I got two nice reviews within hours of posting the second shot, making a total of three reviews. Thanks! Was going to publish this separate, but thought it would make a good last part of Legacy.
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At the furthest edge of the New World, there stands the island Raftel. But now, this does not concern us. For it was not only legends of treasure and a new age of piracy that we were left with. The King of Pirates also left us a boy.
When Gol D. Roger surrendered to Garp the Fist, he asked a favour of that ever so eccentric officer. He asked that the marine take care of the Pirate King's son. Any other man would have refused, yet this marine not any other man. He agreed.
And so, the son survived.
He had a difficult start to life. His mother, hounded by the government we know so well, carried him far longer than his due term. When he was finally allowed into this world, the effort it had taken to keep him safe took its toll, and that brave woman died. Her name was Portgas D. Rouge. All D.'s seem to have an innate will to live, and both of this boy's parents carried the D. , so is it any wonder he survived?
Garp kept his promise. He took care of the Pirate King's son, even though the very government he served wanted the child's head. While his ways were questionable, his goal was commendable. Garp planned that the son of the most notorious pirate that ever lived would one day become the greatest of marines. The eccentric man aimed to achieve this through training, through discipline, and by leaving the boy to grow up with mountain bandits.
Garp himself had a grandson. A grandson born of the second most wanted person in the world, Monkey D. Dragon. The name of this grandson was Luffy. The Vice-Admiral aimed high, wishing for this boy to also become a great marine. Alas, the eccentric man attempted this mighty feat by the same means as the first of his charges.
However, there were not two, but three bonded brothers. For there once was a noble, and he was the first of of the brothers to the King of Pirate's son. And he, with the son, and the grandson Luffy, became the three brothers we know and love so well. But tragedy was his fate, as far his brothers knew, for he was viciously destroyed by those oh so merciful creatures, the Celestial Dragons.
And now, know that the son survived, despite his lineage and the grief of childhood. He took his mother's name, and he survived everything the world threw at him, finding a brother that would always love him for who he was and a family that would never cast him aside.
Gol D. Roger, King of the Pirates, left us three things. He left us an age of adventure unprecedented in history as all and sundry race to Raftel. He left us a treasure, a goal to discover, One Piece. And, he left us his son. On his death knell, the son said these words : " Thank you for loving me."
And oh, how we have loved him. And oh, how we continue to love him now. The name of the great 'Fire Fist' Portgas D. Ace will live on forever, his being a name even harder to erase than that of his sire. For he was the son of the first Pirate King. And he is the brother of the man who will reach Raftel and find the One Piece and declare finally: "I am the King of the Pirates!"
An era. A treasure. A son.
These are A King's Legacy.