Before we start, if you haven't already, check out Fixing RWBY by Celtic Phoenix over on YouTube. It will add context to stuff in this story that I'm too lazy to add(common me fumble), so please check it and him out(also read One Piece).
7 years later...
The sound of a school bell rang through the halls, signaling the end of day. Students begin to funnel out of their classrooms, linking up with friends, heading somewhere else in the school, just leaving, etc. Antônia was no different in this regard. She was walking around, looking for someone, stopping once she spots a straw hat resting atop of another student's head.
Antônia raises her arm and calls out for him. "Luffy!" She began to jog towards her friend who began turning behind him.
"Oh. Hey Antônia!" Luffy replied with a shining grin. He fully turns around and holds up his hand just as Antônia reached him. "Howzzit goin'?" He asked as they slapped their palms together.
"I'm doing great!" The girl exclaimed before the two walked out the school.
Luffy placed his hands behind his hand, looking at Antônia with some confusion. "What's gotten you so excited Antônia?"
Antônia smirked and pulled out two twin sai. "Say hello to Solstice and Equinox! My perfect weapons."
"Woah! So cool!" Luffy exclaimed, starry eyed.
Solstice was in Antônia's right hand. The sai had its blades segmented by the maroon colored hilt. A deep purple grip slithered along the hilt as well. The tip of the middle blade was segmented. Equinox was very much the same, but the colors were swapped.
"Amazing, I know." Antônia said with pride. "I spent all class making and fine tuning them. This is their final form." But the young student deflated after making that statement. "However, I didn't get to actually test them out. What if they aren't as great as I'd hope they were."
Luffy patted her on the back before a wide grin appeared on his face. "Don't worry. You can test 'em out on me, after all, we haven't fought in a while."
The maroon-haired girl almost instantly stood to attention. "Really?" She hopefully questioned, getting a nod in return. "Alright! Let's do it!" She pumped her fist into the air and ran to the forest. "C'mon, Luffy!" The straw-hat wearing boy ran after her, still with a grin on his face.
Minutes later, Luffy and Antônia had taken off their uniforms in exchange for tank tops. Luffy kept on the jean shorts he had Antônia ditched the skirt to put on sweat pants. The brown-skinned girl had her sai attached to the back of her pants in sheaths.
"You ready, Antônia?"
Pulling out Solstice and Equinox, she responded to her friend. "Of course. Let's do this Luffy!"
Luffy started by stretching out his fist to Antônia. In response the older girl ducked before thrusting out Equinox, which causes the tip of the middle blade to shoot out at high speeds.
"Gah!" Luffy yelped while retracting his arm. He pluck the blade tip out of his stomach. "That's pretty cool." He complimented while Equinox reloaded itself by expanding the end of the middle blade outwards before replacing it with another bullet in a near instant.
"C'mon Luffy." Antônia teased. "Put up your Aura and heal, the wound can't be that bad." Luffy frowned but did what she did nonetheless. His body shines red, brightest at his wound which slowly closed. "Good. Let's continue!" The maroon-haired girl rushed to her opponent.
Antônia tried stabbing at Luffy over and over. However Luffy dodge each one, looking for any openings in Antônia's assault. He leaped back before kicking his left foot at his friend. "Gum Gum Stamp!" In response, Antônia dodges to her left and guns it to Luffy. But Luffy planned for this. The ex-captain pivoted on his right heel. "Gum Gum Whip!" His extended leg swung into Antônias side, sending her flying into the trees.
Luckily she activated her Aura in time to absorb the impact and heal some damage. Antônia quickly gets back on her feet and flicks the bottom of both Solstice and Equinox. The bullet at the tip of Solstice slowly changed to a red bullet, while Equinox changed into a pale green bullet. She then flips her sai parallel to her hands, gripping the middle blade between her ring and middle fingers. The brown-skinned girl then fires off some quick jabs, shooting the bullets at Luffy who prepared to jump over them. However, the bullets collided with each other, setting off a powerful explosion that Luffy fails to escape from.
