Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece, if I did Ace would not be dead.

Luffy stretched as he and Zoro walked down the corridor. A riot had broken out in the upper levels of Impel Down and they had been asked to assist. During the riot Luffy had used it for cover to give Bon-chan a key to use in order to get out of the prison. He also told him that Iva-chan had the keys to unlock other cells in the 6 level. One prisoner they had to go get was Crocodile.

Thought they have had their differences, Crocodile had yet to call him out to the guards. Luffy had to use one of his abilities to find out why. Crocodile was on their side for now. He thought the upcoming execution was pointless and immoral.

"That was not even worth our time- not even a bit," Zoro groaned as he fingered his sword at his hip. His other swords stayed hidden under the illusion that Luffy had placed over him to hide his identity. "I could have been napping right now."

Luffy laughed as Zoro kept on complaining. Zoro would never change and Luffy loved that about his best friend. The swordsman was either training or napping with the occasion of getting lost on the Thousand Sunny or any island they visited. It got to a point where Sanji tied a rope to Zoro. Luffy grinned as he tried to hide his smile. The "Zoro Leash", will never be forgotten.

"I know what you're thinking about." Zoro growled as he looked at his captain, "Stop thinking about that damned rope!"

This made Luffy burst with laughter. "I can't!" He held his stomach remembering Zoro's face when Sanji got the rope out and tied it to him.

Zoro growled before smirking, "Fine then, I will tie a rope to you and see how you like being dragged around."

Luffy quickly sobered up at this, "No!" He waved his arms around, "You are not doing that! Captain's orders, you are not to tie a rope to me that way!"

Zoro smiled at him, "Yes captain." 'You said I couldn't, didn't say no one else could.' He stopped next to Luffy when he noticed him suddenly halt. "Captain?"

"Something's not right." Luffy mumbled before taking off toward the cell that Ace was in with Jinbe. Zoro rushed after him. One hand on his blades in case he needed to bring them out to fight.

They both stopped in front of the cell and looked in. Jinbe sat there with his head down. He looked up when he saw the two outside the cell. He could only give Luffy a sad look as they both took in the fact the cell was missing someone.

"Where, Who." Luffy could only give clipped out words. His fist clenched at his sides in anger. He could feel the fox under his skin wanting to come out and tear apart the person responsible.

"Sadi, it was when you guys had to go help with the riot." Jinbe shook his head and sighed, "I don't know where they went after the left this floor."

Luffy looked at Zoro and they nodded at one another. They took off from the cell and down the hall. Pass the elevator as that would only slow them down. As they neared the stairs, Luffy dropped to all fours as flames wrapped around his body. Zoro jumped into the flames and grabbed a fist full of fur. Red and blue glows light the stairs as Luffy ran up the stairs five at a time. He skidded around the corners of each floor.

Finally, his nose caught the scent of Ace. A warm jungle smell with a hit of smoke and flames. He also caught the scent of Sadi, her's was of agony and blood. He growled and came to a stop in front of the door.

Earlier:

Ace sat in his spot knee bouncing in agitation. Jinbe could only watch him as he continued to get more annoyed.

"Ace-kun?" He called to see what was bothering him.

Ace grinded his teeth, "He's late." Was all he would let out.

It took Jinbe a couple of minutes to figure out who he was talking about but then he remembered. The two Marines that were sent to watch over him here. "Ah, young Luffy and his partner Ro?"

Ace turned away from him and Jinbe grinned. It seemed Ace was worried about the other boy right now. When Ace woke up this morning the two were nowhere to be seen. Jinbe had been meditating at that moment in time.

"Ace-kun," Jinbe called again and the other finally looked at him. Yes, that was definitely worry Jinbe could see in the others eye hidden well by his annoyance. "There is a riot going on in the upper levels." Ace raised an eyebrow at this. "Luffy-kun was called to help stop the riots along with his first mate. It was a couple of minutes before you woke up that this happened."

Ace glared at him, "And your telling me this now!" He yelled at the other.

Jinbe laughed a deep laugh. It's been a while since he had such a good laugh ever since coming here and knowing what was going to happen to one of his friends.

Suddenly the floor goes quiet. Ace and Jinbe both sense the change and quiet down as well. The atmosphere gets heavy with blood lust. Clicking of heels echo from down the hall. It doesn't take a genius to figure out who was coming down this hall.

Sadi stopped in front of their cell and smiled, "Your guards seemed to have been called away." Her smile grew more sinister, "Ace," She moaned his name and sent a shiver of disgust down Ace's spine, "Let's have some fun."

Guards appeared behind her and unlocked the cell. They didn't waste time in getting him uncuffed.

Ace was about to fight back now that he wasn't cuffed anymore. Just as he got ready to let loose his flames he heard the sound of a sword being unsheathed. Sadi smiled at him as his eyes widened.

"Now, now," She smiled and pointed behind one of the guards. "Don't make this any harder or your friend will be hurt."

