One Piece: Ace's Untold Adventures
Organization Arc
Chapter 3: (500) Years of Darkness
(The Spade Pirates and the Straw Hat Pirates continue on their journey to find the 'Organization' HQ, but first they stop at a nearby island to restock; but according to Alice she has some unfinished business to attend to.)
(Star Island)
Luffy: Wow this place is so lively!
Sanji: And the women are gorgeous.
Zoro: Cool it you love sick cook.
Sanji: What did you say!
Nami: Cool it you two!
Ace: *laugh* I see your crew is as lively as ever.
Luffy: Yeah *laugh*
Nami: Sanji come with me were going shopping.
Celli: This could be my chance to get some new outfits.
Robin: I'll tag along too.
Sanji: Yes ladies and I'll carry all of your shopping bags.
Nami: By the way where's Alice? I thought she might want to come along as well.
Kito: She walked off into the forest muttering something about a grave a while ago.
Ace: Hey Kito which way did she go?
Kito: She was heading north from the port.
Ace: Thanks, I just remembered something I need to ask her about a Devil Fruit.
(Ace runs off into the forest.)
Nami: Well I never knew Ace felt that way about her.
Luffy: Huh what do you mean? He just wanted to ask her about a devil fruit.
Maya: Yeah, Alice is old and she knows a lot about different devil fruits.
Raito: Besides if he did leave to ask what you think he was gonna ask, he would be knocked into several trees then a large boulder.
Celli: And she hates being asked useless question that take up her time.
Rick: And Alice is MINE!
Robin: Well he does like to hang around her a lot.
Kito: I can't explain that yet.
Luffy: I'm gonna explore the forest it looks like fun.
Usopp: I'll come too, I'll brave any forest, jungle and island because I'm a brave explorer of the sea!
Zoro: I'll go too, might be able to get some training in.
Kito: Allow me to join you I'm a swordsman as well.
(With that said all the women go shopping and have Sanji carry their bags, the guys go exploring in the forest, and Ace is trying to find Alice.)
(Markets)
Maya: do you think it was wise to leave them alone in a forest?
Nami: Please, those boys can handle themselves.
Maya: I didn't mean your crew, I was talking about Ace and Alice, do you think it was a good idea to leave those two alone together?
Celli: Maya you worry too much, what's the worse that could happen?
Maya: Ace saying something stupid or insults her, then Alice will start hitting him and we won't be around to stop her.
Celli: Well it's his fault, why should we care?
Maya: Because this is the island where Alice began hating being immortal.
Celli: WHAT THIS IS THE ISLAND?
Maya: I tried to tell you earlier but…
Celli: Nami change of plans, we are going into that forest.
Nami: What, why?
Celli: Cause if we don't find Alice before Ace does he will make her mad and then, who knows what else she'll do.
Robin: Why is that?
Maya: This is the place Alice hates the most and she is very irritable and easy to make mad.
Celli: We can't wait anymore let's go.
(Forest)
Luffy: YAY I FOUND FRUIT!
Usopp: So did I; there everywhere.
Zoro: Let's see how much damage I can do with one swing.
Kito: A lot, if the rumors about the legendary Zoro are true.
Raito: Hm?
Rick: What is it Raito?
Raito: I thought I heard someone.
Kito: Really?
Celli: Hey guys did you find Alice!
Usopp: AHHH! Don't sneak up on us!
Celli: Guys we NEED to find Alice before Ace does.
Rick: What is she actually gonna kill him this time?
Maya: That and much much worse, she could destroy this whole island.
Luffy: So why do we need to find Ace?
(Middle of the Forest)
(Ace had been wandering around for a while until he finally spotted Alice walking up the mountain.)
Ace: Hey Alice wait up!
Alice: Great just what I need, ANOTHER distraction.
Ace: Hey what's with that attitude? I just came all this way out here so I can ask you a serious question.
Alice: …Sorry I'm not interested.
Ace: What? No nothing like that, I just wanted to ask what you knew about the Yami-Yami no mi.
Alice: That's it?
Ace: Yeah, so what do you know?
Alice: …There are some things that should not be known.
Ace: TALK!
Alice: OKAY! Remember when I told you that I nearly got killed by a guy who ate the Yami-Yami no mi?
Ace: Yeah and?
Alice: You have seen first hand what the Yami-Yami no mi is capable of didn't you?
Ace: Yeah, the moment Blackbeard grabbed my arm I couldn't use my devil fruit ability, but he also couldn't materialize into the darkness element.
