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I was out early with that chapter… Like wayyy earlier than I thought so hope yall liked that. And I think this chapter was a late release? Not too sure… I didn't have a set date on which I wanted this out

This is gonna be another long chapter. First part will be about Luffy, second part will be about something else, third part will be more Luffy.

PS… There will be a teaser at the end of this for the next chapter… stay tuned for that.

A fair warning that this chapter has some VERY dark themes and is bloody.

And as always One Piece does not belong to me.

Nightmares and Birthdays

Jones had been on the ship for about 3 months now meaning that Luffy was now an 8 month old boy. And the once quiet and always peaceful child now became a babbling, crawling baby that would love to babble random things trying to have conversations with everyone and everything. Sometimes the ship would be in dead silence because most days were calm and peaceful and out of nowhere the sounds of laughter and baby talk could be heard clearly. But today was a normal day where most of the pirates were out on deck, some were training, other just doing their jobs and casually hanging around, minding their own business. However, today was slightly different. Luffy was with Whitebeard instead of his usual caretakers (Marco, Mika, Jones and Thatch.)

Marco was in deep sleep because he pulled an all nighter doing paperwork and he didn't want to be bothered by anyone so he fell asleep. Mika was busy with a few patients who recently got injured and sick due to a massive storm that occurred recently. It was an hour and a half before lunch time so Thatch was needed in the kitchen while Jones was sent out with the 5th division to get more supplies for the ship from the island they had just arrived on.

Luffy was placed on Whitebeard's lap for an hour or so by now and during that hour Luffy seemed to be having an intense conversation with Whitebeard. Now, the older man did not understand what Luffy was saying but he was keeping Luffy entertained by telling him stories and just talking to the young one. However at one point when Whitebeard was telling Luffy a story about his adventures. Whitebeard was telling simple details of the story while the young 8 month old was paying full attention to the older man and would interrupt with babbles as if to ask a question which Whitebeard would somehow understand and explain an answer.

Other pirates on the ship were looking at Luffy and Whitebeard together and they couldn't help but smile seeing their Pops with their youngest brother. Whitebeard really was a father. At least to Luffy, Whitebeard would be the only father he would know of. The others had a previous life before they became members of the Whitebeard Pirates, but for Luffy this will be the life he grows up with. The life that he knows. And the bond that Whitebeard and Luffy would have would be more realistic in terms of father and son.

When Marco finally had woken up from his nap due to Thatch calling for lunch, both he and Marco had saw Whitebeard with his youngest son. Both of the smiled and made their way to the galley without saying a word. Mika came out of the infirmary and saw Marco and Thatch walk by with smiles on their faces but she didn't see Luffy with them. Before she could ask, her eyes went towards Whitebeard who was smiling like a proud father as he was holding his son, making his way to the galley. Mika smiled and made her way to the galley as well.

By the time Whitebeard made it to the galley, as he was walking very slowly and carefully, he took his usual place where the division commanders had sat down and in his arms was little 8 month old Luffy. Both of them seemed to be having conversations about the adventures Whitebeard had been on. Everyone also decided to listen on and eat their food while Luffy was being fed by Thatch who had come to sit down and listen to Pops story. Everyone loved this moment. It was rare that Luffy was with Whitebeard because Luffy would usually be with one of his four caretakers so this moment was rare and special for everyone.

When Whitebeard was done with his long story, it seemed that Luffy was trying hard to keep himself awake while the older man was talking but as soon as he finished, Luffy hugged the stomach of Whitebeard and quickly fell asleep. Whitebeard stayed still for a short while until Marco, Thatch and Mika got up to put Luffy to sleep. Marco picked him up carefully, trying not to wake him up. Mika helped Marco open the doors while Thatch had already run off to Marco's room, fixing the crib that Luffy slept on.

