So I've been reading a lot of One Piece Fanfiction at the moment, and it put this idea in my head. Few things to clear up though before you read.

Luffy did not have a Devil Fruit before he met Ace and Sabo, the story is mostly the same put to this point except for that. Sabo didn't try and sail away and was able to escape from the city and meet up with Ace and Luffy.

Ace will still have the Flame Flame Fruit, but Luffy will have a different Devil Fruit and Sabo will be getting one too, though I am not sure it has come up in the series before this point. All three will be Logia, and you will find out what they are in this chapter.

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Summary- As the brother brothers stood on the hill watching the Grey Terminal burn along with all the people inside, they realised that they would never be the same. It was also at that moment that Luffy decided to show his brothers his secret stash off food he had hidden in the forest, which was only three very odd fruits. Different DF Luffy, DF Sabo, all three set out together.

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Disclaimer: I own nothing:(

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Chapter 1- Three Logia

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They could only look out at the scene before them with wide, horrified eye and open mouths. Stood on top of a hill at the edge of the forest, the three brothers had a perfect view to watch as the fire slowly burned its way through the Grey Terminal.

But not only that, because even from where they stood they were still able to hear the screams. People that's only real crime was being poor in the eyes of the nobility, crying out in pain and desperation for help as they were burned alive along with the junk they lived and scavenged in.

Sabo could only look on with a mixture of guilt and horror at what his own people had done, his grip on the pipe in his hands turning his knuckles white as small croaking sound escaped his throat. The burn on the left side of his face that he had gotten while escaping the fire with his brother's was screaming in pain, but for the moment he couldn't even register it as being there.

Ace stood silently, his face full of rage and his hands gripped into fists so tight blood was dripping to the floor.

Even Luffy with his admittedly limited brain power, found himself struck speechless at the sight as silent tears fell from his eyes.

The three stood there all night watching the fires burn, refusing to leave until the last ember was cold and the screams fell silent. They felt it was the least they could do, because while they weren't able to help save anyone the people at least deserved to have someone acknowledge there last moments.

When the last of the fires finally burned out Ace slowly turned his back to what was once the Grey Terminal, before laying a hand on each of his brother's shoulders and pulling them away back to their tree house.

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They bandaged Sabo's burn after rubbing some herbs they had gathered before that day into it, making sure it wouldn't get infected while healing. The bandage was covering his left eye, so for the moment he had only one to glare out at the world with.

It was clear the burn would leave a scar to the three of them even with their limited medical knowledge, but Sabo didn't care about that. It would be a reminder of what had happened for the rest of his life, a way to make sure he never forgot what Nobles were capable of.

After he had finished bandaging his brother's face and making sure Luffy didn't have any injuries they had missed, Ace had moved to lean over the railing and look out over the forest with his back to them. He could still see the smoke floating into the sky in the distance, the smell still clinging to his skin and following them all the way to the tree house.

Luffy had simple sat in a corner in silence, having not uttered a word since they had gotten back. Both Ace and Sabo knew he was in shock, even though he was only three or four years younger than them Luffy had always seemed younger. It made both feel like they needed to protect him, as his older brothers it was there job to protect him…but both knew they had failed. Luffy should never have seen what had happened that night, never heard the screams of the dying or smelt the stench of burning junk and human flesh mixed together.

Both were actually very worried about what this would do to him, if he would still be able to be the innocent little boy that would scream about being the King of the Pirates.

Neither Ace nor Sabo actually wanted to be the Pirate King, though they both wanted to be pirates. Ace never wanted to be King because he hated his father, and the thought of sharing his title made him burn inside. Sabo simple saw being a pirate was his way to freedom, to escape his life as a Noble child and be truly free.

But after everything they had just seen, those dreams seemed so far away now.

For the most part Luffy was dead to the world around him, the scream of the dying echoing endlessly in his head and his eyes clouded and burning from smoke and fire. He could still feel the heat, smell the smoke, all of it was on a constant loop inside his head over and over again.

It was as this was happening though, that Luffy started to understand. He had been looking at the world in rose tinted glasses, where everything was black and white and made sense. But the truth was the world was black, with an endless sea of grey leading to a few spots of white in the distance.