Alice: Yes, that particular one is complicated but no matter how complicated is may seem, it is still one of the most deadliest devil fruits in existence.
Ace: Is there any way for me to beat him on my own?
Alice: That depends did this guy take another's devil fruit power?
Ace: What?
Alice: The Yami-Yami no mi has the ability to absorb different devil fruit abilities, but I've only seen the last guy take one and it was out of someone he had already slain.
Ace: Blackbeard took the Gura-Gura no mi out of our dead captain's body.
Alice: I heard that's the man who killed Whitebeard and ate the Yami-Yami no mi.
Ace: Unforgivable! That man killed a fellow crew member in cold blood for that devil fruit, tried to go after Luffy, and he killed the old man!
(Unknown to Ace and Alice they walked by and stopped in front of the Straw Hats and the Spades pirates who look back and forth to Ace and Alice.)
Alice: You'll get over it.
Ace: I won't let it go till I kill him, then and only then will justice be served!
Alice: But at the cost of your life! Why would you wanna die for the sake of revenge, what's done is done and killing him now won't change the past!
Ace: What do you know, have you ever had someone close and then they were killed; wouldn't you want o find and make sure that they pay for their crimes?
Alice: Keep your nose out of my business, you know nothing about me and know nothing about what I saw!
Ace: We were crew mates Alice, were supposed to understand each other. But that is impossible because you want to keep everything about you to yourself!
Alice: I don't want people to know, anyone who knows my real past will just want to die *like him* so just leave me alone!
Ace: Fine! (walks away) You know Alice when I first saw you I could tell you were alone; but I was stupid to think that you wanted that to change.
(Both Ace and Alice go their separate ways; Alice goes up the mountain and Ace goes down the mountain. The two pirate groups not wanting to get involved just stand and watch as Ace and Alice leave.)
Sanji: I can't believe that Ace would make Alice so mad.
Franky: He had every write to after the way she spoke to him.
Maya: Yes they both have their reasons for getting mad. But Alice's reason is just like Ace's except Alice was speaking out of experience from a 500 year old wound.
Nami: 500 years?
Maya: yes, but I need to explain this to Ace as well so he knows what to never say to Alice.
Kito: Even if you tell him, he'll say it then get hit.
Raito: Hey he's the one getting hit so why should we care?
Celli: Good point, besides Ace doesn't even seem to be affected by her punches or kicks.
Rick: If he wants to get wailed on by Alice, then let him.
Maya: So where IS Ace?
Usopp: I think he went down hill.
Maya: Let's go, you can listen when I tell Ace, alright?
(Everyone starts to head downhill to look for Ace, while Alice heads up hill through a thick forest. As the large pirate group heads further downhill they find the shore line; they begin looking around to see if they could find which way Ace went when they find him laying on a large rock, looking up to the sky with both hands underneath his head.)
Nami: Looks like he's thinking.
Luffy: Looks like he's sleeping.
Kito: I'm going with sleeping.
(Everyone walks over to talk to Ace when the see that Luffy was right; Ace was sound asleep, snoring as the waves crashed into the rock he was on.)
Celli: Let me waking up in a way he's familiar with.
(Celli calmly walks up to Ace and says in his ear.)
Celli: Ace. WAKE UP STUPID!
(Surprised Ace quickly sits up and looks to see how yelled in his ear expecting to see Alice.)
Ace: Ow what was that for Alice? Huh? Celli?
Celli: I thought if I yelled at you like Alice does you'd wake up.
Ace: Thanks for nearly deafening me.
Maya: Ace, you have no idea how much you pissed off Alice with what you said. Do you?
Ace: Not really, but seriously what's her problem any way?
Maya: Then let me tell you, so maybe next time you'll think about her feelings before you open your mouth.
Ace: Well let's hear it.
Maya: Alice used to live on this island, it was around 500 years ago and she was still searching for those crystals when she met a man. Back then and even now Alice is extremely dense when it came to love so she thought what she felt for this man was love, and she eventually married him; but what Alice didn't know was that this man was a sweet talker and he said things that women wanted to hear to make them fall for him, the only reason he made Alice his target was because he liked the way she looked and considered her an easy target because of how dense she was. Three years later he found out that Alice doesn't age and how old she really was; so he ate the Yami-Yami no mi and by complete coincidence found the corresponding crystal, and attacked Alice and tried to convince her that she disserved to die and then tried to kill her. But Alice then saw what kind of person he was, resolved that she didn't love him, and then killed him. When it was all over Alice had severe internal bleeding, all her ribs were broken, her right leg was nearly torn off, her right arm was smashed, her hip bones were broken, and her throat was crushed. Alice somehow mustered the strength to grab the crystal and hide before the villagers came; what they think happened was that Alice found out he was playing with her heart and killed him, and they labeled her a murderer. Ever since Alice says she can never truly trust men because she thinks all they care about are looks.
