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My heartbeat was so fast that it was drumming in my ears creating a painful echo. I was running away with my brother and the other Whitebeard pirates as the Navy fired their guns at us from behind.That old man(Whitebeard) sacrificed himself as a distraction so we all could get away from the Marineford. Before running away I saw Ace bowing down to him and crying although I couldn't hear what they said to each other but I understood that it was their final goodbye to each other. I just can't imagine the pain Ace must be going through right now as I know that Whitebeard was his one and only real father even though Gol. D. Roger was his real and late father. If I could I would hug Ace so hard that all the sadness would be squeezed out of him but, for now I can't as we need to focus on running away from here. As we were running, I heard a voice cut through all the chaos of the battlefield that was filled with hatred and mockery. It was coming from behind us and I exactly knew who it was. That Damn Admiral Akainu. "So the Whitebeard pirates where a bunch of cowards after all huh?" He spat with his voice laced with venom. The anger that I kept inside kept boiling back up. What did he----
"He's purposefully taunting us to slow us down! Don't fall for his cheap tricks!" Somebody from our side yelled among the crowd so, even though I felt like using my Gum-Gum pistol to punch him, I knew that I had no chance against him as I saw his previous attacks when he turned Aokiji's ice ocean into a literal HOT SPRING.
I kept running as he kept taunting us to a point that he compared Gold Roger and Whitebeard. "Whitebeard was the loser of his Era." He shouted in mockery. As he said that, something in Ace's eyes shifted. He stopped in his tracks and even when I shouted at him that it was trap, he still didn't move. With anger evident in his eyes, he turned around and he looked straight into Akainu's eyes with a glare that stared directly to hell. "What did you say?" Ace questioned him with the sliver of patience he had remaining in him. Akainu without even flinching even dared to smirk and with ease repeated, "Whitebeard was the loser-----" "WHITEBEARD WAS THE GREATEST PIRATE OF HIS ERA!!!" Ace shouted as he sprinted towards Akainu already forming a fist of fire. Akainu who was already expecting the attack made his own fist into magma and collided it with Ace's fist as Ace shouted, "THIS ERA SHOULD HAVE BEEN NAMED AFTER WHITEBEARD!!!" But, Ace was overpowered by Akainu and was slammed to the ground in seconds.
"Ace!!" I yelled
But, as I was about to go and help him just then Ace's vivre card slipped from my straw hat. "A-Ace's vivre card?" I muttered as I bend down to pick it up but it went farther away from my hand at a point that I was on my knees. I was about to pick it up when I saw something bright and hot shine near my face. I vividly heard my brother shout, "LUFFY!" and before I could even comprehend what happened I heard a disgusting squelching sound. Everything fell silent and even the chaos of the battle field came to a halt. I couldn't understand. I-I must be.......dr-dreaming ........ r-right?
Th-There's n-no way that w-what im seeing i-is real. What my eyes saw was looking scarily real.