Summary: Beginning of the new Adventure! Or is it? Let's hear about the group of young rebellious wizards, calling themselves Strawhats and their new adventure in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
A/N: I decided to create series of connected one-shots presenting Strawhats' and, in general, OP pirates' school life in Hogwarts. They will be all connected though, so you can call it multi-chapter story. Call it whatever you want. It's my first fanfiction since really long time and certainly the first one in English.
All of the characters I plan to use, will be from One Piece universe, I don't plan on using any Harry Potter's original characters, only the universe. Think about it as the world, where Harry Potter isn't the hub of the universe and Voldemort isn't freaking devil in flesh and blood.
WARNING: English is not my primary language, so grammar and spelling errors may occur.
PAIRING: None, for now.
RATING: T, for language.
DISCLAIMER: Characters belong to Oda Eiichiro, the creator of One Piece and the Harry Potter Universe to J.K. Rowling.
It wasn't that bad. At least, not entirely. There was still a time, probably. Certainly? Well, that's what exactly he kept telling to himself, while trying to calm his raging mind.
Dark crowd full of little brats wearing uniforms for the first time (it must be pretty exciting to them) kept flowing out of the train for quite a time already. Kids with clumsy worn black ties, some of them stumbling on their too long, probably second hand robes, all kinds of skin and hair color, but familiar strawhat still nowhere to be seen. Ace was getting slightly irritated already. He knew, he had this strange feeling, that something just had to go wrong since the narcolepsy hit him already at the Platform 9 3/4. He was glad that his demonic blondie brother dragged him into train, but oh, so pissed off that he lost sight of their baby brother. Sometimes Ace just wondered if Sabo really was the intelligent one here. Even though blondie assured him that Lu is in train, Ace was not even slightly calmer. When asked how did he know that, the answer was "just a hunch". And with this creepy smirk, which decorated Sabo's face, when he planned something evil. How was he supposed to be calm after this?!
After considering cons and pros, he decided to stay behind, just to make sure that Luffy was definitely here. Sabo probably knew something, he himself didn't, but as expected of freaking dragons' lover, he didn't tell. That was always the issue with his demonic brother – even though he was as protective (it's not overprotectiveness! Some people just don't know how to take care of their siblings) or even more than himself, he liked to toy with them so much. Well, more like with Ace, because apparently pissing him off was blondie's favorite hobby. He should find another one, for sake of everyone.
Sneaking behind Hagrid, who guided soon-to-be first year students, wasn't an easy task, but being Slytherin, who had to sneak multiple times into Ravenclaw common room taught him various tricks. Almost all kids were out of train and his brother still nowhere to be seen. Just a few quiet, very careful steps and Ace found himself inside empty train. With head pounding loudly and feeling of overprotectiveness and dark assumptions clouding his mind, he checked each one of dirty compartments, full of uncleaned food boxes or other trash left by students. What if Luffy got lost in London and didn't make it on time to the train? What if he's still siting at Platform 9 ¾, waiting for someone to tell him what he's supposed to do now? There was still an option of going back with Hogwarts Express to London, but how were they supposed to come back all the way to Scotland then? Probably broom would be the best one, but Lu still wasn't able to fly straight, even tho Ace tried to teach him during summer…
Suddenly, he heard loud snoring, accompanied by incomprehensible mumbling coming from compartment at the end of the carriage. He was there in a blink of the eye, surprised by himself that he could move so fast. Blame the adrenaline. Ace opened doors to wide, spacious compartment filled with comfy, red seats with few additional pillows here and there. On the side laid precious, but now abandoned strawhat, which belonged to his baby brother. It wouldn't be a strange sight if not the food trolley standing in the middle and something, definitely living, behind that.
"Luffy, what the fu... Ugh, what the hell are you doing here? You are supposed to be out, with other brats!" Ace corrected himself and shuddered, remembering how wicked and creepy Sabo can become, when it comes to using bad language in front of their, oh how, innocent little brother. Not that he's not always creepy and wicked. If it goes like that, he'll turn green soon. Freckled one sighed deeply, looking expectantly at the moving pile of empty food boxes.
