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Pirate King

Raftael, last island of the Grand Line

He was Monkey D. Luffy and like so often in the last years, he was in a fight.

This was it. He knew this fight would maybe be his greatest. Okay, maybe the great battle against the navy a few days ago had been bigger, but there his crew hadn´t been alone. They had Shanks with them and his father Dragon and their other allies from the New World.

This fight was his and his crews alone. But he knew it would probably also be his last really great one.

Their great adventure that had started over three years ago would be over. He had to smile about this, he actually grinned his enemy in the face, careless like always.

It nearly made him sad that this should be the end.

xxxxxxx

A few minutes earlier

The Straw Hats were standing in the middle of a valley on the last island of the Grand Line. They all stared at the object before them. This was One Piece, Gold Roger´s writing close to it proved it.

They should have anticipated something like that, after everything they knew.

But despite that Luffy was somehow clueless about what this meant, so he did what he always did in such a situation and asked Robin.

In that moment they heard a laughing hall through the valley, one Luffy only knew all too well. The Straw Hats turned around and saw a group of ten men standing a few hundred meters behind them.

"Blackbeard," Nami called out.

"Damn right," the man yelled in his typical manner.

He looked at the object behind them.

"So this is it," he said, "the thing we all had been looking for. Not exactly what I expected," He thought for a moment, "but hell, no reason to worry about."

Then he turned around to Luffy, the two men were looking from the distance at each other.

Luffy had as soon as he had seen his enemy fallen into his serious stand, physically like mentally, the one he showed only in battle, when he was not a goofball for a short time.

He remembered what he had promised, first Shanks and later Ace.

He would not lose, certainly not to the one who delivered Ace to the Marines.

"It looks as if I come too late to become the second Pirate King, Monkey D. Luffy, so I guess I will have to become the third," Blackbeard exclaimed and laughed again,

"by killing you here and taking One Piece for myself", he called out.

"Okay Blackbeard, you can try," Luffy answered him.

The two crews charge at each other

xxxxxxx

A few minutes later

Luffy and Teach stood in opposite to each other. They looked each other in the eyes.

Both captains had already exchanged several hard blows till now.

Blackbeard had a few times tried to catch Luffy with his darkness, but he had used the color of armaments to counter the attacks.

The ground around them had been shaking under Blackbeard´s earth-quake powers, but Luffy still outmatched him in terms of speed.

Neither of them could gain a clear advantage about the other.

Both men were panting heavily now.

They looked each other in the eyes and Luffy smiled. Soon it would be over.

It would be over and he would be Pirate King. There was nothing else.

He prepared the next attack.