I do not own One Piece, Nasuverse or any other show/book/movie or a game that might be mentioned in this story. I only own these couple of words that i wrote.

Warning: Some swearing there and there.

Chapter 5: Sabo

Part 1

Scathach still crouched behind one of the chimneys, even as the sun started going down. Under her was a relatively peaceful street, from time to time some noble walked by, expensive boots making quiet sounds that could be easily lost in the strange calm that filled the place. There were two kinds of calm, one that made person close his eyes and listen to it, the sort that made all the worries go away and truly rest.

The other kind of calm was commonly referred to as a 'Calm before a storm'. It was a sort of a state when a single action, movement or even waiting too long could bring something very bad upon people who were in a bad place at a wrong time. Like when one took an old rubber band, stretched it to the limit and expected it to remain like that either forever or while poking it with a sharp needle.

The band would eventually snap and hit someone. If lucky, one would not even feel it but if unlucky, it could hit an eye.

This calm was the unsettling sort, one that expected the 'rubber band to snap'. But what caused it? Was someone waiting for her?

Hardly. Only Ace and Luffy knew that she is here, the Nobles wouldn't expect her to be here, not after what happened yesterday. They will probably even consider her dead, damn the one who hit her! It hurt!

Scathach saw a movement in house, a woman that would have been much prettier should she be more careful around make up and drop that ridiculous smiling face. Her hair must have had a prettier shade of blond once. Without a doubt, she is Sabo's 'mother'. No one would say that she is a mother of a child was that missing for a year at the very least. Scathach did not know when Sabo left but something told her that it was more than a single year.

This place made her sick and without a doubt it made and will make Sabo sick again if he stays here for too long.

The said boy soon appeared from behind a corner, looking very much defeated, head looking down at his feet as he moved on. He was wearing blue clothes alright, but not the same ones. They seemingly made him change so he wouldn't look too bad before other so called Nobles. Scathach waited for them to go into the house and when darkness fell, she came from her hiding spot, jumped down onto the streets, jumped over the tall black fence and soon stood on one of the branches of a quite tall tree. Tall for this area at least. From there, hidden by the green leaves, she watched a small room, presumably Sabo's, or some other boys.

To her misfortune, it was not Sabo that entered, rather a boy with hair colored like rust and a smug smile on face. The sort that made Scathach dislike the brat on spot, aka, she would punch him given the opportunity.

Scathach was about to find a different window when the familiar blond boy that she has been looking for entered. The girl nearly threw herself right through the glass when she saw Sabo enter.

Though as she had more brains than Luffy, she stayed.

Though then the brat opened his mouth. "Hey brother I heard that you are pretty stupid."

Calm down, Scatty... don't do something really bad, like kill him. Or worse, break the window.

"Mother and father were always saying that behind the curtain." As the brat's back was facing the window, he did not mention the blackness that was outside the window. Or the angry girl attached to the wall, slowly and carefully opening it. Though Sabo paled. "But you have devil's luck because they are going to take care of the burnables tomorrow night."

Scathach was about to 'nicely' ask the boy to stop when she stopped at one word. Burnables. Fire. The night before she was plagued with dreams about fire, Luffy and Ace yelling.

"If you had stayed in the Gray Terminal, you would have died tomorrow."

Scathach placed her hands onto the boy's shoulders and he stopped talking. "That is quite interesting, boy... would you mind telling me more about it?"

The nameless brat had once glance behind him... and he fainted.

"Damn it! Don't faint when I am talking to you!"

"Scathach! What are you doing here?! It's too dangerous! Are you injured anywhere? You took..."

"I am fine. What about you?"

Sabo walked up to her, looked her up and down and only after that he answered when he reassured himself that she is fine. He sighed. "As fine as possible... Scathach, you should get out of here!"

"I'll stay here as long as I want to, Nobles be damned, you are my brother. Ace and Luffy are doing fine, somewhat, Bluejam let them go but he gave them a weird job."

"Job?"

"Ace said that he still wants to gather money, and that they will wait for you to come back if you will ever want to come."

