One Piece: The Strongest Female Pirate Crews

Is there still strong resistance left at Mary Geoise?

The three Elders of the Five Elders were momentarily taken aback.

They had brought the majority of the World Government's top combatants to this island, and the Navy had done the same.

At this moment, the defensive power of Mary Geoise was at its lowest in history.

But after the initial shock, they laughed.

"This is not something for you to worry about. Even if Mary Geoise were defenseless, what could you possibly do?" one of the Elders sneered.

Even if Mary Geoise had no protection at all, what could Kuke and the Sun and Moon Pirates possibly accomplish?

Kuke's lips curled into a slow smirk.

The three Elders felt an ominous chill run down their spines.

"Attack now!" one of the Elders roared.

Kuke activated his ability.

Using the power of teleportation.

The Radiant Eclipse, along with everyone aboard, had the ability to teleport once a month.

The destination could be any location the ship had previously visited.

Kuke chose… the Sabaody Archipelago.

A location very close to Mary Geoise.

With a swift sound, the Radiant Eclipse vanished.

Right before everyone's eyes, the ship disappeared.

Akainu's fist, which had just begun glowing red-hot with flowing magma, froze mid-motion. His lips parted slightly as he was about to spew some menacing words to bolster his confidence.

Kizaru, who had lazily raised a glowing fingertip, hesitated, realizing there was no room to shirk his duties with the Five Elders watching.

Aokiji, emanating cold air, froze in place.

Garp swallowed the last of his rice crackers.

CP0 operatives, who had just raised their right legs to execute the "Soru" technique of the Six Powers, paused mid-step.

In the distance, journalists had already set up their high-grade cameras, ready to record the unprecedented battle.

The commanding voices of the Five Elders still echoed in the air.

But the stars of the event—the Sun and Moon Pirates—were gone.

Time seemed to stand still in the area.

The world itself felt as if it had stopped.

Space felt frozen in place.

Everyone maintained the expressions and postures they had a few seconds ago.

The three Elders blinked in disbelief.

Eyes wide, they glanced at one another.

Where was the ship?

That massive pirate ship—where had it gone?

Where were the people?

Where had everyone disappeared to?

"Invisibility?"

A confused Akainu took cautious, stiff steps toward the frozen section of the sea where the Radiant Eclipse had been.

Only an imprint on the ice remained, marking where the ship had once been encased.

Under the gaze of everyone present, Akainu reached the remnants of the imprint and extended his hand, trying to touch something.

Akainu swiped his hands forcefully through the air.

Nothing.

It was all air.

It wasn't invisibility or transparency.

The ship was truly gone.

"Gone! It's really gone!"

Turning back, Akainu's face was scrunched into a myriad of complicated emotions.

"Gone?"

The three Elders, along with Kizaru and Aokiji, rushed to Akainu's side, stretching out their hands to touch the air themselves.

Nothing.

"How bizarre. How could it just disappear like this?"

In broad daylight, Kizaru felt his scalp tingle with unease.

"Did it sink into the sea?"

He stepped onto the ice where the ship had been and stomped a few times.

The ice was as solid as a rock.

There were no cracks.

The ice hadn't broken. How could the ship have passed through it into the water?

"This is spooky. Seriously spooky," Garp muttered, shivering slightly.

"Could it be we've seen a ghost? Was everything earlier just an illusion? Did the Sun and Moon Pirates even come here at all?"

The sheer absurdity of the situation made even these hardened warriors question the reality of the past moments.

An illusion?

"It's a spatial ability," one of the Elders concluded. "It must be a spatial ability."

Several Devil Fruits in the world could manipulate space in unique ways.

After a brief shock, they quickly regained composure.

"The Ope Ope no Mi has spatial abilities capable of relocating massive objects. Or perhaps the Sun and Moon Pirates have a member with an ability we've yet to discover."

"Search for them! Search quickly!"

"All spatial abilities have limits. They must still be nearby. There's no way they've gone far!"

The three Elders bellowed orders to their subordinates.

"Where are they?"

Akainu, Kizaru, and the others scanned their surroundings, their eyes wide with determination.

Haki surged to its maximum range, spreading in all directions.

"No signs."

Kizaru leaped into the air, transforming into a beam of light and ascending high into the sky. From his elevated position, he surveyed everything within a radius of twenty or thirty kilometers.

The entire interior of Lodestar Island was visible.

The ice-covered surface was clear.

There was no sign of the Radiant Eclipse.

"Could it have flown into the air?"

Desperately grasping at possibilities, some even looked up to the sky.

Nothing.

That left one final possibility.

Under the ice.

"Are they underwater?"

"In the sea?" A group of wide-eyed men gathered again, frowning at the ground beneath them.

"This will be troublesome. Searching underwater is no easy task."

The ice and the seawater would interfere with Haki perception…

"They couldn't have gone underwater without preparation. Most of the Sun and Moon Pirates are Devil Fruit users. Entering the sea would mean death."

"Could the teleportation range be far greater than we anticipated? Could they already be far away?" Aokiji speculated.

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible. They can't be far!"

The three Elders, along with Akainu and the others, sharply refuted the idea.

They couldn't accept such an outcome.

After all their painstaking preparations, with even the unprecedented presence of the three Elders themselves…

Their accomplishment amounted to nothing but seeing the Sun and Moon Pirates for a brief moment.

Wouldn't that make them look like fools?

"Search faster! Keep searching! Smash through the ice! Even if they're hiding underwater, we'll turn the ocean upside down if we have to!"

The Elders roared furiously.

"Ryusei Kazan!"

Akainu, unable to accept the situation, unleashed his full power.

The ice began to shatter violently.

Under the stern gazes of the Elders, Kizaru reluctantly fired countless light bullets in an indiscriminate assault on the ice.

"If they're nearby, we'll find them eventually."

The three Elders stood on the shore, veins bulging in their foreheads, their faces alternating between red, blue, and green from sheer frustration and fury.

As time passed, despair began to creep in.

Ten minutes.

Half an hour.

An hour.

Aokiji, disregarding the toll on his stamina, froze the ocean entirely, from the surface to the seabed, across a range of more than ten kilometers around Lodestar Island.

"If they're within this range, the lack of oxygen will force them out."

Clinging to this last hope, they stared at the frozen sea.

They waited.

Ten minutes.

Half an hour.

An hour.

Silence.

Not a single sound.

The scene they hoped for—the Radiant Eclipse breaking through the ice—never came.

The harsh reality set in.

The Sun and Moon Pirates had truly left.

They had already departed Lodestar Island.

From elation and confidence to shock, panic, and finally helplessness, the three Elders experienced an emotional descent from heaven to hell in the span of two to three hours.

Their faces flushed red, then turned blue, and finally green with rage and frustration.

It was a colorful spectacle.

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DONT FORGET POWER STONE 

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