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Chapter 6
As the screen went off, the people started blaming the weather conditions in the battlefield. Most scared of what was happening there. Some wanting to see the bloody war and some really concerned if the world was ending.
"What's happening to the World? Is that the end of the show?" Eustass Captain Kidd frowned.
"Do you think the storm is responsible for the disruption?" Some innocent civilians whispered to the other, making Scratch-man Appo stop in his path.
"You guys are idiots they are not showing it, coz there's something going on they don't want us to see. Not the world or us pirates." The civilians looked confused at each other.
On the other corner in Saboady, X-Drake left the place in disbelief. "Whitebeard sold out his comrades? That's ridiculous! He's a living legend coz he doesn't do crap like that."
Another monk pirate looked at the sky in Sabaody and gave a warm smile to his crew. "Let's go."
Another supernova from the Worst Generation, Basil Hawkins, spread his cards. "The probability that the Whitebeard pirates survive..."
In another corner, another supernova from the Worst Generation cries. Her subordinates try to console her, but she shouts at them to shut up. "Leave me alone!"
And our last supernova present in Sabaody, The Surgeon of Death, Trafalgar Law, gives a creepy smile, with his sword resting on his shoulders. "Set sail, Bepo!"
Crocodile grits his teeth. "That bastard... YOU'RE PATHETIC! WHITEBEARD! I DIDN'T LOSE TO SUCH A WEAK MAN!" He yelled.
'That's right! Even in this state, Pops should have been able to dodge it! No matter how off guard he was, even from someone he thought of as an ally, he shouldn't have taken the attack. That's a problem. His condition is worsening.' Marco thought. He eyed Whitebeard, his Pops, carefully, and can see the frown on his face.
"Squardo! You attacked your own father with your blade. You're unbelievably stupid son!" Whitebeard cried out as he pulled his misguided son to his chest in a tight hug. Squard looked up shocked even as Whitebeard continued speaking. "But even so, I still love you."
"Don't screw with me! You threw our lives away!" Squard choked out.
"You have a straight forward loyal heart, who was it that dragged it into darkness?" Whitebeard demanded softly.
"One of the marines! A member of a rebel faction. He said if I killed you, we should be spared!" Squard said, without any hesitation. He needed answers.
"So Akainu said that. I know how much you hate Roger to the point that it hurts me. But Squardo, the son doesn't bear the sins of the father. What has Ace ever done to you? Be good to each other, Ace isn't the only special one. You are all my family." Whitebeard looked at the scaffold where Sengoku was standing. "You haven't lost it, Sengoku! You have made a fine mess of things."
Whitebeard punched the air and the cracks lead the frozen waves in cracking.
"If you are pirates, choose who to believe yourselves!" Whitebeard bellowed and then looked at two scrawny brats ahead. "If you fear the frozen waves, I guarantee they won't be a trouble, right?" Luffy nodded.
"The ice wall is gone! And we can use our ships to escape any time!" The pirates cheered.
"So, they opened a path for the other pirates!" Sengoku hissed. But why did Whitebeard looked at Straw Hat and his brother? What does that mean? Frozen waves won't be any trouble? They would be a huge problem, unless someone can unfreeze them. Wait! Does that mean...?
He couldn't understand the power the scrawny pirate wields. Bringing waves and unfreezing them. Controlling the winds, and creating cyclones. Calling the lightening and destroying the pacifistas. Ordering the sea kings and making them attack the pacifistas. And what was that 'It's the order of your ki-' What does that mean? Ki-? Kid? No. Then what? Why shall the sea, the winds, the sea kings listen to him. It feels as if he is their king. Sengoku's eyes widened at the realization.
"He is the king of the oceans!" Sengoku looked with wide eyes at Garp, who abruptly stopped laughing and blinked at him.
"He's what?!" Garp blinked his eyes rapidly, in confusion. As much as Garp knows, Lu is Nika but not any king.
"Why shall the waves, the sea kings obey his orders? Unless he is not their king? He can't devour two devil fruits!"
"What type of nonsense are you sprouting?!" Ace growled. "Luffy is a normal human not any king. Have you lost your mind, with how you are losing the war?!" Ace tried to desperately hide the truth. He knows his mother is the sea and the sea kings call him the 'young king', but no one should know that. For times like these, they had already planned what to answer.
"Then how shall you explain all of this commotion?!" Sengoku growled at Ace, who clenched his teeth, ignoring the harsh comment.
