I'm aliiiive!
Yeah, somehow just barely. This will probably get updated once in a while, all of the stories one-shots if not mentioned otherwise.
Summoning will be updated soon, hope you enjoy :)
Marco thought it was foolish to fall in love with a mortal being. But maybe, only this time, he would change his point of view.
" And then I want to see my little brothers dream become reality." Ace grinned, tipping his hat back and leaned back a little to look ob into the starry night. " When Sabo died Luffy and me faltered for a while, but thinking about it now, I believe we did the right thing. Sabo would have had our asses if we had stopped halfway!" he laughed and smiled, watching the fireflies all around them. Their shallow lights projected a warm glow on Ace tanned skin and light up stars of their own in those deep black eyes. His smile was adorable, and Marco couldn't turn away his gaze from this scene. The fire user lifted a hand and pointed his index finger towards the sky, letting out a small orange flame of his own. The bugs assembled around the light and Ace let out a small laugh, enjoying the view right in front of his eyes.
Marco watched him intently in his phoenix form, the usual look of boredom traded for one of pure awe. This human boy was gorgeous. Marco couldn't help but stare at the freckles on his cheeks, the light in those eyes, the smile on those perfect lips and wonder how they would feel against his own.
He wondered if he should leave already. Fly back to his own bunch. Izo and Thatch would be waiting by now. It's been a while since he had met Ace after all. But he didn't care right now. The small boy he had gotten to know had turned into a fine young man, and Marco didn't want to leave. He wanted to stay. As long as he could.
Marco thought it was foolish to fall in love with a mortal being. But maybe, only this time, he would change his point of view.
" Phoenix? Hey, everything ok?" That tender voice reached him and he lifted his lingering gaze from Ace lips to his eyes, finding the black haired man staring at him with a slight smile. " You spaced out there. Am I boring you?" Ace asked, and Marco thought that, no, he didn't, but he refrained from opening his beak to tell him that. Instead he chirped, low but comforting, and Ace smile grew, a little pink on his cheeks a happy glint in his eyes. Because, Marco never made any noises, only around Ace, and only when they were alone.
" That's good. You know, I really enjoy your company." Ace said, looking at the huge bird next to him, and got on his knees, lifted his hands to brush through the blue feathers that were alight in light blue flames. Ace knew those flames where cold, different to his own hot ones, and he loved them all the more, because they made the creature next to him as gentle as he believed him to be.
Marco let him, puffed up a little bit which earned him a small chuckle. " Sometimes I wonder how you'd be as a human." Ace confessed, cheeks bright red.
" You'd be handsome probably. Blue eyes I think. I like the idea of you being human. I would love to touch your skin. Feel the warmth..." Ace looked up at him and Marcos doubts were blown away. He craned around his long neck, his beak brushing through the black strands of hair, before he pressed his own forehead to Ace's. The fire user stopped stroking him and instead lifted both hand and put one on Marcos beak, the other one on his neck, humming in content, closing his eyes with a sigh.
"It would be so much easier to love you if you were human." he whispered, and Marco chuckled, making Ace's eyes open and stare at him.
The phoenix closed his eyes, letting his flames take over until they had consumed himself and the human. Slowly but surely his form changed, the feathers withdrew, and in the end the fire died out. Ace stared awed at the face he now held in his hands. He hadn't known the phoenix could do this, much less known the bird had understood him. But now..?
" Please tell me this is not a dream, Phoenix.." he whispered, looking at those baby blue eyes with the amused glint in them. The man with the blond tuft of hair chuckled. " The name's Marco, yoi. And it's not a dream, silly boy." he hummed, leaned in, and pecked Ace's smiling lips.
" I hope you are prepared to love an immortal being, yoi."
