Welcome to Chapter 12 and part one of Alabasta! You get to meet Ace this chapter! As a fair warning Ace and Sabo are very aware of who Luffy is to the point of knowing everything. Anyhow, this covers up to the Oasis that isn't an Oasis. The next chapter will cover from the Casino to the end of Alabasta. TSABL still only has one chapter free but that's cause I've been working on the new Harry Potter story, one where Harry goes to Ilvermorny. That has three chapters so far and I'll be working on the fourth today probably. Donquixote Prince has two left so I'm not exactly worried yet. Finally as another fair warning, I know I'm not that great at fights so this is to stop you from complaining in the next chapter where there are a lot of short fights and semi long fights.
Disclaimer: Don't own Harry Potter nor One Piece
Death's Gift to His Master
The nine days it took to get to Alabasta wasn't boring at all. First and foremost, Goldie threw herself into training her devil fruit powers so she could be able to fight with everyone at Alabasta. She had to have a room set aside solely for her training so that every room wasn't covered in paint. Luffy assumed she had found new powers from her realist painting because you could hear explosions and see her repeatedly going to training with a bucket of water. Secondly was what had occurred early in the morning on the fifth day of the journey.
Luffy was sleeping in his room when suddenly he felt a weight on his chest. When his eye fluttered open he was met with the sight of a brown-haired kid wearing only red shorts and a red hat. The odd thing was that the kid had antlers on his head. Wait a second.
"Chopper?" Luffy asked.
"Yup Yup! I finally did it!" Chopper said, jumping off Luffy and onto the floor before doing a twirl.
"You do know that you'll have to wear a shirt in this form right?" Luffy asked.
"What for?" Chopper asked curious.
"Well, most people don't let children run around half dressed. Also, I'll be damned if I let you become like Ace who only wears shorts and sandals." Luffy said.
"Ah, but I don't know my size." Chopper said.
"Don't worry apparently, Goldie can make clothing. She claims it's all art to her." Luffy said, having learned this yesterday when he found her sewing while training her powers.
"Can we go now then?" Chopper asked.
Luffy nodded and took Chopper to Goldie's room and knocked on the door.
"Come on in." A tired voice said.
Luffy walked on in with Chopper behind him as to surprise Goldie.
"So, we have somebody who needs you to make some clothes for him." Luffy said, looking at the bleary-eyed artist sitting at her art desk.
"Who is it?" She asked, yawning, clearly not having had her morning tea.
"Come on Chopper, show her." Luffy said.
When Chopper walked out from behind Luffy Goldie squealed really loud and launched herself at Chopper.
"Oh my god he's so adorable! You'll have to let me paint you later Chopper." Goldie said, causing pink to dust Choppers new light tan skin.
"It's not like I like that compliment." Chopper muttered, still blushing.
Goldie then stepped back and smiled, Chopper's adorable appearance obviously waking her up.
"Alright then, I'll get started. Just leave him here with me." She said.
About an hour later Goldie came out and presented the crew with Chopper who was still wearing his signature red shorts but had a shirt that bore their jolly roger on the front and Hiluluk's on the back. Over that shirt was a miniature doctor's coat that seemed to have been fitted just for him. Everyone kept telling him how adorable he was, causing him to turn as red as a beet.
The next thing that happened occurred about a day before they were set to arrive at Alabasta. They ended up passing over an underwater volcano and somehow ended up with someone extra on the ship, hanging on to the ship. The man, or okama if you will, was wearing a pink coat, a blue shirt, some weird round thing as pants, and had two swan decorations on his back. Luffy and gang helped him up and he thanked them profusely.
"Ohoho. It seems I have ended up on somebody else's ship." The man said.
"Who are you?" Luffy asked.
"I am Bon Kurei, it is nice to meet you." The okama said.
"So, I'm assuming you ate a devil fruit if you can't swim?" Nami asked.
"Yes! I ate the Mane Mane no Mi." The man said.
"Oooh can we see?" Chopper asked, who was in his tiny human-reindeer form for today.
"Of course! Let me see, ah you!" The man said before touching Carmen's face.
"Wha-" Carmen said, about to hit the man before she saw what happened next.
