Popping balloons
In the middle of East Blue, a nine-year-old red head girl, floated far away from her home of Goa Island on seven remaining balloons.
"Pop"
Make those six balloons.
The girl looked up worriedly; she knew is she fell into the ocean she would sink like a rock.
"Bang, pop"
Was someone was trying to shoot her down?
"Bang, pop"
Yep, someone was definitely trying to shoot her down.
"Bang, pop"
'SHIT!' thought the girl, now barely floating with three balloons.
"Bang, Pop, Bang, Pop, Bang, Pop"
There go all the balloons, and now she was falling.
Not so far away on a ship
"Hey what's that?!" the look out asked, pointing to the sky.
"Yeah, what is that" another crew member asked, pointing to the sky.
By then the mysterious floating thing had got the attention of lots of other crew members, and their captain.
"Bring it down!" the Captain announced, watching the floating thing with interest.
The sniper got up and took aim.
Bang
Bang
Bang
Bang
Bang
Bang
That was when the screaming started.
Back to the Balloons
'Shitshitshitshitshitshitshit' was all that was going through that girl's mind, as she fell, screaming. She barley noticed the giant bird flying towards her, or the ship that was sailing below; Being caught by said bird also led to some more screaming and demands for an explanation.
"WHY AREN'T I BEING BURNT?! WHERE YOU THE ARSEHOLE WHO SHOT ME DOWN!? WHO THE HELL ARE YOU" the now very confused girl screamed, which wasn't the best thing for the birds hearing, as the girl was screaming into his ear.
"If you just wait for a moment, it will all be explained, yoi" the bird responded, making the girl go quite and seriously question her sanity, as she had heard a bird talk.
"you're a bird, how are you talking?" the bird then just gave up on this child, assuming that it will be just as bad as the other one.
The flaming bird landed on the now, much larger ship with a very interesting whale figure head, after dropping the kid onto the deck the bird changed into a man with a very odd haircut.
"This is the second kid we shot down today!" the giant said.
Before this the kid was looking around very lost and confused.
"Wait another kid? Is he ok" the kid looked mildly panicked, alarming the pirates as the other brat they had shot down was incredibly violent; and this kid seemed alarmed for his safety. "wait who are you people anyways?" ending the child's panic with a question.
That took most of the crew back. the old man just laughed "Gurararara!" he smiled "My name is Whitebeard, and you're on the Moby Dick the flagship of the Whitebeard Pirates"
"Ok... I don't know what or who that is, but cool" stated with a confused look and a thumbs up, quickly replaced with a shot of alarm "this other kid you mentioned, can I see him?"
"No, we rather you didn't, this brat is dangerous and we don't want kid like you to get hurt, yoi" the flaming bird man said.
"You shot me out of the sky before realizing that I was in fact a person, I think I can cope with a dangerous kid" stated the brat, causing most of the crew to sweat drop.
"Kid this brat took out three people before we got him into a room, he then preceded to trash the room and nearly got out twice. You really don't want to see this kid" stated a tall, dark skinned man.
"Oh!" said the kid realization seen on their face "that's just Ace, he does that sometimes"
When she said that the whole crew went silent and stared at this little kid that knew the name of the monster now known as Ace.
"You know this kid yoi?" the pineapple head asked.
"Yep, he's my brother" the girl replied simple.
That shocked the crew into another round of silence.
"Do you think you could get him to stop destroying things, yoi?" bird guy asked.
Whitebeard watched in interest.
"Easy peasey" the kid replied with a smirk.
Fire Bird guy took the kid down to the room that they were keeping Ace in.
"So, what's your name anyways" asked the kid, curiosity getting its way.
The bird guy looked down at the small kid before answering "Marco, what's yours, yoi?" Bird guy now known Marco asked "Keti, though a lot of people call me Ket" she answered after a moment of hesitation.
"And to clear up any confusion, are you a boy or a girl Ket, yoi?" asked Marco.
"Imma girl" replied Keti used to this question.
After walking for a little more Keti asked a question that was bugging her, "what devil fruit did you eat?"
Marco looked down at Keti, surprised that she knew what a devil fruit was, as not many people in east blue even knew that they existed.
"The mythical zone phoenix type, yoi, how do you know what a devil fruit is?" Marco answer
"um… I ate one too, accidently tho, so don't get angry"
Marco looked down at the kid with shock on his face. This kid ate a devil fruit!?
"What, What Devil Fruit did you eat, yoi" he asked "and I'm not going to be angry at you for eating one" added as an afterthought.
"The Speed-Speed Fruit" Keti answers "I still keep running into things though"
After that they walked in silence to the room.
"Well here it is, are you sure you want to talk to him, it might not even be your brother, yoi" stated Marco.
"Yep, 'sides its probably is Ace, cause Sabo isn't normally that destructive and Lu' is a puppy in comparison… also I don't think Gramp's has any other kids to tie to balloons and send out to sea"
"what type of man is your grandfather yoi?" Marco looked with concern at this child.
"Someone that should never have been entrusted with children" Keti spoke darkly.
"I see... well good luck with Ace then"
Keti thanked Marco and walked into the mostly destroyed room.
'Ace is an idiot.' Keti thought as she looked over the room.
The room was destroyed. And in the middle of it all was a ten-year-old, raven hair boy fast asleep.
'oh, looks like his narcolepsy acted up... joy'
She walked towards Ace as quietly as she could. When she got there, she sat down next to Ace and started to poke him, saying "Ace, Ace, Ace, Luffy wandered off again and a snake ate him, again"
That woke Ace up fast enough saying "what, Luffy, were, snake, what" he stopped for a second to stare at Keti.
"You lied" he stated bluntly.
"Yes, Yes I did" Keti stated just as bluntly.
Ace paused for a moment, tilting his head to the side before saying "how did you get caught?"
The look Ace received from Keti was of pure confusion "I didn't, I got shot down… what are you going on about anyways?"
"They pulled me out of the ocean and refused to let me continue swimming towards the island I was aiming for; So, I tried to have them put me down and they refused so I beat them up, and them more people came and I was thrown into this room."
"ah, and the room is in this state because?" this was accompanied by a hand gesture.
"tried to get out, got thrown back in so I trashed the room in retaliation"
"right then, you need to go and apologize to the Captain"
"Why"
"cause it's the right thing to do, idiot, and if we want any chance to get back to Goa then we need them willing enough to drop us off, and your reaction to them 'saving' you haven't helped our chances"
"and if I don't?"
"You'll wish that it was Sabo that was shot down and not me" completed with a glare from Keti.
"Fine" growled a very annoyed Ace.