AN
Okay. Wow. The reception I got for the last chapter was amazing, so now I've posted this short in between thing earlier than I was originally going to.
He was Vice-Admiral Monkey D Garp, one of the most powerful men currently serving in the marines. He was uncontestably the most powerful marine with the ability to swim. He was cool and many young recruits looked up to him.
Unfortunately his own flesh and blood didn't look up to him at all. Bunch of criminals, all of them. Which was why he was currently walking through the lower level streets of Water 7, his entire crew of faithful and obedient marines trailing behind him in two perfect, straight files. His wonderful eager new apprentices were directly at his back. The boys made good punching bags now that his own two grandsons had left home for the life of hardened criminals.
Garp pushed his way past the many ordinary citizens trying to block his path. Coming up to the main door, he stopped.
"Wait here." He told his followers, before walking around the side of the building to find a good stretch of wall.
"Hah," Garp breathed on his fist, warming it up a little and coating it in just enough haki. He pulled his elbow back and then swung his entire arm forward. His fist impacted with the wall with just the right amount of force to shatter a man-sized hole. He made his way into the room before the dust had a chance to settle.
"How careless," he said, having located his errant grandson sleeping in a chair by the table. Luffy was eating, too; how typical.
Sanji looked at the wall just in time to see the wood give way. He took in the marine that came through: the way the man exuded power, the way he searched the room for something specific, the way he pronounced their captain "careless."
"This isn't going to end well for us, is it?" Sanji asked the world at large, lighting the cigarette that had made its way to his mouth. He took a drag of the smoke and in the time it took him to breathe out, the old marine had moved to the other side of the room and hit Luffy.
"It Hurts!" Luffy complained, instantly waking up and holding his head. It took him a few seconds to catch on then he was shouting again. "Grandpa?!"
There was an instant cacophony of WHAT?"s from the various natives of Water 7 in the room. Chopper, too, seemed to have dislocated his jaw with the lot of them but he had been part of the crew that he knew enough about Luffy's family to not be prone to loud exclamations of surprise, even if he still couldn't recognise Usopp's lies for what they were.
Robin, as the newest member of the crew, seemed a little off guard from the revelation but she wasn't the sort of person to react in any way approaching normal. She could be forgiven easily enough because at this point, it was hard to tell what she already knew about the subject.
"I feel like I should be surprised by this, but I'm really not." Nami remarked,almost sad at how accustomed she had become to this sort of thing.
Sanji breathed out the smoke he had just inhaled. "To be honest," he said slowly, "I was kind of expecting it."
AN
Yup. really short. Thankyou to Goddess of the Chibi Dragon, I actually had already tried to fix chapter two, since my end of chapter AN was in the middle... but I'll go and see what I can do.
Devlin Dracul, as cool as that sounds, most of it hasn't made it in to this fic, but I'll put in a bit between Hancock and Crocodile just for you.