Chapter 38- A broken sign of friendship and the victory party starts!
Garp was getting ready to say goodbye to his grandchildren after the hole in the wall was successfully fixed.
Juli and Luffy was standing outside and looked at him.
Garp smiled at Luffy. "You're my grandson, so I'm not going to capture you here. As for the marines… I will give 'em some excuse, so don't worry."
"Instead of an excuse, let's just say they got away." His subordinate named Bogard told him seriously.
"Anyway, I'm more of an escort than anything." Garp said casually. "Take those two and have a good long talk." He said, referring to Coby and Helmeppo who stood next to him. "I'm going back."
"Okay, bye!" Luffy said casually.
But Garp just fully ignored him and scooped Juli up in his arms. "Waaah! I'm going to miss my cute little granddaughter that always makes me feel loved, not like some other cheeky brats who only make me worry all the time."
"G-Garp-jiji…" Juli stuttered out as she was almost being suffocated by how tight Garp was hugging her. "I-I can't breathe…"
"Oh, sorry…" Garp let go of her immediately and rubbed the back of his neck in embarrassment.
Juli sighed in relief as she could breathe again and then looked softly at her grandfather. "I see. You still can't really control your strength, can you?"
"Hehehe…" Garp blushed in embarrassment. "Ah, right!" He said as he remembered what he wanted to tell his granddaughter before he leaves. "You don't have to worry, Juli-chan. I will not tell anybody that you're still alive, especially men. And I already ordered my men here to forget that we were even here, so there's nothing to be concerned about." Garp said seriously and then nodded satisfied.
Juli smiled. "I see… Thanks Garp-jiji." Her eyes softened as she looked at the grinning Garp. "I think it's time to say goodbye… I'm going to miss you." She smiled cheerily. "Be careful on your journey back to Marine HQ and don't get lost. Love you, Garp-jiji!"
Garp's eyes widened at that. He turned around and cried anime tears. "Waaahh! My cute little granddaughter said she loves me! Did you hear that?!" He began to shake one of his marines subordinates in excitement while crying and ranting about how happy he is.
Sanji and Nami sweat dropped at that as they watched the goodbye through the window.
"Juli really has him wrapped around her little finger." Nami said in amusement.
A few seconds later…
"Bye, Bye, Garp-jiji!" Juli waved cheerfully after Garp, who had to be dragged away by Bogard or he would have never left.
"Noooooo! I don't want to leave! Juuuli-chaaan!" Garp shouted in the distance as he tried desperately to stay with his granddaughter while Bogard just dragged him away with an annoyed expression on his face.
Coby, Helmeppo and the Strawhats sweat dropped at that. Luffy just laughed cheerily, happy that he survived the meeting with his grandfather.
A few moments later…
Sanji placed a cup of coffee before Robin and a cup of tea before Juli and Chopper. "Man, that's a pretty wild grandpa you two got."
Juli giggled amused as she sipped on the tea. "He is always like that." She said nonchalant.
Sanji shook his head at that. "Maybe it is like that, but really… Well, I guess the whole Monkey D. family is messed up in some way."
"That part about Dragon really surprised me." Robin said as she summarized their meeting with Vice-Admiral Garp inside her head. "It really seems there isn't an average person in their family."
Juli just smiled in fondness at that.
"Oh, what I wanted to ask you, Juli." Robin looked at her. "Did you know that Luffy's father is Dragon?"
Juli shook her head at that and placed the cup of tea back down on the table. "No. I didn't. Lu always said he had no father… But I guess Garp-jiji just forgot to tell him." She shrugged as Sanji sweat dropped at her comment and Robin giggled amused.
"Huh? Where's Luffy?" Chopper asked Zoro, who sat on the ground.
"He's out front talking with Coby." Zoro said casually.
"You alright with that? You're friends, right?" Sanji asked him.
"It's nostalgic but…" Zoro said softly and looked out of the window. "The one who saved Coby was Luffy."
Chopper blinked in realization. "Nami is gone too, ever since she heard what the marines had to say… Maybe she's being shy."
Juli giggled. "Chimney asked Nami if she could play with her in the pool. Kokoro-san is with them too, I think."
Sanji's heart began to beat faster at that.
"Pool?" Chopper asked in surprise.
"The Galley-La Company's employee pool, out back." Robin explained to him.
"Waaah! Nami-swan's swimsuit~" Sanji shouted lovestruck as he swooned around them with hearts in his eyes. "I'll go bring her a drink!" And with that, he stormed away very quickly.
Zoro sighed at that. Robin chuckled amused.
Juli smiled and looked at the tea inside her cup. But just then for a split second, a shadow of sadness crossed over her face before she was being back to normal with no sign of the sadness from before.
Zoro narrowed his eyes at that, being the only one to notice this. 'Juli… Something seems to bear down on her.'
Sometime later, after Luffy finished the talk with Coby and Helmeppo…
Sanji, Zoro, Chopper, Robin, Juli and Luffy were looking at Coby and Helmeppo, who were getting ready to leave.
