: Well this is up a lot earlier than the previous chapter. Hope you like it.
Summary: A trip around Fishman Island.
Disclaimer: I don't own One Piece and this story was inspired but Pokepika's Haunt: One Piece: Growing up with Whitebeard
"I'm home!" Luffy yelled out to the mini Moby.
She had dropped the bottle behind her, so she had both hands to wave to her family. That was when she noticed that there were a lot of new faces that were present on the deck. Luffy figured that they were new members on a field trip. So instead of continuing her little rant she grabbed the rope around the bottle and threw it on to the deck of the boat.
Luffy snickered as she heard a large amount of the crewmembers slowly getting crushed underneath the over sized bottle of sake. The men that weren't flattened by the suddenly appearing sake were looking around the area for the culprit. Luffy watched the men panic and jumped onto the mini Moby.
While all of the chaos was going down, one of the commanders had to come out to see what on earth was going on. Namur was the representative for Fishman Island and he was going to be responsible for picking up their youngest but while they're there they might as well check up on the island.
Namur watched the new recruits running around like headless chickens and gave a sigh before spotting a large sake bottle on the deck.
"Quiet down you fools and get the bottle off the others." Namur ordered.
"Namur-nii!" A high little voice cheered. Followed by a heavy pressure to the chest.
"Luffy-sama, welcome home."
"What did I say about formality? We're family." Luffy cheered with a cheeky grin.
"Although that may be, it's in my nature to serve you." That was when he noticed something out of place. "Where's Ace and Sabo?"
Luffy got off of the division commander and looked around the deck, noting that her brothers weren't there. She shrugged her shoulders before turning to the commander.
"They're not here yet?"
Namur sighed finding that, that was the type of person she was and let go of it. He figured that they were currently at the docks getting checked by guards. That was when he remembered something else was of importance.
"Commander Marco's here as well. He's currently at Ryugu Palace," Namur pointed to extension bubble at the top of the main island. "Up there…now please don't getting into any trouble Luffy-sama." However when he looked back down, the grown sea god had already disappeared.
At that point there was no stopping her, she was going to reunite with everyone as soon as possible, it was probably wise not to get in her way. That was when everything was back in order and the commander had to answer the new recruits' questions.
"Commander Namur, who was that? She seems pretty familiar with you." One of the members asked.
"She was kind of cute, don't you think?" Another said aloud.
In that second, the eighth division commander was glaring at that member, a deep scowl on his face.
"Watch your mouth! That girl is our god and a precious member of the Whitebeard crew. Is that understood?"
"Yes sir!"
The men straightened up in an instant and went back to work the moment they were instructed.
Luffy ran through out the main town, still receiving odd looks from the residents of the town. They weren't used to have such a young human girl this far into the Grand Line; little did they know that, that little girl was the sea god.
Luffy was having a very hard time trying to find some sort of way up to the palace, but then thought of a brilliant idea.
"Mama, could you help me get to the palace at the top of the bubble?"
In that moment a pillar of rushing water was Luffy's direct course to the royal palace. The people of Fishman Island were freaking out about the suddenly appearing stretch of water that could've been seen all over the mass of land. Luffy on the other hand jumped straight water and swam right up to the front gate, with a little impact.
The water pillar continued until it connected with the second bubble filled with water, containing Ryugu Palace.
The golden dragon that curled around the palace was an exact replica of her mother and even though she had never met a solid form of her mother so it touched her heart a little but then completely disregarded the thought and went hunting for the first division commander.
Guards were trying to intercept the little ruby tailed mermaid however never got close to the amazing speed Luffy contained.
Luffy had probably swum around that entire palace attempting to find Marco and because he was concealed in a bubble, so finding him was all the more difficult. She wound up in a small room, and how she got into the tightly securitized room was beyond her.
The room was in an air bubble but the only thing that that helped with was Luffy smelling the food that was delivered to the room.
"Smells delicious!" Luffy cheered.
That was until a small timid voice squeaked a response towards the sudden intruder.
"W-w-who's there?" The large figure stuttered and turned on the light. A huge mermaid, five times bigger than any other mermaid her age should be. She had tears that were threatening to spill from her large blue eyes and onto her ruby red and pink tail. That large mermaid was the Princess Shirahoshi. "W-w-what's a human doing here? Are you here to kill me?" Then her mind went into paranoia and started crying out for her father and brothers to come rescue her.
Luffy complained about the loud noises, then a sentence that the mermaid princess said made her laugh.
"A human is trying to take my life! Father! Brother!"
Luffy began rolling on the floor laughing which stopped the girl from crying, only leaving a couple of sniffles. "W-why are you laughing? Aren't you here to take my life?"
The miniscule girl looked up at the giant mermaid princess, she was really young maybe nine years old. Luffy had a huge grin plastered on her features.
"I'm laughing because I'm not human. I understand why you would think that." Luffy watched as the guards burst into the room and immediately had their eyes on the little girl and just about to arrest her when two people stepped forward to interject, one being Shirahoshi herself and Marco who had to join in assisting the protection of the royal family.
"Please wait." The large mermaid princess interjected.
"But Princess Shirahoshi, this girl had broken into your room. What happened if she was an assassin like Vander Decken?" The minister of the Right claimed. The name sent shivers up Shirahoshi's spine. "Plus she's human!"
Even though the first division commander was standing right next to the seahorse fishman, Marco wasn't the type to get easily offended no matter who the person was, but he couldn't help but snort when he heard the Minister of the Right call his little sister "human".
