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Chapter 7: First Bounty
In the New World
"How was your sister yoi?" Marco asked, sitting down with the commanders on the deck next to Whitebeard who was on his chair all looking at Luffy as they had left Fishman Island a couple of days ago.
"She was good, well as good as somebody can be when they are trapped in a room, I just want to find that stupid pedophile and beat him up so she can be free and, AHHH" Luffy answered before screaming a little bit at the end.
"Oi stop moving or I'm going to end up messing the tattoo idiot".
"It hurts,".
"Well then you shouldn't have asked for it on your back and as big as this and I also have to color it in which is even going to be more painful so deal with it".
"Do you even have enough ink?" Luffy asked, gritting his teeth as the tattoo hurt.
"We have enough white ink, although purple was hard to get a hand off".
"I can't believe he's going to go with the whole no wearing shirts thing even after I tried to get him to learn some fashion sense" Izo said face palming.
"Shirts are overrated and I'm going to use coats in the cold weather. It's not like I'm a logia user even though I wish I was" he said sticking his tongue out at Izo.
"I still can't believe you got to see and got trained by Mihawk. I always wanted to fight him and see how good of a swordsman he really is,'' Vista said.
"Well, he lives up the name" Luffy simply said looking down remembering how bad he had got beaten into the ground during their so-called spars.
"So, what did you train in yoi?"
"I trained on all 3 types of my haki and started learning how Ryuo works and all of that, sword, and using more of my devil fruit as we did discover problems, I was going to have with it".
"What do you mean problems yoi?".
"Well, it's just that it's hard to use haki at the same time with my devil fruit ability. Cracking the air, causing big waves and all of that is simple enough if I apply haki there it makes it more potent and I can cause bigger vibrations, shockwaves, waves and that sort of thing, but the trouble comes when I make a quake bubble, I can make decent ones on my weapon and use them like that. But if I try to use haki at the same time for some reason my haki is not as potent as normal, it's only around sixty percent as powerful. If I was fighting a normal person, it would be no issue as my devil fruit would most likely be enough but if I was to fight a logia user right now with my fruit it would be a pain. Rayleigh said the better I get with my devil fruit the easier it will be for me to use the full power of my haki and that technique simultaneously he also said that if I get good enough, I can probably shift the sea and islands maybe sink them if I'm good enough".
The commanders and Whitebeard all nodded in understanding as to how that would be an issue. "Izo did you finish adding the gold beads to my necklace?" Luffy asked.
"Yeah, it's in my room, why did you want me to add gold beads when the thing was from your dad and he said he and your mom had picked it out before you were even born for when you were older".
"That's exactly why I added it. I have a second mother and the gold beads are a tribute to her. I'm probably going to get a tattoo to honor her but coming up with something is quite hard shishishi".
"You're going to turn into an art gallery, and you're barely 11 you don't need any more tattoos right now" Thatch spoke up.
{III}
Couple Weeks later
"Why can't something exciting happen I want to see how I would do in a real fight" Luffy said while sitting on the deck with Marco and Thatch.
"And who do you want to fight yoi?".
"Some marines so after we beat them up and send them away running, I can finally get a bounty" when Thatch heard this, he choked on the water he was drinking.
"Why do you want a bounty you idiot you're still a kid".
"I'm not a kid anymore, Thatchy. I also want to be a great pirate to just like the rest of you and for that I need a bounty".
"Whatever we rarely ever get attacked it's not like they're going to attack us during lunch or anything so get back to your chores''.
{III}
"Navy ships incoming!" came a crew member yelling into the galley where the rest of the crew was eating.
"It really happened Thatch yoi" laughed Marco.
"Oyaji, can I join the fight? I want to beat them up and maybe get a bounty," Luffy said with a smile on his face.
"How many ships and who are they?" Whitebeard asked.
"It seems like it's a newly appointed rear admiral and 2 commodores must be trying to make a bigger name for themselves". The commanders just sighed at the answer.
"You can fight if Marco watches over you Luffy". Luffy happily got up and picked up his swords and started dragging Marco towards the deck as some of the crew were already making their way ready for a fight.
