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Chapter I | The word of a Goddess

Summary: The Book of Peace - an ancient book which protects the twelve cities. Stored in the highest tower in the city of Syracuse, the book stands untouched as Prince Sabo brought it home. The prosperity it brings to humanity made it a target to the Goddess of discord Eris, who intends to bring chaos to the people of the twelve cities by making a deal with the famous pirate Portgas D Ace to steal it.

“You're not thinking big enough, Ace. Steal the book for ransom and you can be rich enough to lounge on the beach of a tropical island. Steal it for me, and you can buy the beach. And the island. And the world.” Said Eris, her voice sultry as she passed by Ace, fingers brushing his face.

Main characters: Portgas D Ace x Reader (female) & Eris - Goddess of Discord

Supporting characters: Luffy, Sabo, Marco, Thatch, Izo, Kiku, Whitebeard

Description: This story is entirely based on 'Sinbad: The Legend of the Seven Seas'! Of course I will add my own touch to it and things that are not part of the film, but still it will be following the animation storyline. A lot of lines that I liked from the movie will be included in the dialogue as well.

WARNINGS: explicit language, descriptions of violence, 16+ only, implied injury, illegal activities, physical violence, fighting, mentions of monsters.

Word Count: 6,5K

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NOTE: Here is the first chapter, I'm posting it earlier as I got sick and I couldn't go to work today ♡ Thank you all for supporting me as always ♡ I hope I get to meet your expectations in writing this story in the best way possible especially if you are big fan of the movie as much as I am. I'm definitely having so much fun writing Ace as Simbad so I cannot wait for the story to unfold further especially with the ideas I want to add to it ♡ Enjoy the first chapter and for those of you who are new here - English is not my first language so please if you see any mistakes let me know ♡

Tartarus – The Realm of Chaos. A place covered by ruins of empires and greedy kings; a place almost identical to Hell. Ruled by Eris – the Goddess of Discord, daughter of the primordial night goddess Nyx, she was the pure embodiment of chaos and destruction. She fuels competition and leaves discord in her wake, encouraging both sides of a battle, supporting both sides in an argument and bringing out the worst in people. Nothing good has ever come from her arrival and every time she would appear people will tremble in fear. Eris represents the true malevolence and deviance - she has no morals of good nor nobility, her heart was made of pure evil. She is spiteful, manipulative and passioned about world destruction waiting for the day when the mortal world will crumble in the ruins of her chaos.

Temples and myths portrayed her with wings, highlighting her nature traveling between her realm and the real world. But Eris has no wings, she doesn’t need ones. Her body is not as of a human, even though it appears as one. Tall and slender, eyes bloody red with a yellow background cornea, and a long black hair that flies all over the place with any movement she makes, her shape and form can shift and change. Her forms come from both how she wishes to appear and how her emotions emanate. Eris can control the darkness and merge with it, becoming a shadow herself as her mother Nyx. Yet as a Goddess her face is something every sailor, every king and many gods have fallen for. Her beauty is as destructive as her powers.

The realm of chaos was inhabited by her children – the godly monsters made into constellations. Calling upon them the Goddess entered her realm of constellations looking down upon her globe of Earth.

“Wake up my beauties. Rise and shine.” She called and her children assembled around her. “It’s a new day in the mortal world. Ah, what a beautiful day it’s in there. So peaceful... so boring.” Taking a good look at the Earth, Eris attention got caught by a noble ship in the southern sea. “Just look at them. I pull one tiny thread and their whole world unravels into chaos. Glorious chaos.” Pulling a string out of the globe she chuckled to herself. What a day, not only the ship was led by a noble prince, but he was also carrying a valuable treasure for the humanity on it. Something Eris was looking for some time now – The Book of Peace. “A noble price, a priceless treasure and a black-hearted thief. This couldn’t have been more perfect.” The pirate-ship pursuing the prince’s one didn’t escape her sight. “Oh, this is going to be fun.” Turning around she reached with her hand to one of her children – Cetus, a large Krake-like monster. His body was long eel-ed with eight tentacles, a long tail and a head crown shaped like a fish frill with eyes as yellow as his mother’s. “Cetus?” The monster came closer to his mother once it heard her calling it. “You know what to do.” She purred. “Let the games begin.”

