Hey guys Sapphire here :D I all asked you to give me animals weather extinct or rare that you feel would best be Ace, as an animal. I've gotten suggestions for some already and have done some research. The animal I picked was the Dire Wolf. It history and the facts I've looked at seemed to be perfect for Ace! I'll try to put the other suggestions in the story if I can but thank you for suggesting in the first place. Please enjoy the story!

Ace was running as fast as his new legs could carry him. He finally had a way to escape this inhumane place and he wasn't going to waste it. They were chasing after him, trying to catch the now hybrid man. They had experimented on him and turned him into his ancestor, the Dire Wolf.

Ace was beyond angry, beyond scared, but he had to escape. Lucky for him he knew this facility like the back of his hand. He ran to what he believed to be the way to the entrance when he was blocked by some men working at the facility. They had their guns at the ready.

"Don't Shoot Him! I need him alive!"

Ace in his animal leaped up above the men and jumped off some of their heads with them flailing their arms around trying to catch him. Someone grabbed his leg and slammed him down to the floor.

Although Ace was stronger and faster, he was big enough and there was enough people for him to caught him. He struggled and tried to escape the endless hands that were on him but found that he couldn't move.

"Let me go! I don't want to be here! I'm HUMAN!"

Ace found his face being pushed down in the floor by what seemed like the shape of a shoe.

"Last time I checked your an ANIMAL not a human. You have no rights. Take this animal back to his cage and reinforced it!"

While being dragged back he clawed at the floor trying to prolong the enviable. Ace was then lifted up all together and carried away back to his prison. They walked through a hallway filled with other people who were kidnapped and used in these sick people's experiments.

Ace remember vividly how he was captured and felt as if one day had passed since then, but he had been in this hell for almost 3 months and was slowly breaking.

Ace's capture. 3 months ago.

Ace was hunting through the woods that he had and his parents(who were deceased) had been living in. Ace was a descendent of the Dire wolfs by his father's side. He was a hybrid of a sorts that of an extinct race of wolves.

Ace was(not that he could tell. He didn't have anything to compare himself to.) an impressively big animal. His fangs clocked in at at least 4 and ½ inches. And his coat was a storm gray pelt with what seemed to have silver specks of color.(with what parts that covered his body.)

Anyway Ace was stalking his prey then sprinted after it startlingly the animal making it run. He went after it with frightening speed. He was about to catch it not paying attention when his arm was caught in a trap?!

It made a loud snapping sound, but it didn't mean that more force was put behind it. That didn't mean it didn't hurt either. The trap was not only digging into his very bone. Ace considered himself lucky, these "Tar traps" (the normal people called them) caught his hybrid and animal kind.

Ace desperately tried to get out and pry the trap from his body. He knew if he couldn't get this trap off the hunters who had been alerted by the loud sound would come. Ace looked down at the trap before he heard a stick snap.

Those were no hunters.

Those people looked as if they were from...a laboratory...oh no. Ace struggled more to try to get out, if there was one thing he didn't throw out of what his father told him it was...

"Ace whatever you do please listen...I know you hate me now but I will be gone just like Rogue one day due to illness and I want the best for you. Please for your sake don't trust anyone but the people I tell you of. You will meet these people one day, ones that carry the mark of a highly dear friend to me. Please trust only these people. His name is…"

Ace snarled at the approaching people. There seemed to be one person leading their pack as he stepped up to him. The man started to probe him around his ears, stomach and his legs. He smiled sending chills down Ace's spine.

"This is perfect! This animal is a rare species of Dire wolf and he seems to be ex! We can find an unlimited amount of research connected to this rare breed! Hurry up men! And take this animal to the truck and cage for the transfer! Be sure to look around just in case there are anymore!"

Ace snapped at those who approached him. Men flanked him from behind and grabbed his legs. They used a device that released the trap and grabbed the wound on his foreleg. Ace howled at the pain and savagely bite into a man's arm. The man screamed and let go of Ace's wounded front leg.

A man ran over and used a stun round to beat Ace into submission. Ace started to see nothing but black dots before his world turned black.

End of Ace's capture. Present time.

Ace was being painfully dragged across the the floor back to his room, or more like a cage. Ace was thrown in the cage. He heard the cage being lock and extras being put around his cage. Ace got up and slammed his paw against the floor crying. His BEST chance of escaping this hell and he was caught.

Ace lied down and try to close his eyes, and get some shuteye. He started to hum the song his mother used to hum to him when he couldn't sleep.

Yura yura yurameku nami no ma mi

Kira kira kagayaku….

Yume miru kurage wa

Uta uta yo

Yasashii umibe de nemu ru…

Ace smiled at the memory of his mother, he loved her more than anything, but the only thing he remembered was this lullaby and the beautiful red flower she always had in her hair. For the first time in so long, Ace had a dreamless sleep.

Time skip. A few hours.