Ace turned and saw the sword placed under Jinbes chin. He sighed in defeat and held his hands in front of him. The guards moved and cuffed him again. He was pulled with them out of the cell and glared at the lady.

"You will pay for this." His silver eyes looked at her in anger.

Sadi giggled at him, "Oh, but I will only be yelled at at best." She took lead as the group moved through the corridors. They took the elevator to one of the hidden floors. This was Sadi's playground. The floor she tortured her toys until they broke.

He was led to a door and pushed inside. Landing on his knees' Ace only let out a grunt at the pain. He refused to let them know that that actually hurt a bit. He was grabbed roughly and chained to the wall.

His with his hands chained over his head Ace kicked out at the guards. He smiled when one went down crying in pain. His grin didn't last as he was shoved further into the wall by the other guard. He hated how his body was now tangible thanks to the sea stone cuffs.

The guard let him go after making sure that he was secure. Sadi smiled and nodded to the door giving the guard and the other one permission to leave the room. When they did Sadi looked right at Ace who glared at her.

"Hm, now what should I do with you?" She slowly moved her finger along Ace's jaw.

He turned away in disgust. Her touching him was not something he wanted to happen.

Sadi frowned when he moved away. "And here I was going to go easy on you." She sighed happily, "Now I get to play with you anyway I want to." She turned and walked to the other side of the wall. "Now how should we play?" She paced the room and smiled when Ace watched her every move. 'He has such a predatory gaze, too bad he's Rogers son. I would have loved to keep him longer.'

Ace watched her every move. He was trying to prepare himself for the pain when she decided to play. This was always the worst part, it was the waiting and watching. He didn't know how long this would take but he just wanted it to be over. He jerked when Sadi smiled and pulled her whip out.

"I think I know what we will play today, my favorite game!" She lovingly ran her hand down the rope of the whip.

She made a quick motion with her hand and the whip cracked. "Do remember, I love to hear screams of pain." She smiled at him and lurched her arm forward.

Ace felt the stinging of the first lash hit him directly in the chest. He bit his lip to hold back a pained cry as he felt the second one come down on him. Taking a deep breath, Ace prepared himself for the next one to come down.

The door slammed open just as the whip came down on him. He opened his eyes that he didn't remember closing to see Luffy. What surprised him was the fact that Luffy had his arm out and the whip was coiled around said limb.

"Lu?" Ace breathed out looking at the youngers back.

"Ro take Ace back to his cell." Luffy didn't turn to look at his brother. He kept his eyes locked on someone else.

Zoro didn't hesitate and unchained Ace from the wall. He grabbed the lead and started to pull the other out of the room. He knew that Luffy would want Ace out of this room and away from the woman as fast as possible.

"Hey, wait!" Ace looked back at Luffy then to Zoro.

Zoro got the picture and pulled gently on the lead. "Don't worry about him."

Ace looked back at Luffy as he was pulled out of the room by Zoro. He could see Luffy with his arms crossed looking right up at Sadi in anger. This was an emotion that Ace didn't think Luffy had in his little body. Luffy was always the happy go lucky kid who always smiled even when Sabo and him would bully him.

Luffy waited until Zoro had taken Ace out of the room before turning his full rage on Sadi.

"Who do you think you are?!" Luffy growled, "Ace was not to be touched or punished by anyone here!"

"I was just having some fun," Sadi smiled, "Besides I won't get into trouble."

Luffy's cold glared narrowed even further, "I should kill you where you stand."

Sadi smiled tapping him on the nose, "You can't touch me."

Luffy growled under his breath before moving away, "Be careful tonight. It's said that the full moon tends to bring about supernatural instances." He turned and walked out the door. He knew that tonight would be the right time to create the will-o'-wisp. It was time to get a thorn out of his- and many other's- sides.

Lifting his hand up a small blue flame ignited. It floated in the center of his palm dancing happily as he curled his fingers around it. He brought it to his mouth and blow into the small fire which flickered for a few seconds. Blue smoke came from between his fingers as the flame went out. The smoke filled the hall and disappeared.

Nodding, Luffy went back to following Zoro's path back the the cell. Taking deep breaths Luffy tried to calm himself. Will-o'-wisp is a energy guzzling ability for him. It takes focus just to create what he is about to do tonight not to mention to find a innocent soul to use. For now part of the ability is active as it locks onto the target of the attack to come.

"Ro?" Luffy called as he finally made it to the cell.

Zoro looked up and saw the unnatural light reflect from Luffy's eyes. He smiled a bloodthirsty smile at his captain. 'The demoness finally went too far. People should know by now not to hurt his most precious people.'

"What took you so long?" Zoro asked as Luffy made it to him. Luffy smiled and made a gesture to cup his hand as if holding something before waving it out in front of him. Zoro nodded in understanding. Luffy had set a lure on the demoness and she will now know why you never anger a emperor.

"How is he?" Luffy looked into the cell at Ace. Ace just sat there glaring at the stone. Bruises were forming on his chest from the whip along with a bit of blood from the shallow cuts he had sustained.

