Meeting God

Ace POV

"I can't believe it…"

The moment those words left my mouth, a cool breeze appeared and drove through my hair. I was currently standing on the cliff facing the sea, next to our forest.

'The rise of a Young uncrowned emperor!'

That was the article's title. My brother Jackson apparently did something big and in return became one of the big pirate captains on the Grand Line.

"This really is so unbeli-"

"AAACCCEEE!! Where are you? You promised to teach me haki!"

A loud voice, one I would recognize among hundred others without even trying, called for me.

'Just when I got to the good part! His timing really is-'

"Ah Ace! There you are!"

He found me very quickly. We went to Dadan's place a bit earlier, to borrow some items but when I entered the house they all were super strange. Frozen in shock and mumbling 'unbelievable' over and over again.

By chance I noticed a picture of Jackson on the newspaper's front page that was lying on the ground. Of course I got curious so I grabbed one and used the moment when Luffy was messing with the frozen from shock bandits to come here alone and read the article.

He came here just when I got to the interesting part!

"Ace? Why aren't you saying anything? Ace? Ace? Ace? Why are you smiling? Hey Ace?"

"Damnit I Heard you! Stop calling my name over and over! Come here and look!"

Luffy was his usual cheerful self. Annoying at times since he is impatient but that's not important now. He got closer and I showed him the article.

Unsurprisingly the first thing he spotted was Jackson's picture.

"Hey is it about Jackson?! Come on tell me! Read it for me Ace!"

"Yes, yes, calm down. It says that Jackson met an admiral from the navy and won in a Duell and now they say he might be one of the strongest pirate captains on sea!"

"What is an admiral? Is an admiral strong?"

That is a good question. I'm not really sure since all I can guess is that an admiral is a navy rank.

"I don't know. We can ask grandpa about that but the important thing is that Jackson is acknowledged one of the strongest pirate captain not even two years after leaving."

It's not that long ago that Jackson left with Sabo but shortly after they both got their own bounties and it was even higher than blue jams.

21 million and 51 million B is incredibly high. There were also the crewmates with bounties.

'Jackson.Sabo.'

My brothers went ahead and became pirates like we always talked about. Free on the vast sea. Thinking about it I felt a longing. I too want to set out and have adventures and meet them again.

"Come on Ace! Let's hang this to the others in our house!"

Luffy's calling interrupted my thoughts but he said what I planned on doing as well.

"Ok. Let's put this with the bounties and articles."

Getting up and ready to return to our base on the tree we set off but I noticed a paper suddenly falling out of the newspapers.

"hmm?"

Luffy noticed it as well. We picked it up and inspected what exactly it was.

"A wanted poster?"

I noticed that it was a wanted poster.

"A new one for Jackson!"

Luffy exclaimed next to me, after seeing the picture of Jackson. We then both looked down wanting to see the new bounty.

"hmm? Hey Ace… what is this number. It has many zeros, I never saw such a number before."

"…"

"Ace?"

…

"Ohhh Shit!!"

I couldn't help but curse out loud. It took me a while since I counted the number of zeros 4 times but this! I thought his old bounty is really high but I didn't know such bounties existed.

"…Ace? Hey Ace! Don't ignore me!"

Luffy kept calling but I ignored him still. For a while now my goal has been my brother but this. I unknowingly clenched my fists.

"…This might be harder than I thought."

Wanted Poster

Dead or Alive

Portgas D. Jackson

Bounty: cliffhanger (AN: just a joke don't kill me!)

Bounty(real): 1.551.000.000B (AN: Don't roast me for it pls! Beating an admiral is worth at least 2 billions in my opinion but remember that WG is spreading rumors that it wasn't a real 1v1 Duell but unfair and such and doing everything else to keep Jackson's potential fame/infame in check. Although Morgan fucked that plan up quite hard so around 1.5 billions seemed reasonable! I thought why not just add 1.5 billions to his old and be done with it)

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Grand Line, high above the blue sea.

May, 1514

It's been some weeks since we set off from the destroyed sky island together with the citizen.

Contrary to my expectations it was never boring during these weeks since we really had a lot of people and also problems, like arguments, space for everyone on the ruins and pieces, Sabo used to transport them on, and other kind of problems.

Since I was involved in their home's destruction, I decided to help them migrate and luckily almost no one knew about my involvement. Well Kizaru and me really went at each other, so it would be a bit surprising if they managed to clearly see me, or anything else besides chaos.

The only ones who know for sure about my involvement are the run away slaves. The little girl and her brother.

Lilia and Han. We talked quite a bit during these weeks and I found out that a certain someone with powers similar to Sabo's helped them reach their hometown.

'A kind old blind man.'

To think that Issho was on a sky island before to help run away slaves. How unbefitting of a future admiral but it fits his personality from what I saw in the anime.

Anyways! After a few weeks we reached the other sky island the mayor told us about. He warned us that in this place, religion is taken really seriously yet even with such a hint I didn't think that we would be reaching Skypea!

Long story short, after suppressing my excitement, reaching the island and going on shore, together with the immigrants, word spread quickly by the onlookers and we were stopped and questioned by armed forces shortly after.

The situation was explained and everybody was asked to wait until their 'god' made a decision. Apparently it is possible that they can't take everybody in and we might have to take them to other sky islands.

"Pft! We are pirates and not migration assistants!"

Was my less than enthusiastic response.

I took them here because I felt guilty but we are not a transportation business! The others agreed with me so of course we didn't stay there as asked. They couldn't stop us since under Gan Fall's orders it was forbidden to use violence if the other party didn't use violence.

'That's stupid beyond reasonable.'

Were my thoughts on that but hey it's helping our case. After shaking our followers off we made our way to the upper yard. For people with a flying ship, thanks to Sabo, finding the upper yard was really easy but now we are standing, or rather floating face to face with an old man on a purple winged horse.

"I am Gan Fall! The God of Skypiea! Outsiders, turn around and I'll overlook your rude behavior!"

'So this is my second meeting with 'god'.

He's asking us kindly but first of all there is a Poneglyph I plan to show Robin here and second there is A LOOOOT of gold waiting to be taken. Not taking it because it's 'rude' to come to the upper yard without a summon would be beyond stupid.

Stepping forward I straightened my back, raised my head and puffed up my chest and then, with the most arrogant tone I could speak with I started trolling Gan Fall

(AN: can this be considered a cliffhanger? Seriously not sure so… Bye)