"Wha? Are you really going back already?! Eat with us! Eat!" Luffy whined, not wanting Coby to leave this soon.
"We're really enemies… We can't act friendly together." Coby insisted. "Luffy-san! Do you know what the second half of the Grandline is known as?" He asked him cheerily.
"Huh? What?" Luffy just picked his nose.
"Further beyond the Red Line, the sea becomes vaster. That final sea, people call it by one more name…" Coby told him enthusiastically. "The New World."
Luffy stopped picking his nose and smiled. "The New World. I like this name!"
"The sea where those who wish to usher in a new era gather! The man who controlled that sea was… The Pirate King!"
Everyone smiled at that and Luffy nodded determined.
"Luffy-san!" Coby shouted happily. "We are certainly meeting again there! And next time I will capture you! I'll become even stronger! And then one day, I will… I will become a Marine Admiral!" He shouted loudly and determined. Just then, he noticed what he just shouted out and sank to the ground in panic. "Waah! I can't just blurt that out so loudly… It's embarrassing just saying what I want to become!"
"Coby!" Luffy looked at him with a serious smile. "You're gonna fight me, right? Then, you have to become that strong! You gotta!"
Coby stopped panicking and looked shocked and surprised at him. "T-That's an Admiral, you know?"
"Next time we meet, we'll be even stronger. Even more amazing!" Luffy said determined.
Coby's eyes widened at that. 'Why? It's just a dream I blurted out but…' His eyes watered. 'Why is he able to believe me wholeheartedly? As well as Juli-san…' He thought as he remembered her response to his dream and his eyes watered even more.
"What's that?" Zoro taunted him. "You still aren't cured of being a crybaby, Coby?"
Coby's eyes widened at that. He rubbed over his eyes and bowed to them. "That I was able to meet you two again today… I'm truly grateful!" His tears dropped to the ground. 'It will be a challenge to go after these two!' He wiped his tears away and jumped up in determination. "We're going to keep becoming even stronger! And in the New World we will meet again! Let's go!" Coby shouted utterly determined and began to storm away.
"Oh, Oi!" Helmeppo shouted in surprise. He looked back to Luffy and Zoro and took out his knifes. "You two better prepare yourselves! We've got the guts to surpass you!" He laughed cheekily and then stormed after Coby. "Oi, wait!"
Zoro smirked as he looked after them. "Luffy, you've made yourself another unbelievable opponent, haven't you?"
"Coby is a capable guy. I just knew that." Luffy smiled brightly. "Shishishi."
Nobody noticed that the whole time they said goodbye to Coby, Juli was being silent and deep in thoughts.
Luffy narrowed his eyes as he suddenly noticed that something was wrong with his sister. He looked at her, just to see how she stared sadly at something in her hands. He narrowed his eyes in confusion and walked towards her. "Juli-nee?" Luffy asked her as he stood right in front of her.
"Huh?" Juli looked up to him with wet eyes as she was ripped out of her thoughts. As she noticed that Luffy was looking right at her, as well as the others who looked at her in concern, she hid her hands behind her back and tried to smile. "What's wrong Lu?"
Luffy narrowed his eyes seriously at that. "What have you been looking at?"
"N-Nothing." Juli said nervously and avoided making eye contact with her brother.
"Show it to me!" Luffy shouted at her and tried to grab what she was hiding behind her back.
"Kyaa!" Juli shouted in surprise and jumped up as Luffy almost grabbed her hand. "I-It's really nothing Lu. Really!"
Luffy pouted at her. "I want to see what it is!" And with that he stretchted his arm.
"Eek!" Juli shouted surprised as he grabbed onto her hand and almost pried the thing she was hiding out of her hands. But in the last moment, she ran away from his hand and so, Luffy could only grab onto thin air. "Stop it, Lu!"
"Juli-nee!" Luffy shouted indignantly. "Show it to me!" He began to run after her as Juli began to storm away from him.
Sanji and Zoro sweat dropped as they saw Juli running away from Luffy, while Luffy tried to grab onto the thing she was hiding.
"Juli-nee! Stop running!" Luffy said in annoyance and now, he wrapped his rubber-arms multiple times around her and so successfully stopped her.
Juli pouted as Luffy ripped the thing she was hiding behind her back out of her hands.
"Finally!" Luffy cheered and let go of his sister, so he can look at this mysterious thing, his sister didn't want him to see.
Juli sank to the ground with a pout and hugged her knees to her chest in a comforting manner.
"So, let's see!" Luffy said in excitement and looked down at his hands. His eyes widened in shock and surprise. "This is…!"
"What?!" Sanji, Chopper and Zoro asked him curiously and looked down at the thing in Luffy's hands.
"Her fan?!" Zoro said in surprise as he saw Juli's white and golden fan lying innocently in Luffy's hands. He narrowed his eyes. 'What's the meaning of this?! Why would she hide her fan?'
Luffy furrowed his brows in confusion and then, opened the fan.
Everyone's eyes widened utterly shocked as they looked at the huge hole in Juli's fan, making it impossible to use.
