"Ace, Ace Accccccccceeeeeeee!" Luffy repeated trying to wake up the fire user up. "Come on waaaaaake up" Luffy chanted over and over and Ace turned over grunted and turned over reached up and grabbed Luffy cheeks and started pulling.
"Ack! Ow ow ow lesh goer!" Luffy yelled as Ace stretched his cheek further.
"What is it, like four in the morning?~"
"Buts deush an intrudush!" He whined
"What? Oh!" Ace let Luffy's cheeks go "Now what in the fuck did you say?"
"There's a intruder!"
"Why didn't you just sound the alarm then?"
(insert a shrug from Luffy and a well aimed punch from Ace)
"Well go wake the others?"
"Bu-"
"Ju- Just go wake' em" Ace said holding his hand up to stop any rebutle
Luffy folded his arms across his chest, puffing out his cheeks saying fine
(30min later)
"Now why did you two wake us up again?" Nami asked looking at the oldest D
"Luffy thought he saw someone on deck."
"I DID!"
"Well there's not anyone on deck, and we would have heard the door slam shut." Zoro said unamused about being woken up so early.
(snort/low croon) Everyone turned to look at the solid green black dragon that had expressive green eyes that was looking around and sniffing the deck.
"Huh? Whats wrong with Ace-San?" Brook asked looking at Luffy as if he knew the enigma that was Ace, as Luffy walked towards the dragon.
"Don't look at me!" Luffy then patted Ace on the wing asking him what was wrong. Said dragon looked up at him and made a crooning noise then shifted back into a human except Ace was in siren form. In this form he was a bit shorter than Luffy, his skin was fair leaning towards a soft white, his hair was about an inch longer, his freckles were more pronounced giving him a very young look, and he had a curved waist line which gave him a famine look.
"I think I know the invader." He said grinning like a typical D would." but I'm not sure." as that was finished saying some one fell from the crows nest.
"UGGG!" All heads turn to the stranger that fell out the crows nest.
"Who the fuck is that?" Sanji asked an incredulously looking at the scene.
"Well he is obviously Dragonian like Ace, Dart-brow" Zoro said with a smirk.
"I can see that marmio." was the retort.
"What did you just say dart-brow? I'll slice you into a million pieces."
"In your dreams moss for brains"
(Insert fight winner: Nami)
"Ace-bro do you really know this guy?" Franky asked watching as Chopper checked over Zoro and Sanji as Luffy and Usopp poked their unconscious bodies with sticks.
"I think I have an idea ,but I haven't seen him since he was like four way back in my home dimension" Ace said as his hair shadowed his eyes "Let me see what was his name again? Oh! That's right! Hey KENI-"
"Mind Block!" The teen shouted from where he was sitting on the ground. After that shout Ace's body crumpled to the ground completely unconscious.
"Ace!" The crew yelled in unison as Chopper ran to his side frantically checking him over.
"W-What did you do?" Usopp asked trying to look brave but he was shaking like a leaf.
"It's all right I mean no harm. My name is Keynia, and I want to repay my debt to Ace by helping him." The teen replied walking into the light where the crew could see him. He was tall around Zoro's height. He was muscular, just enough to be intimidating but not overly so, his hair was a light lavender purple hanging down into his eyes wile the rest was at shoulder length, and his eyes were a deep gray. He was wearing a white button up T and a pair of black jeans, and combat boots. He also had a dagger strapped to his thigh in a blue holder.
"How in the hell knocking him out helping him!" Luffy practically shouted, clenching his fist in Ace's shirt as he picked up the more petite male due to his sirenic form looking as if he was about to attack.
"Luffy." Robin called receiving his attention, but he still glared at the purple haired dragonian from where he was holding Ace."Maybe we should hear him out" Robin said in a relaxed stance showing she wasn't afraid of the boy.
"Please I just want to help my savior. You can take me prisoner if you want. Just let me help." Keynia begged.
"All right, but make one wrong move and we will attack. So everyone keep your guard up."
"Aye" was the unison reply
(In the aquarium)
"So what's all this about?" Sanji said puffing on a cigarette.
