289 289. My Will Lives

[Because One Piece is not over, I am making all this up, so don't take this chapter for Canon. This chapter also has a lot of info dumps.]

Raftel,

Roger and Ragnarok arrived with Shirahoshi and Alexander brought the two Ancient Weapons. The Uranus was hovering above the island while Pluton was in the sea. The moment Shirohashi came a certain white light covered the island and made the ambiance full of positivity for some reason.

Alexander had put a small nuclear reactor on Uranus to give it power. He couldn't ask Dobby to keep on powering it the whole time after all. Pluton was the same. It just wasn't possible to make it sail with the wind.

"Ah, Shirahoshi-chan, how are you?" Alexander made himself bigger for the compulsory hug.

"Hehe, I like living on the new island you made, Grandpa. I can see the sun and trees every day." She replied.

"Haha, I am happy for you, child. Now, I told you about that superpower of yours. Do you remember it?" He patted her head.

"Umh... I do, I even practiced it. I can summon my friends now." She said. By friends, she was referring to various seakings who considered her their queen.

"Okay, let's go then."

They moved to the same underground secret locked chamber. The door that was so hard to open before was now shining in white light.

Alexander simply went to it and touched it. Suddenly the whole place started to vibrate and the door started to slide open.

They entered the place and found it was filled with gold to the brink. The place was many kilometers long and wide. At the center of it was the biggest Poneglyph they had ever seen.

"Boss, look." Dobby pointed to the side. There were hundreds of statues made of gold. All of them had one thing similar. They were wearing Strawhats.

Alexander and Dobby started to read the names written on them. All of them had a D in their names and each had a line written under their name. 'Death is all but an end for a new beginning. My will lives!'

Then behind all those was a throne made of gold. On it was a long staff made of gold, seemingly waiting for someone to pick it up.

Roger exclaimed quickly, "Is that Joy Boy's?"

"Well, let's read the Poneglyph and see it for ourselves," Alexander suggested and they moved to the giant stone.

"Ghost, translate it." He commanded.

Soon, translated projections appeared. The history they learned there was nothing less than shocking.

900 years ago, many different species used to roam the planet. Things were by no means peaceful but they weren't that bad either.

800 years ago, in the same place as they were standing, stood the Great Kingdom, Mary Geoise. It was the most advanced and prosperous kingdom in the world. It was open for any species to come and live without any prejudice. The Royal Family of it was called the Clan of D.

But then, something happened and a yellow-eyed person fell from the sky on the island. In the beginning, this new person acted nicely with everyone while learning about the world and its mysteries.

Then he started getting involved in politics and with his schemes, started gathering power. He had many powerful abilities and he used them to take over the Great Kingdom.

The Clan of D was exiled from their own Kingdom and then started the scary rule of Im. Because the Great Kingdom was vastly advanced, thanks to various species living there. Those from the moon too.

Im started to use that technology to slowly take over the world. He set up another headquarters of his Kingdom on the center of Red Line from where he tried to rule.

But there was a secret reason for why he made the Red Line his base. That was because he found a strange tree there. A tree that could suck Life Force of anything that touched it and then grow Strange fruits.

Im started to do many tests on it. He started enslaving whole Kingdoms to test the Fruit. Many species went extinct because of such practices and those who were left went into hiding.

In the meantime, the Clan of D spanned around the world to gather support (Adventures of Joy Boy happened at this time). They eventually won the support of the Kozuki clan of Wano.

At the same time, a coalition of 20 Kingdoms was also formed with the purpose of fighting the Great Kingdom. The construction of Ancient weapons started at the same time under the supervision of people from the D clan.

The Water 7 made Pluton, the Fishmen made Poseidon and the D clan made Uranus with the help of Wano and Skypieans. But the D clan added a safety feature on Uranus that the user will need the blood of the D clan to run it. They did it so that even if somehow the enemy got a hold of the other two weapons, they wouldn't be able to use the last one even if they find it.

During that time, Im was successful in creating Devil fruits by combining Souls of people and an object whose property he wanted the fruit to give as a power. Im also realized that the powers these fruits would give would be very dangerous and needed a way to counter them if they were to someday stand against him.

So, in each fruit he made, he also added Hydrophobic material. This would make all the fruit users unable to swim in a world mostly made up of water.

But the requirement to make fruits was that he needed a lot of souls to even make one fruit. For this, he decided to enter the war.

And so the slaughter of 100 years started. Billions of people from various species were first captured and then given to the Devil Fruit Tree to be sacrificed.

This enraged the world and they started fighting the Great Kingdom with all they had.

Soon, Im realized that he won't be able to have enough fruits to combine them and make one legendary big devil fruit for himself with all the powers of the world. So he decided to end the war so that the world population could increase again for him to harvest later.

But among all the Chaos, some hundred members of the D clan infiltrated Mary Geoise on the Red Line when they found out about the fruits and took away all the Fruits which they called Devil Fruits.

But going so close to the Devil Fruit tree gave them incurable disease and they started to die one after another. Only a few of them were able to pass on their legacy before dying. This made the D clan the biggest enemy of Im. Because even he didn't have a way to find all the devil fruits hidden away.

Enraged, he defeated the coalition of 20 Kingdoms and gave them the option to either obey or die.

The Kingdoms obeyed and the 20 kings surrendered their swords near his feet. Im then devised a plot to keep the world under his thumb and created the World Government with the twenty royal families invited to live in Mary Geoise.

After that, the erasal of history started. Im knew that as long as the world remembered him and how he killed people, he would always face opposition.

For this he even destroyed the Great Kingdom he himself ruled. He killed anyone who knew the history and made it illegal to research it. However, the ancient weapons were hidden by the remnants of D clan before he could do anything to them.

The last remaining Kingdom that knew about the slaughter of 100 years was Wano. But he didn't dare to attack them as they were extremely strong with their strong swords and also the Uranus being there for the time being. But to his satisfaction, Wano closed itself like a scared cat in hiding.

This also allowed Wano to make Poneglyphs and distribute them around the world. Joy Boy himself helped them and also created the secret chamber on Raftel and put the Rio Poneglyph there. He also made statues of people of the D clan who sacrificed themselves to get the Devil fruits out of Mary Geoise, so that they could be remembered.

Then finally, he left his staff there. The staff of the head of D clan. It gave the ability to connect to all the people of the D clan hiding in the world. It gave the ability to control all the Ancient weapons at will.

He knew that the war was already lost. So he locked it all in there in the hope that someday in the future. Someone with the Will of D will come and bring Dawn to the world. For some reason, when he was leaving the island, white light fell from the sky and reinforced the security he placed on the Chamber.

He accepted it as a blessing of the Gods and surrendered to Im to finally end the war and the persecution of people with a D in their name. His death ended the era of the void century. Starting the Era of World Government.

Soon after, many Devil fruit users also started to appear around the world.

For the next 700 years, the World Government continuously grew stronger and nearly wiped out every known mention of history.

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