One Piece: Ace's Untold Adventures
Devil Fruit Crystal Arc
Chapter One: The Winds of Fate
(Present Day Somewhere on the Grand Line, The Straw Hat Pirate's Ship)
(It's another slow day for the Straw hat pirates as the wind is barley blowing and the sea is calm. Zoro is up high keeping watch, while Nami and Robin are sitting in chairs with some relaxing tea,
Sanji is preparing a nice dessert for the girls, Usopp is climbing up to check on Zoro, Chopper is inside working with some medicine, and Luffy is sitting on his favorite spot staring out towards the open sea.)
Luffy: Aww…man I'm so bored!!
Nami: Well if you're so bored Luffy, why don't you swap the deck or something.
Sanji: Or you could at least wash the dishes, Right Nami-swan?
Zoro: ZZZzzzzzz….
Usopp: Hey, ZORO!! GET UP YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE KEEPING WATCH!!
Zoro: ZZZZzzz…
Luffy: Hey Nami, how long till we reach the next island?
Nami: It won't be for another few hours.
Luffy: I'm so BORED!!!!
Ace: Well if you're that bored then maybe I can stay a while.
Luffy: Huh?
(Just then Luffy's older brother Ace jumps on to the deck coming to visit his little brother.)
Ace: Long time no see Luffy.
Luffy: ACE!! I'm glad you're here (Luffy jumps off his favorite seat to greet Ace) Heheheh, with you here I wont be so bored.
Ace: Ha-hahahah, it's hard to believe that you're so bored.
Luffy: HEY GUYS!!! Since Ace is here, LET'S PARTY!!!!!
Nami: Luffy you can't just decide- (sees Luffy, Usopp, and Chopper doing the can-can) *Why do I even bother?*
Robin: Seems like the captain has just found something to do.
Luffy: Hmm? (Stuffing his face) Oh Ace this is Robin, she's our newest crew member and an Archeologist (continues stuffing his face) This is my big brother Ace.
Ace: Nice to meet you.
(Ace decides to sit against the railing with his face facing the blowing wind)
Luffy: *Still stuffing his face* So Ace what are you doing here?
Ace: I was in the area and I heard your ship was nearby so I decided to pay you a visit.
Luffy: YEAH!!! GUM GUM-
Sanji: Uh-oh
Luffy: PARTY!!!!!
(Uses his gum gum rocket to go into the kitchen taking Sanji and Zoro (who had just woken up and came down) with him and crashes into the kitchen, breaking the ships steering. And the crew goes in to see what happened this time.)
Usopp: LUFFY!!! LOOK WHAT YOU DID!!!!!
Luffy: Hmm?
Usopp: You damage the steering YOU IDIOT!!!
Nami: HE WHAT!!! *punches Luffy HARD on top of his head*
Luffy:OWWW, I'm sorry.
Nami: QUICK PULL UP THE SAILS!!!
Zoro: (Just getting up from what Luffy did.) That stupid moron, I swear I'm gonna-
Nami: MOVE IT ZORO!!! YOU TWO SANJI!!!
Sanji: YES NAMI-SWAN!!!
Luffy: Why do we have to pull up the sails?
Nami: Because if we can't steer then we'd go off course, besides this is your fault! YOU NUMB SKULL!!!
(As Ace gets up to help them, Ace faces the wind and hears a familiar phrase from two years back.)
Unknown Woman: THIS IS ALL YOU FAULT YOU DUMBASS!!!!!
Ace: Huh? You guys hear something?
Zoro: Besides Nami yelling at Luffy then no.
Ace: Yeah must be my imagination.
(After the sails were pulled up everyone sat down to try to figure out how to fix what Luffy broke. And Ace is keeping Luffy company over by his favorite spot, since they won't let him help.)
Ace: You know Luffy it's calm days like this that reminds me of my first year on the Grand Line. I spent that fist year hunting for some kind of crystal set, and so many things happened that makes that first year seem like a dream.
Luffy: Hey Ace you have to tell me about your adventures on the Grand Line, I really wanna know PLEASE!!!
Ace: HAHAHAH!! Sure I don't mind. But to really understand what happened I'm gonna have to start on a calm day just three days before I entered the Grand Line. It was a very calm day like this and I had just left Loguetown and set out for the Grand Line.
(East Blue: Three Years Ago)
(Ace was just sitting on his boat staring blankly at the sky…or he's asleep with his eyes open. Well Ace decides to get up and stretch, as he gets up a seagull drops something on the ship.)
Ace: Hmm? What's that? *walks over to the object, and picks it up* Hmm, A bracelet? Huh?
(The bracelet Ace picked up is made of gold; it's not thin but not way thick, there's a log pose on it and seven indents evenly spaced around it starting at the log pose.)