A couple of minutes later Whitebeard was sitting in his chair with Jozu and Haruta as they were going to take care of any of the marines that were dumb enough to try and take on Whitebeard as the rest of the commanders were just sitting down as they were just going to see except Marco who was with Luffy as he had to babysitting duty.
"We're here for your head Whitebeard!" yelled the rear admiral.
"We are taking you down in the name of justice!" yelled the commodores, making the commanders roll their eyes but causing the other marines to let out a battle cry as they were finally next to Moby Dick as the battle started when the pirates boarded the marine ships. L
uffy just smiled "The Rear-Admiral is mine!" he yelled out loud before hopping off the deck making Marco's eyes widening as he wasn't expecting him to take off this soon, but followed behind nonethless.
"I'm going to get your head Whitebeard!" yelled the man on the deck of his ship and was about to use Geppo until a flying slash attack came towards him forcing him to dodge.
"You're fighting me, someone like you doesn't even deserve a chance at challenging pops " Luffy said with one of his swords in his hand. The man just laughed when he saw the boy.
"Who are you boy? You really think you can beat me rear admiral Horo, you are nothing but a child" the man confidently said.
"Shut up and let's dance" Luffy answered with a grin, making the man irritated as he used Rankyaku directed towards Luffy expecting it to cut him in half but was surprised when the kid brought up his sword intercepting the projectile and essentially throwing it to the side.
"You're gonna have to take me seriously if you want to beat me" Luffy said in an irritated voice at being underestimated.
Horo used Soru and tried to kick Luffy across the face but was suddenly blocked by Luffy's sword and was forced to dodge as Luffy attempted to kick him and was further shocked when Luffy used Rankyaku himself curing the floor and forcing the man to dodge to the side. "You're not the only one who knows the Rokushiki. I hope you know some other things if not you're going to lose" Luffy said sheathing his word.
"How does a pirate brat like you know those techniques they are only supposed to be known to people in the World Government" the man grit his teeth.
"I have my ways".
Horo quickly infused his hand in haki rushing forwards to punch Luffy but he also infused his own hand in haki clashing with Horo shocking the man yet again at how a kid even knew haki. The 2 quickly exchanged hits trying to get a hit on eachother but Luffy was too quick and kept dodging and infusing his leg in haki and trying to make Horo make a mistake and eventually he jumped in the air kicking Horo across the face making him bleed.
Luffy and Horo kept trading blows as Luffy forced him into hand-to-hand combat which Luffy was pretty good at. Luffy kept blocking weaving and then jumped up in the air and kicked Horo across the face with his leg infused in haki drawing blood. 'Why is he so...so weak' Luffy thought annoyed as he wanted a good fight.
Horo leaped back and pulled out his Saber infusing it with haki "You're not a bad brat, but I'm still going to kill you".
Luffy just pulled out both of his katanas infusing them with his own haki. "I can't say the same for you, your just disappointing" he said before going forward to clash. They met in the middle Luffy blocking the Saber but pushed back as he still was not physically strong enough Luffy noticed the man used a Goken sword style which relied more on strength while he himself was more of a Juken sword style which relied more on speed as Mihawk had told him that since he was still a kid it would be better suited for him and as he would build up his physical strength the Goken style would come naturally as he said he should have a mixture of both being able to move smoothly but also being able destroy whatever you want.
The 2 continued to fight and parry each other until Horo threw a kick catching Luffy off guard to which Horo used the advantage slightly cutting his cheek drawing a little blood making Luffy leap back. "That's a dirty trick when you are fighting with swords and here, I thought you were a swordsman".
"It doesn't matter if it's dirty all that matters is winning in this world" the man answered to which Luffy just grit his teeth and was now dead serious and changed his stance.
Luffy now held Sulu in a reverse grip in his left hand and went on the offensive using his quickness to his advantage attacking fiercely trying to attack Horo's weak points eventually making him make a mistake and slashing him across his chest drawing blood. Horo hissed in pain as the cut had been pretty deep but Luffy didn't stop and quickly used Soru and was now on top of him again this time continually using Soru attacking from multiple directions cutting him all over his body Horo tried to use Tekkai but Luffy's haki was too strong and kept cutting him. Marco who was watching was really surprised at how strong and quick Luffy was now, as he had come a long way from before.