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Lit by the sun the calm waves of the sea were sparkling, making the endless sight of water on the horizon look mesmerizing. Drifted by the breeze, the massive sleek mahogany color ship was cutting the waves with ease, chasing after the noble royal blue ship in front of it. Pristine and well-maintained, the ship gleamed in the sunlight. The ship had three tall masts with sails in a beautiful burnt orange colour with lighter colour flames embroidered on them. On the deck the small crew of six people was standing in a line listening to their captain’s orders.

“Gentlemen, this is what we have been waiting for.” The captain announced, while taking steady steps towards the bow of the ship, a dog by his side – Spike was following him. “The world’s most valuable object it’s on it’s way to Syracuse – or in other words – our ticket to paradise.” Standing on the bow of the ship and taking a good look at the massive blue royal ship in front of him, he turned to his crew with a big grin on his face. “It’s a shame it’ll never get there.” He said with a confident cocky voice. Laughter from the crew and barks from Spike cheered loudly on the deck. “After today, we retire to Fiji.” His announce made his crew cheer once more as they were ready to fight. Guns shots, swords and matchets were ready to be used as everyone have been waiting for this moment for so long. “Marco.” The captain called for the tall blond man, who was his right hand.

“Aye, Captain.” He responded to his captain, taking a stance next to the helm.

“Spike.” The captain yelled from the bow at his dog giving it a command to pull the lever which activated the ship’s sides blades. Once they were out, Marco manoeuvred the ship getting it as close as possible next to the royal one, and the moment they caught on them he turned the helm in the direction of it and strike it. “Let’s get rich.” Screamed their captain as he grabbed on one of the ropes from the sails and swing with it. He hopped on the royal ship with swift moves declaring his attack on his opponents. His crew and dog followed him immediately. Marco was fast to tear apart a piece of wood from the royal ship and knocked with it at least five men with a single move. Thatch wasted no time and pulled his machetes fast getting into the fight knocking down guards left and right. Even Spike, who was a very smart dog, has knocked two of the guards down, though for him it was like a game not realising the danger he or his owner were in. Speaking of his owner, the black-haired captain, who was surrounded by guards attacking him from all sides, instead of being scared or in distress because of the situation he was in, he was having quite the fun. Kicking and knocking guards left and right, easily taking their swords and handling them with swift moves, it all was like a children’s game to him. With more guards running towards him, he spiked the two swords he had in his hands on the deck’s floor and in one smooth motion, he turned his body clockwise with his hands on the swords and knocked down all the guards.

“Yo, Marco.” He turned to his right-hand man, who was busy on choking a guy between his armpit and forearm. “Did you catch this last move? Pretty cool, hu?” The cocky captain chuckled.

“I thought you overworked it.” Marco responded unimpressed. “Just a pit.” He gestured with his fingers how ‘little’ his captain overworked himself and then landed his fist on the guard knocking him off completely.

“Overworked it?” The captain sighed in disbelief. He didn’t, he was sure he looked pretty cool while fighting the guards. Another guard ran towards them with his sword raised high in the air, only for Marco to caught it with his teeth and threw him off the deck with one move. “Oh, and I was overworking it?” His captain exclaimed as he looked at him over his shoulder. Turning around the captain’s eyes widened, and cocky smile disappeared. On the upper deck he saw no other but the Prince of Syracuse himself. “Sabo.” He said to himself. There on the deck was the prince – a tall, blonde man dressed in his noble blue clothes that represents Syracuse.

“Hm, didn’t expect this? How long has it been since you last saw each other?” Marco asked as he saw the way his captain’s shoulders sagged at the sight of his childhood best friend.

“About a lifetime ago.” Was the only response he got. Walking towards the upper deck, the dark-haired man observed the way the prince was taking down two of his crewmates. “I see you are still fighting like a price.” Chuckled the pirate as he stood behind the prince’s back with his arms crossed and a smug smirk on his face.

