Chapter 334 - War 28.
Chapter Size: 2200 Words.]
Third Person POV
Marineford, First Half of Grandline.
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Everyone was beginning to fall before the power of Saturn. This elder was fighting against everyone at once, and even under a great pressure from several simultaneous attacks, everyone could see he was barely getting hurt, no matter how much they attacked him.
Then, at one moment, Zoro took advantage of an opening and cut him, severing one of his legs. However, everyone was shocked when Saturn's leg began to regenerate. He quickly threw Zoro back, making the swordsman crash against the ground, injuring him.
The situation was not easy for the others either, especially when all had strength below that of Zoro. Even the giants were thrown around like dolls from the impact. Hugo received such a strong attack from Saturn that he fell out of his transformation while falling unconscious among the pirates.
Saturn could also drain life energy with just his gaze, and this made numerous low-ranking pirates fall in the middle of the battle that was just beginning.
"Why is it so hard to beat him?" Lucy murmured, as she leapt into the air and blew on her finger, inflating it and creating a giant hand like a balloon before launching her attack at the elder.
Saturn just saw this and merely scoffed while watching the insignificant attack, raising his hand before easily stopping it.
"Why is it so hard?" Lucy murmured, gritting her teeth and quickly losing her attack. Saturn began to launch several fireballs towards the girl in the air with another ability from his own akuma no mi.
"I won't let this happen!" a voice exclaimed, and Ace quickly flew up in flames. Ace appeared in front of all of Saturn's fire attacks, which exploded in the air.
"AHH!!!" Ace exclaimed, as he fell to the ground, surprising everyone since he was burned, even being a logia of the body, he fell like a puppet on the ground, while looking trembling at his charred hands, wondering how this could be happening.
"Do you think I can't burn you?" Saturn mocked. "But even though you are the son of that man, you are not as important as the four people here. So you don't have my interest." Saturn mocked and saw Lucy fall at that moment beside him.
He again went to launch his attack on Lucy, but all the Straw Hat members did not let it happen. Everyone used their greatest powers. Chouchou opened his mouth sending all the elements, Kuina throwing huge shards of ice, Nami and Vivi with the power of the wind, Nojiko punching with bombs, Robin transforming into her giant demon form, Zoro launching his dark cutting energies, Hachi using six styles, Shirahoshi launching her trident, Alvida using her weapon, Chopper, punching him to the ground, Baby 5 launching all the missiles she could, and Jimbei launching his aquatic karate.
It was not just them, also the division commanders, while Jozu, Vista, and the others launched their attacks at the same time, powerful enough to destroy a reinforced gate of justice, when launched together.
Immediately, a huge explosion occurred in the square with Saturn in the middle of it, even blasting the wall that separated the bay from the square back, vaporizing it. Saturn seemed to evaporate, leaving a view to the frozen and destroyed bay with a huge smoke rising in the middle of the view. As the smoke began to dissipate, a shadow emerged again and Saturn appeared as if nothing had happened, recovering from the few cuts and injuries he had suffered as quickly as any Eikon fruit.
"You are so weak," he mocked. Immediately, he launched a shockwave and his unique flames, causing the whole area to explode. In the next moment, everyone was burned and thrown back, with several injuries. Chouchou and Chopper also fell unconscious due to the injuries they endured, while the rest of the crew was burning.
He quickly moved to grab one of them before retreating, burying them in the ground with his claw, this was none other than Lucy while her body was quite burned and injured. Being unable to do anything below the elder, being squeezed and the only thing keeping her from being crushed was her body being made of rubber.
"I finally caught you. You are a potentially dangerous threat to leave alive, so it's time to end this," Saturn spoke, as he raised his leg, transforming it into a haki spear, before launching it towards Lucy on the ground who could not react. But before he could kill her, he quickly lifted that leg even higher as another feather came running while slamming against him, pushing him back a few meters as he was dragged. This was Hancock, who had used all her strength in that attack.
"You bastard!" Hancock landed on the ground, looking furiously at Saturn, who had not even been hurt, nor had he been petrified by the effect of the love fruit, just scoffing with his gaze.
"So you are betraying the Marines, Shichibukai?" Saturn said with a dangerous tone.
"I will not let you hurt her. I will not let you kill her," she spoke with a determined look, not wanting to let her husband's sister die, as she did not want to see him sad.
"Very well, then come. You will die along with them," Saturn decided. Immediately, a fight started with Hancock, while Luffy was still fighting against two enemies at that moment. Hancock's fight against Saturn was disastrous. The girl was on the ground a moment later, while no one had yet recovered from the last attack and Lucy could not even stand up properly, Hancock was a bit hurt, while Saturn calmly approached to finish her.
"You are pregnant," he accused, feeling the life growing in her womb. "But that does not matter, you will die here," he spoke, about to thrust one of his claws into the Shichibukai with Hancock looking at him furiously.
But before anyone could intervene in that execution by Saturn, a swift shadow appeared, so fast that the ground exploded as it passed through the entire square. The marines did not even notice what was happening, only realizing when the explosion threw them away.
Luffy was feeling his body reaching the limit, even more now that he was surpassing all the limits of his fruits, but he did not care. He had gained a chance to unleash the true power and would not let Hancock die there, even if he had to use his body to defend her. And that was exactly what happened. Saturn could not react, while he was about to kill Hancock. Luffy appeared right in front, exploding the ground with his feet and was pierced by Saturn at that exact moment. Confused and surprised by the sudden explosion when he attacked Hancock.
