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Marine? Never!
Chapter 7
"Come on traaaaaaiiiiiiiin meeeeeee!" Luffy whined loudly as he tailed Zephyr… or more like was dragged along as Zephyr walked through the base. Luffy's hand was attached to the man's jacket while the rest of his body was dragged along the ground. Luffy's attempt to slow the man down that obviously didn't work as he was easily ignored.
"Brat, I told you already: NO!" Zephyr answered as he glanced down at Luffy, removing the hand that was attached to him only to have Luffy's other hand cling on him.
"Why?!" Luffy pouted as he swung his legs around a nearby pillar, attempting to stop the man down but causing him more to get stretched out as Zephyr refused to slow down yet again.
"I am not helping a future pirate! Unless you decide to become a true Marine I will NEVER train you!" Zephyr spat out his distaste for pirates clearly hearable in his voice as he glared down at Luffy who was by now dangling in the air.
"Buuuuuuut…" Luffy spaced out. He didn't know what to say and he surely wasn't going to deny his dream only to get trained. Without noticing Luffy slowly reached his limit of how far he could be stretched. Cracking was heard and both Zephyr and Luffy looked at each other blinked and then looked down the hall where Luffy's legs disappeared into.
Another loud crack was heard as Luffy paled. Luffy felt his legs getting pulled back to their normal length but he also saw what was coming with them. The pillar he had his legs swung around earlier decided that right now was a good time to break out of place.
"You are only trouble, brat." Zephyr muttered as he grabbed Luffy by his collar and placed the straw hatted boy behind him. Slowly, nearly relaxed the older Marine pulled back his left arm.
Luffy watched in amaze how his fist turned slowly black but not the rest of his arm. Then Zephyr punched the incoming pillar and it crumbled into pieces right before them. Luffy ducked behind the Marine to avoid some of the smaller rocks that flew past them but still his eyes sparkled in daylight. "TEACH ME THAT PLEASE?!"
"No!" Zephyr replied as he walked off this time avoiding Luffy who tried to attach himself on him again.
Just as Zephyr rounded a corner after successfully getting Luffy off his track he came face to face with Kuzan. A small smile played on the Admiral's face as he met his mentor yet again.
"He didn't ask about Nico Robin again?" The Admiral asked coming right into business as he watched his instructor, who trained him, glare at him from behind the sunglasses.
"No but he is asking for training." Zephyr answered as he walked past Kuzan but then stopped a few steps behind him. "This boy means trouble. Not only does he want to know about her… he wants to become Pirate King."
-one month ago-
"Can you tell me then who 'Nico Robin' is?"
Luffy waited for an answer but Zephyr just kept quiet while watching the boy next to him closely from the corner of his eyes. It wasn't an everyday event that someone Luffy's age would ask about a woman that was hunted by the World Government ever since she was 8.
"Why do you want to know?" Zephyr asked back skeptical. He surely wasn't going to tell a young brat like Luffy about Nico Robin.
"No real reason… just wanna know more." Luffy mumbled as he tried his best not to sweat or to say that he overheard Kuzan talking with another Marine.
Zephyr watched how Luffy started to sweat, turning his head away not looking back at the older man. Zephyr held back a chuckle at how obvious the boy was in hiding that he had lied. Letting out a small chuckle after all, the older Marine ruffled Luffy's hair, confusing the boy. "Maybe someday you will get to know more about her."
Luffy frowned as he didn't get any information, he wanted to know more. "But I wanna know now not someday. When is someday anyway? Ace and Sabo always said 'someday' but never when it is. I don't wanna wait anymore!"
Zephyr sweat dropped as he drowned out the boys rambling. "Someday will be when you are old enough and a high ranked Marine."
Luffy suddenly went quiet as he stared up at the older man with wide eyes. Slowly but noticeable he inched away from Zephyr which caused the man to raise an eyebrow at the boys sudden action.
"Brat? Can I ask you something?" Zephyr asked as he adjusted his sunglasses and Luffy only nodded nervous on what the man was going to ask him.
"What is justice to you?" Zephyr had a serious expression as he watched Luffy tilting his head confused and blinking several times.
"Justice?" Luffy thought out a loud. Confusion was clearly shown in his eyes.
"Yes Justice. What is it to you?" Zephyr asked once more his voice filled with seriousness.
"I don't know. Uh… Freedom?" Luffy answered or more asked back still in confusion.
"Freedom… So your motivation will be freedom once you're a Marine?" muttered the older Marine as he starred down at Luffy who started to suddenly find the end of the hallway very interesting. "It surely will be interesting to train you."
