"How do you know those nutcases?" asked Yassop, walking along Shanks in one of the many streets of a city. These in particular were full of cabarets and prostitutes, begging to be taken for money in very few clothes.
"I will tell you later, now we gotta find Dragon and Sabo" said the redhead, trying to smell the familiar sweet smell of vampires. And then he found it, along with the one of blood, lots and lots of human blood.
"Is that them?"
"Them and more vampires, I think their coven have grown up more than we tough" said the redhead, walking straight towards a disco. In the middle of the stage was a big woman dancing and sending kisses towards the public in a red tight suit. Her hair was a huge purple afro and her face was very big.
"I smell vampire from that woman" said the sharpshooter.
"Yes, me too… Look at that" said him signaling a table full of man in suits, trying to touch the woman and leaving a lot of money in their tables.
"Who are they? That one´s face´s look familiar"
"He is an important politician accused a few weeks ago of stealing some of the money that was going to be used for repairing the streets and spending it in liquor and under aged prostitutes. It was in the news for days"
"So he is Dragon´s next lunch?"
"Most likely. I think that woman is from his new coven. Let them finish eating, then we can talk about the war"
"How are you so sure they are going to help?"
"Dragon and Sabo are anti government, they didn´t like it. If we tell them the abuse of power the Vultury did a few months ago, they are going to jump and plan to kill them… to teach them a lesson"
"Oh"
"Yes, they are not people that will follow a king, not even Mihi, but he will not behave like that, he is too smart for that"
"And you? Can you control them?"
"There are going to be more corrupt politicians where they come from" said Shanks, sitting on a chair and seeing the stage. They waited for some time.
"Now" said the redhead after the woman disappeared from the stage in the company of another with a large coat and the politicians. The two vampires went with them to the backstage, but wait outside the door until they heard no more screams, meaning the vampires inside were finishing their meals.
"Hello, Dragon, Sabo" said both of them to the tattooed vampire in the middle of the room and the blond with the top hat.
"Oh, hi, Shanks" said the raven.
"Yes, hello" said the blue coat wearing vampire.
"I went to visit your father and he told me you have a new coven, so me and Yassop passed by to say hello and ask for some help"
"It´s about those stupid Vulturys? We have been planning to take them down since that last incident with that clan in Forks. What a bunch of jerks, their leader only wanted that clairvoyant of them, like she was some kind of thing that can be owned" murmured Dragon.
"How do you know?"
"A good revolutionary always know" answered a girl with big red eyes that was in the corner of the room.
"Who is she?" asked the redhead.
"Koala, my mate" answered Sabo, leaving the corpse of his victim on the floor and quickly cleaning his mouth.
"And the others?"
"The old man that looks like a fish is Hack and the two travesties are Emporio Ivankov and Inazuma" answered the blond.
"Travesties?" asked Yassop, looking at the women.
"Yes, I have a gift to change sexes, candy boy" said the purple haired woman… male, turning back to normal.
"Iva- sama, please" said Inazuma, filling his glass of wine with some blood from the bodies in front of him.
"YIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" screamed the strange male and did a dance that make the sharpshooter want to puke.
"Anyway, yes , we are going to attack the Vultury again" interrupted the redhead, looking at the conven´s leader.
"It would be okay, and if father and his creations actually help better" said Dragon, licking some blood from his lips.
"Now, are you going to join us?" asked the redhead.
"Who else is in these?"
"Your family and their creations maybe, Joker and Sir"
"Those two… I don´t like them, they do all for money"
"Maybe, but we need them"
"Hum, well, what do you think, guys?" asked Dragon, eyeing his creations and adoptive son. They all agreed that even at the prize of working together with those two.
"Now we are off, we need to find Luffy and the others"
"Wait! Do you even know Luffy´s or Ace´s new friends?"
"No"
"They have very powerful gifts, so be careful. Don´t get attacked" was Dragon´s last warning.
