Chapter 18

The morning after the king's fall and execution Leah groggily with a sevear headache. 'I drank too much of the king's sake.' She thought rubbing her forehead.

She felt a tap on her shoulder. She looked up to see William with bandages covering his face with a glass of water in his hand. "Thanks." She said looking around.

She found Truffle and Atlanta laying down cuddling each other with Truffle on top. Leah grins taking a sip of water. "I see that you had a great night last night." Hon said walking towards the pirate captain.

"The booze was great." She said smiling rubbing her head. "Still not feeling great."

Hon was about to tell the captain something but stopped upon seeing a news coo flying down towards them. They pulled out 100 belle coin and paid for a newspaper. The doctor started reading the newspaper. "Well, the news of the King's death reached the world." They said.

"Are we mentioned?" Leah asked.

"Not yet, but by tomorrow we will probably receive our bounties on our heads."

Navy Headquarters 5 PM

A meeting of various military officers seated as Commodore Brannew spoke. "As you all have heard he nation of Manil has fallen and the base there has also been decimated."

"We believe the catalyst for all of this are five pirates."

A board with Wanted posters of Leah, Atlanta, William, Truffle, and Hon on it. He used a pointer to point at a picture of Leah gulping down a bottle of sake smiling widely. "Intelligence indicates that she is the leader of the crew." He said.

"Sill a 70 million Belle bounty is awfully high." One of the officers said in disbelief.

"That maybe, but she and her crew were able to take down an entire military in a night, and so a 70 million Belle bounty is appropriate."

"Agreed." The officers said.

"Now what about the crew?" An officer asked.

"The first one Atlanta Martella is being given a 30 million Belle bounty being the first mate and the one responsible for the defeats of two of Duteurte's royal guards as well as her history as a bounty hunter, Charlotte Truffle a 25 million Belle bounty…"

"Charlotte as in…" One started to say.

"Our intelligence is still verifying the data." Brannew said moving the meeting along. "Next we have Dr. Honoria Salamanca who has been participation in subversive activities she is being given a 10 million Belle bounty and finally William Jones."

A picture of William's face covered in bandages. "He will be given a 5 million Belle bounty for his small role in the incident."

The next day

On an island in the New World called Whole Cake Island two servants of Charlotte Linin read the newspaper and the new Wanted posters and paled. "We have to tell her." One said.

"No, we don't."

"Yes, we do, Big Mom has people hunting her, so yes we have to tell her."

"What are you two talking about?"

They looked up to see a tall muscular man stand at 16ft 8in. His cowboy boots clanking on the floor, his black pants and black vest exposing his abbs and muscular arms. A scarf covering his mouth. "Commander Katakuri!" They said standing up straight. "We were talking about the news."

"Yes!" He said trying to get them to elaborate.

"It's news about Truffle." They said handing him the newspaper and Wanted posters.

He took them reading through them. "I will let mama know."

"Thank you, sir!" They shouted bowing to the floor.

The sweet commander over to the dinning room in his mom's castle seeing his large, morbidly obese woman gorging on sweets. He waited for his mother to finish her pastries. Once she was done, she looked over to her strongest commander.

"Katakuri, what brings you here?" She asked him rubbing her stomach.

"I have got good news and bad news." He started. "Good news the matter with Whitebeard has been resolved and the candy should arrive within the week."

Charlotte beamed at the news. "Excellent, nothing can bring my spirits down."

He sighed. "The bad news is that Truffle is now part of a pirate crew."

Katakuri placed today's newspaper and wanted posters on the table. Big Mom used her pudgy arms to grab the newspaper and wanted posters and started reading. As she continued reading, she got more and more angry. She held Truffle's wanted poster glaring at it. Truffle's photo showed her dancing with a mug of beer in her right hand next to a fire. Katakuri silently walked away as his mother screamed releasing a torrent of haki shaking the castle.

In an unknown island on the New World

A crew of pirates were disembarking a red ship with a red dragon of the bow. Some were setting up camp. A news coo approached the leader. A red haired man missing his left arm and three scars over his left eye. He paid for a newspaper. He read the article on Manil, and then looked at Leah's wanted poster and laughed.

