I think it was about time I added this chapter to this book. You will be surprised to see how all of this turns out. I hope everyone enjoys this book as I try to keep on adding a chapter every day or every two days.
Sheska
As I start to put my bra on I could only see one last scar in the shape of a hand in the lower part of my back. I hurried to put my white with some grey, and yellow stars design shirt. I put on my blue shorts and my black sandals. My hair was in a side braid.
After two years my body started to grow as defined in anime; with a middle size chest. My black-blue hair became anime blue hair, my eyes became bigger, and more clear on the different shades of grey. I have also trained my devil fruit powers, and my martial arts training especially in hitting an opponent's pressure points.
I ran down the stairs to find myself on time for work. Oppa was in the kitchen preparing breakfast orders. Ergon was preparing his fishing gear.
"I will come back in a little while, please don't leave the store alone" I nodded, and started to tend the incoming customers. Like every day table six wanted two orders on number 2, and table four only ordered a coffee. Ergo left the bar using the back door.
A boy with an orange hat came in to the bar. I could not believe my eyes. It was Ace, and by the look of him wearing a shirt he still had not joined the Whitebear pirates. Now that I think about it I have not seen any wanted poster of Ace. This is probably his first stop since it close to Windmill Village. Ace sat at a table close to window.
"Hello, and welcome to Shell Bar. What can I get for you?" Ace grabbed the menu.
"Can I get one number 2, three number 4 and two number 5 big size. Oh, and some water please."
"Ok, it will be ready in a second." I gave the order to Oppa.
"Can he really eat all of this?" I nodded.
"Don't under-estimate Ace's endless stomach"
"You know his name, is he one of the main character in this world?" I had told Oppa the whole story about this world and the world of Fairy Tail when we were alone. He still did not remember all the names, but the important thing is that he got the idea of what was happening now.
"He's the main character older brother. The author did not write a lot about his story. They only describe are his birth, his pirate name, and him becoming second commander of the Whitebeard pirates." And his death…
A group of men came barging into the bar. One man had funny eyelashes that were connected to his bear, I remember him from his wanted posters. He was Captain Mike of the Eyelashes pirates (A very creative pirate name). He was wearing a red captain coat, a white shirt, and navy blue pants. The second man was a bald man that had funny curly brown eyelashes. He was wearing a leopard coat with a red shirt, and black pants. The last man was actually a women. She was hiding her women features with her hairy black eyelashes. She wore a pink shirt that was too big on her, and green puffy pants.
"We are looking for the owner of the shop." Perfect, a bunch of idiots pirates trying to get some information of the One Piece. Over time I found out that Ergo was actually one of Gol D. Roger crew members. That's how he got a hold of some devil fruits, and knows a lot of pirates. Actually last year I met Silvers Rayleigh. Then before that I meet Whitebear! It was really cool. But, some of the pirate king crew knew were the One Piece was, and somehow they found out that Ergo was one of those pirates.
"If you mean Ergo he's not here now."
"Is that true or are you train to hide him little girl!" Captain Mike kicked a table. These pirates are really starting to get in my nerves. People started to run away out of the bar.
"He is not here, and please stop disturbing the bar. You are scaring the other customers away." Or what was left of them since this pirates scared them off. The only remaining customer was Ace that was just examining the situation.
"What did you say little girl. Do you know who I am?"
"A very annoying three million berry pirate that is making a catastrophe in this bar." The captain was furious; he even started to have angry marks on his forehead.
"Sheska, the order is ready." Oppa came out of the kitchen with two plates in each hand and one on top of his head. He could verily fly.
"Take it to the table next to the window. Sorry all help you with the plates in a bit."
Ace
"A flying cat!" I jumped from my chair.
"Please call down sir."
"It talks to!" Ok, Ace calm down. This is not as weird as having a little brother that is made out of rubber... maybe a bit weirder, but more importantly.
"I'm Oppa, what's your name?"
"Portgas D. Ace, is that girl going to be ok?"
"Who, Sheska she's ok. She might look innocent, but she's actually a very strong person. You'll see in a second."
Sheska
"Why you little b..." The guy with curly eyelashes pulled out a sword, and headed for an attack. I doges the sword grabbing his arm, and lift him up. I feel like Ran from Detective Conan. The women pulled out a gun, and shot once at me. Even with logia devil fruit I prefer to hide my ability to not bother other or scare them. Dodging the bullet I elbow her in the stomach and knocking her unconscious. Suddenly a bunch of hair grabbed my arm.
"A devil fruit eater?"
"You have lost little girl. You're coming with us." I could hear Ace stand up, and be stopped by Oppa.
"Oh, really" I grab his hair, and send an electric shock threw his body. He fell to the ground. The curly eyelashes guy grabbed his captain, and crew member.
