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Macey: WE'RE BACK!

Macey, no need to shout.

Macey: but i am happy!

okay, okay, chill. do you want to do the reviews?

Macey: you review?

yes, that.

Macey: sure! okay DryBonesZero- yes, i can now see into people's future without the use of a devil fruit. it's a funny really because i think i'm very unique having this power. anyway, yes there arelimitations to it and there are negative side-effects from over-using it. especially since it is not something i can control, yet. dad has nothing to worry about because you are right, i won't kill Uncle West and i won't let the others kill him. he will be very useful for both me and kerennie in future chapters so he won't be killed off just yet but when is killed. it's going to be kind of sweet but really sad at the same time. kerennie has talked to you about Kaitlyn also appearing in We're Taking Ace so i won't say anything about it other than i agree with you that she and Sabo will make a great duo, a great First Mate and Captain. it will be great! anyway, Freedom Fighters!

Freedom Fighters: Right Captain! please remember that kerennie doesn't own piece or it's characters but does own this storyline and OCs. some characters may appear occ.

ASL: Please enjoy the chapter!

when did they get here?

Chapter 7

Don was cursing, swearing, hitting and destroying some rocks and coral under the water. He was a little annoyed and frustrated because of Mace. First, she decides that they would wait till the Celestial Dragon visit because of his and Sin's history with them and now it's decided that they are going to attack and show one up as their back come show for the world to see that the Freedom Fighters are alive and well.

Don has no idea what the hell Mace is even thinking! She got hurt really badly last time! She almost died saving him and Sin and the other slaves from Saint Rolland. So why was she picking a fight with another one!?

Don knew that Sin was in panic mode right now. The guy was just repeating himself and making sure that everything with the ship was okay, probably up to his fourth round of going over everything and saying that it's a triple check to make sure that everything was fine.

Don and Sin knew better than anyone that once Mace has made up her mind like this, there was no changing it. No matter how much they protested she would still go ahead with her plan, with or without their help. So they had no choice but to help! They couldn't just let Mace do something this stupid without backup!

You guys don't have to help. Jack, the boys and me can handle it. That's what Mace said because she knew of their feelings about this. Sure, they had the choice to not help but there was no way they were letting her do this without them! They just can't! She's their captain and if something happened to her… they would be lost without her!

Mace is their leader, their Captain. She is the very symbol of being a Freedom Fighter and a member of the Freedom Fighters crew. If they lost her, there would be no crew anymore. Don wouldn't follow anyone else. Sin would lose himself and gods know what will happen if that happens. Max would probably kill himself- too afraid of the world and not wanting to go back to his old life as a sex slave, raped for the entertainment of older men and women… Jack would have to go into hiding so that his Marine based parents, well, dad more than his mum, wouldn't and couldn't find him and force him to join the Marines. His father was a Vice Admiral or something and his mum was a doctor/medic with the Marines. And Marc… Don has no idea what the guy would do. Probably go back to being a travelling stealing Magician most likely. And Don… he would hurt this world more than anything and would probably lose himself as well.

But one day, we all have to face our fears and I think that day is tomorrow. If you want to help, I don't expect you to do it if you're not ready but I am. I am not going to back down or run or hide. I'm going to stand up and fight. I'll show them what it means, what it really means to be a Freedom Fighter and why we're called the Freedom Fighters. That's also what Mace said.

Don wasn't sure if he was ready to face his fears. To face a Celestial Dragon again. Don knew that Sin wasn't ready. The poor guy was with that bastard longer than Don was and Don knew that bastard hurt Sin, not only physical but emotional and psychologically too. There was no why that he was ready to face that fear. Not yet.

Sin spend almost half of his life as a fighting slave, forced to eat a devil fruit when he was six and to fight and kill everyone that he ever knew, including his own family and friends. Don was the first person, well, Fishman that Sin had met who was stronger than him, and that was six years ago. That's the reason why Sin was so scared of Don, because Sin knew if they were put into a death match against each other, that he would lose…

Don destroyed another rock. Stop! Don't think about it! Don told himself. Right now, Mace needed him and so did Sin. Don couldn't let his emotions get a hold of him so easily! Sin would get even more freaked out.

Don was the First Mate of the Freedom Fighters. He was a pirate! Mace might not have ordered them to do this but she also didn't order them to not do it either. But Don is going to stay by his Captain's side in this fight tomorrow. It is what he signed up on as First Mate. It's what a First Mate does; he stands by his Captain and her choices, no matter what! Even if they don't agree with the choice!

