The Adventures of Monkey D Lily
Summary: Luffy is the Pirate King, and has been for fifteen years. He and Boa Hancock had a daughter they named Lily, she was born on Raftel. When she was five her father was struck down with a poison that no one could cure. Chopper was killed in that battle. Over the next ten years Luffy's nakama was slowly killed until it was only him and Lily left. On Raftel he used the One Piece to send both him and his daughter to an alternate reality where she would be safe. They landed at the base of the Red Line, at the entrance to the Grand Line.
Crocus did his best to cure Luffy, but he refused all treatments. He just wanted his daughter to be safe so that he could join his nakama and family in the next world. Lily had been taught almost everything from the Straw-hat pirates and knew how to look after herself. She was fifteen. She became the youngest member of the up-and-coming Straw-hat Pirates when they sailed down Reverse Mountain.
Chapter 2: Whiskey Peak
Lily sat in the Crow's Nest as the Going Merry arrived at Whiskey Peak. She personally had no intention of going ashore, and was willing to resort to hiding if it would help her get her way. The cheering from the local populace had sent up warning bells in her mind and that in turn had her unwilling to set foot on the island.
Unfortunately for her, Luffy had no intention of leaving anyone behind.
So it was with a heavy heart that she disembarked with the rest of the crew, almost gluing herself to Nami's side, and watched in silence as they were greeted by the Mayor of Whiskey Peak. To her it seemed that everyone besides Nami and Zoro were relaxed and eager to party, and had no idea of the danger they were in. She followed the group to what had to be the town hall, and disappeared into the shadows to escape notice.
For hours she watched in silence as one by one the Straw-Hat Pirates passed out until she was the only one awake. When it was finally silent she left the building and started to walk back to the ship. Her intention was to spend the night in the Crow's Nest and be ready to leave as soon as the others woke up.
"What's this? We missed one?"
Lily spun around to identify the voice and came face to face with the Mayor of Whiskey Peak, only now he looked nowhere near as friendly as he had been previously. She dropped into a fighting position, legs bent and standing side-on, arms ready to punch…just like her dad had taught her. This only caused the Mayor to laugh at her.
"Children should be sleeping at this hour, not wandering around looking for a fight," he said.
"I'm on my way to bed," Lily replied, straightening up. "You scared me. I thought I was alone."
"Why don't you sleep with your nakama?"
"I wanted to sleep on the ship," Lily gestured to the direction she had been going. "Goodnight sir."
She turned her back on him, something that she knew she shouldn't do, but all her senses were in overdrive so she was ready when he reached down to grab her. All he managed to grab was thin air as she dropped to the ground and rolled forward before standing out of his reach. Before he even noticed that he didn't have her she was running away from him.
"Catch her! She can be sold for a high price!"
The sound of running feet echoed through the previously silent town. Lily ducked through side streets and climbed ladders, all in the hope of avoiding those who were chasing her. Unfortunately for her she managed to get herself so twisted around that she ended up as far away from the ship as she could possibly get. She paused in the shadows, trying to figure out where she was, but as distracted as she was she was unable to detect the man behind her until she was in his grip and being dragged kicking and screaming back to where the Mayor was still waiting. The man holding her threw his hand across her face to muffle the sound, and in doing so cut off her ability to breathe. Desperate, Lily licked at his hand to get him to release her, something he did quickly when he felt her tongue swipe against his palm. In retaliation he hit her over the head and walked the rest of the way in silence, her body lying limp in his arms.
"What took you so long?" the Mayor asked.
"Brat's a fast runner," the man replied. Lily was lifted into the air so that her feet had no firm purchase to stand on. "I caught her but, had to drag her back here though. She better fetch a good price at the slave markets."
Lily glared around her, noticing that there were quite a number of people surrounding her. She focused her gaze on the Mayor and focused as much hate into her voice as she could.
"My dad will kick your butt."
"I doubt that," the Mayor laughed loudly. "No one can save you from where you're going."
"Wanna bet on that?"
