"Ah Tamago! What have you found out about my grandson?" Big Mom asked looking at the now sweating man a day or two later. Katakuri had gotten back to the Chateau a few hours after they had learned about Luffy's connection to the family and immediately began tracking down the Straw Hats when he learned about how Luffy was the nephew he hadn't been able to find.
He was going to track down his nephew and bring him back, if he was fast then he could have the boy back in time for Brulee's birthday. It would be the one thing his sister actually wanted for her birthday for the last nineteen years and he was considered the best big brother in the family for a reason.
"Well? Tell me!" Brulee said glaring holes in Tamago's head as she stared at him with such intensity that if she had a heat based devil fruit he'd be nothing but ashes.
"Patience Brulee. Tamago was just about to start the reports." Perospero said, making his sister take a deep breath and calm herself down so that she wasn't as frantic as she has been for the last day or so. Ever since finding out her son was still alive she had been rather… on edge.
"It seems he was raised in the East Blue…in the Goa Kingdom. Working on the exact Island now." Tamago said, making everyone look surprised.
"Such a strong pirate for being from the weakest sea." Cracker said making Big Mom grin.
"He's a Charlotte. Even more, he's Brulee's son. Brulee is one of the strongest of you girls." Big Mom said, making Brulee blush brightly but smile slightly at the compliment from her mother. Her mother gave out compliments very rarely, not wanting to swell her children's heads.
"It seems that at the age of seventeen shortly after setting sail he had defeated most all of the major pirates from the East Blue with suffering little to no injury. This list includes Iron Mace Alvida, Buggy the Clown who is now a warlord, Fold Play Krieg, and…Arlong the Fishman. Without the use of Haki. Not to mention Several Corrupt Marines and Kuro of a thousand plans thought to be dead." Tamago said, making everyone pause for a moment.
"No matter how you look at it that is a bit impressive. Fishmen are naturally stronger than most humans physically." Cinnamon said he was a bit impressed at the feat. For New World raised pirates to do so it was only a little impressive, but considering that even though he was born in the New World he was raised in the weakest sea it was incredibly impressive.
"It… also seems that his first mate Pirate Hunter Zoro…has faced Mihawk in battle while in the East Blue and survived a direct attack from the Black Blade." Tamago said next, earning an impressed look from Amande who was one of the best sword users out of her siblings.
"To survive a slash from that blade…that's rare." Amande said her hand resting on the hilt of her own famous sword, a present from her Mama for her twentieth birthday after she had bested the kingdom's best swordsman with her practice sword. While her eyes looked eager.
"Mamamamama. I'd expect no less from my grandson's First Mate!" Big Mom laughed, impressed herself at the fact that some no name brat from the Weakest Sea had survived Mihawk, even if the Warlord hadn't been fighting seriously.
"The only other thing of note that happened in East Blue would be when the Straw Hats were at Loguetown before entering the Grand Line through the Reverse Mountain." Tamago said, looking more nervous than ever now as he glanced warily at Brulee. The Mirror woman was vastly overprotective of her siblings…how protective would she be of her son?
"Why do I have the feeling I'm not going to like this?" Brulee asked, narrowing her eyes at Tomago's worried look.
"I-It seems that while in Loguetown…Buggy and Alvida, joined together their crews in an alliance to…execute Straw Hat Luffy. One of our spies was on scene when it happened and he reported that Straw Hat was caught unaware from behind while on the Execution Stand and cuffed with Sea Stone. They…Were planning to execute him via decapitation in the same spot Gol. D. Roger had been executed. They even had seastone stocks the Marines use for Giants." Tamago said backing away slowly and no one could blame him.
"Why would they need those?" Brulee asked in a curious but icy voice, as the mirror's in the room trembled with their mistress's fury at the mention of execution.
"Obviously it didn't work Brulee! Calm down and let Tamago finish the report!" Compote barked as she felt her sister's powers begin to activate…and surge. Now most thought that the Mirror Mirror fruit wasn't good for anything but spying and ambush tactics but they forgot something important. A mirror shows a reflection of what's in front of it. Brulee had access to Mirrors around the world and could reflect anyone she wanted to and their powers at a moments notice.