"We will be back!" he said as he started to run outside.
"What did you do to him?" Ace said with a mouth full of food.
"I electrocuted him, just info to knock him out for a will."
"Hmm, so you're a devil fruit eater?"
"Yeah, I ate the electric-electric fruit."
"Do you have to beat pirates each day?"
"Not really, Ergo could beat them up in a second. I just do it when he's not here. I want to repay him."
"Do you mean money?"
"More like kindness. Two years ago Ergo found me by the shore. He nursed me back to health with the help of the devil fruit, but I have lost all memory of my life before Ergo. I only want to repay him for his kindness." I think I went a bit over board. "Sorry I probably said too much."
"No, it's ok. It's good to have someone by your side." I bet he was remembering Sabo, and Luffy. I turn to look at Ace when I realized he was asleep. I can't believe it; he does falls asleep in the weirdest times.
"I guess I have to clean this mess." After picking the tables and chairs, cleaning the plates and sending them to the kitchen to get washed; I looked at Ace again. His black hair was covering his eye, but his freckles still showed. His face, and his collar-bone are still not as define as they were going to become. I could feel my face become a bit red. Why am I feeling this way? I'm not from this world; I'm not allowed to mess with anything that can affect the future of this world.
"We only have one customer" Ergo came in. I felt my face come back to normal.
"A lot of the customers were scared off by the pirates that came looking for you. This guy was the only one that stayed, but he fell asleep while eating." Ergo smiled as he saw Ace.
"Ergo?"
"Sheska do we need anything from the kitchen?"
"We were missing some eggs and strawberries since yesterday."
"Can you go buy some with Oppa, don't worry I can take care of the bar." Ergo wants to kick us out. Does it have to do with Ace?
"Oppa were going shopping!"
"Yes!" Oppa came out flying to my shoulder with the shopping money bag.
"Will be back in a bit" Ergo just nodded after looking to Ace sleeping again. I wonder what Ergo is going to ask Ace.
Ace
"Are you awake kid?" I straight up myself in the chair. Is this the man? I can tell some of the same characteristics written in the letter from mom. I wonder why she left it with him, and not Gramps. Did she not trust him or she felt that he had helped too much taking care of me?
"Since you came in, are you...are you the man who has the gifts my mother left for me?" Ergo nodded and headed for the counter. He pulled out a red box and gave it to me.
"Your name is Ace right. Here it's a box, open it" I nodded then I opened the box to find two small boxes. One was a white will the other was an orange color. The white box had a pair of silver earrings in the shape of flowers with a small diamond on the middle. I looked at Ergo with a face. They were obviously for a girl.
"Those were the first gift Roger gave to your mom."
"I see... I will keep them for her." I don't care for that man, but a can at least accept this gift from her since I threw away the last name she left me. I opened the second box; inside there was a red beaded necklace and a small note. I began to read.
Dear: Ace
If you are reading this note it means I'm long gone from this world.
I wanted to give you the necklace when you turned one and the
earrings when you were old info to leave the house.
I'm very sorry I could not hold you, and see you grow up as a mother should.
There were many things I wanted to teach you, and protect you.
I wish I could have thought you how to be nice to the girls,
and how you should respect your elders, no matter what they say.
I'm really sorry that I could not be by your side, and please
don't hate that you have your father's blood.
No matter who are your parents, it doesn't control which path you should
choose for your life. Please Ace, my little Ace that I wished to have held you a bit longer,
please become strong, and live a happy life where you can have your own family
watch them grow old the way we could not.
I will always love you,
Your loving mother:
Portgas D. Rouge
I could not talk. I would always forgive you mom, but it is too late to forgive him. No matter what, he is not my father. I put the box with the earrings, and the note in my bag. I put on the red beaded necklace.
"Thank you very much for keeping them safe."
"It was the only favor I could do for her."
"Ergo, help" Oppa came stumbling in. He was full of scratches and bruises.
"Oppa!" Ergo ran to catch Oppa from falling to the ground.
"What happened, where is Sheska?" Oppa's eyes were full of water; he was trying to man up, and not cry.
"We were coming back when a bunch of pirates attacked use. They came earlier this tried to fight them off, but they knew Sheska weakness."
"What"
"They came in plastic suits. We tried to escape, but they hit Sheska will she tried to protect me. They trapped her with sea prism stone handcuffs. I tried to stop them, but they would just push me back." Oppa started to cry. "I'm sorry I could not protect her, I could not do anything."
"It's fine, did they tell you what they wanted?"
"The Devil Fruit you have and information of the location of the One Piece. They want you to go to the Sand Port on the other side of the island by sun down."
