Poneglyphs

An Island in the New World - Red-Haired pirates territory.

A huge pirate ship with the jolly roger of skull with two swords and a Z mark could be seen docked on the bay of this island.

"Captain, the Z pirates are here!" A red-haired pirate screamed towards Shanks and the Whitebeard pirates.

Shanks was currently in the middle of speaking with Whitebeard.

"Cough.."

"Cough..."

Whitebeard kept on coughing, as Marco was attending to his wounds.

"Mark? Invite him over!" Whitebeard said slowly towards one of the Whitebeard pirates.

A couple of minutes later Mark could be seen walking over alone with a Whitebeard pirate commander beside him.

"Old man, you don't look so good," Mark commented as he saw Whitebeard almost struggling for his life while coughing.

"Shut up!" Marco immediately replied as he heard Mark's comment. It didn't seem like the two of them could see eye to eye.

Shanks was sitting beside them as he was drinking sake from a huge bowl.

Mark ignored Marco as he sat down and began to drink some sake too.

"I've had better days... Cough. " Whitebeard replied when he heard Mark's comment, but coughing followed.

"I have less than a few months to live," Whitebeard said as he chugged a bowl of sake.

"You have to stop drinking, pops!" Marco said with a bitter smile.

"Drink some more healing water," Shanks said laughing as he refilled Whitebeards bowl.

"Red Haired!" Marco immediately flipped out when he saw Shanks actions.

"Haha!" Mark couldn't help but burst into a laugh as he saw what transpired. Healing water? It was obviously sake.

"We can't bury Ace in my territory." Whitebeard continued his speech after drinking the sake. He knew that his territories would be divided after his death.

Marco was quiet, so was the rest of the Whitebeard pirates standing at the side. Even the red haired pirates didn't reply.

Mark didn't reply either because he couldn't really help out the old man right now as he didn't have any territory in the new world.

"I will take care of it," Shanks said slowly as he kept drinking.

The meeting between the pirates ended.

As Mark was about to slowly leave the place he heard a hoarse voice.

"Thank you, brat." Whitebeard had his eyes closed as he said slowly.

Marco had his head down, as did the Whitebeard pirates. Shanks and the red-haired pirates didn't say anything.

Mark didn't want to accept Whitebeard gratitude as he didn't change much to the original story.

The only thing he could do at the war was to save Whitebeard himself. But unfortunately, he didn't even have that long to live.

Mark could obviously have taken his devil fruit if he desired but he didn't. The old man had just lost one of his sons and he was even dying, Mark couldn't be so ruthless.

Mark didn't want to disturb the old man any longer so he decided to just leave.

Some days later.

An unknown island in the New World.

Z pirates could be seen laughing around a huge forest filled with fierce beasts.

Satyr jr could be seen shirtless with only pants on as he was in the middle of fighting some Z pirates with his hands tied on his back, the funny thing about this was that Flint was actually also fighting him with the Z pirates.

Capone Bege was sitting beside the fighting arena as he was enjoying some wine

Trafalgar Law was nowhere to be seen, as he had already fled in the Marineford war, but Mark didn't care at all.

Two years from now he will obviously try to make an alliance with the Strawhats to take down Doflamingo but before that, he tries to become a seven warlord of the sea.

Yuri could be seen standing behind Mark while messaging his shoulders. She actually seemed to be quite enjoying doing it. Alice was sitting in front of Mark, drinking some wine while looking at the peaceful scenes as her eyebrows were raised a bit.

Mark was reading a newspaper with Luffy on the front page, even Jimbei and Rayleigh could be seen.

Strawhat Luffy sends off Ace...

And shooting of the new era.

"Luffy's era? The will of D, I shall change it to the era of the Z." Mark thought inwardly as he kept enjoying his wine and the message.

It obviously sounded ridiculous to actually change such a saying, but Mark meant every word. He obviously had the advantage of knowing what happened in the One Piece world by reading the origin manga.

"So what's the plan now?" Alice asked Mark in a curious manner.

"The first step is to get some territories in the New World and then gather the road poneglyphs, just some copies is alright," Mark said slowly as he sipped on his wine.

"What is the road poneglyphs?" Yuri asked interestedly.

"Poneglyphs are mysterious steles with history inscribed on them in the form of ancient letters. They are scattered among the islands of the world." Mark explained calmly.

"Where do these road poneglyphs lead to?" Yuri asked again extreme curious.

"Raftel, the island at the end of the New World which supposedly holds the treasure One Piece," Mark answered unhurried.

"The problem isn't finding these poneglyphs, I already know where some of them are. The problem is some big shots got some of them." Mark said undisturbed.

Alice face kept changing but Mark didn't seem to notice neither did Yuri.

"I know where one is." Alice suddenly spoke as she looked Mark expectantly.

"Really? Where?" Mark was surprised as he heard Alice.

"Holy Land Mary Geoise!" Alice said as her face became resentful for a second before turning normal again.