[Chapter Size: 1900 Words.]
Third Person POV
Marineford, First Half of Grandline.
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Mihawk walked calmly forward, while grabbing his sword and with a quick movement, he launched it in front of him, with a green energy quickly exploding from it, as it advanced at high speed.
"He's attacking Whitebeard!" The marines exclaimed, seeing the energy quickly heading towards the ship in the center of the place, with Newgate still looking at it calmly.
The energy continued rushing forward, digging into the ground towards Newgate, breaking the ice floor and making any pirate in the path of the attack fly backward, some unable to react while others moved out of the way to avoid being hit.
"DAD!!!" The pirates shouted, seeing that slash advancing towards the Moby Dick.
However, someone intervened between the energy of the world's strongest swordsman and the world's strongest man, appearing quickly and taking all of Mihawk's damage.
He immediately took the attack and broke the ground while standing there, enduring it, trying to deflect it, while everyone watched. The man in the middle of the slash still stood firm for a few seconds until he shouted and immediately threw the green energy upwards, making it disappear into the air.
"That is…" The marines immediately recognized the man as one of Whitebeard's division commanders. A silence took over the place for a moment, while everyone watched in awe as this man stopped Mihawk's slash.
Mihawk looked at him for a while as Whitebeard nodded, seeing his son there half-transformed into diamond.
"It's the third division commander, Jozu, the diamond!!" The enemies immediately exclaimed.
After that, the war continued as swords clashed and cannon shots continued, "Don't let them get close, finish off all the pirates!" Sengoku exclaimed on the Den Den Mushi.
"This war is going to be very bloody…" Kizaru suddenly said while starting to get up from his chair that was aligned with two others. Akainu was still sitting, while Kuzan was fighting on the front lines.
Kizaru kept walking forward, leaving his chair, while keeping his gaze on Whitebeard, who was watching the battle below him, "Why not end this by defeating the head behind this war…" He commented and suddenly glowed, disappearing from the place.
On the battlefield near the main ship where Newgate was, a glow appeared as Kizaru appeared and crossed his arms, before launching his attack towards Whitebeard, launching a direct attack.
Whitebeard narrowed his eyes at this. "Hey hey, that's very bright, man…" He complained while all the attacks still advanced against him.
Suddenly, a shadow emerged again against the attack coming for Whitebeard, while his wings burned in blue and yellow fire, beating against the attack, preventing it from advancing as blue flames emerged on impact, stopping the light.
The attack finally stopped as Marco, the first division commander, flew in the air while constantly healing with his flames.
"So you appeared… as expected from a fruit even rarer than Logia… a mythical Zoan…" Kizaru commented lazily while looking intently at Marco.
"He is Marco, the phoenix!!!" The marines shouted, seeing Marco transform into a complete phoenix while advancing against the admiral in the air.
Even with Kizaru attacking him again, Marco approached and delivered a kick as he got close, with Kizaru flying backward and exploding on the ground while everyone watched in shock.
A moment later, Kizaru appeared calmly, looking at Marco, "How scary…" His gaze turned back to the marines behind him, "Giant squad…" He gave the order while all the giants began to leave the square, shaking the ice with their weight, advancing against the pirates.
"Go, for justice!"
"Let's go, for Ace!"
Pirates and marines continued in a bloody dance with everyone dying at every moment. This continued for a while until suddenly the ground shook a bit, and everyone saw Jozu himself hitting the ground while grabbing a huge block of ice and with his own strength, threw it against the marines.
"The square is being attacked!!" The marines shouted while the huge block of ice created a huge shadow over everyone.
"Looks like I'll have to act…" The last admiral, Akainu, was raising his head, looking at that block. In the next moment, he launched his fist towards it, with the ice exploding as it was melted by the power of magma.
The magma didn't stop there; as it exploded the ice, it advanced directly against the frozen bay. "Run!! It's coming for us!!" The pirates immediately exclaimed as the place exploded with the power of that Devil Fruit.
The bay became chaotic for the pirates, as Akainu had aimed far from the reach of the marines, burning the place while some couldn't even react before turning to ashes. The ships beside the Moby Dick were hit, turning into flames and being destroyed, the lava meteors falling directly on Whitebeard were easily caught by him as he simply blew to extinguish the lava, leaving a rock in its place.
