My love

"I want to be unsealed for the war," I said the day the war, to Sakazuki as we dressed in our suits.

"No. You know what happened the last time you unsealed. I will NOT allow you to ever, and I mean EVER, do that again unless life as we know it is endangered," he growled fiercely.

"Then tell Ryu to stay at the island," I growled back.

"He is as much a marine as the rest of us. If he leaves, hes a coward and so are you!" he yelled and smacked the back of my head, "Buck up Lucifer."

"At least allow the league of spartan avengers to join," I huffed.

"Over my dead body! My grandkids wont be killed in a war while I'm alive," he growled.

"Tch, let my husband die while your grandkids sit pretty at home? Some kind of stupid logic right there," I grunted.

"BALTHAZAR SALAZAR LUCIFER! DID YOU JUST CALL ME STUPID?!" he yelled out about to punch me.

"NO! I CALLED YOUR LOGIC STUPID!" I yelled back, standing firmly.

"Tch," we both clicked out tongues and left to silently join the war. Him in bright red while I adorned a black and blood red suit and fedora.

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I stood with the vice admirals, next to Garp but in front of Sakazuki on the wall of the execution platform. The Whitebeard pirates had just shown up and I wasnt paying attention to the nonsense speeches. I was, however, too busy looking for Ryu in the crowd of marines. Being so distracted, I didnt catch the sudden influx of aura I had received until the system notified me.

-Due to being worshipped, host has recieved aura from all who prayed to him. Does host wish to recieve 1 deadly hit in exchange, for each person who prayed to him?-

-Y/N?-

'Yes. Allow me to reciprocate their faith in me,' I thought and looked around the marines, noticing many eyes on me. To lift the mood, I smiled and nodded, trying to show a confident outward appearance.

I still hadn't spotted Ryu yet. The bay was now frozen over, marines were now rushing at pirates and vise versus. Many people were dieing and being brutally slaughtered by the minute. The sound of metal hitting metal and guns being fired rang through my ears, flashbacks of the other wars rang through my mind. The up close death of thousands, the pleas for help and mercy that were never answered...

Unknowingly, two drops of blood fell from my eyes as my contacts burned, revealing my unique black eyes with red irises. The blood turning into streak like tattoos before seemingly disappeared but the tattoo like streaks had stayed. My body grew cold yet felt as if I was on fire as my vision blurred and changed in perspective. Everything now seemed so much smaller. A song rang through my head as I hummed it in an attempt to distract myself from the bloodshed and the desirable itch that disgusted me from my ghoul side, 'Let the bodies hit the floor... let the bodies hit the floor... let the bodies hit the floor... let the bodies hit the FLOOR!'

Flashes of the torment I had placed onto much weaker beings in the name of a justice that wasn't mine to speak of... The undeniable truth of my sadistic and masochistic ways... The disgusting and revolting smell of blood and bodies filling my nose... The tingle of pain I had recieved from thousands of people... A voice calling next to me, a name I dont remember on his tongue. A voice behind me, demanding the control of my emotions yet I couldn't fully comprehend what this voice meant.

Knowing that I couldnt get a grasp of my emotions the way the voice commanded, I disregarded everything I was told. Focusing on the song in my head didnt help much if even at all. The song began to run in tandem, songs overlapping a few words began to play. That's when the voice next to me stopped being only a voice and became a hand on my arm, "You need to calm down."

"I cAnT cAlM dOwN," I said in a voice I didnt recognize. Sounding old yet young, malicious yet innocent, feminine yet masculine, emotional yet also emotionless, unable to figure out if perhaps the voice even meant me. The voice and hand hand trembled faintly before slowly stepping back under the assurance of the voice behind the both of us.

Looking at my hands, bloodied and covered in black dust like specks, I focused on them and soon enough realised it wasnt actually blood. The colored markings, my hands looked blood soaked while my nails were pure black and sharpened, slowly growing out a few inches. My new blood looking gloves seemed to shine and swirl as if fresh blood had been poured over them constantly.

"Go, take out the commanders," the voice behind me said angrily yet loudly enough to shake my thoughts. I didnt think twice before I glanced around and soon spotted the most destructive people, and more powerful ones who were not in the allied uniform.

