Chapter 2: ASL Lose S

"SABOOOO!" Tears streamed down Luffy's face, the scar under his eye being covered. Ace was on the ground his face bloodied. Marx was standing off to the side, his expression unreadable. A drop could be seen falling from his face. The mountain bandits stood around, some with tears in their eyes, others stoic. Some people were wearing bandages.

Marx clenched his fist 'Sabo'


"LET GO OF ME!" Ace was struggling against the clutches of the pirate's hands.

"Leave us alone!"

"Ace, Sabo!"

"Huh, you kids can't do anything can you?"

The kids stopped struggling once the sounds of marching footsteps were heard. An army of men appeared. One man stood out, he was tall, wearing a suit, and long black hair.

"Great Job, now, do whatever you wan with the filth, just give me my son Pirate."

"Do you have my payment?"

Sabo's father sighed and nodded to one of the men. They tossed the blue wearing pirate a jingling bag. The man opened it.

"I assume that should suffice."

Pocketing the bag, the pirate answered, "It's here. Oy, give the man his son." The pirate holding Sabo shoved him forward.

Ace shouted, "SABOO NOOO!"

Luffy started to cry.

Marx on the ground, struggling to get up.

Sabo's father looked at them, "Do whatever you want with the trash."

Sabo ran forward up to his father, "DON'T HURT THEM! THEIR MY BROTHERS!"

His father glared down, "You will not be associated with them, you have already been contaminated by their filth. When we get back, I'm going to "wash" you of it."

Ace yelled, "Sabo, don't go. Run! You're not meant to be with them. YOU'RE MEANT TO BE FREE!"

Sabo looked down and started to cry, he was about to answer, but was dragged off by some of the men. The father left, taking Sabo with him.

Luffy yelled after him, "SABOOOOOOOOO!"

A fire started around the trash piles. The pirate started to laugh, "You kids are going to get it now."


Marx shed another tear, his whole body shaking, remembering the ordeal. Sabo was taken away. Dadan and the rest of the mountain bandits came to save them; they got injured in the process. Sabo, he later tried to escape his parents and the noble house, setting off and raising his pirate flag. A passing celestial dragon shot down his ship, killing him.

A seagull flew overhead, dropping a letter into Dadan's hands. Her eyes widened reading the front, "It's a letter from Sabo! Ace, it's for you!"

Ace got up, walked forward and grabbed the letter. Looking at it, he started to tear up 'This… he must of sent this before he left.'

'Ace, Luffy

Sorry, but by the time you're reading this, I'll probably already be out, on the see.

I decided to leave to get stronger and become a great pirate, and my destination…

anywhere but here. Also Ace, who do you think Luffy's bigger brother is, you or me?

I think we both are, two big brothers, one little one. Ace, since I'm gone now make

sure you take care of Luffy, and when you leave, make sure Marx does the same.

Your Brother,

Sabo'

Ace didn't know it, but he was walking while he was reading the letter. He made it all the way out to the sea. Ace fell on his knees and yelled into the air, "SABOOOOOOO!"

He broke down, yelling out, "I promise, I'll take care of Luffy, I'll become a great pirate, I'll be free for you and me!"

Ace looked up, and crumpled the piece of paper, and threw it out into the sea.


Luffy watched Ace walk away. Luffy didn't know how to handle this, all he could do was look up into the sky, cry. 'Why… Why…'

Marx looked at Luffy's sobbing form, wiped his tears and looked at Luffy. "If sniffle when we become pirates, we have to become great. Luffy, we have to be free, for Sabo. For your brother, for him."

Luffy looked up in tears, "FOR OUR BROTHER!" He then jumped up onto his feet and hugged Marx crying. He hugged back a stream of tears falling down his face. Dadan's Hideout was never the same.

Ace, still messed with Luffy, but became more protective of him. Luffy was still a kid, he should have been scarred, but didn't show any changes except for a newfound determination to get stronger. Marx, he became lazier around the bandit hideout. He slept more, became less emotional.

Marx was much more serious about his training. Both him and Luffy trained, every day together, Ace joining sometimes. Marx experienced Luffy's devil fruit powers, and learning his fighting style, unpredictable coupled with brute force.

Luffy did the same with Marx, learning for the first time that his weapon… ate a devil fruit. Marx told Luffy that it ate the Kinzoku Kinzoku no mi, or the Metal Metal fruit.

A logia in a weapon, an item with devil fruit powers is already rare enough, but a logia? To Marx knowledge the only reason he could utilize the axes devil fruit powers were because of some bond he formed with it.

The two spent most of their time training, but when they weren't they were goofing off with Ace, going on little adventures, pretending to be pirates and the such. As the days passed, a sense of dread formed in Luffy and Marx. And then it came.

'ACE!'