"Empress, we have caught up to them now." Boa Marigold, a redheaded, 4,32 m tall woman said to her older sister, Boa Hancock, the captain of the Kuja Pirates.
"Hmph, after this we hunt down the Marines that sent us a distress signal for help." Boa Hancock said irrationally.
"He's just a weakling with 5 ships." Boa Sandersonia, a 4.5 m tall girl, and the youngest sister of Hancock said.
"Let's handle this rookie first and loot him, then kill the marine captain!" Hancock commanded in a cold voice.
"Yes Empress!" Both accepted as Hancock went into her captain's cabin, leaving the work for her two trusted sisters.
After a while, the Demon Ace pirates raised their sails as the ship crossed paths with the Perfume Yuda, pirate ship of Kuja pirates.
Ace stood at deck with his crewmembers around him and soon, the Perfume Yuda stopped beside their ship.
"We are the Kuja pirates, disgusting men, give up your loot willingly and we'll let you live." Boa Marigold said. Sandersonia stood beside her.
Ace stepped forward.
"Kuja pirates, bring your captain here, let me speak with her!" Ace said with a smile.
"You dare speak so insolently?" Sandersonia instantly got angry. A rookie thinks he can speak with the Amazon Empress just because he wants to?
"Arrows, ready!" Marigold suddenly shouted. And before the Demon Ace Pirate could even understand what's going on, the Perfume Yuda filled with female Amazon warriors with bows and arrows, all aimed the Demon Ace pirates.
Ace felt all the arrows filled with armament haki. This surprised him that all the Kuja pirates could use Haki that well. He looked his crewmates and saw on their expressions that they all noticed the Haki as well.
"The Kuja pirate live up to the rumors!" Ace laughed.
"I'm afraid that our Empress-sama won't be showing herself to you today!" A shorthaired Amazon warriors said in a smirk.
"Look at them, it's always weird seing something as unsightly as men!" Another one commented. Their island had no men, so it was very rare for them to see the opppwite gender.
"You men! You men,you men have no grace at all!" A little shorties said, she looked like a weird baby with a big head.
"Zihihihi To think we had to waste time sailing here, to handle these punks, it's all because as a warlord, our captain is forced to at least do one mission for the Marines every 6 months!" Another lamented.
Marigold and Sandersonia just frowned at how Ace wasn't taking this seriously. They despised men, and even more so, men that looked down on them.
"You 11 evil spawns will soon understand what it means to be the target of our arrows." One of the Kuja Warriors threatened.
"11?" Ace repeated as he looked around, shouldn't it be 12? Indeed, Apoo had once again disappeared.
Scratchmen Apoo was one of his strongest nakama, but also one of his most cowardly.
"Apoo!" Ace barked.
Suddenly, a door opened as Apoo walked out while scratching his head nervously.
"I... Needed to go to the toilet!" He lied.
Ace turned the Kuja pirates with pride.
"See, we are 12!" He said with a smile, as if he had gained something by their wrong count.
"Hmph, captain these fools actually think there's someone more beautiful than me on this sea, beat them up for me!" Cavendish said as he pointed while hiding his face behind his other hand.
The Kuja weren't entertainment by him, instead they got ready to kill.
"Kill." Marigold coldly commanded.
Everyone was just about to release their arrows, but just as the command was given, a big slam was heard from behind the Kuja pirates.
They halted their actions and looked back, there they saw their Captain, Empress Boa Hancock getting out of her captains cabin.
Seeing how she chose to showcase herself today, they assumed that she had some commands for them, as such they waited for her word.
Boa Hancock walked to the ships railing and her eyes gazed over all the Demon Ace Pirates before falling on Ace.
She had felt the haki of a someone strong, and that's why she came out.
As she stared at Ace, there was an obvious scowl on her face as she even tilted her head slightly upwards.
All the Demon Ace pirates dropped their jaws when they saw her. No one had seen something so beautiful before.
"Ah, she's so pretty, to bad she doesn't have enough muscles!" Urouge commented.
"No, it would be better if she had a yellow afro, so near perfection." Yennow said with hearts in his eyes.
"You're all mistaken, her perfection could only be greater with spiky hair!" Spikewards said as he had started drooling.
