Chapter 6- Envy, why couldn't it be me over you?
____SABO POV____
I lie awake as I think back to what could have been. If I didn't leave as early as I did, could I have lived happily with Ace and Luffy? Would I have hated Ace and Dragon? What would've happened to Koala?
I stand out on my balcony, looking at the oceans sunset while thinking back to what could have been.
"Sabo?"
I look to my left as I see a girl that could only be called beautiful, and she is. This is Koala, a friend of mine and partner in the revolutionary army.
I smile in a brotherly way. "What is it Koala?" I ask.
"Dragon is sending us on our mission soon, are you ready?" She asked.
I shook my head. "Almost. Give me a bit and I'll meet you at the gates."
Koala laughed, she knew I hadn't even started packing. "Typical Sabo... Okay, meet you there."
As she leaves, I enter my room which is kind of messy with maps, reports and clothes lying about. Okay, so I'm a bit clumsy and messy... I try to tidy up a bit as I pack for a trip which I think will take at least a month!
Well, while I do this I guess I should introduce myself, ne?
I'm Sabo! The middle brother out of Ace and Luffy. I'm 23 years old as is Ace, but he believes he is older (That makes sense since he's born on the 1st of January). I am also the personification of the sin Envy. Regardless that I work under Luffy's "father", Dragon, I hate the man greatly (or at least resent him) for what he did to Luffy!
I mean, HOW is abandoning your only son and step-son right?!?! Ace was under Dadans care and had Garp, sure, but what about Luffy? A premature baby, all alone (Sure, Garp took him in after he first heard of Luffy, but still)... All because your wife died in child birth? She wouldn't have been able to have Luffy without one of them dying to begin with, she knew that. She TOLD HIM. She told Ace! (I know this as Miss Rouge told me one day)
I'm sure you've all met some of the other sins, so I guess we all can have a look at my past, too.
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____NO ONE POV____
After having his ship destroyed by a celestial dragon, Sabo was floating along the ocean.
It hurt so much. The burns he had gained(??) from his ship as it was shot and burning to it's demise. He had deep gashes along his torso as well as severe burns that laid mainly along his left side - although somehow his mark remained perfectly unharmed.
He was blacking out. Blood loss was becoming too great.
Just as he thought he was going to truly die and had accepted it, a large shadow over came him. A ship.
With his vision blacking out and his hearing coming and going, he vaguely heard voices calling out to him.
"Hey! Ca... ..ou he... me?! Get him- ...."
"He's ........ --Stabilise h....."
"....Don't Die on me!"
Pain came to him on a whole new level. He screamed as loud as he could, thrashing to get the pain to stop but it all kept hurting. Sabo felt multiple hands holding him down as two other pairs
After that he passed out.
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When Sabo woke up, it was fairly dark. He guessed it was sunset judging by the orange, pink and reddish hues in the light.
"Ahh~ So Vou voken up boy?" A voice said to him.
He turned to his left and saw what he thought was a man who looked a LOT like Dr. Frankenfurer from the Rocky Horror Picture Show.... How he knew that, he didn't know.
"Ughh.... Who are you? Where am I?" Sabo asked the weirdly dressed... Man?
"Vi am Ivankov~! Vou've been out for five days. As for Vhere vou are, vou're on a ship of zhe revolutionary army!" Ivankov said. "Vhat iz vour name boy?"
"My names Sabo... How'd I get here?" Sabo replied.
"Our leader found vou floating on zhe vater, blood flowing and Vhat seemed to be a destroyed ship." Ivankov paused for a second. "Vhat vere vou doing on zhe ocean any vay?"
"That was my ship, a celestial dragon shot it and had it attacked. I was headed out to start as a pirate and well...."
Ivankov nodded. "Vi see.... Vell out leader vanted to see vou vhen vou've woken up."
Sabo nodded and was carefully leaded out on deck where the 'leader' was. He was healed enough to be able to walk but had to take it easy.
Sabo saw a fairly tall man with long hair that was wild but had been slicked back out of his face, he was pretty tan and had sharp features, the most noticeable thing about this man was the peculiar tattoo.