"Ace could you hold Oppa for a minute. I'm going to get the emergency kid" I graded to little kitten. Even do he was a strange creature I could tell that he was still a kid, probably two to three years old.
Why am I getting angry about this? I very know this people, I did not even ask the girl her name properly yet... Ace started to remember how Sheska looked as she told her story of her past. Her face looked peaceful yet full of joy.
What am I thinking about? It's probably because I feel sorry for her. Then Ace remembered how Sheska's grey eyes looked full of sadness like mine, yet they fit her blue hair made her look... Ok, I'm a bit worried about her that all.
Ergo came from the kitchen with the emergency box and another small box. He started to treat Oppa's wounds.
"What are you going to do?" Ergo stayed quiet for a second than took a deep breath.
"What were the pirates that came earlier?"
"I think it was the Eyelashes pirates or something like that, I think their captain's name it Michel or Mieke. Something in those lines" I don't remember from the wanted poster.
"Captain Mike"
"Yeah, that it!" Ergo finished treating Oppa's wounds.
"Even if I give them the devil fruit, and the information I don't think they will give Sheska back"
"Why do you say that?"
"The Eyelashes pirates are known to take prisoners, and sell them as slaves or the black market. Sheska is a devil fruit user; she's going turned 17 in a couple of months. That's a rare prize that can be sold at very high prices" Sheska is going to be the same age I am. She looks a bit mature for her age.
"There is another weakness to devil fruit eater besides losing their ability to swim?"
"Yes it's called Sea Stone. It's a stone that comes from the ocean, it affects devil fruit eater a bit less than if they are in water, but they do get weaker as they struggle against it. Also you are able to hit logia devil fruit eater with it."
"Logia devil fruit eaters?"
"There are three main devil fruit types. They are Paramecia, Logia, and Zona devil fruit eaters. Paramecia these devil fruit give the power that can affect a user's body, manipulate the environment, or produce some kind of substance. They can basically create a super human even if there physical conditions are weak. The only problem with Paramecia devil fruit eaters is that their power can be considered useless or there powers are exposed to quickly in a fight. It really depends on the devil fruit eater and the way he find the full potential of their devil fruit. One example would be the ability to slit there body into separate parts. But, there can be really strong logia devil fruit eaters out there." Keh, so Luffy is a Paramecia devil fruit eater.
"There are Logia devil fruit which in overall are supposed to be one of the rearrests and strongest devil fruit there are. They give the users the ability to turn into a natural element or force of nature. These users can also use their element in other ways relating to their element, such as element around them. But, they have weaknesses such as the counter element of the users. For example Sheska, she is a logia devil fruit eater that can transform into electricity, but she could not escape a plastic cell since plastic is not a conductor."
"In that case if she tried to escape she would be bounced back"
"Yes. The other weakness of logia devil fruit eaters is that in a battle between another logia fruit eater, the person that would be likely to in will be the stronger element; such as ice over fire." Ergo took a deep breath, and continued.
"For Zona devil fruit they are devil fruit eaters that transform themselves into animal and inter species hybrid of those animals. They can usually fall into three sub-categories, Carnivorous zona, Ancient zona and Mystical zona devil fruits, but there are some zona devil fruits that don't fall into ant of these sub-categories such as giraffes or buffaloes. Carnivorous zona devil fruit eater whish are fruit that turn there users into animal with a dangerous and powerful physical combat than other zona devil fruit eaters. An example of that would be a leopard or a lion. The Ancient zona devil fruit eaters can transforms users into ancient and extinct animals like dinosaurs. The rarest of the zona devil fruits are mystical zona devil fruits which allow users to transform into mythological creatures which usually have special abilities that are like paramecia and Logia Devil Fruits. I only know of one person who has a devil fruit like that. His part of the Whitebeard pirates." Whitebeard is really that strong that he even has people with that kind of power as his crew members. I guess Gramps was not exaggerating in his stories. "If you look into it you will notice there are actually a lot of weaknesses for devil fruit eaters.
"I did not know they still sell slaves."
"Not here, in the end of the Grand Line before you enter Mermaid Island to get to the new world. There is an island called Sabaody Archipelago. Sadly they have the power to have an open slave trade." I grinned, who could anyone let that kind of thing exist?
"Mermaid Island really exist"
"It's quite real, you will see." Ergo sat down on a chair. "Ace I know this was nothing to do with you, but could you help me out with this plan, and a small favor."
"Sure, I want to help Oppa. Besides I don't know how to repay you for keeping the gift my mom left safe for all this time. But what kind of favor do you want?"
"You will see, but the plan will come first, if that okay with you." I nodded. I guess I have to follow his lead for now. I wonder what kind of favor he wants from me.
