Ok so I kinda ran out of time to finish this so the last chapter for sure will be out tomorrow, and thank you for reading, and I hope review, and tell me what you think! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

"Darn Dadan! Why the hell do I always have to do the shopping for them?" Ace swore as she went through the park for a shortcut. She pulled her orange hoodie over her head blocking her face from the cold night wind. Movement to her right caught her attention. A little boy no older then six maybe, was standing alone, his back to her.

'What's he doing out so late?' Ace thought glancing down at her watch. 10:37. she notice that the boy's body was shaking, he must be crying. Maybe he was lost from home. Feeling bad for the boy Ace started walking up to him.

"Hey are you ok?" she asked in a soft voice. The boy turned to her with a jolt, eyes wide.

"I-I-I don't know… I'm scared…" Ace kneeled next to him placing a hand on his shoulder, shushing him.

"It's ok. Tell me what's wrong, and I'll help the best that I can." She offered him a big smile but he didn't look any calmer. He looked down, his bangs shadowing his face.

"I didn't want to hurt him… he was my best friend… no my brother… they made me…" he hic-upped. He wiped at the tears falling from his eyes with shaky hands.

"Who made you? And what did you do?" Ace asked moving the tiny fist away from the boy's face.

"The monsters…" he whispered though Ace couldn't hear him.

"What?" she asked moving closer to hear.

"The monsters made me. They said if I didn't they would hurt me… I was scared! I didn't kn…ow what I… was… doing…!" he sobbed. Ace searched for anyone that might be watching them. This boy was scared of someone, and if they were still there then they could be in trouble.

"Where is your friend?" she whispered. The boy looked behind him to where Ace had found him. Following his gaze Ace could just make out something lying on the ground. She looked to the little boy wiping tears from his face only they weren't just tears.

'Blood!?' she thought in a slight panic. She pulled the boy into the light seeing some blood stains on his clothes, some blood prints on his face, and his shorts nearly drenched in it.

"Stay here." She said making her way to the figure on the ground. Her heart was pounding a hundred miles a second as she drew closer to it. What she found was another young boy around the other one's age lying in his own blood. Kneeling next to him she checked his pulse in panic. When the vein throbbed under her fingers she let the breath she didn't know she was holding out.

"We have to get him to the hospital." She told the little boy. She picked up the injured one taking off to the hospital not to far from the park. The little boy ran behind her scared for his brother's life, and of the monsters. Ace kept trying to get the injured boy

To wake up, move in her arms, or anything that would show he's still with her. When they got to the hospital the injured boy was out of her arms within a minute of entering the building.

"What happened to him?" a nurse asked. Ace looked to the other young boy with her whom held fear in his eyes.

"I don't know I found them in the park near here, and brought them." She said. It wasn't a lie she didn't know what happened before she found them.

"With all the blood he lost I'm surprised he's even remotely alive." The nurse said honestly. Ace notice the little boy twitch, and grab onto her pants trembling again. When the nurse left Ace turned her attention to the boy.

"What's your name?" she asked.

"M-Monkey. D. L-L-Luffy…" he stuttered following her outside. They sat on a bus bench.

"I'm Ace. Luffy tell me who made you hurt your friend?" Ace asked.

"I told you! The monsters! They made me hurt Sabo!" he all but screamed at her. Ace could see how much pain he was in but she needed to know what she got herself into.

"I got that much but who is this monster? Where is he so we can get him?" Luffy gave her a look like she was crazy.

"Nobody can get him, he's in my head… he's always been in my head…" he muttered the last part, while gripping his head. Ace didn't really get what he was saying. Is he telling her that he can hear ghost?

"You think I'm crazy?" he mumbled snapping her out of thought. She looked down to him.

"What?"

"You think I'm crazy! Just like grandpa!" he screamed standing up on the bench. He took angry breaths, face all red. Reaching out to him Ace took him into her arms holding him like a mother would to her child.

"I don't think you're crazy." She told him rubbing circles into his back making him relax a bit. He nuzzled his face into her chest loving the warmth she made him feel. He couldn't remember the last time he had felt this warmth, and if he ever felt it.

"Sabo was the only one who believed me…" he mumbled against her chest. She didn't get why she felt so protective of this boy she had only met an hour ago.

"Why did the monsters want you to hurt him?" Ace asked.