Luffy was now in front of Horo who was now on his face down bleeding from multiple wounds over his body and was about to end the fight when his observation alerted him of an incoming attack to which he quickly turned around and blocked the commodore. Luffy was now gritting his teeth mad as somebody was going to cut him across the back and damage one of his treasures in his tattoo and quickly jumped back and sheathed his swords.
"Too scared to fight now brat" said the commodore in a cocky tone but Luffy noticed he was already bleeding and most likely had gotten beat by a commander.
"No I'm just pissed at what you tried to do" Luffy answered using Soru getting close to the man and mostly dodging for now until the commodore did a downwards slash trying to get Luffy to which he simply dodged and quickly used his devil fruit and made a quake bubble around his fist and hit the man in the face causing cracks to appear and sent the man off the deck flying several hundred feet away into the ocean essentially stopping the entire fight on the marine ship as the rear admiral and commodore had been defeated. The marines were just looking on at what happened before Luffy unleashed his conquerors haki to see how strong it was knocking out a good portion of the marines. 'Looks like I still need more work'.
"That was disappointing. I thought rear admirals were supposed to be strong but he was weak.".
"Well, he was barely assigned that position yoi. The marines also just have the position to make themselves look more powerful as they want it to seem like they have a lot of soldiers close to power as one of the 3 admirals but it's just a bunch of bullshit" Marco finished as they were heading back to their own ship.
"So Luffy won, but how good did he do?" asked Thatch curious now.
"He won without too much of a challenge and only got a little cut across his cheek, yoi. The rear admiral couldn't really keep up and for the commodore Luffy used his devil fruit punching him in the face sending him a couple hundred feet away from the ship into the ocean". Whitebeard and the other commanders just nodded surprised and proud.
{III}
Navy H.Q
The vice admirals were all sitting down with fleet admiral Sengokul sitting off to the side as they had gotten a report that a week ago a rear admiral and 2 commodores had attacked Whitebeard.
"Speak soldier, why in the hell would you go attack Whitebeard in the New World?" Sengoku asked, as he was still dumbfounded at the stupidity of the marine soldiers who thought they could win.
"Yes sir, rear admiral Horo came to me and my fellow commodore and brought up an argument on how we could all take Whitebeard down he managed to make all of the soldiers that heard feel confident that they could do it so feeling pressured we set off to find and fight Whitebeard, sir" the commodore responded as of the moment he was the highest rank that could communicate what happened, as the other commodore went missing in action, and the rear admiral was still bedridden.
"How in the hell do you think that is a good idea to challenge one of the emperors but the strongest of them all at that?" Sengoku said irritated face palming.
"Well did you even do any damage to him or kill any pirate scum?" asked a vice admiral.
"No, we only injured some but could not kill them sir. The rear admiral could not even get close to Whitebeard as he was held off by a... kid" the commodore said looking down.
All of the vice admirals and Sengoku raised their eyebrows at how a kid could hold off a rear admiral and Sengoku was also thinking even harder as to why Whitebeard would take in a kid into his crew. "What do you mean kid?" asked one of the vice admirals.
"It was a kid that was part of Whitebeard's crew, as Horo was about to board the ship the kid attacked him and they started fighting the kid even used some of the Rokushiki techniques and knows how to utilize all 3 types of haki and he has devil fruit" he finishedmaking everybody's eyes widen.
"WHAT?! You said all 3, you mean he had Haoshoku and that a kid can use the Rokushiki which are supposed to be World Government techniques." said a vice admiral alarmed.
"Yes sir he was also the reason we weren't able to find the other commodore as the man attempted to attack him from behind but the kid dodged and used his devil fruit power sending him flying several hundreds of feet away".
"And do you know what his devil fruit is" asked Sengoku, seriously as some kid could utilize all 3 types of haki.
"No sir but a marine who saw the encounter said that the boy made a bubble around his fist and went up to punch the commodore causing cracks in the air to appear when he did so sending him flying off" Sengoku's eyes widened at what he had just heard as it couldn't possibly be that devil fruit.
"Do you have a picture of the boy?" he asked.
