Hey guys, we're back with another chapter.

Sorry I disappeared for a bit. Was having a hard time deciding how this chapter should go and I had work stuff going on too.

Anyway, I have been reading some fanfics during a little bit of my free time, and I am thinking of doing an SYOC styled story soon. If people would like to send in characters for the new story, that would be wonderful.

I will be doing a slight rewrite with the previous chapters soon too. Got this cool new program thing called 'Grammarly' which is meant to help with writing. So hopefully it will. Wish me luck in using it guys.

To Shahana-G - You're welcome for the new chapter and thank you about wishing me lunch with the new the job. It has been busy and keeping me busy. Yes, nobles can be such jerks, poor little Marco.

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Things are different now...

Flashback To Present

"I will pay him," the man told the slaver. Eri was doing his best not to look worried about that. What were his father's plans for the boy? "I will be back at the end of the week for him. Eri, come."

"Don't worry," Eric told the blonde slave boy. "I'll think of something to get you out."

"Eri!" his father reported as Eri ran over to him and handed the slaver the knife back.

Marco watched as the boy left with the man. What was going on? Who was this boy? What did he mean he would think of something? Marco wasn't an idiot; he wasn't going to stay here and let the slavers sell him to anyone. The only problem was, he had no idea how to get out. Nor did he know where to go. Damn it… What was Marco going to do?

Eri had a plan. It wasn't the world's greatest plan. But still, it was a plan. Now, Spade needed to get to the people who can help him with his plan to free of all the slaves here and burn down the slave house. And the first one that Spade will save, looking back to the blonde healing powered boy. Was him.


At the end of the week, in the past...

Marco was staring at disbelief at the kid in the cage with him. The blond was sure this was the other blond from earlier in the week. The one who was here with the nobleman and had called him dad. The kid was sure the other kid was called Eri or something like that. Even though Marco couldn't see the blond kid's face behind the white mask that had a black spade on the blank cover of the mask. What was going on? Why was he here? What was he doing?

"What are you doing?"

"Saving you, and everyone else here. What does it look like?" the masked boy said as he was using keys from the guards to get the chains and weird bracelet made of some unusual stone.

"Like you're going to get us all killed," Marco told him straight out. "You're the no-"

"I'm Spade," the masked wearing blond cutting Marco off. "And that's it. I'm not anyone else."

Marco raised an eyebrow up at that as he rubbed his wrists as the chains and bracelet all fell off.

"What kind of name is that?"

"The one I got to chose." Marco can understand the message in that one single statement. Even though he was meant to be the son of a noble, he had no freedom. And this was the other blond's way of getting that freedom. He didn't want people to know him for being the noble's son; he wanted them to know him for him. "Who are you?"

"A nobody that they wanted to sell... my dad called me Marco."

"Well, what name would you have if you could pick?"

"I don't... Phoenix maybe? Since that's I turn into."

"Then it's nice to meet you Phoenix! I'm Spade," the masked blonde said putting his hand out to him.

Marco slowly took it and shook it. "Nice to meet you too... I think."

"Spade!" a voice shouted. "We need to go man!"

"Coming Sekki!" Spade shouted as he grabbed Marco's hand tightly. "Don't let go, okay?"

"Are you asking me to trust you?" Marco asked a little in disbelief.

"You don't have much choice," Spade reminded him.

"Touche," Marco sighed as he gripped onto the other's hand. "But you do know I can just fly myself out of here now, right?"

"I didn't think of that," Spade said as he was running with Marco right behind as they were holding hands.

"You're an idiot," Marco deadpanned.

"You sound like my brothers," Spade muttered to himself. Not like he wanted those people to be his family. "Like they were really brothers to me..."

"What is your plan after this?" Marco said to change the subject. "You won't be able to go back to your family if they find out about this..."

"Find a new family," Spade answered. "Pirate crews are like families right? I'll be a pirate captain!"

A family...

"That's what you want right?" Spade said as they got to the exit and he removed the mask. A long cut mark along his face. Holy shit, Marco knows that wasn't there when he had Er- Spade the other day. When did he get that? How did he get that? Did his father or someone else in his family do that? "Why don't you join? You could be my First Mate!"

"Spade! We have to go! The authorities are their way!" a blue-haired teen shouted as he ran over to them. He stopped in his track seeing Marco. "This the kid you telling me about? The one who wanted to do this for?"

"I never said that! I said we had to help all of the people in there and we have, so we better go!" the blond said as he grabbed both of their hands and started walking very quickly.

"Who are you?" Sekki and Marco asked the same time.

