Lucy's P.O.V

I awoke gasping and panting to find my shoulder screaming in pain and two unconscious boys asleep on the floor. Wincing as I stood up gingerly I attempted to get to a rusty and rather dodgy looking sink before my trembling legs gave way. I crashed to the floor unfortunately landing on my wounded shoulder in the process.

Gasping I tried to stop the tears that immediately sprung to my eyes and tried desperately to not cry out in pain. However, the thump seemed to have alerted the two men and both bolted up, well, not really Ace looked like he really wanted to go back to sleep again.

The other one was alert and fully awake though and he hurried over and pulled me to my feet. Standing on very unsteady and shaky knees was NOT a good idea and I proceeded to nearly fall again before, yawning, Ace picked my up and place me on the couch.

Blushing hard I yelled "Ace?! What the-" I suddenly noticed the other guy had gone and Ace had just collapsed on the floor evidently asleep. "Useless" I grumbled, picking myself up once again I persevered taking small baby steps and made sure to step on Ace who still looked like he was dead with a satisfied smirk.

Suddenly a slight gust of wind swooshed in and my eyes widened as the suspicious guy appeared carrying some food. He also with a lot of smugness 'accidently' kicked a still dead Ace in the face and pulled the table over to me and then a rusty chair.

Narrowing my eyes in suspicion I stood stock still. After a minute of silence he shrugged and sat down and pulled out some milk, bread and some cheese and my stomach growled in want. Turning beet red I sat down on the couch and, turning my head slightly away from his, picked up the bread and slowly starting to munch.

Ace finally awoke, yelling "food!" I glared at him and I started to shovel down the foo into my throat. Ace grabbed some bread off the guy and sat down and starting munching on it, evidently satisfied. Soon they started to bicker and my head pounded at the noise. "Shut UP!" I yelled before bonking them on the head.

"So," I stared at the guy rubbing his head, "Who are you?" I fingered my keys absentmindedly as the guy answered "I'm Brendan, you must be the 'Witch Lucy'. I snapped "What the hell do you mean by th-" He stopped me with shoving a piece of paper in my face. I hesitated and then took the piece of paper, and stared down at my bikini clad body playing with the dolphins. Underneath was captioned, "WITCH LUCY, WANTED" I shrieked before I could read the rest, I, Lucy Heartfilia was wanted? "Oh no, no, no, no ,no NO!"

Ace, who had grabbed the paper and was reading it grinned, "Luce! Your bounty is more than mine!" Ace was laughing as I clenched the paper in horror. "How, what, NO!" I felt faint, this was HORRIBLE. "Hey," Brandan was smiling in a comforting way, "It's not that bad, and you're only" His eyes popped at the numbers "On your first try?! Wo- I mean" I was staring down at him with a look that made him cower "It's not that much..."

Ace fist bumped him and I could only stare, with my eye twitching as they started laughing as if they were old buddies. 1 minute ago they had been fighting and next minute... I could only edge away from their budding bromance. And men said women were hard to understand.

I cleared my throat and they finally stopped as I gave them an expression that clearly could be read as "What the hell?" An awkward silence ensued before Ace finally spoke "Thanks mate, you know, for saving our skins." Brandan laughed "No problem! My wife Claire would've killed me if I didn't help people who were evidently innocent though..." He stared at me "You did, kinda... defeat a shichibukai..."

"You're married? What does she look like?" The words tumbled out of my mouth before I knew it and I clapped my hands to them and mumbled in a muffled voice behind my hands "Sowwy" He snorted "Yeah, she's beautiful" Out of his pocket he extracted a pocket watch and in the inside was a small picture of his wife. Her large eyes were charcoal black with a light in it that promised kindess and a little mischief. "Pretty" I smiled to show what I had said was just genuine and not for the sake of it.

He smiled back when something hit me "How did you know we were innocent?" Brandan gave me a smug grin before opening his hand and created a ting tornado, right in the middle of his palm. "my power is wind, in some other countries and lands wind is a pure thing, one that can never tell a lie. I was going somewhere when there was an accident, I landed in a forest with minimal injuries but the other survivor had a wound in her leg. I ate a fruit to help her even though I had promised to my culture to never do it since we though devil fruits were... well... exactly what its name suggests, we thought it came from the devil. The fruit was of an ancient place and this power is really powerful!" Brendan puffed out his chest in pride before deflating and continuing.

"I healed her... she survived and I fell in love." He laughed "it took 3 confessions, 2 years of dating and 3 marriage proposals before she finally said yes after we escaped the island. I love her, she's the light in my bleak world," He snorted and I took his hand "That's beautiful," I murmured

He shrugged ruffled his hair "My family disowned me when I told them the truth, but I don't care, I have her."

