A little bonus for you guys. No actual reason.

I wanted to update yesterday but I only just decided to include the Hearts in the reaction.

Enjoy!

BONUS CHAPTER: Look at the news

A large house, Punk Hazard

A group of seven were relaxing in a large living room, all doing different things. The group was very odd. There was a green-haired man napping with three swords on his side, an orange-haired woman in a bikini top drawing a map, a long-nosed man fiddling with a strange contraption, a blonde with curly eyebrows baking something, a small teenager reading a book with a curvy dark-haired woman and a tall middle-aged man wearing a skull-shaped mask.

"Where did you say Franky was again?" the long-nosed man, Usopp, asked.

"New invention he wanted to test. I bet it's a weapon," Nami the woman with orange hair replied without looking up from her map.

"I bet it's super cool," the teenager, Chopper added. Usopp plopped down on the large couch and grabbed the remote to switch the TV on.

"Nami-swan~ Robin-chwan~" the blonde, Sanji, twirled up to the women, holding a plate filled with neatly arranged pastries in one hand and a tray with two drinks in the other. "My special creampuffs of love, made healthy to stay in shape, topped with powdered cane sugar and luscious strawberries. Cocktails specially made for you with organic ingredients, including strawberry, watermelon, mango and a hint of lime. Please enjoy, ladies."

"It's delicious, Sanji-san! Yohohohohoho!"

"They're not for you, you skull-faced idiot!"

Usopp went through channels. "You ain't got anything interesting, Brook?" Then something caught his attention on the local news channel. "Wait a second, what's that? Trafalgar Law… Isn't he the Surgeon of Death? Trafalgar Law finally found—" His eyes popped out. "That's Luffy!"

Everyone turned to look at the picture on TV. Zoro, the green-haired man, woke up at the outburst and lazily glanced at the screen. "What, is it morning already? You guys are so noisy, I — Luffy? What the fucking hell is happening?"

"That surgeon bastard! What did he do to my lovely Luffy-chan? I'll kill him!"

"Oh, Luffy-san! I have to compose a song! Newfound love with a doctor. Yohohoho!"

"Maybe he'll murder her in cold-blood once they're alone and feed her to a stray dog."

"Robin! That's scary!"

"Yeah, you'll bring bad luck to us!"

"But aren't we already unlucky, Long Nose-kun? Since Luffy's on the news for dating a certain doctor of death."

"Good point. But don't make us more unlucky then!"

"Luffy's such an idiot."

"What did you say about Luffy-chan, you marimo bastard?"

"SHUT UP!" Nami screamed at them. "The dude's saying something!"

"… has a new relationship with an unknown young lady, seen here dragging the doctor out of the hospital during an argument with Doctor Caesar Clown, the fight itself being about her. The reason for her anger is still unclear to most. On the other hand, we do know that Doctor Trafalgar is quite attached to her, as he ignored it when the girl hugged him—"

"What? Damn that doctor!" Sanji looked ready to kill.

"Shut up, curly brow."

"You shut up, marimo!"

"Both of you, shut up!"

"Nami-swan is so beautiful when she's angry~!"

"—at her request. They were here to visit a comatose man named Portgas D. Ace who arrived two weeks ago in bad condition, and who, according to sources, also turns out to be her brother. Strangely though, despite my searching, I have no proof that Mr Portgas and the young lady are connected somehow. Doctors say that it is still unsure if Mr Portgas will wake up—"

"Nooo! Ace!" Chopper sobbed.

"We do not yet know if the relationship is real or not—"

The ginger woman switched the TV off. And sighed. "Of course it isn't real. They didn't have to make the news."

Chopper scowled. "Doctor Trafalgar is a very important man. Of course he would appear. He's a genius. He's also famous for hating humans despite being one of the best doctors and always saving his patients."

"Yeah, well, he's also a bastard."

"Luffy-chan invited him to the party, you know." Everyone froze and stared at the blond man who just said it. Jaws dropped.

"EHHHHHHH?!"

Another house in Punk Hazard

"Whoa! Whoa, whoa, whoa. Guys, look at that. I think the world's ending."

