Masira: the monkey man, led them to a small island of Jaya. It was known to have several towns and villages but the most popular was Mock Town, a place for pirates and low-lifes looking for a good time.
During the trip the man told them about his friend Cricket who had been scavenging the area around the town for gold. There was a story about his ancestor involving the city of gold and a promise to the people. The Straw-Hats were enraptured by the tale while Robin was looking at the map of Skypiea more closely. Nami had to whip drool off of her face after hearing about the city of gold.
Luffy, during the trip to Jaya, spent his time testing some ideas with his Devil Fruit. He had extremely large area attacks in Ice Floor and Ice Wall, but he needed something for when he was fighting one on one. So far he thought of freezing the person the instant they hit or sending out a wave of sleet to freeze something in front of him.
Zoro was the only other person who was training, he was using a large dumbbell with more weight than a normal human should be able to move in each hand and was swinging them in different One and Two sword style combinations.
Nami and Robin decided to sunbathe on the deck while Sanji was attending to their every need with heart shaped eyes for the two beauties.
"Everyone!" Called Ussop as he ran out of the cabin. "I thought we needed something new for the crew ever since seeing Luffy's abilities and I got it right here." He said dragging a chest to the deck with Chopper trailing behind him.
Everyone gathered around the sniper as he opened the box. "With Luffy now having his Chilly Chilly Fruit powers I thought we could change some things. Most of those big shot pirate crews have three top commanders and the rest of the crew usually have a uniform look. So I got these."
Sanji and Zoro were both tossed fur lined cloaks, Sanji's being dark brown with golden fur lining the edges. Zoro caught his and threw it over his shoulders, it was a dark green with light green fur lining it. The other cloak was being wrapped around the long nosed liar's shoulders, it was red with white fur, everyone ignored Ussop muttering 'vice-captain' to himself.
"Not bad huh! Now everyone will know who the strongest on the crew are!" Boasted Ussop. The others sweat dropped at Ussop's claim of being a strong fighter but shrugged it off. It wasn't a big deal anyway.
Ussop then reached into the chest and gave Chopper a new hat that was blue and white. "OOO! Thanks Ussop!" Cheered Chopper as he put on the new hat with a happy smile.
"Like you asked I made a new Clima-Tact, this one has no party tricks and I fine tuned some of the features. Also a nice new sweater for our navigator." Said Ussop as he presented her with her new stuff.
Nami's new Clima-Tact had spherical ends on it and was the same color and size as her previous one. The sweater was thick and very tight, also despite being there to keep her from the cold it was short enough to show off her stomach and was tight around the breast. Ussop wasn't as bad as Sanji but he did appreciate a beautiful women.
"And for Luffy I got you this."
Luffy took the material and whipped it over his shoulders. It was a captain's coat like all big time Captain's wore, on the back was their Jolly Rodger. The color scheme was similar to the others dark blue with white accents around the cuffs, collar, buttons and lining. All together Luffy liked the look, he seemed more official and King-like. Looking down he decided to get rid of the tattered red vest, Crocodile did a number on it and the stitch job Robin did didn't really save it. So he went shirtless to show off his muscles and kept the coat on over his shoulders. Luffy decided he liked the black shorts and would look into some new shoes, the sandals wouldn't last much longer either if he went by the tears and holes in them.
"Every captain needs one of those coats, so I made it from of the left over supplies we got back in Alabasta. Also, there was a lot of fur and cloth in the storage for some reason." Ussop didn't bother wondering why Merry stored so much cloth and fur but it came in handy so he didn't dwell on it too much.
Ussop was getting a bone crushing hug from Sanji after Nami changed, saying that Nami looked gorgeous in her new sweater. Zoro simply nodded at his new cloak and went back to training, he liked it but wasn't going to cry about it.
The youngest and least human crew member was swooning at his new hat and Robin was happy to be included in the gift giving. She had been given a similar sweater to Nami and had happily changed into the new look.
"Ussop, it's pretty awesome. I like having the Jolly Roger on my back!" Luffy cheered while adjusting the coat on his shoulders.