"How did ya like that one, Luffy?" Antônia taunted she flicked the bottom of her weapons again, this time both of them switching to a light blue color. Luffy soon comes out the smoke with his right arm stretched behind him. "Got ya." She mumbled as he approached her.
"Gum Gum Bullet!" The raven haired boy shouted, but not before his opponent could dash back and shoot two light blue bullets at him. His right arm shot into the bullets causing them to shatter, however the dust within them covered, up to his elbow, in ice. "Huh?" The huge chunk of ice almost caused him to fall over, though he was able to catch himself. "Jeez, you got ice Dust too?" Luffy held the ice above his head and put on a grin. "At least ya gave me a hammer."
Hammer? Ugh was this another past life thing? Whatever. Doesn't matter to Antônia. She flicked the bottom of Equinox, changing the bullet to green as Luffy jumped into the air. "Gum Gum..." Luffy through his ice covered arm behind him, preparing a devastating attack. However, the roots of trees shot from the ground where Antônia was supposed to be and latched on to him, stopping him midair. "Eh? What the?"
"Man plant Dust is cool!" Antônia celebrated, twirling on her right foot. "Sure it isn't useful without plant life but it's one of the best for sure!" She looked up at the entangled Luffy with a mocking smirk. "I guess it's time for you to give up Luffy. I could just leave you here or use wind and fire Dust to blow you up again. Hm, I wonder?"
Luffy's face becomes ticked off. "Gum Gum Balloon!" He began to suck in a bunch of air. His body began to inflate, shattering the roots that trapped him. He blew the air out and shot himself further into the air. Antônia flicks the end of Solstice, changing the bullet into red once more. "Gum Gum Hammer!" Luffy swings his arm towards the ground as Antônia shot a bullet into the ice block. Just as the attack slammed into the ground it blew up, causing a huge explosion in the process.
This had happened just as Kulan finished up some last minute work. Peering outside, his slightly widened at the explosion and he quickly used his Observation Haki to figure out who or what caused it. Upon realizing who caused it, his face dropped. "Those kids." He soon finished packing up and began to head out, just then he got a call. "Oh. He was coming today." He picked up the phone and walked out of the classroom.
The field Luffy and Antônia had battled in was destroyed. Many of the surrounding trees burnt down and there was a crater where the explosion happened. Luffy had fallen just inside of the crater while Antônia had been thrown back towards the far out trees. The straw hatted boy sat up and shook his head before running out of the crater to find Antônia. He saw the maroon-haired girl getting wiping dust and soot off of her.
"Hey! You okay?" Luffy asked once he reached his friend. Antônia told him that she was fine and asked if he wanted to continue. "Sure!" Luffy jumped back from Antônia before crouching.
Antônia adopted a confused look on her face. "What is he doing-." Realization hit her like a truck as she remembered him doing this pose 7 years ago. "He's doing the thing he was gonna do against that Jolyn girl."
Luffy began to pump his legs. Steam started to come from his body as his breathing got heavier. "Gear..." Luffy's skin turned pink as he slammed his right fist into the ground. "2!"
"So what's this?"
"Gear 2. I've been working on it since we started school, I wanted to make sure this body could handle it." Luffy explained.
"Why's that?"
"'Cause in my past life this used to bite at my life span." Luffy explained before standing up and grinning. "However, thanks to Aura, It's much easier to use it. Although I'll still be really hungry afterwards."
Antônia nodded before getting into her fighting stance and smirking. "Cool. But how'll this help you against me?"
"You can't keep up with me anymore." Luffy stated before positioning his left hand in front of him and cocking his right fist back. "Gum Gum-" Antônia shot Solstice at Luffy's feet before he could finish. "Jet..." Antônia's shot open as she heard Luffy's voice to her right.
"How did he-"
"Pistol!"
A fast and strong fist rammed into Antônia's side as she is sent flying, her remaining Aura shattering after she skidded on the ground. Luffy's skin began to turn back to normal as the last bit of steam rose from his body. After taking a deep breath he ran to check if his friend was alright. He manages to reach her as she is trying to get up and helps her up, allowing her to lean on him for support.
