sulongmirko: You should be mwhahaha.
IIRoxaII: How come you switched from english comments to spanish? Just curious, no offense! And the comment doesn't seem like your usual ones. GASP you have been possessed or impersonated oh no!
Wishfull-star: Lots of shit goes down in the near future with his exploding arm poor guy.
"What… what - it happened so fast! We don't have nearly enough!" the navigator lamented, the paddleboard stuck raised slightly.
"A bubble head did it. We have to take her back, what do we do?" Usopp asked, adopting Luffy's stupid nickname. Well, it fit their appearance much better than a Celestial Dragon.
"I never expected this. We were planning on saving her with money!" Sanji hissed. "That option is out the window. And we have no time with the marines converging on this place. We should have gone through the back and taken her that way."
"No way! She has a bomb collar on. We have to have the keys first or she'll never be free or alive!" Pappag shouted. Zoro was eyeing Luffy with slight concern. By now the pressure had built so much that it could be seen along his skin. He said nothing. Luffy knew that if it blew up right now, everyone around would be dead. The worst thing about trying to stop it from going off was that it seemed to be stronger the longer Luffy forced it back, making it more dangerous later.
Caimie was screaming in the bowl and Luffy balled his fists. There was only one thing to do. He stepped forward. "We're getting Caimie!" he said, and started to run down the stairs to her. He'd sniff out the key to the bomb collar later. For now, they just had to get Caimie to safety. Hachi grabbed onto him.
"Straw Hat, we can't anger them! We can't just take her!" he insisted.
"Then what do you want to do?!" Luffy growled. Hachi was unafraid of him, much to his credit.
"Kyaa! Eww, a fishman! What's it doing here?!" He and Luffy hadn't even noticed his other three arms came out. He was still injured, too. The hall started to erupt into disrespectful and cruel words, mocking and calling Hachi disgusting. Well, it was a distraction.
"I'm saving you Caimie, just you wait!" Luffy called, sprinting down the stairs. He was grabbed and stopped by guards. The pressure was building. It felt like water was about to overflow over a fragile glass. He was going to be a living bomb soon. "You bastards, Caimie isn't someone you can sell!"
More people were treating Hachi horribly. Luffy heard Nami be in shock but then realized how fishman were treated on land. Discriminated against. It was disgusting. Pappag tried getting Hachi to leave now, he was in danger, but he refused. He needed to get Caimie! Luffy wanted to shut everyone up, but Caimie was the one with a bomb collar on.
But then the sound of a gunshot rang out and silenced everybody. He turned around almost in slow motion to see Hachi laying there on his stomach on the stairs, bleeding from his back where the bubble head who bought Caimie shot him. "Fuhuhuhu! I hit him! I finished off that fisman!" he cheered as he bounced from one foot to the other. Luffy looked at his fishman enemy turned from in shock and fury.
No, under control! If you blast now, they will all be dead and it will be your fault!
Luffy was starting to sweat. "Hachi!" Nami scrambled in horror. Luffy looked around and saw so many people glad that Hachi had been shot. He didn't even notice he was balling a fist and heading up the steps until Hachi grabbed his ankle. As the bubble head scum laughed and bragged about taking down a big fishman to his father like a child and not an adult, the octopus fishman begged him to not do anything.
"W-wait… Straw Hat! It… my fault. Don't get mad. You promised… that you wouldn't do… anything even if someone… was shot in… front of you! I'm a pirate anyways! I've done… bad things!" Luffy had told him if anybody hurt his nakama, he wouldn't stand it. Hachi was a friend, too. "I'm sorry… I didn't mean… for this to happen!"
Luffy got onto his knees next to him. "Nami! I wanted… to make it up to Nami even a little! I… just wanted to help you guys. Everything I've done… it's been a mistake!" Hachi said, growing hysterical as he bled out. He needed medical attention right now. "But in the end I just cause trouble! I'm so sorry!" he sobbed. Luffy grit his teeth. It wasn't Hachi's fault.
"You damn fish! I shot you but you're still annoying me! You piss me off, shut up!" Luffy stood up, and looked at the bubble head, feeling his furious stare go off, the slightly widened eyes.