The man looked over to the two new comers and looked to the taller. "Ivankov, you are dismissed." He simply said.
Ivankov nodded, leaving Sabo to this man.
The man was the first to speak. "You have healed fairly well for five days."
"Ah... Yeah... Thank you for your help, I'm Sabo." Sabo said. "But.... Why help me?"
The man looked at the blonde. "Because I could..."
The two talked over some things and Sabo learned this mans name was Monkey D Dragon, his name was the same as Luffy's! Maybe they're related? Sabo didn't say anything incase he was wrong but he did tell the elder man he had brothers.
As Sabo healed, he had joined the Revolutionary army. Soon enough he became second in command.
He wasn't able to see his brothers due to training, studies over different cultures and many strategies, and many other things Dragon deemed necessary to know.
He met Koala three years after he joined Dragon and his goal for peace.
To say he looked up to Dragon was true, he admired the man and was willing to follow all that he said.
That was until... He ran into Shanks La Roux.
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"A scouting mission? Me?" Sabo, now 17, exclaimed.
"That's right," Dragon said. "Recently we've gained knowledge of marines in one of our territorial areas; says something about pirates. I need you to scout out to see how far they've gone into our territory and investigate about the pirates. Think you can do that?"
Sabo nodded excitedly. "But why only me?"
"We have our men spread too far over other areas that we don't have enough to spare over there and others are... On a mission. I figured we have you go over there and scout out and see exactly which pirates are in the area. We don't need citizens in harm because of the wrong pirates or even marines." Dragon explained. "I believe it would do you good for experience, as well."
Sabo gained a determined look in his eyes. Disregarding the others on a mission part, that seemed regular for these men. "Right, you can count on me."
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Sabo was soon in the village that was under protection of the revolutionary army, looking around, seeing a few marines. They didn't pose as a threat to any villagers, neither were they causing any trouble.
'Well they seem to be here just for supplies and looking for something... or some crew.... What about these pirates I was told about?' Sabo thought.
He kept an eye out for the marines and so far there were no problems.
An hour passed and the marines left, looking somewhat disappointed.
As Sabo was starting to leave, a sword was thrown into the wall right beside his head.
'What?!' The blonde thought.
Soon a red haired man came and attacked him.
"You're going down Dragon!" The man said.
"What?! Dragon??" Sabo shouted.
The fight was quickly stopped by a man who's long, dark hair that was starting to gray in a low ponytail stopped the fight by hitting the red haired man with the butt of his rifle.
"Ow.... What the hell Benn?!" The red haired man... pouted?
"Damn it captain, that's not Dragon! It's some kid!" The man now known as Benn said.
The man looked to Sabo and blinked. "Oh. So it is! Dahahaha!" He grinned sheepishly. "Sorry about that kid! Name's Shanks."
Sabo looked at him for a minuet. "The names Sabo, what do you want with Dragon?!"
Shanks eyes darkened. "You with him?"
"Second in command of the revolutionary army... Now what's your deal with Dragon!?" Sabo exclaimed frustratedly.
"He ruined the life of my son, and so I'm here to pay retribution."
Sabo was shocked. "Son? You have a son?!"
Benn joined in the conversation. "Not literally, Captain just calls him his son."
"He had men out to kill Luffy! I will never accept that! He's his son, too! So I should be able to kill him!" Shanks yelled.
"Luffy?! You know Luffy?!" Sabo exclaimed in shock.
The two elder men froze and looked to the blonde teen.
It was silent for some time until Shanks spoke. "You know Luffy?"
"He's my brother back at East Blue." Sabo said.
Shanks then grinned like an idiot. "Oooh! So you're THAT Sabo! Dahahaha! Which means you're also Envy."
Sabo froze and his grip tightened on his weapon. "How do you know that name?"
"Relax kid." Shanks said, he undid his shirt and pulled his arm out of its sleeve to reveal a tribal like mark on his arm with the words 'GREED' written on it (a bit like aces tattoo of his name). "I go by Greed with the rest of our family."
