Sorry this took so long. School's in session and I havde less time on my hands, so please bear with the delays, please. This chapter is a flashback of a piece of Lilia's past in Foosha Village.

Chapter 8.5

The First Encounter with The Hybrid

5 years ago

It was five years ago, in Foosha Village, on Dawn Island. Luffy was twelve, Ace was fifteen, and Shauna and Ren were thirteen. Luffy had just gone down to the village for no real reason, but blow off steam after an argument with Ace over eating the last few pieces of bear meat. A younger Ren and Shauna, secretly, followed Luffy to make sure he didn't do anything stupid. Luffy went to his favorite place in Foosha Village, Makino's Party's Bar. When he passed through the doors he saw one of his most favorite women in the world talking to his other favorite woman.

"Mom!" Luffy screamed happily, temporarily forgetting about his and ran to her.

"Luffy!" Lilia hugged her son tightly and after a moment she released him. "Luffy what are you doing down in the village? I thought you'd still be up in the mountains."

"Oh. Uh…" Before Luffy could explain, Ren and Shauna burst through the door and ran toward Lilia. "Aunt Lily!"

"Ren! Shauna!" Lilia hugged the twins tightly. "Looks like it's a party. What, is Ace going to run through the door and hug me too?"

"Speaking of hugs don't I get one too?" Makino asked. She approached the group. "I'm starting to feel a little left out."

"Makino!" Luffy hugged Makino, who hugged him back. "But seriously what are the three of you doing here?"

"Umm…" Luffy felt embarrassed to answer.

"Luffy got into a fight with Ace and came here." Ren explained bluntly, which earned a glare from Luffy.

"I see." Lilia smiled. She turned to face Luffy. "Want to go back up the mountain to talk to Ace."

"No." Luffy puffed his cheeks childishly. "I don't want to even see that jerk."

"Well I guess there's no point in forcing you to apologize to each other." Lilia sighed and then clapped her hands. "It's a long walk from the mountains. Do you three want a snack?"

"Sure!" All three of them chimed.

"Makino, do you mind?" Lilia asked.

"Not at all. I love to cook for the kids." Makino said pleasantly.

"Thank you."

"Hey Aunt Lily? Aren't you supposed to still be in the Grand Line?" Shauna asked.

"Oh actually I got some time off and thought I'd visit you all." Lilia explained. "Plus there's someone I wanted to introduce you to."

"Who is it, mom." Luffy asked.

"Oh she was here a little while ago, but seems she's run off to explore the village. Oh well I'm sure she'll be back soon." Lilia said.

"She?" Luffy repeated. As if just noticing the twins, Luffy glared at them suspiciously. "Hey what are you two doing here?"

"We followed you secretly." Ren said bluntly.

"It was secret till you said it." Shauna said sarcastically. "Honestly how are you and I twins?"

"Why'd you follow me?" Luffy asked feeling annoyed.

"Cause we thought you'd get yourself killed on the way here." Ren said bluntly.

"I actually don't mind you saying that part." Shauna said.

"What do you mean get killed?!" Luffy yelled incredulously.

"We mean you have a habit of ending half-dead when you're on your own." Ren said bluntly.

"Pretty true." Shauna agreed.

"I want to kill-"

"Now, now you three." Lilia said soothingly. "Luffy you should be happy that Ren and Shauna care enough about you that they;d follow you all the way from the mountains, and you two there is always a nicer way to put things. Understand everyone?"

"We understand." they forced themselves to say.

"Good. Now hug." Lilia said in a quiet, but commanding voice.

Shauna, who had a secret crush on Luffy, was more than happy to hug Luffy, and Ren subconsciously followed whatever his older twin did, and Luffy went with the flow and hugged both his cousins in a group hug.

"Hey wait a minute!" Luffy screamed. "Mom, you agree with them."

"Well…" before she could answer a man outside yelled…

"Pirates!"

"Pirates?!" Luffy, Shauna, and Ren screamed, with mixtures of shock and excitement.

