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Third Person POV
Marineford, First Half of Grandline.
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Whitebeard was still looking at Oars’ body on the ground when his gaze shifted to the side of the battlefield as soon as he noticed something. Sengoku, holding the den den mushi in his hand, took his eyes off the battlefield while analyzing the war. He felt something and turned to the same side his enemy was looking at.
“Hm?!” Garp looked to the side at the same time as Sengoku and Whitebeard while narrowing his eyes.
“!” Ace, bound beside them, saw his pops looking to the side, while his gaze returned to Sengoku and Garp on either side before shifting back to the frozen tsunami, wondering what they were looking at at that moment.
“That!” Both Kong and his current team, who were hidden from everyone’s eyes in Marineford, felt that something was also going to happen.
Meanwhile on the battlefield, Marco once again confronted Kizaru, as they fought at high speed, with the admiral trying to attack the commander of the first division. But he was quick to heal every time he was attacked. It was a stalemate, with no winner. However, both stopped and looked to that side, surprised.
“What is that…? How frightening…” Kizaru commented.
Kuzan was also fighting Jozu at that moment, transforming half of his body into diamond, trying to punch him with Haki. Until he stopped advancing and looked to the side. The same could be said of the admiral who looked with a tone not as lazy as usual.
But the same could be said of Boa Hancock, Mihawk, and Donquixote Doflamingo who quickly looked while Moria, the least proficient in Haki there, hadn’t noticed anything and continued killing the pirates. Meanwhile, Kuma, being a Cyborg, also appeared neutral.
Admiral Akainu, who was going to meet and talk with someone who could draw Whitebeard among the 43 pirates of the fleet, stopped at that moment when he sensed something too.
All the vice admirals who were fighting against the pirate fleet stopped attacking when they looked at the huge ice block, noticing something, and the same could be said of the captains, who had their eyes in that direction, forgetting the fight against the vice admirals.
“What is this now… this feeling is unsettling…” Tsuru murmured softly.
This feeling was not limited to the major forces; the battlefield itself suddenly changed at that exact moment as even the lower-ranking soldiers, both pirates and marines, noticed something because the place became completely silent at that moment, as if the atmosphere had changed, causing even them to stop shooting and advancing against each other, wondering what was happening, looking confused.
“Why do I feel so strange?” said the sailor while he didn’t even feel like continuing to shoot at the other line of enemies.
“Hey, Coby, what’s happening here?” Helmeppo murmured scared as he saw the battlefield fall silent next to Coby, who was also looking at it quite bewildered, not knowing what was happening.
“Why do I feel like something big is going to happen here…?” The pirates murmured throughout the battlefield.
Even the people behind the screens noticed the change. “Hey, what’s going on there?”
“Why does everything seem different?”
“Why isn’t anyone attacking aggressively anymore?”
“Is something happening?”
These questions started to arise while the crowd of all kinds of people looked at the battlefield through the screens… After all, they couldn’t see anything beyond everyone stopping attacking each other as they could not feel the real atmosphere at the location.
Then, in the midst of all that deadly silence contrasting with the chaotic atmosphere of the battlefield just seconds ago, something happened.
A moment later, a sonic explosion emerged, with a strange sound coming from that side where everyone had their eyes sharpened, looking, while the explosion seemed larger and growing as if something was coming towards the bay, and suddenly, the ice exploded, breaking it and a vertical cut, with a type of strange energy, being molded in red and black, with the glacier beside it being knocked down and raising clouds of smoke with shards of ice.
“What is this?” the pirates and marines quickly asked as they widened their eyes at the gigantic energy emerging, advancing towards the battlefield in the middle of the bay. It first broke the ice, then that colossal vertical line, which was at least 30 meters wide and as tall as the tsunami, passed breaking the half-moon-shaped building below the frozen tsunami in its path and advanced to the center of the battlefield, everyone’s eyes widened at that, hearing the sound of ice breaking and a sound from the unique energy itself, approaching them as it carved a trench path through the ice.
