"Hey, do you two want to come in for a bit?" Blond hair guy offered to Ace and Amebell. "I'll make some tea while at it."
"Nah. Don't worry about me. This will only take a minute." Ace reassured blond haired guy.
"Who said I was worried about you!?" Blond guy exclaimed at Ace. "If I was worried. It would be beautiful Amebell here!" He said said with hearts in his eyes.
"Actually, I'll pass that offer this time. Maybe another day. Okay?" Amebell replied back to blond guy while trying to smile to be polite to him.
"Oh! Your smile can light up my heart all day long!" Blond guy said to her again.
"Uh. Okay. Thank you." Amebell said keeping the polite voice.
"Those Marines haven't come after us at all." Luffy said stating the obvious.
"Yeah. I through them off with my Mera Mera power." Ace said pointing to himself with that proud smirk on his face.
"Ha. I beg differ. Ace." Amebell joined the conversation. "If you don't remember, I helped. Grandpa."
After a few seconds of silence, Ace seem like he finally figured out what Amebell said. He gasped and faced Amebell with large eyes, with a offended face. "Hey wait a minute! Who are you calling old!"
"Hm, I think the last person I talked to was... you." Amebell nodded after putting on the thinking face looking up at the sky.
"You know," Ace said with anime flat eye. "You don't seem like the person that would slaughter a whole flea of Marines at age 8. And by the way, I'm only 4 years older than you."
"S-slaughter of Marines? S-so, you are THE Amebell?" Long Nose guys stuttered just like before with Ace.
"I know I'm not that kind of person. And you are old." Amebell said looking at Ace speaking friendly. She then turned to the long nose guy and said "And of course I'm Amebell."
"Ugh. Whatever." Ace said playfully rolled his eyes.
"Don't 'Whatever' me." Amebell mimicked Ace.
"Haha! Even after these years, you two still argue for everything!" Luffy laughed again referring to their childhood.
"Yeah yeah." Ace waved up and down by bending his wrist at Amebell and Luffy shaking off the topic. While Amebell also playfully rolled her eyes. "Anyways, back to business." Ace said back to Luffy while throwing something to him. "I want to give this to you."
"Huh?" Luffy made a confused sound while looking down at the piece of folded paper.
"Always keep that with you!" Ace said smiling at Luffy.
"It's a piece of paper." Luffy said still confused at all this.
"Yep. that paper will let us meet again." Ace explained to Luffy who was really amused with it. "You don't want it?"
"No! I do." Luffy corrected Ace still looking at the simple piece of paper that Ace just gave him.
"Having a dumb little brother makes an older brother worry." Ace said to the whole crew behind Luffy while one hand it on top of his hat. "He probably gives you guys a lot of trouble too." Ace said smirking probably thinking about the old times. "Take care of him for me." Ace said to the crew again while jumping down to the small boat.
"Rude, but sweet..." Amebell mumbled under her breath still on the railing of the big boat.
"!... You are leaving already!?" Luffy exclaimed looking over the rail and saw the small boat parked next to the boat.
"Yep!" Ace answered to Luffy. "You can chill out here a little longer. I haven't seen you in so long. Like I said. I only came here to give you that.
"I'm chasing a major criminal right now. He's been calling himself 'Blackbeard'. But used to be in the 'Whitebeard' second corp, my subordinate. He committed the worst possible crime on a pirate ship, 'crew-mate killing'. I'm the commander, so it's my job to finish him off. If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't be in this part of the sea.
"The next time we meet, it will be at the Pirate Summit." Ace told Luffy as he sailed off.
"N-mo way!" Orange haired girl said shockingly looking at where Ace left. "How can someone that sensible be Luffy's brother!?"
"P-please everybody." Long blue hair girl said trying to calm everyone down.
"I was sure he would be as irresponsible as Luffy." Long nose said also looking at where Ace were.
"Brotherhood is a wonderful thing..." The Reindeer cried out loud with tears streaming down his face.
"What a great guy!" The green haired guy said. "He cares about his brother!"
"I don't get it..." Blond guy also spoke up but sitting on the stair way that leads to the upper level of the ship. "The sea is a vast and mysterious place."
"See you later!" Luffy shouted to Ace waving his hand as a sign of goodbye, but he was already long gone.
"BUT HE LEFT AMEBELL!" The rest of the crew excluding Luffy and blue haired girl screamed.
