Drabbly chapter. Been a while since I watched the Alabasta arc, and I mainly remember the Ace parts (because, man made of fire, awesome!) and the fights.
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It was, of course, at that moment that a certain cigar-loving marine walked in and attempted to arrest the both of them. And that was, of course, the moment that one straw-hat-wearing future king of the pirates slammed into a certain marine and a certain shirtless man in a garish cowboy hat into a wall, while demanding food and barely missing sending a twitching dragon flying out of her seat.
Locks carefully stood up and peered through several buildings to see where her bothersome older brother had got to. Naturally, Smoker immediately tried to slam his jitte in her face before engaging in a staring contest with Luffy and completely ignoring her in favour of the 'bigger threat'. Locks twitched. The body at the end of the brand-new tunnel twitched.
Then Luffy was outta there, chased by Smoker, who in turn was chased by a suddenly perfectly alert Ace. Locks smiled sweetly as the restaurant owner shoved a bill in her face-
A full-sized silver dragon roared as it chased its deadmeat siblings down the street.
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Locks didn't care where the barrel of water came from. If those two idiots used it as an arm-wrestling platform, it was going to break.
Considering that this was a desert, which meant water was essential, and that they were being chased by dozens of marines (it was all Luffy's fault (even if large flying silver reptiles were as subtle as bricks)) and couldn't get any more . . . well, Locks felt perfectly justified trying to bite Ace's head off. He was the oldest, he should be more responsible!
Seeing as Ace was quite literally made of fire, her attack had no effect. But it made her feel better, and that was all that mattered in her opinion.
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"Luffy, go on-" Ace began.
"He's not listening." Locks interrupted, having changed into her half-form. A moment later, Luffy's shouting of "OVER HERE!" stopped and the familiar snap of rubber could be heard as the boy catapulted himself to the Going Merry. Ace pouted. Locks rolled her eyes and hefted her barrel, heading towards the ship herself, ignoring the marines lining up to shoot them.
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Naturally, Ace jumped aboard just as Luffy was boasting about how he could beat him, while Nami had finally managed to snag Locks so she could shake to the dragon and shout (with great big shark teeth) "WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL US YOU HAD A BROTHER!"
"You never asked." Locks replied calmly (a cliché answer, one guaranteed to rile up the orange-head further).
When the navigator had finished screaming "YOU'RE AS BAD AS LUFFY!" and making Locks dizzy, Ace proceeded to wow the crew with his good manners (which Locks happened to know had been all but beaten into him by a green-haired bartender).
Then Ace destroyed a bunch of (large) mook ships in one hit.
No, Locks was not jealous of how cool he looked doing it (because de-nile is just a river in alabasta, really).
(It was kind of annoying how he'd gone and become awesome while she was busy baby-sitting).