Every face turned to look up to the roof, Lily included, and there for the world to see was Roronoa Zoro silhouetted from the full moon directly behind him. She smiled in relief.
"Everyone's had a tiring day, I'd appreciate it if you could keep it down," Zoro continued. "And I'd also appreciate it if you could let my young friend go. There are quite a few people who would be angry if you harmed her."
"Another one awake?" one person of the mass whispered. "How many did we miss?"
"But then again, what more could I expect from a group of bounty hunters?" Zoro muttered. "I think I even recognise you. Baroque Works."
There was a stunned silence from the group. That quickly turned to fear and concern though when they realized that he knew exactly who they were. Zoro continued talking, explaining everything he knew about the company and the fact that he was to be recruited at one time…he had declined. Through all this Lily was kept still and hanging off the ground. She was hesitant to move in case they remembered that she was there, but as soon as Zoro moved she swung her feet backwards as hard as she could, catching her captor between the legs and allowing her to drop to the ground. Seconds later she was in Zoro's arms and once again running away from the battle.
She could hear the bounty hunters calling out for them to return, and answering cries of their location. Lily wrapped her arms around Zoro's neck and when he stopped she swung around to his back so that he would have both arms free and she was out of the way.
"What were you doing out of the room?" Zoro asked quietly as he swept through a group of bounty hunters with ease.
"I wanted to go back to the ship," Lily replied just as quietly in his ear. "I don't like it here. They made me feel like we were in the middle of a marine base and they wanted to chuck us in the brig surrounded by Sea Stone and ankle deep in seawater."
"You've been in that position before?"
"Daddy and I were in Impel Down once," Lily muttered. "I've never seen Daddy that low before, not even when he died back at the lighthouse."
"Impel Down huh? That's no place for a kid."
"It is when you're the only child of the Pirate King, one who would do anything to get me out again."
Zoro stumbled in his stride but was unable to question her as more bounty hunters were suddenly in his face. Subtly Lily helped out by punching the ones who were creeping up behind them. It was a little known fact about Devil Fruit Eaters, but any children they had had a chance of inheriting their Devil Fruit ability, just like they had a chance of inheriting brown hair or blue eyes. Lily had inherited the ability of the Gum-Gum Fruit, and still retained her ability to swim. Pirate King Luffy had taught her as much as he could in using her abilities, but she was still experimenting on her own as well.
"Wait here for me," Zoro suddenly ordered and she jumped off his back. "You get hurt and Luffy'll kill me. After this is done you and I will need to have a talk."
"Sounds fair, but I don't want the others to know just yet."
Zoro nodded at her request before disappearing to attack more bounty hunters. She remained hiding in the shadows but once she felt it was clear she shimmied up to the roof and ran along until she could see what was going on. It appeared that Luffy had woken up and moved outside before passing out again as he was lying in the middle of an alleyway, snoring away as if he were in the softest bed in existence. Surrounding him were four people: the Mayor, Miss Wednesday, Mr 9 and a large muscular woman. Zoro was standing a fair distance away and from the look on his face he was annoyed at the situation. Lily lay down on the roof and watched the battle below her.
"Well, well, well, what do we have here?"
Lily rolled over onto her back and stared up into the eyes of a tall man wearing dark sunglasses, despite the fact it was night, and a short woman holding an umbrella even though there was little chance of rain. She sat up slowly and perched on the edge of the roof, looking down briefly to see where the others were.
"Looks like the kid got lost!" the woman answered with an annoyingly high pitched laugh.
"Maybe we should make sure she gets home?" the man stated, sticking his finger up his nose seriously. Lily grimaced in disgust as he actually had something on his finger when he pulled it out.
"You'll make your nose bleed if you pick it," she said before she could help herself. "It's a really bad habit to get into."
The two people above her laughed. The man crouched down so that they were at the same height and adjusted his hand in her face so that it looked like he was going to flick the booger at her. Behind him the woman kept laughing, umbrella resting on her shoulder casually.
