edited by Gerbilfriend and me

Macey: we're back!

that we are.

Macey: thank you AceAyane for your OC and for helping with the mistakes and stuff! we love you helping out! don't we ASL and Freedom Fighters?

ASL and Freedom Fighters: Yes! thank you!

review time!

DryBonesZero-

yes, Kaitlyn is in soon. well, she's back this chapter and she'll be joining the crew soon.

Macey: i can't wait! so... how bad is Garp going to yell at me?

no idea, we'll find out when i write it. but you and fighting should be interesting.

Macey: yes!

ASL: ... we don't shitty gramps to appear!

too bad he is!

ASL: NO!

Freedom Fighters: ... this isn't going to end well...

on with the chapter!

Chapter 11

A few weeks later… Present time…

Kaitlyn smiled as she cleaned the inside of a small storage room. Apparently, the old man who ran the tavern didn't mind hiring Kaitlyn to do a little work. Especially after Kay asked him if he could hire her new friend. Friend…

That was something that Kaitlyn hasn't had in a long time and it was kind of nice.

Kaitlyn just helped with things in the back of the tavern- cleaning, peeling vegetables, doing dishes and sometimes going into small spaces that others couldn't fit or get into. But it was fine, it was still at least work and no-one asked questions since Kay was vouching for her and would tell people to back off if they did start asking questions. Telling them it wasn't any of their business who Kaitlyn was or why she was here. All that they needed to know is that Kaitlyn was her friend and needed work.

It was nice. Having someone stand up for her. Kaitlyn liked it, it was a feeling that she hasn't felt in a long time.

Even the old man who owned the tavern would tell the staff to mind their own business since he didn't care who Kaitlyn was as long as she did the work that was given to her.

"Kate," Kay said from her behind.

"Kay!" Kaitlyn smiled as she turned around and then saw Kay frowning. In response, she also frowned, "What's wrong?"

"The Marines were just here. They said you're wanted," Kay said- Kaitlyn went a little pale.

Shit! The Marines were here?! Did Kay betray her!? Did Kay tell them where they could find her?! Did… wait… were here…?

"I told them if they weren't buying anything then I couldn't help," Kay sighed sitting down as Kaitlyn was trying to work out what was going on, "They bought some food and had a few drinks. I told them I haven't seen you and the other staff would say the same thing, which they did. The owner said we have leave as soon as we can."

Kaitlyn could understand part of that. She didn't understand the part where the staff and owner (other than Kay) had lied about her being here. So, it was understandable that he wanted them to leave as soon as possible and…

Wait!? Them!? What we? What them?

"We?" Kaitlyn asked a little confused.

"You and me of course silly," Kay smiled, "Since I brought you here and we're friends, it makes sense that we leave together. Right?"

Kaitlyn looked at Kay- trying to work out if she was serious or not but nothing about her body, facial expression or blood and heart rate, seemed to be lying to Kaitlyn.

"You're not put off by me being the daughter of criminals and being wanted because of that?" Kaitlyn asked not being able to look at Kay. Kaitlyn didn't know what she was going to do if she lost her only friend.

"Why would I be?" Kay answered as Kaitlyn stared at her, "I mean, you're not your parents, right? You seem to be too nice and good to have done what they said you did. So, I don't believe it. And being wanted just because your parents are criminals is stupid if you ask me and I don't care. It doesn't seem to be like the real justice that the Marines are meant to stand for to me."

It was hypocritical.

"Hypocritical," Kaitlyn muttered, "They're hypocrites."

"Right!" Kay laughed then stood up. "Besides," Kay smiled again as she offered Kaitlyn her hand, "I've been here too long anyway. I need to move on before someone comes looking for me. So we might as go together. You okay with that friend?"

Kaitlyn smiled and took the hand. She was fine with that. Kaitlyn would like to have company if Kay was willing to come with her.

"I'm fine with that."

Present time… Afternoon, outside, Shoran Island…

"You know Macey," Ace said as they were docking near the island. This place was meant to be where they could find the Bloody Nightmare person. "I don't understand why your bounty didn't double for messing with a Celestial Dragon for a second time. I mean, your bounty only went up by only 150,000,000 belli since it went from 250,000,000 to 400,000,000 belli. Doesn't that seem odd? No offence meant or anything. It just doesn't seem to be right to Sabo and me. We feel like it should have doubled or something."

Macey looked around her- Don was lowering the anchor as Sin did the sails with Jack and Max, as Marc was keeping an eye on Luffy with Sabo. While Ace was at the wheel with Macey- as Macey had been teaching him a few things about steering a ship.