He was about to interject about the arrest of the daughter of the sea until he picked up something coming towards them with Observation Haki. Marco turned around to see a large flight of arrows heading towards them and he felt so helpless, even though his own air protection bubble emerged with the one in the princess's room, he couldn't use his devil fruit in the small compacted space and the fishmen guards couldn't move around without the water's support.
The fishmen thought that it was going to be the end of their beloved princess until they watched with their own eyes as a large ruby red serpent shot out of the room at high speed. It had appeared out of nowhere and of course the Fishmen had immediately recognized the famous figure that is embedded into the palace walls. The daughter of the sea had appeared in the royal palace.
Luffy had eyed Marco and was about jumped onto him; however saw the glints of arrows heading towards them. She knew that Marco couldn't use his devil fruit powers in such a small space without damaging a few things and took off her necklace.
Changing into the sea king the same size as the one around the palace she shot herself out of the room and took the damage. She could feel some of the arrow deflect against the hard scales, though some had pierced the flesh causing the massive beast to collapse onto the royal courtyard.
"Luffy!" Marco yelled out. He would've left the bubble if he could, instead watched as the fishmen rushed to the serpent's side. They looked like they wanted to help but were afraid to touch her. Now it was Marco's turn to take control. "Minister of the Right, get the guards to carry her back inside. We need to treat her wounds."
The guard hesitated until the Minister of the Right started shouting the exact same order. Luffy was brought into a separate room from the princess however they were so focused on the god they forgot to close the door to Shirahoshi's room.
So the little princess, even though she was forbidden from leaving her room for her own safety, still left to get a better look at the daughter of the sea. When Shirahoshi finally found the room that contained the large red serpent, she could see the blood dripping down from the wounds that have gotten bigger because they had moved her.
The mermaid princess could feel the tears grow in her eyes and launched herself into the room to cry over the god. She didn't want to see someone die in front of her and not another person who is so important to her and the country.
Luffy could hear crying and even though she was on the course to a full recovery she couldn't figure out why someone was weeping. She cracked open her golden eyes to see the mermaid she had met earlier. She was about to ask what was wrong until her stomach had interrupted her.
"I'm hungry, Marco-nii." Luffy whined.
The first division commander had to stiffen his giggles. It was a really hard to be serious during such an important time for the Fishmen people. He watched in interest as piles of food came flooding into the room and some of the guards tried to escort the princess back to her room but she refused to move.
Marco assured the guards that he could look after her and their god. He and Luffy both didn't see why they were always so worried about these sorts of things, not that they really cared in the first place.
Luffy changed back to normal watched the giant mermaid princess stare at her, while she stared back, then broke into a large smile.
"I'm Luffy! What's your name?"
"S-Shirahoshi, I'm King Neptune's daughter. It's very nice to meet you in person Luffy-sama." Shirahoshi bowed.
"That's pretty hard to say," Luffy turned her head when she spotted a large mass of guards piling into the room with trays and trays of food. "Food! I'm starving."
As Luffy filled to the brims of her mouth with food she saw out of the corner of her eyes, the princess laughing as she continued to eat. She could see that she must've had it pretty hard being alone in a room day in and day out.
She pulled out one of the lone plate filled with food and handed it to the princess.
"Here, because of me you didn't get to eat earlier."
Shirahoshi started waving her hands in front of her face, hoping not to disturb the girl's meal.
"Oh no, please eat it. It's already such an honor to be in your presence."
Marco had to get up before the mermaid princess said anything that she was going to regret later.
"It's best if you take her offer. She doesn't like being treated like a god, she likes being just another person like you and me."
Although the princess was a little hesitant, she took the small plate into her large hands and started to eat alongside the tiny girl. After a little while they were talking non-stop, they couldn't leave the room without Marco to protect the princess, though he didn't mind but it meant that Neptune and his sons had to come along and meet their little deity.
They were all a little shocked to see their youngest family member talking so casually to the a human little girl, however their minds almost went into over drive when one of the guards told the royal family that that little girl with the straw hat was the daughter of the sea.
Even without doing anything, Luffy had already left a huge impression on the royal family. Shirahoshi heard all about how Luffy wanted to be a pirate when she was older and was looking forward to meeting with her again and promised her that she was going to take her to see her mother's grave when she had her own power to protect her for herself.
And with that Luffy had to say farewell to Shirahoshi, even though she still called her a coward to the very end, she was looking forward to coming back with her own crew.
Luffy swam around Marco and found it really amusing to threaten him by holding a sharp claw deadly close to the bubble that spotted him from drown and sinking like a hammer. He wasn't really appreciating that even after a year of being away from the crew, she was still the same ill-mannered brat they all know and love.
When they got back onto solid ground, Luffy found herself on Marco's shoulders, arms rest on the top of his head and legs being held tight by strong arms, as they made their way towards the mini Moby.
"Let's go home." Marco called.
"Yep!"
AN: Finally done. I had so much fun writing this chapter. It took a lot of review and looking over the canon to see how Shirahoshi acted, since I skipped most of Fishman Island.
Anyway, Otohime had died when Shirahoshi was 6 so, I couldn't save her even if I wanted to since I wasn't really planning on saving her in the first place and she's really important to the canon anyway. Oh well, if you want to complain about it, that's fine.
I think the next chapter's probably going to be pretty short since it's just going to be a get together and a party chapter and a little surprise thrown in the mix.