Ace and Sabo were sailing through the sea, they were resting on an island, stopping at a town to by food. Sabo took half the money and Ace took half. Ace found himself at a fruit shop. Sabo had told him to buy fruit and vegetables, stuff like that, so that they could stay healthy.
Ace looked around, apples, oranges, banana's... wait... what was that? Ace picked up a red fruit, it had swirls on it.
"Hey, how much for this thing?" Ace asked. The fruit looked interesting enough.
"That? You can have it!" The shop keeper said. Ace shrugged, shoving it in his bag to split with his brother later. Then, he bought some more fruit and headed back to the ship.
Sabo was already there. He was putting meat into a cooler so it wouldn't go bad.
"Oh Ace! What did you get!" Sabo rushed over to his older brother.
"Uh... some apples, oranges... oh and I got the weird thing." Ace held up the strange fruit he got for free.
"Hm? What type of fruit is that?" Sabo poked it. Ace shrugged.
"Wanna eat it?" He asked.
"Sure why not." Sabo smiled. Ace cut it in half. Sabo and Ace bit it at the same time. Sabo spit in disgust after swallowing. "This thing's gross!" Sabo spat. Ace coughed.
"No wonder it was free!" he growled. "I want my money back!" Ace yelled angrily.
"You just said you got it for free..." Sabo sighed, lifting the anchor. "Anyway, there's no point in staying here anymore. Let's go." he sighed.
Later the next day, Ace got a fever. Yet he felt fine.
"Ace! Seriously! Go back to bed!" Sabo pushed his brother.
"But I'm fine!" Ace yelled.
"YOUR TEMPETURE IS OVER 100!" Sabo yelled.
"IS NOT!" Ace yelled back. Ace punched at Sabo, Sabo dodged, a red flame shot from Ace's hand. Sabo ignored it and kicked his brother, Ace moved and a blue flame shot from Sabo's foot. NOW they noticed. Ace and Sabo stared at each other.
"What just happened?" Sabo asked. He opened and closed his hands. He felt heat rising to the surface, fire was sitting in his hand like it was an every day thing. Ace jumped back. Then, he tried, the same thing happened.
"This is way past cool..." Ace smirked, then he threw the fire at Sabo. "FIRE FIGHT!" he laughed. Sabo dodged.
"ACE!" He yelled, Ace threw another fire ball."STOP IT!" Sabo panicked, dodging another, "ACE! REALLY! QUIT IT!" Sabo was laughing now. Sabo threw a fire ball, it hit Ace in the face, Ace looked back at his brother, he was unharmed. The two started laughing.
They were on a deserted island now.
"Must have been that fruit." Sabo sighed.
"A devils fruit. A way cool one." Ace laughed, juggling some fire. "Wait till Luff get's a load of this!" He smirked. Sabo passed fire from finger to finger.
"Yeah, she'll be so excited." He smiled. Remembering his little sister's smiling face and shining eyes when he did something she thought was cool.
"Wanna have a contest?" Ace smirked devilishly.
"Hmm? What type of contest?" Sabo smiled back. Ace gathered fire in his hand.
"We can see which fire ball goes farther!" Ace shouted.
"You're on!" Sabo stood next to his brother. They both winded up the fire ball.
"One! Two! Three!" they both yelled, throwing the fire balls into the forest. Blue smoke filled the air. Followed by red smoke.
"Hey look!" Sabo pointed.
"Aw, that's no fun, there like... in the same place." Ace sighed.
"No I think we hit something!" Sabo ran into the forest.
"So who cares? SABO!" Ace ran after him.
They were on the other side of the island. Sabo pointed out a ship in the sea that was on fire.
"Hey look! Mine went farther!" Ace laughed.
"THAT IS NOT THE POINT HERE!" Sabo yelled. "What do we do now? We can't save them! We can't even swim!" Sabo sighed.
"So? They were probably pirates... no need to be rescued anyway." Ace shrugged.
"You're so cold..." Sabo sighed.
"Then how can I do this?" Ace burned his brothers jacket. Sabo put out the flame an laughed. Then he looked back at the ship.
"Yeah yeah... I guess you're right." Then the brothers turned to leave.
"I'm hungry... race you back." Ace nudged his brother.
"You're on." Sabo smirked, but right when they were about to run.
"HOLD IT YOU BRATS!"
Ace and Sabo turned to see a bigger ship floating behind the burned one. At the front was a man with a large white beard... and he meant business. They froze. Then they looked at each other.
"I think we should run." Sabo muttered.
"No way! I've never run from a fight!" Ace stood his ground as the white bearded pirate came down.
"Insolent kid! Do you know who I am!?" the man yelled. Ace looked at Sabo. Sabo shrugged. Ace looked back.
"No." He said. The man sighed.
"Well, then! I'll teach you brats a lesson!" He smirked. Ace and Sabo engulfed themselves in a blue and red fire.
"You can't beat the both of us!" Sabo smirked. The man raised an eyebrow.
"Is that so..." he said. Ace and Sabo combined their fire, making a large purple flaming ball. They smirked and shot it out.
At the end of the battle, Ace and Sabo lay beaten on the ground. The man laughed. At the boys.
"You two are an interesting pair!" He laughed. "Both with the same devils fruit!" Ace groaned, Sabo rolled onto his back, breathing heavily.
"How can one guy be so strong?" Sabo huffed.
"Who knows... but we lost." Ace grumbled. The two glared at the man who was still laughing. The man notice their glares.
"Hey now, you can't expect to win against the king of the sea!" he laughed. Ace and Sabo sat up.
"King of the sea!?" They yelled.
"I'm the great pirate Whitebeard!" the man bellowed. Ace and Sabo looked at each other.
"I think I saw it in the paper once." Sabo said. "He's a powerful man, Ace, I think we should ask him!" Sabo pushed.
Whitebeard raised an eyebrow as Ace stood.
"Uh, Do you know of a pirate called Shanks!" Ace asked. Whitebeard got serious all of a sudden.
"How do you know that Red haired brat?" Whitebeard asked. This time, Sabo stood.
"We don't! We lost our sister when we were young!" Sabo explained.
"We need his help, he knows Luffy best, he might know where she is!" Ace finished. Whitebeard laughed.
"You mean that little wanna-be-pirate brat Shanks was talking about? That Luffy? Granddaughter of Monkey D. Garp?" he asked. Ace and Sabo glanced at each other.
"That's her." They nodded. Whitebeard stood.
"I've seen her name in the paper. She's stirring up some real trouble. That brat." He chuckled. Then he looked at the two. "You brothers are interesting. Join me!" Whitebeard declared. Sabo and Ace looked at each other.
"What!?" They asked.
"Become my sons!" Whitebeard said. "I'll allow you to search for this Luffy girl if you join me, you can lead my third division, seeing that I'm short a few men for a while thanks to your antics."
Ace and Sabo found themselves on the Whitebeard pirate ship. If it was to find Luffy, they could join them, for a short while. The two sighed.
"I wonder what Luffy's up to..." Sabo said.
"Probably causing a ruckus... as usual." Ace yawed.