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Summary: She was a mage that ate a fruit when she was 10. She lost her faith in humanity when she was 6, but due to meeting Monkey D. Luffy it was restored and she was forever loyal to him. He saw her in a bar on some island. He had heard rumors of her while she worked with the group known simply as the Thirteen, so he thought it would be a good idea to get her to join his crew. Funnily enough he didn't expect her ties to her adoptive family and just who was protective of her.

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Chapter Three: Talking to new crew members Pt. 1

I quickly jumped onto the sub with Kiyo on my shoulder. Yukina followed with ease and muttered, "Always too easy."

I ignore the comment and turn slightly to stare back at the island. Law began to speak, "Kaileara-"

A loud roar echoed from the island causing me to wince. A voice shouted, "Ashferd! When I get my hands on you, I am going to-"

Kiyo growled and created a sound barrier causing me to sigh in relief. Law and the others stare at her a Yukina muttered, "Let's never get that close to that fucker again,"

"Agreed," Kiyo muttered as she looked at the island with a glare.

"Kaileara-ya," Law said causing me to look at him, "Who is Lux Marien?"

I sighed deeply as the words hung in the air. I guess I'll have to tell them one of my secrets. I allowed my body to lean against the railing of the sub before I sank to the ground as I looked at my new captain and crew. I ran a hand through my hair and muttered, "In truth, I don't even know him."

"But you-" One of the men protested causing me to hold up my hand for silence.

"I've never met him in person," I say as I look at Law, "He is someone my bastard Sire hired to drag me back to him,"

"Isn't Sire the word to describe the male parent of an animal?" The one with 'Penguin' written on his hat.

"Correct," Yukina answered for me, "He sire doesn't even deserve to be called human-"

Rather than allowing her to continue, I place a hand on her shoulder to stop her. She looked at me before wincing. I looked back at everyone and found their eyes wide causing me to glare at them. I growl, "Now isn't the time to discuss my parental issues," I then focus on Law once more, "While I've never met him, I've heard stories about him."

"What stories?" Law demanded causing me to give him a raised eyebrow.

"These are just rumors and the like that have floated around over the years," I tell him causing him to nod, "He's a cold hearted man with only money on his mind. He'll do anything to complete a job, even sacrifice his friends,"

A trio of deep growls left Kiyo, Yukina, and I at the very thought of it. Kiyo then uncharacteristically growled, "The bastard shouldn't even be alive if he abandons those that should be protected."

"If he had grown up in a pack," Yukina added with narrowed eyes, "He would have been killed long ago. Runts like that should never be allowed to reach-"

I held up my hand to stop them, "As much as I like to hear both of you speak like that, though someone said something surprising," I gave Kiyo a raised eyebrow causing her to blush, "We should get back to the point," I return my focus to our new Nakama, "He's been hired by many of the world nobles and some of the big name pirates."

"Which ones?" Law demanded making me look at him with narrowed eyes.

"Big Mom, Golden Lion Pirates, and the Donquixote pirates are some of the most frequent," Law's eyes narrow as many seemed to freeze, "I also know that White Beard, Shanks and a few others would never stoop so low as to do such a thing,"

"How would you know that?" The Ginger asked causing me to hum lightly.

"I've traveled with them for a short time," I say while scratching at my chin, "Mostly because Shanks is an old friend. Whitebeard because one of my brothers travels with him,"

"You have siblings?" Law asked causing me to nod.

"Yes though we aren't bound by blood," I murmur as a smile graced my face at the memory of the three idiots, "One of my elder brothers is traveling with Whitebeard while the other is somewhere else,"

"So you have an adoptive younger brother?" The 'Penguin' hatted one asked causing me to nod.

"Yup," I grin at the thought of him, "The pup is like a cannon ball,"

"I have a question," Someone asked causing me to look at him.

He was about 19 years old with inky black hair and purple eyes. His head was covered by an acid green beanie with a purple puffball at the end. He smelt like oil used to take care of blades, fire, metal, and a hint of poison. He was small, but perfect for assassination. I wonder if he was an assassin. I shook it off before asking, "What's up?"

