A New Path - Chapter 210

In the distance behind the Moby dick, silhouettes of a fleet showed themselves and the nervous energy on the Marine side increased. This was Whitebeards allies. All of them were New World veterans and people that would die for this emperor.

“This just became more troublesome,” Kizaru spoke lightly and rested his head against the back of the throne-like chair. “I suppose we should test the waters.” He stood up, and he disappeared as his body shone in brilliant light. He also appeared in mid-air as his fellow Admiral did minutes before. He released a shower of deadly laser-beams.

“Marco!” Whitebeard spoke slowly and a flaming blue phoenix zoomed past him and collided with and stopped the rain of lasers Kizaru sent. Marco pushed even further and delivered a kick to Kizaru which sent him crashing down on the ground, though doing barely any damage to the Admiral.

“Marco the Phoenix.” Bradley’s Sharingan spun to life and a literal second later he appeared behind Marco. “The standard for commanders are embarrassingly low nowadays.” “What the hell!?” Marco spoke with difficulty. Bradley had now appeared in front of him with his hand now gripped around his throat. “Don’t get cocky on Marine grounds, boy.” He delivered a quick punch to Marco’s stomach that sent him crashing towards the ice below. Lucky for him the ice was tough enough so he didn’t go through it.

“B-Bradley! Forgot about him,” Marco sat up while holding his stomach that hurt like hell. “Pops, sorry about that,” He yelled upwards towards Whitebeard. He had landed right in front of The Moby dick so he felt safe in the stretching shadow of Whitebeard that covered the ground.

“Are you alright?” The emperor spoke while glaring at Bradley who had appeared by his chair again. He sat down with a bored expression, but he got questionable looks from his fellow Admirals.

“I’m alright!” Marco said and flew back up on the ship. “His haki is scary strong. He let me live there, I don’t know why, but he could’ve easily killed me.” There was some genuine fear in his voice.

“No point thinking about that.” Whitebeard gripped his weapon and struck the ground with it. As he did, the rest of the Whitebeard pirates had appeared and the fleet of ships had arrived. “MEN!” His voice sounded out and caught the attention of his crew and allies. “Upon that platform, they have my son chained down like some animal. This they will regret, we will make them regret it! NOW! CHARGE!” His voice rocked the ship and shook the ground. Together with his mighty voice, the thousands upon thousands of pirates that he brought with him all jumped down on the ice and started their charge towards the platform.

The pirates and the Marines met half-way and instantly chaos broke out on the battlefield. In just seconds, hundreds of people lost their lives. The smell of blood rose quickly around them and screams of dying soldiers were only overpowered by the warcry of the pirates.

“Stop it! Stop dying for me!” Ace sat with his head pressed against the hard wooden platform. Garp glanced at him with his heart slowly dying inside his chest. The lives of Whitebeard and his allies meant nothing to him, but Ace’s crying had his iron-will wavering.

“Garp, don’t do anything you’ll regret!” Sengoku said sternly. He knew Garp all too well so it wasn’t difficult for him to know exactly what he was thinking of doing.

“My loyalty lies with the Marines. You know that!” Garp couldn’t look at Ace much longer. He instead looked around the battlefield for signs of that man appearing.

“When is he coming? You think he would miss this?” He glanced at Sengoku and the man shook his head lightly, “I don’t know. He has no relation to either side for what we know. Maybe he doesn’t wanna risk his men for this.” Just then, a small dot in the distance made itself visible. No one had yet seen it, but Garp’s extreme senses picked it up in the form of someone screaming.

“Do you hear that?” He looked over in that direction and saw that dot become bigger very quickly. Very soon both he and Sengoku could see what that dot was. It was a ship. A flying ship with a lion’s helm.

“I-It can’t be!” Ace also saw this phenomenon and he couldn’t believe his eyes. “Ships don’t fly.” He said in shock. It wasn’t every day you would see a flying ship.

“Garp, look at that flag.” Sengoku’s voice went cold. Garp looked at it and his eyes dilated.

“Not you as well!” Garp’s will weakened even further. The flag on that ship was a skull with a straw har placed upon it. A very well-known jolly roger after the events of Enies Lobby.

“It’s your damn family again!”

“Luffy…” Ace said after obviously recognizing it. The ship didn’t allot their conversation to continue much further. It made itself known to all on the battlefield because Luffy stood on the helm screaming at the top of his lungs. He yelled Ace’s name over and over.

“A ship? Who the hell is that?” Marco said out loud to himself. All the fights stopped for a few seconds as everyone observed the strangest thing they had ever seen. The ship arrived above them and quickly crash-landed on the ground and slid across it for a couple of meters. The ship itself wasn’t even damaged by the landing.

“AAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCEEEEEEEE!!” Luffy’s loud and preteen voice sounded out from atop the ship. He together with the Straw hat pirates all stood on the helm of the ship with battle-ready expressions.

“WE ARE HERE TO SAVE YOOUUUUU!” Luffy’s voice died down again and everything was quiet. That was until some random pirate shot a Marine dead and the fighting broke out again. In seconds, the straw hats were forgotten by the majority of the people as they all were fighting for their lives.

“Oy, Luffy, are you sure this is a good idea? Look at how many Marines there are!” Usopp stood behind Zoro, trying to subtle hide away from prying eyes. His legs were shaking but he was trying desperately to stop them from doing so.

“Perfect spot to train!” Zoro said happily. He was more than excited to start this. Luffy didn’t bother with any of them, he directly jumped off the ship and started running towards the platform. “Follow the captain!” Zoro said loudly as he, Sanji, Robin and Brook jumped down and ran after Luffy.

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