The Unknown Pirate

Ch.5

also I received a comment asking if this was before Marine ford and to answer that is this is after Marine ford but, Ace never died neither did Whitebeard. I hoped that answered your question.

-Portgas_Sophia

"hey Luffy, you and your brother are really close. you two must of been joined at the hip as kids," I said sitting down where Ace had been sitting next to him. "not at all, when we first met he spit on me and later when I tried to follow him in the woods I almost died because every day I would lose him or he would go thru a river full of gators," he said laughing. "but you two seem so close now, what changed?" I asked. "one day I finally found out where he went, but pirates who Ace had stole from earlier show up after Ace tied me to at tree because I saw his pirate sash. they were going to kill me but they never killed anyone before. the pirates were going thru the woods looking for Ace after I yelled about their stash. the bluejam pirates beat me trying to get me to talk but, I refused. Ace and Sabo saved me. Ace yelled at me asking why I didn't talk, why I keep following him. I said because their wasn't no one. he got really quiet and said 'so you want me to live?' they finally let me be friends with them. a few weeks later Ace stole the bandits booze and the three of us became brothers," Luffy said grinning. "do you know where Sabo is?" I asked. "oh he died when he was 12, I was 10 at the time. at his grave I was crying and Ace yelled at me telling me to stop acting like a baby. that Sabo would be ashamed to see me crying. we both swore on Sabo grave that we will become pirate when we reached 17. Ace being two years older left first. he yelled at me on the shoreline to stop crying, that we'll met again," Luffy said. "wow, what happened before now?" I asked wanting to know more now. "Lunch!!" Sanji yelled across the ship. "I'll tell you more later, now lets eat," Luffy said jumping up and running toward the dining hall. "I follow behind him walking. "what's for lunch Sanji?" I asked sitting down. "fish and vegetables," he said passing out food. "it's great," Luffy said with his mouth full. I look around at the crew, they don't look it but they are strong from Luffy to Nami and everyone in between. I hope that I can be as strong and brave as them. I grab another fish before Luffy could eat them all. on this ship you have to learn to eat fast, before Luffy can. I finish and walk downstairs to look around. there is the men's sleeping room then the bathroom, the women's sleeping room and next to that the captain's room and at end of the hall the drawing room. then another set of stairs going to the controls. I walk to the drawing room and sit down at the fish tank. the different types of fish amaze me. I yawn and look out the window, the sun was starting to set. I get up and walk to the women's room and head for my dresser. I pull out a baby blue nightgown and change and go to bed.

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I wake up in a cold sweat, I calm my out of control heart. "it was just a nightmare," I whisper climbing out of bed, grabbing my long coat I head for the deck. I walk over to the bow of the ship. I lean on the railing and sigh. "what are you doing up, Annebelle?" Luffy asked. "oh I had a nightmare," I said. "Do you want to talk about?" he asked climbing up to his seat. "I was standing in front of the world government and there were marines all around me. you and your nakama were trying to get me, but the kill you and your nakama," I said crying. "its okay, what won't happen," Luffy said hugging me. "h-how do y-you know?" I asked hiccuping. "because I'm going to be the pirate king, so I can't die till then," Luffy said calmly. I dry up my tears and hold on to him tighter. "you know what always cheers me up? meat! can we get some PLEASE!!??" he asked with I pulled away drying my tears. "fine, but just this once," I was smiling a little at his grin. "great!" Luffy said grabbing me and take us to the other side of the ship. we landed in front of the kitchen. I could hear Luffy repeating one thing 'meat'. I unlock the door and Luffy charged in. I walk in behind him. he ran over to the lock freezer. "okay here is the rule, you may have one piece of meat only," I said holding the keys. "un-uh," Luffy said drooling. I unlock the freezer and grabbed two decent sized pieces of meat and lock the freezer back up. I take the meats over to the stove and start to prep them. "awe, this is going to take for ever if you do that," Luffy said complaining. "just go sit down, they'll be done when they are done," I said. Luffy hopped up on the counter next to where I was cooking. I season the meat and dice it up. I light the stove, grab a pan and pour oil on it and push the meat on the pan. "where did you learn to cook?" Luffy asked starring down the food. "I learned when I was working in a pub making a little bit of money, I was the chef," I said turning the meat. "are you as good as Sanji?" Luffy asked. "I don't think I'm that good I said turning off the stove and sliding the meat on to a plate and grab one thing of chop sticks. "here you are Luffy. he snatches the chop sticks out of my hand and digs in to the food. "this is amazing!!!!! its really close to being better than Sanji's cooking. here try a bite," Luffy said picking up the last piece and held it out to me, I have the meat in my mouth and was about to pull the chop sticks out of my mouth, when I heard the door open and a voice. "what are you two doing in here?" Sanji asked rubbing his eyes he looked back at us and walked over there and gave Luffy a knot on the head. "oi, what was that for?" Luffy asked rubbing his head. "what were you doing to Annebelle!?" I was giving her some of the meat she made," Luffy said grumpily. "Annebelle, did he force you to cook for him?" Sanji asked. "no, I was hungry when I woke up and when I came up here Luffy was on the deck. so I made us some food," I said. Sanji lights him a smoke and takes a deep breath and breaths out the smoke. "well clean up when you two are done," he said leaving. "how is your head?" I asked rubbing his hat less head. "its fine, I'm made of rubber his fist leave a knot it just hurt for a moment," he said. "ok that must be nice, not really able to be hurt," I said. "it is," Luffy yawned. I said yawn too. "you should go back to sleep," Luffy said. "but I'm afraid of having that nightmare again," I said. "okay, you can sleep in my room," Luffy said standing up. "where will you sleep?" I asked cleaning the dishes. "on the floor and you can have the bed," Luffy said. "I don't wanna kick you out of your bed. why don't we share the bed?" I asked. "sounds good to me," Luffy said leading the way to his room, I climbed in bed first and faced the wall, Luffy faced the other way. I fell asleep fast with Luffy back against mine and hearing his heart thumping thru his back.