3 Flames Finale
As everyone went to sleep as they made camp in town, Hibitsu invited me, Ace and Deuce to stay in his house for the night.
As everyone slept I also slept for the first time in awhile as well, obviously after Noel made that device to stop me from having constant nightmares implanted around the base of my neck, though in my dream I came face to face with Nidai Kitetsu as well as Dandelga in its katana form side by side with one another, Dandelga wreathed in flames, and Kitetsu shrouded in darkness.
They both circled around me before letting me grasp them both in my hands, with my mind deep in thought of the flames of war ravaging the world and all my enemies cut down before me.
"I think will get along just fine Kitetsu." I say as I sheathe it to my side along with Dandelga as just like Dandelga, Kitetsu becomes a part of my soul, luckily it's a cursed blade making it possible for the system to make it a part of me along with Dandelga.
But besides that the rest of the night was calm, and when morning came everyone got up and got ready to go, though the people of the village here decided it was best that we wore disguises so that we look like people of Wano instead of pirates, though to best describe our looks when we put on our straw hats and wore loose patchwork kimonos people would call us Ronin.
"So there's a bridge that goes over the river that connects Kuri to Kibi, our main obstacle is to cut down or knock out the guards on look out on the bridge so we can lead them across, that will be the hardest part to do, after we get past them and into Kibi, so long as we get them into Greenfield they'll be home free." I say as I discuss the overall plan between me, Ace, Deuce, and Isuka who has been elevated higher in the crews eyes now.
"Right, and after that we get back to our ship and set out for Onigashima, Wreck Kaido's place, and then get the hell out of Wano." Ace says with a nod.
But then Isuka interjects, "No, I've heard from the villagers that the Beast Pirates have captured some children, They don't know what he plans for them, either he's planning to enslave them, or turn them into pirate apprentices by force…."
Hearing that everyone can see a fire being lit in both mine and Aces eyes, "Change of plans, wreck Kaido's place, save the kids, bring them back to Wano, then will go back out to sea once again!" Ace shouts in anger.
I just nod before dawning my strawhat, "Then let's get started everyone! Grab what you can carry! We're heading to Kibi!" I say holding onto all 3 swords on my left side before we all start to head off in the direction of the bridge to Kibi.
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As we were nearing the bridge to Kibi with me and Ace taking the lead, Hitetsu pulled me off to the side while Tama got a piggy back ride from Ace.
"Based on who you are, you don't have any issues with attacking someone that's a business partner?" Hitetsu says trying to see my reaction to cutting down a combination of both Kaido's and Orochi's men.
"Pfft, this is why you pulled me to the side, I could care less, plus they won't put the blame on me but some wandering ronin, and if they try to demand people back, my men know to cut down there people if they try to force it." I say as I shake my head and rejoin with the rest of the crew, Hitetsu just sighs before following after us once more.
Soon after that we came across the bridge in the distance, but lucky for us the bridge seemed to be a bit more lax in security, surprisingly there were no Beast pirates guarding, only Orochi's men guarding the bridge.
"I guess your luck has come into play again Ace, seems it will be easier to take the bridge and get people across." I say as I pat his back before turning to the villagers.
"You guys stay back and hide, we will deal with the guards, after there dealt with will let you guys come and cross, but after we lead you to Greenfield and talk with the people there you will be left to your own devices." With that said I turn back to Ace who motions to the rest of the crew and leads the way to the bridge, though as we discussed we can't use any of our fire abilities for this fight or else it will burn down the bridge.
Unfortunately there was no place for us to hide at so we could attack from hidden areas, but now we were just gonna have to approach from the front, but before they even had a chance to ask who we are, Ace and the rest of us decided to charge there position.
Though the guards were no pushovers, but maybe even more of Aces luck came into play as before we came to attack they were drinking themselves silly, so a good portion of them were drunk so it wasn't hard to breach there defensive line guarding the bridge.
There was no real fan fare, some put up a good fight, but them drinking on the job will cost them there lives as we ended up taking them all down and tossing there bodies into the river to clear up the evidence.
"Alright everyone! The way is clear! Let's hurry up and get to Kibi and then to Greenfield!" Ace shouts to the villagers that were following us as we began to lead them pass the bridge and onto Kibi proper.
And a few hours later we finally saw it off in the distance a giant tree surrounded by a town, the tree being the symbol of our destination, Greenfield
The people as well as the crew, cheered at the sight of Greenfield in the distance as we lead them to there destination, though there were guards at the main entrance to the town, them seeing that the majority were just like them, people that came here to find a new life, so they let everyone enter and look around the village, while me, Ace, Deuce, Isuka, Hibitsu and Tama all headed to the main building in the middle town that was the HQ for the Monster Pirates here in Kibi.
But before we got to the entrance we were blocked by certain sickle wielding demon that was set to guard the main entrance here, "Unless there's a good reason for this unplanned visit, I believe you lot should piss off back into town before I decide to let my blades get a taste of your blood." Gyutaro says as he holds his sickles in hand.
