Hey guys! I finished reading and watching One Piece and it's my absolute favourite anime and manga. So I've been having a lot of inspiration nowadays. Hehehehe. I'm not sure how long this story is going to be, but we'll see how it goes. I just like writing and wanted to write a drama series. It might not even good, oh no God damn. Lets hope for the best. I'll try and make less mistakes.
Ace x fem!character (aka my cooler fantasy alter ego) the display pic is the female character. But but read the story very carefully.

Ace is Ace (this is in the world of One Piece where there are no wars for now. Whitebeard and Ace are still alive)

fem!character- Ou Ran (偶然) It means serendipity: the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way. This is what I want to base my story on. Hehehe wow I'm so poetic. :) Hopefully this isn't too cheesy for you.
Anyways I didn't want to give away any more information because it's going to hopefully unravel in this story.

Wish me luck!

It was a calm day on the Moby Dick, which actually translated to lots of brawls and training on the ship itself, while Whitebeard was looking over his own sons, smiling proud of his children. In fact he was waiting for the return of two of his children. Marco and Ace. He chuckled as his gorgeous nurses were checking his levels, he was content, proud of his sons, and their accomplishments. He remembered how each and everyone of his sons had joined his family. He remembered when he was travelling in the East sea he had found a couple stowaways on his boat from the last island he had stopped at, seeing the scruffy, disease ridden children in rags and scraps of clothing. He felt a terrible anger build in his chest, to see such young lives bear so much burden already. However it eased as he saw them recuperate,he couldn't forget the smile they gave him as he treated them, and the happiness he felt as they demanded to repay their debt to him and call him their father.

"Marco! Marco is back!" He heard the cheers of his children as one of their brothers had returned. Whitebeard looked up at the clear blue sky to see the majestic teal flamed phoenix that soared through the sky and landed gracefully down. One gust of wind blew away the terrifying blue flames and revealed the man who resembled a pineapple.

"Father-yoi" He stood proudly in front of Whitebeard.

"I take it your mission was a success?"

"Yes-yoi. Took a little longer than expected-yoi. I hope I didn't worry you-yoi." He bowed his head a little.

"No problem at all my son. We should have banquet to celebrate your success. Did you see Ace on his way back as well?"

"Yes, I saw him, he should be here in a few minutes-yoi"

"You didn't want to help your brother?"

"He's old enough, to make his own entrance-yoi" Whitebeard laughed at Marco's indifference, his children were too amusing sometimes.

"Oi bird brain, next time you see me coming back why don't you help a brother out? There was a fucking sea king that came out of nowhere and decided to try and eat me."

"I thought you said you were badass enough to be left to your own devices."

"I WAS SLEEPING."

"Not my fault, you need to keep your narcolepsy under control." They bickered as the rest of the crew was making general merriness, laughing, singing, drinking and eating. Ace was stuffing his face, sleeping and bickering, causing Marco to stomp his face causing Ace to shut up. They both smiled, laughing a little as they both started to eat.

"Doesn't this seem lively?" An unfamiliar voice commented, almost sarcastically but it also seemed genuine. Everyone stopped eating, even Whitebeard although expressionless, was a little surprised. Suddenly the atmosphere became hostile as they turned to see a strange medium height woman who seemed rather plain. Other than her white mask that hid her nose and mouth, and some piercings she seemed extremely ordinary. Even her eyes were very ordinary, just plain black pupils and irises, nothing about her was particularly interesting

"I can't get any reading on her."

"Yeah I can't sense her Haki."

"She's either weak or very strong."

She walked up to the circular platform, that was infront of Whitebeard and his chair. She knelt down to show her respect, bowing.

"Emperor Whitebeard."

"I see you masked yourself, so well that even I didn't notice you." Whitebeard commented.

"That is a great compliment coming from you Emperor Whitebeard." She smiled, looking up at him without an ounce of fear. She stood up proudly.

"Well what brings you here?"

"I understand you remember Master Ginlao?"

"That secretive old bastard?! Gararara! How is he?" She smiled at his comment.

"Our Master Ginlao has recently passed away. Since there was no one to continue on his legacy, we all decided to separate and lead our own lives. Hopefully if you let me join your crew I can live at sea, and find my home."

