Luffy appeared before her in a small but cute form. "So, if you inflate yourself like that, the result will be a mini you?" she raised an eyebrow. "Yeah, I call it Gear 3rd," Luffy elaborated. "You need to get rid of that big weakness, sunshine."
"I'll take care of it later. Ace is waiting for us to save him!" Luffy replied. "We just need to take care of them first," Oriana pointed at the marines surrounding them. They moved forward, with okamas backing them up. The navy started firing their cannons, but both Luffy and Oriana sent them right back.
As her transporter snail rang, Oriana listened to Whitebeard's message. He asked for Squardo and had a bad feeling about their plan getting leaked. He ordered the allies to sink the battleships surrounding the bay. Meanwhile, Luffy had been moving forward with Jinbei and the revolutionary Ivankov. Oriana didn't see a problem with it and used the time to move forward herself.
"Is there anything you want me to do, Dad?" she asked as Whitebeard gave orders to the DeCalvan brothers to follow his lead and take command of the pirate allies. "Tell me if you find any trap the marines might have laid for us, treasure," the great pirate instructed. "Roger that!" she answered before hanging up.
Searching for Luffy, Oriana found him fighting the smoke guy in the air. She marched in their direction when marines started attacking her. Ignoring them, she blew some away while others burned.
Her brother was being held to the ground, but a certain Shichibukai kicked the marine off Luffy. Oriana rubbed her eyes, making sure she saw the man-hating empress saving… a man. "Hancock!" Luffy smiled, affirming her thoughts.
The empress turned lovingly to him with a smile and a light blush. The two spoke for a while, and then the female warlord bowed a little, stretching her arm to him. "Hancock," Luffy said before jumping up to hug her.
Oriana stood a few meters away from them, confused by what had just happened. Luffy came over to her afterward, "I'm not sure I want to know what that was…" Oriana felt a sweat drop. "Oh, you mean Hancock? She helped me a lot and even gave me the key to Ace's handcuffs!" Luffy smiled happily. "That's great!"
Oriana looked backed at and saw the smoke guy coming towards them. The daughter of Whitebeard didn't bother paying any attention to him and just ran in the direction of Ace along with Luffy. They met Ivankov who was having a conversation with the heavenly demon.
Luffy ran up to him because he was about to fight a warlords and felt like wanting to help him… probably. Oriana didn't care nor had time to distract herself with their problem. Oriana ran ahead wanting to save her brother quicker when she suddenly stopped her eyes widen while she looked down.
She went down to her knees with her arms stretched out in front of her. She turned back to where her father was standing, but he wasn't looking her way. Winter Blaze got up hurry over to Whitebeard to tell him her founding.
Oriana quickly glazed over at Luffy who was still listening to the warlord with the revolutionary. 'He'll be fine' she thought to herself before focusing on getting back to their ship while taking out some of the marines.
She jumped up to next to her father, "I found something, dad!" she smiled cheekily. Oriana explained there was something under the ice and had a good idea what they probably had in store with it.
Meanwhile, Luffy was dodging Mihawk's blade surprisingly well.
Oriana sighed and was about to go save him when Jinbei came in between them. She wasn't sure if he could do anything impactful to the strongest swordsman in the world. Her predicting seemed to be right after the fishman was taken down, Luffy was once again targeted. "You can go, treasure. I'll figure out what to do with the thing under the ice," Whitebeard said.
Oriana nodded and went out to the battlefield once again. "Vista, pops ordered us not to let Ace's younger brother die. Go, back him up, yoi!" Marco ordered when Vista jumped in right before Oriana. "Seriously… you too commander?" she crossed her arms with an eyebrow raised.
"I'm a little busy here, Oria!" the fifth division commander replied. Winter Blaze turned to Luffy, "Go on ahead, sunshine".
"I don't care. You commanders just think you can do whatever you want without any regards for other members of the crew! But you know what Vista I don't blame this incident on you; I blame this on Marco! He's the one that ordered you to do this."
