-1This story starts in Luffy's and Ace's hometown. I not sure what its called. Here's ages.

Luffy- 4

Ace- 7

Cori: 7 (you will find out who this is later.)

Now on with the story

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A really bad storm was pound a small town on the coast of an island. Three children were caught out in the storm. They were fighting against the wind, trying to get home. They had been on the beach when the storm hit and they hadn't gotten very far. About to the docks. There were two boys and a girl.

"When its gonna stop?" the youngest shouted to the others.

"Don't know. Might be awhile." the oldest boy shouted while turning back towards his brother. His sister suddenly screamed and he turned back to see a huge tree branch hit her. Hard. She went flying backwards and the wind caught her up. She screamed as she went flying backwards towards the ocean.

"No!" her brother screamed as she fell into the rough ocean. If he didn't get there in time, she would…

"Brother! Its too late for me! Save yourselves and live your dreams!" was the last thing that she ever said.

"No! Cori!" he brother shouted.

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"Cori!" Ace shouted as he shot up. He tried to remember where he was. He was on his small boat, in the middle of the ocean. He was going to see his brother, Luffy. It was nearing a certain part of the year again and he wanted to see if Luffy was okay. He knew how he got around this time of the year. He looked towards the horizon and saw that the sun was starting to rise. He stood up and stretched. He powered up his flames and shot them towards the end of the boat. It shot forward and he was off to find his brother.

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It was an almost normal day on the Merry Go. Sanji was cooking and fawning over Nami, who was trying to find where the next island was. Zoro was sleeping, no surprise there, and Usopp was telling Chopper an outrageous story, which he believed. The only not normal thing on the ship was Luffy. He had been sitting at his favorite spot, the big thing at the head of the ship, with a sad expression on his face. He had been staring out at the horizon since he got up and was sighing constantly.

"Breakfast's ready!" Sanji shouted from the kitchen. All the others came running because they actually wanted some food and with Luffy on board that can be hard. They were starting to eat when Nami spoke up.

"Hey guys?" They all looked up at her from their food. "Don't you notice someone missing?" They shook their heads no. At least they didn't talk with their mouths full. Nami sighed and shouted, "Where's Luffy?"

Outside Luffy was still sitting in the exact same place where they had left him. He sighed and turned over to face the sky. "Why did you have to go, Cori? Why? We still need you here." he said in an unusually serious voice. The others had come out of the kitchen and were staring at Luffy.

"Have you ever seen him like this?" Nami quietly said, so they wouldn't let Luffy know that they were there.

"I wouldn't know. Zoro you've been here the longest, have you ever seen him like this?"

"Sorry, Chopper, but no. Its not like him to be quiet for so long."

"I, the brave captain Usopp, has no idea what is wrong."

"Well, I'm not letting my food go to waste." Sanji said. "Hey, Luffy!" he yelled. Luffy looked over at them but he didn't speak. "The foods done. Come and eat!" He jumped down from the front but didn't move to go to the kitchen.

"Its okay. You guys go ahead and eat. I'm not hungry." They stared at him for awhile. He stared back. This went on for awhile until a voice broke it apart.

"Hey! Is anyone there?" a voice shouted from the side of the ship. Luffy ran over to the side of the ship and looked down at Ace. "Hey Luffy."

"Ace!" Luffy shouted as he went back to normal.

"Hey little bro. What's up?" he said as he jumped up to the railing. He jumped down and was tackled by Luffy. "Okay, okay! I get it! Your happy to see me. Now let go of me!" he shouted.

"Ace, I'm glad you came. You do remember, don't you?" he said as he went back to his sad attitude that he had a minute ago.

"Yes, Luffy. I remember. I came because of that." He smiled at Luffy, trying to get him to cheer up.

"Thanks for coming. I'm going to go below now, alright?"

"Sure Luffy. Go ahead." he said as Luffy walked away. The others immediately rushed Ace. They all asked the same question at the same time.

"What's wrong with Luffy?" they all shouted at him.

"You'll have to ask him yourself. Now do you have any foo….." he started to say but fell asleep in the middle in a sentence. They all sighed and went back to the kitchen. He woke up a few seconds later. " any food?" he looked around and saw that he was alone. "Where'd everybody go?" he said as he turned towards the front of the ship. He was grabbed from behind by Nami, who dragged him back to the kitchen.

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(Armia Town)

"Cori! Get back to work!" a man shouted from the kitchen of a restaurant. A girl got up from where she was sitting.

"Yes Sir!" she yelled back. She went and picked up a tub while muttering something about a cruel idiotic slave driver. Cori was a girl around 20. She had long black hair that was tied back in a braid. She had a diagonal scar his left eye.

"You had better get back to work, creep." one of her workers spat out. The girl who said it was one of the many who hated her.

"Maybe you had better get back to work yourself, baka." Cori spat back at her as she walked back into the kitchen. In there was the man who had called for her to get back to work. He turned and grinned a toothy grin at her.

"If ya want to keep yer job, ya need at work." He said in a heavily accented voice. "Start dryin' those dishes, 'cause they won't dry themselves." She smiled and pulled a fan out of her apron. She spun around and aimed some wind at the wet dishes. In a minute all of the dishes were clean. The man sighed. "Ya like teasin' ol Mike, don'tcha?" Cori just laughed and got to work. Soon a man came running in the front door with a bang. Cori and Mike came out of the kitchen to listen to what the man had to say.

"Are you alright?" the girl who had been mean to Cori sweetly asked. The man held up his hand and the room fell silent. Soon he caught his breath enough to talk.

"Get a lot of food ready. We've got a pirate crew coming in!" As soon as he said that the whole room erupted in a cheer. The workers went running off to get food ready for the pirates.