When they tucked Luffy in, each of the three placed a kiss on Luffy's cheek and closed the door. Marco was going to stay to keep an eye out for Luffy but he already had slept in so he really needed to check things out with Pops and the rest of the division commanders and check the supplies that had just been bought. Thatch needed to get back in the kitchen to help out and Mika had patients to look after. Normally Jones would look after Luffy, but for some odd reason, he was not here.

Not even 10 seconds later, Jones had appeared with a towel in his hand and wiping sweat off of his face "Hey guys… Did I miss anything."

Mika was the first to reply "Yes you did. Pops was with Luffy this morning and it was the cutest thing ever. Pops was telling him stories and both of them were talking about them and then when he was done, Luffy fell asleep on Pops." and then she walked out of the room relatively quickly.

"Damn… Wish I could have seen it." he says. "If you guys are busy, I'll look after Lu."

"Yeah I gotta get going yoi. I slept in today."

"Wow… You slept in? That's new."

"Some people like their sleep. Unlike others." he and Thatch chuckled and left the room. Jones had been on the ship for a few months now but he still never sat or laid in a bed and today was no different. Since this was Marco's room, he had decided to take a seat on the chair and put his feet up on the desk that was in the room, carefully placing them to not move or ruin any of the paperwork on the desk.

The days before May 5th were chaotic. Today however, was the 4th of May, which was even crazier. The Whitebeard Pirates had went to many islands trying to find the right gift for the soon to be one year old brother of theirs and most of them found nothing to give Luffy for his big day tomorrow. So when the Pirates got to their new island, each division went to different parts of the same island looking for a gift. The division commanders would buy a gift and the rest of the division would buy one gift on behalf of the group and there ensued many arguments as to what the soon to be one year old would like. And just around this time, Luffy's grandfather had shown up. He came with the drinks as he was wearing his vacation clothing.

Garp was holding Luffy and had him on his lap while he was sitting on the floor while talking with Whitebeard about what was going on around in the world. The both of them were laughing and drinking at how stupid the Marines have been recently.

There was literally no one but Whitebeard, Garp, Luffy and Jones on the Moby Dick for the moment. Thankfully this was a island that was under the protection of Whitebeard so no Marines or other pirates would come and do something troublesome.

Of course the main caretakers had already gotten Luffy's gifts but they were still out in the island along with the rest of the crew. This was a Whitebeard island so they could relax for a bit and enjoy land before having to get back on the ship.

But as the day was ending, Luffy was still with Garp, the crew started boarding slowly. Of course Marco and Thatch were the first ones to get back to the Moby Dick. Mika wasn't too far behind as she came back a few minutes after. The rest also slowly started piling in.

After everyone had come and the day had eventually had ended and dinner was served, Luffy fell asleep in Garp's arms and that was when Marco took the child from Garp and said he was going to sleep as well. The rest of the ship soon followed after Garp was given a room to stay the night in.

The only person that was still out on deck was Jones. Since it was late night, he decided that he would go for a bath. After he was done with his bath, he figured everyone was asleep so he put on sweatpants and his shoes and a towel around his neck but had no shirt on. Going to the galley and into the kitchen, hoping to find leftovers because he got hungry again.

Instead of finding food, he saw the ships head doctor who was surprisingly awake. This wasn't like her because she took advantage of her sleep. She slept as often as she could because there might be a moment where one of her brothers or sisters on the crew would be severely injured and needed her care. She had her hair in a messy bun and was a sports bra and shorts.

He wanted to get out of the galley because ever since he first saw her, he remembered his wife. And as time passed, he realized that she acted like how his wife did. He wanted to get rid of those memories of his past but being so close to a woman who reminded him of her really was not helping.

Turning around quietly and almost making it to the exit he heard "Are you looking for something?"

Jones realized that she didn't know who she was talking to so he tried to change his voice and said "No, I'm alright miss."

Walking away and just as he made it to the door she said "Jones?". He stopped for a moment. She was easily able to recognize his voice but there was something different about hers. Almost like she was relieved to not be alone.