Marco turned to her with an eyebrow raised, "This is not the time for it, little one. We need to move forward, yoi." He left before she could answer. Oriana sighed and went in the direction of the hole where the battleship fell into.
She swam over to the wall and got closer for a look. Oriana touched it and felt sea prism stone fused with some other metal and on the other side was filled with ordinary bricks. She punched the wall but only managed to make a very small bump.
It was going to be extremely hard breaking just one of them. And almost impossible to completely break the wall all around the bay. If this thing went up, it was going to cause trouble for her and her family. Oriana could easily remove the bricks… an idea popped into her head.
Oriana got up to the surface, going over to the captain with her findings while removing the water particles from her body. She saw Squardo coming up to Whitebeard, "What has he been doing?" she wondered but her concern grew as he lifted his sword weirdly.
She felt a cannon ball quickly approaching her and easily dodge it just in time to see the ally captain stab their captain, "DAD!" she yelled throughout the battlefield. She jumped up to the figurehead and kicked Squardo into the mast hoping it did some serious damage.
Whitebeard fell to his knee while hold his wound, "Are you alright, dad? Does it hurt?" she held his arm at the brink of tears. "Don't worry, treasure. This is but a small scratch," he assured her, but she wasn't convinced. She took some water and washed the blood away from his chest and mouth.
Meanwhile, the spider captain got up and started announcing some nonsense about Whitebeard selling out his allies in exchange for Ace's life.
"You never told me that Ace is the son of that hateful Gold Roger!" Squardo continued explaining how Whitebeard found him at a very low time of his life because Roger killed his crewmates. He yelled that they should have told him about Ace being Roger son and how he wanted Ace to become the next Pirate King.
To Squardo, it was a betrayal that he didn't know about Ace and even befriended him, "I must have looked stupid!" He claimed to know bout Whitebeards deal with the marines, that they would sell the 43 allied captain to the marines in exchange for Ace's life. He noticed how the marines only would target the allied pirates and corner them between marine ford and the ice.
After hearing this, the allies were begging for Whitebeard to tell them that it wasn't truth. Marco flew in and grabbed him by the collar screaming and questioning why he didn't trust their pops. Squardo stood in front of Whitebeard with his arms stretched out ready for the consequences.
Oriana could easily come up with something fitting. "It's true that Ace is Roger's son. They used that to their advantage, tricking the one man who would be angered by that fact. Their strategy is one notch above us," Whitebeard said.
Crocodile's outburst came as a surprise for Oriana, she knew her father beat him, and he wanted revenge but not to the point where he would yell because Whitebeard got stabbed. His word fell on deaf ears.
"You know what you've done, right, Squardo? You've thrust a sword into your father's body! You're such a stupid son!" Whitebeard hugged Squardo, which was the opposite of what he thought would happen, "Even though you a fool I still love you,"
"You can't fool me!" the captain of the whirl spider pirates tried to get out of the embrace. "Who pulled your upright and loyal heart into darkness?" Whitebeard asked much more gently. "A marine insurgent. He said he would save us allies if I slew you," Squardo replied.
"That's even more stupid to trust the enemy," Oriana rolled her eyes still angry about what he did.
"So, Akainu told you that. I know how much you hate Roger, so much that I can feel your pain. But Squardo, it's ridiculous to blame the child for the sin of the father. Did Ace do something to you?" Whitebeard stated that the two went through a lot of things together. He didn't care who Ace's father was and that they all met by chance out at sea, "You are all family to me."
Whitebeard stood up and walked further ahead, "You haven't change at all, Sengoku. I sold the heads of my sons, you say?" he punched the air using his powers to break the frozen tsunami surrounding the island, "If you're a pirate believe what you want on your own! Those of you who'll follow me lay down your life for it!" The pirates cheered with a whole new motivation.
