Lara's POV;

Oh, the paddle ship has just now crashed further through the hole. The betrayer and his crew were riding on it and with direct course forward. Its crew are rushing forward to get in between the Whitebeard pirates and the Marines. They want to sacrifice themselves in hope to atone for their betrayal.

And it got stopped by Whitebeard...

Everyone was looking at him with wide eyes or in shock. The sheer strength you need to stop a ship alone must be immense. “Do you know how disobedient it is for a child to die before his father? Don't be so full of yourself, that little stab of yours didn't shake my life... Everyone has their own lifespan.

You are not at fault for my state.

Listen, we've done what we came for, now there's no more reason for us to be here. °cough° This will be my final Captain Order, listen carefully my children,” his crew was shouting for him to stop, they don't want to believe that he will die, they want to stay with them, but Whitebeard has other plans.

“This is where you and I split up! Every single one of you, stay alive at all costs!

I'm a remnant of my era... There ain't no ship that's going to carry me out of this,” he gathered his energy and took a massive swing. With one punch he then completely destroyed the whole fort of the Marine HQ and caused an earthquake that damaged any building on the island.

His closest crew was still trying to convince him to not die, but he didn't listen. Each time he swung his halberd the ground exploded and dozens of Marine officers died. Each time he swung the ground trembled and got destroyed.

Still, the Marines kept trying, They were shooting everything they got at Whitebeard and the remaining Marines were trying to take potshots at the now retreating pirates. Only to then get the attention of Whitebeard, who took those out that tried to harm his fleeing crew.

“You could almost pity them,” I mumbled. Whitebeard was standing on his last leg, he won't be able to continue for much longer. I can feel his life force through the connection I have with my ball of light in his body.

“Oh, finally!” Just now Akainu had used a massive magma fist to immolate a bunch of pirates and was right in front of Ace. They exchanged words and Ace fell easily victim to Akainu's provocations. They exchanged a single blow and Ace got burned, how predictable. Ace is way to hotheaded for this, pun intended.

“And here comes the fist,” with a laugh I cheered when Ace's chest got punched through by Akainu. Even without him a Logia, this would have been deadly. He had to use his physical body to shield Luffy.

I could have taken the heat out of Akainu's attack, my current form allows me to take it away. But then Ace wouldn't have died. And neither Lia nor I want to have the Whitebeards around when we go to the New World.

Whoops, have to act quickly now, or else the moment is ruined.

I sucked the heat out of Akainu's visible magma and then plunged down on his position while transforming into my heavy battle mode. The lost heat made him stop momentarily and allowed me enough time to reach them before his attack hit.

My body grew to the size of three meters, the Reaper Death clothes were hidden away by a glowing golden aura. The light began to form a heavy full body plate armour, where even my wings got shielded. A large tower shield made out of hardened light materialised in my left hand and a massive one-handed war hammer, also made out of light, in my right.

Feet first I landed right in front of Akainu and stopped his second attack with my tower shield. The magma crashed into the now gold looking shield and was parted to the side, leaving me and those behind me saved.

“Sorry, but I think Ace should be able to say farewell to his brother,” I apologised before standing up to my now full three-meter. My body was now looking more like one of the Nord from the game Guild Wars 2. Tight-packed muscles, but still with a feminine form.

“Slicer Lara, a typical pirate, betraying and lying scum,” growled Akainu. His body was sizzling and glowing again. The heat was easily reproduced by him.

Instead of answering I readied my shield and lifted the hammer. With a quick burst of speed, I was close to him and brought the heavy weapon down. It was fully coated in Haki, as were my arms.

He tried to block it with his magma turned left arm, but the flat side of my hammer crashed into it with a force that could destroy buildings. His own Haki fought against mine and was overcome. The strike then hit his arm and shattered his bones, before throwing his body to the side, where he crashed into a group of onlooking Marines.

I readied my shield again and waited for the retaliation. An attack that came swiftly and with the roar of burning air. A truck-sized dog out of magma came from the dust and ran at me.

My wings flapped once and propelled me forward, right into the attack. It crashed into my shield and tried to break through, however, it wasn't enough. The magma dog lost its momentum and fell to the ground, where it remained as a puddle of magma.