His face hardening, Luffy slowly got to his feet and moved over to the lose floorboard where he kept his secret food stash. At least that was what he told his brothers it was, in actual fact it was his most important treasure.

His movement got the attention of both Sabo and Ace, who watched silently as he moved the board away and reached down to pull out an old wooden chest. It wasn't very big, and the brass fixing were old and rusted, but the lock on it was new and strong. Slowly getting up and moving to stand behind him, they watched as he pulled a key from a string around his neck that they had never seen before and opened the chest.

Inside sat three oddly shaped and coloured fruit, laying side by side in the otherwise empty chest.

The one on the right looked like a white orange, with bluish grey swirls covering it. The one on the left looked like a heart shaped apple, with what seemed to be flame patters and a white stalk. The last fruit sat in the middle was simple round, with black and purple bumps covering its surface.

Both Ace's and Sabo's eyes widened in shock at the sight of them, knowing exactly what they were yet unable to comprehend the fact that Luffy had not only found but hidden three Devil Fruits. Without even knowing what type they were or what power they held each would be worth thirty times what they had been able to gather before Bluejam and his crew stole it, and depending on what they were it could be even more than that.

Yet as they stared at the three fruits the thought of selling them never even crossed any of the three brother's minds. Slowly reaching out and taking one of the fruits each, with no protest from Luffy, Ace and Sabo sat on either side of him with their eyes glued to the fruit. Ace was now holding the red and Sabo the white/grey, leaving the Luffy to pick up the black/purple.

Taking his eyes away from the fruit now in his hands, Ace turned to Luffy with his face still a mask of shock.

"Luffy…where did you find these?"

Luffy's eyes never moved from his fruit, but he did answer in a slightly flat tone.

"I found the red one when I was little, I was fishing and it caught on my hook. The white one I found in the forest about a month ago, it was stuck between some roots and I caught sight of it by chance. This one I only found two days ago…in the Grey Terminal. There were two men fighting over it and I stole it when they weren't looking…"

By this point Sabo was looking at Luffy, his face set like stone.

"Luffy…do you know what these are?"

"Yeah I know, they're my treasure. I was going to give you both one when you set out on your pirate journey…but now…after…."

He didn't finish, but then again he didn't need too.

Finally looking up at his brothers Luffy gave them both a pleading look with unshed tears in the corners of his eyes, begging them to tell him what to do. Ace and Sabo shared a look for all of ten seconds before nodding to each other and standing up, pulling Luffy with them with stone like expressions on there faces.

Ace held out his hand with the fruit to the middle of them, followed by Sabo and a moment later Luffy did the same before speaking.

"From this day onward, we stick together. None of us leaves this island unless we all go, even when we reach 17…agreed?"

"…agreed."

"…yeah."

Nodding they each brought the fruit back and as one opened there mouths wide, before all three shoved them in whole.

Ace felt like he had just shoved a handful of bitter tasting ashes into his mouth, ashes that were still hot and burned his mouth and throat was he ate. It took all his willpower to swallow, and even more to stop himself from throwing it back up. Then the heat from the fruit started to spread throughout the rest of his body, getting hotter and hotter as it moved from his stomach to his arms and legs, before settling in his chest. It felt like he was on fire as the heat became unbearable, only for it to stop hurting just before a scream erupted from his throat. The heat was still there, but now it just felt…right, like it was a part of him.

He didn't notice that his body was now covered in small flickering flames, flames that didn't just come from his skin but were his skin.

Sabo's fruit tasted like warm, watery mud mixed with shit. The texture made him think of the time Ace had hit him in the face with a water balloon and it went in his mouth, rubbery and chewy. The juice inside it was burning hot to the point it felt like it was evaporating in his mouth before shooting down his throat, making his eyes water. He could feel it as the fruit travelled down his throat and hit his stomach, and the moment it did Sabo felt his body turning weightless. The heat from the juice filled him, feeling like it was replacing his very blood until it passed. He still felt warm and weightless, but not in a bad way anymore.

Like Ace he didn't notice what was going on around him as he tried to ignore the pain, oblivious as steam started shooting out of his nose and ears with a high pitched whistle like a kettle. His whole body seemed to become slightly hazy, rippling as if he were a mirage that would blow away with the wind.

