Chapter 27

Just because the past
didn't turn out like you
wanted to, doesn't mean
your future can't be better
than youve ever imagined.

-unknown

After his last check-up with Izo, Kobato, and Law, Luffy is now back to his usual life on Moby Dick. His haki has settled, so there would be no more random fainting family members, and his stomach has gotten better. He could eat anything he wanted to again.

Now that life has gone back to normal, Whitebeard decided to drop Caesar off at the nearest Marine base after assuring Luffy that Kaido wouldn't dare to lay a hand on his family. They had no real reason to keep a prisoner for long term. It's just be a waste of resource and man power to keep him alive. Of course, Luffy fully agreed after learning that part of his family's food were being used to feed the prisoner.

A month after being free of his cell life and a week after dropping off Caesar, he was on an island with Bekky as his chaperon. Law, Ace, and Sabo left to go on a mission that morning after spending a whole day with Luffy exploring the island. They wanted to spend as much time as they could with him before leaving, even though their mission shouldn't take them more than a few days.

While everyone was off to do their own things, Luffy and Bekky enjoyed their lunch at a pub. Bekky smiled as he watched the boy next to him happily eating everything laid in front of him, grateful that he could eat whatever he wanted again and chatting away at what he'd done yesterday with his brothers.

Just as Luffy was finishing the last of his meal, three beautiful young ladies walked up to the two of them. Luffy looked up and stared at them for a moment before recognizing them. "I remember you!" he pointed at them with a smile, quite proud of himself for remembering them. "You guys were following us yesterday."

"Oh?" Bekky narrowed his eyes at them suspiciously. "What reason would you have for following Luffy?"

One of the girls crossed her arms and huffed with a light blush tinting all three of their faces. "We weren't following her." Bekky looked to Luffy and remembered the boy was wearing the same yellow sun dresses he wore yesterday with flowers decorating his straw hat. "We wanted a chance to talk to the two Whitebeard Commanders and the other guy she was with." The blush on their faces darkened.

Bekky's mouth twitched as he tried not to laugh. The whole crew had noticed how older three would get a few shy glances from the girls during the months that Luffy was confined in his cell. It seemed their wanted posters from Dressrosa and the few missions they were sent on that landed them in the news gotten them admirers along the way. There were a few girls that were brave enough to confront the trio, but they were shot down effortlessly. The Whitebeard Pirates laughed at how clueless Ace and Sabo were of their fans. Law knew what was going on but ignored them.

The three of them usually didn't spend much time on the islands without Luffy. They'd hurry to gather what they needed and went back to spending time with their youngest brother. So there weren't many that were able to approach them.

"You could have just went up and talked to them," Bekky offered, still trying not to laugh.

"They did," Luffy said with his head tilted to the side, "Sabo said something, and they left."

"We asked if we could show them around, but we were told that they were busy accompanying this young lady," one of the other girls said with small smile.

"So then, what do you want with us?" Bekky asked. "As you can see, it's just the two of us."

"We thought we'd spend some time with her and show her around, since Ace and Sabo likes her," the third girl said with a friendly smile. "We want to know what they like about her and maybe get some pointers to get in their favor," she ended with a shy smile to Luffy.

Luffy tilted his head as he regarded the girls before beaming at them. "Okay."

Bekky merely shrugged. "What ever my lady wants, I guess. But I have to with to keep her out of trouble."

"Oh, you don't have to," the first girl said, giving him a flirty smile. "We promise to watch her for you."

"Oh, no. You don't understand," he said with a lopsided grin. "Wherever she goes, trouble follows. The family isn't going to be too happy with me if we loose her again."

The three girls looked at each other nervously, wondering who this girl was to have a bodyguard.

-*/-*/-*/

After walking through the town with the three girls, showing them various places that they would have been able to find themselves, Bekky and Luffy found themselves being led towards the forest that was far from town.

"I think it's about time we should head back," Bekky said just before they entered the forest, holding Luffy's hand. "It's getting dark."

"This forest is completely safe, even at night," one of the girls said. "We have a cabin there. We can have dinner there."

"Maybe another time. Quite a few people will panic if we don't show up for dinner since we didn't tell anyone where we went," Bekky said. He turned to walk away before the girls could say anything else, determined to take Luffy back in time for dinner. Who knows what Marco would do if they didn't show up. He had to stop when Luffy didn't budge. "Luffy?"

