Chapter 3
Harry could feel his body rocking as if it was on a boat drifting on the waves. He slowly opened his eyes to see wooden planks that looked as if they had seen better days above his head. He looked around and saw that the room was full of medical supplies, herbs, and books. It reminded him of the infirmary at Hogwarts. The bed he was in, was a single bed that was extremely comfortable. Looking down at his body, Harry noticed that he was completely naked. With a bright blush on his face, he looked over at the nightstand by the bed, to see a pair of comfortable blue pirate pants, a red shirt, and a gold sash. Right next to the sash was his shrunken trunk necklace, wand, and old cloths.
Quickly, he put on the new clothes. As soon as he was dressed, he made his way towards the door where he could hear voices that sounded like they were arguing. Harry followed the noise, and ended up at a door that lead outside. Cracking the door open, he could see Whitebeard standing behind a bunch of people, and a man with a fluffy hat blocking their way to the door.
"You will not wake him. He needs to sleep, not be overwhelmed by idiotic pirates with no thought other than themselves. If you do not back off and leave, I will do worse then switch your bodies with water barrels this time." he heard being snapped at someone. Were they arguing about him?
"Children, listen to the doctor. Law, I understand he is your patient, but this is still my ship and I will not have you threatening my crew." said Whitebeard over the arguing crew members that became quiet when they heard their father talking.
"I wouldn't have to threaten them, if they would just leave my patient and I alone. They are annoying and have no respect for personal boundaries. I am here to make sure that Lord Potter in there wakes up in a good and healthy condition. I am not here to be a doctor to your crew. If I was, I would have cut off your hands so that you couldn't constantly disregard orders not to drink alcohol. Now, order your men to back off, so that I can go back to taking care of my patient." Harry heard someone walking towards the door, so he quickly jumped back into bed and closed his eyes to make it seem like he was asleep.
"I know you're awake." Harry opened his eyes to see the man with the fluffy hat standing in the doorway.
"Um, hi?" The man narrowed his eyes.
"Don't hi me. You have been in a coma for the past two weeks. Now get up we are going to the gallery so that you can eat. I will not have you starve and ruin my work of making you somewhat healthy."
Harry nodded and got off the bed following the fluffy hat man. As they walked, they were joined by a boy with pink hair that was wearing a marine uniform. Harry tried to keep track of which hallways they walked down, but when they stepped outside, he was blown away from the sight of an endless ocean.
"You look as if you've never seen the ocean before."
Harry looked over to where the voice came from to see Ace and Luffy walking over to them. "I've only been to the coast in my world once before, and it was dark out so I couldn't see anything."
Ace frowned and asked, "Your family never went to the Ocean before? How big is your island that you can't just walk to it?"
Harry sighed, and looked out to the ocean again. "I didn't live on an island. The world I'm from has land masses about the size of 10 of your biggest islands put together. My family has gone to the ocean lots of times. They just never wanted to take the family freak with them." Harry turned back to the others, when he felt the heat in the area rise. He saw Ace on fire, Luffy had his hat covering his eyes, the pink marine looked like he wanted to cry, and the fluffy hat man had white knuckles from holding his sword to hard. Harry tilted his head in confusion. "What's wrong?"
"So your called a freak too," asked the pink haired marine looking up at Harry with sad eyes,
"What do you mean too? I didn't think there was magic in this world." Harry looked at the marine in confusion.
"We are considered freaks because of our devil fruits. They are considered works of the devil and unnatural. yoi"
Harry turned to the voice and saw it was the guy from before, Margo or something.
"I'm guessing from your face you don't remember my name. Its…"
"Pineapple head!" Luffy yelled out jumping on the man's back.
"No its flaming chicken Luffy. Get it right," Ace yelled as he attempted to pull Luffy of the man.
"MY NAME IS MARCO! I have told you that too many times now in the past week, yoi!" Harry hid a laugh, recognizing that Luffy was trying to change the subject.
"Well this is fun and all, but you mister still need to eat. I am not going to help you again if you get hurt because you didn't listen."