-Away-
"Here it is, The Moby Dick" said Shanks before a great building in the middle of nowhere with the form of a whale. Surprisingly, it was well hidden and keep any stranger away from the pack of vampires living inside.
"Yes, just like in the book, the great white whale. But I don´t see the ship or the captain fighting with it"
"Maybe the whale already eat them"
"That have to be a shark, not a whale"
"Come on, let´s go inside"
"Halt, yoi!" said a voice with a heavy accent. In front of them appeared a blond man with a tattoo in his chest and a haircut that resembled a pineapple. Near him were an okama dressed in a pink kimono, a fish or a man resembling a fish with a starfish shirt and a man with a ridiculous tuppe like Elvis Presley.
"Who is there?" asked a new voice. A raven with an orange hat get out of the building. Behind him come an old man with a white mustache. "Shanks?"
"Hi, Ace" answered the redhead.
"You know him, Ace?" asked the pineapple guy.
"Yes, he is my creator and my brother´s godfather" answered the young man. All the other vampires, except for the blond, relaxed. "Why are you here?"
"To ask for your help to save my mate"
"Oh, so you are facing the Italian you warned us about" said the raven.
"Hum, Ace, introductions first" said the old looking vampire.
"Yes, where do I have the head? Sorry, guys" said Ace politely. "These are Oyayi, Edward Newgate, but you can call him Shirohige; the blond is my mate, Marco, the one with the stupid Elvis hair is Tatch, the okama is Izo, the fish is Namur, the one with the mustache is Vista, that one is Jozu…" he continued until he finished.
"You really have a large clan, fifteen"
"Yes, and we have a lot of gifts" said the younger male, lighting his hand in flames. Marco turned into a large blue fire bird and Jozu into some kind of diamond. Then Shirohige grabbed the air and provoked an earthquake.
"Impressive"
"Thanks, now, were you asking for our help in the war against those Italians?"
"Yes, they are a threat. I tried to end them myself earlier, but it didn´t work. Look, Ace, you know I won´t ask any of your family something like that, but…"
"If you enter to a war you will lose without strong allies and they will hunt any vampires you have created, included Ace and my sons" said Shirohige for the young male. It was obvious that even if he was the older Ace wasn´t the leader. It was Shirohige.
"Yes, exactly"
"Then we will fight for survive" said the old man and his men all nodded. The Shirohiges were ready for war.
"Good, then the last one I have to call is…. Luffy" said Shanks. He really wanted to spare his little godson the pain of the war.
"Don´t dare to left him out, or we are going to be suffering from his bitching for centuries" said Ace, rubbing his head.
"But, Ace…"
"I know, I don´t want him to come too, but he will come running head first into the brawl when he finds out about the war"
"How is he going to know?"
"He will, Shanks, like always"
"Then I will be off to find him" said the redhead before getting off with Yassop, who was not happy about bringing his son into a war.
"Do we really have to do these?" asked him.
"Yes, even if we don´t like it" said his boss.
-In the middle of another city-
"Hello, Luffy, it´s been a long time!" greet Shanks, and then a flying ball of energy with an old straw hat in his head impacted in his stomach.
"SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANKS!" yelled the hyper active teenage vampire.
"Luffy, dear who is these!" said a beautiful woman coming from behind him with a looking down frown on her face.
"He is my godfather and creator. Shanks, these is my mate, Boa Hancock"
"She is so beautiful…" said Yassop with a dreamy face.
"Come to our house and let´s talk there. I will introduce you all my friends" said the little monkey and Shanks petted his head before going with him. "Look, these is Zoro, Sanji, Nami, Robin, Chopper, Franky, Vivi, Ussop… you already know him, forget it… Hancock, her sisters, Marigold and Sandersonia, and Brook"
"Why are you here?" asked Hancock, getting straight to the point.
"Asking for help to fight the Italian"
"Who?"
"The Vultury, Luffy, they told us about them once" said Ussop.
"Oh, them I´m in, what do you say guys?" they all sad yes.
"That was easy" said the redhead and Yassop only nodded.