Chapter 315 - War 09.

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Third Person POV

Marineford, First Half of Grandline.

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Luffy continued walking towards Whitebeard, drawing closer with each step his boots touched the ice, attracting many puzzled glances at him since he was moving forward with a slight smile spreading across his face, his eyes fixed on Whitebeard as if challenging him.

"Hey, what is he planning?" a sailor commented in confusion, watching as Luffy passed by various other Navy members who were lying on the ground, unconscious from the Straw Hats' Haki explosion.

"He's heading for Pops!" The pirates soon realized this and began to gather, forming a line between Luffy and Moby Dick, raising their swords and pointing guns at the Straw Hat who continued walking without hesitation.

"Hey, Straw Hat! If you want to reach our father, you'll have to get through all of us!"

"Don't get cocky, rookie, you'll need 100 years to face our father!"

The pirates continued to shout at Luffy, who seemed unfazed and kept smashing his mouth against the ice with each step.

"Hey, Marco, why is he advancing against pops, isn't he here to save Ace!?" Vista murmured, narrowing her eyes.

Marco looked at Luffy, puzzled. "I don't know why he's doing this," Marco murmured as he saw that Luffy was about to do something. This rookie had always been enigmatic to them, no one could predict what his actions would be; after all, he had hit Jinbei before capturing him, took Ace and sent a photo to Pops as his prisoners while they were in Alabasta, he could do anything with that history, after all, he acted recklessly.

Luffy stopped in front of Whitebeard's lower-ranked pirates and stared directly at the man who was also looking at him. "Right now, I am in front of the strongest man in the world. This is a good opportunity to see his strength," Luffy couldn't help but murmur now with his sword fully drawn. His words reached the ears of everyone nearby, leaving the whole place stunned, both pirates and sailors.

"Hey, Boss Buggy! The straw hat is challenging Whitebeard before you!" The prisoners quickly tried to alert Buggy.

"How dare he!" another prisoner shouted.

"He wants to steal Boss Buggy's glory, we must stop him! No! It should be Boss Buggy who stops him!"

They continued to exclaim while others looked on as if they were a bunch of idiots...

Buggy, who was looking scared and lost, soon had an idea, coughed, and made a face as if he already knew what was going on. "Don't worry, loyal followers... I let him go ahead of me. After all, I couldn't give a chance to the Straw Hat if I fought against Whitebeard first!" He spoke, crossing his arms and closing his eyes while the people around him opened starry eyes as if Buggy were some kind of divine being.

"Yes, Captain Buggy, you are certainly giving a chance to a Monkey D Luffy, as expected of Captain Buggy, your reputation knows no bounds!"

The crowd soon began to cheer for Buggy letting Luffy fight Whitebeard first, since our boss will beat them afterward.

The ship soon started a shouting match in the middle of the battlefield of the bay, while they clamored for their Boss Buggy, but already the same, turned his back on his followers while making a grimace, hidden from everyone with a dark face. "Don't lose, damn Straw Hat. Don't lose, so I have to fight that guy just because of these fanatical and crazy followers!" Buggy exclaimed internally while crying.

"He's going before me," Crocodile had a different take from Buggy as he murmured, the straw hat looked like he was going to attack Whitebeard.

The war had still not resumed. No one else had acted while Luffy faced Whitebeard after saying those words. The environment fell silent, but there was a tense atmosphere as Luffy had a gleam of challenge in his eyes and Luffy liked to see the same in Whitebeard.

The next moment, the ground below him exploded, sending shards of ice everywhere, and the pirates couldn't react as he sped past them, advancing towards Moby Dick.

"Let's see the power of the title you hold, Whitebeard!" Luffy said as he used Armament Haki and accumulated three akuma no mi in his sword.

"The kid is fast..." Whitebeard was not far behind. He quickly spun his weapon and launched forward. The next moment, an explosion occurred between the two blades, blasting the entire area as Whitebeard used the power of the Gura Gura no Mi, and Luffy kept his sword charged with flames and electricity, having increased his speed with the moa moa no mi to generate more impact.

The force of the two strikes immediately threw all the weaker pirates and sailors nearby backward, Luffy held firm as long as he could. "This is your power..." He commented, smiling.

"You are skilled, kid," Whitebeard spoke, "but it's still too early for you to defeat me," he continued, with Luffy beginning to notice something.

"He's using the King's Haki coating!" Luffy murmured, before beginning to give way to the clash, even having the moa moa no mi that multiplies his strength, fighting against the King's Haki and the Gura Gura no Mi was still a problem for him. He found himself losing as his body immediately flew backwards, colliding with the ice ground, breaking everything and digging the ground for 50 meters.

The war was increasingly tense for those witnessing it, with Luffy arriving to declare that he would save Ace, and the next moment, advancing against Whitebeard. At the end of the trench created with Luffy's body, the entire place went into tremendous chaos and soon a flame exploded from that tip.

Luffy reappeared flying into the sky with two huge black wings as he had entered his hybrid phase. "I have to take this more seriously," Luffy murmured, after all, he was still not satisfied with the first clash.

