Sorry I meant to have this out sooner but then I had this weird dream and decided to write a book about it...
Anyway, here is chapter 25 for Trapped, thank you everyone who has followed and favorited the story.
And to those that reviewed:
Girl-luvs-manga: It is he doesn't want to be there and he is going to start to take it out on the marines
Lulu: Thanks for the review! I don't think it would fall out, but maybe that's why his hair is white now? Yes Garp does knows that Luffy is on Shanks' ship. I still think that you should get one seeing as you can save the stories that you like on it :) Yep all of the Yonkou know about Ace and Dragon he knows too and that does sound like a fun dream, the reason why this is sort of late is because I had to get that idea out of my head.
I actually did hear something about that and it does sound interesting. From what I think that it might be true but I haven't seen when we would get that. I don't know if it's real or not but we can always hope that it is.
Chapter 25
Ace walked out to the training field where Kuzan was waiting for him.
He realized last night that if he constantly tried to escape then the marines would consistently catch him since they watched him nonstop.
He figured that if he didn't try to escape for say a month then the marines might let their guard down thinking that he was getting used to the idea of staying. It was worth a try. He would have to act though and that was going to be hard on him he didn't want to be here.
Kuzan looked up when he entered the training ground. "Well, you're early." He said seeing Ace.
Ace nodded, "Yep so what are we doing first?" Ace asked.
"First is target practice. You need to be able to hit you target with your elements." Kuzan said pointing to the different targets, "Once you get good at this then we will escalate to moving targets than to actual combat." Ace nodded, "Today though will be split from target practice and defense."
"Okay." Ace said looking at the different targets on the other side of the field not too far and he figured that he should be able to hit them.
"Good each target has a different element label I want you to only use that element when striking at them."
Ace nodded and got in position he could see the different targets labeled with the elements.
He fired off the first element which was lightning it missed the target completely and hit the wall. "Ummm." Ace said looking at his aim. He had no practice in this field and figured it would take a while to learn but he didn't expect to miss the target completely.
"It's all right don't expect to be a master at it immediately." Kuzan said and Ace got back into position.
He felt the energy surge and fired it. He hit the outer rim of the target.
"Better, you don't have to keep going with lightning, you know you can use other elements." Kuzan said.
"Why can't I just fire off a constant stream and then move to my target?" Ace asked that would be easier.
"What if you needed to hit someone without them seeing it coming? Someone who knows the attack is coming would be able to dodge and then turn around and attack you." Kuzan said resting on a bench. "It would also give away your position if you needed to hide."
Ace nodded it did make sense and kept trying next he tried water and shot a stream out at the target. He missed again and hit the wall, he did manage to chip it though.
He frowned he was better at close combat.
They continued this method until Ace was getting tired from using multiple elements he didn't feel tired before as he was not using his devil fruit to this extent.
"Better." He said after he was able to hit a few of the targets though not in the center. He was at least able to hit them and not the wall or passing marines.
"Thanks so what's next?" He asked though his breath was labored.
"Now we take a break. You still have combat practice next and I don't think you will be any good there if you don't rest, as you train you will build your stamina and will be able to go longer." Kuzan said laying on the ground getting bored of the bench since he couldn't stretch out on it.
"Okay," Ace said sitting down next to Kuzan there were some things he wanted to ask the admiral, "The warlords are coming again soon right?" Ace asked.
"Yea they are, Sengoku doesn't want you near them though so try to stay away from them."
"Why though? Don't they serve the marines?" He liked Jimbe and Mihawk though he was pretty sure the later was using him for his own entertainment.
"They do but the fact remains that they are still pirates." Kuzan said moving to see his student, "Some of them won't care but others will want to take advantage of you. They won't be here for another few months so I would put them out of your head."
Ace nodded relaxing. "Do you know what happened to the pirates that tried to kidnap me?"
Kuzan looked down at him, "They were destroyed you won't see them again." He said simply, not wanting to go into details about Shanks destroying the other crew. It wasn't as though he cared about it, if Shanks didn't he probably would have.
"Huh?" Ace said leaning back again so the pirates were gone he didn't feel too bad about it.
"Anyway there is the matter of you attempting to leave yesterday after we got back." Kuzan said raising an eyebrow at him, "Why did you leave them if you don't want to stay here?" The marine asked.