Don swam up and climbed back onto and into the Free Flyer. Don will just find out who is willing to come with him and who is staying behind.

"Max!" Don shouted.

"Yes?" Max answered a little nervous. Don could be scary, whether he meant to be or not. He was shark fishman after all. Max doesn't know or understand much about them other than that they are strong and could kill him easily.

"Get Sin and Marc… please," Don said in his most calming and nice voice he could, "We need have a chat about who's going to fight with the Captain and who's not."

Macey smiled as she and the others waited inside the tree line near where the Grey Terminal used to be before the fire for the rest of her crew. They were all wearing cloaks- Macey, Jack, Sabo, Ace and Luffy. Macey already knew how they were going to get into the town. They watched as the guards were cleaning up the last of the mess from the fire and the town was getting ready and getting up the last of the decorations for the Celestial Dragon's visit tomorrow. Jack was still against the idea but was coming along to be a part of it anyway. Macey would say it's his choice and he would say it's not since Don would kill him if anything happened to her. The First Mate was very protective of their captain.

"How old is Don by the way Mace?" Jack asked Macey, "Do Fishman age the same or differently to humans?"

Jack wasn't sure how old the Fishman, boy, kid, teen or man, was.

Macey thought about it for a moment. "I think Don said he's fourteen?" Macey answered, "Fishman age similarly to humans but differently at the same time. So it's hard to know or say for sure. I guess it's kind like how humans grow differently and how males and females are different kind of thing. Not completely sure. Don't really know enough about Fishman to be able to say for sure."

Jack sighed. He had hoped that Mace would know for sure, not kind of guess it. Oh well, guess Mace can't know everything now can she?

"Who's Don?" Ace asked Sabo- having no idea who or what Jack and Mace were talking about. "And what's a Fishman?"

Jack turned round and stared at Ace was he serious? He didn't know what a Fishman was?! Not knowing who Don, sure, the two have never met but how could the kid not know what a Fishman is!?

"Miss Macey's First Mate," Sabo explained as best as he could. "And a Fishman is… um… how do you explain it without one in front of you…? A human looking fish? Kind like a mermaid? Or something of like that? You'll see when you meet Don."

That was a bad way of descripting Don. He was a human land shark thing nothing like a mermaid or merman.

"Hungry!" Luffy whined.

"We'll eat soon Luffy," Macey told him, "Max is our cook. He's cooking is really yummy and I'll have him make you something to eat when he gets here, okay?"

"Yay!" Luffy cheered.

Sabo looked around them, "Where are they?"

"Well…" Jack said as he looked around them, "I don't know for sure if they would be coming. Sin is beyond terrified of Celestial Dragons. Max doesn't like nobles in general and Marc, well, the guy is weird and if the others don't come he probably won't. The only one I can really see coming is Don, and that's only to protect and make sure that the Captain gets out of this alive otherwise he wouldn't come since he doesn't like and is kind of scared of the Celestial Dragons too."

"Do Sin and Don have a history with the Celestial Dragons?" Sabo asked.

"Yep," Macey nodded, "A bad one. And last time we fought against one… well, let's just say I got hurt a little. At least I got the Free Flyer out that horrible experience. And Don and Sin joined me too."

Jack stared at Macey, "A little? Don said you almost died! Since that was the year before I join you and I wasn't there. All I know about the last time was the things that you or Don told us."

Sabo and Ace stared at Macey. She never mentioned that before! Was it really safe for them to go up against the Celestial Dragon!? Luffy was just picking his nose and not caring or paying any attention to what they were talking about.

"Don was overreacting and over exaggerating," the blonde girl told as she waved it off as if it meant nothing, "Though I do have a cool scar from that."

Scar?

Macey lifted up part of her shirt and they all saw a huge scar running from below her chest going diagonally across from her right side to the left, on her stomach and part of her left side/hip.

"How the hell did you survive that?!" Jack shouted.

Sure, Jack checked the crew's health but since Mace was a girl and everyone else was a boy, she does get treated a little differently; she has more privacy than the others do and he had no idea that Mace had such a scar!

"By doing it?" Macey deadpanned. "I don't know. I was only a little hurt."

That was a big kind of scar…

"How is that only a little hurt?" Sabo asked. "Wouldn't you have bleed out?"

"Nope," Macey smiled. "It was big but not very deep. Sure, I did bleed a little bit, well, maybe a lot. But I was fine. It's wasn't the worst thing that happened to me. I just remembered the things mum taught me."

Mum…? Mace doesn't normally bring up her past…

"Where is she?" Ace asked. "Your mum I mean?"

