**Otherwise titled: "Fuck it boys, we ballin' now." -Monkey D. Garp

Based off of/Inspired by: ReynaAtTheEnd | Archive of Our Own

The Tales of Two Pirate Kings - Chapter 1 - ReynaAtTheEnd - One Piece (Anime & Manga) [Archive of Our Own]

and The Many (Attempted) Marriages of the Sun Goddess - ReynaAtTheEnd - One Piece (Anime & Manga) [Archive of Our Own]

Both part of her Fem!Luffy Series The Adventures of the Sun Goddess and her Loves - ReynaAtTheEnd - One Piece (Anime & Manga) [Archive of Our Own]


"... And the son of the notorious Pirate King, Gold Roger!" Sengoku finishes his declaration atop the execution platform, dramatically gesturing to Portgas D. Ace, bound in chains and helpless.

His breath leaves him in a whoosh, Ace hanging his head feeling both burdened, and lighter than ever. The burden of his secret is there for the entire world to see, but no longer does he have to hide. Damnation and liberation, a sword strike delivering both.

Honestly, it's more of a relief than anything. Now his crew won't feel as bad if they fail to save him, the child of a monster.

"HA! I TOLD YOU, YOU FILTHY PERVERT!"

…Why the fuck is Luffy yelling?

Ace's head snaps up to try and find her in the crowd, eyes flying from face to face to hunt down the girl in a blue vest and a straw hat. It takes a moment, but he finally finds her standing next to a strangely familiar pirate with a red nose and long hair done up into braids. She's yelling into a transponder snail, a simultaneously smug and exasperated expression on her face.

"I TOLD YOU I WAS SEVENTEEN, BUT DID YOU LISTEN? NO!"

Oh that doesn't sound good. Ace's stomach turns, not liking where this is going.

"IT'S IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME TO BE THE PIRATE KING'S DAUGHTER, CONSIDERING SHE HAD BEEN DEAD FOR YEARS BEFORE I WAS BORN! SEE!" Luffy points up at Ace on the scaffolding and Ace feels the anger inside begin to mix with guilt.

Someone had targeted Luffy because he had thought she was Roger's daughter? Someone had been hunting for Ace's existence and Luffy, his spot of sunshine in this world had suffered because of his existence? He's going to puke. Puke, and punch this guy in the face. A puke-punch, which sounds pretty damn gross but would get his point across nicely.

"I WOULD HAVE TO BE OVER TWENTY! I'D HAVE TO BE OLD!"

"HEY!" Ace barks before he can think about it, but Luffy ignores him anyway. He glances to the side and both Gramps and Sengoku are frozen, listening to the ongoing conversation and Gramps is looking more thunderous by the second.

In fact, most of the people now in Marineford have stopped whatever they were ordered to do and are actively listening to Luffy tear into a mystery pervert via transponder snail.

"SO TAKE THAT, YOU KIDNAPPING CREEP SHIKI! Hmph." Luffy turns her nose up and sticks her tongue out childishly and it's cute BUT WHAT DOES SHE MEAN, 'KIDNAPPING'?!

"SHIKI?!" Gramps roars, tossing his rice crackers through the wall of a building nearby and nearly shattering it in two.

Luffy jumps. She turns and looks up at the platform and breaks out into a smile and waves at them. "Oh, hey Grandpa, Uncle Senny, Ace!"

"Hi Luffy! What do you mean 'kidnapping'?!" Ace pleads, leaning forward against his chains.

"YEAH, LUFFY. EXPLAIN." Gramps cracks his knuckles as he stands.

"I MEANT WHAT I SAID! SHIKI THE LION GUY IS A NO-GOOD CREEPY KIDNAPPING PERVERT THAT GRABBED ME BECAUSE HE THOUGHT I WAS GOLD ROGER'S DAUGHTER!" Luffy takes a deep breath. "HE ONLY GAVE ME SWIMSUITS TO WEAR, TOO!"

Gramps roars, eyes ablaze with fury. He turns to Ace, grabbing his chains and pulling them apart like clay. Ace doesn't have a chance to move or even feel relief from the seastone prism being removed before Gramps heaves him over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes and punches Sengoku in the face.

