One Piece: Reborn and Skypiean

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Title: The Sword of Fire...

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–Portgas D. Ace Pov–

I was looking down. "How can I help you, please?"

As I asked this question, I noticed Jack had a small grin under his jaw mask.

"It's gonna be easy."

Thinking like that, I descended from the sky first, standing in front of the giant man.

Jack then said while releasing an intimidating aura. "Son, you just won one in a million chances, be grateful. Kaido would love to hear that you are helping in this mission, got it?"

'Kaido yes...'

I'm nodding. "I understand, but what should I do?"

Jack had a grim face. "First..."

....

He said there was a demon fruit they were looking for. They didn't reveal anything else, obviously.

They've found the fruit, it's in a small hole inside the volcano, right where the lava ends.

Jack said, since I seem to have some sort of immunity to heat and can fly, I can easily enter the hole and then pick up the fruit.

To be honest....

'It's easy.'

Bereboops!

My mind was troubled by the sound of boiling lava.

Yeah, right now, I'm 'swimming' through the steam inside the volcano's border, towards that hole. I could feel a look of anticipation on my back.

'Loser.'

I'll just take the fruit and run away. In this steam shower, although I could not control the natural steam, by releasing it myself and then mixing it with the natural one, I could completely control it.

I've been doing it all the time while flying from the sea to here to the volcano.

'40% of the island is already under me.'

I am aware that Jack is strong, stronger than me at the moment. However, this is my domain, even if I cannot win, I can run.

'As long as my crew does not come here, and return to the ship as I ordered, I can escape.'

Thinking like that, I entered a small hole, barely.

"They may have arrived on the ship."

Ahh, I feel hot.

Yes, being just 1 meter above the magma even makes me hot. Even though I was sweating, it was unbearable.

Then I went into the cave. My hands burned as I put them on the floor.

'It hurts...'

I barely managed to control myself from screaming and heading forward, crawling.

Basically, I am torturing my palms and knees right now.

"There's nothing I can't handle."

Gritting my teeth, I continued to crawl.

The cave was a little deeper, deeper than I wanted. So it took me about 3 minutes of torment when I finally reached a wider place, it could even be called a room.

In the middle of the room, there was an altar, on it, standing a fruit that clearly looked like a devil fruit.

I grinned.

The fruit looked majestic, I would easily believe it was the Dragon-Dragon fruit if anyone told me that.

I stood up and walked forward slowly and was about to touch the fruit when... Suddenly I felt suspicious.

I heard in many pirate folktales that when they went treasure hunting; they found this type of altar where the treasure was kept. Most of the time, the entire place was destroyed upon touching the treasure.

'Is this whole place going to collapse if I touch it too?'

That's something to consider. I was silent for 3 seconds before I couldn't stand the heat and picked up the fruit!

"..."

Fortunately, nothing happened.

Sighing, I started crawling out of the hole. It takes about 3 minutes...

....

"Oh, hey he's out!"

"Yes, I can see it."

Out while ignoring the voices, the first thing I did was fly.

I immediately flew hundreds of meters above the volcano. I can't hold the heat anymore.

"Hey, you come down here!"

Hearing the call, I lowered my head, where Jack was looking at me, especially in my hands expectantly.

I first searched whether my friend had come here to do something stupid like save me or not.

Fortunately, they didn't.

Yet... I could see some of them coming in this direction from afar.

'This is not good...'

"Hey, Son!" My mind was cut off by Jack's words. "What are you doing there, get down!"

Investigator - Investigator.

"Hey," I have a question. "How strong is Kaido?"

My last question before I ran away.

Jack's face darkened. He seemed to understand something about me. He laughed a little before looking straight into my eyes.

"Son, he is someone beyond your imagination. Don't even try anything stupid, or you, along with all your friends will all die."

I just laughed before putting the fruit in my side bag.

"You know what? Fuck you, I'll go now!"

Holy hooch!

I turned around and gave strength around me. Instantly, it jumped several hundred meters forward.

....

–Pov General–

Jack's anger reaches its limit as he transforms into his Mammoth form.

He ordered Egura and Batman.

"You two, go after him!"

He ran fast with his giant body while both of them flew.

Egura quickly becomes an eagle, but Batman is a little slow.

"Brat, you're making a big mistake!"

With heavy but swift strides, Jack began to run towards the ship he saw as Ace went inside.

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–Ace Pov–

As I jumped forward, I immediately started flying towards Deuce and some of my other colleagues who came in this direction from a distance of about 1,000 meters.

I covered the distance in five seconds.

