Casper looked at all the pirates that were gathered around him. He bowed.
"Hello. My name is Casper Potter. You may know me as the World Crosser, Agent of Death, or Destroyer of Gates." He looked up to see everyone staring at him as if he was crazy.
"What are you talking about? Only reason we know the name Casper Potter, is because Harry here is the newest Lord Potter." Ace pulled Harry towards him as he spoke. Casper frowned and looked at him.
"That shouldn't be possible. I made sure that the Potter family ring would never be used by another Potter on Earth. Unless you are a member from here on Oceana that found their way to Earth, and even then, there is no possible way for you to be the next Lord as it has to pass through the male line." Ace glared as Casper floated closer towards Harry in anger.
"Stay away from him." Ace yelled pushing Harry behind him and lighting his fist on fire. Casper paused seeing the other pirates follow Ace's lead by lifting their weapons.
"Fine. Explain how exactly you claim to be the Potter Lord." Casper glared at Harry but didn't attempt to move any closer. Harry peaked over Ace's shoulder and nodded.
"Ace can you move so I can see him to explain?" Ace looked at Harry worried, but did as he said standing next to him. Harry turned to Casper.
"My name is Harry Potter. I am the last blood descendant of the eldest son of Haden Potter. I received a letter from you a few weeks ago saying that you had put a spell on it so that it would go to a Potter that need the freedom that Oceana could give me, or if the family here was in danger of becoming extinct." Casper narrowed his eyes, then sighed.
"Ya, that seems like something I would do. I was more attached to this world the I was to Earth before my death. I guess that means that you are a wizard?" Harry nodded slowly, and Casper floated down so that he was sitting and scratched his head sighing. "Do you know what happened after I left this world? I only have memories up until I passed this hat to my daughter Yasha." Harry smiled and pulled out the Potter book which made Casper's eyes grow in shock.
"That's the Potter Grimoire! It has been lost of years. How do you have it?" Harry almost dropped the book in shock when Casper appeared in front of him suddenly. Ace shot a fireball at him, that passed through and would have hit Marco if he hadn't dodged.
"Oi watch where your aiming Ace!" Marco yelled over as he stood up.
"Sorry. Wasn't aiming at you. I was aiming at this guy, but it passed through him." Ace glared at Casper holding Harry behind him as other pirates joined Ace in guarding Harry.
"Look I just wanted to make sure that was the real book. It has been lost to the family since my great-great-grandfather Carden. He was said to have hidden it where no one could find it. So how do you have it." Casper goes back to glaring at Harry.
"It came with the letter that you sent me. You sent me this, the letter, the family ring, and a trunk filled with stuff. I'm guessing that after you went back to Earth, you found the book and sent it with a timed spell to the next person who would need it." Harry popped his head over Ace's shoulder so that he could see Casper as he spoke. Casper narrowed his eyes.
"Why the hell would I send it to you. I have no plans to even continue the Potter Lordship. Both of my sons abandoned me here. There is no way I would make them the next Potter Lord." Harry frowned.
"That doesn't match what your letter said. In it you said that you wanted to pass down the knowledge to whoever got your letter so that they could help the family here." Casper narrowed his eyes.
"Let me see this letter." Harry nodded and opened the trunk to get the letter. Ace, Marco, Shanks, and Whitebeard narrowed their eyes when Casper looked at the trunk in shock as if surprised it was here. Harry held the letter up so that Casper could read it. Casper sighed and ran a hand through his hair.
"Well that is my handwriting, and you also have my personal trunk. Though the letter leaves out a lot of what happened when I came here." Harry looked at him in confusion.
"Does this have to do with why in the book you are given that hat by a mass of darkness?" Casper looked confused for a second then smiled.
"You mean Death. He is the mass of darkness you're talking about. He doesn't have an exact shape so that would be a good description of him." Harry looked at him shocked.
"What do you mean Death?" Casper studied Harry for a bit then sighed.
"I will only tell anyone who is a Potter. It has to do with family secrets and magics." Harry looked over at Whitebeard.
"Is it alright if we use one of the cabins for this meeting?" Whitebeard looked down on them and nodded after a few seconds.
"You may use Ace's quarters. It should be enough for six of you." Harry smiled, and Casper looked confused.
"Six? I thought there was only three." He looked around at everyone trying to figure out who else was a family member. Ace rolled his eyes and started walking towards his quarters.