"You can growl like a k-9-" He was cut off as Yukina glared at him.

"Call us k-9's again and I'll-" She began to threaten until I gave her a glare.

"Yukina let the kid ask the question without your pride getting in the way," I say causing her to glare at me, but she fell silent anyway, "Go on,"

"You can growl like an animal," I gave him a look of approval, "You talk like someone with wolf or dog-like tendencies by using words like Pup," I nod at that, "And one of your nicknames is Feral Frost Mistress,"

"Correct," I say as curiosity rose through me, "What do ya want to know?"

"What devil fruit did you eat?" He asked causing me to hum.

"The Luna-Luna no mi," I answer with a grin, "Though the wolf-like tendencies is due to my mother's clan,"

"What do you mean?" Law asked causing me to look at him, "What kind of clan could cause wolf-like tendencies?"

"The kind that bonds so closely with wolves that we take on some characteristics," I answer with a small grin, "The Ashferd clan has been partners with wolves since our founder and thus we show off such characteristics almost naturally. It actually intensifies when we meet our soul partner," I gesture to Yukina who puffed up her chest, "Mages from my clan happen to find their familiars being their soul partners, but I'm diffrent having Kiyo,"

"Is this ingrained into your DNA?" Law asked with curiosity causing me to shrug.

"I dunno," I answer as I tried to think about it, "I haven't really tried to find out why,"

"Why not?" The ginger asked causing me to shrug.

"Why should I?" I counter as I laid a hand on Yukina, "Before I met Yukina, I was almost all alone in the world," I look away from them all to stare at the sky, "In truth, I only had happiness in my life for a year of my life. Before that year and after it, I was alone until I met her,"

"What do you mean?" Law asked only for me to shake my head.

"I would rather leave that can of worms unopened for now," I say as a yawn forced it's way from me, "I would actually like to take a nap or something,"

Law looked at me closely causing me to fidget. He slowly nodded, "I'll have Shachi and Penguin show you around as one of the rooms are cleared out for you to use."

I gave him a curious look as the Ginger and the 'Penguin' hatted man walked up. The Ginger extended his hand, "Names Shachi and this is Penguin," He jerked his thumb towards the one with the 'Penguin' hat, "We're the head mechanics."

"Nice to meet you," The 'Penguin' hatted man, Penguin said, "Do you know that you're really beautiful?"

"I've been told that by many people," I say with a small smirk, "I'm not interested in a relationship at this moment,"

"Aw," Rang around the deck causing me to snort.

"Sides I usually go for girls," I shrug and watch as many gained nosebleeds causing me to snicker, "Ah so I'm going to be surrounded by perverts,"

"Kai, Tsuki is probably much worse than them," Yukina pointed causing me to pause.

"True, but you forget I give as good as I got," I point out with a wry grin.

"That only happened when Andy wasn't around," Kiyo pointed out before adding, "Let's stop before we make everyone confused,"

I pause and glance around before snickering at the looks on their face. I got up slowly and gave my two would be guides a smile, "Shall we?"

Shachi snapped out of his stupor first and nodded, "Sure."

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I watched as Shachi and Penguin led the girl to the door of the sub and off of the deck. Bepo and the others stared after her in shock as my eyes narrowed slightly at what she said. I need to think it over, but first I needed to get one of the rooms with a bathroom cleaned out. I turn and ordered, "Duncan, Christopher clear out one of the unused rooms near Bepo's room. The one that has a bathroom and a closet."

"Aye Captain!" The two salute me before rushing off to get what I wanted done.

I then looked at the rest of the crew, "Do your jobs."

"Aye Captain," They shouted before rushing off.

Bepo however stayed with me as I began to walk down the stairs. Bepo spoke after a few moment, "Captain...she smells kind of familiar."

"What do you mean?" I ask as we head towards my office.