“Ace?” A smile appeared on the prince’s lips as he immediately recognised the voice, but the guy he knocked down has jumped back on his feet and pushed the price to the ground. Ace’s crew took a hold of Sabo, but he pushed them away. The prince couldn’t believe his eyes – his long-time lost childhood best friend, who he once considered a brother, was standing right in front of him. Now not as a child or teenager anymore, but as a grown man. With his broad muscular chest on display as only a pair of dark knee-length pants were hanged around his hips and a yellow unbuttoned shirt covered his back with an orange cowboy hat on top of his head, he hasn’t changed that much. His cocky smile was the same, his dark brown eyes were still full of mischief and his face was still covered in freckles. The only difference was that now Ace has gotten taller and much more muscular than before. “What are you doing here?” Sabo was still in disbelief.

“Working.” Ace raised his eyebrows as he mischievously smirked at Sabo and pulled out his dagger from the back of his belt. With one swift move he pierced the door handle with the it and broke it. Taking a look over his shoulder at Sabo, he chuckled. “What about you?”

“What happened to you? Where have you been all this time?” Sabo couldn’t believe how ignorant his friend was being. All these years, ten to be exact, Ace was gone. One day he just disappeared, and Sabo never heard of him again, until today. “Also where is Luffy? I’m sure he came with you.”

“I would love to catch up man, but I have stuffs to do, you know?” Ace turned to look at him once more. “Places to be, things to steal, the usual. And Luffy should be somewhere around here.” He clicked with his tongue and opened the door, not planning on paying any more attention to Sabo. His crew started laughing but Sabo wasn’t having it, instead he followed Ace inside the cabin. Taking a step in Ace whistled once his eyes landed on the treasure in front of him – the Book of Peace. The infamous book, which was known to bring peace among the twelve cities, protecting them from misfortune and chaos. The book was known to be lost but that was only a rumour. If the book was lost or stolen the twelve cities would collapse immediately. It was known that this rumour was created only for pirates and criminals to not go after it – but thanks to Sabo, Ace was aware about this. So now, nothing could stop him from stealing it. He didn’t give a single damn about the people of the twelve cities, so he didn’t care what would happen to them once he has it. Before he can take another step in, Sabo stepped in and placed his hands on Ace’s shoulders stopping him from moving any further into the room.

“Ace, we need to talk.” Sabo’s voice and face were stern as his eyes shifted between Ace and the book.

“Heard about it, read about it, never actually seen it.” Ace jerked away Sabo’s hands and walked into the cabin. Laying open, the book was standing in the middle of the room in all its glory. An ancient priceless treasure. Its blue glow was reflecting on Ace’s face, where his smile was growing bigger with every second. “The Book of Peace.” He breathed out.

“Don’t you even think about it, Ace.” Sabo was quick to warn him as he stood right next to him. “It’s my job to bring it back safety to Syracuse.” He glanced at Ace, with his pierced blue eyes.

“Oh, shit man. Really?” Ace hissed mockingly as he slapped his thigh on the side. “Now, I will feel bad, because you will get fired.” He said as he patted Sabo on the shoulder. Mesmerised by the book Ace started circling around it taking a better look from all its sides. Oh, the amount of money and gold he was going to get for this book. He could see himself and his crew already living in the paradise of Fiji.

“Ace, you can’t be serious.” Sabo’s brows frown as he couldn’t believe what he just heard. Has Ace really turned this heartless? “You disappeared for ten years, on top of it took Luffy away with you, and now you are showing up and you plan to rob me?” He half raised his hands in the air, waiting for an explanation from the man once he called his brother.

“First of all, I didn’t make Luffy come with me, okay? He followed me without me knowing.” Ace pointed his finger to Sabo as he wanted to be clear about why and how ‘their’ little brother ended up disappearing with him. “And I really am sorry, man. I really wish it wasn’t you I was stealing the book from, but...” Ace half shrugged as he stood next to Sabo once again.

