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❛ JI! ARE YOU ALRIGHT?! ❜
₊˚៹ . ❪ episode : 95 ❫˖ ₊˚.⋆
࿐┊ CH. 3┊🏴‍☠️🌊👒

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The fight between Ace and Smoker had gotten everyone's attention now in town, seeing their powers going each others in the air creating loud noises, and swirls of fire and smoke mixed together.

It caused the Straw Hats to stop their running away to look back at the fight, wondering how someone as strong as Ace was their captains older brother.

"What in the world is happening?" Chopper questioned a bit lost, him being in his reindeer form walking on all four hooves carrying a barrel full of water on his back.

"It's a fight between flames and smoke?!" Usopp also commented with wide eyes, watching the small tornado in the air above the houses of the said things.

(Y/N) giggled joyfully standing up the front of the group beside Luffy, Happy floating above them carrying the supplies she was supposed to, "That's mine and Lu's brother!" She tells the crew smiling at the flames in the air, "His name is Ace!"

Wow I feel pretty stupid now, the swordsman and cook both thought sweat dropping, complete idiots to become jealous over her own brother hugging her, as it had them groaning embarrassed looking towards her beaming figure.

"You having another brother isn't that surprising," Zoro spoke up grumbling, holding onto a barrel on his shoulder easily, and frowned confused at his captain, "but what's he doing in the Grand Line?!"

She tipped the straw hat over her head to turn back looking at Zoro, "Ace is a pirate!" She chirped flashing a bright smile, before glancing down at the specific coloured bracelet she wore that resembled Ace, "He left the island three years before me and Lu to find the One Piece."

The crew all made startled noises hearing this new information, gathering around to stand behind the sibling captains, and the flame smokey tornado was getting bigger now making Nami quickly exclaim, "A-anyways, let's hurry back to the ship!"

Everyone agreed instantly not wanting to get caught in the madness, running ahead straight while the siblings were still watching their older brother fight with Happy, not seeing how they were going the wrong way from the crew.

"Still, I never thought we'd see Ace in a place like this!" Luffy commented grinning at his sister jogging back beside him, his hand pressed on his forehead to see the fight more clearer laughing.

She chuckled nodding her head rapidly in agreement, eyes flickering up to Happy spotting his deadpanning look that had her making a confused noise, and him to fly down to land in her open arms.

Happy pointed with his paw to the side of her, and she only than spotted that Zoro and Sanji were no longer beside her, along with the rest of their friends.

"Oh no!" She shrieked panicked glancing around rapdily not seeing any sight of them, expect for random villagers along the pathway. She sulked grabbing onto her brothers arm, "Luffy, we lost the crew!"

He turned to her tilting his head to the side, coming to a stop in the middle of the pathway unaware of Ace coming their way, "That's weird. We're the only ones here." He mumbled oblivious, patting his sisters head hearing her nervous noises leaving her lips.

"You idiot!" Happy exclaimed with shark teeth jumping out of his best friends arms, to send a kick at Luffy's cheek that had him spinning around from the force of it, "Like (N/N) said, we are lost!"

She sweatdropped at the sight of the Exceed now shaking around a laughing Luffy by the collar of his shirt, not expecting anything less from the cat knowing how he got sometimes. He could be very scary when wanted.

"C'mon guys, we just need to find the crew-" She tried to reason with them, only gaining an annoyed sound from Happy and a burp from Luffy that had her bonking them both on their heads with her knuckles in a scolding way.

A familiar spirited laugh echoed around the area now from up on a roof stop, "Sheesh! I guess my letting you escape plan was pretty much pointless." Ace was standing there with the sun shinning down at him, and it caused the trio to brighted up seeing him, "Yo!"

"Ace!" They all exclaimed happily at his figure, him now jumping down to land on the ground in front of them making a thumping sound, as (Y/N) soon tackled him in a bear hug once more.

She squealed giggling cheerfully wrapping her arms around is neck, legs going around his waist also to cling onto him like a koala, and nuzzled her face into the side of his warm neck, before closed eye smiling up at him, "Hey, Ace!"

He just chuckled fondly patting her back knowing how affectionate she was, and looked up at Luffy and Happy grinning, "Haven't seen you two in a while!" He greets gently placing down his younger sister who instantly clanged onto his forearm like usual.

"You too, Ace!" Luffy and Happy exclaimed back smiling at the older male, as the cat was picked up by Luffy to hang in his hold now seeing the girl was holding Ace's arm.