"I see. Can you give me the boy Scatty?"

"Boy? Oh, right." Scathach looked down as the unconscious, drooling boy that was still in her hands. She grimaced a bit when she saw the saliva dripping from his mouth. "Sabo, what was the brat going about?"

"I don't know, but let's find out. Got any rope on you?"

Stelly was not having a good day. Actually a few days.

Sure it was awesome that all that dirt that was in the Gray Terminal will be removed, but he was still angry. But he knew better than to show it, it was enough that his old mother and father tossed him away because of some stupid maids mistake. How could the damn woman not understand a simple instruction like the one he gave her! It was no fair!

Though the reason behind his bad mood was his brother that he got to meet today. The blond idiot was just standing there with that look, looking like some brute. He was doing fine without him, seriously, why should he share what is his with that damn brute? He should be just left in the Gray Terminal and die with the rest so he wouldn't sully the good and honorable folk that he, Stelly belonged to.

In order to vent his anger, he waited in his room to have some fun. Seen how his face paled? Hahaha! Priceless!

But then everything turned bad. Like very, very bad when someone placed hands on his shoulders. There was only one word with which he could describe the being behind him. Devil.

When Stelly woke up, he felt tied up, though he was not able to complain as he saw two people towering above him. He nearly fainted with fright, again because he recognized the girl as the devil. Red eyes, pale skin and that black long hair. Then she smiled and the only reason why his world did not go black again was because the damn blond slapped him. Then Sabo gave the devil a pointed look and she moved back.

"He made me angry."

"Scathach."

"Fine." And she moved back.

"Stelly! What did you mean when you said that everyone is going to die tomorrow? Spit it out!"

Stelly would have protested, should she not have been standing behind his brother. That is why he said everything right away. Even he had some survival instincts.

"T-there is going to be a fire! Tomorrow! T-the Nobles want Gray Terminal gone! B-because of the Tenryuubito! The world noble! So he wouldn't see all the dirt! The people! All the filth that lives there!"

"What?!"

One thing was sure. Stelly will never be able to look at any girl the same, that was his last thought before he fainted again.

Sabo and Scathach looked at the unconscious form of the brat, neither caring but his well being.

"Is this for real?"

"I don't know Scathach."

Sneaking out was laughably easy. One would expect that they would at least hire someone to watch the house, but Scathach guessed that they either did not think of such a thing or were just too confident. Sabo grabbed his old clothes that he hid, along with a pipe hidden under a bed and they were off. All they had to do was to jump at the tree and then down and over the fence.

Bye bye Nobles. Hello freedom.

Wonder how the guy would react to her actually hitting him with the red spear. Will the spear come to her again if she would be in a dire situation? Can she call onto it somehow? Would be very useful if she had a weapon of her own that can like disappear and appear by simply snapping her fingers!

"Scatty!" Sabo stopped and quickly moved towards the wall, so did her. Scathach could only hear steps and quiet voices from behind the corner but Sabo was peaking from behind the corner, looking at the source.

"Who is it?"

"I don't know, but they were in the Terminal when we were attacked. The ones in suits and masks."

Suits and masks? She faintly remembered them, all happened too fast and she wasn't exactly looking at what they were wearing. Though there might have been some creeps with masks. Having her nose pressed into the rotting trash most of the time did not help. "Do you want to follow?"

Sabo nodded.

Except for them, nobody was on the streets, the houses were mostly dark already which made sneaking almost too easy. It made both feel nervous. Things were never this easy in the forest and while the nobles did not have the imagination of poorer people, they still had a nasty bite with all that money and people that stood behind them. Like the police, marines and so on.

Or perhaps they were just overestimating them at this moment. Just who would think that kids were that much danger? Even after so many months, there were people who still looked down onto them, not because were small but because they saw them as too weak. Scathach still has got a bad feeling about this, the feeling just wouldn't go away.

The kids ducked under a window of one of the more neglected buildings in the area. "...can't be any miscalculation."

"We are ready, but the pirates might be a problem. They are not dependable and they have to burn all of the trash."

