Author: Ho snap! A new chapter for 2 different stories in one day? Actually, I had this chapter almost finished before I posted the one for Oro Jackson High earlier. Anyway, you guys may want to grab a box of tissues, this is kind of a sad chapter. I'm sorry but I needed to have this done for the story. Thanks for all your support. Feel free to review. Have a great week everyone! :)

" WHERE IS SHE?" Ace yelled panic rushing through him as he stormed through the castle. " AI!"

" NAMI-SWAAN!" Sanji yelled rushing past Ace towards the infirmary. Crocus had found Nami and the others and rushed them instantly to the infirmary. Ace had been notified that Ai and Mira were not amongst them and he felt as though his heart had stopped. His father, Koala and Luffy had been injured too, he had been on his way to visit them when news of Ai's absence reached him.

He felt his blood turn to ice at the thought of his Bride being abducted. " ACE!" He looked up to see Luffy running towards him, half tied bandages trailing behind him.

" Luffy, I don't have time-"

" IT'S YOUR MOM, ACE! YOU NEED TO HURRY TO THE INFIRMARY NOW!" Ace hadn't even realize he had moved. He passed several terrified servants before he made it to the infirmary.

" MOTHER!" He yelled bursting through the doors and rushing to Rouge's bedside where his father sat holding her pale hand tightly.

" Sweetie," the Queen whispered weakly, reaching her free hand towards her only child. " I'm so sorry!"

" What for, Mother?" Ace asked taking her and holding it tightly.

" I wasn't able to keep Ai safe." Rouge whimpered weakly.

" Mother, Ai being taken has nothing to do with you." Ace said hurriedly.

" You don't understand, Ace!" Rouge whimpered weakly. " I gave her the goblet to drink! I told her she needed to drink it for her and the baby! She is hurt because of me! What if the baby-"

" Mother, stop!" Ace said fearfully. " I will find her, Mother! I will find Ai and bring her and our baby home. I promise you!"

" I'm so sorry!" Rouge cried, tears streaming down her face. " I tried so hard to protect her, Elia."

" Mother…" Ace whispered weakly as his mother began speaking to a hallucination of her late friend.

" Elia, I'm so sorry!" Rouge whimpered. " Roger and I tried! We failed to keep your baby safe."

" Rouge…love, you did everything you could." Roger whispered, stroking his Bride's pale cheek softly. " You took Ai into our home and loved her just as Elia would have wanted."

" He took her Roger, he took her again!" Rouge sobbed weakly locking her unfocused eyes on the King. " I failed everyone!"

" Mother, you couldn't have known that the liquid was poisoned." Ace said kissing her brow.

" I love you both so much!" Rouge cried weakly.

" I know, my heart." Roger said stroking her hair lovingly. " I know."

" Mother…" Ace whispered, tears forming in his eyes and the Queen's breathing became ragged.

" Tell Ai that I'm sorry…and that I love her so much. She is such a sweet girl. I'm glad I got to see the wonderful young woman she's become." Rouge whispered lightly. " Tell everyone that I'm so glad I got to meet them. They have filled my life with such happiness. I never-"

" Rouge-" Roger whispered softly as the Queen's eyes began to droop.

" Roger, do you remember the day we met?" Rouge whispered weakly, resting her head against the King's shoulder. " The day you burst into my carriage and swept me away."

" You were the most beautiful creature I had ever laid my eyes on." Roger whispered into her ear.

" I'm so glad you decided to abduct me." Rouge said sleepily. " You've given me so many wonderful years…you gave me the best gift a man could give a woman, our wonderful son."

" You gave me the same gift, my beautiful heart." Roger said softly, pulling her against him. " You gave me so much more. You became the light and warmth I didn't know I was missing. You gave me so much love. I didn't know that a single person could bring so much love to another."

" I love you, you stupid, silly man." Rouge whispered. " I love our family so much."

" I love you too, my soul." Roger whispered to her as her breathing began to slow. " Rest now. You have earned it. You took this stupid and stubborn man and made him an upstanding, respectful family man."

Ace couldn't stop the tears falling from his eyes when he heard his mother's breathing becoming slower and slower. " We love you mother." Ace whispered, insinuating both his and Ai's love for the Queen.

SLAP!

Ai spat blood at her assailants face. Her face was beginning to turn a plum color, pain throbbing throughout her entire body.

" I can't belief this little whore is the Princess of All The Vampires." Ai saw a man with greasy black hair and sallow sky in front of her. He stood beside another man with straw like blonde hair, his face riddled with warts and breathed heavily from his mouth. Both men wreaked of unwashed bodily odor.

" Did you see all those scars over her body?" The second man asked. " I heard stories that male vampires bit their whores to turn them but damn, if she really is their Princess then the Prince must be one hell of a sadist."

Ai gritted her teeth as the first man walked around her, giving her a disgustingly perverted look. " She's not that bad looking, ya know." He said. " Good for a couple of rolls in the gutter, maybe a quick ass fucking in a back alleyway then off with ya."

" I don't know, man. She's got those pouty lips there. They look awful soft. Bet that Prince of theirs made his slut suck his royal cock every chance he got."

Ai felt her eyebrow twitch in annoyance at their words. None of them knew what Ace was really like. Let them make their falsehoods, she knew the truth.

" They say she's carrying a demon inside her." Ai felt panic surge through her suddenly. " That the fetus is a demon from the Devil himself."

" I heard that she actually fucked the King and that it is his spawn in there." The second man laughed pulling stepping towards her. He grabbed her cheek roughly, forcing her to look at him. " Is it true, slut? Did you open your legs for both father and son?"

" You're sick." Ai hissed in disgust.

SLAP!

" At least we don't feed off blood, you fucking leech!" The man snarled. " I bet you fucked every single one of his commanders too!"

