Emperor's Return

Chapter Eight

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"Talking"

Flashback

'Thinking'

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Last Time…

"Ms. Potter, can you bring your sons and follow me. I have someone that you and the boys would want to meet." Sammy had to resist the urge to jump in surprise when the Headmaster came over to where she and the boys were sitting. Sabo, Ace, and Luffy were looking worried at going to the Headmaster's office.

"Of course, Headmaster. Guys, wipe your face so we can leave now." Sammy ordered as she had a pretty good idea who she was going to meet. Sabo and Ace both looked like they have a few guess as well, since they heard people talking this morning's news. Like usual, Luffy did not have a clue at what was going on.

Sammy patted his head and gave him a smile that told him not to worry as everything is going to be okay. Luffy seemed to relax at the sight of the smile.

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Present Time…

Sammy, Sabo, Ace, and Luffy all followed Headmaster Dumbledore to his office. Sabo and Ace both explained to Luffy that they were probably going to be introduced to Sirius Black as he is Sammy's godfather. Somewhere along the trip, Professor Snape joined them. No one said anything about it, but they all had a feeling that Professor Snape mainly came so he could personally witness the reaction of Sirius when he finds out about the arm and the three boys.

"Rainbow Skittles." The three boys all snickered at the Headmaster's choice of password.

When the group entered the Headmaster's office, there were two people sitting and talking to each other. One was Professor Lupin, which did not take Sammy and her sons at shock as Professor Snape had told them during the summer vacation that her father, James Potter was best friends with Sirius Black and Remus Lupin and Peter Petigrew. The second man looked as thin as a skeleton, but was cleaned up, his black hair was washed and cut and he wore new robes. The second man was none other than the infamous Sirius Black.

When they entered, the two friends stopped talking and turned to see who entered the office. Sirius immediately spotted Snape and his face twisted into a sneer. Sammy quickly gave Sabo a camera that she kept somewhere on her body at all times as she suddenly got a wonderful idea for a prank. Sammy had taught her sons that bullying other people was not the right thing to do and that it is very wrong of them to do so. So naturally, when Professor Snape told them what James and his friends used to do to him when they were in school, he was very surprised to see that Sammy was ashamed and angry at her father and his friends for what they had done.

"What is he doing here!?" Sirius growled out like a dog.

Before anyone could say anything, Sammy attached herself to Snape's arm and sadly said, "I just wanted you to meet the love of my life and my future husband."

Sammy gave Sirius a sad look as the words sank into Sirius' brain and his sneer turned into an expression of horror. His mouth was opening and closing like a fish, and his face lost all color and it looked that he was just told that every female said that they thought he was gay. Sabo took that moment to take a couple of pictures of Sirius' expression, before Sirius screamed like a five year old girl and fainted.

Everyone began to laugh at the little prank that Sammy had played on the one and only Sirius Black, the Master of Pranks. Sammy let go of Snape's arm as she took back the camera from Sabo.

Before Professor Snape could open his mouth and say anything, Sammy simply said, "You will get a copy of this and any other pictures. Don't worry!"

Nodding only once, Snape took a seat on the couch that was available. While the Headmaster and Professor Lupin tried to wake Sirius up, but there was no such luck.

Sammy looked at Ace and whispered in his ear, "Ace, why don't you wake the poor man up."

"Okay Mom," Ace whispered back, before he used his devil fruit power to set Sirius' butt on fire.

"OWWW!"

Yep, a little bit of fire can wake anyone up, well… except those who are in a coma or dead. And who knew that wizards could jump that high.

After everything settled down, and the prank was explained, which Sirius was glad for it being just a prank and was somehow reminded of the time when little baby Samantha called Snape dada.

"Little Samantha, my, my, look how you have grown up. I'm so sorry for being an idiot and going after that traitorous rat, instead of getting my name cleared. So I could raise you like a godfather should," Sirius apologized with regret and guilt in his voice as he moved to hug Sammy for the first time in years.

"Its alright," Sammy said with a smile on her face as she hugged him back.

