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Rated T for language, violence and the occasional One Piece humor. You have been warned.


Chapter 3: Monkey D. Ace Gets a Bounty

"I'm bored..." Ace pouted as he had his body hanging on the edge of the small dinghy that they borrowed...yeah...borrowed. He heard no response from Rei and turned his head. He saw her fixing her sash so that instead of being around her torso, it was now around her waist. "What are you doing?"

Rei looked at him. "Nothing. Just changing the way I look. Girls do that you know."

"Oh..." He replied, losing interest and turned back to look at the water.

"So...where are we going?" Rei asked.

"I don't know." Ace stated.

"Huh? I thought someone taught you how to navigate?" Rei cocked an eyebrow.

"Mm!" He nodded his head. There was a long pause.

"Oi..." Rei felt irritated at his silence.

"What?" Ace asked, turning his head back around.

"Why aren't you navigating us?" She shouted at him.

"Oh...don't feel like it." Ace replied.

"You got to be kidding me!" She shouted. She let out a sigh in frustration and placed a hand to his head. 'I can't believe I joined this idiot...I should have just stayed behind and looked for Zoro.'

The two of them continued to sail toward their unknown destination. Some time passed before the two of them became extremely hungry and no island was seen in sight. Their stomachs growled as they were sprawled out on their small boat. "I'm hungry..." Ace whined.

"Your whining isn't helping..." Rei responded.

"I'm hungry..." He whined again.

"Urusai..." Rei responded with slight irritation.

Suddenly, the sound of a bird was heard and the two of them looked up to see one of those white seagull mail birds flying above them. The seagull looked down to see Ace and Rei and descended toward them. The seagull landed on the front of their boat and chirped. He then sweat dropped as Ace appeared in front of them, drool dripping down the corner of his mouth. The seagull had the look of horror on it's face.

"Soooo...tastyyyyy..." Ace said, moving his fingers up and down.

"Don't eat him you idiot!" Rei shouted and hit Ace over his head.

"Ite! What was that for?" Ace shouted, rubbing his head.

"You idiot...don't eat this poor bird...besides...i want to buy one of his newspapers..." Rei told him. She sighed and looked toward the seagull who also sighed in relief. She put a coin in the slot under his beak and then took a newspaper from the bag the seagull had around it's body. The seagull raised his wing to salute them and then quickly flew away to make sure they don't actually change their mind and eat him.

"You made my meal go away..." Ace pouted as he sat on the boat, legs crossed.

"Urusai...I won't let you eat a poor animal like that..." Rei told him and opened the newspaper. Ace fell back and laid down on the boat and stared up at the sky again.

"I'm hungry..." Ace whined once more.

"I said shut up!" Rei growled in annoyance. She flipped a page and then saw something that shocked her. "W-W-What the hell?" Ace lifted her head to look at her.

"What?" He asked. He watched her as she lifted a brown piece of paper from the newspaper and then looked at Ace. Ace cocked an eyebrow before she turned the paper so he could see it. His eyes widened before a feeling of excitement enveloped his entire body.


"I thank all for you Vice Admirals for being here at such a short notice." A Marine Officer who was ranked high in the government told the Vice Admirals in the room. "We have received news from Vice Admiral Smoker of a certain individual that needs our out most attention."

"Smoker? That barbaric man." A Vice Admiral spoke.

"He may be barbaric...but he does have experience in fighting against Straw Hat Luffy...unlike you..." Another intervened.

"Don't make me kill you..." He responded.

"Silence!" The high ranking Marine Officer yelled at them. Once they were quiet again, he continued. "This individual, however, has a connection with Straw Hat Luffy." There were noises in surprise at this news as all the Vice Admirals present paid attention to what the Marine Officer had to say. "According to his reports, in the East Blue, Vice Admiral Smoker has spotted this man." He said and then slammed a wanted poster on the board behind him. The Vice Admirals took a look at the wanted poster and their eyes widened in shock.

"W-What the...?" One of the Vice Admirals spoke.

"You got to be kidding me?" Another said.

"Oi,oi...isn't that..." A female Vice Admiral spoke this time.

