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Your POV:

Law: My, my... There are more of them than I thought...

Soldier: Hey !! Help me !! What's going on ?!

Luffy: You guys have some weird powers !

Kidd: Yours are the weirdest of all !

Soldiers: the mortars won't work on any of them... Looks like their reputations are well-deserved... We have to hang on until Admiral Kizaru arrives !!

"You really think you can hold out for that long ? Bravery won't get you anywhere here."

Soldier: AAAAAAAHHH !! LISTEN !! DON'T GO INTO THE CIRCLE HE CREATES !!

Law: Room.

Soldiers: Were you talking about this ?

Soldier: Yeah, this is it.

Law: Just take it easy. It'll be over soon.

Soldiers: UWAAH !! What the hell is with his arm ?!!

Luffy: This arm... Is the arm of a giant !!

Officer: Do... Don't falter, ready your weapons !! We'll definitely find an opening !!

Soldier: But, captain !! Our weapons !! they're flying away !! It's like they're being sucked away by something !! Even from the auction house !! WHAT THE HELL IS THAT ?!!

Soldier: ... R- RUN !! RUN AWAY !!

Soldiers: We'd like... But we can't !! SOMETHING'S LOCKING US IN PLACE !!

"... Bang."

Soldiers: HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO FIGHT THESE GUYS ?!! JUST WHAT IS GOING ON HERE ?!!

Zoro: Hey, what happened all of a sudden... ?!

Sanji: Of course these two are devil fruit users, too !

Brook: A- Amazing ! I can't believe my eyes !! Though, I... Don't have any eyes !!

Rayleigh: Wahahahaha ! You guys sure took care of that !

Law: What's wrong, Strawhat ? You look a little tense.

Luffy: really ?

Kidd: That takes care of their formation.

"Because you think you did anything ?"

Soldier: Commodore !! It looks like they've all come out !! They're trying to escape ! Don't look down on us, you little brats !! Reinforcements are on their way !!

Commodore: WE'VE SECURED THE HOSTAGES AT THE REAR ENTRANCE !! AIM THE MORTARS AT THE PIRATES WITHOUT DEVIL FRUITS !! GUN SQUAD, TO THE BACK !! ALL SOLDIERS ATTACK AT ONCE !! TAKE DOWN THOSE PIRATES !!

Soldiers: UWOOOOOOOOOHH !!

"So, here they come. And they don't even have a plan this time. Just a straight-up brawl from their side."

Kidd: Well. See you later, Strawhats... ! I'm glad I met you here... The next time I see you, I won't be so easy...

Luffy: Hmmm, okay. But... I'm the one who's gonna be the Pirate King !!

Killer: Hey, Kidd ! What're you standing around for ?!

Kidd: Hey, Killer... On the course we took... Saying something like that would just get you laughed at. Though I killed everyone who laughed at me... But from here on out, those without the guts to say that won't survive ! Let's meet up in the New World !

"... This certainly ain't the last time we hear of these guys. On second note, look at that, Luffy."

Luffy: Hm ? Ah ! Flying Fish !!

Duval: Heeeey !! Young masters !! Ehh ?! I'm handsome ?! More importantly, preparations for your escape are complete !! isn't that right, men ?!

Riders: Yes ! Life is rose-colored !!

Sanji: It bothers me that we'll be in their debt again, but we'd better get out of here.

Luffy: Ok ! Let's go !!

Soldiers: You !! Are you accomplices of those pirates ?!

Duval: GYAAAAh !! I... !! I'VE GOT NOTHIN' TO DO WITH THEM !! I'M NO PIRATE !!

Robin: Nueve fleur. Twist !

Duval: Oh... Ooohhh.. That was scary...
Riders: Boss !! Even though you're still traumatized from when the marine headquarters came after you, you held on ! How admirable !!

Duval: Sh... Shut up !! Now's not the time to talk about trauma or anything ! I owe my life to the young master and his friends, so we'll help them when they're in trouble !!