"Train me?" Luffy started his eye's wandered to look at Zephyr. The man chuckled lightly as he ruffled Luffy's hair.
"Kuzan told me about an interesting boy and as a Marine Instructor, it's my duty to train kids like you that will become our future Marines."
Luffy's eyes sparkled as he looked up at the older Marine before him… until his words fully sunk into his brain and sweat broke out on the boys forehead, causing Zephyr to once more raise a brow at in slight confusion.
"I uh…" Luffy started. "I AM GOING TO BE KING OF THE PIRATES!"
Zephyrs eyes narrowed down on the boy as he took in his words, his hatred for pirates flaring up inside his mind again as he suppressed the need to knock the kid before him down into the ground. "I am NOT training you then."
Luffy's face fell as he stared after Zephyr who just walked away from him. "WHAT? WHY?!"
"I will NEVER train a pirate!"
"What's so bad about being a pirate?!"
"Everything!"
"TRAIN ME!"
"NO!"
-present time-
Zephyr watched from a window how Luffy ran across the training feels shouting loudly about something he couldn't clearly hear. The older Marine was clearly impressed by the boy's determination but that wasn't going to change the fact that he would not train the boy.
Kuzan wasn't all too far from his old mentor also watching the straw hat wearing boy causing chaos in his base. He glanced at Zephyr before letting out a small sigh. "He won't stop till you train him. He inherited Garp's stubbornness."
Zephyr said nothing as his eyes kept following the boys movements. He definitely saw the potential in the boy but he couldn't bring himself to train a possible future pirate...
"PURPLE HAIR JI-SAN! TRAIN MEEEEEE! PLEASE!"
…yet.
Ace yawed as he blinked a few times and rubbed his eyes tiredly before tried to get it more comfortable in his bed. Suddenly he was pushed out of his bed and landed hard on the ground. A small growl escaped him as he glared up, his eyes searching for the one that pushed him out of his comfortable be… er…
Now that Ace got a closer look he noticed that his 'bed' wasn't a bed but boxes that had a few sheets thrown over it. "Did I fall asleep on deck again?"
Slowly Ace stood up, finally noticing the chuckles of his crew mates around him. He glared shortly at them before he then turned to look at Thatch's grinning face. Well that only wouldn't be creepy if it wasn't for a smiling Marko and grinning Sabo right next to him. Ace gut feeling told him that something was seriously wrong but he couldn't pinpoint what.
The feeling got only worse as he looked around to see that the rest of the crew had stopped chuckling but were now also starting to smile at him. Suddenly Sabo dumped some water on him causing Ace to stare at his blond brother ready to yell something, only the water preventing him to burst out into flames.
Before he could do that, Thatch suddenly blinded him by tying something around his eyes. Oh how Ace was ready to yell at them but once again he was thrown over something… or rather someone's shoulder. Ace heard chuckling and then second later he was thrown onto the ground. The blindfold got removed and the raven found himself face to face with Whitebeard in a room he was never in before.
"Okay if this is about the burned reports from Marco… Thatch told me to burn them! If it's about the itchy powder, the green hair accident, the glued plates or the sticky boots…. That wasn't me alone!"
"THATCH SO YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MISSING REPORTS!" Marco yelled in the background as soon a pained yelp from Thatch was also heard.
Whitebeard only chuckled as he grinned down at his son, shaking his head. "None of these, but Marco surely would like to know more, later."
Ace paled as he understood that he had just loaded himself with punishments and judging by the pained yelps from Thatch he was not going to like them. "Why am I here then… where am I anyway?"
Finally Ace took a look around the room. For the first time he noticed that Whitebeard barely fit into the room they were in. He then also noticed a desk, closet and a bed in the room. It looked like one of the cabins that usually a division commander would get.
"Well this will be your room from now on." Whitebeared chuckled at the confused look Ace gave him. "You are from now on Commander of the second division."
"Second division commander? I think I like that." Ace eyes went wide as he heard cheers from outside his new room but then he smirked. "Oi… Oyaji? Can I make Sabo my second in command or so?"
The pirate captain chuckled lightly already knowing that this question would have come sooner or later. "I expected him to be."
Ace grinned up at Whitebeard who smiled at his son. Before either of them could say anything more they heard more cheers from outside the room. Ace side eyed his father as he walked over to the door and opened it just in time to hear a loud yell.
"ITS PARTY TIME! ACE ACCEPTED!"