His gaze fell on the admiral, who stared back at him as a challenge, while the fight continued, with various Devil Fruit users fighting against each other, even Whitebeard and the commanders were launching themselves, gaining ground, and trying to reach the plaza.
Giants, men, people dying everywhere, Coby was in the middle of it, trembling with fear, not wanting to be there in the midst of that chaos. When a huge sound came from the sea, and an even larger shadow emerged.
"What is that thing!!!" The marine officers stopped to see it.
"He's here!!" The pirates seemed to celebrate, as the sound of enormous footsteps continued approaching, the warships tried to stop that huge shadow, but were all destroyed the next moment.
"Little Oars Jr." Sengoku commented, looking at the giant.
"Ace's friend!" The giant's voice echoed throughout the place as he approached, passing through the ships and invading the bay.
"He's much bigger than us…" A giant woman looked up, seeing the man stepping on the ground and making the bay tremble with the sound of his steps.
"Giants!! Attack!!" The marines exclaimed as they advanced against the colossus.
Cannons exploded on Oars, but nothing seemed to stop him as he continued advancing, even picking up a warship and throwing it on the first giants that approached, creating chaos with destruction.
The giants continued advancing as the giant swords clashed against each other as they met, the enormous weapons creating a windstorm as they swung for the people below them.
Oars began to gain an advantage against the marine giants easily, cutting down all who came close, and continued advancing. "Help Oars…!" Whitebeard requested, seeing that his giant son was being reckless.
Suddenly, the other Shichibukai began to act. Hancock started attacking everyone as soon as cannonballs were thrown at her, easily stopping them as she advanced against the pirates, even the marines didn't escape her attacks, as she turned everyone into stone.
Kuma, now fully modified by Vegapunk, also made his move, creating an enormous paw that began to shrink until it was so small that he covered it with his whole hand. He saw Oars near the plaza and threw it at him. Even with that small pad moving slowly towards him, Oars couldn't react until it exploded on contact.
The plaza trembled the next moment with the force of Kuma's attack, throwing everyone nearby away.
"OARSSS!!!!" Ace screamed from the platform, as Oars appeared in the middle of the explosion, all injured, falling to his knees. "Stop, don't come here!!" Ace shouted.
And before anyone could react, all the cannons beside the bay began firing, exploding the giant's entire body, who still tried to reach Ace, as he hit the edge of the plaza and Doflamingo flew there, moving his fingers on the only arm he still had.
"Hm?!" The next moment, Oars lost his leg, as Doflamingo cut that limb. But Oars, even in pain, still tried to reach the plaza through the path he created.
"ACE…" He said, as Ace looked at him in despair, not wanting his old friend to die there.
"I will save Ace…" He said until suddenly, Moria made his move and created a giant shadow blade, piercing the giant's heart.
"Ace…" was the last thing Oars said before falling to the ground unconscious.
"OARSSSS!!!!" Ace screamed in despair once again, with the sound of his body falling.
"OARSSS!!!" The pirates immediately shouted, seeing their comrade fall.
"Those bastards!!!!" The pirates exclaimed angrily and began to advance more aggressively against the marines, trying to avenge their comrade.
"I will kill you, Whitebeard!!!" A new man emerged, attempting to strike Whitebeard, but he simply stopped his blade with his hand, and the man was defeated the next moment without anyone being able to react.
His body fell backward the next moment, dead. "A Vice-Admiral falling so easily... that's the power of the world's strongest man!" The marines exclaimed in fear.
Whitebeard looked at Oars' body with enraged feelings for seeing one of his sons falling there, "Attention, everyone!! Climb on Oars' body." He exclaimed.
The battle continued with more people falling after that, while the place remained a bloody chaos, with the pirates approaching Oars to reach the plaza.
At the edge of the plaza, the 43 pirate groups kept trying to find an opening while many groups of marines with several Vice-Admirals were dispatched to face them. All the Vice-Admirals who went to Enies Lobby were there, with more arriving at Sengoku's call for the war.
