Title: From Caged Marines to Whitebeard Pirates
Summary: When Blackbeard was caught in the action of stabbing Thatch, a fight ensues, a trap planned ahead off time was laid out, causing Marco, the first division commander, to be thrown to the sea in his Phoenix Form, hearing the laughter of the traitor and the cries of his siblings as he submerged. Locked in a cage and kept as a pet bird for the Tenryuubito for months, Marco was saved and hidden from the world by a group of Marines. But it seems, this group needs to be saved as well, especially their beloved Captain, the Rear Admiral, Monkey D. Luffy.
Pairing: Marco x Fem!Luffy
Rating: T
Genre: Romance / Angst
Warning: Female Luffy, Rear Admiral Luffy, Caged Strawhat Crew, Marine Strawhat Crew Temporarily, Big Strawhat Crew, Hurt Luffy, Hurt Strawhat Crew, Grammar, Overprotective Strawhat Crew, Torture, Violence, Language, Cursing, Overprotective Siblings, Alive Ace! Alive Thatch!, Alive Whitebeard!, Whitebeard Pirate Sabo, Different DF Luffy, Strawhat Pirates will be Whitebeard Pirates Temporarily, OOC Characters, Smart Luffy, OC Characters, Obsessive Behavior, Experimentation
Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece.
Legends:
"Talking"
'Thoughts'
"Calls/Emphasis"
"Whispers of the voice"
~Flashback~
~Change Scene~
Chapter 1
Walking down the hallway, the First Commander of the Whitebeard Pirates, Marco the Phoenix, frowns, unable to remove this horrible feeling that started when his brother, Thatch, arrived and showed them the devil fruit he acquired during his mission. Adding the fact that Teach has been weird upon seeing the fruit, had resulted in him walking in the middle of the night, heading towards the Fourth Commanders room. The first commander was only a few feet away when he heard some muffled conversation behind the cracked open door of his brother. The bad feeling grew, Marco immediately runs and open the door and just in time to see his brother, Thatch, about to be stabbed by Teach.
"THATCH!" Marco screamed, waking the other commanders and their captain, and making Teach miss from giving Thatch a dangerous wound. Instead, the traitor stabbed the fourth commander in the arm, as he turns towards them with his arm raised and creating a huge wound that would surely scar, before wrenching the knife making more blood spurt out. Thatch grunted falling to floor why grabbing the wounded arm that was bleeding heavily, while Teach raised the knife in front of him and holding the devil fruit he grabs the moment the chef let go.
"Ah, ah, ah. You're not supposed to be up and about, Commander." Teach sneered, annoyed that his plan has already been spoiled.
"What are you doing, Teach?!" Marco asked, taking a fighting stance at the door, blocking any escape. The three pirates heard footsteps running towards them, which made the two of them relax slightly and one to get angry.
'Damn it!' Teach cursed, thinking of ways to escape when he remembers something. Grinning darkly, he waited. Meanwhile, Thatch grabs his blanket and wrapped it around his wound, while keeping his eyes on Teach.
'What is he planning?' The two commanders thought, Marco, however, got distracted when he was called by their second commander, Portgas D. Ace.
"Marco, what's wrong?! What happen!?" Glancing at the side, Marco made one of his few mistakes, for once he took his eyes off Teach, the traitor immediately charged towards him.
"MARCO!" Thatch shouted while the said commander hit the other side of the hallway as the traitor ram to his body and ran away from them.
"What the-?! Teach!?" Ace shouted, pausing upon seeing a member of his division running away from them, the rest of his foster siblings stopped behind in him confused.
"THATCH!" Haruta shouted, which made Ace glance inside the room and his eyes widen upon seeing the fourth commander injured as the 12th division commander run towards him. Meanwhile, Izo help Marco stand up as their Captain walk towards them with anger and concern.