The man had a strange black cap with flaps and Penguin written on the front. A tiny penguin decoration was perched on top of the cap. Another man, with a green cap and sunglasses, looked up from his phone. "Hm? What, the news? Something ha—" He spat out the coffee he just drank. "What?!"

A dark-haired woman came out of the kitchen. "What's the matter, Peng? Shachi, don't spit, you idiot!"

The green-capped man, Shachi, raised a shaky hand to point at the large screen in front of them. "B-B-But Ikkaku, look! The world is ending!" She turned to see and her eyes popped out.

"Gyah! It's the end of the world! Wait, can't we watch it from the beginning again? Bepo?" Ikkaku asked a chubby man with close cropped white hair.

"Ah. Um, I think there's a function for that, lemme see... There." Bepo pressed something on the remote and a menu appeared. He selected the last part of the local news. Morgans reappeared and greeted them.

Once they had watched it again and Morgans vanished, Penguin, the man with the black cap, laughed. "Well, well, well. Isn't that the cute girl who rejected you back at the cafe, Shachi? Shut up, only Torao is invited. That's what she said, right?"

Shachi ignored his friend. "They had really freaky pictures."

"But they're so cute! I mean, look at them. Captain is hot and Straw Hat is beautiful. Perfect match!" Ikkaku squealed.

"They're complete opposites, too," Penguin replied. "Straw Hat is a ball of happiness and energy."

"They say opposites attract each other."

"Yeah, right."

Shachi frowned. "But Morgans is right. Captain seems to like the girl a lot. The only one who's usually allowed to actually hug him is Bepo."

"Sorry."

"Why're you apologising? Anyway," he smirked devilishly, "I won't let him get away with it untouched. He'd better prepare." Penguin nodded in agreement. Ikkaku sighed.

"Boys sure are hopeless, aren't they?"

The Party Bar, Punk Hazard

"Hahahahahaha!" A scarred, red-haired man roared with laughter.

The woman cleaning a glass next to him shot him a fond but disapproving look. "Shanks, stop laughing, you're too loud."

"But Makino, did you see that? 'Luffy found love'. Hahahahaha! And with the Surgeon of Death! Hahahahahahahaha! What a joke!"

"I know it's funny, but you're too loud."

"Hahahahaha! Morgans's the best!"

"Yes, yes. Now, can you go and stop that fight there? I don't want them to break anything."

"Aye, aye, my lady!" He sauntered to the two groups screaming at each other. "Oi!"

Makino sighed and looked up at the large TV above the counter with an amused smile. "A joke, indeed…"

Yeah, I hope you liked that "short" bonus. I can't believe the bonus is longer than the first chapter.

N0dus T0llens: "Weeeeeey Noooooooo" Huh? But Ace ain't dead yet. I mean, I hope so. Lemme ask him. Wait, dammit, I think he's dead. But his heart's beating, so he isn't. Is he?

Kadek8785: Yeah, poor Law. Does Ace really love love Luffy? Who knows. Not like anyone can ask him right now.

The world needs decent reporters, yeah, right. Where would the juicy rumors go then? JK actually. I'm perfectly fine with decent reporters.

I can tell you (without spoilers) that it's something else that made her collapse. Sorry, no Ace! And I found out (it was easy really) who you are in AO3. It's nice of you to follow me there too. I'm sure you realized the story is a bit behind on AO3, I'm updating there more often than here to get it to catch up.

Thanks for the review!

k. cery: Yup, It's up to me to decide. Well, your theory— ! SPOILER ALERT !

Mysterious spy: I can't believe you were about to tell them who we are! Imma kill you right now!

Mysterious boss: Bad idea.

Spy: Yes, boss?

Boss: Shut up.

Um, nevermind. Good theory tho, guess you'll find out… Someday.

So I had to add the poor Straw Hats reacting to the news. The Hearts were much quicker to accept it, since they aren't protective of their Captain, but they did see that picture and it freaked them out.

Don't forget to review, if you have requests or ideas you're allowed to PM!

See ya'll next chapter!

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Cursed sword