Letter to ... von _Hikari-chan_ ================================================================================ Kapitel 6: My true father ------------------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Chapter 6: My true father - Whitebeard ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dear father, We are not related by blood but that doesn’t mean anything to me. You are more a father to me than Gol D. Roger ever had been so I will go on ahead and call you father as I had done since I came to your crew and as everyone of your crew does. I also have to thank you for everything you did for me. If you wouldn’t have taken me into your crew, the Marines would have captured me earlier. You always protected me, even if you didn’t tell me. And it didn’t mean anything to you that my father was your biggest rival, you just saw me as the one I wanted to be, as Portgas D. Ace and not as my father’s son. I owe you so much, father, and I wish I could talk to you one last time but that isn’t possible, so I’m writing this letter even if I don’t know if you will get it. This letter will contain the last words I have to say to you. When I came into your crew you said that I can become your son if I wanted to. But instead of accepting it and being grateful I got angry and tried to kill you so many times. Now I’m sorry for it but I also know that you had your fun with it and I have never been a real danger for you. But even so I’m sorry for it and regretting it from the bottom of my heart. At that time, when I first came into your crew und you told me I can be your son and I can call you father, I got angry because the only father I knew until that time left me alone and died even before I was born. I was afraid that you too will leave me alone, that this was just a trick of you, so that you can get rid of your rival’s son. Now I know what an idiot I was at that time and now I wouldn’t waste a minute and would say again yes if you would ask me to be your son, again. I’m really happy that I came into your crew, so thank you very much, my father, for allowing me to become part of your crew. When I heard what Blackbeard has done I felt responsible for it because he was part of my division, the division you gave me, father. So I took it on me to hunt Blackbeard down and to kill him. You and everyone else tried to talk it out of me but I was too stubborn and went to look for Blackbeard alone. Now I can see what I have got from this stubbornness of mine. I’m sitting at Impel Down and will be executed like my father by blood. But even so, I don’t wish you to come and save me, father. I know you are strong but perhaps even you don’t have a chance against the full force of the Marines and I don’t want you to test it. Please, just let me be executed and don’t begin a war with the Marines for my sake. I’m not worth that much and I don’t want you, or anyone of yours - mine - crew, to die for me. And if you meet Luffy, my little brother about whom I have told you, then stop him coming here. He can be as stubborn as me but please stop him, don‘t let him come. I don’t want to regret anything than I already do and I know, I would regret it if you two come and die while you try to save me. So please, my father, forgive me that I was so stubborn and went after Blackbeard alone and please don’t try to save me. I really don’t want you to die. With this words I will end my letter to you. My wounds that I have from the fight against Blackbeard and from the torture here in Impel Down are hurting and I’m afraid that I’m hearing them coming again to take me for the next torture as it is normal here in Level 6 of Impel Down. But please, don’t worry, I still have power left and until now I managed to withstand the torture without any noise coming from my mouth and thanks to my stubbornness that will stay like that. I won’t give the Marines the feeling of having won by crying out in pain. No, I will stay silent, no matter what they‘ll do. And when it gets too hard, Garp, the man who has raised me for some years and who is a Vice-Admiral of the Marines, will stop the torture, if necessary with a lie as he did the times before. So don’t worry about me and just live on. Don’t risk your life for me, father. They are here now, so good bye, my father, who I owe so much. Hosted by Animexx e.V. (http://www.animexx.de)