"What happen here, son?" He asked, the anger in his voice obvious but it was being overlapped with his concern towards his injured son, who was being put to the emergency stretcher they input in every room and corner of their ship with the help of the other commanders as well as some nurses. Thatch wince, his injured arms jostled by accident as he was being helped into the stretcher.
"I was talking to Teach. It seems that he wanted the devil fruit I brought earlier because when I told him twice that I don't know what to do with it, he tried attacked me with. Marco's shouts gave me enough warning to dodge it but…" Whitebeard watched his son carefully as he gestured to the wound he received as he grew pale.
"He immediately grabs the fruit the moment Thatch let it go, yoi." Marco finished, leaning against Izo as he began to steady his legs. Whitebeards eyes narrowed at his oldest before turning to Thatch.
"Rest my son. We will take care of this." He said, said commander smiled before fainting and the other crew members immediately run towards the infirmary without waiting for any orders from their captain with the female nurses telling their brothers to be gentle.
"I'm fine, yoi," Marco grunted, finally moving away from Izo as he fussed over the phoenix. The other commanders and their captain look at the hallway Teach run to.
"Teach tried to kill Thatch for a fruit?" Ace asked slowly as a fire began to appear from his shoulders. Nobody answered him as they all saw their ex-brother's running away from and the evidence right in front of them.
"Wait," Marco stated as he began to fear something. "Who's having the watch duty tonight, yoi?" He finished. The rest look at him.
"Why are you asking?" Izo asked.
"Because Teach is a traitor, none of our brother outside might know about this, he manages to injure a commander and he was strong enough to knock me out of his way! If he's this strong, whoever is on watch duty is in danger if they try to stop Teach, especially when it shows he has no remorse at all, yoi!" He ranted and their eyes widen in horror.
"Ace…?" Vista slowly asked as he looks at the 2nd division commander, who was pale as a ghost.
"It's his turn. We just switched shifts… and if Teach is already outside then…" All the present commanders and captain cursed out loud before running towards the deck.
'Don't you dare hurt another brother/son of mine, Teach!' They thought at once as their footsteps are heard inside their ship, but muffled outside.
~At the Deck~
A 20 years old, blond-haired male, narrows his eyes as he watches the ship that appeared out of nowhere in the middle of his shift and was starting to follow them. He had tried searching for any signs whether they are pirates or marines but he didn't saw any jolly roger or the marines flag.
'Not to mention…' he thought before glancing at the door leading towards the commander's quarters. 'There's also that muffled shout. Pretty sure it was Marco who shouted, but what was he shouting of?' He glances back at the ship and narrowed his eyes when they seemed to be a bit closer than they were a moment ago. As he took out a baby den-den mushi, he saw the door for the commander quarters open followed by a slightly panicking Teach running outside and upon further inspection, he saw the fruit on one hand and while the other is holding something but unseen.
'What's going on?' The teen thought before jumping down and headed towards the black-haired pirate.
"Hey, Teach!" He greeted, a hand in his pocket holding the den-den mushi. Teach flinched and look at the blond, smiling forcefully.
"Commander Sabo! Fancy seeing you here!" He stated. Outlook Sabo, the sworn brother of Portgas D. Ace frowned at what was said.
"It's the Second Division's turn on night watch for this week Teach, you know that." He stated. Teach twitched and discreetly hiding the knife and the devil fruit behind him. Unfortunately, Sabo saw him move and his sight immediately focused on the one thing that was still visible… the fruit. Tilting his head to the side, Sabo looks at Teach and looked at him carefully. He knew that fruit… it was the Devil Fruit that Thatch brought earlier. He knew Thatch said that he will hide the fruit until the latter knew what to do with it and he knew also knew that the Fourth Commander brought it in his room, so why is Teach holding to it?
"Say Teach…" Sabo started slowly, unknown to him the ship that he was watching earlier is getting closer to them. "Why do you have Thatch's devil fruit?" He finished, the traitor waited for a moment before smirking darkly and charged towards the commander lifting his knife as he goes. Eyes widening, Sabo jumps to the side, avoiding the knife, and began to dodge away as his division member keeps on attacking him.
