Portgas D Ace x Reader Oneshots

🎃A dead Pirate🎃

Warnings: Uh, dead person?
No mention of gender.
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Ace head hung low as he sat chained to the wall. His body was damp and wounded. The worst part was the fact that he felt weak. Defeated could be a good word for it, but it felt horrible on the tongue. Glancing up, his eyes caught glance of the same dead eyes that had been staring at him for days. The body was crumpled, broken, and molding. The poor human seemed to have starved to death.

"Who's that?" Ace asks as a guard pass by. The older man stops and looks at the dead body.

"That's Y/n L/n. They were a pirate that we were supposed to execute 74 years ago." He answers, looking at the stiff molding body.

"Why didn't you execute them?" Ace asks, glaring back at the dead eyes of Y/n.

"I heard they tried, but failed, and failed. It was impossible to kill them, so they locked them up to rot and die. Never to see sunlight again." The guard explains.

"Why still have them here? Their dead. Why not take back the cell?" Ace asks, his voice a little raspy.

"We can't." The guard states, looking at the dead body of Y/n. Ace raised his eyebrow, curious.

"Whoever comes within a 4 meter range to their body dies. That includes if you, for example, shoot her, then the one who fired dies." And as to prove the guards' words, fate sends a small mouse near Y/n, and it died immediately, its body going numb and lifeless within a second. Ace eyes widened in shock. What kind of curse could that be?

"We sometimes use them for quick executions, for pirates that we just need to get rid of, and don't need a public execution like you." The guard then adds. Ace can't stop his blood from boiling in anger. They're using them as a weapon?! How pathetic of them. Ace turned his attention back to Y/n. He felt bad. It's not like they wanted to end like this, right?

"How come I haven't heard of them before?" Ace asks. He felt like some immortal pirate would cause a lot of legends and rumors.

"The government covered all the traces of them. They didn't like the fact that a pirate could stand their power. Only people like me who heard it from the few guards that lived during her time are aware." The guard explains.

"Why tell me then? If it's a secret?" Ace asks, glancing over to the guard.

"You die soon anyway. At Marineford." The guard scoffs. Ace held back his tongue. It was true, after all.

Some days pass, and Ace's concentration never leaves the dead pirate. It's just that it is staring at him. In a way, is it suffocating. Jinbei gets locked up with him. And he hadn't heard of this pirate either, though he admitted that the curse or ability the dead body possesses is one not to mess with.

Magellan and a lot of guards come to Ace. It was time to transport him to Marineford. It's the worst situation he ever been in since his brother and friends were gonna risk their life just to save his.

Before they can leave an echoing sound of something hard falling to the floor, stop them. All slowly turned to look at the dead body of Y/n to find the skeletal arm had fallen out. The same sound echoed but more muffled since this arm had more flesh left on it.

"But, it hasn't moved for years?!" A guard panics scared, since it had been totally still and stiff for the past decades. The head of Y/n slowly looks up at them, her destroyed head, making some guards yelp in fear. The tension was thick, and it felt like they were all stuck.

Magellan watches nervously. How is it even possible?!

Ace didn't know what to believe. A dead body is moving. . . .wait, why is it starring at him?

"Come join me after your death." Their deep voice says to Ace, it had clearly not been used for long, decades. Then, the former pirate started turning into dust, disintegrating away. Leaving an empty cell. . . . . . . .