Chapter 3:

Hey! How are you doing?

So here we go for the third chapter, hope you'll like it!

Luffy's POV:

I woke up, my foot chained, in a small, dark room, where I couldn't see farther then a meter.

What the hell?

And that was when I remember everything: the beach, the man, and the kidnapping.

- Hello? Is anyone there?

No answer. I felt my heart pounding. What the hell was going to happen to me?

- Help! Ace! Sabo! Where are you?

Still nothing. Where were Ace and Sabo? I bet they were worried about me: they were worried almost all the time anyway! They must be already searching for me.

That thought alone made my smile: of course I didn't have to worry! I'm sure that, any minutes now, the door was going to bust wide open, and I would hear a "Thank god you're safe! Don't ever do that to us again", or a "Luffy! Are you okay? We're here! You don't need to worry anymore". Who knows, maybe even the old geezer was going to be there, saying: "Where were you? Trying to escape from my fist of love?"

So, a few hours later, when the door finally opened, I made my biggest grin… who didn't last: the man a few meter from me wasn't Ace, Sabo, or Garp. He was the scary man from earlier!

I pushed myself against the wall, trying to stay the more away from him as possible.

- Zehahahahaha! Don't tell me you're scared! I still didn't do anything!
- Stay… stay away from me! Where am I? Release me!

I wanted it to sound thought, but my trembling voice ruined the whole thing.

- Don't you dare give me orders you little shit! And for your information, you're at your new home. Do you like it? Is it comfy? Zehahahahaha!
- Wh...What?
- This is where you will be staying, but don't worry! I'll take real good care of you! Zehahahahaha!
- No! I don't want to be here! I want to be with Ace and Sabo! Where are they?
He then got closer to me, and slapped me. Hard.
- I don't know those people are, but they aren't here and will never be here. It's just you and me. Oh, and him of course.
He pointed the wall to my right, at first I didn't see who he was talking about, but when I looked closer...
No. I must be seeing thinks.

On the wall, chained, was a corpse. But it wasn't complete: it didn't have a right arm, or a left leg. It looked like it was a young girl, with brown, short hairs, who must have been 8, maybe 9, when she died. I couldn't see really clearly, but I saw some huge marks on her arm.

- You better be good, or she won't be the only corpse in this room.

- Leave me alone! You monster! How could you? You'll see, my brothers are going to be here any minute now, and they are going to kick the shit out of you! You don't stand a chance against them!

- Such bad words in a 7 years old mouth! Listen to me: you will do what I ask. And I don't want any protestation.

- I will NEVER do what you ask! I'm going to be a pirate! And pirate are meant to be free!

- Free? You really have guts don't you? But I knew that for the moment I first saw you! That's why I picked you among all the others boy! Zehahahaha! You see, you're special, and I will have fun breaking you.

At that time, I didn't know what he meant, but his sadistic smile was enough for me to understand that I was going to go through hell.

But I wasn't even close to realizing just how awful this "hell" was going to be…

Ace POV: a week later:

It was 2 in the morning, and I, as usual since last week, couldn't sleep. I just sat on my bed, curled up, my head in my hand, thinking about what Luffy was doing. Was he even still alive? I mentally slap myself mentally to have considered this possibility: Luffy wasn't dead. He couldn't be!

It had been a week since Luffy was abducted.

A fucking week.

A week where I had been looking like crazy for Luffy. A week where I had been worried sick about him. A week with almost no sleep. A week where neither me, Sabo, nor Garp had find anything.

I looked at Sabo. Like me, he wasn't sleeping. He had enormous bags under his eyes, his nails were almost bleeding for being bitten too much. I could see him starring at the window, probably wondering where Luffy was.

The only "clue" we had found was that, apparently, another kid, a girl, had been kidnaped not so long ago. Garp believed it was the same person who had her and Luffy.

Garps had locked us in a room, he didn't want us to look for him at night. He said that losing a grandson was already enough, and didn't want to take the risk of having to look for us as well. Even if I understood that, I was boiling: we should be able to continue the search! And even if we were also taken, at least we would be with Luffy, comforting him, helping him getting out of this mess.

I stay there looking at Sabo but without talking to him until I fell asleep, a couple of hours later.

But sleep was what I hated the most: I just couldn't help having nightmares about Luffy…

- Ace?

- Luffy? Is that you?

- Ace, you're here! You found me!

- Of course I found you!

- Ace, I'm so sorry…

- Sorry? For what?

- For ruining your rescue.

- What are you talking about?

And then I saw it: I was standing on a huge pool of blood. Luffy's blood. I looked at him, and saw that the blood was coming from his stomach. So, I pulled up his shirt, and froze.

I could see Luffy's insides. He was coughing blood now. Just what had happened to him?

I cachted him before he touched the ground while falling.

- Luffy, no, NO! PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE!

- I'm so sorry, but you were too late. This is entirely your fault, YOUR DAMM FAULT. You weren't able to save me. I hope you'll go to hell! You never deserved to live anyway!

- No, Luffy, all isn't lost! Don't give up! We just have to found a doctor…

- Yes Ace, all is lost for me. If only you had been faster. I wouldn't have to die this way! You suck Ace! What kind of a brother are you? Letting me alone! Do you really hate me that much?

- Please Luffy, stop! That's not true! I love you! You're my otoutu!

I was crying. Luffy's right: I don't deserve to live.

- I hope you blame yourself for this Ace, I hope it will haunt you for the rest of yours days…

That was the last words of Luffy. His eyes closed themselves, letting me crying, loud.

- NOOOOOOO! Luffy! Please! Somebody help me! Anyone!

I woked up sweating. A nightmare. Only a nightmare. I wasn't going to let this happen. I will found Luffy. Even if I spend my life searching for him. Before anything bad happens to him. I looked at the window: the sun was already up, and Sabo had already left. My god, was it morning? I had to go search for Luffy! How dare Sabo don't wake me up?

I heard someone busting in my chamber. It was Makino.

- Ace…

- What? What happened?

- Do you remember the girl who had been kidnapped not long before Luffy?

- Yes! Why?

- …

- WHY?

- We… We found her.

I'm so mean! Making Luffy and Ace suffer like that!

Anyway… thanks again for everyone who followed or favorite the story!

To the anonym writer: No, I wasn't planning on doing AceXLuffy, but why not? And I'm planning on including Thatch, Marco, and Whitebeard already! Just not right now sorry… But later I promise!

I don't know when I'll be able to upload the next chapter, because I have my "Bac blanc" to pass. (Does it exist in the US?) But don't worry, it's in three days, (I'm so stressed right now…) so I'll be able to continue my writing just after!

Anyway! Hope you liked this chapter!

Bye!

(PS: I just realize that almost all of my sentence ends by an explanation point…)