"I agree, now we look more like a competent pirate crew rather than the rag tag group we were before." Said Sanji, he liked his new color scheme. But most importantly was Robin and Nami's new look who were in much tighter clothing. He underestimated Ussop, this was the work of a connoisseur of beautiful ladies.
Jaya was a smaller island than the ones that they sailed too before, seeing as how the whole island was only a could dozen kilometers wide rather than hundreds. Masira sailed them around the island to a less inhabited part of the island to a person that would help them.
As they got closer they saw a massive mansion on the coast of the island. The Straw-Hats looked at the huge mansion with wonder as they got closer and closer. It was easily several stories tall and was designed like a palace. It looked quite out of place in the jungle like island.
"Hey Luffy," Whispered Nami, "That mansion might have some treasure we should have a look inside." The greedy cat burger said with a sparkle in her eye.
Luffy shrugged. "Sure whatever you want to do. Just wait until after we get our information so we can go to the sky island." He was a pirate, so he was going to steal treasure when he was presented with the opportunity.
"You're right we should go check it out." Agreed Zoro, he unlike the others wasn't that interested in the mansion in front of them. He would rather get a nice fight out of some other pirates or get some sake.
The ship docked and they started waking towards the palace. From the ocean the mansion looked like a palace but as they got closer it started to resemble a picture of a mansion rather than an actual house.
It was Robin who voiced what everyone was thinking. "That's made of cardboard." She said in her usual deadpan.
As if on cue the cardboard palace fell over revealing a small hut behind it with a man napping in front of it. The cardboard falling over was enough to rouse the sleeping man getting him to notice the pirates that were walking up to him.
Most of the Straw-Hats blinked lamely at the scene in front of them. Chopper and Ussop being the most shocked at the fake mansion.
The slowly waking man noticed the group approaching, "Masira! Who're they?" The man called out.
"Mr. Cricket!" Shouted Masira rushing over to him.
Cricket listened to his subordinates report and when he heard that the Straw-Hats wanted to go to the Sky Island he roared in laughter.
"To think that there are pirates out there with some real nerve!" He cheered. "I might not know much and other people might not believe that they exist, but I myself have been trying to prove that the Sky Island is real. We've been diving around here to find the gold of the island."
"Gold?" Asked Nami as she pounced in front of the man with a hungry expression on her face.
Cricket nodded, "There was an island hundreds of years ago that held a legendary city of gold. My ancestor found it and said that it was on a Island in the Sky, I've been trying to prove him right by searching for evidence."
Sanji nodded, "'Liar Noland' That's a fairy tale in the North Blue. He was sent by a king on an expedition to find the city of gold and came back saying that he did but when he returned with the king's men it was gone."
"I believe in my ancestor." Said Cricket with serious look on his face, "I think that the only way to get to a sky island is the massive geyser called the knock up stream. I also think that that was what happened to the city of gold- it was knocked up into the clouds."
Luffy, Nami, Chopper and Ussop all looked into the sky with stars in their eyes at the thought of a city of gold floating in the clouds. The rest were confused on how they would ride the knock up stream in the first place.
"Your ship won't survive the journey like it is." Said Cricket while inspecting the Going Merry. "But I can help you make some additions so that it will help. All I ask is for you to bring proof of the island back, not only for me but for my ancestor."
Luffy nodded, "I will I promise." Making sure that Cricket knew that he was serious about helping him in his families quest.
"I thank you." Cricket said with a bow of gratitude. "Now to begin the modifications."
"I'll help!" Said Ussop with a jump, there was no way that he was going to let someone else work on Merry with him present.
"I want to go check out the town." Luffy shouted while walking away from the ship.
"I'm going with you." Zoro said while walking over to his Captain, he wasn't going to spend hours working on the ship when he could follow Luffy to what had to be a more exciting adventure.
"I'll go see if I can gather some intel in the town by myself." Said Robin while walking off, she was an expert in information gathering and assassination but she doubted that the latter would be necessary today.
Nami rushed forward and grabbed Luffy before he could leave. "Oh No! You and Zoro by yourselves is just asking for trouble! Both of you have high bounties so we don't want to attract too much attention."
