Four more years has passed and Luffy with Mai start to have a very good grip at their powers, however this didn't come at ease especially with Mai's case as she accidentally… froze her brother a few times until Luffy with Hancock, Sonia and Mary begin to train her to have a grip on her powers.
Flashback: Three years before
It was a usual day as ever, Luffy had already left from the palace to go to his job and Mai had just finished her training with Sonia and Mary with Hancock to observe closely.
"You did a good job Mai, you become better and better every day." Hancock said to her as Mai smile at her.
"Hancock oneesan.!" Mai said happily and with a bright smile.
"Do you want to go see Luffy at Makino's bar?" Hancock asked as Mai nod her head while she jump up and down.
The two of them left the training area with the accompany of Nea and start heading towards Makino's bar. After ten with fifteen minutes they reach the bar and as always Mai launch herself towards Luffy to hug him…only for this time to freeze Luffy completely and shocking everybody including herself in the room.
"Aaaa…Luffy niisan….A what I'll do…What I'll do?!" Mai said shouting and completely panicked fearing that she accidentally hurt her big brother while Makino, Hancock and everyone who was there try to calm the poor girl and at the same time to find a solution for Luffy. All of them surprised happily as the ice start to slowly melt while a small fire start to lick Luffy's shoulders, fists and foots evaporating the ice completely and showing a smiling Luffy.
Immediately Mai rush towards him to see if her big brother was alright and to say sorry for freezing him accidentally. Luffy smirks and pat her on the head.
"It's okay Mai, I'm fine. But you must be careful with your powers and also with your feelings. If you're too exited or too angry you may hurt someone by accident and not all of them can unfreeze like me." Luffy said to her with gentle tone as Mai nod her head and decide from tomorrow to begin training to control her powers.
End of Flashback
Now both kids have excellent control over their powers with both of them to have a few signature moves, for Luffy are the Entei and the Ikkitosen while for Mai are the Partisan and the Tamaito. Because of this attacks the Kuja's start to call them Entei no Luffy and Partisan no Mai.
But tomorrow is a special day as Hancock who take the throne three years before as the new Empress of Amazon Lily is prepared for her another trip with the Kuja pirates.
Through the last years Hancock was able to make a name for herself as a very powerful and very dangerous pirate that made the marines and the world government to put a bounty on her head for 100.000.000 million berry but this didn't surprise anyone who really know her at all as they all know how powerful Hancock is.
We find Hancock on her room as she start to prepare for her trip tomorrow when someone knocking the door.
"Come in it's open." Hancock said and the door is open revealing Luffy.
"Hey Hancock, how are you or should I call you our majesty?" Luffy said with a smirk teasing Hancock who blush and pout at the same time.
"I'm fine Luffy but come on stop teasing me already, you know that I'll be always Hancock for you. The fact that I take this title means nothing, after all we're friends!" Hancock said frowning as Luffy start to laugh.
"Sorry, sorry…But you know how much I love to tease you!" Luffy said smiling as Hancock blush once more again and nod her head.
"Anyway, I heard that you'll leave tomorrow, so I have a question to ask you." Luffy said to her as Hancock nod him to continue.
"For how long you'll be absent and where do you intent to go?" Luffy asked her as Hancock raised her eyebrow and put a finger on her chin thinking.
"Well…I believe a week or so, as to where I intent to go I don't know yet. But if I'm not curious why do you ask?" Hancock said/asked him as Luffy nod his head and smirk.
"I see, well I ask because I intent to come with you if you haven't any problem with that." Luffy said to her as Hancock look at him with widen eyes and surprised from his sudden decision.
"Wait Luffy, are you sure about this? I mean that you told us from the beginning that you'll not join us as a pirate so what reasons do you have to come with us now? Not that I'm complain or something…" Hancock asked him curious as Luffy smirk.
"What I said it's still on, I don't intent to join the Kuja's…As for what are my reasons to come with you let's say that you'll find them soon!" Luffy said with a mischievous smile and start to walk away leaving behind a happy but very confusing Hancock.
