69 War of the best: Red haired Shanks (16/?)
"Red-haired Shanks" Kizaru muttered.
Shanks was a relatively tall man (just under two meters), well-built, tan-complexioned, and in the prime of his mid-adulthood. Among the Four Emperors past and present he stands out as the smallest, most normal-sized by far, the others being various degrees of inhuman proportions.
On his face resides a secondary trademark: a triple set of vertically parallel, linear scars that pass at an angle over his left (untouched) eye. He was wearing a black cape, and under it a simple white shirt that he left half buttoned out. Additionally he was wearing pants cut at the knees.
True to his epithet, Shanks has distinctly red hair, he had long hair, wavier and slicked back except for some few strands he lets fall down the sides of his face, pushed farther sideward.
All around the place silence permeated.
None on the battlefield expected this. No one thought that another sea emperor and one of the rulers of the sea would be joining this war.
Garp who had a bit of blood dripping from his mouth, looked with an angry glare at him.
'Red-haired Shanks… this was the one who made Luffy become a pirate…' he thought to himself.
The marines started panicking. If Shanks joined the already monstrous duo of Whitebeard and Ian, then the marines would really be destroyed for good. Not to mention that at the side stood his crew the red hair pirates.
Well, all panicked except the fleet admiral, who only gave a tired sigh. As he knew that the arrival of Shanks signified the end of this war. He knew the role that Shanks plays in this world better than anyone here. He was just not willing to lose. Especially with such a devastating result…
Kizaru stepped back a bit of distance away as he jumped.
'Isn't that Blackbeard?' Shanks thought to himself as he turned to look at the side at the dead body laid in a crater.
Shanks sheathed his sword at his waist. In truth he never thought much about Blackbeard. But as he saw him at this war, he finally knew that something was on with that guy. Perhaps if he didn't die in this war he would have become a huge problem in the future.
He was the reason why shanks had that scar in his face. Though it was way before he became an emperor of the sea. He had caught him off guard with one of his abilities. But since the whitebeard crew already knew that he was different than the normal human he did not see the need to talk about it to anyone.
His arrival here, confirmed a few of his guesses. The first being that he was after the old man's death. Or rather the old man's fruit. He had speculated that due to his special physique he would be able to eat 2 devil fruits unlike normally where one person could only eat one fruit or risk exploding.
His second guess that was confirmed is that those guys had to have something to do with Blackbeard. He could feel their energy on his body moving upwards and dissipating in the sky.
Perhaps that was how he got his special physique and abilities.
He then turned to the retreating pirates and spotted Luffy being carried by Ace, and gave a gentle smile.
'I want to see you. But if I do that now… that would be going against our promise right, Luffy?' He thought to himself.
He turned back to the both parties standing near him and started speaking.
"I came to end this war" He said.
"Why are you all even still fighting? This war should already be done." He added. And as he noticed the admirals starting to speak he spoke again.
"Anymore fighting would be pointless. Ace is saved. And even all of you combined would not be able to take on the old man. At best you would injure him, but at what cost? Are you really prepared for one of you to die in order to do that? To injure him?" He said which immediately shut them up. They knew that the admirals were necessary to keep the people safe, as a sort of balance to the emperors.
Well all except one.
"I don't need to hear this from a pirate" Akainu yelled as he tried to rush but one glare from Sengoku put him in his place. He stood there eyes containing anger and unwillingness. While his fists were balled up.
Meanwhile Ian and Whitebeard didn't mind what Shanks was saying at all. In truth anymore fighting after this is meaningless. And Ian already knew that he would come, so he let him be.
"I'll say it again there is no need for anymore meaningless deaths. But if you want to continue this meaningless fight, then come! I'll take you on!" Shanks said. And there was total silence around.
"This war should be over. Don't you agree Sengoku?" he then addressed Sengoku
The man in person closed his eyes painfully. But opened them a bit after and nodded as he started shrinking from his transformed form.
There was no need to keep battling the old man, when even Ian had kept them sitting there like dogs on a leash. They couldn't pass him as such there was no meaning to this fight anymore.
Not to mention he didn't want his soldiers to die anymore, and if the old man started attacking again, then they would be dying in the hundreds.
He took a deep breath.
And then yelled.
"Treat the wounded as fast as possible." He stopped for a bit.
"This war is OVER!" he then yelled in the end.