"I can't trust either of you not to get into trouble without me!" Nami said while walking next to them.
"Alright lets go!" Ordered Luffy before charging towards Mock Town at full speed.
Mock town was a rowdy place known as a pirate port. If anyone with a bounty lower than 20 million were to come here alone they would parish before nightfall. Only the toughest and most ruthless of pirates could survive in the deadly environment of Mock Town.
The port was home to a particularly troublesome group of pirates these past few weeks. They wore a symbol and flew the flag of Donquixote Doflamingo and anyone who crossed them was killed before they could utter an apology. They became the top dogs of Mock Town in the time that they were here, no one was dumb enough to challenge the Heavenly Demon by attacking his subordinates.
"Awesome they have ice cream! I'll take an extra large chocolate!" Shouted a Straw-Hat wearing man with a blue captain's coat. His two companions were shaking their heads at their captain but didn't say anything.
They didn't notice the surrounding pirates were glaring at them for their childish Captain and his childish exclamation or his childish taste in food.
"Let's teach those babies a lesson in pain!" A pirate with a large rum bottle said
"Yeah! Kiddies like them don't belong here!" Another who was eating a large piece of meat shouted.
"Only the toughest can survive in Mock town!" Said a man twirling a pair of knives.
The three Straw-Hats walked into a bar and settled at the bar and ordered some drinks. Luffy and Zoro took a seat while Nami was looking around at all the dangerous looking pirates and made sure that either Luffy or Zoro was in between her and them.
Luffy ordered food and was waiting with a bit of drool coming out of his mouth. There was a very large man next to him who ordered the same thing with a cheerful smile on his face. Both were leaning forward with large smiles on their faces as they took a sip of their drinks.
"Oi!" Shouted the large man and Luffy at the same time. "This soda tastes great/terrible!"
Both of them stared at each other. Luffy having enjoyed the taste of the soda while the large man was disgusted by it. They eyes each other warily before turning away to move on. When the food came so did their smiles as the dug into their food. Only for the same thing to happen in reverse as Luffy found the food terrible and the large man to disagree.
The Large man look at Luffy from the corner of his eye only to turn away with a small smirk on his face. Luffy on the other hand jumped back to his feet and way about to yell at the man to find out what his problem was when three knives pierced his back breaking through his body to come out the front. The force of the attack knocked Luffy off balance and caused him to fall to the floor.
It gave those in the bar, who didn't know who Luffy was, evidence to think that the attack killed him.
The pirates in the bar all roared with laughter from seeing a pirate they believed to be a weakling get killed in the bar. Zoro didn't seem to be worried as he kept drinking his sake while Nami kept the worry off of her face and scooted closer to Zoro. Both knew that Luffy was fine so they didn't react outwardly while on the inside they were both preparing for combat.
Zoro made a count of pirates in the bar while Nami estimated how long it would take her to get out of the way of Zoro's fighting.
The large man that was arguing with Luffy sat back in his chair with a dark look on his face as he looked out at all the laughing pirates. He was more amused by their celebration than the fact that they attacked the one who was next to him.
"Oi!" Shouted a voice loud enough for everyone to look around for the source.
Everyone fell silent as Luffy stood up, frost rolling off of his body and the three knives in his hands as he reformed from the attacks.
"What's the big idea?!" Shouted Luffy as the damaged areas on his body fully froze over and returned to normal.
Large man's dark look grew into a sinister smile as he watched all the pirates have looks of realization on their faces, he stood up and started to leave the bar. Not before turning to look at all the pirates in the bar that were apart or celebrated in the attack. He didn't say anything but he reveled in the looks of realization and fear as all of them slowly realized the situation they were in.
"Zehahaha!" His laugh broke some of them out of their silence.
"Logia." Some of them whispered.
Luffy turned around to look at the bar while Zoro and Nami stood on either side of him. Both didn't say anything but in that moment they knew that Luffy was the only one who was going to be needed in the fight.
"Who threw these?" Asked Luffy as he tossed the knives onto the floor.
