A Chapter With Him {Portgas D. Ace}

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"He is just a friend"

These words I spoke of kept repeating inside my head ever since, though I just don't mind it, but sometimes I really do.

Ace and I just met for a couple days, and here I am starting to develop a sudden feelings for him but thinking what he would react to it, I would just brush aside the thoughts because he would be too weirded out if I were to tell him.

Hoping to find calmness in my distressed manner this past few days, I decided to paint again after awhile. Though I'm not an expert in it, I always make my own masterpiece.

Right now, in the middle of the night, I am on my way to the beach, where I first encountered Ace. I gathered my supplies and planned to sneak out and hopefully I won't get caught.

Looking left and right outside the door of my house, luckily it seems no one is there at the moment, I walked out and gently closed the door behind me.

"And where are you sneeking out to at this time, miss (Y/n)?" a sudden voice spoke from behind which caught me by surprise, I screamed in horror but immediately calmed myself to not disturb anyone anymore than I just did.

I fixed my posture and cleared my throat as I looked up at the person who just spoke, it was a night patrolee.

"I'm sorry for what I just did, dear sir," I said and held my belongings behind me "I uuhh-m" I desperately looked around to find an excuse to tell him.

I did not think this through...

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"Oho, a warlord" Ace chuckled "Then, if I fight 'im I might get some prestige if I win" that being said, Ace jumped on him without warning and used his devil fruit's power, which cause a huge flame here and there.

"They're gonna die!" said the outlooks somewhere by the woods,

A few days had already gone by but there's still no signs of stopping between the two, not until one of them kissed the floor, followed by the other one.

"Which one of you wanted to kill me?" said a man hidden by the mist at an upcoming pirate ship.

"I'm gonna fight the man single handedly" a smirk written across the face of the said man as he jumped down the front of his ship, where he stood still. His loud steps echoed followed by the sound of clanking of his huge weaponry.

His steps became closer and closer which Ace took notice of, and made him stand up on his own feet. He wrapped the surroundings with his flame, caging both of them in.

"Captain!"

"Captain Ace, what are you doing?!"

His crew cried out to him, hoping to have reach him.

"Everyone run away!" Ace shouted back at them.

"You snot-nosed brat!" said the man before him.

Ace screamed from the top of his lungs as he launched himself towards the man, not waiting for a preparation. Though, of course, he was no match. Blood splattered and he fell to the ground once again, face on the floor.

"So this is the man on equal footing as his" he said as he looked at the floor, hands clenched into fists.

"Still have some fight in you?" the man said as he looked down at his current posture, "You are too valuable to die right now, boy" he continued, a few seconds later he offered him a hand and smiled as he says words that would later enrage Ace more.

"Become my son!"

Ace eyes grew in shock as he screamed at him until he passed out from exhaustion.

He woke up from his deep slumber and looked around as he noticed that he was in an unfamiliar territory. He stood up from the bed he was sleeping on and head to the door of the room.

As he opened it, he noticed that he was currently in a moving ship, towards an unknown place. He looked upon the deck and realized it as he fell to his butt right down.

"My name is Thatch" said a brunette man that suddenly came from nowhere, "If you're gonna join us, we should be friends" in the middle of saying that, he jump up on the deck to sit and afterwards showed a warm smile to Ace. Though Ace was most likely not impressed and shouted "Shut up" to him. Rude I say.

Moving on, Ace would try to assassinate the old man here and there. After a few times, no, after a hundred times of trying to assasinate the old man, he would just go back to square one where he would bleed, thrown out the water, knocked out, etc., which never fails to amuse the crew.

"He's been at it every single day"

"He sure is gutsy"

He sat on the wooden deck out of exhaustion, when a bowl of hot soup was suddenly placed just beside him. Ace looked at it after awhile and managed to talk to the pineapple head man, whom had already started walking away

"Why.... Do you call him pops?" Ace asked the pineapple head man to which he turned to look at Ace and smiled and said

"Because he calls us his 'sons'"

After hearing those words, Ace slumped on his sit and looked down, his expression not really clear from what he wanted to express.

"You have to make up your mind soon yoi"

"You're not capable of killing him"

With that being said, Ace accepted being on the pirate crew after awhile. He gained his fame through battling amongst other pirate crew, who were now under the infamous 'Whitebeared' pirates

"Me, become the 2nd division commander?" he asked a crewmate as he fixed his things

"Yeah, if you took it nobody would complain" said his crewmate.

And that is how how he became a member, a division commander of the Whitebeared pirates.

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I barely managed to escape the officer, but thanks to the sudden alarming noice that came from down the street. I quickly made a run, or more like sneaked my way towards the destination.

I breathe in the fresh smell of the midnight air and sat on the ground, to wait for the sunrise for the next couple of hours.

I scribbled some of what crossed my mind at the moment and added color to it, though the result wasn't what I imagined.

"Meh, this is good enough" I told myself and continued to make another piece. I wouldn't call myself an expert doing this, average is what I would define with my artworks.

Being immersed by my own world, I didn't notice that the sun had already started to rise, not until the rays reached my eyes as it goes up, enough to call morning already.

I put a hand up to cover my eyes with the rays as I watched it silently. This kind of scenery never fails to amuse me, it brings warmth and tingling sensation throughout my entire body, and I....

"Feel at home"