Chapter 72. A beast's Haki

JoJo, Yamato, Law,

Cavendish, Urouge, Bonney,

Apoo, Yennow, Bepo,

Nami, Gaga, Ronaldino Ronaldo

and Nobujuro stepped onto the ship.

"Big bro, are you going now?" Tama once again threw herself at Ace, not wanting for him to depart.

"Tama, it's time for me to take care of that big monster."

"But I don't want you to leave."

"I'll come back after defeating him... But you know I can't stay here for ever." Ace said.

She nodded while looking down, quite sad.

"Then bring me with you!!!" She suddenly said with assertiveness.

Ace smiled. "You have to grow up to be a strong warrior first." He said in a chuckle.

"Then I promise I will become strong! Do you promise to bring me when I have become stronger?" She asked.

"Here, I'll take this back when you join my crew." Ace said as he took off his black hat and put it on Tama's head.

She started crying as Ace boarded the ship.

"Let's sail." He commanded as they dropped their sails, allowing the wind to push their ship.

They sailed towards Onigashima and it didn't take long for them to reach their destination.

After porting, the Black Pearl turned into a pearl and flew into Ace's ring.

"Huh, what's going on??!" Yamato and Nobujuro exclaimed.

"There's no turning back now, we won't leave this island until Kaidou is down." Ace said as he took the first step up towards the top of Onigashima.

In the middle of Onigashima was a gigantic skull with a gigantic sword by its side.

Beneath it was a small town with a mansion and a few buildings.

Ace jumped up above the smaller town and sat Infront of the skull as he waited.

His crew sat on the rooftops of the buildings and also waited.

"Captain, here!" Spikewards shouted as he threw another one of Ace's hats to his captain.

Ace caught the brown hat by the brim and put it on his head. His favourite hat was the black one he had given to Tama, but this would have to do for now.

"Now it looks good." Spikewards said as he made surenhisngun had bullets.

Kaidou still hadn't arrived, but he'd be here soon.

Soon, the fleet had arrived countless pirates ran waited down by the port while the All-stars were the first to walk up, then the Tobiroppo, followed by another force of Shinichi.

And lastly, Kaidou walked up, even though his subordinates went ahead of him, his size made it seem like they were servants clearing the path for him.

Soon they arrived at their home, and there, on top of the buildings, they saw 13 Demon Ace Pirates sitting on their rooftops, looking like they were waiting, almost as if they were bored.

Kaidou gazed at them before looking further up and seing Ace sitting in front of the skull, looking down.

"GORORORO it has been a long time since I felt my anger boil like this." Kaidou laughed out, as he looked at Ace.

"That'll make our fight so much better." Ace responded.

"Fight? No, only a handful people have the right to say that they can fight me, and most of them are dead." Kaidou explained as he thought back to his former Captain, Roger and Big Mom, all of which were dead to his knowledge.

Whitebeard had a foot in the grave, only Shanks was left as both Garp and Sengoku had aged too much to give him a real "fight." One which could end in his demiss.

That is not to say that he would pick a fight with Whitebeard, even with a foot in his grave... Whitebeard was still the strongest man.

"I see, so that's how you caused so much destruction in such a little time" Kaidou said as he saw his daughter sitting with the intruders.

"You chose death in the end." Kaidou said as he gripped his spiked club, Kanabo.

"THUNDERCLAP" Kaidou spoke before dissapering. He appeared behind Yamoto with his back turned towards Her, as he flashed by her with his club in a swinging motion.

He expected that she would've been hit and killed, but something felt wrong, so he turned around. And to his surprise, Ace stood there with his sword drawn, he had protected Yamamoto.

"Ne, let's keep the children out of this." Ace said with a big grin.

He had felt it, the power behind Kaidou's swing. It was enough to kill or severly harm anyone else in his crew.

Yamamoto stood up and so did all the other Demon Ace Pirates.

"ACE.... So you really are HIS son." Kaidou said as his eyes were on Ace's sword, ACE. He seemed intrigued.

Kaidou then jumped up to the gigantic skull and picked up the barrel of Sake and drunk it.

"Kill them." The Emperor commanded his subordinates.

A thunderous sound echoed throughout the island as Hammerfist JoJo dissapeared from the rooftop. He appeared In front of King, the second strongest of the best pirates, and with his two handed hammer, Jojo smashed King with all his might, blasting King with an explosion of lighting.

King exploded far away from the scene and JoJo flashed after king.

Kaidou looked on, he wasn't aware that the lightning fruit had been found. Not because it wasn't known that Jojo had eaten the fruit, rather because he didn't care for people he diditn deem as a threat. So he didn't bother to learn about the Demon Ace Pirates, and that's why he got slightly surprised to see the legendary logia ability.

Law used his abilities to teleport his opponent away and followed suit.

Yamato also chose her opponent and they started fighting.

"GORORORO" Kaidou started laughing as he had a slight blush on his face, thanks to the sake.

He started leaking Haki. Which seemed to disturb the Demon Ace Pirates as the air got heavy. Ace countered with his own and hindered Kaidou from disrupting his crewmate's fights.

Kaidou didn't seem to care about thatbas he continued drinking.

Ace was surprised by Nobujuro as he held his own against one of the Tobirobbo.

Yennow levitated houses and smashed his opponents with them. When Kaidou saw this, a glint flashed in his eyes as he recognised the ability.

As the fight went on for ten minutes, Kaidou seemed to become bored as he stood up.

He was going to finish this.

Suddenly everyone stopped fighting as dark clouds accumulates in in the sky above the whole of Wano, in an unnatural manner.

Everyone felt the opresive air that seems to make it hard to breathe, as the strong winds started to even cut people.

Kaidou finally released his Conqueror's Haki on full blast, creating a gigantic shockwave that blew everyone on the island to the ground, even the gigantic skull behind him started creaking as cracks started appearing on the surface of it.

Ace saw this and stood up as well, he relased his own Haki to push back Kaidou's.

It was as if another shockwave was released that fought back Kaidou's willpower.

"You youngsters truly are small monsters." Kaidou spoke after realising how strong Ace's willpower is.

Their Conqueror's Haki clashed and created black thunder allover the island.

One of the black lighting collided with a random beast pirate. He exploded because of the force of the lightning.

Seing that, Jojo commanded Yennow to take them off this island, as Ace's fight wasn't something they could be near.

JoJo and Yamato might be able to continue fighting but the others won't, they might even die as they could barely stand at this point.

The Demon Ace Pirates escaped the island towards the Wano island.

The fleet of Beast Pirates followed suit.

King stayed a bit longer as he looked towards the center of the clash between the two Haki.

He never knew there could be more people with this kind of Haki, except for the other Yonko.