He turned towards her and started walking her way, looking closely at her, he noticed that she was crying but could tell she tried hard hide that from the man. She also had this odd look on her face and he wondered what that was about until he realized that he was shirtless. This was the first time any of the Whitebeard Pirates had seen him without a shirt and he let out a small laugh. All of his scars and tattoos were revealed. However, Mika was looking up and down one certain scar. And he knew exactly the one she was looking at. Hesitantly trying to get the words out of her mouth, she said "You shouldn't be… Alive…" after she said that she looked at the man who was standing in front of her. He let out another small laugh. "Sorry…. I misspoke. I shouldn't have said that." she bowed her head slightly, as if she was asking for forgiveness.

He smiled. He took her hand and ran it through the scar she was looking at. It started from the jugular vein on the right side of his neck, over his adam's apple, towards his left collarbone, down towards his heart where the scar was the deepest. Her kept holding her hand and was taking it down to his bottom ribs where she could still feel the scar and then he continued to guide her hand down to his back and up to the bottom of his spine.

Her eyes were wide open as she was touching that scar. They were wide open for many reasons actually. Besides Pops, Marco and Thatch, no other man on the crew touched her. She was surprised she let Jones take her hand and run it through his ridiculously long scar. Maybe she felt that since they both were one of Luffy's caretakers, she was comfortable around him. Not to say that she wasn't comfortable around the others, but she does know for a fact that besides the people that she was really close with, no one would ever see the doctor like this.

Not only were her eyes widened from the contact, her eyes were wide because she didn't expect for Jones to have such a muscular, built and toned body. It seemed so rough but at the same time she knew it was fragile because of the scars he had. It was a warm body and she didn't know how to feel. She also noticed that this scar looked and felt more recent than his other scars.

He looked in her eyes the whole time he was guiding her hands and he could tell she was surprised with him touching her hand. But he could tell that there was something bothering her. Letting go of her hand, he said "So should I tell you how I got this scar and how I'm still alive or are you going to tell me what's wrong?"

She checked back to reality after he said that. She didn't know how to answer such a simple question. The words were stuck in her so Jones took that as his cue to talk. But before he did, he looked around them and said "Why don't we continue this in your room? I know you just came in here looking for food and then you were heading off to your room. And I'm pretty sure you don't want anyone to know that you were crying." She looked at him and silently agreed.

The two of them were silent until they got to Mika's room. She sat down on her bed and gave Jones the invite to sit on her bed as well but he declined. He sat on the floor, right beside the bed and was leaning on the wall. Mika then laid down, leaning on her left side and was looking at Jones. She had her blanket on top of her and had her left arm on her pillows and her hand supporting her head.

"So… Where we left off…" taking his cue to continue the story "I got this scar 3 years ago… Just after Roger's death. The other ones you saw were much older." Mika was right with her guess that this scar was pretty recent. "But anyways so after Roger told the crew to head their own ways, Rayleigh and myself didn't really want to. We knew Roger was going to turn himself in but he spoke to the both of us privately. And after a long talk, and just as he was about to leave he said "I'm not going to die, partner." and those were his last words to me. After his execution, I decided to go to an island where I fell in love with a woman during my days as a Roger Pirate. And no word of a lie the two of you almost look and sound the exact same. The only difference is was that she had a scar on the right side of her upper lip she got many years ago."

"I had an active bounty" he said and that's where she widened her eyes once more "One day, Marines had shown up to our house and started to burn the place. She was pregnant with our child at the time and as the two of us got out of the house, they shot at us. They killed her. And at that moment I froze. I dropped down to my knees and held her dead body. Crying, I hugged her as tight as I could. I placed a hand on her stomach and saw that her stomach was shot too."

"I was ready to die at that moment. My Captain died not too long ago and my wife and soon to be born child. I had no reason to live in this world anymore. And I was ready to accept my death. Until I was eventually hit by a Marine who was carrying a sword. He cut my neck and cut across down to my heart and dug his sword in. Or so I thought. When he had just barely missed it. With the sword still inside me, I got up and looked at the man dead in his eyes. He then grabbed his sword that was stuck in my body and dragged it down to my ribs and eventually to my back."