Now that Macey thought about it, why did they have a devil fruit eater looking over a devil fruit eater? If Luffy ended up in the ocean, again, then only Sabo could help. Okay, Macey was going to need to rethink who looks after Luffy with Ace and Sabo. Because having a devil fruit eater do it was not a good idea.

The last thing they need is for two devil fruit eaters to wind up in the ocean.

Oh well, she could worry about it later. For now, she needed to get back to Ace's questions, since it was a good one and he had a good point. Why didn't Macey's bounty double? Why did it only go up by 150, 000, 000 belli? Not that Macey really cared that much but it was a good question and something to think about though.

"No offence taken," Macey smiled at him reassuringly. Then she shouted, "Sin! Please get your ass up there and tie it off! I see the sail flapping still!"

"Right Captain!" Sin sighed- then let out his wings and flew up to the sails and fixed up the sails and tied them off.

What…?

Since when did Sin have wings?! How did Ace not know of this sooner!? That was so cool! Was that from a devil fruit or something!?

"Don! Please check around the island in the water would ya?!" Macey shouted to said man. "But grab Luffy first please!"

As Macey shouted that, Luffy had managed to fall into the water again- since Sabo and Marc both managed to just miss catching him as he fell backwards into the ocean. Luffy has been trying out some new attacks but this time he knocked himself off balance and was in the ocean, again.

Sabo was impressed by Macey's multi-tasking skills as she asked Marc to get the new little boat they had 'borrowed' from the Goa Kingdom to replace the one that had gotten destroyed at the Grey Terminal, and asked Jack to check on Luffy as Don brought him back onto the boat. Then Don jumped back into the water to check around the island underwater. Max had a towel and was drying Luffy off as Sin flew around making sure the sails and everything above them were fine and…

Wait…

Sin was flying!?

Sabo's mouth dropped as he stared at Sin who had angel like wings on his back which were coming from holes that Sabo had never noticed on the back of Sin's shirt since Sin wasn't wearing his jumper. Sabo looked at Ace who was next to Macey; who also looked surprised and shocked by this and they pointed at Sin - thinking and wondering the same thing.

Since when did Sin have fucking wings and could fucking fly?! Why weren't they told sooner and was it from a devil fruit!?

"I guess it is weird," Macey said easily, about the topic that was brought to her attention first. Thus, snapping Ace out of his shock and completely ignoring his and Sabo's shocked and confused face expressions about Sin having wings. "But then again, I am just kid so they might be being careful with how much I should be worth since they haven't seen or fought against me before. The Marines back at Marineford I mean. Oh well, I don't really care that much. They could make it a billion belli and I still wouldn't care that much. Although, now that I think about it, it would be cool to be worth that much."

"Sin has wings!" Ace said to Macey, pointing at said person as he interrupted her. "Like a bird or angel or something."

Macey hummed and she didn't even look at Sin, "Sin? Yeah. He has wings, has since I met him. Why?"

Why?! Why?! Was that all she could say?! And she has known since she has met him!? What?! Ace never knew this till now! And Ace had been with the crew for almost three weeks! Mind you, neither Sabo nor Luffy knew either. Sin landed back on the ground and his wings disappeared (Ace and Sabo- WHERE THE HELLL DID THE WINGS GO!? WHAT!?), "I fixed it up. Everything good now Captain?"

"Yep, thanks Sin!" Macey smiled at him, "Marc?! We good to go when Don gets back!?"

"Yes Captain!" Marc shouted.

"Great! I can't wait!" Macey cheered.

"SIN HAS WINGS!" Ace shouted, annoyed that he was being ignored, which got everyone's attention. "EXPLAIN!"

Macey looked at Ace a little confused. Why did he sound upset about this?

"Because of his devil fruit," Macey told Ace, as though that would explain everything. "Why are you asking? I don't understand, is something wrong?"

Ace yelled in frustration as he pulled his hair. Sabo sighed as he walked over to Ace with Luffy right behind him. Macey was really confused- why was Ace frustrated? What happened? What did she do?

"Bird man!" Luffy cheered at Sin who looked just as confused as Macey did. Why was Ace so annoyed right now?

"We didn't know that Sin had wings is all Miss Macey," Sabo explained as he picked Luffy up and handed him to Ace to try and help him calm down- at least a little. "We were just really surprised is all."

Oh…

"I do suppose that is the first time I have used my devil fruit with you guys around…" Sin said thinking about it. "Sorry."

Okay, Macey got it now. She had forgotten that Ace, Sabo and Luffy were new and had forgotten to let them know that Marc wasn't the only crewmember that had devil fruit abilities. Well, that was a silly move!