"They didn't want me to hurt him, they wanted me to kill him." Luffy corrected. Ace stared wide at him.

"k-k-kill?" she squeaked out. Luffy nodded sadly.

"They said I was to close to him, he had to go now… but Sabo is the only one who cares about me, and now he's…" Ace shushed him again seeing the tears weld up in his eyes.

"He is going to be just fine, ok?" Luffy nodded with a trembling lip. Ace picked the boy up, taking him back inside to wait for anything on Sabo.

"Um miss…"
"Ace."

"Yes Ace the boy you had brought in is doing just fine now." Ace looked back to Luffy with a smile, the boy didn't smile back though. "He lost a lot of blood but somehow pulled through it. He sure is a trooper!"

"That's wonderful news!"

"Do you know his name by any chance?" the nurse asked Ace. Ace shook her head.

"Sabo… Sabo Terminal…" a soft voice said behind her. The nurse nodded to Luffy with a thank you before leaving to call Sabo's family. Ace kneeled down in front of Luffy with a kind smile.

"See I told you."

"The monsters still wants me to kill Sabo…" Luffy mumbled holding his head in his hands. Ace removed his little hands to put her own there, and kissed the top of Luffy head.

"Tell them they're not in charge, and that you are."
"What if they don't listen?" Luffy asked covering Ace's hand with him.

"Well then I'll just have to find a way to make them." Luffy giggled at this. He stopped laughing for a moment, his eyes widening.
"They're not talking as much." He said excitedly. Ace flicked his nose making the boy giggle more.

"See?"

"You're the best Ace!" Luffy shouted throwing his arms around Ace's neck, and hugging her tightly. Ace hugged him back with a nice warm feeling inside of her. "Can we see Sabo…?" Luffy asked. Ace shrugged looking to the front desk.

"Let me ask." She told him making her way over. "Excuse me but can we see Sabo?" she asked in the politest voice she had. The nurse nod directing to the right room.

"Sabo…?" Luffy whispered walking into the room with Ace right behind him. Sabo looked the younger boy groaning in pain, but smiling at him.

"Hey… Lu…" the little blonde boy said in a raspy voice. Luffy took in how bandaged up Sabo was. His head, his neck, his arms, a bunch of blood spots where the blood was starting to soak through, and two IVs in each of Sabo's arms.

"I… I'm so sorry!" Luffy cried curling himself into a tight ball on the floor where continued to cry louder.

"Lu… it's…" Sabo started to cough while still trying to calm his baby brother down. Ace picked Luffy up shushing him, and rubbing circles onto his back, and place a hand on Sabo head, gently.

"Both of you shush…" she said in gentle tone. Luffy sniffled but stopped crying to look at Ace. "Everything is ok now. Sabo what happened?" Ace asked wanting to see what the blonde boy thinks. Sabo looked to Luffy with unsure eyes, when Luffy nodded for him to go ahead he started explaining.

"Me, and Luffy were going to my house before it got dark but we got lost…"
"Why were you two alone? You're what six?" the two nodded.

"We didn't think it would be that hard since Luffy's grandpa, and my brother always walks us to our houses." Sabo said. Luffy nuzzled himself into the crook of Ace's neck remembering what had happened while they were lost.

"What happened after that?"

"We… were lost for a long time when Luffy's monsters started to talk to him…"

{Flashback}

Sabo stood on a park bench trying to see where they were when Luffy started whimpering below him.

"What's wrong Lu?" Sabo asked jumping off the bench. Luffy held his head tightly crying.

"The monsters are talking to me again… their yelling at me… Sabo it hurts so much…" Luffy cried. Sabo hugged his brother.

"It's ok Lu… ow Luffy that hurts!" Sabo said trying to pull out of Luffy's sudden strong grip. Luffy looked up at the blonde with waterfall of tears.

"It's not me… the monsters are doing this… Sabo they want me to kill you! I don't want to kill you!"

"Luffy you need to be strong… ow! Luffy!" Sabo shouted trying to get away from Luffy as Luffy continued to cry in pain. When Sabo was able to get out of Luffy's grip he backed up. Luffy grabbed a rock with fear filled eye.

