"GUYS PLEASE WAIT FOR US!"
"Those guys are…" Rayleigh frowned when he saw the two people running towards them with a large group of marines chasing after them.
"Wait is that Taro and Spencer?" Naruto who had regained some of his stamina asked as he approached the railing.
He quickly recognized the two pirates being chased by the marines, after all, they had been together for a while.
"They are not our problem. We should leave them! " Roger shouted from the crows nest. He could already see dozens of battle ship making their way towards their location. If they don't leave soon they might get trapped.
"Roger is right Naruto, we have to go" Rayleigh said as he glanced between the approaching warship in the distance and Naruto.
"Let's wait for them" Naruto pleaded before turning to look at Spencer and Taro. He cupped his hands around his mouth and shouted. "Hurry if you don't want to die!"
It might have been his imagination but Naruto could swear that after he said those words Spencer and Taro's speed seemed to run even faster.
The three of them watched anxiously as Taro and Spencer made their way towards the ship. None of them could stand still as they started to sweat nervously.
The distance between their ship and the marines warships was slowly being closed. They could even hear the roar of the warships engine at this point.
Come on! Come on!
"Go! Go! Go!" Naruto shouted as soon as the two of the made it onto the ship.
Rayleigh didn't needed to be told twice as he quickly steered hard away from port.
Spencer and Taro laid sprawled all over the floor, heaving heavily.
"Thank you…t…thank you for saving us!"
"Don't just lie there! Get up or I'll throw you overboard!" Naruto roared at Spencer and Taro when he saw them lying lazily on the ground causing them to spring to their feet. They quickly rushed off to help around the ship, afraid of being thrown overboard..
"Pirates stop right there!" One of the warships speaker boomed as they chased after them, while at the same time getting ready to open fire.
Fuck your mama!
Rayleigh wanted to shouted that out but didn't want to ruin his imagine so he could only do it inside his head.
"Faster! Faster!" Naruto panicked when he saw the warships aiming their cannon at them.
"I am going the fastest that I can. The ship can't go any faster!" Rayleigh roared. If he could make the ship go faster would he have done so?!
"RAYLEIGH!"
"SHUT UP!"
On one of the biggest warship vice admiral key stared emotionlessly at the pirate ship sailing a in the distance in front of them.
A marine commodore ran to his side from another part of the ship and saluted. "vice admiral!"
"What's going on?" Vice admiral key asked without sparing him a glance, his eyes glued to the ship in front of them. To believe that a couple of no named pirates would not only dare to cause mayhem during his tribute escort mission but even have the audacity to try and escape.
"The pirates are not stopping. What are your orders, sir?"
"Sink them"
"Yes sir" The marine commodore immediately ran off to relay the order to the rest of the ships.
Vice admiral Key glanced at his retreating figure before turning to glare furiously at ship in front of him.
"Your journey ends here pirates. I will send you to the bottom of David Jones locker"
…
Tsuru who stood with a grumpy expression on her face. She was still annoyed about her defeat at the hands of Rayleigh.
She looked angrily at the pirate ship sailing a good distance in front of them. She wanted nothing more than to tear they ship appeared along with everyone on it.
"commander Tsuru!"
She turned around when she heard her name being called to see her captain running towards her. "What is it?"
"The vice admiral just gave us permission to open fire."
A cruel smirk carved it way onto Tsuru smile when she heard those words. She pulled out a den den mushi from her coat and commanded. "All units. Burn down that ship!"
After giving her orders she turned back to look at the pirate ship with a glint in her eyes.
'I'll make you guys pay for defying the world's order'
After receiving the vice admiral orders all the warships quickly aimed they cannons at the pirate ship and opened fire one after the other.
The sound and sight of all the cannon firing off would anyone to despair, especially those on the receiving end of it.
….
"What are those?" Taro who stood on the crows nest saw a black dot heading their way from the marines direction. At first he didn't recognize it but when it got closer he quickly realized what it was and a mix expression of panic, horror and fear colored his face.
"Incoming!" Taro shouted seconds before a cannon ball crashed into the sea beside their ship causing the water to explode upwards.
Boom!
Shit shit shit
Rayleigh frantically turned the ship around to avoid the cannon ball as more and more crashed into the waters beside them.
He turned around at that moment to see a cannon ball heading towards him. Without hesitating he pulled out his sword and slashed towards the cannon ball sending out an energy wave that cut the cannon ball cleanly in half.
"Don't let the cannon balls hit the ship or we are done for!"
"Got it!" Naruto and Roger immediately sprung to action kicking and punching away any cannon ball that came too close to the ship.
Spencer and Taro watched with slack jaws at the three people kicking cannon balls like they were made of plastic.
This guys are monsters!
After spending a few days on the ship with them they thought they had already seen it all but they had been wrong.
The marines had been chasing them before because someone had leaked information that they had arrived on the island aboard the same ship as Rogers so they were mistaken as a member of their pirate crew.
Even when they tried to justify themselves, they marines didn't listen.
To make matter worst when they had escaped they had escaped aboard the same pirate ship that they had been accused a member of
Their career as bounty hunters was practically over.
"They are gaining on us!" Naruto shouted when he saw the warship quickly closing the distance between them.
"They really don't plan on giving up" Spencer felt a shiver go down his spine when he saw the cannons aiming at them again. He was starting to think that he made a mistake by boarding this ship.
"This is bad. At this rate we will end up sunken to the bottom of the sea." Rayleigh panicked as he tried to shake the marines off their tail to no avail.
"Give up pirates! You have no where left to run!"
"This marines are really not going to let us off" Roger frowned after punching away another cannon ball, however, more just keep coming.
Even with the three of them working together there was only so much they could do.
Is this it? At the rate the warship was catching up to them, it was only a matter of time before they were surrounded.
Naruto was frantically hitting the cannon balls away from the ship but his stamina was running out. He still hadn't healed from his fight again Tong, and having to redirect the trajectory of the cannon balls put a huge toll on him.
'I guess this is it. It doesn't look like we were going to escape this one. But we won't go down without a fight!'
"How annoying" Rayleigh sighed and shook his head at the sight of the fleet behind him. At this point, they would need nothing short of a miracle to escape the marines.
Just when it felt like all hope was lost a small sized ship appeared in the distance to their right heading straight towards them.
"Roger pirates! There you are! Gurararara"
Naruto and the others eyes lit up when they saw the figure standing on the bow of the ship, waving excitedly at them.
The one person that they thought they would never see again now appeared right before eyes.
"EDWARD!"