"... Sometimes... the real courage isn't what we expect. Okay, Franky, Rayleigh, you go on ahead ! Secure the wounded and those who can't fight !!"

Rayleigh: got it ! Thanks ! Wahahaha ! Sure gets your blood boiling, eh ?!

Franky: You're a lively old man !

Soldiers: Don't let the Strawhats get away !! they're the main culprits here !!

Nami: Thunderbolt... TEMPO !!

Soldiers: UGIAAAAAAAHH !!

Pirate: They're still coming after us... Even though we destroyed the bridge...

Kidd: Of course. Even if we go back to town, there'll be marines there. We're getting off the island, now ! GAH !

Killer: Kidd !! Over there... ?! That's... It can't be... !

Kidd: Why... ?! Why is a Shichibukai here... ?!

Duval: See you ! Really, call me for anything at all ! Until you all safely depart for Fishman island, we'll be your arms and legs !!

Luffy: okay ! Thank you guys !

Sanji: Just stop winking already...

Duval: LET'S GO !! Rose-colored life riders !!

Riders: YES !! Handsome rose !!

"That name changes a lot."

Rider: We're looking for one that fits perfectly.

Rayleigh: Well then, let's hurry inside. Hachi needs to get some rest. Hey Shakki, I'm back.

Shakki: Oh, Ray, welcome back, that was quick ! Monkey, you guys did well finding him.

Rayleigh: Looks like Hachi's pretty injured. Get him in bed, quick.

Shakki: Oh, no ! What happened, Hacchan ?!

Luffy: EEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHH ?!! ON THE PIRATE KING'S SHIP ?!

Rayleigh: Yeah. I was the Vice-captain... The name's Silvers Rayleigh, nice to meet you.

Crew: VICE-CAPTAIN ?!!

Shakki: Didn't you tell them ?

Hatchan: Nyuu... We just needed him for the coating.

"I thought they knew just by the name... Rayleigh."

Robin: Oh my, you didn't notice ?

Usopp: I know that name all too well !!

Nami: It's in so many books !!

Sanji: It's definitely a name that everyone's heard of at least once.

Brook: Gold Roger... I think I remember a rookie by that name... Or maybe not...

Zoro: Why does the octopus know a legend like you ?

Rayleigh: Over twenty years ago, Hachi... he saved me when I was shipwrecked.

Shakki: he owes Hachi his life... he was just a kid at the time, though.

Rayleigh: Since then, we had been friends up until he joined the Sun pirates...

"And then he joined the Arlong pirates, and we busted their asses. Brings me back."

Rayleigh: It really can't be quiet with you... Why is it that, every single time you come here, an auction house needs to burn down ?

"You know where I come from. Tenryûbito, kidnappers, slave owners, they're all the same to me. Cannon fodder, preys to the big beams."

Rayleigh: Right when I thought the marine was off my back, you show up... I liked it better when Roger was here.

Sanji: But Gold Roger was executed 22 years ago. They didn't get you, the vice-captain ? The crew was captured by the marines, right ?

Rayleigh: We weren't caught... Roger gave himself up. The government, as a show of power... may have acted like they had captured him...

Nami: the Pirate King gave himself up ?! Why ?!

Rayleigh: Because he could see, the end of our journey. About four years before the public execution, Roger... Came down with a terminal disease... A disease that nobody could cure, that nobody could do anything about... Even Roger was suffering. At the time, the most famous doctor, who was also a lighthouse keeper, was a man from the Twin Capes, called Crocus. He was the only one who could even ease Roger's suffering. We asked him to come with us on our "last voyage" as the ship's doctor.

Rayleigh: Finally, three years later, Roger's life was stopped... We were told it was impossible. Our conquest of Grand Line was over.

Brook: C... C... CROCUS ?!! From the Cape twins... ?! How nostalgic...

Usopp: Eeehhhh ?! wasn't that old man on the Cape from 50 years ?! And he was on the pirate king's crew ?!