"Good thing that I don't care then," the man stated. With that he flicked the booger towards her and before she could scream she was flying backwards, the small bit of booger exploding in front of her. She could feel her body burning, and never before had she been grateful for being born with the powers of a rubber person. Her pain tolerance was incredibly high due to the rubber nature of her body, and while that explosion could have killed a normal person, all it did for her was knock her out and send her flying into the building across the road below.
When she opened her eyes again she could here Zoro, Nami and Luffy talking, or yelling in the case of Zoro and Nami, and laughter in the case of Luffy. Lily sat up and groaned, her head felt like it was on fire and she wished she had a mirror to see what she looked like. She moved her dad's straw hat from under her hair and placed it on top of her head, hiding it in shadow as she knew that there was damage done from the tender feel of it. Standing, she walked to the hole she had made and checked to see if the coast was clear. Closer to the hole she could make out the words of her three nakama, and realized that whatever topic that had had Luffy laughing had finished and they were now discussing her.
"What do you mean Zoro?" Nami was saying.
"I'm saying that Lily was wondering around before all this started," Zoro answered defensively. "I had her hide back there somewhere and told her to wait for me."
"Where is 'back there'?" Nami asked sternly.
"I can't remember!" the swordsman snapped. "Call out for her; she'll come when she's called."
"I've already called for her! When you and Luffy were trying to kill each other I was looking for her! I couldn't find her!"
Lily shook her head slowly before jumping down to land atop a crate that Luffy was sitting in front of. Everyone looked at her in shock, startled by her unexpected appearance.
"It wasn't safe where I was, so I moved," Lily explained quietly. "I didn't hear you calling Au-I mean, Nami. I heard Zoro's arguments so I followed those until I got here."
"Where'd you get that hat?" Luffy asked, seemingly unconcerned of her disappearance, and Lily would have believed it if it weren't for the fact that she knew Monkey D Luffy cared more about his nakama than his own life and would do anything to ensure their safety…even if it meant playing dumb.
"My dad gave it to me," she replied. Zoro looked at her curiously but Nami didn't seem to care and Luffy was nodding as if she'd just answered the last question he needed to work out a particularly difficult answer.
"Not that this isn't interesting or anything, but what happens now?"
Lily turned to look and finally spotted Miss Wednesday sitting just off to the side, but her mannerisms were already incredibly different to what they were before. Mr 9 was nowhere in sight, and neither was the Mayor or the large woman. The two who had attacked her were also missing.
"Well, since were already marked for dead because of you," Nami began a touch cruelly. "I say we run and hope they don't catch us."
"I have to get back to Alabasta!" Miss Wednesday cried. "Please take me there! I can arrange a reward once everything has settled down! I know my father will agree with whatever I promise!"
At that moment Lily realized who she was looking at. Princess Vivi of Alabasta, future Queen, and an honorary member of the Straw-hat Pirates. When she was younger Lily had visited Alabasta in secret with her dad and they had spent a whole day with Queen Vivi. The other Straw-hat's had spent a few days in the cities, blending in, gambling, stocking up on food, and trying to avoid the attention of the marines. It had lasted two and a half days before they were recognised and the entire might of the World Government came down upon them. Another day in the life of a Straw-hat Pirate.
Lily had fond memories of Vivi, but when she was acting as Miss Wednesday she was completely different. Remembering stories from her past nakama, she realized that this was the start of the adventure to take down a Warlord of the Sea, Crocodile.
While she was reminiscing, Luffy had agreed to take Vivi on as a passenger on the Going Merry and Nami had burst into fake tears of depression. Lily smiled at the sight but that smile soon disappeared as the Mayor appeared dressed in a large version of what Vivi was wearing. Without meaning to she shrieked and hid herself behind Luffy, her hands grasping the red material of his shirt tightly. Luffy, who was about to make an inappropriate comment about the man's choice of clothes, went still and glared at the man.
"What did you do to my nakama?" he asked coldly. The two pirates, one princess and one former Mayor froze and stared at Luffy in shock. Zoro noticed Lily hiding and nodded in understanding and loosened his swords at his hip, while Nami angrily asked her captain what he was talking about.
