The Lost Fruits

Blue looked at Ace, he looked at the man he always thought of as tough as a mountain, for the first time since the day he met him, this was the only time Ace looked scared.

Blue looked at the beautiful woman in front of them and was on guard "Who is she?! Is she strong?!" Blue asked nervously, his fighting trauma was still there as his hands trembled.

"She is..." Ace walked slowly toward the smiling woman who extended her hands for Ace in welcome "...my mother..." Ace said.

Blue snapped his head at Ace "But isn't your mother dead?!!" Blue's words halted Ace's footsteps as his expression turned grim.

"Yes...she is dead." Ace touched his face, to think he of all people would get emotional and unreasonable for a moment, he then looked at the thing that took the shape of his mother and felt rage "In my life, i only met her once...is this an illusion or hallucination?" Ace asked with a raspy voice.

Blue got a little scared as he saw flames dance around Ace's body "I-I don't think so, i cast an immunity spells on you in the war, remember, this is mostly real, maybe a shape-shifter or something."

"What is wrong, Ace?" The thing spoke again "Come to me, let us go home." Its voice waa hollow and sweet which then made Ace more enraged.

Without any delay, Ace flashes on top of things with a red flaming fist, crushing its head into the ground. A loud boom irrupted, sending dust and dirt everywhere. Blue took a tree to hide behind.

"You f.u.c.k.i.n.g dared?!!" Ace shouted as he sat on top of the thing's body and started slamming his fist into its body "The only person i wanted to live!! The only!! And you dared to take her shape?!!" Ace shouted as the fire ate everything around him, thunderstorm formed above the forest, lightning struck down.

"Whoaa!!" Blue started running around, trying to hide "Calm down, man. You are gonna kill us!!" Blue shouted, "Just where the hell is the coconut head and the demi-man!!"

As the forest kept on burning, screams of horror and pain filled the area, and Blue could understand that that was not the screams of people.

As he waa avoiding the lighting, he pumped into M.o.a.na "My lord!!!" Blue jumped, scared.

"You scared me!!" M.o.a.na put her hands on her c.h.e.s.t and breathed heavily to calm herself"what is going on?" She asked "one moment i was on my island fishing with grandma, the next second i returned here. And is wrong with all of this fire and lightning?!" M.o.a.na spoke.

"Well, this Forest is weird and it seems Ace doesn't like it one bit." Blue Pointed at Ace who was still punching the ground in rage "Where is the demi-man?" He then asked looking around as they walked away from the destruction.

"I don't kn-" just when M.o.a.na was about to finish her words, they heard the demi-man himself shouting from behind like an idiot.

"Yeaaah!! Say Maui! Maui!" Maui was dancing around with himself. "Tye greatest Hero of all time, Maui has come yo save the day!!" He said as he posted Pointed with his hook at the sky.

"What the hell is he doing?" M.o.a.na felt a second-handed embarrassment from watching Maui dance alone like an idiot.

"Ey, Maui, Demi-man." Blue walked to him and tapped on his shoulders.

"What? You want an autograph too?" Maui said with his face full of smiles

Blue frowned and bitch slapped Maui out of his wet dream "Get a hold of yourself, we gotta go!!" Blue shouted as he shook Maui's body.

Maui quickly gained his mind back and looker around "oh man!" He was downed immediately "I thought i made it!" He said.

"Alright, get moving idiots or Ace will burn us without knowing!!" Blue shouted under the thunderstorm.

"Where is the girl?" Maui asked, "Did you not find her?"

Blue was confused "What are you talking abo--" as soon as Blue turned for M.o.a.na she was no longer behind them, in fact, she was walking toward Ace.

Blue felt the seven horrors build up in his body "oh lord!! She is gonna die, M.o.a.na coke back!!" Blue tried to run after her but lightning stopped him. "Little girl, what are you doing?!" Maui shouted after Blue

"I am trying to stop him!!" M.o.a.na shouted as she advanced while getting pushed by the heavy winds caused by Ace punishing the ground where that thing was supposed to be. At that time, Ace didn't even know if that thing is still under him or was he burned to dust. But all he knows is that years of pent up emotions got broken in a moment of weakness.

"F.u.c.k you!! I will burn you all to the last atom!!" Ace shouted in rage as he punched, his fists started bleeding as he no mind to even protect himself "Out of all people, you chose her to appear in front of me!!"

"Ace!!" M.o.a.na shouted, she reached with her hands toward Ace, some small rocks hit her face "Stop, please! you are hurting yourself!!" M.o.a.na shouted as loud as she could.

"Aaaaaahh!!!" Ace shouted as he pulled his hand for last punch, with all his strength, his fire hands toward the sky, lightning striking his fist charging his attack. M.o.a.na sensed the danger and used the moment and jump on Ace.

"STOP!!" She shouted as she hugged Ace's back.

Ace didn't stop his attack and just kept charging it, blood coming from his mouth as he bit his own lips "C'mon, Ace, look at me!" M.o.a.na swiftly moved in front of him "There is nobody here, just us, okay, it is fine, everything is alright!"

"Mo-ve" Ace spoke.

M.o.a.na didn't budge from her place and grabbed Ace's face "No, you have to calm down, you are hurting yourself, ok? calm down and think, this is not you." she said.

Ace fought against his sealed anger and put down his hand and slammed his head on the ground and took deep and long breaths, M.o.a.na sighed as she saw everything returning to normal, the storm passed away and the fire started fading, the only thing that didn't return was the forest, in fact...M.o.a.na swore she could see some trees wobbling back away.

"You alright man?" Blue came near Ace and asked as he rubbed his back.

Ace just moved his feet a little and grunted "I don't know what happened to me! i just lashed out." Ace mumbled.

Maui sighed and looked around "I have heard rumors about it, but i can't believe it does exist..."

Blue shook his head "And I have completely forgotten about it. [Forest of the Memory], this was that damned forest."

M.o.a.na tilted her head "What forest?" she asked.

Maui sat down and spoke "It is a forest that is linked to the underworld rivers, with all that death energy filing this land, some trees and plants started taking forms and shape, and even special powers, once you step inside it, it becomes foggy and those creatures take the shape and form of a certain memory or a person that has the most impact on you, once you are open, they feed on your emotions, it slowly eats your power and energy until you are dead, some say that once you are dead, your body turns into a tree-like them and then feeds on the others, only few could survive to tell about it."

"And we are now one of those people." M.o.a.na nodded "That was really dangerous, but not as dangerous as someone we know of." M.o.a.na eyed Ace with the corner of her eyes and spoke.

"Whatever!!!" Ace jumped up "AAAAhhh!! I am gonna kick anything steps in front of me from now on!!" he shouted.

"That is even worse!!" M.o.a.na facepalmed herself.

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On the other side of this unknown land, inside of the largest darkest caves, a red bloody eyes opened, illuminating the dark cave "I sense powerful element energy nearby...Perfect, the thing i need to become even stronger than them." the owner of such eyes spoke. His voice vibrated inside the cave causing small earthquakes as dust fell down from the old ceiling.

With the eyes shining red, the ground started moving and forming up humanoid creatures made of rocks and lava "Find it...and bring it to me." The voice ordered his minions, they quickly ran out of the cave screaming like bats even though they resembled monkeys made out of rocks and molten lava, dozens of them ran out, each group to one direction, searching for the great element energy.

Ace, M.o.a.na, Blue, and Maui, they advanced through the land, not knowing what kind of troubles await them.