SEllen23: Thank you! I am pretty obsessed with Luffy as well (and everyone in One Piece) so it sort of transfers over I think since he is the only human in the forest during a human drought they mostly want to eat him.

Nala1220: There is a lot more of flaming chicken! The ASL do defiantly have a lot of enemies. Kids not really a good guy he's just not the worst out there. This version of Law kind of seems more like the one that Luffy first met (pre time skip Law).

UnicornsThatGamble: Thank you! I love Law also! He is very high up on my hottest one piece character list. I hope you liked the chapter.

Guest: Me too! Possessive Ace makes my day. Ace has his reasons for acting that way a lot of it relating to his race. It's not as noticeable with Sabo because Sabo loves Luffy in a bit of a different way. It sort of comes down to the differences between werewolves and vampires. I will go into why Luffy is living with them later

OctaveTea: Hopefully some more action and badass-ness in this chapter. I love Law as well! He is meant to be a little creepy but mostly he is just really determined to drink Luffy's blood! Of all the humans Luffy's one of the only ones who is strong enough to stop Law from drinking his blood and Law is taking it as a persona challenge. Plus a human living in the forest interests him. More Ace and Luffy hopefully in this chapter, Ace is my favorite character as well!

Sorry I didn't post last week, I sort of took a break. But I hope to update Dolls as well after this! I hope you like this chapter! More is going to happen in it then in the last one. For one thing the old gang is going to get back together, including Luffy! His bromance will continue to develop with Zoro, those two are the best together. Hopefully more possessive Ace as well because there wasn't any of that in the last chapter.

"I'm not sure this is a good idea guys," Ussop said nervously as he followed Thatch up the stairs.

Marco and Nami were already there, waiting in Thatch's room. They looked up as Ussop and Thatch walked in.

"What could possibly be the problem with this," Nami argued sitting down on the bed.

The four of them were currently all meeting in Thatch's room. They were meeting today for a very specific reason. They could no longer ignore all the strange events and occurrences their time in the forest had brought to light, Marco especially. Considering no one in this town seemed to know anything they had taken it upon themselves to try and find answers.

"Where's Zoro?" Nami asked curiously, "Isn't he supposed to be here like twenty minutes ago?"

"He lives right down the street, we can go get him," Thatch said looking outside.

Marco nodded, thoughtfully. He wished he could say that it wasn't like Zoro to miss appointments but unfortunately it was just like him. But Zoro had agreed to help him and he wasn't going to let him back out now.

They followed Thatch as the four of them went back down the stairs and onto the street, cutting through neighbors backyards. Finally coming across the familiar beaten down grey house. It was a small two story run down place with an overgrown front lawn. Zoro lived alone here as his mother had died long ago and his father had left for a job and never came back. Marco honestly felt a stab of pity as he stared at the house. It looked a little lonely.

Not willing to waste any more time Nami walked up to the door and knocked loudly. After a few seconds of unanswered silence he continued. Just when Marco was about to suggest nobody was home the door swung open.

"Hey, what's up?" Zoro asked curiously.

"Did you forget we were meeting today?"

"You were serious about that?"

"Yes," Marco said feeling a stab of annoyance, "I was very serious, now come on."

Zoro groaned before widening the door to let the four of them in, "fine, but let's do it in my room I was right in the middle of something."

Not willing to waste any more time arguing Marco and the rest followed him inside and down the cramped hallways to his room. He honestly hadn't been here since they were kids but it looked pretty much the same, even down to the food stain on the carpet. Zoros room was the only one that was closed, imitating the rebellious teenager phase as there was a large Keep Out sign on his door. Marco found this interesting as there was no longer anyone in the house who could obey it.

Everything seemed to be the same on the inside as well except for one thing. Luffy was sitting cross legged on Zoro's bed holding his Gameboy. He was biting his lip in concentration and didn't even glance up as they walked in.

From the groups surprised Marco guessed they were just as shocked to see the teen as he was. Zoro on the other hand barley looked fazed as he sat down besides Luffy staring over his shoulder.