Suddenly something fluffy, hamster-looking appeared behind the trolley, which was supposed to be full of delicious food and now, almost magically empty. Onyx, but paradoxically full of warm light, eyes, wild and messy mop of raven hair, sticking in every direction, almost denying gravity and the biggest, not even slightly guilty, smile world had to offer, all of it welcomed exasperated wizard.
"Ace-e? What are you doing here? Eeh? Where is everybody?" Luffy looked around, probably expecting flying monkey to jump at him suddenly. "I think I fell asleep… They didn't have any meat, Ace, that's not very nice of them…"
Freckled teen sighed, well, what exactly did he expect? Just his brother being… his brother. Completely normal thing. Ace bent down and grabbed something, what looked like leg, then, with swift motion, dug out his little brother, who was apparently drowning in sea of empty boxes of chocolate frogs and pumpkin pasties.
"Lu, everybody is OUT already, you are supposed to be there with them! I don't give a… I don't care, if you hungry, you should just…! Arghhh! For the record, you should be with me and Sabo during the journey!" suddenly a pillow lying nearby, was caught in fire. Luffy laughed a bit nervously, scratching his head and looking aside.
"Ummm… It's not like Sabo told me not to tell you, that he told me about mysterious adventure in train.."
"Wait, what?" Ace thrown his hands into the air exasperated, mumbling some curses under the nose. After few moments, he breathed deeply, sighed in defeat and turned to fidgeting raven kid. Apparently the "snack" didn't do any good to his uniform, which was now completely wrinkled and even dusted in some places. Is this a chocolate? He groaned again, trying to clean up laughing weirdo to make him look at least appropriate. He smirked satisfied, after earning small yelp from brother, when stuffing strawhat on the top of his head a bit too forcefully.
Lights behind the window were losing intensity, which meant that the last boats will soon leave. Walking to Hogwarts in dark wasn't appealing alternative for Ace, so instead of talking (he decided he needs to speak to both of his stupid brothers later), Slytherin grabbed now bouncing, ball of happiness and turned to leave the train immediately, deciding that this will be a very long night.
"… and then this kid, Bell, Beri, Belly-something called me stupid! He said that the trolley came by earlier and if I wanted to eat something, I shouldn't fall asleep! How was I supposed to do that?" during the whole journey to castle Luffy kept babbling about some rude brats, with whom he stayed in compartment. Sabo apparently sent him for an adventure, where he was supposed to find new friends and discover mystery places in this creepy Muggle machine. It didn't exactly turned out how it should, which resulted in Luffy assaulting food trolley in the end. Seriously, he could just wait for dinner after the Sorting Ceremony. Speaking of which, Ace was almost hundred percent sure, that his brother won't be in the same house as he is. But on the other hand, he certainly won't be in Ravenclaw as well, due to his idiocy. That thought made him less sad (not that he would admit to himself, that being away from Luffy is somehow painful).
After seeing evil smirk on big brother's face, Luffy tugged Ace's sleeve and looked up at him with slight pout decorating his face.
"Ace-ee, I'm hungry! What are we doing, where are we going? Will there be a food?"
"Did you already forget? Sabo explained that to you multiple times! Luffy, for the Merlin's sake, you need to listen to us!" he slightly pinched raven's cheek, earning a yelp. "You are going to be sorted to your new house now. They will stuck grumpy talking hat on your head and it'll tell you, where will you live for next seven years."
"I wanna live with you guys! Besides how hat can talk? And know where I should be? My strawhat doesn't talk… Ace, make it talk too!" Freckled teen took few deep breaths before looking at his brother, who was looking straight at him with these big puppy eyes full of excitement. He just couldn't resist that look, no matter how hard he tried, which was ridiculous, because after so many years living together he should be able to fight it by now. Straightening younger boy's tie, Ace began:
"Lu, listen now very carefully to your brother. Soon Pine...ekhm, Professor Marco will come here and gather all first year kids, including you. I'll wait for you in Great Hall, okay? Just do what they say and don't worry, everything's gonna be alright, okay?" Luffy flashed him one of his big trademark grins and nodded, while hugging his brother. Ace shook his head, smiling and for the last time ruffled raven's hair. But before leaving, he felt another tug and then, precious strawhat was pushed into his hands.
