"I say we need to go to the Fishman Island!" Ace yelled exasperated, looking really annoyed toward Fred who was standing in front of him with his hands on his hips.

"And I say that we don't need anyone else's help!" the latter replied, equally as loud as he glared daggers at the freckled pirate who stubbornly refused to hear him out, claiming that they needed all the help they could get.

This had been going on the whole morning ever since it had been announced that the Whitebeard crew would still go to the Fishman Island even though they now had Fred and George. The twins had been more than annoyed about it, as they wanted to go rescue Harry as soon as possible. They kept arguing that they were more than enough and that they didn't the help of the mermen to save the young hybrid.

Right now, Ace was yelling back and forth with Fred. While Marco was struggling to calm them down and explain to the Weasley twins why they still needed to go to the Fishman Island.

"Guys, guys please calm down and let's talk about it all in a civil manner." Marco pleaded, running out of patience as he massaged the bridge of his nose, feeling a headache coming his way.

"He started it!" they both exclaimed, pointing accusingly at the other before they realized they each pointed at the other and glared at each other.

"If only you would listen to what I have to say instead of aggressing me verbally immediately then it we wouldn't have been yelling at each other for the last hour." Ace growled out, scowling at him, "You keep cutting me short, not even caring about what I'm telling you.

"I can cut something else short." Fred replied in a threatening voice as he glowered almost sadistically at him while twirling his wand in between his fingers, making the freckled pirate gulp nervously and have a step back in wariness.

"Freddy stop." George finally intervened, stepping in between the two men and looking at his twin, "Although I feel the same as you and I wish we could just hurry to Harry. Maybe we should give them a chance to explain to us their reasoning."

At the words of his twin, Fred visibly relaxed and let out a resigned sigh, putting his wand back in his pocket and crossing his arm defiantly as he looked sternly at the two men.

"Alright. Explain." He told them, visibly waiting as patiently as he could the explanation as to why they absolutely needed to go the Fishman Island first.

Ace seemed to be about to say something about the patronizing tone that the man had used. But a hand on his shoulder from Marco made him stop and he begrudgingly let the matter go.

"The reason why we want to go to the Fishman Island first is because we will not be able to catch up to them before they arrive at Sabaody. Which means that we will need to go get him at the slave house." The blond man explained slowly at the two red hair young men, "As such, after we rescue him, there is a very high chance that we will need to hide for a while, to let things settle down and so that we can move once again freely."

"Harry will not be considered ordinary 'merchandise' and so he will attract attention." The first commander of Whitebeard's fleet added with a serious and concerned frown, "The Tenryuubitos will surely hear about him as well as the Marine. So we need to be extra careful."

Silence met his explanation, the twins finally realizing the entirety of the problem.

"So… Why exactly the Fishman Island?" George asked, feeling very curious as to why this island and not another.

"We have a few friends there and the Fishman Island is actually under the old man's protection." Ace replied with a smirk, "So it's easier to hide there and we can ask some of our friends to help us."

"Alright. Although it pains me to agree with two brainless gorillas like you, I guess it's actually not such a stupid thing to do." Fred said nonchalantly after letting out a defeated sigh.

Both Ace and Marco glared at him while George chuckled at his twin's childish attitude. Though they kept giving them a hard time, Fred and George actually kind of liked the two men. However, since they were their little brother's mates, they had made a silent agreement to never show it and try to make their life hell as much as possible.

A few days later they were finally arriving at the Fishman Island. Well…they actually were still above water but they were not far from it either. Everyone was busy running back and forth, preparing to immerse into the deep waters of the sea to go to the island. A few men, the ones that actually had the skills, were preparing the coating in which they were going to cover the entire ship.

"So we are really going to go underwater?!" Fred exclaimed with an awed expression on his face as he looked at everyone running around to prepare for the immersion.

"You can use magic. Isn't it something that is easy to do for you?" Marco asked, looking surprised at the usually hard to impress young men.