When Ace and Macey had been talking early she hadn't really told much about her parents or family. And Ace wasn't going to ask about it, since she hadn't asked him about his he didn't want to ask about hers.

"She's dead. She died protecting me four years ago," Macey answered. "She was killed by the Marines on the World Government's order."

Ace felt a little bad for asking and bringing it up now. And was wondering why the Marines on the World Government's order killed her mum.

"What about your dad?" Sabo asked.

"Who knows," Macey shrugged her shoulders as she smiled a little sadly. "I've never met him before."

She hasn't…?

"Why not?" Luffy asked.

"He's a pirate," Macey fondly smiled and answered. "In a Yonko's crew, you know, one of the four emperors and mum was just a devil fruit researcher. They went their different ways. Dad had his life and mum had hers. Then she had me. Dad used to send gifts and letters to us all the time and mum use to send him letters and gifts all the time too… but that stopped when mum and the island were destroyed. Dad probably thinks I died during that incident like mum did. I have no way of contacting him to tell him otherwise and I don't know if he will recognise me as Mace from the Freedom Fighters since we never met before."

So, her dad was a strong and powerful pirate too…? Like Ace's dad had not been, only, just not as hated. After all Roger was strong and powerful pirate but the whole world seemed to hate for it and they hate Ace for it, even though it was nothing he could control or change. While Macey, her dad, whoever the hell he was was strong, powerful and alive. He could change people's minds if he really wanted too and control how the world sees him. How they see Macey. Ace doesn't the luck for or luxury with that.

"Would you like to meet him?" Jack asked.

"Not sure," Macey shrugged, "I mean, if you asked me a few years ago back I would have answer yes right away but now… I just don't know. I mean, would he even want to meet me? Would he be happy that I'm alive and survived the buster call that killed my home? Would he accept me for me? Would he want to stop me from being pirate? There are so many questions and things that could go wrong… I think I would like to meet him one day… maybe…"

"I'm sure he would accept you Macey," Luffy smiled. "And he wouldn't change you or stop you at all."

"What makes you so sure?" Macey asked the seven-year-old.

"Because he's a pirate!" Luffy concluded, "And a mystery feeling! Shishishi."

A mystery feeling huh? Macey liked it. "Okay," Macey laughed.

"Where is your dad?" Ace asked.

"New World, the second part of the Grandline," Macey answered. "I'll go there one day. When I have bigger and stronger crew, a bigger and better ship and most importantly, when I feel and think the crew can handle it. Don't want to get my friends killed now I do?"

Too true. The pirates in the New World were probably really strong after all.

"Mace!" Don's voice shouted.

Ace's mouth dropped as a shark looking human walked over to them with four other people. That was a Fishman!? That was so cool!

"Oh! A shark human!" Luffy cheered with stars in eyes, "So cool! Hi! I'm Luffy? Nee! Mr Shark Human?! Do you poop?"

Ace cracked up laughing as Sabo was sighing and looking a little embarrassed. Macey was laughing too as Jack just stood there a little shocked. What kind of kid asks a person, human or Fishman, that kind of question…? And why isn't the kid scared of Don!? Max, Marc and Sin weren't sure to say and Don was kind of speechless, that was the second time that someone asked him something completely and utterly random and didn't seemed to be bothered by him being a Fishman. Macey being the first with- Yo. Mr Landshark, do you have lungs? Don't you need water to breathe? How do you breathe air?

"That's Don, my First Mate," Macey smirked as she walked over and put her arm around the taller first mate as he bent down to her level. "He's cool, right?"

"Yeah!" Luffy grinned.

"Seems cool enough," Ace shrugged.

"Don't take anything Ace says to heart," Sabo sighed, "He just doesn't like or trust new people. He has a hard time saying what he really feels."

"Hey!" said person went.

"What's the plan Mace?" Marc asked, "Before Sin's nerves get the better of him."

"Hey!" said person said.

"Here's the plan…"

Eight years ago…

"Mother, father, thank you," a young lady under a cloak said as she handed off her baby to her parents, "Please look after her."

This was all Marisa and her husband Zack could do to protect their daughter.

"Of course we will Marisa," her mother smiled as she held the baby, her granddaughter. "You and Zack be careful now. You hear? The Marines would do anything to get their hands on you. You're branded as criminals now. So, what's our granddaughters name?"

"Kaitlyn," Zack smiled as he took Maria's hand, they both knew that Marisa's parents would look after and protect their daughter, "Dreese Kaitlyn."