The dinner was ready so all of them come and sit at the table to eat while Hancock stare at Luffy and Sonia, Mary with Mai stare at Hancock.
"If you continue to stare you'll probably open a hole on her skull." Luffy said smirking making Hancock to look at her sisters, Mai to tilt her head and Luffy to laugh from their reactions.
"Oh yeah, Mai tomorrow I'll go with Hancock and I'll be absent for a week or so. I'll let here Nea to protect you but I want to keep training with both Sonia and Mary and with your sword." Luffy said to her as Mai's eyes widen.
"Niiisssaaannn…It's not fair! I want to come with you tooo!" Mai said pouting as she launch herself towards her brother protesting.
Luffy sigh and brush her hair to calm her down.
"Look Mai, when you'll a little older then you can go with Hancock and the girls too or you can even come with me. But now you're too little and it's still dangerous for you to come with me! After all I have a job to do I don't leave for fun…" Luffy said to her succeed it to calm her down but what he said intrigued Hancock, Sonia and Mary.
"Okay niisan." Mai said as Luffy nod her head and smile at her.
The five of them continue their dinner and after a few hours when the dinner is over they go to their rooms to sleep.
After several hours during the night and when all of them was sleeping Luffy suddenly felt a tag and immediately his hands go for his sword but he soon find that his little sister was awake and at his side.
"Niisan can I sleep with you tonight?" Mai asked him with gentle and quite voice.
"Sure Mai!" Luffy said making room for her on his bed and cover her with his blanket.
"Are you had a nightmare?" Luffy asked her with a gentle and concerned voice as Mai hug him tightly.
"I don't want you to leave…" She murmured.
"Huh?" Luffy said.
"I don't want you to leave, when gramps said that our mom leave for some business she never come back…So, I don't want you to leave!" Mai said to him as Luffy turn and look at her in her eyes with soft but pained gaze.
"Mai…You can't fear every time someone is leaving, it's not healthy…also I'll never leave you alone little sis, you know that! How can I leave behind a weak little sister like you?" Luffy said to her as Mai look at him in his eyes pouting from his last comment.
"Look Mai, no one live forever…But I'll swear to you that I'll never leave you behind no matter what.!" Luffy said as Mai nod her head and start to sleep peacefully.
The morning
The morning came and all of them start to wake up and dress to go for breakfast as they will leave soon, Luffy start to put his favorite clothes but this time inside of his vest he put a series of daggers who was present from Hancock. Mai wake up also as she wanted to goodbye her brother and Hancock. They both dressed and exited the room finding as always Nea outside of the door and start heading to the garden for breakfast.
They good morning Hancock, Sonia and Mary while for one more time and once more again Salome begin to make Nea's life a little too difficult as usual making also as usual everybody laugh except from Nea and Luffy.
The breakfast last for half an hour and when they finish all of them start to walk towards the town and to the port.
"Ah Hancock, you look dashing today by the way." Luffy said to her making Hancock blush and enter love mode and daydream as usual.
"Oh thanks Luffy, you're magnificent also!" Hancock said making Luffy to look with widen eyes and smirk at her.
"Hibe- hime sama-Luffyyy…!" The Kuja pirates shout from the ship as the two of them start to onboard the ship.
Luffy look for a moment his little sister and smile at her while she nod her head as Luffy climb on the ship who Hancock order the Kuja's to set the sail.
As the ship start to sail away Mai with Sonia and Mary start to leave the port to go for training.
The days pass peacefully on the Amazon Lily and as Luffy told her, Mai continue her training at free style fighting and also at the swordsmanship, from time to time she spar with Aphelandra and the other girls to measure her skills with them. She speak with her brother daily via a den den mushi to learn how is he.
On some island in the Grand Line
The Kuja's stop on some unnamed island to resupply and also after Luffy's instruction as it seems that Luffy is seeking someone but no one knows exactly who this person is.