Among all those surprised, after all, the battlefield had stopped to watch that before it even happened, Mihawk’s eyes widened as his hawk eyes quickly worked to see whose energy that was emerging, as it belonged to a sword and he did not recognize to whom it belonged, the same could be said of Vista.
Vice Admiral Strawberry also widened his eyes at that, after all, he knew that energy very well, more than anyone else there. As the energy began to advance, exploding the grounds and reaching the center of the bay, both marine soldiers and pirates tried to escape from it.
“Get out of the way of that!”
“It’s going to hit us!”
“Get out of the way!”
Numerous exclamations emerged from both sides as the explosion advanced to the middle of the site before disappearing completely, leaving a huge trench path on that side, at least 30 meters deep, and the ice began to explode, further increasing the smoke without anyone being able to have a view of the other side or who had made that hole.
The battlefield fell silent once again, with only the sound of the glacier breaking, everyone holding their breath, while Whitebeard, Sengoku, the division commanders, the admirals, the Shichibukai, the vice admirals, the fleet captains, all frowned. After all, none of them expected something like this, wondering who had created it, after all, no one knew a person with such ability other than a certain vice admiral who widened his eyes and narrowed them. “So they finally came…” Strawberry recognizing Zoro’s energy, commented.
“What is this? Who did this?” Jozu murmured and asked Marco who also shook his head, not knowing either who had done it.
“Whoever it is, they’re coming this way!” the third division commander, Vista, appeared beside and commented, looking at the smoke from the debris rising. While everyone waited to see something emerge from there, a surge explosion burst with the seawater advancing through the hole where the energy had dug and filling the trench like a river, exploding at its bridge which was the middle of the bay. Everyone watched the water advancing while everyone in Marineford was silent as if the war had ended.
“What is this now?” Ace asked, looking dazed at that.
“You came…” While Garp narrowed his eyes and sighed feeling what was going to happen next.
“Hey, what’s happening here?” The pirates exclaimed, not understanding. Even the pirates looked to their commanders and even to Whitebeard himself who looked at it with more surprised eyes than usual. The same could be said of the marines, looking for answers from the admirals in the middle of the battlefield.
“Something is emerging from there,” a marine pointed to the path where water had emerged, with a huge shadow appearing at that moment and the shadow grew larger as all eyes fixed on that thing emerging from the smoke.
It was then that the bow of a ship with the head of a certain demon that everyone knew appeared, and with a man on top of it, while his straw hat was kept on his head and his cape fluttered with the wind.
This same man kept his gaze fixed on the execution platform, cracking a smile and holding a fierce look.
“He finally arrived!” Among those hidden in Marineford, they exclaimed.
“He is…” before the entire ship emerged, people had already begun to recognize the first one to appear, and it wasn’t hard to notice that it was the pirate known as Straw Hat.
“It’s Straw Hat, the number one rookie of the Worst Generation with a billion bounty!” People exclaimed.
“Monkey D Luffy is here! He is the son of Dragon and the grandson of the Marine hero, Garp,” People continued shouting at each other while pointing their trembling hands at the Black Pearl emerging.
“Why is this super-rookie here?” Some pirates who were unaware of the relationship between Ace and Monkey D. Luffy exclaimed, confused.
While Whitebeard had a stern look, despite no hostility, as he knew that Monkey D. Luffy was Ace’s foster brother, and him being here meant only one thing. Despite Luffy practically challenging and mocking him at times before, such as capturing Ace and Jimbei while sending pictures in Alabasta among other things.
Kuma maintained a neutral look, while Moria looked at Luffy with frustration, the same could be said of Donquixote Doflamingo, who wanted revenge after suffering so much at the hands of that team.
Meanwhile, Hancock had a look with two hearts filling her eyes, and she struck a pose of a woman in love.
Mihawk narrowed his eyes at Luffy and what was emerging behind him, although Luffy had a sword at his waist, it wasn’t his energy that had carved the trench where the ship was now sailing.
Sengoku narrowed his eyes while Garp clenched his teeth, and Ace looked wide-eyed at Luffy appearing there.
“LUUUUFFFFYYYY!!!” He exclaimed immediately, while Luffy looked at him, maintaining the same smile.
