The Lost Fruits

"Mr.Portgas D. Ace, for your service for our kingdom and army, it is my duty to thank you personally as the Sultan." Ace stood in the throne room with the Sultan in front of him and his servants on their sides. The Sultan descended from his throne and walked to Ace "You have taken a great risk by going in a war zone and aided our army to which helped our army deliver good news yesterday."

"I only did what I had to do as a new citizen of Agrabah." Ace smiled at him.

"Even so. Thank you, as we have agreed upon, we will pay you the price of the supplies you have sent and pay you for the service of delivering them. And even more than, my daughter has suggested to me to honor you with the court rank of a Sheikh." The Sultan snapped his fingers and a servant brought with him a golden token on a white pillow and presented it to the Sultan.

Ace took a look and noticed that the word "Sheikh" is written on the golden token.

Here..." The Sultan gave Ace the token "Take it and serve our kingdom as a Sheikh, from now on you have the privilege of attending every royal party, having an audience with me; The Sultan, and the opportunity to marry among the nobles of the Kingdome." The Sultan said. He came near Ace and whispered, "If you are interested in any noble girl, tell me and I will arrange it for you."

Ace chuckled and whispered back "You are too kind, Sultan."

"Haha! Now for the last part, as new noble, you have the right to change or keep your common family name, if you wish to change your house's name then now is the time."

Ace shook his head "I prefer Portgas D Ace as my name and as such I would like for my house to keep that name."

The Sultan backed away a little and took a deep breath "Now that Mr.Ace from House Portgas is now officially part of our court, I believe that a party is necessary." He said.

"Indeed."

"Welcome to the Sultan's retinue!"

"Please serve Agrabah with your heart!"

Ace smiled at the people congratulating him as they prepared to celebrate his nobility ascending. Sun went down and a party started with Ace being the center of attention, Ace never stopped smiling and bore everything that comes his way, the food was fantastic for a city in the middle of the desert.

"Forgive me, but I need to take some fresh air." Ace slipped away from the nobles surrounding him, it became heavier for him as there was too much flattery surrounding him. Exiting from the party room, he walked down the hallway and found the nearest balcony to breathe in the cold night air.

"Ahh~The desert's air is the best air in the world!" Ace said. It was a little strange for him to be in such a situation, to merge with society after a long time of traveling the world as a lone pirate in the new world. But Ace had to admit, this new world has a certain charm to it.

"Hm?" Ace looked in front of him at the other end of the palace, he saw an open balcony with a girl wearing a red dress with gold chains around her neck, she was looking down at the courtyard where a large lake reflecting the moon, her looks were mesmerizing, Ace smiled as he saw his long time friend "Dalia" standing there. No sooner, "Dalia" turned around not noticing Ace looking at her and entered her room.

Ace looked behind him to see if anyone is near him before disappearing in a quick blue spark.

In her room. Jasmine came back from watching the moon on the surface of the lake. Dalia was organizing her scrolls that she left on her desk scattered "You came back from watching the moon?"

Jasline walked to her bed and sat on its edge and leaned on Raja's body "Yes. When will the celebration end?" she asked.

Dalia closed the open scrolls and said "Soon..." Then she realized something "No! no, you are not leaving to meet that man in the middle of the night, your father might come in any moment now."

"Come on, everyone would be asleep by that time, I would just go to his house and ask him about the celebration."

I said no, if you do that, I will never cover up for you again." Dalia was firm in her opinion, this is no time for a princess to leave her palace.

Jasmine laughed sweetly and walked and massaged Dalia's shoulder "C'mon My princess, just one more time, This pitiful servant of yours will go breath some fresh air and return in the blink of an eye."

Dalia wasn't buying any of that "I said no!"

"Ugh! you're no fun!" Jasmine gave up and tossed her body on her bed.

"I will go prepare the bath and then you sleep." Dalia put the scrolls on the desk and went to the next room.

Jasmine chuckled and shook her head, she petted Raja's head as he growled before she stood up and walked to her desk where she opened the scroll of Ace's nobility ascending.

"What a lovely bedroom!" Jasmine heard a foreign voice behind her and she snapped her head back as she grabbed the nearest knife on her desk.

"Who are you?" she said. Raja woke up and came in front of her as he growled at the foreign man clad in the darkness of the night. He growled and looked with a dangerous gleam in his eyes ready to bite off anything that steps in his range.

"Aww! How come you don't remember my voice, And here I thought we were friends!" Ace walked from the shadows to reveal himself to Jasmine and glared at Raja making the poor giant cat quiver in fear and hide behind Jasmine.