So this is not some bad joke. Burn all trash. Without even knowing it, they mark themselves as trash. Scathach almost felt Sabo's face going pale when he heard their words. But the real question now was how they want to burn the place? It's a large area, not all things there are exactly flammable and even most of the wood is wet most of time, now it's surely still wet after that large storm few days ago.

"...Bluejam's clan is setting explosives and boxes of oil..."

Well. Fuck.

Her eyes widened, so did Sabo's when they were looking at each other. Luffy and Ace are, were carrying boxes of something the entire day today and would likely continue doing that tomorrow if what they think is true.

Scathach doesn't know how, but she will make sure that Ace knows how bad of an idea it was to accept that deal.

No, these people aren't just going to burn the people of Gray Terminal. They said all trash. Including the pirates. And those who work with them. Even though Scathach and the rest made it clear that being a kid does not equal weak, they were still limited in what they can do with their little fists and small bodies. Scathach now really wished that she were a bit older and take on the pirates.

Sabo and she ran out of there.

"This. Is. All. So. Screwed. Up! Just how can anyone think like this? Just how can anyone think of a living being as if it was a disposable thing, or whatever they are thinking! They are like some monsters in human skin!"

Sabo silently listened to her angry rant, sitting there in an old abandoned house.

"Sabo? Sabo?"

The flinched when she came closer. He was not listening to her at all, she couldn't blame him.

"Are you alright?"

"Alright? That is a rather stupid question."

"True. So I'll try again: Will be you alright?"

This time he laughed, altho a bit nervously and with help, he stood up from the dusty old floor. "As long as we will be able to save Luffy and Ace. Though, I still find it hard to believe."

"It is hard to believe that people like that exist at all. What are we going to do now?"

"I think I still stay. I... I want to make sure that this thing is not just some hoax."

"Are you sure? The police will be after you." She frowned.

"Hehe... don't be worried Scatty, there are scarier things in the forest."

"Sabo, really now, I don't want you to stay here."

"Huh?" He blinked and then made a confused face. "Why?"

"I haven't told anyone. Not even Luffy, but this past few days I have been having dreams about a large fire, and every time I am awake it's as if some bird was sitting on my shoulder and constantly poking my head. I can't help it, but something just yells as me that something bad is going to happen. And now It yells at me that you staying here will be bad."

"Scatty..."

"I am just worried about your life, Ok?"

"Don't be worried about me." Sabo shook his head and placed his hand on her shoulder. "I will be fine, Promise."

"Pinkie swear?"

"Erm... Ok... Isn't that a bit childish?"

A glare made him quickly put his pinkie next to hers. "We are kids, in case you have forgotten. So a promise?"

"A promise." Altho the bad feeling did not go away, she relaxed, Sabo patted her head and Scathach gave him a blank look. She is only one year younger than him. "Are you going to warn them?"

"Of course, We will check the content of those boxes, if we won't be able to, nothing will happen if we just move back into the forest. Our tree house is there anyway."

"B-b-bombs! Are they going to blow up the Gray Terminal?!" Luffy jumped up, eyes wide... and yelled. Ace was faster than Scathach. The two older kids were shortly talking again, Luffy was sitting there silently, holding his throbbing head.

"Ouch." Almost silently.

"Scatty, are they honestly planing to erase the Gray Terminal?"

"Not 'blow up' as Luffy put it, but they are planing to start a fire. Ace, have you checked what is in the boxes that you have been carrying around?"

"No, not really. They were pretty heavy though."

"Not even Luffy tried to peak inside?"

"Hey, they were constantly standing behind our backs, not that we had many opportunities."

"Yeah..." Scathach sighed. She glanced at the broken clock that still somehow worked (Luffy once made up a story that an evil ghost is in it and couldn't sleep at night). Six in the morning, the sun was starting to go up, soon they would have to go there to help out again.

"So, what is the plan? Where is Sabo?"

"Sabo is doing fine. Somewhat. He wants to come back, for now he is watching the Nobles in the city to see if he can learn something more."