“But it’s me Ace.” Sabo’s voice was filled with a lot of mix emotions right now – disbelief, anger, regret but also hope and happiness. The fact that he was seeing Ace after ten years was still unreal to him, also knowing that Luffy was somewhere close by was making his heart filled with excitement. At the end, till this day he was considering these two boys for his blood brothers even thought they weren’t, but the packed they made as kids was something he was panning on honouring till his last day on Earth.

“Sabo...” Ace exhaled before he looked at his long-time friend. “We might of share a glass of sake and fought next to each other as kids, but you see this is the key word – kids. Yea, it was fun, but again – kids.” Ace said as his cockiness and mockery didn’t even drop with one notch.

“We were brothers.” Sabo took a step closer to Ace as he couldn’t listen to his nonsense anymore. “Ace, you are not stealing the book. Not from me.” He shook his head and pointed at the book with the palm of his hand. “And what would you do with the book anyway? This book protects hundreds of thousands of people.”

“Exactly.” Ace exclaimed excitedly. “Now imagine how much you would pay to get it back.” He raised his brows and nudged Sabo on the sides with his elbow. Sabo took a stance in front of Ace and the book and raised his finger warningly at him.

“Let me say this one more time, as it seems you that you don’t get it Ace.” He snapped. “A long time ago – Luffy, you and I were brothers. And if that ever meant anything for you, you would leave now, and I will pretend that this attack on my ship has never happened.”

“Ah, you are right.” Ace shrugged and turned around taking a step away from Sabo. “That was a long time ago.” Taking his sword out, him and Sabo clashed their blades at the same time. With a smooth swift move with his leg Sabo tried to bring Ace down but Ace dodged it by jumping and taking a step back.

“Come on, Sabo. Don’t play all heroic with me. I know deep down you still want to be a pirate.” Ace smirked as he fidgeted the sword easily with his hand. Before Sabo had the time to react Ace attacked him once again. He wasn’t planning on giving up, even if it meant stabbing his childhood friend. Their blades crashed once more as they stood face to face.

“I’ve grown up, Ace. Now if you want the book you will have to go through m-” A loud bang and impact shook the ship as the wooden wall broke and a tentacle broke apart the once so-called brothers. Shaking their heads from the shock of the scene in front of them Ace and Sabo shared a confused look.

“What the hell?” Ace exclaimed and run outside as he heard yelling from his crew and guards. Sabo followed after him and stopped once he saw Ace freezing for a second. The scene in front of them was out of a mythical legend. At the bow of the ship a Kraken-like monster was attacking everyone. Guards were trying to protect the ship, but the monster was ten times stronger than any of them. Taking a quick glance at his ship, Ace smiled as he saw his crew was safe on it. While the guards were fighting the sea monster, Spike unable to understand the danger, ran after one of the monster’s tentacles and bit on it. Ace chuckled at the sight. “Go, Spike.” The monster easily threw the dog in the air sending it flying towards his owner’s ship. Ace laughed as he saw his dog enjoying himself as he landed securely in the arms of the old man in his crew – Whitebeard. For an old guy in his late sixties, he was quite strong and well built.

“Ace.” A loud scream echoed around. Turning his head to where the sound came from Ace’s smile grew bigger. Sabo followed his gaze, and a big grin appeared in his face as well.

“God, he has grown so much.” Sabo couldn’t believe his eyes once again today. There wrapped around the ropes, hopping on them like a monkey on a vine, was the guy he has considered as a little brother – Luffy. Now, that he has grown up even more, his resemblance with Ace was even scarier, considering the fact that the two of them weren’t biological brothers. Yet, till this day Sabo was sure that they shared at least one parent, but they would never know as both were orphans. “You two look alike even more now.” Sabo nudged Ace with his elbow. A makeshift puff of laugher left Ace’s nose as he put his sword back and started to walk away. “Wait, where are you going?” Sabo grabbed his shoulder and turned Ace around.

“I see you are busy, and my crew is waiting. So, uh, we stay in touch.” Ace bumped him on the shoulder and walked towards the railing of the ship ready to jump to his own.