The crew stopped and turned towards their captain giving him a perplexed look. "What's got you in a good mood boss?" A large man eating a meat leg.

He gave a large smile and showed the crew Leah's wanted poster. "It Leah she's a wanted criminal!" He shouted to the heavens.

Most of the crew gave him confused looks while his longest serving crew members just tried to hide their laughter. "This calls for a party!"

"Again boss?" Most of the crew asked sweet dropping.

West Blue

Moergan and Genoa were looking over the days newspaper. They took William's wanted poster and hung it up on the wall.

Back on Manil

Hon was staring at her wanted poster in despair. 'How am I supposed to continue working with bounty after me?' They thought to themselves.

"Yeah!" Leah shouted holding up her bounty poster. "First bounty and it's huge!"

Atlanta was grinning proudly at her wanted poster, looking at a picture of herself flexing. Truffle was looking at her poster with neutral look on her face. William looked at his poster in annoyance.

The Slithering Snake was moved to the port. Supplies were being restocked. Leah looked over at Hon. "Hey Hon, I know that this going to be awkward, but do you wish to join?"

Hon sighed. "I don't want to be a pirate, I never even wanted to leave my home, but for the safety of my country I will join your crew as the doctor."

Leah gave them a small smile. "Hey people we encounter are going to need medical help."

Hon gave a small smile themselves. "Thank you, captain."

"You all are stocked up and ready to go." A Manil resident yelled getting off the ship.

"Thank you, everyone." Leah said in gratitude.

Hon looked back and cried. They bowed to the floor. "I'm sorry that I'm leaving." They shouted.

"It's alright." Someone said approaching the doctor. "We will be alright."

Hon sobbed loudly before Leah hugged the doctor. Atlanta placed a hand on their shoulder while Truffle followed suite with the other shoulder. William looked at them sympathetically.

Below ground, the giant that fought the marines was talking to portable snail. "Hey Boss, the kingdom has fallen."

"Excellent head back to headquarters for further instructions." The voice ordered.

"One thing more." He said. "The World Government is putting everything on…"

"I know, news has already spread." The snail said.

"Already, the government would want to suppress this news." The giant said.

Reverse Mt. Base

Vice-Admiral Arnold was behind his desk talking with Navy Headquarters on the snail. "Yes, the news is bad." He said.

"It's not bad, it's disastrous, five pirates took down an entire nation and a marine base!"

"And I guarantee that she and her crew will be found and taken care of admiral."

"See to it Vice-Admiral." The voice said before disconnecting.

He looked over at his two rear-admirals. Buitre was sitting down with his legs crossed. Another rear-admiral was a large muscular at around 8 ft tall. The man was bald with a particular shine.

"Alright, it has passed, and we can move forward now." Arnold told them. "We will still deny vessels that require a special fee."

"I will give the order to apprehend the pirates that paid fees." Buitre said.

"Excellent make sure…" Arnold said only to be interrupted by an explosion.

He sighed. "Never mind."

The three got up and quickly made their way to checkpoint to see a 7 feet tall shirtless man in black defeating marines left and right. "Rear Admiral Brock if you would please."

The large rear admiral nodded before running towards the martial artist. "Rock-Rock punch." He yelled turning his arm into rock.

The martial artist turned and his punch with one of his own. Brock was unharmed in the process; however, the martial artist was shaking his hand and holding it in pain. "You backstabbing…"

"Says the pirate." Arnold said. "It's politics, blame you luck Li."

Buitre snapped his fingers and canons fired on the pirate's ship. Marines then proceeded to fire on Li's crew. "You are probably wishing for death right." Buitre said. "You won't be granted."

"You will be locked away until a ship can take you to Enes Lobby." Arnold said.

Brock waved his hand for the men to take Li to the holding cells. He was cuffed and dragged to the holding cells. "Now we just need to get us some red hair." Arnold said facing the West Blue.

Wow this chapter is one of the longest chapters I have ever written for this story. Hints on relationships and a confirmation of one and first bounties. Yeah. Thank you for reading.