"You died again!" He complained.

Luffy pouted as he showed the screen to Zoro, "It's not my fault this is really hard, how do you do it?"

"Practice," Zoro told him with a knowing smirk.

"It's you," Ussop squeaked the first of the group to voice his surprise. It had only been a few months since then but no one had been expecting to see him again so soon. Or ever again.

Luffy glanced up at them for the first time with his usual happy go lucky smile. "Yea," He responded clearly confused what the big deal was. "It's me."

"What are you doing?" Marco asked.

"Playing video games," Luffy said frowning as he yet again died.

"Playing is a strong word," Zoro teased with a smile as he took the device, determined to beat the level for Luffy," failing miserably is more suited."

"You've had practice," Luffy protested, staring over Zoro's shoulder to watch, "I just found out this was a thing like an hour ago."

"No like what are you doing in Zoro's house?" Thatch tried again, clearly not satisfied with his answer.

"Playing video games," Luffy and Zoro said simultaneously without looking up.

Marco sighed in surrender. He was starting to remember why it was so hard to get answers from Luffy. Sure the kid didn't lie but it took forever for them to get the right information.

"So did you two run into each other?" Nami prompted impatiently.

""Yea, I ran into Luffy in town today as he was leaving, he had no clue what video games were," Zoro said passing it back to Luffy with a triumphant smirk.

"What were you doing in town?" Marco said refusing to let the issue drop. Luffy had said he came to town a few times a year but his brothers didn't like it here.

"Chores for my brothers."

"Are you all seriously here for Marcos stupid club?" Zoro asked amused.

"It's not a club, it's a committee," Marco argued annoyed his second member was less than enthusiastic. He had promised to help and he had seemed sincere but after returning from class that day Zoro hadn't brought it up again. He had seemed a little off since then, but here playing video games Marco was relived to find his friends acting normal again. He settled onto Zoros desk chair watching the two of them play. The entire club seemed like a moot point with Luffy here. He was sure that if he wanted to Luffy could answer most of his questions as well as raise a few new ones. That would be, of course, if he stopped the answer blocking.

His attention shifted to a worn green camouflage backpack on the desk. It defiantly wasn't Zoro's. He frowned one again glancing up to make sure Luffy and Zoro were distracted before subtly unzipping the pocket. Careful not to make a sound he discreetly reached inside surprised to feel thin plastic. He tugged on one of the pieces bringing it to the mouth of the backpack. It was a case, with liquid inside. It took Marco a second to realize what it was. The entire bag was full of pouches of blood, like the kind they used at the hospital for transfusions. Horrified he shoved it back in, zipping it up again less discretely.

"What time is it?" Luffy asked suddenly looking up.

"A little before four, why?"

Luffy jumped up with a frown, "I have to go." He leaned over Marco grabbing the bag off of the desk.

"Where?" Zoro asked curiously.

"I promised Ace and Sabo that I would help them with something later," he said swinging the bag over his shoulder and getting ready to leave.

"Luffy wait," Zoro hopped off the bed handing him the Gameboy. "Take this."

Luffy blinked at him in surprise, "me…why?"

"Yes you, you clearly need it more than me, you're pretty bad. Besides it's a pretty old model, I'm sure they are easier to come by here than in the woods. Its battery powered so you should be good."

Luffy glanced down at it again and back at Zoro, "for real?"

"Yes," Zoro repeated, "Like I said you need the practice."

Luffy's face broke out into his trademark grin, "thank you!"

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Sabo was dreaming, more of a nightmare actually. He was running through the forest at top speed. The horrible sinking feeling in his gut told him something horrible was going to happen. His surroundings were sickeningly vivid, unlike any dream he had had before. Even as he sprinted he knew he was going to be too late. Ahead of him in the clearing stood his two brothers. Ace deep in battle with a vampire as Luffy stood off to the side, his eyes wide. Sabo shouted out a warning to Ace, but as he predicted it was too late.

