The top brass of the navy, the Shichibukai and Shirohige himself and his commanders.
Shirohige was worse than before, his whole body was burned by electricity.
Sengoku: Ryu was right we should have finished you when you were still in the North Blue.
Shirohige: TU....
As he prepared his arm to launch a powerful earthquake.
Laxus: Careful Captain.
At that moment the entire crew of Katahara received the full power of the Gura Gura no mi.
Little by little some marines and pirates were stopped.
Thanks to the water crows that had appeared earlier, the Kirin was much more powerful than it should have been originally.
Sengoku: Shit this got out of hand... Ryu takes the triad to finish them and Shirohige.
At that moment the golden trio was preparing to throw themselves into the fight.
Katahara jumped from the rubble.
Katahara: METEORITE OF THE SOUL.
While he was in the air, a huge amount of shadow was gathering behind him, until it appeared meters away from Shirohige, who was preparing another attack against Katahara.
When Katahara was in front of Shirohige he lassoed a powerful slash.
It looked as if a meteorite had fallen, in the clouds themselves there was a huge hole from which a huge shadowy meteorite seemed to fall.
Katahara's attack had been so strong that it had split part of Marinford in two, everything around Shirohige was in ruins even more than it had already been.
Shirohige was still standing after that attack, and had grabbed Katahara by the neck, to use his earthquake skill on Katahara.
Shirohige's ability had destroyed the around the ground, along with Katahara.
Katahara: AAARHGGG
Shirohige: I don't know who you are kid... but what you did was the stupidest thing in your life....
At that moment Katahara disappeared from the ground and appeared behind Shirohige.
Katahara: Shadow Dragon.
Katahara's slash had turned into a Shadow dragon that attacked through Shirohige's sword, so fast that Shirohige couldn't react.
Shirohige was not defeated even with that, he brandished his halberd and hit Katahara who tried to defend himself with his sword, but even so the power difference was overwhelming, he received a cut all over his right shoulder.
Katahara: Aaaarhgg, I thought you would be with 1 foot in the other world, but it seems I was wrong...Aaarhg.
At that precise moment Laxus appeared in front of Shirohige, using his Slayer dragon form.
Laxus: Roaring Thunder.
He strikes Shirohige with his lightning imbued fist that releases a large amount of lightning upon impact.
Even so, Shirohige, threw a fist with his fruit's ability.
Hitting Laxus head on sending him flying.
Dabi and Augur also joined him, Dabi launched a powerful fire arrow, which hit Shirohige's chest, while Augur launched a powerful energy cannon.
Katahara: Now I understand Kurohige... EVERYONE ATTACK.
At that moment Katahara's entire crew lashed out with their most powerful strike.
Shirohige was with his last breath of his life, after receiving such powerful attacks consecutively, and decided to give his last words.
Shirohige: FOR MANY YEARS, HAVE PASSED THROUGH THE GENERATIONS WITHOUT FAILURE.... AND SOMEDAY WITH THE WEIGHT OF ALL THESE CENTURIES ON HIS BACK.... A MAN WILL APPEAR TO CHANGE THIS WORLD... SENGOKU YOU, THE WORLD GOVERNMENT... ARE AFRAID, OF THAT GREAT BATTLE THAT ONE DAY WILL ENGULF THE WHOLE WORLD... EVEN IF IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ME WHEN SOMEONE FINDS THAT TREASURE.
Sengoku: !!!RYU FINISH SHIROHIGE !!!!
Ryu and the triad had not been able to reach Katahara and Shirohige because they were facing all of Shirohige's commanders together.
Shirohige: THE ONE PIECE EXISTS!!!!!
Sengoku was totally furious.
Sengoku: Why you.
Katahara: You deserve my respects Shirohige, you died on your feet like a warrior... now everyone, stop them.
At that moment Katahara pulled out a fruit from his ring.
But before he could approach Shirohige, Ryu appeared in front of him,
Ryu threw a slash with his sword, to prevent Katahara from approaching Shirohige's body.
But this cut was received by Shiryu, who responded with another cut.
At that moment Laxus lunged at Ryu throwing a powerful fist with electricity, Ryu was able to block the attack.