With the dust settling and Hancock opening her eyes, Saturn was also surprised to see Luffy in front of her, being pierced by his claw as it went through his chest.
"LUUUUUUUUUFFFFFFFFYYYYYYYY!!!!!!" Hancock exclaimed frightened. But it was not just her. Everyone looked shocked at that.
"LUUUUUUUUUFFFFFFFFYYYYYYYY" Lucy also screamed nearby, as she stumbled on the ground, looking frightened to see her brother in that state.
"Luffy!!!" Ace trembled at that sight.
"LUFFYYY!!!!" All his crewmates still standing and injured, looked frightened at the scene of their captain being pierced.
Luffy coughed a little as blood ran down his lip and he looked at Hancock behind him.
"Get out of here now," he ordered so firmly to the girl.
"No... you are..." She said trembling.
"GET OUT NOW!" Luffy shouted angrily at her, and Hancock, despite being enraged and frightened, nodded trembling and quickly moved away from him, grabbing Lucy who was also there and screaming for Luffy.
Luffy looked at Saturn. "Yeah, you are here, you bastard." He cracked a bloody smile, while Saturn looked on with amazed eyes.
"What was that speed? Not even I could react. It surpasses Kizaru many times," Saturn commented, frowning.
"Like it, don't you?" Luffy taunted. "But this is just the beginning," he said as he began to grasp the feather on his chest. Luffy was careful not to hit his heart, as that would mean his death. Even with immense pain, he was satisfied that he succeeded in protecting the mother of his children and his children.
"Hm?" Luffy felt Saturn's claw heat up at that moment, as he pulled it out of his chest, and threw it forward, with blood gushing from him in hemorrhage. His skin around the hole in his chest began to turn dark.
"This is one of the effects of my power. You will die horribly," Saturn mocked, as he had something similar to Magellan when he used his awakening. All of Saturn's claws could generate this effect while the ground began to melt or corrode around him at that moment.
"You are really dangerous, and I didn't expect to find someone like you here," Luffy said while spitting out some blood. He didn't seem to care about his wound, his skin began to darken, spreading like a virus.
Everyone looked on in shock, even behind the screens, where everyone was speechless watching the events unfold in ways they did not anticipate. First, an Elder in person was there, showing that the World Government had such power in their hands, surpassing even the power of the navy. And another moment, Luffy appeared there, looking like he was going to die in front of everyone. People were shocked, others cried at this moment, as they knew him. His crew was devastated seeing their captain in that state, but Luffy didn't seem to care about any of that. He appeared calm, and Saturn frowned when he saw the pirate's expression in front of him. Something was wrong and he didn't know what it was.
In the end, Luffy had reached the limit of his body using 240 times his speed, but he was still far from finished. He would surpass what his body could endure even more until his people were out of here safely. After all, he still had one card left.
He sighed even with that hole that seemed to have destroyed part of his lung, everything seemed to calm down for him at this moment. Luffy noticed that around him, everything began to disappear while darkness filled his surroundings.
There, in front of him, in the middle of the darkness, lights began to appear, or rather, purple flames began to burn, while a gigantic creature stared at him with eyes between the flames and the darkness.
"Do you want to use my power?" The voice asked, one that Luffy still remembered very well when he heard it for the first time, ancient and powerful.
"Yes, I am ready to pay the price," Luffy spoke.
"Alright, then use my power as much as you can use, and I will sleep after that. When you come back, I don't want to see the weakling you are again, since you don't have the capacity to use all my strength yet," The voice spoke and mocked Luffy.
Luffy almost laughed at that. After all, his fruit was calling him a weakling even after reaching such a level, but he still had to admit he was far from the top of this world. He sighed and looked firm, even with the hole in the middle of his chest, and nodded to the creature while ignoring all the pain he felt.
"Remember... I am not like the other Eikons... I will be the lord of chaos..." The voice spoke again as the darkness around him began to change again and the flames he was seeing, disappeared.
Luffy found himself again in the middle of Marineford square, while everyone stared at him breathlessly, Garp was scared in the distance joining his crew, while Whitebeard frowned.
Luffy, who had stopped to sigh, lifted his head a few inches staring directly into Saturn's eyes, they shone as if everything was alright now, with the elder looking curiously at him.
'What is happening to him...?'
'He should be dying!'
'Something isn't right... I feel something is coming.'
The elders began to speak among themselves telepathically, but Saturn immediately opened his eyes to Luffy seeing his change faster than anyone else in the world.
Suddenly, Luffy began to laugh softly while lowering his head and then burst out laughing loudly, leaving everyone confused and stunned with just his voice echoing in that destruction. He laughed looking up in the end, until he began to stop and finally stopped.
Luffy looked forward and had an excited smile for Saturn. "Let's start our real fight now..." he spoke.
The next moment, all the darkness that was reaching his skin suddenly began to disappear and the hole that Saturn had created, piercing several parts and various internal organs, began to be rebuilt in an instant. The next moment, his chest was normal in the time of a breath.
Saturn looked stunned while Luffy felt something as a circle began to grow on his back with flames of chaos. He would finally awaken his fruit.
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Raccoon here: Give your opinions on the chapter, did you think I pushed this scene too much, that I made Saturn much stronger than usual to destroy all resistance that tried to reach him? Was Luffy being pierced cliché?
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