"Sister breath." Amande said slowly as she placed a hand on her younger sister's shoulder and gently pushed her back down into the chair while Smoothie quickly forced a glass of grapefruit juice, Brulee's favorite drink of choice, into her sister's hand.
"To awnser your question lady Brulee he, as of fishman island, is a head taller than your mother." Tamago said
"What happened after they took him by surprise Tamago? Did his crew get him free?" Big Mom barked the questions at the man who quickly scrambled for the papers. Silently awed at her grandson's height.
"A-Actually while our spy reported that Vinsmoke Reiju, Vinsmoke Sanji, and Bladed Hellhound Zoro had arrived on scene and were making their way to try and rescue their captain after he had yelled how he would be the King of Pirates." Tamago said before a low whistle interrupted him.
"Kids got balls of steel to say something like that in the same spot Roger was executed." Oven said with a small smirk as some of his siblings nodded in agreement.
"…they wouldn't have made it in time since they did not know any ranged moves at the time the incident occurred." Tamago said finally and knew it was the wrong thing to say as the mirrors in the room began trembling harder while Brulee was visibly fighting to stay in her seat.
"O-Our spy said that as Buggy was bringing the sword down on Straw Hat…he witnessed something he had only seen once before…and couldn't believe it." Tamago said nervously stepping further away from Brulee.
"Zoro! Reiju! Sanji! Usopp! Nate! Oruk! Mohji! Alvin! Bo! Gin! Yukata! Nami! Nojiko! Sabo! Sorry but…I'm dead.' Those were Luffy's last words before…he grinned happily." Tamago said, making Brulee go ashen white as she nearly went boneless in her seat, her eyes wide. She could have lost him. She could have lost her baby boy before he even entered the Grand Line all because of an arrogant brat and her son's incompetent crew…and her son would have been happy with that.
"The blade was just above his neck when…the largest recorded strike of lightning in the area struck the platform and burnt it while also making it collapse to the ground." Tamago said, causing Brulee to go even paler. Her son had been struck by lightning?!
"How badly had he been injured?" Citron asked pale as well, seriously was her nephew a trouble magnet or what?
"Um…that's…where it gets surprising. A-According to our spy…Straw Hat Luffy stood up and laughed completely fine after the platform collapsed. I believe our spy recalled him saying 'I'm still alive…that's nice.' Before he took off away from the scene." Tamago said, making more than a few of the siblings look shocked and gape in disbelief. Even Big Mom was surprised by this.
"How? Most of us would be gravely injured if not killed by such a thing so how did he survive that?" Cinnamon asked, staring at Tamago in shock and disbelief.
"It…seems he had eaten a Devil Fruit by accident when he was a child. My best guess is that his Devil Fruit renders him immune to lightning." Tamago said quickly, flipping through the reports.
"A-According to this he is also immune to blunt damage such as clubs or punches that aren't infused with Haki, as well as any projectiles that aren't bladed or made of sea stone. Regular bullets never Pierce him, it says here they turn into discs and fall off him, without leaving a mark." Tamago said quickly, finding that part of the report and making the siblings, except for Brulee who was closing her eyes and trying to calm down her breathing, to exchange wide eyed looks.
"What Devil Fruit did he eat? A paramecia of some type?" Big Mom asked just as surprised as her children but doing a much better job of hiding it.
"Um no…he ate a Zoan class fruit." Tamago said, making all of them stare at him in disbelief.
"What kind of Zoan" Perospero asked in disbelief even as he handed Brulee some candy for her to munch on, which she did with great aggression.
"He ate the God God fruit. " Bege was the one to say from where he was sitting beside his wife who was holding their son in her arms. Everyone stared at him in shock. Even Big Mom.
After a few moments Big Mom asked as in the mythical fruit only heard of via Poneglyph's." Knocking everyone out of their stupor.
"Yeah. He's a supernova like me, I kept an eye on the kids abilities in case we ever had to fight." Bege replied.