Whitebeard ran to the edge and jumped off the ship, "Let's go!" and landed on the ice. Oriana smiled excited as well and left the Squardo in his regret. She landed next to the captain, "Allow me to clear the way for you!" she kicked the two cannonballs back to the marine base.
While the two moved forward, Oriana noticed the marines backing down into the plaza, "I think it's time. They're about to use the wall, dad!" she turned back to Whitebeard. "I think you're right, treasure. Do you have a plan?" he asked his daughter.
"Yeah, leave it to me!" Oriana smirked as a giant started attacking them. He used his sword to sway the pirates away, "Leave this one to me, treasure," he tried to attack the pirate captain, but Whitebeard easily blocked it and pushed him back before grabbing the air.
Oriana knew what to do at that moment and took a hold onto her father while the whole island and sea tilted making people slide to the side of the island. When everything calmed down the giant pirate tried to strike Whitebeard again.
Instead, the great pirate jumped up and with his power punched a shockwave so strong that it went through the giant, damaging its way to the plaza and ended up being stopped by the three admirals standing right in front of the execution platform.
The pirates used that chance to advance when the wall suddenly came up around them. Some tried to break it but unsuccessfully. Oriana nodded to the captain and ran ahead right before the marines started shooting cannons at them, but saw that Oars' body make sure it wasn't completely up.
One of the admirals shot magma into the air confusing some, but soon they came back like meteor. Oriana raised her hands in hope that her powers to support her idea right now. She concentrated on the burning stones and used them to redirect some of them into the marine base.
She saw her people fall from cannonballs and meteor from all sides, preventing them from getting to Ace. Some had a hard time moving forward, but Luffy jumped over them and ran ahead. It gave many the motivation to keep going.
They ran towards that path to get to Ace while Oriana backed them up in another way. She raised her hands from the walls brick side and used them to throw at the enemies. The cannon balls shot at them were greatly reduced, but the magma man continued sending burning the ships and melting the ice.
Oriana was busy trying hard not to hit Ace in all of it. She knew she was close at time but wondered if the fleet-admiral would do something to 'protect' him even doing his execution. One thing for sure was that she couldn't take that chance.
When their main ship, Moby Dick, were set on fire the pirates desperately tried to pull it out. Oriana turned around and flooded the entire ship making sure every flame was out. That gave the marine a chance to point their weapon at them.
The cannon ball hit Oriana throwing her back into the wall, "ORIA!" she heard people screaming her name. Winter Blaze shook her head and jumped to her feet, "They're going to pay for that!" she growled.
Whitebeard punched the wall using his tremor fruit and with the help if Oriana removing the bricks the wall next to Oars were pushed back right in front of the execution platform. The pirates charged ahead with Luffy at the very front. The remaining cannons still being shot at them.
Suddenly the ground started to shake, "Ace-kun" a familiar voice said. Oriana turned around shocked and happy at the same time, "Oars!" she smiled brightly. The ancient giant sat on his knees with his hands on the ground in front of him breathing heavily.
The young captain rode some kind of water attack and landing right in front of the admirals, "The one jumping the wall was Ace's little brother?" someone asked, "That brat," Whitebeard said with a smile clearly impress by the recklessness.
"Give Ace back!" Luffy threw a mast-like pole at the three logia admirals. Oriana jumped into the sea and slide through the water. She jumped up to the plaza shaking the liquid away just in time to hear the fleet-admiral ordering her brother's execution.
The marines pointed their guns at her while also backing away, "Be careful, it's Winter Blaze!"
Oriana saw nothing but red while electric charge gathered around her, "Ace!" she yelled looking straight at him waiting for him to face her too, "This might hurt," she saw the confused stare but that didn't stop her from aiming her lightning bolt at the two executioners.
The attack hit their target burning their skin as they fell to the ground. A part of the attack seemed to have hit Ace too, but it didn't look like it was going to have much damage. The fleet-admiral and vice-admiral much have been hit too; she could see it on the faces.