"Well yeah. It's not too hard to go underwater with magic." George replied.

"But we have never seen it done without any magic." Fred finished, watching with rapt attention at the men who had started to coat the ship with the substance they had previously made.

This is how, a few hours later, they finally immersed into the deep sea and began to head down to the Fishman Island. During the whole journey, the Weasley twins kept looking around them with an awed expression on their face, watching what was unfolding before their eyes with astonishment.

As they got deeper and deeper into the sea, they began to see a spot of bright light growing bigger as they got nearer. Soon they arrived into a huge clearing with what looked like an island enveloped in the same kind of bubble that their ship was enveloped in its middle.

Once they docked in one of the harbors that were there for visitors, Whitebeard along with Ace, Marco, Isamu and a few other men began to head toward the Ryugu Palace where the King and royal family lived. Fred and George decided to also go with them, despite the protests of Ace, turning in their fennec fox once again so that they would be less noticeable.

Although they were in their fennec form, the twins still looked at their surroundings with big eyes, looking at all the colorful corals and houses as well as the fishmen and merfolk who were walking around.

Soon they were at the palace's entranceway where a few guards waiting to lead them inside were.

"Neptune-sama told us about your arrival Whitebeard-san." One of the guards said in a gruff but respectful voice, "Please follow us."

And so they followed the guards up to the palace and to the courtroom where king Neptune was sitting in his throne, with his three sons standing at his right. King Neptune was a giant-sized and muscular coelacanth merman. He had a red nose, small eyes, and long thick orange curly hair and beard. Both his chest and arms were covered with hair. His golden crown resembled a tulip and had jewels embedded in it.

"Ah Whitebeard-san! I received your letter telling me that you were coming and wanted to meet and talk with me." The merman king said with a welcoming smile, "But it didn't specify what you wanted to talk to me about."

"It concerns one of my sons." The big man with a white mustache replied before adding in an amused tone, smirking as he glanced at Ace and Marco, "Although maybe I should say daughter-in-law."

At their captain's teasing, both Ace and Marco's face reddened a bit while Neptune looked very confused.

"Say again?" he said, not understanding what was going on.

"We are actually here to ask for your help." Whitebeard continued, not feeling like taking the time to explain tot the king what was going with his crewmembers, especially with two of his commanders.

"What is it you want some help with?" Neptune asked, his brows furrowed as he concentrated on the other man.

"One member of my crew is a bit special and was abducted two weeks ago by pirates. We learned after searching for him that they intended to sell him at Sabaody Archipelago as a slave." The captain explained the situation, "We would like your help to get him back and then hide on this island until everything settles down."

"Hum I am sorry for your crewmember's situation." The king said as he thought over what he had just heard, "Being put into slavery is something horrendous and that I would never wish for anyone."

At those words, Ace and Marco had a small smile, already seeing the mermen help them rescue their mate. But the next words crushed all possible anticipation.

"However I cannot help you rescue him." He added gravely, looking at them with a very serious expression on his face, "Fishmen and mermen are already hated too much by humans, I cannot take the risk to get involved in the rescuing of a human, even from a slave house."

"So that means that you are not going to help us at all?" Ace asked, struggling to keep his voice even and not show disrespect in anger.

"I agree to let you hide on this island while waiting for everything to settle down." Neptune replied, looking straight at the freckled pirate, "Hiding you is actually something that cannot be proved against me. But rescuing is a completely different story."

A bit disgruntled but still thankful to have a hiding to go to after rescuing Harry, the group left the palace and started heading back to the others. On their way to the ship, a very deep voice made them stop and turn their heads toward the location of this voice.

"Hello Whitebeard." The voice said, sounding friendly and welcoming.

There, in front of the group was standing Jinbe, wearing a comfortable dark blue yukata and looking as if he was not one of the notorious pirate warlords.

"Long time no see Jinbe." Whitebeard replied with a grin, "What have you been up to lately?"