I saw the look on Aces face, and before he could say or do something stupid I grabbed him by the shoulder, "Kid, let me handle this, I might have a way to get us in." I say before I pat his shoulder and approach Gyutaro.
"Didn't you hear what I said? I said-"
"-piss off, I know you don't have to repeat yourself, I just thought seeing this would change your mind." I say pulling out a blood red symbol of the Blood Eagle, seeing this makes Gyutaro flinch.
*FlashBack*
"Gyutaro, I'm gonna set you up as the guard to the entrance of HQ, in return all you need to do is work from 9 in the morning till 5 in the afternoon, rest of the time you can go do whatever you want."
"I can go and eat lunch right?"
"Of course you can, so you know, unless it's people from either Orochi or the Kaido that need to deliver a message here, turn away anyone else unless they have this symbol." I say as I take out the symbol of a Blood covered Eagle.
"Also if you ever see someone and they show you this version of the symbol, it is me but currently I'm under disguise so don't say anything and act like I just showed you a normal symbol got it?" I say showing him a completely blood red covered symbol of the blood Eagle.
"Got it, unless there from Orochi, Kaido or hold one of these symbols I'm to turn them away."
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"Tch, alright fine, welcome to our HQ, you guys break anything it's on your head!" He says before he moves out of the way to let us in.
"Thank you." I say before I lead the rest of them inside, though Ace did come up to me and asked, "How'd you convince him to let us in?"
"Remember how I said I gathered information around the world? Well I helped the Eagle out before to the point that I was gifted a symbol of his favor, so I used it to get us in." I say until I hear the voice of a woman speak.
"Hitetsu? Is that you?" The woman with long light green hair says looking at the old sword smith.
"LADY TOKI!!!" The old man shouts at the sight of his old mistress still well and alive as he rushes up to her and kneels before her, "I am just so glad that you are alright Lady Toki, have they been treating you well?" He asks her, but before they can go on with there topic I intervene and present to her with Enma and Ame no Habakiri.
"You both have all the time to get reacquainted, we are here to bring people from Amigasa Village, and to give these back to you for safe keeping until your children are reunited with you." I say as I place the two swords that were once owned by her husband Oden in her hands.
When she receives them she holds them tight before tears began to fall from her face, "Thank you for returning these to me, the people of Amigasa are free to stay here along with everyone else in this town, all they need to do is help out in the fields during the day and that will be it." She says as she wipes away her tears before holstering both swords to her side, then she looks over to Hitetsu, "But I think I can convince Mr. Eagle to let you build a smithy here in town to let you continue your craft Hitetsu."
"It would be my pleasure to continue my craft here, so long as Eagle allows it." He says before taking a peek at me for a split second before looking back at Toki, but before they could continue talking little Tama walked up to Toki, "Can I help out around here while we wait for my masters smithy to be rebuilt Madam Toki?" Little Tama says politely to her.
"Awww! Of course you can you little cutie!" She says as she goes down to pick Tama up and rub her face against Tama's which makes them both smile.
"Oh! And can my animal friends come and live here?" She asks Toki nicely.
"Sure they can! So long as they don't make a mess of the town, there free to stay." Toki says with a nod, "After all while Mr. Eagle is away I'm the one that watches over his town." She says with a rather large grin.
This makes Tama very happy, "Oh Oh! Can I go see the big tree? I've heard stories of it doing nice things to good people!" She says pointing towards the courtyard.
"Sure you can, while your off doing that is adults will have a chat." Hearing that Tama nods before running off to see the Great Tree Alenu.
"Well then we have another thing to discuss, we're going to head back to Kuri and get our boat fixed up, as soon as it's fixed we're heading to Onigashima to attack Kaido's fortress and save some children that had gotten kidnapped by him and his crew." Ace says after Tama was out of ear shot.
"I see, well those children are welcome here as well, this is the only safe place left in Wano it seems…" Toki say sadly, "Well then I won't keep you if you guys are in a rush."
I just nod at that, "It's time we dealt with this sooner rather than later, by the time we get back I would say our ship will be ready to set sail by tomorrow, after that we hit him hard, get the kids, bring them back here, and get the hell out of Wano Captain."
"Then let's get going, wouldn't want to keep the beast waiting now do we?" Ace says before turning with the rest of us and heading out the building.
"I wish you all the best of luck, and a safe journey!" Toki says as she waves us off, with all 4 of us waving back before we head out of the building and soon out of Greenfield as we make our journey back to our boat.
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The next day, the boat was finally all fixed up as we all hopped on and headed off for Onigashima and not longer we arrived at the gate leading us deeper in, but something is strange.
"Ace… there's no one here guarding the gate… what the hell is going on?" I say as I'm also rather surprised how easy it was for us to get in.
"I don't really know…." Even Ace was confused by the lack of defense all the way up until we docked in Onigashima proper.
"Well it doesn't really matter, we're here to save the kids, trash the place and steal his stuff as well!" Ace shouts to the rest of the crew who go on to cheer him on.
"Me and Ace will go around the place causing a commotion distracting anyone who is still here, the half of you go find the kids, the other half go find the treasury and steal Kaido's stuff!" I shout as I motion to Isuka and her half to go find the kids while Deuce and her half of the crew go out to find the treasure.
