So, this is it guys. The last chapter is finally here, and it is so sad for me to end this fanfic! I hope that you enjoy it just as much as I enjoyed writing it, even though it was hard to come up with it. It has been a very long travel with this fanfic, and it has taken a lot less to write it than I imagined at first. Well, thank you all for all of the favs, alerts and reviews that you left me! You really made me glad that I was writing this! Expect more stories for these two soon too! Well, onwards!

Disclaimer: I don't own One Piece, Oda does. I do however own the plot of this story

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Ace's POV:

I breathed in as I felt Luffy's sharp fangs right over the skin of my neck. It had been such a long time since this had last happened, since I had felt like this. Soon he sunk his fangs into my neck, and during this time I just continued pulling him close to me, only in a more gently way. I hadn't lied when I had said that I wouldn't suffer anything because of this, in fact, it was almost as if having Luffy doing this was liked by me and by my body, and the feeling that I got was even enjoyable, in a strange and kind of twisted sense.

Several minutes had passed already when Luffy stopped drinking my blood. He seemed a lot stranger now, and his wounds had started to heal already. He really had needed to drink some blood now, I could only help but wonder just how much time he had been in need of blood. Luffy looked at the ground, as if he was ashamed, and then he cleaned off the remaining blood that was on his chin with his hand, just to lick it off once it had been cleaned. He then remained in silence for some time, looking into my eye after some time. Yes, he was definitely ashamed of having to do this, but it didn't seem like he hadn't... liked the drinking blood. Yes, that was quite evident too. Suddenly he spoke, interrupting all of my thoughts.

"Ace" He said with sudden force.

"What is it Luffy?" I asked him, wondering what he wanted to say.

"Those two marks that indicate where I bit you that first time... why are they still there? Why haven't they disappeared? I know that I also have those two on my neck too. What do they mean?" He asked with curiosity.

"Err..." I muttered, not knowing what to answer. I could remember everything that Marco had told me about this, and remembering this caused me almost immediately to blush quite badly. I looked at Luffy again, that now had a serious and slightly confused face. "Well, it means... you know..." I started saying, not really managing to explain anything at all.

"What?" Luffy asked, confused.

I gritted my teeth, cursing Luffy for not knowing what it meant. Of course, I hadn't known either at that time, but that was beside the point. I moved forwards and closer to Luffy, going towards his ear, and then I started explaining as best as I could the meaning of the two marks. As I did this Luffy's eyes widened, but his reaction of surprise didn't last more than a few seconds. He didn't blush madly either, and instead he maintained a somewhat surprising calm attitude that wasn't infected by a single bit of shame. Not. One. Bit. Once I had finished I looked at Luffy, and I was shocked by just how different his reaction had been from what I had expected. I had expected him to blush or give any sign of embarrassment about what had happened or to be extremely surprised. Instead he had a big wide grin on his face, and there wasn't a single bit of red on his cheeks, which contrasted deeply with my crimson tainted cheeks. What he said then shocked me even more.

"Cool" He said, as his already huge grin became even larger.

It was then when I got even redder, if possible. "W-what do you mean?" I said, stuttering quite a bit.

"It is good, why would it be bad?" Luffy said with his most innocent tone of voice.

"Y-yes, of course" I said, not believing that Luffy was in such good terms with this. It was like what human's considered marriage for god's sake! Of course, we both loved each other, however... No, he did surprisingly have a point. It was definitely not bad, and if I loved him and he loved me (and this had been so hard to admit) then it just could be good. Yes. It was good.

"It's good, you see Acey?" he then said with his trademark grin, that made me grin too.

"Who are you calling that?" I immediately shouted at him, but with that grin still on my face. I turned around and pretended to chase him for a bit, and he did this too. Soon we were both mock fighting, neither of us not managing to avoid laughing as hard as we could.

We remained like this for several minutes, completely forgetting, or almost, what we had to do here, what we were, what had happened and what could happen to both of us. We chased each other and fought a mock fight like we did when we were kids. We soon were both lying on the ground breathing heavily and slightly exhausted from the mock chase and fight. Luffy was laughing, and I was doing the same thing too, although in a smaller degree. We spend several seconds like this again, until we remembered again in what place we were currently at, the man that we had to defeat and what we had to do before we went back to our world.

"We better continue going on to defeat him" I said then, as I got up.

Luffy then stopped laughing, and his serious expression came back on. "Yes" he said.

