The King Awakens: Past Meeting

I cringed while reading this, wish I could improve it but I have no ideas, please do suggest me something.

"He's not responding!"

"That's because he lacks pain in that region, his nerve endings have been destroyed. It's better if you step back and let me handle this."

The death doctor looked down to the patient on the bed as he pulled both of his gloves up to his wrists.

"Electrolytes IV, inside his veins. And a tube inside his mouth."

The surgeons' assistant quickly brought his utilities and proceeded to insert a small tube inside the boy.

The other assistant would monitor his status, after finishing, the doctor announced to his assistants to turn up the room temperature and brings blankets to top off the uninjured areas.

"Debriding, and then skin grafting. Raise room temperature, I'll first begin by inspecting near the donor site."


"Where.. am I?"

Luffy looked around him as his feet started to twitch, his teeth sore and his breathing regular. He knew he should have died of that burn.

Suddenly, he felt someone behind him and got up to see not one, but twice the number of the whole Marineford army lined up in one row, a straight line. And one after another they had all turned to look at Luffy, then; the first woman started to walk towards him.

Luffy confused, crawled backwards only to hit a wall, in the white space he had been, he hadn't noticed the never ending roof, or the white space and the shadows that could barely give an accurate distance.

"Who are you?" Luffy asked, yet his tone was not passive but aggressive like a confused animal not understanding whether this is a friend or foe.

"Don't be afraid, child. I'm your Mother."

"Mom?.."
"But.. I don't have pink hair, and you! You don't look like me. Then where am I, so called Mother?"

"Heh, if I were your Mother, I would be slightly offended by that, I am Portgas D. Rouge, your brothers' Mother, but I consider both of you to be my sons."

"Wait, you're saying your Aces' Mum?! Cool! How did you meet Roger, hold on, first can you tell Ace to stop being so moody about his family, also can you.." as Luffy continued to ramble on his questions, he finally ended and the pink haired woman spoke.

"I hadn't continued... I did not come here to see you goodbye, I had already given my farewell to Ace, he's going to greet me soon overall. I'm not alive, and you are not dead, my time here is incredibly short, and I must inform yo-"

"Stop, what are you saying? If you are dead, I'm pretty sure that Ace won't be greeting you any soon." Luffy took a moment to think, as hard as it was, he started to piece the parts together.

"Luffy, I must tell you.. your brother is dead."

And all of a sudden, time has stopped once again. If not for the tears or the accusing voice in his head that is swelling up, he would have been outraged. He could believe it; all proof was undeniable. His last flashback, his recent memory was the seething fire surrounding him, and then Akainu magma, and his Brothers' tattoo.

"N-no.. he can't be dead. Ace can't be dead, no."

He promised him, and he can't be dead. Ace just can't be dead.

"Stop, no. I couldn't protect him. Ace is dead. Ace is dead."

"Luffy, I know you must want to mourn, but the time is critical. I must tell you about your devil fruit." Rogue warned as she stepped closer. And suddenly felt the darkness radiating from Luffy.

"I don't want to hear it, shut up!" Luffy covered both of his ears with his hands.

"Stop, you're going to break down the mind connection we have, stop!" Rogue warned as she took one step forward, hoping to comfort her son.

And as Rogue said, the world started to crumble; Luffy couldn't feel himself falling through the dark abyss till he woke up sweating and stuck in IVs and monitoring screens watching him. Out of breath, he looked beside him to find a face he would never have imagined to find waking up.


The Surgeon of Death had woken up; annoyed by the sound of the alarming screen that had sensed the stress looming Luffy. His eyes widened a little bit by the mere fact that Luffy was awake, and not in a coma. For all he knew; Law was not stupid, and this was not short of a miracle.

"Finally awake, Mugiwara-ya?"
Luffy tried to get up but he was chained by a few cuffs on his feet and hands; his thoughts were mouthed by Law as he noticed that Luffy wasn't going to go berserk and kill him.
"You never cease to amaze me," he got up and began to unlock the cuffs. "you're in my ship, Mugiwara-ya."

A moment only after the cuffs have been opened, Boa Hancock ran inside the room with another platter full of food, how she could hold so much, no one knew. Once she placed the food on the floor, she was about to rush out and cook once more, before seeing that Luffy had sat up.

And suddenly, her heart started to flutter as she shied away from the gaze that bore into her soul.

"Luffy-kun, y-you're awake!" the Pirate Empress tried to hold her excitement, and then Luffy spoke for the first time since he had been in Laws' ship.

"Hancock," Luffy uttered, his voice gloomy. She was startled that Luffy had called her by her name, ever so correctly.
"where is Ace?" he asked.

And then it was silent.


Thank you for reading, sorry for this being 1k short, I promise to make all my other chapters 2k at least, I might not be able to update this anymore as I need an idea for this story.