"Wait, Straw Hat, you won't be able to get away!" Pappag said. Luffy took a few steps up to the Celestial Dragon, purposely letting out the feeling and making everyone in the room freeze.
"Hoh?" the guy with the spotted hat said in interest. The other one lightly said Luffy looked like a rabid monster.
He shot at Luffy, a shaking hand in fear. Luffy dodged, "You're pissing me off, too!" he shouted, focusing the energy not in his fist so he didn't blow the guy's brains out with a punch. But he did hit him in the face, chucking him into the stands, knocking him out. The bubble was popped, and his face was bloody and puffy.
The auditorium was silent. Luffy knew his friends had already drawn their weapons. "Sorry, you guys. I heard if you hit one of these bubble heads, an admiral will come with a battleship," Luffy said, though he knew their feelings well.
"Why'd you hit him? I was about to take care of him myself," Zoro said, putting his yubashiri back in place. Nami hurried to Hachi, and Sanji lit a cigarette. Well, this was what happened. One of them would have acted. They went back to worrying about the key like they hadn't just assaulted a Celestial Dragon, a "god" to this world.
However, the injured bubble head's family were angry, and when they got angry, people finally started to scream and flee the stadium. The father pulled a gun on Luffy. "Do you have any idea what will happen to you if you rise against us?! Against the descendants of the creators of this world?!"
Sanji was there, done with his bullshit, and kicked the gun out of his hand and then popped his own bubble head with another kick. "Move it! We have to free Camie-chan!" he shouted, Franky said he'd go get the cuffs. Luffy stood still. He'd reached his limit. He couldn't move.
"Franky! Come here right now!" Luffy shouted. Everyone froze. But he asked what the problem was. "How high can you throw me in the air!?"
"High!" he said, he shot a hole through the roof and used his strong right how Luffy used his devil fruit, and grabbed the roof, pulling himself up. "Ready?!"
"Yeah!" Luffy was still now. He felt like he was going to explode seriously. Not just from his hands. He had to be careful this time. It was no time to get lost, and he had no access to blood with things like this. But just keeping it like this felt more exhausting. One, two, three!" Franky said, pusing a coup de vent on him to shoot him high above the island.
Once Luffy was far above the treetops, he released the explosion where it wouldn't hurt his friends. It left a huge crater in the treetops, and he could breathe again! He could move! He felt infinitely better, and landed back in the auction house neartly. "Nice one, captain. Now get to work!" Zoro said with a grin.
The place was mostly bare of people. "You people dare to defy us?!" the guy Sanji kicked said. His special guards were taken out by the others.
"Caimie is not something to buy and sell! And Hachi isn't for you to shoot!" Luffy shouted.
The bubble headed man Sanji popped but did not incapacitate said, "Call an admiral and battleships! Let these pirates feel the wrath of the gods! Put them in their place!"
"Get down!" Zoro shouted. Luffy and Sanji dropped to the floor while Zoro sliced Caimie's bowl in half.
The seats right above Sanji and Luffy were sliced. "Are you trying to kill us?!" Sanji demanded, Zoro putting his sword away. Hachi told Caimie to wait for them. They were going to save her.
"O-okay, Hacchin, everyone!" she said, tears in her eyes and finally audible. She'd been screaming in the tank all on her own for the last ten minutes, everybody unable to hear her through the glass. Disco shouted at the guards to protect the mermaid that sold for so much.
"Insolent brats! The women I shall have stuffed, the men will work with no food!" the father Celestial Dragon said. Usopp shot a tabasco star in his mouth, finally shutting him the hell up. His mouth was on fire and his daughter, the only remaining bubble head screamed. Everyone was in a rush to get to Caimie and find the keys. Robin clutched anyone in their way, and Brook went all out, too.
All of these people were scum; nobody had any trouble with beating them up. They treated Hachi so badly, they wanted to buy Caimie, they cheered on Hachi being shot for no reason other than existing. Luffy had no sympathy for any of them. Those that were just chilling there the whole time were the ones from before.
Franky ran into the back to search for the keys. "The marines are nearly here, we have to hurry!" Luffy called. "Find the keys!" The cuffs weren't made of seastone, so they didn't have that really unique scent. There were many other cuffs that smelled the same. Sniffing one out would be difficult or even impossible. Searching manually would be faster, which was what Franky was doing right now.