The boy was looking straight at the forest with a thoughtful look. There was no way Bekky is going to suffer Marco's wrath, so he picked the boy up. "Come on, Lu. Dinner should be ready by the time we get back."

"Food!" Luffy cheered at the prospect of getting food.

"Why don't you girls join us? There'll be plenty of food," Bekky offered.

Soon the girls were in front of the large crowd of pirates on the beach. "Whitebeard Pirates?" one asked in shock.

"You didn't know? Thought you did since you recognized our Second Division Commanders," Bekky smiled apologetically as he set Luffy back on the ground. They watched as the boy in the yellow sundress run up to the group nearest the large captain.

The three girls didn't know what to do but to follow Bekky as he weaved through the throngs of pirates seated on the beach. He led them towards where his some of his division were seated, which happens to be close to the commanders and captain. The girls sat down in between him a female pirate.

They watched in amazement as all different kinds of appetizing dishes were placed in front of them. "Dinner is served, Princess," they heard someone say. Curious and surprised, the girls looked up to see a tall man in a chef's uniform with a pompadour place several large plates of food in front of the girl they planned on tricking into getting lost in the forest.

Their plan was to loose the bodyguard in the crowds and loose the girl in the forest full of dangerous animals. When they couldn't shake the bodyguard, they decided to just loose both of them in the forest.

Startled, they almost didn't hear the female pirate beside them ask them a question. "So who are you girls? I'd never thought that Bekky would brings us three beautiful girls for dinner."

"They want to get to know Luffy, so they can talk to the idiots," Bekky answered easily.

"We – we – is she really a princess?!" one of the girl hissed quietly, pointing to Luffy.

"Oh, you're interested in our Luffykins?" the female pirate asked before leering at the three girls. "Or maybe its her knights you're interested in. If so, give it up. Those three aren't interested in anyone but their precious Luffy." She waved the idea off.

"Princess? Well, in a way she is," another man in their group said. "I mean, she does have the connections to bring enough manpower to take down a whole kingdom."

"Just wait until she sits on the throne," another laughed. "Imagine how much power she'd have." Then everyone at the table went silent as they thought on it.

Then the female pirate laughed. "Little Lu already has that, plus some. Those four took down a Warlord on their own."

"Four? Don't you mean three?" one of the girls asked, thinking they were talking about the three handsome men that were walking with Luffy.

"No. It was defiantly four," someone laughed.

"Don't let the kid fool you. May look like a shrimp, but Luffy was the one who turned the whole stone castle into rubbles with one punch."

"That princess?" The girls turned to see Luffy sitting on Marco's lap, stuffing his face with food that looks good enough to feed royalty. It probably is.

"Princess?" Thatch said as he came over to their group with more plates of food for them. "Oh, Princess Luffy." He grinned. "You interested in her story?"

"I am," answered the female pirate. "You guys never told me how you ended up with four kids on the ship."

"Well, it started off once upon a time," Thatch started theatrically, "in a far off kingdom. A King had a child, a beautiful princess, whom the whole kingdom adored. One day the princess was kidnapped by an evil, evil man and was never to be seen again. The king searched and searched, he poured all his resources into finding his beautiful princess. He even went against the World Government's order, to stop his search and to go back to his kingdom. Unbeknownst to the evil man, his plan was thwarted by two adorable little knights who vowed to protect the princess, who they didn't know was a princess at the time. They whisked her away and the three of them were soon picked up by Pops. The King rejoiced after finding out his daughter was under the care of an Emperor and asked for us to keep her there until she is strong enough to protect herself. And here, they lived happily ever after. The end."

There was silence at the table as the pirates laughed at Thatch's story. "Sounds about right," someone said in between laughs.

"You forgot Law," someone pointed out.

"Uh," Thatch scratched his head at that. "Truthfully, I have no idea how he joined. There was this party, and Luffy destroyed the kitchen, and the next thing I know, he was there helping with the repairs. I don't know. He just randomly showed up. I heard Luffy picked up him. Kinda like you," he pointed to the only female pirate sitting there.

She laughed at him. "I don't think it's the same, Commander. I mean, really. I can't see Law trying to pickpocket Sabo in broad daylight." She turned to tell the girls, "Luffy caught me red-handed and dragged me to Whitebeard. Scared the living daylights out of me. Thought this huge scary captain was going to feed me to the sea kings. You know what Luffy said to Whitebeard? He said, 'She's coming with us,' and just left me there with Pops, who was laughing his head off. I just ended up staying because I had nowhere else to go. I had no money, no food, no house, and now I have everything I ever need."