Bon Kurei's face, body, and all morphed into Carmen's body, although he/she was still wearing the original clothes.
"Tah dah!" She said, with a spin.
"That's rather neat." Luffy said.
And Luffy meant it. He was rather interested in the fact he finally found the fruit, rather the person who ate it, that he had read was basically Metamorphmagic in a fruit.
"Why thank you!" The man/woman said.
Bon Kurei then began to show off by changing into everyone who was on deck. Of course, the ones that weren't on deck were; Goldie who was currently teaching a lesson on her Color Trap skills, Alvida who was taking a shower, Sanji who was cooking the meal for today, Gin who had taken over Alvida's lesson for today so she could relax, and Kaya who was overseeing some patients who had hurt each other in a spar yesterday. Although for some reason he didn't seem to touch Vivi though. About roughly thirty minutes later there was a ship with a swan figurehead that approached them. That prompted Bon Kurei to wave goodbye and jump to the other ship. As he was leaving he said it was nice for him to meet new friends. Though after a few minutes Vivi gasped.
"I just realized something, Mr. 2 was reported to be an Okama… That means that Bon Kurei is Mr. 2!" Vivi said, panicking.
"Well, it was a good thing we met him anyways without a fight. We can learn from that Vivi." Luffy said.
"How?" She asked, curiously.
It was Zoro this time that actually came up with the idea. They had requested for Goldie to come up and had her mark each of the Commanders and the Captain that Bon Kurei had turned into with a black 'X'. Zoro then had them wrap it with a piece of cloth that way if anyone saw their arms and reported back to Bon Kurei they'd only see the cloth and not the X underneath. So if they ever got separated they'd just have to show their X's.
The next day they arrived at the port town of Nanohana where they would stock up on supplies for the trip through the desert. It was also the place that Luffy would meet Ace. In fact, that's where he was heading first. It wasn't that hard to figure out where Ace would go. Like Luffy, before and after eating their Devil Fruits they were bottomless holes when it came to food. So it was pretty obvious that Ace was heading to the only bar in Nanohana, Spice Bean. As he was approaching the bar he spotted Ace asleep at the bar. So with a smirk he began compressing the rubber in his legs.
"ACE!" Luffy yelled, waking up Ace.
"Wha?" Luffy could hear Ace say before his brother looked at him.
"Gomu Gomu…. Jet Rocket!" Luffy yelled, releasing the compression thus launching himself like a rocket at Ace.
"Lu no!" Ace shouted.
Sure, enough Luffy hit Ace spot on, barreling into him and crashing into the bar. When the smoke clear it revealed that Luffy was hugging Ace with a giant smile on his face. Ace smiled back at Luffy and ruffled his hair.
"So I see you made it Luffy." Ace said with a chuckle.
"Yup, but me and you have to have a word." Luffy said with a glare.
"Straw Hat." A familiar voice said from behind him.
Luffy turned his head completely around and saw that it was Smoker.
"Ah, Smoker-san. I see you've followed me. Did you think on the words I said to you?" Luffy asked, still hugging Ace.
"I did but it's not as easy as you think." Smoker started.
"Oh, it is as easy as I think. Trust me I know far more about the World Government than you do and the stuff I know would immediately have them after my head." Luffy said.
"Still, I'm going to have to try my best to arrest you." Smoker said, starting to turn into smoke like his namesake, causing Luffy to sigh.
"You won't have to try at all. Ace, you know the drill, brace yourself." Luffy said before they twisted away, Luffy Side-Along Apparating themselves.
As they left there was a loud sound that sounded like a cannonball exploding which seemed to get the attention of every single Straw Hat member that was in town, causing them to sigh.
"Well, it was nice shopping…" Nami said with a sigh before she ran off back to the ship, everyone else doing the same.
Luffy and Ace appeared about two feet above the deck floor of the Goddess Styx. Immediately after they slammed into the deck, Ace-first, causing Ace to groan in pain.
"Gah! You know I don't like Side-Along Apparating with you Luffy!" Ace shouted, hitting Luffy on the head.
"Well I'm sorry I guess I'll just take you back and let you get arrested." Luffy said rolling his eyes.
