Two weeks had passed and miraculously nothing bad had happened between him and Teach. The man mainly kept to himself and in his room, but he did go out and made his rounds.

He had to admit, two weeks with no Thatch was pretty uneventful. The man knew how to make things exciting. He was sure that even Marco started to miss him too. The thought made Sabo grin, even Ace seemed down at Thatch's absence.

Ace and Sabo had to suffer deck duty for a few more days after that and Marco finally let them off when a few other members had started to get a bit riled up. Something about competition between divisions that happen from time to time. Marco eventually ended the dispute every time. Sabo was just thankful that he didn't have to swab the deck anymore. He was a little ways from throwing the mob into the sea. Sabo was disappointed that he and Ace couldn't spar like that anymore unless they were on land.

Sabo was in the nest as he talked with someone from the base on something when he spotted the familiar ship sailing toward them.

"I'll talk to you later." He said suddenly and hung up before he gave the other a chance to say something. He heard the sound of wings flapping and noticed a blue and yellow aura. Sabo popped his head out from the nest and glanced up. He spotted Marco in his phoenix form perched on top of the nest. "Missed him, huh?" Sabo grinned up at Marco, who seemed to puff up and looked away. He chuckled for a moment and made his way down the nest when he saw people come up the deck, along with Ace.

Sabo easily spotted Thatch by his pompadour on the deck. The man grinned and waved at them with excitement. The man was in good spirits, something great must've happened on his mission. Soon enough, the ship finally anchored next to the Moby Dick, and an exchange of pirates swapped. Thatch hopped on board, a grand smile on his face as he held up a small chest.

"Thatch, why in good spirits, man?" someone in the small crowd asked. The fourth division commander grinned even wider. He had spotted Ace, who looked as if he had woken up. Probably from another fit again.

"Ah, Ace! Guess what I found?" Thatch asked. Ace looked at the man as he opened up the chest.

"Isn't that a devil's fruit?" Ace asked, recognizing the swirled pattern on the purple fruit.

"Yup! I don't know which fruit it is yet, though. I think we have a book of devils fruit in the library, don't we?" Thatch wondered.

Sabo tensed, quickly glancing around and spotted Teach, who was beside Ace. The large man's face was shocked."I can help you with that. I have a book on devils fruit that I carry around. It's in my bag." Sabo offered. He actually did have one, you never know if a person might need it one day. It was something handy to keep.

"That would help a lot. I'll see you later after I have to deal with everything else. By the way, where's Marco?" he wondered. He was about to look up until Marco shifted back to a human, save for his feet, and perched on his shoulders.

"Well didn't you have fun, yoi." Marco smirked at the man.

"Well, it was interesting. I found the fruit when I got lost and this guy I asked for directions made me completely more lost." Thatch was still ticked off about that. Stupid brat. Ah well, at least he found this beauty.

Due to Thatch's misfortune, he met up with Sabo around sundown. Marco had bugged him about his stupid paperwork to no end and to shut him up he had to do it. Though he did sneak away because he really did want to see what kind of fruit this was. They had agreed with meeting up on deck before it got completely dark. It was less crowded that way.

Thatch whistled a tune as he came up to the deck, spotting Sabo who leaned onto the rail. The blonde spotted him and greeted the man.

"Man, I really did wonder what happened to that book we had though." Thatch wondered.

"Nah, it's not a problem." Sabo waved him off.

"Did you consider eating one?" Thatch asked, curious as to what fruit the blonde wanted.

"Not really, I kind of wanted to find my little brother's fruit. To keep as a memento and maybe eat it or give it to someone I trust one day." Sabo scratched his cheek as he blushed a bit.

"Aw, aren't you sweet." Thatch teased the boy. He motioned for the boy to come over and away from the rail. The two looked over the book and tried to find the fruit.

"Man, I keep forgetting that there was so many weird looking fruits." Sabo muttered, making Thatch laugh. A bolt of lightning and thunder rolling in the crowds interrupted the two. Both looked up at the sky, dark ominous clouds rolling in quickly. "I say we head in before it starts to pour down on us." The deck was quiet, making chills go up Sabo's spine. It was only the two of them.