"Yes, it is in the folders in front of you."
The vice admirals and Sengoku opened the folders and they saw a boy. "What is his name and are you positive he is part of Whitebeard's crew?" Sengoku asked, wanting to make sure.
"Positive, he had Whitebeard's jolly roger tattooed on his back and from what some marines were able to find out it was Monkey D. Luffy".
"Then I want a bounty issued immediately! The boy can utilize 3 types of haki and was able to beat a rear admiral to death's door and a commodore and has the strongest paramecia devil fruit he is going to be a threat in the future!". 'Goddamn it Garp you better have a good explanation for this' he thought looking at the boy's name.
"How much should bounty be sir?" asked a vice admiral.
{III}
Dawn Island
Ace and Sabo were currently outside the bandits base sparring trying to gain the advantage over each other. While Ace was the hotheaded one who went forward and try to overpower his opponent Sabo was the one who tried to use his head and figure out a strategy although it didn't always work the way, as Ace was always rushing.
Ace thrusted his pipe trying to hit Sabo in the chest to which Sabo just hit it to the side pushing Ace making him stumble. Sabo tried to use that mistake to his advantage and brought his pipe down trying to hit him across the head to which Ace just rolled off to the side and swung his pipe at Sabo's feet forcing him to jump to which Ace just kicked him in the chest and went up top pointing the pipe over his chest.
"You lose Sabo I win 51-49" Ace said, puffing hard suddenly falling to the ground.
"Yeah, I know but at least we're going to be strong for when we set out in 3 years".
"Are you sure you want to be a revolutionary instead of a pirate?".
Sabo just looked at the sky not really knowing himself yet. "I don't know I would still have freedom and explore if I became a revolutionary and I would be able to fight so people can be free so I might become one".
"As long as we live life to the fullest, I don't care what you do" Ace replied.
As the boys were getting up, they saw Makino walking towards them. "Hey Ace, Sabo I got something you might want to see" she said with a smile on her face.
"What is it?".
As the boys were wondering what it could be she pulled out a wanted poster and when they saw who it was their eyes bulged out.
"He already got a bounty!" both yelled simultaneously.
Sabo quickly grabbed the poster to get a better look with Ace on his side. "How the hell is his first bounty so high!" Ace said falling back.
"Well, it did say he is dangerous and beat up some pretty high-ranking marines and is part of-".
"Don't say it! I don't want to know what crew he is part of until I see him again and fight then after I beat him up, I'll know" Ace quickly cut her off.
Sabo just sighed and asked Makino to tell him in the ear what crew Luffy was a part of when Sabo got his answer he paled and fell back to the ground. "You've got to be kidding me".
{III}
Island in the New World
The Red-Haired pirates were still hungover as they had partied the entire night before Shanks was about to fall asleep until a voice yelled for him.
"Boss! Hawkeyes is here!".
Shanks looked to the side at his longtime rival. "Yo Hawkeyes. I'm not feeling too well at the moment, have you come for a match?".
"I have no interest in fighting a drunk. I simply came as I saw something about my student and I thought you might want to see it" he said before pulling out a wanted poster and opening it.
"EHHHH" the crew said simultaneously.
"He got a higher starting bounty than Big Mom, Dahahaha. I think I might go and become an emperor so the kid doesn't catch up soon. Kid also looks like a badass in the picture" Shanks laughed.
"He is my student it would be expected that he would start off big" Mihawk boasted to which Shanks just laughed and signaled for another party to start.
{III}
Moby Dick
Luffy was currently sparring with Marco who was surprised by how much of a fight Luffy was putting up and forcing him to try. To say he was quick was an understatement. He kept moving around dodging and weaving, he wouldn't be surprised if he kept up with Kizaru in the future, but of course his little brother was still weaker than him.
Luffy was fighting hand to hand with haki as he did not want to use his swords as he might end up cutting things on the ship by accident. "Alright that's enough yoi. I'm still dumbfounded by how much stronger you are now in all honesty I think you could fight and win against Cracker. Your armament is good enough and your devil fruit has a huge advantage against his biscuits yoi".