Luffy dove forward plunging a dagger into Ace's stomached with all of his strength. Ace froze, temporarily stunned as he stared up Luffy in surprise. His confusion quickly turned to pain as blood began to gush out of the open wound. The creature he had been fighting saw his opportunity and bared down to attack Ace, its teeth sinking into his arm.

With a cry of rage Sabo barreled into its unprotected back, throwing it away from his brother. Sensing his opportunity growing short Luffy raised the knife again, attempting to finish the job. But before the knife could so much as scrape Ace's skin Sabo grabbed him, dragging him away from his injured brother. He ripped the knife out of Luffy's hand throwing it uselessly across the clearing. He held Luffy in a vice grip, pressing him again his chest as he desperately struggled to get back to Ace.

"Ace," Sabo asked trying to keep his voice calm, "Ace, are you okay?" He held his breath until a moan answered him.

"Try and stay still okay?"

He turned his attention to Luffy, forced to deal with him now least he tried to murder Ace while Sabo's patches him up.

He looked into Luffy's dark eyes seeing nothing he recognized. This was bad, very bad. Sabo was going to have to do something he never wanted to do again. Holding his jaw with one hand and keeping him still with the other Sabo narrowed his eyes in concentration. At first nothing happened but after a minute Luffy's hands tangled in Sabo's shirt as he let out a muffled moan from the back of his throat. It was quickly followed by more as he gasped in pain. As much as Sabo wanted to stop he knew he couldn't. After another tense moment Luffy gave a final gasp as his hands fell from Sabo's shirt to his side limp. A small stream of blood trickled from his nose and down his chin as Sabo watched in horror. He was hurting him. Sabo forced himself to relax his face, releasing the grip he was trying to claim on Luffy's mind. If he fought any harder it would shatter. He was too weak right now, they both were.

"Ace," he called across the clearing, "it's not working."

He frowned as he got no response, he was on his own in this. Leaning forward he rested his chin on Luffy's shoulder.

"It's not your fault," he whispered feeling the weight resting on his shoulders. This wasn't Luffy's fault, it was his. He should have known, he should have figured it out. Luffy had tried to tell him but he hadn't understood. And because of him Ace was bleeding on the ground and Luffy …. But this was no time for blame, Sabo had to fix things.

He leaned forward digging his fangs into Luffy's neck, pushing them as deep as they would go. He immediately felt Luffy press against him, trying to pull away from the pain. But Sabo wouldn't let him as he held tighter as he concentrated on the blood. A trail trickled down his chin and dripped onto the ground.

As Luffy's hand came up to shake him awake he grabbed it tightly holding the wrist in a bone crushing grip. Sabo's eyes flew open, staring into Luffy's surprised ones.

"Are you okay?"

Sabo's eyes grew wider as he glanced around, he was at home in their room, not running around the woods. Luffy was staring down at him, looking like he always did. Sabo realized he was still holding his wrist and let go, falling back onto his bed exhausted despite just waking up.

"Did you have a bad dream?" Luffy asked concern in his eyes.

Sabo glanced up at him again, studying his face carefully. Luffy looked curious and confused at the same time but with his usual hint of childlike wonder. He looked exactly like Sabo remembered, nothing like the cold and vacant expression from his dream.

Without knowing what he was doing he reached up and pulled Luffy down with him, into a firm hug. He felt Luffy squirm with surprise at the sudden contact. He wiggled his arm free putting his hand on Sabo's forehead checking his temperature.

"Are you okay?" He asked again tilting his head to the side to look at Sabo.

"I'm fine, I think," He said letting go with one hand to rub his eyes.

"Are you okay?"

Luffy laughed as he flipped over on his stomach, kneeing Sabo in the ribs as he did. "Of course, I am why wouldn't I be."

Sabo remembered the animalistic way he tried to get to Ace when Sabo had dragged him away. How he fought with everything he had to break free and kill Ace.

