A.n I own nothing, One piece and all it's characters are created and the property of Eiichiro Oda. The Assassins Creed franchise is the propriety of Ubisoft.

Important Note: this is a sequel to my first story Straw Hats Creed It is recommended that you read my first story before reading this one. if you have already read Straw Hats Creed then please disregard this note.

Thank you for all those who read the last story, i could not have continued it with out your support. This section takes place in the Grand Line and the Assassins will be featured a lot more. If you have any suggestions on how to make the story better or Assassins you want to see do not hesitate to let me know.

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The Grand Line was certainly living up to its reputation, the Merry had set sail earlier in the morning and within the first hour it had started snowing. Soon the whole deck was covered in it, Luffy and Usopp built snow sculptures which led to a snow ball fight.

Connor sat inside by the window with Nami watching the two act like children.

"Hey aren't you cold?" Nami asked, putting on some winter clothes.

Connor shook his head and continued to stare out the window.

Nami sighed, Connor hadn't said much lately and no one blamed him. Luffy had told everyone that he had offered the boy a place on his crew; they had expected Connor to take some time to think about it. But Luffy had made the offer over five days ago and Connor had yet to accept or decline, in fact he had stopped talking all together.

Nami remembered that night.

Flashback

Luffy approached the crew after talking to Connor.

"I offered him a place here. If he chooses to stay it will be as my Nakama," Luffy claimed.

"Great did he accept?" Usopp asked.

"No, I told him to think about it,"

Zoro nodded and headed towards the kitchen.

"Where are you going? Sanji asked.

"To reassure him that it's his decision," Zoro replied.

The rest of the crew followed.

Connor was having a mental augment about Luffys offer, his mind was telling him it was a trick and he had no right to any type of life other than servitude. However he could not ignore his instincts and they were practically screaming that the offer was genuine.

The crew came in and he looked up at them.

"Hey kid, Luffy tells me he offered you a place on our ship," Zoro said.

Connor nodded.

"Well whatever you decide, I just want you to know that I will always watch your back. Oh and I'll continue your training if you want,"

Connor didn't know how to respond to this, he continued to stare at them.

"Zoro's right. Just because you've got some creepy mark on your arm, it won't change our opinion of you or our friendship," Usopp reassured.

"I'm planning on teaching you the basics of reading, writing and navigation. It's never too late to learn. We may also cover some math as well," Nami declared "as I get the books we'll start,"

"Listen Connor I'm sorry for making you do all those chores. From now on I'll make these idiots do them," Sanji apologised "I understand if you hate me and I don't expect you to forgive me either. But I'd like to be friends,"

"Well there you go; no one is going to abuse that Brands power over you. So you got nothing to worry about," Luffy declared happily.

Connor could not believe what he was hearing; did they really want him as a friend? That hadn't happened before, he switched to his second sight and the entire crew glowed bright blue. The really meant what they said, he could not argue that the freedom they were offering was incredibly tempting and he really had no desire to leave.

Connor could not deal with this and he burst into tears. It was clear to the crew that he was having an emotional breakdown. Nami hugged him and the rest of the crew comforted him, for once Connor did not flinch at their touch.

The straw hats set sail the next morning.

End flashback

Nami left the boy alone and went on deck, she checked their current course.

"GGGGAAAAHHHHHHH! OHHHH NNNOOOO," Nami screamed.

Luffy and Usopp stopped playing and looked at her.

"What's wrong Nami?" Luffy asked.

"We're going the wrong way. We need to do a complete 180 degrees turn now,"

No one noticed Connor poking his head out of the door.

Suddenly the snow stopped falling, and the sun came out.

"Hey the sun's back," Sanji pointed out.

But it disappeared again as quickly as it came only to be replaced by violent storm clouds, Lightning cracked across the sky and heavy winds attacked the Merry's sail.

"What the hell? Everyone quick we need to get out of here. Sanji man the helm, Luffy and Usopp bring in the sails," Nami ordered.

The Crew was quick to obey and the Merry changed direction, but the storm got worse. The Merry turned straight into a collision course with an Iceberg.

"Iceberg dead ahead," Usopp yelled out.

Sanji herd him and used all of his strength to change the Merry course again, they just missed it.

"We're taking on water," Connor warned.

Nami looked at the boy in surprise, she'd forgotten about him in all the chaos.

"Usopp patch us up," Nami ordered and Usopp ran below deck. Nami looked at Connor "Connor…Help Luffy with the mast,"

Connor ran over to Luffy who was struggling to get the sails in, just when they thought they had it a cyclone showed up.

"What the hell is wrong with this sea?" Nami cried.