"What the-?! Teach!" Sabo shouted, as landed few feet away from the traitor, lifting his hand to grab the pipe that was attached in his back. "What are you doing?!"
"Can't you see, commander?" Teach smirked darkly, as he lifted his knife in front of him, only then did Sabo saw some blood on the handle and Teach's hand.
"What did you do?" The 2nd commander growled out, the traitor merely grins while snarled before jumping away from where he was standing when he felt someone trying to attack him from behind.
"Wha-?!" He stated, and only then did he notice the ship was already sailing beside Moby.
"SABO!" Ace shouted as he and the other commanders and their captain arrived on the main deck, panting while they watched as other pirates board their ship, landing between them and the blond-haired captain. The said blond look at his sworn brother before jumping away again when someone attacked him with a sword. Sabo jumps to the barrels before jumping towards the mast and grabs the rope hanging on it and climb to stand in the wooden platform tied to the mast.
"ACE! What's going on?!" Sabo shouted, looking down the deck.
"Teach is a traitor! He tried to kill Thatch!" Ace shouted, before glaring at their ex-crew member.
"Tried?" Teach started, still grinning. "Zehahaha! Commanders, commanders, did you think that my knife is just a plain knife?" At that, Whitebeard growled as he steps forward and stops once he is already in front of his son.
"You covered your knife with poison?" Though it may seem like a question, the way the yonko spoke, it was clear that it was a statement.
"Zehahaha! Of course, I put it there to make sure Commander Thatch dies before morning." He then glared at Marco. "I never expect you to be awake and spoil what I had planned for, Commander." He growled while Marco smirked, smug that he spoiled the traitor's plan and angry as he seems to plan to for a long, long time.
"I'm not sorry if I spoil your plans-yoi." He stated, knowing that with their nurses can save their head chef from any poison that Teach had put in the knife.
"Ah yes… But I'm not worried commander for I have more than one plan." The traitor then grinned darkly, as they all prepare themselves for any attack that they will receive. Sabo, adjusted his grip on his rope, preparing to jump down and twist around the mast to hit the bell they have to alert their other brothers on the ship for the fray that will surely happen. It was a silence for a while, a beat later it was chaos. Teach had made the first move, throwing his knife towards one of the commanders, who avoided it, and his action was followed by the pirates that had boarded the Moby Dick. Sabo jumps down from the platform and twist around the mast, hitting the bell with his feet followed by hitting with his hand. The other commanders give a battle cry and fought back with the pirates who had no right to be on their ship.
"Blackbeard pirates! Attack with full force!" Teach shouted during the whole commotion and received some battle cry as a response. Whitebeard narrowed his eyes as he ordered his commanders to defend their home. As the commanders and their enemy pirates fought one another, the other members of the whitebeard pirates began to head out of their rooms and towards the deck to help their commanders fight. Though some of them are confused as they didn't wake up when Marco shouted, the others were there to slightly explain the situation to them. While all they got was 'Teach', 'Thatch', 'Marco' and 'Attack' or something along those lines, the white beard pirates never had any hesitation on attacking the enemies.
As the Whitebeard Pirates fought against the Blackbeard Pirates, Teach had been slowly moving away from the battle, using it as a distraction. However, Sabo had noticed him moving towards the other ship and gritted his teeth. After hitting his enemy with his staff bo staff covered in armament Haki, knocking the pirate unconscious, he immediately runs towards Teach. Ace punched a pirate with his fist covered in fire when he saw Sabo running, glancing to the direction where Sabo is heading, he narrows his eyes as he saw the traitor nearing the gangplank. He punched another pirate that tried to attack him before following after Sabo.