For Luffy the moment the fruit touched his mouth he wanted to spit it out, the taste incomparable to anything he had ever experienced. Unlike Ace and Sabo though, Luffy's fruit felt cold. No cold wasn't enough to describe the feeling, it felt like he was trying to eat an abyss. Large and endless, yet cold and empty at the same time. The moment the fruit hit his stomach Luffy felt himself become that abyss, his body became cold and endless and he was filled with an almost…empty feeling. There was no other way to describe it, no other words. It wasn't an emotional emptiness, nor a physical one either. Luffy simple was an empty, an endless void of nothing.

Like his brothers, Luffy's body responded to the fruits power. His hair turned into some kind of black smoke that moved around in an unseen wind, his eyes turning pure black and all over his body the strange black smoke appeared in patches, replacing his skin.

When they finally did take notice of each other again, all three felt their eyes widen at the sight of the other two jump back.

"AAHH!"

Thud!

This was followed by them all screaming in shock, before falling backwards and fainting.

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After they woke up, only to faint again when they saw their own bodies, the three brothers sat in a circle in the middle of the tree house to talk about what was happening to them.

Ace decided to go first, inwardly thankful that the flams sprouting from his body hadn't set the tree on fire yet, even though he couldn't get them to go away.

"I feel like I'm on fire, but it doesn't hurt. My body is…different, I feel like I'm not solid anymore."

At his words both Sabo and Luffy nodded, before the blonde of the group spoke up.

"I'm the same, I feeling like I'm boiling. I feeling lighter than air too…no, I feel like I am air!"

They both turned to look at Luffy, who was now frowning slightly as he wrapped his arms around his legs a shivered slightly.

"I'm cold and…empty. I feel like my insides are huge and go on forever, but I'm not hungry."

His words were followed by another shiver, causing both Sabo and Ace to get slightly worried expressions before Ace spoke again.

"I think we just ate Logia Type Devil Fruits, the ones that turn you into an element. Their supposed to be the rarest and strongest of all the Devil Fruits or something."

Sabo nodded his head in agreement, also having heard this. However as his head moved it seemed to lose shape for a moment, turning into steam before reforming when he stopped moving. Seeing this each boy looked at their arm for a moment and started slowly moving it around, and the faster they moved it the more it lost its shape and blurred into their respective elements.

For Ace and Sabo, it was clear they were Fire and Steam respectively. But none of them knew what to make of the black smoke like substance that Luffy's body now seemed to be made of.

Frowning slightly Ace reached over and tried to grab Luffy's wrist, only for his hand to pass right through it. However the strange thing wasn't that he couldn't touch Luffy, but the fact that the moment his hand come into contact with the black smoke the rest of his body returned to normal only to catch fire again when he pulled away.

Having seen this himself Sabo made to touch Luffy's arm, only for the same thing to happen to him.

Both frowning slightly, it was at that moment that Luffy's reached over and pulled out a previously unseen book from the chest the fruits had been kept in that must have been hidden under them and gone unnoticed by the two older boys in there shock at the sight of the Devil Fruits. It took Luffy two attempts before he was able to grab it, his hand having become intangible the first.

"Hey, maybe this will help? I found it at the Grey Terminal a few weeks back. I don't know what it means but it has pictures of strange fruits in it like the ones we ate."

Both sat that blinking for a moment before Sabo, being the only one of the three able to read, took the book and felt his eyes widen at the words on the cover.

'Encyclopaedia of Know Devil Fruits'

He blinked one more time, before his face seemed to grow three times its size as he started yelling at Luffy.

"Why didn't you show me this before we ate the fruits! You Moron!"

Quickly calming down while Ace started laughing at the terrified expression of Luffy's face, Sabo started flipping through the book in search of the fruits they had just eaten. He quickly found both his and Ace's fruits, confirming that they were indeed the Logia for Fire and Steam respectively. It took a lot longer to find Luffy's, which it turned out was right near the very back of the book.

Clearing his throat Sabo started reading the page that went with the picture.