"Say aren't your friends looking for you?" Ace questioned the three, bending down briefly to pull out his water canister to hand it over to (Y/N) first who grinned in thanks drinking from it, and give it back to him afterwards.

Luffy nodded his head humming in agreement, "Yeah. But, Ace. What are you doing in this country?" He answered the question with one of his own, interested and confused to why their older brother was here.

"Huh? You mean you didn't get the message I sent to Drum?" The older one furrowed his brows, flickering his dark eyes over the three and popped open the canisters lid to drink from it next, "It's not a big deal or anything, though. I'm just in these waters on minor business, so I thought I might look you guys up."

Happy titled his head to the side leaning against Luffy's chest in his rubber arms, "Minor business?" He repeated baffled, before placing his paw up to his mouth gasping a tease, "You're not doing illegal stuff, are you?!"

Ace irked at the cat lifting his fingers to flick his forehead gaining a pained noise from Happy, "I'm a member of the Whitebeard Pirates now." He answered chucking the water bottle at Luffy who fumbled to catch it with one hand free, almost knocking Happy in the head again.

"Whitebeard Pirates?"

He gently moved his sisters fingers off his arm for a second, turning back around to flash his back tattoo of at them, "This is the mark of the Whitebeard Pirates. It's my pride." He tells them proudly pointing at it, the tattoo being his most important thing, other than (Y/N) who was also his pride and joy along side Luffy.

"Guys, won't you join the Whitebeard Pirates?" He now questioned the three once he turned around, making a skeptical expression by raising his left eyebrow, "Your friends can come too, of course."

(Y/N), Luffy and Happy all shared a look between each other standing in a line, and then turned to look bluntly at Ace answering together, "No, sorry."

Ace just busted out laughing holding onto his orange hat on his head with one hand, expecting nothing less from the three he grew up with, "I figured not. Just thought I'd ask." He assured grinning smugly, "Whitebeard is the greatest pirate I know. I wanna help him to be King of the Pirates...and not you two, (N/N), Lu."

They just snickered together raising a thumps up at their older brother, the two older ones knew they wouldn't fight their sister either way, "That's fine! Then we'll just have to fight!" The Monkey. D siblings now grin toothily at Ace, and declared confidently, "We're gonna be Kings of the Pirates."

Luffy went back to drinking the water from the canister fast, making Happy and Ace exclaim out in scolding hitting the side of his rubber head, resulting in (Y/N) to giggle amused, "Hey! Don't drink it all, knucklehead!"

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"Anyways, let's look for your friends." Ace said to the three now walking beside him through the sandy town, coming out from their spot hidden in an alleyway, "Getting spotted by the Navy's always a pain."

(Y/N) hummed in thought swinging her hand in Ace's back and forth between them, the girl placed in between her brothers, "They probably went back to the ship."

"Which harbor is your ship in?" Ace asked interested looking to the trio, Luffy still carrying a tired Happy from all the flying hes done recently, and was resting in his arm to gain his magical energy back.

Luffy grumbled rubbing his chin with his free hand, before looking to his sister who shrugged sheepishly not knowing either, "Actually, I can't remember at all.. oops."

"Oh, geez." Ace commented deadpanning at them both, shaking his warm hand in (Y/N)'s around to get his point across making her laugh amused, "Pirate ship captains usually remember where they leave their ship."

"Yeah well, those two aren't your normal ones." Happy mumbled his mocking words, rolling his eyes to himself which gained him a scolding punch to the head by Luffy.

She sent a worried look to her Exceed best friend who's eyes were white now seeming knocked out, and glanced back up at Ace chuckling, "Don't worry about it, I'm sure we'll find it soon." She assured unbothered.

"Still the same as ever I see." Ace remarked smiling fondly at his sister, seeing the many bracelets on her wrists reminding him of the one she gave him that he kept on his bag, "Say, what kind of crew do you have?"

They were very unaware of, more like unbothered by the fact they there were bounty hunters surrounding the are where they were walking, hiding in the shadows with their weapons ready to strike soon.

Luffy looked to (Y/N) in encouragement for her to tell their brother about the crew, resulting in her to beam brightly, "Well, there's a swordsman who wants to be the world's greatest sword master. A cook who's food taste incredible, he's literally the best." Her voice was softer than usual speaking about them, smiling at the ground now adoringly fiddling with her bracelets.

Seems like they must mean a lot to her, Ace thought to himself noticing the way his sisters features changed talking about the males, and hummed to himself wanting to meet the two responsible for it.

"A navigator who likes maps and tangerines and money!" Luffy takes over the explanation now, seeing how she was giggling to herself distracted by the thought of the males, "Oh, and there's a liar, too! And then a reindeer! We also have a princess and a duck now!"