"He has the tendency to befriend everyone." Ace growled back. "It isn't a surprise that sea kings are not exempted!"
"How shall you explain the ice turning to water?!"
"When did it happen, Fleet Admiral?" Ace gritted his teeth. "We can't see or are you getting blind?!" Ace hissed.
"Why shall Whitebeard look at him and say that the frozen ice is no problem!?"
"You should check your eyes. He was looking at me. If I get free, then I can use my fire powers to melt the ice, easily." Ace hissed out. Sengoku narrow his eyes at that. He can't believe the words still.
'This power, this is extremely unnatural. How does Garp's family get even more irritating than it already is? Cyra, no, Luffy he can talk to sea kings, and COMMAND them! But why? How? I heard about such power, from the Gorosei. But what, what is it? Connected to the sea of course, but what? I will definitely look into this after winning this battle. We will win, won't we? Garp doesn't have any other tricks up his sleeve right?' Sengoku rubbed his temples in irritation.
"If you want to fight with me, be prepared to give up your lives!" Whitebeard yelled, grabbing the attention of Ace.
He didn't wait for an answer, he had a son to save, but he did hear the war cry behind him that told him his children truly did still have faith in him. Marco stayed on the Moby watching Squard breakdown as he realized he had betrayed their father on the basis of lies.
'A weak man, am I? What an insolent man.. give me a break, Crocodile brat! I'm only one man with one heart. They call me the Strongest one out there, but I can't be it always. The new era doesn't belong to me. It belongs to the youngsters. And if I can bring one young life into the future, isn't that enough...?' Whitebeard jumped off the ship and landed on the battlefield, ready to fight.
"Divide the forces, quick!" Sengoku yelled. "One third of the force fight The Strongest Man in the World and another third go after Straw Hat and Sabo . And the rest eliminate the pirates."
The allied captains started following Whitebeard and clearing a path for him.
"Back up Ace's brothers, commanders!" Whitebeard yelled at his division commanders, seeing the brothers wasting enough time, on fighting the marines on their own. He would say that he is impressed by seeing them hold on their own, without fear. He was sure they can reach Ace in due time.
On the other hand, Squard regrets what he had done and kneels down on the Moby Dick and Marco tells him to stop crying and do something to make up for it.
The plan of the marines start taking place. They ascend to the square, except for a few, which keep targeting Whitebeard, Luffy and Sabo. A giant marine gets thrown by Whitebeard easily. Whitebeard pulls his hands in downward direction, to pull down the air, as a result, Marineford starts tilting and many marines in the square come down tumbling, straight to hit the ice and some unlucky ones, are send straight to the ocean. Whitebeard sends a shock wave towards the execution platform, but the two Admirals, stop that.
The brothers land on a piece of ice, as the ice rink gets destroyed completely. If Whitebeard was allowed to continue using his power, then the Island would have been destroyed in mere seconds. Luffy throws his arms above the wall, which lead straight to the square, and the platform where Ace was forced t kneel down, and rocketed himself and Sabo.
Little Oars Junior wakes up, shocking the marines. The pirates cheer as Oars tries to move forward to rescue Ace all again, but unluckily he gets attacked by the cannons and collapses again.
The marines go haywire and Sengoku shouts, "Why aren't the walls up, yet?!"
"Fleet Admiral!" A marine comes running in panic and Sengoku already feels like crying. "Sorry, but we can't contact the person controlling the control room!"
"What?!" Sengoku yelled, questioning himself all again, if they would win this fight or not. That was the only one way, that could have helped them in wining the war, with all the plans being flopped.
"Send marines to check what's happening there! Immediately!" Sengoku desperately spoke. He really didn't want the Five Elders to yell at him.
"Sorry, sir! We have tried that. But it all seems useless. The marines which we sent, never returned!" Sengoku felt like another punch to his gut. What the hell is happening? It feels like they are utterly losing. Any plan which he devised today, were totally getting destroyed.
"Give the den den mushi of the control room!" Sengoku said, keeping his disappointed at the bay. Before the call could ring properly, it got connected to the main denden mushi, announcing whatever convo, which was about to happen to the people in the battlefield. But poor Sengoku wasn't able to notice that.
"Why aren't the walls up, yet?!" Sengoku yelled as soon as he heard the soft 'click' from the other side, making a huge mistake. As he didn't notice that his voice resounded in the whole battlefield.