" You know, I've never fucked royalty before." The second man said hungrily grabbing onto Ai's dress. With a quick motion he jerked his hand back, tearing the top of her dress, exposing her breasts to their hungry view.

" Damn! For a leech whore you have one hell of a bangable body." The first said grabbing her roughly, the chains on her wrists clinked together, causing her to whimper in pain as the silver burned her skin.

" That's so they can lure good and proper men like ourselves into her cursed bed of death. So that she and that Groom of hers can have their way with our blood and bodies. Defiling both with their wicked aura!"

" FUCK YOU!" Ai yelled in disgust spitting blood on the man.

" WHY YOU FILTHY WHORE!" He yelled pulling a large club from his belt, lifting it high above him, angling it at her.

" STOP IT!"

The three looked towards the cell door and spotted a small creature covered with brown fur and a blue nose. Upon his head was a large pink top hat that failed to hide a set of antlers. He stood on two legs that trembled in terror. In one hand, or hoof, he carried a large doctor's brief case.

" What do you want, Tanuki?" The first man asked.

" I'M A REINDEER, YOU STUPID BASTARDS!" The creature yelled, a vein throbbing in his head. " I'M HERE TO TREAT HER INJURIES!"

" And why should we let you do that?" The man asked, grinning evilly down at him.

" Because the Sengoku ordered me too!" The reindeer snapped causing the men to instantly pale. " Now, you can either leave and let me do my job or I'll have to report your actions to the Sengoku himself!"

" Alright, alright! We're leaving!" The second guard said fearfully, dropping Ai roughly to the ground earning a small whimper of pain. As soon as they were gone the small reindeer took a cautious step towards the blunette. A much pain as she was in, Ai could smell the reindeer's fear.

" I'm not going to bite you." Ai said quietly as she straightened herself up off of the floor. A small cough came from her as she placed a loving protective hand over her belly. Her eyes filled with tears as she thought of what had probably happened to her baby, what may be happening to her friends.

" Not like you could!" The reindeer snapped in an attempt at bravery.

" Why would the Supreme Commander of the Order want my injuries treated…?" Ai whispered weakly. " He's going to have me killed after all."

" Well…he isn't exactly the one who sent me…" The reindeer said setting the bag down beside her. Ai looked up to see a tall, tanned skinned, broad-chested, muscular old man standing at the entrance of the cell. He had a beard and a scar over his left eye, he was dressed all in white with gold buttons lining his jacket.

" I do apologize for what has happened to you, child. I asked Chopper here to treat your injuries. " The man said gruffly. " From what my sources have told me, you are a very kind girl and you seem to make Ace very happy."

" W-Who are you?" Ai asked weakly. The man before her looked oddly familiar.

" I've also heard that my hardheaded grandson is fond of you as well." The man said and suddenly it hit her.

" Y-You're Luffy's grandfather!" She squeaked.

" So he talks about me to his friends, does he?" Garp laughed happily. " How is he doing? Still eating three weeks worth of food for every meal?"

" Yes…" Ai said cautiously as the reindeer called Chopper dabbed a clothe that contained some kind of cleaning solution. She winced as it made contact with her busted lip and other cuts along her face. " He told me you were a good man."

" He gives me to much credit." Garp said his eyes flicking to where her hand lay over her belly. " I wanted to come and see you personally. To thank you, actually."

" For what?" Ai asked weakly, with each breath she took she felt the pain in her stomach surge throughout her.

" For Coby."

Ai felt her eyes widen at the name. She looked up weakly to see sincerity in his own. " What about him?" She asked quietly.

" You showed mercy to him when Silvers Rayleigh and the King would have had him put to death." Garp said calmly. " I told him not to have anything to do with Lucci and his lot but he wanted to make a name for himself amongst the Order. Lucci convinced him that they were there to kill Roger, not you. He didn't even know that you existed or that you, at the time, were mainly human…or in his mind, completely human."

" What do you know about my heritage?" Ai asked cautiously.

" This is not the first time that we have met, Princess."

" You can call me Ai…I'm not very fond of titles."

" Neither is Ace." Garp said. " I've seen him many times when I came to check on Luffy. He's a good boy, a good brother to Luffy, especially."

" He loves his family and friends deeply." Ai said rubbing her belly weakly, inwardly praying for her babe to kick. Earlier that day she had been annoyed that her son had kept her awake with his kicking. Now that was all she wanted, to feel his strong kicks inside her once more.

" I'm so sorry…" Garp said truthfully. " I'm sorry that you are caught up in this war, and for the loss of your child." His words brought tears to her eyes.

" He didn't even have a name yet." Ai sobbed in pain, her heart felt as though it had been torn into a million pieces. " We hadn't even picked a name yet. Why did you people have to take him from us? He was an innocent baby! He hadn't even drawn his first breath yet."

" He…is an unfortunate casualty of war." Garp said quietly. At his words, Ai felt an unmeasurable amount of rage surge through her, one like she had never imagined or felt before.

" A casualty of war…" She whispered in anger. How could he say something as heartless as that? How could he, as a grandfather…as a FATHER…say something so cruel. " GET OUT!" She screamed, hot tears streaming down her face. " GET OUT NOW! HOW DARE YOU SAY SOMETHING LIKE THAT YOU HEARTLESS, CRUEL BASTARD!"

She sobbed harder and harder with each passing second. These bastards had taken so much from her.

Her mother.

Her father.

The lives of her friends.

The lives of her brothers killed in actions.

The safety of a normal childhood and life.

The ability to have peace of mind without looking over her shoulder for fear of her life…and now…

and now the life of her child.

Her only child was taken from her before she had even seen his face or had a chance to hold him in her arms. To feed him at her own breast. If she made it out of this situation then she would murder ever single bastard associated with the order.