"Yes...it may look like Straw Hat Luffy...however...it is not him...Smoker confirmed this." He told them to make sure they didn't get the wrong idea.

"T-then...who is he?"

"This man...according to Vice Admiral Smoker...is the son of the current Pirate King, who has gone missing since that day 17 years ago, Monkey D. Luffy." There was gasps among the Vice Admirals.

"What? That man had a son!"

"Impossible! We checked everything on him and never once did it mention that he had a son!"

"That is correct. We have no record of him having a son. We do not know who the woman who gave birth to him as well. However, that does not change the fact that this man is his son." The Marine Officer told them. "Because of the severity of this secret, the fact that this man also caused a scene at Lougetown and the fact that he is the son of the current missing Pirate King...The World Government has no choice but to put such a high bounty on his head. This man, Monkey D. Ace, with a bounty of 250 Million Beris, should be considered our closest lead in finding Straw Hat Luffy! We must apprehend him under the name of JUSTICE!" He roared and it was followed by the roars of some of the Vice Admirals as well.


"Oi! Come already! We finally got a lead and your slowing us down! Just what is so important that you are standing still in front of the bulletin!" A man with a long nose shouted toward a beautiful orange haired woman. He felt annoyed that she didn't respond and walked toward her. 'Oi...what's going on...?" He asked and looked at the bulletin. His jaw dropped to the ground and eyes widened in shock at what he saw on the bulletin. "N-No way..."

"I can't believe it..." The orange haired woman spoke for the first time.

"A 250 Million Beri bounty...so big...but wait...how did they found out about him...?" The long nosed man wondered.

"Hahaha..." The long nosed man turned his head to see the orange woman laughing.

"W-What?"

"He's his father alright..." She smiled. The long nosed man blinked at her in confusion. He then smiled and nodded his head. 'Well then...let's go!" She told him with a wide grin, which he responded with his own.

"Yosh!"


"Suge! I actually have a bounty on my head! So cool!" Ace shouted in excitement as he stared at his wanted poster. He looked at the image of him and grinned at it as it was a picture of him grinning while running away from some of the marines. He looked down at the amount and his eyes changed to stars in excitement. "So huge! Shishishishi!"

Rei was shocked at the bounty they put on her new Captain's head. '250 Million Bounty...what kind of rookie pirate gets that kind of bounty without doing hardly anything!' Rei wondered. 'I guess it has something to do with his father...' She looked at Ace and saw him still grinning at his wanted poster. "Ne..." Ace turned away from his wanted poster and looked at Rei. "What is your father like?" She asked.

"Don't know!" Ace responded quickly.

"Huh? You don't?" Rei asked surprised.

"Nope!" He grinned.

'Why is he grinning?' Rei looked at him confused. "Why not?"

"It's because he disappeared after finding the One Piece and becoming the new Pirate King." Ace told her. "All I know about him is from what his crew told me about him."

"Heh? You know his crew?" Ace grinned and nodded.

"Shishishi! Yep! They're really cool and funny!" He responded with a wide grin.

"I see...what about your mother?" Rei asked. She didn't know why she was asking all these questions, but she would be lying if she said she wasn't interested to know about her new Captain.

"My Okaa-san? Shishishi! She's..." Before he could say anything else, a powerful wind whipped past them. They held onto the boat and Ace held on tightly to his Straw Hat so that it wouldn't get blown away. Without their knowing, their ship was being pushed by the wind and before they knew it, they crashed into the shore of an island. The dinghy they had was broken in half after colliding with the sand and both Rei and Ace were sprawled out on the sand.

Rei started opening her eyes and pushed herself up with her arms. "What the hell just happened?" Rei asked and turned her head to see Ace's head stuck in the sand. "HOW THE HELL DID YOU GET STUCK?" She shouted at him as he tried to pull his head out.

"Hwelp mwe!" She heard him say from the sand. She groaned and stood up and began pulling him out of the sand. After several pulls, she managed to get his head out of the sand and they both fell on their backs. Rei groaned in pain and rubbed her butt as Ace placed a hand to his head. "Thanks!"

"No problem..." She sighed and then stood up. "What the hell happened?"