Sabo looked confused. "Family?"
Benn smirked and lit up a cigarette. "It's not wise to mention this out in the open. Come with us to our ship and we can explain."
"Are you a one of us, too?" Sabo asked.
"No, but I'm shanks' first mate and so I have to know of all of this. Its kind of required with him." Benn said pointing to his idiot-- I mean captain.
Sabo nodded and followed the two to their ship.
Since Sabo had little to no knowledge of being a Sin, Shanks gave the need to know information and explained that he heard Dragon was in the area so he was going to find him and kill him.... Or at least severely maim him with long term scars.
"But why hurt Dragon? I didn't really get what you were talking about earlier." Sabo asked.
Shanks nodded. "Right. Well when Luffy was born his mother, Rouge, died at birth due to being too weak when she had her first son who is Ace. Even after five years, her body was still too weak and so she gave birth to him early. He was six and a half months old when she had him. As she died, Dragon and Ace were blinded by rage and blamed Luffy of their wife or mothers death."
Sabos eyes were about to pop out of his head. "So Ace is Luffys brother?!"
"Half-brother but yes. Over the years Dragon had some of his men try to kill Luffy but Rouges souls stopped that and even other predestined who were with him at the time. The villagers where he grew up took to calling him 'the Demon Child of East Blue'. Now Luffy has a demon that hides in the shadows, literally, and we call it Nana-Chan.... Other names too but mainly Nana-Chan."
"I've heard of the demon, I've met it before... once it looked like Luffy but more scary, like the exact opposite of what he was and then a woman, which I was told it was like Rouge but the opposite as well." Sabo said. "How exactly did "Nana-Chan" come to be?"
Shanks expression turned grim. "After I left for the sea, villagers attaches Luffy. Crucified him and burned him at the stake. My mate, Pride, was too late but he saved our youngest. He said that Luffy kept crying, asking for something, anything to save him. Be with him, so he wouldn't be alone. With Luffys powers of Time and Space, he must've either made it up from the darkness of his mind or it was summoned from a different dimension."
Benn smirked. "Nana must be from a different dimension. there are opposite versions of Ace and others that he pulled from a mirror."
The two sins nodded at the statement, both have witnessed the act.
Sabo looked down to his hands that were in his lap. "So Dragon's not the kind man I thought he is...."
"Maybe to others, but not Luffy. And that's why Nana and the other Sins and I want him dead." Shanks said.
Sabos head shot up. "But what about Ace?!"
Shanks had to think for a minuet. "Well, although I would want him dead, he's now under the protection of Wrath and even Luffy. After you 'died' Ace did all he could to make it up to Luffy. Although Luffy understands this he still fears Ace. So we can't kill him but we hate him. Rouges just disappointed in both of them."
Sabo nodded. Dragon was a cruel man. It was decided that Sabo resented the man and Ace, but he'll stay with the army to protect those who need protection and bring truth to the marines! It will be hard but it's for his new found family!
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____SABO POV____
So that's my story, over the time after I met Shanks, I ran into the other sins and we all became pretty close.
Just.... Why wasn't it me there for Luffy instead of Ace?! Why did Ace get to be the brother Luffy needed and not me!? Why did I leave early!? WHY COULDN'T IT BE ME OVER YOU ACE??!!?!
Oh hey, I'm packed and my rooms actually clean for once!
I walk to the gates where Koala is waiting and we both saddle on our horses as we leave to investigate about Heart and Kidd pirates in the area.
But why does my heart beat fast and mark heat up when I think about the captain of the Heart Pirates? I've never even met him.... What's this feeling? Maybe I should ask Penguin, he'd know.
Tha-dump Tha-dump
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Akira: Okay! Reviews are needed and appreciated! Up next is out loving Pride, Mihawk!
Also here's a question I want to ask y'all, I'd love it if I got answers to this; what do you think of Ace and Dragon?
also if anybody was confused about anything you can ask and I will either reply or will put in in an authors note at either the start or end of a chapter! Bye!