"You people are crazy. I don't know what the marines were after in the beginning, but there's no way they thought the Celestial Dragons would be attacked," the spotted hat guy said easily. Luffy asked who he was. Robin was the one to explain his identity.
"You're Trafalgar Law. Luffy, that man is a pirate."
"You've put on quite the little show here with your crew," Law said lightly. "Then you went and exploded. I didn't expect that." Luffy jerked to the side when the remaining bubble head threatened to kill Caimie to spite all of them.
"Caimie!" they shouted, drawing their weapons, but there was now a gun to the helpless mermaid's head. She gasped, shaking in fear. She no doubt was terrified for both herself and everybody else. If anyone was in the worst position, it was Caimie, no doubt.
But then she suddenly passed out, falling back and hitting the stage with a resounding thump. "See, what'd I tell ya, giant-kun? The place is total chaos."
"Hey, that's the coater guy," Luffy said. "He saved Caimie!"
"The auction is over, I've stolen my money, time to go gambling again," Rayleigh said, an old man with long white hair and a white goatee. He was very wrinkled and had round glasses. He didn't really have the expression of an old person, more like that one Garp had. The expression but not features of a young man.
Luffy was told he was 100 times stronger than they were by Shakky. Well, they found her husband! The giant let them all know Rayleigh was only going to be sold because he wanted to steal the money they made. That was kind of entertaining.
"I was planning on stealing everything paid, but the auction is clearly over. Besides, nobody would buy me anyways. I'm just an old man. Hahaha! Oh, everyone is looking at us." The guards were questioning how they both got out of their cuffs and cages. And now they couldn't take down the giant since it was completely unrestrained. The auctioneers and staff had failed completely in every aspect of keeping the action under control.
It was a complete mess and wouldn't be getting any easier with a giant out, now. Not that he looked like he was aggressive at the moment. And with somebody Shakky said was 100 times more powerful than Luffy, things weren't going to be any easier with him there, as well. And all of the Celestial Dragons were down for the count.
The father had passed out from being unable to handle Usopp's tabasco star. "Rayleigh?!" Hachi said in shock at seeing him there.
"Ah! Hachi! It's been a while! What're you doing in a place like that? And with all those wounds?!" But then he looked to Caimie and understood the situation instantly. "Hmmm, so basically, yeah, I see. You sure have gotten yourselves in a fair bit of trouble, eh, Hachi? So, you guys saved him, huh? Now then…" Rayleigh seemed overly amused by the situation, and clearly didn't feel he was in any danger.
Then a burst of heat that made Luffy feel like a wave crashed into him went around the room, and the vast majority passed out instantly. Luffy watched with a flat face, not knowing what he did. Usopp and Sanji were shocked out loud while everyone else was silent. "That Straw Hat sure fits a man like yourself. I've been wanting to meet you, Monkey D. Luffy!"
He swiftly turned to Caimie and started to fiddle with the bomb collar. Everyone tried to get him to stop, but Luffy didn't doubt he knew what he was doing. Besides, he got out of his own restraints, too, didn't he? And he must have freed the giant as well. Luffy trusted he wouldn't kill Caimie, and it would end up hurting him, too, if he did it wrong.
He grabbed it and crushed it, pulling it off to explode in the wall where he threw it, just as Franky came out of the back with the keys. Suddenly, Luffy's vision went black, but he stayed upright and came back. "Shit," he hissed, too low for anyone to hear. Chopper hurried to him, and got his attention, opening his medical bag he bought everywhere.
There was a small blood bag. "You're the best, Chopper," Luffy said with a grin. Chopper smiled.
Caimie was so relieved, and Franky tossed the key ring to the slaves still locked away. "Oi, to-be-slaves. I suggest you run while you can." They gladly took the keys to free themselves. Lucky they were there and Franky found the keys, though he was slightly annoyed with all that searching being for nothing.
Luffy's crew speculated that he was a fruit user. "Maybe he's like, Luffy!" Usopp hissed.
"He doesn't look like it," Nami hissed back.