"Where is Ace?" Sabo asked in alarm sitting up sharply on his bed.

"Downstairs?" Luffy said with a worried frown. "What's the matter?"

Sabo once again looked at Luffy in concern. "Something bad is going to happen, I don't know when and I don't know why but it's not your fault."

He watched as Luffy's eyes grew larger as he processed what Sabo was saying. Luffy would never hurt Ace. Luffy loved Ace. Just like Sabo would never hurt his little brother. He had seen the emptiness in Luffy's eyes as he tried to kill Ace. Nothing like the way he normally looked. That wasn't Luffy. He couldn't be held accountable for his actions.

But it had been Sabo, he had been in his right mind when he hurt Luffy. Calmly and logically he had tried to break Luffy's mind, drunk his blood as he tried to fight back. He had seen the pain in his face.

"Luffy I'm sorry."

"For what?" Luffy asked wiggling out of Sabo's arms.

Before he could answer Ace interrupted them, leaning against the door frame of their bedroom.

"Come on you two, we have to go before it gets too late."

"Sabo had a bad dream," Luffy said coming to stand by Ace.

Sabo groaned as he flopped back on his bed. The dim light of the setting sun streamed through their small window. He had forgotten the three of them had to go trap hunting tonight. Hunters as of late were getting pretty bold, even going as far as to set up their traps on the outskirts of the forest. The moonlight gatherings had elected the three of them to go and disable them, and as much as Ace wanted to decline doing this would make the wolf community owe them a favor.

"I'm coming," he said, "Just give me a minute."

Ace nodded, staring at him with concern as he grabbed Luffy's arm, "come help me in the kitchen."

Sabo watched in relief as the two of them left before pulling his tired body out of bed. He knew enough to know that that wasn't a dream, it was all of their futures. He ran to the dresser where Luffy and Ace kept their clothes and rummaged through, pulling out Luffy's white tank and Ace's flannel shirt, the things he saw them wearing in the dream. He knew he was being stupid, burning two shirts wasn't going to help prevent anything. But he still had to try. Sabo couldn't just sit around waiting for that to happen. He would protect them, if it was the last thing he did.

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"So what did Sabo say to you?" Ace asked as Luffy handed him the backpack.

Luffy frowned, pulling blood bags onto the table, "he was saying a bunch of stuff that didn't really make sense.

"Like?" Ace prompted cutting a bag open and adding it to the larger jar.

"He was really worried were you were," Luffy said thoughtfully, "he also said it wasn't my fault."

"What isn't your fault?"

Luffy just shrugged, "he didn't say." He frowned at Ace's serious expression, "What is it?"

"Nothing important," Ace promised covering Luffy's mouth so he couldn't protest when Sabo walked in, looking extremely tired.

"Good morning," he greeted his brother casually.

"What are you guys doing?" Sabo asked concerned as he poured some coffee into a chipped mug.

It may just have been Ace's imagination but Sabo sounded apprehensive. "Oh nothing," he said looking down at Luffy who was busy trying to lick and pry off his hand. He let him go in order to wipe his slimy hand on the leg of his shorts.

"Come on, we better go before it gets too late."

Sabo nodded putting the mostly empty mug down in lieu of grabbing his pipe staff from the wall.

Luffy ran to the living room, standing on his tip toes to reach his crossbow from its hook on the wall. He rejoined his brothers outside as he slung the bow over his shoulder. Ace who had shifted into his wolf form blinked up at him with his soft grey eyes. Telling him to hurry up and get on already.

Luffy did as he was told, holding on for dear life as Ace broke out into a run, matching Sabo's superhuman pace as he took off through the forest. His fingers knotted in the soft fur in effort to keep still on the bumpy ride. A normal person would have fallen off, but Luffy was used to it by now. Even at their best humans were too slow to compare wolf or a Vampire. No matter how hard Luffy tried he would never be able to keep up with them, at least not alone.

"Do you remember anything that might help us?" Sabo asked curiously.

