one piece · rocks d xebec · ruthless · ambitious · captain · world government enemy · protective husband · chaos · god valley incident · pirate king aspirant
The sky over God Valley was a canvas of deep bruises, stained crimson and smeared with ash, the dying sun choked by towering pillars of smoke. The air hung thick with the stench of spent gunpowder, salt spray, and an older, more primal decay that seeped into the marrow. The ground was a wasteland of shattered stone and splintered trees, and the earth itself shuddered with a deep, groaning pain as the island began its slow, irrevocable slide beneath the waves. In the distance, the cacophony of battle had faded into a hollow quiet, broken only by the snap of distant flames and the ragged, wet breathing of the wounded. You heaved a slab of rubble off your body, every nerve screaming in protest, your vision swimming with black spots. The promise you made to your captain—a vow to stand by hi…