"I don't know...but it was weird...I should have known a strong wind like that would come, But I didn't see it coming...shishishi so cool!" He laughed.

"Oi, oi..." Rei sweat dropped. "Well, at least we found an island...hopefully there is a town..."

"FOOD!" Ace shouted in excitement as he stuck his tongue out. "Hurry! We need find a town!" He told Rei and grabbed her wrist.

"Ah! Wait a minute!" She protested, but was suddenly dragged by him as he ran at full speed. When Ace and Rei arrived at a town, Ace stopped and his eyes widened in shock. Rei was about to hit Ace over the head for dragging like he did, but then saw his shocked expression. She blinked at him and then looked over at the town. She didn't see anything weird about the town. It looked like a relatively normal town. There was several large windmills that were standing on the grassy fields, separated by the road. She then saw the small town at the end of the road. She looked back at Ace. "What's wrong?"

"This is..." He began. "This is Foosha Village...this is where...my Otou-san lived before starting his adventures..." Rei's eyes widened in shock.

"S-seriously...?" She asked and he nodded. Rei looked back at the town and suddenly felt kind of nervous. 'This is the town where...the Pirate King...Zoro's Captain...lived during his childhood...' She thought. "Ne...is this your first time coming here?" She asked Ace.

"No...but...the last time I was here was when I was only four..." Ace told her.

"I see..." Rei looked back at her Captain.

"Shishishi! I'm so excited!" Ace chuckled and then grinned. "Come on Rei! I know a good place to eat!" He told her and started running toward Foosha Village.

"Ah! Hold up!" Rei called after him. She sighed and ran after him.

Ace ran as fast as he could through the town. He could smell the scent of the delicious food he remembered the last time he came to this town. Granted it was when he was younger, but he could still remember the smell. Rei tried to catch up to him and she managed, but she had to admit that Ace was really fast. Ace finally stopped in front of the pub that the scent of food was coming from. Ace's mouth widened and drool dripped from the corner of his mouth as the scent of food reached his nose. He took a long sniff and he felt like he was standing in front of the gate to heaven. He chuckled before rushing inside the pub and opened the bat wing doors that made a squeaky noise to inform the customers inside that someone entered.

The owner of the pub, a green haired woman who had a bandanna wrapped in her hair turned her head to welcome the customer. However, when she saw the face of the customer, her eyes widened. The glass cup she was cleaning fell to the floor and broke into many pieces. Her body slightly shook as the customer walked toward the bar and then grinned at her. "L-Luffy..." She whispered.

"Ah! I'm not him! That's my Otou-san! It's me, Makino-Obasan! Ace!" Makino snapped out of her trance at his name and took a closer look at the 17 year old boy. She then realized, after a closer look, that he was not Luffy, but looked a lot like him. She couldn't believe how similar he looked compared to his father. In fact, he almost looked like a clone of Luffy, except without the two scars, one under his left eye and the other on his chest, but other than that, he looked just like the young boy she remembered setting sail on his pirate adventure.

"Ace...it's so good to see you after all this time!" Makino smiled at him as Ace grinned back and snickered.

"Shishishi! Mm! It has!" Ace replied and sat down on one of the seats in front of her. "I'm hungry!"

Makino giggled. "Of course!" She replied cheerfully. She turned around to prepare Ace's food. Ace grinned at her and kicked his legs back and forth in excitement.

"Trust me Rei! You would love the food Makino-obasan mak...huh?" He turned around to see Rei no where in sight.

"Who are you talking to Ace?" Makino asked, overhearing Ace talking to someone.

"My crew mate...but she's not here..." Ace replied. "I wonder if she got lost? Shishishi! She must have caught Zoro-Ojisan's sense of direction!"

Meanwhile...

"Where the hell did that idiot go?" Rei asked as she looked around for her Captain. She looked everywhere, but all she saw where people who looked nothing like Ace. She sighed and crossed her arms to think. She then realized something. 'Wait a minute...' She took time to process her thoughts before she finally understood. "AH CRAP! I MUST HAVE BEEN INFECTED WITH ZORO'S BAD SENSE OF DIRECTION! DAMN IT!"

Back with Ace...