"I... see..."

A large weight seemed to leave his shoulders, though like always, to keep his cool guy look he hid everything under that mask he wore. If Scathach could say, he seemed happy that Sabo is truly one of them. Who knows what sort of things Bluejam told the two, it wouldn't be unlike him to mess with the heads of his victims, without a doubt that is how he saw her two brothers. If Scathach could, she would really beat Ace for accepting a job from him. Dealing with him was like dealing with devil, not counting the nobles and most other authorities, he was the strongest man around. His eyes alone spoke of the things he had done in the past. Killing, maiming, stealing. A bunch of kids like them is still nothing more but a rock in a shoe, at least in his eyes.

"Ace, Luffy. Sabo is our brother."

Both looked at her, seemingly not understanding what she wants to say.

The three kinds looked from behind the corner. Bluejam's men were everywhere. As if that wasn't enough, the wind was picking up. If a fire were to start in this weather, it would be a disaster, both Ace and Scathach, perhaps even Luffy could easily imagine this place on fire. Seeing the regular residents going around, albeit a bit worried by Bluejan's presence was not making things better.

Scathach herself knew only few of them, but if a person found a friend here, he was a friend for life, living in such conditions revealed person's real colors. Not that all of them were good people, there were many scum around.

"We will check the boxes."

"I will spread the word." Answered the girl.

"Don't get caught."

"Same to you."

Telling people might seem as an easy task, but it certainly is not. First of all, there were a number of people that would ridicule her, start yelling and Scathach would be chased all around the place and would be forced to flee. As Bluejam knows of her relationship with Ace and Luffy, things would be really, really bad. Those two could still pretend that hey work for him. That sort people would have to come as the last ones. Then there were those that rather liked Bluejam... she is not telling them if they don't know. Call her cruel, but they would ruin everything.

There were those neutral ones, the unknowns from whom she did not know what to expect and lastly those that would listen to what she has to say and would even help. That was the smallest group.

The first person that she visited was still snoozing. A tattered old man only known as Mr Snoozer. The guy had no problem to sleep anywhere, though he had a problem with Scathach jumping onto him. Needless to say, he started swearing up a storm.

Scathach has got all day to warn as many people as she can, but also all day to get caught and all day to worry about her siblings.

When she grows up one day, she will become so strong that she wouldn't have to worry this much. That is a promise.

Aaaand wrap. The chapter is not that long, but I have decided to end it here. Wow, wasn't expecting the childhood arc to take this long, was expecting it to be like 2-3 chapters at max but guess it can't be helped if I want to introduce characters and stories behind them.

I would like to ask you something: Please try to be polite, even while describing what sort how 'that and that character should suffer'. While It makes me happy that you seemingly like this story, but those reviews aren't the most pleasant to read.

I also would like to make one thing clear: Scathach will not seek revenge and will not go out of her way to deal with Potters.

While she will likely leave them with a few more broken bones than what would be normal in her case should she be given other reason to go against them, but she will be too mature to go out of her way and bother with them. There are more reasons, but I will leave that for the story, so you will have to wait.

The main reason why I made her a Potter is so that she would be able to connect better with Ace and Sabo, when I published this story, I had no plans to return her into the Potter verse. At all. Hence why this is a One Piece/Fate crossover officially, I will be focusing on Scathach from Nasuverse and One Piece. Since some people would like to see her come back to Potter verse, I might throw her there for a few chapters, but not for too long. I already have a few ideas and even know when and with who. You must admit that Voldemort, while he has some very creative spells which can be a nasty surprise, he is still not a match for someone that lives in the more dangerous parts of Grand Line, stormed Enies Lobby, has got Gae Bolg and is seemingly the Scathach that slew even gods.

Yeah. Good luck Voldie.

There are still things to be thought over to make the arc more interesting and not too focused on bashing. Bashing can be fun but there are tons of other fics out there that do that. I mean a ton.

Seriously now. Go, open a page with HP stories/crossovers and count how many do not have at least some bashing.

Sorry, no omake this time. Don't expect one in the next either.