Chapter 33: The Great Escape.
On Fishman Island.
Mermaid Cafe.
Camie
Mermaid
A worker at Mermaid Cafe
"Hatchen, I brought your favorite, octopus fritters,"
Hatchen
Octopus-Fishman
Former Pirate/member of the Arlong Pirates.
The Octopus Fishman was taken to the Fishman Island due to his serious injuries in the battle against the Navy.
"Thanks, Camie," He groaned.
"Here let me help," Camie helped feed the octopus man.
Hatchen took a bite and chowed on the octopus fritter. "Mmm...mmm..." He swallowed after a few moments of chewing.
"It was hard to get you here, despite that you're not a pirate anymore,"
Angel
Saltwater Angel Fish-woman
"That's for sure, but at least the palace guards made an exception this once,"
Thorn.
Thorn Sea Horse-Merman
"Tee-hee, I'm making more, if anyone else wants seconds,"
Jula
Squid Fish-woman.
Due to her extra arms, she is capable of making more of the octopus fritters as fast as Hatchen does.
Camie clapped her hands. "Great, I appreciate that you guys are helping out."
"It's only because Hammond or his thugs aren't causing any more trouble lately,"
Rena
Hybrid Human Mermaid.
"Yeah, I remember that, when Aquapad decided to leave to Fishman Island, I was surprised, but, he wanted to thank Strawhat Luffy and his friends," Angel added.
"That's right, but he knew that he couldn't leave Fishman Island, Hammond was always a jerk, he would always cause trouble, even back then he and Aquapad would headbutt each other," Thorn added.
Hatchen was hearing this, a memory started to flow through his mind like a video.
16 years ago.
Child Aquapad
Child Hammond
At Coral Hill, in the town streets, the two Fishman kids were glaring at each other, Aquapad's childhood friends were there too.
Child Thorn, Jula, Rena, and Angel.
Childhood friends of Aquapad.
"Geez, this again as always," Thorn muttered with a sigh.
Jula stood calm. "This might interesting as usual too."
"You and those goodies are fools to think of becoming friends with humans, Hatchen is mostly the fool to even become friends with one!"
"You bastard, you take that back!" Aquapad snapped, not liking that someone was badmouthing his friend.
Nearby Merfolk and Fishman were looking at the two shouting Fishman kids.
"Like hell, I will, you idiots need to stop believing Hatchen's crap of stories!" Hammond roared in anger.
"Alright, that's it, Hammond, I'm gonna kick your ass!" Aquapad cursed as he shoved the Conger Eel Fishman.
"Oh yeah, bring on you Marlin bastard!"
They started swinging their fists at each other childishly, both were able to punch each other, then started to pull each other's hair.
"Come on, you two stop it!" Rena pleaded.
"Yeah, Aquapad, let it go, this jerk is not worth it!" Angel added.
"Seeing those two fight is usually good, I hope I get to brawl soon," Jula punched her fists into her other hand's palms.
"You're not helping Jula," Thorn said with a sweatdrop.
But their words weren't not getting through the two Fishman kids.
"You two brats cut it out now!" Two of Neptune's guards were approaching the two.
The two Fishman kids wouldn't listen, but just then a large figure arrived and approached the two Fishman children.
Bonk Bonk
"Ow!" Hammond and Aquapad groaned as they fell on their butts with red lumps on their heads.
"Your fighting is causing a scene, so I suggest you stop this at once!" The Whale-Shark Fishman demanded as he looked at the two Fishman kids, with a glare on his face.
Hammond got up while groaning in pain, covered in several bruises from head to toe. "I won't forget this Aquapad."
Aquapad clenched his fists, then he caught a glimpse of the whale Fishman's glare. "Fine, I'm tired of you anyway."
"Come on, let's get you cleaned up," Rena suggested, offering her hand.
Present.
"Now, yeah, when Jimbei arrives, those two stopped fighting, even they still headbutted once and a while even after Jimbei left to join the Navy as one of the Seven Warlords," Hatchen concluded with a light smile.
