Saved [Portgas D. Ace] ~ One Piece FanFic

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Waking up in an unknown place is alarming, especially when your hands are shackled and your feet are tied.

Hex, trying her best to gain her senses back, woke in a small room with nothing but a small window. Staring at the direction where the ray passed, the young girl noticed a line of metal bars in front of her. Blinking, she slowly realized where she was making her growl.

The ten year old girl was currently enclosed, sitting in the middle of a tight prison cell under the Red Haired Pirates Ship.

Using all the strength she had left, Hex tried her best breaking the seastone cuffs but to her dismay, nothing happened. Huffing a breath, she stared at nothing in particular, waiting for her demise. The girl had no idea how many minutes or hours had passed as she sat there. Silence soon was broken when loud footsteps started thumping, ghe sound nearing her until it stopped.

Looking at the man in front of her, Hex gave Red Hair Shanks a death glare, one that a ten year girl shouldn't have mastered at such a young age. Seeing how the silver headed child stared at him, Shanks gave a stressed sigh as pity slowly crept in his heart.

Before he even took the initiative to invite Hex to join his crew, Shanks already had a rough idea that the girl was one of the marines' underlings as whispers around the sea about a young marine reached his ears. At first, he found the news laughable as he thought that the marines wouldn't go too low to accept and train such young kids to their benefit.

But alas, he laughed about the gossips and it bit his own ass.

After finding all the lies the girl spat, he immediately tried to capture her but to his surprise, Hex almost took all his crew down and if she hadn't stopped, only him and his sturdy subordinates would've only stayed alive.

Pushing all his thoughts away, Shanks tried to talk to Hex but unfortunately, the girl wouldn't talk making him sigh once more. Massaging his temples, the captain tried again once more to talk and asked the girl to tell them what her mission was but to no avail, his questions were left unanswered. He was about to use force for Hex to talk when suddenly Yasopp came running down towards the prison cell, a rolled up parchment in his hand as he yelled "captain" a few times.

Taking the paper off of Yasopp's hand, Shanks opened and read the words written in it. As he read each sentence, his facial feature's changed making Hex frown. His face held confusion, then a frown, exasperation soon took over until a snort came out of him. Crumpling the parchment, Shanks eyes met Hex' silver ones making him smile.

"Wait here, after three days I'll be sending you back to the marines. You're a great kid. If we found you sooner, I would've made you an official crew here in our ship with Luffy. Too bad."

"Do me a favor will ya'? As your soon to be ex-captain, I order you, Hex from the Red Haired Pirates, to grow and become an honorable marine. I'll see you after a few years."

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Nothing but bewilderment was written on Flare's face.

Staring at the sleeping man infront of her, Flare tried to poke Ace several more times to wake him up but to her utter confusion, it was no use. She wanted to shake the raven but her shoulder was stinging too much whilst her body was covered with bruise.