All of them realised that it was a bit more complicated than they thought as they didn't know the direction.
Luckily their captain walked forward briskly and pointed towards a direction with confidence.
"That way!" Ace said with certainty. All of them nodded, trusting their captain.
"DON'T MAKE UP THINGS IF YOU DONT KNOW!" Nami exploded. Ace pointed towards the south while marineford was to the north of their position.
"Ah, if we continue sailing towards any directions, won't we reach it anyways?" Ace asked while putting a finger in his nose.
"THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS!" All of them cried out.
"I knew it, this pirate crew has brought dishonor to my name " Nobujuro said while pointing his katana to his stomach....
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"Erm, shouldn't you guys stop me? After all, without my skills, you can't eat good food? Ah! Now that I think about it, I can't die without a feeding you guys, that would be dishonorable!" He said as he put away his katana.
"Oh right, Nobujuro, what's your full name?" Suddenly Ronaldino Ronaldo asked. For some reason, he always felt some strange negative feelings towards Nobujuro.
"My name is Messy Nobujuro, why?" He answered.
"Nevermind." Ronaldino didn't recognise the name, he thought that maybe they had somehow met before and that's why he had bad feeling stowards the samurai-chef.
It wasn't a strong dislike but Ronaldinho Ronaldo felt like Messy Nobujuro was a cat like person while he was dog like.. somehow.
"Yennow, fly us in the opposite direction." Nami sighed.
The Black Pearl started levitating as it started flying towards the north.
It took them a day before Ace told Yennow to slow down.
He could feel a lots of people battling far away with his observation Haki.
"What's wrong captain?" Yennow asked a she slowed down.
"Did you observe them already? I can't even hear them yet, your haki is as impressive as ever." Jojo Pojo said in surprise.
Ace didn't listen as the ship was above the clouds, nearing Marineford.
The battle seemed to have started, and had probably been going on for many hours
Ace frowned, it was worse than he thought.
At least he could feel Whitebeard's tremors, so he should be alive.
'Wait.. something's wrong.' Ace realised.
Sengoku looked at the battlefield that had been ongoing for hours.
After Whitebeard Fleet had arrived, the Pirates and Marines started battling without the involvement of the division commanders nor the vice-admirals and above, but it didn't take long for them to start fighting as well.
Of the previous 7 Warlords, Hancock had become a Yonko, crocodile and Doflamingo were inside impel down.
They had recruited Blackbeard, but a few days back he had freed prisoners from Impel down and betrayed the Marines, they didint know his whereabouts.
The war continued as both sides took casualties, but it was the marines that had the edge. They still had three admirals, a few admiral levelled vice-admirals. Many vice and rear admirals, countless elites from all over the world, overall, a force of a 100,000 elite soldiers.
In the end, Sengoku had devised a plot which came through. He had convinced one of the Whitebeard fleet commanders to stab Whitebeard in the back.
He wasn't sure if this plan would work out but it did. Only then did Whitebeard join the battle.
The admirals joined the fray and to their surprise, they all realised why Whitebeard was coined as the "strongest man."
Even in his old age, he was able to push back three admirals at the same time.
But it didn't take long for the battle to turn worse for the Whitebeard pirates.
In the end, Whitebeard was defeated as he fought Akainu, the most destructive and offensive force of the marines.
Whitebeard knew about his condition long before joining the battle, he was old and weak, his body weakened by sickness. He knew that he wouldnt be able to walk out of this battle when he joined it.
But, he also knew w that he belonged to the old generation. After Gold Roger, it had been the age of Whitebeard, but even then, Roger and Newgate belonged to he same generation, and Whitebeard knew that it was time for his age to end.
He as he fought Akainu and felt his life nearing its end, he remembered what Gol D. Roger had once told him, about the prophecy, about the One Piece, about the world and it's history... And HIS return.
The whole Marine force felt hopeless as Whitebeard started laughing mid battle, as if he was enjoying it. They couldn't see an ounce of fear, rather, he still invoked it in others in his last moments.
In the end, Whitebeard ended up with a burning hole on his chest, Akainu in front of him, bubbling with magma.
The whole battlefield seemed to stop, as if time had frozen.
"POOOOOOPS!" Hell broke lose as all the Whitebeard pirates cried out in anguish.
Whitebeards heart had been destroyed by Akainu, but he still stood proudly and looked aorund.
Akainu took a step back, he felt like the air in his lungs had been frozen as Whitebeard still stood tall and looked around as if he was fine.
'Edward Newgate.' even with a gigantic hole in his chest, his heart destroyed, anda part of his head gone, he was still alive.
Whitebeard looked around and saw that it looked bad for his sons and daughters. His plan had been to get here, free Marco and let his children escape, while this place would become his resting place.
But it seemed like he had underestimated Sengoku's scheming, and his own weakness.
Just as a flicker of sadness was about to ensue in his heart, he felt something, something familiar, far away in the sky, a powerful crew was on their way... He was on his way...
Looking around, he saw that no one else had felt it.
"GURARARARA" Whitebeard laughed out, shaking Marineford with each laugh.
Everyone was aghast, it was as if his body was full of vigor.
"WAIT, WHO ARE THEY!" Someone shouted as they pointed towards one of the buildings.
Somehow, the silence after Whitebeard's laugh, allowed those words to echoes allover the battlefield, and everyone turned and saw that ontop of a building, stood a fearsome crew.
"YOU SCUM, HOW DID TOU GET HERE!" Sengoku a shouted angrily.
The battle had been so fierce that even he had joined in.
And now, another big problem had arrived.
"TEACH..." Whitebeard spoke, his words echoing all over the battlefield, causing small tremors as he spoke. Anyone could hear the anger in his voice as he said that name.
"Blackbeard Pirates!" Someone muttered.
And the worst part was the fact that the BlackBeard Pirates had grown. Blackbeard had infiltrated impel Down after Whitebeard and freed the worst of the worst.
"ZEHAHAHAH LONG TIME NO SEE OLD MAN, I SURE AM GLAD TO MAKE IT IN TIME TO SEE TOU DIE." He laughed out
All the Whitebeard Pirates boiled in anger, they had once sailed as brothers so this betrayal was more painful than they'd like to admit.
"There's no mistaking it, they're the level 6 inmates from Impel Down..." A vice admiral said aghast.
"TEACH!!!" Whitebeard shouted as he spun his Naginata towards Blackbeard's, creating an arc of Haki that crackled with black lightning that exploded towards Blackbeard Pirates.
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