"This is getting bad..." One of the captains exclaimed while trying to open one side of the bay, but the walls were hard to break with cannon fire. Suddenly, a ship broke through the walls, being none other than Whitey Bay, known as the Ice Witch.
On the platform, Sengoku analyzed the situation next to an Ace, still desperate, watching his brothers die there for him. But Sengoku didn't have time to care about the feelings of a pirate about to die there as he looked towards a corner of Marineford.
'They are positioned there... but there are still no signs of them...' Sengoku murmured internally, but he knew they would arrive, after all, the loss of control of the Gates of Justice meant they were opened or something even worse...
'Anyway, let's continue our plan to destroy Whitebeard. If they show up, the forces sent by the government will take care of them...' He murmured internally and picked up the Den Den Mushi.
"Let's prepare for the plan." He said, while Ace looked at him without understanding.
"Yes, Fleet Admiral. Let's begin!" The voice on the other side emerged, and Sengoku didn't care about Ace hearing it; he couldn't do anything now, and none of his enemies knew his strategy.
While all this was happening, with chaos taking over the plaza, behind one of the ice blocks created by Whitebeard and Kuzan, a black ship continued moving closer to it, while the man on its prow crossed his arms with his cape flapping against the wind, emitting a characteristic smile. The people Sengoku and the World Government had been waiting for were finally arriving.
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[Chapter Size: 2200 Words.]
Third Person POV
Marineford, First Half of Grandline.
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While the war was unfolding, many eyes around the world were watching what was happening at that moment as the Navy wanted to display its victory over pirate groups while executing the biological son of the pirate king who died more than 20 years ago.
The tension was in the air in Sabaody Archipelago, where crowds continued to gather in front of public screens. They were shocked as the battle progressed, seeing the display of powers that each of those powers could perform, each attack, each movement of the powerful pirates and sailors was broadcast in real time, leaving the audience with wide eyes and swallowing dry.
In the center of the crowd, a group of reporters struggled to capture the public's reactions, their cameras and den den mushis working at full steam. "Incredible, did you see how Whitebeard controlled the sea with his Gura Gura no Mi? This is the power of a Yonkou, not this is the power of the strongest man in the world!!" a reporter exclaimed, seeing a scene with excited eyes, unlike many of his colleagues who looked on in fear.
"Did you hear the fleet admiral? He has the power to destroy the world, what kind of monster is this!?" One of the men also shouted in the crowd.
"May Nika protect us from this war!" A woman began to pray, seeing that chaos on the screens.
The reporters, in turn, took every pause between the fights to interview the spectators. "Do you think the World Government will be able to contain Whitebeard's advance?" one of them asked, directing his den den mushi to a man who seemed to be a former sailor, given his posture and scars.
"Whitebeard is a force of nature," the man began. "But don't underestimate the Navy. They are clearly prepared for something big, and this war... it's going to change a lot for all of us."
"Look!!! He created two Tsunamis!!! What monster is this!" Someone screamed, seeing Whitebeard finishing his tsunami.
Scenes of Whitebeard's powerful attacks were interspersed with images of the Navy admirals preparing for the counterattack, each movement analyzed and commented on by the reporters. "And here we see Admiral Aokiji, preparing for what may be one of the greatest demonstrations of power ever seen," a reporter reported, while the camera focused on the ice admiral, raising his hands, first freezing the Tsunade and the entire bay.
A young pirate, in the middle of the crowd, had her name unknown for having a bounty under 10 million, but still risked making her name in the new world. She shouted: "This is the true power of the great pirates!! Maybe we should go to Marineford too and make our name, I might even get a bounty to become a pirate of the worst generation!" She exclaimed excitedly among several pirate groups, some looked at her with a somber face upon hearing something like that.
"It's not that simple, girl. Did you see what happened to Little Oars Jr.? It was devastating," a more seasoned pirate commented. He was referring to the scene broadcast moments before, where the giant Oars Jr. had fallen in battle, which surprised everyone there by the brutality with which the Navy and the Shichibukais had eliminated him mercilessly.
