The wind had stopped.
Even the sea seemed to hold its breath.
The battlefield of God Valley lay in ruins — mountains flattened, the sky torn apart by storms of Haki and black fire. Amid the devastation, five figures stood amid the chaos — wounded, bloodied, and defiant.
Rocks D. Xebec.
Edward Newgate.
Charlotte Linlin.
Kaido.
And Ada Wong.
The five monsters of the Rocks Pirates — humanity's greatest terrors — stood victorious over one of the Five Elders, Saint Saturn.
Saturn's body lay broken, his horns shattered, black blood spilling into the cracks of the earth. His horn was broken, one eye missing. Even his demonic silhouette flickered, struggling to maintain shape.
Kaido's chest heaved, smoke rising from his new dragon form. "Hah… Guess the old bastard wasn't so immortal after all!"
Linlin spat blood, wiping her mouth with a snarl. "MAMA MAMA! That's what happens when you mess with us!"
Ada stood silently, her pistols smoking. The faint glow of her Conqueror's Haki pulsed around her, fading like embers in the night. "Don't celebrate yet," she said, eyes narrowing. "It's too quiet."
Newgate grunted, resting his bisento against the ground. "She's right. The sea's gone still."
Then Saturn laughed.
A hollow, blood-choked laugh that made the air itself shiver.
"You think… you've killed a god?" he rasped, smiling through broken teeth. "You insects don't even comprehend what you've touched…"
Saturn's tone slithered through the air, cold and eternal. "You've merely opened the door."
Ada's pistol was raised, eyes hard. "Then let's close it."
She fired — one final, precise shot through Saturn's head. The impact cracked the ground. For a heartbeat, silence.
Then the air breathed darkness.
From the corpse rose a figure of living shadow — the shape of Imu's will. It coiled like smoke, whispering in tongues no mortal could understand.
The ground began to quake again — but not from Saturn himself. From beneath him. Something vast and ancient stirred, its presence pressing against reality like a rising tide.
Ada's eyes widened. "That presence… it's not him."
Saturn's remaining horn began to glow — crimson, divine — as he whispered a prayer in a language older than man. "Return… me… to the Holy Land…"
The sigil beneath his feet flared — and before anyone could stop him, Saturn's body dissolved into light. He was gone, whisked away through space itself.
Newgate roared. "He's escaping!"
Kaido slashed through the empty air, cursing. "Coward!"
But Ada's instincts screamed — she felt something linger. Saturn may have vanished, but his power hadn't left. It twisted and hung in the air like smoke.
Then came the voice.
"You think you've won?"
"…So this is what the age of pirates has birthed."
The voice was not sound — it was thought, searing through their minds, echoing from every direction.
Ada's heart froze. "That voice…"
Rocks raised his sword, glaring into the void. "Show yourself, coward."
A silhouette began to form from the remnants of Saturn's power — tall, robed, and crowned with an unseen light. The air grew heavy. Even the sea beyond the island turned black.
"You are interesting, Xebec," the voice said. "You who dream of a world without gods… yet carry a god's will in your veins."
Rocks spat, his grin defiant. "I don't bow to any god."
Imu's voice softened — almost amused. "Then let us see how long that pride lasts."
The shadow drifted upward, then slowly turned toward Rocks D. Xebec.
Rocks straightened, sword dripping with divine blood. "You still have fight in you?"
The shadow laughed. "You dream of freedom and conquest, Rocks D. Xebec… yet you have no idea what those dreams costs."
Ada's hand froze on her trigger. "Captain—don't listen—"
The shadow lunged.
Black tendrils pierced Rocks' chest. He gasped, his sword falling from his grip as the energy tore through him. The sky turned crimson. Kaido roared in rage, Whitebeard swung his blade, Linlin unleashed flames — but the darkness swallowed everything it touched.
Rocks body convulsed violently as the power flooded him. His scream tore through the battlefield.
"CAPTAIN!" Ada shouted, sprinting toward him.
Kaido and Whitebeard moved to pull her back, but the air exploded outward — a storm of black fire and haki so dense it erased everything in a hundred-meter radius. Ada was thrown to the ground, blood running down her cheek.
"Captain, fight it!" she cried.
Then the air breathed darkness.
Rocks clutched his head, blood streaming from his eyes as the shadow writhed inside him. Rocks clawed at his head, his teeth bared, veins glowing crimson beneath his skin. His aura was no longer human — it burned like molten hatred itself.
His sword shattered in his hands. His hair turned darker, eyes glowing with unnatural light.
Ada stepped forward despite the energy tearing at her body. "Rocks! Don't let that thing control you!"
