Sorry for the wait all. Had to move my sister to NYC and had no internet for the last few weeks. Didn't help that because of my sister I dislocated my shoulder while there (long story), so typing is a long and arduous process now. Enjoy. I'll work as fast as possible.

Chapter 14

On the Island Rusukaina Luffy and Lucci were sitting with the infamous first mate of Gol D. Roger.

Silvers Raleigh.

Both had come to the island to train. Luffy to further his dreams of becoming pirate king and to assure that he could defend his crew from the dangers of the New World. Lucci had followed him in order to protect his new captain. Lucci and Luffy had become extremely close, Rayleigh would smile when he watched the two train and just shake his head. Those two were going to be a hassle to move apart later in their training.

Weeks went by and Luffy proved to be adept at learning Haki. Lucci while unable to learn Conquerors Haki excelled at armament Haki. Things were going well.

However it was a couple of weeks later that Rayleigh received the first letter from Shanks describing the situation and the plans that the Whitebeard crew had made. When Rayleigh had read the letters to Luffy, he had shown how worried he was about his brother, but at Rayleigh prompting he decided to trust the others to keep Ace safe.

However another couple weeks passed when the newspaper and the letter from Shanks arrived. Luffy wasn't going to be stopped, and Rayleigh and Lucci weren't even going to try.

Ace had been captured again.

Across the sea Zoro was just taking a rest from his most recent bout of training with Mihawk when the paper arrived. Why he decided to read it that day, would always escape him, but he did, and when he saw the heading all he could do was curse.

"WHITEBEARD COMMANDERS CAPTURED: WAR BEGINS WITH EXECUTION"

Reading further he was shocked to see that one of the two captured was Ace, and thinking of the commander brought up thoughts of what his Captain was going to do. Well that was a stupid thought; he knew what Luffy was going to do: rush head first into the battle and save his brother.

Zoro smiled, he had nothing but belief that his Captain would succeed. Now getting off Mihawk's Island to help him would be fun. He wondered quietly if his Love Cook was thinking the same thing.

Whether Zoro's ears were ringing when he thought of Sanji, or if he just knew the cook that well, he was right. The first thing Sanji did when he got the news paper was rush off with renewed vigor to ask for a boat to get to where he knew his captain was headed.

However what he hadn't expected was to get full support at the mention of the prison.

"So you give me a boat, and I just have to promise to rescue someone named Iva-chan from the stupid marine prison?"

"Correct Sanji-kun."

"There's something you're not telling me isn't there?"

The Okama laughed, "Not at all, we just wish to see Iva-chan freed. Do you think you can do it."

"Who do you think you're talking to of course."

Things were set and while Sanji set off to prepare he thought of the swordsman and the rest of the crew with smile. They'd rescue Ace and then they would continue their journey on the Grand Line.

The rest of the crew had very similar reactions to the news. All nine of the Strawhat crew were preparing and moving toward the prison. Hell was about to break loose. The World Government had no idea what they were in for.

Elsewhere on the Grandline a certain surgeon sat in bed aboard his submarine reading the paper. "Things are about to get busy, right Mugiwara-ya?"

The figure on the bed next to him stretched and pulled closer to the younger man, "You're talking to yourself again Law."

"No I am not. However you may want to see the headline, you may be interested."

Laws bedmate rose to take a look, and frowned. "Looks like I'm going to have to come out of the shadows now. Luffy. Ace. Hold on Big brother Sabo's coming.

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