The crew go to various shops while Luffy start walking through the town with Hancock and Salome, after thirty minutes or so they reach a forest area and as they continue to walk Luffy stops and grip the hilt of his sword tightly alarming Hancock.
"Luffy…" Hancock murmured.
"Hancock be very still and keep quiet." Luffy said as he unsheathe his sword and launch an aerial attack forward cutting some trees in half and revealing a group of five men.
"Who are you and what do you want?" Luffy asked with serious and dark tone while Hancock's eyes widen.
"I have no business with you brat, as to what I want is also not your business." The man said with a cold tone. "You surely have grown beautiful…Men catch her!" A tall hairy man continue to said as he turn his gaze now to Hancock.
Luffy smirk at this with a sinister way while Hancock start to pale as she recognize the man as one of her and her sisters captor a few years before.
"Leave now or die!" Luffy said with a darker tone that indicate a big amount of pain if they don't comply.
The moment the four of them start to run towards him and Hancock Luffy vanish in thin air and reappear behind them, as he sheath his sword the four of them drop on the ground and various slashes appear on them everywhere on their bodies.
The leader look at the young boy in front of him with widen eyes as fear start to build inside of him.
"Wha…What are you..?" The man mutter as Luffy look at him with bloodthirsty eyes.
"You should had left when you had still the chance, now it's too late for this men and for you!" Luffy said as he take out one of his daggers and throw it to the man to the point blank killing him instantly.
He walk towards the man removing his dagger and go back to Hancock who look at him with widen eyes.
"He can't hurt you anymore…No one of them can hurt you anymore!" Luffy said to her with a serious voice and gaze leaving Hancock dumbfounded.
She hurry towards him and hug him tightly as she start to cry and thank him again and again as Luffy rub her back saying it's ok.
After some minutes Hancock is finally calm and they ready to walk back to town when both of them hearing an applause.
"Well done child." A tall lean man with black hair and yellow eyes said as Luffy smirks and nod his head.
"Well it's an honor to hear that from the greatest swordsman in the world." Luffy said with a smirk that somehow is confusing Mihawk greatly while Hancock is worried and take a fighting stance.
The two of them look each other for a few minutes without to say anything as the one trying to calculate the other.
"Do you have free time for a little spar?" Luffy ask him with a smirk as Hancock widen her eyes while Mihawk narrow his.
"Sure, but if I may ask why do you want to fight with me?" Mihawk ask him intrigued.
"It's not the ambition that drives me to fight you but more likely to see if my knowledge about a certain thing is accurate or not." Luffy said making Mihawk even more troubled.
Both of them unsheathe their swords, Luffy immediately observe two thing. First: It's that Mihawk look intensely at his sword as if he recognize it from somewhere and second: that Mihawk didn't go for his Kogatana and that means that he take him seriously.
Both of them vanish before Hancock could do or say anything but soon she find out where the two of them are as them moment that the two swords collide the landscape around them start to shatter and the sky start to divide in two, they took some steps back and both of them launch to each other with splendid speed. Both of them dodge the attack of the other and when the swords collide with each other the sky cracks open and various thunders start to appear from everywhere as both smirking to each other.
"Kokuto Samidare"/"Barrier Blast" Mihawk/ Luffy murmured as the first made a chain of forward slashes finishing with a black flying slash but Luffy jump in mid-air and blast the slashes with his sword pushing them back to Mihawk easily, he detach his sword in two blades with a smirk and look at Mihawk.
"Wings of the Sun" Luffy murmured as he swing his now burning blades around three times damaging greatly Mihawk and also surprising him greatly who had lost him from his eyesight for a fraction of time.
The two of them continue like this for a few more minutes but with less intensity, finally after an hour or so both of them are stopped and look each other as they sheath their swords back.
Both of them had a few scratches and injuries but Mihawk has much more injuries than Luffy and more severe.
"You're not bad, you're not bad at all." Luffy said as Mihawk stay silent and still.
After a minute he decide to speak and what he says surprise both Luffy and Hancock who rush to Luffy worried.