Giant X marks were over a handful of people. I slowly stepped forward, my aura pushing all marines out of my way and killing all people whom were not marked as allies. My vision covered in red as I began to lose my own identity. Each step, my vision shifted a bit higher until I was encircled by the ones with X's.

"You cant fight all of us! Hand over your life, monster!" one yelled.

Feeling a malicious grin spread across my face, I laughed back, "YoU tHiNk YoU cAn EvEn ScRaTcH mE? Hehehehe! DaRe YoU!"

My kagane burst forth, two giant centipedes killing half of the encirclement. The maniacal laughter I let out had disturbed all those around me as more X's had once again surrounded me. My vision again shifted and bloody speckles floated nearby my body as I hummed to myself, the songs shifting in my head on repeat.

Slowly gaining my conciousness back, I found a shadowy figure of a man over my body. I looked up at the face of an old man, "DiD yOu WaNt To PlAy ToO?"

"Do you find war as a game?" the old man asked seemingly angry for some reason. His voice laced with hostility and bloodlust had done nothing but amuse me.

"WaR iS a FuN cArD gAmE! BuT I aM pLaYiNg BoDiEs RiGhT nOw. Do YoU pLaY?" I asked and felt a malicious grin on my face again.

"No. But I'll 'play' with you," the old man growled as he readied his spear.

"Hehehe! DoNt LeT mE dOwN!" I laughed and appeared in his face, "I hAvE bEeN sEaLeD fOr 25 YeArS! TrY tO mAkE iT eNjOyAbLe FoR mE!"

The old man swung his weapon, cutting off my left arm and leg. The man had gained a victorious grin, yelling out for all to hear, "Is that all you've got?!"

The silence over the battlefield as most turned to see what was going on was all but deafening. All attention had been turned onto me. I laughed maniacally, "Is ThAt AlL yOu'Ve GoT?!"

As my body regenerated so quickly it had stunned most people, he frowned and asked, "What sort of devil fruit did you eat?"

"NoNe," I laughed, hitting the middle of his hand with my kagane, "I wAnT yOu AlIvE fOr ThE sHoW!"

He frowned, once again swinging his weapon. I kept allowing him to hit me, laughing as I repeatedly pierced nonlethal parts of his body to slowly weaken him. Having fun seeing how many hits he could take, I ignored the other fights entirely. I hadnt noticed Blackbeard appear or the fact that someone tried to steal my shadow.

As I noticed a purple indicator, I turned and saw Luffy coming at me yelling. Whitebeard was close to collapsing, so I stabbed a kagane through his heart but a danger indicator went off behind me. I turned and found an injured Ryu. Not bothering to dodge, I let out a scream of anger and was soon engulfed in a bone like exoskeleton. Something bounced off of my back as my shadow attacked something.

Appearing in front of Ryu, I poured a vial in his mouth. No response. I growled, creating a hundred clones, "FiNd ThE OnE wHo DiD tHiS! BrInG tHeM tO mE!"

"YES SIR!" they yelled and disappeared.

I picked up Ryu, "My LoVe, I cAnNoT lIvE wItHoUt YoU."

-Host, Ryu cannot be saved-

Disappearing and reappearing in front of Sakazuki, I demanded from him, "WaTcH hIm WhIlE I EnD tHiS..."

"No. You need to stay here," Sakazuki said with a saddened sigh.

"No," I stated and disappeared. Ignoring the old man who was close to death, I started killing all pirates.

The old man attacked me, slicing my head off. My body turned as a new head grew, "YoU tHiNk ThAt WiLl Do AnYtHiNg To Me?!"

"Somebody needs to keep you in control," he said with a labored breath, blood pouring out of the wounds I had given him. The hole in his heart finally gave as his body dropped to the ground. My clones came, dragging a certain pink feathery man who had a grin plastered to his face. "SIR! THE ONE WHO INJURED RYU, SIR," my clones yelled.

"TaKe HiM tO tHe IsLaNd. 117 wIlL hAvE a FiElD dAy," I growled as seastone cuffs landed on the mans body before one clone left with the man and the others disappeared into dust.

