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Okay, I know I shouldn't be starting another FF because I still have to complete the others...BUT I COULDN'T HELP MYSELF. Kay?

Yes. Yes I already know. Another –Ace is alive :D *HIP HIPP HORRAY!- story (A little like my other one…).

BUT. It will be different. -DUN DUNN DUNNN- How?

1) – It will be finished. I hate it when you're into a great FF and then suddenly...*BOOM* It ends. Just like that. And you're left hanging there with all your feels…-Though that doesn't mean I won't finish my other one.

2) – AH. There will be NO parings in this. I am sorry for people who like paring FF's...But I really can't write them. If I did, it would ruin the story for all of us… *Though Ace will have very, very bad case called… a brother complex.*

3) – I will hardly stick to the canon. Some people might not like that, but it makes it less boring..YEAAH.

4) This is not a typical –Ace is alive :D *HIP HIPP HORRAY!* - FF. xD

5) There is a solid ending to this. Basically it is already written in my head, so I do know what I am doing xD

This is also a lighter story than the others. Less on the angst side. For once.

ANYWAYS.

ONWARDS WITH THE STORY.

Disclaimer: No. Just no.

(P.S Warning to people who haven't read my other story…you will very quickly realize I talk a lot. It's a seriously bad habit of mine.)

Chapter 1

Ace didn't know how to react with what he was faced with.

A moment earlier, he was fighting; running for his life, unable to comprehend if/what was going to happen in the following seconds. Moment's blurred with anxiety, adrenaline, fear, hope. He couldn't exactly tell how long time had passed since he was freed by his brother. It was all a blur. Seconds passed by, places, faces, shouts, screams…all forgotten.

Though he could easily remember the last few seconds of those moments.

He had felt no pain, surprisingly. All he felt was emotions, thousands of them trying to burst out in the last few seconds he had of drawing breathes. He had felt the shuddering of his brother, trying to hold himself up despite the damage the boy had already received. The fellow short and racing breaths; similar to his own, rushing down his back as the boy called out his name.

"A-Ace..?"

It was pleading. A pleading voice; a pleading tone, a pleading brother who desperately tried to tell himself what his eyes were seeing weren't true. But Ace knew that was all in vain. He knew that jumping in front of Akainu would be one of the last decisions he'd ever make. He knew that everything his family; his friends' had done to save him would go to waste.

Yet he still did it.

Even though he still had wishes, things he wanted to complete before he ceased to be, he couldn't say that in those last moments that he regretted his life.

Yet he couldn't say he had no regrets at all.

He had one, just one. Something he had told Luffy with his last words. Maybe it was selfish of him, putting all this pressure on his younger brother.

But he wanted to see it, as ironic as it sounded.

He wanted tosee Luffy to complete his dream. To find One Piece, attain total freedom, having nothing holding him back; having being able to swift aside the world's dark and devilish sins to achieve what he truly wanted.

With those last thoughts, Ace smiled, allowing the darkness to take over his mind; his body, feeling all life drain out at the tip of his fingers, feeling his mind be pulled away, attracted to a certain noise, a voice even.

Seconds passed, the noise only being compared to that of a timer, ticking away, waiting for something-someone to fill in the empty space which smothered around him. He drew in silent, phantom breaths which still tried to fill in air to his dead-now meaningless lungs. Suddenly, a familiar sense tingled down his immobile arms, one that many devil fruits knew all too well.

He was sinking. The water clasped around his mouth; his nose, causing those phantom breaths to quicken, fright passing though Ace's veins. He tried to scream, shout even, but nothing passed out of his lips, the only sound being the water rushing by him, until seconds later, he heard it. The voice he had yearned to hear distantly called, unrecognizable voices joining the sound which vibrated its way to Ace's ears. He tried to lift his arms up towards the noises, but the water stuck to his skin, dragging him down.

Finally, he stopped struggling, allowing for the water to push his arms down towards what looked like an abyss, his consciousness fading away, leaving nothing but the noises to surround him.

Then.

It went quiet.

Noise returned, but this time, it was muffled.

He had woken up, surprisingly, something he was definitely not expecting to do. Had he died? The death was still clear in his mind, trying to quickly grasp the situation he was now in.

Lightly opening his eyes, his pupils swiftly scanned the area he was in, the light overtaking his sight. Wincing, he drew up his hand, shadowing his eyes, carefully lifting up his head to get a better view, meeting with the sight of his bare chest.

Bare?

Now that was impossible. Intersecting Akainu's hit would have surely killed him, let alone leave a scar. His mind blurred, senses numbing from the previous adrenaline.

Was it all a dream? A crazy, lunatic-psychotic even – dream which he had mustered up in his mind?

It wasn't completely impossible.

After all, the whole time he had spent in Impel Down was beginning to get slightly hazy; though he was unable to tell if that was due to the seastone-cuffs, the lack of food, or the fact that his mind was trying to permanently delete all the pain; all the suffering he had been forced to live through back in that hell-hole.

Distant snores broke Ace from his line of thought, causing his gaze to flicker over to the source of the sound, the adrenaline returning as a familiar face caught his sight.

Someone he had defiantly not expected to see so soon was perched next to him, sleeping soundly; a calm and composed look plastered on his face as he mumbled in his sleep.

"L-Luffy?"

And there is the first chapter! As I said, there is a plot to this. And an ending. But I haven't exactly planned out the stuff in the middle to the word, but it'll go alright. ;D.

Thank you for reading, I don't mind any type of feedback and always love to hear from you guys.

That's all folks ;3

-aslMeno