gray terminal

Gray Terminal, With Luffy:

"WHY WON'T IT WORK!" Porchemy screamed slamming the 175-pound hammer down on Luffy's head again and again.

"It's because I'm water!" Luffy yelled back getting really annoyed with how he had to reform each time Porchemy hit him, 'I'm only here because I need to hold back my power and Ace and Sabo. I just want to know if we can be friends.' Luffy thought and Porchemy continued.

"Really, you ate a devil fruit then?" Porchemy asked waving for his men to come over. Luffy nodded then Porchemy said "So we're gonna have to find a creative way to get the answers huh? That's fine, Boys go ahead and test everything on him." Porchemy said with a smirk until his jaw dropped because the sword one guy tried just passed through him.

A Couple Hours Later:

Luffy was really bored and trying not to fall asleep. Porchemy and his lackeys have been trying weapon after weapon on him with no success. Currently, they were searching for a new weapon to try on him. Porchemy was sitting on a barrel just watching with a bored expression.

"Hey Boss, we could try this!" he said holding a blowtorch up and a flash of panic crossed Luffy's face that Porchemy didn't miss but they didn't no he was faking it and deactivated his other powers and only used water to feel some pain .

"Yeah, might as well see if it does anything. It's already passed the deadline anyway." Porchemy said getting up and taking the blowtorch from the man's hand.

"Okay kid I'll ask you again where is Ace!" Porchemy said lighting the blow torch and making Luffy scream out in pain. "Yes! Finally, something I can use. Don't just stand there you idiots, go find Ace!" Porchemy yelled to the men who were staring at the writhing Luffy.

The two scrambled off to the forest where Sabo was checking to see if anyone was there.

"Man, I wonder where that Ace kid is that kid we tied up won't tell us anything no matter what we do." the man said and Sabo gasped and started heading back to where Ace and the treasure was.

When he got there he was panicking, "Ace we got a problem! That Luffy kid didn't tell the Pirates anything!" Sabo yelled visibly panicking. Ace remembered an image of Luffy and got a little pale and started sweating, "What are we going to do Ace they're Pirates! They'll kill him!" Sabo yelled and they were off.

Back with Luffy:

"AHHHHHHH! IT HURTS LET ME GO!" Luffy screamed as he was burned with the blowtorch.

"You brat just tell me where he is and you can go!" Porchemy said getting desperate and the two who went to find Ace came back and saw a Luffy covered in burns all around his body.

"I WON'T TELL YOU! I Won't Tell You! I won't tell you." Luffy said getting quieter every time until he was on the brink of consciousness. Outside Ace and Sabo were watching and looking for an opening to get to the kid. They wanted to save him now more than before hearing Luffy's resolve to not sell them out and save himself made them wonder why he would do that.

"Fine if you won't tell me then I have no use for you," Porchemy said and then whispered something into one of the men watching. The man nodded and left for a few minutes before coming back with a flamethrower. Outside the two boys jaws dropped they quickly recovered and jumped through the wall seeing their chance to attack.

Ace hit Porchemy in the head making him drop the flamethrower breaking it in pieces and placing himself in front of the burned and nearly unconscious Luffy. Meanwhile, Sabo was fighting the two men who were just watching Luffy get hurt and not doing anything about it. When they were out of the way Sabo grabbed a knife that had been forgotten in the chaos and cut Luffy down catching him being careful to not aggravate Luffy's wounds and headed out of the little shack.

"Come on Ace we need to go! Now!" Sabo yelled towards Ace who was still in front of a shaking Porchemy. "YOU BRATS!" Porchemy yelled grabbing the closest sword and swinging it at Ace who was entirely focused on Him. Ace moved out of the way and yelled, "I WILL NOT RUN!"

Sabo sighed and whispered to Luffy who was almost asleep, "I'm sorry you'll have to wait a little longer." Luffy nodded and finally fell asleep. Sabo sighed and said "You Idiot!" he then joined Ace in front of Luffy getting ready to fight Porchemy.

Porchemy swung his massive sword at Sabo but Ace blocked it with his pipe making the sword cut through the pipe instead of Sabo and him. Ace tried to hit Porchemy in the head with his pipe only to get grabbed around the neck by Porchemy's large hand. Sabo jumped up behind Porchemy and hit him on the head with his own pipe so he would let go of Ace. They regrouped and began to tag team him. About ten minutes later Ace and Sabo walked out with a sleeping Luffy on Ace's back.

Luffy woke up to being in the forest and bandaged almost everywhere, "Oh, you're awake." Sabo said walking towards Luffy with firewood. "Who're you? And w-" Luffy said before it all came rushing back to him. "Oh, that's what happened," he said sitting up and wincing slightly.

"You shouldn't sit up you know. You have really bad burns." Sabo said trying to push Luffy back to the ground but Luffy brushed it off. "Nah, I've had much worse than this. Even worse than what gramps gives me." Luffy said finally standing up. "Gramps?" Sabo asked curious about the boy. "Yeah, Ace should know what I'm talking about. Right Ace?" Luffy said looking up at a tall tree where Ace was.

