"CAPTAIN GARP!" Coby shouted into the old man's room. The maroon-color hair of the marine-in-training flopped around despite the blue headband he wore to restrain it. The young man, age of 20, had long since been used to being around the old marine hero, Monkey D. Garp. So it wasn't too much of a shock to see the male sitting on the floor feeding crackers to a brown and white-spotted dog.
"There's someone here to talk to you, sir!" Coby saluted his mentor and captain. "The Marine Intelligence has found something interesting about one of Luffy's crew mates."
Behind the young male was the marine that needed to speak to the legendary marine hero. The older man had gone to Coby and asked the boy to take information to the mighty Garp. Now, having gotten in to see the old man, the marine, Jale McHale, was shivering in his black, knee-length boots. Standing five foot and six inches, the man had his short-cropped black hair restrained by the white and blue-insignia hat that showed him to be with Marine Intelligence.
"Well, what is it, then?" the gruff old man turned to the dime-a-dozen marine cad and fed himself a cracker. Coby stepped back, nodding to the other man; indicating the floor was his and he could speak.
"Well, sir." Jale began, the papers in his hand shaking along with the body part. "It has to do with the Golden Thief…sir."
Garp, being Garp, turned back to the tail-wagging dog to pat its head gently before sticking a thick, aged digit into his left nostril.
"Are you talking about that wily pirate woman that stole the Golden Den-Den Mushi that is used for the Buster call?" Garp was completely uninterested, and continued picking his nose. "The same woman that gave back the Golden Den-Den Mushi days later?"
"Yea, that Golden Thief." The marine stammered out, still in awe of Garp.
The old man thought back briefly on the short-statured female Mugiwara whom he met briefly in the island city of Water 7 while he visited his grandson, Monkey D. Luffy. The unassuming young woman was certainly shy and quiet enough to not be counted as a threat of any kind, but behind those lagoon-hazel eyes laid fierce, sharp intelligence. Garp hadn't expected for her to speak when she surprised them all in revealing she had the Golden Den-Den Mushi; stolen during the Buster Call's confusion on Enies Lobby. She stated that she had lifted it off the CP9's director right before the defeat of Rob Lucci.
Apparently, not even her captain; his good-for-nothing grandson Monkey D. Luffy, knew about her thieving skills. She hadn't given her theft much thought at the time, since one of the Mugiwara Pirates, the one known to the world as the Ohara Devil, was in trouble. The Golden Thief had earned the name because of the item of her theft; the Golden Den-Den Mushi. The young woman had the gall to give him the stipulation of never allowing the Golden Den-Den Mushi to ever be placed in the hands of an idiot like the CP9 director again if she returned it to the Marines.
Having easily accepted her offer, Garp had further scared the woman by laughing heartily at her guts in standing up to him and the Marines. When Garp figured out that his grandson had special feelings for the woman – no, Garp wasn't that stupid in the least – he decided to let her go free, since she at least returned the Marine's Buster Call. The last Garp saw of her, and his grandson, was when their ship – newly built, ready to sail AND being pursued by himself – took off in the sky, flying by propulsion.
"Uh…sir?" The man's voice came again.
"What?" Garp grunted, being snapped out of his sleepy reverie. "Don't you people ever let an old man get his rest?"
"Captain, Garp, sir." Coby finally stepped in to help his fellow officer. "Navy Intelligence finally found out more on the Golden Thief. Sir."
"Well stop yakking away about her and just tell me!" Garp finally managed to get off the floor and was now standing. "Why are the Marines still concerned with a small fry like that woman?"
"Well, sir, we think that she may be not of this world." Jale handed Coby the papers that he had brought with him. "Plus she is one of the Rookie 12, whose bounty is above the one hundred million mark."
"What do you mean: 'not of this world?'" Garp inquired skeptically.
"Well, we finally traced the island from where she came from, a small island in the East Blue by the name of Cocoyashi."
"So what? People are born on small islands all the time?" Garp was quickly losing interest. "That doesn't make them 'not of this world'."
"We finally managed to get the full story from a Captain Nezumi, sir." Jale spoke louder, now focusing on his report. "The marine states that she fell from the sky, she wasn't born on the island."
"Just give me the damned report and go away." Garp finally stood up, not wanting to small talk with such airheads. Jale stepped forward and handed the papers to Garp.
"Will that be all, sir?"
"Yes, now scram." Garp ordered gruffly and watched as both Coby and Jale retreat out the door.
Monkey D. Garp look briefly at the papers and threw them on his oaken wood desk. He could care less about some nameless pirate woman that Marine Intel had problems with. Then again, she was something different; something cut from another cloth. Turning away from the window and returning to the desk to spread the papers out – oh yes, this pirate woman had a seventy page report, only god knew how – to briefly look at the words written. Apparently this pirate woman had a long sheet of statistics, none of which Garp knew anything about. Continuing to peruse the papers, Garp stopped on the page headed: DEVIL FRUIT USER: REIKI-REIKI. That was an attention catcher, as Reiki was incredibly similar to Haiki, which only the strongest of wills were empowered with.