Harry nodded and followed The fluffy hat man, leaving behind the trio that was fighting. "So what is your name mister pink haired marine?" The marine boy looked at Harry in confusion before a look of understanding crossed his face.
"Oh ya, forgot you were unconscious when I was introduced to everyone. My name is Coby, I am acting as a go between for you and the Marines. So if you have any requests needed for the Fleet Admiral, I can send them to him. He also told me that he wanted me to tell you that he would like to set up a meeting with you as early as possible so that he can formally apologize for all the trouble that was caused by the war."
"Well as I told him before, I will meet with him, but I will be bringing someone with me as a guard. For that to happen, I would need to talk to the captain of this ship about taking some of his men to protect me."
Coby nodded at this. "That is reasonable. I shall send that to him. I have also been told to ask if you can meet with Vice-Admiral Garp. He.."
"Is the grandfather to both Ace and Luffy, yes I know. I will meet with him, after my meeting with the Fleet Admiral. Now, what is your name, mister fluffy hat?" The man in question stopped and looked at Harry as if he had two heads.
"You know for someone who claimed to know who the Potters are, you certainly can't recognize them. My name is Law. You claimed me as family, and because you did that, Straw Hat-ya won't let me leave."
Harry scratched the back of his head in embarrassment. "Oh, sorry. I'm still learning about the members of the family. I just took up headship a day before I came here, so I only had time to read about Ace. I saw his execution was about to happen and kinda just rushed here."
"Then how did you know I was a part of the family? Not that I'm complaining too much, as it gets the Marines off my back a bit."
"As I was reading up on the Family history, there was a section that listed all members of the family that are currently alive right now. If you want, I can look up exactly how you are related to me after we eat, 'cause I am starving." Law nodded and lead the way down another hall that opened up to a room that was full of tables, some of which were empty and some full of people.
"Now sit, I shall go and inform the cooks that you are here for some food. Marine-ya, watch to make sure that no one bothers him until I get back." Coby nodded and sat down next to Harry looking at the other people with slight fear as they were all watching the small group.
"So Coby, who's ship is this?"
"This ship belongs to the Pirate Yonko Whitebeard. You talked with him back in Marineford, remember?"
Harry thought back to the fight. "Kinda. I'm guessing he was the big guy with the mustache that looked like a white banana?"
Coby gaped at Harry in horror. "Don't call him that! He is known as the strongest man in the world! He is a ruthless pirate that would kill you just for thinking that!"
"Gur gur gur gur, I didn't think I scared the marines that much!" Coby and Harry jumped up in surprise and turned around to see Whitebeard standing behind them. "Mind if I join you boys?"
"Of course you may, though I don't know why you are asking, as this is your ship." Coby looked at Harry in horror as he said this.
"Yes it is my ship, but you are guests here, and I think Marco and Ace would be mad if I just sat without asking. Gur gur gur." Coby gave a small gasp and ran out of the room muttering about contacting someone named Sengoku.
"Just sit down! Those damn cooks gave me more food when they saw you walk over." They looked up to see Law standing there with two large platters of food in his hands.
"You didn't hurt any of my men this time did you?" Law rolled his eyes.
"It doesn't hurt them when I cut them up. It would only hurt them if they stepped out of the orb I created. But no. I didn't hurt any of your men this time. " He turned to Harry. "Now you. I want you to eat as much as you can, and at the same time explain what these are for me." He held out some potion bottles filled with liquid.
"Oh. Those are potions that I am suppose to take for a few injuries that I gained about a month ago."
"So they are for healing? Explain them in detail before I give them to you. I refuse to let you take anything that I do not know about." Harry nodded.
"I'll explain as best as I can. The white one is a bone strengthening potion. It strengthens my bones so that they don't break as easy. I'm suppose to take that one before I eat, so that I can wash the taste down, The light blue one is a Nutrient Potion. When I was younger, I wasn't able to get all the nutrients that I needed so this potion helps to fill the hole. This one" He held up a black bottle. "This is an Immune Potion. It works with the nutrient potion to fix my immune system so that I don't sick often. I have to drink these well I eat as they mostly just make my body absorb the nutrients from food better. The last one with the clear liquid is an eye correction potion. I'm suppose to put 3 drops in each eye before I go to sleep until all the liquid is gone."