Loud cheers erupted once more louder than before. Suddenly Ace found himself together with his crew mates in the great hall partying. Sabo was right next to him grinning from ear to ear as he nudge Ace side. "Second division commander huh? Wonder what Lu would say to that."
"He would grin and laugh like the idiot he is." Ace laughed as he then blinked at looked at his blond brother. "Do you think Lu would join Whitebeard too if we asked him."
Both brothers stared at each other for a while before they burst out laughing. ""Nah! He is to stubborn!""
Suddenly a black haired pirate eating a cherry pie sat down next to Ace. Sabo eyed the man a little but kept on smiling. "Yo Ace. Congratulation."
Ace turned to look at the one next to him and smiled. "Teach you're not angry? Your longer here than me."
"Nope its fine." Teach laughed as he munched on another cherry pie.
Suddenly some flower bouget was dropped in front of Ace and he looked up to see Thatch leaning his arm on Ace head grinning down at the teen. "Congratulation."
Sabo and Ace glanced at each other and then looked 'worriedly' up at Thatch. ""We didn't know you swing that way.""
The pirates around them laughed loudly as Sabo and Ace both got knocked on the head by Thatch. "Jeez, I am being nice here and then this happens."
Everyone laughed and had a good time as suddenly Marco casually walked also over to them and…. dropped a stack of papers before Ace.
Everyone looked at him as if he was crazy but the first division commander just kept a smirk on his face. "Since you got promoted... you are also going to get more work. I expect these to be finished by tomorrow – yoi."
Ace face fell as he stared at the paper stack. He looked over to Thatch who had suddenly disappeared. He turned to Sabo who only patted his shoulder before also walking off. His eyes searched for Teach who was already gone anyway. Lastly he looked back up at Marco.
"You… are kidding right?"
"Not one bit – yoi." Macro grinned as he walked away leaving a distressed Ace behind who slowly freaked out about the paper work.
"Those are just some unimportant things right?" Thatch asked as Marco walked past him.
"They are – yoi." The phoenix nodded.
"Why are you telling Ace that he has to finish that till tomorrow?" Sabo joined in curious of what was happening.
"Just a little welcome to his new position." Marco grinned happily as Sabo sweat dropped.
"You just want some to punish him for our pranks, right?" Thatch laughed but then paled as he saw Marco looking at them happily.
"Yep and these are for you." Out of nowhere Marco dropped stacks of papers in Sabo's and Thatch's hands. Both looked at them with a 'Are-you-kidding-me-look'.
"I expect them to be finished by tomorrow also." With this words Marco walked off waving with one of his hand in a sign of dismiss. The two could only stare after him with open mouths as the rest of the hall broke out in laugher.
"He will train me?" Luffy asked his eyes sparkling as he was sparring with some random Marine.
"He didn't say that yet." Kuzan answered as he watched Luffy kick away his sparring partner.
"Why won't purple hair Ji-san just train me?" Luffy muttered as he rotated his arm waiting for his sparring partner to stand up again. But soon Luffy grinned to himself as he truned around his whole body and went to attack Kuzan.
"GOMU GOMU NO PISTOLE!" Kuzan sidestepped the attack, grabbed Luffy's arm and threw him over his shoulder. Turning around in midair Luffy swung around tried to slam down his both his feet into Kuzan.
"GOMU GOMU NO AXT!" Before Luffy could land the hit Kuzan broke into ice pieces appearing a few meters behind Luffy again. "Mmmmh a good comeback boy."
"GOMU GOMU NO WHIP!" The raven haired boy yelled as he swung around his leg but once again Kuzan blocked the attack by grabbing the leg. "You still lack strength."
"You still need to learn a lot more before you can beat me." Kuzan smiled at Luffy shortly before he started to swing the boy around over his head and then releasing him. With a loud crash Luffy smashed into the next wall but he didn't stay down long as he soon stood up again and run at the Marine Admiral once more.
"GUMO GUMO NO…." Luffy let his arm rotate once more. "PISTOLE!"
"I need to go back to work now." This time the Admiral didn't move to dodge the attack instead he grabbed Luffy's arm and slammed it into the ground causing Luffy to be pulled into the direction of the Admiral. Suddenly Luffy felt how his arm grew colder, his eyes went wide as he noticed that Kuzan was freezing his arm onto the ground with a thick layer of ice. "I will see you later."
"Nnnnnnnngggg! THAT'S NOT FAIR!" Luffy yelled loudly as he tried to get his arm free. Seeing that it wasn't going to work Luffy moved his leg to kick the Admiral that was walking away from him. Only that Kuzan then also froze it to the ground. "OI! Stop that!"
