Italics indicate thinking.

Bold is for attacks.

Steve's POV

It's been two days since we got back from Enies Lobby. Iceberg let us stay in his mansion while we recovered. Today was the first day I was able to get out of bed, and I only got as far as the nearby table before I wanted to sit again, my legs were killing me, not to mention the various wounds I had gotten from Lucci.

Rose has been doing okay. She's still pretty broken up about her arm. Chopper said that he'd get to work on a prosthetic as soon as he could and Rose told him not to rush. I think Zoro's more upset about it then she is. Wyper said that it happened because she tried to protect him, I think he's blaming himself.

"You should really stay in bed." Sanji said "you know how Chopper gets."

"I'm sick of sitting in bed I need to stretch my legs. Where's Robin." I asked rubbing my knee.

"She went with Chopper to help look at the Franky Family's wounds." He said "Why do you miss her."

"I guess. I think part of me still worries she won't come back if I let her out of my sight." I sighed "I'm paranoid."

"Listen." Sanji took a seat across from me at the table and lowered his voice "As annoyed as I am about you dating Robin I won't get in your way. But understand this, captain or not if you hurt her, I'll kill you."

"If I do hurt her, I want you to kill me." I told him.

"Nice to see we're on the same page." He smiled as he threw a plate down in front of me "Now eat you'll need to build your strength back up."

I picked up a fork and went to eat when my food was sucked off my plate.

"Even when you're asleep you're a pain." I grumbled "Sanji, Luffy ate my food."

"Oh it's that sleep eating technique."

Kokoro and Chimney came by to visit us. The frog tried to come inside but that just wasn't gonna happen.

"Yokozuna just go wait outside!" she told the frog "So everyone's awake huh?

"Actually no." Wyper grumbled from across the room where he was working on his skates "Luffy's still asleep."

"But he's eating." Chimney said.

"That would be his sleep eating technique." Sanji explained "he hates to miss meals."

"How the girl with the arm doing?" Kokoro asked.

"She says she's alright." Sanji said "But I can tell she's lying."

"Where is Rose?" I asked.

"She went off to the scrap yard with Zoro." Wyper explained "The two of them need to talk about what happened, if they both keep blaming themselves neither of them will be able to move on."

"They'll be alright. I said "Zoro's a tough guy and Rose won't let something like an arm bother her."

"Well regardless your Log should be set in a few more days." Kokoro explained.

"What does it matter?" Nami moaned from her seat at the smaller table "The money for a new ship, our clothes and even the tangerine trees they all got washed away in Aqua Laguna."

"We left all our things in a back-street hotel." Sanji explained.

"Oh, so that what those guests are here about." Kokoro explained.

Some men came in the door carrying our stuff from the hotel.

"My trees!" Nami cheered.

"Sorry, when we thought you killed Mr. Iceberg we confiscated all your belongings as pirate loot."

"We're back!" Chopper yelled out marching through the door with Robin not far behind "I treated the Franky Family's wounds and I didn't take my eyes off Robin for a second."

"Good job soldier." I said giving him a thumbs up.

Robin just laughed "I told you I'm not going anywhere."

"It'll be a tough habit to break but I guess I can trust you on your own." I joked.

"You're too kind." She smiled taking a seat next to me.

"YOW!" The door opened again and this time Franky and his female companions came in "You're not all here but whatever, I got something to tell you." Franky took a seat on the floor "There's an island with a never-ending war…"

"Get to the point." Wyper told him.

"Just shut up and listen!" Franky yelled.

Franky explained that there was a tree on this island that no matter how devastating the war was it never fell.

"They call it the Jewel Tree Adam."

"A Tree?"

"Every once in a while, a part of the tree appears on the black market. I've always wanted a piece of the tree but it costs 200 million Beli. Then one day a group of pirates showed up…"

"Are you telling me you spent our money on a stick?!" Sanji yelled.

"Just listen!" Franky yelled "I quit building ships a long time ago, but before I realized it I was drawing blueprints again, trying to catch up to that man…My dream is to build a 'Dream Ship' that can cross any sea and I'll use the Adam Wood to build it."

Is he gonna build a ship? Why tell us this?

"Now I have the blueprints and the wood. I can build that ship, and when I do finish it will you guys sail with it, sail the ship I made."

"Wait." I said standing up "You're giving us the ship?"