"Sabo run!" Luffy shouted before the rock was thrown from his hand. Sabo tried to get away but the rock had hit him in the back of his neck, sending the blonde to the ground. Before he could even think to get up another rock hit him in the head. Sabo groaned in pain feeling blood run down his head. When he looked to Luffy, Luffy had another rock in his hand, and start repeatedly bashing Sabo everywhere with it.

{End of flashback}

"Everything's black after that." Sabo said. Luffy was trembling again in Ace's arms.

"They wouldn't stop…! I didn't want to hurt you!" he cried again.

"Luffy it's time to calm down now." Ace whispered.

"Sabo! Oh Sabo you're alright!" a blonde woman shouted pushing Ace, and Luffy out of the way to hug her son.

"Mom?" Sabo questioned surprised.

"I can't believe this happened to you! Who did this?" Ace glared at the woman, she was painfully obviously being fake.

"I… I don't know mom…" Sabo muttered glancing at Luffy. Sabo's mom turned to Ace, and Luffy, glaring at them.

"You!" she snarled at Luffy. "You devil child hurt my little Sabo!"

"Mom stop it…"
"Hush boy! I'll have you locked away, and thrown away the key! Just like your father should be!"

"Now hold on there!" Ace in. she didn't know what was going on about that but she wasn't gonna let Luffy be verbally abused like this. "You're a grown a woman shouting at a child…!"
"A monster!" Luffy shrunk back at being called a monster.

"He's a child, and he doesn't diverse being treated like this!" Ace couldn't believe how this woman was acting to Luffy, if she could she would've punched the woman out.

"Then keep him away from my son!"
"You don't even care about Sabo!" Luffy yelled surprising both the woman, And Ace. "You just want him to marry some girl you can get more money!"
"You little…
"Mom stop please…" Sabo begged

"I agree." A loud, strong voice said from the doorway. Ace looked to the man, there was no way that could be Sabo's dad, to old.

"Grandpa." Luffy whispered. Ace held him tight to her.

"Garp! I this is the last straw! I don't want your grandson near my son ever again!"
"But mom Luffy's my best…"

"Hold your tongue boy!"
"Don't talk to your own son like that!" Ace snapped.

"That's it enough. Mrs. Terminal I think you are going a little bit over board right now. Luffy is a child he couldn't do something like this even if he tried."
"He is the son of your son." Ace didn't get what was all this talk about Luffy's dad, who was he? Was he like her own father? "You know what I can't trust you to keep them apart so we will just move." Sabo's eyes widened as big as they could get.

"Mom you can't do that! My friends, and my school…"

"Please don't take Sabo away from me…" Luffy mumbled. Sabo's mom only glared at him.

"I would like you all to leave." She said coldly glaring at Luffy. Garp sighed, and lead Ace who was still holding Luffy out.

"Who are you?" Garp asked once they were out of the building.

"My name is Ace." Ace shook Garp's hand, whom was looking at the sad Luffy.

"Luffy it will be ok." Garp said. Luffy looked to him, and shook his head.

"How? Sabo's moving away, and I'll never see him again… and it's all because of my demons!"
"No. no Luffy don't cry. Shush don't cry." Ace tried to calm the little boy down.

"Luffy you know better than that." Garp said. Luffy's cried died down to only sniffles now. "Can I give you a ride home Ace? It's too late for you to be walking now." Garp offered leading her to his car. Ace nodded feeling very tired. Crap she still haven't gone to the store… oh well they'll have to do.

"That be great thank you." She replied helping Luffy get into his booster seat.

"Where do you live?"

"At the end of redline drive." Garp nodded thinking about why that sounded so familiar.

"Right here." She said pointing to the old run down house that was almost in the woods.

"This is where you live?" he asked. Ace nodded.

"Goodbye Luffy." Ace said. She didn't want to tell the boy goodbye but she had no other choice really.

"Ace can't you stay with us?" Luffy asked reaching for Ace's hand. He didn't want to be alone anymore with the demons, and Ace helped them go away, unlike his grandpa who was too busy with work, and always saying they weren't real. Ace took the little hand in hers.

"I don't think so Luffy, I'm sorry."

"Portgas…" Garp mumbled remembering that name.

"That's my last name." Ace said turning to the man.

"Portgas, D Alice."

"How do you know my first name?" Ace asked.

"I'm you legal guardian. I haven't seen you since you were younger then Luffy maybe." Ace searched her memories, she could remember pretty far back in her childhood but not him.