He turned toward her — for a heartbeat, she saw the man she knew. His eyes softened, his mouth twitched in pain.
Then the voice came — layered over his own.
"I am beyond control."
Imu's words. Spoken through him.
Then his voice twisted, — deeper, older, monstrous.
"ADA… RUN…"
But she didn't.
She rushed forward, grabbing his arm. "Fight it, Captain! You're stronger than—"
He threw her back with a roar that cracked the sky.
The ground exploded where Ada landed. Newgate caught her before she hit the debris, his face grim.
"He's gone, Ada. Whatever that thing did—it's not him anymore."
Rocks' body rose into the air, wrapped in spiraling darkness. His skin cracked, glowing with lines of red light. His eyes — once wild with ambition — were now pits of void.
Lightning split the sky.
Rocks' body began to change — his muscles contorted, his back splitting open as wings of darkness unfurled. His grin twisted into something inhuman. His voice was a chorus — his and Imu's intertwined.
Newgate jaw tightened. "This isn't our captain anymore."
Linlin stepped back, genuinely afraid. "MAMA MAMA… what is this thing!?"
Kaido growled. "Then I'll beat it out of him!"
He charged, his newly awakened dragon form roaring through the battlefield. His flames struck Rocks head-on — but the possessed captain caught the blast in one hand, crushed it, and hurled Kaido into the cliffs. Kaido crashed through three cliffs, his dragon form unraveling mid-air. Blood sprayed across the ruins.
"Kaido!" Ada screamed, firing both pistols. Her bullets, coated in Conqueror's Haki, sliced through the air — each one a streak of light — but they merely grazed his skin.
The four conquerors attacked at once.
Newgate's quake blade split the island in half. Linlin unleashed a storm of homies. Kaido returned in dragon form, roaring fire. Ada danced between them, bullets curving through lightning.
And Rocks — or rather, the thing wearing his body — laughed.
Each strike only made him stronger.
With one sweep of his hand, he sent Linlin crashing into a mountain. A wave of dark fire consumed Kaido's flames. Ada dodged a blast of energy that erased half a cliff, only for the shockwave to throw her against Whitebeard's side.
She gasped, pain shooting through her ribs. "He's not fighting back — he's toying with us."
Newgate wiped the blood from his face. "Then we'll have to make him take us seriously."
Together, they launched one last combined attack — quake, flame, lightning, bullets — all converging in a single blinding explosion.
The blast shook the heavens.
When the smoke cleared… Rocks still stood. Barely touched.
He raised his hand, summoning tendrils of pure darkness that cracked the ground like veins of living death.
Ada's voice broke. "Captain… please…"
Rocks' eyes flickered — for a split second, Imu's control faltered. He whispered, barely audible through the storm.
"Ada… forgive me."
Then his will vanished again beneath the god's.
Ada forced herself to her feet, raising her pistols again. "Captain, please… it's me!"
The demon turned toward her. For a fleeting moment, his expression faltered — the faintest hint of the man he'd been.
Then Imu's voice echoed through him.
"Rocks D. Xebec is no more."
The air thickened with dark energy. Rocks — no, the thing that once was Rocks — unleashed a wave of Conqueror's Haki so vast it crushed the landscape. The surviving Rocks Pirates fell to their knees, blood pouring from their ears.
Newgate planted his weapon in the ground, barely standing. "Ada! We need to move—now!"
"I'm not leaving him!" she shouted back.
She rushed forward again, her red dress torn and bloodstained, hair whipping in the storm. She fired round after round, each bullet laced with her will, her haki screaming with emotion.
"Remember your promise, Captain! You said we'd see the new world together!"
The demon caught one bullet between its fingers.
Then it smiled.
"You will. From the other side."
It lunged — impossibly fast. Ada raised her pistols to block, but the blow sent her skidding backward. The impact shattered her weapons; her hands bled. She hit the ground hard, vision blurring.
Linlin unleashed her homies in a desperate barrage, but they burned away in black fire. Kaido staggered up again, only to be slammed into the earth once more. Even Newgate's quake punch barely slowed the creature.
Ada pulled herself up, trembling, and whispered, "Captain… please… don't make me kill you."
The demon roared — not in rage, but agony. The voice that escaped it was part Rocks, part something else entirely.
"ADA… PROTECT THE FUTURE—!"
Before she could answer, the ground erupted between them.
A wall of energy split the battlefield in half — gold meeting black. The shockwave hurled everyone backward.
Ada shielded her eyes as a familiar laugh echoed through the storm.
"Looks like we're late to the party."
The smoke parted — and there stood Gol D. Roger, sword gleaming, cloak whipping in the wind eyes wide with horror.
