The Start Of An Legendary Rivalry

[ 4/7/1482- Next Early Morning ]

[ Location: Bali Island ]

[ Word Count 2707 ]

" Hello" - Speech

' Hello' - Thoughts

*Boom* - Sounds

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( 3rd Person Pov )

" Good morning." Achilles who was with Bullet said entering the house of Bronya. It was still early in the morning so the two decided to pick up Marco and say goodbye to Bronya and her mom.

Masterson was still sleeping on the ship. And those two didn't feel like waking him up as he was tired from yesterday's battle.

" Morning, you guys came on time for breakfast." Bronya's mom said from the kitchen after noticing the duo.

" Yo, is it time to leave already?" Marco asked Achilles sitting on the kitchen table next to Bronya. He wanted to stay for a little longer with Bronya but knew they won't stay for much longer due to the lifestyle of pirates.

" Sadly yeah, but you know we got things to do." Achilles said messing up Marco's hair and noticing his mood. Bullet sat down on the couch since he couldn't sit down anywhere else.

" Can't you guys just stay for a bit longer, please?" Bronya asked looking at Achilles with puppy eyes, eventually, Achilles submitted to her. Putting a huge smile on her's and Marco's faces.

" Fine, we stay here until the evening, then we will leave." Achilles stated sitting down next to Bullet on the couch.

" Breakfast will be ready soon." Broyna's mom yelled out from the kitchen.

As Achilles and Bullet chated with Bronya and Marco in peace, not knowing there was a storm that was sweeping that whole North Blue, due to the Spade Pirates taking down the Hutts.

[ Marine Base: 40th Branch- North Blue ]

" Commander, Captain Mustard is looking for you. He wants a report as to why Captain Zou was arrested and detained by you." A marine officer said to Sakazuki who wasn't in a good mood.

" Why hasn't Zou already been sent to Marineford for trial yet, we have proof of him committing treason," Sakazuki asked walking to the office of Captain Mustard.

" Well, Captain Mustard said we need evidence other than just what you heard. Even though all the evidence shows, Zou was in collusion with the Hutts." The officer said alongside Sakazuki.

" I see…" Sakazuki replied picturing multiple reasons why Mustard wasn't reporting that whole situation which should be more than enough proof to show Zou was a traitor.

" Commander, it's just as you speculated, multiple high-ranking marines have some kind form of connection with the Hutts. Mustard may be one of them." The officer stated, whispering so no can hear their talk.

" I figured that but have you found where the Spade Pirates are," Sakazuki asked since according to the report, several documents were missing in the Pagoda. And the only ones who were there before them were the Spade Pirates.

If they could get hold of those documents then maybe they could find which marines are connected to the Hutts and take out the surviving members.

" Yes, we located their ship on Beli. They have been staying on the island since yesterday."

"Then have a ship, ready. I'm going after them after this crap." Sakazuki ordered the officer, walking into Captain's Mustard office.

" Yes, sir." The officer said saluting watching Sakazuki walk into the office while thinking this is gonna be good.

" Sakazuki, what's the matter with you?"

" Why would you arrest Captain Zou without any proof?" A shady middle age man with a bald head screamed after Sakazuku entered his office.

" Sir, I will report this case to HQ with full proof. There's no need for you to concern yourself with this case anymore." Sakazuku said to Mustard in a calm voice.

" You can't do that. You have no right nor that rank."

" Matter of fact, I do," Sakazuki stated before walking out of the room.

[ 30 Minutes Later ]

" Sir, we are ready to deploy." A lieutenant reported to Akainu as he got on board a small size battleship.

" Good, then set sail to Bali," Akainu ordered heading into the command room.

As the battleship sailed away from the base, the Spade Pirates had no idea who was coming from them.

[ 2 Hour Later ]

" Wait you guys destroyed that Helix Pirates and the Hutts too?" Broyna said to the pirates, surprised as to everyone in the North Blue, those two groups are untouchable.

Even her mom was shocked when she heard Marco say they killed the leader of the Hutts yesterday.

" Yep, Achilles beat William and Paris," Marco said to Bronya telling her what happened on their adventures so far.

" Woah, so you can blue flames?" Broyna asked Marco, who told her about some of his abilities but not all of them like how he ate a mythical zoan.