"Dark Dark Fruit, Logia. Turns the eater into darkness itself, and has been rumoured to…negate the power of other Devil Fruits by touch…"

While both Sabo and Ace were now starring at Luffy in shock, the boy himself could only blink in confusion as he started picking his nose.

"What's a neg gate?"

Shaking his head, Sabo quickly went into his teacher mode. It was something he had developed after meeting both Ace and Luffy, having had to explain a lot of things to the two seeing as they never went to school or had anyone teach them.

"Negate Luffy, it means you can stop other people from using their powers by touching them."

The youngest of the three boy's eyes widened at this news, stars appearing in them as a large grin crossed his lips.

"Really? That's so COOL! Shishishishi!"

Seeing Luffy finally returning to his usual happy mode took away almost all of the tension that had been building up between the three. Neither Ace nor Sabo could keep the grins off of their own faces, before both starting to laugh along with their younger brother.

When they finally calmed down they returned to sitting in a circle facing each other before Ace started talking again, though in a much lighter tone then before.

"We need to figure out how to control our powers, you know train and stuff to get stronger."

"Yeah!"

Both older boys simple gave a smile to Luffy's excited yell before turning to face each other, knowing Luffy probably wouldn't be much help in planning something like this.

Sabo being the brains of the small group, took a moment to think before his eyes moved over both his brothers before going down his own unstable body.

"Yeah your right, but I think the first thing we need to do is learn how to be solid again. Maybe we just need to concentrate, you know think ourselves solid…"

Quickly deciding it was worth a try and taking about thirty minutes to get Luffy to listen and do what they said, the three spent the next hour or so trying to become solid again. Surprisingly it wasn't actually as hard as they thought it would be once they started trying, like their bodies knew what they wanted and acted to follow there commands without question. It was even more surprising when Luffy was the first to get it down, quickly followed by Sabo with Ace coming in last much to the Fire boys displeasure.

After that then spent another two ours turning different parts of their bodies into their respective elements, making sure they could control it properly. They found out early on that there emotions could affect their control, as proven by Ace when he got mad at Luffy stealing his lunch and burst into flames.

What happened after that however was all thanks to Luffy when, in his usual brash and gloating self he started mouthing off about how his punch was like a bullet and he sent a ball of darkness shaped like his fist across the room and destroyed several branches on the tree they were in. This lead to the three boys creating there first attacks, by practicing sending out simple fist shaped balls of there element out from their fists that acted like a punch. However it also proved to the three just how different there powers acted compared to the other two.

Ace had little trouble forming the ball and sending it out, but it had set a section of the tree on fire that the three boy's had been rushed to put out before it spread. It was at that moment that Ace fully realised just how destructive fire was, and by extension how dangerous he now was.

Sabo found sending out a fist the hardest, because at first when he tried it would simple disperse into the air leaving nothing but a slight wet patch on the floor. It wasn't until he realised that he needed to compress his steam before sending it out that he was able to get it to work. It made him realise that he would need to use his brain more than the other two in order to fully utilise his steam to its fullest potential.

Before long the three were discussing possible attacks they would be able to create, before agreeing that they would never train in the tree house again and that until they could control their powers they would not use them without the other two around to help in case anything happened.

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One Month Later

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The three brothers were running through the forest, using their powers to help them move around and to help train them in control. It was an exercise that Sabo had come up with for them to do together, turning it into a sort of game to keep Luffy interest in it.

Ace was using his fire to propel him in short bursts between the trees, or in some cases the air itself. He couldn't actually fly, at least not yet, but he could use it to slow his decent or increase his jumping height. After having been using this method for almost a month he had gotten very good at avoiding the trees, having burst into flames several times in the beginning after hitting them over and over again.

Sabo was actually flying, though it was still shaky and he kept needing to land regularly. His body being weightless made it so that floating in the air was simple, but the hard part was actually moving once he was up. To do this Sabo was releasing his Steam from different parts of his body in order to propel him in the direction he wanted, but it was a skill he had only started trying to learn about a week ago so still needed to work on it.

