One Piece: Return of the Sun God

Ch-4 A Boy Named Sabo

No one's POV

"Hey! Ace! Wait for me! Hey!" Luffy's constant yelling made Ace scowl at him in clear annoyance.

"My name is Luffy. Are you going somewhere ?" Not responding, Ace drove his foot into a massive tree next to him, making it crack open and fall over.

Luffy's eyes widened in surprise when he saw this, even popping out of his eyes as the trees began to roll down the hill to crush him. He tried to run, but the tree rolled over him and crashed into the rock in the distance. Ace just walked away after seeing this. Meanwhile, Luffy was seen flattened on the floor like a pancake, not really in pain but he found it hard to get back up.

After a short while, Ace was walking across a rope bridge over a massive valley. The drop from the bridge to the ground was long. It's impossible to survive a fall from up there. While Ace was walking, he stopped and looked back in shock as he noticed a smiling Luffy standing behind him on the bridge. Ace scowled and walked over to Luffy, who smiled, thinking that he was finally ready to talk to him. But instead of talking, Ace slammed his stick onto the bridge, making the entire thing shake and launching Luffy into the air. In shock, Luffy plummeted down hundreds of feet to the bottom of the valley.

-Timeskip brought to you by Chibi Nika Luffy dancing with the wolves-

"Hey! Ace is back!"

"Food!"

The bandits rushed to dismantle and dismember the animals that Ace brought back home.

"Ace, you came back alone ? Where's Luffy ? I thought he was with you."

"I don't know." Ace replied and walked into the house.

It was now night and the bandits were trying to look for Luffy.

"That fool. Where is he and why hasn't he come back ?"

"Maybe he's dead."

"We're dead if Garp finds out about this."

The next scene shows Dadan being drunk and the others trying to control her. "Eh ? What did you say ?"

"Get a hold of yourself boss!"

"I said, it's not good that we lost him on the first day!"

"Who cares! If he dies, he dies!" Dadan retorted and drank another cup of sake.

"Garp is gonna kill us."

Dadan ignored him and poured herself another cup of sake. "First of all, why should we take care of Garp's grandson?! We're not nannies! He has to take care of his own grandson!"

"Why don't you say it to him then ?" The other bandit deadpanned.

"You got a problem?!"

"I'm already giving up on Ace as it is! I don't care if he dies or not. I'll just tell Garp it was an accident. It's true that "the devil's children have the devil's luck"! He's the devil's son! If the government finds out about this, what do you think they'd do to us?!" What she didn't know, was that Ace was listening in on the conversation the entire time and stared forward with a stern expression.

"Easy there boss. You're getting too drunk!"

Later that same night, the dog was barking uncontrollably, which served to wake up the other bandits.

"Who don't you shut up! Eh?!" He was shocked when he saw Luffy and immediately called Dadan.

When Dadan saw Luffy, she questioned where he was and why he didn't show up for so long.