"Yeah. What would make me happiest if there was someone I trust sailing it. Besides you guys already paid for it. The only ship to ever reach the end of the Grande Line was Gold Roger's 'Oro Jackson' it was also made from Adam wood. I want to make a ship that can accomplish that feat."

"Of course, we'll take the ship!" I yelled.

"We can get to the next island now!"

"Today's gonna be a good day" I cheered getting out of my seat.

The back wall of the room exploded and filled the room with dust and debris. I put my body between the blast and Robin to shield her. When the smoke cleared I turned around to see what had happened.

"Who are you?" Sanji asked.

"Are you the Strawhat Pirates?" a man asked.

That voice!

"There's someone I want Monkey D. Luffy to meet. Wake up!"

The man jumped over all of us and punched Luffy in the skull.

"OWW!"

"How can that punch hurt you?!" Wyper asked "You're a rubber man."

"There's no way for anyone to escape the Fist of Love. I heard you've been doing reckless things again Luffy?"

"Gah-Grandpa?!"

Yeah. Everyone else was pretty shocked to see Garp was Luffy's grandfather.

"No one fight him." I said "Old Man Garp will kill you."

"Who you calling old?!"

"Grandpa almost killed me a bunch of times" Luffy told them.

"Don't say it like that." Garp told them "Sure I threw you off that cliff and left you in that jungle one night, but all of that was so you could become a strong man!"

"You forgot the time you tied him to a balloon and sent him into the sky." I added.

"In the end I entrusted him and Ace to a friend. But as soon as I left look what happened, you were supposed to become a Marine!"

"I always said I wanted to be a pirate!" Luffy told him.

"Nonsense! You're just under the bad influence of the Red-Haired."

"Shanks saved my life!"

"Can we not bring my Dad into your family argument?" I asked.

"You're no better, corrupting my grandson with you bad influence."

"Steve's my friend!"

Garp grabbed Luffy by the collar "Don't talk back to your grandfather."

"He's not even trying to fight back." Nami said.

"No they just fell asleep." I said poking Luffy and getting no response "See."

"What'd we do?!" Franky yelled.

"Oh I fell asleep." Garp said opening his eyes "Luffy! How dare you fall asleep when I'm talking to you?"

Garp punched Luffy a few more time for random things. He even hit me a few times.

"OW!" we both said from the ground.

"Do you have any idea what kind of guy that Red-Haired is?" Garp asked.

"Wait do you know where my parents are?!" I asked "Please tell me, are they okay."

"There are a lot of notorious pirates out there. He's in the same league and Whitebeard, one of the pirates who rules over the second half of the Grande Line, one of the Four Emperors. The Marines and the Seven Warlords exists to maintain the balance between us and them."

"I don't really get any of that but I'm glad they're doing well." Luffy said.

"I miss them…"I said getting somewhat downcast.

Luffy put a hand on my shoulder and gave me a big smile "They're fine what are you worrying about?"

There's that smile…

"You're right." I laughed.

"Those two have connections to Red-haired Shanks?" Robin asked.

"That's my Dad." I told her "And 'Mother Nature' Lilly is my Mom. 'Hawkeye' Mihawk is also my uncle."

"I guess they must be pretty important." Wyper said "You and Rose must have some strong blood in you."

A commotion could be heard from outside.

"Oh it's the Pirate Hunter and the girl. You two, try and stop them" Garp told the Marines.

"Those two!"

"Zoro don't fight them!" By the time Luffy and I got out there the two of them were engaged in combat with a man with two large knives.

Rose, despite only having one hand, was holding her own.

"Stop you two!" Luffy yelled running forward only to get kicked in the face "Why you!"

"Shave!"

Luffy punched forward only to miss his target. I looked around and found the man as he came at us again.

"Shattering Grip!" I grabbed the man by his collar and threw him to the ground.

Luffy had his fist about a foot from this guy's face when Garp told them to stop. I looked around and saw Zoro had his swords at the other man's shoulder and Rose had a knife about an inch from that guy's jugular.

"Nearly getting killed by a girl with one arm is kinda pathetic." Rose told the man as she put the knife away on her belt.

"It's amazing." The man Luffy and I had pinned to the ground said "you're still so strong. I give." Luffy and I got off this kid and he stood up and dusted off his clothes "It's good to see you again Luffy, Steve, Zoro."

"Who are you?" Luffy asked.

"It's me Coby."