"Can you take care for it, Ace?"
"Sure thing, Lu."
While sitting at the Slytherin table, he spotted smirking blondie. If glare could kill, Sabo would definitely be dead. Ace sliced his throat with finger, while silently saying, "I will kill you", but he only earned muffled laugh as a reaction.
"You look like shit."
"Fuck off, Kid." Teen didn't even glance at redhead, instead settling his eyes on first year brats, leaded by Pineapple Head, who just walked into the Hall. When he spotted certain bouncing, excited raven, strange sense of calmness enveloped him. Finally, they were all here.
Sabo was having too much fun for his own good, but he just couldn't help it. Ace's brother complex was too easy to play with and always, surprisingly, so satisfying.
Koala looked at him skeptically.
"Wipe off this sadistic, psychopath grin from your face, please. You look like you just escaped from the asylum." He laughed at her words, certainly, he could imagine, that his face looked like that right now. For sure, Sabo wouldn't want Luffy to see him like this. After calming his expression a bit, blonde teen looked over to see Marco entering the Hall. Loud chattering and muffled, excited laughs were tuned out, when his eyes spotted their little sunshine. Luffy was bouncing from left to right, his eyes and hands everywhere. There was this long-nosed, frightened boy, clutching to his arm and mumbling something under his nose. So Lu did made few friends after all! His mission wasn't a complete failure, in case Ace would try to bit him to a pulp for letting their brother explore for a little bit. Because, come on, freckled princess just doesn't want to take his eyes off their brother almost all the time! How he's supposed to find friends, when Ace's deadly glare is scaring off everybody. And Sabo isn't that stupid to leave Luffy without guard, how can Slytherin even assume that? Little did freckled raven knew, that after dragging him to the train, when his narcolepsy hit, Sabo made sure that Lu was safe and sound (actually, really soundly snoring) in one of compartments with other children. He also made sure that his travel companions were aware, that if even one hair falls from his head, they will be never found, ever again.
"Your head looks like pineapple. Were you born as Pineapple? Did the legs and arms grow out later?" Suddenly, the whole Great Hall was silent, everything stopped, even the questioned one and the group behind him. Apparently, Luffy decided that it was the best moment to start asking questions, earning muffled laughs and giggles from rest of first year and not only. Older students knew better than to piss off Marco – Head of Ravenclaw House, but still, such a blunt question couldn't go unnoticed. The first one to laugh couldn't be anybody – it just had to be Ace. Laughing hardly, almost falling from the bench, he showed thumbs up to Luffy, which resulted in grin from guilty one and few other laughs, mainly from teachers and Headmasters.
The funny thing about Headmasters was that no one exactly knew, who was supposed to be real one. The stories said that many years ago Roger and Edward decided a drinking game and the winner was supposed to run the facility. Unfortunately, no one really remembers what happened, including involved ones and as for now, it's still unsolved issue and Headmaster position is taken by two persons. Ace never complained about that. Although Gol D. Roger was his real father and practically everyone knew about that, he certainly didn't treat him like that. Well, the information wouldn't even be exposed, if not this poor excuse of father, who had to jump on him on his first day at school few years ago, crying dramatically and mumbling something about long lost loved son. Ace spent his whole childhood living with Roger's friend – Dragon and his sons: the blood one – Luffy and adopted older kid – Sabo. Roger couldn't really afford bringing freckled kid to Hogwarts, where he practically lived whole year, besides he didn't want to spoil his childhood. Unfortunately, his good intentions resulted in distant relationship with raven. Just when Sabo and Ace were off to the Hogwarts for the first year, Dragon stepped into, somewhat serious, relationship with Nico Olivia – his co-worker from Magical Artifacts searching expeditions, who lived with her daughter Robin. Boys would never admit, that they were jealous of Robin – Lu was pretty much attached to her and they grew close, while Ace and Sabo were attending Hogwarts and Olivia with Dragon off on their expeditions. They thought, that they could finally have Luffy for themselves, but then there came dreadful information – Robin was starting working this year in Hogwarts as History of Magic's teacher. Well, it was perfectly logic – all she did at home was taking care of Lu and studying history, but now, there was no point for her to stay there, especially when her favorite little one came here for new adventure. Still, it pissed off older brothers, not that they would admit it.