"Well, he could be wearing contacts," Usopp said.
"Maybe it's best not to speak so openly of it," Brook said quietly. Chopper grabbed an empty fountain drink cup and quickly put the blood inside it, handing it to Luffy, whose knees were shaking and he was about to fall. Well, he knew he could suppress the explosions without blowing his body up. It just made him very tired. But he drank the drink quickly and then tossed it under the table.
He took in a deep breath, feeling much better. He knew Law and the other guy were still there and awake, and Sanji had noticed as well and blocked their sight. Nobody saw Chopper put blood in the cup and Luffy drink it, though he felt much better. Chopper really thought of everything.
"Luffy, do you know him?!" Sanji asked.
"No! He's just Shakky's husband!" Luffy said. "We were supposed to find him, but he's here."
"I'm sure what he used was haki, but I don't know much about it," Hachi said. Chopper was already back to treating him after he went to Luffy got him some replenishing blood. Rayleigh turned and addressed the others. Including Law and his crew and the other man with the nastier smile. Law was more like mocking.
"So, you pirates are around to watch?" Rayleigh asked the other crews. "And if you were able to take my blast, then you're not amateurs, either, huh?"
Law asked, "To think, we'd run into him in a place like this…"
"Dark King, Silvers Rayleigh," redhead said. "Ain't no mistaking him. What the hell's a legend doing here?"
Luffy felt he should know who that was, but he didn't. Clearly a very big shot. A legend? And he'd knocked everybody out easily, not even doing anything! Who was he?! Shakky said he was interested in the teen, too. Why? And what was the connection to Luffy's hat? Maybe he knew Shanks.
"Here on this island, I just go by 'coating engineer Ray-san'. I wouldn't go throwing that name around. I'm a retired old man, I'd rather live my life in peace." Then he went to Hachi, and said he was going to be fine. But he was surprised Hachi was there, as he was usually careful about going around the island. He would live, thanks to Chopper's immediate treatment. "Thank you guys, truly, for saving my friend."
Luffy said, "Well, he's our friend too, so of course we would. Hey, old guy, why'd you wanna meet me?" Luffy asked.
"Mm, let's talk about that later!" Rayleigh said. "First, we have to worry about getting out of here." He sounded like he was having fun, and never lost his smile. On cue, the marines that were already outside ordered them to leave peacefully. They were surrounded. And to leave the bubble heads alone while they came out with their hands up.
"They sound like chicken-shits," Zoro commented with a sigh.
Kidd, as his friends called him, stood up and rudely told the Straw Hats that they'd take care of the problem. After all, they were listed as accomplices for the Straw Hats attacking the Celestial Dragons. Of course Luffy wouldn't take this, and went out to deal with them together. Law also didn't like that attitude about himself, either. They both went out, not taking Kidds dismissal.
"I don't need you guys here," Luffy said.
"Says the one who turned into a bomb and needed to be evacuated from the building. Besides I told both of you to hang back. Don't interfere with my fight," Kid said. Being called a bomb irked Luffy, but he wasn't wrong. That didn't mean he couldn't fight fodder marines, though.
"Next time you try to tell me what to do Eustace-ya, I'll take you out first," Law said, also irritated by his attitude. Both of the others had to be in their early twenties, so older than Luffy. Luffy heard his crew agree to meet Rayleigh back at grove 13 later. He took Hachi to safety, and Luffy wondered how, since the whole building was surrounded.
The to be giant slaves were going to take the other freed ones and run. "If we ever meet again, I'll try to repay you for this!" the giant said to Rayleigh and the Straw Hats. The other freed slaves thanked them as well. It was satisfying. Beating the bubble heads and freeing their slaves. Now they just had to deal with the fall out.
The marines were startled with facing three rookie captains, all with bounties over 200 million, Law being the lowest and Kid the highest. Luffy bounced one back with a gomu gomu balloon and took out a cannon. Kid put his hand up and shot it out and back at them. His power might be magnetism? Luffy's was easy to tell, but for the whole exploding incident before.
Law's, however, was very strange. He made a blue dome around him and one marine. Luffy said, "Whoa! Your guys's powers are weird," when he chopped off a guy's head and switched the head with a cannon.