"Shishishi! Yep, I made a crew mate!" Ace told Makino as she listened to him explain how it happened, while she cooked.

"I see...she must be a lot of fun!" Makino replied after listening to the story of how the two met.

"Yep! She reminds me a lot like Zoro-Ojisan, but I think shes way smarter than him." Ace told her.

Meanwhile...

"AHCHOO! For some reason...I have the urge to kill two specific people...I'm going back to sleep..."

Back with Ace...

"Are you almost done, Makino-Obasan?" Ace asked, impatiently waiting for Makino's food.

"Mm. Almost!" She replied, putting the finishing touches.

"There you are!" Ace turned around to see Rei at the door.

"Ah! Rei! You finally found the place! I thought you got lost like Zoro-Ojisan used to." He laughed.

"Yeah...like that would happen...hehe..." She chuckled and sweat dropped in response as walked over to sit down next to him.

"Here you go Ace!" Makino cheerfully came out with a few dishes of food and placed them in front of him. She then saw Rei and smiled at her. "Oh? Welcome! You must be Rei! Ace has told me a lot about you!"

"Huh? Really?" Rei asked looking over at Ace and sweat dropped when she saw how he was eating his food. Makino giggled at this and Rei was surprised to see her giggle.

"He really is like his father." She said.

"You knew his father?" Rei asked.

Makino nodded. "Yes, I knew his father ever since he was very young. Oh, I'm sorry, let me introduce myself. My name is Makino and I own this pub."

"Hello Makino-san, I'm Rei." Rei replied, smiling back at the older woman.

The green haired pub owner nodded her head. "Nice to meet you Rei!" She smiled back at the swords woman.

"So...what exactly did this idiot say about me?" Rei asked, narrowing her eyes at Ace.

Makino giggled. "Oh just how you met and what happened between the two of you and the marines."

"I see..." Rei sighed.

"I'm sorry...you must be hungry as well, let me go get something for you." Makino said and started making her way back to the kitchen.

"Ah...thank you!" Rei thanked the older woman and then turned to look at her Captain. "That's disgusting..." She commented on the way he was eating.

"Then don't look." He replied, throwing a piece of meat into his mouth. Rei sighed. Suddenly, the sound of someone falling down a flight of stairs was heard and both Rei and Ace looked over to see a teenage boy, around Ace's age, rubbing his butt.

"Damn it...that hurt..." He groaned. He sensed two pairs of eyes looking at him and looked over to Rei and Ace. "Huh? What are you looking at?"

"Who are you?" Ace asked, putting more meat into his mouth.

"The name is James Rictor!" James replied enthusiastically as he pointed his thumb at himself. He then walked over to Ace and offered him his hand. "I don't know who you are, but nice to meet ya!" Ace blinked at James and shrugged before shaking his hand. However, Ace suddenly felt a large shock throughout his body and immediately pulled his hand away.

"Ite! W-What was that?" Ace asked, while James laughed.

"Hahaha! Sorry about that, I just couldn't resist!" He told him and showed him his hand to see a button.

"What is that?" Ace asked leaning forward to take a closer look.

"It's a button that sends small shocks of static...like this." He explained and pushed his hand in Ace's face, shocking him again.

"Ite!" Ace shouted in pain and pulled his head away.

"Hahahaha! So funny!" James laughed and pointed his finger at Ace.

"Hey...you have something on your right cheek." Rei pointed.

"Huh? Really?" He said and touched his cheek with his right hand. He was then shocked by his own prank.

"Hahahaha! She got you! Nice one Rei!" Ace laughed and pointed his finger at the twitching James. Rei grinned at the compliment.

"I got admit...(zap)...that was a good one...(zap)...I like you guys! Who are you anyway?" James asked.

"I'm Ace!" Ace grinned at him.

"I'm Rei." Rei replied.

"And we're pirates!" Ace added after Rei introduced herself.

"Eh? Pirates?" James asked, blinking at them.

"Yep!"

"Yeah...but it's only the two of us...and we don't have a ship..." Rei told him.

"Huh? What are you talking about? We have a ship? We left it on that beach." Ace told her.

"You idiot! How do you plan on sailing in a boat that smashed in half!" Rei retorted.