Ace's peaceful sleep was interrupted by a few scientists opening his prison. Ace stepped back to snarl and give warning to the men coming toward him. They seemed to not have any fear of him, until he launched forward to kill them. Ace was hit out of the air with a baton, and he roughly went to the floor, cracking a few ribs.

Ace lifted his head to snarl before his stomach was kicked, knocking the wind out of him and cracking his ribs further. He was savagely beat until he was all but face was lifted to come face to face with the man.

"DOGS should know when to bow down to their masters. Men! Take this mutt to the lab! Continue your research!."

Ace spat in the man's face. He was kicked in the face this was then lifted up but he blacked out due to the enormous amount of pain he was in from his ribs.

Waking up at the Lab. 4 hours later.

Ace woke up to find himself being poked and probed. Ace tried to scream(As best as a _ can.) but found out that he couldn't due to a muzzle being attached to his jaw. It was that time of the month. Once a month they would cut into Ace trying to get anything they could without killing him in the process, he wished they would.

He couldn't take it any more.

He wanted out.

He wanted…

Ace blacked out again.

Timeskip. After the lab visit. ? Hours.

Ace was back in his cage when he woke up. To be honest, he had lost any sense of time in this place, and would never regain it. He didn't care though, all he wanted was to be free, only if he had wings...He could….

Ace noticed that he had started to cry. He hadn't cried since his mother had died. Even when his father died he let out a few tears, he was alone just like that moment. The sadness in his soul started to turn into hatred. He would deliver 10 times what they did to him.

? Hours gone by.

Ace was pacing around the room as his cage opened up. The man who had captured him before...He wouldn't fight back...it only hurted...Ace walked up to the man and sat down in front of him. The man smiled at his obedience.

"Looks like you finally learned your place as a mutt!"

The man put his foot on Ace's head and pushed down. Making Ace lay on the floor in front of him. The man kneeled down and touched the bandages on Ace stomach, he then twisted his fingers in the wound that was trying to close itself and mend. Ace bite his lip.

"This is what you deserve, for all the tough act you put me through! I hope you learned your lesson! Now come on! There is someone who is your real owner and refused to give you up. He is a powerful man so don't make a fool out of me you understand!"

Ace only walked after the man. Who was this person and how did this man end up owning him?

"Your previous owner, Gol Roger, Left in his will that his rare wolf was to be given to his old friend Whitebeard! I can't believe this! But Sengoku somehow found out about you in my possession and told me to hand you over! This is a nightmare!"

Ace perked up at the name Whitebeard, his father's dear friend.

Ace kept up the mask of him being submissive and broken "animal" he was. The man was muttering under his breath about Whitebeard.

The man walked into the room containing Whitebeard. The man was walking on eggshells as he knew. If he knew Whitebeard was the owner of this monster and the one next in line to get it then he would have done everything in his power to burn the document that Whitebeard had found in Roger's old home.

Whitebeard was pissed to say the least about Ace's condition.

"WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS!"

The man knew this would happen. No one escaped Whitebeard's wrath when it came to his family members. Since that document came up, Roger's will, Ace was already treated as a member of the family.

"You are lucky Sengoku asked me to remain calm but this will NOT go unpunished!"

But Whitebeard right now was more concerned about his son's condition. He briskly walked over to the boy and kneeled down in front of him. He outstretched his hand to the young boy.

"Come with me and take my name! Become part of my family and become my son!"

Ace had been alone for all his life...But for the first time his father had asked to trust him on that day and follow his old friend. He decided that he would...just this once for his father. Ace grabbed the man's hand and was lifted in the man's embrace so that he could be carried. Whitebeard passed the man and slammed the door shut.

Ace was finally going to have a family….

A few hours later. The Sectors.

Ace was escorted to his new home by Whitebeard. The giant man had be funding and building a place for rare wild animals, almost extinct ones, and one that come from myth itself. They were not only made environment wise but species wise too. The place was paradise. He also thought that the man kept them in these sectors but this wasn't the case.

It turns out his family also lived with the animals themselves. Taking care of them and helping them into the wild environment set up for them. Before he noticed, he was in the tropical section meant for birds. He sat down admiring the animals flying above him. Ace started to softly hum. Birds started to perch on him but he didn't dare move in fear of disturbing the birds. He started to

"That's a beautiful song you are humming there!"

Ace turned around to find a pompadour hair styled man behind him, slowly walking over as to not startle the birds. Was this the man that ran this area? The man smiled down at him.

"The name is Thatch! I hope we can be friends!"

Hey guys Sapphire here. I hope it feels like I didn't rushed this because I truly didn't! My mind was flowing like a river during the day I could barely separate myself from this story on fear of losing it! Also the Lullaby that I used in this fanfiction is a song called Jellyfish Song from Dramatical Murder!(Good anime if I say so myself ;D) Anyway I hoped you enjoyed and tell me what you think!

Sapphire~