“Sabo is that you?” Luffy screamed as he landed on his feet on the deck of Ace’s ship. “Oh my God, Sabo it’s you.” His eyes sparkled with excitement as he saw the guy who once was his second big brother.

“Luffy, long time no see.” Sabo said. It was like the three once’s brothers forgot that there was a big sea monster destroying the royal ship and swallowing alive half of Sabo’s crew.

“We catch up some other time with him, Luffy.” Ace interrupted them as he was ready to go back to his ship, but Sabo pulled him by the shoulder once more.

“You are just going to run away?”

“Uh, yea.” Ace snorted and just before he takes another step the Kraken-like monster raised his tail from the water, breaking the spikes off Ace’s ship that were holding the ships bridged and almost knocked him in the water.

“Ace.” Luffy screamed as he saw his brother almost falling from the railing. Getting his balance back, Ace frowned his brows now furious at the monster, if it wanted to destroy any ship it should focus on the royal one, not his.

“You fucking bastard. My ship.” He yelled at the monster, as he saw it hitting and breaking the right-side railings on his ship.

Meanwhile Sabo has joined the fight with the Kraken with his men. He wasn’t planning on giving up but when the monster knocked him on the ground for a third time now, for a second he was hopeless. The sea monster opened its mouth and a sharp like a blade tongue almost struck him but one of the guards jumped just in time to protect Sabo and the monster caught the guard instead. Sabo’s eyes widen in both despair and terror as he saw another of his men being swallowed into the monster’s mouth.

“Head’s up.” Turning from where the warning came from, Sabo saw Ace standing next to the cannon as he lit it up and then jumped on it, directing the lit cannon ball in the air. The monster caught it mid air with its tongue and ate it. Standing next to Sabo and helping him to get on his feet, Ace smirked. “Now, stand by for sushi.”

The monster rumbled in pain as the cannon ball exploded in its stomach, which led to it throwing up some kind of stomach juices covering both Ace and Sabo with it. Both whined grossed out by the phlegm that covered them as they tried cleaning the sticky juices from their bodies. Not only this, but it also threw up the last man it swallowed who fell in front of the brothers’ feet. Not wasting even, a second the guard picked up his sword and with a loud scream went to attack the monster again. “This one has balls. You better give him a raise.” Ace said as he followed the ballsy guard with his eyes. To their surprise the cannon ball didn’t do much damage to the monster, in fact it only angered it more. It started trashing the ship even more.

“Come on, Ace. We need to leave the ship.” Sabo yelled and grabbed Ace’s arm ready to run to safe their lives, but Ace stopped him.

“Stay your ground, man.” Ace smirked as he came up with a plan. Placing his thumb and index finger in his mouth he whistled loudly trying to grab the monster’s attention.

“What are you doing?” Sabo knew it was pointless to ask especially if Ace has already set his mind on something. Not paying attention to Sabo, Ace screamed after the monster.

“Hey! Hey, you! Lobster boy, over here!” It was a success. The monster pierced yellow eyes focused on him and Sabo and its sharp like a blade tongue quickly strike. Ace and Sabo jumped back, and it missed them, but the black-haired pirate was quick to take his dagger and pierced the monster’s tonged with it. The monster left a loud roar of pain as it couldn’t move with its tongue pierced to the deck’s floor. “Now, run.” Ace looked at Sabo and grabbed him by the shoulder to run.

“Pull back!” The prince called out for his men as he didn’t want anyone else to get hurt by the raged monster. In that moment one of the broken masts caught Ace’s attention and without wasting any time he grabbed the first rope he saw on the floor and took it in his hands.

“Sabo.” Ace yelled. “Grab hold and let’s go.” He threw one of the ends of the rope around the main mast and Sabo grabbed it immediately. Reaching with his hand to Sabo, Ace gave him a look that said: ‘for the good old times, trust me’ and his once brother grabbed on his hand without any doubt in mind. Both in tack, started climbing the massive mast as Ace stopped for a second and pulled with his teeth a dagger, that was stuck in the middle of it, as he would need more than the one he had for the sake of his plan to work. Once they got on top of the mast and balanced themself Sabo looked at Ace waiting for him to share the plan with him.