A blond man walked up to the Straw-Hats, he was taller than Luffy and the others but not the man who had left earlier. He grinned down at them while looking unconcerned with Luffy's devil fruit abilities.
"We did." He said pointing to himself and his friend who bent down to pick up the knives. "Weaklings like you don't belong here. Mock town if for serious pirates not a bunch of fools like you."
Nami rolled her eyes and turned to the bartender. "We're looking for information about a sky island."
The bartender sputtered at the question trying to think of a way to tell her that such a thing never existed. Bellamy on the other hand didn't have such reservations.
"I knew you were a bunch of worthless pirates. Believing in such a fairy tale." He roared with his friends laughing behind him. "More and more of the ocean is being charted and documented to this day. No one has found or documented a sky island stupid fairy tales like that and the dump pirates like you who believe them are whats wrong with this era!"
"Sorry miss, but I don't know anything." Apologized the bartender while distancing himself from the blond and the Straw-Hats.
Luffy shrugged and Zoro stood up to leave. Before they could get far the pirates gathered in front of them, blocking their path.
"I think we need to see if your worthy of this pirate era." Said Bellamy getting into a fighting stance while his arms turned into springs. "I'm Bellamy the Hyena worth 55 million!"
His fellow pirates all shouted at the three Straw-Hats who still look unconcerned with the pirates in front of them. Everyone started to feel a chill in the room as it started to get colder.
"I'm Monkey D. Luffy." Frost came out of his mouth as he spoke while the temperature kept falling. An idea came to Luffy's head as he pointed his hands at the pirates. The temperature in the room, already reaching below zeros fell even further as sleet shot out in a thick stream from his palms hitting all the pirates. When the attack stopped and the room's temperature rose back to normal the only change were the frozen patches around the room and all of the pirates in front of Luffy completely encased in ice.
"And I'm worth 250 million."
The pirates who were lucky enough to have been spared from the attack were shivering in their shoes as the Straw-Hats left the bar without another word. All of them learned a lesson that day: appearances didn't matter in the Grand Line.
Outside of the bar they saw the same large man sitting on the ground eating his pies with the same grin on his face. He was rather into his food but when he spotted the Straw-Hats he perched up further.
"Zehahaha." He chuckled while staring at Luffy. "Fools like them bring shame to the pirate world don't they, Straw Hat."
"Do you know anything about Sky Islands?" Asked Nami hoping for some useful information out of this town.
"Woman, you should believe in your captain." Said the large man, "Sky Island does exist!" He shouted to the heaven's getting laughs from all of the people around them.
Luffy turned around and told Nami and Zoro that they were leaving.
"Straw-Hat!" Shouted the large man as he slammed his rum bottle on the ground, "The dreams of men will never die! Right?"
Not answering, the three slowly made their way away from the laughing man who was enjoying all the attention he was receiving from the people around him.
Nami glanced back before frowning, "What a weird man. He—"
"Not he." Said Zoro with a serious look on his face.
"Huh?" Asked a confused Nami.
"It's them," Answered Luffy with the top part of his face shadowed under his hat. "He's not alone, but…"
"I feel it too." Said Zoro seriously while sharing a look with Luffy.
Nami was more confused and kept looking back and forth between them.
"Something's wrong about him." Said Luffy, the man's laughter was still within hearing distance as they made their way back to the Going Merry.
Back at the Going Merry the ones who stayed back had managed to get a lot of work done modifying the ship to be able to withstand and ride the knock-up stream. The ship now had additions on the front and the side to be able to withstand the immense winds of the knock-up stream.
Getting back to the ship's deck they saw that the rest of the crew were talking to two new people. A man and a women. The man was slightly older than Luffy and had a large blue top hat with goggles over the rim, he had on a nice blue suit and behind his back was a large metal pipe. As soon as he noticed Luffy and the others get on the ship he stared at Luffy with a smile. His face had a large scar running over his left eye, when he and Luffy locked eyes the man stopped paying attention to anything other than him.
The woman seemed to have expected something like this to happen as she kept talking with Ussop and Chopper having found the reindeer/human hybrid quite cute and interesting to talk to.