"The ice should be melted off by the time dinner is ready." Kuzan answered as he walked off the training ground.
"Sleepy-Mask is a meanie…" Luffy pouted as he just lay on the ground not bothering to keep trying to escape. A rumble was heard and Luffy stuck out his tongue. "I am hungry."
Suddenly someone sat down next to Luffy, the straw hatted boy had to stretch his neck out a little so he could at the person next to him. "PURPLE HAIR JI-SAN!"
"Shut it brat." Zephyr answered as he glanced down at the boy. "The way you are now you won't be able to beat Kuzan."
Luffy kept quiet as he let the older Marine talk. "I will train you a little and I am going to try changing your mind to become a Marine. I won't train you and let you then become one of those damn pirates."
Zephyr waited for an answer from the boy as he watched him from the corner of his eyes. He was a little stunned as he saw the boy grinning up at him.
"Shishishishsishishishi, I will still become Pirate King no matter what!"
Zephyr smirked at the boy's determination. "We will see about that brat."
"Ace… what do you think you are doing?" Sabo asked as he watched his brother grinning with his arm on fire.
"Burning some trash." Ace sung more than said as he piled up some papers on the ground.
"You do know that this is not classified as trash?" Sabo sweat dropped.
"Well Marco said we have to finish them by tomorrow and I finish them by burning them." Ace stated happily.
"I am on Ace side! Besides, burning this can count as 'trash'!" Thatch cheered happily as he placed more papers on the already growing pile.
Sabo sighed as he watched the two piled up more papers in the middle of Ace's room. While he did already finish of the papers Marco gave him, Thatch and Ace decided to burn them and for once… Sabo thought that it was a bad idea to let them do that.
"Weren't you supposed to do that paperwork Thatch?" Sabo asked a last attempt to stop at least one of them.
Said cook grinned at Sabo as he walked to stand next to him, placing his arm on his shoulder. "I AM doing them by burning them just like Ace. Marco would never entrust me with important paper work and didn't you hear what he told us before."
"This is such a bad idea." Sabo sweat dropped as he didn't know what else to say, watching to raven haired brother Sabo then realized that it was too late to say anything anyway. Ace was already holding out his right arm onto the pile of paper clearly enjoying that he was able to burn something.
"You are enjoying that more than you should." Sabo only muttered as Thatch chuckled and Ace grinned happily at the papers turning to ash.
Finally after Ace burned down some more trash and the three had cleaned of the room from the reminding ash they went back on deck. They were sitting on deck chatting quietly about their next prank as Marco suddenly slammed open the door to the deck open.
"THATCH?!" Said cook paled as he heard his name and hide behind the two brothers.
Second later Marco was standing before the three staring down at them anger visible in his eyes. "WHERE THE HELL DID ALL THE PAPERWORK GO?! WHERE ARE THE REPORTS?!"
Sabo glanced at Ace as he muttering a low "Told you it's a bad idea."
The three exchange glances shortly before Ace jumped up dragging Sabo with him while shouting "RUN!" Followed by Thatch as Marco run after them his arms already covered in blue flames.
"Why are you dragging me along?! I did my share of the paperwork!" Sabo complained but still kept running alone.
"Uh… Panic?" Ace answered as he looked back at his brother.
At the same time Haruta run happily over to Izo and Vista. "Hey! Have you heard about the destroyed Marine base not far from here?!"
"No why?" Vista asked as he crossed his arms.
"It was Garp's base and it's said that it got totally destroyed!"
Ace and Sabo who run right at that moment past these three stropped in their tracks causing Thatch to run into them while Marco managed to stop in time.
"Ouch, why would you two stop running?!" Thatch asked as he slowly stood up again paling as he felt Marco's presence behind him.
But the two brothers ignored him completely as the stumbled over their own feet to get over to Haruta, grabbing her at her shoulders at the same time, Sabo on her left side while Ace was on her right side. ""WHOSE BASE DID YOU SAY?!""
Surprised Haruta stared at the two brothers. "Garp's base. It's not far from here." She answered a little unsure as the two brothers suddenly paled and froze. Curious Haruta pocked them but they didn't react.
She then turned to Izo. "I think I broke them."
I can tell you that Sabo and Ace are going to come close to finding out but still it will take some time. Also next or the chapter after the next will maybe have a little time skip in it again. Btw... I am still busy in rl but I will keep trying to upload the next chapter soon.
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