Two years sense the death of my husband. Two years sense he held me. Two years sense we told each other we loved one another.
Two years ago my beloved Ace left me for another world. Not the New World. He would still come to see me if that had happened. The world you can only gain through death, and I cannot die….yet. My twin children will need me. Not only my own children, but our children, Portgas D. Ace and mine. Portgas D. Chase, and Portgas D. Luna were born four months after the death of their father.
There are not many people who know Ace was seeing a woman, yet alone married to the Princess of Lautner. It is a small island in the North Blue Sea that has a climate of the transition of summer into autumn. Colored leaves but it is still warm enough to go swimming. That some times has beautiful, large thunderstorms, and light breezes. Not many know that I am the Princess of Lautner; many believe me to be dead. Truth is I ran away. I passed the throne to my younger sister, who is the only one who knows why I left.
Our kingdom is better ruled with my sister as queen than if it had been me. I am so good at hiding my true feelings, unless it is anger. When I'm angry I blow up at anyone and everyone around me. I say things I would never say out loud, but that's how I told Ace I loved him. After I ran away, I was sixteen. I met Ace again for the second time in my life. He was seventeen, and just starting out as a pirate. We got reacquainted and a few month later we got in a fight. I was yelling. He was yelling. I started throwing things. He caught fire. Then I told him, or more accurately screamed at him, that I loved him.
He was shocked, and so was I. It was true, that I loved him, but I wasn't going to tell him like that. While I was standing there slack jawed, he put both of his hands on the sides of my face, and looked me in the eyes saying, "I love you too, Rayla D. Misaki. I love your Teal hair with those Hot Pink bangs that you dyed because you thought it would help hide you from your past. I love the dark makeup you wear, that makes your gray eyes shine even more that they already do. I love how you only were blue jeans and pink tops. I love how you want to learn more. Learn everything there is to know about the world and what's in it. I love your devil fruit power. I love your temperament, and disposition. I love your independence. How you always seem to do the right thing even though it's not always what seems right or not what you want to do." Ace said he could go on and on about me.
Months after that, he asked me to marry him. However I wanted, privet and secret or public and make us know to the world. I told him, just us, I wanted…well at that time I didn't know exactly what I wanted. And that's a bit of irony there, because the devil's fruit I ate was the Know Know Fruit. It made it so I could know the thoughts of animals or humans just by touching them. I could search their minds to find their deepest desires or secrets. I can know their histories, where they came from or where have been. I can master any skill it I see it preformed, and use any weapon or tool just by touching it. I love touching objects that are ancient just to know how far they have come.
I don't like humans, or people in general. They hurt others, with no regard for their feelings. I prefer animals, like my best friends Amaya and Aiko. They are my wolves, who for some reason match my hair. Teal Blue and Hot Pink markings. I guess that's why those colors are my favorite. We were raised together, us three, sense out births. Amaya and Aiko's mother gave them to my royal family to be raised because she could not take care of them. They ate devil's fruits too, the same day I did. We became unable to swim, so no one could leave us alone for too long.
I began to experiment with the sea stone, to see if I could make it so that we could swim for a short amount of time. When I was fifteen, I found it. I had developed a way to change sea stone, which causes a devil's fruit user to loose their ability to use their power, and change it so the curse of not being able to swim is lifted. You can only swim for thirty-three minutes, and what form you are in you stay in that form.
For example, Amaya and Aiko ate devil's fruits that enable them to change forms. Amaya ate the Equi Equi Fruit, she can change in to any type of equestrian like a horse, Pegasus, unicorn, alicorn, and for some reason a sea horse. If she were in sea horse form when she hit water, she would stay like that for thirty-three minutes or until she gets out. Same for Aiko, who ate the Dragon Dragon Fruit enabling her to transform into elemental dragons, and for some odd reason komodo dragons, I just don't understand why for some reason they can turn into animals that the only thing they have in common is their names.
This, I thought, would help me find Monkey D. Luffy. To share the pain of losing Ace, I need someone to relate with me. It has taken me two years to reach the Grand Line, and I missed Luffy by a month at Fishman Island. In order to find Luffy and gain as much knowledge as I could, I gave my children to the only person I could trust, Ex-Vice Admiral Garp, Luffy's grandfather. He then gave them to the same people who raised Luffy and my Ace, Dadan and the mountain bandits.