It took a while but the Merry finally was out of the crazy weather and back on course, the straw hats were exhausted. Zoro yawned as he woke up from his nap; he took a look at the clear blue sky and noted how nice it was.

Zoro got up and was thinking about doing some training when he noticed the rest of the crew was lying sprawled out on the deck.

"Why are you all being lazy on such a nice day?"

"You," Nami said dangerously.

Zoro tuned and found himself face to face with a very pissed off Nami, he could practically see the anger radiating off her and it frightened him.

"Do you have any idea how much we tried to wake you?"

"What are you taking about? Everything is fine,"

Nami snapped and punched, Zoro crashed on the deck and Nami stomped on his head several times. When she was done Zoro had several large bumps on his head and Nami stormed off in a huff.

The Merry arrived at Whisky Peak some early afternoon, there was quite a bit of fog around the island. As the ship approached shadowy figures could be seen on the shore line.

"Our first stop in the Grand Line. I hope there're lots of adventures waiting for us," Luffy exclaimed excitedly.

"Hey do you think that there are any monsters on this Island?" Usopp asked.

"Who knows what we'll find, this is the Grand Line after all," Zoro answered.

"Seriously this could be a monster Island?" Usopp panicked.

What are you worried about we can leave any time," Sanji reminded him.

"Actually we can't," Nami said. "The Log Pose needs to record and reset at every Island. It takes time for Log to do this and each island takes a different amount of time. Some could take a few hours while others could take a few days," Nami explained.

"So if this is a monster Island we can't leave?" Usopp panicked "I just remembered I have can't-go-onto- a-strange-Island- diseases," he lied.

Everyone ignored him and the shadows on the shore multiplied. Connor switched to his second sight and was relieved that all the shadows were people but every one of them was glowing red.

As the Merry approached the Island the fog cleared and the shadowy fingers tuned out to be the town's people, they were cheering at the straw hats. The people cheered and praised the pirates, Usopp's fears disappeared and the straw hats got caught up in the praise.

The ship docked and the crew disembarked, they were greeted by the Mayor.

He was a tall man with a small red nose and had blonde curled hair in a style that resembles the wigs worn during the 16th and 17th centuries. He was dressed in an official suit, like a gentleman and had the number 8 at the tips of his collar.

"Welcome brave pirates to our town of Whisky Peak. The Town of celebration, I am Iggy the mayor of this town"

"Celebration?"

"Oh yes we love visitors to our town, it gives us a chance to celebrate. Pirates, marines' tourists all are welcome here. Now let's go to the banquet hall for the traditional welcome feast,"

"All right," Luffy Sanji and Usopp cheered.

Zoro noticed Connor was hiding behind him, the boys eyes darted all around like he was trying to keep everyone in sight.

"You okay kid?" Zoro asked concerned.

Connor looked up at Zoro and the swordsmen noticed the gold fade from his eyes.

"Everyone here is red," Connor warned.

Zoro's eyes widened and looked at the town's people again, he didn't entirely believe Connors claim but on the off chance that the boy was right they could be in trouble.

Nami asked about the time needed for the Log to set but the mayor brushed her off. The mayor and the towns' people led the pirates to the banquet hall. Connor stuck to Zoro like glue and shied away from all of the towns' folk.

"Is he all right" Iggy asked, noticing Connors strange behaviour.

"He's just shy," Zoro shrugged.

They arrived at the banquet hall, it was huge over a hundred tables and chairs were set up and the man behind the bar was starting to poor drinks.

"This is our banquet hall, please help yourself to drinks while the chefs prepare the food," Iggy offered.

All of the straw hats were given some wine, except Connor he was too young to drink so he was given juice. Nami refused because she didn't want any alcohol but the mayor assured her that there was very little alcohol in the wine. The chefs brought out the food and the banquet tuned into quite the party.

All of the straw hats were enjoying themselves, Luffy was shoving food into his mouth faster than the cooks could bring it out, Sanji was surrounded by cute girls and Usopp was telling lies to the village kids, who were enthralled by his stories. Despite Connors earlier warning Zoro and Nami had got into a drinking contest and Zoro could not see these people being anything other than festive.

Connor on the other hand refused to engage in the party in anyway, he didn't touch his food or drink and refused to talk to anyone. After a few hours Connor asked the mayor where he could sleep. The mayor was surprised that the boy wanted to go to bed early and Connor claimed it was past his bedtime.

The Mayor led him to the second floor of the hall where the guest rooms were located, he opened one and Connor went inside. The mayor wished him goodnight before closing the door and going back to the party. The sound of the lock clicking did not go unnoticed.

Back at the party Iggy informed the rest of the crew about Connors early night.

