"Look at the sky north!" one of member of Dadan's gang shouted
"Boss! Boss! Boss! Look!" Another one shouted
"Is it coming from the town?" Dadan asked
"No, it's right in front of it!" Magra said, Dadan gasped when she understood where it came from "It's gray terminal! It's on fire!"
Everyone was watching as the gray terminal burned intensively, including Madara.
Madara was standing along Dadan and her gang. Suddenly, Madara thought of the 3 boys that left Dadan's house a little time ago. He respected their decisions, so he let them live on their own, but it didn't mean he didn't care about them.
Madara remembered their started living close to gray terminal, so without second thought, he started running as fast as he could.
"Madara! WAIT!" Dadan shouted at the running figure that was out her reach.
"Come on. We did this job together. Now let's die together!" Bluejam said while looking at the children in front of him.
Luffy and Ace were surrounded by the Bluejam pirates. In the background, a sea of flames was raising.
It was all caused by the nobles of Goa Kingdom. With a celestial dragon visiting the city, they needed to make a good impression, so they decided to burn the trash mountain that was beside the capital, known as the gray terminal. And now, Luffy and Ace where in the middle of the sea of flames, they were obligated to work placing the oil and explosives for the plan of the nobles, and they were also surrounded by the Bluejam pirates, the group that was hired by the nobles to places the oil and explosives and burn the gray terminal.
"Limbo" A voice was heard through the surroundings.
Suddenly, all the Bluejam pirates that were surrounding the two boys felt a powerful blow that knocked everyone except Luffy, Ace, and Bluejam.
Then a figure appeared between the children and Bluejam.
"I'm sorry, but the only ones that will die here will be you and your crew" The figure said.
"Uncle Madara!" Luffy shouted.
"What are you doing here?!" Ace looked at Madara
"For what other reason I will be standing here, I am here to save you from this sea of fire" Madara said with a calm voice "Now, you boys can go, I will take care of the rest"
"Hmm!" Luffy nodded.
"No, I will never run away" Ace stood firmly
"Sorry, this is not your decision" Madara looked Ace to the eyes. Ace suddenly fainted
"Ace?!" Luffy yelled
"Luffy, take Ace with Dadan, you will find her running to that direction." Madara pointed with his finger.
"But there is a lot of fire" Luffy was raising the fainted Ace with his shoulders.
"No problem" Madara raised his Gunbai and made a mighty swing towards the fire. The path that was blocked with fire was now clear "Now, go. I will catch up later"
"Hmm!" Luffy nodded and started running towards the cleared path. His figure vanished in the surroundings
"How brave, sacrificing yourself for the sake of the children" Bluejam tried to mock Madara.
"I did it for their own safety" Madara made a glare that could kill "I didn't want them to see what I am about to do with you"
Bluejam felt a heavy pressure coming from Madara's eyes, like death itself was standing in from of him. His body didn't respond to his commands anymore. He knew, he fucked up.
"Luffy!" Dadan shouted at the kid.
"Dadan!" Luffy shouted.
"Where is Madara?" Dadan asked
"He said he will catch up later" Luffy said running out of the fire.
"Then, let's go! Quickly!" Dadan shouted running towards their hideout.
"Huh?!, Where, where am I?" Ace woke up in Dadan's house no long after he fainted.
"Ace! You woke up!" Luffy hugged his brother.
"Where am I?" Ace asked again
"You are in Dadan's house, I brought you yesterday" Luffy had a huge smiled on his face.
"MADARA?!, WHERE IS MADARA?!" Ace shouted
"He came some minutes after you arrived, then he went to look for Sabo" Dadan said, she was sitting right beside Ace
"Yeah, he promised he will come back with him" Luffy yelled full of happiness
During their conversation, someone entered the house.
"Hey, guys" Dogra had a tormented face
"Dogra! Have you found Madara or Sabo?" Luffy said
"YOU LIAR!" Ace threw himself towards Dogra to punch him "EVEN IF YOU ARE KIDDING THAT IS NOT FUNNY!"
"It is true! It was so sudden…" Dogra said while laying on the ground "…I doubted my own eyes! I thought it was a dream or something!" Dogra separated himself from Ace "Luffy, you said Sabo got taken back to his aristocrat parents. Hoodlums like us all have a place we don't want to go back to! If he was happy, do you think he would've gone to the sea?! Do you think would have raised a pirate flag and gone out to the sea all by himself?!"
Both Luffy and Ace remembered how they treated Sabo after he went back to his family, they tried to forget him, thinking he was in a better place.
"Sabo…" Luffy was sobbing "You weren't happy at all"
"Why didn't we try to get hm back" Ace was regretting with his hands in his head.
I will do whatever you want, I will live the way you wanted me to live. But please don't hurt them! Please!
"WHO KILLED SABO?!" Ace grabbed Dogra by his shirt "I'll go kill him right now!"
Ace picked him iron pipe and ran towards the door.
"I'M GONNA AVENGE SABO!"
"ACE, WAIT!" One of Dadan's gang shouted to Ace.
When Ace arrived at the door of the house, he crashed with someone.
"What's all the commotion about?" A voice made everyone's attention focused on the door
"Madara?!" Dadan shouted.
"Who else might be" Madara said.
Everyone noticed Madara was carrying something in his shoulder. They all recognized what Madara was carrying
"SABO?!" Ace shouted.
"LET GO!" Sabo screamed from Madara's shoulder.
"HOW IS IT POSSIBLE?!" Dogra shouted at Madara "I SAW IT WITH MY OWN EYES! HOW THE SHIP SABO WAS IN WAS SHOT FROM THE OTHER SHIP!"
"I saw it too" Madara putted Sabo on the ground "I was able to save Sabo right before the first shot, then I brought him with me"
"SABO!" Both Luffy and Ace hugged their brother with all their might, the two of them were sobbing strongly.
"Madara, I don't know how to thank you" Dadan said.
"This is not time for thanks" Madara looked at the children "First, I want to clarify something"
Madara then smacked Sabo in the head, a big bump grew over his top hat.
"What were you thinking when you decided to sail to the sea?!" Madara shouted at Sabo.
"I wanted to leave this place! I regret being born a noble! I wanted to be free!" Sabo stood firmly in front of Madara
"I understand that" Madara knelt to Sabo's height "But, what I don't understand is why now?!" Madara grabbed Sabo's shoulders. "You are just a little boy with nothing more than a top hat and an iron pipe! What do you think you were going to accomplish with that?! You can't even lay a finger against me! You are weak!"
Sabo went silent at the scolding he was receiving. Madara stood up and looked at Sabo.
"Don't misunderstand my words, young child" Madara looked at Sabo "What I am saying is that you are not ready to sail yet, you sailed for 5 minutes and you were already in the verge of dying!" Madara crossed his arms "But I know you want to explore the world, live an adventure" Madara gave a serious look "But the outside world is unforgiven, it is no place for a child to go"
Sabo looked down. Madara approached his hand to Sabo. Sabo thought he was going to smack him in the head again, but Madara placed his and on his shoulder.
"For that, I will help you, all three of you" Madara looked to Luffy and Ace "I will train you, day and night, and the day you manage to lay a finger on me, I will let you go outside and sail to the world. Until that day, I will train you to be real warriors" Madara stood up.
The three looked at Madara with a shinning light in their faces. They knew Madara was someone on different levels from them. Their morning training were just a sleepwalk for Madara, but now, he is ready to train them seriously.
"Is that true?" Sabo asked looking at Madara's eyes.
"It is" Madara reaffirmed "But don't expect the training to be easy, It will be a living hell"