"Oh dear." Lilia said with disappointment. "Guess I have to work during my vacation."

"Mom, can we come?" Luffy asked.

"Yeah can we, Aunt Lily." Ren and Shauna said in unison.

"No." She dismissed.

"But why not?" Luffy complained.

"Because you three are kids, not to mention my baby and my sisters babies."

"We are not babies!" they retorted with blushes on their faces. "We're strong!"

"No!" Lilia said in her "demon voice," which scared them quiet. She turned to the exit. "Ace you get in here too."

"I don't take orders from you, bi-" Lilia, wordlessly, used her shadow hand to roughly grab Ace and pull him into the bar, then pulled him in, so they faced each other.

"Want to repeat that?" Lilia said threateningly.

"N-no maim." Ace replied weakly. Lilia put him down.

"You kids stay here." she ordered. "Oh Yuki… I hope she's safe…"

"Yuki?" Shauna said. But Lilia left before she could ask.

"Luffy sometimes I wonder how you are even remotely related to your mom." Ace said.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Luffy felt annoyed. Everyone was annoying him today.

"Oh nothing…" Ace said, although he obviously meant something.

"What are you doing here anyway?" Luffy asked suspiciously.

"No reason." Ace said unconvincingly.

"You came to take more meat from me, didn't you?"

"Would you quit it with the meat already!" Ace shouted.

"Shut up! Both of you!" Shauna shouted with her own version of "demon voice" which shut Luffy and Ace right up.

"You know we probably could've helped beat up a few pirates." Ren groaned.

"Yeah I don't get why she didn't just let me help." Ace complained.

"Come on you guys." Makino began. "Lilia just doesn't want to put any of you in harm's way. You guys get it, right?"

They didn't answer. If they disobeyed and went to fight the pirates, Lilia would kill them regardless of the results. They all said in unison, "Fine…"

"But we can at least look, can't we?" Shauna suggested.

"Good idea, sis," Ren cheered. "Aunt Lily wouldn't have a problem with that, right?"

"I wouldn't if I were you guys-" but the kids weren't listening to Makino.

"Let's watch!" Luffy cheered and all 4 of them went to the exit and peeked outside. "Looks like nothing has happened yet."

Indeed, the pirates had only just now left their ship on the docks and they all looked murderous. Luffy noticed that there were about the same number of men as in Shanks's crew, except these guys didn't seem as cool. Some of the men were scrawny, while others were muscular, but all of them were ugly.

"Pff." Ace scoffed, "I could take them all out easy."

"Yeah whatever, Ace," Shauna dismissed.

"Come to think of it," Ren Began. "I don't I've ever seen Aunt Lily in an actual fight, have any of you?"

"Aside from sparring matches, I don't think I have," Luffy said, while Ace and Shauna shook their heads. "Makino, have you?"

"A couple of times, although just seeing her fight once was enough to scar me for life," Makino explained with a smile, while washing a dish nonchalantly.

"So we get to see the She-Demon in action," Shauna said excitedly.

"She's not so tough," Ace claimed. "I could take her anytime of the day."

"But Ace, didn't mom knock you out in one move when you tried to fight her?" Luffy said.

"Did she?" Shauna giggled.

"Shut up!" Ace screamed with a blush. "I was just a kid back then. She wouldn't stand a chance against me now!"

"Said the boy who nearly wet himself when he was in the grip of Aunt Lily," Shauna teased.

"I'm going to kill you, Shauna!" Ace threatened.

"Hey guys," Ren said before Shauna could retort. "I think something's happening."

The others stared in the direction of where Ren was pointing. The pirate had made it to the center of the town and Lilia stood in wait for them, as if this was just a simple meeting between aquatints. Luffy had to resist the urge to run out there and break every last one of the Pirates legs, when he saw that most of the men were giving his mom lust-filled looks.

"Suddenly I feel like disobeying mom," Luffy muttered threateningly.

"I know how you feel, Luffy," Shauna said sympathetically. "But Aunt Lily would kill you for even thinking of going out there.