"Not much really apart from going back and forth between here and the meetings at Marineford." The Shichibukai said, looking like he suddenly realized something and turned to Ace with an inquisitive gaze, "Now that I think about it, where is your mate? Isn't he with you?"

"You already know Harry?" Marco asked rhetorically with a surprised expression, as he had never heard about this.

"Yes I met him when they infiltrated Marineford to find clues about Teach's whereabouts." The shark-whale man replied, turning to look at Marco, "At that time he was almost abducted by Doflamingo to be sold as a slave."

At hearing this news, Marco turned sharply to look at Ace who avoided his gaze uncomfortably. The first commander then let out a sigh and massaged his temples tiredly.

"Unbelievable." He muttered, wondering interiorly how likely to have an abduction attempt on you twice and for the second to succeed.

"Why? What's going on?" Jinbe asked, looking at them confused, not understanding what was going on.

"Harry was abducted about week or two ago by pirates and they are intending on selling him as a slave at Sabaody Archipelago." Isamu, who was also part of the group told him, making the mermen's eyes go wide at the news.

"Seriously?!" he exclaimed, before adding in a kind of awed voice though still a bit worried as he liked the young hybrid, "Wow.. This kid sure has a knack for people wanting to abduct him… Then why are you here? Are you not going to rescue him?"

"We are but we wanted to ask king Neptune for the permission to hide here once we have rescued him." Ace said.

"Is there anything I can do to help?" the Shichibukai asked.

"Actually there is." Marco quickly said, jumping on the opportunity as a plan of action appeared in his mind.

This is how the Whitebeard pirates along with Jinbe and his crew, the Sun pirates, headed up to the surface to Sabaody Archipelago. As they were heading to the surface, Ace thought back about the quick meeting they had had with Jinbe and the Sun pirates to set a definite rescuing plan.

Flashback

"Once we have rescued him, you will take Harry and come back here while we keep the Marine away if there is ever a confrontation with them." Marco told the fishmen and mermen pirates.

"Yes but we need two people to bring him to our ship but also two people to cover us in case of trouble." One of the fishmen pirates said, "But that means that we are going to be too noticeable."

Suddenly after that statement, Fred and George who had stayed in their fennec form up until decided to turn back into humans, making all the Sun pirates jump out in fright and look at them with a shocked expression.

"Actually this is something," Fred began to say.

"That we can help you with." George finished with a grin.

"Wh-who the hell are they?!" the fishman who had talked earlier, asked the Whitebeard crew while pointing a shaky finger toward the two.

"Let us introduce ourselves," George said, making everyone turn toward them, "My name is George."

"And I am Fred," the latter presented himself with a big smile, feeling very amused by the startled and shocked expression of everyone.

"We are the awesome twin pranksters!" both of them then finally said with grin on their face, looking like they were having fun with this situation.

Jinbe walked over to Ace and Marco, where the two fennec-animagus users had been before, watching them suspiciously but also with a hint of curiosity.

"Who are those two young men?" the Shichibukai asked, still keeping an eye on them while asking.

"They are actually Harry's friends. They are from his former world." Ace told him with a sigh at the twins' antics, as he watched them look so proud of what they had just done, "They are a bit stupid but nothing harmful."

"Well I'm not a brainless ruffian who does fire tricks to show off." Fred said back at Ace as he had heard the comment.

"What did you just say you sneaky fox bastard?!" Ace shouted, glaring dangerously at the redhead twin, fire slowly starting to come off of his hands.

"What? Fancy having no more hair on any part of your body?" the other replied, glaring back while twirling his wand his hands threateningly, a sadistic smile then stretching on his face as he had a thought, "Or maybe I should just cut a certain part of your anatomy to make sure you would not be able to do anything to Harry."

Instinctively, at hearing those words, Ace covered protectively his manhood, glaring warily at the other. Not wanting it to escalate any further, Marco and George decided to step in between the two.

"Ok that's enough you two." The blond man said, looking sternly at both Ace and Fred, "May I remind you that we have a common goal and that is to save Harry."