"Really? Then you know Dadan?" Garp nodded.

"Yes. I left you with her since I wasn't always able to be with you. Then some family stuff came up, and I couldn't come see you."

"I need to go." Ace suddenly said. All of this was really starting to get to her now. Between Luffy's monsters, what happened back at the hospital, and now meeting her legal guardian, yeah she needed to seep.

"Ace don't leave." Luffy begged reaching for her. She smiled back at him, and waved.

"I'll see you soon Luffy." she said running into the house. She took her shoes off at the door, and ran up the stairs to her small room.

"What a night…" she said to herself collapsing onto her bed. Sleep quickly overcame her, with a last few thoughts about little Luffy.

'I can't leave him…' was her final thoughts.

"Ace get up!" Dadan shouted, banging on her door like morning. Ace rolled out of bed groaning, and shouting to stop it! It's been two days since she had met Luffy, and last seen him, and she was starting… no been wondering if he was ok? "Ace!"

"What!?" she shouted pulling a shirt over her head, her eye lingering on the scar over her stomach.

"You have visitor." Dadan said on the other end of the door. Pulling her shirt down, Ace ran out the door, and down the stairs to the living room.

"Ace!" a happy Luffy shouted tackling her into a hug. Ace was momentarily shock at the boy being there but hugged back right away.

"Luffy what are you doing here?" she asked.

"Grandpa wants to talk to you." He said pointing to the man sitting on the coach with Dadan sitting in the one across.

"Is everything ok?" she asked.

"Yes." Garp nodded. "I want to ask you a favor though." Ace tilted her head confused.

"What is it?" she asked picking the boy up when he raised his hands to be lifted.

"Will you become Luffy's legal guardian?" he asked. Ace was taken aback by this, while Luffy giggled with excitement.

"Will you Ace? Please! Then we can be together all the time!" Luffy said such a hopeful look in his eyes that there was no way Ace could say no, and she didn't think she could.

"I guess so. But mind me asking why? I mean I just turned eighteen after all." Garp shot Dadan a look that get out, in which she listened to, and left leaving them to talk.

"You know about Luffy's problem." She nodded.

"You mean the monsters?"

"There's no such things as monsters." Garp said.

"Yes there is!" Luffy snapped.

"Luffy don't talk back." Garp raised his voice that had Luffy zipping his lips. "The point is he said that you helped him with it, and he seems to really be attached to you." Ace nodded. "So I asked you to take care of him, help him get over this please."

"I'll take good care of him." She said smiling down at Luffy. The way she smiled down at him made Garp think about a mother, and child.

"Thank you Ace." The next day Garp had everything ready to be filled out, and all that was left to have Luffy move in with Ace.

"Are you gonna be ok in this small room Luffy?" Ace asked hugging the boy around his shoulders, and rocking him around. Luffy nodded.

"As long as I'm with you Ace!" Ace giggled at him, and kissed the top of his head.

"Sounds good to me." She said. That same night Luffy was wakened up by Ace crying in her sleep.

"Ace…?" he whispered. Ace held her stomach, her sobs getting louder. "Ace!" he shouted getting in her bed, and shaking her. He was afraid that she was in pain, and needed something to help her. "Ace please wake up! What's wrong?" he began to cry. Ace shot up panting slow big breaths. She pulled her knees to her chest, crying into them. Luffy watched Ace continued to cry, his eyes full of worry. "Ace are you ok?" Luffy little voice startled Ace, she had forgotten he was there now. She smiled at him, and pulled him close to her.

"I'm Luffy just a bad dream." She mumbled remembering the dream that was so real, that had actually happened to her just last year.

"What happened?" Luffy asked.

"It's nothing you need to worry about." Luffy pouted a very cute pout.

"Tell me please? I want to know why Ace was so sad."

"You're not gonna let this go?" the young boy shook his head. Sighing she laid back with Luffy still in her arms.

"Luffy you might not understand all of this. But, last year I was pregnant, and my boyfriend, and I were really happy. When I was five months along I… I…." Ace couldn't find herself to finish saying what she wanted to say.

"You what?" Luffy asked looking up at her. Ace wiped the tears that threatened to fall.