"Says the one rubber one that explodes," Kid said dismissively.
"I don't explode. It just happened," Luffy said seriously which wasn't a good argument.
"Canons don't work on them! They're all fruit users!" a marine shouted obviously. "Mortars won't work on them, we have to hold on until Admiral Kizaru gets here!" Kid grinned, and asked if they could even hold on that long. Law chopped off another head, it being still alive and his body running around, all of the marines freaking out. It was indeed freaky, but really cool... and confusing.
Law did it to a whole crowd of them. "Just take it easy. It'll all be over soon," he said in an eerie voice.
Luffy took out a bunch by blowing air into his thumb. Using it without gear second should be just fine. He might just become little. It had happened before. He wiped out a whole section of the enemies as their weapons were sucked from them by whatever Kid's devil fruit was. It looked kind of boring. But it would be fun to be able to manipulate objects and throw them at people from a distance.
But, despite what Ace used to say, he loved his rubber body. He wouldn't change it for anything.
As Kid smashed everybody with a metal arm made of the gathered metal, Law was having fun tormenting the marines by attaching their body parts to other things. Soon, somebody's head was attached to a barrel while also sharing another's leg. Luffy laughed at it. The other pirates came out, and Luffy realized the fight lasted maybe three minutes, and it was already over.
Luffy was now tiny, though. In the body of a child. Should go back to normal soon. That's what Nami said happened after he passed out after Moria. Law looked at Luffy and said he looked "tense".
"Really?" he asked with a squeaky voice. Rayleigh was absolutely amused and it looked like their path was clear before more were coming. They didn't even have a formation, they were just there to brawl. It was time for all of them to go out. Luffy popped back to normal after maybe a minute of being miniature.
"See you sometime, Straw Hat. I'm glad I met you here. The next time I see you, it won't be so easy," Kid said.
"Hmm, okay, but I'm gonna be the one to find the One Piece and become the Pirate King," Luffy replied lightly with a smile at their enemies. This was fun! He got to see weird devil fruits. He wondered what it felt like to be a body with no head. Would the head dictate the body, or would the body panic and go running around? And what would happen if it caught on fire like that? Neehee, it sounded fun.
Kid stayed standing there, looking at Luffy with a suspicious look. "Hey, Killer." His first mate who also had a high bounty. "On the route we took here, anyone who heard that would laugh, right? Though I killed them all for it. But from here on out, those without the guts to say that won't survive. Let's meet up in the New World," the highest bounty rookie said with a mean grin.
Luffy and Law didn't reply, but went to start fighting the marines, Luffy joining his crew as the other two captains did the same. Sanji pointed to the flying fish, waiting for them. Duval was still his cheery self, sucking up to the guy who remodeled his face and future. The Straw Hats fought their way to the unlikely allies, all of them using their powers to get there.
Luffy heard, "Well, see you later Straw Hat-ya. Maybe it would be smarter to hide your eyes in the New World." Luffy jerked to turn around, but didn't see anyone speaking to him. Zoro called his name, and Luffy went back to fighting. They got back to the flying fish, name change or not, and were brought back to Shakky's bar, where they'd been at what felt like days ago.
"We're out!" Luffy cheered. He didn't feel the need to blow up, at all. He felt normal. The sense of panic was gone, too. Maybe it had built up and he had to get rid of it to be fine. Things were okay right now, as long as they didn't get caught by the admiral. It wasn't Aokiji, so no ice. But he had no idea what the other admirals were like.
Could be worse or could be better for them.
They hurried inside and got Hachi to the bed brought into the bar entry, the front door locked and windows closed. After all, an admiral was looking for them. "Neh, who are you, old man?" Luffy asked as Chopper worked on Hachi and the others all got drinks. Luffy was fine, Chopper's bag of blood left him set for now.
"I was first mate in the Roger Pirates, Silvers Rayleigh, nice to meet ya!"
"EHHHH?!"
"Wait, is it true that Roger was- y'know?!" Rayleigh asked for Shakky to go in the other room for a bit. She was fine with it and took her ashtray too. Knowing the conversation might be longer than a yes or no question.
