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Overboard(1)
Why did peacefull days always have to go to shit with this crew?
A nap. That was all she had wanted. She never got to sleep around here. Well, except during her morning watch. And at breakfast. And on the deck. And then once again at lunch. Damn narcolepsy.
Her fifth nap of the day was interrupted by a loud screech, Usopp presumably. Rain poured down in an instant as if summoned by the obnoxious sound. Ace jumped up and looked around. The crew was dashing back and forth across the deck. The sail whipped in the wind and the heavy downpour had already puddled at her feet.
Usopp was on a different mission it seemed. Frantically, he tried to carry a barrel down into the safety of the storage room. Seeing as the rest of them had the sail and the helm under control, Ace jogged over.
"Need some help?" she asked, already hefting the barrel over her shoulder.
"Ace! I knew even you couldn't resist Usopp's Fiery Fiesta Tabasco Sauce!"
"God," the barrel thudded to the deck, splashing her ankles with water, "never mind. Do this yourself."
The sharpshooter had taken a recent interest in sauce making, much to the annoyance of Sanji. Usopp had been pilfering ingredients from his stores for weeks. There had been to dozens of attempts. The Palette Puncher, the Taste Bud Tumbler, the Dragon Slayer. But none had been worse than this one.
During the time she had been conscious at lunch yesterday, Usopp had announced his newest creation. He gazed at them, his chest puffed out in pride as they tasted his newest "masterpiece". To keep it short, Chopper had initiated emergency check-ups immediately after.
"Ace p-please wait!" Usopp grabbed her arm like a vice, "If I don't have samples of my creations I will never perfect my recipe! I have to become the master sauce maker that my followers need me to be and-"
"ACE, USOPP MO-"
Zoro's booming voice was cut off by a wave of sea water crashing into the deck. Usopp's fingers released her bicep as the two of them were washed off the side of the Going Merry.
Dead. I'm dead. I'm so dead.
He mind was in overdrive but her body had come to a halt. The seawater had already taken its toll. She couldn't move an inch. Her eyes, seemingly frozen open, looking straight ahead. All she could see was the underside of the ship.
If one of them doesn't save me soon…
A black mass swam into her vision. Took them long enough.
The hand that grabbed her however wasn't fleshy. It felt scaly, Unhuman. She wanted to scream, writhe, fight. But her body wouldn't let her. Another hand joined the first, this time fisted into her hair. The black mass looked around. It released her before swimming out of her line of sight.
Ace's vision started to fade as she sank farther and farther into the blue. The hands returned. Ace's head slammed into something hard. Her vision faded completely.
To be continued…
Thank you all so much for reading! I hope that you don't mind that I'm kind of spiraling out of control with your idea xxxkurumixxxx! It was just the spark I needed to put out something worth people's time. This story will continue but I still need ideas! Please limit the ideas to Ace with the Strawhats, Ace with the Whitebeard Pirates, Ace's childhood, or just Ace by herself! Thanks for reading!