Next to them, a family of traders watched with concern. The mother firmly held her young son's hand, trying to divert his eyes from the more violent scenes. "We should go home, this is no place for children," she murmured to her husband, who nodded in agreement, equally disturbed.
"Did you see the move of the greatest swordsman in the world!? Look at some scenes of him fighting against some pirates!" A swordsman among the pirate groups said in a very excited tone, wanting to reach that level when he went to the new world.
"Look at Admiral Kizaru, he's using his light power. I so wish I had an Akuma no Mi!" an excited reporter said, seeing the high-speed movements launching rays of light across the battlefield, exploding the enemies.
"But didn't you see how Marco stopped him before kicking him? The power of the Phoenix is cooler," another reporter exclaimed.
"Of course not, the power of Logia is much better than that mythical Zoan," someone else countered.
The fight continued and when Jozu lifted that huge block of ice and threw it towards the plaza, everyone was mesmerized, wondering what would happen next. And when Akainu made his move, everyone sighed as he began to release his power.
"So this is the power of Admiral Akainu. Look, he's launching magma onto the battlefield. Whitebeard's ships are being burned, until one of those magma balls went towards Whitebeard..." The scene continued... "He caught it easily!" Whitebeard stopped the attack with his weapon and blew on the magma, leaving just a cold rock and leaving all the spectators even more amazed.
"As expected of the strongest man in the world, nothing seems to shake Whitebeard," someone in the middle of the plaza said with a tone of admiration.
"This fight... So these are the people who are at the top," murmured Kid, increasingly frustrated with his current power, it seemed there were as many people like Monkey D. Luffy.
"We are far from it, aren't we, Captain Kid?" Bege appeared beside him and mocked the red-haired pirate.
"Hm?! Do you want to die?" Kid gave him an angry look.
"Don't be so stupid." Bege continued mocking and turned back to everyone there. "And where is the one who is leading the worst generation?" Bege murmured, since Luffy had gone to the New World according to the newspaper. "It looks like he is ahead of us. Will he try to capture Whitebeard's territories?" He commented, his gaze suddenly turned to Basil in a corner, watching the screen and playing cards as always.
"Tell me, Basil, what chances does Luffy have of starting to capture territories in the New World? I bet the others must be doing the same, as powerful as Whitebeard is, look at the strength of the Navy. What are the chances of that monster surviving?" He spoke and waited for an answer from Basil.
Basil looked for a moment. Everyone there who was nearby and knew his powers, so they certainly tried to hear his answers, after all, he was a man who always said the right tactics and had proved it. As he began to play cards and looked exactly at those questions, his card lifted and he raised an eyebrow.
"Chances of Whitebeard surviving: 10%," he spoke in a calm tone.
"10%? That's better than I expected," Bege commented, while Drake grimaced at that, after all, 10% is much more than it should be and he was secretly rooting for the Navy and couldn't do anything about it while watching the battle he should be part of.
"And tell me, what is the chance of Monkey D. Luffy capturing Whitebeard's territories in the New World?" Kid was the one who asked this time and Basil looked again at his cards and looked at Captain Kid.
"0%," he said, also a bit surprised.
"Wait, 0%?" Kid exclaimed. "He's supposed to be in the New World, what's the chance of him being in the New World then?" he asked immediately.
Basil looked at the card and spoke, "0%."
"What?" Everyone raised an eyebrow at that. "Don't tell me he's in the war or going to the war," someone commented, and Basil nodded, looking at his cards while frowning once more and looking at everyone in a moment of silence.
"100%. The chance of him being in the war is 100%," his words echoed through the area where those pirates were.
"WHAT?!" Kid immediately raised his voice.
"Why would he be in a war of Whitebeard trying to save his commander...?" Many exclaimed, after all, they didn't know the relationship Luffy had with Ace.
"Anyway, it's going to be quite a show," Urouge said with a smile.
Apoo approached, moving his long arms, and raised his voice. "So tell me, what is the chance of Straw Hat surviving this war?"
Basil looked for a moment and spoke, "60%..." He said as everyone was in shock.
What they didn't know was that Luffy only had to worry about the forces of the Navy, but still, he had a higher chance of survival.