Ace gave a sheepish grin before speaking up.
"So uh, what did you need to talk to me about?" Ace asked, sitting up now.
"Oh yeah…" Luffy said before he slammed his fist into Ace's face, sending him flying.
Ace got up and glared at Luffy.
"What the hell was that for!" Ace yelled.
"That was for doing exactly what I fucking told you not to!" Luffy yelled, jumping at Ace and punching him in the face again.
"Ow! What was that?!" Ace asked, shielding his face from Ace's fists.
"I told you not to go after Teach blue fucking damnit!" Luffy yelled.
"You never gave me a good enough reason not to! He needs to die! He killed Thatch!" Ace shouted.
"Never gave you a good enough reason?! I fucking told you that his fruit makes him immune to your powers! I fucking told you that if he sees you he's going to want you dead for your fruit! I fucking told you that it wasn't just your blue damned problem but the entirety of the Whitebeard Crew's problem! And sure, he killed Thatch but from what you told me about the man he wouldn't want you to fucking go after Teach alone!" Luffy shouted.
That seemed to stop Ace for a second before the man argued once more.
"Yeah but I won't ever know that since you refuse to let me see him using your stone!" Ace yelled.
"It's exactly that fucking attitude as to why I won't let you! I knew that if let you then you'd ask me over and over again which would lead to the side effects of the stone!" Luffy yelled.
"I don't care about the side effects!" Ace yelled.
"Blue damnit Ace! I can't lose you! What the fuck would I say to Sabo if you ended up getting killed because of either Teach or the fucking stone that I let you see?" Luffy yelled.
That instantly stopped Ace, which Luffy figured it would. Bringing up Sabo would usually bring Ace to his senses and calm him down. In fact, it did just that as Ace breathed in and out to calm down. It was actually around that time that the Commanders arrived on the ship, having heard the shouting from the port.
"… I have to go after him Luffy. I just have to." Ace said.
"… Fine but please don't end up getting caught or worse dead. I can't lose you Ace." Luffy said before nuzzling his face in Ace's chest, enjoying the warmth that Ace naturally gave off.
Ace smiled and ruffled Luffy's hair again before looking at the Commanders and whistled.
"When you said that you were going to mimic Whitebeard in your letters you weren't lying." Ace said.
"Well, I mean it's nice having all these people." Luffy said, smiling at his Commanders.
"You must be Ace, big brother has told us so much about you." Carmen said.
"Big brother?" Ace asked, looking at Luffy questioningly.
"Well, uh you know how Whitebeard calls his crew his sons… Well my crew had the bright idea of all us being brothers and sisters. Me and the Commanders according to them are the big brothers and sisters." Luffy said.
"But what about me?" Ace asked, faking hurt, causing Luffy to roll his eyes.
"You know you're my special brother. Emphasis on special." Luffy said, muttering the last part with a smirk.
"Hey!" Ace whined, causing everyone to chuckle.
Ace then gave each of the Commanders a look, examining each and every one of them.
"So you're the ones who've been taking care of my weaker little brother?" Ace asked.
"Weak? That's not exactly how I remember the last battle we had." Luffy said, causing Ace to glare at Luffy.
"Hey you cheated! You used your spell to freeze me and then stuck me to the damn tree!" Ace said, causing everyone to laugh again.
"Your brother has been a handful but we wouldn't have that any other way." Alvida said with a smile.
Everyone noticed the ships approaching them after that, which caused Ace to stand up as well as Luffy.
"Well, it was nice meeting you all but I have to go. I'll take care of these guys so you can get on your way." Ace said.
"Before you leave I need you to give something to Whitebeard, I heard he's in this part of the Grand Line right now." Luffy said, pulling out a much larger version of the D-Phone.
"What is this?" Ace asked curious.
"It's a uh I guess a D-Tablet. It works like the D-Phones our crew has that allows us to have video calls over any distance, regular calls over any distance, and send messages over any distance." Luffy said.
Ace then suddenly started pouting.
"Aw why don't I get one then. It sounds cool." Ace said.