"Unconsciously and instinctively, my Devil Fruit powers had activated and I hit the man right in his chest. Killing him. His blood had splattered and a bit of it was right under my nose. I caught a sniff of the dead man's blood and I wanted more. I lost to my anger and rage. The 'curse' that I had awakened after many long years of being tamed. My eyes had been covered in darkness. Killing all the Marines and going on a rampage on the island, I eventually had lost too much blood and passed out."

"I woke up somehow and saw that the wound had closed up. But as I got up I saw what I did. Innocent people dead because of me. My sword was covered in blood, my body and clothes all drenched. The streets had puddles full of blood. I saw heads at random spots and dead bodies at another. There was no one else on this island that was living." he says with full regret in his voice. Pained that he had been the one to do those actions, Mika could tell this man was still feeling guilty and that he hated it. She got out of her bed and sat right beside him. Placing a hand on his arm that was resting on his leg, she could feel him shaking. You couldn't tell just by looking at him but when she placed her hand on him, that was when she noticed that he was truly looking for forgiveness.

"I then left the island and went to a place where there were no humans and had stayed there for 2 years before I met my sister and she told me to come here."

Hearing his story, Mika couldn't help to be scared of the man. But not only was she scared but she could feel his pain. He saw his loved one die in front of him. Their soon to be born child had also died in the womb and he felt like it was his fault. His fault for letting his wife and child die, his fault he lost to his curse and his fault for killing everyone on the island.

She looked at him with careful eyes. She would be lying if she said she wasn't afraid of the man knowing that at any moment if he were to get angry, he could kill an entire island of people. She was afraid and she showed it. But she wasn't afraid to lose her life. She didn't want to see her brothers and sisters die. She had seen a fair share of loss in her life and she wasn't willing to lose people she cared about deeply again.

Noticing her fear, Jones looked at Mika and said "Before you tell me why you were crying, I want you to understand this." he took a deep breath "As much as I love being on this crew, I hate it. I hate it because I'm terrified. If something were to happen to you, Marco, Thatch, Oyaji and especially Luffy. I know I won't be able to control that anger. I will snap if anything were to happen to the five of you." Mika understood where he was coming from. She understands that he cares a lot about this new family he has. This second chance at life.

There was silence for a minute before Mika spoke "Before I was the head doctor for Pops, I was a doctor at a big hospital at the island I was living in, many years ago. I had a sister, who was older than me. She also was a doctor at that same hospital." Jones could hear the hurt in her voice. Instinctively, he placed his arm around her head and she leaned in towards him, continuing her story.

"Until one day, the island was raided by pirates. I can still remember their flag. It was a red flag, with a black skull and two guns making an x behind the skull"

"They overwhelmed the Marines very easily and destroyed most of the island. The area where I was in was a rich area. When the Pirates had come, my sister took us to the river and we were planning an escape. But we were too late."

"Just as we were about to leave, the pirate crew surrounded us." Now she was shaking and had tears coming down on her face. Jones was giving her a one armed hug as best as he could and he could hear her heart pump loud and fast.

"You don't have to continue if you don't want to. Mika do not force yourself."

Ignoring with what he said, she continued "They surrounded us and tied us all up. First the group beat us with whatever weapons they had, punched us and kicked us. Then the Captain decided it would be a good idea to kill us. But before killing us, he realized that we were the only two women alive and were the only two women present." her voice was cracking as she spoke

"They beat my sister and raped her. Tearing off her clothes like animals and jumping on her like she was nothing but a worthless whore. But she kept on struggling until eventually they had enough and shot her, killing her instantly."

"When their attention was towards me, I already was a broken woman. I wasn't able to move at that moment. They dragged me and tore off my clothes. They beat me and raped me. Numerous times. They kept me alive only for that reason. I was entertainment for them. They forced me to do many things."