"Mamamamamamamama!" Laughed Big Mom, grinning widely. "Brulee it seems your son is favored by chance." Which knocked Brulee out of her shocked state. "Oh great. I just hope he isn't like his father, arrogant and snobbish." Brulee said face palming
"From the Reverse Mountain it seems that he landed on the Bounty Hunter nest Whiskey Peak. We're not exactly sure what happened but…it seems that his first mate alone took out all one hundred bounty hunters as well as several higher up agents of Crocodile's Baroque Works. An unknown amount of time later it seems that they had landed on the island of Drum seeking medical help for the navigator Mikan Prince Nathan." Tamago said quickly hurrying along before Brulee could react to hearing her son had been in the clutches of bounty hunters.
"During this it seems that the King of the Island, Wapol, had tried to take his kingdom back even though he had deserted it earlier due to a pirate attacking it." Tamago said, causing most of the Charlotte siblings to scowl in disgust, even the younger ones.
"He sounds like a coward." Deuce and Dulgee said, making the older ones nod.
"During the ensuing fight, Straw Hat protected a flag that meant a lot to a friend he had made at the time. A doctor from the reports. Straw Hat also ended up dethroning Wapol for good as well as punching a World Government acknowledged King. When they left the island it was in the company of their pet Cotton Candy Lover Chopper. It says they left with a doctor joining their crew as well but if they did then they've managed to keep the doctor away from all fights and from all marines." Tamago said, making Big Mom frown slightly.
"There's something more to that pet than meets the eye I'm sure. Perhaps they are training it to be a last line of defense for their captain, or he is the doctor?" Daifuku was thinking along the same lines as his mother, earning a helpless shrug from Tamago.
"There are rumors of it being a monster but there has been no way for our spies to verify it for sure yet. Moving on from there, it seems that the crew then made its way to Alabasta with Prince Nefertari Vincent in their company and reported to being in great debt to Luffy and his crew. According to our contacts in the kingdom…that was where Luffy met up with his elder brother for the first time since the brother had set off to become a pirate three years before Luffy had." Tamago said, making Brulee jerk slightly in her seat as she glared darkly.
"Luffy was an only child I would know. Does that mean that Dragon had-" Tamago quickly cut off Brulee before she could get too worked up over it.
"Reports say that the 'brother' in question is Portagues D. Ace, otherwise known as Gol D. Ace, and had been raised as Luffy's adopted brother. He was the one they had been trying to execute at the War of Best two years ago." Tamago reported making everyone pause for a moment before most of the siblings began paling or looking horrified.
"But…Straw Hat had been there…and if I remember right then not only did Whitebeard die at the War…but so did Ace himself." Monte-d'Or said, making the few that hadn't looked horrified or pale to look that way now.
"Luffy had to watch as the one he viewed as his older brother was killed right in front of him." Amande was the one to say what they were all thinking while Burlee was visibly being restrained by Compote to keep from running to the nearest Mirror to find her son.
"After refusing to join the WhiteBeard Pirates when Ace offered him to, it's reported that Luffy's crew proceeded to defeat Crocodile's top officers…with Luffy himself fighting Crocodile a total of three times. It's said that Luffy lost twice and was saved from death by someone else, although we're unsure who at the moment, before he finally defeated Crocodile the third time just in time to stop the war and save the country's King." Tamago said making Brulee struggle harder to get out of Compote's hold while Galette moved to use her powers to help restrain her sister.
"Let me go! I'll track Crocodile down and kill him myself!" Brulee shouted at her siblings as a near maniac glint appeared in her eyes. How dare that man try and kill her son?!
"From there it seems that they left the kingdom with a new crewmember and as allies of the Alabasta Royal Family and Kingdom in general. From what some of our spies in various places managed to gather…Devil's Child Nico Robert had joined the crew after they beat his former boss Crocodile…one spy said that Reiju was heard gripping in a bar a few islands over about how he had said, and I quote, 'what he (meaning Luffy) had done to him was unbearable and he should take responsibility.' End Quote." Tamago said, making everyone over the age of fifteen pause and all of them to slowly turn to stare at Brulee who had frozen rather comically at that information.
Releasing her hold on her younger sister, Compote had seen the tell-tale signs of her sister about to go apeshit and wisely backed away while covering her ears.
Just in time too, Brulee's screech was heard clear to Nuts Island.
"WHAT!? MY BABY BOY IS ALREADY MARRIED?!"
