Sons of Beasts Part 2

Waking Up To a Nightmare

I don't know how this happened in editing, but this chapter is ridiculously short and I'm sorry about that. I tried to combine this and the next chapter, but it made a mess of google docs trying to rename all of the chapters. Sorry about this. On the good news, my finals are all over! I got As on all of them and all of my classes! One more class to go and then I'm graduated! Enjoy~

Whitebeard read about the devil fruit that caused this mess in concern. He was sure it was this one: the yami yami fruit. If this was the correct one, then finding and getting Luffy back would be difficult. No one would be able to get him without the traitor's permission. Luffy was stuck in limbo basically, if it was correct that he had been taken into the darkness.

But how else would his presence have just disappeared without a trace or clue as to where he went? Ace still hadn't woken up and it was three hours into the search. The commanders were searching the entire island, even if it was a Red Haired Pirates' protected island. They had a betrayal to deal with and a friend to rescue.

It was better to let Shanks know what they were doing, so Whitebeard closed the book and went to the communications room that held all of the transponder snails. It was 4 AM, but that didn't matter at the moment.

He dialed Shanks's number, and waited for him to pick up. It was a full minute of ringing before a grumpy, "Who the hell is calling at this time?" was picked up.

"It's Whitebeard," the Yonko said seriously. He heard shuffling from the snail and assumed Shanks had sat up from his bed or something. "Two brothers are residing on my ship and I think you know who they are. Don't give any specifics as the line could be monitored.

"The younger has been stolen by someone on our crew, that attempted to kill Thatch and frame the older brother. We are at one of your protected islands searching for the traitor. We will do no harm to the civilians, unless they are trying to hide or help the traitor. We don't know who it is yet," Whitebeard explained, pleased that Shanks hadn't interrupted.

"Alright. We'll keep a lookout, as we're now back in the New World. Thank goodness we got here before the trafficking of Fishman Island," Shanks replied. "I'll call you if we hear or see anything."

Whitebeard thanked him, and then the conversation was over. He decided to go inspect Ace and Luffy's room to see if he could get a clue as to who did this horrible thing. The door was ajar. He knew Ace and Luffy usually left it closed. The captain slowly opened the door and turned the light on to see the room was a complete mess. Someone went through the drawers and left them hanging open.

Whitebeard looked around and knew what was missing, as the brothers only had so many personal belongings. The harness and knife were missing. The knife had been used to kill Thatch and planted on Ace, but the harness must've been taken to go with Luffy.

The captain had no doubt Luffy could kill the traitor, regardless of the yami yami fruit. The dragon didn't have a devil fruit, he had real powers. Even Ace would do okay with Teach as he didn't have devil fruit powers, either.

When everyone woke up, there would be a head count to see who was missing. He hoped it was only one person. One son's betrayal was one too many. It was hurting his heart to know that someone in his family had tried to kill their brother, and kidnapped a child, because Luffy was a child. He was thirteen. That's still a kid, even if he's also a dragon. If only Thatch hadn't found that fruit, though he couldn't place blame on him. Thatch didn't know this would happen.

And how would Ace react to knowing one of them drugged and framed him? Stole the most precious thing in his existence without a word. He might see it as a betrayal of the entire crew. He was suspicious enough as it was. He and Luffy had done nothing wrong, broken no rules, and looked what happened to them.