"I lost the baby Luffy. It was very painful, and the doctors had to take the baby out to save me. I now have a scar where they opened me up, and my boyfriend, whom I thought loved me broke up with me. I have dreams almost every night about that day now…"

"Don't cry Ace." Luffy said brushing her tears away. Ace hugged him close to her chest, is this what she would've felt for her own child? Is this a mother's love? "Ace I can be your baby now!" Ace laughed softly, and kissed Luffy's nose.

"I think that sounds perfect." She said connecting their heads. Luffy giggled.

"Yay I have a mom!" he cheered.
"How are those monsters acting?" Ace asked just thinking about it. Luffy shrugged.

"They haven't been talking to me as much."

"That's good." Ace smiled. She looked to the clock seeing how late it was, and they had to be to get Luffy to school. "Bed time." She said letting go of Luffy, who stayed where he was debating on asking something Ace could literally read what was on Luffy's mind, she chuckled under her breath, and pulled her new 'baby under the blankets. "Goodnight Luffy." she kissed his head.

"Goodnight Ace." Since had told Luffy about her lost child she felt a lot lighter, and since the two had decided that Luffy would be her baby, and she would be his mom the two had been very happy.

"Be good in school today Luffy, and remember if they start talking to you, and you can't get rid of them call me. Don't do as they want ok?" Ace said kissing Luffy on the head. He nodded with a big smile.

"Alright Ace! Have a good day to!" he all but shouted in her ear. Ace smiled as he ran off to his friend Usopp laughing with him. she turned to head to Dadan's to help with whatever she needed help with like everyday since she brought Luffy home with her that one night two weeks ago.

"Usopp look I'm king of the world!" Luffy exclaimed from the top of the monkey bars. Usopp climbed up right next to him.

"And I'm the greatest warrior in the world!" he shouted. The two laughed at each other. Luffy glanced down seeing a kid name Zoro staring up at them.

"Hey look its Zoro!" he shouted pointing to said boy. Zoro kept a serious look on his face as the black haired boy ran up to him with his scared friend hanging back.

"Luffy I don't think this is a good idea… he doesn't like playing with younger grads…" Usopp said in a shaky voice. Luffy ignored him as he stood in front of the green haired boy.

"Zoro wanna play with us?" he asked with a bright smile. Zoro grabbed Luffy's wrist harshly dragging him away from all the other kids, and to a more quiet area.

"Zoro what was that for?" Luffy whined.

"You're going to die." Zoro said arms crossed. Blinked confused.

"What?"

"My brother is going to kill you because you have demons inside of you." Luffy backed away from him with fear filled eyes.

"H-h-how d-d-d-did you kn-kn-ow?" he asked rubbing his arms.

"My brother is a demon hunter he can sense it in you." Zoro explained. The school bell rang signaling recess was over. Zoro walked passed him the younger boy without a glance back at him. Once Zoro was in the building Luffy collapsed to the ground his body shaking with fear.

'Somebody knows…! They want to kill me!' he thought holding his knees.

"Ace are you done with the clothes?!" Dadan shouted to the black haired girl. Ace sighed irritated. That was the fourth time she asked her in the pass half hour.

"No I'm not. Ya know it's not easy washing a house full of men clothes with only two hours." She snapped. Dadan shook her head at the younger female.

"You'll learn how to. Now come get the phone its Luffy's school." She said taking Ace's spot as she ran to the phone.

'Oh god please don't be those damn demons again!'

"Hello this is Ace on the phone."

"Ace?"

"Luffy what's wrong? Are you ok?" Ace started off the questions. On the other end she could hear Luffy small whimpers.

"I need you to get Me." he told her.

"What happened?" she asked.

"Please come get me, and I'll tell you when you get here."

"Alright I'll right there. Just got to class till I get there." Ace instructed. With a small noise as an answer they hung up. Ace ran to the front door putting her shoes on.

"Where you going?" Dadan asked. Ace looked to her.

"I need to get Luffy. We'll be back soon." She told her.

"You can't keep babying him like this Ace. I know you're his guardian now, and you worry about him but don't go picking him up whenever he has trouble." Ace nodded not hearing what she was saying.

"Bye!" she shouted as the door closed behind her. Dadan sighed at the young girl. She was too overly protective of Luffy, and Luffy was too depended on her. With another sigh she took out a smoke, and went back to the laundry.