"Damn you, Straw Hat, you're always ahead of us," Kid said, frustrated.
"This way we won't conquer the New World, all the spotlight is on Straw Hat." Killer commented.
"Well, anyway, this will be interesting to watch. He defeated an admiral, let's see what he can do in this war," Bege commented and continued. "Remembering that he still has a 40% chance of dying," Bege commented with a smile.
"It's better this idiot survives this war, otherwise I'll kill him after resurrecting him after everything he promised me!" Boney said nearby, frustrated as she looked at the screens, anxious for Luffy who might appear at any moment.
Meanwhile, Rayleigh was still atop his tree, watching the battle. However, as he drank and saw the deaths of both pirates and sailors, a smile formed on his lips while his gaze seemed sharper than usual.
"It's coming," was the only thing he said before anyone there could notice anything.
Meanwhile, a variety of comments arose from the crowd, discussing everything they saw, the powers of the strongest, Shichibukais, admirals, vice-admirals, and pirates with their commanders, and even the base of the 43 pirates from the Whitebeard flag fleet, especially the latter's movement. After all, he had a power to destroy the world as Sengoku had mentioned.
This type of discussion was not only happening in Sabaody. The broadcast was being announced all over the world. In Goa, in the main square, Queen Makino looked worriedly at everything with her ministers beside her, while Curly Dadan, one of the current ministers and women responsible for the queen of Goa's security, was on the verge of tears, seeing Ace in that state, ready to be executed, hoping he would be saved and cursing Garp.
"Garp, you damn, how can you let Ace be in this situation? Save him! He's so close to you, you're right there, you damn, I swear I will kill you if Ace is killed in this war, listen Garp!!" She spoke as tears streamed from her eyes and the other ministers tried to calm her.
"Please, be well," Makino also commented, fearing for Ace's life.
In Loguetown, many people gathered to watch this, as not all islands could have a broadcast. Many important people came here, one of them was the new mayor of a kingdom under construction of the recently developing Cocoyasi Kingdom, with a huge port already functioning. However, still, only Goa and Loguetown had a broadcast happening in the East Blue, even the queen of another emerging kingdom in this sea, Syrup Kingdom, with the queen named Kaya.
Many were watching the broadcast, not imagining what could happen next, and this extended to other known realms of the Grand Line. In Alabasta, there was also a broadcast, and even the Drum Kingdom had gone there to watch it as allies. All members of the Baroque Works were also there, the organization that Luffy had reactivated.
All members like Miss Valentina, Mr. 2, Mr.3, and all the others that Luffy recruited except Mr.1, now all were members of the Straw Hat fleet and awaited the unfolding of the war. They had spoken with Luffy, but the captain asked for no one to interfere in this war and for them to keep low profiles. Of course, he didn't even notify that he would appear, so it would be a surprise for everyone.
In the New World, Kaido was crying in anger as he watched the broadcast. "Damn you Shanks, that bastard hindered me. I was supposed to have fought Whitebeard before cleaning up Marineford!!" Kaido complained about Shanks having stopped him, as he had to retreat the day before. Now he could only watch the old man's downfall through the broadcast.
"But no matter now, I will take all his territories, you fool," Kaido spoke as his men were already out, going to the islands where there was a Whitebeard flag, hoping that, as he fell, his territory in the New World would increase even more.
The same could be said of Big Mom, as she watched the broadcast on her main island, her children had gone out to sea, mainly Katakuri going to Fishman Island to make it his territory.
Back at the war, everything continued with the same intensity: pirates dying here and there, with no one to stop them, while Whitebeard analyzed his men fighting atop his ship, analyzing and waiting to lead them with direct orders. Meanwhile, on the other side, Sengoku also analyzed next to Ace and Garp, already planning to execute his secret plan to end Whitebeard once and for all.
However, both Fleet Admiral Sengoku and the most powerful pirate in the world, Edward Newgate, and all the greatest fighters, including Shichibukais, division commanders, admirals, vice-admirals, and navy captains, felt that something was about to change in this war. And before the lower-ranking soldiers could notice anything, the gazes of all the greatest forces turned towards one of the frozen tsunami waves, as something was about to happen.
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