"Marco is right." George agreed, looking sternly at his twin as well as Ace, "This is not the time to bicker. We need to go get Harry back."

Both men then became sheepish, hanging their head low.

"Sorry." Both mumbled before getting once again prepared.

Meanwhile the Sun pirates watched the whole scene unfold dumbfounded while the Whitebeard pirates laughed out loud at whom they all considered their crewmates' actions.

"Fred and George are wizards so they will be a great advantage for us to take Harry out of the slave house." Marco then said, turning in a way to face both the Sun Pirates and the Whitebeard pirates, "They will also be the ones to cover the two other persons to escort him to safety."

"Has everyone understood the plan?" both Jinbe and Whitebeard shouted at their respective crew.

"Hai!" everyone shouted back in a roar of agreement.

"Then let's set sail!" the two captains replied, before getting everyone in motion and working.

End of Flashback

"This is it huh?" Marco said with a small smile as he approached Ace, making the latter turn his head to glance at him, "We are finally going to rescue Harry."

"Yeah. We are finally getting him back." The freckled pirate replied with a small smile of his own before frowning slightly as he glared into the distance, as if wishing they would reach the surface faster, "Just imagining what he is going through right now is making my blood boil."

"Me too mate. Me too." The blond man said, putting a hand on his best friend's shoulder to calm him, "But we need to believe in the fact that he is a warrior. He is going hold on and wait for us to get him."

Meanwhile, the pirates who had kidnapped the young hybrid had actually already arrived at Sabaody Archipelago. They were actually negotiating with the owner of the slave house on the percentage they were going to receive from the auction.

Harry was standing behind them head bowed, glaring at them all through the curtain of his black hair, his green eyes blazing with hatred. His hands were cuffed together and a big rope had been put around him to trap his wings tightly against his back so that they couldn't move at able. This prevented him from using them and as a consequence his wind powers.

"Don't take us for idiots Mr. Disco!" the captain of the crew yelled, looking quite displeased with offer, "We haven't gone through so much to catch this creature for you to offer us such a little percentage of the sale! We know he is going to get sold for a lot of money so don't try to fool us!"

Disco, the slave house owner, was a thin, eccentric man who had long silver hair, a yellow hat, and star shaped glasses. He also wore a purple coat and a pink scarf.

"I should be the one to say this!" Disco yelled back, "The percentage of profits I am doing is the same I am doing for every other person who brings me merchandise! If you and your ape of a crew does not understand this then you can always try another slave house. But I can assure you that you'll never find a better offer than here!"

"Tch! Like you can scare us. Other slave houses are also full of wealthy customers who would pay a lot to have him." The captain growled, glaring at the slave house owner.

"Yeah but does those houses have Tenryuubitos as customers?" Disco replied smirking, as he knew he had won the argument, the captain sighing in defeat and glaring at him resentfully, "That's what I thought... So now give me the merchandise and I'll make sure to get a price out of it."

With grumble of dissatisfaction, the captain of the pirate group roughly pulled on the rope that was connected to the young hybrid's handcuffs, making the latter stumble a bit and let out a threatening growl.

"My my! That's an energetic this one." Disco commented with a twisted smirk, grabbing the chin of the young man and turning it one way and another to look at him, "He looks healthy as well."

But before he could say anything else, Harry headbutted him with as much force and as possible, making the other release his chin from surprise and pain, with blood running down from his broken nose.

"You little!.." the man exclaimed before slapping him very hard in the face, making him fall on the floor and turning toward one of his employees, "Bring me a collar! I'm going to put it on this little wrench!"

Although Harry resisted by kicking blindly with his legs and trying to bite anything that came near his face, he was finally subdued as a group of slavers pinned him down to the ground and forced the collar around his neck.

"Good." Disco said once the young hybrid had his collar on, "Now put him in a solitary cell and make sure he looks his best to appeal to the potential customers. We do have a crowd to entertain at the auction."