(Three weeks ago, Somewhere in the New World)
They monitored the news of the world with a microscope, trying to find any kind of information that could help them in any way. The boss wanted them to keep an eye out for up in comers that would be useful recruits. They had been looking out for their light: Nico Robin, but have been unsuccessful in tracking her down for years.
Today a new set of bounties were released and they went to look through them.
"Hey Johnny, check this out." One of them said while handing a paper over.
Johnny peered down and his eyes slowly widened as he read the page. "No way! A rookie with this high of a bounty!" He had to let the boss know, someone this strong this soon into the Grand Line could be a powerful ally. He got up to rush off to the higher ups to tell them.
Pushing the door open he was met with a monstrously large man with a bible in hand. He was one of the Warlords: Bartholomew Kuma aka 'The Tyrant', twenty two feet of intimidation. Johnny fell back in surprise.
"I apologize, please excuse me." Came a surprisingly gentle voice from the Tyrant who stepped over the downed Johnny.
"Dragon! Sir! There is a new super rookie in the news! 250 million and he's only a few weeks into the Grand Line." Johnny yelled interrupting the boss and his right hand. He handed his leader the paper and the bounty poster.
Dragon began reading while Johnny continued to report. "It's says that his name is Monkey D. Luffy! He was seen in Alabasta a few days ago and with the fall of the Warlord Crocodile and his rise in bounty its safe to say he took him down and the Marines are covering it up."
A deep chuckle came from the hooded Dragon as he stood and left to walk to the balcony without a word. The Leader of the Revolutionary arm looked out over the balcony silently as he clutched the paper in his hand tightly. If one were to see his face they would have noticed a small smirk on his face as he thought about the now infamous super rookie taking the Grand Line by storm.
It was the man who was talking with Dragon before that had the real reaction.
"Straw…hat…why is? He, I know who…why do…" Sweat was pouring off of his face as he kept starring at the picture while some of the others near him were starting to get worried. "Luffy…Straw hat…Monkey D. Luffy!"
Whatever revelation came to him caused him to fall face first onto the ground unconscious. He was quickly taken to the infirmary to be monitored.
Two days later he awoke to the concerned face of his friend Koala. "Sabo! You're alright, I was so worried!" She wailed with tears flowing from her eyes.
Sabo sat up and rubbed his forehead. "I remember now, Straw-Hat, his name is Luffy and he's my little brother. I have to see him, I have to find Ace, who knows what he's doing these days."
Outside the room Dragon listened to his right hand man. He walked in and looked over the blond man he trained for the past ten years. "If your going, I wish you luck. Take a black snail with you. You can get some work done while your in paradise."
Sabo smiled at his leader and mentor. "Thank you." As he stood up to leave he was smashed back to the ground by a powerful fist.
Koala was staring down at him with an angry expression, "I didn't hear, 'will you come with me Koala' or 'I need your help Koala' you were just going to leave without me weren't you! Well I'm going with you to make sure you don't cause too much trouble."
Sabo didn't argue and only smiled at his closest friend. They left before nightfall.
(Back in Jaya, present time)
The Straw Hats glanced between their Captain and the guy they were just talking to. He seemed nice and was waiting to meet with Luffy, he had said that they knew each other from the East Blue and wanted to catch up after seeing his bounty.
Nami walked forward to say something while Zoro stayed next to Luffy making sure that if something started he was ready to step in. Luffy was looking at them with a confused tilt of his head, trying to figure out who the guy was.
"You gonna say something or not!" Koala asked the still silent Sabo who hasn't taken his eyes off of Luffy.
"Oi, who're are you two?" Asked Luffy trying to figure out why the man looked familiar or why he was staring at him.
The man stepped forward and removed his hat. "Luffy, I'm so happy I found you."
That only confused everyone else, Ussop turned to Luffy, "He said he knew you from the East Blue."
Luffy shook his head in response. "Nope, I've never met either of them."
The man was undeterred as he walked closer. "You were always slow on the up take Luffy. What's Ace up to? I half expected you two to be together."