A man sitting next her slung an arm around her shoulder and brought her into a lopsided hug. "And we're happy to have you."

"You know, it's not just the Idiot Trio that Lu always thinks about. You maybe our newest member, but he considers you family too," Thatch said. "He knew you were a good person, even though you tried to steal Sabo's money. That's why he thought you'd fit right in with the rest of us. You're not the only stray he picked up. Law was just the first of many."

Thatch then bent over to stage whisper to the female pirate, "Bet you've never seen Marco loose his cool before, have you?" She shook her head in amusement. "The only way to get Marco to loose that bored face of his is to show him Luffy with a paper cut." Everyone, but the three girls, laughed loudly.

That was a plate collided with Thatch's head. "As if the rest of you cretins wouldn't do the same-yoi," Marco said as if he didn't just throw a large, heavy plate at his own brother.

Thatch laughed with his back on the sand, as if he didn't just get hit. "You should have seen him when the kids were younger, when we first found them. He was way worse back then."

"But Thatch, you were the same," Bekky grinned. He then turned to the girls and the female pirate, "Actually, we all were. Imagine a ship full of pirates with no parenting skills taking care of three kids. Yeah, we had no idea what we were doing. Sure, we had females on the crew back then too, but even them and the nurses had no idea what to do with kids, having never really been exposed to them for long periods of time. Luckily, we had Kobato to help."

The female pirate laughed hard. "I can see that. I maybe a woman, but I have no idea how to take care of a kid, much less raise one."

Most of the pirates, Thatch included, turned somber. "Yeah," Thatch breathed quietly. "We have to give props to Ace and Sabo for raising our Princess themselves without any guidance."

"To Ace and Sabo!" someone called out after a moment of somber silence. Everyone, including those who didn't hear the conversation, held their drinks up to toast Ace and Sabo, who weren't even there.

"With Law's help, the three of them raised that kid up good," Bekky said as he helped Thatch up so he could get back to work.

"That's so dreamy," one of the girl gushed.

"Who wouldn't want a man who knows how to raise a kid?" sighed another. All three had dreamy looks in their eyes.

"As dreamy as it may be, Ace and Sabo didn't have choice at the time. Luffy was just forced on them. The kid's only three years younger than them, you know. It wasn't easy for those two kids to take care of a toddler at their age with what they had," a pirate said somberly. "Most of us were there when we picked those kids up. The shape they were in when we did, I'm surprised they survived that long. They probably sacrificed so much to keep Luffy alive."

"To Ace and Sabo, Luffy is their life. They'd do anything for the kid. At least Law has a good head on his shoulder and knows when enough is enough," another said.

"Bekky-yoi," Marco called out from right behind him with Luffy holding his hand.

"Yes, Commander?" Bekky replied, tilting his head back to see his commander, with a mug held up towards him.

"Luffy wants to go explore the forest tomorrow. You're going with him-yoi."

"I don't need Bekky to go with me. I wanna go with my new friends," Luffy pouted at Marco, pointing at the girls.

"Wait!" the three girls said, ashamed of themselves. After hearing how much Luffy meant to the Second Commanders and Law, they didn't want to do anything to harm the girl anymore.

"There are swamps and crocodiles in there," one said.

"And other predators," said another.

"And that's why Bekky is going-yoi. He's going to keep Luffy from getting too close to the crocodiles."

"Only the crocodile?" the female pirate asked, as the others snickered.

Marco turned a scowl at her. "Ace and Sabo doesn't want Luffy anywhere near crocodiles. I'm not about to deal with their utter stupidity if he gets eaten by one again-yoi." He then gave Luffy a stern look. "Got that Luffy? Leave the crocs to Bekky. If you promise me that, then you can explore the forest with your friends tomorrow."

"Got it," Luffy beamed. "Bekky gets to play with crocs, and I can play with everything else."

"Good-yoi," Marco ruffled the boy's hair affectionately. "And don't bring bring back anymore pets-yoi."

-*/-*/-*/

"Thought you girls said the forest was safe," Bekky said suspiciously the next day, not wanting to bring it up during the party, lest Marco decides to toss them into the sea.