"No no, she's perfect!" Gaga said as her eyes were the shape of hearts.
In fact, all of them were almost hypnotized.
Ace was the only one that was looking at her normally.
He had to agree that aesthetically, she was indeed the most beautiful person he had seen, in fact, he was confident that he wouldn't meet someone as beautiful as her ever again. That's how good she looked.
However, he saw the coldness and disgust in her eyes as their gaze met, and suddenly she didn't seem like all that.
"To think you would not try to escape, how foolish." She commented.
"The foolish is the one that doesn't recognise the mountain.... No wait?" Ace tried sounding wise, but he failed.
"No, I meant the mountain is the foolish tai!... Erm....."
"NO NO! WAIT, THE FOLISH MOUNTAIN TAI DIDNT RECOGNIZE ME!" Ace started panicking slightly as he felt like he was almost there. He had forgotten the saying, but it was right there on his tongue.
Just as he was about to try again, he got cut off by the Empress.
"Enough, I have no intention helping the Marines defeat you." She stated as if she was sparing nobodies.
Apoo and Nami sighed, but in contrast, Gaga seemed slightly disappointed.
"However, I would like you to handover your cargo!" She finished.
"I don't wanna!" Ace chuckled, not afraid of them at all.
But he suddenly lost his composure when he found Ronaldino, Nami, Yennow, Spikewards and Gaga carrying over their loot and cargo with hearts in their eyes.
Suddenly a small a wave conquerors haki bursts out from Ace and awakened them from their trance.
"Take those back." Ace commanded somewhat coldly, not happy at all that the Empress could command others with her beauty.
His Nakama seemed confused at first, then horrified by their actions as they turned around after realising what they were doing.
Ace frowned. Was her devil fruit so strong that it could control others minds that easily?
Her devil fruit is much scarier than he originally thought. He hadn't even notice her using it at all.
However the Kuja Pirates all were shocked to the core by what had happened.
First of all, Ace wasn't affected by the their captain's command at all. This meant that Flame Emperor Ace was much stronger than they originally believed.
They had even seen Vice admirals fall for her abilities before. But that wasn't what really surprised them.
It was his conquerors Haki.
The Kuja Pirates were from Amazon Lily, an island where only females live. That island is full of warrior women and all of them learn Haki from young age. Their warriors are feared all over the world.
So they were all very aware how rare conquerors Haki was. On their island, only their Empress had the conquerors Haki.
It is usually said that only one in a million has it, but it might be much rarer than that since their island had more than a million inhabitants yet only had one with that Haki.
And only those that have the potential to stand at the summit of the world, possesses it.
So they were very shocked that a young pirate from the weakest sea has it, and such a fine control even, that the release was just enough to awaken his crewmates.
"You say that you don't care about the marine's orders to catch us, but aren't you the world governments dog by being a warlord?" Ace asked in a chuckle as his eyes met Hancock's again.
"I merely enjoy the benefits of a warlord, and would not like my position to be revoked. However I detest the world government and refuse to comply with their orders." She said.
"Eehh won't you become their enemy if they hear you talk like this." Ace asked as he felt like her words didn't fit her backstory.
If he remembers correctly, wasn't she some kind of slave? He expected her to fear the World Government, but he saw none of that in her words nor her eyes. She seemed to even look down on them.
Suddenly Marigold chuckled.
"It doesn't matter what crime she commits, she will always be forgiven." Marigold said with certain belief.
Ace tilted his head in confusion.
Seing the big question mark on Ace's face, Hancock wanted to prove her sister's words.
"You scum, will you forgive me for commanding you like that?" Hancock suddenly asked with a soft tone to the Demon Ace pirates that she had commanded.
"Of course you're forgiven!" Ronaldino, Nami, Yennow, Spikewards, Urouge, Bepo, Cavendish, Apoo, the horse and Gaga all suddenly expressed.
Ace frowned, all of his crewmates expressed forgiveness, but Law and Bonnet also seemed to look at the Kuja Captain with compassion.
Her abilities were much stronger than he originally thought. Even Law was looking at her as of she was a precious puppy.