We both walked towards the door that was inside this room, soon walking through rooms and more rooms, and opening doors and more doors. We spent quite a lot of time like this, and with each step that we took forwards the air started to get heavier and heavier with a supernatural feeling, with a feeling of power that started to set our nerves on edge. It was like a trail of powerful energy that led to the source it. I couldn't sense anything else near it and I knew that Luffy couldn't either, however we both knew that Black beard was there. Yes, the man that we had to defeat just had to be there, besides the stone.

We suddenly came across a door made of old wood that was significantly smaller than the others that we had come across before. It was quite damaged and not decorated at all, instead it just had pieces of metal across some of its parts that were surely meant to make the door more resistant. It was very damaged on some parts, and you could tell that these marks had been caused by a very strong and powerful fight that had occurred here quite some time ago. It was then, when we were about to open the door when we heard the voice of the man that we had to defeat wishing for something that shouldn't be wished for.

"The stone is now mine!" Blackbeard shouted from the room that was across this old and damaged door. "Destroy the other world!" He then shouted, undoubtedly wishing for this. Suddenly a very bright light started coming through the space that was between the door and the floor and walls, and then the supernatural energy that seemed to be floating in the air getting stronger and stronger, setting our nerves even more on edge and charging us with energy in a strange way.

We both took a step forward, and we then opened the door that led to the room quite loudly and entered the room. It was a circular room, and it had very small windows near the room. Below them there were candles that illuminated the whole room.

"Blackbeard, prepare to be defeated!" Both Luffy and I immediately shouted in complete unison. Blackbeard then turned around and looked at us with a face that showed just how surprised he was.

He remained in silence for several seconds, too surprised to say anything or just thinking about what he could say now or do he had made his wish. He seemed to be halfway towards the mysterious stone that was now floating at the middle of the room, with the sure aim of making some other wishes.

"Oh, look who came. The two brats that helped me get here to complete my plans, why did you come to talk to me?" Blackbeard said, visibly more relaxed and with a mocking tone of voice and an evil smirk plastered on his face.

"You are going to be defeated now and punished for everything that you have done Blackbeard!" Luffy then shouted, enraged, as he adopted a very aggressive posture and while he got hold of both of the weapons that he carried all the time with him. I placed a hand on his shoulder, as if I was telling him without words to recompose himself and to not attack without thinking. We had to defeat this man together, and if we acted rashly we would manage nothing. Doing this seemed to have the effect that I desired on Luffy, and the younger one soon calmed himself down a bit.

"What did you do?" I asked the old being that was standing in front of me with a dead serious tone of voice.

"I just took the first step to complete my plans. I destroyed the world that you both come from and love so much, and all thanks to that stone" Blackbeard said "Zehahaha!".

I felt myself pale. So all of my friends had just... disappeared like that?

"Aaaaaargh!" Luffy shouted, as he dashed forwards at Blackbeard, gripping his dagger and his gun, visibly enraged. "What did you do to my nakama?" He then shouted at Blackbeard as he attacked with the dagger then man.

"Oh, I just... killed them" Blackbeard said with an evil smirk on his face. This just made Luffy angrier, if possible. Blackbeard then blocked Luffy's attack with two silver swords that he had been carrying with him and putting both of them in a stalemate. Both of them then remained like that, trying to defeat the other with strength alone.

"Oi Luffy, don't lose control!" I shouted at the younger vampire as I got hold of my own weapon, that was so similar to whitebeard's one, and dashed forward to support the vampire that I knew so much. Luffy however didn't listen to me a single bit, and instead turned around in some strange way, clearly performing some kind of Hunter technique, and broke the stalemate that Blackbeard had imposed. He then turned around several times more, attacking Blackbeard with an impressive speed, even for a vampire. The sound of metal clashing against metal soon flooded the room, coming from Blackbeard's swords and Luffy's dagger and gun that he used for both attack and defence.

"Revert what you just did!" Luffy then shouted with rage.

"Why would I listen to you, brat?" Blackbeard shouted back.

This furious fight continued for some time like that until I managed to attack Blackbeard, who was moving very fast too around the room. My attack forced Blackbeard to take several steps back due to the sheer force of it

"How do you dare to attack me when I was fighting the other brat?" Blackbeard shouted at me.