"Sabo!" Ace shouted, gaining the attention of his fellow second commander but the blond continues to run as the raven-haired boy followed a few steps behind him. Ace shouted, gaining the attention of his fellow second commander but the blond continues to run as the raven-haired boy followed a few steps behind him. Ace's shout also caught the attention of Blackbeard, who cursed when he saw his two former commanders running towards him. Reaching towards his back, the ex-whitebeard pirate grabs his gun and started to shoot towards them. Both Sabo and Ace's eyes widen before they dodge the bullets heading towards their way. The traitor immediately running towards his ship as the two commanders gained their footing, but when they did Teach had already stepped on the enemy ship. Cursing, the sworn brothers tried to follow after him but were overwhelmed with the traitor's crew as they seem to focus their attacks on them.
Whitebeard was standing in front of the door that leads to the inner deck. Killing any pirates that tried to attack him and sneak behind him with intentions to kill his daughters (the nurses), his other sons that were still inside, and his down Fourth commander. Upon seeing his two commanders surrounded by the enemy pirates, he immediately looked for his first commander, who was already on his way towards the raven-haired and blond-haired pirates, confident that his sons will be okay, Whitebeard focuses on the pirates around him.
'Where did Teach found these pirates?' The emperor thought as more and more pirates flowed out of their enemy ship, he was then distracted by blue light, specifically, by blue fire. Turning to the direction where the light is shining, Whitebeard saw Marco in his phoenix rising before it dove down to the middle of the pirates that were surrounding Ace and Sabo. The impact he made had knocked the enemy pirates away while his fire gently covered his adopted siblings.
"Thanks, Marco!" Ace and Sabo grinned at him, to which Marco responded with his own. Whitebeard smirk, before swinging his bisento towards the group of pirates heading towards him. He could have used his Haki, but with his fourth commander unconscious below the deck and unknown, he is not willing to take any chances of possibly making it worse. As Whitebeard defends the door that leads inside their ship, and as the whitebeard crew fought the other pirates, none of them saw Teach smirking darkly as he signed something to one of his crew, who grinned and immediately charged towards the Ace, Marco, and Sabo. The other black beard pirates, that weren't busy with fighting with the commanders or crew members immediately followed suit.
Marco cursed as he was forcefully separated from his brothers as more and more pirates began to fight with him. So focus on the pirates in front of him, he didn't realize that he was backing into one of his crewmates back and the moment their back touches they jump away, startled, with Marco swinging his talons. Luckily, that whitebeard member jumped far away enough to avoid the unintentional attack.
"Commander!" He shouted in alarm while Marco jerk in shock. Upon seeing a brown hair male with brown eyes and a piercing in his left ear, he realized it was a member of his division, Izumi.
"Shit! Sorry, Izumi!" Marco apologized before twirling around and kick the pirate that tried to attack him from behind. Izumi also turned, slicing the pirate behind him with his sword, before he glances up when he saw a movement from the corner of his eyes.
"Shit! Commander Marco!" He shouted, catching the said commander's attention when Marco turned to look at him, the pirate merely pointed towards their enemy ship. Glancing at the direction, Marco's eyes widen when he saw Teach standing behind a cannon and what more, that cannon was directed towards the direction of his Oyaji. Fury began to fill Marco, first, he attacks Thatch, then Sabo, and then waging a fight between the Whitebeard Pirate and his so-called Blackbeard Pirates… and now… he's doing a cowardly attack to his captain… no… he won't harm his family any longer. No more! Losing his calmness, Marco transformed into his phoenix and with an angry cry, he flew towards the traitor's direction. As Marco flew, intending to slam Teach to the floor, he didn't notice that he was being followed by Izumi, who was running calmly and smirking darkly. The phoenix released another cry and tried to do what he had plan… only for him to pass through the traitor's body.
'What?' Marco thought, his phoenix form releasing a confused noise the moment it happens before he slammed to the floor. Marco tried to transform into his human form, but then he was suddenly lifted, only then did he notice that he was trapped in a net, and not just any ordinary net… A sea stone net. 'Shit!' He thought and began to struggle while releasing an angry screech.
"Zehahahaha!" Marco paused, glaring to the side where he saw the Traitor and… Izumi…?