"Because knowing you, you'd either lose it or catch it on fire." Luffy said, giving his brother a flat look, causing the man to blush.
"It's not my fault I lose things! But I'll give it to him before I start back on Blackbeard." Ace said.
"Ace… please don't die." Luffy said, his eyes begging Ace.
Ace's face softened and he gave Luffy a smile before ruffling his hair one last time and a big hug.
"When have I ever let you down?" Ace asked.
"That one time that you let me get swallowed by a crocodile." Luffy jokingly said, causing Ace to laugh.
"Hey that was your own fault, here take this." Ace said, handing Luffy a piece of torn paper.
"A Vivre Card?" Luffy asked.
"Yeah, so you can find me if I do get in trouble." Ace said before jumping off the ship and sending fireballs at the ships approaching them, causing them to explode.
Ace landed on a raft-like ship before he started to sail off, disappearing into the distance. Luffy then had Vivi explain to the people at the helm where they would need to go. After that Nami asked Luffy a question.
"What's a Vivre Card?" Nami asked.
"Oh, right none of you have been to the New World so you wouldn't know, I only learned of it from Shanks." Luffy mused.
"New World? What's that?" Vivi asked.
"You don't know? That's the name for the second half of the Grand Line, the part that holds Raftel, the island which One Piece is hidden." Luffy said before continuing to explain what a Vivre Card is.
"In the New World, there are these special trees that with a piece of someone's nail or even a piece of their hair can be turned into a piece of paper called a Vivre Card. Vivre Cards are tied to that person's life force and the status of the paper is dependent on it. The paper burns away the closer the person is to death until it completely turns to ashes when the person dies." Luffy said.
"So what did Ace mean by using it to find him?" Nami asked.
"Vivre Cards also float in the direction of the person that the paper was made for. Watch." Luffy said before letting the paper go which quickly began to slowly float towards the direction Ace left in before Luffy grabbed it.
"That's really cool, I want one of those." Vivi said with a sigh.
"Well when we get to the New World we'll have one made for you." Luffy said.
"That'd be real nice, but you'd need a piece of my hair first." Vivi said, before going to her hair.
Luffy quickly stopped her before she could yank a piece of her hair out.
"Not now, after we save your country." Luffy said with a smile.
"Right, well I sent Carue to Alubarna with the information I've collected to my father." Vivi said.
"That's a good idea, so what's our first destination?" Luffy asked.
"Well, it's the Yuba Oasis as that's the location of the rebel hideout but we'll want to stop at Erumalu to rest up before continuing there. After all, the journey to the Oasis is a day and a half from here." Vivi said.
"Alright then, Erumalu we go." Luffy said.
Their ships made their way through the Sandora River and over to its West side. It was there that the ten Commanders stood at the top of the ship to address their fellow siblings.
"Alright everyone, we're heading into a volatile situation as according to Vivi it seems like the rebels are about to go to war soon." Luffy started.
"So, what we want you guys to do is make your way up and to the east side of the Sandora River." Nami said, holding up a map and pointing to the side she wanted them to go to.
"There you guys will make your way to Alubarna position yourselves around the city. This way if a battle does break out then we'll be ready and be able to stop the sides from fighting." Alvida said.
"However, we're not naïve enough to believe that nobody will find our ship so we need the Fishmen to stay on the ship and keep guard. Now we we're not excluding you guys because you are Fishmen." Kaya said.
"Yes, we're picking you guys because you are the best fighters in water as well as the fact that you probably won't last long outside of the environmental bubble Nami created over our ships. Heat and you guys don't really mix well." Usopp said.
"We are doing this to save a country." Gin tossed in.
"For Alabasta!" Vivi shouted.
"FOR ALABASTA!" The rest of the crew shouted.
The Commanders and Luffy hopped off the ship and waved goodbye to the crew as they began to sail away. It was about three minutes later that they ran into a large group of dugong looking animals that seemed to challenge Luffy to a battle. Luffy saw no issue to not agreeing and accepted. It took no less than a minute for him to beat them all and was shocked to see them all bow to him.
"Those are Kung Fu Dugongs. They're the best marital arts fighters in Alabasta." Vivi commented, surprised that Luffy beat them easily.
