As the years passed life became crueler

Luffy was close to forgetting what it was like to be shown kindness.

Ace attacked anyone (not including sabo) that entered his vicinity, (in other words more reckless)

And sabo? Well sabo was becoming more selective and secretive of his words and actions, he seemed to get more mysterious as the years passed

It had been three years with endless training and fights

The two brothers never trusted anyone and were always together, making sure that each other was ok, eventually it became a brother complex

They never wanted to go through the pain of losing a brother again so they decided they would set out together when ace was seventeen

Both wanted to be captains so they came to a decision that concluded in sabo being co-captain

During a fight later that very day with some thugs, sabo made a miscalculation that resulted in almost getting his neck sliced with a pocket knife, luckily ace had stepped in and hit the man in the ribs with his metal pipe, causing the man to fall unconscious

Ace had told Sabo to be careful and they continued to fight the few thugs that were left, needless to say ace kept a closer eye on his brother that week

Although almost losing his only brother did bring some unwanted memories flooding back

a while back when luffy was...still with them, sabo's parents came and took him away , but ace wasn't going to let sabo go so easily so he sneaked into high town that same day (after he had killed blue jam and taken luffy back to the bandits hut) just to see him out at sea with their flag out.

Then the damn noble shot his boat down.

Ace had to jump in the water and drag his burned and injured brother out and the blond was in fact awake and coherent, but ace carried him anyway not wanting the only brother left to have to walk while he was so weak and injured.

By the time both twelve year old's returned to gray terminal all that was left was ash, ace was still furious that he had been stupid enough to helped the pirates do this, even if he didn't know what was in those crates when he was forced to carry them,sabo was still shocked silent from both the almost death experience and the fact that gray terminal was gone, he had known about it but seeing it was something else entirely.

They only stood there for a moment before sabo started to groan in pain so ace made a sprint for dadans country

After that day though, they really never bothered to go back to gray terminal nor anywhere near the Goa kingdom wall,

Rumors went around about how it was the bluejam pirates that started the fire and it was they themselves who perished in it

Ace was happy when the rumors were proven true and the bluejam pirates were dead

It was really funny too when dadan saw-

"ACE!" the top-hat teen yelled frustrated

"Huh?" the freckled face teen's head shot up to look at his annoyed brother

"Were you listening to a word i was saying!?"

"No"

"..." the blond teen face palmed completely giving up at that point

With luffy…

pain

So much pain

Luffy was chained up with thick sea stone chains

He lay on the cement floor scrunched up into a ball holding his sides, his breathing was shaky and the color of his skin was as white as a piece of paper that is, if you could see any of his skin at all because most of it was covered in dry blood.

He had many infected injures too many to count.

He was barely fed or given any water during his 'stay' with blackbeard.

And it was only made worse when Blackbeard would come to play with him , although he still somewhat had an idea of what was right and wrong for someone to do to you, he still couldn't help the feeling of normality creeping up on him.

He heard the stone door slam open and in stepped it his 'master'.

'What a disgusting word' he thought to himself.

His arms felt numb, Yet he reached out in front of him to pick himself up getting on is knees then slowly he staggered to his feet.

He wore the same emotionless mask he had worn for the past three years but as always he wasn't going to sit around and just let that cursed man torture him.

Blackbeard walked over to his slave and kneed him in the stomach " you should know not to pick fight's with your elders? show some RESPECT!"

Luffy gasp and fell to the floor coughing wetly into his palm, when his fit was over he wasn't surprised to see his hand a dark shade of red.

Luffy looked up as much as he could so he could look at the man's eyes.

"Don't you see? My body may break but my heart can't" the young boy said cockily with a grin on his face, voice cracking in places from the rare occurrence of him talking, but it was said with confidence nonetheless.

The man scowled then took out a long metal pole that had spikes over it, "come now you don't think i'm that stupid do you? Even i can tell you're breaking" the boy frown but a smirk once again laced his features "is that so? Well you must be that stupid if you think i in anyway think you're smarter than a rock" ( luffy as always is pretty bad at insults)

the man just gave the boy a look of disgust and hit him with the weapon and at times he felt his consciousness slipping

but never once did he let out a pained sound the closest the bastard got out of him was a whine from the boy saying "come on you must be the weakest person i know" which needless to say earned him even harder hits but how could he help himself of course he was going to use any chance to annoy the bastard that he got!