The semi-liquid could grab no hold on my shield of light and slipped right off again, while the armour kept the heat away.

Akainu formed himself out of the magma and glared at me, his left arm was hanging at an odd angle. “You are even more annoying than I thought.” He liquified his left arm and kept it in that form. Most likely a way for him to still use an otherwise useless limb. Then he looked behind me at the now dead Ace and unresponsive Luffy. He has fallen into shock from Ace's death.

“Thanks, I do my best,” I replied with a mocking bow. He attacked again, self-propelled by an explosion right over my head. I had my shield ready, but he was going to evade me and attack Luffy again.

I knew that Marco was already ready to block the attack. However, I didn't like to be ignored, so I spun around, opened one of my wings and slapped Akainu out of the air with one of my armoured wings. It did no harm to him, other than forcing him to crash land.

His liquid body splashed over a group of pirates and burned them to death, while he reformed and glared at me. “Take Luffy away from here, my navigator would bitch all day if he were to die,” I then said to Jimbei.

Akainu heated himself up again, “Didn't I tell you already? I'm not letting those two brothers out of his alive!” He was just about to launch a wide area attack when suddenly Whitebeard stood behind him.

A raged enhanced fist, powered by Haki, Devil Fruit power and hate crashed into the neck of Akainu. Within seconds Akainu was up again and shot an extremely fast magma lance at Whitebeard. The old man didn't evade and allowed the left side of his face to be burned off. Instead, he used the attack to land a devastating strike into the already wounded left side of Akainu.

The strike travelled onwards beyond Akainu and completely destroyed what was left of the Marine HQ. It also opened a wide crater that separated the remaining pirates from the Marines. Akainu himself was bleeding from numerous wounds now and had trouble breathing before he and many others fell inside the deep chasm.

Only I and he were left on the side of the Marines.

I am honestly impressed with Whitebeard, he was still alive, even with half of his face, numerous holes inside his chest and a body halfway eaten by cancer. “Thanks for the help little Missy, you too should leave now.”

“Pah, as if. Things are becoming interesting now. Or haven't you seen our observer?” I replied while pointing at the group of pirates that had watched the war for a few minutes now.

“The fucker!” Whitebeard growled out the words with so much hate that his Devil Fruit was shaking the very air around us.

“Zehahahaha, Long time no see! Sure am glad I was still fast enough to watch you die, old man!” Laughed Blackbeard, before he focused on me. Is he wounded? He looks slightly burned, as do his crew members.

“And you as well Slicer Lara, you look different now, not like your sister. She and I had a brief run in.” I myself was now also becoming angry. With the crew at his side, he could stand a real chance of killing my Lia. If he has hurt a single hair of her...

Unlawfully taken from Royal Road, this story should be reported if seen on Amazon.

“Yeah, she and I had a little chat. I was in a hurry, so we couldn't talk more, a pity. Even had to run out of a burning prison. Your crew did a number on Impel Down, Straw Hat destroyed most of what was inside, I took its prisoners and your crew blew up the rest of it. Zehahahaha!”

“How the hell did you bastards get here?!” Demanded Sengoku to know. Didn't he know? Does that mean that the Marines didn't know about the attack? Anyway, it doesn't matter. I have already betrayed them.

A man with a black hat and a black walking stick answered. “Ho ho ho, allow me to explain, you see when we were inaugurated as a Warlord crew I hypnotised the Marines in the control room. I just had to tell them that they are ordered to open the Gates of Justice for every ship that approaches, seems like some other people profited from this as well...”

Blackbeard then took over the explanation of their plan. “As pirates, it would have been impossible to break into Impel Down, well normally. The Kage Pirates still did it, anyway. They must have had the same idea as I. We both needed the title of Warlord to get in and out, of course, I don't need it anymore.”

Sengoku was angry beyond reason but turned white when he heard that my crew was there as well. His head snapped around and he stared at me. “Yup, by now Herbert and Batilda should be reunited again,” I answered his unasked question with a cheerful tone.

Yet, before either he or Blackbeard could say anything else, we were interrupted by a shouted “Teach!” From Whitebeard. The still not dead man had readied another of his attacks and destroyed the foothold Blackbeard was standing on.