"Katie huh?" Marisa's father smiled, "Well, you two be careful and get out of here. Stay safe. Working for the Revolutionary Army is going to be dangerous."

"We will father, thank you again," Marisa smiled and gave him a kiss on the cheek good-bye, "Mother."

"Go now, quickly," her parents, told the two of them. "We've got Kaitlyn."

Zack and Marisa thanked Marisa's parents once again and disappeared into the night. All Zack and Marisa wanted to do is give their daughter a chance, to not be pulled down or branded a criminal because of their choices.

They just wanted to give her a chance. After all, children shouldn't be punished for their parents' choices.

Too bad, not everyone felt that way…

Five years later… three years ago…

"Sir!" a marine said handing his commander a report, "We have intercepted a letter between revolutionaries Dreese Zack and Marisa to some people, Marisa's parents judging by the letter, who happen to have their daughter."

The Marine took the report and read through the copy of the letter.

"Send ten men," the Marine ordered. "We can allow this criminal blood to live any longer! We can't allow it spread! Kill the girl and caretakers."

"Sir yes sir!"

Kaitlyn sat at the table as her grandmother brushed her hair and grandfather was cleaning up the kitchen after their lunch. Kaitlyn hated her long black hair because it was annoying to brush and take care of but her grandparents loved it so they normally brushed it for her and helped her take care of it.

Kaitlyn sat on chair as smiled brightly for grandmother, even if Kaitlyn hated her long hair and having to take care of it.

"What do we want to do for dinner Katie?" her grandfather asked as he washed the dishes.

"Um…" Kaitlyn said thinking about it, "Rabbit? That is always good!"

Kaitlyn shivered for a moment. Something felt wrong… Kaitlyn wasn't sure what it was but… something wasn't right… Kaitlyn could feel… she could sense… someone's… no, multiple some ones' bloodlust. And it was high, very high…

Since Kaitlyn had eaten the Blood-Blood Devil Fruit when she was three, she has been able to sense… to feel someone's bloodlust from them. Her grandparents had a small amount and, only when funny looking men looked at Kaitlyn weirdly or when people would ask too many questions about her or when they mentioned her parents and when they had to kill animals for food. But their bloodlust wasn't anything that Kaitlyn really noticed.

No, when they caught that serial killer. The man who Kaitlyn could sense nothing but bloodlust from, even though he was trying so hard to hide it but couldn't. That was scary and incredibly high.

Whoever Kaitlyn could sense right now, their bloodlust something similar to that. It was scary and it was getting really close. Too close for Kaitlyn's liking.

"Nana," Kaitlyn said a little scared.

"What's wrong Kate?" her grandmother asked as she tied Kaitlyn's hair back.

"I can sense some blood-thirsty people coming towards us," Kaitlyn warned her grandparents.

The two of them looked at each other. They didn't like the sounds of that and if it was making Kaitlyn nervous then it must be pretty high.

KNOCK KNOCK!

Her grandmother grabbed Kaitlyn as her grandfather went to the door. Was this the people that Kaitlyn had been sensing?

"Hello?" her grandfather said answering the door.

"Alexander and Maria?" the Marine said walking into the house, their guns out and pointed at them. "And Dreese Kaitlyn, correct?"

Alexander stood a step back from the door as the marines all come in.

"Alex!" Maria said a little nervously as she held Kaitlyn closer to her.

"Yes, why are you asking?" Alex frowned.

"We are here under orders to get rid of the three of you," the Marine told Alex.

"What for? We are not criminals!" Alex asked.

"True but Dreese Zack and Marisa are and that girl," the Marine said pointing at Kaitlyn. "Is their daughter. Once the girl was put in your care you should have called us, since her blood is evil with her parents being revolutionaries. You two should have handed the girl over instead of harbouring her. We must get rid of her. And you, since harbouring a criminal makes you a criminal."

"You can't do this!" Maria shouted.

"Yes, we can, for it is justice," the Marine told Maria. "We are Marines and we uphold justice."

"What justice is there in killing child!?" Alex yelled as the Marines pushed him back towards Maria who now had Kaitlyn hidden behind her.

"The kind where getting rid of evil criminal blood is the only thing that matters," the Marine answered.

Maria looked behind herself at her granddaughter, "Kaitlyn. Run."

Alex tackled and took down a few of the Marines as Maria ran at them to give Kaitlyn a chance to escape. The old couple might not be able to do much but they could at least pay enough time for their granddaughter, for their daughter's daughter to escape and get out here! They were going to protect her!

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