"They're saying that now that you beat them you're their master." Chopper commented in his full human form that he dubbed his "Perfect Human Point", having changed into it so he wouldn't sweat do death in the desert because of his fur.
"You can talk to them?" Usopp asked in shock.
"Yeah, since I'm originally a reindeer I can talk to all animals." Chopper said.
So Luffy kneeled in front of the one that seemed to be the leader of the dugongs.
"Do you want to help save a country?" Luffy asked, surprised by the dugongs suddenly cheering.
"Well I guess that answers that." Gin commented.
About ten minutes into the trip Nami started complaining.
"I still don't know why you won't let me make it rain here." She said.
"Because I'm pretty sure Crocodile keeps an eye on the weather in Alabasta so making it freak rain somewhere will be a pretty big sign that we're here." Luffy said.
"I guess I understand that… Can I make it rain if we get caught?" Nami begged.
"Sure, but for now you'll have to deal with cooling charms." Luffy said.
By the time that they reached Erumalu city it was night time which meant the temperature outside had dropped from scorching hot to freezing cold. This resulted in Luffy changing the charms from cooling charms to heating charms so they wouldn't freeze to death. Luffy then conjured up some wood so they could cook dinner. Dinner was in fact some of the dinosaur meat that they still had left over from Little Garden. Honestly Sanji and Zoro went overboard in their competition. After a nice meal, they put out the fire and went to sleep, planning to wake up early.
The next morning everyone got up and quickly set off to the Yuba Oasis. The trip there had three interesting events. The first event was a bunch of birds that everyone was shocked at when Vivi beat the ever living crap out of them even though they looked injured to start with.
"Why did you hurt them?" Nami asked, curious because Vivi never struck her as a cruel person.
"Oh, those were Warusagi Birds. They fake being injured and then steal your stuff. I'm not in the mood for that to happen." Vivi said.
"Yeah as they were running they said something about us clearly not being an easy score." Chopper said with a roll of his eyes.
The next event was when a giant purple lizard attacked them but it was quickly taken care of by all of them.
"… I can't believe I just helped take down a Sandora Lizard." Vivi said, feeling a sense of pride, as her training with the Straw Hats had clearly paid off.
"Why's that?" Luffy asked, as he helped Zoro chop the lizard into pieces to save for later to cook.
"Because those things are the most dangerous creature in Alabasta besides the Desert Strawberry, although those are dangerous for a different reason." Vivi said.
"Desert Strawberry?" Sanji asked, as that was the weirdest name for a creature.
"They're called that because they're spiders that look like strawberries but are extremely poisonous. Travelers have been known to accidentally eat them when they're starving and die hours later." Vivi explained before they moved onward.
The last interesting event was when Luffy's D-Phone began to ring and the name on it was revealed to be Whitebeard. Luffy quickly answered it and it revealed the face of the captain of the Whitebeard Pirates, Edward Newgate.
"Gurararara. So this actually works. I wasn't sure if my son was pulling my leg or not. You must be my son's brother, Monkey D. Luffy." The strongest man in the world said.
"Yup, it's nice to meet the man who's clearly made my brother less bitter. So I thank you for that." Luffy said, rolling his eyes when he realized his Commanders were trying to look over his shoulders to see the man.
"So, what is it that the leader of the new Straw Hat Armada wants from me?" Whitebeard asked.
"Ah, it has to do with my abilities, did Ace ever explain what they were?" Luffy asked.
"Beyond your Rubber Fruit no, why?" Whitebeard asked.
"Well, let's just say one aspect of it lets me divine parts of the future. And… I've seen that something really really big is going to happen." Luffy said.
"Oh? And why would you be telling me this?" Whitebeard asked, curious.
"Because with how Ace is still going after Teach, after I told him not too, and the fact that Ace's name has started coming up along with Marineford in my predictions. Whitebeard, I believe that there's a chance that Ace is going to be the center or cause of the event." Luffy said, causing the Commanders to gasp and Whitebeard's eyes to appear weary.
"Do you know how?" Whitebeard, deciding to trust his son's brother's intuition.
