Hello everyone, here is another one shot. This is a missing scene

This is how Ace got his third brand. And no, still not Thatchs. That will be the last one as you might have realised

This was a request from Sab and SillyGirl11

And warning, this contains branding and other abusive things

Hope you enjoy

Read and relax

Ace tried move his body, to get out of the chains holding him, but he couldn't do it and slumped tired down. He wasn't strong enough to move his body much, the seastone and drug they used was getting to him. Ace felt tired and his body was being strained by the chains he was held it. They had chained his arms together and above his head. If he were standing, he would be able to have them in a sort of comfortable placement, but he was too exhausted and they had already beaten him once, breaking his leg in the process.

Ace couldn't stand and therefore wounded up hanging by his hands, body trying to rest on the knees that barely touched the ground. Ace just wished he was stronger than this, that he had trained more with seastone, maybe he could have gotten out of this situation then. Ace let a few pants leave him as he tried to move his body again, but it made no difference. He wasn't strong enough. He needed to get out. He couldn't stay here any longer, he knew how bad the nobles here were. They liked to play with their victims and kill them fast.

If he'd only managed to not get captured like a fool, he wouldn't even have been in this situation.

Ace had been doing some undercover work, meaning he wasn't in his assassin clothes as he was walking around the island, but he had poked his nose where he shouldn't have and therefore was watched by the nobles. He had heard they weren't strong or cunning. Just the usual idiotic rich bastard as the rest, so he hadn't expected them to be able to hit him with a sleep dart. Adm Ace had been too far away from the others, from Trevor and Daisuke, too be able to get help. It was only half a year since he had been held prisoner the last time. Ace didn't even have any idea if he was at the island any more, he had been out for a while and he was still feeling the affect of the drug, since they used it every time they moved him.

Ace only managed to tiredly lift his head and look up as the door to his cell was opened.

When Ace saw the guard from before coming in, needle in hand, Ace felt his head slump. He couldn't do anything anyway, he knew his limit and he was there. He had learned that if he came to this point, the point he knew he couldn't do anything, don't do it unless you really needed too. Ace knew he wouldn't be killed and he could handle another beating, he was strong enough for that. He only hoped it wasn't anything more than a beating and regular torture. He couldn't handle that as well right now.

It wasn't long until he felt the needle being pushed into his arm, and seconds later, darkness engulfed him.

When Ace came to, he was sitting in a chair, hands chained together, but not fastened to the chair.

Before Ace could try to gather his thoughts and try to move his body, a fist came and knocked him off the chair, sending him flying to the floor, where he laid and took gasping breaths. The drug was still there in his system, making everything much harder than it had to be. Even trying to blink was hard, trying to think was almost impossible. Ace heard some mumbling and tried to make out the words the man was speaking, but found out he couldn't. His head was foggy and Ace tried to blink and take deep breaths, getting his head back into working.

As Ace felt his head slowly starting to work, a hand grabbed his hair and pulled him up, so he came face to face with the noble.

Ace saw the mouth moving and tried to focus, to hear and read his lips. ¨-ecial and you will tell why you were snooping around, kid. Who are you working for?!¨ Ace couldn't make out the first part, but he didn't need that to know what he wanted. Ace tried his best to give a glare, ¨N-no. Not working for anyone.¨ The noble sneered, pulling his hair more, ¨You have brands, brands, no one have that without being something. Now kid, what are you?¨ Ace gave the best sneer he could manage and spit in the nobles face. He wasn't going to tell. He would never tell anything.

A hand dried the spit off his face as he gave a sick grin, ¨Fine. Be like that, let's see how well you'll be silent.¨ Ace felt his body moving, the noble dragging him by his hair. Ace tried to move his hands to fight back, but couldn't. Ace was soon placed on a table on his back, arms and legs being restrained by the table. As Ace tried to get his head to realise what was happening, a cloth was placed over his face, a second later, water came pouring down on it.

Ace would be lying if he said he didn't panic.

It felt awful. It was way worse than being dunked in water. Since his mouth was open when the cloth was placed, it fell into his pith when the water hit, some dripping down into his mouth and down his throat as he tried to take a breath, choking him.

Just as Ace was sure he would pass out, the cloth was removed and Ace took a desperate breath, coughing.

¨Now,¨ Started the noble, ¨Let's try again. Who are you working for?!¨ Ace gave a cough as he shook his head. ¨No one.¨ A sneer was given before the cloth was placed over his mouth again and the water was poured again. Ace tried to be me calm, but felt his panic rise. It was dark and he couldn't breath, feeling the cloth pressing down on his face, among him feel trapped in the dark and water dripping into his mouth, unable to breathe. It master longer this time and Ace was starting to see black spots when the cloth was finally removed.

Ace coughed, feeling his throat constrict in panic and fear, then he threw up, his body going into overdrive.

As Ace was on his back, he wasn't able to properly throw up and only choked on his bile. As Ace was sure he was going to drown on his own bile, he was turned on his side, the restraints on his arm loosened. As Ace managed to spit out the bile and actually throw up, he felt his entire body shaking.

This was way worse than a beating or whipping pt anything. This was tearing his already hurt body and tired mind to their limit.

As Ace tried to focus on taking gasping breaths, lessening the coughs and rid of the bile still left in his throat, Ace felt a searing pain in his back, a pain he knew all too well. And even though Ace tried to keep the scream back, he couldn't.