"It is my duty as an older brother to protect him!" I shouted then as I attacked Blackbeard again. Blackbeard quickly defended himself and attacked me in turn, and I did the same thing. We were several seconds like this, attacking each other as fast and strongly as we could but not managing to hit the other. We attacked each other then at the same time, and managed to stop each other's attacks again, and instead of attacking the other again we jumped back, both breathing heavily.

Blackbeard was glaring at us for quite some time, but suddenly his expression changed to one of surprise and realisation. "Oh! So that is why!" He almost shouted. "Those two marks..." he then muttered.

I almost growled at him. "What about it?" I shouted at him.

"Zehahaha! Falling in love, what a human feeling. And you consider yourself to me a vampire?" He shouted with a mocking tone of voice.

"At least I am not a monster" I shouted at the man and making him scowl at me with a deathly glare.

"You are so unoriginal, just like your ancestor. That bastard..." Blackbeard then said

"What did you say?" I shouted at the man.

"Both of you are so similar to them... mentally and physically. You surely deserve the same fate as well! It is even said at the prophecy that they themselves created" Blackbeard then said, with an evil laugh.

"You are the one that is going to be defeated!" I heard then Luffy shout as he attacked the man again. Blackbeard tried to dodge the blow, but this time the silver bullet he was hit on his left arm.

Blackbeard clutched his wound immediately as blood started to leak out of it. "It's not healing?" He said in obvious pain and confusion. Soon he realised why the wound wasn't healing. It was seconds later that he realised why his wound wasn't healing. "You used silver bullets! And that dagger is also made from silver! How do you dare to use that material?" He shouted with rage.

"I am hunter" Luffy simply replied.

"You are a vampire! I myself converted you into one!" Blackbeard then shouted again as he got on his feet, clutching his two swords and ignoring the pain he felt and the moment.

"I am not a vampire!" Luffy shouted right before he ran at Blackbeard. Soon both of them were attacking each other again, and the sound of metal clashing together flooded the room again.

"You drink blood and you are to blame of the same sins that I myself have. You have killed too" Blackbeard said with a malicious tone of voice.

"I have not converted anyone or killed an innocent" Luffy shouted "I am not a vampire! I have to live with the monster that you implanted in me!" Luffy then shouted again, enraged.

Both of them continued attacking each other, managing to wound the other a number of times, but not fatally yet. As the fight continued going on and on I noticed the stone shining brighter and brighter, and as this happened I started to remember the prophecy. "To defeat him we have to fight together..." I muttered as I continued trying to attack Blackbeard, but being unable at the moment to attack him or even get closer to both of them due to how quick they were both moving and fighting.

Their fight went on and on, and soon enough Luffy managed to make a quite deep gash on Blackbeard's other shoulder. By now the whole room was infested with the smell of blood, torturing all three of us. Blackbeard looked surprised, but in less than a second he was grinning like the very devil, and he swiftly grabbed Luffy's hand with strength to avoid him moving and pierced the younger vampire on his stomach with one of his swords, kicking him afterwards and sending him flying several metres back.

"This is also silver, brat" Blackbeard then said "I got these babies especially to ensure your death" He then added.

I was enraged by this, and I quickly dashed in Luffy's direction. "Lu, are you okay?" I asked him.

"I am fine Ace" Luffy said, as he got hold of the sword and pulled him out of himself quickly and effectively, as if he had already done this once. He then got off his red vest, that was quite torn and bloodied, and he wrapped it over his wound like a tourniquet to avoid further blood loss. Yes, he indeed knew what he was doing.

I turned around and glared at Blackbeard. "You are going down now" I said with a tone of voice filled with hate.

I got up, gripping my own weapon. Soon Luffy had also gotten up, and we both started walking towards Blackbeard. We would now fight together, like we had done so many times before as humans and a few as vampires. Like it was supposed to be.

"You will never defeat me! The prophecy announces my victory!" Blackbeard shouted as he gripped his only sword.

"Idiot" I said. "The prophecy announces that we, the chosen ones, will stop the last plan" I said with a calm and deadly tone of voice.

"You are lying!" Blackbeard shouted.

"Believe what you want then, but you have been warned" I then said.

A few seconds passed, and suddenly both of us dashed forwards at Blackbeard, and started attacking him with a deadly pace. Blackbeard started managing to defend himself, but as Luffy and I became again a team and started to fight together, complementing each other's moves perfectly, Blackbeard started to have to take steps backwards also started to receive a few minor wounds here and there. This persisted for several minutes, until those few wounds here and there were turned into wounds of increasing severity. It was then, who knows how much time after the start of the fight, when Luffy and I pierced with our weapons Blackbeard's body, creating a deadly wound caused with silver. The man was not going to recover from this.