Ace: No wonder she gives me a hard time.
Maya: No I think she just doesn't like you.
Franky: *sniffle*
(All look to see who made that noise and they see Franky crying over what he had just heard)
Luffy: Franky are you crying?
Franky: No I'm not you idiots go away!
Ace: So why would Alice want to come back to this island?
Maya: She told me that after her wounds were healed she hid something in his grave.
Kito: It can't be the crystal, then what is it?
Maya: I don't know.
Ace: *jumps off the rock* Well I'm gonna find Alice and ask her what it is.
Rick: Good luck with that.
(Ace walks back to the trail and starts heading uphill; meanwhile Alice has reached the end of the trail and at the end is a large and wide field with waist high grass and a large oak tree you can clearly see on the other side. Alice stops before entering the field and stares at the tree with the wind blowing through her hair she takes a deep breath and starts walking through the field. A little bit through the field Alice starts looking around while still walking and starts talking to herself.)
Alice: This place looks so peaceful now; no one could ever guess that this field was once a dirt wasteland caused by that fight 500 years ago. It's like all figures from the past are disappearing and soon too will I.
(Alice looks forward and continues walking; meanwhile Ace is running up hill along with the remaining Spade pirates and Straw Hat pirates.)
Usopp: Why are we running up hill?
Ace: Come to think of it I have no idea.
Kito: Typical Ace.
Celli: At least were getting some exercise.
Sanji: Oh Celli you look so beautiful.
Zoro: You love sick freak!
Sanji: Watch it Zoro!
Nami: Knock it off you guys!
(As the group continues to run and argue Ace, Zoro, and Nami quickly stop and look to their left and just stair into the forest.)
Luffy: What's wrong why are we stopping?
Nami: Something's coming.
Zoro: It's fast
Ace: And powerful.
Luffy: I don't see anything.
Usopp: Yeah me neither.
(Ace and Zoro start to get a serious look on their face as they continue to look in that one direction when out of nowhere Ace yells)
Ace: EVERYONE GET OUT OF THE WAY!
(The moment Ace yelled for everyone to get out the way a large and powerful streak of lighting comes through nearly hitting the pirates and cuts through the path. Soon the dust clears and there is no sign of the source of the lighting bolt.)
Brooke: What was that!
Nami: It was lightning. But there wasn't a cloud in the sky, then how?
Ace: Hey guys, how much you wanna bet that the lightning bolt that almost hit us was some guys using his devil fruit power to keep us away from Alice?
Kito: You know I'm starting to think Alice attracts more danger than you.
Ace: Anyways I'm going on ahead; maybe I can warn Alice about this guy.
(Without giving anyone a chance to respond Ace takes off and runs uphill to try and catch up with Alice.)
Celli: Now tell me, after hearing all that you don't think Ace has feelings for Alice.
Nami: He does seem to worry about her safety.
Kito: I just remembered something. Hey Maya do you know an island called Shadow Island or the Island of Death?
Maya: Why do you ask?
Kito: Back when I joined Ace's crew we went to that island and fought this creepy clown called "IT" and we had to search the mansion on the Island of Death; I took the upstairs and came across a royal type room with a dusty painting above the headboard of the bed.
Celli: This is news to me, who was the painting of?
Kito: Alice; except it wasn't.
Rick: What do you mean it was but it wasn't?
Kito: The woman I saw looked much nicer than the Alice we know, and she looked completely different.
Luffy: Huh how?
Kito: The woman had silver hair and wore a beautiful blue sleeveless dress; but this is where it gets weird. Around her neck was a three row small pearl necklace with a silver chain dangling in front of her chest and attached to the chain were those two smiley faces Ace has on his hat. The smiling one was just below the pearls and the frowning one was below the smiling one.
Sanji: Then how did Ace get them?
Luffy: Ace told me that someone gave them to him, he never said who.
Robin: You think Ace and Alice have met before?
Rick: It seems so. Maya do you know anything about this?