"I'm sorry to hear that. He was a great man your master. Here." He placed two sake cups pouring the alcohol one for her, one himself.

"How do you know she's not lying?" One crew member called out, a lot of the others agreed.

"One who knows Master Ginlao outside of his 'family' does not exist. This man lived his life on secrecy, so much that anyone who wasn't a part of his 'family' would be 'forced' to forget his name."

"How do you know his name father?"

"Before all you rascals he was a part of my crew. Bloody secretive bastard, but specialised in networking and intelligence. A great loss, I cannot fathom the number of successes we had because of him. And since I gave him a start here with the Whitebeard pirates when he left and made his own 'family' he forged a secret alliance between himself and the Whitebeard pirates ever since."

"To Master Ginlao. May his secretive spirit live on." The clinked sake cups and downed the alcohol without a second of breath. They watched her guzzle it down, and wipe her mouth with the back of her hand.

"Master Ginlao always spoke of Emperor Whitebeard in the highest regard. After he died, I had no idea where to go, and then I as I was thinking about Master Ginlao and what he has given me, I remembered Emperor Whitebeard and how he talked about you. I am sure he would be very happy that I asked to join your crew and find my home." she explained.

"Once you join the crew, you will be forever a part of this family. It is not easy to survive here."

"I understand Emperor Whitebeard."

"Good. I'm sure it was similar with Master Ginlao. That old bastard would put you in the worst places eh?"

"Somewhat. But I'm sure working for Emperor Whitebeard will be different and fun at the same time." She smiled up at him.

"Welcome to the family. What's your name?"

"Ou Ran. You may call me Ran."

"I'm guessing you're were his new recruit?"

"No sir, I was one of the first he recruited. I have worked alongside with the Whitebeard pirates before, behind the scenes. Also Master Ginlao stressed that we should shroud ourselves in secrecy, so you may have known us by alternative names. He understood how dangerous our jobs were and heavily stressed the important of secrecy. So it is not surprising if you didn't know me and my comrades."

"Damn paranoid bastard. Did he die in secrecy as well?" The both laughed, the crew seemed a little less worried. If Whitebeard trusted her and allowed her into the crew, then she couldn't be so bad could she?

"He died in his sleep. In fact we didn't know he died for about three days, and it took another day to get into his room."

"He died as he lived." Whitebeard concluded.

"Thank you Emperor Whitebeard. I am sure Master Ginlao would be happy that one of his pupils is under your care. I promise I will not fail you Emperor Whitebeard." She kowtowed to show her submission and respect to the Emperor.

"I'm sure he would, and Master Ginlao only has the most talented pupils, so I expect great things from you. Garararararara!" He poured another cup of sake and the drank in unison, symbolising the new beginning.

"You can stop calling me Emperor Whitebeard if you like, you are my daughter now. You can just call me father."

"F-father." She mumbled out uncertainly.

"Now go meet my family, my daughter." He ushered her, as she stood up to face the rest of the crew. There wasn't any cheering for their new addition, they just stared point blank at her. She knelt down in front of them as well.

"I hope you will look after me and I will not let you down as long as I live." She assured them, trying to disarm their suspicious thoughts.

"Glad to hear it, but lets see what you're made out of." one of the called out, about twenty men lunged towards her, but before they could put their other foot on the floor, they wilted and fell towards the floor. She stared at them rest of them, they couldn't read her expression since half her face was covered with her white mask.

Ace, Marco and the other commanders raised their eyebrows at the new girl, She hadn't so much as lifted a finger in their direction and she had taken down 20 men down.

"Oi, weak hearted people stay away from her, you can't take her on-yoi." about half of the men looked at her in surprise and left to stand at the other side of the boat, observing. She felt quite relaxed here, it was really interesting, it was really different from her previous works.

"She must be pretty strong, to control her Haki like that. We couldn't even sense it when she first came on."

"I wonder how you do against some flames." Ace smirked, his interest was peaking, and he could tell a slight standoffish aura from her. She wasn't rude at all, in fact he found her politeness rather weird, because now she was a pirate and she was a little too polite to be one and too quiet. She only observed, not saying much, she was interested. She recognised this one.