“And the plan is?”

“Very simple – try not to get killed.” Ace big cocky grin was placed once again on his face as he cut the rope which was holding the left end of the horizontal mast. Sabo was quick to catch one of the ropes by his side as the mast sharp left edge leaned and pointed at the monster’s head. “Here, you will need this.” Ace said as he handed the dagger to Sabo to catch it.

“Where are you going?” Sabo grunted as Ace jumped to hold himself on one of the ropes that was connected to the bow’s mast.

“Fishing.” Ace replied, which caused Sabo to grunt once more as right now was not the best time for jokes. With one swift move Ace jumped on the rope and balanced himself as he started walking to the other mast. “Left, right, left, right.” He was talking to himself as he was almost twenty meters high in the sky and the last thing he wanted was to fall on top of the monster, serving himself as a meal. Just a second before he jumps on the mast one of the monster’s long tentacles raised in the air and tore the rope, but it didn’t matter as Ace successfully landed on the mast. Balancing himself on it he looked at Sabo, who was carefully following his movement. Ace smiled at him as he pulled another sharp dagger from his belt and cut the right-side ropes which were holding this horizontal mast. Looking down Sabo finally understood Ace’s plan, now with both sharp edges pointing at the monster’s head. Rasing his dagger in the air Ace waited for Sabo to do the same before he screamed at him. “Sabo, now.” Cutting the ropes which were barely holding the masts, the two old friends screamed as they jumped off them and held strong on the ropes as they hung in the air. The sharp edges pierced through the monster’s head, and it fell defeated. Both – Ace and Sabo cheered, and so did everyone around them once they hopped back on the deck’s floor. “You, okay?”

“Yes, I am. Thank you for sticking around, Ace.” Sabo patted his shoulder as his heart filled with joy. He had missed this. All these years he couldn’t stop thinking and missing his two brothers who disappeared one day out of nowhere. But today was his lucky day as finally after ten years he got to see them both.

“Just like old time, man.” Ace would have lied if he said he didn’t enjoy it as well. He did miss his old friend which once he called his brother. As he placed his hand on Sabo’s shoulder his attention caught one of the monster’s tentacles moving in their direction “Look out.” Ace yelled but it was too late. Before Sabo could react for himself, Ace pushed him on the ground. The monster hit the pirate instead, dragging him in the water with itself.

“Ace.” Both Sabo and Luffy screamed as they saw their brother falling into the water. Sabo was ready to jump but the guards were quick to stop him, and so did Ace’s crew stop Luffy as he was an awful swimmer, and he couldn’t survive the vast sea.

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Holding him in a strong hold one of the monster’s tentacles was wrapped around Ace’s body dragging him to the deepest of waters. Ace was fighting with all his power, but it was pointless as in the water the monster was even stronger than in the surface. He wasn’t sure how much air was left in his lungs as they were going deeper and deeper until a big shadow-like figure appeared in the water. Ace’s eyes widen as in front of him was standing a stunning goddess like woman. Just before he could pass out from the lack of oxygen, she blowed him a kiss which turned into a big bubble in the middle of the deep-sea water creating an air bubble where Ace could breathe. Gasping for air and on his knees, he was sure he had died and was already in his personal hell. Trying to stand up, the woman’s voice echoed around.

“This day began with such promise and now look.” The voice was sultry and very alluring, a voice for which any man would do any crime just to satisfy its owner. Ace moved his eyes in all directions, but they were so deep in the water barely any light was reaching them, so he could see nothing. Until the goddess like woman showed herself. Her big form appeared like a shadow in front of him. This woman was breathtaking beautiful – with a long black hair, eyes bloody red as her lips and just a long purple dress covering her body. If this was the devil, then Ace was happy for committing all these crimes and that he had died and ended in hell. “My sea monster child is deadly hurt, and I still don’t have the Book of Peace... all because of you Ace.” She shifted her form and now appeared even bigger in front of him, but still beautiful. And she did seem pissed with him. Taking a deep breath Ace finally spoke up.