"Ace" Keynia replied in all seriousness
"We've got that! Why you knocked him out is what we want to know!"Nami yelled as she covered Ace with a blanket from were they had placed him on a futon, so they could watch his breathing.
"To repay my debt." Keynia answered calmly unaffected by Nami's yelling.
"To repay your debt?" Zoro asked knowing the feeling more than anything the feeling of owing some one something.
"Yes, Ace protected me when I was little and I owe him so much for that. He saved my life and reunited me with my family." Before anyone could respond to that he spoke again voice far off and sounding distant. "Tell me how much do you know of Dragonia?" He said face full of pain and sorrow as hecontinued "or more like Ace's past?" he finished looking straight at Luffy.
No one replied to this except Robin, Brook, and Luffy
"I know some stuff." Luffy started "but not all the horrid things. Ace refuses to tell." Luffy finished pouting as he gently stroked Ace's hair when he looked up to Robin who seemed to have a knowing smile on her face as if she knew some big secret.
"I know what I have read. The books say it's a beautiful place with many rich natural resources." Robin said then Brook began
" I know dragonians didn't live here until twenty-four years ago" he finished
"True ,Oh! But miss Robin is only partly right" Keynia said with a pitying chuckle "except now the dragonians that once thrived in our dimension are pick up the pieces of what is left."
"What do you mean man" Franky asked as he leaned in closer to make sure he heard the answer.
"That's how it was over thirty years ago, before the Shondorais. Ace was the last dragonian to leave he helped me escape when I was four. Now those things are here so us dragonians kill them as soon as we see them so they can't destroy this world. I know Ace was tortured and went through more pain than other dragonians many of which were killed on spot. I also know his mind was damaged or traumatized because I looked through his memories!" Keynia yelled clutching at his pants legs on the verge of tears.
"REALLY!" Chopper screamed " Now that I think of it Ace told me he was bipolar!" he said getting even more worried "Ack! He also shows signs of PTSD time from time! I should have tried mental therapy!" Chopper started to cry in Robins lap because he saw the signs ,but didn't try to treat them.
"So what do you want us to do about it?" Usopp asked comforting the crying Chopper thinking of what could have caused Ace so much pain to give him PTSD.
"I want to send you into Ace's mind, so you can see his memories to get a better understanding of him, and figure out what the root of his problem is." The purple haired man answered then adding "Besides the only why to wake him up is to watch his memories." shrugging his shoulders as he said so
"What about marines and-" Nami began before she was abruptly interrupted
"I can will watch over you, I promise I won't allow any harm to come to any of you. OH! And I will pop in time from time to see how things are going." soon as Keynia stopped the explanation ace began shouting in his sleep.
"STOP! STOP ! TAKE IT OUT PLEASE I DON'T WANT IT! TAKE IT OUT!" Ace's yell tore through the strawhats and they wanted nothing more than to hold and comfort him in which Luffy did because he literally ran back over there grabbed Ace and laid Ace's head in his lap. It was bringing some to tears at the sound of pain that filled his voice making them wonder what could do this to one of the crews happy go lucky people.
"What was that about?" Robin asked only slightly faltering in her words
"Ace is reliving his memories not watching them, he is literally reliving the amount of pain he felt in his memories. Oh! And I will pull you out shortly after the two years you guys were apart." Before anyone could open their mouths Luffy had spoken from where he had run to Ace
"We're going. Ace needs our support and we can't do that if we don't know whats wrong. I know some of the pain he went through and I also know he down played it a lot to make it less serious than it was. He has been hurting and now we can help him like he helps and comforts us, because we will know how." Without saying anything the crew nodded pondering Luffy's words finding them to true to deny.
"Ready, here goes everything." Keynia said as he started the incantation.
On one side of a mirror
we see a perfect reflection
on the other
we see nothing
but on a mirror with to sides
we see a perfect reflection looking back
and on the other side when looking in
we see untold secrets revealed
as we see who we really are
As the Dragonian said this a white light enclosed on the and the all fell to the floor. When they woke up the were in white nothingness
" So this is Ace's mind?"