"Oh right...I forgot..."

"You guys can use my boat if you want." James offered. Ace and Rei turned to look at him.

"Really?" Ace asked, getting excited. "I already like you! Join my crew!"

"Eh? You can't just ask someone to join your crew because you think they're cool!" Rei told him. "Not that you aren't cool or anything..." Rei told James.

"It's okay..." James told her. "...and regarding your invitation...I'll only join on one condition." The two cocked their eyebrows. "I'll only join if you beat me in a fight." Rei and Ace made a noise in surprise, but Ace then grinned.

"Let's go!" Ace told him.

"Here's your food Rei." Makino said as she came out.

"But first we eat!" James and Ace both said, slamming their knives and forks on the bar table.

"But that's my food, you idiots!" Rei shouted at them. Makino giggled as the three of them argued over who gets to eat the food that she made for Rei. She couldn't believe how similar Ace was to his father.

'Luffy...I hope you're safe...wherever you are...'

To Be Continued...


Author's Notes: Sorry for the long wait! College is a...bleep! I want to thank you all for all the reviews and support for this story and hope you continue reading and providing more character suggestions for me to add into the story.

Some of you are wondering what positions are left for Ace's Crew. Well, counting the characters I have chosen in this chapter below, I still need a cook, a shipwright, musician or anything else you guys can come up with that is necessary for a crew.

Here is the new list of characters I have chosen to be in my story for the future! Again, if you character is not chosen yet, please know that it is because I don't have plans for them yet. Well, congratz to these new characters:

Alexander Quinn

Gerrard "Bloody" Bucks

Umiko

Gared Freid

Masaki Okuno

Abel Turner

Yume Gaia

Reegd the Collector

Here is another character bio! This time it is Rei!

Name:Rei

Age:16

Hero/Villain:Hero

Occupation: Crew member; First mate

Personality:She is very kind and caring, like Zoro she puts herself in harm's way to protect her friends and crew mates because she cares for them, she loves being adventurous, she has deep hatred for aristocrats, but she doesn't kill them because she knows not to go that low, she'll sacrifice her life for her nakamas, she is serious in battle, and loves to cook, explore and fight, she never misses her mark with her weapons,when the ship isn't busy, she'll often nap on the top of the main mast or in her hammock. When her friends that are boys annoy her or the boys will do something completely gross and stupid, she get incredibly angry, she'll often yell or angrily say it through her clenched jaw stuff like"knock it off!/are you stupid or something?/will you quit acting like a idiot!"etc. She usually punches, kicks, or slaps them so hard that they can fly meters away from the force of the punch or kick,into a wall that it knocks them out,they wall or object that they get knocked into usually breaks, but they don't get hurt,etc. She's like Zoro in more ways than one and she builds up her strength and mediates

Back Story:With her parents dead from birth, Rei often wandered the streets as a stray,but despite her good nature, she had a great hatred for aristocrats, mainly because they were the ones to kill her parents but was saved by Zoro but she didn't know at the time. When she turned five, she took interest in the way of the swords and started teaching herself, despite her efforts she was horrible at it, she had then met Roronoa Zoro who took her in as a student and taught her everything, she is in deep gratitude for him as she then was given three kantanas of her own. By the time she was ready to show Zoro she was ready to fight him,he had left and had left behind an old black and silver bandana for her. Rei then vowed to meet Zoro again one day and face him with all she had She has a bounty of 100,000,000 beris.

Dream: To reunite with Zoro and fight him one day for the title of beast swordsman

Devil Fruit:None

Powers/Abilities:All of santoryu, nitoryu, ittoryu, mutoryu, and kyutoryu's attacks

Appearance: Black hair that reaches down to shoulders and black eyes 5'1 in height, a black and silver bandana; she puts it on like Zoro does when she's fighting an opponent seriously, and three kantanas strapped by a black sash around her waist. The first kantana has a tsuba that looks like a diamond and the handle is scarlet red, the second one has a tsuba that looks like a square flower and the handle is ice blue, the final sword is a inch longer than a regular sword, its tsuba looks like a four-pointed bronze-colored star, the handle is black and silver.

Until next time! See ya!