With those words Luffy's eyes widened, the Captain took a shaky step backwards. His eyes widened and his hands started to shake as he slowly took in the man's appearance once more.
"Luffy what's wrong?" Asked Nami who noticed him slide back.
The man took another step forward. "I'm glad you've followed your dream and became a pirate, to sail the oceans as a free man. That was our dream right?" His smile never faltered and he kept looking at Luffy hoping to jog his memory.
With those words, the impossibility of the situation came crashing down as the Straw Hat Captain launched himself at the man with tears and snot flowing down his face. "SABO!"
Sabo accepted the hug while Luffy wailed. "We thought you died Sabo! Ace and I, we looked all over the terminal. Then one of Dadan's men said they saw you get killed by one of the Celestial Dragons! I was so sad Sabo!" It was hard to understand Luffy as he wailed into Sabo's chest but the Straw Hats managed to understand most of it.
"So they were friends?" Wondered Sanji trying to figure out Luffy's reaction to seeing this guy.
"Apparently he also knew Luffy's brother Ace and they thought he was killed a long time ago." Added Nami as she watched on.
Chopper was bawling into his new hat. "How touching a reunion between long lost friends!"
The women who was with Sabo spoke next. "Actually Sabo and Luffy are brothers. Both of them and Ace are brothers from the East Blue. My name's Koala by the way." She greeted with a wink causing Sanji to flutter.
The crew, sans Sanji, were shocked to hear that their captain had another brother. But remembering what Luffy said it clicked why he was so overwhelmed with emotion. He thought that his brother has been dead for years, of course he'd be happy to see him again.
After having calmed down everyone gathered on the Going Merry. Luffy introduced the crew to his brother and Sabo introduce Koala to the Straw Hats.
After which Luffy told him about his reunion with Ace in Alabasta. "Wait, Ace is a part of the Whitebeard Pirates! Of course! Fire fist Ace! Oh my god how stupid am I that it never clicked! Stupid memory loss." He groaned.
Koala didn't waste a second and started patting him on his back to console his stupidity. "It's okay Sabo I don't think less of you for being a dumb dumb." She reassured him pleasantly.
"So what do you two do? I don't get a pirate feel from the both of you." Asked Nami. She and the others were starting to understand the reason Luffy was so different from his brothers: they weren't related by blood but rather bond. Shame Luffy didn't pick up their manners, not that Luffy was a huge jerk, Ace and Sabo were just more polite and nice than their blunt tactless Captain. Not that any of them would actually want to change that.
"We're revolutionary's." Answered Sabo with a smile to the orange haired navigator making Koala angry.
"You can't go around telling that to people! We need to keep a low profile! Especially you, after the boss made you his number two the government would do anything to get you." Exclaimed Koala unintentionally revealing more information to the Straw-Hats.
Robin, who was sitting in the back trying not to get recognized relaxed when she heard they were revolutionary's. They were the Government's biggest enemy so she doubted they wanted her dead. With that she joined in the group conversation.
Luffy who was on cloud nine since reuniting with Sabo got an idea. "Hey Sabo you were always super smart! Do you know how to get to Sky Island?"
The others perked up hearing that, they were prepared to use the knock-up stream but if there was a better option they would jump at the chance. Luffy was the only one crazy enough to want to use the suicidal method to reach Skypiea.
Sabo tilted his head curiously. "Why do you want to go there? But yeah, I know about them."
"Awesome! The log wants us to go to a Sky Island next." Replied Luffy with a grin.
"What do you mean 'them'?" Asked Nami with a frown on her face, she thought they weren't even real let alone there being more than one.
Sabo smiled once again. "Yup, they reside on the white sea or clouds as we call them. There are two seas, one at 7 thousand meters and another at 10 thousand meters. The entrance most people use is in the second half of the Grand-line. I'm surprised that the log would lock on to a sky island rather than another one down here."
"Oh, then we'll use the way we were going to use. Let's go Nami!" Shouted Luffy pointing towards the ocean. He was ready to continue on especially since he was still on cloud nine after reuniting with his perviously dead brother.