Luffy was simple running through the shadows the trees created, appearing from another seemingly at random before once again disappearing. He was the fastest of the three, but not by much and only because Sabo was still learning how to fly. In fact it seemed Luffy had taken to his new abilities like a fish to water, using his instincts and natural denseness to take his understanding of his powers to a whole other level then either Sabo or Ace had been able to in the time since they had eaten the Devil Fruits.

Having said that all three were naturals, taking to their respective elements perfectly.

Ace, with his naturally wild nature and short temper found his Fire perfect.

Sabo, who always used his brain and couldn't be caught and tied down, was at home with his Steam.

Luffy, always hungry and relying on his instincts to get him through found the more…odd properties of Darkness very fitting.

Both Sabo and Ace knew that Luffy was, at least in terms of pure power, stronger than them both now. Between his ability to cancel out their own powers and the power to suck anything and everything into a space of seemingly infinite darkness he had found inside himself, neither would really be able to stop him. It was only their own skill and experience that kept them ahead of him, making it so that he had still yet to beat either in a spar.

Sabo still carried his pipe as a weapon, trying to find ways to use it with his steam for combat. Ace had taken to only carrying a small knife strapped to his lower back, though hardly ever took it out expect for hunting and relying more on pure fire attacks. Luffy was the same as always and didn't use a weapon, now he also had his powers he didn't need one anyway through.

The three had been training themselves to use their powers over the last month by hunting the giant animals in the forest, finding the ease with which they could now do so compared to before they ate the Devil Fruits to make it seem like nothing. Before it would take all three of them just to run away from a giant tiger, and even then it would be close. Now each could take on as many as they wanted without a scratch. Then again having a body not made out of flesh and blood helped a lot, so they couldn't actually get hurt while training anyway.

The burn on Sabo's face had healed almost instantly after he ate the Steam Steam Fruit, though it had still left a large scar covering the left side of his face over his eye. He was actually lucky not to have lost it or taken permanent damage, and after seeing himself in the mirror had simple grinned and claimed it looked 'badass'.

Ace and Luffy had also made several trips into the Goa Kingdom, though Sabo refused to set a single foot within its walls again.

They had wanted to see if any of the people even cared about what they had done after the Celestial Dragon had left, but what they found made them sick. While the regular citizens acknowledged it as a tragedy, the nobles didn't even seem to notice there was any difference. They were just going about their daily lives as if nothing had happened, once again throwing away everything into the Grey Terminal. By the end of the mouth it was already well on its way to returning to its former size, people who had nowhere to go even after the fire returning to live and scavenge in the noble's filth.

When they had told Sabo what they had seen, he didn't seem at all surprised.

The moment Luffy gained enough skill to spy on the city through the darkness and shadows they had stopped going at all, though Luffy would sneak in from time to time to steal the food right off of the Nobles tables.

The reason they didn't just forget about the kingdom all together was simple, they couldn't forget what they had done.

Sabo also warned them that now that it had worked once, the Nobles might decide to burn the Grey Terminal again. He had Luffy listening out for any mention of it, or if another Celestial Dragon would be making an appearance. The three were determined not to let it happen again, and were training for the day they would burn the city down with the nobles and all the people that had let what happened locked inside.

That was actually what they planned to do, though Sabo insisted they should take as much time to train as possible before acting. The moment they attacked the World Government would be on their tails, even if they covered their tracks. Until that day came Sabo was planning out every possible step they could take, every way they could take revenge for the people that had died so the noble could look good.

The day they destroyed Goa Kingdom would be the day there adventure began.

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Hope you like the chapter.

Luffy has now eaten the Dark Dark Fruit (sorry Blackbeard :P), and Sabo ate the Steam Steam Fruit (which to my knowledge is something I came up with on the spot, it seemed to fit his steampunck stile). Ace is still a fire man.

They will not be setting off for the Grand Line until Luffy turns 17, but that doesn't mean they will not be exploring the four sea's they are currently in. They will be Co-Captains.

Some may have also noticed that the three's powers are also almost the polar opposites of the admirals, Fire-Ice, Dark-Light and Steam-Magma. I know the last one isn't really a very good fit, but I honestly think that a Water Water Fruit would make no sense considering Devil Fruit eaters can't move in water so I decided to go with steam instead.

Let me know what you think :)