He continued approaching while no one tried to stop them, with the ship becoming more visible to all eyes.
“Look, it’s the members of the Straw Hat Pirates!” The voice was raised in different parts of the field as new people appeared on the deck of the ship before it was completely visible, there were all the exclusive members of the crew who hadn’t stayed in Skypiea, plus Lucy who was still wearing the Marine uniform she was captured in at Impel Down by her grandfather.
Luffy didn’t care about the comments and took his eyes off Ace for a moment and turned his head. “That was a nice cut, Zoro…” Luffy commented as his swordsman sheathed the only sword he had used to create an opening while the ship advanced.
“That was easy, Captain…” Zoro spoke with a smile. His gaze returned to the battlefield, looking for the one who would challenge him on this day. He quickly saw Mihawk at a distance, and their gazes met, crossing like blades.
And it was at that moment that Mihawk opened his eyes, quite surprised by what he was seeing, after all, it had not been many months since he had met that boy in East Blue and, despite the newspapers already reporting a bit of his current strength, it was still surprising to see him personally and notice how he had evolved in such a short time, recognizing his posture on that deck and knowing that he had created that gigantic cut himself.
“So this is war!!” Chopper shouted.
“There are so many people!” Usopp commented in surprise, going to the side of the ship and analyzing the battlefield.
“This is certainly a bloody battlefield,” Nojiko commented, seeing so many dead people scattered around.
“Luffy, I don’t want to face the admirals!” Nami exclaimed from behind.
“I’m scared, Captain!” Bebo shouted.
“It’s just a bunch of mortals, what’s there to be scared of?” Enel, as always, maintained his arrogant posture and scoffed at what he was seeing.
“…” Hugo remained silent.
Shirahoshi looked at the battlefield with curious eyes.
Alvida and Baby 5 maintained a smile towards that place.
While Vivi seemed somewhat scared and tried to maintain a posture, Robin and Kuina maintained a calm look.
“WOOLF!!” Chouchou barked at the battlefield.
“This is the greatest strength of the navy…” Reiju smiled…
“The elite of the navy and the greatest pirate group in the world… this looks interesting…” Lami commented.
“Nee… This is going to be dangerous…” Hachi commented.
“It looks like we’ll have our rematch with the navy… We don’t need to hold back now, do we, Luffy?” Yamato asked with a smile.
“Look, they’re all there, they have a crew of twenty-something members with various Mythical Akuma no Mi, I read in the newspaper, they had 5 Mythical Akuma no Mi!” someone exclaimed, though it seemed outdated.
“You know there are even Logias among them like the admirals!” the marines exclaimed as the pirates looked on, admiring this crew worth billions, as powerful as a Yonkou with even some speculating that they were already one, and now they were emerging on the battlefield. They just hoped they weren’t enemies.
“Is he going to come take our father? We can’t let that happen, no matter if it’s Straw Hat or the Navy… we’ll defeat everyone, our father is invincible!” the pirates exclaimed.
“Calm down, it’s very likely this pirate will also fight to save Ace!” Marco tried to calm them down before they did something foolish.
The ship continued to emerge, but if they were already surprised by the arrival of Straw Hat, what came next shocked both all of Marineford and the entire planet with people watching everything through the screens.
That’s because as soon as the ship continued to emerge from the ice wreckage, the main mast’s sail appeared with the Straw Hat skull flag and its bones crossing, but what no one expected were the 7 people tied there, and none other than 7 beaten Tenryuubito with bruised faces bleeding like blood pulps, tied like dogs on that flag.
And if people were shocked by Luffy’s crew appearing, everyone’s eyes widened without exception: whether they were pirates, marines, Shichibukais, admirals, vice admirals, commanders, Sengoku, Garp, Ace, and Whitebeard, even Kong and the others hidden.
Everyone opened their mouths and widened their eyes, as this would be a sight no one expected in the middle of the war, while Luffy’s crew brought seven Tenryuubito as hostages to the battlefield while they were beaten and humiliated being displayed on the ship as trophies.
“Well, it looks like we’re making quite an impression,” Luffy commented as his ship headed towards the middle of the bay.
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