"Yeah, I really don't want it to kill the hair. Besides, I don't think it's in this book." Thatch sighed sadly. "Ah! Wait, these pages are stuck!" Thatch peeled the pages apart and finally found it. "Its—"

"—the Yami Yami no mi, a fruit I've been searching for years." A voice startled the two. Sabo didn't even felt the man's presence until it was too late. Thatch had dropped the fruit and fell over to the ground with blood seeping through his back.

'Shit!' Sabo suddenly felt a knife cut into his bicep, blood starting to stain the sleeve of his shirt from it. Quickly, Sabo grabbed the fruit and leaped far away. 'how in the hell did I not sense him? He slipped right through my haki!' Sabo cursed. This man was too dangerous.

"Give me the damn fruit!" Sabo glared at the man. A flash of lightning revealed it was Teach. Not that he needed that, he knew right away it was him.

"Wasn't he your family? Your brother?" Sabo shouted at the man. Even through all of his shouting, the thunder muffled all of it.

"Zehahahahahaha! I only joined because I know it would help me in finding the fruit quicker had I did on my own!" For a fat man, he was sure quick. Sabo hissed at the stinging coming from his arm. He glanced over at Thatch as he dodged Teach again.

Dammit, Thatch was going to die at this rate. An idea came to the blonde. 'Sorry 'bout this Moby' Sabo inhaled, and exhaled. When Teach had charged again he stood his ground. He covered his abdomen in haki, letting the knife slide and cut his side. Raising his arms, he delivered a hard blow to his stomach. "Dragon's Claw!" Sabo shouted as the blow sent Teach back into the large mast. Surprisingly, it didn't knock the man out. Before the man could recover, Sabo covered one arm in haki and stuck his fingers into the deck. "Dragon's Claw: Dragon's breath!" Sabo shouted, and sent pressure through the ground, sending shockwaves that made the deck rumble. He had hoped that would catch someone's attention. It should have, because he did some pretty nasty damage.

The rain started to shower on down. He started to get a bit woozy at the amount of blood he was losing. Teach had managed to recover and charged at him. Sabo cursed as he tried to jump away, only to slip on the slippery deck. Sabo quickly looked up as Teach reached him and gripped his throat. Teach raised his arm, knife in hand and pierced through Sabo's right shoulder.

"Zehahaha, once I'm done with you, I'll be leaving." Before Teach could reach for the fruit in Sabo's hand, the door slammed open and people poured onto the deck.

"What the hell?! Teach!" Haruta shouted at the man who was choking Sabo. He looked to the side and noticed Thatch was on the ground in a pool of his blood. "THATCH! Someone get Marco and tell Pops!" Haruta ordered out. "Take Thatch inside now!" the whitebeard pirates went over to gently pick up their downed brother and took him inside.

"THE HELL ARE YOU DOING TO MY BROTHER?!" Ace's voice practically erupted. He charged forward at Teach and knocked him off Sabo. The blonde had rolled away with the fruit still in his hands. Ace, furious when he saw the state his brother was in, threw his flames at Teach. "HIKAN!" Ace shouted as his flames burned Teach, who screamed in pain.


Meanwhile inside, Marco was in his room that was clogged with paperwork until he felt the entire ship shake. It felt like Pops used his powers, which started to worry him. The shake had knocked over the piles of paperwork, but at the moment he didn't care.

In record time, the phoenix made it to Whitebeard's room, which opened just before he could.

"Pops! That wasn't you?" Marco asked him.

"That came from up the deck." Whitebeard said as he glanced up to the deck, wondering what that was.

"I don't think that was any lightning or thunder, yoi." Marco said. The phoenix then heard shouting and footsteps running everywhere.

"Come, son. Let's find out what's going on." Whitebeard said. Marco nodded and turned. Both made their way up to the deck before running into Izou, who had his makeup off and hair down.

"It's Thatch!" he said. "Teach stabbed him! He's in the infirmary now and the doctor and nurses are working on him."

"Wait, what?!" Marco exclaimed. Whitebeard quickly walked past them and made it up to the deck, where the mess laid out in front of him. Some of his sons were surrounding Sabo, who clutched at his throat as he tried to regain his composure. Ace stood over Teach, who was still on the ground as the man tried to catch his breath.