"What did you do to Lily?" Luffy corrected himself, still glaring at the Mayor. The man looked slightly guilty and shuffled his feet uneasily.
"My duty was to protect the Princess Vivi," he explained. "I had to play a part. They would have suspected I was a mole if I had have done anything different."
"Would you have sold her to the slavers?" Zoro asked. At this Nami's eyes widened in shock and she stared at the former Mayor, awaiting his answer.
"She wouldn't have been alone," the man replied. "All of you would have been with her, except you Straw-hat, you would have been given to the marines for your bounty."
"Can I go back to the ship?" Lily asked in Luffy's ear so that no one else could hear her. "I don't want to be here anymore."
"Go straight there," Luffy replied with a nod, his voice soft. "Call if you need help otherwise we'll be just behind you after we finish up here."
Lily thanked him and as quiet as she could she slipped away into the shadows and ran all the way to the ship. Once she got there she went to the girl's cabin and took a look at her appearance in the mirror. She was glad that the others hadn't noticed her condition, as she was sure that murder would have come on the scene if they had. Her entire face was red and stretching outwards from between her eyes were red scratches, as if shrapnel had come into contact with her skin. When she turned to look at her back she spotted more scars from where she had hit the wall and she knew that the bruises would be spectacular. She grabbed her bag and used some of the medicine that she had stored there to tend to her injuries before anyone returned.
That done she retreated to the Crow's Nest to await her new nakama.
From her quiet solitude she was interrupted by a loud explosion and her heart stopped. She gripped the wooden railing of the Crow's Nest tightly in one hand, and in the other she held her hat on her head. The smell of fire and smoke rushed over her skin and the wind lifted her hair harshly. She ducked down hidden, waiting for the sound of Luffy and the others.
She didn't have to wait long as they soon crowded onto the ship. Vivi was complaining about a duck she wouldn't leave without, Zoro was talking with said duck, Luffy was dragging Sanji and Usopp, Nami was arguing with Vivi and unnoticed by all but Lily was the cigar smoking turtle that pulled up next to the ship. She decided to remain hidden until they tried looking for her, and hugged her hat to her chest. She hated being uncertain and while she had had adventures with her dad, she was always with him, she had never been alone like she was at that moment. Not for the last time she wished that he was still alive and sitting next to her, telling her that everything would work out.
"Lily! You here?"
At the sound of her name Lily looked over the side of the Crow's Nest and waved to alert the others where she was. Luffy waved back relieved and then they were off at full speed. Lily remained where she was though, she didn't want to go down just yet. Instead she watched as the Straw-hat Pirates started to move around, and spotted a woman in a white cow-girl outfit climb aboard and settle just above where the pirates were scurrying around.
"Aunty Robin," Lily breathed in shock. She knew that her Nico Robin hadn't been friends with the Straw-hats at the beginning, but that had changed and the woman had loved being a pirate with them. She told the best stories, the most accurate of the adventures her dad had been a part of. Lily vaulted over the side of the Crow's Nest and rapidly climbed down so that she was standing just above everyone. Nico Robin looked directly at her and smiled, but it wasn't a smile Lily was familiar with. It was distant, like the woman was unused to smiling and didn't know what to do. Lily smiled back at her after a brief hesitation and was about to speak but Robin placed her finger in front of her mouth in a gesture to be silent. Curious, Lily nodded and watched as Nami started to talk and without anyone realizing Robin answered.
Sanji and Zoro were sent flying, Nami and Usopp screamed, Luffy had his hat stolen and Vivi gasped out her name. Except it wasn't Nico Robin that she said, it was Miss All Sunday. Lily frowned at that. No one had told her that she was an agent of Baroque Works. She adjusted her grip on the main mast, holding her hat with her free hand, and leant out so that she was at a 45˚ angle from the mast. What happened next was so sudden that all Lily could do was let out a short scream as her hands and feet were pushed away from their perch and she dropped the rest of the way to the deck.