The men dragged Harry into his cell and the latter gripped the bars and he tried to test the resistance of the metal to see if he could find a way to get out of this cage. Suddenly the slave house owner walked up to him really close, a sadistic smile on his lips with blood still running down his face from his broken nose.

"I hope you like your new room." He told him, "But don't get used to it because very soon you are going to live in another place with new owners. Although the type of room you are going to be in is going to be rather similar."

He then left while letting out a rather satisfied and evil laugh, making the young hybrid glare at him. Once he was completely alone, his shoulders sagged a bit as he let out a sigh and went to sit against the wall at the end of his cage. He was in trouble right now and he had no idea how to get out of this very bad situation. Was he really going to get sold as a slave? He had read about the fact that slavery was normally illegal in this world. So why was it not enforced?

Actually it was the Tenryuubitos that worried him the most. He had read so many things about them. It made him dislike them so much that he was afraid of falling into the hands of one.

'I just have to trust my mates to come and get me out of here.' He thought resignedly.

Sighing in slight despair, the young hybrid put his cuffed arms around his knees, hugging himself tightly while praying that his mates would come quickly.

A few hours later, the slave auction had begun and still nobody had arrived to rescue Harry. The young man had been put in some sort of giant golden birdcage along with colorful and smelling flowers and such on the bars to give off an attractive and exotic appearance. The auction was well on its way and not a lot of slaves were left to put on sale for today.

The phoenix hybrid was feeling more and more anxious. He did not want to go on stage and be looked at like some exotic merchandise. He did not want to see all the disgusting faces of the people who bought human beings like they would buy an object. It was nauseating just thinking that there were people like this.

He could hear the slave house owner Disco auctioning one by one the slaves, trying to appeal to the customers in the room by promoting the different slaves in diverse manners.

"This is a maiden from the islands of South Blue. She is sixteen years old and very fresh ladies and gentlemen." He could hear Disco say, watching him add with a sickening wink, "She can be a great housekeeper with some training or can be used as a very nice toy as I don't think she has been used in any way yet if you know what I mean."

This made the assembly chuckle before bids began to pour to own the poor young woman who was crying silently. Desperately, Harry kept looking around him, hoping that he would soon see his mates running toward to get him out of here. Unfortunately time passed and still no sign of either of them. There were now only two slaves left before it was his turn and he felt more and more nervous and scared. What if they didn't make it in time and he was sold to some low human being who would use him as a tool or something like that?

Before he realized it, the two slaves before him were sold and he was now the one being pushed onto the stage. As he arrived on stage he was blinded for a moment by the bright light that were illuminating it. At his apparition the room fell into silence with just a few gasps and expressions of awe from some customers.

Once his eyes had adjusted to the brightness of the room, Harry began to scan the room and noticed some kind of tribune in the middle of the room, which was surrounded by seats where a lot of people were sitting. In this tribune were sitting three people that looked to be Tenryuubitos as they were wearing a bubble on their head like a cask in order not to breathe the same air as others. There were two men and one woman. Both men looked to be about the same age while the woman looked to be slightly older, all looking to be in their 20s-30s.

"The next item is an hybrid between a human and a bird." Disco presented him with a shining smile, acting as charismatic and professional as possible.

'I'm a human phoenix hybrid you dumbass.' Harry thought hatefully, growling interiorly.

"His origin is unknown. Although he has long hair and a slim waist, he is 100% male ladies and gentlemen." He continued, saying with a hidden sadistic smile, "But since he is so androgynous you can of course choose if you want him to remain a male and become a female by castrating him."

At hearing this, the young hybrid paled a bit and glared murderously at the slave house owner. Nobody was getting near his private area, especially if they had anything sharp with them. Anyone seen approaching too close to that area would be annihilated instantly!

"He can be used as a decoration or in any way that you see fit. Just be warned that you might not be able to tame him even if you castrate him." Disco then finished, "The bidding will start at 5,000 beri."

