Author's Note: Sorry if any characters may seem a little OC, I am trying to keep them close to the original but it can be hard as hell sometimes. So much yelling in their childhood.
And as for the reason why Mew was so accepting of being a part of the family, imagine how big Mew's family really is, so to her this is a drop in the bucket.
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Chapter 2: …I'll think of a title latter.
"What the hell is wrong with you?" Ace yelled after the pirates had left. "You two are going to get us into serious trouble!"
"There's no way BlueJam's men will ever forgive us!" Sabo panicked "We're gonna be chased now!" He yelled.
"Okay, that sounds like fun," Mew said cheerfully, with Luffy standing beside her. This caused Ace's anger just to increase at them.
"I don't get it!" He yelled at them. "Why didn't you spill the secret? Those men are criminals who easily kill women and children!" He said, trying to drive home how serious this all was.
"But if I told them, then we couldn't be friends anymore," Luffy simply stated, and Mew nodded her head in agreement. Honestly, she just wanted to fight, friendship was just a bonus.
"But it'd still be better than dying, wouldn't it?!" He practically shrieked at the two idiots. "Why do you want to be friends so much with me? Do you know how much ship you've put me through?! After following me all the way here?!"
"But I have no one else to rely on but you two!" Luffy cried out, his face betraying his sadness. This sudden outburst surprised both Ace and Mew; neither knew the deeper emotions going on in the rubber boy's head. "I can't go back to Windmill Village, and I hate the mountain bandits! If I didn't chase after you, then we'd be alone, and being alone hurts worse than pain!"
Mew honestly felt bad for Luffy after that. To her, he was just some form of entertainment, but she failed to realize what drove him. 'He is right, no pain like being alone…' Mew thought sadly, remembering the centuries she has gone alone before.
"What about your parents?" Ace asked, trying to get some grasp on this.
"My grandpa's all I have," Luffy said glumly.
"My family is in the other world," Mew admitted.
"So if I'm with you, then it doesn't hurt?" Ace asked. "And If I'm gone… it's being a problem for you huh?" This was something new… People actually caring… "You want me to live…?"
"Of course!" Luffy said happily, he didn't want to lose his new family so soon.
"Huh… But I hate spoiled brats like you, y'know," Ace said, trying to push them away.
"I'm not a spoiled brat! I'm strong!"
"Strong? What's strong about you? You are a boy, but you cry like a little girl!" Ace argued
"What does gender have to do with anything?" Mew asked, honestly curious of why humans always thought that. Ace just turned his head away, and pretended he didn't say that for fear of her wrath.
"I'm gonna become stronger than anyone!" Luffy declared. "Because I promised Shanks that I'd become a great pirate!" Mew giggled at this statement.
'Oh, you will be strong, at least for a human, Luffy,' Mew thought amusingly.
"A pirate?! You?" Ace asked in a mocking disbelief.
"Hey, by the way, you three, I have a little problem here," Sabo said, gaining their attention. "I'e lived in this trash heap all my life, but from this day forward, the four of us are going to have our lives completely targeted by pirates."
The four of all shared a look before three of them got the same idea: 'We need to watch each other's back'. While the other one thought: 'This is going to be fun!'
And thus began the beginning of a beautiful relationship.
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For the next few months, the four of them had been living a life together. Living off the surrounding forest. Fighting each other to train, with Mew being unbeatable, and learn how to become stronger. Ace, Sabo, and Luffy trying their best to survive, and Mew there to kick their asses when they needed it.
It was together that they had developed a bond; they stopped treating each other as just people, but as a friends instead.
And right now, the friends are playing one of their favorite pass times. Dine and Dash.
"Leaving without paying, will you?!" The owner of the restraint yelled as the group jumped from the fourth story window. "Somebody catch those little brats!"
"Man that was good!" Sabo said happily as they fell, giving a sigh of happiness from a full belly.
"What did I tell ya," Ace agreed, looked down to see Luffy with his mouth bulging with food, and Mew with a nap sack full of apples.
Once they reached to ground safely, but use of wall fixtures, it was time to run!
"It's that damn group of kids again!" An officer yelled once they landed. "They're known criminals! Why did you let them in the first place?" He yelled at the restaurant. "Don't let those brats get away! Somebody hold them down!" He shouted as they ran through the crowds.
While they ran, some man yelled out for Sabo. But none of them stopped running.
"Hey, Sabo! Someone's calling for you!" Ace shouted as they ran by the people.
"Who is that guy," Luffy asked with a mouth full of food.
Mew looked at Sabo's face and saw a look of panic on it. "Must be a noble you stole from," Mew suggested.
"Yeah… must be!" Sabo said, relief on his face, but they all knew something was up.
Once they reached tree base, the interrogation began.
"What?! I'm not hiding anything!" Sabo yelled them moment Mew asked about the man.
"Oh really?" Mew asked, staring into his eyes, forcing him to look away.
"Don't be stupid, of course he is!" Ace yelled. "Let's hear it, Sabo! We shouldn't have to keep any secrets from each other, now, should we?"