"He's been quiet. Jinbe has tried to get him to talk but nothing seems to work." Zoro nodded to a bucket and a fresh rag. "You might want to clean him up a bit." His tone turned sober, "He only has tonight left. I had to tell him that."

Luffy nodded and grabbed the bucket. Zoro opened the cell and he walked into it. Held leaned down and got the rag wet. When Luffy went to clean Ace's chest again he stopped. Ace was looking right at him.

"Why?" Ace asked Luffy as they both kept eye contact.

Luffy just tilted his head before smiling, "Because, Ace is my brother and I care about Ace." Luffy reached up to wipe a stray tear from Ace's eye. "Ace will always be Ace."

With that, Ace started to cry for the fifth time in his life since meeting Luffy and Sabo. Luffy smiled as he went about whipping the wounds clean. After he was done he wiped Ace's tears away. He pretended to not acknowledge the fact Ace had cried. After he gave Ace food and water.

Once the moon came up that night Zoro and Luffy left to turn in. Luffy looked his best friend in the eye before they both nodded. Zoro watched as a blue flame appeared and another Luffy started to follow him. No one questioned or stoped the two as they walked into their room.

Luffy waited for the night patrols. He saw Sadi split from her group as she went down to the cells. Luffy smiled and looked up through the window of the top floor. "The moon is full tonight."

Sadi walked down the corridor. She knew that the two guards were not anywhere near Ace right now. It was time to play a mind game instead.

"Mommy?"

Sadi stopped and looked around. A girl ran down the hallway in front of her. She ran after the little girl not remembering that there were no kids inside the prison.

"Swing high,

Swing low,

Swing into the deck down and below-

May your dreams be filled with knives and waves,

May you not fall to your watery grave,

As the pirate king of old watches over you-"

The little girl skipped as she went down the hall. Sadi followed at a sadat pace after the her a blank look now taking over her face. She had yet to notice that she had fallen into a trap of illusions. The girl was a will-o'-wisp. A ghost called forth to lead a person to the destination planned. Behind the two a large black canine followed after stalking his prey. 'She hasn't figured it out, so much for being powerful.'

"Swing high,

Swing low,

Swing into the deck down and below-

May you grow-up without fear,

Knowing I am here,

And that pirates roam these oceans near."

The girl started to have flames flicker off of her going deeper down the halls. The further they went the quieter it got. No prisoners had ever made it to this area. Too far away from any of the stairs or elevator. This made the perfect place for what was about to occur.

"Swing high,

Swing low,

Swing into the deck down and below-

May your heart be strong and bright,

Even when the ship sails do take flight,

And the storms of lore laugh at you,

So…

Swing high,

Swing low,

Swing into the deck down and below-"

The girl stopped at the end of the hall facing the wall all the while swinging her arms and singing. Sadi stopped not far from her almost hypnotized by the girl. When the song finally stopped she broke from her trance.

"Little one," Sadi purred approaching the young girl, " You should not be here. Where are you from?" She bent down behind the girl and placed a hand on her shoulder.

The girl froze as if ice had taken over her body. Then quickly she turned on the demoness. Black holes took the place of her eyes and she smiled. "Hello Lady!"

Sadi jumped back in shock. "What?"

"Play with me!" The girl shrieked before letting out a splitting wail as fire erupted from her body. The fire spread all around Sadi who could only stare as the little girl burned away.

A growl erupted behind her and she turned. There crouched low was a black canine figure. His fore legs spread out teeth bared as he looked directly at her. The fire reflected back in the charcoal like eyes making them glow in another worldly way.

Sadi backed away as the canine stalked closer. His growls becoming more and more aggressive. "What how did you get in here?!"

Teeth bared, and red glow overshadowed the blue. "Wouldn't you like to know!" With that the canine lunged teeth sinking into her neck before she could get her weapon out. All she had time to utter was a horrified piercing shriek as blood spread into the air.

Her body was found the next morning by some guards on level 5. She and a couple other guards had been mutilated. Three wolves' bodies surrounded the others as Magellan and Hannybel looked them over.

"Looks like the wolves got a bit aggressive last night." Hannybel lifted a dead wolf up.

Magellan shook his head, "I don't think the wolves could have done this." He points to Sadi's body, "Her arm was completely torn away from her body. Plus, the bite marks are a little slimmer than the wolves."

"What's going on?" Luffy appeared with Ro in toe. They both looked at the carnage with surprise. "What?"

Magellan stood up and shook his head, "We don't really know." He shrugged looking back at Sadi as some guards came and carried her body away with the others.

"Sorry," Luffy looked down as he watched the demoness body away. "I hope she didn't suffer."

Magellan sighed before turning to walk back to the elevator. "Come, we must get Fire Fist ready for transport."

Luffy nodded along with Zoro. Catching his first mates' eye Luffy and Zoro communicated with each other. This was what they were here for. It was finally coming down to what will happen at MarineFord. This was a war they had to win!

A/N: Hey sorry for the long wait. I had a lot of things to do with school and work. Anyway read and review! Hope you like this one, we are now Leaving Impel Down!