While ceremony begun, Sabo felt burning presence on his left. He sighed loudly and turned to his totally pissed off older brother, who was now glaring and almost burning holes in Sabo's soul.
"Don't just sneak here, especially during the ceremony! You are supposed to be on Slytherin table!" he hissed under his breath. "Besides, calm down, your uniform is burning." Ace's uniform of course had to catch on fire due to his raging emotions, the issue, which couldn't be fought over through many years already. Good thing was, he didn't put anyone else into this flaming situation. "There is nothing you should worry about. You didn't even let me explain. See this, firecracker?" something strange, looking like piece of jewelry, appeared in front of Slytherin's eyes. "It's location charm. I found them on Diagon Alley, they are really handy. Especially with tracking… Do you seriously think I would let Luffy anywhere without knowing where the fuck he is? Sometimes I think you cooked your brain as well… He has the same one in his left pocket, I put it there and sealed in case he would lost it. It's safe, I used it multiple times… And there you go, this one is for you." smirking, he threw simply looking necklace, shining with green light, into Ace's face. "You can thank me later."
Ace's face flushed, not sure if from anger or embarrassment, his brother helped them both. Not that he would even admit that, it would make Sabo even more full of himself than he already is. And he certainly didn't want to ask or know how exactly they were used before on others. "…how does it work?" asked without looking at blondie. He didn't even have to, wicked and satisfied smirk was already there.
Robin was chuckling slightly, while observing her younger 'siblings' conversing lively at Ravenclaw's table, didn't even caring about the world around them. While eavesdropping, she found out that conversation, as expected, was already focusing on Luffy. As always. Her eyes moved to the object of attention, forgetting now the other two. The Sorting Ceremony already started and kids were alphabetically sorted to houses. She wondered, where Luffy will end up. He was such complex child, even though not many people have seen it, she wasn't even sure if his own brothers saw this enormous potential in this child. So naïve, yet intelligent and full of hope and faith in others. Raven was certainly selfish and sneaky, always trying to have things his own way and, of course, with his ambition of being Flying Pirates' King, but Robin didn't think it was enough to put him in house full of mean Slytherins. He was intelligent as well, but not in the way his brother was – Luffy's intelligence was more moral, than academic. Raven was full of wisdom about things people usually didn't care about, and his perception of the world was rather beautiful in Robin's eyes, although it didn't really suit Ravenclaw. His bravery was certainly shown in foolish acts and deep loyalty towards friends couldn't go unnoticed. Although his sense of justice was so twisted and simple-minded, that misunderstood by many. Chuckling she decided, he definitely wouldn't end up in Huffelpuff. It wasn't her to decide anyway.
Robin definitely grew attached to little boy. She used strange magic on the daily basis, which made people really uncomfortable, but the first thing boy said, after accidentally seeing it, that it was really 'cool'. Before meeting Dragon, Olivia was taking her daughter on expeditions, making Robin happy and pretty excited. She wouldn't say it aloud, but she liked adventures in her own, educational way. Discovering unknown and learning about it thrilled her. But then Dragon came into view, along with his three sons. Robin at first was really uncomfortable – being the only child and travelling almost her whole life, made her difficult to establish relationships and overcome her social awkwardness. Home education (well, more like travel education) didn't make it easier neither. And then, one day, when decision about marriage was made, she met this little ball of joy with mysterious scar under his eye. His bright smile directed to her made her suddenly feel at home. Little, chubby inviting arms extended towards the woman, which she couldn't resist, awakened new feelings inside her. Robin's trips suddenly lost on frequency, she preferred staying in this Scottish mansion full of laugh, hidden between hills and forests. She found common language with the little one, which was adventures' theme. It appeared, that raven was particularly fond of adventure stories, full of pirates, dragons, but not necessarily heroes. The other brothers were more socially awkward towards her, but she didn't mind, they had one thing in common - Luffy.