Law held up the potions so that he could examine them better. "What type of injuries did you have, and I am going to test these before you take them." Harry nodded and watched as Law walked away with his potions. Once Law was out of view, he turned to Whitebeard, who was eating a large turkey leg the size of his arm.
"So, Whitebeard right?" The man put the turkey leg that we was eating down and nodded.
"Yes that is right. And you are Lord Potter." Harry grimaced.
"Just call me Harry. I not used to being called Lord yet. Anyways I was wondering if I would be allowed to talk with you about using some of your men as bodyguards for my meeting with The Fleet Admiral." Whitebeard looked at Harry as if he was studying him.
"Very well brat. Eat and we will talk later." Harry nodded and looked at the platters to see what looked appetizing. On the platters was a variety of fruits, vegetables, soups, and meats. Harry helped himself to a few pieces of ham, some potatoes, corn, and an apple. The two ate in silence until the doors burst open and Ace and Luffy came running in.
"Found you!" Luffy ran up to Harry and jumped as if to jump onto Harry's back, but was stopped by Ace grabbing Luffy's shirt.
"Lu, leave him alone right now. It's time to eat…" "MEAT!"Luffy launched himself out of Ace's grip and started devouring all the meat at the table. Harry watched in amazement as they continuously stuffed their faces without stopping.
"You guys remind me of someone else I know. He eats just about anything in front of him and won't stop until we force him away from the food." Luffy looked up at Harry and swallowed the food that was in his mouth.
"Oh, are you talking about one of your friends? Tell us about them! I want to hear about your adventures. Your from another world right? What's it like? Is there yummy food there? Is.."
"Luffy shut up and let him answer your questions before you ask more." Luffy looked over at Ace and pouted.
"But Ace! I have so many questions!" Ace shook his head at Luffy's whining, and Whitebeard and Harry laughed.
"We can talk after you eat. Besides, I want to get to know you guys!" Harry smiled as Luffy nodded and tore into the food in front of them.
"You should get some food before he eats it all." Harry looked at Ace who had spoken. "I'm not kidding. See he is already eating off your plate." Harry followed Ace's finger to see a hand grabbing a turkey leg off his plate and stretch back to Luffy. He watched as the hand then moved on to steal from Ace's plate. He snickered when Luffy let out a whine when Ace smacked his hand away.
"Stay away from my food Luffy!" Ace pointed a fork at Luffy as Harry and Whitebeard laughed.
"But Ace! Your food is the best!" Luffy pouted.
"It's the same food dumbass!" Ace growled. Luffy growled back and launched himself over the tablet and tackled Ace to the ground. Harry laughed watching them, but stopped and turned when he saw Whitebeard stand up.
"Well brat, I shall take my leave for now. Have someone lead you to the deck so we can have our meeting." Harry nodded and Whitebeard turned to the fighting duo.
"Ace when you are done, find the other commanders, Shanks, and Law. I wish to meet with them before the meeting." Ace paused in his fighting to nod at Whitebeard before going back to slamming Luffy's head to the floor. Harry winced at the thud that he heard as Luffy was slammed into a wall.
"Umm maybe we should finish eating? We don't want to keep the captain waiting too long." Ace and Luffy paused to look at Harry as he spoke.
"I guess. Well I'm done anyways, and need to gather the other commanders." Ace looks around and sighs seeing that the room cleared during his fight with Luffy. "Lu, can you lead.. Um what's your name again?" Harry laughed.
"My name is Harry Potter. You can call me Harry though." Luffy and Ace smiled.
"Ok. Lu, can you lead Harry up to the deck while I grab everyone else? You do remember the way right?" Luffy paused with his hand leading a ham bone to his mouth and got a thoughtful look on his face. Harry and Ace sweatdropped as Luffy started to sweat from thinking hard. Finally he looked up with a smile and nodded. Ace laughed and patted Luffy on the head affectionately.