Ace: Looks old, if I remember someone said that in order to navigate the grand line you need a log pose. Heheh looks like it's my lucky day. Let's see if this thing will fit. *puts the bracelet on* hey it fits…a little to well…heh?
WHAT THE HELL!!! THIS BRACELET IS TIGHTENING AROUND MY WRIST!! *pulls hard* Owowowowow, what kind of bracelet is this? *pulls harder* damn, it…won't…come…OFF!!
(As Ace struggles to get the bracelet off, he sees a row boat with a small sail just sitting in the water.)
Ace: What's that? What's a small boat like that doing in the middle of East Blue? Might as well see if any one is in it.
(Ace, forgetting all about the bracelet that is practically attached to his wrist, goes to have a better look at the strange row boat. As he sails closer he sees something sticking out of the boat and into the water.)
Ace: What the- what is that? It looks like a blue fury thing. *Boat comes right next to the blue thing that's in the water, and Ace decides to touch it.*
Ace: Feels like a tail. *YANK!!*
Unknown Woman: AHHHHOWWW!!!!!
(Just then a young woman with long, medium blue hair, dressed in black hakama (pants), a white haori (shirt), with a black and bark blue obi (belt). But something about this girl is a little off.)
Unknown Woman: What the hell is wrong with you!! Don't go pulling my tail!!
Ace: umm…miss? Why do you have ears and a tail?
Unknown Woman: NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!!! Where did you get that bracelet?
Ace: I found it. And no matter how hard I pull it wont…*pull* come…OFF!!
(The woman climbs on to Ace's ship/boat thing grabs his right wrist and examines the bracelet.)
Ace: Oh yeah I almost forgot, my name is Ace, what's yours? And what are you doing to my wrist?
Unknown Woman: Alice, and I am the scientist that created this bracelet.
Ace: So this is yours huh? So can you get this off?
Alice: Maybe if I could just…*so calm* Hey how attached are you to your right hand?
Ace: *shocked* WHAT'S THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN!?!?!
Alice: Nothing *rolls eyes* But that bracelet belongs to me, Now give it back!
Ace: I would if I could, but the moment I put it on the thing shrunk tight around my wrist.
Alice: Damn, I guess that means I'm stuck with you till I can get it off.
Ace: Huh? What do you mean by that?
Alice: *sigh* It means since I'm the owner of that bracelet, and it's imposable to get it off without my help.
Ace: Heheh alright, but more importantly…What's with the ears and the tail?
Alice: I ate a devil fruit okay.
Ace: What kind?
Alice: The Fox-Fox fruit.
Ace: *snicker* HAHAHAHAH!!! HAHAHAHAH!!!!*continually laughing*
Alice: SHUT UP IT'S NOT FUNNY!!
Ace: *Still laughing* So the ears and the tail are that of a fox? HAHAHAHAH!!!!! Your personality doesn't fit. You seem more like a bear.
Alice: Huh, a bear?
Ace: Yup. Because your short tempered, you quickly resort to violence, and with those ears and tail you almost look cuddly *snicker*
Alice: *BANG* (Punches Ace's head really hard) I'm not a bear!!!
Ace: Then what are you? *rubs head*
Alice: *sadly looks away* I don't know. I've lived for so long that I'm no longer sure what I am anymore, if I'm really a human or a spirit.
Ace: What's that supposed to mean?
Alice: Heh? *becomes jumpy* Oh uh nothing just thinking out loud. So if you want to get that bracelet off then your gonna have to let me come with me till we find all seven of them, and when we do we can get that bracelet off.
Ace: Seven…you mean there are seven something's that fit into the indents on this bracelet, and when all seven of them are together this thing will come of?
Alice: In a nut shell, yes. That is a good summery.
Ace: Then what's the log pose for?
Alice: That tracks down the seven crystals. See look at it, the needle is pointing towards the Grand Line, which means the closet crystal is in the Grand Line. And the needle that's pointing changes to the color of the closest crystal. Which the color is orange, so it's the fire crystal.
Ace: Well it's not like it's going out of my way, I'm already heading towards the Grand Line. And as of now you are my first crew member.
(After Ace said this he started sailing towards the Grand Line, and as they pulled away and was heading out. Alice realized what he meant.)
Alice: Hey who said I was joining your crew!?
Ace: Well you might as well, so what are you good at?
Alice: Well as I said I'm a scientist, I've also have some good skills as a doctor.
Ace: Can you cook?
Alice: Um yeah of course but what dose that have to do with-
Ace: Alright your gonna be the ships doctor, scientist, and cook.
Alice: *sigh* Fine, but if you disrupt my research you will enter a world of pain from which there is no return.