He smiled so reminisently that I left him there for a while to talk to Ace

"Luce." Ace looked serious as he stared at me "Can we trust this guy? I mean we've only JUST met him and we-" his sentence was cut off as I interrupted him "We can, no! no buts, he's a nice guy Ace. I saw it." He stared at me for a few seconds longer, analyzing me with his eyes before he sighed, "Fine, let's get up know, he seems to be coming out of the trance I put him in." I stared at him, "What do you mean? TRANCE. What's that?"

"Oh right!" I rolled my eyes as the usual Ace popped out from his unnerving serious one "I sent smoke into his brain which creates a type of imaginary illusion keeping them immobolized giving me time to-" "Stop." I put up my hand in his face "I don't want to know your loving ways of seduction." As he spluttered I turned back to Brandan who didn't seem to have noticed a thing as he came out of the trance.

"Well," he smiled cheerfully "Let's start packing to catch that ship!" My eyes bulged as Ace yawned and mumbled sleepily "Do we HAVE to, I'm still tired!" I snapped, "What do you mean SHIP."

Brandan simply smiled knowingly and tapped his nose "That's for me to know and you to-" "KNOW. RIGHT. NOW."

I spoke in a thunderous voice as I stared down on him with a death glare which made him tremble "A boat to Dressrosa, we're going to be seeing little princess Rebecca and her mother and her father the king of Dressrosa, Kyros and Scarlet" I sighed and kneaded my forehead "Alright," I grumbled "Hurry up, let's go."

"But later I need to tell you something Ace, even you Brendan, you can help" They glanced at me then at each other and both shrugged and walked off.

~Later

The ship was sailing peacefully with the moon light shining on the calm water as I stared out of a window. The other two were gone, most likely pigging out at the buffet. I had finished quickly after seeing an upcoming fight nearing as the last two snatched at a cake. I followed the people scurring out and returned to my cabin.

I hated this and yet... I loved it. The adventure. The new friends. The new fights. In this world I felt FREE. It was so exhilarating and somehow even the new memories I was recieving seemed to be so... new to me. And this was exactly what I had been missing for a long time. Staying in Fairy tail and them abandoning me, everything seemed so fake. The fights, the strangers and the fire of adventure had been snuffed out.

Here? It blazed like it would never stop. But I still felt sad, sad of the betrayal and a sadness I did not know about engulfed me completely when I entered the dream like states that seemed to be my memories.

Footsteps walked to my door and I tensed slightly but narrowed my eyes as Brandan and Ace, evidently drunk, waltzed in, laughing loudly until they saw me. I could feel the anger pour around me as I stared at them as they gulped at my threatening aura.

They sobered up after I threw them out of the tiny window that had 'accidentally' been smashed by me as I stuffed them out onto the deck and Brendan transported himself into my cabin, sporting an expression I could've thought to be as one that appeared at a funeral. I guessed it was for the best that Brandan came first because I needed to talk to him as I watched Ace clamber up and start to run up the stairs back to my cabin.

"I need to discuss something serious with you." I stated. To my great annoyance he rolled his eyes and yawned "EVIDENTLY. Now hurry up I wanna know what dreams or memories you need to discuss about"

I goggled at him in utter disbelief. "H-how? When did you know?"

He gave me a wicked grin, and waggled his finger in front of my face "You'd be surprised with the things my devil fruit powers could do. Now spill it."

I gave him a look before explaining the one thing I couldn't tell Ace since I KNEW he would be really careless and run off somewhere. So I told the guy I could somehow trust even if we had just met a day ago. And so, I explained everything.

Dear All: I'm a fu***** ass. Sorry. It's short but I haven't updated in a while and this is all I could come up with.

I want to say I didn't mean to be late but in truth I was just bored. And have any of you read the latest chapters of Fairy Tail? I feel angry because SPOILER ALERT PAST THIS POINT! Erza's mother was the mother of all dragonslayers which though I wasn't heading in that direction it is the tiniest bit of what is in this terrible story I have.

I thank you for the readers and the reviewers and especially AnimeLoverMangaFreak for being amazing and staying with me. Also anyone like Percy Jackson fanfiction? MPerry is an awesome writer! ^_^ So please check it out and if you don't like it please don't send her hate send it to me (though I doubt you'll hate it!). Thank You!

P.S Please also don't judge me too quickly and think I'm the type who finds a story and yells at a the person who wrote/drew it took my idea. It realise my ideas are simply fictional and I think Hiro Mashima did a great portrayal in well...EVERYTHING! I'm just trying to say I'm NOT trying to say he stole my idea. We just had a similar plot and he did amazingly in portraying it.

So thank you, sorry, and good bye.

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