After not being about to think of a way out of it, the girls gave up and went to meet the two after lunch at the edge of the forest. They figured since Bekky is a Whitebeard Pirate, he'd be strong enough to save them from the dangers, otherwise, why would Marco insist that Bekky go with them. Or maybe they can try to talk them out of going.

"We lied," one muttered.

"Why?" Bekky sighed.

"Because we wanted to pick on her and leave you guys in the forest to be eaten by the animals in there."

"We're sorry," the three girls bowed.

Bekky scratched the back of his head, feeling uncomfortable with them bowing at him. "It wouldn't have worked anyway. We'd be out soon enough. I doubt that there's anything there strong enough to kill us."

"By the way," one girl asked as three of them looked around, "where's the princess?"

"Princess? Oh, Luffy. He's on his way with West." The girls remembered the man from last night. "There's no way I can handle an excited Luffy on my own."

Soon enough, West and Luffy showed up and they began their trek through the forest. They didn't give much thought to Luffy showing up in shorts and a t-shirt, thinking she was just wearing something more comfortable for a walk. Though the clothes did look a tad big to be safe wearing through the forest.

-*/-*/-*/

"Luffy, quit running off on your own."

"No, Luffy, we can't bring that bear with us. Marco said no pets."

"Luffy, don't go near that."

"Luffy, you can't eat that."

"Luffy, get off!"

"Oh, shit! West, you get Luffy!"

The girls watched in bewilderment as their few hour in the forest has been nothing but surprises. Right now, West is pulling Luffy out of a river, while Bekky attacks an alligator that was heading towards Luffy. Before that, they had witnessed Luffy having fun fighting a bear, two dears, chase after some rabbits and a family of foxes, ride a wild boar, and tried to eat some questionable looking berries. This has to be the most unprincess-like princess they've ever met. Not that they've ever met a princess before, but they were sure this isn't how a princess should be acting.

As the two older pirates dealt with the latest problem, the girls let out a scream as a lion came walking right up to them, with it's teeth bared. Seeing this, West quickly swam with Luffy in his arm and dumped the boy a safe distance away from the river and ran over with his sword pointed towards the lion. "Go over to Luffy and don't run off. I don't want to deal with looking for you girls later," West grunted as he caught the lion's huge paw with his sword.

The girls did as they were told and stood next to Luffy, who was seated where he was left and cheered for West, moving his fist about as if he were the one fighting the lion. "You got it, West! Right there! You almost had him! Yeah! There! There!" Luffy went on until West yelled at him to shut up.

By that time Bekky had joined them in watching West take down the Lion.

West laid on the ground panting and scowled when Bekky came over to help him up. "You ass. You could have helped."

"Nah. That wouldn't be fun, besides, think of it as training," Bekky laughed.

"And you," West shoved a finger at Luffy's forehead, who stopped with his hands up in the air wanting to give the man a hug, "could have taken that thing down with a single punch. Now I hurt everywhere," he whined. "Why don't you people understand I'm a normal person, not like you guys?"

"Don't be like that, buddy," Bekky patted the man's back. "You did pretty good. Just think, just a few years ago, you wouldn't have been able to fight that thing alone. Besides, Luffy knew you could do it. If he didn't, did you think I would sit back and watch."

"I hate you," West said with a smile.

"Come on, let's go back and have Thatch make Luffy his favorite snack," Bekky jerked a thumb towards the dead crocodile.

"Snack!" Luffy cheered as he got on top of the crocodile's back, waiting for someone to pull it.

"You can eat that?" one of the girls asked.

"Of course," Bekky smiled as he got the dead reptile ready to be pulled back, so Luffy can ride it. "It's Luffy's favorite. Luffy, stay right there and protect your snack. If you run off, who knows what might take away your tasty treat."

"Okay," Luffy said as he squinted his eyes and looked around for animals to scare off.

The girls laughed at the innocent act.

"As long as I've been around the kid, I still don't understand how the nutcase can be so cute," West shook his head in amusement at Luffy's antic.

-*/-*/-*/

The next day the girls found Luffy, wearing an outfit similar to what Sabo would wear, walking with a woman wearing a doctor's jacket.

"What are you doing today, Luffy?" one of the girls asked.

"I get to help Kobato today. We're going to do check ups and buy more yucky medicines," Luffy made a disgusted face.

"Can we help?"

"Oh, you don't have to," Kobato said. "Luffy, you can go play with your friends if you want."

"But I want to help," Luffy pouted.

"It's okay. We don't mind helping," a girl said.