Luffy just smiled. "Well I want to eventually be a commander too so maybe I will end up fighting him". Whitebeard and the commanders were just watching with a smile.
'Maybe I'll make him a commander soon enough after all the 2nd division has been in need of one, and he is certainly getting stronger' Whitebeard thought to himself.
They were all broken out of their thoughts when News Coos came by so Thatch went up to the bird and bought a newspaper. Thatch started reading until he saw something sticking out to the side which he noticed was a wanted poster. "What the hell! He's still a kid".
The outburst grabbed everybody's attention "What is it?" asked Izo.
"This!" he said, showing the wanted poster which made all of the commander's eyes pop out and Whitebeard just laugh.
Wanted!
Dead or Alive!
Monkey D. Luffy
Epithet: 'Strawhat Luffy'
Bounty:100,000,000
The poster had a picture of Luffy with his straw hat on and with 2 necklaces around his neck, wearing black shorts with a blue waist sash with his swords in both of his hands standing over the bloody rear admiral.
"GURARARA, the brat already has a bounty of 100 million".
"That's a bigger than bounty than some ever get yoi".
The commanders were all shocked at how much the bounty was while Luffy was laughing happily he finally had a bounty and such a big starting one at that.
"How come his picture looks cool" Thatch sulked.
"Yo Marco think you can keep training me with that bounty, bounty hunters might be coming after me, shishishi".
{III}
Whole Cake Island
"Let's start the meeting" said a gigantic woman sitting down on a throne eating candy she was one of the emperors Charlotte Linlin.
"Yes of course soir" said Tamago as he was always the one in charge of the monthly meetings where they would go over anything important that has happened in the world.
There was nothing in particularly important to go over just some pirates like Trafalgar Law who was making a name for himself in the North Blue, Capone Bege, X-Drake an ex-rear admiral who deserted the marines and became a pirate, Basil Hawkins, Scratchmen Apoo, and the youngest of the bunch Eustass Kidd, but Big Mom and the Government didn't even consider them rookies since they hadn't even entered the Grand Line.
"Now to the important business there was an incident where a rear admiral and 2 commodores tried to take Whitebeard's head soir".
"Mamamama, it seems like the Marines are getting more idiotic as time goes on did those fools really think they could take his head", Big Mom wouldn't admit it even on her deathbed but she knew even though she was an emperor same as him that Whitebeard was the strongest and could rule the seas if he wanted to.
"They didn't even get close soir, but it seems like Whitebeard has got a new member in his crew which is quite young but managed to defeat the rear admiral and supposedly killed one of the commodores soir" he said putting down the bounty poster so the snail could project it to the screen so everybody could see.
As soon as they saw the picture of the kid the older siblings in the family and Big Mom both gasped and Smoothie started breaking down crying. "It can't be," said Katakuri shocked out of his normal calm demeanor. Smoothie just looked at the picture she knew for sure the color of his hair and his eyes gave it away that was her son.
"Luffy" she said still crying.
"MY GRANDSON?!" Big Mom said standing up looking at the projection.
"That bastard gave him to Whitebeard". She was fuming and it got even worse when she saw the name.
"That bastard was the son of Garp?! I knew there was something off he was too mysterious he didn't even give us his name he had just washed up on the shore and he was powerful so I let him stay". This shocked Tamago as he didn't even know Smoothie had a child.
All of the children were looking at Smoothie not even wanting to imagine how she was feeling after not knowing if your son was alive or not and suddenly finding out he was alive and part of a powerful rival pirate crew.
"Smoothie, are you ok?" asked Katakuri worried about his little sister.
"I don't know what he would think of me; he probably hates me for not being part of his life and probably thinks I abandoned him".
"What are we going to mama, peroin?". Big Mom did not know what to do as from what she saw her grandson was strong and would be a great addition to the crew, but she knew Whitebeard would not let her go there and just take one of his sons without a fight.
"If we were to try and get him, we would start a war with the Whitebeard pirates. He would not hand over one of his sons, and I doubt the brat would come with us as he wouldn't even feel a connection with us. So, for now, we just stay back and let things play out. We will make a move in a year or two try and get them when they are at their weakest when he has sent out one of his commanders out for a mission so make preparations".