Juli buried her face in her knees sadly as tears brimmed over in her eyes.
Luffy stared at the destroyed fan in shock, before closing it and walking towards his sister. "When did this happen, Juli-nee?" He asked her seriously as he touched her uninjured shoulder softly.
Juli sniffed and looked up to him with tears in her eyes. "I-In the fight with Lucci… You remember when I blocked his first Rankyaku as I tried to reach the door leading to the Gate of Justice?"
Luffy nodded softly and sat down on the ground besides his sister, still holding the fan in his hands.
Sanji, Chopper, Robin and Zoro looked softly at the scene.
"Let's go in, Chopper." Zoro said softly to Chopper, making his way to their room.
"O-Okay…" Chopper said, looked one last time at the Luffy who was trying to comfort Juli, and then followed after Zoro, Sanji and Robin, who all went inside.
"W-Well, after Lucci noticed that I could block his first flying cut attack, he threw this stronger Rankyaku at me, right?" Juli bit on her lip.
Luffy's expression darkened. "Yes. I remember." He said utterly serious as he remembered how Juli couldn't block this strong attack and had to dodge, but was still cut on her stomach.
"I-I didn't want to tell you before, because it wasn't important at that time. As I saw how this strong flying cut attack flew towards me, I knew I couldn't block it… But I also knew that I couldn't dodge this attack. So, the only possible thing to do was to try and block it with all the strength I had… And as you probably know, because I'm still alive, I was successful in redirecting it a bit away from me… That's when a little hole was bored into the fan. I ignored it because I thought I could fix this hole in my fan later, it wasn't really big, but then…. Well, one thing lead to another and so I still had to use my fan for some attacks of mine. I didn't really think this little hole could destroy my fan, but… With every attack I used this fan for, it ripped more and more until it became like this…" Juli told him sadly.
"I see…" Luffy said seriously and stared at Juli's fan in his hands. "But maybe we can fix it! You don't have to be sad, I'm sure-" He tried to cheer her up.
"Lu…" Juli interrupted him softly. "I-It's too late. It can't be fixed anymore. Almost everything on it is destroyed. I know quite a bit about fans, and that's why I can tell that it can't be fixed..." She bit on her lip as she tried to hold back her tears.
Luffy sighed, knowing the fan was very important to his sister. "I'm sorry, Juli-nee." He hugged her as he saw the tears in her eyes.
"Thanks, Lu." Juli whispered softly as she relaxed a bit in the embrace of her brother.
"Can you tell me who gave this fan to you?" Luffy asked his sister curiously, while hugging her tightly.
Juli nodded and smiled sadly. "Yes. It was around eight years ago…"
*Flashback*
Eight years ago, on the island Seinaru… Juli is ten years old…
Juli sighed as she looked at the pile of paperwork on her desk. "It's really boring making all this paperwork… I wonder how Mama always did this…" She shook her head as sad memories flooded through her. "I think I need a break…" And with that, she walked out of her office and down the stairs of her little palace. Just as she reached the hall, the big door to the entrance of the palace suddenly shot open and Annie stormed through it, brimming over with excitement.
"Juli! Juli! You won't believe what I found~" Annie shouted towards her as she spotted her standing in the hall.
Juli shook her head and smiled in fondness as Annie stopped before her. She could definitely see that Annie was very excited about something, because she forgot to close the entrance door to the palace as well as her blonde hair, that was normally so tidy up in a bun, was now messy with streaks of her flaxen-haired hair falling out of her bun everywhere. Juli looked at her warm brown eyes that twinkled with excitement. Annie was the daughter of Maria, her mother's advisor and since the death of her mother, Maria was her advisor as well as helping her to rule over a whole kingdom. Annie was the only girl on this island in her age group, being only two years older than her and she is the closest to being something like a best friend for her.
Juli shook her head and concentrated back on Annie, who was blabbering in excitement.
"You have to see what I found! You're going to be soooo happy! Ah, I can't wait to see your face! Just this time, Annie did a good job in finding something and not losing things like I usually do!" Annie continued to blabber happily.
Juli giggled amused. "First, calm down Annie. If you continue to talk so fast like this, I can never understand what you're talking about."
Annie took a deep breath to calm her excitement down, what didn't mean she wasn't as bubbly as ever. "Okay, I'm calm now. But you have to see what I found!" She waved with a shopping bag before her face.
Juli shook her head in fondness. "First, let's go to the saloon. We can't just stand here in the middle of the hallway. And second…" She said and pointed at the still open door. "Better close the door before Maria-san sees that you have forgotten to close it again..."
Annie nodded at that nervously in agreement and stormed to the door, to close it. "Yes. Thanks for reminding me Juli! I don't want to be grounded again! Nothing against you but staying the whole day inside the palace is sooo boring! And most of the time I can't even play with you because I'm 'too distracting' and 'Juli's is very busy now and she can't play with you.'" She mimicked her mothers scolding tone.
Juli laughed cheerfully at that and sat down on the lounge in the saloon.
Annie flopped into a seat next to her. "Just to think about being grounded is getting me bored…" She sighed.