"That's for sure, Aquapad left us in charge to make sure that Hammond doesn't cause trouble to the pirates that just chill here for a while,"
"Brings back more memories when we first met Fire Fist Ace," Thorn reminded. "I remember the guy did something to make a jerk like Hammond pass out."
This caused Aquapad's friends to laugh at the memory, Angel then spoke; "That's when we became friends with Ace and he even asked us to join, only we declined for our reasons, he was a good guy too..." Then a frown formed on her face. "But now..."
The laughter soon vanished as quickly as it started. "Yeah, Ace is dead, we won't see him again," Ren said sadly.
"If Strawhat Luffy gets here, we'll tell him about Ace and how we became friends," Jula suggested with excitement.
Thorn, Rena, and Angel had bright smiles on their faces.
"Yeah!"
Back at Water 7
The Fairy Tail wizards defeated the Cipher Pol agents and the navy Vice-Admiral along with their subordinates.
Reuniting at Dock 6(Franky's secret warehouse), the fairies got to see their pirate flagship, with the help of the Franky Family and Galley-La workers, they set sail, only to be ambushed by Admiral Kizaru.
The Glint-Glint Fruit User attempted to destroy the Fairies and their friends, but just as before their doom was upon them, six familiar faces appeared just in time.
Sting and Lector confront Kizaru, thus the Light Dragon Slayer used his ability to suck the admiral's attack, while Millianna, Makarov, Rouge, and Frosch appear before their friends.
"Gramps!" Team Natsu hugged their master tightly. "We missed you!"
"Ugh... Yeah...but...c-can you let go, I can't breathe," Makarov said in a choked tone.
"Sorry old man," Natsu said with a bright smile.
Fujika saw the smile, she began to blush red. "That smile..." She thought, despite that Natsu is a hothead, he's a lovable guy.
Gildarts looked around aimlessly for his daughter. "Cana, my little girl, sweetie, daddy's here!"
"She's not with us," Lucy informed.
"Where is she?" The S-Class Wizard asked with great concern.
Lucy was startled at this approach. "We'll explain that later, right now we're in a situation here.
"Hey old man," Pango said waving his paw-like hand. "I'm Pango, A Panda Mink, I'm a new friend."
Makarov was startled at this. "Ah! A talking panda bear!"
Rogue was surprised. "A panda bear that talks that's astounding."
"Yeah, I thought I was the only talking animal," Frosch said walking to the panda bear. "Hi, I'm Frosch an Exceed and Rouge's partner."
A goofy grin formed on the Panda Mink's face. "Hi, I'm Pango, a Panda Mink."
Millianna was astonished at this as she started to feel his fur. "You're not a kitty, but you are soft like one, despite that you're fat."
Pango chuckled awkwardly. "Uhh...thanks I guess."
"Anyway, what is going on?" Rouge questioned, looking serious.
"We'll explain later, but right now, we need to escape, however, we can't find Lisanna and Aquapad," Erza answered.
"Who's Aquapad?" Mest wondered curiously.
"A Fishman," Mira answered.
Erza, Kagura, Mest, and the Thunder Legion were surprised. "A Fishman!?"
"Something wrong?" Lucy wondered, surprised at her friend's reactions.
But before anyone could answer, Sting started to speak to Kizaru. "What is it that you want with my friends?"
Kizaru just grinned before he spoke; "I guess you don't know, your friends caused some problems for the navy, not to mention that Natsu the Fire Dragon Rider and Gray the Ice Demon opposed the Celestial Dragons, so I'd appreciate that if you and your new friends won't interfere."
Sting was silent for a moment. "Too bad..."
Kizaru cocked his head in wonder. "Hmm?"
"My friends must have a reason to oppose the navy, sure they're reckless, but they know when something isn't right, they fight, as will I!"
"That's right, you can try to lay a finger on our friends, but we'll protect them!" Lector proclaimed.
