The next morning Zoro spotted some marine ships on the horizon "I guess thats the grandfather" he said grimly. In the cot behind him Mika was still sleeping soundly, so Zoro summond the crew and they all prepared to either fight or run, just incase Luffy's grandad wasnt in the mood to be leanient towards his grandson. When the ships got closer Zoro took the still sleeping Mika to a safer room below deck at the advice of Nami.
When the marine ships got close enough to dock with the Thousand Sunny, and had still not attacked, Luffy walked out to meet his grandfather. Sure enough Monkey D. Garp came out of the marine ship and walked onto Sunny, and Luffy was instantly picked up by his vest and the youth and the old man began fighting. Behind him Coby and Helemeppo arrived and stood watching the grandfather and grandson argue. "Why are you here old man?" Luffy asked once his grandfather had finally put him back onto the ground. "Is that a way to talk to your grandfather?" Garp yelled at Luffy, however he contined on to answer the question. "We are supposed to capture you, we've been trying to catch up to you guys for a year now". Luffy grinned at his grandfather, earning him another smack on the head. "We've been looking for Ace too" this made Luffy laugh "You just missd him" he said grinning gleefully. Garp sighed "I figued that might be the case. Now, tell me what you have been up to. You strawhats have been uncharicaristically low profile for the past 12 months.". "Ahh" Luffy said, sticking a pinky into his nose and sitting cross legged on the deck "Thats because we took a short break from big adventures" he said, sounding rather bored but then grinning. Garp, Coby and Helemeppo all looked confused at this statement "Why?" Coby eventually asked when Garp didnt appear to be about to say anything. "Oh" Luffy smiled "Thats because of my daughter, we didnt want to do anything dangerous when she wasnt even able to walk yet!". Garp, Coby and Helemeppo sweatdropped and looked at Luffy with astonishment. "What was that boy?" His grandfather demanded, hitting Luffy on the head and sending him flying into the back wall. However the loud crash noise seemed to have woken Mika up, because fussing and crying could be heard from the cabin below deck. "Ill show you" Luffy shouted cheerfully at his grandfather before dissapearing to collect his daughter. Nami watched Luffy go, he sure does seem to be enojying showing Mika off to his relatives she thought fondly.
When Luffy emerged he was carrying the small sleepy eyed girl. He ran up to Garp with her, but made sure to stand a few feet back. Garp stared at the child "Whose that?" Helemeppo asked, pointing at the toddler. "This!" Usopp announced "Is the great Monkey D. Namika. The daughter of Monkey D. Luffy and Nami!" he said, enjoying rubbing it in. Garp remained unable to speak, but Coby stepped towards Luffy and Mika. "You call her Mika right?" He asked Luffy, who just grinned and nodded "Can I hold her?" Coby asked. "Sure!" Luffy said, handing the still half asleep Mika over. "Woooowwww" Coby whistled "I cant believe you had a KID Luffy! And she is sure is pretty!" Luffy laughed with his hand on the back of his hat as he watched his old friend greet and introduce himself to his daughter. However, Coby didnt get very far before he was kicked sideways and Mika was sent flying in the air, only to be caught by Garp. Nami and the rest of the strawhats shouted at him for taking such a risk, but when Luffy didnt seem too phased they let it drop. Garp and Mika stared at eachother for a long while before he looked past her at Luffy "She is definitly yours" He said. "How can you tell?" Chopper asked, sounding slightly awed. Garp snorted "Because she has the same damn defiant expression that Luffy does". Luffy grinned at this.
"So are you really gonna try and catch us old Jii-chan?" Luffy asked his grandfather after Mika had falled back asleep in the old mans hands, rewarding her a look of surprise from the marine. Garp thought about this for a moment "Well, since this is the first time meeting my great granddaughter, we will just stay till tomorrow and then we'll let you leave I suppose" Luffy grinned and the strawhats breathed a sigh of relief.
The rest of the day was spent with Luffy and Garp switching between beating eachother up and Garp asking questions about Mika. Coby and Helemeppo were quickly big fans of Mika, and spent the entire time entertaining her and asking Nami if they could help with feeding and changing her. Whenever Luffy had Mika that day, Nami often spotted Garp looking at him with an odd expression, this worried Nami for some reason that she couldnt quite put her finger on so she tried to dismiss the feeling.
That night Nami had second watch, however she had stayed up late since the strawhats had turned the arrival of the marines into a party, so she quickly fell asleep.
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Nami woke with a start, it wasnt quite morning yet but she knew that something was wrong. I must have fallen asleep! And I was on watch too!? she thought with dismay. Nami looked around the room Whats different? she wondered beginning to panic, though she didnt know why. Her eyes fell on Mika's crib. Nami froze, thats what was different, the usual regular breathing of the toddler was gone, and Mika's cot was empty. Nami screamed and yelled for Luffy.
It didnt take long for the strawhats to come running at Nami's cries, Luffy at the front. "Nami? Whats wrong?" Robin asked. "Mika is gone!" Nami screamed. Luffy ran to where the marine ship was, just in time to see it far on the horizen. "Usopp" Luffy called. The sniper ran forwards with his goggles "There is Garp... Luffy! He is holding Mika!!!" Usopp yelled. "Shit, thats too far for you to stretch Luffy" Sanji put it. "Everyone, get to your places" Nami called, and the crew made chase of the marine ship.
Franky ran to make use of the Ships extra features, but found them all destroyed "Damn, this is going to take a week to fix" Franky cursed outloud.
