Ok this is gonna be a story break. I wanted to have some fun with this and my last chapter ended in a "happy time"

These "breaks" will be a chapter long and if this chapter does good, I will take breaks from the main story once a while... Please give your thoughts on this chapter

And I will take requests for chapter ideas for future breaks if this does well.

And thank you AllmightyMagikarp for the review and nice comment(s) and feedback

The Smallest Whitebeard

When Luffy was 6, The Whitebeard pirates had docked by a nearby island to restock their supplies. Marco had stayed with Luffy on the ship while the rest of the caretakers went out to get their needed supplies and some souvenirs for Luffy. Running around the ship, Luffy was bored and Marco had tried to do everything to try making Luffy not be bored. Marco was playing cards, that "basketball" game with now a decently tall net and Luffy was pretty good at shooting the ball in the tall net, he tried t draw with Luffy and hell even sing to get get rid of Luffy's boredom. He was running out of ideas to help Luffy, until he decided that he wanted to fly. It had been quite a while since Marco had let his wings out and he quickly spoke to Pops about flying with Luffy. Of course Pops was okay with it and he told Luffy that they would go flying.

The last time Luffy flew with Marco was a while back and he knew that Marco wanted to stretch out his wings. Luffy was excited to see Marco changed into his full Phoenix form and was happy to climb up. Marco obviously told Luffy to hold on tight and Luffy did just that. When Marco took off, he flew pretty high and wanted to show Luffy the island. Luffy was mesmerized at how the island looked from above. he saw a big mountain, lots of green (tress and stuff), he saw a bit of snow on the mountain and was in total awe at everything.

As Marco was flying, he flew by a beach and since it looked empty (from his vision; which was REALLY good) he decided to land on the beach. This was Luffy's first time on a beach and when Luffy got off, he had a bit of trouble walking on sand for the first time, but he was having fun. Luffy ran to the water wobbly and as he got close to the sea, he stopped in his tracks. He turned back to see Marco, but Marco told him it was alright for Luffy to go play in the water. Luffy took off his shoes and socks before entering the water and Marco had followed him. Marco took of his shoes and rolled up his sweatpants he was wearing and waled towards the water. He didn't go deep, he just wanted his feet to be under water. he missed the feeling of the nice cold sea water under his feet.

Luffy suddenly ran up to his older brother and smacked him lightly in the chest and said "You're it" and ran off. Marco looks at his little brother and says "You better run Lu. I'll catch you if you stop." and he runs after Luffy. Luffy and Marco were both having fun playing tag and both got wet due to falling or the waves and sometimes when they grabbed a handful of water to throw at the other. Luffy was smiling and laughing an in turn Marco was happy and smiling. They both were having a great time and they spent an hour or so just laying in the sand. Marco was getting his tan and Luffy was making sand castles and playing around. Marco had his eyes closed and his Haki senses were at use to see if anyone was on the beach as well as them and even though there was no one, he still wanted to be careful. He knew everything was going well because Luffy was making noises and sound effects and eventually singing about idiots and islands. Marco joined in at the singing at one point because he knew this was Luffy's favorite song to sing behind Binks Sake.

Soon after, Luffy stopped making noise and Marco got up and looked around for Luffy. He saw Luffy sitting down at a distance and he quickly followed. "Hey Luffy, are you okay yoi?" Luffy looks at his older brother and signals him to come over to where he is and Marco quickly runs towards Luffy hoping he wasn't hurt. When Marco got to Luffy, he saw a small cat looking really weak and skinny with Luffy. "I heard a noise and I saw this cat." Marco picks up the fragile creature and takes a look at it. He knew the cat was dying. It had a few scratches and was bleeding, it was hungry and not eating. Luffy told Marco to take the cat to the ship and although he wasn't sure that the cat could be saved, he knew Luffy would be very upset if the cat was left behind to die.

Marco took Luffy and the cat and flew back to the Moby Dick. As they got back Mika, Thatch and Jones were looking at Luffy and Marco and saw a small weak cat with them. Marco hands the cat to Mika and Luffy says "Hey Mi, can you save him?" She takes the kitten from Marco and goes to the infirmary and like a normal patient, she doesn't allow anyone to enter the infirmary. Luffy waits patiently for Mika to come out and is quiet. He asked Thatch to make some small food bits for the kitten to eat and he said to wait until Mika came out. When she came out she had a small smile on her face.

"Good news Luffy, the kitten will live. I cleaned it's injuries and gave her some medication for her dehydration. But she'll need something to eat when she wakes up." Luffy took the news well and she told Thatch what the kitten may need to eat. And since they were still on the island, Jones had said he would go out to get cat food and a littler box for it. No one would seem to mind a cat being on the ship well because Stefan the dog was a "guard dog" for Pops. Stefan was a friendly dog who wouldn't hurt a fly unless that fly was to put in danger any of the Whitebeard pirates and especially Pops.

When the kitten was eventually given to Luffy, Thatch asked how she knew how to take care of a sick animal. She replies with "Well before I used to be a doctor, my family were veterinarians and my dad was both a vet and a doctor."

"Shit that's one dope family. Wait so why'd you leave?"

Thatch asked because he never did know about Mika's past "Long story short, parents were killed by a ruthless group of assholes and did a few things to me. I was broken until Pops came in and showed me a better life."

"Fuck... Hey I'm sorry for asking Mika." She looks at Thatch and says "No need. The truth had to come out one day."

She walks by and goes to Luffy and plays with him and the kitten. Mika told Luffy to show the kitten to Pops and he quickly did so. When he got to Pops who was in his room, Stefan was also there too and saw the kitten in Luffy's hands. Luffy showed Pops the innocent animal and it immediately was quite fond of Pops. Whitebeard held the kitten in one hand and softly petted it, releasing a purr from the cat. Stefan had made his way to Pops and sniffed the cat, and gave it a small lick in the head. The cat meowed in a sweet tone and fave Stefan a small lick on his head.

"Have you decided a name for it Luffy?" asks Whitebeard in a kind tone

"Nope. I was hoping you would decide." Pops looks at Luffy and says "How about we ask the family during dinner?" Luffy nods and goes back to playing with Stefan and the no named Kitten in Pops room who couldn't help but to smile at everything that was going on.

When it was dinner time, Luffy walked in with Stefan and the kitten and with Pops. Of course the main table was full with Pops and the commanders, Jones included (and Luffy) and on the end of the table, the small kitten was with Stefan. No one was surprised that Stefan and the new kitten became friends easily. Mika (being an animal lover) was in tears because it was cute that a small kitten and a guard dog became friends. She asked Luffy what he named the kitten and he aid he didn't know and the commanders all threw out a bunch of names. While everyone was yelling out names Mika goes "Oh shit, I forgot to tell you. The kitten is a girl." Now that the gender was identified even more names were being suggested. Vista said "Flower" (of course), Marco said "Rose", Pops said "Athena" Luffy liked Athena and so did everyone else.

Pops said "And now that we have named her, we welcome Athena, the newest member of our family." and everyone on the table had celebrated Athena's arrival.