"Why you didn't kill me? Most of the swordsmen will kill to have my title…So why you let me live and didn't take this title for yourself?" Mihawk asked with serious voice and gaze.
Luffy sigh and look Mihawk in the eyes.
"First: You didn't do anything against me or to any of my friends to kill you, second: I'm not like any other swordsman and third: You can't give me something that isn't yours to give!" Luffy said as he narrow his eyes at his last sentence while Mihawk look at him quizzically and was ready to ask him when Luffy start to walk towards him.
"Did you know the last person that hold this title?" Luffy ask him as Mihawk look Luffy in the eyes.
"No, I didn't know this person personally but I had heard a few rumors…" Mihawk said as his gaze turn to Luffy's sword while Luffy see that and smirk.
"So you never fight HER…and you just take your title when SHE was disappear." Luffy said as Mihawk eyes widen.
"You are her son." Mihawk state as Luffy nod his head.
"I don't have anything with you, but what I told you today can't be known to anyone!" Luffy said as Mihawk nod his head.
"What is your goal child?" Mihawk ask him as Luffy raise his eyebrow and smirk.
"To bring justice..." Luffy said as he start to walk away with Hancock but he soon stops and look behind at Mihawk.
"It was nice to meet you Mihawk, I hope to meet you again sometime in the future." Luffy said as Mihawk smile, actually and truthfully smile at that.
"I hope that too Luffy!" Mihawk said as Luffy nod his head and continue to walk with Hancock.
"He'll surely be an interesting person when he'll grow up and go out to the sea, I wonder if the world will be ready for his coming! Kukukuku life just turn a little more interesting.!" Mihawk start to thought with a smile on his lips as he start to walk away to treat his injuries.
Hancock stare at Luffy continuously as they walk so Luffy smirk and look at her.
"If you want to ask then ask." Luffy said as Hancock stare not at the floor embarrassing.
"Lu…Luffy, that's the reason that you wanted to come with me…Eh I mean us?" Hancock asked and correct herself but not before she blush while Luffy smile at her.
"I come with YOU not only because I wanted to see Mihawk but also because you don't trust me enough." Luffy said making Hancock to look at him with widen eyes and to protest about what he just said.
"Luffy…How can you imply that I don't trust you enough? You are my best friend and one of the few people who I truly love and respect." Hancock said frowning and with real conviction in her voice.
Luffy sigh and take Hancock's hand in his.
"Look Hancock, yes we're best friends and maybe even something more…" Luffy said as Hancock gasp and look at him with widen eyes.
"But you never told me your story despite that I have told you almost anything about me and my life. I know that this subject is very difficult and painful for you but you know that you can trust me." Luffy continue to say as Hancock start to tear and nod her head.
"I'll tell you whatever you want to know when we return back to Amazon Lily." Hancock said as Luffy nod his head and continue to walk back to the ship while Luffy still holding her hand.
A/N: That's it guys, this chapter is officially over.
I hope to like the new chapter and sorry for the late update.
Luffy is now 16 years old, Mai is 12 years old and Hancock 22 years old. (Luffy was 11 before his birthday, etc…)
Now, for the original owners of the devil fruits: I'll give Ace probably the sun sun devil fruit as I want to have Ace a devil fruit. For Whitebeard I don't know at all, I mean I don't think exactly that Whitebeard need a devil fruit to be that powerful but as always I'll gladly hear your opinions. For Kuzan I'll probably give to him another logia devil fruit while I don't know yet if it'll exist Doflamingo in this story…
Yes of course I change the signature moves of Luffy and Mai as it can be only one Hiken no Ace!
Yes I know that the most will be complain about the fight with Mihawk and how Luffy was able to beat him but first: It was only a spar, second: Bloody Rose was a way better that Mihawk., third: Luffy and Rose is one entity so Luffy have all her powers and her knowledge and four: Guys it's a fanfiction…everything is possible.!
Well, that's all guys.
Until next time,
Have Fun and Take Care.!