"Come on let's get this over with already." Shanks, Luffy, and Law started following Ace across the deck. Harry started to as well, but stopped noticing that Casper wasn't with him. He turned around and saw that he was gaping the group heading towards the doors.
"Are you coming?" Harry asked as he walked back to Casper. Casper looked at him with narrowed eyes and nodded. They ran to catch up with the group. As they walked through the door, Harry turned back around when he heard Marco call for him.
"Harry! Wait a sec!" Marco stopped in front of him. "Pops wants to speak with you again after your done with your little family meeting thing." Harry nodded and turned back to follow Ace to his quarters. "Same place as before!" He heard Marco yell behind him.
"So what do you mean about Death? That is just a thing, right? It's not a being." Casper looked over at Shanks who had a spooked look on his face.
"What do you know of the creation of the Worlds?" Harry sat in thought well everyone else shook their heads.
"Well that depends. Are you asking based on religion?" Casper shook his head.
"No. I am talking about the creation of the worlds based on what actually happened." Harry looked confused. "Let me tell you the story." Everyone sat down in a circle around him.
"Long before the world was created, there were two beings. They were called Chaos and Order. They decided that they wanted a place to call their own, so they created Earth. When the Earth was first created by them, they decided that they wanted companions for the world so that they would have someone other than themselves to talk to. This lead to the creation of the beings known and Magic, Life, Death, and Nature. Each had their own wants and needs as well as abilities specific to them.
Nature decided that the Earth was bland and created the plants, humans, and animals with the help of Life.
Magic became jealous of Natures creations, and with the help of Life, created humans that had the ability to use Magic's abilities.
Death, under the orders of Order, made it so that everything would die at some point. These orders made Death wish that he was not created to kill anything he touched. Life and Nature became so disgusted with Death's ability that would kill off everything that they created, that they eventually pushed him to the ends of the universe, where Death met Chaos once again.
Death with the help of Chaos, created another being called Water so that Death would have a companion that would not die in his presence. They created another world with Water being the main component. Chaos recruited Magic, who helped by bringing some of her creations to this new world.
They called this world Oceana.
Unknown to Death, Magic used some of the leftover energy from the world creation to create a child that she gave to a family on Earth. Magic, to cover up the fact she created a child with Death energy, gave each of her creations on Earth an ability that would pass to their children. These abilities would be called family magics.
Life became jealous of Death since he had the favor of Chaos, so he created creatures that were neither dead or alive, and released them into Oceana with the hope that they would destroy the world.
Death, was horrified that he could not destroy these creatures, managed to capture some of these creatures and sealed them back on Earth.
That is the story of the Creation of both Earth and Oceana." Casper looked around to see everyone looking at him with either stars in their eyes (Luffy and Shanks), disbelieving looks (Ace), or thoughtful/interested looks (Law and Harry). "What?"
"What happened to the creatures? I have never heard of them." Law questioned with a look of wonder.
"Well the creatures on Earth were eventually released by someone. Wizards eventually found a spell that made them follow their orders. Harry, you should have learned of these creatures. They are called Dementors." Harry gained a disgusted look on his face and everyone else gained an interested look.
"Those creatures shouldn't even exist. They suck the souls out of the living, leaving the person to live a half-life not able to do anything." Casper nodded agreeing with Harry.
"Now the creatures here were a little different. They didn't suck the souls out of their victims, they just sucked out the life force of people leaving them to die as they went." Law had a thoughtful look on his face.
"I still have never heard of these creatures." Shanks looked down.
"I have. It was written down on the finally Polygraph on Raftel. The creatures were said to be sealed into an island by the first Potter. Which I'm guessing is you?" Shanks looked up at Casper.
"Yes. When I went through the Portal, Death approached me. I was able to stay alive since our family is a descendant of the son of Death and Magic. It's why our family is the only one that can do true Necromancy. Death asked me to find a way to get rid of the creatures that were plaguing his world. I agreed, so he sent me here to Oceana. I found the Patronus spell worked for the most part in driving the creatures away, but it didn't affect them the same as it did with the Dementors. So, I tried to contact Death for a way to seal them away like he did the ones on Earth. Took about a year, but he finally appeared and gave me a way to contact him." He pointed to the hat. "You see the symbol on the side, right?" Everyone nodded. "Well that is the true crest of our family. It is also the symbol that Death gave to our ancestor Ignotus Peverell and his brothers." Harry frowned studying the symbol.