Every year the trips to Diagon Alley and Platform 9 3/4 were full of fun, at least from her side. She found it amusing, how each year Ace and Sabo couldn't let go of their brother, who didn't really realized how dramatic brothers were being about their separation. This year, though, was different. This year all four of them were going to Hogwarts. She had to arrive earlier so she couldn't travel with them, but the feeling of relief fashed over her when all of them appeared on Ceremony, although, with slight delay from Ace's side. Her thoughts were suddenly interrupted:
"… Monkey D. Luffy!"
Saying, that Luffy was excited, would be misunderstanding. Luffy was thrilled. He heard stories from his brothers, but never could he imagined such beauty, elegancy and magic flowing in the air. Raven just couldn't wait to explore and it was just the beginning of his adventure, which was supposed to last whole seven long years. After Ace's quick departure, raven's eyes focused on approaching, blonde professor with the strangest haircut he's ever seen. It kept reminding him about some food, but he still couldn't place his focus on some exact dish. What was that? Something exotic, definitely not meat… Letting his mind wander, Luffy didn't notice, when blonde food-looking professor started talking. Suddenly something grabbed his arm tightly.
"D-d-d-d-did you see that?" young boy's voice was heard. Luffy turned his head in the voice's direction. There was a boy, similar height to him, with really long nose, like Pinocchio from this funny story Robin was reading. She said it was Muggle story, but the main character's nose was magically growing longer, when he was lying! Luffy wouldn't like his nose to grow constantly. Catching his thoughts, again, wandering off, he continued his observation. Stranger had tanned skin and chocolate eyes. He had pretty cool, in Lu's opinion, haircut – curly, funny ponytail on the top of his head. Raven realized as well, that boy's legs were making some kind of funny, wobbling dance.
"Hahah, you are funny. What do you mean?" suddenly, loud 'Yohohohoho' sound was heard and children's attention was directed to the walking skeleton, instead of, now, slightly displeased (although his face looked all the same the whole time!) professor.
"Yohohoho, greetings dear children! Welcome to this magical place, full of secrets and adventures! Mr. Marco, did I interrupted something?" skeleton was huge in Luffy's eyes, he wore funny costume, not the usual wizard robe and on top of his afro haircut (how cool is that?!) was matching hat.
"You could say that, yoi."
"Mister, you are so cool! Do you wanna be my friend?" Luffy didn't really pay attention to startled boy or food-looking professor anymore, his eyes moved to skeleton, who now was looking at him as well. He wasn't the only one apparently, as attention of the whole group, including Marco, was now on the raven boy. Quickly recovering from this strange trance, Marco finally shooed the skeleton, didn't even allowing him to continue conversation with kid. Still hearing the distant, extraordinary laugh, he continued his monologue:
"After sorting, you will be directed to your new common room and dormitories by Prefects. Please, listen to their directions and explanation, as the rules, which you are about to hear from them, will come into life from tomorrow morning already. Now, let's get moving, everybody is waiting already." With this, he started walking towards huge doors leading to Great Hall.
"Oh." Luffy suddenly realized. Pineapple. Ace seemed to really like this fruit. He was always in good mood when they had dessert involving pineapples or something pineapple-ish. Aw, man, he would eat pineapple right now, or even better, pineapple ice cream. Raven looked over to Marco and tugged his arm.
"Your head looks like pineapple. Were you born as Pineapple? Did the legs and arms grow out later?" curiosity won and he just had to ask. All eyes suddenly were on him, but Lu wasn't quite sure why, not that it mattered anyway. Something was not right though, they stopped moving and the Hall suddenly grown quiet. Looking questioningly at Professor Pineapple, he saw something in his eyes for a second, that strangely made him sweat. Feeling soon was gone, when the stone, bored face appeared there again and Professor Pineapple just sighed. Lu looked around, when he suddenly heard laughing, very well known one, voice which certainly belonged to his older freckled brother. He spotted him sitting in the middle of one of these freakishly long tables (they were strangely empty, where was the food Ace promised?), showing him thumbs up, apparently in one of his very good moods, usually triggered by pineapple stuff. Younger one grinned in response and looked over at Professor Pineapple, who just shook his head and continued walking to the end of the Hall, till they finally reached the table, where Luffy recognized Robin as one of the teachers sitting there. He just smiled – she looked deeply in thought, so raven decided, that it would be rude to disturb her, at least that was, what he heard about good manners. His attention was soon moved to, indeed talking, grumpy old hat, who started singing or mumbling, or whatever it was, but Lu didn't really pay more attention than just a few seconds. His eyes started to wander around the Hall – big four tables, standing in row, full of students from the youngest to almost adult, all of them wearing similar robes. Each of the group gave him different vibrations, but none of them was scary or disturbing enough to make him wary. He looked up to the ceiling, but instead of plain (or at least plain fancy castle-ish) one, he saw night clear sky, full of stars, could even recognize some of constellations. Then, there were the windows, high and slim, full of elegant ornaments and feeling of grace, the biggest and greatest one just behind the teachers. It seemed almost shining on its own, though, it was the light of the moon, lightening the whole Hall. Suddenly Luffy noticed that the group he was standing with, started getting smaller and smaller, while certain kids, whose name was said, were coming over to sit on small chair next to Professor Pineapple and then this grumpy hat was put on their head, mumbling something, what only the certain wearing one and Pineapple could hear.