Blackbeard formed a black mist from his powers, the mist touched the ground and everyone close. I and Whitebeard included. I felt how the Devil Fruit power of me got cancelled out, it was feeling not unlike being inside water, just without the extreme weakness.

Still, if that's everything his power does then he is far from invincible. As was proven by Whitebeard. The man had swung his halberd and cut deeply into the left shoulder of Blackbeard.

“You overestimate your ability.., but your weak defences are still there,” explained Whitebeard to the trashing Blackbeard. The shadow fruit user got grabbed by the throat and Whitebeard activated his fruit again. Now, while under pain, Blackbeard couldn't concentrate enough and wasn't able to cancel the effect.

With a crash Whitebeard pushed down and banged Blackbeard's head into the ground, further destroying it.

Blackbeard was howling in pain, but his high endurance was allowing him to shout an order to his crew. “Let him have it, kill him!”

Every one of his crew has jumped forward and was firing, cutting, stabbing or slicing into Whitebeard. Blackbeard was still laughing loudly, celebrating his victory, when Whitebeard looked down at him and started to speak his final words.

“You're not one of them. The men roger waits for, there are a very rare few of them, but you Teach are not one of them.

Those who carry the Will of Roger, and now also have to carry the Will of the late Ace. Even though the bloodline has been extinguished, their will has yet disappeared. And one day, those who came to fight for this world will find that treasure. The day will surely come when it will be found. Because ONE PIECE EXISTS!” With that final words Whitebeard died, he left the world while standing.

I had watched the whole thing from behind. A smug little grin formed on my face and I took an apple out of my inventory. Blackbeard, who was laughing and standing up saw me and my grin.

And with a quick burst of my power, the little ball of energy inside Whitebeard roared to life. It grew in size and extended. A holy golden light began to shine from within his many dozen wounds.

Blackbeard saw that something was happening and tried to rush over to Whitebeard, he was hoping to stop whatever was happening by cancelling it out with his Devil Fruit. The glow intensified once more and hid Whitebeard's body completely. The moment Blackbeard reached the glowing sphere he activated his Devil Fruit and began to cancel my own power.

The glow got overlapped by Blackbeard's shadows but was not instantly sniffed out. They fought for a moment before mine was overcome and enveloped, it then was sucked away into nothingness.

However, the moment Blackbeard dispelled his shadows he saw that he was too late. The corpse of Whitebeard was gone, it had been burned to ashes and cleansed by the holy fire of my Angel Fruit.

And with his body so too was his Devil Fruit power.

A Devil Fruit power, that has, as it was their nature, travelled over to the next closest fruit, namely the apple I was holding.

Blackbeard's hate-filled stare swivelled over to me, his eyes went wide when he saw what I was holding and his glare intensified. Blackness began to creep into the whites of his eyes, so angry was he.

With a smug grin, I lifted the Devil Fruit up and took a big bite out of it. All around the people stared at me in shock. Not believing what I have done. “Zehahaha, are you stupid? Eating a second Fruit will kill you,” laughed Blackbeard loudly. Relieve washed over his face, he must be able to still steal the effect from my corpse, even when it hasn't fully manifested in me.

In return suppressed the gag from eating another one of these foul things, but then felt how the Fruit was starting to work. Whitebeard's Tremor-Tremor Fruit really was the natural weaker part of my vibration fruit. It will not give me the fine control over any and all vibrations. However, it will greatly enhance any and all normal vibrations and allow me to greatly increase the power of all my vibrating attacks.

Before I had to use enormous amounts of energy if I were to create an earthquake or tsunami. Now it was relatively easy.

When I didn't start vomiting blood or bled out of every orifice in my body Blackbeard stopped laughing. “You bitch!” He rose his hand and activated his Devil Fruit power to suck me over to him.

I threw another rumble ball into my mouth and cracked it, before starting my counter to his darkness. I had a hunch from the previous use of his darkness on my light. I activated my angel fruit and transformed into the Mage Angel. With it, I had the greatest control over light and used that control to create a barrier between his darkness and my body.

A black wall crashed into my golden light, the energies fought, each cancelling the other out before neither won. “Seems like my Angel Fruit can keep up with your Darkness, Blackbeard. Thanks for the Tremor Fruit, by the way, I will make good use of it,” I said with a laugh of my own and unfolded my wings.

