This is the first time I publish a story on this site, so please let me know if you find any mistakes.

I also have to say, that english is not my native language but I'm trying my best to translate this story properly.


My Guardian Angel

Chapter 1

"You will be for a long time quite far away …" Thatch said almost irrelevantly, what Marco however skillfully ignored. Too often this issue came to the fore, as that you could still stand it with complete patience. The blond knew exactly what his longtime Friend wanted to say, even if it was hidden behind thousand sentences.

"... And he will certainly not remain single forever." Thatch went on with his lecture, while Haruta could not keep back a wide grin any more. Marco has always been a calm and collected person, but since their newest member showed up here a few months ago, this fact suddenly changed.

The young man with his little quirks and good appearance drew even the attention of someone like Marco to himself, so that now a sort of small fire burnt between them. A flame that might actually stand for love and passion, if there weren't this two big problems: `First my brother and then I – Ace´ and `Too stubborn for everything – Marco´.

Ace moved about one year ago with his brother Luffy to Logue Town, to escape from the radical hunt on Devils. Devil was in itself nothing else as a code word of the government, for people with special abilities. They were publicly represents as dangerous and unpredictable, which of course was just a provocation of the top members of the government. These people were aiming to get as many Devils as possible under their control, in order to use them for unnecessary power struggles.

In contrast, however, raised a number of organizations whose leaders were know under the name of Whitebeard, Shanks or a few jears ago - Gol D. Roger.

The Devils found protection by those organizations and thereby Ace had also found his place in this family. The problem was rather his brother Luffy, who went without contradiction his own way. That wasn't necessarily bad, but the younger D. did not think highly of hiding and also had no problems to protect his friends with his abilities.

Though Ace accepts the peculiarities of his brother, he immediately starts worrying the moment Luffy was out of sight. This also led to the fact that the black-haired man somewhat neglected his own private life and make things unnecessarily hard for the people around him.

The fire devil was a born fighter, which is why he always reacted to the smallest remark of Marco accordingly and almost every conversation of those two became a big flirt - at least in Thatchs theory.

In truth Ace simply had the gift to make normal sentences as `I need help in the cellar, could you come down with me ? ´sound like a promising offer of wild excesses. Marco on the other hand took his position as Whitebeard's right hand very seriously and responded to Aces rather hotheaded nature with a quiet, but also dominating manner.

„I still have a few things to do, so you two don't need to wait for me" the Phoenix finally respond and subsequently disappeared in the small office of the bar. Basically they didn't need this pub at all, but to not attract attention of the government, one had to behave as normal as possible.

„Well... and away he is," Haruta murmured sarcastically, while Thatch sulkily crossed his arms. He just couldn't understand, why Marco was making such a fuss.

The facts were quite obvious and the goal within one's reach. „Guess the matter is somewhat more complicated than we thought" said the elder of the two, as the front door was suddenly torn open.

In came a completely drenched Ace, which quietly cursed the rain with an impressive vocabulary of swear words. Haruta and Thatch were quite surprised about this appearance, because one pretty much never saw the black-haired man in such a weather outside his dry and warm apartment.

„Is everything alright ?" asked Haruta slightly worried, but Ace just smiled at her. „Yes no need to worry, I kinda just locked myself out again and Luffy unfortunately decided to stay at his friends tonight"explained the 20-year-old, at which Thatch and Haruta could only shake their heads.

With the D. Brothers such incidents were nothing unusual, yet Aces habit to constantly forget his keys made things only worse.

„You two are really a disaster, but if you want you can stay with me ... No you can't!"Thatch said suddenly, at which the other two just threw him slightly irritated looks. „I mean ...unfortunately you can not stay with me tonight, but I'm sure Marco can help you out with this problem" the man quickly added, as Marco walked out of his office again.

Haruta understood the plan of Thatch immediately, which is why she grabbed him by the arm and pulled him towards the door. „That's true after all this belongs to your job, right Marco ? Well...have fun you two" the young woman called in a good mood and was afterwards gone in a matter of seconds.

Outside she and Thatch bumped into Vista, who was immediately stopped from entering the bar. At first the tall man didn't unterstood what was wrong, but once he glanced through the window and saw Marco with Ace at the counter, everything was clear. „You try it again?" he asked almost a little bit bored and sighed, when both of his family members start nodding contentedly.

In the meantime, Ace had sat down on a barstool and Marco unobtrusively took a closer look at the younger. The black, open shirt stuck now formally on the well-built upper body of the dark-haired man and altogether Ace looked really...soaked. Right – soaked was the word Marco was looking for, which is why he had to give no more attention to these dark eyes and cute freckles.

„Locked yourself out again?" asked Marco afterwards, on which the younger gave him a small smile. "Happens quite often lately, huh?" Ace was slightly ashamed, as the phoenix would probably drag him to his apartment again. Not that the 20-year old would mind, only did he not want to be a burden to Marco because of his own stupidity.

„It still lies in the normal area" the phoenix finally replied and picked up his keys from the office

„Although the next time, you´ll have to stay with Thatch or Haruta".

After this sentence Ace lowered his gaze and an unusual tension spread through the room.

"Right ... your job in Mary Joa" said the black-haired man more to himself than to the phoenix, who did not fail to hear the slight distress in Aces voice.

Immediately a strange feeling forced itself on Marco,which he recognized as some sort of...guilt.

He suddenly had the urge to somehow tear this grey veil apart, which threatened to suffocate the ordinarily brightly burning flames in Aces eyes.

But why now ?

Why could the phoenix not control himself now, when tomorrow he had to banish the fire devil from his mind, in order to perform his task correctly ?

It was just not fair...

Marco leant slightly over the counter and placed his right index finger under Aces chin, to force the younger to look at him again. Said Person seemed to be very surprised about the whole action, but did not dare to disturb the blonde in his intention. Too much had Ace lost himself in the eyes of the phoenix, as that he could think of anything logical anyway.

Marco on the other hand had himself a bit better under control, though this also didn't help to prevent the upcoming misstep.

The old beast inside him craved for the blazing fire, which hides itself in the depths of Aces soul.

A weakness that not only Marco, knew all too well. Aces Logia for example also acted almost autonomously and refused to do any harm to its natural counterpart – the smoke of officer Smoker.

Yet the connection between a phoenix and one of the most ancient natural forces was much deeper ... much more complicated. Thus Ace didn't noticed at all, how his fire now challenged Marcos longing phoenix. How lust suddenly took control over both of their actions...

„Marco ..." Ace whispered, as said person buried a possessive hand in his hair and the world around them slowly disappeared. The phoenix had left the last inches behind and touched almost those sinful lips of the fire devil with his own, as „AAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCEEEEEE" - everything was suddenly over. Torn by this shout from their trance, both drew back jerkily and get control over their bright blazing flames.

To his astonishment a feeling of disappointment spread through Ace, as Luffy excitedly told him about a key of some sort. Marco on the other hand tried to calm his angry phoenix and at the same time cursed his lack of self-control.

However, this should not be the only problem of the older male...

Since at an inaccessible place, an angel with long blond hair start writing down the first lines of a tragic story.

A story... that would change both Aces and Marcos life forever.

On this particular day, a fallen angel without wings will stand once more by your side...

whose future lies solely in the hands of the devil.

He will never know, that this specific promise ...

will destroy everything, he had ever hoped for.

Because he was willing to give up his pure heart …

to live and to love you once again.

With absolutely no hesitation, he had burned his wings from his back …

in order to taste this deadly posion called hope for one last time.