"That's quiet the variety you got there." Ace smirked widely at them, gaining head nods and laughs of agreement about their crew being interesting, "I'd say you three are probably the most interesting of all, though."

"Apparently we also want a musician." Happy spoke up in a drawl now awake from the hit he received, wings popping back out to fly above their heads snickering.

One of the bounty hunters appeared from out of the alleyway, holding his weapon up at them in a warning way, "Stop right there, Fire Fist Ace!"

Uh oh this is not good, (Y/N) thought to herself panicked coming to a stop a little behind her brother who stood protectively in front, seeing all the bounty hunters around them and opened her arms up for Happy to fly down into.

All the guns were pointed at the four down below on the sandy path, even the ones on the rooftop completely blocking their way for escape, hearing the gun's clock into place loading the weapons now.

"Hey, isn't that Fox Girl (Y/N)? A-and Straw Hat Luffy?" One of them stuttered out with wide eyes noticing them, weapon trembling in his grip remembering how high the bounties were, "He's worth 30 million Berries! She has an even higher one of 50 million Berries!"

She made a nervous face hoping to not get found out about people like these, holding onto a stoic Happy in her arms now, as the brother each grab onto one of her arms walking past the group unbothered, "Anyways, let's find your ship."

This now pissed off the leader of the group who irked spinning around at the four, "Get them!" He ordered growling, finger pointed in their direction causing his followers to charge at the pirates now.

Luffy was quick to pull his sister out of the way when one tried to stab her back with a sword, resulting in panicked yelping noise to escape her, and a threatening yell from Luffy, "Hey! Don't touch my sister!" He kicked the one away roughly, sending him flying back through a houses wall.

Ace was also dealing with a few beside them smirking proudly at what Luffy did, and watched as now Happy kicked a few away easily which surprised him to see how strong the cat's gotten since he left them.

"So sorry-!" (Y/N) shrieked sheepishly sending a gust of wind at the bounty hunters charging at them again, followed by a rock wall that blocked off a bunch of them now stuck in an alleyway.

Luffy sent back the bullets that were aiming for his sister again using his rubber body to protect her, gritting his teeth to screech enraged, "I told you, to leave her alone! You jerks!" 

The bullets were spraying everywhere from him bouncing them back full force, making the men scream rushing away to get out of harms way, as one of them grazed the leaders cheek leaving a scratch that created blood.

He made a noise feeling the metal touch his skin, moving his eyes back to (Y/N) who had her backed turned dealing with some of them. He took this chance to charge at her with his sword, as her enchaged senses kicked him swiftly dodging the swipe on her, and yelped using her airbending to kick herself from the swords way.

Luffy caught her body in his arms by under her armpits, her back falling against his chest as Happy came down to rescue them from the bounty hunters sword, but Ace was quick to stop the weapon from cutting his sibling down.

He easily caught it in two of his fingers smirking murderously, setting the sword on flames a bit making the metal hot, and Luffy goes to deliver the finishing blow once he placed (Y/N) down beside Happy.

"Gum-Gum..." He stretched his fists right back behind him, and pulled them back to punch the male far, far while where the actual desert was out of town, "...Bazooka!"

This left the remaining bounty hunters scared and shocked to see their powers, watching frozen in their spots as the four go to walk away now like nothing happened, picking back up their conversation from before.

"Oh! The ocean!" Luffy announced spotting the said thing coming around the corner with the others, near some stairs that lead to the docks of the town, and all ran up to the edge of the small brick ledge wall.

(Y/N) scanned over the vast sea in front of them using her enhanced sight, trying to spot the Going Merry holding onto Happy again, as the bounty hunters from before yell at them coming up to where they were stationed.

"You guys just never learn." Ace grumbled with a sour look, turning his head to the gang near the stairs going to come down to them, and heard his siblings announce they spotted their ship up ahead in the ocean sailing.

"Hey! Over here! Guys!" Luffy yelled waving his left arm in the air happily, trying to gain the crews attention from where they were on the sea, grabbing onto his sister who protested and jumped down to the lower docks with her under his arm tightly.

"Hey, (N/N), Luffy. Go on-" Ace paused mid way of his speech no longer seeing the three beside him, instead down below at the stairs, and sighed knowingly used to their ways, "Never mind."

Up in the ships bird nest Nami spotted the waving siblings through the telescope, "Oh! There they are!" She exclaimed down to the other crew mates, "All three of them are at the dock stairs!"