"Another talking cat, quite interesting," Kizaru said with a grin. "No matter, I'll just eliminate you and everyone else." Then he stopped as he caught a sight of Gildarts, he was quite surprised. "My, my, is that Shanks..."
"Hmm...?" Sting wondered noticing the Admiral was looking at something else.
"What is he doing here?" Kizaru wondered, but after close view for a while, he realized the man on the ship wasn't Shanks, but someone that shared a resembled to one for Emperors that stopped the war at Marineford. "Does Red-Haired Shanks have a twin brother, well, doesn't matter either way."
The Admiral crossed his arms again, then unleashed a torrent of jewel-like particles at the Sabertooth Guild Master.
"Haven't you learned yet," Sting grinned as he inhaled the jewel light particles into his mouth?
The light dragon slayer wiped his mouth with a dark smirk. "I'm the Light Dragon Slayer, so light attacks won't have much effect on me, any else you want to throw at me,"
"S-scary...you must like to play rough..." Kizaru said narrowing his eyes.
"I'm just getting warmed up!" Sting proclaimed, his body was soon cloaked with an aura of bright light. "White Drive!"
"My, my, quite the power you got boy," Kizaru spoke seemingly impressed.
"Now Lector, fly me up high!" Sting commanded.
"Right!" Lector obeyed his partner, flying up high.
"Now drop me down!"
"Get him!"
Sting dove down with incredible speed to his White Drive's effect.
"I ain't going to let you take me down boy," Kizaru crossed his arms again, unleashed his torrent of light particles up towards the white dragon slayer.
"Here's a new move I learned!" Sting declared. "White Dragon's Mirror Body!"
Sting turned his body into light energy which bounced off the light particles.
Everyone was surprised at this bizarre move.
"He's bouncing off Kizaru's light particles!" Natsu exclaimed.
"That's similar when Kizaru does Sacred Yata Mirror..." Miyaka thought as she was impressed at this display.
Yukino was surprised, but she smiled. "Never expect nothing less from the guild master of Sabertooth."
"Incredible!" Pango exclaimed with his eyes popping out comically.
Erza smiled impressively. "Sting has gotten stronger than I thought."
Gajeel did his trademark. "Heh, I look forward to a rematch with the punk."
"I don't think that'll be necessary," Levy said with a sweatdrop.
Makarov grunted with a grin. "He's come quite along as a being Guild Master."
Sting continued to bounce off the light particles until he came closer to Kizaru. "White Dragon's Iron Fist!" One of his fists was engulfed in light and threw a punch at the admiral.
Kizaru saw this, crossing his arms in front of his face, shielding his face from the attack with both of his wrists.
"How can he touch the admiral, he's a Logia type," Miyaka thought in shock.
"That's quite the painful punch," Kizaru said with a dark look despite still smiling.
"You're quite the challenge too, but, you're in the way, so you can go down!" Sting said as he grabbed the admiral's wrists and threw him over his head.
Kizaru was sent down into the large fountain-like building in the center of Water 7, creating a big explosion.
Below the water.
Aquapad was floating below the navy ship. "I haven't mastered this move yet, however, I intend to use it to protect my friends, the humans that showed me more, humanity can be ugly, but it also has good."
On the surface Lisanna was still in her mermaid form, secretly guiding the Maru and her servant Yamenahare, to the Franky Family hideout.
Zambai and his friends were already there, staying hidden until the navy left.
Tilestone along with the former two giant warriors of Eneis Lobby was there guarding the Franky house.
Oimo saw the waver boat coming towards ashore. "What is that over there?"
Kashii looked closely. "Not sure, but it's not a navy ship."
"Then let's see what is it!" Tilestone roared.
Lisanna then jumped out of the water in then reverted to her human form.
"Ms. Lisanna did you just-" Kashii began to say, seemingly noticing her mermaid-like body that just disappeared.
"Never mind that, but I have a job for you and Oimo!" Lisanna interrupted.