"It was also used as the symbol for the Dark Lord Grindelwald when he took power during my world's second World War. I can understand why the family stopped using that symbol, because that was around the time that all Necromancy was made illegal to do." Casper looked horrified at the thought of a different symbol well everyone else blanched at the thought of a World War.
"We have a different crest?" Harry nodded and pulled the book out to show a crest of a lion holding a vial in its mouth. Casper chuckled. "That would have been created by my grandson Jayden. He was obsessed with lions. Anyways back to my story." Everyone nodded, but Harry caught a few looks from Shanks and Law saying that he would have to explain a few things to them later.
"Only members of the family can see the symbol, as like I said, it was placed by Death so that we could activate it and he would come to us. He also gave me the idea for the creation of Devil Fruits." "YOU CREATED THE FRUITS!" Ace and Luffy shouted, well Law looked shocked.
"Some of them yes. The rest were created by my grandchildren Casper and Mia. The ones that I created are called Logia I think. It's the ones that make you turn into the elements themselves." Ace looked at him wide eyed before holding up his hand and lighting it on fire. Casper smiled and nodded. "Yes, that fruit is one. After I had created these, I was approached by the current World Government. They had heard that I could get rid of the creatures and asked if I would help them. I agreed on the condition that they would leave my family alone for as long as we existed. So, I gave them a few of the fruits I had created, and we chased the creatures to an island just south of what I believe you call Raftel. It was there that with the help of Death, I was able to put a blood ward on the island that wouldn't allow them to leave so that they were stuck there unless someone from our blood released them. It was right around that time that I had my wonderful little Yasha." Casper squealed. Everyone else looked at him like he was insane.
"So getting back on topic," Casper looked embarrassed as Law spoke. "You are saying that our family has dealings with Death and that our blood is able to release creatures into our world that could literally kill a person just by being near them." Casper nodded. "How would if work with me? I'm not a Potter by blood, so would my blood even work?" Casper looked confused.
"What do you mean you are not a Potter by blood. The only way that could happen is if you were declared a sibling to the family during a very specific ritual."
"He was. According to the book, Casper and Mia declared his ancestor Water into the family." Casper looked at Harry as he spoke.
"Ah, I understand now. No, your blood wouldn't work, as you do not have Potter Blood running through your veins. The only thing you might have, would be our partial immortality." Ace's head snapped over to Casper.
"Partial immortality? Are you saying that our family and those we declare are unable to die?" Casper and Luffy looked confused.
"That is what I said yes." Ace turned to Harry.
"You said we claimed Sabo as our brother." Luffy grew wide eyed as he understood where his brother was going.
"Sabo is alive?" Harry looked over at Luffy who was giving him a half hopeful, half crying look.
"That's what I said before didn't I? I told the Marines that he was on the safe list as he is family." Harry squeaked and Luffy tackled him.
"Where! Where is Sabo?!" Harry looked over at Ace for help as he laid on the ground with a crying Luffy shaking him.
"Luffy get off him so that he can answer. Then we can go find the idiot." Luffy sniffed and did as told.
"I would have to look at the book to find out. But we can do that later right? I want to know more about what Casper was talking about with Death." Ace narrowed his eyes but nodded and pulled Luffy into his lap to keep him calm. Casper watched all of this with a smile on his face.
"What else would you like to know?" Harry looked thoughtful for a second.
"Who was Ignotus and how is he connected to our family?" Casper looked at him as if he was an idiot.
"Did your parents not teach you anything about our family? Seriously how are you the Lord Potter if you don't know where our name comes from." Harry looked down in embarrassment and anger. Law and Shanks glared at Casper. He held his hands up. "I told you before, I never wanted to continue the Potter Lordship, so him having it kinda pisses me off."
"My family died when I was 15 months old. I was given over to my mother's muggle family that hated anything to do with magic. I had no one to teach me about our family as there was no one. I fucken jumped at the chance to take Lordship as it was able to bring me to family that I had no idea even existed. So, hate me, I don't give a fuck. I was just happy to have a chance to find out and meet of members of this damn family." Harry growled out and stomped out of the room. Ace looked up from his conversation with Luffy at the sound of the door slamming shut. Casper smiled and turned back to the others in the room.