"… Monkey D. Luffy!" he stumbled a bit, moving to the front of the group and walking in Pineapple's direction. Lu sat on this weird chair and suddenly something obscured his view, his head felt heavy and the weird voice was heard.
"… Hmmm, the youngest of the siblings, is it? Certainly, you have something from both of your brothers in you. Selfish and sneaky, you like to do things your own way, right? As expected of this family, you are all always the same… So naïve and bold though, you definitely won't fit into Slytherin. Although I bet you could survive anywhere just fine… What's the most important for you, kid?"
"Friends and my family, isn't that obvious?" Luffy answered with the tone, which almost suggested that hat was asking silly, unnecessary questions.
"Is that so… Then I don't see another option, than… GRYFFINDOR!" the last thing was shouted by creepy cap, which left Lu's ears ringing annoyingly. Suddenly, his eyes were uncovered, weight from his head lifted and he could see the Hall again. The table on his left was now the loudest, probably, greeting him this way. Raven stood up and started walking in that direction, but not before grinning and showing thumbs up to the frightened, long-nosed kid, who was sticking to him before. Before he could sit, something grabbed him by the collar and he suddenly found himself in front of female big breast. Looking up, Luffy noticed pink haired woman, munching something (where the hell is food?!) and smirking to him – apparently she was the one, who was holding him by collar and now dragging further into the hall and finally allowing him to sit in the middle of the table, next to green haired teen, who was snoring right now, while drooling. Busty woman jumped over the table, earning few complaints and unnerved yelps, sitting herself on the opposite side and grinning to raven.
"What's up kid? I'm Jewelry Bonney, the Prefect in charge of this shitty snoring brats. Roronoa, wake up!" the boy on his right instantly jolted awake, looking around with hazy clouded eyes. His attention soon was concentrated on the woman in front of him and a deep frown appeared on his face.
"What the hell, Bonney?!" Luffy observed conversation with grin decorating his face, clearly amused, moving his head from one to another. "It's still ongoing, can't a person have some sleep, while doing nothing?!" green haired looked over at chuckling raven with scar under his eye. Who has a scar in such place? "What are you laughing at, brat?"
"Shishishishi, you are both funny. I decided! You will be my first friends! I'm Luffy by the way and I wanna be Flying Pirates' King in future!" both of them looked astonished at kid and started laughing really hard after hearing such bold confession. He was supposed to eleven years old, not five.
"You are the one to talk, Mr. Future-Pirate-King! Where did you learn about them anyway, they are just myth!" still laughing Roronoa looked at, not even slightly affected by his assumption, younger one, who averted gaze from Bonney and looked at him as well.
"I heard about them from Shanks! And don't laugh, that's my dream! Everybody has a dream, probably even you!"
"Drunken old man Shanks? Hahahah, okay, if you say so, let's leave it like this. I'm Zoro, already on third year, and this old hag –" he yelped, earning kick from woman "- Bonney, on the sixth one. If she'll keep nagging you, start screaming about pedophile." Zoro ducked down before he could be hit in the face by flying shoe. Luffy turned his head and looked at fuming, glaring female.
"… What is pedophile?"
A/N: Reviews welcomed~ Let me know, if you like it. Let me know, if you don't, as well!