"Hey. Antônia? Luffy?" A familiar voice called out to them. Kulan got past the bushes and trees and finally saw the two students. "Luffy! Antônia!"
"Gramps!" The power walked to Kulan with Luffy making sure Antônia didn't have to do as much work.
"What happened?" The teens explained that they decided to test Equinox and Solstice with a fight. Kulan sighed and scratched his beard. "You two certainly tested it very thoroughly. But we need to get back to the village, I need Luffy for something."
"Why?" Luffy questioned.
Kulan looked in the direction he came from, using Observation Haki to see he had arrived yet. "I will explain when we get back. Put Antônia on your back so we can hurry on home."
Luffy deflated while Antônia cackled and hopped on her friends back. "You're the reason I'm hurt, you should take responsablity anyway."
"We were fighting!" Luffy snapped as he followed Kulan. "I shouldn't be punished for winning!"
"You didn't win! I took myself out!"
"Nuh uh!"
"Yuh huh!"
Kulan couldn't help but lightly chuckle at the youngins. They continued like this the entire way back. A couple minutes later once they returned to the village, Kulan used Observation once again, sensing that the visitor should arrive in about half an hour. The three made their way to Kulans place, where the owner patched up the two teens.
"Hey Gramps..." Luffy began before his stomach grumbled. "What'd you want with me. Also, you got any food?" Antônia perked up and asked for food too. Kulan sighed and told them to wait. He got up and left for the kitchen, intending to heat up some leftovers.
"So how did you do that?" Antônia turned to Luffy.
"Do what?"
"That Gear 2 thing."
Luffy gave a bright grin and chuckles. "Oh yeah. I just do it by pumping my legs. I can do it in specific parts of my body too." He explained while rubbing his stomach. "But it takes a lot out of me when I do my whole body, even when using Aura to keep myself up."
"Okay..." Antônia started and crossed her legs. "Do you have any other Gears?"
"Yeah! 2 more, Gear 3 and 4. Gear 4 has some 3 different forms too. Pretty cool huh?" Luffy grinned with pride.
Placing her right index finger on her chin, Antônia asked for more information. "What does Gear 3 do? How do you activate it?"
"I just bite into my thumb and inflate my bones." Luffy picked his nose, causing Antônia to inch back a few. "I do the same thing for Gear 4, but-" A beeping nose from the kitchen cut him off. No longer paying attention he smelt something. Meat. The Pirate King hopped off the couch and rushed to the kitchen with Antônia trying to follow but her Aura not being back yet meant she went slow.
Kulan pulled out the chicken from the microwave before setting it down on the counter. "Oof!" Something had ran into his back, pushing him up against the microwave, forcing it shut. Realizing quickly what that 'something' was, he pushed it away from him so he could protect the food. He turned around to see Luffy laying on his back, his straw hat covering his face. The boy sat up and positioned his hat back atop his head.
"Meat!" Luffy tried to jump at the chicken only for Kulan to activate his Armament. A green aura covered his hand, sending Luffy back much farther. "Owowowowow." Luffy jumped to his feet, face full of anger. "Hey! What was that for?!"
"I did not just make this for you." Kulan sighed. "Antônia must have some too. I will also need it for when you too leave and I eat. I just can not let you eat all of it."
Luffy pointed at the old man accusingly. "You didn't even make that today! It's leftovers!"
"That's besides the point." Kulan stammered. Antônia came limping in and Kulan took this as opportunity. "Luffy, how could you force Antônia to go after you! You know she's still hurt!"
"Eh!? Don't change th-!"
"Take her back to the living room while I grab the spices." Kulan sternly looked at the boy who frowned before doing as he was told. Luffy and Antônia got back and sat down to talk more, forgetting the whole Gear talk. A little later, Kulan returned with the chicken, two water bottles and various sauces. He placed them down on the coffee table and sat to the right of Antônia.
"Thanks for the food!" The kids greatfully thanked shortly before chowing down.
"You two are lucky your parents are away." The old man sighed, scratching his head.
Antônia gulped down her food and washed it down with some water. "They're away a lot of the time nowadays."