"Well," He seemed to debate internally before sighing, "She smells like a winter night under the full moon mixed with a sweet flower scent, the ocean, ink, steel, and something...deeper...more animal...like a wolf,"

"I see," I felt surprised at that since Bepo usually didn't scent anything like that, but I guess it has something to do with her being both a mage and a devil fruit user, "How exactly does she smell familiar?"

He was silent as we reached my office and I sat down in my chair with him across from me. I gave my oldest friend a look causing him to finally speak, "Captain she smells like that room in your old house...the one next to Minx's," I froze as he continued to speak, "Only that scent didn't smell of the full moon, that flower scent, steel, or the ocean," He became unsure before he continued to speak, "She also smells faintly of sweet apples..." He paused before looking at me, "Sorry Captain."

I shook my head, "It's nothing Bepo. Please go and do your duties."

I watched as he stood up and walked to the door. He paused and glanced back at me, "Captain...I...Do you..." He then shook his head, "See you later Captain."

He left the room and I watched him go before my mind went back to the words he had said. The room next to Minx's...

Flashback

I was between Minx and Alexander as we sat together on the bed in the guest room. It was barely ever used, but for some reason Mom called everyone in her. I smile at Lami as she ran into the room and picked her up, so she could sit in my lap. She hugged me around the next as she shouted, "Lawsy!"

I grimace slightly as Mix and Alexander snickered. I scowled at them, but stayed quiet as Mom and Dad entered the room. Both were smiling though Dad seemed slightly stressed out. My eyes narrowed since the only time Dad got stressed out was when Grandfather on Mom's side was involved. I grimaced at the thought of that old man since he was always trying to get my siblings and I to join the Marines when we're older. I shook it off as I ask, "Mom, Dad what's going on?"

"Yeah," Alexander pipped up, "Are we going to get a new little sibling?" He grinned as my parents and Minx blanch though I was adverse to the idea, "Because if it's a boy, I'm going to spoil him rotten and dress him up in clothes that Lami-"

Alexander was thankfully cut off by Minx smacking the back of his head while growling, "Shut up Alex. Mom and Dad will tell us," She then grimaced, "Don't talk like that. You'll jinx us."

I chuckled as Mom giggled and Dad spluttered, "Nothing of the sort. What gave you that idea?"

"Isn't this how you told us about Lami?" Alexander asked innocently causing me to snicker.

Dad's eyes widen as he gapped at his youngest son. I couldn't stop laughing as Lami giggled and Minx added, "Alex has a point Dad."

Mom however decided to nip this in the bud, "It's nothing like that," She gave us an amused look, "But we will be gaining a new housemate for a while."

"New Housemate?" Lami asked causing Mom to smile.

"Yup," Dad grinned at us, "We're going to be looking after the daughter of one of your Grandfathers old subordinates,"

I grimace at the thought because it means she'll be a brat. All of the children of the marines are fucking brats except for Mom, but I think that's because of Dad. Mom saw my grimace and said, "If you all behave, I'll teach you some more of what I know. Just give her a shot."

End of Flashback

I shook off that memory as I sighed. The girl had turned out to be one of the best damn friends I've ever made even if she was only four years old. I pause as I tried to remember what she looked like only to get a flash of white and bell-like laughter. Damn it even if I spent a year with her, I didn't have a good enough memory of her to remember what she looked like. I growl under my breath as I tried to remember something else, but nothing came to mind. I sighed and looked up once Karasu walked into the room. I gave him a curious look as he asked, "Captain am I still on cooking duty?"

"Only for today," I promised him, "I want Kaileara-ya to look over everyones food allergies before I allow her to cook,"

"Aye Captain," He said before turning to leave and stopping at the door, "Try not to think about the past too hard Captain. Memories take time to come back once they are forgotten. They'll come when it's time,"

He left before I could even speak causing me to curse softly, "Damn Crows and their ability to know everything."

I sigh and decide to get some reading done. It's not like he's wrong, so I'll just deal with things as they come.

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