Ace: Then it's settled, Alice welcome to the Spade Pirates.
Alice: Right.
(Now Ace had his first crew member, a talented woman who is a scientist, doctor, and a cook. Now after this interesting day Alice and Ace begin their journey towards the Grand Line. Their purpose for going may be different but their destination is the same. As they sail closer towards Reverse Mountain, Ace is gonna find out that Alice is a lot more than a girl who ate a Zoan type devil fruit.)
(Reverse Mountain: Three Hours Away)
(As Ace and Alice continue their journey towards Reverse Mountain the entrance to the Grand Line, Ace wants to know more about Alice and the crystals there out to find.)
Ace: *Bored and looking at the bracelet* so Alice, this bracelet looks pretty old, I'd say it looks more like an artifact, and you also said you created this. How long ago was that?
Alice: Let's see if memory serves it was around 1,000 years ago if I'm correct.
Ace: HUH? 1,000 years ago?
Alice: *DAMN I've said too much*
Ace: Are you really that old?
Alice: *Damn there's no way out of this. Well If I want him to believe me about the crystals then I guess he has to know* Oh please, actually I'm not that young.
Ace: Huh? Wait your older than 1,000?
Alice: Yup *gets sad* I'm actually 5,000 years old.
Ace: …*silence* …HAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! You're practically a fossil!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!! No a fossilized fox!! HAHAHAHA!!!
Alice: Huh? You laughing? Why are you laughing? You should see me as a freak, someone who is a monster!!
Ace: But I don't, I think it's funny who you're able to live for so long and still look so young. How is that possible?
Alice: The Fox-Fox fruit I told you about has two other names. The Two Type fruit and the Wave-Wave fruit. The Wave-Wave fruit gives me the ability to control the liquid state of water; it goes into the Logia category of the Devil Fruits, along with the water powers I can transform into the legendary Nine Tailed Fox. But for some reason it stops my body's ageing process, so hence 4,980 years after eating that devil fruit I still look exactly the same.
Ace: That's one hell of a fruit. So where dose the crystals come into this?
Alice: This might take a while to explain
Ace: Well you got till Reverse Mountain comes into view.
Alice: These might help explain things. *Reaches into her pocket and pulls something out* Give me your right wrist. *Opens her right hand to revile two colored crystals*
Ace: What are those?
Alice: These are two of the seven Devil Fruit Crystals I created 1,000 years ago. See one is purple and the other is blue. The Purple one is the crystal of Darkness and the blue one is the crystal of Water. If you look carefully at each indent they have a symbol that represents the crystal. The skull clearly represents darkness, just as the wave represents water, and each one has a different symbol. There are seven in total. Earth, Fire, Wind, Water, Light, Darkness, and Life. Life represents anything that is alive, humans, animals and plants. (Alice places the darkness and water crystal in their proper places on the bracelet.)
Ace: Why call them devil fruit crystals?
Alice: Because of how I created them, and because they can amplify the corresponding devil fruit power. Like the water crystal will make my powers stronger, same with wind, fire and earth based powers.
Ace: Wow how'd you create them?
Alice: Sorry it happened so long ago that's about all I remember. But as the creator I can't forget how the bracelet or crystals work. Or how I lost them.
Ace: What happened?
Alice: I was testing the bracelet when an explosion happened, causing the bracelet and the crystal to scatter across the world. I've been searching for them ever since.
Ace: How'd you get these two back?
Alice: Well I found the water crystal nearby and I found the darkness one 500 years ago, and I nearly got killed trying to get it back.
Ace: How?
Alice: The only corresponding crystal to that one is the Yami Yami no mi (Darkness fruit), and with the darkness crystal his power was multiplied by 100 times. *gets emotional* That's why I can't allow these powerful crystals exist, that's why when all seven crystals are together again, I will destroy them along with the bracelet.
Ace: Well you can't do it alone. Cause I'll help you if it comes down to a fight.
Alice: Thanks.
Ace: Besides you seem like a fun person. And yesterday when I ate your cooking it was so good I thought I was gonna die.
Alice: Coming from you, I'm not sure I should take that as a compliment or an insult. And when I turned away for a moment and turned back around, I saw you face first in your food, I really thought you really died.
Ace: Yeah about that-
Alice: Then I found out that you fell asleep while eating, and don't laugh because I panicked.
Ace: And when I woke up you were really angry and wailed on me. Mercilessly I might add.
Alice: No mercy for the stupid.
Ace: Why did you create these powerful crystals in the first place?
Alice: I was curious; 1,000 years ago people who had devil fruit powers were considered well Devils. But I was a scientist back then and along with others, we discovered that the devils became that way through a certain kind of fruit, hence the name Devil Fruit. I'm not sure how I created but I know why. I wanted to find out a ''What If'' question and a "What would Happen" question. That's why I did what I did, and I regret every moment of it.