"I guess we were so used to it we forget that others wouldn't know about it." Macey laughed. "Sorry I forgot to say something sooner. But yeah, Sin is a devil fruit eater like Marc and Luffy. That's all though. No more devil fruit eater surprises unless they're a surprise to me since I only know of Marc and Sin in my crew and Luffy as my guest as having devil fruits."

Ace nodded his head, somewhat understanding the situation that she was in… grudgingly accepting it anyway. Macey was a Captain and was kind of busy so it was easy to forget simple and small details like that. Especially if no-one asked about it before. At least that's what Ace supposed was understandable.

Luffy didn't seem to care- probably because he didn't understand it properly and he just goes with the flow.

Meanwhile, Sabo seemed to come to the same conclusion that Ace had- that it was understandable that Macey had forgotten, since she was used it and they hadn't asked. Also that she's busy, since she was a captain, simple and small details could sometimes be forgotten about.

"Sorry," Macey sighed- feeling like an idiot for not realizing sooner. "That's a stupid small detail to overlook. I'm the Captain. I shouldn't overlook small details like that with new people with us. Sorry guys."

Well, at least she didn't say that they were a part of the crew; just said new people with them. Otherwise Ace might have had a few choice words for Macey.

Present time… with West.

West got the East Blue about two weeks ago and found where Mace and the Freedom Fighters were easily. Damn, he thought it was going to take longer than that to find them. West wanted to make the most time out of this trip as much as he could. Why did West have to have such good luck!?

Not that it really bothered him.

West docked his boat- far enough that Mace and the Freedom Fighter shouldn't really notice him; but close enough that he could still see them using his telescope. That way he could still be able to get there to help them if he needed too. Speaking of which…

West lifted his telescope up and checked on the crew and smiled. They all seemed close and happy. As for Mace… she was almost a dead ringer for Marco in those clothes. Her hair color, was more like Marco's than Naomi's. Her eyes too, they were the same colours as Marco as well. If she was taller and had a pineapple hairstyle... well, if she was standing next to him and they both had their backs turned, they would be identical and West would have no idea who was who.

If Mace were a boy, she would be a mini Marco, his twin almost. Though, even though Mace is a girl, she still looked like a mini Marco dressed the way she was. Wearing that purple shirt, black pants, turquoise (though a lot of people would mistake it for being aqua) sash and those black scandals.

West couldn't wait for them to go to the island so that he could get closer to follow them and get some pictures for Marco and the others. They were they going to love this! Mace looked like Marco but she had Naomi's smile. It was nice. Like the perfect mix of her parents. It was great!

West wanted more pictures. Izo was going to love them! Marco too, even if the grumpy old bird wouldn't admit it but West knew how he would really feel.

Meanwhile with Garp…

Garp was annoyed as hell. He had no idea where the hell Mace and the Freedom Fighters were! He had been here almost two weeks looking for the pirate captain and crew that had kidnapped his grandsons.

Well, from what Dadan and Makino said- they weren't kidnapped since the boys went with the girl and her crew willing. She had saved Sabo from his parents or some shit like that, which Garp would need to remember to thank her for… but still! Where the hell are they!?

Kaitlyn and Kay ran for it. They needed to get out of here! Right now!

At first, they were able to sneak off without anyone noticing them or knowing that they were leaving or knew who they were. Kay had the brilliant idea of them wearing cloaks so that no-one could see their faces. Kay had even brought Kaitlyn a new one, since her old one was looking a little worse for wear.

They had managed to get out of town but something (though neither of them were sure what) went wrong, then they had the Marines following them. Well, not following, they had the Marines chasing them.

Kaitlyn wanted to stay and fight but Kay had picked her up and ran for it. Why, Kaitlyn didn't know. But right then, all Kaitlyn could do was just sit there as Kay carried her and ran for their lives.

Kay tripped over (over what though, she wasn't completely sure about) and fell down with her friend Kaitlyn in her arms. Kay made it so that she took the worse of the fall so that younger girl didn't get hurt. Kay was covered in blood on her knees and arms as she lifted herself off of Kaitlyn so the girl could get out from underneath.

"Are you okay Kate?" Kay asked as Kaitlyn crawled out from underneath her and dusted herself off.

"Yes, I am," Kaitlyn said as they heard the Marines stopping.

Kaitlyn looked around them; they were in a clearing in a forest. The sun was slowly starting to set in the background and She could sense the blood lust of the Marines from where she was as she pulled out her draggers, getting ready to fight.

Kay got up and stood in front of Kaitlyn with a gun… since when did Kay have a weapon, and a gun at that too!?