Juli looked at the bag next to Annie curiously. "Now, finally tell me what's in that bag!"
"Oh, so you're getting excited?" Annie grinned at her.
"Yes! Now please tell me~" Juli said excited.
"Okay." Annie smiled and took a wrapped up longish thing out of the bag. "I finally found the perfect thing you can use as a weapon."
Juli tilted her head in confusion. "You know that they're no weapons on this island… right?"
"Yes." Annie still smiled at her.
"And… it isn't something like a frying pan like last time you said the exact same thing…" Juli asked her with a dead-pan expression.
"That was just this one time, have a bit more faith in my ideas, Hime!" Annie looked at her fake-hurt and pouted. "And by the way you can still use a pan as a very good object to hit someone over the head with!"
"Yes, sorry, sorry." Juli smiled at her apologetically. "Now, what is it?"
"Look yourself." Annie smiled at her cheekily and put the package in her hands.
Juli looked at it with childish wonder and then slowly began to open it. Her eyes widened as she opened it and then… She looked at a pretty white and golden fan. Juli blinked… once, twice. "Really Annie? A fan?" She looked at her with a deadpan expression.
"Oi! Just think about how you could fight with it before you judge me!" Annie shouted at her.
Juli narrowed her eyes in thoughts as she stared at the fan. Then, she realized it. "Annie, you're brilliant!" She shouted excited and took the fan in her hand and opened and closed it. "That's the perfect weapon for me!"
"Yes! See!" Annie smiled proudly. "I knew I was a genius all along."
They both looked at each other and burst out laughing at her joke.
Juli wiped her laugh-tears away and sighed. "Anyway, how much did it cost?" She looked at her seriously.
Annie smiled at that and shook her head. "You don't have to give me your money. It is a present from me for you!"
"But…" Juli laid the fan on the saloon table and looked at her seriously.
"Don't worry about it! It's a sign of our friendship! Even if we are far apart from each other, you just have to look at the fan and remember me!" Annie smiled at her brightly.
Juli's eyes softened and she smiled brightly back to her. "Thank you, Annie."
Annie smiled mischievously. "And… I hoped you could lend me some of your dresses sometimes…"
Juli giggled amused. "I was sure there was more to that than just waiting to give me a present~" She taunted her.
"Oi! That's not true!" Annie shouted indignantly and then they both started laughing again.
*Flashback…end*
Juli smiled softly and looked sadly at the broken fan in her hands. "Well. That's how I got it."
"I see." Luffy smiled cheerily. "Annie was really a good friend! Where is she now?" He asked her curiously, relieved that her mood brightened a bit.
Juli's eyes watered at that and she bit on her lip as a tear ran down her face.
'Oh, shit, shit, shit, shit! Wrong question, dammit Luffy!' Luffy shouted at himself inside his head and hugged his sister again. "Sorry, Juli-nee. That was a dumb question."
Juli buried her face in his shirt, relaxing at the familiar scent of her brother. "I-It's okay, Lu." She took a deep breath and wiped her tears away. "It was about time to let it go." She smiled softly at him.
Luffy sighed in relief. "Okay, if you think so. But please talk to me straight away the next time something like this happens!"
"Okay." Juli smiled at him cheerily. She looked back at the fan in her hand. "Maybe I should throw it away-"
"No! Let me keep it!" Luffy shouted at her and ripped the fan out of her hand.
Juli looked at him in confusion. "Lu…?"
Luffy blushed and rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment. "I mean if this is okay with you…"
Juli giggled amused. "Of course. If you know what to do with it."
"Thanks! Shishishi! Now let's go back to the others!" Luffy said cheerily and grabbed her hand, dragging her with him towards the others.
Sometime later, at the Galley-La Company employee pool…
Chimney and Nami cheerfully played water ball inside the pool. Kokoro laughed as she cheerfully swam around next to them.
Chopper slowly took off the bandage on Juli's shoulder and stared at the rosy, pink, fully-healed skin in shock. "It's fully healed!" He shouted in surprise and shock and looked in awe at the healed skin. "You heal almost as fast as Luffy and you're not a rubber-human!"
Juli giggled amused and petted his head. "Since I can think of I always healed this fast. Maybe it has something to do with the environment on Seinaru, I grew up with." She shrugged and smiled proudly at Chopper. "Or you are just an unbelievable incredible doctor, Chopper."
"Wah! Saying that doesn't make me happy, you bitch!" Chopper blushed and did his happy dance.
Juli giggled and stood up. "But now that my wound is healed, I can change into some swim clothes and finally go swimming." She sighed. "I really miss the cooling feeling of water on my skin." And with that she walked to a room, Nami tilted as 'Girls-changing-room' and 'If-I-ever-see-one-of-you-boys-enter-this-room-I'm-going-to-fucking-kill-you'.
"Nami-swan~" Sanji shouted with hearts in his eyes towards her. "The mizu-mizu meat is done!"
"Hai!" Nami shouted back to him.
Kokoro jumped out of the water and landed perfectly with her mermaid-tail on the ground.