"Yeah. That beautiful face is definitely hers." Sanji swooned happily also looking through a telescope, before grinning like a fool waving his arms around back at the girl, "(Y/N), my angel! I'll catch you in my arms!"

Even with him calling that out he wasn't expecting for Luffy's arm to stretch out all the way to the ships railing, hearing her crying protests with Happy about his idea, but was too late to stop Luffy.

They were sent flying through the air under his arm getting pulled back by his hand on the ship, the only sound being heard was (Y/N) and Happy's scared yells knowing the landing wasn't going to be fun.

Zoro and Sanji panicked greatly seeing her figure incoming fast to the ship, not knowing where to stand to catch her body, as they were prepared to use their own bodies to soften her landing.

"We're back!" Luffy called out joyfully laughing just as the three of them collied into the ship, all of them landing in different spots on the deck and on different people.

Zoro caught a knocked out Happy from the fall, while Luffy slammed into Chopper who also got knocked out, and (Y/N) felt the warm, but strong arms of Sanji wrapped around her figure, him groaning on the floor with her body on top of his catching her instead.

"Oh, oh-!" She exclaimed out lifting her head up from being placed on his neck, worriedly gazing down at Sanji's face seeing how he had hearts in his eyes, but seemed to be knocked out also blushing, "Ji! I'm so sorry-"

Seems to me like he's enjoying it, some of the crew mates thought to themselves deadpanning at the scene, while Zoro wasn't liking it whatsoever, and growled low in his throat glaring down at the twitching Sanji getting straddle by his captain.

"Someone's jealousssss-" Happy drawled out teasingly now awake again in the swordsman's arms, placing a paw up to his mouth covering his snicker, which gained a punch to the head by Zoro to shut up.

Sanji was mumbling inaudible words having a dreamy look on his face, hands slipping down to cradle her hips as she panicked more not hearing a response, and gently gripped his blue coat collars, "Hey! Are you alright-!?"

"Oh yeah, I'm more than okay angel." He dopily drawled out in slurred speech, giving her a charming grin still having hearts in his eyes, as he carefully sat up with her still having her legs around his skinny waist.

Luffy hopped off of Chopper who looked dizzy on the ground getting treated by Happy, and the rubber boy laughed loudly holding onto his hat, "Sorry 'bout that, guys!"

The cook now snapped out of his love sick trance on the girl in his arms, before scowling at Luffy raising one hand off of (Y/N)'s waist to grip into his shirts collar, "Do you not know how to learn your lesson?!" He snarled shaking him around roughly, "You could of seriously hurt my darling (N/N)!"

"Yeah! Do you have any idea how much trouble you've caused?!" Nami also agreed adding onto the scolding, holding onto a ships rope near the railing, and added on looking at the other two involved, "You guys as well!"

"Sorry." All three of them sheepishly apologised, raising their left hands up in sync from where they were placed on the ship looking at Nami.

The Monkey D. girl shifted still being placed in Sanji's lap who happily held her by the waist, staring at her face with loving hearts in his eyes, "Oh, that's right! Ace!" She panicked remembering their older brother, and glanced back to the sores of the town.

"Your brother was with you?" Zoro asked curiously down at his captain, also a bit worried seeing her expression as he helped her up from Sanji who glared hatefully at the swordsman, resulting in him to smirk back smugly.

All of the crew now gathered around the sibling who stood up near the railing, and Usopp goes to question concerned, "Is it okay to just leave him there?"

Luffy hummed in thought sharing a look with his sister who nodded back, and grinned widely believing Ace can handle himself, "I guess he'll be okay! Ace is strong!"

"He's strong?" Chopper asked curiously gazing up at the two with his doe eyes, standing beside Happy who was eating a fish again that Chopper gave him after he fell.

"Yup! He hadn't eaten the Flame-Flame Fruit a long time ago," (Y/N) began to answer in a chirpy voice, chuckling softly remembering the times back in their shared childhood, "but me and Lu still never beat him in a single fight! He's real strong, Ace is!"

All of the crew nervously sweat dropped hearing this new information, shocked to know this was the case about how strong Ace was, "There's a flesh-and-blood person you two could never beat?!" Nami exclaimed pointing a finger in between them, making Happy snicker with a mouth full of raw fish.

"I guess the big brother of monsters is an even bigger monster..." Usopp trailed off in disbelief, standing beside Vivi and Nami on the deck near the kitchen.

"That's right! We lost all the time!" Luffy claimed doing his signature laugh, as his sister deadpanned a bit not finding that amusing, and sighed hearing his next confident words, "But I'd win now if we tried!"

