After a sound beating, Marco got the okay from Dragon to marry Ace. He had to say, his muscles were sored for the fight, but it was worth it. What was really bad was the jokes Tatch made after he was defeated by the older man. The wedding was amazing and Trafalgar used that opportunity for introducing his new boyfriend. Sengoku wasn´t happy about that, but he didn´t say anything. Both men were happy, like in a dream come true. But in the end Ace was happy when the congrats were over and they could finally go away on honeymoon.

"This is so much better, you and me alone" said the D.

"And it´s going to be even better" smiled Marco, hugging him.

-Years later-

"Come on, Alice, wakey wakey" said Ace, waking up his five years old daughter. The little girl was born, the medics said, thanks to some kind of after effect from the accident of Star Labs. The child opened her eyes, rubbing them before looking at her clock.

"Mommy, it´s six in the morning and I don´t have classes today, it´s Saturday yoi" she answered, ready to go back to sleep, but her mother lifted her and put her to her feet. She grumbled, walking to her closet and pulling out her least favorite outfit, the training clothes. She enjoyed fighting, she really did, but with her mother´s insistence of doing it all days and specially in no school days… no kid wanted that.

"Sorry, baby" apologized Ace. "We could have done it later, but daddy has this important dinner with rich people and we have to prepare ourselves. Have you chosen a, outfit yet?"

"No, I´m not going" she crossed her arms and sat on the floor in a stubborn way. "I don´t like grown ups parties"

"You have to, Alice" said the older D., even if he thought the same. "Look, I will help you to get out earlier if you do good in training today, okay? I will even make up an excuse for you" there was a knock on the door and he turned around. "Stay there, I will answer this." He opened the door only to find one of the servants with a card. "Yes?"

"Master, Mister Marshall is here" Ace narrowed his eyes. Marshall D. Teach was the relative he disliked the most, some kind of distant cousin of the kind you want to keep at… distance. Specially with his daughter. And he was not the only one, all the clan did. He was a weakling and a traitorous filth they unofficially expelled from the clan. He was surprised to see that the Whitebeard family adopted him when they kicked him our, but Marco didn´t believed him when he said he was dangerous.

"I will be there in a moment" he answered. It was a surprise when Teach didn´t recognized him, but it has been years and the Ds were not the brainey kind of genius. "Whatever you do, don´t leave the room, Alice"

"Why?"

"Just do as I said" and he left. The man greeted him with that fake smile. His holes made him a little nervous, but he managed to control himself. After some minutes of talking, the guy left, happy about having outsmarted the Newgate family and soon have all their money. The freckled man haven´t even closed his door when his phone rang. It was his brother.

"Sabo? What´s up?" he asked. After knowing that Teach worked in the company, in an important place, he asked his blond sibling to investigate the man. The blue hatted youngster did that with pleasure, helped by Dragon and Garp, who disliked Teach too.

"Ace, this is urgent, we have to move" he said serious.

"What did he do?"

"Do you know Lafitte, that corrupted lawyer? Well, he managed to change the Will of Edward Newgate to declare himself heir if the old man dies" Sabo stopped for a minute to wait for his brother to shook his stupor. "Don´t worry, I put Koala to work. You know that my wife is the best private investigator… but we need time. And that´s exactly what we don´t have."

"What now?"

"Teach hired some killer from Nanda Parvat… you know, Ras al Ghul´s minions" a cry was heard in the other side of the phone and the blond rushed to pick up his daughter. "Sorry about that, Sabrina felt."

"Don´t worry, but… why hiring assassins? He can do it himself"

"It´s Teach we are talking about. The guy is as dangerous as a baby´s doll" he chuckled a bit. "I think even Janos can handle him" Janos was Luffy´s one year old child, him being married with the gorgeous mafia boss Boa Hancock. "But those guys not, they are big leagues… at least for the cops in your city"

"Okay, don´t worry, I will take care of it. Just let me plan things right, I still have to do some things in the house for the…"

"Ace, you don´t have time either" informed Sabo, putting his daughter down. "The time of the assassination is placed for tonight, in that party" Ace´s mouth dropped to the floor. "Look, I will assist you as much as I can, but you have to let me in, with our weapons and costumes"

"That´s not going to be a problem"

"And… they are going to stop like that, the old man is going to need around the clock protection for some time…" the man stopped and grabbed something from the floor. "Just look at this, Trafalgar is going to get married. And here I thought that was never going to happen… apparently he is finally over what happened to Rocinante all those years ago"

"Well, have you asked for his help in this?"