"Coby?" Luffy said "I don't think so, my friend Coby is a short pudgy kid."

"Yeah that's me, the cry baby."

"Really?!" I said surprised "You certainly got taller."

"How'd you end up on the Grand Line?" Zoro asked him.

"I'm not a Marine officer yet but when I heard you guys were nearby I just had to come see you. A lot of stuff happened but we ended up being trained by Vice-Admiral Garp."

"Come on let's go inside and catch up." Luffy said.

"Hey what about me!" they guy Rose almost killed yelled

"And you are?" Zoro asked.

"Don't act like you don't remember me! It's me Captain Morgan's son, Helmeppo."

"Who?" Zoro asked.

"That's the guy that tried to have you killed before we met." I reminded him "I guess it's nice to see you."

Garp tried to get the Marines to fix the wall he had busted down but they insisted he help them.

"By the way Luffy." Garp said hammering in a nail "I heard you met your dad."

"I have a dad?"

"Of course, you have a dad dumbass!" I yelled "But I've never met him either so I always figured he was dead."

"He didn't introduce himself." Garp spoke "I heard you crossed paths in Loguetown."

"Luffy's dad was in town?" Rose asked.

"What's he like?" Luffy asked Garp.

"I wonder what your dad's like?" I asked.

"Your father's name is Monkey D. Dragon, the revolutionary."

"WHAT?!"

Everyone was pretty surprised to hear who Luffy's dad was.

"Why's everyone freaking out?" Luffy asked me.

"You've never heard of that name!" I yelled "Your father is a very dangerous man!" I grabbed Luffy's head and turned it "Robin give me a hand here."

Robin explained to Luffy that the revolutionaries were people who actively tried to attack and over throw the government.

"Maybe I shouldn't have said anything." Garp said.

"Ya Think!" Rose yelled.

The Marines finished repairing the wall and Garp told us he'd let us go since Luffy was his grandson. Luffy went outside to talk to Coby and that other guy.

"I'll be out in a second I'm gonna run to the bathroom I told them."

I came out of the bathroom and found Rose staring out the window, playing with the loose sleeve of her new jacket.

"How are you doing?" I asked.

"I'm alright." She said "It'll take some getting used to but I think I can manage."

"What's with your neck?" I asked.

"What!" she said trying to reach for it with the now short arm.

I grabbed the other one and pulled the collar of her jacket down "What is this?"

"It's nothing."

"Rose is this a hickey?!"

"No." She said getting all awkward "You're seeing things."

"I'm not blind big sis." I told her "You and Zoro went off to Scrap Island to 'talk', what really happened."

"Nothing happened." She said with a heavy blush "It's probably just a bruise from the fight with Kaku."

"Fine just remember back on Sky Island, you're the one that broke up with him. You're a big girl and you can make your own decisions, just be careful alright. Chopper told you to take it easy, 'activity' like that is too much for you right now."

"Scram little brother." She said nudging me off.

"Just be safe if you're gonna do something like that." I told her "I'm only eighteen I don't need a niece or a nephew."

"G-Go away." She said "I'm a big girl I know how to protect myself."

When I got outside Coby was explaining that they had gotten to the Grand Line by crossing the Calm Belt in a ship coated in Seastone.

"The man behind that idea is the scientist Vegapunk." Coby explained.

"He's a smart man." I said "I've heard the rumors that he's the one that found the way to give Devil Fruits to inanimate objects."

"That was his big project recently." Helmeppo added.

"There are so many interesting people in the world" Coby said "I used to think the world was a small place till I met you two."

We talked for a little longer before Coby and Helmeppo decided it was time to go back to Garp.

"Don't you want to stay and eat?" Luffy asked.

"We have to head back. Listen Luffy," Coby said "Do you know what they call the second half of the Grand Line? They call it the New World. They say the one who conquers that sea will be the King of the Pirates."

"Sounds like an interesting place." I said.

"Let's meet there some day." Coby remarked "And I'll capture you once I see you there! I'll get stronger; I'll become a Marine Admiral! Sorry I got a little carried away there."

"Coby!" Luffy yelled "You gotta be one, so you can fight me."

"The Strawhats will keep getting stronger." I told him "So you just try and keep up."

"What, are you still a crybaby Coby?" Zoro called out from inside.

"I'm really glad I got to see you again today!" Coby yelled "We'll get stronger, so let's meet again in the New World!"

I look forward to it.

AN

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