Ace: What do you mean you regret it?
Alice: Because of those crystals people who sought power used them to destroy, and now because of my mistakes the world had to suffer. If I hadn't eaten that devil fruit then I wouldn't have lived long enough to make those things.
Ace: But in this current situation eating that devil fruit allows you to live long enough to fix you mistakes. Heheheh Now cheer up Reverse Mountain is close and soon we'll find the other five crystals then you can destroy them.
Alice: And when that's done I can continue my research to try and find a way so my body can start ageing again.
Ace: By the way, what happened to your ears and tail from yesterday?
Alice: you don't know anything about devil fruits do you?
Ace: Well my brother younger Luffy ate a devil fruit called the Gum-Gum fruit. It caused his body to turn into a rubber man, that's about all I know about devil fruits.
Alice: *sigh* well my devil fruit power when talking about my ability to transform into a fox. The devil fruits that let someone transform into an animal is called a Zoan devil fruit and there are many different types, mine is called the Fox-Fox fruit. Zoan has three different forms, the normal human form, a human creature hybrid, and the full animal form. Understand?
Ace: Yup.
(Two hours go by and they slowly approach Reverse Mountain which the will enter in twenty minutes.)
Ace: So are you a good fighter?
Alice: What brought that up?
Ace: Well since you're like 5,000 years old, and you fought and nearly got killed trying to get a crystal back, so I thought you might be a good fighter.
Alice: True, but I don't like using my powers to fight, I use a weapon.
Ace: What kind of wea-
(Just then a huge sea king burst out of the water ready to attack.)
Ace: HOLY S*** WTF is that?
Alice: It's a Sea King!!
Ace: A WHAT!?!?
Alice: A Sea King, It's the largest type of sea monster in the world. Since were so close to Reverse Mountain and the Calm Belt one must have come here!! (Calm) How unfortunate for him.
(Just then Alice reached inside the sleeves of her haori and pulls out several black metal bars and puts them together to make a long metal pole (Similar to Nami's weapons) but instead of fighting with a pole, she pulls out a piece of metal and fixes it to the top of the pole to make a trident. and gets into a attack position)
Ace: So your gonna fight that thing all by yourself?
Alice: You asked if I was a good fighter, now here's your chance for you to see if I am.
(After she said that she jumps into the air and lands on the water and stand up on it as well. Holding her trident in her right hand she gives a big grin to the Sea King, and says)
Alice: Don't worry big fella I'm not gonna kill you; I just want you to leave me alone. So you can either leave or fight, it's your choice.
(The Sea King take no time and starts to attack Alice *this sea king looks like a large serpent* and starts swimming towards her)
Alice: Humph, have it your way.
(Alice jumps into the air and starts to land in front of the huge beast's face with a big grin on her face she swings her weapon and makes a huge slash across the Sea King's face. The Sea King not wanting to get killed, dives into the ocean and heads to his home in the Calm Belt. Alice then calmly returns to the boat while taking apart her trident and putting it up. As she gets back on the boat Ace is standing there speechless.)
Alice: What?
Ace: That…was…AWESOME!!!!! Now I really want to stay apart of my crew for as long as possible!!! PLEASE!!! The way you took out that monster was so cool. And you didn't even kill it.
Alice: Of course not, I'm not going to kill something that doesn't deserve to die.
Ace: So that trident is your weapon of choice huh?
Alice: Yup, I've learned that if you can't defend yourself while on the Grand Line, you might get yourself killed.
Ace: That's true.
Alice: Which reminds me, why are you going to the Grand Line?
Ace: To become a strong pirate and find the One Piece. You do know what it is?
Alice: Yeah it's the treasure left behind by the pirate king Gol D. Roger he said in his final words.
Ace: Someone who is as strong and has powers like you should be able to find it no problem.
Alice: Your right I could, but I just don't care about becoming known like that. I'm the type of person who likes staying in the shadow of the world.
Ace: HAHAHA!! I can tell when we enter the Grand Line this devil fruit crystal hunt is going to be fun. I can't wait till we get there.
Alice: Well you won't have to wait long, Turn around.
Ace: *Turns around to see a gigantic mountain so tall you can't even see the peak* WHOA!!!! Look out Grand Line cause here comes Portgas D. Ace!!
(As Ace and Alice continue their journey to find the remaining five devil fruit crystals, they finally arrive at Reverse Mountain the only way to enter the Grand Line. The danger of the Grand Line is almost too scary to be real, but the danger that awaits these two particular people on the Grand Line will be more sinister than any can imagine, as there fates are forever intertwined with each other.)
To Be Continued…