Thank you to everyone who read and commented on my previous stories, it's always heartwarming, and I embrace you all very much for that * smack *
You know the drill, One Piece and Bones are not my creations.
Sorry for the mistakes, and I hope you enjoy reading it in spite ^ ^ '. If this first chapter is short, is that this is just an introduction. Others will be more dense, I assure you ^ ^ '
I made this English version because I was asked. I am originally French, so I hope it will be good enough to be understand and appreciate by everyone. I made this traduction with a online traductor.
So, now, it's time for you to read this.
Marco and Shanks stood for a moment in front of the graves of Portgas D. Ace and Edward Newgates. They were the last to be here, in front of the deads.
- He looked like him ... Shanks murmured. It almost shocked me the first time I saw Ace... and like an idiot, I did not realize who really he was, just because he did not have the same name as Roger, and he is presented as the brother of Luffy ...
- When I look back, it is true that Ace and Roger are similar in physical, yoi ... muttered Marco, his eyes still trained on the graves.
- For the character, what little I knew Ace, it's not that. Just perhaps his refusal to flee, and that he is ready to sacrifice for those who are dear, are the same as Roger... maybe his so characteristic way of smile remind me a kind of Roger...
- It did not matter on board because we were all baka musko of Shirohige, yoi ...
The silence returned, broken only by the sound of wind in the flag and Shirohige's coat, clinging to the grave.
- I have nothing against justice, even if I am a pirate ... except when she screwed up ... Ace was an innocent victim, who was used to ignite the powder in this war ... his most serious crime were not to be a pirate ... but to be born with the blood of Roger, for them, informed Shanks breaking the silence.
Marco wiped his tears and put a hand on the two tombstones covered with flowers.
- Oyaji ... Ace ... I will see you again, I promise you, yoi. The Shirohige Kaizokudan will not disappear with you, yoi, he whispered to his dead brother and father.
Boum !
Marco was thrown backward, by the blast of the explosion, at his left.
His power of regeneration activated immediately and nursed all the wounds of the explosion, his perforated eardrum included.
The loud explosion came from the tomb of Ace, and she had managed to send the tombstone to the sea, with flowers and a few personal belongings of the young man. It was a miracle that the tomb of Shirohige was intact after that.
Ace's coffin was revealed and ripped open by fire.
Shanks helped Marco to stand upright and the two pirates leant over the flames to see the cause. They saw, instead of the body of Ace, a child with shorts too big for him, badly injured, but alive. Marco leaned into the coffin and pulled the boy.
- Marco ? whispered the child, opening his eyes briefly.
Marco wrapped the boy in his feathers, and closed his eyes, thanking heaven for this miracle before telling Shanks :
- Shanks, can you recover the knife and the hat, yoi ... Ace is alive, yoi !
- But ... began Shanks, who saw only a child and not Ace.
- Look at the tattoo on his arm, yoi !
Yes, the tattoo, on the arm of the boy, allowed to identify him easily as Ace. Portgas D. Ace.
Marco stroked the boy's forehead with his feathers, sending the child straight into the arms of Morpheus.
- Hold on, Ace ... Marco-nii-san is here, yoi, Marco whispered cradling the child in his wings, without bothering about Shanks, who had plunged.