"No, he is so busy… trapped in a nightmare that was supposed to be a dream. Damn, I visited him last week and saw him buried in archives of patients with the flu or something imaginary… I really pitied him"

"It´s all Doflamingo´s fault" the blond said with hatred in his eyes. "Sometimes I can´t even begin to think that a man like him shares blood with someone like Donquixote "Corazon" Rocinante. It was such a pity he woke up. But well, they said that it happens even in the best families. Just look at Teach…"

"Yeah, I have told Law a hundredth of times to get out of the country, that way he wouldn´t be in that pink feathered donkey´s clutched anymore" said Ace. "Back to business, do you really have a plan? Because Oyayi is too sweet to be killed by an ambitious idiot… and his sons too clever not to notice it smelled like rat"

"That´s why he paid for… well, all the Newgate family excluding you and Alice"

"Son of a bitch!" cursed the freckled man, then covered his mouth. It would do no good to be heard by his daughter. "Sorry. I have to go now. See you later?"

"Yeah" he hanged and the fire user went to his little girl´s room. He woke her up again and took her to the training section of the house, something Marco added to the design of their manor after his partner´s insistence on having one. They positioned themselves and Alice started copying her mother´s movements to warm up.

"Offf!" she said when she fall for the fifth time. "I don´t know how you can do this, mommy, I can´t!"

"You only need training, Alice" said the older D, showing her the movement again.

"Why do we do this anyway? I´m not going to use it anyway yoi!" yelled the child, sitting on the ground. Ace looked at her and patted her head.

"You will know how this is going to be useful when you don´t even think" he smiled. The child and him continued when there was a knock on the door. She looked at him when Sabrina entered accompanied by one of the workers. "I thought you will be lonely in the party, so when uncle Sabo said he and auntie Koala would be busy until tonight she would be the perfect excuse for you to leave the party early and have fun…"

"Thanks, mommy!"

"Thanks, uncle!" chipped in the blond girl.

"Only if you do good in the training"

"Hai!" both girls started to put more effort in the training. Ace smiled, picking up Sabrina was the perfect excuse for Sabo being there too. He just hoped everybody buy it.

-In the Arrow lair-

"You really have to go that party? You know that you are not a rich kid anymore" said Felicity when she saw her friend preparing for what she called the most boring millionaire party of the year. "And the Newgate family doesn´t organize your kind of parties"

"I promised Thea. Roy is busy and it´s the least I could do after… well, all that happened" Oliver sighed. "Just that we have to be grateful that she still owns Merlin International or we would be broke and fight crime impossible"

"Great" she said, grabbing his tie to help her boyfriend. "She expects you soon and… there is something you should know" Oliver looked at the computer´s expert for some seconds. "I´ve been monitoring the movements of the Assassins Clan… they have been paid to get rid of the Big Man in person… tonight at the party"

"So… you don´t want me to go because I would become Arrow again"

"Yes! And it was a moral fight between me and another me! Because Edward Newgate is such a nice person! Do you know he has a big house for orphans and he threat them like his own children? He doesn´t deserve to die! And if you go and…"

"Felicity, just this one, Arrow will appear again to save this last person… but then it´s all to Roy" Oliver put on a watch on his wrist and walked away to meet his sister. After a quick call, Digg accorded to take the green costume to the party. Thea, who have Mr Newgate in high esteem, said that she would help him too. They arrived at the party with all the other guests and were quickly approached by Marco, who happily greet them.

"Oliver! Long time no see yoi"

"Marco Newgate… I heard that you finally tied the knot. Who is the lucky one?" asked Oliver, doing his best to smile at this man and not tell him the danger he was in.