The biddings started and it rapidly escalated to prices that were making Harry's head spin. Despair was filling him more and more as he heard people placing their bid. But his heart literally stopped for a moment when one of the Tenryuubitos placed a bid. It was on of the men and he really didn't like the way he was looking at him.

Right at this moment, a massive banging noise was heard coming from backstage before everything black. While the whole room erupted in chaos at this abnormal event, Harry felt his cage being pulled back backstage. When his eyes had become a bit accustomed to the dark he realized it was Marco and Ace who were pulling his cage. Never had he been so glad to see them.

Once he was freed from his cage he tried to jump on them but was quickly stopped, making him look at them with a confused and slightly hurt expression.

"Your collar love." Marco quickly explained as he pointed at said item, "We need to remove it or else it might activate itself and explode."

At this news the young hybrid's face paled a bit and nodded frantically. He saw Ace turn around toward two perople who were standing in the dark not to far.

"Can you free him from it?" he asked them, an eyebrow raised in question as if he didn't know the persons he was addressing very well.

The next thing that happened made Harry's jaw drop from shock. The two people stepped out of the darkness appeared to be Fred and George, both grinning at the young hybrid happily.

"Hey Harry! Long time no see!" they said in unison with a big smile, walking nonchalantly forward with their hands in their pockets.

"Wicked wings by the way!" Fred told him with a wink.

"Yeah it makes you look like a very cute but deadly angel." George added in a teasing voice.

"All right enough! We don't have time for this!" Ace intervened in an exasperated tone of voice; "You will have all the time in the world to catch up later. Right now we need to get out here quickly."

Harry was standing there frozen from shock as he stared at the Weasley twins, still not believing what was happening right now in front of his eyes. He turned toward Marco with a lost gaze, opening his mouth to ask something when the latter stopped from doing so by talking.

"Later love. Right now we need to leave and get you to safety." He told him in a soft tone, trying to calm him down as he knew that he might quite emotional right now.

"So can you do it or not?!" Ace asked again in a louder voice toward the twins, becoming a bit annoyed.

"Of course we can!" both of them answered with an outraged expression, "Nothing can resist us. But we'll need to concentrate and not be disturbed as we need to be very careful not to cut his neck by accident."

Ace grumbled about some people being accidents sometimes that should have been avoided before making them run to a secluded room so that the twins could take Harry's collar off. On the way to the room, the phoenix hybrid realized that all the employees of the slave house were lying on the ground, looking completely unconscious but unharmed.

Once his collar was removed, they then proceeded to run toward the exit, already hearing outraged cries and orders being given here and there. They finally got out of the slave house and began running toward where they hid their ship. But as they were beginning to run, a group of Marines suddenly appeared on their and they were forced to prepare for combat.

"Fred, George, you know what to do." Marco told them, taking a defensive posture as he prepared to face the Marine group.

"Yes!" both replied before changing into their animagus form.

Watching them turn into fennec foxes, Harry felt like his eyes were going to bulge out of his skull. He turned toward Ace, opening his mouth as he had another question. But once again his mate stopped him from speaking.

"We'll explain everything to you later babe." The freckled pirate told him, caressing his cheek softly, quickly kissing his forehead before pushing him forward to follow the two fennecs that were actually getting impatient, "Go. We'll see each other later."

The young hybrid wanted to protest and stay here to fight alongside them but decided otherwise and began to follow Fred and George, running behind the twin fennecs.

"You better explain to me everything in details once all of this is over!" he told them while running, huffing a bit as it had been quite a long time since he had had to run like this.

The two foxes met his words with what sounded like a hearty laugh and kept running, seeming to lead him to some specific location. After a moment the young man notices two people standing in the distance, looking like they were waiting for them. As they got closer and closer, he realized that these two were actually fishmen, remembering the time he had met Jinbe. Although they had beanies, clothes and such to cover the physical traits that would show that they were fishmen, he still managed to see what they were.

"If you are here then that means that the Marines decided to join the party." One of them commented with a smirk.

"So this is the famous Harry Potter huh?" the other one said as he looked at the phoenix hybrid up and down.