"They kept me as a prisoner and sex slave. They tortured me. They put a collar bomb in me so I couldn't run away and escape. Daily using and abusing me. And for what seemed like years that's what my life was like. Until the day Pops came. He was walking with Marco and Thatch. I had given up on Pirates. I hated them. I was told to go and entertain the three guests and when I walked up towards them, all three of them looked at me but neither one of the three said anything. Oyaji looked furious, Thatch was lickling his lips and Marco had this dangerous look on his face. At that moment I thought I was going to get used once more. Usually whenever someone looked at me like that, I knew what that meant. I started to take off my clothes but Marco instantly changed his expression on his face, stopped me from taking off my clothes and put a comfortable smile on his face. He held my hands and told me that they aren't here for that."

"I remember Thatch saying a pretty lady shouldn't be hurting and selling herself. She should live the way she wanted to. And without a word they walked forward. I froze at that moment. I didn't know what to do. But then I decided to follow them."

"As I followed, I noticed they were heading towards where the Pirate group was. And I tried to stop them. I knew they were outnumbered a whole lot and were in big trouble. But I was wrong. The three of them brutally killed those pirates and Whitebeard looked at me and said "You may not trust me miss, but do know this. I can give you a second chance at life. A life of meaning and purpose. Become a daughter of mine. I shall protect you at all costs and no one will ever harm you again."

"I passed out and fainted at that moment. I didn't know what to feel. I was overwhelmed with emotions. I was tired, hungry and weak. I was broken. I eventually woke up on the ship they were sailing in and Thatch greeted me with breakfast. Marco treated me with money and clothes each time we went to an island and I would be at Whitebeard's side all the time."

"Why I was crying because I had the nightmare of me going through the incident all over again. But instead of Pops saving me, I see him, Marco and Thatch die. Nightmares don't come to me often but when they do, they feel so real. And it makes me so helpless. I couldn't save both my families." She hugged Jones back. She didn't hold back her sobs and was crying. Jones was comforting her the best he could.

Both were silent for hours. She had placed her head resting on Jones' shoulder. She just wanted to be comforted by someone, and she didn't mind that someone was Jones. He was a caring guy. He was something she didn't know she needed. But she was thankful for having him at that moment. He let her cry, he let her talk, he stayed with her.

Jones looked right into the eyes of Mika "I want you… to make a promise with me…" he says and she looks at him "You get stressed often and you get these nightmares. Promise me that anytime that happens you'll come to me. I'll be there for you at any of those moments."

She looks at him and says "Only if you make a promise and tell me whatever goes on in your head. I want to help you not lose your inner battle." he gave her a very warm and comforting smile. She took that as a yes and then got up from the floor and went back to her bed. Jones got up too and tucked her in and left the room by saying goodnight.

When he walked out of the room, he felt unusually relaxed. Normally he would think of his wife after seeing Mika, but tonight, he saw her. And at her weakest. He closed his eyes and prayed that he would never see her again like this. He climbed up the Crows Nest and looked at the wide sea, thinking of the incidents that had occurred this night.

The morning came and the four caretakers were up already before anyone else. They were getting their preparations ready for Luffy's first birthday party.

The party was going to be at dinner so everyone had time to wrap up their gifts (if they were going to wrap them) and be ready for the massive amounts of food and drinking that will be happening.

Luffy was in Marco's hand until the first division commander saw Garp walking around the ship and dropped the 1 year old child off to his grandfather.

The four caretakers were in the galley decorating the place. Mika was in an unusual outfit. She was wearing shorts, a t-shirt and sandals. Marco and Thatch hadn't seen that look on her for many years. They also noticed that her pace was faster than normal. Which they found quite odd. But before they were about to ask, Jones said "She's fine.. She just had a nightmare last night."

Marco and Thatch gave each other a look. "Oh now you finally trust him fully huh.." says Thatch smiling "About damn time."