"Baa-chan's amazing!" Chimney shouted cheerfully.
Kokoro laughed. "It sure smells good."
"Doesn't it?" Sanji said, still lovestruck. "Now, say 'aaaahh'." He said with two meat skewer in his hands.
But instead of feeding Nami with it, he accidentally fed them to Kokoro.
Sanji sank to the ground and with his fist hammered onto it in depression.
"Delicious~" Chopper and Luffy said in awe as they crammed the tasty meat into their mouths.
"Delicious~" Sogeking said, suddenly sitting next to them. "Mizu-mizu meat barbeque~"
Zoro almost spit his food out of his mouth in surprise. "Sogeking, when did you-"
Sanji cried heavily. "Yosh, eat as much as you like!" He said unenthusiastically.
"Why are you crying?" Zoro asked him in confusion.
"Shut up! The smoke just got into my eyes that's all!" He shouted at him and then, his mood made a 360 degree change as he looked lovestruck at Robin. "Robin-chwan~ How is it? Different from the stocked food isn't it?"
"Yeah, it's delicious." Robin complimented him.
"Hime-neechan! Let's play tag in the water!" Chimney shouted towards her cheerfully as Juli went into the pool.
"Oh, tag in water? What's that?" She asked her kindly as she swam towards her.
"The catcher is a 'shark' and has to try to catch the others while the others have to get away as fast as possible! And when the 'shark' got you, he has to tickle you because he's 'eating' you. And then, you're out and have to wait until the others are caught. When everyone is caught, somebody else is going to be the 'shark' and the game begins again." Chimney explained to her.
"Okay, I got it." Juli smiled cheerily. "I'm going to be the shark first, so better get away before I'm going to eat you!"
Chimney giggled delighted at that and she and Gonbe swam away from her as fast as possible.
"Oh, it's them!" The Franky Family shouted as they stormed into the pool area.
"Mugiwara-san! You finally woke up?" Zambai asked him.
"Oh, the Franky Family!" Luffy shouted cheerily with his mouth full of meat. "Come here and eat!"
The Franky Family cheered and stormed towards them. "It's a barbeque!"
"Oi, there's a ton of us now, we need to get more meat!" Luffy shouted towards Sanji.
Just then, Sodom and Gommorrah's heads appeared as they smelled the meat.
"Oh, Sodom, Gommorrah! Come here!" Chopper invited them cheerfully.
Just then, the two giants from Enies Lobby appeared as well. "I'm starving…"
"The giants!" Sogeking shouted happily and waved at them.
"Strawhat! So, you're awake!" Tyleston shouted as the men from Galley-La company showed up by the pool as well.
"Huh?" Luffy turned around and then smiled brightly. "Oh, it's you guys! Shishishi!"
"What are you doing at the pool-" Paulie said but then interrupted himself as he spotted Nami, sitting on a folding chair in a bikini. "Aaahhh! Why you shameless girl!" He snapped at her with a blush on his face.
Nami looked at him in confusion while eating some of the mizu-mizu meat. "This is a pool, Onii-san."
"Maaa, something smells good." Iceberg said as he arrived by the pool as well.
"Waah! Iceberg-san!" Paulie shouted in panic and covered Nami from Iceberg's sight with a towel. "I can't absolutely let you see this, this woman's some kind of pervert!"
"Wait a sec!" Nami shouted at him in annoyance.
Juli giggled amused at that.
"Huh?" Iceberg looked in her direction. His mouth dropped open at what he saw, and a thin line of blood run out of his nose.
"Iceberg-san?" Paulie looked at him in surprise and followed his eyes, just to look at Juli who slowly got out of the pool. She was wearing a beautiful white bathing suit with a very deep V-neck, revealing very much of her gorgeous breasts. Her bathing suit was underlining her beautiful long legs as well. She was also wearing her golden collar with the ruby in the middle, which only pointed the eye of the beholder more at her breasts. And it didn't help one bit, that water drops slowly ran down her body.
Paulie's eyes bulged out in shock at that and he blushed as red as a tomato.
Waterdrops twinkled on Juli's skin and made her look even more beautiful. Juli sighed pleased, stretched herself and run her left hand with the full moon tattoo through her wonderful shimmering hair.
Paulie was speechless at that and suddenly a weird feeling rushed through him. 'W-what's this feeling…?' He thought and held a hand before his nose as he got a massive nosebleed.
Nami sweat dropped as she saw that the two men were close to fainting. 'I didn't expect such an intense reaction when I bought Juli this swimsuit… but I think Paulie learned his lesson that not I'm the pervert, but rather he himself…'
Juli smiled cheerily at the two men as she walked past them. "Nice to see you, Iceberg-san, Paulie!"
The two just looked after her as she walked towards Nami and sat down beside her with their jaws dropped to the ground.
"Ah, Juli-megami~" Sanji swooned towards her. "Here for you, my love, I have made grilled vegetables with a special seasoning from Water 7…" He placed the plate before her, and just then noticed her swimsuit. "That's…" His heart began to beat faster as he stared at her boobs. "Maginificent~" He shouted in a high-pitched voice as he flew back with a massive nosebleed, successfully being knocked out. Nami facepalmed at that.