"Hey, Deuce! I got the fruit!" I smiled seeing his surprised face. "RUN! HAHA!"

Deuce shouted for the last time before starting to run. He was obviously happy, after all he was going to get Dragon Zoan.

Things should go easy, as planned. But...

The eagle man I saw earlier surpassed my speed and went towards my ship.

I feel my blood freeze.

Masked Deuce and the others noticed, he started to run faster towards the ship, I flew.

My speed is increasing, I will chase the eagle but...

"!!!!!!"

"Ughhh!"

I had a headache and almost lost consciousness.

'What was that...?'

I saw the culprit behind me, it was the man who looked like a bat.

"I'm Batman! No one can escape my sound waves!"

Sound waves.... He's a bat, no wonder.

He again prepared another attack. "Today your death will be given for disobeying Jack-sama—"

"!"

Before he could finish, I punched my hand in the air and he was swept away by it in a split second, flying back to the volcano.

'Shit, he made me late!'

I turned my head around the boat.

I was only 500 meters away from him, I could see my friends .. but the Eagle man had already gotten there!

I increased my speed, I could because the steam of this place is under my control now, this is my top speed where I can't even see anything.

Holy hooch!

Instantly, I reached the ship but — what I witnessed left me confused.

"Ughh! A-ace! Don't come here!"

One of my friends, Perry, has been taken hostage by the Eagle Man. He has one of his claws on his neck.

'Damn.. I'm late.'

He laughed as his claws pierced through Perry's neck, a hint of blood started to flow.

"Eee-Kid, listen. Hand over the fruit, and I'll set it free."

I gritted my teeth at him.

I got this fruit for Deuce, she must have wanted to eat it. But she also took Perry hostage.

I looked at Perry who stopped struggling. "Mari..."

He just smiled. "It's okay Ace, give the fruit to Deuce, it's my fault I'm so weak."

Perry is a woman with light brown hair and a perfect hourglass body. The most beautiful thing about him was his chest and his eyes, his sea blue eyes.

I'm not stupid not to notice that he likes me. But I don't want to be in a relationship with my partner, it will cause a lot of problems.

But it's true, I'm interested in him.

So, other than her being my escort, there are a few other reasons why I don't want Perry to die.

I then looked towards Masked Deuce. Our eyes meet.

'...Yeah.'

That's what we talked about with our eyes. Masked Deuce is the same as me, he will care about the crew first before caring about himself.

"Hey-hee!!"

That bastard Eagle shouted.

"Quick, throw it away."

I nodded and pulled out the fruit from the side of my bag.

"Yes ..." A grin appeared on my face. "I threw it!!!!"

With all my strength and Haki, I punched my fists and fruits forward!

Due to the abundant steam around me, my punch burned due to friction with the air.

" !!!! "

Zhu !

Along with my fist, the fruit went into the fire and hit the face of the Eagle man. He was thrown backwards, out of the boat.

However, as the fruit fell on the deck of the ship, I saw Jack arrive here as well.

I'm sure the fruit is fine, after all at the volcano it's fine, but it's bad.

I shouted at Perry: "Pery, throw the fruit at Deuce! Now!"

He nodded after taking a sip twice. "Y-Yeah!"

He did the same as Jack ran faster towards the Deuce closest to him.

Deuce caught the fruit.

Jack grabbed it and swung his Face Nose.

"Dead, Son!"

However, Deuce had already bitten the fruit.

His body started to change, his skin became rough and dark. He started growing 2 wings on his back, his body structure changed...

"*KREEAAAAACHHH!!!*"

He was crying as if it was painful.

"*ROAAARR!!*"

With another shout, Deuce turned into.... Incredible Black Dragon with pointed wings.

Bam!

With his newly evolved limbs, he hits Jack and makes his giant body fly several meters away.

'...Strong.'

That's the only thing I can think of. Deuce is stronger than me now.

"W-Ace!" Perry called me when I looked at him. "Did you not recognize the beast ...?"

I frowned. 'What's he...'

'...Ah!'

That's right, it was a beast rumored to exist on this island thousands of years ago.

We even got a photo that Deuce showed us that she got from her underworld friend.

This is the Dragon. Ancient animals named... Nergigante!

[Picture Here]

The fruit should be Zoan Kuno— Ryu Ryu no Mi, Model: Nergigante.

I gulped at this. He looks magnificent...

'Monster, even compared to Jack's Mammoth...'

My allies became strong, I was sure he would win against Jack.

That said, I want to meet Deuce's friend from the underworld. He was the one who gave him the information, to begin with, he must have been one of his close friends....

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A/N: Nergigante from Monster Hunter World