'What?' Marco thought, eyes widening as his heart broke at the thought that there is more than one traitor on the crew. But then, suddenly, Izumi is changing form and the next thing Marco knows, Catarina Devon, devil fruit user of the Inu Inu no Mi, Model: Kyuubi no Kitsune, is standing at the place where Izumi was standing earlier.
"Murunfuffuffu," Devon laughed. "That's a nice expression you have, phoenix." Marco glared, wishing he can shout at them, unfortunately, seeing as his trap and cramped in a sea stone net, he forced himself to stay as a phoenix, even when it hurts him.
"How the mighty have fallen, Zehahahaha!" Teach laughs. "It's pretty much predictable that you would immediately rush to attack the person that will try to kill your… Oyaji…" He sneered, while Marco screech at how he sounded spit out the name they had for their captain.
"And to think, that all we need to do to catch you is to impersonate one of your division members, point out that your captain will be attacked from behind and have you slammed to our trap, Murunfuffuffu," Devon stated. Marco screeched in anger before his net was suddenly lifted, letting him see his family fighting the pirates.
"HOW THE MIGHTY HAVE FALLEN!" Teach repeated, shouting, stepping on the barrels that were near the railings, as he showed the captured commander to the whitebeards as a price. His words caught all of the pirates' attention, which made them look towards his direction. The Whitebeards froze upon seeing their first mate captured, and as the Blackbeard Pirates took that as a signal to retreat, the other pirate crew were covered with an emotion, fury.
"MARCO!"
"COMMANDER!" They all shouted as the watched the phoenix struggled to break out.
"Teach you bastard…" Ace growled as he walks towards the railing, with Sabo, Whitebeard and the other commanders beside him.
"Ah, ah, ah. Stay where you are, commanders." Teach warned, leaning to the railings and letting the captured commander hanging over the sea. Marco stopped moving when he notices that the traitor was intentionally letting him slip down from his slightly loosen grip every time he struggled. Said traitor grinned darkly at the phoenix before tightening his grip again and look at his former crew.
"Let my son go," Whitebeard growled, Teach pretended to think, as he tapped his chin with his index finger, a thoughtful expression on his face. The Whitebeards tense, knowing that something bad will happen.
"Sure. But not without leaving a… present." He grinned and the next thing they now are Marco screeching in pain, blood dripping down from the commander's body to the sea, and they then saw as their commander seems to lose his energy and stayed weak in the net.
"Marco!" They shouted worriedly, as a Blackbeard pirate steps forward with a crossbow on his hands.
"The sea stone nails work, captain." He stated, and then before their eyes, the Whitebeards saw Teach threw Marco in a birdcage barely big enough to fit him and was immediately thrown to the sea.
"MARCO!"
"COMMANDER!"
"ZEHAHAHAHAHA"
As Marco's phoenix form fall to the sea, gunshots rang around him and when the cage touched the sea everything was black.
~Five Months Later Mariejois~
Marco, in his phoenix form, curled around his body filled with sadness and homesickness. For months he stayed in his phoenix form to hide his true identity from the people who caught him, the Tenryuubito. For some unknown reason, when the cage he was trapped at fell to the sea, he stayed as phoenix even though he should transform as a human the moment he lost consciousness. It could be because his phoenix knew that it'll be dangerous to turn back into a human or he subconsciously forced himself to stay as a phoenix. Whatever the reason is, he is certain that it's because he's inside a birdcage, a part of him needs for him to maintain as a bird to avoid any more injury, that will take a while to heal if it was soaked in the seawater for hours.