"What's going on!" Whitebeard declared, sending everyone into silence. Haruta ran up to him, tears clear in his eyes.

"Teach turned on us! He tried to kill Thatch and Sabo for the devil's fruit!" the sentence made Whitebeard's blood boil.

Ace wanted to burn the man before him alive, but he knew Whitebeard would want to take care of him. As Pops approached the two, Ace had stepped back and went to Sabo, who had a small ring of pirates around his brother to protect him. Sabo was still trying to regulate his breathing again, though Ace could see the bruise on his neck forming. He had blood coming from his arm and his side.

"Take him to the infirmary now!" Ace told them. The guys sputtered, but went to work. They carefully supported him and led him inside.

"Bah, I'm fine guys. I-it's just a little blood." Sabo tried to convince them, but the pooling blood around him made that kind of hard. Also the knife was still lodged into him.

"Idiot! Don't talk!" Izou ran over and supported Sabo up. Another had lend a hand and carried Sabo off inside.

Whitebeard glared down at Teach, who finally regained his composure and sneered at everyone, most of all Sabo.

"Stupid brat! If he hadn't been in my way I would've gotten my hands on it!" Teach snarled at Sabo's retreating back.

"Teach! You DARE break the only rule in this family?! To kill a nakama?!" Whitebeard's voice shook the entire deck. "Not only one of my son's life is in danger, but you have put two lives in danger under me."

"D-dammit all!" Teach scrambled away from the furious captain, the furious father. There was no way to convince them he was innocent at all. His burning hatred for the blonde that was Ace's supposed brother grew. Damn that brat! If he weren't here, then he would've gotten away with it, had time to take a dingy and high tailed it outta there.

"What was your goal, Teach?! What was your goal in betraying us?!" Whitebeard demanded an answer from him. Teach only glared and practically spat at him.

"I've been searching for that fruit nearly my entire life! It's the only fruit that can make me more powerful than anybody in the world! IT'S THE ONLY WAY FOR ME TO BECOME THE PIRATE KING! ZEHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Teach declared.

"Someone like you? You are not who Roger is waiting for at One Piece." Whitebeard sneered at him. Quicker than Teach could have expected, Whitebeard had lurched at him. He had a hard grip on Teach's entire head. "Get the hell off my ship!" Whitebeard, with all of his might, threw him off the Moby Dick.

Marco had stayed silent as he watched Pops deal with the traitor. Oh sweet god, did he want to deal with Teach himself. He knew everyone else on deck felt the same way, most feeling ultimately betrayed. The man had spent decades with the Whitebeard pirates, why was he so damn patient? All for a stupid devil's fruit? Speaking of devil's fruit—

"Where the hell is that damn fruit, yoi?" Marco asked everyone.

"Sabo still has it. Kid sure had a death grip on it." Someone said. Marco nodded.

"C'mon sons, let's get back inside before we all have to visit the infirmary." Whitebeard said, noticing that everyone was soaking wet.


SOME VACATION THIS IS HUH SABO. Maybe i should retitle this to Sabo's Great Vacation, LOL.

That's the perfect way to get some people's attention and poor Moby.

I've read a LOT of fanfiction where the scene of Thatch and Teach happens. A lot of people set it up in his room. Not that I'm saying 'that's wrong' but I wanted to separate the two away from the crew so Sabo has to defend himself against Teach. Thatch's death did take place on the deck too. I really don't want to make Sabo TOO OP, if you know what I mean. If he's too strong, it won't be as interesting cause he'll just bull doze everyone down. Teach in the beginning BEFORE he obtains the fruit was dangerous to begin with. That's how Shanks got his scar on his face, from Teach's claw blades. So he had no problem putting some damage on Sabo.

Between Ace and Sabo, who do you think is stronger? Sabo DID train under Dragon (I think). But Ace and his Mera Mera no mi though. What are your thoughts? Think Sabo has more up his sleeve than what he showed at the Colosseum match?

Also I noticed a lot of you asking questions, don't worry guys! All will be revealed as the story goes on.

ps i noticed i spelt Izou wrong, my bad ya'll.