Ace wandered a new part of the island as he tried to keep away from Whitebeard and the Devil's Kiss pirates. Who knew the dream girl he had found was so boring. He continued to walk around when he felt like he was being followed. He quickly took in his surroundings and continued walking, trying to figure out who was following him. He turned into an alley and quickly turned around to see two girls giggling. He relaxed and put on a smooth grin as he took them in. "Hello ladies, what can I do you for?"

The first one to speak had pink hair and one green and one pink eye, "Are you Ace?"

"Captain of the spade pirates?" The other girl asked, her hair green and eyes matching to the other girl.

Ace looked at the two and then realized the two were twins. He was happy they knew who he was, but the reminder to the spade pirates hurt. "I was."

The green haired girl smirked, "Oh that's right Whitebeard beat you down so now you lick his foot."

The pink haired girl giggled rubbing insult into Ace, "Oh that's right. Beaten men are so pathetic."

Ace felt fire leave his body; these two girls dared mock him? He was Ace he had taken on Whitebeard and lived. "I will show you pathetic." He said as he let the fire go towards the two.

The green haired girl smirked back and then grabbed her belt, which was actually a whip, "Rose."

The pink haired girl giggled and spun a basket that became a large shield, large enough for both girls to hide behind it, "Ivy."

"Are you two bounty hunters?" Ace asked as he looked at the two seemingly harmless girls.

They just smirked and began to attack. Ivy, the green haired girl, struck quickly with her whip and every time Ace shot fire at her she dove behind the shield Rose was holding. Ace realized Rose was the weaker of the two then went to get around the shield only for Rose to use it as a weapon knocking him aside. The pink haired girl giggled, "Got to do better than that." She taunted.

Ace let the fire get larger and the two girls quickly saw they were in a bit of trouble. Ivy looked around and saw they were trapped. "Rose, I think we stayed to long."

Rose just giggled, "I think not."

Ace looked at them waiting for their attack when suddenly it began to rain putting out his flames. "What the…it's not supposed to rain."

The two girls began to laugh, "Your in trouble now." They said together in a sing song voice. They then turned to someone who was walking towards them and grabbed each other's shoulder and began crying, "Regan! He was being mean to us! He cornered us in the alley and tried to make us do unladylike things with him." They cried out making Ace look like a monster.

Ace glared at the twins and then turned to where the rain was strongest to see the purple haired girl from earlier carrying an umbrella. "It's you! Your Typhoon Regan, aren't you?"

The girl looked at him then the two girls, "I am and how dare you try and hurt them. Didn't Whitebeard tell you to leave our crew alone?" She pushed up her glasses and glared at the man before her. The man who got unconditional love from her father even though he tried to kill him. On top of that, he mocked her and she would never let that go past her. She would prove she was better than him he was trash. "Get ready to die."

Ace looked at the proper looking girl and watched as her gloved hand had adjusted her glasses. "I'm afraid I'm a little hard to kill." He said as he shot a fireball at her. He watched as she copied only with a water ball. "You have the power of water?"

"Yes," Regan said calmly and then gave a cold smirk, "You can't beat me, I will smother your fire." She said sending water crashing down on him only for it to evaporate when the fire touched it.

Ace smirked, she may be able to put out his flames, but it destroyed her water in the process. "I think our abilities are matched and there is no way you can beat me without using your powers." He said confidently as he charged the girl catching her wrist. Before he could use her arm against her she had slipped her hand out of his grip leaving a glove behind. Ace raised up the small white glove and waved it at her, "Missing something?"

Regan glared at him and charged him sending a small jab of her hand at his collar. Ace had ducked beneath the blow, but his shirt now had a large hole in it. Ace clenched his teeth then plowed his shoulder into her stomach and tackled her to the ground where her glasses flew off. Regan glared at him then swung around knocking him off of her with a quick kick to the stomach as she twirled on her hands she quickly was able to flip over to her feet. She looked down and saw her shawl had come off and the skirt of her dress was ripped. "How dare you."

Ace looked at the girl with surprise. She looked so much like her wanted poser now. Her glasses and shawl gone, her dress ripped up the side, and her long purple hair falling out of its prison strands crossing her face. "It's rare when you fight someone and they come out looking better than when they started." He said with a smirk as her cold purple eyes narrowed. She had kicked off her shoes leaving them in thigh high white lacey stockings. He could see the top of them on her right side thanks to the high slit her damaged dress had taken when she had kicked him. He pulled out his knife as she pulled out two small daggers. "Think you can take me?"

Regan lunged at him again he barely dodged her attack, his belt taking what little damage was given. He swung down at her only to have her catch it with her small dagger. She swung up to stab him with her other dagger only to have him catch her wrist. They pushed against each other trying to break the other's defense. Regan looked up and gasped in surprise when she realized how close they were. Their faces centimeters apart, their weapons clashing above their heads, and his hand around her wrist, which had been moved by their chests. She could feel her face heating up; she needed to get away from him. She jumped up and kicked him flipping herself onto her hands which she quickly righted herself up the right way now several feet away from him. "We are evenly matched." She said trying to keep the nervousness out of her voice.

Ace smirked at that comment, "That last kick only moved you away, it didn't hurt at all." When he saw her blush his smirk grew, "What's wrong, miss prim and proper never got close to a boy before?" He was going to win; she couldn't focus on the fight anymore. Before he could attack her, the twin girls showed back up and made a face at him. "You two are still here?"

The green haired girl quickly grabbed Regan's belongings and tried to fix her appearance. "Sorry Regan, let's get out of here."

Ace glared at them and charged, "You three aren't going anywhere." He said as he threw fire at them only for a blast of water to stop it. By the time the air cleared, the three girls were gone. He sighed and sat down on the ground when he saw Regan's bounty again. He reached over and picked it up looking over the picture. He touched the girl's face and then gave a soft smile, "So she is in there. Behind the proper Miss Regan, Typhoon Regan is there." Anyone with her eyes, those cold detached eyes understood. They understood the pain of not belonging to the world. The eyes of a criminal's child, the eyes of suffering, and the never ending pain. He had finally found someone who could truly understand him.