"Hey, what are you trying to do? You should save yourself and not fight Pops!" one of the commanders immediately shouted, but Luffy did not care to respond and disappeared again, heading towards Moby Dick.

"Why is he doing this in the middle of a war?" Kuina murmured, dissatisfied when he saw Luffy disappear again.

"Go Luffy-Sama!" Shirahoshi shouted, cheering for Luffy while she seemed thoughtful the next moment. "But this is the man who protects Fish-Man Island, he is a good person, why is Luffy-Sama fighting against him?" She murmured, scratching her chin.

"Luffy is just testing his strength. It's the same thing that happened in the East Blue and when I fought Mihawk at that time, Luffy is doing the same," Zoro commented seriously.

From the deck of the Black Pearl ship, Chouchou barked, watching the fight while others drew near. "Luffy really is relentless. He didn't waste time confronting Whitebeard fearlessly," Usopp murmured as the rest of the crew watched once more an impact happen on the ship of the strongest man in the world as the two blades clashed and the wind from this clash began to sweep through all of Marineford.

"You may have his sword, but you are still not close to using his skills..." Whitebeard said with a smile while holding firm against Ace's sword.

"Hey, don't get cocky just because you can use the coating of King's Haki. Give me 6 months and I can be as skilled as you," Luffy murmured, but still holding the sword against that Haki, and now, with phase 2, his body became much stronger. This time, he didn't lose, as Whitebeard stepped back a few meters, both falling on the prow.

"Haha, this is interesting. Let's keep this going," Luffy immediately spoke, advancing and a fight between Whitebeard and Luffy had begun, although most of Marineford did not watch that, confused.

"Luffy and Pops," Ace murmured as he watched the fight unfold between them on the ship, causing multiple impacts on the ice ground beneath the ship, starting to be destroyed in various parts even affecting the pirates and the fallen sailors, who had to flee from there screaming.

"This is so like Luffy..." Garp commented, looking at it sighing, and he turned back to Sengoku, wondering what he would do next.

Sengoku, meanwhile, looked up seeing the people flying there. "Kong, you may act as you wish. The Navy won't interfere in your judgment," he said in the end.

Kong nodded since he had total freedom, even without Sengoku's approval, but he had to obey the Celestial Dragons, as that was something above him.

"Well, let's just finish those damn inferior beings and rescue the Celestial Dragons," one of the Holy Knights spoke.

The group in the sky consisted of at least three masked members of CP0 and five members of the 20 Holy Knights, or nineteen now after Luffy killed the last one. Of these 5 Holy Knights, two belonged to the 7 most powerful, while the other five stronger ones stayed in Merry Geoise specifically to protect the holy city from those meteors.

"Remember, we also have to eliminate the user of the Fuwa Fuwa no Mi," Kong commented, and the Holy Knights shrugged and began to advance.

"They're coming," Yamato spoke in front of Black Pearl.

And again, the man used that strange energy attacking directly. "That attack reminds me a lot of Kizaru. What kind of fruit does he use?" Reiju commented.

"Who knows." Lami shrugged as she began to create the Room. "Anyway, let's finish this," she said and looked at that strange type of laser making a weird sound. With the attack entering her area and her moving her finger, she made the attack disappear and reappear in another space, advancing against the CP0 members in the air, who quickly tried to dodge, while one was caught by the explosion.

"Even the attack is very similar to Kizaru's fruit..." Lami commented, analyzing that explosive energy, while ignoring the frustrated Celestial Dragon, as his attack was easily negated by the woman.

"What that group... and Kong is with them..." Whitebeard murmured as they continued exchanging blows with his power breaking the space like glass.

Luffy was holding up very well, while Luffy was wondering how that ship was handling the impact of the two fighting intensely. "You see, the World Government sent a specialized team to kill me. What do you think of that, Whitebeard? Maybe I'm more important than I thought," Luffy commented as he exchanged blows with an arrogant tone.

"Don't get cocky, kid, just because you're a bit stronger than most rookies!" Whitebeard exclaimed as his weapon blade and Luffy's sword exploded again, making the whole place tremble.

Meanwhile, the prisoner ship quickly stopped beside that of Black Pearl, and everyone there began to come out, like Buggy and his followers, Ivankov, Jimbei, Crocodile, Mister 1.

"Pops..." Jimbei looked dazed at the fight Luffy was having with Whitebeard, while Buggy had a large snot coming out of his nose as he opened his mouth scared by the fight.

"Incredible..." Lucy looked stunned at Luffy fighting from that side.

Robin arrived by her side, but not looking at Luffy, but at the sky. "It looks like they are coming," she commented while seeing the whole group of nine people that the government sent, heading towards them.

"Let's go," Yamato gave the order and quickly she, Zoro, Kuina, Lami, and Reiju, began to jump into the air, leaving Shirahoshi behind.

Meanwhile, the main, Usopp, took courage and also advanced, as there were still nine enemies against five, they would need four more to help him. Chouchou also advanced along with Enel and Hugo, both advancing towards the World Government group, while the rest of the crew stayed there to protect the ship and the hostages, waiting for Luffy's order, who was still fighting against Whitebeard.

Even both came out of the ship and began to fight in the middle of the glacier with explosions happening all around.

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