Maya: Well when I met Alice 15 years ago I saw that she was wearing the necklace you had described; I asked her why she wore that and she told me 'So I wouldn't forget what makes me live'. But 9 years ago when we met again she didn't have the two smiley faces; when I asked to about it she said 'I left them with the future'.
Celli: So she thinks Ace is the future?
Maya: I guess; Alice wouldn't talk about it anymore.
Celli: But what do you think makes Alice believe that Ace is the future?
Maya: I don't know, but what I do know is that Alice that Ace can help her break her curse of immortality.
(Giant Tree)
Alice: *sigh* So I finally made it here.
(Alice begins to walk around the large tree looking up at the branches, after a while Alice finds the marked grave of the man she thought she loved; his cremated remains buried underneath the large roots of the tree. Alice takes out a small knife she had with her and began gutting up the roots and digging to reach the urn. Alice moves away the dirt and finds the urn and something next to it wrapped up in a tan cloth and picks it up; she's about to unwrap it when she hears a voice behind her.)
?: Find what you were looking for?
Alice: *Shocked* So it's you…Left White Knight.
(Alice calmly stands up and hides the object she found behind her back and begins talking to the White Knight.)
White Knight: So what have you been up to former Left White Bishop?
Alice: Nothing new really; you?
White Knight: I was sent here by the King to gather information on you guys; you know it took 15 years to track you down after you left our little…family and here you are heading back to us. Why is that Alice? Or should I say Heart D. Alyson?
Alice: Hm?
(The white knight is getting tired of Alice's overconfidence of him so he uses his left arm and pins Alice to the tree by her neck. White Knight wears the same attire as Black Knight but its white.)
White Knight: Don't act like you don't know, Heart D. Alyson is your real name and you have been keeping secrets from your so called friends especially that one particular friend called Portgas D. Ace.
Alice: HA! He is no friend of mine; he is just an annoyance.
White Knight: Indeed; but what I'm talking about is why wont you let you 'friends' know how to help you age again.
Alice: Because they don't need to know.
White Knight: *cocky smirk* You don't want them to know that the only way for you to age again is for you to give birth to a child?
Alice: You son of a- How did you find out?
White Knight: King has had me watch you for the past three years; so what you know in your discoveries during that time, I also know.
Ace: IS THAT TRUE!
(Alice and White Knight look in the direction where they heard the yell and see Ace standing with an angry look on his face.)
Alice: Um Ace, how long have you been standing there?
Ace: *angry* Long enough.
Alice: What's your problem!
Ace: Hey you, the guy in white who are you?
White Knight: I am the Left White Knight of the 'Organization'.
Ace: Okay White Knight you better get your hands off Alice.
White Knight: Why should I?
(White Knight starts pressing his arm tighter into Alice's neck.)
Ace: HANDS OFF SHE'S MINE!
Alice: I'm what?
White Knight: HAHAHAHA! Just come and make me.
Ace: *body surrounded in fie* Don't worry I will.
(Ace jumps and attacks White Knight and is about to use his fire fist attack when he realizes that if he hits White Knight he'll burn Alice as well so he holds back on his attack and decides to punch him while his body is still covered in fire. With Ace charging on foot White Knight raises his hand and stretches out his arm out in front of Ace and says.)
White Knight: Electric Bullet
(A blast of electricity shoots out of White Knight's hand and hits Ace like it was a bullet; and Ace who was holding back too much power gets electrocuted and falls to the ground.)
White Knight: Give it up you have no chance of beating me; I ate a Paramecia type devil fruit and it makes me one big electric eel and I can shoot electricity out of any part of my body. So when you help back to much power you became vulnerable to my power.
Ace: *gets up* I see so now I won't hold back.
White Knight: Are you sure you won't hit your woman?
Alice: Go ahead Ace I'm in no danger.
White Knight: Shut your mouth woman, have you forgotten that I am electricity and you are water? One zap from me and your as good as dead.
Alice: And have you forgotten that if you're wet while you zap me you'll get zapped as well?
White Knight: And if your man fries me you get fried too.
Alice: 1: He's not my man, 2: I would have already escaped by then and 3: You're still too weak to be a threat to me.
White Knight: How so! I'm holding the end of your life in my hands so what makes a woman like you is any match for me!
Alice: Simple.
(Alice suddenly disappears and reappears behind White Knight and whispers in his ear with a confident smile on her face.)
Alice: I don't brag to those I'm about to kill.
(Before White Knight has a chance to react he feels a sudden pain in his chest, looks down and sees that Alice has stabbed him through his lungs with a water blade made out her right arm. White Knight coughs up blood and falls to the ground. As he falls he utters out his last words.)