Luffy grudgingly agreed, but he certainly wasn't happy about it. Sure he knew his mom was strong, but he never knew how strong. She had made him have sparring matches with her to help train him, but every time he got his butt kicked before he could really do anything and she didn't even try. Luffy wasn't even a hundred percent sure what her devil fruit power was. He knew that black gas that comes from her body was part of it, but aside from that he knew nothing.

But Luffy and his family were about to wish that they had never found out about Lilia's full power.

"So would you please leave?" Lilia asked politely.

"Sorry, gorgeous," their captain chuckled, with a disgusting grin. He was a wide-build, muscular man, who dwarfed Lilia and the rest of his crew in plain size, with long and unruly blonde hair. He wore a white shirt with the sleeves torn off and an old pair of black pants. Strapped to his back was a giant, 7-foot long, battle axe. "But me and my boys kind of have an itchin' for some pilagin,' but if you stay right here and wait for us like a good little girl, while we're working and I promise we'll come back to have some fun with you."

He and the rest of his crew were snickering perverted smiles and lustful eyes, however Lilia wasn't amused.

"Sorry. Nothing personal, but I make it a point not to spend too much time with…" Lilia grinned, "disgusting, smelly, trashy pigs like you."

The pirates stopped laughing. Their expressions changed to stunned looks of disbelief. Their captain seemed none too pleased with the insult. Immediately, he unstrapped his giant axe and roared. "You b****! You will die!"

With a fury he swung his axe down with powerful force, but Lilia avoided the attack in a blur of speed and appeared several feet away from her previous spot. Him and his crew were all stupefied.

"Wha-what the…?"

"You know it is never wise to attack someone out of rage," Lilia lectured.

The captain growled in frustration. His axe was stuck in the ground.

"Really who taught you how to…" her voice trailed off when she saw three single strands of black hair floating in the air.

They were hers.

"No you didn't," Lilia muttered dangerously. "You actually touched my hair. My beautiful hair… you severed it."

The pirates would have laughed if not for the dangerous tone Lilia was using. Through a work of bravery or stupidity, the captain spoke. "S-so what if I did? You were acting so tough before, but now you're crying over your stupid hair? Pathe-"

"Stupid hair?! Do you have any idea how long it takes to grow out my hair to this length? Years!" Lilia lectured darkly. "A woman's hair is her life. It's a sign of her individuality. Yet you mock it! Tearing even a few strands of it ruins the art that was made from it! I see you are of the worst kind of filth." Lilia eyes widened, revealing her eyes were glowing red. "You must pay!"

The entire pirate crew began to tremble with fear. They were beginning to realize how outclassed they truly were.

Suddenly Lilia surrounded by some kind of black energy, "Demonic Transformation: Full Body Demon!" Lilia was encased in a swirling cocoon of black and a strong gust of wind began to form. After a second the black energy faded away and Lilia was in her hybrid demon form.

"She's the She-Demon!" shouted one of the pirates. "She's one of the most dangerous marines out there!"

"What!?" The other pirates screamed with fear.

"We have to run!"

They all ran, but, as everyone knew, there's no running from the She-Demon.

Luffy, Shauna, Ren, and Ace stared wide eyed in disbelief at what they saw. Lilia chased the pirates down like dogs and painfully defeated them one by one. It was terrifying, but inspiring to watch. after 7 minutes Lilia had defeated all the pirates and left them in half dead, unconscious piles of flesh on the docks for the marine ship to pick them up.

The kids mouths hung open at the display of raw strength and power.

"So are you feeling scared," Makino asked.

They nodded.

"You shouldn't be," Makino said. "Lilia would never attack you four… I think."

"Luffy are you sure you two are related?" Ace asked blankly.

"I-I think so," Luffy replied blankly.

That was the first time Luffy had ever seen his mother's hybrid demon form and now today. after 5 years, Luffy has to face that demon in head to head combat.

And I'll end it here for now. Hope you liked it. Please review.