Another shadow fell over me, a giant of a beast, yelling for Ace and Whitebeards safety. I drowned out his yell with a screech of my own, sounding like a hollows scream as I was prepared to charge at the giant with all I had.

A faint voice called out to me, barely audible but my enhanced senses picked it up, "Lu...ci...f...er...pl..ea...se."

I froze, recognizing the voice. It was the voice of my love. Slowly turning to the voice of the one system said was unsaveable... "LoVe?"

I appeared in front of him, my exoskeleton slowly cracking and breaking apart. As it turned to dust over my face, I quietly whispered, "My LoVe?"

"D...on...t...wor...ry...a...bo...ut...me...I...m...fi...ne...Le...ts...go...to...th...e...be...ach...a...ga...in...so...on...Th...e...ki...ds...wi...ll...lo...ve...it...I...lo...ve...y...ou...Lu...c...if...er...," Ryu said with labored breaths.

"We can go anywhere you want, love. Please, stay with me... I cant do it without you. Please... My love, please,... I love you too much for you to leave," I said as I pulled him into my arms, holding him tightly.

"I...m...fi...ne...T...ake...ca...re...of...ou...r...fa...m...ily...," he said and smiled with a tired look on his face.

"Not without you, I cant without you! Ryu, dont close your eyes! Please baby, look at me. No, no, no, no, baby, open your eyes," I panicked and tried to wake him. A hand softly touched my shoulder, "He's gone Lucifer."

I shook my head, "No! No he isnt! He cant be! We had so much to do... Baby, open your eyes. Please, baby!"

Recieving no response, I kissed his forehead as blood tears fell from my eyes. Bloodied cherry blossoms and snowflakes littered the ground as I sat there, holding my loves corpse in my arms.

My anger hitting a boiling point, I looked at the sky. The bloody cherry blossoms and snowflakes lifted into the air as I let out a hollows scream, deafening all who heard it. Any and all red indicators were attacked by the cherry blossoms and snowflakes. The only technical pirates left alive were Jinbei, Mihawk, Luffy, Boa Hancock, and Ivankov. I glanced at the five on the ground, "Leave. Now."

Nobody stopped them. I had killed all other pirates, Ace included. They had no reason to stay any longer and didnt want to be killed. Luffy had become mentally broke, unable to even move by himself. Jinbei had carried him off with Ivankov's help, getting onto the newly arrived Trafalgar Law's submarine.

My eyes glued on Ryu's face, I didnt notice how long had passed. The person we were in front of had sat on the ground and kept his arms crossed, silently observing. Another person had stood behind me, just as silent as the others. One person simply placed a giant jacket over my body, half covering Ryu's as well. I couldnt tell if others were nearby, but the place was silent.

A voice, a barely audible whisper asked, "Why did you keep those five alive?"

"Past debts have now been cleared..... I wash my hands of the favors I owed them," I quietly said back.

"You were indebted to pirates?" the voice quietly whispered to me, seemingly shocked by my answer.

"Jinbei had made Ryu concede in a battle of wits when we were younger. Hancock had proven that being selfish is allowed, so I selfishly made Ryu spend more time with me. Mihawk was the person to make Ryu assert his position as mine in public.... Ivonkov once turned Ryu into a woman, thus the first and only female I could truely say entered my heart.... Luffy made Ryu laugh hysterically, Luffys crew did as well and even helped us find the kids we had wanted....," I said as tears filled my eyes, "I couldnt change fate to let you live but I cut fate for many others.... Why? Why couldnt you just stay on the island?! I knew this would happen! My eyes tell me all, so why couldnt you trust me?!? WHY!?!"

"Lucifer. He deserves a proper burial and the kids deserve to know," a voice said sternly in front of me.

Slowly raising my head, I saw the sadness filled eyes of the man who I called my father, my lover, my alpha, and my superior. Shakily, I stood up with Ryu in my arms, "Grab ahold and close your eyes, we're teleporting."

Wrapping a kagane around Ace's body, I brought the three admirals, the fleet admiral and one vice admiral with me to the island.