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"speaking"

thinking

- flashback-

Chapter 3:

Ace's POV

Ace smiled lightly, ignoring the pain and weakness for a moment.

"By the way; what's your name?"

"Gérard Fernandes."

"Why are you here? You're clearly not an infamous pirate as I never heard of you, but you can't be just a rookie because only the worst of the worst are brought to Level 6." this time is was Jinbei you spoke.

Gérard hesitated for a moment. It seemed as if he was not sure whether to tell them or not. He sighed quietly.

"I tried to resurrect the most evil mage of all times and nearly destroyed the kingdom of Fiore while doing so. Yet it wasn't really me, as I told you before, I was possessed and I truly regret what I did back then."

Ace and Jinbei were at a loss for words after Gérard had finished speaking.

"Above all I regret that Simon had to die. He was the only one who didn't do anything wrong. I tried to blame Erza for all the things that happened, because she was the only one who could escape. To be precise I let her escape and destroyed all the other ships, so that I could blame her. I abet our friends to hate her. Yet Simon knew that it wasn't Erza, but me. How could he hate her when he had always loved her?"

"You're so lucky that I am enchained! If I wasn't your life could be in danger!" said Ace threateningly calm.

"Do not waste your power, Ace-kun!" said Jinbei, before he looked at the dark figure in the other cell.

"What he did can't easily be forgiven, but it does not concern us. I have just one question; what did you mean when you said she was the only one who could escape? Were you prisoners or something like that?"

"Yeah… something like that… we were slaves…" as he spoke one could hear how painful these memories were for him.

This statement took both pirates by surprise.

So Erza was a slave? I did not see a brandon her. Did she hide it with her clothes?

"Where you slaves of Tenryubi?" asked Jinbei, now interested. He had to think of his former captain, Fisher Tiger, who ones went to Mariejois and freed many of the slaves there.

The imprisoned mage shook his head.

"No, we were slaves of an organization which tried to resurrect Zeref before me by building the Tower of Heaven which was later on used by me. They came to our hometowns and kidnapped us. As I heard they had orders to kill the adults and bring the children with them. However not all of the slaves were children, but most of us."

He lowered his head. He didn't like talking about his past. Every time he did so he was remembered of all the bad things he did.

Mira's POV

Mira stood at the railing. She looked at the sea as her hair blew in the soft breeze.

Maybe I shouldn't have let him go … should I have gone with him? Maybe he wouldn't be in prison now if had done something. Maybe he wouldn't have to wait for his execution now…

She bit her lips when tears began to form in her eyes. Ever since she read the bad news, she blamed herself for just letting Ace go.

"Ace…"

The young woman was desperate; she did not know what to do. She wanted to save Ace, now!

She couldn't wait any longer.

Lisanna's POV

Lisanna looked at her older sister with a sad expression on her face.

"He must be very important to Mira-nee… she isn't even smiling like she always does. I don't want to see her so sad and vulnerable."

"Me neither. I really hate it when someone makes my friends suffer! This Blackbeard-guy and the marines will pay for what they did to Ace and for making Mira cry!"

"Natsu…" Lisanna looked at her childhood friend with a grateful look in her eyes.

"Besides… Ace owes me a fight!"

"Did you have to ruin the moment, baka!" the white haired mage sighed as Natsu scratched his head embarrassed.

She looked at the sky.

"I hope we will make it…"

She was so distracted that, by that time, she had not noticed, that someone had disappeared from the ship… no one had noticed it.

Luffy's POV

"So this friend of yours is a criminal?" the young pirate captain looked at his companions.

"Yeah, but it's not really his fault that he became one..." answered the older woman. They still hadn't shown their faces, but Luffy somehow knew they weren't the same age. (A/N: He isn't always as dump as he acts xD)

"So; then he's here because of a misunderstanding?"

"No…" this time the younger one spoke.

Luffy looked at her puzzled.

"I don't get it… then why is he here if he's not really a criminal?"

"It's kind of… complicated…" again it was the younger one who answered.

"Okay…"

Luffy looked at the two of them for a while, before he stopped.

"By the way…" he cocked his head.

"Why are you wearing hoods?"

"It would not be good if we were seen here… but we could at least tell you our name, I think. This is Meredy and I am Ultear. I hope that we will be a good team."

The black-haired boy could make out a lightly smile on her face and responded with one of his trademark smiles.

"Yeah!"

That's it for now. I know it's kind of dull. I have to re-watch a few episodes of One Piece before I can go on with the plot, but luckily I have holidays the next two weeks. I hope I get the next chapter done in this time. I just didn't want to make you wait any longer, so I thought this chapter is better than no chapter at all. Once again I apologize for making you wait so long! Here's a little preview for the war to make up for it. Hope you enjoy it (:

Sengoku looked down at the girl in shock. Had this really happened? Did she really wipe out all these marines on her own? It took him a bit before he found his voice again.

"Girl, what you're doing is illegal, you know?" he asked.

The girl looked at him, she was smiling. It was a warm and soft smile.

"I know, but I have to save my friend! I don't really care if I'm doing something illegal as long as I can help him…"

"You may be strong, but you can't do much on your own…"

Sengoku thought for a moment, before he spoke again.

"How about we make a deal? If you leave now, I'll forget all that happened, but if you stay you'll become a criminal, that's for sure."

"Thanks for the offer, but I won't leave. I will definitely save Ace!

Oh, and I'm not alone. My friends will arrive soon and they have the same intentions as I do."

[…]

Mira looked at Ace and smiled softly. She could see how happy he was as he spoke.

"Mira, I love you, too."

"Then it's decided!" Akainu interrupted.

"She'll die, too!"

"Oh. Mira'll die, you say? You know what; I really hate it when someone threatens my friends!"

A young man with spiky pink hair approached the admiral. A few meters before him he stopped.

He looked angrily at Akainu.

"Taste this! Karyuu no Kouen!" with these words he threw a large bullet made of fire towards the admiral.