Juli just blinked in confusion. "What's wrong with Sanji?"
Nami sighed. "Nothing. He's being dumb again." 'Next time, I will make sure to get Juli a bathing suits that covers her up a bit more… Or maybe not, it's actually fun seeing all the men getting knocked out one by one.'
Juli shrugged and began to eat her vegetables.
"What was going with the love-cook just now?" Zoro walked towards them, concerned that something might have happened.
Nami smiled evilly as she got an idea. "Oh, it was nothing…" As she was sure Zoro was looking she 'accidently' bumped into Juli's arm, just as Juli wanted to take another bite from her grilled vegetables.
"Kyaaa!" Juli shouted surprised as the potato slipped down from her fork and fell right onto her breast.
"Oops… Sorry, Juli." Nami smiled mischieviously and waited for Zoro's reaction.
"Huh?" Zoro said in surprise and just then noticed Juli's low neckline as the potato landed right on her breasts. He blushed heavily and looked away as fast as possible while trying to calm his beating heart down as well as the blood that rushed into his face.
Nami couldn't help but chuckle amused at that.
Juli took the potato away from her boobs and ate it with a shrug.
As Zoro calmed down a bit, he glared darkly at Nami, knowing she did this very deliberately. He walked back towards where Chopper, Luffy and Sogeking were and for the rest of the evening, tried to avoid looking in Juli's direction.
Sanji slowly got up with groan, having a really bad headache and didn't remember what happened before he passed out.
Franky arrived to the party and began to dance. "Let's create some ssuuuper party atmosphere!"
"Aniki!" The Franky Family cheered.
"Yosh!" Sogeking shouted as he finally reached the top of the mountain, made out of stacked tables, that was now serving as something like a tower. "Let's start! Number one Sogeking! I'll sing!" He shouted, stroke a pose and began to sing the Sogeking song.
The Franky Family cheered and began to dance.
"Yosh! It's a party!" Luffy smiled brightly and laughed happily.
Now, the party was in the full swing. Everyone sang, danced, ate meat or drank sake.
Juli giggled and declined the champagne that was offered to her and Nami.
Nami smiled and accepted the glass of champagne. "Juli, come drink with me!"
Juli smiled at her and shook her head. "No, but thank you anyway. It's just that I didn't try alcohol before…"
"What?!" Nami looked at her utterly shocked. "I can't accept that! You have to try it, come on!"
Juli shook her head again even as Nami pouted at her. 'It's better if I don't get drunk today… I want to tell them everything tonight…'
Suddenly, Luffy popped up before Juli. "Hmmmmmm…." He said thoughtfully as he stared right at her boobs.
"Lu?" Juli tilted her head in confusion at him.
"Hmmm…" Luffy just continued to say and got nearer to his sister's boobs, almost pressing his face into them.
A tick mark appeared on Nami's head. "WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING?!" Nami screeched at him and hit him hard on the head, sending him flying. "Jeez… You don't just stare at your sister's breasts!" She shouted at him as she ran towards him, ready to punch him again, to beat some manners into him.
"Itai!" Luffy said and grabbed onto the bump on his head. "Why did you hit me, Nami?!"
Juli just watched the two of them utterly confused, before going back to drinking some juice, Sanji brought her earlier.
"You were staring right at Juli's breast like a damn pervert, you idiot!" Nami shouted at him.
"Wha?!" Luffy shouted in shock and jumped up. „I wasn't staring at her breast, I was just looking at her scars, because they look somewhat familiar!"
"Scars?" Nami looked at him in surprise and then looked at Juli. Her eyes widened in surprise as she spotted the three diagonal, very visual scars that ran right over her left breast.
"Yes, see." Luffy said and pouted at her. "No need to hit me!"
"Sorry…" Nami mumbled but couldn't get Juli's scars out of her head.
"Juli-nee." Luffy said seriously as he and Nami were back by Juli.
"Yes, Lu?" Juli narrowed her eyes at her brothers serious expression.
"Where did you get those scars? You never told me you had some…" He looked at her in concern.
Nami just looked at her with a mixture of curiosity and concern.
Juli sighed, already expecting that question. She softly touched her scars. "I will tell you all later, okay Lu? I decided that I want to reveal everything to you, my nakama. That also includes the identity of my father. It's important that you all know who he is because if it's going to be revealed that I'm his daughter, I could bring you all into trouble."
Nami looked at her in surprise at that and let the topic fall for now but couldn't really wait until Juli told them what is up with her scars.
Luffy pouted. "But I wanna know now~" He whined.
Juli smiled softly. "Sorry, Lu. I don't want to destroy the party and cheerful atmosphere with what I have to tell you, so let's just wait after the party."
Luffy sighed now wanting to know it even more. But for the sake of his sister, he let it go and went back to Sogeking and Chopper, who now began to play around with chopsticks.