"Well now that he's gone, tell me about yourselves. I want to know everything about my family." Ace and Luffy heard some growling and looked over to see Shanks and Law pissed off.
"Did you know that boy is covered in scars? His entire back is filled with them, and they look like they are from whips. From what I understand, he was starved as a child even though he lived in a house full of food. He has to take potions because he never got a lot of the nutrition that he needed as a child. Just before he came here, he lost one of the only people that he considered family and was thrown back to his mother's family and told to have no contact with anyone. That boy has done more for us by telling us that we are Potter's than anyone has done for him. So, you can claim that he is not worthy of the Potter Lordship, but you do not know him, so you are not allowed to judge. I don't care what you did in the past, but it is just that. THE PAST!" Law yelled before he walked out of the room. Shanks followed him out before glaring at Casper so hard, Casper felt like he would die all over again.
Casper looked over at Ace and Luffy who were staring at the door in shock.
"I've never heard Law get that mad in the entire time he has been on this ship. I agree with him though, and at this point I don't care what you have to say." Ace looked over at Casper as he spoke and Luffy nodded agreeing with him. Luffy pulled the hat of Casper's head as he went to speak. Casper disappeared from their sight.
"Shall we go search for them?" Luffy looked thoughtful before looking up at Ace.
"No. Torao is mad, and I don't want him to be mad at me for bothering him. Banana face wanted to talk to Harry, and Shanks probably went to find a drink, and that stuff tastes nasty." Ace chuckled at Luffy's disgusted face.
"Alright. Why don't you tell me more about your adventures as we go back to the deck." Luffy smiled and started describing a huge cloud city.
Harry continued his angry walk until he reached the head of the ship and looked out to the endless ocean.
"I take it your conversation didn't go well?" Harry jumped and turned around to see Marco walking towards him. Harry looked back at the ocean with a frown. "That bad huh?" He looked over out of the side of his eyes to see Marco lean against the rail next to him.
"He is nothing like what I thought he would be. From what I've read, he was a kind person who loved his family. But, he is just an angry bastard who wants nothing to do with his son's side of his family." Marco frowned and looked out.
"I can kinda see where he is coming from, as I was like that once too. You know, I never told anyone, but I come for a family of nobles. Growing up, I did everything that I was told, but my family never acknowledged me beyond the fact I was the eldest son and could continue the family line. Nothing I seemed to do was right. I could never please them.
So, one day when I was out for a walk on the grounds, I found a fruit tree that I had never seen before. On it was the weirdest fruit I had ever seen." Marco grinned as he thought about the fruit. "At the time I was starting to get hungry, so I had a servant climb the tree and pick it for me. The thing tasted like shit and I ended up throwing it at the servant that climbed the tree. Looking back, I feel bad, I had wasted food, and punished a person that had only done their job. But at the time I didn't care. I was a noble. I was higher than them." He held up a hand full of blue flames. "I noticed that I was able to produce these flames about a week later. I ran to show my father thinking he would be proud that I could do something that no one else could. But I was wrong. He called me a monster and threw me out. I felt so betrayed for years. I didn't trust anyone or anything for a long time." Harry looked down and frowned at Marco's words. Marco gave out a laugh and smiled making Harry look up.
"But then one day everything changed. I was asked by a boy that was about Luffy's age to join his crew. I laughed in his face and told him to fuck off and left. The boy wouldn't leave me alone until I transformed and flew away. I had long sense learned that I aged slower as it had been 30 years since I had left my family, but I had only aged about 5 years. I ran into him about 10 years later. The first thing I did was laugh in his face. He looked like he grew a banana onto his face. When I told him why I was laughing, he started laughing too. He then asked once again if I would join his crew. I was about to denied him again, but something made me stop. So, I asked him why he wanted me. I will never forget his answer."
"I told him, that I wanted him to be my son." Marco and Harry turned around to see a smiling Whitebeard walking towards them. "The brat laughed in my face and told me he was older. My reply was that I was obviously older, just ask anyone. So we did. Everyone said I was and no matter what Marco said, no one said any different. Took me another 5 years to convince the brat to join me though." Marco looked away embarrassed.
"It was thanks to Pops and the rest of the crew that showed me what family is. Looking back now, I still dislike my family, but I still acknowledge them as my family. The Casper in the book might have figured that out too, where's the one in that didn't. He doesn't have the memories of when he returned to your world, so he wouldn't be the same person. Does that make sense?" Harry nodded after a few minutes of thinking.