'How'd he find me?!' Ace thought as he made his way down the tree and ignored what Luffy said. "This is bad Ace they probably told their captain. What're we supposed to do now?" Sabo said starting a fire.

"They were pirates? I don't like them they were mean. And that fire hurt, I haven't had pain like that for a while," Luffy said and both Sabo and Ace turned to him. "So thanks!" Luffy said with a big grin.

"Alright, what gives, why didn't you just tell them what they wanted. Do you think they wouldn't kill you because you're a kid! Those guys don't give a damn!" Ace yelled at Luffy who suddenly got very quiet.

"Because I was scared that you wouldn't be my friend" Luffy whispered and Ace was confused. "Yeah well so what, that still beats dying, right? Besides, why would you want to be my friend that's stupid," Ace said and Luffy whispered "Because,"

"It's not like I've been nice. I've been giving you hell ever since you got here, It's been months just g-" Ace said but got interrupted by Luffy. "Because I'd be all alone! I got no one else! If I didn't follow you then I'd be all alone. A-and I'd rather die than be alone!" Luffy exclaimed tearing up and Ace and Sabo went wide-eyed.

"What about your parents?" Sabo asked and Luffy shook his head, "Don't have any, Gramps is all I have."

"You would feel better around me? Being with me and Sabo would be less lonely for you?" Ace asked quietly and Luffy nodded his head furiously. "Do… You think I deserve to live" Ace asked as he tightened his grip on the broken pipe he was holding.

"Of course! If you weren't here I'd truly be all alone!" Luffy yelled and Ace's head shot up with wide eyes.

Ace then remembered all his times in bars all over the city. "If Gold Roger had a son? HA What a joke!" a man said and the whole bar started laughing. In the middle of laughing the scene shattered and just like that the memory was gone.

"Alright, I'll accept you." Ace said and Sabo nodded, "Me too." Luffy jumped for joy and ran around in circles. Ace was getting annoyed but he was still happy that someone other than Sabo wanted him to live.

"SHUT UP!" Ace yelled at his breaking point and trying to hit Luffy on the head only for his fist to go through Luffy's body and him to hit the ground. Luffy stopped running and cheering when he heard Ace hit the ground. Ace and Sabo looked at him with wide eyes, "What the heck are you!" they both yelled having never seen a devil fruit or their powers in their lives.

"I'm a Water-man!" Luffy said turning his hand to water making Ace and Sabo stare with awe. "H-how?" is all the two could muster up to say.

"Shishishishi! I ate a devil fruit. The Water-Water fruit!" Luffy said with his signature laugh. Sabo was confused 'I've heard of those devil fruits! With everything I've read about them, it seems they give up the ability to swim for a power.' as his mind went to devil fruits a thought struck him, "Guys I have a problem. Now that we have beaten up that Porchemy guy their captain Bluejam might come after us." Sabo said and Luffy understood but Ace didn't. "So we'll just beat them up too." Ace said and Sabo sighed. "Just imagine Ace, that Sabo's sleeping a little too hard one night and Bluejam finds him," Luffy said shocking Ace and Sabo. Sabo was the first to recover from the shock and nodded, "Exactly so I need to find a safe place to sleep." Sabo said knock Ace out of his shock.

"How about you stay with us? If we're together then we can take him down." Ace said and Luffy nodded. "That's a good idea Ace!" Luffy said jumping on to Sabo's back. "H-hey!" Sabo said stumbling with the extra weight. "Let's go!" Luffy Yelled pointing in a random direction. "You idiot it's not that way. This way!" Ace said pointing in the right direction. "Shishishi! Sorry." Luffy said not sounding sorry at all.

With every step Sabo took, Luffy got more and more tired. About ten minutes into walking he fell asleep silently on Sabo's back. "Hey, Luffy how did Porchemy burn you if you're water?" Ace asked curiously.

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"I ASKED A QUESTION DAMMIT!" Ace yelled only for Sabo to shush him. Sabo pointed to his back and Ace saw Luffy sleeping, He tched before calming completely and continuing walking towards their destination.

"It's because heat counters water," Sabo said and Ace ohed. "You know before he came to live with the bandits he was held hostage for two and a half years close to the grand line." Ace said and Sabo gasped. "I know when he first got here he was covered from head to toe in bandages and had a blank look in his eyes." Ace said and Sabo felt bad for the kid and shifted him into a more comfortable position. "What did he do to him?" Sabo asked and Ace shrugged "I don't know you'll have to ask him yourself."

The Next Morning:

"Ace, Luffy! Do your chores!" Dadan yelled slamming the door that went to their room open, "Wait, Ace. Luffy. Huh?" Dadan said getting more confused each time she saw Sabo in the covers with Luffy and Ace. At that moment Sabo woke up followed by Luffy and Ace.

"Ace! Luffy! Who is that!? Dadan yelled to the half-asleep kids.