"Spill it," Ace and Luffy said together.
Mew continued to look at Sabo, her curiosity getting the better of her, and forced the information from his mind. Mew grinned once her Mind Reader got the information.
"Oh, so that is it, isn't it Sabo?" Mew asked sweetly, causing the boys to look at her. They have come to fear that tone of voice. "Sabo, son of a Noble?" She said, surprising Sabo.
"What?! How do you know?" Sabo yelled in surprise.
"I didn't" Mew lied. "You just told me." She said happily, causing Sabo to facefault.
"So?" Ace and Luffy asked, not seeing what the deal was.
"You're the ones who wanted to know!" Sabo yelled angrily at the two for not caring now. He takes a calming breath before continuing. "The truth is, both of my real parents are still out there… I'm not a real orphan… and I wasn't born on the trash heap, either. The man who was trying to stop me just now was my father. I'm sorry I had to lie to you," He apologized.
"Well, if you're sorry, then that's fine!" Luffy said. "I forgive you."
"So do I," Mew agreed, but kept the other information she got from his mind to herself. 'I wonder if I can burn down the city?' She wondered.
"I'm actually pretty shocked by this," Ace said as he turned goes back to the base. "If you were born into a noble household… why would you end up on the trash heap?"
Sabo looked down, not wanting to remember that horrid life in the city.
"All they ever cared about was having a heir to protect the family status and fortune. They never cared about me. If I couldn't marry into a royal family, then I was worthless," He said, slumping down to sit. "They made me work day in, day out to improve my chances. My parents were always fighting because I wasn't good enough for them. There was never any place for me in that house… This may be kind of rude to you guys, but.. I was always "Alone" even though I had parents."
"The novles always scorned and despised the Trash Heap… but compared to that horrible Elite Distrct, where I didn't even have room to breathe… Where my whole damn life was planned out for me… I'd take the trash head any day!" Sabo declared.
"So that's the deal, huh…" Ace thought over what he heard.
"Ace, Luffy, Mew! We have to make it out to the sea someday!" Sabo yelled. "We'll leave this country behind and gain our freedom! I want to see the world in all its glory and write a book about all the things I find! If it's sailing I'm studying for, then I don't care how hard I have to work! We've got to get stronger and become real pirates!"
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From that point on, they stopped being friends. They had become a family.
Together they hunted, ate, sleep, and fought. There was even a time where Garp came to see his kids… Mew was oddly missing from this.
When asked why she said, "I can't always be around when you get your beat."
Eventually they moved out of the bandit's home and created a tree fort at the base to live out of. It was happy times.
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Mew finishing up one of her walks around the forest to show the animals who the alpha was when she came across her Ace and Luffy… bloody and beaten.
"Hey guys!" Mew said happily, catching their attention. "What did you lose to this time?" Neither of them looked her in the eyes, too ashamed. "Guys?"
"Sabo went back to his family," Ace said as he stood up and climbed up to the tree house.
Mew turned to look at Luffy, and he knew he couldn't take the same route as Ace. Mew would make him talk. So Luffy told her of how Sabo's 'evil' father came with those 'Dumbass' Bluejam pirates, and how they were beaten up before Sabo agreed to go with them.
Mew looked away from Luffy and to the city.
'Sabo…' She thought sadly of her brother. 'I wish I did burn that city down.'
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"Good to see you again, Little Ones," The captain of the Bluejam, Bluejam, called out when he saw them approach. "Oh, and I see you brought a friend too. The big job goes down tonight. I'll tell you the details later."
Then Bluejam told them of their plan, the plan to burn down the Trash Heap.
"What?!" Ace and Luffy yelled in surprise, Mew remained quiet but the smile had dropped from her face.
"Burn the Trash Heap to the ground?!" Ace yelled in surprise. "Why the hell would you want to do that?!"
"This is bad!" Luffy shouted in fear. "We've gotta tell the guys from the Trash Heap! These pirates are bad guys after all!"
"I thought I told you to keep quite! Hold them down men!" Bluejam ordered as his men grabbed them. "It's not as though I'm the one behind this, you know. The boxes you've been lying about the trash heap these past couple of days is filled with oil and explosives. They'll cause a fire so large that no human stands a chance of escape. I guess this was a bit much even for little terrors like yourselves eh?"
"But now that you know about the plan… we can't afford to let you walk away that easily. Before we se the place alight… these something I've got to ask the two of you. You wouldn't happen to have a stash of treasure hidden away somewhere around here, would you?" He asked knowingly.
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The three of them ended up getting tied to a wooden pole by the pirates, with Mew oddly quite through the whole deal.
The moment the pirates left their sight, and they could smell smoke, Luffy and Ace tried to get untied.
"Goddamn'it," Ace swore as he tried to cut the rope with a piece of trash. "We got to get out of here." Before he could try to cut anymore, the rope just fell away. He looked to where the rope went slack and saw Mew had broken the rope.