The two giants were puzzled.
Kizaru reappeared from where he crashed. "My, my, it's been a while since I was sent the ground like that." He recalled how he went toe-to-toe with Marco the Phoneix, who was able to touch him because he was Haki User too.
He took out a transponder snail. "Doesn't matter now. Hello, this Kizaru speaking."
The transponder that was back on his ship was picked up by a marine. "Sir, this is the captain speaking!"
"That ship is still in the range of fire, so blast them away," Kizaru replied with a darkened tone.
"Right sir!" The marine captain hung up and turned to the other marine soldiers. "Now fire all cannons at the Water Fairy Ship!"
The marines pointed their cannons directly at the Fairy Tail's pirate flagship.
"Geez, can we catch a break!?" Lucy panicked comically.
"I guess not!" Wendy added.
"Fishpower Nebula Pump!" Aquapad proclaimed as he swung his right hand backward and extended forward, creating a pump of extremely powerful water that took the shape of a fish.
Suddenly the Fishman's attack seemingly lost power, but part of the attack lasted enough to make the navy ship shake violently.
The navy soldiers panicked in horror, some fell over on her backs and while rolling on the deck.
"What the hell was that?"
"A seaquake?"
"No, that can't be!"
"I ain't done!" Aquapad leaped out of the water. "Now, Sea Surface Split!" He karate chopped the surface creating a shock wave that sent directly at the navy ship.
The shock wave split the navy ship in half.
The navy soldiers that avoided the attack got on the lifeboats that were still intact.
"Abandon ship!"
"Everyone, get on the shore!"
Just then around the corner, Lisanna came on the waver.
"What kind of boat is that?" Laxus wondered.
"Don't know, but it looks fast," Erza answered skeptically.
Mest took out a pair of binoculars. "Let me see!" He looked through them, then gasped. "Lisanna is on that boat!"
Natsu was relieved to hear that. "Lisanna, over here!"
Lisanna saw her childhood friend and smiled brightly. "Natsu, glad to see you're safe."
Aquapad then leaped out of the water and landed on the deck. "Hi, I'm Aquapad!"
Mest was little cautious around Fishman, after he witnessed the tragedy and destruction that Arlong along with his crew caused.
"It's fine, he's a friend!" Elfman reassured calmly, which made some of the others put their minds at ease.
Erza smiled. "Anyone whose a friend of Elfman and his sisters, is a friend of ours." She shook the Fishman's hand.
Lisanna got closer to the ship, then she showed the gifts that were given by the Pucci mayor's daughter, there were dial tone shells, even ones that give off a shockwave.
There was the boat waver that had the head of a swan.
"What kind of shells are these?" Lucy said observing one of them.
"I'll give you the details later," Lisanna answered. "Right, now we need to escape!" She was eyeing where the Admiral was.
"Guys, bad news, the admiral is on his way back," Sting said landing on the deck. "I don't think he's happy either."
"Right, we need to escape, but using the sail might not help us get away faster," Freed said looking at the pirate flag.
"That's where this impact dials comes in," Lisanna said holding one of them. "I was told that this one can release a shock wave that will make fly away."
"That's so cool!" Natsu shouted amazingly.
"But using it will cause recoil damage, so we must choose which one will-" But before Lisanna could finish her sentence, Gajeel snatched the shell away. "I will, I have much endurance, being an Iron Dragon Slayer that is."
"No way, I'll do it!" Natsu argued.
"No arguing boys!" A demanding yet demonic voice roared out, which belonged to Erza.
The two male dragon slayers went silent and frozen in fear. "Yes ma'am!"
The scarlet-haired woman then took the dial tone. "Could this stick to the bottom of the ship?"
"Yeah, Maru told me that too!" Lisanna confirmed.
"Maru?" Natsu questioned.
"I'll explain that later, for now, let's get out away from here!" The pinkette boy's childhood friend interrupted.