"I'll leave it to you then. See you in a bit." Ace walked out of the gallery, grabbing a boy wearing a victorian outfit as he went. Harry turned back to Luffy and laughed as he saw that Luffy looked like a balloon with how much he was eating. He laughed harder when Luffy burped and ended up bouncing around the room from the pressure that came with it.
"Well should we go?" Harry asked as Luffy stood up from where he crashed into a table. Luffy grinned and nodded.
"Sure. Where are we going again?" Harry facepalmed and started towards the door.
"The deck for the meeting remember." Luffy laughed.
"Oh ya! follow me!" Luffy heads out the door running with Harry behind him.
Meanwhile
"Pops I got everyone!" Ace yelled out as he came closer to his captain with a large group made up of the other commanders following him. Whitebeard grinned and looked away from where he was talking to Shanks.
"Good. Now my sons, I want each of you to play nice when Lord Potter gets here. I want each of you to think about what he has to ask, and if you have any questions for him." Everyone nodded.
"Pops, his name is Harry by the way. Told me and Luffy down in the gallery." Whitebeard looked down at Ace and nodded. Everyone started throwing out questions to ask until Marco spoke up.
"How exactly do we even know he is the real Lord Potter, and not someone who is just claiming to be him. For all we know this could be a ploy to get us to trust him and then get us killed from a trap." Whitebeard leaned back in his chair in thought.
"I understand why you would think that. Would you allow me to prove to you that I am the real Lord Potter?" Everyone turned around in shock at hearing Harry speak.
"Please do so. I personally would like to know why you say that I am part of the Potter family, as I am almost certain I am not related to the idiot next to you." Law said pointing at Luffy.
"OI! Don't call my little brother an idiot!" Ace raised a fiery fist towards Law. Marco pushes Ace to the ground before he could move.
"Cool off idiot. That is not why we are here." Ace glares up at Marco but calms down.
"Fine." He sat up with his legs crossed pouting till Luffy came and sat next to him. Everyone turned towards Harry with eyebrows lifted.
"Well this is kinda a long story that starts even before my birth. I don't know all of it, as I am still learning my history, so I'll explain as best as I can." Whitebeard looked at Harry for a minute before motioning him to continue.
"From what I know, my Great-Great-Great-Grandfather was Casper Potter. He was last official head of the family, as the family ring went missing before his son Haden could take over. It turns out that before Haden could take over, Casper put a spell on the ring to make it into a portal to this world, and sent it along with the Potter family Grimoire away under a spell that it would go to the next Potter that needed the freedom that this world needed, or if the branch of the family here was threatened with extinction." Marco narrowed his eyes.
"What do you mean by spells, portals, and Grimoire? I have never heard of those before." Some of the other pirates nodded agreeing with Marco.
"Well you have to understand that my world is a little different than yours. From the way that Casper described it in his letter, he was transported here during an experiment that he was working on. He said that it was a world made of mostly ocean and islands compared to my world which is mostly land with a few oceans and lakes.
He said that there was no magic in this world, and people lived in fear of creatures that could not be fought against in this world. He said he eventually made a deal that he would help the Government at the time to get rid of the creatures, and give the people a way to fight back, but the Government would never intentionally kill any of his descendants. They agreed, so he created what are now called Devil Fruits." Everyone looked at him in shock.
"How is that possible, Legends say that the gods created the Devil Fruits." A man dressed in a kimoto asked with a slight curious tone.
"Well from what I've read in the Potter Grimoire, our family has an affinity towards potions, and necromancy. Casper, using potions, turned fruits into containers for souls that he brought forth using necromancy. he sealed them into the fruits and passed them out. Depending on the soul, would depend on the ability." Harry looked around and noticed that everyone had an uneasy look to them. "Um did I say something wrong?"
"No, just the whole Devil Fruits being souls, makes people a little uneasy. We were always told that they just were." Harry looked at Marco as he said this and nodded in understanding.
"I understand that. Necromancy is actually outlawed in our world because people who didn't understand the magic used it for things that were against human nature. My family stopped using the magic in public after the death of Sebastian Potter. He was the eldest son of Casper." Ace looked up at Harry.