"Ace?!" Jasmine exclaimed surprisingly, never hse would've thought that Ace would come to her room. "What are you doing here?" she asked.

"I came to see you, I remembered that you work for the princess and before I know it I was on the balcony." Ace walked towards Jasmine who was stepping back from him as he got closer "What is wrong Dalia? don't tell me you're afraid of me?"

Jasmine gasped and shook her head "No, no, no, I am just surprised and I fear that princess Jasmine might come back and see you here."

Ace walked and grasped Jasmine's hands tightly "You know...When I was at the party, I was dying to meet you, I thought that maybe the princess might come to visit I could get a glimpse of you with her." Ace kissed the back of her hand. Jasmine smiled unconsciously making Ace say "You really do have a beautiful smile."

Jasmine chuckled at that and took her hand back "Alright romantic boy, What did you come here for?" she asked.

"You," said Ace.

"Well, now you have seen me, you should go, the princess might come any second now, and I hate to explain to her why a man is inside her bedroom," Jasmine said as she walked to the balcony. But before she could reach it, both Ace and Jasmine were stopped by a sudden voice "I have finished, you should go in." Dalia has returned to witness Ace and Jasmine together and Raja standing in the corner.

"W-Who are you?" Dalia was confused.

"Ah! Princess Jasmine!" Jasmine walked to Dalia and stood beside her "This Mr.Portogas D. Ace, the one I have been telling you about!" Dalia looked at Jasmine and asked in a whisper "What are you doing?" But Jasmine only winked at her strongly if not desperately.

"Nice to meet you, princess Jasmine!" Ace greeted with his right hand on his heart.

Dalia looked between the two and slowly she started to understand "Ah! O-Ohohohoho! well, if it isn't Mr.Portgas that I have been hearing about, my little servant here never stopped talking about you!" Dalia patted Jasmine's head "All she spoke about is you all day long, it got me curious! Ohohoho!"

Ace and Jasmine looked at Dalia with a rediculous expression, her strange laugh caught Ace off guard and he almost broke out laughing, Jasmine was shocked 'Please just stop!' she thought.

"Ohohoho! So, what were you doing?" Asked Dalia.

Jasmine snapped out of her thought and ran back to Ace and dragged him to the Balcony "Mr.Ace was leaving that what was he doing."

"Oh, then farewell!" Dalia waved at him.

In the Balcony, Ace stopped and looked at Jasmine who had a red face from nearly being exposed.

"So, how am I going to leave from here?" Asked Ace. Jasmine who was still embarrassed didn't care and just blurted "The same way you got here."

Ace shrugged his shoulders "Alright." He said before humping from the balcony.

"NO!!!" Jasmine shouted and ran to catch him after she realized what he just did, but she wasn't fast enough and didn't catch, but when she looked down to see if he is alright. She couldn't find even one trace of him.

"What has just happened?" she mumbled.

Ace who was up in the roof looking down at Jasmine being confused and worried smiled and chuckled to himself at how cute she was. Then he shifted his focus to somewhere else 'Now where is my little friend Alladin?' he thought.

Ace spread his observation Haki as much as he could, and after a moment, his eyes flashed with a red gleam 'Found you...the two of you.' Ace realized what has just happened when he sensed Aladdin being surrounded by many people in the middle of the desert.

"It is the Gennie time, I guess." Ace disappeared in a Blue spark and traveled to where Aladdin is.

In another Location...

China...

The Imperial palace...

One young man in heavy armor with black hair made in a bun was running as fast as he could, he dashed to the emperor's audience chamber "My emperor!! My emperor!!" he shouted, once he entered the large hall, he looked at the emperor in his throne wearing his imperial red and golden attire. He was an old man with a long and white beard.

"What is wrong, General LI?" the emperor asked.

"My emperor!" The young general was out of breath, he struggled to speak as he knelt down "It...It is the Hun army!!" he shouted.

"The Hun Army?" The emperor was surprised "What about it? speak, general Li." The emperor ordered as he stood up.

"The Hun army has breached through the great wall!" The Young General said making the emperor clench his fist at the news.

"So...they have finally set their eyes on our land." The emperor mumbled. He then sighed and looked at his young general "General Li!" he called.

"At your service!" General Li shouted.

"Prepare to defend our home, and send a conscription order to every family, each family should send one male to join our army if they have more than one. Our enemy is ruthless and we will need everything we can to repel him." The emperor shouted.

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