Here's the second chapter of Fate originally I had something else planned for the ending of this chapter but I'm going to save it for the next one so hope you guys enjoy it :D
I don't own One Piece or any of these amazing characters.
After getting dried and changing into his pj's Ace joined Marco and Thatch on the couch watching the duckling on the coffee table looking confused at the bowl of worms that Thatch brought in from outside.
Marco looks over to Ace once he was sitting down on the sofa,"So what are you going to do yoi."
Ace sighed as he leaned back onto the sofa and ran his hand through his hair,"What else can I do other than keep him. I mean the lil guy braved through a shit ton just to get here. Plus I think his actual mom abandoned him so he has no home."
The duckling pushed the bowl full of worms away from him before looking at Ace.
That got his attention. Ace raised one of his eyebrows before asking,"What you want lil guy?"
"Quack!" The duckling flapped its wings and opened its mouth wide. After a while it closed its mouth and surprisingly enough looked at him with puppy dog eyes.
"Yea I understand you're hungry that's why Thatch gave you worms."
"Quack!" The duckling shook its head and continued to once again look at Ace with puppy dog eyes.
"I dont think I've ever seen a duck that's picky and act so so human," said Thatch as Marco nodded in agreement a little stunned with what he was seeing.
"Oh brother," Ace rolled his eyes before scooping up the duckling and headed to the kitchen. Stepping inside he flicked the lights on and went over to the fridge. He opened it up and showed the duck what was inside.
Immediately the duck jumped from Ace's hand (causing him to have a mini heart attack) and ran over to some left over steak that Thatch had made last night.
"Quack! Quack!" The duckling began to jump up and down excitedly while looking at the meat.
"You want that?," Ace asked perplexed. He never knew ducks could crave meat.
"Well at least he has good taste," Thatch said as he and Marco came into the kitchen. Grabbing the plate he went over to the counter to start thinly cutting it to make it easier for the duckling.
After grabbing the duckling and making sure it wouldn't go all Evel Knievel on him he closed the fridge and went over to the counter. The duckling was practically glowing watching Thatch cut the meat and put it into a bowl. The meal was all ready for the duckling once they reached the counter.
After setting the duckling down it practically ran over to the bowl and started to munch down on the meat.
All 3 men (even though Ace is 17 and is technically still a boy) just kept watching the meat loving duck.
"So," said Marco with his eyes still on the duckling ,"what are you going to name it?"
That got Ace's attention. Even though yes he decided the duckling would stay he hadn't thought much after that. Everything was happening fast okay?! Give him a break geez.
"A name..," he said with a blank look on his face.
"Yes Acey now I know you're a young mother and all but you can't forget something as important as a name for your child," said Thatch as he smirked at Ace.
Ace glared and gave Thatch the finger (very classy yoi) before going back to looking at the duckling,"Yea well I don't suppose you guys would mind helping right?" Ace asked as he looked at his brothers sheepishly. He's never really named anything in his life as weird as that may sound. He wasn't really that creative growing up.
"How bout Einstein yoi?," suggested Marco.
Meanwhile the duckling was so desperate to get the last piece of meat that it actually fell into the bowl.
"... Nahhh," said Ace and Thatch at the same time.
"Oh I know!," exclaimed Thatch as he looked at his brothers with a big grin on his face," how bout, drum roll please," he hit his index fingers against the counter repeatedly," Duckyyyy." He crossed his arms over his chest looking very proud of himself.
"How fucking original," Ace said with a roll of his eyes while Marco nodded in agreement. Even the duckling looked at Thatch with a really? look on his little face.
"Hey!," Thatch pouted,"Don't judge."
"Come on guys the name has to actually fit him," Ace rubbed his right temple as he tried to think. Who knew it'd be this hard to come up with a name. People make it look super easy.
"Well how bout you just list out his qualities yoi," suggested Marco since blurting out random names wasn't working.
"Alright well let's see….well for starters he's not the brightest crayon in the crayon box," as he watched the duckling chase after its own tail," has a short attention span,"now the duckling was pecking at Thatch's hand to give him more meat completely forgetting about his tail,"a lil fatty,"as once again it was devouring meat," andddd adventurous, reckless, oh and crazy," and this time he was just recalling the time the duckling followed him home plus the whole jumping from his hand to the fridge.
