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Prompt: Burn
Character(s): Ace
Ace was proud of his Devil Fruit. It was rare, powerful and feared. Oh gods was it feared.
When he had first chanced his luck (for they hadn't known what kind it was) there had been a brief moment where he thought he tasted his death. A gasp of heat before an intense, terrifying burning fire began racing throughout his body. A flicker of fear touched him there before the change was complete.
In the barest moment between the taste of the fruit and the complete transfiguration of his body Ace had scented a familiar smell.
That dreadful night in the Gray Terminal, where he had first understood the monstrous cruelty that the Tenryuubito left in their wake, the night they had burned the entire area and all those trapped within. The smell, the taste that had lingered in the air for months afterwards. He could never mistake the presence of charred flesh.
The first time he fought with his new powers he had frozen, just for a moment. Those screams, that smell, the sound of his fire crackling over living flesh. It haunted his nightmares for months.
It eventually came to pass that the smell and the sounds became so familiar that he tuned them out and carried on his way. For something that had once nearly claimed his life and limb he had truly mastered fire.
He fought on, a firey flare lighting up his trail across the oceans, the old fears forgotten and pushed to the darkest recesses of his mind. It wasn't until he got cocky, was careless and then one of his nakama was screaming, their flesh was sizzling and he was staring in horror at what he'd done. The charred trail he'd burned in his wake.