"Run away, Kate." Kay told her just under her breath so that the Marines wouldn't hear them just yet.

"No," Kaitlyn told Kay. "I can't."

"Why not?!" Kay shouted at the younger girl.

"Because I don't like running away and making them think that they have won," the younger girl told the older one. "Run if you want too, but I'm not going anywhere till they're all dead."

Dead…?

"So what they said was true…" Kay said- a little scared, "You are killer… no! I won't believe it! There must be a reason! I… I…"

Kaitlyn said nothing as she just faced the Marines with a manic smile on her face. Getting to cut people… getting to make them bleed… getting to hurt them… Kaitlyn couldn't wait!

"I won't leave you!" Kay told Kaitlyn as she stood in front of her readily. "I will protect you!"

Protect her…? Like her grandparents had…? Before they… before they died…?

Okay… where the hell are they? Macey has no idea where the hell they were. Were they lost? Yeah, they were lost. They had to be lost.

Macey looked above them to see where the sun was but couldn't see it. Not because it was dark out, though Macey was pretty sure that it was going to be dark soon since it felt about sunset time. But the trees in the forest were too thick to see the sun past.

"Mace?" Don asked, "Where the hell are we?"

"I have no idea!" Macey laughed as she put her hand behind her head. Oh shit, "I think I got us lost."

Don groaned as he ran his hand over his face. Ace and Sabo seemed to be laughing, Max, Sin and Jack all sighed now wishing they had stayed behind and on the ship. While Marc was snickering as Luffy just looked at everyone, confused with everything that was going on. They were lost? Seriously? How the hell did Macey manage that? Seriously? Shouldn't they not be able to get lost because of Macey's Haki abilities? Couldn't she just sense their way out of here or something?

Macey flinched suddenly and was looking around them. Did Macey sense something with her Haki or something?

"How are we even lost?" Sin whined tiredly. "You should know where we are with your Haki thingy Mace! I knew some of us should have stayed with the ship…"

"Shh!" Don told Sin who shouted up as he noticed Macey looked worried about something as she looked around them. Macey looking worried was never a good thing.

"What's wrong Mace?" Don asked as he take a few steps closer to her as the others just looked at Mace as she looked around them.

"I don't know…" as Macey looked behind them, "I can sense something… I just don't know what…" then Macey said quietly to herself that only Don had managed to hear standing so close to Macey. "…Is someone following us still…?"

Don went to Mace's ear and whispered, "You think it's that person from boat that has been following us for a little bit?"

"Might be…" Macey whispered back. "Don't tell the others. I don't want them freaking out." Don nodded his head as Macey flinched again but looked forward to their left a bit, "That wasn't the same thing as I sensed as before…"

"NOOOOOO!" a voice screamed, "KKKKAAAAYYYYYY!"

Macey took off running before anyone said anything or asked her what they should do.

What was Mace doing running off into an unknown area while they were lost and had no idea where they were?! What was Mace thinking!? What was the Captain thinking running off on her own and towards where someone was screaming?!

"Damn it!" Don muttered as he picked up Luffy, Ace and Sabo- who were not protesting at all even though Ace looked like he wanted to as they chased after Macey.

Don had picked the three of them up thinking they might not be able to keep up with him as he ran after Mace and Don really shouldn't go off on his own so he grabbed Ace, Sabo and Luffy to take with him.

"Fuck it," Jack sighed turning to Marc, Max and Sin. "We better go after them."

"Do we have too?" Sin asked.

"Yes, we do," Jack sighed again. "Let's just get this over with."

West hid as he tried to hide his presence more. Damn it! The girl could sense him! Did someone teach Mace how to use Haki or something?! Seriously! A normal person wouldn't have noticed him at all but Mace did! Who taught her to use Haki!?

It had to be Haki! How else was she able to tell that he was here and following them?!

Where the hell did that scream come from and where the hell did that blood lust come from!? Where the hell does Mace think she is going off to on her own like that!?

What the hell is going on!?

Macey: i can't wait for the next chapter!

... thank you... i hope. anyway! things will get interesting next chapter! we cover part of Sin's past and have a fight between Marines and the Freedom Fighters. i wonder who is going to win?

Sin:... fuck!

ASL: 10 reviews, 19 favs and 24 follows! keep it coming!

anyway, till next time!

Sabo: this was short...

Ace: it feels weird...

Luffy: can i give a spoiler to make it longer?

what are you doing?! i said that's it! i need to get back writing!

Luffy: the Marines vs. Freedom Fighters goes for about two more chapters! ending at 13!

LUFFY!

Luffy: um... bye!