During the Party
Luka slowly slipped the drink in her hands, she was observing her nakama. She was trying to memorize them into her memory. A way so she could remember her final moments on her ship, surrounded by her nakama. A joyous time before she had to say goodbye, a perfect time to remember when they first met and their greatest moments together.
Usopp and Chopper were running around together, dodging Sanji's flying kicks. Shishishi, they must have gotten into the food storage without me. Usopp fell down while he held his butt; Sanji's hit must have made its mark. Chopper went behind him, checking to check him up while running for their lives.
Zoro was drinking the sake with Nami, they were betting on who could hold down the most sake. Luka chuckled, no matter how many times they did it Nami always won, and Zoro's debt would increase. Franky was judging the contest, but he and all of us (exception of Zoro) knew who was coming out winner.
Robin was drinking her coffee, even in the time of partying Robin chose to watch. Brook was behind her, "May I see your panties?" he would ask her. That ended up with Robin smiling her famous smile, showing that she was amused by his antics.
Barley anyone notice their captain not doing what she usually does. They were too busy with their own things.
It was when the contest between Zoro and Nami finished, Luka finally gotten out of her sat. She made her way to the loser of the contest, first-mate of her crew.
"Yo, Zoro" she greeted before settling her hand on his shoulder. She easily moved him to the rails.
"Hello captain" he slurred, a still drunken from the contest he was involved in.
"I will not die, partner" she stated calmly as she could. She knew these words would mean a lot, maybe her first -mate would know of her intentions since this was the same line Roger, the first Pirate King, say to his first-mate, Rayleigh.
Zoro glazed at his captain before taking in a breath. "Neither will I, Captain. I still had a duty as your suitable first-mate, Greatest Swordsman in the world" he stated, but he still didn't think the true meaning of these words. He thought she was talking about the future day that will come, not the future that would happen tonight.
"So are the others, all of them are suitable for a Pirate Queen's crew, even better than Shanks" she said proudly, placing her hands on her hat, the strawhat. Shanks wouldn't take the hat back, saying it belonged to the Pirate Queen not him anymore. She was grateful that he says that, she grew up with this hat. This hat meant a lot to her, even Shanks remarked about that fact.
"LUKA!" yelled her other crew mates, Usopp and Chopper. They finally notice that Luka wasn't playing around with them like she usually does, especially when it's a party on board.
Luka flashed her calm face into her usual smile, a smile that a normal person couldn't do, not without being made out of rubber. She ran away from the confused/drunken first-mate, and to her playmates. This was going to be the last time that she could play with them, the last time she could hear their laughs.
"Luka, Sanji left the kitchen again. He's serving Nami so he should be away for a while" Usopp told her.
"But didn't you already went to the kitchen?" she asked, cocking her head to the right.
"You saw that? No, Captain Usopp just didn't feel the need of eating at that time, but now I'm hungry" he covered up his earlier butt-beating.
"Shishsishi, sure I want some meat" she said in her normal tone. Her tongue licked across her face.
"Let's go" said Chopper.
"Of course" she agreed while following their lead into the kitchen.
After Party, Luka's shift
It was night time, it was also time to leave. But before Luka would leave the boat, she was leaving something behind. A message to each of her crew members, so that they knew exactly how much they meant to her, how much she loved them.
She already sent a final letter to her husband, a last parting gift to show how much she loves him, even after deciding that she would spend her final moments with her nakama, without him. It was a hard choice for Luka but the seas called to her, that she was free. She wanted a last trip around the world, even in the short time that they had; visiting all of those islands with her other nakama, those outside of her crew. Law knew that this was how she was, and accepted it, but within he regretted it. That's why he kept drinking; keeping drunk made him less depression, less likely to follow her on her final adventure. He had to keep calm for his wife's depart.
You might say that it was hard for Luka. She was leaving all of those she loved, leaving her dream, and losing everything. But with this compromise with the Marines, her nakama could be saved, she was in control of her final day, and she could watch them from above. Watch them live happily with their dreams, goals; just like her brothers did for her.
Her brothers, one died while saving her, while the other died of following his dream but he did it at the wrong time. Now she was the last to die of the trio, the one who lived the longest was also the youngest of them. But now they could be the trio again, watching over the ones they cared for. They could be the whole again, the trio that was completed in the afterlife. Luka could be able to watch over her nakama, family and others from above. She would do the same thing that Ace and Sabo did for her. Luka was able to complete the promise between the three of them, to become the Queen of Pirates, and they were able to watch.
I was trying to cover Law and her brothers more since I barley talked about them in the other chapters. I know that Zoro doesn't get drunk, he drinks till he sleeps, but I wanted Luka to say that one line to him, with him not fully understanding it. Please leave a suggestion or review