"You still haven't explained why you are considered the Lord Potter." Harry looked over at him curiously trying to figure out what he meant before he smiled in understanding.
"A few days ago, I was involved in a fight that killed one of the only people that I considered family. After the fight I was told some horrible news and then thrown into my mother's sister's house and told that I was not allowed to have any contact with anyone from my world." Ace and Luffy looked saddened at the thought of being alone, and everyone else was angered by the thought of him being pushed to the side after what happened.
"One day, I was laying in my bed when i heard a noise at my window. I opened it up to see a hawk there with a piece of parchment tied to its leg. When I grabbed the parchment, the hawk bit me and the parchment started to glow and disappeared. In its place was the Grimoire, letter, and a trunk. The leader explained that I was to be the next Lord Potter, as I had a true yearning for freedom, or this branch was in trouble. Claimed the title, found out that Ace was in trouble, and came to help." Harry looked around and most people had a thoughtful look on their faces.
"You've said Grimoire a few times now. What is it?" The man in the kimono asked.
"The Grimoire is a book that is special to my family. it has the entire family history in it, at least starting from when our name started. It also contains all information related to the family. Like finances and Family Magics. It also has the names of every single family member including ones that have been sworn into the family by our family ritual. As far as I could see, there has only been 2 people sworn into the family. One was Outlook Sabo who Ace and Luffy sworn into the family. His name is technically Outlook D. Sabo. The other was a man named Trafalgar Waters. He was sworn into the family by Cassper and Mia Potter. They were the grandchildren of Casper Potter. Waters, after the ritual became known as Trafalgar D. Waters due to him being a Potter. Law is the last descendant of Waters that is alive." Law looked interested in the conversation as did Ace and Luffy.
"Ok well how are Shanks, Ace, and Luffy members of the family?" Harry looked over at Marco who had spoken.
"They are all descendants of Seagar potter. He was the youngest son of Yasha Potter. Yasha was the only daughter of Casper. If you want I can get the book out and explain the who bloodline if you want." Whitebeard nodded at him to do so. Harry took of his necklace and allowed it to enlarge into its full size and opened the trunk. He grabbed the book and pulled it out closing the trunk and shrinking it again.
"Lets see, Casper Potter. Ah here we go. So Casper Potter had two sons and a daughter. The oldest son was Haden, Haden had three sons and a daughter. His son Henry had a son named Fleamont. Fleamont had a single son named James who was my father. That is my relation to Casper." Whitebeard nodded for him to continue when he looked up. "Who do you want to know next?" Shanks raised his hand.
"Do me next, as I am the oldest out of us here." Harry nodded and turned to Shank's section. Lets see here. Casper's daughter Yasha had the three children, the youngest was Seagar who had three sons. You are a descendant of the second child Seabast. Seabast had a daughter named Luna who had a son named Sol. Sol had a son named Iolan who had a single son named Strosa who is your father." Shanks interrupted him.
"That's not possible. My father's name was Nolan." Harry shook his head.
"Strosa had you with a woman who was married to Nolan. according to the book, he didn't know she was married or that she ended up pregnant from that time." Shanks sank down to the ground in shock. Harry turned to Ace and Luffy. "Who wants to go next?" Ace pointed to Luffy.
"Do this idiot next." Harry smiled and turned to Luffy's page.
"Looks like you're also a descendant of Seager, but the first son Lush. Lush had a son named Spade, who had a son named Yoshi. Yoshi had a son named Casper, who had your grandfather Garp. Garp had your father, Dragon, who had you." Luffy laughed
"Sougi. That's so cool. Look Shanks! I'm related to you!" Everyone laughs as Luffy jumps around. Harry turns towards Ace.
"Your turn. Ready?" Ace looks down for a second then nodded. Harry smiled and turned to his page.
"Huh." Harry looked at the book in shock.
"What is it?" Harry looked up at Ace.
"Your a descendant of both Lush and Seabast." Ace looked at Harry in shock.
"What do you mean?"
"Well according to this, your mother and father were both Potters." Everyone turned to look at Ace.