They spent the day helping Kobato as she checked up on her patients from yesterday. They watched as Luffy did her best to help, only to mess up. No one could get mad at her as they knew she was trying her best to help. More than once, the three girls had to step in to help so nothing else would get broken or dropped.

The next few days were spent with them and Luffy either doing some shopping or helping another crew member do some errands.

-*/-*/-*/

The fifth day they went to look for Luffy in the afternoon, wanting to take her to their house for tea and to spend more time together. It was something to do until the Second Division returns. They looked around town first, thinking maybe Luffy would be out with some of the other pirates again. When they couldn't find her there, they went to where Moby Dick was anchored.

After asking around, they found themselves pointed towards Whitebeard.

"Good afternoon, sir. Is Luffy around?"

Whitebeard looked down to his lap. The girls had to climb on rock, with Whitebeard's help, next to the captain to see Luffy sleeping, curled up on his lap, still wearing what he wore yesterday.

"I don't think today's a good day. Would you like to spend time with me instead?" Whitebeard said with a smile before taking a sip from his large mug.

The girls took a seat on the rock to look out at the ocean.

There was a moment of peaceful quiet before it was broken by Whitebeard's question. "You do realize that Luffy is a boy, right?"

"Yeah, we kind of figured," one answered with a smile.

"And yet, you don't mind. What is it about this child that you want to spend so much time with him?" Whitebeard asked curiously. He'd always wondered what drew people to Luffy.

The girls looked at each other, ashamed at their first reason and came clean. "We didn't at first. We just wanted attention from Ace, Sabo, and Law and thought if we get rid of Luffy, they'd forget about her and pay attention to someone else."

"But after learning how much Luffy means to them, we couldn't do it. We wouldn't want them to hate us because we were selfish."

"The few days that we have spent with Luffy were fun. There was always something to do, and it was always exciting. He's fun to be with."

"I see," Whitebeard said quietly with a smile.

"What's wrong with Luffy?"

"He misses his brothers," Whitebeard answered. "They didn't call last night. So he's upset."

"Brothers?"

"Law, Ace, and Sabo are. Brothers, parents, I don't think there's a word to exactly describe what they are to this child. With the exception of the six months when he was taken from us, I don't think he remembers a day when he's been without Ace or Sabo in his life. But he's going to have to get used to it," Whitebeard sighed sadly. "He'll be leaving us one day, and those two won't be going with him."

"Then why does he have to leave? He can just stay with you guys."

Whitebeard laughed, causing Luffy to moan in his sleep and turned to get comfortable again. His grandpops rubbed the boy's back in apology. "His dream is to seek out the throne of the Pirate King. To do that, he has to travel with his own crew. Those two wants to go with him. I'm sure they do, but Luffy here has already decided that he'd find his own crew. He has a grand dream, one that I wish him and his future crew the best of luck to."

There was another moment of silence between them before it was broken again by Whitebeard. "Thank you for being his friends," he said softly. "It's not very often that he can make friends outside of his family."

-*/-*/-*/

And the next day, the found Luffy sleeping against a man they remembered to be from the Sixteenth Division, one of the doctors.

"Not a good day again?" a girl asked as she took a seat to get a good look at the boy on his lap.

The doctor shook his head. "They haven't called again. Maybe spending time with his friend will lift his spirit. Luffy," he shook the boy, dressed in a dress again. "Luffy, wake up. Your friends are here."

Luffy groggily woke up and rubbed his eyes. "'morning," he said as he yawned and stretched.

"It's already afternoon. You already had lunch," the doctor smiled at the boy.

"Oh," the boy said, still not fully awake.

"Luffy, would you like to come over to have tea with us at my house?" one of the girl asked.

Luffy looked to the doctor.

"I think it's a good idea. You should spend time with your friends. Maybe it'll take your mind off of things. You never know, they just might call tonight," the man said.

"Okay," Luffy sighed, looking to the ground, not at all happy.

"I hope you girls don't mind me joining you. I'm on Luffy duty today," the pirate doctor grinned.

As they were walking towards the housing area of the island, Luffy all of the sudden pushed all three girls to the ground in a tangle of limbs and dress fabrics. Next thing the old doctor knew, Luffy wasn't where he should have been. Confused, but not panicking because if Luffy really was in trouble, there'd be a lot more noise, he turned his head around to look for the kid. He really didn't have to because soon enough, a loud, obnoxious sounding voice called out to anyone who cared to listen, which was everyone around.