He screamed as the noble branded him, feeling the hot metal being pushed into his back, high up in his spine.

The noble was trying to break him, to not give him any breaks and continue to keep his body on the edge, so he would give up and spill. But he never would. He wasn't the strongest, but he was stronger than most. He could handle this, he could manage to do this. He would rather die than reveal anything.

When the metal finally was taken away from his back, Ace took shaking breaths, entire body shaking, starting to go into shock.

Not even a second later, Ace was pushed back on his back, cloth placed back on his face.

Ace screamed as he tried to fight, tried to move his hands in the restraints that was loosened around his hands, but he didn't have the energy or strength to so anything more than slightly move then. A second later, water poured down again, giving the illusion of drowning and suffocating in darkness.

When the cloth was finally removed, Ace felt himself unable to take a breath, even though the cloth was away. Ace felt himself being turned to his side again and felt water trick down his chin as he was able to take a shallow breaths.

Before he could get his breath back or take one deep breath, the noble grabbed his hair and stretched his body and used a hand to push at the newly made brand, making the dulling pain flare back up. Ace felt his mouth open in a silent scream, before the hand tugged on his hair again. As his body was stretched more, his broken leg was jolted and he felt his breath stopping in his mouth as the pain I'm his entire body flared.

Then everything went black.

When Ace opened his eyes, he saw he was back in his cell. He wasn't chained to the wall, but he was laying on the floor, hands chained behind his back. When Ace tried to move his body, he felt a pained hiss leave him. His entire body hurt. Ace tried his best to relax his body and take deep breaths, hoping to get some strength back, so he could try and get out from here. He felt his breath was strained and had issues with breathing. Ace had a feeling he had some water in his lungs. He needed to make around it for now.

After some time, Ace managed to slowly roll over to his stomach and slowly and painfully stand up.

When he was up, Ace paused at his knees, taking more deep breaths. When he got the pain under control, he slowly moved his hands over his head. Ace was thankfully double jointed, so he could easily move his hands over his head without breaking or injuring his shoulders. The only thing that hurt when he did it, was his back, the place where the new brand were.

When Ace had his hands in front of him, he leaned on them and soon on all fours, trying to get his breathing under control again and get enough courage to stand up. His leg was still broken, but he needed to get up and out.

When Ace stood up, he felt his leg throbbing and pulsating in pain, as his entire body started to do when he straightened up.

When he stood up, he leaned at the wall, taking pained breaths as he tried to relaxed his body standing. He needed to be able to do this, he needed to get out.

Ace moved his hands to look at what chains he was held in. They were the stupid chains with spikes on them. But he knew the chain between them were weak. Ace leaned on the wall and lifted his injured leg placing the chain at his knee. It was his tibia that was broken, so he could sort of use his leg like this.

Ace took a deep breath and pushed his knee downwards until he hears a snap as the chain broke.

As the chain broke, Ace lost his balance and fell down to the floor again, taking gasping breaths as his entire body throbbed in pain again. After he managed to calm down, Ace moved his body up again, this time a bit easier since his hands were somewhat free. When Ace was upright, he limped over to the door and tried to open it, not surprised when he found it locked.

Ace felt an idea and moved to stand at the side of the door and let out the loudest scream he could.

When he had, he rested against the wall, his hand taking a hold of the broken chain in his hand. It was still hanging from his left handcuff, the chain braking at the right one.

When he heard footsteps coming towards his door, Ace took a deep breath and readied himself, raising his hands. When the door opened and a guard came in,

Ace moved his hands over his head, chain coming around the guard's neck and pulled backwards.

The shock of not expecting him to be up was enough to startle the guard so he didn't fight back for a second, but did let out a small yell. And that second was enough. Ace did a really hard thug and sliding movement, making the chain dig into the guard's neck, creating a deep cut that started to pool blood. Ace released the chain and let the guard fell to the ground, trying to stop the bleeding, but not able too and lurched for some seconds, before going limp.

Ace took some breaths, before reaching down and searching the guard for a key. Ace felt a relieved breath leave him as he found the key and shakily opened his cuffs. When get were off, Ace felt his power returning and his body starting to heal some. But had issues because of his weakened state. When he got his breath back, he gave a last look out the door and heard more people running. When he saw two shapes running, both having guns out.

As soon as he saw them seeing him and aiming their guns, Ace disappeared.

When Ace reappeared, he was inside the hallway at Amegakure and felt a breath leave him. Before he could take a step, Ace felt blackness start to fill his vision as he felt backwards.

But instead of falling to the floor, Ace fell against a hard and soft.

Ace felt a small smile grace his lips. ¨Hi.¨ Ace felt a small chuckle go through the chest he was leaning against. ¨Hi yourself.¨ Ace heard the calm voice of Azuruko say. Ace felt more blackness fill his eyes as a hand came to his head. ¨Relax now and we'll get you fixed up.¨ Ace managed a nod, or he think he managed a nod, before he closed his eyes and succumbed to the darkness.

He knew he was safe. No matter where he was, as long as Azuruko was there, he felt better.

And that's the chapter. Hope you enjoyed

The next brand Ace gets is going to be the one from Thatchs family. It won't come right away, but in a few chapters

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