STOMP STOMP
"Like hell you will, criminals bastards!" A loud voice rang out.
There stood a massive tall giant man, wearing an traditional uniform form, not like the marines would wear.
Vice-Admiral John Giant
Katana User
A serious stern look was shown on the giant man's face as he looked down at the Fairy Tail wizards and their friends.
"That guy is huge!" Lucy screamed.
"He's a giant like in those fairy tale books!" Lisanna pointed out.
"He's even bigger than the marine I fought against," Gajeel thought.
Kagura noticed the large katana sword. "That's quite a sword, especially for his size."
Gildarts climbed on the pirate flag pole, which the Fairy Tail wizards smiled.
"Hold on, old timer!" Aquapad began to call out until he felt a hand on his shoulder.
The hand belonged to Erza, who seemingly calm. "It's alright..." Additionally a smile formed on her face. "Gildarts is strong, the strongest besides Laxus..."
John Giant gasped loudly at who was facing him. "Shanks, what are you doing here?"
The Fairy Tail wizards were confused, as well as their S-Class wizard, though Pango and Aquapad were aware of who the marine was talking about.
"He's calling him Shanks, too?" Lucy wondered in confusion.
"Aquapad mentioned there was a pirate emperor named Shanks, but..." Elfman thought. "This marine thinks he's Shanks."
"No, you're not Shanks, but why do you look like him?" John wondered with growl. "Either way, I shall kill you and your friends!"
The giant Vice-Admiral sheathed his Katana and held it high. "I'll slice your ship and destroy you all!"
Gildarts just smirked devilishily. "Heh, heh, that won't happen..." He raised a hand and leaped towards the giant, then pulled back his hand and extended forward. "CRUSHING EVIL, SPREADING THE TRUTH: ABSOLUTE HEAVEN!"
The powerful punch was struck into John's chest creating powerful shockwaves the shook the seas, nearby ships, small boats, and buildings.
"What was that?" Zambai asked.
"I feel a strong aura, it's powerful," Omino thought.
He nodded at his partner Kashii, who felt the strong force too. "Hmm... That powerful aura, it was something beyond this world."
Erza tied a rope around her body tightly, then attached it to the railing that was on the back of the ship, but just in case, she attached another rope to Aquapad, Lisanna, and Elfman that way they could prevent the woman from flying away.
Natsu, Gray, and Laxus put the waver boat on the deck tying the boat to the deck so that it wouldn't fall overboard.
"I think that should be tight enough," Natsu said proudly.
"Let's just hope, when we fly it doesn't fall off, more importantly us," Gray added.
"Right, let's now focus on escaping!" Laxus declared.
Sting gritted his teeth. "This is bad, Kizaru is getting closer!"
"Meow, this is bad!" Millianna meowed in fright, seeing some light coming from the direction that the Admiral crashed towards.
"It's ready!" Erza declared getting back on the ship.
"Right, everyone, my children, hold on tight!" Makarov ordered loudly. "Also, I want a few go-to inside, if we have a rough landing, some of us might fall into the ocean!"
The wizards and their new friends grabbed some parts of the ship, while the others went inside the ship.
"Sacred Yata Mirror!" Kizaru proclaimed.
He let out a light beam of energy between his hands, which the beam of light landed on different buildings even one of the large dock gates.
Just at the last minute, the impact dial let out a powerful shock wave, which made the ship fly out of the water like a cannon released, but due to the recoil effect, Erza was sent crashing to the others but they were able to pervert the scarlet-haired woman going overboard.
"Whoa!" Lucy screamed comically.
"This is awesome!" Natsu cheered.
"Aye!" Happy agreed.
"This is quite the ride!" Pango laughed.
"Yeah, we're flying!" Lector proclaimed.
"We are!" Frosch added equally excited.
"This something we can share with our guildmates too!" Sting stated, couldn't wait to tell the news to his guildmates at Sabertooth.
"First off, we need to find the others that are still in this world," Rogue reminded.