"Why do you have rooms in the banquet hall?" Zoro asked suspiciously.

"We are a town who loves to celebrate; sometimes people get a little too into it so they sleep here instead of stumbling home after a night out." Iggy answered.

Zoro had to admit that it was a practical idea.

The party went on well into the night and eventually all the straw hats fell asleep on the banquet halls floor. Immensely satisfied from all the food and drink, about half of the town joined them. The Mayor was outside staring at the moon when he was joined by a Nun, a blue hired girl and a guy wearing a crown.

"Finally they fell asleep," the nun said.

"They were quite rowdy weren't they?" Iggy said.

The blue haired girl and the man with the crown approached Iggy.

"Mr 8 we've found a wanted poster for this crew," they said together.

"Very good Mr 9, Miss Wednesday. Let's see it," Mr 8 said and took the poster.

His jaw dropped when he saw the bounty.

"30,000,000? They're worth that much?"

"Huh guess you can't judge a book by its cover," the Nun said.

"Were there any other posters?"

"No just the one," Miss Wednesday confirmed.

"With this much money we should be able to resupply everything for the next year or so,"

"What about the others, they don't have bounties," Mr 9 pointed out.

"Sell them off like normal. No one's will notice they've gone," Mr 8 ordered.

"Oh I think I might notice," a voice interrupted.

The four of them turned to find the source of the voice, there sitting on the roof above them was Zoro.

"You why aren't you asleep?" the nun asked.

"Simple really, I can hold my liquor. So you lot aren't typical bounty hunters, you wouldn't happen to be part of a secret illegal group called Baroque Works would you."

"How do you know that name?" Miss Wednesday asked.

"Back when I was a bounty hunter myself one of your agents scouted me for membership. I turned them down of course, not knowing who my boss is or where the money comes from. Too shady for my tastes," Zoro explained.

"We were going to sell you off but since you know our secret, you'll die here," Mr 8 claimed, he snapped his fingers and the entire town came running, they all had various different weapons pointed at Zoro.

"You can try," Zoro said and disappeared.

Zoro then started a game of cat and mouse with the islands inhabitants and he was the cat. He took the fight seriously for all of ten seconds, after he'd tricked them into shooting each other he realised that there was no challenge in the fight and started playing with the townsfolk. Zoro tricked them into falling through roofs, attacking each other; even the kids had weapons.

It was not until he was grabbed by Miss Monday that he even thought about fighting seriously. The Nun was strong and she claimed to be stronger than any man; she managed to get a hit on Zoro but he just shrugged it off.

"You call that a punch? That was just a tap," Zoro claimed. "This is how you punch,"

Zoro punched Miss Monday in her gut with such force that she fell off the roof and landed on top of Mr 8. Miss Wednesday then tried to defeat him using perfume and a sultry dance.

Which had very little effect on Zoro, when it failed she charged at him riding a large yellow duck; ran right past him and off the roof.

"Umm…okay that happened," Zoro said. "I thought this was going to be hard. Fighting these guys is just sad,"

"Die!" Mr 9 yelled as he suddenly attacked Zoro from behind.

Zoro simply ducked and the last agent fell of the roof onto the others in the street below.

Zoro jumped down from the building and stood in front of the fallen Baroque Works agents.

"Now then what was it you were planning to do with my crew," Zoro asked dangerously.

"The Marines must have made a mistake, this must be the Captain and the one worth 30,000,000," Mr 8 hissed.

Zoro took a step forward and suddenly collapsed to his knees.

"What?" he asked in surprise, his body felt heavy and it would not obey him.

The fallen agents smiled evilly and slowly rose to their feet.

"It's finally taking affect," Mr 9 laughed.

"Not a moment too soon," Miss Wednesday agreed.

"What's taking affect?" Zoro asked weakly, his eyes were growing heavy and it was getting harder to see.

"Why the drug you've been drinking all night of course," Mr 8 said smugly.

"We've been drugging your crew with a light slow acting sedative all night. Don't worry it's not harmful, it just knocks you out for a while," Miss Monday explained.

"The more your crew ate and drank, the longer the effect will be. And with the amount you and your friends have had you'll be out for a long time, I'm surprised it took this long to affect you," Mr 8 finished.

Zoro couldn't move and he collapsed, 'damn it, the kid was right, why didn't I listen to him,' Zoro thought and then he realised that Connor hadn't eaten anything all night.

"You know that boy that was with them didn't touch his food or drink right?" Miss Monday pointed out.

"A small child that's already been looked up, he's not going anywhere," Mr 8 stated.

'Crap,' was the last thing Zoro thought before he blacked out.