Just in time too, as the flames started getting near them.
"Where are we meant to run?!" Luffy asked panicked, the flames fast approaching.
"How did we get ourselves mixed up in this mess?!" Ace yelled in frustration, but stopped when he felt Mew take his hand and dragged him and Luffy through the maze of fire.
"Do you think the guys from the Trash Heap made it out in time?" Luffy asked.
"This is no time to worry about other people!" Ace yelled back as Mew took another turn in the maze of fire.
"And who gave you permission to run, you filthy brats?!" Bluejam yelled from infront of them.
"Why are the people who caused this fire in the first place still hanging around here?" Luffy asked. "Surely they should've made their escape ages ago!"
"Shut your faces, brats!" Bluejam yelled. "We're suffering through the depths of despair right now! Who'd've—"
"Move," Mew said, cutting the man off. She was quite unhappy about this all.
"Shut up you damn girly," Bluejam ordered. "We are the ones in control here!" He yelled at her.
Mew let go of her brothers' hands and faced the pirates fully.
"You are endangering my brothers," She said coldly, raising her hands to face to enemy. Suddenly each of the pirate's bodies went ridge as they felt something take hold of their bodies.
As Mew continued to raise her hands, so did the bodies of the pirates.
"When I say to move, you move," She said as she flung the men further into the Trash Heap, ignoring their screams of help. She then takes hold of her brothers' hands again and continues to run.
Both Luffy and Ace look at Mew in a mix of shock and amazement. They had never seen Mew use any of her powers before, and they didn't know what to think of it.
She ended up dragging them all the way back to the Bandit's house; she was taking no chances in her brothers getting hurt.
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"Come on Mew, let us out!" Ace and Luffy shouted from their beds. They were covered in bandages from being dragged through the damnable forest. "We are fine now!" Ace shouted.
"No," She refused. "You cannot leave until you are all better and as strong as a Tauros."
"That animal doesn't even exist," Ace yelled back, before giving up. Mew never backed down from an argument before.
Right as soon as Ace had lied back down on his bed, Dogura, the dictionary man, came in. He didn't look too well.
"Hm? What's wrong Dogura?" Luffy asked the bandit.
Dogura started to squirm under the stares of all those in the room before coming out an speaking.
"Sabo is dead, the Celestials killed him when he was out at sea with a pirate flag," He said rushed. Ace jumped out of his bed and threw him on the floor. Everyone else was in shock except Mew, she was angry.
"That's a stinking lie!" Ace yelled out. "You don't even joke about that!"
Mew got out of her seat and walked to the door.
"Mew, where are you going?" Dadan asked, somewhat worried for her. They had been through so much.
"Ace, Luffy," She said, getting their attention. "This will be the last time we see each other for a while." With that she left the house and teleported away before anyone could see her or try to stop here.
Mew reappeared on the highest point of the city, and looked down on the festivities down below. She could even see where they had burned down the Trash Heap for nothing more than a stage for that large ship that was coming in.
'That must be the Celestia's ship,' she thought coldly, seeing how it had a dragon figure head. "You wish to take my family's life. So shall I make you pay."
Mew stood tall, and had the clothing around her change. She now wore a simple black cloak that covered her head to toe, and a ceramic cat mask.
"I did say I wanted to burn this city down, didn't I?" Mew said a loud as her hand became covered in flames. "Well let's make it burn!" She raised her hands over her head and let the fire grow in size till it floated above her in large ball. "Fusion Flare!"
Mew threw that legendary move down with rapid speed, quickly closing in on the ship, burning anything that got within 50 feet of the ball. The Flare's path of destruction left people running in fear when it was noticed, but Mew cared little for them.
The Fusion Flare struck the Celestial's ship, and expanded to a great size, consuming nearly half of the massive ship. The Celestial never knew what hit him, a pity.
Before Mew could move from her spot, she could see that there were already men scrambling up to get her.
"Come get me," She said to herself before jumping off the building. "Heat Wave!" She yelled, sending a blast of scorching heat to those guards down below, allowing her to land freely and run off towards the sea.
As she continued her path more guards tried to stop her. "Halt, you have committed a crime against-"
"Flame Charge," was all the reply they got, as Mew was covered in a powerful flame, now burning anything in her path. The men ran out of her way, fearing for their lives.
When Mew finally reached the Stage Platform, her flames began to ignite the wood below her, spreading around and setting the festival on fire. Mew continued till see reached the very edge of the platform before turning around.
She could see from down there her path of destruction, while not many had died from her fires; it had created havoc to the building and the fire forces to keep them occupied. While looking over her handy work, more guards came to her.
"Stop right there, you are under arrest!" One brave man said, but backed away when Mew turned to look at him.
"Oh, such a foolish man," She said, her voice distorted to sound like flames crackling. "You can never hope to stop the Phantom," Mew said as she jumped back, and into the ocean. The guards all rush over to see if they could find her, but no luck.
"Dumb devil fruit user, can't even swim." One man murmured before leaving to go stop the fire.