“And you are?” He extended his hand in a gesture for her to introduce herself, with his cocky tone as aways.

“Eris, the Goddess of Discord.” She shifted her form again as her voice became suaver. “I’m sure you have seen my face on a temple walls.” Shifting her form again she stood in a goddess like form too display all her glory. Ace cursed himself, he was definitely in a trouble.

“You know, they don’t do you justice.” He chuckled at her with a charming smile. After all, there was no woman who had ever not melt into his charm. The Goddess just huffed and rolled her eyes.

“Huh-hu. Now - ” She pushed him on the chest with her giant finger as she was still in her gracious giant form. “About my sea monster.” She was pissed and Ace had to work his charm overtime now.

“Right. I’m sorry about that, Eris. If I knew he was one of yours I would have never.” He tried to be smooth with her, as he was quick to understand that she wasn’t the type to mess up with. “I doubt a heartfelt apology would do.” He played with his fingers as he was tiptoeing around her, careful to not get on her nerves. To his surprise her laughter echoed around them as her eyes pierced him.

“Heartfelt? From you?” She laughed arrogantly once again. “Ace, you don’t have a heart.” Her form shifted again and finally she appeared in a human size in front of Ace. He couldn’t help but lick his bottom lip as he saw her. Yes, he was in trouble. But seeing a Goddess like Eris appearing in front of him was worth the trouble... maybe. She started swaying her hips left to right and placed one hand on her waist as she was slowly and graciously walking towards him. “That’s what I like about you, Ace. Don’t worry, I will let you live.” Once Eris stood in front of him, she placed her hand on his cheek as she caressed it. Ace was in a trance; his eyes widen and mouth slightly gapped. “But there is this little thing you must do for me.” A smug and very luring smile spread across her face. “Steal the Book of Peace and bring it to me.” Placing her hands seducingly on her body she waited for Ace’s respond which didn’t take long.

“Sure, but you see - ” Ace scratched his chin as he gave her a wink. “I have my own plans for the book. Uh, ransom, like... get rich, um some ‘me’ stuff, you know.” He slowly walked away from her but just as he turned Eris was standing in front of him again, which startled Ace.

“You're not thinking big enough, Ace.” Eris started circling around him as she pulled a dragger out of the thin air and waved it in front of Ace’s face. “Steal the book for ransom and you can be rich enough to lounge on the beach of a tropical island.” She pointed the dragger at Ace and then with a smug smile and challenging eyes she pointed it at her. “Steal it for me, and you can buy the beach. And the island. And the world.” Her voice sultry, she passed by Ace now her fingers brushing his face. He crossed his hands and thought about it for a moment. He wasn’t stupid – a deal with the Goddess of Discord meant only one thing – a trap.

“Hm, so you let me live, you make me rich, and I retire to paradise.” He smirked to himself as he thought out loud. “So far so good, no downfalls. If there is no trap and you keep your word.” Now his tone became serious. There must be a trap, it sounded too good to be true.

“Ace, when a goddess gives her word, she is bound for all eternity.” With the dragger in her hand, she made a cross mark with it on her shoulder which didn’t bleed or left any scar it just lit and disappeared. Ace glanced at her and after a moment nodded his head; he would deal with the consequences of his decision later.

“Deal.” He said and Eris came closer to him, brushing his body with hers.

“I knew you would see my way.” Shifting to her goddess like size she made a cut with the dagger in the air opening a portal. “So, when you’ve stolen the Book, you will bring it to me in Tartarus, my realm of chaos. Follow the brightest star beyond the horizon and you will find yourself there.” Ace squinted his eyes a little as the portal and the star itself were too bright, but he made sure to take a good look at them.

“I guess I will see you there Eris.” He chuckled with a smirk once she closed the portal.