A few minutes after that, Juli noticed something and narrowed her eyes.
Robin went to a side-wall of the pool and leaned against it. She smiled as she saw how Chopper laughed loudly as Luffy pulled funny faces.
"Listen from there, Nico Robin." A voice from the other side of the wall said to her.
"It can't be… Aokiji?" Robin said in shock.
"Why didn't you escape like always?" Aokiji asked her seriously, as he was leaning against the other side of the wall. "You should've been able to escape from CP-9 if you were alone."
Robin narrowed her eyes and began to sweat nervously. "That is because this time was different. To just let them be killed, I couldn't do that."
"The giant that fought for Ohara twenty years ago, Jaguar D. Saul… He was my close friend." Aokiji told her seriously.
Robin's eyes widened as she remembered how Aokiji killed Saul.
"That day, I respected his wishes and spared your life. So, I feel I have the responsibility to watch how your life turns out. But after twenty years without a place of your own, I felt it was too risky to let such a dangerous bomb continue to roam around freely. Truly, I felt that you finally had to died. This time, I finally wanted to finish off what had happened at Ohara. Of course, there's no way I could have expected CP-9 to be defeated…" He paused for a moment. "Have you finally found your place?"
"Yes." Robin said truly.
"What Saul told you, whether it was wrong or right… From here on will you show me that answer?" Aokiji asked her.
"I intend to." Robin answered him seriously.
"In that case, live strong. Ohara is not yet forgotten." Aokiji said seriously and just as he wanted to walk away, amused giggles sounded from above them.
"What?" They both said surprised and looked up, just to see Juli sitting on the wall, that was dividing Robin from Aokiji.
"I knew you would come back, Kuzan-kun." Juli smiled at him cheerily.
"Juli-chan-" Aokiji said surprised, and his eyes widened utterly shocked as he saw what she was wearing. "Juli-chan, what're you wearing?! You need to cover up!" He shouted at her with a blush on his face.
"Huh? Why? It isn't cold, yet." Juli tilted her head cutely in confusion.
Robin couldn't help but chuckle amused at that.
Aokiji sighed, scratched his head and turned around. "Anyway, I will not tell any soul that I saw you alive with the Strawhats…"
"Thanks, Kuzan-kun~" Juli said cheerily. "And I hope to see you again soon." She giggled amused as she saw how Aokiji literally stormed away. Then, she looked softly down at Robin and slid down the wall until she landed next to her.
"Robin! Juli-nee! Look over here!" Luffy called them.
They both looked in Luffy's direction just to see that he had stuck chopsticks up his nose and mouth, while his cheeks were full of meat. "How much meat can you eat?" He gave them the victory-sign
Sogeking and Chopper cracked up at that and laughed loudly. "That's the best face Luffy!" Chopper shouted between laughter.
"Seriously, try to have some manners!" Nami scolded him.
Robin smiled happily as she looked at her friends. Juli noticed that and smiled at her softly.
They both watched in amusement how Nami, Sanji, Chopper and Sogeking all tried to get the chopsticks out of Luffy's nose, but it wasn't working. Zoro was just sweatdropping at the scene, while drinking some sake.
Juli giggled amused and grabbed Robin's hand. "That's right, Robin! You're not alone anymore!"
Robin looked at her in surprise as she dragged her towards their nakama. But then, she smiled brightly and the two laughed cheerily and began to help the others with trying to get those chopsticks out of Luffy's nose.
A few hours later, the party slowly began to ebb down and it was getting dark…
The Strawhats as well as Franky, who were the only ones still awake, gathered all around Juli.
"Sanji, can you maybe make a campfire?" Juli asked him.
"Of course, Juli-megami~" Sanji shouted lovestruck and began to get everything ready for the fire.
Everyone else just looked seriously at Juli, the cheerfully mood from the party now fully gone.
Juli took a deep breath. "I hope you all don't mind, but I want to tell you everything about my past as well as the identity of my father as soon as possible."
"Finally!" Luffy said in relief, wanting to know the identity of her father since he saw that picture as well as wanting to know what's up with her scars.
"Shut up, Luffy!" Nami scolded him.
Luffy pouted at that and Robin chuckled in amusement. Zoro just shook his head and sighed in fondness.
"Are you really sure you want the suuuper me to listen to all that?" Franky asked her in confusion.
"Of course. I'm sure you wouldn't tell anybody, right?" Juli smiled at him. "And you helped us very much at Enies Lobby, so I don't mind." 'And I get the feeling that you will join us soon…'
"Well, then that's okay with me." Franky said and smirked.
"I finished the campfire, Juli-megami!" Sanji said to her lovestruck as he pointed at the campfire he made.
"Thanks, Sanji. That was really fast." Juli said gratefully and everyone sat down around it.
Sanji slowly took off his jacket and laid it around Juli's shoulders. "It's getting cold, I don't want you to becoming sick."
Juli smiled at him thankfully. "Thank you, Sanji."
Sanji swooned around at her as she thanked him. "No problem, Juli-megami~"
Zoro narrowed his eyes in dislike at that and crossed his arms across his chest, so he wouldn't punch the stupid love-cook in the face.