"Ya. I get what you mean. Anyways, what did you want to talk about?" Harry looked over at Whitebeard. He studied Harry for a minute.
"What do you plan to do about the meeting with Sengoku and the marines?" Harry frowned.
"I don't know. Everything that I have read or seen doesn't match. According to Casper, the Government should be on our side not trying to kill us, but from what I've seen, they didn't know who the Potter's were. I want to know why they have not honored their side of the deal that was made." Whitebeard frowned.
"Well I suggest not going alone. With Akainu there, he would attack without caring for the consequences." Harry nodded agreeing to the not going alone comment.
"I agree about not going alone, but who is Akainu?" Marco looked at Harry.
"He was the Marine with the red shirt that you did something to. Speaking of, what did you do to him?" Whitebeard look curious as well.
"I took away his ability to use the devil fruit. He could in theory get a new one, but he would never be able to use that specific one again." Whitebeard and Marco looked at him in shock. "It's a spell that Mia Potter created when she saw some of the things one of the people she gave a fruit to did. She felt that the person didn't deserve to have the fruit, so she developed a way to take back the gift she gave to the person. Since it was one of her accomplishments, it got recorded into the book, and I came across it when I was first looking through it. I didn't really pay too much attention to it, but I remember reading about it when I saw that the guy had an ability. Didn't remember everything, that's why I asked for time." Marco nodded remembering the request from the battle.
"Well do you have any specific people you want to go with you to your meeting with Sengoku?" Harry looked thoughtful before looking up at Whitebeard.
"If it is ok, I would like for you to come." Whitebeard scratched his chin looking down at Harry for a moment then turned to look out at his crew.
"I wish for Izo, Jozu, and Haruta to join us as well. Marco will stay here with Ace as his second in command until we return." Marco nodded at the thought of him taking care of the ship and Harry nodded in agreement to the additions coming with them.
"Good plan. You'll have three of the more powerful commanders and the strongest man alive as bodyguards. Not bad, not bad." All three turned towards the voice to see a man sitting on the railing of the ship.
"Rayliegh! What are you doing here?" Marco shouted out with a surprised and happy tone. The silver haired man smiled and waved.
"Heard a little rumor that Luffy was here, and was going to see if he would be up for training with me. Even with how powerful he is now, he is nowhere near ready for the New World. He has been with you guys for a few days now, you have to have seen it." Whitebeard frowned.
"I agree with you that he is not ready, but I would rather he stay here. We can train him to be as strong as my commanders. I plan to make him one of my sons." Rayliegh shook his head.
"The boy is too much like Roger. He would see following someone as losing his freedom." Whitebeard gave a small smile at the thought of the late pirate king.
"He was a great man and I can see what you mean with the boy. I'm guess you are rooting for him to be the next king?" Rayliegh shook his head.
"Roger is and always will be my king. Luffy just reminds me of him. Makes me want to help him." Harry and Marco looked over at the two older men.
"What makes you think he will agree to the training?" Rayliegh looked over at Harry.
"Because he knows that he won't be able to protect his crew with the strength that he has now." Whitebeard made a thoughtful sound and looked over onto the deck where the group could see Ace and Luffy playing around.
"Ace isn't going to like that. Especially since Teach is still out there." Harry turned to Marco confused.
"Who is Teach?"
"Marshal D. Teach. He was the one that killed Thatch and turned Ace over to the Marines. I ordered Ace to go after Teach when thatch died. I never would have sent him alone if I knew what Teach could do." Marco looked over at Harry with a thoughtful look as Whitebeard spoke.
"Speaking of Teach, I noticed that a lot of the members of the Potter family have the D. in their name. Does that mean the Teach is a member?" Harry shrugged.
"I don't think so. I've never come across his name other than in Ace's back story. I can look into it more if you would like." Marco and Whitebeard nodded, and Rayliegh smiled.
"Well I am off to see if the boy would like to train. I am guessing you will want to get your commanders together for your leaving announcement." The small group of three watched as Rayliegh walked towards the fighting duo and out of their hearing range.
"Well he is right. I run and grab the commanders. I'll meet you guys in 30 minutes." Marco ran off grabbing Ace as he passed him. Harry went back to watching the waves as Whitebeard walked away towards the Captain Quarters.