"Phoenix, meet Sekki. Sekki, this is Phoenix," Spade said as he was walking. "We're all going to be friends and family one day! Let's get to the ship and go!"

"Yeah, sure," Sekki said with a roll of his eyes. "You know I said I was leaving once we got to the next island right?"

"I know," Spade nodded. "But that doesn't mean you're actually going to leave."


Present Time, Mina Island, with the Ink Heart Pirates...

A man who looked to be in his late twenties was pacing. A brown-haired man in his mid-twenties was watching him as a black haired girl sighed at it. Three of there were senior crew members. The man in his late twenties was Sekki, with his blue hair back in a man bun. The brown-haired man was Callen or Cal as everyone else called him for short. And then there was the girl with black-haired who was Jay, or Jason. Her parents thought she was a boy when she was born and were too lazy to change her name.

"You still worrying about the captain, Sek?" Jay said from her spot as keeping an eye on the island. They knew that the island was protected by the Whitebeard Pirates. It was why they had come here so that Kaido hopefully wouldn't follow them here. But that didn't mean that people on the island wouldn't try something. The last thing they need right now is to have the Whitebeards after them.

Phoenix already had made an agreement with the people. Telling them that they weren't going to attack the town. That they were just here to rest and wait while they looked for their missing friend. So as long as the crew didn't attack or do anything bad in town, they were more than welcomed to stay in the town.

"Of course I am worried. I have known Spade the longest here," Sekki said looking to the crew. Sekki and Spade have always had a close relationship, even though Spade was closer to Phoenix. Sekki and Spade have an unspoken trust and relationship still.

"Ni! Ni! When's Spade-nii coming back?" a thirteen-year raven overly excited teen asked.

"As soon as Phoenix finds him Lu," Sekki smiled to the teen. "Why don't you, Ace and the others go with Viktor into town? You guys can see if you can catch rabbits or something in the forest? I'm sure Phoenix and Spade will be back soon."

"Okay!" Luffy, also known as Lu nodded. "Ace! Sabo! Asch! Vik! Let's go into town and go to the forest to go hunt!"

Viktor was a tall man in his very early twenties. He was the sniper/sharpshooter in the crew. He liked taking the four teenage boys out doing things like hunting. But he wasn't a fan of being calling Vik. Only the four boys could get away with it.

"I'll go get my gun and you boys go get your hunting bags!" Viktor told them. All four boys looked excited as they all ran off to go get their hunting bags, which Viktor had made them. "We can make traps for any animals in the forest!"

"Alright!" echoed throughout the ship.

"Hi there!" the mayor shouted as he waved and walked up to the ship. "The barker made some bread that wasn't quite right for selling but fine for eating, he was wondering if you guys would like the loaves?"

"Sure! We can freeze some to keep it and have later!" Jay shouted. She didn't fully trust these people, so she would make sure the bread would be tested first before they actually ate it. But free food was free food, and that wasn't something that the crew turned down. Many of the crew lived on the street and didn't have a lot of food, so they never turned down free food. Plus; Luffy, Ace, Asch and Sabo ate a lot of food. They were walking blackholes.

"Also, we got a call. Whitebeard-san is coming to the island!" the mayor said as he got closer to the ship. "I will explain to him that you young people mean us and him no harm. You are just waiting for your friend to come back with your missing friend."

"Only bloody Spade could go missing on a rowboat during a storm while we're docked at an island," Cal sighed with a shake of his head.

"Only the captain," the crew all agreed.

"Some of our people are going to the forest to hunt is that alright mayor-san?" Sekki checked with the man while he was here. "And that would be wonderful if you could explain things to Whitebeard for us. We truly mean you and him no harm."

"Of course young man! Not that is a problem and it would be my pleasure to talk to Whitebeard-san," the mayor nodded. The crew did help scare off pirate crews who wanted to attack the island to get to Whitebeard.

"Thank you!" Sekki smiled as he went back to worrying pacing.

"Sek, relax. I'm sure everything is fine," Cal told him.

"This Spade we're talking. We only have one Yanko after us. The last thing we need is for a second one," Sekki reminded Cal as he was pacing.

"Cal, leave him. We'll work out what to do when the captain and Pheonix get back. Right now, all we can do is wait," Jay told him and the others. "So, make sure you are all ready to fight if we need to."

"Right," the crew nodded.

Hopefully, it won't come down to that though, hopefully.

'Please don't do anything stupid Spade,' the whole crew thought.


And that was the chapter guys. Hope you all liked it. We are now starting to slowly meet the other crew members.

Send in a character if you would like your character to appear in my new SYOC story that I am working out. So keep an eye out for it.