"He wasn't human, no. Like you aren't," Rayleigh said with his all knowing smile. "You sure are more obvious about it, though. Shirtless in Enies Lobby, showing your eyes everywhere you go." Luffy asked if he should hide it. After all, nobody else was like him. Why hide if he had no reason to. "You feel no urge to hide them?"
Luffy cocked his head. "Should I?"
"Roger didn't show me until a year after we met. He said he felt the urge to hide it as strong as he felt the urge to breathe. You don't seem to have that urge at all," Rayleigh said. Luffy's mind was reeling. That was why Garp didn't know, nobody knew. He'd hidden it so well. Luffy took off his hat and touched his white hair.
Everyone was looking at him. "I've never felt like I had to hide it. My grandpa always wanted me to cover up my eyes and the marks. Heh, that's weird."
"Wait, if Roger hid it so well, and there are other animals and humans like Luffy, does that mean there are others like him out there and they've just been hiding the whole time?!" Usopp asked. The room went silent.
Rayleigh played up the silence a bit before saying, "We never came across anybody else besides those on Sky Island. Roger did smell a handful of people we came across that had that scent of blood. Maybe you were just born with zero self-preservation skills in that department." Sanji snorted at him and Zoro hit his arm.
"Did you ever find out what Luffy is? What Roger was?" Luffy put his hand up and grinned.
"I want to find out on our journey! Just like finding the One Piece, I don't want to know what I am or why I'm here by asking somebody else!" Luffy said brightly. "But now there's so much more possible! If they're all just hiding, I might not be the only one! Though going back to hiding my eyes will be annoying."
"Well, you have that choice, still. Your bounty poster has your eyes closed, right?" Rayleigh said, looking very intrigued with Luffy. "You also seem to be much more inexperienced with it all. Letting off the intimidating aura that makes animals and merfolk fear you. Yeah, Roger could control that."
Franky demanded to know if Roger could blow up, too. "That is unique to you. I assume it came from that mark? Not a tattoo?" Luffy nodded. He said the blood stone from Sky Island had wounded him and left the mark. "I see. That never happened to Roger." Usopp asked if Roger reacted to seastone. "He didn't have a devil fruit, so no. What happens if you're exposed to seastone?"
Luffy frowned. "I lose control of myself. I won my fight against Lucci because he wanted to see what was wrong with me with seastone. I killed him brutally with it." Rayleigh just raised his brows at the sudden tone change. Since Roger didn't have a devil fruit, he'd never been exposed to seastone."
Robin said, "Maybe we'll only find out about that from others that had eaten devil fruits. But shouldn't they be easy to find? With the markings?" Brook said they could always cover them with tattoos if they didn't wear clothes to cover them.
"Roger got tattoos to hide his, that's why the marines never found them once he turned himself in," Rayleigh said.
Nami laughed. "It's so weird. The parallels between Luffy's journey and the Roger Pirates. Our ship is made of Adam's wood, we went to Sky Island, Luffy is whatever they both were, and you Roger had someone who could read poneglyphs! Plus, they both have his hat."
Luffy giggled. "I met Crocus, and he said that nothing new happened to Roger. I was disappointed!"
Rayleigh looked surprised. "That man is a liar."
"What?!"
"Knowing him, he probably didn't want to spoil everything. I think you've probably seen that Luffy had skills that aren't just from his devil fruit. Roger was able to frighten people into submission, though he never used it." Luffy said he scared a sea king into taking him back to Water 7. "Heh, I see. Well, since you want to uncover the truth yourself, I won't give too much away.
"Luffy-kun, you will or already have abilities that only your kind has. You're not a human who just has to drink blood and looks different. You might not, and Roger never had, found any sort of title for his kind or anyone like the both of you. Another hint is to be wary of blood stone. Don't touch them again. You've already experienced the troubles that come from touching them."
Luffy asked how he knew whether bloodstones were bad. The one he had never hurt or poisoned him. Plus, the people of Sky Island were fine. "Roger got sick by accidentally ingesting just a bit of the stone. He was going to die because of the stone, but chose to turn himself in when he had little time left. The stone was what made him ill."
Everyone froze, and their eyes went to Luffy's arm. "It seems the blood stones are all different. Roger touched more than a few before and was fine, but one of them carried a disease. We found out it was the blood stone afterwards. Just do not touch them again."