“It’s a date then, Ace.” She came closer to him with the dagger in her hand pointing it at his throat, making him gulped. With this move she was making herself clear that he shouldn’t even think of tricking her and that he must kept his word as well. With one swift move she made the dagger disappeared and chuckled. “So, where were we? Oh, yes, you were supposed to hold your breath.” Eris ran her finger across his full lips and pushed him as the air bubble they were in popped. The space around them filled with water and Ace found himself once again in the deepest part of the sea. With the lack of oxygen he quickly made his way to the surface. A sly smile spread across Eris lips. “He is so cute.” She said without moving her eyes from Ace to her sea monster child which appeared behind her in its outline constellation spirit form. “And so gullible.” Everything was going exactly according to her plan. All thanks to Ace. “Cetus, well done.” She finally turned to her child, now her tone sweet and gentle. The monster rumbled a purr as its mother praised him.

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Coming on to the surface Ace took a deep gasp once his head was out of the water. Before he had any time to react a hand grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and easily lifted him up. With one swift swing he was on the floor on his ship’s deck. Luffy was quick to jump on him, caging him in a hug.

“Ace, you are alive. I was so worried, and these assholes didn’t let me come after you.” Luffy pulled away as he observed his brother to see if he had hurt himself.

“I’m okay Luffy, I’m not dying anytime soon.” Ace ruffled his brother’s hair as he stood up still unable to breath properly.

“Glad you made it, brother.” Izo, a tall slender man, who had a twin brother Kiku, came behind Ace and patted his shoulder.

“Pay up, he lived.” Kiku called after his twin as they were always betting for anything. It was the same coin going around between one pocket to the other all these years. Ace laughed as he heard what their bet was about this time.

“What happened down there?” Marco took a step closer to Ace.

“Yes, Ace. What happened you were gone for like ten minutes, never do this again.” Luffy scolded his brother as he really thought he had lost Ace. Still trying to fill his lungs with air Ace inhaled and exhaled before he started speaking.

“First – I’m not going anywhere Luffy. And second you wouldn’t believe me even if I tell you.” Ace said out of breath as talking seemed to be like an impossible task right now.

“Try me.” Marco crossed his arms across his chest waiting for Ace to explain. Shifting his eyes between Luffy and Marco he sighed and rolled them.

“So, I met the Goddess of Chaos - Eris down there, and she has a major crush on me, by the way and we made a deal that our first date is at her place after I steal the Book of Peace and bring it to her.” He said in one breath. Marco and Luffy looked at each other and burst out laughing and so did the rest of the crew as they heard the story.

“Ha, that was a good one. I guess we need to stop your access to oxygen more often.” Said Marco as he turned around to walk to the upper deck where the rudder was.

“Oh, I’m writing that down. Goddess of Chaos, haha, my ass.” Thatch laughed loudly as he followed Marco.

“So, no Book, no retirement. What do we do now, Ace?” Luffy, who he had already climbed on some ropes, asked as he hanged next to Ace.

“A little patience, Luffy.” Ace chuckled at his little brother. Always in a hurry this kid, now a grown man but still a kid in Ace’s eyes, he never mastered the power of patience. “Plus, we know where it’s going.” Ace pointed with his eyes towards Sabo’s royal ship which had taken quite lot of damage, but they were still going to make it to Syracuse without a problem. Luffy followed Ace’s gaze and smiled as he locked his eyes with Sabo who was looking at them both. Making sure that his brothers would hear him, Sabo shouted as loud as possible.

“Men, all sails to Syracuse.”

END NOTE: Describing a battle, fighting moves, a monster and a Goddess is so, so hard Imao. I really hope I manage to describe it in a way you guys could imagine it easily. But it was also fun, I really hope you enjoyed it. Reader is appearing in the next chapter so have patients (don't be like Luffy hihih). Thank you for reading my stories and ideas ♡ From the next chapter there will be more things that I have come up with to add, but still don't forget I'm following the movie storyline and that story is entirely based on it! Please comment you opinion as it's always very important to me ♡ Feel free to like and reblog as this way the story will reach more people ♡

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