"Hmmmm," Ace closed his eyes put his index finger on his chin and started to think hard (thinking mode activated boop). Let's seeeee….. Hmmm…. Good god he's drawing blanks he-oh wait! What was that one story oyaji would always tell him? Ahhhh who knows but it was about pirates and pirates rule. Anyways there was a boy in that story who loved adventure. He wanted to be what was it again pirate….king? Yea something like that. The boy was adventurous, reckless, goofy, a glutton, but also brave, kind and had an overall good aura around him. What was his name again? Leafy? Nooooo. Laffy? Nahhh.
"Luffy?," he questioned out loud.
"Quack! Quack!," The duckling jumped excitedly up and down while shaking its butt at the same time.
"You really like Luffy?," Ace asked the duckling. It's response was to keep doing its little weird dance,"Then Luffy it is lil guy," Ace smiled at the happy duckling.
"Alright well since the names decided how bout you make a bed for him and then we all head to bed yoi?," suggested Marco. Today had been a long day and he just wanted to sleep. Both Ace and Thatch could agree with that they were pretty tired too.
Ace leaves Luffy in the care of his brothers (Guess this makes us Aunties huh Marco. Shut up yoi.) while he went to find a box to make a makeshift bed for Luffy. Once done with that he put it in his room on his desk and went back down to get Luffy. Ace scooped up Luffy into his hand,"Alright night guys," he started to make his way back out.
"Quack,"said the now sleepy Luffy.
"Night Ace. Night Luffy," replied both brothers as they cleaned the kitchen before going to bed themselves.
Ace yawned as he shut the door from his room,"Alright Luffy,"the sleepy duckling perked up at the mention of his name,"this is your new bed."
On his desk was a Nike shoebox he had gotten from his closet filled with some straw that Marco had in his room (his and Thatch's theory that Marco is a bird could actually be true) and a medium bowl with water right next to it. (Oh gee Luffy I forgot you still got some mud on your head let's see some spit on my finger rub a dub dub and you're squeaky clean.)
He set Luffy down on the bed of straw, smiled at him, went over to turn off the light and finally walked over to his bed and flopped down on it.
Luffy blinked his eyes a few times. He looked down at where he was and then at Ace. Straw. Ace. Straw. Ace.
Ace yawned again as turned around in his bed ready to get comfy.
"Quack"
"Ahhhh!,"Ace scrambled up to sit up and reach over to turn on his lamp on the nightstand willing his heart to slow down. Once the light came on Ace saw Luffy happily getting comfortable on his pillow,"Oh no no no no you," he pointed at Luffy," have a bed mister it's over there," he pointed at the box and straw,"come on Luffy," he grabbed Luffy and once again sets him down on the bed of straw. "Nighty night Luffy," he gently pets him before getting back in bed and lights out.
Aaaalright got him in his bed, Im in my own bed, eyes closed and peace and qu-
"Quack"
Yeaaaa peace and quackness…..wait quackness? What the what!
He opened his eyes turned around and almost had his left eye get poked out by a familiar beak.
"What the!," Ace sat up and turned on the lamp again,"Luffy!," Ace looked down only to see Luffy once again on his pillow.
"Quack!," Luffy was snuggled onto the pillow looking really comfortable and to go to sleep.
"Luffy no you have a bed," Ace made sure he had a stern voice so that Luffy would take him seriously. For all the good that did Luffy just gave him puppy dog eyes (again how could he do that). Look he really tried putting his foot down but he's tired he's up against an adorable duck and did he mention he was tired."Ahhhh fine have it your way," he said to the now,he just had to be grinning right?, happy duckling," just please no pee or poo."
"Quack!" Luffy happily said before he closed his eyes and started to snore.
Poor thing must be really tired too. Ace reached over once again to turn off the light. Once in complete darkness he got comfortable in bed and laid his head on his pillow facing Luffy.
"Goodnight Lu," he whispered out to the snoring Luffy. He finally closed his own eyes ready to go to sleep but before he did he smiled when he heard a whispered quack.
That's how Marco and Thatch found them in the morning except this time Luffy was snuggled under Ace's chin and Ace even though was asleep he was gently petting Luffy's back with his index finger. Both smiled before gently closing Ace's door. Life looked like it was going to get a bit more interesting.
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