Nami sighed and guided the ship out of the bay, "You two picked a great time to come aboard." She said with a shake of her head.
"Is everything ready?" Asked Zoro as he relaxed against the mast.
Ussop nodded, "Cricket and I finished everything up and he told us that the stream comes every six days so we need to do it today or in nearly a week and-"
"We're going today!" Shouted Luffy, "Sabo you're going with us it'll be great!" Luffy didn't give him a chance to respond before jumping off to stand at the front of the Merry to look out at the sea.
Sabo looked around and saw that the sky was darkening and the water was starting to converge to a place further out pulling the ship towards the epicenter. Koala was about to ask the navigator what they were talking about when they heard canon fire from behind them.
To their six o'clock a large vessel was sailing at them, slow inaccurate canon fire was coming but none of them were getting close enough to cause for any concern. The ship, If it you could call it that, was moving slowly but surely toward them.
Aboard the raft was a man with a large rifle who began to fire at the Straw hats with incredible accuracy, for being so far away and with such chaotic winds the man was only missing thanks to the faster Straw-Hats jumping out of the way.
Sabo burst into action and deflected the bullets with his pipe before they hit the slower Straw Hats. He tried to see if he could identify who was attacking them but was unable to make out what they looked like from this distance.
"This is where we need to be! This is where the knock-up stream will be! It's just like Cricket said!" Shouted Nami trying to get everyone's attention over the crazy winds and cannon fire.
Ussop was firing the Merry's Cannons as fast as Chopper could load it, he was managing to return fire successfully. However, all of the cannons that would have hit the enemy ship were stopped by a large man with a champion belt.
The large man who they met at the pub raised his right hand and a black swirl appeared in front of his palm.
"ZEHAHAHA! Straw Hat! I'm going to take you down right here and now! This is the beginning of the era known henceforth as Blackbeard!" He cried as the Going Merry was suddenly being pulled towward the raft.
The clouds cracked with lightning and thunder roared out shaking the seas as the storm intensified. Nami was freaking out while everyone else prepared for combat. Luffy started to freeze over, Zoro unsheathed his swords and Sanji lit a cigarette.
Right as the two crews were near enough to begin combat the ocean beneath them sunk inward even further, the Straw-Hats were aware of what was about to happen were calm while Sabo and Koala were trying to figure out what was happening.
"We got to get out of here!" Ordered Blackbeard while fearing for his life, he wasn't going to survive a whirlpool with a devil fruit.
"Luffy! Freeze the Ocean before we die!" Shouted Sabo. Before Luffy could explain what was happening the massive geyser known as the knock-up stream erupted blasting them into the air.
"Release the sails! We may should be able to make it like Cricket said if we ride the backdraft!" Nami shouted despite being terrified at the situation.
Koala pulled on her hair, "This is the knock-up stream! How on earth were we unlucky enough to be caught in this!" She shouted also terrified that they wouldn't survive in this small ship.
"Luffy were together for a couple hours and his happens! You've always had crazy luck!" Yelled Sabo, his childhood misadventures were beginning to come back and most of the craziness that happened was usually Luffy doing something stupid or just being incredibly unlucky. But that was neither here nor there Sabo reminded himself.
The only thing they could do was scream and hope they survived the trip to Sky Island.
So how do you guys think of this. With Luffy's bigger bounty the revolutionary's noticed him, or at least looked at him more carefully. I really feel like Sabo just needed to see his cry baby little brother one good time to get his memory back.
In cannon it was Ace's death and news of Luffy was what jogged Sabo's memory. But Sabo had to have heard of Fire Fist Ace as he took the world by storm when making a name for himself. He was a supernova and was offered a warlord position pretty quick so I think that Sabo was either busy or he just never saw his picture. I mean Luffy doesn't know who any big name pirates is until he meets them and he's a pirate. Sabo's a revolutionary so he doesn't necessarily need to know big name rookies just the big players. Red-Hair, Bid Mom, Kaido and Whitebeard the Warlords and so on.
Mock Town Blackbeard meeting was different huh? huh!? ZEHAHAHHAHAHAHA! God I love his laugh.
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