"Pardon?" the latter said not understanding, thinking he might have misheard what had been such a popular remark in his former world.

"Those Ace and Marco guys have kept talking about you on and on. So it feels like we know all about you." The first one explained with a chuckle, "At some point we got rally fed up with their constant talking and whining!"

"Oh." The young man said with a sense of relief, chuckling along with them at his mates' behavior, "It doesn't surprise. But I'm afraid I'm much more boring than what they must have told you."

"Well at least they didn't lie about your modesty." The second fishman replied with a smirk before his face took on a serious expression, "We should get going."

"Remember to cover us in case of attack okay?" the other one said turning to Fred and George who replied by yapping affirmatively.

They then started to run once again, going toward what looked to be the shore. They arrived without any hitch to the Sun pirate's ship and quickly boarded it.

"Welcome to the Sun Pirate's ship young Harry." Jinbe told him as he walked up to the little group, giving diverse orders for them prepare for immersion.

"Jinbe-san?!" Harry exclaimed in pleased surprise before realization hit him, "So you are the captain of the Sun Pirates aren't you?"

"I am." He replied with a small smile before becoming serious again, "It's a good thing that Ace and the old man Whitebeard went to the Fishman Island before going to rescue you to ask for help or else I would never known about your predicament and would not have been able to help."

"They went to ask for you help?" the young man asked surprised.

"Not exactly but I happened to catch them there and learn about everything at that moment." The other replied, adding in an amused voice as he looked at him with a teasing gaze, "It seems that I'm always here when you have to be rescued from being sold as a slave."

At this comment, the phoenix hybrid blushed in embarrassment, looking at the ground while he chuckled at the situation and scratched the back of his head.

"It's seems so. I am indebted to you for what you have done for me until now." He said smiling gratefully at the man, adding apologetically, "I am sorry. I must look like a really big weight at always being capture and such…"

"Don't worry about it!" Jinbe replied with a small laugh, "You have a really dedicated mate who is willing to go through the seven seas to get you back."

"Actually I have two of them." Harry corrected with a proud smile.

"What?!" Jinbe asked confused, looking he didn't understand.

"Nobody told you?" the young man asked with a slight frown, "Marco is actually my mate as well."

Silence met that declaration, Jinbe looking a bit in shock before he slowly he got out of it and his face features lightened up as is he was realizing something.

"So that was why he looked as dead with worry as Ace did…" he commented thoughtfully, "Now I understand better. At first I just thought you were just very loved by the whole crew and Marco just happened to like you a bit more then the others, like a brother or something…"

"Nope he is really as much a leech as this Ace guy is." Fred suddenly intervened, changing back into his human form.

"They are both big brainless goofs." George added, changing back as well.

Out of surprise at the sudden change, Jinbe jumped slightly and glared slightly at the twins for startling him like this. But what startled him the most was when he saw a small hand that was none other but Harry's slap the back of both of their heads.

"Don't speak like that of my mates!" he told them sternly, "They might not be the smartest guys on earth but they are still the men that I am with."

"Hum…Harry? You do know that just called your mates idiots?..." Fred tried weakly to point out in a low voice but quickly flinched and looked back down at the ground when the young hybrid scowled at him.

"Listen, Harry. We respect your choice of choosing them as your mates but we don't anything about what happened to you after you disappeared through the Veil." George tentatively tried to explain, carefully choosing his words as Harry was now looking at him intently, "We may not related by blood but we still consider you like family, more than most of our own family actually… You are our little brother and we just want you to be happy."

"I understand." Harry said as his body relaxed a bit and released a breath he hadn't known he had held in, before he looked at both of them with a very serious expression, "But now you'll have to first explain to me how you arrived into this world."

"All right. But it will take a bit of time." George said, letting out a sigh of relief, as their young brother was not mad at them anymore, "Can we go sit somewhere?"