Luffy thought back, "I wasn't really paying attention when they explained that stuff to me.

Sabo nodded trying to hide his smile, sounded like Luffy to him. He tried his best to push the images of the dream rom his head. If he kept acting so on edge his brothers would defiantly pick up on it. The last thing he wanted was to make them worry. He had considered telling Ace but considering how protective he got over Luffy it might just make the situation worse.

Ace slowed down, breaking away from Sabo's fast pace to sniff the air. Luffy had to hold on to stop from falling off at the sudden stop. He turned his head towards Sabo giving a small growl.

"Here?"

Ace let out another confirming growl as Luffy raised his crossbow, pointing it towards a spot between two trees.

Just as he did Sabo felt the vaguely familiar feeling of a prickling on the back of his neck.

"Luffy wait?"

Luffy looked up at him curiously lowering his weapon, "Yea?"

"I've got this one, you two go find the other ones."

Ace gave a small whine staring up at Sabo with his all-knowing grey eyes. Even as a wolf his ability to communicate with only his eyes had always amazed him. Maybe they had simply known each other too long but either way Sabo got the message like he always did.

He rolled his eye in response, "Whatever you say, I'll catch up soon I promise."

Ace let out a low growl meant for Luffy who nodded and slung the cross bow back on his back, "Let's go," he agreed.

Sabo waited until they were out of earshot before picking up a rock from the ground and throwing it gently between the two trees. For a second nothing happened, but the eerie silence was quickly followed by a low moan as the ground seemed to spring to life. The leaves and dirt covering the trap were flung into the air as steeled cable netting burst free, tethering to one of the tree branches. The stone Sabo threw banged the netting loudly before coming to a rest on the nettings floor.

"If you have something to say to me then you should come out and say it," Sabo said still inspecting it.

For a moment no one answered him but as he turned around he was greeted with the familiar figure of Law. He was standing with his usual smirk not a foot from Sabo.

"What do you want?"

"Someone's on edge tonight," Law said with mock concern, "I wonder why."

"I don't have time for this," Sabo said once again turning away only for Law to be there in a flash.

"I bet I can guess why," he continued with his know-it-all smirk, "did someone have a bad dream?"

Sabo's eyes grew wide as he studied law's face carefully, for the first time he was paying attention to the older man. "What are you talking about?"

Law shrugged, "Oh nothing important, I was just peacefully dozing and all of a sudden I was having the strangest dream. And the weirdest part was it wasn't about me, it was about you. Your nice, sweet innocent little brother tried to kill Ace in cold blood and you had to stop him."

Law opened his mouth to continue but Sabo raised his hand to stop him, not wanting to relive it through Law's interpretation. "So why are you here?"

"Well something like that I wanted to see for myself," He scoffed crossing his arms, "but imagine my surprise finding you guys all friendly and not murderous in the least." He raised his arms in surrender, "talk about a wasted evening, but then again even your scared meaning you don't know any more than I do."

Sabo gritted his teeth at Law but didn't say anything. Supernatural creatures, vampires in particular were the most susceptible to unnatural events, they didn't have to be psychic to see thing like this. If they were powerful enough it would happen naturally. If both he and Law had the same dream that meant they were both connected to it somehow. Sabo's involvement was obvious, but what about Law. Sabo hadn't seen any sign of him the entire time.

"You did send Ace and Luffy off alone," Law said with a small smile, "Who knows maybe their stabbing each other right now."

Sabo glanced at him before staring at the spot the two of them had disappeared. With a final growl at Law he took off across the clearing. His red eyes scanned the dark forest looking for any hint to where they went. He caught their scent a few yards away and sprinted over to them. Relived to see them both acting normal. Ace had reverted back to human form as both he and Luffy were staring at something in the tree branches.

"What is it?"

Ace pointed to the sprung trap, only something told Sabo it wasn't Ace and Luffy that had done it. The net was empty of any living creature, but a severed head rested in their place. The very same severed head Luffy had tripped over.

"I thought you buried it," Sabo asked cringing.