"Shut up Thatch.. Don't pissed her off on Luffy's birthday yoi.. You'll get murdered tomorrow." Marco went back to work decorating but he quietly walked towards Jones and whispered 'Thank you' to the cursed man and the reply Marco got was a small nod.

After a few hours of decorating, it was time for lunch where Jones had picked up Luffy from Garp for a moment and said "Jazz wishes she could be here." and handed him back to Garp.

"Of course she does. It's her son after all. And Dragon is too busy doing whatever the fuck he does."

By the time preparations for the party were all finished, it was dinner time, so that meant that the party was starting shortly. Luffy was being carried by Whitebeard to the galley and once they got there, everyone yelled "HAPPY BIRTHDAY LUFFY!" and the little birthday boy was laughing and gave a shining smile to everyone.

When they got to the division commanders table, there was already a cake out that had Happy Birthday Luffy written in red. The cake was pretty big. Like REALLY big. And on that really big cake there was one lone birthday candle. Luffy had very wide eyes and everyone knew what that meant. It was time to cut the cake before Luffy would 'accidentally' eat the whole cake by himself.

The crew sang Happy Birthday while Luffy was smiling, laughing and clapping. Whitebeard chuckling at his many sons and daughters singing happy birthday. After the song had finished, they made Luffy blow out the candles (with a little help from Whitebeard) and then cut the cake and fed the child a bit of cake. Dinner was then served and the cake was being cut so that everyone could eat.

When the commanders had finished their dinner, cake began to be served to the people in the galley. The table was being cleared so that it could be time to present gifts and for Luffy to open them.

The first person to give him a gift was Marco. Marco was a simple man who wouldn't get anything that Luffy didn't like. And he knew Luffy loved Knights and Dragons and Medieval action figure toys. He once came across a very big set which had a castle, knights, orcs, a Dragon and other things that were in the see through package. When he handed Luffy the gift and the child saw the knight his eyes were wide. He instantly wanted to open it up and play with them. Luffy gave the man a hug and Marco kissed his cheek.

Next up was Mika. Her gift was simple too but Luffy really loved it. It was a simple small basketball, but made with very good material. It was light and small so Luffy could bounce it easily without having to worry that it could hurt him. Mika knew that Luffy loved to bounce a ball and once he would learn how to walk. She might have to teach the young one how to play the game of basketball one day. She thought about it but then realized it would never work out.

Thatch gave Luffy a very dumb gift that Luffy didn't know what is was but everyone else did. Or so they thought. At first, Thatch handed Luffy a permanent marker and said "I'll teach you how to use this properly once you start walking okay." Luffy didn't know what it was but he still gave the man a hug and smiled. But then Thatch actually pulled out his real gift which was colored markers, pencils and crayons, a coloring book and a drawing book. He knew Luffy loved to draw and color like all kids would but he didn't really have anything. Most of the time he was just given some spare torn up paper and a pencil/pen when a division commander wasn't using it.

Finally it was the uncle's turn to give Luffy his gift. He literally did not know what to buy because he knew what the others were going to buy. And he wasn't good at this sort of thing so he asked the one person he knew that would have a gift ready for Luffy. Luffy's mother. But when he asked her, she didn't know what to give him either because she didn't know much about Luffy. Well she did but the stuff she knew about, people had already gotten gifts for him. So she sent a picture. It was more of a drawing/painting but it was very accurate. The artist who did this deserved a lot of credit. It was a memory that Jones had forgotten because it was so long ago.

It was a picture of the wedding between Dragon and Jasmine. You could see Garp in the picture drunk and celebrating. Sengoku was there as well who was looking at Garp and was probably yelling at him for being drunk this early. Jones was present and so was his side of the family. His mother and father were there. His many siblings were there as well. It was a good night. He handed that to Luffy and said "You don't know anyone in this picture except for me and your grandad, but one day I'll tell you this story. I'm sure your mother would love for you to hear her wedding." Luffy looked at the painting that was in a frame. His eyes were scanning through, looking at every little detail. As he was looking intensely at the picture he could recognize Garp and his uncle and pointed at them in the picture and showed the two men. They both laughed and Garp said "That was a fun night."