"See, it doesn't matter if I step on a kitty, or kill your whole family, in the end, I will be forgiven." Boa Hancock said arrogantly. It was as if she wanted to see Ace despair.
"Give up your loot and I'll spare you scum." Hancock said again with arrogance.
Ace frowned, she was challenging him and trying to make him mentally give up and submit... But he wasn't someone to submit, in fact, the more you pushed him, the more rebellious he became.
When he first became Ace, he didn't mind becoming a Marine, in fact, he liked the idea of becoming an admiral and chasing his brothers around, catching pirates and being a hero while commanding thousands. But the more his grandpa kept forcing him, the more he felt like he had to do the opposite.
In the end, Garp had beat him up quite badly with a smile and then said that Ace would become the strongest marine ever, and that's when Ace truly decided that he would become the strongest Pirate ever.
And now, that lady was trying to make him submit by showing him how high and mighty she is.
He needed to take her down a few.
One of Ace's fingers found it's way to his nose, as an act to show his nonchalance, as if he didn't care that she was in front of him he poked his nose.
"Hmm to me, you three don't look like much, maybe like escapees, maybe former sla..." He was trying to show her discreetly that he knew their secret, and tried to threaten her a bit.
But before she could even finish his sentence, a very strong haki burst out of her, completely seizing the minds of her companions, making all of them pass out except for Marigold and Sandersonia.
She had realised that Ace somehow knew her greatest secret. She had to kill him and his crew. This secret, if it gets out, the whole Amazon Lily might dissapear from the maps.
Her Haki exploded towards the Demon Ace Pirates, trying to overtake them but Ace's Conquerers Haki met hers.
He wouldn't allow her to dominate the will of his companions that's easily.
Their Haki met and Ace got surprised by how strong her Haki was, their two Haki fought for supremacy as the two ships started shaking and waves started forming.
The two Emperor's Haki collided and created enough friction to create flashing lights around them, although it was that bright.
The Demon Ace pirates got pale as they felt the heaviness in the air, only Law, Bonney and Cavendish seemed fine, although distressed.
Hancock's purplish haki met with Ace's reddish Haki.
Ace probed her capabilities before starting to push back. He had found her Haki much stronger than he initially believed.
As soon as Hancock realised how much stronger Ace's haki is, she changed her methods.
She raised her hands and made a heart form, which shot waves of energy in the form as hearts towards all the Demon Ace pirates.
Ace felt it and raised his haki infused palms to stop it, but to his surprise, her waves just passed his palms and hit all of them, in a very fast speed.
His crewmates couldn't even dodge as those waves were too fast.
Both their Haki receded.
Ace looked back and to his horror, all of his crewmates had turned to stone.
"You.... Better be able to turn them back..." Ace suddenly turned towards Hancock, and there was only coldness on his face as pure anger overtook him.
Her abilities far surpassed his imagination. Her abilities could bypass his armament haki, it seemed impossible to stop. And before he could do anything, all of his crewmates turned into stone.
This was her devil fruit abilities, she could turn enemies into stone and make them submit to her out of love.
Hancock took a step back in surprise. Her two sisters were completely shaken up as well.
First, Ace passive aggressively told them that he knew their secret, and then, when Hancock used her abilities... It didn't work on him.
"How did you not become stone?" Hancock asked, but all her arrogance was gone. Now she seemed like a little scared girl.
Maybe it was because Ace knew about her traumatic secret, maybe it was because she felt powerless for the first time now that her devil fruit didn't work on him.
"I saw it go through him, he should've turned into cold stone by now!" Marigold said in fright.
"YOU BETTER TURN THEM BACK ALIVE!" Ace shouted this time. He wasn't certain if she had the ability to turn people back from stone again.
That's why he didn't hurriedly start fighting Hancock and her sisters as he was waiting.
All the demon Ace pirates had turned into stone, they looked like statues.
Ace felt with his haki that it wasn't just their outer layer, they had completely turned into stone.
"WHY ARE YOU NOT TURNING TO STONE? ISN'T YOUR HEART MOVED BY ME IN THE SLIGHTEST?" Hancock shouted angrily, but if one was observant, they could notice the nervousness in her voice.
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