"They think you're responsible Antônia. And I have to agree." Kulan said, patting the young girl's head.
"Am I?" Luffy asked, still chomping the chicken.
"Er..." Kulan froze for a second. "Yeah, you just need a little help sometimes."
Antônia moved up to Luffy's ear and whispered. "That means you aren't." Backing away, she giggled and went back to stuffing her face.
Luffy jumped onto the couch in rage. "Hey! I'm totally responsible!"
"Tell that to the food falling from your mouth." Antônia teased.
Kulan put his hand up to try to calm the youngins. "Now, now. Calm-." The sound of his scroll ringing interrupted his speech. "Oh. We must hurry to the docks, now. The thing I need you for is here." Kulan and Antônia stood and went for the door with Luffy inhaling his food and following close behind.
Once they got to the docks, Luffy and Antônia looked in awe at the biggest boat they've ever seen. From the side of the boat hardlight stairs form and five people walked from said boat. The man walking ahead of the group wore a black suit over a dark green vest and green shirt. The man also had silver hair and glasses.
Close behind him was a blonde woman who also had glasses. She had a long-sleeved white top and black pencil skirt with black boots and black cape.
"Greetings Professor Ozpin, Professor Goodwitch." Kulan bowed slightly.
"Hello Mr. Kulan." Ozpin looked behind and spotted the teens. "You two must be Luffy and Antônia."
Luffy pointed at the headmaster and chuckled a bit. "Hey Gramps, he has even more white hair than you do." Antônia struggled to hold in her laughter while Kulan began to sweat. "How do ya know us anyway old man?"
Ozpin smiled wholesomely while Goodwitch scowled from the disrespect. Ozpin seeing this tried to calm her. "Glynda, he's only 14, you don't have to be on his case too much. Especially since he isn't a student yet." Glynda was going to speak up but managed to hold it in. Ozpin turned his attention back to the kids, more specifically Luffy. "Well, my dear friend Kulan here told me about you. I've been interested in you and wanted to make a visit."
"Alright." Luffy responded with a wide grin. "So whaddya want from me?"
"First I'd like to introduce you to this young lady." Walking up beside Ozpin was a girl with long red hair in a ponytail and wearing a head band. She was wearing red and gold armor and a red sash around her waist. On her back was a shield and what seemed to be her weapon. "This is Pyrrha Nikos. She recently returned from her 3rd championship win in a row and is interested in joining my school."
The red head measured Luffy up with her eyes before greeting him. "Hello there." She waved just held up a peace sign with his fingers.
Ozpin took a sip of his hot chocolate before continuing. "I want you two to have a quick mat-."
"Um, not to be rude Headmaster." Interrupted a familiar voice. The Foosha Island trio turned their attention to the voice. "Do we have to stay here to watch this, I'd like to return home and tell my parents I'll be doing Huntress work here."
"Oh c'mon Lania." Another familiar voice complained. "That can wait until later, I wanna see how much the runt has improved since our fight."
Luffy's eyes widened before he pointed the familiar shark faunus. "It's you!"
"Fuhahaha!" Jolyn howled. "Been a while, eh, brat?" Luffy frowned angrily at the dark blue haired woman. "Unfortunately for you, I'm a Huntress now, I can't waste time on runts like you anymore."
"You wanted to see how much I improved." Luffy recalled before dashing at Jolyn. "Then why don' you try me now!" The shark faunus blocked a punch from the straw hatted teen.
Jolyn put on a blood thirsty smile. "You have gotten stronger. But so have I runt." She knocks Luffy back away only to rush after him. He lands and crosses his arms to stop the upcoming attack, however Jolyn kicks up breaking Luffy's defense and sending him farther back.
Kulan reached his hand out to Jolyn. "Wait, hold on."
"No. Allow it." Ozpin cut in. Everyone else looked at him with disbelief. "It's obvious they have history, it'd be the best way to draw out as much out of Luffy as possible." He directed his attention to Antônia. "You can test your skills against Pyrrha instead. Of course this is only if you'd wish."
