A Different Route (ASL, One Piece)

3. waiting

The next morning Sabo woke up in the most uncomfortable position you could imagine and everything in his body hurt. Sabo let out a grunt when he opened his eyes, he tried to move out of the uncomfortable position but noticed that was impossible because of the rope. 'We lost the fight' Sabo thought shocked. He looked around and noticed that Ace was next to him but he couldn't see Luffy. He looked around for his little brother but just saw passed out pirates.

Then when panic started to rise he finally noticed on the other side of the fire Luffy's little figure and took a deep breath. His little brother was okay, now he could think about an escape plan. It was hard to move with his body tied to the tree and with his feet at his right side on the ground, he couldn't reach his knife that was hidden in his left shoe. Shoot.

At that moment Ace woke up and realized his brother was finally awake, 'Sabo you're awake. It took you long enough, you had me worried dumbass.'. 

'Sorry, I think I got knocked in the head pretty hard. What happened while I was out of it?'. 

Ace's face turned dark and he looked away from his brother, 'They hurt Luffy because I tried to get out of my restrains. They burned him with a sword.'. 

'Shoot Ace that isn't your fault, you didn't know they would use Luffy like that. Do you know what they want with us?' Sabo responded sounding sad and mad. 

Before Ace could say anything they heard a voice say, 'They want to sell us somewhere in the Grand Line,'. Ace and Sabo looked up to see Luffy look at them with a small smile, 'I'm happy you're okay Sabo.' Luffy finished. 

Ace and Sabo smiled, 'How are you Luffy?' they asked in union.

'I'm okay but I don't think we can escape. This captain said he has five thousand man in his fleet.' Luffy responded with a bit of fear in his eyes.

 'Shoot,' Sabo thought looking at Ace with concern, 'if that's true we won't be able to escape.'.

 'Maybe when they move us to their boat or something, we find an opening and we try.' Ace whispered to Sabo who nodded.

'But we need to be careful, they don't care if they hurt us. We need to wait until the perfect moment.' Sabo whispered back. 

Acee, Sabooo stop being mean and whispering.' Luffy half yelled to get their attention.

 'Shhhhhhhh Luffy!' The older brothers both shushed him in panic, looking around but no one woke up. 

'We are talking about our options, Luffy. We think it's best to wait right now.' Sabo said with a smile. 

Luffy tilted his head to the side and then smiled at his brothers, 'Okay, I trust you guys. Do you think they will feed us soon?'. Ace laughed while Sabo shook his head.

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Ace, Sabo and Luffy were tied to the mast and were scared and excited at the same time. They just passed reverse mountain which was like a rollercoaster to the brothers so they had a lot of fun. Now they were in they most dangerous sea of all time, the Grand Line which was scary. 'Alright keep your eyes open everyone, be on the lookout for other pirates. I don't care if you are hungry.' Don Krieg screamed while Luffy's stomach growled.

The pirates had fed them once everyday with bread, one rice ball, a peace of fruit and water. The three brothers were hungry but asking for food would only give them a beating, they learned that the hard way. Luckily in order to eat they needed their hands so their hands were not bound behind their backs, the pirate thought tying them and untying them everyday was to much work. Luffy had specific orders from his brothers not to steal any food using his Devil Fruit powers because they needed him to have his hands free too.