Once enough blood was splattered to satisfy the man he spoke again not even bothering to put the stupid pole away

"Remember how i said i wasn't going to let you out of my sights? Well in order to keep those words true, you'll be coming with me to bored the great whitebeard pirates ship, i'll be undercover while on board, i've been working to gain all those stupid pirates trust.. "

Luffy felt a raw chuckle coming on 'the only stupid pirate hear is you' then not caring for the man's words he interrupted

"And why are you telling me this you moron" the chained rubber boy said in a deadpan voice

A grin spread across the man's face "no reason really, it's just that i wanted you to know.." Blackbeard looked straight into the boy in front of him in the eyes, the boy's eyes were a darker deeper shade of black but seemed dead while the man in front of him had eyes full of malice and pure greed

" if you tell to anyone who i really am you will not live to regret it," the man than stood up and started for the door before stopping half way there to say as a last thought "Oh, and just so you know i go by the name of teach, so you will not under any sercamctaces call me by my pirate name got it?,and you'll also pose as my 'protege' "

Luffy snarled as he watched the man continue on his merry way

A little later..

The door for a second time that day was opened and in stepped in the doctor, though the man caused more harm than not, but he wasn't in the best place to complain.

luffy's found himself wondering what the word justice represented to the man. surely he knew this was cruel right?

Needless to say he was now terrified of 'doctors' he was sure if he ever got out of there and caught sight of a white coat he'd run for the hills.

The doctor stepped inside with a maddening grin on his face, he wore a long white coat, with gray hair and dark blue eyes, but everything about him screamed 'insane' so luffy really wouldn't expect any girls to ever approach the man, but the ones who did..well luffy would have called them idiots or suicidal ones.

"hello specimen, I've come on orders of Mr. Blackbeard so don't try to resist " the 'doctor' said in a cheery tone, which somehow made him look even more insane.

Honestly the man gave him chills.

The man took out his 'doctor bag' that contained (for once) what looked like medical equipment, and to his complete and utter shock the man actually started treating his wounds oppose to being the cause of them.

The strange doctor looked up for a brief moment and saw the confused and surprised look on his 'specimen' face, he looked back down to the arm he was bandaging and roughly cleaned it causing the boy to flinch.

"Don't get the wrong idea, the only reason i'm doing this is because Mr. Blackbeard ordered me to and because personally i don't think it is wise for him to drag you around and get blood everywhere, that would cause i bit more trouble than we need" he said with much an exasperated sigh.

Luffy decided to stay silent.

Once he'd finished he packed up his equipment stood up and left without a word.

The boy looked down at his broken body covered in scars and dry blood that at the moment was covered by bandages head to toe.

With a sigh his mind drifted back to that day,

The little ravine haired boy slept soundly beside his big brothers.

He felt light somehow, as if he were floating..or maybe falling, but it was still peaceful, that is in till he felt an unknown presence coming into the tree house.

He may not be strong enough to change into his dragon form but that small detail didn't change the fact that he still had the senses of one.

The dragon's eyes shot open and in mid jump he side kicked the man in the ribs, the man flew out the tree house entrance with rapid speed, although three more humans streamed in, to make up for the one.

More mounted in and eventually he was overwhelmed and was forced to flee the tree house, confident that the humans had no interest in his brothers, though admittedly luffy had admittedly been surprised that at the time his brothers hadn't even stirred, only to later find out they had been drugged.

'maybe things would have turned out differently if they had woken? no the past is the past, and it had already happened. There was no point on getting riled up now.'

So he ran and ran, than he realized their plan was to get him away from he brothers and capture him then, he panicked and tried to get back to them, but then he was caught and captured anyway.

'there wasn't much of a chance to go back either way, i had ran pretty far'

Then he found out that, that old famous pirate 'Blackbeard' was behind it he wasn't very surprised

Blackbeard and him went back farther than most would think,

Him and that damned Blackbeard had been rivals since way before he met his big brothers, true he was the grandson of Garp the fist but the village he had stayed in had been pillaged by pirates and he was kidnapped by them to be sold he was barely two years old but being a dragon he was much more intelligent and observing than most men let alone children so he knew he was being kidnapped of course he also knew he wasn't strong enough to do anything about it.

So he waited and let it happen.

They reached a place called Sabaody Archipelago.

Ta-da! Yay i'm done this chapter!

I'll update you next month,

Thank you for liking my story and following, it is my first after all,

And uh…

To be continued...