Quickly sensing the young girl with Observation, Glynda rejected that offer. "Ozpin, this girl isn't at her max strength. And you shouldn't allow one of our top graduates to battle some riled up youngster just because they have 'history'."
"Please, Glynda." Ozpin sighed. "I trust that Miss Orlgan will end the battle before it gets out of hand. Even if there is some bad blood between the two."
Luffy stood back up as Jolyn slowly approached. "Crap. That attack didn' do much." The old Pirate King confirmed. "Looks like I'll have to bust out Gear 2 early." He crouched down and began to pump his legs. Jolyn squinted her eyes for a second before shining another deathly grin, recognizing what he was doing. Steam began to flow off his body and his skin turned pink. "Gear 2!"
"Is this the thing you wanted to try all that time ago?" Jolyn wondered, to which Luffy nodded in confirmation. "Alright. Let's see how much better you do!" The shark faunus pulls out two balls from a pouch at the back of her waste. She presses in the one in her right hand which turns it into a throwing star and throws it at her opponent. Wind starts to swirl around the shuriken extending the reach but Luffy still attempts to dodge.
"Gum Gum Jet Bullet!" Luffy appears next to Jolyn and punches her side with all his might, which sends her back a fair distance. He looked at his forearm and noticed a cut from the shuriken. "Guess I need to move faster next time." Jolyn finds her footing and presses the other ball into a shuriken and throws that at Luffy. Electricity began to cackle from the shuriken, noticing this Luffy decides to just catch it. Which he does and electricity flows through is body.
Jolyn gasped in surprise at this. "Guess you didn't know this." Luffy grinned and tosses the shuriken away. "But I'm made of rubber, electricity can't effect me! Gum Gum..." Luffy shoots out his arms and vanishes. Antônia, Pyrrha and Jolyn try to look around for him, while the others track him using Observation Haki. He reappears in front of the shark faunus and shoves his hands into her abdomen. "Jet Bazooka!"
"It seems that she still doesn't have a good handle over Observation Haki." Kulan concurred. Lania explained that Jolyn struggled to focus enough to do in a battle she's really into. "I see, hopefully this doesn't effect her performance as a Huntress."
Glynda stepped up to explain more. "As a way to combat this weakness, me and her decided to work on her Aura's durability and healing. She's effectively a semi-fast tank and in conjunction with her bombs she is a massive threat to the grimm." Jolyn grinned and slammed her fist into Luffy's sternum sending him flying back. "That's why putting her up against that boy was a bad idea." Directing her head towards Ozpin who just sips more of his hot chocolate.
"I wonder though..." Pyrrha started. "Why didn't Luffy use his Aura to heal that cut."
"He has to focus his Aura into keeping up Gear 2." Antônia explained as Luffy flips and and lands. "I'm not sure of the inner workings of it, but I assume he uses his Aura to constantly boost his body because I also remember him talking about his body not being enough to handle it without Aura."
Pyrrha nodded, satisfied somewhat at the explanation. "Interesting."
"Gum Gum Jet Stamp!" The straw hatted boy shoots his leg out at Jolyn, but she grabs it before it makes contact to her body. Then she swings him up and slams back into the ground before letting go of his leg. Luffy kip-ups back onto his feet and vanishes again. "Gum Gum Jet Rifle!" The boy punches the shark faunus in the face, leaving his fist in as his arm untwists and disappears again quickly. "Jet Whip!" He kicks the blue haired woman in her side. Luffy vanishes again to go for another punch but that is met with Jolyn's fist. Then they go blow for blow for a bit. Luffy landed more hits but Jolyn hit so much harder and so much bulkier it didn't matter.
Eventually Luffy lost the exchange, being sent back. Luffy's skin turned back to normal, but he stood up once again. "You know..." Jolyn began with a cocky smirk. "Why don't you just stay down, you can't win against me. The gab between us is even wider than all those years ago."
"No way." Luffy responded, pointing his thumb at his face. "I'll kick your ass, but I guess I have to go all in with power." Shocking everyone, Luffy bit into his thumb. "Gear 3! Bone Balloon!" He then began to blow into his thumb and it begins to expand in size. Blowing more and more, eventually the size of his arm grew beyond the size of Jolyn's entire body.