"Explains the idiocy." Marco jokes. Ace looks at him with a glare then turns to Harry.
"Details please." Harry nodded not wanting that glare on him.
"Well from Lush, it goes, Lush, Spade, Yoshi, Casper, Garp, Roger, then you. You and Luffy are blood cousins on your father's side."
"NOOO! Ace is my brother!" Luffy yells out clinging to Ace.
"I'm not saying he isn't. just explaining how your blood related." Ace nods agreeing with Harry. "Now your mother's side goes like this. Seabast, Luna, Sol, Iolan, Stosa, Rouge, you." Shanks interrupted again.
"Are those the same Stosas?" Harry nodded. "That would make Ace my nephew. Well shit." Everyone nodded well Ace sat in shock and disgust at the thought of being related to Shanks. He got up and ran away when Shanks ran to give him a hug.
"Stay away from me you big idiot!" Shanks laughed and continued to chase Ace around the deck with Luffy who joined in the chase thinking it was a game of tag. Marco walked over to Harry.
"Anyone else in our world that's related to you guys?" Harry nodded and opened the book to another page.
"This one is related through the third child of Seagar, Haderiel. Haderiel had a son named Damien who had two daughters. One of the daughters died young without any children, and the other was named Naso. Naso had a son named Micheal, who had a daughter named Xila. Xila had a daughter named Nemo who had a daughter named Oliva. Oliva had a daughter named Robin who is on Luffy's crew." Everyone looked shocked at the thought of the Ohara demon being a Potter. Whitebeard started laughing drawing attention to him from everyone.
"The Government is going to hate this information. Gur ar ar ar" The other pirates started laughing as well and Harry smiled. He looked down at the book that had changed so much in his life in such a small time. Flipping through the pages he noticed something that a lot of the members seemed to have in common. He looked back up at Luffy and studied his hat for a bit. Marco walked over to Harry and put his hand on his shoulder.
"What's wrong?" Harry looked up.
"I don't know. That hat that Luffy is wearing, It shows up alot in the book. Do you know anything about it?" Marco shook his head.
"Not really. I remember that Shanks used to have it. He is the one that gave it to Luffy, according to Ace at least." Harry frowned. turning the pages trying to find the first person the have the hat. He finally stopped at Casper's page.
"Hey look at this." Harry held the book up to Marco showing a picture of a mass of darkness holding the hat out to Casper.
"Looks like there is a symbol on the ribbon. Oi idiots, get over here. I want to see Idiot number three's hat." Marco yelled out are Ace, Shanks, and Luffy. They stopped running around and came over.
"Why do you want to see my hat?" Luffy looked at Marco in confusion holding his hat in his hands.
"We want to check something. Shanks you had this hat before him right?" Shanks nodded in confusion. "Where did you get it?"
"Captain Roger gave it to me." Marco looked at Harry.
"That matches the book. Now we just need to see if it has the symbol." Marco nodded and looked back at the trio that was looking at them in confusion.
"Harry noticed that your hat shows up alot in the book with a bunch of different people. We want to see if they are the same hat. Does yours have a symbol like this on the ribbon?" Harry turns the book towards Luffy as Marco talked. Luffy and Shanks looked at the picture and looked back at the hat.
"Ya it does." Luffy lifted the hat to show a faded symbol on the red silk ribbon.
"Nice. Seems like we found a family heirloom. That hat seems to have been in the family since Casper himself. Though I wonder why in the picture its given to him by a mass of darkness." Marco shrugged.
"Maybe its symbolism for something?" Harry shook his head.
"No the book only records what happens, it doesn't make stuff up. Luffy, you mind if I study the hat for a little?" Luffy looked at Harry then at Shanks who shrugged. Luffy nodded.
"Sure but don't do anything to it. It's my treasure." Harry smiled and grabbed the hat. He ran his hand over the symbol and the hat started to glow. Harry dropped the hat in shock and everyone jumped away, as the hat started to float and a figure appeared under it. The figure looked around and smiled at the sight of Luffy and Shanks.
"Well hello my wonderful descendants. My name is Casper Potter."