Ace nodded, "I did, near the lake. Someone must have dug it up."

"Should we do something?" Luffy asked.

Sabo shook his head, "I don't see what good it would do us, and this is clearly a message meant for both of us as well as the hunters. If we take it down they will just find it, or send another one."

Ace froze for a second tilting his head towards the tree line, "Do you hear that?"

Sabo paused, sniffing the air tentatively, "Hunters," He said grimly, "Probably here to check on their traps. We better be nowhere close when they get the message," he said gesturing to the head. The last thing they wanted was to get framed for it.

"Luffy, lets …." He trailed off as they realized Luffy was gone. The two of them looked at each together before swearing in unison.

"He must have taken off when we mentioned hunters," Sabo said, grimly. He should have remembered Luffy's extreme aversion to them.

"We need to find him, fast."

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In the dark Luffy fumbled, tripping over a tree root. He grit his teeth and pulled himself back up. In the blackness it was hard to make out where he was going and he had no way of telling if he was going in a straight line of not. He knew he needed to stop, think logically. But the only thought in his brain was the need to get as far away from the hunters as humanly possible. It was a fight or flight reaction that had been trained into him from a young age. It was impossible to ignore instincts.

He was so intent on getting away he didn't even notice the gulch before him until he fell over it. He tumbled over scraping his palms on the sharp rocks as he grabbed at shrubs to slow his fall. He landed on his stomach at the bottom of a dry river bed.

"My, My, that was some fall."

Luffy snapped up looking around him for the source of the voice. It was nearly impossible to see anything with the blackness. His fingers closed around the dagger he always kept on him.

"You smell like fear little boy, what are you frightened of."

Luffy glared as he raised his dagger pressing his back against a tree.

"Certainty not me it seems," the voice cooed in what may have been appreciation. "You are a long way from home, didn't your parents tell you not to stray off the path least the wolves get you?"

Luffy saw the darkened figure rush past his side as he lunged towards it, but he was too slow as his knife only scraped air. It wasn't a wolf he realized, meaning this was useless. Stowing it back in his pocket he grabbed his crossbow.

"You must be Luffy then, I have heard a great deal about you, what are you doing out here all by yourself? The woods can be a dangerous place in the dark."

A pair of blood red eyes appeared before Luffy, glinting dangerously. Before Luffy could even raise the cross bow a strange calmness passed over him. His mind went blank as he stepped forward, the bow falling out of his hand. He felt the stone cold skin slither around his waist pulling him closer to the man's chest. The entire time he didn't look away from the hypnotizing red eyes. They almost seemed to glow, lighting up the dark around them.

The man turned his head to the side gently with his stone cold hand. Luffy barley registered the stabbing pain as two fangs sunk into the nape of his neck. He just stared into the blackness of the forest with a strange sense of calm. As the man continued he started to feel more and more uncomfortable as he began to squirm against him. The vague feeling of wrongness grew as his vision became spotty.

From somewhere behind him there was an angry cry and something barreling into them at high speed. He was thrown to the floor on the impact and lay there staring ahead blankly, trying to catch his breath. Somewhere above them there was fighting, loud fighting and someone was laughing.

He felt a cold hand on his neck, trying to stop the bleeding.

"Luffy," Someone called from above him. They said something else as well but he didn't quite catch it. Their tone got a little more desperate when he didn't respond. The world shifted as he was picked up off the ground. The voice called his name again but he hardly noticed. The last thing he saw before passing out was the starry sky above him.

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So sorry again for missing last week. I really hoped you liked this chapter. It was a lot of fun to write. A lot of things happened including more villains (that are way worse than Law). There wasn't as much possessive Ace as I hoped but it is sort of hard to do when it's just the three of them. But we got to see Luffy riding wolf Ace, and over protective Sabo, all of which made me happy. But Ace is totally being all 'HOW DARE YOU HURT LUFFY' right now, we just don't see it. Anyways please review if you like it! It will make me really happy.