However, at the sight of this, Jolyn cackled. "Fuhahahaha! Amusing display brat, but there's one small issue, how're you meant to hit me with that?" Upon finished her taunt, she felt something wrapping around her muscular arm.
Luffy grinned. "Well now you can't escape." Luffy prepared an attack while tightening his grip on the shark faunus as much as possible. "Gum Gum Giant Pistol!" As he threw his fist out, Jolyn decided to overpower the boy's attack. Her free arm turned jet black with the smallest hints of blue and she punches into the enlarged fist. Their attacks hit even, but the power from the clash caused cracks in ground as well as raising up some earth. Not looking for this battle to drag on any longer, Jolyn further coats her fist in Hardening and causing it to turn even more blue.
The shark faunus roared as she completely blows Luffy away, as well as breaking his grip on her arm and his Aura. While flying back, Luffy began puke up tons of air and sending him into the sky. Pyrrha and Antônia express concern for the boy but Ozpin raises his hand before his eyes glow green, activating Observation. "Antônia, move forward 5 steps then left 4. Keep your hands held out." Ozpin commanded. Antônia was about to question as to why but Kulan told her to follow Ozpin's directions.
Following the Headmaster's directions exactly, Antônia waited while looking up to the sky. "Is that..." Antônia pondered as she saw something or rather someone falling to where she was. The someone, being Luffy, was caught by Antônia but instead of being releaved, she was shocked. "What happened to your body?!" In her arms was a small, chibi Luffy whose clothes somehow shrank with him. Well, all except his straw hat.
"Ehh..." The dazed Luffy only responded with a groan. Antônia lightly tapped his cheek, which snapped the old Pirate King back to reality, noticing his body had shrunk. "Crap, forgot this would happen." He then looks up to Antônia. "I'll be back to normal in a couple minutes."
"Unfortunately we don't have much time left." Ozpin informed the teens. "I'd like to ask if you would want to join my school early, Luffy." The offer shocked Kulan and Antônia for only a second, before they remembered the boys past. "You show a lot of promise, and I while I believe Dawn Academy does a fine job teaching you, I think even their curriculum isn't advanced enough for you. I expect a child of your talent would have some handle over basic Haki, like Miss Nikos."
Kulan stepped up to clarify. "He actually doesn't. He chose to focus more on his semblance and Antônia here focused more on weapon building." Ozpin seemed to be slightly taken aback at this. "The quickest I could teach and have him be ready would be in 2 years time."
"I see..." Ozpin scratched his chin for a second before responding. "That's fine actually, it lines up with a couple of things and makes it more convenient." Ozpin then stares deep into Kulans' eyes before pulling him over. "I do need you to train him as much as you can. He could be a valiant defender of Remnant in the future." Kulan nods and makes his way over to Antônia, who is still carrying the tiny Luffy.
"We should be on our way now." Glynda confirms. "Wouldn't want to keep Miss Nikos away from her home for too long."
"Of course." Ozpin complies.
Lania and Jolyn head to their respective homes while Ozpin, Glynda and Pyrrha get back to their boat. Luffy, now back to normal, Antônia and Kulan watch as they depart. "Are you two ready?" The old man breaks the silence, causing the kids to turn to him. "These will be the most rigorous 2 years of your lives. I will make sure both of you are ready to become proud Huntsmen."
"Wait, you're training me too?" Antônia asked out of surprise.
Kulan gave a warm nod in return. "Of course. Who would I be if I didn't treat the same."
"What about your other students?" Luffy teased.
Kulan coughed before responding. "You two are special." Kulan looked off into the sunset. "My students are my pride, all of them are. But you two are my heart. So forgive me for being a bit biased."
They all stay quiet for a moment. Luffy and Antônia turn to each other and gripped the others hand. "Well, are you ready Antônia?"
"For sure. Let's get stronger. Tons stronger."
"I was thinking the same thing." The two give each other a determined grin.