Pulling up a chair and brushing the statistical papers onto the floor with one hand, Garp opened a drawer on his left with the other. He reached in and removed a large blue book titled: AKUMA NO MI, a Book of Known Devil Fruits. Throwing it on the desk and opening it to the PARAMECIA-type section, Garp thumbed through the pages until he found the pyramidal blue fruit he was looking for.
Reiki Reiki No Mi
Description: a turquoise/blue-colored pyramidal shaped fruit with upward curled points and a rounded bottom. Its thick, papaya-like skin is etched with sharp, imprinted swirls.
Aura-Aura Fruit
Powers: This fruit grants the user the ability to see and manipulate 'Auras' or energy given off by all living things, namely the kinetic energy flowing through the air. Its main use is the ability to create air-barriers, or walls of compressed energy. To do this, the user must concentrate and guide and form the energies with his or her mind and will power.
Further uses for this fruit are the ability to see – visually – someone's history, the ability to see a person's aura or energy off-put, and with training, the ability to transplant energies into other people. The boundaries for this energy manipulation are endless, and fueled by necessity and imagination.
It's incredibly similar to the Haiki effect, with lies dormant within all living things.
Its main weakness, like all Akuma No Mi is contact with sea water or kairoseki (sea stone)
Type: Paramecia
This was one powerful Akumi no Mi to have. Garp smiled in spite of himself. The unassuming young woman had found quite the powerful weapon to use. Flipping the book shut, Garp continued to browse her file, reading up to the point of her involvement with the Island-Ship 'Thriller Bark.'
It was slightly impressive, Garp thought. She had been the least injured in most of the Mugiwara Pirates adventures. From his grandson's first brush with infamy by defeating Arlong, to evading capture in Rogue Town, to defeating the organization known as Baroque Works, to stealing the Golden Den-Den Mushi and evading the CP9 and finally playing part in taking out another Shichibukai at Thriller Bark; she was always there, assisting the Mugiwaras in battle with her decisive smarts and cleverness. The way the report described it, it almost was like the girl knew future events and used the knowledge to the Mugiwara's benefit.
But knowing the future was impossible, right? Garp blinked as he leaned over to pick the first half of the report up off the floor. The section was labeled 'Cocoyashi Village.' The report stated, by a low-ranking common marine, that the girl's appearance was a complete mysterious; as she was stated to have fallen from the sky. Garp knew there were such nations in the sky like Skypiea and Overland and Mariejois, but her physical features marked her as not a native-born sky being.
Reaching over to pick up his coffee, Garp continued to read her file. He regretted taking a sip of the luke-warm liquid as he promptly spray-spitted it out as he read the next page.
"WHAT!" the old man shouted. His face grew stormy and surprised. Jumping up to tower over the paper on the desk, Garp cursed at his grandsons and the report. According to the black-inked letters on the paper; Garp could very well possibly be a great-grandfather.
"I'm going to kill that boy!" Garp slammed a fist on the desk and called out. "COBY!"
Instantly, the marine-in training threw open the door and stood at attention. Garp barely was coherent enough to be aware of the other person next to his young protégé. Helmeppo was the other young man that Garp took under his wing. The male stood at five foot and three inches; wore his blonde hair straight and covered his eyes with a thin band of visual-assisting glasses. There were more features to be recognized, but Garp, at this time, did not care in the least.
"Yes Sir?"
"We're going on a short trip to Impel Down, boys, I want to have a friendly little chat with one of the incarcerates there." Garp stalked over to pull his jacket off the hook and threw it on his back.
"O-Ok, Sir, but why?" Coby stammered out. "Do we have to go?"
"Follow me, boys, and just don't talk." The aged marine hero thundered out the door, not caring who or what was in his way. He was going to have a little heart to heart with his older grandson, Portgas D. Ace, and questions were going to be answered.
In the back of his mind, Garp laughed outrageously; it would seem that the Golden Thief was a thief of more than just treasure and Den-Den Mushis. The shy woman had caused – would most likely cause – a huge ripple in the current case of the Marine's planned war against Whitebeard.
He reminded himself to research more of the 'Rainbow Fog' phenomenon when he returned. The Golden Thief had somehow managed to utilize that to time-travel into the past and create something there. Was it possible that the shy and quiet woman could possibly have conceived in the present and borne a child in the past?
Garp could only speculate at this point, but had a damn good hunch that the girl was one figure from the past. How she managed to pull that stunt off was beyond him. Maybe, just maybe, she was truly 'other-worldly.'