Author's Note: Thanks everyone for all your reviews! We're at 29 reviews as of right now and I'm loving all the feedback I'm gaining from you guys. So now our story continues! A small time skip has occurred, just a small one to where Emma is headed into the depths of Impel Down with Garp to see Ace before his execution. Please enjoy and keep reviewing!

Sengoku sneered while talking to his Vice Admirals in his office as they planned for the execution of Portgas D. Ace. His eyes narrowed as he sat behind his desk, angry with the sudden disappearance of Garp.

"Where is Garp?" Sengoku growled, distort with Garp's most unspeakable timing to disappear just as Whitebeard's crew was slowly closing in on them.

"Vice Admiral Garp has went to Impel Down." One of the Vice Admirals spoke up, nervous to inform the Fleet Admiral of the news.

"What at a time like this! Garp, you think you can just do as you please whenever you want- Fine, contact Commodore Sengoku and order her here immediately!" The Vice Admiral gulped and started to sweat while his breaths seemed to nearly stop.

"I-It seems that- that the Commodore h-has a-accompanied Vice Admiral Garp t-to Impel Down."

"WHAT!?"

"We won't have much time here." Garp's voice echoed in my mind as I walked behind him down the darkened staircases of Impel Down. The only nose was that of their boots clacking against the cold stone floor. The darkness held an unsettling feeling, but only the strongest and most dangerous criminals were held in the very bottom depths of this jail. It was cold and lonesome, the only company that was given was that of past memories and the time that was given to remissness these memories. Arriving to the bottom of the stairs, Garp and I headed toward the cell that held Ace. I found my thoughts traveling to another time, those of warmer and sunnier days than the ones that seemed to linger within this eery place.

"Look at you." Garp spoke, mentioning the way I looked as we walked through the darkness. I was pulled from my thoughts and my eyes met with the back of his head.

"Sir?"

"Getting married in a little less than a months time to one of the strongest Navy Admirals in the world, and yet you've found yourself down here in the darkness with some of the most wanted criminals in the world." My eyes shifted down to the side, I couldn't figure out this feeling that I was having in reaction to his words. But, he was right, I'm going to be married very soon and yet I find myself here in all places. Why was I here? Garp had asked if I wished to come along with him, but he never required me to come, I had came to my own accord. But why?

Approaching the cell, which was located in the 7th level of Impel Down, I kept my eyes on the floor and slightly hidden behind Garp. Why was I feeling like this? What was the point of me being here in the first place, why did I want so badly to see Ace, who I could do nothing for in the first place?

"This way, Vice Admiral Garp, Commodore Sengoku. Please, be careful!" One of the guards told us as he clacked his heels together as we walked past.

"Sure." Garp told him, obvious that he could handle things himself.

"Oh no, what a horrible sight." Garp commented as he stopped in front of the cell. I peeked around Garp's shoulder and saw the badly beaten up Ace sitting there with Sea Stone cuffs all around his limbs which kept him from using his Devil Fruit powers.

"Are you still alive?" Garp asked, causing Ace to raise his lowered head and look directly at the both of us.

When we both emerged from the depths of Impel Down, Garp lead the way outside into the welcoming sun light. I took a deep breath of the fresh sea air and stopped walked, my gaze locked onto the blue sky above as my thoughts started to wander. Garp stopped a few steps ahead of myself, turning around and looking back at me.

"Something the matter, Emily?" Garp questioned. My eyes never left the blue view of the sky as I just continued to stand there.

"Why would something like this ever happen?" I asked to no one in particularly. Garp watched me while saying nothing, most likely waiting on me to explain my question.

"Ace is an idiot, but he isn't someone who would ever become an evil person. He is as innocent as they come in today's world and never has he once harmed a single innocent person. Sure, he is one of Whitebeard's crew members, one of Whitebeard's "sons", but that is no reason for Ace to have the bounty that he has and this type of punishment that he is about to face. Something is wrong Garp, someone has to be behi-"

"Emily." Garp interrupted, causing me to look at him by the deeper tone of his voice. His eyes were narrowed and his gaze lingered in my own while he crossed his arms over one another.

"What do you know about Ace's father?" He asked, causing me to raise a brow.

"I was never told anything about his father. Ace never once mentioned his biological father to me so I wasn't even sure if he knew the man." Garp closed his eyes and lowered his head before reopening them and giving me a rather harsh look, and it was a look that I had not seen in a long, long, long time.

"Emily, I believe that you have been kept in the dark long enough. There are somethings that you need to know about Ace- and about yourself." I raised a brow, what was Garp talking about? What information had been kept from me about Ace and myself?

"About me? What about me? Garp, what the hell is going on?" My eyes narrowed, feeling my hands tightening from the sudden anxiety that I was starting to feel that came from no where. Garp took a step few steps toward me only stopping when there was about three feet between the two of us and he towered over me. The gaze in his eyes never changed as his voice became lower and almost a whisper.

"It's time you learned about your real father."