Nami: Now that you mention it... He did say he was a ship's doctor for a few years. So for those three years he was a pirate !

Rayleigh: You all met him... That must mean he's still doing well ! He was taking care of a whale... Crocus... More than anything, he came with us because he was looking for a certain pirate crew.

"He... he really was looking for Brook ?! He did say he had solid sources of info ! That's because he went himself !"

Brook: C- Crocus... You went that far... ?!

Rayleigh: he was only with the crew for 3 years, but make no mistake. He was one of us... ! At this age... I still want to see him again...

Sanji: So after you conquered the seas... ?

Rayleigh: That's where it really started... the world began to call Roger "The pirate King"... It's not like he was always the pirate king... Titles don't mean anything for a man about to die. But Roger was happy... he was a man who loved doing things in the flashiest ways possible... That was how he partied... And how he fought. He didn't have a future, but he didn't seem to care. He looked like he was enjoying it. But before long, under captain's orders, the Roger pirates secretly disbanded... the entire crew split up... And one by one, they disappeared.

Rayleigh: I put my life on the line with those men, but now, I don't even know where they are or what they're doing. And then, about a year after we disbanded, Roger gave himself up, was arrested, and in his hometown, Logue Town, in East Blue, he was to be publicly executes. On that day, in the square... I hear that lots of men who would become famous pirates today showed their faces... the whole world watched as the pirate king was executes.

Rayleigh: I didn't go. These were the last words he said to me...

Roger: I'm not gonna die... partner...

Rayleigh: the World Government and the marines... Must have been shocked. They intended the execution to be a warning to the other pirates. But with one word before his death, Roger set off the "Great Pirate Era"... !

Roger: My treasure ? If you want it, you can have it... try and find it. I left everything I have there !

Rayleigh: In his last few seconds, with the fading sparks of his life, he set the whole world ablaze. I've never laughed more... I've never cried more... And I've never drank more either... ! He was my captain, and he lived a magnificent life !

Nami: ... I feel like I just heard something amazing... It's totally different hearing it from someone who lived through it.

"I really wish I could've met the man when he was still alive... What a legend..."

Usopp: It's almost like Roger planned and made this era.

Rayleigh: Well, I don't know about that... Roger is dead. The only people that can create an era, are the people living it... ! i'm certain that the people in the plaza that day received something from Roger... You know one of them, Shanks, pretty well.

Luffy: Eh ? You know Shanks, old man ?!

Rayleigh: If you're from East Blue, then maybe you know a pirate called "Buggy" ?

Zoro/Nami/Y/n: Buggy...

Rayleigh: Those two were cabin boys on our ship.

Luffy: EEHHHHH !! Shanks was on the pirate king's ship ?!

Rayleigh: What... You didn't know... ?

"The man was never too keen about his past... Then again, I don't think I ever asked anything about that..."

Rayleigh: Just about 10 years ago... I ran into him on this island. He was missing his trademark straw hat, and his left arm. When I asked him about it, he looked happy and talked about you... !

Shanks: Rayleigh, I was truly surprised ! In East Blue... ! There was a kid who said the same thing as captain Roger ! The same words as the Captain !

Rayleigh: He also talked about that guy following him like his shadow everywhere... It has to be you...

Pirates: A MARINE SHIP HAS BEEN SIGHTED IN THE HARBOR !! AN ADMIRAL IS HERE... !! WE HAVE TO RUN AWAY QUICK, OR WE'LL DIE !! LAUNCH THE SHIP !! I DON'T CARE WHERE TO !!

*BOOM*

Pirate: THEY'VE FIRED THEIR CANNONS !! NO WAY, WITHOUT WARNING ?!

Pirate: No... ! There's something weird about one of them... !

Pirate: SOMEONE'S RIDING ON IT !! NO WAAAAY !!

*B-TOOOOOOOOOOM*

Kizaru: yes... This is Kizaru. Yes... I've arrived. Please respond.