"My name is Sabo, and you must be Dadan. I've heard a lot about you." Sabo said grabbing and shaking her hand up and down very fast.

"Sabo! I've heard about you!" Dadan said.

"I've heard that you are quite the shitty old bag," Sabo said with a toothy grin on his face.

"Don't bother collecting useless information you brat!" Dadan yelled putting a new cigarette in her mouth.

"I also heard that your a nice old bag who takes in kids like me," Sabo said and Dadan relented. "Yeah, Yeah but you're gonna have to pull your weight around here. You understand?" Dadan said and Sabo nodded.

"Now that that's settled let's go!" Ace said grabbing Luffy and Sabo and running out the door towards the forest to hunt.

"What're we gonna do Ace!?" Luffy asked running alongside Ace and Sabo. "We're gonna hunt and train." Ace said proudly. "Do you know any good places to train Ace?" Sabo asked and Ace shook his head. "I do!" Luffy said changing direction and Ace and Sabo followed.

"How do you know a good place to train?" Sabo asked and Luffy explained, "I found it after losing Ace one day it's pretty cool." When they got there Ace and Sabo looked in excitement. It was the perfect place there was a river and it was quite a big clearing. A little bit away was a cliff with a view for miles of the ocean and the sky.

"So what did you do here all alone?" Ace asked and Luffy got excited, "I'll show you!" he said running over to the river.

Luffy then reached one arm towards the river and the other towards the ground. He gathered water with the hand near the river and moved it through his body into the ground from his hand on the ground. "Water Water Geyser!" Luffy said and as soon as he finished a lot of water burst from under a rock across the clearing shocking Ace and Sabo.

"What was that!" the two yelled. "That was one of my moves!" Luffy said puffing his chest out in pride. "You have more!" the two yelled again and Luffy nodded "Of course I do! What kind of question is that? You can't just have one move."

Luffy was pretty bored ever since they started sparing it's been no challenge at all for him. There are one-hundred matches a day for each child. Through most of those matches, Luffy fell asleep right in the middle of the others attack.

"Ack! He fell asleep again!" Ace and yelled with shark teeth, "Why does he fall asleep all the time!?" Ace yelled and Sabo gained a thoughtful look "I think it's called Narcolepsy. But I'm not sure."

"Huh? What's that?" was all Ace could say. "It's like falling asleep all the time," Sabo said sighing. After Luffy woke up the trio went to catch some crocodile for the bandit and them. "Luffy you stay back you have a devil fruit so you can't swim," Sabo said to air because Luffy was not listening and was focused on catching the unsuspecting crocodile under him.

"Yay! Crocodile here I come!" Luffy said jumping off the tree branch they were perched on. "Luffy, wait!" Ace yelled getting ready to jump in after him until Luffy popped out of the water with a dead crocodile. "I got some dinner!" he said throwing the crocodile and jumping out of the water.

"What I thought you couldn't swim cause you ate a devil fruit!?" Sabo said very confusedly. "Uh Sabo I'm water why wouldn't I swim?" Luffy asked obliviously and Sabo facepalmed. 'Of course. He's water.' he thought. "Let's head back guys we gotta get this big guy back to Dadan and the others." Ace said patting the dead crocodile.

Weeks Later:

"Take that Sabo!" Ace yelled swinging his pipe at Sabo's legs. "Hah! missed me Ace." after Sabo said that they continued their spar for about an hour. Both were pretty evenly matched but Ace ended up winning with a final blow to the gut knocking Sabo towards a sleeping Luffy. After Ace's win, he disappeared leaving Sabo with a now awake Luffy.

"Say Luffy I wanted to ask you something." Sabo asked cautiously and Luffy nodded for him to continue, "Ace told me that you were held hostage for almost three years." Sabo said and Luffy nodded. "What happened?" he finally blurted out and Luffy frowned because he had to lie again.

"He threw me in the middle of a forest that was bigger and more dangerous than this forest all alone all day every day," Luffy said and Sabo's eyes widened. "How'd you survive!?" Sabo asked worried for his little friend. " I had to hunt on my own and just survive and get stronger," Luffy said with no emotion. The next few moments were filled with a comfortable silence.

"Hey guys come over here for a second," Ace yelled to Luffy and Sabo. The two walked up to the tree stump and stood around it so the three were in a circle around it. Ace placed three ceremonial sake cups on the stump and filled them with some sake stolen from Dadan. "Did you know that if you share sake with someone then you'll become brothers!"

"Brothers really! That's so cool" Luffy said with a grin that forced his eyes shut. Sabo and Ace both had grins almost as big as Luffy's. "We may sail the seas, with different crews and different ships. But we'll always be brothers and nobody can take that away from us. "Ace said as all three raised their glasses. "From now on we're brothers!" they said clinking their cups and drinking the sake coughing after.

And from then on they became known throughout the Kingdom of Goa as the ASL brothers. They stole valuables and looted almost every thug around to add to their pirate fund. They became very close to each other barely ever separating. The two older brothers became more and more protective of the little one than they will ever admit. Together they can take down every animal in the forest.