After the rest of the divisions had given Luffy his presents, it was soon bedtime for everyone. While the drinking party was still going on, Luffy was getting tired. And so was Whitebeard. The caretakers and Pops made their way on deck where no one was there. Except there was a little kitten in the mouth of a relatively small dog. They both looked weak and hungry yet somehow both managed to climbed up on board.

No one would have noticed if it wasn't for Luffy. It was dark outside and everyone wasn't looking at the ground. He was in Whitebeard's arms but as soon as he saw the two, he wanted to be put down. Whitebeard and the others looked at Luffy oddly because this wasn't a normal thing for him to do and as the larger man put the child down. Luffy got up on his two feet and started slowly walking. Marco, Thatch, Jones, Mika and Whitebeard were smiling widely. But they didn't know where he was going or what he was doing until he sat down and carefully petting both puppy and kitten.

Luffy looked at them and then his caretakers and looked at Whitebeard and said "Pa?"

Whitebeard laughed, Mika and the rest of the caretakers were smiling and excited. Luffy walked his first steps and spoke on the same day. They couldn't be any happier. They were wondering what his next words would be already but then again Luffy went "Pa?" but this time he gave Whitebeard the giant puppy eye look and Whitebeard smiled and said "Fine. We keep them." and walked away. It was Luffy's first birthday after all. He couldn't say no to Luffy.

Jones picked up the puppy and kitten. He asked Thatch if there was some small leftovers to feed the two animals for the night before Jones would go out to get proper food for them in the morning. Thatch said there should be so he went to the kitchen to check. He looked at Marco and Mika and said "I'll look after these two. And I'll train them myself."

"Are you sure you can handle it? You don't seem like an animal friendly person." said Mika

"I told you both that I was on an inhabited island for the past few years before coming to this ship right. Well over there, I tamed a lion pride which was known to be the most fearsome pride in the whole island AND I tamed a dinosaur bird. Trust me I'm good with animals."

"Not even surprised." says the both in unison. They picked up Luffy and took him to his crib. After Marco had tucked him in, Thatch came over to Jones with some leftover food and he took the puppy and kitten to the Crows Nest and he stayed there for the night, like he always does. Mika went to her room to get some sleep and Thatch went right back to the galley to party.

Preview/Teaser

*Four years later*

A burnt down flag of the Whitebeard pirates meant one thing. And that one thing was blood spilling everywhere on the ground. Dead bodies were piled, as two men looked at each other across a small field that was covered with dead, headless bodies. One filled with rage and anger. The other with a smirk. The man with rage in his eyes went to attack the man who was smiling but even with his rage, his movements were much faster than before. No normal person would be able to keep up. And as the angry man had brought down his sword for a strike, it was blocked "Hmm you made me unsheathe my sword… Not bad for a demon."

And done.

I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. Let me know if you guys found this chapter slightly all over the place. I talked about Jones' past more and we now learned about Mika and her past. Don't worry because there will be a chapter about Thatch and Marco's past too. I wanna get those in here as well. And yes I ship Mika and Jones. That will happen.

Okay so basically, I wanna ask yall two things. Answers could be in review or pm. First, is devil fruit suggestions. I want to hear your opinions on what I should give Luffy for his devil fruit.

Second, would you guys like it if instead of Luffy leaving the crew at 17 to become his own captain, he stays and becomes Whitebeard's division commander. Now if I do that, nothing will be changed in terms of how I have this story all planned out, but instead of possibly making two stories, I change the title and make this one big story. The first part being Luffy's childhood and the second being on how his life is as a division commander. Straw hat crew will be brought here, but in a different way than what you would think.

With that said, thank you for listening, I would like to hear your answers for both questions before I get deeper into this story so let me know your thoughts.