"Give me all your money and valuables if you want this kid alive!" A large, round man demanded with a knife at Luffy's neck. "And a ship!"

The doctor brought a hand to his face. Why did this have to happen on the day he's on Luffy duty? "You might want to drop the kid if you know what's good for you," he suggested. "Luffy's not in a good mood."

"I don't care if the brat's in a good mood or not. Just give me what I asked for or -" the man was cut off by another voice.

"Why's Luffy not in a good mood?"

"Because you forgot to call the last couple of days," the doctor answered before turning around to face the blond who just spoke.

"Sabo! Ace! Trao!" Luffy yelled happily from his place in his kidnapper's arm, uncaring of the knife threatening him.

"Sorry about that," Ace rubbed the back of his neck, standing in between Law and Sabo. "I fell asleep and the Den Den Mushi fell into the ocean."

"We were about to call to warn you that the Captain got away, and we were chasing after him. Lo and behold, he came to the wrong island," Law smirked.

"Shut up! Don't you see I have a hostage? Just give me your money and the damn boat," the runaway Captain yelled.

"What hostage? If you're talking about Luffy, he's the worst hostage ever," Sabo grinned through his glare.

"If you're not going to take me seriously, then I'll take this girl with me. Who knows... she's young enough that she'd be able to entertain me for a long time," the man laughed loudly, taking a step back towards where he landed, which happens to be on the other side of the island. No wonder he didn't see Moby Dick.

"Huh? What's he say?" Luffy asked.

"He said he's going to make you hunt while he watch and do nothing. As a matter of fact, he's going to eat it right in front of you and not let you have any," Law said,, knowing which buttons to push. The sooner Luffy get out of this predicament, the sooner the two fire starters can let of some steam. Ace and Sabo looked like they were ready to burn down the entire island.

Luffy promptly bit the man's hand that was holding him up, leaned forward so that he landed on his hands, and stretched his body up long enough to kick the man hard on the chin. The boy then did a back flip to his feet, facing the round pirate on the ground looking dazed. "First you want to hurt my friends, then you want my food. You're worst than a chicken. I've seen chickens fight better than you."

"Those weren't chickens," both Ace and Sabo moaned in the background.

"Ace, Sabo, Trao! You're back!" Luffy cheered as he turned his back on the man on the ground to run to his brothers. He'll leave the kidnapper for Pops, who was now cracking his knuckles and standing over the poor pirate captain.

After reporting back to Whitebeard, the three brothers spent some time with Luffy and his new friends, much to the girls' delightbefore they had to leave that night. Before leaving, Law, Ace, and Sabo thanked the girls for keeping Luffy company and for being his friends, causing the girls to blush brightly.

"Do you want to come with us?" Luffy asked before they boarded the ship.

"No," the girls shook their heads, thinking of Ace's and Sabo's reaction to meeting their family for tea. The girls weren't as surprised as they thought they would be after being around Luffy for a few days. Ace and Sabo were surprised as to how warm their parents were. "We already have a family here."

-*/-*/-*/

Half a year later, Ace, Sabo, and Law found Luffy sitting on the figure head, wearing one of Sabo's old clothes, looking at the sea in thought.

"What are you thinking about?" Sabo asked.

"It better not be something stupid again," Ace sighed as he scratched the back of his head, readying himself for that something stupid.

Luffy stayed silent for a few moment before turning around to face his brothers. "I think it's time."

"Time for what, Lu-ya," Law asked.

"To set off on my own and gather my own crew to find One Piece," the boy laughed at the shocked faces of Ace and Sabo.

Law merely nodded. "I'm doing the same then. That way we can start at the same time."

"It's too soon!" the two fire brothers exclaimed.

"I already talked to Grandpops about it. He said it was okay," Luffy gave him a huge smile. "I'm ready. I'm gonna be the Pirate King!" He yelled for the whole world to hear.

-*/-*/-*/-*/-*/

A/N: Sorry this took so long. I got caught up playing tour guide for family that decided to visit from out of country.

And this is the last chapter. I'll be putting up the Epilogue and Omakes when I finish them. ^_^ Please bear with me as it may take me time to put those up. I have busy schedule this month.

Thank you all for taking your time to review. It means so much to me to hear from you guys about this story, even the few non-English ones that I had to use Google translate to read. ^_^v Thank you!