While this was happening Ikuda and Okaga were already in place facing Katahara's crew.
Ryu was trying to prevent Katahara from approaching Shirohige, but Laxus and Shiryu prevented him.
Laxus: If you want to get close to my Captain you'll have to go over my dead body.
Shiryu didn't say anything to him just kept attacking.
Ryu: And to think he could have brought you, Laxus Dreyar an S-Class Mage.
While everyone was fighting Katahara was already next to Shirohige's corpse with a fruit on it.
Ryu realized that he wanted to steal Shirohige's fruit.
Ryu: Move aside you bastards... Second FURIOUS SUN Stance.
Ryu unleashes two horizontal slashes, one hit Shiryu causing him to lose his balance and be thrown meters back, the other slash was received by Laxus who also went flying from the cut.
Ryu: Twelfth Stance: Flaming Waltz
A two combo punch starting with a vertical slash and then a horizontal slash immediately after.
The blows stabbed Katahara in the back, the moment they made contact with Katahara Katahara's entire body turned into Crows.
The crows reassembled into 3 Kataharas.
One in front of Okaga who was facing Agrom, Urouge and Augur.
Katahara 2: Water Dragon Suiton
Another one appeared in front of Ikuda who was facing Dabi, Laffitte and Drust.
Katahara 3: Katon: Fire Dragon
The 2 Katahara spat fire and water respectively, which began to take the form of dragons, which launched themselves at the vice-admirals, devouring them in the process.
While originating Katahara appeared near Ryu, with a fruit in his hand.
Everyone saw Katahara and noticed the fruit in his hand.
The fruit was a blue colored pear, with wavy stems all over the surface, with a wavy stem.
Ryu: This totally changes things... Second Stance: Blue Sky.
Ryu turns his body horizontally to perform a 360° cut.
Katahara turned into a dozen crows and appeared behind Ryu.
Katahara: Solar Breath... no doubt about it... Blood Rain.
Throwing himself against Ryu, in which he defended himself from all the attacks Katahara threw.
Ryu: So I was right, you're not from this one....
But before he could finish his sentence Katahara gave a powerful sword slash.
Katahara: Shit, those wounds look like they hurt....
Ryu: So the goddess sent another one....
Sengoku who was totally shocked to see Ryu with Shirohige's fruit in his hands, turned into a giant buddha.
Sengoku: RYU, DON'T LET HIM EAT THAT FRUIT.
As he approached Ryu and Katahara.
At that moment Katahara kept the Gura Gura no mi, to his ring disappearing it from his hand.
Katahara: We both know that this war is about to end.
Ryu: Even if he's here, it won't stop him from finishing you.
Katahara: And to think that they wanted us to join forces...but you turned out to be a government dog.
As the two began to clash swords.
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Ryu was superior to Katahara in everything, speed, strength, absolutely everything. But still Katahara wasn't giving it to him so easy, he was using his Sharingan and his Observation Haki to the fullest.
Ryu: Looks like I've been worrying in vain all this time... ending this now is the best thing for everyone.
As he gave Katahara a heavy blow with his sword, and sent him flying leaving a scar on his left shoulder.
Ryu: Where was all your confidence, finishing off Shirohige with 1 foot in the grave, I might as well have done it...but I didn't do it just to kill Kurohige.
Katahara: So we were both aiming at the same target.
As he turned to look at Okaga and Ikuda who were wiping out all the Darks Crows.
Ryu: Your crew is something out of this world, to think they'd give up some battle. .... I still can't figure out how you brought those two.
He was referring to Laxus and Dabi.
Katahara only saw Ryu and understood that the difference in ability was something he hadn't anticipated.
Katahara: Looks like it's already here.... Surely you want to go through with this.
Ryu then turned to see the crew of Redheaded Pirates putting an end to the war.
Ryu: Akagami...
At that moment the Redheaded Pirates crew had made their presence known.
Okaga: Ryu it's time to quit, right now we can't take on Shanks' crew.
Ikuda: Sengoku-san just agreed, the war is over....
Ryu sheathed his sword as he walked in Katahara's direction.
As he passed by Katahara, he whispered something to him, which surprised Katahara.