Blackbeard fell onto the floor with his eyes full of pain and hate. He stared at the ceiling, and didn't look at us.

"You were defeated, just like the prophecy said" I stated then, as I glared at the man.

"No, you didn't stop my plan" Blackbeard then said as he chuckled.

"What do you mean?" Luffy then asked. I stared at the dying vampire, wondering the same thing.

"My wish... my plan... will not be stopped or reverted just because of my death. I used the stone, it willnot be reverted with my death. I will still achieve what I wanted" He said.

"Not if we wish for your wish to be disappeared" I answered.

"Zehahaha! You don't understand, do you?" Blackbeard said, obviously enjoying whatever he had thought about. "You both wish to go back to your world, to be happy there. But you won't manage to do that" He then added.

"And why wouldn't we manage to do that?" Luffy then said with a defiant tone of voice.

"The ones that use this stone are forced to remain bound to this world. Not even using the stone again will stop this from happening. To stop me one of you will have to use the stone, and this is what will make you be separated forever, because one cannot stay in this world forever without using the stone or having a pure spirit, something that neither of you has. On top of that, the path to this world will have to be closed if the stone is to remain safe, or the stone will have to be destroyed by wishing for its destruction, in which case the path to this world will also be closed." Blackbeard then said. "I've won!" he then shouted "And all thanks to your stupid human love, zehahaha!".

"Shut up" I said with a hate filled voice, as I kicked Blackbeard on the stomach and making him shut up finally, which probably was caused due to the deadly blood loss that he was suffering. I then turned around to look at Luffy. He was staring at the stone now, in deep though. So whoever used the stone would have to remain here forever... this was not good.

"Ace" I then heard Luffy say. I looked at him as he took a step towards me. "I will use the stone so that you can go back. I will take this burden so that you can be free" Luffy said with a dead serious tone of voice, that wasn't too common to see in him.

I gulped, not liking the situation. "Luffy, you don't have to do this for me!" I said as I pulled him into a hug. "I will do this! You have suffered too much already because of me, you almost died!" I said "I will use that stone!" I then shouted again, as I continued hugging him.

Luffy hugged me back. "No Ace, I will do this" He said "You have protected me many times, it is my turn to protect you" He then finished saying.

"I won't accept that" I said.

"I won't accept either being separated from you again" Luffy then replied again.

I gulped again, wondering what we should do now. We didn't want to be separated again, and this time it seemed that we had to be separated forever if we wanted to fulfil the prophecy. We remained like this, hugging each other, in complete silence. Not knowing what to say or do. Neither of us liked this situation or the decision that we had to make. Minutes passed, or maybe it was hours, I wasn't too sure, with us like this. It was after even more time had passed, if time was something that existed in this world that seemed to be frozen in it, that Luffy spoke again.

"I wouldn't stand having to leave you. We are brothers, and we were already separated once. Separating again would be like going through death itself" He said. I felt something damp fall onto my bare skin, was he crying?

"Yes" I just replied, as I remained completely still. It was then when I thought of something that could work. The one that used the stone would have to remain here, but what if the stone was used by two people? I grinned as soon as I thought of this, making Luffy look at me. "He Luffy" I started saying.

Luffy just looked at my eyes with an inquisitive face.

"What if we both use the stone?" I then asked aloud.

Luffy's face soon showed his shock, and he immediately grinned as realisation hit him. "Let's do that then" he said.

We broke apart from each other, and we then started walking towards the stone. Soon we were both grabbing it, and we then sealed our destiny. We 'erased' Blackbeard's wish, and we then decided to send the man back to our world, leaving the two of us in this world. We then closed the path that led to this world and destroyed the stone, leaving both of us bound to this world forever with no possibility of going back to our original one, and with this we completed the prophecy, we saved the other world, prevented Blackbeard from getting the stone and destroyed. We saved our world and made it be at peace once again. We restored happiness, and yet at the same time doomed ourselves to remain at this world, in which time now flowed due to the destruction of the stone or the path to this world. We would remain in this world, that was alive once again with who knows what creatures, together. And that was the important thing, that nothing would separate us ever again. I pulled Luffy into a kiss then, a kiss that he eagerly responded to.