"Fire-fist Ace. Otherwise known as Portgas. D. Ace, Second Commander of the White Beard Pirates and Captain of the Spade Pirates. A super rookie, bounty of at least five hundred and fifty million Berries. Brother to Monkey. D Luffy and Sabo a Goa kingdom noble's child." She listed. Ace smirked well it seems that this little lady had researched about him, yet he only knew her name.

"I'm flattered you researched about me. Ran-Ran." He teased, tipping his hat.

"Please refrain from calling me Ran-Ran." She asked calmly.

"Whatever you say Ran-Ran. If you survive after this fight, we'll call you what you want. If not I get to call you Ran-Ran." He wagered. She shrugged, knowing the result of the fight wouldn't change either way.

"I'm most interested to see what fire-fist Ace has to offer." She politely replied, nodding at Ace. "As well as the majestic phoenix Marco, I have heard and seen great things from you as well." The blonde pineapple man turned to see her, wiping the crumbs of food from his mouth.

"Calm down rookie, lets see if you can beat Ace-yoi" He said wisely. "I'm too tired as well-yoi." He excused himself, smiling as he stood up to watch the fight.

"Since father thinks so highly of your deceased Master, I won't go easy on you because you're a woman." He grinned, he could feel the adrenaline rush.

"I highly agree. And thank you for being so courteous." In her semi sarcastic/genuine voice, that confused the crew.

Ace smirked as he started off with a small attack. Pointing his index and middle fingers on both hands and started to shoot bullets of fire(Higan/Fire gun). He expected her to dodge them with ease, however she just stood there. He continued shooting, his brow furrowed a little since he didn't see her move at all. Was she super agile?

Then it hit him. And the others.

She wasn't moving because the bullets weren't hitting her. They were extinguished before they met her.

"Ace she's using armament Haki, don't go easy on her!"

"You're becoming more and more interesting Ran-Ran!" He called, smiling, moving his hat around. Seemed that this little lady could handle more than she looked. He tipped his hat, smiling and demonstrated his great jumping power and high above the young lady, who was avidly watching her opponent.

"Hiken(Firefist)!" A thick, powerful stream of fire was directed down at the young lady who wasn't moving at all. The power was astounding, despite it being bright daylight the flames from Ace's fire fist move was even brighter. She didn't even have a chance to move out of his aim. The flames engulfed her, breaking some of the ship's wood. They could see nothing but flames. And steam. Ace landed back onto the ship, a little worried. She wasn't screaming, shouting and anything. Just silence and some steam. Why was there steam. The flames quickly died away, and it revealed a dome with the young lady inside. Her hands in her pockets, staring out as always, as if she didn't notice a steam of flames raining down on her. Ace looked at the dome again, what was so special about it? How the hell did it withstand his fire fist?

He watched her blink, as the dome broke down and saw the ring of water around her. None of them said a thing, well except Whitebeard laughing behind them, she was very entertaining, he was certain that he made the right choice in letting her join the crew.

"I expect no less from the second commander of the Whitebeard Pirates. Ace-Sama." She knelt down and bowed respectfully to Ace.

"You too. Miss." He was a little astounded at how little she moved and still came out without a scratch or misplaced hair. She didn't even seem tired, and she hadn't tried to attack.

"Ace you're not going to continue fighting her?"

"No, I don't want to break father's ship." He just continued to watch her. He couldn't feel any power at all, if he couldn't see her, he wouldn't have noticed her at all.

"Thank you for fighting with me. I'm honoured to fight such a worthy opponent." She said in her warm voice. "If you will excuse me I will get my belongings." she bowed again and left.

"Oh if it's any consolation Ace, you did singe a bit of my hair ribbon." She lifted one of the ribbon tails to show the slightly burnt end. And dropped into her small boat and grabbed her belongings, which was a bit small. Only one suitcase. Ace and the others only watched her back as she was led off to her room.

Whitebeard was laughing merrily, he would never forget Ou Ran's entrance, and how she joined the crew. It was another happy story of gaining another member to Whitebeard, like the rest of his family.

Btw as a note to the future chapters in this story. Ran is a mixture of Katara (Avatar) and Shampoo (Ranma 1/2) so you'll see some similarities.