" Yeah, here you wanna see it?" Marco said creating a small blue fire in hand before letting Broyna touch it.

" Man, it sounds fun being a pirate."

" Nah, it's not fun. It's boring sailing every day on the sea being stuck on the boat."

Watching the two interact made everyone else smile. Even Bullet had a small smile on his normal blank face. But all good things must come to an end as Achilles transponder snail that was in his pocket in a similar fashion to Masterson started ringing.

* Pururpuru *

" What's the matter, Masterson?" Achilles asked picking up the call.

" We got a problem here on the port. There's a marine battleship coming towards the island." Masterson answered from his transponder snail.

" Get the Voyager ready to leave, we will be there soon as possible." Achilles replied ending the call.

* Gacha *

Everyone got up hearing what Masterson said and started leaving the house, only leaving Achilles in the house.

" Here, use it wisely. I recommend not showing the money to anyone else in case they try to steal it. And please be careful, especially you Bronya, use your talent wisely." Achilles said putting a stock of cash on the table, quickly running out of the house to catch up with his crew.

He had left behind around a million berrys as payment for letting them stay in their house. And so Bronya could live a normal life without having to worry about starving the next day alongside her mom.

" Mom I'm going after them," Bronya said about to run out of the house but was stopped as her mom hugged her tight making sure she couldn't move.

" Young lady, you are doing no such thing. You aren't going anywhere." Bronya's mom said to her in a stern voice, still holding her tight.

" Marco would want you to be safe. They wouldn't you out there, your only going to distract them." Bronya's mom said in a soothing voice calming down her daughter.

" Fine, mom. I stay here."

< Marine Battleship >

" Commander, we are in range to fire upon the Voyager." An officer said to Sakazuki who was standing on top of the ship's main cannon.

" What are the chances that cannons will hit the civilians?" Sakazuki asked looking at the island, to be more specific, that now infamous ship, The Voyager in the North Blue.

" Uhm, quite high, sir." The officer answered sweating an little.

" Than forget about bombardment, get the ship closer to the island and evacuate the civilians. Make sure they don't get caught between me and that Spade Pirates." Sakazuki ordered, making the ship sail to the island.

" Huh, guess they aren't going to bomb us," Bullet said to the crew, after they all arrived at the port.

The people behind them were running as far as they could from the port, realizing a fight was going to break out between the Marines and one of the most powerful pirate crews in the North Blue.

It was pure chaos as the people ran but Achilles and the crew ignored it knowing they had a bigger issue to deal with.

" Hey Achilles, why aren't we leaving yet?" Masterson asked from the ship, curious why he wasn't getting on the ship nor giving the order to escape.

" Get on the ship and be prepared to depart at an notice." Achilles ordered the crew, after seeing who was on the marine battleship.

' Damn, he still has the same frown face even as an teenager.' Achilles thought to himself waiting for the marine to land on the island.

But to his surprise, that battleship stopped about 50 meters away from that Voyager. It looked like the Marines themselves didn't know what to do as they most likely though that pirate ship would start to sail away from the island.

But after the battleship stopped, a tall figure wearing an open red shirt jumped into the air and kicked the air with his feet.

* Vrooom *

The figure flew like a rocket towards the island after he did that.

' What an crazy bastard.' Achilles laughed an little after Sakazuki landed about 30 feet away from him. The two were currently in an open space next to the port with barely any people who were running away.

The ground below where he landed cracked due to the impact.

" So your Achilles… and those must be your crew members," Sakazuki said taking out his katana from his back, looking at Achilles and the Voyager.

" And your Sakazuki, heard an quite about you myself." Achilles replied noticing Sakazuki hadn't eaten his devil fruit yet otherwise he wouldn't have taken out his sword.

' Thank god for that.'

" I'm surprised you didn't bombard us. Was that to capture us alive or not get the civilians involved." Achilles asked curious, how different that current Sakazuki is compared to that future one.

" I'm surprised you stayed on this island. Were you planning to take this island hostage so we wouldn't attack you?" Sakazuki said back to Achilles.

' Why isn't his crew attacking me? Is it because he ordered them not to interfere, out of pride? Well it doesn't matter once I take him, down they will fall as well.'

Sakazuki thought to himself rushing toward Achilles.