And from the opposite side, Garp stepped through the wreckage, his fists crackling with Haki, blood dripping down his face.
Rocks — the demon — turned toward them, wings of darkness unfurling.
Roger's smile faded. "What the hell happened to you, Xebec?"
Newgate straightened his blade, exhausted. "You're just in time to see the end of the world."
Garp's fists clenched. "He's not human anymore."
Newgate steadied his weapon. "Then what the hell is he?"
Ada's voice was barely a whisper. "He's paying the price for defying the world."
Rocks — no, the thing he'd become — raised his hand toward the sky. The clouds churned red. Black lightning danced along the ruins. Imu's voice spoke through him, chilling and divine.
"Now… let us see the worth of your D."
Roger drew his sword. Garp cracked his knuckles. Ada, bruised and bloodied, stood between them — eyes burning crimson.
And as the storm consumed the heavens, history held its breath.
Rocks hovered above them, his wings stretching across the burning sky. Imu's voice boomed through him — divine, cruel, eternal.
"Four D's in one place. How poetic. Perhaps I should end your bloodlines together."
Roger raised his sword. "You can try."
Garp cracked his knuckles, his grin wild. "Heh. Don't mind me joining the brawl."
Ada wiped blood from her mouth, eyes locked on the demon that was once her captain. "Don't hold back. He's not the man we knew."
Roger then blinked, confusion cutting through the haze of battle. "Wait you said four…? What do you mean, four?"
Garp's eyes narrowed. "There's me, you, and Rocks…"
Then his gaze flicked to Ada — bloodied, breath ragged, yet unyielding.
She froze, every muscle tense.
Imu's laughter rolled through the storm like a funeral bell.
"Did you truly think you could hide your heritage from me, Nyx D. Ada?"
The name struck like a thunderbolt.
Newgate's eyes widened. Linlin gasped audibly. Even Kaido, still struggling to rise, stared at her in disbelief.
Ada's hand trembled — not from fear, but from the shock of hearing a name she had buried her entire life.
"So that's… her true name…" Newgate muttered.
Roger's eyes gleamed with something between awe and recognition. "Nyx…? The goddess of night, huh? Fitting for you, Crimson Shadow."
Ada steadied her breath, her crimson dress torn and glowing in the stormlight. "How long have you known…?" she whispered.
Imu's smile — through Rocks' face — was colder than ice.
"I have existed since before your kind defied heaven. Every child of D that is born screams to me in defiance — and I remember each one. You, daughter of night, are no different."
Rocks' head jerked violently, as if trying to resist the control. His own voice broke through the divine echo for a moment — raw and human.
"Ada… don't listen to him…"
She stepped forward, despite the weight of the revelation pressing on her chest. "Captain, I don't care what name I carry — I chose who I am."
Her voice rose, defiant, cutting through the chaos.
Lightning tore open the heavens again — red and gold clashing in midair.
Imu laughed through Rocks' body, the sound like a thousand whispers in unison.
"So proud. So foolish. That name — D — it is the will of destruction, the whisper of the void that threatens to unmake the world I built. You cannot escape it, child of night."
Roger tightened his grip on his sword. "You talk too much, shadow."
Garp cracked his knuckles, his tone deadly serious. "Four D's, huh? Then maybe today's the day we teach your kind what happens when mortals don't kneel."
Ada smirked, blood running from her lip. "I thought you didn't like pirates, old man."
He smirked back despite the situation. "Exceptions can be made."
The storm howled. Lightning danced across Rocks' wings as his body strained under Imu's control. His voice, flickering between his own and Imu's, rasped through the smoke.
"You… all carry the spark of that accursed will… The Will of D — the will that defies the world itself. Then so be it… Let your defiance be your end."
Ada raised her pistols. Roger readied his sword. Garp clenched his fists, white steam rising. Whitebeard and Kaido stood behind, battered but unbowed.
Four carriers of the Will of D — united not by fate, but by rebellion — faced the god who feared them most.
And above them, Rocks — now a puppet of that god — screamed as black and red energy exploded from his body, twisting the sky into a vortex of madness.
The ground cracked open. The sea recoiled. The heavens dimmed.
"Let the world remember this moment," Imu whispered through the storm.
"The day the D's dared to challenge eternity."
And as the wind howled and the island shook apart, Ada took one last step forward, eyes burning with resolve.
"Then let eternity remember our names."
The wind screamed as the titans squared off —
The strongest pirate crew in history.
The future Marine hero.
The future Pirate King.
And a god in human form.
Lightning flashed. Rocks — possessed and screaming — raised his blade of shadows.
And as their combined wills clashed, God Valley was swallowed by a storm that would erase its name from every map forever.