Nami was by her side instantly, helping her up and Lily managed to keep her hat covering her face so that the others couldn't see her injuries very well. They'd notice soon but she wanted to hold it off for as long as possible. The others were yelling again, but Robin remained calm by informing them that she didn't think they'd live past their next destination, which was why she wasn't attacking them. It was her parting comment though that had all the Straw-hats tense.
"Keep that girl close to you, from what I've seen there will be quite a few people interested in her. After all, not just anyone can survive an explosion at point-blank range with nothing but a few scars to show for it."
Robin left after that, but her comment had caused Nami to lift the straw hat from Lily's head and under the light of the moon everyone could see how scarred her face really was. Luffy was in front of her in a second, his hand gently reaching out to touch the scars. Lily averted her eyes, staring at the deck, and ignoring the others around her.
"You didn't hear me calling, because you had just been attacked," Nami whispered. "Why didn't you say something?"
"There were more important things to worry about," Lily whispered back. "I've had worse than this."
"It was that Snot Guy, wasn't it?" Zoro asked. "His snot explodes upon contact."
Lily nodded and reached up to pull her hat down across her face again. She wished they would stop staring at her. Luffy stopped her from retreating and wrapped his arm around her waist. Before anyone could react he had jumped out of everyone's reach and landed on the figurehead of the Going Merry. No one followed him, but Lily could hear the conversations starting up. Sanji was furious and declared he was going to the kitchen, Nami went to the girls cabin to work on her maps, Usopp left to work on his supply of ammo, especially if their next destination, Little Garden, was going to be as dangerous as Robin had warned, Zoro wanted to work on his weights and finally Vivi was left alone. She decided to follow Nami and explain in more detail what she knew about Miss All Sunday, Baroque Works, and the situation in Alabasta.
"You came from the future, didn't you?" Luffy asked as the voices faded away into silence.
"Yeah," Lily replied. She was sitting on Luffy's lap and he was holding her there. It felt familiar to be at the very front of the ship with her dad, even if it wasn't really her dad.
"I was your dad, right?" Luffy asked again.
"Yeah," Lily sighed and pulled her knees to her chest, as much as she could with Luffy's arms around her.
"I never thought I'd have a kid," Luffy continued. "All I wanted was to be the King of the Pirates. I never considered a family."
"Your nakama is your family," Lily murmured. "Everyone, Grandpa Garp included, cared for you and you proved on several occasions that you were willing to die for them. My dad and I, we were the last ones left. There was an explosion on an island, but I won't tell you where, and we only survived because we were the furthest underground. Dad was really sad, but he was dying and he needed me to be safe. So we hid and as he was going to return to the others, the land beneath us shook and the caves collapsed. We were trapped and were about to die, but dad wasn't sad about that. He had wanted me to live, to live my dream, and when it was the end we were transported to the lighthouse. Dad explained everything to Crocus, because they knew each other in our time, you see? Crocus promised that I would be safe. Dad died the day before you appeared. He would have had a great laugh to see all of you looking so young and different. You especially, death hasn't touched you yet."
"I was the last one?" Luffy whispered after a long moment's silence. "What about Ace?"
"Uncle Ace? I was told stories about him," Lily smiled up at the stars. "I never met him but. He died before I was born. According to everyone, that was what caused my dad to change. He wasn't the same after that."
"Ace died?" Luffy pulled the girl on his lap tighter against his chest. "Nobody can beat Ace."
"I decided on my dream, after coming here," Lily stated. "I'm not going to let the future as I know I come to pass, too many good people died, because of the World Government. I'm going to change history."
"Be careful, Flower Girl," Luffy ordered. "I've never cared for the future, I believe that it is what we make it. It can't be foretold."
"It's already slightly different now that I'm here," Lily reassured him. "The future as I know it will not come to pass here. That is already assured."
"Very well."
They said nothing else after that. Lily soaked up all the warmth that Luffy offered, and even though he wasn't the father that she remembered, he still emitted an aura of security that she craved. For as long as she could she would treasure what she had because that would go straight to hell as soon as they made it to Little Garden.
To Be Continued...
Next up in the Adventures of Monkey D Lily:
Chapter 3: Little Garden