Luffy was fighting the marines once again when Aokiji pierced him with a piece of ice. Oriana felt her anger rise and the pirate empress charged over there too but Marco flew past them both and kicked the admiral into the wall.
Oriana knew the next step in the plan and prepared for her crew to enter the plaza. She blew the marines away from the cannon that tried to kill her family, "Move away, small fries. Make room for the king!" the wind was circling her was getting stronger.
"What are you doing? Attack Oars!" the fleet-admiral ordered his subordinate, but as long as Oriana was there, she wouldn't let that happen. She deflected ever attack that were targeted the ancient giant to the best of her keepabilities until Oars got their hidden ship inside, "We made it. Now we can rescue Ace".
Oriana smiled letting her guard down for just a moment resulted in the marines shooting Oars again, "You have to save Ace-kun no matter what," he said as his body fell to the ground. "I'm sorry, Oars," she said while leaning against his arm.
"Here comes Whitebeard!"
"Do you still have your head, Ace?" Whitebeard asked as he step in front of his crew, jumped off the ship and landed on the marine base, "Stand back my sons!" the captain took his weapon and coated it with the quake power and swung it at the navy. The soldiers flew away in every direction.
The commanders started jumping into the battle following by the other pirates, "Alright, men! We're going to save Ace and destroy the navy!" Whitebeard yelled out to motivate them. "Yeah!" the pirates cheered eagerly.
Marco came over to Oriana and Oars, "Thank you, Oars," he put a hand on her back indicated that it was time to save Ace "I know I just wanted to be here one last time." She let go and joined the battle with Marco.
"There he is, Jinbei!" the revolutionary said with a huge face. That's when she saw the state Luffy was in and her captain holding him with a hand while upside down. Both jumped down from the wall concerned about Luffy, but none of them like, "Luffy!"
Oriana went over to him and looked over Luffy's injures, "You can't keep doing this," she said gently. "Yes, I can! Old man, let me go. I got to… I got to… let me go!" Luffy protested but thankfully Whitebeard didn't give in, "He has done more than enough. Treat his injuries," the emperor threw him over to their crewmates.
"I don't need it. There's no time. Don't get in my way!" the young captain managed to get them to let him go. "Ace is… Ace is… Ace is my only brother in the whole world. I have got to… save him," he ran ahead but after taking a few steps he fell to the ground.
People ran over to him to check his wounds.
Oriana just stood there watching them. She remembered how devastated Luffy was when Sabo died. At that time there was nothing they could do, but now that they were older things were different. Yet, it wasn't easy at all to fight in this war, 'Stupid Ace. Stupid Luffy' she thought.
"He's nothing more than a bundle of energy who talks big; young and clumsy. I like fools like that," Whitebeard was ready for another attack, "Those with no regard for their own lives step forward," when he was about to strike one of the admirals clashed with the attack, "I can't just let you destroy the island," Akainu said. "Then try and protect it," Whitebeard replied.
Meanwhile, Oriana went over to Luffy stoking his back gently, "You can't keep being reckless all the time without thinking about your own life. I don't know what I would do it anything happen to you, sunshine. We are going to get Ace out of those chains no matter what. So don't go and get yourself killed," she said firmly and calm, but wasn't sure if Luffy even heard her.
There was suddenly a loud crash, "The hero; Monkey D. Garp!" the revolutionary leader said.
"Doctor, Jinbei take care of Luffy for me," Oriana said as she got up and went into the battle. She felt her anger rise with every step she took. She didn't hear what was going on while a wind was circling her, and the weather was slowly changing.
The magma admiral threw an attack in her direction, but she just kicked it like a football. Oriana didn't want to waste her time on him and kept her eyes on a certain vice-admiral. Winter Blaze raised her arms making the ground around her shake, "Enough of this!"
Oriana cracked the ground open very much like her father. The wind was getting stronger by the seconds even blowing the marines to every side. Some pieces of the round were taking up to the air by the strong wind.