"FUCK IT, WE'RE GOING LION HUNTING! IT'LL BE A FAMILY TRIP." Garp grins ferally as he takes a flying leap off the execution platform and lands in the yard below. HE bowls his way through the confused crowd and no one knows quite what to do. Stop the Hero of the Marines, or choose life. Decisions.

"GARP, YOU ASSHOLE!" Sengoku bellows from where he fell behind the scaffold, stuck.

"GRAMPS, PUT ME DOWN!" Ace screeches as he hangs onto his grandpa for dear life, Garp's shoulder bumping painfully into his empty stomach while he runs.

There's a brief pause in his running and Ace thinks that for once in his life, Gramps might have listened to him except for no, nevermind. Gramps just slowed down to pick up Luffy, settling her in the crook of his arm like one would carry a ball.

"LET ME GO, OLD MAN! I WAS GOING TO BEAT YOU UP!" Luffy squirms and bends and despite her rubber powers, is as unable to escape his hold as Ace is.

Peeking down all he can see is Luffy's butt in a pair of tiny shorts with a cute ruffled hem that accentuates the curve and- whoa.

So. Not. The. Time. Ace clears his throat and looks away, his cheeks burning red.

"EDDIE," Garp yells, "WANNA JOIN ME ON A LION HUNT?"

"YOU'RE WILLING TO SAIL WITH A PIRATE TO DO IT?"

"I FATHERED THE REVOLUTIONARY, HOW CAN YOU BE ANY WORSE?"

Whitebeard roars with laughter, stomping his Murakumogiri on the bow of the Moby Dick. "COME ABOARD THEN, IF YOU DARE."

Both Luffy and Ace blanch when Garp giggles under his breath, both wiggling to try and free themselves and then scream as the world rushes faster than either of them have ever gone before. It's barely a second later and they're all on the Moby Dick, both of them wheezing and trying not to puke.

"Here," Garp says before literally throwing Ace at Marco and the first division commander just barely catches him and Ace yelps as he desperately grabs onto him for balance.

"Alright then," Marco says once he catches his breath and his balance, "medbay it is."

"Wait no-" Ace unsuccessfully tries to twist out of Marco's hold, trying to check on Luffy, but then she's there next to him in Deuce's arms. Unlike Ace, it looks like Gramps had gently handed her off and that's good. Ace would have kicked Gramps in the nuts if he'd have been as rough with her as he had been to Ace. "Never mind, we're good. You can put me down though."

"Ha," Marco replies dryly, "I'm not putting you down unless it's into a cot. So pipe down and let the old timers take care of everything, alright?"

"Did you just include yourself in those 'old timers'?" Marco jostles him and Ace instinctively holds onto him tighter. "Hey!"

"Cheeky punk." Marco takes him down below to the medbay and sets him up in a bed, ordering a nurse over.

"Make sure he stays down here and rests, I need to go back above deck," Marco tells the nurse and she nods as she begins her checkup of Ace and the commander leaves after a stern parting look at Ace that he returns with an innocent grin.

He barely pays attention to the nurse's prodding after Marco leaves, his attention going to Luffy who's in the cot next to his, already asleep while Deuce checks her over.

It's looking at her that it all comes crashing down on him.

He's alive.

Ace is still alive and back with his family. Slowly he reaches out his hand and holds one of Luffy's as she sleeps and she smiles without waking.

Damn. Damn, damn, damn, damn, damn. Damn it.

Sabo's rolling in his grave for how Ace feels about Luffy, they promised that it would never be more, not unless she made the first move. But she's made her move, hasn't she? Refusing to let him die, breaking into an impossible prison, and all for him.

As he's patched up, Ace finally lies down, but not before pushing his cot closer to Luffy's, watching her. Making sure she still breathes as the Moby Dick gets underway to hunt down a madman that hurt her. Ace's grin as he falls asleep next to her sends shivers racing down the spines of his nurses and he looks forward to waking up.

He's hunted tiger before, he wonders what flavor lion will take on.