Hi everyone here is chapter 7!
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Chapter. 7
Garp turned and faced Sengoku after the last of the marines left the room.
"What are you thinking?" Garp said to his longtime friend.
"We will do whatever is necessary to ensure that he chooses to become a marine. Kari was here she said if I even thought about killing him she would destroy every marine base on the planet. Who his father is not important anymore that devil fruit makes him an ancient weapon, and that power we are going to need on our side."
"Damn Sorcerous. She gave Ace that sword as well something about it being a family heirloom, I can't find it mentioned anywhere." Garp said.
"I am going to tell the Gorosei about him tomorrow they will need to know about him. I am not as concerned with that sword, I couldn't find out about it either, his identity will be safe."
"They will want him as a weapon it won't matter to them what his own goal are they will make him stay at Marineford until he agrees to join." Garp said wondering if it was good or bad.
"That is true but, we have 8 years to convince him to join of his own free will and they will probably attempt to convince Ace to join as well." Sengoku said he did have to put a plan together incase Ace decided to leave.
"If you keep him locked away on this island then he will never join he wants to see the world and travel." Garp reasoned.
Sengoku thought, Garp was right, Ace could not just train year round he was still a child. "I suppose we can plan some trips with Aokiji or Kizaru he will need things to look forward to." Garp nodded accepting the idea.
"Any other vice admiral would do as well. Who were you thinking of getting to teaching him about his zoan forms?" Garp asked. "And on that note why not you?"
"There are a few in Cipher Pol who could help and teach him the 6 powers at the same time. I want him to meet different marines there is also Drake a rear admiral he could help. I can't teach him I have too many other responsibilities to take care of I can't also be in charge of the child."
"Don't use CP9 I don't want Ace to learn of Dark Justice, I can talk to Drake what kind of Zoan."
Sengoku nodded. "Ancient Zoan model T-Rex. He has been with the marines a while and can be a good influence on Ace."
"That should work I can talk to him later,"
"Yes there is also his limits that we don't know. That fruit is rumored to have created the Grandline but we don't know how long it took or if it really was that fruit. Most of this is speculation, there is too much we still don't know." He sighed feeling another headache come on, "I am sending the elemantia to the research department if they can duplicate it then we can have a way to contain him if he does successfully leave or becomes a threat. I don't care what that women said if your grandson becomes a threat I will treat him like any other pirate. She only said I couldn't kill him that doesn't mean I can't lock him away until he agrees to be a marine."
Garp nodded, "That would be for the best I suppose but as you said we have 8 years until he can enlist." He sighed he did not want this for Ace, being a marine sure that was fine, but why did he need to eat that fruit, "Oh I bought some new Tea let's break out the crackers!"
"Will you be serious for more than 5 minutes?!"
Ace wondered around Marineford. Apparently everyone had now been given the brief about him and many did not pay him any mind. He left the large main building and found the town. His room was located in the heart of the large building surrounded by Vice-admirals and admirals staying at Marineford.
Sengoku must have known about his plan to try to leave he looked at the water. Looking around he could see several marines watching him. Some of them were at the meeting while others were watching out of the corner of their eye. Damn if he tried to leave now then he would just tip them off that he was really trying to escape.
He saw a small garden and went there he could start practicing no other marines were around and Aokiji just said not to burn down the base. He went over to the garden it was small and just a patch of grass with some plants and a bench. He looked at a small patch of ground. He held out his hand and tried to use his power.
He was able to make some small plants begin to grow.
"Well you're getting the hang of one of your paramecia powers." He turned to see Tsuru.
"I wanted to try this since Garp let me have the book on the ship." Ace said not sure what to make of the older marine.
She sat down next to him on the bench. "Well good job you have some control over the devil fruit."
"How long will it take me to master the fruit?" Ace asked he was curious to see what it would take.
"Depends. Some devil fruit you need to be creative to master. Others it's just about power. Most devil fruit are only limited by your imagination."
Ace nodded in understanding. He would need to figure this out in order to escape. He messed around more with his power as Tsuru watched.
After a while a marine came up and said something to the older marine and handed her a paper.
"I see, Ace when you were on Cordona did you happen to know if they were holding a pirate there?" She asked.
Ace looked over did she mean Marco? "I heard that they wanted Gramps to transport a pirate but that is it." Ace said, did Marco escape? "Did something happen?"
"Whitebeard's first mate destroyed the base." She said showing him a piece of paper. It was a bounty poster.
Wanted Dead or Alive
Phoenix Marco
The photo resembled the man he met but then, "Who is Whitebeard?" Ace asked he never read the paper. Dadan only read it sparingly and he didn't care.
She raised an eyebrow at the question, "He is known as the strongest man in the world. He is a fearsome pirate that rules part of the New World with the other Yonkou."
"… Yonkou?" Ace asked.
"The navy has very little control over what happens in the new world there four powerful pirates rule there. Whitebeard is one of them." The women explained.
Ace hummed thinking, pirates like that existed. Pirate groups so powerful that they could stand against the marines? He wondered how they got to be that strong.
"Actually now that I think of it you might also be able to use his power as well, it's the tremor-tremor fruit a powerful paramecia." She said.
"So what should I do if I have his power?"
"We would have to have you practice it on a deserted island. That way no one would get hurt if you lose control." She said.
Ace nodded and looked down maybe he could use that power to escape? "Can I borrow this?" He asked motioning to the poster and she nodded.
"Yea Sengoku is going to want to know what they are up to and the possibility that they now know of you." She said and Ace looked up.
"Would it be that bad if they did know about me?" He asked.
"We want to avoid any unnecessary confrontations for now." She said.
"How long do you stay in Marineford?" Ace asked changing the subject the last thing he needed was the marines to want to watch him more.
"I normally stay and train new recruits and help with developing strategies on dealing with pirates in areas." She said, "I do have a ship and a crew but they focus mostly on defense now of the HQ. Have you discovered anything else about your power?" She asked.
"No, other than turning to fire and magma when I first got the fruit, I know I can do that and control plants but that's it so far."
"I see well that's the other thing about your power, you need to discover what you can do. Right now you have barely scratched the surface. The real strength of that fruit is not that you can be powerful with it, it is that you are varied in what you can do." She said.
"How do I figure out what I can do?" The faster he mastered his power the faster he could get out of here. No way did he want to end up staying at Marineford for 8 years.
"Practice and a lot of it. You'll be with Aokiji for most of the day tomorrow learning about the different logia forms that you can become."
"If I'm logia, paramecia and zoan what kind of fruit did I eat?"
"Good question that fruit has always stood out we only know of it through rumor until you ate it we didn't even think it existed." Ace nodded. "It's starting to get late now why don't you run along and go to bed. You're going to have a long day tomorrow."
"Thanks for talking with me." Ace said the older woman smiled.
"No problem kid."
Ace went back to the room and opened the door. He had a room to himself. Sengoku had loaded it with everything he would need.
A desk was off to one wall while a bookcase was off to another. He scanned the titles. There were everything from books on mythical animals to textbooks on the earth. There were navigation titles and books on the ocean.
The closet was filled with different clothing. They all had the marine symbol on them.
He was stuck here for 7 years or until he escaped. They were offering to train and help him so he wouldn't make a fuss over wearing their mark, or not a big one. He took off his shoes and climbed into bed.
He would have a long day tomorrow.
Hope you enjoyed the chapter next one should be up sometime next week!