"I'm sorry, the people you are ordering around can't reach the denden mushi right now. Do you want to leave your number so they can call you back?" A stoic and serious voice came from the other side, with sounds of several papers fluttering, making Luffy completely still in their path of attacking a marine, while Sabo grinned and bet the marines with a new found determination. Ivankov and Jimbei also appeared by their side, to prevent them from getting hurt, with some division commanders helping them already.
"DAD!" Luffy and Sabo said with a huge grin on their face. Ace and Garp blinked, while Sengoku felt like he had heard the voice somewhere. And when he heard Ace mutter a small 'Dad' and Garp whisper 'brat', he understood what was happening.
'Seriously! Garp! You are the reason that I will get grey hairs.' Sengoku cursed and grinded his teeth together.
"What are you doing here, Dragon?!" Sengoku hissed, making another mistake. He either really ignored or out of rage didn't hear the loud fearful gasps and screams of the marines and pirates alike.
"If you have any complains, the Revolutionary Army is not to blame. It's you." Dragon's voice resounded again throughout the battlefield. "Goodbye~!" The call was disconnected, leaving a quiet battlefield, except for two brothers who continued to fight and took this opportunity to move forward.
The cheery goodbye was a taunt, a punch to the gut of Sengoku and the last restraint to choke his best friend.
In the battlefield, Whitebeard's laughed and shouted. "Charge ahead, men! Move to the plaza!"
"GARPPPPP!" Sengoku yelled in anger. "IT'S AGAIN YOUR DAMN FAMILY!" Sengoku chased Garp on the scaffold making Ace laugh at the two elderly men chase each other like cat and mouse. Making Tsuru come and punch them on their heads, and making them behave like elders and not some kids. Sengoku took charge of the battle again.
"Kizaru go to the control room immediately!" Sengoku started ordering around. They need to control the situation. He just wishes Kizaru can defeat Dragon, which he doesn't think so. But still they can try. He still needs Akainu in this battle, in the battlefield.
Sengoku turned towards Akoiji, who was still busy freezing the waves, which were never ending. One came, and Kuzan froze, and then next comes and occupies Kuzan all again. And when it would feel as if none would come anymore, one more pops out of no where. It's the complete fault of Straw Hat 'Luffy'!
"Akainu, eliminate Straw Hat Luffy and capture The Staff of Revolutionary!" Sengoku knew that this could be a huge mistake, a huge mistake to let Whitebeard advance. But if they can free Akoji, then there will be a huge change in the war. The raging waves, the thundering clouds, the lightening bolts will all cease and the victory will be definitely theirs.
Sengoku's face finally lit with a smile. He turned to see the executioners and saw them ready and waiting for orders.
"We will now proceed with Portgas D. Ace's execution!" Sengoku said in a cheery voice. The pirate raged and charged forward. They didn't want to lose their brother.
Luffy and Sabo panicked at that, but managed to keep their calm. The square flooded with pirates fighting here and there, taking down marines.
"GIVE ACE BACK!" Luffy shouted, as he used his Armanent haki coated fists to punch Akainu, with Sabo's dragon claw attack. But the bastard was way too strong, for them to handle. And even if they could defeat him together, that doesn't mean they had time.
Luffy was not doing well. Sabo was not that tired as him. Akainu was charging relentlessly, throwing magma fists and they could do nothing except for blocking the fists. They did try to use their haki powers, but the Admiral was too cruel. He wasn't giving them any chance. A magma fist came soaring to Luffy and Sabo's eyes widened, when he felt that his brother couldn't dodge that fist. His body moved forward to take the attack instead of Luffy and he closed his eyes shut, waiting for the attack to come.
Garp's eyes widened, he balled his fists tightly and was about to enter the war, when Sengoku's hands pressed his shoulders down. He gritted his teeth, hoping for a miracle. Hoping that his grandkids could survive. This was the first time he felt fear, which he should have felt the very beginning of the war, when Ace's live was on stake, when Luffy and Sabo fell from the sky to participate in the war.
"SABO! LUFFY!" Ace's shouts rang through the battlefield reaching their ears. Sabo felt he was gonna die, but he wouldn't regret it. He would save his baby brother. He could see how much he was exhausted by using his new attacks and controlling the storms and thunder since freaking three hours. He should have never let Luffy fight in this war. It would be totally his fault if Luffy died here. He won't let him die.
A/n:
How was the chapter? What will happen next? Is it the end for Sabo and Luffy? Or some miracle will happen? (Don't expect much though)