"Got it!" They shout before they leap off there boat and go in two separate directions while me and Ace hop off and head directly to the main portion of Onigashima.
I won't go into to many details, because well it was relatively uneventful, sure there were still beast pirates here in Onigashima but it was mostly the low level ones that weren't much of a problem so we took care of them rather easily and afterwards began to trash the place.
Though we had no idea when the Beast pirates would be back so we did as much damage as we could in the time given to us all the way until the crew found the kids and brought them back to the boat, as well as Deuces crew who broke into the treasury and stole a good portion of the goods for ourselves.
After both Isuka and Deuce came back to tell us that there work was done we made our way out of Onigashima, but not before Ace decided to break a dragon statue by the front entrance and write his name and say he did it.
"Uhh… you think that was a smart move kid?" I say looking at Ace as we set sail out of Onigashima proper.
"Maybe not, but I want to fight him one of these days so I left my name so he remembers what I did to him so he'll accept my challenge." But hearing that me, Deuce and Isuka both just hold our heads at our captains rashness.
Though a few hours later we arrived back at Kibi through Neko Port, where a group was awaiting our arrival as we handed off the abducted children off to them to take care of until there parents can be found and if possible brought into Kibi in some shape or form since I'm now thinking about making a hidden bridge that connects to Kuri from Kibi to make it easier for any of the free citizens to escape to here.
After we dropped off the kids we set sail once again back out onto the grand line, "So Captain, what are we doing next?" I say looking to Ace.
"I think it's time I keep the promise I made back on FishMan island, it's time we hunt down WhiteBeard." Ace says without a a shred of fear in his voice.
"Heh, well kid we better get your sword formed before we meet that old bastard, if you even want a chance to lay a scratch on the old man." I say patting his back, "But lucky you I'm starting to feel a seed of your personal blade forming within you, it won't be that long until it's made, so in the mean time while we search for where he's at I'll train you the best I can all the way up till we see that old bastard." And with that was the start of another long training session for Ace as we began our search of the seas for WhiteBeard himself.
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A few months had passed and since this was taking longer than usual during the nights I would make sure my door was locked up tight so I could head home for the night and spend the night with my women and children so they all would feel loved, as well update them with the overall things I've been doing, Yamato especially liked the fact that I helped trashed Kaido's place that after finding that out she didn't let me sleep that night as my reward, though I kept that tidbit of info from Ulti and Maria since they still hadn't broken ties with the beast pirates yet, and I had no plans for them to for the time being.
But over these past few months of training Ace was now at the point where just one more final push is all that he needed and he would have his own flaming soul sword that he would personally own.
But we have also caught wind of where WhiteBeard was shoring up, and it was one of his islands under his control so we were heading there personally to take care of him.
*Finally this main quest will be over after this* I think to myself as I look at the quest.
Main Quest: The Tale of Portgas D. Ace
Objective- Train up Ace in the ways of using his flaming devil fruit until he joins up with the WhiteBeard pirates.
Rewards- Varies based on score, but completion will lead to friendly relations with the WhiteBeard pirates.
Failure: Ace dies.
"Captain! We're coming up on the island right now!" A crew member up on the crows nest shouts down to us below.
"Good! Then we will finally face off against WhiteBeard himself!" Ace says excitedly as he can't wait for the battle ahead.
Though that excitement would lead to disappointment as it was WhiteBeard he came face to face with but none other than Jinbe who was waiting for us, "Jinbe…. What is one of the Warlords of the sea doing waiting for us here? Where is WhiteBeard?!" Ace shouts at the stoic Jinbe who was looking at us all.
"I saw what you did to WhiteBeard's Jolly Roger back on FishMan Island, I won't let you guys hunt down a man I have come to respect!" Jinbe says as he readies himself for a fight.
All of us prepare our weapons, but Ace stops us, "No this is my fight, I'll take him on my own." He says as he holds his hat as he walk towards Jinbe and covers his arms in flames, and soon after that the fight began.
Now I won't go into to many details about this fight as there wasn't much to talk about besides the fact it took 3 full days for the fight to end with it coming out In Aces victory with Jinbe knocked out cold.
"Haah, Haah, man that fight was exhausting, I could really go for a nap and a cold one right now…" he says looking back to the rest of us, though since it was the morning of the 3rd day a mist had covered the field.
But just as Ace was going to join us to grab a bite to eat and maybe take a nap before we went off in our search for WhiteBeard…
*SLAM!!!*
The sound of something huge falling out of the sky and landing not that far behind Ace cracking the ground where it landed.
"Hoooo? I could go for a meal to… but it seems some brats have come here for my head…. Now I wonder? Is it you that's after my head?" The voice of a rather gruff old man said as he looked towards Ace.
And as the fog began to dissipate we were able to see his whole visage which scared some of the crew shitless until everyone, including me, Deuce, Isuka and Ace all shouted out.
"WHITEBEARD!!!" But hearing them say his name just made him chuckle.
"Heh, The One and Only."