Kulan wasn't kidding, the 2 years were hard. They sparred with each other and against Kulan to get better at Armament, specifically Hardening. One of them would put on a blindfold while the other tries to hit them with a bat. They would also play hide and seek, but the seeker was blind folded. These exercises trained their Observation Haki. One time, something would cause Luffy to expel tons of pure Haki, this is how they discovered Luffy had Conquerors Haki, just like his past life.
They didn't focus on just Haki, like they were told, Luffy also trained his semblance. He wanted to get back to the proficiency he had when he entered the New World, though it would be harder due to his body being far weaker. Antônia, meanwhile, didn't have a combat oriented semblance, so she chose to focus on her body and making her weapons even better.
In most sparring matches where it was straight hand to hand, Antônia beat Luffy 6 times out of 10. But when they could use their weapons and semblance respectively, Luffy won 6 times out 10. 1 year and 4 months into their training, Kulan took them to Vacuo. He said that the tougher conditions will aid in their adaptability, so for 2 months they trained in the harsh deserts of Vacuo. After spending 3 months on Foosha Island, they went on a month trip to Atlas. Not only for more training, but also to check out Atlas Academy, Antônia's future school.
The final 2 month was spent to mostly relax and but also in distress as this is when Antônia applied for Atlas Academy and was waiting for acceptance.
"So when should you get the letter?" Luffy asked while hanging off the tree.
Antônia had been staring at her scroll every minute of every day since applying. "Either 2 days after applying or the final day of school." Antônia bit at her nails, stomping around their training spot. "I can't take this anymore. I'm not getting accepted."
Luffy got off the tree and stopped his friend. "You don't have to worry. I'm sure you're gonna get in."
"You wouldn't get it." Antônia retorted. "You got a free pass into Beacon years ago. I actually have to try to even get allowed to do the initiation."
"Hey. I got a pass because I did good against fish breath."
"Right. Sorry." Antônia took a deep breath. "I'm just crazy on edge. What if I don't get accepted."
"You will get accepted."
Antônia gave a small smile at Luffy's confidence. "I wish I could act like that. So sure of everything."
"It doesn't do anything worrying about what might happen." Luffy grabbed her hand. "If you die with all that worry, you'll die with a lot of regrets. But if you're okay with at least trying, regrets mean nothing, even in death."
"Luffy..." Antônia was stunned. It was weird to hear Luffy speak anything like that. She was only snapped back to reality at the ring of a notification. She looked at her scroll to check. "Luffy's right. I tried my hardest, rewarded or not, I've become better. And that's all someone could hope for." She tapped the notification and on her screen appeared a letter. She almost started bawling her eyes out. "YES!" She got in. All that worry was for nothing.
Their final day of school had come and gone. Luffy and Antônia had packed early so they could head to Vale and Atlas respectively after school. They headed to the docks where they find their parents, Kulan, Jolyn and Lania, those last two being there to make sure the leaving was safe. They bid their farewells to their parents before getting to Kulan.
"Thank you for everything!" The kids exclaimed barely before nearly tackling the old man into a hug. The hug felt like it lasted forever but after disconnecting, it felt like the hug should've been longer. The two walked towards their respective modes of transportation. Luffy was going to take a boat to Vale and Antônia will take a bullhead.
Luffy faces Antônia. Antônia faces him. They give each other warm smiles before giving each other a deep hug. Neither wanted to let the other go, but they both pulled away.
"It's gonna be a while." Antônia stated. "At the soonest it'll be during the Vytal Festival. And since it's held in Vale, I'll have to compete against people at Atlas Academy to go there and represent."
"Well, I'll be waiting." Luffy's grin widened. "I'll be way stronger next time we meet."
"Same here."
With that, they split off. Luffy boarded the ship to Vale and Antônia got on the bullhead to Atlas. Then, they departed from the docks, ready for what comes next.
That is that! Sorry this one took a lil while, just got kinda lazy(common me L) but I have a lot going on next week so don't expect anything for that week. Though if I can, I might update on the weekend, who knows. Any, what are your thoughts, lemme know.