Marco didn't know how many hours or days since he was separated from his family before waking up, because the moment he did, he found himself in another sea stone birdcage, only this one is slightly bigger than the one Teach trapped him. And the fact that it belongs to a Tenryuubito made everything worse. They even probably knew that's he's a devil fruit user for they didn't bother to remove the sea stone nails that were lodged in his body. They did stop the bleeding and the wound had closed around the nail but Marco had a feeling that he won't survive for a year if the nail isn't removed as soon as possible. The Tenryuubito had also branded his leg with their brand, something that he can erase if only he wasn't stuck in this cage! The Tenryuubito who imprisoned him had always watched him with glee whenever he's around which is thrice a day, every day. He's lucky that he is not in the room of that greedy bastard and that he's in some sort of a rare collection room. The Servants here had fed him with bread crumbs, though stale ones, at least twice day and water that is changed every once a week. Marco can't wait to leave this place for he knew that his family is searching for him and they will never give up until they do so. And when they did find him, these bastards who captured him will forever regret it.
~Marineford~
At an office in the Marineford, a window is open letting sea breeze circulate the office and slightly disturbing the papers that were put in the table. A 17 years old girl, was leaning at the frame of the open window, her slightly shaggy and mid-waist long raven-haired, with a hint of silver at the tip, was softly blown by the breeze that went in and out of the room. She had her long-haired bangs covering eyes that showed longing as she watches the sea that surrounded the island. While her eyes showed longing, her face shows a solemn expression as if she had already resigned to her fate.
"Captain." A male voice spoke out, while the girl, the one called captain turned her head slightly letting him know that he had her attention.
"Fleet Admiral Sengoku had requested your presence for the meeting he will have between him, the admirals and the vice-admirals."
"Oh, did he mention why am I needed?" The girl softly asked.
"No, Captain. Only requested your presence."
"When will this start?" By then the girl had turned and headed towards the chair that was in front of her, touching the white cape, that she hung on the back of the chair, gently as if fearing that she'll get burned.
"The meeting will start in 15 minutes, captain." A woman voiced spoke out. The captain looks up and saw a green-haired 19 years old male, standing in front of her table with 3 swords strapped to his side. While a few steps behind him is a raven-haired beauty, 28 years old. Both wearing marine uniforms though the male had a few buttons undone showing a scar that was stitched together and the woman wearing black slacks instead of pants. "However, the fleet admiral requested for you to arrive a few minutes early before any admirals or vice-admirals arrive." The older woman finished. Their captain nodded before lifting her cape and put it on her shoulder, written at the back of her cape was a kanji of 'Absolute Justice'. Showing that this girl was no ordinary marine or a captain as they call her.
Straightening her long sleeve light maroon collared shirt, with an embroidered bleeding rose located on where the majority of her heart should be, three top buttons were undone, she then rolled her sleeves and then smoothing the black pencil skirt she was wearing. She walks around her table and lifted her bare feet to wear the 3-inch black heel that was put on the floor beside the table. Sighing as she felt her feet suffocate at her shoewear or it's also probably her clothes that suffocated her, she inhaled deeply and turned right to look at the mirror hanging on the wall. Once she deemed herself ready and presentable, hair combing her hair as she walks, the captain nodded at her subordinate… no at her two crew members (family), who gave her a small smile.
"We'll be here with you in a few hours, Captain-san." The older woman said.
"Thanks, Robin, Zoro." The captain stated as she waved her hand gently. The captain opens and closes the door of her office, not looking back at the remaining marines inside the room that were certainly looking at each other with a pained and guilty expression, and began to walk towards the fleet's admiral office, her shoes creating a small click-clack noise. When she arrived at the door that lead's to Sengoku's office, the captain took a deep breath and knock while announcing.
"Rear Admiral, Monkey D. Luffy, of base G-6, is here as requested sir!"
"Enter!"
TBC
A/N: I would like to apologize to everyone who had read my fictions and have waited for me to update, yet this story came out instead of my previous ones. Can't say when I will update them as I need an inspiration to do so, hopefully within this year. :'(
A/N: Inspired from the story Phoenix Capture by Hysterical Kit. Unfortunately, I can't say when I will update this story as I rather want to focus on my old fics, but if inspiration struck then I will update. This is my first time creating a One Piece fic, so please go easy on me. Reviews are highly appreciated.