"That would be Ace" he called for his husband, who had their little girl in his arms. It was pretty early and she was already bored. Alice blinked at the siblings, then reached for Thea, but retreated her hands after her mother send her a look. "What´s the matter yoi?"

"Mommy, can I go play now? I´ve greeted all guests yoi" she said. The freckled man smiled at them before leaving with the little one in his arms.

"Sorry, her cousin paid a visit earlier today and… well, she is tired" he blond searched the area and finally saw Teach, chatting with some people. He called for the black haired man to introduce him to the guests. Oliver looked straight at his eyes and knew that he was the responsible of the attempt on Whitebeard´s life.

"Are you having a good night, Mr. Queen?" his greedy eyes landed on Thea, what made Oliver´s blood boil. "Zehahahaha, I do"

"Yes, I am" answered Oliver before Marco left to accompany his family to the rooms section. Once they came back, Ace followed him with the eyes until they saw each other front to front in the banquet´s table. "Do you want to talk to me?"

"I do" the freckled man said in a low voice. He handed Arrow a cup of champagne. "The Clan of Assassins, when they attack don´t interfere, everything is sorted"

"Sorted? No matter what protection you hired, they are nothing compared to…"

"But there is nothing in this world that can do something against the Will" answered the clack haired man, drinking some of his liquor. "Don´t take it personal, this has nothing to do with your skills as a warrior… it´s just that in this things we have hundredths of years of experience. We can handle this" before Oliver could say something he was called by a waiter, saying something about is brother being here. "If you excuse me, I have to go"

"What a strange man"

-In the door-

Sabo was waiting there with a big pack. He opened it and handed a black ninja like attire. He handed it to his big brother before pulling the same kind of clothe for himself. Both of them dressed up, putting masks over their faces. Sabo put a bow staff in his back while Ace strapped a dagger to his waist. They nodded to each other and dashed towards the party. When they reached the room where the guests were, the lights were out and the assassins have entered, reading their daggers for the Newgate family´s hearths.

"My favorite part" muttered Ace.

"Yeah" answered his sibling and they both attacked. In a blur of black, they entered the room and terminated the group. The lights went on and, when Teach prepared for his moment of shinning, they found out the bodies of the killers on the ground, lying dead. Ace and Sabo ran out of the room before it happened and quickly took out the evidence before incinerating it with the older brother´s powers.

"Let´s get inside again" suggested the blond. When they entered the freckled D immediately searched for his husband, relieved that the crisis have been averted. Oliver was speechless, what kind of being could with the assassins?

"Are you okay yoi?" asked Marco.

"Yes, and you?"

"Okay"

-The next day-

"We have company" was the greeting Arrow got from his former sidekick when he entered the lair to get Felicity. There, before his own eyes, was Nissa. But she was not her usual proud and sure self. The woman was worried to the core for something.

"I know you were at the party last night" she said. He raised his eyebrow, why was she so worried about a single job gone wrong? "Tell me everything"

"Well…" after he finished, she exhaled, then looked at Thea. "Have Merlin ever tell you our mites?"

"Once or twice, why?"

"Because we are dealing with something that until some days ago was only a mith from ancient times…" she sighed again. "Some days ago a stranger arrived to Nanda Parvat, demanding to see our leader. We would have attacked him, but he had some sort of power that didn´t allowed us to"

"A metahuman?" asked Arrow. "This one?" he showed a picture of Teach. "Marshall Teach is the guilty then. I will call the Flash, so they can prepare the prison for…"

"No prison can stop him, Oliver" said Nissa. "He is a D… Marshall D. Teach"

"A D? Malcom told me about them once" said Thea, remembering the history. "Weren´t they some kind of demon clan of assassins that feed on the chaos that they created? I can´t believe that, he wouldn´t have hired you if…"

"Obviously with time their strength got down, so the last survivors of the clan are not killers anymore but… this one, weak, managed to handle all Nanda Parvat, so I didn´t want to risk anything. If there were some stronger ones…" she shuddered. "We need to find them… all of them"

"And I know where to start searching" said Oliver. "With Ace Portgas"