The sword using man from Impel Down tried to attack me, but a glowing shield sprung up and blocked his attack. One shield was cut in two, but a second formed right behind the first one and stopped the rest of the attack.

A following pierce from the long-nosed woman was also not strong enough to penetrate my shields. The shield has tilted slightly to the side and deflected the tip of the spear away from my body. This made her overreach, a mistake I used with glee.

I materialised a staff out of my light and enhanced it with both my vibrations and the tremor from Whitebeard's fruit. The tip of the staff glowed before I then crashed it into the shoulder of the long-nosed woman.

Her shoulder got instantly pulverised from the combined enhancement of the staff. Even without any real strength behind the swing, as this Angel form has little of my physical strength.

She screamed from the pain of getting multiple bones broken at the same time and jumped away. The sniper of Blackbeard's crew tried to use the new gap to make another breathing hole in my forehead, but his bullet pinged off of a shield.

They need strong Haki to penetrate this shield, bullets won't be enough.

“You little bitch, I should have killed you when we first met. You and your sister are getting in my way every time you appear!” Roared Blackbeard. He created a massive wave of blackness and hurled it at me.

I produced an equal amount of light and countered his wave with my own. The effect of the rumble ball made it easy for me to produce enough light.

The wrestler from his crew suddenly came flying out of both waves. His body was slightly burned from my light, but he wasn't caring about the wounds. His fist was cocked back and glowed with Haki.

“Zehaaa!” he crashed into my shield and punched right through it before he punched forward with his other fist and shattered another shield as well. I still had to push power into the wave of light that was battling with Blackbeard's darkness.

Which made defending against this new attacker harder. He had destroyed my fourth and final shield before I could do much. His fist into my stomach and send me flying backwards and over the chasm.

I quickly healed the bruise with my fruit but knew that a continued fight would not turn out well for me. Blackbeard has already caught on that he only needs to keep me busy with his darkness. His crew will attack while he keeps the pressure on me. I have to decide between both, his crew or him. And the moment he can cancel my Angel Fruit I have lost.

Sigh, seems as if I have to use a third rumble ball, before then fleeing.

I pulled myself out of the debris and flew in the air. The Whitebeard pirates were in full run now, fleeing from the pursuing Marines and trying to keep Luffy alive.

The quick glance showed me that they will keep him alive. Between Akainu and Luffy are still a lot of pirates. And Law shouldn't be far away either.

Down below I saw how some of Blackbeard's crew were now in a battle with Sengoku. His golden Buddha form was overpowering Blackbeard's fruit as well. It looks as if Devil Fruits with a holy connection have a chance of countering Blackbeard's shadows.

For the time being, I flew higher in the air and gathered sunlight. The glow of the star was energy filled enough for me to power some seriously powerful attacks. One of those I am now preparing.

I reformed my four shields and commanded them to protect me, while I raised my hand's gen sky. The light of the sun dimmed somewhat and started to only shine down on me. The battlefield below got dark and people looked up to watch.

Only for them to then shout and scream in fear. For they were seeing the forming of a massive ball of fire. It burned in a bright white light and soon became large enough to be bigger in size than a super-sized warship.

“Try countering this Teach!” I snarled and threw the ball down. It's one of my few attacks I have given a name. “HEAVEN'S DOWNFALL!”

Blackbeard cursed loudly and pumped out waves of black darkness after waves of darkness. He formed a big bowl of black clouds and tried to catch the burning ball. It worked, the ball got slowed to a crawl. But its heat alone was doing damage. The stone began to liquefy, the clothes of nearby people were catching fire. And Blackbeard was visibly struggling to keep my attack away.

None of the Marines dared to interfere, as at that moment Blackbeard was saving their lives as well. Meanwhile, I had taken my leave and was happily flapping my wings. I had done what I came for. The world now knows that I have Whitebeard's power, stood up to Akainu, Blackbeard and Doflamingo. I even came out of it relatively unharmed.

I rose higher and higher into the sky and then broke through a single lone cloud. And lo and behold, before my eyes hovered the Raptor. The steam it was pushing out had formed the cloud they were hiding in.

I touched down on the deck and was instantly thrown on my ass by the human missile that was my Lia.