"Oh no." Amebell waved it off with an arm on her crossed leg. "He knew I was not going to go with him. Otherwise, I would be on the ship before he even got on." Amebell informed them as she jumped off the railing onto the ship deck, using her arms leaning on the rail where she sat and looking back at where Ace were.
When she turned back, she saw 5 marine ships right in front of were Ace is headed. However, suddenly all the ships were destroyed in pieces within seconds. Though before that, all the ships, mysteriously split in half horizontally, unnoticeable to most people on the ship.
"Soo..." Orange haired girl said. "Who are you?"
"Me?" Amebell asked. "I met Luffy and Ace long time ago."
"Oh yeah! That reminds me." Luffy started. "You suddenly left that one day, and you didn't tell us where you went, or where you were."
"That is something for another time." Amebell replied. "If I didn't tell Ace, I won't tell you."
"But you left without a trace!" Luffy complained again. "It's like you didn't want us to know you ever existed in our life!"
"Now is not the time Luffy! I will spill everything when the time is right!"
"Fine..." Luffy gave up knowing she was really stubborn with these kind of things, even as a kid."Oh! Nami! Can you sow this to my hat?" He said turned his attention to the orange haired girl, named 'Nami'.
"What did you get?" Nami asked taking the paper and the straw hat.
"I don't know. It's a scrap piece of paper."
"Yeah it's a piece of paper, but it doesn't have note or anything."
"What does that mean?" Long nose guy said.
"I dunno. But Ace told me to hold it, so I'm gonna keep it! So, sew it in there tight, behind the red ribbon." Luffy told Nami as she was sewing the paper on the hat already.
"Here you go!" Nami handed Luffy's straw hat back to him with the piece of paper on it.
"Oh! Thanks Nami! Now I don't have to worry about ever loosing it!" Luffy said putting on the hat that now has the piece of paper on it.
"How do you know!?" Long nose guy said.
"Here Luffy-san. Wear this." Blue haired walked up to Luffy carrying a few burnooses and coats handing one to Luffy.
"Huh?" Luffy asked. "But it's really hot!"
"You wear it because it is hot. The desert usually gets over 50C (122F). You'll get sunburn if your skin is exposed."
"Why are the clothes so skimpy, then?"
"We're going to wear coats too." Nami answered for the blue haired girl.
"YOU ARE GOING TO WEAR THAT!?" Blond haired guy exclaimed. "No!"
"Oh well, I guess I better do it." Luffy said taking the clothes and change into them.
"Do you want one Amebell?" Blue haired girl asked Amebell. "Oh by the way, I'm Vivi."
"No thank you Vivi. I'll be fine in these clothes." Amebell said smiling at her declining the offer. "Do you mind telling me all the other crew member's names?"
"Oh! No problem. The boy with green hair is Zoro, the one with blond hair is Sanji, the little reindeer is Chopper, the one with the long nose it Ussop, and the girl with orange hair is Nami." Vivi introduced while pointing to everyone to their description.
"Hey! We just rounded side of an island!" Chopper said looking out in the sea by the railing.
Vivi turned to face Chopper in an alert face. "No. This isn't a side of an island. This is the bank of the river Sandora." Vivi told everybody. "You can see the other side of the island off the distance, right?"
"Oh! Your right!" Chopper answered.
"Look." Vivi told everyone again, taking out an map of where they are going. "This is a rough map of the area, and this is out destination." Vivi said pointing at the X on the map next to the word, 'Yuba Oasis'. "This is called 'Yuba', we'll cross the Sandora, then head out for it."
"And Yuba is where the leader of the rebellion is located." Zoro said leaning against the wood wall by where the group is.
"So I just have to kick his ass, right!?" Luffy said with a punch to the air.
"Would you stop that!?" Vivi shouted at Luffy with shark teeth and fear. "I just want to persuade the rebellion to not to shed anymore blood." Vivi said again normally.
"The rebellion of 700,000 people? Will they stop? Just because someone told them?" Zoro asked Vivi.
"Will...they... stop... We'll discover everything on the way there." Vivi argued. "Exactly what the Baroque Works has done to this country, exactly what people has gone through.
"We can stop this senseless violence! I won't let Baroque Works do what they want to this country!" Vivi said in confidence.
"Vivi..." Nami said drift off proud of her confidence.
Everyone else also complimented Vivi for her bravery, and confidence.
"I understand Vivi!" Luffy exclaimed. "Let's go! Upa!"
"Yuba" Everyone sweat-dropped.
"Yuba!" Luffy copied.
"That's right."
"What are we gonna do with you Luffy..."
To be continued