"They were going to hurt my brothers." Ace said, "I couldn't let them do that."
"Well at least you did escape them." He said, "So you would rather be here then with some pirates?" Kuzan questioned.
"Of course. I don't want to be here but that doesn't mean I am going to let myself be taken by any pirate crew." Ace said.
"Good to hear," He said and the two relaxed.
After another few hours the bell rang and Ace got up Kuzan who was asleep and woke up. "That's time why don't you go find Garp."
Ace nodded and left the admiral there to take another nap. After getting a brief lunch he walked around wondering where his grandfather was and what he could possible do to the marines. If he was going to play nice and attempt to not escape he needed a plan.
The times for his training had switched now that he had a zoan instructor, he would switch between logia, paramecia and zoan, in the mornings. In the afternoons he would spend the first three days with Garp in hand to hand combat and then sword practice the other three.
"Ace. We're training over here." Garp said and Ace followed him.
Garp lead them to another part of the base where there were several marines. Ace didn't think that they had been on the base for very long. "Alright you're all sparing with Ace today."
"EHHH!" Was the shock from the marines.
"Ah Vice-admiral, what do you mean?" One of the marines asked.
"Simple, Ace is going to fight all of you those who win have off the rest of the day the rest need to finish their training."
"And what happens if I win all of them?" Ace asked his grandfather.
"Nothing you have tactical training after dinner." Garp said. "But if you purposely lose all matches then I will spar with you."
Ace looked up at him that was new he usually had nights off and he was definitely not going to go easy if he had to fight Garp after.
"Alright first one up!" Garp said and a marine stepped forward. Ace went forward as well.
"Basic hand to hand." Garp said, "And don't be afraid to use all your power against him." The last part was directed at the marines who could not believe they were pitted against a ten year old.
Ace got in position against the marine. Both were unarmed and ready to go.
Garp started the match and the two went forward to fight. Ace easily dodged the first strike then moved in to make his own but was blocked by the man's arm, his shorter stature was against him as he needed to get in close to make a hit.
Ace saw an opening and took it hitting the marine in the gut.
"Ace wins." Garp said.
The other marine was helped up and another took his place. This pattern continued until there were no marines that he hadn't spared against.
Overall he won most of the time. He did lose twice when older marines were dragged in when they passed the training ground. However from the group that Garp originally grabbed he had won against all of them.
"Alright that's enough for today, clearly the rest of you need to step up your game if my 10 year old grandson can beat you." Garp said proud of his grandson and disappointed in the marines.
Ace figured it out, Garp grabbed the lowest performing Marine recruits to fight him. He accomplished two things Ace was able to spar and the others would get a wake-up call being transferred to the Grandline. These marines were probably originally from branch bases. "Ace good job today go grab something to eat and Sengoku will find you in about an hour."
"Sengoku?" Ace asked he only saw him a few times a month.
"Yea once a week you're going to be meeting with him." Garp said.
Ace nodded still confused what would the fleet admiral want with him?
After he ate he wondered around Marineford's main building. The building though was mostly a fortress. Sengoku was supposed to find him but he just decided to see what the marine wanted with him.
"Ace." He turned to see Sengoku.
"Hey, Gramps just said we were meeting not what about." He said.
"This is more of the academic part of your training," Ace just gave him a blank look, "Essentially how to manage supplies and such." He said and Ace already felt waves of boredom.
"Come on now." Sengoku said and Ace followed him.
Most of the lesson was Sengoku giving him problems and Ace having to solve them. Ace did so to the best of his ability. He never had much academic learning other than what Sabo was able to teach him.
He supposed this kind of information was important. Scratch that it was, if he was going to captain a ship then he would need to know what supplies and materials they would need.
While he worked so did Sengoku who, when not teaching him, was reading reports.
He finished for now and handed over his work, "What are the marines going to do about the yonkou?" Ace asked.
Sengoku looked up, "That is still to be decided, the world government wants us to reduce the power that they hold, but it must be done with extreme caution or they will retaliate." He said taking the work, "Ace to supply a ship you need more than food and not in that amount..."
Ace smiled and Sengoku sighed. He would take the small wins about messing with them for now. He was starting to formulate a plan to mess with all of the marines.
Thank you all for reading! I hope to have the next chapter out soon! Also Ace is going to ramp up his pranking soon! Thank you for reading my story!