Achilles seeing this decided to send an air punch to test out the strength of the future Fleet Admiral.

To his surprise, Sakazuki evaded the attack while splitting the shockwave in half.

" Don't think you can beat me this easily," Sakazuki shouted rushing to Achilles and was inches away from taking away one of Achilles' arm.

' He's strong' Both fighters thought at the same time before they dashed towards each other.

* BOOOM *

The ground below cracked spreading like spiderwebs as they kept clashing against each other.

" It's over," Sakazuki stated bringing down his sword at Achilles' head. But to his surprise, his sword was blocked by Achilles' right arm who was using Iron-Body to stop that blade from slashing through his arm like butter.

" Say, I have an interesting offer for you."

" Why don't you join my crew." Achilles said to Sakazuki who just looked dumbfounded at what he just heard.

He didn't move his body for a few seconds as he tried to understand why a pirate would ask a marine of all people to join his crew.

In those few seconds, it gave Achilles a chance to land a brutal hit on Sakazuki's face with his left hand blasting him to a nearby tree causing it to break in half as Sakazuki's body hit it.

" What do you think of my offer?" Achilles asked again, laughing an little to himself.

" You son of an bitch." Sakazuki shouted attacking Achilles again. Who would simply dodge or block his slashes using observation haki.

* Soryu Style: Disorder *

Achilles said almost whispering, sending a barrage of shockwaves to his opponent.

* BOOOM *

* BOOOM*

* BOOOM*

Each shockwave destroyed the ground that they were fighting on. It was barely recognizable with cracks, holes, and slash marks all over the place.

' Guess they weren't kidding when they said he was probably the strongest pirate after taking down William. But no matter justice shall prevail.

Sakazuki thought to himself getting up from the brutal onslaught he just survived through. He had an broken nose and was bleeding from his chest but he just ignored the pain blocking one of Achilles' punch with his katana.

" Woah, he's actually keeping up with Achilles," Marco said in surprise watching the fight.

" Achilles isn't going all out but testing that marine's level of strength. But I'm surprised he managed to last this long." Masterson replied to Marco noticing Achilles was holding back his strength.

" Hey, is it just me, or is Sakazuki improving from that fight?" Bullet muttered in surprise as he closely watched the fight. No one answered him as they weren't sure on it. Nor did they have the battle experience he has.

' I gotta end this with one attack, I can't keep fighting for much longer. Not to mention I gotta arrest his crew as well.'

' I still haven't mastered it but here it goes.'

Sakazuki slowly grabbed his katana with both of his hands and hold it in front of him. Before brining down the blade with all his strength. Managing to send out an red sword slash to Achilles' surprise.

As Achilles was about to get out of the way, he noticed the slash wasn't going straight for him but rather that town behind as it changed direction slightly.

Sakazuki noticing this immediately, had an pale look on his face as he prayed to god, that attack wasn't going to hit anyone in the town.

" Ay, you gotta chill." Sakazuki heard Achilles say to him as he got behind the slash attack and sent out a tempest kick sending both of their attacks towards the sky, making Sakazuku breathe a sigh of relief.

" I think we can stop fighting now. You don't want to kill me or nor do I wish to the same to you." Achilles who was bleeding from his right arm requested as during the entire fight, neither of them had the full intention to kill each other.

Sakazuki wanted Achilles alive for information while Achilles wanted to test how strong he was. He wanted to know if he was strong enough to beat the surviving members of the Hutts.

" Give me one good reason why I should," Sakazuki asked putting his blade and decided to listen an pirate for once. For saving those lives that would been lost today by his own mistake.

" If we keep fighting, this whole town will be destroyed along with all of the people who live here. Not to mention I have something I know you will be interested in." Achilles said, getting the attention of Sakazuki.

Achilles seeing this continued.

" Information about the Hutts. By now you should known I along with my crew destroyed their headquarters and leader."

" I have documents about their secret locations, members and everything related to them."

" And what do you want in exchange for that," Sakazuki replied while Achilles asked his crew to bring the documents.

" For safe passage that you don't attack us."

" Very well…"

[ 5 Minutes Later ]

" Don't think you can escape from me next time…"

Sakazuki said to Achilles who was getting on the Voyager. After the marines checked that documents, the pirates were allowed to go.

"Then try to capture me…"

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