Juli took a deep breath as everyone looked at her expectingly. "Okay, I should begin I guess. I'm going to tell you all the identity of my father right now, but first you have to promise me something." She said seriously.
"Promise? What?" Chopper asked her in childish wonder.
Sogeking gulped at her serious voice. 'I hope what she will tell us isn't too scary…'
Robin narrowed her eyes, already having a guess to who her father is.
"You all have to promise me that you will never tell anybody who my father is or that I'm his daughter, understood? It's really important that you know that because it will not just get dangerous for me, but for you all too when it comes out that I'm related to him."
"I promise!" Luffy shouted loudly and looked at her eagerly.
The others all nodded seriously in agreement.
Juli closed her eyes for a split second to calm down. Then, she opened her eyes again and touched the collar around her neck softly. "My father is …"
Hey guys! That was Chapter 38. How did you like it? :) I'm really sorry for the cliffhanger but I couldn't resist… XD It was just a too perfect moment to end this chapter like this. Anyway, I hope you liked Juli's short flashback as well as the funny victory party the Strawhats had. :) In the next chapters, the identity of Juli's father is going to be revealed as well as Juli's whole past. :3 I hope you're excited for those flashbacks as well as the reaction of the Strawhats! See you next chapter and have an awesome day! ;)
Oh, and I'm currently searching for a Beta-reader. If you're interested in Beta-reading this story, just write me a message. If not… Thanks for reading to this point, I guess XD.
names
Seinaru = holy
…-megami = Goddess …
attacks
Rankyaku = Storm Leg (Lucci)
Reviews
'CherryBlossomSuki': Kaido
Mmmhh... Maybe Juli's father is Kaido, maybe not... ;)
'ZabuzasGirl':Oh! That's terrible! Come on!
Wonderful! ;)
Update immediately, please!
Thanks! :) And I know I'm a terrible person because of making such a cliffhanger. XD. Oh, and I will update soon, don't worry. (Probably on Wednesday)
'princesskakashi287': that was just evil, awesome chapter the party scene was well described, love iceberg's reaction to juli in a bathing suit
Thank you~ Glad you enjoyed this chapter :3. And I know I'm the evil itself for making you all suffer with a massive cliffhanger XD.
'Queen Dove': Man the cliffhanger was mean anyway I m sorry to hear about Julie's fan and her friend gave it to her that is rough and I hope she can ether replace it or adapt to other weapons in that cas I really love Julie and Garp's interactions you really do an amazing job keep them in character and it shows anyway now I am super hiped for the next chapter urg why you do this to me anyway have a great day and thanks for making me laugh me destracted by divice notices Garp and Julie interacting me drops everything one hour later me trying to lying on the floor trying to catch my breath as everyone in the room shouts in surprise
Sorry for this mean cliffhanger, but I couldn't resist XD. Anyway, Juli's fan was really important to her, what the flashback showed, but she also know she has to let go from too sad memories and look forward. That's why she gave Luffy her fan and why she's going to tell her nakama everything, so she can look forward and feel better. And sorry to make you laugh and drop everything XD. Have an awesome day as well and see you! :)
'Totong': Oh my goodness! It seems Juli gonna tell who her father is & probably her whole family as well as her kingdom. Not to mention Blackbeard himself & the tragedy he cause in Juli. Great update as always onwards true believer, excelsior!
Thank you~ :3 And yes, she's going to tell the Strawhats her whole story, from the beginning to the end. (They're going to be good moments, but also a lot sad and upsetting ones.)
'Guest' from 15 of July 2018: Nooooooooooo! You cannot stop here!
I can and I already did! ;) *insert evil laugh here* XD.
'Fanboy 316': So the fan Juli uses during the fight was a gift from a friend from long time ago. That's very sad. I've hope she able to fix it during their remaining days in Water 07.
Yeah, it's really sad. It get's even sadder when you think about that for a moment: Annie (Juli's friend) lived on her island Seinaru... And Seinaru was destroyed by Blackbeard and everyone on it was killed. (I hope you understand what I mean) Anyway, Julia really doesn't believe that she can fix her fan, that's why she gave it to Luffy and now Luffy has it. (I have no idea what he wants with it anyway...) Well, thanks for your comment and have a nice day! :)
'DinoZilla': It's really funny seeing Garp as a bumbling yet loving grandfather im front of his granddaughter. Especially his assistant dragging him away. At least it's better than seeing Garp hitting Luffy. But it's more hilarious seeing Aokiji as a stuttering idiot in front of Juli. It's surprising to see him like acting like of her.
As soon as you have Garp in the chapter, it's guaranteed that it's going to be funny XD. And Aokiji stuttering in front of Juli was because she was wearing a really revealing bathing suit... (Curse Nami for that! XD)
'hellspam': That was mean to have a cliffhanger lol
...Hehehe... Sorry for that. XD Sometimes, I just can't hide my mischevious side and also... I just couldn't. resist this perfect opportunity for a cliffhanger. XD