the vice admirals and marines.


A/n:

Okay, the chapter might be boring with the lack of conversation. So, sorry! I hope you all will look forward for the next chapter on Sunday!

Also, this story is going to be updated every Wednesday and Sunday.

Have a good day/night!

Over and out!