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Before anyone could react Marco dove at the pirate empress and snatched Luffy up with the talons on his feet. Roseline screeched in anger and turned to the two marines. "Hurry up and stop him! That pirate is stealing my doll!"

Aokiji acted instantly and shot ice at Marco who dodged. The phoenix turned for the window but Aokiji moved quicker and covered all the exits in ice. "Phoenix hand over the boy and we'll let you go."

Marco chuckled and touched down on the ground, transforming fully back into his human form. "Sorry admiral but I can't do that, this boy is the younger brother to our second division leader, yoi."

Aokiji sighed deeply shaking his head and Roseline screeched again. "How dare you insignificant little worm! That there is my doll and he has no family you fool! Now give back my property!"

The blonde narrowed his eyes, but his attention was diverted by a small tug on his shirt sleeve. Marco looked down at the young raven. Luffy smiled slightly but his eyes looked dead. "Hey Mr. Phoenix it's alright just let me go back, Roseline is nice as long as I'm good, plus you shouldn't anger the celestial dragons it's a bad idea they might try to hurt you."

Roseline smiled viciously nodding. "Yes listen to my raven beauty, he's right you know you shouldn't anger me, besides you heard my doll he wants to come home with me."

Everything was silent as they waited to hear what Marco would say. The blonde knelt down so he could look Luffy in the eyes. "Hey kid didn't you make a promise with someone long ago, Ace told me you weren't the type to break promises, yoi."

Luffy looked up his eyes showing a little light in them. "I promised S-Shanks, I promised him that I would set sail and become pirate king. B-but I I'm not Luffy anymore…I'm Roseline's doll."

Marco shook his head and stated loudly and boldly for all to hear. "You are not a doll! You're not a slave either! You are Monkey D Luffy, son of the revolutionary Dragon, grandson to Garp the fist, and brother to Portgas D Ace the second division commander of the Whitebeard pirates! You are not weak so stand up and fight for your freedom, yoi!"

Luffy's eyes widened as the blonde went on, when Marco finished Luffy had his head down eyes shadowed but nodded. "Okay."

Marco grinned and he stood up holding his hand out. Luffy took it letting the commander pull him to his feet. Luffy turned to the two admirals and celestial dragon.

The young raven did something he hadn't done for a very long time, Luffy got into a fighting stance and looked his attempted captors in the eyes. "My names Monkey D Luffy and I WILL be king of the pirates!"

Roseline was seething in rage at what Marco had done. "Admiral I want that blonde dead by the end of this! How dare he try and give hope to my doll! All my hard work will now have to be started all over again!"

Aokiji nodded and both him and Garp moved to fight. Luffy was scared but he stared his grandpa down, he wasn't going to go back to being a doll, not without a fight anyways.

-(Break)-

Ace and Sabo both stood at the front of the ship staring intently at the ocean, they wanted to get to their little brother as quick as possible.

Thatch placed a hand on Ace's shoulder getting the freckled man's attention. "Don't worry Ace, Marco is there he'll make sure nothing happens to your brother until we can get there."

Ace nodded eyes lite with a determined fire. "I know Marco will keep him safe, besides if anyone can get Luffy's determination back it would be Marco I just know it."

Thatch grinned and jumped up sitting on the railing. "Your right about that, Marco's always been the best at lifting spirits, let's just believe in Marco to get shit done."

-(Break)-

Shank's put down his snail phone and looked over his crew. "Seems like old man Whitebeard is going to try and beat us to the punch! He's planning on taking the little anchor as one of his but I say we don't let him do it!"

The crew cheered loudly shouting their agreements, Yassop stood up raising his rifle. "We ain't gonna let the old man take our anchor! We'll have him join us until he's of age then set sail!"

The crew cheered again all in agreement. Shank grinned glad that his crew was on his side, it seemed they were all in agreement. "Let's set sail, we got lucky since we're only a couple hours from Amazon Lily, we're not going to let this chance go."

The crew all scrambled onto the ship and prepared to set sail. Shank's stood at the helm and pointed into the distance. "Let's set sail men! We're going to get our anchor back!"

"Yeah!"

-(Break)-

Back at Marineford Akainu slammed his hands on the fleet admirals desk glaring. "We can not allow the boy to continue existing! We must deal with him before he can grow and become a threat."

Sengoku sighed deeply having heard this rant many times. "We can't do that! I have told you before Akainu the boy is the property of the celestial dragons and that is where he'll remain! I understand how you feel but look at it this way, if the boy is with them then he will never be able to become a threat, he will have a fate worse than death in their hands."

Sengoku was not happy about this, he believed no child should have to suffer in the hands of a celestial dragon. But Sengoku could see looking at Akainu that the admiral loved the idea of the boy suffering and he felt sick knowing this man would most likely be the one to eventually replace him.

Akainu stood up straight nodding. "Your right, I didn't think of it that way, we must make sure the boy is in the celestial dragon's hands at all time! I'm going out to help the vice admiral and Aokiji bring the boy in."