While he was belly laughing a figure jumped up from his boat behind the siblings, "Who..." Ace appeared leaping onto the railing where they were, causing the duo to yelp and trip backwards, "can win what now?!"

Zoro caught (Y/N) swiftly before Sanji could intervene making the cook irk, and watched the swordsman pull her up by under her armpits carefully, "Ace! This is the crew we were talking about!" She exclaimed giggling, and brightly smiled at her older brother.

Ace's eyes went wide realising that making a humming noise, returning the smile back at her bigger before bowing his head to the crew, "Oh! Thank you all for taking care of my little sister and brother!"

The crew were shocked to say the least at how well mannered he was compared to Luffy, and Ace reminded them of (Y/N) a lot also, "Eh? Oh, not at all." They synchronized, blinking rapidly in confusion bowing back.

Ace closed eyed grinned at them all, flashing his teeth also become of how wide it was, "They might be a bit much for you to handle too, even worse when Happy gets involved, but..." He trailed off making the crew all assure him it was fine, "Take good care of them."

"You probably have lots of catching up to do." Sanji spoke now lifting up his blunt in his hand, briefly staring at Ace, "Why don't you come in? I'll make some tea."

So that must be the cook she was talking about, Ace thought to himself looking at Sanji with a bashful smile, "No, uhh, that's okay." He assured being squatted on the railing, arms resting on his bent knees, "Don't do it on account of me."

He bowed a little bit lifting his one finger to light the end of Sanji's ciggrate, it now on fire for him to use which once again remined them of how (Y/N) did that to Sanji also sometimes, causing the crew to make a 'huh' noise.

"I would've expected him to be as reckless as our captains, and Happy...." Usopp trailed off with wide eyes, baffled to think Ace was actually related to them. Well, maybe the girl since they were so similar, but not Luffy whatsoever knowing how he acted all the time.

"Brothers can be so wonderful!" Chopper sulked having dramatic tears streaming down his face, shaking around Happy's paws who deadpanned just wanting to eat his fish in piece, but yet was stuck with this mess.

All of the crew went to comment things about the trio of siblings, causing Vivi to quickly interrupt them nervously, "Come now, everyone!" She called raising her hands out, not wanting Ace or their captains to feel offended by the words.

"See! Aren't these guys neat?!" The Monkey. D siblings both exclaimed in sync grinning at Ace, moving their figures to block the crew from view now laughing loudly in amusement.

Before anymore conversation could go on though, enemy ships were closing in on them fast from each side making the happy aura drop, "Baroque Works!" Vivi called out noticing them, becoming on edge now not liking that, "Those are the Billions' ships!"

"Fox Girl (Y/N)! Fire Fist Ace! Straw Hat Luffy!" One of the members on the many ships yelled out, voice carrying over to where they were, and saw him standing on the railing of his ship, "Don't think you can get away!"

She cringed spotting the same men from before, quickly shielding herself away nervously behind Zoro who didn't question her, but held onto her hand a little giving a gently squeeze with his rough one to assure her.

"(N/N). Luffy. I'll clean them up." Ace announced narrowing his eyes down on the man ships incoming, gaining confused looks from them all as he jumped off the ship again into his smaller one, that was tied to the side of Merry also.

"What's he doing to do?" Nami questioned the two captains watching their older brother, her standing where the rope was attached to the ship's railing.

The (H/C) haired girl just flashed a toothy grin not saying anything knowing how Ace was, being perched on the railing leaning against Zoro's back, who kept one hand on her waist so she wouldn't fall over the edge.

"Let's see how skilled this Second Division Commander of the Whitebeard Pirates really is!" Zoro remarked to all the crew gathered around to see Ace, him now powering his boat with his power by his boot on his foot.

They watched in awe as Ace easily defeated all the ships around them with his fire power, using his signature move Fire Fist to deliver a big blaze of heat at the ships, and the people on them. It went through each ship one by one, until there was none left sailing on the sea.

"Yeah! Ace! Whoo-hoo!" (Y/N) cheered loudly for her older brother, clapping her hands together that made him bump his hat up grinning pridefully, and made explosions of fire to show off more into the air above his head.

─►☆ AUTHOR'S NOTE :
ace has officially joined the crew for the time being now yayayay!! and im so excited to get this arc moving along omg zoro and sanji's outfits in this one is my fav for realll they look so FINEEE UGHHH 😍

i hope you guys enjoyed this chapter, and pleaseeee don't be silent readers, it really helps to
keep me motivated lmao :') kisses🫶