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"Word"-Speaking

'Word'-Thoughts


Chapter 5: Departure

Mt. Corvo

Ace, Sabo, and Luffy were all up in the treehouse they had built relaxing as they had barely finished their usual sparring. "We need to go get more wood and replace some of the planks that are rotting," Sabo said.

"We also need a telescope" Luffy happily responded.

"Why do we need a telescope?" Ace asked.

"Because they're cool".

"Whatever, we just have to be careful in case Bluejam comes after us so if they come after us. Luffy use your ability as a last resort", Sabo finished, and Luffy just nodded.

{III}

Gray Terminal

The trio were currently looking for materials for the tree house, and Luffy specifically for a telescope. They looked without issue for 30 minutes until men suddenly came out of nowhere, and the boys suddenly got in a stance ready to fight. Ace, and Sabo with their pipe and Luffy with his staff backs towards each other.

The men rushed the trio quickly, but they started fighting back, hitting them with their weapons across the face and behind their knees and some between the legs making sure the family genes ended with their generation. They were beating them soundly until a sudden gunshot stopped all movement and the suddenly pirates came from behind and pushed Ace and Luffy smashing their face into the ground holding them by the neck while 2 others held Sabo back by his arms.

"Let me go bastard" Ace hissed out.

"Sabo!" Luffy called out trying to get free.

"Sabo stop resisting at once and come back home" said a man coming from behind the rubble with 2 guards.

"Father," said Sabo, shocked as to why he was there.

"Unharmed just like you said" said a man with huge gaps in his teeth.

"Bluejam" Ace hissed out.

"Why are you here father?" Sabo asked, not understanding why the man who always looked down on other people was there.

"I'm here to get back my property who ran away from home and started living in a dump," he said looking down at Sabo. "Of course, you would be hanging around these pests" he said, talking down at Luffy and Ace.

"Shut up you bastard, Sabo wants nothing to do with you" Ace hissed out.

"Shut up you lowly peasant before I kill you after all people like you are just here to serve nobles, and royalty you don't even have the honor to polish my shoes" the man said.

"So where is my payment?" Bluejam asked and just soon afterwards Sabo's father handed the man a bag full of gold coins.

"Hopefully you'll do the job of burning the pests before the celestial dragon comes as good as this job" Outlook III spoke. Which grabbed the attention of Luffy as he knew who a celestial dragon was and the influence they had.

"You can do whatever with the brats, let's go back home, Sabo '' he spoke once again.

"Don't hurt them I'll go back and do whatever you want father" Sabo pleaded.

"Of course, you will as I'm going to force you to do what I want. It's a children's job to do what the parents ask of them". When Luffy heard this, he balled up his fist gritting his teeth hearing something so stupid, Oyaji would never take away their any of his children's freedom.

"SABO! Don't leave" Luffy yelled out. As they were walking away Luffy quickly made a little bubble not even encompassing his entire fist and grabbed the person's hand breaking it which caused the man to release it. Luffy quickly rushed towards Sabo dodging the attacks from the guards and jumped up to be face to face with Sabo's father and punched him causing cracks to appear in front of his face sending him flying back.

As everybody was distracted and shocked at what just happened Luffy quickly grabbed Sabo dragging him and went to kick the person who was holding Ace down freeing him. "Get those brats" Bluejam ordered and the pirates quickly started chasing after them, but when the trio got into the forest they quickly hopped into the trees and started swinging on the vines losing the pirates who were chasing them.

{III}

ASL Tree House

"That was close" Luffy said panting sitting against the wall.

"Good thing you ate that devil fruit and have been practicing with it a little bit" Ace said.

"Oi Luffy, Is he still alive?" Sabo asked knees to his chest.

"I don't know I didn't use all the power that I could have, but it was enough to send him back a couple hundred feet crashing through 2 piles of rubble. Do you want him to still be alive?" Luffy asked.

"I don't know I don't particularly love them, but he still is my dad" Sabo answered.

"Well, he didn't treat you like a son he treated you like property so don't beat yourself over it you still have 2 brothers who are always going to be here for you" Ace answered with his arms crossed.

"Yeah".

{III}

A Couple Days Later

"What happened?"

"All of the people."

"They're dead." the trio said as they were watching as Gray Terminal in an ocean of flames.

Luffy balled his fist up in anger as he remembered what Sabo's father had said when they were being held down. "They did this," he said gritting his teeth in a tone full of malice.

"Who?" asked Ace.

"The nobles I remember, Sabo's dad saying that he hoped Bluejam did a good job burning the pest before the celestial dragon came. They must have done to be looked at in a positive light". Sabo just grit his teeth and fell to his knees sobbing.

"When are things like this going to change and people are just going to be equal?" he asked, still crying. Luffy just looked forward as he had no answer as he had seen how corrupt the world was and Ace just stayed quiet as he didn't know what to say.