"No, but I asked Ace to give this to you so we could think of a plan to save him if he does end up getting captured by the Marines. I've also gave one to Shanks, because if this event's going to be as big as my prediction says it's going to be then we'll need all the help we can get." Luffy said.
"What do you know about the event?" Whitebeard asked.
"I know that it is going to occur in a few months, maybe two or three. That the focus of the event seems to be Ace, me, and Marineford. The only other thing that I know is that the results of the event may very well usher in a new age." Luffy said.
Whitebeard sighed and then rubbed his forehead.
"I guess that's at least something. Some information is better than none. Do you mind if I leave the planning to my First Division Commander, Marco? He'd be a bit better at this than me." Whitebeard said.
"I don't mind as long as you don't mind my Sniper and probably soon to be Strategy Specialist Division Commander sitting in." Luffy said, giving a look to Usopp who smiled.
"Gurarara! I see you've made your own family just like me. I don't mind at all." Whitebeard said, laughing.
"Of course I did, I mean the three years before I left on mine were filled with letters from Ace and two of those years were filled with him talking about you guys. Although we all call each other brother and sister. After all I'm not old enough to be a Pops." Luffy said.
"Before you go I couldn't help but notice the D on the back of this thing as well as its name. Do you know what the Will of D is?" Whitebeard asked.
"Shishishi! Of course I do old man, what do you think my divining ability is? Let's just say the source of the Will of D is back in the world." Luffy said with a smirk when he saw Whitebeard's eyes widen.
"Gurarara! You're an interesting kid, though that might not be the right word, wouldn't it? Expect Marco to call in a few days." Whitebeard said.
"Alright, well we have to go save a country, Alabasta won't wait for us." Luffy said with a smile as he hung up.
He then turned and raised an eye when he saw everyone gaping at him. Vivi was the first one to comment.
"You were speaking so casually to one of the Yonkos." Vivi said in awe.
"I thought you said you couldn't divine big events?!" Nami shouted, put off, causing Luffy to sigh.
"I didn't want to worry you. At first I wasn't sure what my Arithmancy calculations were telling me. However when it started getting worse I consulted Usopp which is what caused your guys' training to go up." Luffy said, Usopp nodding.
"He made the right decision to not tell you. When he told me I ran the idea of how you guys would react in my mind and figured that if he had told you, you guys would have panicked." Usopp said.
That stopped everyone in their thoughts. To be completely honest he was right, had Luffy told them they would have panicked. So with a sigh, they continued on their way to Yuba Oasis. They didn't actually arrive until night time and when they did they were only met by one man.
"Uh sir where is the rebel hideout?" Vivi asked.
"You won't find them here, they moved to Katorea, the town to the East of Nanohana. But don't you recognize me Vivi-sama?" The old man asked.
"T-Toto-san? What happened here?" Vivi asked.
"It started after you disappeared. This place became a target of many sandstorms almost daily. The oasis dried up and I've been digging to find water since then. My idiot son Kohza, the leader of the rebellion, abandoned this place months ago." Toto said.
"Damnit, we really need to head to Nanohana then." Vivi said but Luffy stopped her.
"I really really hate to say this, but you're being stupid we're not heading to Nanohana." Luffy said.
"What why?! I thought you wanted to help me?" She asked, confused.
"We do but stopping the rebels won't end the war or stop Crocodile, will it? It won't save lives. We need to head to Rainbase, you said that's Crocodile's headquarters." Luffy said.
"But we need to stop them!" Vivi said.
"Like I said stopping the rebels won't help! You need to stop the source of the problem which is Crocodile." Luffy said, causing Vivi to sigh.
"Alright.. I'll take us to Rainbase in the morning." Vivi said, accepting Luffy's argument.
Alright! Luffy's now allied with Whitebeard and he's starting to prepare for the worse that he's been predicting to happen. For those wanting to say Arithmancy does not predict the future and can only be used for creating spells that's a lie. The definition of Arithmancy is prediction of the future by numbers (which is how they create spells, by predicting what certain things will do). Now I know a lot of you won't think that but there are some that will. Poor Luffy though, Ace is so stubborn that it's not even funny. Anyways, please give me suggestions if you have them!