"Right, Akame, Cana, Chelsea, Juvia, and Leone are out there," Erza agreed. "I heard there on an island called Sabaody."
"Yes, I read in the newspaper, hopefully, they're keeping a low profile!" Elfman added.
Gray was hoping to see Juvia again, strangely he kind of missed her, but he wondered if it was romantically or just missed as her a friend.
Realizing what he was thinking and began to rub his head roughly. "Ah, I need to stop with this crap!"
Eventually they landed on the ocean, with a big splash and the ship shook violently, but the landing wasn't that bad
Miyaka looked at him confusingly. "Huh?"
"Ow that hurt..." Elfman groaned. "So not... manly."
Lisanna realized that was lying on top of Aquapad. "Uhhh..." They stuttered awkwardly.
"Whoa..." Bickslow said pointed at the two.
Freed was in disbelief. "You think you can do that later."
Lisanna got off comically. "No, it's not what you two think!"
Aquapad scurred away clearly embarrassed. "So sorry, so sorry!" He bowing his head down comically.
"Is everyone alright?" Erza asked.
"Dandy..." Gajeel groaned.
"Literally," Levy added.
"Man, that was landing," Lily said rubbing his head.
"It was fun!" Pango cheered while dancing around like an idiot.
"Well, at least someone enjoyed that little flight," Lucy said.
Lisanna then walked over to the Waver. "It's okay, not even scratch." She inspected it.
"Who gave you this strange boat?" Natsu wondered approaching his childhood friend.
"Yes, I admit that boat is quite different from the one we rode on when going to the cursed island," Happy said.
Lucy remembered that day. "Oh yes, it's also when you little burglars stole an S-Class request form." She growled comically.
"Yeah, I wanted us to swim to the island," Natsu whined remembering how they had to take a boat.
"That was the crazy part," Lucy sighed, remembering when he called her crazy about taking a boat.
"Anyway, I got it from the mayor's daughter Maru," Lisanna interrupted seeing that the three were getting off the topic. "I believe she was the one that was being taking away the Celestial Dragon."
Natsu recalled that. "Hold on, that's right, is she and her father safe?"
Lisanna took out a dial and pressed a switch on the top. "Natsu Dragneel and former Vice-Admiral Gray Fullbuster, if you're listening to this, I deliver a message to you."
The others gathered around to hear this.
"First off, Gray, I saw your speech, the one you gave to the Celestial Dragon, you really stood up to him, in my years, I would temporary worried that a noble like him or one of his family members would come to Pucci Island, the one that did was Charloss, he shot my father when he tried to oppose him."
Lucy was horrified by that detail. "Her father was... shot."
The other wizards were disgusted and angry.
"Sob...sob... However you and your friend Natsu gave that bastard a good punch, I was very impressed, also Natsu, I saw your fight against the Vice-Admiral Ren, he was a tough opponent, but what disgusted me that when one of his own men tried to flee, Ren attempted to kill him, but you stood in front and protected the fleeing marine."
Natsu remembered that, Ren attacking his own men just because they wanted to be with their family. "How could you attack your men, they're friends, is that all navy officers like you treat each other?!"
Mest couldn't believe what he was hearing. "Even the Navy is more corrupted than I thought."
Maru's voice continued to speak. "Anyway, I wanted to thank you and your friends with these gifts, I got these a while back, rather my family got them before I was even born, I believe it was a man named Noland that gave us these things, he helped Pucci Island too, we will always grateful to him, so I decided to give you these as a gift, I'm sure you guys can put them to good use.
The wizards and their new friends smiled, while some were on the verge of tears.
"Anyway, Fairy Tail Pirates, thank you all, Natsu, Gray, I wish I can see you both and thank you in person, thank you, thank you so much," The last words were almost in a cute like tone, like she was to get all romantic.
"She loves you too!" Happy teased.
Bonk Bonk
Natsu and Gray whacked the cat on the head leaving two lumps on his head hiding the redness on their faces.