Suddenly, Sirius let go of her in alarm as he asked in shock, "Where's your arm!?"

Rubbing the back of her neck nervously, Sammy chuckled slightly as she answered, "Well… I sort of lost it."

Sammy also known as Shanks was nervous, very nervous. Normally, hardly anything would make a former Pirate Emperor nervous, but Sammy did not know how to act around someone who was her guardian. When Sammy used to be Shanks, there were no parents to look after her when she was just a child, until Captain Roger came along. Even then, she was still free to do what ever she wanted as long it was within the Captain's rules. And now as she was reborn, only for one year, did she have her parents look after her and take care of her. After their deaths, her (if you can call them that) guardians did not look after her or care for her in anyway, but instead they tried to make her into their slave. Sammy could not help, but wonder if her independence was going to be taken away from her.

Sirius' eyes nearly bugged out of his head when he shouted "Lost it! How can someone just loose an arm!?"

Sammy smiled weakly as she answered, "A basilisk ate it."

Sirius looked ready to faint for the second time, while the Headmaster and Professor Snape look away in shame and guilt that they could not have done more to prevent that from ever happening.

Deciding to change the subject, Sirius focused on the three younger boys when he asked them curiously, "So who are you three then?"

Sammy raised an eyebrow as she looked over at Professor Lupin, who mouthed, 'Didn't tell'. Sammy handed Professor Snape, her camera, while the twinkle in the Headmaster's eyes increased as he asked, "Why don't we let them introduce themselves?"

Sabo, Ace, and Luffy all smiled as they had similar thoughts on how to introduce themselves.

"I'm Sabo," Sabo said proudly as he stepped forward.

"I'm Ace," Ace stepped forward as well.

"Hi, I'm Luffy and I love meat," Luffy said with a big smile on his face.

As one they continued, "We are the Potter brothers and we love our Mom, our cool Uncle Sev, and Grandma Minnie!"

"How long did it take you to teach them how to do that?" Professor Snape quietly asked her after he took a couple of pictures of three gaping men, who never thought that Professor Snape would be ever referred to as a cool Uncle. Snape, himself, was very pleased to be known as a cool Uncle.

"About three weeks," Sammy whispered back as she smiled.

"I have to say that you did an excellent job then," Professor Snape praised.

"Thank you, Professor," Sammy responded. "Although, I should let you know that those three added the cool Uncle part in all on their own."

Snape knew right there and then that he did the right thing that day that he apologized to Potter as his life had turned for the better.

Suddenly, Sammy thought of something, so she said like nothing was wrong, "You know Sirius, since you were supposed to raise like a father should and with me having three kids of my own. Congrats, Sirius Black on becoming a grandfather."

The whole room, including Fawkes, the previous Headmasters and Headmistresses, and the Sorting Hat, erupted in laughter, ignoring Snape taking a few more pictures and Sirius' cries of "I'm too young to be a grandpa!" or "I'm not that old yet!"

After a while, everything settled down and they began getting to know each other without too much teasing. Sirius even gave Sammy permission to go and visit Hogsmeade with the other students. That had earned three excited cheers from the boys as they would be going along with their mother, too.

But Sirius pouted and sulked underneath a dark cloud of depression when the three boys admitted that Snape was still the cool Uncle.

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As it was getting late in the afternoon, it was time for Sammy and the boys to get back to the Gryffindor Tower, so Sammy could finish her homework. But when she about to leave the office, Sammy turned to Professor Lupin with a serious expression and asked if he could teach her how to defend her and her sons from dementors in the future. Professor Lupin told her that he would teach her after Christmas break.

The mention of Christmas break now has Sammy torn about where she would be spending Christmas break. Before Sirius was found innocence, she had made plans to possibly spend it with the Weasley clan at The Burrow. So Mrs. and Mr. Weasley could spoil their new grandkids. But now with Sirius being freed and stuff, they might not be doing that. Sammy will have to talk to Sirius about it. Maybe she could invite Aokiji over as well. For now, Sammy will have to wait and see.

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