White Knight: You Bitch.
(Ace, who just saw the first time he had seen Alice kill anybody, only had one thing to say.)
Ace: Damn I didn't know you were that cold hearted.
Alice: This guy was nothing more than an annoyance to the 'Organization' the moment he got there. The only reason he got the title of White Knight was because of his power and nothing more.
Ace: So why did he come after you?
Alice: He understood why a woman was the Queen but he couldn't understand why a woman like me was a higher rank than him. He was one of those fools that think women are useless without a man and they should obey them no questions asked.
Ace: It looks like this King sent out a knight to kill a bishop but the knight got killed by the bishop, looks like you just got under the King's skin.
Alice: No, this was his entire plan.
Ace: Huh?
Alice: He wanted Black Rook and White Knight eliminated because their grudge and ideals were slowing down the 'Organization', so he thought what the hell I'll get the former member the White Bishop to finish them for me.
Ace: Wow, are there any others he wants rid of?
Alice: Not really the rest are loyal to the cause and besides almost every single member of that group has one reason or another to want me dead. But Ace I must warn you if you run into someone who calls themselves Queen or act like one, you must get away. Even if you're not fighting her you must get away from her; she knows your face and she will kill you in an instance.
Ace: How bad could she be?
Alice: Every member of the 'Organization's' rank is determined by their power and cunning. King is the leader of the 'Organization' as well as the 4 White Guardians; and Queen is the leader of the 4 Black Guardians.
Ace: Bring it on I'm not afraid; what kind of power does she have?
Alice: I'm not sure, I only saw it once and after that I didn't want to be the one to fight her.
Ace: So you got scarred by her power?
Alice: It's not laughing matter; promise me you won't fight her no matter what.
Ace: Fine.
Alice: Now that that's done, I have one more thing to say.
Ace: What?
Alice: I AM NOT YOURS!
(Alice them punches Ace in the face knocking him into the ground them starts slapping, stepping, and kicking him repeatedly. As this goes on the remaining Spade Pirates and the Straw Hat Pirates show up and see Alice showing no mercy to Ace.)
Kito: I wonder what he did this time.
Celli: Knowing him, it was probably something stupid.
Nami: Shouldn't we atop her?
Spade Pirates: Nah.
Raito: She'll stop soon.
Luffy: How can you let her do this to Ace!
Ace: Don't worry Luffy; I'm already used to her beatings, so it doesn't hurt.
Maya: Did you get what you came here for?
Alice: Yup.
Ace: Oh yeah, what is the thing you came to get?
Alice: You'll know soon enough.
Ace: Again with the secrets.
Usopp: What happened here!
Ace: Long story short; White Knight from the 'Organization tried to kill Alice but Alice killed him.
Alice: The guy had it coming.
Rick: If he was after you them he must have.
Robin: This tree.
Alice: Yeah this tree is pretty old, It's about as old as me.
Robin: So this tree was able to withstand the void century.
Alice: Yup, its one of the few remaining links to the past.
(Later the Straw Hat and Spade Pirates return to the ship at set sail, about an hour later Alice wants to talk to Ace in privet.)
Ace: Okay, what do you want?
Alice: I'll make this as simple as I can; if you ever tell anyone the truth I will kill you, and that is not a threat I will kill you and anyone you told.
Ace: About what, the fact that you have to give birth a child in order to age again?
Alice: Exactly.
Ace: *laughing* That's got to be the funniest thing I've ever heard, the one thing that will help you is the one thing that you will never do HAHAHAHAHA!
(Alice then punches Ace into the floor and walks off.)
Ace: Ow.
(Off in a distance behind the Thousand Sunny is Black Knight and she just got in contact with King.)
Black Knight: King it's me I have my report.
King: Good tell me.
Black Knight: Of course. Everything is going just as you planed Alice has the item and White Knight has been eliminated.
King: Very Good, Where are they heading now?
Black Knight: They're heading to Fishman Island; they will soon enter the New World.
King: That is all, keep me informed.
Black Knight: Yes sir.
(Both hang up the Den-Den Mushi and in front of King is a chess bored. On one side there are pieces marked with the Organization's name on them and the others that are come towards those pieces have the Spade Pirates names on them. The Black King has Ace written on it and the White Queen has Alyson written on it. King moves the White Queen and tips over the White Knight and puts the piece called the Black Bishop in front of the Black King and the White Queen.)
King: It's your turn Alyson.
To Be Continued…