"Shut up cat!"
Erza then whacked them on the heads too. "Be gentle you two!"
"Yes ma'am!" The two boys groaned holding their heads in pain.
"Anyway, our next destination is Sabaody Archipelago, once we arrive there, we must be a low profile!" Erza declared.
"That's right, there's even a Marine base there too," Gray added.
"So what, we'll just kick their butts to next," Natsu said with a smirk.
Lucy went over to the pinkette and whacked him on the head. "Can you think of something else besides fighting?!"
"For now, everyone, let's celebrate, on our escape!" Erza declared putting up a mug of ginger ale.
"Right, I hope we got some boozes!" Makarov said looking excited to drink.
M
On the Grand Line.
Boa Hancock was departed from Amazon Lily with the Kuja Pirates.
"Luffy, I hope to see you soon, my love!" The pirate empress swooned.
"Princess, this is not the time for your swooning states!" Gloriosa protested.
Kikyo was on the ship, in her cleavage was a letter. "Natsu..." She thought.
"Something wrong?" Ran wondered seeing the tough mature amazon spaced out.
The toughest amazon woman turned her head. "No, nothing is wrong."
Nerine was excited. "Luffy, I can't wait to see him." She then held up a wanted poster of Natsu. "I hope Natsu and Happy are alright too."
"Fujika, I hope she's doing okay too," Gloriosa said looking a bit concerned.
"Don't worry, she's got Natsu and Happy with her," Hancock assured with a confident look on her face.
"Big sis is right," Sonia agreed.
"Yeah, I bet they're having a lot of fun," Marigold said with a smile.
"Anyway, let's get going, Luffy is waiting for me!" Boa Hancock proclaimed as a red blush appeared on her face, then she shook her head. "I mean Luffy is waiting for us!"
"Yeah!" The Kuja pirates cheered raising their arms.
At Saboady Archipelago
Shakky's Bar
Sunset arrived.
Though Rayleigh was having a drink, while Shakky was chatting with him, the three former female assassins and the two Fairy Tail girls went to stay at a fancy hotel while the three minks went to stay with Duval and his gang.
"It's been 2 years since Monkey D. Luffy and his crew came here," Shakky said while holding a cigarette. "It seems like it was only yesterday."
Rayleigh had a cup and bottle of whisky. "Yeah..."
"We haven't changed, but I bet they've all grown up," Shakky commented. "I wait to see."
Rayleigh chuckled sheepishly. "I wouldn't get ahead of myself, for all we know they might not make it here, they ain't small fries thanks to their captain."
The former pirate swirled his cup a bit before taking a sip of his drink. "The government is after them, no the whole world is after them." He took a sip.
Creak
The front door opened, seeing a familiar figure standing in the doorway.
Shakky was quite impressed at who she was seeing. "Well..."
Rayleigh was surprised himself for once. "Ah, I didn't think you'd be the first."
The figure placed his left hand on his hip. "Oh yeah..." It was Zoro. "Nobody else has shown up?"
A faint smile appeared on the green-haired man's face. "Well damn, guess they got lost."
A few days later
Franky arrived and went to the location where the pirate ship "The Thousand Sunny" was being held, but to his surprise yet shock, he saw a large giant like a man.
"I've been waiting for you," It was Kuma one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea.
Franky got into battle position. "What the hell are you doing here?"
Kuma then got up as electrical surges covered parts of his broken damaged body parts. "Mission accomplished..."
He limped away slowly as he passed a confused Franky, then the cyborg glanced at the ship, noticing that there wasn't a single scratch. "This is weird."
Now the Fairy Tail wizards along with their new friends Pango the Panda Mink and Aquapad the Marlin Fishman reunited with their other allies from Earthland, they manage to escape from Water 7.
Now their next destination is Sabaody, where a few more of their companions are hiding, hopefully, to escape any detection from the Navy, what awaits them there, find out next time.
End of chapter.