{III}

Months Later

"I guess this is it huh" said Ace as this was the day Garp was going to pick up Luffy so he could go back home to the Moby Dick.

"I'm gonna miss you, Luffy," said Sabo.

"Don't worry we'll see each other someday when you set out to sea, and since the both of you are going to set out from here when you're 17 I'll come back here and set out from the East blue for pick up a few members to go on an adventure all the way back to the New World." Luffy said with a grin "And maybe when we see each other you'll be stronger and we can fight again".

"Next time I see you I'm going to beat you up," said Ace and Sabo.

"I doubt it. you may be my older brothers but I'm still stronger, shishi".

"Whatever it's just because of your devil fruit".

"I don't even use my devil fruit in the spars" Luffy shot back teeth sharp as he was annoyed.

"What do you even consider a cool devil fruit power? you still make fun of mine even though it's cool" Luffy asked.

"Fire" Ace answered.

"I don't know something that would have a shock to it" Sabo answered.

Luffy just nodded. "Well, I gotta get going so here's this" he said as he pulled out 3 silver necklaces all with the same symbol.

"I dropped the bronze one that I had back when we were ambushed so I asked grandpa to get me 3 one for all of us that look the same it's a symbol of our brotherhood" he said handing the necklaces to Ace and Sabo which had a skull in the middle with 3 stars underneath it. (Assassin's creed symbol basically).

"Well, I gotta go. Bye Ace, Sabo. Bye bandits, Bye aunt Dadan" he said waving his hands in the air and running down the mountain leaving a crying Dadan blowing her nose into her handkerchief.

{III}

On the Coast

"Bye everyone, Bye big sister Makino, Thank You for being so nice to me" yelled Luffy as Garps' marine ship was pulling away. Luffy stayed at the back of the ship until the island was out of sight but he knew he would be back when he was 17 to go on an adventure.

{III}

Hours Later

"Are you sure you still want to be a pirate?" Garp asked as he came to stand next to Luffy.

"Yeah, I have to fulfil my dream and promise, but grandpa why are you against me being a pirate? You know that not all pirates are bad" Luffy asked.

Garp just sighed and looked off into the distance. "Because most of my family members have been pirates both of my half-brothers took off on their own to be pirates even though our dad wanted us to be marines. I wanted to bring justice to the world. One of them wanted to go on an adventure and have freedom and the other wanted control and power as he thought he was above everyone else, and that they should even sacrifice people to his greatness" Garp said with tears in their eyes.

"We didn't even take the name of our father we each took the name of our own respective mothers thus nobody knew we were even related not even Whitebeard knows and he knew both of my brothers personally, sometimes I go talk with Whitebeard just because I want to hear stories about them both. Although the thing that pains me the most is that I had to take my older brother down with my younger brother, and was credited for the death of my younger brother. Although at least the son of my older and youngest both live on." Garp finished now sobbing.

Luffy was shocked with tears in his eyes as he could not imagine having to kill any of his brothers even less so to be revered for being responsible or credited for their deaths and seeing his grandfather crying was another as he had never thought Garp could cry. "Shit, I probably shouldn't have said that, Bwahaha" said Garp laughing wiping his tears trying to lighten up the mood.

"Jiji, I need to tell you something, but you can't tell the marines I don't want them to know of my abilities when I get my first bounty." Garp just nodded.

"I ate a devil fruit when Shanks stayed in the village" Luffy said, noticing that Garp for some reason tensed up a little when he mentioned Shanks.

"What devil fruit was it?" Garp asked.

"The Gura Gura no Mi" Luffy simply said.

"So, you ate the strongest paramecia fruit that if trained enough has the power to destroy the world" he said looking off into the distance. "Bwahaha, well at least I know a shrimp like you isn't going to be weak" he said walking off leaving a fuming Luffy behind with smoke coming out his ears at being called a shrimp.

Luffy just stayed and kept staring off into the distance. "I wonder who his half-brothers were and who their sons are. It would be interesting to meet them" he said to himself before his stomach growled and took off the mess hall as he was starving.

{III}

Couple days later

"You need to put more power into it brat I taught all you 3 brats how to use the basics of each" Garp shouted as Luffy was trying to use Geppo to stay in the air.

"I'm trying it's not that easy you old geezer even though me, Ace, and Sabo always practiced at the island. Maybe if you were there more, we would be better".

"Show some respect to your grandfather brat, at least I taught you the techniques how are you going to be a man if you can't do anything yourself". Garp said, hitting Luffy in the head.

"Owww, why do you keep hitting me with armament haki. Just you wait until I learn it, I'll beat you up. I see the island. I can't wait to see mom, my little sister, and big brother" Luffy happily said.

At this point Garp had a solemn expression on his face. "Luffy you should probably go talk to Newgate before you go to the palace there's something you need to know" Luffy was confused but just nodded as he was excited to see his Oyaji and brothers again and eat Thatch's food.