"We'll make sure that never happens," Zoro said seriously. "How can Luffy control the explosions? Do you know how to help with that?"
"I can help with multiple things besides that. It has no parallel to Roger." They all frowned. "Everything I am telling you could just be something only for Roger, since we know of nobody else like you two. There's nobody else to reference. The Sky Island people were different from Roger, and were therefore little help in the unsolved mystery."
Luffy took off his hat and smiled at it. This hat was like a shared secret between him and Roger. Their crew and his crew. "Did Shanks know?"
"No. Only Crocus and myself knew. The both of us donated him blood. Nobody else knew." It definitely wasn't hereditary since Ace was normal. Luffy wondered if Rayleigh knew that Ace was his captain's child. Well, he would never ask and reveal his brother. Luffy asked if he knew anything of the animals with similar features. "They might be part of the same branch of life as you are, but there's little known by those creatures. We never found any on land, and if they were there, they could have just been hiding from humans."
"Luffy was born broken, then," Franky said. "Makes sense. "
"Oi, shut up, Franky!" Luffy snapped, cheeks red. He really didn't ever feel the need to hide other than not wanting to be teased. Though it was more likely Luffy was broken than Roger. After all, he was the only one he knew of, that the Roger pirates knew of.
Robin asked if Roger ever lost control of himself. "Once. but I wasn't with him. He was fighting a very powerful pirate crew, the most powerful said to have existed in that time, and with some allies, they defeated them singlehandedly together. After that incident, the enemy captain and a whole island disappeared.
"I don't know how much of that victory was due to Roger's 'fade out', but it could be part of it. He fought with another figure, but I won't spoil that. It'll be fun for Luffy-kun especially to find out."
Usopp asked, "But what happened?"
"Roger had extreme power put into him." Nami frowned. That wasn't what happened when Luffy went out of control and went too hard. But that meant that there could be some stronger form of him going out of control. They all knew that. What would happen if he "faded out". Rayleigh added that Roger had been ashamed of that fight. He didn't know how much of it was his strength or the surge of power.
Then he added, "But I always told him that any power that came with being what he was, it was still part of him, even if it wasn't his fighting style. It wasn't cheating, or like he was taking a drug of some sorts. I can't speak of the seastone incident, though. He also had great senses like you do, Luffy-kun."
Luffy smiled lightly. He was learning so much! "So, why did you want to see Luffy? How did you know, his eyes were closed and it didn't show any close ups of his markings on the poster," Nami said.
Rayleigh smiled brightly. "I didn't want to meet you because of that. I wanted to meet you long before you became a pirate with a bounty. Shanks spoke of you. That hat was given to you by him, and it was given to him by Roger. I met him ten years ago on this island, and you can imagine I was surprised he wasn't wearing the Straw Hat. He said you reminded him of Roger. I can't go running my mouth and tell you things Shanks didn't, but I'm sure he's waiting in the New World to see you."
Luffy grinned. "I wanna see Shanks, too! And he didn't give me the Straw Hat just cause he thought I was the same kind of thing as Roger."
"Nope, he gave it to you based on your personality, nothing more, nothing less." Luffy wondered if he should hide his stuff. After all, maybe being obvious would show others to him! He could have others like him approach him.
"Who knows whether they're there for some negative reason?" Usopp asked. "What if it's just putting you in danger?" Rayligh shrugged. He had no answer. After all, Roger knew of only one, himself, down on land. Luffy grinned.
He said, "I'm not hiding." He looked at his arm and rolled off the arm band. "I'm not hiding anything anymore." Zoro grinned proudly. Robin did say he might be targeted because of what he is if anybody knew about it, even not the government or marines. "Well, I'm targeted for being a pirate. Already, people want me dead."
"Very true. You have a good point," Robin said with a pleasant smile.
Usopp asked how he could be so sure of things. "I'm not sure of anything! Nobody but Roger's crew knows if the One Piece exists, but I still want to find it. Who knows if anyone other than him and me exist, but I want to find one!" The others were smiling.
Yup Luffy fucking exploded in front of his fellow Superrookies lol. See you next week!