"There is the common room over there." Jinbe suddenly, the others having slightly forgotten about his presence, "Nobody is there right now as they are all occupied to prepare the ship. You can talk there comfortably while we go back to the Fishman Island."

"Thank you Jinbe." Harry told the shark-whale man with a smile before taking the twins to the room, dead-set on knowing everything that happened to them and about his former world after he disappeared.

Once they were settled comfortably in some seats in the common room, the young man turned to look at the Weasley twins with an attentive gaze.

"I'm listening." He said with an expectant tone of voice though rather friendly as he was just waiting for their story.

Fred and George then began to tell him how he was pronounced missing and was covered by the media as a disappearing savior who escaped from the duty to help to the reconstruction of the Wizarding world. How they then discovered that Dumbledore had in fact still been alive after his supposed 'death' at the hands of Severus Snape. They then discovered that a lot of men who had been taken as traitors had been manipulated by Dumbledore to do things that they thought were for the greater good.

One day, feeling more and more suspicious about a lot of things, they spied on a conversation that the Minister of Magic had with a few members of the Order of the Phoenix and discovered what had really happened to Harry. This made them furious and they felt like this was a betrayal not only to Harry himself but to everyone else. Deciding that everyone should know that they have been duped, they started trying to gather more evidences.

However, they were unfortunately caught by people working with the Ministry and were sent themselves through the Veil, sending them to this world. They then vagabonded as they tried to learn about this world that they had landed in and deduced that Harry must have been in this world as well. As they still had their wizard's powers and had learned how to transform into their animagus form, they could transform anytime they wanted. They told him everything that happened to them in detail all the way until the merchant that sold them to him captured them.

After having their whole story, the young hybrid didn't say anything for a moment as he registered the whole tale in his mind. As for the twins, they were waiting anxiously for Harry's reaction. They knew that hearing that he was almost dismissed immediately after his disappearance by the public.

"I see." The young man said after a while, looking at them with a small sad smile, "It must have been hard on you."

"Are you ok?" George asked him with a worried gaze.

"I am. I'm just grateful to you for the loyalty that you've shown me." He replied with a slightly bigger smile and grateful happy eyes, his voice slightly breaking as he said the next words, "Thank you."

Before he knew it, the phoenix hybrid was enveloped from both side by a pair of arms as the twins hugged him tightly, giving as much support as they could through this embrace. Feeling himself being hugged by two people he himself considered like brothers made Harry all warm and happy inside. It made him have a big smile stretch on his face and his eyes closed in contentment for a moment at having two people from his former world here with him. Out of all the people from his former world, he was glad that it was the twins that were there.

They had never let him down, never had doubted him or judged him in any way. They had always been there for him through thick and thin. He knew he could trust them and rely on them. Moreover, seeing them again and knowing that they would now be living in the same world the together was wonderful for him. It felt like having a part of his family back and he his heart was swelled with happiness.

They stayed like this for a moment before the twins pulled away a little, making the young hybrid look up at them in question.

"Now it's your turn." Fred told him with a wink and a smile, "Tell us everything that happened to you before we arrive at the Fishman Island and we have to let you go to your two overprotective mates."

"I'm pretty sure they would be capable of shred us into bits if we don't let them have you all for themselves for a while." George commented with laugh, "Seriously those guys are worse than a chewing gum in someone's hair. They will not let you go before a while after you were kidnapped and kept away from them for this long!"

"I'm afraid you are right." Harry replied back in a joking manner, thinking fondly of his mates' protective and possessive behavior before becoming very serious as prepared himself to tell the twins everything that happened to him until now.

TBC


Here you go everyone! I hope you are looking forward to the overprotective attitude of Ace and Marco after they meet with Harry again. ;)

Also I am sorry that it took sooooo long to post this chapter and I have no real excuse that I am a sloth who wanted to enjoy a bit her vacation and see all her friends and family before leaving to go live in another foreign country.

Anyways I'll try to post the next chapter faster and don't worry, even if it takes me forever to update I will not abandon my story before it's finished.

See ya!