The stronger soldiers managed to somewhat stay on the ground while the even stronger managed to break the boulders in their way. Oriana made sure that her powers didn't affect the person they were there to save, "You got this Oria!" her crew cheered.
She didn't notice her father falling to the ground holding his chest while cough out blood. Neither did Oriana notice the Marco getting shacked with sea-prism handcuffs and falling to the ground after being shot right through his torso by the light admiral.
After a few minutes Oriana let everything calm down to let her crew continue charging ahead. She decided to check on Luffy before going into the final part of this war.
That the moment she saw the state of Marco, Jozu and even worse the captain, "Dad!" he had a huge hole in his torso while marines came up and stabbed him with their long swords.
"I would want to die!" she heard her brother scream. She turned to him sadly, "Luffy…" the revolutionary was by his side, so she knew he'll be fine for now.
Oriana ran up to Whitebeard, "Dad, dad, dad! Are you still breathing!" she held on to his knee to get closer and make eye contact. "Don't worry about me, treasure. We need to move forward." Whitebeard finally looked her way. "There's no way I'm going to leave you!" Oriana said firmly.
"AAAAAAAH! ACEEEE!" Luffy screamed after he got to his feet. Whitebeard said, "Go support him," Oriana shot that down right then and there. She would fight the marines coming to attack her injured dad.
Meanwhile, Luffy were getting closer to the execution platform with Ivankov by his side. He had just punched his marine friend in the face when he tried to stand in his way. He came face to face with the pacifists when the female warlord helped him out.
The marines gather up to attack the father and daughter. Oriana blew them into the ocean but more came from behind, "Take down Winter Blaze and kill Whitebeard!" she burned the soldiers dared to utter those words.
Whitebeard stood up wanting to fight for himself. Oriana wanted to say something, but she knew the status of a captain and what was at stake. "Jozu!" Haruta yelled from the distance and Oriana saw the third commander falling to the ground frozen.
"Hurry up! Attack all at once and take Whitebeard's head!" The marines took that chance and used that to gather to charge at them. Oriana burned the marines that came from behind, "Don't come near dad's back, government dogs!" But some of the soldiers had managed to get in front of the great pirate and stabbed him in the torso.
"DAD/POPS!" the pirates yelled.
"STAND BACK!" Whitebeard ordered, "You think you can kill me that easily? I don't need help," the captain swung his weapon and the enemy, "I am Whitebeard!" they flew in every direction away from the pirate.
"I know exactly what it would mean if I were to die. That's all the more reason to stay alive until I've guided my sons towards a brighter future. Right, Ace?" Whitebeard said and turned to the commanders and Jinbei that had joined Oriana by his side to defend Whitebeard's pride.
"You too blasted loyal, you little fools!" Whitebeard scolded.
Oriana grinned, "You can't blame us, dad!"
The marines announced that it was time for Ace's execution once more. The executioners strike down their blades to take the young man's head, "Stop it!" Luffy yelled when suddenly a strong force spread to the battlefield. Everyone without a strong will passed out and fell to the ground.
"That… was Luffy?" Oriana almost yelled, but he didn't seem to notice his work and kept running towards Ace. Whitebeard stepped forward and stroke the air to block the marines from attacking Luffy, "You marines are cowards. You're scared of one kid. I thought you wanted to take my head." As he towered over the marines.
"Listen up men! I want you to back Straw-Hat Luffy up with everything you got!" the great captain ordered. It surprised the pirates, but they quickly went into action by protecting Luffy from the marines' attacks.
"Now, go and back up your brother, treasure," Whitebeard said to Oriana, "He got enough people protecting him. I want to be by your side, dad," she smiled cutely just as she did when she was a child to get her family to allow her to do whatever she wanted.
"I can't deny my daughter's request to be close to her father," Whitebeard smirked knowing how stubborn Oriana could be.